title: Miss Granny

text:
Miss Granny () is a 2014 South Korean comedy-drama film directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk. Na Moon-hee stars as a woman in her 70s who magically finds herself in the body of her 20-year-old self (Shim Eun-kyung) after having her picture taken at a mysterious photo studio. After opening in theaters on January 22, 2014, it became a huge box office hit, with 8.65 million tickets sold.

Plot
Oh Mal-soon, a 74-year-old widow, lives with her son and his family. Foul-mouthed, stubborn, controlling and shameless, she has a difficult relationship with her depressed daughter-in-law Ae-ja, but is very proud of her son Hyun-chul, who became a university professor of gerontology, and whom she raised by herself against all odds. One day, Ae-ja gets hospitalized after suddenly collapsing. Her doctors strongly advise her to live apart from Mal-soon. On the day she is told by her son that she is being sent to a nursing home, the dismayed Mal-soon wanders the streets and comes across a mysterious photo studio that claims it captures the moments of one's youth. She takes what she believes will be her last self-portrait for her not-so-far-off funeral, but when she comes out of the studio, Mal-soon is dumbfounded by her own reflection in the mirror: she's now a fresh, young 20-year-old woman.

At first not knowing what to do, she hides from her family and soon ends up lodging with her fellow café shop worker who used to be a servant of her family. With no one recognizing her, Mal-soon decides to make the most out of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. She renames herself Oh Doo-ri after her all-time favorite actress Audrey Hepburn, gets a haircut similar to Hepburn's in Roman Holiday, and takes advantage of her youth. As the "suspicious girl" of the Korean title, all anyone sees is that Doo-ri speaks with a regional accent and walks like an old lady, and that she acts very strangely and motherly for her age. After wowing a group of pensioners with a stirring karaoke tune one day, she attracts the notice of her unknowing grandson Ji-ha, a 4th year in university, and Han Seung-woo, a TV music producer. Ji-ha invites her to join his heavy metal band, and after she convinces them to switch to more audience-pleasing melodies.

She gets caught romantically between two men: Mr. Park, her now ex-café worker friend who had always secretly loved Mal-soon, and Seung-woo, who's doing his best to track her down again. Mr. Park's daughter forces her out as she thinks Doo-ri is scheming after his money and she takes refuge in Mr. Han's apartment.

Meanwhile, the band becomes successful with her as vocalist and Seung-woo decides to take them under his wing. Doo-ri is thrilled to be pursuing a career in music ― something she had to give up when she was young. They are booked for an extravaganza at the studio and Ji-ha is late due to a traffic jam. He decides to leave the taxi and bike but is hit by a lorry on the way there. He is in a critical condition at the hospital but Doo-ri decides to go on stage so as to tell him that his song was a success afterwards. As she arrives at the hospital it is found that only she has the correct blood type for a transfusion. She does the transfusion knowing that it would return her back to her aged condition.

Ji-ha's band takes off with the sister as the lead singer and Doo-ri as a fan. Mr. Park finds the same photo studio and becomes young and handsome. He picks her up at a bus stop and rides off bickering good naturedly as they always do.

Cast

Shim Eun-kyung as young Oh Mal-soon / Oh Doo-ri
 Na Moon-hee as Oh Mal-soon
Park In-hwan as Mr. Park
Sung Dong-il as Ban Hyun-chul
Lee Jin-wook as Han Seung-woo
Hwang Jung-min  as Ae-ja
Kim Seul-gi as Ban Ha-na
Jinyoung as Ban Ji-ha
Kim Hyun-sook as Park Na-young
Ha Yeon-joo as Soo-yeon
Park Hye-jin as Ok-ja
Jung In-gi as Hyun-chul's doctor friend
Hong Seok-yeon as chemist
Lee Jang-yu as shoe stall owner
Park Hyung-woo as bassist of Ji-ha's band
Lee Sang-eon as drummer of Ji-ha's band
Park Seung-tae as Oh Bok
Han Ji-eun as Seo Mi-ae
Hwang Young-hee as Chinese restaurant owner
Kim Seon-ha as princess in TV drama
Kim Dong-hee as Dragon
Kim Dong-seok as music show MC
Pyo Ye-jin as music show MC
Kim Soo-hyun as young Mr. Park (cameo)
Hwang Seung-eon as female college student applying make-up (cameo)
Jang Gwang as photographer (cameo)
Choi Hwa-jung as radio DJ (cameo)
Yoo Se-yoon as legendary band vocalist (cameo)

Original soundtrack

Box office
Miss Granny was released in South Korea on January 22, 2014. It drew 850,000 admissions on its opening day, placing it second behind Hollywood animated film Frozen at the box office.

By its second week, good word of mouth caused ticket sales to rise 106%, and Miss Granny became the surprise chart topper after accruing 1.76 million viewers over the Lunar New Year weekend. After only 12 days in theaters, it reached close to 4 million admissions. Miss Granny crossed 7 million admissions on February 17 after 27 days on release, with a gross of  (). To date, the film has had 8,656,417 admissions, earning  (); it climbed to number 13 on the all-time Korean box office chart in its eighth week. Miss Granny grossed a total of  internationally.

Awards and nominations

Remakes
Miss Granny has received several remakes in different countries and languages.

Film

Television

See also
Mr. Back
17 Again

References

External links

2014 films
South Korean comedy-drama films
CJ Entertainment films
Films about rapid human age change
South Korean films remade in other languages
2010s South Korean films
Miss Granny


title: Lyan Cheng

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Lyan Cheng (, born 16 June 1988) is a Taiwanese actress, model and singer. She is best known for her lead role in the 2013 romantic-comedy series Fabulous Boys alongside Jiro Wang, Hwang In Deok and Evan Yo.

TV series

Internet video
 Fell in love with Yahoo (愛上雅虎)
 36 cups of coffee (第36杯咖啡)
 direction mio-heart mio-心的方向)
 sym-white lover (白色情人)
 I love you in TOKYO (我愛你 in TOKYO)

MV
io - true (真實)
F.I.R - find my way
Freya Lim林凡- injured (重傷)
Denise Ho何韻詩- shallots (青蔥)
Denise Ho何韻詩- Aozora (青空)

References

Coffee sister Su Li Wen you are very familiar yet strange personality hotty ，gamebase 2012-04-26

External links
  Brokerage company's official website Lyan Cheng

1988 births
Taiwanese female models
Living people
Taiwanese film actresses


title: Badasahi Assembly constituency

text:
Badasahi is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Mayurbhanj district, Odisha.

Area of this constituency includes Betnoti block and  21 GPs (Badasahi, Balabhadrapur, Bhimda, Bireswarpur, Chandanpur, Chhelia (A), Deulia, Durgapur, Jogniugaon, Kendudiha, Kochilakhuntha, Madhapur, Mangovindpur, Manitri, Patisari, Paunsia, Salgaon, Sialighaty, Suhagpur, Talapada and Pratappur) of Badasahi block.

In 2009 election Biju Janata Dal candidate Manoranjan Sethi, defeated Indian National Congress candidate Ganeswar Patra by a margin of 15,499 votes.

Elected Members
Three election held during 2009. List of members elected from Badasahi Vidhan Sabha constituency is:

2014: Ganeswar Patra (BJD)
2009: (20): Manoranjan Sethi (BJD)

Election results

2019

2014

2009 Election

Notes

References

Politics of Mayurbhanj district
Assembly constituencies of Odisha


title: Avni Zogiani

text:
Avni Zogiani (born 5 July 1970 in Pristina, Kosovo) is an Albanian activist, critic, lawyer, journalist and chairman of the civil society Çohu.

Early life and education
Zogiani is executive director of the Organization for Democracy and Anti-Corruption "Arise" since its founding in 2005 and the Center for Investigative Reporting, a leading organization in Kosovo to create a civil society front in the fight against organized crime and political corruption.

Education and career
Zogiani completed his studies at the University of Prishtina in 1998. During the years 2002-2003 he attended a professional development year in the School of Journalism at University of Indiana in Indianapolis, United States, while during 2004-2005 pursued a Master of Arts in Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex.

Journalism career
During 2004-2007 he worked in Kohavision as an investigative journalist, senior reporter, editor and columnist. During 2000-2002 he worked for the online magazine Transitions Online in Prague, and he also worked for the online magazine Stringer in Kosovo.

2014 students protest in Kosovo

Filmography

Documentaries
2011 - Newborn

References

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4277980/

1970 births
Albanian journalists
Kosovan critics
Living people


title: Sheykh ol-Eslam's House

text:
The Sheykh ol-Eslam's house is a historical house in Isfahan, Iran. Built during the Qajar era, the house is built on the northern and southern sides of the large yard. The reason for this unusual plan, which is completely different from other historical houses in Isfahan, is that the yard had been built originally as a Tekyeh for religious ceremonies. The main parts of the structure are on the southern side of the yard behind a veranda. Stucco, decorations with cut mirrors and muqarnas have made this part of the house much more prominent. There is a big reception hall with two rooms behind the southern veranda, and there is a Howz and two small flower garden opposite the northern veranda. In the southwestern part of the house, there is a small courtyard, which is connected to the main courtyard by a narrow corridor.

Shaykh al-Islam House belongs to the Safavid - Qajar period located in Isfahan, which is the residence of Allameh Mohaghegh Sabzevari , Shaykh al-Islam of Isfahan and his descendants, and was registered on September 20, 1974, as one of the national monuments of Iran .

History and name
The house or court of Shaykh al-Islam was built in the Safavid period and new decorations were added to it in the Qajar period. This house was the residence of Mohammad Baqir Sabzevari .

Building feature
Existence of various decorations of Qajar period in the building, including decorative applications in the south porch and side rooms, plaster patterns in the earring rooms in detail and other rooms according to importance and also painting on plaster and mirrors on the flat roof of the south porch and various knot decorations on the door And windows are a prominent feature of this building.

Reasons for registering as a national work
In addition to the cultural importance of its owner, Shaykh al-Islam's house has valuable architectural features. Developments in the building from the Safavid and Qajar periods to the Pahlavi period and recent reconstructions, this building has become a swimming pool in the course of architectural evolution in this land. This work was registered on September 20, 1974, with the registration number 997 as one of the national monuments. The main part of the house is owned by the Cultural Heritage Organization and its address is in Isfahan, Takhti intersection, Shaykh al-Islam alley.

Traditional Textile House
The traditional textile house was opened in 2010 in the house of Shaykh al-Islam.
The Cultural Heritage Organization inaugurated a traditional textile house in Isfahan on February 7, 2011, at the Sheikh al-Islam House. It is open to the public from 8:30 until 14:15 every day except Fridays and all public holidays.

References

External links
 Image

Museums in Isfahan
Houses in Iran
Historic house museums in Iran
Tourist attractions in Isfahan


title: Joseph Addison (diplomat)

text:
Sir Joseph Addison KCMG (1879 – 24 November 1953) was British ambassador to the Baltic States, and to Czechoslovakia during the rise of Nazi Germany.

Career
Joseph Addison, son of John Edmund Wentworth Addison, was educated in France and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He entered the Foreign Office (FO) in 1903 and was assistant secretary at the Second Hague Conference in 1907 before being posted to Peking 1908–10. He was Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Thomas McKinnon Wood then Francis Dyke Acland) 1911–13. He resigned from the FO in 1913 but rejoined and served in Paris 1916–20 before being appointed Counsellor at Berlin 1920–27, serving as chargé d'affaires at various times.
So well did he carry out his duties during the particularly difficult period of the aftermath of the 1914–18 War, when political conditions in Germany were in a state of flux, that he was clearly marked out for promotion.– The Times, 27 November 1953

Addison was appointed Minister to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in 1927 and transferred to be Minister to Czechoslovakia in 1930. The Times obituary said "For the next six years he held this important position and did much to foster good relations with the Czechoslovak government, especially after the seizure of power by the Nazis in Germany in 1933." However, a historian of the period claims that Addison "made virtually no attempt to conceal his contempt for his hosts" and was "very much responsible for cultivating a negative view of the Czechs and their country in British official circles" and that he "disliked Edvard Beneš [Czech Foreign Minister, later President] with considerable passion and took delight in embarrassing him in his reports from Prague." Addison's contempt extended to the Baltic States, which he claimed was "a part of Europe that has no claim to civilization."

In 1936 Addison was appointed Ambassador to Chile, but he did not proceed there and after a few months decided instead to retire.

Addison's obituary in The Times has been quoted above. A few days after its publication, The Times also published two tributes including one from Sir William Seeds who wrote:
His fundamental common sense and his logical intelligence, joined to the social gifts which endeared him to many European figures, such as the younger Masaryk, would surely have brought him to high office but for his decision, on private grounds, to resign prematurely from the service.

Addison was appointed CMG in the New Year Honours of 1924 while he was serving in Berlin, and knighted KCMG in the King's Birthday Honours of 1933.

References
ADDISON, Sir Joseph, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
Sir Joseph Addison: Diplomatist In Central Europe, The Times, London, 27 November 1953, page 10

External links

1879 births
1953 deaths
Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Latvia
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Lithuania
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Estonia
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Czechoslovakia
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George


title: Heimo Haitto

text:
Heimo Verneri Haitto (22 May 1925 – 9 June 1999) was a Finnish-American classical violinist who played in several U.S. symphony orchestras. A child prodigy, he was characterized as “Finland’s Jascha Heifetz”.

Career
Heimo Haitto was born in Viipuri, Finland, to a family in which the father, a locomotive driver, was an amateur violinist. The son started to play violin as well, and the Russian-born pedagogue Boris Sirpo (1893–1967) took him not only as a student but as a foster son and raised him in Viipuri.

In 1939, the 13-year-old Haitto made his début with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, and later that year he won the British Council music prize. The young violinist become famous, and his story inspired a fictional film, Pikku pelimanni (The Little Player) of 1939, in which Haitto played the leading role.

During the Winter War, Haitto partook a Red Cross concert tour which also visited the United States for the benefit of Finland. Haitto played at Carnegie Hall with Sir John Barbirolli, among other venues, and appeared in the 1941 film The Hard-Boiled Canary. In 1942 Haitto and Sirpo settled down in Portland, Oregon, and Haitto studied with Ivan Galamian in 1943–1945. Haitto was known for his virtuosity: he played the compositions of Niccolò Paganini in a faultless way, and he loved the music of J. S. Bach.

In 1945 Haitto became U.S. citizen and he married the cellist Beverly Le Beck, a wealthy heiress. They moved to Hollywood and Haitto worked with the film industry, then he joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and played there till 1956. From the 1940s to 1960s, he also toured Finland and was awakened to Christianity in 1956. He played shorter periods also as a leader in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and Hawaii Symphony. Haitto and Le Beck had two children, Nick and Kaarina.

After that, Haitto and his family moved to Switzerland and then Mexico, where he got the position of the leader in the Bellas Artes symphony orchestra, but ultimately his wife filed for a divorce because of his alcoholism and gambling. A dramatic change followed: Haitto left his family altogether, abandoned the violin and started to live as a vagabond in the U.S. and in Canada. The wandering life lasted till mid-1970s, when Haitto met the journalist Eva Vastari and they were married in Las Vegas in 1976. Haitto started to work as a musician again: he toured with his wife, accompanying her poetry recitals, first in the U.S., then they settled in Finland. He played in the Savonlinna Orchestra and the Joensuu Orchestra and taught at Savonlinna Conservatoire. He wrote two volumes of memoirs, remembering his wandering years.

Another film about his life followed in 1985: Da Capo by Pirjo Honkasalo and Pekka Lehto.

Death and legacy

In the 1990s, Haitto suffered from hearing problems and he wasn't able to play anymore. He spent his last years in Marbella, Spain, with his wife, and died in 1999. He was buried in Marbella, but five years later his remains were moved to Helsinki's Hietaniemi cemetery.

Haitto made several EP, LP and tape recordings. Most of his recordings he did for Finnish Broadcasting Company Yleisradio. In 2013, some archival radio recordings of Yleisradio from 1964 were released on a CD. Haitto plays the Violin Concerto and six Humoresques by Jean Sibelius.

Discography
 Heimo Haitto Plays Sibelius (Violin Concerto and Six Humoresques). RSO/Paavo Berglund. Finlandia Classics (2013)
 Heimo Haitto Live in Concert (Paganini/Vieuxtemps). RSO/Arvid Jansons and Ari Angervo. Finlandia Classics (2015)
 Heimo Haitto - Chaconne and Other Favourites. Finlandia Classics (2016)

Literature
 Haitto, Heimo: Maailmalla. Helsinki: Kirjayhtymä, 1976.
 Haitto, Heimo – Vastari, Eva: Viuluniekka kulkurina: Heimo Haiton vaellusvuodet Yhdysvalloissa 1965–76. Helsinki: Tammi, 1994.

References

External links
 Haitto, Heimo (1925–1999) at The National Biography of Finland (in English)
 Necrology in Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish)

1925 births
1999 deaths
Finnish classical violinists
Male classical violinists
People from Ruokolahti
20th-century classical violinists
Musicians from Vyborg
20th-century male musicians
Finnish emigrants to the United States
Finnish expatriates in Canada
Finnish expatriates in Mexico
Finnish expatriates in Spain
Finnish expatriates in Switzerland
Naturalized citizens of the United States


title: 2014 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament – Doubles

text:
Robert Lindstedt and Nenad Zimonjić were the defending champions but decided not to participate together.  Lindstedt played alongside Łukasz Kubot, but lost in the first round to Julien Benneteau and Édouard Roger-Vasselin.  Zimonjić teamed up with Daniel Nestor, but lost in the quarterfinals to Michaël Llodra and Nicolas Mahut.

Llodra and Mahut won the title, defeating Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău in the final, 6–2, 7–6(7–4).

Seeds

Draw

Draw

Qualifying

Seeds

Qualifiers
  Michael Berrer /  Sergiy Stakhovsky

Lucky losers
  James Cerretani /  Adil Shamasdin

Qualifying draw

External links
 2006 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament Doubles Main Draw

ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament - Doubles
2014 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament


title: Richard Smith (American guitarist)

text:
Richard Smith (born in Detroit) is an American jazz guitarist. Smith teaches at University of Southern California's Thorton School of Music.

Solo albums
Rockin The Boat 1989
Puma Creek 1989
Bella Firenze 1991
From My Window 1994
First Kiss 1997
Flow 1999
Natural Soul 2002
SOuLIDIFIED 2003
LA Chillharmonic 2008
 Tangos 2014 - with Dutch/Colombian pianist, Tico Pierhagen, Brian Bromberg (bass) and Gene Coye (drums). A Chillharmonic Media release

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American jazz guitarists
USC Thornton School of Music faculty


title: Pescara Calcio a 5

text:
Pescara Calcio a 5 was a futsal club based in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. The club was founded in 1999 as "D'Angelantonio C5". In 2003 the denomination changes in "Pescara Sport Five" and in 2007 it took their last denomination; its indoor arena was PalaRigopiano based in Pescara with 1,500 seaters. The club was dissolved on April 2018 due to various problems.

Honours
1  Serie A: 2014/15
2  Coppa Italia: 2016, 2017
2  Supercoppa Italiana: 2015, 2016

Famous Players

European Champions
The following players have won the title of European champions to the UEFA Futsal Championship while they were playing in Pescara.

 Sergio Romano (Belgium 2014)
 Luca Leggiero (Belgium 2014)
 Daniel Giasson (Belgium 2014)

World Champions
The following players have won the title of World champions to the FIFA Futsal World Cup while they were playing in Pescara.

 Leandro Cuzzolino (Colombia 2016)
 Cristian Borruto (Colombia 2016)
 Maximiliano Rescia  (Colombia 2016)

UEFA Club Competitions Record

UEFA Futsal Cup

European competitions record

References

External links
 Official Website

Futsal clubs in Italy
Sport in Abruzzo
1999 establishments in Italy
Futsal clubs established in 1999


title: Operation Kerslig

text:
Operation Kerslig (Operation Candle Light) was a South African Defence Force special forces raid on an oil refinery outside Luanda, Angola. The raid took place on 30 November 1981 by members of the 1 and 4 Reconnaissance Regiments.

Background
The Petrangol refinery was built in 1958 and supplied Angola with petrol, diesel, and jet fuel and managed by Belgium company Petrofina SA . The refinery was to be attacked around 1am on 30 November with the intention to damage or destroy the distillation towers, fuel tanks and pipelines within the refinery complex. Members of 1 Reconnaissance Regiment (1RR) would conduct the initial surveillance of the refinery and the actual attack while 4 Reconnaissance Regiment (4RR) would man the special forces Barracuda boats and supply the divers with transport to and from the Angolan capital of Luanda supplied by the South African Navy strike-craft. The mission was to be covert and blame laid on UNITA as being responsible and not the South African Defence Force. On 16 November, 1 RR was given training by 4 RR to refresh their knowledge with the boats and by 18 November with the two South African Navy strike-craft. By 20 November the two strike-craft, SAS Oswald Pirow and SAS Jim Fouche, left Saldanha Bay with the 4RR boat crews and a two-man 1RR reconnaissance team and arrived for refuelling on 22 November at Walvis Bay before heading northwards to Angola. The survey vessel  would arrive on 24 November at Walvis Bay from Simon's Town and picked up the members of 1 RR attack teams before heading northwards as well.

South African units involved
 elements - 1 Reconnaissance Regiment
 elements - 4 Reconnaissance Regiment
 elements - 7 Medical Battalion
 SAS Oswald Pirow
 SAS Jim Fouche
 SAS Protea
 SAAF – one Wasp helicopter and a C-130 for radio communication for SAR mission

Operation
On the night of 25 November, the two strike-craft positioned themselves off Luanda, 9 km north-west of the lighthouse at Ponto das Lagostas. Two special forces boats were launched and headed for a point off the shore. Two 4RR divers then entered the water and swam to the beach to ensure the landing point's suitability and its security and then called the boats in to drop off the two-man reconnaissance team. The boats returned to the strike-craft which withdrew 80 km offshore. As the dawn approached, the reconnaissance team found themselves in the middle of military transport storage area, but were able to leave and find a safer hideout during daylight hours. That evening they returned to reconnoitre the transport storage area before proceeding to the refinery, surveilling and photographing the target before returning to their hideout having establishing an inward and exit route for an attack teams. After spending another day at the hideout, on the evening of 27 November, the strike-craft returned and the boats collected the reconnaissance team. The two strike-craft then set off for their rendezvous with the SAS Protea on the early morning of 28 November for refuelling as well as  the final planning and briefings of the forthcoming raid and the transfer of the attack teams.

By early evening of 29 November, the two strike-craft were 16 km off Luanda. Four boats were launched for the beach landing site and again dropped off the two reconnaissance team divers to investigate the landing site. The four boats were then signalled to land. A communications team was left on the cliffs to maintain radio contact between the teams and the strike-craft. The HQ and attack teams then proceeded to the outer perimeter fence of the refinery. None of the guard towers appeared to be occupied nor was the inner fence maintained. By 23h57 the four attack teams had cut their way inside the refinery grounds while the support and HQ teams maintaining the security of the exit route. Team 5 guarded the cut fence.

Team 1 proceeded to their target, three distilling towers, but were unable to lay their explosive in the right position as the design of the first tower and a manned control station did not match the intelligence so the explosives were laid on pipes into the tower. Signalling the rest of the teams to begin their arming they proceeded to the second tower that appeared unmanned and out of commission.  While attempting to break into the tower they were interrupted by a premature explosion from within the refinery at Team 4's site. They then armed and left the charges at the towers' base and returned to the entrance site.

Team 2's targets were twelve jet fuel tanks. They were able to place six charges before the premature explosion from within the refinery interrupted them. Following orders if the plan changed, they left the remaining charges against a tank and before attempting to arm one of the charges, a second premature explosion occurred within the refinery and so they left the explosives unarmed and returned to the entry point on the fence. Meeting Team 1 they joined in the search of Team 4.

Team 3 managed to lay their charges on two spherical gas tanks and had proceeded to two horizontal tanks when the first premature explosion occurred within the refinery. Orders were now to return to entry point, but finding their route blocked by guards proceeded to another part of the perimeter fence and exited leaving their remaining two charges on pipelines leading to the harbour before returning to the rendezvous point by following the fence.

Team 4 had charges to place on twelve crude oil tanks and they began to place them as soon as Team 1 gave the order to start. About seven minutes after they started, one of their charges prematurely exploded and they decided to place the remaining charges together. Captain de Kok armed one of them, but it exploded and the other two members of the team were injured. One badly team member made it back to the entry point and so Team 1 and 2 re-entered the refinery to find the two missing men and found another team member badly burnt and blinded and returned him to the entry point and resumed their search for the De Kok, but after a third premature explosion it became too dangerous and it was realised he could not have survived.

The men returned to the entry point in the fence and made contact with the HQ team, returning to the beach via the vehicle transport area to save time while more premature explosions occurred in the refinery. The boats were already on the beach waiting and the strike-craft were closer to the shore to speed up the pick-up. The two injured were transferred to individual strike-craft for treatment by medical teams and as soon as the boats were loaded, headed out to sea as several more explosions broke out in the refinery. The two strike-craft would later rendezvous with SAS Protea and transferred the two injured men and latter would then head for Walvis Bay reaching there on 2 December where the men were transported to Pretoria for medical treatment. The two strike-craft left Angolan waters and would arrive back in Langebaan with the 1 & 4 Reconnaissance Regiment teams on 4 December before sailing for Simon's Town later that day to refuel and restock and return to their bases.

Aftermath
Fire-fighters managed to bring the fires under control by 1 December while all fires had been extinguished by 3 December. Angolan and Western oil officials claimed that if the attack had been successful, the city of Luanda would have taken damage from the explosion and the release of poison chemicals.  Brave refinery workers had managed to remove lead tetrachloride, which the South Africans did not know about, from the tanks before the flames got to them.

Kundi Paiama, Angola's Minister of State Security was demoted after the raid because of the security lapses.  Several infantry units were called in to guard the complex while security infrastructure within the refinery was upgraded.

The Belgium operator of the refinery reckoned the damage to the refinery would be repaired in two months.  It was close to three months before partial production began again. Seventeen tanks had been destroyed, but the gas spheres had not exploded even though their contents burnt close the point of the explosion. The South African intelligence reckoned that $60 million of various fuel products had been lost and that the damage was worth $36.5 million.

Jonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA, initially claimed responsibility for the attack by a small assault team firing RPGs.  But his version of events did not match the evidence left behind by the attackers.

By the 1 December, Angolan officials presented evidence to Western diplomats that the attack had been carried out by South African "mercenaries". It appeared that SADF special forces member, Captain AJP de Kock, was killed instantly when demolition explosives he was laying, prematurely exploded. His remains, the mines, weapons and other sabotage equipment that was left behind were presented to the world's media.

The raid was acknowledged as a South African special forces operation during the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

References

Further reading

1981 in Angola
1981 in South Africa
Battles and operations of the South African Border War
Battles involving Angola
Conflicts in 1981
November 1981 events in Africa
Operations involving South African special forces


title: Prionosciadium bellii

text:
Prionosciadium bellii is a plant species endemic to the Mexican State of Michoacán. It occurs in brush areas at elevations of .

Prionosciadium bellii is a biennial herb up to  tall. Leaves are up to  long, pinnatifid with tapering lanceolate segments. Flowers are reddish-purple or greenish-yellow. Fruits are oval, up to  long.

References

Apioideae
Endemic flora of Mexico
Flora of Michoacán
Taxa named by Lincoln Constance
Taxa named by Mildred Esther Mathias


title: Adam Jay Harrison

text:
Adam Jay Harrison (born 1973) is an American defense industry entrepreneur, inventor, and advocate for military acquisition reform. He works as a startup founder and investor and is the John R. Boyd National Security Innovation Fellow at New York University, where he researches the efficacy of national innovation policies that capitalize on collaboration between the public and private sectors. In 2006 Harrison founded Mav6, a defense technology company recognized by Inc. magazine in 2011, 2012, and 2013 as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America. From 2016 to 2017 he served as the inaugural director of the MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator (now the National Security Innovation Network), a human capital innovation program within the Office of the Secretary of Defense and part of the Defense Innovation Unit. And from 2018 to 2019 he was the Command Innovation Officer of the US Army Futures Command, where he designed and implemented the organization's efforts to collaborate with the civilian high-tech sector in the development of advanced, military-relevant capabilities.

Early life and education
Harrison was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Vanderbilt University and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Memphis with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995 and then went on to earn master's degrees from the University of Florida, the Naval War College, and the National Intelligence University.  He attended but did not complete the Master of Business Administration program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a Ph.D. candidate at the New York University.

Career
In 2002 Harrison was selected by the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Army to lead the Technical Operations Support Activity (TOSA), a secretive military organization created in 2003 chartered with finding and repurposing commercial technologies for sensitive military missions. Harrison arranged for TOSA personnel to be embedded with operational military units in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the world to observe military and counter-terrorism operations, resulting in a number of revolutionary products delivered to the battlefield in the early phases of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. During Harrison's tenure, the United States Army awarded Army Greatest Invention recognition to three TOSA programs - the Unattended Transient Acoustic MASINT System (UTAMS) (2004), the Persistent Threat Detection System (2005), and the Constant Hawk aerial surveillance system.

In 2006, Harrison left the military and co-founded Mav6, LLC, where he served as managing director and chief technology officer from 2006 to 2014.  By 2011 Mav6 was earning about $120 million in annual revenues and had won three Inc. 500/5000 awards by creating collaborations between academia, industry, and military organizations. In 2011, Popular Science named one of Harrison's projects, the M1400 airship, as a top innovation of the year, and in 2012 Ernst & Young recognized Harrison as the Entrepreneur of the Year in the Gulf Coast Region.

In 2010, working as an advisor in the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Harrison co-developed a process called "technology domain awareness", which matches new technologies with national security and public safety needs.

In December 2011, Harrison co–founded the Center for Battlefield Innovation, part of the High Performance Computing Collaboratory at Mississippi State University, to provide a focal point for applying university-based research to problems in defense and public safety.  In March 2014, Harrison was named the first director of the Center for Smart Defense at the West Virginia University. In 2015 he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at the National Defense University and the John Boyd National Innovation Research Fellow at New York University.

In 2016, Harrison founded the MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator, a partnership between the United States Department of Defense and several American universities. He served as the inaugural director from 2016 to 2017. As part of his work at MD5, he promoted the development of dual-use technology startups that address critical national security issues and pioneered the use of hackathon and crowdsourcing approaches to prototype new military capabilities. In 2018, Harrison served as senior innovation advisor to the Army Futures Command Task Force, where he developed the innovation strategy for the Army's Future Force Modernization Enterprise. On July 1, 2018, Harrison was appointed Command Innovation Officer at the Army Futures Command in Austin, TX. In this position, his work has focused on expanding opportunities for startup-derived products to transition to formal Army programs and leveraging soldier insights as a basis for new military capability development.

Research

Harrison conducts research on the management of technology and innovation as it relates to the national security enterprise and the intersection of national security, entrepreneurship, and technology. His work on civil-military collaboration associated with venturing and startup company development led to the creation of the MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator. He has written articles and published research for military-oriented magazines and journals, including National Defense University Defense Horizons, United States Naval Institute Proceedings, Georgetown Security Studies Review, Small Wars Journal, and the US Army War College Parameters journal.

Harrison is a regular contributor to the War on the Rocks online magazine, writing on topics related to military technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Personal life

Harrison is married and resides in the Washington, D.C. area.

References

External links
 MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator

1973 births
Living people
University of Memphis alumni
University of Florida alumni
National Intelligence University alumni
Naval War College alumni
New York University alumni
American aerospace businesspeople
American chief executives
American military writers


title: Félix-Joseph Barrias

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Félix-Joseph Barrias (13 September 1822 – 24 January 1907) was a French painter.
He was well known in his day for his paintings of religious, historical or mythical subjects, but has now been largely forgotten.
Artists who trained in his studio and went on to achieve fame include Edgar Degas, Gustave Achille Guillaumet and Henri Pille.

Early years

Félix-Joseph Barrias was born on 13 September 1822 in Paris.
His brother was Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841–1905), who became a well-known sculptor.
His father was a painter on porcelain, and taught Félix-Joseph Barrias, who proved to be an adept pupil and was able to earn his own living by the age of 16.

Félix-Joseph Barrias then studied under Léon Cogniet. He won the Prix de Rome in 1844 with his picture of Cincinnatus Receiving the Deputies of the Senate.
This let him travel to Italy for further studies.
In 1847 he exhibited at the Salon for the first time with his Young Girl Carrying Flowers and Roman Spinner.
Barrias received a third class medal in 1847 and a second class medal in 1851 for his The Exiles of Tiberius (Louvre). At the Exposition Universelle (1855) he received a second class medal for his painting Jubilee Year of 1300 in Rome.

Career
Barrias made many paintings on religious, historical or mythical subjects. He also made frescoes for the Church of Saint-Eustache, Paris, Grand Hôtel du Louvre and Chapel of Saint Genevieve in the church of Sainte-Trinité, Paris.
He was commissioned in the 1860s to contribute an illustration to an album of works on prayer compiled by William Thompson Walters, as were other noted painters of the day such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Léon Gérôme and James Tissot.

A large painting by Barrias was exhibited at the 1862 International Exhibition in London, depicting the French army landing in the Crimea.
In 1868 Barrias painted The Legend of the Golden Fleece on the ceiling of Drapers' Hall, London.
Barrias created mural works for the Paris Opera of Charles Garnier, and in the 1880s painted a decoration for the Mercers' Hall in London.
Barrias exhibited portraits at the Salons of 1879, 1880 and 1881. He made lithograph illustrations for Didot's editions of Virgil and Horace.

Barrias taught Edgar Degas (1834–1917) in 1853.
Other pupils included  Gustave Achille Guillaumet (1840–1884),
Fernand Pelez (1848–1913),
Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour (1838–1910),
Jehan Georges Vibert (1840–1902),
Henri Pille (1844–1897), Henri Michel-Lévy (1844–1914)
and Jean-Jacques Scherrer (1855–1916).
Barrias was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour on 12 July 1859, and an officer on 3 February 1897. He died on 24 January 1907 at the age of 84.

Reception

According to a contemporary critic, his art "is worthy of an artist who is always distinguished by a severe execution, a happy imagination, and a graceful conception of the whole effect. A painter of style, Felix Barrias has neither the solemnity nor the coldness of those who usually claim this title; very careful of the dignity of his art in these times of easy painting, he has never made a compromise with the taste of the day, and for this reason, in every essay on decorative art his name is written in advance.
However, his paintings have not stood the test of time, and he is now largely forgotten.

Selected works

 Anointing of David by Samuel (1842) – Petit Palais, Paris
 Cincinnatus Receiving the Deputies of the Senate (1844)
 Sappho d'Ereze (1845) A photograph was published in A. Cipollini's 1890 Saffo, but the original has been lost.
 Young Girl Carrying Flowers (1847)
 A Gaul and His Daughter Imprisoned in Rome (1847)
 Roman Spinner (1847)
 The Exiles of Tiberius (1850) – purchased for the Gallery of the Luxembourg
 Michel Angelo in the Sistine Chapel (1857)
 Easter Communion (1861)
 Picardy (1863) – allegorical picture for the grand stairway of the Museum of Amiens
 The Repose (1866)
 Electra at the Tomb of her Father (1875)
 L'Homme est en mer! (1875) - subject from Victor Hugo
 Eve (1877)
 The Fairy of the Pearls (1878)
 Mont-Dore in the time of Augustus (1882)
 Death of Chopin (1885) The painting is in the National Museum, Kraków.
 The Triumph of Venus (1886)
 Camille Desmoulins in the Palais Royal (1888)

References
Citations

Sources

Grunchec, P. (1985). The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the École des Beaux-Arts, 1797–1863''. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation. .

1822 births
1907 deaths
Painters from Paris
19th-century French painters
French portrait painters
French male painters
Prix de Rome for painting
Mythological painters
Officers of the Legion of Honour
Burials at Passy Cemetery
19th-century French male artists


title: 4 × 100 metres relay at the Olympics

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The 4 × 100 metres relay at the Summer Olympics is the shortest track relay event held at the multi-sport event. The men's relay has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1912 and the women's event has been continuously held since the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. It is the most prestigious 4×100 m relay race at elite level.

The competition has two parts: a first round and an eight-team final. Historically, there has been a semi-final round, but this has been eliminated as selection is now determined by time – the sixteen fastest nations during a pre-Olympic qualification period are entered. Since 1988, teams may enter up to six athletes for the event. Larger nations typically have two reserves runners in the first round in order to preserve the fitness of their top runners for the final. Heat runners of medal-winning teams receive medals even if they did not run in the final.

The Olympic records for the event were both set at the 2012 Olympic Games in London: the Jamaican men's team ran 36.84 seconds and the American women's team won with 40.82 seconds, both of them world records. The men's world record has been broken and equalled at the Olympics on numerous occasions. The record was set at six consecutive editions from 1912 to 1936, then five straight editions from 1956 to 1972. Since then, the men's Olympic final has been won in a world record time in 1984, 1992, and 2012. The women's world record has been similarly linked to the Olympics: the record was broken on the first three occasions it was contested as an Olympic event (1928 to 1936). It was then improved at six successive Olympics from 1952 to 1972. The women's world record at the 2012 Olympic Games ended the forty-year absence of such a feat.

The United States is by far the most dominant nation in the event. The country has won the men's race 15 times and the women's race on 11 occasions. The American men accrued eight straight wins from 1920 to 1956 and have won a medal in the event at all but eight Olympics (boycott in 1980, baton pass failures in 1912, 1960, 1988, 2008, 2016 and 2020, and their disqualification after the race due to Tyson Gay's doping charge in 2012). The American women took four consecutive gold medals from 1984 to 1996. As of 2016, no other country has won more than three golds in the men's or women's event. Jamaica (four wins, nine medals), Great Britain (two wins, fifteen medals) and the Soviet Union (two wins, eleven medals) are the next most successful nations.

Participants in this event are often competitors in the 100 metres and 200 metres individual Olympic events (and, less commonly, the sprint hurdles). Frank Wykoff and Evelyn Ashford are the most successful athletes in the event, having each won three gold medals. In terms of total career medals, the most successful is Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown with four (one gold and three silvers). Only two other athletes have won three medals in the event: Marlies Göhr (twice champion) and Lyudmila Zharkova.

Medal summary

Men

Multiple medalists

Medals by country

 The German total includes teams both competing as Germany and the United Team of Germany, but not East or West Germany.

Women

Multiple medalists

Medals by country

 The German total includes teams both competing as Germany and the Unified Team of Germany, but not East or West Germany.

Finishing times

Top ten fastest Olympic times

References
Participation and athlete data
Athletics Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.
Athletics Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.
Olympic record progressions
Mallon, Bill (2012). TRACK & FIELD ATHLETICS - OLYMPIC RECORD PROGRESSIONS. Track and Field News. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.
Specific

External links
IAAF 4×100 metres relay homepage
Official Olympics website
Olympic athletics records from Track & Field News

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Olympics
Relay 4x100 metres


title: 2014 Copa Claro – Singles

text:
David Ferrer was the two-time defending champion and successfully defended his title by beating Fabio Fognini in the final 6–4, 6–3.

Seeds

 David Ferrer (champion)
 Fabio Fognini (final)
 Tommy Robredo (semifinals)
 Nicolás Almagro (semifinals)
 Marcel Granollers (second round)
 Robin Haase (quarterfinals, retired because of a back injury)
 Juan Mónaco (first round)
 Jérémy Chardy (quarterfinals)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

Qualifying

Seeds

 Stéphane Robert (first round, retired)
 Andreas Haider-Maurer (qualifying competition)
 Diego Sebastián Schwartzman (first round)
 Pere Riba (first round)
 Thomaz Bellucci (first round, retired)
 Facundo Bagnis (first round)
 Martín Alund (qualified)
 Guido Andreozzi (second round)

Qualifiers

Qualifying draw

First qualifier

Second qualifier

Third qualifier

Fourth qualifier

External links
 Main draw
 Qualifying draw

Copa Claro - Singles
2014 Singles


title: Grice Peters

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Grice Peters (born Martin Charles Grice Peters), also known as GRICE, is a South London-born English art rock musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Peters formed and fronted underground Britpop flavoured bands Laugh Like a Madman, the Burning Martyrs, the Martyrs, SWANSTON and the avant-garde art rock outfit Hungersleep, before starting his solo career.

Peters is also a fellow of The Royal Society of Arts.

Career
In 2012, Peters released his debut solo GRICE album, PROPELLER, which featured saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft and pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole, as well as a number of contributors including Markus Reuter, 05Ric, and Luca Calabrese amongst others. The album was produced by Lee Fletcher and co-produced by Grice. In 2013, the track "Highly Strung" was remixed by English synthesizer player, keyboardist and composer Richard Barbieri. "Highly Strung" was selected by Tom Robinson and played on his BBC Radio 6 Music Mixtape show.
In 2015, GRICE released his second album ALEXANDRINE, working again with Richard Barbieri and Steve Jansen. The album also features Hossam Ramzy, the Egyptian born master percussionist and arranger, providing signature percussive soundscapes and arrangements.
The track "She's in My Garden" was supported by Tom Robinson and played on his BBC Radio 6 Music radio show.
In 2017, GRICE released a five track EP, The Grey of Granite Stone.
In 2019, he released One Thousand Birds and was invited as a special guest on Tom Robinson's Saturday night show on BBC Radio 6 Music.
In 2020, he released his One Thousand Birds Symphony album combining field recordings of birdsong with an illustrious cast of musicians.
His fifth album Polarchoral was released in 2022.

Reviews
Grice is foremost a songwriter and his songs have been described as: "acoustic rock diamonds" His music has been described as "a restless and challenging cocktail of electro-acoustic glitch, art-rock and avant-pop synthesis".
His solo album PROPELLOR has been described as having: "'the intensity of Mark Hollis or Tim Bowness with a Beatle-esque sweetness" and was  "highly recommended" by Chris Jones in his writings on inner culture.

It has also been described as having "all the best elements of Talk Talk and Kate Bush" by Paul Gray.

Awards and achievements
The track "Highly Strung" from the debut solo album Propeller, EP was featured on the "Cod Bluff" covermount CD of the September 2012 edition 30 of Classic Rock presents PROG magazine and was reviewed in Classic Rock presents PROG magazine in the May2012 edition who described the album as "Extraordinary slice of experimental rock".

Propeller was shortlisted for Music Producers Guild (MPG) Awards 2013 'UK album of the year' category.

The album was reviewed in The Musician (Summer edition of the Musicians Union Journal 2012) and described as: “a poignant debut of remarkable quality”

In 2014, GRICE Peters was invited to become a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Radio
GRICE's debut BBC radio broadcast was on Tom Robinsons BBC Radio 6 Music Introducing Mixtape show on 26 August 2013 when he played the track "Highly Strung" (Richard Barbieri Remix).

GRICE has performed on-air on BBC Radio Devon and at Sound Gallery Studios in session for Phonic FM.

On 6 July 2019, GRICE was invited as special guest on the Tom Robinson Show on BBC Radio 6 Music, where he was interviewed and Robinson aired tracks from Propeller, Alexandrine and  One Thousand Birds.

Tours and appearances
GRICE has appeared in concert in the UK as part of his "Tour of Duty".

In December 2012, GRICE sang at The IB Expo in Halmstad, Sweden with Richard Barbieri and Steve Hogarth singing on the premier performance of the track "Naked" from the Hogarth, Barbieri album, Not the Weapon but the Hand.

In March 2014, GRICE performed at The A2D Music Expo. in Exeter

In March 2017, GRICE performed a mini tour with Barbieri. which culminated in a live performance at Hoxton Hall in London.  in Exeter

Discography

EPs
 The Burning Martyrs (1991)
 The Martyrs (1995)
 Glorious Swanston (1999)
 Cocktail Punks (2002)
 PROPELLER (2012)
 Alexandrine (2015)
 Refractions (2016)
 The Grey of Granite Stone (2017)
 One Thousand Birds (2019)
 One Thousand Birds Symphony (2021)
 Polarchoral (2022)

Singles
 "Highly Strung" (Richard Barbieri Remix) (2013)
 "She's in My Garden" (Richard Barbieri Remix) (2016)

References

External links
Official website
Official Bandcamp
Official Propeller Bandcamp
Official YouTube channel

English male singer-songwriters
Singers from London
English rock guitarists
English male guitarists
English rock singers
English record producers


title: Yasushi Tao

text:
is a Japanese retired Nippon Professional Baseball player. He was raised in Osaka. After playing, Tao managed the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. In his one year as manager, the Eagles finished in last in the PL and was the first PL team in 40 years to lose over 90 games in a single season.

References

External links
Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference or NPB (in Japanese)

1954 births
Living people
Baseball people from Kagawa Prefecture
Baseball people from Osaka
Doshisha University alumni
Japanese baseball players
Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders
Chunichi Dragons players
Seibu Lions players
Hanshin Tigers players
Nippon Professional Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners
Managers of baseball teams in Japan
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles managers
People from Mitoyo, Kagawa


title: Ovarian cystadenoma

text:
Ovarian cystadenoma is a cystic benign tumor of the ovary. Two types are recognized: serous and mucinous.Ovarian cystadenomas are common benign epithelial neoplasms that carry an excellent prognosis.

References


title: Oliver Luksic

text:
Oliver Luksic (born 9 October 1979) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been a Member of the Bundestag for Saarland since the 2017 elections, after having previously served from 2009 until 2013.

In addition to his parliamentary work, Luksic has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. In this capacity, he is the Federal Government’s Coordinator for Freight and Logistics.

Early life and education
Luksic was educated at Sciences Po and King's College London.

Political career
Luksic served as Member of the German Bundestag between the 2002 and the 2013 national elections. In this capacity, he was a member of the Committee on European Affairs and of the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development. In 2012, he succeeded Patrick Döring as the FDP parliamentary group's spokesperson on transport policy.

In addition to his committee assignments, Luksic served as chairman of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group with Belgium and Luxembourg.

Since 2011, Luksic has been the chairman of the FDP in Saarland. In this capacity, he led the party's campaigns for the Saarland state elections in 2012 and 2017, both times without winning any seats in the state parliament.

In 2014, Luksic took on a position with Merzig-based Kohlpharma, one of the leading importers of pharmaceuticals in Europe.

Lusksic was re-elected as Member of the German Parliament in the 2017 national elections. From 2018 until 2021, he served on the Committee on Transport, Building and Digital Infrastructure. In addition to his committee assignments, he chaired the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Croatia and Slovenia. From 2019, he was a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Luksic led his party's delegation in the working group on mobility; his co-chairs from the other parties were Anke Rehlinger and Anton Hofreiter.

Other activities

Corporate boards
 Autobahn GmbH, Chair of the Supervisory Board (since 2022)

Non-profit organizations
 Baker Tilly Foundation, Member of the Advisory Board
 Belgian-German Society, President (2010–2013)
 European Movement Germany, Member of the Board (since 2009)

Personal life
Luksic lives with his family in Heusweiler.

References

1979 births
Living people
Sciences Po alumni
Alumni of King's College London
Members of the Bundestag for Saarland
Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025
Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany)


title: Israel men's national softball team

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The Israel men's national softball team is the men's national softball team of Israel.  The team competed at the 1996 ISF Men's World Championship in Midland, Michigan where they finished with 1 win and 9 losses.

References

Softball
Men's national softball teams
Men's sport in Israel
Softball in Israel


title: Ryu Hyun-kyung

text:
Ryu Hyun-kyung (born March 10, 1983) is a South Korean actress. She made her acting debut in 1996 at age 12 as the younger counterpart of the protagonist in the SBS TV series Oxtail Soup. In 2010, Ryu drew attention with her supporting roles in the erotic period drama The Servant and the romantic comedies Cyrano Agency and Petty Romance. Leading roles followed in Mama (2011), Two Weddings and a Funeral (2012), and Miss Cherry's Love Puzzle (2013).

Ryu also directed the short films Kwang-tae's Basic Story (2009) and Heart Robber (2010), as well as two music videos for the singer Jung-in.

Personal life
In March 2017, the agency of Ryu confirmed that Ryu and Park Sung-hoon are dating. On August 5, 2022, the couple announced broke up after 6 years of dating.

Filmography

Film

As actress

As director

Television series

Web series

Theater

Awards

References

External links

Ryu Hyun-kyung Fan Cafe at Daum

1983 births
South Korean film actresses
South Korean television actresses
21st-century South Korean actresses
Living people
South Korean child actresses
People from Changwon
People from South Gyeongsang Province


title: Pancreatic mucinous cystadenoma

text:
Pancreatic mucinous cystadenoma is a tumour of pancreas. It may be benign or be associated with an invasive carcinoma component.

Pathology

Microscopy

See also
 Mucinous cystadenoma
 Pancreatic cysts
 Pancreatic serous cystadenoma

References

Digestive system neoplasia
Pancreas


title: Shore-based test facility

text:
A shore-based test facility (SBTF), also known as a land-based test facility, is used for the flight testing of aircraft that operate from aircraft carriers. They are also used for the training of the pilots who will operate the aircraft from the aircraft carriers. Only four countries in the world have SBTF or LBTF; they are China, India, Ukraine / Russia and the United States.

China
China's People's Liberation Army Navy has two test centers, one at Wuhan and one at Huludao.

India

The Indian Navy's SBTF is located at INS Hansa in Goa, and is used to train and certify navy pilots of the Mikoyan MiG-29K for the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, and for the developmental trials of the naval HAL Tejas. This SBTF was designed by Nevskoye Design Bureau (NDB) of Russia for Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA). The ski-jump resembles part of a parabola and has an inclination of 14 degrees. The highest point of the ski-jump is at 5.71 metres from the ground.

Ukraine
The Ukrainian Navy inherited a former Soviet Naval Aviation base at Novofedorivka. This base now hosts the Nitka Naval Pilot Training Center, which is used by the Russian Navy to train their carrier pilots. This base, being in Crimea, is now in Russian control.

United States

The United States Navy has been testing the new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System from the land based launch facility at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.

References

Naval aviation services
Indian Navy
People's Liberation Army Navy
Ukraine Navy facilities
United States Navy


title: Prionosciadium lilacinum

text:
Prionosciadium lilacinum is a plant species native to the Mexican States of Jalisco and Nayarit. It is common along sunlit roadsides and other disturbed habitats in the region.

Prionosciadium lilacinum is an herb up to 4 m (13 feet) tall. Leaves are up to 35 cm (14 inches) long and 35 cm across, ternate to pinnate with ovate leaflets. Flower are light purple, borne in umbels on the ends of branches. Fruits are ovoid, up to 9 mm (0.35 inches) long.

References

Apioideae
Endemic flora of Mexico
Flora of Jalisco
Flora of Nayarit
Taxa named by Lincoln Constance
Taxa named by Mildred Esther Mathias


title: KXUN

text:
KXUN may refer to:

 KXUN-LD, a low-power television station (channel 26, virtual 48) licensed to serve Sallisaw, Oklahoma, United States
 KQRY-LD, a low-power television station (channel 43) licensed to serve Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States, which held the call signs KXUN-LP from 2004 to 2013 and KXUN-LD from 2013 to 2019


title: The Red Gods

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The Red Gods (French: Les dieux rouges) is an adventure novel with elements of fantasy, written by French writer Jean d'Esme, published in 1924.

Overview
The Red Gods finds its locale in the mountainous areas of Indochina. The geographical description of the novel's setting closely resembles that of modern-day Laos.

The novel is narrated by a friend of the protagonist. It is a tale of the protagonist's escape from Indochina, a region ruled and corrupted by its French rulers. On escaping the region, however, he finds himself fighting in World War I, during which he dies. He spends some time in a place characterized by endemic and unseen flora and fauna, inhabited by hunter-gatherers and ruled by priestesses that perform elaborate sacrificial ceremonies.

The Red Gods is the book that brought Jean d'Esme most fame, and remains his last work ever translated into English.

References

1924 French novels
French adventure novels


title: MAN steel house

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The MAN steel house was a pre-fabricated building by MAN (Machine Works Augsburg-Nürnberg). A total of 230 units were built worldwide from 1948 to 1953.

History

The MAN factory in Ginsheim-Gustavsburg, looking for new non-military markets after World War II built from 1948 prefabricated steel houses, based on a concept from the 1920s. The concept was developed in the headquarters in Augsburg based on an idea of the engineer Heinz Bauer and was commercially produced in Mainz-Gustavsburg.

MAN built a sample estate, which once housed the senior staff, close to the Cramer-Klett-settlement of Gustavsburg, which had been built in the style of a garden city  in the first quarter of the 20th century. Two different models were presented there, to export them on a large scale worldwide. The model home complex showed the basic type with a base of . Production was however discontinued after production of 230 houses in 1953.

Design

The wall elements were pre-fabricated at the MAN factory and then bolted to a steel frame construction which was erected on-site on top of a brick foundation and a thermal insulation layer of fiberglass mats was located between the outer steel sheets and hardboard inside, with an insulation value similar to that of a  thick brick wall according to historic advertising brochures. The outside of the steel walls were painted with a solvent-based lacquer as a means of corrosion protection.

The architectural design resembled conventional stone buildings: The perforated facade with a gable roof and mullioned windows with shutters were "quite plain, but cosy and with all objectivity something for the German mind" as required in the specification by the architect Hans Schneider on behalf of MAN in 1949. The basic type could be ordered according to the catalogue with different roof pitches. The inner walls could be built individually, since the roof was supported by the outer walls. The version with the steeper roof provided space for a habitable attic.

There were four different floor plans: , , , and . The individual modules of the steel houses were assembled on site. The rectangular outer wall panels were made of  thick steel plate with a size of  and were placed next to each other. The interior walls were made of hardboard or plywood panels, which were insulated by glass wool mats from the outer steel sheets. The roof structure was formed from standardized trusses  in length. The floor was well insulated with glass wool mats and consisted of tongue and groove planks that were mounted on the modular steel frame construction.

The windows were provided with counterweights and retractable fly screens and could be lowered down into the wall opening as in a railway carriage. A factory built steel wall, which included the water and waste water pipes, was installed between the kitchen and bathroom with the particularity that the bathtub of the narrow bathroom protruded through the wall to save space in the cabinet of the sink. Closets were used to build the remaining interior walls. The quality of the MAN steel houses proved to be excellent in comparison to the competition of that time. Due to the good thermal insulation, the hot-dip galvanized components and the heat treated paints, there were very little corrosion and condensation problems.

Cost

A home with simple equipment then cost 18,800 DM, which was relatively expensive compared to other prefabricated houses that have already been offered from 3,500 DM. Including special fittings such as kitchen, bathroom equipment and hot water central heating a MAN steel houses cost 30,000 DM, which today would correspond to about 70,000 Euros.

Remaining buildings

In Germany, about 40 MAN steel houses remain, whose outer walls need to be occasionally sandblasted because of corrosion and repainted.

In Ginsheim-Gustavsburg is an historically significant ensemble with ten listed, still inhabited MAN steel houses, including two semi-detached houses on Robert-Koch-Straße 17, 19, 21 and 23, Nürnberger Straße 20 and 22, as well as Müngstener Straße 4, 6, 8 and 10. The two smallest have a floor area of  each, the others are bigger. All may, according to a concept of heritage authority in accordance with the Hessian Monument Protection Act, be provided with modern extensions. The historical architecture and contemporary architecture have to be made visible in contrast to each other. The ten houses are part of the Industrial Culture Route Rhein-Main Mainspitze .

Four houses are preserved in Augsburg-Oberhausen in Sebastianstrasse 29d, e, f and i close to the MAN factory site. Another MAN steel house is located in Bergen-Leitershofen, on Bergstraße 9. A MAN steel house from 1948 was translocated in 2011 from the Wendelstein-Nerreth near Nuremberg to the Franconian Open Air Museum of Bad Windsheim.

In Düsseldorf-Rath, two MAN steel houses from 1951 and 1952 still exist on Eitelstraße 68 and Reichswaldallee 31. Another one is still in Düsseldorf-Kaiserwerth.

In the Mainz upper town were originally four MAN steel houses, of which three remain at Goldgrube 33, 35 and 43 (as of 2013). A MAN Steel house with a low roof remains in Cologne-Muengersdorf, on Liebermannstraße 12. Another house is located in Oppenheim, on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 75.

See also
Portacabin
modular building
prefabricated building
portable classroom
Construction trailer
Quonset hut

References

External links

Portable buildings and shelters


title: Juan Asenjo

text:
Professor Juan A. Asenjo (born October 7, 1949) is a Chilean chemical engineer who specialises in biotechnology. He currently serves as the director of the Centre for Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Chile and is the President of the Chilean Academy of Science.

Education and career
Asenjo studied for his first degree in chemical engineering at the University of Chile, graduating in 1974. He then moved to the University of Leeds, UK to complete an MSc, followed by a PhD at University College London supervised by Peter Dunnill and M. D. Lilly. He moved back to Chile for one year before being appointed Assistant Professor in biochemical engineering at Columbia University, New York where he remained until 1986. In 1987 he moved to the University of Reading to become a Reader in biochemical engineering and the director of the biochemical engineering laboratory. Then in 1995 he returned to Chile and established the Centre for Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Chile which he continues to direct.

Research

Asenjo has made scientific contributions where the fields of mathematics and computer science merge with biology and biotechnology. This has included developing models of enzyme systems for the lysis of microbial cells and for predicting the behaviour of proteins in aqueous two-phase systems. He has been involved in the purification of several proteins including alpha amylase, tissue plasminogen activator, monoclonal antibodies and virus-like particles. Recently his group have begun working in the fields of protein engineering, metabolic engineering and functional genomics. One specific area of research is an attempt to produce detergents which work at low temperatures based on trypsin enzymes originally isolated from Antarctic krill. The Santiago Times reported in 2013 that Asenjo's group was to begin testing a vaccine for alcoholism on mice and hoped to begin pre-clinical trials in humans later that year. In November 2013 the vaccine was in stage 2 clinical trials. The vaccine acts to inhibit acetaldehyde dehydrogenase causing people to experience a hangover shortly after consuming alcohol.

He has called for Chile to invest more in scientific research and development, which would allow the country to add value to its exports, for example by exporting lithium batteries rather than raw lithium.

Recognition
He was elected as a member of the Chilean Academy of Science in 1999 and was appointed as its Vice President in 2004 and President in 2010. In 2004 he was awarded the Chilean National Prize for Applied Sciences and Technologies, with the jury noting his research was of a high impact and quality, as demonstrated by over 100 publications, several patents and having supervised over 40 doctoral students.

In 2018, Asenjo was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to protein separations for the biotechnology industry and to biotechnology research, development, and entrepreneurship in Chile.

References

Chilean chemical engineers
Chilean scientists
1949 births
Living people
Members of the Chilean Academy of Sciences


title: Nazperver Kadın

text:
Rukiye Nazperver Kadın (; 12 June 1870 – 9 March 1929; meaning "charm" and "gracefull one") was the fourth consort of Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire.

Life
Her real name Rukiye Hanim, she was born on 12 June 1870 in Beşiktaş to Prince Ismail Çikotua and Princess Aliye Dziapş-lpa. She was sent to the palace to her aunt Dürrinev Kadın (her mother's sister) to be educated, and she learned French especially well. She played the piano, the ud and the zither. During a dinner, she was noticed by Şehzade Mehmed Reşad (the future Mehmed V), who married her in Veliahd Palace in 1888. She was his fourth consort. In 1888 she give birth Mehmed's only daughter, Refia Sultan, but the princess died before the year's end. She would have wanted more children, but she never had any more and their absence was a source of sadness for her throughout her life, despite the fact that the sultan always showed her affection and respect.

On 27 April 1909, after Mehmed's accession to the throne, she was given the title of "Fourth Kadın". Upon the death of Dürriaden Kadın in October 1909, Nazperver was elevated to the title of "Third Kadın". She was described as a beautiful woman, with very long curly golden hair, blue eyes, pale skin, full lips, tall and shapely.

After the declaration of Ottoman Empire's entry in World War I in 1914, women who took part in several organisations. During this time, Nazperver also took part in the Women's Organisation for National consumption (). The purpose of the organisation was to promote the use of locally produced goods. During World War I, she visited hospitals which she also helped with her own money. Wherever she went, crowds poured out on the streets to see her and would scream “May Allah protect you, Your Highness”. She was loved by many .

Safiye Ünüvar, a teacher at the Palace School, who met her in 1915, described her as being plump, and tall. According to Ünüvar, Nazperver did not appear particularly learned, but she did have a refined and kindly air about her that made a good impression. She also speculated that having no children weighed heavily upon her, despite the fact that the Sultan treated her most kindly and graciously, and so she lived out her life in this rather downhearted fashion.

On 30 May 1918, Nazperver met with the Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma in the harem of Yıldız Palace, when the latter visited Istanbul with her husband Emperor Charles I of Austria. During the Empress's visit, she liaised with her in French, with great surprise of Empress.

Nazperver and Dilfirib Kadın, Mehmed's fifth consort were with him, when he died on 3 July 1918. After Mehmed V’s death, she first moved to her family’s mansion in Beşiktaş and then to Fatma Pesend’s in Vaniköy. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Nazperver as being the adjunct member of the family decided to stay in Istanbul. Her niece Princess Mülkicihan Açba was present when she died: “What is this, Mülkicihan?” “What is what, Your Highness?” “Look, Mülkicihan, look. The sky has opened up. Do you hear this sound? The Lord is coming to take me to my daughter. God willing, I will be able to see my Master again.” She died on 9 March 1929 in Vaniköy.

Issue
Refia Sultan (1888 - 1888). She was Mehmed's only daughter. The sources differ: according to some she died on the same day of her birth, according to others she drowned at few months.

See also
Kadın (title)
Ottoman Imperial Harem
List of consorts of the Ottoman sultans

References

Sources

1870 births
1930 deaths
Royalty from Istanbul
20th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans
19th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans


title: Eduard Scotland

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Eduard Scotland (1885–1945) was a German architect active in Bremen. He is remembered in particular for the Böttcherstraße houses he and his associate Alfred Runge built for the coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius.

Early life
As a child, Scotland aspired to become a painter but on his father's advice he studied architecture. After serving an apprenticeship as a mason, he attended the Technical College in Bremen where he graduated in 1903.

Career
In July 1904, he joined his student friend Alfred Runge (1881–1946) to work as an architect and building contractor in Bremen. He was also active as a draftsman and painter. As a result of the first few small buildings he completed, he attracted the attention of the director of Norddeutscher Lloyd, Heinrich Wiegand, who commissioned him together with Runge to build a residence for him on Bremen's Wagner-Straße. Thereafter he received numerous assignments in Schwachhausen and the Bremen surroundings.

In 1907 Wiegard awarded Runge and Scotland a contract to design the interiors of the four-funnel ocean liner SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie which his company launched in 1907. Earlier ships interiors had been designed by Johann Poppe who still designed the main rooms whilst Scotland & Runge did de luxe cabins and other rooms. The ship was to be the regular ocean liner that linked Bremen with New York City. They designed the luxury cabins where the beds would convert to sofas and the washstands would convert into tables. All of the metalwork was gilded and the surfaces were white with wooden surfaces of violet amaranth inlaid with agate, ivory and citron wood.

Runge and Scotland also worked as graphic designers and they designed iconic posters and packaging for the Kaffee HAG company. They are credited with designs that defined the company.

In the 1920s, he and Runge went on to design several buildings for Ludwig Roselius on Bremen's Böttcherstraße including the Glockenspiel House (1924), the House of the Seven Lazy Brothers (1927), St Petrus House (1927), Atlantis House (1931), and Robinson Crusoe House (1931).

References

1885 births
1945 deaths
20th-century German architects
Architects from Bremen (city)


title: Jan Gyamerah

text:
Jan Gyamerah (born 18 June 1995) is a German professional footballer who plays as a right-back for  club 1. FC Nürnberg.

Early life
Gyamerah was born in 1995, the son of Ghanaian Stephen Gyamerah who came to Berlin to study in 1989 and whose German wife was born in Berlin. Born on a Sunday, he received the African nickname "Kwasi" (Asante for Sunday). In 1999, the family moved to Stadthagen, Lower Saxony, where his sister, Yvonne, was born.

Club career

VfL Bochum
Gyamerah first played for local club FC Stadthagen, before, via Arminia Bielefeld, moving to the youth department of VfL Bochum in January 2011. There, he progressed through the various youth teams and made his professional debut on 20 December 2013 in the 2. Bundesliga, when he came on as a substitute in the 66th minute for Danny Latza.

Hamburger SV
On 14 February 2019, Gyamerah signed a three-year contract starting from the 2019–20 season with league rivals Hamburger SV. Under head coach Dieter Hecking, Gyamerah immediately established himself in the starting lineup. On 11 September 2019, he contracted a calf fracture during practice and had to undergo surgery. During his absence, Josha Vagnoman took over the right back position, before he also fell out with a long-term injury, with Khaled Narey becoming the third player during the season to cover the position. After the winter break, newcomer Jordan Beyer, who had been loaned from first-placed Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach due to Gyamerah's and Vagnoman's injuries until the end of the season, was positioned as right back.

At the beginning of March 2020, Gyamerah returned to team practice. On the 26th matchday, which was regularly scheduled for 13 March 2020, Gyamerah was again selected for the matchday squad. However, the season was interrupted on the same day due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In early May, he suffered a muscle injury in the hip during the season break and missed the resumption of playing activities about a week later. About a month later, Gyamerah returned to the matchday squad on the 30th matchday and made his first appearance in months in the following match, when he came on as a substitute. Before the end of the season, three more league appearances followed. Gyamerah made nine 2. Bundesliga appearances during his first season at the club.

Nürnberg
On 10 June 2022, Gyamerah signed with 1. FC Nürnberg.

International career
Gyamerah was born in Germany and is of Ghanaian descent. He was a youth international for Germany.

Career statistics

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
German men's footballers
Germany men's youth international footballers
German sportspeople of Ghanaian descent
Footballers from Berlin
Men's association football defenders
VfL Bochum II players
VfL Bochum players
Hamburger SV players
1. FC Nürnberg players
2. Bundesliga players
Hamburger SV II players
Regionalliga players


title: Two Weddings and a Funeral

text:
Two Weddings and a Funeral () is a 2012 South Korean gay romantic comedy film that explores the taboos and intolerance in Korean society in the story of a gay man and lesbian who enter into a sham marriage. It is the feature film debut of out filmmaker Kim Jho Kwang-soo, and his fourth LGBT-themed film.

Although the film didn't emerge as a mainstream hit, its 10-day total of 32,000 admissions was impressive for a specialty release, making it the most commercially successful queer Korean film yet.

Plot
A gay man, Min-soo (Kim Dong-yoon) and a lesbian woman, Hyo-jin (Ryu Hyun-kyung) are both promising doctors at a general hospital. The colleagues agree to marry so Hyo-jin can legally adopt a child with her lover of ten years Seo-young (Jung Ae-yeon), and Min-soo can please his parents while maintaining his closeted lifestyle. While secretly living with their respective partners, who move in next door, Min-soo and Hyo-jin appear to be a happy, "normal" couple. They enjoy all the benefits afforded to heterosexual couples and are also able to ward off public scrutiny and parental disapproval. However, Min-soo's intrusive parents begin to get a bit too involved with the couple's life, threatening their scheme.

Cast
Kim Dong-yoon - Min-soo
Ryu Hyun-kyung - Hyo-jin
Song Yong-jin - Seok
Jung Ae-yeon - Seo-young
Park Jung-pyo - Tina
Park Soo-young - Big sister
Lee Seung-joon - Kyeong-nam
Kim Joon-beom - Joo-noh
Han Seung-do - Young-gil
Jang Se-hyun - Ik-hoon
Jung In-young - Nurse Na
Choi Il-hwa - Min-soo's father
Shin Hye-jung - Min-soo's mother
Kim Hyuk - Seok's ex-boyfriend
Yoo Yeon-seok - Joon, Seok's younger brother
Kwon Hae-hyo - senior colleague doctor (cameo)
Lee Moon-sik - priest (cameo)
Jung In-gi - taxi driver (cameo)

References

External links

2012 films
South Korean romantic comedy films
South Korean LGBT-related films
Films directed by Kim-Jho Gwangsoo
2010s South Korean films


title: Alexander Edgar Douglas

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Alexander Edgar Douglas,  (12 April 1916, in Melfort, Saskatchewan – 26 July 1981, in Ottawa) was a Canadian physicist, known for his work in molecular spectroscopy. He was president of the Canadian Association of Physicists in 1975–1976.

Biography
Born on a farm in Saskatchewan, Douglas received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Saskatchewan. Gerhard Herzberg was his MA thesis advisor. During World War II, Douglas interrupted his studies to do military-related research in the Physics Division at the NRC. After the war, he earned his PhD in physics at Pennsylvania State University under David H. Rank. In 1949 Douglas became NRC's head of the Spectroscopy Section of the Physics Division, which was directed by Gerhard Herzberg. From 1969 to 1973 Douglas was the director of the Physics Division of the NRC. He returned to his previous job as head of the Spectroscopy Section in 1973 and remained in that position until his retirement from the NRC in 1980.

A. E. Douglas was the first to observe the spectra of B2, Si2, CH+, SiH+, NF,
PF, BN, CN+ and many other diatomic or triatomic molecules. He first identified the 4050 group of lines observed in comets as being due to the C3 molecule. Using a method that he developed, Douglas made the first studies of the Zeeman effect in polyatomic molecules.

According to Gerhard Herzberg:One of Douglas' most important contributions was his recognition of the reason for "anomalous lifetimes," that is, the failure of a simple relationship between absorption coefficient and lifetime to account for lifetimes in such compounds as NO2, SO2, C6H6. This phenomenon, referred to in the most recent literature as the Douglas effect, is closely connected with internal conversion in larger molecules.

In astrophysical applications of molecular spectroscopy, Douglas is known for his identification of interstellar CH+ and of cometary C3 and for the reproduction in the laboratory of the Meinel bands of N2+ and other spectra.

Honours and awards
 1956 – Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
 1970 – Medal for Achievement in Physics from the Canadian Association of Physicists
 1979 – Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London
 1980 – International meeting on molecular spectroscopy sponsored in June in honour of A. E. Douglas by the NRC
 1981 – Henry Marshall Tory Medal

References

1916 births
1981 deaths
Canadian physicists
University of Saskatchewan alumni
Eberly College of Science alumni
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
People from Melfort, Saskatchewan
Spectroscopists
Presidents of the Canadian Association of Physicists


title: Eugnosta replicata

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

References

Endemic moths of South Africa
Moths described in 1913
Eugnosta


title: Eugnosta stigmatica

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

References

Endemic moths of South Africa
Moths described in 1909
Eugnosta


title: Masaaki Mori (baseball)

text:
is a retired professional Japanese baseball player and manager.

Mori played Nippon Professional Baseball from 1955–1974 as the catcher of the Yomiuri Giants. He was an eight-time Best Nine Award-winner (1961–1968) and the Japan Series MVP in 1967. He was selected to eleven Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Games. He was nicknamed "the brains of the V9 Dynasty", as he was the main catcher of the Yomiuri Giants V9 Dynasty.

After his retirement as a player, Mori managed the Seibu Lions from 1986–1994, leading the team to 6 of the 8 Japan Series championships of the Invincible Seibu dynasty. He won the Matsutaro Shoriki Award in 1986 and 1990. Mori managed the Yokohama BayStars in 2001–2002.

Mori participated in 27 of the 73 Japan Series contested, as a player, coach, and manager, as of 2023, with him winning 21 of the 27, making him the most decorated individual in NPB history.

External links

1937 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Gifu
Japanese baseball players
Nippon Professional Baseball catchers
Yomiuri Giants players
Managers of baseball teams in Japan
Seibu Lions managers
Yokohama DeNA BayStars managers
Baseball people from Gifu Prefecture
Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame inductees


title: Eugnosta trimeni

text:
Eugnosta trimeni is a species of moth of the  family Tortricidae. It is found in Lesotho, Mozambique and South Africa.

References

Moths described in 1875
Eugnosta


title: Eugnosta uganoa

text:
Eugnosta uganoa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Tanzania.

References

Endemic fauna of Tanzania
Moths described in 1993
Eugnosta


title: Eugnosta umbraculata

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

References

Endemic moths of South Africa
Moths described in 1918
Eugnosta


title: Hammurabi III

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Hammurabi III (reigned  - Middle chronology) was the king of Yamhad (Halab) succeeding Yarim-Lim III.

Identity
Hammurabi III is probably a son of Yarim-Lim III, however there is two confusions regarding his identity.

Confusion with Hammurabi II
Hammurabi III was thought to be the same king Hammurabi mentioned in Alalakh tablets AlT 21,22 but it is known that Yarim-Lim III was the king of Yamhad during the destruction of Alalakh and the Hittite annals (dating after the destruction of Alalakah) mention king Hammurabi, son of Yarim-Lim III, therefore the Hammurabi in tablets AlT 21,22 can not be the same king as Hammurabi the son of Yarim-Lim III, which led to the distinction between the two monarchs. The Hammurabi mentioned in AlT 21,22 is Hammurabi II, a predecessor to Yarim-Lim III while the Hammurabi mentioned in the Hittite annals is Hammurabi III, son of Yarim-Lim III.

The tablets of Alalakh (the main source for the life of Aleppan Kings) ended with Hattusili I's destruction of Alalakh. This led to the information about Aleppo being scarce.

Confusion with Hammurabi Son of Ammitakum
Hammurabi III is mentioned in the annals of Hattusili I. Another confusion about his identity arose due to the fact that Ammitakum, king of Alalakh's son and heir was also named Hammurabi. Ammitakum appointed his son as his successor in the presence of Yarim-Lim III, the Hittite texts in connection to the Aleppan wars mentions Yarim-Lim III as the king of Aleppo, also they mentions Hammurabi of Aleppo, son of a king whose name is destroyed. Which caused Michael B. Rowton to give two possibilities about the identity of this Hammurabi, the first is that Hammurabi III was the son of Ammitaqum, the second is that Hammurabi III was the son of Yarim-Lim III, Benno Landsberger believes that Hammurabi of Alalakh is identical with Hammurabi III of Yamhad.

War with the Hittites
Hattusili I conducted a series of destructive campaigns against Aleppo and its vassals during the reign of Yarim-Lim III. He continued his campaigns against Hammurabi, and finally attacked Aleppo the capital but was repelled, wounded and ultimately died of his wounds in ca. 1620 BC.

Before his death, Hattusili proclaimed his young grandchild Mursili as his heir. The Hittite attacks stopped temporarily until Mursili reached manhood. The new Hittite king's attack was characterized with personal need for revenge against Hammurabi and Aleppo, he wanted to avenge Hattusili's blood as it is written in a Hittite text. Mursili's onslaught was decisive: he destroyed Aleppo and moved the captives and booty to Hattusa, ending the kingdom of Yamhad as a power in the Near East around ca. 1600 BC.

Fate and Succession
The Hittite texts mentions that the king of Aleppo was captured and made atonement to Mursili. How Hammurabi made this atonement is unknown, as is his ultimate fate. Aleppo was rebuilt, after the assassination of Mursili, by Sarra-El a prince of Aleppo (probably a son of Yarim-Lim III) who regained the throne. But Yamhad never regained its former status.

References

Citations

17th-century BC monarchs
Kings of Yamhad
People from Aleppo
Amorite kings
Yamhad dynasty


title: Kostas Aidiniou

text:
Kostas Aidiniou (; born 2 February 1948) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

Playing career

Club career
Aidiniou was born on 2 February 1948 in Psarades. Although he was a track and field athlete, he was talked into signing for Iraklis by two teachers of him, themselves fans of the club. After joining the youth ranks of Iraklis in 1963, Aidiniou, made his first team debut in 1965, scoring against Olympiacos in a 2–1 away defeat of Iraklis. Aidiniou was the star player of Iraklis until 1974, when he signed for Olympiacos for 11,000,000 drachmas.

Aidiniou could not compete for the 1974–75 season as his transfer was considered overdue. For the whole season he only contested in friendly matches and training courses and that humped his adaptation to his new club. In Olympiacos Aidiniou failed to demonstrate the same level of football as he did in Iraklis and he was released from Olympiacos after the 1977–78 season. Aidiniou appeared in a total of 40 league matches for Olympiacos, scoring 7 goals.

Aidiniou returned to Iraklis for the 1978–79 season appearing in 13 matches and failing to score any goals. He retired after that season, aged 31. In his two spells with Iraklis Aidiniou totalled 232 appearances and 57 goals.

International career
Aidiniou scored in his debut for Greece in a 4–1 win against Egypt in Athens. His last match for Greece came on 15 May 1974, under Alketas Panagoulias, in a friendly match against Poland. Aidiniou appeared in seven matches of Greece, managing to score three goals.

Managerial career
Aidiniou had a stint as Iraklis' manager together with Giorgos Koudas in 1987. He has also held several positions in the club's technical staff.

Outside football
Aidiniou wanted to become a doctor, before deciding to stick at football. After retiring from football he was involved in "Iraklis Former Footballer's Club" becoming its president.

References

1948 births
Living people
Greece men's international footballers
Greek men's footballers
Iraklis F.C. (Thessaloniki) players
Iraklis F.C. (Thessaloniki) managers
Olympiacos F.C. players
Men's association football midfielders
Greek football managers
People from Florina (regional unit)
Footballers from Western Macedonia


title: Zach King

text:
Zachary Michael "Zach" King (born February 4, 1990) is an American internet personality based in Los Angeles. He is most known for his "magic vines," which are six-second videos digitally edited to look as if he is doing magic. He calls his videos "digital sleight of hand." He began posting videos on YouTube in 2008 and in 2013 he started posting videos to Vine. King posted his first video to TikTok in 2016, and has since attracted over 90 million followers, making him the sixth most-followed individual on the platform.

King won the Hewlett-Packard commercial contest in 2010, and got a trip to the red carpet at the London Film Festival. In 2013, he won YouTube's NextUp Creators contest. In 2015, King and his wife Rachel Holm competed in the 28th season of the American reality game show The Amazing Race. They were eliminated during the ninth leg of the race being placed sixth in the overall standings.

Early life and education
King was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He is of half Chinese descent from his paternal side, one quarter Austrian and one quarter Nicaraguan descent from his maternal side. He is also ambidextrous, mostly being right-handed but can also be left-handed a bit rarely. King's mother homeschooled him and his three sisters, including one adopted sister, while his father worked in their home office. When he was seven, King made his first film using a home video camera. When he was fourteen, he purchased video equipment including a Mac computer, cameras as well as a tripod and started making and editing videos. He graduated from Biola University with a Cinema and Media Arts Major in December 2012.

Career
King started his website, FinalCutKing.com in 2008, to offer training and tips about using the editing software Final Cut Pro as he was unable to find tutorials for the software on the Internet. At the same time, he started using his YouTube channel to give tutorials for visual effects using the Software. After gaining an audience for his website, he began selling training seminars and used the money to pay for his college. He participated as a contestant on an episode of Viral Video Showdown that aired on Syfy in 2012. In December 2019, King baffled the internet with a video of himself apparently flying on a broomstick. The video was viewed over 2.1 billion times on TikTok in 4 days.

YouTube

In 2011, he posted a video titled Jedi Kittens on YouTube that he produced with a college friend. The video showed two cats fighting with lightsabers. The video gained over a million views in three days and went on to have over 18 million views. A sequel of the video titled Jedi Kittens Strike Back gained over 27 million views. A third part of the video, Jedi Kittens – The Force Awakens was posted in 2013, which has gained over 28 million views. King's official YouTube channel is named Zach King.

He was named by YouTube as one of the 25 most promising young film-makers in America in May 2013. As part of its Next Up Creators contest, YouTube awarded King $35,000 as well as a trip to New York City for a four-day YouTube Creator Camp. His submission to the contest was titled Contest Entry Gone Wrong. In the video, he appeared to dodge an assault by airstrikes and ground fire as he pleaded his case to be selected for the YouTube award. As of September 2023, he has 22.9 million subscribers and 478 videos with 6.63 billion views.

Vines
King made his account on Vine on September 9, 2013, when he saw that many of his friends had an account on the social media website. After creating an account on Vine, he decided to create one Vine each day for the next thirty days. After the success of his first few Vines, he decided to continue with creating and posting new Vines.

He appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on January 29, 2014, and made several Vines with the crew of the show. King formerly created Vine videos for a living and worked out of his garage. In an interview with The Independent, he said that he would want to direct feature films, preferably action-adventure movies, in the future.

King has been featured in multiple media outlets for his Vines. Chez Pazienza wrote about King that "this guy's stuff is pure magic (or at least the work of some very clever editing.)" Mashable's Laura Vitto wrote of his work, "Vine star and filmmaker Zach King may not perform magic in the traditional sense, but his expertly-edited six-second videos could put David Blaine to shame."

Writing for Complex magazine, J. Duaine Hahn wrote that "While people have hit Vine stardom for skits, or splicing together commentary with popular YouTube videos, King has gone the extra mile to use his six seconds to create magic, or the closest thing you can get to it with on a smartphone."

In an interview, Zach said that “producing a Vine usually takes upwards of 24 hours, with three to four hours of filming”.

TikTok
King posted his first video to TikTok, formerly known as Musical.ly, on February 28, 2016, which was him escaping a jail cell. His video caption was "Need help posting bail, oh wait nevermind." As of November 2021, he has amassed a following of over 66.3 million followers on the popular app, making him the third most followed user on TikTok.

Zach King also posted the most viewed TikTok on December 9, 2019. The video was of him riding a broomstick, where he later shows he was actually using a mirror. The caption of the video was "They rejected my application to Hogwarts but I still found a way to be a wizard." The video received an estimate of 2 billion views.

Faith and personal life
When King was seven, his family converted to Christianity, which he states is one of the "greatest things" that has happened in his life. He considers himself as a devout Christian, such as attempting to read parts of the Bible when he wakes up every morning. He is also vocal with his faith, even incorporating his lifestyle into his videos. King attended Biola University, a non-denominational Christian University, and had led youth groups at various Christian camps.

King proposed to his girlfriend, Rachel Holm, while pretending to create a video advertisement for one of her brands. They got married in 2014. In 2016, they competed together on The Amazing Race 28 and placed 6th. As of 2017, they lived in Rossmoor, an unincorporated community in Orange County, California. Both King and his wife have adopted siblings, which would later inspire her to work as a case manager for adoptive and foster-care. The couple have fostered a few children, as well as having both an adopted son, Mason and a biological son, Liam. In 2023, it was announced on YouTube that the couple had another baby, who turned out to be a girl named Emerson.

Filmography

Awards and honors
2009 – First place Film Festival for HP advertisement
2009 – Critic's Choice Award at Bridgestone Tires's Safety Scholars Teen Driver Video Contest.
2010 – First place London Film Festival: Heartbrand Ad
2010 – Bridgestone Safety Scholar Winner
2012 – Vidcon Golden Poop Award
2013 – YouTube's NextUp Creators Contest
2016 – Shorty Award for Best Vine Artist

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1990 births
Living people
Biola University alumni
American people of Chinese descent
American people of Austrian descent
American people of Nicaraguan descent
Filmmakers from Portland, Oregon
American Vine (service) celebrities
American TikTokers
Shorty Award winners
American film directors
YouTube filmmakers
DIY YouTubers
Participants in American reality television series