title: Wangjin

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is a kind of traditional headgear worn by adult men in the Chinese Ming Dynasty. In ancient China, the  was usually made out of fibres or horsetail or could be made out of mixed fabrics such as silk or linen. The Korean  of the Joseon period was a derivative of the  and was introduced to Joseon during the Ming dynasty. Similar head-wears to the  was also worn during the from the Later Lê dynasty to the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam and in the Ryukyu Kingdom.

History
According to the legend, the earliest people who wore  were Taoist priests. One day, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty wore common clothes to visit the folk and he saw a Taoist priest wearing  on top of his head. The emperor asked what it was, to which the priest answered: "This is . Wear it on top of your head, then your hair will gather together" (ref. "").  The emperor was very satisfied with the answer that also referred to uniting the country. After the emperor returned to his palace, he ordered all the men in the country, from the emperor to the common man, to wear . Since then, the  has become the common headgear of adult men in the entire country.

Wang Bu, a man from the Qing dynasty, once introduced the  as something that looks like a fishing net. The two borders are adorned with two small circles made of gold, jade or copper and tin. Tie small ropes at each end of the side, cross in two circles, tie the top to the forehead, and make the side and eyebrows flush. There are also many styles of . In the Wanli period of the Ming dynasty, people began to use fallen hair and horsehair instead of silk to make .

During the collapse of the Ming dynasty, the Manchu emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered all men to shave their forehead under the  policy, the use of  in China came to an end.

Nowadays, historians and the people interested in Chinese history research ancient books and historical relics to restore various forms of the .

Gallery

See also
Manggeon
Hanfu
Nanjing
Ming Dynasty

References

Chinese headgear
Korean headgear


title: Alexander Palm

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Alexander Ivanovich Palm (Александр Иванович Пальм,  – ) was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, who also used the pseudonym P. Alminsky. A member of the Petrashevsky Circle, Palm in 1847 was arrested, spent 8 months in the Petropavlovsk Fortress, had his death sentence changed to deportation and served 7 years in the Russian Army. Among his best known works are Alexey Slobodin. The History of One Family (1874, novel) and Our Friend Neklyuzhev (1879, drama).

Biography
Alexander Ivanovich Palm was born in Krasnoslobodsk, Penza region, son of a provincial state official and a serf peasant woman. As a teenager he enrolled into the Saint Petersburg military school and after graduation in 1842 joined the Russian Guards as a junior officer. In 1843 his debut poem published by Literaturnaya Gazeta received praise from critic and playwright Fyodor Koni. In the course of the next five years more than 30 poems by Palm appeared in different Russian magazines.

In 1847 Palm began attending Mikhail Petrashevsky's 'Fridays', and later joined his best friend Sergey Durov's circle. According to his biographer S.L.Kravets, revolutionary ideas had never attracted Palm, and his participation in the underground movement was motivated more by friendship than conviction. During interrogations he expressed deep repentance over his own actions, but refused to give information about his friends. According to an inscription made by a secret police official on Palm's personal file, dated 29 April 1849: "His confession is well-written, but... he never reveals, rather tries to conceal Petrashevsky's criminal intentions."

Palm spent eight months in the Petropavlovsk Fortress, before being told, along with the other members of the Petrashevsky circle, that he was to be executed by a firing squad. They were taken to Semonovsky Square and lined up for execution, but at the last moment a messenger arrived from the Tsar sparing their lives. Palm was pardoned and sent into the Russian army as a junior officer. After 7 years of service (in the Caucasus and the Crimea, where he took part in the Crimean War), Palm retired as an army major. In 1871, now a manager of a financial control office in Poltava, Palm embezzled 17 thousand rubles that he had taken from public funds and was sentenced to 3 years of exile. Włodzimierz Spasowicz, a renowned lawyer who defended Palm, never disputed the fact of the embezzlement, but stressed the dire financial circumstances in which the once well-known writer had found himself.

After three years spent in Samara Governorate, Palm returned to literary activities and published numerous novels and dramas. During the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) he worked as a war correspondent for Novoye Vremya, in 1883 edited the weekly newspaper Teatr, for a year was the head of the Pushkin literary circle, having succeeded Alexey Pleshcheyev.

Legacy
Alexander Palm's poetry, "marked by clarity of vision, sonority and technical precision," bore all the marks of Mikhail Lermontov's influence, according to biographer Kravets. Palm's best known poetic drama, The Tale of Tsar, Tsarina and Guslyar with a Cat from the Overseas (1843) was similar to Lermontov's The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov. Palm's 1849 novel Zhak Bichovkin featured a hero who, according to the author himself, "regarded himself as another Pechorin."

The centerpiece of Palm's vast prosaic legacy is the novel Alexey Slobodin. The Family History in 5 Parts which he published in Vestnik Evropy (1872, Nos. 10,12; 1873, Nos. 2, 3; 1874, Nos. 10, 11) under the moniker P.Alminsky. The novel attracted much interest because most of its heroes had real life prototypes, members of the Petrashevsky and Durov's circles (Rudkovsky as Durov, Slobodin as Fyodor Dostoyevsky).

Palm's dramas Old Landlord (1873) and Our Friend Neklyuzhev (1879), staged by the  Aleksandrinsky and Maly Theaters respectively, proved to be very popular with the public. Contemporary critics dismissed them, but in retrospect Russian literary historians see Palm's plays as superior to his prose and poetry.

Select bibliography

Novels
 Zhak Bichovkin (Жак Бичовкин, 1849)
 Alexey Slobodin (Алексей Слободин, 1872- 1874)
 The End of the Old Romance (Конец старого романа, 1874)
 The Lost Years (Пропащие годы, 1880)
 The Petersburg Locust (Петербургская саранча, 1884)

Dramas
 Old Landlord (Старый барин, 1873)
 Our Friend Neklyuzhev (Наш друг Неклюжев, 1879)

Poetry
 The Tale of Tsar, Tsarina and Guslyar With a Cat from the Overseas (1843, drama in verse)

References

1822 births
1885 deaths
People from Mordovia
People from Krasnoslobodsky Uyezd
Russian male novelists
Russian male poets
19th-century poets from the Russian Empire
19th-century novelists from the Russian Empire
19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire
Russian exiles in the Russian Empire


title: Lucknow–Raipur Garib Rath Express

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Lucknow Raipur Garib Rath Express is a Superfast Express train of the Garib Rath series belonging to Indian Railways - North Eastern Railway zone that runs between Lucknow NE and Raipur Junction in India.

It operates as train number 12535 from Lucknow NE to Raipur Junction and as train number 12536 in the reverse direction serving the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh.

Coaches
The train has 10 AC 3 tier & 2 End on Generator Coaches . It does not carry a Pantry car coach.

Service
The service of the train covers a distance of  in 16 hours at an average speed of  on both ways.

Routeing
The train traverses through , , , , ,  and Bhatapara

Traction
This train is hauled by Ghaziabad based WAP 5 locomotive from Raipur to Lucknow.

References

External links

Passenger trains originating from Lucknow
Transport in Raipur, Chhattisgarh
Garib Rath Express trains
Rail transport in Madhya Pradesh
Rail transport in Chhattisgarh
Railway services introduced in 2008


title: Nicholas Goodison

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Sir Nicholas Proctor Goodison (16 May 1934 – 6 July 2021) was a British businessman who was chairman of the London Stock Exchange from 1976 to 1986. He was an important supporter of the arts and the President of the Furniture History Society (FHS).

Career
Goodison was born in Watford, the son of Edmund Harold Goodison and Eileen Mary Carrington Proctor. He was educated at Marlborough College and then King's College, Cambridge, of which he was an honorary fellow. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1982 New Year Honours.

He served as chairman of the Courtauld Institute of Art from 1982 to 2002 and of the National Art Collections Fund (now The Art Fund) from 1986 to 2002.

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 1 March 1987.

Artistic legacy
The National Portrait Gallery, London holds two portraits of Goodison in its collection, a bust by Ivor Roberts-Jones and a photograph by Lucy Anne Dickens. His portrait in oil, by Tom Phillips, is in the Stock Exchange's collection. A preparatory sketch made in oil on panel in 2006 was acquired from the artist by the Art Fund and is in the Courtauld Gallery.

Personal life
Sir Nicholas married Judith Abel Smith (b. 21 January 1939) on 18 June 1960: they had a son, Adam, and two daughters, Katharine and Rachel.

He died on 6 July 2021, at the age of 87.

Publications
 Gillows at Tatton Park (?) co-authored with John Hardy
 Gillows Clock Cases (Antiquarian Horological Society, 1968)
 English Barometers 1680-1860: A History of Domestic Barometers and their Makers and Retailers (Cassell & Co., 1968); revised & reprinted (Antique Collectors' Club, 1977 & 1992)
 Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton (Phaidon, 1974); revised & reprinted as Matthew Boulton: Ormolu (Christie's, 2002)
 A New Era for Museums? The First Annual A. W. Franks Lecture, 1997 (The British Museum, 1997) co-authored with Dr. Lindsay Boynton
 Furniture History: Forty Years On (Furniture History Society, 2004)
 Hotspur: Eighty Years of Antiques Dealing (Two Associates, 2004) co-authored with Robin Kern
 These Fragments (Elliott & Thompson, 2005)
 Matthew Boulton's Trafalgar Medal (Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, 2007)

References

British businesspeople
Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
Knights Bachelor
1934 births
2021 deaths
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
People from Watford
Honorary Fellows of the British Academy


title: Ameh Ebute

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Ameh Ebute (; born 16 May 1946) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as the 6th President of the Nigerian Senate during the end of the Third Republic.

References

1946 births
Living people
Presidents of the Senate (Nigeria)
People from Benue State
20th-century Nigerian lawyers


title: Elizabeth River Tunnel

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Elizabeth River Tunnel may refer to:
Downtown Tunnel in Hampton Roads, Virginia, carrying I-264; opened 1952
Midtown Tunnel (Virginia) in Hampton Roads, Virginia, carrying US-58; opened 1962


title: İşte Türk Sanat Müziği

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İşte Türk Sanat Müziği is Turkish singer Sibel Can's twelfth studio album, which was released on 4 June 2000 in Turkey.

Track listing

References

External links

Sibel Can albums
2002 classical albums


title: Jeff Bakalar

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Jeffrey Ian Bakalar (born ) is a professional podcaster, video game journalist, and formerly the host of CNET's longest-running podcast, The 404 Show. He is the General manager at Fandom-owned Giant Bomb, focusing on the site's operations while also hosting podcasts and content for the brand as well. He is a former employee of CNET Video and during his time there was a recurring personality on various podcasts on Giant Bomb.

Personal

Bakalar was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1982 and was raised in Briarwood, Queens before his family relocated to Marlboro Township, New Jersey where he attended Marlboro High School. He graduated from Towson University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Electronic Media and Film, where he won an award for a mockumentary he directed called Adult Swim.

In 2010, he married his longtime girlfriend, Stacie Davis.

He currently lives in New Jersey.

Career

During his college years, Bakalar worked as a production office intern for actor and producer Bob Balaban in New York City at his production company Chicagofilms
while Balaban completed work on Gosford Park.

In 2004, he signed a contract with Warner Bros. Records subsidiary Maverick Records to direct and produce a documentary for the pop punk band Mest. The documentary, entitled Seven Deadly Sins was released as a pack-in bonus with copies of the band's 2005 album Photographs.

In 2007, Bakalar joined CNET as a home theater and gaming editor, eventually starting a technology and pop culture podcast called The 404 Show with Randall Bennett and Wilson Tang. In hosting the podcast, Bakalar has interviewed Tony Hawk, Marc Maron, John Hodgman, Shaun White, Wayne Brady, Scott Aukerman, Michael Showalter, Andrew W.K. and others. Each year the podcast is performed live at the Consumer Electronics Show, where it has featured Danny DeVito, Eliza Dushku, Felicia Day and others.

In 2012, Bakalar started CNET's first-ever weekly tech parody comic called Low Latency, which he writes and is illustrated by Blake Stevenson.

Bakalar briefly co-hosted another CNET project, Pre-Game, but stopped production after a year of programming to focus more on The 404 Show.

Bakalar is a member of the New York Videogame Critics Circle, an advocacy group for game writers in and around the New York City area.

He regularly appears on TV and radio as a technology, pop culture, and video game expert. Bakalar has been featured on G4's Attack of the Show, NPR's All Things Considered, and CNBC's Power Lunch.

In late 2014, Bakalar joined CBSN as a regularly appearing tech and pop culture pundit representing CNET.

On May 22, 2015, he joined the cast of Giant Bomb's Giant Beastcast, where he remained a regular member until its conclusion in May 2021. He later joined the cast of its sister podcast, the Giant Bombcast.

On September 29, 2017, the final episode of The 404 Show podcast was published.

References

External links
The 404 Show
CNET profile

CNET
1982 births
American podcasters
Writers from Hoboken, New Jersey
Living people
Marlboro High School alumni
Towson University alumni
People from Briarwood, Queens
People from Marlboro Township, New Jersey


title: Alnus alnobetula

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Alnus alnobetula is a common tree widespread across much of Europe, Asia, and North America. Many sources refer to it as Alnus viridis, the green alder, but botanically this is considered an illegitimate name synonymous with Alnus alnobetula subsp. fruticosa.

Description

It is a large shrub or small tree  tall with smooth grey bark even in old age. The leaves are shiny green with light green undersurfaces, ovoid,  long and 2–6 cm broad. The flowers are catkins, appearing late in spring after the leaves emerge (unlike other alders which flower before leafing out); the male catkins are pendulous, 4–8 cm long, the female catkins 1 cm long and 0.7 cm broad when mature in late autumn, in clusters of 3–10 on a branched stem. The seeds are small,  long, light brown with a narrow encircling wing.

The roots of Alnus viridis subsp. sinuata have nitrogen-fixing nodules. A study in Alaska showed that Sitka alder seedlings were able to invade coal mine spoils and can be used for revegetation and stripmine reclamation.

Distribution
There are four to six subspecies, some treated as separate species by some authors:
Alnus viridis subsp. viridis – Central Europe
Alnus viridis subsp. suaveolens – Corsica (endemic)
Alnus viridis subsp. fruticosa – Northeast Europe, northern Asia, northwestern North America
Alnus viridis subsp. maximowiczii (A. maximowiczii) – Japan
Alnus viridis subsp. crispa (A. crispa, mountain alder) – northeastern North America, Greenland
Alnus viridis subsp. sinuata (A. sinuata, Sitka alder or slide alder) – western North America, far northeastern Siberia

Alnus viridis is classed as an environmental weed in New Zealand.

Ecology
Alnus viridis has a shallow root system, and is marked not only by vigorous production of stump suckers, but also by root suckers.

Alnus viridis is a light-demanding, fast-growing shrub that grows well on poorer soils. In many areas, it is a highly characteristic colonist of avalanche chutes in mountains, where potentially competing larger trees are killed by regular avalanche damage. A. viridis survives the avalanches through its ability to re-grow from the roots and broken stumps. Unlike some other alders, it does require moist soil, and is a colonist of screes and shallow stony slopes. It also commonly grows on subarctic river gravels, particularly in northern Siberia, Alaska and Canada, occupying areas similarly disrupted by ice floes during spring river ice breakup; in this habitat it commonly occurs mixed with shrubby willows.

Uses
It is sometimes used for afforestation on infertile soils which it enriches by means of its nitrogen-fixing nodules, while not growing large enough to compete with the intended timber crop. A. sinuata can add 20 kg of nitrogen per acre (50kg/hectare) per year to the soil. Alnus viridis leaves have been used in the traditional Austrian medicine externally or internally as tea for treatment of infections and fever.

References

External links
 Alnus viridis - information, genetic conservation units and related resources. European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN)

alnobetula
Trees of North America
Trees of Europe
Trees of Asia
Flora of the Alps
Flora of the Carpathians
Flora of Alaska
Trees of Alaska
Trees of Subarctic America
Trees of Canada
Trees of the Eastern United States
Trees of the United States
Trees of the Northwestern United States
Trees of Quebec
Trees of New Brunswick
Trees of Ontario


title: Ronny Moorings

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Ronny Moorings is the stage name of Ronald Moerings (born 20 May 1961), a Dutch musician best known for his work with darkwave band Clan of Xymox. Moorings has been the band's principal singer/songwriter since the early 1990s.

Music career

With Clan of Xymox on 4AD
While a sociology student in Nijmegen, Netherlands in 1981, Moorings met fellow musician and graphic designer Anka Wolbert who shared a similar taste in new wave music.  In 1983 they recorded a five track EP entitled Subsequent Pleasures and gave a copy to Brendan Perry after a chance encounter in an Amsterdam restaurant. Perry invited the pair to perform as the opening act for the inaugural UK tour of his project, Dead Can Dance, in 1984. Also while in Amsterdam, Moorings and Wolbert met fellow musician Pieter Nooten, who contributed several tracks of his own, making Xymox a trio.  These songs formed the crux of the 1984 tour and the 1985 Debut LP Clan of Xymox, released on UK label 4AD.  Lengthening the band's name to the title of its debut album, Clan of Xymox would go on to record two albums while signed with 4AD, achieving charting success in Europe and the United Kingdom.

With Xymox on Polygram
In 1988, Moorings, Nooten, and Wolbert signed with New York-based record label Polygram while agreeing to shorten the name once again to "Xymox".  Their Polygram debut Twist of Shadows would prove to be the most commercially successful of their career, with "Imagination" charting on the Billboard Hot 100 and the band achieving regular MTV rotation. As Xymox bandmates engaged in side projects, Moorings assumed greater control, claiming Twist of Shadows was "made entirely independently, without the rest of the musicians, who were then on vacation."  After the release of 1991's Phoenix, Nooten and Wolbert left the band, leaving Moorings as the sole songwriter. After a few experimentations with electronic music style recordings,  Moorings released two albums in London: Metamorphosis (1991) and Headclouds (1992)  on ZOK/ X-Ult records. In 1994 he moved back to Amsterdam and resumed touring in the Netherlands with girlfriend Mojca Zugna and old band mates Frank Weyzig and William Van Antwerpen.
Shortly after in 1996 Moorings wrote music for the CD-R game Total Mayhem by Domark.

As Clan of Xymox on independent labels
In 1997, Moorings resurrected Clan of Xymox with the release of the album Hidden Faces partly produced by David M. Allen, infusing elements of gothic rock, industrial rock, and EBM music into new releases, and eventually settling on Metropolis Records as principal distributing label.
In 1998, Moorings collaborated with Patrick J. Collins on the music tracks for the Revenant CD-R game on Domark, released in 1999.
Also in 1999, the album Creatures was released on Pandaimonium Records (EU) and Metropolis Records (USA).

In 2001, Moorings released Notes From The Underground followed a year later by Remixes From The Underground (2002), featuring remixes by the likes of Front 242, Assemblage 23, and Iris. The follow-up album Farewell was released in 2003. Gothic Paradise called the album "Overall an excellent work bringing all of the previous styles that Clan of Xymox has presented us with and melting them together into the excellent Electro Goth mix."

Other albums followed in quick succession. 2004 saw the release of The Best Of Clan Of Xymox, featuring re-recordings of songs released on 4AD. In 2006 a studio album Breaking Point and a DVD named Visible - edited, filmed and produced by Moorings and Mojca Zugna - was released. In Love We Trust was released on Trisol Music Group in Europe and Metropolis in the USA in 2009. Two years later in 2011 the album Darkest Hour was released. It featured the track "Delete" on video, filmed and edited by Ronny Moorings.
Gothic Paradise called the album "solid gothic rock mixed with moving undulating layers of synths and moving dance beats."

In 2011, the track "In Your Arms Again" from the LP Darkest Hour was included on the soundtrack to David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. In 2012, Moorings revisited early new wave and gothic rock inspirations on an album of covers entitled Kindred Spirits.
2014 saw the release of his studio album Matters Of Mind, Body And Soul, which explores Ronny's signature, melancholic sound.  In 2018 and 2019, Moorings embarked on a world tour of its 2017 studio album Days of Black, including its first multi-date US tour in 20 years.
In February 2020 the single " She" was released and reached number 1 on the DAC charts. It stayed 8 weeks non stop in the top 3 .
Clan Of Xymox had to break off their sold out tour in the USA and the rest of the world due to the Covid Crisis  and a few months later the mids of it, the second single " Lovers " was released and stayed for 7 weeks non stop on the number 1 slot in the DAC charts.Both singles had a video made by Zoe Kavanagh from Dublin,Ireland.
The third single " All I Ever Know " was accompanied with a video made by Ronny Moorings this time . The new album " Spider On The Wall " reached number 3 in the DAC charts. The same titled E.P. reached number 1 in the DAC charts November 2020. Cryptic Rock says :  Spider on the Wall proves that the enduring Clan of Xymox has never lost its edge, dark beauty, and gloomy glamor.

Personal life
Moorings was born in Roosendaal, Netherlands. After studying in the Den Haag Social Academy for one year, he moved to Nijmegen in 1979 to study Sociology at the University of Nijmegen (K.U.N) and then in 1983 Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Moorings moved to London in 1989 before moving back to Amsterdam in 1994, finally settling in Leipzig, Germany in 2005. Moorings is fluent in five languages. Moorings is a self-taught musician, stating in a 2012 interview " I bought my first synthesizers when I was 19. I never had any formal musical training. I still cannot read musical notes… I just like to follow my emotions and ears instead of looking at notes to see the theory behind it." Moorings has one child with longtime girlfriend Mojca Zugna, who has served as the Clan of Xymox bassist and graphic designer since the early 1990s.

References

Dutch male singers
Musicians from North Brabant
Dark wave musicians
Dutch new wave musicians
Gothic rock musicians
Post-punk musicians
1961 births
Living people


title: Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate

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The deputy president of the Nigerian Senate is second highest-ranking member of the Senate of Nigeria, after the President of the Senate. The current deputy president is Barau Jibrin of the All Progressives Congress. The deputy president presides over the senate in the absence of the senate president. The deputy president is elected by a majority of the senate.

List of Deputy Senate Presidents

References
Breaking: Jibrin emerges Deputy Senate President
Deputy Speakers
Government of Nigeria
Senate (Nigeria)


title: Gülruh Hatun

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Gülruh Hatun (, "Rose face"), also known as Gülendam Hatun (, "Rose body"), was a consort of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire.

Early life
Gülruh entered in Bayezid's harem at Amasya. With Bayezid she had two children, Şehzade Alemşah born in 1466, and Kamerşah Sultan, who married Damat Mustafa Pasha.

Accompanying Alemşah
According to Turkish tradition, all princes were expected to work as provincial governors as a part of their training. In 1490, Alemşah was sent to Menteşe, and later in 1502 to Manisa, and Gülruh accompanied him. She played an anxious role in protecting her son from manipulation by members of his princely entourage and to ensure that the Sultan regarded the latter, and not the prince or herself, as responsible for the reports he had received about Alemşah's misconduct.

She responded to the Sultan's instruction that she took to the conduct of her son. She presented her case against seven members of her son's suite, including his tutor, his doctor, and his preceptor, to whom she attributed responsibility for the problems. It was Alemşah's tutor in particular whom she blamed. She accused the tutor and his colleagues of inducing Alemşah to drink excessively so that he might be persuaded to sanction proposals against the law of Islam and the law of the Sultan.

Worried about Alemşah's ill health, she described his difficulty recovery from a month-long bout unable to bear any longer the corruption of these evil doers, she called the tutor shortcomings to the Sultan's attention, among them the squandering of the prince's treasury to the extent that even she had not received her stipend for a year. But the tutor had dismissed her protest as the work of the chief eunuch of the prince's private household, and unjustly denounced the latter to the Sultan.

Gülruh Hatun implored the Sultan to remove them. She concerned not only for the precariousness of her son's physical and political condition but also for the preservation of her own rights and status.

Issue
From Bayezid II, Gülruh had a daughter and a son:

 Kamerşah Sultan (Amasya, 1476 - Constantinople, 1520), also known as Kamer Sultan. She married in 1491 Koca Mustafa Pasha, with whom she resided in Malkara and had a daughter, Hundi Hanımsultan, who married Mesih Bey. She widowed on 1512 and remarried with Nişancı Kara Davud Pasha.
 Şehzade Alemşah (Amasya, 1477 - Manisa, 1502). Governor of Mentese and Manisa, he died of problems related to his alcoholism and the unruly life he led. He had a son, Şehzade Osman Şah (1492-1512, killed by Selim I), and two daughters, Ayşe Sultan (married to his cousin Sultanzade Mehmed Çelebi, son of Fatma Sultan, daughter of Bayezid II) and Fatma Sultan (1493-1522).

Charities
Gülruh Hatun built a mosque and an endowment in Akhisar, a mosque in Aydın Güzelhisar and Duraklı Village, She built Hamams, rest house for travellers and another endowment was built in Gördes, Demirci, Nazilli, Birgi and Aydın Güzelhisan.

Last years
After Alemşah's death in 1503, she retired to Bursa, and died early in Suleiman the Magnificent's reign. She is buried in her own mausoleum located in Muradiye Complex, Bursa.

References

Sources

15th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans
16th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans
1528 deaths
1454 births


title: Ube halaya

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Ube halaya or halayang ube (variant spellings halea, haleya; from the Spanish jalea, "jelly") is a Philippine dessert made from boiled and mashed purple yam (Dioscorea alata, locally known as ube). Ube halaya is the main base in ube/purple yam flavored-pastries and ube ice cream. It can also be incorporated in other desserts such as halo-halo. It is also commonly anglicized as ube jam, or called by its original native name, nilupak na ube.

History
The Philippines shows the highest phenotypic diversity of ube (Dioscorea alata), making it one of the likely centers of origin of ube domestication. Remains of ube have been recovered from the Ille Cave archaeological site of Palawan (c. 11,000 BP).

Preparation
The main ingredient is peeled and boiled purple yam which is grated and mashed. The mashed yam, with condensed milk  (originally sweetened coconut milk), are added to a saucepan where butter or margarine had been melted. The mixture is stirred until thickened. Once thickened, the mixture is cooled down and placed on a platter or into containers of various shapes.

Ube halaya is typically served cold, after refrigeration. Optional topping includes browned grated coconut, latik, or condensed milk.

Variations

Ube halaya is a type of nilupak (mashed/pounded starchy food with coconut milk and sugar) which has several variants that use other types of starchy root crops or fruits. Generally, the term halaya is reserved for nilupak made with ube and calabaza, while nilupak is more commonly used for variants made with mashed cassava or saba bananas. Variants made from sweet potato and taro can be known as either halaya or nilupak.

Ube halaya also superficially resembles kalamay ube, but differs in that kalamay ube additionally uses ground glutinous rice (galapong) and has smoother more viscous texture.

Ube macapuno

Ube halaya served with macapuno (coconut sport) is a notable combination known as ube macapuno. The combination is also used in other ube recipes, like in ube cakes and ube ice cream.

Camote halaya
Camote halaya, sometimes known as "camote delight" or "sweet potato jam", is a variant that uses mashed sweet potato (camote) instead of ube. It is prepared identically to ube halaya. It has a light yellow color to bright orange to purple color, depending on the cultivar of sweet potato used. It is traditionally known as nilupak na kamote, especially when served on banana leaves. Purple versions of camote halaya can sometimes be confused with or used as a substitute for ube halaya.

Halayang kalabasa
Halayang kalabasa, also known as "squash halaya" or "pumpkin jam", is a variant that uses mashed calabaza (kalabasa). It is prepared identically to ube halaya. It is typically orange to light brown in color.

Binagol

Binagol is a unique version from the Eastern Visayas which use mashed giant taro corms. It is distinctively sold in halved coconut shells. It can range in color from creamy white to brown.

Nilupak na ube at gabi
Nilupak na ube at gabi is a Tagalog version that combines ube with taro corms.

See also
Ube cake
Ube crinkle
Ube ice cream
Maja de ube
Cuisine of the Philippines
Nilupak
Poi
 List of sweet potato dishes

References

 OnAlejandro, R., & Tettoni, L. (2012). Authentic Recipes from the Philippines. New York: Tuttle Pub.

Philippine desserts
Halaya


title: USC Paloma

text:
USC Paloma Hamburg is a German association football club from the city of Hamburg.

History
The club was formed in August 1909 by a group of sports-mad juveniles and takes its name from the Spanish word for dove. A multi-sport club, Paloma has departments for badminton, basketball, gymnastics, judo, jiu jitsu, kung fu, table tennis, and handball. The handball-team won the Hamburg Oberliga championship in 2007–08.

After their first Hamburger Pokal (Hamburg Cup) win in 2002 Paloma took part in the opening round of the 2002–03 DFB-Pokal (German Cup) where they lost 0–5 to Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern. A second Hamburger Pokal win in 2014 returned the team to DFB-Pokal play, this time to face Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim who beat USC 0–9.

After two seasons in the Oberliga Hamburg (V) Paloma was relegated in 2016 and currently play in the Landesliga Hamburg-Hansa (VI).

Honours
The club's honours:
 Hamburger Pokal
 Champions: 2002, 2014

References

External links
Official team site
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables

Paloma
Association football clubs established in 1909
1909 establishments in Germany


title: Quatre Bras, Tervuren

text:
Quatre Bras (French: Quatre Bras de Tervueren; Dutch: Vierarmenkruispunt) is  a cross roads in Tervuren between the Avenue de Tervueren (Brussels-Tervuren road) and the Brussels outer ring R0.  It is a key location for car traffic around Brussels.

References

Roads in Belgium
Tervuren


title: Frances Edmonds

text:
Frances Eileen Edmonds is a British writer. She is known for her books Another Bloody Tour: England in the West Indies (1986) and Cricket XXXX Cricket (1987) about touring with her husband, the former England cricketer Phil Edmonds.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 9 August 1987, in conversation with Michael Parkinson.

Education

Edmonds started at New Hall, Cambridge University, in 1970 and graduated with a master's degree in Modern and Medieval Languages.

She is a fellow at the Distinguished Careers Institute, Stanford University.

Personal life

Edmonds has two younger brothers, both of whom are ophthalmologists. Her older brother is the physician Kieran Moriarty CBE, FRCP, FRCPI.

Edmonds married the former England cricketer Phil Edmonds towards the end of 1976. They have a daughter.

Bibliography

 (with the English cricket team in the West Indies in 1985–86)

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
British non-fiction writers
Alumni of New Hall, Cambridge


title: Dybt vand

text:
Dybt vand (English: Deep Water) is a 1999 Danish TV movie thriller directed by Ole Bornedal. It was broadcast by DR1. It involves a deputy mayor (played by Jens Jørn Spottag) who bends the rules and gets involved in multiple crimes, creating a domino effect of consequences.

Cast
 Jens Jørn Spottag

 Henning Moritzen
 Søren Sætter-Lassen
 Gerda Gilboe
 Gyrd Løfqvist
 Ulf Pilgaard

 Ditte Gråbøl
 Bjarne Henriksen
 Niels Anders Thorn
 Ulrich Thomsen

 Beate Bille

References

External links
 Official website at dr.dk/bonanza

1990s thriller films
1999 films
1999 television films
Danish thriller films
Films directed by Ole Bornedal
Films scored by Marco Beltrami
Thriller television films
1990s Danish-language films


title: 2006–07 Swindon Town F.C. season

text:
The 2006–07 season was Swindon Town's first season in the League Two since the 1980s. Alongside the league campaign, Swindon Town will also competed in the FA Cup, League Cup and the Football League Trophy.

League Two

Sponsors

Pre-season

Copa Ibiza

Domestic friendlies

Wiltshire Premier Shield

League Two

August

The FA Cup

FA Cup results

The League Cup

League Cup results

The Football League Trophy

Football League Trophy results

Matchday squads

League Two line-ups

1 1st Substitution, 2 2nd Substitution, 3 3rd Substitution.

FA Cup line-ups

1 1st Substitution, 2 2nd Substitution, 3 3rd Substitution.

League Cup line-ups

1 1st Substitution, 2 2nd Substitution, 3 3rd Substitution.

Football League Trophy line-ups

1 1st Substitution, 2 2nd Substitution, 3 3rd Substitution.

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

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Managerial stats

Goalscorers

Clean sheets

Includes all competitive matches.

Awards

Overall summary

Summary

References

Swindon Town F.C. seasons
Swindon Town F.C.


title: Mirror site

text:
Mirror sites or mirrors are replicas of other websites. The concept of mirroring applies to network services accessible through any protocol, such as HTTP or FTP. Such sites have different URLs than the original site, but host identical or near-identical content. Mirror sites are often located in a different geographic region than the original, or upstream site. The purpose of mirrors is to reduce network traffic, improve access speed, ensure availability of the original site for technical or political reasons, or provide a real-time backup of the original site. Mirror sites are particularly important in developing countries, where internet access may be slower or less reliable.

Mirror sites were heavily used on the early internet, when most users accessed through dialup and the Internet backbone had much lower bandwidth than today, making a geographically-localized mirror network a worthwhile benefit. Download archives such as Info-Mac, Tucows and CPAN maintained worldwide networks mirroring their content accessible over HTTP or anonymous FTP. Some of these networks, such as Info-Mac or Tucows are no longer active or have removed their mirrored download sections, but some like CPAN or the Debian package mirrors are still active in 2023. Debian removed FTP access to its mirrors in 2017 because of declining use and the relative stagnation of the FTP protocol, mentioning FTP servers' lack of support for techniques such as caching and load balancing that are available to HTTP. Modern mirrors support HTTPS and IPv6 along with IPv4.

On occasion, some mirrors may choose not to replicate the entire contents of the upstream server because of technical constraints, or selecting only a subset relevant to their purpose, such as software written in a particular programming language, runnable on a single computer platform, or written by one author. These sites are called partial mirrors or secondary mirrors.

Examples
Notable websites with mirrors include Project Gutenberg, KickassTorrents, The Pirate Bay, WikiLeaks, the website of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Wikipedia. Some notable partial mirrors include free and open-source software projects such as GNU, in particular Linux distributions CentOS, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu; such projects provide mirrors of the download sites (since those are expected to have high server load). Many open source application providers such as VideoLAN use mirrors to distribute VLC Media Player, and The Document Foundation uses mirrors to distribute LibreOffice.

It was once common for tech companies such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard or Apple  to maintain a network of mirrors accessible over HTTP or anonymous FTP, hosting software updates, sample code and various freely-downloadable utilities. Much of these sites were shut down in the first decades of the 21st century, with Apple shutting down its FTP services in 2012 and Microsoft stopping updates in 2010. Today, the contents of a number of these mirror sites are archived at The FTP Site Boneyard.
Occasionally, some people will use web scraping software to produce static dumps of existing sites, such as the BBC's Top Gear and RedFlagDeals.

See also

 InterPlanetary File System – makes mirror sites redundant
 Content delivery network
 cURL
 Cyber resilience
 Dark web
 DDoS
 Downtime
 HTTrack
 IRC network
 Mesh networking
 Peer-to-peer
 Replication (computing)
 Web archiving
 Website monitoring
 Wget
 Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks

References

External links

Websites
Data synchronization
Disaster preparedness
Web 1.0


title: Vinayakrao Patwardhan

text:
Pandit Vinayak Narayan Patwardhan (22 July 1898 – 23 August 1975) was an Indian vocalist of Gwalior gharana (style of singing) of Indian classical music.

Early life

Vinayakrao's uncle Keshav Rao Koratkar was his first music teacher. In 1907, he went to Gandharva Mahavidyalaya at Lahore, where he was taught by Vishnu Digambar Paluskar.

Career
Vinayakrao accepted teaching assignments at the various branches of the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, including those in Bombay, Nagpur and Lahore. Vinayakrao's high-pitched voice was popular with the masses, and specifically caught the attention of actor/singer Bal Gandharva. On one occasion, the Gwalior veteran Ramkrishna Buwa Vazhe offered a challenge to singers in Pune. Vinayakrao accepted this challenge and proceeded to learn complex ragas from Vazhe.

In the late 1940s, when Bhimsen Joshi was searching for a teacher, he met Vinayakrao in Jalandhar. Vinayakrao advised him to learn from Sawai Gandharva. Later, Patwardhan took up roles in Marathi musicals. Heeding his teacher's admonition about singing for films, Vinayak went to Pune and established his own branch of the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya. Despite his young age, he had decided to dedicate himself to teaching music and ignored the lure of drama and film.

Vinayakrao trained disciples who became well known, including his guru's son, D.V. Paluskar, and Sunanda Patnaik.

Singer

Vinayakrao Patwardhan's singing reflected the simple and straightforward approach to ragas, which is the characteristic of the Gwalior Gharana style. His favorite ragas included ''Bahar'', ''Adana'', ''Multani'', ''Malhar'', ''Jaijaivanti'', ''Hameer'' and ''Bhairav-bahar''. He performed in most of the important music festivals. He was one of the few practicing musicians of the time who wrote textbooks on music. In his seven-part ''Raaga Vigyan'' series, Vinayakrao described the important aspects of various ragas as well as their grammar. In his concerts and recordings, his fellow-student Narayanrao Vyas accompanied Vinayakrao.

Recognition
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan award in 1972 by the President of India. He led the Indian cultural delegation to the USSR and other countries.

The Film & TV Institute of India supported a documentary on him by Aruna Raje.

Legacy
One of his disciples, L.R. Kelkar, settled down in Madras (Chennai). Author Rohiniprasad learned sitar from him initially. Among Kelkar's better-known disciples is violinist N. Rajam, who also studied with Omkarnath Thakur in Benares.

References

External links

1898 births
1975 deaths
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in arts
Hindustani singers
Gwalior gharana
Marathi people
20th-century Indian male classical singers
20th-century Khyal singers
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship


title: FRMPD3

text:
FERM and PDZ domain containing 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FRMPD3 gene.

References

Further reading

Genes on human chromosome X


title: International Neuroethics Society

text:
The International Neuroethics Society (INS) is a professional organization that studies the social, legal, ethical, and policy implications of advances in neuroscience. Its mission is to encourage and inspire research and dialogue on the responsible use of advances in brain science. The current INS President is Joseph J. Fins, MD.

History

The INS was formed as the Neuroethics Society in May 2006 in Asilomar, California by a multidisciplinary group of 13 members, including neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, bioethicists and lawyers. This group formed the INS following the first meeting solely devoted to neuroethics held in San Francisco in 2002, entitled 'Neuroethics: Mapping the Field'. This meeting was co-hosted by Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and sponsored by the Dana Foundation. This event prompted the attending and future founders of the INS to meet again and discuss the creation of a society devoted to neuroethics. The formation of the Neuroethics Society was formally announced in July 2006.

The founding president of the INS was Professor Steven Hyman, who served as president from 2006 to 2014. Hyman stated that the role of the Society was to study the issues related to the nervous system that are not neatly contained within traditional bioethics, as well as to bridge the gap between advances in neuroscience and the world of policy and ethics.

The Neuroethics Society was renamed the International Neuroethics Society in 2011, prior to the Society's 2011 Annual Meeting, to reflect its international membership and mission.

The official journal of the INS is the American Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience (AJOB-Neuroscience), which has Paul Root Wolpe as its Editor-in-Chief. The journal launched in 2007 as a section of the American Journal of Bioethics and became an independent journal in 2010, publishing four issues a year.

Past Presidents of the Society include: Nita Farahany (2019–2021), Hank Greely (2017–2019), Judy Illes (2016–2017), Barbara Sahakian (2014–2016), and Steven Hyman (2008–2014).

Members

The INS is an international organisation, with over 300 members. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in neuroethics, including students, for whom there is a discounted rate.

Governance

The INS is a non-profit organisation and was formed by a grant from the Dana Foundation. The society has its headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Annual meeting

In May 2007, the INS sponsored a forum on the ethics of neuroenhancement in Washington, D.C., which was hosted by the Dana Foundation. This was followed by the first annual meeting of the INS in 2008, also held in Washington, DC. This 2-day meeting was held prior to the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual conference was attended by over 200 people.

Since 2010, the INS has continuously held a meeting annually as a satellite of the Society for Neuroscience conference. In addition to plenary speakers, panel discussions, networking and mentoring sessions, researchers are invited to present posters of their work.  The dates, locations, themes and program information for past INS annual meetings are as follows:

In addition to the Annual Meeting, the INS collaborates with other organizations in programs on neuroethics and related topics each year, including events at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and the British Neuroscience Association.

Response to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues

In 2014, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, which advises the President of the United States on bioethical issues arising from advances in biomedicine and related areas of science and technology, asked for public comment on the ethical considerations of neuroscience research and the application of neuroscience research findings. In response, the INS listed the top 12 areas of importance for consideration by the commission, which were published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. The INS detailed the top 5 important areas that will have an ethical impact on society as the Human Brain Projects (both the UK and USA versions), human enhancement (the use of 'smart drugs' by healthy people), neurotechnology, responsibility and the law and mental health and brain disorders. Members of the Presidential Commission attended the INS Annual Meeting in November 2014 to further discuss the ethical issues surrounding neuroscience research.

References

External links

Scientific societies based in the United States
Neuroscience organizations


title: Quatre Bras (disambiguation)

text:
Quatre Bras is a crossroads in Belgium south of Brussels where the Battle of Quatre Bras was fought in 1815. Quatre Bras (French for "four arms" and a common name for a crossroads), may also refer to:

Quatre Bras, Tervuren, a cross roads in Tervuren between the Avenue de Tervueren (Brussels-Tervuren road) and the Brussels outer ring R0
The name of 'Four Arms' in the Dutch-language version of Ben 10

See also
 Battle of Quatre Bras (16 June 1815), fought between Wellington's Anglo-Dutch army and the left wing of the Armée du Nord under Marshal Michel Ney
 Quatre Bras order of battle
 Quatre Bras: Stalemate on the Brussels Road, a 1976 board wargame that simulates the battle


title: Udvornici

text:
The udvornici, also udvarniks or royal serving people (, Slovak: dvorníci), was a class of half-free people who were obliged to provide well-specified services to the royal court in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. They seem to have been descended from the Slavic population which was subjugated during the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin. Word udvornici is derived from slavic "U dvora", meaning "at/near the (royal) court". Their lord was the monarch, but they were administered by the Palatine.

References

Sources

Medieval Kingdom of Hungary


title: Grazia Di Michele

text:
Grazia Di Michele (born  9 October 1955) is an Italian singer-songwriter.

Life and career
Born Maria Grazia Di Michele in Rome to parents from Abruzzo, at very young age, she founded with Chiara Scotti and Clelia Lamorgese "L'Ape di Vetro" ("The Glass Bee"), a politically inspired musical group which disbanded after a few years.

She debuted as a solo singer at Folkstudio, a music venue in Rome, in 1977. In those years she also worked in a cultural club in Rome, the "Johann Sebastian Bar", and worked as a disc jockey in radio.

Her first album Cliché, characterized by provocative lyrics about feminist and social themes, was released in 1978. In 1983 she released the album  Ragiona col cuore, of which the title track tells the story of a lesbian love, then in 1986 she got her first and major commercial success with the single "Le ragazze di Gauguin" and with the album with the same name. Between 1990 and 1993 she entered the Sanremo Music Festival three times, ranking third in 1993 with "Gli amori diversi", a duet with Rossana Casale.

Discography

 Album
     1978 - Cliché (It, ZPLT 34029)
     1983 - Ragiona col cuore (Venus Dischi, VNS 44701)
     1986 - Le ragazze di Gauguin (WEA Italiana, 242139-1)
     1988 - L'amore è un pericolo (WEA Italiana, 2446311-1)
     1990 - Raccolta (WEA Italiana, 9031 71245; con due inediti)
     1991 - Grazia Di Michele (WEA Italiana, 9031 73859-1)
     1993 - Confini (Warner Music Italy, 4509-91262-1)
     1995 - Rudji (Sony)
     2001 - Naturale
     2005 - Chiamalavita (Rai Trade)
     2005 - Respiro
     2006 - Le più belle canzoni di Grazia Di Michele (WEA)
     2009 - Passaggi segreti (Rai Trade)
     2012 - Giverny (RaiEri)

References

External links

 Grazia Di Michele at Discogs

Musicians from Rome
1955 births
Italian pop singers
Italian composers
Italian women singer-songwriters
Italian singer-songwriters
Living people
Feminist musicians


title: Hazlehurst-Baxley Tigers

text:
The Hazlehurst-Baxley Tigers were a minor league baseball team that represented Baxley and Hazlehurst, Georgia in the Georgia State League in 1956. However the team was first established in 1948 as the Baxley Red Sox. The following season the team was known as the Hazlehurst-Baxley Red Socks and a year later, the Hazlehurst-Baxley Red Sox. In 1952, the team began and affiliation with the St. Louis Cardinals and became the Hazlehurst-Baxley Cardinals.

The Cardinals won the league title in 1953.

Notable alumni

 Bud Metheny (1948)

 Mike Milosevich (1949)

References

External links
Baseball Reference -Hazlehurst-Baxley

Baseball teams established in 1948
Baseball teams disestablished in 1956
1948 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
1956 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Defunct Georgia State League teams
Professional baseball teams in Georgia (U.S. state)
Detroit Tigers minor league affiliates
St. Louis Cardinals minor league affiliates
Defunct baseball teams in Georgia (U.S. state)


The 471st Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force.  It was formed in 1985 by the consolidation of the World War II 71st Liaison Squadron and the Cold War era 471st Fighter-Bomber Squadron of the Air Force Reserve.

History

World War II
The first predecessor of the squadron was the 71st Liaison Squadron, which was activated overseas at Ondal, India in June 1943.  The squadron served in India, Burma and China until the end of the war.  It was inactivated in India in December 1945.

Cold War
The 471st Fighter-Bomber Squadron was activated at Selfridge Air Force Base, Michigan in April 1954.  It trained with Republic F-84 Thunderjets until 1957, when its parent 439th Fighter-Bomber Group converted to a troop carrier unit.

In September 1985 the 71st Liaison Squadron and the 471st Fighter-Bomber Squadron were consolidated as the 471st Tactical Electronic Warfare Training Squadron.

Lineage
71st Liaison Squadron
 Constituted as the 71st Liaison Squadron on 17 June 1943
 Activated on 15 July 1943
 Inactivated on 8 December 1945
 Consolidated on 19 September 1985 with the 471st Fighter-Bomber Squadron as the 471st Tactical Electronic Warfare Training Squadron

471st Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron
 Constituted as the 471st Fighter-Bomber Squadron
 Activated on 1 April 1954
 Inactivated on 1 July 1957
 Consolidated on 19 September 1985 with the 71st Liaison Squadron as the 471st Tactical Electronic Warfare Training Squadron

Assignments
 Tenth Air Force: 15 July 1943
 United States Army Forces, China-Burma-India: 19 August 1943 (attached to 5903d Combat Troops (later 5903d Area Command, Northern Combat Area Command) from c. Oct 1943
 Army Air Forces, India-Burma Sector: 2 March 1944 (remained attached to Northern Combat Area Command)
 Detachment attached to Y Force: November 1943 – c. 1 July 1944
 Tenth Air Force: 21 August 1944 (attached to 1st Liaison Group (Provisional) 19 August 1944 – 30 April 1945)
 Fourteenth Air Force: 6 July 1945 (attached to 14th AF Tactical Air Command 24 July 1945 – 1 August 1945)
 Tenth Air Force: 1 August 1945 – 8 December 1945
 439th Fighter-Bomber Group: 1 April 1954 – 1 July 1957

Stations

 Ondal, India, 15 July 1943
 Ramgarh, Bengal, India, 17 July 1943 (detachment at Ledo, Assam, India after 18 September 1943)
 Ledo, Assam, India, 26 October 1943 (detachment at Kunming Airfield, China November 1943 – c. 1 July 1944)
 Sahmaw Airfield, Burma, 15 October 1944
 Katha, Burma, 16 January 1945
 Myitkyina Airfield, Burma, 22 March 1945
 Dinjan Airfield, Assam, India, c. 24 April 1945 (air echelon remained at Myitkyina Airfield)
 Piardoba Airfield, Bengal, India, 12 May 1945 – 10 July 1945
 Kunming Airfield, China, 25 July 1945
 Liuchow Airfield, China, 21 August 1945
 Chihchiang Airfield, China, c. 7 October 1945
 Kunming Airfield, China, October 1945
 Salua Army Air Base, Bengal, India, 4 November 1945 – 8 December 1945
 Selfridge Air Force Base, Michigan, 1 April 1954 – 1 July 1957

Aircraft

 Stinson L-1 (O-49) Vigilant (1944–45)
 Piper L-4 Cub (1943–45)
 Stinson L-5 Sentinel (1944–45)
 Noorduyn UC-64 Norseman (1944–45)
 Republic F-84 Thunderjet (1954–57)

Campaigns

See also
 List of MAJCOM wings of the United States Air Force

References

Notes

Bibliography

Further reading

Military units and formations established in 1954
0471
Electronic warfare squadrons of the United States Air Force


title: Vennli

text:
Vennli () is a privately held Indiana based company focused on driving the creation and execution of growth strategies. The company’s SaaS product suite centers on building growth cases – strategic and tactical plans for growth in specific market segments defined by customer segment and competitor options. The Vennli strategy model has been implemented and executed at hundreds of organizations across a variety of dynamic markets around the world.

History
Vennli was founded in 2013 upon a strategy model developed by co-founder Joe Urbany, a marketing professor from the University of Notre Dame, and co-founder Gary Gigot, whose background includes technology marketing and venture capital at firms such as Microsoft, Visio, and Frazier Technology. Vennli launched the platform in 2014 with a fully functional application. In the summer of 2014, Vennli conducted a beta introduction with over 80 customers – spanning company size, industry, and type. Currently, over 100 clients have applied the platform to their growth challenges (this is in addition to the 800+ Notre Dame Executive MBA students who have applied the model to business challenges over the past decade).

References

2013 establishments in Indiana


title: Geoffrey Crossick

text:
Geoffrey Joel Crossick FRHistS (born 13 June 1946) is a British academic who is Professor of Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, a postgraduate school of the University of London. He was Vice-Chancellor of London University from 2010 to 2012.

Early life
The son of Louis Crossick and Rebecca Naomi née Backen, Crossick was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School Elstree, before going to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read history, graduating as a BA in 1967. He then pursued further research historical at Birkbeck College, London, where he took a PhD in 1976.

Career
Elected a Research Fellow in History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1970 to 1973, Crossick then became a Lecturer in Social History at the University of Hull from 1973 to 1978. In 1979 he joined the University of Essex becoming a Reader then Professor of History from 1991 to 2002 before becoming Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1997 to 2002.

Crossick was Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board from 2002 to 2005 and Warden of Goldsmiths College from 2005–10. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 2010 to 2012.

Crossick was Visiting Professor of the University of Lyon from 1990 to 1991. He has been a member of the Business and Community Strategy Committee, and later Enterprise and Skills Strategy Committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) from 2005 to 2012. He has been a board member of Universities UK (UUK) from 2006 to 2012 and is Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Cultural Value Project. In 2014 he was appointed Chairman of the Crafts Council. He was previously a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum, at Greenwich. He was Director 2012–16 of the AHRC Cultural Value Project set up to identify the benefits of arts and culture to individuals and society and ways of evaluating and evidencing them: his report, Understanding the value of Arts and Culture (with Patrycja Kaszynska, AHRC 2016).

In 2015 Crossick published a report on Monographs and Open Access for the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Personal life
Crossick married Rita Geraldine Vaudrey JP in 1973 and they have two sons.  He is a Tottenham Hotspur FC supporter.

Publications
 The Lower Middle Class in Britain 1870–1914 (Editor) Publisher: Croom Helm (20 Jan 1977)
 An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society:  Kentish London 1840–1880 1978 (Joint editor) Publisher: C. Helm Rowman and Littlefield
 Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in 19th Century Europe May 1984 (Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt) Publisher: Methuen young books
 The Power of the Past: essays for Eric Hobsbawm September 1984 (Editors: Geoffrey Crossick, Pat Thane, and Roderick Floud) Publisher: Cambridge University Press
 The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780–1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence 1995, New edition Nov 1997 (Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt) Publisher: Routledge
 The Artisan and the European Town: 1500–1900 (Historical Urban Studies Series) June 1997 (Editor) Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
 Cathedrals of Consumption: the European department store 1850–1939 March 1998 (Ed: Geoffrey Crossik and Serge Gaumain) Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
 Knowledge Transfer without Widgets: the challenge of the creative economy January2007 (Contributor) Publisher: Goldsmiths College

See also
 List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London

References

Living people
1946 births
People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
People associated with Goldsmiths, University of London
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Vice-Chancellors of the University of London


title: Auchi Polytechnic

text:
Auchi Polytechnic is a Federal Polytechnic in Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria. It is one of the first four Polytechnics established in Nigeria.  It has over 10,000 students enrolled in business, technology, environmental and arts courses.

History
Auchi Polytechnic was founded in 1963, first as a technical college which was a gift of the British government to the then Midwestern Region.  It offered courses only up to the Ordinary Diploma level in limited areas of engineering and business.  By the seventies, there was a need for skilled manpower at a higher level and in many more disciplines.  Thus in 1973, the Bendel State Government upgraded the technical college to a full-fledged polytechnic with the mandate to train skilled manpower up to the Higher National Diploma level in a broad range of engineering, science, environmental studies, business studies and art and design.

The extant law establishing it assigned to the institution the task of producing well trained and highly skilled middle level manpower for the national economy in the areas of engineering, applied sciences and technology, environmental studies, management studies, and art and industrial design. In 1994, the Federal Government took over the polytechnic from the Edo State Government.

Schools
Source:

School of Applied Science & Technology (SAST)

Department of Food Technology
Department of Hospitality Management
Department of Science Laboratory
Department of Ceramic Technology
Department of Science Laboratory Technology

School of Art and Industrial Design (SAID)
Department of Graphics & Textile
Department of Painting & General Arts
Department of Sculpture & Ceramics

School of Business Studies (SBS)
Department of Accountancy
Department of Banking & Finance
Department of Business Administration & Management
Department of Marketing
Department of Public Administration

School of Engineering Technology (SENG)
Department of Agricultural Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering Technology
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Electrical/Electronics Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Polymer Technology

School of Environmental Studies (SENV)
Department of Architectural Technology
Department of Building Technology
Department of Estate Management
Department of Quantity Surveying
Department of Survey & Geo-informatics
Department of Urban & Regional Planning

School of Information & Communication Technology (SICT)
Department of Computer Science
Department of Mass Communication
Department of Office Technology & Management
Department of Statistics

School of General Studies (This is a servicing school, it has no students of its own.)

Notable alumni

Hanks Anuku, Nigerian-Ghanaian actor.
Philipa Idogho, former Rector
Tom Ikimi, politician.
Paul Obazele, Nigerian actor

Academic excellence
The school has  high academic standard recognized nationally and internationally.  Since 2009, Auchi Polytechnic has consistently been rated amongst the top universities in Nigeria by Webometrics.  It came number eleven in 2009 and in 2010 it moved up one point to the 10th position. By 2011 it became number two.  Amongst the polytechnics, it has consistently remained the first in Nigeria, in West Africa, and the second in the whole of Africa.

The graduates of the school have distinguished themselves in their chosen fields, including business, finance, engineering, science, art and design.

In competitions amongst peers, the high standards show glaringly.  The polytechnic holds:
	The first prize in Polytechnic Expo of engineering designs and fabrications (2008 and 2012).
	The first prize in the Minna exhibition for crafts and wood works (2004)
	The NUXART prize for Art Works; the polytechnic won this prize three times consecutively.
	The school made a good showing at the Federal Ministry of Education organized exposition for all tertiary institutions in the country.  Its performance informed its invitation by the Federal Government to exhibit works again at the first African legislative summit held in 2013.
	At student level, the school's students have  distinguished themselves among their peers. At a national debate organized for tertiary institutions held at Abuja in 2009, Auchi Polytechnic won the first prize.  The following year, the school's students came second at the debate hosted by the University of Ibadan, where one of the school's representatives emerged as the best female speaker.
	In the area of environmental impact, Auchi Polytechnic embodies the Federal Government's commitment to providing entrepreneurial skills to students, as both short and long-term solutions to unemployment and under-employment.  The institution has been designated a centre of excellence for entrepreneurship studies.
 Closely related to this is the development of flexible skills initiative of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL).  Again, Auchi Polytechnic is foremost in this regard, being the only partner-institution with COL in Nigeria.  Thus, the institution runs short duration programmes in skills acquisition for interested members of the public.
 The polytechnic has institutionalized the culture of inaugural lectures which requires qualified chief lecturers to give a summation of their experience and research interest in their respective disciplines.

References

External links

1963 establishments in Nigeria
Education in Edo State
Educational institutions established in 1963
Federal polytechnics in Nigeria


title: Three Ancient Springs

text:
The Three Ancient Springs (日本三古湯, Nihon San Kotō) are a group of ancient onsen in Japan.

According to the Nihon Shoki and Fudoki, both from the eighth century, they are:

Dōgo Onsen, Ehime Prefecture
Arima Onsen, Hyōgo Prefecture
Nanki-Shirahama Onsen, Wakayama Prefecture

The tenth century Engishiki gives a slightly different list:

 Dōgo Onsen, Ehime Prefecture
 Arima Onsen, Hyōgo Prefecture
 Iwaki Yumoto Onsen, Fukushima Prefecture

Japanese culture-related lists
Bathing in Japan
Hot springs of Japan


title: ALL.Net

text:
ALL.Net (Amusement Linkage Live Network)  is an arcade video game network communication system and digital distribution system made by Sega Corporation. It is similar to the Taito NESiCAxLive game distribution systems and NESYS arcade network; the player smart card system is similar to the Konami e-AMUSEMENT system. It enables arcade games to be connected via the Internet, enabling communication battles, national rankings, and storage of play data.

Development
ALL.net was developed by Sega in 2004. It was created as a method of allowing players to save player profiles, player rankings, high scores, create online rankings and have competitive online play. The system was based on the previous VF.net created by Sega for Virtua Fighter 4 in 2001. Initially, the service was only available in Japan, but following a trial in Hong Kong in 2008, the service has been extended to other parts of Asia in 2010. The system has been rolled out to South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, China.

ALL.Net was further developed as ALL.Net P-ras to allow digital distribution of arcade games, as well as for software updates. ALL.Net P-ras allows profit sharing with the arcade operators, with Sega renting games for free, while the operator pays the cost of the hardware, with all revenues from players being split between Sega and the arcade operator.

ALL.Net games
See List of ALL.Net games

See also
 Digital distribution in video games
 List of Sega arcade system boards

References

External links

Products introduced in 2004
2004 establishments in Japan
Products introduced in 2010
Internet properties established in 2004
Sega hardware
Video game distribution
Online content distribution
Online video game services


title: The Polytechnic, Ibadan

text:
The Polytechnic, Ibadan (typically called "Poly Ibadan") is an institution of higher learning in Ibadan in Oyo State, Nigeria. Founded in 1970, Poly Ibadan is similar to other polytechnics in Nigeria. The institution was established to provide an alternative higher education to universities, particularly in technical skill acquisition. The vocational and skills acquisition centre is poised to ensure that students master a skill before leaving the institution and also provides skills training to the host community. Poly Ibadan is also well known for its unique slogan written in Yoruba language as "Ise loogun ise" which means 'Work is the medicine for poverty', a classical Yoruba adage  which stresses that hard work is the way out of poverty.

Curriculum
The institution offers a wide range of specialized short courses for the purpose of improving the vocational capabilities of technical and commercial workers. Poly Ibadan awards Ordinary National Diploma (OND), Higher National Diploma (HND), Post Graduate Diploma ( PGD) and other professional certificates to its graduates. It also provides opportunities for creative development and research related to the needs of teaching, industry and the business community.

Academic Programmes

The polytechnic runs mainly National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) programmes in the following on full-time, part-time or sandwich basis.

Faculties and their Departments

Faculty of Engineering
 Civil Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
 Computer Engineering
 Mechatronics
Faculty of Science
 Science Laboratory Technology
 Biology and Microbiology
 Applied Chemistry
 Biochemistry
 Physics with Electronics
 Geology
 Computer Science
 Statistics
Faculty of Environmental Studies
 Architecture
 Urban and Regional Planning
 Estate Management
 Quantity Surveying
 Building Technology
 Painting and Sculpture
 Industrial Design
 Graphics & Printing
 Land Surveying and Geoinformatics
Faculty of Financial Management Science
 Accountancy
 Banking and Finance
 Insurance
Faculty of Business and Communication Science
 Mass Communication
 Marketing
 Business Administration
 Office Technology Management
 Purchasing and Supply
 Local Government Studies
 Public Administration

Notable alumni

 Dapo Lam Adesina, Member of House of Representative for Ibadan North East/South Federal Constituency
 Rauf Aregbesola, Nigerian politician, former governor of Osun State and former Minister of interior.
 Adebiyi Daramola, Nigerian academic and former vice chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Akure.
 Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi. Traditional monarch of Ilé-Ifè, Osun State, Nigeria.
 Ayo Fayose, Nigerian politician, former governor of Ekiti State
 Bishop Francis Wale Oke
 Oluwole Omofemi. Nigerian painter, known for painting the last commissioned painting of Queen Elizabeth II before her demise.

Gallery

References

Polytechnics in Nigeria
1970 establishments in Nigeria
Educational institutions established in 1970
Universities and colleges in Ibadan


title: Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro

text:
Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro is a polytechnic based in Ogun State, Southwestern Nigeria.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria has recognised the polytechnic as the only one in Nigeria that has maintained high standards of tuition in accountancy.

Faculties
The institution has six faculties, namely:
School of Management Studies
School of Environmental Studies
School of Engineering
School of Applied Science
School of information  Communication and Technology(SCIT)
School of Part-Time Studies

References

Education in Ogun State
Educational institutions established in 1979
1979 establishments in Nigeria
Federal polytechnics in Nigeria


title: Timeline of Briarcliff Manor

text:
The history of Briarcliff Manor, a village in Westchester County, New York, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement between the Hudson and Pocantico Rivers in the 19th century. The area now known as Briarcliff Manor had seen human occupation since at least the Archaic period, but significant growth in the settlements that are now incorporated into the village did not occur until the Industrial Revolution. The village, which was incorporated with one square mile in 1902, has expanded primarily through annexation: of Scarborough in 1906 and from the town of Mount Pleasant in 1927 to its current area of . The village has also grown in population; from 331 when established to 7,867 in the 2010 census.

Prehistory
 Archaic period: Around this time, the area of Scarborough-on-Hudson is first inhabited.
 Precolonial era: The area of present-day Briarcliff Manor is inhabited by a band of the Wappinger tribes of Native Americans known as Sint Sincks (or "Sing Sings").

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

 1914–18 (World War I): 91 Briarcliff Manor residents serve in the U.S. armed forces.

 1941–45 (World War II):  More than 340 of the village's 1,830 residents Briarcliff Manor residents serve in the U.S. armed forces.

 1950–53 (Korean War): Approximately 30 Briarcliff Manor residents serve in the U.S. armed forces.

 1965–72 (Vietnam War): At least five men serve in the U.S. armed forces, with four killed and another wounded.

21st century

See also
 History of Briarcliff Manor
 History of New York

Notes

References

Further reading

Published in the 20th century
  A 1939 publication on the history of Briarcliff Manor.
  A 1952 publication on the history of Briarcliff Manor.
  A 1977 publication on the history of Briarcliff Manor.
  A 1990 publication on the history of Briarcliff Manor.

Published in the 21st century
  A 2014 publication on buildings, places, and events in Briarcliff Manor.

External links

 Official website for the Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society

Briarcliff Manor, New York
Briarcliff Manor
Briarcliff Manor


title: Peggy Makins

text:
Peggy Makins (1916-2011) was an English agony aunt, who wrote for Woman magazine under the pen name Evelyn Home.

She was born in Hammersmith, London, England, in 1916.

She took over the column in Woman at the age of 21, having previously been its sub-editor, and continued to write it until retirement.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 8 May 1988. She also contributed regularly to Thought For The Day on the BBC Home Service.

She died on 8 December 2011.

Bibliography

References

1916 births
2011 deaths
Place of death missing
British magazine writers
English non-fiction writers
People from Hammersmith


title: Nikol Bulat

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Nikol Bulat (born 16 October 1987) is a Croatian former singer.

Biography
Nikol Bulat was born in Šibenik, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia on 16 October 1987. In 2006 she competed for the position of lead singer of Magazin, popular pop music band from Split, after Jelena Rozga had left it. She performed their song "Opijum" (Opium) but she lost to Ivana Kovač.

In 2008 she became a member of Feminnem. With Feminnem, she recorded songs "Chanel 5" (Chanel No. 5), "Poljupci u boji" (Kisses in Colour) and "Oye, Oye, Oye", the latter featuring Spanish singer Alex Manga. Despite much success, she didn't fit in the group and subsequently left it.

In 2009, she released her debut solo single "Grešnica" (Sinner). The year after, she performed a song "Samo mi" (Just Us) at Mediafest. At the beginning of 2011, she recorded a duet "Crveni karton" (Red Card) with Bosnian singer Ada Grahović and, in June, she announced the songs "Strašno ti stojim" (I Suit You Terrifically) and "Hajde opa" (Come On Hopa) as her new singles, produced by Costi Ioniţă.

Personal life
Nikol holds master's degree in law. According to reports, she left the music business and is working as an attorney as of 2018. She is in a relationship with Croatian football player Ivan Šunjić.

Singles

See also
 Feminnem

References

1987 births
21st-century Croatian women singers
Living people
Croatian folk-pop singers
People from Šibenik
Croatian lawyers


title: Tacori

text:
Tacori is an American jewelry design house and manufacturer based in Glendale, California. The brand is heavily associated with bridal jewelry.

History
The company was established by Haig Tacorian and his wife Gilda, both coming from Romania and of Armenian heritage. Gilda's father was a jeweler in Romania during the 1950s by the Communist Regime of Romania. Gilda and her family were granted to immigrate from Romania to The United States in 1962, with Haig following in 1970. In 1972, the couple joined Gilda's father in founding a new jewelry company in California, B&T Jewelers. Seven years later, Gilda and Haig founded their own company, Tacori, which was based in the Downtown LA Jewelry District. In 1998, Haig commissioned an engagement ring from a fellow jeweler, Garo Kourounian, which had a design that included a crescent shape which matched the top two curves of a heart. The heart design evolved and became Tacori's signature crescent silhouette. The couple's children and other relatives have joined the family business.

Originally focused on selling pearls, the company expanded into diamonds in the early 1990s and by 2005 had become heavily identified with bridal jewelry, including engagement rings and bridal wear accessories. This bridal jewelry became very popular in the United States after the television series The Bachelor and The Bachelorette began featuring its product lines in their programs. The design house's jewelry is known for its crescent silhouette  and as of 2005 had launched over 30 lawsuits to protect the trademark. In 2013, Tacori was named on the "Top Five most visible brands" in the category of jewelry by INDESIGN magazine; that same year, it was announced as a finalist for the Communications category of the Jewelers of America's annual GEM Award in response to its advertisement "Par Chance", directed by Steve Antin. Released in December 2012, the ad campaign was intended to both display the design house's new line and to help associate the brand identity with personality traits of the wearer.

Tacori jewelry is primarily retailed throughout the United States and Canada in addition to some international retail locations.

References

External links
Tacori
The Bachelor Canada
Tacori - Engagement Rings
Tacori - Diamond Rings

American jewelry designers
Jewelry companies of the United States
Companies based in Glendale, California


title: Iwaki Yumoto Onsen

text:
is an onsen resort in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture in Japan.

History
Although known since the Nara period, the hot springs at Iwaki developed with borehole drilling in the Jōban Coal Fields in the Meiji period. To the west of the traditional onsen town is the Spa Resort Hawaiians.

See also
Three Ancient Springs

External links

Hot springs of Fukushima Prefecture
Spa towns in Japan
Tourist attractions in Fukushima Prefecture
Iwaki, Fukushima


title: ARY Film Award for Best Film

text:
The ARY Film Award for Best Film is one of the ARY Film Awards of Merit presented annually by the ARY Digital Network and Entertainment Channel to producers working in the film industry and is the only category in which every member is eligible to submit a nomination. Best Film is considered the most important of the ARY Film Awards, as it represents all the directing, acting, music composing, writing, editing and other efforts put forth into a drama. This award is one of the two Best Film awards in ceremony which is awarded to relevant film only on the decision of ceremony Jury, while other being awarded on Viewers Voting's.

History

Category Name
The best film category originates with the 1st ARY Film Awards ceremony since 2014. This category has been given to the best film of previous year to the ceremony held by Viewers Voting, but simply called as Best Film, rather than Best Film Jury which is decided by Jury and officially called as Best Film Jury or Best Jury Film. Since ARY Film Awards has been just started, this category has not a brief history. The name of the category officially termed by the channel is:

 2014 → present: ARY Film Award for Best Film

Winners and nominees

In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. The year shown is the one in which the film first released; normally this is also the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a film exhibited theatrically during 2005 was eligible for consideration for the 2005 Best Film ARY Awards, awarded in 2006. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article on that ceremony/ Each individual entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer. Till from 2013, the Best Drama Serial award has given to producer rather than to Production company.

As of the first ceremony, total of five films were nominated, and all the five films were nominated in all categories except one. This category is among two Best Film Awards that is given to Best Film's. Best Film Jury winner is eligible to be nominated among Best Film and may won the Both awards.

For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st ARY Film Awards presented on May 35, 2015, to recognized films that were released between January, 2013, and December, 2013, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the film year in which they were releases, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the films of its previous year.

2010s

References

External links

Best Film ARY Film Award winners
ARY Film Award winners
ARY Film Awards


title: Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University

text:
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBUL) is a university in Niger State, central Nigeria. It had its first convocation in 2014. It was named after the former Nigeria Head of State General Ibrahim Babangida. The university started academic activities in the 2005/2006 academic session.

Faculties
 Natural Sciences
 Management and Social Sciences
 Applied Sciences and Technology
 Education and Arts
 Agriculture
 Languages and Communication Studies
 College of Health Sciences

Institutes
 Institutes of Maritime Studies

Endowments & Research
In 2020, IBBUL won a prize grant of $450,000 from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) grant of Canada. The project has the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India, as the lead partner, with IBBUL and Samtse College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan, Open University of Tanzania and UNESCO office of Bangladesh, in the partnership.

In 2021, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation endowed the University with a High Impact Geological Research Laboratory.

Gallery

References

2005 establishments in Nigeria
Educational institutions established in 2005
Education in Niger State

Public universities in Nigeria


The National Movement for Democracy and Development (, MNDD) was a left-wing political party in Benin.

History
The MNDD was established in 1990 by Bertin Borna, who was popular in the north of the country. It contested the 1991 elections as part of three-party alliance alongside the Movement for Solidarity, Union and Progress (MSUP) and the Union for Democracy and National Reconstruction (UDRN). The three parties received 8% of the vote and won six of the 64 seats in the National Assembly.

The alliance split prior to the 1995 elections, with the MNDD running alone and the other two remaining in an alliance. The MNDD won a single seat (taken by Borna) with 2% of the vote, whilst the MSUP–UDRN alliance received 1% of the vote and failed to win a seat.

References

Defunct political parties in Benin
Political parties established in 1990


title: Lo Cheung-shiu

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Lo Cheung-shiu (羅長肇, 1867–1934) was a prominent Hong Kong businessman and the founder of the Lo family, an influential family in Hong Kong. He is also George She's brother-in-law.

Biography
Lo Cheung-shiu  is the first generation of Hong Kong Eurasian. His father was Thomas Rothwell, an English businessman, and his mother was a Chinese woman.  In his early years, his mother had friends with He Dong and Ho Fook's mother is Ms. Shi, Huang Jinfu's mother is Ms. Wu, Xian Defen's mother is Ms. Huang, and Mai Xiuying's mother is Ms. Wu. The older sister Luo Ruicai (Luo Xucai) married Ho Fook, so the relationship became friends with Ho Tung, and the children had four in-law relationships with the Robert Ho Tung family.

Lo was a compradore of Jardine, Matheson & Co., formerly one of the leading British mercantile firms in the Far East. He retired in 1920. During his lifetime, Lo held a number of directorships in Hong Kong companies, including China Light and Power Company and the Hong Kong Construction Company.

Lo was a wealthy businessman in the early days of Hong Kong's port opening. He and Ho Tung were close friends. Ho Tung introduced Ren Yihe to the comprador in early years. In 1914, he founded Dayou Bank with Liu Zhubo, He Dong, He Fu, He Gantang and Chen Qiming. This is the second bank set up by Chinese in Hong Kong after the Guangdong Bank.

He served on the boards of various local charities. In 1915, he became a director of the Tung Wah Hospital, then the leading Chinese charity in the colony, and later became emeritus advisor to the hospital and permanent board member of Po Leung Kuk. He also served as vice-chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and was on its executive committee for many years.

He was made a Justice of the Peace and a member of the District Watch Committee. In 1930, he was awarded a Certificate of Honour on the occasion of King George V's birthday.

On 20 June 1934, after a lengthy illness, he died at 12:30 a.m. at his residence on Conduit Road, Mid-Levels, aged 67. He left an estate worth a reported 543,600 dollars. His funeral took place on 3 July and was attended by many local leaders. The flag of Jardine, Matheson & Co. was hoisted at half mast.

Family
Lo's wife, Shi Xiangqing, younger sister of George She, a partner of the Qing mission in North Korea. Lo had four sons, Man-kam, Man-wai, Man-ho, and Man-hin (Horace), and five daughters. Four of his sons went into law and founded Lo and Lo, a well known solicitors firm that remains active today. Man-kam and Man-wai entered politics and became members of the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

Lo Cheung-shiu's grandson, Lo Tak-shing, also served on the Executive and Legislative Councils and was appointed to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee. He ran as a candidate in elections for the first Hong Kong Chief Executive in 1997.

See also
 Four big families of Hong Kong

References

1867 births
1934 deaths
Hong Kong businesspeople
Hong Kong philanthropists
Jardine Matheson Group
Hong Kong people of English descent
People from British Hong Kong


title: Dead Center (Game Theory album)

text:
Dead Center is a compilation album from Game Theory, a California power pop band fronted by guitarist and singer-songwriter Scott Miller. Initially released in France on Lolita Records in 1984, a newly remastered version was released on CD on November 24, 2014 on Omnivore Recordings.

Background
By mid-1982, Scott Miller had assembled the first iteration of Game Theory, which consisted of Miller (lead guitar, vocals), Nancy Becker (keyboards, vocals), Fred Juhos (bass, guitar, vocals), and Michael Irwin (drums). The first Game Theory album was the Blaze of Glory LP, released on Rational Records in 1982.

With Dave Gill replacing Michael Irwin on drums, two 12-inch EPs followed. In 1983, the group released the six-song EP Pointed Accounts of People You Know, recorded at Samurai Sound Studio, which was co-owned by Gill.  The group then recorded the five-song Distortion EP in December 1983 (released 1984), with The Three O'Clock's Michael Quercio producing.

Flexidisc
A long version of the song "Dead Center," a rare promotional single, was recorded in 1983 as a 7-inch flexidisc for distribution with the music magazine Option, and appeared on the 1993 Alias Records compilation CD Distortion of Glory. This version of the song included an introductory portion that featured, over instrumental music, layers of Scott Miller's spoken responses to an interviewer's unheard questions. It appears as a bonus track on the 2014 CD reissue of Dead Center.

Omnivore Recordings obtained 300 of the original flexidiscs, and announced a plan to distribute them as a bonus to 300 pre-release purchasers of their March 2015 vinyl reissue of Game Theory's 1985 Real Nighttime LP.

Production notes

Original LP (1984)
In 1984, the Dead Center LP was released in France, on the Lolita label. The French release of Dead Center was a compilation of selected tracks from Game Theory's Pointed Accounts of People You Know and Distortion EPs.

The French release included two additional tracks: the group's cover of  "The Letter" (a 1967 hit for the Box Tops with Alex Chilton's vocals), and a shorter version of the song "Dead Center" with different lyrics and no spoken-word interview.

CD reissue (2014)
In 2014, Omnivore announced its commitment to reissue Game Theory's recordings, remastered from the original tapes by co-producer Dan Vallor, who was Game Theory's tour manager and sound engineer during the 1980s. The remastered version of Dead Center was released on November 24, 2014, as Omnivore's omnibus CD release encompassing material from the Pointed Accounts of People You Know EP and the Distortion EP. At the request of Fred Juhos, the CD of Dead Center omitted three songs written by Juhos that appeared on the two EPs. "The Letter" and both versions of the song "Dead Center" were included on the CD.

The release of Dead Center on CD and for digital download, but not on vinyl, was followed on November 28 by limited-edition Black Friday Record Store Day releases of the two EPs on colored 10-inch vinyl. The Pointed Accounts and Distortion EP releases included digital download cards.

Describing the bonus tracks on the 2014 reissue, Wilfully Obscure wrote, "There's a lo-fi acoustic run-through of Badfinger's 'No Matter What,' and ... Van Morrison's "Gloria" and Bryan Ferry's "Mother of Pearl" also get the in-concert Game Theory treatment."

The bonus tracks also include Miller's first performance of an audience-requested live cover of R.E.M.'s "Radio Free Europe," after taking only a few seconds to work out the chords before launching into a solo rendition. According to drummer Gil Ray, "Either Buck or Stipe told Scott Miller in our band the real words to 'Radio Free Europe' and every now and then we'd do it as a cover because Scott knew the words. It was a big deal to know the words to any of their songs."

Critical reception

According to Blurt, "While no striking developmental steps get taken here, leader Scott Miller sharpens his songsmithery, even as his lyrics get more abstract, and the band likewise tightens its grip on its power popping psychedelic new wave. Like a college rock top 40 machine, GT effortlessly sets 'em up and knocks 'em down." Of the reissue, Blurt  added, "Nicely enhanced, Omnivore," noting that the bonus tracks added up to "another LP's worth of tracks, both demos and live versions of album cuts and a passel of covers that pay tribute to Miller's dedicated fandom."

Popshifter wrote, "As with its other reissues, Omnivore hit it out of the park with the beautiful digipak and comprehensive liner notes (including a very sweet remembrance from Michael Quercio, one of Miller's key collaborators)."

Critic Jeff Elbel, writing in Illinois Entertainer, called the reissue a "thorough reintroduction to Game Theory's sophomore efforts and Miller's developing acumen as a sharp and witty observer. The eight EP tracks may not represent Miller's peak, but they include must-have gems like the cautiously hopeful 'Penny, Things Won't' and sinewy 'Shark Pretty.'" Elbel praised Miller's version of "Radio Free Europe" as "a telling and fearlessly off-the-cuff live cover," which another reviewer noted that Miller "manages to pull off adeptly."

Track listing

Original LP (1984)

CD reissue (2014)

Personnel

Members
 Scott Miller – guitar, lead and backing vocals
 Dave Gill – drums
 Fred Juhos – bass
 Nancy Becker – keyboards, backing vocals

Original LP (1984)

Guest musicians
 Michael Quercio – additional backing vocals
 Earl Slick (credited as Ernie Smith) – guitar solo on "Shark Pretty"
 Dave Scott Millington – keyboards on "37th Day"

Production
 Scott Miller – producer (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10)
 Michael Quercio – producer (tracks 1, 4, 6, 9)
 Dave Scott Millington – engineer
 Dave Gill – co-engineer (tracks 1, 4, 6, 9)
 Jeff Sanders – original mastering

CD reissue (2014)

Performance
 Scott Miller – guitar, lead and backing vocals
 Fred Juhos – bass, guitar, backing vocals
 Nan Becker – keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on track 10
 Dave Gill – drums
 Michael Quercio – additional backing vocals
 Earl Slick – guitar solo on "Shark Pretty"
 Gil Ray – drums (tracks 12, 15)
 Shelley LaFreniere – keyboard, backing vocals (tracks 12, 15)
 Suzi Ziegler – bass, backing vocals (tracks 12, 15)

Production
 Michael Quercio – producer (tracks 1, 4, 6, 9, 17), liner notes
 Scott Miller – producer (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10)
 Dan Vallor – reissue producer, recording engineer (tracks 12–16, 18–20), mixing (track 11), liner notes
 Pat Thomas – reissue producer
 Cheryl Pawelski – reissue producer
 Dave Scott Millington – engineer (tracks 1–10, 17)
 Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen – mastering
 Michael Graves – additional restoration
 Bryan George – licensing
 Greg Allen – art direction, design
 Robert Toren – photography
 Eileen Lucero – editorial

References

External links
  for Game Theory reissues on Omnivore

1984 albums
Game Theory (band) albums
Omnivore Recordings albums