title: Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's artistic team all-around

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The Women's artistic team all-around gymnastics competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland was held on 28 and 29 July at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.

The team competition also served as qualification for the individual all-around and event finals.

Team Competition

Qualification results

Individual all-around

Vault

Uneven bars

Balance beam

Floor exercise

References

Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
2014 in women's gymnastics


title: Marloes Keetels

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Marloes Keetels (born 4 May 1993) is a Dutch field hockey player.

Keetels has played for the Netherlands women's national field hockey team since 2013. She was a member of the Netherlands team that won the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup.

See also
 List of Youth Olympic Games gold medalists who won Olympic gold medals

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
Dutch female field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
People from Schijndel
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
Female field hockey midfielders
HC Den Bosch players
Youth Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from North Brabant
21st-century Dutch women


title: Alternative Press Music Awards

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The Alternative Press Music Awards was an annual music awards show in the United States, founded by the music magazine Alternative Press.

History
On April 24, 2014, Alternative Press announced they were organizing an award show to be held on July 21, 2014, at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. Mark Hoppus, bassist and vocalist of the pop-punk band Blink-182, hosted the event's debut. The first show was aired live on AXS TV and Idobi Radio nationwide and featured performances from the Misfits, All Time Low, Sleeping with Sirens, Twenty One Pilots and other acts. During the first show the artist was awarded in 15 categories. 12 of the categories were given away by the readers of Alternative Press through an online voting. The inaugural ceremony was attended by 6,000 people, with Fall Out Boy winning Artist of the Year; it featured live performances by Fall Out Boy, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, the Misfits, A Day to Remember, All Time Low, Falling in Reverse with Tyler Carter and Coolio, Asking Alexandria, Sleeping with Sirens, Twenty One Pilots and Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco.

In 2015, the awards ceremony was moved to Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena. It featured hosts Alex Gaskarth and Jack Barakat of All Time Low and performances by Rob Zombie, Motionless in White, New Found Glory with Hayley Williams of Paramore, Panic! at the Disco and headliners Weezer.

Due to the Republican National Convention, the 2016 APMAs were moved to Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The show included performances by Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford collaborating with Babymetal, Third Eye Blind with Mayday Parade and the Maine, Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack with Mikey Way, John Feldmann and Quinn Allman, Machine Gun Kelly, Of Mice & Men, Papa Roach, Good Charlotte and headliners A Day to Remember.

The fourth annual show was hosted by Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides.

List of winners

2014

2015

2016

2017

External links
 Official Homepage

References

2014 establishments in Ohio
21st-century awards
Annual events in Ohio
Awards established in 2014
American music awards
Music of Cleveland
Recurring events established in 2014


title: Joanne Yapp

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Joanne Yapp (born September 26, 1979) is a former English female rugby union player. She represented  at the 1998 and 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup. She captained England at the 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup.

She played in the qualifier for the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens. In 2011 Yapp was appointed as an athlete mentor for Sky Sports Living for Sport.

She is currently the head coach of EUWRFC, leading them to BUCS gold in 2013 at Twickenham and BUCS gold in 7s in 2014.

References

1979 births
Living people
England women's international rugby union players
English female rugby union players
Female rugby sevens players
Worcester Warriors Women players
English rugby sevens players
England international women's rugby sevens players
Rugby union scrum-halves
English rugby union coaches
Female rugby union coaches
Rugby union players from Shropshire


title: Portrait of a Lone Farmer

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Portrait of a Lone Farmer is a 2013 Nigerian Danish documentary film by Jide Tom Akinleminu, about life on his father's chicken farm in Nigeria.

References

External links

Nigerian documentary films
Best Documentary Africa Movie Academy Award winners
Danish documentary films
2013 films
2013 documentary films
Documentary films about agriculture
Agriculture in Nigeria


title: Zanane Rajsingh

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Zanane Rajsingh (, born 15 March 1988 ) is an Indian film director. His debut film Beyond Blue - An Unnerving Tale of a Demented Mind, World Premiered on 16 May 2015 at 68th Festival de Cannes Marche du Film and the film was digitally released on Amazon Prime on December 2, 2019 He was recently awarded at 8th Gauravvanta Gujarati Awards for his contribution to Gujarat State for making films and taking Gujarati community worldwide. His next is a Gujarati film entitled 'Colorbaaj' which is based on underground parties in Ahmedabad  He is currently making a film on the topic of the climate change and its adverse effects titled It's Tomorrow - The Film. The film is written by Dr. Rajeshkumar Acharya and is being produced in the United States and India.

Early life and education
Zanane Rajsingh was born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra in 1988. He studied at National Public School, Indore and St. Pauls Higher Secondary School, Indore where his family resides in Harsiddhi Colony. His father works as a logistic manager in a private firm in Ahmedabad and his mother is a retired school teacher. He currently resides in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Career
In 2009, Zanane Rajsingh moved to Pune to work for a Multinational corporation where he continued working till 2011. While working there, he made a 16-minute short film A Candle Light Event based on the German bakery blast in Pune in 2010, which garnered appreciation from the film festivals.

In 2013, his psychological thriller short film Hastkala won a Best Screenplay award at the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival.  He then developed this short film into a feature film called as Beyond Blue - An Unnerving Tale of a Demented Mind which went on the floor by end of 2014. It had its world premiere at Cannes 2015. He is currently busy his directorial venture – It's Tomorrow, a climate fiction feature film on climate change which produced by an Indo-US based film production company Nanoland Group. He was awarded at 8th Gauravvanta Gujarati Award, 2015 for making films in Gujarat and representing Gujarat internationally.

Filmography

References

1988 births
Hindi-language film directors
Film directors from Maharashtra
Living people
Marathi people


title: Nile Wilson

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Nile Michael Wilson (born 17 January 1996) is a former British artistic gymnast. He won an Olympic bronze medal in the men's horizontal bar at the 2016 Summer Olympics; he was a world medallist as a member of the silver-medal winning British team at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the first world men's team medal in British gymnastics history. A five-time Commonwealth Games champion, he won the all-around title in 2018, and is a former European horizontal bar champion, the first Briton to win the title. In January 2021, Wilson announced his retirement from competitive gymnastics due to injuries. In March 2023, he won the fifteenth series of Dancing on Ice with dance partner Olivia Smart.

Personal life
Wilson was born 17 January 1996 in Leeds to Sally and Neil Wilson and is the great nephew of Duncan Fearnley. He has a sister, Joanna. He attended 'Farsley Farfield' Primary School and Pudsey Grangefield School.
Wilson runs a YouTube channel where he posts vlogs about his workouts, daily life and gymnastics (Nile Wilson) where he has more than 1.51 million subscribers, and another channel with his father (Neil and Nile Vlogs) which has more than 171,000 subscribers.

Early career
Wilson was crowned British Junior Champion in March 2014 and received the Young Sportsman male award at the Leeds Sports Awards.
He competed at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia in May, winning five gold medals to become the first British gymnast ever to win five gold medals at the European Junior Gymnastics Championships. He was then selected to compete for the England Commonwealth Games team, graduating to senior level.

Senior career

2014 Commonwealth Games
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Wilson contributed a score of 86.607 for the England team to win the Team Gold and qualify second for the Individual all-around final, behind teammate Max Whitlock. Wilson then won a bronze medal in the all-around final with a score of 87.965. He won silver in the Parallel bars final with a score of 15.433 behind Scottish gymnast Daniel Purvis. Wilson took his first individual Commonwealth gold in the Horizontal Bar final with a score of 14.966. His teammate Kristian Thomas took silver.

2015 World Championships
Wilson competed at the 2015 Gymnastics World Championships in Glasgow. He placed tenth all around in qualification with 88.365, but did not advance due to the two per country rule. Wilson competed on three apparatus in the team final: Still Rings (14.933), Parallel Bars (15.033) and Horizontal bar (14.833), contributing to the team silver medal. Wilson also qualified to the Parallel Bars final, placing 8th with a score of 15.233.

2016 Summer Olympics
Wilson competed at the AT&T American Cup on 5 March 2016. He struggled in the competition, receiving execution scores below eight on three apparatuses. He did, however, receive the third highest score on parallel bars, scoring 15.266. He came fifth overall with a score of 84.131.

On 12 July 2016, Wilson was named to the 2016 Olympic team along with Louis Smith, Max Whitlock, Kristian Thomas and Brinn Bevan. At the 2016 Olympics, Wilson became the first British gymnast to win the bronze medal at the horizontal bar event, with a score of 15.466.

2017 World Championships
In January 2017, Wilson suffered an injury to his left ankle ligament while training, which required surgery.  He recovered in time to compete in the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships where he finished sixth in the all around final.

2018 Commonwealth Games
In 2018, Wilson was selected to represent England and compete at the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia. On 5 April, he won a gold medal in the men's artistic team all-around and qualified in first place for the individual all-around which he went on to win for his second gold medal.  He added a third gold on the horizontal bar, and won silver on the rings and on the parallel bars.

Wilson underwent surgery on his neck in February 2019 to fix a bulging disc that was causing arm pain, and as a result, he missed a number of competitions that year, including the Birmingham World Cup and European Championships.

Retirement from Gymnastics
On 14 January 2021, Wilson uploaded a video entitled "I've Retired from Gymnastics" to his YouTube channel, in which he announced his official retirement from competitive gymnastics. In the video, he cited health problems caused by gymnastics as the main factor in his retirement.

Following his retirement from professional gymnastics, Wilson has raised allegations of a culture of abuse within British gymnastics. Whilst speaking with BBC Sport, Wilson stated that he was "without a doubt" abused during his training, was subject to "emotional manipulation", and was forced to "live in fear" of his coaches and the consequences of underperforming. Wilson also informed BBC Sport that he waited until after his retirement to raise these allegations as he feared he would face professional consequences, including deselection from the British Olympic team, if he spoke up whilst continuing to work as a professional gymnast. In March 2023, he won the fifteenth series of Dancing on Ice with dance partner Olivia Smart.

References

External links

 Nile Wilson at British Gymnastics

1996 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Leeds
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
British male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Great Britain
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics
Gymnasts at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
European Games competitors for Great Britain
Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games
European champions in gymnastics
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games


title: Lalita Sehrawat

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Lalita Sehrawat (born 14 June 1994) is an Indian wrestler. She represented India in the women's freestyle 53 kg category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in which she won the silver medal.

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Living people
1994 births
Indian female sport wrestlers
Sportswomen from Haryana
People from Hisar district
Wrestlers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for India
Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling
21st-century Indian women
21st-century Indian people
Female sport wrestlers from Haryana
Asian Wrestling Championships medalists
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Luboš Měkota

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Luboš Měkota (22 May 1957 – 9 March 2013) was a Czech entrepreneur, miner, and union leader.

Career
Luboš Měkota worked in the brown coal mines in Most as a young adult after graduating from the Secondary Industrial School in Duchcov. He also worked his way up through the mining company, starting from the bottom as a blue-collar worker. After the Velvet Revolution in November 1989, he was involved in Občanské hnutí (Civic Movement), and in 1990 became the chairman of the company's trade union organisation.

MUS case
As the entire restructuring of MUS – something that had to be done due to the radical reduction in brown coal mining in the Czech Republic – required delicate cooperation with the employees of MUS and the creation of many retraining programmes, Oldřich Klimecký asked Luboš Měkota in 1995 to become the HR Director at MUS. Měkota accepted this position, and so ended up taking part in the entire transformation of MUS to new market conditions as one of its key people. Other key individuals included Petr Kolman, Bohuslav Straka, Vasil Bobela, Petr Pudil, Vladimír Rouček and the directors of various plants and companies.

Luboš Měkota gradually also became a member of the Board of Directors and then the CEO of MUS. He managed MUS from the position of CEO and chairman of the Board of Director until 2007, when he handed the management of MUS over to Messrs Pudil and Bobela, to whom he also transferred his ownership interest in the company. Luboš Měkota had received his ownership interest in MUS in 2005 when he, along with Antonín Koláček, Petr Pudil and Vasil Bobela, purchased MUS from Appian Group using a loan from ČSOB.

After his departure from MUS and the company's sale to Pavel Tykač, Luboš Měkota focused on managing his earnings, investing most of his money in environmental energy, development projects or the media (TV5, TV Metropol). Until his death in 2013, he had been active in the Supervisory Board of the University of Finance and Administration in Prague.

References

1957 births
Czech businesspeople
2013 deaths


title: Serrai sheep

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Serrai () is a breed of domesticated sheep from Serres, Greece. It is bred primarily for meat and milk.

Characteristics
The Serrai has a Roman nose and thin tail.  The rams have horns, weigh 78 kg at maturity are grow to 68 cm at the withers.  Ewes have small horns 30% of the time, weigh 68 kg and grow to a height of 73 cm. On average, ewes produce 1.5 lambs per litter.  They lactate 154 to 236 days (average 221 days) with an average yield of 0.7 kg of milk per day with a 7% fat content.  The fiber has a 34 micron diameter.

References

Sheep breeds originating in Greece
Sheep breeds


The Connecticut Department of Developmental Services (DDS) is a state agency of Connecticut providing services to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Its headquarters are in Hartford. According to its official Twitter description, "CT DDS serves more than 20,000 individuals [with] intellectual disability and their families, including 4,000 infants and toddlers in the Birth to Three System."

In 2012, $30 million was cut from the DDS budget, and only $5 million was added back in 2014.

History
The Department's roots are in the "Office of Mental Retardation," established in 1959 as part of the Department of Health. In 1975, it was established as the "Department of Mental Retardation" (DMR) in order to "administer the Training Schools, all other regional centers, and state operated community and residential facilities for the diagnosis, care and training of mentally challenged individuals." The Department changed its name to DDS in 2007.

Commissioners
Morna A. Murray (2015–Present)
Terrence Macy (2011–2015)
Peter H. O'Meara (1996–2011)
Linda Goldfarb (Acting, 1995)
Toni Richardson (1990-1994)
Brian R. Lensink (1985-1989)
Gareth D. Thorne (1975-1984)

References

External links
 Connecticut Department of Developmental Services

State agencies of Connecticut
1975 establishments in Connecticut
Government agencies established in 1975


title: Simonds High School

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Simonds High School is a grade 9-12 school located in Saint John, New Brunswick. Simonds High School is in the Anglophone South School District.

History
Simonds High School first opened in 1950, only four years after it was conceived, with G. Forbes Elliot serving as its first principal.

Notable alumni
 Chris Skinner - former Canadian football player

See also
 List of schools in New Brunswick
 Anglophone South School District
 Saint John High School
 St. Malachy's Memorial High School
 Harbour View High School

References

Schools in Saint John County, New Brunswick
High schools in Saint John, New Brunswick


title: Hamid Oraibi

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Hamid Oraibi (born 1941) is a former Iraqi cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1941 births
Living people
Iraqi male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Iraq
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Baghdad


title: Membrane progesterone receptor

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Membrane progesterone receptors (mPRs) are a group of cell surface receptors and membrane steroid receptors belonging to the progestin and adipoQ receptor (PAQR) family which bind the endogenous progestogen and neurosteroid progesterone, as well as the neurosteroid allopregnanolone. Unlike the progesterone receptor (PR), a nuclear receptor which mediates its effects via genomic mechanisms, mPRs are cell surface receptors which rapidly alter cell signaling via modulation of intracellular signaling cascades. The mPRs mediate important physiological functions in male and female reproductive tracts, liver, neuroendocrine tissues, and the immune system as well as in breast and ovarian cancer.

The mPRs appear to be involved in the neuroprotective and antigonadotropic effects of progesterone and allopregnanolone. The progesterone active metabolites 5α-dihydroprogesterone, also a progestogen, and allopregnanolone, which are positive allosteric modulators of the GABAA receptor, have been found to rapidly influence sexual receptivity and behavior in mice, actions that are GABAA receptor-dependent.

These proteins are classified into three groups known as mPRα (PAQR7), mPRβ (PAQR8), mPRγ (PAQR5), mPRδ (PAQR6), and mPRϵ (PAQR9).

mPR Subtypes

mPRα

Membrane progesterone receptor alpha (mPRα) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PAQR7 gene. It is a steroid receptor which binds progesterone in vitro. Recent studies suggest the mPRα has important physiological functions in a variety of reproductive tissues. The mPRα is an intermediary in progestin induction of oocyte maturation and stimulation of sperm hyper motility in fish. In mammals, the mPRα has been implied in progesterone regulation of uterine functions in humans and GnRH secretion in rodents.

mPRβ

Membrane progesterone receptor beta (mPRβ) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PAQR8 gene.

A recent study has investigated the role of mPRβ in regulating in vitro maturation (IVM) of pig cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs). This study suggests that the mPRβ is a molecule related to cumulus expansion and it might function by regulation of exocytosis. The conclusion of this study is that mPRβ might play an important role on the function of the protein.

mPRγ

Membrane progesterone receptor gamma (mPRγ) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PAQR5 gene.

A study about the mPRγ subtype has generated an antibody against this receptor in order to explore the role of mPRγ. Scientists found that mPRγ is expressed in female mouse reproductive tissues such as ovary and fallopian tube, and also in the lung and liver of both sexes. Immunohistochemical studies revealed that mPRγ is associated with the apical membrane of ciliated cells in the lumen of the fallopian tube, including human cells. That suggests a common role for mPRγ in the regulation of ciliary activity in the fallopian tube and the gamete transport in mammals. The presence of mPRγ in lung and liver of mice indicates that the receptor mediates the actions of progesterone outside the reproductive tract as well.

mPRδ

Membrane progesterone receptor delta (mPRδ) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PAQR6 gene.

mPRϵ

Membrane progesterone receptor epsilon (mPRϵ) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PAQR9 gene.

Summary table of features
Family members include:

The general functions of these subtypes of mPR are: being steroid membrane receptors and binding progesterone. They also may be involved in oocyte maturation.

Potential roles

The discovery of a membrane located progesterone receptor (mPR) unrelated to the classical progesterone receptor (PR) in fish ovaries and its subsequent identification in mammal tissues suggests that mPRs could be a potential mediator of non-traditional progesterone actions, particularly in tissues where PR is absent. Even though classical PRs and mPRs can also have overlapping regional expression (e.g., both are expressed in the hippocampus, cortex, hypothalamus and cerebellum), their ligand specificity is not identical (for example mPRs bind to 17α-hydroxyprogesterone and 5-dihydroprogesterone with greater affinity than to the classical PRs).

Many of progesterone's actions are too fast to be readily explained by a genomic mechanism which typically occurs over a time scale of hours – like most of the classical functions of progesterone mediated by progesterone receptors PR-A and PR-B, which mediate progesterone’s regulation of diverse female vertebrate reproductive functions through altering gene transcription – and it is now widely accepted that progesterone can also exert fast cell surface-initiated actions within minutes through activation of membrane receptors and their associated intracellular signaling paths.

While some of the alternative progesterone actions are nongenomic, others may ultimately lead to altered gene transcription involving the activation of second messengers (such as MAP kinases) and through the alteration of progesterone receptors transactivation through effects on coactivators (such as SRC2).

Extensive evidence has been obtained by different research groups that wild-type mPRs in a wide range of vertebrate cells as well as recombinant proteins expressed in prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems display high-affinity, specific, displaceable and limited capacity progesterone binding characteristic of steroid membrane receptors. Therefore, membrane progesterone receptors are good candidates for the membrane receptors mediating many of the nonclassical cell surface-initiated progesterone actions, such as oocyte meiotic maturation, granulosa cell apoptosis, immunosuppression of T cells, breast and ovarian cells.

It has been found that allopregnanolone, an effective mPR ligand, can act as an mPR agonist at low physiologically relevant concentrations. This indicates an additional receptor mechanism by which neurosteroids can potentially modulate neural functions.

Experimental evidence also supports that mPRs are intermediaries in progestin-induced cell survival. MAP kinase and Akt are involved in inhibition of apoptosis, and it has been demonstrated that progestin activates MAP kinase and Akt through mPRs. This is a fact that consolidates mPR's antiapoptotic functions, and also their potential involvement in the antiapoptotic effects of allopregnanolone in the central nervous system.

MPRs are also considered potential intermediaries in progesterone modulation of GnRH secretion under certain conditions, but direct evidence is lacking.

Structure
As the name says, mPRS are a group of proteins with a receptor function. This determines its location in the cell, the membrane. MPRs recognise some specific substances and facilitate the entrance of these substances inside compartments. Specifically, this receptors allow the entrance to the cell, therefore they are found in the plasmatic membrane. Studies have not revealed significant information about its structure so scientists still do not know exactly how this molecules are. In contrast, studies of the translated cDNAs based on the structure suggest they encode seven transmembrane domains. It also shows that mPRs have high affinity (Kd= 20-30 nm) saturable binding for progesterone – Kd is a constant of every enzyme which says the concentration of ligand needed in order to obtain the half of the saturation. Scientists went further on the study of the binding to the γ-subtype, revealing a specific binding for progesterone with a rate of association and dissociation of t1/2=2–8 minutes. MPRs have a molecular mass of approximately 40 kDa. This results suggest that it may exist a new family of steroid receptors, also with the characteristics of G protein-coupled receptors. Another fact that suggests that this mPR subtype may be a G protein-coupled receptor is that it functions as the intermediary in progesterone induction of the maturation of oocyte meiotic maturation in teleost fishes.

Involvement in cancer
Progesterone takes part in the growth regulation of different kind of tumors, in part by its interactions with its intracellular receptors (PR). MPRs have been found in cancer cells and tissues too. Their roles in the process are unclear but it has been suggested that, at least, this steroid hormone may inhibit tumor progression. Recently, it has been reported that membrane progesterone receptors (mPRs) are expressed in ovarian and breast cancer cells, and that progesterone could exert some actions through these receptors. The presence of functional mPRα, mPRβ, and mPRγ subtypes were detected in both cell lines as well as in breast tumor tissues.

In the case of the ovarian cancer, transcripts for two of the three mPRs, α and β, were differentially expressed in ovarian cystadenomas, borderline tumors, and carcinomas: while mPRα is expressed at significantly higher levels than the others, an increased expression of mPRβ has been noticed in mucinous carcinomas when compared to the other tumor types and normal tissues. Notably, the expression of mPRγ was significantly higher in endometrioid and clear cell carcinomas, which are closely related tumors. In one study, an increase in progesterone was shown to coincide with a reduced level of mPRγ and concomitant increase in the mPRα transcript levels.

Recent studies suggest that some progesterone actions in astrocytoma cells (the most common and malignant human brain tumors) may be mediated also by mPRs. Recently, it has also been discovered that mPRα and mPRβ are clearly expressed at mRNA and protein levels in astrocytoma cells whereas mPRγ was barely expressed in these cells.

See also
 PGRMC1 and PGRMC2
 Membrane steroid receptor

References

7TM receptors
Human proteins
Progestogens
Human female endocrine system


title: Pheran

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Pheran  or Phiran is the traditional outfit for both males and females in Kashmir.

The pheran consists of two gowns, one over the other. The traditional pheran extends to the feet, which was popular up to the late 19th century C.E.  However, a relatively modern variation of the pheran extends to below the knees, which is worn with a suthan inside (loose form of shalwar) similar to the styles worn in Afghanistan.

It is optional to wear the suthan with a long phiran as traditionally lower garments are not worn with pherans. The traditional pheran do not have side slits.

According to some sources, the pheran was introduced by Mughal emperor Akbar when he conquered the valley in 1586.

In summer, the pheran are made of cotton, but in winter, the pheran is made of wool, covering and protecting the body from the cold especially during snow. These dresses are used by the residents of the Kashmir valley and Kashmiris residing in Chenab Valley.

Since Pheran is unique to the kashmiri culture and it is worn particularly to protect oneself from the coolest phase(Chilai Kalan-starts from December 21) in winter, December 21 is now being celebrated as Pheran Day in Kashmir valley.

Etymology
According to one theory, pheran is a corruption of the Persian word 'perahan' which means cloak. The outfit has been in vogue in Kashmir since before the 15th century.

Designs

Head dress

Taranga

Hindu women use a headwear called "taranga" (), which is a headdress which becomes smaller down at back, towards the heels. It is popular in some areas of Kashmir.

Kasaba

Kashmiri Muslim women use a headwear known as the "kasaba" (). The kasaba is padded by means of a turban and is pinned together by brooches. A veil made of pashmina or Silk is pinned to the top of the kasaba that descends towards the back of the neck. There are two types of kasaba: "Thoud kasaba" and "Bonn kasaba". Thoud kasaba (high kasaba) sits on the head like a crown, worn only by married women belonging to elite families. House of khwajawal in Naid kadal made the most beautiful kasabas. Bonn kasaba (low kasaba) sits on head like a bandana, worn by commoners and tribal women. The most magnificent and expensive kasabas were made of kashmiri kundan work known as "Jarrah": precious gem stones, usually rubies, spinels and emerald are set in 24 carat gold to make various kundan ornaments (Tikka, Taweez, Hung taweez, Bal hor, kan vass) pinned to the red cap having intricate Kashmiri "Tilla work" (silver thread work). Kundan kasaba was worn only by royals. Kundan kasaba were only made by house of Kundanghar in Khwaja bazar.

Pheran
The pheran is a loose upper garment loosely gathered at the sleeves, which tend to be wide, made of either wool or jamewar, which is a mixture of wool and cotton, with no side slits. A pheran made of wool is called a 'loch'. Female pheran dresses are designed with colorful flowerlike designed elements and styles. Male pheran dresses are quite simple, without any colourful design.

The traditional pheran falls to the feet like a gown. This style was universally worn by the Kashmiri Hindu and Kashmiri Muslim communities into the later 19th century C.E. However, a modern version worn by Muslim people
is of knee-length, loose and stitched at the front side and on the finishes, while Hindu people still wear their pherans long, extending down their legs. Ankle length Pherans are tied at the waist. Intricate embroideries or flower styles are a popular on Kashmiri ladies pherans. The embroideries or flower designs are made of thin metal threads; this kind of embroidery is known as 'Tille' in Kashmiri language.

Poots
The poots () is the same as the pheran but made of lighter material; it is worn beneath the pheran. It is generally used to protect the pheran from burns from the kangri. It also provides extra warmth during winters, double layer insulation from the cold winter days.

Suthan/shalwar
Traditionally, the pheran and poots were worn without a lower garment. Indeed, in neighbouring Hunza too, women did not wear pajamas until 1890 and in Nagar until 1925. Since the latter part of the 19th century, loose suthans (shalwars) and churidar pajamas of the Punjab region became popular in Kashmir. Accordingly, the suthan or churidar pajama can form part of the pheran ensemble but is not a must. The Kashmiri suthan is baggy and loose and is similar to the Dogri suthan worn in the Jammu region. Some versions are similar to the shalwars worn in Afghanistan. However, since the 1960s, the straight cut Punjabi salwar has become popular.

Modern fashion
Modern trends saw a decline in the use of pherans in favour of the shalwar kameez. However, there has been a revival in recent years as pherans have become part of modern fashion, and are worn by females of other areas of Kashmir as well. Kashmiri men are also wearing the pheran as a fashionable outfit. Combined with jeans, the pheran has made its way into the office world. The modern pheran is not as wide and long as the traditional ankle or knee-length version and sometimes has side slits. Fewer men are wearing the phiran with a shalwar. Modern pherans, known as Raglan Pherans are a hybrid of western raglan coat and traditional wear.

Photo gallery

See also
 Kashmiri people
 Shalwar kameez
 Pulhoer

Notes

References

Indian clothing
Culture of Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir


title: Swati Singh (weightlifter)

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Swati Singh (born 2 October 1987) is an Indian weightlifter who won the bronze medal in the women's 53 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow. Singh had originally finished fourth but the gold medal winner Chika Amalaha of Nigeria failed a drug test, elevating Singh to bronze medal position. In 2019 she tested positive for Morphine and was banned until 2021 by the International Weightlifting Federation.

References

External links
 http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/weightlifting/1040490/s_singh.html
 https://www.pressreader.com/india/hindustan-times-lucknow-live/20170514/281659664965697

Living people
Indian female weightlifters
1987 births
Sportswomen from Uttar Pradesh
Sportspeople from Varanasi
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India
Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting
21st-century Indian women
21st-century Indian people
Weightlifters from Uttar Pradesh
20th-century Indian women
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Jannion Steele Elliott

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Jannion Steele Elliott (25 May 1871 – 27 March 1942), his surname sometimes hyphenated to Steele-Elliott, was a British ornithologist and naturalist who, in particular, accumulated large amounts of information on the mammals and birds of Bedfordshire.

Life
Elliott was born in Bedford on 25 May 1871 to William Elliott, an Inland Revenue officer, and his wife Elizabeth (née Jones). He was educated at Bedford Modern School.

From 1896, Elliott co-owned a foundry business (Robbins & Co.) in Dudley, West Midlands with his brother William. The business specialised in making fire grates and Elliott and his brother filed three patent applications regarding the improvement of the domestic fire grate. However, Elliott's main interest was ornithology.

Elliott published his first book The Vertebrate Fauna of Bedfordshire at his own expense in 1901. In their book, The Birds of Bedfordshire (1991), Paul Trodd and David Kramer stated that "the works of Jannion Steele Elliott were our base reference and it is only now that we can appreciate the importance of his writings when comparing the status of species than with those of today."

Elliott developed a large collection of the local birds of Bedfordshire which he gave to the Pritchard Museum of Bedford Modern School which was later to become a key component of the Bedford Museum. His collection was later transferred to the Luton Museum.

Of Elliott, the British ornithologist Bruce Campbell stated: "On June 4th, 1903, Jannion Steele-Elliott, the great Bedfordshire naturalist and his friend Ronald Bruce Campbell, my father, spent the day at Southill Park and found nests with eggs of 27 different species of bird, a feat which can have few parallels in British field ornithology."

Elliott was a Tring correspondent (1899–1942) and records of his ornithological work are kept in the archives of the Natural History Museum.

Elliott married firstly, in 1898, Caroline Emma Thompson, with whom he had a son (William Jannion, 1900–1929) and daughter (Marjory Caroline, born 1899); Caroline died in 1909. On 30 July 1925, Elliott married secondly Doris Amie, daughter of John Eccleston Sheldon, of Moorcroft, Barnt Green, Worcestershire, and former wife of Captain Mervyn Edward John Wingfield-Stratford (1883–1922), of the Worcester Regiment. Captain Mervyn Wingfield-Stratford was the first cousin of Georgina Grace Ida Wingfield-Stratford, wife of Elliott's son, William; the Wingfield-Stratfords descended from the politicians Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt and John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough. Their daughter, Petronilla, married Peter Trustram Eve, son of the 1st Baron Silsoe.

Elliott had lived in Clent,  south of the foundry in Dudley, until 1902. That year, he moved his family  west when he purchased the Elizabethan era building, Dowles Manor, near the confluence of Dowles Brook into the River Severn, at the eastern edge of the Wyre Forest. The manor,  northwest of the center of Bewdley, Worcestershire, is in the former civil parish of Dowles. By the time of his death, in 1942, he had bought up the surrounding land, piecemeal, until he owned the portion of the valley, formed by the Dowles Brook, surrounding Dowles Manor; he maintained this land as a nature reserve. At Dowles Manor, he entertained friends and fellow naturalists including Charles Oldham, Thomas Coward and Herbert Forrest.

He died on 27 March 1942, when visiting his brother at Kerry, Montgomeryshire.

Bibliography
Among the publications of Steele Elliott are:

Purple Heron in Herts, 1903

References

External links
 J. Elliott Steele on the website of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
 Steele-Elliot, Jannion in WorldCat Identities

1871 births
1942 deaths
People educated at Bedford Modern School
British archaeologists
British ornithologists
People from Bedford


title: Konstantin Pilipchuk

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Konstantin Pilipchuk (born 20 December 1986) is a Russian male acrobatic gymnast medalled at five Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships. In partnership with Alexei Dudchenko, he is a two-times world champion in men's pairs, winning in the 2012 and 2014. He won silver medals at the 2006, 2008 and 2010. Along with Dudchenko, he also won silver medal on the 2009 World Games, gold medal on the 2013 World Games and is a four-time European champion.

He was one of Rostov's torchbearers in the 2014 Winter Olympics torch relay.

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
Russian acrobatic gymnasts
Male acrobatic gymnasts
World Games gold medalists
World Games silver medalists
Competitors at the 2009 World Games
Competitors at the 2013 World Games
Medalists at the Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships
21st-century Russian people


title: Alexei Dudchenko

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Alexei Dudchenko (born December 17, 1984) is a Russian male acrobatic gymnast medalled at five Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships. In partnership with Konstantin Pilipchuk, he is a two-times world champion in men's pairs, winning in the 2012 and 2014. He won silver medals at the 2006, 2008 and 2010. Along with Pilipchuk, he also won silver medal on the 2009 World Games, gold medal on the 2013 World Games and is a four-time European champion.

He was one of Rostov's torchbearers in the 2014 Winter Olympics torch relay.

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Russian acrobatic gymnasts
Male acrobatic gymnasts
World Games gold medalists
World Games silver medalists
Competitors at the 2009 World Games
Competitors at the 2013 World Games
Medalists at the Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships
21st-century Russian people


title: Housing.com

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Housing.com is a Mumbai-based real estate search portal which allows customers to search for housing based on geography, number of rooms, and various other filters. The company has 6,000 brokers and serves 40 cities in India including Chennai, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Delhi.

History

A group of twelve students from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay founded Housing.co.in in June 2012. The company purchased Housing.com from San Francisco-based internet entrepreneur, Peter Headington, and the telephone number 03-333-333-333 in September 2013 for a total of $1m.

Since its founding in 2012, Housing.com has raised four rounds of funding. The company raised $2.5 million in Series A funding from Nexus Venture Partners in June 2013. The company used the funds to create its Data Science Lab and to expand to four cities: Bengaluru, Gurugram, Pune, Hyderabad.

 The company raised another $19M in venture funding, led by Helion Venture Partners, in April 2014.

In early March 2015, the company had a nationwide brand launch, and revealed its new brand logo, colours and brand philosophy; with the tagline 'Look Up'. The brand launch was advertised in national newspapers and hoardings in several cities across India; and notably, on the company's social media pages.

In June 2015, Housing.com then-CEO Rahul Yadav accused Sequoia India MD Shailendra Singh of poaching Housing.com staff. Subsequently, he was asked to leave the company altogether, citing objectionable behaviour. Rishabh Gupta was temporarily in charge, before being replaced by Jason Kothari in November 2015.

Product
Housing.com lists properties submitted by users, either brokers or owners, on an interactive map. Search results are filtered by available rooms, lifestyle ratings, child friendliness index (CFI), and area-based pricing.

The company has mapped approximately 650,000 houses in India.

Data science lab (DSL)
Housing.com's Data Science Lab (DSL) has generated a number of "Heat Map" algorithms and demand flux maps based on these filters. The CFI heat map shows child friendliness in a particular area and it measures neighborhoods on three different criteria: number of schools, number of hospitals and parks, and proximity of these facilities to the area. The algorithms also demonstrate price variations in properties across the city.

Housing.com is also available as apps for Android and iOS.

Acquisition
Housing.com acquired real estate discussion forum, Indian Real Estate Forum (IREF), for $1.2 Million  and Realty BI, a risk assessment firm for realty projects, for $2 Million.
Housing.com acquired HomeBuy360, a cloud-based sales lifecycle management platform, for $2 million. They had been merged with Proptiger.

References

Real estate companies established in 2012
Real estate companies based in Mumbai
Internet properties established in 2012
Indian companies established in 2012
Indian real estate websites
Online real estate databases
2012 establishments in Maharashtra


title: Mahmood Munim

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Mahmood Munim (born 1941) is a former Iraqi cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1941 births
Living people
Iraqi male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Iraq
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Baghdad


title: South Yorkshire Railway (disambiguation)

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South Yorkshire Railway may refer to:

South Yorkshire Railway, also known as the South Yorkshire Coal Railway, South Yorkshire Doncaster and Goole Railway Company, or South Yorkshire and River Dun
The railway preservation society incorporated as the South Yorkshire Railway Co. Ltd., see Heritage Shunters Trust
South Yorkshire Joint Railway
South Yorkshire Junction Railway


title: Doris Arnold

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Doris Grace Arnold (4 November 1904 – 5 October 1969) was a BBC Radio presenter and producer, and a pianist.

Born in Wimbledon, Surrey, in 1904, Arnold joined the BBC in 1929, as a typist. She first appeared on air as a stand-in for a pianist who was unwell. She married fellow pianist, BBC producer and songwriter Harry S. Pepper, and the two would perform piano duets together on air.

As presenter of the programme These You Have Loved, in which she played and talked about light classical recordings, she was one of the BBC's (and thus the United Kingdom's) first female disc jockeys. She also arranged music for male voice choirs.

In 1934, she featured on a cigarette card, in the Wills series Radio Celebrities. She also appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 25 September 1967.

Arnold died in 1969 at Denham, Buckinghamshire.

References

1904 births
1969 deaths
20th-century British musicians
20th-century British pianists
BBC radio presenters
British DJs
British music arrangers
People from Denham, Buckinghamshire


title: Hélder Bataglia

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Hélder Bataglia dos Santos (Seixal, January 25, 1947)  is a Portuguese-Angolan businessman. He creates, develops and manages financial projects in Africa, specifically in Angola, in both Congos, South Africa and Mozambique. Hélder Bataglia is founder and president of the Escom Group.

Biography
At the age of one year Helder Bataglia arrives in Angola, at the time a Portuguese colony. His father was a director of a German fish flour production company in the Benguela province. Hélder is raised in the municipality of Baía Farta and attends a local school. At the age of ten he leaves Baía Farta to study in Benguela and later at the Institute of Industry of Huambo, Central Plateau of Angola. He studies engineering, interrupted by the military service from 1969 to 1972 with Portuguese Armed Forces. From 1972 to 1974 he starts a profitable fish transformation company using an innovative technique for artificial drying. In 1975 he relocates to Lisbon with his first wife and daughter.

Career
Once in Portugal he enters business and travels across the Middle East, particularly Kuwait, Irak, Iran and Algeria. In 1980, in Egypt, he met his second wife, daughter of an Italian businessman in the construction and infrastructure sector. In 1982, he participates in an international cooperation project to develop vocational training in Algeria. In 1985, he leaves for the former USSR, where he participates in the construction of tannery factories and shoe factories, then requested by the Soviet government.

In 1991 Hélder Bataglia returns to Portugal. The following year, the Espírito Santo Group (GES) appoints him to create Escom Group, an investment company to support GES transactions in Angola. These activities were then expanded to the Republic of the Congo, South Africa (2009) and Mozambique (2011) where he founded Networx. Since 2013, Hélder Bataglia has been working with international investment funds with the aim of creating projects the infrastructure and transportation sectors in Africa, particularly in Angola, Mozambique and the Republic of the Congo. Since 2004 Hélder Bataglia has a pivotal role in the straightening of ties between China and Angola by facilitating contacts between both countries via the Escom, China Beya Escom International Limited and Sonangol, the Angolan public oil production company.

The case of the submarines
In 2004, Escom provides assistance to German Submarine Consortium (GSG) in defining the compensation incentives included in the sale of two submarines to Portugal. The success of the transaction provides Escom with a 2.5% profit on the sale price, €25 million. The Public prosecution in Portugal ordered an inquiry into the process due to suspicions of bribery and corruption, later confirmed by German authorities. Escom's board of directors was heard several times, but no proof was noticed apart from the fact that Battaglia was involved in money transfers that were the starting point of investigations. The latest hearing by the chairman of the Parliament's investigatory committee, held on 25 August 2014, brought an end to a decade-long investigation, clearing Helder Bataglia of any wrongdoing in the case, even though he has been associated to it both by German authorities  and business partners that testified that Bataglia has received funds, as well as in the Panama Papers scandal.

Personal achievements
In 1995, Hélder Bataglia establishes the NGO Apoiar África (Aid Africa), operating in Mozambique and Angola, primarily in the area of education. One of its first humanitarian acts was to support the opening of an orphanage in Angola. Escom Group carries out corporate social responsibility activities in Angola, particularly in basic education and adult literacy in mining areas where the Group operates, as well as, supporting projects for primary health care in the communities. Hélder Bataglia was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of Prince Henry of Portugal in 2007 by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva. He was also awarded the Order of Merit by the President of the Republic of the Congo. In 2012, Hélder Bataglia publishes a book in English, Portrait of a New Angola, which illustrates the state of reconstruction and the economic boost of the new Angola, including photographs by Francesca Galliani and Walter Fernandes.

References

Commanders of the Order of Prince Henry
1947 births
Living people
Angolan businesspeople
People from Seixal
Portuguese businesspeople
Portuguese emigrants to Angola
Portuguese people of Italian descent


title: By the Law

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By the Law () is an 83-minute silent drama film released on 3 December 1926. The film was directed by Lev Kuleshov and produced by the Soviet production company Goskino.

The narrative is based on the Jack London short story "The Unexpected" (1905) and "Just Meat" (1906). The plot concerns a group of gold prospectors in the Yukon region of Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Plot
A group of five gold miners originally from Western Europe find a large deposit in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. The group is composed of Michael (Irish), Hans Nelson (Swede and leader of the expedition) and his wife Edith (English), Dutchy (Dutch) and Harky.

Michael, the one who handles all the manual work and found gold for the group, gets frustrated as the other members still treat him as a subaltern. One day, Michael enters the cabin with a rifle for hunting or protection and, in a moment of madness, shoots dead two of his comrades, Dutchy and Harky. The remaining two, Hans Nelson and his wife Edith, disarm him. Hans Nelson wants to kill Michael, but his wife Edith opposes the idea, arguing, "You can't kill him – only the law can punish him." They face the dilemma of whether to administer justice themselves or risk waiting for the thaw and then trying to return to civilization to render the offender to the public court.

Cast
Alexandra Khokhlova as Edith Nelson
Sergei Komarov as Hans Nelson
Vladimir Fogel as Michael Dennin
Pyotr Galadzhev as Harkey
Porfiri Podobed
Fred Forell as Jack

Production
After trying his filmmaking skills in different genres, Lev Kuleshov decided to make a film using minimal resources and a strictly limited number of actors ("chamber film"). After reading the Jack London short story "The Unexpected" and "The Meat", he wrote a script with Viktor Shklovsky based on the narrative.

Kuleshov and co-screenwriter Shklovsky initially thought that the studio would be interested in a low-budget feature with three actors in one setting but the script was rejected and only after an article appeared in support of the picture in the magazine "Soviet Screen" was the film greenlit.

For the role of Edith Nelson Lev Kuleshov cast his wife, actress Aleksandra Khokhlova.

The filming was done in the Moscow Oblast, not far from the Tsaritsynsky ponds. The shore of the Moscow River and two trees near the water created the illusion of the wild northern Yukon. On the riverside, a house of prospectors was placed in which the interior scenes were shot.

Shooting conditions were extremely difficult; cold winter scenes were shot in April and inundation occurred. The decoration of the house was flooded, the crew was knee-deep in water and actors often faced electric shocks because of the damaged insulation of the wires.

Reception
The film was received positively abroad in non-English speaking countries; in Anglo regions it was released only in 1939. In Paris, the film was well-received by critics.

References

External links

Films set in Yukon
Films about the Klondike Gold Rush
Soviet silent feature films
Soviet drama films
Films based on works by Jack London
Films directed by Lev Kuleshov
Soviet black-and-white films
1926 drama films
1926 films
Silent drama films


title: Vila Nova de São Bento e Vale de Vargo

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Vila Nova de São Bento e Vale de Vargo is a civil parish in the municipality of Serpa, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Vila Nova de São Bento and Vale de Vargo. The population in 2011 was 4,040, in an area of 300.25 km2.

References

Freguesias of Serpa


title: Elliot Bovill

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Sir Elliot Charles Bovill (23 April 1848 – 24 March 1893) was a British lawyer and judge. He served as Chief Justice of Cyprus and the Straits Settlements in the late 19th century.

Early life
Bovill was born in Clapham, at that time in Surrey, the fourth son of William Bovill, often confused with William John Bovill QC of Lincoln's Inn, and his wife, Lavinia Ann I'Anson, daughter of architect Edward I'Anson. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating from the latter with honours in 1871. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1873.

He married Anna White, the daughter of John Tahourdin White on 27 July 1876 at Kensington.

Legal appointments
Bovill was appointed assistant Judicial Commissioner in Cyprus in 1875 soon after its cessation from Turkey to Britain. He was legal adviser to the government (the predecessor position to King's Advocate) from 1877 to 1881. He was appointed Judicial Commissioner in 1881 and Chief Justice in 1883 on creation of that position. He was knighted the following year, in 1884.

In 1890, it was reported that he was to be appointed Chief Justice of Western Australia. He declined the appointment. Instead, in 1892, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements on the departure of Edward Loughlin O'Malley. He first sat as Chief Justice in October 1892. His family made up of his wife and two boys and a daughter remained in Cyprus, planning to join him in Singapore later.

Death

Bovill died at the age of 45 of cholera on 24 March 1893 at his residence in Paterson Road, Singapore, after returning from a trip to Malacca. He was buried at the Bukit Timah Cemetery.

His gravestone was moved to Fort Canning Green when the Bukit Timah Cemetery was closed. There is a commemorative plaque placed by Bovill's widow in St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore.

References

1848 births
1893 deaths
People from Clapham
People educated at Westminster School, London
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Members of Lincoln's Inn
Chief Justices of the Straits Settlements
Deaths from cholera
English barristers
Knights Bachelor
Lawyers awarded knighthoods
British Cyprus judges
19th-century English lawyers


title: Line Walker

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Line Walker ( literally "Apostle Walker") is a 2014 Hong Kong crime thriller drama produced by TVB, starring Michael Miu, Charmaine Sheh and Raymond Lam as the main leads, with Sharon Chan, Benz Hui, Elena Kong, Sammy Sum, Oscar Leung and Toby Leung in major supporting roles. It is the first entry in the franchise.

The drama began broadcasting on August 25 to October 3, 2014, on TVB Jade channel during its 9:30–10:30 p.m. timeslot. In 2022, the drama was selected as one of ten classic TVB dramas being honoured for a new joint Youku and TVB programme.

Plot
Set in Hong Kong, the drama follows the lives of Hong Kong Police's CIB undercover police agents who must live a double life in secrecy. Not knowing when they can return to their normal life, they must also endure the constant fear of being uncovered by those they are assigned to infiltrate. However, this time their lives are put in danger when it is discovered that a mole lives within the police force.

Cheuk Hoi (Michael Miu) is a Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) in Hong Kong Police's Criminal Intelligence Bureau (CIB) unit. He is a righteous supervisor that will resort to unofficial tactics in order to restore the identities of his undercover subordinates who have gone missing and deemed by the police department to have strayed to the criminal side. When he finds his friend Hong To Hang, a fellow Superintendent of Police (SP) in the CIB unit, thrown off a building under mysterious circumstances, he learns from Hong's dying words that there are moles within the police force working for the triads. In order to protect the lives of his five undercover agents, Hong has deleted their files from the police database, erasing their identities as police officers. Hong charges Hoi with the task of finding each lost undercover agent, but dies before he can tell Hoi any further information. Remembering Hong's warning against trusting anyone in the police force, Hoi keeps Hong's last words hidden from his superiors. Instead, he sets out on his own to find Hong's five undercover agents.

With clues left behind by Hong, Hoi finds undercover agent Ting Siu Ka (Charmaine Sheh) who fronts as an owner of a foot massage parlor, and assumes his role as her new handler. Siu Ka's only assignment under Hong was to gather intelligence but Hoi assigns her the task of helping him find the other four undercover agents. Siu Ka decides to get close to Sit Ka Keung (Raymond Lam), nicknamed Bao Seed who is part of an illegal gambling gang. He fronts as an ice deliveryman but is actually in charge of collecting unpaid gambling debts. Siu Ka previously clashed with Bao Seed and his partner Muk Sut when they went to her shop to collect a gambling debt but becomes friendly with them because she knows of their connection to a major triad organization.

Meanwhile, Kobe Lin Ho Kan (Sammy Sum), another undercover agent working for Hong, fronted as a crooked stock broker in order to go to prison and get close to triad boss Chum Foon Hei as the last assignment he received from Hong, but Foon Hei soon proved to be a cunning target. Unable to gain any traction with Foon Hei, Kobe believed he had failed his assignment. However upon Kobe's release from prison, Foon Hei asks Kobe to join his organization. In order for Kobe to follow through with his undercover assignment, Kobe sacrifices his relationship with ICAC officer Mok Sin Yan (Sharon Chan), who is unaware that Kobe is an undercover agent.

Yan investigates Hoi because she suspects that he is a dirty cop with connections to the triads because of his fast raise in the police force and all the cases he is assigned to as the Chief inspector gets foiled. With Yan tracking his every single move, it makes things complicated for Hoi to meet up with the undercover agents. In order to keep one step ahead, Hoi bugs Yan's personal belongings and overhears her personal life. Accidentally he discovers the abusive marital life of Yan's older sister Katie Mok Sin Ching (Elena Kong). While helping Katie to escape her abusive life, the two begin to get closer and eventually begin a relationship.

As Siu Ka continues to work with Bao Seed on missions for Foon Hei, she begins to develop feelings for Bao Seed. It is eventually revealed that Bao Seed is another undercover sent out by Hong. As the 3 undercover agents work together with Hoi, they start to suspect their handler is the mole; however, the 4th undercover, Ada (Skye Chan), was revealed and explained to them her relationship with Hong and Hong's intentions.

When Foon Hei's son dies from the karma of his bad deeds, Foon Hei began to change for the better. Hoi begins to suspect Yip Siu-leung (Patrick Tang) as the mole in the police force. Kobe warns Yan to be careful. At first Yan dismisses Kobe's warning as an act of jealousy; however, she decides to investigate on her own and finds evidence to confirm Hoi's suspicions. Siu-leung eventually finds Yan investigating him. Hurt and enraged, he decides to kill Yan who is saved by Kobe when he tackles Siu-leung off the roof of a building.

Cast

Main cast

Supporting cast

Hung Ying triad society
Eddie Pang 彭懷安 as Yau Tat-fu 游達富, also known as "Taat Sa" (Flounder) 撻沙. Died in an explosion in episode 8
Eddie Law 羅天池 as Lok Wai-na (Rottweiler) 洛威拿. Died in lockup.
Eddie Ho 何偉業 as Gwai Wong Chiu 鬼王超. Died in lockup.
Akai Lee 李啟傑 as Lee Kai-shing 李繼承, also known as "Chicken Shing" 雞成. Captured by the police in episode 1.
Owen Cheung 張振朗 as Ah Fo "Fire" 阿火
 Vincent Lam 林偉 as Chai Fing 猜Fing. Shot to death.
Kitterick Yiu 姚浩政 as Ah Gau "Dog" 阿狗. Died becoming dog food.
 Otto Chan 陳志健 as Cheung Yung 張勇
Kelvin Lee 李興華 as Tat-fu's gang member 游達富之下屬
Choco Ip 葉家泓 as Tat-fu's gang member 游達富之下屬

Criminal Intelligence Bureau (CIB)
Lau Kong 劉江 as Kwok Hok-wah 郭學華, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) and head of CIB. Revealed to be a corrupt cop in episode 21. Member of Mr. Song Society. Gets arrested by the constables in episode 24, Committed suicide during Cheuk Hoi interrogation visit in episode 25.
Jimmy Au 歐瑞偉 as Hong To-hang 康道行, CIB Superintendent of Police (SP). Killed when pushed off a building in episode 1.
Skye Chan 陳倩揚 as Ada Tse On-yee 謝安儀, ICAC Investigator and undercover Police Constable. Killed in episode 19 by Yip Siu Leung
Nicole Wan 尹詩沛 as Yeung Wing-sze 楊詠絲, CIB officer
Kelvin Chan 陳建文 as Pong Tsz-kit 龐志傑, CIB officer
Lau Tin Lung 劉天龍 as Ng Wai-kwong 伍偉光, CIB officer

Organized Crime and Triad Bureau (OCTB)
Patrick Tang 鄧健泓 as Marco Yip Siu-leung 葉兆良, OCTB Chief Inspector of Police (CIP), becomes CIB Superintendent of Police (SP) in episode 18. Revealed to be a member of Mr. Song Society and corrupt police officer in episode 14. After falling off a building together with Lin-Ho Kan and gravely injured in episode 19, he was killed by a dirty cop in episode 20.
Raymond Tsang 曾守明 as Lee Yat-shan 李日山
Jayden Kau Cheuk-nang 裘卓能 as Ching Yik-hei 程亦熙
Edgar Lam 林健生 as Mak Tsz-kit 麥子健
Leung Yan 梁茵 as Chung Chi-nei 鍾芷妮
Chloe Nguyen 阮兒 as Fung Ka-ling 馮嘉玲

Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)
Miguel Choi 蔡康年 as Ko Chin-nang 高展能
Mak Ka Lun 麥嘉倫 as Law Chun-yip 羅俊業
Moses Cheng 鄭詠謙 as Man Yan-chung 文仁松
Ng Kwong Lei 吳曠利 as Chow Lok-hei 周樂晞

Foot Massage parlour
Mary Hon 韓馬利 as Rose Fung Wai-fong 馮慧芳, Ting Siu-ka's Foster Mother, shot in episode 25.
Rosanne Lui 呂珊 as Nancy Lau Mei-ying 劉美鶯, Ting Siu-ka's Foster Mother, shot in episode 25.
Ceci So 蘇恩磁 as Susie Choi Siu-lin 蔡笑蓮, Ting Siu-ka's Foster Mother, shot in episode 25.

Thai Mafia
KK Cheung 張國強 as Sung Kam 崇金
Ankie Beilke 貝安琪 as Amrin On Lam 安琳
Yuang Cheung 章宇昂 as Ah Yum 阿鑫

Mr Song Society
Chung King-fai 鍾景輝 as Chin Shui-on 錢瑞安, former Hong Kong Secretary of Security, mastermind behind Mr. Song's group. Gets arrested and sentenced to life in prison in episode 31.
Stephen Huynh 黃長興 as James Pong Yin Ting 龐彥廷, also known as Mr. Song 宋先生, killed in episode 29.
Samantha Ko 高海寧 as Amy Lam Hei-mei 林希微, Undercover Agent and later turned black cop, killed in episode 29.
Sam Tsang 曾航生 as Kelvin Lok Kei 骆祺, a barrister who represents dirty cops and Mr Song's group members.
Law Lok-lam 羅樂林 as Keith Kwok Teng 郭正, Director of Public Prosecutions inside Department of Justice, and one of the masterminds of Mr Song's group, Gets arrested by the police in episode 30.

Others
Ken Law 羅浩銘 as Ah Tong 阿棠
Kenneth Fok 霍健邦 as Ying Ka-moon 刑家滿
Doris Chow 周麗欣 as Ho Wan-ying 何韵
Steven Ho 何啟南 as Richard Cheung Wing-kuen 張永權
Gemma Choi 蔡慧欣 as Richard Cheung's mistress 張永權之情婦
Alvin Lau 劉彥夆 as Chum Long Sing 覃朗星

Development and casting
The sales presentation clip was filmed in October 2013. The original 57 second clip featured Michael Miu, Charmaine Sheh, Raymond Lam, Sharon Chan, Elena Kong, Sammy Leung and KK Cheung. The sales presentation clip was unveiled on November 7, 2013, for 2014 drama sales pitch.
Movie king Tony Leung Ka-fai was originally cast in the drama, but had to withdraw due to a rib injury sustained during filming of Horse Play. A whole new script was written as a result.
Costume fitting was held on February 28, 2014.
The blessing ceremony took place on February 28, 2014, 2:00 p.m. at Tseung Kwan O TVB City
Sammy Leung was originally cast to play the role "Lin Ho Kan", but had to withdraw during the middle of filming due to health reasons. Sammy Sum replaced him, while Patrick Tang took on Sammy Sum's original role "Yip Siu Leung". With Sammy Sum taking over the role of "Lin Ho Kan", Sharon Chan had to re-film scenes with Sammy Sum that she had already filmed with Sammy Leung which caused production to be pushed back for a month.
Joe Ma was rumoured to have been offered the role of "Lin Ho Kan". Once it was confirmed that the role was given to Sammy Sum, Joe released a statement on his Weibo account and stated during an interview with a reporter that he had turned down the role because "it was not fitting" for him. However, producer Man Wai Hung later clarified that he never contacted Joe about the role and did not understand where such a rumour came from.
On March 18, 2014, while filming a motorcycle scene, Sammy Sum fell and landed on his right hand which resulted to a wrist fracture. Medical attention was required and Sum was admitted to the hospital for surgery on March 21. Filming was delayed by a few weeks while Sum recovered.
On March 24, 2014, an extended trailer of the drama was previewed at FILMART 2014.

Reception
The series has received overwhelming critical acclaim since its release particularly for the suspenseful plot, buzz-generating episodes, performances by the casts, and direction. It is also one of the highest rated TVB series of the year, and is the most watched TVB drama of the year. The click rate of this drama has hit 2 billion online in Mainland China, breaking the record of Triumph in the Skies 2 and becoming the highest click rate TVB drama in Mainland China. The series has won Singapore's Media Favourite Series in StarHub TVB Awards 2014, Most Favourite Series in TVB Star Awards Malaysia 2014 and Best Drama in Hong Kong's TVB 48th Anniversary Awards 2014.

The starring cast also won multiple awards for their performances in this drama. Charmaine Sheh was highly praised for her role as "Ting Siu Ka" (丁小嘉). She won both Best/Favourite Actress and My Favourite TV Character at the TVB Anniversary Awards 2014, the TVB Star Awards Malaysia 2014 and the StarHub TVB Awards 2014 in Singapore. This is her second time to be crowned double TV Queen of the year at the TVB Anniversary Awards. The character "Chum Foon Hei" (覃歡喜) was very liked by the audience and "Foon Hei Gor" (歡喜哥) has become a new nickname for Benz Hui. He won My Favourite TV character in Hong Kong and in Malaysia. At Singapore's TVB award show, he won My Favourite Supporting Actor. Other cast members, like Raymond Lam, Michael Miu, Sharon Chan and Sammy Sum were also awarded at the different TVB Award shows. The subtheme "Love Is Not Easy" (越難越愛), sung by Jinny Ng, won the first Most Popular Series Song at the TVB Anniversary Award.

The series' success has led to two TV sequels and two spinoff movies.

Viewership ratings

Awards and nominations

TVB Anniversary Awards 2014
Best Drama (won by 61.90%)
Best Actress: Charmaine Sheh (won by 78.60%)
My Favourite Female Character: Charmaine Sheh as Ting Siu Ka 丁小嘉  (75171 votes)
My Favourite Male Character: Benz Hui as Chum Foon Hei 覃歡喜 (62705 votes)
Most Popular Series Song: "Love Is Not Easy" 越難越愛 by Jinny Ng (42935 votes)
Nominated – Best Actor: Michael Miu (Top 15)
Nominated – Best Actor: Raymond Lam (Top 15)
Nominated – Best Supporting Actor: Benz Hui (Top 15)
Nominated – Best Supporting Actor: Oscar Leung (Top 15)
Nominated – Best Supporting Actress: Sharon Chan (Top 15)
Nominated – Best Supporting Actress: Elena Kong (Top 15)
Nominated – My Favourite Male Character: Michael Miu (Top 15)
Nominated – My Favourite Male Character: Raymond Lam (Top 15)
(No Top 3 or Top 5 were announced)

TVB Star Awards Malaysia 2014
Most Favourite Drama
Most Favourite Leading Actress: Charmaine Sheh
Most Favourite Supporting Actor: Benz Hui
Most Favourite Supporting Actress: Sharon Chan
Most Favourite Improved Actor: Sammy Sum
Most Favourite Improved Actress: Samantha Ko
Most Favourite Theme Song: "Love Is Not Easy" 越難越愛 by Jinny Ng
Top 15 Favourite TV Characters: Charmaine Sheh as Ting Siu Ka 丁小嘉
Top 15 Favourite TV Characters: Michael Miu as Cheuk Hoi 卓凱
Top 15 Favourite TV Characters: Raymond Lam as Sit Ka Keung 薛家強
Top 15 Favourite TV Characters: Benz Hui as Chum Foon Hei 覃歡喜
Top 15 Favourite TV Characters: Sharon Chan as Mok Sin Yan 莫羨昕
Nominated – Most Favourite Leading Actor: Raymond Lam (Top 3)
Nominated – Most Favourite Supporting Actress: Elena Kong (Top 12)
Nominated – Most Favourite Supporting Actor: Oscar Leung (Top 12)
Nominated – Most Favourite On-Screen Couple: Raymond Lam and Charmaine Sheh (Top 3)

Singapore StarHub TVB Awards 2014
My Favourite TVB Actress: Charmaine Sheh
Top 6 Favourite TVB Female Characters: Charmaine Sheh as Ting Siu Ka 丁小嘉
Singapore Media's Favourite TVB Drama
Nominated – My Favourite TVB Drama
Nominated – My Favourite TVB Actor: Michael Miu
Nominated – My Favourite TVB Supporting Actor: Oscar Leung
Nominated – My Favourite TVB Male TV Characters: Raymond Lam (Top 12)

Yahoo！Asia Buzz Awards 2014
Searched Popularity Award TV Drama
Searched Popularity Award TV Actress: Charmaine Sheh
Searched Popularity Award Male Artist: Benz Hui

Taiwan TVBS
The Most Favourite Hong Kong Drama 2014

Huading 15th Awards 2015
Best Chinese Actor in a TV Series: Raymond Lam
Best Chinese Actress in a TV Series: Charmaine Sheh

Weibo's Star 2014
Weibo's Powerful TV Drama
Hong Kong Top 10 Hot Topic: 9th Place
Weibo's Powerful TV Female Character: Charmaine Sheh as Ting Siu Ka 丁小嘉
Weibo's Powerful On-Screen Couple: Charmaine Sheh (as Ting Siu Ka 丁小嘉) and Raymond Lam (as Sit Ka Keung 薛家強)
Weibo's Powerful TV Theme Song: "Love Is Not Easy" 越難越愛 by Jinny Ng

References

External links
Official Website
K-TVB.net

TVB dramas
Hong Kong television series
Hong Kong action television series
2014 Hong Kong television series debuts
2014 Hong Kong television series endings
2010s Hong Kong television series
Triad (organized crime)
Television shows adapted into films


title: Séamus Herron

text:
Séamus Herron (born 11 June 1934) is a former Irish cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1934 births
Living people
Irish male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Ireland
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Belfast


title: Aaron Provincial Park

text:
Aaron Provincial Park is a park in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada, located  east of the community of Dryden. It can be accessed via Ontario Highway 17.  Aaron Provincial Park is located on the east end of Thunder Lake.

References

External links
Official Park Website

Provincial parks of Ontario
Parks in Kenora District
Year of establishment missing


title: Jérôme Charvet

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Jerome Charvet is a French actor who has appeared in international films and TV series since 2011.

Biography
Jerome Charvet was born in Paris, France. His grandfather, Raymond Carré, is the three-star general in the French Army medical department who designed the entire training program for the first French astronauts, Jean-Loup Chrétien and Patrick Baudry. His father Christian Charvet is a sculptor.

After training at the Cours Florent acting school in Paris, he moved to New York City at the early age of 19. There he studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute under the tutelage of Paul Calderon and Irma Sandrey, two members of The Actors Studio. He then got accepted into the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and studied with master teacher Ron Burrus, former assistant of Stella Adler. He started out his career on stage at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre and the Roy Arias Theatre.

After starring in the independent movie Falling Overnight shot in Los Angeles, his film career kicked off in Paris in 2013 with Amour et turbulences (Love Is in the Air), directed by Alexandre Castagnetti, with French actors Ludivine Sagnier and Nicolas Bedos. That same year, he also lent his voice to Follow Me, a campaign for the fashion brand Maje, where he plays a young man torn between three Parisian women. He then starred with Jean Reno in the TV series Jo, which was broadcast in 140 country. In 2014, he played opposite Gérard Depardieu in the movie United Passions directed by Frédéric Auburtin, also starring Tim Roth and Sam Neill. The movie recounts the story of the FIFA World Cup's creation and was in the Cannes Film Festival official selection.

In 2018, he portrayed a former ISIS hostage helping Susan Sarandon find her captive son in the movie Viper Club, starring Matt Bomer and Edie Falco. This feature film directed by Maryam Keshavarz and produced by YouTube Originals was selected at the Toronto Film Festival, where Jerome Charvet and the rest of the cast attended the premiere.

In 2019, he played one of the lead roles in Trick, by Patrick Lussier, starring Omar Epps and Jamie Kennedy.

In 2021, he stars in the second season of Hunters, produced by Amazon Studios.

Filmography
 Features
 2011:  Falling Overnight by Conrad Jackson
 2013:  Love Is in the Air by Alexandre Castagnetti
 2014: United Passions by Frédéric Auburtin
 2018: Viper Club by Maryam Keshavarz
 2019: Trick by Patrick Lussier

 Short films
 2005: Teresa by Menguc Tanriseven
 2011: Sand by Sophie Sherman
 2013: La vie de rêve by David Tamayo
 2019: Too Close by Emily O'Brien

 Television
 2013: Jo by René Balcer
2021: Newton's Cradle by Tamer Mohsen
2021: Hunters by David Weil and Jordan Peele

References

External links

 Jerome Charvet Official website

Living people
21st-century French male actors
French male film actors
French male television actors
Male actors from Paris
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Round House (Los Angeles)

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Round House (later, Garden of Paradise) was a landmark building on the west side of Main Street, below Third in downtown Los Angeles, California.

History
The land comprising several lots situated on Main Street below Third Street was granted on August 31, 1847, by the Ayuntamiento of the pueblo of Los Angeles, to Juan Bouvette and Loreta Cota, his wife. On March 3, 1854, it was purchased by Remundo Alexander and Maria Valdez, his wife. Alexander was a native of France, and came to California as a sailor. In Africa, he had seen houses of stone built in cylindrical form. When he got married, this prompted him to vary the uniform style of building in Spanish-American countries by fashioning the adobe dwelling for his bride after the architecture of Africa. For a time they lived in the house.

On July 28, 1856, it was sold to George Lehman and his wife, Clara Snyder. Lehman was a native of Germany, familiarly known to his fellow-citizens as "Dutch George" or "Round House George". He was described as a good-natured, kind-hearted, well-meaning man, full of vagaries and fantastic notions. Lehman had a strange hallucination that he had found the Garden of Eden, and he set to work to make his grounds as nearly as possible his conception of the dwelling place of Adam and Eve. He fitted up the grounds for a pleasure resort, and the building for a saloon. The grounds were referred to then as the Garden of Eden and Lehman named the resort the Garden of Paradise. The public garden was frequented especially on Sundays. This garden became a thicket of foliage and bloom to which Lehman charged a small admission fee; and he sold beer and pretzels in the shade. A music band was stationed on the balcony of the Round House and played at intervals.

For more than twenty years, this garden was one of the resorts of the town, and was used on public occasions, notably the country's centennial celebration of July 4, 1876. Lehman contracted debts he could not pay and on March 6, 1879, it passed out of his possession, sold under foreclosure of mortgage. The cactus hedge was cut down in July, 1886, when the city ordered the laying of cement sidewalks. The building was used as a school house after Lehman left it. Founded by Emma Marwedel, it was home to Southern California’s first kindergarten, and its first teacher was Kate Douglas Wiggin. It was later a lodging house, and its last use was a dwelling for tramps. The Round House was torn down in 1889.

Architecture

Alexander varied the uniform style of building in Spanish-American countries and fashioned the new adobe dwelling after the architecture of Africa. The building was two stories high, with an umbrella-shaped shingle roof. The walls were  deep. Mrs. Alexander thought it cost, with the lawn, from US$15,000-$20,000. After Lehman came into possession of the Round House he enlarged it by enclosing it in a frame extension about  deep, which on the exterior was an octagon, and in the interior divided into additional rooms. Over the windows, he painted the names of the thirteen original States, with that of California added.

Grounds

The building stood on lots 311, 313, 315, and 317 fronting  on Main Street and running through to Spring Street. Its exact location was  south of Third Street. The Main Street front of the Garden was later occupied by the Pinney Block, the Pridham Block and Turnverein Hall. On the Spring Street front, lots 308, 310, 312, and 314, was a thick cactus hedge which barred entrance to the grounds from that street. The entrance to the garden was guarded by a row of tunas (Prickly-pear cacti), which extended across the Main and Spring streets sides that grew from  high. Lehman planted shade-giving pepper trees, and built a labyrinth of arbors, which in time were hidden under a profusion of vines and roses. He planted fruit and ornamental trees, shrubbery and plants. There were statues of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, a serpent and  golden apples, as well as a frame work for flying horses for the amusement of children. Scattered about under the trees were effigies in cement of the animals which passed in review before Adam to receive their names.

References

External links

Houses in Los Angeles
Octagon houses in California
Buildings and structures in Downtown Los Angeles
Defunct resorts
Demolished buildings and structures in Los Angeles
Houses completed in 1854
1850s architecture in the United States
1854 establishments in California
1889 disestablishments in California
Buildings and structures demolished in 1889
Main Street (Los Angeles)


title: Bertha Oliva

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Bertha Oliva Nativí (born c. 1956) is a Honduran human rights campaigner. She is the founder and coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH, by its Spanish initials), a non-governmental organization promoting the rights of relatives of the victims of forced disappearances between 1979 and 1989.

Oliva founded the organization after her husband, Prof. Tomás Nativí, founder of the People’s Revolutionary Union (URP), was taken from his home by State forces in June 1981. She was three months pregnant at the time. Her husband has never been seen since.

Career
COFADEH is recognized as having played a major role in the dissolution of Honduras' Department of National Investigations, the repeal of compulsory military service, and the liberation of the country's last political prisoners in 1992.

Oliva, and her organization COFADEH, have been active partners in the Global Response campaign Honduras:Protect Forests and Environmental Activists.

Oliva opposed the 2009 military coup against President Manuel Zelaya. After elections in late 2013 returned the rightwing National Party to power, Bertha Oliva said: "The police and military are using the cover of the US-led war on drugs in Honduras to eliminate many people, maybe including me: I am on the death list again."

Awards
Oliva received the Human Rights Award from Honduras' National Commission on Human Rights, and was nominated along with five other Honduran women as one of the 1000 Peace Women for the Nobel Prize in 2005.

In November 2010, the Dutch government awarded Oliva the 2010 Human Rights Tulip award.

See also
 Human rights in Honduras

References

Further reading
 Bertha Oliva, A Real Truth Commission for Honduras, The World Post, 4 May 2010

External links
 COFADEH

Honduran human rights activists
Honduran women activists
Honduran women
1950s births
Living people
Women human rights activists


title: Table tennis at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's team

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The Men's team table tennis event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games was held from 24 July to 28 July at the Scotstoun Sports Campus in Glasgow.

Group stage

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Classification stage

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Knockout stage

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Bronze medal

Final

References

Table tennis at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Lalendorf station

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Lalendorf station is located in the municipality of Lalendorf in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The Neustrelitz–Warnemünde railway and the railway from Bützow to Neubrandenburg cross near the station. Both lines originally had separate station facilities, both located on the same station forecourt. Since the Neustrelitz–Warnemünde railway was rebuilt in 1960/1961, it bypasses the Lalendorf station, but it is connected to it by a connecting curve. The station’s entrance building and several other buildings in the station area are heritage-listed buildings.

Location

The station is located in the municipality of Lalendorf in the district of Rostock on the southern edge of the village of Lalendorf about 10 kilometres east of Güstrow and about 40 kilometres south-east of Rostock. The railway line from Bützow runs in an east–west direction, while the line from Neustrelitz to Warnemunde runs from southeast to northwest.

History

Lalendorf station was opened in 1864 when the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway (Großherzoglich Mecklenburgische Friedrich-Franz-Eisenbahn, MFFE) extended its line from Güstrow to Malchin. The line was to was extended in 1867 to Strasburg on the Prussian border, where it connected with Stettin (now Szczecin in Poland). The Neustrelitz–Warnemünde railway, known as the Lloyd-Bahn (Lloyd Railway), which was opened in 1886, crossed the MFFE line in Lalendorf. It had its own station north of the MFFE station. The station forecourt and its access road and the railway hotel were used by both railway companies. Both line were interconnected at the western ends of the two stations.

After the MFFE had been nationalised in 1877, the Mecklenburg parliament decided in 1890 to nationalise the Lloyd Railway. The negotiations dragged for a while, so that the line did not become part of the MFFE until 1893. After the nationalisation, the stations of both railway companies were united under a single administration. From 1893, the express trains between Rostock and Berlin ran via Güstrow between Rostock and Lalendorf, rather than via the direct route; as a result Güstrow became one of the most important nodes in the Mecklenburg railway network. In order to facilitate the transition between the two tracks, a connecting curve was built from the MFFE station towards Neustrelitz, which was known as the Berliner Kurve (Berlin curve). The Lloyd Railway's station was subsequently used as a freight yard. A connecting curve was also built from the yard to the line towards Teterow. The Lloyd Railway from Lalendorf to Rostock lost its importance and was reduced to the status of a branch line. It was not until 1930 that the Lalendorf–Rostock was upgraded and used by some express trains.

The station was destroyed towards the end of World War II, when a stationary ammunition train was strafed and exploded. Among other things, the former station building of the Lloyd Railway and the station master’s house were destroyed. After the war, the section of the Lloyd Railway from Plaaz via Lalendorf and Waren (Müritz) to Neustrelitz was dismantled for reparations to the Soviet Union, including almost all the facilities of Lalendorf station.

A new port was built in Rostock in the late 1950s. The line from Neustrelitz to Rostock was rebuilt especially to connect with the port. As a result, it was rebuilt on a newly surveyed route with larger curve radii. While the line south of Lalendorf essentially followed the old track bed, it followed a completely new path as it passed through the Lalendorf area and further north. Lalendorf station was not touched and the line bypassed Lalendorf to the east and crossed the east–west line on a bridge. South of the intersection, the Berlin curve remained as a connection to Lalendorf station. At the connection of the Berlin curve to the line, the Lalendorf Ost operations station replaced the former Vogelsang junction. Both stations were controlled by a new relay interlocking at a new signal box built to the GS II DR design to the east of the platforms of Lalendorf station.

The part of the station formerly used by the Lloyd Railway was used after the reconstruction of the line for the parking of works trains and as a storehouse of building materials and agricultural products. The line from Neustrelitz to Rostock via Lalendorf station and Güstrow was electrified in 1984 and the direct line from Lalendorf via Plaaz to Rostock followed a few months later. A substation for railway power was built in Lalendorf with a siding near the "Berlin curve".

The station was rebuilt after 2000 and the platform tracks were reduced to one. The station was connected to an electronic interlocking.

Passenger services

In the past the station was generally served by passenger trains to and from all four directions. Express trains usually did not stop at the station and semi-fast trains (Eilzuge) only stopped occasionally. After the dismantling of the line to Plaaz in 1945, no long-distance passenger trains served Lalendorf; after the reconstruction of the line up to 1960 the station was still not served and all express trains ran through the station without stopping. The operation of regional services from Güstrow via Lalendorf towards Waren (Müritz) ended in 1996. After that the only long-distance services in the area were InterRegio services on the route between Rostock and Berlin via Güstrow; these were later replaced by Regional-Express services. These services have not normally stopped in Lalendorf.

Today line RE6 runs from Lübeck via Bad Kleinen, Bützow, Güstrow, Neubrandenburg, Pasewalk to Szczecin and an Ostseeland-Verkehrs service runs from Bützow via Güstrow, Neubrandenburg, Pasewalk to Ueckermünde. Both services stop every two hours at the station and together provide an approximate hourly service. The RE 5 from Rostock via Güstrow to Berlin passes through the station, but generally does not stop.

Infrastructure

The station building is located north of the tracks and is empty (status: late 2012). Three tracks are still in operation, only one of which has a platform. In the eastern station area is a guarded level crossing. In this area, a curve connects towards Waren and a siding branches off to a substation. A signal box that is now disused was built in the area in the late 1960s; the original signal box in the western part of the railway station was demolished around 1970.

The tracks and station building of the Lloyd Railway, later used as the freight yard, lie north of the tracks of the east–west line and at an acute angle to it. After the Second World War, this part was no longer operated as part of the station and controlled with signals, but, sidings were used for supplying building material and for parking rolling stock; some of the sidings still exist. The station building of the Lloyd Railway no longer exists, but there are some outbuildings in this area and a water tower that dates from the period after the First World War.

The station forecourt and approach road were shared by the two railway companies. The route from the old route from Lalendorf to Plaaz, which operated up to 1945, has been preserved, and a track runs on most of it today.

The station building of the MFFE, two houses for officials, the avenue to the station and an administration building are protected as monuments.

References

External links

Railway stations in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1864
Buildings and structures in Rostock (district)


title: Gymnastics at the 1986 Asian Games

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Gymnastics was contested at the 1986 Asian Games, held in Seoul, South Korea from September 21, 1986, to September 24, 1986. Only artistic events were contested.

Medalists

Men

Women

Medal table

References

 New Straits Times, September 22–25, 1986
 Asian Games medalists

External links
 Olympic Council of Asia

1986 Asian Games events
1986
Asian Games
1986 Asian Games


title: Resonance (LuvBug song)

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"Resonance" is the debut single from British dance group LuvBug featuring vocals from British singer Talay Riley  produced by Pantha. It was released as a digital download on 5 October 2014 in the United Kingdom. The song has peaked to number 13 on the UK Singles Chart.

Track listing

Charts

Release history

References

2014 singles
2014 songs
Polydor Records singles
Talay Riley songs


title: LuvBug

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LuvBug is an English electronic dance music trio consisting of London-born DJ & producer Marvin Humes, Manchester-based producer White N3rd and producer/songwriter JKAY.

Career
Humes and JKAY grew up in Woolwich, East London with JKAY becoming part of the songwriting/producing duo Tracklacers. They worked with producers including Danja (Justin Timberlake, Usher) and Afrojack (David Guetta, Major Lazer) and also produced early material for JLS, the pop/R&B boy band Humes was formerly a part of. N3rd has produced remixes for Diplo and Azealia Banks and was introduced to Humes through songwriter Ali Tennant (Guetta). In April 2013, the trio came together at a London-based studio and started working on material. The group released a string of remixes for the likes of Leah McFall & will.i.am, Inner City, Case & Foxy Brown.

2014–present: Single releases
After signing to Polydor Records and working with producer Pantha, Humes suggested British R&B singer Talay Riley for vocals and thus created their debut single "Resonance", which was released on 5 October 2014 and debuted at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart and number 10 on the Scottish charts. An album was announced to be in the works.

Its second single, "Revive (Say Something)", featuring uncredited vocals from Mark Asari, was released on 15 February 2015, and peaked at number 17 on the UK Singles Chart.

The third single, "Best Is Yet to Come", featuring uncredited vocals from Scouting for Girls, was released on 15 April 2016. The audio video was released in February 2016 on YouTube and Vevo. Claudia Gadelha used Best is Yet to Come as her walkout song at UFC 212.

Discography

Singles

Remixes

References

English electronic music groups
English dance music groups


title: Sonny Cullen

text:
Anthony "Sonny" Cullen (10 July 1934 – 8 August 1999) was an Irish cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1934 births
1999 deaths
Irish male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Ireland
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Dublin (city)


title: Bariga Boys

text:
Bariga Boys is a 2009 Nigerian documentary about street performers Segun Adefila and the Crown Troupe, who use guerrilla theatre, music and drama to address issues of poverty in the slums of Bariga in Lagos.

References

Nigerian documentary films
Best Documentary Africa Movie Academy Award winners
2009 films
2009 documentary films
Films shot in Lagos
Documentary films about theatre
Street theatre
Documentary films about poverty


title: No Way

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No Way may refer to:

Albums
No Way (album), by Run On, 1997
No Way!, or the title track, by Boogaloo Joe Jones, 1971
No Way, by Geraldine Hunt, 1980

Songs
"No Way" (Rottyful Sky song), 2010
"No Way" (Soulhead song), 2004
"No Way!", by Bazzi from Soul Searching, 2019
"No Way", by Bob Girls, 2014
"No Way", by the Cynics, 1987
"No Way", by David Gilmour from David Gilmour, 1978
"No Way", by the Donkeys, 1980
"No Way", by Fifth Harmony from 7/27, 2016
"No Way", by Humble Pie from Thunderbox, 1974
"No Way", by Korn from Issues, 1999
"No Way", by Krokus from Metal Rendez-Vous, 1980
"No Way", by L3 and XO-IQ, featured in the television series Make It Pop
"No Way", by Lee Hi from 24°C, 2019
"No Way", by Nina Hagen Band from Unbehagen, 1980
"No Way", by Pearl Jam from Yield, 1998
"No Way", by Sonic Youth from The Eternal, 2009
"No Way", by Toni Braxton from Pulse, 2010
"No Way", from the musical Six

See also
"No Way, No Way", a song by Vanilla, 1997


title: Dimitrios Stamatis

text:
Dimitrios Stamatis (alternate spelling: Dimitris) (; born January 12, 1996) is a Greek professional basketball player for Mykonos of the Greek 3rd division. He is 1.88 m (6'2") tall. He can play at both the point guard and shooting guard positions. His father, Antonios Stamatis, was also a professional basketball player.

Professional career
In 2012, Stamatis played at the Jordan Brand Classic International game. After playing basketball with the youth teams of AGOG Evriali, Stamatis began his pro career in 2013, with the Greek League club Panionios. In November 2015, Stamatis joined Nea Kifissia of the Greek Basket League.

In August 2016, he joined Kymis. He moved to the Greek club Kolossos Rhodes in 2017. He joined Ifaistos Limnou in 2018. Stamatis averaged 4.6 points per game during the 2019–20 season. He signed with Aris Thessaloniki of the Greek Basket League on September 24, 2020.

On November 4, 2021, Stamatis signed with Iraklis. In 18 games, he averaged 6.9 points, 1.6 rebounds and 2.5 assists, playing around 24 minutes per contest.

National team career
Stamatis was a member of the Greek junior national teams. With the junior national teams of Greece, he played at some of the following tournaments: the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, the 2013 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, the 2014 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship. He also played at the 2015 FIBA Under-19 World Cup, the 2015 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, and the 2nd division 2016 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship Division B, where he won a bronze medal.

References

External links
EuroCup Profile
FIBA Profile
FIBA Europe Profile
Eurobasket.com Profile
Greek Basket League Profile
Hellenic Federation Profile
NBADraft.net Profile
Draftexpress.com Profile

1996 births
Living people
Greek men's basketball players
Aris B.C. players
Iraklis Thessaloniki B.C. players
Ifaistos Limnou B.C. players
Kymis B.C. players
Nea Kifissia B.C. players
Panionios B.C. players
Point guards
Shooting guards
Basketball players from Athens


title: Peter Crinnion

text:
Peter Crinnion (born 12 February 1939) is a former Irish cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1939 births
Living people
Irish male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Ireland
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Bray, County Wicklow


title: Somme's 5th constituency

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The 5th constituency of Somme is a French legislative constituency in the Somme département. Like the other 576 French constituencies, it elects one MP using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round.

Description
The 5th constituency of the Somme covers the largely rural west of the department.

Unlike the other constituencies in Somme the 5th has remained solidly conservative throughout the Fifth Republic.

Historic representation

Election results

2022

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2017

2012

2007

2002

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1997

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References
Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).
2007 results:
2012 results:

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title: Pip Ivan

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Pip Ivan may refer to:
 Pip Ivan (Chornohora)
 Pip Ivan (Maramureș)


title: Membrane estrogen receptor

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Membrane estrogen receptors (mERs) are a group of receptors which bind estrogen. Unlike the estrogen receptor (ER), a nuclear receptor which mediates its effects via genomic mechanisms, mERs are cell surface receptors which rapidly alter cell signaling via modulation of intracellular signaling cascades. Putative mERs include membrane-associated ERα (mERα) and ERβ (mERβ), GPER (GPR30), GPRC6A, ER-X, ERx and Gq-mER.

The mERs have been reviewed.

See also
 Membrane steroid receptor

References

G protein-coupled receptors
Human proteins
Human female endocrine system


title: Kakko

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Kakko may refer to:

 Kakko (instrument), a Japanese double-headed drum
 , a type of Finnish bread baked mostly in the region of Satakunta

People
 Kakko (singer) (born 1969), Japanese actress and singer
 Kakko of Friuli (died 617), joint duke of Friuli

People with the surname
 Erik Kakko (born 1971), Finnish ice hockey player
 Kaapo Kakko (born 2001), Finnish ice hockey player
 Minea Blomqvist-Kakko (born 1985), Finnish golfer
 Roope Kakko (born 1982), Finnish golfer
 Tony Kakko (born 1975), Finnish singer-songwriter

Finnish-language surnames