title: 25th Golden Melody Awards

text:
The 25th Golden Melody Awards () were held in Taipei, Taiwan in 2014. The award ceremony for the popular music categories was broadcast on TTV on 28 June and was hosted by Harlem Yu.

Winners and nominees
Below is the list of nominees and winners. Winners are highlighted in bold.

Popular music categories

Song of the Year
 Hill (山丘) – Hill (山丘) – Jonathan Lee Battle Array Song (入陣曲) – The Best of 1999-2013 (步步自選作品輯) – Mayday
 Gypsy In Memory (流浪者之歌) – Songs of Transience (時間的歌) – Cheer Chen
 This Is Because We Feel Pain (這是因為我們能感到疼痛) – This Is Because We Feel Pain (這是因為我們能感到疼痛) – Tizzy Bac
 Sister (姐姐) – Sister (跳針舞曲2013) – Jeannie Hsieh

Best Mandarin Album
 I am Ayal Komod (我是海雅谷慕) – Chang Chen-yue Model (模特) – Li Ronghao (李榮浩)
 Classic (拾光) – Li Jian (李健)
 Recreate (你所不知道的杜振熙之內部整修) – Soft Lipa (杜振熙/蛋堡)
 Jianghu (江湖) – Wakin Chau

Best Taiwanese Album
 Sam Tsap Thong (30 出頭) – Chen Jian Wei (陳建瑋)Best Hakka Album
 Heart Land – Yachun Asta Tzeng (曾雅君)Best Aboriginal Album
 To & From the Heart (歌，飛過群山) –  Taiwu (泰武古謠傳唱)Best Female Mandarin Singer
 Penny Tai – Unexpected (純屬意外)
 Faith Yang – Zero
 Denise Ho – Coexistence (共存)
 Tanya Chua – Angel & Devil (天使與魔鬼的對話)
 JiaJia (紀家盈/家家) – Alone The Way (為你的寂寞唱歌)

Best Male Mandarin Singer
 JJ Lin – Stories Untold
 Li Ronghao (李榮浩) – Model (模特)
 Chang Chen-yue – I am Ayal Komod (我是海雅谷慕)
 Soft Lipa (杜振熙/蛋堡) – Recreate (你所不知道的杜振熙之內部整修)
 Wakin Chau – Jianghu (江湖)

Best Male Taiwanese Singer
 Chen Jian Wei (陳建瑋) – Sam tsap thong (30出頭)

Best Female Taiwanese Singer
 Huang Yee-ling (黃乙玲) – By Your Side (惦在你身邊)

Best Hakka Singer
 Yachun Asta Tzeng (曾雅君) – Heart Land

Best Aboriginal Singer
 Anu Kaliting Sadiponga (阿努．卡力亭．沙力朋安) – cepo’混濁了

Best Band
 Mixer (麋先生) – Circus Movement (馬戲團運動)
 ChthoniC (閃靈樂團) - Bu Tik　(武德)
 The Chairman (董事長樂團) - One Life (一條命)
 Fire EX. (滅火器) - Goodbye You!th
 Tizzy Bac - Fragile Objects (易碎物)
 Sodagreen (蘇打綠) - Autumn: Stories (秋：故事)
 Funky Brothers (放客兄弟) - Funky Brothers

Best New Artist
 Li Ronghao (李榮浩) – Model (模特)
 Jacky Chen (陳建瑋) - Sam Ts'ap Tho'ng (30 出頭)
 Simhanada (師子吼) - 1/84000
 Funky Brothers (放客兄弟) - Funky Brothers
 Xiao Ren (小人) -  Kiddo Kingdom (小人國)
 Koala Liu (劉思涵) - Embrace (擁抱你)

Best Group
 Light Engine (光引擎) – Scenes Along the Way (沿途風景)

Producer of the Year (Album)
 Penny Tai – Embrace You (擁抱你), released by Koala Liu (劉思涵)

Producer of the Year (Single)
 Jeffrey Kung (孔令奇), Derek Nakamoto – Old School (老派戀情), released by Jeffrey Kung (孔令奇)

Best Lyrics
 Jonathan Lee – Hill (山丘), sung by Jonathan Lee

Best Composition
 Debbie Hsiao (蕭賀碩) – Musicians, sung by Shuo & Cool Humor
 Chang Chen-yue – Missed Call (未接來電), sung by Faith Yang
 Tizzy Bac – This Is Because We Feel Pain (這是因為我們能感到疼痛), sung by Tizzy Bac
 Jonathan Lee – Hill (山丘), sung by Jonathan Lee
 Suming (舒米恩) – In a Rush (很趕), sung by Suming
 Penny Tai – Fortunate One (僥倖者), sung by Koala Liu (劉思涵)

Best Arrangement
 Zhao Zhao (趙兆) – Wind in the Rye (風吹麥浪), for Li Jian (李健)

Best Instrumental Album
 Tseng Tseng Yi (曾增譯) – Symbiosis (曾增譯共聲体三重奏)

Producer of the Year (Instrumental)
 Lu Sheng Wen (呂聖斐) and Dong Shun Wen (董舜文) – 4, released by Timeless Fusion Party (無限融合樂團)

Best Instrumental Composition
 Tseng Tseng Yi (曾增譯) – Symbiosis (大稻晚霞)
 Tommy Fish (余昶賢) – Sunset On an Old City (共聲体)
 Gu Zhongshan (顧忠山) – The Insigator (起哄者)
 Ricky Ho (何國杰) – Abundance of Life (生命。樂章)
 Baobu Badulu (保卜) – Signal Fire (狼煙)

Best Music Video
  Nan-hong Ho (何男宏) - Gypsy in Memory (流浪者之歌), sung by Cheer Chen

Best Album Design
  Yung-Chen Nieh (聶永真) - Hill (山丘), released by Jonathan Lee

Lifetime Contribution Award
 Peng Kuo-hua (彭國華)

Performers
Performers for the popular music category ceremony:

Presenters
Presenters for the popular music categories:

References

External links
  Official Website
  Official YouTube Channel

Golden Melody Awards
Golden Melody Awards
Golden Melody Awards
Golden Melody Awards
Golden Melody Awards


title: Benowo railway station

text:
Benowo Station is a class III railway station located in Benowo, Pakal, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. The  station is located at an altitude of 3 meters and is controlled by Operational Area VIII Surabaya. To the north of this station is the Gelora Bung Tomo Stadium.

Services
The following is a list of train services at the Benowo Station

Passenger services
 Commuter
 Komuter Sulam, destination of  and
 Local economy
 Bojonegoro Local, destination of  and

References

Railway stations in Surabaya
Stations of Daop VIII Surabaya


title: Irati Forest

text:
The Irati Forest (; ; ；), found in the western Pyrenees, covers  of the Navarre region, astride on the Soule (Larrau) and Basse-Navarre (Mendive and Lecumberry) provinces (France) and Navarre (Spain), framed by Mount Okabe (1,466 m) and Pic d'Orhy (2,017 m). It is the second largest and best preserved mixed beech-fir forest in Europe.

Presentation
Located in a scarcely populated area, it has maintained a wild and mysterious aspect, fueled by many local legends.The access route was only built in 1964.

Toponymy
Its name comes from the Irati river, which crops up from the meeting of the Urtxuria and Urbeltza.

Flora and Fauna
For the most part, the Irati Forest shares the flora and fauna of the Pyrenees. Birds found in the area include goldcrests, chaffinches, robins, black woodpeckers, and white-backed woodpeckers. Notable mammals include foxes, wild boar, martens, and roe deer. Smaller mammals include the red vole, gray dormouse, and shrew, as well as the polecat and badger.
The primary tree species are beech and silver fir.The forest is also home to linden, hazelnut, elm, willow, maple, boxwood, and juniper trees, and rarely yew. Other plants are ferns, lichens, moss, and sloe, and well as rare herbaceous plants such as narcissus and winter bell. Solitary oaks, which used to be more common in the region, are still found in the area.
Despite being an intervened forest, it maintains a high degree of maturity, with a high diversity of environments that encompasses forests, wetlands, montane and subalpine meadows of the  (Nardus stricta), rocky, moor and scrubland, the Atlantic heaths with blueberry and  (Ulex gallii) or gorse (Genista hispanica subsp. occidentalis).

Gallery

References

Forests of France
Forests of Spain
Primeval Beech Forests in Europe
Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests


title: Givira ornata

text:
Givira ornata is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Argentina.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 1911
Givira


title: Trude Stendal

text:
Trude Margaret Stendal (born 30 May 1963) is a Norwegian former footballer. She played as a forward for Toppserien club IL Sandviken and the Norway women's national football team. She scored twice in the Norwegians' 2–1 win over Sweden in the final of the 1987 European Competition for Women's Football. During her football career Stendal also worked in a bank. She trained as a nurse when injury brought about her premature retirement from football.

Stendal had injured her knee in a match against the United States a month after the Euro 1987 final. After making her comeback, she broke her leg in a 1991 Norwegian Women's Cup match against Trondheims-Ørn and was forced to retire.

References

External links
 Profile at Football Association of Norway (NFF)

1963 births
Living people
Footballers from Bergen
Norwegian women's footballers
Norway women's international footballers
SK Brann Kvinner players
SK Sprint-Jeløy (women) players
Toppserien players
UEFA Women's Championship-winning players
Women's association football forwards


title: Givira philomela

text:
Givira philomela is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Brazil.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 1892
Givira


title: Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar

text:
Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar (stylized as lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar) is the tenth solo album by English rock singer Robert Plant. It was released on 8 September 2014 on Nonesuch/Warner Bros. Records. It was also Plant's first studio album with his backing band the Sensational Space Shifters, although the band is not credited on the front cover.

Critical reception

Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar received acclaim by the majority of music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from a selection of critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 23 reviews. The album was named one of the 50 best albums of 2014 by NPR Music.

Track listing

 – derived from the Lead Belly song "Po' Howard" (Huddie Ledbetter, John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax); also incorporates lyrics and melody from "Wah Wah", from the album No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded.

Sources:

Personnel
Musicians
Robert Plant – vocals, production
The Sensational Space Shifters (as backing band):
Justin Adams – bendirs, djembe, guitars, tehardant, background vocals
Liam "Skin" Tyson – banjo, guitar, background vocals.
John Baggott – keyboards, loops, moog bass, piano, tabla, background vocals
Juldeh Camara – kologo, ritti, Fulani vocals
Billy Fuller – bass, drum programming, omnichord, upright bass
Dave Smith – drum set
Julie Murphy – vocals on "Embrace Another Fall"
Nicola Powell – background vocals on "Poor Howard"

Production
Tim Oliver – recording, mixing
Tim Holmes – recording
Tchad Blake – mixing
Bob Ludwig – mastering
Brett Kilroe and Geoffrey Hanson – art direction

Source:

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

2014 albums
Robert Plant albums
Nonesuch Records albums
Warner Records albums


title: Annie Maloney

text:
Annie-Rose Maloney (born 4 March 1989) is an Australian cricketer. A right-arm fast-medium bowler and occasional right-handed batter, she played a single One Day International (ODI) for the Australia women's national  team against India in July 2011.

Cricket career
Maloney played club cricket for Essendon-Maribyrnong, and in November 2007 she was selected to play for Victoria's state team for the first time in a Women's National Cricket League match. Representing Victoria between 2007/08 and 2011/12, Maloney played 15 List A matches in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and 19 T20 matches in the Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup (WT20).

In February 2011, Maloney was included in Australia's squad for the final three matches of the 2010–11 Rose Bowl series. These matches were scheduled to be played that February, but due to the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake the matches were cancelled. The matches were rescheduled to June 2011, but the first match was abandoned without a ball bowled and Maloney did not play in either the second or third match. Maloney ultimately played her first and only One Day International for Australia against India on 2 July 2011. She bowled six overs without taking a wicket and did not bat.

References

External links

 Annie Maloney at Cricket Australia

1989 births
Living people
Australian cricketers
Australian women cricketers
Australia women One Day International cricketers
Cricketers from Victoria (state)
Sportswomen from Victoria (state)
Victoria women cricketers


title: For One Night Only

text:
One Night Only may refer to:

 For One Night Only (TV series), an Irish light entertainment show hosted by Gay Byrne
 For One Night Only (album), a Terrorvision album

See also
 One Night Only (disambiguation)
 One Night (disambiguation)


title: Gouin people

text:
The Gouin or Gwen (sometimes referred to as Ciraamba, Guin, Kirma, and Senufo) are an ethnic group found in Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast. They are part of the Gur people and speak the Cerma language. Their population is estimated to be around 80,000-90,000. The Gouin farm millet, cassava, and yams. 78% of Gouin practice their traditional religion but "Multiple agencies are involved in reaching the Gouin people for Christ, and a group of churches has been established."

References

Diamitani, B. T. (2008). Observing Komo among Tagwa People in Burkina Faso: A Burkinabe Art Historian’s Views. African Arts, 41(3), 14–25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20447897

Ethnic groups in Burkina Faso


title: Kiss You Tonight

text:
"Kiss You Tonight" is a song recorded by American country music artist David Nail. It was released as the second single from Nail's third studio album I'm a Fire. The song was written by David Cook, Jay Knowles, and Trent Summar, and was released on March 3, 2014 in advance of the album release.

Background
The song was written by David Cook together with Jay Knowles and Trent Summar.  It was the third song Cook wrote after he moved to Nashville in 2012.  Although Cook went into the writing session intending to write for himself, he felt the song didn't fit him. Trent Summar sang in the demo, and Ron Stuve pitched the song to Joe Fisher at UMG who put it on hold for David Nail.

According to Nail, "Kiss You Tonight" had the impact on him similar to what "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum had.  He said that it "was a song that the first time I heard it I knew I was going to record it. There was just something about it that made me remember so many songs from the past that, you know there’s not a specific thing that jumps out at you the first time you hear it you just know, 'Hey, I wanna hear that again.'"

The song is a track from the album I'm a Fire produced by Frank Liddell, Chuck Ainlay and Glenn Worf. On February 18, 2014, Nail announced that the song would be his second single from the album. It was released to radio with an add date of March 3, 2014.

Critical reception
The song was largely well received by the critics.  Matt Bjorke of Roughstock rated the song four stars out of five and described it as "a song that’s both contemporary and traditional sounding in melody", and has a "relatable "I messed up" message" about someone "wanting redemption with the lost girl of his dreams."  He also called David Nail's vocal delivery on the song "stellar", while Markos Papadatos of Digital Journal described his vocal as "infectious" and "captivating". Billy Dukes of Taste of Country considered the song to be "a rare song that’s easily accessible, yet still has great emotional depth".  He also said that the song "should become Nail’s biggest hit to date." Think Country however demurred, and thought the song may struggle on the chart as "it is less distinctive than "Whatever She's Got"", the reviewer also added that the song is "not mind-blowing, but it's heartfelt".

Music video
The music video was directed by Chris Hicky and released via Esquire on May 15, 2014.  The video was shot in Las Vegas.

Chart performance
"Kiss You Tonight" debuted at No. 54 on the U.S. Billboard Country Airplay for the chart dated March 29, 2014. It peaked at No. 17 on the Country Airplay chart dated January 3, 2015, its 41st week on that chart.  It entered at No. 45 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of April 26, 2014, and peaked at No. 25 for the chart dated October 25, 2014. As of December 2014, the song has sold 178,900 copies in the United States.

Year-end charts

References

Songs about kissing
2014 singles
Country ballads
2010s ballads
David Nail songs
MCA Nashville Records singles
Song recordings produced by Frank Liddell
2014 songs
Songs written by David Cook (singer)
Music videos directed by Chris Hicky
Songs written by Jay Knowles
Song recordings produced by Chuck Ainlay


title: Luweero Secondary School

text:
Luweero Secondary School, also Luwero Secondary School, whose full name is Luweero Senior Secondary School, is a combined middle (Senior 1 to Senior 4) and high school (Senior 5 to Senior 6), in the town of Luweero, in Luweero District, in the Buganda Region of Uganda. The school is a Church of Uganda funded and owned, government-aided, mixed, day and boarding school.

Location
Luweero SSS is located in the town of Luweero, along the Kampala–Gulu Highway, approximately , by road, north of Kampala, the capital of Uganda and its largest city. The geographical coordinates of the school campus are 0°50'15.0"N, 32°29'44.0"E (Latitude:0.837500; Longitude:32.495556).

History

The school's foundation is laid on the Anglican Church of Uganda. The school originated from a joint Parents meeting of Luweero Boys and Luweero Girls Schools held on 23 November 1964 chaired by retired Parish Priest Reverend Canon Sajjabi.  He was the overall supervisor of both school on behalf of Namirembe Diocese.  In that particular meeting parents passed the resolution to start a Senior Secondary School versed on Church of Uganda foundation.

That year the Government of Uganda declared the phasing out of the primary eight classes which was leading a pupil to sit for Junior Secondary Certificate Examinations.  A year was slashed off and a new level introduced a primary leaving examination (PLE) Certificate after completing a seven-year course.

In 1964 Reverend Canon Sajjabi advised the parents to elect an organizing committee for the construction of a secondary school block.  The committee was elected and the school started in 1968, with a population of eight (8) students. The school has now a population of 1500 students. It is the biggest day Government Aided School in Luweero District.

The School offers Boarding Facilities to those students whose homes are far from school. To date Luweero SS is one of the best performing schools in the District and the County in the National Examinations.

School activities

The school engages its staff and students in different activities. These include

 Teaching the learners
 Conducting workshops and seminars for staff development.
 Conducting spiritual activities for both the students and staff members
 Regular meetings for Board of Governors, parents, staff and students.
 Visitation field work, study tours, commemoration and competitions.
 Community outreach programmes
 Inducting new employees students in the school system
 Teamwork and unity is greatly emphasized in order to realize good result

Teachers are self-motivated. They carry out effective teaching by keeping time so that no time is wasted. Teachers give exercises and mark students exercises especially are mathematics and English beginning of term, mid term and end of term examinations are three compulsory sets of examination which students must write.  Teachers also show keen interest by helping learners who have learning challenges outside the normal lessons.

Workshops and Seminars for Students and Staff Development

The school organizes and encourages teachers and students to attend. Some of the workshops had themes such as “Effective Teaching”, Team Work and, Effective Communication

Field work and study trips

Students visit and travel for study purposes various areas outside their school.
Geography and agriculture trips are common students study the phenomenon as it exist in the field in so doing students are taught how to take clear observations, gain skills in recording information and analyzing the data collected in the field students are helped to appreciate and maintain the environment.

Guidance and Counseling

It is every teachers role to guide and counsel students. Students are guided in their curricular and co-curricular activities. Students who have different forms of challenges are also counseled. This helps them to overcome hard times when they cannot stand on their own. In so doing students are enabled to stay in school and learn effectively.

Community Outreach Programmes

The staff and students participate in activities and create a close relationship with the surrounding community. The patriotic club offered to clean Kasana town market and the cleaning was done communally with the local population such activities create a strong bond between the community and the school hence school community relations.

Inducting New Staff and Students
The newly recruited teachers are inducted to get into the school system by the Dean of Studies, Semambo Joseph. The old staff also helped the new members to become conversant with the system.

Prefects play an active role in helping the new students becoming adopted to the new environments.

Set of school rules and regulations are usually handed over to the newcomers who are encouraged to read, understand and sign them.

Student counselors do help their fellow students to keep on the right track.

See also
 List of schools in Uganda

References

External links
 Website of the Church o Uganda

Schools in Uganda
Luweero District
Educational institutions established in 1964
1964 establishments in Uganda
Central Region, Uganda


title: Lyme Brook

text:
Lyme Brook is a tributary stream of the River Trent, which flows through Newcastle-under-Lyme, and the outlying areas of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England.

Course
Prior to the 20th century the upper course of the brook could be traced through the area to the north of Newcastle, but subsequent development and culverting means that only parts are now visible.

To the south of Newcastle town centre, the brook joins together with a number of its tributaries including the Silverdale and the Ashfield brooks. This area between Rotterdam and Pool Dam was important historically, as the water from the brooks was dammed to form a protective pool around the ‘new’ motte-and-bailey castle in the 12th century, after which the town is named.

From Pool Dam, the brook has been designated as main river, which flows south-east in a narrow valley, between Clayton and Trent Vale, where it forms the boundary between Newcastle and Stoke. The brook then passes next to the Clayton Wood Training Ground and under the A500 dual carriage-way, joining the Trent near Hanford.

The catchment or drainage basin lies between that of the Fowlea Brook to the north and east, and that of the Park brook to the south, and has an area of .

Floods

The brook is capable of causing flooding, and was the subject of a flood alleviation scheme in the 1990s by the National Rivers Authority.  The completed scheme was commemorated by a sculpture on the Brook Lane bridge, known as The Return. The 1995 carved stone sculpture by local artist Ian Randall, shows a cascade of fish returning to the brook.

A flood warning service is provided for the brook, and encompasses areas at risk such as, Brook Lane, Hatrell Street and the Lyme Valley sports fields.

Pollution and ecology
Along with other watercourses draining the Potteries such as Ford Green Brook and the Fowlea Brook, Lyme brook suffered from pollution as the area developed following the Industrial Revolution with sewage effluent from Newcastle being discharged into the brook. The building of sewerage treatment works removed the gross pollution, but problems still persisted.

Lyme brook is classed as having poor ecological quality  under the Water Framework Directive, having improved from bad in 2015.  The bands in the five part framework scale are high, good, moderate, poor and bad. Problems include poor water quality and low levels of aquatic ecology. Work to improve the brook is continuing and examples of improvement include the return of Brown Trout.

References

Rivers of Staffordshire
Areas of Stoke-on-Trent
1Lyme
Tributaries of the River Trent


title: Givira pulverosa

text:
Givira pulverosa is a moth in the family Cossidae described by George Hampson in 1898. It is found in St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenada.

The wingspan is about 40 mm. Adults are brownish grey, the forewings with small rufous spots on the costal area, consisting of an antemedial series in the cell. There are also brown striae on the inner and terminal areas, as well as an obscure subterminal and terminal series of small spots. The hindwings are fuscous brown with a terminal series of spots.

References

Moths described in 1898
Givira


title: Givira quadroides

text:
Givira quadroides is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Brazil.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 1923
Givira


title: Bitonto Santi Medici railway station

text:
Bitonto SS Medici is a railway station in Bitonto, Italy. The train services are operated by Ferrotramviaria.

Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):

Bari Metropolitan services (FR1) Bitonto - Palese - Bari
Bari Metropolitan services (FR2) Barletta - Andria - Bitonto - Aeroporto - Bari
Bari Metropolitan services (FM2) Bitonto - Aeroporto - Bari

References

Railway stations in Apulia
Railway station Santi Medici
Buildings and structures in the Province of Bari


title: Givira saladota

text:
Givira saladota is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Argentina.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 1911
Givira


title: Steppin' on Water

text:
Steppin' On Water is a compilation album by Italian singer-songwriter Elisa. The compilation album was released on 21 February 2012 in Canada and on 13 March 2012 in the United States, Australia and Mexico.

Track listing

References

Elisa (Italian singer) albums
2012 albums


title: 2002 Virginia ballot measures

text:
The 2002 Virginia State Elections took place on Election Day, November 5, 2002, the same day as the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House elections in the state.  The only statewide elections on the ballot were two constitutional referendums  to amend the Virginia State Constitution and two government bond referendums.  Because Virginia state elections are held on off-years, no statewide officers or state legislative elections were held.  All referendums were referred to the voters by the Virginia General Assembly.

Question 1

The Judicial Power and Jurisdiction Act spells out in detail when and how a convicted felon may petition the Virginia Supreme Court (and thus bypass lower courts) to issue a writ of actual innocence. The petition must claim that the petitioner is actually innocent of the crime for which he or she was convicted, set out an exact description of the human biological or DNA evidence and testing supporting his or her innocence, and explain that the evidence was not available when the petitioner was convicted. The Supreme Court may dismiss or grant the petition and may overturn or modify the conviction after it considers the petition and the Commonwealth's response, the previous records of the case, and other evidence it may require.

Question 2

The proposed amendment authorizes local governments in the state to create a tax exemption for certain properties by an ordinance and eliminates the need for action by the General Assembly. The amendment provides that the local governing body may adopt an ordinance to exempt property "used by its owner for religious, charitable, patriotic, historical, benevolent, cultural, or public park and playground purposes." The General Assembly continues to have authority to enact laws setting out restrictions and conditions on these tax exemptions.

Bond Question 1

The Educational Facilities Act allows the Commonwealth to sell a maximum of $900,488,645 dollars in bonds for the purpose of raising funds to pay for capital projects at state-supported colleges, universities, museums and other educational facilities.

Bond Question 2

The Parks and Recreational Facilities Act allows the Commonwealth to sell a maximum of $119,040,000 dollars in bonds for the purpose of raising funds to pay for capital projects at state-supported parks and recreational facilities.

References

2002 Virginia elections


title: Givira tecmessa

text:
Givira tecmessa is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Brazil.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 1892
Givira


title: John F. Wadlin

text:
John Joshua Foale Wadlin (May 31, 1901 – April 30, 1953) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life
He was born on May 31, 1901, in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of John Joshua Foale Wadlin (1860–1926) and Charlotte Isabel (Voight) Wadlin (1864–1937). He practiced law in Highland, Ulster County, New York. On August 8, 1935, he married lawyer Beatrice Hasbrouck (1910–1985), and they had three children.

Wadlin was Supervisor of the Town of Lloyd from 1938 to 1940, and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Ulster County in 1940. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Ulster Co.) from 1941 until his death in 1953, sitting in the 163rd, 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th and 169th New York State Legislatures. In 1947, he co-sponsored the Condon-Wadlin Act which prohibited public employees to strike.

He died on April 30, 1953, at the Saulpaugh Hotel in Catskill, Greene County, New York, of a heart attack.

He was interred in Highland Cemetery. His wife was a historian for the Town of Lloyd and Highland for many years, and is buried alongside her husband. Her grandfather, Abraham E. Hasbrouck, served as a New York State Assemblyman, and her first cousin, once removed is Harcourt J. Pratt, U.S. Congressman and Lloyd supervisor.

His children are John Jay Wadlin, Elizabeth Wadlin Symonds (1936-2018), and Diane Hasbrouck Wadlin DeRoos.

Sources

External links
 "John Joshua Foale WADLIN" at Anne Brooks' Ancestry
 Wadlin genealogy at Wadlin.com

1901 births
1953 deaths
Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
People from Ulster County, New York
Town supervisors in New York (state)
Scientists from Brooklyn
People from Highland, Ulster County, New York
20th-century American politicians


title: Bitonto railway station

text:
Bitonto is a railway station in Bitonto, Italy. The station opened in 1963 and the train services are operated by Ferrotramviaria.

Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):

Bari Metropolitan services (FR1) Bitonto - Palese - Bari
Bari Metropolitan services (FR2) Barletta - Andria - Bitonto - Aeroporto - Bari
Bari Metropolitan services (FM2) Bitonto - Aeroporto - Bari

References

This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at June 2014.

Railway stations in Apulia
Railway station
Buildings and structures in the Province of Bari
Railway stations opened in 1963

Railway stations in Italy opened in the 1960s


title: Givira circumpunctata

text:
Givira circumpunctata is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Guyana.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 1916
Givira


title: Curator of the House of Representatives

text:
The  United States House of Representatives Curator is an employee of the United States House of Representatives, under the supervision of the Clerk of the House, who is responsible for the care of the House Collection of Fine Arts and Artifacts, on behalf of the House Fine Arts Board. The House's Office of Art and Artifacts collects, preserves, and interprets the House's fine and decorative arts, and historic objects. Through exhibits, publications, and other programs, the Office supports the House in preserving and presenting the heritage of the House.

The current Curator of the House is Farar Elliott. Elliott has served as the House Curator since 2002.

Employees of the United States House of Representatives

References


title: 2003–04 Torneo Argentino A

text:
The 2003–04 Argentine Torneo Argentino A was the ninth season of third division professional football in Argentina. A total of 20 teams competed; the champion was promoted to Primera B Nacional.

Club information

Zone A

Zone B

Zone C

Zone D

Apertura 2003

First stage
In every round the bye team played against the bye team of the other zone: Team from Zone A vs Team from Zone B and Team from Zone C vs Team from Zone D.

Zone A

Zone B

Zone C

Zone D

Final stage

Note: The team in the first line plays at home the second leg.

Clausura 2004

First stage
In every round the bye team played against the bye team of the other zone: Team from Zone A vs Team from Zone B and Team from Zone C vs Team from Zone D.

Zone A

Zone B

Zone C

Zone D

Final stage

Note: The team in the first line plays at home the second leg.

Overall standings

Championship final

Promotion/relegation playoff B Nacional-Torneo Argentino A

CAI remained in the Torneo Argentino A after a 1-1 aggregate tie by virtue of a "sports advantage". In case of a tie in goals, the team from the Torneo Argentino A gets to stay in it.

Relegation playoff

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Rosario Puerto Belgrano was promoted to 2004–05 Torneo Argentino A by winning the playoff and Racing (O) was relegated to 2004–05 Torneo Argentino B.
Gimnasia y Tiro remained in the Torneo Argentino A by winning the playoff.

See also
2003–04 in Argentine football

References

Torneo Argentino A seasons
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title: Givira eureca

text:
Givira eureca is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Guatemala.

The wingspan is about 43 mm. The forewings are silky, greyish white, with some dark brown striae
except on the extreme costa. The inner margin is shaded with brown. The hindwings are fuscous grey.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 1921
Givira


title: The Brass Bottle

text:
The Brass Bottle may refer to:

 The Brass Bottle (novel), a 1900 novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie under the pen name F. Anstey. It had three film adaptations:
 The Brass Bottle (1914 film), a British silent fantasy film
 The Brass Bottle (1923 film), an American silent fantasy comedy film
 The Brass Bottle (1964 film), an American fantasy film


title: William Taylour Thomson

text:
Sir William Taylour Thomson  (1813-1883) was a British military officer and diplomat.

Military career

He was a gifted military officer. When the British ship "Tigris" sank in the Euphrates river he was one of the survivors. In 1839 he participated in taking of Herat. He served in Iran in 1849 and 1853 to 1855.

Diplomatic career

He was the British Chargé d'Affaires to Persia between 1849–55 and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 1872-79 Between 1855 and 1873 he served in Chile. He was succeeded by his younger brother Ronald Ferguson Thomson.

He retired to Edinburgh living at 27 Royal Terrace, an impressive Georgian townhouse on Calton Hill.

He died on 15 September 1883 and is buried in Warriston Cemetery in an unusual double sarcophagus next to his wife. The grave lies on the north side of a main diagonal path just south of the vaults.

References

External links
 The Edinburgh Gazette, February 25, 1873

British expatriates in Iran
British expatriates in Chile
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
19th-century British military personnel
1813 births
1883 deaths
British people of the Anglo-Persian War
Burials at Warriston Cemetery


title: Givira perfida

text:
Givira perfida is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Guatemala.

The wingspan is about 29 mm. The costal margin of the forewings is pale brown with large fuscous spots edged with white. The base is brown, broken into spots by a white subbasal line and veins.
The hindwings are white with numerous dark spots and thick striae.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 1921
Givira


title: Manhattan (TV series)

text:
Manhattan (sometimes styled MANH(A)TTAN) is an American drama television series based on the project of the same name that produced the first atomic weapons. While some historical figures appear in Manhattan, most characters are fictional, and the show is not intended to maintain historical accuracy.

The show was the first drama production for WGN America since the revival of Tribune's production arm as Tribune Studios. The series premiered on WGN America on July 27, 2014. The series earned critical acclaim throughout its run, but failed to secure adequate ratings. As a result, it was canceled on February 2, 2016, after its second season, becoming the first WGN America original series to be canceled.

Plot
Set in 1943 and 1944 at the time of the Manhattan Project, the series focuses on the scientists at Project Y and their families in the newly created Los Alamos, New Mexico, a town the outside world knows nothing about. The federal government tells the scientists only what they need to know, while the scientists keep secrets from their families.

The TV show is not intended to be historically accurate, but inspired by history. The show does reference many aspects of the actual Manhattan Project, and some historical figures such as head scientist Robert Oppenheimer. Other contributors to the Manhattan Project, such as Nobel Laureates Enrico Fermi (who moved to the site in September 1944) and Emilio G. Segrè, do not appear.

Cast

Main
 John Benjamin Hickey as Dr. Frank Winter, leader of an initially small group of scientists working on an implosion design weapon (loosely based on Seth Neddermeyer and the E-5 Group at the Los Alamos Laboratory)
 Olivia Williams as Dr. Liza Winter, Frank's wife and a botanist
 Ashley Zukerman as Dr. Charlie Isaacs, a rising young star of the Project
 Rachel Brosnahan as Abby Isaacs, Charlie's wife
 Daniel Stern as Dr. Glen Babbit, mentor to other scientists (season 1; special guest season 2)
 Katja Herbers as Dr. Helen Prins, one of the few women scientists
 Harry Lloyd as Paul Crosley, a British scientist who wants to advance at any cost
 Alexia Fast as Callie Winter, Frank and Liza's rebellious teenage daughter (season 1; guest season 2)
 Christopher Denham as Jim Meeks, a scientist
 Michael Chernus as Louis "Fritz" Fedowitz, a scientist
 William Petersen as Colonel Emmett Darrow (season 2), a United States military officer

Recurring
 David Harbour as Dr. Reed Akley, lead scientist for the Thin Man bomb design
 Eddie Shin as Dr. Sidney "Sid" Liao, a Chinese-American scientist
 Daniel London as Professor J. Robert Oppenheimer, the melancholic, somewhat reclusive, world-renowned theoretical physicist, and scientific director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
 Mark Moses as Col. Alden Cox
 Carole Weyers as Elodie, a French switchboard operator.
 Richard Schiff as Mr. Fisher (aka "Occam")
 Jefferson White as Private First Class Cole Dunlavey (aka "Iowa")
 Peter Stormare as Lazar
 Josh Cooke as Lancefield
 Neve Campbell as Kitty Oppenheimer (season 2)
 Mamie Gummer as Nora (season 2)
 Griffin Dunne as Woodrow Lorentzen, a reporter and old friend of Liza Winter (season 2)

Production
Television network WGN America premiered its first scripted show, the historical drama Salem, on April 20, 2014. Peter Liguori, CEO of WGN's parent, Tribune Media, emphasized a strategy of original content production as a way to improve the channel's prestige and profile. TV companies producing the show include Lionsgate Television, Skydance Television and Tribune Studios, a WGN affiliate. When announced in April 2014, 13 episodes were ordered.

The series began filming in mid-March across  in New Mexico.  On October 14, 2014, Manhattan was renewed for a second season. Production on season 2 wrapped on July 24, 2015.

David Saltzberg, a physicist at UCLA, acted as the scientific consultant for the show, and Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at Stevens Institute of Technology who studies the history of nuclear weapons and secrecy, acted as a historical consultant for the show for Season 2, providing period detail to the writers.

Creator Sam Shaw said although that at first the show seems to be about World War II, and the development of the atomic bomb, it was about two eras: the development of the atomic bomb, and after dropping of it on Japan. Speaking about a potential third season Shaw said "the most complicated and morally fascinating and dramatic aspects of the history don't come until after the end of World War II." Shaw noted that only Fritz, Meeks, and Winter knew exactly what happened at the end of season 2 and that going forward he hoped he would get to write that story. Shaw also said "I hope we'll get to follow characters in this moment when Los Alamos goes from being the best kept secret in the world to being the most famous city on the planet."

Episodes

Season 1 (2014)

Season 2 (2015)

Reception

Critical reception
Season 1 of Manhattan received highly positive reception from television critics and has a Metacritic score of 78 out of 100, based on 23 "generally favorable" reviews. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 90% "certified fresh" critics rating, with an average rating of 8.3/10 based on 30 reviews; the site's consensus reads: "Though slow to start, Manhattan is a top-notch drama thanks to a talented cast, beautiful cinematography, and a keen eye for period detail."

Season 2 received further acclaim, scoring an 80 out of 100 based on nine reviews on Metacritic. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 92% approval rating, with an average rating of 8.5/10 based on 13 reviews, and the site's consensus reading, "Manhattans slow-building intrigue and sense of impending doom deepen in season two, further enriching an already well-acted period drama."

Accolades
The series won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards and also won the award for Excellence in Title Design at the 2015 South by Southwest festival. Justin Kirk received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series for the 6th Critics' Choice Television Awards.

References

External links

2010s American drama television series
2014 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Historical television series
Lesbian-related television shows
Television series about the Manhattan Project
Serial drama television series
Television series based on actual events
Television series by Lionsgate Television
Television series by Skydance Television
Television series by Tribune Entertainment
Television series set in the 1940s
Television shows set in New Mexico
WGN America original programming


title: 2000 Virginia ballot measures

text:
The 2000 Virginia State Elections took place on Election Day, November 7, 2000, the same day as the U.S. Presidential, U.S. Senate and the U.S. House elections in the state.  The only statewide elections on the ballot were two constitutional referendums  to amend the Virginia State Constitution.  Because Virginia state elections are held on off-years, no statewide officers or state legislative elections were held.  All referendums were referred to the voters by the Virginia General Assembly.

Question 1

The Lottery Proceeds Fund amendment requires the General Assembly to establish a Fund where the Commonwealth must put the net revenues from the Virginia State Lottery. Lottery proceeds in the Fund must be distributed to local governments, and their school divisions, to be spent locally for public education. Previously, the General Assembly had broad discretion to appropriate the lottery profits for any public purpose. The General Assembly will be able to appropriate money from the Fund and not distribute it to the localities only in exceptional cases. Four-fifths of the members voting in each house of the General Assembly must agree to appropriate lottery proceeds from the Fund in such an exceptional case. A locality that accepts a share of the lottery proceeds must maintain its local share of education expenses to meet the state standards of quality for school divisions, without using lottery proceeds to do so. The amendment also requires the General Assembly to pass laws necessary to establish the Fund and implement the new constitutional provision.

Question 2

The Right to Hunt, Fish and Harvest Game amendment adds a statement to the Constitution that "the people have a right to hunt, fish, and harvest game." That right is subject to regulations and restrictions that the General Assembly enacts by general law.

References

2000 Virginia elections


title: Palazzo San Felice, Naples

text:
The San Felice or Sanfelice Palace () is a Rococo or late-Baroque-style palace at Via Sanità 167 in Rione Sanità in central Naples. It is best known for its elaborate staircase.

History

The Palace was erected during 1724 to 1726 by the architect Ferdinando Sanfelice. The entrance portal has two stucco sirens of the Sanfelice family. Through an indistinct façade one enters to an interior octagonal courtyard leads to a double ramp stairwell. The interior frescoes originally by Francesco Solimena are now lost. The staircases with arches in shifting planes still grants an aura of complex scenography, despite its present cramped and dilapidated state: a grandiose entrance leading only to a decrepit palace. The nearby Palazzo dello Spagnolo is attributed to the same architect and has similar staircases.

References

Sanfelice, Naples
sanfelice, Naples
1726 establishments in Italy
Buildings and structures completed in 1726
Rione Sanità
18th-century architecture in Italy


title: Taxation in Portugal

text:
Taxes in Portugal are levied by both the national and regional governments of Portugal. Tax revenue in Portugal stood at 34.9% of GDP in 2018. The most important revenue sources include the income tax, social security contributions, corporate tax and the value added tax, which are all applied at the national level.

Income tax
Employment income earned is subject to a progressive income tax, which applies to all who are in the workforce. Furthermore, a long list of tax allowances can be deducted, including a general deduction, health expenses, life and health insurance, and education expenses. In 2015 a tax of 3.5% was introduced on all employment and state pension income over €6,790. The personal income taxation system is as follows:

Benefits available to former and first time tax residents
Under the Investment Tax Code, approved on September 23 2009, a new type of residency, for tax purposes was created under the Personal Income Tax Code, called non-habitual residency (NHR). This new tax residency type was created in order to attract to Portugal high-skilled professionals and pensioners obtaining foreign income.

Qualifying for NHR status
A person, regardless of their nationality, may apply for registration as a non-habitual resident if the following conditions are fulfilled:

 The person is considered, for tax purposes, to be resident in Portuguese territory, in accordance with any of the criteria set out in Personal Income Tax Code in the year for which that person wishes to be taxed as NHR;
 That person as not been considered to be resident in Portuguese territory in any of the five calendar years preceding the year for which that person wishes to be taxed as a non-habitual resident.

Personal Income Taxation

High Added Value Jobs
Under Ministerial Order issued by the Ministry of Finance, the follow jobs are subject to flat personal income tax of 20%:

Corporate tax rate
The corporate tax rate applicable to companies in Portugal may vary, depending on which part of the Portuguese territory said companies are incorporated and domiciled.

Madeira International Business Centre
Companies incorporated and headquartered in Madeira can apply for an International Business Centre (MIBC) license and, granted that they comply with substance requirements, benefit from a corporate tax rate of 5% on the taxable profit derived from economic activities engaged with non-resident entities or entities duly licensed within the MIBC.

Value added tax

Mainland Portugal

Three different VAT rates apply: normal, intermediate and reduced. There is a general rate of 23% (normal rate) for luxury goods, decorative plants, cut flowers, utensils and other equipment for firefighting and fire prevention, followed by a reduced rate of 13% for ordinary wine, spring, mineral, medicinal and carbonated water, and tickets for cultural events. This is followed by a further reduced rate of 6% on cereals, meat, shellfish, fruit, vegetables, and other essential foods, books, newspapers, medicines, passenger transport and hotel accommodation.
In 2014, the government introduced the fatura da sorte ("Lucky bill"), a lottery of tax-free cash and luxury cars awarded among consumers with VAT bills.
The goal is to bring into the formal economy the many unregistered and untaxed purchases.

Madeira
The VAT rates in Madeira are 22% (normal rate), 12% (intermediate rate) and 5% (reduced rate).

Azores

The Azores has lower applicable VAT rates of 16%, 9% and 4%. Businesses with revenue of less than 10,000 Euros per year are exempt from VAT.

Social security contributions

All employment income is subject to social security contributions.

General Social Security Regime

Closed Social Security Regimes

Social Security Regime for Freelancers

Voluntary Social Security Insurance Scheme

See also

 Economy of Portugal
List of taxes in Portugal
Portugal's List of Tax Havens

References

Portugal


title: Philippe-Auguste Jeanron

text:
Philippe-Auguste Jeanron (10 May 1809 – 8 April 1877) was a French painter, curator and writer. Throughout his life he was a passionate republican. His genre pictures typically depicted common people. He opposed the July Monarchy. After the February Revolution of 1848 was made head of National Museums and Director of the Louvre, where he  introduced important innovations in the preservation, classification and arrangement of the collections. Later he became director of the museum in Marseilles.

Early years

Philippe-Auguste Jeanron was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer on 10 May 1809. His grandfather had been a revolutionary who participated in the storming of the Bastille. He was born in the military camp at Boulogne, where his father was Nicolas Jeanron, a shoemaker for the troops of the Emperor. Nicolas Jeanron was taken prisoner by the English in August 1809 and imprisoned on the hulks of Portsmouth. He was later joined there by his wife Marguerite and their children, Philippe and Julie. Another son, Victor, was born in England. They returned to France in April 1814 after peace had been made, and settled on rue Montorgueil in Paris.

Jeanron studied drawing and painting under Xavier Sigalon (1787–1837). He first studied at the Bourbon college where he met many republican activists, including the groups led by Philippe Buonarroti, who had escaped from a death sentence in Belgium. He learned by copying  The Wedding at Cana at the Louvre. He also studied at the Swiss Academy. In 1828 Jeanron and his friend Honoré Daumier shared fifty francs for a sign they made for a midwife. He undertook commissions of paintings for churches in Paris such as Saint-Vincent-de-Paul and Saint-Louis-en-l'Ile, and made landscapes in the style of the Barbizon school.

July Monarchy

Jeanron was a supporter of the July Revolution of 1830 that brought King Louis Philippe to power.
He defended the freedom of expression of artists and founded the Société libre de peinture et de sculpture.
Jeanron was a strong believer in republican principles. Throughout the July Monarchy (1830-1848) he exhibited realist pictures that illustrated his views in the Salons, and also spoke, published and discussed his ideas with many artists. A highly educated person, with deep knowledge of art history, he was open to a broad range of styles. He hoped that society would be reformed to be equally inclusive.
As it became clear that the July Monarchy was indifferent to the needs of the mass of people, Jeanron became one of the opposition leaders.
He depicted the failings of the new regime through his paintings of everyday life.

In 1830 Jeanron married Désirée-Angéline, from a well-to-do Parisian family.
From this marriage he inherited the estate and manor of Comborn, Corrèze, in the former Province of Limousin.
He often painted the landscapes and country people in this area.
Jeanron lived in exile in Limousin between 1833 and 1837.
In 1834 he exhibited Paysans limousins écoutant un joueur de musette au bord du grand étang d’Aigueperse (Limousin peasants listening to a bagpipe player at the edge of the large pond of Aigueperse.)
He exhibited that year at the Society of Friends of Arts of Lille, where his work was acquired for the Museum.
In 1840 he exhibited Bords de la petite Briance, which he hoped to sell to the Louvre, but without success.

Later career

When the provisional government took power after the February Revolution of 1848, the provisional government leader Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin nominated Jeanron as head of National Museums and Director of the Louvre.
He retained the prestigious position of director of the Louvre from 1848 to 1850.
One of Jenron's first priorities with the Louvre was to preserve the collection, and he hired guards for this purpose.
He also made it a priority to improve the extremely poor conditions in which paintings were stored.

Jeanron campaigned to include workers in completing the different sectors of the Louvre, hoping to spread the word that the museum was a place where all were welcome, and tried to obtain more space for the exhibits.
Jeanron had a deliberately populist agenda. He displayed works by painters such as Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and the Le Nain brothers who depicted plebeian subjects that would have greater appeal to the working class and the growing middle class, as opposed to the more aristocratic themes of painters like Hyacinthe Rigaud or Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

Having struggled as an artist in the 1830s, Jeanron wanted the government to actively support new artists such as Charles Jacque and Jean-François Millet. He also clarified that the Musée du Luxembourg would be a museum of contemporary art, with constantly changing exhibits, while the Louvre would focus more on the past.
Jeanron introduced the classification of painters by school, and made the first complete inventory of the collections.
He commissioned Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), whom he greatly admired, to complete the central composition of the Apollon gallery, which had been unfinished since the 17th century.

Jeanron was replaced as director of National Museums by Émilien de Nieuwerkerke.
In 1850 Jeanron became director of the Musée de Marseille.
Jeanron published several memoirs and works of art criticism.
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Jeanron finally retired to his mansion at Comborn.
He lived there for seven more years, suffering from poor health and poverty.
He died at the Château de Comborn, Corrèze, on 8 April 1877. He is buried in the 42nd division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Paintings

Jeanron's work as a genre painter, typically depicting scenes from every day life, was strongly influenced by Dutch artists. It is uneven in quality.
His painting Les Petits Patriotes (1831) depicts a group of children defending a barricade. The effect is pleasant rather than stirring.
It is one of a number of works in which Jeanron advocated the rights of man and defended liberty and democracy.
Une scène de Paris (1833) shows a family of paupers, the father wearing a cockade in his hat, apparently starving in the street while a bourgeois couple strolls away.
His painting Au camp d’Ambleteuse (1854), which shows a military camp where some soldiers are giving alms to a poor woman with two children, has a striking composition with an unusual sense of space. His Paysans des environs de Comborn is artificial and poor quality by comparison.

Paintings displayed in the Salons were:

1831: Portrait d’artilleur; Les Petits Patriotes
1833: Une Scène de halle; Une Scène de Paris; Une Halte de contrebandiers; (2nd class medal)
1834: Paysans limousins; Un Aveugle mendiant; autre Aveugle mendiant; Jeune Fileuse (aquarelle);
1836: Bergers du Midi; L’enfant sous la tente; Pauvre famille; Philosophe campagnard; Un chasseur; Charité du peuple (forgerons de la Corrèze);
1838: Portrait de Madame D…;  Portrait de Monsieur L…
1840: Un site de l’île de Java; Bords de la Petite-Brillance (rivière de la Haute-Vienne); Criminels condamnés à cueillir le poison de l’upas; Portrait de M. Aimé Martin;
1842: Portrait de Madame T…; *Portrait de M. Mala; *Sixte-Quint; Portrait de Mademoiselle***; Portrait de Madame***;
1847: Le Repos du Laboureur; Un Contrebandier;
1848: Enfants jouant avec une chèvre; Le repos; Les deux colombes; Rêverie; Une Bohémienne; Un bohémien;
1850: Le Berger; Portrait de femme; La plage d’Andreselles; Le Mariage de sainte Catherine; La fuite en Égypte; Vue du port abandonné d’Ambleteuse; Pose du Télégraphe électrique dans les rochers du cap Gris Nez,
1852: Suzanne au bain; Les Pêcheurs; Les Pêcheurs à la traille;
1853: Portrait de M. Odier; Vue du Cap Gris-Nez  (effet du soir); La Morte Eau  (vue matinale du port d’Audresselles);
1855: Au Camp d’Ambleteuse; Au Camp d’Eguilhem; Berger breton; Les Bergers  (port d’Ambleteuse);
1857: Fra Bartolomeo; Vue du fort de la Rochette (au port abandonné de Wimereux);  La longue absence (ustensiles de pêche); Pêche à l’écluse de la Slaëtz  (port d’Ambleteuse); Oiseaux de mer;  Portrait de Madame Antoine Odier; Pêcheurs d’Andreselles; Pêcheurs d’Ambleteuse; Le Tintoret et sa fille dans la campagne; Raphaël et la Fornarina;
1859: Le Phénicien et l’esclave; L’île de Calypso; Bords de la Seine; Vue du barrage de Bezons; Coqs de bruyère; Paysans des environs de Comborn; Site des environs de Comborn; La plaine avant l’orage; Départ pour la pêche de nuit au cap Grunez  (Cap Gris Nez);
1861: sept tableaux de paysages italiens;
1863: trois tableaux des environs de Hyères: Les Vieux Salins  (2 vues opposées, Les Salins-d'Hyères; Les Bains Bomettes;

Publications

Philippe-Auguste Jeanron's published work includes:

Du journal et de la commission des artistes, 15 pages, Paris, A. Belin, 1830
Espérance, 167 pages, Paris, Guillaumin, 1834
Sigalon et ses ouvrages in the Revue du Nord, n° 9, 1837, 15 pages, Paris, P. Baudouin
République française. Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Le citoyen Philippe-Auguste Jeanron aux républicains de la Seine, Pièce (Paris,) Pollet. Éditeur scientifique: France. Assemblée nationale constituante. 1848-1849
Origine et progrès de l'art, études et recherches, 126 pages, 1849 Paris, Techener
Des Expositions de beaux-arts, ce qu'elles sont, ce qu'elles devraient être, 16 pages, Paris, E. Dentu, 1861
De l'Art de la peinture ... résumé des conférences tenues en l'École de Marseille 1863-64, 55 pages, Marseille, J. Barile, 1865

References

Sources

Further reading

19th-century French painters
French male painters
French portrait painters
French history painters
19th-century French lithographers
19th-century French writers
Directors of the Louvre
People from Boulogne-sur-Mer
1809 births
1877 deaths
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
French genre painters
19th-century French male artists


title: Baramba, India

text:
Badamba is a Town and tehsil (block) of Cuttack district and a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Cuttack district, Odisha. There are 138 villages and 38 gram (panchayats) under the Baramba administrative division. Badamba is a beautiful historical place located in the middle of Mahanadi River and the mountain ranges. There are many various natural tourist attraction spots along with the ancient temples that attract tourists from far and wide for their beauty and amazing legends.

Baramba is part of the Baramba (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency) . which includes Baramba block and Narasinghpur block.

History
During the British Raj era, Baramba was the capital of Baramba State, one of several princely states of the Eastern States Agency.

The Bhattarika Temple, located in Sasanga village, Baramba, is believed to have been constructed between the 6th and the 16th century. The major festivals celebrated at this temple are Pana Sankranti in April, Akshaya Tritiya in May, and Dussehra in October.

References

Cuttack district


title: Broadcom Crystal HD

text:
Crystal HD is Broadcom's hardware semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) core that performs video decoding.

Features
Crystal HD includes single chip high-definition advanced media processors BCM70012 (codenamed Link) and BCM70015 (codenamed Flea); these chips are available on mini PCIe cards.

The BCM970012 supports hardware decoding of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, VC-1, WMV9 and MPEG-2 and the BCM970015 additionally supports DivX 3.11, 4.1, 5.X, 6.X and Xvid. VP8, VP9, Daala and HEVC are not supported.

Crystal HD is found in Intel Atom based machines, such as the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 HP Slate 500 or ExoPC, ASUS Eee Keyboard.

The commercial relevancy of dedicated video decoding accelerators was ended by the launch of the Intel Core i-series, featuring an integrated GPU with hardware video decoding (formerly only widespreadly available in discrete GPUs).

Operating system support
The Crystal HD SIP core must be supported by a device driver, which provides the video interfaces. One of these interfaces is then used by end-user software, for example Media Player Classic or GStreamer, to access CrystalHD.

Linux
Broadcom published a Linux device driver under GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. Broadcom also published application and library source code on a royalty-free basis under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1

Crystal HD can be accessed through the Video Acceleration API interface via an experimental driver (however, it cannot be recovered from the linked archive). A GStreamer plugin is available.

Crystal HD support is available in FFmpeg and MPlayer when compiled with the corresponding option.

It could be added to first generation Apple TV when OSMC is installed, although support was dropped in 2017.

Microsoft Windows
Broadcom published a device driver for Microsoft Windows that provides accelerated DirectShow renderers filters.

See also
 Nvidia PureVideo
 AMD Unified Video Decoder
 Intel Quick Sync Video
 Amlogic Video Engine

Related Broadcom technologies
 Xilleon
 VideoCore

References

Broadcom
Video acceleration
Video compression and decompression ASIC


title: LISA Pathfinder

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LISA Pathfinder, formerly Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology-2 (SMART-2), was an ESA spacecraft that was launched on 3 December 2015 on board Vega flight VV06. The mission tested technologies needed for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), an ESA gravitational wave observatory planned to be launched in 2037. The scientific phase started on 8 March 2016 and lasted almost sixteen months. In April 2016 ESA announced that LISA Pathfinder demonstrated that the LISA mission is feasible.

The estimated mission cost was €400 million.

Mission
LISA Pathfinder placed two test masses in a nearly perfect gravitational free-fall, and controlled and measured their relative motion with unprecedented accuracy. The laser interferometer measured the relative position and orientation of the masses to an accuracy of less than 0.01 nanometres, a technology estimated to be sensitive enough to detect gravitational waves by the follow-on mission, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).

The interferometer was a model of one arm of the final LISA interferometer, but reduced from millions of kilometers long to 40 cm.  The reduction did not change the accuracy of the relative position measurement, nor did it affect the various technical disturbances produced by the spacecraft surrounding the experiment, whose measurement was the main goal of LISA Pathfinder.  The sensitivity to gravitational waves, however, is proportional to the arm length, and this is reduced several billion-fold compared to the planned LISA experiment.

LISA Pathfinder was an ESA-led mission. It involved European space companies and research institutes from France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, UK, and the US space agency NASA.

LISA Pathfinder science
LISA Pathfinder was a proof-of-concept mission to prove that the two masses can fly through space, untouched but shielded by the spacecraft, and maintain their relative positions to the precision needed to realise a full gravitational wave observatory planned for launch in 2037. The primary objective was to measure deviations from geodesic motion. Much of the experimentation in gravitational physics requires measuring the relative acceleration between free-falling, geodesic reference test particles.

In LISA Pathfinder, precise inter-test-mass tracking by optical interferometry allowed scientists to assess the relative acceleration of the two test masses, situated about 38 cm apart in a single spacecraft. The science of LISA Pathfinder consisted of measuring and creating an experimentally-anchored physical model for all the spurious effects – including stray forces and optical measurement limits – that limit the ability to create, and measure, the perfect constellation of free-falling test particles that would be ideal for the LISA follow-up mission.

In particular, it verified:
 Drag-free attitude control of a spacecraft with two proof masses,
 The feasibility of laser interferometry in the desired frequency band (which is not possible on the surface of Earth), and
 The reliability and longevity of the various components—capacitive sensors, microthrusters, lasers and optics.

For the follow-up mission, LISA, the test masses will be pairs of 2 kg gold/platinum cubes housed in each of three separate spacecraft 2.5 million kilometers apart.

Spacecraft design
LISA Pathfinder was assembled by Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage (UK), under contract to the European Space Agency. It carried a European "LISA Technology Package" comprising inertial sensors, interferometer and associated instrumentation as well as two drag-free control systems: a European one using cold gas micro-thrusters (similar to those used on Gaia), and a US-built "Disturbance Reduction System" using the European sensors and an electric propulsion system that uses ionised droplets of a colloid accelerated in an electric field.  The colloid thruster (or "electrospray thruster") system was built by Busek and delivered to JPL for integration with the spacecraft.

Instrumentation
The LISA Technology Package (LTP) was integrated by Airbus Defence and Space Germany, but the instruments and components were supplied by contributing institutions across Europe.  The noise rejection technical requirements on the interferometer were very stringent, which means that the physical response of the interferometer to changing environmental conditions, such as temperature, must be minimised.

Environmental influences
On the follow-up mission, eLISA, environmental factors will influence the measurements the interferometer takes. These environmental influences include stray electromagnetic fields and temperature gradients, which could be caused by the Sun heating the spacecraft unevenly, or even by warm instrumentation inside the spacecraft itself. Therefore, LISA Pathfinder was designed to find out how such environmental influences change the behaviour of the inertial sensors and the other instruments. LISA Pathfinder flew with an extensive instrument package which can measure temperature and magnetic fields at the test masses and at the optical bench. The spacecraft was even equipped to stimulate the system artificially: it carried heating elements which can warm the spacecraft's structure unevenly, causing the optical bench to distort and enabling scientists to see how the measurements change with varying temperatures.

Spacecraft operations
Mission control for LISA Pathfinder was at ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany with science and technology operations controlled from ESAC in Madrid, Spain.

Lissajous orbit

The spacecraft was first launched by Vega flight VV06 into an elliptical LEO parking orbit. From there it executed a short burn each time perigee was passed, slowly raising the apogee closer to the intended halo orbit around the Earth–Sun  point.

Chronology and results

The spacecraft reached its operational location in orbit around the Lagrange point L1 on 22 January 2016, where it underwent payload commissioning. The testing started on 1 March 2016. In April 2016 ESA announced that LISA Pathfinder demonstrated that the LISA mission is feasible.

On 7 June 2016, ESA presented the first results of two months' worth of science operation showing that the technology developed for a space-based gravitational wave observatory was exceeding expectations. The two cubes at the heart of the spacecraft are falling freely through space under the influence of gravity alone, unperturbed by other external forces, to a factor of 5 better than requirements for LISA Pathfinder. In February 2017, BBC News reported that the gravity probe had exceeded its performance goals.

LISA Pathfinder was deactivated on 30 June 2017.

On 5 February 2018, ESA published the final results. Precision of measurements could be improved further, beyond current goals for the future LISA mission, due to venting of residue air molecules and better understanding of disturbances.

See also

 Einstein Telescope, a European gravitational wave detector
 GEO600, a gravitational wave detector located in Hannover, Germany
 LIGO, a gravitational wave observatory in USA
 Taiji 1, a Chinese technology demonstrator for gravitational wave observation launched in 2019
 Virgo interferometer, an interferometer located close to Pisa, Italy

References

External links

 LISA and LISA Pathfinder's Homepage
 LISA Pathfinder mission home at ESA
 LISA Pathfinder at eoPortal
 Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute Hannover)

European Space Agency space probes
Space probes launched in 2015
Spacecraft using halo orbits
Spacecraft launched by Vega rockets
Interferometers
Space telescopes
Gravitational-wave telescopes
Technology demonstrations
Artificial satellites at Earth-Sun Lagrange points


title: Jayce Hawryluk

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Jayce Hawryluk (born January 1, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is currently under contract with HC Bílí Tygři Liberec of the Czech Extraliga (ELH). He was selected by the Florida Panthers in the second round (32nd overall) of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.

Early life
Jayce was born January 1, 1996, in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. He has Ukrainian roots.

Hawryluk grew up in Roblin, Manitoba and was once featured on Hockey Day in Canada after becoming a "goal-scoring machine" in the Parkland Region of Manitoba.

Playing career
Hawryluk was selected by the Brandon Wheat Kings in the second round (32nd overall) of the 2011 Western Hockey League (WHL) Bantam Draft.  He has played with the Brandon Wheat Kings since the 2012–13 WHL season.
He had a 24-goal, 64-point season with the Wheat Kings in the 2013–14 season.

On March 1, 2016, Hawryluk was signed to a three-year entry-level contract with the Florida Panthers. Hawryluk would go on to finish fourth in WHL scoring with 106 points (47 goals, 59 assists) in just 58 games for the Wheat Kings. Hawryluk and the Wheat Kings would reach the WHL final for the second year in a row. A year after being swept by the Kelowna Rockets, Hawryluk would lead the charge in the fifth game of the series, recording 3 goals and 3 assists in a Brandon 8–4 win to capture the Ed Chynoweth Trophy. Hawryluk finished his Western Hockey League career with 119 goals, 159 assists for 278 points in 232 regular season games. He totaled 61 points (22 goals, 39 assists) in 45 career WHL Playoff games.

Hawryluk turned professional the following season after being assigned to the Panthers' American Hockey League affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds.

Hawryluk began the 2017–18 season in the AHL after being cut from Panthers training camp. He played most of the season in the AHL before being assigned the ECHL team, the Manchester Monarchs, on March 28, 2018.

Hawryluk again started the 2018–19 season in the American Hockey League with the Thunderbirds after being cut from training camp. However, after 25 games, Hawryluk was recalled to the NHL on December 15, 2018, alongside Henrik Borgström. He made his NHL debut that night against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Hawryluk scored his first two career NHL goals in a 6–3 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on December 23, 2018.

On July 15, 2019, Hawryluk accepted his qualifying offer from the Panthers, agreeing to a one-year, two-way contract.

During the following 2019–20 season, on February 17, 2020, Hawryluk was claimed off waivers from the Panthers by the Ottawa Senators. Added to the Senator's lineup, Hawryluk contributed with 2 goals and 7 points in only 11 games before the season was paused and abruptly ended for the Senators due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As an impending restricted free agent and with the Senators undergoing a roster overhaul, Hawryluk was not tendered a qualifying offer, releasing him to free agency. On October 19, 2020, Hawryluk was signed to a one-year, two-way contract with the Vancouver Canucks. In the shortened  season, Hawryluk remained on the Canucks roster, making 30 appearances with the team in a checking-line role, registering 2 goals and 5 points as the club failed to return to the playoffs.

As a free agent from his lone season with the Canucks, Hawryluk paused his NHL career and opted to sign his first European contract in agreeing to a one-year deal with Swedish club, Skellefteå AIK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), on September 3, 2021.

After a successful tenure in the SHL, Hawryluk returned to North America and signed a one-year, two-way contract with former club, the Ottawa Senators, on July 25, 2022. Assigned to the AHL for the 2022–23 season, Hawryluk registered 3 goals and 8 points in 19 games. Without featuring for Ottawa, on March 10, 2023, Hawryluk was traded by the Senators to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for future considerations. Assigned to the Devils affiliate, the Utica Comets, Hawryluk played out the remainder of the season in the AHL posting 3 points in 7 regular season games and 6 assists through 6 playoff appearances.

As a free agent from the Devils, Hawryluk returned to Europe in agreeing to a one-year contract with Czech club, HC Bílí Tygři Liberec of the ELH, on September 11, 2023.

International play
Hawryluk was selected to play with Team Western Canada at the 2013 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, and he helped the Canadian squad win the gold medal at the 2013 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament.  Hawryluk also helped Canada men's national under-18 ice hockey team capture the bronze medal at the 2014 IIHF World U18 Championships.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honours

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
Belleville Senators players
HC Bílí Tygři Liberec players
Brandon Wheat Kings players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Canadian ice hockey centres
Canadian people of Ukrainian descent
Florida Panthers draft picks
Florida Panthers players
Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan
Manchester Monarchs (ECHL) players
Ottawa Senators players
Skellefteå AIK players
Sportspeople from Yorkton
Springfield Thunderbirds players
Utica Comets players
Vancouver Canucks players


title: Listed buildings in Stapeley

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Stapeley is a former civil parish in Cheshire East, England.  It contained six buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, all of which are listed at Grade II.  This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".  The parish was mainly rural and all the listed buildings are houses, two of them being timber-framed.

References

Citations

Sources

Listed buildings in the Borough of Cheshire East
Lists of listed buildings in Cheshire


title: 99 Monkeys

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99 Monkeys is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Neuwirth. It was released in 1991 by Gold Castle Records. It was produced by Steven Soles and it features guests Katy Moffatt, Billy Swan and Peter Case. It was his first album since 1988's Back to the Front.

Track listing
"Great Spirit" (Bob Neuwirth, Robby Romero) – 3:30
"Biggest Bordertown" (Neuwirth, Tom Russell) – 4:37
"The First Time" (Neuwirth) – 4:17
"Good Intentions" (Neuwirth, Lyle Lovett) – 5:39
"Biding Her Time" (Neuwirth) – 4:00
"Life Is for the Living" (Neuwirth) – 4:43
"Dazzled by Diamonds" (Neuwirth) – 4:06
"Ancient Questions (War & Peace)" (Neuwirth) – 7:52
"Winter in Berlin" (Neuwirth) – 3:55
"Cloudy Day" (Neuwirth) – 3:32 (bonus)
"Busted Bottle" (Neuwirth, Kris Kristofferson) – 3:14 (bonus)

Personnel
Bob Neuwirth - vocals, guitar, harmonica, cover painting
David Kemper - percussion
with:
Billy Swan, Katy Moffatt, David Mansfield - guitar, vocals
Steve Young, Steven Soles, Peter Case - guitar
Jack Sherman - bass, guitar
Lisa Maxwell - tenor saxophone
John Bilezikjian - oud

References

Bob Neuwirth albums
1991 albums


title: Gopalapatnam

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Gopalapatnam is a neighborhood in the city of Visakhapatnam, India. The neighborhood is considered to be the major residential and commercial area in the district. It is located within the jurisdiction of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, which is responsible for the area's civic amenities. It is located on the western fringe of Visakhapatnam. The Visakhapatnam gas leak occurred in the neighborhood on 7 May 2020.

The Gopalapatnam Mandal is one of the 46 mandals of the Visakhapatnam District. It is under the administration of the Visakhapatnam Revenue Division, which is headquartered in Gopalapatnam. The Mandal is neighbored by the Gajuwaka, Seethammadhara, and Pendurthi mandals.

Wards
The Gopalapatnam Mandal consists of the following wards:

Location and geography

Gopalapatnam is located around 4 km from Visakhapatnam Airport and around 8 km from the Visakhapatnam Railway Station. The neighborhood is served by the Waltair Division's Simhachalam Railway Station. The station is located at the center of the neighborhood connecting the Highways NH-16 and SH-39.

Gopalapatnam lies to the west of Visakhapatnam City and is loosely bordered by Gajuwaka to the south and Seethammadhara to the north, Pendurthi to the west, and Marripalem to the east.

Etymology

Gopalapatnam was named after Sri Gopala Raju. He once ruled the areas of Kota Gutta, Enugula Dwaram, Gurrala Cheruvu, and Taati Penda, which were later united to form the present Gopalapatnam.

Industry
LG Polymers operates a 200-acre styrene plant in the RR Venkatapuram village near Gopalapatnam, which was the site of the Visakhapatnam gas leak.

Transport

Gopalapatnam is well connected by road, with NH16 and SH39 passing through the mandal. It also has major district roads connecting it to nearby mandals and Visakhapatnam. The APSRTC runs bus services from the Gopalapatnam bus station to major parts of the state and Visakhapatnam.

References

Neighbourhoods in Visakhapatnam


title: Henry Wilson-Fox

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Henry Wilson-Fox FRGS  (18 August 1863 – 22 November 1921) was an English lawyer, journalist, tennis player, and businessman. He built his career in Rhodesia, where he became an associate of Cecil Rhodes, manager of the British South Africa Company, and an advocate of Rhodes's imperialist ideals.

In 1916 Wilson-Fox was a founder of the Empire Resources Development Committee, which promoted the idea of state-managed commercial development of the British Empire. He was elected in 1917 as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamworth. In the House of Commons, he focused on finance and imperial development until his death in 1921.

Early life and family
The son of Wilson Fox, physician to Queen Victoria, he was educated at Charterhouse, Marlborough College, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Wilson-Fox was an exhibitioner and scholar at Trinity,
where he graduated with a BA in natural sciences.
He represented Cambridge University at lawn tennis in 1885–86, and thereafter made tennis and golf his main recreations.

Wilson-Fox was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1888,
having been an equity scholar.

In 1898 he married the Hon. Eleanor Birch Sclater-Booth, daughter of the 1st Baron Basing.

Career

Africa
Wilson-Fox moved to Johannesburg in 1889,
where he became editor of the South African Mining Journal in 1892.
He worked with John Hays Hammond to help draft the Rhodesian mining laws, which brought him in contact with Cecil Rhodes,
leading to his appointment in 1894 as public prosecutor in Rhodesia.

During the Second Matabele War in 1896, when the Ndebele rose up against white settlers and laid siege to Bulawayo, Cecil Rhodes led a relief column from Salisbury to Bulawayo, with Wilson-Fox as his transport and commissariat officer.
In 1897, he undertook the same role during the Mashonaland rebellion. He was mentioned in despatches and received a medal with clasp.

Wilson-Fox returned to England for a holiday in May 1897, when he was offered the role of manager of the British South Africa Company (BSAC).
The BSAC was a chartered company which administered Southern Rhodesia, North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia. Southern Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe, and the two northern zones were merged in 1911 to form Northern Rhodesia, which achieved independence in 1964 as Zambia. BSAC's role in the Jameson Raid and the Matabele Wars, along with its manipulation of share prices, made it the best-known charter company.

He took up the post the following year,
aged 35. He dealt mostly with the commercial aspects of the company, and served on the boards of many of the biggest companies in Rhodesia.
He joined the BSAC's board of directors in 1913,
and was also a director of the Charter Trust and Agency,
which had been spun off from the BSAC in 1902.
By 1921 the Charter Trust owned over  acres in Rhodesia.
Other directorships included the Mashonaland Railway Company, Rhodesia Railways, Trust and Agency Assets, the Wankie Colliery Company, and Willoughbys Consolidated Company.

He established a reputation as a good public speaker, and as a fervent supporter of the imperialistic ideals of Cecil Rhodes.
He was a fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, the Royal Statistical Society, and the Royal Geographical Society (RGS).
In 1918 he became a vice-president of the RGS.

Wilson-Fox was also a periodic writer of letters to the editor of The Times newspaper.
In 1912 he suggested that collisions between submarines could be avoided if "the example of the whale should be followed, and that by means of a small pump a spout of spray should be discharged into the air at regular intervals".
In 1916 he proposed that domestic manufacturing industries—especially small and new ones—should be offered special protection by the state, in return for paying their workers a minimum wage and sharing profits with the state.

Empire development
In late September 1916, under the heading "Finance after the war", The Times published two articles by Wilson-Fox. The first article was "The need for new methods", in which he warned against attempts to pay off the war debt too quickly.
He proposed that the state should instead cut taxation, and increase borrowing to invest in economic growth.
In the second article "A board of development", he proposed the creation of a Board of Imperial Development which would invest in schemes anywhere in the British Empire which did not compete with existing commercial ventures and promised a return on investment of at least 10% per annum.
The first of the two articles was accompanied by an editorial in which The Times supported the broad outline of his proposals.

The articles were reprinted and widely circulated, leading to an inaugural meeting on 31 October 1916 of a body which became the Empire Resources Development Committee (ERDC). The principal founders were Wilson-Fox, the Conservative MP Alfred Bigland (an early supporter of the Tariff Reform League), and Moreton Frewen. Frewen was a former cattle-rancher in Wyoming and a vice-president of the Imperial Federation League.

The committee was publicly launched after a meeting in early 1917 at the London offices of the Rhodes Trust under the chairmanship of Lord Milner.
Dedicated to pursuing the aims set out by Wilson-Fox, the ERC was chaired by Sir Starr Jameson, with Wilson-Fox as honorary secretary and Almeric Paget as honorary treasurer.

The committee's manifesto was published on 29 January 1917,
claiming to represent "every party in the state".
The ERDC claimed that if their plans were adopted, the national debt would not be a problem after the war.

The 33 signatories to the manifesto included MPs and former MPs, government ministers, writers, journalists, and businessmen (4 of whom were involved with the BSAC). The full list was:
Waldorf Astor,
Alfred Bigland,
Henry Birchenough,
Harry Brittain,
Wiliam Bull,
Henry Page Croft,
Henry Cust,
Lord Desborough,
the Earl of Dunraven,
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans,
Algernon Firth,
Victor Fisher,
Moreton Frewen,
the Earl Grey,
Rupert Gwynne,
John Hodge,
Lord Islington,
Sir Starr Jameson,
Rudyard Kipling,
Arthur Lawley
W. H. Lynch,
Halford Mackinder,
Ian Macpherson,
V. A. Malcolmson,
George Croydon Marks,
Walter Grant Morden,
Horace Plunkett,
the Earl of Plymouth,
J. A. Seddon,
the Earl of Selborne,
Richard Vassar-Smith,
and Henry Wilson-Fox.

Later that year, Harry Brittain wrote "We hold that the scientific development of the resources of the empire, especially perhaps of the tropical empire, offers the only possible way of avoiding a permanent taxation much at the present level".
In a paper delivered in 1918 to the Royal Colonial Institute on behalf of the committee, Wilson-Fox set out their vision more poetically:

His other writings epitomised the committee's values.
Fox-Wilson sought restriction on foreign land-holdings and business activity in Britain. He opposed laissez-faire in industry, supported productivity agreements to replace wage-bargaining, and sought an economy devoted to building national resources rather than satisfying consumer demand.

The ERDC's approach was criticised by John X. Merriman, the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. Merriman derided Wilson-Fox's proposals as "ridiculous", and claimed that they amounted to "The British Empire being managed ... I suppose like the Chartered Company".
In England, the Manchester Guardian and the Aborigines Protection Society' attacked the proposed creation of state monopolies, and the usurpation of the land rights of Africans who would become labourers rather than farmers.

Parliament
In February 1917, Francis Newdegate MP was appointed as Governor of Tasmania. This created a vacancy for Newdegate's parliamentary seat of Tamworth in Staffordshire, and on 13 February Wilson-Fox was adopted as the Unionist (Conservative) candidate for the resulting by-election.

The Liberal Party did not nominate a candidate,
keeping the war-time electoral truce. (The Labour, Liberal and Conservative parties had agreed not to contest any vacancies which arose in seats held by their opponents.)
When nominations closed on 23 February, Wilson-Fox was the only candidate nominated, and so was declared elected without a vote.
He was returned unopposed at the general election in December 1918.

In Parliament he continue to promote the cause of trade and investment within the British Empire. The EDRC's work led to the formation of an Empire Development Parliamentary Committee, of which Fox-Wilson became the vice-chair. By 1921, it had over 200 members.

In July 1917, he moved an amendment to the Finance Bill which would have given a reduction in the income tax paid on the returns from investments made within the Empire.
Later that month he was appointed to the Commons select committee on finance.

In February 1921, he came fourth in the annual ballot for Private Members' Bills. He announced that he intended to present a bill to amend the provisions of the Trade Union Act 1913 in respect of political levies.

In October 1921, Wilson-Fox was part of a delegation of MPs from the Empire Development Parliamentary Committee, who met with Winston Churchill, the Secretary of State for the Colonies.  Led by Alfred Bigland, they pressed the case for more rapid development of the Empire "to find openings for our millions of surplus population". The MPs sought a "gradual transfer to the overseas dominions" of these surplus people, and Churchill expressed support for their ideas.

Death
On 19 November 1921, The Times reported that Wilson was "seriously ill, and his condition gives cause for anxiety".
Daily bulletins followed.
On Monday 21 November, it reported that "his condition yesterday showed improvement";
but Tuesday's report was "no improvement".

The following day, The Times announced his death in London, aged 58.
Wilson-Fox was buried on 25 November at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey,
after a funeral conducted by his brothers-in-law Canon Merewether and Canon Baggallay.
A memorial service was held on 28 November at St Margaret's, Westminster,
the parish church of the House of Commons.
The by-election for his seat in the Commons was held on 17 January 1922, and won by the Conservative candidate Sir Percy Newson, Bt.

His estate was valued at £63,020
(equivalent to £ in ),
with net personalty of £41,678
(equivalent to £ in ).

His wife Eleanor survived him by more than 40 years, dying aged 92 in October 1963.
She had been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918 for her work as Chairman of the South African Comforts Committee in London.

Henry and Eleanor Wilson-Fox had two children. Their son George Hubert Wilson-Fox was born 1899, and married in 1935.
Their daughter Leila Eleanor Wilson-Fox was born in 1901, and died at Aldeburgh-on-Sea in 1903.

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title: Tour de Azerbaijan (disambiguation)

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Tour du Azerbaijan or Azerbaijan Cycling Tour may refer to:
 Tour of Azerbaijan (Iran) is a UCI 2.1 multistage road racing cycling tour held in Iranian Azerbaijan, Iran since 1986.
 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan is a UCI 2.1 multistage road bicycle race held in Republic of Azerbaijan since 2012.


title: Irati (river)

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The Irati river (Basque: Iratiko erreka) is a right bank tributary of the Aragon in Sangüesa, Navarre. It begins in the Irati Forest, then feeds the water retenue of 'Itoiz.

Path

It begins at the meeting point of the Urbeltza and Urtxuria rivers (black waters and white waters in Basque, respectively) in the Irati Forest.
From north, it has one French tributary, l'Iratiko. The river is then held up, shortly before Irabia, by a pond in the heart of the forest, Lake Irabia, built in 1921 with a tributary from the north, the river Urrio.

After having fared through Aezkoa and Oroz-Betelu, offering stunning landscapes, the Irati is held up again in the marais d'Itoiz, already joined by the Urrobi and the Erro. It is then joined by the Areta and the  to immediately enter the gorges of la Foz de Lumbier.

Finally its path ends after  in the Aragon.

Convenience
The wealth and conservation of its waters, with its bank vegetation and fish population makes it an important recreational fishing spot, albeit that it is declared as an area of common interest by the European regimentation.

It is probably the most used river for hydro-electrical purposes, namely after the inauguration of Irati S.A enterprise (1911), which also gave its name to the electrical train from Pamplona to Sangüesa. The Irabia dam was built at this time, enlarged more than five times to guaranty the river flow for the transportation of wood to the Ekai sawmill.

Along the river, one can still find a lot of tubes, buckets, pipes, canals and plants which reflect the quality of these constructions.

Rivers of Spain
Rivers of Navarre


title: General Assembly (school)

text:
General Assembly is an American-headquartered private, for-profit education organization founded by CEO Jake Schwartz, Adam Pritzker, Matthew Brimer, and Brad Hargreaves in early 2011 and purchased by The Adecco Group in 2018. It maintains campuses in various countries throughout the world to teach entrepreneurs and business professionals practical technology skills. It provides courses in mobile and software engineering, data science, product management, and other digital technology–related courses.

History
General Assembly began in early 2011 as a co-working space in Midtown Manhattan, and evolved into a private school. It built its first campus in the Flatiron District with a grant from the New York City Economic Development Corporation. In 2015 the company raised $70 million in venture capital funding.  , General Assembly has 15 campus locations on 4 continents.

In April 2018, human resources services company Adecco Group announced they were acquiring General Assembly for $413 million.

Course offerings
The school offers short courses, online classes (including overnight courses and free short online courses), and immersive 10- and 12- week  courses in computer programming, data science, and product management, with an emphasis on web development and user experience design. Approximately 20% of its courses are offered through companies to their employees. In 2016 it worked with accounting firms to develop a framework for assessing student outcomes that it plans to market to other private educational institutions.

General Assembly is not accredited but has been approved by the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education.

Local General Assembly branches have provided discounted programs sponsored by the charity Get Well Cities for training the homeless. On Women's Equality Day in 2016 the company launched a hashtag campaign, #ilooklikeadeveloper, and scheduled events around the world focusing on women in computing.

References

External links
 General Assembly official website

Coding schools
Universities and colleges in Manhattan
Organizations based in New York City


title: Jan O. Jansson

text:
Jan Olof Jansson (born 8 January 1951) is a Swedish television personality, who participated in The Farm in 2003 and The Farm Africa in 2004, both of which were broadcast on TV4. He became well known in the Swedish press, with the nickname "Naken-Janne" (English: "Nude-Janne") because he walked around nude in most episodes of the two seasons he participated in The Farm.

Career
Jansson was born in Hofors and grew up in Storvik, Sweden. During his youth he enjoyed skiing, orientation and terrain running. He moved to Uppsala in the 1980s, and studied theology and Swedish at Uppsala University. He later worked as a teacher and lecturer.

He became leader of The Naturist Society in Rullsand in 1992.

Between 2003 and 2004, Jansson participated in two seasons of the reality series The Farm, becoming known as an outspoken naturist who walked around nude during most episodes. Both series were broadcast on TV4. In 2003, he appeared nude in the music video for singer Markoolio's song "Vilse i skogen" (English: "Lost in the woods"), as the water spirit Neck from Swedish folktales. In 2005 Jansson participated in another reality series called Club Goa on TV3 with many other former participants from different reality series; the show was filmed in Goa, India.

Jansson released a book Den Nakna Sanningen (English: The Naked Truth) in 2005. He also released a music single, a cover of the song "Leende guldbruna ögon".

Today, Jansson works as an insurance trainer and educator for new insurance intermediary classes.

References

Living people
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title: Bruchsal – Schwetzingen

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Bruchsal – Schwetzingen is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 278. It is located in northwestern Baden-Württemberg, comprising the northern part of the Landkreis Karlsruhe district and western parts of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district.

Bruchsal – Schwetzingen was created for the 2002 federal election. Since 2002, it has been represented by Olav Gutting of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Geography
Bruchsal – Schwetzingen is located in northwestern Baden-Württemberg. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the municipalities of Bad Schönborn, Bruchsal, Forst, Hambrücken, Karlsdorf-Neuthard, Kronau, Oberhausen-Rheinhausen, Östringen, Philippsburg, Ubstadt-Weiher, and Waghäusel from the Landkreis Karlsruhe district and the municipalities of Altlußheim, Brühl, Hockenheim, Ketsch, Neulußheim, Oftersheim, Plankstadt, Reilingen, and Schwetzingen from the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district.

History
Bruchsal – Schwetzingen was created in 2002 and contained parts of the redistributed constituencies of Karlsruhe-Land and Heidelberg. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was constituency 279 in the numbering system. Since the 2009 election, it has been number 278. Its borders have not changed since its creation.

Members
The constituency has been represented by Olav Gutting of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since its creation.

Election results

2021 election

2017 election

2013 election

2009 election

References

Federal electoral districts in Baden-Württemberg
2002 establishments in Germany
Constituencies established in 2002
Karlsruhe (district)
Rhein-Neckar-Kreis