title: Kosuke Kato

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is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He was drafted 2nd in the 2000 Nippon Professional Baseball draft and spent 15 years in the league with the Chiba Lotte Marines, Orix Buffaloes, Yokohama BayStars and Hanshin Tigers. He has signed with the Fukushima Hopes of the Baseball Challenge League as a player/coach for the 2016 season.

Early life
Kato started playing baseball at four years of age, and at the age of five became a left-handed pitcher. When at Shimizu Commercial High School, he was identified along with Takahiro Yamazaki as a leading pitcher within the Shizuoka Prefecture competition. However, at the summer tournament in his third (and final) year of high school, Kato faced Gotenba High School in the first round and gave up 15 hits and 12 runs in a resounding loss. Kato has cited this regrettable performance as his later motivation.

At Nihon University, Kato joined the first team squad from the spring of his second year. At the December intensive camp, he undertook a grueling training schedule of throwing 5000 pitches in his second year and 8000 pitches in his third year. In the first division of the Eastern University league he made a total of 42 appearances for an 8-win, 7-loss record, a 3.15 ERA and 80 strikeouts.
Kato joined the Kagoshima camp for the Lotte Marines in preparation for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He was drafted second by Lotte in the 2000 draft.

Professional career

Lotte Marines
In 2001 Kato won 9 games as a starting pitcher, however the rookie of the year award was awarded to Masanobu Okubo of the Orix BlueWave. In the autumn of that year Kato was selected to represent Japan at the 34th IBAF World Cup.
In 2002 his record was 11 wins and 15 losses, as he was expected to carry the club as a left-handed starter capable of throwing complete games. However, in 2003 he started suffering from atopy and was unable to perform. This problem has recurred in following years.
On July 2, 2005 Kato threw a perfect game against the Yakult Swallows in the second-tier Eastern League, which was the third perfect game in league history, following Masayuki Yamazaki in 1962 and Hiroshi Masumoto in 1987. In 2005 had the lowest ERA in the farm league (1.78) and won a special award for his perfect game.
During the 2006 season he was used as a relief pitcher, however shoulder pain saw him dropped from the first team roster and his season ended prematurely.
At the start of the 2007 season Kato was listed on the first team roster, but was dropped on March 28 and traded to the Orix Buffaloes for cash on March 30.

Orix Buffaloes
Following the trade, Kato was first tested in the second-team squad. Towards the end of the season he was called up to the first team and pitched well despite not obtaining any wins. On December 19, 2008 Kato changed his registered playing name to his first name Kosuke, similar to some other Japanese players such as Ichiro Suzuki.

2008 was Kato's the first season since his professional debut in which he did not make any appearances in a first-league game. On November 5, 2008 he was given notice of his release by the Buffaloes. Wanting to continue his professional career, he participated in the 12-team joint tryouts. Following that he participated in the Yokohama BayStars' autumn camp, and was officially signed by the BayStars on November 28. He returned to being officially registered under his legal name.

Yokohama Baystars
In the middle of the 2009 season Kato was called up to the first team roster as a relief pitcher, and made a contribution to the team as a reliever, including recording his first win in more than three years on August 15 in a match against the Hiroshima Carp.
In 2010, he was again mainly used as a reliever, but a poor season with an ERA of 7.81 in 49 appearances led to him being released for the second time in his career on October 1. He did not participate in the off-season joint tryouts, but was signed by the Hanshin Tigers on December 3 as they were searching for a reliever.

Hanshin Tigers
Kato was called up to Hanshin's first team in July 2011, but he struggled for consistency in 4 appearances and was returned to the second team just two weeks later. He finished the 2011 season with 31 second-team appearances and an ERA of 2.83.
In 2012 Kato made 41 relief appearances for the Tigers' first team, in part due to Ken Nishimura's unavailability due to injury. Kato mainly appeared to finish games that Hanshin was either losing or had a large lead, but he showed consistency with an ERA of 0.83.
He started the 2013 season on the first team roster, and was increasingly used in the set-up role from the start of the season due to the team's closer, Yasutomo Kubo being injured. On June 28 in a match against Hiroshima at Koshien Stadium, Kato recorded the first save in his 13-year professional career. Kato attributed his revitalization to concentrating on his pitching at a deeper level, something he learnt from his former Yokohama teammate Kimiyasu Kudoh, who had a 29-year professional career as a pitcher. On August 21, in a match against his previous club Yokohama, he recorded his first first-team win in more than four years. In a match on August 31 against Hiroshima, Kato entered the game in the 8th inning as Hanshin's third pitcher and struck out three consecutive batters, protecting a 1-run lead and earning a hold point. Hanshin went on to win the game and Kato was selected for a post-match "hero interview" on the ground, his first such selection since joining Hanshin. Asked by the interviewer how the view from the podium was, Kato removed his trademark sunglasses and replied that it was "the greatest". He went on to say "This is my first time (on the podium since joining Hanshin). I feel like crying, but I am truly happy. Shintaro did his best and his 10th win was on the line, so I tried my hardest." Kato was referring to Shintaro Fujinami, who was standing alongside him on the interview podium and was the 5th person in the history of Japanese professional baseball to earn 10 wins in their first season after being drafted out of high school. Kato's emotions got the better of him and he then started crying. During the 2013 season Kato made a career high 61 appearances and had 16 holds, becoming an important part of the Tigers bullpen with Shinobu Fukuhara and Yuya Ando.
The 2014 season saw Kato again start in the first team squad but was dropped to the second team in July. He was recalled to the first team squad twice in August, but dropped again each time just four days later, with lower back pain causing his pitching to be inconsistent. He was left out of the 40-man squad selected for the Japan Series against the SoftBank Hawks Despite being active only in the first half of the season, Kato made 32 appearances and recorded 3 wins, his most since 2002, with an ERA of 4.56, which was close to his career average of 4.39.

In 2015 Kato injured his hip in the spring, with the pain reaching the point that he could not run. However, he recovered and was elevated to the first-team squad in July, but was only able to appear in 6 matches. At the end of the season he was released by the Tigers on 2 October 2015.

Baseball Challenge League
At 37 years of age, Kato was the oldest player to participate in the off-season tryouts conducted in November 2015. He faced three batters including his former teammate Kenichi Tagami and succeeded in getting all three out in only 8 pitches. However, he did not receive a contract offer from any NPB clubs. In December 2015 he signed as a player/pitching coach with the Fukushima Hopes of the Baseball Challenge League. At the announcement of his signing, he indicated his intention to remain active as a player with the hope of rejoining the NPB the following season or even sooner should any team face pitching staff shortages during the 2016 season.

Playing style

Kato pitches with a somewhat unorthodox motion with plenty of variety. His fastball has an average speed of approximately 140 km/h. and a breaking curveball as his main pitches, and is also capable of throwing sliders and fork balls. Since 2012 he has used these latter pitches more than his curve ball. The breaking of his pitches is his greatest asset, making his strikeout ratio high.

Kato recorded double-figure wins in 2002, but even in matches in which he was pitching well, he would suddenly lose his rhythm and allow successive walks and dead balls, so also recorded his career-high of 15 losses in the same year. He was expected to be a starting pitcher capable of pitching complete games. However, even from his third season, illness and injury caused concerns that saw him become a relief pitcher instead.

Whilst being a left-handed pitcher and also using chopsticks with his left hand, Kato writes with his right hand. He is well known for wearing sunglasses whilst pitching. It has been reported that since signing with Hanshin, he catches the train to practice and matches at Koshien Stadium.

Records and awards

Records
 Professional debut: March 28, 2001 vs Nippon Ham Fighters at Chiba Marine Stadium
 First win: April 3, 2001 vs Kintetsu Buffaloes at Osaka Dome
 First complete game: April 15, 2001 vs Seibu Lions at Chiba Marine Stadium
 First shutout: August 2, 2002 vs Orix BlueWave at Kobe Green Stadium
 First hold: May 28, 2006 vs Yomiuri Giants at Tokyo Dome
 First save: June 28, 2013 vs Hiroshima Carp at Koshien Stadium
 1-pitch loss: July 16, 2013 vs Yomiuri Giants at Koshien Stadium (26th occasion (25th person) in league history)

Uniform number
 28  – 2001–2007 (midseason)
 26  – 2007–2008
 57  – 2009–2010
 63  – 2011 -

References

External links
NPB stats
Hanshin Tigers player profile

1978 births
Living people
Baseball people from Shizuoka Prefecture
Nihon University alumni
Japanese baseball players
Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
Chiba Lotte Marines players
Orix Buffaloes players
Yokohama BayStars players
Hanshin Tigers players


title: Make It Rain: The Love of Money

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Make It Rain: The Love of Money is a 2014 incremental mobile game published by American indie studio Space Inch LLC. In the first week after its launch on the Apple OS, it was with 2 million downloads the most downloaded game in the iTunes Store. Inside the game, virtual money can be earned with insider trading, subprime mortgages and the bribing of political figures. According to the creators, the game is a satire on the obsession with wealth. The game is available for Apple iOS, Android and Windows Phone operating systems. The idea for the game was originally inspired from a previously released game called Make Money Rain.

Gameplay and themes
As an incremental game, there is no end goal in Make it Rain, but rather the endless goal of acquiring more currency, which ties into the game's themes of greed and corruption. This can be done through in-game means, or through in-app purchases. Space Inch's Chairman Josh Segall, who is a criminal lawyer, indicated that he found it disturbing that the option to bribe the FBI is the most popular paid purchase within the game.

Development
According to Josh Segall, the company spent $10,000 on development and $1,000 on marketing of the game and returns a daily profit of $50,000 with advertisements and purchases within the game. Space Inch also published the games Inch Disco Bees and Say The Same Thing. Andy Ross, guitarist of the band OK Go is lead developer at Space Inch, LLC.

References

External links
 Official website of Make It Rain 100$

2014 video games
IOS games
Android (operating system) games
Social simulation video games
Video games developed in the United States
Incremental games


title: Hazlitt (name)

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Hazlitt is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

 Gerry Hazlitt (1888–1915), Australian cricketer
 Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993), libertarian philosopher, economics writer, and journalist
 John Hazlitt (1767–1837), English artist
 William Hazlitt (Unitarian minister) (1737–1820), Unitarian minister and author
 William Hazlitt (1778–1830), English literary critic and essayist
 William Hazlitt (registrar) (1811–1893), English writer, translator, and registrar
 William Carew Hazlitt (1834–1913), English bibliographer, editor, writer, and lawyer
 Frederick Hazlitt Brennan (1901–1962), American screenwriter

Fictional characters:
 Seth Hazlitt


title: Philosophy Sharing Foundation

text:
Philosophy Sharing Foundation, or PSF, is a non-profit organisation founded in Malta in 2012. Its mission is to bring together philosophy enthusiasts; to inspire, strengthen and promote philosophical activity in the Maltese Islands; and to contribute towards society through Philosophy. The foundation does not adhere to, or profess, any single creed or ideology. Its official languages are Maltese and English.

Establishment

The original idea to create a society in order to provide meeting opportunities, and perhaps study prospects, for members of the general public who were interested in philosophy came from Peter Serracino Inglott. Though he intended to give the initiative a go, he was impeded by his untimely death in March 2012. Subsequently, however, just a few weeks after his death a group of academics, intellectuals and other members of the community came together to bring the idea to fruition. The foundation was established on 21 May 2012, by public act. It started its public operations on the following 22 June.

PSF is registered with the Commission for Voluntary Organisation (VO-0679) and, for the purposes of Maltese law, it is to be considered as a Legal Person (LPF-85).

Objectives

The objectives of PSF are:

 to bring together Maltese philosophers, facilitate discussion of their ideas, and encourage their work;
 to promote philosophical investigation;
 to share philosophical ideas with the Maltese public;
 to assist the documentation, compilation, safe-keeping, and accessibility of the works of Maltese philosophers;
 to disseminate information on Maltese philosophers, their work and their ideas;
 to foster the participation of Maltese philosophers in public debates; and
 to further philosophical understanding and knowledge in general.

Activities

The activities of PSF include:

 organising encounters for Maltese philosophers;
 encouraging and facilitating the writing, publication and distribution of works by Maltese philosophers;
 furthering research on past and present Maltese philosophers;
 establishing a central archive with the works of Maltese philosophers;
 coordinating courses, meetings, seminars, conferences and such like gatherings; and
 collaborating with entities which can aid the foundation in its objectives and activities.

Long-term objectives

The long-term objectives of PSF include:

 publishing a periodical for the sharing of ideas;
 setting up an outlet for the sale of material related to philosophy;
 starting an editorial house for the publishing of books on philosophy and other related subjects; and
 affiliating the foundation to an established local or foreign institution of higher education for the conferment of academic recognition in philosophy.

Membership and management

PSF grants membership to who, graduate in philosophy or not, agrees with the mission and objectives of the foundation.	Members pay a nominal annual fee.

The foundation is governed by a number of members forming a steering committee, two of which are philosophy graduates. The chairperson of the committee is elected by the members of the foundation from among themselves every two years. The committee meets on a monthly basis.

The foundation convenes a general assembly each year. The assembly appoints members of the steering committee for the next year of activity, reviews the work done during the preceding year of activity, discusses and adopts amendments to PSF’s Foundation Deed, and approves the audited accounts of the foundation and cause them to be published.

Main organ

PSF's main organ — called SHARE — is published twice every year. The mission of SHARE is to serve as the official platform of the Philosophy Sharing Foundation, and to disseminate articles and information which contribute to philosophical discussion and debate. The magazine includes articles of a philosophical nature.

Appreciation

By its establishment, PSF introduced a new experience in Malta. Formerly, philosophical activities were restricted to academics somehow connected to the University of Malta. The foundation gave philosophy a wider audience. It involves the general public in philosophical discussions, and also offers evening courses to adult students. The foundation is a member of the International Federation of Philosophy Societies (FISP), and also of the Malta-EU Steering & Action Committee.

References

External links

 Philosophy in Malta

Organizations established in 2012
Philosophy organizations
Philosophical societies
Organisations based in Valletta
2012 establishments in Malta


title: Modasa Assembly constituency

text:
Modasa is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Aravalli district.

List of segments
This assembly seat represents the following segments,

 Modasa Taluka
 Dhansura Taluka

Members of Legislative Assembly
 2007 - Dilipsihji Parmar, Bharatiya Janata Party
 2012 - Rajendrasinh Thakor, Indian National Congress

Election results

2022

2017

2012

See also
 List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Aravalli district

References

External links

Assembly constituencies of Gujarat
Aravalli district


title: Byung-woo

text:
Byung-woo is a Korean masculine given name.  Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 17 hanja with the reading "byung" and 41 hanja with the reading "woo" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

People with this name include:
Bae Bien-u (born 1950), South Korean photographer
Lee Byung-woo (born 1965), South Korean guitarist and composer
Kim Byung-woo (born 1980), South Korean film director
Moon Byung-woo (born 1986), South Korean football player

See also
List of Korean given names

References

Korean masculine given names
Masculine given names


title: Marne's 4th constituency

text:
The 4th constituency of Marne (French: Quatrième circonscription de la Marne) is one of five electoral districts in the department of the same name, each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.

Description
The constituency – which covers the north-eastern part of the department and includes the prefecture of Châlons-en-Champagne – is made up of eight (pre-2015) cantons: those of Châlons-sur-Marne I, Châlons-sur-Marne II, Châlons-sur-Marne III, Châlons-sur-Marne IV, Givry-en-Argonne, Marson, Sainte-Menehould, and Ville-sur-Tourbe.

Like the others in the department, the 4th constituency has leant consistently towards the right politically, once again returning a conservative – Lise Magnier of Les Républicains – in the 2017 election. However, shortly after the election Magnier joined Agir, a moderate-right party supporting Emmanuel Macron's centrist parliamentary majority.

Historic representation

Election results

2022

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* Magnier stood for LR at the previous election and swings are calculated based on parties and alliances.

2017

2012

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Sources
Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).

Official results of French elections from 2017: "" (in French).

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title: Selig (name)

text:
Selig () is both a surname and given name, which means "blessed" in German and Yiddish. It may refer to:

Surname
 Bud Selig (born 1934), American baseball administrator
 Edith Selig (born 1960), French singer
 Josh Selig (born 1964), American television producer
 Martin Selig (born 1936), American businessman
 Phineas Selig (1856–1941), New Zealand journalist
 Rüdiger Selig (born 1989), German cyclist
 Stefan M. Selig (born 1963), American banker
 Wendy Selig-Prieb (born 1960), American businesswoman, president of the Milwaukee Brewers organisation and daughter of Bud Selig
 William Selig (1864–1948), American film producer
 Zachary Selig (1949-2016), American artist

Given name
 Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), British mathematician, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 Selig S. Harrison (1927–2016), American writer
 Selig Hecht (1892–1947), American physiologist
 Selig or Sigmund Mogulesko (1858–1914), American comedian
 Selig Perlman (1888–1959), American historian

See also
Selig (disambiguation)
Zelig (disambiguation)

German-language surnames
Yiddish-language surnames


title: Vallée d'Aure

text:
The vallée d'Aure is located in the French Pyrenees, in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, in the region of Midi-Pyrénées.

Geography
The vallée d'Aure is part of the pays d'Aure, of which the historical capital is Arreau.

It corresponds to the upper flow of the Neste or Neste d'Aure. It spans about 40 km from Sarrancolin to the Spanish border, accessible by the Aragnouet-Bielsa tunnel.

Vallée d'Aure lakes

Main communes

 Arreau
 Gouaux
 Sarrancolin
 Bourisp
 Ancizan
 Guchen
 Guchan
 Grézian
 Cadéac
 Cadeilhan-Trachère
 Lançon
 Camparan
 Grailhen
 Bazus-Aure
 Barrancoueu
 Vignec
 Sailhan
 Estensan
 Azet
 Beyrède-Jumet
 Ilhet
 Vielle-Aure
 Saint-Lary-Soulan
 Tramezaïgues
 Aragnouet and the hamlets of Eget, Fabian, Le Plan
 Aspin-Aure
 Pailhac
 Jézeau

Mineralogy
The vallée d'Are has the particularity of disposing of remarkable mineral deposits such as byssolite, tremolite or prehnite.

Flora and fauna

The Aure et Saint-Girons ~ or Auroise ~ is a breed of cattle endemic to the valley.

History
Chemin de la Vallée d'Aure

Skying resorts
 Saint-Lary-Soulan
 Piau-Engaly
 Nistos (alpine and cross-country skiing)

References

Pyrenees
Landforms of Hautes-Pyrénées
Valleys of France


title: Bayad Assembly constituency

text:
Bayad is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India.

It is part of Aravalli district.

List of segments
This assembly seat represents the following segments:

 Bayad Taluka30
 Malpur Taluka8

Members of Legislative Assembly
1962 - 1967 { Lalsinh Kishorsinh Rahevar }  (SWA)
1967 - 1972 { Lalsinh Kishorsinh Rahevar }  (SWA)
1972 - 1975 { Lalsinh Kishorsinh Rahevar }  (NCO)
1975 - 1980. { Lalsinh Kishorsinh Rahevar }  (INC)
1980 -1985 Ramsinh Rupsinh Solanki (INC)
2007 - Udesinh Zala, Bharatiya Janata Party
2012 - Mahendrasinh Vaghela, Indian National Congress

Election results

2022

2019

2017

2012

See also
 List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Aravalli district

References

External links

Assembly constituencies of Gujarat
Aravalli district


title: Beaulieu Park railway station

text:
Beaulieu Park railway station is a planned station on the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England that will serve a new development in Boreham, approximately  to the north-east of Chelmsford, Essex. It will be situated between  to the west and  to the east. It was originally expected to open in 2019, though due to numerous issues, mainly relating to funding, this date has been pushed back number of times to 2026.

The station is proposed with three platforms, to be served by medium- and long-distance trains on the route from London Liverpool Street to , with interchange with local buses.

The development will include thousands of new residential dwellings, three schools, a business park, surgery, hotel, and parkland, as well as the station which will also serve the neighbourhoods of Boreham and Springfield to help relieve congestion at Chelmsford's main station.

In August 2019 the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid, agreed £218 million from the Housing Infrastructure Fund for the new station and associated road improvements, with the aim of unlocking up to 14,000 new homes.

References

Proposed railway stations in England
Boreham


title: Beaulieu railway station

text:
Beaulieu station may refer to:

Beaulieu Park rail station, a proposed railway station in Chelmsford, Essex
Beaulieu Road railway station, a railway station in the New Forest, Hampshire
Beauly railway station, a railway station in the Highland council area of Scotland


title: Frog Skin

text:
The Frog Skin, also known as Duck Hunter, is a battledress camouflage pattern with mottle and disruptive coloration to blend into the environment similar to a frog's crypsis skin.

The M1942 Frog Skin pattern was the United States military's first attempt at disruptive coloration camouflage.

History
In 1942, the Marine Raiders were the first issued the Frog Skin uniform, which was reversible with a five-color jungle pattern on a green background on one side and a three-color beach pattern with a tan background on the other side. The pattern was made for the M1942 Reversible Spot Pattern and P42 Camo utility uniform based on the herringbone twill (HBT) cotton fabric.

The Paramarines had their own pattern uniform in the same camouflage pattern in the Bougainville campaign.

The uniform was worn by the Marines in other campaigns, notably the Battle of Tarawa. In the ETO certain US Infantry divisions wore the uniform in France, but the uniform was withdrawn for resembling German camouflaged uniforms.

By January 1944, production of the pattern was stopped with the uniforms being sold as surplus. It found its way to civilians, including duck hunters. This led to the adoption of the name Duck Hunter camo.

Combat Use

The United States used the pattern in limited use in the Korean War for Marines for helmets as helmet covers.

The Frog Skin pattern traveled to France who issued it to their 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment and 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment during the First Indochina War.

In 1961, the Cuban exiles Brigade 2506 were issued the Frog Skin pattern by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

During the Vietnam War, the United States Special Forces issued Frog Skin to the Montagnard for their guerrilla warfare activities. Navy SEALs and Rangers resorted to using the camo due to a lack of a standard camouflage. Army Special Forces advisers, sailors and Marines attached to the Military Assistance Command Vietnam — Naval Advisory Group and the CIDG also used it before Tigerstripe uniforms were issued.

Design
The design was done by Norvell Gillespie, a civilian horticulturist and the gardening editor for Better Homes & Gardens magazine, at the request of the US military. 150,000 uniforms in the pattern were ordered. Feedback from American soldiers who used it said that the lighter color base stood out when moving in the dark jungle.

Similar patterns
The German created Flecktarn is a multi-colored mottled pattern, which creates a dithering effect by eliminating hard color boundaries and has been adopted by many countries. The Australian Defence Force Disruptive Pattern Camouflage Uniform is a five-color mottle pattern, which utilizes disruptive coloration to break up a soldiers outline with a strongly contrasting design.

The duck hunter camouflage pattern was first seen with some American units fighting in Vietnam, based on the frog skin pattern.

Users

 : Acquired M1942 camos in 1968 for Biafran soldiers. Pro-Biafran mercenaries recruited also use the same camos.
 : Wore camouflage patterns based on the M1942.
 : 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment and 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment in First Indochina War.
 :
 Brimob forces wore copies based on the US M1942 from 1965.
 Pasukan Gerak Tjepat and Resimen Para Komando Angkatan Dara commandos wore copies based on the M1942 pattern. Original M1942 camo uniforms were used back in the 1950s by PGT/RPKAD and airborne troops from 1954 to 1960, worn with the green pattern visible.
 : Copies, called Panther, were worn by the Iranian military and Revolutionary Guard especially during the Iran-Iraq War.
 : Copies worn by the Mexican military.

 :
 United States Marine Corps
 Marine Raiders
 Paramarines
 Brigade 2506
 : Three-color pattern used in 1970 and was mostly used for ponchos, helmet covers, field equipment and some on clothes.
 : Formerly used M1942 camo clones; first examples seen in the 1970s.

References

Bibliography

Camouflage patterns
Military equipment introduced from 1940 to 1944


title: Byung-wook

text:
Byung-wook is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 17 hanja with the reading "byung" and 11 hanja with the reading "wook" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

People with this name include:
Ri Byong-uk (born 1954), North Korean boxer
Ko Byung-wook (born 1992), South Korean football forward
Lee Byungwook, South Korean scientist, author of the biological sequence patent database Patome

See also
List of Korean given names

References

Korean masculine given names
Masculine given names


title: Alhaji Mohammed

text:
Alhaji Mohammed (born October 29, 1981) is an American-born Ghanaian former basketball player. A four-year college basketball player for Louisville, he started his 17-year long professional career in 2004.

Career
From 2008 to 2010, Mohammed played with Limoges CSP of the French LNB Pro A and was inducted into the team's Hall of Fame.

For the 2014–15 season he chose to stay with his Romanian team Asesoft Ploiești. On February 13, he left the club by mutual agreement, making him a free agent. On February 26, 2015, he signed with SLUC Nancy Basket for the rest of the season.

On September 22, 2015, he signed with Sigal Prishtina. On November 17, 2015, he left Prishtina and moved to the Romanian club BC Mureș. On February 3, 2017, he left Mureș and signed with Hungarian club Alba Fehérvár.

In February, Mohammed signed in Tunisia with US Monastir. With Monastir, he was to play in the inaugural season of the Basketball Africa League. However, the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Mohammed never joined Monastir.

In October 2021, he retired from basketball after making the announcement at his 40th birthday.

Personal
Alhaji is one of 11 children born to parents Ayisha Ali and Alhaji T. Mohammed. His brother Nazr Mohammed is a famous player in the NBA for more the 15 years. In 2000 his dad was killed in his auto parts store in Chicago. On Alhaji right arm, he has tattooed the image of his father with the words "Flesh of my flesh/Blood of my blood" as a sign of love, respect and appreciation.

References

External links
 Eurobasket.com Profile
 FIBA.com Profile

1981 births
Living people
Alba Fehérvár players
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Germany
American expatriate basketball people in Hungary
American expatriate basketball people in Iran
American expatriate basketball people in Kosovo
American expatriate basketball people in Romania
American expatriate basketball people in Spain
American expatriate basketball people in the Netherlands
American men's basketball players
Ghanaian men's basketball players
Basketball players from Chicago
CB Valladolid players
CS Universitatea Cluj-Napoca (men's basketball) players
CSU Asesoft Ploiești players
Idaho Stampede (CBA) players
KB Prishtina players
Liga ACB players
Limoges CSP players
Louisville Cardinals men's basketball players
Matrixx Magixx players
Paderborn Baskets players
SLUC Nancy Basket players
Small forwards
Ventura Pirates men's basketball players


title: Carapa guianensis

text:
Carapa guianensis is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae, also known by the common names andiroba or crabwood.

Description
Andiroba is native to the Amazon and is widely used by the indigenous populations of the northern region of Brazil. It grows in the Amazon region, Central America and the Caribbean. It is a tall tree with dense foliage and usually grows in the tropical rainforest along the edge of rivers.

Uses
The timber is used in furniture and flooring. While the wood is not classified as genuine mahogany, it is related to the mahogany family and is similar in appearance.

The oil contained in the andiroba almond, known as crab oil or carap oil, is light yellow and extremely bitter. When subjected to a temperature below 25 °C, it solidifies, with a consistency like that of petroleum jelly. It contains olein, palmitin and glycerin.

The oil and fats of the almond are extracted and used for the production of insect repellent and compounds for traditional medicine. It is used in Brazil to protect furniture from termites and other wood-chewing insects.

References

guianensis
Crops originating from South America
Trees of Peru
Trees of the Amazon rainforest
Trees of Brazil
Plants described in 1775


title: 10 Magazine (British magazine)

text:
10 Magazine is a British luxury quarterly magazine published in London, UK.

History and profile
10 Magazine was founded in 2001 by Sophia Neophitou-Apostolou, who served as editor-in-chief. The magazine is published by ZAC Publishing on a quarterly basis. It covers fashion, contemporary art and beauty. However, it is considered a niche fashion magazine in comparison to similar magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair.

Covers of 10 Magazine have featured Victoria Beckham, Debbie Harry and Noomi Rapace and covers of 10 Men have featured David Beckham, David Gandy and James Franco.

Spin off
In 2003, 10 Magazine launched a second publication called 10 Men. The bi-annual magazine, which is also edited by Neophitou-Apostolou, focuses on male fashion, contemporary art, and male grooming and is printed in C4 format. In August 2015, 10 Men was revamped with a new design.

References

External links
Official website

Fashion magazines published in the United Kingdom
Lifestyle magazines published in the United Kingdom
Quarterly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Independent magazines
Magazines published in London
Magazines established in 2001
Men's fashion magazines
Women's fashion magazines


title: Sproing Interactive

text:
Sproing Interactive Media GmbH was an Austrian video game developer. It was founded in 2001 by Harald Riegler and Gerhard Seiler. Riegler and Seiler have owned and managed the company up to the present. The company has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

Sproing has published over 50 titles of varying scope. The company produces games for different platforms such as Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo DS, PlayStation and Game Boy Advance. Panzer Tactics DS (released in 2008) was awarded the Deutscher Entwicklerpreis in the category Best German console-game. For autumn 2012, a third game of the show Schlag den Raab was announced, as both predecessors sold over 250,000 copies between them on various platforms. In November 2016, the company, at the time with roughly 100 employees the largest game studio in Austria, filed for insolvency. It would later be succeeded by Purple Lamp Studios in 2018. The company was a member of the G.A.M.E. Bundesverband der Computerspielindustrie.

Games (selection)
 Various Moorhuhn-Games
 2003: Ultimate Winter Games
 2004: Crazy Kickers
 Since 2005: Meine Tierarztpraxis-Series (e.g. Paws and Claws: Pet Vet)
 2006: Undercover: Operation Wintersun (known as Undercover: Operation Wintersonne in German)
 2007: Undercover: Dual Motives (known as Undercover: Doppeltes Spiel in German)
 2008: Gallop & Ride
 2008: Panzer Tactics DS
 2009: Cursed Mountain
 2010: Dance! It's Your Stage
 2011: Schlag den Raab – Das 2. Spiel
 2012: SkyRama
 2012: North & South
 2012: Schlag den Raab – Das 3. Spiel
 2012: Silent Hunter-Online (Beta)
 2013: Asterix & Friends
 2016: Angry Birds Holiday (cancelled)
 2017: Quarantine
 2017: Nonstop Chuck Norris
 2017: KISS - Rock City

References

External links
 Sproing's website.
 Company profile from MobyGames

Defunct video game companies of Austria
Video game companies established in 2001
Video game companies disestablished in 2016
Companies based in Vienna
Austrian companies established in 2001
2016 disestablishments in Austria


title: Health (Apple)

text:
Health is a health informatics mobile app, announced by Apple Inc. on June 2, 2014, at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The app is available on iPhone and iPod Touch devices running iOS 8 or later, and on iPads running iPadOS 17 or later. The application holds health data such as blood pressure measurement and glucose levels, but also holds physical tracking data such as step counts. It can pull data from fitness trackers, smartwatches, smart scales, and other devices.

Features
The Health app tracks and stores various health data and metrics, as well as clinical medical records for users with supported health insurers or hospitals signed up to the "Apple Health Records" program. Data is divided into several categories: activity, body measurements, cycle tracking, hearing, heart, medications, mental wellbeing, mobility, nutrition, respiratory, sleep, symptoms, vitals, and other data.

Users with a connected Apple Watch will have their health information from the device automatically imported into the health app including their activity rings, walking and running distances, flights climbed, mindfulness minutes, sleep analysis, handwashing metrics, environmental noise levels, heart rate, blood oxygen levels, and ECG measurements. Health data can also be logged manually or through third-party applications.

Since iOS 13, Health has been capable of period and fertility tracking, allowing users to log their menstruation cycles and receive predictions as to when their next period may begin. With iOS 16, Apple introduced medication logging, which allows users to track the medicines they are taking and set reminders for when to take them, as well as alerting users of potential drug interactions. Both features are also available as standalone applications on watchOS devices. With iOS 17, users can also journal their daily emotions and moods in order to track their mental health, as well as take standardized anxiety and depression tests, which can be useful in knowing if it’s an appropriate time to consult a therapist.

"Medical ID" profiles are also kept within the Health app, which allows for key medical information to be easily accessed by first responders without the need to unlock someone's device. Users can choose to what to display in their Medical ID, such as allergies, medications, blood type, organ donor status, and emergency contact details. As of July 2016, users on iOS 10 or later in the United States have been able to sign up to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor through the Health app.

Initially, the Health app was criticized for its lack of compatible third-party applications (at its release on September 17, 2014, along with iOS 8), glucose tracking, proper health data explanations, and sluggish app performance. Eventually, Apple fixed these issues with software updates. In 2019, the Health app received a redesign as part of iOS 13, which simplified navigation of the app by replacing the dashboard with a summary tab and placing everything else under a "browse" tab, similar to the previous "health data" tab.

Electronic Health Records
In 2018, Apple's "Health Records" was introduced, which allowed on iOS 11.3 or later for users to import their medical records from their doctor or hospital.

On June 6, 2019, Northern Louisiana Medical Center announced an early partnership with Apple to allow clinical medical records shared through the app. Shortly after Apple began allowing compatible electronic health records (EHR) to self-register for the "Health Records" project. Other partnerships in 2019 included University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, Medical Center of South Arkansas; Northwest Health of Springdale, Arkansas; Blessing Health System of Quincy, Illinois; Doylestown Health of Pennsylvania; Franciscan Health; Bayhealth Medical Center of Dover, Delaware, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

HealthKit API

HealthKit is the accompanying developer application programming interface (API) included in the iOS SDK (Software Development Kit) for the Mac. It is used by software developers to design applications that have extensibility and that can interact with the health and fitness applications on iOS.

After the release of iOS 8 on September 17, 2014, Apple removed all HealthKit-compatible apps from its App Store to fix a bug that caused cellular and Touch ID issues, and then re-released Healthkit, with the release of iOS 8.0.2, on September 26, 2014.

As of February 2017, several manufacturers other than Apple sold hardware that was HealthKit enabled.

ResearchKit & CareKit APIs

ResearchKit and CareKit are two other health-related software frameworks which Apple have introduced to further build upon the capabilities of HealthKit, allowing software developers to create applications for gathering medical research and following care plans, respectively. Both APIs can interact with the health application and facilitate the sharing of health information between patients and doctors.

Apple has also introduced a standalone research application for iOS and watchOS devices, which allows users to volunteer and participate in long-term research studies run by Apple and various health partners.

Employees
In July 2018, Apple hired cardiologist Alexis Beatty, while working on the Apple Watch and Health integration. In June 2019, the former chief information officer of pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, David Smoley was hired as a Vice President of Apple.

In October 2019, former Columbia University Medical Center cardiologist David Tsay joined Apple Health.

See also
 Apple Fitness
 Google Fit
 Google Health
 Microsoft HealthVault
 MSN Health & Fitness

References

External links

IOS-based software made by Apple Inc.
IOS
Health software
Fitness apps


title: Emericiceras

text:
Emericiceras is an ammonite genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the Ancyloceratoidea. Emericiceras are considered by some authors a junior synonyms of Crioceratites.

Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of
Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Slovakia, South Africa and Spain.

References

 Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea,--Ancyloceratiaceae; Geological Society of America 1957, reprinted 1990.

Cretaceous ammonites
Ammonites of Europe


title: Gi-ung

text:
Gi-ung or Ki-woong is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 68 hanja with the reading "gi" and two hanja with the reading "ung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.

People with this name include:
Kang Ki-woong (강기웅, born 1965), South Korean baseball player, competed in Baseball at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Park Ki-woong (born 1985), South Korean actor
Bae Gi-ung, South Korean boxer, represented South Korea at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Kim Ki-woong, one of victims of the sinking of the MV Sewol

See also
List of Korean given names

References

Korean masculine given names
Masculine given names


title: Wu-Ling Senior High School

text:
The Taoyuan Municipal Wu-Ling Senior High School (the hyphen is usually omitted, , abbreviation: WLSH) is a secondary school in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, providing education ranging from 9th to 12th grade. The school was founded in 1955 as a program for high schools in the Taipei city to evacuate to in case of possible wars and airstrikes. Given the dramatic sub urbanization and increases in both population and economical power of Taoyuan, the school has thus gained its independence in 1959.

Wuling is the high school with the highest entrance score in Taoyuan since 1959. Nation-wise, Wuling is the 6th most common Alma mater for National Taiwan University freshmen in 2017.  In general, a large portion of graduates go on to attend universities both national and worldwide every year.

National Wu-ling Senior high school has held a student yearly exchange programme with Ozenne High School, Toulouse, France since 2009.

History
The school was in February 1955 as a part of the evacuation plan for major high schools in Taipei, in response to the possible strikes during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. The school, at that time which was named after the Chiedung River nearby, was founded to be a rural campus of Cheng Kung High School. In 1959, the school went independent and renamed Provincial Wu-Ling High School; the name Wuling was a tribute to the Chinese writer Tao Yuanming's famous essay The Peach Blossom Spring, according to school historian's' research. In the 1970 Extension of Mandatory Education and the separation of senior and junior high schools, the junior high school department (grade 7 to 9) was cancelled, the remaining 9-12 grades renamed Provincial Wu-Ling Senior High School.

As Taoyuan had promoted to a municipal city in 2015, the school was renamed Municipal Wu-Ling Senior High School in 2018.accordingly.

School Life
Following the convention of all Taiwanese senior high schools and the 2012 Reformation, Wuling enrolls its student through multiple standardized tests. For most students, the only way in to the school is through the CAP test, holding around late May each year. For students with special gifts in science, mathematics, the Science Class has its own entrance test every March or April. And for musical talented kids, the entrance test for Musial Talented class, standardized for schools in northern Taiwan, is hosted in April or May each year. Other kinds of entrance exams, like Tezhao (), had been around in 2012 but since then never hosted again.

Students in Wuling usually start school in 7:30 and end school at 5 o'clock. The period between 7:30 and 8:30 is called Zhaozhixi (早自習), students are expected to arrive the school at 7:30 and studying or self-learning until 8:00. Although technically, there is no punishment for not arriving at the zhaozhixi and rate of "tardy" has always been significant. The period between 4 and 5 pm is named Fudaoke (輔導課), or the "helping programs." Ideally, the helping program is limited to the students who are behind his/her classmates, and by law no new lectures should be taught. most students choose to take it for more and better academic performances, also hoping not to fall behind when lectures are illegally given in such periods. Foreign exchanges students are exempted from attending Zahozhixi and Fudaoke.

Students are only free to take courses at their free wills at a certain (in other words, not very much) extents. Conveniently, the students are sorted into "classes," pupils in the same class take every single course together and have a set, uniformed schedule. There are 21 classes in every grade, about 30 to 50 students in each of them, classes with students less than 30 are rare but possible. In Wuling, similar to that of France, classes are further sorted into 3 streams (類組) with different educational focuses in grade 11 and 12. It is interesting that although the legal tender of the streams was demolished by the Ministry of Education in 2002, in the eyes of encouraging school to adopt the free-at-will course selecting system in the US, Wuling still practices it. The educational experiment of free course taking systems was eventually set off in 2016, under the name of Xuanxio (選修). As of 2018, Xuanxio only makes up 2 lecture hours every week, comparing to the 40 total classing hours.

For most people, the classes in which they are placed, are decided by a computer random number generator.  For the selected minorities, they can choose the class themselves after qualifying yet another series of standardized tests, either the national-level tests mentioned before, or by the school-wide "Gifted Student Qualification Tests," or sometimes, by the GPA of their academic performance.

Students are expected to buy the uniforms (around NTD 4000) when entering the school and have neat uniforms on them when entering the campus. The dressing codes are constantly debated regarding this topic, both between the school governing body and students, and between the school and the society in general. As for Feb 2018, there is no punishments for not buying or wearing uniforms whatsoever, both by the law and by the school internal dressing code.

Special Education
Wuling has a renowned reputation for high testing scores throughout the nation. Currently, Wuling has the city's largest special education enrolling population. These are the special education programs that are offered in the school, ranked by founding date.

Mathematical and Scientific Talented Class

The Mathematical and Scientific Talented Class (數理資優班), was started as the first special education program in 1988; the homerooms of STEM class is 101, 201 and 301. STEM is a class that offers advanced Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Biology placement.

Musical Talented Class

The MTC was founded in 1991. The homerooms of the MTCs are 121, 221 and 321, all of which are in the Meiyu Building. Pupils in the MTCs could take courses such as Chorus, Acoustics, Orchestra and Music Theory.

Language Gifted Classes

The LGC was founded in 2004. The homerooms of the LGCs are 120, 220, 320. Pupils of LGC could take a second foreign language courses, French or Japanese or Korean or Spanish.

Science Class

The Science class is a programme for talented students directly sponsored by the Ministry of Education, pupils in the Science Class will complete the three-year high school curriculum in just two years. At the end of the eleventh grade, pupils will take an examination which decides if they could take courses in National Central University. The homerooms of the Science Classes are 103, 203 and 303.

Uniforms

Formal Uniform

 Male：
 Summer: Yellow short-sleeved shirt and olive green trousers.
 Winter: Yellow long-sleeved shirt and olive green trousers.
 Female：
 Summer: Kiwi green short-sleeved blouse and olive green short pleated skirt。
 Winter: Kiwi green long-sleeved  blouse and olive green trousers.
The formal uniforms are nicknamed as "Kiwi fruits" because of their iconic colour. There is also a Kiwi Festival hosted every April Fools' Day by the EPOCH.

Sportswear Uniform

 Summer: Yellow short-sleeved T-shirt, blue-yellow fluorescent trousers.
 Winter: Yellow long-sleeved sweater, blue-yellow fluorescent trousers and jacket.
The sportswear uniform does not differentiated by sexes, as a showing of support to non-binary sexes and LGBT groups. The front side of T-shirts and sweaters features the name "Wuling" in traditional Chinese calligraphy. The winter jacket features the name "Wuling" in English in the back.

School Bag

Although the school authority urges the students to carry a school bag, most students uses their own bag. The school bag is dark green oblique horizontal sticky bag, can be store as large as a B4 size printed document, size 35 × 23 × 9 cm. The front school bag features a yellow "Wuling" in Chinese at the front, and the school badge in between the Chinese characters.

Floor Plans
There are 11 major buildings in WLHS. There is no dormitory nor swimming pools in WLHS, which is very different from the rest of the high school in Taoyuan.

Yu-jing Building

Sitting in the left to the school gate, the Yu-jing Building is a 6-storey building (including an underground parking space for faculties). From the first (ground) to the third floor sits the principal's office, academic affairs office, military instructor's office, academic affairs office, meeting room and the office of Teacher's Union. In the fourth and the fifth floor sits the homerooms, most of them are belongs to 12-graders.

Chong-de Building

Chong-de building is a rather-new building in the Wuling High School, it is located in the back of the Yu-jing building. Just like the Yu-jing, Chong-de building is also made up by 5+1 floors. On the fifth floor above ground sits the Ji-ching Hall and Classroom for Indigenous Taiwanese Cultures.

Ji-qing Hall and Classroom for Indigenous Taiwanese Cultures

The word Ji-qing means "to play Biangqing" in Chinese. Traditionally, the musical instrument Biangqing is used in the China's ritual and court ceremonies. Ji-ching Hall is the classroom for traditional Chinese and traditional Chinese musics. The Classroom for Indigenous Taiwanese Cultures was completed in 2016, it is the classroom of which pupils could learn about the various kinds of Taiwanese indigenous people. Both of the two classrooms are located in the 5th floor of Chong-de and Yu-jing.

The Grand Mirror

The Grand Mirror is located between homeroom 105 and 106, in Chong-de building. The mirrors serve an important role in Chinese traditional spiritual believings; according to a widespread myth, the Grand Mirror is calm down the spirits of whom committed suicide in Wuling.

Science Building

The classrooms which located in the Science building are the Earth Science Laboratory, Chemistry Laboratory, Physics Laboratory, Group Research Project Laboratory (for STEM class students, will finish construction in 2016) and an Audio-Visual classroom.

Mei-yu Building

The classrooms which located in the Science building are the Art Classroom, Technology Classroom, Health Classroom, Home Economics Classroom, Audio-Visual classroom, Piano Room for MTC, Cooking Classroom, Concert Hall, a Meeting Room and the homerooms of 121, 221, 321.

Tsu-qing Building

The Tsu-qing building is covered in yellow mosaics. In the first floor sits the School Store, Resource Classroom for Talented Students and Counselor's Office. In the second floor sits the homerooms of STEM classes (301, 201, 101) and LTCs (120, 220, 320). In the underground floor sits the table tennis practicing room. The tsu-qing building is the one of the oldest building in WLHS.

Ming-dao Building

Located between the Gymnasium and the Student Activity Centre, Ming-dao building contains the homeroom of class 109 to 119.

Gong-yi Building

A two-storey building in the far side of the school campus. The ground floor is the Computer Science Classroom, the floor above is the Classroom for Gong-yi Classes.

Student Activity Centre

A badminton court that could also be used as the place of school assembly.

Gymnasium

Built in 1978, the Gymnasium is the oldest building in Wuling.

Library

In the back of Chong-de, the Library is a two-story building.

K-Centre

Also as known as the Guang-shi Hall. The Guang-shi Hall was the oldest building in WLHS which could be tracked back to 1955 when the school was created. In 2014, the Guang-shi Hall suffered a structural damage, after that, the building was reinforced and changed its name to the K-Centre.

Extra-curricular Activities

School Varsity Teams
The mascots of WLHS varsity teams are kiwi fruits.

Football Team
The WLHS football team practices Futsal, as a result of the lack of players to play traditional 11-player football.

Basketball Team
Constituted by the girl and boy basketball team.

Volleyball Team
Constituted by the girl and boy volleyball team.

Table Tennis Team

Badminton Team

Baseball Team
Started in 2012, the baseball team is the newest varsity team in WLHS.

Picket Honor Guard
Founded in 2004, consist of picket team doing their daily duty and honor guard performing in grand ceremony.

Literature and Arts of Wuling Youths
The Literature and Arts of Wuling Youths (武陵青年文藝, or 武青文藝) is the official school publication of Wuling High School. The LAWY is published on the April Fool's Day every year, the contents are mostly poems and other student artworks.

See also
 Education in Taiwan

References

1955 establishments in Taiwan
High schools in Taiwan
Schools in Taoyuan


title: Trinitapoli-San Ferdinando di Puglia railway station

text:
Trinitapoli-San Ferdinando di Puglia () is a railway station in the Italian town of Trinitapoli and also for San Ferdinando di Puglia, in the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia. The station lies on the Adriatic Railway (Ancona–Lecce). The train services are operated by Trenitalia.

Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):

Regional services (Treno regionale) Foggia - Barletta - Bari

See also
Railway stations in Italy
List of railway stations in Apulia
Rail transport in Italy
History of rail transport in Italy

External links

Railway stations in Apulia
Buildings and structures in the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani


title: Filip Adamović

text:
Filip Adamovic (born December 15, 1988) is a Bosnian/Serbian professional basketball player for Alliance Sport Alsace of the LNB Pro B. He also represents the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.

Playing career
Adamović started his basketball career in 2006 with his hometown club Igokea. During his professional career Adamović has played in EuroCup for CSU Asesoft Ploieşti and in VTB United League for Tsmoki-Minsk.

References
 mondo.ba
 kosarka24.ba
 www.glassrpske.com

External links
 Eurobasket.com Profile
 Eurocupbasketball.com Profile

1988 births
Living people
BC Tsmoki-Minsk players
Belfius Mons-Hainaut players
Bosnia and Herzegovina men's basketball players
CS Universitatea Cluj-Napoca (men's basketball) players
CSU Asesoft Ploiești players
KK Igokea players
KK Sloboda Tuzla players
OKK Borac players
Point guards
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Belarus
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Romania
Serbian people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Basketball players from Belgrade


title: Busby, Kansas

text:
Busby is an unincorporated community in Elk County, Kansas, United States.

History
A post office was opened in Busby in 1885, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1906.

References

Further reading

External links
 Elk County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Elk County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas


title: Bridger (name)

text:
Bridger is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:
Bobby Bridger (born 1945), American artist
Deonne Bridger (born 1972), Australian athlete
Harry Bridger (18th century), English professional cricketer
Irene Bridger (21st century), Canadian singer
Lewis Bridger (born 1989), English motorcycle racer
Samuel Bridger (born 1777), English professional cricketer
Tom Bridger (1934-1991), British racing driver
Joseph Bridger, Colonial Governor of Virginia
Jim Bridger, American explorer after whom many places are named
Bridger family of Virginia, notable to American history

Given name:
 Bridger Palmer (born 1998), American actor
 Bridger Nielson (born 1977), American cinematographer and filmmaker

Fictional characters:
Nathan Bridger, a character on the television series seaQuest DS
Ezra Bridger, a character on the television series Star Wars Rebels
"Mr. Bridger", a character in The Italian Job
Billy Bridger, a character in the video game Battlefield V.
Arthur Bridger, the father of Billy in Battlefield V.

English masculine given names
Masculine given names
Given names originating from a surname


title: Weare Town House

text:
The Weare Town House is a historic New England meeting house on New Hampshire Route 114 in Weare, New Hampshire. Built in 1837, it is a good example of a period town hall/church combination with Federal and Gothic Revival features. Although its religious use has ended, it continues to be used for town offices as well as civic and social functions. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Description and history
The Weare Town House is located in the town center of Weare, on the east side of New Hampshire Route 114 (its principal north-south route), about  north of Memorial Drive. It is a 2½-story frame structure, covered by a gabled roof and finished in wooden clapboards. The main facade is fairly plain, with a double-door entrance at the center, and three sash windows on the second level. A two-stage tower rises above the facade, with pinnacles at the corners of each stage, and a louvered belfry in the second stage. The belfry houses a bell manufactured in 1837 by George Holbook of East Medway (now Millis), Massachusetts; Holbrook had received his training in the bell foundry of Paul Revere.

The hall was built in 1837 to serve both as a town meeting space and a place for the local Universalist congregation to meet. The interior was originally arranged so that town meetings were held on the first floor and church services on the second. The upstairs was adapted for use as a high school in 1919, and has also been home to local fraternal organizations. The building continues to be used for town facilities, and the meeting space is rented out for private social functions in addition to its civic uses.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

References

City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Federal architecture in New Hampshire
Carpenter Gothic church buildings in New Hampshire
Buildings and structures completed in 1837
Buildings and structures in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
City and town halls in New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Weare, New Hampshire


title: Marne's 5th constituency

text:
The 5th constituency of Marne (French: Cinquième circonscription de la Marne) is one of five electoral districts in the department of the same name, each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.

Description
The constituency – which covers the south-central and south-eastern parts of the department and includes the town of Vitry-le-François – is made up of the eleven former cantons of Anglure, Avize, Écury-sur-Coole, Fère-Champenoise, Heiltz-le-Maurupt, Saint-Remy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson, Sompuis, Thiéblemont-Farémont, Vertus, Vitry-le-François-Est, and Vitry-le-François-Ouest.

At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis for the most recent redrawing of constituency boundaries, carried out in 2010) the 5th constituency had a total population of 83,412.

The constituency has returned the centre-right politician Charles de Courson, currently a member of the Les Centristes, at every election since 1993.

Historic representation

Election results

2022

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2017

2012

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Sources
Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).
Official results of French elections from 2017: "" (in French).

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Constituencies established in 1988


title: Upola, Kansas

text:
Upola is a ghost town in Elk County, Kansas, United States.

History
A post office was opened in Upola in 1887, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1909.

References

Further reading

External links
 Elk County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Elk County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas


title: Mi-sun

text:
Mi-sun, also spelled Mi-seon or Mee-sun, is a Korean unisex name, predominantly feminine. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 33 hanja with the reading "mi" and 41 hanja with the reading "seon" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

People with this name include:

Entertainers
Park Mi-sun (born 1967), South Korean actress and comedian
Jeon Mi-seon (born 1972), South Korean actress
Park Mi-seon (born 1979), stage name Park Si-yeon, South Korean actress
Kim Mi-sun (born 1986), stage name Song Ha-yoon, South Korean actress

Sportspeople
Kim Mi-sun (born 1964), South Korean field hockey player
Park Mi-seon (athlete) (born 1964), South Korean sprinter
Kang Mee-sun (born 1971), South Korean volleyball player
Lee Mi-sun (born 1979) South Korean basketball player
Hong Mi-sun (born 1983), South Korean volleyball player
Choi Mi-sun (born 1996), South Korean recurve archer

Other
Shim Mi-seon (1988–2002), one of the victims of the Yangju highway incident

See also
List of Korean given names

References

Korean unisex given names


title: Eric Zana

text:
Eric Sydney Zana (born ) is a South African professional rugby union player who last played for in the Currie Cup and in the Rugby Challenge. His regular position is fly-half or fullback.

Career

Youth and amateur rugby

Zana played predominantly club rugby for George-based Progress until 2009, although he was part of the  squad for the 2008 Under-18 Provincial Championship.

SWD Eagles

In 2010, Zana was one of ten club players identified by  Johann Lerm and was included in their squad for the 2010 Vodacom Cup competition. He made his first class debut in the opening match of the SWD Eagles' season, a 13–22 home defeat to the , with Zana contributing eight points with his boot through two penalties and a conversion. He started the first four of the SWD Eagles' fixtures in the competition, scoring 26 points.

Zana's contribution was deemed enough to also warrant his inclusion in the SWD Eagles' squad for the 2010 Currie Cup First Division season. Zana made his Currie Cup debut in the Eagles' first match of the season, a 33–12 victory over the . Zana played off the bench for the entire season, making eleven appearances in their twelve matches, as the Eagles finished top of the log during the pool stages. However, Zana was an unused substitute in the final against the , where his side narrowly lost 16–12. He also played in both legs of the promotion/relegation play-offs, but could not prevent the SWD Eagles losing 65–54 on aggregate over two legs to remain in the First Division.

Zana once again returned for the 2011 Vodacom Cup season, making six appearances for the SWD Eagles.

Boland Cavaliers

In May 2011, Zana moved to the Western Cape where he joined club side Belhar. He was subsequently included in the  side for the 2012 Currie Cup First Division season. After playing off the bench twice, he then started in ten consecutive matches for the Cavaliers in the run-in of the season, scoring 22 points in the process, but couldn't help them qualify for the semi-finals. He was also included in the Boland Cavaliers sevens side that played at the 2012 7s Premier League in Zana's hometown, George.

Zana missed the 2013 Vodacom Cup competition through a shoulder injury, but returned for the 2013 Currie Cup First Division, where he contributed 65 points in thirteen appearances to finish as the Cavaliers' top points scorer in the competition and ninth overall.

Zana contributed a further 37 points during the 2014 Vodacom Cup competition and started the 2014 Currie Cup qualification tournament with a bang, as he scored 20 points (which included two tries) in their opening day defeat to the  in Welkom.

Griquas

Zana joined Kimberley-based side  for the 2016 season.

References

South African rugby union players
Living people
1987 births
Rugby union players from George, South Africa
Rugby union fly-halves
Rugby union fullbacks
Boland Cavaliers players
SWD Eagles players


title: Pulitzer (surname)

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Pulitzer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Henry F. Pulitzer (1899–1979), Austrian-born English art dealer
Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), American newspaper publisher and journalist
Joseph Pulitzer Jr. (1913–1993), American newspaper publisher, grandson of Joseph
Lilly Pulitzer (1931–2013), American socialite and fashion designer
Lisa Pulitzer (born c. 1962), author and journalist
Patsy Pulitzer (1928–2011), American model and socialite, granddaughter of Joseph
Ralph Pulitzer (1879–1939), son of Joseph
Roxanne Pulitzer (born 1951), American socialite, actress, novelist


title: Min-sun

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Min-sun is a Korean unisex given name.  Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 27 hanja with the reading "min" and 41 hanja with the reading "seon" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.

People with this name include:
Cho Min-sun (born 1972), South Korean judoka
Kim Gyu-ri (actress, born August 1979), birth name Kim Min-sun, South Korean actress

See also
List of Korean given names

References

Korean unisex given names


title: Cerignola Campagna railway station

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Cerignola Campagna (), sometimes shortened as Cerignola, is a railway station in the Italian town of Cerignola, in the Province of Foggia, Apulia. The station lies on the Adriatic Railway (Ancona–Lecce). The train services are operated by Trenitalia.

Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):

Regional services (Treno regionale) Foggia - Barletta - Bari

See also
Railway stations in Italy
List of railway stations in Apulia
Rail transport in Italy
History of rail transport in Italy

External links

This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at June 2014.

Railway stations in Apulia
Railway station
Buildings and structures in the Province of Foggia


title: Heide–Büsum railway

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The Heide–Büsum railway is a line in the Dithmarschen district in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, connecting the district seat of Heide with the North Sea resort of Büsum.

Geography

The line runs from Heide station as a continuation of the Neumünster–Heide railway parallel to the Marsh Railway and then running under it and passing through shallow marsh land to Büsum. The most important stop along the way is in the small town of Wesselburen. Büsum station is on the North Sea and is mainly used by tourists.

History

The Weddinghusen–Wesselburen section was opened on 1 November 1878 by the Wesselburen–Heider Eisenbahngesellschaft (Wesselburen–Heide Railway Company) as a branch line of the existing Heide–Karolinenkoog railway, opened in 1877. The extension of this branch line to Büsum was opened for freight on 1 November 1883. Passenger services commenced on 15 November 1883. From the outset operations were carried out by the West Holstein Railway Company (Westholsteinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft), which bought the Wesselburen–Heide Railway Company on 1 April 1881. The Western Holstein railway company was taken over by the Prussian state railways on 1 July 1890.

An extensive network of 750 mm gauge railways (the Wesselburener Spurbahnen) ran to Wesselburen for the carriage of agricultural produce, which was then transported towards Heide. A 2.5 km long Spalding railway with a track gauge of 600 mm ended at the station Osterhof.

In the late 1950s, passenger services included, in addition to stopping trains, a pair of express services on the route from Büsum via Heide and Neumünster to Eutin. In the 1980s, the use of uneconomic train sets (a class V 100 locomotive hauling Silberling carriages with a control car) led to a temporary decline of the line.

All sidings on the Heide–Büsum line have been removed and stations have been downgraded to halts (that is all sets of points at the stations have been removed).

From 5 November 2000, operations on the line were won at tender by Schleswig-Holstein-Bahn GmbH, a subsidiary of AKN Eisenbahn AG (operator of the Hamburg-Altona–Neumünster railway). Osterhof and Haferwisch stations were closed as part of the launch of the associated regular interval timetable between Heide and Büsum.

Since the AKN won the tender for operations on the Neumünster–Heide railway in 2003, the two have been operated under a common timetable number. Most trains coming from Neumünster continue to Büsum. Services are operated with LINT 41 railcars.

Since the timetable change in December 2011, the line has been operated by NBE Nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft mbh & Co. KG, a joint subsidiary of AKN Eisenbahn AG and BeNEX GmbH. These trains mostly run to Neumünster.

Freight traffic officially ended on 28 February 1994. However, the Büsum port railway is maintained for possible future use.

Notes

References

  (reprint of Deutsche Reichsbahn presentation of 1935)

External links

Railway lines in Schleswig-Holstein
Railway lines opened in 1878
1878 establishments in Germany
Dithmarschen


title: Altamirano (surname)

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Altamirano is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Armin Altamirano Luistro
Carlos Altamirano (1922-2018), Chilean socialist politician
Eric Altamirano(born 1966), Filipino basketball player and coach
Fernando Altamirano (1848-1908), Mexican physician and botanist on
Héctor Altamirano, Mexican footballer
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834-1893), Mexican novelist and politician
Luis Altamirano
Porfi Altamirano
Pedro de Anda Altamirano

Spanish-language surnames


title: William Knollys (Banbury MP)

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William Knollys (15 October 1694 – 6 June 1740),  known as Viscount Wallingford, of St George's, Hanover Square, Westminster, was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1733 to 1740.

Knollys was the eldest surviving son of Charles Knollys of Oxfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Lister, daughter of Michael Lister of Burwell, Lincolnshire. He joined the army and was ensign in Colonel Pocock's regiment in 1715 and cornet in the 2nd Dragoon Guards in 1718 of which he was lieutenant in 1727. He married his first cousin, Mary Catherine Law, daughter of John Law, director general of the French finances, and his aunt Catherine Knollys.

Knollys' father claimed to be descended from William Knollys MP, the 1st Earl of Banbury, and called himself the 4th Earl, while his son took the courtesy title of Viscount Wallingford.  However, the father's claim had been rejected by the House of Lords in 1697.

Knollys stood unsuccessfully for Banbury at a by-election on 21 January 1730, but was elected as Member of Parliament for Banbury at a second attempt at a by-election 9 April 1733. He was returned unopposed at the  1734 British general election and voted with the Administration on the Spanish convention in 1739 and on the place bill in 1740.

Knollys became 2nd major in the 1st troop of Life Guards in 1737. He died on 6 June 1740, pre-deceasing his father.

References

1694 births
1740 deaths
Politicians from Oxfordshire
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
British MPs 1727–1734
British MPs 1734–1741


title: Orta Nova railway station

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Orta Nova () is a railway station in the Italian town of Orta Nova, in the Province of Foggia, Apulia. The station lies on the Adriatic Railway (Ancona–Lecce). The train services are operated by Trenitalia.

Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):

Regional services (Treno regionale) Foggia - Barletta - Bari

See also
Railway stations in Italy
List of railway stations in Apulia
Rail transport in Italy
History of rail transport in Italy

Railway stations in Apulia
Buildings and structures in the Province of Foggia


title: Incoronata railway station

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Incoronata () is a railway station in the Italian town of Incoronata, in the Province of Foggia, Apulia. The station lies on the Adriatic Railway (Ancona–Lecce). The train services are operated by Trenitalia.

Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):

Regional services (Treno regionale) Foggia - Barletta - Bari

See also
Railway stations in Italy
List of railway stations in Apulia
Rail transport in Italy
History of rail transport in Italy

Railway stations in Apulia
Buildings and structures in the Province of Foggia


title: Cave Springs, Kansas

text:
Cave Springs is a ghost town in Elk County, Kansas, United States.

History
Cave Springs was founded in 1873.

The post office in Cave Springs closed in 1903.

References

Further reading

External links
 Elk County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Elk County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas


title: Oliver Whiting Homestead

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The Oliver Whiting Homestead is a historic farmstead on Old County Farm Road in Wilton, New Hampshire, just south of the County Farm Bridge. The  property was one of the region's largest dairy farms in the early 19th century, and it was used as Hillsborough County's poor farm between 1867 and 1896. The main focus of the property is a large Federal-style brick house built c. 1800 by Oliver Whiting; it also has an 1846 Gothic Revival barn which predates the establishment of the poor farm.  The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Description and history
The Whiting family was one of the wealthiest in the neighboring town of Temple, when Lt. Oliver Whiting Jr. was married in 1800. It is believed that the main house on this property was built soon thereafter; its fine period details, which were uncommon in what was then a largely rural community, were probably the result of design influences brought in from other areas by the Whitings. The Whiting farm became the centerpiece of a dairy operation that was by the 1850s the largest in Wilton. Oliver's son David purchased an operation in 1857 that included a daily railroad run to Boston, Massachusetts, carrying fresh milk. The barn, with its Gothic Revival cupola, was built by the Whitings in 1846, and is a good example of a bank barn, with entrances on two levels.

The property was purchased by Hillsborough County in 1867, and adapted for use as a poor farm. A number of buildings were added during this period of the property's history, including a multistory almshouse, water supply infrastructure, and a "pest house", a structure built out of recycled building materials located at a remove from the main building complex. Only foundations of most of these features now survive, since they were dismantled after the poor farm's closure in 1896. In the early 20th century the property was transformed into a summer estate by the Beebe family.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Federal architecture in New Hampshire
Gothic Revival architecture in New Hampshire
Houses completed in 1800
Houses in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Wilton, New Hampshire


title: Dahegam Assembly constituency

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Dahegam is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Gandhinagar district.

List of segments

This assembly seat represents the following segments,

 Dahegam Taluka

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2022

2017

2012

See also
 List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Gandhinagar district

References

External links

Assembly constituencies of Gujarat
Gandhinagar district


title: Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi

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Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi (; born 1956) is a professor of metallurgy at the University of Tehran, who served as the President of University of Tehran from 2014 to 2021. He is also former head of the Center for Excellence for Higher Performance Material at the University of Tehran.In October 2021, the then president of the University of Tehran, Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi, wrote a letter to Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, the head of the Islamic Republic's judiciary, demanding the release of Kasra Nouri, a student prisoner, and a day later the president of the University of Tehran himself was fired.

Education and career
Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi, who is generally called Mahmoud Nili, was born in 1956 in Isfahan, Iran. After obtaining a BSc degree from University of Shiraz in 1982, he started working for revolutionary institutes. Seven years later, he got a MSc degree from Sharif University of Technology and went to Japan to further his studies in Tohoku University. Mahmoud Nili has written more than 70 scholarly articles.

See also
 University of Tehran
 Kasra Nouri

References

Scientists from Isfahan
Academic staff of the University of Tehran
1956 births
Living people
Iranian academic administrators
21st-century Iranian educators


title: Chris Brooks (academic)

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Chris Brooks is Professor of Finance in the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

Biography
Brooks was formerly Professor of Finance at the ICMA Centre, part of Henley Business School, University of Reading, and the Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School, City University London. He holds a PhD and a BA in Economics and Econometrics, both from the Department of Economics at the University of Reading. His teaching has included statistics, econometrics, asset pricing and portfolio management, corporate finance and the philosophy of research. Brooks has acted as advisor and consultant to various agencies and companies and has been on the editorial boards of numerous journals including the International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, and the British Accounting Review. He was a member of the Accounting and Finance sub-panel for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and of the Business and Management sub-panel for the Research Excellence Framework 2014. Brooks is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Conference of Professors of Accounting and Finance and is a member of the ESRC peer review college. He has received research funding from the ESRC and from the Leverhulme Trust, amongst other funders.

Research
Brooks has diverse research interests including asset pricing, fund management, behavioural finance, financial history, and econometric analysis and modelling in finance and real estate. He is author or co-author of over 140 published articles and author or co-editor of seven books that have been cited more than 10000 times. Brooks is well known as author of the first introductory econometrics textbook targeted at finance students, Introductory Econometrics for Finance (2019, Cambridge University Press), which now is in its fourth edition and has sold over 70,000 copies worldwide since it was first published. Most of his research is available either through the Social Science Research Network (SSRN, Author ID: 14685) or at the CentAUR, University of Reading repository.

Books
 Brooks, C. (2021) First Class Research: A guide to your research project or dissertation in accounting and finance. Finance Books, pp308.
Brooks, C. (2021) Your PhD in accounting or finance. Finance Books, pp363.
Brooks, C. (2019) Introductory econometrics for finance. 4th edition. Cambridge University Press, pp724
 Bell, A., Brooks, C. and Prokopczuk, M., eds. (2013) Handbook of research methods and applications in empirical finance. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp512.
 Brooks, C. and Tsolacos, S. (2010) Real estate modelling and forecasting. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp474.
 Brooks, C. (2008) RATS handbook to accompany introductory econometrics for finance. Cambridge University Press, pp213.

Selected journal articles
Finance:

 Brooks, C.  and Williams, L. (2021) The impact of personality traits on attitude to financial risk. Research in International Business and Finance, 58. 101501. ISSN 0275-5319 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2021.101501
 Brooks, C. , Schopohl, L.  and Walker, J. (2021) Comparing perceptions of the impact of journal rankings between fields. Critical Perspectives on Accounting. ISSN 1045-2354 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2021.102381 (In Press)
 Rendall, S., Brooks, C.  and Hillenbrand, C.  (2021) The impacts of emotions and personality on borrowers’ abilities to manage their debts. International Review of Financial Analysis. 101703. ISSN 1057-5219 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2021.101703
 Hillenbrand, C., Saraeva, A., Money, K. and Brooks, C.  (2021) Saving for a rainy day… or a trip to the Bahamas? How the framing of investment communication impacts retail investors. British Journal of Management. ISSN 1467-8551 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12455
 Brooks, C.  and Schopohl, L.  (2021) Green accounting and finance: advancing research on environmental disclosure, value impacts and management control systems. The British Accounting Review, 53 (1). 100973. ISSN 0890-8389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2020.100973
 Tao, R., Brooks, C.  and Bell, A.  (2020) Tomorrow’s fish and chip paper? Slowly incorporated news and the cross-section of stock returns. European Journal of Finance. ISSN 1466-4364 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2020.1846575
 Hillenbrand, C., Saraeva, A., Money, K. and Brooks, C. (2020) To invest or not to invest? The roles of product information, attitudes towards finance and life variables in retail investor propensity to engage with financial products. British Journal of Management, 31 (4). pp. 688-708. ISSN 1467-8551 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12348
 Tao, R., Brooks, C. and Bell, A. R. (2020) When is a MAX not the MAX? How news resolves information uncertainty. Journal of Empirical Finance, 57. pp. 33-51. ISSN 0927-5398 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2020.03.002
 Bell, A., Brooks, C. and Killick, H. (2019) A reappraisal of the freehold property market in late medieval England. Continuity and Change, 34 (3). pp. 287-313. ISSN 1469-218X doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416019000316
 Rocciolo, F., Gheno, A. and Brooks, C. (2019) Optimism, volatility and decision-making in stock markets. International Review of Financial Analysis, 66. 101356. ISSN 1057-5219 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2019.05.007
 Hillenbrand, C., Money, K. G., Brooks, C. and Tovstiga, N. (2019) Corporate tax: what do stakeholders expect? Journal of Business Ethics, 158 (2). pp. 403-426. ISSN 1573-0697 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3700-6
 Bell, A. R. and Brooks, C. (2019) Is there a ‘magic link’ between research activity, professional teaching qualifications and student satisfaction? Higher Education Policy, 32 (2). pp. 227-248. ISSN 1740-3863 doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-018-0081-0
 Brooks, C., Fenton, E., Schopohl, L. and Walker, J. (2019) Why does research in finance have so little impact? Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 58. pp. 24-52. ISSN 1045-2354 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2018.04.005

 Brooks, C., Sangiorgi, I., Hillenbrand, C. and Money, K. (2019) Experience wears the trousers: exploring gender and attitude to financial risk. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 163. pp. 483-515. ISSN 0167-2681 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.04.026

 Brooks, C., Hoepner, A. G. F., McMillan, D., Vivian, A. and Wese Simen, C. (2019) Financial data science: the birth of a new financial research paradigm complementing econometrics? European Journal of Finance, 25 (17). pp. 1627-1636. ISSN 1466-4364 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847x.2019.1662822

Brooks, C., Sangiorgi, I., Hillenbrand, C. and Money, K.  (2018) Why are older investors less willing to take financial risks?    International Review of Financial Analysis, 56.             pp. 52–72.  ISSN 1057-5219  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.12.008
 Brooks, C. and Schopohl, L.  (2018) Topics and trends in finance research: what is published, who publishes it and what gets cited?  The British Accounting Review.                ISSN 0890-8389  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2018.02.0
 Brooks, C., Chen, Z. and Zeng, Y.  (2018) Institutional cross-ownership and corporate strategy: the case of mergers and acquisitions.  Journal of Corporate Finance, 48.             pp. 187–216. ISSN 0929-1199  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.11.003
 Bell, A. R. and Brooks, C.  (2018) Is there a ‘Magic Link’ between research activity, professional teaching qualifications and student satisfaction? Higher Education Policy.              ISSN 1740-3863  doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-018-0081-0
 Brooks, C. and Oikonomou, I.  (2018) The effects of environmental, social and governance disclosures and performance on firm value: a review of the literature in accounting and finance.    The British Accounting Review, 50 (1). pp. 1–15. ISSN 0890-8389  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2017.11.005
 Hillenbrand, C., Money, K. G., Brooks, C. and Tovstiga, N.  (2017) Corporate tax: what do stakeholders expect? Journal of Business Ethics. ISSN 1573-0697  doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3700-6
 Brooks, C.  (2017) The impact of foreign real estate investment on land prices: evidence from Mauritius.    Review of Development Economics, 21 (4). e131-e146. ISSN 1467-9361  doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12316
 Bell, A. R. and Brooks, C.  (2017) What makes students satisfied? A discussion and analysis of the UK’s national student survey. Journal of Further and Higher Education.                       ISSN 1469-9486  doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2017.1349886
 Brooks, C., Balatti, M. and Kappou, K.  (2017) Fundamental indexation revisited: new evidence on alpha.    International Review of Financial Analysis, 51. pp. 1–15. ISSN 1057-5219  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.02.010
 Brooks, C., Godfrey, C., Hillenbrand, C. and Money, K. (2016) Do investors care about corporate tax? Journal of Corporate Finance, 38. pp. 218–248. ISSN 0929-1199
 Brooks, C., Fernandez-Perez, A., Miffre, J. and Nneji, O. (2016) Commodity risks and the cross-section of equity returns. The British Accounting Review, 48 (2). pp. 134–150. ISSN 0890-8389
 Brooks, C., Burke, S. P. and Stanescu, S. (2016) Finite sample weighting of recursive forecast errors. International Journal of Forecasting, 32 (2). pp. 458–474. ISSN 0169-2070
 Brooks, C., Prokopczuk, M. and Wu, Y. (2015) Booms and busts in commodity markets: bubbles or fundamentals?Journal of Futures Markets, 35 (10). pp. 916–938. ISSN 1096-9934
 Oikonomou, I., Brooks, C. and Pavelin, S. (2014) The financial effects of uniform and mixed corporate social performance. Journal of Management Studies, 51(6). pp. 898–925.
 Anderson, K. and Brooks, C. (2014) Speculative bubbles and the cross-sectional variation in stock returns. International Review of Financial Analysis, 35. pp. 20–31. ISSN 1057-5219
 Miffre, J. and Brooks, C. (2013) Do long-short speculators destabilise commodity futures markets? International Review of Financial Analysis, 30. pp. 230–240.
 Miffre, J., Brooks, C. and Li, X. (2013) Idiosyncratic volatility and the pricing of poorly-diversified portfolios. International Review of Financial Analysis, 30. pp. 78–85.
 Brooks, C., Cerny, A. and Miffre, J. (2012) Optimal hedging with higher moments. Journal of Futures Markets, 32 (10). pp. 909–944.
 Anderson, K., Brooks, C. and Katsaris, A. (2010) Speculative bubbles in the S&P 500: was the tech bubble confined to the tech sector? Journal of Empirical Finance, 17 (3). pp. 345–361.
 Brammer, S., Brooks, C. and Pavelin, S. (2006) Corporate social performance and stock returns: UK evidence from disaggregate measures. Financial Management, 35 (3). pp. 97–116.
 Anderson, K. and Brooks, C. (2006) The long-term price-earnings ratio. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 33 (7–8). pp. 1063–1086.
 Brooks, C. and Katsaris, A. (2005) A three-regime model of speculative behaviour: modelling the evolution of the S&P 500 composite index. The Economic Journal, 115 (505). pp. 767–797.
 Shields, K., Olekalns, N., Henry, Ó. T. and Brooks, C. (2005) Measuring the response of macroeconomic uncertainty to shocks. Review of Economics and Statistics, 87 (2). pp. 362–370.
 Brooks, C., Clare, A. D., Dalle Molle, J. W. and Persand, G. (2005) A comparison of extreme value theory approaches for determining value at risk. Journal of Empirical Finance, 12 (2). pp. 339–352.
 Brooks, C., Burke, S. P., Heravi, S. and Persand, G. (2005) Autoregressive conditional kurtosis. Journal of Financial Econometrics, 3 (3). pp. 399–421.
 Brooks, C. and Katsaris, A. (2005) Trading rules from forecasting the collapse of speculative bubbles for the S&P 500 composite index. Journal of Business, 78 (5). pp. 2003–2036.

Real Estate:
 Bell, A. R., Brooks, C. and Taylor, N. (2016) Time-varying price discovery in the eighteenth century: empirical evidence from the London and Amsterdam stock markets. Cliometrica Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, 10 (1). pp. 5–30. ISSN 1863-2505
 Nneji, O., Brooks, C. and Ward, C. (2015) Speculative bubble spillovers across regional housing markets. Land Economics, 91 (3). pp. 516–535. ISSN 1543-8325
 Nneji, O., Brooks, C. and Ward, C. (2013) Commercial real estate and equity market bubbles: are they contagious to REITs? Urban Studies, 50 (12). pp. 2496–2516.
 Nneji, O., Brooks, C. and Ward, C. (2013) Intrinsic and rational speculative bubbles in the US housing market 1960–2011. Journal of Real Estate Research, 35 (2). pp. 121–151.
 Anderson, K., Brooks, C. and Tsolacos, S. (2011) Testing for periodically collapsing rational speculative bubbles in US REITs. Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, 17 (3). pp. 227–241.

History:
 Bell, A. R., Brooks, C. and Killick, H. (2019) Medieval property investors, ca. 1300-1500. Enterprise and Society, 20 (3). pp. 575-612. ISSN 1467-2235 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2018.92
Bell, A. R., Brooks, C. and Moore, T. K. (2017) Cambium non est mutuum: exchange and interest rates in medieval Europe. The Economic History Review, 70 (2). pp. 373–396. ISSN 1468-0289
 Bell, A. R., Brooks, C. and Moore, T. K.  (2017) Did purchasing power parity hold in medieval Europe? The Manchester School, 85 (6). pp. 682–709. ISSN 1467-9957  doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12167
 Bell, A. R., Brooks, C. and Moore, T. K. (2016) Did purchasing power parity hold in medieval Europe? The Manchester School. ISSN 1467-9957
 Bell, A. R., Brooks, C. and Moore, T. K. (2014) The credit relationship between Henry III and merchants of Douai and Ypres, 1247–70. Economic History Review, 67 (1). pp. 123–145.
 Bell, A. R., Brooks, C. and Moore, T. K. (2009) Interest in Medieval accounts: examples from England, 1272–1340. History, 94 (316). pp. 411–433.
 Bell, A. R., Brooks, C. and Dryburgh, P. R. (2007) Interest rates and efficiency in medieval wool forward contracts. Journal of Banking & Finance, 31 (2). pp. 361–380.

References

British economists
Living people
Alumni of the University of Reading
Econometricians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of the University of Bristol
British financial writers
British statisticians


title: Fiat, Kansas

text:
Fiat is a ghost town in Paw Paw Township, Elk County, Kansas, United States.

History
A post office was opened in Fiat in 1882, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1898.

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Further reading

External links
 Elk County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Elk County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas


title: Gandhinagar South Assembly constituency

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Gandhinagar South is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Gandhinagar district. The seat came into existence after 2008 delimitation.

List of segments
This assembly seat represents the following segments,

 Gandhinagar Taluka (Part) Villages – Adalaj (CT), Alampur, Ambapur, Amiyapur, Basan, Bhat, Bhoyan Rathod, Bhundiya, Chandkheda (M), Chandrala, Chekhalarani, Chhala, Chiloda (Naroda) (CT), Chiloda, Dabhoda, Dantali, Dashela, Dhanap, Dolarana Vasana, Galudan, Giyod, Isanpur Mota, Jakhora, Jamiyatpur, Karai, Khoraj, Koba, Koteshwar, Kudasan, Lavarpur, Lekawada, Limbadia, Madhavgadh, Magodi, Mahudara, Medra, Motera (CT), Nabhoi, Palaj, Pirojpur, Por, Prantiya, Pundarasan, Raipur, Rajpur, Ranasan, Randesan, Ratanpur, Raysan, Sadra, Sargasan, Shahpur, Shertha, Shiholi Moti, Sonarda, Sugad, Tarapur, Titoda, Unvarsad, Vadodara, Valad, Vankanerda, Vasana Hadmatia, Vira Talavdi, Zundal.

Member of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2022

2017

2012

See also
 List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Gandhinagar district

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Assembly constituencies of Gujarat
Gandhinagar district


title: Frederick Sylvester North Douglas

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Frederick Sylvester North Douglas (8 February 1791 – 21 October 1819)  was an English actuary and politician.

He was the oldest son of Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie, and his wife Lady Catherine Anne North, daughter of Frederick North, Lord North (later 2nd Earl of Guilford), the Prime Minister.

He was educated at Westminster School, Christ Church, Oxford, and at Lincoln's Inn, before setting off on a grand tour from 1810 to 1812. On his return he wrote An Essay on Certain Points of Resemblance Between the Ancient and Modern Greeks.

He was elected at the 1812 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banbury, holding the seat until his death in 1819, aged 28.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1817.

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1791 births
1819 deaths
People educated at Westminster School, London
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Members of Lincoln's Inn
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
UK MPs 1812–1818
UK MPs 1818–1820
Heirs apparent who never acceded
English non-fiction writers
English male non-fiction writers
Fellows of the Royal Society
Nobility of the United Kingdom