title: Kyiv Pumped Storage Power Plant

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The Kyiv Pumped-Storage Power Plant () is a pumped-storage power station on the west bank of the Kyiv Reservoir in Vyshhorod, Ukraine. The Kyiv Reservoir serves as the lower reservoir and the upper reservoir is located  above the lower. Water sent from the upper reservoir generates electricity with three  conventional hydroelectric generators and three  reversible pump generators. During periods of low demand, such as nighttime, the pump generators push water from the lower reservoir to the upper for use during peak hours. The first generator was commissioned in 1970, and the last in 1972.

History

 1963 - Beginning of the construction of the Kyiv hydroelectric power plant. The underwater part of the HPP building and the installation site was built;
 1964 - filling of the Kievskaya HPP reservoir;
 1970 - commissioning of the first hydroelectric unit of the pumped storage power plant;
 1972 - completion of construction. The last, sixth, hydroelectric unit of the pumped storage power plant was put into operation.

Specifications
The building of the pumped-storage power plant is connected with the upper basin by 6-pressure reinforced concrete and metal pipelines with a diameter of 3.8 m.

The upper basin was created at a height of 70 m above the level of the Kyiv reservoir with a useful volume - 3700000 cubic meters, where during the night decrease in energy consumption in the power system water is pumped. The upper reservoir is discharged in the evening hours at the time of the highest power consumption in the power system. Surface area - 0.67 sq. km, length - 1.45 km. Response depth - 6,7 m. The reservoir on the Dnieper River serves as the lower reservoir of the pumped storage power plant.

Main characteristics
The main facilities of the pumped-storage power plant include the upper pumped-storage basin, the power plant building and the installation site. Six vertical hydroelectric units are installed in the building of the pumped-storage power plant. Three 41,5 MW units with radial axial turbines and three with pump turbines with 37 MW each in generator mode and 43 MW in pump mode.

The installed capacity of the hydroelectric power plant is 235.5 MW, and 135 MW is in pumping mode. Operating in pumping mode, the power plant fills the upper basin in 6 hours.

Reconstruction
Stage I

At the initial stage of operation of the pump-turbine units, complications arose due to the significant vibration of the guide vanes. Vibration in different points of the hydro unit even with the optimal opening of the guide apparatus reached above the permitted.

Vibration studies of the main pump-turbine hydroelectric units of Kyivskaya HPP revealed the need to reconstruct the hydro-turbine equipment.

In 1987-1989 the pump-turbine equipment was reconstructed, namely:

 a new impeller with the reconstruction of the impeller chamber was installed;
 blades of the guide apparatus and its regulating ring were replaced;
 new servomotors of the guide vanes were installed;
 oil turbine bearing instead of a rubber bearing was installed;
 a new turbine cover was installed.

Stage II

After the above reconstruction, the vibration characteristics of the hydraulic units were reduced to normal. The rated capacity of the pump-turbine unit in generator mode was increased from 33.4 MW to 37 MW.

At the same time, the mechanical speed controllers of PM-100 type on all hydroelectric units were replaced by the modern electro-hydraulic controllers of EGR-21M-100-11 type. This significantly increased the reliability of hydraulic unit control.

From 1997 to 2002 the electrical equipment was reconstructed and installed:

 9 gas-insulated (instead of oil circuit breakers) 10.5 kV;
 2 additional 110 kV gas-insulated block circuit-breakers
 modern protection systems on all units and blocks;
 new power transformer at Unit 1.

At Kyivska HPP in 2010-2014, reconstruction of hydroelectric units - motors with replacement of stator winding was performed. Speed regulators, excitation systems on all hydroelectric units and control systems were replaced. The plant process equipment (pneumatic system, regulation system) was reconstructed; new cells were installed on 10 kV auxiliary equipment with the replacement of cable networks. The frequency start system for hydraulic units GD-1, GD-3, and GD-5 in pumping mode was assembled and adjusted. ASCE (Automated System of Commercial Energy Metering) system was commissioned.

At present, works are being carried out at Kyiv HEPP under the UHE / TFCS1 / C / 3-13 contract for the reconstruction of Hydraulic Units 2, 4, and 6 with financing from the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. On October 1, 2019, hydroelectric unit No. 2 was put into commercial operation after reconstruction, while on October 28, 2020, hydroelectric unit No. 6 was put into operation. Due to the new turbine and generator installed, the increase in hydro capacity of one hydro unit increased by 5.8 MW, the total - 46.8 MW. Reconstruction of hydroelectric unit No. 4 is currently underway.

See also

 Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Station
 Hydroelectricity in Ukraine

References

Energy infrastructure completed in 1970
Energy infrastructure completed in 1972
Pumped-storage hydroelectric power stations in Ukraine
Hydroelectric power stations in Ukraine
Dnieper basin
Hydroelectric power stations built in the Soviet Union


title: Dejang

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Dejang (), also known as Dejing or Dejank, may refer to:
 Dejang-e Bala
 Dejang-e Pain


title: Camp French

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Camp French (44PW0917) was the site of a major Confederate Army encampment in the US state of Virginia between March 1861 and August 1862.  It was located behind Fort French which was renamed Fort Lee in 1863. Encompassing more than  on the grounds of the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, the site includes four large regimental camps.  Archeological surveys conducted since 1994 have identified locations of winter huts, an arms magazine, and a target range.  The site is partially occupied by the Medal of Honor Golf Course, and traversed by Fuller Road.

The Camp French site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

References

Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Buildings and structures completed in 1861
Prince William County, Virginia
1861 establishments in Virginia
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Prince William County, Virginia


title: Deh-e Mir Baluch

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Deh-e Mir Baluch (, also Romanized as Deh-e Mīr Balūch) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 44, in 6 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Darreh-ye Talayi

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Darreh-ye Talayi (, also Romanized as Darreh-ye Ţalāyī) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 112, in 24 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Do Rudi

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Do Rudi (, also Romanized as Do Rūdī; also known as Darrūdī) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 224, in 53 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Do Rudi Narun

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Do Rudi Narun (, also Romanized as Do Rūdī Narūn) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 332, in 59 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Do Shang

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Do Shang () is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 48, in 6 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Jamchin

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Jamchin (, also Romanized as Jamchīn) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 136, in 23 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Gurmurik

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Gurmurik (, also Romanized as Gūrmūrīk; also known as Gūrmūrī) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 19, in 4 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Gazmeh-ye Marishan

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Gazmeh-ye Marishan (, also Romanized as Gazmeh-ye Mārīshān) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. According to the 2006 census, its population was 34, with ten families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Yusefabad-e Tudak

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Yusefabad-e Tudak (, also Romanized as Yūsefābād-e Tūdak) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 19, in 5 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Kalleh-ye Shurehi

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Kalleh-ye Shurehi (, also Romanized as Kalleh-ye Shūreh’ī; also known as Jaʿfarābād) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 233, in 50 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Education in Mitrovica

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Education in Mitrovica is provided by a number of public and private institutions. With more than 36 percent of the population in Mitrovica being under 19 years old Mitrovica has a large number of primary schools, secondary schools and higher education institutes. These schools are located throughout the municipality, which is compromised by the city of Mitrovica, its 26 southern villages, and the northern part of the city.

A location map with the education institutions of Mitrovica is available online.

Mitrovica features one of the most profound ethnic tensions in south east Europe. It thereby witnessed the highest frequency of ethnic incidents, as well as most sizable. Since its division in 1999, with the river Ibar serving as de facto ethnic border, its educational system is also divided.

Higher Education
Mitrovica has four higher education providers, one in north Mitrovica and three in south Mitrovica. Whereas the north Mitrovica based University of Pristina, Mitrovica operates under Serbian higher education law the three south Mitrovica based higher education institutions are operating under Kosovo higher education law and are subject to regular accreditations by the Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA).

Higher Education Providers

University of Priština, with headquarters in North Mitrovica

With the end of the Kosovo war, the Serbian members of the University of Pristina moved faculties to North Mitrovica. With the assistance of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UMNIK), they established the University of Priština, which started operations in 1999.
The university of Priština with headquarters in North Mitrovica comprises ten faculties, seven of which are located in North Mitrovica. The North Mitrovica campus hosts the faculties for: economics, medicine, law, mathematics and natural science, technical science, arts and philosophy. The faculty of agriculture is situated in Zubin Potok and Lešak, the faculty for teacher training as well as the faculty for physical education and sports are situated in Leposavić.

In 2009, the North Mitrovica-based faculties of the University of Priština with headquarters in North Mitrovica had 3,889 full-time students, 3,216 part-time students, 582 academic staff and 249 technical staff.

The university is maintaining a multidisciplinary research centre. Since it operates under Serbian law and is funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia, it is subject to the rules, standards and procedures of the commission for accreditation and quality assurance of the Republic of Serbia.
The University of Pristina, Mitrovica, is regularly evaluated by the IEP (Institutional Evaluation Program).

The university includes a multidisciplinary research centre. It also maintains several cooperation contracts, such as through the European Commission founded Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the European Science Foundation and Tempus. The current rector of the university is Zdravko Vitošević.

University of Mitrovica
The foundations of higher education studies in Mitrovica were set with the opening of the Higher Technical School in 1961. In 1970 the Faculty of Engineering opened branches of Mining, Technology and Metallurgy, initially in Mitrovica, school year 1970/71, to continue then in Pristina until the establishment of the Faculty of Mining and Metallurgy in Mitrovica in 1974. Based on the 60-year tradition of higher education in Mitrovica, the Government of the Republic of Kosovo on 6 March 2013 has established the Public University of Mitrovica and the Kosovo Assembly on May 31, 2013, ratified the decision. Based on the 60-year tradition of higher education in Mitrovica, the Government of the Republic of Kosovo on 6 March 2013 has established the Public University of Mitrovica and the Kosovo Assembly on May 31, 2013, ratified the decision. Approved by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, at the University of Mitrovica "Isa Boletini" (UMIB) operate six faculties:

 Faculty of Geosciences (FG)
- Bachelor of Science:
 Mining(with specializations: Mining, Geotechnic, Preparation of mineral raw materials)
 Geology
 Materials and Metallurgy (with specializations: Materials, Metallurgy)

- Master of Science:
 Mining(with specializations: Geotechnics, Mining)
 Deposits of mineral raw materials
 Hydrology and Engineering Geology
 Materials
 Metallurgy
 Faculty of Food Technology (FFT)
- Bachelor of Science:
 Food Technology and Engineering
 Technology (with specializations: Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering)

- Master of Science:
 Food Technology and Engineering
 Technology (with specializations: Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering)
 Faculty of Mechanical and Computer Engineering (FMCE)
- Bachelor of Science:
 Industrial Machinery
 Informatics Engineering
 Economics Engineering

- Master of Science:
 Production Technology
 Engineering Informatics
 Faculty of Law (FL)
 Law - Graduated Jurist - Bachelor
 Faculty of Economics (FE)
- Bachelor of Arts:
 Banking, Finance and Accounting
 Informatics and Management
 Faculty of Education (FE)
Pre-school Education Bachelor
Primary Education Bachelor

The founding of the University of Mitrovica was part of a wider Kosovo government initiative to facilitate access to higher education throughout Kosovo. This initiative included the opening of universities besides the University of Pristina in Prizren, Peja, Mitrovica and Gjilan.

The programs were all accredited by KAA in 2012.

Before the opening of the University of Mitrovica, Mitrovica already hosted the Faculty of Applied Technical Sciences of the University of Pristina (FATS).

FATS cooperated with the German TU Bergakademie Freiberg  and the Hochschule Ruhr West.

The Rector of the University of Mitrovica is Mr. Alush Musa.
In the academic year 2014/15 the University of Mitrovica had 2700 students enrolled, with who have worked 80 professors and assistants full-time, and 105 part times.

The corner stone for the new building for the existing faculties in Mitrovica was laid on 26 December 2012. The new building for the existing faculty costed 1.600.000 euro. The new public university of Mitrovica – its campuses – are planned to cost about 14.000.000 Euro.

FAMA College
Mitrovica hosts some faculties of the private FAMA college.
As per decision of the Kosovo Accreditation Agency, the following Mitrovica based FAMA programs are accredited as by 2013:
Banking, Finance and Accounting
Law
Criminalistics
Management
Psychology
Management and Banking, Finance and Accounting

An attempt by FAMA to offer bachelor's degree programs in nursing and Bio medical laboratories failed in 2012, since KAA rejected accrediting these programs.

International Business College Mitrovica (IBCM)
The International Business College (IBCM) was founded by the Dutch foundation SPARK in 2010. IBCM operates two campuses, one in north Mitrovica and one in south Mitrovica. In October 2012, IBCM had 312 students.

IBCM is financed by the governments of Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the European Union and the United Kingdom. As a result of our strong connections in Europe, IBCM programmes are designed to prepare you for whatever future career you envision for yourself – either locally or internationally.

IBCM offers internationally accredited 3.5 year bachelor's degrees and 2 year Academy Profession (AP) degrees in:
Marketing and Management AP level
International Sales and Marketing BA level
Public Administration AP level
Public Service Management BA level
Environmental and Agricultural Management AP & BA level

The programs can be completed after 2 years with Academy Profession (AP) degrees or after 3,5 years with bachelor's degrees.

IBCM graduates are awarded doubled degrees by the Lillebaelt Academy of Professional Higher Education and the University College Lillebaelt. The study programs have been accredited by the Evaluationsagentur Baden-Württemberg (EVALAG) and the Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA).

The current director of the IBCM is Ms. Charlene Miller.

Since the IBCM opened in 2010 it operated in rented facilities in north and south Mitrovica. The IBCM north campus moved to a permanent location in December 2013.
IBCM south campus is currently under construction and will open by May 2016.

Secondary education

Secondary Schools in South Mitrovica

South Mitrovica has 4 secondary schools, the Gymnasium "Frang Bardhi" with 1943 students, the economic high school "Hasan Pristina" with 1.130 students, the High Technical School "Arkitekt Sinani" with about 1000 students, the High Medical School "Dr. Xheladin Deda" with about 800 students. North Mitrovica has 4 secondary schools with a total of 1,740 students.

Primary education
There are about 13700 primary school students in South Mitrovica, attending 28 primary schools. Thereby 10 schools are located in the city of Mitrovica and 18 in villages throughout the municipality. In northern Mitrovica/Mitrovicë, there are 11 primary schools with 2,754 pupils and four (4) secondary schools with 1,740 students with 587 employees, including teachers, support staff and school management, one (1) kindergarten with 600 pupils and 58 employees, and other specialized schools.

The majority of the students are enrolled in one of the schools in the city while a majority of the teachers are working in schools outside the central city, in one of the villages. This results in a considerably higher Student-Teacher Ratio (Students per Teacher) in the city than in the countryside.

Primary Schools in South Mitrovica

Libraries
The former public library 'Latif Berisha' in the centre of the city was one of the cities cultural highlights. However it has been moved now to another location.

Notes
Calculations within the tables above have been made based on the references and information provided below.

References

Mitrovica
Mitrovica, Kosovo


title: Cristonia

text:
Cristonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes two species native to Southwest Australia.

References

Brongniartieae
Fabaceae genera
Endemic flora of Southwest Australia
Fabales of Australia


title: Stephanie Joffroy

text:
Stephanie Joffroy (born 12 September 1991 in Santiago, Chile) is a competitor for Chile at the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics in the Women's ski cross.

References

1991 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Chilean female freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Chile
21st-century Chilean women
Sportspeople from Santiago


title: Alberto Cavallone

text:
Alberto Cavallone (28 August 1938 – 12 November 1997) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Milan, Italy. Cavallone's films are anti-conventional and often contain a mixture of graphic violence, surrealism and eroticism.

Career

When Cavallone was 17 years old, he traveled to Algeria, then in the throes of a war of independence, with a 16mm Paillard motion picture camera. The footage he gathered there formed the structure of his first film effort, La sporca guerra (The Bloody War), intended as a non-aligned political documentary. The film featured an early score by Pino Donaggio. The film, released in 1959, is now lost. His feature debut, Lontano dagli occhi (Out of Sight), the story of an Italian reporter's coverage of a trial in Frankfurt of former Nazi officers for crimes against humanity, was never completed and remains unseen.

After a five-year period of apprenticeship, assisting direction on a score of Italian pictures, Cavallone returned to directing in 1969 with the feature Le salamandre, a story of an interracial ménage-à-trois between a Swedish-American fashion photographer, her lover, a black model, and a French psychologist. It was shot in Tunisia. The film was well-received and Cavallone's profile increased tremendously.

The following year, Cavallone directed the feature Dal nostro inviato a Copenaghen (From Our Copenhagen Correspondent). That film was a story of two U.S. servicemen fresh from Vietnam who go A.W.O.L. from an American base in Germany. They travel to Copenhagen, where both remain haunted by their experiences in Vietnam. One drifts into acting in pornographic films while the other loses his ability to distinguish reality from fantasy and succumbs to violent impulses. Hot on the heels of that picture, Cavallone began directing a musical-comedy that he was forced to abandon in mid-production due to budgetary constraints.

In 1971, Cavallone directed Quickly, spari e baci a colazione, a low-budget affair that utilized discarded sets from bigger pictures and incorporated footage from the uncompleted musical. In 1973, he directed Afrika, set in Ethiopia, a tale of two Italian expatriates, a sexually-conflicted painter and his young male lover. The story is embedded in the police procedural staple, the murder investigation, in this case by an Ethiopian chief of police. In 1974, Cavallone directed Zelda, an erotic thriller. The following year, he directed in Turkey and Italy Maldoror, inspired by Comte de Lautréamont's poem Les Chants de Maldoror. The picture failed to secure a distributor and remains unseen by the public.

In 1977, Cavallone released the surreal Spell – Dolce mattatoio, known in the English-speaking world as Man, Woman and Beast. The film is generally regarded as Cavallone's masterpiece and remains his most-exhibited work. Cavallone followed this success with Blue Movie in 1978. This film, too, was a modest success, something that bewildered its director. In 1980, Cavallone directed the surrealist erotic-mystery Blow Job – Soffio erotico and later that year La gemella erotica – Due gocce d’acqua, a project along similar lines. The latter film failed to reach theaters due to the bankruptcy of its distributor.

In 1981, Cavallone directed two surrealist erotic-thrillers, each featuring an achondroplastic dwarf in the lead role: Baby Sitter and Pat. His work after this time devolved into journeyman efforts in various "porns with plots". In 1983, he contributed the story to Umberto Lenzi's fantasy film Ironmaster (aka La guerra di ferro). He also directed the 1984 film I padroni del mondo (Conqueror of the World), a violent barbarian film set in prehistoric times. The early 1990s saw him directing commercials and contributing revisions to screenplays by other screenwriters and storyboards for at least one animated feature. At the time of his death, Cavallone was attempting to helm a comeback feature he called Internet Story.

Filmography

Bibliography

References

Footnotes

Sources

External links

Italian film directors
1938 births
1997 deaths
Italian pornographic film directors


title: Alissa White-Gluz

text:
Alissa White-Gluz (; born 31 July 1985) is a Canadian singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, and former lead vocalist and founding member of the Canadian metalcore band the Agonist. Her vocal style includes both growling and clean vocals (singing). Although primarily associated with melodic death metal and metalcore, she has appeared as a guest vocalist for power metal, symphonic metal and deathcore bands, notably Kamelot, Delain, Carnifex and Powerwolf, and has performed live with Nightwish and Tarja Turunen.

Early life
White-Gluz was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as the second of three children. Her grandparents were prisoners in concentration camps during World War II and managed to escape. Their experiences in the camps would go on to inspire the Arch Enemy song "First Day in Hell". She is the younger sister of Jasamine White-Gluz who leads the Montreal-based band No Joy.

Career

The Agonist (2004–2014)

In 2004, White-Gluz formed the Agonist (then known as "Tempest") with fellow band members Danny Marino and Chris Kells in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She released three albums with them as their lead vocalist. White-Gluz was kicked out of The Agonist in the spring of 2014 after she was offered the role as vocalist for Arch Enemy and proposed her interest in working in both bands at once.

Arch Enemy (2014–present)
On 17 March 2014, Arch Enemy announced via press release that Alissa would be replacing their former vocalist Angela Gossow. With Arch Enemy, she has released three studio albums (War Eternal, Will to Power and Deceivers) and two live albums (Tokyo Sacrifice and As The Stages Burn!)

Solo career

White-Gluz signed a deal with Napalm Records in 2016 to release a solo album entitled Alissa. In a 2017 interview with Duke TV, she announced that her album would feature collaborations with Kamelot members, and said that the sound of the album would be "pretty different" from that of Arch Enemy.

Guest vocal work

White-Gluz has recorded guest vocals for Blackguard's 2008 EP Another Round, as well as for Slaves on Dope's 2012 album Over the Influence.

White-Gluz has worked with Kamelot on a number of occasions. In September and October 2012, she was a guest vocalist for Kamelot when they were the supporting act for Nightwish's North American tour. In February 2015, Kamelot announced that she would contribute guest vocals to their Haven album.

At the Denver show on 28 September 2012, White-Gluz and Elize Ryd performed the Nightwish lead vocals live on stage with minimal preparation after Anette Olzon was taken ill. White-Gluz, Ryd and Tommy Karevik later joined Nightwish (now fronted by Floor Jansen) on stage again to sing the final song of the tour, "Last Ride of the Day", in Orlando on 14 October 2012. Arch Enemy, with White-Gluz as lead vocalist, joined Nightwish as a supporting act on their 2015 European tour.

In February 2014, the Dutch symphonic metal band Delain announced that White-Gluz would be contributing guest vocals to their fourth studio album The Human Contradiction. White-Gluz made a second guest appearance with Delain in 2016 on "Hands of Gold", the opening track of their fifth studio album Moonbathers.

In 2017, White-Gluz recorded guest vocals for Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein's band, DOYLE. She appears on the band's second album, DOYLE II, on the track "Kiss Me As We Die", providing background vocals. White-Gluz and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein have been in a relationship since 2014.

In 2018, White-Gluz recorded guest vocals for Angra's album Omni, which was released in February 2018. She appears on the third track "Black Widow's Web" alongside Brazilian singer Sandy. She also contributed to Dee Snider's album For The Love of Metal on the track "Dead Hearts Love Thy Enemy" and Kane Robert's/Alice Cooper's Beginning of the End. She provided guest vocals for Soilwork on the song "Stålfågel", which is part of their eleventh studio album Verkligheten. The album was released on 11 January 2019.

White-Gluz recorded guest vocals for the American deathcore act, Carnifex, on the song "No Light Shall Save Us", which is on the band's seventh studio album, World War X. It was released on 2 August 2019 through Nuclear Blast Records.

In 2019, White-Gluz appeared on the album Anesthetic by Mark Morton (Lamb of God) as a guest vocalist on the song "The Truth Is Dead" along with Randy Blythe (Lamb of God). The song was released as a single in 2018.

In June 2021, Powerwolf released a remix of their track "Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend" with White-Gluz as the lead vocalist.

In 2022, she recorded guest vocals for the video game Metal: Hellsinger and published a song with Nita Strauss called "The Wolf You Feed".

Other media
White-Gluz is appearing in visual companion content to American Murder Song as Pretty Lavinia. Her character was first revealed at Steampunk World's Fair and has since been released on American Murder Song's YouTube channel.

In addition to her music career, White-Gluz also had a voice acting stint where she voiced the Swarm Hunters in Gears 5.

Personal life
White-Gluz has been in a relationship with Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein since 2014, the guitarist of American horror punk band Misfits.

She was raised in a family of vegetarians, and has been a vegan since 1998. She follows a straight-edge lifestyle. She identifies as an atheist and considers herself opposed to religion, though she noted that "it doesn’t mean [she hates] religious people or [is] opposed to them".

Interests
White-Gluz is a fan of classical music as well as rock music. She enjoys 1990s grunge music such as Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, and Soundgarden. "I know a lot of people hate it but I love the simplicity, the stripped-down, honest songs and the mistakes. On Nirvana’s live album for example I love hearing the fuck-ups, out-of-tune guitars and the cracks in the voice", White-Gluz said in an interview with Metal Hammer. In an Interview with Patreon White-Gluz stated that Punk rock and Hardcore punk are linked to her social values.

Activism
In a 2018 interview with Metal Hammer, White-Gluz said she had been "vegan for about 18 years", but that she had engaged in animal rights activism since childhood. She received a Libby award from PETA for her work in an international campaign advocating against the hunting of Canadian seals. In 2023, she posed as a mermaid in a PETA anti-fishing ad campaign. White-Gluz appears in the documentary Punk Rock Vegan Movie by Moby which was released in February 2023.

Discography

The Agonist
2007 – Once Only Imagined
2009 – Lullabies for the Dormant Mind
2011 – The Escape (EP)
2012 – Prisoners

Arch Enemy
2014 – War Eternal
2017 – As the Stages Burn!
2017 – Will to Power
2019 – Covered in Blood
2022 – Deceivers

Guest appearances
Powerwolf on track "Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend"
Never More Than Less – on track "So Beautiful" – Album Relentless (2008, Le Collectif Artcore)
(the) Plasmarifle – on track "From The Trail of Ashes..." – Album While You Were Sleeping The World Changed in an Instant (October 2008 Siege of Amida Records)
Blackguard – on track "The Sword" – Album Profugus Mortis (April 2009 Sumerian Records)
Kamelot – on track "Sacrimony (Angel of Afterlife)" – Album Silverthorn (October 2012 SPV/Steamhammer, King)
Delain – on track "The Tragedy of the Commons" – Album The Human Contradiction (April 2014 Napalm Records)
Kamelot – on tracks "Liar Liar (Wasteland Monarchy)" and "Revolution" – Album Haven (February 2015 Napalm Records)
Metal Allegiance – guest vocals on "We Rock" – Album Metal Allegiance (2015, Nuclear Blast)
Karmaflow – as the Muse in "The Muse and the Conductor" (2015)
Caliban – on track "The Ocean's Heart" – Album Gravity (March 2016, Century Media)
And Then She Came – on track "Five Billion Lies" – Album And Then She Came (June 2016 DME Music Napalm Records)
Tarja Turunen – on track "Demons in You" – Album The Shadow Self (August 2016, earMUSIC)
Delain – guest vocals on "Hands of Gold" – Album Moonbathers (August 2016 Napalm Records)
Metal Allegiance – guest vocals on "Life in the Fast Lane" – Album Fallen Heroes (2016, Nuclear Blast)
Evesdroppers – guest vocals on "God's Ocean" – Album Empty Vessel, (2016, Casual Madness)
American Murder Song – as Pretty Lavinia (2016)
Aurelio Voltaire – on track "Leaves in the Stream" – Album Heart-Shaped Wound, (2017)
Angra – on track "Black Widow's Web" – Album ØMNI (2018)
Dee Snider – on track "Dead Hearts (Love Thy Enemy)" – Album For the Love of Metal (2018, Napalm Records)
Soilwork – on track "Stålfågel" – Album Verkligheten (2019, Nuclear Blast)
Mark Morton – on track "The Truth Is Dead" (w/ Randy Blythe of Lamb of God) – Album Anesthetic (2019, Spinefarm)
Carnifex – on track "No Light Shall Save Us" – Album World War X (2019, Nuclear Blast)
Kane Roberts – on track "Beginning of the End" – Album The New Normal, (2019, Frontiers Records)
Babymetal – on track "Distortion" – Album Metal Galaxy (2019)
Kamelot – on live album "I Am the Empire – Live from the 013" (2020, Napalm Records)
Charlotte Wessels – on single "Lizzie" (2020, collaboration)
Me and That Man – on track "Goodbye" – Album New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.2 (2021, Napalm Records)
Nita Strauss – on track "The Wolf You Feed" (2022)
Metal: Hellsinger - on track "Stygia" (2022)

References

External links

1985 births
Living people
Activists from Montreal
Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian atheists
Canadian women environmentalists
Canadian feminists
Canadian expatriates in Sweden
Canadian women heavy metal singers
Canadian human rights activists
Women human rights activists
Canadian people of Lithuanian descent
Canadian people of Jewish descent
Canadian women singer-songwriters
Canadian singer-songwriters
Jewish Canadian musicians
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Jewish atheists
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21st-century Canadian women singers
Women in metal
Metalcore singers
21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters


title: Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970

text:
The Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970 (PVPA), 7 U.S.C. §§ 2321-2582, is an intellectual property statute in the United States.  The PVPA gives breeders up to 25 years of exclusive control over new, distinct, uniform, and stable sexually reproduced or tuber propagated plant varieties.  A major expression of plant breeders' rights in the United States, the PVPA grants protection similar to that available through patents, but these legal schemes differ in critical respects.  The PVPA should not be confused with plant patents, which are limited to asexually reproduced plants (not including tuber propagated plants).

Basic provisions

The PVPA confers a limited period of legal control to breeders of sexually reproduced or tuber propagated plant varieties.  In order to be eligible for a certificate under the PVPA, a plant variety must satisfy four requirements.  First, it must be new, in the sense that propagating or harvested material has not been sold or otherwise disposed of for purposes of exploitation for more than one year in the United States, or more than four years in any foreign jurisdiction (or six years in the case of a tree or vine).  Second, the variety must be distinct—that is, clearly distinguishable from any other publicly known variety.  Distinctness may be based on one or more identifiable morphological, physiological, or other characteristics, including commercially valuable characteristics affecting activities such as milling and baking (in the case of wheat).  Third, the variety must be uniform, in the sense that any variations are describable, predictable, and commercially acceptable.  Finally, the variety must be stable, in the sense that the variety, when reproduced, will remain unchanged with regard to its essential and distinctive characteristics within a reasonable degree of commercial reliability.

A plant variety certificate gives the breeder the right to exclude others from selling the variety, or offering it for sale, or reproducing it, or importing it, or exporting it, or using it in producing (as distinguished from developing) a hybrid or different variety.  The term of protection runs 20 years from the certificate's date of issue, or 25 years in the case of a tree or vine.

Exemptions

Unlike the Patent Act of 1952, the PVPA contains three exemptions that significantly limit the scope of the plant breeder's exclusive right.  First, the PVPA's provision safeguarding the "public interest in wide usage" allows the United States Department of Agriculture to declare an otherwise protected variety open on the basis of equitable remuneration to the owner, upon a finding that no more than two years of compulsory licensing of a protected variety is necessary in order to insure an adequate supply of fiber, food, or feed and that the owner is unwilling or unable to meet public demand at a price which may reasonably be deemed fair.  Second, the PVPA's "research exemption" declares that the use and reproduction of a protected variety for plant breeding or other bona fide research shall not constitute infringement.

The PVPA's third exemption permits a farmer to save seed from protected varieties and to use such saved seed in the production of a crop without infringement.  Prior to 1994, this exemption also allowed farmers to sell such saved seed to others without infringement.  Asgrow Seed Company sued Denny and Becky Winterboer over the scope of this exemption. Asgrow won at District Court, and then lost at the Court of Appeals. The scope of the exemption to sell seeds was confirmed and defined by the 1995 Supreme Court decision in Asgrow Seed Co. v. Winterboer, 513 U.S. 179 (1995). In 1994, legislation to bring the PVPA into compliance with the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention also included amendments that eliminated the exemption for sales, but continued to allow farmers to save and replant seed on their own farms without infringement.

Contrasting plant variety certificates, plant patents, and utility patents

Plant variety certificates should not be confused with plant patents.  The Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA) and the Plant Patent Act of 1930 provide protection based on different types of plant reproductive strategies.  The PVPA, which authorizes plant variety protection certificates, protects sexually reproduced and tuber propagated plants, whereas the Plant Patent Act, which authorizes plant patents, is limited to asexually reproduced plants, excluding tuber propagated plants.  However, the same plant may be protected under both the Plant Variety Protection Act and the Plant Patent Act of 1930. The most appropriate means of protection may be decided by the applicant based on the applicant's business requirements.

A plant may also be eligible for protection under the Patent Act of 1952, as long as patentability requirements are met.  Additionally, the same plant may be protected by a utility patent as well as a plant variety protection certificate and/or a plant patent.  The landmark Supreme Court decision of Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980), suggested the possibility of securing utility patents on plants previously thought eligible solely for protection under the PVPA.  Two decades later, in the 2001 decision of J.E.M. Ag Supply, Inc. v. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., 534 U.S. 124 (2001), the Court conclusively held that sexually reproduced plants eligible for protection under the PVPA are also eligible for utility patents.

The PVPA and international law

The Plant Variety Protection Act represents the United States' effort to comply with the Union pour la Protection des Obtentions Végétales (also known as UPOV or the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants), an international treaty concerning plant breeders' rights.  The PVPA likewise constitutes part of the United States' compliance with the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights annex of the World Trade Organization treaty, also known as TRIPs.

See also
 Intellectual property
 Patents
 Plant breeders' rights
 Plant Patent Act of 1930
 International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
 Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)
 List of United States federal legislation

Further reading

References

External links
 Plant Variety Protection Office (a division of the United States Department of Agriculture)
 Text of the PVPA in .pdf format
 Text of the Plant Variety Protection Act in HTML

Agronomy
United States federal intellectual property legislation
United States biotechnology law


title: Hjørring railway station

text:
Hjørring railway station () is the main railway station serving the town of Hjørring in Vendsyssel, Denmark.

Hjørring station is located on the Vendsyssel Line from Aalborg to Frederikshavn and is the terminus of the Hirtshalsbanen railway line from Hjørring to Hirtshals. The station opened in 1871. It offers direct regional rail services to Aalborg and Frederikshavn,  as well as local train services to Hirtshals, both operated by Nordjyske Jernbaner.

History

The station opened in 1871 as the branch from Nørresundby to Frederikshavn of the new Nørresundby-Frederikshavn railway line opened on 16 August 1871. The station building was designed by the architect Thomas Arboe.

On 7 January 1879, at the opening of the Limfjord Railway Bridge, the Vendsyssel line was connected with Aalborg station, the Randers-Aalborg railway line and the rest of the Danish rail network.

In 1942, the station became the terminal station of the Hjørring-Løkken-Aabybro Line, the Hjørring-Hørby Line and the Hjørring-Hirtshals Line, as the trains from Hjørring Privatbaner were moved from Hjørring West station to the mainline station. The Hjørring-Hørby Line was closed in 1953 and the Hjørring-Løkken-Aabybro Line in 1963, so that today only the Hirtshals Line remains as the only branch line from Hjørring Station.

Facilities
Inside the station building there is a combined ticket office and convenience store operated by 7-Eleven, waiting room, toilets and lockers.

Adjacent to the station is the Hjørring bus terminal.

Services
The station offers direct regional rail services to Aalborg and Frederikshavn,  as well as local train services to Hirtshals, both operated by Nordjyske Jernbaner.

See also
 List of railway stations in Denmark

References

Citations

Bibliography

External links

 Banedanmark – government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
 Nordjyske Jernbaner – Danish railway company operating in North Jutland Region
 Danske Jernbaner – website with information on railway history in Denmark
 Nordjyllands Jernbaner – website with information on railway history in North Jutland

Hjørring
Railway stations in the North Jutland Region
Railway stations opened in 1871
Niels Peder Christian Holsøe railway stations
Thomas Arboe railway stations
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 1870s


title: Ricardo Kishna

text:
Ricardo Kishna (born 4 January 1995) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward.

Club career

Ajax
Born in The Hague, Kishna joined Ajax in 2010 from ADO Den Haag at 15 years old, where he had been active in the youth ranks from the age of 9 laying the foundation for his professional career. On 13 May 2011, Kishna signed his first professional contract with Ajax, joining the club until June 2014. He began the 2013–14 season playing for Ajax A1, the club's under-19 team, competing in the Nike A-Juniors Eredivisie and the UEFA Youth League. On 3 January 2014 it was then announced that Kishna, Jaïro Riedewald and Riechedly Bazoer would join the first team on its training camp in Turkey during the Winter transfer window. After making his debut with the first team in the Antalya Cup, a friendly tournament, on 11 January 2014 against Turkish side Trabzonspor, head coach Frank de Boer announced that Kishna would not be returning to the under-19 selection after the Winter break. But would join the reserves team Jong Ajax in the Dutch Eerste Divisie, while making appearances for the first team. On 15 January 2014 it was announced that Kishna had extended his contract with Ajax for an additional two seasons, now running until the Summer of 2016, with an option for an additional year.

He made his professional debut on 17 January 2014 playing for Jong Ajax in the 4–0 away loss against FC Emmen. He was substituted off in the match for Abdel Malek El Hasnaoui in the 59th minute. He scored his first professional goal for Jong Ajax on 10 February 2014 in a 4–1 home win over VVV-Venlo scoring in the 52nd minute. He then scored again in the following match against first place in the league table FC Dordrecht, leveling the score 1–1, and helping the reserves team to secure a point. On 19 February 2014 Frank de Boer announced that Kishna was selected as a member of the 18-man squad ahead of the UEFA Europa League match at home against Red Bull Salzburg, marking the first time he would be selected for the first team in a professional match. He then made his professional debut on 20 February 2014 against Red Bull Salzburg, replacing Kolbeinn Sigþórsson in the 60th minute in the 0–3 home defeat. He made his Eredivisie debut for the first team three days later in the 4–0 home victory over neighboring AZ, scoring on his league debut in the 61st minute, after being substituted on for Bojan Krkić in the 46th minute of the North Holland derby match.

Lazio
On 29 July 2015, Kishna joined Lazio on a four-year contract from Ajax. The reported transfer fee paid to Ajax was €4 million. He scored his first goal on his debut, a 2–1 win over Bologna on 22 August.

Lille (loan)
On 31 January 2017, Kishna joined Ligue 1 side Lille OSC on loan with an option given to Lille to sign him permanently.

ADO Den Haag (loan)
On 31 August 2017, Kishna signed for his former youth club ADO Den Haag on a season-long loan deal.
On 31 August 2018, Kishna joined ADO Den Haag for the second time until 30 June 2019. After three years out due to a knee injury, he finally returned to the pitch in November 2020 coming on as a substitute in an Eredivisie match against Heerenveen.

International career
Kishna made his debut for the Netherlands national team in the youth ranks, appearing for the under-15 selection in an International friendly match against Turkey U-15 on 8 December 2009. The match ended in a 2–1 victory at home for the Dutch. He then went on to make four more appearances for the under-15 side. He made his debut for the Netherlands U-16 side on 26 October 2010 in the Tournoi du Val-de-Marne in Paris, France, playing against France U-16 in a 1–2 away win. Making two further appearances, while scoring once.

Personal life
Born in The Hague, Kishna is of Surinamese-Dutch descent, with his father being of Indo-Surinamese origin and his mother from the Netherlands.

Career statistics

Club

1 Includes UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League matches.

2 Includes Johan Cruijff Shield and Supercoppa Italiana matches.

Honours

Club
Ajax
 Eredivisie: 2013–14
 Eusébio Cup: 2014

References

External links
Voetbal International profile
Ajax Inside Profile
Ricardo Kishna at Topforward
Netherlands U15 stats at OnsOranje
Netherlands U16 stats at OnsOranje

1995 births
Living people
Dutch sportspeople of Surinamese descent
Dutch people of Indian descent
Sportspeople of Indian descent
Footballers from The Hague
Men's association football wingers
Men's association football forwards
Dutch men's footballers
Indian people of Dutch descent
Dutch expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Netherlands men's youth international footballers
Netherlands men's under-21 international footballers
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Serie A players
Ligue 1 players
AFC Ajax players
Jong Ajax players
SS Lazio players
Lille OSC players
ADO Den Haag players


title: Helen Fraser

text:
Helen Fraser may refer to:

 Helen Fraser (actress) (born 1942), English actress
 Helen Fraser (executive) (born 1949), British executive and businesswoman
 Helen Fraser (feminist) later Moyes (1881–1979), Scottish suffragist, feminist, educationalist, politician, emigrated to Australia, toured America to develop WWI Women's Land Army


title: Lois Kolkhorst

text:
Lois Winkelmann Kolkhorst (born November 4, 1964) is an American businesswoman and politician serving as a Republican member of the Texas State Senate.  She was first elected to the state Senate from the 18th District in a special election held on December 6, 2014.

Early life

Kolkhorst grew up in Brenham, Texas and is a graduate of Brenham High School. She is a 1988 graduate of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, at which she studied advertising and public relations and played on the women's golf team.

Before joining the Texas Senate, she served as president and CEO of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce.

Political career

Kolkhorst was seven terms in the Texas House representing House District 13, which included counties Austin, Burleson, Colorado, Fayette, Grimes, Lavaca, Washington.

Since 2014, Kolkhorst has represented the 18th District in the Texas Senate, a seat she won in 2014 in a special election. The district serves Victoria, Texas and stretches from Corpus Christi north to near Bryan.

She was named one of the "Best Legislators" and  "Worst Legislators" in Texas by Texas Monthly magazine in 2007 and 2017 respectively.

She is Chair of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, as well as a member of the Senate Transportation Committee, Senate Select Committee on Texas Ports, Senate Committee on Water and Rural Affairs, the Texas Agriculture Policy Board, the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas Advisory Committee, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Oversight Board. and Committee on Nominations.

In 2021, Kolkhorst approvingly tweeted "Let freedom ring!" in support of legislation that prohibited businesses and government entities from requiring proof of vaccination for products or services.

In February 2023, Kolkhorst introduced a bill that could potentially ban Chinese, Iranian, North Korean and Russian immigrants from purchasing homes in Texas.

Personal life

Kolkhorst and her husband, James Darren "Jim" Kolkhorst, have two children. Though they reside in Brenham, the couple owns and operates Kolkhorst Petroleum in Navasota in Grimes County. The company was founded by Jim Kolkhorst's father, James Henry "Bubba" Kolkhorst.

She is a member of the St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brenham.

References

External links

1964 births
Living people
Republican Party members of the Texas House of Representatives
Republican Party Texas state senators
People from Brenham, Texas
Texas Christian University alumni
Businesspeople from Texas
American Lutherans
Women state legislators in Texas
Golfers from Texas
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American businesswomen
21st-century American businesspeople
21st-century American businesswomen


title: Ron Griggs

text:
Ron Griggs is an American politician and a Republican member of the New Mexico Senate representing District 34 since December 11, 2012. He was elected to the seat in the November 6, 2012 general election but was appointed by Governor Susana Martinez to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Vernon Asbill days before the term ended. Griggs was previously Mayor of Alamogordo and owner of the Alamogordo Title Company.

Education
Griggs attended New Mexico State University Alamogordo and earned his BBA from New Mexico State University.

Elections

2012
When District 34 Senator Vernon Asbill retired and left the seat open, Griggs ran in the June 5, 2012 Republican Primary, winning with 1,783 votes (57.5%) and won the November 6, 2012 General election with 9,647 votes (67.7%) against Democratic nominee Ellen Wedum, who had previously run for a New Mexico House of Representatives seat in 2006, 2008, and 2010.

2016
Griggs announced he would run for reelection on February 29, 2016. In his reelection announcement, Griggs emphasized job creation and his success in obtaining capital funding for roads, public infrastructure, and other projects in his district.

References

External links
Official page at the New Mexico Legislature

Ron Griggs at Ballotpedia
Ron Griggs at the National Institute on Money in State Politics

Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Mayors of places in New Mexico
Republican Party New Mexico state senators
New Mexico State University alumni
People from Alamogordo, New Mexico
21st-century American politicians
1952 births


title: Central Maine & Quebec Railway

text:
The Central Maine and Québec Railway  was a Class II freight railroad operating in the U.S. states of Maine and Vermont and the Canadian province of Quebec with headquarters in Bangor, Maine.  It was owned by Railroad Acquisition Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Fortress Investment Group, LLC. It is now a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Railway since June 2020.

Its United States operations were named the Central Maine and Québec Railway US Incorporated with offices in New York, NY, and were registered with the Surface Transportation Board on February 14, 2014.

Its Canadian operations were named the Central Maine and Québec Railway Canada Incorporated with offices in Sherbrooke, QC, and were registered with Revenue Québec on February 14, 2014.

History

The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway , itself a product of the 2002 Iron Road Railways bankruptcy, filed for bankruptcy in the United States and Canada on August 7, 2013, following the fiery Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, in which a runaway crude oil train killed forty-seven people and caused an estimated $200 million in property damage to downtown Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. The company received protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code and under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act in Canada to oversee the sale of assets.

In December 2013, Fortress Investment Group, LLC, through its subsidiary Railroad Acquisition Holdings, LLC (RAH) placed a stalking horse bid on the operating rail lines, which was accepted by the bankruptcy trustee in January 2014.  In February 2014 RAH announced that it had formed the CMQ to become the operating entity of the rail lines and that the sale would be concluded in March 2014. CM&Q received its certificate of fitness from the Canadian Transportation Agency on June 24, 2014.

In March 2014, John E. Giles of RAH drove the length of the line, visiting communities and industries served by the railway and inspecting the condition of tracks and installations. He estimated a $10–20 million investment would be needed over three years to repair the rail line, then in poor condition and not safe for the transport of oil or dangerous goods.

In the same year, the CMQR acquired 10 GMD SD40-2Fs from Canadian Pacific Railway.

The company planned to resume transport of crude oil by rail in January 2016; however, this did not happen due to petroleum market conditions.

In 2017, CMQ took over operations of the former NS Hannibal Subdivision in Ohio from Norfolk Southern. The line services several Fortress owned industries at the former Long Ridge Energy Generation Facility in Clarington, Ohio. CIT owned SD40-2's 3053 and 3082 were assigned to operate the line. Crews were sent from Maine for a week at a time to operate trains. After the CP takeover, this operation was retained by Fortress Investment under the former CMQ subsidiary Katahdin Railcar Services.

On November 20, 2019, it was announced that Canadian Pacific Railway would purchase CMQ. Canadian Pacific's CEO, Keith Creel remarked that the acquisition would give CP a true coast-to-coast network across Canada and an increased presence in New England. This would result in several former CP rail lines in Maine and Quebec, which were sold over the years to CM&Q's predecessor railroads, being reacquired by CP.

On June 4, 2020, CP officially finalized its acquisition of CMQ.

Rockland Branch Operation
In September 2015, CMQ was selected by the Maine Department of Transportation to operate the state-owned Rockland Branch rail line between Brunswick and Rockland, taking over the line from previous operator Maine Eastern Railroad on January 1, 2016. The CMQ proposal did not include the operation of passenger excursions that had been operated by Maine Eastern, ending 11 years of successful passenger rail operations along the Maine coast.

At the end of August 2021, it was announced Finger Lakes Railway would take over operation of the Rockland Branch. Soon after the STB approved the transfer of operation, Dragon Cement, the largest shipper on the line, announced they would no longer ship cement out of its Rockland facility by the end of the year, ending the rail shuttle operation that makes up most of the revenue for this line.

Routes

CMQ owned and operated the following rail lines:

  Searsport Subdivision ( Northern Maine Junction, ME to Searsport, ME)
  Millinocket Subdivision ( Northern Maine Junction, ME to Millinocket, ME)
  East Millinocket Subdivision ( Millinocket, ME to East Millinocket, ME)
  Madawaska Subdivision ( Millinocket, ME to start of Maine Northern Railway )
  K.I. Subdivision ( Brownville, ME to Brownville Junction, ME)
  Moosehead Subdivision ( Brownville Junction, ME to Lac-Mégantic, QC)
  Sherbrooke Subdivision ( Lac-Mégantic, QC to Brookport, QC)
  Adirondack Subdivision ( Brookport, QC to St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC)
  Newport Subdivision ( Brookport, QC to Newport, VT)
  Stanbridge Subdivision ( Farnham, QC to Stanbridge, QC)
  St-Guillaume Subdivision ( Farnham, QC to Sainte-Rosalie, QC)
  Maine DOT Rockland Branch ( Rockland, ME to Brunswick, ME)
  Maine DOT Atlantic Branch ( Rockland, ME to Rockland, ME)
  Hannibal Subdivision
CMQ owned a total of  of rail line which are broken down by jurisdiction as follows:

   in Maine
   in Quebec
   in Vermont

Interchange points

Canadian National Railway
 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC
 Sainte-Rosalie, QC
Canadian Pacific Railway
 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC
Eastern Maine Railway
 Brownville Junction, ME
Maine Northern Railway
 Millinocket, ME
CSX Transportation
 Northern Maine Junction, ME
 Brunswick, Maine
St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad  /
 Lennoxville, QC
Washington County Railroad
 Newport, VT

Notes and references

See also

 Orford Express, an independently owned tourist train on part of the CM&QR line

External links

Former regional railroads in the United States
Defunct Maine railroads
Defunct Vermont railroads
Defunct Quebec railways
Companies based in Bangor, Maine
Predecessors of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway subsidiaries
Railway companies established in 2014
2014 establishments in New York (state)
American companies established in 2014
Railway companies disestablished in 2020
American companies disestablished in 2020
2020 disestablishments in New York (state)
Standard gauge railways in Canada


title: Kolangur

text:
Kolangur (, also Romanized as Kolangūr) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 80, in 18 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Kamsegari

text:
Kamsegari (, also Romanized as Kamsegarī; also known as Kamseh Garī) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 87, in 28 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Jennifer Berman

text:
Jennifer Ruth Berman is an American sexual health expert, urologist and female sexual medicine specialist. She is also a former co-host on the television show The Doctors.

Media
Berman and her sister Laura Berman hosted a US national television program titled Berman and Berman on Discovery Health in 2002 and 2003. She has also appeared on Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, CNN, CNBC, Conan, Below Deck Mediterranean and HLN.

Education and training

Berman graduated from Hollins College (now Hollins University) in 1986 and the University of Maryland Medical Center where she received her Master of Science degree in 1989. She went on to receive her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. After obtaining her medical degree, she returned to the University of Maryland to complete her post-graduate urology residency and then completed her fellowship training at UCLA Medical Center for Female Urology and Female Pelvic Floor Reconstructive Surgery. In 2001, she was hired as the first director of the Female Sexual Medicine Center at UCLA, and was also an assistant professor of urology, which closed in 2005.

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American urologists
American television hosts
University of Maryland, Baltimore alumni
Boston University School of Medicine alumni
University of Maryland School of Medicine alumni
American women physicians
American women television presenters
21st-century American women


title: Zamarada exigua

text:
Zamarada exigua is a geometer moth species first described by David Stephen Fletcher in 1974. Its name has only been provisionally accepted. It is found in both the Congo and Uganda.

References

Abraxini
Moths described in 1974
Insects of Uganda
Insects of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Moths of Africa


title: City Center, Florida

text:
City Center, Florida may refer to:
City Center, Miami Beach, Florida, a neighborhood in Miami Beach.
An incorrect term for Sun City Center, Florida.


title: Kusheh-ye Qaleh Rashid Khan

text:
Kusheh-ye Qaleh Rashid Khan (, also Romanized as Kūsheh-ye Qal‘eh Rashīd Khān) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 219, in 51 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Kusheh-ye Gardak

text:
Kusheh-ye Gardak (, also Romanized as Kūsheh-ye Gardāk) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 232, in 38 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Norbert Beuls

text:
Norbert Beuls (13 January 1957 – 19 February 2014) was a Belgian footballer and football manager.

Club career
He came through the youth ranks at hometown club Rapid Spouwen and joined Tongeren in 1977. After a season on loan at FC Antwerp he moved to Charleroi in 1985 before fe finished his career at Racing Genk.

Managerial career
Beuls was manager of Genk alongside Pierre Denier and also coached Spouwen-Mopertingen and Patro Eisden with whom he won promotion to the Belgian Third Division in 2011. He returned to Spouwen in 2014 but suddenly died on 19 February 2014.

Personal life
Beuls was married and had 4 sons.

References

External links
 Profile - FC Antwerp

1957 births
2014 deaths
People from Bilzen
Men's association football defenders
Belgian men's footballers
Royal Antwerp F.C. players
R. Charleroi S.C. players
K.R.C. Genk players
Belgian Pro League players
Belgian football managers
Footballers from Limburg (Belgium)


title: Kuteh

text:
Kuteh (, also Romanized as Kūteh; also known as Kūteh-ye Pā’īn) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 921, in 173 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Lisabad

text:
Lisabad (, also Romanized as Līsābād) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 85, in 12 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Marishan

text:
Marishan (, also Romanized as Mārīshān) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 85, in 26 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Mashin

text:
Mashin (, also Romanized as Māshīn; also known as Deh-e Māshīn and Marshīn) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 23, in 5 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Posht-e Zard

text:
Posht-e Zard () is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 110, in 38 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Rud-e Sanib

text:
Rud-e Sanib (, also Romanized as Rūd-e Sanīb; also known as Sanīib) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 311, in 54 families.

References

Populated places in Khash County


title: Sihaki

text:
Sihaki (, also Romanized as Sīhakī and Sīḩakī) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 64, in 12 families.

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Populated places in Khash County


title: Sihaki Kuteh

text:
Sihaki Kuteh (, also Romanized as Sīhakī Kūteh) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. As of the 2006 census, its population was 267, in 51 families.

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Populated places in Khash County


title: Sangan-e Kuknak

text:
Sangan-e Kuknak (, also Romanized as Sangān-e Kūknāk; also known as Sangān-e Kūgnāk) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 206, in 48 families.

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Populated places in Khash County


title: Tamandan

text:
Tamandan (, also Romanized as Tamandān) is a village in, and the capital of, Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District of the Central District of Taftan County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran.

At the 2006 National Census, its population was 532 in 136 households, when it was in the former Nukabad District of Khash County. The following census in 2011 counted 455 people in 111 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 272 people in 84 households.

In 2018, Nukabad District was separated from Khash County, elevated to the status of Taftan County, and divided into three districts, with the city of Nukabad as its only city and capital of the new county.

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Populated places in Sistan and Baluchestan Province


title: Tudak-e Taqiabad

text:
Tudak-e Taqiabad (, also Romanized as Tūdak-e Taqīābād; also known as Taqīābād, Toodak, and Tūdak) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 82, in 15 families.

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Populated places in Khash County


title: Towd Lang

text:
Towd Lang () is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 175, in 30 families.

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Populated places in Khash County


title: Vellan

text:
Vellan (, also Romanized as Vellān and Valān; also known as Varaj and Waraj) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 486, in 119 families.

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Populated places in Khash County


title: Hilda Petrie

text:
Hilda Mary Isabel, Lady Petrie (née Urlin; 1871–1957), was an Irish-born British Egyptologist and wife of Sir Flinders Petrie, the father of scientific archaeology. Having studied geology, she was hired by Flinders Petrie at age 25 as an artist, which led to their marriage and a working partnership that endured for their lifetimes.

Hilda travelled and worked with Sir Flinders Petrie to excavate and record numerous sites in Egypt, and later in Palestine. This included directing some excavations herself, and working in often difficult and dangerous conditions to produce copies of tomb hieroglyphs and plans, and to record the work for reports to the Egypt Exploration Fund. When the British School of Archaeology in Egypt was founded in 1905 in London by Flinders Petrie, she worked as its secretary and fundraiser to secure support for the school and their continued excavations. Hilda took part in archaeological excavations and surveys throughout her married life, except for a period while their two children were young. Her work was published, and she also gave public lectures in London and elsewhere.

Education and family life
Hilda Mary Isabel Urlin was born in Dublin in 1871, the youngest of five daughters of an English couple long resident in Ireland, (Richard) Denny Urlin and Mary Elizabeth (née Addis) Urlin. When Hilda was four years old, her family moved back to London and she was educated by a governess along with other children of similar age. As she grew older she often went on bicycling expeditions with her friend Beatrice Orme. Together, they explored the countryside, visiting and sketching ancient churches, and making brass rubbings. Another of her childhood friends was Philippa Fawcett whose mother, Dame Millicent Fawcett, was a leader in the women's suffrage movement. Philippa later went to Cambridge to read mathematics and was to become the first woman Senior Wrangler.

Petrie preferred the country life and initially disliked London, but as she grew older she enjoyed visiting its museums and art galleries. During her teens she was regarded as an attractive red-headed girl and she sat for the painter Henry Holiday at his studio in Hampstead, modelling for the figure of a young girl in two of his much-exhibited paintings. She studied at King's College for Women, where she took Professor Seeley's geology course, and would go on field trips equipped with a notebook and hammer. She also took courses in facsimile drawing, for which she displayed a considerable talent.

When she was twenty-five, she was introduced by Henry Holiday to Egyptology Professor Flinders Petrie at University College London, who needed to employ someone with the accurate copying skills Hilda had by then acquired. This introduction led to their marriage on 26 November 1896, with the couple leaving for Egypt the following day.

The Petries had two children, John (1907–1972) and Ann (1909–1989), and lived in Hampstead, where an English Heritage blue plaque now stands at 5 Cannon Place, where they lived. Their son was John Flinders Petrie, the mathematician, who gave his name to the Petrie polygon. In 1957, Lady Petrie died of a stroke in University College Hospital, on the opposite side of the road to where she and her husband had worked to found and to fund what was England's first training school for archaeologists.

Archaeological career

Egypt
Hilda left for Egypt for the first time on 25 November 1896, and was thereafter to accompany her husband into the field every year except for a period when their son and daughter were young.

After a few days spent at Cairo, and including a visit to Giza, the Petries travelled to Upper Egypt as part of an expedition to dig on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Fund in the cemetery area behind the temple of Dendera, 70 km north of Luxor.

During this expedition, Hilda worked in the deep shafts of the tombs that were being excavated, climbing down a rope ladder to copy the scenes and inscriptions found deep underground. One large sarcophagus had some 20,000 hieroglyphs to record, and Hilda spent days lying on the ground to copy them.
Her record work also included drawing the profiles of the pots, beads, scarabs and other small finds of the excavation, and sometimes writing the daily journal that was sent weekly to report progress to the Committee, and assisting Flinders Petrie to write the excavation reports. Her role did not include running the domestic side of the expedition, which was undertaken by Flinders Petrie as it had been done for many years, with excavators expected to live on canned food and ship's biscuits.

In the 1898 excavation of the cemetery sites of Abadiyeh and Hu, Hilda helped to survey the site. She used the Naqada plates to identify the shape of pots, slates and flints and, once Flinders had entered these finds onto the plan, Hilda was responsible for writing on each find the number of the grave in which it had been found. Her work was noted by Flinders Petrie in the introduction to the excavation report of that year: "My wife was with me all the time, helping in the surveying, cataloguing, and marking of the objects, and also drawing all the tomb plans here published." Her work at the site continued into 1898–9, and she drew almost all of the pottery marks and arranged the plates, as well as undertaking the continual work to register and attend to the pottery, and to number the skeletons.  A plan of a fort was made at this time by both Petries.

In the winter of 1902, the last season spent excavating at Abydos, Hilda was given control of an excavation of her own. The team comprised Margaret Murray, and Miss Hansard, an artist, as well as Hilda, and attempted a difficult and hazardous excavation after the discovery the previous year of what appeared to be the approach to a huge underground tomb discovered in an area at the back of the temple of Seti I. The deep excavation was in constant danger of caving in and, when the wind blew, loose sand and shifting stone blocks threatened the workers below; the work was ultimately abandoned. The report of that year to the Egypt Exploration fund sums up Hilda Petrie's contributions to the work thus:

“My wife was closely occupied with drawing nearly all of the season; especially on the tedious figuring of nearly 400 flints, and the exact facsimile copies of inscriptions.”

In 1904, Hilda Petrie was involved in the work at Ehnasya, contributing almost half of the plates of the resultant volume, and visiting Buto. The following year she remained at Saqqara to copy reliefs in some of the Old Kingdom Tombs, as Margaret Murray had the year before. She went from Saqqara to join Flinders Petrie and Lina Eckenstein at a temple site on a hilltop at Serabit el-Khadim, where there were large numbers of inscribed stones, statues and stelae. Some of these were in a hitherto unknown script, which was dubbed Sinaitic, and her work as a copyist was welcomed. Hilda and the 48 year old polymath Lina Eckenstein took a journey across Sinai accompanied by a single guide. Eckenstein was to write several books about her time in Sinai.

Work at the British School of Archaeology in Egypt
When the British School of Archaeology in Egypt was founded in 1905 in London by Flinders Petrie, Hilda worked there as a secretary to raise funds and recruit new subscribers, and it was during this time that both her children were born. In particular she wrote to the prominent and the wealthy to canvass support for Flinders Petrie's work, and oversaw its publication, and gave public lectures in London and elsewhere in the UK.

Further work in Egypt
She left for Egypt again in January 1913 to rejoin Flinders Petrie at Kafr Ammar; three painted Twelfth Dynasty tombs had been found a few miles away at Riqqeh and urgently needed recording. The work was again difficult and dangerous, but it was possible and she published a chapter within the final report about the tombs and including her plans and her copies of the wall paintings and coffins.

During the First World War
When war broke out in 1914, Hilda turned her attention to several women's organisations, including using her fundraising expertise as Honorary Secretary of the Scottish Women's Hospitals, which maintained hospital services for the Serbian division of the Russian army; she was later awarded the Serbian order of St Sava. The Petries also at this time surveyed prehistoric carvings cut in the Downland chalk in the UK.

In 1919 Hilda and Flinders resumed excavations in Egypt, and in the season of 1921, Hilda excavated a Coptic hermit's cell in the Western hills at Abydos, with her plans and drawings of the cave being published in the excavation report for that year, along with her description of the cave and its painted decorations.

Excavations around Palestine and Jerusalem
The focus of the Petries' excavations shifted in 1926 to the frontier fortresses in Palestine, following the restrictions placed on excavating bodies in Egypt and the exportations of antiquities after the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. Hilda arrived in Gaza on 26 November 1926, where she supervised, registered, and paid the excavation workers, although she spent most of the next three years in England seeking to raise funds for the work, which, unfortunately, did not have the same appeal to her supporters as had the work in Egypt.

The last of the Petries' excavation seasons in Gaza was in 1931 with the huge mound called Tell el Ajull anticipated to furnish work for some years. However, this was not to be and tensions over the excavations caused their excavation work to cease.

By 1933 the Petries had moved to Jerusalem where, for two seasons between 1935 and 1937, they excavated the mound of Sheikh Zoweyd, which had been a frontier fortress between Egypt and Asia. A planned excavation in 1939 was called off when bandits attacked and looted their camp.

Second World War onwards: editing and final publications
Flinders Petrie died on 29 July 1942, and Hilda Petrie saw out the rest of the war living at the American School of Palestine while editing his papers, which she had determined to send to the newly formed library of the Department of Antiquities at Khartoum.

In 1947 Hilda returned to Hampstead, England where she wound up the affairs of the British School and was in 1952 at last able to publish the tomb reliefs that she had copied in 1905 at Saqqara, before her death in 1957.

Published works
 Egyptian Hieroglyphs of the first and second dynasties, drawn by Hilda Petrie, Quaritch, London 1927
 Seven Memphite tomb chapels, Inscriptions by Margaret A[lice] Murray. Drawings by F. Hansard, F. Kingsford, and L. Eckenstein. Drawings and plans by H. F. Petrie, British School of Egyptian Archaeology and Quaritch, London 1952
Side Notes on the Bible: From Flinders Petrie's Discoveries, Search Publishing Company Limited, London 1933.

Literature
 Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was Who in Egyptology. 3. Auflage, London 1995, S. 329 (mit Verzeichnis der Nachrufe).
 Margaret S. Drower: Flinders Petrie: a life in archaeology. Victor Gollancz, London 1984, S. 231–248.
 Margaret S. Drower: Hilda Mary Isabel Petrie. In: Breaking Grounds. Women in Old World Archaeology (mit Schriftenverzeichnis; PDF; 408 kB)
 Margaret S. Drower: Letters from the Desert – the Correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie. Aris & Philips, London 2004 .
 Andrea Rottloff: Die Berühmten Archäologen Bd. 1). von Zabern, Mainz 2009, , S. 77–82.

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1871 births
1957 deaths
Academics of University College London
Archaeologists from Dublin (city)
Irish Egyptologists
19th-century Irish archaeologists
20th-century Irish archaeologists
Irish women archaeologists
19th-century Irish women writers
20th-century Irish women writers
Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service


title: Z. exigua

text:
Z. exigua may refer to:

 Zamarada exigua, a geometer moth
 Zignoëlla exigua, a sac fungus


title: Sandefjord Girls Choir

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Sandefjord Girls Choir (Norwegian: Sandefjord Jentekor) was a Norwegian girls choir that performed from 1956 to 2009.

It was founded in 1956 by Sverre Valen and had a varied repertoire. In 1969, the choir won its class in the BBC (later EBU) competition Let the Peoples Sing. They won NRK's national competition for youth choirs 15 times. On tours in Europe, the choir performed in cathedrals like Cologne Cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris and St. Peter's Basilica. In 1976, the choir toured USA for three weeks as part of the United States Bicentennial. The tour ended with a performance in the Carnegie Hall, for which they received an excellent review in The New York Times. Valen stopped conducting the choir in 1997.

Recruiting many of the best singers of the Sandefjord Girls' Choir, Valen started Valen's Soloist Ensemble ( Valens Solistensemble) in 1985 and conducted it to 2000.

Jan Helge Trøen took over as conductor of Sandefjord Girls Choir in 1997. In 1999, the choir became part of the foundation World Festival Choir who hired Vesta Zabulioniene as conductor. During her time the choir held concerts with artists like Tommy Körberg, Benedicte Adrian, Jørn Hoel, Jan Werner Danielsen and Sandra Lyng Haugen. She conducted the choir until 2009 when she decided to concentrate on her own music school and the girls in the choir followed her.

Selected recordings
 Jul med Sandefjord Jentekor. (1970) Conductor:Sverre Valen
 Hymn to Freedom (1990). With Jorunn Marie Bratlie. Conductor:Sverre Valen
 O Helga Natt. (1992) With several others. Conductor:Sverre Valen
 På folkemunne. Norwegian folk tunes. (1994) Conductor:Sverre Valen
 Julemoro. (1994) With Gunstein Draugedalen. Conductor:Sverre Valen

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Girls' and women's choirs
Choirs of children
Norwegian choirs
Musical groups established in 1956
1956 establishments in Norway
Musical groups from Sandefjord


title: Thinicola

text:
Thinicola incana is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is a shrub endemic to central Western Australia. It is the sole species in genus  Thinicola, which is in subfamily Faboideae.

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Brongniartieae
Monotypic Fabaceae genera
Endemic flora of Western Australia
Fabales of Australia