title: Courage C41

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The Courage C41 was a sports prototype racing car built by Courage Compétition in 1994, and used in international sports car races from 1995 until 1999. Designed by Paolo Catone, it initially used a 5-litre Chevrolet V8 engine, developed by Comptech, and later used the 3-litre twin-turbocharged flat-six engine from a Porsche 935, as well as an Oldsmobile V8. In 1998, two of the C41s were developed into the Courage C51, which used a 3-litre twin-turbocharged Nissan VRH35Z V8 engine, and was used in that year's 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 1999, the C41s were mostly converted to the C52 specification (although one retained its Porsche 935 flat six, and was developed into the C50, while another was entered as a Chevrolet C41 in two events); this initially used a 3.5-litre twin-turbocharged Nissan VRH35L V8, which was then replaced by a 3.2-litre twin-turbocharged Peugeot A32 V6 engine for 2000. In 2000, the C41 line was replaced by the new C60.

Design and development
In 1994, Yves Courage decided to build a World Sports Car for the IMSA GT Championship, which was the Paolo Catone-designed C41. Although the C41 was entirely designed by Catone, Marcel Hubert had initially developed a long-tailed concept model for the car, but this design was scrapped after Hubert retired. Catone began to design the car, on a limited budget, in early 1994, and completed it in July 1994. The C41 used a carbon fibre and aluminium honeycomb monocoque chassis, with a rear shear plate designed to allow the usage of multiple different types of engine. The first C41 was built in October 1994, and it was fitted with a Comptech-developed 5-litre Chevrolet V8 engine, which, in 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans trim, was claimed to produce around . The power was transmitted to the rear wheels via a 5-speed Intermotion SDC gearbox, whilst Brembo brakes were used to slow the  BBS wheels. KONI developed the suspension, which consisted of double wishbones made out of fabricated steel, and pushrod-operated dampers with coil springs.

The Chevrolet engine remained the primary engine for the 1995 and the start of the 1996 IMSA GT Championship seasons, but by the middle of 1996, different engines began to be fitted. Scott Schubot fitted an Oldsmobile engine to his C41 partway through the 1996 season, whilst a 3-litre twin-turbocharged Porsche 935 flat-six engine was fitted by Courage for the 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans.

In 1998, two C41s were developed into the C51 specification for that year's 24 Hours of Le Mans; one of the C51s used a 3-litre twin-turbocharged Nissan VRH35Z V8 engine derived from a Nissan Group C car, whilst the other used a 3.5-litre version of the same engine. The C51 was then further developed into the C52 for the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the VRH35Z was replaced with a 3.5-litre Nissan VRH35L engine. For this race, another C41 was converted to the C51 specification, although this retained its Porsche 935 flat-six; this C51 is also referred to as the C50. The final development of the C41 line came in 2000, when the C52s were fitted with the Sodemo-developed 3.2-litre twin-turbocharged Peugeot A32 V6 engine, producing a claimed  output of . In 2000, the new Courage C60 was introduced as the C52's replacement, bringing to an end the C41 line.

Racing history

1995–1996
The Courage C41 made its first appearance at the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Courage Compétition selecting Henri Pescarolo, Franck Lagorce and Éric Bernard to drive it. A second C41, driven by Eric van de Poele, Olivier Beretta and Matjaz Tomlje, was also entered, but was disqualified for technical infringements for the event. The C41 of Pescarolo, Lagorce and Bernard lasted 26 laps before succumbing to electrical problems, and retiring.

Following this race, two C41s were shipped to America for use in the IMSA GT Championship in 1996. Wheel Works Racing took one of the C41s, and selected Rick Sutherland, Jean-Paul Libert, and Steve Fossett to drive at the 24 Hours of Daytona. van de Poele joined the trio for the race, but the C41 was forced to retire due to accident damage after 209 laps, restricting them to 49th place. For the 12 Hours of Sebring, van de Poele left the team and switched to Doyle Racing; Dean Hall was selected to replace him. In addition to this, Scott Schubot entered himself and Jérôme Policand in his privately entered C41. The Wheel Works Racing C41 was forced to retire due to accident damage after 56 laps, whilst Schubot's car retired for the same reason after 239 laps; the two teams were classified 53rd and 30th respectively. Wheel Works Racing did not compete with the C41 again, leaving Schubot as the only C41 entrant at the Grand Prix of Atlanta; he took sixth overall in the race, six laps behind the leader. At the Exxon Superflo 500, Schubot crashed the C41 in practice, and drove Support Net Racing's Hawk C-8 instead in the race. He returned to the C41 for the Lime Rock Grand Prix, with the car now using an Oldsmobile engine; he finished the race in 14th place overall, and 11th in the World Sports Car class. At the California Grand Prix, Schubot finished in seventh place, before taking 14th overall, and ninth in class, at the Grand Prix of Dallas. At the Daytona Finale, Schubot's C41 overheated prior to the start of the race, resulting in him driving for Doyle Racing in the race.

1997–1998
In 1997, Courage Compétition began running the C41 in the IMSA GT Championship, doing so for the first time at the 24 Hours of Daytona. It would not be a successful event, as the C41, driven by Policand, Didier Cottaz and Fredrik Ekblom, succumbed to engine trouble after 12 laps, restricting them to 80th place. At the Grand Prix of Atlanta, Schubot was the sole C41 entrant, running Policand, Martin Guimont and Jacek Mucha in his C41, but the team could only manage 51 laps, and finished 18th, and last, overall. Schubot partnered Mucha in the next round, which was the Lime Rock Grand Prix, and the pair competed 91 laps before gearbox problems struck, and were classified 11th. At the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen, Schubot drove alongside Mucha and Guimont, but mechanical issues forced them to retire after 28 laps, and restricted them to 41st. Courage Compétition then entered a C41 in the 24 Hours of Le Mans; the car, driven by Cottaz, Policand and Marc Goossens, finished fourth overall, having completed 336 laps, and second in the LMP category. The team then entered the C41 in the International Sports Racing Series, and at the 1 Hour 15 Minutes of Zolder, Policand and Cottaz took second overall, ahead of a pair of Courage C36s. At the Mosport Festival (part of the IMSA GT Championship), Mucha and Guimont finished the race in tenth, before Mucha and Field took eighth in the Grand Prix of Las Vegas. In the non-championship 4 Hours of Le Mans, Cottaz and Policand won both races, and thus took the overall victory by three laps. Courage then returned to the IMSA GT Championship, and the pairing of Mucha and Guimont saw mechanical issues restrict them to 102 laps and 14th place at the Festival of Road Racing, before Field and Mucha took ninth at the 2 Hours of Sebring. Field and Mucha finished the IMSA GT Championship season with a 14th finish at the Monterey Sports Car Championships, before Cottaz and Policand finished the International Sports Racing Series season with a victory at the 2 Hours of Jarama.

In 1998, Courage entered three C41-based cars in the 24 Hours of Le Mans; one C41, driven by Franck Fréon, Olivier Thévenin and Yojiro Terada, and two C51s, with Cottaz and Goossens partnering Jean-Philippe Belloc in one, and Fredrik Ekblom, Patrice Gay and Takeshi Tsuchiya driving the other. The C41 finished in 15th, having completed 304 laps, whilst the Cottaz/Belloc/Goossens C51 retired due to an issue with its gear lever after 232 laps, and the other C51 succumbed to a water leak after 126 laps. Equipe Promotion Racing then ran a C41 in the International Sports Racing Series, entering Geoff Farmer and John Burton in the RAC Tourist Trophy; they took tenth overall, and seventh in the SR1 category. At the Coupes d'Automne, Equipe Promotion Racing selected Didier André and Franck Fréon to drive the C41, and they took fourth overall.

1999–2000
Jacobs Motorsport Ltd. attempted to run Mucha, Michael Jacobs and Frank Del Vecchio in a C41 at the Lime Rock Grand Prix round of the United States Road Racing Championship in 1999, but were unable to start the race. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, three C41-based cars were entered by three different teams. Pescarolo Promotion Racing Team entered Gay, Pescarolo and Michel Ferté in the C50, Courage Compétition selected Alex Caffi, Andrea Montermini and Domenico Schiattarella to drive a C52, and Nissan Motorsports ran Ekblom, Cottaz and Goossens in a second C52. The Courage Compétition entry completed 343 laps, and took sixth, whilst the Nissan Motorsports entry took eighth, with 335 laps, and the Pescarolo entry finished ninth, having completed 328 laps.

Pescarolo Sport used their C52, refitted with the Peugeot A32 engine, in the American Le Mans Series in 2000; in their first race in the series, Emmanuel Clérico, Olivier Grouillard and Sébastien Bourdais took seventh place, three places ahead of the new Courage C60. For the 24 Hours of Le Mans, they named an unchanged driver lineup, and took fourth place in the race – the fastest of the non-Audi entries. This would prove to be the last time a Courage C41-based car was used in a major race.

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Le Mans Prototypes
24 Hours of Le Mans race cars
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Mid-engined cars
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Cars introduced in 1994
Cars introduced in 1998
Cars introduced in 1999
C41
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title: ANSI/ASA S1.1-2013

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ANSI/ASA S1.1-2013, published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), is the current American National Standard on Acoustical Terminology. ANSI S1.1 was first published in 1960 and has its roots in a 1942 standard published by the American Standards Association, the predecessor of ANSI.  It includes the following sections

Scope
 General
 Levels
 Oscillation, vibration, and shock
 Transmission and propagation
 Transducers and linear systems
 Acoustical apparatus and instruments
 Underwater acoustics
 Sonics and ultrasonic testing
 Architectural acoustics
 Physiological and psychological acoustics
 Musical acoustics

External links

 ANSI/ASA S1.1 & S3.20 Standard Acoustical & Bioacoustical Terminology Database
 ANSI website

References

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American National Standards Institute standards


title: A Pizza in Jordbro

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A Pizza in Jordbro () is a 1994 Swedish documentary film directed by Rainer Hartleb. The film won the Guldbagge Award for Best Film at the 30th Guldbagge Awards and Hartleb was nominated for the award for Best Director.

The film is part of Hartleb's Jordbro series that follows a group of people from Jordbro, Stockholm County, throughout their lives, starting in 1972. In its original run, A Pizza in Jordbro was the fifteenth installment of the series, but in subsequent re-edits it is the fifth film. The film serves as a summary of the entire project, with retrospectives of the preceding films.

See also
Up series

References

External links

1994 films
1994 documentary films
Swedish documentary films
1990s Swedish-language films
Best Film Guldbagge Award winners
1990s Swedish films


Men of Burden: Pedaling towards a Horizon is a 2006 documentary film set in the city of Pondicherry in the Indian territory of Puducherry, about the cycle rickshaw industry.

Background and content

The documentary tells the story of disappearing cycle rickshaw drivers living in abject poverty. Over time, the city has experienced a gradual reduction in the number of cycle rickshaws, thereby affecting the livelihoods of those who depend on them. The film considers the ethical dimensions of the trade against the increasing impact of motorised transport and air pollution.

The aim of the film was to raise awareness and funds for Men of Burden – Cycle rickshaw Revival (MOBCRR), an initiative to promote the cycle rickshaw sector and sustainable transport, in order to protect the rickshaw drivers as well as the environment.

Release
The film had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Indian Film Festival, European premiere at the Filmburo Baden-Wurttemberg's Bollywood and Beyond Film Festival and its New York premiere at the sixth annual Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival.

External links

Men of Burden - Cycle Rickshaw Revival Project MOBCRR
Men of Burden - Trailer

Documentary films about poverty
Indian independent films
Indian documentary films
2006 films
2006 documentary films
2006 independent films


title: Bam Bahadur Kunwar

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Bam Bahadur Kunwar Rana (1818–1857; ) was the 9th Prime Minister of the government of Nepal. He was brother of Jung Bahadur Rana.

References

Books
Joshi B. L., Rose L. E. (1966), Democratic Innovations in Nepal: A Case Study of Political Acculturation, pp. 31, University of California Press, California, USA
Whelpton J. (2005), A History of Nepal, pp. 243, Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

1818 births
1857 deaths
Prime ministers of Nepal
19th-century Nepalese politicians
19th-century prime ministers of Nepal
19th-century Nepalese nobility
Rana dynasty
Khas people


title: Star Awards for Most Hated Villain

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The Star Awards for Most Hated Villain is an award presented annually at the Star Awards. It is given to an actor or actress who portrayed a drama series villain that is deemed the most hated among the television audience.

History
The Star Awards for Unforgettable Villain category was introduced in 2010, at the 16th Star Awards ceremony. The nominees were determined by a team of judges employed by MediaCorp. Winners are selected by a majority vote from the public.

The award was retired immediately after its first award in 2010 and was subsequently revived in 2022 with a new title, Most Hated Villain.

Chen Tianwen is the most nominated actor in this category with two nominations. As of the 2023 Star Awards, Jeffrey Xu is the most recent winner in this category for his role in Dark Angel.

Recipient

References

Star Awards


title: The Hindus: An Alternative History

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The Hindus: An Alternative History is a book by American Indologist Wendy Doniger which the author describes as an "alternative to the narrative of Hindu history that they tell". The book was initially published by Viking Penguin in 2009 and later in India by Penguin's Indian subsidiary, Penguin India.

The book was criticized in India, and in February 2014 it was the subject of litigation in India for "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage the feelings of any religious community". As a result of the lawsuit, the book was withdrawn from the Indian market by its Indian publisher, prompting widespread concerns about the state of free speech in India. Twenty months later, the book returned to the Indian market under a different publisher, Speaking Tiger Books.

Overview
The book, published in 2009 by Viking/Penguin, was explicitly intended as an alternative history of Hinduism, the mainstream history being (in the author's view) written from male Brahminical and white Orientalist perspectives. Doniger instead portrays the history of Hinduism from the point of view of women, dogs, horses and outcastes in a "playful, iconoclastic, and inherently controversial" style.

Reception
According to the Hindustan Times, The Hindus was a No. 1 bestseller in its non-fiction category in the week of October 15, 2009. Two scholarly reviews in the Social Scientist and the Journal of the American Oriental Society, though praising Doniger for her textual scholarship, criticized factual errors in her coverage of British colonialists in India and her lack of focus.

In the popular press, the book has received many positive reviews, for example from the Library Journal, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and The Hindu.

In January 2010, the National Book Critics Circle named The Hindus as a finalist for its 2009 book awards. The Hindu American Foundation protested this decision, alleging inaccuracies and bias in the book.

Court case in India
While scholarly and popular reviews were by and large positive, it quickly drew much ire in the Indian blogosphere and the internet more generally, following what Taylor calls "a decade of bad blood, flaming, and hurtful personal attacks" following the publication of Kali's Child and several other controversial works.

The book was criticised by Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samithi (Hindi: शिक्षा बचाओ आंदोलन समिति, "Committee for Struggle to Save Education"), founded by Dinanath Batra, arguing that the work was "riddled with heresies" and that the contents are offensive to Hindus. In 2011 he filed a lawsuit  under Section 295A of Indian Penal Code, which forbids deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage the feelings of any religious community, and in February 2014, it was the subject of litigation in India. The book was withdrawn from the Indian market by its Indian publisher, Penguin India, who agreed to destroy all the existing copies within six months commencing from February 2014.

There was a Streisand effect on the sales of the book and its sales effectively increased. Some bookstores continued to secretly sell the book, wrapped in brown paper.

The publishers blamed the "British vintage Section 295A of IPC" for withdrawal of the books and felt that it was difficult to maintain international standards of free speech in light of this section. The decision to withdraw the book was widely criticised and certain thinkers felt that Penguin should have defended the case effectively and upheld freedom of expression. Widespread concerns were raised about the state of free speech in India.

According to plaintiff attorney Monika Arora, she merely asked the publisher Penguin to fix errors in the book. Arora says the withdrawal of the book by Penguin India and subsequent republishing under a different publisher was a scheme to avoid addressing factual errors in court.

See also
Censorship by religion
Censorship in India
Censorship in South Asia
Freedom of speech
Religious intolerance

Notes

References

2009 non-fiction books
21st-century Indian books
Books by Wendy Doniger
Book censorship in India
English-language books
Indian non-fiction books
Indology
Viking Press books
Censored books
Religious controversies in India
Hinduism in pop culture-related controversies
Religious controversies in literature
Works subject to a lawsuit


title: Nina's Journey

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Nina's Journey (, ) is a 2005 Polish-Swedish drama film written and directed by Lena Einhorn. The film won the Guldbagge Award for Best Film and Best Screenplay at the 41st Guldbagge Awards.

Story
The film is based on the real-life story of writer-director Lena Einhorn’s mother, Nina Rajmic. When war broke out and the Nazis invaded, the family was moved to an apartment in the Warsaw ghetto. Interviews are interspersed with dramatised segments showing her life as a young girl.

Cast
 Agnieszka Grochowska as Nina Rajmic
 Maria Chwalibóg as Fanny
 Andrzej Brzeski as Artur Rajmic
 Pawel Iwanicki as Rudek Rajmic

References

External links

2005 films
2005 drama films
Polish drama films
2000s Polish-language films
Swedish drama films
2000s Swedish-language films
Best Film Guldbagge Award winners
2005 multilingual films
Polish multilingual films
Swedish multilingual films
2000s Swedish films


title: Johann Benzenberg

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Johann Friedrich Benzenberg (5 May 1777 – 7 June 1846) was a German astronomer, geologist, and physicist.

Biography
Benzenberg was born near Elberfeld, Germany on 5 May 1777 to Heinrich Benzenberg and Johanna Elisabeth. He married Charlotte Platzhoff in 1807. After studying theology at Herborn and Marburg, he travelled to Göttingen where he became interested in science through attending lectures by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner. Benzenberg obtained a PhD from the University of Duisburg in 1800 and became a professor of mathematics at the women's college of Düsseldorf in 1805. After the Napoleonic occupation of Germany he immigrated to Switzerland where he became interested in politics. Benzenberg's interest in politics led him to write extensively on issues such as the constitution of Prussia. In 1844 Benzenberg built a private observatory, the Düsseldorf-Bilk Observatory, in Bilk, which he later donated to the city along with a grant to pay for a resident astronomer.

In 1798, whilst still a student at the University of Göttingen, Benzenberg and Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes studied the atmospheric altitude of meteors, collecting the first evidence that they were inside the atmosphere. Later, in 1802 and 1804, Benzenberg helped prove the Earth's rotation by conducting experiments originally suggested by Isaac Newton; dropping balls from a height.

References

People from Elberfeld
1777 births
1846 deaths
University of Göttingen alumni
19th-century German physicists
Scientists from Wuppertal
Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities


title: Second Heaven (disambiguation)

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Second Heaven is a 1982 novel by Judith Guest.

It may also refer to:
Second Heaven in the Seven Heavens
Second Heaven (album) (第二天堂; Di Er Tian Tang), a 2004 album by Taiwanese singer JJ Lin


title: Neely Gray

text:
Neely Gray (February 25, 1810 – May 15, 1867) was an American businessman and politician.

Born in what is now Brooke County, West Virginia, Gray moved to Pennsylvania and worked as a millwright. In 1835, Gray moved to Platteville, Michigan Territory. He served in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives in 1840 and 1842 as a Whig. He then served in the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1846. After going to California for a brief time, Gray settled in Madison, Wisconsin, where he had a storage and commission business and later a coal yard. In 1866, he served on the Dane County, Wisconsin Board of Supervisors, but resigned due to ill health. Gray died in Madison, Wisconsin.

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1810 births
1867 deaths
People from Brooke County, West Virginia
People from Platteville, Wisconsin
Politicians from Madison, Wisconsin
Businesspeople from Madison, Wisconsin
County supervisors in Wisconsin
Members of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American businesspeople


title: Jayam Rutnam

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Jayam Rutnam is a Sri Lanka born American and the founder of the Sri Lanka America Association of Southern California (SLAASC) in 1973.

Jayam is retired from his shipping business and currently involved as a film critic and journalist.

Rutnam is an associate producer of the film The Road from Elephant Pass which was a Finalist Award Winner at the New York International Television and Film Awards - 2011.

Biography
Jayam is the fifth son of Dr. James T. Rutnam and a brother of film maker Chandran Rutnam.

Jayam immigrated to Southern California in 1963. His eldest brother, Raja, was the first Sri Lankan immigrant to the United States, which was in 1958.

He is married to Gina, an Italian-American and has daughter Aliki and son Jean-Louis and two grandchildren by the former.

Sri Lanka America Association of Southern California

Jayam founded the Sri Lanka America Association of Southern California (SLAASC) in 1973 to serve the Sri Lankan community in Southern California.

Jayam started SLAASC with seven other Sri Lankans when there were only about 1,000 Sri Lankan immigrants in the Southern California, though the number has risen to 65,000 in 2010.

Jayam was instrumental to keep all Sri Lankan expatriates together in Southern California so that they had a place to go for social activity. He could be credited by helping people who did not have enough money to survive and made funeral arrangements for those who had nobody in Southern California by his SLAASC.

See also
 Evelyn Rutnam Institute for Inter-Cultural Studies

References

External links

 Imprinting Lanka on the world map
 The Wolf of Wall Street by Jayam Rutnam
 Award for founder of the Sri Lanka America Association
  Meet Jayam Rutnam - Boston Lanka Radio

Living people
American film critics
Journalists from Los Angeles
Sri Lankan emigrants to the United States
1942 births


title: Cinematek

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CINEMATEK (Dutch: Koninklijk Belgisch Filmarchief; French: Cinémathèque royale de Belgique; English: Royal Belgian Film Archive) is a film archive in Brussels, Belgium.

The archive was established in 1938 under the name Royal Belgian Film Archive by Henri Storck, André Thirifays, and Piet Vermeylen.

Its collection include works on film by Man Ray, Duchamp and Léger. As of 2018, the archive held 47,726 films and over a hundred-thousand film materials, with over eight thousand of the items originating from Belgium. The challenges associated with managing the collection were discussed in a 2001 article by Gabrielle Claes who served as director of the archive from 1988 until 2011.

Cinematek led the organization of the EXPRMNTL film festival which was run four times: 1949, 1958, 1963, 1967, and 1974. The festival is depicted in the 2016 film Exprmntl which was shown in 2019 at the London Short Film Festival.

The Royal Belgian Film Archive is currently known as "Cinematek".

Curators

 Jacques Ledoux, 1948 to 1988
 Gabrielle Claes, 1988 to 2011
 Nicola Mazzanti, 2012 to 2020
 Tomas Leyers 2020 to

References

External links
 ACE Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques

1938 establishments in Belgium
Film archives in Europe
Archives in Belgium
FIAF-affiliated institutions


title: We Smoked It All

text:
We Smoked It All is a 2009 collaboration mixtape by rappers Spose and Cam Groves from the independent label PDANK.

2009 mixtape albums


title: Fateh Jung Shah

text:
Sri Chautaria Fateh Jang Shah (; 1805 – 14 September 1846) or Fatya Jang Shah, also popularly known as Fatte Jang Chautariya, was the 6th prime minister of Nepal.

Early life and background
Fateh Jung Shah was born on 1805 A.D. as eldest son of Sri Chautaria Prana Shah and Chautaryani Moha Kumari Devi. He was 5th generation of King Prithvipati Shah of Gorkha. He was nephew of PM Chautariya Pushkar Shah. His 4 brothers were Colonel Sri Chautaria Guru Prasad Shah, Rajguru Ram Krishna Bahadur Shah, Captain Sardar Bir Bahadur Shah and Colonel Sri Chautaria Rana Sher Shah. His sister was Hiranya Garbha Devi, third wife of PM Jung Bahadur Rana. He was educated privately.

Works
He was appointed Mukhtiyar (1840-1843). He lived in exile at Gaya, India from 1843 to 1845. Later, he was promoted to Full General and Commander of Three Regiments in 1845 after the exile. He then served as Mukhtiyar and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1845-1846).

Children
He had three sons Sri Chautaria Khadga Bikram Shah (Khadga Babusaheb) who was killed with him at Kot Massacre. Other two are Guru Prasad Shah and Guna Bahadur Shah.

Death
He was killed in Kot Massacre at the courtyard of Hanuman Dhoka Palace on 14 September 1846.

See also
List of prime ministers of Nepal

References

Mukhtiyars
Assassinated prime ministers
1805 births
1846 deaths
Assassinated Nepalese politicians
19th-century Nepalese politicians
19th-century prime ministers of Nepal
Shah dynasty
Nepalese exiles
1840s assassinated politicians


title: Stadion im Brötzinger Tal

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Stadion im Brötzinger Tal is a stadium located in Pforzheim, Germany, which is used primarily by 1. CfR Pforzheim. It was built in 1913 and has a capacity of 10,000 people. The stadium hosted part of the European Monsters of Rock tour in 1987.

References

External links

Football venues in Germany
Sports venues in Baden-Württemberg


title: Rhus lanceolata

text:
Rhus lanceolata, the prairie sumac, is a species of plant native to the south-western United States (Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico), and northern Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas).

Rhus lanceolata is a shrub or small tree up to 9 m (30 feet) tall, reproducing by means of underground rhizomes. Leaves are pinnately compound with 13-17 lanceolate leaflets and a winged rachis. Leaflets are entire (untoothed) or with small teeth, green and shiny above but whitish and pubescent below. Flowers are born in a panicle up to 14 cm (5.6 inches) tall. Flowers are white to greenish. Fruits are lens-shaped, about 6 mm (0.25 inches) across, dark red and hairy.

Uses
Birds eat the fruit during the winter, and deer forage the foliage. The tannin-containing leaves have been used to tan leather.

References

lanceolata
Trees of Northeastern Mexico
Trees of the South-Central United States
Flora of Arizona
Flora of Coahuila
Flora of New Mexico
Flora of Nuevo León
Flora of Oklahoma
Flora of Tamaulipas
Flora of Texas
Taxa named by Asa Gray
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


title: Arise India

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Arise India Ltd. is a manufacturer of electrical goods based in Delhi, India and provides a range of consumer electronics. The company deals with a variety of products including televisions, inverters (UPS and sinewave), water pumps (monobloc, submersible, and centrifugal), home and kitchen appliances (mixer grinder, induction cook tops, juicer mixer grinders, water heaters, and smart Android based televisions.

Avinash Jain is the chairman and MD of the company. He along with his brother Amit Jain have led the development of the company. Arise India Ltd. has over 3000 employees and 45 offices in India. The corporate office is located in Dwarka, Delhi and there are two specialized manufacturing plants in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. The company has more than 6000 distributors and 100,000 dealers in India.the company is currently under liquidation.

History
The company originated as a small hardware store in Palam, Delhi in May, 1984 by brothers Avinash and Amit Jain and was then known as "Jain Brothers". Arise established its first manufacturing workshop in 1992 in Sonipat, Haryana. It specializes in monoblocs and submersibles pump sets and batteries. Another unit at Kala Amb, Himachal Pradesh manufactures UPS systems, inverters and gas and electric geysers.

The company started its initial operations from Palam, Delhi-NCR in 1992 and later in the year 1995 Arise India brand name was adopted when company started manufacturing inverters on a large scale. Arise India further invested in manufacturing water pumps in 1999. Savoring primary success with the launch of these products, the company entered into the electronics market in 2003 by manufacturing a wide range of mobile phones for both general and luxury segments. The company has since expanded into other categories of consumer electronics such as LED TVs and kitchen/home appliances.

Arise India Ltd. introduced its new logo on 8 August 2013 and a range of LED TVs was also introduced the same day, with celebrity endorsements from Akshay Kumar, Ekta Kapoor, Imran Khan and Sonakshi Sinha.

After collaborating with e-commerce websites like Snapdeal and Flipkart, Arise India launched its e-commerce platform.

The company subsequently expanded into manufacturing consumer electronics including home and kitchen appliances, smart phones, and smart televisions. The Arise Divine LED TV for Android is a smart TV powered by the Android Jellybean 4.2 OS.

Sponsorship
Arise India has sponsored several cricket series:
 ASIA CUP 2014 - Title Sponsor
IPL KXIP 2014 - Associate Sponsor
IPL KXIP 2013 - Principal Sponsor
Bilateral Series - India - NZ, India - SA, India - WI

Charity work
Arise India started two social welfare charities: Sweet Home, an orphanage established in 1997 in Tura Mundi, New Delhi, and Sangam, a children's development charity in India.

References

External links

 Arise Store

Consumer electronics brands
Electronics companies of India
Indian brands
Mobile phone manufacturers
Indian companies established in 1995
manufacturing companies based in Delhi


title: John Dickinson (writer)

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John Dickinson (1815–1876) was an English writer on India.

Early life
The son of the papermaker John Dickinson of Nash Mills, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, he was born on 28 December 1815 and educated at Eton College. He declined to take part in his father's business.

Dickinson travelled in Europe and began to write on behalf of liberal causes.

India Reform Society
Taking up Indian reform, Dickinson had support from his uncle, General Thomas Dickinson, of the Bombay Engineers, and his cousin, Sebastian Stewart Dickinson. A public works commission was appointed by Lord Dalhousie in 1852 to inquire into the deficiencies of administration pointed out by Dickinson and his friends. On 12 March 1853, a meeting was held in Dickinson's rooms, and a society was formed under the name of the India Reform Society.

Initially involved, besides Dickinson, were two Members of Parliament, John Blackett and Henry Danby Seymour. John Bright came onto the committee, and his contacts gave the Society access to many more MPs; his interests included Indian cotton as an alternative source to the United States, and lobbying the British government to have Indian infrastructure improved. Another activist was Francis Carnac Brown who had been a committee member of the earlier British India Society, formed in 1839 by Joseph Pease (1772–1846).

The debate in parliament of 1853 on the renewal of the East India Company's charter gave the society a short-term objective, and the maintenance of good faith towards the Indian states a major theme. The Indian Rebellion of 1857 made for another push, in efforts towards moderation, and to prevent exclusive attention to penal and repressive measures, and Dickinson organised a series of public meetings.

After 1859 the India Reform Society began to languish: at a meeting in 1861 Bright resigned the chairmanship, and carried by a motion appointing Dickinson his successor. The publication in 1864–5 of two pamphlets entitled Dhar not restored roused in Calcutta feeling against Dickinson, who was called a "needy adventurer". By 1865 the Society had ceased to function.

Life
On the death of his father in 1869, Dickinson inherited a fortune, but was in weak health. He corresponded with Tukojirao Holkar II, maharajah of Indore. On 23 November 1876 he was found dead in his study, at 1 Upper Grosvenor Street, London.

Works
Dickinson wrote:

Letters on the Cotton and Roads of Western India (1851) based on a series of letters appeared in The Times in 1850 and 1851
India, its Government under Bureaucracy, London, 1852. It was reprinted in 1853 as one of a series of "India Reform Tracts".
The Famine in the North-West Provinces of India, London, 1861.
Reply to the Indigo Planters' pamphlet entitled "Brahmins and Pariahs", published by the Indigo manufacturers of Bengal, London, 1861.
A Letter to Lord Stanley on the Policy of the Secretary of State for India, London, 1863.
Dhar not restored, 1864.
Sequel to "Dhar not restored", and a Proposal to extend the Principle of Restoration, London, 1865.
A Scheme for the Establishment of Efficient Militia Reserves, London, 1871.
Last Counsels of an Unknown Counsellor, edited by Evans Bell, London, 1877; another edition 1883. A reply to Holkar's critics.

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1815 births
1876 deaths
English writers
People educated at Eton College
People from Abbots Langley
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title: American Soccer League (1921–1933)

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The American Soccer League, established in 1921, was the first of four different professional soccer sports leagues in the United States to use the ASL name. It was formed by the merger of teams from the National Association Football League and the Southern New England Soccer League. For several years the ASL's popularity rivaled the popularity of the National Football League. Disputes with the United States Football Association and FIFA, as well as the onset of the Great Depression, led to the league's collapse in spring 1933.

History
The original American Soccer League, operating between 1921 and 1933, was the first significant, viable, professional soccer league in the United States. The league operated primarily in the Northeastern United States, mainly in the New York metropolitan area, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania.  The ASL was created by the merger of several teams from the National Association Football League (NAFBL) and Southern New England Soccer League in 1921.  The move came from a growing disenchantment with the mismanagement of the NAFBL as well as the desire by the United States Football Association (USFA) to create a unified first division league. The ASL's first secretary was Thomas Cahill, who had founded the United States Football Association and who had been the first head coach of the U.S. national team.

By 1924, the combination of excellent pay and a high level of play drew talented overseas players, especially from Scotland and England, with 50 European internationals good enough to play for their national teams playing in the ASL. This led to a significant amount of resentment in Europe and threats of sanctions from FIFA, including the possible expulsion of the USFA. At the Sixteenth Annual Congress of FIFA on June 4, 1927, the USFA and the other national associations came to an agreement regarding player transfers which defused the situation. The ASL then ran afoul of the USFA when team owners complained that USFA's requirement that ASL teams play in the National Challenge Cup created an unnecessary financial burden. At the time the Challenge Cup ran during the ASL season forcing the ASL teams to travel long distances by train or bus to play cup games, then return to the Northeast to play league games. Therefore, the ASL boycotted the 1924 National Challenge Cup. They reentered the competition the next year after the USFA reduced its take of the gate receipts from 33.3% to 15%.

Soccer Wars
However, resentment continued to simmer between the league and governing body.  Matters came to a head in 1928, when the ASL decided to again boycott the Challenge Cup. When three ASL clubs, most prominently Bethlehem Steel, defied the league and entered the cup anyway, the ASL suspended them.  In response, the USFA and FIFA declared the ASL an "outlaw league". This sparked the "Soccer War". The ASL team owners defied USFA and FIFA, relying on the league's reputation to continue to draw players. At first it seemed as if the ASL might win; however, USFA then helped bankroll the creation of a new league, the Eastern Professional Soccer League (ESL), to rival the ASL. The three ex-ASL teams joined with several teams from the Southern New York Soccer Association (SNYSA) to form the ESL. This led to the SNYSA, under the leadership of Nat Agar, owner of the ASL Brooklyn Wanderers, to leave USFA and ally with the ASL.  Despite the alliance between the ASL and SNYSA, the creation of a competing league caused severe financial strains on the ASL.  The league finally broke and came into compliance with USFA and FIFA. In the fall of the 1929/30 season, the ESL and ASL merged to form the Atlantic Coast League which began a 1930 spring-fall season.  After the summer break, the league was renamed the American Soccer League and the league finished the fall half of the 1930 season with a different name than it began the spring half.

However, the Soccer Wars had permanently crippled the ASL and it collapsed at the end of the 1933 spring season. Ironically, while USFA and FIFA "won" the wars and established their pre-eminence over the ASL, the spectacle of a U.S. athletic association conspiring with a European organization to undermine a U.S. athletic league alienated many U.S. sports fans by creating an image of soccer as a sport controlled by foreigners.  These fans turned their backs on soccer, relegating the sport to the position of a minor league, ethnic-based sport for decades to come.

Champions

Complete team list
Legend
 – existed before joining ASL.  – continued after ASL.  – existed before ASL and after ASL.

References

External links
 Logos as they appeared on goalie caps
 Historical overview of the Soccer Wars
 Year by year standings

Defunct soccer leagues in the United States
Sports leagues established in 1921
Sports leagues disestablished in 1933
1921 establishments in the United States
1933 disestablishments in the United States


title: Dave Crawford (musician)

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David Bernard Crawford (October 24, 1943 – June 1988) was an American R&B musician, songwriter, radio personality and record producer.  He wrote "What a Man", originally recorded by Linda Lyndell and later reinterpreted by Salt-n-Pepa; "Precious, Precious", a hit for Jackie Moore; and "Young Hearts Run Free", an international hit for Candi Staton.

Life and career
He was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and learned piano as a child.  As a teenager, he performed with gospel musicians including Albertina Walker, Shirley Caesar, and The Caravans.  He later became a disc jockey at radio station WOBS in Jacksonville, where he was known as "The Demon", before moving on to station WTMP in Tampa.  His first success as a songwriter came with "What a Man", a minor R&B chart hit in 1968 for Linda Lyndell.  The song, re-titled "Whatta Man", became a much bigger hit in 1994 for Salt-n-Pepa.

In 1969, he and Brad Shapiro became staff producers at Atlantic Records, where they worked with Wilson Pickett and Dee Dee Warwick, and produced the debut album by The J. Geils Band.  Crawford also co-wrote, with his cousin Jackie Moore, the song "Precious, Precious" which was recorded by Moore and reached the Billboard R&B and pop chart in 1970.  He continued to work with Shapiro on Moore's subsequent records for Atlantic, and also worked as a producer with B. B. King, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, and Phyllis Hyman.

As a freelance producer in 1975, based in Atlanta, Georgia, he was paired with singer Candi Staton, and wrote "Young Hearts Run Free".  According to Staton, the song's genesis was a conversation she had with Crawford over lunch in Los Angeles. Staton said: "Dave Crawford was always asking me: 'What's happening in your life?'...and I was [then] with someone I shouldn't have been with and it was hard getting out of that...very abusive relationship. [He said], 'You know, I’m gonna write you a song. I’m gonna write you a song that's gonna last forever.'"

Crawford set up his own label, L. A. Records, in Los Angeles in 1974.  The label released several singles and an album, Here Am I, by Crawford as a solo performer, but neither they, nor other releases on the label by Judy Clay, Charles Mann and others, were successful. Crawford reportedly made substantial financial losses on the venture, and returned to Miami where he worked as a DJ on gospel radio.

He was murdered in Brooklyn, New York, in June 1988, and was buried there.

References

External links

1943 births
1988 deaths
Record producers from Florida
20th-century American pianists
American organists
20th-century American keyboardists
American murder victims
Musicians from Jacksonville, Florida
1988 murders in the United States


title: Smoltification

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Smoltification (also known as Parr-Smolt transformation) is a complex series of physiological changes where young salmonid fish adapt from living in fresh water to living in seawater. Physiological changes during smoltification include modified body shape, increased skin reflectance (the measure of the proportion of light or other radiation striking a surface which is reflected off it.), and increased Na+/K+-ATPase in the gills. A number of mechanisms assist with osmoregulation.

References

Salmoniformes


title: Sam McQueen

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Samuel James McQueen (born 6 February 1995) is an English former professional footballer. Other than loan periods at Southend United in 2016 and Middlesbrough in 2018, he spent his career at hometown club Southampton, having joined the club's academy at the age of eight. He played primarily as a left-sided full-back or winger.

McQueen was forced to retire at the age of 26 in 2022 after failing to recover from a knee injury experienced while on loan at Middlesbrough. McQueen initially ruptured the ACL in his right knee but experienced a series of setbacks culminating in his retirement.

Early life
McQueen was born in Southampton and attended The Mountbatten School in Romsey, Hampshire. Southampton scouted him when he was eight years old whilst playing for Oakwood Rangers, a local youth side. He was part of the Southampton F.C. Academy U13 side that were runners-up in the prestigious Dr Pepper Dallas Cup Tournament in Texas where they lost 1–0 to FC Barcelona California in 2008. The same team included other academy products James Ward-Prowse, Luke Shaw, Calum Chambers, Harrison Reed, Jordan Turnbull, Jake Sinclair and Dominic Gape all who gained professional contracts in later years with the club.

Club career
McQueen was named in the Southampton senior team for the first time on 15 February 2014 for the FA Cup fifth round match against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light; he came on in the second half for his debut, playing the last eight minutes of the 0–1 defeat, in place of Adam Lallana. McQueen signed a new four-year contract on 17 June 2014.

In January 2016, McQueen completed a loan move to League One side Southend United until the end of the season. He made his league debut in the 3–0 home win over Coventry City, coming on as a substitute in the 86th minute. He scored his first league goal as a professional 11 days later in his first full league start in the Essex derby against Colchester United on his 21st birthday.

He made his Premier League debut for Southampton on 16 October 2016, when he replaced Matt Targett at left-back after 14 minutes of a 3–1 win over Burnley, winning a penalty for the third goal. Four days later, he made his 2016–17 UEFA Europa League debut and first senior start for the Saints on 20 October  versus Inter Milan at the San Siro. This was followed three days later by his first league start for them in a 1–1 away draw with Manchester City.

On 5 December 2016, McQueen signed a new long-term contract with Southampton, penning a deal until 2021.

On 30 August 2018, McQueen signed for Middlesbrough on a season-long loan. In October 2018, he suffered a serious knee injury in a game against Crystal Palace. McQueen's recovery was disrupted by recurring infections of his knee construction, which required additional surgeries. In April 2021, Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhüttl said it would be a "miracle" if McQueen played again. McQueen retired from professional football as a result of his injuries on 1 January 2022.  Following his retirement, he became an under-18s coach at the Southampton F.C. Academy.

International career
McQueen received his first call-up for the England under-21 side as a squad member for a pair of friendly matches against Germany and Denmark in March 2017. McQueen was an unused substitute in the Germany match but was handed his debut on 27 March, starting at left-back in the game against Denmark. Aidy Boothroyd, the manager, was quoted as saying "Sam McQueen was excellent" in the 4–0 victory against Denmark.

Career statistics

Honours
Southampton U21
U21 Premier League Cup: 2014–15

Southampton
EFL Cup runner-up: 2016–17

References

External links

England profile at The FA

1995 births
Living people
Footballers from Southampton
Men's association football midfielders
English men's footballers
Premier League players
English Football League players
Southampton F.C. players
Southend United F.C. players
Middlesbrough F.C. players
England men's under-21 international footballers


title: Rana Jang Pande

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Rana Jang Pande () was the 3rd Prime Minister of the government of Nepal and the most powerful person in political scenario in three decades from the aristocratic Pande clan. He was one of the sons of Mukhtiyar Kaji Damodar Pande. He served as the Prime Minister for two terms, serving 1837–1837 (First Term) and  1839–1840 AD (Second Term). He became powerful after Bhimsen Thapa was arrested, and was declared Mukhtiyar and Commander in Chief. He was a grandson of Kaji Kalu Pandey who was the commander of King Prithvi Narayan Shah and the Mulkaji of Gorkha and a notable figure during the unification campaign of Nepal.

The death of Queen Tripurasundari in 1832, who was a distant cousin of Rana Jang and the strongest supporter and niece of Bhimsen Thapa, and the adulthood of King Rajendra, weakened Bhimsen Thapa's hold on power. The conspiracies and infighting with rival courtiers (especially the Pandes, who held Bhimsen Thapa responsible for the death of Damodar Pande in 1804) finally led to imprisonment of Bhimsen Thapa and death by suicide in 1839. However, the court infighting did not subside with his death, and the political instability eventually paved way for the establishment of the Rana dynasty.

Rise to Power
Rana Jang Pande was stationed as a captain in the army in Kathmandu. He was aware of the disunity between the Samrajya Laxmi and Bhimsen, and thus he had secretly expressed his loyalty to Samrajya Laxmi and had vowed to help her in bringing Bhimsen Thapa down for all the wrongs he had committed against his family. Factions in the Nepalese court had also started to develop around the rivalry between the two queens, with the senior queen supporting the Pandes, while the junior queen supporting the Thapas. About a month after Mathabar's return to Kathmandu, a child was born out of an adulterous relationship between him and his widowed sister-in-law. This news was spread all over the country by the Pandes, and the resulting public disgrace forced Mathabar to leave Kathmandu and reside in his ancestral home in Pipal Thok, Borlang, Gorkha. To save face, Bhimsen gave Mathabar the governorship of Gorkha.

Taking advantage of Mathabar's absence in Kathmandu, the military battalions under his command were distributed to other courtiers during the annual muster at the beginning of 1837. Nevertheless, Bhimsen managed to secure his and his family members' positions in the civil and military offices. An investigation was also started to check Bhimsen's expenditures in establishing various battalions. Such events led the courtiers to feel that Bhimsen's Mukhtiyari (prime ministership) would not last very long; thus Ranabir Singh Thapa, in the hopes of becoming the next Mukhtiyar (Prime Minister), wrote a letter to the King asking him to be recalled to Kathmandu from Palpa. His wish was granted; and Bhimsen, pleased to see his brother after many years, made Ranbir Singh the acting Mukhtiyar and decided to go to his ancestral home in Borlang Gorkha for the sake of pilgrimage. But in truth, Bhimsen had gone to Gorkha to placate his nephew and bring him back to Kathmandu.

In Bhimsen's absence, Rajendra established a new battalion, Hanuman Dal, to be kept under his personal command. By February 1837, both Ranjang Pande and his brother, Ranadal Pande, had been promoted to the position of a Kaji; and Ranjang was made a personal secretary to the King, while Ranadal was made the governor of Palpa. Ranjang was also made the chief palace guard, the position formerly occupied by Ranbir Singh and then Bhimsen. Thus, this curtailed Bhimsen's access to the royal family. On 14 June 1837, the King took over the command of all the battalions put in charge to various courtiers, and himself became the Commander-in-Chief.

Mission to China

In December 1835, the political rival of Prime Minister Bhimsen Thapa had requested Chinese Amban's in Lhasa to request King Rajendra Bikram Shah to send Kaji Rana Jang Pande as the leader of the 10th quinquennial mission to China. As a result, the Chinese Amban wrote to the Nepalese King to personally nominate the leader of the next five-year mission to Peking. The Chinese Amban strongly suggested that Rana Jang Pande be appointed leader of the mission.
King Rajendra Bikram Shah nominated  Chautariya Pushkar Shah instead of Rana Jang Pande. One source however states that the Chinese Amban had also suggested King Rajendra not to send wicked Rana Jang Pande, but to nominate another good, virtuous person to lead the quinquennial mission to the Ching Emperor's Court. Despite this, Jagat Bam Pande was originally supposed to lead the 1837 mission.
After Chautariya Pushkar Shah left for Peking there was a big political upheaval in Nepal with the dismissal and imprisonment of the Prime Minister Bhimsen Thapa. Bhimsen Thapa held the post of Prime Minister continuously for thirty one years. The Nepalese court informed the Chautariya about the political developments in Nepal and dispatched him a letter to hand over to the Ching Emperor. Due to the political turmoil in Nepal, the Chautariya tried to complete his mission and return to Nepal as early as possible. He completed the round-trip journey to Peking in less than fourteen months. The mission of 1837 recorded a detailed and systematic summary of the routes from Kathmandu to Peking as traveled by the Nepalese envoy to Peking.

Hold on power

Immediately after the incarceration of the Thapas, a new government with joint Mukhtiyars was formed with Ranga Nath Poudyal as the head of civil administration, and Dalbhanjan Pande and Rana Jang Pande as joint heads of military administration. This appointment established the Pandes as the dominant faction in the court, and they started to make preparations for war with the British in order to win back the lost territories of Kumaon and Garhwal. While such war posturing was nothing new, the din the Pandes created alarmed not just the Resident Hodgson but the opposing court factions as well, who saw their aggressive policy as detrimental to the survival of the country. After about three months in power, under pressure from the opposing factions, the King removed Ranajang as Mukhtiyar and Ranga Nath Poudyal, who was favorably inclined towards the Thapas, was chosen as the sole Mukhtiyar.

Fearful that the Pandes would re-establish their power, Fateh Jung Shah, Ranga Nath Poudyal, and the Junior Queen Rajya Laxmi Devi obtained from the King the liberation of Bhimsen, Mathabar, and the rest of the party, about eight months after they were incarcerated for the poisoning case. Some of their confiscated land as well as the Bagh Durbar was also returned. Upon his release, the soldiers loyal to Bhimsen crowded behind him in jubilation and followed him up to his house; a similar treatment was given to Mathabarsingh Thapa and Sherjung Thapa. Although pardon had been granted to Bhimsen, his former office was not re-instated; thus he went to live in retirement at his patrimony in Borlang, Gorkha.

However, Ranga Nath Poudyal, finding himself unsupported by the King, resigned from the Mukhtiyari, which was then conferred on Pushkar Shah; but Puskhar Shah was only a nominal head, and the actual authority was bestowed on Ranjang Pande. Sensing that a catastrophe was going to befall the Thapas, Mathabar Singh Thapa fled to India while pretending to go on a hunting trip; Ranbir Singh Thapa gave up all his property and became a sanyasi, titling himself Swami Abhayananda; but Bhimsen Thapa preferred to remain in his old home in Gorkha. The Pandes were now in full possession of power; they had gained over the King to their side by flattery. The senior queen had been a firm supporter of their party; and they endeavored to secure popularity in the army by promises of war and plunder.

Decline from power

Mathabarsingh Thapa, who was exiled to India when Bhimsen Thapa was supposedly found to be guilty of murdering the King Rajendra's son who was 6 months old, was asked to return to Nepal by the queen. Mathabarsingh Thapa arrived in Kathmandu Valley in 1843 April 17 where a great welcome was organized for him. After consolidating his position, he successfully led to the murder of all his political adversaries Karbir Pande, Kulraj Pande, Ranadal Pande, Indrabir Thapa, Ranabam Thapa, Kanak Singh Basnet, Gurulal Adhikari and many others, in several pretexts. The second queen of Rajendra, Queen Rajya Laxmi declared him Minister and Commander-In-Chief of the Nepalese army in 1843 December 25 believing he would help to usurp the power from Rajendra, her own husband, and make her own son, Ranendra as the king of Nepal.

Death
Rana Jang Pandey was forced to see the murdered dead bodies of his brothers and nephews on April 18, 1843. Rana Jang lying ill in his bed was not given death sentence. Rana Jang was shocked to death after seeing the dead bodies of his brothers and nephews on 18 April 1843.

References

Bibliography

Mukhtiyars
Prime ministers of Nepal
1789 births
1843 deaths
Pande family
19th-century prime ministers of Nepal
Nepalese Hindus


title: Waiting for Love

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Waiting for Love may refer to:

 "Waiting for Love" (Alias song), 1991
 "Waiting for Love" (Avicii song), 2015
 Waiting for Love (film), a 1981 Soviet romantic comedy directed by Pyotr Todorovsky
 Waiting for Love, a 2009 album by JJ Lin
 Waiting for Love, a 1999 album by Shujaat Khan
 "Waiting for Love", a 1986 song by Great White from Shot in the Dark
 "Waiting for Love", a 1986 single by Pete Shelley
 "Waiting for Love", a 1992 song by David Benoit from Letter to Evan
 "Waiting for Love", a 1997 song by Nanci Griffith from Blue Roses from the Moons
 "Waiting for Love", a 2003 song by P!nk from the album Try This
 "Waiting for Love", a 2012 song by Medina from Forever
 "Waiting for Your Love", a 1983 song by Toto

See also
 Wait for Love (disambiguation)


title: American Soccer League (1933–1983)

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The American Soccer League has been a name used by four different professional soccer sports leagues in the United States. The second American Soccer League was established in summer 1933 following the collapse of the original American Soccer League, which lasted from 1921 until spring 1933. The new league was created on a smaller scale and with smaller budgets. This league existed until over-expansion and financial limitations led to its collapse in 1983. Two successor leagues later operated.

History
In the fall of 1933, the second American Soccer League was established, surviving until 1983. Like the original ASL, this league operated primarily in the Northeastern United States for much of its existence. The league grew to become inter-regional in 1972 by adding several teams from the Midwest; the Chicago Americans, Cincinnati Comets, Cleveland Stars, Detroit Mustangs, and St. Louis Frogs. In order to compete with the growing North American Soccer League, the ASL went national in 1976, expanding to the Western United States by adding teams in Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, and Tacoma. In addition, Bob Cousy was hired as commissioner and the league changed the standings scoring system to more closely resemble the NASL. ASL teams were awarded 5 points for a win, 2 points for a tie, and 1 point for each goal up to a maximum of 3 per game. The NASL awarded 6 points for a win and 3 for a tie, with 1 for each goal up to 3 per game. The ASL also had a limit on the number of foreign players each team could have in an effort to gain popularity among American fans.

While this expansion gave the ASL national exposure, the league and teams were no match financially for the NASL. On rare occasions, an ASL team would outbid a NASL team for a recognizable player, but more often than not, the better players in the ASL were offered more money to jump to the NASL. The high point in the history of the league may have been the 1976 championship game between the Los Angeles Skyhawks and New York Apollo; Skyhawks won 2–1 in front of over 9,000 fans. But by 1979, attendance was down, every team was losing money, and the league finally folded in 1983. After the ASL II ceased operations, several of its teams formed the original United Soccer League, which played seasons in 1984 and 1985.

Champions

1933/34 through 1943/44

1944/45 through 1983

Complete team list

Notes

References

External links
 Historical overview of the Soccer Wars
 Year by year standings

Defunct soccer leagues in the United States
Defunct top level association football leagues in North America
Sports leagues established in 1933
1933 establishments in the United States
1983 disestablishments in the United States
Sports leagues disestablished in 1983


title: Pressy Button

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Pressy Button or Pressy is a programmable button that can be inserted into the headphone socket of a smartphone or tablet and used as an extra button to perform tasks on the device. It is also dubbed as the almighty Android button.

A Kickstarter campaign was launched in August 2013 to raise funds for Pressy. The campaign ended on October 15 with a total of $695,138 pledged. The devices were expected to be shipped out by April 2014, but Pressy was delayed and released in July 2014.

Background

Funding
The Kickstarter campaign of Pressy was launched on August 29, 2013 with a stated goal of securing a funding of $40,000 in 47 days. After being featured on multiple blogs and media outlets, the Kickstarter campaign went viral. Pressy surpassed the $40,000 goal in less than 24 hours and acquired more than four-times of its goal in two days. The campaign closed on October 15 with a total of $695,138 pledged from 28,818 backers.

For a $17 pledge, donors were offered the button and the application, and for a pledge of $25, a choice of colors with a keyring storage sheath was offered. Those who pledged $45 would receive a gold-coated Pressy button with a matching keyring holder. A special pledge of $1000 was available for developers that would allow them API implementation. By the end of the campaign, there was only one backer for the $1,000 pledge.

Development
Pressy was developed by Nimrod Back and Boaz Mendel. According to Back, he came up with the idea of Pressy after having developed several applications in 2013 and "noticing that my awesome devices are lacking the most intuitive input – a button click." Back then quit his day job of an application developer, teamed up with his friend Boaz Mendel, a product designer, and started working on the development of the Pressy.

By late 2013, the team had many working prototypes and models of the button, all of which were made using 3D printing.

Device
Pressy can be plugged into a phone's headphone socket. The button links with the Pressy application and when pressed can be used to access various functions in the phone. The application works by running on Android as a background service. The application monitors the headset jack, but only operates when Pressy is clicked.

Pressy is available in four colors - black, blue, red, and white. The device comes with a key-ring carrier that can be used to keep the device when not being used. Pressy application can also be accessed through the media button on headphones when headphones are plugged into the phone.

Compatibility
The application is only available for Android. According to Back, they will not release an iOS application for Pressy due to restrictions on the API. However, in an interview, he said that "We hope our developers community builds an app compatible with iOS." Pressy can work on any device running Android 2.3 or newer.

Features
The button is configured so that different actions are implemented following different rhythms or durations of the click. To add an action, a user clicks the plus sign in the Pressy app, selects the action type, customizes the click length and sequence, and then customizes the action. Pressy can be set to perform multiple functions by defining what happens with single or double

In the media
When the Kickstarter campaign of Pressy was launched in August 2013, it was featured in multiple publications and technology blogs. The Next Web wrote "Early adopters snapped up all the Pressy buttons available for $15, making $17 the lowest tier you can get in on the deal."

Pressy was featured in 10 Kickstarter Projects You will be Buying in 2014 in Tech Radar. The article also mentioned that one of Tech Radar's employees had bought the button. Pressy was also featured in Five start-ups that are set to launch some crazy gizmos in 2014 in Indiatimes.

Controversy
The Pressy team initiated a design change to the Pressy key-chain holder after the project was funded, which evoked mixed response among the backers. On June 4, 2014, a customer service representative for Pressy posted on the company's Facebook page that the companion application would not be offered through the Google Play store and would need to be sideloaded. The news contradicted prior promises made to Kickstarter Backers that the application would be available through the Google Play store, and backers voiced their concern on Pressy's social media outlets. Pressy would later state that the representative made an error, and stated that the application would be offered through the Google Play Store as previously reported, attaching photos of pre-printed packages containing the Google Play logo as a proof.

References

External links

Pressy's Kickstarter page

Kickstarter-funded products
Android (operating system) devices
Android (operating system) software


The Star Awards for Favourite Onscreen Partners (Variety) was an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994.

The category was introduced in 2011, at the 17th Star Awards ceremony. It was given in honour of variety show partners that was deemed the most popular among the television audience. The nominees were determined by a team of judges employed by MediaCorp; winners were selected by a majority vote from the public via online voting.

Chen Biyu , Dennis Chew , Marcus Chin & Mark Lee  are the recent winners in this category for their performance in Yujian Huangchong (Weekend Edition).

Michelle Chong and Quan were nominated twice, more than any other host. Chong also holds the record for the most nominations without a win.

The award was discontinued from 2011 and was replaced by the Favourite Host award in the following year.

Recipients

 Year is linked to the article about the Star Awards held that year.

Category facts

Most nominations

References

External links

Star Awards


title: Babou

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Babou is a given name or surname. It may refer to:

Philibert Babou (c. 1484–1557), cryptographer, trésorier, minister of finance for Francis I, mayor of Tours in 1520
Philibert Babou de la Bourdaisière (1513–1570), Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
 (1656–1740), Belgian organist and composer
Edgar Babou (born 1970), Ivorian rugby union player
Fanny Babou (born 1989), French swimmer
Babou Sidiki Barro (born 1990), Ivorian football (soccer) player
Babou (singer) (born 1994), full name Babou Nicolai Nelson Lowe, Danish-Gambian singer
Babou (ocelot), the pet ocelot of Salvador Dalí

See also
Baboo (disambiguation)


The 1940 United States Senate election in Missouri was held on November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator and future President of the United States Harry S. Truman, who was first elected in 1934, decided to seek re-election to a second term. He narrowly survived a primary challenge from Governor of Missouri Lloyd C. Stark before also narrowly defeating Republican nominee Manvel H. Davis in the general election.

Democratic primary

Candidates
Maurice M. Milligan, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri
Lloyd C. Stark, Governor of Missouri since 1937
Harry S. Truman, incumbent U.S. Senator since 1935

Campaign
Heading into the election of 1940, the Pendergast machine that had propelled Harry S. Truman to victory in the 1934 election had been brought to its knees. Tom Pendergast was ill and imprisoned for widespread voter fraud in the 1936 elections, in which more votes were tallied in Kansas City than its entire population. As such, Truman's connections to Pendergast going back to his 1922 candidacy for judge in Jackson County were a liability in the campaign. Missouri Governor Lloyd C. Stark, who had portrayed himself as an opponent of the machine, challenged Truman for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator.

Truman, who had decided to seek a second term in February 1940, overcame his Pendergast connections as well as a substantial financial deficit, defeating Stark for the Democratic nomination.

Results

Republican primary

Candidates
William Byers
Manvel H. Davis, former State Senator from Kansas City
Herman G. Grosby
Harold Milligan
Ewing Young Mitchell
Paul O. Peters
David M. Proctor, perennial candidate

Results

General election

Campaign
Touting his experience as a World War I veteran and track record as a U.S. Senator, Truman ultimately defeated Republican candidate and former state senator Manvel H. Davis in the November general election.

Results

See also
1940 United States Senate elections
List of United States senators from Missouri

References

1940
Missouri
United States Senate
Harry S. Truman


title: American Soccer League (1988–89)

text:
The American Soccer League has been a name used by four different professional soccer sports league in the United States.  In 1988, the third American Soccer League was created as an East Coast counterpart to the West Coast-based Western Soccer Alliance. The third iteration of the ASL lasted only two seasons, merging with the WSA in 1990 to form the American Professional Soccer League.

History

The league comprised ten teams on the East Coast in an attempt to support professional outdoor soccer in the wake of the North American Soccer League's collapse in 1984. During its second season, the league champion Fort Lauderdale Strikers played the San Diego Nomads, champions of the Western Soccer Alliance in the 1989 National Pro Soccer Championship. On February 22, 1990, the ASL and WSA announced that they would merge to form the American Professional Soccer League. The inaugural season would be modeled based on Major League Baseball, with separate schedules and the winners of each league playing a championship game. The new league would satisfy a requirement from FIFA to establish and maintain a professional league ahead of the 1994 World Cup, to be hosted by the United States.

Teams

Champions

References

External links
 Historical overview of the Soccer Wars
 Year by year standings

Defunct soccer leagues in the United States
Former summer association football leagues


title: Hospital chantry

text:
A hospital chantry is a part of a hospital dedicated to prayer.

History
During the period 1100 to 1600 the western Latin Church developed a comprehensive theology of charity and what came to be known as Purgatory. In Scotland together with England and Wales, different traditions developed in the provision of care for the elderly, the sick and the dying.

In Scotland hospitals provided a number of functions: Travellers’ rest, care homes for elderly men and women; and sub-monastic prayer communities. Hospitals such as Bishop Dunbar’s Hospital in Old Aberdeen were in part prayer communities and in part care homes.  Most hospitals or maison Dieu had a place or room set aside as a chantry chapel, or an oratory. In the Kincardine O’Neil Hospital, the situation on a drove road offered a travellers’ rest as well as a care and prayer community. Cowan et al. provide details of some 165 hospitals that offered all or some of these functions. In England, similar conditions from the early to late medieval period applied.

In addition to care for the elderly, the church in Scotland and England became dominated by what might be called a theology of care for the elderly, The theology and practice of purgatory came to dominate the church and the country as a whole.

Across the Western world charity and purgatory became the two themes that were often in conflict. Bedehouses and hospitals were founded to meet the requirements of charity and purgatory. In response to this theology individuals often made provision for their after-life by endowing priests and others to say what became known as the Requiem Mass.

The chantry became the place where such masses where said. Chantries owe their name and function of providing an endowment or place for the maintenance of priests to sing daily mass for the souls of founders.

In some cases altars or chapels in churches were endowed in this fashion.

In Scotland Bishop Dunbar, in the months before he died in 1532, founded a "chantry" or chapel in Elgin Cathedral in memory of his father and mother.  The mortification records his wishes and obligations as follows:

Howard Colvin provides a definitive account of the origins of  chantries in England. Further evidence of their Anglo-Norman origins is provided by David Crouch. Colvin summarizes the situation as follows:

In general functions provided in chantries where they were separate establishments – e.g. Noseley,  St Anne's Chapel in Barnstaple, Devon and Lincoln Cathedral were the same as those provided in many of the medieval hospitals and bedehouses in Scotland.

See also
Hospitals in medieval Scotland
Aberdeen trades hospitals
Mitchell's Hospital Old Aberdeen
Kincardine O'Neil Hospital, Aberdeenshire
Scottish Bedesmen

Notes

References

Former cathedrals in the United Kingdom


title: Tamás Harangozó

text:
Tamás Harangozó (born 27 June 1979) is a Hungarian jurist and politician, member of the National Assembly from the Hungarian Socialist Party's Tolna County Regional List since 2010. His brother is Gábor Harangozó another MP from the Socialist Party.

Harangozó was a member of the Constitutional, Judicial and Standing Orders Committee between 14 May 2010 and 14 November 2011. He was appointed a member of the Defence and Internal Security Committee on 17 May 2010 and Committee on National Security on 14 November 2011.

Personal life
He is married. His wife is Emese Horváczy. He has two daughters, Réka and Luca.

References

1979 births
Living people
University of Pécs alumni
Hungarian jurists
Hungarian Socialist Party politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2014–2018)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2018–2022)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2022–2026)
People from Dunaújváros


The Webster Municipal Buildings Historic District encompasses a collection of Colonial Revival municipal buildings in the center of Webster, Massachusetts, along with a collection of military memorials on the grounds of the town hall.  The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

Description
The district includes three buildings, the most prominent of which are the town hall and the Chester C. Corbin Public Library.  The first building to be built, however, is the school building located on Negus Street behind town hall.  Originally named Bartlett High School, the two-story Colonial Revival brick building was built 1903-5, and significantly renovated and extended in 1927–28, at the time of the town hall's construction.  The building has features of both Colonial and Classical Revival, including a hip roof with gable dormers, a denticulated cornice with a wide frieze, and originally had a cupola on top.  The school was renamed the Anthony J. Sitkowski School in 1979, and closed in 2005.  It has since been converted to provide senior housing.

The town hall was built in 1927-28 to a design by Michael Dyer and Company, whose later work included several other notable municipal buildings in Massachusetts.  The -story brick building is laid in Flemish bond, with paneled concrete corner quoins.  Like the school, it has a hip roof, denticulated cornice, and wide frieze.  The school's cupola was moved to top the town hall at this time, and the work done at this time included construction of an auditorium that joined the town hall and school together.

The Chester C. Corbin Public Library building was built in 1920.  It is predominantly Craftsman in its styling, although it includes Classical Revival details, particular in its entrances, which have columns and pilastered porticos framing them.  The building has a low hip roof with extended eaves, in typical Craftsman style, as is its masonry-and-brick exterior.  Construction of the library was made possible by a bequest from Mrs. Chester C. Corbin in 1918; it was designed by New York architect Edward Lippincott Tilton, who was already noted nationwide for is design work on other municipal libraries.

In addition to the three buildings, the historic district includes several war memorials, most notably the 1907 Soldiers' Monument, dedicated to the town's Civil War soldiers.  Near the memorial stand two Civil War-era howitzers.  A second memorial, begun in 1953, commemorates the town's Korean and Vietnam War veterans.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

References

Historic districts in Worcester County, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Webster, Massachusetts
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts


title: Friendship knot loop

text:
Friendship knot loop is a knot to tie a secure and stable loop at the end of a rope.

The slipped version where the last move is done with a bight of the end, rather than with the end itself, is one that can be tightened flat, slid, locked (like a belt buckle), and then untied quickly (like when nature calls) with an exploding pop. If not tightened flat, this  Slipped friendship knot loop collapses into a cube and will neither slide nor pop.

Tying
Like tying a friendship knot, except that it is tied to the ropes own end, coming back from forming the loop.

See also
List of knots
Friendship knot

References


title: Sosten Gwengwe

text:
Sosten Gwengwe (born 20 May 1977) is a Malawian politician currently serving as Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of the Republic of Malawi since January 30, 2022. He previously served as Minister of Trade from June 2020 until his appointment as Finance and Economic Affairs Minister.

Gwengwe was first elected to Parliament in 2009 as a member of the Malawi Congress Party, but announced on August 31, 2011 that he was switching to the Democratic Progressive Party because the MCP "had nothing to offer to the country" and the DPP under President Bingu wa Mutharika had a "clear vision of developing the country". Following the death of President Mutharika, he joined the People's Party.

Early life and education
Gwengwe is a Chartered Management Accountant (CIMA) and has worked in both public and private sector. He holds a Bachelor of Accountancy degree which he obtained from the University of Malawi (The Polytechnic). He is also a holder of Master of Business Administration (Finance) from Oxford Brookes University of the United Kingdom.

Gwengwe has teaching experience after teaching  various Business Management courses at London Vocational, Management and Training Business School (an Emile Wolf College) in London. In Malawi, he established Dzuka Girls Secondary School, Dzuka Girls Primary School, Dzuka Private Academy, Alice Gwengwe Foundation, Sosten Gwengwe Foundation and Gwengwe Private Academy.

Political career
Gwengwe is a member of Parliament for Lilongwe Msonzi North. His political career started in 2009 when he was first elected as Member of Parliament for Dedza Central Constituency. Gwengwe has served in the cabinet in various capacities and ministries including Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Industry and Trade. He is currently serving as Minister of Finance after being promoted in a February Cabinet Reshuffle by President Lazarus Chakwera.

In 2014, President Joyce Banda picked Gwengwe to be her running mate. Banda lost the elections and Gwengwe failed to become the Vice President of the country.

Other activities
 International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2022)

References

1977 births
Living people
Malawian accountants
Government ministers of Malawi
University of Malawi alumni
Alumni of Oxford Brookes University
Malawi Congress Party politicians
Democratic Progressive Party (Malawi) politicians
People's Party (Malawi) politicians


title: Beautiful (Enrique Iglesias song)

text:
"Beautiful" is a song by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias from his tenth studio album, Sex and Love. It features Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue and was also on her Kiss Me Once album. "Beautiful" was written by Iglesias, Mark Taylor, Alex Smith, and Samuel Preston, and it was produced by Taylor and Smith. The song was released as promotional single in Australia and New Zealand  on 14 March 2014.

Track listing
Digital download
"Beautiful" – 3:25

Charts

Release history

References

2014 singles
2014 songs
2010s ballads
Vocal duets
Male–female vocal duets
Enrique Iglesias songs
Kylie Minogue songs
Songs written by Enrique Iglesias
Universal Republic Records singles
Songs written by Preston (singer)
Songs written by Mark Taylor (record producer)


title: Zoltán Lukács

text:
Zoltán Lukács (born 24 April 1969) is a Hungarian politician who was a member of the National Assembly from the Hungarian Socialist Party's Komárom-Esztergom County Regional List from 2006 to 2014, and from its national list from 2014 to 2018.

After he had completed his primary schooling studies at the Mező Imre Primary School in Tatabánya he obtained a skilled worker certificate at the Commercial and Catering Industry Secondary School. Beside his work he finished Mikes Kelemen Secondary School. In 2005 he graduated with a very good record from the Faculty of Arts (communication field) of University of Szeged.

He has been a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) since 1993. Before he was president of the Left-wing Youth Association of Komárom-Esztergom County and he was a member of national presidium. He was the president of Tatabánya City's Branch of MSZP and Komárom-Esztergom County's Regional Association. In the second cycle he was a member of Komárom-Esztergom County's General Assembly and he worked as an adviser of the Child-, Youth- and Civil Organizations.

In the 2006 parliamentary election he obtained a mandate from Komárom-Esztergom County Regional List. He was a member of the Committee on Cultural and Press Affairs between 30 May 2006 and 1 June 2010. He was appointed a member of the Committee on Local Government and Regional Development on 14 May 2010.

References

1969 births
Living people
University of Szeged alumni
Hungarian Socialist Party politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2006–2010)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2014–2018)
Politicians from Budapest


title: Dorothy Nditi

text:
Dorothy Nditi or Dorothy Nditi Muchungu (born 1973) is a Kenyan politician. She is the immediate former Deputy Governor in Embu County Kenya.

Education
She holds a bachelor of arts in home economics from Kenyatta University and she is currently studying for her master's degree in nutrition and dietetics.

References

1973 births
Kenyatta University alumni
Living people
Political office-holders in Kenya
21st-century Kenyan women politicians
21st-century Kenyan politicians


title: Jude Anthany Joseph

text:
Jude Anthany Joseph (born Sijo Joseph) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, who works in Malayalam film industry. His directorial debut was with Ohm Shanthi Oshaana in 2014, which won the Best Film with Popular Appeal and Aesthetic Value at the 45th Kerala State Film Awards.

Personal life
Jude Anthany Joseph was born Sijo Joseph. He legally changed his name to Jude Anthany Joseph in 2014, over his affinity towards Jude the Apostle. He is graduated in B-tech Electronics & Communication Engineering from LBS Engineering College, Kasaragod in 2005. Jude married Diyana Ann James on 14 February 2015.

Film career
He started his film career with Crazy Gopalan (2008). After that he was assistant director in Malayalam films, Malarvaadi Arts Club (2010) and Thattathin Marayathu (2012). He has also directed two short films, one named Yellow Pen (2012) in which Aju Varghese played the lead role, and the other based on Malayalam movie actor Mammootty's life, titled Mammookka's Biography. Even though the short film was completed in 2011, this was released to public through YouTube only in February 2014. The short film went viral in a short time and has garnered around 59,000 views in a span of one month. He made his directional movie debut through the Malayalam movie Ohm Shanthi Oshaana which was released in February 2014. His second film Oru Muthassi Gadha was released in September 2016.

Other works
He also supports the campaign called 'Karigar Apnao Sanskriti Bachao Abhiyan' ('Adopt an Artisan, Save our Culture') for underprivileged artisans and has created a video for them. He paid for a home for the homeless in Kerala in the scheme created by Dr M.S. Sunil.

Controversy
Jude was arrested for verbally abusing a woman mayor in April 2017. He was later released on bail. Later in Dec 2017, he received widespread criticism for his misogynistic Facebook post about a popular woman actor.

Filmography

As director

As actor

Short films

Television

Awards
45th Kerala State Film Awards
 2015: Best Film with Popular Appeal and Aesthetic Value - Ohm Shanthi Oshaana
 2014 :Kerala Film Critics Association Award - Best Debutant director for Ohm Shanthi Oshaana
 2014 : Mohan Raghvan Memorial Award for Best Script ( Ohm Shanthi Oshaana )

References

External links

Malayalam film directors
Malayali people
Living people
Male actors from Kochi
Male actors in Malayalam cinema
Indian male film actors
21st-century Indian male actors
Film directors from Kochi
21st-century Indian film directors
Screenwriters from Kochi
Malayalam screenwriters
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: 2014 LA Galaxy season

text:
The 2014 LA Galaxy season was the club's nineteenth season of existence, and their nineteenth consecutive season in Major League Soccer, the top tier of American soccer.

The Galaxy won a league-leading fifth MLS Cup by defeating the New England Revolution in the final 2–1 in extra time. The club reached the quarterfinals of the 2013-14 CONCACAF Champions League before being knocked out by Tijuana, and were eliminated in the fifth round of the U.S. Open Cup by the Carolina Railhawks.

All-star Landon Donovan retired at the end of the season, after winning his sixth MLS Cup and fourth with the Galaxy. He would come out of retirement and sign with the Galaxy during the 2016 season.

Background

Transfers

In

Out

Loan in

Loan out

Player information

Roster

Players

Out on loan

Friendlies
All times in Pacific Time Zone.

Preseason

Mid-season

Major League Soccer

Tables

Western Conference

Overall

Regular season

All times in Pacific Time Zone.

Playoffs

Western Conference Semifinal

Western Conference Final

MLS Cup

U.S. Open Cup

As an MLS team, the Galaxy entered in the fourth round.

Fourth round

Fifth round

CONCACAF Champions League

Quarterfinals

See also
 2014 in American soccer

References

LA Galaxy seasons
Los Angeles Galaxy
Los Angeles Galaxy
2014 in sports in California
MLS Cup champion seasons


title: Solidarity Party of Afghanistan

text:
The Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (; Hezb-e Hambastagi-ye Afganestan; abbr. SPA) is a minor political party in Afghanistan. The party platform focuses on four main issues: secularism, women's rights, democracy, and opposition to NATO's Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan. The party is strongly critical of the Afghan government, which it views as corrupt, fundamentalist, and dominated by warlords. The party claims a membership of some 30,000.

History
The party boycotted the 2005 and 2010 parliamentary elections.

The party was suspended in June 2012 following a Kabul demonstration in late April 2012 where the party accused a number of Afghan leaders, including former leaders and commanders, of committing war crimes over the last three decades of conflict, and demanded they be brought to justice.

The SPA boycotted the 2004, 2009, and 2014 Afghan Presidential elections as the party alleges that an individual cannot be elected without the approval of the US government. The party does, however, take part in provincial elections as it believes these elections to be more democratic and harder for central government to control or rig. No SPA members ran in the 2013 provincial elections, although the party did support certain candidates. The party condemned the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria.

See also
List of political parties in Afghanistan
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

References

External links

2004 establishments in Afghanistan
Afghan nationalism
Anti-imperialism in Asia
Anti-imperialist organizations
Democratic socialist parties in Asia
Feminist organisations in Afghanistan
Feminist parties in Asia
Left-wing nationalist parties
Nationalist parties in Afghanistan
Political parties established in 2004
Political parties in Afghanistan
Progressive International
Progressive parties
Secularism in Afghanistan
Secularist organizations
Social democratic parties in Asia
Socialist parties in Afghanistan
Women's rights in Afghanistan
Women's rights organizations


title: Hideo Yamamoto (disambiguation)

text:
Hideo Yamamoto is the name of:

Hideo Yamamoto, Japanese manga artist
Hideo Yamamoto (karateka), Japanese karate master and former world champion


title: Igor Dima

text:
Igor Dima (born 11 February 1993) is a Moldovan footballer who plays as a forward. He most recently played for Sfântul Gheorghe Suruceni.

References

Living people
1993 births
Moldovan men's footballers
FC Sheriff Tiraspol players
FC Tiraspol players
FC Saxan players
Speranța Nisporeni players
FC Petrocub Hîncești players
Moldovan Super Liga players
Men's association football forwards
FC Sfîntul Gheorghe players


title: Zsolt Molnár

text:
Zsolt Molnár (born 4 October 1974) is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly from the Hungarian Socialist Party's Budapest Regional List from 2006 to 2014, and from his party's national list since 2014.

He completed his primary schooling studies at the Primary School of Ady Endre Street in 1989. He finished Szilágyi Erzsébet Secondary Grammar School in District I, Budapest. He graduated with "Summa cum laude" from the Faculty of Law of the Eötvös Loránd University.

Between 1998 and 2002 he worked as an assistant rapporteur for the 2nd-3rd district Prosecutor's Office in Budapest. After he took his bar examination in 2002. After that he managed his owner lawyer's office. His special fields are the company and economy law and resolution of the legal problems of owner-occupied blocks. From the autumn of 2002 he was a member of Local government of District II, Budapest. From 2003 he participated in the Infrastructural development and Housing subcommittee of the Economic Committee as preparatory rules connected with owner-occupied blocks.

He is a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) and the Youth Left-wing. Since 2004 he has been the president of the Ethics Committee of Budapest 2nd district branch of MSZP. In 2005 he was elected president of Budapest 2nd district Branch and a member of the National Board. Beside his political activity he committed himself to civil initiatives. He is the founder and legal representative "Our home is the 2nd district in Europe" Community Foundation and he is a member of the supervisory board of the foundation For the Future of Homeless People.

In the 2006 parliamentary election he obtained a mandate from Budapest Regional List. He was appointed a member of the Committee on National Security. He was the chairman of the committee from 2011 to 2018.

References

1969 births
Living people
Hungarian jurists
Eötvös Loránd University alumni
Hungarian Socialist Party politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2006–2010)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2014–2018)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2018–2022)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2022–2026)
Politicians from Budapest


title: Inverness Museum and Art Gallery

text:
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery is a museum and gallery on Castle Wynd in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.  Admission is free. The collection and facilities are managed by High Life Highland on behalf of Highland Council.

The original Inverness Museum opened in 1881 and began to develop as a Highland and Jacobite collection. One of the important early additions was a group of historic Stuart portraits donated by the family of Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, including a portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart attributed to Pompeo Batoni and a Cromwell that Prince Freddy hung upside down. Subsequent additions to the collection include examples of Highland landscapes by Scottish artists including Alexander Nasmyth, John Quinton Pringle and  Tom Scott.

The Castle Wynd/Bridge Street area of Inverness was cleared for re-development in 1963 and the current complex was built. Since 1963 there have been a two major redevelopments to improve the museum: the first in 1982 to incorporate a café, new permanent galleries and temporary exhibition/art galleries, and again in 2006 it was closed for six months to allow a £1.3m makeover, with the re-design completed in time for Highland 2007.

The Museum presents history and heritage in the Capital of the Highlands. On the ground floor you will find Scottish geology and natural history as well as the archaeology of the Highlands including Pictish stones. The displays continue on the first floor with the more recent history of the Highlands – Jacobite memorabilia, Inverness silver, Highland weapons and bagpipes. The first floor features a programme of temporary exhibitions.

In 1980 a puma was captured in Inverness-shire; it is believed that it was an abandoned pet. The puma was subsequently put into a wildlife park. When it died it was stuffed and placed in the Museum.

References

External links
Museum website

Culture in Inverness
Museums in Highland (council area)
Local museums in Scotland
History of the Scottish Highlands
Jacobitism
Art museums and galleries in Scotland


title: Gölbaşı Ground Station

text:
The Gölbaşı Ground Station () is a ground station designed as a terminal for telecommunication with Türksat spacecraft. Owned and operated by the state-owned telecommunications provider Türksat company, it is situated in Gölbaşı district of Ankara Province in Turkey.

The earth station was established in 1994 for servicing Turkey's first communications satellite Türksat 1B launched on August 11 that year. For the location of its backup facility, the campus of Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) was chosen, about  away.

The ground station consists of equipment such as  and  parabolic antennas of high reliance, electronic devices, data processing system and uninterrupted power supply unit for telecommunication with the Türksat 1C, 2A 3A satellites currently in orbit. The backup station has a  antenna available.

The facility features, in full backup, a satellite control center, an observation and control center, a communications observation center and a data encryption center. Further, a satellite simulator provides training for the operators, which is also used for approval purposes of procedures to be applied on the spacecraft.

Since the ground station in Gölbaşı is capable of servicing three satellites at a time only, it is projected to expand its capacity with regard of the launch of Türksat 4A satellite in 2014. The construction of a backup ground station in Konya is planned.

Earthquake risk
On December 20, 2007, an earthquake of 5.7 magnitude occurred in Balâ, Ankara, about  far from Gölbaşı Ground Station. Although the ground station was not affected by the earthquake, the incident showed the possible risk of telecommunication blackout and loss of satellites in orbit in case of an earthquake. Due to proximity of the backup facility to the ground station, the earthquake risk is much high. It is required that the backup facility's location should be at least  away.

A report states that when the link between the spacecraft and the earth station is interrupted for a period of 48 hours, the re-establishment of the link is unlikely.

References

Earth stations in Turkey
1994 establishments in Turkey
Buildings and structures completed in 1994
Buildings and structures in Ankara Province
Satellite Control Ground Center


title: Eugnosta lauta

text:
Eugnosta lauta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Mexico (Jalisco).

References

Moths described in 1993
Eugnosta


title: Eugnosta leonana

text:
Eugnosta leonana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Mexico (Nuevo León).

References

Moths described in 1986
Eugnosta


title: Eugnosta lukaszi

text:
Eugnosta lukaszi is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in South Africa.

References

Endemic moths of South Africa
Moths described in 2005
Eugnosta


title: Gheorghe Anton

text:
Gheorghe Anton (born 27 January 1993) is a Moldovan footballer who plays as a midfielder. In his career, Anton also played for teams such as Zimbru Chișinău, Sheriff Tiraspol or SCM Gloria Buzău.

Career

Club
On 25 January 2020, Anton signed for Zira FK on an 18-month contract.

National team

International stats

Honours
Zimbru Chișinău
Moldovan Cup (1): 2013–14
Moldovan Super Cup (1): 2014

Sheriff Tiraspol
Divizia Națională (3): 2017, 2018, 2019
Moldovan Cup (1): 2018–19

Notes

References

External links
Gheorghe Anton at Zimbru website

1993 births
Living people
People from Telenești District
Moldovan men's footballers
Moldova men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Moldovan Super Liga players
FC Zimbru Chișinău players
FC Sheriff Tiraspol players
Azerbaijan Premier League players
Zira FK players
Liga II players
FC Gloria Buzău players
FC Brașov (2021) players
Moldovan expatriate men's footballers
Moldovan expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan
Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan
Moldovan expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Expatriate men's footballers in Romania


title: Eugnosta macneilli

text:
Eugnosta macneilli is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Mexico (Durango).

References

Moths described in 1986
Eugnosta


title: Eugnosta medioxima

text:
Eugnosta medioxima is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Mexico (Nayarit).

References

Moths described in 1986
Eugnosta


title: Eugnosta mitis

text:
Eugnosta mitis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Mexico (Baja California Norte).

References

Moths described in 1993
Eugnosta


title: Eugnosta molybdanthes

text:
Eugnosta molybdanthes is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Brazil (Santa Catarina).

References

Moths described in 1932
Eugnosta