title: Glorium

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Glorium was a prolific art punk band that formed in San Antonio, Texas, in 1991. After moving to Austin, Texas, in 1992, they released several 7-inch records and albums, many on local Austin independent record labels. Their music is a blend of post-punk, emo, art rock, classic rock, garage rock, progressive rock and noise rock with a strong DIY ethic.

They toured the United States throughout the 90's, sharing the stage with diverse acts as Fugazi, At the Drive-In, Lungfish, Slant 6, Jawbreaker, Hoover, Six-Finger Satellite, Spoon, Ruins, Brainiac, Shudder To Think, Seaweed, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, The Grifters, Man or Astroman?, Ed Hall, Trenchmouth, The Meices, playing basements, house shows, and clubs while booking their own shows, culminating in opening for Fugazi on their Southeastern tour in 1996 along with Branch Manager. Tim Kerr (of Big Boys, Poison 13, among many others bands) produced their third single and first full-length album, Cinema Peligrosa in 1994.

Glorium went on a hiatus in 1997 but still reconvene to play the occasional show, most recently playing a benefit for the DJ Jonathan Toubin in December 2011 during the last week of Emo's downtown.

Members

George Lara – Bass guitar
Juan Ramos – Drums
Ernest Salaz – Guitar, background vocals
Lino Max – Guitar, background vocals
Paul Streckfus – vocals

Discography

Albums

Cinema Peligrosa (1994) Undone Records (produced by Tim Kerr)
Eclipse (1997) Golden Hour Records
Past Life Recordings (1997) Existential Vacuum Records
Close Your Eyes (1998) Golden Hour Records
Fantasmas (2004) Golden Hour Records

Singles

Divebomb b/w Chemical Angel (1992) Existential Vacuum Records
Iced The Swelling b/w Fearless (1992) Unclean Records
Hour One & Counting (1993) Unclean Records split 7-inch with El Santo
G93 (1994) Powernap Records split 7-inch with Gut
Black Market Hearts b/w Walkie-Talkie (1997) Golden Hour Records
Psyklops b/w Future News From The Front Line (2001) Tranquility Base

EPs

Phantom Wire Transmissions (1994) Undone Records, Recorded at Sweatbox, Austin TX, Produced by Tim Kerr

Cassettes

Demolition EP (1992) self-released
Dream of the Insect Queen (1995) Bobby J
Sound Recordings from the Front Room (1995) Golden Hour Records
Dead Air Station Wagon (1995) Golden Hour Records
Club Chit Chat (1997) Golden Hour Records

Compilation albums
Live at Emo's CD (1994) Rise Records
Seek Sound Shelter CD (1994) Dot/Zit Records
Austin Live Houses Cassette (1995) Golden Hour Records
Econo*Pep*Rally Cassette(1995) Couchfort Zine
Crispy Chronicles CD (1996) Speed Records
Live On KVRX: Local Live Vol. 1 CD (1997) KVRX UT Austin
Capitol City Signals Cassette (1997) Golden Hour Records
The Eagle Has Landed 2x12" LP (1998) Tranquillity Base (Bryn Mawr, PA)
Secret Grrrl Conspiracy Cassette (2000) Chapter 5

References

Rock music groups from Texas


The International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on distributed, wired, and wireless sensor networks. It is published by Inderscience Publishers. The journal was established in 2006.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology, Scopus, Academic OneFile, and the ACM Digital Library.

References

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Engineering journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 2006
Quarterly journals
Inderscience Publishers academic journals


title: Nick Jr. (Russian TV channel)

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Nick Jr.  () is a children's cable/satellite television channel which launched in November 2011.

History
In November 2011, MTV Networks Europe launched Nick Jr. in Russia and the CIS countries, Before its launch as a full-time channel Nick Jr. had a block on Nickelodeon. The channel broadcast on the pan-European feed of Nick Jr., so no Russian-language text appeared on channel promos, info or bumpers. In April 2023, a Kazakh audio track was added.

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Russia
Russian animation
Defunct television channels in Russia
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in Russia
Television stations in Georgia (country)
Television stations in Belarus
Television stations in Ukraine
Television channels in Moldova
Television stations in Tajikistan
Television stations in Kyrgyzstan
Television stations in Azerbaijan
Television stations in Turkmenistan
Television stations in Kazakhstan
Television stations in Armenia
Russian-language television stations


Synchronised swimming competitions at the 2015 European Games in Baku were held from 12 to 16 June, at the Baku Aquatics Centre.

Synchronised swimming was not included in the earliest list of sports confirmed for the 2015 Games, as the European swimming authorities at that stage were minded not to take part. However, following negotiations with the organising authorities, a compromise was reached whereby, in 2015, these events were for junior swimmers only - in effect, under 18 for women.

Medalists

Medal table

Participating nations
A total of 150 athletes from 21 nations competed in Synchronised swimming at the 2015 European Games.

References

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Sports at the 2015 European Games
European Games
2015
Synchronised swimming in Azerbaijan


title: 2009 Vaahteraliiga season

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The 2009 Vaahteraliiga season was the 30th season of the highest level of American football in Finland. The regular season took place between May 30 and August 15, 2009. The Finnish champion was determined in the playoffs and at the championship game Vaahteramalja XXX the Porvoo Butchers won the Helsinki Roosters.

Standings

Playoffs

References

American football in Finland
Vaahteraliiga
Vaahteraliiga


title: Indix

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Indix was a company based in Seattle, Washington, in the United States that was offering a cloud-based product information platform. It also built a broad and deep product catalog to enable mobile and desktop apps and websites to become product-aware. Indix provided access to APIs that enable developers to build product-aware applications. The big data startup was headquartered in Seattle with a product development office in Chennai and was founded in 2010 by former Microsoft executive Sanjay Parthasarathy.

Background
Indix's CEO and founder is Sanjay Parthasarathy. Parthasarathy left Microsoft in 2009, where he worked for 19 years in an executive capacity, notably starting and running the company's Developer & Platform Evangelism Division from 2000 to 2007. On retiring from Microsoft, he moved his family to India where he intended to launch a software company that would tackle key business problems facing companies in the changing world of commerce. The company raised a successful angel investment round in the spring of 2012 and Parthasarathy subsequently established its headquarters in Seattle.

Other co-founders of Indix include Sridhar Venkatesh, Rajesh Muppalla, Satya Kaliki and Jonah Stephen Jermiah.

Indix was acquired by Avalara, a provider of tax compliance automation software on February 6, 2019.

Services
Indix's services are centered on proprietary algorithms that structure crawled product data and a data-as-a-service business model.

The database offers coverage for most consumer retail product categories. The database also includes many industrial and business-to-business products. Indix provides brands and retailers with access to data such as specifications, facets, availability, assortment, promotions, and real-time pricing information. Indix's infinite product catalog helps all client-facing digital media and environments become more product-aware.

API
The Indix Product API utilizes a representational state transfer (RESTful) interface with 20+ endpoints including brand, store, category, product search, single product details, and product price history. The API is intended to function as a tool for product assortment, price, catalog enrichment, etc. optimization to medium and large sized brands and retailers. It is also meant to help developers build product-aware applications that connect consumers with the right product at the right time.

Funding
In 2013 Indix raised a series A round of funding from Nexus Venture Partners and Avalon Ventures. Last year the company raised $8.5 million in its series A-1 round. Additional angel funding has come from Venky Harinarayan, S. Somasegar, and Anand Rajaraman of @WalmartLabs.

In 2015 Indix raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Nokia Growth Partners and included participation from Nexus Venture Partners and Avalon Ventures.

References

External links

American companies established in 2010
Product intelligence


title: Heléne of the North

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Heléne of the North is a lost 1915 silent film romantic drama directed by J. Searle Dawley and starring Marguerite Clark, Elliott Dexter and Conway Tearle. Adolph Zukor produced.

Cast
Marguerite Clark - Heléne Dearing
Conway Tearle - Ralph Connell, a.k.a. Lord Traverse
Elliott Dexter - Pierre
Robert Rogers - Captain Westforth
Kathryn Adams - Miss Cadwell
Frank Losee - John Dearing
David Wall - Father Duvall
Ida Darling - Mrs. O'Neill
Theodore Guise - Colonel O'Neill
James Kearney - Philip Brookes
Brigham Royce - Wild Buffalo
Eleanor Flowers - Whispering Grass

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1915 films
American silent feature films
Lost American romantic drama films
Films directed by J. Searle Dawley
Paramount Pictures films
1915 romantic drama films
American black-and-white films
1910s American films
Silent American romantic drama films
1915 lost films


title: Blantyre United FC

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Blantyre United Football Club was a Malawian football (soccer) club based in Blantyre founded in 2008 and dissolved in 2018.

History
The club was founded in 2008 as a reserve side for Escom United.

In 2010, after won Southern Regional Football League and promoted to TNM Super League, was renamed Blantyre United.

In the 2012–13 season, the Blantyre-based side finished 3rd, their best ever performance, but in the next season struggled to avoid relegation finishing 12th and relegated at the end of the 2014 season.

After two seasons in the Second Division, Blantyre United returned to Super League of Malawi, winning the Southern Region Football League in 2016 season, but relegated again after ranking 15th at the end of the 2017 season.

In 2018 Blantyre United was disbanded for lack of funds.

Stadium
The team was played at the 50,000 capacity Kamuzu Stadium.

Honours
Southern Region Football League
Winners (3): 2007, 2009–10, 2016
Runners-up (1): 2008

References

External links

Tag archives - Nyasatimes.com

Defunct football clubs in Malawi
Football clubs in Malawi
Works association football clubs in Malawi


title: Malecón, Puerto Vallarta

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The Malecón is a 12-block, mile-long esplanade in Puerto Vallarta's Centro and Zona Romántica, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. The waterfront crosses the Cuale River via Puente Río Cuale. Features include Los Arcos, the Malecón Lighthouse, and a collection of sculptures.

Sculptures
The walkway has featured numerous sculptures, including:

 The Boy on the Seahorse () by Rafael Zamarripa
 Erizados (2006) by Maritza Vazquez
 The Fish Sellers' Mosaic by Manuel Lepe
 Friendship Fountain () by James "Bud" Bottoms and Octavio González
 The Good Fortune Unicorn () by Anibal Riebeling
 In Search of Reason () by Sergio Bustamante
 Millennium by Mathis Lidice
 Nature as Mother by Adrián Reynoso
 Nostalgia () by Ramiz Barquet
 Origin and Destination () by Pedro Tello
 Rain by Jovian
 The Rotunda by the Sea () by Alejandro Colunga
 Statue of Lorena Ochoa (installed in 2012; since relocated to Marina Vallarta Golf Club, as of 2020)
 Statue of Paschal Baylón by Ramiz Barquet
 The Subtle Stone Eater () by Jonás Gutiérrez
 Tritón y Sirena (1990) by Carlos Espino
 Vallarta Dancers by Jim Demetro
 The Washer Woman by Jim Demetro

References

External links

 Visit-Vallarta.com: Malecón boardwalk and sculptures

Centro, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta
Tourist attractions in Jalisco
Waterfronts


title: Darrell Currie

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Darrell Currie (born 1982) is a Scottish television presenter and journalist. He is currently a presenter and touchline reporter for TNT Sports where he covers English and Scottish football. He also is part of the ESPN football coverage team. In addition, Currie also works on the Scottish Cup coverage for Premier Sports.

Early life
Born in Glasgow, Currie grew up in Bearsden, and is the grandson of singer Mary Lee. His brother, Adrian, is an actor. Currie was educated at the High School of Glasgow before attending the University of Manchester, where he gained a degree in business and economics. In his youth, he played rugby, training with the Sale Sharks. Currie got his first break in the media industry as a teenager, working on Radio Clyde as an afternoon runner.

Career

Before joining BT Sport, Currie worked at numerous broadcasting corporations, including BBC Scotland and CNN International.

During his time with ESPN, Currie was the network's SPFL reporter. He also worked as a reporter for ESPN USA's Premier League coverage and contributed to ESPN USA's coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2012, working as a reporter.

He is currently BT Sport's lead SPFL presenter, and is usually joined by guests including Chris Sutton, Stephen Craigan, Ally McCoist, and Kevin Thomson. Currie also presents UEFA Europa League and UEFA Champions League coverage, as well as filling in for Jake Humphrey on BT's Premier League coverage.

Personal life

Currie lives in London, with his wife, son and daughter.

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Living people
1982 births
Scottish television presenters
Journalists from Glasgow
Scottish sports broadcasters
Mass media people from Glasgow
BBC sports presenters and reporters
BT Sport presenters and reporters


title: Poolburn Gorge

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The Poolburn Gorge is a gorge located in the Central Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand, 4 km east of the small settlement of Lauder.  The Ida Burn flows through the 2.5 km long canyon across the Raggedy Range between the Ida Valley and the Manuherikia Valley. There are no public roads through the gorge; only the track of the former Otago Central Railway, now used as the Otago Central Rail Trail, follows the river on the southern flanks of the gorge.

The landscape surrounding Poolburn Gorge is barren and dry, shaped by the typical Central Otago climate of dry hot summers and cold winters. The gorge cuts through schist rock bluffs, with the vegetation on the steep slopes consisting of tussock and hardy low-growing shrubs.  Contrasting this, a ribbon of lush trees lines the immediate river banks at the bottom of the gorge.  The Ida Burn joins the Manuherikia River shortly after it emerges from the Poolburn Gorge into the Manuherikia Valley.

The Pool Burn was known to southern Māori as Te Waipapapa o Karetai - the water container of Karetai, a Ngāi Tahu chief.

Otago Central Railway and Rail Trail
The Poolburn Gorge section of the Otago Central Branch Railway encompasses two bridges and two tunnels, and gently snakes along the true left (south side) of the gorge.  The construction of the railway line through the gorge took over three years, with up to 300 workers employed at the peak of construction around 1902.

At the eastern entrance to the gorge, the  tall Poolburn Viaduct is the highest bridge on the rail line, and is bridge No.69 starting from Dunedin.  Built from 1901 to 1904, the  long viaduct was the last big masonry pier bridge with steel trusses built on the line.  It has the longest center span on the Otago Central Railway at  long.  Schist quarried from outcrops close by was trimmed and bolstered to construct the piers and abutments with the help of large gantry hoists to lift and position the stone slabs.

Shortly into the gorge, two tunnels have been cut through schist rock bluffs. Poolburn No.1 is  long, and the curved Poolburn No.2 is the longest tunnel on the line at  long.  Torches are needed to walk or cycle through these tunnels (typically provided with hired bikes).
Both tunnels feature portals with bolstered schist slab facings, with the arches outlined in brick.  The inside walls of the tunnels are lined with brick about  into the tunnels; afterwards the walls are just the bare rock.

Shortly after exiting the Poolburn Gorge, the track crosses the Manuherikia River on the  long Manuherikia Bridge No.1 (number 70 on the Otago Central Railway line).  This concrete pier bridge is the longest on the line and was completed in 1903.  It is one of only two curved bridges on the rail trail, the other being in Hyde.

In 1990, the railway line was closed from Middlemarch onwards, which includes the Poolburn Gorge section.  The tracks were lifted, and later in 2000, the line was converted to a bike trail, which included re-decking both bridges with timber and re-surfacing the track with fine gravel.

The Poolburn Gorge section of the Otago Central Railway is the most popular section of this multi-day bike track.  The gorge can be traversed by bike as a day trip from Oturehua to Omakau, or in 1–2 hours from Auripo to Omakau, or as a 3-4 hour return bike trip from Omakau.  Local operators in Omakau and Oturehua provide bike hire and transport, with both villages offering accommodation options as well.

The bike track gently descends through the scenic Poolburn Gorge from east to west and takes in the Poolburn Viaduct, the two tunnels cut through schist rock, and the bridge over the Manuherikia River.  Just after the second tunnel, two short walking tracks can be explored - one to the bluff above the tunnel portal, the other to the remnants of a construction worker village.  After the rail trail exits the gorge, it offers good views over the Manuherikia Valley and towards the Hawkdun Range.

References

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Canyons and gorges of Otago


title: Luigi Di Maio

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Luigi Di Maio (; born 6 July 1986) is an Italian  politician who has been serving as EU Special Representative for the Gulf region since 1 June 2023. Di Maio also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2022, as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Social Policies from 2018 to 2019, and as Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies in the 17th Italian legislature.

From September 2017 to January 2020, Di Maio was the leader of the Five Star Movement, an anti-establishment party founded by Beppe Grillo. He resigned from this position to quell discontent and stem the flow of party desertions and expulsions after he led the party into coalition with the centre-left Democratic Party. In June 2022, Di Maio left the M5S due to tensions with Giuseppe Conte over providing support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion, founding his own political group, Together for the Future (IpF). IpF had a brief life, being disbanded following a poor performance in the 2022 Italian general election (in which it ran within the Civic Commitment electoral list alongside Democratic Centre).

Early life
Luigi Di Maio was born in Avellino, in 1986; he was the eldest of three brothers. His father Antonio was a small real estate entrepreneur and local councilor for the Italian Social Movement (MSI), while his mother was a teacher of Italian and Latin.

Di Maio attended the Liceo classico  and then he enrolled at the University of Naples Federico II to study engineering, but after failing, subsequently changing to law. Di Maio is a dropout and never graduated from university.

In 2007, he was registered as an apprentice journalist, later attempting to work as a webmaster. He would then become a concessions vendor selling water at the Stadio San Paolo in Naples.

Political career
In 2007, Di Maio was among the founders of the political group "Friends of Beppe Grillo", the predecessors of the Five Star Movement (M5S), founded by the popular comedian in October 2009.

In 2010, he ran in the Council elections of Pomigliano, in which the Five Star Movement obtained 548 votes and Di Maio 59, ranking first among the candidates of his party, but not enough to be elected.

2013 general election
In the 2013 election, he was nominated as candidate for the M5S with 189 online votes and elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament at 26 years old. On 21 March 2013, he became the youngest Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies.

On 12 July 2017, Di Maio was formally investigated for defamation following a complaint filed by Marika Cassimatis, former M5S mayoral candidate in Genoa, while, on 28 July 2017, the journalist Elena Polidori filed a complaint against him also for defamation. Di Maio invoked his parliamentary immunity; he had previously criticized that privilege and pledged never to avail himself of it.

In 2017, Beppe Grillo announced that he would campaign in the 2018 election, but he would not be the candidate for the position of Prime Minister. Di Maio was considered as the front runner and the most likely candidate for the premiership of Italy.

Di Maio had been often labeled as the most pragmatic and "institutional", but also the least populist Five Star politician; he is considered the leader of the moderate and "governmental" faction of the movement. No other leading members of the M5S, such as Alessandro Di Battista, a politician and personal friend of Di Maio, or Roberto Fico, leader of the M5S left-wing faction and rival of Di Maio and Di Battista, would run for the office.

Di Maio's opponents were the Senator Elena Fattori (Vice President of the 9th Permanent Senate Committee) and six other city councilors. Many of them were almost unknown and this led to a lot of criticism from the Democratic Party, Lega Nord and Forza Italia, which considered this ballot a false primary election, with the only aim of appointing Di Maio as M5S candidate without any real challenger.

2018 general election

In September 2017 Di Maio was elected Prime Ministerial candidate and Political Head of the M5S, with more than 82% of the vote.

Before the 2018 general election, Di Maio announced a referendum to quit the Euro and stated his position to leave. He proposed to dismantle the NATO alliance and criticised the United States commitment against Russia.

In the 2018 general election, the M5S became the party with the largest number of votes and of parliamentary seats, while the centre-right alliance, in which Matteo Salvini's League emerged as the main political force, won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate and the centre-left coalition, led by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, came third. However, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament.

On 7 April, Di Maio made an appeal to the PD to "bury the hatchet" and consider a governing coalition with his party.

On 7 May, President Mattarella held a third round of government formation talks, after which he formally confirmed the lack of any possible majority (M5S rejecting an alliance with the whole centre-right coalition, PD rejecting an alliance with both M5S and the centre-right coalition, and the League's Matteo Salvini refusing to start a government with M5S but without Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, whose presence in the government was explicitly vetoed by M5S's leader Luigi Di Maio); on the same circumstance, he announced his intention to soon appoint a "neutral government" (irrespective of M5S and League's refusal to support such an option) to take over from the Gentiloni Cabinet which was considered unable to lead Italy into a second consecutive election as it was representing a majority from a past legislature, and offering an early election in July (on what it would be the very first time for a summer general election in Italy) as a realistic option to take into consideration due to the deadlock situation. The Lega and M5S agreed to hold new elections on 8 July, an option that was however rejected by all other parties.

On 9 May, after a day of rumours surfaced, both Di Maio and Salvini officially requested President Mattarella to give them 24 more hours to strike a government agreement between the two parties. Later the same day, in the evening, Silvio Berlusconi publicly announced Forza Italia would not support a M5S-League government on a vote of confidence, but he would still maintain the centre-right alliance nonetheless, thus opening the doors to a possible majority government between the two parties.

On 13 May, 5 Star Movement and League reached an agreement in principle on a government program, likely clearing the way for the formation of a governing coalition between the two parties, but could not find an agreement regarding the members of a government cabinet, most importantly the prime minister. M5S and League leaders met with Italian President Sergio Mattarella on 14 May to guide the formation of a new government. On their meeting with President Mattarella, both parties asked for an additional week of negotiations to agree on a detailed government program and a prime minister to lead the joint government. Both M5S and the League announced their intention to ask their respective members to vote on the government agreement by the weekend.

On 21 May 2018, Di Maio and Salvini proposed the private law professor Giuseppe Conte for the role of Prime Minister in the 2018 Italian government, despite reports in the Italian press suggesting that President Mattarella still had significant reservations about the direction of the new government. On 23 May 2018, Conte was invited to the Quirinal Palace to receive the presidential mandate to form a new cabinet. In the traditional statement after the appointment, Conte said that he would be the “defense lawyer of Italian people”.

However, Conte renounced to his office on 27 May due to contrasts between Salvini and President Mattarella. In fact, Salvini proposed the university professor Paolo Savona as Minister of Economy and Finances, but Mattarella strongly opposed him, considering Savona too Eurosceptic and anti-German. In his speech after Conte's resignation, Mattarella declared that the two parties wanted to bring Italy out of the Eurozone, and as the guarantor of Italian Constitution and country's interest and stability he could not allow this.

On the following day, Mattarella gave Carlo Cottarelli, a former director of the International Monetary Fund, the task of forming a new government. On 28 May 2018, the Democratic Party (PD) announced that it would abstain from voting the confidence to Cottarelli, while the Five Star Movement and the center-right parties Forza Italia (FI), Brothers of Italy (FdI) and the League announced their vote against.

Cottarelli was expected to submit his list of ministers for approval to President Mattarella on 29 May. However, on 29 May and 30 May he held only informal consultations with the President, waiting for the formation of a “political government”. Meanwhile, Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio announced their willingness to restart the negotiations to form a political government, Giorgia Meloni, leader of FdI, gave her support to the initiative. On 31 May, M5S and the League reached an agreement to form a new government, without Paolo Savona as finance minister (he  became minister of European affairs instead), and with Conte at its head.

Deputy Prime Minister (2018–2019)

Di Maio was sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Social Policies in the first Conte government on 1 June 2018.

As minister, he implemented the so-called "citizens' income" (), a system of social welfare provision that provides a basic income and assistance in finding a job to poor people and families, which was one of the main proposal of the M5S 2018 campaign. The income was set to a maximum of €780 per month, and in its first year the program had almost 2.7 million applications.

In May 2019, Di Maio's party suffered a huge defeat, changing from 32,68% (March 2018) till 17,06%, the biggest change in history in 14 months.

In August 2019, Di Maio's co-serving Deputy Prime Minister, Salvini, announced a motion of no confidence against Conte, after growing tensions within the majority and after Salvini was trying to lead the government after massively winning the elections of May 2019. Salvini's move came right after a vote in the Senate regarding the progress of the Turin–Lyon high-speed railway, in which the Lega voted against an attempt of the M5S to block the construction works. Many political analysts believe the no confidence motion was an attempt to force early elections to improve Lega's standing in Parliament, ensuring Salvini could become the next Prime Minister. On 20 August, following the parliamentary debate in which Conte harshly accused Salvini of being a political opportunist who "had triggered the political crisis only to serve his personal interest", the Prime Minister resigned his post to President Sergio Mattarella.

Minister of Foreign Affairs (2019–2022)

After Conte's resignation, the national board of the PD officially opened to the possibility of forming a new cabinet in a coalition with the M5S, based on pro-Europeanism, green economy, sustainable development, fight against economic inequality and a new immigration policy. Di Maio was initially contrary and rumors grew about the possibility of forming a second cabinet between M5S and Lega, with Di Maio himself as PM. However, the PD later accepted the M5S offer to keep Conte as head of the new government, and on 29 August President Mattarella formally invested Conte to do so.

On 1 September, Five Star's founder Beppe Grillo strongly endorsed an alliance with the PD, describing it as a "unique occasion" to reform the country. After two days, on 3 September, the members of the Five Star Movement voted in favor of an agreement with the Democrats, under the premiership of Giuseppe Conte, with more than 79% of favorable votes out of nearly 80,000 voters. On 5 September, Di Maio was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the new government.

On 22 January 2020, four days before crucial elections in a few regions, Di Maio resigned as leader of the M5S, due to the increasing criticism for his choices as leader.

In early 2020, Di Maio supported the government-imposed nationwide lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In November 2018, Silvia Romano, a 23-year-old Italian aid worker, was kidnapped in Kenya by a group of terrorists linked to Al-Shabaab. On 9 May 2020, Conte announced her liberation in a tweet. Immediately after the announcement, speculations rose about the ransom paid to the kidnappers, which according to some sources stood at around €4 million. Moreover, Romano became the target of a hate campaign by the right-wing opposition due to her conversion to Islam, occurred during the captivity. During a discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, Alessandro Pagano, a member of the League, called her a "neo-terrorist".

On 1 September 2020, two Italian fishing boats were detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, along with their crews of eighteen members total, while allegedly fishing in Libya's territorial waters in the Southern Mediterranean. Prime Minister Conte and Minister Di Maio asked for the immediately release, but the Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar denied it, demanding a prisoner exchange. On 17 December 2020, Conte announced that the eighteen fishermen were freed.

In December 2020, Di Maio announced the incoming transfer to Italy of Enrico "Chico" Forti, an Italian murderer who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Dale Pike, son of Ibiza Pikes Hotel owner Tony Pike. On 23 December, Di Maio stated: "This is an extremely important result, which rewards a long and patient political and diplomatic work. We have never forgotten Chico Forti, who will finally be able to return to his home country, close to his loved ones.". However Forti was never transferred to Italy as the deal was found to be poorly done and not applicable to Italian law.

In February 2021, Giuseppe Conte resigned as Prime Minister, following Italia Viva's withdrawal from the government. The former President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, was invited by Italian President Sergio Mattarella to form a government of national unity. On 13 February, Di Maio was confirmed as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In July 2021, Italy–United Arab Emirates relations hit their lowest point, when Italy became the only country in the world to impose sanctions on the United Arab Emirates. The UAE expelled Italian soldiers from the key military base of Al Minhad.

Amid the Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Di Maio went to Kyiv on 15 February 2022 to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba, while on 17 February, Di Maio had a bilateral meeting with the Russian foreign affairs minister Sergey Lavrov. In Moscow, Di Maio stated that "Italy has always been committed to the front row for a diplomatic solution. [...] Russia and Ukraine can count on Italy to reach a diplomatic solution". On 24 February, Vladimir Putin announced a full-scale invasion of Ukraine; Di Maio harshly condemned Russia's attack, asking for the implementation of heavy international sanctions on Russia.

In 2022, tensions grew within the M5S between Conte and Di Maio; the two main representatives of the movement clashed many times regarding the policies promoted by the government as well as in the run-up of the 2022 presidential election, during which Conte briefly supported, along with Salvini, the candidacy of Elisabetta Belloni, opposed by Di Maio. In June 2022, Conte became particularly critic toward the government's approach to the war in Ukraine and the deployment of military aids to Kyiv's government, on the other hand, Di Maio strongly defended it. Di Maio also labeled the new party's leadership as "immature", while Conte and his closer allies threatened to expel Di Maio from the movement. On 21 June, Di Maio, along with several deputies and senators, left the M5S, founding their own political group, known as Together for the Future (IpF). During a press conference, Di Maio stated: "We had to choose which side of the history to stand. The leaders of the Five Star Movement risked to weaken Italy, putting the government in difficulty for reasons related to their own consensus crisis. I thank the movement for what it has done for me, but from today a new path begins." As a result, Di Maio was strongly criticized both from many members of the M5S and from the M5S' founder himself, Grillo, being accused of betraying founding precepts of the M5S he himself had strongly advocated for in the past.

2022 general election
On 1 August 2022, following the resignation of prime minister Draghi and the call for snap election to be held in September, Di Maio and Bruno Tabacci, leader of Democratic Centre (CD), founded Civic Commitment (IC), a centrist electoral alliance. In spite of the affiliation with the Democratic Party, in the election he lost his seat in Parliament, and after his departure from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he resigned from Civic Commitment leadership, bringing de facto an end to this electoral list.

After the government

Following the electoral defeat, Di Maio retired from politics. On 15 May 2023, he was elected Special Representative of the European Union for the Persian Gulf. His candidacy, despite being initially opposed by the new Italian government of Giorgia Meloni, was widely approved by the High Representative Josep Borrell and the European Council. Di Maio officially will hold the position from 1 June 2023, with the aim of developing a stronger, comprehensive and more strategic partnership with the countries in the Gulf.

Electoral history

First-past-the-post elections

References

External links

1986 births
21st-century Italian politicians
Conte I Cabinet
Conte II Cabinet
Draghi Cabinet
Deputies of Legislature XVII of Italy
Deputies of Legislature XVIII of Italy
Deputy Prime Ministers of Italy
Five Star Movement politicians
Foreign ministers of Italy
Government ministers of Italy
Living people
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy)
People from Avellino
Together for the Future politicians
University of Naples Federico II alumni
Vice presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy)


title: Blue Eagles FC

text:
Blue Eagles Football Club is a Malawian football (soccer) club based in Lilongwe that currently plays in the TNM Super League, the top division of Malawian football.

History
Blue Eagles FC was founded in 1988 and is sponsored by the Malawi Police Service as tool to bring interaction between the community they serve and them.

The Cops clinched their first trophy, Chibuku Cup, in 1995, defeated Bata Bullets with 2–0 at the Civo Stadium.

Blue Eagles finished 8th in the top flight in the 2011–12 season and won the 2011 Standard Bank Cup after 2–1 victory over Moyale Barracks at the Silver Stadium in Lilongwe.

The 2019 season saw "The Cops" finished 3rd in the Super League, won the FISD Challenge Cup and qualified for the 2020–21 CAF Confederation Cup, but declined to participate in the competition.

On 21 December 2020, Blue Eagles has announced the appointment of Gerald Phiri as Head Coach, replaced Deklerk Msakakuona who took over as the coach for the Under 17 Malawi National Football Team.

In November 2021, following a poor season in which they survived relegation in the final match, Blue Eagles replaced Gerald Phiri with Christopher Sibale.

Stadium
Currently the team plays at the 5000 capacity Nankhaka Stadium which is situated in Area 30 at National Police Headquarters in Lilongwe.

Honours
Super League of Malawi:
 Runners-up (1): 2022

Malawi FAM Cup
 Winners (2): 2011, 2019

Airtel Top 8 Cup
 Winners (1): 2018

Bingu Ikhome Cup
 Winners (1): 2019

Malawi Carlsberg Cup
 Winners (1): 2012

Tutulane Charity Cup
 Runners-up (1): 2007

Chibuku Cup
 Winners (1): 1995

Players

Current squad

References

External links
Club profile - Soccerway.com
Tag archives - Nyasatimes.com
Football clubs in Malawi
Police association football clubs in Malawi


title: Dejan Šorak

text:
Dejan Šorak (born 29 March 1954 in Karlovac) is a Croatian film director and screenwriter.

Filmography
Mala pljačka vlaka (1984)
Officer with a Rose (1987)
Najbolji (1989)
Krvopijci (1989)
The Time of Warriors (1991)
Garcia (1999)
Two Players from the Bench (2005)
U zemlji čudesa (2009)

Sources
 Dejan Šorak at hrfilm.hr

External links

1954 births
Croatian film directors
Croatian screenwriters
People from Karlovac
Living people
Golden Arena winners


title: 1905 Birthday Honours

text:
The 1905 Birthday Honours for the British Empire were announced on 30 June, to celebrate the birthday of Edward VII on 9 November.

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

Personal Aide de Camp
Lieutenant His Royal Highness Prince Arthur F. P. A. of Connaught, K.G., G.C.V.O., 7th. (Queen's Own) Hussars.

Aide de Camp
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Baptist Johnston Barton, commanding the 5th Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel William Cooke-Collis, C.M.G., commanding the 9th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel George O'Callaghan-Westropp, commanding the Clare Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia).

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Military Division
His Imperial Highness the Prince Arisugawa of Japan, G.C.B. (Civil) (Honorary)
General Sir Edward Gascoigne Bulwer, K.C.B.
General Sir James Macleod Bannatyne Fraser-Tytler, K.C.B., Indian Army.
General Sir John Luther Vaughan, K.C.B., Indian Army.
Lieutenant-General and Honorary General the Honourable Sir David Macdowall Fraser, K.C.B., Royal Artillery.
General Sir Richard Thomas Farren, K.C.B.
General Lord Alexander George Russell, K.C.B.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Military Division
Vice-Admiral Day Hort Bosanquet.
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Carter Drury, K.C.S.I.
Vice-Admiral Harry Tremenheere Grenfell, C.M.G.
Vice-Admiral George Lambart Atkinson-Willes.
Rear-Admiral the Honourable Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe, C.V.O., C.B., C.M.G.
Lieutenant-General and Honorary General Sir Edward Stanton, K.C.M.G., C.B., Royal Engineers.
General the Honourable Robert Rollo, C.B.
Lieutenant-General and Honorary General Horace William Montagu, C.B., Royal Engineers.
Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General George Bryan Milman, C.B.
Surgeon-General Charles McDonogh Cuffe, C.B.
Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General George Samuel Young, C.B.
Lieutenant-General Alexander George Ross, C.B., Indian Army.
Lieutenant-General Charles Richard Pennington, C.B., Indian Army.
General Sir Henry Perceval de Bathe, Bart.

Civil Division
Philip Watts, Esq., F.R.S., Director of Naval Construction.
Sir Guy Douglas Arthur Fleetwood Wilson, C.B., Assistant Under Secretary of State and Director of Army Finance.
Sir Clement Lloyd Hill, K.C.M.G., C.B.
Reginald MacLeod, Esq., C.B.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Military Division

Centenary of the Crimean War

Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General John Wimburn Laurie, C.B. (Civil).
Lieutenant-General Thomas Henry Pakenham.
Lieutenant-General and Honorary General Henry Ralph Browne.
Lieutenant-General Gaspard le Marchant Tupper, Royal Artillery.
Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General the Honourable Somerset John Gough Calthorpe.
Major-General George Tito Brice.
Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General the Honourable Bernard Mathew Ward.
Honorary Major-General George Harrington Hawes, retired pay.
Honorary Major-General Henry Butler, retired pay.
Honorary Major-General Sir Edward William Blackett, Bart., retired pay.

Other

Major-General John Stratford Collins, Inspector-General of Volunteers, India.
Surgeon-General William Launcelotte Gubbins, M.V.O., Principal Medical Officer, Western Command, India.
Major-General Ernest De Brath, C.I.E. Indian Army, Secretary, Military Department, Government of India.
Colonel Richard Kirby Ridgeway, V.C., Indian Army.
Colonel Albert Edward Ommanney, commanding (Welsh Border) Regimental District.
Colonel Ernest Elliott Markwick, late Army Ordnance Department.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edward Bruce, Indian Army.
Colonel George Barker, Inspector of Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab, C.I.E., half-pay, Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John Willoughby Astley Mai shall, half-pay.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Harry Heptinstall Rose Heath, Indian Army.
Colonel Edward Reginald Courtenay, Colonel, General Staff, Welsh and Midland Command.
Colonel George Fitzherbert Browne, D.S.O.
Colonel Henry Spencer Wheatley, Indian Army Brigade Commander, India.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Thomas Charles Pleydell Calley, M.V.O., 1st Life Guards.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Pulteney Pulteney, D.S.O., Scots Guards.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Richard Lloyd Payne, D.S.O., half-pay.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edward Cecil Bethune, half-pay.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel George William Deane, Indian Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John William Hogge, C.I.E., Indian Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Oswald Claude Radford, C.I.E., Indian Army.
Colonel Frederick Spencer Robb, M.Y.O., half-pay.
Colonel Henry Alfred Walsh, Chief Recruiting Staff Officer, London Recruiting District.
Colonel Herbert Mullaly (late Royal Engineers), Deputy Quarter-Master-General in India.
Colonel William Robert Robertson, D.S.O., Assistant Director of Military Operations, Headquarters.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Duncan Campbell Carter, Royal Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Granville George Algernon Egerton, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment).
Colonel Fred Smith, C.M.G., Army Veterinary Department, Principal Veterinary Officer, South Africa.
Lieutenant-Colonel Neil Douglas Findlay, Royal Artillery.

Civil Division

Honorary Commander Charles Edward Hely Chadwyck Healey, Royal Naval Reserve, K.C.
Colonel James Stevenson, A.D.C., 9th Lanarkshire Volunteer Rifle Corps.
Colonel the Most Honourable Charles Stewart, Marquis of Londonderry, K.G., G.C.V.O., A.D.C., 2nd Durham (Seaham) Eoyal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers).
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel James Digby Legard, The Yorkshire (Duke of York's Own) Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia).
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel the Right Honourable Robert George, Lord Windsor, Worcestershire Imperial Yeomanry.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Frederic Natusch Maude, Hampshire Royal Engineers (Volunteers).
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel William Coates, Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers), (Manchester Companies), Northern Command.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Richard Pilkington, 2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment).
Henry Babington Smith, Esq., C.S.I.
Lawrence Nunns Guillemard, Esq.
William Russell, Esq.
Colonel David Bruce, F.R.S.
Hugh James O'Beirne, Esq.
Gerald Henry Fitzmaurice, Esq., C.M.G.
The Honourable William Napier Bruce.
The Honourable Thomas Henry William Pelham.
Hugh Lloyd Roberts, Esq.
Major Edward Gilbert Clayton.
The Reverend Edmond Warre, M.V.O., D.D.

Order of Merit
Field-Marshal Sir George Stewart White, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., V.C.
Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher, G.C.B.
Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, M.P.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R. A.
George Meredith, Esq.
William Holman-Hunt, Esq.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
Admiral Baron Hermann von Spaun, and Vice-Admiral Francois Ernest Founder, in recognition of their services on the International Commission of Inquiry into the North Sea Incident.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
The Right Honourable Lord Plunket, K.C.V.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New Zealand.
Everard Ferdinand im Thurn, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Fiji and His Majesty's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.
William Thomas Taylor, Esq., C.M.G., Resident-General for the Federated Malay States .
John James Graham, Esq., C.M.G., Secretary to the Law Department of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Rear-Admiral His Serene Highness Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., A.D.C.
Colonel Charles Moore Watson, late R.E., C.B., C.M.G., for services in connection with the St. Louis Exhibition.
Malcolm Mcllwraith, Esq., C.M.G., Judicial Adviser to His Highness the Khedive of Egypt.
Apolo, Katikiro (Prime Minister) of Uganda. (Honorary)
Monsieur Andre Eugene Henri Soulange Bodin, Minister in the French Diplomatic Service, for services in connection with the International Commission of Inquiry into the North Sea Incident. (Honorary)

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Edward John Cameron, Esq., Administrator of the Island of Saint Vincent.
Herbert Cecil Slolev, Esq., Resident Commissioner, Basutoland.
George Vandeleur Fiddes, Esq., C.B., of the Colonial Office.
George William Johnson, Esq., M.A., of the Colonial Office.
Alan O'Brien George William Pendleton, Esq., Commissioner of Railways of the State of South Australia.
Widenham Francis Widenham Fosbery, Esq., Senior Divisional Commissioner, Protectorate of Southern Nigeria.
William Thomas Prout, Esq., M.B., Principal Medical Officer, Colony of Sierra Leone.
John Eaglesome, Esq., Director of Public Works of the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria.
James Wilson Robertson, Esq., LL.D., late Commissioner of Agriculture and Dairying of the Dominion of Canada.
Henry Birchenough, Esq., for services as Special Commissioner to inquire into and report upon the position and future prospects of British Trade in South Africa.
Captain John Percy Chirnside, of Werribee, in the State of Victoria.
George Earle Welby, Esq., His Majesty's Minister Resident and Consul-General at Bogota.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab, R.E., C.I.E., for services in connection with the delimitation of the Aden frontier.
Herbert Edward White, Esq., M. A., His Majesty's Consul at Tangier.
Willoughby Maycock, Esq., Superintendent of the Treaty Department of the Foreign Office.
Major Arthur Lyndon Lynden-Bell, Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General. Department of the Chief of the General Staff of the Army.
George Douglas Smith, Esq., Treasurer of the Uganda Protectorate.
Roger Casement, Esq., late His Majesty's Consul in the Congo Free State.
Eustace Corbet, Esq., Procureur-General to His Highness the Khedive of Egypt.
Monsieur Louis Georges Robert Chodron de Courcel;
Monsieur Francois Augustin Hubert Avril de Gregueil; and
Monsieur Richard William Martin; for services in connection with the International Commission of Inquiry into the North Sea Incident. (Honorary)
Cavaliere G. Pestalozza, of the Italian Consular Service. (Honorary)

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
Reginald Baliol, Viscount Esher, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., Deputy Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle.
Lieutenant-General Sir John Denton Pinkston French, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., commanding the Aldershot Army Corps.

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)
Sir Jacob Wilson, Honorary Director of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
Colonel the Honourable John Townshend St. Aubyn, commanding Grenadier Guards,
Colonel Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson, Bart., C.B., Commandant of the Staff College.
Colonel Inigo Richmund Jones, C.B., commanding Scots Guards.
Colonel Alfred Edward Codrington, C.B., commanding Coldstream Guards.
Edward Richard Henry, Esq., C.S.I., Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
Colonel Gerald Charles Kitson, C.M.G., Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Imperial Service Order
Thomas Joshua Alldridge, Esq., late District Commissioner of the Sherbio' District of the Colony of Sierra Leone.
William Henry Bailey, Esq., Colonial Postmaster of the Island of Barbados.
Thomas Robert Baillie-Gage, Esq., Solicitor to General Post Office, Dublin.
Joseph Barling, Esq., a Commissioner oi the Public Service Board of the State of New South Wales.
Claude Churchill Birch, Esq., Principal Clerk, Admiralty.
Herbert Arthur Brook, Esq., Member of the Legislative Council and Registrar of records of the Bahama Islands.
Hezekiah Africanus Caulcrick, Esq., Chief Clerk, Department of the Treasury of the Colony of Lagos.
Leonard Creasy, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., Provincial Engineer of the Island of Ceylon.
William James Downer, Esq., Principal Clerk, Office of Works.
Laurence Fortescue, Esq., Chief Clerk, Office of the Comptroller, North West Mounted Police, Dominion of Canada.
William Gray, Esq., Secretary, Post Office and Telegraph Department, Colony of New Zealand.
Gerard Grenier, Esq., Registrar of the Supreme Court of the Island of Ceylon.
James Barnes Heywood, Esq., Secretary to the Treasury, Receiver-General and Paymaster-General of the Colony of New Zealand.
Walter Tatham Hughes, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Chelsea Hospital.
M. S. Jackson, Esq., Senior Assistant Secretary for Stamps and Taxes, Inland Revenue.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Leonard Jarvis, Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Dominion of Canada.
David Martin, Esq., Secretary, Public Works, Department of the State of Victoria.
Joseph Samuel Martin, Esq., Inspector of Mines, Home Office.
Peter Joseph McDermott, Esq., Under Secretary, Chief Secretary's Department, State of Queensland.
Joseph Lazarus Minnow, Esq., Third Class Supervisor of Customs of the Gold Coast Colony.
Robert William Span Mitchell, Esq., C.M.G., Government Emigration Agent in Calcutta for the Colony of British Guiana.
Arthur Newbery, Esq., Clerk of the Executive Council of the Province of Prince Edward Island.
John William Owsley, Esq., Official Trustee of Charitable Funds, Charity Commission.
Sir Walter Peace, K.C.M.G., late Agent-General in London for the Colony of Natal.
Arthur Charles Pedley, Esq., Acting Principal, War Office.
J. Scott, Esq., Consul-General, Canton.
Patrick Persse Seely, Esq., Manager of Pay Office, Edinburgh.
Arathoon Seth, Esq., Registrar of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hong Kong.
Bernard Shaw, Esq., Police Magistrate and Commissioner of Requests, Hobart, State of Tasmania.
William Strawbridge, Esq., Surveyor-General of the State of South Australia.
G. E. Stronge, Esq., M.A., Senior Inspector of National Schools, Ireland.
Henry Le Sueur, Esq., Collector of Customs and Registrar of Shipping, Capetown, Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Napoleone Tagliaferro, Esq., late Director of Education of the Island of Malta.
William Henry Tiniperley, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Bunbury, in the State of Western Australia.
John Spencer Brydges Todd, Esq., C.M.G., late Secretary and Accountant to the Agent-General in London for the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Francis Spencer Wigley, Esq., Magistrate and Coroner (District C) of the Island of Saint Christopher.
Miss Julia Mary Woodd, Principal Lady Clerk, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.

References

Birthday Honours
1905 in the United Kingdom
1905 awards
Edward VII


title: Brent Cobb

text:
Brent Cobb (born August 1, 1986) is an American country music singer-songwriter and artist. Cobb has released six studio albums and one EP. His most recent album, Southern Star, was released on September 22, 2023. Providence Canyon was his second major-label LP with Low Country Sound, an imprint of Elektra. His previous album Shine On Rainy Day peaked at number 17 on Billboards Top Country Albums chart. Cobb also received a 2018 Grammy Award nomination for this album. Cobb has written songs for a variety of country artists, including Luke Bryan, Kellie Pickler, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, The Oak Ridge Boys as well as many others.

Early life

Cobb was born in Americus, Georgia but raised in the nearby town of Ellaville. His father, Patrick Cobb, was an appliance repairman who was also in a rock band. Brent made his vocal debut at age 7 when he sang Tim McGraw's "Don't Take the Girl" with his father's band in a Richland, Georgia festival performance.

As a teenager, Cobb fronted a local band called Mile Marker 5 which had some regional success and opened for larger stars. At age 16, Cobb met his cousin, Dave Cobb, at a family funeral. Dave was a producer based in Los Angeles, and Brent gave him a demo CD. Dave, along with Shooter Jennings, would later fly Brent to Los Angeles to record his debut album, No Place Left to Leave.

Career

Cobb recorded his debut album, No Place Left to Leave, in 2006 with his cousin while in Los Angeles. However, after some time in this period, he decided to return to Georgia.

Country star and acquaintance Luke Bryan suggested Cobb move to Nashville which, in turn, he eventually did in 2008. Initially, Cobb worked as a photo developer at Walgreens but eventually managed to negotiate a songwriting contract with Carnival Music Publishing within the year.

After obtaining his songwriting contract, Cobb then went on to write a variety of songs for many prominent stars, such as Luke Bryan's "Tailgate Blues", David Nail and Frankie Ballard's "Grandpa's Farm", Kellie Pickler's "Rockaway", Kenny Chesney's "Don't It", Miranda Lambert's "Old Sh!t", as well as numerous other performers.

Cobb released a self-titled EP in 2012, and began opening for established stars such as Blake Shelton and Sara Evans, playing around 120 dates per year. In 2016, his song "Down Home" appeared on Dave Cobb's compilation album, Southern Family, alongside songs from artists like Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton, and Zac Brown.

On October 7, 2016, Cobb's major-label debut album, Shine On Rainy Day, was released via the Elektra Records imprint, Low Country Sound. The album peaked at number 17 on Billboard Top Country Albums chart and at number 5 on the Top Heatseekers chart. Cobb also has received a 2018 Grammy Award nomination as Best Americana Album for his work on Shine On Rainy Day.

Throughout 2018, Cobb went on a headline tour in support of his Low Country Sound LP album called Providence Canyon, which was released May 11, 2018. Currently in 2023, Cobb was on a headline tour in support of his Ole Buddy Records LP album called Southern Star, which was released September 22, 2023.

Cobb has toured extensively as a main supporting act and special guest for Chris Stapleton on his All-American Road Show Tour.
Cobb has also toured as a special guest in 2023 on Luke Combs World Tour.

Musical style

Cobb's musical style has been described as "blue collar country" with "bluegrass-leaning inclinations." Some have noted that his sound is closer to Americana than contemporary country music. Jon Freeman of the Nashville Scene described Cobb's voice as "soft and sweet, with surefooted hints of soul." His voice has been compared to Willie Nelson, Al Green, and Merle Haggard. Dave Cobb, who produced Shine On Rainy Day, described the album as "pure rural, country, soul-filled music."

Lyrically, Cobb's songs often detail experiences of rural living in a conversational tone and "the influence of his Southern raising is weaved through nearly every note and line." Writing for Billboard, Elias Leight noted that Cobb is "a laid back narrator, easygoing even when forlorn."

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

Brent Cobb (2012)

Songwriting

References

External links
 Official website

American male singer-songwriters
American country singer-songwriters
Living people
Elektra Records artists
People from Americus, Georgia
1986 births
People from Schley County, Georgia
21st-century American singer-songwriters
Country musicians from Georgia (U.S. state)
21st-century American male singers
Singer-songwriters from Georgia (U.S. state)
Thirty Tigers artists


title: Daniel Maidman

text:
Daniel Maidman (born 1975) is a painter and art writer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. His art and writing reflect eclectic tastes, with an emphasis on realism.

Early life and education

Daniel Maidman was born in Toronto, Canada. He attended high school as a visual arts major at the Claude Watson School for the Arts, and completed a BA with honors in radio, television, and motion pictures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He pursued extensive mentored independent study in gross anatomy at Santa Monica College, completing an anatomical atlas in 2003. Illustrations from this atlas were used in the United States Army's forensic field guide, Identification of Deceased Personnel. Maidman moved to Brooklyn in 2006, and continues to live and work there.

Art
Maidman's paintings range from the figure and portraiture, to still lives and landscapes, to investigations of machinery, architecture, and microflora. The images occupy a spectrum from high rendering to almost total abstraction. His work has been shown in invitational and juried exhibitions in New York, Washington DC, California, Ohio, Missouri, and Oregon. His painting Hands #1 was selected by the Saatchi Gallery to be displayed at Gallery Mess in London. The work in his 2012 Manhattan solo show Blue Leah, at Dacia Gallery  was reviewed as follows by The Huffington Post:

He has produced work in collaboration with installation artist Erika Johnson, author Kathleen Rooney, and actor Martin Donovan. Several of Maidman’s life drawings, anatomical drawings, and Blue Leah paintings were shown at an invitational group show, The Anatomy of an Idea, at the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, in Midland, MI, in 2013. His paintings have repeatedly been finalists in the annual figurative painting competition of The Artist’s Magazine. His artwork has been published, among others, by Poets/Artists and Manifest. Maidman’s collectors include Chicago entrepreneur Howard A. Tullman, best-selling novelist China Miéville, and New York Magazine senior critic Jerry Saltz.

Writing
Maidman has developed a large body of writing on art, ranging from technique and criticism to philosophy and aesthetics. He takes a broad approach to art styles and movements. While his focus is figurative painting, he seeks ways to read the work he encounters regardless of idiom. This latitudinarian attitude has earned his writing followings among both the academic and contemporary arts communities.

Maidman's writing on technique has appeared at Artist Daily  and been extensively published in International Artist. His criticism and general art writing appears regularly at The Huffington Post. His writing and thoughts on art have also appeared in ARTnews, Whitehot Magazine, and MAKE Literary Magazine. His writing on Da Vinci was taught at DePaul University and Roosevelt University in 2012. In 2013, he was invited to moderate the graduating fellows panel at the New York Academy of Art.

References

External links

 Daniel Maidman Huffington Post archive
 Daniel Maidman Amazon author page

Living people
1975 births
Painters from New York (state)


title: Kush (mountain)

text:
Kush (Balochi: , kill) is a mountain near Kalat, Pakistan. It is located not far from the similarly named Kushi mountain.

References

Hindu Kush
Mountains of Balochistan (Pakistan)
Two-thousanders of Pakistan


title: University Academy Long Sutton

text:
University Academy Long Sutton (formerly The Peele Community College) is a co-educational secondary school located in Long Sutton in the English county of Lincolnshire. The school educates pupils from the local surrounding areas in Lincolnshire, and a little from Cambridgeshire and Norfolk

History

Secondary modern school
Work started in 1956, along with the secondary school in Holbeach. Both secondary modern schools together cost £359,000. It opened on Wednesday 23 April 1958. It was built by Dagless Ltd of Wisbech, with architect Anthony Cox. It was officially opened Friday 24 April 1959 by Sir Edward Boyle.

Academy
Previously a foundation school administered by Lincolnshire County Council, in July 2019 The Peele Community College converted to academy status and was renamed University Academy Long Sutton. The school is now sponsored by the Lincolnshire Educational Trust which is administered by the University of Lincoln, and also includes University Academy Holbeach.

University Academy Long Sutton offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.

References

External links
University Academy Long Sutton official website

1958 establishments in England
Academies in Lincolnshire
Educational institutions established in 1958
Long Sutton, Lincolnshire
Secondary schools in Lincolnshire


title: 2006 Croatia Open Umag – Singles

text:
Guillermo Coria was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Robin Vik.

Stan Wawrinka won the title, after Novak Djokovic retired in the final while leading 3–1 in the first set tiebreak.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References

External links
 Main draw
 Qualifying draw

Croatia Open Umag


title: Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer

text:
Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer (born June 16, 1957, in Menziken, Switzerland), is Professor of Jewish studies at the University of Freiburg.

Biography
After her education Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer worked as Teacher at the comprehensive school Kallern, at several junior high schools and at the Kantonsschule Rämibühl Zürich.

She studied French and Hebrew language at Zürich, Florence, Avignon, Lausanne and Lucerne. After her studies she earned the Licentiate, the Doctorate and the Habilitation.
She continued her studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After these studies she worked as lecturer, adjunct professor and privatdozent for Hebrew language, Medieval French literature and history of religions. She was visiting scholar for Jewish studies at the University of Jena (1999-2000) and at the University of Bern (2003-2004).

Since 2004 she is professor and head of department for Jewish studies at the university of Freiburg, Germany.

From 2008 to 2015 Oberhänsli-Widmer was head of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the university of Freiburg together with Ulrich Rebstock.

She is editor of the scientific journals Judaica of the ZIID – Zurich Institute for Interreligious Dialogue, Kirche und Israel and Jahrbuch für Biblische Theologie (JBTh) and member of the managing board of the Jüdisch-Christliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft (Jewish-Christian workgroup) at Zürich.
More than 40 Articles of Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer are free for download on the FreiDok http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/.

Books

Selected publications

Editorships

References

External links

 eurojewishstudies Oberhänsli-Widmer
 University Freiburg Oberhänsli-Widmer

1957 births
Living people
Judaic scholars
Swiss women academics


title: Des Plaines History Center

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The Des Plaines History Center is located in Des Plaines, Illinois, and serves as a non-profit organization that collects donated artifacts and documents that are accessible to the public through research facilities, exhibits, and public programs.  The Des Plaines History Center contains an archival collection, and also includes the Kinder House Museum.

History

The first and earliest Des Plaines Historical Society was founded in 1935.  They published a few of their own newsletters with an ambition to inform and write about the history of Des Plaines.  Unfortunately, most of this material has been lost, and the first historical society was later disbanded. Around thirty years later in 1967, a new Historical Society was founded under the same name.  A few years later, they made the Kinder House the building in which they collected and preserved artifacts, as well as displaying exhibits to the public.

The Des Plaines Savings and Loan Association built a building at 781 Pearson Street.  It was later used as a place for different employments, including a dental office and a beauty salon. In 2002, with limited room to hold the collections and a will to further interest people in the history of Des Plaines, the History Center acquired the Des Plaines Savings and Loan Association’s edifice, and is today known as the “Visitor Center.”
Here, people can view exhibits, become a member of the society, participate in programs, and even buy from the museum's gift shop.

Kinder House

Benjamin F. Kinder, owner of a hardware store, built a house in 1907.  The Kinder family lived here until the 1960s, and the house was already viewed as a historical building of Des Plaines by 1969.  The original location of the house was at 777 Lee Street, but was moved to its present location at 789 Pearson Street in 1978.  The significance of the Kinder House comes from its past inhabitants and architectural style.  Benjamin Kinder was the owner of one of the city’s longest-standing businesses, and his son George served as Des Plaines’ third mayor.  The Kinder House is referenced to the term Queen Anne which was a popular style in the late 19th and early 20th centuries’ architecture.  These homes contain bay windows, asymmetrical facades, gables, etc.  The Kinder House particularly possesses features such as the wrap-around porch and a round three-story corner tower.  Since the Kinder House did not have as much ornamentation as other homes of the Queen Anne style, it was viewed as an example of a late, modified style of the Queen Anne.  Upon moving the home to its present location, the structure of the Kinder House was left nearly the same as it was built with an exception to the exterior porches.  The brickwork, woodwork, windows, cabinets, and floor plans remain intact from the Kinder household.  Now, the Kinder House serves as a museum, where touring is available on appointment.

Public Programs

The Des Plaines Historical Society is an ambitious organization seeking to involve community people and businesses in special events, to discover the roots and origin of their city.  The society was successful in creating a newsletter called, “The Cobweb,” creating a Des Plaines History Center Blog, providing membership, and providing public programs for both adults and children in the Des Plaines History Center.

In the Des Plaines History Center, book discussion groups meet every two months to discuss a history book.  Nearly each month, Coffee Talks are hosted as well.  Here, adults may participate in meeting an author of a book mentioned in the book discussion groups, talk about an exhibit being hosted, or chat about a historical event brought to attention by the historical society.  Also, several times per year, a program called Historic Adventures is run by two volunteer coordinators.  Groups of interested people take field trips to local historic places to learn about the past of not only Des Plaines, but neighboring cities and places as well.

There are also programs specifically for kids in elementary school.  School Days Off takes place on select days off for District 62, where kids are invited to get involved in arts and crafts or learn about historical lifestyles, such as family life, wars, and famous buildings.  A particular program called Afternoon Adventures, brings kids to the museum to learn about living in Des Plaines during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The History Center also hosts events on federal and local holidays, including Chinese New Year, Des Plaines Spring Fun Fair, the Fourth of July, the Des Plaines Summer Fling, Des Plaines Fall Fest, Halloween Hoopla/Día de los Muertos, and the winter holidays.

Exhibits

Along with the Kinder House, the Des Plaines History Center offers a regular schedule of temporary exhibits.   The most recent was entitled: “Deco in Des Plaines: An International Style in Everyday Life.”  This exhibit portrayed the fashions, decorations, and architecture of Des Plaines in the 1920s and 1930s.  The exhibit displayed photographs, clothing, and common household items that showed qualities of the early 1900s.

Collections

The Des Plaines History Center has collected countless items throughout several decades.  It obtained over 31,000 objects and documents.

See also

 List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago
 Des Plaines, Illinois
 Kiwanis club
 Des Plaines Public Library
 Community Consolidated School_District 62
 Maine Township High School District 207

References

External links
 Official website
 Photo gallery: A history of Des Plaines
 Des Plaines History Center hosts outing to National Veterans Art Museum
  History Center to visit Field Museum's World's Fair exhibit

1935 establishments in Illinois
Non-profit organizations based in Illinois


title: Sakskoburggotski Government

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The eighty-eighth cabinet of Bulgaria, also known as the Sakskoburggotski Government and informally as the Tsar's cabinet, ruled from July 24, 2001 to August 17, 2005. Although the National Movement Simeon II won half the National Assembly seats in the 2001 parliamentary election, and therefore could have probably governed alone, a cabinet was formed as a coalition between the winners and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (with the coalition holding 141 seats out of 240). Although not in a coalition with the Tsar's party, the Bulgarian Socialist Party held two cabinet posts as well. Their members sat as independents.

Premiership
In foreign policy, the main priorities of the new government are Bulgaria's integration into European structures, NATO membership and maintaining close economic and political ties with the Republic of Turkey, the United States and the Russian Federation, as well as with the countries of the European Community. On 21 November 2002, at the Prague Summit of NATO Heads of State and Government, a formal invitation was sent to Bulgaria to join the Alliance. In the spring of 2003, the National Assembly decided on the participation of Bulgarian military units in the multinational forces for the reconstruction of Iraq. On March 29, 2004, at a ceremony held at the US Treasury Department, the Republic of Bulgaria and six other Eastern European countries were accepted as full members of NATO. The Treaty was ratified by the National Assembly on 31 March 2004.

Negotiations for the country's association with the European Union were also under way. The Republic of Bulgaria did not belong to the group of "ten" (Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus), which joined the EU on 1 May 2004, but by the spring of 2005, met some of the basic criteria for membership. All thirty negotiation chapters had been closed. An agreement between the representatives of the Republic of Bulgaria and the EU was signed on April 25, 2005 in Luxembourg. It set both the date for accession (January 1, 2007) and the financial assistance of 3.6 billion euros over three years, as well as the reforms that the country is committed to implementing in the coming months. The Luxembourg Treaty was ratified by the National Assembly on 11 May 2005.

The government carried out a large number of privatization deals and concession agreements. Some of them (the sale of BTC, the attempt to conclude a concession agreement for the Trakia highway, the replacement of Bozhurishte airport, etc.) created tension among Bulgarian society and distrust of the government. The cabinet was accused by the opposition of lowering sales prices, of lack of publicity in carrying out the deals and of failing to comply with the requirements for a competitive start in the sale of state property. Despite the relatively high rates of economic growth, a number of negative trends were observed in the Bulgarian economy. The foreign trade balance was negative. In 2003, $7 billion worth of products were exported and $9.3 billion were imported. Exports to Russia were symbolic. The external debt of private enterprises (EUR 3.3 billion) and banks (EUR 2.1 billion) was growing.

The four-year rule of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's government was accompanied by significant changes in the country's political life. In early 2002, the BSP withdrew its support for the cabinet and became the strongest opposition party. Although not in power, the right failed to emerge from the crisis. Its split led to a sharp decline in its influence in the public life of the country. The largest number of supporters had three right-wing political formations: the Union of Democratic Forces, the Union of Free Democrats and Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria. The number of political parties in Bulgaria reached about 330, which unequivocally spoke of a deep crisis among the political elite.

In 2002, the Tsarists registered a new political formation. In 2004, followers of the New Time political movement seceded from it, forming a new party and a separate parliamentary group. Despite the split and the opposition's attempts to provoke early parliamentary elections (six unsuccessful no-confidence votes in the National Assembly), NMSS and MRF successfully served their four-year term in office.

In the 2005 elections, Simeon's NDSV party was defeated and became the second-largest in the country. This was a result of popular disappointment in the government's leadership, especially since the expectations were very high, with some even calling them unrealistic.

Cabinet

Original composition

 Note: the two independents are functionaries of the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

Changes on December 22, 2001
The government agency on Energy and Energy Resources is transformed into a ministry. Milko Kovachev (NDSV) is appointed its minister.

Changes on May 29, 2002
Bulgaria's Chief Negotiator with the European Union, Meglena Kuneva, is given a cabinet post: the Ministry of European Affairs.

Changes on October 11, 2002
The government agency on Youth and Sport is transformed into a ministry. Vasil Ivanov-Luchano (NDSV) is appointed its minister.

Changes on December 18, 2002
Kostadin Paskalev is removed from the cabinet. Valentin Tserovski succeeds him as Minister of Regional Development and Public Works only (he does not become deputy Prime Minister).

Changes on July 17, 2003
On July 17 parliament approved a major cabinet reshuffle. The move was to "optimiz[e] the government's work" according to foreign minister Solomon Passy. The move was announced against the backdrop of sliding approval ratings.

 Plamen Panaiotov (NDSV) is appointed deputy Prime Minister in charge of euro integration.
 Plamen Petrov is dismissed from cabinet.
 Nikolai Vasilev, keeping his position as deputy PM, moves to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.
 Lydia Shuleva, also retaining her position as deputy PM, moves to the Ministry of Economy.
 Hristina Hristova (NDSV), former deputy, takes the head of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy.
 Bozhidar Finkov and Vladimir Atanasov are dismissed from their cabinet posts (Health and Education) for failing to live up to the people's expectations. They are replaced by their deputies Slavcho Bogoev (NDSV) and Igor Damyanov (NDSV) respectively.
Filiz Khyusmenova (DPS) is appointed Minister without Portfolio, replacing Nezhdet Mollov.

Changes on February 23, 2005
On March 10, 2004 eleven MPs from the NDSV left to form a new political party: New Time. This left the NDSV with a minority. To fix the problem the NDSV-DPS coalition signed an agreement with New Time to keep the government in power until the elections in June. As part of the deal Miroslav Sevlievski (New Time) became Minister of Energy and Energy Resources.

 Lidia Shuleva is removed from cabinet so Milko Kovachev, formerly Minister of Energy and Energy Resources, can succeed her as Minister of Economy.
 Mekhmed Dikme is dismissed from his post as Agriculture Minister and succeeded by his deputy Nihat Kabil (DPS).
 Bozhidar Abrashev is dismissed from his post as Minister of Culture. The government agency on tourism is added to the ministry; and the portfolio is taken up by Nina Chilova (NDSV).

External links
 Original Composition of the Cabinet

See also
 History of Bulgaria since 1989

References

Politics of Bulgaria
Bulgarian governments


title: Coming Home (2014 film)

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Coming Home () is a 2014 Chinese historical drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Chen Daoming and Gong Li. It was released in the US on September 11, 2015, and first shown to the public on the May 20, 2014, at the Cannes Film Festival. The story is adapted from the novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi written by novelist Geling Yan.

Plot
Lu Yanshi was a professor before being sent to the labor camp during the Cultural Revolution. He escapes from the labor camp in Xining to meet his long-missed wife Feng Wanyu and daughter Dandan. However, the police were already waiting outside the house to arrest him.

Dandan, a teenage ballerina, could not play the leading role in Red Detachment of Women due to her father's outlaw status. Under the temptation of regaining the leading role, Dandan reveals her parents' secret meeting plan to the police. The meeting ends with the capture of Lu, but Dandan still does not get the leading role.

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Lu comes home only to find his family broken- his wife suffering from amnesia and his daughter working as a textile worker. Under the shock of a former official's sexual harassment, his wife sometimes mistakes Lu as Officer Fang instead of her husband.  To reawaken his wife's memory, Lu disguises himself as a stranger so he can be near his wife. She recognizes him only as a letter reader or a piano tuner, and he never could live close enough with his chaste wife because of her trauma. During these years, Lu continued to write to his wife as a way of communicating with her and to convince her to forgive their daughter.

Several years later Feng is waiting to receive her husband outside the railway station on a snowy day, and Lu is standing with her, pretending to be a pedicab driver.

Cast
Chen Daoming as Lu Yanshi
Gong Li as Feng Wanyu, Lu Yanshi's wife
Zhang Huiwen as Dandan, Yanshi and Wanyu's daughter
Guo Tao
Liu Peiqi
Zu Feng
Yan Ni
Xin Baiqing
Zhang Jiayi
Chen Xiaoyi
Ding Jiali

Production
The film was shot in Tianjin and Beijing.

Releases
Coming Home had its international premiere at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival in the out of competition section. It was scheduled to be screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

Reception

Critical reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 89% based on 80 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "The rare tearjerking melodrama with sociopolitical subtext, Coming Home plucks the heartstrings with thought-provoking power." According to Metacritic, which sampled 21 critics and calculated a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, the film received "universal acclaim".

Box office
The film grossed ¥23.7 million (US$3.80 million) on the first day in China and reached US$46,000,000. It earned a total of  internationally.

References

External links

2014 drama films
2014 films
Chinese drama films
Films directed by Zhang Yimou
Films based on Chinese novels
Films about the Cultural Revolution
Films shot in Beijing
Films shot in Tianjin
Chinese independent films
IMAX films
Le Vision Pictures films
Sony Pictures Classics films
Films with screenplays by Zou Jingzhi
2014 independent films
2010s Mandarin-language films


title: Gaetano Pace Forno

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Gaetano Pace Forno (5 June 1809 – 22 July 1874) was a Maltese Archbishop who became the Bishop of Malta after his predecessor Archbishop Publio Maria dei Conti Sant tendered his resignation.

Biography
Pace Forno was born in Victoria, Gozo on 5 June 1809 to a lawyer Francesco Pace and the Noble Lucia dei Baroni Forno. He was baptized on the same day at St George's basilica. On 20 July 1824 he was professed as a member of the Order of Saint Augustine. He was ordained priest in Naples in 1832. He spent a great number of years as an educator in Italy until 30 May 1847, when he was chosen Provincial of the Maltese Augustinian Province. He is also considered as the founder of the college for boys at the Valletta convent which opened on 23 September 1848. On 11 December 1854 he was chosen Provincial for a second term.

On 25 September 1857 Pace Forno was appointed as the Coadjutor Bishop of Malta to assist Archbishop Sant. He was ordained bishop on October 4 by Costantino Patrizi Naro the Cardinal Bishop of Albano. Just two months later he succeeded as the Bishop of Malta with the titular title of Archbishop of Rhodes. Archbishop Gaetano Pace Forno is mostly remembered in Ħamrun as the founder of the name of the parish in the same village. The chosen patron saint of Ħamrun was Saint Cajetan, Archbishop Pace Forno's own patron saint. In 1864 the Maltese diocese was divided into two when the Diocese of Gozo was erected by Pope Pius IX. Thus Gozo became as suffragan to Malta. He died on 22 July 1874 having served as Bishop of Malta for 16 years.

He is related to Sir Pietro Pace, and his heirs, the Camilleri Pace-De-Ciotta's of Victoria, Gozo including Doctor of Laws Frank-Luke Matthias Attard [Stuart] Camilleri [Pace-De-Ciotta].

See also
Catholic Church in Malta

References

1809 births
Archbishops of Malta
19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Malta
1874 deaths
People from Victoria, Gozo
Bishops of Malta


title: Kilsyth Wanderers F.C.

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Kilsyth Wanderers Football Club was a Scottish association football club based in the town of Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire.

History

The club was founded in 1887 and disbanded in 1902. The club competed in the Scottish Cup for five seasons between 1887 and 1899 as well as regional competitions such as the Stirlingshire Cup, Midland League, and the Central Football Combination.

The club's greatest achievement was beating Renton in the first round of the 1890–91 Scottish Cup.  Renton had just become one of the founder members of the Scottish League and two years before claimed to be world champions, having won the 1888 Scottish Cup Final and then having beaten FA Cup winners West Bromwich Albion.  Although Renton had lost many of its best players to professional sides, Kilsyth was not reckoned to be a challenge, with even the local media claiming that "they will not be surprised if they are beaten by a dozen goals, at the very least".  Nevertheless, the Wanderers turned around at half-time 2–1 to the good, and, despite being under siege for the whole of the second half, hung on for a surprise win; a score so outlandish that "few could believe the evening papers".  Renton protested on the basis of encroachment by the home spectators but the protest was dismissed on the technical grounds that the objection at the match had been made by Renton's umpire and not the club captain.

Colours

The club played in black and white striped shirts with blue knickers.

Ground

The club played at Garrel Garden.

References

Defunct football clubs in Scotland
Association football clubs established in 1887
1887 establishments in Scotland
Association football clubs disestablished in 1902
1902 disestablishments in Scotland
Kilsyth


title: 2014 Budweiser Duels

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The 2014 Budweiser Duels were a pair of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car races that were held on February 20, 2014, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Both contested over 60 laps, they were the qualifying races for the 2014 Daytona 500. Joe Gibbs Racing swept the Duel races, with Matt Kenseth winning the first race. Kevin Harvick finished second, while Kasey Kahne, Marcos Ambrose and Dale Earnhardt Jr. rounded out the top five. Denny Hamlin won the second race, ahead of Jeff Gordon, while Kurt Busch, Paul Menard and Brian Scott rounded out the top five.

These were the first Budweiser Duel races to be held in primetime, as the races were previously held in the early afternoon. The Duels were telecast on Fox Sports 1.

Report

Background

Daytona International Speedway is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the others being Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is  long. The track's turns are banked at 31 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18 degrees.

Practice and qualifying
A. J. Allmendinger was the fastest in the first of two practice sessions for the Duel races with a time of 45.096 and a speed of . Matt Kenseth, Joey Logano, Paul Menard, Dave Blaney, Ryan Truex, Trevor Bayne and Parker Kligerman were involved in a crash on the frontstretch of Daytona during early practice on February 19, that resulted in heavy damage for Logano, Menard, Blaney, Truex, and Kligerman. This forced the teams to set up backup cars for the Duel races the following evening. Workers had to repair two sections of the catch fencing, ending practice early. Brian Vickers and Cole Whitt were also involved in a crash earlier during this practice, forcing Vickers to a backup car while Whitt's team was forced to repair their primary, as Swan Racing's only backup was given to Kligerman. Blaney eventually withdrew from the race after his team could not secure a backup car. Kligerman stated that it was the first flip of his career, and that he "assumed it would be rougher. It was pretty soft. I was up in the fence floating along. Then it just slid over softly". Logano stated that Kenseth had "started making a move to go down" and that he "was making the run, and I was going to fill that hole. He started to come back up and I was there". Denny Hamlin was the fastest in the second of two practice sessions for the Duel races with a time of 45.096 and a speed of .

Races

Race 1
Austin Dillon led the field to the green flag at 7:16 p.m., and after leading the first 14 laps, Dillon lost the lead to Dale Earnhardt Jr. on lap 15. Matt Kenseth took the lead on lap 28, and held the lead until lap 37, when he pitted and the lead was passed to Earnhardt Jr. once again. Earnhardt Jr. and Kasey Kahne each held the lead for a lap before Kenseth cycled back to the lead with 21 laps to go. On the last lap, Kevin Harvick pulled up alongside Matt Kenseth, while Kahne got to the inside, creating a three-wide photo finish in which Kenseth prevailed. Michael McDowell and Joe Nemechek failed to make the Daytona 500. Kenseth stated that he "was kind of embarrassed to walk in the garage" but felt that his race performance "builds confidence in all of us, makes us feel like you can go out and get the job done if everybody does their jobs and we do everything right". Harvick's car failed post-race inspection because his car exceeded the maximum split on the track bar. He was disqualified, but his speed in qualifying was enough to get him into the Daytona 500. Greg Zipadelli, the competitions director at Harvick's team – Stewart-Haas Racing – referred to the infraction as "an adjustment during the race and it was more than it should have been".

Race 2
Martin Truex Jr. led the field to the green flag at 8:40 p.m., and Brad Keselowski took the lead on lap 2. Keselowski held the race lead for the next portion of the race, holding it until his pit stop on lap 36, which handed the lead to Casey Mears. On his pit stop, Keselowski was deemed to have been speeding while exiting, and had to serve a pass-through penalty. Denny Hamlin took the lead with 23 laps to go, and maintained the race lead until the end of the race, winning under caution.

Coming through turn four on the final lap, Jimmie Johnson ran out of gas, got loose after being tapped in the left corner panel, overcorrected and hit the wall collecting Jamie McMurray in the process. Truex Jr. had no way to avoid the wreck and rear-ended McMurray. While slowing to avoid the wreck, Clint Bowyer got rear-ended by Ryan Truex, slid to the runoff area taking David Ragan with him. Bowyer flipped over in the air and landed on all four wheels with the only damage being a destroyed drive-train. Ragan and Michael Waltrip were also caught in the wreck and both hit the inside wall head-on. Carl Edwards was caught by McMurray, but sustained minimal damage. McMurray made contact with Johnson again as they continued on into the grass, destroying the front ends of their cars. Bobby Labonte and Terry Labonte, who were both 30 seconds behind the leader on the final lap, raced their way into the Daytona 500, at the expense of Eric McClure, Morgan Shepherd and Ryan Truex. Hamlin's team owner, Joe Gibbs, stated Hamlin had "worked extremely hard" for the result, and he thought his team was "all hungry when the year started".

Results

Duel 1

Qualifying

Race results

Duel 2

Qualifying

Race results

Footnotes

References

Budweiser Duels
Budweiser Duels
Budweiser Duels
NASCAR races at Daytona International Speedway


title: Civil Service United FC

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Civil Service United Football Club-Civo (CIVO United), which represents Civil Services, is a Malawian football (soccer) club based in Lilongwe area 9, the team currently plays in the TNM Super League, the top division of Malawi football. The team is now led by an executive committee which is chaired by Mr Victor Lungu and the current General Secretary is Edgar Chipalanjira. The technical panel is led by Wilson Chidati who is deputized by coach Charles Ben.

In 1987 the team won the TNM Super League.

Stadium
Currently the team plays at the Civo Stadium.

Honours
Super League of Malawi
 Winners (1): 1987

References

External links
Club profile - Soccerway
Tag archives - Nyasatimes.com

Football clubs in Malawi
Lilongwe
Financial services association football clubs in Malawi


title: Birgit Keil

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Birgit Keil (born 22 September 1944) is a German ballet dancer. She was prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet and was internationally known as The German Ballerina, She has been teaching at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim and directing the ballet ensemble of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

Career

Keil was born in Kowarschen. She was trained as ballet dancer in Bad Kissingen and in Stuttgart at the ballet school of the Staatstheater Stuttgart. She studied in London at the Royal Ballet School for one year on a scholarship. In 1961, she became a member of the company Stuttgart Ballet, in 1963 she was appointed soloist by John Cranko. She performed major parts of classical as well as modern ballet, as a partner of dancers such as Richard Cragun, Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Choreographers John Cranko, Eliot Feld, Marcia Haydée, Jirí Kylián, Kenneth MacMillan, Hans van Manen, John Neumeier, Uwe Scholz, Heinz Spoerli, Glen Tetley and Peter Wright created choreographies for her. She was known internationally as "die deutsche Ballerina" (The German Ballerina), dancing at the Paris Opéra, La Scala, with the American Ballet Theatre, the Royal Ballet and the Vienna State Opera, among others.

Keil retired from the stage in 1995.  She has been director and professor of the Akademie des Tanzes (Academy of Dance) at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim, teaching classical ballet, repertory, variations and pas de deux. She is convinced that a classically trained dancer is able to dance in a wide range of styles. From 2003, Keil has been director of the ballet ensemble of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, called Staatsballett Karlsruhe from 2013.

Awards

Keil was awarded the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg in 1979 and was named Kammertänzerin in 1980. She received the Preis des Verbands der deutschen Kritiker in 1981, an Emmy Award in 1984, the John Cranko Medal in 1985, the Order of Merit of Germany in 1985, the Deutscher Tanzpreis in 1998, and the Großer Sudetendeutscher Kulturpreis in 1999.

Personal life
Since 1968, Keil has been in "a private as well as professional partnership" with Vladimir Klos, who was a principal dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet from 1972–97.

Literature

Clive Breez: Birgit Keil: Porträt einer Ballerina. Neske, Pfullingen 1991, .

References

External links

 Tanzstiftung Birgit Keil Official website
 History / The Cranko Era Stuttgart Ballet

German ballerinas
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Recipients of the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
1944 births
Living people
Stuttgart Ballet
20th-century German ballet dancers