title: Fishtail Air

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Fishtail Air Pvt. Ltd., from 2018 to 2020 known as Summit Helicopters Pvt. Ltd., is a helicopter airline based at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, operating chartered helicopter services. The company was established in 1997 under the Air Operators Certificate issued by the Government of Nepal. The company operates domestic chartered helicopter flights throughout Nepal and rescue missions. It also carries out  and also international chartered flights to Bhutan and India.

History
The Airline was founded under the name Fishtail Air in 1997 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The airline often made headlines in local press after performing unusual yet successful rescue missions in the Himalayas.

Due to the Nepalese Civil War, Fishtail Air did not operate between 2003 and 2007.

In 2010, Fishtail Air was part of a documentary by Swiss Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, titled The mountain rescuers in the Himalayas wherein the Swiss Airline Air Zermatt and Fishtail Air were establishing a mountaineering rescue station in Lukla. At the same time, mountaineer Simone Moro started working as a pilot for Fishtail Air.

In 2014, Fishtail Air signed a deal with Goma Air with the aim of enhancing Nepal's tourism. Both Airlines were at the time led by Bikash JB Rana, for which a collaboration was eased. Following Goma Air's name change to Summit Air, in 2018, Fishtail Air changed its name to Summit Helicopters to visualize the cooperation on 11 June 2018. On 15 January 2020, the original name Fishtail Air was restored.

Seasonally, Fishtail Air operates one helicopter from Simikot Airport, for which the airport serves as a seasonal hub of the airline. From Simikot, Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar are served.

Fleet
The Fishtail Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2018):

Accidents and incidents
 12 November 2001 – A Eurocopter AS 350 of Fishtail Air crashed into Rara Lake carrying Princess Prekshya of Nepal. She and two other passengers as well as the pilot died in the crash.
 7 November 2010 – A Eurocopter AS 350 of Fishtail Air crashed when it was on a rescue mission on the North ridge of Mount Ama Dablam at an elevation of 6,350 meters. A five-member investigation team was formed on 9 November 2010 and its started its investigation one day later. The final report stated that the main cause of the accident was the inability of pilots to notice and arrest the lateral drift of the chopper to its left due to lack of ground reference until the main rotors came into contact. The accident was covered by the Swiss documentary The mountain rescuers in the Himalayas.
 19 June 2013 – A Eurocopter AS 350 of Fishtail Air crashed in Humla district en route from Simikot to Hilsa killing one person on board.
 8 August 2016 – A Eurocopter AS 350 of Fishtail Air crashed in Nuwakot district en route from Gorkha to Kathmandu killing all 7 people on board. The final report blamed  pilot stress as the cause of the crash.

References

External links

Airlines of Nepal
Helicopter airlines
Airlines established in 1997
1997 establishments in Nepal


title: Hayward–Hill House

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The Hayward–Hill House is a historic house located at 540 S. Main St. in Hillsboro, Illinois. The house was built circa 1850 for John Shaw Hayward, a local businessman and land speculator who founded the Hillsboro Academy. The two-story, "L"-shaped house has an Italianate design. A verandah, which is topped by a porch with a balustrade, runs along the front of the house. The low hip roof features a cornice with paired brackets along its edge. Cast iron lintels cover the house's tall, narrow arched windows. In 1904, prominent local attorney and financier L. V. Hill purchased the house, which his family owned until 1967.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1980.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Italianate architecture in Illinois
Houses completed in 1850
Houses in Montgomery County, Illinois
National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Illinois


title: Cœurs Vaillants

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Cœurs Vaillants (Brave Hearts), known later as J2 Jeunes and Formule 1, was a Catholic French language weekly newspaper for French children. Founded in 1929 by l'Union des œuvres catholiques de France (The Union of Catholic Works of France; UOCF), the weekly newspaper targeted readers aged 11 to 14 to become part of l'Action catholique des enfants (The Catholic Action for Children; ACE). The newspaper is notable for introducing The Adventures of Tintin to France, as well as Sylvain et Sylvette, the comics of Marijac, and of Cabu.

History
Cœurs Vaillants was founded December 8, 1929 by the conservative Catholic organization l'Union des œuvres catholiques de France (The Union of Catholic Works of France; UOCF). The founders were Father Gabriel Bard of the Catholic Union of France, Pierre Rougemont (pseudonym of Father Henri Guesdon), and Gaston Courtois, a priest attached to the religious congregation Fils de la charité (Son of Charity). Later in 1935, the team was strengthened by the arrival of Father Jean Pihan, ex-John Vaillant, 1912–1996, also of Son of Charity. Cœurs Vaillants was a weekly newspaper, targeting readers aged 11 to 14 to become a movement of the church, l'Action catholique des enfants (The Catholic Action for Children; ACE), an organization which continues to this day.

The following year, in 1930, The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Hergé, began print syndication with Cœurs Vaillants. At first, the editors of Cœurs Vaillants were puzzled by the lack of caption text below Hergé's comic panels (as was the norm for comics of the day) and added their own text below each panel. Hergé objected, and even enrolled in an organization that protected author's rights. Cœurs Vaillants relented and published further Tintin strips without the captions. The newspaper continued to be the source of The Adventures of Tintin in France for the next seventeen years.

Cœurs Vaillants began publishing the French cartoonist Marijac in 1931 with his first comic strip Jim Boum, chevalier du Far West (Jim Boum, cowboy of the Far West). Cœurs Vaillants was also the first venue for the cartoonist Cabu who won a competition at age 12 and saw his first published drawing appear in the newspaper.

By 1936, Hergé created a new comic series at the request of Abbot Courtois, the editor of Cœurs Vaillants, who expressed the desire to see a series about real children with a real family (as opposed to Tintin's ambiguous age and family). The result was Jo, Zette and Jocko.

The owners of Cœurs Vaillants created a sister publication in 1938; Âmes vaillantes (Valiant Souls), for girls. From 1940 to 1942, Cœurs Vaillants was prohibited in the Zone occupée (Occupied Zone); it was replaced by the small periodical Belles Histoires de Vaillance (Beautiful Stories of Valor).

The French comics series Sylvain et Sylvette was created by Maurice Cuvillier in 1941 and appeared first on the pages of Cœurs Vaillants. Later it was published in a different French magazine, Fripounet et Marisette.

In 1963, now published by Éditions Fleurus, Cœurs Vaillants took the more contemporary name J2 Jeunes (J2 Youth). The "J" referred to "Jeudi" (Thursday), the day of publication, which is the day French children did not attend school. In 1971, the magazine was renamed Formula 1. In 1981, Formula 1 ceased publication.

The Adventures of Tintin published in Cœurs Vaillants
 Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
 Tintin in the Congo
 Tintin in America
 Cigars of the Pharaoh
 The Blue Lotus
 The Broken Ear
 The Black Island
 King Ottokar's Sceptre
 Land of Black Gold
 The Crab with the Golden Claws
 The Shooting Star
 The Secret of the Unicorn
 The Seven Crystal Balls

See also
 Le Vingtième Siècle

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

External links
 La mémoire de Cœurs vaillants, J2 Jeunes et Formule 1 (In memory of Brave Hearts, J2 Junior and Formula 1)
 Official site of the l'Action catholique des enfants (Catholic Action of Children)
 Coeurs Vaillants – Brave Hearts: French Youth Movement "Bons" or Goodfors, by Tony James

1929 establishments in France
1981 disestablishments in France
Defunct newspapers published in France
Defunct weekly newspapers
Bandes dessinées
Newspapers published in Paris
Newspapers established in 1929
Publications disestablished in 1981
Catholic newspapers
Tintin
Weekly newspapers published in France
Catholicism in France


title: Victor Gollancz Prize

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The Victor Gollancz Prize is an international human rights prize awarded by the Society for Threatened Peoples. It is named for British humanitarian Sir Victor Gollancz.

The prize is awarded in Göttingen.

Laureates

2000: The society Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa, Bosnia-Hercegovina, for their work to identify the victims of the Srebrenica Genocide
2001: Zainap Gaschajewa and Lipkan Basajewa, Chechnya, for their humanitarian work and documenting of crimes in Chechnya
2003: The Society of Former Female Bosnian Concentration Camp Prisoners, Bosnia-Hercegovina, for their humanitarian work for the survivors of the Serb concentration camps and organized war rape campaigns, and the Widows of Barzan-Tal, Iraq, for their work for the families of the victims of the Barzan-Tal massacre
2004: Libkan Basaeva, Chechnya
2005: Sergei Kovalev, Russia, for his documenting of Russian crimes in Chechnya and his work within the Memorial organization, and Mustafa Dzhemilev, for his work for the Crimean Tatars
2008: Halima Bashir, West Sudan/Darfur, for her work for the people of Darfur, and Jovan Divjak, for humanitarian work for children in Sarajevo
2009: Memorial, Russia
2014: Bernard Kouchner, former French foreign minister and co-founder of Doctors without Borders, in recognition of his "lifelong, unwavering commitment to fight crimes against humanity"

References

Peace awards
Human rights awards


title: F. Scott Hess

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F. Scott Hess (born July 12, 1955) is an American painter and conceptual artist. He has described himself as a "reluctant realist" whose work is nevertheless grounded in Old Master craft and the representation of observed detail.  Art critic Donald Kuspit suggests, "Hess uses profane realism to represent the sacred moments of life, for he knows we live in a profane world with little or no sense of the sacred, let alone of the sacredness of art".

Early life and education
F. Scott Hess was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1955, but grew up in Florida and Wisconsin.
When Hess' parents divorced he was seven years old, and he reacted by making drawings of bound nude women, with Hess not realizing until much later that he was magically binding 'the woman,' his mother, so that she would not leave as his father had.
Hess focused on printmaking and drawing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Art in 1977. Feeling a kinship with the psychological depth and technical skills exhibited by middle-European artists, Hess moved to Austria in 1978, and attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as a student in the Meisterschule of Rudolf Hausner.

Career
F. Scott Hess's first solo exhibition was at Galerie Herzog in Vienna, Austria in 1979, followed shortly thereafter by group exhibitions in Germany, France, and a second solo exhibition in Vienna's Tabak Museum in 1982. While in Vienna Hess was awarded Austria's prestigious Theodor Körner Prize in 1981. In 1984 he moved to Los Angeles. Hess received a Western States Art Federation Award in 1990 as well as a J. Paul Getty Museum Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship in 1991. Some of Hess's works have been purchased by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Oakland Museum of California, the Smithsonian Institution, Long Beach Museum of Art, and the Bahman Cultural House, Tehran, Iran, among others as part of their permanent collections. In 2014 Hess had a comprehensive retrospective curated by Mike McGee and split between the Begovich Gallery at California State University-Fullerton, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. A full monograph encompassing the works in the retrospective, and entitled 'F. Scott Hess' was published in 2014 by Grand Central Press and Gingko Press, with essays by Mike McGee, Doug Harvey, Leah Ollman, and John Seed.
Hess was represented by Ovsey Gallery in Los Angeles (1985-1994), Hackett-Freedman Gallery in San Francisco (1998-2009), Hirschl & Adler Modern in New York (2010-2013), and has been represented by Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Culver City since 2010. Hess is currently an Associate Professor with the Laguna College of Art and Design's BFA and MFA programs.

The Bastards
The Bastards were a collaborative artists' group including F Scott Hess, John Frame, Steve Galloway, Peter Zokosky, Michael C. McMillen, and Jon Swihart. Swihart remembers the origins of The Bastards: "The Bastards grew out of this drawing group we have where we get together and draw from the model. We'd hang out afterwards and drink beer and talk. Naturally, we started collaborating on pieces, at first just joking around, but as they became pretty good, we decided to formalize The Bastards. The name refers to the pieces not having any clear parentage. That's also how a lot of people probably consider us". The Bastards exhibited at Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, CA, in 1997, and Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA, in 1999.

The Hours of the Day
F. Scott Hess worked on The Hours of the Day for six years, from 1994 to 2000, styling it roughly on the medieval Book of Hours, and injecting content from art history, the Bible, and daily family interactions into twenty-four paintings, one for each hour in Hess' mythical day. The Hours of the Day series was exhibited at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, in October 2001.

The Paternal Suit: Heirlooms from the F. Scott Hess Family Foundation
The objects in The Paternal Suit tell the true story of Hess' ancestry in America as seen through the eyes of four centuries of artists and craftsmen, all of whom may or may not have existed. The collection holds more than one hundred objects, including paintings, old photographs, ceramics, historical documents, weapons, sculpture, and antique artifacts, all appearing as authentic items from their specified time period. Hess lays no claim to the creation of the artifacts in The Paternal Suit, but acts instead as the collecting Director of his own Family Foundation, dedicated to assembling a visual historical narrative of Hess' paternal line that includes United States Senator Alfred Iverson Sr., and his son, Brigadier General Alfred Iverson Jr., C.S.A. According to The New York Times , "Mr. Hess came up with his own absurdist art — for example, an oversize Confederate uniform that he said had expanded after exposure to manure fumes — to combine with real evidence of events that include his ancestors' doomed attempts to market newly patented ice makers and chalkboards. "The facts are as dumb as stuff I made up," he said". The Paternal Suit opened at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC (2012), traveled to the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL (2013), Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC (2014) and the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (2014).

References

External links

"F. Scott Hess, Vimeo, 72min, Talk at New York Academy of Art, 2014"

1955 births
Living people
Artists from Baltimore
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
American realist painters
American conceptual artists
21st-century American painters
21st-century American male artists
20th-century American painters
American male painters
American contemporary painters
20th-century American male artists


title: Lukiiko

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The Lukiiko (sometimes Great Lukiiko) is the Parliament of the Kingdom of Buganda. It was, according to tradition, established by Kato Kintu, the first Kabaka of Buganda, after defeating the rival prince Bbemba, when he called a general meeting of influential people at Magongo. It took its present form as a result of the Buganda Agreement of 1900 and subsequent agreements.

The Lukiiko is today convened at the Bulange. The membership consists of directly-elected members from Buganda counties, Buganda county chiefs, members appointed by the Kabaka, and Buganda cabinet ministers. The current speaker is Nelson Kawalya, and the deputy speaker is Ahmed Lwasa. The Lukiiko is charged with legislating by-laws of the kingdom, but is not allowed by the state government to legislate political matters.

External links
 Website

Buganda
Politics of Uganda
Legislatures of country subdivisions


title: Centre for Techno Economic Policy Options

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The Centre for Techno Economic Mineral Policy Options is an Agency of the Ministry of Mines Government of India.

Background
In 1988, the Ministry of Mines convened a Technical Planning and Policy Committee (TPPC) to administer the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act (1957). The first Indian National Mineral Policy (1993) sought to incentivize private sector investment in mining and exploration.

In 1994, a government committee, the Wadhawan committee, consulted relevant stakeholders, including offices of statistics and non-government organisations and suggested the TPPC be replaced by an autonomous registered association which could give the stakeholders appropriate non-binding advice. Instead, the Government of India convened a committee, the Hoda committee, to consider the matter further.

In 2006, based on the recommendations of the Hoda committee, the Government of India announced the National Mineral Policy (2008). This policy was to give incentives to encourage the private sector in exploration and mining. Low grade ores would be used through beatification and mining operations would be conducted within a sustainable development framework.

In 2009, the TPPC was replaced by the Centre for Techno-Economic Mineral Policy Options was created. The remit for the centre was based on the "100-day Agenda" of the Ministry of Mines of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA-II) government.

Organisational arrangements
C-TEMPO is funded by a corpus created by a one-time grant by the PSUs. Accordingly, NALCO with the approval of its board of directors, gave a corpus grant of 40,000,000 rupees to C-TEMPO. The balance amount from the corpus has since been returned and fully accounted for.

C-TEMPO, for management purposes, has a General Body and a Governing Council, both headed by the  Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Mines in his ex-officio capacity. Other members are the Director-General of the Geological Survey of India, the Controller-General of the Indian Bureau of Mines, and the CMDs of NALCO, HCL and MECL, all in their ex-officio capacity. In addition, a few professionals were inducted.

Achievements
C-TEMPO has focused on three or four major areas, in accordance with its mandate:
	utilization of low grade ores
	exploration, particularly of the deeper subsurface using advanced technologies such as aerial geophysics
	resource security, for elements and minerals in short supply or of critical nature or of strategic interest

C-TEMPO has published:
	A guide to investment in India's mineral industry
	Study on pelletization of iron ore fines in India and utilization of low-grade iron ore and fines.
	Position Paper on “Development of Iron Ore Pelletisation Industry in India‟
	Study on exploration techniques and technology for location and development of deep-seated metals in India
	Position paper on Location and Development of Deep Seated Metalliferous Deposits in India brought out in January 2011.
	Study on Iron-Ore Pelletization. Vol-II
	Study titled: “Relevance of Iron-ore Pelletization industry in India - A Perspective”
	Position Paper on Rare Earth Metals.
	“An Overview of Rare Earth Elements”
	FAQs on The Mines & Minerals Development & Regulation Bill, 2011.
	Status and strategy for exploration and development of Nickel and Platinum Group Elements resources in India
	Strategy paper on “Rare Earths and Energy Critical Elements: A Roadmap and Strategy for India” brought out in July 2012 by C-TEMPO and C-STEP.
	Revision of Aluminum Mission Plan 2010–2020.

Focus areas for the future
C-TEMPO's plans for the future:
	Technical papers on low grade ores and pelletization of iron ore fines,
	Scientific papers on rare earths, technology metals and Energy Critical Metals
	Policy papers on incentivizing deep exploration, attracting investments, and improving the regulatory and governance framework around the Indian Mining Sector
	Strategy papers for Sustainable Development, including issues arising from the Supreme Court guidelines on "carrying capacity" and "mining caps to ensure inter-generational equity"

References

Mining in India


title: Serbia at the FIFA World Cup

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This is a record of Serbia's results at the FIFA World Cup, including as their predecessor teams Yugoslavia (1920-1992) and Serbia and Montenegro (1996-2006; the country was renamed from "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" in 2003). FIFA recognises Serbia as the official successor of the Yugoslav teams, and thus inherits all the records of Yugoslavia.

Including their predecessors' records, Serbia have qualified for 13 FIFA World Cup finals tournaments, last failing to do so in 2014.

FIFA World Cup record

By match

Record players

Top goalscorers

Dražan Jerković's four goals at the 1962 FIFA World Cup were enough to secure him the shared Golden Boot Award and make him the top scorer at World Cups for the SFR Yugoslavia and its successor associations.

Squads

See also
Serbia at the UEFA European Championship

Notes

References

Serbia


title: Lewis H. Thomas House

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The Lewis H. Thomas House is a historic house located on North Virden Road near Virden, Illinois. The house was built in 1863-65 for agriculturalist Lewis H. Thomas and formed the centerpiece of his farm. Architect Elijah E. Myers, who also designed three state capitol buildings, planned the Victorian house. Thomas extensively used hedge fencing with bois d'arc on his farm and is considered a pioneer of the technique in Illinois. In addition, his farm was known for its livestock and became a local tourist attraction due to its unusual animals, which included peacocks, bears, and deer. After its roof was lost to a fire, the house was renovated in 1888.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 7, 1983.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Victorian architecture in Illinois
Houses completed in 1865
Houses in Montgomery County, Illinois
National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Illinois


The 2014–15 Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team represented the University of Northern Iowa during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Panthers, led by ninth year head coach Ben Jacobson, played their home games at McLeod Center and were members of the Missouri Valley Conference (The Valley). They finished the season 31–4, 16–2 in MVC play to finish in second place. They defeated Bradley, Loyola–Chicago, and Illinois State to become champions of the Missouri Valley tournament. They received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament where they defeated Wyoming in the second round before losing in the third round to Louisville.

Previous season
The Panthers finished the season 16–15, 10–8 in MVC play to finish in third place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament to Southern Illinois.

Departures

Incoming Transfers

Recruiting

Class of 2015 recruits

Roster

Schedule

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!colspan=9 style="background:#660099; color:#FFD700;"| Missouri Valley tournament

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!colspan=9 style="background:#660099; color:#FFD700;"| NCAA tournament

Rankings

References

Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball seasons
Northern Iowa
Northern Iowa
Panth
Panth


title: Bala Ganapati

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Bala Ganapati (, , literally "child Ganapati") is an aspect of the Hindu god Ganesha (Ganapati), the elephant-headed of wisdom and fortune, depicted as a child.

There are few portrayals of Ganesha as a small boy caressed by his parents, Parvati and Shiva. An infant Ganesha is also depicted held in his mother Parvati's lap or over her shoulder.

Independent portrayals of Bala Ganapati depict as seated or crawling. A bronze from South India shows Ganesha as an infant crawling on his knees. He has four arms. While two of them hold sweet balls, his trunk holds his favourite sweet, the modaka and curves towards his open mouth, indicating that he is about to eat the sweet.

Bala Ganapati is also the first of the thirty-two forms of Ganesha listed in the Sritattvanidhi. He has an elephant head and is depicted like a child. Sometimes, he is described to have a childlike facial expression, and not as a child. He wears a garland of fresh flowers. He has four arms and holds a mango, a branch of the mango tree, a sugarcane rod and a sweet-cake. Another description states that he carries a mango, a banana, a jackfruit and a sugarcane stalk. These objects signify the "abundance and fertility' of the earth. The jackfruit may be replaced with a bunch of flowers. In his trunk, he holds a modaka or a wood apple. He is described to be red-complexioned like rays of the rising sun (balasurya.b, child Sun). In other accounts, he is said to be golden in colour.

The child god represents the future opportunities of growth. He is prescribed to be worshipped by children to gain good manners. He is also said to grant a child's joy and good health to his devotee. There are also some shrines in South India dedicated to Ganesha as a two-armed small boy, where he is known as Pillaiyar ("little child").

Notes

References

Forms of Ganesha


title: 2015 Canada Winter Games

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The 2015 Canada Winter Games, officially known as the XXV Canada Games, is a Canadian multi-sport event that was held from February 12 to March 1, 2015, in Prince George, British Columbia.

Sports

Alpine skiing
Archery
Badminton
Biathlon
Cross-country skiing
Curling
Figure skating
Freestyle skiing
Gymnastics
 Artistic gymnastics (14)
 Trampoline (2)
Ice hockey
 Men's tournament
Judo
Ringette
Shooting
Short track speed skating
Speed skating
Snowboarding
Squash
Synchronized swimming
Table tennis
Wheelchair Basketball

Medal table
The following is the medal table for the 2015 Canada Winter Games.
Key

Calendar
The schedule of events was as follows:

References

External links

Canada Games Medal Tally

2015
2015
Canada Winter Games
Canada Winter Games
Sport in Prince George, British Columbia
Canada Winter Games
Winter Games
Winter Games


title: Rolph van der Hoeven

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Rolph Eric van der Hoeven  (born 23 June 1948) is emeritus professor on employment and development economics at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and was appointed in 2009 as a member of the Committee on Development Cooperation of the International Advisory Council (AIV) to the Dutch Government. Dr. van der Hoeven is a member of the Board of Trustees of the KNCV Tuberculosis Fund.

Education
Dr. van der Hoeven read econometrics at the University of Amsterdam where in 1969 he earned himself a BSc and followed it up with a MSc (Drs.) in 1974. He was awarded a PhD in development economics in 1987 when he defended his thesis Planning for Basic Needs in Kenya: A Basic Needs Simulation Model at the Free University of Amsterdam.

Career
Dr. van der Hoeven has worked for over 30 years in various places in the world for UNICEF and International Labour Organization (ILO), where he was most recently manager of the Technical Secretariat of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, established by the International Labour Organization in Geneva. Having previously held positions in the Employment Strategy Department of the ILO and with UNICEF in New York, he is widely published on employment, poverty, inequality, and economic reform issues.

At the beginning of his career, he worked in Zambia and Ethiopia, highlighted the necessity for developing countries to emphasize the satisfaction of Basic Needs as a prime goal in Development Planning, and advised various countries (Zambia, Swasiland, Tanzania, Niger, Sierra Leone) on how to implement the Basic Needs approach.

In the 1980s following the introduction of structural adjustment programs by the World bank and the IMF, Dr. van der Hoeven researched and advocated that employment and other social concerns should be taken into account in structural adjustment programs. He played a key role in the high-level meeting on structural adjustment and employment of the ILO in 1987 and joined in 1988 the team in UNICEF, under the leadership of Sir Richard Jolly that worked on Adjustment with a Human Face.

In the early 1990s he returned to the ILO to manage the Interdepartmental Project on Structural Adjustment in the ILO.

Since 2000 he warns of the globalization effects on income inequality and employment, and became in 2002 the manager of the technical secretariat of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization.

Dr. van der Hoeven has focused primarily on the functional inequality of income distribution between labor and capital, i.e. the share of gross domestic product received by workers and capital owners.

Dr. van der Hoeven appeals to politicians to use the power of macroeconomic policies to reduce inequality. He suggested a number of political solutions including counter-cyclical monetary and fiscal policy, stricter financial and bank regulation, progressive tax systems and strengthening social institutions like labor unions. These kinds of policies have led to a notable decline in inequality in Latin America. In light of this, Dr. van der Hoeven called for an inequality goal based on the Palma index of inequality to be included in the post-2015 development agenda (SDGs).

Decorations
 Order of Orange-Nassau
  Officer (8 October 2015)

Publications

Articles
Profits without labour benefits, The impact of financial globalization on work (2014)
Millennium Development Goals in Turbulent Times: Emerging Challenges for POST-2015 MDGS
 with J vandemoortele Kenya – Stabilisation and Adjustment Policies and Programmes (Helsinki, WIDER, 1987).

Books
Authored

Editor
Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality (Abingdon, Edward Elgar, 2017) (editor with P. van Bergeijk)
The Financial Crisis and Developing Countries . A Global Multilateral Perspective (Abingdon, Edward Elgar, 2011) (editor with P. van Bergeijk and A.de Haan)
Employment, Inequality and Globalization : A continuous Concern (London, Routledge, 2011) (editor)
Growth, Inequality and Poverty (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004) (editor with Anthony Shorrocks).
Adjustment, Employment and Missing Institutions in sub-Saharan Africa (ILO, James Currey 1999) (editor with W. van der Geest).
Lessons from Privatization. Labour Issues in Developing and Transition Countries (ILO, 1997) (editor with G. Sziraczki).
The Poverty Agenda: Trends and Policy Options (International Institute for Labour Studies, 1995) (editor with G. Rodgers).
Structural Adjustment and Beyond (London, James Currey, 1994) (editor with F. van der Kraaij).
Africa's Recovery in the 1990s: From Stagnation and Adjustment to Human Development: Policy Conflicts and Alternatives (London, Macmillan, 1992) (editor with A. Cornia and T. Mkandawire).

References

External links

 Personal profile: prof.dr. Rolph van der Hoeven  International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague
 Personal profile: prof.dr. Rolph van der Hoeven Erasmus University Rotterdam

1948 births
Living people
Dutch development economists
Dutch expatriates in Switzerland
Academic staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam
Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau
University of Amsterdam alumni
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni


title: Vijaynagar State

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Vijaynagar State, known as Pol State before 1934 and also called Ghodadar for a short time, was a princely state under the Mahi Kantha Agency, Bombay Presidency in NE Gujarat during the British Raj. The capital of the state was in Vijaynagar taluka, Sabarkantha district. The state's last ruler signed the accession to the Indian Union on 10 June 1948.

History
Vijaynagar was ruled by bhil chiefs
Pol state was founded in 1577. Between 1864 and 1877 it was renamed Vijayanagar after its new capital. The rulers of the state bore the title 'Rao'.

Rulers
.... – 1720                Chandrasinhji                      (d. 1720)
1720 – 1728                Kesarisinhji
1728 – ....                Kasansinhji
.... – ....                Makansinhji
.... – ....                Hathisinhji
.... – ....                Madhavsinhji
.... – ....                Ajabsinhji
.... – ....                Bhupatsinhji I
.... – ....                Bhavansinhji
.... – ....                Surajsinhji
.... – ....                Vajesinhji
.... – ....                Ratansinhji
.... – ....                Abheysinhji
.... – ....                Kiratsinhji
.... – ....                Laxmansinhji
.... – ....                Bharatsinhji
.... – ....                Amarsinhji
.... – 1852                Anandsinhji
1852 – 1859                Pahadsinhji Gulabsinhji            (b. 1839 – d. 1859)
1859 – 1864                Navalsinhji                        (d. 1864)
23 Nov 1864 – 24 October 1889  Hamirsinhji I Gulabsinhji          (b. 1840 – d. 1889)
24 Oct 1889 – 1905         Prithisinhji Hamirsinhji           (b. 1872 – d. 1905)
Feb 1906 – 1913            Bhupatsinhji II Hamirsinhji        (b. 1885 – d. 1913)
1913 – 17 November 1914         Mohabatsinhji Bhupatsinhji         (b. 1883 – d. 1914)
17 Nov 1914 – 1947         Hamirsinhji II Hindupatsinhji      (b. 1902/4 – d. 1986)
17 Nov 1914 – 1924         .... -Regent

See also
Mahi Kantha Agency
 Sabarkantha district

References

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title: Augustine David Crake

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Augustine David Crake (1836–1890) was an English cleric and author, known for devotional works, and for juvenile historical fiction that has been compared to the books of John Mason Neale.

Life
The eldest son of Jesse Crake, he was born on 1 October 1836 at Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, where his father kept a middle-class school. Leaving the Calvinism in which he had been brought up, he was baptised into the Church of England in 1858. Working as a teacher, he took a degree at London University (matriculated 1862, B.A. 1864).

Crake was ordained deacon by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in 1865, and was appointed second master and chaplain of the Church of England middle-class school of All Saints', Bloxham, near Banbury, a position which he kept from 1865 to 1878. He was senior curate of St. Michael's, Swanmore in the Isle of Wight, 1878–9, and vicar of St. Peter's, Havenstreet from 1879 to 1885, when he made an exchange and became vicar of Cholsey, near Wallingford. He was chaplain at Moulsford Asylum, 1885–6.

At Cholsey, Crake was beginning to gather some pupils round him for tuition, but he died on 18 January 1890, at the age of 53. He was buried in Cholsey graveyard on 23 January when many of his former Bloxham pupils followed his remains to the grave.

Works
Crake was the author of a long series of historical fiction works, about the church in Britain, using Oxfordshire and Berkshire settings; they were based on stories he had told at Bloxham school. In 1873 he published a popular History of the Church under the Roman Empire. His major devotional books and stories were:

 Simple Prayers for School Boys, Oxford, 1867, 1870.
 The Bread of Life, Oxford, 1868; 4th ed. 1872.
 Simple Prayers, 1870.
 Aemilius: a Tale of the Decian and Valerian Persecutions, 1871.
 Evanus: a Tale of the Days of Constantine the Great, 1872, 1885.
 The Garden of Life (a devotional primer), Oxford, 1873.
 Edwy the Fair; or, the First Chronicle of Aescendune, 1874; 5th ed. 1885.
 Alfgar the Dane (a sequel to Edwy), 1874.
 The Camp on the Severn, 1875.
 The Andreds-Weald (a tale of the Norman Conquest), 1877.
 The Rival Heirs, 1882.
 Fairleigh Hall (English Civil War in Oxfordshire), 1882.
 The Last Abbot of Glastonbury, 1884.
 The Victor's Laurel, 1885.
 The Doomed City (the time of St. Augustine), 1885.
 The House of Walderne, 1886.
 Brian FitzCount, a Story of Wallingford Castle, 1887.
 Yule Log Stories, 1887.
 Stories from Old English History, 1887.
 The Heir of Treherne.

Crake edited Offices for the Hours of Prime, Sext, and Compline; with special Antiphons and Chapters for the Seasons of the Church, Oxford, 1871. Crake was moreover joint-editor with Joseph Oldknow of the Priest's Book of Private Devotion (Oxford, 1872, and later editions).

Family
Crake married in 1879 Annie, daughter of John Lucas of the Radcliffe Observatory.

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title: Bhoomi Trivedi

text:
Bhoomi Trivedi is an Indian singer, known for her Hindi songs "Ram Chahe Leela" from Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela (2013), and Husn Parcham from Zero (2018), which resulted in her getting several awards and nominations for.

Life and career
Trivedi hails from a musical family in Vadodara of Gujarat. She started to learn music while she was in 8th grade. Her father is a Railways employee who is fond of singing and her mother is a folk singer who has her own music group. Her elder sister is an engineer and a trained Bharata Natyam dancer.

In 2007, Trivedi got selected from audition to perform in Indian Idol 3, however quit the show as she was suffering from jaundice. The following year she was again auditioned to perform in Indian Idol 4, but again had to quit the show since her aunt died because of breast cancer. She returned to the Indian Idol 5 where she ends up the competition as the Runner-up. In the audition she sang a mix of the Gujarati portion of the multi-lingual rap song, Blood Brothers, by Karmacy and Wannabe by Spice Girls.

Trivedi, began her Bollywood career with 2012 film Prem Mayee with the song "Bahne Dey". However, she rose to fame with her rendition in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 2013 released film Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela, where she lent her voice for the song Ram Chahe Leela which was picturized on Priyanka Chopra. She was initially approached to pen Gujarati lyrics and sing that bit for a song arranged by Shail Hada when she was told that Bhansali was looking for a different voice to sing a song for his next film. The song was well received by the audience and critics, while reviewers praised Trivedi's rendition in the song. Other than Bollywood songs, she also had recorded for several Gujarati films including the song 'Vaagyo Re Dhol' from the national award-winning film Hellaro.

Bollywood discography

Marathi discography

Bengali discography

Gujarati discography

Awards

References

External links

Living people
Bollywood playback singers
Indian women playback singers
People from Vadodara
1984 births
Women musicians from Gujarat
Singers from Gujarat
21st-century Indian singers
21st-century Indian women singers
Indian Idol participants


title: 2014 Canada Cup of Curling

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The 2014 Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling was held from December 3 to 7 at the Encana Arena in Camrose, Alberta. It was the first time that Camrose hosted the Canada Cup, and the second time that Alberta hosted the Canada Cup, which was also held in Medicine Hat in 2010.

Men

Teams
The teams are listed as follows:

Round Robin Standings
Final Round Robin Standings

Round Robin Results
The draw is listed as follows:

Draw 1
Wednesday, December 3, 8:30 am

Draw 2
Wednesday, December 3, 1:30 pm

Draw 3
Wednesday, December 3, 6:30 pm

Draw 4
Thursday, December 4, 8:30 am

Draw 5
Thursday, December 4, 1:30 pm

Draw 6
Thursday, December 4, 6:30 pm

Draw 7
Friday, December 5, 8:30 am

Draw 8
Friday, December 5, 1:30 pm

Draw 9
Friday, December 5, 6:30 pm

Playoffs

Semifinal
Saturday, December 6, 6:30 pm

Final
Sunday, December 7, 5:00 pm

Women

Teams
The teams are listed as follows:

Round Robin Standings
Final Round Robin Standings

Round Robin Results
The draw is listed as follows:

Draw 1
Wednesday, December 3, 8:30 am

Draw 2
Wednesday, December 3, 1:30 pm

Draw 3
Wednesday, December 3, 6:30 pm

Draw 4
Thursday, December 4, 8:30 am

Draw 5
Thursday, December 4, 1:30 pm

Draw 6
Thursday, December 4, 6:30 pm

Draw 7
Friday, December 5, 8:30 am

Draw 8
Friday, December 5, 1:30 pm

Draw 9
Friday, December 5, 6:30 pm

Playoffs

Semifinal
Saturday, December 6, 1:30 pm

Final
Sunday, December 7, 10:00 am

References

External links

Archived Statistics - Women

2014 Canada Cup
Canada Cup, 2014
Sport in Camrose, Alberta
Canada Cup, 2014
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title: Caught in Trap

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Caught in Trap, formerly known as Broken Bureau, is a 2014 Chinese crime thriller film directed by Lee Tso Nam and starring Bowie Lam, Che Xiao, Lee Qiang and Guo Wei. The film was released throughout China on 11 July 2014.

Plot
In a village, due to the occurrence of forced land acquisition, villager Chang Ching accidentally killed a demolition personnel during an armed group fight and was arrested by the police, making the villagers dissatisfied. This incident also reflected illegal collisions between government officials and businesspeople, with the villagers wanting to punish corrupt officials.

Newcomer Zhang Yun (Che Xiao) of the City Procuratorate, while reviewing Chang's case of intentional injury, discovers many contradictions from the confiscated items, and collaborates with the head of the  Anti-malfeasance Bureau Gu Changfeng (Bowie Lam), who is in charge of investigating the corruption behind the case. Starting from the incident where suspect Ma Yicheng dies in a traffic accident, and discovers that demolition company owner Yang Shenqiang and "Jin Hua Yu Ting" boss Jin Yuting (Lee Qiang) has been illegally colluding, transferring and selling land with land planning and real estate management officials. To avoid legal action, Jin Yuting and others attempts to bribe Gu with money and blackmailing him by kidnapping with young daughter. Gu denies Jin and does not back off from the case, and also gets help from Yun, whom have secretly admired him for a long time.

Eventually, Chang Ching's intentional injury case is identified as self-defense with the strict control by Yun. Chang was released without charge and unscrupulous businessmen and corrupt officials were all arrested. At this time, Jin plans to abscond with money abroad and Yun, while attempting to apprehend Jin, was injured when Ma's wife ignited gasoline on her.

Cast
Bowie Lam as Gu Changfeng (顧長風)
Che Xiao as Zhang Yun (張芸)
Lee Qiang as Jin Yuting (金玉庭)
Guo Wei

Production
Star Bowie Lam reveals that since the film was planned and produced by real-life veteran prosecutors, the cases and the characters' encounters in the film were based on real-life events. Also with the help of The Society of Prosecutors of HuBei Province, scenes depicting prisoner interrogations were filmed on location in real offices of prosecutors. Lam states,

References

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Chinese crime thriller films
2014 crime thriller films
2010s crime drama films
2010s legal films
2010s Mandarin-language films
Films set in China
Films shot in China
2014 drama films


title: George Blackman House

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The George Blackman House is a historic house located at 904 S. Main St. in Hillsboro, Illinois. The house was built in 1842-43 by George Blackman, a local blacksmith and woodworker. Blackman designed his house in a style similar to Southern Creole cottages. Such houses had never before been built in Montgomery County, which historically preferred designs inspired by New England architecture, but Blackman's Southern-inspired features were more appropriate for the local climate. The -story house features a recessed open porch supported by thin columns and is topped by a low roof. The house's open floor plan includes six rooms laid out around a central hall.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 6, 1986.

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title: State of Syn

text:
State of Syn is a motion comic webseries created by Smokebomb Entertainment, starring Jewel Staite and David Hewlett. The series aired on Hulu in 2013, with multiple episodes previewed on YouTube.

The series is supported by two mobile apps: State of Syn: The Outside World, a puzzle game with a story threaded through it, and State of Syn: Singularity, an app for Google Glass.

State of Syn won an IAWTV award in January 2014 for Best Interactive Experience. It was also nominated for a 2014 Rocky Award for Best Cross-Platform, Fiction.

Synopsis
The show follows Annika Drake (Staite) and her friends who, following the unexplained death of her father, are pulled into a twisted mystery surrounding his former company, emerging tech giant Psylo5ense. Now run by her father's former business partner Aslin Kane (Hewlett), Psylo5ense is manufacturing a highly addictive new sensory experience called Vibe—a digital technology simulating a neurological condition called synesthesia—which is poised to become the new opiate of the masses. Annika digs deeper to uncover the truth but finds herself learning some very disturbing secrets.

References

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Canadian animated web series
Canadian science fiction web series


title: The Glencoe Club

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The Glencoe Club is a private sports and social club located in southwest Calgary, Alberta, Canada founded in 1931. Its facilities include two swimming pools, six badminton courts, ten bowling lanes, eight curling sheets, a skating rink, seven squash courts, six indoor tennis courts, and a fitness facility.

Etymology
The area the club was founded on was called the Glencoe Subdivision. The subdivision was named after the Glencoe valley, in Scotland.

History

The club was founded in 1931 when the Calgary Skating Club decided to handover all assets to the newly formed Glencoe. The official inauguration took place on March 21, 1931. The original directors of the club acquired the land on a 30-year lease from the city of Calgary for $70,000. The original building was contracted to J.A. Tweddle Ltd. and shares were subscribed to at $100 each. The building was constructed in just three months and when the Glencoe officially had its grand opening on November 16, 1931, opened it had 1,200 members, 450 of who had shares.

During the later part of the thirties and early forties the club was having financial trouble and was essentially bankrupt. However the club made it through these years and following the end of the second world war the board decided to install 'artificial ice' so that skating could be part of the Glencoe year round. When the ice plant opened in 1947 it was the first ice to be used for both curling and skating in Alberta. The Hon. C.E. Gerhart, the then Minister of Trade, Commerce, and Municipal Affairs opened the new plant. The new ice was then used to host the 1948 Canadian Figure Skating Championships. Following this was the 16th annual ice show and the guest star was Barbara Ann Scott along with Wallace Diestelmeyer and Suzanne Morrow. This was so successful that that year there was another ice show in November which featured Yvonne Claire Sherman and Jimmy Grogan.

In 1948, the Glencoe grew and improved a further $50,000 in improvements. By now the club hosted three skating rinks (two outdoor one indoors), six curling rinks, six badminton courts, four bowling alleys, squash courts, two table tennis sets, lawn bowling, six hard surface tennis courts, a lounge, and a dining rooms.

In 1953, the Glencoe added four more lanes for bowling, two sheets of curling ice as well as renovating the kitchen, lounge, and new offices for $150,000.

Curling

Notable members
Kevin Koe
Amy Nixon
Carter Rycroft
Nolan Thiessen
Chelsea Carey
Laine Peters
Jocelyn Peterman
Brent Laing
Herbert Greenfield—4th Premier of Alberta

References

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Badminton venues


title: Milija and Pavle Bakić

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Milija "Milo" Bakić () and Pavle Bakić () were two brothers from Andrijevica, in the Principality of Montenegro, who were students at the Galatasaray High School and co-founded the Galatasaray football club on October 30, 1905 with 11 fellow students. Born in the village of Zabrđe, near Andrijevica, the brothers studied in Constantinople, living with their uncle Mitar Bakić who was a consul in the Ottoman Empire. The brothers also finished military school, with the rank of officer, although at the beginning of the Balkan Wars, they returned to their country, then the Kingdom of Montenegro, and served in Janko Vukotić's Third Unit, in Cetinje. They fought in Macedonia, where Milija was killed in a battle near Kočani. Some still view him as the best Turkish footballer in history. A monument was erected in their home village, gifted by Galatasaray staff, on June 16, 2014.

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Turkish men's footballers
Vasojevići
People from Andrijevica
Montenegrin soldiers
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Galatasaray High School alumni
Sibling duos
Sports duos
20th-century Montenegrin people
20th-century Turkish people
Men's association football players not categorized by position
Year of birth missing


title: The World Condemns Them

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The World Condemns Them (, ) is a 1953 Italian-French melodrama film directed by Gianni Franciolini.

Plot

Cast

 Alida Valli as Renata Giustini
 Amedeo Nazzari as Paolo Martelli
 Serge Reggiani as André
 Claude Nollier as Maria Martelli
 Franco Interlenghi as Franco
 Laura Solari as Miss Balestra
 Bianca Doria as Mother of Renata
 Liliana Bonfatti as Nina Swanson

References

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1953 films
1953 drama films
Italian drama films
Films directed by Gianni Franciolini
Films about prostitution in Italy
French drama films
French black-and-white films
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1950s Italian films
1950s French films


title: Chauncey Fitch Skilling

text:
Chauncey Fitch Skilling (December 7, 1868 – February 14, 1945) was an architect from Los Angeles, who was also a member of that city's school board and of its city council.

Personal

Skilling was born on December 7, 1868 in Manchester, Illinois, the son of Josiah Hamilton Skilling of Ireland and Margaret Lucy Thompson of Athens, Ohio. His brothers were Edward H., William T. and Robert P. Coming to Los Angeles in 1886, he attended Los Angeles State Normal School and the University of Southern California (1892), followed by a year at a business college (1893).

He was a Presbyterian and a Republican.

Residing at 1051 S. Lucerne Boulevard, he died of pneumonia at the age of 78 on February 14, 1945. Skilling was survived by brothers William T. of San Diego, California, and Robert P. of Newark, New Jersey.

Chief structural engineer of the World Trade Center, John Skilling, was a relative, the grandson of his brother Edward.

Architecture

His first recorded job was as a draftsman around 1892–94. Before going into business for himself as an architect, he was a partner of John C. W. Austin and later of Otto Neher.

Skilling "designed and supervised construction of Immanuel Presbyterian Church and of dozens of other churches and schools in Southern California." Some of these, either planned or completed, were:
 Residence for W. W. Richardson on Occidental Boulevard (with Otto Neher), in an English renaissance style, "with simple lines in the design of the half timbers as well as the roof line." The lower story had a "large reception room, living rooms, library, den, dining room, kitchen and servants' room." The upper floor had four bedrooms, a dressing room and bathrooms. There was a furnace, automatic water heater and "all latest conveniences."
 White glazed marble and tile building on North Broadway near Avenue 22 in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, (with Otto Neher) featuring a "very pretty cupola skylight of stained glass" for the Federal Bank., Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Monument No. 396.
 $400,000 Auditorium Hotel, on a 60x169-foot lot on the northwest corner of Olive and Fifth Streets for oilman R.D. Wade, in modern classic design, seven stories and a basement, facing the Temple Auditorium (never built). It was planned with a lobby, a "ladies' parlor," two passenger elevators, a freight elevator and a sidewalk elevator (with Otto Neher). There were to be 145 rooms, "hot and cold water and a bath room for every two rooms." A "modern cafe" was planned for the basement.
 Three-story apartment house on Sixth Street near Burlington Avenue for L.B. Cohn, with "24 rooms divided into 45 apartments with private baths, steam heat, wall beds, vacuum cleaning system, freight elevator, plumbing and electric fixtures (with Otto Neher).
 First Presbyterian Church, Santa Monica, 1921. "The church was planned to seat 1,100 at its opening."
 Bethany Lutheran Church of Hollywood, 4975 W. Sunset Boulevard, 1925. The church was dedicated on April 11, 1926. ["To Dedicate New Church" Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1926, Page A2]
 Immanuel Presbyterian Church #2, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Monument No. 743

Public service

Skilling served on the Board of Education in 1900-02 and was a member of the Los Angeles City Council in 1902-04.
As a councilman, in 1904 he persuaded the City Council to pass an emergency ordinance that required patients with tuberculosis and other contagious diseases to be treated in hospitals in "sections of the city that are sufficiently isolated from populous districts to minimize the danger of contamination." He said that "energetic protests" had been made against such institutions in densely populated districts."

He advocated vocational training in the city schools and, with the aid of J.H. Francis, he helped pass a resolution through the City Council that resulted in the establishment of Los Angeles Polytechnic High School in 1906.

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title: Thomas Buchan-Hepburn

text:
Sir Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, 3rd Baronet (30 September 1804 – 17 December 1893)  was a Scottish baronet and Conservative Party politician.

At the 1837 general election he unsuccessfully contested the Haddington Burghs.

The following year a vacancy arose in the county seat of Haddingtonshire, where he was elected unopposed. He was re-elected without a contest in 1841, and stepped down at the 1847 general election.

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Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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title: 1st Yokohama Film Festival

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The   was held on 3 February 1980 in Keihin Film Theatre, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan.

Awards
 Best Film: Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko
 Best New Actor: Yuji Honma – Jūkyūsai no Chizu
 Best Actor: Ken Ogata – Vengeance Is Mine
 Best Actress: Yūki Mizuhara – Angel Guts: Red Classroom
 Best New Actress: Miyuki Matsuda – Kindaichi Kosuke no Bōken
 Best Supporting Actor: Keizō Kanie – Angel Guts: Red Classroom, Jukyusai no chizu
 Best Supporting Actress: Ako – Akai kami no onna, Nureta shumatsu
 Best Director:
Kazuhiko Hasegawa – Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko
Chūsei Sone – Angel Guts: Red Classroom
 Best New Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi – Jūkyūsai no Chizu
 Best Screenplay: Masaru Baba – Vengeance Is Mine
 Best Cinematography: Seizō Sengen – Yomigaeru kinrō, Hakuchū no Shikaku
 Special Prize:
Junko Miyashita (Career)
Shin'ya Yamamoto (director?) (Career)

Best 10
 Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko
 Woman with Red Hair
 Angel Guts: Red Classroom
 Motto Shinayaka ni Motto Shitataka ni
 Vengeance Is Mine
 Sonogo no Jingi Naki Tatakai
 Jūkyūsai no Chizu
 Tenshi no Yokubō
 Wet Weekend
 Keiko

References

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Yokohama Film Festival
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Yokohama Film Festival


title: 2016 Taiwanese general election

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General elections were held in Taiwan, officially the Republic of China, on Saturday, 16 January 2016 to elect the 14th President and Vice President of the Republic of China, and all 113 members of the ninth Legislative Yuan:

Presidential election

The president and vice president election was held in Taiwan on 16 January 2016. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Tsai Ing-wen with her independent running mate Chen Chien-jen won over Eric Chu of the Kuomintang (KMT) and James Soong of the People First Party (PFP). Tsai became the first female president in Taiwan, as well as the Chinese-speaking world.

A second-time presidential candidate, Tsai secured the DPP's nomination uncontested as early as February 2015, while KMT candidate Hung Hsiu-chu, who won the party's nomination in July 2015, was trailing behind Tsai by double digits. Alarmed by Hung's perceived pro-Beijing stance, the KMT held an extraordinary party congress to nullify Hung's candidacy in a controversial move, and replaced her by the party chairman Eric Chu, less than a hundred days before the general election. However, Chu did not fare much better than Hung in the polls, and it was almost certain that Tsai was going to win weeks before the election. Veteran politician James Soong also announced his presidential campaign for the fourth time, making the election a three-way contest.

Some 12 million voters, 66% of the total registered voters, cast their votes, the lowest turnout since the office was first directly elected in 1996. Tsai won 6.89 million votes, leading Chu who received 3.81 million votes by 3.08 million votes, becoming the second highest winning margin behind first direct presidential election in 1996. She also won with 56.1%, the second-largest vote share claimed by a presidential candidate since Ma Ying-jeou in the 2008 election. It was the second time the DPP won the presidency since Chen Shui-bian won in 2000. The DPP also won the Legislative Yuan election on the same day, which secured a DPP majority in the legislature.

Legislative election

The Legislative Yuan election was held on 16 January 2016 for all 113 seats to the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led by Tsai Ing-wen, who also won the presidential election on the same day, secured a majority for the first time in history by winning 68 seats. The ruling Kuomintang (KMT), lost both the presidency and the legislature, returned to the opposition.

The DPP managed to unseat the KMT in its traditional blue strongholds across Taiwan, turning districts in Taipei, Taichung and Hualien green, while KMT Vice Chairman Hau Lung-bin conceding defeat to relatively unknown city councillor Tsai Shih-ying from the DPP, becoming one of its biggest loses in the election. The year-old New Power Party (NPP) founded by young activists which emerged from the 2014 Sunflower Movement also fared well to win five seats by defeating some of the KMT veterans.

References

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January 2016 events in Asia


title: Gliophorus versicolor

text:
Gliophorus versicolor is a species of agaric fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in New Zealand, it was described as new to science in 1973 by mycologist Egon Horak. Within the genus Gliophorus, it is classified in the section Glutinosae, a grouping of species characterized by having bright colors, decurrent gills, and a gelatinized subhymenium. Fruit bodies have hemispherical to convex caps typically measuring , although some have been recorded up to . Moist caps are gluey with a color ranging from reddish brown to pinkish-lilac; the cap margin has radial grooves mirroring the gills underneath. The gills have an adnate to somewhat decurrent attachment to the stipe. They are widely spaced with color similar to the cap, or whitish. The cylindrical, hollow stipe measures  by  thick. The fungus is saprobic, and fruits on the ground among Dacrycarpus and Nothofagus.

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Hygrophoraceae
Fungi described in 1973
Fungi of New Zealand
Taxa named by Egon Horak


title: HMS Forester (1832)

text:
HMS Forester was a British Royal Navy 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop ordered on 23 May 1826, laid down in September 1830, and launched on 28 August 1832 at Chatham Dockyard. On 14 February 1833, she ran aground on a reef off St Martin's, Isles of Scilly, with the loss of a crew member. She was later refloated and towed by the paddle sloop-of-war  to Plymouth, Devon, England, where she was paid off in ordinary. She was sold in 1843.

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title: Alim Sherzamonov

text:
Alim Sherzamonov is a politician in Tajikistan.

On June 16, 2014, individuals who identified themselves as Tajikistan government security officials apprehended Alex Sodiqov, a Political Science PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, during an interview with Sherzamanov.

Sherzamonov is credited with playing a leadership role during political unrest in Khorog, the capital of the autonomous republic of Gorno-Badakhshan, in 2012. Human Rights Watch describes Sherzamonov as a "civil society activist".
Academics at the University of Exeter would say Sodiqov was interviewing Sherzamonov as part of a study of failures of conflict management in former Republics of the Soviet Union.

Kirgizbek Kanunov, writing in CACI Analyst asserted that Tajikistan's National Security Committee, the KNB, had described Sodiqov as an agent for a foreign government, who was negotiating with Sherzamonov on their behalf.
CTV News reported Sherzamonov claimed security officials had planned to arrest him, as well.

Global Voices, a site Sodiqov has contributed to, reported that Security Officials had broadcast footage of Sodiqov, that seemed intended to discredit Sheramonov.

Sherzamonov has acknowledged playing a role in demonstrations during the summer of 2012, but he insists his role was peaceful and non-violent.

References

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Year of birth missing (living people)
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title: Gliophorus lilacipes

text:
Gliophorus lilacipes is a species of agaric fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in New Zealand, it was described by Egon Horak in 1973.

References

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Hygrophoraceae
Fungi described in 1973
Fungi of New Zealand
Taxa named by Egon Horak


title: This Is All Yours

text:
This Is All Yours is the second album by English indie rock band alt-J, released on 22 September 2014 through Infectious. It was promoted with four singles: "Hunger of the Pine", "Left Hand Free", "Every Other Freckle", and "Warm Foothills". It topped the UK Albums Chart, was runner up in Belgium, Australia, and Canada and reached #4 in the United States. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.

Background and recording
On 25 May 2012, Alt-J released their debut album An Awesome Wave, which won the Mercury Prize in 2012. Alt-J were also nominated for three Brit Awards (British Breakthrough Act, British Album of the Year and British Group of the Year). Bassist Gwil Sainsbury left the band in January 2014. The band began recording the album in April 2014. It was recorded in the same place as An Awesome Wave, Iguana Studios, which Gus Unger-Hamilton described as "a tiny little place, sort of behind a second hand tyre shop".

Music
The majority of the songs on the album were written while touring their debut album, An Awesome Wave, while newer ones such as "Hunger of the Pine" were written in "a really cool little converted Warehouse in Hackney, very cliché East London". Unger-Hamilton said that the "song cycle" of the album is made up of "Arrival in Nara", "Nara" and "Leaving Nara", Nara being a city in Japan. "Hunger of the Pine" was one of the songs written after their bass player Gwil Sainsbury left in January 2014. The song features a sample of "4x4" by Miley Cyrus, of her singing "I'm a female rebel". The sample originally came from a remix Thom Green, Alt-J's drummer, made for Miley Cyrus. Joe Newman said "I was playing the guitar and Thom was responding to what I was doing on Ableton and before we knew it, we'd come up with this really interesting structure, and I came up with lyrics for it quite quickly." Gus Unger-Hamilton said "it sounded cool with what Joe was playing on the guitar." The band asked Miley Cyrus if they could use the sample; according to Newman, she was "cool with it". He said that Miley Cyrus has "been really supportive of us, and she's a fan, I think, which is really nice."

Release
On 9 June 2014, the band announced the release of their second album This Is All Yours, as well as putting pre-orders for the album on their website. The album was released on September 22, 2014, as a download, on CD and double vinyl. On 13 June, alt-J posted a video on their Instagram account featuring a clip of the first single "Hunger of the Pine". The single premiered on Zane Lowe's show on BBC Radio 1 on 18 June. The song was streamed later that day, and released as a single on the iTunes Store the next. "Left Hand Free" was released digitally on 7 July 2014 as the album's second single and impacted modern rock radio on 15 July 2014.

On 13 August 2014, the album's third single, "Every Other Freckle", premiered on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show once again.

On 9 September 2014, the band released an app that gave access to the album when the user was in select locations.

On 15 September 2014, the band made the album available to listen to on music-streaming platform Spotify.

On 2 March 2015, the band released "Warm Foothills" as the fourth and final single from the album.

Critical reception

Upon its release, This Is All Yours received generally positive reviews from music critics.  At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 26 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Accolades
The album was nominated at the 57th Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album, and for IMPALA's European Independent Album of the Year Award.

Commercial performance
This Is All Yours debuted at number one on the UK's Official Albums Chart on 28 September 2014.
In Canada, the album debuted at number two on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 14,000 copies in its first week. The album fell behind Leonard Cohen's Popular Problems.

Track listing

Personnel
Adapted from LP liner notes.

Alt-J
Joe Newman – guitar, bass, lead vocals
Thom Green – drums
Gus Unger-Hamilton – keyboards, backing vocals

Additional musicians
Kirsty Mangan – strings
Tim Rundle – penny whistle, recorder

Technical
Charlie Andrew – production
Brett Cox – engineering, guitar (10)
Dick Beetham – mastering
RCA – mastering

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

2014 albums
Alt-J albums
Folktronica albums
Infectious Music albums
Albums produced by Charlie Andrew


title: Temple Hill Entertainment

text:
Temple Hill Entertainment or Temple Hill Productions is an American film and television production company, established in 2006 by producers Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen. The studio produced the Twilight film series. In 2020, the studio signed a TV deal with Lionsgate.

Filmography

Films

Upcoming films

Television

TV series

References

Mass media companies established in 2006
Film production companies of the United States
American companies established in 2006


title: Jan Sahara Hedl

text:
Jan Hedl (born 9 January 1957, in Prague), known as Jan Sahara Hedl or simply Sahara, is a Czech singer-songwriter. Among his well-known hits are "Dívka a noc" and "Tisíc jmen".

In his childhood he played piano. At the high school, he met Martin Němec and later he founded his first band Duševní hrob with him. In 1982, he founded the band called Precedens together with Němec, who plays keyboards. Hedl left the band in 1984 and in 1994, he released his first solo album Tajnej svatej. In 1995, he released his second album Šílené pondělí, where Precedens served as backing band. His most recent album called Matka Zebra was released in 2001.

He is also a lyricist for other artists, such as Luboš Pospíšil. He also wrote lyrics for Czech musicals Excalibur and Obraz Doriana Graye.

Discography
Tajnej svatej (1994)
Šílené pondělí (1995)
Matka Zebra (2001)

References

1957 births
Living people
21st-century Czech male singers
Czech guitarists
Male guitarists
Musicians from Prague
20th-century Czech male singers
Czechoslovak male singers


title: HMS Rover (1832)

text:
HMS Rover was an 18-gun sloop launched on 17 July 1832 from the Chatham Dockyard and broken up in 1845.

References

External links

1832 ships
Ships built in Chatham


title: Moamyn

text:
Moamyn (or Moamin) was the name given in Medieval Europe to an Arabic author of a five-chapter treatise on falconry, important for early Europeans, which was most popular as translated by the Syriac Theodore of Antioch under the title De Scientia Venandi per Aves in 1240 to 1241. It also contained a chapter on hunting with dogs and chapters on other related subjects such as diseases of birds. There are about 27 Latin manuscript versions of Moamyn's work with two of them being illustrated throughout, with a well-known copy held in Vienna.

Identity
The true identity of Moamyn is a mystery. The name by which he was known in the medieval west is most likely the result of a corruption or simplification of the true pronunciation of the Arabic name. Based on this, among other reasons, François Viré has suggested that he is in fact Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809–873), physician of the Abbasid Caliphate. Thus, Moamyn would be the deformation of the original Arabic Hunayn. However, there are other theories.

Origins
The Kitāb al-mutawakkilī of the mid ninth century was thought to be Moamyn's treatise on falconry in the original Arabic, but was discovered not to be in the 1980s. It was translated into Castilian in 1252 under the title Libro de los animales que caçan.

Moamyn's work is largely based on the Kitāb al-ṭuyūr (كتاب الطيور), the Book of Birds (also known as the Kitāb dawari at-tayr, the Book of flight cycles(patterns) of Birds), a more extensive work by al-Ghiṭrīf ibn Qudāmah al-Ghassānī from the early ninth century.

References

External links
 Book of the Week

Falconry
9th-century Arabic-language writers
9th-century Arab people


title: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival Sydney 2014

text:
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is an annual fashion industry event held in Sydney, Australia. The event is a part of Australian Fashion Week and has taken place at Carriageworks for two consecutive years. The 2014 event was held from 6–10 April. The event focuses on providing Australian designers a platform to connect with a global audience of fashion buyers, press and consumers.

The industry-only event showcased over 70 designers, including 25 designers from Sydney, four from Melbourne, four from Perth, two from Brisbane and one from Adelaide. There was also one designer from Bali and China. The 2014 designer showcase featured mostly start-up labels fresh from fashion school. Lan Yu became the first Chinese designer to showcase at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia.
In 2013, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Sydney generated an estimate $4.8 million into the New South Wales economy. It costs between $6000 to $14,500 to secure a show at Fashion Week and can end up exceeding costs of $80,000 when models and all other production costs are factored in. The 2014 event had 20 confirmed buyers from ASOS, Addison Crescent, Browns Fashion, House of Fraser, Harvey Nichols, Nasty Gal, Net-a-Porter and Selfridges. Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Sydney 2014 also featured an Indigenous Fashion Week at Sydney's Town Hall and also supported the first Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Weekend Edition which was open to for the public to attend.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Sydney 2014 caused a debate about the use of skinny models in runway shows, when Marie Claire editor Jackie Frank called a model's agent to enquire about her health. Featured designer Alex Perry then apologised for his use of extremely thin models in his fashion show. Jackie Frank said that Alex Perry's public apology would help shift body image attitudes in the fashion industry. Vivien’s model Laura Mitchell who walked in fashion week informed the media that most of the shows at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week had not been catered the models were left hungry. In 2008, Sydney Fashion Week said they would focus on promoting healthy body image by using healthier looking models on the catwalk.

References

Fashion events in Australia
2010s in Sydney
2014 in Australia
2014 in fashion
Fashion festivals
2014 festivals


title: NorShor Theatre

text:
The NorShor Theatre is an entertainment venue in downtown Duluth, Minnesota, and was formerly a movie palace and Opera House. It occupies a prominent place along Superior Street, and underwent a massive renovation effort by the City of Duluth. The NorShor played a significant role in the artistic history of Duluth, and is generally considered a landmark.

History
The history of the site traces its beginnings back to the Grand Opera House, which was built at the location in 1883. The 1,000 seat Opera House also housed a library, and was home to the local Kitchi Gammi Club. Unfortunately, the opera house was destroyed by a fire in 1889.

The modern-day NorShor traces its history back to 1910, when it began as the Orpheum Theatre, located on the former site of the Grand Opera House. It was a Classical Revival-style theatre, and was a premier venue for Vaudeville performances in Duluth. In addition to Vaudeville acts and other performances, the Orpheum was one of Duluth's earliest movie theatres.

During the age of silent films, many movie theatres were equipped with a theatre organ, to accompany the silent films with music and sound effects. In 1925, an ornate looking organ made by the Geneva Organ Company was installed in the auditorium. The organ had 2 manuals and 8 ranks of pipes.

But by the 1940s, the Silent Film era, as well as the Vaudeville era were over, and the Orpheum needed to be reinvented to stay in business and remain relevant. It was renamed the NorShor, and was remodeled in a fabulous Art Deco style. The new NorShor featured a 125-foot tall exterior tower made of porcelain. The tower contained 3,000 lights, making it visible for a long distance, as a notable feature of Duluth's skyline. The tower was subsequently removed in later years, and plans to replace it were scrapped during the renovations.

By the mid-2000s, the building had lost most of its former glory. As the condition of the building was deteriorating, the theatre's local reputation was also in decline.

2010 acquisition and redevelopment by the city

In June 2010, the Duluth Economic Development Authority purchased the NorShor, along with the adjacent Temple Opera buildings for a combined total of $2.6 million. Although the city has sometimes been criticized for this move, the decision has been defended by Duluth's Mayor (at the time), Don Ness, who cited an improvement in the building's neighborhood, with the elimination of the strip club. Ness has said the NorShor was "key to the revitalization of the entire downtown district."

In 2014, the city landed $6.95 million from a state bonding bill from the Minnesota Legislature, for use in renovating the NorShor. Although this was only a part of the $22.3 million needed for the complete overall renovation, it was a critical first step that would help ensure future funding sources come through. In a June 8, 2014, article in the Duluth News Tribune, Ness was quoted as saying, "If we hadn't taken ownership of the building ... we would have continued to have a strip club there with gang activity and prostitution and drug dealing. And that's in a prominent place on Superior Street. It would have been a continual black eye on that part of downtown. And the building would have eventually fallen apart."

In addition to the bonding funds, other fundraising efforts were ongoing. And helping to ensure the successful future of the NorShore, the city identified the Duluth Playhouse as the facility's manager and operator, once the reconstruction would be complete. And developer George Sherman was named as the developer for the restoration project.

The NorShor today

After 19 months of construction and renovations, the Norshor finally opened on February 1, 2018. The first performance was Mamma Mia!.

The new NorShor, with a 600-seat, stadium-style, balconied, live-performance auditorium, is expected to generate an estimated $5 million to $6 million of annual economic benefit. Restorations included an extension of the stage, making the building handicap accessible, and adding modern state-of-the-art theatre equipment. A new bar and lounge are also new features.

Being managed by the Duluth Playhouse, the NorShor is now a major presenter of arts and entertainment in the Twin Ports region.

See also

 Movie palace

References

External links

  – a collection of historical articles about the NorShor
  – local news story on the opening of the NorShor

Vaudeville theaters
Movie palaces
Cinemas and movie theaters in Minnesota
Buildings and structures in Duluth, Minnesota
Buildings and structures in St. Louis County, Minnesota
Theatres completed in 1910
1910 establishments in Minnesota
Tourist attractions in Duluth, Minnesota


title: 2014 North Carolina Senate election

text:
The 2014 North Carolina State Senate elections selected members to serve in the North Carolina Senate for a two-year term commencing in January 2015. Going into the election, the Senate had 33 Republican and 17 Democratic members, which constituted a two-thirds super-majority for the Republican Party. Following the election, the Senate had 34 Republican and 16 Democratic members.

Results summary

† - Incumbent not seeking re-election

Detailed results

Districts 1-25

District 1
Incumbent Republican Bill Cook has represented the 1st district since 2013.  Former state Senator Stan M. White challenged Cook again and lost.

District 2
Incumbent Republican Norman Sanderson has represented the 2nd district since 2013.

District 3
Incumbent Democrat Clark Jenkins has represented the 3rd district since 2003.  Jenkins was defeated by Erica Smith-Ingram in the Democratic primary.

District 4
Incumbent Democrat Angela Bryant has represented the 4th district since 2013.

District 5
Incumbent Democrat Donald Davis has represented the 5th district since 2013 and previously from 2009 to 2011.

District 6
Incumbent Republican Majority Leader Harry Brown has represented the 6th district since 2004.

District 7
Incumbent Republican Louis Pate has represented the 7th district and its predecessors since 2011.

District 8
Incumbent Republican Bill Rabon has represented the 8th district since 2011.

District 9
Incumbent Republican Michael Lee has represented the 9th district since 2014.

District 10
Incumbent Republican Brent Jackson has represented the 10th district since 2011.

District 11
Incumbent Republican Buck Newton has represented the 11th district since 2011.

District 12
Incumbent Republican Ronald Rabin has represented the 12th district since 2013.

District 13
Incumbent Democrat Michael Walters has represented the 13th district since 2009.  Walters didn't seek re-election and was succeeded by fellow Democrat Jane Smith.

District 14
Incumbent Democrat Dan Blue has represented the 14th district since 2009.

District 15
Incumbent Republican Neal Hunt has represented the 15th district since 2005.  Hunt didn't seek re-election and was succeeded by Republican John Alexander.

District 16
Incumbent Democrat Josh Stein has represented the 16th district since 2009.

District 17
Incumbent Republican Tamara Barringer has represented the 17th district since 2013.

District 18
Incumbent Republican Chad Barefoot has represented 18th district since 2013.

District 19
Incumbent Republican Wesley Meredith has represented the 19th district since 2011.

District 20
Incumbent Democrat Floyd McKissick Jr. has represented the 20th district since 2007.

District 21
Incumbent Democrat Ben Clark has represented the 21st district since 2013.

District 22
Incumbent Democrat Mike Woodard has represented the 22nd district since 2013.

District 23
Incumbent Democrat Valerie Foushee has represented the 23rd district since her appointment in September 2013.  Foushee is seeking her first full term.

District 24
Incumbent Republican Rick Gunn has represented the 24th district since 2011.

District 25
Incumbent Democrat Gene McLaurin has represented the 25th district since 2012.   McLaurin was defeated for re-election by Republican Tom McInnis.

Districts 26-50

District 26
Incumbent Republican President Pro Tempore Phil Berger has represented the 26th district since and its predecessors since 2001.

District 27
Incumbent Republican Trudy Wade has represented the 27th district since 2013.

District 28
Incumbent Democrat Gladys Robinson has represented the 28th district since 2011.

District 29
Incumbent Republican Jerry Tillman has represented the 29th district since

District 30
Incumbent Republican Shirley Randleman has represented the 30th district since 2012.

District 31
Incumbent Republican Joyce Krawiec has represented the 31st district since her appointment in January 2014.  Krawiec is seeking her first full term.

District 32
Incumbent Democrat Earline Parmon has represented the 32nd district since 2013.

District 33
Incumbent Republican  Stan Bingham has represented the 33rd district and its predecessors since 2001.

District 34
Incumbent Republican Andrew Brock has represented the 34th district since 2003.

District 35
Incumbent Republican Tommy Tucker has represented the 35th district since 2011.

District 36
Incumbent Republican Fletcher Hartsell Jr. has represented the 36th district and its predecessors since 1991.

District 37
Incumbent Democrat Jeff Jackson has represented the 37th district since his appointment on May 6, 2014.  Jackson is seeking his first full term.

District 38
Incumbent Democrat Joel Ford has represented the 38th district since 2013.

District 39
Incumbent Republican Bob Rucho has represented the 39th district and its predecessors since 2008 and previously from 1997 to 2005.

District 40
Incumbent Democrat Maclom Graham has represented the 40th district since 2005.  Graham didn't seek re-election, insteading unsuccessfully seeking election to the U.S House.

District 41
Incumbent Republican Jeff Tarte has represented the 41st district since 2013.

District 42
Incumbent Republican Austin Allran has represented the 42nd district and its predecessors since 1986.  Allran isn't seeking re-election. Representative Andy Wells won the open seat.

District 43
Incumbent Republican Kathy Harrington has represented the 43rd district since 2011.

District 44
Incumbent Republican David Curtis has represented the 44th district since 2013.

District 45
Incumbent Republican Dan Soucek has represented the 45th district since 2011.

District 46
Incumbent Republican Warren Daniel has represented the 46th district and its predecessors since 2011.

District 47
Incumbent Republican Ralph Hise has represented the 47th district since 2011.

District 48
Incumbent Republican Tom Apodaca has represented the 48th district since 2003.

District 49
Incumbent Democrat Terry Van Duyn has represented the 49th district since her appointment in April 2014.  Van Duyn is seeking her first full term.

District 50
Incumbent Republican Jim Davis has represented the 50th district since 2011.

References
North Carolina General Assembly Elections
 North Carolina State Senate elections, 2014 at Ballotpedia

Senate
North Carolina Senate elections
North Carolina Senate


title: Amos Gill

text:
Amos William Gill (born 22 June 1991) is an Australian comedian and television and radio presenter.

Gill was born in Adelaide. He attended Mercedes College in Adelaide and Aquinas College in Perth, graduating from the former. He later went on to study law at the University of Adelaide. He is of Croatian-Australian descent.

Career

Stand-up

Gill's stand-up career started in 2010 when he entered the Triple J Raw Comedy Competition, where he reached the State Final. In 2012, he was a runner-up in the National Final. Gill went on to earn a nomination for the "Best Emerging Comedian" and "People's Choice" awards at the 2013 Adelaide Fringe for his show You've Changed. At the 2013 Melbourne Comedy Festival, Amos was hand-selected by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for the prestigious "Comedy Zone". In 2014, he was nominated for the MICF "Best Newcomer" award.

He has toured with Jim Jefferies since 2014.

Radio
In October 2014, Adelaide radio station SAFM rebranded under the name of hit107, and Gill and Dani Pola were announced as the station's first breakfast team.

Gill then presented the Breakfast Show with Angus O'Loughlin and Cat Lynch. He left the program in 2018 to pursue stand up in the United States.

Television

In 2013, Gill began filming a children's comedy program called Wacky World Beaters for Australian Channel ABC3, under the name of "William Gill", with Amberley Lobo.

He appeared on the SBS World Cup Show ‘The Full Brazilian’ as a guest panellist. In 2018 he was the host of the Channel 7 sports show ‘FootyPlus.’

Acting

In 2014, Gill appeared in the comedy show ‘Four Quarters’ playing the role of ‘Kane’

References

1991 births
Living people
Australian male comedians


title: European Finance Association

text:
The European Finance Association (EFA) is a professional association of more than 2,000 professionals and financial economists involved in the high-level research, study, teaching, and practice of finance.  The association was founded in 1974 and hosts an annual meeting in August. The 40th annual meeting of the EFA was held in Cambridge, UK in 2013. The 48th annual meeting was be chaired by EFA President Professor Elena Carletti and was organised by Bocconi University in Milan, Italy in August 2021.  The 49th annual meeting was organised by IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, in August 2022 and chaired by EFA Vice President Professor Xavier Vives. The 50th annual meeting will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2023 chaired by Professor Albert J. Mankveld at Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam.  EFA also organises doctoral events including an intensive and competitive tutorial designed for PhD students in Finance who are nearing the end of their doctoral thesis and will soon be on the job market.

The flagship journal of the European Finance Association is the Review of Finance. The current managing editor of the Review of Finance is Alex Edmans.  The peer-reviewed journal is published by Oxford University Press. There are two prizes awarded for papers published in Review of Finance: the Spängler IQAM Prize and the Pagano and Zechner Prize which are presented at the EFA Annual Meeting.

The European Finance Association (EFA) is an international non-profit organization (INPO / AISBL / IVZW) registered in Belgium at the following address: European Finance Association, Rue Fossé aux Loups, 38, 1000 Brussels, Belgium with Company Number RPM/RPR 0864.639.588.

References

External links
 European Finance Association Home Page
 40th Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association
48th Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association
49th Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association
50th Annual Meeting for the European Finance Association
 Review of Finance home page

Business organisations based in Belgium
Business organizations based in Europe
Economics societies
Financial economics


title: Hatunqullpa

text:
Hatunqullpa (Quechua hatun big, qullpa salpeter, "big salpeter (mountain)", Hispanicized spelling Atuncollpa) is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about  high. It is located in the Apurímac Region, Antabamba Province, Oropesa District, and in the Cusco Region, Chumbivilcas Province, Santo Tomás District. Hatunqullpa is situated north of the mountains Chankuwaña, Wayunka and  Pinta Pata and south-west of the mountain Pilluni.

The Hatun Qullpa valley (Jatun Collpa) lies northeast of the mountain. The waters of its intermittent stream flow to the river Qañawimayu.

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Apurímac Region
Mountains of Cusco Region


title: Amurensin A

text:
Amurensin A is an oligostilbene isolated from the roots of Vitis amurensis. It is a partially oxidized resveratrol dimer with a C8-C8' connection.

References

Resveratrol oligomers
Stilbenoid dimers
Grape


title: BOM (file format)

text:
BOM is a computer file format used by the Mac OS X installer. BOM stands for "bill of materials" and is used to determine which files to install, remove, or upgrade. A bill of materials, "BOM", contains all the files within a directory, along with some information about each file. File information includes: the file's Unix file permissions, its owner and group, its size, its time of last modification, and so on.  Also included are a checksum of each file and information about hard links.

Bill of materials (BOM) files are also used in printed circuit board (PCB) designing, where they contain a list of components to be put on the PCB.

References

Computer file formats


title: 2014–15 Regionalliga

text:
The 2014–15 Regionalliga was the seventh season of the Regionalliga, the third under the new format, as the fourth tier of the German football league system. The champions of Regionalliga West – Fortuna Köln – and the winner – SG Sonnenhof Großaspach – and third-placed team - FSV Mainz 05 II - of the Regionalliga Südwest were promoted to the 3. Liga. SV Elversberg, Wacker Burghausen and Saarbrücken were relegated from 3. Liga.

Regionalliga Nord
18 teams from the states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein competed in the third season of the reformed Regionalliga Nord. 15 teams were retained from the last season and 3 teams were promoted from the Oberliga – Niedersachsenliga champions Lüneburger SK Hansa and the two Regionalliga North promotion playoff winners VfB Lübeck and FT Braunschweig.

League table

Regionalliga Nordost
16 teams from the states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia competed in the third season of the reformed Regionalliga Nordost. 13 teams were retained from the last season and 2 teams that were promoted from the Oberliga. BFC Dynamo qualified by winning NOFV-Oberliga Nord and Bautzen qualified by winning NOFV-Oberliga Süd.

League table

Regionalliga West
18 teams from North Rhine-Westphalia competed in the third season of the reformed Regionalliga West: 15 teams were retained from the last season. FC Kray won Oberliga Niederrhein and Hennef the Oberliga Mittelrhein. Rödinghausen placed second in the Oberliga Westfalen although Arminia Bielefeld II won the competition but was unable to be promoted as the first team played in the 3. Liga.

League table

Regionalliga Südwest
18 teams from Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland competed in the third season of the Regionalliga Südwest. Elversberg and Saarbrücken relegated from the 3. Liga. 13 teams were retained from last season and 3 teams were promoted from the Oberliga: Astoria Walldorf won the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg and Pirmasens won the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar. As no team from the Hessenliga applied for a licence, the second-placed teams of the other Oberligas had a play-off match which was won by Nöttingen.

League table

Regionalliga Bayern
18 teams from Bavaria competed in the third season of the Regionalliga Bayern. 13 teams were retained from the last season. Wacker Burghausen relegated from the 3. Liga. 2 teams were promoted from the Bayernliga. Bayreuth won Bayernliga Nord and Garching - runner-up of the Bayernliga Süd - gained promotion due to the withdrawal from competition of BC Aichach.

League table

Promotion play-offs
The draw for the 2014–15 promotion play-offs was held on 12 April, with another draw between the Regionalliga Südwest teams held on 2 May 2015.

Summary
The first legs were played on 27 May, and the second legs were played on 31 May 2015.

Matches
All times Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

1–1 on aggregate. Würzburger Kickers won 6–5 on penalties.

1. FC Magdeburg won 4–1 on aggregate.

Werder Bremen II won 2–0 on aggregate.

References

External links
  The Regionalligas DFB.de

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title: Genoeconomics

text:
Genoeconomics is an interdisciplinary field of protoscience that combines molecular genetics and economics.

Genoeconomics is based on the idea that economic indicators have a genetic basis — that a person's financial behaviour can be traced to their DNA and that genes are related to economic behaviour. As of 2015, the results have been inconclusive. Some minor correlations have been identified between genetics and economic preferences.

History
The word genoeconomics was coined in 2007.

The field of economics and the economic indicators used by economists predate the Empiricist Age. Genoeconomics adds biological foundations to these traditional economic indicators.

Quantitative genetic data was not available to researchers until the year 2000, when the human genome was sequenced as part of the Human Genome Project. Genetic milestones of the late 20th and early 21st century, such as the sequencing of the human genome, has spurred interest in research combining economics and genetics.

Background

Genoeconomics involves the study of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The field of genoeconomics uses genetic data to infer economic preferences such as time preference, risk aversion, and educational attainment, as well as macroeconomic data such as per-capita income. For example, genoeconomic methodology was used in a 2012 study of tobacco taxes in the United States, where such taxes vary across jurisdictions, to look at "the interaction of a single nicotinic receptor and state-level tobacco taxes to predict tobacco use". Additionally, genoeconomic research in 2013 found that two-fifths of the "variance of educational attainment is explained by genetic factors".

Some genoeconomic researchers claim that the economic success of a country can be predicted by its genetic diversity. The American economist Enrico Spolaore says that genoeconomic work could "reduce barriers to the flows of ideas and innovations across populations".

Criticism and limitations

Genoeconomic research is prone to the public misconception that genetically-influenced behaviours are separate from environmental factors. The authors of a 2012 paper said that their work "is not about a nature or nurture debate".

Nature published an online article written in 2012 about the various reactions on the subject. The field is criticized by biologists for lacking methodological rigour, drawing conclusions about causation based on causal correlation, and working with small sample sizes. The political implications of the field are also a concern for some scientists; anticipating the publication of a genoeconomics article in the journal American Economic Review, a group of scientists and social scientists wrote an open letter which said that "the suggestion that an ideal level of genetic variation could foster economic growth and could even be engineered has the potential to be misused with frightening consequences to justify indefensible practices such as ethnic cleansing or genocide".

As with other genetic-association research, the reproducibility of genoeconomic experiments is troublesome to the field. The small sample sizes used in genoeconomic research are also a problem. Commonly cited by scientists as a way to improve genoeconomic research is the use of more statistically homogeneous samples.

References

Sources

Interdisciplinary subfields of economics
Molecular genetics
Behavioural genetics


title: 2nd Yokohama Film Festival

text:
The   was held on 8 February 1981 in Keihin Film Theatre, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan.

Awards
 Best Film: Zigeunerweisen
 Best New Actor: Tatsuo Yamada – Crazy Thunder Road
 Best Actor: Masato Furuoya  – Hipokuratesu-tachi
 Best Actress: Hiroko Yakushimaru – Tonda Couple
 Best New Actress: Keiko Oginome – Kaichō-on
 Best Supporting Actor: Morio Kazama – Shiki Natsuko, Yūgure made
 Best Supporting Actress: Ran Itoh – Hipokuratesu-tachi
 Best Director: Seijun Suzuki – Zigeunerweisen
 Best New Director: Shinji Sōmai – Tonda Couple
 Best Screenplay: Shoichi Maruyama – Tonda Couple, The Beast To Die
 Best Cinematography: Kazue Nagatsuka – Zigeunerweisen
 Best Independent Film: Crazy Thunder Road
 Special Prize:
Tai Kato (Career)
Yūsaku Matsuda (Career)

Best 10
 Zigeunerweisen
 Tonda Couple
 Crazy Thunder Road
 The Beast to Die
 Nihyaku Sankōcho
 Disciples of Hippocrates
 Onna no Hosomichi: Nureta Kaikyo
 Kamisama no Kureta Akanbō
 Tekkihei, Tonda
 The Castle of Cagliostro

References

Yokohama Film Festival
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