title: Coral reefs in India

text:
Coral reefs in India are one of the most ancient and dynamic ecosystems of India. The coral reefs not only provide a sanctuary to a myriad of marine life but also play a key role in protecting the coastline from erosion. India has about 7517 km of coastline including islands but mainland coast is 6100 km.

The Coral reefs in India are mainly restricted to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Gulf of Mannar, Gulf of Kutch, Palk Strait and the Lakshadweep islands. All of these reefs are Fringing reefs, except Lakshadweep which are Atolls. There are Patchy corals present along the inter-tidal areas of the central west coast like the intertidal regions of Ratnagiri, Gaveshani Bank etc. The Hermatypic corals are also present along the sea shore  from Kollam in Kerala to Enayam Puthenthurai in Tamilnadu.

Research and Institutions

The Major Institutions in India involved in the management, monitoring and research on Coral reefs are the Ministry of Earth Sciences, the Zoological Survey of India, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Madurai Kamaraj University, Annamalai University, National Centre for Earth Science Studies, National Institute of Ocean Technology, National Institute of Oceanography, India etc.

The Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad is involved in the data collection of areas under Coral reefs using remote sensing.

Laws and regulations

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change manages and guidelines for the protection of the Coral reefs in India. If the Coral reef region is under a protected area then it comes under the jurisdiction of the State Wild life department.

The Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification of 1991 gives protection to all marine resources. All types of coral reefs are protected under the CRZ1 category. Its Section 7 (2) prohibits the construction of beach resorts or hotels on coral reefs. In Certain States, the quarrying and collecting of massive corals are banned except for scientific purposes.

List of Coral reefs

 Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Situated in the Bay of Bengal, exclusively fringing reefs of about 572 islands, most of these islands have a healthy biodiversity.

 Eastern Coast
There is a coral reef near the sea between Chandrabhaga coast and Ramachandi in the Konark area of Odisha.

 Gulf of Mannar
Fringing reefs with a chain of 21 islands from Rameswaram in the north to Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) in the south. This part of the gulf forms part of the Gulf of Mannar biosphere reserve.

 Gulf of Kutch
Exclusively consists of fringing reefs. The reefs are relatively less developed due to large range of temperature and high salinity. The harbours have less biodiversity. The entire Gulf of Kutch is also known as a marine national park.

 Lakshadweep
Exclusively coral atolls with 36 islands, of which 10 are inhabited. The islands range from less than  to about  in length, and do not exceed  in width.

 Western Coast
There are some coral reefs around small inlets in the western part of the Gulf of Khambat. Angria Bank is a coral reef off Vijaydurg in Maharashtra. Tarkarli in Malwan, Maharashtra is a smaller reef. There is a coral reef in Netrani Island in Karnataka.

Gallery

See also

 Coastal India
 Fishing in India
 Central Indian Ridge
 Southeast Indian Ridge
 Southwest Indian Ridge
 Rodrigues Triple Junction
 Shiva crater
 Tourism in India
 List of islands in India
 List of beaches in India

References

Further reading

 Coral Reefs in India – National Biodiversity Authority of India
 Official website – National Institute of Oceanography

Coral reefs
Reefs of India
India geography-related lists


title: Tekkihei, Tonda

text:
is a 1980 Japanese film directed by Keiichi Ozawa.

Cast
Jun'ichi Ishida
Miyuki Matsuda
Kaori Takeda
Jun Tanaka

Reception
It was chosen as the 9th best film at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival.

References

1980s Japanese films


title: Markel Brown

text:
DeMarious Markel Brown (born January 29, 1992) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Pallacanestro Varese of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

High school career
Brown attended Peabody Magnet High School in Alexandria, Louisiana. As a senior, he averaged 32 points, 10 rebounds, five assists, three blocks and three steals per game, going on to be named the 2010 Louisiana Player of the Year and Mr. Basketball by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.

Considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, Brown was listed as the No. 37 shooting guard and the No. 137 player in the nation in 2010.

College career
In his freshman season at Oklahoma State, Brown led the squad with 33 blocked shots, the most ever by a Cowboy guard and the fifth-most ever by a freshman at OSU. In 34 games (10 starts), he averaged 6.4 points, 2.5 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.0 blocks in 21.6 minutes per game.

In his sophomore season, he was named the "Dunker of the Year" by CollegeBasketballTalk on NBCSports.com. In 33 games (26 starts), he averaged 10.5 points, 5.1 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.2 steals in 31.1 minutes per game.

In his junior season, he was named to the USBWA All-District VI team, NABC All-District 8 second team and All-Big 12 second team. He also became the 37th player in school history to record 1,000 career points, and the second player in school history to record 200 assists, 100 steals and 75 blocked shots in a career, joining Byron Houston. In 33 games (all starts), he averaged 15.3 points, 4.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.0 steals in 34.1 minutes per game.

In his senior season, he was named to the All-Big 12 second team for the second time in his career. In 34 games (all starts), he averaged 17.2 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.9 assists, 1.0 steals and 1.0 blocks in 35.3 minutes per game.

Professional career

Brooklyn Nets (2014–2016)
On June 26, 2014, Brown was selected with the 44th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves. He was later traded to the Brooklyn Nets on draft night. He joined the Nets for the 2014 NBA Summer League, and signed with the team on July 23. He played in just seven games for the Nets over the first two months of the 2014–15 season. On January 1, 2015, using the flexible assignment rule, the Nets assigned Brown to the Maine Red Claws, the D-League affiliate of the Boston Celtics. On January 8, he was recalled by the Nets. In his first career start on February 23 against the Denver Nuggets, Brown played 45 minutes of action and recorded a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds as he helped the Nets defeat the Nuggets, 110–82. On March 29, he scored a career-high 17 points in a 107–99 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. To finish the regular season, Brown played in 40 games and started in 29 of them. After starting in the Nets' first playoff game, he managed just one more playoff appearance, in Game 6 of their series against the Atlanta Hawks, a series the Nets lost 4–2.

In July 2015, Brown re-joined the Nets for the 2015 NBA Summer League. He lost his starting role for the 2015–16 season, and played sparingly for the Nets throughout the first half of the season. He began seeing regular playing time in January, and scored in double figures five times during February. On March 5, 2016, he scored a career-high 23 points in the Nets' 132–118 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

On September 26, 2016, Brown signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers. However, he was later waived by the Cavaliers on October 20 after appearing in six preseason games.

Khimki (2016–2017)
On October 25, 2016, Brown signed with Russian club Khimki for the rest of the 2016–17 season.

Oklahoma City Blue (2017–2018)
On September 24, 2017, Brown signed a training camp contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder. On October 11, 2017, Brown was waived by the Thunder.

Houston Rockets (2018)
On January 15, 2018, Brown was signed by the Houston Rockets, on a two-way contract, after the Rockets waived Brianté Weber.

Darüşşafaka (2018–2019)
On July 24, 2018, Brown signed a one-year deal with the Turkish team Darüşşafaka of the EuroLeague.

Oklahoma City Blue (2019–2020)
On September 24, 2019, Brown was signed by the Oklahoma City Thunder. On September 27, Brown was once again waived by the Thunder, and then joined the Oklahoma City Blue. Brown missed several games in November with a left ankle injury. On January 10, 2020, Brown recorded 24 points, five rebounds and two assists in a 120–97 win over Raptors 905. He averaged 11.9 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game with the Blue.

Hapoel Eilat (2020–2021)
On August 4, 2020, Brown signed with Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League.

Antwerp Giants (2021–present)
On August 11, 2021, Brown signed in Belgium with Antwerp Giants of the BNXT League.

Pallacanestro Varese (2022–2023)
On July 20, 2022, Brown signed with Pallacanestro Varese of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).

NBA career statistics

Regular season

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Brooklyn
| 47 || 29 || 16.6 || .362 || .266 || .825 || 2.3 || .8 || .7 || .3 || 4.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Brooklyn
| 62 || 6 || 15.8 || .394 || .314 || .755 || 2.0 || 1.5 || .6 || .2 || 5.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Houston
| 4 || 0 || 7.8 || .286 || .200 || – || 1.3 || .5 || .0 || .0 || 1.3
|-
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 113 || 35 || 15.9 || .380 || .295 || .781 || 2.1 || 1.2 || .6 || .2 || 5.2

Playoffs

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2015
| style="text-align:left;"|Brooklyn
| 2 || 1 || 5.0 || .400 || .000 || 1.000 || 1.0 || .5 || .0 || .0 || 3.0
|-
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 2 || 1 || 5.0 || .400 || .000 || 1.000 || 1.0 || .5 || .0 || .0 || 3.0

Personal life
Brown is the son of Damian and Antoinette Brown. His grandmother, Jerri Mae Eggins, has been a big influence in his life, as have his two sisters, Tara and Moryia. In 2007, three months after his mother died from a brain aneurysm, his uncle, David Eggins, the closest male he had to a father figure, died trying to rescue two elderly women from a house fire.

References

External links

 Oklahoma State Cowboys bio

1992 births
Living people
21st-century African-American sportspeople
African-American basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Belgium
American expatriate basketball people in Israel
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American expatriate basketball people in Russia
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
American men's basketball players
Antwerp Giants players
Basketball players from Louisiana
BC Khimki players
Brooklyn Nets players
Darüşşafaka Basketbol players
Hapoel Eilat basketball players
Houston Rockets players
Maine Red Claws players
Minnesota Timberwolves draft picks
Oklahoma City Blue players
Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball players
Pallacanestro Varese players
Point guards
Rio Grande Valley Vipers players
Shooting guards
United States men's national basketball team players


title: Boonah, Victoria

text:
Boonah is a rural locality in the Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia.

History

The locality was the base for various sawmilling operations from the 1880s.

The Boonah State School opened on 15 August 1882, servicing families working at the Benwerrin coal mine, the three local sawmills and on local farms. It closed in 1927 due to falling attendance. Boonah Post Office opened on 24 November 1887, became a receiving office on 21 August 1919, became a post office again on 1 July 1927, and closed on 26 September 1929.

Present day

Today, most of the locality is protected forest contained in either the Great Otway National Park or the Otway Forest Park; the remainder, located in Boonah's north, is private farmland. The Bambra-Boonah Road, which runs through the latter area, is the only mapped road in the locality.

References

Towns in Victoria (state)
Surf Coast Shire


title: Chunganenol

text:
Chunganenol is a resveratrol hexamer found in Vitis chunganensis.

References

Resveratrol oligomers
Heterocyclic compounds with 3 rings
Heterocyclic compounds with 5 rings


title: Kentucky Route 73

text:
Kentucky Route 73 (KY 73) is a  state highway in Kentucky that runs from White Road at the Kentucky-Tennessee state line southeast of Franklin to Kentucky Route 1038 northwest of South Union in rural Logan County via Franklin.

Major intersections

References

0073
0073
0073


title: Grange Park, Wetherby

text:
Grange Park is a multi-purpose sports facility in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England. The facility is used for cricket, rugby union, bowling (Crown Green and Flat Green) and junior football. The complex is one of two main sporting facilities in Wetherby, the other being the Ings.

History
Grange Park opened in its current form in 1988. It replaced a former cricket ground on the same location, which was closed after the second Wetherby by-pass (now the A1(M)) cut through its pitch. Prior to that the site was occupied by Wetherby Grange, a large stately home demolished in 1962.

The rugby club relocated to the new ground from Loshpot Lane in Kirk Deighton. A new clubhouse opened shortly afterwards, which was later extended with the addition of a large home-side Rugby dressing room. Demolition of the first clubhouse began in 2012 with its larger replacement opened in 2013.

Clubhouse

The original clubhouse was similar in appearance to the current one and took a single-storey form. It originally opened with two bars (a club room and a best room with a bar counter that ran between the two), a kitchen, four dressing rooms (two cricket, two rugby) and players' showers. It was later extended to provide a third rugby dressing room, somewhat larger than the others. A veranda was added later. Despite several plans to modernise and extend it, it was demolished in 2012.

The current clubhouse also takes a single storey form and is similar in layout and appearance to its predecessor. The bar area is larger than that of the former clubhouse (although compromises only one room, compared to the formers two), as are the dressing rooms. Unlike the former facilities, it offers separate dressing facilities for match officials. To the rear it has a recessed veranda, rather than the protruding one that was a later addition to the former clubhouse.

The bowling club has a separate wooden pavilion adjacent to its greens, towards the opposite side of the car park from the main clubhouse.

Sports facilities

Cricket

The sites single cricket pitch is situated to the rear of the main clubhouse, with the clubhouse acting as a pavilion. There are no stands around the pitch. Practice nets are situated close to the pitch.

Rugby

There are currently four rugby pitches, situated to the south of the site. The alignment of the pitches was changed in the mid-1990s to a north–south alignment to minimise crosswind. There are no stands, although plans have been previously proposed. Two of the pitches are floodlit, although not to a standard which permits full playing.  A small grandstand was added in the late 2010s.

Bowling

In between the main clubhouse and the car park are the site's two bowling greens. Unlike the Cricket and Rugby who share a clubhouse, the bowling club has its own pavilion, thus the club has not participated in the funding of recent improvements. The two greens (one flat, one crown) are floodlit to a level which allows full night playing. The greens are the oldest continuous part of the site, having been laid in 1987; a year after the club formed.

Other facilities
The site has a car park for around 100 vehicles, a children's playground and a catering unit close to the rugby pitches which are some distance from the clubhouse.

Clubs
Wetherby Cricket Club, occupy the single cricket pitch adjacent to the clubhouse.
Wetherby RUFC, occupy the four rugby pitches to the south of the clubhouse, bowling club and car park.
Wetherby Bowling Club, occupy the two greens between the main clubhouse and the rugby club.  The bowling club have their own pavilion and their own facilities and as such are not part of the Grange Park Sports Club.
Kirk Deighton Junior Football Club, have no set area, moved here owing to a shortage of room at their Kirk Deighton ground.

Access
The ground is situated close to Junction 45 of the A1(M) motorway and is around 10–15 minutes walk from Wetherby bus station.

References

External links

Grange Park Sports Club

Buildings and structures in Wetherby
Rugby union stadiums in England
Sports venues in Leeds
Cricket grounds in West Yorkshire
Sports venues completed in 1988


title: Himamylan Island

text:
Himamylan (historically Himamylan Islet) is an uninhabited island in northeastern Iloilo, Philippines. It is one of fourteen islands politically administered by the municipality of Carles.

Location and geography

Himamylan is a small island northeast of the Panay Island coast in the Visayan Sea. It is  from Manlot Island and east of Binuluangan Island. Himamylan sits in the Nilidlaran Pass, which is the body of water between Binuluangan and nearby Calagnaan Island.

See also

 List of islands in the Philippines
 List of islands
 Desert island

References

External links
 Himamylan Island at OpenStreetMap

Islands of Iloilo
Uninhabited islands of the Philippines


title: Directorate General of Civil Defence (Pakistan)

text:
The Directorate General of Civil Defence () provides civil defence and emergency services in Pakistan. The Directorate General of Civil Defence is a department of the Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan.

The Directorate General of Civil Defence also operates the Civil Defence Academy, Lahore and the National Institute of Fire Technology, Islamabad.

Provincial Civil Defence departments are under the home departments of every province. so it consists of following Civil Defence departments

 Civil Defence Department Islamabad Capital Territry
 Civil Defence Department Punjab
 Civil Defence Department Sindh
 Civil Defence Department Baluchistan
 Civil Defence Department KPK
 Civil Defence Department Gilgit Baltistan
 Civil Defence Department Azad Jammu And Kashmir

Each Department is distributed on district level Civil Defence Departments which are further divided into Organization Wing and Departmental employees. Civil Defence Organization is continuity of Air Raid Precaution Volunteer units existed before 1951. that year Civil Defence (Special Powers) Ordinance, 1951 (VI of 1951) was enacted which later on became Civil Defence Act, 1952 and in 1968 it was furthermore extended to Civil Defence Rules 1966 and 1968. Overall it is called Civil Defence Special Powers rules 1951.

Organization Structure

Directorate General Of Pakistan (Federal Level)

 Director General Of Civil Defence Pakistan (A BPS Grade 20 Officer) Responsible for Policy, Planning, Coordination Administration & supervision of the working of Federal Civil Defence structure across Pakistan
 Director (Admin/Coordination ) (A BPS grade 19 Officer) Responsible To assist DGCD in the above spheres.To supervise the working of all sections in the Dte. Gen. Civil Defence.Coordination with the Training Institutions.Represent the DGCD at different forums.
 Deputy. Director (Technical) (An officer of Grade 18 BPS) Responsible To assist the DCD in above spheres.To provide assistance in the technical matters.
 Assistant Director (A&C) (An officer of Grade 17 BPS) Responsible To assist the DCD in administrative affairs.To supervise the working of admn section.
 Assistant Director (Trg) (An officer of Grade 17 BPS) Responsible To assist the DCD in Training affairs.To supervise the working of Training SectionCoordination with Training Institutes
 Assistant Director (Budget & Accounts) (An officer of Grade 17 BPS) Responsible To assist the DCD in Financial affairs. To supervise the working of Budget section.Preparation & Distribution of Budget / Auditing
 Assistant Director (P&T/ Camouflage) (An officer of Grade 17 BPS) Responsible To assist the DCD  in maintaining camouflage files / documents Supervision of section work.

rest of the organization structure and officers details can be had from the website of Director General Civil Defence Pakistan.

At provincial level Punjab Civil defence have following organogram on their site which shows how structured this department in Provience of Punjab is. the organogram can be seen here

Civil Defence Service Rules 1966 is the rules and regulation which regulate pakistan civil defence service structure and rules related to it and there was an update to Civil Defence Uniform Rules in 1986 which is current final set of rules related to Pakistan Civil Defence and Civil Defence Organization. According to these rules The Uniform of All staff and Razakars was defined and described and well documented.

See also
 National Institute of Fire Technology
 Ministry of Interior and Narcotics Control
 Government of Pakistan

External links
 Directorate General of Civil Defense

References

Pakistan federal departments and agencies
Civil defense
Emergency management in Pakistan


title: Marbled frog (disambiguation)

text:
The marbled frog (Limnodynastes convexiusculus) is a species of ground-dwelling frog in the family Myobatrachidae native to northern and north-eastern Australia, and southern New Guinea.

Marbled frog may also refer to:

 Marbled balloon frog (Uperodon systoma), a frog in the family Microhylidae found in Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
 Marbled poison frog (Epipedobates boulengeri), a frog in the family Dendrobatidae found in western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador
 Marbled pygmy frog (Microhyla pulchra), a frog in the family Microhylidae found in northeastern India, southern China, and Southeast Asia
 Marbled rain frog (Scaphiophryne marmorata), a frog in the family Microhylidae endemic to Madagascar
 Marbled reed frog (Hyperolius marmoratus), a frog in the family Hyperoliidae found in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe, and Botswana, Lesotho, and Tanzania
 Marbled robber frog (Pristimantis marmoratus), a frog in the family Craugastoridae found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, possibly Colombia, and possibly Peru
 Marbled rubber frog (Phrynomantis annectens), a frog in the family Microhylidae found in Angola, Namibia, and South Africa
 Marbled sand frog (Tomopterna marmorata), a frog in the family Pyxicephalidae found in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and possibly Namibia, Eswatini, and Tanzania
 Marbled shovelnose frog (Hemisus marmoratus), a frog in the family Hemisotidae, a frog found in Sub-Saharan Africa
 Marbled slender frog (Hylarana macrodactyla), a frog in the family Ranidae found in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam
 Marbled streamlined frog (Nannophrys marmorata), a frog in the family Dicroglossidae endemic to Sri Lanka
 Marbled sucker frog (Amolops marmoratus), a frog in the family Ranidae found in Myanmar and likely from northern Thailand, and possibly China and South Asian countries


title: Yana Urqu (Ocongate-Quiquijana)

text:
Yana Urqu (Quechua yana, black, urqu mountain, "black mountain", Hispanicized spelling Yana Orjo, erroneously also Yana Orja) is a mountain in the Cusco Region in Peru, about  high. It is situated in the Quispicanchi Province, at the border of the districts Ocongate and Quiquijana.

An intermittent stream originates south of Yana Urqu. It flows through the Ninapampa (Ninabamba) or Qunchupata (Cunchopata) valley to reach the river Huch'uymayu (Quechua for "little river", Uchuymayu). Huch'uymayu is a right tributary of the Willkanuta River. The confluence is north of Quiquijana.

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Cusco Region


title: 2004–05 Scunthorpe United F.C. season

text:
The 2004–05 season saw Scunthorpe United compete in Football League Two where they finished in 2nd position with 80 points, gaining automatic promotion to League One.

Final league table

Results
Scunthorpe United's score comes first

Legend

Football League Two

FA Cup

Football League Cup

Football League Trophy

Squad statistics

References

External links
 Scunthorpe United 2004–05 at Soccerbase.com (select relevant season from dropdown list)

Scunthorpe United F.C. seasons
Scunthorpe United


title: Churchwood

text:
Churchwood is an avant-blues quintet from Austin, Texas known for its poetry-driven lyrics, high-energy performances, and eccentric approach to making blues-based rock and roll.
The lineup consists of Bill Anderson (guitar), Joe Doerr (vocals, harmonica), Adam Kahan (bass), Billysteve Korpi (guitar), and Eric Bohlke (drums).

Musical and lyrical style and influence

Churchwood's musical influences are wide-ranging.  The band's self-proclaimed "dystopic blues" style belies its reverence for the likes of Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, and other blues masters; however, many critics suggest that musical risk-takers like Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Tom Waits, and Nick Cave are of equal importance to Churchwood's sound.  Much like his published poetry, Doerr's lyrics reflect an interest in French Symbolism, Literary Modernism, Surrealism, and Beat Poetry.  His themes are largely existentialist in scope: absurdity, anxiety, alienation, passion, individuality, and authenticity are his primary concerns.

History

Churchwood formed in 2007 in Austin, Texas and signed with Saustex Records in 2010.  Churchwood has released five records on the Saustex label: the eponymous LP Churchwood (2011), an EP Just the Two of Us (2012), the band's sophomore LP Churchwood 2 (2013), 3: Trickgnosis (2014), and most recently Hex City (2016).

In 2016, original drummer Julien Peterson left the band to pursue other interests; he was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Eric Bohlke of Austin's Khali Haat in the spring of 2017.

In 2011, Churchwood placed "Rimbaud Diddley" on Season 4, Episode 4 ("Una Venta") of AMC's "Sons of Anarchy."

Discography

Churchwood (Saustex, 2011)
Just the Two of Us (Saustex, 2012)
Sample This: Saustex 2012 Sampler (Saustex, 2012)
2 (Saustex, 2013)
The Saustex Variations (Saustex, 2014)
3: Trickgnosis (Saustex, 2014)
Hex City (Saustex, 2016)
Plenty Wrong To Go Awry (Saustex, 2020)
The Boule Oui (Saustex, 2022)

References

External links

Churchwood at All Music
Churchwood at Saustex Media
Churchwood at Reverb Nation
Churchwood "I Have a Devil in Me"
Churchwood "Duende (Live at The Hole in the Wall)"

American experimental rock groups
Musical groups established in 2007


The 2014–15 Women's FIH Hockey World League Round 2 was held from February to March 2015. A total of 24 teams competing in 3 events took part in this round of the tournament playing for 7 berths in the Semifinals, to be played in June and July 2015.

Qualification
8 teams ranked between 12th and 19th in the FIH World Rankings current at the time of seeking entries for the competition qualified automatically, but Belgium and Spain were chosen to host a Semifinal therefore exempt from Round 2. Scotland would have qualified as the nineteenth ranked team but will compete as Great Britain as in every Olympic Qualifying Tournament, giving its berth to twentieth ranked Russia. Additionally 17 teams qualified from Round 1, including Turkey and Ghana who replaced the Czech Republic and Fiji after they withdrew from participating, and one nation that did not meet ranking criteria and was exempt from Round 1 that hosted a Round 2 tournament. The following 24 teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings, will compete in this round of the tournament.

Montevideo
Montevideo, Uruguay, 14–22 February 2015.

All times are Uruguay Summer Time (UTC−02:00)

First round

Pool A

Pool B

Second round

Quarterfinals

Fifth to eighth place classification

Crossover

Seventh and eighth place

Fifth and sixth place

First to fourth place classification

Semifinals

Third and fourth place

Final

Awards
Player of the Tournament:
Top Scorer:  (7 goals)
Young Player of the Tournament:
Goalkeeper of the Tournament:

New Delhi
New Delhi, India, 7–15 March 2015.

All times are Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30)

First round

Pool A

Pool B

Second round

Quarterfinals

Fifth to eighth place classification

Crossover

Seventh and eighth place

Fifth and sixth place

First to fourth place classification

Semifinals

Third and fourth place

Final

Awards
Player of the Tournament:
Top Scorer:  (11 goals)
Young Player of the Tournament:
Goalkeeper of the Tournament:

Dublin
Dublin, Ireland, 14–22 March 2015.

All times are Greenwich Mean Time (UTC±00:00)

First round

Pool A

Pool B

Second round

Quarterfinals

Fifth to eighth place classification

Crossover

Seventh and eighth place

Fifth and sixth place

First to fourth place classification

Semifinals

Third and fourth place

Final

Awards
Player of the Tournament:  Megan Frazer
Top Scorer:  (9 goals)
Young Player of the Tournament:
Goalkeeper of the Tournament:

References

External links
Official website (Montevideo)
Official website (New Delhi)
Official website (Dublin)

Round 2
International women's field hockey competitions hosted by Uruguay
International women's field hockey competitions hosted by India
International women's field hockey competitions hosted by Ireland
Hockey
Hockey
Hockey


title: American Sportscopter Ultrasport 331

text:
The American Sportscopter Ultrasport 331 is an American helicopter that was designed and produced by American Sportscopter of Newport News, Virginia. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The Ultrasport 331 is a development of the Ultrasport 254 and, like that model, is named for its empty weight in pounds. The aircraft was designed to comply with the US Experimental - Amateur-built aircraft rules. It features a single main rotor, a single-seat enclosed cockpit with doors, skid-type landing gear and a twin cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition  Hirth 2706 engine.

The aircraft fuselage is made from composites. Its  diameter two-bladed rotor has a chord of  and employs an ATI 012 (VR-7 mod) airfoil at the blade root, transitioning to an ATI 008 (VR-7 mod) airfoil at the tip. The ring-mounted tail rotor has a  diameter and a chord of . The cyclic control is mounted from the cockpit ceiling, but otherwise is conventional. The horizontal tailplane mounts end-fins for directional stability.

The aircraft has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload is .

The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 60 hours.

Operational history
By June 2014 three examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although a total of six had been registered at one time.

Specifications (Ultrasport 331)

See also
List of rotorcraft

References

External links
Photo of an American Sportscopter Ultrasport 331

Ultrasport 331
2000s United States sport aircraft
2000s United States helicopters
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined piston helicopters


title: Yana Urqu

text:
Yana Urqu or Yana Urku (Quechua yana black, urqu mountain, Kichwa urku, "black mountain", also spelled Yana Orcco, Yana Orco, Yana Orjo, Yana Orkho, Yanahurco, Yanaorcco, Yanaorco, Yanaorjo, Yanaorgo, Yanaurco, Yanaurcu, Yana-Urcu, Yana-urcu) may refer to:

 Yana Urqu (Alis-Laraos), a mountain on the border of the districts of Alis and Laraos in the Yauyos Province, Lima Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Apurímac), a mountain in the Apurímac  Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Calca), a mountain in the Calca District, Calca Province, Cusco Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Canas-Canchis), a mountain on the border of the Canas Province and the Canchis Province, Cusco Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Canchis), a mountain in the Canchis Province, Cusco Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Carrasco), a mountain in the Carrasco Province, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia
 Yana Urqu (Castrovirreyna), a mountain in the Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Chapi Urqu), a mountain near Chapi Urqu in the Huachocolpa District, Huancavelica Province, Huancavelica Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Chayanta), a mountain in the Potosí Department, Chayanta Province, Ravelo Municipality, Bolivia
 Yana Urqu (Chinchihuasi-Cosme), a mountain on the border of the districts of Chinchihuasi and Cosme, Churcampa Province, Huancavelica Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Coris-Locroja), a mountain on the border of the districts of Coris and Locroja, Churcampa Province, Huancavelica Region, Peru
 Yanaurcu (Ecuador), a volcano in Ecuador
 Yana Urqu (Hapu Punta), a mountain near Hapu Punta in the Marcapata District, Quispicanchi Province, Cusco Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Huancavelica), a mountain in the Huachocolpa District, Huancavelica Province, Huancavelica Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Jaqhichuwa), a mountain near Jaqhichuwa in the Marcapata District, Quispicanchi Province, Cusco Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Junín), a mountain in the Junín Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Lares), a mountain in the Lares District, Calca Province, Cusco Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Lima), a mountain in the Laraos District, Yauyos Province, Lima Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Linares), a mountain in the José María Linares Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia
 Yana Urqu (Mizque), a mountain in the Mizque Province, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia
 Yana Urqu (Mullu P'unqu), a mountain near Mullu P'unqu in the Marcapata District, Quispicanchi Province, Cusco Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Ocongate-Quiquijana), a mountain on the border of the Ocongate District and the Quiquijana District, Quispicanchi Province, Cusco Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Puno), a mountain in the Puno Region
 Yana Urqu (Q'umirqucha), a mountain near Q'umirqucha in the Marcapata District, Quispicanchi Province, Cusco Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Sud Lípez), a mountain in the Sud Lípez Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia
 Yana Urqu (Urubamba), a mountain in the Urubamba Province, Cusco Region, Peru
 Yana Urqu (Yayamari), a mountain near Yayamari in the Marcapata District, Quispicanchi Province, Cusco Region, Peru


title: Artem Klimenko

text:
Artem Anatolevich Klimenko (; born January 10, 1994) is a Ukrainian professional basketball player for Zenit Saint Petersburg of the VTB United League.

Professional career
In 2011, Klimenko joined BC Avtodor Saratov.

In March 2014, Klimenko announced his intentions to enter the 2014 NBA draft. In May 2014, Avtodor added a buy-out clause to his contract, and he later travelled to the United States to attend various NBA workouts. On June 26, 2014, he went undrafted in the 2014 draft.

In the 2015–16 season, Klimenko won the VTB United League Young Player of the Year award.

Early December 2016, Klimenko signed a contract with the Russian team UNICS Kazan until the end of the 2016-2017 season. On July 10, 2018, Klimenko signed a three-year contract with UNICS.

On July 4, 2022, he has signed with Zenit Saint Petersburg of the VTB United League.

References

External links
Profile at Eurobasket.com

1994 births
Living people
BC Avtodor Saratov players
BC UNICS players
Centers (basketball)
Sportspeople from Mariupol
Russian men's basketball players
Naturalised citizens of Russia


title: Highlandtown Lake

text:
Highlandtown Lake is a man-made lake located in Washington Township, Columbiana County, Ohio. It was created in 1966 when the State of Ohio built a dam impounding  of water on the upper drainage of the Little Yellow Creek. A lot of habitat improvement was done on what would be the bottom of the lake prior to the impoundment. It has about  of shoreline and a maximum depth of about . The lake is about  above sea level.

The dam is of earthen construction, rock fill. Its height is  with a length of . Maximum discharge is 4196 cubic feet per second. Its capacity is . Normal storage is . It drains an area of .

Location
It is in the Wildlife District Three of the Ohio Division of Wildlife. It is part of the  Highlandtown Wildlife Area.
It is within a mile of an area known as Highlandtown. It is four miles northeast of Salineville via State Route 39 and nine miles south of Lisbon via State Route 164. It is 11 miles northwest of Wellsville via State Route 39. A portion of the Steubenville Pike Road (Township Road 776) was covered by the lake and it now dead ends at the lake. Osborne Road crosses the northwest arm of the lake. Charles Mill Road (County Highway 413) crosses the northern arm of the lake.

Geography
The area is an Appalachian mixed mesophytic forest. The lake is at the headwaters of Little Yellow Creek.

Fish
The lake was stocked in 1967 with muskellunge, largemouth bass, bluegill, and channel catfish. At present there are also black crappie, brown bullheads, pumpkinseeds and other varieties of sunfish. In about 2000 American gizzard shad appeared in the lake. Because of feeding patterns this resulted in bass getting bigger and bluegills getting smaller. White amurs (grass carp) have been introduced to control weeds and they have remove weed beds which were good places to fish for bass.

Facilities
There is parking, boat ramps, and a handicap dock for fishing. There is no camping in the wildlife area.

References

Cross, Tom. Fishing Ohio: An Angler's Guide to Over 200 Fishing Spots in the Buckeye State. Lyons Press, 2008, p. 147-149.
Highlandtown Lake at Ohio Department of Natural Resources

External links

Reservoirs in Ohio
Dams completed in 1966
Fishing in the United States
Boating
Bodies of water of Columbiana County, Ohio


title: Gymbox

text:
Gymbox is a British fitness company that runs gyms in London.

Gymbox was cited as "one of the trendier additions to London's flourishing fitness scene... Gymbox is aimed at fitness freaks with deep pockets". Lonely Planet considered it to be the most popular gym in London.

History
The company spent £2 million on its first gym.

References

External links
 Official site

Boxing venues in the United Kingdom
Gyms in the United Kingdom
Holborn
Sports organisations in London
Sports venues in London
2004 establishments in England
Companies established in 2004


title: Abdullahi Anod

text:
General Abdullahi Anod (, ) is a Somali military leader. He is a former commander of Somalia's presidential guard unit. On 25 June 2014, Anod was appointed the new Chief of the Somali National Army.

He replaced General Dahir Adan Elmi at the position. General Abdullahi Osman Agey was concurrently named as Anod's new Deputy Chief of Army.

References

Somalian military leaders
Living people
Somalian generals
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Public Law 113-127

text:
() is a United States public law that would take specified federal land in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. The United States Secretary of the Interior would be responsible for carrying this out.

The bill passed both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate during the 113th United States Congress. President Barack Obama signed into law on July 16, 2014, making it .

Background
The United States Department of the Interior provided the following background information about the situation when it testified about the bill before the Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs of the House Natural Resources Committee: "On December 16, 1916, the Secretary of the Interior purchased the 160-acre Shingle Springs Rancheria east of Sacramento in El Dorado County, California at the request of the Sacramento-Verona Band of Miwok Indians. Today's members of the Shingle Springs Rancheria are descendants of the Miwok and Maidu Indians who once lived in this region. Currently, there are approximately 500 enrolled members of the Tribe, with about 140 living on the Rancheria.The tribe has expressed an interest in expanding the Rancheria by adding adjacent BLM-managed lands for improved access and additional residential housing for the tribe."

Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.

H.R. 2388 would take specified federal land in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.

The bill would describe that land as the approximately 40.852 acres of federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) identified as "Conveyance boundary" on the map titled "Shingle Springs Land Conveyance/Draft" and dated June 7, 2012, including improvements and appurtenances thereto.

The bill would prohibit class II and III gaming on such lands.

Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on May 21, 2014. This is a public domain source.

H.R. 2388 would take about 40 acres of federal land in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. Based on information provided by the United States Department of the Interior, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that implementing H.R. 2388 would have no significant effect on the federal budget because the cost of administering the lands would not change significantly. Enacting H.R. 2388 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.

H.R. 2388 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.

On August 29, 2013, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for H.R. 2388 as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 31, 2013. The two versions of the legislation are similar, and the CBO cost estimates are the same.

Procedural history
H.R. 2388 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on June 14, 2013 by Rep. Tom McClintock (R, CA-4). The bill was referred to the United States House Committee on Natural Resources, the United States House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation, and the United States House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs. The bill was reported (amended) alongside House Report 113-195. The House voted on December 3, 2013 to pass the bill in a voice vote.

The bill was received in the United States Senate on December 9, 2013 and referred to the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The Senate had a hearing about the bill on May 21, 2014. The Senate voted on June 26, 2014 to pass the bill by unanimous consent. President Barack Obama signed the bill into law on July 16, 2014.

Debate and discussion
The Department of the Interior supported the bill.

See also
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress
Native American gaming
Impact of Native American gaming
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act

References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 2388
beta.congress.gov H.R. 2388
GovTrack.us H.R. 2388
OpenCongress.org H.R. 2388
WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 2388
Congressional Budget Office's report on H.R. 2388
House Report 113-195 on H.R. 2388

United States federal Native American legislation
Acts of the 113th United States Congress


title: Henry Denny

text:
Henry Denny (1803–1871) was an English museum curator and entomologist, known as an authority on parasites.

Life
Denny was the first salaried curator of the Leeds Museum, then the museum of the Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society, appointed in 1825. He held that post for 45 years. Also in 1825, he published a monograph on the British species of ant-loving beetles in the genus Pselaphus. The British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1842 made a grant to Denny for the study of British Anoplura; William Kirby tried to bring him in as illustrator of his Introduction to Entomology, though without success.

A good friend of Charles Darwin, Henry Denny would be included in his treatise "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex". A piece of correspondence written by Denny to Darwin found its way into Part One "Race" as supporting evidence to Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

 The passage is as follows:

"...And yet, on Martial's testimony, humans no different from each other than Englishmen and Sandwich Islanders carried lice so different from each other than there was no cross-infestation"

Denny died at Leeds on 7 March 1871, at the age of 68.

Works

Denny's published writings were:

 Monographia Pselaphorum et Scydmænorum Britanniæ; or an Essay on the British species of the genera Pselaphus of Herbst, and Scydmænus of Latreille, Norwich, 1825.
 Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniæ; or an Essay on the British species of Parasitic Insects belonging to the order Anoplura of Leach, London, 1842.

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Attribution

1803 births
1871 deaths
English entomologists
English curators
British parasitologists


title: Andy Parton

text:
Andy Parton (born 29 September 1983) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Scunthorpe United.

References

English men's footballers
English Football League players
1983 births
Living people
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
Stalybridge Celtic F.C. players
Scarborough F.C. players
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Doncaster


title: Abdullahi Osman Agey

text:
General Abdullahi Osman Agey (, ) is a Somali military commander. He is the Deputy Chief of the Somali National Army, having been appointed to the position on 25 June 2014 in place of General Abdirisaq Khalif Hussein. General Abdullahi Anod was concurrently named as the new Chief of Army.

References

Somalian military leaders
Living people
Somalian generals
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Liparis liliifolia

text:
Liparis liliifolia, known as the brown widelip orchid, lily-leaved twayblade, large twayblade, and mauve sleekwort, is a species of orchid native to eastern Canada and the eastern United States. It can be found in a variety of habitats, such as forests, shrublands, thickets, woodlands, and mountains. The orchid is considered globally secure, but it is considered rare or endangered in many northeastern states.

Description
One of the orchid's common names, lily-leaved twayblade, comes from the plant having two connected basal leaves. The leaves are light green, smooth, oval shaped,  and have a partial mid-rib. Its delicate flowers are mauve or purple, arranged on a  tall stem in a loose cluster, and total up to 31 flowers. The petals and sepals are long, thin, and often droop. Its flowers can be green, but it is a rare occurrence. Each flower has a labellum that is wide, flat, and nearly translucent. The labellum is pale purple and has darker veins. The fruit is smaller than the pedicels. Its seeds can only germinate and grow with a specific mycorrhizal fungus that can be found across its range. It has been debated over decades whether liliifolia should have a single or two consecutive i's, although the correct spelling has now been shown to be liliifolia by botanist Bernard Boivin.

Distribution and habitat
It is native to eastern Canada (Quebec and Ontario) and the eastern United States. In the eastern United States, it is found in the Appalachians, Ozarks, the Great Lakes region, and the Ohio and Upper Mississippi Valleys, but not the southern coastal plains. The orchid's habitat is in forests, shrublands, thickets, woodlands, and mountains. The highest altitude that the plant can be found in mountains is . While the plant is considered globally secure, it is rare or endangered in many northeastern states due to declining populations. It can be commonly found throughout much of its range.

Ecology
The plant is pollinated by flies, potentially including the species Pegoplata juvenilis. It has been speculated that unspecialized insects have pollinated the orchid. The North American Orchid Center has stated that it is possible for insects with either long legs or mouthparts to pollinate its flowers. Threats to the orchid include flooding caused by beavers, swamp habitat being drained, and insecticides that kill the flies which pollinate the plant.

References

External links

 Michigan Natural Features Inventory

liliifolia
Orchids of North America
Flora of Eastern Canada
Flora of the Eastern United States
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Terrestrial orchids


title: Oedipus and the Sphinx

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Oedipus and the Sphinx is an 1864 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Moreau that was first exhibited at the French Salon of 1864 where it was an immediate success. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work was a fresh treatment of the established subject of the meeting between Oedipus and the Sphinx on the road outside Thebes, as described in Sophocles's play Oedipus Rex.

Subject matter

The painting depicts Oedipus meeting the Sphinx at the crossroads on his journey between Thebes and Delphi. Oedipus must answer the Sphinx's riddle correctly in order to pass. Failure means his own death and that of the besieged Thebans. The riddle was: "What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?". Oedipus answered: "Man: as an infant, he crawls on all fours; as an adult, he walks on two legs and; in old age, he uses a walking stick". Oedipus was the first to answer the riddle correctly and, having heard Oedipus' answer, the Sphinx was astounded and inexplicably killed herself by throwing herself into the sea. Oedipus thereby won the freedom of the Thebans, the kingdom of that city, and as his wife, Jocasta, who was later revealed to be his mother.

Style and antecedents
In this work Moreau deliberately rejects the realism and naturalism in vogue in mid nineteenth century France, instead adopting a deliberately archaic painting style and mythological subject matter. Moreau had sketched Ingres' 1808 Oedipus and the Sphinx in Paris and that is a likely source for his version of the story. Ingres also painted a later version (c. 1826) which is now in the National Gallery, London, but it is uncertain whether Moreau saw that work. The influence of Italian Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna has also been detected in Moreau's version.

Unlike Ingres' version where Oedipus appears as the dominant figure with the Sphinx on the defensive and partly obscured, in Moreau's version the Sphinx is on the offensive, clawing at Oedipus whose victory in the encounter does not yet seem assured. Indeed, other works by Moreau often feature victorious sphinxes atop a mound of victims.

The Sphinx in the painting may be seen as a form of femme fatale, a common theme in late nineteenth century arts and particularly of Symbolist painting. Ragnar von Holten has argued that the subject depicts not only the battle between good and evil, but also between the sexes, and that the opening poem of Buch der Lieder by Heinrich Heine was the source for the idea of the painting. In that poem the Sphinx triumphs over Oedipus. In a Freudian interpretation, it has been argued that the Sphinx represents the castrating effect of Moreau's mother that he has been seeking to escape. At the time the painting was created, Moreau's father had recently died.

By contrast, Henri Dorra has suggested that the poses of the sphinx and Oedipus are derived from the Greek etymological meaning of the word sphinx, which is to clutch, embrace, or cling to. Dorra notes that a paper on the subject by Michel Bréal had been published in 1863, the year before the work was painted. Dorra also draws attention to the symbolic meaning of some of the elements in the picture, which could have autobiographical aspects, and the possible derivation of the treatment of the subject from the design of a Bithynian coin of Nicomedes II depicting Zeus leaning on a staff with an eagle on his right.

The intense gaze shared between the two has been seen as characteristic of Moreau "who again and again suggests an ambiguous mirror-image, two aspects, two abstract entities that confront each other and recognize each other all too well".

Reception
The painting was an immediate success at the Salon. E. de Sault wrote in the Temps of Moreau's "devotion to the old masters, and the knowledge and application of sound principles and traditions. The painter of Oedipus, obscure and unknown yesterday, and who will be famous tomorrow". It rescued what was otherwise seen as a mediocre show. One critic commented, "Mr. Gustave Moreau is the hero of this Exhibition and the grumblers proclaim that if the Salon of 1864 is retrieved from discredit, it is thanks to Oedipus and the Sphinx".

The only serious criticism levelled at the work was that its figures might have been too inspired by the work of Mantegna. Critic Paul de Saint-Victor warned that Moreau should extricate himself from the "harsh embrace" of Mantegna in order to realise his full potential. Jules Claretie commented that it was drawn like a Mantegna but as poetic as a Leonardo da Vinci. Maxime du Camp, on the other hand, felt that it more resembled Vittore Carpaccio's St. George and the Dragon (1502), which Moreau had copied in Venice and which also contains the gory remains of conflict.

Another critic observed that a Greek sphinx, half-woman and half-vulture, was shown, rather than an Egyptian seated sphinx, but felt that whereas Ingres had presented a modern Oedipus, Moreau had better interpreted the classical Oedipus.

After the Salon, Moreau quickly gained a reputation for eccentricity. One commentator said Moreau's work was "like a pastiche of Mantegna created by a German student who relaxes from his painting by reading Schopenhauer".

History
The painting was first sold by the artist in 1864 to Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, who had a reputation as a discerning connoisseur, and paid a full 8000 francs for the work. It was then sold in 1868 to Paul Durand-Ruel, and then in the same year to William H. Herriman of Rome who gave it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1920 where it is one of the few important Moreau paintings outside France.

On his death, Moreau left all of his extant paintings to the French nation where they formed the basis for the subsequent Gustave Moreau Museum.

References

External links

1864 paintings
Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Paintings by Gustave Moreau
Paintings depicting Greek myths
Sphinxes


title: The Greening of Planet Earth

text:
The Greening of Planet Earth is a half-hour-long documentary advocating climate change denialism. It was produced by the coal industry, which argues that rising  levels will be beneficial to agriculture, that the scientific consensus on climate change is wrong, and that policies intending to reduce CO2 levels are therefore misguided. The video argues that rising CO2 levels both directly stimulate plant growth and, as a result of their warming properties, cause winter temperatures to rise, thereby indirectly stimulating plant growth. It was produced in 1991 and released the following year. A sequel, entitled, The Greening of Planet Earth Continues, was released in 1998. The video was narrated by Sherwood Idso. After the video was made, it was distributed to thousands of journalists by a coal industry group. The video became very popular viewing in the George H. W. Bush White House and elsewhere in Washington, where it was promoted before the 1992 Earth Summit, and, according to some reports, became especially popular with then-chief of staff John H. Sununu.

Though many of the claims made in the documentary were controversial at the time, recent research does suggest that the Earth has greened significantly between 1992 (when the film was produced) and 2020, and that this greening has had a strong cooling effect on land temperature.

Funding
Funding for the video was provided by the Western Fuels Association, which paid $250,000 to produce it. It was produced by the Greening Earth Society, which was created by the Western Fuels Association and with which the Association shared a business address.

See also
CO2 fertilization effect
Greenwashing

References

1992 films
1992 in the environment
Documentary films about global warming
Environmentally skeptical films
Climate change denial


title: Religion in Karachi

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Religions in Karachi include Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and others. According to a 1998 census of Pakistan, the religious breakdown of the city is as follows: Muslim (96.45%), Christian (2.42%), Hindu (0.86%), Ahmadis (0.17%) and other (0.10%). Other religious groups include Parsis, Sikhs, Baháʼí, Jews and Buddhists. Of the Muslims, approximately 66% are Sunnis and 34% are Shi'ites. The Sunnis follow Hanafi fiqh while Shi'ites are predominantly Ithnā‘Ashariyyah fiqh, with significant minority groups who follow Ismaili Fiqh, which is composed of Nizari (Aga Khanis), Mustaali, Dawoodi Bohra and Sulaymani fiqhs.

History

Early
Till by the end of 16the century Karachi was a small fishing village of Sindhi and Balochi people when Hindu merchants from Thatta established a trading port there in the early 18th century. When the British seized control of the offshore, strategically located island of Manora in 1839, Karachi had about 10,000 inhabitants, predominantly Muslim. Thereafter, authorities of the British Raj embarked on a large-scale modernisation of the city in the 19th century with the intention of establishing a major and modern port which could serve as a gateway to Punjab, the western parts of British India, and Afghanistan.

Britain's competition with imperial Russia during the Great Game also heightened the need for a modern port near Central Asia, and so Karachi prospered as a major centre of commerce and industry during the Raj, attracting communities of: Africans, Arabs, Armenians, Catholics from Goa, Jewish, Lebanese, Malays, Konkani people from Maharashtra, Kuchhi from Kuchh, Gujarat in India, and Zoroastrians (also known as Parsees) - in addition to the large number of British businessmen and colonial administrators who established the city's poshest locales, such as Clifton.

As a result, this mass migration changed the religious and cultural mosaic of Karachi; 104 years of British rule changed the demographic profile of Karachi from a collection of small predominantly Muslim fishing villages to a multicultural city.

1947 Partition
At the time of independence, the population of the city of Karachi was 51.1% Hindu, 42.3% Muslim, with the remaining 7% primarily Christians (both British and native), Sikhs, Jains, with a small number of Jews.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw an influx of Muslim refugees from India fleeing to settle. While the hindus staying in Karanchi since prehistoric times were persecuted and killed. Ultimately most of the hindu population migrated to India to save their faith. Many of the Urdu-speaking and other non-Punjabi Muslim refugees that fled from various states of India settled in Karachi, giving the city a blend of predominantly Muslim culture.

Islam

The state religion in Pakistan is Islam, which is practiced by about 96-98% of the 195,343,000 people of the nation. The remaining 2-4% practice Hinduism, Christianity, Ahmadiyya, Sikhism, Buddhism, Baháʼí and other religions. Muslims are divided into two major sects: the majority of them practice Sunni Islam, while the Shias comprise an estimated 10-15%. Nearly all Pakistani Sunni Muslims belong to the Hanafi Fiqh Islamic law school. The majority of Pakistani Shia Muslims belong to the Ithnā‘Ashariyyah Islamic law school, with significant minority groups who practice Ismailism, which is composed of Nizari (Aga Khanis), Mustaali, Dawoodi Bohra, Sulaymani, and others.

Hinduism

Most Hindus and Sikhs of Karachi migrated to India during the 1947 partition and from 1948 onwards - after the establishment of Pakistan. Poor Hindus of Marwari and Rajasthani descent are concentrated particularly in Naraianpura and Lyari, while wealthier Sindhi Hindus live in Clifton and Saddar.

Prominent temples include the Sri Swami Narayan temple on MA Jinnah Road, Daryalal Temple in Kharadar, and numerous temples in Narainpura including a Gujarati temple, a Marwari Temple, and a temple for the Karachi Sikh Sangat. Soldier Bazaar is home to a functioning Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Temple, and Ganesh temple.

Two temples function in Clifton: the Samadha Dham and Sri Ratneshwar Mahadev Temple. In Civil Lines, the Sant Satram Dham functions on School Road near Karachi Cantonment Station.

A property currently in dispute between Sikhs and Hindus also stands in Aram Bagh (formerly Ram Bagh), although the areas Ram Talao no longer exists, and Ramchandra temple no longer exists. Mithadar is home to the Bhagnari Shiv Temple and Devi Mata Temple. Manora is home to the Sri Varun Dev Temple.

As of the 1998 census, some 250,000 Hindus remain in Karachi, forming approximately 0.86% of the total city population. However, despite most Hindus having left Karachi, a large number of streets continue to bear Hindu names, particularly in Aram Bagh, Mithadar, and Ramswamy.

Christianity

The largest religious minority in Karachi are the Christians. The two major Christian ethnic groups are Goan Catholics and Punjabi Christians. The Punjabi Christians are converts from the Hindu Churas caste to Christianity during the British raj.

See also
 Demographics of Karachi
 Culture of Karachi
 Islam in Karachi
 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Karachi

References

Further reading
  The Political Ethnicity and the State of Pakistan
"DHA wants SHC to shut down temple built on residential plot", The Express Tribune, 12 June 2014


title: CKYY-FM

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CKYY-FM (89.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Welland, Ontario, Canada, serving the Niagara Region. It is owned My Broadcasting Corporation. It airs a country format and identifies on air as "New Country 89.1". The studios and offices for CKYY-FM and sister station CIXL-FM are on Forks Road on the Port Colborne - Welland border.

CKYY-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 564 watts average, with a peak of 3,100 watts.  The tower has a height above average terrain (HAAT) of .  CKYY-FM uses a directional antenna to avoid its signal from interfering with stations in the U.S.  The transmitter is located on Matthews Road in Welland .

History
The station's founders received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on June 26, 2014, to construct a new English-language commercial FM station.   The station signed on the air on February 20, 2015.

On May 10, 2019, Stingray Group announced its intention to purchase R.B. Communications' two stations in Welland. The sale fell through in early 2020. In 2022, Wellport announced a new deal to sell CIXL and CKYY to My Broadcasting Corporation.

On September 20, 2022, the CRTC approved the change of ownership from R.B. Communications Ltd. to My Broadcasting Corporation.

References

External links

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Kyy-Fm
Mass media in Welland
Radio stations established in 2015
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2015 establishments in Ontario


title: Evidence (2013 film)

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Evidence is a 2013 crime thriller film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi and written by John Swetnam. The film stars Torrey DeVitto, Caitlin Stasey, Harry Lennix, Svetlana Metkina, Dale Dickey, Radha Mitchell, and Stephen Moyer and was released by Bold Films on July 19, 2013. It follows two detectives on their investigation of a brutal massacre, with their only leads being recording devices found at the crime scene.

Plot
The film begins by showing the aftermath of the massacre in Kidwell, Nevada.

Police are first seen going over the crime scene, showing the aftermath of everything that has happened. The story then moves to a press conference with reporters asking questions about the massacre to the lead Detective Burquez, who states that the police are looking into the matter. After the conference, a disheveled Detective Reese asks to be put on the case, to which Detective Burquez assents.
They move to a situation room with a TV and multiple computers going over information from the case. Here we learn that there were four video cameras found at the crime scene and two survivors. They load up the first video camera and begin to watch.

We see a woman practicing lines for a play, then the video jumps to a man playing guitar and a surprise party for the woman celebrating getting a part in a play. This is Leann, and her friend Rachel is behind the camera.
The video shows Leann and her boyfriend Tyler at Leann's play, where he proposes; she declines and he walks off stage angry. The video shows the girls making a video to Tyler to apologize for the proposal and to continue with a trip that was previously planned. The three are shown getting onto a shuttle bus heading to Las Vegas, driven by Ben. Along the way we see people being picked up and we meet Vicki, a dancer, and Steven, a 16-year-old runaway.

While watching the video the detectives notice another person on the bus, a woman. Zooming in, they notice that she is carrying a military duffle bag full of money. Focusing on the bag, they get the name Fleishman.

While en route to Las Vegas, some of the passengers notice that they're not on any main roads, but dirt roads. Rachel is asking where they are going when the bus hits something and flips; they find that what they hit was barbed wire. Ben mentions he saw a truck repair shop a few miles back, and the group begin to walk back to the repair shop.
At the shop where Ben looks around for a phone, and locates a damaged service phone. Back with the group, he asks Rachel if her camera has a light, since the sun will be going down, and Vicki opens a gift box with a small hand held camera, also with a light. Ben tells the women to gather everyone together.
As Rachel goes looking for Leann in one of the buildings, the lights flicker on and Steven stumbles out of a room covered in blood. Chasing after him, the others find Steven and Rachel. Leann believes she sees someone and they all run into one of the buildings.

The video pauses and we watch as the detectives contemplate Steven as the first victim. We also find out about the mystery woman on the bus, Katrina Fleishman. Katrina is married to a military man hospitalized with posttraumatic stress disorder. Katrina withdrew her husband's savings worth $90,000 in cash and left town.

The detectives begin looking at camera number two, from Ben's perspective. He locates a fuse box and is able to get the electricity turned on; the camera shifts to another person in the group. A woman walks towards a bundle of debris, looking for a flare gun, but she is not able to reach it as she is grabbed from behind, and her face is smashed into the debris as she screams and fights; she has her arm burned off by a cutting torch and set on fire.

Detective Reese sees a reflection in a pane of glass when the woman is grabbed. Using a computer to focus, a welding mask can be seen. Detective Burquez makes a connection to Katrina Fleishman's husband, a machinist in the military, and wants his picture publicised. Detective Reese continues to watch the remaining video.

Back to camera one: Rachel is heard crying and everyone is frightened after Steven's death. Moving to one of the empty buildings they calm down, and discuss how to get out of the area.
The video jumps to Rachel and Ben going to the bus for tools with Leann and Tyler looking out. Ben looks for tools to help fix the phone they found earlier and finds a flare gun. They hear a noise outside and Ben gets out and is presumably murdered by the killer, who tries to get to Rachel with his welding tool, but she runs back to the repair shop.

Here she learns from Vicki that Leann and Tyler went looking for her and have not returned. Katrina tells the other women "He's here" and Rachel uses her camera's night vision to look outside. They see a person in a welding mask, who shoots the flare gun at them. hitting Katrina in the stomach. All the women run to a nearby building, where they find Leann, she explains that Tyler was taken and she doesn't know what happened to him. Rachel uses her camera's night vision again and sees the flare gun out in the yard. Vicki decides to make a run for the gun, Leann gives Vicki her ring for luck and Vicki leaves to get the gun. They watch as Vicki goes towards the gun but once there they watch as the killer murders Vicki. Leann and Rachel huddle together after watching Vicki die when they hear someone outside the building and Ben stumbles in. Ben was left to die but was able to make it back to the repair shop with the wires needed to fix the phone.

The frame pauses and the technician tells Detective Reese he was able to find footage on Katrina's phone camera, Detective Burquez comes in with the news that Katrina's husband has been located in a Hollywood hotel and is going to be arrested. We then see what is on Katrina's camera.

Katrina, looking in the camera,  begins talking about how the police will be scrambling over the scene to find out what is happening. She makes a dying request to be with the one she loves, Gerry Fleishman, her husband, and asks to be buried in the plot next to his. She goes over some of her husband's mental and physical disabilities after he came back from war, about celebrities being famous for no reason, and she speaks of God; the camera then stalls and flickers to a new image of the killer, we watch as Katrina's neck is sliced and she is killed while her camera records.

The detectives receive a call from a police officer in Hollywood, who explains to Detective Burquez that Gerald Fleishman has been dead for approximately a week, having shot himself and left only a note telling Katrina to withdraw their savings and go to Las Vegas to enjoy life.
Now without a suspect, they attempt to figure out who the killer might be.
On Katrina's phone footage they read something the killer wrote on a mirror, "Fear me like you fear God," and realize that the crime was planned and staged for them to figure out, and that the murderer had killed before. They begin to focus on Ben, the bus driver, since the trip was non-stop and Ben had mentioned a stop while driving down the gravel road. The detectives begin watching Rachel's video again.

We see Ben, Leann and Rachel move to another building, where Katrina is found dead. They move to a barn where Ben barricades the door, but while the women aren't looking, he disappears. Leann is grabbed and pulled from behind by someone unknown, and the camera goes dark as Rachel hides, turns the night vision on and sees Ben come towards her and fall. Taking the wire from him she attempts to re-connect the phone, but the killer appears with the welding torch. As she escapes from the barn it explodes, knocking her down; the killer catches her and sets her on fire with the cutting torch.

The video freezes, as  no more footage is left from this camera. Finally, Steven's cell phone camera shows the truck stopping.

Steven begins talking to his mom about running away and scanning the scene in front of him, as he turns he sees Leann turn down  Tyler's proposal; as Steven becomes angry and walks out, the video flickers out.

The detectives turn to the technician, who tells them that the memory card in the phone is missing, Detective Reese notices the news on one of the screens and asks for the volume to be raised. The media have gotten the footage from the crime scene and released it to the public. Now they attempt to figure out how the footage was leaked and Burquez is called to her superior's office.
Officer Jenson comes in with the background requested on the bus driver Ben, whose real name is William Gentry. It shows he had been convicted of attempting to rob a bank in the past. Reese has an idea while looking at the case photos and leaves to speak with one of the survivors.
We watch through the interrogation room camera as Detective Reese begins speaking to Leann.

Detective Reese begins to explain to Leann that Tyler is in the hospital and doctors are caring for him. They begin to discuss grief and Reese tells Leann his history with grief, how his daughter had been abducted and later found murdered. He explains that a serial killer kills for attention and sport; they like to play god. He begs Leann to try to remember the events from the crime. Reese begins to ask about Ben and Leann explains what happened just after Rachel, Ben and herself entered the barn to fix the damaged phone. She tells of being grabbed and later coming to and watching Rachel fight the killer, she was able to crawl out of the building before the explosion, and saw Steven choking on something and covered in his blood. Detective Reese realizes that the time line is mixed up, and tells Leann to go home and rest.
At the morgue, Reese asks about the autopsies on the bodies, and specifically about Steven. Steven was still alive before the building exploded and had been dragged to the building to be burned when it exploded. Leann had mentioned him choking on something, and Reese finds the missing memory card lodged in his throat.

The memory cards resolution is degraded but Reese clears the few frames they have and reveals Tyler wearing the welders mask. Detective Burquez releases his identity to the press as the killer.

In the office, Detective Reese continues to watch the video from Rachel's camera, here he notices glitches in the video.
While Burquez is speaking at the conference, the reporters begin receiving messages and Burquez is told of a new development. Reese realizes that the videos have been edited for the police to view, with the edits being released to the media. The video now shows Rachel and Leann carefully planning the massacre and framing Tyler for everything. We watch as both women murder each person and stage fake evidence for what they call their "first movie together". The police realize they have been duped and manipulated. In the last scene both women come on screen and tell the camera and audience "Remember the next time someone's filming you, you could be in the sequel."

Cast
 Torrey DeVitto as LeAnn Hookplat
 Caitlin Stasey as Rachel
 Harry Lennix as Ben
 Svetlana Metkina as Vicki
 Dale Dickey as Katrina Fleishman
 Radha Mitchell as Detective Burquez
 Stephen Moyer as Detective Reese
 Aml Ameen as Officer Jensen
 Nolan Gerard Funk as Tyler Morris
 Albert Kuo as Steven

Reception
The film received negative reviews by critics. It currently holds a 6% approval rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 3.11/10 and 17 counted reviews. Metacritic came to a Metascore of 14/100, with critics expressing "overwhelming dislike", based on eight ratings.

Variety magazine called it an "aggressively terrible horror quickie" and "proof that the found-footage horror cycle has finally reached its low ebb".

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2010s slasher films
American slasher films
2013 films
2013 horror films
2013 crime thriller films
2013 horror thriller films
American crime thriller films
American horror thriller films
Bold Films films
Films produced by Marc E. Platt
Films set in Nevada
Films about buses
Films about mass murder
Found footage films
Films directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


title: 4 Minute Mile

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4 Minute Mile is a 2014 American drama film directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud, written by Jeff Van Wie and Josh Campbell, and starring Kelly Blatz, Richard Jenkins, Cam Gigandet, Lio Tipton, Rhys Coiro, and Kim Basinger. It is distributed by Gravitas Ventures, and the international sales rights are held by Double Dutch International.

The film premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) on June 5, 2014. Gravitas planned for a theatrical release on August 1, 2014.

Plot
The movie begins with a boy asking his younger brother Drew to race his friends for a bet and Drew wins. Later, they arrive home to find police taking their father away.
10 years later, Drew Jacobs is a member of his high school's track team, though finally leaves after altercations with another runner, Eric Whitehall. He has a strained relationship with his brother Wes and lives with his mother Claire too. Wes often asks Drew to run money over and pick drugs up by his local drug dealer, Eli.
An old track coach, Coleman, who also is Drew's neighbor and a loner after his son died in a car accident, observes Drew run to and back from Eli's place, and is impressed with his speed, currently a five-minute mile. He decides to start training Drew, who almost gives up after crazy challenges.
Drew continues running his brother's drug errands, though Eli threatens them both because Wes is too afraid to show his face when he owes Eli money. Drew also begins catching feelings for his friend Lisa, also on the track team, who expresses her sadness in not being able to attend a UC Berkeley art program that she was accepted into due to financial problems. Drew wants to win a track meet and break the four-minute mile and get a scholarship so he can go there too.
After a while of training, Drew discovers that Coleman is training him for the mile whereas he was hoping to run in the 400 meter event. In a deal, Drew races against Eric in the 400, however loses and decides to enter in for the mile. He trains and observes the current state champion, Charles St. James, hoping to beat him in the mile at Regionals. Coleman tells him to focus on running and battling himself rather than St. James, to which Drew agrees to. He finally enters into a relationship with Lisa.
However, in the race, he gets second place and lashes out at Coleman and Lisa.
Problems at home escalate when Eli violently attacks Wes, spilling blood at their home after stabbing him. Their mother finds out about Wes' drug dealing and as their yelling increases, Drew slips out and runs, finally beating and facing the fear that always held him back.
He reconciles with Coleman and Lisa and his training and technique improves.
However, one day, Eli shows up at their home with a gun and Wes confronts him armed as well. Observing from his window, Coleman calls the police but brings a baseball bat with him to stop the fight. Instead, he is accidentally shot by Wes, who is later arrested, but Coleman dies. Broken, Drew is in an unstable state until Coleman's funeral, where he realizes that he should break the four-minute mile for both himself and Coleman. Many friends, family, and teachers gather at the docks to watch Drew run, and the scenes also compare his style with St. James, who is running at the same time at the state meet.
St. James attempts to beat his current record but makes a 4:02 mile while Drew breaks the four-minute mile at a 3:57.
The film ends as St. James runs for UCLA and Drew for UC Berkeley, as they run in an NCAA championship.

Cast
 Kelly Blatz as Drew Jacobs, teen track runner
 Richard Jenkins as Coach James Coleman), Drew's reclusive neighbor
 Kim Basinger as Claire Jacobs, Drew's mother
 Cam Gigandet as Wes Jacobs, Drew's older brother
 Lio Tipton as Lisa, Drew's girlfriend
 Rhys Coiro as Eli as drug dealer

See also
 List of films about the sport of athletics

Notes

References

External links

2014 films
2014 drama films
2010s American films
2010s English-language films
American drama films
Films directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud


title: Lee Featherstone

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Lee Featherstone (born 20 July 1983) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Woolley Moor United.

He previously played in the Football League for Scunthorpe United, as well as appearing at non-league level for Harrogate Town, Alfreton Town and Matlock Town.

References

English men's footballers
English Football League players
1983 births
Living people
Sheffield United F.C. players
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
Harrogate Town A.F.C. players
Alfreton Town F.C. players
Matlock Town F.C. players
Northern Premier League players
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Chesterfield


title: List of people from Annandale, Virginia

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The following is a list of notable individuals who were born in and/or have lived in Annandale, Virginia.

Arts and entertainment
 Pierce Askegren, author
 Myriam Avalos, classical pianist
 Tony Cavalero, actor and comedian
 Mark Hamill, actor
 Rob Huebel, actor and comedian
 Christopher Johnson McCandless, itinerant and subject of author Jon Krakauer's 1996 book, Into the Wild
 Pat McGee, singer-songwriter
 Keith Douglas Pruitt, actor, musician and composer
 Robert Stanton, actor
 Kelly Willis, country singer-songwriter

Business
 Anthony Myint, author and restaurateur

Politics and government
 Jeffrey Bell, author and political consultant
 Fawn Hall,  notable figure in the Iran-Contra affair
 Susan Hutchison, Chair of the Washington State Republican Party, former television news anchor
 August Larson, USMC Major general
Joe Morrissey, Virginia State Senator, former member of the Virginia House of Delegates; former Virginia Commonwealth Attorney
 Robert Sarvis, Libertarian candidate for Governor in the 2013 election
 Cao Van Vien, former Chairman of the South Vietnamese Joint General Staff
 Kevin Whitaker, U.S. Ambassador to Colombia
 Vivian E. Watts, member of the Virginia House of Delegates

Science
 Frank Cepollina, engineer and inventor
 Frances L. Whedon, meteorologist

Sports
 Ray Crittenden, football player
 Chuck Drazenovich, football player
 Mark Duffner, football coach
 Bill Hamid, professional soccer player for D.C. United
 Arthur Jackson, Olympic medalist sport shooter
 Michael Lahoud, professional soccer player for Chivas USA
 Tommy Steenberg, figure skater
 Carl Strong, soccer player
 Don Whitmire, football player

References

Annandale, Virginia
Annandale
Annandale, Virginia


title: Abdirisaq Khalif Elmi

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General Abdirizak Khalif Elmi (, ) is a Somali military commander. He is the Deputy Chief of the Somali National Army, having been appointed to the position on 13 March 2013 in place of Abdikarin Yusuf Dhega Badan. General Dahir Adan Elmi was concurrently named as the new Chief of Army. Khalif's term as Deputy Chief of Army ended on 26 September 2015, when he and Elmi were transferred by presidential decree to other positions. The shuffle was part of a larger major national security reform. Khalif was succeeded as Deputy Chief of Army by General Abdullahi Osman Agey, with General Abdullahi Anod concurrently appointed as the new Chief of Army.

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Somalian military leaders
Living people
Somalian generals
Year of birth missing (living people)
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title: George McNeil (artist)

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George McNeil  (February 22, 1908 – January 11, 1995) was an American abstract expressionist painter.

Biography
George J. McNeil was born in Queens, New York, on February 22, 1908, the youngest child of an Irish Catholic working-class family. He attended Brooklyn Tech High School and the Pratt Institute, which he left before gaining his degree. He then copied works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and attended classes at the Art Students League, where he studied with Jan Matulka in 1931–32. From 1932 to 1936 he studied with Hans Hofmann, becoming Hofmann's monitor (assistant) and teaching a class in collage. In 1936 he became one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists group and from 1935 worked in the Mural and Easel section of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project.  In 1936 he married fellow Hofmann student Dora Tamler, with whom he had two children, Helen and James. During the late 1930s he traveled to Mexico and in 1940–41 he visited Cuba. During World War II he served in the US Navy from 1943 to 1946. He also gained an Ed.D from Columbia University. From the late 1940s he was deeply involved with the abstract expressionist movement, also known as the New York School of painting. Apart from 1946–48, when he lived and taught in Laramie, Wyoming, and 1956–57 when he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, George McNeil lived from the late 1940s until his death in Brooklyn. From 1948 to 1962 he spent his summers in the art colony of Provincetown, MA. He died in New York on January 11, 1995.

Paintings
From the Cubist-influenced compositions of his earlier Hofmann student years, McNeil moved to full abstraction by 1936. His early 1950s paintings were "both abstract and expressionist" with an active surface " very moving, full of feeling, emotional" displaying the "painterly touch"  that was identified with the artists exhibiting at the Charles Egan Gallery. His paintings remained fully abstract until the early 1960s when figures and faces began to appear in the abstract field, particularly in the "Dancer" and "Bather" series. McNeil commented to art historian Irving Sandler in 1968:

From 1980, dynamic situations such as discos, New York City, football, street life or graffiti activate his paintings. His work is characterized by profound attention to color and complex abstract volumes. In the 1980s his work enjoyed a renaissance of attention and influence.
From 1970 to 1991 McNeil made lithographs that he printed on his own press or at the Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM, where he was invited four times in the 1980s.

Participation and affiliations
When George McNeil was a student with Hans Hofmann, he was friends with fellow students Giorgio Cavallon, Ray "Buddha" Kayser (Eames), Perle Fine, William Freed, Lee Krasner, Mercedes Matter, John Opper and Lillian Orlowsky, sharing a studio with Krasner and her then partner Igor Pantuhoff; through Krasner he met Jackson Pollock. He was also friendly with Willem de Kooning, and Esteban Vicente. After serving as Hans Hofmann's monitor and translator (as Krasner recalled, "I really got George's version of what he thought Hofmann had said to me,") McNeil broke with Hofmann over the question of the validity of full abstraction and identified with the American Abstract Artists such as Rosalind Bengelsdorf, Giorgio Cavallon, Ibram Lassaw and others, exhibiting with them from 1936. His work for the Mural Section of the WPA was supervised by Burgoyne Diller and he was active in the Artists Union. At the New York World's Fair in 1939 he was one of five abstract artists who exhibited; Stuart Davis appointed him an alternate juror for  the Committee of Selection.

During the 1950s George McNeil was associated with the other artists who exhibited at the Egan Gallery such as Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Franz Kline and Jack Tworkov, with Kline a close friend.

From 1950 he was a member of The Club, the contemporary artists' club at 39 East 8th Street, NY, founded in 1948. He exhibited in the first Ninth Street Show (9th Street Exhibition) in 1951 chosen by fellow artists and exhibited in five of the subsequent New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals at the Stable Gallery through 1956. His work appeared regularly in the Whitney Museum Exhibition (Whitney Annual) from the early 1950s to the mid-1960s.
From the late 1950s, together with Charles Cajori, Mercedes Matter and Sidney Geist, he took part in the life drawing sessions which gave rise to the New York Studio School.
From the early 1960s " his transition to Figurative Expressionism ... made him an obvious precursor for the Neo-Expressionist movement of the 1980s." His highly successful exhibits at the Gruenebaum Gallery, 1981–87, brought his work together with that of many of his fellow gestural abstractionists and friends such as Janice Biala, James Brooks, Giorgio Cavallon, Elaine de Kooning, Sonia Gechtoff and Grace Hartigan.

In 1968 McNeil was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982, he was elected a member of the American Institute of Arts and Letters in 1989.

Teaching
From 1946 to 1948 McNeil taught at the University of Wyoming. In 1948 he became Director of the Evening Art School at the Pratt Institute, where he hired several of his fellow New York School artists such as Philip Guston, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Reuben Nakian, Milton Resnick, Jack Tworkov and others. He taught undergraduate art history  and then painting in the M.F.A. program to 1981, and taught at the New York Studio School 1966–81. His teaching influenced generations of young artists including Robert Wilson, Thomas Nozkowski and Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship. He also taught at Skowhegan and the Vermont Studio School.

References

External links
 images of McNeil's work from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
 The George McNeil Charitable Trust
 Art and Antiques Magazine, June 2014
 George McNeil at ACME Fine Art
 George McNeil at Miles McEnery Gallery

1908 births
1995 deaths
Painters from New York (state)
20th-century American painters
American male painters
Abstract expressionist artists
Federal Art Project artists
Pratt Institute alumni
20th-century American male artists


title: Va Por Ellos

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Va Por Ellos is a studio album released by the Spanish singer Bertín Osborne in 2008. The disc was recorded at SonicProjects studio in Miami, Florida.

The album has cover versions of songs made famous by Pepe Aguilar, Ricardo Montaner and Vicente Fernandez, among others. A ranchera album, Osborne is accompanied by members of the U.S.-based troupe Mariachi Mexico Internacional Si Señor on the disc. This is Osborne's third ranchera-styled disc, following Sabor A México in 2000 and Mis Recuerdos in 2002, both Top 10 albums in Spain. "I grew up listening to mariachi and ranchera music, listening to Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete," Osborne told ABC (newspaper) in Madrid during promotion of Va Por Ellos. "I'm very tied to Mexico. It's like my second home."

The disc was sold exclusively through El Corte Inglés locations in Spain. All proceeds from sales were donated to Fundación Padre Garralda. "The benefits are directed toward a foundation that helps children who have not had as easy as I or my children," Osborne told Escaparate de Sevilla  magazine. "Music for me now is a hobby, not a profession, and I intend to approach it in this manner." The following year, Osborne and his wife, Fabiola Martínez Benavides, formed their own humanitarian organization, Fundación Bertín Osborne, which aids children with brain injuries.

Track listing
"Por Mujeres Como Tú" (Pepe Aguilar) - 3:30
"Sólo Con Un Beso" (Fernando Osorio) - 3:19
"América, América" (Pablo Herrero, José Luis Armenteros)- 3:21
"Chaparrita Consentida" (Pepe Aguilar) - 2:27
"México Lindo" (Jesús Monge Ramírez) - 3:13
"Volver, Volver" (Fernando Z. Maldonado) - 3:46
"Un Mundo Raro" (José Alfredo Jiménez) - 3:25
"Dos Cruces" (Carmelo Larrea) - 3:09
"No Me Amenaces" (José Alfredo Jiménez) - 2:22
"No Volveré" (Manuel Esperón, Ernesto Cortazar)- 3:29

References

2008 albums
Ranchera albums
Spanish-language albums


title: Matilda of Amboise

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Matilda of Amboise (Mahaut, Mathilde d'Amboise; c. 1200 ‒ 12 May 1256) was the Countess of Chartres 1248-1256. She was the daughter of Sulpice III of Amboise and Isabella of Blois.

She married Richard II, Vicomte de Beaumont, but it seems they were childless. Richard died on 17 September 1242. In 1232 Matilda and Richard gave land to the nuns of Lieu. Matilda later married Jean II de Nesle. She was also childless with him.

On Matilda’s death, her cousin John I, Count of Blois reunited Chartres with Blois.

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1200s births
1256 deaths
13th-century French women
13th-century French nobility
13th-century women rulers


title: Kentucky Route 74

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Kentucky Route 74 (KY 74) is a 16.753-mile state highway in Bell County, Kentucky that runs from Tennessee State Route 90 at the Kentucky-Tennessee border in the town of Pruden to U.S. Route 25E in Middlesboro.

Major intersections

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0074
Transportation in Bell County, Kentucky


title: Wilson Therapeutics

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Wilson Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company, based in Stockholm, Sweden, that develops novel therapies for rare diseases. The company is listed in the Mid-Cap segment on Nasdaq Stockholm with the stock ticker WTX.

Wilson Therapeutics' lead product, Decuprate, is the proprietary bis-choline salt of tetrathiomolybdate. Decuprate is initially being developed as a novel treatment for Wilson's disease, a rare genetic disease that affects approximately 1 in 30,000, causing copper overload in the liver, brain and other tissues and resulting in organ damage and dysfunction. Decuprate has been granted orphan drug designation for the treatment of Wilson's disease in both Europe and the United States. Wilson Therapeutics presented during the 10th Kempen & Co Life Sciences Conference 2017 and showed the world the result with the drug Decuprate. The company also presented during the international investmentconference Bioequity Europe in Paris, France, on May 23, 2017, and showed some promising result.

Clinical trials
As of 2016, tetrathiomolybdate had been tested in over 500 patients for up to seven years, primarily in oncology and Wilson's disease, as well as some other clinical pathologies.

History
Wilson Therapeutics was founded in 2012 by HealthCap, one of the leading European life science venture capital funds. In 2014, Wilson Therapeutics closed a $40 million Series B financing co-led by new investors, Abingworth LLP, MVM Life Science Partners LLP and NeoMed Management AS. HealthCap also participated in the round. On April 29, 2016, Wilson Therapeutics announced its initial public offering on Nasdaq Stockholm and had its first day of trading on May 12, 2016.

References

Pharmaceutical companies of Sweden
Orphan drug companies
2018 mergers and acquisitions
Pharmaceutical companies established in 2012
Swedish companies established in 2012
Companies based in Stockholm


title: 2014 European Darts Grand Prix

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The 2014 European Darts Grand Prix was the seventh of eight PDC European Tour events on the 2014 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at the Glaspalast in Sindelfingen, Germany, between 5–7 September 2014. It featured a field of 48 players and £100,000 in prize money, with £20,000 going to the winner.

Mervyn King won his first European Tour event by beating Michael Smith 6–5 in the final.

Prize money

Qualification and format
The top 16 players from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit  on 30 June 2014 automatically qualified for the event. The remaining 32 places went to players from three qualifying events - 20 from the UK Qualifier (held in Coventry on 4 July), eight from the European Qualifier and four from the Host Nation Qualifier (both held at the venue the day before the event started). All seeds receive a bye into the second round.

The following players took part in the tournament:

Top 16
  Gary Anderson (third round)
  Brendan Dolan (second round)
  Robert Thornton (quarter-finals)
  Dave Chisnall (quarter-finals)
  Peter Wright (second round)
  Ian White (second round)
  Kim Huybrechts (third round)
  Steve Beaton (third round)
  Adrian Lewis (quarter-finals)
  Simon Whitlock (semi-finals)
  Mervyn King (winner)
  Vincent van der Voort (third round)
  Justin Pipe (second round)
  Jamie Caven (third round)
  Terry Jenkins (quarter-finals)
  Michael Smith (runner-up)

UK Qualifier
  Kyle Anderson (second round)
  Chris Aubrey (first round)
  Stephen Bunting (semi-finals)
  Matt Clark (second round)
  Joe Cullen (second round)
  Kevin Dowling (first round)
  Ricky Evans (second round)
  Andrew Gilding (second round)
  Wayne Jones (first round)
  Johnny Haines (first round)
  Andy Hamilton (second round)
  John Henderson (first round)
  Steve Hine (second round)
  James Hubbard (first round)
  Jason Lovett (first round)
  Kevin McDine (second round)
  Shaun Narain (second round)
  Kevin Painter (first round)
  James Wade (third round)
  Darren Webster (third round)

European Qualifier
  Benito van de Pas (first round)
  Rowby-John Rodriguez (third round)
  Ryan de Vreede (second round)
  Robert Marijanović (first round)
  Mensur Suljović (first round)
  Jelle Klaasen (first round)
  Ron Meulenkamp (first round)
  Mike De Decker (first round)

Host Nation Qualifier
  Michael Rosenauer (second round)
  Max Hopp (second round)
  Jyhan Artut (first round)
  Sascha Goldammer (first round)

Draw

References

2014 PDC European Tour
2014 in German sport