title: Direct provision

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Direct provision () is a system of asylum seeker accommodation used in the Republic of Ireland. The system has been criticised by human rights organisations as illegal, inhuman and degrading. The system, operated by the International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, provides international protection applicants with accommodation and a small allowance. International protection applicants in direct provision are usually entitled to state-funded medical care, and children have full mainstream access to the education system.

History
Direct provision was originally introduced as an emergency measure in 1999. In 2002 there were almost 12,000 applications for asylum. At the start of 2014, there were 4,360 people in direct provision, with more than 3,000 people having been in the system for two or more years. At the same time, there were more than 1,600 people who have spent five or more years in direct provision.

There were approximately 7,400 adults and children living in the 38 direct provision centres across 17 counties in Ireland by the end of April 2020.

In February 2021, the Government of Ireland announced a plan to end direct provision by 2024.

Human rights concerns
The length of time people spend in direct provision has been criticised by human rights watchdogs, with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission calling the delays faced by asylum applicants as "systemic and pernicious."

In CA v. Minister for Justice and Equality, a claim was made that direct provision was "inhuman and degrading", asserting that the system is illegal under both the Irish Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights, and all other international human rights conventions that Ireland has subscribed to. This case was vigorously defended by the State on all grounds, including on the basis that it fulfills Ireland's obligations, that it is broadly in line with (and in many cases better than) the situation in other EU states, and that at a time of competing calls for finite resources, it was not feasible for the State to grant the right to work, access to full social welfare and access to the public housing and/or rent supplement to asylum seekers.

In his judgement on 14 November 2014, Justice Colm Mac Eochaidh found against the applicants on the substantive point of "inhuman and degrading treatment", but struck down the rules at that time regarding unannounced room inspections; the sign-in requirement; the requirement to notify intended absence; the rules on visitors and the lack of an independent complaints procedure. Those points were subsequently addressed.
The Irish Government's Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, Dr. Geoffrey Shannon, has called it "institutionalised poverty". As of April 2020 adults receive €38.80 per week and children €29.80. Some centres have cooking facilities, but the majority have canteen style eating halls. These have been criticised both for the quality of food, and for the attitude of the canteen workers when it comes to accommodating specific dietary needs. Many child asylum seekers have been sent here alone while some are born into the direct provision life and that is all they have ever known. In June 2014, there were more than 1,000 asylum cases waiting to be heard in the High Court. The Irish Refugee Council has reported that young people living in Direct Provision centres are more prone to depression and suicide, and in the case of three young people in particular, aged between 11 and 17, stated "for different reasons, these three young people have all expressed the view that they can’t see the purpose of living."

According to responses to parliamentary debates and the RIA, the majority of adults in direct provision have had their initial asylum applications rejected and are either appealing this or seeking to remain in Ireland under other criteria.

On October 31, 2018, Donnah Sibanda Vuma asked staff at the direct provision centre in Knockalisheen where she resided for bread and milk for her sick child. The staff refused and told her that they had strict instructions not to give any food outside of canteen hours. The Department of Justice said that the Reception and Integration Agency said it was because of a miscommunication involving a new staff member. The Department of Justice described what happened as "regrettable". Donnah Vuma was living at the centre with her children for four years and had previously criticised direct provision centres for refusing to allow residents to use cooking facilities.

In 2020, direct provision was widely criticised as not conducive to the COVID-19 restrictions on social distancing, self-isolating, and cocooning for those living in its Centres. In particular groups have highlighted the impact on children when there is no access to outdoor or leisure spaces, and the shared facilities with numerous other residents. Some advocacy groups such as Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland have been involved in Black Lives Matter protests and demonstrations in Ireland highlighting the treatment of people of colour in direct provision. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar responded by commenting that there was no direct comparison between the deaths of black people in the United States and the experiences of those living in direct provision.

Mount Trenchard in Limerick, widely considered "the worst direct provision centre in the country due to poor facilities, overcrowding and isolation", closed in February 2020, after pressure from advocacy groups, including the publication of a report by Doras based upon interviews with residents.

Health and healthcare
In the direct provision system, refugees seeking asylum in Ireland have access to medical cards (which are also allocated to low income individuals in Ireland). These cards allow individuals to receive their medical care and prescriptions for free. However, because many asylum seekers experience mental health conditions and concerns in addition to any health problems they may have, researchers recommend that asylum seekers in DP have access to a multidisciplinary healthcare team overseeing their care.

Asylum seekers are more likely to experience certain mental health conditions than the general population. A 2009 paper from the Irish College of Psychiatrists stated that migrants and asylum seekers in Ireland are 10x more likely to suffer from PTSD, and 3x more likely to suffer from psychosis. 53% of asylum seekers in direct provision reported having been tortured before their arrival in Ireland. People in direct provision also experience a variety of stressors that are not as prevalent in the general population including: legal status, a feeling of not being able to parent properly (due to lack of employment and inability to provide transportation for their children), not being able to have a job, uncertainty about involuntary transfers, language barriers, not being able to have access to food at a time when the canteen is not open, nutritional status of the food that is prepared for them, discrimination, and separation from their families or family members. Irish psychologists have stated the direct provision system is elongating the period of traumatic experiences for people in Direct Provision.

Owing to the environment at direct provision centres, children living in DP are more likely to experience problems related to overcrowding. It has been reported that children in DP are more likely to present with burns and stress-related illnesses than children in the general Irish population. Additionally, due to a combination of poverty, deprivation, social isolation, and a stressful environment at home, children and adolescents in DP are likely to experience poor mental health. Children in DP experience social isolation due to strict meal times, inability to participate in extracurriculars, visitors being banned from DP centres, and lack of transportation to and from friends’ homes. There have also been reports that children in DP experience social isolation due to stigma, racism, and bullying. Children who are alone and bored as many in DP are, are more likely to experience depression, and it is possible that children developing in a trauma-filled environment will experience cognitive impairment. Children need an environment that is both physically and emotionally safe in order to excel. Health professionals have argued that an environment with inadequately trained professionals and staff, physical abuse, lack of supervision of children, and close contact of many families with young children to unfamiliar adults is not the safe environment that children need.

Room sharing and close contact in direct provision puts asylum seekers and staff at risk of contracting COVID-19. Many asylum seekers reported that they found it difficult to follow social distancing measures when sharing amenities like rooms and bathrooms with non-family members. Additionally, because people in direct provision who are able to work often work low-income jobs with conditions that are less than ideal for social distancing (such as meat packing plants), workers and the other people in their direct provision centres are at higher risk for contracting highly communicable illnesses. Direct provision sites in Kildare and Cahersiveen have demonstrated how quickly contagious illnesses such as the COVID-19 virus can spread when many people in a small centre are in close contact.

Opposition
Direct provision-related protests have taken the form of both general protests against the direct provision system, and localised protests against individual proposed direct provision centres. The former are usually organised by the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (an advocacy group for asylum seekers) and anti-racism groups, while the latter have been accused of racism and have seen the involvement of far right groups.

Far right groups, as part of their xenophobic policy, had been encouraging people to oppose direct provision centres for some years, with little success. However, in November 2018, a proposed direct provision centre was firebombed in Moville. The following February, protests against a proposed direct provision centre in Rooskey saw another arson attack on a proposed direct provision centre. In September 2019, Oughterard saw the largest ever protests against a proposed direct provision centre, which was blockaded night and day for three weeks. Another 24/7 protest began on Achill Island the following month, which continued until 2020, the longest ever protest against a direct provision centre. Plans to accommodate asylum seekers in these four places were dropped. While there have been small protests against direct provision centres since Achill, none have been successful.

References

Law of Ireland
Human rights abuses in Ireland
Right of asylum in the Republic of Ireland
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth


title: Eran Biton

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Eran Biton (; born 16 January 1996) is an Israeli footballer who plays as a central midfielder. He currently plays for Ironi Modi'in.

Early life
Biton was born in Ramat Gan, Israel, to a family of Sephardic Jewish descent.

Honours

Club
Maccabi Haifa
Israel State Cup: 2015–16

Maccabi Sha'arayim
Toto Cup Leumit: 2016–17

References

 Profile page in Maccabi Haifa website

1996 births
Living people
Israeli Jews
Israeli men's footballers
Footballers from Ramat Gan
Maccabi Haifa F.C. players
Maccabi Sha'arayim F.C. players
Hapoel Afula F.C. players
Beitar Tel Aviv Bat Yam F.C. players
Hapoel Ashkelon F.C. players
Hapoel Acre F.C. players
Hapoel Ra'anana A.F.C. players
Ironi Modi'in F.C. players
Israeli Premier League players
Liga Leumit players
Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent
Men's association football midfielders


title: Burnupia ingae

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Burnupia ingae is a species of minute freshwater snail or limpet, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusk that is traditionally placed in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

Geographic distribution
B. ingae is endemic to Brazil, where it occurs in all regions of the country. The species' type locality is Lagoa do Sombrio (Sombrio lagoon) in Sombrio, Santa Catarina.

Description
B. ingae has a small shell, rarely reaching  in length.  The aperture is oval. The apex is rounded, not recurved, with a smooth apical depression. The protoconch shows a band of radially arranged punctuations after the smooth apical area. The radial lines on the teleoconch are curved and may cover the whole shell. In some specimens the periostracum forms rounded protuberances on the radial lines. The right anterior muscular impression is longitudinally elongated, the left anterior one rounded and the posterior one elongated-oval shaped. The mantle shows no pigmentation. The radula has a slightly asymmetric rachidian tooth with two main cusps and a minor cusp between them and two to four accessory cusps laterally. The marginal teeth are elongated, with four to seven lateral cusps to the ectocone.

Habitat and ecology
B. ingae (like all the other species in the genus Burnupia) lives in well-oxygenated freshwater habitats, especially on stones in streams and at the edges of lentic water bodies.

See also
 List of non-marine molluscs of Brazil

References

Planorbidae
Molluscs of Brazil
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Gastropods described in 1991


title: Eskelhem Church

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Eskelhem Church () is a medieval church in Eskelhem on the Swedish island of Gotland, in the Diocese of Visby.

History and architecture
Eskelhem Church was preceded by a wooden church, of which nothing remains. Circa 1200 it was replaced by a stone church. The walls of the nave of the present church are all that remains of this edifice. The church was successively enlarged and rebuilt until it received its present form in the middle of the 14th century. Internally, the church is decorated with different sets of murals, dating from the end of the 13th century and the 15th, the latter by the Master of the Passion of Christ. Among the church furnishings, the baptismal font from  the 12th century, probably made by the artist or workshop today referred to as Byzantios, and the triumphal cross, made around 1250 both deserve mention.

References

Further reading

External links

Official site (in Swedish)

Churches in Gotland County
Churches in the Diocese of Visby
13th-century churches in Sweden
Church frescos in Sweden
Churches converted from the Roman Catholic Church to the Church of Sweden


title: Ikenai Luna Sensei!

text:
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kamimura Sumiko. It was serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Magazine from 1986 to 1988. Because of the sexual content the series was one of the manga placed on "Harmful manga" lists by local and national governmental agencies. The negative publicity resulted in Kodansha discontinuing the series.

In 2014 a live-action version of the manga, starring Mikuru Uchino, Aimi Yoshikawa and Megu Fujiura, was produced by SPO Entertainment.

Volume list

References

1986 manga
Japanese direct-to-video films
Shōnen manga
Kodansha manga
Manga adapted into films


title: Han Seung-oh

text:
Han Seung-oh (; born 1978) was a South Korean civil activist and patriarchal advocate. He was one of founding members of Man of Korea (남성연대) also 2nd leader of Man of Korea, July 29, 2013 until August 14.

Han was born in Seoul. In 2008 he was a founding member of Man of Korea, also May 1, 2012, he was appointed to one Leader of General Affairs Team for Sung Jae-gi. On July 8 and July 22 he was Participation of Visit protest for Jecheon Women's Library with Sung Jae-gi. 8 month later, he was appointed to Secretary General of Man of Korea.

On July 25, 2013, he was nominated as successor to Sung Jae-gi, before his death. On July 26, 2013 Han was witness of Sung Jae-gi's suicide. He did not discourage him. After four days of investigation, the Seoul city police determined cleared him of any charge.

From July 26 to August 14, Han was Sung Jae-gi's funeral and case settled. but this did not rectify infighting so there was demand resignation from some member of Man of Korea. On August 21, 2013, he resigned.

See also
 Sung Jae-gi
 Han Chi-hwan

References

1978 births
2013 deaths
Men's rights activists
South Korean human rights activists
South Korean humanitarians
South Korean civil rights activists
Masculists
Male critics of feminism
People from Seoul


title: Vartiania drangianica

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Vartiania drangianica is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Iran.

The wingspan is about 37 mm.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 1902
Cossinae


title: Beaumont Trophy

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The Beaumont Trophy is a cycle road race first run in 1952. The Trophy was presented to the Gosforth Road Club by Rex Beaumont who was a local cycle wholesaler on Tyneside. The Gosforth Road Club had been created in July 1951 as an offshoot of the Ridley Cycling Club as a result of young riders being unable to gain entry into local races. The race was run under BLRC Regulations from 1952 until 1959 when it came under the regulations of the newly formed British Cycling Federation. It was run continuously from 1952 to 2019, as the 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. This 67 year streak made it the longest-running road race in the UK.
In the early 1950s the race started and finished in Gosforth Park where the clubhouse was situated. In the early '60s, the start/finish moved to Ponteland because of an increase in traffic. Race distances were normally 85–90 miles and the route was out and back finishing at Cottage Homes, Ponteland.

In the early 1980s the start/finish moved to the west of Newcastle but this did not last long. In the mid-'80s the race moved to Stamfordham where it has remained ever since. When it became a Premier Calendar event followed by it becoming a UCI 1.2 and then part of the National Road race series the distance increased to over 100 miles and started to use a circuit that normally incorporated the Ryals. The race became part of the Cyclone Festival of Cycling in 2007 as a British Cycling Premier Calendar Race. In 2011 it was the Men's British National Championships won by Bradley Wiggins; the Festival also ran the Women's National Road Race Championships won by Lizzie Armistead. The Beaumont Trophy was again the Men's National Road Race Championships in 2018 and was won by Connor Swift. Over the period of time the race has been held, it has used a number of different routes. It has used a variation of routes around Stamfordham for the past 20 years.

The race has been organised by the current organiser since 1984. It is part of the current British National Road Race Series and was a UCI 1.2 Race for 3 years.

Past winners

References

External links
Beaumont Trophy

Cycle races in England
Recurring sporting events established in 1951
1951 establishments in England
UCI Europe Tour races
Sport in Northumberland


title: Vartiania muscula

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Vartiania muscula is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Kazakhstan.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 1912
Cossinae


title: Vartiania senganensis

text:
Vartiania senganensis is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Iran and Afghanistan.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 1949
Cossinae


title: Minara Station (Western Australia)

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Minara Station is a pastoral lease that has operated as a sheep station and is now a cattle station in Western Australia.

It is situated approximately  east of Leonora and  west of Laverton in the Goldfields-Esperance region.

The station was established prior to 1920, when it was running sheep and owned by Messrs Fawcett and Robinson. By 1924 the owners were Fawcett and Venn.

In 1928 Minara was stocked with 12,000 sheep and the shearing shed was being constructed.

The station is currently owned by Minara Resources along with three other nearby properties: Nambi, Yundamindera and Glenorn.
By 2018 all four stations were running a herd of cattle of 6500 head.

See also
List of ranches and stations
List of pastoral leases in Western Australia

References

Homesteads in Western Australia
Stations in Goldfields-Esperance


title: Eogystia hippophaecolus

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Eogystia hippophaecolus is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in China (Shaanxi).

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Moths described in 1990
Cossinae
Moths of Asia


title: 1927 Campeonato de Portugal final

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The 1927 Campeonato de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1926–27 Campeonato de Portugal, the 6th season of the Campeonato de Portugal, the Portuguese football knockout tournament, organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 12 June 1927 at the Estádio do Lumiar in Lisbon, and opposed Belenenses and Vitória de Setúbal. Belenenses defeated Vitória de Setúbal 3–0 to claim their first Campeonato de Portugal.

Match

Details

References

1927
1927 in association football
C.F. Os Belenenses matches
Vitória F.C. matches
1926–27 in Portuguese football


title: International Biosciences

text:
International Biosciences (IBDNA), is a UK-based DNA testing company with offices in Brighton, East Sussex. The company offers a range of DNA tests including the Natera Panorama prenatal test as well as peace of mind relationship tests, ancestry and genetic predisposition testing., International Biosciences operates worldwide and has operations in Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada and India.

History

Founded in 2005, the company was the subject of criticism in July 2009 when it launched over-the-counter paternity tests via Pharmacies across the United Kingdom making it the first company to retail DNA kits on the high street. Josephine Quintavalle, of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said the easy availability of the test raised deep concerns
The sales initiative was very similar to that successfully employed in the US by Identigene, L.L.C. a subsidiary of Sorenson Genomics, LLC.

References

External links

Medical tests
Companies based in Brighton and Hove


title: Joseph E. Brooks

text:
Joseph E. Brooks (born February 24, 1942) is an American politician, journalist and social service agency director from Maine. An Unenrolled (independent) member of the Maine House of Representatives, Brooks represented a portion of rural Waldo County including his residence in Winterport, Maine. He served in the Maine House previously from 1996 to 2002.

Brooks is originally from Brewer, Maine and graduated from John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, Maine. Brooks served in the Army National Guard from 1959 to 1972. He also worked as a newspaper editor and journalist with the Bangor Daily News from 1961 to 1998.

References

1942 births
Living people
People from Brewer, Maine
Maine Independents
People from Winterport, Maine
Members of the Maine House of Representatives
Journalists from Maine


title: Bremen-Hemelingen

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Hemelingen (Plattdeutsch ) is a German city and district of Bremen belonging to the Bremen district East.

Geography and districts
Hemelingen is located about 6 km east of the center of Bremen on the right bank of the Weser. The neighboring districts are the Vahr in the north, Obervieland in the south, the eastern suburb in the west, Osterholz in the east, and the Lower Saxony town of Achim in the southeast.

Hemelingen became a district of Bremen in 1939. It belonged, together with Arbergen and Mahndorf, from 1866 till 1939 to Prussia.  Then Hastedt and Sebaldsbrück became subdistricts of Hemelingen, although they were Bremish long before and they never were Prussian.

Hastedt was first mentioned in 1226, Arbergen 1230, Hemelingen 1238 and Mahndorf 1330. The settlement of Sebaldsbrück started after the construction of the railway to Hannover 1847 with the Bremen-Sebaldsbrück railway station. The railway line to Osnabrück with the Bremen-Hemelingen railway station was built in 1873.

BSC Hastedt is a German association football club.

Industry in Sebaldsbrück
The headquarter of Atlas Elektronik is in Sebaldsbrück. The biggest industrial location in Sebaldsbrück is the Bremen plant of Daimler AG, the largest employer in Bremen. Sebaldsbrück was also the home of the Borgward car manufacturing company, defunct 1961.

References

Hemelingen


title: Paganino Doria

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Paganino Doria was an Italian admiral from the prominent Genoese Doria family. He was the victorious head of the Genoese naval forces in the conflict between the Republic of Genoa to Venice in the middle of the 14th century.

Paganino Doria seized Tenedos (now Bozcaada) in 1350.

He set siege to the Venetian colony of Negroponte in Euboea in 1351.

In 1352 he commanded the Genoese Navy in a fight against Niccolò Pisani, admiral of the Venetians, off the coasts of Constantinople: the victory was granted to the Genoese but it cost them so much that Doria lost the command.

The next year Venetians allied with Catalans defeated Genoa’s fleet led by Antonio Grimaldi off the coast of Sardinia. Genoa had 2,000 men killed and 3,500 taken prisoner. Doria was called back in 1354: he ravaged the coast of the Adriatic (Poreč) and completely captured the Venetian fleet under Pisani at the Battle of Sapienza or battle of Porto-Longo, between the fortresses of Modon (mod. Methoni) and Navarino or Zonklon (Pylos) in southern Greece.

This brilliant success ended the war. Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, accepted the terms of peace imposed by Genoa and agreed to pay an indemnity of 200,000 florins.

References

See also
Venetian–Genoese Wars

14th-century Genoese people
Paganino
Genoese admirals
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
People of the Venetian–Genoese wars


title: Poyang Lake Dam

text:
The Poyang Lake Dam, referred to as the Poyang Lake Water Conservancy Project, is dam proposed to maintain water levels at Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, China. The lake is China's largest freshwater resource but has significantly decreased in size during the 21st century due to heavy damming, drought and dredging. Construction of the dam can also cause severe damages on remnant population of finless porpoises.

References

Dams in China
Proposed dams


title: Diwan Videos

text:
Diwan Videos is a leading multi-channel network, talent management agency, and media production company based in the MENA region, managing top creators and working with leading brands helping grow talents and reach audiences

On the regional level, Diwan is the top viewed YouTube multi-channel network in the Middle East and Africa and the only regional network to rank among the top 100 multi-channel networks globally.  With more than half of its employees YouTube certified, Diwan qualified as one of the earliest YouTube Certified  Partners in the Middle East and Africa.  Diwan specializes in digital content management services, including monetization, online channel optimization and protection of copyrights.

History
Diwan was established in 2010 in Cairo, Egypt, by Ossama Youssef, an entrepreneur, who saw an opportunity to lead in the untapped market of digital entertainment in the region. In two months, Diwan signed agreements with more than 30 customers in Egypt. Shortly after its establishment, the company became a YouTube partner.

The company continued to grow in the following few years with expansions in the region, serving clients in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey. Today, the company has a regional office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, serving the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and more than 300 customers from different parts of the world including India, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Some of its biggest clients include Sono Cairo, the owner of Egypt’s Radio and TV legacy productions, the TV channel solely targeting Arab children and their families, Toyor Al Janah TV, the preacher and social reformer Amr Khaled, the animated TV channel in the Middle East Spacetoon, ZeeAlwan, Arabic-dubbed Indian drama TV network, and the public Saudi figure Mohamed Al-Arefe, one of the most followed Muslim preachers in the region.

Services
The company provides a myriad of services ranging from content management, media production, influencer marketing, talent management, social media management and consulting.

Services for content creators and online advertisers include video content monetization, copyrights protection and channel optimization for increased viewership and revenue. The company also offers a consulting service for advertisers in form of online advertising, sponsorships, branded productions with product placements, and digital campaigns.

Diwan is the first multi-channel network in the Middle East that developed an online dashboard offering financial monitoring of owned channels. Diwan is also known for introducing high quality animation services in the market. Animations projects kicked off with MasriTV, a project by Google aimed for Egyptian Youth. From the notable animation work produced by Diwan is renowned Basmet Amal  radio show hosted by Amr Khaled, converting selections of the aired episodes into digitally distributed animation production.

References

Companies based in Cairo
Companies based in Dubai
2010 establishments in Egypt
Online advertising services and affiliate networks
Multi-channel networks


title: The Congarees

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The Congarees is a historic archaeological site located near Cayce, Lexington County, South Carolina. The site was established as early as 1691, and served as a frontier outpost, early township settlement, and crossroads of the great trade paths of the Catawba and Cherokee nations. The Fort Congaree back country fort was established on the site in 1718.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Lexington County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Lexington County, South Carolina


title: 102d Security Forces Squadron

text:
The 102d Security Forces Squadron (102 SFS) is a unit of the 102d Intelligence Wing, Massachusetts Air National Guard, at Otis Air National Guard Base, Joint Base Cape Cod, Massachusetts. If activated to federal service, the squadron is gained by the United States Air Force.

As an Air National Guard unit, the 102d Security Forces Squadron is not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command and is under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Air National Guard unless activated to federal service by order of the President of the United States.

History

References

See also

 United States Air Force Security Forces
 Massachusetts Air National Guard

Military units and formations in Massachusetts
United States Air National Guard


title: Manning Archeological Site

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Manning Archeological Site is a historic archaeological site located near Cayce, Lexington County, South Carolina. The site contains evidence of prehistoric Indian occupation beginning with the Paleo-Indian (9,500 BC) period though the historic Indians of the 1700s.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Lexington County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Lexington County, South Carolina


title: Miljan Milivojev

text:
Miljan Milivojev (; born 21 November 1988) is a Serbian football striker who plays for Vittoriosa Stars F.C.

References

External links

 Miljan Milivojev stats at utakmica.rs

1988 births
Living people
Footballers from Zrenjanin
Men's association football forwards
Serbian men's footballers
FK Senta players
FK Spartak Subotica players
Serbian SuperLiga players


title: Liselund Ny Slot

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Liselund Ny Slot (Liselund New Manor) is an Italian-styled manor house located in the Liselund park on the Danish island of Møn.

History
In 1884, Fritz Rosenkrantz bought Liselund from Gottlob Rosenkrantz and his wife Elisabth. In 1887, he built the new three-winged manor at the top of the park's western slope overlooking the lake. Decorated with fine ceiling frescos, stucco and wall panels, the New Manor was used by the Rosenkranz family until the 1960s when the family moved to Liselund Avlsgård as the building was considered too old to inhabit. It was used as a youth hostel for a time but was sold to the State in 1980. After lying empty for many years, it was bought by Krista and Steffen Steffensen in 1989 who converted it into an attractive hotel.

See also
Liselund

References

External links
Liselund Ny Slot website
 Article in Børsen

Møn
Listed buildings and structures in Vordingborg Municipality
Tourist attractions in the Region of Southern Denmark
Hotels in Denmark
Historic houses


The 1985 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held on December 11–16, 1984 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. The event was sanctioned by the International Skating Union and open to ISU member nations. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Results

Men

Ladies

Pairs

Ice dancing

References

World Junior Figure Skating Championships
1984 in figure skating
1985 in figure skating
International figure skating competitions hosted by the United States


title: SAM Site

text:
SAM Site is a historic archaeological site located near Cayce, Lexington County, South Carolina. The South Appalachian Mississippian site was the site of a late-prehistoric village.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Lexington County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Lexington County, South Carolina


title: Taylor Site

text:
Taylor Site is a historic archaeological site located near Cayce, Lexington County, South Carolina. The site contains the remains of settlements that begins with Paleo-Indian and extends into and through the Archaic and into the early Woodland period.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Lexington County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Lexington County, South Carolina


title: Massimo Pirri

text:
Massimo Pirri (10 November 1945 – 20 June 2001) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Life and career
Born in Campagnano di Roma, Pirri entered the cinema industry as an actor, playing very minor roles while he was completing his engineering degree, and then he worked as an assistant director of Luciano Emmer and Folco Quilici. In 1972 he made his directorial debut with the documentary film La mattanza, which was followed by several other documentaries. In 1975 he directed the first of his five feature films, Calamo, the provocative story of a rebellious seminarist who is discovering sex. In 1977 he directed his most known film, Italia: Ultimo atto?, one of the first with the links of Italian terrorists and the police apparatus, and one year later he directed the controversial L'immoralità, the unusual story of a young girl in love with a serial killer. His last project, the short documentary Il mestiere dello sceneggiatore, was made in collaboration with the screenwriter Tonino Guerra and was screened at the Venice Film Festival. In his last years he worked on religious-themed stories.

Filmography
 Calamo (1976)
 Italia: ultimo atto? (1977)
 L'immoralità (1978) aka Cock Crows at Eleven
 Eroina (1980)
 Meglio baciare un cobra (1986)

References

External links

1945 births
2001 deaths
20th-century Italian screenwriters
Italian male screenwriters
Writers from Rome
Film directors from Rome
20th-century Italian male writers
Campagnano di Roma


title: Ludmila Seefried-Matějková

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Ludmila Seefried-Matějková (born 13 November 1938) is a Czech sculptor and painter. She lives in Berlin.

Biography
Ludmila Seefried-Matějková was born in Heřmanův Městec, where she spent her childhood and the war years. Her father, František Matějka, owned a sawmill, and her mother, Ludmila, looked after the family, household and garden. Music, painting and literature also played an important role in their lives.

After February 1948 the family was dispossessed and her father was displaced by force 250 km away from the family.  Her mother and the two daughters were at the mercy of the new communist rulers. The trauma experienced during this period sharpened her awareness of injustice. In 1951, the whole family was forcibly displaced to Mariánské Lázně.

Matějková studied sculpture at Arts Grammar School in Prague with Prof. M. Uchytilová-Kucová (1953–1956) and made several attempts to enter university. In spite of passing examinations, she was rejected for political reasons. In between exams she undertook practical stonemason training and worked in a porcelain factory in Duchcov. After a last unsuccessful attempt in Bratislava she returned to Mariánské Lázně and worked for three years as an art teacher in Mariánské Lázně and Cheb and as a graphic artist at the Mariánské Lázně Arts Centre KaSS. At a local theatre Kruh/Circle in the arts centre she acts, sings, writes, and portrays friends.

Her daughter Marketa was born in 1965, but her marriage broke down and she divorced. In 1964 she submitted an application for membership in the Czech Artists Association (CSVU) and during the Prague Spring she grabbed the opportunity to study abroad. In 1967 she was admitted to the Berlin University of the Arts (HfBK) in West Berlin, in the sculptor class of Prof. Joe Henry Lonas.

She completed her studies in master class in 1973. Since then, she had been working as a freelance sculptor in Berlin. Here she met her husband, Rainer-Maria Seefried, received German nationality and decided to live in Germany.

In the 1990s Ludmila Seefried-Matejková was a founding member of the Künstlersonderbundes-Realism in Germany in  Berlin (1990) and of the international arts association PRO ARTE VIVENDI in Berlin and Mariánské Lázně (1998). The projects are supported by the Czech Embassy in Berlin and the Deutsch Tschechischen Zukunfts-Fonds. In 1994 she became a member of the Darmstädter Sezession in Darmstadt.

She had several individual exhibitions in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Seefried-Matějková lives and works in Berlin and Malcesine.

Works

Ludmila Seefried-Matejkova studied figure sculpture under Prof.Marie Uchytilova-Kucova in Prague. She was able to look into the abstract form under Prof. Joe Henry Lonas. Her sculptures from this period were stylized anthropomorphic or bioform constructions in plaster.

She soon realized that abstraction limits her possibilities of expression and returned to figure sculpting. The hyper-realistic, life-size polyester figure "Hanna" (final work for master class at the HfBK 1973) marked out the future direction of her sculptural works. The effect of her figural sculptures was often intensified by environment installations: Scream 1976, On Edge 1977, Outside the Door 1980 and others.

Since 1980 she has returned to classic materials: clay, stone and wood. She takes her subjects from life around her, the city with its variety of human characters and their fates, the social differences to the fringes of society. A series of heads/busts of different characters, mainly in terracotta, were the Turkish Woman 1983, Homeless 1990, Cunning Stockbroker and Girl at the Exhibition 1996 and others. Her sculptures based on reality were transformed portraits of real people from everyday life, interpreted by the artist into her own sculptural language: Beggar Woman 1997, Underground 2001-2 and others. The sculpture Father`s Hat 1995 is a self-portrait.

Struck by her childhood and early youth experiences, she often depicts pain, violence and aggression as important themes in her work. She employs expressive symbols: Scream  1976, Strangling 1985, Homo homini lupus 1992/93, and Seed of Hatred 1993.

The world of the human soul with its silent dramas such as self-torment, anxiety and loneliness (Solitude 2004) as well as internal experiences, self-awareness such as contemplation and meditation are equally reflected in her works: Catharsis 1979, Meditation 1980 and 2002.  Her summer works in stone and wood were created in her Italian studio. The subjects are partly biblical or influenced by her reading: Job 2003, Resurrection 2008, Ophelia 1997, Kafka/Metamorphosis 2000, Somnambulist 2013 and others.

Drawings were always an important part of Ludmila Seefried-Matejkova's works – from sketches in pubs, underground trains or on the beach to portraits and studies of people, mainly in pencil, charcoal, pastel or pen-and-ink.

As a representative of realism, which has quite a tradition in Germany, Ludmila Seefried-Matejkova was successful in several  Kunst am Bau competitions Justice 1984, Double-Admiral 1985, The Dance on the Volcano 1988 and several other sculptural objects in the cityscape of Berlin.

Realizations

 1964 Mouth Organ Player, Mariánské Lázně
 1984 Justice, Criminal Court Moabit, Berlin
 1985 Double Admiral, Admiralstraße, Berlin-Kreuzberg
 1985 Ernst Heilmann, memorial Plaque for victims of Fascism, Berlin-Kreuzberg
 1987 Four Seasons, relief for primary school, Berlin-Kreuzberg
 1988 Carl von Ossietzky, memorial, Berlin-Kreuzberg
 1988 Playing with Fire, fountain Berlin-Wedding
 1988 Police Machine, Police Berlin-Spandau
 1989 Fountain Head, Job Centre Kiel
 1991 Relief for Fire Station, Berlin-Zehlendorf
 1993 Theodor Lessing, memorial plaque, Mariánské Lázně
 1993 Prayer, Malcesine
 2002  Archangel Michael, relief for Chapel St. Michael, Malcesine

Collections
 Berlinische Gallery, Berlin
 Communal Gallery Berlin
 Nicolas Treadwell Gallery, London

Solo exhibitions
 1964-1968 Mariánské Lázně
 1981 Artist of the Month, Communal Gallery, Berlin
 1987 House at Lützowplatz, Berlin
 1989 Municipal Gallery, Castle Oberhausen, (with Sarah Haffner, Maina M. Musky)
 1992 Heritage and Future, City Hall Brno
 1992 Heritage and Future, Mánes, Prague
 1992 Heritage and Future Kolonady Mariánské Lázně
 1996 Palazzo dei Capitani, Malcesine
 1998 Gallery Rutzmoser, Munich
 1998 Between Two Worlds, Communal Gallery, Berlin
 2000 Gallery Aeras, Herrenhut, Culture Centre Čáslav, Small Theater Liberec
 2001 Theaterei in Castle Erbach
 2001 Anglican Chapel Mariánské Lázně
 2002 Gallery Rutzmoser, Munich, Třebíč Castle
 2003 Palacky University, Olomouc
 2004 Slovakian Museum, Uherské Hradiště
 2005 Diocese Museum Plzeň
 2005 Sculptures and Drawings, Ludmila Seefried-Matejkova, Sculpture Forum, Isernhagen
 2007 Pictures of People- Sculptures and Drawings, Berlin-Tempelhof
 2011 Between Two Worlds, (with Zuzana Richter, Photography), Czech Centre, Prague
 2013 On the Fringe, Topičův salon Prague

Group exhibitions
 1973  exhibition of students of the HfBK, House at Kleinspark, Berlin
 1973  Annual exhibition of German Artists Association, Berlin
 1974  Annual exhibition of German Artist association, Mainz
 1976  Pictures of People, Schwetzingen and Cochen
 1977  International Female Artists 1877-1977
 1978  The Seventies meet the Twenties – Ugly Realism, London
 1980  New Darmstadt Secession, Darmstadt
 1981  Great Art Exhibition Munich, House of Arts, Munich
 1983  Sculptors Symposium St. Margareten Burgenland, Austria
 1984  Women's Art at Womenswold, Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, Denne Hill, Kent
 1986  Tod und Leben, Obere Galerie – Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, with Waldemar Grzimek, Carl Hofer, Käthe Kollwitz, Alfred Kubin, Heinrich Richter-Berlin, Georges Rouault, Ingo Kühl among others 1986.
 1988  Berlin Female Artists, Narni, Italy
 1988  Berlin Artists,City Hall Odense, Danmark
 1993  Realism Triennial, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
 1994  7 Berlin Realists, Wendhausen Castle
 1997  I am a Berliner, Mathew's Church, Berlin
 1999  Gallery at Potsdamer Platz, Autumn Salon, Paris
 2001–2004 Artists Sonderbund in Germany, Communal Gallery Berlin
 2002–2003 United Buddy Bears at Pariser Platz, Berlin
 2005–2012 Position of artists from the Darmstadt Secession, Graz
 2006–2007 Dialogue of the Generations, Berlin Communal Gallery, Diamond Gallery, Prague
 2008 Realism from 1968-2008, Sculpture Forum Isernhagen
 2009 Czech Art Yesterday and Today, (Otto Gutfreund, Ludmila Seefried-Matějková, Rudolf Valenta, Zuzana Richter), Berlin
 2010  20 Years Artists, Sonderbund in Germany, Berlin-Wedding
 2011–2014  North Art, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf

Bibliography
 Realismus. 45 Jahre Deutsche Bildhauerei, 2014, Karina Türr, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg
 Ludmila Seefried-Matějková, Na pokraji/On the Edge, 2013, cat., Topičův salon, Prague
 Ludmila Seefried-Matejková, Zwischen zwei Welten, 1998, Udo Christoffel, Rainer Höynck, cat., Kommunale Galerie, Berlin
 Ludmila Seefried-Matejková, 1992, Stefanie Endlich, Anděla Horová, cat. 54 pp., Dům umění města Brna,
 Ludmila Seefried-Matejková, Rauscher, 1985, Stefanie Endlich, 72 pp.
 Sex Female, the art of contemporary occupation artist, 1984, Denne Hill, Nicholas Treadwell publications, Womensworld Kent
 Ludmila Seefried-Matějková, 1981, edition: Künstler der Monats, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, 16 pp.

References

External links

Official website
Kunstlersonderbund
Darmstaedtersezession
Realization, Berlín-Wilmersdorf
Interview ČRO Vltava 2013
 Interview, 2013, ČRO Praha
Interview, Plzeň, 2005, ČRO Praha
Pro Arte Vivendi - Internationaler Kunstverein e.V., Berlin - Marienbad

Czech sculptors
Czech women sculptors
20th-century German sculptors
21st-century German sculptors
1938 births
Living people
People from Heřmanův Městec
20th-century Czech women artists
21st-century Czech women artists
Berlin University of the Arts alumni


title: The People of the Wind

text:
The People of the Wind is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson, first published in 1973. It was a 1974 nominee of the Nebula Award for Science Fiction.  The novel is the last book in Anderson’s Polesotechnic League series.  However, since the setting of the book is many generations after the series' two main characters, Nicholas van Rijn and David Falkayn, and many generations before Anderson's follow-up series, the Terran Empire; it is more proper to consider this book a bridge between the two series.

Synopsis

The People of the Wind is a story of the clash of two very different cultures living on a planet named Avalon. One culture consists of people who trace their ancestry to Earth and can thus be considered human. They have created a highly organized and complex society. The other culture is made up of winged creatures that have remained ‘as free as the wind.’ Despite the unlikelihood of such two different groups forming a unified society, they indeed created a single nation composed of the best of both races. Unfortunately the two groups are forced into a war, and the population of Avalon is forced to choose a side to support.  Unless they choose they are going against both.

Awards

 1974 Hugo Science Fiction Award nominee
 1974 Locus Award Nominee
 1974 Nebula Award Nominee

Publication information

The People of the Wind was first published in 1973. It was reprinted by Signet as a mass market paperback on January 17, 1978  and appears in Rise of the Terran Empire, the third volume of the Technic Civilization complete edition published by Baen in 2009 (paperback 2011).

In 1975, Metagaming Concepts published a board wargame titled The Ythri that was based on Anderson's novel.

References

1973 American novels
1973 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Novels by Poul Anderson
Signet Books books


title: Spanish Point

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Spanish Point may refer to:

Spanish Point (Antarctica), on Bulgarian Beach on Hurd Peninsula, Antarctica
Spanish Point (Barbuda), one of the two southernmost points on the Caribbean island of Barbuda
Spanish Point, Bermuda, prominent headland in Bermuda
Spanish Point, County Clare, village in County Clare, Ireland
Historic Spanish Point, museum and environmental complex located in Osprey, Florida, United States


title: Battle of Sjenica (1941)

text:
The Battle of Sjenica was a battle between attacking forces of Yugoslav Partisans on one side and defending forces of the Sandžak Muslim militia and town's militsiya (Serbs and Muslims) in Sjenica, on the territory of the Italian governorate of Montenegro.

Background

At the beginning of the Second World War the territory of Sandžak was a subject of territorial aspirations of all sides in the war. The Muslims wanted this region to be annexed to the Ustaše controlled Independent State of Croatia which pursued a genocidal policy toward Serbs, Jews and Roma People. On the other hand, the Germans designated it to be a part of their occupation zone, Italians wanted to control all of Sandžak while Albanians wanted it to be annexed to their Greater Albania. The Chetniks and Partisans struggled to keep Sandžak within Yugoslavia. Based on the agreement of July 1941, Sjenica was included in the Italian governorate of Montenegro.

Hasan Zvizdić was a wealthy Muslim whole-trader in Sjenica. He became a city governor and armed many local Muslims and organized them as militia during the war. In December 1941 Zvizdić refused to allow Partisans to capture Sjenica because he was afraid that Chetniks, German and Italian forces would attack Partisans in Sjenica and kill many of its population as well. He explained to Partisans that he has around 5,000 members of Muslim militia under his command and that he will used them against Partisans or Chetniks if they try to capture Sjenica. According to historian Živković, Zvizdić was actually concerned that his lucrative contracts to supply Italian and German army with livestock would be cancelled if Partisans capture the city.

Armed forces

The Partisan military units that attacked the town belonged to the 2nd Takovo Company commanded by Tadija Andrić, part of the Belgrade Company and part of the Serbian-Sandžak Company commanded by Vladimir Knežević and Petar Stambolić. The staff of the Belgrade Company was against the attack on Sjenica, but was outvoted.

On 23 November the Partisans captured and executed several Chetnik commanders near Nova Varoš. This action compromised the Partisans in the eyes of many Serbs from Sjenica who developed animosity toward them. As a result, many Serbs from Sjenica joined forces of the town's militsiya to defend the town from the Partisans.

Battle

The attack on Sjenica began on 22 December 1941, in 4:30 a.m. The temperature was  and snowdrifts were about 1 meter. The Partisans attacked the town from three directions. Initially, the Belgrade company managed to penetrate the town and capture its center. The Partisans faced with strong gunfire in period between 8 and 10 a.m. and even hot water thrown at them from the windows of the houses. The Belgrade company managed to retreat from the town only after 11 a.m. and reached Nova Varoš only on 23 December because they were carrying four heavily wounded Partisans.

The remaining two groups failed to fulfill their tasks because they were easily repelled back to the town's periphery. On the same day the forces of Muslim militia from Prijepolje, commanded by Pačariz, and from Sjenica commanded by Zvizdić successfully repelled the attack of Partisans who tried to capture Sjenica. They were supported by one company from German controlled Tutin, commanded by Džemail Koničanin, who joined them based on invitation of Zvizdić.

Communist casualties included Andrija Tadić, the commander of the 2nd Takovo company.

Aftermath
Josip Broz Tito criticized Partisan attack on Sjenica which, according to his position, was against direct order of the supreme command and Communist Party. Belgrade battalion lost third of its manpower and Priboj and Sjenica companies ceased to exist in the battle. Another defeat shock already low morale among Partisans in the area. Because of the attack on Sjenica in early 1942 Italians closed the border on relation Plav-Rožaje-Tutin and armed part of local Muslim population in the area. Prisoners of war were captured in Sjenica until February 1942, when Zvizdić sent, on Italian orders, 23 of prisoners to Prijepolje. Pačariz and his men escorted them to there. They were in light clothes, so a few of them lost limbs from freezing. Some of prisoners were women, who were tortured and raped. Four of prisoners were exchanged with Partisans, two were bought by Pačariz and other 17 were executed by Italians in Prijepolje.

References

Sources

Sjenica 1941
Sjenica 1941
Sjenica 1941
Sjenica
December 1941 events
History of Sandžak


title: Hypnale zara

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Hypnale zara, the lowlands hump-nosed pit viper, is a venomous pitviper species endemic to Sri Lanka. It is distinguished from Hypnale nepa by variably colored body and less upcurved snout. No subspecies are currently recognized.

Description

Hypnale zara has 10-19 minute scales from wart-like protuberance on the snout tip. 18-39 heterogeneous small scales on inter nasal to prefrontal region can be seen, along with six scales around the eye, and seven to eight. supralabials. Costal scales are keeled. Ventrals are 134–157 in number. Subcaudals may be 34–51.

Dorsum color ranges from yellowish brown to dark brown, sometimes deep red. Two rows of distinct sub-oval or sub-triangular blotches meet on vertebral region. There is a dark stripe across eye and cheek. Venter is lighter than dorsum, sometimes light ash-gray.

Reproduction
Hypnale zara is ovoviviparous.

References

zara
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 1849
Taxa named by John Edward Gray


title: Bank of Western Carolina

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Bank of Western Carolina, also known as Lexington State Bank (after 1966), is a historic bank building located at Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1912, and is a one-story, rectangular, brick building. It has a tiled hipped roof and features eave brackets and an arched entry.  It is one of five commercial buildings that survived the 1916 fire.  The building houses Bodhi Thai, a "fine dining" Thai restaurant.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Commercial buildings completed in 1912
Buildings and structures in Lexington County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Lexington County, South Carolina
1912 establishments in South Carolina


title: Destruction in Okayama (2014)

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Destruction in Okayama (2014) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on September 23, 2014, in Okayama at the Convex Okayama. The event featured ten matches, three of which were contested for a championship. It was the ninth event under the Destruction name. Due to Ustream getting out of the PPV business, Destruction in Okayama was the first NJPW PPV in two years that was not available through the promotion's largest international internet pay-per-view provider.

Storylines
Destruction in Okayama featured ten professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Originally announced top matches of the event saw Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and Kushida) defend the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Suzuki-gun representatives El Desperado and Taichi and Kazuchika Okada defend his certificate for an IWGP Heavyweight Championship match at Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome against Karl Anderson. Okada earned the certificate by winning the 2014 G1 Climax in August. During the tournament, he suffered two losses, one of which was against Anderson. The card was revamped on September 8 with the addition of two more title matches. In the first Tencozy were set to defend the NWA World Tag Team Championship against Manabu Nakanishi and Yuji Nagata. The match came as a result of Nagata challenging Tencozy after he and Nakanishi had defeated the champions in a non-title main event on September 7. The second, which was originally announced as a non-title match, would feature Yujiro Takahashi defending the NEVER Openweight Championship against Yoshi-Hashi. This change came as a result of Yoshi-Hashi leading the Chaos stable to a win over their rival Bullet Club stable in a ten-man elimination tag team match on September 5, scoring the last elimination over Takahashi.

Event
In the first title match of the event, the Time Splitters made their second successful defense of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against El Desperado and Taichi. Post-match, the champions were challenged by both the Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero) and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson). Before the next match, NJPW played a vignette, where National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) president Bruce Tharpe announced that the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Chase Owens would be taking part in NJPW's King of Pro-Wrestling event on October 13. After the video had ended, Bushi entered the ring to request a title match against Owens. The second title match saw Tencozy make their fourth successful defense of the NWA World Tag Team Championship against the team of Manabu Nakanishi and Yuji Nagata. In the third and final title match of the event, Yoshi-Hashi failed in his second attempt at a championship win in two days, when Yujiro Takahashi defeated him to make his first successful defense of the NEVER Openweight Championship. Afterwards, Takahashi was confronted by Yoshi-Hashi's stablemate, the previous NEVER Openweight Champion Tomohiro Ishii. In the semi-main event, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Tetsuya Naito defeated Bullet Club's IWGP Heavyweight Champion A.J. Styles and IWGP Tag Team Champion Doc Gallows. Following the match, Styles accepted Tanahashi's challenge for an IWGP Heavyweight Championship match between the two. In the main event of the evening, Kazuchika Okada successfully defended his Tokyo Dome IWGP Heavyweight Championship challenge rights certificate against Karl Anderson. Following his win, Okada named Tetsuya Naito, the other man who had defeated him during the 2014 G1 Climax, as his next challenger.

Results

References

External links
The official New Japan Pro-Wrestling website

2014.2
2014 in professional wrestling
Okayama
September 2014 events in Japan


title: Destruction in Kobe (2014)

text:
Destruction in Kobe (2014) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on September 21, 2014, in Kobe, Hyōgo at the Kobe World Memorial Hall. The event featured ten matches, three of which were contested for championships. It was the eighth event under the Destruction name and the final NJPW internet pay-per-view broadcast internationally by Ustream.

Production

Storylines
Destruction in Kobe featured ten professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Originally announced top matches of the event saw Kushida defend the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Ryusuke Taguchi, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Katsuyori Shibata face off in a 2014 G1 Climax rematch and Bad Luck Fale make his first defense of the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against previous champion Shinsuke Nakamura. Nakamura had defeated Fale during the 2014 G1 Climax, taking himself to the finals and eliminating Fale from the tournament. On September 8, NJPW announced that a match between Bullet Club's Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson and Chaos' Kazuchika Okada and Yoshi-Hashi would be contested for the former's IWGP Tag Team Championship, instead of being the non-title match it was first announced as. This came as a result of Yoshi-Hashi leading Chaos to a ten-man elimination tag team match win over Bullet Club on September 5, after which he challenged Yujiro Takahashi to a match for his NEVER Openweight Championship, while Okada added his own IWGP Tag Team Championship challenge to Gallows and Anderson.

Event
The event featured several matches in the ongoing storyline rivalry between the Chaos and Bullet Club stables, including the opening six-man tag team match, where Chaos' Alex Koslov, Rocky Romero and Tomohiro Ishii defeated Bullet Club's Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson and Yujiro Takahashi. Also featured during the event was Toru Yano's rivalry with his former partner Takashi Iizuka, which had also branched into a rivalry between Yano's new partner Kazushi Sakuraba and Iizuka's Suzuki-gun stablemate Minoru Suzuki. During the event, the two teams faced off in a tag team match, where Yano cheated his way to a win over Iizuka. The first title match of the event saw Ryusuke Taguchi defeat Kushida to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship for the second time in his career and first time in seven years, becoming the 69th champion. Following the match, Taguchi and Kushida shook hands, before they were attacked by the Suzuki-gun trio of El Desperado, Taichi and Taka Michinoku, building up an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match between Kushida and Alex Shelley, the Time Splitters, and El Desperado and Taichi at Destruction in Okayama.

In the second title match, Bullet Club's Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson made their sixth successful defense of the IWGP Tag Team Championship against Chaos' Kazuchika Okada and Yoshi-Hashi, after Yujiro Takahashi interfered to attack his upcoming NEVER Openweight Championship challenger Yoshi-Hashi. The event also featured two big singles match between some of NJPW's top heavyweights. In the matches, Togi Makabe and his tag team partner Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Hirooki Goto and his tag team partner Katsuyori Shibata, respectively. Following his win, Tanahashi announced he was ending his one-year-long self-imposed exile from the IWGP Heavyweight Championship picture and was now looking to get a shot at Bullet Club's reigning champion A.J. Styles. In the main event of the show, Chaos' Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Bullet Club's Bad Luck Fale to regain the IWGP Intercontinental Championship, winning it for the record-setting fourth time.

Reception
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter called the match between Hiroshi Tanahashi and Katsuyori Shibata a "must-see", writing "[i]t crossed the line for me as far as stiffness goes, and kind of bugs me because Tanahashi is smart enough to know the pitfalls of that kind of a match and following it. But as far as what they did when it comes to doing a simulated fight, it was incredible". The match was eventually given a rare five-star rating by Meltzer.

Aftermath
On September 30, Ustream announced it had ended its pay-per-view service, making Destruction in Kobe NJPW's final event broadcast by its largest international internet pay-per-view provider.

Results

References

External links
The official New Japan Pro-Wrestling website

2014.1
2014 in professional wrestling
September 2014 events in Japan


title: Hitis

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Hitis () is a small archipelago and a former municipality in Finland. It lies south from Kimitoön in the province of Southwest Finland.

The main islands of Hitis are Rosala and Hitis. They are connected to the mainland by a ferry. Totally there are over 2 000 islands and islets in Hitis, and some of them are still inhabited permanently. There are many summer cottages in Hitis.

Hitis was a trade harbour during the Viking era. Administratively it was part of Kimito until the municipality was established in 1861. During the World War II there were battles of Bengtskär and Morgonlandet in the area of Hitis. The municipality was merged to Dragsfjärd in 1969.

Villages
Bergö, Biskopsö, Bolax, Böle, Hitis, Holma, Högsåra, Kaxskäla, Kasnäs, Rosala, Stubbnäs, Tunhamn, Vänoxa, Vänö

References

Kimitoön
Former municipalities of Finland
1861 establishments in Finland


title: John de Sotheron

text:
Sir John de Sotheron (died after 1398) was an English landowner, lawyer and judge, who served briefly as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.

Background  and early career

He was the son of Thomas de Sotheron or de Sotherne, Lord of the Manor of Great Mitton in Lancashire, and grandson of Sir Robert de Sotheron; Mitton had passed by inheritance to the de Sotherons from the de Mitton family. He inherited his father's lands in about 1369; at the time he was involved in a dispute with nearby Cockersand Abbey over the advowson (i.e. the right to select his own candidate as parish priest) of Mitton Church. In February 1368 he was the defendant in a claim for a debt of 40 shillings brought against him by William de Mirfeld. He is known to have been acting as an attorney at this time.

In 1377 he was pardoned for killing John de Holden. He lived in a violent age, where cases of manslaughter and even murder among the ruling class were not uncommon, and a royal pardon was easy enough to obtain; nor would a criminal record necessarily hinder one's career, as de Sotheron's own later life shows.

Judge

In 1384 he was sent to Ireland as Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, but instead took office as second justice of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland), and almost at once became Lord Chief Justice. He served for one year, during which there is a record in the Patent Rolls of him as one of three senior judges who acted for the  Lord Lieutenant of Ireland  in his absence in hearing petitions. He returned to England after a year, then came back to Ireland in the summer of 1386, as a legal adviser to Sir John Stanley, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and was given letters of protection in June for the journey. He remained in Ireland for several years; he lived then at Dangan, County Meath (his wife's family, the Cusacks, held substantial lands in Meath). Ball states that his wife Joanna was kidnapped from Dangan Castle in 1392, but gives no further details of the episode.

He returned to England sometime after 1392, was knighted, and retired to his estates in Lancashire.

Family  and  later  descendants

He married Joanna, daughter of Sir Simon Cusack, who was summoned to the so-called Good Parliament of 1376 as Baron Culmullen, and had extensive lands in Ireland, including Culmullin and Dangan, County Meath. Joanna and her sister Margaret presumably inherited a share of these lands, although their father had a son John by his second wife Nicola Bathe, who was apparently still a minor when his father died. His father had granted him the family estates at Dangan. Nicola remarried another senior Irish judge, John de Shriggeley. She and her second husband fought a long and bitter battle for possession of Culmullen against various Cusack relatives; the feud dragged on into the next generation, and caused a number of violent deaths.

John and Joanna had two surviving children, Christopher and Isabella, who married Walter Hawksworth of Hawksworth, Yorkshire: her father gave her a dowry of 80 marks. He was still living in 1397/8, when he and his son and heir Christopher were in dispute with Roger White and others as to the ownership of lands at Great Mitton.

The Great Mitton estate passed to Christopher, who had two sons, John (living 1419), who was parish priest of Upton-cum-Chalvey, Buckinghamshire (now a suburb of Slough), and Robert, who inherited the estates. His descendants remained at Great Mitton for several generations. The family name was later spelt Sherburne.

References

People from Ribble Valley (district)
Lords chief justice of Ireland
14th-century English people
Knights Bachelor


title: James Harman Building

text:
James Harman Building, also known as Roger's Professional Building Classification Building, is a historic office building located at Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1901, and is a two-story, rectangular, brick building with a flat roof and parapet.  It is one of five commercial buildings that survived the 1916 fire.  It was originally built for Dr. Jack Skellington (1845-1928), a Lexington dentist.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Commercial buildings completed in 1901
Buildings and structures in Lexington County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Lexington County, South Carolina


title: Marina Gastl

text:
Marina Gastl (born 3 August 1985 in Innsbruck) is an amateur Austrian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the women's heavyweight category. She represented her nation Austria, as a 19-year-old teen, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and later picked up a bronze medal in the 72-kg division at the 2005 World Junior Championships in Vilnius, Lithuania. Throughout her sporting career, Gastl trained full-time for RSC Inzing under her personal coach Jörg Helmdach.

Gastl qualified for the Austrian squad in the women's 72 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by receiving a berth and placing first from the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Madrid, Spain. She lost two straight matches each to neighboring Germany's Anita Schätzle (1–4) and the formidable Russian and reigning European champion Guzel Manyurova (1–7) in the prelim pool, ending her chances of advancing further into the semifinals with a ninth-place finish.

References

External links

1985 births
Living people
Austrian female sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Austria
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Innsbruck
21st-century Austrian women


title: Could It Happen Here?

text:
Could It Happen Here? () is a 1977 Italian political fiction thriller film written and directed by Massimo Pirri.

Plot
Rome, 1977. In a  more and more confused climate, between popular discontent and difficulties of the government, a terrorist group is training his men in anticipation of a major military action: the elimination of the Minister of the Interior. At one point, the organization decides to abandon the plan, as it is believed that a massacre would not improve the condition of the poorer classes. But Mara, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, Ferruccio, a young professor, and Bruno, a drifter guy, do not want to withdraw. On their own initiative they will make the attempt, which will be end into a massacre. The minister dies, and with him many members of his entourage as well as the same Bruno. Mara and Ferruccio manage to escape through a Rome becoming lawless. Once in a den they eventually opt to shoot each other, while outside the tanks parading through the streets: the coup started.

Cast

 Luc Merenda as Ferruccio
 Marcella Michelangeli as  Mara
 Andrea Franchetti as  Bruno
 Lou Castel as Marco
 Ines Pellegrini as The Student on Park Bench

See also
 List of Italian films of 1977

References

External links

1977 films
Italian thriller films
Films about terrorism
Films set in 1977
Political fiction
Films set in Rome
Films scored by Lallo Gori
1970s thriller films
1970s Italian-language films
1970s Italian films


title: Old Batesburg-Leesville High School

text:
Old Batesburg-Leesville High School, also known as Batesburg-Leesville Middle School, was a historic high school building located in Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1921, and is a two-story, red brick school building on a raised basement in the Tudor Gothic Revival style. It features a low parapet roof banded in concrete, flanking pavilions, and a Tudor arched entranceway.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

The building was demolished in August 2017 due to vandalism on property, asbestos, and plumbing issues.

References

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Tudor Revival architecture in South Carolina
School buildings completed in 1921
Schools in Lexington County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Lexington County, South Carolina
Buildings and structures demolished in 2017
Demolished buildings and structures in South Carolina
1921 establishments in South Carolina


title: Japan Suite

text:
Japan Suite is a live album by pianist Paul Bley, drummer Barry Altschul and bassist Gary Peacock recorded in Japan in 1976 and released on Bley's own Improvising Artists label in 1977.

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 2 stars noting the performance is "certainly more fiery than many of the other recordings by the trio and has its colorful moments". The Penguin Guide to Jazz called it "a set of remarkable intensity, even by the standards of these fiery players".

Track listing
All compositions by Paul Bley
 "Japan Suite I" - 19:22
 "Japan Suite II" - 12:26

Personnel
Paul Bley - piano
Gary Peacock - bass
Barry Altschul - drums, percussion

References

1977 live albums
Paul Bley live albums
Improvising Artists Records live albums


title: Post Bahadur Bogati

text:
Post Bahadur Bogati (18 July 1953 – 15 September 2014) represented Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in the CA Election-2008. He was assigned as the General Secretary from the 7th convention of UCPN- Maoist, held in Hetauda. He was the Minister for Information and Communications as well as Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation. He was also the vice-chairman of UCPN (Maoist).

Bogati died on 15 September 2014 due to cardiac arrest followed by brain hemorrhage in Norvic International Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.

References

1953 births
2014 deaths
People from Nuwakot District
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) politicians
Aviation ministers of Nepal
Culture ministers of Nepal
Tourism ministers of Nepal
Information and Communications ministers of Nepal
Khas people
Members of the 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly


The 1986 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held on December 9–14, 1985 in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia. The event was sanctioned by the International Skating Union and open to ISU member nations. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Results

Men

Ladies

Pairs

Ice dancing

References

1986
1985 in figure skating
International figure skating competitions hosted by Yugoslavia
Sports competitions in Sarajevo
1986 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
1985 in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1985 in Yugoslav sport
December 1985 sports events in Europe


title: Hippolyte Piré

text:
Hippolyte-Marie-Guillaume de Rosnyvinen, Comte de Piré, (Rennes, 31 March 1778 – Paris, 20 July 1850) was a French general who fought in the Napoleonic Wars.

His name is inscribed on the second column of the Northern Pillar of the Arc de Triomphe.

Notes

References

Further reading

1778 births
1850 deaths
Military personnel from Rennes
Barons of the First French Empire
French generals
Generals of the First French Empire
Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour
Knights of the Order of Saint Louis
Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe


title: Hebetancylus

text:
Hebetancylus is a genus of small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

Anatomy
These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch" which can serve perfectly well as a gill when they are unable to reach the surface for air.

Species
Species within the genus Hebetancylus include:

 Hebetancylus excentricus (Morelet, 1851)
 Hebetancylus moricandi (d’Orbigny, 1837)

References

Planorbidae


title: Segeberg – Stormarn-Mitte

text:
Segeberg – Stormarn-Mitte 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 8. It is located in south central Schleswig-Holstein, comprising most of the Segeberg district and northwestern parts of the Stormarn district.

Segeberg – Stormarn-Mitte was created for the 1976 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Bengt Bergt of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Geography
Segeberg – Stormarn-Mitte is located in south central Schleswig-Holstein. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises most of the Segeberg district (with the exception of the urban municipality of Bad Bramstedt and the Ämter of Bad Bramstedt-Land and Boostedt-Rickling) and northwestern parts of the Stormarn district (specifically the urban municipalities of Ammersbek, Bad Oldesloe, Bargteheide, the Ämter of Bad Oldesloe-Land and Bargteheide-Land, and the municipality of Tangstedt).

History
Segeberg – Stormarn-Mitte was created in 1976, then known as Segeberg – Stormarn-Nord. It contained parts of the abolished constituencies of Segeberg – Eutin and Stormarn – Herzogtum Lauenburg. Originally, it covered the entirety of the Segeberg district; however, the Ämter of Bad Bramstedt-Land and Boostedt-Rickling were transferred to different constituencies in the 2002 election. In addition, the municipality of Reinfeld and the Amt of Nordstormarn were originally part of Segeberg – Stormarn-Nord; they were transferred to Ostholstein constituency in the 1998 election. Conversely, the municipality of Ammersbek was transferred to Segeberg – Stormarn-Nord from Herzogtum Lauenburg – Stormarn-Süd in the 2002 election. The constituency acquired its current name in the 2013 election.

Members
The constituency was held by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from its creation in 1976 until 1980, during which time it was represented by Peter Kurt Würzbach. It was won by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1980, and represented by Günther Heyenn for a single term. Former member Würzbach regained the constituency in 1983, and represented it until 1998. From 1998 to 2005, it was held by the SPD and its member was Franz Thönnes. Gero Storjohann of the CDU was elected in 2005, and re-elected in 2009, 2013, and 2017. Bengt Bergt won the constituency for the SPD in 2021.

Election results

2021 election

2017 election

2013 election

2009 election

References

Federal electoral districts in Schleswig-Holstein
2002 establishments in Germany
Constituencies established in 2002
Stormarn (district)
Segeberg


title: Average earnings index (horse racing)

text:
Average earnings index (AEI) is a popular statistic used  in North American Thoroughbred horse breeding. It is used to put the earnings of a breeding animal's progeny into proper perspective.

Method
The average earnings index measures the earning power of a stallion or mare's offspring by comparing the average earnings of a given horse's progeny with all other runners of the same age that raced in the same country in a given period of time.  The average is stated as a value of 1.00. The AEI is calculated for each year a horse has offspring racing and can be averaged for all years that horse has had first generation descendants on the track.

The AEI can be used for additional comparisons, such as the composite AEI of a sire or damsire based on all of his progeny. Another way it is used is to compare stallions from one generation to the next, because it compensates for the changing value of currency over time.

Development
The AEI was developed in 1948 by Joe Estes of The Blood-Horse magazine. It originally could only be used to calculate numbers for sires and, beginning in the 1950s, broodmare sires. It was only with the addition of computer power beginning in the 1970s and 1980s that a full analysis of mares could be added to the equations and determine the AEI for various crosses.

Criticism
Although considered by some an industry standard, the AEI is criticized as easily skewed by the influence of a single exceptional horse in a given year and favors horses that throw "durable types" of horses that have multiple starts in a given year, including at lower-level races.

Examples
A stallion's career AEI can be found by looking up the pedigree of any of their offspring in The Jockey Club's online pedigree database, equineline.com. The AEI figures for various leading American sires are:
 Bold Ruler (leading sire from 1963-1969 and 1973) – 7.86
 Nasrullah (1955, 1956, 1959, 1960) – 5.81
Alydar (1990) – 5.11
 Nijinsky – 4.49
 Bull Lea (1947-9, 1952-3) – 4.37
 Northern Dancer (1971, 1977) – 4.11
 Danzig (1991-3) – 3.93
 Mr. Prospector (1987-8) – 3.91
 Storm Cat (1999, 2000) – 2.95
 Halo (1983, 1989) - 2.91
 A.P. Indy (2003, 2006) – 2.88

As noted above, a stallion's career AEI can be found by looking up the pedigree of any of their offspring in The Jockey Club's online pedigree database, equineline.com.  Sunday Silence's career AEI, according to the Jockey Club's online pedigree database (which includes all career earnings throughout the entire world), equineline.com, is 2.55.   Sunday Silence's career AEI, according to Racing Post, is 2.15.  However Racing Post warns details of horses trained outside GB and Ireland may be incomplete.

See also
Thoroughbred breeding theories

References

Horse racing terminology


title: Axis (Paul Bley album)

text:
Axis is a live solo album by pianist Paul Bley recorded in New York in 1977 and released on Bley's own Improvising Artists label the following year.

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars stating "This is one of Bley's most painterly and moving solo dates". The Penguin Guide to Jazz called it "a meditative and in some ways rather melancholy set" and "an intriguing blend of styles and ideas".

Track listing
All compositions by Paul Bley except as indicated
 "Axis" - 16:01
 "Porgy" (George Gershwin) - 3:38
 "Music Matador" (Prince Lasha) - 4:48
 "El Cordobes-Please Don't Ever Leave Me" - 5:48

Personnel
Paul Bley - piano

References

1978 live albums
Paul Bley live albums
Improvising Artists Records live albums
Solo piano jazz albums


title: Lars Johanson

text:
Lars Johanson (born 8 March 1936 in Köping, Sweden) is a Swedish Turcologist and linguist, an emeritus professor at the University of Mainz, and docent at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

He has been instrumental in transforming the field of Turcology, which was traditionally more philologically oriented, into a linguistic discipline. Apart from his contributions to Turcology, Lars Johanson made a number of pioneering contributions to general linguistics and language typology, in particular to the typology of tense and aspect systems and the theory of language contact.

In the period of 1966–2022 he published about 400 titles, books and scholarly articles. His most important books are Aspekt im Türkischen ('Viewpoint aspect' in Turkish), published in 1971, and Structural factors in Turkic language contacts, published in 2002. His most recent publication, Turkic (Cambridge University Press 2021), constitutes a monumental thousand-page survey of all the Turkic languages in their synchronic, diachronic, typological, areal and cultural dimensions. Chief Editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics, to be published online in 2022 by Brill. In 2022 he and Éva Á. Csató published the second revised edition of the standard reference book The Turkic Languages (Routledge).

He has numerous publications also on Turkish literature. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey.

He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degree in Turkic Studies at the University of Uppsala. For many years he was a Professor of Turcology at the Department of Oriental Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Currently he is an emeritus professor at the University of Mainz and a senior lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, University of Uppsala, Sweden. A symposium in March 2016 celebrated his career achievements.

He is the editor-in-chief of Turkic Languages.

Early life
He was born in 1936 in Köping, Sweden. In 1956–1959 he studied German and Scandinavian languages, Sanskrit and Turcology at the University of Uppsala. In 1961 he took an MA exam in German, Scandinavian languages and Slavic Languages at the same university and in 1963 in Turkic languages. In 1966 he took a doctoral degree ("filosofie licentiat") in Turkic Languages at the University of Uppsala with a thesis "Studien zur reichstürkischen Verbalsyntax".

Professional career
 In 1971, he successfully obtained his degree of 'Habilitation' at the University of Uppsala, based on his thesis '"Aspekt im Türkischen"' .
 In 1981 he was appointed professor in Turcology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

He has been invited as a visiting professor to several universities and research institutes:
 1997-1998 ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
 2001 Resident at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study
 2001 Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Melbourne
 2002 Sonderforschungsbereich 295 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, University of Hamburg
 2002 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
 2003-2004 guest professor at Bosporus University, Istanbul [Boğaziçi University]
 2006 Resident at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study (The Image of Man in Linguistics)
 2006 Kyoto University, Japan
 2006 Yakutsk Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk
 2008-2018 Central University of Nationalities, Beijing (Minzu) Minzu University of China
 2008 University of Szeged, Hungary
 2009-2010 General Linguistics at the University of Zürich University of Zurich

Several Festschriften have been dedicated to Lars Johanson:
 1996 Berta, Árpád, Brendemoen, Bernt and Schönig, Claus (eds.)  Symbolae Turcologicae: Studies in honour of Lars Johanson on his sixtieth birthday 8 March
 1996. Stockholm : Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (Transactions 6.) Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International.  2002 Demir, Nurettin & Turan, Fikret (eds.) Scholarly depth and accuracy. A festschrift to Lars Johanson. Ankara. .
 2010 Boeschoten, Hendrik and Rentzsch, Julian (eds.) Turcology in Mainz. (Turcologica 82.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. .
 2011 Robbeets, Martine and Cuyckens, Robert (eds.) Shared Grammaticalization. With special focus on the Transeurasian Languages. (Studies in Language Companion Series 132.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins - catalog/books/slcs.132/main.

He is a member of the "Permanent International Altaistic Conference", "Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft an der Universität Frankfurt", Honorary Member of the "Körösi Csoma Society", Budapest , Societas Uralo-Altaica, the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala and Honorary Member of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Central Eurasian Studies Society.

 Awards
 1988 Research Award of the Turkish Language Association Turkish Language Association
 1999 Doctor honoris causa of the University of Szeged
 2004 Turkic World, Turkic Languages Order of Merit (Türk Dünyası Türk Dili Şeref Ödülü), Türk Kültürüne Hizmet Vakfı
 2008 Order of Merits of the Republic of Turkey (:tr:Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Liyakat Nişan) Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey

 Publications
 1971. Aspekt im Türkischen. Vorstudien zu einer Beschreibung des türkeitürkischen Aspektsystems. Studia Turcica Upsaliensia 1. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell.
 1979. Alttürkisch als ‘dissimilierende Sprache’.  Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Klasse, 1979: 3. Wiesbaden: Steiner.
 1981. Pluralsuffixe im Südwesttürkischen.Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Klasse, 1981: 9. Wiesbaden: Steiner.
 1991. Linguistische Beiträge zur Gesamturkologie. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
 1992. Strukturelle Faktoren in türkischen Sprachkontakten. Sitzungsberichte der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 29:5. Stuttgart: Steiner.
 1998. with Csató, Éva Á. (eds.) The Turkic Languages. London: Routledge.  Second edition 2006
 2001.  Discoveries on the Turkic linguistic map. (Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Publications 5.) Stockholm: Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul.
 2002. Structural factors in Turkic language contacts. [With an introduction by Bernard Comrie.] London: Curzon.
 2010. with Robbeets, Martine (eds.) Transeurasian verbal morphology in a comparative perspective: genealogy, contact, chance.  (Turcologica 78.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
 2012 with Robbeets, Martine (eds.) Copies versus cognates in bound morphology. (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 2.) Leiden: Brill.
 2016 with Éva Á. Csató et al. (eds.) Turks and Iranians: Interactions in Language and History. The Gunnar Jarring Memorial Program at The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. (Turcologica 105.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ,
 2021 Turkic. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 2022 The Turkic Languages 2nd revised edition. London and New York: Routledge.
 2023 Code Copying. The Strength of Languages in Take-over and Carry-over Roles (Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 38). Leiden: Brill. url=https://brill.com/display/title/65039 ISBN: 978-90-04-54843-5, E-ISBN: 978-90-04-54845-9
 2023 Aspect in the Languages of Europe'' Ankara: Nobel. E-ISBN: 978-625-397-178-6, ISBN: 978-625-397-169-4
 2023 (Editor-in-Chief) Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics Online. Leiden: Brill. url=https://brill.com/search?q1=Encyclopedia+of+Turkic+Languages+and+Linguistics+Online

References

Sources
 Süer Eker, Yayın Değerlendirme: Lars Johanson (2002)- Türk Dili Haritası Üzerinde Keşifler Bilig, Sayı 265, Kış 2014
 Gunnar Jarring, İsveç’te Türkoloji Araştırmaları, Manas Journal

External links
 Britannica profile

Linguists of Turkic languages
Academic staff of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Linguists from Sweden
Uppsala University alumni
Paleolinguists
Living people
1936 births


title: 2014 ABL Playoffs

text:
The 2014 ABL Playoffs is the postseason of the 2014 ABL Regular Season. The regular season begins on 16 July 2014 and end 26 October 2014. The playoffs will begin in November 2014, with the top four teams (out of six).

All playoffs series are in a best-of-three format.

Bracket

All times in UTC+8.

Semifinals

Malaysia vs. Saigon

Bangkok vs. Singapore

Finals

References

External links
 The official website of the Asean Basketball League

Playoffs
ASEAN Basketball League playoffs


title: Lauri Kerminen

text:
Lauri Kalle Juhani Kerminen (born 18 January 1993) is a Finnish professional volleyball player who plays as a libero for Dynamo Moscow. He used to play for the Finland national team.

Honours

Club
 CEV Cup
  2020–21 – with Dynamo Moscow

 Domestic
 2012–13  Finnish Championship, with Kokkolan Tiikerit
 2013–14  Finnish Cup, with Kokkolan Tiikerit
 2018–19  Russian Championship, with Kuzbass Kemerovo
 2019–20  Russian SuperCup, with Kuzbass Kemerovo
 2020–21  Russian Cup, with Dynamo Moscow
 2020–21  Russian Championship, with Dynamo Moscow
 2020–21  Russian SuperCup, with Dynamo Moscow
 2021–22  Russian Championship, with Dynamo Moscow
 2021–22  Russian SuperCup, with Dynamo Moscow

References

External links

 Player profile at Volleybox.net

1993 births
Living people
People from Suonenjoki
Sportspeople from North Savo
Finnish men's volleyball players
Finnish expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate volleyball players in France
Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Expatriate volleyball players in Russia
Liberos


title: Preserved British Pullman carriages

text:
These British Pullman carriages are preserved, or have continued to operate on the main line beyond their original service life:

Early Pullman cars

Pullman 1910–1922 cars

Pullman 1923–1931 cars

Pullman 1932 cars

Pullman 1951 cars

Pullman 1960 cars

Pullman 1966 cars

Pullman 1985 cars

See also

 George Pullman
 Pullman Company (USA)
 GWR Super Saloons
 Clerestory, Wikipedia article on Railway Coach roof design following the Pullman American influence.

References

British Rail passenger services
Pullman Company

British Transport Commission
British Rail coaching stock


title: Mark Strikes Again

text:
Mark Strikes Again (, also known as The .44 Specialist) is a 1976 Italian poliziottesco film directed by Stelvio Massi. Originally planned as an original film, during the shoots and the post-production process it was turned into a second sequel of Mark of the Cop (after Mark Shoots First).

Cast
 Franco Gasparri: Mark Patti
 John Saxon: Inspector Altman
 Marcella Michelangeli: Olga Kuber
 Giampiero Albertini: Inspector Mantelli
 John Steiner: Paul Henkel
 Paul Muller: Austrian Inspector
 Malisa Longo: Isa

Production
Mark Strikes Again was filmed at Icet - De Paolis in Milan and on location in Rome.

Release
Mark Strikes Again was distributed theatrically in Italy by PAC on October 20, 1976. It grossed a total of 657,027,130 Italian lire domestically. The film was released as The .44 Specialist on home video in the Nederlands and Germany.

See also
 List of Italian films of 1976

References

Sources

External links

1976 films
1970s Italian-language films
Poliziotteschi films
Films directed by Stelvio Massi
Films scored by Stelvio Cipriani
Films shot in Rome
1970s Italian films


title: Traiectum (Utrecht)

text:
Traiectum was a Roman fort, on the frontier of the Roman Empire in Germania Inferior. The remains of the fort are in the center of Utrecht, Netherlands, which takes its name from the fort.

History

In the Roman Empire Traiectum was one of the forts in the lower Limes Germanicus defensive lines.
The Emperor Claudius defined the Rhine downstream from Bonn as the western part of the frontier.
He ordered the legions further north to withdraw to this line, which was fortified in AD 47.
The Rhine divides into several branches in the Netherlands.
The army chose the branch on which modern Utrecht lies as the frontier.

In AD 69-70 Gaius Julius Civilis led the revolt of the Batavi during which the fort was burned.
One soldier or officer buried his savings of fifty gold coins at this time. They were found by archaeologists below the layer of burned wood.
Once the Romans had restored their authority in the region they rebuilt the fort, again in wood. The fort was manned by about 500 troops.
From tile stamps it appears that from AD 88-89 until 275 the fort was manned by , an auxilia infantry cohort of the Imperial Roman army.

The castellum of Traiectum seems to have been finally destroyed some time before 270, when the Franks invaded.
Archeological evidence shows some Roman presence into 4th century, but the castellum was not rebuilt.
During the Early Middle Ages another fortification was built on the site, which was destroyed by the Vikings and rebuilt in 818.
The site of the fortifications became the center of the medieval town and location of the episcopal see of Utrecht.

Layout

The fort was rebuilt four times, and each time was raised up by adding fill.
Periods I-II date from AD 47-69; periods III-IV date from 70 to the end of the 2nd century; and period V dates from the end of the 2nd century to the middle of the 3rd century. The fort was made of wood in periods I-IV,  in size, with ramparts made of earth and wood.
In period V it was rebuilt of stone and increased in size to .
At this time the gates were flanked by stone gate towers with semi-circular bastions on the exterior.

The fort contained the headquarters building, or principia, within a rectangular courtyard surrounded by a colonnade (portico).
The building had hypocaust underfloor heating.
Throughout the fort's existence the principia was about  with an atrium, cross hall and five rooms.
The central room was the shrine of the legions' standards, or sacellum. This room and the atrium both held stone altars in period V.
A protective ditch surrounded the fort throughout its Roman occupation.
There were vici to the east and west of the castellum where craftsmen lived who depended on the soldiers.
The eastern vicus was at , on the river bank.

Excavations

Some remains of the original fort have been found below the cathedral square at a depth of .
Several excavations have been undertaken, mostly between 1929 and 1949.
The archaeologists were at first looking for the remains of two medieval churches that stood on the site, but changed their priority after the remains of the castellum were found.
Parts of walls were found later, as were partial remains of wooden barracks and traces of the moat.
Two of the fort's four gates have been excavated.
Some parts of the barracks from different periods have been excavated. The main building, the principia, has been fully excavated.
Beginning in 1992, the nearby Duitse Huis, headquarters of the Teutonic Knights' Bailiwick of Utrecht from 1348, was extensively renovated.
This included building a new wing of the Grand Hotel Karel V. Traces of a Roman cemetery were found, perhaps associated with the fort.

Notes

References

Sources

Roman fortifications in Germania Inferior
Districts in Utrecht (city)
Roman legionary fortresses in Netherlands
Buildings and structures in Utrecht (city)