title: Brookside Historic District (Aurora, West Virginia)

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Brookside Historic District is a national historic district located at Aurora, Preston County, West Virginia.  It encompasses 11 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing site in the small community of Aurora.  There are five properties included: Brookside Inn/Gaymont (c. 1895), the Brookside Cottages (c. 1885), Cathedral State Park, Brookside Farm (c. 1895-1905), and the Red Horse Tavern (1825).  The community was an important example of a turn-of-the-20th century rural retreat with farm. Owners of the resort took advantage of its location close to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and created a respite from the city heat for residents of Washington, Baltimore, Cleveland and other cities.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

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Historic districts in Preston County, West Virginia
Buildings and structures in Preston County, West Virginia
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title: Hugh Bidwell

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Sir Hugh Charles Philip Bidwell  (1 November 1934 – 7 December 2013) was a British businessman and the 662nd Lord Mayor of London in 1989–90. Prior to his election as mayor Bidwell was an alderman of the Billingsgate ward from 1979 to 1996, and a sheriff of the City of London in 1986. Bidwell was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) on his election as mayor.

Bidwell was born in 1934, the son of a wine importer, and was schooled at Stonyhurst. Undergoing National Service in the East Surrey Regiment in 1953, he served in Nyasaland, Kenya with the 1st Btn King's African Rifles.

Bidwell began working in the food industry with the breakfast cereal maker Viota, and became a director of Viota in 1962. Bidwell was subsequently chairman of the food company Pearce Duff, headed the food arm of Gill & Duffus, and joined Allied Lyons in 1985.

Bidwell was married twice, first to Jenifer Webb in 1962, with whom he had two sons, and a daughter. Webb died in 2001. Bidwell married for a second time to Priscilla Pode (née Hunter). His wife and three children survived him at his death.

Bidwell was buried with his first wife in the cemetery of Holy Cross Church, Goodnestone, Kent.

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title: Low rider bicycle luggage carrier

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A low rider is type of luggage carrier for bicycles on which luggage can be carried with a low center of gravity. Low riders are most commonly used by cycling tourists who carry luggage in panniers on the front wheel.

For optimal balance the luggage on a front carrier should be placed low, and as closely as possible to the steering axis (in line with the head tube, a little behind the front wheel axis).

Construction
Like other types of luggage carriers low riders are usually constructed out of aluminum or (stainless) steel rods or tubing. The rods and tubes bent to the right shape and then mounting points are added to it.

All low riders have horizontal rails on which panniers can be attached. The most common diameter of the rails is 10 millimeters. Some low riders have two rails on each side. The lower rail allows the luggage to be carried near the center of gravity of the wheel, while the higher rail provides more clearance from obstacles when cycling over rough terrain.

Low riders can be made out of two separate parts or joined together with a stabilizing bow, which increases the stiffness. Some low riders include a top platform on which more luggage can be packed.

Installation
Low riders are specifically designed to be mounted on a specific kind of fork.
Touring bicycles usually have a front fork with one or two threaded eyelets for M5 bolts on the front dropout on each side. These are for mounting fenders and/or luggage carrier. Another mid-fork eyelet "braze-on" is positioned 160 to 175 mm above it for mounting a low rider front luggage carrier. There is no established standard for the position of the mid-fork eyelet. Most low riders are adjustable to compensate for this.
Some forks have mid-fork eyelets on the inside as well as outside to provide mounting of some specialized carriers such as the Tubus Duo.
For bicycles that do not have these eyelets or "braze-ons", various alternatives exist. Some of these come in the form of "U-Bolts", clamps, or some sort of clamp-on eyelet (see Tubus Aluminum Alloy Fork Mounting Kit)
When installing carriers, a drop of thread-locking fluid is advised to ensure that the screws do not loosen from vibrations under load.

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title: Mt. Woods Cemetery

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Mt. Woods Cemetery, also known as Mt. Wood Cemetery, Hebrew and Jewish Orthodox Cemetery and Eoff Street Temple Cemetery, is a historic rural cemetery located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

History
A small one-acre cemetery was established on the hill overlooking North Wheeling (once called "Wheeling Hill") by the Woods family in 1831. According to local legend, Ebenezer Zane paused on the hill and declared the area he saw the "land of promise" for which he had been looking. Pioneer Robert T. Woods (1754–1831) (who had settled in the area with his brothers Archibald and Andrew) was the first interment. Within two decades Wheeling's other cemetery, the Hempfield cemetery (dedicated in 1816) was nearly full and in the path chosen by the Hempfield Railroad (chartered in 1850 and which by 1857 connected Wheeling and Washington, Pennsylvania on the other side of the Ohio River).

Thus prominent Wheeling citizens organized a cemetery company and developed this location. Originally situated on approximately 20 acres, above "Jonathan's Ravine" with scenic views of the Ohio River, Wheeling Creek and Wheeling Island. Its landscape was originally designed by Robert C. Woods (surveyor and son of Robert T. Woods), with individual plots laid out according to the landscape's contours. The cemetery became popular in the Victorian era for its views, as well as the preferred place of interment for a number of prominent citizens of Wheeling and surrounding Ohio County. The prime hilltop Section A contains obelisks commemorating Alfred Caldwell (1817–18968), Edward M. Norton, William P. Wilson, and the Luke family.

The cemetery also contains the graves of Congressman Thomas O. Edwards (1810–1956), Joseph Thoburn (1825–1864) and Daniel E. Frost (1819–1864), prominent in the West Virginia statehood movement and who died fighting for the Union in the American Civil War. Other historic burials include Dr. Simon Hullihen (1810–1857), perhaps the first oralmaxilliary surgeon in the U.S., and Dr. Eliza Hughes (West Virginia's first female doctor and the sister of Confederate sympathizer and Ohio County's Virginia Civil War state delegate Dr. Alfred Hughes).

The earliest gravestone contains an 1817 date. In addition to remains reinterred from the Hempfield cemetery, remains were relocated from the Chapline and East Wheeling cemeteries when those were closed by the late 1800s, although some plots lower down the hill laid out in this period were never sold and that area became wooded. The Jewish cemetery was established beginning in 1849, following the unexpected death of itinerant rabbi Mayer Mannheim, and being on a steep slope, had persistent issues which required retaining wall construction; its first plots were laid in 1865 and burials continued well into the 20th century. In 1866, Greenwood cemetery was established east of the city, which decreased funeral use of this cemetery, although it remained an important regional park. In 1933 as the Great Depression began, paths were improved and 100 oak trees planted. Mt. Woods cemetery shrank somewhat over time, as interments became less frequent. The original remains from the two List family mausoleums were later reinterred at Greenwood Cemetery. Many trees predate the 1930s, with shrubbery surrounding individual graves removed more recently for easier maintenance. After major vandalism in 1974, the cemetery company relinquished its responsibilities to the City of Wheeling in 1977. It now includes 11.5 acres in the Mt. Woods cemetery and 0.99 acres in the Jewish section (still owned and maintained by Temple Shalom).

Architecture

Significant tombs, gravestones and buildings exemplify antebellum, Victorian-era, and early to mid-20th-century funerary art.  Notable structures include the entrance gate (1920s), the Rosenberg Arch (1886) and ten family mausoleums, including the Forbes mausoleum (1889), Scott mausoleum (), Cotts mausoleum (1863), Pracht mausoleum (1893), and Captain John List mausoleum ().

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title: Tetartemorion

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Tetartemorion ( tetartēmorion) is the name of a silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at 1/4 of an obol. Its name means "quarter part", from tetarton, meaning a fourth, and morion part, portion.

The weight at Athens was about 0.15-0.18 grams.

Coins of ancient Greece


title: Kim Gangte

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Kim Gangte (born 30 October 1963) is a politician, educator and  human rights activist, who was a Member of Parliament elected from the Outer Manipur Lok Sabha constituency in India in 1998, as a Manipur People's Party candidate. She is the general secretary of the Kuki Women Human Rights Network.

Kim Gangte is a social worker, human rights activist and politician, the first woman from Manipur to become a Member of the Indian Parliament
 She is also the first Seventh-day Adventist to serve in the Lok Sabha.

Early life and education

Kim was born on 30 October 1963 in Uyungmakhong, Churachandpur district, in Manipur to Vumkhosei Gangte. Her father Vumkhosei Gangte had received his early education in Shillong, but couldn't continue his studies, and hence remained a farmer. Kim's mother Kimsi Sitlhou is a homemaker. Her parents encountered extreme hardships throughout their lives and managed to provide the best possible education to their seven children. Kim is the eldest of her siblings.

Kim finished her schooling at the Seventh-day Adventist School at Shillong. She completed her standard 12th as a private student in Manipur, as she started teaching in a school right after completion of her 10th. She completed her graduation in English, History and Education from Guwahati University. She completed her M. Phil in English Literature from Pune University.
She also pursued a course in English language teaching from the Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Osmania University, Hyderabad. She continued her work as a lecturer in English Language teaching in the State Council Of Education and Research Training Centre in Imphal.

Career

While attending her M.Phil classes, she started working as a lecturer in English at the Spicer Memorial College, Pune. She also worked as lecturer in English language teaching in the State Council of Education and Research Training (SCERT) Centre in Imphal.

At the same time, she also joined the All India Radio Imphal, English Programme (Western Music) as a part-time announcer while also working as a correspondent with the Eastern Panoroma magazine.

She was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha in 1998. However, as then Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government was voted out in a no-confidence motion in 1999. She contested the 1999 Lok Sabha elections as a Janata Dal (United) candidate, but was defeated by Holkhomang Haokip of the NCP. After that she remained away from politics for sometime. At the same time, she was also a member of the Consultative Committee under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

For more than a decade now, Kim has been involved with the activities of the Kuki Women Human Rights body as well the Kuki Students' Organisation.

In January 2017, she joined BJP ahead of Manipur Legislative Assembly election in 2017. She quit the party in March 2019 to join NPP.

In an interview with NewsClick on 5 July, 2023, she blamed the BJP for the 2023 Manipur violence, and alleged that militant groups, Arambai Tenggol and Meitei Leepun, were creations of the RSS.

Interests
Kim enjoys meditation, gardening, and cooking. In her free time she likes to promote awareness about political, social, educational and human rights among the people, especially women, the poor and the downtrodden.

Interviews & Dialogues
 Kim Gangte — Manipur's first woman MP
 Kim Gangte wants Equal Development
 Kim Gangte takes jibes at BJP, Congress

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title: Joaquín Bau Nolla

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Joaquín Bau Nolla (1897–1973) was a Spanish Carlist and Francoist politician.

Family and youth

Joaquín Bau Nolla was born to a bourgeoisie Catalan family. His paternal grandfather Miguel Bau Isern (1836-1911) ran a chocolate manufacture in Tortosa and served as mayor of the city in 1901-1903, co-founding Banc de Tortosa, Cambra Agricola de Tortosa and the local Cambra de Comerç. One of his 16 children and Joaquin's father, José Bau Vergés (1868-1935), was an oil and vinegar trader and producer. He grew from a local merchant, transporting oil on his mules, to "el rei de l'oli", the owner of Aceites Bau S.A., a Tortosa-based company operating two factories, selling on the national Spanish market and exporting to South America, especially to Argentina. Following the commercial success, Bau Vergés built an imposing family residence in Tortosa; he was also honorary consul of Uruguay and Argentina, member of local business organizations and a Catholic activist. In 1894 he married María Cinta Nolla Poy, a stonemason's daughter. The couple had 4 children, all brought up in highly religious ambience; Joaquín was their second son.

Following his early education in Colegio de San Pedro Apóstol of the Hermanos de las Escuelas Cristianas in Tortosa, the young Joaquín obtained his bachillerato in Colegio de los Hermanos de la Doctrina Cristiana in Barcelona, to complete military service in Regimiento de guarnición of Tarragona in 1921. Encouraged by his father, he passed commercial broker exams and rose to president of Junta Central de Corredores de Commercio de España in 1935. In 1933 he commenced law studies as unenrolled student and graduated from Faculty of Law of Universidad de Valencia in 1935. In 1920 Joaquín Bau married Pilar Elisa Carpi Esteller. The couple had 5 children; the oldest son Joaquín as a 16-year-old volunteered to the Carlist requeté unit, survived the Civil War and later became an engineer; José Luis served in the army as a lieutenant colonel and military judge, while Fernando practiced as a lawyer and a conservative politician. Between 1967 and 1977 he served in the Francoist Cortes; in 1991 he published Crònica de veinte años. 1957-1977.

Mayor

Though Joaquín's paternal grandfather was a Liberal his father was already reported as Traditionalist and it was in his footsteps that Joaquín followed. As a youngster and teenager Bau engaged in local Traditionalist juvenile organisations. He became head of the Tortosa section of Requeté, a formation established in 1909 as a sporting and outdoor grouping for the Carlist youth. He seemed particularly fond of social and charity initiatives, organising Christmas for the poor, working in Patronato Escolar Obrero de la Sagrada Familia and co-founding Sindicatos Católicos Obreros. In the early 1920s he already emerged as a dynamic local politician. Once Primo de Rivera replaced the liberal restauración with dictatorship, Bau enthusiastically engaged in the nascent primoderiverista structures; in 1924 he co-founded the Tortosa branch of Unión Patriótica and became its jefe provincial.

During the period called "Bauisme" in the history of Tortosa, in 1925 Bau was unanimously elected mayor of the city, re-elected in 1928 and holding the post until 1930. His contribution was multifold; during 5 years the Bau-led ayuntamiento executed the plan of public works, consisting of modernization of city streets, refurbishment of public schools and hospitals and setting up regular fire brigade services. He inaugurated Instituto Nacional de Segunda Ensenanza and Escuela de Trabajo, expanded local railway line and enhanced the county road network. Much of his activity was about tackling Ebro-related issues, like floods, navigation, bridges or land re-cultivation. Largely successful and sort of celebrated by Alfonso de Borbón and the dictator as one of the youngest mayors, he nevertheless failed in his attempt to elevate Tortosa - since 1833 part of the Tarragona province - to the provincial capital range, the new unit to be carved out from these of Tarragona, Castellón and Teruel.

Though dictatorship was initially welcomed by the Carlists as a stepping stone towards a Traditionalist monarchy, in 1925 the claimant Don Jaime switched to opposition. Bau decided not to follow suit and went on contributing to the regime; in literature he is usually listed along Victor Pradera and Esteban Bilbao as one of those Carlists who abandoned their king and joined the primoderiverista version of the Alfonsine monarchy. In 1927 he was appointed to the quasi-parliament, Asamblea Nacional Consultiva, standing as representative of Organizaciones provinciales de Unión Patriótica and representative of the Ayuntamientos; in the chamber he became one of the youngest members. He kept supporting the dictator by staging welcome celebrations in Tortosa and organizing manifestations of tortosinos in Madrid in 1928. In 1929 Bau was re-elected jefe of the local Unión Patriótica, engaged in Somatén, animated the youth branch named Juventud Patriótica and until 1930s financed a local Tortosa periodical, Unión Patriótica. He is deemed responsible for 1929 expulsion from the city of Marcelino Domingo, at that time a Republican activist in serious health condition.

Deputy

Bau ceased as Tortosa mayor in 1930; in 1931 he was accused of financial irregularities, though none of the charges raised has been concluded. As three Traditionalist branches united in 1932 Bau resumed his service to the legitimist king rejoining the Carlist organization, Comunión Tradicionalista. Within its structures he was heading the local Tortosa Requeté; as member of the Tarragona branch he had to accept leadership of the provincial jefe, Juan Maria Roma. In the 1933 elections he represented Carlism within the local Tarragonese Unió Ciutadana alliance and was elected. As a result, he emerged one of key figures in the Levantine Carlism, especially in the comarcas of Terres de l'Ebre, though following the death of Jaime Chicharro also in Castellón.

Voicing his support for the Catalan identity Bau has nevertheless opposed the adopted autonomous statute as irreconcilable with the Spanish raison d'etat and produced by "traidores a su Patria y a su honor". He demanded its derogation and replacement with a new autonomous statute, constructed along Traditionalist lines and properly reflecting the genuine personality of Catalonia. He sided with Francesc Cambó against the Catalan left-wing autonomism and supported Catalan landowners in the notorious Catalan Leases Act case. He also encouraged new Christian syndicates of the Tarragona province, confederated in Agrupacion Gremial de Trabajadores. In October 1934 he was active mounting local opposition to the revolutionary sway; his close collaborator, Jose Maria Sentis Simeon, co-ordinated action against the rebels in the province and was later appointed governors' delegate for Public Order. In 1935 Bau arranged for Guardia de Asalto detachment to be stationed in Tortosa.

By many Carlists Bau was viewed with suspicion. This was due to his enthusiasm when engaging in alliance talks with the Alfonsinos and personal friendship with their leader, José Calvo Sotelo; though new Traditionalist jefe Manuel Fal approached Bloque Nacional as tactical option to be eventually abandoned, Bau was suspected of pushing for a dynastical compromise. In the spring of 1935 Don Alfonso Carlos and Fal considered Bau's activity in the Bloque intolerable and semi-rebellious. Also present-day scholars name his position as "conspiration", while others claim that he was loyal to Calvo rather than to Traditionalism. However, he was allowed to speak at massive Carlist meetings in Poblet and at Montserrat; he was also appointed to the Carlist Council of Economy.

Prior to the 1936 elections Bau advocated the strategy of a broad Right-wing alliance, an option which has never materialized; himself he competed on the list of Front Català d'Ordre and was elected from Tarragona. Shortly after the Frente Popular triumph was declared Bau and Calvo visited the prime minister Portela Valladares urging him to call the military and rule by decree; this was probably the most charged moment in his entire career. Once Lorenzo Maria Alier resigned as Carlist Catalan jefe in February 1936 one of the options considered was a triumvirate including Bau, but eventually it was Tomàs Caylà appointed the new regional leader.

Commissioner

Though until the summer of 1936 Bau was active in the Cortes, he was heavily engaged in anti-Republican conspiracy, serving as a Carlist link to Renovación Española. Following the death of Calvo Sotelo he travelled to Portugal to negotiate details of the rebellion with José Sanjurjo, personally witnessing the crash of general's aircraft. Since Bau was originally scheduled to communicate uprising orders to requeté units in southern Catalonia, his departure impaired Carlist insurgent structures in Terres de l'Ebre. Shortly after the hostilities broke out he returned from Portugal to Burgos in the Nationalist zone.

Early September 1936 the supreme governing body of the rebels, Junta de Defensa Nacional, constituted Comisión de Industria y Comercio, a substitute for Ministry of Economy. Bau, considered by Franco one of the more collaborative Carlists, was appointed one of its seven members; his high nomination was allegedly related to ability to arrange finance through Catalan contacts who had fled abroad. A month later the newly established Junta Técnica del Estado set up Comisión de Industria, Comercio y Abastos with Bau appointed its president, the de facto minister of economy in the Nationalist zone. As head of 7 commissions formed and one of 16 members of the Junta Técnica, he rapidly grew to top Nationalist executive.

Bau's primary task was to keep production running and to build the gold deposit reserve of the Nationalists; he was subsequently involved in currency reform, first organizing the stamping of pre-War notes and then arranging for a new Nationalist peseta to be printed in Germany. The next objective was to control foreign trade and direct the flow of deficient components accordingly, which was attempted by numerous regulatory means. At that time Bau considered himself an advocate of the "directed" economy; as an economist he was considered a disciple of Calvo Sotelo. Heavily involved in dealings with semi-official Nazi companies, HISMA and ROWAK, he objected to increase of German stakes, though key decisions were probably beyond his capacity. He hugely contributed to the Nationalist logistics by closing international deals covering 600 Fiat cars and 1,000 Studebaker chassis.

Bau's relations with Carlism are not clear. According to one source, he took advantage of his position by procuring arms designed specifically for the requetés; according to another, starting late 1936 he assisted in organization of Terç de Requetès de la Mare de Déu de Montserrat, the requeté battalion consisting of Carlist refugees from Catalonia. On the other hand, he is not known to have protested against Franco's measures against Manuel Fal; even detailed studies dealing with amalgamation of Carlism within Francoism in 1936-7 do not mention Bau, which suggests that at that time he was already hardly involved in Traditionalism. It seems that he unconditionally accepted Unification Decree and was leading Catalan Carlists co-operating with Franco; some scholars compare the role he played in Catalonia to the role played by Tomás Domínguez Arévalo in Vasco-Navarrese area. Considered rebellious by Manuel Fal and the new regent-claimant Don Javier, at an unspecified date he was expulsed from Carlism.

Outcast

Bau's influence started to decline once Ramón Serrano Suñer arrived in Burgos. Upon arrival he was already averse towards Bau as late 1936 Franco decided that it would be the family of Bau, not the family of Serrano, to be exchanged with the Republicans for the family of general Miaja. The animosity grew during 1937, when Bau opposed totalitarian designs pursued by Franco's cuñado. When the first regular Francoist government was created early 1938 Bau was not even considered. In the spring of 1938 he left Burgos, settling in San Sebastián.

Together with many Catalan industry tycoons taking refuge in the Gipuzkoan capital, Bau engaged in plans to re-create regional economic institutions once Catalonia would be retaken by the Nationalist troops. He was offered presidency of l'Institut Catala de Sant Isidre, the regional agricultural organization, but declined quoting his hostile relations with Serrano. Indeed, the internal Falangist document denounced him as one of the leaders of local "plutocratas y alta burguesia" who conspired against the national-syndicalist state.

Bau kept supporting the Catalan Montserrat battalion. He remained involved in numerous charity projects, like Auxilio de Invierno. The most important of Bau's ventures of that period was probably helping the Catalan Republican POWs. Personal acquaintance of officers commanding Campos de Concentración and Comisíon Clasificadora, Bau did his best to release Catalan prisoners and enlist them either in the Carlist tercios or in the Falangist banderas. Following the end of the war he returned to Tortosa, though he is not listed as taking part in the Carlist-Falangist competition for power in Catalonia.

Bau was not invited to the victory parade of May 19, 1939. Though sidetracked in great national politics, he remained engaged in clandestine and extremely sensitive Francoist business schemes. In 1941-42 he managed the deal with Nazi Oberkommando der Marine, supervising construction of 20 wooden ships intended to supply German troops fighting the British in Africa. Later on he kept exchanging courteous but purely formal correspondence with Franco. In the 1940s Bau dedicated himself to family issues, various Catholic organizations and business; he became the first post-war president of Banco de Tortosa and later multiplied his wealth by trading shares of the bank, going on also with the inherited Aceites Bau business. Privately he pursued his interest in organ music.

Bau led one of 3 competing Traditionalist Tarragona factions, namely the one opposing Carloctavistas and javieristas and promoting rapprochement with the Alfonsist claimant, Don Juan. The Tortosa javierista Carlists distributed leaflets presenting him as Francoist traitor who ignored the lot of requetés detained by the Francoist administration. He apparently acknowledged that a future kingdom must encompass Francoist structures. His private papers from mid-1950s suggest that Bau, though with hesitation, tended to support what seemed a long-distance Franco's plan for crowning prince Juan Carlos. However, when in 1957 he joined the Carlists who abandoned the regent-claimant Don Javier, Bau declared Juan Carlos' father, Don Juan, the legitimate heir and continued to approach him as a king.

Francoist dignitary

As in mid-1950s Franco shelved totalitarian plans and opted for a hybrid line of development, he started looking for loyal individuals not associated with Falangism; 1958 produced huge turnover of procuradores nominated to the quasi-parliament, Cortes Españolas. The dictator appointed Bau member of Consejo Nacional of the Falange, which automatically ensured the Cortes mandate. He got his seat confirmed in 5 successive legislatives, appointed also in 1961, 1964, 1967 and 1971. As his career was re-launched, Bau kept assuming higher and higher posts. In 1963 he started leading various parliamentary committees, formally nominated president of the internal affairs committee in 1964, president of Leyes Fundamentales committee in 1965 and then other committees working on new constitutional laws. In 1965 he was appointed president of Consejo de Estado, a body adding to extreme complexity of Francoist power structures and being part of Franco's recipe for political balance. The appointment produced his nomination to Consejo del Reino, another body with some competencies related to monarchical establishments. In 1970 Bau was nominated its vice-president. As one of the regime's highest dignitaries in the late 1960s he became one of faces of Francoism. Shortly before his death he was made Conde de Bau.

Bau's rise from political non-existence to president of Consejo de Estado in just 7 years was possible as he proved acceptable to most groupings competing for power within Francoism. Deprived of own political background, he posed no threat and might have been considered as sympathetic to their cause by Carlists, monarchists, technocrats (by virtue of his business activities and friendship with López Rodó), the Church and even the military (maintained friendly relations with many high-ranking generals); it was only the Falangist syndicalists that he remained at odds with. Bau, always impeccably elegant, boosted his career by oratory skills and non-belligerent, silky presiding style in numerous bodies of the regime, excelling in conflict management and demonstrating sort of impartiality, combined with perfect loyalty to Franco.

Bau's own political outlook may be summarised as a watered-down authoritarian, non-dynastical monarchism based on diehard (marchamartillo) Catholicism. Following his return to great politics in 1958 he emerged as one of the most prominent monarchists, contributing to shaping of late Francoism in course of works on various key legal structures of the system. Far from political militancy, starting mid-1960s Bau began to press the monarchical cause by advocating adoption of Ley Orgánica and Ley de Designación. Mocked by some critics as himself the best successor to Franco, Bau could have considered his efforts crowned when Juan Carlos was officially confirmed as Franco's successor in 1969, though as late as 1970 he kept fighting the regentialistas, first headed by Muñoz Grandez and than by Valcárcel. When in the early 1970s advising Juan Carlos on prospective course to be adopted, he suggested Federico Silva Muñoz as the man for future. He retained Catalan identity taking part in a number of regional initiatives and bodies, always perfectly within the limits permitted by the regime.

Legacy
Joaquín Bau is commemorated by a very short street in Madrid, a parking-lot-plaza in the Ferreries district of Tortosa (until 2017) and a long backyard drive in the resort town of Benicàssim, where the family owns a summer residence purchased by Bau in the 1950s; some of them are subject to various initiatives aiming at purging public space from Francoist or Fascist symbols. No trace of Bau having been named "hijo predilecto" of Tortosa in 1966 can be found on the official ayuntamiento web page. Since 1956 until 2018 one of Tortosa colleges was named "Institut Joaquín Bau" (today Institut Dertosa), though there was a failed attempt to change the patron in 1983. Bau's biography, in large part a hagiographical compilation of his correspondence from the private archive, was published in 2001; the author defined Bau as a conservative monarchist and played down Carlist threads, ignoring also most controversial episodes from his lifetime. Condado de Bau is still functional and currently remains held by Bau's grandson.

See also
 Carlism
 Carlo-francoism
 Francoist Spain

Footnotes

Further reading
 Martin Blinkhorn, Carlism and Crisis in Spain 1931-1939, Cambridge 2008,
 Joaquín Monserrat Cavaller, Joaquín Bau Nolla y la restauración de la Monarquía, Madrid 2001,
 Joan Sabaté Borràs, Els Ajuntaments republicans i els anys del Bauisme (1915 - 1930), [in:] Cent anys de crònica de Tortosa des del Centre de Comerç, Tortosa 2001, , pp. 77–85
 Robert Vallverdú i Martí, El Carlisme Català Durant La Segona República Espanyola 1931-1936, Barcelona 2008,

External links
 Bau obituary in local Catalan newspaper
 Bau on Geneallnet
 Historical Index of Deputies
 Bau college official site
 Bau in the 1965 RTE footage (01:44)

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title: Pheme (project)

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Pheme is a 36-month research project begun in 2014 into establishing the veracity of claims made on the internet.

Introduction
Unverified content is dominant and prolific in social media messages. While big data typically presents challenges in its information volume, variety and velocity, social media presents a fourth: establishing veracity. The Pheme project aims to analyse content in real time and determine how accurate the claims made in it are.  As claims propagate through a social network, each individual chooses whether or not to pass on information, based on how accurate they think it is. Analysing the language used and the spread of information through a network, as well as the spatial and temporal context of the information, is used to build a real-time lie detector for social media. This will help, for example, emergency services (who already integrate social media as part of their alerting and response systems) to flag potential hoax emergencies.

Evaluating the authority of sources automatically is also a project goal, based on the treatment of the news and information that comes from them. For example, a tweet of a BBC news article would hold more weight than one from an unknown source.

The project is named after the Greek goddess Pheme.

Case studies
Pheme addresses social media lies in two scenarios: information about healthcare, which can be particularly damaging if wrong, and information used by journalists.

Categories of rumour
Pheme addresses speculation, controversy, misinformation and disinformation.

Partners

The project is a partnership between the University of Sheffield as part of GATE, the University of Warwick, King's College London, Saarland University in Germany and Modul University Vienna. Four companies are also taking part - Atos, iHub Nairobi, Ontotext and swissinfo. Pheme is funded by the EU.

References

Relevant Publications
 L. Derczynski, K. Bontcheva. Passive-Aggressive Sequence Labeling with Discriminative Post-Editing for Recognising Person Entities in Tweets. Proceedings of the European Association for Computation Linguistics, 2014.

External links
Pheme page on the GATE website
Interview on Canberra radio
Checking whether rumours on social media are true: video

Computational linguistics
European Union and science and technology
Information technology organizations based in Europe
Science and technology in Europe
Social networks


title: John Ankwyll

text:
John Ankwyll is normally considered to be the first English humanist schoolmaster.

References

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
15th-century English educators
English Renaissance humanists
15th-century English people
English male writers


title: Single Resolution Mechanism

text:
The Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM)  is one of the pillars of the European Union's banking union. The Single Resolution Mechanism entered into force on 19 August 2014 and is directly responsible for the resolution of the entities and groups directly supervised by the European Central Bank as well as other cross-border groups. The centralised decision making is built around the Single Resolution Board (SRB) consisting of a chair, a Vice Chair, four permanent members, and the relevant national resolution authorities (those where the bank has its headquarters as well as branches and/or subsidiaries).

Upon notification from the ECB that a bank is failing or likely to fail, the Board will adopt a resolution scheme including relevant resolution tools and any use of the Single Resolution Fund, established by the SRM Regulation (EU) No 806/2014. The Single Resolution Fund helps to ensure a uniform administrative practice in the financing of resolution within the SRM. By 1 January 2024, the available financial means of the SRF will reach the target level of at least 1% of the amount of covered deposits of all credit institutions authorised in all of the participating Member States.

A Single Resolution Fund (SRF) to finance the restructuring of failing credit institutions was established as an essential part of the SRM by a complementary intergovernmental agreement, after its ratification.  If it is decided to resolve a bank facing serious difficulties, its resolution will be managed efficiently, at minimum costs to taxpayers and the real economy. In extraordinary circumstances, the Single Resolution Fund (SRF), financed by the banking sector itself, can be accessed. The SRF is established under the control of the SRB. The total target size of the Fund will equal at least 1% of the covered deposits of all banks in Member States participating in the Banking Union. The SRF is to be built up over eight years, beginning in 2016. By July 2023, the SRF had reached a size of €77.6 billion.

History
The SRM was enacted through a Regulation and an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) which are titled:
Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing uniform rules and a uniform procedure for the resolution of credit institutions and certain investment firms in the framework of a Single Resolution Mechanism and a Single Bank Resolution Fund and amending Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Agreement on the transfer and mutualisation of contributions to the Single Resolution Fund.

The proposed Regulation was put forward by the European Commission in July 2013 to complement the other pillars of the EU banking union, the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). The details of some aspects of the functioning of the SRF, including the transfer and mutualisation of funds from national authorities to the centralized fund, was split off from the Regulation into the IGA due to concerns, especially by Germany, that they were incompatible with current EU treaties.

The Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached an agreement on the Regulation on 20 March 2014. The European Parliament approved the Regulation on 15 April 2014, and the Council followed suit on 14 July, leading to its entry into force on 19 August 2014. The SRM automatically applies to all SSM members, and states which do not participate in the SSM cannot participate in the SRM.

The IGA was signed by 26 EU member states (all except Sweden and the United Kingdom, the latter which withdrew from the EU) on 21 May 2014 and is open to accession to any other EU member states. It was to enter into force on the first day of the second month following the deposit of instruments of ratification by states representing at least 90% of the weighted vote of SSM and SRM participating states, and was applied from 1 January 2016, since the Regulation had entered into force, but only to SSM and SRM participating states.

Some of the provisions of the Regulation were applied from 1 January 2015, but the authority to carry out bank resolutions did not apply until 1 January 2016, and were subject to the entry into force of the IGA.

An updated EMU reform plan issued in June 2015 by the five presidents of the council, European Commission, ECB, Eurogroup and European Parliament outlined a roadmap for integrating the Fiscal Compact and Single Resolution Fund agreement into the framework of EU law by June 2017, and the intergovernmental European Stability Mechanism by 2025.  Proposals by the European Commission to incorporate the substance of the Fiscal Compact into EU law and create a European Monetary Fund to replace the ESM were published in December 2017.

On 30 November 2020 the finance ministers at the Eurogroup agreed to amend the IGA and treaty establishing respectively the SRF and ESM. The reform proposal was blocked for months because of the veto of the Italian government. The ratification of the amendments by Member States is ongoing and, as of February 2023, Italy is the only Eurozone Member State that has not yet ratified the amendments. The proposed amendments include:

 The establishment of the ESM as a "backstop" to the Single Resolution Fund (SRF), through a revolving credit line.
 Reform of the ESM Governance
 Mandatory introduction of single-limb collective action clauses (CACs) in new euro area sovereign bonds issued
 Changes of eligibility criteria to the precautionary financial assistance instruments
 Clarifications and expansions of the ESM mandate on economic governance;

Proposal and reactions
The European Commission argued that centralizing the resolution mechanism for the participating states will allow for more coordinated and timely decisions to be made on weak banks. Internal Market and Services Commissioner Michel Barnier stated that "by ensuring that supervision and resolution are aligned at a central level, whilst involving all relevant national players, and backed by an appropriate resolution funding arrangement, it will allow bank crises to be managed more effectively in the banking union and contribute to breaking the link between sovereign crises and ailing banks."

Ratings Agencies have stated their approval of the measure and believe it will cause European ratings and credit to rise as it will limit the impact of a bank failure. Critics have stated their concerns that this mechanism will result in sovereign states' taxpayers' money being used to pay off other nation's bank failures.

Functioning
The SRM allows for troubled banks operating under the SSM (as well as other cross border groups) to be restructured with a variety of tools including bailout funds from the centralized SRF, valued at at least 1% of covered deposits of all credit institutions authorised in all the participating member states (estimated to be around 55 billion euros), which would be filled with contributions by participating banks during an eight-year establishment phase. This would help to alleviate the impact of failing banks on the sovereign debt of individual states. The SRM also handles the winding down of non-viable banks. The Single Resolution Board is directly responsible for the resolution of significant banks under ECB supervision, as well as other cross border groups, while national authorities will take the lead in smaller banks.

Like the SSM, the SRM Regulation will cover all banks in the eurozone, with other states eligible to join. The text of the Regulation approved by the European Parliament stipulates that all states participating in the SSM, including those non-eurozone states with a "close cooperation" agreement, will automatically be participants in the SRM.  As of 2023, this includes all 20 eurozone states, as well as Bulgaria which has a close cooperation agreement.

The IGA states that the intention of the signatories is to incorporate the IGA's provisions into EU structures within 10 years.

Single Resolution Board

The Single Resolution Board (SRB) was established in 2014 by Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 on the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM Regulation) and began work on 1 January 2015. It became fully responsible for resolution on 1 January 2016 and was henceforth the resolution authority for around 143 significant banking groups as well as any cross border banking group established within participating Member States.

Resolution is the restructuring of a bank by a resolution authority through the use of resolution tools in order to safeguard public interests, including the continuity of the bank's critical functions and financial stability, at minimal costs to taxpayers.

The Single Resolution Board's main tasks are:

 To draft resolution plans for the banks under its direct responsibility. This includes the banks under the direct supervision of the SSM and all cross-border groups
 To carry out an assessment of the banks' resolvability and to adopt resolution plans
 To address any obstacles to resolution and cooperate on resolving them
 To set the minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL)
 To follow up on early intervention measures
 To trigger resolution (with the ECB)
 To adopt resolution decisions; to choose and decide on the use of resolution tools
 To closely cooperate with, and give instructions, to national resolution authorities

IGA ratification
, 24 states, including all eurozone members, have ratified the intergovernmental agreement (IGA).  A sufficient number of participating Member States, surpassing the 90% voting share of participating member states required for entry into force, ratified the IGA by 30 November, allowing the SRB to take over full responsibility for bank resolution as planned on 1 January 2016. The only eurozone states which had not completed their ratification at the time were Greece and Luxembourg.  Greece subsequently did so in December, while Luxembourg followed suit in February 2016.

The ECB governing council decided on 24 June 2020 to establish a close cooperation agreement with the Bulgarian and Croatian central banks.  The close cooperation agreements enter into force on 1 October 2020, at which point SRF agreement will apply to them.

An amendment to the SRF Agreement (establishing the ESM as a "backstop" to the SRF) was signed on 27 January 2021 by Member States and its ratification by Member States' parliaments is ongoing. As of 10 August 2023, 22 states have ratified the agreement amending the SRF agreement : among the 24 states that have ratified the intergovernmental agreement (IGA) enacting the SRM, only Italy and Czechia have not yet ratified the amendment to the SRF Agreement that establishes the ESM as a backtop to the SRF.

See also
 EU banking union
 Single Resolution Board
 Single Supervisory Mechanism
 List of acronyms associated with the Eurozone crisis

References

External links
 Single Resolution Mechanism

 Single Resolution Board
 European Commission - Fact Sheet: State aid: How the EU rules apply to banks with a capital shortfall

Banking in the European Union
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European Union financial market policy
Eurozone crisis


title: Podge Doran

text:
Paudie "Podge" Doran (born 10 August 1992) is an Irish hurler who plays as a right corner-forward for the Wexford senior team.

Playing career

Minor and under-21
Doran enjoyed playing for both grades since he made his debut in 2009 but the years proved little success as he was faced by defeats in the hands of Kilkenny and Dublin.

Senior
Doran made his senior debut on 8 June 2013 in the Leinster Quarter-Final against Dublin at a very sunny soaked Wexford Park as a sub with the game being quite one sided during the first period the game ended level.
The replay was played in Parnell Park the weekend after but proved little success for Doran and Wexford as they suffered a defeat.

References

1992 births
Living people
Wexford inter-county hurlers
Oylegate-Glenbrien hurlers


title: AXIS Capital

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AXIS Capital Holdings Limited  is the holding company for AXIS group of companies. It offers various risk transfer products and services through subsidiaries and branch networks in Bermuda, the United States, Canada, Europe and Singapore. The company offers insurance services including property, professional lines, terrorism, marine, energy, environmental and other insurance. The reinsurance services include property, professional lines, credit and bond, and others.

History
AXIS Capital Holdings Limited was founded in Pembroke, Bermuda in 2001.

In February 2004, the company formed a healthcare unit providing professional liability insurance.

In June 2015, AXIS and PartnerRe Ltd started a public campaign to convince shareholders of the positive aspects of a potential $13 billion merger between the two companies, with competition seen from Exor SpA, which bid $6.8 billion.

In 2017 Axis Capital has completed its acquisition of Novae Group P.L.C and Aviabel S.A.

In February 2020, AXIS Capital Holdings chairman of the board and co-founder Michael Butt announced his retirement after five decades in the insurance business. AXIS board member and lead independent director Henry B. Smith has been appointed as successor to the chairmanship post.

Offices
Axis Capital has offices in New York, Alpharetta (US), Toronto, Halifax, Chicago, Champaign (IL, US), Bermuda, Dublin, Zurich, Paris, London (UK) and Singapore.

Managers
President & CEO - Albert A. Benchimol

References

External links

Financial services companies established in 2001
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Holding companies of Bermuda
Insurance companies of Bermuda
Holding companies established in 2001
2001 establishments in Antigua and Barbuda


Morris Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children, also known as Morris Memorial Nursing Home, is a historic hospital building located at Milton, Cabell County, West Virginia.  It was built in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration as a hospital for children with polio.  The modified "U"-shaped limestone building consists of a two-story central section, flanked by -story, "Y" shaped wings.  The central section features a domed and louvered cupola and a two-story portico.  It has a "T"-shaped wing used as a school and a boiler house attached to the school wing by a hyphen.  The hospital closed in 1960.  It was subsequently used as a nursing home until 2009.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

Further reading
Morris Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children at Abandoned

References

Works Progress Administration in West Virginia
Hospital buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Colonial Revival architecture in West Virginia
Hospital buildings completed in 1936
Buildings and structures in Cabell County, West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Cabell County, West Virginia


title: Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure

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Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure is a low budget 1951 British comedy film, the penultimate in the long running Old Mother Riley series  starring Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane. It features an early appearance by future Carry On regular Peter Butterworth.

Husband and wife Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane had separated by the time of production, and were touring in different "Old Mother Riley" shows. This was Kitty's final Mother Riley film, and her scenes with Lucan were reputedly shot on separate days.

During filming, there was a strike over pay, led by the dancer Josie Woods, who was an extra on the film.

Plot summary
Mother Riley, working in an antique shop with daughter Kitty, uncovers a secret treasure map hidden in the headboard of an antique bed. With the help of the ghost of the pirate Captain Morgan, mother and daughter head for a remote tropical island in the South Seas, and begin their hunt for buried treasure. Not only do they find the fortune, but Mother Riley ends up celebrated by natives as a tribal queen.

Sample gag
"All the supposed cannibal tribesman are in actual fact ex-Oxford graduates who spend their time (in full tribal dress) listening to the cricket on the short wave radio." ("Screensnapshots.blogspot.co.uk")

Cast
Old Mother Riley ...Arthur Lucan
Kitty ...	Kitty McShane
Jim ...	Garry Marsh
Captain Daincourt ...	Cyril Chamberlain
Chief 'Stinker' Carstairs ...	Robert Adams
James Orders ...	Roddy Hughes
Harry Benson ...	Willer Neal
Estelle ...	Anita D'ray
Morgan the Pirate ...	Sebastian Cabot
Flying Officer Prang ...	Bill Shine (actor)
Steve ...	Peter Butterworth
Mr Benson ...	Peter Swanwick
Slim ...	Harry Lane
Jake ...	Michael Ripper
Air Hostess ...	Maria Mercedes
Ted ...	Gerald Rex

Critical reception
TV Guide called the movie, a "relentlessly absurd farce...A film in the stylized vein of British comedy (as are all the pictures in the "Old Mother Riley" series) that continues through the films of Monty Python."
David Parkinson writes in Moviemail.com, " a discreet veil should be drawn over the last third of Jungle Treasure (1951), as its racial stereotyping outdoes anything seen in a Tarzan adventure."

References

External links

1951 films
Films directed by Maclean Rogers
1951 comedy films
British comedy films
Films set in Africa
British black-and-white films
1950s English-language films
1950s British films


title: RenaissanceRe

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RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd  is a Bermudian provider of reinsurance, insurance and other related business services. The company operates in reinsurance, insurance and ventures.

Reinsurance includes Renaissance Reinsurance Ltd., DaVinci Reinsurance Ltd., Top Layer Reinsurance Ltd., RenaissanceRe Europe AG, RenaissanceRe Syndicate 1458, and RenaissanceRe Specialty U.S. Ltd.

The insurance segment includes RenaissanceRe Syndicate 1458.

Ventures include RenaissanceRe Ventures Ltd. and Renaissance Underwriting Managers, Ltd. In 2013, the company's annual revenue was 405,209,000 dollars.

References

External links

Financial services companies established in 1993
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Insurance companies of Bermuda
Holding companies of Bermuda


title: Bernardino da Asola

text:
Bernardino da Asola (c.1490–1540) was a 16th-century Italian painter.

Biography
He was born in Asola, Lombardy as the son of Giovanni da Asola or Giovanni da Brescia. He worked with his father on Duomo of Asola, Lombardy in 1518 and in 1526 he and his father painted a set of organ shutters for the San Michele in Murano (now in Museo Correr).

He died in Venice.

References

Bernardino da Asola on Artnet

1490s births
1540 deaths
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Artists from the Province of Mantua
Painters from Venice
Year of birth uncertain
People from Asola, Lombardy


title: 1814 in Scotland

text:
Events from the year 1814 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers
 Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
 Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Maconochie

Judiciary
 Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
 Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
 Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle

Events
 From midyear – Highland Clearances: Patrick Sellar begins mass expulsion of crofting tenants from Strathnaver at Grummore to make way for sheep farming as factor for the Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford.
 7 July – Walter Scott's Waverley, his first prose fiction and one of the first significant historical novels in English, set during the Jacobite rising of 1745, is published anonymously by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh, selling out in two days.
 October – Thomas Telford's Lovat Bridge, the first over the River Beauly, is opened.
 November – Thomas Telford's cast iron Craigellachie Bridge over the River Spey is opened.
 Thomas Telford's Craighouse pier on Jura is constructed.
 Building of the industrial village of Friockheim in Angus is begun.
 Gartnavel Royal Hospital is established as the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum.
 Glasgow Medical Society is established.
 Chapel of St Mary's, designed by James Gillespie Graham, opened in Edinburgh, the origin of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Roman Catholic).
 St George's Church, Charlotte Square, New Town, Edinburgh, designed by Robert Reid after Robert Adam, is completed.
 William Wallace Statue, Bemersyde, erected.
 Mary Brunton's novel Discipline, set in the Highlands, is published.
 Ayrshire cattle recognised as a distinct breed by the Highland and Agricultural Society.

Births
 7 January – Robert Nicoll, radical journalist and poet (died 1837)
 31 January – Andrew Ramsay, geologist (died 1891)
 27 February – Robert Turnbull Macpherson, artist and photographer working in Rome (died 1872)
 20 March – John Goodsir, pathologist (died 1867)
 28 March – John Thomas Rochead, architect (died 1878)
 10 April – Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, judge and politician (died 1879)
 7 May – George Heriot Swanston, map engraver
 21 June – Samuel Halkett, librarian (died 1871)
 8 July – Arthur Kinnaird, 10th Lord Kinnaird, banker, Liberal politician and evangelical clergyman (died 1887)
 26 July – John Arnott, entrepreneur in Ireland (died 1898 in Ireland)
 27 September – John Burnet, architect (died 1901)
 20 December – William McGill, physician and Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario) (died 1883 in Canada)

Deaths
 3 January – James Townsend Oswald, Member of Parliament (born 1748)
 28 January – William Dalrymple, moderator of the Church of Scotland (born 1723)
 15 June – Robert Findlay, minister (born 1721)
 8 July – John Chisholm, bishop of the Roman Catholic church (born 1752)
 3 November – William Richardson, classicist and literary scholar (born 1743)
 John Adams, educational writer born 1750?)
 Alexander Cummings, inventor (born 1733)
 William Kerr, gardener and botanist (died in Ceylon)
 Thomas Smith, lighting engineer (born 1752)

See also
 1814 in Ireland

References

Scotland
Years of the 19th century in Scotland
1810s in Scotland


title: William Brooke Smith

text:
William Brooke Smith (died 1908) was an American painter and friend of Ezra Pound. His death from tuberculosis greatly affected Pound, who dedicated his first poetry collection, A Lume Spento, to Smith.

Life
William Brooke Smith was living in Philadelphia by 1901. In a 1921 letter to William Carlos Williams, Smith's friend Ezra Pound wrote "How in Christ's name he came to be in Phila.—and to know what he did at age 17–25—I don't know." Pound's friend Hilda Doolittle recalled that Smith was "tall, graceful, with a 'butterfly bow' tie", and that a letter he had sent Pound was "poetic, effusive, written, it appeared, with a careful spacing of lines and unextravagant margin".

Smith met Pound, then a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1901 or 1902, when the latter was aged sixteen. The two became friends, in one of Pound's first true friendships. As Smith was an avid reader, he introduced Pound to the works of English decadents such as Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley; this included gifting Pound a copy of Wilde's Salome. Smith's sister had given him a copy of Edward FitzGerald's The Rubaiyat, containing works by Sufi writer Omar Khayyam. As such, Pound's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz suggests that the two may have discussed "Soufi and Mystics, wine, beauty, Pantheism, and painting".

From 1902 to 1905 Smith studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, living on Diamond Street. Pound would sometimes attend classes with him. After graduation, Smith and Pound kept in touch. One letter from Smith, from 1907, was posted from a home on Franklin Street.

Death and legacy
Smith died in 1908 of tuberculosis. When news of this reached Pound, he was devastated. He soon renamed the poetry collection he had been working on, meant to be titled La Fraisne (The Ash Tree) after one of its first poems, as A Lume Spento (With Tapers Spent). In his dedication, Pound wrote:

... sith one of has gone out from amongst us it [is] given
A LUME SPENTO
(WITH TAPERS QUENCHED)
in memoriam eius mihi caritate primus
WILLIAM BROOKE SMITH
Painter, Dreamer of dreams

The title of the collection, A Lume Spento, is a reference to the third canto of Dante's Purgatorio, is an allusion to the death of Manfred, King of Sicily, and his funeral procession in the earlier work. Pound critic Hugh Witemeyer writes that, overall, the implication is that Smith had led an unorthodox life like that of Manfred, a conclusion with which Daniel Tiffany agrees, writing that the dedication implied Smith was "a heretic of sorts, a renegade".

Smith's death continued to weigh on Pound; he wrote in 1922 that "thirteen years are gone; I haven't replaced him and shan't and no longer hope to". Tiffany finds that, in Canto 77, Pound refers to Smith as "the wraith of my best friend", an allusion to Dante's description of his best friend, Guido Cavalcanti; Mary Paterson Cheadle concurs with this conclusion, though she suggests sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska as another possibility. Tiffany describes Smith as still "haunting" Pound in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, as Elpenor to Odysseus, and writes that, ultimately, Pound was unable to put the "ghost" to rest.

Letters between Smith and Pound were rediscovered by James J. Wilhelm and published in 1990. Tiffany writes that these letters show "the closeness of their friendship – and perhaps something more than friendship": in these 1907 letters, Smith refers to Pound as "my dear boy", writes that Pound is "very dear to me", and reminds him to "take the best care of yourself, especially the part that isn't seen".

References

Works cited

Further reading

1908 deaths
American artists
Year of birth missing


title: Devara Maga

text:
Devara Maga is a 2000 Kannada-language drama film directed by D. Rajendra Babu and written by Mysore Harish. The film stars Shiva Rajkumar and Ambareesh, along with Laila and Bhanupriya in supporting roles. Darshan plays a supporting role in his only movie with Shiva Rajkumar.

The film has an original score and soundtrack composed and written by Hamsalekha. The film was a box office success.

Cast
 Ambareesh as Raje Gowda
 Shiva Rajkumar as Bharatha
 Bhanupriya as Annapoorna
 Laila as Sowmya
 Srinath as Rajashekhar
 Mukhyamantri Chandru as Sidde Gowda
 Bhavyasri Rai
 Darshan as Darshan
 Tara as Sundari
 Rajashekhara Kadamba
 Junglee Prasanna
 Akki Chennabasappa
 Tulasi

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Hamsalekha.

Reception
A critic from indiainfo wrote that "A little more care in the technical department could have made this film an enjoyable fare".

References

External links

2000 films
2000s Kannada-language films
Films scored by Hamsalekha
Indian drama films
Films directed by D. Rajendra Babu


title: Ibis (novel)

text:
Ibis is a novel by the Colombian writer José María Vargas Vila, written in Rome in 1900.

It tells the story of Teodoro, a man deeply in love, betrayed by the woman he loves. Under the supervision of the Teacher, he must opt for the murder or suicide of that same woman, giving him a dark side towards women, which the teacher has taken himself to do with Teodoro. Passionate and cruel, misogynist and hedonistic, the work repeatedly attacks the Church and love, in defense of sexual pleasures, reason aesthetics and atheism, thus showing a rustic style of work when treating women.

He was excommunicated by the Catholic Church in 1900 on the publication of his novel Ibis, and received the news with joy.

References

External links
The works of José María Vargas Vila have been in the public domain for more than 70 years after the death of the author.
 Ibis – Version in PDF

1900 novels
19th-century Colombian novels
Novels by José María Vargas Vila


title: Nil Abarbanel

text:
Nil Abarbanel (; born 19 June 1987) is a former Israeli footballer.

External links

1987 births
Living people
Israeli men's footballers
Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. players
Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. players
Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan F.C. players
Hapoel Bnei Lod F.C. players
Hapoel Ra'anana A.F.C. players
Hapoel Rishon LeZion F.C. players
Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. players
Maccabi Kiryat Gat F.C. players
Maccabi Yavne F.C. players
Hapoel Jerusalem F.C. players
Hapoel Holon F.C. players
Israeli Premier League players
Liga Leumit players
Footballers from Tel Aviv
Men's association football goalkeepers


title: Lovčić

text:
Lovčić is a village in municipality of Brodski Stupnik in the central part of Brod-Posavina County.

Demographics

References

Populated places in Brod-Posavina County


title: Madame Pompadour (disambiguation)

text:
Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764) was a member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV.

Madame Pompadour may also refer to:
Madame Pompadour (1927 film), a 1927 British silent historical drama film by Herbert Wilcox
Madame Pompadour (operetta), a 1922 operetta composed by Leo Fall with a libretto by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch
Madame Pompadour (1931 film), a 1931 German historical musical film
"The Girl in the Fireplace", a 2006 episode of Doctor Who featuring Madame Pompadour


title: KonTraG

text:
The Law on Control and Transparency in Business () (abbr. KonTraG) is a comprehensive law passed by the German Bundestag on 5 March 1998. It entered into force on 1 May 1998, although some provisions were adopted at later dates. It set new standards of corporate governance for German publicly listed companies. It is similar to the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Aims and content
The aim of the KonTraG is to improve corporate governance in German companies. Several provisions of commercial and company law have been amended by this Act. The KonTraG specifies and expands mainly the provisions of the German Commercial Code and the Stock Corporation Act. KonTraG has extended the liability of the management boards, supervisory boards and auditors in companies. The core of the KonTraG is a regulation that forces corporate management to implement and operate a company-wide early risk identification system, as well as to publish statements on risks and the company's risk structure in the management report of the company financial statements.

Section 91(2) of the Law stipulates that the executive board is required to "take appropriate measures, in particular to set up a monitoring system so that developments that jeopardize the continued existence of the company are quickly recognized." Such "existence-threatening developments" usually result from the combined effects of individual risks, which obliges companies to carry out regular risk analysis and risk aggregation. Auditors are also required to review compliance with the new requirements by listed companies, in particular with regard to the existence and operation of a risk management system and the related internal audit activities, and to make them part of the audit report. The basis is the IDW test standard 340 (IDW PS 340).

Additionally, the law requires the supervisory board to appoint the auditors, to receive the audit reports, and to include the auditors in the board's balance sheet meeting. All members of the supervisory board or the audit committee must be provided with the audit reports.

KonTraG does not exclusively concern public limited companies, but also covers the limited partnership on shares (KGaA) and many limited liability companies (GmbH), in particular if there is a codetermined or optional supervisory board. In contrast, the so-called small AG's are largely exempted from compliance with the KonTraG provisions.

The establishment and operation of a company-wide risk management system - such as Management Risk Controlling (MRC) - are critically scrutinized and examined by the banks per Basel II. For companies that work on the basis of projects (construction companies, large architectural firms, IT system houses), risk management is therefore also part of the project management tasks.

Furthermore, for the first time, the granting of subscription rights to employees and members of the management board from a contingent capital increase pursuant to Section 192 AktG was placed on a legal footing.

Corporate governance
German business laws


title: Government Degree College for Boys, Anantnag

text:
The Government Degree College, Anantnag was established in 1950 as an Intermediate College. One of the largest colleges of northern India, it is spread over an area of 250 kanals. After functioning as an intermediate college for eleven (11) years, the college attained Degree College status in 1961-62. The college was given 2(f) and 12 (B) status by the UGC in 1972. After the implementation of NCERT pattern (10+02+03) in the state in 1983-1984, the 11th and 12th classes were delinked from the institution. In the 1980s, the IGNOU Study centre (1211) was established in the college.

Degrees

The college offers various undergraduate courses ranging from Arts, Science, to Humanities.

Here is the list of Undergraduate Courses offered by the college.

 Bachelor of Commerce (BCOM)
 Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA)
 Bachelor of Science Medical (BSC)
 Bachelor of Science Non-Medical (BSC)
 Bachelor of Arts (BA)
 Bachelor of mass media and mass communication (BMMMC)
 BA Honours in English (BA ENGLISH LITERATURE)

8.  Bachelor of Business Administration. (BBA)

9.  Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSC. IT)

Facilities

The college has a library, housed in a newly constructed building, and about 56,000 books in addition to subscriptions to local, national and international magazines, journals and other periodicals. Some departments also have departmental libraries.

Other academic facilities include a study center for Indira Gandhi Open University.

Physical education and first aid health care facilities are available.

Alumni Association
The Alumni Association is an important organisation of an Institution. It provides a common platform for Alma Mater and Its Alumni to interact and contribute towards the progress and welfare of the Institution.

Hostel
The College Hostel provides accommodation to at least 120 students at a time. The College gives hostel facilities to only those students who live far from their college.

References

1959 establishments in Jammu and Kashmir
Educational institutions established in 1959
Universities and colleges in Jammu and Kashmir
Anantnag
Degree colleges in Kashmir Division


title: Government College for Women, Anantnag

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The Government College for Women, Anantnag, is a college in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state under Indian governance. It was established in 1979 as an intermediate college in the heart of Anantnag town.

degrees

The college offers various undergraduate courses ranging from Arts, Science, to Humanities. Here is the list of Undergraduate Courses offered by the college.
 Bachelor of Commerce (BCOM)
 Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA)
 Bachelor of Science Medical (BSC)
 Bachelor of Science Non-Medical (BSC)
 Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Our Departments
Department Of Computer Science
Department Of Home Science
Department Of Botany
Department Of Zoology
Department Of Physics
Department Of Chemistry
Department Of Commerce
Department Of Sericulture
Department Of Education
Department Of Economics
Department Of History
Department Of Political Science
Tour and Travel
Department Of Persian
Department Of Hindi
Department Of Urdu
Department Of Mathematics
Department Of English

References

Women's universities and colleges in Jammu and Kashmir
Educational institutions established in 1979
Anantnag
Degree colleges in Kashmir Division


title: Government College for Women

text:
Government College for Women may refer to:
 India
 Government College for Women, Anantnag
 Government College for Women, Baramulla
 Government College for Women, Nawakadal Srinagar
 Government Degree College for Women, Sopore
 Pakistan
 Government College for Women Dhoke Kala Khan


title: Rum-Bar Rum

text:
Rum-Bar Rum is a white overproof rum produced in Jamaica and sold worldwide by Worthy Park Estate. Since its introduction in 2007, the Rum-Bar brand has been expanded to include Rum-Bar Rum Cream, a cream liqueur made with a blend of 100% real cream and Rum-Bar Rum; Rum-Bar Gold, a 4 year old premium gold rum; and a line of Rum-Bar vodkas, which includes classic and green apple varieties.

See also
 List of rum producers

References

Further reading
 "Grooving with Rum Bar Rum" Jamaica Gleaner News - Outlook - Sunday | February 7, 2010

External links

Jamaican brands
Jamaican rum
Rums


title: TPCIT

text:
TPCIT (Tashkent Professional College of Information Technologies) is one of the oldest educational institutions in Uzbekistan.

Directions of education
The college conducts the training of specialist in 3 directions:
 Informatics and Information Technologies
 Telecommunications
 Accounting

Chairs
 Department of Humanities
 Department of Foreign Languages
 Department of Social Sciences
 Department of Natural Mathematical Sciences
 Department of Information Technologies
 Department of Programming
 Department of Telecommunications
 Department of Economic Subjects
 Department of Initial Pre-Conscription Training for Youth
 Department of Physical Education

References

External links

 Tashkent Professional College of Information Technologies
 The Center for Secondary Specialized, Vocational Education

Education in Tashkent


title: Jonathan Tattersall

text:
Jonathan Andrew Tattersall (born 15 December 1994) is an English cricketer who plays for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman who bowls leg breaks. He made his debut for the county in the 2013 Yorkshire Bank 40 against Glamorgan. He is a former England under 19s batsman, and his fielding ability saw him fielding as substitute for the England senior side. Tattersall represented England under 19s at the ICC World Cup.

Tattersall was released by Yorkshire in September 2015, but then recalled. He made his first-class debut on 20 June 2018, for Yorkshire in the 2018 County Championship. He made his Twenty20 debut for Yorkshire in the 2018 t20 Blast on 5 July 2018.

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
Cricketers from Harrogate
English cricketers
Yorkshire cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Surrey cricketers
English cricketers of the 21st century


title: Robert Hare (antiquary)

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Robert Hare (died 1611) was an English official, antiquary, politician and benefactor of the University of Cambridge.

Early life
The second of the three sons of Sir Nicholas Hare and Catharine, daughter of Sir John Bassingbourn, he matriculated as a fellow-commoner of Gonville Hall, Cambridge, 12 November 1545. He took no degree, and on leaving university was admitted a student of the Inner Temple, on 2 February 1548.

In office
Hare was one of the gentlemen appointed to bear the bannerols at the funeral of Anne of Cleves on 15 July 1555, and on 29 March 1558 he was in the service of William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester. On 14 June 1560 he was admitted clerk of the pells on the nomination of the marquess, and he was returned for  in Suffolk to the parliament which met on 11 January 1563. In or about 1571 he vacated the clerkship of the pells, Chidioc Wardour occurring as the holder of the office in that year.

Later life
The remainder of Hare's life was mainly spent on documenting the history, rights, and privileges of the university and town of Cambridge. In a list of recusants in London, drawn up in October 1578, his name occurs, and it is stated that he used to hear mass at the house of Lord Paulet. Hare was residing in Norton Folgate at some period between 1581 and 1594. In 1600 he was in some trouble, presumed to be on account of his religion; On 23 January 1601 the Cambridge senate passed a grace that a letter should be written in the name of the university to Sir Robert Cecil, so that Hare might not be hindered in his good works related to the highways.

Hare's brother Michael died on 11 April 1611, and, though he had been twice married, left no issue. Hare therefore inherited an estate at Bruisyard in Suffolk, but survived only till 2 November in that year.

He was buried in Old St Paul's Cathedral in London, but the grave and monument were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. His name appears on a modern monument in the crypt, listing important graves lost in the fire.

The estates passed to his uncle John, father of Hugh Hare, 1st Baron Coleraine.

Legacy
In 1568 Hare gave to Caius College, Cambridge, a work written on parchment, mainly on Winchester Cathedral, but referring also to the origin of the University of Cambridge. The library of Caius College contained two volumes of his collections; he presented also to the university library two curious ancient manuscripts. To the library of St Paul's Cathedral he presented a manuscript that had belonged to Syon Abbey.

To the library of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Hare gave books including Thomas de Elmham's History of St. Augustine's, Canterbury; also giving money to a fund for repairing highways around Cambridge. In 1594 he gave to the university a book relating to its privileges, written by Thomas Marhaunt, B.D., early in the fifteenth century. It is thought he was also a benefactor to Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, since his arms were over its south door.

Works
Hare's works were left in manuscript:

 A Treatise on Military Discipline, and Rules to be observed in Time of War, written in 1556 (Cotton MS. Jul. F. v.)
 Registrum novum Monimentorum Universitatis Cantabrigiensis, in quo indultorum pontificalium, cartarum regalium, petitionum in parliamento, fundationum et donationum collegiorum, literarum patentium, brevium clausorum, confirmationum, inquisitionum, querelarum, assisarum, processuum, arbitramentorum, compositionarum, et aliorum monimentorum, quæ jura, franchesias, libertates, privilegia, et consuetudines Universitatis prædictæ et Burgi sive Municipii ibidem concernunt, exemplaria ab archivis magno labore extracta et fideliter transcripta continentur, manuscript, 2 vols. in the registry of the university of Cambridge. The first volume is from King John to 23 Ric. II, 1399; the second from Henry IV to 31 Eliz., 1589.
 Liber Privilegiorum Libertatum aliorumque rescriptorum negotia almæ Universitatis Cantabrigiensis concernentium ex archivis regiis variisque registris antiquis et monumentis fide dignis magno labore et sumptu in ordinem per regum seriem collegit et redegit in favorem et commodum tam modernorum quam futurorum venerabilium Cancellarii Magistrorum et Scholarium ejusdem celebratissimæ Universitatis, manuscript, 3 vols. in the registry of the university of Cambridge.
 Liber Privilegiorum et Libertatum almæ Universitatis Cantabrigiensis, 2 vols.; Liber diversorum negotiorum . . . Universitatis Cantabrigiensis ... ad annum 1588; Liber Privilegiorum et Libertatum necnon aliarum rerum memorabilium Villam sive Burgum Cantabr. concernentium. These four volumes went to the registry of the university of Cambridge.
 Liber Privilegiorum Acad. Oxon. and Liber Memorabilium Acad. Oxon.
 Collectanea de academia et villa Cantabrigiæ (Cotton MS. Faust. C. iii.)
 Collectanea de academia et villa Oxoniæ (Cotton MS. Faust. C. vii.)
 Miscellaneæ Collectiones, 2 vols. (manuscripts in Caius College, 391, 392).
 Magnus Annulus (manuscript on parchment, 11 feet 9½ inches by 6¼ inches); among the muniments of Sir Thomas Hare at Stow Bardolph, Norfolk, exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries of London on 20 January 1859. It consists of a table of the Golden Number, Sunday letters, and date of Easter from 1286 to 1817. On the margin are notes of obits.

Notes

Attribution

Year of birth missing
1611 deaths
English antiquarians
16th-century English MPs
Recusants
Burials at St Paul's Cathedral


title: Susanne Rosenberg

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Susanne Rosenberg (born 29 August 1957) ) is a Swedish folk singer, professor, and researcher.

Susanne Rosenberg grew up outside Stockholm and has been a freelance singer since the early 1980s. She studied at the  Royal College of Music, Stockholm on an individual performance programme from 1984 to 1988. Rosenberg has been a teacher there since 1992 and professor (2016) of folk singing. Between 2004 and 2020 she was head of the Department of Folk Music.

Academic career

She studied musicology at Stockholm University from 1982 to 1984, which resulted in the thesis centered around a traditional singer singing style. 1987 and 1991, she worked as a teacher at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. In 2013, Rosenberg defended her doctoral studies in collaboration with the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the Sibelius Academy with the artistic dissertation "Kurbits-ReBoot – Swedish Folk singing in a new artistic context."

Music career

Rosenberg is one of Sweden's most established folk singers today. Her vocal expression has excellent breadth, from older folk song techniques such as kulning to baroque, jazz, and modern art music. She is also active as a researcher, pedagogue, composer, arranger, and writer.

Susanne Rosenberg has been a pioneer in rediscovering older folk singing style and using it in new artistic contexts both in terms of her artistic expression and educator and for polyphonic singing and choir. During the 1990s, she developed polyphonic folk singing in her "Folk Women's Choir" (1993-1996), and she has also written works for choirs such as "Pust" (2000), "Stjärnan" (2013), "Missa Vox Mundi" (2021). In Sweden, she has collaborated with the composer Karin Rehnqvist and premiered several works written directly for Rosenberg such as "Puksånger - Lockrop" (1989), "Hetluft" (1993) "Rädda mig ur dyn" (1997), "Så går en dag" (2000), and with directors such as Peter Oskarsson (Den Stora Vreden, 1988–1990) and Leif Stinnerbom  ("Ljuset" 1996). Outside Sweden, she collaborated with Quincy Jones and Clark Terry (Sonic Convergence 2001) and in Japan with Ryuichi Sakamoto  (L I F E 2000).

Among her artistic projects are "Syn för sägen" (1995)  "ReBoot-OmStart"  (2010),  "Kurbits-Koral - The Spirit of the moment"  (2010),  "Getens horn"  (2011),  "Voice Space"  (2013)  "Folk Vocal"  (2014) and others. Since 2014, she has been conducting the artistic research project ”Folk Song Lab", with the support of the Swedish Research Council  (2019-2021). Rosenberg is active in several research fields and has published articles in Kulning, folk song style, Improvisation, and artistic research.

She has also developed and published several educational methods and materials in folk singing, folk singing style and kulning. As head of the Department of Folk Music at KMH, Rosenberg developed many pedagogical concepts, courses, and programs. She has been influential in developing folk music education in Higher Music Education, not only in Sweden. As a teacher, she has taught most of today's young folk singers who have studied at KMH and have developed topics such as folk song methodology and kulning and folk song singing courses.

She started the folk music groups Rosenbergs Sjua, Krus och  Rotvälta and has toured Europe, the US, and Asia. Other groups she has participated in is Kvickrot, Höök, Out of Time and Country, Luftstråk, and she has been published on phonograms since the 1980s both with groups and as soloists. Rosenberg has on several occasions received artist's scholarship and research funding.

Rosenberg was appointed member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2015.

Since 1988 she has been married to fiddler and researcher Sven Ahlbäck.

References

External links
 Susanne Rosenberg Official Website
 Department of Folk Music Royal College of Music
 Kulning with Susanne Rosenberg

1957 births
Living people
Swedish folk singers
Academic staff of the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Stockholm University alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Swedish women academics
Academic staff of the University of the Arts Helsinki


title: Koum

text:
Koum is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Daniel Koum (born 1985), Cameroon-born Australian weightlifter
 Emmanuel Koum (1946–2008), Cameroonian football player
 Jan Koum (born 1976), CEO and founder of WhatsApp

See also
 Kou (name)


title: Firozpur Cantonment railway station

text:
Firozepur Cantonment Railway Station (station code: FZR) is located in Firozepur district in the Indian state of Punjab and serves  Firozepur, on the banks of the Sutlej River .

The railway station
Firozpur Cantonment railway station is at an elevation of  and was assigned the code – FZR.

History
The Southern Punjab Railway Co. opened the Delhi–Bhatinda–Samasatta line in 1897. The line passed through Muktasar and Fazilka tehsils and provided direct connection through Samma Satta (now in Pakistan) to Karachi. The extension from the Macleodganj (later renamed Mandi Sadiqganj and now in Pakistan) railway line to Ludhiana was opened by the same company in 1905.

The Firozpur Cantonment-Jalandhar City branch line was opened in 1912.

Railway division
Firozpur railway division covers a large area with railway lines under its jurisdiction – covering parts of Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.

Trains
Following express trains originate/terminate at Firozpur Cantt.

Fzr-Ndls shatabdi express
Fzr-Durg antyodya express

References

External links
 Trains at Firozpur Cantonment

Railway stations in India opened in 1905
Railway stations in Firozpur district
Firozpur railway division
Transport in Firozpur


title: Sarah Alade

text:
Sarah Omotunde Alade  is a Nigerian economist. She was acting governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria during the suspension of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. She was appointed to the post by president Goodluck Jonathan on 20 February 2014.
She held this position until the appointment of Godwin Emefiele in June 2014. She served as deputy governor (Economic Policy), Central Bank of Nigeria from 26 March 2007 to 22 March 2017.

Education
Alade attended the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, where she obtained a B.Sc (Hons) degree in Economics in 1976. She also obtained an M.Comm degree at the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1983 and a PhD Management Science (Operations Research), from the University of Ilorin in 1991.

Career
Alade commenced her working career in 1977 with the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ilorin, Kwara State. In 1991, she joined the University of Ilorin as a lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Finance. She joined the Central Bank of Nigeria in 1993 as an assistant director in the Research Department, where she served as head of the State Government Finance Office (1993–96), head of the Federal Government Finance Office (1996–2000) and head of the Fiscal Analysis Division (2000–04).

Alade has served on the teams on major economic policy studies, and has been involved in the preparation of Central Bank of Nigeria's monetary and credit policy proposals over the years. She was actively involved in the drafting of the Medium Term Economic Programme (MTP) for Nigeria and the IMF staff Monitored Programme/Standby Arrangement.

Alade was present as deputy governor when it was announced that five Nigerian bank CEOs were being dismissed on 13 August 2009. Five replacements were named by the Central Bank of Nigeria with immediate effect including Olufunke Iyabo Osibodu to lead the Union Bank of Nigeria and Suzanne Iroche who took over as CEO of FinBank.

Alade was appointed director of the Banking Operations Department in May 2004. In that capacity, she served as chairman of the board of directors of the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) as well as secretary of the National Payments System Committee (NPSC).

Alade was a member of the technical committee of the Vision 2010 and currently a member of the technical committee of Vision 2020 and member of the National Economic Management Team (EMT).

As deputy governor of Economic Policy, Alade superintends over the Economic Policy Directorate, comprising the Research, Monetary Policy, Trade and Exchange, Statistics Departments and Financial Markets Department. As chair of the Monetary Policy Implementation Committee (MPIC), she interfaces with operational departments and coordinates technical inputs for the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).
Alade, who is a member of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES), has several publications to her credit and is currently carrying out research into interest rate policy and monetary policy implementation in Nigeria. Alade is a fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Operational Research.

Alade served as acting governor from February 2014 until Godwin Emefiele took over in June 2014. She retired from the Central Bank of Nigeria as deputy governor after 24 years of service on 22 March 2017. In November 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Alade as his Special Adviser on Finance and Economy.

References

External links
 Profile: Sarah Alade

Living people
Nigerian bankers
Obafemi Awolowo University alumni
University of Melbourne alumni
University of Ilorin alumni
Officers of the Order of the Niger
Yoruba bankers
Yoruba women academics
Nigerian women academics
Nigerian economists
Nigerian women economists
Academic staff of the University of Ilorin
University of Melbourne women
Year of birth missing (living people)
Yoruba women in business
 Yoruba people


title: Marie-Joseph Lemieux

text:
Marie-Joseph Lemieux (1902–1994) was a Catholic archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See.

Biography
Marie-Joseph Lemieux joined the Dominican Order, and professed his vows on 4 August 1924. He studied in Rome, Lille and Oxford and was ordained a priest on 15 April 1928 in Ottawa by Cardinal Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau and was then sent on a mission to Japan.

On his appointment as Bishop of Hakodate, later diocese of Sendai (Japan) on 9 December 1935, he was then the youngest bishop in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. On 29 June 1936 he was consecrated by Cardinal Paolo Marella and the co-consecrators Archbishop Jean-Baptiste-Alix Chambon, MEP (Archdiocese of Tokyo) and Bishop Januarius Hayasaka Kyunosuke (Archdiocese of Nagasaki). In 1941, he was forced to leave Japan for political reasons, he returned to Canada on 16 January 1941 and was as appointed Titular Bishop of Calydon. On 26 November 1942 he received the appointment as Apostolic Administrator of the erstwhile Diocese of Gravelbourg in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was appointed Bishop of Gravelbourg on 15 April 1944 and the inauguration was on 28 May 1944.

This was followed on 20 July 1953 by his appointment as Archbishop and Metropolitan of Ottawa, on 17 September 1953 he was officially inaugurated to his new office. On 16 September 1966, he retired from the office of archbishop of Ottawa and became the titular archbishop of Saldae. From 1966-1968 he was Apostolic Nuncio in Haiti and then in 1969 simultaneously the Apostolic Delegate to the Antilles. On 30 May 1969, he was appointed Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in India. On 16 February 1971, he resigned.

Archbishop Lemieux was a participant in all sessions of the Second Vatican Council and was consultant to the "Preparatory Commission for the bishops and dioceses."

External links
 catholic-hierarchy.org
 Biography (French)

1902 births
1994 deaths
Apostolic Nuncios to India
Roman Catholic archbishops of Ottawa–Cornwall
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Japan
Chancellors of the University of Ottawa


title: Rok (given name)

text:
Rok is a masculine given name, mainly used in Slovenia, cognate to Italian Rocco and Croatian Roko.

Notable people with the name include:

Rok Baskera (born 1993), Slovenian footballer
Rok Benkovič (born 1986), Slovenian ski jumper
Rok Božič (born 1985), Slovenian footballer
Rok Drakšič (born 1987), Slovenian judoka
Rok Elsner (born 1986), Slovenian footballer
Rok Flander (born 1979), Slovenian snowboarder
Rok Golčar (born 1985), Slovenian handball player
Rok Golob, Slovenian composer
Rok Hanžič (born 1981), Slovenian footballer
Rok Kolander (born 1980), Slovenian rower
Rok Kopitar (born 1959), Slovenian hurdler
Rok Kronaveter (born 1986), Slovenian footballer
Rok Marguč (born 1986), Slovenian snowboarder
Rok Mordej (born 1989), Slovenian futsal player
Rok Pajič (born 1985), Slovenian ice hockey player
Rok Perko (born 1985), Slovenian alpine skier
Rok Petrovič (1966–1993), Slovenian alpine skier
Rok Roj (born 1986), Slovenian footballer
Rok Rozman (born 1988), Slovenian rower
Rok Stipčević (born 1986), Croatian basketball player
Rok Štraus (born 1987), Slovenian footballer
Rok Tičar (born 1989), Slovenian ice hockey player
Rok Urbanc (born 1985), Slovenian ski jumper

Masculine given names
Slovene masculine given names


title: Cyberith Virtualizer

text:
The Virtualizer (or Cyberith Virtualizer) is a series of omnidirectional treadmills for virtual reality applications. The treadmills have integrated sensors for motion detection of the user. The products are being developed, manufactured and sold by the Austrian company Cyberith GmbH.

History
The idea was born in 2012 by Tuncay Cakmak. During his studies at the Technical University of Vienna he started testing and developing the first prototypes. In 2013 he founded Cyberith and formed a team for further development of the device. He demonstrated the device at different exhibitions in Europe and shared the progress with the community through the Cyberith YouTube channel. A kickstarter campaign started on 23. of July 2014 and in the first 24 hours they made more than 50% of their pledged goal of 250 000 $.
The campaign was successfully funded, ending at 361 452 $ from 577 backers, however the delivery of the Kickstarter rewards has been delayed beyond the initial estimate without the company providing an updated estimated delivery date.
After the initial crowdfunding on Kickstarter, the company started focusing on commercial use of the Virtualizer products and launched the first generation Virtualizer VR Treadmill in 2016 exclusively to commercial customers.
According to unconfirmed rumors, the company has been sued by one of its Kickstarter backers. These rumors suggest that the claim of the backer has been rejected by the court.
The second generation Virtualizer was launched for business customers in March 2019 with an implemented motion platform.

Functional principle
The Virtualizer enables motion by the principle of low friction. The body is fixed in a rotatable ring that can be moved vertically. In combination with a head-mounted display it allows to move, run, jump or crouch in virtual worlds. The products don't require to wear any special kind of shoes. Instead, textile overshoes are used, that are worn above regular shoes.
The second generation Virtualizer uses a 2 DOF (Degrees of Freedom) motion platform to actively support the walking movement of a user. For walking forwards, the platform inclines in front of the user, so that the feet glide back more easily due to the support of gravity. When a user rotates or starts to walk backwards, the inclination of the platform follows these movements to continuously support gliding of the feet through gravity. The company claims this motorized system would improve the gait and make walking easier.

See also
 Haptic suit
 Virtuix Omni
 Wizdish ROVR

External links

References

Kickstarter-funded products
Multimodal interaction
Game controllers
Virtual reality accessories


title: Guowen Bao

text:
The Guowen Bao () was a late 1800s newspaper based in Tianjin. The editors were Yan Fu (a.k.a. Yen Fu) and Xia Zengyou. It had backing from the Government of Japan and was owned by a Japanese individual. In the late 1800s the newspaper promoted the idea of China and Japan cooperating against white European countries.

The front page of the November 10, 1897 issue is used as the front cover of the book The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century. In that issue, editors Yan Fu and Xia Zhengyou posted an announcement that the newspaper's literary supplement was beginning.

References

Mass media in Tianjin
Defunct newspapers published in China


title: Yelena Medvedeva

text:
Yelena Medvedeva (, born 21 November 1965) is a retired Soviet rowing coxswain who won a silver medal in the eights at the 1991 World Championships. Next year her team finished fourth in this event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

References

1965 births
Living people
Olympic rowers for the Unified Team
Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Soviet female rowers
Coxswains (rowing)
World Rowing Championships medalists for the Soviet Union


title: Lü Liping

text:
Lǚ Lìpíng (; born 3 April 1960) is a Chinese actress.

Her career accolades include one Golden Rooster Award, Flying Apsaras Award, Golden Horse Award, and Golden Phoenix Award, as well as two Hundred Flowers Awards, Golden Eagle Awards and Chinese Film Media Awards. She has also won the 6th Tokyo International Film Festival – Best Actress, 1st Singapore International Film Festival – Best Actress, and 13th Shanghai International Film Festival – Best Actress.

Biography
Lü was born in Beijing on April 3, 1960. After graduating from Central Academy of Drama in 1984, she was assigned to Shanghai Film Studio as an actress.

Personal life
She has married three times. She married her first husband, actor Zhang Fengyi, in 1988, with whom she had a son, Zhang Boyu (). The couple divorced in 1991.

She married for the second time on January 16, 1999, in Los Angeles, to Tao Wei, a Chinese footballer. They divorced in 2001.

She married actor Sun Haiying in 2002 in Shenyang, Liaoning.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards

References

External links

1960 births
Central Academy of Drama alumni
Chinese television actresses
Chinese film actresses
Living people
Actresses from Beijing