title: Varde River

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The Varde () is a river of Jutland, Denmark. With a length of approximately , it is the third longest watercourse in Denmark, and has a catchment area of . The river flows through the municipalities of Varde and Esbjerg, forming the boundary between them along parts of its course.

Course
The Varde is formed by the confluence of the Grindsted and the Ansager. Approximately  downstream from that point, the majority of the river's flow was diverted by a weir into the Ansager Canal leading to a reservoir, Lake Karlsgårde, to be used for hydroelectric power generation at the Karlsgårde Hydroelectric Plant near Varde. Since 2006, the plant operator, Sydvest Energi, has given up its rights to dam and divert watercourses in the Varde drainage basin, and the river now flows past Hodde, bypassing the reservoir, which is now fed only by the Holme River. The plant is to be entirely closed down by the end of 2015.

In its lower reaches the river winds past the estate of Nørholm, and at Sig, past Sig Fiskeri, one of the largest fish farms in Denmark. The fish farm continues to draw water from the river, because the owner believes the groundwater contains too much iron oxide. The Holme then flows into the Varde, bringing with it the water from Lake Karlsgårde.

The river flows around the town of Varde and empties into the Ho Bugt bay north of Esbjerg.

The Varde is the only major tidal river in Denmark whose outlet is not regulated with dykes and sluice gates. As a result, the river remains under the influence of natural forces; for example, the tides in the bay affect both water level and flow rate far upriver, often as far as the outflow from Lake Karlsgårde.

Municipal boundaries
For part of its course the Varde makes up the boundary between Varde Municipality and Esbjerg Municipality.

Parish boundaries
For parts of its course the Varde makes up the boundary between the following parishes:
 Ansager and Skovlund
 Hodde and Thorstrup
 Thorstrup and Øse
 Thorstrup and Næsbjerg
 Varde and Næsbjerg
 Varde Sogn and Alslev
 Janderup and Alslev
 Janderup and Hostrup
 Billum and Hostrup

History
The  long stretch of the Varde between the Ansager weir and the inflow from Lake Karlsgårde lost approximately 90% of its flow in 1945 when the Karlsgårde Hydroelectric Plant, originally constructed in the 1920s, was expanded with the construction of the Ansager Canal to draw water from the Varde as well as the Holme.

In the 1950s, the section of the river between Hessel and Nørholm was dredged and straightened. Originally  long, with 35 bends, this stretch was reduced in length to a straight channel  long with four concrete sections.

A large part of the straightening of the river has been reversed beginning in 2009 in a land restoration project supported by the Actions for Houting project of the European Union LIFE Programme.

The lower river valley, west of Varde, was previously under intensive cultivation, among other uses for the production of horse feed with EU support. Beginning in 1994–95, farmers have modified their practices, no longer using fertiliser and keeping vegetation cut, which it is hoped in association with the higher water table will restore habitat for birds, in particular the endangered corncrake. In 1997–2002 more than 250 voluntarily signed 20-year agreements under Operation Engsnarre (Operation Corncrake), also supported by the EU LIFE Programme.

Aquatic life
The Varde River is home to many species of fish, including brown trout, grayling, pike and houting, and also salmon and sea trout, which attract many sport anglers. Fishing in the river is managed by the Grindsted Sportsfiskerforening (sport fishing association), Varde Sportsfiskerforening and Sydvestjydsk (Southwest Jutland) Sportsfiskerforening.

The river is also the only habitat in Denmark of the freshwater pearl mussel. The Varde River together with the lower reaches of the Ansager and the Grindsted has been designated an EU Special Area of Conservation. The designation also covers the majority of the existing lowlands in the river valley. In the designation, the houting and the freshwater pearl mussel were identified as priority species; especial weight is to be given to fulfilment of provisions relating to their habitat.

Recreation
In addition to fishing, Varde Roklub uses the river for rowing between April and October on the stretch between the Karlsgårde Hydroelectric Plant and the Tarphage bridge near Billum. The club turned 75 in 2014.

References

Rivers of Jutland


title: Exova

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Exova Group plc was a laboratory-based testing company, operating primarily within the Testing segment of the Testing Inspection and Certification (“TIC”) sector. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Element Materials Technology in June 2017.

History

The Exova brand was established in 2008, following a carve-out transaction from Bodycote, by funds managed by the private equity company Clayton, Dubilier & Rice for £417m in 2008. Exova was subsequently listed on the main London Stock Exchange on 16 April 2014 and entered the FTSE 250 in June 2014. In July 2014 the company acquired Metallurgical Services Private, an Indian testing services firm. In May 2015 Exova also acquired BM TRADA, the international provider of certification schemes and building products testing services.

Element Materials Technology announced a bid to acquire the company in April 2017; the transaction completed on 30 June 2017.

The British press reported in July 2017 that Exova had produced reports that allowed combustible cladding to be fitted to tall buildings "arguing fires involving combustible aluminium panels would behave similarly to ones with non-combustible ceramic tiles." At the Grenfell Fire Inquiry, expert witness Dr Barbara Lane criticised Exova’s attitude towards residents with mobility issues, as well as its inability to respond correctly to key questions during the Grenfell refurbishment. Dr Lane said Exova’s advice was inadequate on the project and its 2012 report lacked detail on how those with mobility issues could escape. She reminded the inquiry of the views of Exova’s former principal fire engineer Dr Clare Barker, who ‘did not consider’ these people and that ‘if they did have mobility issues then maybe Grenfell Tower wasn’t the best place for them to live’.

Operations

Exova was headquartered in Edinburgh, UK. Exova employed 4,500 people in 121 laboratories in 32 countries worldwide. The Group tested materials, components, products and systems to ensure compliance with safety, performance and quality standards. The company specialised in testing across a number of sectors including health sciences, aerospace, transportation, oil and gas, fire and construction.

Exova services included calibration, chemistry and microbiology, corrosion and protection, fire, metal technology, polymers and composites, and structures and systems. Exova operated in different sectors under a number of brands, including:
Exova Warringtonfire
Exova Metech
Warrington Certification
Exova Catalyst
Exova RPC
Exova Metallurgical Services
Exova BM Trada

References

External links
Official site

Technology companies established in 2008
2008 establishments in Scotland
2017 disestablishments in Scotland
Technology companies disestablished in 2017
2017 mergers and acquisitions
Grenfell Tower fire


title: Andrew Conru

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Andrew Conru is an American internet businessman who has founded e-commerce, advertising, online dating, and personal ad sites including W3, AdKnowledge, WebPersonals, FriendFinder, and Adult FriendFinder. He is the CEO of FriendFinder Networks Inc.

Education and early career

Conru grew up in northwestern Indiana and attended Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, earning undergraduate degrees in economics and chemical engineering. In 1991, he went to Stanford, receiving a doctorate in mechanical engineering.

While there, he founded W3.com, an early interactive website development firm that was the first company to develop commercial software for membership management. The company created PWS (Personal Web Site), an early customized advertising product used by Hewlett-Packard and Egghead Software. In 1997, the company released a product called AdOptimizer Network, the first centralized ad server, which allowed sites to manage advertising across a network of sites. He also founded Adknowledge, a web-based banner advertising company. In 1994, Conru founded WebPersonals.com. Considered to be one of the first internet dating sites, Conru sold the company in 1995.

FriendFinder

In 1996, he launched FriendFinder.com, an early social networking site. Days after the site went live, Conru found that members were posting nude photos pictures of themselves and using the site to seek out partners for adult activities. As a result, Conru started Adult FriendFinder, followed by other niche dating sites, including Senior FriendFinder, Amigos.com, BigChurch.com, and Alt.com. By 2007, the combined websites had 260 million registered members, more than 500,000 affiliates and 450 employees.

In December 2007, Conru sold the company to Penthouse Media Group for $500 million, much of which came in the form of IOUs. Penthouse later changed its name to FriendFinder Networks. On September 17, 2013, FriendFinder Networks Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In December 2013, as the company emerged from bankruptcy protection, Conru once again gained control of the company, where he now serves as CEO.

Compute.org

In 2010, Conru launched the non-profit foundation Compute.org, which awards internet and software startups with grants in amounts of $50,000100,000. One startup that has been awarded is CityRoof.org, a social network for homeless people that helps the homeless connect with necessary resources.

In 2014, he delivered the keynote address at AVN Internext Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

See also
 Locals

References

External links
Official website

Businesspeople from Indiana
American Internet company founders
Living people
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology alumni
American technology chief executives
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Nora-Eugenie Gomringer

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Nora-Eugenie Gomringer (born 26 January 1980) is a German and Swiss poet and writer.
She has won a number of awards, including the 2013 Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft, the 2015 Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis and the Carl Zuckmayer Medal by Rhineland-Palatinate.

She lives in Bamberg, where she has been directing the , a cultural institution founded by the State of Bavaria, since 2010. Her mostly lyrical work appears under the name Nora Gomringer, published by Voland & Quist. Hydra's Heads, a collection of her work translated into English by Annie Rutherford, appeared with Burning Eye Books in 2018.

Life
Gomringer's parents are Nortrud Gomringer, and the Swiss concrete poet, Eugen Gomringer. Born in Neunkirchen, Saar, she is their only daughter and the sister of seven half-brothers.
She grew up in Wurlitz (Rehau), and moved to Bamberg in 1996.

She achieved an American high school diploma in Lititz, Pennsylvania in 1998, and in 2000 graduated from the Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium Bamberg.
Gomringer went onto study English, German and Art History at the Otto-Friedrich University, completing her degree in 2006.
She completed internships at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York City (2001 and 2004) and the archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles (2000).
In April 2010, Gomringer became director of the International Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg.

Poetry
Gomringer's first collection of poetry appeared in 2000.
Following on from this self-published collection, the publisher Grupello Düsseldorf published hyphenation in 2002.
Since 2006, she has been published by the independent publisher Voland & Quist.
Her works include over ten volumes of poetry and two books of essays. Her most recent collection is Gottesanbieterin, which appeared in 2020.

She frequently collaborates with musicians and visual artists. The artist Reimar Limmer illustrated the three collections which make up her 'Trilogy of Surfaces and Invisibilities'.
Her musical stage partners have included: Günter Baby Sommer, Franz Tröger, Scratch Dee, Michael Stauffer, Word Class Ensemble and DJ Kermit. She performs most frequently with the drummer Philip Scholz.

Her poetry has appeared in English in translations by Annie Rutherford, brought together in Hydra's Heads (Burning Eye Books, 2018). Her volumes of poetry have also been translated into Swedish (translator: Cecilia Hansson), French (translator: Vincent Barras), Belarusian (translator: Volha Hapeyeva), and Spanish (Pablo Jofré).
Individual texts and small cycles have been translated into Norwegian, Spanish, American English, Letzeburgische, Dutch, Breton and Persian.

Opera, video and sound
In 2013, Nora Gomringerwrote the libretto for the opera project Three flying minutes, (music by Helga Pogatschar, and director Peter Schelling) which premiered in Basel.
Her work is frequently accompanied by small film and video projects, including several filmpoems by Cindy Schmidt. A number of her poetry books have been released with audio CDs.

Collaboration with Word Class Ensemble
Since about 2010, the a cappella ensemble formation Word Class have worked with her texts and used it for settings with and for the active organization of workshops.
From 2011 onwards, the five singers worked with Nora Gomringer, together on stage and performed a full-length program.
In 2012, the program "Nora Gomringer meets Wortart Ensemble" was invited to the 50th anniversary of the Goethe Institute in Toronto.
A tour of the US and Canada and then a tour of Germany followed, and in 2013 an album resulting from this collaboration was produced.

Poetry Slam
In the years 2001-2006, Nora Gomringer was active in the German poetry slam scene, including in the Bamberg Poetry Slam, which she founded in 2001 with Stefankai Spörlein and Keith Kennetz.
For several years, the Poetry Slam had its permanent venue in the Morph Club, Bamberg and is managed by the award-winning Slammer and author Christian Ritter.

Awards

 2012:
 2013: Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft
 2013: August-Graf-von-Platen-Lyrikpreis
 2014:
 2015: Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis
 2021: Carl Zuckmayer Medal

Works

In English

 Hydra's Heads, tr. Annie Rutherford. Burning Eye Books, 2018,

In German
Gedichte. 2000
Silbentrennung: Gedichte, Grupello-Verlag, 2002,
 Sag doch mal was zur Nacht. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden/Leipzig 2006,
 Klimaforschung. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden/Leipzig 2008,
 Nachrichten aus der Luft. Voland & Quist, Dresden/Leipzig 2010,
 Ich werde etwas mit der Sprache machen. Voland & Quist, Dresden/Leipzig 2011,
 Mein Gedicht fragt nicht lange. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden/Leipzig 2011,
 Monster Poems. With illustrations by Reimar Limmer. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden/Leipzig 2013,
Morbus. With illustrations by Reimar Limmer. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2015,
Mein Gedicht fragt nicht lange reloaded. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2015,
achduje. Der gesunde Menschenversand, Luzern 2015,
Ich bin doch nicht hier, um Sie zu amüsieren. Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2015, .
Moden. With illustrations by Reimar Limmer. Book with CD. Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2017,
Gottesanbieterin. Voland & Quist, Berlin / Dresden, 2020,

References

External links

Official website
Internationales Künstlerhaus: Nora Gomringer
Nora Gomringer's page at Poetry International

Living people
German women poets
1980 births
People from Neunkirchen, Saarland
University of Bamberg alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bamberg
German opera librettists
Women opera librettists


title: John D'Alton (historian)

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John D'Alton (1792–1867) was an Irish lawyer, historian, biographer and genealogist.

Life
D'Alton was born at his father's ancestral mansion, Bessville, County Westmeath, on 20 June 1792; his mother was Elizabeth Leyne. He was sent to the school of the Rev. Joseph Hutton, Summer Hill, Dublin, and passed the entrance examination of Trinity College Dublin, in his fourteenth year, 1806. He became a student in 1808, joined the College Historical Society, and gained the prize for poetry. Having graduated, he was in 1811 admitted a law student of the Middle Temple, London, and the King's Inns. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1813.

D'Alton mainly confined himself to chamber practice, and attended the Connaught circuit, having married a lady of that province, Miss Phillips. He received many fees in the important Irish family causes of Malone v. O'Connor, Leamy v. Smith, Jago v. Hungerford, and others. With the exception of an appointment as commissioner of the Loan Fund Board, he held no official position, but a civil list pension of £50, granted while Lord John Russell was prime minister, was some recognition.

In his last years, D'Alton's health confined him to his house, but he received guests and worked on an autobiography. He died 20 January 1867.

Works
D'Alton's first publication was a metrical poem, Dermid, or the Days of Brian Boru, in twelve cantos. In 1827 the Royal Irish Academy offered a prize of £80 and the Cunningham gold medal for an essay on the Irish people to the twelfth century; D'Alton obtained the top prize and medal, and his essay, which was read 24 November 1828, occupied the first part of vol. xvi. of the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. In 1831 he also gained the prize offered by the Royal Irish Academy for an account of the reign of Henry II of England in Ireland.

For illustrations of Irish topography contributed to the Irish Penny Journal, started in January 1833, D'Alton collected information on druidical stones, the raths and fortresses of the early colonists, especially of the Anglo-Normans, the castles of the Plantagenets, Elizabethan mansions, Cromwellian keeps, and the ruins of abbeys. Drawings were supplied by Samuel Lover. In 1838 D'Alton published Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin, and in the same year History of the County of Dublin. His next work was an illustrated book The History of Drogheda and its Environs, containing a memoir of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway. There followed the Annals of Boyle, to which Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton, the proprietor, contributed £300 towards the publication.

D'Alton published in 1855 King James II's Irish Army List, 1689, which contained the names of most of the prominent Irish families, with historical and genealogical illustrations, and subsequently enlarged in separate volumes, for cavalry and infantry. They bring the history of most families to the date of publication. Another work was legal, a treatise on the Law of Tithes. At the end of his life, in 1864, D'Alton was asked to write a History of Dundalk that was completed by James Roderick O'Flanagan.

Notes

External links

Attribution

 Guide to the John D'Alton Collection ca. 17th-19th centuries  at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center

1792 births
1867 deaths
Irish barristers
19th-century Irish historians
Irish genealogists
People from County Westmeath
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin


title: Place de l'Obélisque

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The Place de l'Obélisque (Obelisk Square) is a central plaza in Dakar, Senegal.  It is an important site for protests, demonstrations, parades, and other events.  The plaza's obelisk, which is adorned with the Roman numerals MCMLX, commemorates Senegal's 1960 independence from France.

References

Dakar
Obelisks
Squares in Senegal


title: Tana Toa

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Tana Toa (sometimes spelled as Tanatoa, Tanah Toa, or Tanah Towa) is a village in the Kajang district, Bulukumba Regency in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The village is located in the east coast of South Sulawesi, about  from town of Kajang, about  north of Bulukumba and  southeast of Makassar. The village is inhabited majority by the Kajang tribe. The village is famous throughout Makassar territory as the place of great mystical power.

Geography
The village of Tana Toa has a very dense forest. Almost the entire village is surrounded by rainforests. There are no paved roads in the region, except paths made of stones arranged in a regular pattern as road markers. 90 ha of land used as a rain-fed agriculture. Plants are cultivated on an area that is quite diverse, including rice, corn, cocoa, coffee, and others. Rice fields are located at the bottom of the hill near the Amma Toa, The fertile paddy fields are visible from distance.

The village is bordered by village Tuli to the north, Limba village to the south, Seppa village to the east and Dor village to the west.

Tana Toa consists of hamlets:
 Balagana
 Jannayya
 Bantalang
 Pangi
 Sobbu
 Balambina
 Benteng
 Luraya
 Tombolo

Out of the nine hamlets in Tana Toa, eight of them are in the traditional Ammatoa customs zone totally occupy area of about  or more than 55% of the village total area, while Jannayya is not.

Culture
The village is named Tana Toa (from local language meaning the oldest land in the world according to the customary beliefs of the villagers). People of Tana Toa believe that the earth was first created by God in a forest called Tombolo. The area was believed to be the oldest area in the world, so the villagers named the area as Tana Toa.

Geographically and administratively, Tana Toa is inhabited by Konjo people, a sub ethnic of Buginese. The indigenous people of Konjo divided into two sub-groups called Konjo Gunung (Mountain Konjo) and Konjo Pesisir (Coastal Konjo)., who speak the Highland and Coastal Konjo language. The Konjo Pegunungan (Mountain Konjo) primarily live in the mountainous region of Konjo, in the districts of Tinggimoncong, Gowa, Sinjai and Bone.  The Konjo Pesisir people (also known as Tiro) live in the districts of Kajang, Herlang, Bonto Tiro and Bonto Bahari in the east area of the Bulukumba Regency. The Konjo Pesisir speak the Konjo language in several dialects, namely Tana Toa, Konjo Hitam and Kajang. The Konjo Hitam (Black Konjo) people, who are included among the Konjo Pesisir, occupy an area to the west of Kajang. These Konjo Hitam consider themselves the original inhabitants and regard their area as the center of traditional custom for all of the Konjo Pesisir. This Konjo Hitam tribe is also known as Kajang tribe.

Kajang tribe is divided into two groups, inner Kajang and Outer Kajang tribes.  The traditional Inner Kajang tribe scatters in several villages, including the village of Tana Toa, Bonto Baji, Malleleng, Pattiroang, Batu Nilamung and some parts of Tambangan village. The Inner Kajang tribe lives in the area bordered with Tuli in the north, Limba in the east, Seppa in the South, and Doro in the west. While the Outer Kajang tribe population spreads throughout much of the Kajang District and  in some villages in the Bulukumba Regency, such as Jojolo, Tibona, Bonto Minasa and Batu Lohe

However, only Inner Kajang tribe live in full customs of Ammatoa.  The tribe are known for their motto Kamase-masea, or a simple living and reluctance to adopt many conveniences of modern technology. For them, technology objects can have negative impacts on their lives, because they undermine the sustainability of natural resources. The tribe people always wear black clothes, such as pants that almost touch knees, sarong, robe, and headband. These people also practice occultism as part of their animistic worship. They are referred to as the indigenous people of Kajang.

The simplicity is also applied to their residence.  All houses in Tana Toa are stilt houses constructed and made of the same material made of wood with roofs of straw. All  houses even face the same direction facing the west. The bathroom is located in front of the house and without doors.

Kajang people do not recognize social stratification, they assume men are all equal. They also assume that they are the oldest Konjo, and regard their territory as the Centrum of all descendants of the traditional Konjo people.

The word Ammatoa or Amma Toa is a Konjo word for Old Father. It means that the Kajang tribe is led by a Ammatoa figure (Tribal chief).  A successful candidate to replace previous Ammatoa is chosen through a long and complicated process. The tribe believe that the chosen Ammatoa receives instructions from Turae Ra’na (God). He must also be able to recite a series of myths and genealogies flawlessly without ever having studied them. Ammatoa society hold the Patuntung belief, a belief for sustainability of forest ecosystems.  The Ammatoa position is for life, and is replaced only when the incumbent dies.

The main source of life for Kajang tribe is agriculture and plantations.  Most of the men working in farms or paddy fields during the day to meet the needs. When planting season arrives they flock to the fields that are located a few kilo-meters from their homes. They use horses as transportation to the rice fields and water buffaloes  for plowing the fields. People who do not have farms or fields usually work for the owners of the fields. Women usually work at home weaving fabrics. They weave fabrics to be used to make black sarongs called Tope Le'leng. They also sell the woven fabrics to visitors as additional revenue.

Religion
Konjo people are 100% Muslims, but 75% of the people still retain animistic practice.  Even the most devout Muslims fear of spirits and do whatever it takes to please these spirits. When there is a conflict between the teachings of Islam and their traditional practices, traditional practices will win. Most children learn to read the Koran and every ceremony is considered not complete without Koran recitation, even though they do not understand the meaning.

Climate and ecology
The forest  in Tana Toa is called Borong Karama (meaning Sacred Forest) with the area of .  Tana Toa is rich with Bitti wood (Vitex cofasus).  The wood is the main material to make hull frames of phinisi boat, because the wood is naturally  in curved shape.  Animals commonly found in the forest are deer, pigs, monkeys and jungle fowls.

The flora and fauna in Tana Toa are conserved by local community, not only because of the penalties as mush as  tallu lasa’  (about 1.2 millions of rupiah), but also because they are afraid of a curse as the result of breaking the old tradition of the antecedents, Pasanga ri Kajang.

Tana Toa has a tropical rainforest climate. Throughout the year the humidity is high due to the significant annual precipitation of around 1453 mm. The average annual high temperature in Tana Toa is around  and the average annual low temperature is . The village's wet season runs from October through June, while the dry season covers the remaining three months.

References

Tana Toa
Suku Konjo Pesisir

Villages in South Sulawesi
Populated places in South Sulawesi


title: Valentin Piseev

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Valentin Nikolaevich Piseev (; born 28 September 1941 in Volokolamsk) is a former general director of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia (until 2014) and the member of Russian Olympic Committee. He had been the president of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (from 1992 to 2010) before becoming a director, and the president of the Figure Skating Federation of the USSR (from 1988 to 1992, till the dissolution of the Soviet Union).

His wife Alla Shekhovtsova is a figure skating judge. She is 23 years younger than her husband. He has a daughter Kristina (born 1974) from prior marriage, and a son Stanislav (born 1989) from Alla Shekhovtsova.

Biography
Piseev was born in Volokolamsk, but his mother, Anna, soon left to her home village Khotrovo. He started skating at that time. In 1948 the family moved to Moscow. Piseev continued skating at the Young Pioneers rink, where he was noticed by a figure skating coach Igor Vonzblein and invited to his skating class. He was later coached by Tatiana Tolmacheva. He didn't achieve notable results in figure skating, competing at the local and regional competitions. Piseev stopped skating due to injury. Tatiana Tolmacheva advised him to try coaching.

In 1964 he graduated from the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism with a qualification of Physical Education Teacher. After graduation, he worked as a coach and later as a senior coach of the Young Pioneers rink. In 1965-1967 Piseev headed the All-Union Board of Judges. Since 1967 he had been working as the secretary of the Figure Skating Federation of the USSR. Since 1968 he monitored the work of other coaches.

As a figure skating judge, he was among the judge crews at the European Figure Skating Championships, World Figure Skating Championships during 1972-1977. He also judged the Winter Olympic Games in 1972 and 1976. From 1977 he was a part of the International Skating Union (ISU) technical committee.

In 1989 Piseev was elected the president of the Figure Skating Federation of the USSR and after its dissolution the Federation of Russia. In 2010, he decided not to participate in the next presidential election and Aleksandr Gorshkov became a new president of the Federation.

Orders and medals
 Order of Honour (1998)
 Order of Friendship of Peoples (1994)
 Medal "For Labour Valour" (1976)
 Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1990)
 Merited Coaches of the Soviet Union (1976)
 Silver Olympic Order

Criticism
Before his retirement Piseev had been criticised by Anton Sikharulidze, Tatiana Tarasova and other notable figures in the figure skating world, especially after Russia's failures at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was blamed for the confusion with Olympic accreditations, particularly because his daughter Kristina received the accreditation and was sent as an interpreter with the Russian snowboarding team, while Irina Zhuk, the coach of skaters Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski, was not able to get the Olympic accreditation and had to stay in Russia.

In 2010 interview Irina Rodnina criticised Pissev for not doing his job and for expecting others "to do work for him". She also commented that he has "no authority, and no respect" among international colleagues. Elena Tchaikovskaia stated that Piseev only listened "to one adviser", which was his wife, and criticized him for making a "family business" out of figure skating. She also told that he "has hampered the work of coaches he does not like, got rid of opponents, and surrounded himself with people who agree with him".

Piseev was criticized for holding the position of the president for too long; for being too conservative; for pushing certain skaters at the expense of others and supporting only selected skaters.

Anton Sikharulidze commented on the presidential election that functions of the president were changed and "limited to representative", and the whole post turned nominal, while real power belongs to the general director. However Tatiana Tarasova approved Piseev's appointment as a general director of the Figure Skating Federation, stating he "is no friend of mine", but "not using his knowledge and international authority would be very wrong".

References

1941 births
People from Volokolamsky District
Living people
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Figure skating in the Soviet Union
Figure skating in Russia
Figure skating coaches
Figure skating judges
Figure skating officials
Soviet male single skaters


title: Tony Ward (designer)

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Tony Ward (Arabic: طوني ورد, born on March 27, 1970, in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese-Italian fashion designer. Named “The Architect of Detail”, he draws his inspiration from contemporary architecture.

Early life
Tony Ward is the son of Elie Ward, a couturier based in Beirut. At 18, he enrolled in the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in Paris, France. He worked with Claude Montana at Lanvin, then with Gianfranco Ferré at Dior, then with Karl Lagerfeld at Chloé, where he studied haute couture before he launched his own brand Tony Ward Couture. Ward transformed his family's couture house, established by his father in 1952, into an international brand. He creates Couture, Ready to Wear and Bridal Collections.

Career

After working in Paris, Tony Ward came back to his home country and launched his own couture line in 1997, for which he was awarded 1st prize at the "Société des Artistes et Décorateurs" (SAD) design competition, and his drawings were exhibited at the Musée Galliéra (The Fashion Museum of the city of Paris).

In 2004, Tony Ward started presenting his couture fashion shows in Rome. His first collection, entitled "Eden," gained press and public. He was named Fashion Designer of the Year at the "L’Ago D’Oro" (Golden Needle) awards and by 2007, Tony Ward Couture Collections had attracted interest from high-worth clients internationally. The increasing demand for his creations led to the opening of a showroom in Moscow.

In 2013, his collection "Frozen Memories" was presented in Moscow at The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The runway used competitors from the Miss Universe 2013 Pageant who walked down the runway wearing Tony Ward Couture creations.
After ten years of releasing his collections in Rome during Italian Fashion week, Tony Ward chose in 2014 to start presenting in Paris.

In 2014, Tony Ward was picked to dress the 12 finalists of the Miss France 2015 elections during a live show on French channel TF1. Miss France 2015 Camille Cerf and Miss France 2010 Malika Menard were also wearing Tony Ward designs during the event.

Headquarters

After celebrating the 60th birthday of the historical Ward Atelier, Tony Ward Couture moved to its new headquarters on Hôtel-Dieu Avenue in Beirut, Lebanon. The building houses the boutique, couture salons, offices, and ateliers.

Museum displays
A gown worn by Whitney Houston for The BET Honors in 2010 was part of a temporary exhibit at the Grammy Museum.

A dress worn by Pink at the Grammy Awards was displayed at the Limited/Unlimited exhibition for the AltaRomAltaModa fashion event 2010 in Rome, Italy.

References

External links

1970 births
Living people
Lebanese fashion designers
Wedding dress designers


title: Albanian Institute New York

text:
The Albanian Institute New York is a multi-arts and cultural institution supporting, producing, and presenting the full range of performing arts, visual arts, and contemporary culture.

A non-profit contemporary art and cultural established in the State of New York, the institute focuses on presenting emerging artists, promoting artistic excellence, providing a forum for cultural dialogue and strengthening intercultural relations, and creating educational opportunities worldwide.

Programs
Programs range from music to literature, film to theatre and dance, visual arts, to architecture, design and fashion, in addition to talks and lecture series, with collaborations across these disciplines and others, in the US and around the world.

Design and Architecture

Albanian Institute New York represented Albania at the inaugural London Design Biennale 2016, and was the winner and awarded with a Medal for its design contribution. London Design Biennale, that takes place at Somerset Hose, is a global gathering of the world’s most ambitious and imaginative designers, curators and design institutions. London Design Biennale awards four medals to the best contributions from the participating countries, cities and territories.

Albanian Institute was one of the Medal winners, awarded for the best contribution with the most exceptional design, along with Lebanon, Russia, and Switzerland.

Partnerships

The institute has established numerous valuable partnerships and collaborations with some of the world's biggest organizations, museums, and corporations to run our programing including New Museum, Museum of the Moving Image, and online platforms such as Artsy.

The institute is based in Manhattan and is a member of the European Union National Institutes for Culture EUNIC in New York.

"The Group of European Cultural Institutes of New York presents cutting-edge and thought provoking artistic and intellectual European achievements to New York and U.S. audiences."
In September 2014, Dino Korca, director and curator of the institute, was elected EUNIC NY president.

The institute has also established numerous valuable partnerships and collaborations with prominent organization, including online platforms such as Artsy.

The Institute focuses on "modern trends and progress in society, culture, education, economics and youth among Albanian communities at home and abroad."

References

External links
 Albanian Institute official website
 Artsy Online Platform

Non-profit organizations based in New York City
Albania–United States relations
Cultural promotion organizations


title: RDI REIT

text:
Brightbay Real Estate Partners is a property investment business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange as RDI REIT PLC, ticker symbol RDI. In May 2021, Starwood Capital Group acquired RDI REIT plc for £467.9M and it was reformed into Brightbay Real Estate Partners and remains a fully integrated Real Estate Investment Trust.

History
The company was established in 2002 as the Corovest International Real Estate Fund. It was floated on the Alternative Investment Market  in 2006. It changed its name to Redefine International in 2008 and converted to a Real estate investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2013. It changed its name again, to RDI REIT, in November 2017.

Operations

The company's largest investments include the  Grand Arcade in Wigan, St George's Shopping Centre in Harrow and West Orchards Shopping Centre in Coventry. The company had a portfolio valued at £1.5bn as at 31 August 2017.

Portfolio

References

External links
Official site

Real estate companies established in 2002
Companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange


title: Owl's Nest Park

text:
Owl's Nest Park is an urban park in the East Walnut Hills and Evanston neighborhoods of Cincinnati, Ohio, owned and operated by the Cincinnati Park Board.

The land containing the park was donated in 1905 by Charles E. and Edward C. Perkins.  A boulder with plaque marks the spot where the Perkins house once stood.

Beginning in 2005, the park was extensively renovated.

References

Parks in Cincinnati


title: Georg Dehio Cultural Prize

text:
The Georg Dehio Cultural Prize (Georg Dehio-Kulturpreis) is a biennial award, funded by the German government's Office of the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media (Beauftragte der Bundesregierung for Kultur und Medien),  and administered by the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe.

Recipients are recognized for work that promotes German cultural expression in Eastern Europe; critically engages the cultural interactions between Germany and its eastern neighbours; or contributes to reconciliation and mutual understanding between peoples in the areas of former German settlement. Described as "prestigious" by German press and television sources,  the award is named after Georg Dehio, an Estonian-born German art historian of the nineteenth century whose emphasis on the national and ethnic heterogeneity and interdependence of the region has been taken as a guiding principle for the German Cultural Forum's work.

The prize, first granted in 2003, is awarded in alternate years with the Georg Dehio Book Prize, being offered in odd-numbered years. Two categories of award are made: a Grand Prize, which carries a cash value of €7,000, and a Prize of Honor of €3,000. Corporate bodies as well as individuals are eligible. A seven-person international jury, drawn from the fields of art history, historical preservation, museum administration, and culture, selects the winners. Jurors serve for a maximum of two terms, with the exception of a representative of the German Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media, the sole permanent member. The jury may not nominate prospective honorees, nor are self-nominations permitted.

Winners

 2013: Ewa Chojecka (Grand Prize); Irina Tscherkasjanowa (Prize of Honor)
 2011: Christoph Klein (Grand Prize); Jan Janca (Prize of Honor)
 2009: Christoph Machat (Grand Prize); Zbigniew Czarnuch (Prize of Honor)
 2007: Imants Lancmanis (Grand Prize); the editorial staff of Dialog (Prize of Honor)
 2005: Volker Koepp (Grand Prize); Antikomplex (Czech historical society) (Prize of Honor)
 2003: Andrzej Tomaszewski (Grand Prize); Hermannstädter Bachchor (Prize of Honor)

See also

 Georg Dehio Book Prize

References

External links

The Georg Dehio Cultural Prize

German awards
Awards established in 2003


title: Caracal Energy

text:
Caracal Energy plc is a Canadian oil exploration and development business with operations in Chad. It was acquired by Glencore in 2014.

History
The company was formed by Brad Griffiths as Griffiths Energy International Inc in 2009. After Brad Griffiths was killed in a boating accident in 2011, the company changed its name to Caracal Energy.

In 2013 the company was fined C$10.35 million after allegedly making improper payments to the wife of Chad's ambassador to Canada.

In April 2014 Glencore made an offer to buy the company.

Operations
The company has oil exploration and development operations in Chad.

References

External links

Oil companies of Canada
Non-renewable resource companies established in 2009


title: King Christian IX Land

text:
King Christian IX Land () is a coastal area of Southeastern Greenland in Sermersooq Municipality fronting the Denmark Strait and extending through the Arctic Circle from 65°N to 70°N.

History
This area was named in September 1884 by Gustav Frederik Holm who claimed it for Denmark, naming it after the then-reigning Danish King Christian IX.

Geography
King Christian IX Land is bordered by King Frederick VI Coast on the south, King Christian X Land and the Scoresby Sound to the north, and the Greenland Ice Sheet to the west. Greenland's highest mountain range, the Watkins Range, as well as the nearly as high Schweizerland are located in this region.

The shore area of King Christian IX Land includes the Blosseville Coast to the east. There are many fjords, the largest of which are Sermilik, Kangerlussuaq and Kangertittivatsiaq, as well as numerous coastal islands, including Ammassalik which is the site of the most populous town in Eastern Greenland, Tasiilaq.
On the coast itself there are some small settlements, such as Sermiligaaq, but areas far from the coast are uninhabited.

Image gallery

References

External links
Caledonian magmatic activity in south-eastern Greenland
Geography of Greenland


title: Richard Liddell

text:
Richard Liddell (c. 1694 – 22 June 1746) was an Irish MP and Chief Secretary for Ireland.

He was born the eldest son of Dennis Lyddell of Wakehurst Place, Sussex, one of the Commissioners of the Royal Navy and briefly the MP for Harwich. Richard was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, studied law at the Inner Temple and succeeded his father in 1717. He was a profligate rake and was obliged to make over his inheritance to his younger brother Charles following court judgements against him for adultery.

In 1741 he was elected MP for Bossiney but unseated on petition after a few months. He was, however, reseated on further petition, sitting until his death in 1746.

In 1745 he was made a Privy Counsellor in Ireland and appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, a position he held until his death. He was also MP for Jamestown in the Parliament of Ireland from 1745 until his death.

He died unmarried.

References

1746 deaths
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Members of the Inner Temple
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Leitrim constituencies
Irish MPs 1727–1760
Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
British MPs 1741–1747
1690s births
Chief Secretaries for Ireland
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bossiney


title: Hazen Russell

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Hazen Russell (March 8, 1892 – November 14, 1983) was a fishery entrepreneur from New Brunswick.  As a young man he moved to Newfoundland to work at the bank in Catalina. He spent the rest of his life living and working in Newfoundland. He founded the Bonavista Cold Storage Company and North Atlantic Fisheries Ltd.   As the president of Job Brothers Ltd. he created the first factory ship in the world by refitting Blue Peter with a brine freezing system and a canning plant to pack salmon.

References

1892 births
1983 deaths
Businesspeople from New Brunswick
Dominion of Newfoundland people


title: Ivy Parker

text:
Ivy May Parker (September 11, 1907 – September 7, 1985) was an American chemist and engineer. She earned a doctorate in organic chemistry in 1935 and worked in the oil industry as a specialist on the causes and prevention of corrosion of pipelines.

Early life and education
Born on September 11, 1907, in Quay County, New Mexico, Parker was educated at West Texas State Teachers College, where she won the Garvan Essay prize of $500 in her sophomore year. She went on to attain her master's degree and PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Texas in 1931 and 1935 respectively, becoming the first woman to receive a PhD in chemistry at the university.

Career
Following her work as an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Mary Hardin–Baylor from 1934 to 1935, Parker was employed by Shell Oil Company as an analytical chemist from 1936 to 1943, and held the position of senior research chemist for the J.S. Abercrombie Company for one year. In 1945 she began a 27-year career at the Plantation Pipeline Company as a field technologist, research engineer, and senior engineer.

Parker used her knowledge of chemistry to contribute to the development of pipeline technology as it evolved and expanded post-World War II. She published numerous papers on the issue of pipeline corrosion, and made innovations in both water- and oil-soluble inhibitors.

In 1944 the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) appointed her as the first editor of their official publication, Corrosion, a position she occupied until 1965. She was a specialist in research on the cause and prevention of corrosion of pipeline technology.

She was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, and a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists.

Legacy
An Ivy Parker Memorial Scholarship was established by the Society of Women Engineers for female engineering students.

References

External links

1907 births
1985 deaths
People from Quay County, New Mexico
University of Texas alumni
West Texas A&M University alumni
American women chemists
20th-century American women scientists
20th-century American chemists
Chemists from New Mexico


title: Mighty Roosters RC

text:
Mighty Roosters RC is a Belgian rugby club in De Haan.

References

External links
 Mighty Roosters RC

Rugby union clubs in Belgium
Rugby clubs established in 2011
Sport in West Flanders
De Haan, Belgium


title: Siouxsie Q

text:
Siouxsie Q is an American journalist, pornographic actress, and sex workers’ rights activist who identifies herself as a feminist and sex worker. She is a podcaster, singer/songwriter and playwright as well as a widely read columnist with SF Weekly in San Francisco.

Personal life
Siouxsie Q is based in San Francisco and is married to fellow podcaster and journalist Jesse James. She and James have a polyamorous relationship.

Career
After appearing on amateur sites Dare Ring and being a contributor to the sellyoursextape videos (Ashley & Dakota) in 2010, Siouxsie Q left her retail job and began dancing at The Lusty Lady Theater, a unionized peep show in North Beach, San Francisco. Shortly after, she began her career as a sex worker while living in Inner Richmond, commuting to an apartment in East Bay to conduct business.

Initially using the Internet primarily as a marketing tool, Siouxsie has stated that podcasts have "really transformed how I do business". By 2012, she had settled into her career and, at the urging of her boyfriend, began a regular, biweekly podcast as a way to speak out against California's Proposition 35, Measure B. Originally called, "This American Whore", the podcast's name was eventually changed to "The WhoreCast" after a dispute with This American Life, the public radio program. After the passing of Proposition 35, the podcast was expanded to cover a broad range of topics such as transgender issues, sexuality, sex workers' rights, politics and pornography.

In 2014, she began writing a regular column for SF Weekly in which she discusses the topics of pornography, feminism, sexuality and the sex work industry.

She was jointly nominated for Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene at the 2015 AVN Awards.

Political views
By way of her podcast, "The WhoreCast", Siouxsie Q emerged as an outspoken opponent of California's Proposition 35, Measure B, a part of the Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act. In her broadcasts, she stated that she considered the proposition "a confusing piece of legislation" that too broadly expanded the definition of “trafficking” to include anyone who lived with or derived support from someone who is a prostitute. In response, The WhoreCast was established as "a vehicle to really humanize sex work" and as a way to oppose Proposition 35.
She also utilized the podcast to speak out against Assembly Bill 1576, a bill that would require condoms be worn in all adult films made in California. She described the bill as "part of a multipronged strategy ... to shut down the porn industry in California".
In 2013, she was featured on CNN after organizing an Obamacare registration drive dubbed the "Healthy Ho's Party." The event, designed to encourage sex workers to enroll in newly established insurance exchanges, was declared a success, with nearly 40 attendees filing enrollment paperwork.

References

External links

 Siouxsie Q  at SF Weekly
 "4 Porn Stars Talk About How They Fell in Love"

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American columnists
American female erotic dancers
American erotic dancers
American pornographic film actresses
Pornographic film actors from California
Writers from San Francisco
American women columnists
Sex-positive feminists
Sex worker activists in the United States
Polyamorous people
21st-century American women
American women podcasters
American podcasters


title: Owl's Nest (disambiguation)

text:
Owl's Nest is a historic house in Lake George, New York.

Owl's Nest may also refer to:
Owl's Nest Country Place, a country club in Greenville, Delaware
Owl's Nest Park, a city park in Cincinnati, Ohio


title: Dumb (Faith Evans song)

text:
"Dumb" is a song by American R&B recording artist Faith Evans, recorded for R&B Divas (2012), a compilation album led by Evans which featured the first season stars of the same-titled TV One reality series. It was written by Evans along with Chris "Brody" Brown, Toni Coleman, Achia Dixon, Larrance Dopson, Lamar Edwards, Camille Hooper, and Jaila Simms, incorporating a sample from the composition "Broadway Combination", penned by Christian Arlester for his band Dyke and the Blazers. Production on "Dumb" was handled by music production team 1500 or Nothin', featuring additional production by Evans.

The retro soul track was released as the compilation album's second single following Evans-led lead single "Tears of Joy". A music video for "Dumb" was photographed by Bishop Moore and features Evans singing and dancing in a 1970s-themed clip.

Music video
A music video for "Dumb" was Directed  by Bishop Moore. In the ’70s-themed clip, Evans jams with her band and sits atop a candy red Ford Mustang.

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of R&B Divas.

Production – 1500 or Nothin'
Co–production, vocal production – Faith Evans
Additional vocals – Fizzy Gillespie & The Fayettes
Mixing – Tony Maserati
Mixing assistance – Christopher Tabron
Recording – Ben Briggs III
Mastering – Herb Powers

Charts

References

2012 singles
2012 songs
Faith Evans songs
Songs written by Faith Evans
Songs written by Christopher Brody Brown
Songs written by Larrance Dopson
Songs written by Lamar Edwards
American dance-pop songs
American disco songs
MNRK Music Group singles


title: Laqlouq

text:
Laqlouq (), also spelled Laklouk and also known as ′Arab Laqlouq () is a small mountainous village in mountainous area in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is located 69 kilometers northeast of Beirut. Laqlouq has an average elevation of 1,780 meters above sea level and a total land area of 210 hectares. Most of the inhabitants are Sunni Muslims, in contrast to the majority of Byblos District's population, which is largely Maronite Christian with a significant Shia Muslim minority.

History
Laqlouq was founded in the 18th century by Arabs who are known today as ′Arab al-Laqlouq. Their presence dates back to the era of Emir Bashir Shihab II, who granted the village residents their lands and who vacationed there in the summer months. The original residents are generally poorer than the newer arrivals who immigrated to the village from nearby areas.

Visitors to Laqlouq in 1957 reported having a disturbed night whilst camping near the village due to gunfire and explosions as the district celebrated the release from prison of local land owner Sheikh Georges Beg Yussef. He had been sentenced to life in prison in Cairo for drug smuggling. His release was secured by local politician Hamid Beik Frangieh who had personally lobbied Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser on Yussef's behalf.

Today, most of Laqlouq's working inhabitants are employed in trade in the coastal cities of Beirut or Tripoli, while local livestock owners graze their herds in the coastal rural areas. The village's main economic sector is agriculture, but its harvests are seasonally dependent, namely during the summer and fall, which is why most working residents are employed outside the village during the rest of the year. The main crops are apples, plums and vegetables.

Local government
Laqlouq's municipal council consisting of nine members, headed by a chairman, who was Ahmad Khodr as of 2007. It also is administered by a village council, which has three members led by a mayor, who was Hasan Salim as of 2007. The village council of Salim was elected in 1998. With the exception of a locally funded summer school, there are no educational institutions in the village, whose municipal projects have been hindered due to a lack of revenue.

References

Populated places in Byblos District
Sunni Muslim communities in Lebanon
 Geography of Lebanon
Ski areas and resorts in Lebanon
Sport in Lebanon


title: Union Sportive de Sbeitla

text:
Union Sportive Sbeitla also known as USS , is a Tunisian football club, based in the city of Sbeitla in Tunisia. The club was founded in 1947. The team plays in red and white and plays its home matches at the Stade of Sbeitla, which has a seating capacity of 2500 spectators.

The team is currently playing in the Tunisian Third Football League. It was nominated for the first time in its history for the golden square of the Tunisian Cup on June 9, 2013, with JS Kairouan, CA Bizertin and Avenir Sportive de la Marsa , which are teams playing in the first Tunisian Professional Football League.

References

External links
US-Sbeitla in Soccerway

Football clubs in Tunisia
Association football clubs established in 1947
1947 establishments in Tunisia
Sports clubs and teams in Tunisia


title: Olle Eksell

text:
Olle Eksell (born Carl Olof Lennart in Ål, Sweden; March 22, 1918 – April 11, 2007) was a Swedish graphic designer and poster artist, and a professor until 2001. He was married to artist Ruthel Günzberger. He gave shape to the classic "eyes" on chocolate packages for Ögon Cacao, and wrote the book Design = Economy.

References

1918 births
2007 deaths
Swedish graphic designers


title: Bermuda at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

text:
Bermuda competed in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland from 23 July – 3 August 2014. A team of eighteen athletes in six sports was announced on 20 June 2014.

Athletics

Men

Field event

Women
Field event

Combined events – Heptathlon

Key
Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Cycling

Road

Gymnastics

Rhythmic
Individual

Squash

Individual

Doubles

Swimming

Men

Triathlon

References

Nations at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Bermuda at the Commonwealth Games
2014 in Bermudian sport


title: 2000 Mnet Music Video Festival

text:
The 2000 Mnet Music Video Festival (MMF) was the second of the annual music awards in Seoul, South Korea that took place on November 24, 2000, at the Little Angels Arts Center.

Leading the nominees were boyband H.O.T. and solo artist Jo Sung-mo, with three each. By the end of the ceremony, Jo Sung-mo received the most awards with two wins, including the "Music Video of the Year" daesang award. The boy-band group H.O.T. received only one award, though they received the daesang award for "Best Popular Music Video".

Background
The award-giving body continued to be named as "M.net Korean Music Festival" (MKMF) for the second time. During this time, four more categories were added including the Best R&B Performance. The Best New Artist and Best Group were given to two recipients each since the awards for male and female recipients were separated. In addition, the Best Group branched out further to give a separate award for the Best Mixed Group. Furthermore, the event also featured Westlife, the first international artist to perform live. The grand awards (or daesang) were still the Best Popular Music Video and Music Video of the Year, without the nominees.

Nomination process
The Nominee Selection Committee had an initial screening to choose for the nominees who released songs or albums from November 1999 to October 2000. The official website was then opened on November 2 for voting. In addition, professional judges have also chosen from the nominees based on its criteria: planning, song quality, artistry, and popularity.

Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Special awards
 Best International Artist: Britney Spears – "Oops!... I Did It Again"
 M.net Japan Viewer's Choice Award: Click-B ("화영문")
 Judges' Choice Award: Tae Jin-ah ("Love Is Not For Someone")

Multiple awards

Artist(s) with multiple wins
The following artist(s) received two or more wins (excluding the special awards):

Artist(s) with multiple nominations
The following artist(s) received two or more nominations:

Performers and presenters
The following individuals and groups, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Performers

Presenters

Notes

References

External links
 Mnet Asian Music Awards  official website

MAMA Awards ceremonies
Mnet Music Video Festival
Mnet Music Video Festival
Mnet Music Video Festival
Mnet Music Video Festival, 2000


title: Lawrence Dorr

text:
Lawrence Dorr (1925 – December 7, 2014) was the pen name of Janos Shoemyen, a Hungarian-American author born in Budapest, Hungary. He escaped from his homeland during the Soviet occupation and endured an itinerant life in immediate post-war Europe. He tried first to emigrate to the UK and then the USA where he finally settled in Gainesville, Florida. He authored a number of short story collections including A Slow Soft River, A Bearer of Divine Revelation, and A Slight Momentary Affliction, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Three of his short stories appeared in the respected literary journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review.

Dorr's work is best known for its highly literary, almost poetic quality, and the strong presence of faith and Christianity. In these works he frequently deals with the after-effects of World War II, both on his homeland and the individual. His later work is heavily influenced by the landscape of south and north Florida as it flashbacks to the horrors faced before his escape from occupied Budapest.

References

Hungarian emigrants to the United States
Writers from Gainesville, Florida
American Christian writers
1920s births
Writers from Budapest
20th-century American short story writers
2014 deaths
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century pseudonymous writers


title: FAO GM Foods Platform

text:
The FAO GM Foods Platform is a web platform where participating countries can share information on their assessments of the safety of genetically modified (recombinant-DNA) foods and feeds based on the Codex Alimentarius. It also allows for sharing of assessments of low-level GMO contamination (LLP, low-level presence).

The platform was set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and was launched at the FAO headquarters in Rome on 1 July 2013. The information uploaded to the platform is freely available to be read.

References

Agricultural organizations
Environmental organisations based in Italy
Food and Agriculture Organization
Food law
Food politics
Food safety
Food science
Information systems
International law


Walt Disney Records: The Legacy Collection is a compilation album series produced and released by Walt Disney Records.

Background
The majority of the series commemorates distinct anniversaries of Disney films and the 60th anniversary of Disneyland, containing newly remastered versions of the original and expanded soundtrack albums. Each individual title features original artwork and illustrations by Walt Disney Animation Studios visual development artist, Lorelay Bové. A majority of the releases feature "The Lost Chords"; newly recorded tracks done in-house by Disney staff musicians of originally discarded songs and produced to sound period-appropriate to their album counterparts. The first entry in the series, dedicated to The Lion King, was released on June 24, 2014. The sixteenth volume in the series, dedicated to Aladdin was released on September 9, 2022. A box set containing the first twelve volumes was released on November 15, 2015.

The Lion King

The Legacy Collection: The Lion King was released on June 24, 2014, in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of The Lion King. The two-disc album includes the film's original soundtrack and approximately thirty minutes of previously unreleased music mixed by Alan Meyerson, as well as liner notes from Hans Zimmer and producer Don Hahn.

Footnotes

Mary Poppins

The Legacy Collection: Mary Poppins was released as a three-disc album on August 26, 2014, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Mary Poppins. The first disc contains the film's complete original soundtrack, whereas the second disc contains fifteen demo recordings by the Sherman Brothers and seven "Lost Chords" recordings. The third disc consists entirely of archival recordings of story meetings held at the Walt Disney Studios between P.L. Travers, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, and Don DaGradi, as well as press interviews with Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Irwin Kostal, and the Shermans.

Sleeping Beauty

The Legacy Collection: Sleeping Beauty was released as a two-disc album on October 7, 2014, to coincide with the 55th anniversary of Sleeping Beauty. The first disc contains the film's complete original soundtrack and the second disc contains three demo recordings, three "Lost Chords" recordings, and four bonus tracks.

The Little Mermaid

The Legacy Collection: The Little Mermaid was released as a two-disc album on November 24, 2014, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of The Little Mermaid. The album features the film's complete original soundtrack, as well as work tapes and demo recording sessions performed by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman.

Fantasia

The Legacy Collection: Fantasia was released as a four-disc album on January 13, 2015, to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Fantasia. The album features the original recordings conducted by Leopold Stokowski and performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as the 1982 digital re-recordings conducted by Irwin Kostal, two bonus tracks narrated by Sterling Holloway, and the previously unreleased recording of Clair de Lune, a segment that was cut from the final running order.

Pinocchio

The Legacy Collection: Pinocchio was released as a two-disc album on February 10, 2015, to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Pinocchio. The album includes the film's complete soundtrack, three "Lost Chords" recordings, and five bonus tracks from The Mickey Mouse Club.

All songs are composed by Leigh Harline, with lyrics by Ned Washington. All scores are composed by Harline and Paul Smith

Tracks 4-8 are written by Jimmie Dodd.

Lady and the Tramp

The Legacy Collection: Lady and the Tramp was released on April 28, 2015, as a two-disc album to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Lady and the Tramp. The album includes the film's complete original soundtrack, one demo recording, two "Lost Chords" recordings, and six bonus tracks. The album was released in traditional retail forms on August 21, 2015.

All songs are written by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke. All scores are composed by Oliver Wallace.

Disneyland

The Legacy Collection: Disneyland was released exclusively at the Disneyland Resort on May 20, 2015, commemorating the resort's 60th anniversary. The three-disc album consists entirely of music, songs and audio, featured across a variety of attractions at both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. The album was released in traditional retail forms on August 21, 2015.

Cinderella

The Legacy Collection: Cinderella was released as a two-disc album on June 16, 2015, to coincide with the 65th anniversary of Cinderella. The album includes the film's original soundtrack, seven demo recordings, seven "Lost Chords" recordings, and nine bonus tracks.

Toy Story

The Legacy Collection: Toy Story was released as a two-disc album on July 10, 2015, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Toy Story. The album features the film's complete original soundtrack, four demo recordings, and three instrumental versions of the film's three songs, as well as thanks from composer Randy Newman and director John Lasseter to the orchestra.

All songs and score written, performed and composed by Randy Newman, unless otherwise noted.

Pocahontas

The Legacy Collection: Pocahontas was released on August 7, 2015, as a two-disc album to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Pocahontas. The release includes the film's complete original soundtrack and five demo recordings.

The Aristocats

The Legacy Collection: The Aristocats was released on August 21, 2015, as a two-disc album to coincide with the 45th anniversary of The Aristocats. The album features the film's complete original soundtrack—released for the first time in its entirety—as well as, four demo recordings, four "Lost Chords" recordings, and five bonus tracks.

Robin Hood

The Legacy Collection: Robin Hood was released on August 4, 2017, as a two-disc soundtrack album. The album features the complete original soundtrack from Robin Hood, released for the first time in its entirety. The album also includes five unreleased demos and the full 1974 album, Let's Hear It for Robin Hood.

Beauty and the Beast

The Legacy Collection: Beauty and the Beast was released on February 9, 2018, as a two-disc soundtrack album. The album features the 1991 original soundtrack from Beauty and the Beast, including deleted songs, extended score, and early demos.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Legacy Collection: The Hunchback of Notre Dame was released as a two-disc soundtrack album on September 22, 2021, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Aladdin

The Legacy Collection: Aladdin was released on September 9, 2022, to coincide with the film's 30th anniversary. The album features the original 1992 soundtrack from Aladdin, including a deleted song, extended score, and alternate score.

References

External links
 Official website

2014 compilation albums
2015 compilation albums
Compilation album series
Disneyland
Reissue albums
Walt Disney Records compilation albums
Disney animation soundtracks
Disney theme park albums
2017 compilation albums
2018 compilation albums
2021 compilation albums
2022 compilation albums


Edited by Byron Preiss, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: a Centennial Celebration () is an anthology of short stories collected for the centenary of Raymond Chandler's birth, in 1988. Containing 23 stories by such noted crime-writers as Robert B. Parker, Sara Paretsky, Loren D. Estleman, Stuart M. Kaminsky, and Ed Gorman each tale takes place in one of the years that Philip Marlowe was active as a private eye (1935–1959). As well, the anthology includes The Pencil, Chandler's last Marlowe short story.

Stories
The Perfect Crime by Max Allan Collins
The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin M. Schutz
Gun Music by Loren D. Estleman
Saving Grace by Joyce Harrington
Malibu Tag Team by Jonathan Valin
Sad-Eyed Blonde by Dick Lochte
The Empty Sleeve by W. R. Philbrick
Dealer's Choice by Sara Paretsky
Red Rock by Julie Smith
The Deepest South by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Consultation in the Dark by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
In the Jungle of Cities by Roger L. Simon
Star Bright by John Lutz
Stardust Kill by Simon Brett
Locker 246 by Robert J. Randisi
Bitter Lemons by Stuart M. Kaminsky
The Man Who Knew Dick Bong by Robert Crais
Essence D'Orient by Edward D. Hoch
In the Line of Duty by Jeremiah Healy
The Alibi by Ed Gorman
The Devil's Playground by James Grady
Asia by Eric Van Lustbader
Mice by Robert Campbell
The Pencil by Raymond Chandler

Second Edition
A second edition, published in 1999, contained an additional two stories, as well as a new introduction by Robert B. Parker.

Sixty-Four Squares by J. Madison Davis
Summer in Idle Valley by Roger L. Simon

References

1988 anthologies
Mystery anthologies
Alfred A. Knopf books


title: Glore Psychiatric Museum

text:
The Glore Psychiatric Museum is part of a complex of St. Joseph, Missouri, museums, along with the Black Archives Museum, the St. Joseph Museum, and the American Indian and History Galleries. The Glore exhibits feature the 130-year history of the adjacent state mental hospital, and illustrate the history of mental health treatment through the ages. It has been called one of the fifty most unusual museums in the United States.

History
The collection began in 1966 when George Glore, an employee of the Missouri Department of Mental Health, built some life-size models of primitive devices formerly used for mental health treatment, for display during a Mental Health Awareness Week. The models, together with a growing collection of other artifacts, became a museum in 1967, designed to illustrate how the treatment of mental illness has progressed through time. Glore explained, "We really can't have a good appreciation of the strides we've made (in mental health treatment) if we don't look at the atrocities of the past." Glore continued to add to the collection throughout his 41-year career with the department. After his retirement in the 1990s he continued to serve as the museum's curator until his death in 2010, after which Scott Clark became curator.

At first the museum was housed in a ward of the original "State Lunatic Asylum No. 2", renamed the "St. Joseph State Hospital" in 1899. The asylum was built in 1874 and resembled a fortress. From an initial population of 25 patients it expanded until it housed nearly 3,000 patients in the 1950s. In the 1990s it  was re-purposed as a state prison, and a new 108-bed facility called Northwest Missouri Psychiatric Rehabilitation opened across the street from the original hospital. The Glore Museum moved to a 1968 building outside the prison gates that was originally a clinic for patients at the mental hospital.

Exhibits
The museum displays many artifacts from the mental hospital, including medical equipment, staff uniforms, photographs, and artwork and writing created by the patients. One exhibit tells the story of a man who spent 72 years as a patient in the hospital.

Some of the most notable exhibits are the full-sized models, built by Glore, of treatment devices from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. One such item is a "Tranquilizer Chair", complete with hood, hand and feet restraints and a built-in portable toilet to accommodate extended sessions. The chair was invented by Benjamin Rush, known as "The Father of American Psychiatry", who published the first American textbook about mental illness in 1812.

Other items include the "Bath of Surprise", a platform designed to quickly submerse the patient into a bath of ice water; the "Giant Patient Treadmill," which would encourage agitated patients to remain still, lest they become exhausted by causing movement of the giant wheel; the "Lunatic Box", an upright, coffin-like box in which patients who were deemed uncontrollable were confined until they calmed down; and the "O'Halloran's Swing", a hammock-like device used to calm an agitated patient or induce sleep.

See also
Emotional mental health in the United States
History of psychiatric institutions
Psychiatric hospital

References

External links
Official website

Museums in St. Joseph, Missouri
Medical museums in the United States
Museums established in 1967
Former psychiatric hospitals
Science museums in Missouri


title: Clay Westervelt

text:
Clayton "Clay" Westervelt is a film director, producer, and cinematographer based in Los Angeles, California.  He is the founder of Martini Crew Booking and Imaginaut Entertainment.

Career
Westervelt attended graduate school at University of Southern California for film, where he received both the Bush and Kodak Awards for Excellence in Cinematography.  Subsequently, he filmed pilots for ABC, A&E, Animal Planet, and HGTV. He also produced and directed the award-winning series Storyline Online, featuring such talents as Elijah Wood, Betty White, James Earl Jones, and Al Gore.

In 2009, Westervelt was the Director of Photography for the documentary film The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club, which won an LA-area Emmy award in the Arts & Culture / History category.

He directed and produced the documentaries Popatopolis (2009) and Skum Rocks! (2013) and was cinematographer for Lucky Bastard in 2013.

Martini Crew Booking
Westervelt established Martini Crew Booking as a gear and service provider for television productions in 2000.

Imaginaut Entertainment, Inc.
In 2003, Westervelt founded Imaginaut Entertainment, Inc., through which he produced the SAG Foundation series, Storyline Online.

Filmography

Director

Awards

References

External links

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
American cinematographers
American film directors
American film producers
USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni


title: Edmund Copeland

text:
Edmund "Ed" J. Copeland () is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and professor of physics working in the Faculty of Science at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Copeland won the 2013 Rayleigh Medal and Prize awarded by the Institute of Physics for his work on particle/string cosmology. He obtained his PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1985, with a thesis entitled "Quantum aspects of Kaluza-Klein cosmologies".

Copeland is well known for his appearances on the physics-popularizing YouTube channel Sixty Symbols, as well as the mathematics-popularizing channel Numberphile.

References

Academics of the University of Nottingham
British theoretical physicists
Mathematics popularizers
Science communicators
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Star for Bravery in Gold

text:
The Star for Bravery in Gold, post-nominal letters SBG, was instituted by the President of the Republic of South Africa in April 1996. It was awarded to veteran cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress, who have distinguished themselves during the "struggle" by performing acts of exceptional bravery in great danger.

Umkhonto we Sizwe
Umkhonto we Sizwe, abbreviated as MK, "Spear of the Nation" in Zulu, was the para-military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). It was established on 16 December 1961 to wage an armed "struggle" against the Nationalist government inside South Africa. On 27 April 1994, Umkhonto we Sizwe was amalgamated with six other military forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).

Institution
The Star for Bravery in Gold, post-nominal letters SBG, was instituted by the President of South Africa in April 1996. It is the senior award of a set of three decorations for bravery, along with the Star for Bravery in Silver and the Conspicuous Leadership Star.

Umkhonto we Sizwe's military decorations and medals were modeled on those of the South African Defence Force and these three decorations are the approximate equivalents of, respectively, the Honoris Crux Gold, the Honoris Crux (1975) and the Pro Virtute Decoration.

Award criteria
The decoration could be awarded to veteran cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe who had distinguished themselves during the "struggle" by performing acts of exceptional bravery in great danger.

Order of wear

The position of the Star for Bravery in Gold in the official military and national orders of precedence was revised upon the institution of a new set of honours on 27 April 2003.

Umkhonto we Sizwe

 Official MK order of precedence:
 Succeeded by the Star for Bravery in Silver (SBS).

South African National Defence Force until 26 April 2003

 Official SANDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Gold Star for Bravery (GSB) of the Azanian People's Liberation Army.
 Succeeded by the Star of South Africa, Gold (SSA) of the Republic of South Africa.
 Official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Gold Star for Bravery (GSB) of the Azanian People's Liberation Army.
 Succeeded by the Order of the Southern Cross, Class I, Gold (OSG) of the Republic of South Africa.

South African National Defence Force from 27 April 2003

 Official SANDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Gold Star for Bravery (GSB) of the Azanian People's Liberation Army.
 Succeeded by the Nkwe ya Gauta (NG) of the Republic of South Africa.
Official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Gold Star for Bravery (GSB) of the Azanian People's Liberation Army.
 Succeeded by the Nkwe ya Gauta (NG) of the Republic of South Africa.

Description
Obverse
The Star for Bravery in Gold is a silver-gilt five-pointed star, to fit inside a circle with a diameter of 38 millimetres and  displaying a gold lion on a white enameled centre roundel.

Ribbon
The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide and red, with two 6 millimetres wide white bands in the centre, spaced 4 millimetres apart.

Discontinuation
Conferment of the Star for Bravery in Gold was discontinued upon the institution of a new set of South African honours on 27 April 2003.

References

Military decorations and medals of uMkhonto we Sizwe
Awards established in 1996
Awards disestablished in 2003
1996 establishments in South Africa
2003 disestablishments in South Africa


title: Keltie Knight

text:
Keltie Colleen Knight (born January 28, 1982) is a three-time Emmy Award-winning Canadian television personality, podcast host, New York Times bestselling author, and former professional dancer.

Formerly, she was the weekend co-host and correspondent for the syndicated show The Insider, and she was the fill-in anchor and correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. She is now the Chief Correspondent for E! News. She has interviewed the biggest names in the world including Oprah, Kim Kardashian, Meryl Streep, David and Victoria Beckham, Ed Sheeran, Tom Hanks, and more.

Knight is the co-creator, co-executive producer, and co-host of music gameshow SUPERFAN,. On August 9, 2023, the show premiered in primetime on CBS.

Knight danced professionally for The Radio City Rockettes and both the New Jersey Nets and the New York Knicks. She has also performed at award shows for several artists, including Taylor Swift. Knight has also been featured in numerous music videos as a dancer before becoming a TV presenter.

In 2015 Knight co-founded The LadyGang podcast with co-hosts Becca Tobin and Jac Vanek. The podcast has over 200,000 million downloads and spawned the E! television series "LADYGANG TV". The brand has had several successful collaborations and endeavors including sold out live podcast tours, a clothing collaboration with Express, and a New York Times Best Selling book.

Early life
Knight was born in Edmonton, Alberta, on January 28, 1982; she was raised in Sherwood Park. At an early age she took up dance lessons in a variety of different dance fields and competed throughout Canada in dance competitions. At the age of 8, she undertook her first worldwide competition.

Her dancing career started before she finished high school, which eventually led Knight to the United States, where she accepted her first professional dancing job.

Career
Knight started her dancing career in the United States as a specialist dancer and was featured on music videos and as part of a number of professional dance teams. In 2003, Knight became a professional cheerleader for the NBA team the New Jersey Nets for a period of two years. She remained as a cheerleader in the NBA and also was a cheerleader for the New York Knicks dancing with them until 2007. During this period, she also appeared on Saturday Night Live as a dancer in 2006.

Her music video dancing led her to perform with John Legend, Gym Class Heroes and Fergie from 2007 onwards. In 2009, she was featured on the cover of Dance Spirit Magazine. She danced for a number of music artists from 2007 onwards, including Taylor Swift. Knight was interviewed on a VMA after show in 2010 discussing Swift's recovery, following Kanye West's controversial appearance on stage with Swift while she was receiving her award at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Prior to this, she danced for Beyoncé and other artists. She also spent 6 seasons as a Radio City Rockette.

Sher performed as a dancer in the movies Enchanted in 2007 and Footloose in 2011.

In 2010, Knight began to become more focused on presenting. She became the host of a Live Nation online music series, where she regularly interviewed musicians and attended music festivals across the US as a TV presenter. After working with Live Nation, Knight became an on-air correspondent in 2012 for the syndicated show, The Insider. As a correspondent, she covered numerous red carpet events. In 2013, she covered the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards and the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014 for Insider. Other events she has covered have included The Vanity Fair Oscar Party, The Independent Spirit Awards, The People's Choice Awards, and The American Music Awards

After a number of years as a correspondent, Knight became a weekend co-host for The Insider show. At the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2014, Knight interviewed Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and also Bradley Cooper. In early 2014, Knight interviewed Jennifer Lawrence regarding her appearance in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. In early 2014, she also interviewed Miley Cyrus regarding her Bangerz Tour. After the release of Adam Levine's fragrance, Knight interviewed Levine on The Insider. In 2015, she had a cameo role in the movie Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! where she played a Times reporter. Since 2015 Keltie has hosted the "Thanksgiving Day Parade Live on CBS" with Entertainment Tonight co-host Kevin Frazier Keltie was a preliminary judge at the 2016 Miss USA Pageant.  After The Insider ended production on September 8, 2017, she joined Entertainment Tonight.

Since December 2015, Keltie has co-hosted the female-centric podcast series LadyGang with Becca Tobin and Jac Vanek. The podcast was nominated in the People’s Choice Awards for Pop Podcast of 2018.

On October 28, 2018, LadyGang TV premiered on E! with Knight, Jac Vanek, and Becca Tobin serving as hosts and executive producers. Guests on the show included Sabrina Carpenter and Ed Sheeran.

In 2023, it was announced that "Superfan" a primetime music gameshow would premiere on CBS. Knight serves as co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of the series with CBS Mornings anchor and former footballer Nate Burleson. The quiz searches America for the biggest fan of various artists.

Fashion
As a presenter, Knight's outfits have been regularly featured in various fashion magazines. Following her appearance at The Grammy Awards, she was featured in the Netherlands edition of Vogue. She was also featured in the Netherlands edition of Elle magazine for the dress she wore at the People's Choice Awards.

She has also been featured in the Spanish edition of Glamour, along with BELLO, People, Vogue Italia, Marie Claire, and New York magazine. She's been featured in Vogue, Vogue Australia,  Elle Decor, Fashion Magazine, and the New York Times.

Personal life
Knight lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband of ten years, RocNation music executive, Chris Knight. They live with their rescue dog, Calle. She is an avid reader and DIY’er.

She was in a serious auto accident in April 2018 and suffered a broken right hand. As with Mary Hart in 2009, she wore various brightly-colored slings designed to match or complement her wardrobe, for each show taped during her recovery.

References

1982 births
Canadian television personalities
Living people
People from Edmonton
Bachelor Nation contestants
Canadian women television personalities
Canadian women podcasters
Canadian women non-fiction writers


title: Nature (Tobler essay)

text:
"Nature" () is an essay by Georg Christoph Tobler which is often incorrectly attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was first published in 1783 in the Tiefurt Journal. Tobler wrote the essay after repeated conversations with Goethe.

The essay begins:
Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her—unable to step out of her and unable to penetrate her more deeply.

In the first issue of Nature magazine, published on Nov 4, 1869, T. H. Huxley submitted an English translation of the essay, titled "Nature: Aphorisms by Goethe".

Sigmund Freud wrote that a public recitation of the essay, which Freud refers to as "the incomparably beautiful essay by Goethe", led him to study medicine.

Notes

External links
 Paul Carus, Goethe's Nature Philosophy

1783 essays
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


title: 109th New York Infantry Regiment

text:
The 109th New York Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 109th New York was raised in and around Binghamton, New York. It was also known as the Binghamton Regiment and the Railway Brigade.

Service
The regiment was organized in and around Binghamton, New York, and was mustered in for a three-year enlistment on August 27, 1862. It left New York on August 30, 1862, to serve as a guard to the Washington, D.C. railroads in Annapolis Junction, and Laurel, Maryland. On May 4, 1864, the 109th New York served in Virginia. They fought in the Overland Campaign leading up to the Siege of Petersburg, including the battles of The Wilderness, Spotsylvania Courthouse, and Cold Harbor.

The regiment was mustered out of service on June 4, 1865, at the Delaney House in Washington, D.C.

Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 5 officers and 160 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 164 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 329
fatalities.

Commanders
Colonel Benjamin Tracy
Temporarily Captain Edwin Evans
Colonel Isaac Catlin

See also
List of New York Civil War regiments
New York in the American Civil War

References

External links
http://www.civilwarindex.com/armyny/109th_ny_infantry.html
https://archive.today/20130620221348/http://www.civilwarintheeast.com/USA/NY/NY109.php
http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unnyinf8.htm#11

Infantry 109
1862 establishments in New York (state)
Military units and formations established in 1862
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865


title: Habenaria quinqueseta

text:
Habenaria quinqueseta, the longhorn bog orchid, is a species of  orchid closely related to H. macroceratitis and often mistaken for it.

Habenaria quinqueseta is native to Central America, the West Indies (Cuba, the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Jamaica), southern Mexico (Oaxaca, Veracruz, Chiapas), northern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas), and the southeastern United States (from Texas to South Carolina).

References

External links

quinqueseta
Orchids of the Caribbean
Orchids of Central America
Orchids of Belize
Orchids of Cuba
Orchids of Mexico
Orchids of the United States
Orchids of South America
Plants described in 1803
Terrestrial orchids
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


title: Zygogramma bicolorata

text:
Zygogramma bicolorata, variously referred to as the Parthenium beetle or Mexican beetle, is a species of leaf beetle in the subfamily Chrysomelinae, native to Mexico.

Description
Z. bicolorata is a small lead beetle with a brown head, brown and yellow graduated pronotum and yellow elytra marked with characteristic elongated brown stripes. The pattern on the elytra is greatly variable - in a study of 478 beetles, 29 variations on this pattern were identified.

Distribution and habitat
Z. bicolorata is native to Mexico, but has been introduced to parts of India and Australia. Adults and larvae are used as a form of biological pest control in India in order to control invasive Parthenium hysterophorus .

Life cycle
Eggs are generally laid on the ventral surface of both young and old leaves, and occasionally on the upper surface of leaves, stems and flowers of host plants. Eggs are yellow to orange, elongate cylindrical or oblong with fine reticulations on the surface. The eggs hatch in 4–5 days. Larvae are pale yellow, turning white as they grow, feeding for 10 to 15 days on leaves whilst growing through four instar stages. On maturity the larvae enter the soil and pupate below up to 15 cm depth. The total life cycle of the beetle is just over 100 days.

Predators
An undetermined species of fly in the genus Drino (family Tachinidae) has been recorded as parasitising Z. bicolorata in Karnataka (India). Two predatory bugs Andrallus spinidens and Eocanthecona furcellata prey on the larvae of Z. bicolorata and a third species, Sycanus pyrrhomelas, preys on both larvae and adults.

References

Biological pest control beetles
Insects used for control of invasive plants
Chrysomelinae
Beetles of North America
Beetles described in 1953


title: Kikuyo Tsuzaki

text:
is a female Japanese runner who won second place at the 2009 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon event.

References

Japanese female long-distance runners
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
1989 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Universiade silver medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
21st-century Japanese women


title: Nidal

text:
Nidal (in Arabic نضال meaning warrior in Arabic) is a given name in Arabic. It may refer to:

Mohammad Nidal al-Shaar (born 1956), Syrian politician and government minister
Abou Nidal, Côte d'Ivoirian singer
Umm Nidal (1948–2013), Palestinian politician
Abu Nidal (1937–2002), founder of the militant Palestinian splinter group Fatah – The Revolutionary Council

People with the given name
Nidal Algafari (born 1965), Bulgaria-based director
Nidal A. Ayyad, one of the convicted perpetrators of 1993 World Trade Center bombing
Nidal Baba (born 1972), U.S. football (soccer) player / midfielder
Nidal Fat'hi Rabah Farahat (1971–2003), creator of the Qassam rocket
Nidal Malik Hasan (born 1970), former US Army major who perpetrated the 2009 Fort Hood shooting
Nidal Mourad (born 1988), Canadian musician and producer


title: Sayo Nomura

text:
is a female Japanese runner who finished third at the 2009 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon event

References

1989 births
Living people
Japanese female long-distance runners
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Universiade bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
20th-century Japanese women
21st-century Japanese women


title: Canal 44 (Jalisco)

text:
Canal 44 () is the television network of the Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG), a university in Jalisco, Mexico. The primary station, XHCPCT-TDT, broadcasts to the Guadalajara metropolitan area from a transmitter located on Cerro del Cuatro in Tlaquepaque, with additional transmitters in Ciudad Guzmán, Lagos de Moreno, and Puerto Vallarta. Canal 44 and the UDG's eight-station radio network form the  (University Radio and Television System).

History
As early as 1991, UDG sought a permit to build a television station and was denied; instead, the permit was built out as Jalisco's state television system, XHGJG-TV channel 7 (known as C7). It tried two more times to obtain a permit, once in 1995 and again in 1997.

In 2001, UDG and Televisa signed an agreement under which UDG supplied some programs to be broadcast on Televisa's local channel 4, XHG-TV.

On January 27, 2010, Cofetel at last approved the award of a permit for a non-commercial television station to the University of Guadalajara to construct XHUDG-TV. The station went on the air on January 31, 2011, with a staff of 100. The University of Guadalajara thus became the sixth university in Mexico to sign on a television station.

Not long after, UDG applied for a digital companion channel for its station, and in November 2013, the first test transmissions of XHUDG-TDT (RF channel 46) were broadcast. On December 16, 2015, XHUDG, along with other television stations in Guadalajara, shut off its analog signal and went digital-only. This facility continues to operate, though a failure to renew the original concession led to a call sign change to XHCPCT-TDT with a new concession effective January 1, 2022.

Until December 31, 2016, the station had over-the-air coverage in Los Angeles as the second digital channel of KVMD (31.2). UDG also produces an international variant of XHUDG for worldwide distribution.

Expansion in Jalisco
In December 2016, the Federal Telecommunications Institute authorized new public concessions for television stations to the Universidad de Guadalajara, at Ciudad Guzmán (XHPBGZ-TDT, RF channel 11) and Lagos de Moreno (XHPBLM-TDT, RF channel 9). The Ciudad Guzmán transmitter, which is co-located with Jalisco TV on Cerro de la Escalera, entered program service on January 31, 2018. The Lagos de Moreno transmitter followed on September 19.

On November 5, 2018, the IFT approved a fourth transmitter, XHCPAF-TDT (RF channel 8), to serve Puerto Vallarta. It began broadcasting on February 25, 2020.

Programming
XHUDG programming is primarily cultural and educational in nature. Many of the UDG-produced programs formerly seen on XHG under the Televisa contract moved to XHUDG, such as Claves, La Brújula and La Vagoneta. XHUDG has also rebroadcast programs produced by TV UNAM and by Canal 22, though those two channels are available full-time as subchannels of the SPR transmitter in Guadalajara.

The station produces local newscasts known as Señal Informativa, aired three times daily, at 7am, 1pm and 8pm. The newscast builds upon the existing radio news operation of XHUDG-FM.

Following the University club's relegation from the Liga MX to the Ascenso MX, XHUDG became the exclusive broadcaster of the "Leones Negros" home games since the Apertura 2015 tournament.

44 Noticias
On March 13, 2017, UDG began transmissions of 44 Noticias on its 44.2 subchannel in Guadalajara. The new channel broadcasts from 6am to midnight and carries the existing Señal Informativa newscasts as well as additional news, political, cultural and sports shows and documentaries. It is the first local news channel in the city and the first news channel produced by an educational station in Mexico.

Digital television
The four Canal 44 transmitters in operation carry two subchannels:

In March 2018, in order to facilitate the repacking of TV services out of the 600 MHz band (channels 38–51), XHUDG was assigned channel 27 for continued digital operations, relocating to the new channel in December 2018. Channel 27 had already been assigned for XHUDG's two repeaters.

Repeaters
Two repeaters of XHCPCT-TDT, both on RF channel 27, have been authorized to operate by the Federal Telecommunications Institute, filling a gap in service for some 400,000 people that are shielded from the main signal at Cerro del Cuatro. These transmitters are expected to be in service by early 2019, but the Chapala transmitter was not installed until 2020.

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References

External links

Public television in Mexico
Mass media in Guadalajara
Television channels and stations established in 2010
University of Guadalajara
Television stations in Jalisco


title: TV UNAM

text:
TV UNAM (stylized as tvunam and tv•unam, formerly written teveunam) is an educational television network owned and operated by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City.

Programming on TV UNAM generally consists of educational telecourse programs for UNAM students, plus public affairs, documentary and cultural programming. Some TV UNAM programming can also be seen on the nationwide Edusat service.

History
The UNAM began broadcasts on XHUNAM-TV analog channel 60 on December 5, 2000, in Mexico City in order to pave the way for their own television network. It broadcast for five years before being renewed in 2005 as a digital-only station, the first in Mexico.

As part of the project, UNAM's DGTU (Dirección General de Televisión Universitaria or TV UNAM) began the broadcast of TV UNAM on October 24, 2005, on cable and satellite TV systems, including Cablevisión in the Valley of México and satellite TV provider SKY, and later Dish México. (As of 2014, TV UNAM is now required carriage for all cable systems in Mexico alongside several other public and cultural stations.) With the help of the government-owned OPMA public television network (now Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano (SPR)), it expanded its coverage as an over-the-air digital subchannel. TV UNAM is generally on the air daily from 8am to as early as midnight (longer on some nights, especially if there is a movie or concert scheduled).

Although XHUNAM-TDT continues to operate on digital channel 20 in Mexico City, it has largely been used for experimental transmissions and does not broadcast the programming of TV UNAM. SPR's Mexico City station XHSPR-TDT carries it on channel 20.1.

References

National Autonomous University of Mexico
Public television in Mexico
Spanish-language television stations in Mexico
Television channels and stations established in 2005