title: Michael Ala'alatoa

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Michael Savea Ala'alatoa (born 28 August 1991) is a professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for United Rugby Championship club Leinster. Born in Australia, he represents Samoa at international level after qualifying on ancestry grounds.

Early life
Born into a rugby household where father Vili was a member of the  squad for the 1991 Rugby World Cup, Ala'alatoa was quickly introduced into the sporting world and played rugby, volleyball and cricket in his childhood.

Club career
Rugby was where he excelled and he played three years in the Newington College First XV. He made his way through the ranks in the New South Wales Shute Shield, initially with Southern Districts and later West Harbour.   Some impressive performances at that level saw him become a regular member of the Waratahs wider training squad in 2014.

An injury to regular front-rower Paddy Ryan saw Alaalatoa called up to the Waratahs first team for the final round of league matches in the 2014 Super Rugby season.   He made his debut as a second-half replacement in the Waratahs 34–3 victory over the  in Brisbane.

Leading up to the 2015 ITM Cup Alaalatoa moved to New Zealand and signed to play for  where he had a solid season that earned him a 2016 super rugby contract with the

It was announced on 12 April 2021 that Alaalatoa would be moving to Leinster to play Pro 14 and European Cup rugby starting in the 2021/22 season.

International career
Alaalatoa was a member of the Samoa Under 20 side that competed in the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship.

Alaalatoa was eligible to play international rugby for Samoa, Australia through birth and New Zealand through residency.

On 23 August 2019, he was named in Samoa's 34-man training squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, before being named in the final 31 on 31 August.

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
People educated at Newington College
Australian rugby union players
Rugby union props
Sportsmen from New South Wales
New South Wales Waratahs players
New South Wales Country Eagles players
Australian sportspeople of Samoan descent
Rugby union players from Sydney
Manawatu rugby union players
Crusaders (rugby union) players
Samoa international rugby union players
Moana Pasifika players
Leinster Rugby players
2019 Rugby World Cup players
2023 Rugby World Cup players


title: Memoirs of a Midget

text:
Published in 1921, Memoirs of a Midget is a surrealistic novel, told in the first person, by English poet, anthologist, and short story writer Walter de la Mare, best known for his tales of the uncanny and poetry for children.

Synopsis
We never learn her name, but the protagonist and principle narrator "Miss M." is playfully referred to as "Midgetina" by her faithless friend, Fanny. Hers is the story of a person who, though at home in nature and literature, is physically, spiritually, and intellectually out of place in the world. Her exact size is never made clear and seems to shift throughout the story. At times she is described as being of Thumbellina-like smallness. She recounts that she remembers as a child her father lifting her up in the palm of his hand to see herself in a small mirror. At the age of five or six, while sitting on a pomade jar watching her father shaving, she remembers being frightened when a jackdaw, attracted by her colourful red clothing, starts pecking at the window pane to get at her. She says she jumped up in alarm and ran away, tripping over a hairbrush, and falling sprawling beside a watch on his dressing table. She reads books that are taller than she is; and even at age twenty is carried on a tray and walks across the dining table. Yet she becomes a skilled horsewoman—riding sidesaddle on a pony—and at one point, we are told, can pass for a ten-year-old child.

Notwithstanding her stature  Miss M.'s intellect is large and her perceptions preternaturally sharp. "Of a serious turn of mind", she studies astronomy; loves shells, fossils, flints, butterflies, taxidermy animals, and even investigates the phenomenon of death in the form of a maggot-eaten mole she finds rotting in her family's garden. She reads Elizabethan poetry, seventeenth century prose, and nineteenth century novels. Her family dotes on her, especially her grandfather, who is French, and who delights sending her miniature books and finely crafted custom furniture he has made for her. But her mother dies in a fall, possibly from fainting when Miss M. jokingly pretends to be dead, and her father, crushed by grief, soon follows, leaving his affairs in disarray. The house and furniture are sold to pay his debts. Miss M. at age 20 is left only with a small annual income from an unknown benefactor that in the course of the book, vanishes in a stock market downturn.

Most of the book's narrative covers the events of the twelve-month period between Miss M.'s twentieth and twenty-first years as she attempts to make her way in the world alone after the death of her parents. She lodges in the house of a dour but kindly, somewhat Dickensian, landlady, Mrs. Bowater, whose absent husband "follows the sea." Mrs. Bowater has a daughter Miss M.'s age, who teaches English at a provincial boys' school. "Beautiful, outspoken, and wonderfully alive", Fanny Bowater is perhaps the book's most memorable and fully realized character. She comes home for the school holidays with a present for Miss M. of a red. hand-sewn jacket; and Miss M., in her turn, is smitten. The two go out together at night to study astronomy, though when they return home Fanny confides that the stars have never attracted her: "'Angels' tintacks' as they say in the Sunday schools. Fanny Bowater was looking for the moon." Consumed with ambition to escape her poverty and narrow surroundings, Fanny is "desperately capricious and of a cat-like cruelty." "A pitiless heartbreaker", critic Michael Dirda calls her, she  "toys with Miss M., whose passions are awakened to such a pitch that today's readers may be astonished at the avowals not of girlish friendship but of passionate longing. But what can you expect from two young women who read Wuthering Heights together?" Fanny has been stringing along the weak and unstable local curate, Mr. Crimble. He confides in Miss M., but she is herself ensnared by Fanny and is unable to help him. Miss M. advises Fanny to "cast the stone" and make a clean break with Mr. Crimble. She later learns Mr. Crimble has cut his throat with a knife. Fanny also repeatedly borrows money from Miss M.'s savings—it is implied at one point that she needs it for an abortion—finally draining them. Miss M., meanwhile, is courted by a brooding young man, whom she calls Mr. Anon, a name intended to be symbolic. Pale, dark-haired, and angular, Mr. Anon is a dwarf only four inches taller than herself. He lives in a cottage on the edge of the park of an abandoned mansion and has observed Miss M.s nocturnal star-gazing expeditions. Fanny calls Mr. Anon misshapen and ugly, but Miss M. states that the only thing grotesque about him are his oversized clothes—though in talking to Fanny she refers to him as a hunchback. Fanny's mother Mrs. Bowater, for her part, likes Mr. Anon. She speculates he may be the son of a lord, "Stranger things have happened", but fears he is unwell and may be tubercular. Miss M., however, is unable to return Mr. Anon's love. She rejects him and tells him she resents his watching over her.

Miss M. is taken up by the worldly and jaded Mrs. Monnerie, "the youngest daughter of Lord B.", whose blood is said to be "as blue as Caddis Bay on a cloudless morning." Mrs. Monnerie is a stout, mushroom-shaped woman of middle age who collects unusual objects and people. Highly intelligent, she is attracted as much by Miss M.'s wide reading and knowledge of poetry as by her unusual appearance, and she sets her up in her London house as a curiosity, a "pocket Venus" to be displayed at social gatherings. Mrs. Monnerie is likewise intrigued by Fanny Bowater's combination of beauty and cynicism and invites her into the household to be her personal companion. Unaware that everyone has read about it in the newspapers, Fanny makes Miss M. swear never to mention the affair of Mr. Crimble's suicide. She sets about to ensnare Miss Monnerie's empty-headed nephew Percy Maudlen and also flirts with the handsome fiancé of Miss Monnerie's niece Susan, a kind and considerate young woman, the polar opposite of Fanny, causing the breakup of that couple. Disgusted with her life in captivity as a living bibelot and wounded by Fanny's coldness, Miss M. becomes increasingly bad tempered. Her sourness offends her patroness and she is banished to Monk's House, Mrs. Monnerie's country residence. There Fanny visits her and accuses her of having betrayed her by breaking her promise not to gossip about the past. She tells Miss M. she hates her:I can't endure the sight or sound or creep of you any longer. . . . Why? Because of your unspeakable masquerade. You play the pygmy, carried about, cosseted, smirked at . . . .  But where have you come from? What are you in your past—in your mind? I ask you that: a thing more everywhere, more thief-like, more detestable than a conscience. Look at me, as we sit here now. I am the monstrosity. You see it, you think it, you hate even to touch me. From first moment to last you have secretly despised me—me! . . . these last nights I have lain awake and thought of it all. It came on me as if my life had been nothing but a filthy, aimless nightmare; and chiefly because of you. I've worked, I've thought, I've contrived, and forced my way. . . I refuse to be watched and taunted and goaded and defamed. Miss M. in turn (erroneously) believes Fanny has made fun of her relationship with Mr. Anon behind her back.

Miss M. resolves to achieve financial and spiritual independence by becoming a fortune teller and horseback rider in a circus and discovers that she likes and is good at performing. She also realizes that she now reciprocates Mr. Anon's love and friendship, and she promises to come away with him and set up housekeeping nearby, implying that they will marry at some future time. Mr. Anon insists that they leave immediately and that she stop displaying herself in public. Miss M. angrily refuses. She has performed for two of the three nights she promised the circus manager—in exchange for a large sum—though she is ashamed to mention the money to Mr. Anon, presenting it as a matter of not breaking her contract. They arrange for Mr. Anon to take Miss M.'s place in the ring for the last evening. Dressed in woman's clothes, he rides out, sidesaddle—to the jeers and mockery of the crowd. There is an accident and he is thrown from the horse and seriously injured, though he remounts and finishes his ride. As he and Miss M. leave together in his pony cart, he dies, just as Miss M. realises the depth of his love for her and the extent of her own recklessness and ingratitude. Tormented by guilt she wanders alone in the woods, fighting the impulse to kill herself. She is deterred, finally, by her conviction that only through leaving the world in a peaceful frame of mind will she be likely to meet her lover after death. In the meantime, her financial trustee, Sir Walter Pollacke, a banker, has been able to restore her fortune, enabling her repurchase her family home. The frame story of the novel, an introduction narrated by Sir Walter, recounts that Miss M. went on to live comfortably for many years in the house of her birth, seeing few people, with Mrs. Bowater as her housekeeper and himself as an occasional visitor. Mrs. Bowater has told Sir Walter that one evening she heard mysterious voices coming from Miss M.s room and when she went to check found no one, only a note from Miss M. saying that she had been "called away", perhaps, the reader is left to conclude, to the spirit world to join her lover in another dimension.

Critical reception
Memoirs of a Midget was published to high praise in 1921 and in that year received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Rebecca West later included Memoirs of a Midget on  a list of the "best imaginative productions of the last decade in England". Though it has since fallen into semi-obscurity, it still has its devoted admirers. Michael Dirda, book columnist for The Washington Post, notes that the American critic Edward Wagenknecht regarded Memoirs of a Midget "as the greatest English novel of its time." Dirda, himself a fan, adds, "(I'm not sure I'd disagree with him, even if nobody seems to read the book anymore: those interested can consult the essay on Memoirs of a Midget in my book Classics for Pleasure.) Born in 1900, Wagenknecht lived until 2004, publishing a book on Willa Cather when he was 94. I’ve sometimes wondered if he ever changed his mind about De la Mare or Memoirs of a Midget. I hope he didn't." Dirda reminds us that the 1920s in Britain were a time that writers experimented in fantasy and unusual perspectives:Yet for all its strangeness of perspective, Memoirs of a Midget  may be regarded as one of the best novels Henry James never wrote. Its narrative voice is often severe, formal, elliptical, and diffuse, so much so that the book might well have been called "What Miss M. Knew." A reader who fails to pay attention will overlook for a long while, that Mrs. Bowater is not Fanny's real mother; that Mr. Anon is a hunchback; that Fanny probably needs money for an abortion; that the Reverend Crimble is going insane; and that Miss M. thinks a bit too well of herself.  It is also, as in so much James, a book containing a considerable amount of death, violence, madness, and grotesquerie. "The world", writes Miss M., "wields a sharp pin, and is pitiless to bubbles."

Dirda concludes that although Memoirs of a Midget is perhaps "too odd" to merit Wagenknecht's "blanket encomium", "in its sheer originality  and uniqueness it is unforgettable. It lingers in the memory like a ghostly visitation or dream."

In her preface to a 1982 edition of the book Angela Carter calls Memoirs of a Midget "a minor but authentic masterpiece, a novel that clearly sets out with the intention of being unique and, in fact, is so; lucid, enigmatic, and violent with the terrible violence that leaves behind no physical trace."

Other books by the author
 The Return
 Peacock Pie
 The Lord Fish
 The Wind Blows Over
 Rhymes and Verses
 Collected Stories for Children
 The Collected Tales of Walter de la Mare
 Eight Tales

Notes

External links

 Jean Hannah, "Classics Corner: Memoirs of a Midget", The Guardian, February 21, 2009.
 Michael Alec, "Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget; A Little Known Classic". Book Page Reviews.
 V. S. Pritchett. "Falling in Love with Fanny", London Review of Books 4: 14 (August 5, 1982):6.

1921 British novels
British fantasy novels
Works by Walter de la Mare


title: Gurcharan Virk

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Gurcharan Virk (c. 1968 – 11 October 2016) was a Punjabi writer, director, lyricist and producer. He started his career in 1983 by recording a song. Some of the movies on which he worked as associate director include, Marhi Da Deeva and Udeekan Saun Diyan. He directed the television films of Fauji Di Family, Bapu Di Pension, Police Naaka, Attro Diyan Chugliyan, Maawan De Dil, Sardaari and Bapu Da Viah. He directed serials, commercials, video albums, documentaries and films.

Early life

Virk was born in Faridkot district of the Indian state of Punjab.

Career

Gurcharan Virk started his career in the film industry during the mid-1980s. He participated in the uplift of the Punjabi music industry. He helped introduce new talent in the industry including, Sukhwinder, Pargat Bhagu, Dilshad Akhtar and Manjit Roupowalia.

Virk worked with music brands such as T-series, CMC, Peritone, Fineton, Anmol and more. Virk worked as a writer for 15 Punjabi films, 2 Hindi films, 3 T.V. Serials, and 13 Telefilms. His movie Madi Da Diva, was given the National Award for Best Punjabi Film in 1990.

Documentaries made by him include, Milkfed, Mother Dairy, Seva Te Simran and Parivartan. Commercials for K Humate, Dev Bhumi Ispat, Punjab State Lottery, Food Grain Corporation, Meethe Maine Kush Meetha Ho Jaye and Har Ik Friend Jaruri Hota Hai are among his prominent.

Virk's contribution to TV serials include Rishty, Kachi Kandh and Vaapsi still air. He died of a heart attack in Chandigarh on 11 October 2016, aged 48.

Cinematic style

Film Focus is a company that was owned by Gurcharan Virk. The company promotes fresh talent and produces varied types of films, documentaries, videos, commercials, television serials, etc. It has been registered with Indian Motion Pictures Producer Association Mumbai.

References

1960s births
2016 deaths
People from Faridkot district
Film directors from Punjab, India
Film producers from Punjab, India


title: Sidney L. Pressey

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Sidney Leavitt Pressey (Brooklyn, New York, December 28, 1888 – July 1, 1979) was professor of psychology at Ohio State University for many years. He is famous for having invented a teaching machine many years before the idea became popular.

"The first.. [teaching machine] was developed by Sidney L. Pressey... While originally developed as a self-scoring machine... [it] demonstrated its ability to actually teach".

Pressey joined Ohio State in 1921, and stayed there until he retired in 1959. He continued publishing after retirement, with 18 papers between 1959 and 1967. He was  a cognitive psychologist who "rejected a view of learning as an accumulation of responses governed by environmental stimuli in favor of one governed by meaning, intention, and purpose". In fact, he had been a cognitive psychologist his entire life, well before the "mythical birthday of the cognitive revolution in psychology". He helped create the American Association of Applied Psychology and later helped merge this group with the APA, after World War Two. In 1964 he was given the first E. L. Thorndike Award. The next year he became a charter member for National Academy of Education. After his retirement he created a scholarship program for honor students at Ohio State. In 1976, Ohio State named a learning resource building Sidney L. Pressey Hall.

The 'teaching machine'
Pressey's idea started as a machine for administering multiple-choice questions (MCQs) to students. MCQs were (and are still) a basic method for testing students in the United States. Pressey's machine had a window with a question and four answers. The student pressed the key  to the chosen answer. The machine recorded the answer on a counter to the back of the machine, and showed the next question.

The great idea was to fix the machine so that it would not move on until the student chose the right answer. Then it was easy to show that this second arrangement taught the students which were the right answers. This was the first demonstration that a machine could teach, and also a demonstration that knowledge of results was the cause of the learning. This kind of feedback to the learner is basic: it just tells the learner whether they are right or not. Later work on other kinds of learning material showed that even better results were got when the feedback contained more explanatory material.

Pressey continued to improve his devices after World War II, and the papers of Pressey and his colleagues are reprinted in a leading sourcebook.

A number of reviews credit Pressey with being the originator of teaching machines, and of important aspects of programmed learning. This was long before the better known efforts of B.F. Skinner. The review by Klaus gave a special appreciation of Pressey and his work. Skinner, who was responsible for bringing the whole subject into popular view, acknowledged Pressey's work in his 1958 paper on teaching machines.

Sidney was displeased by the “crass commercialization” of teaching machines. He objected to this use of teaching machines feeling they had a lack of questioning about basic theory. He also felt that their full potential was not being fully utilized. He felt that programmed texts were “no more learning than simple silent reading”.

Pressey's own term was "adjunct autoinstruction". He thought it important to follow learning by questions "to enhance the clarity and stability of cognitive structure by correcting misapprehensions, and deferring the instruction of new matter until there had been such clarification and elucidation". The topic itself might be programmed, or it might not.

Introduction to the Use of Standard Tests
One of Pressey's most underrated contributions was the creation of Introduction to the Use of Standard Tests: A Brief Manual in the Use of Tests of Both Ability and Achievement in the School Subjects. Pressey created this in 1922. The purpose of this book was to address the need for a manual covering tests of ability and achievement, clarifying of the fundamental facts regarding tests, the handling of tests results, and the significance of test results. Pressey felt the need for this manual as he witnessed tests being used more and more in everyday life. Tests were not only being used more by teachers; they were also being used more by those not especially trained in their use. The manual was to act as an introductory handbook for tests.

Pressey's major textbook
Pressey's major textbook Psychology and the new education, 1937 and 1944,
is a prototypical cognitive text for student teachers. He writes (p369) of a diagnostic attack on teaching problems:
"For example, analysis of error, and remedial work based on the analysis, was found to improve greatly the mastery of algebra. In another experiment, individualization and diagnosis caused great improvement, as shown by actual performance, in the mastery of vocational agriculture".
Pressey goes on to quote more published examples, and gives the data from some of these studies. The whole of chapter 10, The nature and control of the learning process, is directly relevant to the ideas of programmed learning which developed after World War II in the United States.

Pressey's whole approach to educational psychology ran in opposition to the influence of B.F. Skinner and the behaviorists, as this quotation illustrates:
"The archvillain, leading so many people astray, is declared to be learning theory! No less a charge is made than that the whole trend of American research and theory as regards learning has been based on a false premisethat the important features of human learning are to be found in animals. Instead, the all-important fact is that humans have transcended animal learning. Language, number, such skills as silent reading, make possible facilitations of learning, and kinds of learning, impossible even for the apes, Autoinstruction should enhance such potentials. Instead, current animal derived procedures in autoinstruction destroy meaningful structure to present material serially in programs, and replace processes of cognitive clarification and largely rote reinforcements of bit learnings".

Books by Pressey
Pressey S.L. & Pressey L.C. 1923. Introduction to the use of standard tests. Harrap.
Pressey S.L. & Pressey L.C. 1927. Mental abnormality and deficiency. Macmillan.
Pressey S.L. 1933. Psychology and the new education. Harper.
Pressey S.L. & Robinson F.P. 1944. Psychology and the new education. Revised edition, Harper.
Pressey S.L. & Janney J.E. 1937. Casebook of research in education. Harper.
Pressey S.L; Janney J.E. & Kuhlen R.G. 1939. Life: a psychological survey. Harper.
Pressey S.L. & Kuhlen R.G. 1957. Psychological development through the life span. Harper & Row.
Pressey S.L; Robinson F.P & Horrocks J.E. 1959. Psychology in education. Harper.

Autobiographies
Pressey, Sidney L. 1967. Autobiography. In A history of psychology in autobiography, vol 5. eds Edward G. Boring and Gardner Lindzey. New York: Appleton-Century-Croft.
Pressey, Sidney L. 1971. Sidney Leavitt Pressey, Part I: An autobiography. In Leaders in American education, ed. Robert J. Havighurst. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

References

1888 births
1979 deaths
20th-century American educators
20th-century American psychologists
American cognitive psychologists
American educational psychologists
People in educational technology
Ohio State University faculty


title: Nord's 13th constituency

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The 13th constituency of the Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.

Description

Nord's 13th Constituency includes the west of the port city of Dunkerque on the English Channel coast as well as its large southern suburb of Coudekerque-Branche.

The elected conservative members during its first 30 years before switching to the Socialist Party in 1988. Since then the seat has been won by left wing candidates at every election except 1993 and a by-election in 1998.

In fiction it is the seat of the protagonist in the popular French TV series Baron Noir.

Historic Representation

Election results

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 Official results of French elections from 1998:

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title: Vladislav Doronin

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Vladislav Yurievich Doronin (; born 7 November 1962) is a Russian-born oligarch, real estate developer and art collector. He is the owner and chairman of Aman Resorts, chairman and CEO of OKO Group and is a co-founder of Moscow-based Capital Group.

Early life and education
Vladislav Doronin was born on 7 November 1962 in Leningrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) in a Russian family of Yuri Grigoryevich Doronin (born 15 September 1937) and Zinaida Mikhailovna Doronina (born 2 October 1935). He graduated from the Moscow Lomonosov State University.

Business career

Marc Rich + Co
In 1985 he relocated to Geneva and then to Zug, Switzerland, where he worked under Marc Rich. In his twenties, Doronin also worked in Hong Kong trading commodities in the late 80s and early 90s.

Capital Group

In 1993 Doronin co-founded Capital Group, which entered the Moscow commercial real estate market with class A offices and retail projects, and later expanded with other premium residential developments. Doronin's equal partners in Capital Group from the early 90s were Pavel Tio and Eduard Berman. Capital Group has built up its portfolio to include 71 high-end residential and commercial projects with a total of  of space.

In 2009 Doronin's Capital Group built the City of Capitals mixed-use (office and residential) complex in Moscow City, which consisted of two highrise towers and until 2011 was the highest building in Russia. The complex was designed by Erick van Egeraat.

In 2011 Capital Group built the award-winning Legend of Tsvetnoy residential, office and retail complex in Moscow. The complex was designed by NBBJ.

In 2013 Doronin's Capital Group formed a joint venture with Gavriil Yushvaev, a Russian entrepreneur, for the construction of OKO — a mixed-use (commercial and residential) highrise development in the Moscow International Business Center. In 2016,  of office space in the OKO development was sold to the Government of Moscow.

In a February 2016 Forbes interview, Doronin explained that Capital Group is jointly managed by the three partners who take strategic decisions together. The operational responsibilities are divided with Doronin responsible for asset sales and acquisitions, attracting investors, development of architectural concepts and marketing, Pavel Tio in charge of relations with the Moscow construction complex, new project and legal work and Berman focusing on fit-out and construction work in Capital Group projects.

In March 2022 Doronin sued The Real Deal for defamation. The suit was filed after the magazine published articles about pro-Ukrainian protests near one of his hotel in Manhattan. Doronin demanded $20 million in damages and claimed that the articles falsely stated that he was Russian and implied that he supported the Putin regime. In April 2022 Doronin filed a defamation lawsuit Swift Communications, a holding company, which owns The Aspen Times after the newspaper published opinion pieces and a letter to the editor, which implied that Doronin was using his Aspen investment to launder tainted money from Russia. Doronin asked for punitive damages to be imposed on Swift Communications, claiming that The Aspen Times "has chosen to … sensationalize a false narrative that targets Mr. Doronin simply because he was born in what is today Russia".

Until April 2022 he held a 33% stake in Capital Group valued at US$74.5 million. He transferred the ownership in the company to his mother on 14 April, one day after he filed his lawsuit against The Aspen Times. According to Doronin's court filings, he earned his wealth legitimately and could not be considered a Russian oligarch, because "oligarchs are not merely wealthy individuals of Russian origin; they are individuals who have amassed their wealth through the exploitation of Russian natural resources, corrupt direction of Russian state-owned enterprises, and close political affiliation with Vladimir Putin." This description, the suit argued, does not fit Doronin. During the pendency of the suit, coverage of Doronin was suspended by the publisher. Tension over the matter resulted in firing of the editor, Andrew Travers. The legal action was settled by confidential agreement and dismissed on 27 May 2022.

Aman Resorts

Doronin led a group of investors to buy out luxury hospitality company Aman Resorts in 2014. In doing so, Doronin became involved in an ownership dispute with Omar Amanat and Aman's founder, Adrian Zecha. Amanat had partnered with both Zecha and Doronin to buy Aman, and had been expected to contribute $10 million for a jointly-funded deposit. In early January, Doronin received a financial statement showing the money was from Zecha instead. The partnership then fell apart: in April, Zecha announced his resignation as CEO and chairman ahead of a scheduled end-of-July departure, and Doronin took over as CEO. A week later, Zecha was locked out of his office and was also removed from his Aman-owned home, after which he and Amanat claimed ownership of the company. By July, the dispute had escalated into legal matters, with a London High Court temporarily reinstating Zecha, and Doronin suing Amanat in New York City and alleging fraud.

Johan Eliasch, president of International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS), was an investor in Aman Resorts since 2014, loaning the company 25 million dollars and investing another 25 million. In 2014–18 Eliasch served as chair of Aman's board of directors and held a 14% stake in the company. FIS chose Aspen for the Men's World Cup skiing races in May 2022, two months after Doronin's acquisition of a prime land lot in Aspen and 8 months after the election of Eliasch as president of FIS.

Doronin partnered with Michael Shvo in 2015 to buy floors 4 through 24 of the New York Crown Building in New York for about $500 million as an Aman development project. Following the purchase he redeveloped the building to include 83 hotel rooms and 22 apartments within the tower, Infrastructural facilities, a three-story  spa, a jazz club, a cigar bar and restaurants.

In March 2016, the High Court in London confirmed a settlement reached between Doronin and the liquidators of an Amanat-founded company, recognizing Doronin's full acquisition of Aman Resorts. Amanat was later convicted in 2017 by the federal court of wire fraud and conspiracy and sentenced to five years in prison.

In March 2019 Nader Tavakoli, an investor, filed a lawsuit against Doronin related to the acquisition of Aman Resorts. Tavakoli claimed that he brokered the acquisition and was promised equity interest, but was intentionally cut out of the venture by Doronin and his business partner Carl Johan Eliasch. Doronin's motion to dismiss the case for lack of personal jurisdiction was defeated.

In early 2021 Doronin announced the opening of the Aman groups Crown Building hotel and condo complex, Aman New York, which opened to the public in August 2022. It was reported that a nightly cost of a base-level suite starts at $3,200 or a $200,000 admission fee. The building is reported to have 22 permanent residences.

In January 2022 Doronin announced Aman's latest contract with Italy's T.Mariotti shipyard to build a luxury yacht and cruise ship, Aman named the plans "project Sama". The project is a joint venture between Aman and Cruise Saudi and plans to see 600 feet long and 23,000-ton luxury yacht to be created to host around 100 guests.

In August 2022 Doronin announced that the Aman Group has released a collection of leather goods as part of the Aman Essentials line, this line included passport cases, bags and wallets. The collection ranges from $250 to $4,000. CEO of Aman Essentials Kristina Romanova worked on the designs of the collection. The company announced it would offer private jet tours of Aman hotel and resort locations in March 2023 including stops in Japan, India, Thailand, Bhutan, Turkey, and Greece. Another tour in April 2023 would span from Japan to Morocco. A third is planned in only Japan using high-speed train and helicopter trips.

OKO Group

Doronin's real estate development company OKO Group announced in March 2016 a luxury residential development of a 649-foot, 57-story tower, Missoni Baia, in collaboration with Italian fashion house Missoni. At  high, OKO Tower in central Moscow is Europe's tallest completed skyscraper as of April 2016.

In 2020 with Doronin as chairman and CEO, OKO Group had partnered with Cain International and began construction on a 57-story office tower at 830 Brickell, Miami, the first office skyscraper built there in over a decade. A second partnership between OKO Group and Cain International in Miami took place with the development of a 47-story residential tower called Una on the Brickell Waterfront.

Under Doronin, in March 2022 OKO bought nearly one acre of land on Aspen Mountain's underdeveloped west side for 76 million dollars from Norway Island LLC, a business entity comprising Jim DeFrancia, Bryan Peterson and Jeff Gorsuch, a former U.S. ski team downhill racer, a proprietor of a small chain of high-end retail ski shops, and cousin of Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch. The deal generated much controversy in Aspen because eight months earlier, Gorsuch and his partners bought the plot from the Aspen Skiing Company for 10 million dollars. According to Doronin, he has a long-term plan, which involves building a luxury hotel property on the site.

In 2022 OKO Group and Cain International bought the Edgewater House and The Ambassador Palm Beach Hotel & Residences in Palm Beach for $147 million. Doronin and Cain acquired a $105 million loan from MSD Partners, known as Michael Dell's investment firm. The Purchase of the property highlights the latest partnership between Doronin's OKO group and Cain since their joint venture in developing 830 Brickell in 2020.

In July 2022, Doronin announced the OKO group had secured a $97 million construction loan for a new development project in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The property, a 34-story tower is set to have 251 units and . OKO Group announced the project is to be design by architect Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill, who have previously worked on projects such as the Central Park Tower in Manhattan and the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia.

Janu
In March 2020, with Doronin as CEO Aman launched the sister brand of Aman, Janu. Janu is aimed to be the inverse of Aman's locations, with an energetic atmosphere. Doronin announced in March 2020 that the Janu brand will launch three hotels that are under construction in Montenegro, Saudi Arabia and Tokyo. The first scheduled launch is aimed to be the Tokyo location in 2023.

Other ventures
Doronin owned the publishing rights in Germany and Russia to Interview magazine, the style magazine founded by Andy Warhol.

In March 2022 the Moscow Arbitration Court ordered OOO Ballini, a real estate management firm founded by Doronin, into bankruptcy procedures.

Art collection
Doronin collects not only artworks by avant-garde artists (Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky), but also by contemporary artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Anish Kapoor, Ed Ruscha, Richard Prince, Urs Fisher, Frank Stella, Julian Schnabel. In 2009, he started the Capital Group Art Foundation, a foundation to support artists.

Doronin has close ties among the art community: artists, gallerists and dealers. He has become friends with some of them. Doronin's friends includes Tony Shafrazi, a New York gallery owner and dealer, who taught him about contemporary art and the late actor and photographer Dennis Hopper.

Personal life
Doronin was married to Ekaterina Moulari for over 20 years, though have been separated for at least a decade as of 2012. According to British Vogue, Moulari was quoted as saying that the couple were still married as of 2011. Doronin was in a relationship with English supermodel Naomi Campbell from 2008 until 2013. He has been in a relationship with Kristina Romanova since 2015.

Born in the Soviet Union, he renounced his Soviet citizenship in 1986. He has since become a Swedish citizen. He is also a resident of Switzerland, has a home in Miami, Florida, and owns an apartment in One Hyde Park, London, UK. In October 2021 the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands dismissed the appeal from Doronin against the 2019 ruling, which ordered him to demolish the works carried out illegally in 2014 at his mansion in a forested area on protected rustic land in Ibiza. The illegal construction was located in Platges de Comte by the Nature Protection Service of Spain's Civil Guard in 2014 but the case dragged on for several years. The High Court's ruling ordered Doronin to pay a fine of 1 million euros to Sant Josep City Council and triggered another legal case evaluating the seriousness of the urban infraction committed by Doronin. It was decided that illegal works are to be demolished by Doronin and, if he fails to do so, by the Sant Josep Town Hall.

In a 2016 interview with Forbes, Doronin said that he frequently travels to Moscow where he owns a business and to visit friends. In 2018, Doronin finished building Capital Hill Residence, his private residence in Barvikha, a prestigious neighborhood outside of Moscow. The property, designed by Zaha Hadid, has  of space and includes a swimming pool, spa and a library and was estimated to have a market value of $140 million. He sold the property in 2022.

Doronin is a friend of Leonardo DiCaprio. In November 2010 Doronin and his then partner Naomi Campbell were among the organizers of the Help the Tiger charity event, which took place at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg and which was attended by DiCaprio and Vladimir Putin.

For many years Doronin has been regularly practicing Qigong, including breathing techniques and fighting methods, and has demonstrated his abilities by demolishing slabs of marble with his head and breaking metal-tipped wooden spears against his throat. According to Doronin, the practice of Qigong is not only limited to martial aspects but allows to heal people from various diseases, including cancer.

Awards and recognition
For his contributions to the Russian Orthodox Church Doronin has been decorated by Patriarch Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus, the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

On 31 December 2010 Vladimir Putin in his decree N2502-p has awarded Vladislav Doronin with a Certificate of Merit of the Government of Russian Federation and expressed to him the gratitude of the Government of the Russian Federation for Doronin's role in organizing the charity event in support of the disappearing tiger species, which was attended by Putin and DiCaprio.

In 2010 Doronin won "Businessman of the Year" award in Russia. The award ceremony took place on 25 February 2010 in the Moscow Kremlin.

In June 2022 he was recognized as one of the 100 Most Powerful People in Global Hospitality by the International Hospitality Institute's  Global 100.

References

External links

 Vladislav Doronin's Personal Website

Russian billionaires
1962 births
Living people
Russian chief executives
Russian businesspeople in real estate
Real estate and property developers
Businesspeople from Saint Petersburg
Real estate company founders
Chief executive officers in the real estate industry
Russian businesspeople in the United Kingdom
Moscow State University alumni


NICMAR University, also known as the National Institute of Construction Management and Research (NICMAR), is a renowned higher education provider and a pioneer in techno-managerial studies in India, with a history spanning four decades.

NICMAR University is Recognised as State Private University by UGC.NICMAR University Pune Act (L. C. Bill No. Of 2022) was passed by Maharashtra State Government on 16th March, 2022 and appeared in “Maharashtra Government Gazette” on 12th May 2022 (Mah. Act No. XXXVI of 2022).

NICMAR Recognized by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO) and is headquartered at Walchand Centre, Tardeo, Mumbai, India.

Profile
NICMAR was founded in 1982 as a result of a joint effort by a group of major construction companies in India headed by Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) whose Chairman, Ajit Gulabchand, put forth the idea of setting up an advanced research centre in construction management. HCC contributed  30,000,000 towards the setting up of the proposed institute. The result was the establishment of the institute with headquarters at Walchand Centre, Tardeo in Mumbai.

The University has a mandate to provide a platform for advanced research and training on the subject and for dissemination of knowledge through print and audiovisual media, conferences and seminars. It also undertakes projects on behalf of other organizations.

In 1990, NICMAR was accredited by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO). Advanced Construction Management Program, a higher studies program conducted by NICMAR in association with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, International Labour Organization and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad is considered to be a premium education program by the industry. The program is funded by UNDP and has visiting faculty from MIT, University of Michigan, University of Loughborough, and IIMA as per agreements with the respective organizations.

Facilities
NICMAR maintains a library at its main campus in Pune which stocks more than 40000 printed materials by way of reference books, bound volumes, journals and other international publications and reference materials in digital media. It also keeps references on national and international standards such as Bureau of Indian Standards, Indian Roads Congress, International Federation of Consulting Engineers, Geneva, (FIDIC) and International Labour Organization, Geneva.

The collections include 25000 books and theses, 10000 bound volumes of journals and 5000 e-references in the form of compact discs. It also subscribes to 79 periodicals and 9 newspapers such as Proquest ABI Inform, ebrary-Business and Economics, ASCE Journals, ASCE Proceedings, SCIENCEDIRECT – Business, Management and Accounting, Sage Journals, CMIE Prowess, CMIE Industry Outlook, CMIE Economic Outlook and CMIE Capex.

The other infrastructural facilities include Classrooms, Computer Labs, Conference Halls, Auditorium, Open Air Theatre, Student's Hostel, Executive Hostel, Dining Facility, Indoor and Outdoor Sports and Wi-Fi Facility.

Associations and collaborations
NICMAR has entered into collaborative associations with several organizations of national and international repute working in the fields of construction, real estate, projects and infrastructure.

 Knowledge Partnership: With The Economic Times, Construction Week magazine and CREDAI
 NICMAR is associating Bentley Education .
 NICMAR is associating with Construction World magazine for recognizing excellence of construction companies based on a rating program developed by NICMAR, called Construction World NICMAR Award for the most admired company in the field of construction.
 PMI Organisation Centre Private Limited, a subsidiary of Project Management Institute (PMI) has placed an endowment at NICMAR for promoting research excellence by awarding two scholarships to the best students at NICMAR.
 NICMAR is an alliance member of the Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance for the use of Microsoft ERP programs and has set up a Construction ERP laboratory in Pune campus, known to be the first of its kind in India.
 NICMAR utilises the services of the Construction Computer Software (CCS), South Africa for project estimation and control by way of CANDY, an industry specific software developed by CCS.
 Palisade EMEA and India, a subsidiary of Palisade Corporation, UK, is a software partner of NICMAR for the use of "Decision Tools Suite Industrial, an ERP software for risk analysis.

Courses

NICMAR offers several MBA & post graduate level courses in the field of project engineering and construction management, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Project and Management areas. It also conducts short, medium and long term programs for executive development, primarily aimed at construction industry. The longer duration programs are based at Pune and Hyderabad campuses .At the end of every year, Invites application for all its courses.
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MBA in Advanced Construction Management (ACM)
Change the face of the world of construction with this interdisciplinary postgraduate program designed to prepare for a stellar management career. Cutting-edge practical and technical skills to manage people and large-scale projects within the construction industry.

MBA in Advanced Project Management (APM)
This comprehensive program allows to acquire all the necessary skills need to take the reins of the biggest, most complex engineering and non-engineering projects, and see to success.

Integrated Masters of Business Administration (IMBA)
A comprehensive management program designed for the leaders of tomorrow, the I-MBA program is spread across ten semesters over a period of five years.

Postgraduate Diploma in Management of Family-owned Construction Business (PGD MFOCB)
The groundwork for to enhance business acumen, technical skills, and develop extraordinary leadership abilities - all of which help family business to the next level.

Postgraduate Diploma in Quantity Surveying and Construction Management (PGD QSCM)
Learn how to manage and control the cost aspects, mitigate risks, ensure regulatory and policy compliance, and make way for sustainable practices across the realm.

MBA in Real Estate and Urban Infrastructure Management (MBA REUIM)
Venture into the urban infrastructural sector as a professional with futuristic insights. Spread across four exciting semesters, this sought-after postgraduate program develops leaders that make solid contributions to the nation's economic progress.

The objective of the all programmes is to develop a professional techno-managerial leader with the potential to manage complex infrastructure projects and organisations in India and globally, with distinct competencies in project evaluation and appraisal, infrastructure project planning, financing, design, control and monitoring construction, project execution, operation and maintenance etc., so as to improve the economic, environmental and social sustainability of the infrastructure systems.

Executive Education
NICMAR has put in place an inservice program executive development program, open to executives working in the construction and related industries, government departments and other interested corporate entities. The program is designed to provide the executives with higher managerial and technical skills.

Distance Education
NICMAR offers various programs by distance education mode. The courses were discontinued in January 2018 after the November 2017 Supreme Court ruling that technical education cannot be provided through distance learning or correspondence courses.

Two Year Post Graduate Distance Education Programs
 Post Graduate Program in Construction Management (PGP CM)
 Post Graduate Program in Project Management (PGP PM)
 Post Graduate Program in Infrastructure Development and Management (PGP IDM)
 Post Graduate Program in Construction Business Management (PGP CBM)
 Post Graduate Program in Real Estate Management (PGP REM)
 Post Graduate Program in Quantity Surveying (PGP QS)
 Post Graduate Program in Health, Safety and Environment Management (PGP HSEM)

One Year Part Time Week-end Post Graduate Programs
 Post Graduate Program in Quantity Surveying and Contract Management (PGP QSCM)
 Post Graduate Program in Construction Management for Working Executives (PGP CMWE)
 Post Graduate Program in Project Management for Working Executives (PGP PMWE)
 Post Graduate Program in Facilities Management for Working Executives (PGP FMWE).

Graduate Programs
 Graduate Program in Construction Project Management (GP PM)
 Graduate Program in Construction Business Management (GP CBM)
 Graduate Program in Construction Safety Management (GP CSM)
 Graduate Program in Construction Quantity Surveying (GP QS)
 Graduate Program in Power Sector Project Management (GP PSPM)
 Graduate Program in Contract Administration and Dispute Management(GP CADM)

Centres

NICMAR PUNE Campus
The campus of NICMAR Pune is at Balewadi, in Pune, along the Mumbai-Bangalore Expressway, on a land measuring 11 acres of land, with a total built up area of 377,676 sq ft. The campus hosts the administration and faculty offices, various classrooms, library, computer centre, dining hall, auditorium and a documentation centre. It also provides facilities such as medical clinic, community hall and indoor and outdoor recreational areas.

NICMAR HYDERABAD Campus
NICMAR Hyderabad (Shamirpet) campus is situated at Shamirpet, 30 kilometres away from the Secunderabad Railway Station and 7 kilometres from Ratnalayam Temple which is on the Karimnagar highway. It has over 3,34,609 square feet built-up area on a 31.46 acre plot of land.

Publications
The Institute publishes a periodical, Journal of Construction Management () for dissemination of information on modern technologies in construction management.

See also

 Construction engineering
 Construction management

References

External links

 on WorldCat
 News report on The Economic Times.
 Top 5 Construction Management Colleges in India 2019

Higher education in India
Construction management
Project Management Institute
Construction industry of India


title: Womanlight

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Womanlight () is a 1979 film by Costa-Gavras based on the 1977 novel Clair de femme by Romain Gary.

Cast
 Yves Montand as Michel Follin
 Romy Schneider as Lydia Tovalski
 Romolo Valli as Galba
 Lila Kedrova as Sonia Tovalski
 Heinz Bennent as Georges
 Roberto Benigni as The barman
 Dieter Schidor as Sven Svensson
 Catherine Allégret as The prostitute
 François Perrot as Alain
 Daniel Mesguich as Inspector Curbec
 Gabriel Jabbour as Sacha
 Jean-Claude Bouillaud as The pilot
 Gabriel Dussurget as The theater director
 Jacques Dynam as The taxi
 Jean Reno as The cop
 Michel Robin as The doctor
 Miranda Campa as The maid
 Giuliana Calandra

References

External links

1979 films
Films about suicide
Films based on French novels
Films based on works by Romain Gary
Films directed by Costa Gavras
French drama films
West German films
Italian drama films
Constantin Film films
Gaumont Film Company films
German drama films
1970s French films
1970s Italian films
1970s German films


title: Chittor Vijay

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Chittor Vijay is a 1947 Hindi language film directed by Mohan Sinha, featuring Raj Kapoor and Madhubala in the lead roles.

Cast

 Raj Kapoor
 Madhubala as Sobhagya Devi
 Monica Desai
 Madan Puri

Music
"Aaye Re Aaye Badal Jaise Chori"
"Ber Le Lo Ber"
"Har Zaban Par Ek Nara"
"Ho Rangoli Ho Rasila Rakhi Ka Din Aaya Re"
"Kahe More Mohan Ne Mujhko Bulaya"
"Mai Chumchum Karthi Bijli Hu"
"Naino Se Naino Ki Pyas Bujhao"
"Pi Lo Maharaja"

References

External links

1947 films
1940s Hindi-language films
Films scored by S. D. Burman
Indian black-and-white films


title: Benken railway station

text:
Benken railway station () is a railway station situated in the municipality of Benken in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is located on the Rapperswil to Ziegelbrücke line.

The station is served by the hourly St. Gallen S-Bahn S6 service, which links Rapperswil with Schwanden via Uznach and Ziegelbrücke.

Services
 the following services stop at Benken:

 St. Gallen S-Bahn : hourly service between  and  via .

References

External links

Railway stations in the canton of St. Gallen
Swiss Federal Railways stations


title: Greg Cooper

text:
Gregory John Luke Cooper (born 10 June 1965) is a New Zealand rugby union former player and current coach. A fullback, Cooper represented Hawke's Bay, Otago and Auckland at a provincial level and the  in Super Rugby.

In the Rugby Almanack of New Zealand, Cooper was selected as one of the "Five promising players" from the 1984 season and one of the "Five players of the year" for the 1991 season.

He was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in 1986 and 1992, and played seven matches, all of them tests, for the team.  he holds the record for the most points scored for Otago.

Cooper was appointed coach of the Otago team for the 2003 and 2004 seasons.

In 2022 Cooper was named coach of the Utah Warriors in the Major League Rugby competition.

References

1965 births
Living people
Rugby union players from Gisborne, New Zealand
New Zealand rugby union players
New Zealand rugby union coaches
New Zealand international rugby union players
Hawke's Bay rugby union players
Otago rugby union players
Auckland rugby union players
Blues (Super Rugby) players
Rugby union fullbacks
People educated at St John's College, Hastings


title: Andrew Glazewski

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Canon Andrew Konstanty Glazewski (1905 – 6 November 1973) was a Polish Catholic priest, lecturer in spirituality, healer and researcher into dowsing, the Earth's magnetic field, and paranormal phenomena. He settled in Britain in 1947 after serving as chaplain to the Polish forces during World War II. From 1948 until his death he served as parish priest at Ilford Park, a settlement of Polish exiles in South Devon. His published papers examine the nature of gravity, the human field, the Earth's magnetism, the mechanics of prayer and the theory and the practice of healing. A close associate of Sir George Trevelyan, he was a co-founder of the Scientific and Medical Network.

Early life and education

Glazewski was born in the family home on the banks of the Dniestr, close to the Ukrainian village of Chmielowa. The family were landed gentry, regarded themselves as Polish, though Poland did not exist as a political entity. In 1915 the family moved to Lviv. He enrolled in Lviv University to study law. However, in 1924 he received his vocation to the priesthood. At first he joined the Dominican order but, finding that the discipline was too austere, he entered a secular novitiate in Lviv. He was ordained in 1931, subsequently studied Theology at Angelicum University in Rome. In 1938 he returned to Poland and was assigned a small parish near Chmielowa. Following the outbreak of World War II, he escaped through Romania to Rome, and then came to Britain in 1940. He served as army chaplain to the Polish forces, and attained the rank of captain. Following D-Day, he was assigned as chaplain to the 10th Mounted Rifles Regiment and sent to Europe. He was wounded twice, later received the Polish Cross of Valour and the Silver Cross of Merit with Swords. Returning to England he served as chaplain to a large community of Polish exiles housed in army barracks near Newton Abbot, Devon --- a position he held until his death.

Work with Jan Rosen

While at Lviv University (1923-1925) Andrew Glazewski worked closely with the artist Jan Henryk de Rosen who was commissioned to paint the interior of the Armenian Cathedral in Lviv. Rosen used Glazewski as a model for Saint Andrew in his fresco "The Founding of the Blessed Sacrament", and as Saint Stephen. Later while attending the Lviv Seminary Glazewski founded a youth movement "Odrodzenie" whose goal was a renewal of Catholic faith that met frequently in the Cathedral. Around 1931  Rosen painted Glazewski as the priest Ignacy Skorupca in his fresco "The Miracle at the Vistula" in the Pope's private chapel at Castello Gandolfo.

Scientific Interests

Along with his theological studies, Glazewski studied physics and became conversant with the latest discoveries in Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. After discovering that he could use his hands to heal, sometimes over large distances, he set about formulating a field theory to explain how it worked. In "The Gravitational Wave"  he speculates that gravity contains a scalar field analogous to sound. "The Music of Crystals, Plants and Human Beings" built on the works of J.C. Bose, Alexander Gurwitsch and Gustaf Stromberg. It explores the role of sound and musical harmonics in the development and form of crystals, plants and animals. The paper shows how he tested many of his theories in his laboratory. "A New Suspension of the Magnetic Needle" describes a detector he built to measure the Earth's vertical current, and data he gathered using this detector. He also develops his hypothesis that a bar magnet has additional poles, East-West poles. Throughout his life he taught the Psycho-Physical Healing technique that he had developed,  a precursor to non-contact healing methods such as Therapeutic Touch.He explained the physics behind the healing technique in his paper to the London Hospital Gazette.

Spiritual and pastoral work
Glazewski was in strong demand as a retreat leader in Polish communities such as the boys' school, Divine Mercy College and parishes in London.  He held annual camps for young people of his parish on St. Mary's (Isles of Scilly). He was recognized for his healing work and for his spiritual teaching, both in his parish and among English speaking congregations. He drew on the psychological works of Carl Jung, Dionysius the Areopagite and the musicologist, Hans Kayser. An admirer of Thomas Aquinas's theology, he translated part of the Summa Theologica into Polish. He taught contemplative prayer and meditation, emphasizing God as a field that permeates all of nature. In 1965 Sir George Trevelyan invited Glazewski to lecture at the adult education center at Attingham Park in Shropshire on psychology and healing. He taught there regularly until the Center's closure in 1971.

Glazewski often spoke about founding a university that would study issues at the boundary of spirituality and medicine. In 1973, he contacted George Blaker and Dr Patrick Shackleton, Dean of Postgraduate Medical Studies at the University of Southampton, and suggested that they collaborate to found such a center. They subsequently established the Scientific and Medical Network.

He died of a heart attack while participating at a workshop  at Hawkwood College near Stroud, November 6, 1973. His body rests in Newton Abbot cemetery.

Bibliography

"The Gravitational Wave,", Proceedings of the Scientific and Technical Congress of Radionics and Radiesthesia, London, May, 1950.

"The Music of Crystals, Plants and Human Beings" , Radio Perception, September 1951

"A New Suspension of the Magnetic Needle", Radio Perception Vol XI, 80, June 1953

"Can there be any science behind Healing Hands?"
The London Hospital Gazette, March 1967.

"Milosc" from the "Summa Teologica" by St. Thomas Aquinas, translated into Polish with notes by Andrew Glazewski. Publ. Veritas, 1967

"The Human Field in Medical Problems", Psionic Medicine, 1970

"The Pattern of Telepathic Communication", The Radionic Association, 1974.

"The Mechanics of Prayer", The Wrekin Trust, 1974

Harmony of the Universe A compilation of talks and writings, with biography and personal memories by Paul Kieniewicz, White Crow Books, 2014,

Audio Lectures by Canon Andrew Glazewski

The Mechanics of Prayer, 1965

The Science Behind Healing, 1968

Angels, 1968

References

1905 births
1973 deaths
20th-century Polish Roman Catholic priests
Polish psychics


title: Crux 92

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Crux 92 is an action game for the ZX Spectrum developed by Marek Trefny and published by Ultrasoft in 1992.

Plot
The game is set in 2210 when a spaceship IKERI sets up from TRICHI base on Mars. The task of its crew is to find deposits of Filium (the main material of the 23rd century) in Crux constellation. Spaceships can at these times replenish fuel and food on bases that were built on little planets. These bases are controlled  by a Main Robot whose minions are less intelligent robots. Problem is that when IKERI needs to replenish its resources, the crew finds out that the base they need to land on is led by a main robot who revolted against humans and built a huge  complex with 60 floors. If the crew wants to land on the planet, The main robot has to be destroyed along with the complex. One of the crew members is sent to the complex where he tries to accomplish the task.

The crew member gets through all floors and activates the self-destruction in every single floor, which destroys the main robot and the complex. IKERI can now replenish its resources and continue in its mission.

Gameplay
The player controls a cosmonaut whose goal is to destroy all enemies in the level and activate bombs. He can push red boxes to change the way of enemy. Heh has to lure them this way into mines that kill them. When he kills all enemies, he has to get to the switch and activate planted bombs. When bombs are planted, player has to get away from them, otherwise is killed.

Development
The game was developed by a Prague-based developer Marek Trefny. It was made with a programme OCP Editor + Assembler. The graphics was created in OCP Art Studio and Artist 2. It was the first title by Trefny.

Reception
The game was reviewed in Ultrasoft's own video game magazine BiT. It scored with 91%. The biggest praise was gained for the gameplay and the idea of the game. The story was also praised. The reviewer called Crux 92 a "splendid game that overcome all his expectations."

References

External links
Official Site

1992 video games
Action games
Europe-exclusive video games
Science fiction video games
Single-player video games
Ultrasoft games
Video games developed in the Czech Republic
Video games set in the 23rd century
Video games set on Mars
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games


title: Tuma Tumani

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Tuma Tumani (Aymara tuma detour, a long way round, the reduplication signifies that there is a group or a complex of something, -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with many detours", Hispanicized and broken name Tomaromani) is a mountain in the Andes of southern Peru, about  high. It is situated in the Puno Region, El Collao Province, Capazo District. Tuma Tumani lies east of the mountain Jiwaña at the plain named Jiwaña Pampa. The Jiwaña River flows along its slopes before it reaches the Mawri River (Mauri).

See also
 Sura Wiqu
 Wanq'uri

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Puno Region


title: Balls into bins problem

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The balls into bins (or balanced allocations) problem is a classic problem in probability theory that has many applications in computer science. The problem involves m balls and n boxes (or "bins"). Each time, a single ball is placed into one of the bins. After all balls are in the bins, we look at the number of balls in each bin; we call this number the load on the bin. The problem can be modelled using a Multinomial distribution, and may involve asking a question such as: What is the expected number of bins with a ball in them?

Obviously, it is possible to make the load as small as m/n by putting each ball into the least loaded bin. The interesting case is when the bin is selected at random, or at least partially at random. A powerful balls-into-bins paradigm is  the "power of two random choices" where each ball chooses two (or more) random bins and is placed in the lesser-loaded bin. This paradigm has found wide practical applications in shared-memory emulations, efficient hashing schemes, randomized load balancing of tasks on servers, and routing of packets within parallel networks and data centers.

Random allocation
When the bin for each ball is selected at random, independent of other choices, the maximum load might be as large as  However, it is possible to calculate a tighter bound that holds with high probability. A "high probability" is a probability , i.e. the probability tends to  when  grows to infinity.

For the case , with probability  the maximum load is:

.

Gonnet
gave a tight bound for the expected value of the maximum load, which for  is , where  is the inverse of the gamma function, and it is known that .

The maximum load can also be calculated for , and for example, for  it is , and for  it is , with high probability.

Exact probabilities for small  can be computed as  for  defined in OEIS A208250.

Partially random allocation
Instead of just selecting a random bin for each ball, it is possible to select two or more bins for each ball and then put the ball in the least loaded bin. This is a compromise between a deterministic allocation, in which all bins are checked and the least loaded bin is selected, and a totally random allocation, in which a single bin is selected without checking other bins. This paradigm often called the "power of two random choices" has been studied in a number of settings below.

In the simplest case, if one allocates  balls into  bins (with ) sequentially one by one, and for each ball one chooses  random bins at each step and then allocates the ball into the least loaded of the selected bins (ties broken arbitrarily), then with high probability the maximum load is:

which is almost exponentially less than with totally random allocation.

This result can be generalized to the case  (with ), when with high probability the maximum load is:

which is tight up to an additive constant. (All the bounds hold with probability at least  for any constant .) Note that for , the random allocation process gives only the maximum load of  with high probability, so the improvement between these two processes is especially visible for large values of .

Other key variants of the paradigm are "parallel balls-into-bins" where  balls choose  random bins in parallel, "weighted balls-into-bins" where balls have non-unit weights, and "balls-into-bins with deletions" where balls can be added as well as deleted.

Infinite stream of balls
Instead of just putting m balls, it is possible to consider an infinite process in which, at each time step, a single ball is added and a single ball is taken, such that the number of balls remains constant. For m=n, after a sufficiently long time, with high probability the maximum load is similar to the finite version, both with random allocation and with partially random allocation.

Repeated balls-into-bins
In a repeated variant of the process,  balls are initially distributed in  bins in an arbitrary way and then, in every subsequent step of a discrete-time process, one ball is chosen from each non-empty bin and re-assigned to one of the  bins uniformly at random. When , it has been shown that with high probability the process converges to a configuration with maximum load  after  steps.

Applications
Online Load Balancing: consider a set of n identical computers. There are n users who need computing services. The users are not coordinated - each users comes on his own and selects which computer to use. Each user would of course like to select the least loaded computer, but this requires to check the load on each computer, which might take a long time. Another option is to select a computer at random; this leads, with high probability, to a maximum load of . A possible compromise is that the user will check only two computers, and use the lesser loaded of the two. This leads, with high probability, to a much smaller maximum load of .

Hashing: consider a hash table in which all keys mapped to the same location are stored in a linked list. The efficiency of accessing a key depends on the length of its list. If we use a single hash function which selects locations with uniform probability, with high probability the longest chain has  keys. A possible improvement is to use two hash functions, and put each new key in the shorter of the two lists. In this case, with high probability the longest chain has only  elements.

Fair cake-cutting: consider the problem of creating a partially proportional division of a heterogeneous resource among  people, such that each person receives a part of the resource which that person values as at least  of the total, where  is some sufficiently large constant. The Edmonds–Pruhs protocol is a randomized algorithm whose analysis make use of balls-into-bins arguments.

References

Probability problems


Baron Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein  (30 July 1768 in Stuttgart – 28 June 1826 in Merefa) was an early explorer of the flora and archeology of the southern portion of Imperial Russia, including the Caucasus and Novorossiya. He compiled the first comprehensive flora catalogue of the Crimeo-Caucasian region.

Origin
Friedrich Marschall von Bieberstein was the son of a Colonel from Württemberg 'Conrad Otto Christoph Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein' (17 March 1726 – 25 May 1796), and his wife 'Johanna Theresia Henriette' née Wolf from Ludwigsburg (21 December 1738 – 1783). They married on 21 September 1761.

The 'Marschall von Bieberstein' family can trace its origins back over 800 years to the region today called Saxony in eastern Germany. The current family name derives from Bieberstein castle near Dresden.
He had three brothers, Carl Wilhelm Marschall von Bieberstein (1764–1817), who was from 1792 worked in Baden, then in 1800 became President of the Privy Councillor, then 1806 part of the Privy Council (known as the Geheimrat in Germany) and in 1809, Baden Minister of the Interior and finally in 1811, an Envoy in Stuttgart, and 'Ernst Franz Ludwig Marschall von Bieberstein (1770–1834), Chief Minister (Staatsminister) of the Duchy of Nassau between 1806 and 1834.  All three brothers were graduates of 'Carl's High School' (Hohe Carls-Schule) in Stuttgart.

Biography
Friedrich August began a career in the military, but then worked for Prince Kraft Ernest of Oettingen-Wallerstein in Vienna. He then moved to Iași where he served as secretary to Count Mikhail Kakhovsky.

In 1793, von Bieberstein became aide-de-camp to Kakhovsky and was sent to Crimea. Soon afterwards, he met fellow German naturalist, Peter Simon Pallas, who encouraged his interest in natural history and botany. He then to collect specimens as he travelled around the Caucasus. He was especially thorough around the town of 'Karassu Bazar' (now called Bilohirsk in Crimea), which was a former blackwater market. In the spring of 1794, he collected specimens around Sevastopol.

In 1795, he travelled to St. Petersburg, sent (by Empress Catherine II the Great) with the invading Russian forces into Persia. He explored the western shore of the Caspian Sea. He collected many herbarium specimens all along the way, he published an account of his journey in French in 1798 "Tableau des provinces situées sur la côte occidentale de la mer Caspienne entre les fleuves Terek et Kour" (and in German in 1800) (and into English in 1807) which contained a great deal of botanical information, including 74 new species descriptions. He also drew an archaeological map of the Taman Peninsula in 1796. Now stored with the St Petersburg branch of the archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The sudden death of Empress Catherine ended the Persian campaign in 1796 and von Bieberstein went to Moscow.

In 1798, he undertook a second trip to the Caucasus, in which he explored in detail the northern and eastern parts of the mountains.

In 1799, von Bieberstein was appointed privy-councillor (known as 'Director of the Silk House'), responsible for the development of sericulture (silkworm breeding) in southern Russia,  giving him a plenty of ideal chances to travel around the region and continue his botanical studies and add to his collection.

Between 1802 and 1805, he went on his third and fourth trips to Caucasus to Georgia, which he explored the region, while based at Tbilisi. He was accompanied by the Count Mussin Pushkin.

In 1804, the Russian government sent him on a scientific mission to Germany and France, he studied the 'Near East' specimens in the Tournefort herbarium in Paris.

Later in 1804, Von Bieberstein married a Finnish woman named Miss Maria Kristina Klick (1785- ) and together they moved to Marefa (also known as Marfopol'ye).

Very soon afterwards he began to publish the 'Flora Taurico Caucasica' (from 1808 to 1819). The two volumes of books contain the descriptions of 2,322 Spermatophyte species of the caucasus region, from his various trips. In 1819, he published a supplementary volume, covering his later discovered specimens of the regions.  The books use the new Linnaean classification system.

Von Bieberstein remained in Marefa for the rest of his life and he developed orchards at 'Penz' and Poltava as well as supervising the military pharmaceutical gardens of Ukraine.

In 1810, he published a work with illustrations of south Russian plants entitled 'Centuria plantarum rariorum Rossiae meridionalis', in which 50 of his own hand-coloured engravings can be seen.

After his death, his approximately 10,000 specimens of his comprehensive plant collection was donated in 1828 to the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was housed in St. Petersburg. It is currently in the possession of the Komarov Botanical Institute. The important collection was preserved for more than a hundred years in an unavailable condition, and then in the late 60's, it was curated and made accessible to botanical scholars.

Honours
Bieberstein has received many honours, including belonging to the Order of St. Vladimir.

The botanical epithets, 'biebersteinii' are named after him. This includes Achillea biebersteinii, published by Huber-Morath in 1975. and Biebersteinia.

Bieberstein is recognised as the scientific authority for 1,695 plant taxa.

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1768 births
1826 deaths
Botanists active in Europe
18th-century German botanists
19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire
Russian archaeologists
Botanists with author abbreviations
People educated at the Karlsschule Stuttgart
Scientists from Stuttgart


title: Gordon (1903–1904)

text:
Gordon, Gordon Cycle & Motor Company Ltd was a British manufacturer of bicycles and motor cars in 1903 and 1904. It was established on the Seven Sisters Road, north London.

History
Gordon Cycle & Motor Company was established on the Seven Sisters Road, north London in 1903 and production ended in 1904.

Motorcars
The Gordon Miniature was a voiturette with a 6 hp single cylinder engine, two speed transmission and chain drive to the rear axle. It  weighed under 488 pounds and was priced at 125 guineas (£131.25).

In 1904 the car was enhanced with a 3 speed gearbox.

See also
 List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom

References

Other sources
 Harald Linz, Halwart Schrader: Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie. United Soft Media Verlag, München 2008, .
 George Nick Georgano (Chefredakteur): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G–O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, . (englisch)
 David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalogue of British Cars 1895–1975. Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester 1997, . (englisch)

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Cyclecars
Vehicle manufacture in London


title: Abbey Fields

text:
Abbey Fields is a  park that is found in the centre of Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. The park was once farmland belonging to St Mary's Abbey, which was dissolved in the middle of the sixteenth century and is now ruined. St Nicholas Church, with origins from the twelfth century, remains in the park.

The park is now maintained by Warwick District Council and has a leisure-centre complex which includes indoor and outdoor swimming pools, five tennis courts and a large play area for children. Other features of the park include a cafe, the town's war memorial, and a museum charting the history of the abbey, located in the old barn. As well as these manmade attractions, there is to be found a natural lake and Finham Brook, a tributary of the River Sowe. The volunteer-run organisation Friends of Abbey Fields works with the district council to maintain the park.

As the largest park in the town, it hosts a number of well-known events each year, such as the Lions Club show, the town carnival, bonfire night events and the Boxing Day charity duck race. It is also an orienteering venue used by the Midlands club Octavian Droobers.

Abbey Fields
Abbey Fields
Abbey Fields


title: Albulena Haxhiu

text:
Albulena Haxhiu (born 11 May 1987; ) is a Kosovo Albanian politician, currently serving as the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kosovo. She was previously a member of parliament for Vetëvendosje! in the Assembly of Kosovo.

Haxhiu studied law and finance at the University of Pristina. She is married and has three children. She then studied criminal law at the University of Southeast Europe in Tetovo.

Haxhiu is the granddaughter of Kosovar political activist Ahmet Haxhiu.

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
21st-century women politicians
Female justice ministers
Government ministers of Kosovo
Justice ministers of Kosovo
Kosovo Albanians
Politicians from Pristina
Women government ministers of Kosovo
Vetëvendosje politicians


title: Public High School (Raniganj)

text:
Public High School Raniganj is a government school in rural Bihar in India. It is situated in the Raniganj village of Gaya district of Bihar, and Year Of Recognition 1980 Its affiliated from Bihar School Examination Board.

References

High schools and secondary schools in Bihar
Gaya district
Educational institutions in India with year of establishment missing


title: Mark Redito

text:
Mark Redito, formerly known as Cocolulu and Spazzkid, is a Filipino musician based in Los Angeles, California.

Early life
Mark Redito was born in Manila, Philippines.

Career
In his teenage years, Mark Redito was part of the Philippine punk and hardcore scene, playing for bands like Aggressive Dog Attack and Honolulu. He also served as a vocalist for the emo band called On a Day Like Today. After that, he started creating electronic music, using the pseudonym Cocolulu. He then changed his stage name to Spazzkid and moved to the United States.

He released his debut studio album, Desire, in 2013, and the Promise EP in 2014. In 2015, he dropped the pseudonym Spazzkid and started performing under his real name Mark Redito. In 2016, he started Likido, an event series that focuses on artists of color, women, and LGBTQ backgrounds. In 2019, he released a studio album, Neutropical. He also contributed music for the 2019 anime television series Carole & Tuesday.

Redito released his third studio album, Natural Habitat, in 2020.

Style and influences
Mark Redito's musical style has been described by Orlando Weekly as "a signature blend of electronic pop, J-pop and beat music."

Discography

Studio albums
 Desire (2013)
 Neutropical (2019)
 Natural Habitat (2020)

Remix albums
 Desire Remixes (2013)
 Neutropical Remix (2019)

EPs
 A.D.D. Debris (2006)
 Blank Stares (2009)
 Fake Accents (2010)
 Right Now (2011)
 Headphone Jams (2012)
 Promise (2014)
 Promise Remixes Part 1 (2014)
 Promise Remixes Part 2 (2015)
 Everything Felt Right Remixes (2018)

Singles
 "Weird Girl" (2013)
 "At Fault" (2014)
 "Daytime Disco" (2014)
 "3AM Apologies" (2015)
 "So Many Things to Tell You" (2015)
 "Boba Date" (2016)
 "You'll Only Love Me When I'm Gone" (2016)
 "Everything Felt Right" (2018)
 "Right There" (2018)
 "Never Letting Go of This Moment" (2018)
 "Cloud Keep" (2018)
 "Break Silence" (2019)

References

External links

Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Musicians from Manila
Filipino American
Filipino musicians


title: Bosea robiniae

text:
Bosea robiniae is a bacterium from the genus of Bosea.

References

External links
Type strain of Bosea robiniae at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Hyphomicrobiales
Bacteria described in 2003


title: Anne Hvide's House

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Anne Hvide's House () is a two-storey, half-timbered building in Svendborg on the Danish island of Funen. One of the oldest houses in the town, it was built in 1560 by Anne Hvide, a widow of noble descent. It was used as an inn from 1837 to 1867. After being restored in 1916, it became a museum with exhibitions relating to the history of Svendborg.

Background
Anne Hvide was the second last of the famous Danish Hvide clan founded by Skjalm Hvide in the 11th century. She was the wife of nobleman Jesper Friis who successfully led the artillery against the Lübeckers at Karnan near Helsingborg. At the time of his death in 1558, he and his wife lived in Rødkilde, an old manor house near Ulbølle to the west of Svendborg.
Like many other ladies of her day, Anne Hvide wanted a house in the town where she could spend the winter months. On a plot she acquired near the Church of Our Lady, she and her husband began building a residence in 1557.

Architecture
Built in the Renaissance style, the house is an eight-bay, two-storey half-timbered structure with a shallow cellar. The red-tiled roof slopes at an angle of 60 degrees. The timbering is painted black while the panels consist of patterned brickwork. The carved door out to Fruestræde stands at the top of four steps with iron railings. In 1978, the house was repainted in its original ochre yellow.

Owners
Not a great deal is known about the house's ownership after Anne Hvide's death in 1577. Statesman Niels Krag of Egeskov owned the property around 1700, after which it came into the hands of his son Niels Krag until his death in 1740. It was then owned by Vice-admiral Hans Jacob Rostgaard (1685-1756) who died in the house on 2 June 1756. He was the last nobleman to live there.

After exchanging hands several times, the house was acquired by Nicolaj Børgesen in 1809. After his death in 1837, his third wife, Dorothea Svendsen, continued to run it as an inn for the next 30 years, gaining a reputation as a welcoming hostess and one of the best known people in Svendborg. Her son Nicolaj Børgesen inherited the property but after emigrating to America sold it to Ludvigsen, a builder, until it was bought by Svendborg Municipality in 1900. The attic was used as an archive and the first floor became the county library. For a period, it also became the mayor's office.

Museum
In 1912, the building was acquired by Svendborg Amts Museum who undertook comprehensive restoration work before opening Svenborg Museum there in 1915. It operated there until 1974 when the museum moved into new premises. In the summer months, the museum now presents exhibits relating to the town's history.

References

Literature

External links
Svendborg Museum: Anne Hvides Gård

Listed buildings and structures in Svendborg Municipality
Houses completed in 1560
Manor houses in Denmark
Historic houses
Museums in the Region of Southern Denmark
Renaissance architecture in Denmark
Timber framed buildings in Svendborg Municipality
Svendborg


title: Schänis railway station

text:
Schänis railway station () is a railway station in the municipality of Schänis in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is on the Rapperswil to Ziegelbrücke line. It is one of two railway stations in the Gemarkung of Schänis, the other being the much larger Ziegelbrücke railway station at the border to Canton Glarus.

Services
 Schänis railway station is served by St. Gallen S-Bahn service S4, which operates in both directions around a loop via St. Gallen, Sargans, Ziegelbrücke, and Uznach (reverse of direction), and service S6, which links Rapperswil with Schwanden (or Linthal during off-peak hours) via Uznach and Ziegelbrücke. Both trains run hourly, combining to provide half-hourly services to Uznach and Ziegelbrücke. While the S6 also stops at Benken railway station in the neighboring village of Benken, the S4 does not. Both of these regional train lines are operated by Südostbahn (SOB).

 St. Gallen S-Bahn:
 : hourly service via , ,  and  (Alpstein circle route, Alpsteinrundfahrt).
 : hourly service between  and  (or ) via Ziegelbrücke.

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External links

Railway stations in the canton of St. Gallen
Swiss Federal Railways stations


title: Nipper Creek (38RD18)

text:
Nipper Creek (38RD18) is a historic archaeological site located at Columbia, South Carolina. The site includes archaeological evidence that documents 11,000 years of human activity, from the first Paleo-Indian occupants of the region to historic times.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina


title: Epiphyas ammotypa

text:
Epiphyas ammotypa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from South Australia.

References

Moths described in 1945
Epiphyas


title: Claussen's Bakery

text:
Claussen's Bakery, also known as Claussen's Inn, is a historic commercial bakery located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1928, and is a two-story, trapezoidal plan, brick building that contains a total of 25,000 square feet. The Columbia bakery ceased operating in 1963. It was later converted to a boutique hotel.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

References

External links
The Inn At Claussen's website

Hotels in South Carolina
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Industrial buildings completed in 1928
Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina
1928 establishments in South Carolina


title: Osvaldo Benavides

text:
Osvaldo Benavides (born June 14, 1979, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actor, writer, producer and cinematographer.

Early life
Born in Mexico City, Mexico, currently resides in Tepoztlán, Morelos. Osvaldo began acting at age 9 years. He has participated in musical theater rods as: "El Graduado" and "Todos eran mis hijos".

Career

Benavides began his career in television from an early age, on the telenovela El abuelo y yo, along to Gael García Bernal, and Ludwika Paleta. Two years later, in 1995 he played Nandito, the lost son of María la del Barrio, thanks to his character, he won in the edition 14th TVyNovelas Awards for Best Young Lead Actor. In that same year he also participated in the telenovela El premio mayor as Chicles. In 1996 he played Lazarito in the telenovela Te sigo amando, along to Claudia Ramírez, and Luis José Santander, and won again at the 16th TVyNovelas Awards as Best Young Lead Actor. In 1998, he participated in the telenovela Preciosa, and later in the film La primera noche, with the latter he made his film debut, and for which he stood out. In the year 2000, he participated in telenovela Locura de amor, and again stood out in the cinema as Rocco, in the film Por la libre.

In 2001, he participated in the film Piedras verdes, a film about the philosophical-spiritual discovery of the protagonist. In that same year he also participated in the film La segunda noche, and Seres humanos. In 2002, he appeared in Daniela, and two years later he played Damián in the telenovela Piel de otoño, and in 2006 to Curioso, in the film Un mundo maravilloso. After these last two productions, he moved away from the world of telenovelas and the acting for eleven years.

In 2022, Osvaldo began filming Noche de Bodas (Wedding Night); Osvaldo will direct and star in the production.  On October 12, 2022, during a break in filming on Majahual beach in Oaxaca Mexico, two actors, Marco Antonio Curiel Pérez and Luis Manuel Gutiérrez, died by drowning.  The two men who worked as extras on the production could not escape the sea due to high tide.  A third actor managed to be rescued successfully.

Filmography

Films roles

Television roles

Awards and nominations

References

External links

1979 births
20th-century Mexican male actors
Male actors from Mexico City
21st-century Mexican male actors
Mexican male film actors
Living people
Mexican male telenovela actors


title: The Distortion of Sound

text:
The Distortion of Sound is a 2014 advertisement for Harman produced by Vice Media. The advertisement presents itself as a documentary on the decline of sound quality in music distributed with lossy compression algorithms. The ad features paid interviews with vocalists, guitarists, producers, writers, rappers, film composers, mixing engineers, mixers, music journalists, acoustic researchers, loudspeaker engineers and chief engineers—including such artists as Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, Slash, Quincy Jones, Snoop Dogg and Steve Aoki.

The ad was uploaded to YouTube using YouTube's lossy audio compression. The trailer of the film was also available on YouTube. The ad, as well as a trailer, was available on the official website of the film.

The film was premiered at a paid event in Los Angeles on July 10, 2014.

Cast
The film includes the following various musical artists:
 Quincy Jones
 Slash
 Snoop Dogg
 Steve Aoki
 Lianne La Havas
 Mike Shinoda
 Hans Zimmer
 Kate Nash
 A. R. Rahman
 Dan the Automator
 Manny Marroquin
 Andrew Scheps
 Neil Strauss
 Dr. Sean Olive
 Greg Timbers
 Chris Ludwig

Clips
The original film included clips of interviews. All the clips were uploaded separately on the official YouTube channel in the given sequences.

Music
The original score for the film was composed by Lorne Balfe. Whereas the film used only three songs out of which one is the collaboration between Linkin Park and Steve Aoki, and the other two songs are performed by Lianne La Havas. Whereas the song "Holding Company (Lost in the Echo 2011 Demo)" from the LP Underground XIII extended play was briefly used in the trailer for the film.

References

Documentary films about the music industry
Documentary films about technology
2014 films
2014 documentary films
American documentary films
Sound recording technology
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


title: Nigel F. Palmer

text:
Nigel Fenton Palmer FBA (28 October 1946 – 8 May 2022) was a British Germanist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford.

Career
Nigel F. Palmer went to Hyde Grammar School and then read Modern Languages at Worcester College, Oxford where he graduated in 1969 with a first class degree after spending his year abroad in Vienna. In 1970 he took up a position as lecturer in German at Durham University. His DPhil thesis (1975) was on the German and Dutch versions of the Visio Tnugdali. He was made a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford in 1976 and Professor of Medieval German Literature and Language from 1992 to 2012 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford as successor to Peter Ganz.

He worked on a wide range of topics in mediaeval German language and literature, among them the ‘Literary topography of South West Germany in the later Middle Ages’, an attempt to establish a literary history of this region on the basis of the manuscript sources and library history (Latin and German). Other areas of special interest were blockbooks and their place in early printing history, the interface between Latin literature and German literature in the Middle Ages, and palaeography and codicology of the period 1100–1550. He was a member of the British Academy since 1997. His work as editor of Oxford German Studies was featured in the celebratory volume 50/4. In 2022, he was awarded the inaugural Meister-Eckhart-Forschungspreis.

Selected publications

 The catalogue of medieval and early modern textual witnesses of German and Latin the '15 Zeichen des Jüngsten Gerichts' (15 Signs Before Doomsday) is available via https://handschriftencensus.de/forschungsliteratur/pdf/4224

A full list of publications to 2007 will be found in Bibelübersetzung und Heilsgeschichte.

References

External links
 University of Oxford Faculty Profile

 Obituary (St Edmund Hall)

1946 births
2022 deaths
Academics of the University of Oxford
Fellows of the British Academy
Fellows of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Germanic studies scholars
People from Ashton-under-Lyne


title: Epiphyas aulacana

text:
Epiphyas aulacana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. The habitat consists of open forests where it has been recorded at altitudes between sea level and 300 meters in Tasmania.

References

Moths described in 1881
Epiphyas
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick


title: Epiphyas caryotis

text:
Epiphyas caryotis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania. The habitat consists of montane rainforests and wet eucalypt forests.

The wingspan is about 21.5 mm.

The larvae are polyphagous and have been recorded feeding on Bossiaea, Cassinia, Daviesia, Tasmannia, Epacris, Oxylobium, Parahebe, Pimelea, Pinus and Polyscias species, as well as Nothofogus cunllinghamii and Eucalyptus regnans.

References

Moths described in 1910
Epiphyas
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick


title: Bill Eastick

text:
Bill Eastick (13 March 1888 – 22 October 1914) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne. Eastick became ill early in the 1914 season and his health deteriorated throughout the year before his death in October.

Sources
Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

External links

1888 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Sydney Swans players
Ballarat Imperial Football Club players
1914 deaths


title: List of UK Independent Albums Chart number ones of 2014

text:
These are the Official Charts Company's UK Independent Albums Chart number-one albums of 2014.

Chart history

See also
List of UK Dance Albums Chart number ones of 2014
List of UK Album Downloads Chart number ones of the 2010s
List of UK Independent Singles Chart number ones of 2014
List of UK R&B Albums Chart number ones of 2014
List of UK Independent Singles Chart number ones of 2014

References

External links
Independent Albums Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
UK Top 40 Indie Album Chart at BBC Radio 1

2014 in British music
United Kingdom Indie Albums
2014


title: Epiphyas cerussata

text:
Epiphyas cerussata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania. The habitat consists of montane forests and wet eucalypt forests at altitudes above 400 meters.

The wingspan is about 22 mm.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Olearia phlogopappa.

References

Moths described in 1910
Epiphyas
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick