title: Rheineck–Walzenhausen mountain railway

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The Rheineck–Walzenhausen mountain railway (; RhW) is a  long rack railway in Switzerland. It links Rheineck station, in the municipality of Rheineck and the canton of St Gallen, with the village and health resort of Walzenhausen, in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. Passenger service on the line now forms part of the St. Gallen S-Bahn, branded as the S26.

The line is owned and operated by the Appenzell Railways company, which also operates several other railway lines in the two Appenzell cantons.

History

The concession for the construction of a rail link between Rheineck and Walzenhausen was granted in 1889. The Drahtseilbahn-Gesellschaft Rheineck-Walzenhausen company started construction in 1895 and the line opened on 27 June 1896. As constructed, the line was a water operated funicular railway that linked the current upper station at Walzenhausen with a lower station at Ruderbach, some  short of Rheineck station. In 1909, a connecting tram line was opened, initially operated by a gasolene powered tram and later electrified. The owning company would subsequently change its name to Bergbahn Rheineck-Walzenhausen AG.

By the 1950s the funicular was showing from its age, and it was finally closed on 1 May 1958 as the result of a broken axle. That year work commenced on the conversion of the funicular to a rack railway, using the Riggenbach rack system but retaining the funicular track gauge of . The connecting tramway was regauged and connected to the new rack railway, although retaining its adhesion operation, and the resulting line was electrified at 600 V DC. To operate the new line, a single four-wheeled railcar, BDeh 1/2 1, was built in 1958.

In 2006 the Bergbahn Rheineck-Walzenhausen AG company was merged into the Appenzell Railways. The 1958-built car remains the only rolling stock on the line, and in 2014 was given a full overhaul, returning to work in May of that year. During the overhaul period, the line was replaced by a bus service.

Operation

The route is  in length, has a track gauge of  and is electrified using a supply at 600 V DC, supplied by overhead line. Approximately  of the line is equipped with the Riggenbach rack system, whist the rest of the line operates using rail adhesion. The height difference between the terminal stations is , and the maximum gradient is 25 %.

The S26 service starts from its own terminus, located on platform 1 of Rheineck's main line railway station. For about the first  the line parallels the Swiss Federal Railway's Chur–Rorschach railway, before bearing right and crossing the road on a level crossing to reach the stop at Ruderbach. The station building here incorporates the line's single track depot, accessed via the line's only set of points. Here the line joins the route of its funicular predecessor, and engages rack operation. The remainder of the line climbs at a steep gradient in a straight line to Walzenhausen, passing first through a  long tunnel, and then across a  long iron bridge over the Hexenkirchlitobel ravine. Finally it enters the terminus through a  long tunnel under the Kurhaus.

The S26 operates one or two return journeys per hour, depending on the time of day, with a single journey time of 9 minutes. Service is provided by the line's single four-wheeled railcar, BDeh 1/2 1. If this is unavailable for any reason, a substitute bus service is provided.

A bus service links Walzenhausen with the upper station of the Rorschach–Heiden railway at Heiden, thus providing the opportunity for a round trip via both mountain railways. The final link between Rorschach and Rheineck can be achieved using the St. Margrethen–Rorschach line, or by ship on Lake Constance.

Route
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 Rheineck

 Walzenhausen

Future
In September 2022, Stadler Rail announced that it had won a contract from the Appenzell Railways to supply a fully automated rack-and-adhesion railcar for use on the line. The car will operate with no staff on board, but a control room will be able to intervene by remote control if required. The automation project, including the price of the car, will cost SFr25m and is scheduled to be in use in 2026.

Gallery

Further reading
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References
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External links

Mountain railways
Defunct railway companies of Switzerland
Rack railways in Switzerland
Transport in Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Transport in the canton of St. Gallen
1200 mm gauge railways in Switzerland


title: Roy F. Jones

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Roy Franklin Jones (October 16, 1893 – February 17, 1974) was an aviator from the Ketchikan, Alaska area. Jones learned to fly in the aviation section of the Army Signal Corps during World War I.

Jones was the first pilot to establish commercial air service in Alaska. On July 17, 1922, pilot Roy Jones and mechanic Gerald Smith landed at Ketchikan in the Tongass Narrows.  There had been several mechanical breakdowns and some bad weather en route. Jones flew a Curtiss MF-6-K Seagull, named Northbird, an open cockpit biplane equipped with a Hispano-Suiza 180 HP engine.

On the day he arrived, Jones  sent a telegraph ahead to say he would arrive in 90 minutes. When he arrived there was a crowd which carried Jones to Pioneer Hall where Joe Ulmer gave a welcome speech.  He stayed in the area, using Northbird to operate under the name Northbird Aviation Company. The airline did not prosper, as Jones crashed the flying boat in Heckman Lake in 1923. Jones continued living in Ketchikan until 1928.

Jones later became involved with another Alaskan airline, joining Vern C. Gorst and C.R. Wright to form Pioneer Airways in 1930.

A veteran of World War I as a pilot, during World War II Jones joined the United States Army Air Forces, being stationed at Ladd Field, Fairbanks, from where he retired as a Major in the reserves post-war.

Jones died in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1974.

Legacy
There is a mountain named after Jones in Ketchikan; Roy Jones mountain sits near Northbird mountain, which was, in turn, named after Jones' first airline.

External links

1893 births
1974 deaths
Aviators from Alaska
People from Ketchikan, Alaska
Commercial aviators
American military personnel of World War I


title: One Child (Mariah Carey song)

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"One Child" is a song by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey from her second Christmas album/thirteenth studio album, Merry Christmas II You (2010). It was written and produced by Carey in collaboration with Broadway composer Marc Shaiman. Backed by a children's choir, the lyrics are about the birth of Jesus. "One Child" received a mixed to negative response from critics, many of whom disapproved of the overbearing sentiment. In the United States, the track peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Gospel Digital Chart, and on the lower regions of the South Korea international single's charts. Carey performed the song at the Christmas in Washington event in November 2010.

Background and composition

Carey wrote and produced "One Child" with Broadway composer Marc Shaiman.  Lasting for a duration of four minutes and twenty-five seconds, the song is one of two original ballads included on Merry Christmas II You. It encompasses a range of genres, including Christmas, adult contemporary, urban contemporary and religious music.

The music and Carey's vocals recorded by Brian Garten at several recording studios, which included Henson Studios and 20th Century Fox Scoring Stage in Los Angeles, Guardian Angel Studios Bel Air, Germano Studios New York City and  Capitol Recording Studios in Hollywood. It was mixed by Phil Tan at The Ninja beat Club in Atlanta. Damien Lewis served as his assistant. "One Child" was arranged by Shaiman, and he carried out the orchestration with Brad Dechter. The song, in the key of C major, has a "tenderly" feel and a tempo of 64 beats per minute. The track is backed by a children's chorus, which was recorded by Martin Cooke. Assisted by Kenta Yonesaka, Alex Gulper, Peter Stanislaus, Charlie Paakkari, Tim Lauber, Tom Steel, Greg Dennon and Denis St. Amand. The children who participated in the chorus were Mariah Britt, Joshua Britt, Evyn Johnson, Makiah Johnson, Mason Johnson, Delaney Meyer, Elsie Moon and Cayla Nisperos; their voices span from G3 to F♯5. Carey provided her background vocals alongside Melonie Daniels, Sharlotte Gibson, Sherry McGhee and Nicki Richards.

Critical reception
"One Child" garnered a mixed to negative response from critics. Andy Gill for The Independent thought that the children's choir gave the song a "Jackson 5-esque glutinous" feel. A reviewer for Sputnikmusic described the song as a rewrite of "Jesus Born on This Day", written and produced by Carey and Walter Afanasieff for the singer's first Christmas album, Merry Christmas (1994). Mike Diver for BBC wrote that although the song is "bogged down in sentiment", "any unpleasantness in the mouth is soon washed clean by the arrival of that hit", while Caryn Ganz of Rolling Stone simply described the orchestration as "gooey". Jack Foley of IndieLondon echoed Diver's observation about its sentiment, writing that the "more serious songs" on the album such as "One Child", "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" and "Auld Lang Syne" are "stifling" and makes the album an "endurance test". He continued with "Hence, Auld Lang Syne, One Child and Oh Come All Ye Faithful literally make your skin crawl and howling for the nearest slice of Linkin Park to add some musical grit to your life." The Village Voice writer Rich Juzwiak was critical of the song, describing it as a "needless retelling" of the birth of Jesus that does not add anything new or original to the story of his birth.

Live performances
Accompanied by a gospel choir, Carey performed "One Child" and "O Come All Ye Faithful" at the Christmas in Washington event at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.. The performance aired on December 17, 2010, on TNT. Wearing a "billowy red dress adorned with a bow," it was noted by Idolator that Carey decided not to perform her "modern yuletide staple" "All I Want for Christmas Is You" or the first single from the album "Oh Santa!" in favor of "subdued and graceful tracks".

Charts

References

2010 songs
American Christmas songs
Mariah Carey songs
Songs about Jesus
Songs written by Mariah Carey
Songs written by Marc Shaiman
2010s ballads


title: State Highway 62 (Tamil Nadu)

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Tamil Nadu State Highway 62 (SH-62) is a State Highway maintained by the Highways Department of Government of Tamil Nadu. It connects Trichy with Thuraiyur in the northern part of Tamil Nadu.

Route
The total length of the SH-62 is . The route is from TrichyThuraiyur.

See also
 Highways of Tamil Nadu

References

State highways in Tamil Nadu
Road transport in Tiruchirappalli


title: SS Police Regiment Brixen

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The SS Police Regiment Brixen () was a security formation of the German Order Police during World War II. The unit operated along the Alps, conducting Nazi security warfare in German-occupied northern Italy.

Formation and service
The unit was raised on 12 October 1944 in Brixen, Italy, from local conscripts (ethnically Germans) with a cadre of Germans; its training was completed in December. The previous month it reported a strength of 1,335 men in three battalions. When the men learned that it might be transferred to the front lines in early 1945, many deserted. In February, the two remaining battalions were used to rebuild SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 80 of the 31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division.

Citations

Bibliography

Tessin, Georg & Kannapin, Norbert (2000). Waffen-SS under Ordnungspolizei im Kriegseinsatz 1939–1945: Ein Überlick anhand der Feldpostübersicht, Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag.

Brixen
History of South Tyrol


title: 5th Yokohama Film Festival

text:
The  was held on 29 January 1984 in Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Centre Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Awards
 Best Film: The Family Game
 Best Actor: Yūsaku Matsuda – The Family Game
 Best Actress: Eiko Nagashima – Ryūji
 Best New Actress:
Yukari Usami – Miyuki
Tomoyo Harada – Toki o Kakeru Shōjo
 Best Supporting Actor: Juzo Itami – The Family Game, The Makioka Sisters
 Best Supporting Actress: Misako Tanaka – Ushimitsu no Mura
 Best Director: Yoshimitsu Morita – The Family Game
 Best Screenplay: Yoshimitsu Morita – The Family Game
 Best Cinematography: Yonezo Maeda – The Family Game
 Best Independent Film: - Ryūji
 Special Jury Prize: Shōji Kaneko – For his talent.
 Special Prize:
Haruki Kadokawa (Career)
Yoichi Maeda (Career)

Best 10
 The Family Game
 Toki o Kakeru Shōjo
 Ryūji
 Orecchi no Wedding
 The Catch
 Blow The Night!: Yoru o Buttobase
 10-kai no Mosquito
 The Makioka Sisters
 Double Bed
 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
runner-up. Shonben Rider

References

Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival


title: Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy

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Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD or EFD²) was a Eurosceptic and populist political group in the European Parliament. The EFDD group was a continuation for the Eighth European Parliament of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group that existed during the Seventh European Parliament, with significant changes to group membership.

In 2017, it was one of the seven political groups of the parliament. This group was opposed to European integration. Twenty-four out of its 47 MEPs were from the United Kingdom, representing the UK Independence Party.

Its president was British politician Nigel Farage, who was first elected for the UK Independence Party, and then became an independent in 2018 before becoming leader of the Brexit Party in 2019. David Borrelli of the Italian Five Star Movement was co-president until January 2017, when he had to resign the co-presidency after a failed attempt by his party to transfer to the ALDE group.

The parliamentary group was originally linked to the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe (ADDE); however, the Alliance later ceased activities in 2016 after an auditors' inquiry found misspending of EU funds and was eventually dissolved on 24 May 2017. Nonetheless, the group continued its activities until 26 June 2019, when it was also dissolved following the 2019 European Parliament election.

History

7th European Parliament

Formation for the 8th European Parliament
Following the 2014 European parliament elections, the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group faced difficulties reforming for the 8th European Parliament, with various member parties and MEPs of the previous term's EFD either defecting to different parliamentary groups or failing to be re-elected.

On 4 June 2014, the Danish People's Party (Denmark) and Finns Party (Finland) were admitted into the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and therefore were no longer attached to the EFD.

On 12 June 2014, the Five Star Movement (M5S) of Italy, having been rejected by the Greens/EFA and  Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe groups, offered its activists a limited-choice online referendum to choose a European Parliament group for the party, in which 78% of participating activists voted for the EFD.

On 16 June 2014, Dutch MEP Bas Belder of the Reformed Political Party (SGP) moved from the EFD to the ECR group.

The EFD group was reformed on 18 June 2014 with MEPs from existing member parties: the UK Independence Party (United Kingdom) and the Order and Justice (Lithuania), in addition to new affiliates: the Five Star Movement, the Sweden Democrats (Sweden), the Party of Free Citizens (Czech Republic), the Latvian Farmers Union (Latvia) and a French independent MEP, formerly of the National Front.

On 24 June 2014, the EFD group name was revised to Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD), and David Borrelli of the Five Star Movement was chosen as the group's co-president.

Events during 8th European Parliament
On 16 October 2014, it was announced that Iveta Grigule MEP from the Latvian Farmers' Union defected from EFDD to the ALDE group, resulting in the collapse of the group because it was no longer composed of representatives from at least a quarter of the EU's Member States. The criterion was restored on 20 October, with one Polish MEP, Robert Iwaszkiewicz from Congress of the New Right (KNP), joining the group, although the other party's MEPs remained Non-Inscrits.

On 24 January 2015, Amjad Bashir was suspended from UKIP pending a party investigation into financial fraud: Bashir defected to the Conservative Party within an hour of his suspension. On 20 March 2015, Janice Atkinson was suspended from UKIP and later expelled on 23 March for alleged financial fraud. Atkinson joined the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) group at its launch on 15 June 2015.

In April 2015, Valentinas Mazuronis left Order and Justice and joined the ranks of Labour Party, also leaving the EFDD.

On 8 April 2016, Alternative for Germany (AfD) MEP Beatrix von Storch left the ECR group to join EFDD.

On 24 October 2016, Steven Woolfe left the group to sit as Non-Inscrits, followed by Diane James on 20 November 2016.

On 9 January 2017, the Five Star Movement voted in an online referendum to leave EFDD in order to join the ALDE group; however, they were rejected by ALDE later the same day. In the aftermath, two MEPs left the group, with Marco Affronte defected to the Greens/EFA group, and Marco Zanni to the ENL group. Other Five Star Movement MEPs pulled out of switching parliamentary group after threatened by party leader Beppe Grillo with a fine of €250,000.

In October 2017, with change in the French National Front, Florian Philippot, president of the "Patriotes", Sophie Montel and Mireille d'Ornano join the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group.

On 13 February 2018, former group co-president David Borrelli left the M5S and moved to Non-Inscrits.

On 3 July 2018, the 2 Sweden Democrats MEPs moved to ECR group.

In December 2018, Farage and multiple other MEPs left UKIP in protest over Gerard Batten's leadership. Batten in turn left the EFDD and then withdrew the remaining further 6 UKIP MEPs.

In April 2019, group leader Nigel Farage launched the Brexit Party, which he and ten of the other former UKIP MEPs in the group joined, along with one UKIP MEP from the Europe of Nations and Freedom group.

On the 26 June 2019 it was reported that the EFDD had failed to register for the 9th European Parliament, making them no longer an official political group.

Membership

8th European Parliament, 2014
At foundation, the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy had 48 elected members as follows:

9th European Parliament, 2019
In 2019 the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy had 42 members of the European Parliament along with other affiliated parties as follows:

Leadership
Chair/Co-president: Nigel Farage (2014–2019)
Chair/Co-president: David Borrelli (2014–2017)
Chair of the Bureau:  Roger Helmer
Vice-chair:  Joëlle Bergeron
Vice-chair:  Piernicola Pedicini
Vice-chair:  Robert Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Vice-chair:  Rolandas Paksas
Treasurer:  Tiziana Beghin

Political positions
The bloc's primary goal was the reduction in the powers of, or even the dissolution of, the European Union. Nigel Farage, the bloc's president, was also the leader of the UK Independence Party and latterly the Brexit Party, both of which advocated for the immediate withdrawal of the UK from the European Union.

During the European Parliament debate about Catalan independence referendum in 2017, the EFDD, by the voice of Ray Finch considered that European Union should have made some intervention against Spain to protect Catalan independence. He considered that this referendum led to human rights abuses. According to him, people should have the right to vote even when the referendum is illegal.

See also
 European Alliance of Peoples and Nations

References

External links

Former European Parliament party groups
Euroscepticism
2014 establishments in the European Union
2019 disestablishments in Europe
Right-wing populism in Europe


title: Isopregnanolone

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Isopregnanolone, also known as isoallopregnanolone and epiallopregnanolone, as well as sepranolone (), and as 3β-hydroxy-5α-pregnan-20-one or 3β,5α-tetrahydroprogesterone (3β,5α-THP), is an endogenous neurosteroid and a natural 3β-epimer of allopregnanolone. It has been reported to act as a subunit-selective negative allosteric modulator of the GABAA receptor, and antagonizes in animals and humans some but not all of the GABAA receptor-mediated effects of allopregnanolone, such as anesthesia, sedation, and reduced saccadic eye movements, but not learning impairment. Isopregnanolone has no hormonal effects and appears to have no effect on the GABAA receptor by itself; it selectively antagonizes allopregnanolone and does not affect the effects of other types of GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulators such as benzodiazepines or barbiturates.

Isopregnanolone is synthesized from progesterone in the body by the actions of the enzymes 5α-reductase and 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (with 5α-dihydroprogesterone as the intermediate in this two-step transformation) and can be reversibly metabolized into allopregnanolone by the enzyme 3α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase. Levels of isopregnanolone, progesterone, and allopregnanolone are highly correlated across the menstrual cycle and throughout pregnancy. The concentrations of isopregnanolone are significantly less than those of progesterone and allopregnanolone; about half of those of allopregnanolone, to be precise. Isopregnanolone has a relatively long serum elimination half-life of 14 hours in humans.

Isopregnanolone (developmental code name UC-1010) is under development for the treatment of premenstrual dysphoric disorder. As of 2017, it is in phase II clinical trials for this indication.

Chemistry

See also
 Epipregnanolone
 3β-Dihydroprogesterone
 Pregnanolone
 3β-Androstanediol

References

External links
 Sepranolone - AdisInsight
 Sepranolone - Asarina Pharma

GABAA receptor negative allosteric modulators
Neurosteroids
Pregnanes


title: 15th SS Police Regiment

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The 15th SS Police Regiment () was initially named the 15th Police Regiment (Polizei-Regiment 15) when it was formed in 1942 from existing Order Police units (Ordnungspolizei) to conduct security warfare behind the Eastern Front. The regiment was destroyed in January 1943 and its personnel was used to reconstitute it in Norway several months later from existing police units. The regiment was transferred to Italy in late 1943 and remained there for the rest of the war.

Operational history
The regiment was formed in July 1942 in Russia from Police Battalion 305, Police Battalion 306 and Police Battalion 310 which were redesignated as the regiment's first through third battalions, respectively. Between 29 October and 1 November, 10 Company of the Third Battalion helped to liquidate the ghetto in Pinsk, Belarus, killing an estimated 20,000 Jews. I Battalion was redesignated as III Battalion of the 16th Police Regiment later in the year and was later replaced by II Battalion of the 28th Police Regiment from Norway. The regiment was ordered to be rebuilt in Norway on 29 March 1943 with the survivors consolidated into I and II Battalions. III Battalion was intended to be the redesignated IV Battalion of the 27th SS Police Regiment, but I Battalion of the 27th Regiment was ultimately used instead. In July the headquarters and I Battalion were garrisoned in Sarpsborg, II Battalion was in Mysen and III Battalion was stationed in Bergen.

The regiment was transferred to Italy in late 1943 with the headquarters stationed in Vercelli, I Battalion in Turin, II Battalion garrisoned in Milan and III Battalion located in Trieste. It was later reinforced by an anti-tank company and a rocket-launcher battery.

The unit controlled two ethnic SS Police units, the SS Police Regiment Bozen and the SS Police Regiment Brixen engaged in security warfare in Italy.

War crimes
The regiment has been implicated in twenty-six incidents of war crimes in Italy from December 1943 to February 1945 with almost 200 civilians killed.

Notes

References
 Arico, Massimo. Ordnungspolizei: Encyclopedia of the German Police Battalions, Stockholm: Leandoer and Ekholm (2010).
Desbois, Patrick, Father. In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets, New York: Arcade Publishing (2018)
Megargee, Geoffrey P., ed. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume II: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe, Part B, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2011).
Tessin, Georg & Kannapin, Norbert. Waffen-SS under Ordnungspolizei im Kriegseinsatz 1939–1945: Ein Überlick anhand der Feldpostübersicht, Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag (2000).


title: Mário Lunter

text:
Mário Lunter (born 20 June 1994) is Slovak professional ice hockey forward who currently playing for HC Košice of the Slovak Extraliga.

Career
He returned to Bratislava for a second stint from HC ’05 Banská Bystrica, securing a one-year deal on July 19, 2018.

Career statistics

International

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
HC '05 Banská Bystrica players
Ice hockey people from Banská Bystrica
Slovak ice hockey right wingers
MHk 32 Liptovský Mikuláš players
HC Slovan Bratislava players
BK Mladá Boleslav players
HC Košice players
Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in the Czech Republic


title: Clepsis semanta

text:
Clepsis semanta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Costa Rica.

References

Moths described in 2003
Clepsis


title: SARAF

text:
SARAF may refer to:
 SARAF (TMEM66), a gene that encodes the SARAF protein
 SARAF – Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility, a  particle accelerator facility in Israel
 South Armagh Republican Action Force, an alleged Irish republican paramilitary group
 Saraf Hospital, hospital in Kochi in Kerala, India

People
 Ashok Saraf, Indian film actor
 Devita Saraf, Indian businesswoman
 Irving Saraf, Polish-born American film producer-director
 Kali Charan Saraf, Indian politician
 Mulk Raj Saraf, Indian writer
 Nivedita Joshi Saraf, Indian film actress
 Onnik Chifte-Saraf, Armenian journalist and writer
 Pandit Jia Lal Saraf, Sanskrit language scholar from India
 Peter Saraf, American film producer
 Ram Piara Saraf, Indian politician
 Rohit Saraf, Indian actor
 Shirish Saraf, Indian businessman
 Shubham Saraf, British-Indian actor

See also
 Shroff


title: Topsy (d.1998)

text:
Topsy (died 1998) was an abused deaf mute Chinese Tartar girl who was adopted by  British missionary Mildred Cable, a Protestant Christian missionary in China, serving with the China Inland Mission, and her friends Evangeline (Eva) French and Francesca French.
Her story is told in the book The Story of Topsy. She was named 'Little Lonely' by her abusive guardian, but the sisters called her 'Topsy'.
The child could not hear or speak and was sold as a beggar. She was unable to defend herself against attacks from the neighbour's dogs.

After the missionaries brought her to England, she took on the name of Eileen Guy. The French sisters left her their money when they died in 1960 (Eileen was thought to be about 45 at that time), and she lived in Rickmansworth until she died in 1998.

Footnotes

1998 deaths
Child abuse in China
Crimes against children
Year of birth missing
Incidents of violence against girls
Chinese deaf people
Tatar people


title: Clepsis soriana

text:
Clepsis soriana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Lebanon and Palestine.

References

Moths described in 1899
Clepsis


title: Leiolepis reevesii

text:
Leiolepis reevesii, commonly known as Reeves's butterfly lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to south-eastern Asia.

Etymology
The specific name, reevesii, is in honor of English naturalist John Reeves.

Geographic range
L. reevesii is found in China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.

References

External links
 Flickr photo by Michael Cota, taken in Khao Yai National Park - Thailand
 Flickr photo by Thomas Calame

Leiolepis
Reptiles of Southeast Asia
Reptiles of China
Reptiles of Vietnam
Reptiles of Cambodia
Reptiles of Thailand
Reptiles described in 1831
Taxa named by John Edward Gray


title: Hexalectris revoluta

text:
Hexalectris revoluta, the Chisos Mountain crested coralroot, is a terrestrial, myco-heterotrophic orchid lacking chlorophyll and subsisting entirely on nutrients obtained from mycorrhizal fungi in the soil. It is closely related to H. colemanii; the two are regarded by some authors as varieties of the same species. Hexalectris revoluta is native to western Texas, southeastern New Mexico and Chihuahua.

References

Bletiinae
Myco-heterotrophic orchids
Orchids of the United States
Orchids of Mexico
Flora of Texas
Flora of New Mexico
Flora of Chihuahua (state)
Plants described in 1941


title: 6th Yokohama Film Festival

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The  was held on 3 February 1985 in Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Awards
 Best Film: Mahjong hōrōki
 Best Actor: Takeshi Kaga – Mahjong hōrōki
 Best Actress: Mari Shirato – Mermaid Legend
 Best New Actress:
Yasuko Tomita – Aiko 16 sai
Youki Kudoh – The Crazy Family
Kimiko Yoshimiya – Renzoku Satsujinki: Reiketsu
 Best Supporting Actor: Kaku Takashina – Mahjong hōrōki
 Best Supporting Actress:
Kin Sugai –  The Funeral
Etsuko Shihomi – Shanghai bansu kingu
 Best Director: Toshiharu Ikeda – Mermaid Legend
 Best New Director: Shūsuke Kaneko – Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging, OL Yurizoku 19-sai, Eve-chan-no hime
 Best Screenplay: Juzo Itami – The Funeral
 Best Cinematography: Yonezo Maeda – The Funeral, Mermaid Legend, Tokimeki ni Shisu,  Main Theme
 Special Prize:
Norifumi Suzuki (Career)
Sayuri Yoshinaga (Career)

Best 10
 Mahjong hōrōki
 The Funeral
 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
 Mermaid Legend
 Chinpira
 MacArthur's Children
 Saraba Hakobune
 The Crazy Family
 Tokimeki ni Shisu
 Sukanpin Walk
runner-up. Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer

References

Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival


title: Jonathan Chaffey

text:
Jonathan Paul Michael Chaffey  (born 1962) is a British Church of England priest and former military chaplain, who served with the Royal Air Force. He serves as Archdeacon of Oxford in the same diocese; from 2014 to 2018 he served as the Chaplain-in-Chief and head of the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch. He previously served as Deputy Chaplain-in-Chief.

Early life
Chaffey was born in 1962 in London, England. He was educated at Worksop College, a private school in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He studied at St Chad's College, Durham, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1983. In 1984, he entered Cranmer Hall, Durham, an Anglican theological college attached to St John's College, Durham, to train for ordained ministry.

Ordained ministry
Chaffey was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1987 and as a priest in 1988. Before joining the military, he served his curacy at St Stephen's Church, Gateacre in the Diocese of Liverpool.

Military career
On 20 May 1990, Chaffey was commissioned into the Chaplains Branch, Royal Air Force and granted the relative rank of flight lieutenant. His first posting was to RAF Lyneham. On 20 May 1991, he was promoted to the relative rank of squadron leader. He transferred from a short service commission to a permanent commission on 17 November 1993. During his early career he served as a chaplain at RAF Stafford, RAF Finningley, RAF Wittering, RAF Waddington and RAF Lossiemouth. He also completed overseas deployments to RAF Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and Gioia del Colle Air Base in Italy.

On 1 July 2003, as part of the half-yearly promotions, Chaffey was promoted to the relative rank of wing commander. From 2004 to 2007, he served as the Staff Chaplain at Royal Air Force College Cranwell. In addition to being the senior chaplain, he also taught the Beliefs and Values Programme and the Care in Leadership Course. He was then posted to HQ Chaplaincy Services in a training role. During this time he also completed two postings to Afghanistan as part of Operation Herrick. On 1 January 2010, he was granted the relative rank of group captain. He was then appointed the Deputy Chaplain-in-Chief.

In 2013, Chaffey began his attendance of the Royal College of Defence Studies. In July 2014, he succeeded Ray Pentland as the Chaplain-in-Chief and head of the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch. He was promoted to the relative rank of air vice-marshal on 25 July 2014. Chaffey was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2018 New Year Honours. He retired from the Royal Air Force in July 2018.

Later ministry
On 29 January 2020, it was announced that Chaffey would be the next Archdeacon of Oxford in the Diocese of Oxford: he was due to be licensed as archdeacon during a service at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford on 9 May 2020. But, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was instead collated online on 1 May 2020. He has been a residentiary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford since 2020, and has been interim sub-dean of the cathedral since November 2022.

Personal life
Chaffey is married to Jane, who is also a priest. Together, they have three daughters.

References

1962 births
20th-century English Anglican priests
21st-century English Anglican priests
Alumni of Cranmer Hall, Durham
Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham
Church of England archdeacons (military)
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Living people
Royal Air Force Chaplains-in-Chief
Royal Air Force personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Archdeacons of Oxford


title: Dave Ward (rugby union)

text:
David Patrick Ward (born 21 May 1985) is an English rugby union player for Premiership side Harlequins, and Head Coach of Bristol Bears Women. A hooker, Ward has previously played for Ampthill RUFC, Sale Sharks, Northampton Saints, Bath Rugby and the Cornish Pirates. At international level he has represented the England under-18s, under-21s and Saxons.

Club career
Born in Bath, Ward joined his local club Bath Rugby as a six-year-old, progressing all the way through to the first team for whom he made his debut as a replacement in the Heineken Cup against Treviso in December 2004. His first start came a month later against Leinster Rugby and despite Bath losing, he was named as the Man of the Match. He made just six more appearances for the club over the next two years, and, after finding himself as fourth choice hooker, joined Northampton Saints on a two-year contract in 2007.

He made six appearances for Saints in their 2007–08 promotion winning season, scoring four tries, but was released from his contract by the club a year early in October 2008. Days later he joined Sale Sharks, though he again failed to secure regular playing time, making just three appearances during the 2008–09 season. During his time with Sale the club received a one-point deduction after he came off the bench against Harlequins prior to being re-registered following a loan spell at Manchester.

He time at Sale was hampered by injury and after only one season, Ward joined Championship club Cornish Pirates in Summer 2009. He turned down a part-time contract from Pertemps Bees alongside a sales job in favour of the Pirates and later revealed that he had contemplated retirement prior to the move. He made his competitive debut against Nottingham in September 2009 and went on to make 33 appearances in his first season. He was ever-present in the two following years, racking up 110 appearances in his three years at the club.

In April 2012 he returned to the Premiership after signing a contract with Harlequins for the 2012–13 season. His first season at The Stoop followed a similar pattern to his spells with Bath, Saints and Sale, with Ward making only seven appearances, five of which came in the Anglo-Welsh Cup. His Premiership breakthrough came in 2013–14 at the age of 28 where, following injuries to regular hookers Joe Gray and Rob Buchanan, he made 31 appearances, including his first Premiership start for seven years. Over the course of the campaign he earned five Man of the Match awards and was voted the Players' Player of the Season.

International career
Ward first represented England at under-18 and under-21 level. In January 2014 he was rewarded for his club form with a call up to the England Saxons squad for two games against Scotland the Ireland Wolfhounds. He started the first game which ended in a 16–16 draw and came off the bench as the second ended in a 14–8 defeat. Four months later he was included in England's senior squad for the three Test summer tour of New Zealand. Though he was not included in the matchday 23 for any of the Tests, he was a second-half replacement in the tour game against the Crusaders which England won 38–7.

Personal life
In August 2020 Ward married Harlequins and England player Abbie Scott.

References

External links

Harlequin F.C. profile

1985 births
Living people
Rugby union players from Bath, Somerset
English rugby union coaches
English rugby union players
Rugby union hookers
Bath Rugby players
Northampton Saints players
Sale Sharks players
Cornish Pirates players
Harlequin F.C. players


title: Saint John the Baptist Parish Church (Liliw)

text:
St. John the Baptist Parish Church (Filipino: Simbahan ng Parokya ng San Juan Bautista), also known as Liliw Church or Lilio Church, is one of the Roman Catholic churches in Liliw, Laguna, Philippines. Its feast is celebrated every August 29 known as the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist. The church is known for its red bricked façade and baroque style architecture.

History
Liliw was established as a reduccion by Franciscan priests Juan de Plasencia and Diego Oropesa in 1578. It was annexed as a visita of Nagcarlan until it became an independent parish with Miguel de San Lucas as first parish priest in 1605 by the Franciscan missionaries. The first church was built in wood in 1620. A stronger stone church was built from 1643 to 1646 and was partially destroyed during the 1880 Luzon earthquake. It was reconstructed in 1885 and was partially burned on April 6, 1898.

Architecture
The church, which is designed in baroque style, is adorned with red bricks.

Façade
The most prominent and notable part of the church is the façade is made of striking red bricks and adobe. On top of the wooden door entrance is a white sculpted image of the Baptism of Jesus by St. John the Baptist. It also contains stained glass images along with red bricked columns.

Retablos
The church has three retablos or altars finished in gold leaf. The retablo mayor (main altar) at the center contains thirteen niches across four levels housing statues of saints. At the center of the lowest level contains the tabernacle. The two minor retablos on each side houses four niches of saints. Originally, these two minor retablos were dedicated in honor of the town's second patron, San Buenaventura and San Antonio de Padua. The first minor retablo at the left side; St. Joseph at the top, St. Joachim, at the right sided bottom, Immaculate Conception at the middle bottom, and St. Anne at the left sided bottom. Hence, the statue of St. Lorenzo Ruiz at the top of the minor retablo, St. Therese of Lisieux  at the left sided bottom, St. Isidore the Laborer at the middle bottom and St. John Marie Vienney at the right sided bottom. It was restored by following the description of a visiting friar through the efforts of Director Emmanuel 'Maning' Borlaza, Mrs. Concepcion Brosas and the people of Liliw.

Capilla de San Buenaventura
From the church's entresuelo entrance, a small passageway to the left leads to a small chapel named in honor of the Seraphic Doctor, San Buenaventura through the efforts of Philip Atienza. At the center of the chapel is an image of San Buenaventura enclosed in a retablo with  narra wood in the patio grounds as its material made by a local Paete carver, Peter Paraiso. A first class relic was also housed in the chapel. In 1664, the image of San Buenaventura wept and sweated blood, with Padre Juan Pastor and  120 witnesses.  On the right side of the church's entrance is the adoration chapel of the church. It was originally the baptisterio of the church. The original marble baptismal font was intact and kept inside the parish museum.

Church Patio
The grounds outside the church have been developed to promote Christian teachings for pilgrims. At the middle of the patio is a white statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. On both sides, several elevated white statues of different saints patron of each barangay in the town. The church patio was named, Patio de Sagrada Familia.

Notes

Bibliography

External links

 Saint John the Baptist Parish Liliw, Laguna (Official Facebook page)

Liliw
Liliw
Liliw
Liliw
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo


title: 7th Yokohama Film Festival

text:
The  was held on 9 February 1986 in Yokohama Nikkatsu Theatre, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Awards
 Best Film: Love Hotel
 Best Actor: Minori Terada – Love Hotel
 Best Actress: Tomoyo Harada – Early Spring Story
 Best New Actress:
Noriko Hayami – Love Hotel
Yuka Ōnishi – Typhoon Club
 Best Supporting Actor: Tomokazu Miura – Typhoon Club
 Best Supporting Actress: Kie Nakai – Kanashii kibun de joke
 Best Director: Shinji Sōmai – Love Hotel, Typhoon Club
 Best Screenplay: Takashi Ishii – Love Hotel, Muhan
 Best Cinematography: Noboru Shinoda – Love Hotel
 Best Music Score:  Shigeru Umebayashi – Sorekara, Tomo yo Shizukani Nemure
 Best Independent Film: Keppū Rock
 Special Prize:
Mitsuko Baisho (Career)
Tatsumi Kumashiro (Career)

Best 10
 Love Hotel
 Typhoon Club
 W's Tragedy
 Lonely Heart
 Early Spring Story
 Sorekara
 Tomo yo Shizukani Nemure
 Ikiteruuchi ga Hanananoyo Shindara Soremadeyo Tō Sengen
 Minna Agechau
 Night on the Galactic Railroad
 runner-up. You Gotta Chance
 runner-up. Fire Festival

References

Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival


title: Clepsis spirana

text:
Clepsis spirana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Veracruz, Mexico.

References

Moths described in 1979
Clepsis


title: Clepsis taima

text:
Clepsis taima is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

References

Moths described in 2003
Clepsis


title: Clepsis tassa

text:
Clepsis tassa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Morona-Santiago Province, Ecuador.

References

Moths described in 2004
Clepsis


title: Zhang Jialong

text:
Zhang Jialong () born on May 22, 1988, in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, is a Chinese journalist, blogger and a former editor of Tencent Finance.

He graduated from Inner Mongolia University in 2010 where he majored in history, stumbled on his first job and became a journalist.

He reported for the financial news magazine Caijing about the forceful demolition of artist Ai Weiwei's workshop in Shanghai. He also covered Zhao Lianhai, a father whose son was a victim of melamine-tainted milk formula, and other rights defenders.

In April, 2011, he was interrogated by Beijing police for 24 hours, and his home ransacked, for tweeting "today on taxi the driver said that two third of taxi drivers in Beijing will stage a strike during the May First holidays." He was subsequently given a 10-day administrative detention for  "posting false information on an overseas website Twitter that was retweeted 37 times and caused disruption of social order."

The incident was listed as a "significant, particularly sensitive case" by the criminal detection squad of the public transportation unit of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, and he was called by the Beijing police a "dangerous element" who "incited a strike online" and "attempted to provoke disruptions and harm the capital city's public transportation order."

On February 15, 2014, Zhang was invited to be one of four Chinese bloggers to meet with United States Secretary of State John Kerry during his China trip.

At the 40-minute meeting on Feb. 15, Zhang asked Mr. Kerry "Will you get together with the Chinese who aspire for freedom" and help "tear down this Great Firewall that blocks the Internet". Zhang also asked Mr. Kerry to look into reports that American companies had helped the Chinese government establish controls over what websites Chinese citizens could access.

Zhang said the situation for political and human rights activists has not improved. He was worried about "prisoners of conscience," specifically Xu Zhiyong, a human-rights activist who was sentenced last month to four years in prison, and Liu Xiaobo, a writer and activist who was imprisoned after being charged with "inciting subversion of state power." While in prison, Mr. Liu was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

Zhang wanted to know if Mr. Kerry would visit Liu Xia, wife of Liu Xiaobo, who had been under house arrest since his Nobel Prize win and who, he had heard, was suffering from illnesses. The secretary of state said that the issue of Chinese political prisoners was brought up every time he met with the Chinese officials. Mr. Kerry did not directly respond to that appeal but noted he was only here for a day and a half.

On February 16, the Chinese propaganda authorities ordered all web portals to delete reports about "the U.S. Secretary of State meeting with four Chinese social media big Vs to talk about 'Internet freedom'".

Meanwhile, his name became a sensitive word on Tencent Weibo. Though he could still log in his Weibo account and post, but a search for his name would yield "search result cannot be displayed according to relevant laws, regulations and policies."

On February 19, upon invitation by the Foreign Policy website, Zhang wrote an article spelling out everything he would like to say to Mr. Kerry. He said, "Since 1949, Chinese dictators have robbed their people of their freedom, forcing the country's citizens to live in fear. China's people are still unable to freely access the World Wide Web. For many years, Chinese who aspire to freedom have spilled their blood and sweat fighting for it. Chinese people will continue to try to push down every wall erected by their dictatorial government, but if the United States could help in the effort to tear down China's notorious Great Firewall, it would help China realize internet freedom sooner." He also called on the U.S. to implement visa sanctions on those who contributed to creating the GFW, such as Fang Binxing, the father of Great Firewall.

On May 20, he was notified by the department head at Tencent that he was being suspended, citing radical expressions he made in his meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the propaganda directives he publicized online. He was told that he would receive a final decision after Tencent coordinated with the propaganda authorities. On May 23, Tencent's HR department notified him of the termination of his labor contract for "leaking business secrets and other confidential and sensitive information."

On May 30, The U.S. has expressed deep concern about the reported firing of a Chinese blogger who had met with Secretary of State John Kerry and urged the U.S. to challenge China's Internet restrictions. The State Department said it would be very troubling if a private employee was fired for publicly expressing his views. The U.S. also voiced concern over China's "continuing crackdown" on free speech.

References

External links
Zhang Jialong's blog / twitter
Circumstances of My Dismissal from Tencent By Zhang Jialong
Articles wrote by Zhangjialong on Foreign Policy Website

Chinese male bloggers
1988 births
Living people
People's Republic of China journalists
Writers from Guizhou
Chinese human rights activists
Chinese dissidents
Chinese anti-communists
Free speech activists
Internet activists


title: Clepsis teopiscae

text:
Clepsis teopiscae is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Chiapas, Mexico.

References

Moths described in 2003
Clepsis


title: Clepsis translucida

text:
Clepsis translucida is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Kashmir.

References

Moths described in 1908
Clepsis


title: 8th Yokohama Film Festival

text:
The  was held on 31 January 1987 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Awards
 Best Film: Uhohho tankentai
 Best New Actor: Tōru Nakamura – Be-Bop High School, Be Bop Highschool: Koko Yotaro Elegy
 Best Actor: Koichi Iwaki – Minami e Hashire, Umi no Michi o!
 Best Actress: Narumi Yasuda – Minami e Hashire, Umi no Michi o!, Inujini Sesi Mono, Sorobanzuku
 Best New Actress:
Miki Imai – Inujini Seshi Mono
Kiwako Harada – His Motorbike, Her Island
 Best Supporting Actor: Kaoru Kobayashi – Sorobanzuku
 Best Supporting Actress: Noriko Watanabe – His Motorbike, Her Island
 Best Director: Hiroyuki Nasu – Be-Bop High School, Be Bop Highschool: Koko Yotaro Elegy
 Best New Director: Kaizo Hayashi – Yume Miruyōni Nemuritai
 Best Screenplay: Yoshimitsu Morita – Uhohho Tankentai, Sorobanzuku
 Best Cinematography: Yasushi Sasakibara – Minami e Hashire, Umi no Michi o!, Saya no Iru Tōshizu
 Best Independent Film: Yume Miruyōni Nemuritai
 Special Jury Prize: Saya no Iru Tōshizu – For the staff.
 Special Prize: Kihachi Okamoto (Career)

Best 10
 Uhohho Tankentai
 Comic Magazine
 His Motorbike, Her Island
 Yuki no Danshō: Jōnetsu
 Inujini Seshi Mono
 Be-Bop High School
 Saya no Iru Tōshizu
 Castle in the Sky
 Jazz Daimyō
 Sorobanzuku
runner-up. House on Fire

References

Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival


title: Renanolone

text:
Renanolone (INN), or 11-ketopregnanolone, also known as 5β-pregnan-3α-ol-11,20-dione, is a synthetic neuroactive steroid which is described as a general anesthetic but was never introduced for clinical use. Its isomers, alfaxolone and alfadolone, are also general anesthetics, and are known to act as positive allosteric modulators of the GABAA receptor, a property which is likely the case for renanolone as well.

Chemistry

See also
 Alfadolone
 Alfaxolone
 Ganaxolone
 Hydroxydione
 Minaxolone
 Pregnanolone

References

5β-Pregnanes
General anesthetics
Neurosteroids
Secondary alcohols
Diketones
GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulators


title: Bolshaya Polyana

text:
Bolshaya Polyana () is the name of several rural localities in Russia:
Bolshaya Polyana, Kaliningrad Oblast, a settlement in Znamensky Rural Okrug of Gvardeysky District in Kaliningrad Oblast
Bolshaya Polyana, Lipetsk Oblast (or Bolshaya polyana), a selo in Bolshepolyansky Selsoviet of Terbunsky District in Lipetsk Oblast;
Bolshaya Polyana, Republic of Mordovia, a selo in Bolshepolyansky Selsoviet of Kadoshkinsky District in the Republic of Mordovia;
Bolshaya Polyana, Novosibirsk Oblast, a settlement in Kochenyovsky District of Novosibirsk Oblast
Bolshaya Polyana, Rostov Oblast, a settlement in Gashunskoye Rural Settlement of Zimovnikovsky District in Rostov Oblast
Bolshaya Polyana, Republic of Tatarstan, a village in Alkeyevsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan


title: Yu-bin

text:
Yu-bin, also spelled Yoo-bin, is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

People
People with this name include:
Kim Yu-bin (musician) (born 1988), South Korean female singer, former member of girl group Wonder Girls
Song Yuvin (born Song Yu-bin, 1998), South Korean male singer, former member of boy bands Myteen and B.O.Y
Lee Yu-bin (born 2001), South Korean female short track speed skater
Kim Yoo-bin (actress) (born 2005), South Korean actress

See also
List of Korean given names

References

Korean unisex given names


title: Clepsis trileucana

text:
Clepsis trileucana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico and West Virginia. Two specimens of this species were recorded from Cornwall in the 1830s, but the species has not been recorded in Great Britain since.

Adults have been recorded on wing from June to July.

References

Moths described in 1847
Clepsis


title: Natranaerobiaceae

text:
The Natranaerobiaceae are a family of bacteria placed within the class Clostridia. This family contains the thermophilic bacterial species Natranaerobius thermophilus and the related species Natranaerobaculum magadiense.

Phylogeny

See also
 List of bacteria genera
 List of bacterial orders

References

Natranaerobiales


title: 9th Yokohama Film Festival

text:
The  was held on 6 February 1988 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Awards
 Best Film: The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
 Best Actor: Saburō Tokitō – Eien no 1/2
 Best Actress: Yasuko Tomita – Bu Su
 Best New Actress:
Asako Kobayashi –
Michiru Akiyoshi – Hikaru onna
Yasuyo Shirashima –
 Best Supporting Actor: Sabu Kawahara –
 Best Supporting Actress: Eri Ishida – Chōchin
 Best Director:
Shunichi Kajima – Chōchin
Kazuo Hara – The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
 Best New Director: Chisho Itoh – Gondola
 Best Screenplay: Hiroshi Saito – Honba Joshikō Manual: Hatsukoi Binetsu-hen, Itoshino Half Moon
 Best Cinematography: Toshihiko Uryū – Gondola
 Special Jury Prize: Chōchin – For the staff.
 Special Prize: Kensaku Morita (Career)

Best 10
 The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
 Bu Su
 Totto Channel
 Eien no 1/2
 Chōchin
 Koibito Tachi no Jikoku
 Koisuru Onnatachi
 Honba Joshikō Manual: Hatsukoi Binetsu-hen
 Hikaru Onna
 Gondola
runner-up. Make Up

References

Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival
Yokohama Film Festival


title: Marc Luyckx Ghisi

text:
Marc Luyckx Ghisi was born 20 April 1942 in Louvain, Belgium. He lives with his wife Isabelle near Brussels.
Initially, he studied mathematics, philosophy and theology (Ph.D.) and became a Catholic priest. He presented a doctorate in Rome (Pontifical Oriental Institute), in Russian and Greek theology, on Nikolai Berdyaev's early writings in Russian, since his discovery of Marxism until his conversion to orthodoxy" (Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome).
After his marriage, he was for ten years (1990-1999), member of the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission, created by Jacques Delors, where he focused on the meaning of European integration and created the programme The soul of Europe. He had the opportunity to travel a lot and meet worldwide government officials and advisors in Europe, the U.S., China, Japan, or in India. Some were aware of the shift of civilization in which we are engaged globally, but these visionaries were a minority.

In the Forward Studies Unit he invited many thinkers such as US sociologist Paul H. Ray (cultural creatives), Edgar Morin (a leading French philosopher of the paradigm shift), Hazel Henderson (author of numerous books on the win-win economy and the new green sustainable economy), Rinaldo Brutoco (CEO of World Business Academy), Avon Mattison (founder of Pathways to Peace), Harlan Cleveland, (President of the World Academy of Art and Science), Prof. Ziauddin Sardar.

He was Dean of the Cotrugli Business School in Zagreb and Belgrade (2005-2009). For 8 years he has also been a member of the Auroville International Advisory Council in South India. He is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, a member of the Club of Rome-EU,
 a member of the World Futures Studies Federation and is Honorary President of Eurotas, European Transpersonal Association.

Individual work

A Congress in the European Commission in 1998: The transmodern Hypothesis: A new dialogue between cultures seems possible

In May 1998, the "Forward Studies Unit" organized with the World Academy of Art and Science
 a Congress on "Civilizations and Governance", in the Brussels headquarters of the European Commission. We were presenting the hypothesis of a worldwide shift to a transmodern world. This hypothesis has been published in "World Affairs", in the "Integral Review" and in "Futures". And this seems to be worldwide. There are indications that the same shift to a transmodern vision of religion and culture is happening around the world: inside the Muslim world (Ziauddin Sardar), in China (Nicanor Perlas), and in South America (Leonardo Boff). And in this transmodern vision, a new type of dialogue between religions and civilizations is increasingly coming up, from the bottom of our societies. The minutes of this International Congress can be found on "The Future of Religions"

Willis Harman: The tool change is the vision of consciousness

As a member of the Forward Studies Unit, I had the great honour to meet with a genius thinker in the Silicon Valley: Willis Harman. According to Willis Harman in the late Middle Ages, the civilization shifted to the Renaissance because Copernicus proposed a new way of conceiving the Earth and the sky. Similarly today, the culture shift is happening around a new definition of consciousness and matter. We are leaving metaphysics "M1", which says that matter exists and that consciousness emanates from matter and some quantic scientists  are already in a new metaphysics "M3" who discovers that consciousness is first and allows the emergence of matter. According to Harman, this conceptual earthquake, transforms the scientific method itself. And the "new science" is increasingly similar to the latest developments in quantum physics. Harman considers that this transmodern science resembles the vision of Humanity’s Perennial Wisdom and that opposition between science and philosophy will disappear slowly.

A New Economic Paradigm: The European Commission White Book of 1993

In 1993, The European Commission published a White Paper on « Growth, Competitiveness, employment: The challenges of the 21st century». The Forward Studies Unit coordinated this study. It was announcing a shift to a post-industrial information society and was proposing very daring reforms in taxation, education, and of the European development model itself. This new vision proposed by Jacques Delors himself, has been politely refused by the EU Head of State, in the European Council of December 1993.

In 2000, seven years later, the Portuguese government proposed the EU leaders to launch the "Lisbon Strategy" aimed at bringing the EU in the new "knowledge society". Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres, and Prof Maria Joao Rodrigues warned the EU Heads of State that this new strategy was a new economic paradigm.[13] This “paradigm shift” concept has been politely refused.

Indeed knowledge is different from industrial objects, the more you share it, the more you receive back. The knowledge economy is an economy of sharing that modifies the basic axioms of the industrial logic. It is post-capitalist (Peter Drucker), because the means of production are no longer the factory, but the humans who create knowledge. The analysis of this shift to the kwoledge economy is also analyzed by Jeremy Rifkin in one of his latest books.

Publications

In English

Marc Luyckx Ghisi, The knowledge society: a breakthrough toward genuine Sustainability, Arunachala Press, Stonehill foundation Publishing, Cochin, India, 2008, open source on http://www.marcluyckx.be

Marc Luyckx Ghisi, A win-Win strategy for the European Union in the Knowledge Society, in Paul Kidd, Ed., Cheshire Henbury, Macclesfield, UK, 2007, open source on http://www.marcluyckx.be

In French
Marc Luyckx Ghisi, Au-delà de la modernité du patriarcat et du capitalisme : la société réenchantée, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2001, open source on http://www.marcluyckx.be

Marc Luyckx Ghisi, Surgissement d’un nouveau monde : valeurs, visions, économie, politique, tout change… , L’Harmattan, Paris, 2013, open source on http://www.marcluyckx.be

In Italian

Marc Luyckx Ghisi, La società della conoscenza: valori visioni, economia, politica,... tutto sta cambiando, Editions (électronique) E-Bookizzati, Torino, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714134606/http://www.ebookizzati.it/ebook-marc-luyckx-ghisi-idaut30.html, open source on http://www.marcluyckx.be

Marc Luyckx Ghisi, Co-Creare la Nuova Civilità, Editions (électronique), open source on http://www.marcluyckx.be

References

External links

TEDx : Marc Luyckx : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcYaVsvUynM
Website: http://marcluyckx.be

1942 births
Living people
20th-century Belgian Roman Catholic priests
Members of the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission


title: Clepsis trivia

text:
Clepsis trivia is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Tunisia.

References

Moths described in 1913
Clepsis


title: Jurij Gustinčič

text:
Jurij Gustinčič (30 August 1921 in Trieste - 7 June 2014 in Piran) was a Slovene journalist. Chief of the Belgrade journal Politika in 1951, in 1955 he was sent for nine years as a correspondent in London, and then 14 years in New York City. In 1974, he was praised by the Washington Post for foretelling the downfall of President Richard Nixon. In the early 1980s he worked for TV Ljubljana before retiring in 1985. The leading Slovene website Slovenia.si called him a "legend of Slovene journalism" upon his 90th birthday in 2011.

References

Slovenian journalists
1921 births
2014 deaths
Writers from Trieste
Yugoslav journalists
Yugoslav expatriates in the United Kingdom
Yugoslav expatriates in the United States


title: Ham & High

text:
The Ham & High, officially the Hampstead & Highgate Express is a weekly paid newspaper published in the London Borough of Camden by Archant.

The newspaper is priced at £1 and is published every Thursday.

History
Founded in 1860, from 1862-97 it was under the editorship of George Jealous and printed at Hampstead's only printers: Holly Mount, a former chapel. Despite being founded on principles of independence, it was sold to Archant in 2000. In early 2018, Archant shut down the Ham & High's Finchley Road office in favour of relocating them to east London. Later in June, Archant announced it would be merging all north London news teams resulting in the Ham & High no longer having a dedicated editor, to the dismay of former editors.

References

External links

Newspapers published in London
Weekly newspapers published in the United Kingdom


title: Clepsis vitiana

text:
Clepsis vitiana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Colombia.

References

Moths described in 1877
Clepsis


title: Bosko at the Zoo

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Bosko at the Zoo is an American animated short film featuring Bosko and Honey. It is a Looney Tunes cartoon, released on January 9, 1932. Like most Looney Tunes of the time, it was directed by Hugh Harman. Frank Marsales was its musical director.

Plot
Bosko brings Honey to the zoo on the handlebars of a bicycle. Inside the grounds, the encounter an angry lion before discovering an aquarium. The perspective shifts to the inside of the tank, where two fish playing a game similar to leapfrog are scared off by a menacing fish who turns towards the audience and blows bubbles. More fish join an octopus and swing from its arms in the manner of a maypole. An ostrich takes advantage of distracted Bosko and bites his bowler hat off his head.

Bosko leaves Honey behind for the remainder of the short and chases the ostrich. He attempts to catch it with a lasso, anchoring the rope to a tree, but the ostrich pulls the rope away tossing Bosco up into the air. He lands on a porcupine, pulling off its coat of needles, which the bare-skinned porcupine in human underwear yanks away from him. Bosko then finds the ostrich and orders it to sit in a nest. He waits for it to hatch an egg and cracks it open, to reveal the bowler. The ostrich, speaking garbled nonsense, makes gestures that suggest negotiation. In an attempt to cheer up the bird, Bosko plays a tune on a woodwind instrument he pulls out of his pocket. He then hums a variation of the snake charmer song, prompting the ostrich to do a stylized belly dance.

Three beavers witnessing this from a nearby enclosure bang their tails; a marsupial in the same enclosure dances along, pausing for a few beats as two of its young jump out of its pouch and land back inside. Further on, two monkeys in a cage scratch themselves, looking for fleas. One monkey finds a flea and puts it on a plate and pretends to eat it, so that he can stab the other with the fork as a gag. Bosko steps into the cage and chases the monkeys to the end.

To punish the jokester monkey, he gives it a spanking, referencing a similar moment in the early Bosko short "Congo Jazz." Just like in that short, a large ape who appears to be the monkey's parent confronts Bosko, who is then chased the length of the cage. They find the jokester monkey at another end of the cage. The monkey kicks Bosko in the shins and the ape chases him again, to yet another end of the cage, this one with a window. Bosko leaps from the window and catches a vine that turns out to be a giant snake.

He tumbles to the ground and lands in the lion's den, awakening the lion. The lion chases Bosko. The ostrich sees them coming and dashes through a walrus pool, jumping on the walrus's back. The walrus sprints on its fins to catch up with the ostrich. They reach the wall of the zoo just a moment before Bosko, who jumps over their heads onto the coping stones of the wall. The lion crashes into the walrus and the ostrich, forming a three-headed animal ball that roars, barks and quacks, ending the cartoon.

Home media
The cartoon is available on the DVD Uncensored Bosko: Volume 2.

References

External links

Bosko at the Zoo on YouTube (unrestored)

1932 films
1932 animated films
Films scored by Frank Marsales
Films directed by Hugh Harman
Bosko films
Looney Tunes shorts
Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films
American black-and-white films
1930s Warner Bros. animated short films


title: Clepsis zelleriana

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Clepsis zelleriana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Turkmenistan.

References

Moths described in 1874
Clepsis


title: Dog Daze (1937 film)

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Dog Daze is a 1937 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies directed by Friz Freleng and animated by Robert McKimson. The short was released on September 18, 1937.

Plot
A bunch of dogs and their owners are all heading to the dog show. First, a few owners that resemble their dogs are shown before heading inside to take a closer look. At first, a really big woman comes in to find a seat. She pushes her way through the row but by the time she finds a seat, all of the guys have been forced to the ground.

Then we get to have a closer look at all the dogs in another room, being judged and looked over. There's a bird dog, a doggy that whistles while sitting in his cage. We also see an Irish setter overlooking its babies that hatched from eggs, A police dog yelling things, the spitz, and a St. Bernard Booze Hound that howls a song while hiccuping. The last dog is a hot dog.

Now back on the show, a stage light is going over dog ads like asbestos dog biscuits, itching canine art galleries, K-9 kennel, and so on and so on. And then it is time for the show to begin.

First to perform, The Scotties, which are two Scottish dogs dancing a Scottish dance. Then the Russian Wolf Hounds, who also do a dance after showing how thin they are. At the end of their dance it reveals there are two little black dogs on their heads and all four run off stage. The next act, titled "Dog Eat Dog" involves a dog eating the Hot Dog from earlier. Next comes "Little Man You've Had A Busy Day", involving an adorable little puppy sitting at the end of a long line of telephone poles.

The Prairie Dogs perform next but it turns out they're not really dogs, not that they mind. They stand there and perform a song anyway. As they do, the drunk dog from earlier howls along until a muzzle is shoved on his face. While trying to yank it off, the booze hound accidentally falls into a box of skates and begins to skate around. He incidentally interrupts the Prairie dogs as they perform. Then the next act involves a very shy puppy that didn't want to perform the poem its owner gave it. It criticizes the poem but continues anyway despite the many distractions. Like the booze hound accidentally releasing a whole bunch of fleas on the poor puppy. The puppy continues reciting the poem, its voice much quicker and high-pitch until it runs off stage.

Meanwhile, the booze hound is still recovering when he notices a bunch of fleas have gotten into his alcohol, having drunk a whole bunch of it. A group of fleas sing while hiccuping every so often, then finally they all lay down as the cartoon ends.

Cast
 Mel Blanc as Police Dog / Spitz / Russian Wolf Hounds / Prairie Dog (voice) (uncredited)
 Billy Bletcher as St. Bernard (voice) (uncredited)
 Count Cutelli as Vocal Effects / Whistles (uncredited)
 Bernice Hansen as Bull Terrier Puppy (voice) (uncredited)
 Sons of the Pioneers as Singers (voice) (uncredited)
 Purv Pullen as Vocal Effects / Whistles (uncredited)

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Merrie Melodies short films
Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films
1937 animated films
American black-and-white films
Short films directed by Friz Freleng
Films scored by Carl Stalling
1937 films
Animated films about dogs
1930s Warner Bros. animated short films