title: Business Leaders for Michigan

text:
Business Leaders for Michigan is a private, non-profit organization based in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Originally formed in 1970 as the Detroit Renaissance, the organization was reconstituted in 2009 as Business Leaders for Michigan with an expanded focus on the entire state of Michigan. Membership consists exclusively of the most senior level executives, and chairpersons of many of the state's largest employers and universities.

Mission

Business Leaders for Michigan, the state's business roundtable, is dedicated to making Michigan a Top 10 state for jobs, education, widely shared prosperity and a healthy economy. The organization is composed exclusively of the executive leaders of Michigan's largest companies and universities. Members drive nearly 40% of the state's economy, generate over $1 trillion in annual revenue and serve nearly half of all Michigan public university students.

Initiatives

 Compete to Win: Michigan's Path to Top 10 A plan to make Michigan more competitive, with strategies to win new business, attract talent and generate more widely shared prosperity
 Michigan Turnaround Plan, a three-step plan for improving the state's economic and educational metrics
 Accelerate Michigan, a partnership between Business Leaders for Michigan and the University Research Corridor to facilitate a strategic alliance between the key business leaders and the leading research universities in Michigan, with the goal of accelerating the economic transformation of the area and cultivating entrepreneurship
 Detroit Creative Corridor Center is a partnership between Business Leaders for Michigan and the College for Creative Studies. DC3 was formed to accelerate the creative economy in Detroit with a focus on community outreach and events, business accelerator services, and resources for developing the talent of the creative professional.
 Renaissance Venture Capital Fund, a $100 million "fund of funds" created with the goal of promoting the growth of venture capital investments in Michigan, primarily in relation to bridging the work done by the emerging innovative companies in the area with the more established industrial and commercial bases
 Annual Leadership Summit and CEO Summit, which are hosted to bring together Michigan business leaders and policymakers

Notable members

 William Clay Ford, Jr., Executive Chairman of Ford Motor Company
 Dan Gilbert, founder and Chairman of Quicken Loans
 Roger Penske, Chairman of Penske Corporation
 Santa Ono, President of University of Michigan
 Sam Stanley, President of Michigan State University
 Mary Barra, Chair and CEO of General Motors

References

Jake Bekemeyer, DBusiness: Business Leaders for Michigan Releases Plan to Spur Economic Growth in State, May 24, 2022

External links
 https://businessleadersformichigan.com/competetowin/

Non-profit organizations based in Michigan
Organizations based in Detroit
Organizations established in 2009


title: Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School

text:
Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School (LBP) is an Ottawa Catholic School Board high school. It is located in the neighbourhood of Beacon Hill in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Academic program

LBP offers a variety in their academic program including;

 Business
 Social studies
 The Arts
 English
 English as a second language
 French
 Mathematics
 Physical education
 Health
 Science
 Student services
 and religion throughout all grade levels.

The French program also presents the opportunity to take French immersion or core French.

Clubs and activities
Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School believes student clubs are essential for student success. Their belief is that students will find enrichment through activities to develop leadership talents. Clubs offered at Lester B. Pearson are listed below:

 Adopt-a-Homeroom
 Ambassadors
 A-V Crew
 Art Club
 Alzheimer's Partnership
 American Sign Language Club
 Backstage Crew
 Best Buddies
 Blood Donors
 Black History Month
 Board Game Club
 Breakfast Club
 Cappies
 Cheerleading
 Concert Band
 Drama – School Play
 GLBTQI2S
 Global Outreach
 Graduation Dance Committee
 Homework Club
 Jazz Ensemble (Sr. & Jr.)
 Jr. and Sr. Band
 Leadership Camp
 Learning Commons -- Red Maple Book Club
 Learning Commons – White Pine Book Club
 ManUP
 Math Contests
 Me to We
 Peer Mentors
 Role Playing Club
 Rosary Club
 School Play
 Science & Math Olympics
 Student Council
 Swim Club
 Variety Show
 Weight Training
 Yearbook
 Youth Ministry

See also

 Official website
 List of schools of the Ottawa Catholic School Board

References

150 years of Catholic Education in Ottawa-Carleton 1856-2006, Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board, 2006 Archive

Catholic secondary schools in Ontario
High schools in Ottawa
Educational institutions established in 1972
1972 establishments in Ontario
Middle schools in Ottawa


title: Edson Bindilatti

text:
Edson Luques Bindilatti (born 13 March 1979 in Camamu, Bahia) is a decathlete and bobsledder from Brazil.

Career
As a decathlete, Bindilatti won a silver medal at the 1996 South American Junior Championships and then took gold medals at the 1997 and 1998 South American Junior Championships. He took the silver medal at the 1999 South American Championships, then the gold medals at the 2001 and 2003 South Junior Championships, the first gold in a competition record of 7564 points. Against European competitors as well, he won the 2000 Ibero-American Championships and the silver medal at the 2002 Ibero-American Championships. He became the national champion six times, from 1999 through 2004.

Bindilatti took up bobsleigh after being approached by Eric Maleson in 1999: Bindilatti was unfamiliar with the sport, and agreed to take it up after Maleson asked him to watch the film Cool Runnings. He competed for Brazil at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics.

He competed for Brazil at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the four-man competition where he placed in 29th position out of 30 teams along with Fábio Gonçalves Silva, Edson Martins and Odirlei Pessoni.

Bindilatti was selected as flag bearer for the Brazilian team in the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. He was part of the Brazilian crews which finished 27th in the two-man and 23rd in the four-man competitions at those Games.

He qualified to represent Brazil at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

References

External links

1979 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Bahia
Brazilian decathletes
Brazilian male bobsledders
Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic bobsledders for Brazil


title: Willie Mailey

text:
Willie Mailey (13 June 1943 – 22 June 1992) was a Scottish professional football goalkeeper who played for Everton, Crewe Alexandra and Altrincham.

Honours
with Crewe Alexandra
Football League Fourth Division fourth-place promotion: 1967–68

References

1943 births
1992 deaths
Footballers from West Dunbartonshire
Scottish men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Everton F.C. players
Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
Altrincham F.C. players
Whitchurch Alport F.C. players
English Football League players


title: Anna Harrington

text:
Anna Christine Harrington is an American archer who played for the Columbia Lions of Columbia University. Competing alongside Sarah Chai and Marilyn He, Harrington helped lead the team to victory at the 2011 U.S. Intercollegiate Archery Championships (USIAC). Defeating the Texas A&M Aggies, the core won the recurve division title to capture a gold medal.  The following year, Harrington's team finished third at the USIAC to capture a bronze medal.

Early life and education

Harrington grew up in Bernardsville, New Jersey, and she graduated from Morristown-Beard School in Morristown, New Jersey, in 2008. During her junior archery career, Harrington ranked eleventh among all junior players in the U.S. Competing at the National Indoor Championships, she placed seventh. Harrington placed fifth in the ranking round of the national championship for youth archery. She also received selection to the 2008 U.S. Junior Dream Team. During Harrington's first semester at Columbia, the TV program "Sportslife NYC" on the YES Network highlighted her athletic aspirations.

College archery career

In 2012, Harrington received selection to the U.S. Collegiate Archery Association's All-America Team. That year, she captured gold medals in the women's recurve and compound divisions at the Eastern Regional Intercollegiate Archery Championships. Harrington also helped lead the Columbia Lions to a team gold medal in the women's recurve division. She received selection to the All-East Women's Recurve Team during all four years of her college career (2008–2012).

2008 Youth World Championships

After starting her freshman year at Columbia, Harrington competed at the 2008 FITA Youth World Championships held in Antalya, Turkey. Harrington placed 22nd out of 75 archers in the Junior Women's Recurve Division, which marked the best performance by an American.

References

Living people
American female archers
Barnard College alumni
People from Bernardsville, New Jersey
Year of birth missing (living people)
Sportspeople from Somerset County, New Jersey
Morristown-Beard School alumni
21st-century American women


title: Amagaju F.C.

text:
Amagaju Football Club is an association football club from Nyamagabe District Southern Province, Rwanda. The team currently competes in the Rwanda National Football League, and plays its home games at the Stade de Nyamagabe known as Nyagisenyi.professional football club based in Nyamagabe District. Formed in 1935, the club plays its home games at the Nyagisenyi Stadium. Their home colors are yellow and blue. Amagaju is one of the old  clubs in Rwanda, with 5 old trophies.

External links
Soccerway

Football clubs in Rwanda


title: Tommy Lowry

text:
Tommy Lowry (26 August 1945 – 22 August 2015) was an English professional footballer who played as a defender, at right back, for Liverpool and Crewe Alexandra.

He joined Liverpool in 1961, and signed professional forms in 1963, before making his only first team appearance in a 3–1 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers in the final game of the season on 26 April 1965. He left Liverpool after his contract expired in 1966, and joined Crewe. He made his debut in a 1-0 win over Southend United at Gresty Road on 22 October 1966. Lowry scored twice for Crewe, both against Brentford at Gresty Road, on 23 September 1970 and on 15 March 1975.

He made a record 481 league and cup appearances for Crewe Alexandra, beating a record set by former team-mate Peter Leigh, and making his final appearance away at Scunthorpe United on 23 August 1977. After retiring from football, he worked at Rolls-Royce in Crewe for over 25 years.

Honours
with Crewe Alexandra
Football League Fourth Division fourth-place promotion: 1967–68

References

External links
 LFC History profile

1945 births
2015 deaths
Footballers from Liverpool
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Liverpool F.C. players
Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
English Football League players


title: Macel, Mississippi

text:
Macel is an unincorporated community located in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. Macel is approximately  south of Tippo and approximately  north-northeast of Philipp on Tippo Road.

References

Unincorporated communities in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
Unincorporated communities in Mississippi


title: Fábio Gonçalves Silva

text:
Fábio Gonçalves Silva (born March 27, 1977) is a bobsledder from Brazil. He competed for Brazil at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the four-man competition where he placed in 29th position out of 30 teams along with (Edson Bindilatti, Edson Martins and Odirlei Pessoni).

References

1977 births
Living people
Brazilian male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Brazil
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics


title: Espoir F.C. (Rwanda)

text:
Espoir Football Club is an association football club based in Rusizi, Rwanda. The team currently competes in the Azam Rwanda Premier League, and plays its home games at the Rusizi Stadium.

References

External links
Soccerway
newtimes.co.rw

Football clubs in Rwanda


title: Przebendowski Palace

text:
Przebendowski Palace () is a Baroque palace in Warsaw, built in the first half of the 18th century for Jan Jerzy Przebendowski, currently the seat of the Polish Museum of Independence. It is located between the carriageways of the main road 62 "Solidarności" Avenue (the former address was 14 Bielańska).

History

The palace was built in the Baroque style around 1730, on the ruins of an earlier building for the Crown Treasurer, Jan Jerzy Przebendowski. Its designer was Jan Zygmunt Deybel. After Jan Jerzy Przebendowski's death, the palace was inherited by his daughter Dorothy Henrietta, then by Piotr Jerzy Przebendowski.

After the property was inherited by Ignacy Przebendowski, it was rented from 1760-1762 to palace diplomat and Member of the Spanish Court, Pedro Pablo de Bolea, who started the palace's famous masked balls. Ignacy Przebendowski sold the palace in 1766, to Constance Lubienska of Łubna, and in 1768 all rights were acquired by Constance's husband, the Royal Treasurer Roch Kossowski.

From 1863 to 1912 it belonged to Jan Zawisza, and after his death, to his wife Elżbieta and daughter Maria. In 1912, it was acquired by the Prince Janusz Radziwiłł, Ordynat of Ołyka and owner of Nieborów Palace.

It was destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising (World War II), and was taken from Janusz Radziwiłł in 1947, and rebuilt in 1949, together with a major throughroad. During the People's Republic of Poland it served as the Central Museum to Lenin, opening on April 21, 1955.

Since 1990, the building has housed the office of the Museum of Independence (Muzeum Niepodległości w Warszawie).

From 2000 to 2009, it also functioned as the Cinema Paradiso (Kino Paradiso) - named after the Italian movie of the same name - which was run by distributor Solopan for challenging and non-commercial films of high artistic interest. The projectors were removed during a renovation.

Bibliography
 Anna Saratowicz, Pałac Przebendowskich, Warszaw 1990,  .
 Charles Mórawski Wieslaw Głębocki "Warszawa"-tourist guide, Warsaw 1982, KAW

Baroque architecture in Warsaw
Baroque palaces in Poland
Castles and palaces of the Radziwiłł family
Houses completed in 1730
Palaces in Warsaw


title: Edson Martins

text:
Edson Ricardo Martins (born 4 October 1989 in São Paulo) is a bobsledder from Brazil. He competed for Brazil at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the four-man competition where he placed in 29th position out of 30 teams along with (Edson Bindilatti, Fábio Gonçalves Silva and Odirlei Pessoni).

He qualified to represent Brazil at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

References

1989 births
Living people
Brazilian male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Brazil
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from São Paulo


title: Voyager (video game)

text:
Voyager was a graphic adventure computer game developed by Looking Glass Technologies from 1995 until its cancellation in 1997. It was published by Viacom New Media. Based on the Star Trek: Voyager license, the game followed Kathryn Janeway and the crew of the USS Voyager in their attempts to rescue members of their team from the Kazon. Voyager was the first game in a multi-title agreement between Viacom and Looking Glass, and Viacom took a minority equity investment in the company as part of the deal. However, Viacom decided to leave the video game industry in 1997, and Voyager was cancelled in spring of that year. In response to Voyager'''s cancellation, team members Ken Levine, Jonathan Chey and Rob Fermier left Looking Glass to found Irrational Games.

OverviewVoyager was an adventure game based on the Star Trek: Voyager license. The player guided Kathryn Janeway and other characters aboard the USS Voyager through three "episodes". The game began as the USS Voyager resupplied at an agricultural planet, only to have certain members of its crew kidnapped by the Kazon. As Janeway and the surviving team tracked the Kazon, they encountered such things as other alien races and "an abandoned planet occupied only by a single computer system". Unlike in other Star Trek video games of the time, the player manipulated the crew at a high and general level. The player selected the crew's course of action from a list of options during "decision point" scenes, after which the crew would carry out their orders automatically. Certain decisions continued the plot, while others led to dead ends or to a game over. Producer Alan Dickens said, "We want to make it a lot like you're watching the TV and yelling at the characters. You're giving them, as a team, guidance and direction on where they should go and how they should address the various problems that come before them."

Between decision points, the player used and combined items, solved puzzles and engaged in combat. The game's item system involved scanning objects with tricorders and storing them in a "virtual inventory". This was an attempt to avoid hammerspace and the protagonists "stealing everything they find", two issues that Dickens said were common in the adventure game genre. "Tech sim" puzzles in the style of The Incredible Machine—a video game series in which players create Rube Goldberg machines—were a main feature in Voyager: the player would receive collections of mechanical parts, which would have to be combined into complex mechanisms. Combat took place on the ground and in space, and like other scenes was controlled at a general level. The player could order the crew to provide suppressive fire, to maneuver or to beam out, for example, and would then watch the scene play out.

Development and aftermathVoyager began development in 1995, and it was announced in August of that year as the first game in a multi-title deal between Viacom New Media and Looking Glass Technologies. According to Next Generation, the announcement was "greeted with joy" by gamers and fans of Star Trek. Viacom was interested in Looking Glass's engine technology, and took a minority equity investment in the company. Voyager was conceptualized by Dickens and by Viacom producer Rachel Leventhal. It was initially planned for release in 1996, but a later report gave it an expected release date of early 1997. The team at Looking Glass visited and researched the set of Star Trek: Voyager in order to reproduce it accurately, and they created 3D laser scans of the cast's heads. Voice over from the cast was also recorded. The game's characters and pre-rendered backgrounds were created with 3D Studio and Alias, and the characters were animated with the skeletal animation system that had been developed for Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri. Designer Jonathan Chey worked on the game's physics and artificial intelligence code, which he later said were "really weird" features for an adventure game and evidence of unfocused development. During the game's showing at the 1996 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in June, a writer for Computer Games Strategy Plus called it "one of the most highly anticipated projects currently floating around the game world."Voyager was cancelled in the spring of 1997, after 18 months in production. According to Looking Glass's Paul Neurath, the cancellation was due to Viacom's wider decision to abandon the video game industry. He believed that the Viacom deal and Voyager were ultimately a "giant distraction" and a "boondoggle" that hurt the company. These events started a financial downward spiral at Looking Glass, which, compounded by a string of troubled and commercially unsuccessful projects such as Terra Nova and British Open Championship Golf, culminated in the company's closure in May 2000. Three members of the Voyager team—Chey, writer Ken Levine and designer Rob Fermier—became close friends during the game's development. The game's cancellation inspired them to start the spin-off developer Irrational Games in April 1997, which went on to develop System Shock 2 in collaboration with Looking Glass. Levine later recalled that, while writing Voyager's opening cutscene, he learned that technological limitations made it difficult for characters to express emotion; and this experience influenced his future writing for games such as BioShock Infinite''.

Notes

Adventure games
Adventure games set in space
Cancelled Windows games
Looking Glass Studios games
Single-player video games
Viacom New Media games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games based on Star Trek: Voyager


title: Barbara Brandon-Croft

text:
Barbara Brandon-Croft (born November 27, 1958) is an American cartoonist, best known for creating the comic strip Where I'm Coming From, and for being the first nationally syndicated African-American female cartoonist.

Early life
Brandon-Croft was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Brumsic Brandon Jr. Her father was also a cartoonist and he was the creator of the comic strip Luther which was in circulation from 1970 to 1986 under the Los Angeles Times Syndicate newspapers. She and her father are said to represent the only occurrence of father-daughter newspaper cartoonists.

She attended the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. In 1982, she developed a cartoon feature for Elan, a magazine for black women. She later joined the staff of Essence magazine as their fashion and beauty writer. She also created illustrations for The Crisis, published by the NAACP; as well as for The Village Voice and MCA Records.

Brandon-Croft's illustrating talent had developed naturally. Growing up she helped her father with his comics in exchange for allowance. She was first recognized for the comic strip Where I'm Coming From. She later did other illustrations including Sista Girl-Fren Breaks It Down...When Mom's Not Around. Brandon-Croft also created a line of illustrated greeting cards for OZ.

Where I'm Coming From
Brandon-Croft started publishing Where I'm Coming From beginning in 1989 in the Detroit Free Press. The comic strip traces the experiences of about twelve African-American women and gives insight into the challenges of being an African American woman living in the United States. It features characters such as Alisha, Cheryl, Lekesia, Nicole and others. The characters are based on Brandon and her real-life friends.

The artwork is minimalistic. There is an absence of backdrop drawings, with the focus solely on the characters who are represented by drawings of their upper torso. Speech bubbles are also omitted and the characters address the reader directly.

Where I'm Coming From went into national syndication in 1991 with the Universal Press Syndicate making Brandon-Croft the first female black cartoonist to be nationally syndicated. It was the first comic strip by a black woman to be syndicated in mainstream newspapers. The comic strip was featured in more than sixty newspapers between 1989 and 2004. It appeared in newspapers throughout the United States, including Essence, The Sacramento Bee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Baltimore Sun, as well as in The Gleaner in Jamaica and the Johannesburg Drum magazine. Brandon-Croft ceased publication of the comic strips in 2005 after subscriptions dwindled.

Brandon-Croft and her father's work are both represented in the Library of Congress and in editions of Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year.

Personal life
Brandon-Croft is married to Monte Croft, with whom she has one child, Chase, and resides in Queens, New York.

Exhibitions
 2020 "Still... Racism in America: A Retrospective in Cartoons" (Medialia Gallery, New York City) — joint exhibition with Brandon-Croft and her father Brumsic Brandon Jr.

Bibliography

See also
 Jackie Ormes
 Morrie Turner

Further reading
 Ito, Robert. "A Trailblazing Black Cartoonist’s Work: ‘It’s Unapologetic, and It’s the Truth’" New York Times Feb 7, 2023 online

References

External links
 Access to digitized editions of Where I'm Coming From at the Library of Congress.

1958 births
Living people
African-American comics creators
American women cartoonists
American comic strip cartoonists
American female comics artists
Artists from Brooklyn
20th-century American artists
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American artists
21st-century American women artists
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts alumni
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American artists
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American artists


title: Call of the Shofar (disambiguation)

text:
Call of the Shofar is a Jewish self-help and self-awareness organization.

Call of the Shofar or Kol Shofar may also refer to:

The Call of the Shofar and Other Stories, a children's storybook by Dr. Nissan Mindel
Congregation Kol Shofar, a Conservative congregation in Belvedere, California

See also
Shofar blowing


title: Zsuzsa Csala

text:
Zsuzsa Csala (born Ilona Zsuzsanna Csala; 9 July 1933 – 22 February 2014) was a Hungarian actress from Budapest.

Filmography

References

External links

1933 births
2014 deaths
20th-century Hungarian actresses
Actresses from Budapest
Hungarian film actresses


title: Odirlei Pessoni

text:
Odirlei Carlos Pessoni (1 July 1982 – 27 March 2021) was a Brazilian bobsledder. He competed for Brazil at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the four-man competition and at the 2018 Winter Olympics also in the four-man where he placed in 29th position out of 30 teams along with Edson Bindilatti, Edson Martins and Fábio Gonçalves Silva.

Pessoni died in a motorcycle accident on 27 March 2021.

References

External links

1982 births
2021 deaths
Brazilian male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Brazil
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics
People from Franca
Road incident deaths in Brazil
Motorcycle road incident deaths
Sportspeople from São Paulo (state)


title: Dhania, West Bengal

text:
Dhania is a census town in the Amdanga CD block in the Barasat Sadar subdivision in the North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is renown as Gadamara.

Geography

Location
Dhania is located at .

Area overview
The area covered in the map alongside is largely a part of the north Bidyadhari Plain. located in the lower Ganges Delta. The country is flat. It is a little raised above flood level and the highest ground borders the river channels.54.67% of the people of the densely populated area lives in the urban areas and 45.33% lives in the rural  areas.

Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Demographics
 India census, Dhania had a population of 6659; of this, 3403 are male, 3256 female. Dhania has an average literacy rate of 81%, higher than the national average of 74.04%.

Transport
National Highway 12 (old numbering NH 34) passes through Dhania.

Infrastructure
As per District Census Handbook 2011, Dhania covered an area of 3.6511 km2. It had 2-3 primary school, 1 high school and 2 college. The nearest hospital was 6 km away, the nearest dispensary/ health center was 4 km away, the nearest family welfare center was 6 km away, the nearest maternity and child welfare clinic was 7 km away and the nearest maternity home was 6 km away.

Healthcare
North 24 Parganas district has been identified as one of the areas where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination.

See also
  Map of Amdanga CD Block on Page 339 of District Census Handbook.

References

Cities and towns in North 24 Parganas district


title: Espérance F.C. (Rwanda)

text:
Espérance Football Club is an association football club based in Kigali, Rwanda. They currently compete in the Rwanda National Football League, and play their home games at the Stade Mumena.

References

External links
Soccerway

Football clubs in Rwanda


title: Na Na (song)

text:
"Na Na" is a song by American singer Trey Songz, released on January 21, 2014 as the lead single from his sixth studio album, Trigga (2014) which was released on July 1, 2014. The song features production from West Coast hip hop producer DJ Mustard, and the chorus interpolates the Fugees' hit "Fu-Gee-La" (1996).

Music video
On March 13, 2014, Trey Songz released the official music video of "Na Na", which was directed by Gil Green and features WWE Superstars The Bella Twins and model Rosa Acosta.

Chart performance
Na Na debuted at number 91 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on the week of February 8, 2014. On the week of July 19, 2014, the single reached its peak position at number 21 on the chart. On May 2, 2019, the single was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and streaming data of over two million units in the United States.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

See also
List of Airplay 100 number ones of the 2010s

References

2014 singles
2014 songs
Trey Songz songs
Atlantic Records singles
Song recordings produced by Mustard (record producer)
Songs written by Mustard (record producer)
Number-one singles in Romania


title: Impro Melbourne

text:
Impro Melbourne is an improvisational theatre company in the Australian city of Melbourne. Formed by Russell Fletcher and Christine Keogh in 1996 it is now run by Artistic Director Katherine Weaver, General Manager Rik Brown and Committee. Impro Melbourne is an Incorporated Association.

Impro Melbourne is also one of many improvised theatre and comedy groups operating in the Melbourne area.

Since 1996, Impro Melbourne has expanded its activities to produce varied forms of theatre, all using improvisation as a base, alongside a programme of shows and workshops for schools. Impro Melbourne currently produces the popular Theatresports™, along with Keith Johnstone's two other competition formats Micetro and Gorilla Theatre. Impro Melbourne regularly performs formats from improvisation companies in North America and Canada, and has also developed and produced its own improvised formats, including long-form plays, often in a particular genre.

A 2006 interview with company member, Lliam Amor, noted that, "after a few years in the doldrums, improv is on the up and up again. Shows such as Thank God You're Here, Jim Henson's Puppets Uncensored and Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and local groups such as Spontaneous Broadway and Impro Sundae, have re-piqued the interest of audiences who evaporated after the glory years of the '80s, when Theatresports was celebrity studded, on TV, and selling out Hamer Hall. ".

Impro Melbourne has performed in theatres across the city of Melbourne, including Theatreworks, La Mama Theatre, Carlton Courthouse and Melbourne Town Hall, and has been a regular feature at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

As well as theatre performances Impro Melbourne has a programme of demonstration shows and workshops for secondary schools - including Theatresports™ workshops and performances, Impro Zone, and The Fairytale Cookbook - which tours the state through Regional Arts Victoria. Impro Melbourne also offers corporate training and entertainment.

The beginning of Impro Melbourne's 2011 artistic season saw the company move all productions to The Space, 3-5 Carlton Street, Prahran. The company then performed every Sunday night, with each show comprising two formats, the exception being the company's Theatresports™ season, which ran the entire evening.

Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper has referred to Impro Melbourne's Celebrity Theatresports as, "an evening filled with improvised hilarity and incredible creativity." Other performances have been referred to as, "completely unplanned, unscripted and undeniably funny journey of games, scenes and songs," "displaying extraordinary mental and physical dexterity" and "a great show to bring your kids to."

Artistic Directors:
Patti Stiles & Katherine Weaver - 2014 to present
Jason Geary - 2012 to June 2013
Karl McConnell - 2010 to 2011
Patti Stiles - 2004 to 2009
Geoff Wallis - 1996 to 2003

External links
Impro Melbourne
Impro Melbourne Facebook Fan page
Impro Melbourne Twitter

References

Improvisational troupes
Theatre in Melbourne


title: James Louis Flaherty

text:
James Louis Flaherty (May 13, 1910 – August 9, 1975) was a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Richmond from 1966 to 1975.

Biography
Born in Norfolk, Virginia, James Flaherty was ordained a priest on December 8, 1936, for the Diocese of Richmond.  On August 8, 1966 Pope Paul VI appointed Flaherty as the Titular Bishop of Tabuda and Auxiliary Bishop of Richmond.  He was consecrated by Bishop John Russell of Richmond on October 15, 1966. The principal co-consecrators were Bishops Vincent Waters of Raleigh and Joseph Hodges of Wheeling.  Flaherty served as auxiliary bishop until his death on August 9, 1975, at the age of 65.

References

|-

1910 births
1975 deaths
People from Norfolk, Virginia
Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond
20th-century American Roman Catholic titular bishops
Religious leaders from Virginia
Catholics from Virginia


title: Rojavai Killathe

text:
Rojavai Killathe () is a 1993 Indian Tamil-language romantic action film directed by Suresh Krissna. A remake of the 1988 Hindi film Tezaab, it stars Arjun and Khushbu with Tiger Prabhakar as the antagonist. The film was released on 3 December 1993.

Premise
Alexander (Arjun Sarja) is a henchman who works for the smuggler named Peter (Tiger Prabhakar), who considers Alexander as his faithful henchman. Peter often confronts his enemy named Ayyanar (Radha Ravi) and orders Alexander to kill Ayyanar's associate Anu. Alexander cannot kill her as he is in love with her and finally shoots on her shoulder. Anu is admitted to the hospital, where Alexander decides to save her from Peter and Ayyanar.

Cast

Arjun as Alexander (Duraipandi)
Khushbu as Anu
Radha Ravi as Ayyanar
Tiger Prabhakar as Peter
Goundamani as David
Senthil as T.V.Thandavarayan
Vadivelu
Sarath Babu as Sathasivam, Alexander's brother
Vennira Aadai Moorthy
Arunkumar
Oru Viral Krishna Rao
Ra. Sankaran as Somanathan, Anu's father
Renuka as Sathasivam's wife
Sharmili as David's wife
Suryakala
LIC Narasimhan as a doctor
Nalinikanth
Master Robert as Naina

Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by Deva, with lyrics by Vairamuthu.

Reception
The Indian Express wrote, "Director Suresh Krishna's takings are slick and sophisticated. He has used his cinematographer Prakash to good effect. The visuals are crisp and elegant, the locations lush and inviting. But that's all there is to the film, the flashiness." K. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote, "Director Suresh Krishna should have concentrated more on building up the story instead of just the stunts".

References

External links

1990s romantic action films
1990s Tamil-language films
1990s vigilante films
1993 films
Films directed by Suresh Krissna
Films scored by Deva (composer)
Indian romantic action films
Indian vigilante films
Tamil remakes of Hindi films


title: Take Out the Gunman

text:
"Take Out the Gunman" is a song by American rock band Chevelle. It is the lead single from the band's seventh studio album, La Gárgola. The song debuted on February 3, 2014, via the band's Vevo and YouTube channel, with the single being released the next day.

Critical reception
Sound and Motion Magazine gave the song a positive review. They state "From the tones, the rhythms, the vocal delivery, it’s all there, if it’s been in a Chevelle song, any Chevelle song, it somehow got crammed into here, with a few minor, minor twists. Yet still sounds fresh and invigorating." They conclude that the track leaves you wanting more. Loudwire ranked it the fourth greatest Chevelle song.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

Chevelle (band) songs
2014 songs
2014 singles
Songs written by Pete Loeffler
Epic Records singles
Songs written by Sam Loeffler


title: 2013–14 EHF Champions League knockout stage

text:
This page describes the knockout stage of the 2013–14 EHF Champions League.

Last 16
The draw was held on 25 February 2014 at 12:00 in Vienna, Austria. The first legs will be played on 20–23 March, and the second legs on 29–31 March 2014.

Seedings

Matches

|}

First leg

Second leg

Veszprém won 64–60 on aggregate.

Flensburg won 55–53 on aggregate.

Barcelona won 60–42 on aggregate.

Metalurg won 53–43 on aggregate.

Paris won 62–55 on aggregate.

Kiel won 71–56 on aggregate.

Vardar won 58–57 on aggregate.

55–55 on aggregate. Rhein-Neckar Löwen won on away goals.

Quarterfinals
The draw was held on 1 April 2014 at 12:15 in Vienna, Austria. The first legs were played on 19–21 April, and the second legs on 26–27 April 2014.

Seedings

Matches

|}

First leg

Second leg

Veszprém won 52–59 on aggregate.

49–49 on aggregate. Flensburg won on away goals.

62–62 on aggregate. Barcelona won on away goals.

Kiel won 65–47 on aggregate.

Final four
The draw was held on 29 April 2014.

Bracket

Semifinals

Flensburg won the penalty shootout 5–3.

Third place game

Final

References

External links
 Official website

knockout stage


title: JPay

text:
JPay  is a privately held information technology and financial services provider focused on serving the United States prison system. With headquarters in Miramar, Florida, the company contracts with state, county, and federal prisons and jails to provide technologies and services including money transfer, email, video visitation and parole and probation payments to approximately 1.5 million inmates throughout 35 states.

History
JPay was started in 2002 by the company's CEO and founder, Ryan Shapiro. In 2005, the company moved its headquarters from New York to Miami.

In 2009, JPay's services expanded to offer an inmate MP3 player, the JP3, and a library of music tracks for purchase.

In 2011, JPay moved its headquarters from Miami to Miramar, Florida, to accommodate a larger call center.

In 2012, JPay launched a tablet, the JP4, designed for the prison industry, which enables inmates to read and draft emails, play games, and listen to music. It also allows inmates to view and attach photos and videograms. The decision to permit use of the JP4, and the full extent of its functions, is made by the state corrections departments. JPay's tablet has been distributed in seven DOC agencies, including North Dakota, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Michigan and Washington.

In April 2015, JPay was acquired by Securus Technologies though terms of the agreement were kept secret.

Business model
In a 2012 Bloomberg Business Week article entitled "JPay, the Apple of the Prison System," Ryan Shapiro, the company's founder and CEO, stated, "We're looking for products that an inmate would want to buy and a corrections facility would accept."  He went on to state, "We take outside applications, redevelop them for prisons specifically, and then deploy them…the prison doesn't pay for any of (our services); it's the end user who pays." And, as the JP4 was being launched, Shapiro was quoted saying, “Think about education, think about games; it's endless where we could go. We think it's as big, if not bigger, than the money-transfer business."

In a 2014 CNBC article, Ryan Shapiro stated "Our goal is to become the nation's digital consumer app company for prisons."

Products and services

Money transfer
An inmate's friend or family member can use JPay's money transfer service to deposit money to the inmate's commissary or trust account. JPay offers electronic payment and deposit options which include credit and debit card payments via online, phone, and mobile app channels. The company has a relationship with MoneyGram to accept cash at MoneyGram's U.S. agent locations, like Walmart and CVS/pharmacy. Additionally, the company processes money orders on behalf of its contracted agencies.

Communications and inmate devices
JPay provides services that an inmate and an inmate's family and friends can use to communicate, such as video visitation, email, videogram, instant messaging, and a tablet computer ("J8P5").

Parole and probation payments
JPay provides payment services for offenders to make community corrections and court-ordered payments. As part of its parole and probationary services, JPay also offers a release card (JPay Progress Card), which is a prepaid, reloadable MasterCard. While all agencies contract to use JPay for money transfer services, they do not all utilize JPay's full ranges of services.

Charitable donations
JPay has been one of the corporate supporters of the Creative Corrections Education Foundation, a nonprofit founded by a former Texas warden, which collects contributions from prison inmates and from corporate sponsors to fund scholarships for children of prison inmates.  In 2014, the charity reported having provided $63,000 in scholarships over the previous two years.

Criticisms

State licensing violations
In 2012, the Pennsylvania Department of Banking fined JPay $80,000 for violating the state's Money Transmitter Act by failing to have the necessary state license since it began operating in the state in 2004. As of 2014, JPay had been fined a total of $408,500 across seven states for operating unlicensed businesses.

Intellectual property claims
In February 2015, Valerie Buford sued the Indiana Department of Corrections after she learned that her brother, Leon Benson, had been placed in solitary confinement, had good conduct time deducted, and had JPay access revoked after she had reposted a videogram sent via JPay on a Facebook page campaigning for his release. Although access was later restored, Buford continued to argue that the actions had a chilling effect on her ability to communicate with Benson.  Officials of the prison claimed the actions were to "protect" JPay's intellectual property; at the time, its terms of use stated that JPay held the copyright to any content that was sent through its systems, regardless of its original author.  Following a May 2015 posting by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that criticized the company for attempting to abuse copyright law, JPay amended its terms of use to no longer contain this clause.

Debit card fees
Senator Cory Booker vowed to ask the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to intercede on behalf of inmates against JPay's allegedly predatory practices with its prepaid debit release cards which are often the only form in which released prisoners are permitted to collect their prison earnings and remaining commissary balances. Allegedly, the company deducts non-optional fees which can exceed 40% of the funds owed to released inmates.

Kickbacks
In approximately half of the states it operates in, contracts between the various state prison systems or individual prisons and JPay include an agreement to apportion part of the fees, collected from those sending money to the prisoners, back to the prison operators in exchange for giving JPay a monopoly over financial transfers to inmates.  According to state mandated disclosures in Illinois, correctional institution operators there received approximately $48,000 for 2013 in what company founder Shapiro prefers to call "commissions". One prisoner, released in 2010 following a 28-year incarceration for murder, identified the potential hardship on the poorest families, leaving a mother of three with a husband in jail to decide: "Do I send money to him so he can afford to stay in touch with the kids, or do I feed the kids?"  Meanwhile, JPay funds lavish parties for corrections institute bureaucrats during the American Correctional Association's annual convention, providing "tequila, hand-rolled cigars" and "live mariachi band" as well as sponsoring an award, including a trip, presented by the Association of State Correctional Administrators to former state corrections directors.

At the political level, despite many of JPay's contracts explicitly banning lobbying, Shapiro says the company's lawyers approved JPay's hiring registered state lobbyists and spending $20,000 lobbying Washington in attempts to take the federal prisons' financial transactions contract from Bank of America.  A Master Contract between JPay and the National Association of State Procurement Officials and the Multi-State Corrections Procurement Alliance, valid until July 2015, set out kickback rates, to any state signing on, of 50¢ per inbound money transfer to prisoners, 5¢ per outbound email, $5 per MP3 device, $10 per JP5 Tablet device, and 5% of JPay's music download fees (which are 30% – 50% higher than iTunes).

References

External links

Financial services companies established in 2002
Financial services companies of the United States
Payment systems
Prison and correctional agencies


title: An Inconvenient Lie

text:
"An Inconvenient Lie" is the third episode of the second season and fifteenth overall episode of the American television drama series Dexter, which first aired on October 14, 2007 on Showtime in the United States. The episode was written by Melissa Rosenberg and was directed by Tony Goldwyn.

Plot

Rita threatens to leave Dexter if he does not commit to a program to deal with his drug addiction. He starts attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings, while still trying to evade Doakes' constant surveillance. At the meeting, Dexter meets a mysterious and flirtatious woman named Lila (Jaime Murray), who volunteers to be his sponsor. Doakes tracks Dexter at the meeting, but to Dexter's relief, Doakes displays understanding of the "addiction" and lets Dexter go. Later, he hunts down a new victim, Roger Hicks (Don McManus), a used-car salesman who murders beautiful brunettes. Lundy invites Debra to join the new task force investigating the Bay Harbor Butcher, and soon discovers a pattern to the murders.

Production
Filming locations for the episode included Miami, Florida, as well as Marina del Rey, California.

Reception

The episode was positively received. IGN's Eric Goldman gave the episode a rating of 8.5 out of 10, and commented that "Overall though, this is a very good and pretty notable episode of Dexter". The A.V. Club critic Scott Tobias gave the episode an A− grade and stated that it "the best episode of the season so far, he continues to make remarkable progress in understanding and acknowledging that maybe he really does care about the people close to him. [...] Having our hero stuck in a confusing no man’s land between having a genuine conscience and following the urgings of his inner “dark passenger” has made him a much richer character than he might have been had he merely backslid into a cold, thoughtless killer again. I was worried the show would go soft as Dexter became more human, but that kind of progress is a littered with obstacles, and this season is turning into a very bumpy ride indeed."

References

External links

 "An Inconvenient Lie" at Showtime's website

2007 American television episodes
Dexter (TV series) episodes


title: Alexandra Johnes

text:
Alexandra Johnes (born December 3, 1976) is an American documentary film producer and former actress.  As a producer, Johnes is known for films including The Square, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, and Doubletime.  She has worked as a Producer with various directors, including Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki and Jehane Noujaim.   In 2013, Johnes received a Primetime Emmy Award for producing Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God.  During her acting career, Johnes' film credits include starring roles as the Childlike Empress in The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter, and Phoebe in Zelly and Me, alongside Isabella Rossellini and David Lynch, as well as guest appearances on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.

Biography
Johnes graduated with a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). From 2007 through 2012, Johnes ran Jigsaw Productions for Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney, managing aspects of development and production. In 2012, Johnes received a Transatlantic Partnership (TAP) Producing Fellowship  from the Independent Filmmaker Project.

Johnes leads the production company Special Projects.

Johnes' sister Stephanie Johnes also works in film. Stephanie directed and filmed the 2007 documentary Doubletime, on which Alexandra worked as a producer.

Filmography

Producer

Actor

Awards and nominations

References

External links

 "Dov Charney’s American Dream", 2017 Gerald Loeb Award winner for Audio

Living people
American film producers
American child actresses
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
American women film producers
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Audio and Video
1976 births


title: Plaza de Armas (Puerto Vallarta)

text:
Plaza de Armas () is a plaza and local attraction in Centro, Puerto Vallarta, in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

Description
Located in Old Town, along the Malecón and adjacent to Presidencia Municipal, or city hall. The square is known for displaying art. Nearby attractions include Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Los Arcos amphitheatre.

The square features a bronze statue of Ignacio Vallarta, the Jalisco attorney and namesake of the city, by Miguel Carmona.

References

External links

Centro, Puerto Vallarta
Plazas in Jalisco
Tourist attractions in Jalisco


title: Vivian O'Callaghan

text:
Vivian O'Callaghan (born 7 August 1944) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He served as a member of Seanad Éireann from 1987 to 1989. He was nominated by the Taoiseach Charles Haughey to the 18th Seanad in 1987. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1989 and 1993 Seanad elections. He is a former member of Cork County Council.

References

1944 births
Living people
Members of Cork County Council
Fianna Fáil senators
Members of the 18th Seanad
Politicians from County Cork
Nominated members of Seanad Éireann
Bantry Blues Gaelic footballers
Cork inter-county Gaelic footballers


title: David Sellin

text:
David Frost Sellin (13 April 1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 11 April 2006, Washington, D.C.) was an American art historian, curator, educator, and author. He taught at a number of universities, worked on the staffs of several museums, and served as curator of the U.S. Capitol, 1976-1980.

Biography
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Thorsten and Amy Anderson Sellin. He attended Quaker schools. As a teenager, he studied privately with painter Frank B. A. Linton, a former student of Thomas Eakins. He spent a year in Sweden in the atelier of painter Otte Sköld. He received a bachelor's degree, 1952 magna cum laude, and a master's degree in art history, 1956, from the University of Pennsylvania. He returned to Stockholm to study for a year at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, and studied for two years in Rome as a Fulbright scholar.

He returned to Philadelphia, worked as an assistant curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1958-1960, and served as administrator of schools at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), 1960-1962. He completed a doctorate in art history at the University of Pennsylvania, 1968.

His research into the influence of France on 19th-century Philadelphia artists – notably Joseph A. Bailly, Mary Cassatt, Eakins, and Howard Roberts – culminated in a 1973 exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Sellin curated three additional exhibitions featuring Eakins as a subject—American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800-1900 (Smithsonian Institution, 1976); Thomas Eakins, Susan Macdowell Eakins, Elizabeth Macdowell Kenton (PAFA, 1977); and Thomas Eakins and His Fellow Artists at the Philadelphia Sketch Club (Philadelphia Sketch Club, 2001). His research into expatriate American artists who settled in France led to a 1982 joint exhibition by PAFA and the Phoenix Art Museum, that also traveled to France.

He was a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, American University, Tulane University, the University of Texas, and other universities. While serving on the faculties of Colgate University, 1963-1968, and Wesleyan University, 1969-1972, he also directed their art galleries.

He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1971, to work as a research fellow at what became the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. As curator of the U.S. Capitol, 1976-1980, he oversaw restoration of four of the massive paintings in the Rotunda, and conserved hundreds of architectural drawings by Thomas U. Walter, architect of the Capitol's dome.

He published numerous articles on American artists, and worked as an independent curator and consultant.

Exhibitions
 African Art and the School of Paris, Colgate University, 1966.
 The First Pose: Howard Roberts, Thomas Eakins, and a Century of Philadelphia Nudes, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973.
 American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800-1900, Smithsonian Institution, 1976.
 Thomas Eakins, Susan Macdowell Eakins, Elizabeth Macdowell Kenton, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1977.
 Americans in Brittany and Normandy, 1860-1910, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Phoenix Art Museum, 1982, co-curated with James K. Ballinger.
 William Lamb Picknell, 1853–1897, Taggart & Jurgensen Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1991.
 The Ipswich Painters at Home and Abroad: Dow, Kenyon, Mansfield, Richardson, Wendel; Cape Anne Historical Society, 1993, co-curated with Stephanie R. Gaskins.
 Thomas Eakins and His Fellow Artists at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia Sketch Club, 2001. Mark Sullivan contributed an essay to the catalogue.

Publications
 "A Benbridge Conversation Piece," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, 1961.
 "Denis A. Volozan, Philadelphia Neoclassicist," Winterthur Portfolio 4, 1968, 118-128.
 "1876: Turning Point in American Art," Fairmount Park Art Association Annual Report, Philadelphia, 1975.
 "The First Pose, 1876: Turing Point in American Art-Howard Roberts, Thomas Eakins, and a Century of Philadelphia Nudes", W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, New York, 1976, ()
 "Frieseke in Le Pouldu and Giverny: The Black Gang and the Giverny Group," Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Expressionism, Telfair Museum of Art, 2001.
 "Imogene Robinson Morrell (1837–1908)," Resource Library Magazine, November 8, 2002.

Personal
He married Anne C. Robertson, 27 November 1965. He died of lymphatic cancer in Washington, D.C., 11 April 2006.

References

1930 births
2006 deaths
American art historians
American art curators
Writers from Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania alumni
People from Washington, D.C.
Colgate University faculty
Wesleyan University faculty
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts faculty
People associated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Directors of museums in the United States
Smithsonian Institution people
People associated with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Historians from Pennsylvania
Historians from New York (state)


title: Gicumbi F.C.

text:
Gicumbi Football Club is an association football club from Byumba, Rwanda. They currently compete in the Rwandan Second Division, and play their home games at the Gicumbi Stadium.

References

External links
Soccerway

Football clubs in Rwanda


title: Zula (app)

text:
Zula, pronounced Zoo-lah (noun), is a mobile application designed to enable work communication. It was founded in late 2013 by Jeff Pulver, Co-Founder of Vonage and Angel investor at Twitter and Jacob Ner-David, Co-Founder of Deltathree.

Zula's stated aim is to help teams communicate effectively.

The pricing model is freemium, as larger teams of more than 18 mates are required to upgrade for a group chat or recording conference calls. In the future, Zula plans to allow custom Apps to be built upon its platform, allowing companies to have a tailor-made collaboration experience.

Zula was named "WhatsApp For Business",

In Feb 2015, Fast Company listed Zula as one of "The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Israel", placing the app in the ninth position.

TechCrunch Disrupt
Zula has won the Audience Choice Awards at TechCrunch Disrupt. The final list of nominated startups included 70 companies and Zula was elected to showcase the product.

Company Executives
In January 2015, Raz Yalov was appointed Chief Executive Officer. He succeeds Jacob Ner-David, who founded Zula along with Jeff Pulver, as part of a transition plan to focus heavily on product execution. Yalov is a veteran hi-tech executive and hands-on engineer, with over 20 years of experience in building and launching enterprise software products.

The Chief Marketing Officer is Hillel Fuld.

References

External links

Mobile software


title: Riera de Merlès

text:
The Riera de Merlès is a small river that passes through the comarques of Osona, Bages, and Berguedà. It is formed by the confluence of several small mountain creeks and torrents that descend the Rasos de Tubau, in the municipalities of Sant Jaume de Frontanyà and Les Llosses.

Historically, the Merlès marked several administrative frontiers. These include the ancient counties of Berga and Osona, the dioceses of Solsona and Vic, and the modern comarques of Berguedà and Lluçanès.

References

Rivers of Spain
Rivers of Catalonia


title: Vairis Leiboms

text:
Vairis Leiboms (born 18 August 1991) is a Latvian bobsledder. He was born in Ergli. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in two-man and four-man bobsleigh.

References

1991 births
Living people
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Latvian male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Latvia


title: Eileen Barnes

text:
Eileen Barnes (1876–1956) was a notable and highly acclaimed botanical artist, well known for her definitive and accurate depictions of Ireland's plant life.

Early life
Eileen Barnes was born in 1876 in her parents’ home at 137 Great Britain Street (now Parnell Street), Dublin. She was the youngest child of Edwin and Elizabeth Barnes (née McKay). Her father was a grocer and wine merchant who had premises on Great Britain Street and at 57 Camden Street. Barnes attended Rutland School for Girls in Dublin, going on to enrol in the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1898 and 1899. She appears to have received an Art Teacher's Certificate in 1899. Immediately after leaving the School of Art Barnes worked as a governess in County Tipperary, teaching the two daughters of Anna Maria Cooper-Chadwick.

Career
She spent most of her career working with the National Museum of Ireland's natural history and antique's division, helping the naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger and botanist Matilda Knowles, as well as creating models for the museum's exhibits. Her association with the Natural Museum in Dublin appears to have begun in 1907, when she is recorded as donating models of the eggs of a platypus. By 1909 she appears to be working in the museum, setting up exhibition cases, constructing models of natural habitats, and wax models. Many of these examples, such as the rock pool and mammal displays that are still exhibited on the ground floor of the Natural History Museum, are believed to be her work. Her formal position within the Museum is unclear, with her at times being referred to as a staff member or the "Museum Artist".

Barnes illustrated cephalopoda for Annie Massy, such as those collected by the 1910-1913 British Antarctic expedition. She undertook similar illustration work for the sponge expert, Jane Stephens, illustrating a number of her publications. She also illustrated the Foraminifera collected during the Clare Island Survey. Her work was highly regarded by Praeger, who even went as far as to name one of his plants after her (Sedum barnesianum). Barnes' works have been featured in numerous books and monographs, and still highly regarded today, especially her sedums (stonecrops) and sempervivums (house leeks). She worked with Robert Francis Scharff to reconstruct and illustrate specimens of the Giant Irish deer. Barnes also undertook some cartographic work with the Geological Survey of Ireland, and restoration of archaeological artefacts from the Royal Irish Academy. She also assisted Mary Eily de Putron when she was working at the museum.

Barnes was a member of the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club from 1913. It is believed she collected specimens of lichen, with one specimen found in the herbarium of the Irish National Botanic Gardens (Ireland).

Later life and death
Barnes retired from her work with the Museum at some point after March 1947, though continued to restore artefacts on behalf of the Museum into the 1950s. She lived with her mother and siblings until their deaths. None of her five siblings who reached adulthood married, meaning that Barnes had no close family when she died in 1956. Neither Barnes birth or death was officially registered, with her date of death remaining undocumented until 2015. She was admitted to Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital on 13 February 1956, undergoing an operation to "extensive burns" on 27 February. She later died on 12 March, and was buried alongside her siblings Herbert and Edith on 14 March 1956.

References

Further reading

1876 births
1956 deaths
Alumni of the National College of Art and Design
Botanical illustrators
Artists from Dublin (city)
20th-century Irish botanists
Irish women botanists


title: Playmaker (disambiguation)

text:
Playmaker or playmakers may refer to:

In sports
Playmaker, a designation assigned to some association football midfielders and forwards
Playmaker (basketball), an alternate term for the point guard position in basketball or handball
PlayMaker Football, a 1989 video game for the Macintosh operating system
"The Playmaker", a self-assigned nickname of retired American football player Michael Irvin
"Playmaker", an overdrive neckbreaker in professional wrestling used as a finishing move by Montel Vontavious Porter

In arts and popular culture
Playmaker, a 1994 film
Playmakers, a 2003 ESPN television show
Playmaker Media, an Australian television production company
PlayMakers Repertory Company, a theater company at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Playmakers Theatre, a building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Playmaker, a 1987 novel
Playmaker Music, a record label
Playmaker, the alias of Yusaku Fujiki in the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS


title: Marines F.C.

text:
Marines Football Club is an association football club from Gisenyi, Rwanda. The team currently competes in the Rwanda National Football League, and plays its home games at the Umuganda Stadium.

References

External links
Soccerway

Football clubs in Rwanda


title: Rigolboche

text:
Amelia Marguerite Badel (stage name, Rigolboche; nicknamed "the Huguenot"; Nancy, 13 June 1842 - Bobigny, 1 February 1920) was a French dancer. Credited for inventing the can-can, her acme occurred from 1858 to 1861. Her stage name, Rigolboche, is a slang term formed from the word "funny" and the suffix boche designating a "joker" or a very funny person.

References

 Ernest Blum, Mémoires de Rigolboche, Paris, 1860, 188 p., portrait photographique.

External links
Théodore de Banville, Les Camées parisiens, Petite bibliothèque des curieux, éd. René Pincebourde, Paris, 1866.

1842 births
1920 deaths
People from Nancy, France
French female dancers
19th-century French dancers
People of the Second French Empire


title: Clive Gamble

text:
Clive Stephen Gamble,  (born 1951) is a British archaeologist and anthropologist. He has been described as the "UK’s foremost archaeologist investigating our
earliest ancestors."

Early life and education
Gamble was born in 1951. He was educated at Brighton College, a private school in Brighton, England. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1972: as per tradition, bi BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1975. Remaining at Jesus College, he studied for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree which he completed in 1978. His doctoral thesis was titled "Animal Communities and their Relationship to Prehistoric Economies in Western Europe".

Academic career
From 1975 to 1979, Gamble was an experimental officer in archaeology at the University of Southampton. In 1979, he became a lecturer in archaeology. He was promoted to Professor in 1996. In 1999 he founded the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins at Southampton.

In 2004 Gamble was appointed to a Research Professorship in the Centre for Quaternary Research at Royal Holloway College, in the University of London.  He subsequently returned to Southampton as a professor in the Department of Archaeology in 2011.  In 2015 he was a Trustee of the British Museum. He retired from Southampton in 2017 and was appointed an emeritus professor.

Research and Positions
Gamble's main research interests are the archaeology of human origins, the social life of the earliest humans and the timing of their global colonisation.

Gamble is a Trustee of the British Museum (August 2010-August 2014), Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow and Vice President of the Society of Antiquaries and Fellow and, from 2011 to 2014, President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He received the Rivers Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2005. In 2002 he presented Where Do We Come From?, a six-part documentary screened on Channel Five.
In 2000 his book The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe won the Society for American Archaeology Book Award.

Gamble is currently part of the NERC-sponsored team that is looking to date key evolutionary events in Europe over the last 60,000 years by dating deposits of volcanic ash. The events that the team is seeking to date includes the arrival of modern humans, the Neanderthal extinction, and the post-Ice Age re-colonisation of northern Europe approximately 16,000 years ago by the direct ancestors of most modern Europeans.

Gamble was a co-director on the British Academy Centenary project (2003-2010) Lucy to language: The archaeology of the social brain

Gamble led a fieldwork programme in Greece, which recorded and published all the evidence from field surveys for Palaeolithic and Mesolithic settlement undertaken there in the last 50 years. This led to the publication of The Prehistoric Stones of Greece which provided the first overview of all stone tools discovered in Greece. There is no comparable overview elsewhere in Europe.

Honours
On 26 November 1981, Gamble was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). In 2000, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). He is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI).

Selected works
Gamble, C. 2021 Making Deep History: Zeal, Perseverance, and the Time Revolution of 1859. Oxford University Press.
Dunbar, R., Gamble, C. and Gowlett, J. 2014 Lucy to Language: The Benchmark Papers. Oxford University Press.
Gamble, C. 2013 Settling the earth: the archaeology of deep human history. Cambridge University Press.
Boismier, W. A., Gamble, C. and Coward, F. (eds.) 2012 Neanderthals among mammoths: excavations at Lynford Quarry, Norfolk UK, English Heritage Monographs.
Dunbar, R., Gamble, C. and Gowlett, J. (eds.) 2010 Social brain, distributed mind, Oxford University Press. Proceedings of the British Academy 158.
Gamble, C. S. 2007. Origins and revolutions: human identity in earliest prehistory. Cambridge University Press.
Gamble, C. 2007 Archaeology: the basics. 2nd edition. Routledge.
Gamble, C. S., and M. Porr. (eds.) 2005. The individual hominid in context: archaeological investigations of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts. Routledge.
Gamble, C. 2003 Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization. The History Press.
Gamble, C. 1999 The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe. Cambridge University Press.
Gamble, C. 1986 The Palaeolithic Settlement of Europe. Cambridge University Press.

References

External links
 Prehistoric Stones of Greece

1951 births
Living people
British anthropologists
British archaeologists
Trustees of the British Museum
Academics of the University of Southampton
Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Fellows of the British Academy
Presidents of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland


title: 2014 Winter Olympics closing ceremony flag bearers

text:
During the closing ceremony in Sochi, Russia most of the 88 nations competing selected one member of their delegation to be the flagbearer. Some countries for example, Morocco chose the same athlete (Adam Lamhamedi) as the opening ceremony. On the other hand, some countries such as Luxembourg had already left the Olympic village, and therefore a volunteer carried the flags for those countries.

Countries and flagbearers
Below is a list of all parading countries with their announced flag bearer, sorted in the order in which they appeared in the parade. This is sortable by country name under which they entered, the flag bearer's name, or the flag bearer's sport. Names are given as were officially designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

*Rudy Rinaldi of Monaco was the reserve athlete (and thus did not compete) in the 2-man bobsledding event.

References

2014 Winter Olympics
Lists of Olympic flag bearers


title: Nissan Mindel

text:
Nissan Mindel was a Chabad Hasidic rabbi, author, editor, and served on the administrative staff of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Background

Nissan Mindel was born in Riga, Latvia in March, 1912, one of nine children, to Yaakov Yitzchak and Bunia Mindel. His connection with Chabad started in 1928 when the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, lived in Riga.  In 1930, He traveled to England where he stayed for a few years and where he got married in 1937, after which he returned to Riga. He left Riga for America by way of Sweden together with Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak and his entourage, arriving at New York in March 1940, and settled at Long Beach where he was one of the founders of the Young Israel of Long Beach. He died in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in 1999.

In the United States, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak suggested that Mindel translate Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi's Tanya into English, an effort that had been attempted numerous times before without success.

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak also requested that Mindel write a monthly magazine for children. The first issue of the children’s magazine, Shmuessen Mit Kinder (in Yiddish), was published for Hanukkah 1942. A second monthly, Talks and Tales (in English), was added shortly afterward. These two magazines were published every month for the next 47 years. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson checked every issue of Talks and Tales before it went to print, continuing to do so after he became Rebbe, and Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov checked the Shmuessen Mit Kinder.

After the war ended, his wife was able to join him in the United States. She helped with translating and proofreading the children’s magazines and other works.

In 1942, He accompanied Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak on his trip to Chicago, and in 1947, he sent him to France, England, and Germany on several fact-finding social and educational missions.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Rabbi Menachem Mendel sent him numerous times to Russia, to retrieve manuscripts and to strengthen the spirits of the Jews behind the Iron Curtain; to South Africa for Jewish communal matters; to the Suez Canal for the printing of the Tanya; and to Israel for communal matters and meetings with dignitaries and political figures. In the 1970s and 1980s, he sent him to Washington, D.C., and to Albany, New York, for conferences on education and aging, as well as on missions to Russia to retrieve manuscripts and books and to Israel for educational purposes.

Mindel recorded a great deal of Chabad history and helped edit the memoirs of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak.

Education
While in Riga, Mindel attended Yeshivah Torah Im Derech Eretz, which incorporated both Torah and secular studies, as espoused by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. While in England, he received his B.A. and M.A. from University of Manchester, where he studied economics and Semitic languages. His dissertation was a comparative study of the economics of Latvia and England. In 1962 he earned a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University in New York.

Family
Mindel was married to Necha (Nettie), the daughter of his uncle, Rabbi Avraham Sender Nemtzov.

Their daughter, Frida, is married to Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro.

Published works
Mindel authored works published by Chabad's Kehot Publication Society including the first official translation of the Tanya in English. His works include:

The Tanya – the official Chabad English translation of the Tanya
Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi – a biography of the Chabad movement's founder
The Philosophy of Chabad – a work exploring the central topics of Chabad philosophy
The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Memoirs – a three-volume work tracing the roots of the Chabad movement
The Letter and the Spirit – a compilation of the English correspondence of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, covering a range of Jewish topics
Talks and Tales a monthly magazine for children
My Prayer – a two-volume work on Jewish prayer
Our People – a multi-volume work on Jewish history
The Storyteller – a collection of Jewish children stories
The Call of the Shofar – a book of Jewish children stories
The Complete Festival Series – a multi-volume work on the Jewish holidays
The Commandments – a short philosophical treatise on the Commandments

References

External links
Articles by Nissan Mindel on Chabad.org

Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis
1912 births
1999 deaths
Hebrew–English translators
Latvian male writers
Jewish religious writers
Jewish American writers
Artists from Riga
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Latvian Orthodox rabbis
Latvian emigrants to the United States


title: A.S. Muhanga

text:
Association Sportive Muhanga is an association football club based in Muhanga, Rwanda. The team currently competes in the Rwanda National Football League, and plays its home games at the Muhanga Regional Stadium.

References

External links
Soccerway

Muhanga


title: St Mary the Virgin, Iffley

text:
The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Iffley is a Church of England parish church in the village of Iffley, Oxfordshire, England, now absorbed as a suburb of the city of Oxford.

History

The Romanesque church was built c.1160 by the St Remy family, probably financed with funds from the de Clintons of Kenilworth Castle. The Early Gothic east end was extended in c.1230, when a cell was constructed on the south side for the anchoress Annora.

The building has not been changed much over the centuries, retaining its round-arched windows and doorways. It is Grade I listed.  The church includes a stained glass window by the 20th-century artist John Piper and another by Roger Wagner.

See also
 List of churches in Oxford

References

Further reading

External links

 St Mary's Iffley website

12th-century church buildings in England
12th-century establishments in England
Church of England church buildings in Oxford
Grade I listed buildings in Oxford
Grade I listed churches in Oxfordshire
English churches with Norman architecture


title: Oskars Ķibermanis

text:
Oskars Ķibermanis (born 4 April 1993) is a former Latvian bobsledder. He competed at the FIBT World Championships 2013 in St. Moritz, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in two-man and four-man bobsleigh.

He retired from the sport in 2023 after failing to successfully recover from a knee injury.

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Latvian male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Latvia
People from Valmiera
Bobsledders at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics


title: Martin Weisz

text:
Martin Weisz (born March 27, 1966), is a German music video and film director. He has directed over 350 videos and worked with artists such as Nickelback, Brandy, Puff Daddy, and LL Cool J. He has also directed numerous commercials.

Weisz won an MTV Europe Music Award for Best Dance Video and was nominated for Best Rock Video in 2000.

He made his debut as a film director with the controversial 2006 film Rohtenburg (called Grimm Love in the United States), which is banned in some areas of Germany.
His second film, The Hills Have Eyes 2, debuted in theaters in 2007. His third film, Squatters, debuted in theaters on May 13, 2014.

Weisz is married and has four children.

References

External links

 Official homepage of Martin Weisz

1966 births
Living people
Film directors from Berlin
German music video directors


title: Quality Leadership University Panama

text:
Quality Leadership University (QLU) is a private university founded in Panama City, Republic of Panama on February 18, 1997 and authorized to operate in Panama by Executive Decree. It is located in 45th Street, Bella Vista in Panama City. It’s accredited by the Consejo Nacional de Evaluacion y Acreditacion Universitaria de Panama (CONEAUPA). All its programs are approved by the Comision Tecnica de Fiscalizacion de Panama.

History
Quality Leadership University (QLU) was founded on February 18, 1997 by Oscar Leon. More than 1,500 Panamanian and Latinamerican professionals have graduated in undergraduate and graduate programs. It was first located in Credicorp Building in 50th Street and the first program offered was a Master of Education in Training and Development in academic agreement with the University of Louisville.

Memberships
 Consejo Latinoamericano de Escuelas de Administración, CLADEA
 Asociación de Universidades Privadas de Panamá, AUPPA
 Asociación de Universidades Privadas de Centro América, AUPRICA
 The Association to Advance Collegiate School of Business, AACSB International
 Accreditation Council of Business School and Programs, ACBSP
 Cámara de Comercio, Industrias y Agricultura de Panama, CCIAP
 American Chamber of Commerce Panama

Agreements with other Universities
 University of Louisville, Kentucky
 Illinois State University, Illinois
 Towson University, Maryland
 Florida International University, Miami
 Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile
 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid
 University of South Florida, Tampa

Academic programs
Graduate:
 Master of Business Administration
 Master of Engineering Management
 Master of Business Marketing
 Master of Construction Management
 Master of Science in Human Resources Management and Development
 Master of Digital Marketing and Social Media
 Master of Finance
Undergraduate:
 Bachelor of Science in Business Management
 Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing
 Bachelor of Science in International Business
 Bachelor of Arts in Communication Science

Private universities in Panama
Buildings and structures in Panama City
Education in Panama City


title: Robin Hardy (Canadian writer)

text:
Robin Clarkson Hardy (July 12, 1952 – October 28, 1995) was a Canadian journalist and author.

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Ottawa, Ontario, Hardy studied creative writing at the University of Alberta and took a law degree at Dalhousie University before settling in Toronto, where he was a staff writer and editor of The Body Politic, a noted early Canadian gay magazine. He also produced radio documentaries for CBC Radio, contributed to publications including NOW, Canadian Forum and Fuse, and was an activist for and the first paid staff member of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario.

He moved to New York City in 1984, where he was an editor for Cloverdale Press and a founding member of Publishing Triangle. He also wrote numerous young adult, science fiction, mystery and horror novels, primarily under pen names; Call of the Wendigo (1994) was the only novel he published under his own name. He was also a freelance contributor to publications including The Advocate, Village Voice and Penthouse in this era.

He also wrote poetry throughout his life, although this was never published as a book, and submitted a short story, "Ghosts", to the annual CBC Literary Competition.

He relocated to Tucson, Arizona in 1993.

On October 28, 1995, Hardy died in a hiking accident in Arizona's Tonto National Forest. His unfinished non-fiction manuscript The Landscape of Death: Gay Men, AIDS and the Crisis of Desire was completed by David Groff, and was published in 1999 under the title Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood. The book was a shortlisted nominee in the Gay Studies category at the 12th Lambda Literary Awards.

Many of his papers and manuscripts are held by the archives of the New York Public Library. Along with Scott Symons and Norman Elder, he was the subject of a chapter in Ian Young's 2013 book Encounters with Authors: Essays on Scott Symons, Robin Hardy, Norman Elder.

References

1952 births
1995 deaths
Canadian male novelists
Canadian mystery writers
Canadian horror writers
Canadian science fiction writers
20th-century Canadian novelists
20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian male writers
Canadian male poets
Canadian writers of young adult literature
Writers from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Journalists from Manitoba
Journalists from Nova Scotia
Journalists from Toronto
Writers from Ottawa
Writers from Toronto
Writers from Winnipeg
Canadian LGBT journalists
Canadian LGBT rights activists
Canadian LGBT novelists
Canadian LGBT poets
Canadian gay writers
Canadian male short story writers
Canadian book editors
Canadian magazine journalists
Canadian magazine editors
Canadian radio producers
Writers from New York City
Canadian emigrants to the United States
Accidental deaths in Arizona
Canadian male non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian short story writers
20th-century Canadian LGBT people
Gay poets
Gay novelists


title: Kotal e Hindukush

text:
Kotal-e Hindukush is a mountain pass in Parwan Province, Afghanistan. It is 205 m lower than the mountain Band e Hindukush.

References

Mountain passes of Afghanistan
Landforms of Parwan Province


title: Dubnica Monastery

text:
The Dubnica Monastery ( is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Božetići, in southwestern Serbia. It is ecclesiastically part of the Eparchy of Mileševa. It was built in the mid-17th century by Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo I (1648–1655).

Geography
The monastery is located in the village of Božetići, between Zlatar and Javor mountains, next to the Nova Varoš-Ivanjica road.

History
It was built in the mid-17th century by Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo I (1648–1655), who hailed from the village of Štitkovo. It was later destroyed by the Ottomans.

Restoration
After research and conservation work undertaken by experts from the Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments of Kraljevo, restoration of the monastery began in September 2003, with help of the Eparchy of Mileševa, the Municipal Assembly Nova Varoš, villagers and donor headed by Mićo Zorić, chairman of the building committee for the restoration.  The monastery foundation of the demolished church, according to the project architect Veljko Vucković, was built with stone and rubble by stonecutter Milijan Djoković from Sirogojno and his group of masters.  The interior was worked by wood-carver Miroslav Trbušić from Kragujevac, and the icons and iconostasis were painted by iconographer Ivan Kovalčik Mileševac from Novi Sad.

Restoration of the monastery Dubnica ended August 4, 2007, on the feast day of St. Mary Magdalene, with the act of consecration was done by bishop Filaret Mićević and the monastic brotherhood of the Eparchy of Mileševa.

See also
 List of Serbian Orthodox monasteries

References

Sources
Easter of Patriarch endowment
After three centuries the bells rang in Dubnica
In Božetići been reconstructed monastery Dubnica

External links

17th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Serbia
2007 establishments in Serbia
Destroyed churches
Zlatibor District
Rebuilt buildings and structures in Serbia
Former churches in Serbia


title: Nicholas O'Connor

text:
Nicholas O'Connor (born 20 April 1945) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He served as a member of Seanad Éireann from 1987 to 1989. He was nominated by the Taoiseach Charles Haughey to the 18th Seanad in 1987. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1989 Seanad election.

References

1945 births
Living people
Fianna Fáil senators
Members of the 18th Seanad
Nominated members of Seanad Éireann


title: Robin Hardy

text:
Robin Hardy may refer to:
Robin Hardy (American writer) (born 1955), American novelist
Robin Hardy (Canadian writer) (1952–1995), Canadian novelist and journalist
Robin Hardy (film director) (1929–2016), British film director


title: 2014 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Women's doubles

text:
Lourdes Domínguez Lino and Arantxa Parra Santonja were the defending champions, but chose not to participate.
Kristina Mladenovic and Galina Voskoboeva won the title, defeating Petra Cetkovská and Iveta Melzer in the final, 6–3, 2–6, [10–5].

Seeds

  Julia Görges /  Anna-Lena Grönefeld (quarterfinals)
  Kristina Mladenovic /  Galina Voskoboeva (champions)
  Ashleigh Barty /  Marina Erakovic (withdrew because of Barty's illness)
  Caroline Garcia /  Oksana Kalashnikova (first round)

Draw

Draw

References
 Main Draw

2014 Abierto Mexicano Telcel


title: William H. Griffitts House

text:
The William H. Griffitts House is a historic farmhouse on Jackson Ferry Road in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States, northwest of Greenback and near the edge of Tellico Lake. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Description
The house, which was completed in 1854 (when its site was part of Blount County, Tennessee), is a two-story wooden frame farmhouse with nine rooms arranged in an ell-shaped layout. It is a vernacular design that exhibits Federal influences in its three-bay front facade and pedimented front entrance. The house has five fireplaces.

History
The owner of the house, William H. Griffitts, was born in 1825 into one of the Quaker families that had arrived in Blount County around 1800 and settled in the Unitia and Friendsville areas. He and his wife, Lucy Ann Burton, were the parents of seven children.

With other Quakers in the local area, the Griffitts family were active supporters of the Underground Railroad movement that aided fugitive African-American slaves attempting to reach freedom in the northern United States. Historians identify the Griffitts house and the nearby Friendsville and Unitia communities as "stations" on the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, they also sheltered white Southern men seeking to avoid military conscription by the Confederacy.

During the Civil War, William Griffitts had conscientious objector status due to his Quaker religious faith. In lieu of military service, he worked in a salt mine in Kentucky. His wife and teenaged son managed the farm and household during his absence. After the war, the Griffitts family allowed former slaves to live on a portion of their property that is still known locally as Negro Hollow.

The property remained in the Griffitts family until 1960, and Griffitts descendants lived in the house until 1943. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as the result of efforts by Larry Benson, who purchased it in 1978 and did extensive restoration and renovation work. Architect Eugene Burr drafted the National Register nomination materials.

References

Houses completed in 1854
Houses in Loudon County, Tennessee
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
Houses on the Underground Railroad
Vernacular architecture in Tennessee
National Register of Historic Places in Loudon County, Tennessee


title: Musanze F.C.

text:
Musanze Football Club is an association football club based in Musanze, Rwanda. The team currently competes in the Rwanda National Football League, and plays its home games at the Ubworoherane Football Stadium.

References

External links
www.musanzefc.com Soccerway
Musanze F.C Official Website

Football clubs in Rwanda


title: Band-e Hindukush

text:
Band-e Hindukush () is a mountain pass in Parwan Province, Afghanistan. It is located west of Parwan and southwest of Salang Pass in Jabal Saraj District. It is several kilometres from the mountain Silsilah ye Koh e Hindukush and Kotal e Hindukush. The pass is one of the highest passes in the country. This region has a dry warm summer.

References

Mountain passes of Afghanistan
Landforms of Parwan Province


title: Orthomorpha

text:
Orthomorpha is a genus of millipedes in the family Paradoxosomatidae containing approximately 50 species distributed in Southeast Asia.

Description
Species of Orthomorpha possess 20 body segments and range from 15–50 mm long as adults. They range from 1.1–3.1 mm in body width, with prominent paranota (lateral keels) extending the width to 1.5–6.7 mm. Base coloration varies from brown to black, with brightly colored paranota and markings in various shades of yellow, orange, and brown, which becomes fainter in alcohol-preserved specimens. Some species have prominent bumps or "tubercles" on their dorsal metatergal segments.

Distribution
Orthomorpha species range from Myanmar in the west, through the entire Indochinese Peninsula, to Lombok, Indonesia.
The species O. coarctata, (also known as Asiomorpha coarctata) has been widely introduced by humans in tropics around the world.

Species
The genus was revised by Likhitrakarn, Golovatch & Panha in 2011, who described several new species and assigned two to the new genus Orthomorphoides, yielding a total of 51 named species of Orthomorpha. Three more species from Laos were described in 2014.

References

Polydesmida
Millipedes of Asia
Taxa named by Charles Harvey Bollman
Millipede genera


title: Ternstroemia lineata

text:
Ternstroemia lineata is a plant species native to high elevations in central Mexico. Many publications call this T. pringlei, but more recent publications confirm that the correct name is T. lineata.

References

lineatea
Flora of Mexico


title: No. 657 Squadron AAC

text:
No. 657 Squadron AAC was a squadron of the British Army's Army Air Corps (AAC), part of the Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing based at RAF Odiham. The squadron disbanded in May 2018 after the retirement of the Westland Lynx.

History
No. 657 Squadron traces it lineage to the Royal Air Force No. 657 Squadron formed in January 1943 and disbanded in November 1955.

No. 657 Squadron AAC was formed on 1 January 1973 as part of 1 Regiment AAC. The squadron served in Northern Ireland based at Shackleton Barracks. On 1 March 1978, No. 665 Squadron AAC was re-designated as 657 Squadron based at Kirkee Barracks in Colchester. In July 1990, the squadron relinquished its independent status by becoming part of 9 Regiment AAC and moved to Oakington in Cambridgeshire and then in February 1991 to Dishforth Airfield in North Yorkshire.

In June 2000, the squadron once again became independent when it moved to RAF Odiham in Hampshire. In September 2000, two Westland Lynx helicopters took part in Operation Barras in Sierra Leone. In April 2001, the squadron became part of the newly formed Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing.

Afghanistan incident
On 26 April 2014, a Lynx crashed in Takhta Pul district of Kandahar Province, killing all five British personnel on board. They were Captain Thomas Clarke, Warrant Officer 2 Spencer Faulkner and Corporal James Walters of the Army Air Corps, Flight Lieutenant Rakesh Chauhan of the Royal Air Force and Lance Corporal Oliver Thomas of the Intelligence Corps. As at 28 April 2014, the cause was described as an "accident", despite Taliban claims that they had caused the crash. The purpose of the mission has speculated upon, but has been described as a "routine training mission". The site, variously described as "close to Kandahar base" and "30 miles from the Pakistani border", had been "secured" for recovery of the bodies and aircraft.

A full report into the accident was published in July 2015, by the Ministry of Defence and the Military Aviation Authority.

Disbandment
With the Lynx reaching the end of its operational life in January 2018, the squadron disbanded in May 2018.

Plans to purchase modified AgustaWestland Wildcat helicopters to replace the Lynx in the special forces role were dropped due to budget constraints. The squadron's special forces role has therefore been taken over by a flight of special forces-trained personnel within the existing Wildcat fleet.

See also

 List of Army Air Corps aircraft units

References

Army Air Corps aircraft squadrons
Military units and formations established in 1973
Military units and formations disestablished in 2018


title: David Gere

text:
David Gere (born February 15, 1975) is an American film producer, actor, artist, and business entrepreneur.

Biography
David James Gere was born and raised in the small town of Cromwell, Connecticut. His mother and sister were tragically killed in a mysterious accident when he was a very young boy. His father, James, an educator, later married Veronica Gere who subsequently became the woman who raised David. After graduating from Cromwell High School, he enrolled at Providence College in Rhode Island on academic and track scholarships. While there, he was signed to a modeling contract by Next Model Management NYC in 1996. The following year he received a BA in Political Science with a minor in Film Studies and was also featured in a European print campaign for GUESS Jeans (1997). Despite his early success as a model, David felt he was more inspired by acting and filmmaking and soon began working both sides of the camera. appearing in short films, documentaries, commercials, and critically acclaimed music videos on MTV2 .

In business, David later got heavily involved with commercial real estate and development in Connecticut. He created several small business ventures before returning to the entertainment industry as a film producer and actor. His directorial debut came in 2021. Gere also owns several bars, nightclubs and restaurants that have been used for filming locations, celebrity appearances and charitable events. Gere was awarded “Top 40 Under 40” by CT Magazine in January 2014, a list of young entrepreneurs and successful business persons.

Gere is known for casting professional wrestlers in his films.  This relationship led to legendary professional wrestler Tommy Dreamer suggesting that Gere get involved with sports entertainment; at Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore 3, Gere debuted as his pro wrestling heel manager persona of DG HAVEN. He is currently active in both the House of Hardcore and the Revival Pro Wrestling promotions.

Career
Gere is best known for his role as Frank Meltzer on the CW Network’s hit show Gossip Girl. Gere has also appeared in many television shows and movies, including Ugly Betty, Rocky Balboa, Remains, The Dark Knight Rises, Infected, Self Storage, Army of the Damned, and A Bet's A Bet. In 2014, Gere co-starred in the thriller, Buddy Hutchins with Jamie Kennedy, Sally Kirkland, and Sara Malakul Lane. The story of the film was highlighted in an Entertainment Tonight piece that aired on February 22, 2014, as the film was produced by the youngest movie producer in history, Richard Switzer, who is Gere's producing partner at Switzer Entertainment Group, LLC. In the summer of 2014, Gere was cast as Tyler Lavey in the teen sex caper, School's Out.  The character was loosely based on Gere's real life, as he portrayed a nightclub owner who mentors two high school misfits. Gere is a producing partner at the Woodhaven Production company and has produced various feature films including Sensory Perception, Self Storage, Chilling Visions: The 5 Senses of Fear, Army of the Damned, A Bet's a Bet, The Devil's Dozen, and Almost Mercy.

Gere formed a unique relationship with the infamous former mobster, Henry Hill after Hill appeared twice at The Shadow Room. Gere became close to Hill, and they were developing a project together in which Gere was to portray Hill. Hill was famously portrayed by Ray Liotta in the award-winning box office hit, Goodfellas, which was directed by Martin Scorsese. Hill died unexpectedly just days after a meeting with Gere. The future of the film is unknown at this time, but Gere has indicated that he has been in contact with Hill's girlfriend, Lisa Caserta, to revive the project.

References

External links

1975 births
Living people
People from Cromwell, Connecticut


title: Ulla Zirne

text:
Ulla Zirne (born 6 August 1995) is a Latvian luger. She was born in Riga. She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in  women's singles.

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
Lugers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Latvian female lugers
Olympic lugers for Latvia
Lugers at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
Sportspeople from Riga


title: Ödön Singer

text:
Ödön Singer (14 October 1830 – 23 January 1912), also known as Edmund Singer, was a Hungarian virtuoso violinist and composer.

He was born in Tata, Hungary in 1830 and studied under Joseph Böhm in Vienna. He was a childhood friend of Joseph Joachim. In 1854 he became concertmaster of the Weimar orchestra. He died in Stuttgart, Germany in 1912.

External links

References

Hungarian classical violinists
Concertmasters
Male classical violinists
1830 births
1912 deaths


title: Guioa coriacea

text:
Guioa coriacea , commonly known as cedar or island cedar, is a flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae. The specific epithet refers to the coriaceous (leathery) leaves.

Description
It is a tree growing to 15 m in height. The shiny paripinnate leaves, with under-rolled edges and 1–4 pairs of leaflets, are 30–110 mm long, 12–50 mm wide. The white, tinged pink, 6 mm long flowers occur in clusters from December to February. The fruits are green-brown, 3-lobed woody capsules, 25 mm long. The small black seeds are 1–1.5 mm long and covered with a fleshy orange aril. The trees are often noticeable in early winter because of the orange arils on the seeds that have fallen to the ground.

Distribution and habitat
The species is endemic to Australia’s subtropical Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea where it is common in sheltered lowland forest.

References

External links

coriacea
Endemic flora of Lord Howe Island
Plants described in 1878
Sapindales of Australia
Taxa named by Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer