title: Christian Mali

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Christian Friedrich Mali (6 October 1832, Darthuizen (near Utrecht) – 1 October 1906, Munich) was a German painter and art professor. His older brother, Johannes Cornelis Jacobus Mali (1828–1865) was also a painter.

Life
Mali was the youngest of ten siblings, all of whom displayed artistic talent. After the sudden death of his father in 1833, Mali moved to Württemberg with his mother and worked as a xylographer until 1858. He and his brother Johannes moved to Munich in 1860, where Christian became a lifelong friend of the animal painter Anton Braith.

As the result of a trip to Verona, he became interested in architectural painting, and produced several renderings of the buildings there. In 1865, after the death of his brother, Mali visited Düsseldorf and from there went to Paris, where he encountered the works of the recently deceased animal painter Constant Troyon and, perhaps under the influence of his friend Braith, decided to devote himself to animal painting.

On 14 April 1905, he became an honorary citizen of Biberach an der Riß. Upon his death the following year, he was buried there next to Braith in the Catholic Cemetery. He bequeathed much of his art, his studio and 60,000 Marks to the city of Biberach. The studio (and Braith's) form the core of the Braith-Mali Museum and are among the few fully preserved examples of 19th-century art studios.

Work
His earlier images place more emphasis on scenery and many are set in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area and the Swabian Jura. His later work focuses almost entirely on dramatic depictions of animals; especially sheep.

References

Further reading
Hans-Peter Bühler: Anton Braith, Christian Mali. Tiermalerei der Münchner Schule. Von Zabern, Mainz 1981,

External links

Künstlerkolonie Brannenburg
Biography and appreciation of Christian Mali by Gerhard Raff

1832 births
1906 deaths
Landscape painters
19th-century German painters
German male painters
People from Leersum
19th-century German male artists


title: Patricia Roybal Caballero

text:
Patricia A. Roybal Caballero (born 1949/1950) is an American politician serving as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from the 13th district. Elected in 2012, she assumed office on January 15, 2013.

Education
Roybal Caballero earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado Boulder and a dual Master of Public Administration–Master of Community and Regional Planning from the University of New Mexico.

Career
Roybal Caballero is a member of Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribal faction and belongs to the Guadalupe Pueblo in New Mexico. She is one of two Native American women elected to the state legislature in 2012.

Personal life
Roybal Caballero is married to R. Carlos Caballero, the New Mexico public education commissioner for the 1st district. She has two sons.

Elections
2012
When District 13 incumbent Democratic Representative Eleanor Chavez ran for the New Mexico Senate and left the seat open, Roybal Caballero was unopposed for the June 5, 2012 Democratic Primary, winning with 834 votes, She won the November 6, 2012 general election with 4,452 votes (71.5%) against Republican nominee Jose Orozco.
2021

After the resignation of Deb Haaland, who resigned after being nominated by Joe Biden to become the United States Secretary of the Interior, Roybal Caballero announced her candidacy for congress from New Mexico's 1st congressional district. At the Democratic committee selection, she came in last place earning only one vote; fellow representative Melanie Stansbury would go on to win the nomination.

References

External links
 Government website
 Campaign website

 Patricia A. Roybal Caballero at Ballotpedia

21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Candidates in the 2021 United States elections
Hispanic and Latino American state legislators in New Mexico
Hispanic and Latino American women in politics
Living people
Democratic Party members of the New Mexico House of Representatives
Native American state legislators in New Mexico
Native American women in politics
Place of birth missing (living people)
Politicians from Albuquerque, New Mexico
University of New Mexico alumni
Women state legislators in New Mexico
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
21st-century Native American women
21st-century Native American politicians


title: Sano vaan Tuomas

text:
Sano vaan Tuomas is the first studio album by Finnish rapper Tuomas Kauhanen. Released on , the album peaked at number 16 on the Finnish Albums Chart.

Track listing

Charts

Release history

References

2013 debut albums
Finnish-language albums
Hip hop albums by Finnish artists


title: List of books on films

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This list of books on films is for books dedicated to individual films, film series, or related critical analyses.

American films
Avatar (2009)

Birth of a Nation (1915)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Casablanca (1942)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Cold Mountain (2003)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

[[The Godfather (film series)|The Godfather trilogy]] (1972–90)

Gone with the Wind (1939)The Graduate (1967)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Lolita (1962)

Psycho (1960)

Schindler's List (1993)

[[Star Wars|Star Wars franchise]] (1977–)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

 (screenplay)Tootsie (1982)

Touch of Evil (1958)

Vertigo (1958)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Asian films

Hong Kong
A Better Tomorrow (1986)

Ashes of Time (1994)

An Autumn's Tale (1987)

Bullet in the Head (1990)

Center Stage (1991)

Durian Durian (2000)

Happy Together (1997)

He's a Woman, She's a Man (1994)

Internal Affairs (2002–03)

The Killer (1989)

Made in Hong Kong (1997)

PTU (2003)

Song of the Exile (1990)

Wing Chun (1994)

Indian
The Apu Trilogy (1955–59)

Mother India (1957)

Japanese

A Page of Madness (1926)

Rashomon (1950)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Tokyo Story (1953)

Taiwanese
A Touch of Zen (1971)

European films

British
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

French
Breathless / À bout de souffle (1960)

The Rules of the Game / La Regle de Jeu (1939)

German
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Das Cabinet Des Dr Caligari (1920)

Nosferatu (1922)

Italian
8½ (1963)

New Zealand
[[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|The Lord of the Rings Trilogy]] (2001–03)The Piano (1993)
Margolis, Harriet, editor (2000). Jane Campion's "The Piano". Cambridge University Press. .

See also
Stanley Kubrick bibliography
Alfred Hitchcock bibliography

External links
BFI Film Classics
Rutgers at WorldCat

Bibliographies of film
Books
Films


title: List of museums in Northern Cyprus

text:
This is a list of museums within the cities of Northern Cyprus.

References

External links
 Distinctive-properties-ltd.com
 Cypnet.co.uk
 Northcyprusonline.com

Northern Cyprus-related lists
Northern Cyprus
Lists of organisations based in Northern Cyprus


title: Lisa Zimmermann (skier)

text:
Lisa Zimmermann (born 2 March 1996 in Nuremberg) is a German freestyle skier. She won the gold medal in slopestyle at the 2015 World Championships in Kreischberg.

World Cup results

Season titles
 1 title – (1 slopestyle)

Season standings

Race Podiums
 4 wins – (2 SS, 2 BA)
 7 podiums – (4 SS, 3 BA)

Olympic results

World Championships results

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
German female freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Germany
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Nuremberg
Skiers from Bavaria
21st-century German women


title: 2014 Tour of Qatar

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The 2014 Tour of Qatar was the 13th edition of the Tour of Qatar cycling stage race. It was rated as a 2.HC event on the UCI Asia Tour, and was held between 9 and 14 February 2014, in Qatar.

The race was won by  rider Niki Terpstra, who won the opening stage of the race and held the lead throughout. Second place went to his teammate Tom Boonen, who won two stages and the points classification, while third place went to Jürgen Roelandts of the  squad. The young rider classification was won by another  rider, Guillaume Van Keirsbulck, while the teams classification was also won by , after five of the team's eight riders – Terpstra, Boonen, Van Keirsbulck (seventh), Stijn Vandenbergh (eighth) and Andrew Fenn (ninth) – finished in the top ten overall.

Teams
Nineteen teams competed in the 2014 Tour of Qatar. These included thirteen UCI World Tour teams, five UCI Professional Continental teams and the Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team.

The teams that participated in the race were:

Race overview

Stages

Stage 1
9 February 2014 – Al Wakra to Dukhan Beach,

Stage 2
10 February 2014 – Camel Race Track to Al Khor Corniche,

Stage 3
11 February 2014 – Lusail Circuit, , individual time trial (ITT)

Stage 4
12 February 2014 – Dukhan Beach to Mesaieed,

Stage 5
13 February 2014 – Al Zubara Fort to Madinat ash Shamal,

Stage 6
14 February 2014 – Sealine Beach Resort to Doha Corniche,

Classification leadership table

References

External links

Tour of Qatar
Tour of Qatar
Tour of Qatar
2014


title: Palani, Iran

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Palani (, also Romanized as Pālānī and Pelānī) is a village in Kambel-e Soleyman Rural District, in the Central District of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 344, in 71 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Sulejman Starova

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Sulejman Starova (born 12 December 1955) is an Albanian football coach and retired player.

Managerial career
As a manager, he has been in charge of his previous club Partizani Tirana as well as KF Tirana, Besa Kavajë and Teuta Durrës. He has also been technical director of Partizani, Teuta and FK Kukësi. On 10 February 2014 he was named as the manager of FK Kukësi following the departure of Naci Şensoy.

On 5 November 2017, Partizani Tirana announced on their official website that Starova will be the replacement of the sacked Mark Iuliano, starting the training on 7th. In September 2018, Starova was fired by Kosovan side Feronikeli after 12 matches in charge.

Managerial statistics

Director career
Starova was the General Secretary of the Albanian Football Association until 2004. On 17 June 2014, he was named the new sporting director of Partizani Tirana.

Honours
 as a player
Albanian Superliga: 2
 1979, 1981
 as a manager
Albanian Superliga: 1
 1993

References

1955 births
Living people
Footballers from Tirana
Albanian men's footballers
Albania men's under-21 international footballers
Men's association football defenders
KF Tirana players
FK Partizani Tirana players
Albanian football managers
FK Partizani Tirana managers
KF Tirana managers
KF Teuta Durrës managers
KF Besa Kavajë managers
FK Kukësi managers
FC Feronikeli 74 managers
KF Laçi managers
Kategoria Superiore players
Kategoria Superiore managers
Albanian expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Kosovo
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Kosovo


title: Ramin, Sistan and Baluchestan

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Ramin (, also Romanized as Ramīn; also known as Ramīn-e Bālā) is a village in Kambel-e Soleyman Rural District, in the Central District of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 3,615, in 694 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Enakkul Oruvan (2015 film)

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Enakkul Oruvan () is a 2015 Tamil-language psychological drama film directed by debutant Prasad Ramar and produced by C. V. Kumar. A remake of the 2013 Kannada film Lucia directed by Pawan Kumar, the film stars Siddharth and Deepa Sannidhi, with Santhosh Narayanan composing the film's music. It is the 25th film of Siddharth.  The film was released on 6 March 2015. Telugu version of the film is titled as Naalo Okkadu.

Plot

The plot starts with the protagonist in a coma and on life support. The film, from the beginning, tells two stories of the same person, one in colour and the other in black and white.

A detective from the Mumbai crime branch starts investigating the incident that caused the protagonist's (Siddharth) current state. The detective, going through his belongings, stumbles upon some scribbled notes and a mysterious pill. Meanwhile, police capture two suspects and interrogate them for information.

The story starts with Vicky who is from a village and working as an Usher in a movie theatre owned by Durai (Aadukalam Naren). Vicky suffers from insomnia. On one of his sleepless nights, Vicky is contacted by a drug dealer who gives him Lucia pills as a solution to his insomnia. This drug is said to have the capability to help one dream the life they want but has the side-effect, that upon discontinuation the same dreams shall turn into nightmares.

With the help of the Lucia pills, Vicky starts seeing himself as a successful actor called Vignesh surrounded by people he knows in the real world. Film actor, Vignesh's life is depicted in black-and-white. Durai, the theatre owner where Vicky works, had directed a film in his youth produced by a thug, who now wants Durai to sign off his theatre for his debt. In the black-and-white life, Vignesh and Durai get a number of death threats from a person. More events from the dream are followed by similar events in reality as Vicky falls in love with Divya (Deepa Sannidhi) who is a model in the dream and a waitress in reality.

In the dream, Vignesh and Divya hit it off easily at the beginning but later friction arises when Vignesh expresses his discontent with Divya working in the film industry. Meanwhile, in reality, Vicky struggles to win Divya's heart, who rejects him first due to his low salary and falls later for his humble character. Divya's attempts to get Vicky educated and lead him to get a better-paying job turn out to be futile and result in the death of Durai at the hands of goons. Frustrated, Vicky chooses to leave Divya and continue to work in the theatre, despite the threats. Vicky and his foreign friends redecorate the theatre and release Durai's film. He later reconciles with Divya, who agrees to marry him.

In the dream, Durai is kidnapped, and Vignesh rescues him with the help of the police. In the process, all of the goons are either arrested or killed except for the contract killer. Vignesh feels Durai is not safe with him and decides to fire him. Vignesh breaks up with Divya and sends away his entourage so as to be alone. Later, a visually disturbed Vignesh finds himself in a trashed room. Vignesh gets hold of the torch and through its light sees the "torch-shiner" Vicky inspecting the screen of the theatre.

Divya misses Vignesh and tries to get back with him but Vignesh is in his own shell and shuts out everyone from his life. Divya receives an unexpected call from Vignesh some days later and he asks her to meet him. He tells her that he cannot decide if the present moment is a dream or reality but he is ultimately happy. He says that he should not confuse his dreams and real life. Asking Divya to close her eyes, Vignesh jumps off the roof to the disbelief of everyone present, including the contract killer waiting to kill him.

In the present, the detective with the help of the suspects performs a sting operation on the drug dealer and learns more about Lucia's pills. Meanwhile, Divya is caught in an attempt to kill Vignesh by taking him off life support. During her interrogation, the whole investigating team along with Divya watches a re-run of an interview with the film star Vignesh. In the interview, Vignesh expresses his dissatisfaction with stardom and reveals that he is actually colour blind from an accident in his childhood. He tells the interviewer that he dreams of being a normal person and in fact, in one of his dreams, he is a "torch-shiner" who gets no attention from people and is happily in love with the dream of his life.

The detective is now convinced that Vignesh is living in his own version of reality and chose to be in his dream over the real world by attempting suicide. Divya cries near a comatose Vignesh in the hospital and simultaneously Vicky is shown happily married to Divya and has a daughter. Vignesh's health begins to deteriorate and the doctors attempt to defibrillate him. Simultaneously, Vicky, aware and alive in his dream finds everything disappearing around him and is killed by a shot to the head. Vignesh wakes up from his coma to see the astonished doctors and Divya and Durai's relieved faces, implying that it was actor Vignesh who was real, and Vicky was his illusion.

Cast

Siddharth as S. Vicky/Vigneshwaran
Deepa Sannidhi as Divya
Srushti Dange as herself
Aadukalam Naren as Durai
John Vijay as Vajravel
Ajay Rathnam as Paranjothi
Andreanne as Marti
Uday Mahesh as Ranjith
Mahadevan as Creditor
Ramdoss as Drug Dealer
Yog Japee as Gunman
Vettri as Aravind
Indrajith
Supergood Subramani
Mippu as a Drug dealer
Ashwanth Thilak (special appearance - "Endi Ippadi")
Amit Bhargav as a hero (cameo appearance)
Kalyan as dance master (cameo appearance)
Sherif as dance master (cameo appearance)
Nalan Kumarasamy as director (cameo appearance)
Srinivas Kavinayam in a cameo appearance

Production
Producer C. V. Kumar purchased the Tamil remake rights to the Kannada film Lucia (2013) in October 2013 after being recommended by his technical crew. The director of the original, Pawan Kumar, revealed that he would work on the pre-production of the film and help a new director understand the script. The team held initial talks with actor Bobby Simha about portraying the lead role, but he was eventually dropped. In early December 2013, C. V. Kumar signed up Siddharth to play the lead role in the film, while newcomer Prasad Ramar, co-writer of Pizza was assigned the task of directing the venture.

Principal photography for the film started on 10 February 2014 and it was announced that Kannada actress Deepa Sannidhi would portray the leading female role. Bangalore based Amit Bhargav was signed for a role in the film. In September 2014, the film, which was started as Lucia, was titled Enakkul Oruvan named after the 1984 film of the same name.

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Zee Thamizh.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Santhosh Narayanan, who had worked on the film background score of the original film Lucia. The soundtrack features five tracks while lyrics were written by Muthamil, Ganesh Kumar and Vivek. The album was launched on 8 September 2014 with actors Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Khushbu and Vijay Sethupathi being present at the event.

The album received very positive reviews upon release, with critics lauding the composer's consistency. The score too was praised. IBN Live wrote, "Santhosh Narayanan is the centerpiece of the film. What a marvelous job he has done! His music is an emotion in itself. For a puzzle-like film of this kind, his music is pitch-perfect. It removes the clutter from the screenplay. The best thing Lucia missed out on is Santhosh Narayanan's music". Rediff wrote, "The unconventional music that is the trademark of Santhosh Narayanan is perfect for this intriguing half dream and half realistic plot".

Critical reception
The Times of India gave 3.5 stars out of 5 and wrote, "This film doesn't quite capture that film's (Lucia) ambitiousness and visual pizzazz but still makes for a solid effort, especially for a debut film". Baradwaj Rangan wrote, "It's a thrillingly mad conceit, a Möbius-strip movie with a superb slap-on-the-forehead twist. Imagine the little boy in Cinema Paradiso all grown up and starring in a Christopher Nolan head-scratcher written by Charlie Kaufman, and you'll have something like Enakkul Oruvan. Prasad Ramar...sticks fairly close to the template of the original but a lot is lost in the execution...Enakkul Oruvan lacks the intimate texture and delicacy of Lucia. When you open up a niche, crowd-sourced film into something more mainstream, you are going to get more... "commercial." Watching Enakkul Oruvan, you're left with the feeling of waking up from a dream and coming face-to-face with harsh Kollywood reality". Indo-Asian News Service gave 3 stars and wrote, "While Enakkul Oruvan mostly remains faithful to the original, it lacks its indie spirit and somehow still feels commercial. The film would've worked with someone with no image and stardom, but Siddharth doesn't disappoint". Deccan Chronicle gave the same rating and wrote, "Despite few shortcomings, (Enakkul Oruvan) culminates into a climax that may possibly leave you melted and concentrated. It is the apotheosis of the intense". Rediff gave 3 stars out of 5, calling it "an engaging and admirable effort by the debutant director, definitely worth watching". Sify wrote, "Enakkul Oruvan is a bold and unique attempt with sharp performances and a tight script, it is 136 minutes well spent. It is sans the normal commercial aspects for a Tamil movie and the icing on the cake is the intelligent screenplay by Pawan Kumar which is well supported by top-notch cinematography and music".

References

External links

2015 films
2015 psychological thriller films
2010s Tamil-language films
Tamil remakes of Kannada films
Indian nonlinear narrative films
Films scored by Santhosh Narayanan
Tamil-language psychological thriller films
2015 directorial debut films


title: Tis, Iran

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Tis (, also Romanized as Tīs and Ţīs; also known as Tīz and Tīz Post) is a village in Kambel-e Soleyman Rural District, in the Central District of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 3,873, in 776 families.

References

External links

   Photos and information about Tis.

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Tiz

text:
Tiz or TIZ may refer to:

 Tīz, Iran, a village in Iran
 Tiz Tiz, Iran, another village in Iran
 TIZ (motorcycle), a Russian motorcycle manufacturer
 TIZ: Tokyo Insect Zoo, a Sony Playstation game
 Mr Tiz, a champion New Zealand thoroughbred racehorse
 Tari Airport (IATA Code), in Papua New Guinea
 Traffic Information Zone, in a flight information service
Tiz, a respectful Gender Neutral word for Sir or Ma’am, short for citizen.

People with the name Tiz
 Katy Tiz (born 1988), English singer-songwriter
 Tiz Zaqyah (born 1988), Malaysian actress, model and singer


title: Beryani, Iran

text:
Beryani (, also Romanized as Beryānī and Bereyānī; also known as Jāmīzeh) is a village in Pir Sohrab Rural District, in the Central District of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 207, in 32 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Zafar Babajanow

text:
Zafar Yuldoshevich Babajanow (born 9 February 1987) is a Turkmen professional footballer currently playing for FC Altyn Asyr and Turkmenistan national football team.

Club career
At 2013–2014 season played for Turkish Kartalspor at TFF First League, 7 games.

From 2014 play for Ahal FK in Ýokary Liga. Since 2016 plays for FC Altyn Asyr.

Career statistics

International

Statistics accurate as of match played 9 June 2021

Scores and results list Turkmenistan's goal tally first.

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
Turkmenistan men's footballers
Turkmenistan expatriate men's footballers
Turkmenistan men's international footballers
Men's association football defenders
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Turkmenistan expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
People from Daşoguz
Ahal FK players
Altyn Asyr FK players
2019 AFC Asian Cup players


title: Jandu, Iran

text:
Jandu (, also Romanized as Jandū) is a village in Pir Sohrab Rural District, in the Central District of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 27, in 4 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Molokai Ka Hula Piko

text:
Molokai Ka Hula Piko is an annual festival of the hula, held for three days every spring in Kaana, Molokai. Ka Hula Piko in Hawaiian means the "center of the hula dance".

History
The first festival was in 1991 by the Molokai Visitors Association and John Kaimikaua, a Kumu Hula. It is currently organized by the Halau Hula o Kukunaokala.

It is held in annually in Kaana because according to Hawaiian legend, Laka, now regarded as the goddess of hula, created hula at Pu'u Nana, a sacred hill in Kaana, before spreading the art form across the islands.

This festival went on hiatus in 2020.

Festival
The festival begins with an early-morning ceremony at Puʻu Nana. It then continues with a ho'olaule'a, lectures, and other activities intended to educate and spread awareness of hula as an art form.

See also

 Merrie Monarch Festival

References

External links
 Official site

Hawaiian music
Hawaii culture
Molokai
Festivals in Hawaii
Tourist attractions in Maui County, Hawaii
Dance festivals in the United States
1991 establishments in Hawaii
Recurring events established in 1991
Dance in Hawaii
Native American festivals
Hula


title: Lafarge

text:
La Farge, LaFarge or Lafarge can refer to:

People
  Antoinette LaFarge (1966–), American artist and writer
  Christopher Grant LaFarge (1862–1938), American architect and partner in the firm Heins & LaFarge
  Christopher Grant La Farge (author) (1897–1956), American author
 Guy Lafarge, songwriter for France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957
 Henri Pavin de Lafarge (1889–1965), French businessman and politician
 Jean-Baptiste Lafarge, actor in La Crème de la crème
  John La Farge (1835–1910), American stained glass artist and writer
  John LaFarge, Jr. (1880–1963), American Jesuit priest
  L. Bancel LaFarge (1900–1989), American architect
  Marie Lafarge (1816–1852), French murderer
  Oliver La Farge (1901–1963), American writer and anthropologist
  Paul La Farge (1970–2023), American novelist
  Peter La Farge (1931–1965), American folk singer
  Pokey LaFarge (1983–), American musician and songwriter

Fictional characters
 Henri LaFarge, butler in A Shot in the Dark
 Kenneth Lafarge, character in the novel Drakon

Companies
 Lafarge (company), French industrial company
 LafargeHolcim, merger of Holcim and Lafarge cement firms
 Lafarge Tarmac, British industrial company

Places
 Gare de Lafarge, a train station in Saint-Hilaire-les-Places, France
 La Farge, a village in Wisconsin, United States
 Lafarge Falls, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
 Lafarge Lake, in British Columbia, Canada
 Lafarge Rocks, near the Antarctic Peninsula
 Lafarge Lake–Douglas Station, the SkyTrain terminus station of the Evergreen Line extension to Coquitlam, in Metro Vancouver, Canada
 La Fargeville, New York, a hamlet in New York, United States


title: Karani

text:
Karani (, also Romanized as Kārānī) is a village in Pir Sohrab Rural District, in the Central District of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 65, in 12 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Ruku, Iran

text:
Ruku (, also Romanized as Rūkū) is a village in Pir Sohrab Rural District, in the Central District of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 42, in 10 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Stephen P. Boyd

text:
Stephen P. Boyd is an American professor and control theorist. He is the Samsung Professor of Engineering, Professor in Electrical Engineering, and professor by courtesy in Computer Science and Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He is also affiliated with Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME).

In 2014, Boyd was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to engineering design and analysis via convex optimization.

Academic biography

Education
Boyd received an AB degree in mathematics, summa cum laude, from Harvard University in 1980, and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 under the supervision of Charles A. Desoer, S. Shankar Sastry and Leon Ong Chua. While at Berkeley, he was awarded a Hertz Fellowship (1982) and received the Hertz Thesis Prize (1985). In 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and in 2017, from the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

Career
Boyd joined the faculty of Stanford University's Electrical Engineering department in 1985. He regularly teaches undergraduate courses in applied linear algebra and machine learning. During his time at Stanford, he has been recognized with several teaching awards, including the 2016 Walter J. Gores Award for excellence in teaching, the school's highest teaching honor. He was awarded the 2017 IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal, in recognition of his efforts in education in the theory and application of optimization, which has sparked the writing of improved linear algebra and convex optimization textbooks. He has served as director of Stanford's Information Systems Laboratory, and as a visiting professor at universities including City University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. While at Stanford, he has consulted with numerous Silicon Valley tech companies, and founded one. His groups' CVXGEN software is used in SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy to guide their autonomous precision landing.

Research
Boyd's primary research interests are convex optimization, especially applications in control, signal processing, machine learning, and finance. His PhD dissertation was on Volterra series descriptions of nonlinear circuits and devices. His primary focus then turned to automatic control systems, where he focused on applying convex optimization, specifically linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), to a variety of control system analysis and synthesis problems.

With Craig Barratt, he authored Linear Controller Design: Limits of Performance in 1991. In 1994, Boyd and Laurent El Ghaoui, Eric Feron, and Ragu Balakrishnan authored the book Linear Matrix Inequalities in System & Control Theory. Around 1999, he and Lieven Vandenberghe developed a PhD-level course and wrote the book Convex Optimization to introduce and apply convex optimization to other fields.

In 2005 he and Michael Grant developed the MATLAB open source software package CVX, which makes it easy to specify and solve convex optimization problems. This work earned them the 2012 Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for Excellence in Computational Mathematical Programming. In 2012 he and Jacob Mattingley developed CVXGEN, which generates fast custom code for small, quadratic-programming-representable convex optimization problems, using an online interface. With minimal effort, it turns a mathematical problem description into a high-speed solver.

Open source software packages developed by his research group are widely used, and include,
 CVXPY,
 SCS, first-order primal-dual cone solver for large problems
 OSQP (with Oxford).
Boyd is ranked top 10 scientist in the field of Engineering and Technology.

Business and patents
Boyd co-founded and served as chief scientist of analog synthesis and intellectual property provider Barcelona Design, from its 1999 founding until it folded in 2005. He serves in an advisory capacity for BlackRock, an investment management corporation; Petuum, a machine learning platform for artificial intelligence; and H2O.ai, open source machine learning platform. He is also a co-inventor on 11 patents. On his personal website, which is visited more than 1.6 million times per year, he makes available papers, books, software, lecture notes and lecture videos.

Awards and honors
 Hertz Foundation Fellow, 1980
 AACC Donald P. Eckman Award, 1992
 IEEE Fellow, 1999
 Mathematical Optimization Society Beale-Orchard-Hays Award, 2012
 IEEE Control Systems Award, 2013
 Member, US National Academy of Engineering, inducted 2014
 2014 INFORMS Saul Gass Expository Writing Award
 SIAM Fellow, 2015
 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford, 2016
 INFORMS Fellow, 2016
 IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal, 2017
 Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2017
 2019 Athanasios Papoulis Award, EURASIP
 Foreign Member, National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK), 2020

Bibliography
 Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra - Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares (Cambridge University Press, 2018) – with Lieven Vandenberghe (full book PDF by the authors)
 Convex Optimization (Cambridge University Press, 2004) – with Lieven Vandenberghe (full book PDF by the authors)
 Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1994) – with Laurent El Ghaoui, Eric Feron and Vendataramanan Balakrishnan ( full book PDF by the copyright holders)
 Linear Controller Design: Limits of Performance (Prentice Hall, 1991) – with Craig H. Barratt ( full book PDF available from the authors)

References

External links

 Personal site: Books, Stephen P. Boyd
 Stephen P. Boyd executive profile on Bloomberg.com

Living people
People from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Harvard College alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty
Control theorists
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
American electrical engineers


title: Red Crane, Portland

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Red Crane is a crane on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is located on the cliff edge at Portland's southerly point, the promontory Portland Bill. It is part of a disused stone loading quay, which is now a scheduled monument.

History

The area of Portland Bill had been quarried during the 19th-century and continued until the early 20th-century. During its commercial years, the stone shipping quay was created as the Bill's prime quay to ship Portland stone off the island. A hand-operated wooden crane was originally erected there for this purpose.

After quarrying ceased in the area in the early 20th century, the quay's crane, which became known as Red Crane, was used to lower fisherman and their boats into the sea. The crane was later replaced by a steel crane, which remains in place today. It continues to be used by fishermen. A similar crane, also steel, is the Broad Ope Crane (also known as Bob's Crane), which is located further north along Portland's east coastline, near Cave Hole. Sandholes Crane, further north of Broad Ope, is a surviving wooden crane.

References

Gallery

Isle of Portland
Jurassic Coast
Buildings and structures in Dorset


title: Eslamabad-e Pain

text:
Eslamabad-e Pain () may refer to:
 Eslamabad-e Pain, Golestan
 Eslamabad-e Pain, Sistan and Baluchestan


title: Eliáš Galajda

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Eliáš Galajda (; 1 August 1931 in Čertižné, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia] – 10 August 2017 in Košice) was a Slovak writer, translator, sculptor and folk singer of Ukrainian ethnicity.

Background
He attended primary school in his native village of Čertižné. Eliáš studied eight years at National Russian Gymnasium in Humenné, graduating in 1951. After graduation, he taught at the gymnasium for the next year and then proceeded study Russian and Ukraine language at Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague (1952–1953). After one year, he was chosen to attend The Faculty of Philology of the Saratov Chernyshevsky State University (1953–1955) and Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University where he graduated in 1958.

Professional life
In 1958, he started to work as an editor in editorial office of "Dukľa" a "Družno vpered" in Prešov. Between 1960 and 1999, Eliáš worked as an assistant, later as an assistant professor and an associate professor at the Department of Russian language and literature in Prešov under Philosophy Faculty of Košice-based Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, now part of University of Prešov. In 1970, Galajda lectured a summer program on the Russian language at Modern Languages Centre of the University of Bradford.

Galajda became a member of the Association of Slovak writers in 1982. He walso also a member of the Association of Ukrainian writers in Slovakia, a member of the Association of Slovak writers organisations and the National Writer's Union of Ukraine.
In 2010, Galajda has awarded the Ivan Franko Award for his contribution to literature and International Literature Award of Ivan Košelivec. for his story Word for skylarks (Slovo prozhaivoronkiv) published in Uninion (Sobornist No 1-2 2010).<ref>

Eliáš Galajda, resided in Prešov until end of life, died in hospital in Košice after short hard illness. He is buried at the municipal cemetery in Prešov.

Works

Poetries
Eliáš entered the world of literature in the early 1960s with his first collection of poems published within collective work of writers The Eight (Vosmero, 1963). In 1974, he debuted successfully with the wide poem collection Flame ups (Spalakhi). One could feel his growing up and reaching the poetry maturity in his collections The thirst of the Heart and the Land (Spraha sertsia i zemli, 1981), Insomnia (Bezsonya, 1986), The Ballad for three suns (Balada pro tri sontsia, 1991), especially in the poems devoted to his homeland, childhood memories and those with themes where he confronts his inner world with harsh reality.
He dived deeper into lyric (emotional) contemplation of destiny and perspective of man as such in poem collections Mountains, Blue Mountains (Hori sini, hori, 1990) and My everyday sadness (Moia petchalj povsiakdenna, 1994).
The Union of Rusyn-Ukrain writers of Slovak republic honored the 40 Anniversary of his work and publishments by bibliography Crane birds calling (Zhuravlinnyij klič, 1998). He continued to publish with his poem collections as: Restlessness paves the way (Trivohami doroha stelitjsia, 2001), Forgotten notebooks verses (Virshi iz zabutikh zoshitiv, 2006) and Autumn reflections (Osinni refleksii, 2011).

Proses
Galajda, a poet, alslo authored prose in short stories and novels:  When the rain is coming (Koli idutj doshchi, 1980) a Still sings a skylark  (Cshe spivaie zhaivoronok, 1989).

Anthologies
Solar wells (Soňačni krynyci, 1977) Anthology of poetry of the Ukraine writers in Slovakia
From forge of time (Iz kuzni času, 2007) Anthology of contemporary Slovak poetry (Z vyhne času, 2007).

Translations
Galajda has been active in translating from Ukrainian and Russian language to Slovak language and vice versa.  He translated the Bernardo Guimarães novel Izaura (1995) from Russian to Slovak, the work of Jozef Leikert Transientness (Pominutelnost, 2006).

His Works translated
A part of Eliáš's work had been translated into Slovak language and published in collective works of writers such as Heart as a sun (Srdce ako since 1892),Such moments exist (Sú také chvíle 2002). Or in Czech collective work of writers Dawning under Carphatians (Rano pod Karpatami 1983), short stories and poems in Hungarian translation Carphatian song (A Karpátok éneke 1988). Some samples of his poems were also published in the anthology of short stories of Ukrainian nationality writers in ČSSR – Roots (Korene, 1990).

References

External links
 Eliáš Galajda (1931): Personal Bibliography: Selected Bibliography by author Firkaľová Mária
 Eliáš Galajda - Ukrainian poet and translator: (The life and works) by authors Ňachajová Mária, Kundrát Juraj
 Illia Galajda - The personality comprehensively (O personalitate complexă) at Portraits and books II (Portrete şi cărţi II) by author Onufrie Vinţeler, EIKON, Kluj-Napoca, 2007, p.24-34, 434 Pgs
 Ilja Galajda at Time and life (Čas i žitťa) by author Mikola Zimomria, Drohobič, 2012, p.183-190, 643 Pgs

1931 births
2017 deaths
Moscow State University alumni
Slovak poets
Ukrainian male poets
Slovak people of Ukrainian descent
Slovak educators
Academic staff of the University of Prešov
Rusyn poets
Slovak people of Rusyn descent


title: Eslamabad-e Pain, Sistan and Baluchestan

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Eslamabad-e Pain (, also Romanized as Eslāmābād-e Pā’īn; also known as Eslāmābād) is a village in Bahu Kalat Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 741, in 198 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Kalali, Vadodara

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Kalali is a suburban area in south west of the Indian city Vadodara, situated on bank of Vishwamitri River. Kalali is 5 km away from Vadodara railway station. People of this area are mainly Hindu. Akota, Atladara, Bill, Talsat, Chapad are neighbouring areas of Kalali. A government-owned primary school and some private schools like Delhi Public School (DPS), Gujarat Public School (GPS) are located in the area. There is also Shree Ram Krishna Paramhans Hospital in Kalali, which is managed by Shree Shroff Foundation Trust. The saint of Swaminarayan Sampraday late Shree Gopalananad swami has taught in the area and built the Shree Swaminarayan temple in Kalali Dham which is managed by Shree Vadtal Shansthan.

References


title: Greg Cravens

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Greg Cravens (born 1965 in Jackson, Tennessee) is an American cartoonist.

His parents are Cecil and Bonnie Cravens. Cecil was the owner of Cecil's Bandstand and invented the Straplock, which holds guitar straps to the guitar. His mother Bonnie worked at various hospital billing departments and handicraft stores, while maintaining the family home. Greg Cravens has one brother, Jeff, who contributes quite a bit to the Hubris! website.

As a child and youth, Greg Cravens attended Lincoln Elementary School, Parkway Junior High, and Jackson Central-Merry High School, all in Jackson, Tennessee.

Career
His first comic strip, Zork & Eem, ran in the Jackson weekly Jackson Banner for three weeks until the newspaper folded. At sixteen and seventeen, Cravens drew caricatures at the Nashville themepark Opryland USA. Cravens then went to Memphis State University to earn a BFA degree in graphic design and worked in advertising.

He has drawn many activity books and coloring books for the likes of Shoney's restaurants, Perkins restaurants, FedEx, Piggly Wiggly, Hampton Inns, Homewood Suites, Embassy Suites, Memphis Grizzlies, IPNI, Baptist Hospitals, Morgan Keegan etc. He is the illustrator of the Lewis The Duck series of books available at Homewood Suites hotels.

The Buckets
In 2000, Cravens was contacted by his friend/mentor Scott Stantis, an editorial cartoonist at The Chicago Tribune about being an art assistant on his syndicated feature The Buckets, a comic strip about family life featuring a married couple, their two sons, a dog and their mortgage.

Cravens accepted and was hired just after the tenth anniversary of the strip, becoming art assistant, and six months later as credited art assistant and eventually sole writer and artist of the strip, with founder Stantis leaving The Buckets completely to focus on politically oriented Prickly City. Cravens also joined the National Cartoonists Society.

Hubris!
Another comic strip, Hubris!, was originally passed on by the syndicates, but it was later aided into existence by United Media syndicate editor Amy Lago, and turned into a webcomic in late 2010. It features the exploits of a small outdoors business owner, his family, friends and customers.  It uses various sports equipment as part of the jokes.  From unicycles, to offroad skateboards, and a kayak with wheels, to 'paddle home' from work.  In late 2011, Cravens asked his then core readers/commentators to send in photos of themselves.  During 2012, and 2013, Cravens did a series of strips about an outdoor fest, which included "Team US" — the people who sent in their photos.

Books
Greg Cravens has published three books:
Splat - a free 'rhyme' ebook about a family cat.
The Buckets Exhausted Parents Guide To Why Your Life Is Normal (, published September 2012)
Hubris - I Meant To Do That (, published July 2012)

Awards
Cravens was awarded the National Cartoonists Society Tim Rosenthal award in 2006
 His newspaper illustrations for the Memphis Flyer were nominated for an NCS Reuben Division Award in 2007

References

External links
 The Buckets'' Facebook page
 Hubris! website
 Hubris! twitter
 LinkedIn website
 Buckets on GoComics

American comic strip cartoonists
People from Jackson, Tennessee
1965 births
Living people


title: Men of Honor (Adrenaline Mob album)

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Men of Honor is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Adrenaline Mob. It was released on February 18, 2014 by Century Media Records. It is the only Adrenaline Mob release with drummer A. J. Pero fully involved; he would die in 2015, but be featured on a single track of the following album, We the People. The album's tracks were revealed one by one via streaming at SoundCloud, with each new track being released every week.

According to guitarist Mike Orlando, the album's title was suggested by his father. "We were thinking about names for the record, and he said 'Why don't you guys call it 'Uomini D'Onore' [translation: 'Men of Honor']?' I knew that was it. We're tight like brothers. This is a musical gang. The message is to stand strong with Adrenaline Mob. Regardless of what's changed, we are men of honor, and we will honor this entity until we die."

Track listing
All songs written by Mike Orlando and Russell Allen unless otherwise noted.

Personnel
Adrenaline Mob
 Russell Allen - vocals, production
 Mike Orlando - guitars, backing vocals, additional vocals on "Come On Get Up", "Let It Go", "Judgement Day", production, mastering, mixing
 John Moyer - bass
 A. J. Pero - drums
Additional personnel
Asha Mevlana - violin on "Men Of Honor"
Mark Sasso - artwork, design, layout
Larry Mazer - management
Mark "WEISSGUY" Weiss - photography

References

2014 albums
Adrenaline Mob albums
Century Media Records albums


title: Jan Groenendijk (footballer)

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Jan Groenendijk (6 July 19469 February 2014) was a Dutch football player.

Club career
Born in Vreeswijk, Groenendijk came through the youth ranks at hometown club Geinoord and made his professional debut in the Eerste Divisie for Elinkwijk and joined new club FC Utrecht who were formed by a merger of DOS, Elinkwijk and Velox in 1970. On Wednesday 19 August 1970 he became the first ever goalscorer of the new club after scoring in 1-4 defeat by Feyenoord. He would become the club's first top goalscorer that season with 18.

He later played for Go Ahead Eagles and Wageningen.

Death
Groenendijk died of esophageal cancer on 9 February 2014.

References

External links
 Bio - Bunnikside

1946 births
2014 deaths
People from Nieuwegein
Men's association football forwards
Dutch men's footballers
FC Utrecht players
Go Ahead Eagles players
FC Wageningen players
Eredivisie players
Deaths from esophageal cancer
Deaths from cancer in the Netherlands
USV Elinkwijk players
Footballers from Utrecht (province)


title: Pat, Iran

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Pat () is a village in Bahu Kalat Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 503, in 98 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Zindan, Iran

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Zindan (, also Romanized as Zīndān) is a village in Bahu Kalat Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 201, in 45 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Pensford Viaduct

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Pensford Viaduct is a disused railway bridge in the village of Pensford, within the historic English county of Somerset, now unitary authority  Bath and North East Somerset. It is a Grade II listed building.

History

The viaduct was built in 1874 to carry the Bristol and North Somerset Railway over the valley of the River Chew. The contractor was J. Perry, of Tredegar Works, Bow.
During construction the bridge failed and had to be rebuilt.

The last scheduled passenger train to cross the viaduct was the 9:25 a.m. from Frome to Bristol on 31 October 1959; after that there were only goods trains (mainly bringing coal from Radstock), which ceased in 1964, and very occasional excursion trains. It officially closed after the Chew Stoke flood of 1968 which damaged the viaduct and other buildings in Pensford and the wider Chew Valley.

The viaduct was offered for sale for £1, in 1984; however, the likely maintenance costs were prohibitive and no one bought it. It became the property of BRB (Residuary) Ltd which took over some of the assets of the British Railways Board when it was privatised. In September 2013, BRB (Residuary) Ltd was abolished, with assets being transferred to the Highways Agency as part of the Historical Railways Estate.

In 2014 a new microbrewery in Pensford known as the Chew Valley Brewery used a depiction of the viaduct as its logo.

Architecture

Construction is of stone piers and spandrels with red brick soffits. The viaduct is  long, reaches a maximum height of  to rail level and consists of sixteen arches. The arches are of different widths and heights and supported by tall, tapering piers in the centre and thicker shorter ones towards the sides. Arches 5 and 13 are lower than the others dividing the bridge into sections with four higher arches at each end.

Subsequent repairs were made with concrete rather than stone, though it was dressed to look similar to the surrounding stone.

References

External links

Grade II listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset
Railway viaducts in Somerset
Transport in Bath and North East Somerset
Grade II listed bridges
Former railway bridges in the United Kingdom


The Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement Act of 2013 () is a bill that would restructure the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by transforming it into a five-person commission and removing it from the Federal Reserve System. The CFPB would be renamed the "Financial Product Safety Commission." This bill is also intended to make overturning the decisions about regulations that the new commission makes easier to do.

The Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement Act of 2013 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.

Background

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent federal agency that holds primary responsibility for regulating consumer protection with regard to financial products and services in the United States. It is supposed to protect the public from "risky or fraudulent financial products" and it has the power to issue regulations in order to accomplish this goal. The CFPB was created in 2011 after its conception was included as part of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which passed as a response to the financial crisis of 2007–08 that played a significant role in creating the Great Recession and was signed into law by President Barack Obama. The jurisdiction of the bureau includes banks, credit unions, securities firms, payday lenders, mortgage-servicing operations, foreclosure relief services, debt collectors and other financial companies, and its most pressing concerns are mortgages, credit cards and student loans, according to Director Richard Cordray. The CFPB has been challenged more than once as being unconstitutional.

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

The Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement Act of 2013 would amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to authorize the Chairperson of the Financial Stability Oversight Council to issue a stay of, or set aside, any regulation issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) upon the affirmative vote of the majority of Council members (currently, two-thirds), excluding the Director of the Bureau.

The bill would require the Council, upon the petition of a member agency of the Council, to set aside a final regulation prescribed by the CFPB if the Council decides that such regulation is inconsistent with the safe and sound operations of U.S. financial institutions. (Currently the Council is merely authorized, upon petition, to set aside a final regulation if it would put the safety and soundness of the U.S. banking system or the stability of the U.S. financial system at risk.)

The bill would repeal: (1) the prohibition against Council set-aside of a regulation after expiration of a specified time period, and (2) mandatory dismissal of a petition if the Council has not issued a decision within such time period.

The bill would require the CFPB Director, when prescribing a rule under federal consumer financial laws, to consider its impact upon the financial safety or soundness of an insured depository institution.

Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on November 21, 2013. This is a public domain source.

H.R. 3193 would amend the statute that authorizes the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) to delay implementation or set aside final regulations developed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The bill also would require the CFPB, when developing a new rule, to consider the impact of the rule on the financial soundness of an insured depository institution.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that enacting H.R. 3193 would increase direct spending by $5 million over the 2014-2024 period; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 3193 would not have a significant effect on revenues and implementing the bill would not affect discretionary costs.

H.R. 3193 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments.

Procedural history
The Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement Act of 2013 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on September 26, 2013 by Rep. Sean P. Duffy (R, WI-7). It was referred to the United States House Committee on Financial Services. On November 21, 2013, the committee voted to report the bill 32-25. It was reported alongside House Report 113-346 on February 6, 2014. On February 7, 2014, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced that H.R. 3193 would be on the House schedule for February 11 or 12th, 2014.

Debate and discussion
Republicans argue that this bill would increase the transparency and accountability of the CFPB. They argue that a five-person board would be more accountable and would have to spend more time debating and compromising.

See also
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress

Notes/References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 3193
beta.congress.gov H.R. 3193
GovTrack.us H.R. 3193
OpenCongress.org H.R. 3193
WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 3193
House Republican Conference's legislative digest on H.R. 3193

Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau


title: Nick Rutherford

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Nicholas Walter Joseph Rutherford (born August 7, 1982) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and co-founder of the sketch comedy group Good Neighbor. He has performed live stand up and sketch comedy in Los Angeles and New York. He was a writer for Saturday Night Live.

Early life
Rutherford is originally from Thousand Oaks, California. He attended college at the University of Southern California. There, he performed improv and sketch comedy with collegiate group, Commedus Interruptus. He was hired to write for SNL until he was abruptly fired after only one season.

Career

Good Neighbor
In 2007, Rutherford came together with Kyle Mooney, Beck Bennett, and Dave McCary to form the sketch comedy group Good Neighbor. Some of their videos include "My Mom's a MILF", "Is My Roommate Gay?", "Outrageous Fun", "420 Disaster", "This is How We Trip", "Toast", and "Unbelievable Dinner", a sketch based on the movie Hook.

Talking Marriage with Ryan Bailey
On April 30, 2014, Nick was a guest on Ryan Bailey's webseries Talking Marriage with Ryan Bailey.

Rutherford works for Fox as a voice actor and writer for the animated series Golan the Insatiable, for which he wrote the fourth episode in the 2015 season, "Shell Raiser".

Dream Corp, LLC
Nick stars as "Patient 88" on the Adult Swim series Dream Corp, LLC.

Rick and Morty
Rutherford has written three episodes of the animated television show Rick and Morty: the season five episode Rickdependence Spray, the season six episode Juricksic Mort, and the season seven episode How Poopy Got His Poop Back.

References

External links

 Nick Rutherford's Twitter
 Nick Rutherford's YouTube Channel
 Good Neighbor YouTube Channel

1982 births
American male actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
American male comedians
American male writers
People from Thousand Oaks, California
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Living people
American television writers
American male television writers
Comedians from California
21st-century American comedians


title: Balad, Iran

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Balad (, is a village in Negur Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,080, in 182 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Dizi, Sistan and Baluchestan

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Dizi (, also Romanized as Dīzī) is a village in Negur Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 577, in 116 families.

References

Populated places in Dashtiari County


title: Samworth Church Academy

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The Samworth Church Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Mansfield in the English county of Nottinghamshire.

History
The school was established as "The Mansfield Secondary Technical School", which opened in 1945. It was housed in Nissen huts left over by a U.S. Army Hospital after the end of World War II on the outskirts of Mansfield, occupying the same site used by the current King's Mill Hospital.

The school moved to new premises on the opposite side of Mansfield in 1957, becoming known as "Sherwood Hall Secondary School".

In 1958 "The Sherwood Hall School for Girls" was opened, later known as Sherwood Hall Technical School for Girls. Sherwood Hall Technical Grammar School For Boys moved to the site in 1961.

Comprehensive school
The two technical-grammar schools merged in 1976 to become Sherwood Hall Upper School, a coeducational comprehensive school. In 2001 it became Sherwood Hall School and Sixth Form College.

Recent history
Previously a community school administered by Nottinghamshire County Council, Sherwood Hall School converted to academy status on 1 September 2008 and was renamed The Samworth Church Academy. The school is now sponsored by the Church of England Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham and businessman Sir David Samworth,  but continues to coordinate with Nottinghamshire County Council for admissions.

Shortly after converting from a school to academy, in December 2008 planning consent was obtained to erect a new, high, large building upon open space on the opposite side of the site close to the boundary and overlooking rear gardens of nearby residential streets which angered the owners. The new construction was funded by central government.

A Founders Day was held in April 2011. Also in early April 2011, the older school buildings, which were empty, were consumed by fire, the second at the site following arson by teenagers in March.

The new school was officially opened on 18 April 2011 by the Princess Royal.

Curriculum
Samworth Church Academy offers GCSEs, BTECs and OCR Nationals as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs.

Notable former pupils

Sherwood Hall Technical School for Girls
 Corinne Hollingworth, TV producer, Executive Producer from 1994-96 of EastEnders, Controller of Drama from 1996-2003 at Channel 5, and Head of Continuing Series from 2004-08 at ITV

See also
 Samworth Enterprise Academy, Leicester

References

External links
Samworth Church Academy official website

Secondary schools in Nottinghamshire
Educational institutions established in 1945
1945 establishments in England
Academies in Nottinghamshire
Church of England secondary schools in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Schools in Mansfield


title: Polygonum striatulum

text:
Polygonum striatulum, the striped knotweed or Texas knotweed, is endemic to the U.S. state of Texas but cultivated as an ornamental elsewhere. It occurs there in sterile prairies, granitic soils, and in places that are seasonally moist, at elevations of .

Polygonum striatulum is a perennial herb that spreads by means of underground rhizomes. Leaves are lanceolate, up to  long, the leaves in the upper part of the plant decidedly larger than those closer to the ground. Inflorescences are at the top of the plant and also at the tips of branches, each with 2–6 white to pinkish flowers.

References

striatulatum
Flora of Texas
Plants described in 1904


title: Joseph N. Dinand

text:
Joseph N. Dinand, S.J. (December 3, 1869 – July 29, 1943) was an American-born bishop of the Catholic Church. He twice served as president at the College of the Holy Cross from 1911 to 1918 and from 1924 to 1927.  He also served as the Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica from 1927 to 1929.

Biography
Joseph Nicholas Dinand was born in Boston, Massachusetts to John and Julia (Looney) Dinand.  He received his primary and secondary education in Boston before enrolling in Boston College.  He entered the novitiate in Frederick, Maryland, on August 15, 1877, and professed vows in the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) on August 15, 1880.  He continued his education at the College of the Sacred Heart in Woodstock, Maryland and was ordained a priest there by Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore on June 25, 1903.  He professed final vows on August 15, 1906.  His ministry as a Jesuit centered on education. He was a member of the faculty of St. George's College in Kingston, Jamaica, and he served two terms as president at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

On July 12, 1927 Pope Pius XI appointed Dinand as the Titular Bishop of Selinus and Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica. He was consecrated by Bishop Thomas M. O'Leary of Springfield in Massachusetts on October 30, 1927. The principal co-consecrators were Bishops Joseph J. Rice of Burlington and John G. Murray of Portland.  Dinand continued to serve as the Vicar Apostolic until his resignation was accepted by Pope Pius XI on October 4, 1929 for health reasons. He died in Weston, Massachusetts at the age of 73 on July 29, 1943.

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1869 births
1943 deaths
Roman Catholic clergy in the United States
Presidents of the College of the Holy Cross
19th-century American Jesuits
20th-century American Jesuits
Jesuit bishops
American Roman Catholic missionaries
Roman Catholic missionaries in Jamaica
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Jamaica
20th-century American Roman Catholic titular bishops
American expatriates in Jamaica
Roman Catholic bishops of Kingston in Jamaica
St. Stanislaus Novitiate (Frederick, Maryland) alumni
Woodstock College


title: Edward H. Ripley

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Edward Hastings Ripley (November 11, 1839 – September 14, 1915) was a Vermont businessman and Union Army officer in the American Civil War.  He attained the rank of brevet brigadier general while commanding brigades in the XVIII and XXIV Corps, and led the first troops to enter Richmond after its surrender.

Early life
Edward H. Ripley was born in Rutland, Vermont on November 11, 1839. He was educated locally and at Troy Conference Academy in Poultney (later called Green Mountain College). He attended Union College from 1858 to 1862, and was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.

Civil War
Ripley left college near the end of his senior year to join the Army, enlisting as a private in the 9th Vermont Infantry in May 1862. Union College continued him on its student rolls and awarded him a Bachelor of Arts degree as a member of the Class of 1862.

He attained the rank of sergeant, and then was commissioned as a captain and appointed to command the regiment's Company B, which he led during action in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign in the summer of 1862, including the Siege of Suffolk, Virginia.  He received promotion to major that summer.

In September 1862 Ripley was among those taken prisoner at the Battle of Harpers Ferry.  After he was exchanged in January 1863 he continued to serve with the 9th Vermont during action in Virginia and North Carolina throughout 1863.  He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in May 1863, and received promotion to colonel and command of the regiment a week later.

He was subsequently appointed to command a military district in the area of Beaufort and New Bern, North Carolina.  In August 1864 Ripley was promoted to brevet brigadier general and assigned to command 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XVIII Corps, Army of the James.  He later commanded the 2nd Brigade, including action at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm and the Second Battle of Fair Oaks.  Ripley was wounded twice, and was later assigned to command 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIV Corps,
which was assigned to lead the Union troops into Richmond after the Confederate surrender, with orders to extinguish fires, prevent looting and maintain order.

Ripley commanded the military district which included Richmond until the city's civilian government was restored at the end of the war.  When Abraham Lincoln visited Richmond from April 4 to 7, 1865, Ripley became aware of an assassination plot and met with Lincoln to urge him to take increased precautions for his safety.  Lincoln declined, stating that it was more important that he be seen among the people as a sign that hostilities were over, and that if someone was determined to assassinate him, increased security would not prevent it.

Ripley mustered out of the service in June 1865.

Post-Civil War
After the war Ripley returned to Vermont, also maintaining a residence in New York City.  In partnership with his brother William he operated the Ripley Sons marble business until selling it to the Vermont Marble Company, which was operated by fellow Civil War veteran Redfield Proctor.

Ripley built the Holland House Hotel in New York City, which was owned by members of his wife's Van Doren family, and was responsible for the construction and operation of New Jersey’s Raritan River Railroad. He was a founder of the United States and Brazil Steamship Line and served on its board of directors. In addition, he served as President of the Rutland Marble Savings Bank, and Vice President of the Rutland County National Bank.

He also operated a successful horse breeding farm, with many of his animals being purchased for use in South America. The location of Ripley's farm is now the site of the Sugar & Spice restaurant and gift shop, a business which specializes in maple products.  The burial site of the horse Ripley rode for most of the Civil War, "Old John", is preserved at the location.

A Republican, Ripley held local offices for the town of Rutland.  He served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1886 to 1887, representing the town of Mendon.

Ripley was active in the Reunion Society of Vermont Officers, and elected President in 1887 and 1904. He was also an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

Ripley's awards included an honorary master's degree from Norwich University (1910) and one from Union College (1915).

Edward Ripley spoke and wrote about his Civil War experiences, and his works included a speech which was subsequently printed in book form, The Capture and Occupation of Richmond, April 3, 1865 (1907). In addition, his diary was published in 1960 as Vermont General, The Unusual War Experiences of Edward Hastings Ripley, edited by Otto Eisenschiml.

Death and burial
Ripley died in Rutland on September 14, 1915. He is buried in Rutland's Evergreen Cemetery.

Family
In 1878 Edward H. Ripley married Amelia Dyckman Van Doren (1845–1931). They had two daughters: Alice Van Doren Ripley (1881–1948), the wife of Alexander deTrofimoff Ogden Jones (1878–1943), and Amelia Sybil Huntington (1882–1963), the wife of Raphael Welles Pumpelly.  The Ripley daughters were married in a double ceremony in 1909.

Edward H. Ripley was the son of William Young Ripley, a prominent Vermont businessman and banker, and Jane Warren Ripley.  Edward H. Ripley's siblings included: brother William Y. W. Ripley, a Civil War officer who received the Medal of Honor; and half-sister Julia Caroline Dorr, a famous poet and the wife of Seneca M. Dorr. His sister Helen was the mother of John Ripley Myers.

The writer Clements Ripley was the grandson of William Y. W. Ripley and the grand-nephew of Edward H. Ripley.

References

External links
 New York Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, In Memory of Edward Hastings Ripley, November 11, 1839 – September 14, 1915, 1915
 Edward Hastings Ripley at Vermont in the Civil War

1839 births
1915 deaths
People from Rutland (city), Vermont
Union College (New York) alumni
People of Vermont in the American Civil War
Union Army colonels
Republican Party members of the Vermont House of Representatives
American bank presidents
Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Rutland, Vermont)
19th-century American railroad executives
19th-century American politicians


title: Pierre Allard

text:
Pierre Allard (born August 19, 1972) is a former professional ice hockey player.

Allard represented France in the 1998 Winter Olympics.

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1972 births
Living people
Brûleurs de Loups players
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
Chicoutimi Saguenéens (QMJHL) players
Ducs d'Angers players
Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Manchester Storm (1995–2002) players
Montreal Canadiens coaches
Olympic ice hockey players for France
Rouen HE 76 players
Saint-Hyacinthe Laser players
Shawinigan Cataractes players
Ice hockey people from Montreal
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in England
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in France
Canadian ice hockey coaches


title: Sham, Iran

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Sham (; also known as Sam) is a village in Negur Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 148, in 16 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Bram Jan Loopstra

text:
Bram Jan Loopstra (1925 – 1979) was a Dutch computing pioneer who worked at the Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam and then at Electrologica with Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Carel S. Scholten and Gerrit Blaauw. From 1956 until at least 1963 he was technical director of Electrologica. At his death after a long illness on March 22, 1979, he was adjunct director of the Philips International Institute.

At the Mathematisch Centrum he contributed to the ARRA I and II and ARMAC.

Selected publications
 Loopstra, B. J. "Logische synthese van rekencircuits." Stichting Mathematisch Centrum. Zuivere Wiskunde ZW 10/52 (Actualiteiten) (1952): 1-7.
 Loopstra, B. J. "The X—1 Computer." The Computer Journal 2.1 (1959): 39-43.
 Loopstra, B. J. "Input and output in the X-1 system." COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM. Vol. 2. No. 7. 1959.

References

Dutch computer scientists
1925 births
1979 deaths
Philips employees
University of Amsterdam alumni
20th-century Dutch scientists


title: Bayada

text:
Bayada may refer to one of the following:

 Bayada, Lebanon, a village in Lebanon
 Bayada, Ma'ale Iron, a village in Israel
 Bayada Home Health Care, a home health care company

See also
 Bayadha, a town and commune in El Oued Province, Algeria
 Bayadha District, El Oued Province, Algeria


title: Paul Pacheco

text:
Paul A. Pacheco is an American politician and a former Republican member of the New Mexico House of Representatives representing District 23 from 2013 to 2016.

Education
Pacheco graduated from the police academy in 1984.

Elections
2012 With District 23 incumbent Republican Representative David Doyle running for New Mexico Senate, Pacheco was unopposed in the June 5, 2012 Republican Primary, winning with 1,242 votes and won the November 6, 2012 General election by 78 votes with 6,922 votes (50.3%) against Democratic nominee Marci Blaze.
2010 To challenge District 23 incumbent Democratic Representative Benjamin Rodefer, Pacheco ran in the three-way June 1, 2010 Republican Primary, but lost to David Doyle, who went on to win the November 2, 2010 General election against Representative Rodefer.

References

External links
Official page at the New Mexico Legislature

Paul Pacheco at Ballotpedia
Paul A. Pacheco at the National Institute on Money in State Politics

Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American police officers
Hispanic and Latino American state legislators in New Mexico
Republican Party members of the New Mexico House of Representatives
Politicians from Albuquerque, New Mexico
21st-century American politicians


title: Ting, Iran

text:
Ting (, also Romanized as Tīng; also known as Tīnk and Tīnk-e Bālā) is a village in Negur Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 97, in 31 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Ura, Russia

text:
Ura () is the name of several rural localities in Russia.

Modern localities
Ura, Republic of Tatarstan, a selo in Baltasinsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan
Ura, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Shestikhinsky Rural Okrug of Nekouzsky District in Yaroslavl Oblast

Alternative names
Ura, alternative name of Ura-Guba, a rural locality (a selo) in Kolsky District of Murmansk Oblast


title: Electrologica

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N.V. Electrologica was a pioneering Dutch computer manufacturer from 1956 to 1968, when it was taken over by Philips.

It was started by A. van Wijngaarden, B.J. Loopstra and C.S. Scholten from the Mathematisch Centrum (Mathematical centre) in Amsterdam, when that organisation decided to spin off and commercialise its work on computers.

The most successful computers produced by Electrologica were the Electrologica X1 and the Electrologica X8. Other stripped-down versions of the X8, the X2 to X5, were less successful.

The Stichting Electrologica (“Electrologica Foundation”) is an organisation dedicated to preserving and spreading the history of computing in the Netherlands.

References

External links

Defunct computer hardware companies
Science and technology in the Netherlands


title: Davenport Group

text:
The Davenport Group is the informal name of a nationally known group of early modernist writers who first came together in Davenport, Iowa. In the early 20th century, they migrated east to New York City to assume leading roles in several important artistic and cultural developments in the 1910s and 1920s. Core members of the group are Susan Glaspell, her husband George Cram Cook, who were among the founders of the Provincetown Players; Floyd Dell, and Arthur Davison Ficke. Other Davenport writers associated with the group include Alice French, Charles Eugene Banks, Nilla Cram Cook (daughter of Cook), and Harry Hansen.

Background
In the last decades of the nineteenth century, Davenport was a prosperous and cosmopolitan port city on the upper Mississippi River and center of trade. By 1890 local author Alice French had become the first Iowa writer with a national reputation. In the mid-1890s writer Charles Eugene Banks moved to Davenport from Chicago, and started a weekly newspaper devoted to literature and local social life. Over the next decade Banks would mentor several young local aspiring writers (Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, and Floyd Dell) who would constitute the Davenport group. Though inspired and influenced by French's success, the socially progressive younger writers rejected her starkly conservative views.

As the young writers began to find success publishing their works, they left Davenport to advance their careers in Chicago and New York. Glaspell and Cook had married before going to New York. Together they had a daughter, Nilla Cram Cook, and son, Harl Cook. Nilla later became a writer.

George "Jig" Cram Cook led the founding of the Provincetown Players in the summer of 1915. Considered the first modern American theatre company, it was famed for producing the first plays of Eugene O'Neill. In addition to participating in the theater, Glaspell became "one of America's most widely read novelists", and she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1931 for one of her play Alison's House. In addition, her short stories were regularly published in the top periodicals.

Dell became a best-selling novelist and leading critic and editor; he is known for influencing many major American writers of the first half of the 20th century. Arthur Davison Ficke stayed in Davenport longer, becoming a lawyer in his father's firm. While practicing law, he still established himself as a nationally appreciated poet. He eventually quit law and followed his friends to New York to focus on writing.

Locations

Further reading

 Glaspell, Susan. The Road to the Temple. New York: Frederick A. Stokes and Company, 1927. (A posthumous biography of Cook.)
 Clayton, Douglas; Floyd Dell: The Life and Times of an American Rebel, (Chicago: Ivan R, Dee, 1994).
 Dell, Floyd; Homecoming: An Autobiography, New York Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated (1933).
William Jay Smith, The Spectra Hoax. (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1961)(Ashland, Oregon: Story Line Press, 2nd ed., 2000)
 McMichael, George L. Journey to Obscurity: The Life of Octave Thanet. University of Nebraska Press (1965).
 Cook, Nilla Cram. My Road to India. Lee Furman; 1st edition (1939).

References

Literature of the late modern period
Early Modern literature
People from Iowa
Writers from Davenport, Iowa
19th-century American literature
20th-century American literature


title: Sitar, Iran

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Sitar (, also Romanized as Sītār and Saitār; also known as Sītār-e ‘Olyā and Sītār-e ‘Omar) is a village in Sand-e Mir Suiyan Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 313, in 66 families.

References

Populated places in Dashtiari County


title: Sitar, Iran (disambiguation)

text:
Sitar, Iran is a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran.

Sitar () in Iran may also refer to:
 Sitar-e Abdol Rahim, Sistan and Baluchestan Province
 Sitar-e Ali, Sistan and Baluchestan Province
 Sitar-e Mahmud, Sistan and Baluchestan Province

See also
 Sitar (disambiguation)


title: Sitar-e Ali

text:
Sitar-e Ali (, also Romanized as Sītār-e ‘Alī; also known as Sītār-e Morād and Sītār-e Mowlādād) is a village in Sand-e Mir Suiyan Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 135, in 32 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Sitar-e Abdol Rahim

text:
Sitar-e Abdol Rahim (, also Romanized as Sītār-e ʿAbdol Raḩīm; also known as Sītār-e Shahdād and Sītār) is a village in Sand-e Mir Suiyan Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 140, in 31 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Sitar-e Mahmud

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Sitar-e Mahmud (, also Romanized as Sītār-e Maḩmūd) is a village in Sand-e Mir Suiyan Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 495, in 111 families.

References

Populated places in Chabahar County


title: Michael Abramoff

text:
Michael David Abràmoff (born 1963) is an American neuroscientist, ophthalmologist, vitreoretinal surgeon, computer engineer, and entrepreneur. He is the Watzke Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. Abràmoff is the founder and executive chairman of Digital Diagnostics of Coralville, Iowa, which was named one of the "150 Most Promising Digital Health Companies of 2022" by CB Insights.

Early life and education
Abràmoff was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and received his MD and MS (information theory) from the University of Amsterdam. Abràmoff was a research fellow in the Neural Networks lab at RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan. He was Director of R&D at Prodix SA, an image analysis company in Paris, France.  Abràmoff completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of Utrecht Academic Hospital, and his vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.  Abràmoff did his graduate research, leading to a Ph.D. in machine learning, at the University of Utrecht.

Scientific and medical career
Abràmoff is the author of over 495 peer-reviewed research articles, and his work has been cited over 45,000 times, leading to an h-index of 77 and over 600 articles listed on Google Scholar. He is inventor on over 60 US and international patents and patent applications primarily related to machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and imaging Abràmoff was one of the early developers of ImageJ, a Java-based image processing program. He was the initiator behind the Iowa Reference Algorithms, a series of reference algorithms for OCT segmentation.

Abràmoff has been a proponent of the theory that diabetes complications in the eye and brain are neural, not vascular, in origin, based on his team's earlier finding that microvascular biomarkers of diabetic damage in the retina only occur after neurodegenerative changes. Additionally, Abràmoff has been part of the Moonshot team (formally known as Restoring Vision: A JDRF Moonshot Initiative) from the outset. Abràmoff started working on autonomous AI for diagnosis of retinal diseases during his residency in 1997, which led to the publishing of Low Level Screening of Exudates and Hemorrhages in Background Diabetic Retinopathy in 2000 and many other papers . This research led to him receiving the nickname "The Retinator" in an Ophthalmology Times editorial in 2010, referring to the work he had done to create the first autonomous AI diagnostic system. Roughly a decade later, the medical community's stance on healthcare AI had evolved, as evidenced by a 2019 American Medical Association (AMA) article on Abràmoff, titled This Ophthalmologist is Doing Health Care AI the Right Way.

Abràmoff began working with regulators in 2010 to develop a process by which to introduce autonomous AI in healthcare. During that time, with his coworkers he developed "metrics for ethics" as a concept, as well as an ethical framework for healthcare AI, which led to an ongoing series of papers published through the Foundational Principles of Algorithmic Interpretation workgroup.

After working with the FDA for over 8 years under this framework, de novo clearance was granted to the autonomous AI product, IDx-DR (now LumineticsCore) on April 18, 2018, created by the company Abràmoff founded in 2010, Digital Diagnostics (formerly IDx) of Coralville Iowa. That marked the first time that an autonomous diagnostic platform was cleared by the FDA in any field of medicine, so that patients could legally be diagnosed by a computer rather than by a human. Abràmoff credits this achievement as well the subsequent national reimbursement, coding, and quality measurement, as well as widespread support by all healthcare stakeholders, on the ethical framework for AI in healthcare. This work continues in collaboration with both FDA and other US and international regulatory authorities as well as CMS and other payor organizations including publication of an ethically founded AI reimbursement framework.

Abràmoff is a founding member of FDA's Collaborative Community on Ophthalmic Imaging (CCOI), which was formed in 2019. Abràmoff also chairs the Foundational Principles of Ophthalmic Imaging and Algorithmic Interpretation (FPOAI) Workgroup. In 2019, Abràmoff founded the AI Healthcare Coalition and serves as Executive Secretary, focusing on the policy implications of healthcare AI.

Business career
Abràmoff founded three companies, EyeCheck, a teleretinal diabetic retinopathy screening company in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and i-Optics, an ophthalmic device company.

In 2010, Abràmoff founded IDx Technologies, Inc., which has since rebranded as Digital Diagnostics of which he is Executive Chairman.

In October 2017, in a Congressional Briefing sponsored by the Science Coalition, Abràmoff joined a panel of companies that spun out of U.S. research universities. The panelists highlighted to lawmakers the value of putting federal funds toward academic research.

In January 2018, the results of a clinical trial for the first autonomous AI in primary care were submitted to FDA, exceeding its pre-specified superiority endpoints for diagnostic accuracy. FDA assigned the LumineticsCore (then IDx-DR) system breakthrough device status for expedited review. In April 2018 FDA granted De Novo authorization to market this product in the US.

Abràmoff has been called a "Renaissance Man" by Retina Physician  for creating a simple and more efficient process of autonomous AI for the retina that is in the best interest of the patient.

In 2018, Abràmoff testified for the Federal Trade Commission on AI Predictive Analytics Through Real World Applications.

In 2022, Abràmoff co-authored, A Reimbursement Framework for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.  The paper served as a catalyst for several advancements in the healthcare sector preceding its release and has continued to influence developments thereafter, including:
 The creation of CPT category I code, 92229, by the Editorial Panel of the American Medical Association (AMA), allowing, for the first time, automated diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy.
 An update to the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) Standards of Care, declaring AI systems an alternative to traditional eye exams for people with diabetes.
 An update to the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS), supporting the use of autonomous AI for eye exams for people with diabetes.
 Coverage of CPT code 92229 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
 The publication of Foundational Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Using Ophthalmic Images, which was co-authored by Abramoff and established a foundation for the implementation and measurement of ethically founded autonomous AI in healthcare.
 An update to the language regarding CPT code 92229 by CMS, replacing "automated diagnosis" with "autonomous diagnosis" when referring to retina imaging.

Personal life
Abràmoff served as an interviewer for Spielberg's Shoah Visual History Project.

Awards and honors
 1996 RSNA Cum Laude Award, Congress of the Radiological Society of North America
 2002 3M-Jonkers Award
 2011 President's Innovation Award, American Telemedicine Association
 2013 Young Investigator Award, Macula Society
 2016 Charles D. Phelps Memorial Award for Glaucoma Research
 2018 UI Carver College of Medicine Wall of Scholarship
 2018 Discover and Innovation Award, University of Iowa Research Foundation
 2018 Silver Fellow, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
 2019 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
 2019 CB Insights AI Top 150 list
 2019 America's Cultivation Corridor, Iowa Biotech Leader Award
 2019 Ophthalmologist Top 10 Powerlist of Top Inventors
 2020 University of Iowa Faculty/Staff Startup of the Year Award
 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award: Best New Technology Award - Diabetes Management
 2022 AI Champion Award 2022, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMed)
 2022 Gold Fellow, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

Selected publications
 T.Y. ALVIN LIU, HUANG, J., LEHMANN, H., WOLF, R. M., ROOMASA CHANNA, & ABRÀMOFF, M. D. (2023). 261-OR: Autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) Testing for Diabetic Eye Disease (DED) Closes Care Gap and Improves Health Equity on a Systems Level. 72(Supplement_1). https://doi.org/10.2337/db23-261-or
 Abràmoff MD, Blodi B, Folk JC. Autonomous AI confers patient level clinical outcome of diabetic retinopathy and macular edema. (Proceedings Macula Society, Virtual) February 7, 2021)
 Char, D. S., Abràmoff, M. D., & Feudtner, C. (2020). Identifying Ethical Considerations for Machine Learning Healthcare Applications. The American Journal of Bioethics, 20(11), 7–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2020.1819469

 Guo, Z., Kwon, Y. H., Lee, K., Wang, K., Wahle, A., Alward, W. L. M., Fingert, J. H., Bettis, D. I., Johnson, C. A., Garvin, M. K., Sonka, M., & Abràmoff, M. D. (2017). Optical Coherence Tomography Analysis Based Prediction of Humphrey 24-2 Visual Field Thresholds in Patients With Glaucoma. Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science, 58(10), 3975. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.17-21832

 Hansen, M. B., Abràmoff, M. D., Folk, J. C., Mathenge, W., Bastawrous, A., & Peto, T. (2015). Results of Automated Retinal Image Analysis for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy from the Nakuru Study, Kenya. PLOS ONE, 10(10), e0139148. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139148
 Bogunović, H., Kwon, Y. H., Rashid, A., Lee, K., Critser, D. B., Garvin, M. K., Sonka, M., & Abràmoff, M. D. (2015). Relationships of Retinal Structure and Humphrey 24-2 Visual Field Thresholds in Patients With Glaucoma. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 56(1), 259–271. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.14-15885

 Lee, K. (2012). Distribution of Damage to the Entire Retinal Ganglion Cell Pathway. Archives of Ophthalmology, 130(9), 1118. https://doi.org/10.1001/archophthalmol.2012.669

 Staal, J., Abramoff, M. D., Niemeijer, M., Viergever, M. A., & van Ginneken, B. (2004). Ridge-Based Vessel Segmentation in Color Images of the Retina. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 23(4), 501–509. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmi.2004.825627

 Abramoff MD, Staal J, Suttorp MSA, Polak BC, Viergever MA. Low level screening of exudates and haemorrhages in background diabetic retinopathy. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computer Assisted Fundus Image Analysis. Copenhagen, Denmark, May 29–30, 2000: 15.

References

External links
 Michael Abramoff at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

American ophthalmologists
Dutch ophthalmologists
Dutch computer scientists
Dutch electrical engineers
Academic staff of Maastricht University
University of Amsterdam alumni
Utrecht University alumni
University of Iowa faculty
Senior Members of the IEEE
Living people
1963 births


title: Gar Kandi

text:
Gar Kandi () may refer to:
 Gar Kandi, Khuzestan (گركندي - Gar Kandī)
 Gar Kandi, Sistan and Baluchestan (گار کندي - Gār Kandī)
 Gar Kandi Rasul Bakhsh Bazar, Sistan and Baluchestan Province