title: Feoli and Cicada Chapels (Santa Maria del Popolo)

text:
The Chapel of Saint Thomas of Villanova and the Chapel of Saint Rita (otherwise the Feoli and Cicada Chapels) () are two small chapels opening in the right transept of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo. They are relatively insignificant in terms of artistic value compared to the other side chapels of the church.

History
Borgia Chapel

The Chapel of Saint Lucy or the Borgia Chapel was bought by the former mistress of Pope Alexander VI, Vannozza dei Cattanei. It was located in the right transept of the church. The chapel became the burial place of Vannozza (†1518), her second and third husbands, and also the sons of the pope, Pier Luigi de Borgia (†1488) and Giovanni Borgia, the Duke of Gandia who was murdered in 1497.

The right for obtaining a funeral chapel in the basilica had been secured by Vannozza's second husband, apostolic secretary Georgio della Croce in 1484 before he died a year later. Vannozza, a rich businesswoman in her own right, became the patroness of the Augustinian convent. The Vicar General of the Congregation, Gaudientio di Bargi gave her permission on 24 February 1500 to acquire the first chapel to the right of the high altar, and furnish it according to her wish. On 4 March 1501 Vannozza commissioned Andrea Bregno and Giovanni di Larigo to design a tabernacle and an altar. She also commissioned a painting of Saint Lucy, the patron of her chapel. The painting supposedly portrayed Vannozza herself and remained in the chapel until its demolition in 1658.

During the Sack of Rome in 1527 the Borgia tombs were probably vandalised but Vanozza's tomb remained in the chapel until at least 1576 because in this year a copy was made of the funerary inscription. The burial stone was later lost, and rediscovered in the Basilica of San Marco in 1947 where it had been used as a paving block.

Twin chapels

After the Borgia Chapel was demolished two new identical chapels were built during Bernini's intervention in 1658 at the expense of the convent. The left one, which was already dedicated to St. Thomas of Villanova at the time of its construction, was given first to Abbot Benedetto Mazzini in 1671. He planned to use it as a family burial place. The chapel was obtained in 1857 by Pietro Feoli who commissioned Giambattista Benedetti to completely redesign it in Neo-Renaissance style.

The other chapel inherited the old dedication to Saint Lucy but it was restored and re-dedicated to St. Rita of Cascia in 1901 by Cardinal Agostino Ciasca.

Description

There was a Baroque painting on the altar of the Chapel of St. Thomas by Fabrizio Chiari depicting St. Thomas of Villanova Distributing Alms in the 17th century which is now placed near the sacristy. The current Renaissance Revival decoration of the chapel was executed in 1858 by Casimiro Brugnone de Rossi who was a favoured artist at the time of Pope Pius IX. He painted the Four Evangelists and the dove of the Holy Spirit on the dome and God the Father in the lunette. The new altar painting of St. Thomas of Villanueva Distributing Alms by the same artist is dated to 1860. It is a more conventional work than the previous Baroque painting. There are many 19th century family tombs and memorials in the chapel.

In the Chapel of St. Rita the altarpiece is a painting by Giovanni Piancastelli. (The original altarpiece of Saint Lucy by Luigi Garzi is lost.) The sepulchral monument of Odoardo Cicada, the Bishop of Sagona by Guglielmo della Porta is dated around 1545. The Renaissance wall tomb followed the design of Michelangelo's Late Renaissance monument for Cecchino Bracci in Santa Maria in Aracoeli but much of it was later demolished. An anonymous drawing in Windsor Castle (Cod. 201 Albani) preserved a sketch of its original form. Today the only surviving parts are the marble bust, the sarcophagus resting on strigillated supports and a pedestal with the coat-of-arms (a crowned eagle).

The marble slab of his relative, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Cicala (†1570) is set in the floor. The tombstone is decorated with the coat-of-arms of the cardinal on a bronze shield. It was commissioned by the Cardinal's nephew and heir, Carlo Cicada, the Bishop of Albenga. The tombstone was later truncated; the original decorative border with the Cicada eagles in the corners was lost but a drawing in the Royal Library preserved its original look. Both of the Cicada tombs were transferred from the original Cybo Chapel when it was demolished around 1680.

Feoli tombs
In the 19th century the Feolis used the Chapel of St. Thomas of Villanueva as their family burial place. The oldest monument was dedicated by Pietro Feoli in 1858 to "the sweetest and best uncle", Agostino Feoli who had died two years before. He was the richest banker and industrialist of the Papal States in the middle of the 19th century. The ashes of Luigia Bartolucci and Ferdinando Feoli were placed in the chapel in 1859. These two monuments are similar wall tombs in neo-Quattrocento style with finely carved vegetal decoration, shell shaped gables, the family coats-of-arms and the portraits of the deceased set in medaillons.

On the pillars of the arch are the twin monuments of Luigi Feoli (died in 1870) and a young boy, Carlo Feoli (died in 1873) both by Giacomo Cerulli. They are simple, symmetrical Neo-Classical funerary monuments with the busts of the deceased in oval niches.

Gallery

References

Bibliography
 Ilaria Miarelli Mariani: La pittura, in Santa Maria del Popolo. Storia e restauri, eds. Ilaria Miarelli-Mariani and Maria Richiello, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 2009.

Feoli
Rome R. IV Campo Marzio


title: Pat Wolseley

text:
Pat Wolseley is a botanist and illustrator, specialising in lichen.

Patricia Anne Wolsely studied botany at Somerville College, Oxford and then was employed at the Natural History Museum, London from 1960. She had always made illustrations of her research and later attended an art school. From 1966 until 1977 she worked at the University of Malta then returning to the Natural History Museum in London first as a Leverhulme Research Fellow and then as a Scientific Associate.

Wolseley studied aquatic plants for a decade and then moved on to lichens. This change was prompted by attending a course about lichens and she was attracted by their diversity and beauty. Her first research project about lichens, working with Peter James, was in the Celtic rain forest on the west Wales coast which resulted in adding 250 species to the list of those present in the area. She has subsequently worked at many sites in the UK and also other countries. The effects of the composition of the air on lichens, particularly sulphur and nitrogen compounds, is a focus of her work. The age of the substrate on which the lichens are growing provides information on past air composition, since species differ in their tolerance or sensitivity to compounds like ammonia, nitrogen oxides or sulphur dioxide. She collaborates with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology for measurements of ammonia in the air.

From 2007 she worked in the Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) network, a citizen science project that aimed to increase public interest in science through enabling them to record environmental data for scientists. Wolseley created the air survey for OPAL because of her knowledge about the relationship between lichens and air quality.

From 2006 until 2008 Wolseley was President of the British Lichen Society and in 2008 was made an Honorary member of the society.

In 2012, she featured in an episode of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.

She has long-term collaborations on lichens in tropical forests in South-East Asia including Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia, using lichens as indicators of environmental change considering air quality and logging. This has involved developing keys and checklists for the local lichen floras as well as identifying new species.

In 2021 she was awarded the Marsh Botany Award by the Marsh Charitable Trust in recognition of her pioneering work on lichens as indicators of air pollution as well as work on training in identifiation of lichens.

Publications
Wolseley is co-author and illustrator of a number of books. These include:

 Heather Angel and Pat Wolseley (1992) Family Water Naturalist: a practical expedition to the worlds of ponds, rivers and the sea shore Bloomsbury Books,  192pp
 Francis Rose and Pat Wolseley (1984) Nettlecombe Park: Its History and Its Epiphytic Lichens - An Attempt at Correlation Academic Journal Offprint from The Journal of the Field Studies Council, Volume 6, No. 1, November 1984. 50 pp, 14 figs
 Sylvia Haslam, Charles Sinker and Pat Wolseley (1982), British Water Plants, Field Studies Council
 Pat Wolseley (1981) Field Key to the Flowering Plants of Iceland, Hydra Books,

She is also the author or co-author of at least 30 scientific publications and book chapters. These include:

 Christopher J. Ellis,  Claudia E. Steadman, Massimo Vieno, Sudipt Chatterjee and ten other co-authors including Pat Wolseley (2022) Estimating nitrogen risk to Himalayan forests using thresholds for lichen bioindicators. Biological Conservation Volume 265, 109401 DOI10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109401
 Wolseley, PA, James, PW, Theobald, MR and Sutton, MA (2006) Detecting changes in epiphytic lichen communities at sites affected by atmospheric ammonia from agricultural sources. The Lichenologist volume 38 161-176 DOI 10.1017/S0024282905005487
 Nimis, PL, Scheidegger, C and Wolseley, PA  (2002) Monitoring with lichens - Monitoring lichens. Editors of NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Lichen Monitoring in Wales, August 16–23, 2000
 Wolseley, PA and Aguirre Hudson, B (1997) The ecology and distribution of lichens in tropical deciduous and evergreen forests of northern Thailand. Journal of Biogeography volume 24 327-343 DOI10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00124.x

References

External links

Living people
British botanists
British women botanists
British lichenologists
Women lichenologists
Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford
1938 births


title: Jerome Okimo

text:
Jerome Okide O. N. Okimo (born 8 June 1988) is a semi-professional footballer who is currently a player/coach for Barnet.

Club career

Non-league football
Okimo began his career at Chalfont St. Peter where he made 308 appearances. During his time there, Okimo went on trial at Football League side Gillingham in 2009 but missed out on a contract after injuring his Achilles tendon. After seven years at Chalfont St. Peter, Okimo moved to Isthmian League Premier Division side Wealdstone in the summer of 2013, going on to play an instrumental role in their promotion to the Conference South in 2014, making 38 league appearances.

Stevenage
In August 2014, Okimo followed former Wealdstone teammate Tom Pett (who signed for them in June 2014) to Stevenage, making his debut as an 83rd-minute substitute in a 1–0 win over Hartlepool United on 9 August 2014. Okimo was released after two seasons at the club in May 2016.

Braintree Town
In July 2016, he signed for National League side Braintree Town on a free transfer following his release from Stevenage.

Wealdstone
After leaving Braintree, Okimo re-signed for Wealdstone in July 2017. He captained the club to their 2019–20 National League South title win, playing 32 of the 33 league games and scoring 3 goals before the season was curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Wealdstone promoted on points per game. He was named in the National League South Team of the Year as a result of his performances. Okimo started and captained every game of the 2020-21 season, scoring a solitary goal against rivals Barnet as Wealdstone ended the season in 19th place. On 14 June 2022 Jerome Okimo left the club to seek regular first team football.

Barnet
On 17 June 2022, Okimo agreed to join Barnet in the role of player/coach.

Career statistics

References

1988 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from the London Borough of Ealing
Chalfont St Peter A.F.C. players
Wealdstone F.C. players
Stevenage F.C. players
Braintree Town F.C. players
Barnet F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Isthmian League players
Southern Football League players
Barnet F.C. non-playing staff
Association football coaches
Black British sportsmen


title: Leilah Mahi

text:
Leïlah Mahi (September 1890, Beyrouth, Lebanon – 12 August 1932, Paris) was a French writer.

Her first work, En Marge du Bonheur (On the Margins of Happiness), was published in 1929. Her second book, La Prêtresse sans Dieu (The Priestess without God) appeared in 1931, the year before her death. Both titles were published by Louis Querelle (26 Rue Cambon, Paris) as numbered, limited edition print runs.

Personal life
Leïlah's death certificate records her as unmarried and gives her domicile as 13 rue Shakespeare, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, but she actually died at 59 Rue Geoffroy Saint Hillaire, Paris. Her memorial can be found in the columbarium of Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Legacy
French author Didier Blonde's biography of Mahi won the 2015 Prix Renaudot de l'essai.

References

External links

1890 births
Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to France
1932 deaths
20th-century French novelists
20th-century French women writers
Writers from Beirut
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery


title: Zoe Shipton

text:
Zoe Kai Shipton  is a British geologist. She is a professor of Geological Engineering at Strathclyde University.

In July 2014, Shipton's career in geology was featured on the BBC Radio 4 show The Life Scientific

Early life

Shipton's affinity for geology began when she was a young child. Her parents gifted her an educational book on volcanoes in response to Shipton having dreams about the hill behind their home turning into one. At the age of 8 she went to the site of Stromboli, an active volcano in Italy, with her father, Nick — a time which Shipton claims was greatly influential in solidifying her interest in geology. Zoe's paternal grandfather was Himalayan mountaineer, Eric Shipton. She initially entered the field due to her interest in Earth's geological history.

Education and career
Shipton is a professor of geological engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Shipton specializes in structural geology, geological engineering, and geological uncertainty.

Shipton received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Leeds in January 1994, and subsequently received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in January 1999.

For her PhD, Shipton studied geological faults and the way that fluid flows through them, to better understand how faults initiate and grow. Her specialization lies in the research of faults; she has travelled to places such as Utah and Taiwan to conduct studies on earthquakes by drilling into the resulting ruptures. Shipton has spoken on the topic of earthquakes caused by fracking, both in the UK and the US, in an effort to better the public's understanding of the process.

Shipton is a member of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering working group on “Shale gas extraction in the UK: a review of the scientific and engineering evidence”. In a report by the Royal Academy of Engineering Shipton stated that, through careful procedures, fracking could be performed safely with little environmental detriment. Recently Shipton has written of finding a more sustainable energy source for heating homes in the UK. In Scotland, Shipton and colleagues from the University of Strathclyde received funding to introduce and create detailed plans to make use of geothermal energy from abandoned and flooded coal mines in Scotland. The use of the trapped heat that Shipton tapped into could be used in home heating and generate jobs and income. Shipton is heavily involved in research quantifying geological uncertainties, further influencing more of her work into studies associated with risk and uncertainty of her associated specialty. Shipton was also the past chair of the Tectonic Studies Group of the Geological Society of London, a group based in London, UK, that researches structure and tectonics.

From 2007 to 2020, Shipton was active as a member or chair in seven different external organizations, including the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Scottish Government, the Institute of Civil Engineering, the Tectonic Studies Group of the Geological Society of London, Sense About Science, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Shipton has organized four special symposia:
 Geomechanical and Petrophysical Properties of Mudrocks: October 2015
 Communicating Contested Geoscience: June 2014
 Fault Zones: Structure, Geomechanics, and Fluid Flow: September 2008
 Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting: January 2007.

Zoe Shipton has a large network of projects and colleagues all over the globe with substantial projects included in countries such as the United States, China, Australia, South Africa, and multiple countries across Europe.

Research and publications

Shipton's research focuses on the structural and permeability architecture of faults, with four main areas of focus; how faults act as high permeability conduits, low permeability faults faults that produce hydrocarbon traps and barriers to fluid flow, understanding fault processes as tangible evidence that earthquakes are relative movements across fault zones, and how to constrain uncertainty in geological models. 24 PhD students have worked across these questions and projects for their thesis as well as post-doctoral studies under Shipton.

Shipton has been published in several prominent geoscience journals, including Nature Energy, Tectonophysics, and The Journal of Structural Geology. While these works explore such topics as the connection between geologic faults and earthquake prediction, or the nature and control of fractures in different rock types, she has also written about teaching methods for communicating the value of uncertainty and flexibility in the development of geoscience knowledge. Shipton also discusses subjective bias in geological data gathered about fault lines. In “How do we see fractures?”, Shipton sets out a system of protocols to ensure the accurate collection of this data as it is often used in geological and predictive models. In “Interseasonal Compressed-air Storage Using Saline Aquifers” Shipton proposes the use of porous rock basins to hold large amounts of compressed gasses to store energy in a renewable energy system.

Shipton has Published over 190 peer-reviewed research articles and papers, has been cited over 6200 times, and has an H-index of 35.

Honours
In 2010, Shipton received the William Smith Fund award for excellence in contributions to applied and economic aspects of geoscience by an early-career geoscientist.

In March 2016 Shipton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters.

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to geoscience and climate change mitigation.

References

External links

The Life Scientific: Zoe Shipton on fracking , BBC iPlayer

Living people
British geologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Shale gas
Faults (geology)
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Hydraulic fracturing
Officers of the Order of the British Empire


South Broad–East Fifth Streets Historic District is a national historic district in Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 108 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Burlington. Most of the buildings are houses, one to two stories high, built between the 1890s and the 1940s in late Victorian, Queen Anne, American Craftsman, and Colonial Revival styles of frame or brick construction.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina
Victorian architecture in North Carolina
Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina
Buildings and structures in Burlington, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Alamance County, North Carolina


title: Gary Wright (ice hockey)

text:
Gary Wright is an American retired ice hockey coach.  Wright served as head coach of Rice Memorial High School from 1976 to 1979, an assistant coach at Maine from 1979 to 1984, and as the head coach of American International from 1984 through 2016.  After the retirement of Jack Parker in 2012–13 Wright became the longest-tenured coach in the NCAA along with Red Berenson.

Career
Gary Wright got his start in college hockey at Vermont after graduating from Proctor Academy in 1972. After his sophomore season the Catamounts made the move to Division I, giving Wright two valuable years of playing experience at the top level under Jim Cross. Wright's playing career ended upon his graduation in 1976 and he quickly moved into the coaching ranks, becoming the head coach for Rice Memorial in his hometown of Burlington. Wright got the team to a second-place finish in his second season but after the third he left to become an assistant for Maine.

At the time of his arrival, Maine had just jumped up to the D-I ranks, joining ECAC Hockey in 1979–80. The Black Bears managed just one winning season over the next five years under Jack Semler as they grew accustomed to the stiffer competition but, as Semler was being replaced by Shawn Walsh after 1983–84, Wright got the opportunity to become the head coach at American International. Wright took over in AIC's final season as a Division II as the level was dissolving, forcing the Yellow Jackets to drop down to Division III the following year. The program joined ECAC East that same year and began to build a respectable reputation that would carry them into the mid-1990s. Despite a sharp decline after 1994, AIC was willing to sign on to the NCAA-mandated Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference as an associate member in 1998–99.

After a good first season in the MAAC, AIC remained at or near the bottom for the remainder of their time in the conference. When Atlantic Hockey formed in 2003–04 to take over from the discontinued MAAC the Yellow Jackets accompanied all of the former members into the new conference. The chance in name brought little difference in outcome for Wright's team. The Yellow Jackets were one of the worst programs in terms of wins in their conference and all of college hockey after joining the Division I ranks. Despite the lack of on-ice success, Wright was lauded for achieving a perfect Academic Progress Rate with his players and coaching AIC to three Team Sportsmanship Awards.

Wright coached AIC from 1984 to 2016. Although his 605 losses are an NCAA record for a coach at one school, Wright was respected at the university for keeping the program alive as it played much larger and better-funded Division I teams.

Head coaching record

References

External links

American ice hockey coaches
Living people
Vermont Catamounts men's ice hockey players
American International Yellow Jackets men's ice hockey coaches
Ice hockey people from Vermont
Sportspeople from Burlington, Vermont
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Beastly Record

text:
Beastly Record is the fourth and final studio album released by comedy trio The Goodies (Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie) on the EMI records label in 1978 . It featured the “gentleman musicians of Le Hot Club de Cricklewood, the Cricklewood Rhythm Boys & The Finchley Funketeers with the Hendon Horns, all under the direction of Dave MacRae”.

Track listing

All songs written by Bill Oddie. Timings are actual timings taken from an original LP.

Side 1
"Melody Farm" - 2:30
"Taking My Oyster for Walkies" - 3:23
"Spring Spring Spring" - 2:40
"Terrapins" - 2:31
"A Man’s Best Friend is His Duck" - 2:32
"Spank That Hamster" - 2:52

Side 2
"Rastashanty" - 2:47
"Ironing My Goldfish" - 2:24
"Funky Farm" - 2:27
"There’s a Walrus in My Soup" 3:39
"Why Doesn’t an Elephant go Tweet Tweet" - 2:01
"I Am a Carnivore" - 3:16
"Elephant Joke Song" - 3:54

Production
Producer: Miki Antony and Bill Oddie
Recorded at: CBS Studios (London)
Recording Engineer: Steve Levine
2nd Engineer: Graham Dickson
All Arrangements by: Dave MacRae

References

1978 albums
EMI Records albums
The Goodies albums


title: Robert Lee Davidson

text:
Robert Lee Davidson (also known as RLee) is an American guitarist known for playing in the hardcore punk band Scream. Scream also featured Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl on drums.  In the 80's, Davidson gained recognition playing in the D.C. hardcore band Scream recording albums This Side Up, Banging The Drum, and No More Censorship. On December 28, 1996, Davidson reunited for a show with Scream at The Black Cat in Washington, DC and recorded a live record on Torque Records.

Davidson later went on to play with The Drills in Los Angeles, California. In the summer of 1998, Davidson formed the short lived band Festival of Fools. In 1999, Davidson did a European tour with the Baltimore-based punk band Jakkpot in support for their album Lie! Cheat! 'N Steal!. He later formed the band God Is Dead. Davidson has done humanitarian work in East Africa with The Kenyan Relief Organization.

Personal life
Davidson is married and lives in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida.

References

Living people
Guitarists from Washington, D.C.
Guitarists from Florida
People from Pinellas County, Florida
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Beverly Hills Historic District

text:
Beverly Hills Historic District is a national historic district located at Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 108 contributing buildings, 3 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects in a planned residential subdivision of Burlington.  Most of the buildings are houses, one to two stories high, built between about 1919 and 1959 in I-house, Tudor Revival, American Craftsman, Colonial Revival, and Mediterranean Revival styles of frame or brick construction.

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Tudor Revival architecture in North Carolina
Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina
Buildings and structures in Burlington, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Alamance County, North Carolina
Houses in Alamance County, North Carolina


title: Mouse Water

text:
Mouse Water is a river in South Lanarkshire which is a tributary of the River Clyde. It is popular with canoeists. In the past, the fast flowing river was used to power mills and factories along its route and is still used today to produce hydroelectricity.

Cleghorn Glen and Cartland Craigs
The river runs through Cleghorn Glen and Cartland Craigs, two sites of special scientific interest (SSSI) which form part of the Clyde Valley Woodlands National Nature Reserve. The deep gorge which characterises these SSSIs were formed roughly ten thousand years ago when the Mouse Water started to erode the rock at the site, which was mainly red sandstone.

Crossings
Several bridges cross the Mouse Water. They are listed below in order from its origin to the point the river meets the Clyde.
Cleghorn Bridge
Cartland Bridge
Mousemill Bridge

References

Rivers of South Lanarkshire
River Clyde


title: Inducement

text:
Inducement may refer to:
 Incentive, persuading a person to alter their behaviour
 Bribery, a gift to influence an official

See also
 Inducement prize contest, a competition to reward a feat, usually of engineering
 Inducement rule, a copyright test used in United States courts
 Induce (disambiguation)
 Induction (disambiguation)


title: Govt. Edward College, Pabna

text:
Govt. Edward College, Pabna is one of the oldest colleges in Bangladesh.

History
It was established in July 1898 in Pabna. The college was first named as "Pabna Institution" and founded by Shree Gopal Chandra Lahiri, the famous educationist at that time.

This college was later named "Pabna College" in 1906. The college motto was "Knowledge is virtue". Afterwards, Pabna College was named as "Edward College" in honor of the memory of Indian Emperor, Edward VII.

In December, 1898, the college was affiliated under Calcutta University. Many distinguished personnel visited the college. The then first Governor General of Bengal, Lord Tomas David Barron Carmichael visited Edward College and donated Tk. 50000 for the development of the college in 1912. The then Zamindar of Tarash, Pabna, Ray Bahadur Banamali donated Tk. 50000 to the development fund of the college. Many kindhearted persons of education lovers contributed in the development of Edward College. Shreemati Gopi Sundari Dashi and Shree Devendra Narayan Singh donated 46 Bighas of land to Edward College.

On July 20, 1914, Professor Radhikanath Bose was appointed as the Principal of Edward College, Pabna.

Honors courses were introduced in 1954 in Bengali and Economics under Calcutta University.

On March 1, 1968, Edward College was nationalized by the then government of Pakistan. Edward College then became Govt. Edward College.

Nowadays this college plays a vital role in education sector in Bangladesh. Honors and Masters courses of 16 subjects are being taught here. Besides, BA pass course, B.Ss, B.Sc courses are also being taught.

Total number of regular students are 25052. Total number of teachers and supporting staffs are respectively 160 and 118.

Noble alumni
Shahabuddin Chuppu,President of Bangladesh
Arun Kumar Basak
Kamal Lohani
Charu Majumdar

Gallery

References

External links
 Govt. Edward College, Pabna - official site
Category of Pabna Edward College alumni

Colleges affiliated to National University, Bangladesh
Govt. Edward College, Pabna
Universities and colleges in Pabna District
1898 establishments in India
Educational institutions established in 1898


title: Ernest Brady

text:
Ernest William Brady (10 November 1917 – 13 May 2003) was Dean of Edinburgh from 1976 to 1982; and again from 1985 to 1986.

He was educated at  Harris Academy, the University of St Andrews and Edinburgh Theological College. He was ordained Deacon in 1942  and priest in 1943. He held curacies at Christ Church, Glasgow and St Alphage, Hendon; and incumbencies at All Saints Buckie,  All Saints Edinburgh and the  Priory Church of St Mary of Mount Carmel, South Queensferry before his time as Dean.

Notes

1917 births
2003 deaths
People educated at Harris Academy
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Alumni of Edinburgh Theological College
Scottish Episcopalian clergy
Deans of Edinburgh


title: Hot melt coating

text:
Hot melt coating is the application of a layer to a substrate by pre-melting the desired material and then allowing or forcing the material to cool, solidifying the layer.  The process is widely used in industry, including pressure-sensitive adhesives,
labels, pharmaceuticals, etc.

Introduction
Coating is the application of a layer to a substrate.  In general, in order for a thin uniform layer to be applied, the application must be done at low or moderate viscosities.  In many cases this low viscosity is achieved by dissolving or dispersing the desired coating in a liquid such as water or a solvent, but this then necessitates the subsequent removal of the liquid by, for instance, a drying process.
Hot-melt coating achieves this low to moderate viscosity by melting the desired material before applying it to the substrate.    The substrate and coated layer are then cooled, generally by passing over a chilled roller.   There is no liquid to remove, so the process is, in principle, much faster than water- or solvent-based equivalents.

Terminology & use
The process has been used so extensively for the application of adhesive layers by slot-die coating that the use of the term ‘hot melt’ often implies slot-die coating, but hot melt methods have also been used for other coating processes, such as metering rod or roller coating.

Transfer coating
If the desired substrate is too temperature-sensitive to allow direct hot-melt coating, the product may be made by coating a transfer belt which is then brought into contact with the substrate after cooling: if the relative adhesion is correct then the coating will transfer to the new substrate from the transfer belt.

See also
Coating
Hot-melt adhesive
Pressure-sensitive adhesive

References

1.	Coating Equipment and Processes, GL Booth, Lockwood Publishing Co, 1970
2.	Modern coating technology systems, F Shepherd, 1995,

Paint and coatings industry


title: Nostalgia (Ivan Kral album)

text:
Nostalgia is a solo album by Czech musician Ivan Kral, former member of Patti Smith Group. It was released in 1995 by BMG Ariola label and it was produced by Kral himself. It features guest appearances by Patti Smith and John Cale from the Velvet Underground.

In 1995 Kral won an Czech Academy of Popular Music award for this album as Best Producer and it was also awarded for Best Album Cover.

Kral admires the black/white photography of Czech photographer František Drtikol (1883 – 1961). The Drtikol estate curator, Anna Fárová, provided use of Drtikol photos to Kral for visuals in the CD. Kral’s video for the single, “Winner Takes All”, is a re-creation of an imagined Drtikol photo session and includes restored footage.

Track listing

Personnel
 Ivan Kral − vocals, guitars, bass guitar, keyboards
 Andrej Šeban − guitars, keyboards
 Emil Frátrik − drums
 Marek Minárik − bass guitar
 Patti Smith − voice on "Perfect Moon"
 John Cale − piano on "Perfect Moon"
Technical
Ivan Minárik - recording, mixing
Martin Brass, Steve King - recording on "Perfect Moon"
František Drtikol - cover photography from a film study

References

1995 albums
Ivan Kral albums
Albums produced by Ivan Kral


title: The Rolling Girls

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is a 2015 Japanese anime television series produced by Wit Studio. The logo of this title contains the text, "Rolling, Falling, Scrambling Girls. For others. For themselves. Even if they're destined to be a 'mob'".

Plot
Ten years after the end of the "Great Tokyo War" that rocked Japan, most of the country's political and economic elites mysteriously vanished. As a result, the country split up into the original 10 prefectures that soon became independent city-states that competed with each other. Many vigilantes who fought in the aforementioned war became hired as the "Best" (mosa), representing their prefectures in territorial disputes. Their supporters, the "Rest" (mob), work to support them while maintaining the peace within their respective prefectures.

After a prolonged battle with Kuniko leads her friend, Masami to become seriously injured, a rookie Rest named Nozomi decides to travel around Japan on her motorcycle with her new friends, fulfilling requests for Maccha Green while they seek to grow stronger and search for special heart-shaped jewels, the moonlight stones. It is said that the moonlight stone can make a person possesses unlimited power when it is worn, especially by Bests of different regions when combat or fight happens in order to protect themselves, but may lead to serious consequences such as injury of people and damage of properties because of the force emitted by the battle or the people who used it. In reality, it is used as a fuel by aliens in outer space to operate their spaceship.

Characters

Main characters

Sole daughter of the Moritomo family and a normal girl whose family runs the Moritomo Restaurant in Tokorozawa. The protagonist and a new recruit of the Hiroshi Town Propellers. A childhood friend of Masami who seeks to grow stronger on her own and loves her as her sister. Her favourite food is the Melonpan. She admires Masami so much and later becomes the Hiyoshi Town Propellers trainee.

A runaway from the same town as Nozomi. She has a poor sense of direction. Due to her shy personality, she is quite polite when speaking with others. She was once protected by the Suzumoto family.

An upbeat girl who was kicked out of the Rest of Higashi Murayama Kitatama Dangers after trying to save the Hiroshi Town Propellers who were taken hostage. She is quick to resort to brute force when things go wrong. Ends up joining Nozomi's group.

A small girl who seeks out the heart-shaped power stones carried by the Best. Somehow knows the childhood nicknames of Nozomi, Yukina and Ai. She is the adopted daughter of Haruka Misono, the president of Tokorozawa, but had never reveal her identity to Nozomi and her friends. She is actually an alien from the future and her true form is a small, yellow octopus-like creature.

Tokorozawa and Higashimurayama

A Best who fights for Tokorozawa as the green-suited superhero "", though everyone but Nozomi has correctly guessed that they are the same person. Heavily injured after fighting with Kuniko.

A "legendary executioner" from the Great Tokyo War who wields a giant safety pin in combat. A rival from Masami's past who fights her as a Best of Higashi Murayama until their last battle ends with them both in a hospital.

Kuniko's top subordinate.

President of Tokorozawa and Chiaya's adopted mother. Much like Chiaya, she is also an alien, but from a different species. She is gathering heart stones so that when the time comes, she can return Chiaya home to her real family. She is overprotective of Chiaya keeping her confined to her home with Momiyama, worried that she would get in trouble if she had revealed her true form to others. Her true form is a squid-like alien.

Chiaya's caretaker back at home. He secretly follows the girls on their journey under orders by Haruka to bring Chiaya back home.

Nozomi's mother and Tomomori's wife.

Nozomi's father and Hinayo's husband.

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Media

Manga
The manga series is the backstory of the anime series, written by Yōsuke Miyagi and with art by Bonkara began serialization in Mag Garden's Monthly Comic Garden from October 4, 2014. It also began online serialization in Mag Garden's seinen manga magazine ONLINE MAGAZINE comic BLADE from October 30, 2014. A 4-panel manga adaptation titled Ro~lling Gi~rls Inspiration x Traveler, with art by Sheepbox, also began serialization in Mag Garden's ONLINE MAGAZINE comic BLADE from October 27, 2014.

Anime
An anime television series produced by Wit Studio was announced by Pony Canyon that aired in 2015. The series premiered in Japan on MBS and other stations.

The opening and closing songs are both covers of tracks from seminal Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts, "Hito ni Yasashiku" and "Tsuki no Bakugekiki" respectively. Several of the episodes share titles with tracks by The Blue Hearts including "Kitai Hazure no Hito", "Hoshi o Kudasai" and "Yoru no Tōzokudan".

Reception

References

External links

Anime with original screenplays
Funimation
IG Port franchises
Mag Garden manga
Mainichi Broadcasting System original programming
Shōnen manga
Tokyo MX original programming
Wit Studio
Yonkoma


title: I Come With Knives

text:
"I Come With Knives" is the second release taken from the fifth IAMX studio album The Unified Field. On 8 February 2013, it made its world premiere on Berlin-based radio station Flux FM. The video was premiered on 1 March.

Music video
The video, shot in Joshua Tree, California, shows Chris in dark clothes running around the barren landscape as live band members Janine Gezang and Sammi Doll dance about.

Lyrics
The German samples:

Kinder und Sterne küssen und verlieren sich

Greifen leise meine Hand und führen mich

Die Traumgötter brachten mich in eine Landschaft

Schmetterlinge flatterten durch meine Seele

In der Mitternacht

translate as follows:
Children and stars are kissing and losing themselves (or: each other)
Quietly taking my hand and leading me
The gods of dreams brought me to a landscape
Butterflies fly through my soul
At midnight

References

2013 singles
IAMX songs
2013 songs
Songs written by Chris Corner


title: Alamance Mill Village Historic District

text:
Alamance Mill Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Alamance, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 18 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure built between 1840 and 1947 in Alamance.  The district includes 15 mill houses, a warehouse, and the mill dam and connected remains of the head race.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Historic districts in Alamance County, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Alamance County, North Carolina


title: Zita Martins

text:
Zita Carla Torrão Pinto Martins (born 1979), OSE, is a Portuguese astrobiologist, and an associate professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. She was a Royal Society University Research Fellow (URF) at Imperial College London. Her research explores how life may have begun on Earth by looking for organic compounds in meteorite samples.

Early life and education
As a child, Zita Martins studied classical ballet from the age of four and was encouraged by her teacher to progress to the National Ballet School in Portugal, which would have put her on track to become a professional dancer. Instead, at the age of 15, she decided she wanted to pursue science, gave up ballet and taught herself Russian. At secondary school, she filled in a careers test, which advised her strengths were in science and art, which Zita Martins says was not very helpful.

As an undergraduate studying chemistry, at Instituto Superior Técnico, Martins was unsure how to direct her education towards a career in space science. She says, "I emailed NASA and asked them what I should do. They told me to do an internship in the Netherlands. I did an internship there, and did a really cool project analysing samples from space (i.e. meteorites). I thought: ‘this is cool; I want to do this for the rest of my life’.

She was awarded a PhD in 2007 for Chemical analysis of organic molecules in carbonaceous meteorites from Leiden University supervised by Pascale Ehrenfreund. While completing her PhD, she gave a talk which was led to an invitation to be an Invited Scientist at NASA.

Research and career
In 2013, Zita Martins, working with colleagues from the University of Kent shot steel projectiles at ice samples, which simulated the composition of comets to find out if their impact is responsible for the production of complex organic molecules. The experiment found that the impact-shock of a comet produces a number of amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. This has implications for the origin of life on Earth but also potentially in the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

Zita Martins is Co-Investigator of two European Space Agency missions, OREOcube and EXOcube, which will be installed on the International Space Station in the future.

Committed to inspiring the next generation of young people to take an interest in science, Zita Martins has an active involvement with the international media. She is a BBC Expert Women Scientist.

Awards and honours

Honours

  Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (25 February 2019) - For exceptional and outstanding merits in science.

Academic Awards

 Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) in 2009.

References

Living people
Portuguese biologists
Leiden University alumni
Astrobiologists
Academics of Imperial College London
Women biologists
1979 births
Planetary scientists
Women planetary scientists


Bellemont Mill Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Bellemont, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 24 contributing buildings built between 1879 and 1880 in Bellemont.  The district includes the three-story brick Bellemont Cotton Hill and 23 associated one and two-story frame mill houses.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Historic districts in Alamance County, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Alamance County, North Carolina
Company towns in North Carolina


title: Elk Mountains (South Dakota)

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The Elk Mountains are a small range of mountains in western South Dakota, forming the southwest portion of the Black Hills as part of its west-dipping monocline. They are geologically distinct from the Black Hills, on the other side of a "racetrack" region of red stone. The ridge of the Elk Mountains is formed of harder sandstones. The east face of the Elk Mountains is a  high escarpment, but the west portion falls slowly and features many canyons.

Most of the Elk Mountains were protected in the Harney National Forest until 1954, when this protected area joined the Black Hills National Forest. Today the large South Dakota portion of the mountain range is in the Hell Canyon District of the Black Hills National Forest, while the much smaller Wyoming portion lies in the Bearlodge District. The Elk Mountains are one of three mountain ranges that comprise the Black Hills region and national forest, including the Black Hills itself and Wyoming's Bear Lodge Mountains.

Elk Mountain is the highest point of the range and has a lookout tower on its summit. Other peaks include Pilger Mountain and Sullivan Peak.

Few people live in or near the Elk Mountains. The closest town is Edgemont, South Dakota, to the south. Tiny unincorporated Dewey and ghost town Burdock lie to the west. Ten miles to the northwest is Newcastle, Wyoming.

Habitat
Pinus ponderosa trees are predominant with nearly complete undergrowth of Carex heliophila.

Gallery

References

Black Hills
Mountain ranges of South Dakota
Mountain ranges of Wyoming
Landforms of Custer County, South Dakota
Landforms of Fall River County, South Dakota


title: Robert Clark (priest)

text:
Robert James Vodden Clark (12 April 1907 – 25 September 1998) was Dean of Edinburgh from 1967 to 1976.

He was educated at  Edinburgh Theological College and ordained in 1941. He was Curate at St Paul & St George, Edinburgh from 1941 to 1944   He held  incumbencies in Fort William,  Edinburgh and Falkirk before his time as Dean.

Notes

1907 births
1998 deaths
Alumni of Edinburgh Theological College
Scottish Episcopalian clergy
Deans of Edinburgh


The 2014 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Cordenons, Italy between 11 and 17 August 2014.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings are as of August 4, 2014.

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Filippo Baldi
  Flavio Cipolla
  Erik Crepaldi
  Stefano Napolitano

The following player received a special exemption into the singles main draw:
  Alessandro Giannessi

The following player entered into the singles main draw as an alternate:
  Adrian Sikora

The following player entered into the singles main draw as a lucky loser:
  Walter Trusendi

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Benjamin Balleret
  Viktor Galović
  Franko Škugor
  Adelchi Virgili

Champions

Singles

  Albert Montañés def.  Potito Starace 6–2, 6–4

Doubles

 Potito Starace /  Adrian Ungur def.  František Čermák /  Lukáš Dlouhý 6–2, 6–4

External links
Official Website

Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia
Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia
Zucchetti


title: 2014 Western & Southern Open – Men's doubles

text:
Bob and Mike Bryan were the defending champions and successfully defended the title, defeating Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock in the final, 6–3, 6–2.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References
Main Draw

Western and Southern Open Doubles
2014 Western & Southern Open


title: North Main Street Historic District (Graham, North Carolina)

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North Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Graham, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 101 contributing buildings date from the 1850s to 1949 in a predominantly residential section of Graham.  The district contains single and multi-family dwellings, two schools, one commercial building and three churches.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Historic districts in Alamance County, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Alamance County, North Carolina


title: Robbie Hood

text:
Robbie Hood is an atmospheric scientist who studies hurricanes. She was lead scientist for the Convection and Moisture Experiment at NASA.

References

American atmospheric scientists
NASA people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people


title: Paris Smith

text:
Paris Smith is an American actress. She is known for playing Maddie Van Pelt in the Nickelodeon show Every Witch Way.

Career
Other appearances include Totally, The Bedtime Story, and others. She has also appeared on episodes of The Fine Brothers' YouTube show React to That.

Smith won the Best Performance in a Short Film – Young Actress 11–12 award for the short film Scouted at Young Artist Award 2013, and was nominated in 2014 for the Best Performance in a TV Series – Guest Starring Young Actress 11–13 award for Modern Family, and in 2015 won for the Best Performance in a TV Series – Leading Young Actress award for Every Witch Way.

Filmography

Accolades

References

External links

American child actresses
American television actresses
21st-century American actresses
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Fencing at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's individual foil

text:
The men's individual foil competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan was held on 29 September at the Gangseo Gymnasium.

Schedule
All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Results

Preliminary pool

Knockout round

Final standing

References
2002 Asian Games Report, Page 402

External links
 Official website

Men foil


The Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia (previously known as the Zucchetti Kos Tennis Cup and Credit Agricole Friuladria Tennis Cup) is a tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour and the ITF Women's Circuit. It is held annually at the A.S.D. Eurotennis Club in Cordenons, Italy, since 2004.

Past finals

Men's singles

Women's singles

Men's doubles

Women's doubles

External links
Official website
ITF Search

ATP Challenger Tour
ITF Women's World Tennis Tour
Clay court tennis tournaments
Tennis tournaments in Italy
Recurring sporting events established in 2004


title: Os Church (Vestland)

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Os Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bjørnafjorden Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Osøyro. It is one of the two churches for the Os parish which is part of the Fana prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1870 using plans drawn up by the architect Ole Vangberg. The church seats about 600 people.

History
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1306, but the church was already built in that year. The first church on this site was  a wooden stave church that was likely built during the 13th century. In 1624, the old church was torn down and replaced with a timber-framed long church.

In 1814, this church served as an election church (). Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway. This was Norway's first national elections. Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.

During the 1860s, planning for a new church began. Christian Christie was hired to design the new church in 1866, but the building committee demanded changes that Christie would not accept, so he resigned. The assignment then went to Ole Vangberg, but his drawings were also heavily criticized by Jacob Wilhelm Nordan and Nicolay Nicolaysen, who worked for the Ministry of Church Affairs, and only after a number of changes were made, they finally approved the plans. In 1869–1870, a new church was built just to the southwest of the old church. The new church was consecrated on 23 August 1870. After the new church was completed, the old church was torn down. There are several artifacts in the present church that are from some of the previous churches including the baptismal font, candlesticks, church bell, and pulpit.

Media gallery

See also
List of churches in Bjørgvin

References

Bjørnafjorden
Churches in Vestland
Long churches in Norway
Wooden churches in Norway
19th-century Church of Norway church buildings
Churches completed in 1870
13th-century establishments in Norway
Norwegian election church


title: Tal Rabin

text:
Tal Rabin (Hebrew: טל רבין, born 1962) is a computer scientist and Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She was previously the head of research at the Algorand Foundation and the head of the cryptography research group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

Biography
Rabin was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Jerusalem, Israel. As a child, she enjoyed solving riddles and playing strategic games. Her father, Michael Rabin, is a celebrated computer scientist who is responsible for many breakthroughs in the fields of computability and cryptography. She and her father have co-authored a paper together. She is the mother of two daughters.

Career
In 1986, she received her BSc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She continued her studies there for her MSc (1988) and PhD (1994) degrees under the supervision of Professor Michael Ben Or. Between 1994 and 1996, she was an National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at MIT. She later joined the cryptography group at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and became head of the group in 1997. In 2020, she joined the University of Pennsylvania as the Rachleff Family Professor of Computer and Information Science.

Rabin's research focuses on cryptography and network security, specifically the design of efficient and secure encryption algorithms. In addition, she studies secure distributed protocols and the theoretical foundations of cryptography, as well as number theory and the theory of algorithms and distributed systems. She has co-authored over 100 papers. She has also registered five patents in the US.
Her research focuses on making communications over the Internet more secure. Her most cited works in this field focus on the design of digital signature schemes, which are widely used, among other applications, in protocols for secure web communication. Another focus is on a different scheme of encrypted communications called secret sharing. A sizable part of her work on these subjects is done in collaboration with Rosario Gennaro and Hugo Krawczyk.

Rabin has been on the committees of many leading cryptography conferences, including TCC, Crypto, PKC and Eurocrypt. She was a council member of the Computing Community Consortium (2013–2016), a member of the executive committee of SIGACT (2012–2015), and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cryptology. She is a founder and organizer of the Women in Theory Workshop, a biennial event for graduate students in theoretical computer science. She is also involved in activities to make the field of encryption more accessible to the general public. In 2011, she took part in the World Science Festival, a popular science event held in New York City. In 2014, she took part in a similar event, the WNYC Science Fair.

Awards
2014: One of the 22 most powerful women engineers in the world by Business Insider

2014: Woman of Vision for innovation by the Anita Borg Institute

2015: IACR Fellow (International Association for Cryptologic Research)

2016: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2017: ACM Fellow

2018: One of America's Top 50 Women In Tech by Forbes

2019: The RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics

References

External links
 Tal Rabin's homepage, on the IBM research website
 A blog post about Tal Rabin in the blog A Smarter Planet
 a TEDx talk given by Tal Rabin
 ABIE Women of Vision Award Acceptance Speech

Living people
Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Computer Science & Engineering alumni
Israeli women computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli cryptographers
Modern cryptographers
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
IBM Research computer scientists
1962 births


title: George Martineau

text:
George Edward Martineau  (18 January 1905 – 3 January 1969) was Dean of Edinburgh from 1962 to 1967.

Life
Martineau was born in 1905 and educated at  St John's College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon; and ordained in 1931. After curacies in Chesterfield and Edinburgh  he held  incumbencies in new Mills, Falkirk and Jedburgh before his time as Dean.

His second marriage was to the pianist Hester Dickson Martineau. They both had previous children, but they shared in a new son Malcolm Martineau, also a noted pianist.

Notes

1905 births
1969 deaths
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Scottish Episcopalian clergy
Deans of Edinburgh


title: 2014 World Club 7s

text:
The 2014 World Club 7s was the second World Club 7s tournament, a rugby sevens competition organised by Premiership Rugby. It was hosted at Twickenham Stadium on 16 and 17 August 2014. The tournament was won by Buenos Aires.

Format
11 teams have been invited, and one has qualified for the competition through the 2014 Premiership Rugby Sevens Series contested by English and Welsh clubs.

The 12 teams are split into 3 pools of 4 teams, and each team will play all the others in their pool once on day one. Matches will be played according to International Rugby Board Laws of the Game - 7s Variations, and based on the result, teams will receive league points.

Following the completion of the pool stage, teams will be seeded based on league points and position in their respective pools. The top two teams from each pool, and the two best third place teams, will contest the cup competition. The remaining four teams will contest the shield competition.

These competitions take place on day two as knock-out competitions, with the winners progressing to the next stage at each round. However, the losers of the cup quarter-finals will instead drop down to contest a plate knock-out competition.

Teams

Pool Stage

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Knock-out Competition

Shield (Places 9-12)

Shield Semi-finals

Eleventh/Twelfth Place play-off

Shield Final

Cup Quarter-finals

Plate Competition (Places 5-8)

Plate Semi-finals

Seventh/Eighth Place play-off

Plate Final

Cup Competition

Cup Semi-finals

Third Place play-off

Cup Final

References

External links
Official website

2014 rugby sevens competitions
Rugby sevens competitions in England
2014–15 in English rugby union
Rugby union in London


title: Graham Historic District

text:
North Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Graham, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 72 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district of Graham.  The district includes a variety of institutional, commercial, and residential buildings largely dating from the 19th century.  Notable buildings include the Alamance County Courthouse, the centerpiece of the district; Graham Presbyterian Church; Harden House; Hunter House; Nicks Store; McBride Holt House (c. 1885); Scott Building (c. 1900); Vestal Hotel; Holt-Scott General·Store (c. 1850-1860); National Bank of Alamance (c. 1906); Mont-White Theatre; and Paris Building (c. 1912).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Historic districts in Alamance County, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Alamance County, North Carolina


title: White-rumped sirystes

text:
The white-rumped sirystes (Sirystes albocinereus), is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It was formerly considered conspecific with the sibilant sirystes.

Distribution and habitat
It is found from eastern Colombia to eastern Peru and western Brazil and northern Bolivia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

References

 Donegan, T.M. 2013b. Vocal variation and species limits in the genus Sirystes (Tyrannidae). Conservacion Colombiana 19: 11–30.

white-rumped sirystes
Birds of Colombia
Birds of the Amazon rainforest
Birds of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Birds of the Peruvian Amazon
Birds of the Bolivian Amazon
white-rumped sirystes
white-rumped sirystes
white-rumped sirystes


title: Step Back (album)

text:
Step Back is the nineteenth and final studio album by blues guitarist and singer Johnny Winter.  It features performances by a number of guest musicians, including Jason Ricci, Eric Clapton, Dr. John, Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top, Joe Perry from Aerosmith, Leslie West from Mountain (Winter had guested on West's Still Climbing the previous year), and Brian Setzer from the Stray Cats.  It was released by Megaforce Records on September 2, 2014.

As on Winter's previous studio album, Roots, the songs are mainly blues standards. Roots and Step Back were both produced by his guitarist Paul Nelson.

Step Back was released posthumously.  Winter had finished recording the album, and then played a concert tour in Europe, before he died on July 16, 2014.  The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts for Blues Albums and Independent Albums, and at #17 on the Billboard 200.

At the 2015 Grammy Awards, Step Back won the Grammy Award for Best Blues Album.  Step Back also won the 2015 Blues Music Award for Best Rock Blues Album.

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Steve Leggett said, "Produced by Winter's guitarist, Paul Nelson, the album is full of gritty, soaring guitar, the kind of straightforward blues-rock style Winter has always been known for, and it's obvious over his last two albums that Winter still found joy and excitement in it all, and he went out playing perhaps as well as he ever had, having learned the nuances of these classic blues songs inside and out.... It's all solid, and it's comforting to know that Winter went out in peace with the blues and his legacy, and most importantly, without his skills diminishing."

In Rolling Stone, Patrick Doyle wrote, "Winter's final album, Step Back, doesn't always match his early grit... [T]he new LP draws from the Fifties electric blues Winter heard as a teenager.... The highlight comes late, when Winter plays a loose solo acoustic take of Son House's "Death Letter" — a rare understated moment that proves even without his Gibson Firebird, Winter could go back to the Delta with the best of them."

In Glide Magazine, Doug Collette said, "Based on its selection of elemental blues and rock material, Johnny Winter's Step Back is a logical extension of his previous record, the more literally conceived and executed Roots. The late Texan's final studio album lives up to the broad perspective at which its title hints with diverse arrangements that illustrate his versatility.... Just as Johnny Winter’s live performances in recent years reaffirmed the legitimacy of his influence on generations of musicians, so does Step Back add final punctuation to a life-long statement of musical purpose."

In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Wesley Britton wrote, "... in short order, the vibrancy, energy, and variety of what I heard blew all my preconceived blues away. Instead, I was taken back in time as Step Back is a collection of covers where Winter repeated the same formula of his 2011 Roots where Winter and a cast of all-star friends offered their takes on some memorable rock and blues classics. In a very real sense, Roots and Step Back, both produced by guitarist Paul Nelson, are appropriate full-circle collaborations where Winter et al show their affection for the music that inspired and influenced them all those years ago."

On Write a Music Review, Keith Hannaleck said, "Fortunately for music fans [Winter] completed his final album before passing away and it will likely go down as one of his very best. Step Back is a guitar hero tribute, not just for Johnny but for those players that admired him and had the honor of being part of the project.... Winter’s voice is strong throughout and his guitar playing is clear and concise.... Winter was always a star and before he left this earth he burned as bright as ever with Step Back. I believe he will finally get his Grammy with this monumental accomplishment.... Long live the blues and the music of Johnny Winter; this was one hell of an exit for one of the greatest guitar players on the planet."

Track listing

Personnel
Musicians
Johnny Winter – guitar, steel guitar, vocals
Paul Nelson – guitar
Scott Spray – bass
Tommy Curiale – drums
Mike DiMeo – piano on "Don't Want No Woman", "Who Do You Love", "Okie Dokie Stomp", "My Babe", "Long Tall Sally", "Blue Monday"; Hammond B-3 organ on "Unchain My Heart", "Sweet Sixteen"
Tom "Bones" Malone – trombone on "Unchain My Heart", "Okie Dokie Stomp", "Sweet Sixteen", "Blue Monday"
"Blue" Lou Marini – tenor saxophone on "Unchain My Heart", "Okie Dokie Stomp", "Sweet Sixteen", "Blue Monday"
Joe Meo – alto saxophone on "Unchain My Heart", "Okie Dokie Stomp", "Sweet Sixteen", "Blue Monday"
Don Harris – trumpet on "Unchain My Heart", "Okie Dokie Stomp", "Sweet Sixteen", "Blue Monday"
Frank "King Bee" Latorre – harmonica on "Killing Floor"
Meredith Dimenna – backing vocals on "Who Do You Love"
Wendy Brown Rashad – backing vocals on "Unchain My Heart"
Shauna Jackson – backing vocals on "Unchain My Heart"
Cynthia Tharpe – backing vocals on "Unchain My Heart"
Production
Producer: Paul Nelson
Recording engineer: Brendan Muldowney
Assistant recording engineers: Ian Callanan, Mikhail Pivovarov, Nicholas Wells
Mixing: Mike "Metal" Goldberg
Mastering: Greg Calbi
Art direction, design: Stephen Jensen
Photography: Michael Weintrob, Marty Temme

Charts

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Grammy Award for Best Blues Album
Johnny Winter albums
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title: Leif Carlsen

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Leif Carlsen (4 December 1943 – 14 September 2018) was Danish footballer who played as a left winger for Boldklubben Frem, Hvidovre IF, Swiss club FC Baden and Swedish clubs Landskrona BoIS and IS Halmia.

Career
Carlsen played for the Danish football club Boldklubben Frem in the Danish Superliga from 1964 to 1966.

During the 1967 and 1968 seasons, he represented Hvidovre IF, where he scored six goals. One of them was in the Danish Cup final, where Carlsen scored the second goal in a 2–0 victory against Esbjerg fB.

In 1970 he transferred to the Swedish team Landskrona BoIS. In August 1970, Leif Carlsen famously scored the only goal in the league's division promotion qualifiers. After further success, the team was promoted to the Swedish league Allsvenskan. At the time, however, non-Swedish citizens were not allowed to play in the top Swedish league and Leif Carlsen could no longer play with Landskrona BoIS in 1971.

Carlsen was born in 1943 in Denmark, and died in 2018.

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Hvidovre IF players
FC Baden players
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IS Halmia players
Danish expatriate men's footballers
Danish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
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title: Radhika Nagpal

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Radhika Nagpal is an Indian-American computer scientist and researcher in the fields of self-organising computer systems, biologically-inspired robotics, and biological multi-agent systems. She is the Augustine Professor in Engineering in the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton University. Formerly, she was the Fred Kavli Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. In 2017, Nagpal co-founded a robotics company under the name of Root Robotics. This educational company works to create many different opportunities for those unable to code to learn how.

Education and academic career
Nagpal received an S.B. and S.M. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2001. Her dissertation, "Programmable Self-Assembly using Biologically-Inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics", was supervised by Gerald Sussman and Harold Abelson. In it, she presented a language for instructing a sheet of identically-programmed agents to self-assemble into a desired shape making use only of local interactions, and in a manner robust to irregularities, communication failure, and agent malfunction.

From 2001 to 2003, she served as a postdoctoral lecturer at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, as a member of the Amorphous Computing Group. From 2004 to 2009, she served as an assistant professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; from 2009 to 2012, she served as the Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard SEAS. From 2012 to 2019, she served as the Fred Kavli Professor of Computer Science at Harvard SEAS, where she headed the Self-Organizing Systems Research Group. In 2022, she moved her SSR lab to Princeton Robotics with joint appointments between the departments of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the department of computer science.

Academic research
Her research group focuses on biologically-inspired multi-agent systems: collective algorithms, programming paradigms, modular and swarm robotics, and on  biological multi-agent systems: models of multicellular morphogenesis, collective insect behavior. This work lies at the intersection of computer science (AI/robotics) and biology. It studies bio-inspired algorithms, programming paradigms, and hardware designs for swarm/modular robotic systems and smart materials, drawing inspiration mainly from social insects and multicellular biology. It also investigates models of self-organization in biology, specifically how cells cooperate during the development of multicellular organisms.

Programming paradigms for robust collective behavior
Her primary research interest is developing programming paradigms for robust collective behavior, inspired by biology.   Ultimately, the goal is to create a framework for the design and analysis of self-organising multi-agent systems. Her group's approach is to formalize these strategies as algorithms, analysis, theoretical models, and programming languages. They are especially interested in global-to-local compilation, the ability to specify user goals at the high level and automatically derive provable strategies at the agent level.

Understanding robust collective behavior in biological systems
Another of her research interests is in understanding robust collective behavior in biological systems. Building artificial systems can give us insights into how complex global properties can arise from identically-programmed parts --- for example, how cells can form scale-independent patterns, how large morphological variations can arise from small genetic changes, and how complex cascades of decisions can tolerate variations in timing. She is interested in mathematical and computational models of multi-cellular behavior, that capture hypotheses of cell behavior and cell-cell interactions as multi-agent systems, and can be used to provide insights into systems level behavior that should emerge. Her group works in close collaboration with biologists, and currently studies growth and pattern formation in the fruit fly wing.

Academic positions
Nagpal has held the following positions as a researcher and an academic:
 Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ from 1994-1995 as a technical staff member
 MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Amorphous Computing Group from 2001-2003 as a postdoctoral lecturer
 Harvard Medical School from 2003-2004 as a research fellow
 Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 2004-2009 as an assistant professor of Computer Science
 Harvard Medical School, Department of Systems Biology since 2004 as an affiliated faculty member
 Harvard Wyss Institute for Biological-inspired Engineering since 2008 as a Core Faculty Member
 Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 2009 to 2012 as an associate professor of computer science
 Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences since 2012 as the Fred Kavli Professor of Computer Science

Awards and honors
 National Talent Search Scholarship Award, India (1987)
 AT&T Bell Labs GRPW Fellowship (1995-2001)
 Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship (2005)
 NSF Career Award (2007)
 Anita Borg Early Career Award (2010)
 Radcliffe Fellowship (2012)
 named one of "Nature's 10" people who mattered" of 2014.
 McDonald Mentoring Award (2015)
During her time as Radcliffe Fellow, she worked with experimental biologists to develop a better understanding of collective intelligence in social insects through the application of computer science.

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title: Metrico

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Metrico is a puzzle-platform game developed and published by indepdendent Dutch developer Digital Dreams for the PlayStation Vita. The music is by Dutch electronic music producer Palmbomen. It was released in North America on 5 August 2014, and in Europe on 6 August 2014. Metrico was initially available for free for members of PlayStation Plus.

A re-release of the original game with additional content was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 23 August 2016 entitled Metrico+.

Gameplay
Metrico is a 3D-platform game, and levels often have simple colour-schemes. Typically, level backgrounds are a solid colour, and the midground may include visuals such as mountains, which are typically simple-toned prisms. Platforms are mostly simple-toned geometric shapes, such as cubes and 3D-rectangles.

Reception

Metrico received mixed reviews from critics. On aggregators GameRankings and Metacritic, it holds a score of 70% and 68 respectively. Colin Moriarty, reviewing for IGN, praised the game's "ingenious puzzles", but noted some technical issues and the game's use of "gimmicky, sometimes broken controls". Likewise, GameSpot's reviewer Josiah Renaudin criticized Metrico's "often unwieldy controls", but noted a "beautiful audiovisual blend" and "exciting sense of discovery".

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Indie games
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title: Nesreen Ghaddar

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Nesreen Ghaddar is a professor of mechanical engineering at the American University of Beirut. She is Qatar Chair of Energy Studies and the Director of the Munib and Angela Institute of Energy and Natural Resources at AUB. She obtained her Bachelor in Engineering in 1980 and her Master in 1982 from Kuwait University and her PhD in 1985 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She is an editor of the Journal of Applied Mechanics and a fellow of Islamic World Academy of Sciences.

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Lebanese engineers
Academic staff of the American University of Beirut
Year of birth missing (living people)
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title: Fencing at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's team foil

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The men's team foil competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held on 2 October 2002 at the Gangseo Gymnasium.

Schedule
All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Results

Final standing

References
2002 Asian Games Report, Page 405

External links
 Official website

Men foil


title: Franz Ignaz Oefele

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Franz Ignaz Oefele (26 June 1721, Posen - 18 September 1797, Munich) was a German painter, etcher, and miniaturist. His name is sometimes spelled "Öffele" and is occasionally seen as "Oeffele-Piekarski", for reasons unknown.

Life
His father was a watchmaker from Bavaria, who died before Oefele was a year old, so he was raised by an uncle in Landsberg am Lech who operated a brewery. There, apparently having displayed some artistic inclinations, he took lessons from a local painter, then went on to Ingolstadt, where he studied with  and, finally, to Augsburg for lessons with Gottfried Bernhard Göz. He then went to work for Balthasar Augustin Albrecht, the Bavarian court painter. in Munich. After some time there, working with several artists, he went to Venice and was accepted as a student by Giuseppe Nogari.

He remained there for six years, followed by studies with the English history painter John Parker and the Flemish painter Jan Frans van Bloemen in Rome. After eight years in Italy, he returned to Munich and became the court painter for Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria. In 1770, he helped to create and was appointed the first Professor of Drawing at what would later become the Academy of Fine Arts, with an annual salary of 100 Gulden. He was also a member of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

He painted primarily altarpieces and portraits. Several of his best-known portraits were made into copper engravings by Franz Xaver Jungwirth. Despite his apparent success, it is reported that he left his family in serious financial difficulties.

His older cousin was the historian and librarian, Andreas Felix von Oefele.

References

Further reading

Franz Ignaz Oefele. In: Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Vol. 25, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1931, pg. 565.
Georg Kaspar Nagler: Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, Vol.11, pg. 418 (Online)

External links

Auktionshaus Michael Zeller: A selection of his miniatures
More works by Oefele @ ArtNet
Polish Art Corner: Portrait of Michał Suffczyński by Oefele

1721 births
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18th-century German painters
18th-century German male artists
German male painters
Portrait painters


title: X+Y

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X+Y, released in the US as A Brilliant Young Mind, is a 2014 British drama film directed by Morgan Matthews and starring Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins.

The film, inspired by the 2007 documentary  Beautiful Young Minds, focuses on a teenage English mathematics prodigy named Nathan (Asa Butterfield) who has difficulty understanding people, and is autistic, but finds comfort in numbers. When he is chosen to represent the United Kingdom at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), Nathan embarks on a journey in which he faces unexpected challenges, such as understanding the nature of love. The character of Nathan was based on Daniel Lightwing who won a silver medal at the 2006 IMO.

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 5 September 2014. The European premiere was at the BFI London Film Festival on 13 October 2014, and the UK cinema release was on 13 March 2015.

Plot
Nathan Ellis, a 9-year-old maths prodigy, has just lost his father in a car accident. Nathan is diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum early in the film, and his father was the only one who was able to connect normally with him. Although Nathan values his mother, Julie, he shuns any physical contact with her and treats her as more of a caretaker than a parent. Wanting to make sure Nathan is not distracted from his studies, Julie enrolls him in advanced classes at a new school (filmed at High Storrs School in Sheffield, United Kingdom). There, he comes under the tutelage of teacher Martin, also a math genius, who has multiple sclerosis. Martin sees himself in Nathan, once a promising young mind in the field of mathematics, who gave it all up once he was diagnosed with his illness.

Seven years later, Martin is preparing Nathan to compete for a place in the International Mathematical Olympiad, a prestigious high school competition consisting of the world's best young mathematicians. This year, it is to be held at Cambridge, after a two-week math camp in Taiwan where the students will study for the test that determines the winners. Nathan fears he is not good enough to qualify but ends up doing well enough to accompany 15 other British teenagers to Taiwan.

Suddenly thrust out of his comfort zone, Nathan finds himself no longer the smartest maths whiz in the room, and his social anxieties nearly paralyse his performance. He has trouble reading the social cues of others and flinches at the slightest physical contact with another person. Nathan is paired with a female Chinese student, Zhang Mei, who slowly helps him adjust to his new surroundings and helps him fight through his fears. By the skin of their teeth, Nathan and Zhang make the cut to compete in Cambridge.

Back in England, Zhang stays with Nathan and his mother, who is shocked to find that his behaviour has transformed into something more normal. She becomes aware that he may have feelings for Zhang, which she asks him. Not fully understanding the concept of love, Nathan is unsure how to express his feelings. He keeps his emotions bottled up as they all travel to Cambridge and settle in for the Olympiad.

Things quickly unravel when Zhang's uncle catches her in Nathan's room one morning. This causes Zhang to withdraw from the competition and leave. Nathan, who now believes he loves Zhang, is torn between her and the Olympiad. When he sits down among hundreds of other students around the world for the exam, the first question triggers memories of his dead father, which combined with his newly lost love, creates an emotional overload. At the pinnacle moment of his mathematical career, Nathan must make a decision whether to stay and pursue his dream, or give in to the pain that has haunted him for most of his life.

Nathan rushes out of the exam hall with Martin and Julie in tow. The latter finds him in a café, where he speaks of his emotional overload, both from the loss of his father and the girl who appreciated and loved him, Zhang Mei. They embrace at last, then Julie drives Nathan to the station to fetch back Zhang Mei.

Cast
Asa Butterfield as Nathan Ellis
Rafe Spall as Martin Humphreys
Sally Hawkins as Julie Ellis
Eddie Marsan as Richard
Jo Yang as Zhang Mei
Jake Davies as Luke Shelton
Alexa Davies as Rebecca
Martin McCann as Michael Ellis
Alex Lawther as Isaac Cooper
Edward Baker-Close as Nathan Ellis (age 9)

Reception
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an 87% approval rating with a weighted average score of 6.58/10 based on 75 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "A Brilliant Young Mind is tender and perceptive – and intelligent enough to find a wealth of dramatic riches buried under well-trod narrative ground." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 65 out of 100 based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."

Departures from the true story
The main character Nathan Ellis is based on mathematical genius Daniel Lightwing who is on the autism spectrum. Lightwing had a teacher who saw his potential and became his mentor; however, his mentor was not a man but a woman named Miggy Biller who is the Head of Maths at York College. Lightwing never lost his father; in fact, his father also attended with him at the film premier. In the film the IMO takes place in Cambridge, England, but the actual event that Lightwing participated in was in Slovenia. The training camp took place in China where Daniel fell in love with a Chinese woman named Zhu Yan whom he married (they are no longer together).

Lightwing's mentor Miggy Biller attended the film's premiere and told the York College newsletter: "We sat beside each other at the showing, chuckling together about some of the film's maths problems. It was funny to look at the line between fact and fiction being trod all the time by the film! Dan's Dad, sitting just behind us, saw himself killed in a car accident … and I don't think I need to say that I didn't recognise myself in Rafe Spall!"  She went on to say, "It's a brilliant and very moving film, and Asa Butterfield is amazing." Lightwing told the Evening Standard, "I cried the first three times I watched it. It says things I was feeling but could not express."

See also
 List of films about mathematicians

References

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2010s coming-of-age comedy-drama films
2010s teen comedy-drama films
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title: Todd's sirystes

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Todd's sirystes (Sirystes subcanescens) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It was formerly considered conspecific with the sibilant sirystes.

Distribution and habitat
It is found from Guyana throughout northeastern Amazonian Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

References

 Donegan, T.M. 2013b. Vocal variation and species limits in the genus Sirystes (Tyrannidae). Conservacion Colombiana 19: 11–30.

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title: Charles F. and Howard Cates Farm

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Charles F. and Howard Cates Farm, also known as Swathmoor Farm, is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Mebane, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 11 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 5 contributing structures on a farm near Mebane.  The district includes the two-story double-pile Cates farmhouse (c. 1801, c. 1851) and a collection of outbuildings and supporting structures.  These include outbuildings probably associated with pickle manufacture such as the packhouse (c. 1900) and the office
(c. 1920); outbuildings associated with dairying including the multipurpose barn (c. 1910), the well house (c. 1930), and the milk barn (c. 1939–40); and the mule barn, gas house, tool shed, pump house, privy, and chicken house (c. 1910).  Its owner Charles F. Cates was instrumental in establishing the Woodlawn School.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

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title: Hanabi (card game)

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Hanabi (from Japanese 花火, fireworks) is a cooperative card game created by French game designer Antoine Bauza and published in 2010. Players are aware of other players' cards but not their own, and attempt to play a series of cards in a specific order to set off a simulated fireworks show. The types of information that players may give to each other is limited, as is the total amount of information that can be given during the game. In 2013, Hanabi won the Spiel des Jahres, an industry award for best board game of the year.

Gameplay
The Hanabi deck contains cards in five suits (white, yellow, green, blue, and red): three 1's, two each of 2's, 3's, and 4's, and one 5. The game begins with 8 available information tokens and 3 fuse tokens. To start the game, players are dealt a hand containing five cards (four for 4 or 5 players). As in Blind Man's Bluff, players can see each other's cards but they cannot see their own. Play proceeds around the table; each turn, a player must take one of the following actions:

 Give information: The player points out the cards of either a given number or a given suit in the hand of another player (examples: "This card is your only red card," "These two cards are your only 3's"). The information given must be complete and correct. (In some editions, it is allowed to indicate that a player has zero of something; other versions explicitly forbid this case.) Giving information consumes one information token.
 Discard a card: The player chooses a card from their hand and adds it to the discard pile, then draws a card to replace it. The discarded card is out of the game and can no longer be played. Discarding a card replenishes one information token.
 Play a card: The player chooses a card from their hand and attempts to add it to the cards already played. This is successful if the card is a 1 in a suit that has not yet been played, or if it is the next number sequentially in a suit that has been played. Otherwise a fuse token is consumed and the misplayed card is discarded. Successfully playing a 5 of any suit replenishes one information token. Whether the play was successful or not, the player draws a replacement card.

The game ends immediately when either all fuse tokens are used up, resulting in a game loss, or all 5's have been played successfully, leading to a game win. Otherwise, play continues until the deck runs out, and for one full round after that. At the end of the game, the values of the highest cards in each suit are summed, resulting in a total score out of a possible 25 points.

Reception
Hanabi received positive reviews. Board Game Quest awarded the game four and a half stars, praising its uniqueness, accessibility and engagement. Similarly, The Opinionated Gamers also praised the game's engagement and addictiveness. It won several awards, including the 2013 Spiel des Jahres winner and 2013 Fairplay À la carte Award winner. Hanabi also placed sixth place in the 2013 Deutscher Spiele Preis.

Computer Hanabi
Hanabi is a cooperative game of imperfect information.

Computer programs which play Hanabi can either engage in self-play or "ad hoc team play". In self-play, multiple instances of the program play with each other on a team. They thus share a carefully honed strategy for communication and play, though of course they are not allowed to illegally share any information about each game with other instances of the program.

In ad hoc team play, the program plays with other arbitrary programs or human players.

A variety of computer programs have been developed by hand-coding rule-based strategies. The best programs, such as WTFWThat, achieved near-perfect results in self-play with five players, with an average score of 24.9 out of 25.

AI challenge
In 2019, DeepMind proposed Hanabi as an ideal game with which to establish a new benchmark for Artificial intelligence research in cooperative play.

In self-play mode, the challenge is to develop a program which can learn from scratch to play well with other instances of itself. Such programs achieve only about 15 points per game as of 2019, far worse than hand-coded programs. However, this gap has narrowed significantly as of 2020, with the Simplified Action Decoder achieving scores around 24.

Ad hoc team play is a far greater challenge for AI, because "Hanabi elevates reasoning about the beliefs and intentions of other agents to the foreground". Playing at human levels with ad hoc teams requires the algorithms to learn and develop communication conventions and strategies over time with other players via a theory of mind. Computer programs developed for self-play fail badly when playing on ad hoc teams, since they don't know how to learn to adapt to the way other players play. Hu et al. demonstrated that learning symmetry-invariant strategies helps AI agents avoid learning uninterpretable conventions, improving their performance when matched with separately trained AI agents (scoring around 22), and with humans (scoring around 16 vs. a baseline self-play model that scored around 9).

Deepmind released an open source code framework to facilitate research, called the Hanabi Learning Environment.

See also

 Computer bridge

References

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French board games
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title: Universidad de Falcón

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Universidad de Falcón is a private university located in the city of Punto Fijo, Falcón State, Venezuela.

History
Began operations in 2004 following the approval by the National Council of Universities (CNU) and Higher Education Institution private, according to Resolution No. 283 published in Official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela No. 37.852 7 January 2004.

Academic activities are initiated in June 2004 for the period 2004-I, between June and October. At that time the university opens with an enrollment of 170 students.

Faculties

At present there are four faculties:

 Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
 Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Marine Sciences
 Bachelor in Tourism, Faculty of Social Sciences
 Process Management, Faculty of Social Sciences
 Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science

External links

Official Website

Private universities and colleges in Venezuela
Buildings and structures in Falcón


title: Malcolm Clark (priest)

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Malcolm Aiken Clark,  (3 October 1905 – 1 December 2002) was Dean of Edinburgh from  1982 to 1985.

He was educated at  the High School of Glasgow and Lichfield Theological College. and   He was ordained Deacon in 1934  and priest in 1935. After a curacy at St John, Greenock he held incumbencies at All Saints Lockerbie, and All Saints, Langholm. During World War II he was a Chaplain in the RAFVR. Afterwards he was Priest in charge at St Mary, Dalkeith and then  Rector of the Good Shepherd, Murrayfield before his time as Dean.

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title: Nore Neset Church

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Nore Neset Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bjørnafjorden Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hagavik, just west of the municipal centre of Osøyro. It is one of the two churches for the Os parish which is part of the Fana prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The brown, brick church was built in a fan-shaped design in 2000 using plans drawn up by the architects Mette and Morten Molden. The church seats about 200 people.

History
During the 1990s, plans were made for a new church in Hagavik. The architects Mette and Morten Molden designed the new building. The brick church building itself is almost square and has lower extensions to the east and south as well as a free-standing, asymmetrically placed bell tower. The church was consecrated on 1 December 2000.

See also
List of churches in Bjørgvin

References

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Churches in Vestland
Fan-shaped churches in Norway
Brick churches in Norway
21st-century Church of Norway church buildings
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2000 establishments in Norway


title: Patricia White

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Patricia White may refer to:

Patricia White (actress) (1922–2016), American performer, a/k/a Patricia Barry
Patricia Lorrain-Ann White (born 1928), Canadian-American ballerina, a/k/a Patricia Wilde
Patricia Lynne White (born 1964), Australian politician and business executive, a/k/a Trish White