title: CastAR

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castAR (formerly Technical Illusions) was a Palo Alto-based technology startup company founded in March 2013 by Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson. Its first product was to be the castAR, a pair of augmented reality and virtual reality glasses. castAR was a founding member of the nonprofit Immersive Technology Alliance.

History
castAR was founded by two former Valve employees; the castAR glasses were born out of work that started inside Valve. While still at Valve, their team had spent over a year working on the project. They obtained legal ownership of their work after their departure.

In August 2015, Playground Global funded $15M into castAR to build its product and create augmented-reality experiences. In August 2016, Darrell Rodriguez, former President of LucasArts, joined as the new CEO.  In addition, Steve Parkis became President and COO, after leading teams at The Walt Disney Company and Zynga.  In September 2016, they opened castAR Salt Lake City, a new development studio formed from a team hired out of the former Avalanche Software, which worked on the Disney Infinity series.

In October 2016, they announced the acquisition of Eat Sleep Play, the developer best known for Twisted Metal, also in Salt Lake City UT.

In December 2016, Parkis, who had been President and COO, was named CEO to replace Rodriguez.

In June 2017 it was reported by Polygon that CastAR was shutting down, laying off 70 employees. A core group of administrators was expected to remain, to sell off the company's technology.

In September 2019 Jeri Ellsworth initiated a Kickstarter for a new device based on the same principles called Tilt Five. The company uses CastAR technology acquired from the former startup and is founded by CastAR alumni Jeri Ellsworth, Amy Herndon, Jamie Gennis, and Anthony Aquilio

castAR

The castAR glasses combine elements of augmented reality and virtual reality. After winning Educator's and Editor's Choice ribbons at the 2013 Bay Area Maker Faire, the castAR project was successfully crowdfunded via Kickstarter. castAR surpassed its funding goal two days after the project went live and raised over $1 million on a $400,000 goal. castAR creates hologram-like images unique to each user by sending an image from tiny projectors on the glasses into the user's surroundings using a technology that Technical Illusions called "Projected Reality". The image bounces off a retro-reflective surface back to the wearer's eyes. castAR can also be used for virtual reality purposes, using its VR clip-on.  Before the time of the 2017 company shutdown all Kickstarter funds had been paid back to the original backers.  Along with the repayment, a coupon for a free set of the production AR glasses was given to each backer. This happened at the time of the 2015 Playground Global investment.

See also
 Augmented reality
 Display technology
 Smartglasses

References

External links

 Jeri Ellsworth on the demise of CastAR

Augmented reality
Companies based in Palo Alto, California
Display technology
Eyewear companies of the United States
Kickstarter-funded products
Video game companies based in Utah
Virtual reality companies


title: Oosomini

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Oosomini is a tribe of weevils in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera

 Barianus
 Basothorhynchus
 Brachycyclus
 Bryochaeta
 Catalalus
 Chalepoderus
 Cladeyterus
 Cosmorhinus
 Cycliscus
 Ellimenistes
 Ellimorrhinus
 Eurhynchomys
 Glyptosomus
 Holcolaccus
 Neobrachyocyrtus
 Neobryocheta
 Oosomus
 Periderces
 Phlyctinus
 Piezoderes
 Porpacus
 Pyctoderes
 Rhysoderes
 Syntaptocerus

References

 Lacordaire, T. 1863: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Vol.: 6. Roret. Paris: 637 pp.
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona.

External links

Basothorhynchus endroedyi • A New Oosomini Genus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) from the Highland Plateau of Lesotho

Entiminae


title: Ophryastini

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Ophryastini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera
Deracanthus – Ophryastes – Ophryastites – Sapotes

References

 Jones, R.W. & C.W. O'Brien 2007: Review of the Genus Sapotes Casey (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) with Descriptions of Three New Species. The Coleopterists Bulletin 61(2): 208–223.
 Lacordaire, T. 1863: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Vol.: 6. Roret. Paris: 637 pp.
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona.

External links

Entiminae
Beetle tribes


title: Glenn Spearing

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Glenn Spearing (born 1 June 1985) is a former Irish professional darts player. He currently plays in Professional Darts Corporation events.

Career
Spearing was a prolific winner of Irish darts tournaments in 2012 and 2013 as he picked up eight titles during that time. In 2014, he entered Qualifying School in an attempt to join the PDC circuit full-time, coming closest on the final day when he lost in the last 32 to Joe Murnan. For competing he earned PDPA associate member status which gave him entry into UK Open and European Tour qualifiers. Spearing qualified for the German Darts Championship and beat Magnus Caris 6–2, before being whitewashed 6–0 by Gary Anderson in the last 32 which represents his deepest run in a PDC event to date. Spearing also qualified for the UK Open for the time, but lost 5–2 to Antonio Alcinas in the first round.

References

External links

1985 births
Living people
Irish darts players
Professional Darts Corporation associate players


title: Longford Lecture

text:
The Longford Lectures are held annually in November in the circular Assembly Hall of Church House, Westminster. They aim to provide a national platform for a serious contribution to questions of social and penal reform.

The Lectures are organised by The Longford Trust which celebrates the achievements and continues the work of Lord Longford. It was established in 2002 by friends and admirers to further the goals he pursued, particularly in the field of social and prison reform.

The Longford Lectures were sponsored originally by The Independent and more recently by the Daily Telegraph.

In addition to the Lectures, the Trust awards The Longford Prize to individuals and organisations who play a prominent role in the field of prison reform.

The broadcaster and journalist Jon Snow chairs the event.

Past Lectures

Full transcripts of all lectures and films of recent lectures available on the Longford Trust website.

See also
The Longford Prize
Lord Longford
The Longford Trust

References

British lecture series
Prison reform
2002 establishments in the United Kingdom
Recurring events established in 2002


title: Birupakshya

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Birupakshya is the holy god of Kirat people's located in Kathmandu erected by Kirati kings of ancient Nepal, believed to be an ancestor. It is also known as Kirateswor Mahadev.  Kirat people are diverse and therefore their beliefs and deities vary. Birupakshya is also worshipped in South India as Virupaksha.

An idol of Virupaksha is located in the east of Pashupatinath Temple in the right bank of Bagmati river. Half of the body of Virupaksha lies inside ground and another half above. The statue is believed to be emerging out slowly. It is believed that the world will be destroyed if the whole statue will come out. Virupaksha is also called as kali because his full emergence will end the Kali Yuga.

Mythology
There are various mythological stories related to Virupaksha originating from Puranas and Mahapuranas. [3]
According to one mythology, Virupaksha is a god of the Kirat people, and the statue was built by the Kirati people of ancient Nepal. His statue is believed to be buried due to the earthquake in this version. [3]
In another story, Virupaksha is believed to be the chief of Nāgas, the gatekeepers of lord Shiva. [3]
Yet another story related to Virupaksha is described a child from a poor family. His father left home in search of work and didn't return. After a few years when Virupaksha was seven years old, he went to search for his father. A few years passed but he could not find his father. One day he went to a cave to take shelter where he met a lady. It was night and he could not recognize her and had a sexual relationship with her. In the morning when he saw the lady, he was shocked to see his mother. It is believed that from that day, Kaliyuga started. Filled with guilt Virupaksha went to Pashupatinath temple where he saw lord Shiva preparing some intoxication. Shiva told him to open the lid of the hot utensil. While opening the lid, Virupaksha's face got burnt by the heat of the copper vessel. His face became black from which he got the name Kurup. He cursed lord shiva and went to Buddha who was meditating nearby. Buddha gave him a garland and asked him to chant until the garland wilted. He started chanting near the Bagmati River. He got frustrated after a long chanting because garland did not wilt so he left for his home. On the way home, he saw a boy scratching an iron rod. Virupaksha asked the boy why he was doing that. The boy replied that he wanted to make a needle to sew his torn clothes. Inspired by the boy's determination, Virupaksha returned to meditate. When people saw him chanting with Buddha's garland on Pashupati premises, they buried him in the ground because he had insulted Shiva earlier. It is believed that Virupaksha will take revenge on the people of the earth when he will be released from the ground. [3]

References

Asian gods
Pashupatinath Temple


title: Crow Black Chicken

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Crow Black Chicken is a three-piece blues-rock band from Cork and Clonmel, Ireland composed of Christy O'Hanlon (vocals, guitar), Stephen McGrath (bass) and Gev Barrett (drums, vocals). Described as 'The hardest working band in Ireland', Crow Black Chicken has continued to build a following now known as the 'Crow Black Chicken Army'. Invited as guests to 'Electric Picnic' each and every year, their unique style of original music envelopes southern American blues-rock influence.

History (2009 - present)
Crow Black Chicken formed in 2009, releasing their début album Electric Soup in 2012 and second album Rumble Shake in June 2014 which charted in the Irish Albums Chart at number 12 in its first week of being released.

Members
 Christy O'Hanlon – Lead vocals, guitar
 Stephen McGrath – Bass
 Gev Barrett - Drums, percussion, vocals

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

Live albums

Singles

References

External links

2009 establishments in Ireland
Musical groups established in 2009
Irish musical trios


title: Gaziantep Stadium

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The Gaziantep Stadium, known for sponsorship reasons as the Kalyon Stadium (), is a stadium in Gaziantep, Turkey. It has a capacity of 35,574 spectators. and was opened on 15 January 2017. It is the home ground of Gaziantep F.K., replacing Gaziantep Kamil Ocak Stadium. Its distance to the city centre is 10 kilometers. For it to reflect the tradition of the ancient city of Zeugma, the outside walls of the stadium are covered with mosaic.

Matches

Turkish National Team

Gaziantep Stadium is one of the main home stadiums of the Turkish national Football team

References

Football venues in Turkey
Sport in Gaziantep
Sports venues completed in 2017
2017 establishments in Turkey


title: New Sakarya Atatürk Stadium

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New Sakarya Stadium, officially Sakarya Atatürk Stadyumu, is a stadium in Adapazarı, Sakarya, Turkey. It was opened to public in 2017 with a capacity of 28,113 spectators. It is the new home of Sakaryaspor of the TFF Second League. It replaced the club's old home stadium, Adapazarı Atatürk Stadyumu. The estimated costs are around 150,000,000 ₺

References

Football venues in Turkey
Sports venues completed in 2017
Sports venues in Adapazarı


title: Jasmine Nights

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Jasmine Nights is a 1994 novel by the Thai author S.P. Somtow, first published by Hamish Hamilton in the United Kingdom in book form after first being serialized in weekly installments in the Bangkok Post.  The U.S. edition, from St. Martin's Press, followed in 1995.  It is a semi-autobiographical novel with touches of magic realism which relates a year in the life of a young Thai boy living with eccentric elderly relatives in a gilded estate hidden in an apparently ordinary soi in 1960s Bangkok.

Plot summary
A twelve-year-old boy, known as Little Frog to his family and Justin to his few friends, is left in the care of three strange aristocratic aunts and a rather frightening uncle until he is old enough to attend Eton school in England. In order to prepare himself for his intended future, he insists on speaking only English and will eat only bacon and eggs for breakfast, though he is prepared to accept Thai dishes at other meals. In this peculiar situation the boy finds himself between three worlds, the Thai world of his family and his regal ancestors and their apparently pointless rituals, the western world of logic and common sense which he finds more compatible with his temperament and the imaginary world of his sheltered childhood.

Imagining himself to be a great scholar and philosopher, Justin enlists the aid of an African American boy and the family gardener's son and sets out to convert his school classmates from their ingrained bigotry and racism.

Reviews

 Review by Jo Walton.

References

1994 fantasy novels
Magic realism novels
Thai novels
Novels set in Thailand
Bildungsromans
Fiction by S. P. Somtow


title: Dónall Ó Héalai

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Dónall Ó Héalai () (born 28th November 1987) is an Irish actor and voice actor. He was named a 2020 Screen International Star of Tomorrow and one to watch in 2021 by The Irish Examiner.

Early life and education
Ó Héalai was born in the Gaeltacht village of Inverin, County Galway and grew up in Inverin and Spiddal. He began acting at the age of 14 at a local youth club. He completed his secondary education as a boarding student at St Jarlath's College in Tuam.

He graduated from Maynooth University. He was awarded the Dr. H.H Stewart Literary Prize during his studies. He went on to train at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York and Bow Street Academy in Dublin.

Career
In 2006, Ó Héalai made his onscreen debut as a teenager in the recurring role of Jeaic in season 1 of the TG4 coming-of-age family series Aifric.

Ó Héalai played Otis in the 2019 American psychological thriller Impossible Monsters. That same year, he starred as Colmán Sharkey in the Irish-language period drama film Arracht, which won Best Irish film at 2020 Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) and the Audience Award at the 2020 Glasgow Film Festival. In addition to receiving critical acclaim, Ó Héalai won the Aer Lingus Discovery Award at the DIFF as well as receiving a Best Actor nomination at the IFTAs.

Ó Héalaí stars as John Cunliffe in the Irish-language film Foscadh, an adaptation of the social novel The Thing About December by Donal Ryan. Foscadh is the Irish submission for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.

Other ventures
A native speaker of Irish, Ó Héalaí founded the cultural initiative Celtic Consciousness and, in 2018, gave a TEDxBerkeley talk on the Irish Language and Beauty.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Living people
1987 births
21st-century Irish male actors
Alumni of Maynooth University
Alumni of the Bow Street Academy
Irish male film actors
Irish male stage actors
Irish male television actors
Male actors from County Galway
People educated at St Jarlath's College
People from Inverin


title: L. B. G. Rao

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Lavu Balagangadhara Rao (3 August 1921 – 28 March 2003) was an Indian politician. He served as the Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) between May 1985 and November 1991.

L.B.G. Rao was the son of Lavu Subrahmanyam. He studied at the Andhra-Christian College in Guntur. In 1938, during his student days, he joined the Communist Party of India. In 1942 he became a CPI whole-timer. He went underground and was active in the Telangana armed struggle. He led various guerrilla squads, acting as the Amarabad party secretary. He got married in 1947, whilst being underground. In total he would go underground five times in his life, spanning a period of over eleven years. He was also jailed three times, and spent two and a half years in prison.

L.B.G. Rao was fielded as the CPI candidate in a by-election for the Duggirala seat in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in June 1954. He finished in second place with 20,644 votes (42.5% of the votes in the constituency).

After the split in the CPI, L.B.G. Rao sided with the CPI(M). He became a Central Committee member of CPI(M). As of 1979 he served as the secretary of the State Agricultural Labourers Union. He also served as president of the All India Agricultural Workers Union. L.B.G. Rao stood as the CPI(M) candidate for the Tenali seat in the 1980 Indian general election. He finished in second place, with 144,457 votes (32.70%). In 1989 he was included in the Polit Bureau of the party. Due to old age, he retired from the Polit Bureau in 1998.

References

1921 births
2003 deaths
Communist Party of India politicians from Andhra Pradesh
Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Andhra Pradesh
People from Guntur district

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title: Setaria (nematode)

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Setaria is a genus of parasitic roundworms that infect domesticated mammals such as pigs, camels, cattle and horses. Some species also infect wild mammals such as deer and antelope. The genus consists of about 43 species. Members of the genus are uniquely parasites in the abdominal cavity of the body. They are mostly large-sized roundworms, possessing an elaborate head (cephalic) region that is characterised by spines, presence of four lips, and well-guarded mouth. Little is known about their pathogenic effects, but some are known to affect nervous system and eye. The larval infective forms are transmitted from one animal to another by the bite of mosquitoes and flies. In addition Setaria marshalli can be transmitted from the womb to new-born calf.

A rare case of human infection was recorded in 2016 from a 15-year-old Iranian girl, who was diagnosed with Setaria equina in her eye.

Species

Some important species of the genus are:

Setaria cervi which are parasites of buffalo, bison, deer and antelope. They are capable of migrating to central nervous system causing serious neurological disease. They are found worldwide and predominantly in Europe and Asia. Stable fly Haematobia stimulans is the major vector.
Setaria digitata which are parasites of cattle in Asia. It was introduced to Mauritius. Different species of mosquitoes including those of Aedes, Culex and Anopheles are vectors. In central Japan Anopheles sinensis is the major vector.
Setaria equina which are parasites of horses, mules, and donkeys, and also capable of infecting cattle and camels. Mosquito species of Aedes are the primary vectors. They are most prevalent in Kenya.
Setaria javensis which are parasites of mouse-deer in Malaysia. They are transmitted by Aedes togoi.
Setaria labiatopapillosa which are parasites of cattle, as well as other domesticated animals. Aedes togoi and Anopheles hyrcanus are the vectors in Japan, while Mansonia spp. are vectors in Kenya, and Aedes caspius in Italy.
Setaria marshalli which are parasites of cattle.

References

Parasitic nematodes of mammals
Secernentea genera


title: New Sivas 4 Eylül Stadium

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The New Sivas 4 Eylül Stadium is a stadium in Sivas, Turkey. It opened in 2016 and is the new home of Sivasspor of the Süper Lig. The stadium has a capacity of 27,532 spectators, and replaced the club's previous home, 4 Eylül Stadium. The new stadium is also known as 4 Eylül Stadium.

References

Football venues in Turkey
Sport in Sivas
Sports venues completed in 2016
2016 establishments in Turkey


title: Peas at 5:30

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Peas at 5:30 (), is a 2004 German comedy film directed by Lars Büchel.

Plot
Jakob loses his eyesight in a traffic accident. He became desperate and had no inclination to live anymore When he meets Lilly, a blind teacher, a long journey begins.

Cast
 Hilmir Snær Guðnason - Jakob
 Fritzi Haberlandt - Lilly
 Harald Schrott - Paul
 Tina Engel - Regine
 Jenny Gröllmann - Franziska
 Alice Dwyer - Alex
 Max Mauff - Ben
 Annett Renneberg - Nina

References

External links

2004 comedy films
2004 films
German comedy films
Films about blind people
2000s German films
2000s German-language films


title: List of Knights of Sidonia episodes

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Knights of Sidonia is an anime series based on the manga of the same name by Tsutomu Nihei, and produced by Polygon Pictures. Directed by Kobun Shizuno, assisted by Hiroyuki Seshita, with scripts by Sadayuki Murai and character design by Yuki Moriyama. The series tells the story of Nagate Tanikaze, an "under-dweller" destined to become a Garde pilot, whose mission is to defend the massive spaceship Sidonia from a hostile alien species called Gauna. The opening theme for the first season is "Sidonia" by angela while the ending theme is  by Eri Kitamura. A second season aired from April 10, 2015 to June 26, 2015. The opening theme for the second season is  by angela while the ending theme is "Requiem" by CustomiZ. On June 16, 2017, a third season for the series was confirmed to be in development by director Hiroyuki Seshita.

Series overview

Episode list

Knights of Sidonia (2014)

Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine (2015)

References

Knights of Sidonia
Knights of Sidonia


title: Charles Edwin (died 1756)

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Charles Edwin ( – 29 June 1756) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1741 to 1756.

Early life

Edwin was the eldest son of Samuel Edwin, MP of Llanmihangel Plas, Glamorgan, and grandson of Sir Humphrey Edwin, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1698.  His mother was Lady Catherine Montagu, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Manchester. He succeeded his father in 1722 and in 1735 succeeded to the Surrey, Sussex and Northamptonshire estates of his uncle Thomas Edwin. On 1 May 1736, Edwin married Lady Charlotte Hamilton (1707–1777), daughter of the 4th Duke of Hamilton.

Career
Edwin was selected Sheriff of Northamptonshire from 1739 to 1740. He turned up by chance at a meeting to nominate Admiral Vernon as candidate for Westminster at the forthcoming 1741 general election and found himself put forward as the Admiral's running-mate. At the election, the High Bailiff arbitrarily closed the poll early and brought in soldiers for protection when he declared the Government candidates elected. A committee of independent electors including gentry and lawyers was formed to challenge the result. Parliament declared the election void on the grounds of the presence of soldiers, and the bailiff was found to have been given secret funds and ordered to be imprisoned. The Government could field no candidates at the rerun of the election and Edwin was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament (MP) for Westminster on 31 December 1741. At the 1747 Edwin was returned unopposed as MP for Glamorgan. He was returned again unopposed at the 1754 general election.

Death and legacy
Edwin died without issue on 29 June 1756. He left Llanmihangel Plas to his sister Ann, who had married Thomas Wyndham. Their son Charles Wyndham changed his name to Edwin on inheriting the estates on the death of his mother.

References

Year of birth uncertain
1699 births
1756 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Welsh constituencies
British MPs 1741–1747
British MPs 1747–1754
British MPs 1754–1761
High Sheriffs of Northamptonshire


title: Saône-et-Loire's 1st constituency

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The 1st constituency of the Saône-et-Loire is a French legislative constituency in the Saône-et-Loire département.

Description

The 1st constituency of the Saône-et-Loire is based around the town of Mâcon in the south of Saône-et-Loire.

At the 2012 election Thomas Thévenoud of the Socialist Party defeated the long term incumbent conservative Gérard Voisin who had held the seat since 1993. Since 2017, the seat has been held by Benjamin Dirx of the centrist LREM party.

Historic Representation

Election results

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Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).

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title: New Malatya Stadium

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The New Malatya Stadium () is a stadium in Malatya, Turkey. It was opened to public in 2017 with a capacity of 25,745 spectators. It is the new home of Yeni Malatyaspor, currently playing in the TFF First League. It has replaced the club's former home, Malatya İnönü Stadium.

References

Football venues in Turkey
Sports venues completed in 2017
Sport in Malatya
2017 establishments in Turkey


title: Rowby-John Rodriguez

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Rowby-John Rodriguez (born 27 March 1994) is an Austrian professional darts player currently playing in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).

Career
In 2010, as a 16-year-old, Rodriguez won the Austrian National Championship by beating Franz Thaler 5–0 in the final.

At the second event of Q School in January 2014 he stood one win away from joining the PDC but lost 5–3 to Gerwyn Price. However, after all four events had been played Rodriguez had done enough to finish ninth on the Q School Order of Merit and earn a two-year tour card. His first PDC major was the UK Open where he was knocked out 5–1 by Tony Randall in the first round.

In May, Rodriguez reached the final of the PDC World Youth Championship where he lost 6–4 to Keegan Brown at the O2 Arena in London as part of the Premier League finals night. Reaching the final secured him a place in the 2014 Grand Slam of Darts. Rodriguez was now Austria's number two player behind Mensur Suljović and they teamed up at the World Cup of Darts, but lost both their singles matches in the second round against the Belgium brothers of Kim and Ronny Huybrechts. Rodriguez reached the quarter-finals of a Pro Tour event for the first time at the 14th Players Championship defeating the likes of Gary Anderson, Paul Nicholson and Jamie Caven, before losing 6–1 to Ian White. His play throughout the year earned him a debut in the European Championship where he lost 6–2 to Robert Thornton in the opening round. At the Grand Slam, Rodriguez beat world number three Adrian Lewis 5–2 in his opening group game before losing 5–1 to Dave Chisnall. He went into his final group game knowing a win over Brown would see him qualify for the last 16 and, despite coming back from 3–0 down to level at 3–3, he lost 5–3.

2015 season
Rodriguez made his debut at the 2015 World Championship after he qualified through the Pro Tour Order of Merit. However, he ran into an in-form Raymond van Barneveld who hit finishes of 167 and 170 as he restricted Rodriguez to two legs during the match in a 3–0 defeat. Rodriguez averaged 79.22 which was over 20 points lower than his opponent's, but he still broke into the top 64 on the Order of Merit for the first time after the tournament concluded as he was ranked world number 58. He won the opening Development Tour event of the year by beating Jamie Lewis 4–1 in the final.
Rodriguez and Suljović were eliminated in the last 16 of the World Cup for the second consecutive year, this time to Germany. From the last 32 onwards he knocked out Kim Huybrechts, Wayne Jones and Mensur Suljović at the 14th Players Championship to play in his first PDC Pro Tour semi-final, where he lost 6–2 against Jelle Klaasen. A 6–4 win over Christian Kist saw Rodriguez make the second round of the European Championship in which he could only average 73.43 against John Henderson in a 10–2 defeat. After losing 5–3 to Robbie Green and beating Martin Phillips 5–2 at the Grand Slam, Rodriguez needed a win over Phil Taylor to qualify for the last 16, but he lost 5–2.

2016 season
Rodriguez hit the first 170 finish of the  2016 World Championship, but lost each of the three sets played against Dave Chisnall in the first round by deciding legs.
He reached the quarter-finals of the first UK Open Qualifier, but was beaten 6–1 by Adrian Lewis and he lost 6–2 to Lee Evans in the second round of the main event. Rodriguez was defeated in the final of three Development Tour events in 2016.

Rodriguez and Mensur Suljović eliminated Italy and Singapore to ensure Austria played in their first World Cup quarter-final, where Suljović was whitewashed by Phil Taylor and Rodriguez lost 4–1 to Adrian Lewis. A couple of quarter-finals out of the 20 Players Championship events qualified him for the Finals and he beat Ronny Huybrechts 6–4, before being thrashed 6–0 by Joe Cullen in the second round.

2017 season
Rodriguez squared his first round match with Dave Chisnall at the 2017 World Championship at two sets apiece, but lost all three legs of the decider. Austria played England in the quarter-finals of the 2017 World Cup for the second successive year. Mensur Suljović thrashed Adrian Lewis 4–0 and Rodriguez lost 4–1 to Chisnall, before Austria were defeated 4–2 in the decisive doubles match.

2022 European Darts Matchplay
Rodriguez made his first final at a Euro Tour tournament by beating Danny Noppert, Gerwyn Price, Gabriel Clemens, Nathan Aspinall and Madars Razma at the 2022 European Darts Matchplay in Trier. In the final he met Luke Humphries, who already won three Euro Tour tournaments earlier that year. Rodriguez missed a match dart in the deciding leg, after which the Englishman won with 8-7.

World Championship results

PDC
 2015: First round (lost to Raymond van Barneveld 0–3)
 2016: First round (lost to Dave Chisnall 0–3)
 2017: First round (lost to Dave Chisnall 2–3)
 2019: Second round (lost to Cristo Reyes 2–3)
 2020: First round (lost to Noel Malicdem 0–3)
 2022: Second round (lost to Luke Humphries 0–3)
 2023: First round (lost to Lourence Ilagan 2–3)

Performance timeline

PDC European Tour

Personal life
Rodriguez's older brother, Roxy-James Rodriguez, is a former professional darts player who reached the last 16 of the European Darts Trophy in 2014. His younger brother, Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, is also a darts player and made his PDC European Tour debut in the 2017 Austrian Darts Open.

References

External links

1994 births
Professional Darts Corporation current tour card holders
Austrian darts players
Living people
Sportspeople from Vienna
PDC World Cup of Darts Austrian team
21st-century Austrian people


title: 2018 Ontario general election

text:
The 2018 Ontario general election was held on June 7, 2018, to elect the 124 members of the 42nd Parliament of Ontario. The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, led by Doug Ford, won 76 of the 124 seats in the legislature and formed a majority government. The Ontario New Democratic Party, led by Andrea Horwath, formed the Official Opposition. The Ontario Liberal Party, led by incumbent Premier Kathleen Wynne, lost official party status in recording both the worst result in the party's 161-year history and the worst result for any incumbent governing party in Ontario. The Green Party of Ontario won a seat for the first time in their history, while the Trillium Party of Ontario lost its single seat gained by a floor-crossing during the 41st Parliament.

Background

Redistribution of seats
The Electoral Boundaries Act, 2015 increased the number of electoral districts from 107 to 122, following the boundaries set out by the federal 2013 Representation Order for Ontario, while preserving the special boundaries of the 11 seats in Northern Ontario set out in the 1996 redistribution.

The Far North Electoral Boundaries Commission, appointed in 2016, recommended the creation of the additional districts of Kiiwetinoong and Mushkegowuk—James Bay, carved out from the existing Kenora—Rainy River and Timmins—James Bay ridings, which accordingly raised the total number of seats to 124. This was implemented through the Representation Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017.

The new districts have been criticized as undemocratic, as they have a population of around 30,000 people compared with over 120,000 people in some southern Ontario constituencies. National Post columnist Josh Dehaas suggested that the small population sizes of the ridings might violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In September 2017, a research firm analyzed the impact of redistribution if the boundaries had been in effect for the previous election.

Change of fixed election date
Under legislation passed in 2005, Ontario elections were to be held on "the first Thursday in October in the fourth calendar year following polling day in the most recent general election", subject to the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario's power to call an election earlier. As the current government had a majority, the passage of a non-confidence motion was not a likely option for calling an early election, though Premier Kathleen Wynne stated in June 2015 that she would likely advise to dissolve the Legislature in spring 2018 rather than in October of that year in order to avoid any conflict with municipal elections and take advantage of better weather and longer days.

To put this on a statutory footing, in October 2016 Attorney General of Ontario Yasir Naqvi introduced a bill in the Legislative Assembly which, in part, included moving the election date to "the first Thursday in June in the fourth calendar year following polling day in the most recent general election", and it came into effect in December 2016.

Prelude to campaign
The Ontario Liberal Party attempted to win their fifth consecutive general election, dating back to 2003. The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario won their first election since 1999, and the Ontario New Democratic Party attempted to win their second election (having previously won in 1990). Numerous other extra-parliamentary political parties also vied for votes.

The Liberals under Kathleen Wynne headed into the 2018 campaign trailing far behind the Progressive Conservatives, led by former Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford. The Liberals' standing with voters had been badly hurt when they partially privatized Hydro One in 2015, after campaigning against it in the 2014 election, as well as rising criticism over "ballooning provincial debt, high electricity prices and costly, politically expedient decisions". In early April, the CBC published their analysis of aggregate polls showing that Ford and the Progressive Conservatives were ahead of the other parties averaging 42.1% support, compared to 27.2% for the governing Liberals, 23.4% for the NDP and 5.7% for the Greens and with 11 Liberal MPPs announcing they would not be running for re-election or having already resigned their seats in the months leading up to the election.

According to Wynne, voters were offered a "stark choice", between "cutting and removing supports from people" with "billions in cuts", which she alleged the Progressive Conservatives would do if they won the election, and expanding investments in social programs such as prescription drugs and childcare, which the Liberal platform promised.

In March 2018, the Liberals tabled a pre-election budget in the provincial legislature which promised billions of dollars in new spending for free childcare and expanded coverage for dental care but replaced the government's previous balanced budget with a $6.7 billion deficit projected to last until 2024–2025. PC leader Doug Ford called the budget a "spending spree".

Mood of the voters
According to Toronto Star columnist Susan Delacourt, voters were motivated by a desire for changesuch desire being more driven by emotion than by ideologyand one researcher estimated that more than half of the electorate was undecided in who they were likely to vote for. The Huffington Post reported that half of voters were basing their vote intentions on how best to block the party they oppose.

In February 2018, Campaign Research conducted a gap analysis on voter intentions in Ontario, and determined the following:

Events leading up to the election (2014–2018)

Campaign period

Issues

Party slogans

Endorsements

Candidates

Candidate nominations
In February 2018, the PC leadership overturned the nomination of candidates Karma Macgregor in Ottawa West—Nepean and Thenusha Parani in Scarborough Centre because of irregularities and allegations of ballot stuffing at their nomination meetings. Both candidates denied these claims. The nomination meetings were reorganized, and both candidates lost the nomination at those meetings. However, the PC leadership decided not to overturn the nomination meeting's result in Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, where a similar situation took place, because of an ongoing police investigation on this situation.

In March 2018, the NDP nominated Lyra Evans as their candidate in Ottawa—Vanier. Evans was the first openly transgender candidate nominated by a major party to run in an Ontario general election.

Incumbents not running for reelection

Results

Elections Ontario used electronic vote tabulator machines from Dominion Voting Systems for counting the ballots. Tabulators were deployed at 50 per cent of polling stations at a cost of . This election was the first time Ontario used vote counting machines for a provincial election, although tabulators have been used in Ontario civic elections for more than 20 years, and also in a 2016 by-election in Whitby-Oshawa.
The original paper ballots marked by voters will be kept for a year along with the digital scans of each ballot by the tabulator.

Synopsis of results

Detailed results

|-
! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party
! rowspan=2 | Party leader
! colspan=5 | MPPs
! colspan=3 | Votes
|-
! Candidates
!2014
!Dissol.
!2018
!±
!#
!%
! ± (pp)

|style="text-align:left;"|Doug Ford
|124
|28
|27
|76
|48
|2,326,523
|40.19%
|9.08

|style="text-align:left;"|Andrea Horwath
|124
|21
|18
|40
|19
|1,929,966
|33.34%
|9.68

|style="text-align:left;"|Kathleen Wynne
|124
|58
|55
|7
|51
|1,124,346
|19.42%
|19.10

|style="text-align:left;"|Mike Schreiner
|124
|–
|–
|1
|1
|264,519
|4.57%
|0.31

|style="text-align:left;"|Allen Small
|117
|–
|–
|–
|–
|42,822
|0.74%
|0.04

|style="text-align:left;"|Greg Vezina
|42
|–
|–
|–
|–
|16,146
|0.28%
|0.20

| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Independents and no affiliation
|32
|–
|2
|–
|–
|8,226
|0.14%
|0.06

|style="text-align:left;"|Bob Yaciuk
|26
|–
|1
|–
|–
|8,091
|0.14%
|0.13

|style="text-align:left;"|Trevor Holliday
|10
|–
|–
|–
|–
|5,912
|0.10%
|0.08

|style="text-align:left;"|Brad Harness
|10
|–
|–
|–
|–
|2,682
|0.05%
|

|style="text-align:left;"|Paul McKeever
|14
|–
|–
|–
|–
|2,565
|0.04%
|0.20

|style="text-align:left;"|Jason Tysick
|5
|–
|–
|–
|–
|2,316
|0.04%
|

|style="text-align:left;"|Yuri Duboisky
|16
|–
|–
|–
|–
|2,199
|0.04%
|0.03

|style="text-align:left;"|Dave McKee
|12
|–
|–
|–
|–
|1,471
|0.03%
|0.01

|style="text-align:left;"|Bahman Yazdanfar
|5
|–
|–
|–
|–
|1,239
|0.02%
|0.01

|style="text-align:left;"|Queenie Yu
|3
|–
|–
|–
|–
|1,078
|0.02%
|

|style="text-align:left;"|Joshua E. Eriksen
|3
|–
|–
|–
|–
|802
|0.01%
|

|style="text-align:left;"|Daryl Christoff
|3
|–
|–
|–
|–
|634
|0.01%
|

|style="text-align:left;"|Hilton Milan
|5
|–
|–
|–
|–
|631
|0.01%
|

|style="text-align:left;"|Kevin Clarke
|6
|–
|–
|–
|–
|628
|0.01%
|0.01

|style="text-align:left;"|vacant
|2
|–
|–
|–
|–
|386
|0.01%
|

|style="text-align:left;"|Ken Ranney
|2
|–
|–
|–
|–
|340
|0.01%
|

|style="text-align:left;"|Patrick Knight
|2
|–
|–
|–
|–
|321
|0.01%
|

|style="text-align:left;"|Paul Figueiras
|2
|–
|–
|–
|–
|256
|–
|0.02

|style="text-align:left;"|Arthur Smitherman
|3
|–
|–
|–
|–
|215
|–
|

|style="text-align:left;"|Wasyl Luczkiw
|2
|–
|–
|–
|–
|191
|–
|

|style="text-align:left;"|Derrick Matthews
|2
|–
|–
|–
|–
|176
|–
|

|style="text-align:left;"|John Turmel
|2
|–
|–
|–
|–
|112
|–
|

|style="text-align:left;"|Abu Alam
|2
|–
|–
|–
|–
|67
|–
|

| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"|Vacant
|4
| colspan="5"|
|-
|colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"|Blank and invalid ballots
|align="right"|61,426
|align="right"|1.06
|align="right"|
|-style="background:#E9E9E9;"
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Total
|825
|107
|107
|124
|
|5,806,286
|100.00%
|
|-style="background:#E9E9E9;"
|colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"|Registered voters / turnout
|10,246,066
|56.67%
|5.38
|}

Summary analysis

Regional analysis

Most marginal 2-way and 3-way contests

Significant results among independent and minor party candidates
Those candidates not belonging to a major party, receiving more than 1,000 votes in the election, are listed below:

Opinion polls

Campaign period

Best Premier and Party Leader Approval Ratings

Major Regional Polls – Toronto

Pre-campaign period

References

Further reading

External links
Elections Ontario

Ontario 42nd
2018 in Ontario
2018
June 2018 events in Canada


title: Research Atlanta

text:
Formed in 1971, Research Atlanta was a non-profit organization established to study public policy issues affecting the Atlanta metropolitan area. Research Atlanta served as Atlanta's think tank for urban problems and published policy studies from 1971 to 2006 on major urban issues confronted by metropolitan Atlanta and placed Atlanta's urban problems within a national context. During its 35 years of operation Research Atlanta produced numerous public policy studies on issues ranging from public school desegregation to creating a downtown cultural district. In 1992, Georgia State University agreed to assume responsibility for operating Research Atlanta. In 2006, Research Atlanta merged with the Regional Leadership Forum and the Metro Group to form what is now the Civic League for Regional Atlanta.

External links
Atlanta History Center - Research Atlanta Records
Georgia State University Library Digital Collections - Research Atlanta, Inc. Reports

References

Non-profit organizations based in Georgia (U.S. state)
Organizations established in 1971
Organizations based in Atlanta
Organizations disestablished in 2006


title: Charlotte de Brézé

text:
Charlotte de Brézé also known as Charlotte de Valois (c. 1446–1477), was an illegitimate daughter of Charles VII of France by Agnès Sorel. She was the sister of Marie de Valois (1444–1473) and Jeanne de Valois (b. 1448), and the half sister of Louis XI of France.

Life
Despite the circumstances of her birth, Charlotte was said to be a great favourite of her father's wife queen Marie of Anjou.

On March 1, 1462, Charlotte married Jacques de Brézé, seneschal of Normandy and comte de Maulévrier, an arranged and politically expedient match. From this marriage were born five children, including Louis de Brézé, who would go on to marry as his second wife Diane de Poitiers, herself a mistress of Henri II of France.

Charlotte was murdered on the night of May 31/June 1, 1477, by her husband. He suspected her of having an affair with one of his huntsmen, Pierre de Lavergne. Charlotte was buried at the Benedictine abbey of Coulombs.

Further reading
Charlotte de Valois et Jacques de Brézé, chronique du XVe siecle (1844)

References

1477 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Illegitimate children of French monarchs
15th-century French people
15th-century French women
1440s births
Daughters of kings
French murder victims


title: Percy A. Pierre

text:
Percy Anthony Pierre (born January 3, 1939) is an American electrical engineer. He was the first African-American Ph.D. in electrical engineering, appointed assistant secretary of the U.S. Army for Research and Development, and appointed acting Secretary of the Army. Pierre was the principal architect of the national minority engineering effort. He currently is vice president emeritus and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan State University.

Background
Pierre was born on January 3, 1939, to Rosa Villavaso and Percy John Pierre in Welcome, St. James Parish, Louisiana. In 1957, Pierre graduated from St. Augustine High School in New Orleans. He credits the priests at St. Augustine with instilling in him two overriding missions: to excel intellectually in engineering and use his career to make a difference in the lives of other African-Americans.

Education
Pierre earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1967. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan from 1967-68. Pierre attended the University of Notre Dame on scholarship, earning his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1961 and 1963, respectively, and has been honored at Notre Dame for his distinguished public service.

Career
Pierre's career spans more than four decades and includes tenure as:
 Dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences (CEACS) at Howard University in Washington, D.C., 1971–77
 Program officer for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1973–75
 Assistant secretary of the U. S. Army for Research, Development and Acquisition, 1977–81 (the first African-American to hold that position or similar positions in the armed services)
 Acting secretary of the U. S. Army, January 1981
 President of Prairie View A&M University, 1983–89
 Vice president of research and graduate studies at Michigan State University, 1990–95
 Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan State University, 1990–present

U.S. Army
As assistant secretary of the U.S. Army, Pierre managed a $12 billion annual budget for research and development that included the completion of the development and initial production of the Abrams tank in 1979 and the Patriot missile system and Apache helicopter in 1980.

National minority engineering effort
In 1973, Pierre co-chaired the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Symposium, which officially launched the national minority engineering effort. He worked with NAE to implement the recommendations of the symposium. In a parallel effort, Pierre served as the program officer for minority engineering at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He helped establish numerous minority engineering organizations to increase the financial support and mentoring opportunities available for minority engineering students. These include the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME); National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM); Math, Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA); and Southeastern Consortium of Minorities in Engineering (SECME).

National Academy of Engineering
In 2009, Pierre was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for service as assistant secretary of the Army, contributions to engineering education, and leadership in creating the national minority engineering effort. This is one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer.

Personal life
Pierre is married to Olga A. Markham. They have two grown daughters, Kristin and Allison Pierre.

References

External links
 First African-American Ph.D.
 NACME 30th Anniversary Gala 2004
 Percy Pierre biography from MSU College of Engineering
 Percy A. Pierre, President of Prairie View A&M University
 Distinguished Public Service Award from University of Notre Dame
 Leadership at College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences (CEACS), Howard University
 U.S. Army Research, Development and Acquisitions

1939 births
Living people
People from St. James Parish, Louisiana
University of Notre Dame alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Howard University faculty
Michigan State University faculty
Prairie View A&M University people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
American electrical engineers
University of Michigan fellows
United States Department of Defense officials


title: Coryphothamnus

text:
Coryphothamnus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. Coryphothamnus auyantepuiensis, which is endemic to southern Venezuela.

References

External links
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Coryphothamnus

Monotypic Rubiaceae genera
Endemic flora of Venezuela
Rubioideae


title: Rosa Dorothea Ritter

text:
Rosa Dorothea Ritter (29 July 1759 – 13 January 1833), also called Rosette Ritter and Baroness of Lindenthal after 1783, was a German woman who was the second mistress of William I, Elector of Hesse from 1779 until 1788. She was an ancestor of the Barons of Haynau.

Rosa was the daughter of the apothecary Johann Georg Ritter and his wife Maria Magdalena Witz. She replaced Charlotte Christine Buissine.

William bought Rosa a property in Hanau and a country estate in the Rheingau and had her ennobled by the Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. On 17 March 1783, the Emperor elevated them to the nobility of the Empire with the Privilegium Denominandi. William gave Rosa, his de facto wife, the Lindenthal estate near Wiesbaden, after which she called herself Freifrau von Lindenthal.

Issue:

With William I, Elector of Hesse, she had eight children, seven of whom lived to adulthood:
 Wilhelm Karl von Haynau (24 December 1779 – 21 January 1856)
 George Wilhelm von Haynau (27 February 1781 – February 1813)
 Philipp Ludway von Haynau (18 May 1782 – 5 June 1843)
 Wilhelmine von Haynau (20 July 1783 – 27 May 1866)
 Moritz von Haynau (4 July 1784 – 9 September 1812)
 Marie Sophie von Haynau (11 September 1785 – 21 April 1865)
 Julius Jacob von Haynau (14 October 1786 – 14 March 1853)
 Otto von Haynau (12 June 1788 – before 24 May 1792), died in childhood

The surviving children were all legitimized on 10 March 1800 and made Barons of Haynau.

In 1788, William hypocritically accused Rosa, who had been constantly pregnant with his children for most of the last decade, of infidelity and banished her to Babenhausen Castle. He replaced her with Karoline von Schlotheim. There, on 13 February 1794, Rosa married her guardian, Johann Georg Kleinhans (d. 17 February 1835), who later became Councilor of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and was thereby released. Descendants from this marriage are said to live in the United States.

Notes

Mistresses of William I, Elector of Hesse
1759 births
1833 deaths


title: German Lorraine

text:
The region of German Lorraine ( or Deutschlothringen) was the German-speaking part of Lorraine, now in France, that existed for centuries into the 20th century. Following its annexation by France in the 18th century, it became part of the German Empire following the Franco-Prussian War and ceased to exist permanently following Nazi Germany's surrender. The name is also used more specifically to refer to Bezirk Lothringen, the part of Lorraine that belonged to the German Empire from 1871 to 1918 and to Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945.

Former German-speaking Lorraine
The Germanic-Romance (German-French) language boundary in Lorraine roughly followed the line from Sarrebourg (Saarburg)  to Hayange (Hayingen) until well into the 20th century. A detailed map of the boundary is given in the article on the Lorraine Franconian dialect. The Lorraine region northeast of this linguistic boundary in the present-day départements of Moselle and Bas-Rhin (the Alsace bossue) and in the present-day federal state of Saarland was called German Lorraine (Deutsch-Lothringen). Nancy, the historic capital of Lorraine, and Metz, the present capital of the region of Lorraine, both lie on the French side of the boundary. There are clues to the historic boundary in the names of settlements like Audun-le-Tiche (Deutsch-Oth or German Audun) and Audun-le-Roman (Welsch-Oth or Romance Audun) or the names of the two headstreams of the Nied, the Nied Allemande (Deutsche Nied or German Nied) and the Nied Française (Französische Nied or French Nied), which lie on either side of the language boundary and merge almost exactly on the line itself.

The linguistic boundary was also reflected early on in the administration of the region. In the 13th century, the Duchy of Lorraine was divided into three bailiwicks (administrative and juridical districts. German: Ballei, French: Bailliage): the Bailiwick of Nancy (Bailliage de Nancy), the Bailiwick of Vosges (Bailliage des Vosges) and the German Bailiwick (Bailliage d'Allemagne); the last-named periodically had its administrative seat in the town of Wallerfangen in present-day Saarland. The Duchy of Lorraine went to France in 1766. In 1790, during the time of the French Revolution, the old administrative structures were radically changed. The request by German Lorraine members of parliament to establish a German Lorraine département did not gain majority support in the French  National Assembly. So in 1790, German Lorraine was incorporated into the newly created départements of Moselle and Meurthe. Other German-speaking parts of historic Lorraine lay in the département of Forêts formed in 1795 and the Département de la Sarre created in 1798. In the Second Treaty of Paris in 1815 the largest part of German Lorraine remained with France. From then on the name referred to this region.

Bezirk Lothringen as part of the German Reich 1871-1918

After the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, part of Lorraine was annexed by the newly founded German Empire and, together with Alsace formed the Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine (Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen) until 1918. The newly formed Bezirk Lothringen, which was created from parts of the former French départements of Meurthe and Moselle, covered not just the majority of historical German Lorraine but also the French-speaking regions west of the Franco-German language boundary around Metz and Château-Salins. Bezirk Lothringen, with Metz as its capital, remained unchanged in its territorial composition after the return of the region to France in 1919 and formed the present département of Moselle. During the German occupation of 1940–1944 it became the CdZ-Gebiet Lothringen ("Territory of the Chief of Civil Administration of Lorraine").

References

External links
 Petition about bilingual teaching in primary schools, French and German, Strasbourg, 1869, pdf, 4.2 MB
 Project Deuframat: German-French material for the teaching of history and geography

Lorraine-German people
Central German languages
Geography of Grand Est
History of Lorraine


title: Ay-Yıldız Stadium

text:
Ay-Yıldız Stadium is a stadium in Karabük, Turkey. It was opened to public in 2014 and have a capacity of 25,000 spectators. This stadium's unique feature is when looked from a bird's eye view, the stadium will have the shape of a crescent moon and a star, as in Turkish flag. It is the new home of Karabük University. The dean of the university stated that Karabukspor is welcome in their stadium.

References

Football venues in Turkey
Sport in Karabük
Sports venues completed in 2014


title: Abraham Hume (cricketer)

text:
Abraham Hume (28 June 1819 – 1 July 1888) was an English clergyman and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club. He was born at Willingale, Essex, and died at Wortham, Suffolk.

Hume played in eight first-class games for Cambridge University between 1839 and 1844 and four matches for MCC between 1840 and 1842; his Cambridge career included the 1841 and 1842 University Matches against Oxford University. While full scorecards are not available for most of his games, he does not appear to have bowled in major matches, nor to have kept wicket, and his batting, in 21 innings across the 12 games from a variety of positions in the batting order, yielded only 64 runs at an average of 3.36 runs per innings and with a highest score of just 16.

Career outside cricket
Hume was educated at Eton College and at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow from 1841 to 1877. He was ordained as a priest in the Church of England and was priest in charge of Kersey, Suffolk from 1846 to 1877 and rector of Wortham from 1877 to his death in 1888.

References

1819 births
1888 deaths
English cricketers
Cambridge University cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
19th-century English Anglican priests


title: Inside Men (film)

text:
Inside Men () is a 2015 South Korean political action thriller film written and directed by Woo Min-ho based on Yoon Tae-ho's webtoon The Insiders that dissects the corruption within Korean society. Starring Lee Byung-hun, Cho Seung-woo and Baek Yoon-sik, it began filming in July 2014 and was released in theaters on November 19, 2015.

Inside Men and the director's cut Inside Men: The Original have sold a total of 9.1 million admissions at the box office, thus becoming the top grossing R-rated movie of all-time at the Korean Box office.

Plot
Lee Kang-hee, an editor at an influential conservative newspaper, raises congressman Jang Pil-woo to the position of leading Presidential candidate using the power of the press; behind this is his secret deal with the paper's biggest sponsor.

Ahn Sang-goo, a political henchman who supported Lee and Jang, gets caught pocketing the record of the sponsor's slush fund, resulting in a dismembered hand. Woo Jang-hoon, an ambitious prosecutor, starts to investigate the relationship between Jang and the sponsor, believing that it's his only chance to make it to the top. While getting down to the brass tacks of the case, Woo meets Ahn, who has been methodically planning his revenge. Now the war between the one blinded with power, the one hell-bent on vengeance, and the one eager for success begins.

Cast
Lee Byung-hun as Ahn Sang-goo
Cho Seung-woo as Woo Jang-hoon
Baek Yoon-sik as Lee Kang-hee
Lee Geung-young as Jang Pil- woo
Kim Hong-pa as Oh Hyun-soo
Bae Seong-woo as Park Jong-pal
Jo Jae-yoon as Section chief Bang
Kim Dae-myung as Go Sang-chul
Jo Woo-jin as Managing director Jo
Lee El as Joo Eun-hye
Jung Man-sik as Choi Choong-sik, Chief prosecutor in Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office
Kim Byeong-ok as Oh Myung-hwan, Secretary for civil affairs in the Blue House
Kim Eui-sung as Editor-in-chief in Joguk Ilbo
Park Jin-woo as Department head Lee
Nam Il-woo as Woo Jang-hoon's father
Kwon Hyeok-poong as Seok Myeong-gwan
Ryu Tae-ho as Moon Il-seok
Park Sang-gyoo as Kim Seok-woo
Kwon Tae-won as Song Man-seob, Sponsorship chairman Jang Pil-woo
Jo Deok-je as Detective Choi
Park Jin-young as Member of parliament Son

Reception
On its first four days at the South Korean box office, the film grossed . Inside Men drew more than 2 million viewers in just six days, a record for an R-rated film; it has also set the record for the most-viewed R-rated movie in a single day—489,503 viewers.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

South Korean crime thriller films
South Korean films about revenge
Films about journalism
Films based on South Korean webtoons
2015 crime thriller films
South Korean crime action films
2015 crime action films
South Korean political films
Political thriller films
Films directed by Woo Min-ho
Live-action films based on comics
Political action films
2010s South Korean films


title: Maria Vos

text:
Maria Vos (1824-1906) was a Dutch still-life painter.

Biography
She was born to the family of a stockbroker. She originally studied what would now be called "home economics" at a French boarding school in Weesp.  But, as was common for upper-class young ladies at the time, she also received drawing lessons, from Christiaan Andriessen. Later, she studied painting with Petrus Kiers. In 1844, she had a showing at the Exhibition of Living Masters and, in 1847, became an honorary member of the "Royal Academy of Fine Arts" in Amsterdam.

She worked there until 1853, when she moved to Oosterbeek and joined a group of painters known as the Hollandse Barbizon. In 1863, her friend, Adriana Johanna Haanen, the sister-in-law of her teacher, Kiers, joined her there. Seven years later, they built a home known as the "Villa Grada", where they gave drawing and painting lessons. Haanen died in 1895, but Vos remained and became one of the last artists in residence there. On her eightieth birthday, she received a personal tribute from seventy members of Arti et Amicitiae.

Although Vos is primarily known for still lifes, she also did portraits, landscapes and cityscapes, including a series of watercolors depicting Oosterbeek. She mostly exhibited in the Netherlands and Belgium, but also had a showing at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Much of her work has been lost (or misplaced), but due to the sheer quantity of her output, much remains. Major retrospectives of her work were held in 1973 and 2002.

Selected paintings

References

Further reading
Martina Maria Doornik-Hoogenraad, Maria Vos: een Gelderse schilderes 1824-1906 (exhibition catalog), Stedelijk Museum Zutphen, 1973

External links

Maria Vos on Artnet

1824 births
1906 deaths
Dutch women painters
Painters from Amsterdam
19th-century Dutch painters
19th-century Dutch women artists
Dutch still life painters


title: Charlotte Christine Buissine

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Charlotte Christine Buissine or Buissinne (4 April 1749 – after 1781) was a Frenchwoman who was the first mistress of William I, Elector of Hesse from 1775 until 1778.

She was the daughter of a Hanau civil servant, the farmer Henri Buissine, and his wife Charlotte Varlut, both of French descent. Prince William was then and until 1786 regent in the County of Hanau, then a secundogeniture of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel.

Issue:

With William I, Elector of Hesse, Charlotte had four children, three of whom lived to adulthood:
 Wilhelm of Heimrod (16 July 1775 – 6 January 1811)
 Karl of Heimrod (19 July 1776 – 13 May 1827)
 Friedrich of Heimrod (9 August - 30 October 1777), died in infancy
 Friedrich of Heimrod (1778 – 3 September 1813)

The illegitimate children of Charlotte and William received - like their mother - the titles Freiherr/Freifrau/Freiin von Heimrod, the place of birth of the firstborn child.

She was replaced by Rosa Dorothea Ritter as her de facto husband's second official mistress.

In 1781, she married Christian Friedrich Dietzsch in Friedberg, Hesse.

Notes

Mistresses of William I, Elector of Hesse
1749 births
Year of death missing
People from Hanau


title: Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium

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The Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium () is a football stadium in the Başakşehir district of Istanbul, Turkey. The stadium is named in honour of Turkish footballer and manager Fatih Terim.

Opened officially to public on 26 July 2014, the venue has a capacity of 17,156 spectators. It is the current home of İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. playing in the  Süper Lig.

The construction of the stadium was completed in about 16 months, and it cost ₺178 million.

Qarabağ FK played its 2020–21 UEFA Europa League group stage home matches at the stadium instead of their regular home stadium Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium in Baku due to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

References

Sports venues in Istanbul
Sports venues completed in 2014
Süper Lig venues
2014 establishments in Turkey
İstanbul Başakşehir F.K.


title: Graham Filby

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Graham John Filby (born 29 May 1970) is a South African professional darts player.

Career
Filby won three matches in reaching the final of the South African qualifier for the 2014 PDC World Championship, where he lost 9–3 against Devon Petersen. In June 2014, Filby and Petersen teamed up to represent South Africa at the World Cup of Darts. They averaged 97.40 in a doubles match 5–3 win over Germany in the first round and then beat Singapore to face the number one seeds of Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis in the quarter-finals. Petersen lost 4–3 to Taylor, meaning Filby had to win his match against Lewis to send the tie into a deciding doubles contest, but he was beaten 4–2.

Filby entered PDC Qualifying School in 2015 and, despite reaching the last 32 on the first day, he could not advance past the last 128 in the last three days to fall short of earning a tour card. At the World Cup, Filby and Petersen survived a match dart from Finland to win 5–4 before losing their singles matches against Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld of the Netherlands in the second round. In the 2016 event they were defeated 5–1 by Singapore.

References

External links

1970 births
Living people
People from Beaufort West
South African darts players
White South African people
Professional Darts Corporation associate players
PDC World Cup of Darts South African team
Sportspeople from the Western Cape


title: Nimoth

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Nimoth is a village located in Dahina Block of Rewari district of Haryana state, India. Its postal head office is Dahina.

Demographics
The total population of the village is 4316. Male population is 2289 while female population is 2027. as per Population Census 2011.

Places to visit
Nimoth is famous for almost 500 years old temple of great Saint Baba Bishandas ji Maharaj .The temple is situated on kapoori road.

Adjacent villages
Zainabad
Manpura
Dhani Thather Bad
Srinagar
Dhawana
Luhana
Mandola
Kapuri
Rambass
Bohka

References

Villages in Rewari district


title: Valmir (footballer, born 1969)

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Valmir Furlani or simply Valmir (born 28 May 1969) is a Brazilian former professional football right-back.

Career
Born in Taquaritinga, São Paulo, Valmir began playing football in with local side Clube Atlético Taquaritinga, where he would be voted the best right-back in the 1988 Campeonato Paulista Série A2. He joined Guarani Futebol Clube shortly after winning the award, and spent seven years with the club making several appearances in Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.

Valmir spent the next three seasons playing for Santa Cruz Futebol Clube, Esporte Clube Bahia and Associação Atlética Ponte Preta. He finished his playing career at several smaller clubs, Associação Atlética Internacional (Limeira), Grêmio Esportivo Sãocarlense, Clube de Regatas Brasil, Anápolis Futebol Clube, Clube Recreativo e Atlético Catalano, Grêmio Esportivo Novorizontino and Jaboticabal Atlético.

After he retired from playing, Valmir began coaching football. He has managed the youth and reserve sides of Taquaritinga.

References

External links
Valmir at playmakerstats.com (English version of ogol.com.br)

1969 births
Living people
Brazilian men's footballers
Guarani FC players
Santa Cruz Futebol Clube players
Esporte Clube Bahia players
Associação Atlética Ponte Preta players
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from São Paulo (state)
People from Taquaritinga


title: Temptation (2014 TV series)

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Temptation () is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Kwon Sang-woo, Choi Ji-woo, Lee Jung-jin and Park Ha-sun. It aired on SBS from July 14 to September 16, 2014, on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. The drama reunites Choi Ji-woo and Kwon Sang-woo who both starred in the 2003 hit melodrama Stairway to Heaven.

Plot
Cha Seok-hoon is a naive man who grew up a rural village in Gangwon Province. His intellect gets him into the country's top university despite his family's economic plight, and he takes on all sorts of part-time jobs, from quick services to construction work, in order to earn his tuition.

He then meets Na Hong-joo, a girl also from a poor family. Hong-joo is resigned to a miserable existence, until Seok-hoon brings happiness and hope into her life. They get married, and Hong-joo is a calm and understanding wife, always the first to sacrifice and make concessions. However, Seok-hoon finds himself plunged into massive debt due to a failed business venture with another partner.

Yoo Se-young is a hotel heiress, trained to take over her father's company from a young age. Called a "woman of iron," she is a workaholic and a headstrong leader, and has no interest in love or marriage. One of her family friends is rich playboy Kang Min-woo, who unsuccessfully tried to seduce her in the past. Min-woo has everything he could ever want, and approaches life with the philosophy that you should have a hundred different faces for a hundred different women. He got married only because it was a requirement for his inheritance.

While on a business trip to Hong Kong, Se-young meets Seok-hoon and Hong-joo, and for her amusement, she makes them a dangerous offer to test their marriage: In exchange for paying off Seok-hoon's debts so that he could avoid going to jail, she asks for three days with him.

Seok-hoon makes a crucial choice and takes the deal. But his strange relationship with Yoo Se-young jeopardizes his marriage. Upon their return to Korea, Seok-hoon and Hong-joo's marriage is unable to survive this crisis of trust, and they eventually divorce. Meanwhile, Se-young finds herself genuinely falling for Seok-hoon.

Cast

Main characters
Kwon Sang-woo as Cha Seok-hoon
Choi Ji-woo as Yoo Se-young
Lee Jung-jin as Kang Min-woo
Park Ha-sun as Na Hong-joo

Supporting characters
Chae So-young as Yoo Se-jin
Kim Sung-kyum as Yoo Dal-ho
Hong Yeo-jin as Jung Yoon-seok
Joo Jin-mo as Choi Seok-gi
Jo Mi-ryung as Myung-hwa
Kim Hyung-bum as Jo Young-chul
Choi Il-hwa as Na Shi-chan
Lee Jung-shin as Na Hong-gyu
Ahn Se-ha as Park Han-soo
Jo Hwi-joon as Roy
Yoon A-jung as Han Ji-sun
Jung Hye-sun as Im Jung-soon
Kim Ji-young as Kang Yoon-ah
Heo Jung-eun as Kang Sung-ah
Choi Hyun as Kim Doo-hyun
Hwang Seok-ha as Chairman Doo
Fei as Jenny
Maria Cordero as Tina, Jenny's friend

Ratings

Awards and nominations

International broadcast
 It aired in Philippines on GMA Network from January 11 to March 10, 2016, and reaired on GMA News TV from April 1 to June 11, 2017.
 It aired in Vietnam on D Dramas VTVCab7 from June 29, 2016.
 It aired in Thailand on 3SD from November 22, 2016.
 It aired in Malaysia on TV2 from March 31, 2017.
 It aired in Romania on Happy Channel from July 5, 2019.

References

External links
Temptation official SBS website

2014 South Korean television series debuts
2014 South Korean television series endings
Seoul Broadcasting System television dramas
Korean-language television shows
South Korean romance television series
South Korean melodrama television series
Television series by Victory Contents


title: Department of Tourism and Resorts of Ajara Autonomous Republic

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The Department of Tourism and Resorts of Adjara A. R. (, DTRA) is a sub departmental establishment of government of Adjara Autonomous Republic that is mainly involved in a state management of tourism and resorts in the region.
The department carries out a state policy in reserving and developing tourism and resorts. It also popularizes touristic potential of the region on an international level and favors implementation of various innovations in tourism sphere.

Management structure

The Department is managed by the Chairman Mamia Berdzenishvili. Public Relations Manager and Statutory auditor are the assistants of the chairman. There are 6 divisions in the department:
Administrative Division
Marketing and Advertising Division
Tourist Product and Service Division
Information Technology and Online Projects Division (ITOP)
Statistics Division
Accountancy Division

Each division has a head of the division who are subordinated to The First Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the department.

Tourism projects
Expo Batumi 2011
Audio Guides Service
Tourism Week 2012
Share Your Love of Batumi  - Summer, 2013
The Season of Unparalleled Discounts, 2013
Your Summer Starts Here 2014

Tourism slogans

Evergreen Memories (2007–12)
Visit, Feel it, Love it! (2013–14)

References

External links
DTRA Official at Citizen's Portal
Official Visitor Guide to Batumi
Official Visitor Guide to Georgia
Official Facebook Page

Politics of Adjara
Adjara
Tourism in Georgia (country)


title: Xenofon Koutsioumpas

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Xenofon Koutsioumpas (; born May 1, 1980, in Trikala) is an amateur Greek Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's super heavyweight category. Koutsioumpas has claimed two medals at the Mediterranean Games (2001 and 2005), a bronze in the 120-kg division at the 2001 World Wrestling Championships in Patras, and has been selected to the nation's Olympic wrestling team when Greece hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Throughout his sporting career, Koutsioumpas, along with his younger brother Georgios, trained as a member of the Greco-Roman wrestling team for Olympiacos F.C. in Piraeus, with whom he won the European CELA Cup in 2006. Since 2012 they have been training at Atlas Mytilenes under their head coach Sotirios Petrakis.

Koutsioumpas emerged himself into the international scene at the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis, Tunisia, where he took home the silver medal in the men's 130-kg division. When Greece hosted the World Championships in Patras later that year, Koutsioumpas enchanted the home crowd in a spectacular fashion, as he beat Bulgaria's Sergei Mureiko at 8–0, and ran off the mat with a bronze medal. His sporting success continued to flourish at the next two World Championships, but he left both tournaments empty-handed with fourth- and fifth-place finishes.

When Greece welcomed the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Koutsioumpas qualified as a member of the Greek squad in the men's 120 kg class, by placing fifth and receiving an automatic spot for his home nation from the 2003 World Wrestling Championships in Créteil, France. Koutsioumpas suddenly lost a 2–2 draw to Kazakh wrestler and 2003 world bronze medalist Georgiy Tsurtsumia on his opening match, but quickly rallied with and delighted the home crowd inside the Ano Liossa Olympic Hall, as he prevailed two straight matches over Sweden's Eddy Bengtsson and Georgia's Mirian Giorgadze (both at 5–0). Finishing second in the prelim pool and rounding out the top seven, Koutsioumpas missed a chance to compete for his home nation in the quarterfinal rounds.

At the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain, Koutsioumpas scored a stunning 7–5 to climb the summit of the podium and snatch the men's super heavyweight title in his final match against Turkish wrestler and defending champion Yekta Yılmaz Gül.

References

External links

1980 births
Living people
Olympiacos wrestlers
Greek male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Greece
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Trikala
World Wrestling Championships medalists
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Greece
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Greece
Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in wrestling
21st-century Greek people