title: Stadionul Chimia

text:
Stadionul Chimia is a multi-purpose stadium, frequently used for football. It is located in Brazi. The stadium holds 2,000 people.

Football venues in Romania
Buildings and structures in Prahova County
Multi-purpose stadiums in Romania


title: Renault Agriculture

text:
Renault Agriculture S.A.S. () was the agricultural machinery division of the French car manufacturer Renault established in 1918 from its armored military vehicles division. While in operation, Renault Agriculture had various partnerships with major manufacturers and focussed production on tractors. The company was sold between 2003 and  2008 to German rival Claas. Renault Agriculture was dissolved in 2008 and its facilities became part of  Claas' tractor division. Claas' tractor division and Renault's Auto Châssis International are Renault Agriculture successors.

History

After the end of World War I, the Renault company used its experience in armored tanks to devise agricultural vehicles. The Renault's Department 14 (responsible for the FT tank) developed the first tractor of the company, the Type GP, which was powered by an engine similar to that of the FT (a four-cylinder) and had tracks. The most distinguishable differences of the new tractor with the FT were the front-engine design and the reduced weight. The tractors were assembled in Renault's Billancourt factory since 11 November 1918 on the same production lines that the tanks and tested at Louis Renault's farm in Herqueville. The Type HO introduced in 1921 replaced the tracks by more conventional wheels. In 1926, Renault introduced the Type PE which was extensively revised compared to its predecessors, incorporating a new engine with reduced consumes and a vertical radiator. In 1931, with the PE1, the radiator was moved from the middle position used in the previous models to the front and, in 1933, the model became the first France-produced rubber-wheeled tractor. The company also started to develop versions for specific markets, as vineyards. With the aim of reducing the fuel costs, it introduced its first diesel-engined model, the Type VI, in 1932. By 1938, Renault was producing about 40 tractors per month and was the largest French manufacturer.

In 1920, Renault founded the Le Mans engineering centre.
Shortly after, plans to move the agricultural machinery production to the new site were revealed. However, the new factory was inaugurated in 1940 and the production was stopped because of World War II. Following the war and nationalisation, the Le Mans plant resumed production. The location was divided into a foundry section, a mechanical parts section (supplying the factories of Flins and Billancourt), a painting section and a tractor manufacturing section. At the time, Le Mans was the third largest Renault's operation in France after Billancourt and Cléon. The following years saw the arrival of the D, N, E and Super model series. In 1956, Renault Agriculture standardised the orange colour for its models. In 1950, Renault was the largest tractor manufacturer within France, producing 8,549 units, the 58% of the country's total production. In 1961, Renault introduced the 385 model, with a 12-gear transmission. Apart from its own engines, Renault used MWM and Perkins units. In the 1960s, it produced the One-Sixty Diesel for Allis-Chalmers. In 1968, the company introduced its first four-wheel drive model. In 1972, Renault partnered with Carraro and sold some models of that company with the Renault badge. During the 1970s and 1980s, it also sold models from Mitsubishi. At the 1981 SIMA exhibition Renault Agriculture unveiled the TX range, with comfort elements designed in collaboration with the Renault's car division. The last Renault tractors had ancient gods' names.

From late 1993 to 1998, Renault Agriculture and John Deere had a partnership agreement by which the former received John Deere engines manufactured at the Saran factory and in return it supplied John Deere with tractors marketed as the 3000 series. In 1994, Renault Agriculture and Massey Ferguson formed a strategic partnership, as part of which they set up an equally owned joint venture called Groupement International de Mécanique Agricole (GIMA) at a facility located next to Massey's Beauvais factory with the aim of manufacturing transaxles and related components. In 1995, Renault Agriculture agreed to market products from the British agricultural machinery manufacturer JCB through its dealership network in France. In 1997, the company took a 16.6% stake of Rovigo-based Agritalia, a manufacturer of orchard tractors for various clients. In 2000, it purchased a stake in the Indian manufacturer International Tractors (the owner of the Sonalika marque), forming a Sonalika-Renault joint venture. In 2003, as part of a plan to shed non-core assets, Renault sold a 51% majority stake in Renault Agriculture's tractor manufacturing plant to Claas. In 2006, Claas increased its ownership to 80% and in 2008 took full control and renamed it Claas Tractor. By 2005, the Renault marque was phased out and all the tractor models produced at Le Mans were badged as Claas.

Renault Agriculture's successors

Claas Tractor
Claas Tractor S.A.S. is a subsidiary of the Claas group and its main tractor manufacturing operation since 2003. Most of the company's models are manufactured within the facility.

ACI Renault

In 1999, Renault created the subsidiary Auto Châssis International SNC to manage the foundry and parts area of Le Mans. ACI has worldwide operations and supplies the Renault-Nissan Alliance. Production is organised in three departments. The site also has an engineering centre.

References

Renault
Agricultural machinery manufacturers of France
Tractor manufacturers of France
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1918
1918 establishments in France
Le Mans


title: Micromussa regularis

text:
Micromussa regularis is a species of coral found in Indo-Pacific waters from Australia to the western Pacific Ocean. It is usually uncommon throughout its range, but can be more common locally. It has a narrow depth range, and so is susceptible to coral bleaching and disease. It is also threatened by the global decline in coral reef habitats.

Description
Colonies of Micromussa regularis are massive. The corallites are subplacoid and are irregularly placed. The septa are neatly arranged, with the teeth on adjacent septa often aligned creating concentric rings. The skeleton is not covered with fleshy tissue and the colony colour is brownish or yellowish-brown, often with the floor of the corallites and the corallite walls being contrasting colours.

Biology
Micromussa regularis is a zooxanthellate species of coral. It obtains most of its nutritional needs from the symbiotic dinoflagellates that live inside its soft tissues. These photosynthetic organisms provide the coral with organic carbon and nitrogen, sometimes providing up to 90% of their host's energy needs for metabolism and growth. Its remaining needs are met by the planktonic organisms caught by the tentacles of the polyps.

Status
This coral has a fairly wide range but is uncommon throughout most of its range although locally common in places. Its population trend is unknown but it is likely to be declining. It is particularly susceptible to coral bleaching and to coral diseases. The main threats faced by corals in general are related to climate change and the mechanical destruction of their coral reef habitats; increasing damage from extreme weather events, rising sea water temperatures and ocean acidification. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the conservation status of this species as being "vulnerable". All corals receive protection by being listed on CITES Appendix II.

References

Lobophylliidae
Animals described in 2000
Vulnerable animals
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN


title: 2015 United States federal appropriations

text:
Every year, the United States Congress is responsible for writing, passing, reconciling, and submitting to the President of the United States a series of appropriations bills that appropriate money to specific federal government departments, agencies, and programs for their use to operate in the subsequent fiscal year. The money provides funding for operations, personnel, equipment, and activities. In 2014, Congress was responsible for passing the appropriations bills that would fund the federal government in fiscal year 2015, which runs from October 1, 2014, to September 30, 2015.

There are twelve regular appropriations bills that are supposed to be passed by October 1 each year. As of June 18, 2014, the United States House of Representatives had passed five regular appropriations bills and was debating another. The United States Senate had not passed any appropriations bills by June 18, 2014, but was working on a "minibus" appropriations bill that would take the place of three of the regular appropriations bills.

Appropriations bills

An appropriations bill is a bill that appropriates (gives to, sets aside for) money to specific federal government departments, agencies, and programs. The money provides funding for operations, personnel, equipment, and activities. Regular appropriations bills are passed annually, with the funding they provide covering one fiscal year. The fiscal year is the accounting period of the federal government, which runs from October 1 to September 30 of the following year. Appropriations bills are under the jurisdiction of the United States House Committee on Appropriations and the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations. Both Committees have twelve matching subcommittees, each tasked with working on one of the twelve annual regular appropriations bills.

There are three types of appropriations bills: regular appropriations bills, continuing resolutions, and supplemental appropriations bills. Regular appropriations bills are the twelve standard bills that cover the funding for the federal government for one fiscal year and that are supposed to be enacted into law by October 1. If Congress has not enacted the regular appropriations bills by the time, it may pass a continuing resolution, which generally continues the pre-existing appropriations at the same levels as the previous fiscal year (or with minor modifications) for a set amount of time. The third type of appropriations bills are supplemental appropriations bills, which add additional funding above and beyond what was originally appropriated at the beginning of the fiscal year. Supplemental appropriations bills can be used for things like disaster relief.

Appropriations process

Traditionally, after a federal budget for the upcoming fiscal year has been passed, the appropriations subcommittees receive information about what the budget sets as their spending ceilings. This is called 302(b) allocations after section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. That amount is separated into smaller amounts for each of the twelve Subcommittees. The federal budget does not become law and is not signed by the President. Instead, it is a guide for the House and the Senate in making appropriations and tax decisions. However, no budget is required and each chamber has procedures in place for what to do without one. The House and Senate now consider appropriations bills simultaneously, although originally the House went first. The House Committee on Appropriations usually reports the appropriations bills in May and June and the Senate in June. Any differences between appropriations bills passed by the House and the Senate are resolved in the fall.

Fiscal year 2015 appropriations timeline
April 17, 2014 - The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015 () was introduced in the House by Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK).
April 17, 2014 - The Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 () was introduced in the House by Rep. John Culberson (R-TX).
April 30, 2014 - The House voted in Roll Call Vote 187 to pass H.R. 4486 by a vote of 416–1.
May 1, 2014 - The House voted in Roll Call Vote 193 to pass H.R. 4487 by a vote of 402–14.
May 15, 2014 - The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 () was introduced in the House by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA).
May 27, 2014 - The Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 () was introduced into the House by Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA).
May 30, 2014 - The House voted to pass H.R. 4660 in Roll Call Vote 269 by a vote of 321–87.
June 4, 2014 - The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 () was introduced in the House by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL).
June 10, 2014 - The House voted in Roll Call Vote 297 to pass H.R. 4745 by a vote of 229–192.
June 13, 2014 - The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2015 () was introduced in the House by Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ).
June 17, 2014 - H.R. 4660 used by the Senate as a "minibus" legislative vehicle for multiple appropriations bills.
June 18, 2014 - H.R. 4870 considered and amended on the House floor.
July 2, 2014 - The Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2015 (H.R. 5016; 113th Congress) is introduced into the House by Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL).
July 7, 2014 (week of) - H.R. 4923 considered and amended on the House floor.
July 14, 2014 - House begins consideration and amendments process for H.R. 5016.

Appropriations bills for fiscal year 2015

Summary

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 (H.R. 4800; 113th Congress) would appropriate $20.9 billion. The funding would go to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its programs and services, such as the United States Secretary of Agriculture, the National Appeals Division, the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics, the Economic Research Service, the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the Agricultural Research Service, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the Agricultural Marketing Service, the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety, the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, the Farm Service Agency, the Risk Management Agency, and other related agencies. One controversial provision of the bill was the provision that would waive the requirement that schools follow certain nutritional requirements in their school lunches, requirements that first lady Michelle Obama has been a strong supporter of.

Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 (H.R. 4660; 113th Congress) would appropriate $51.2 billion, approximately $400 million less than fiscal year 2014. The bill would fund the United States Department of Commerce, the United States Department of Justice, and various related agencies. Those related agencies included the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Commission on Civil Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the International Trade Commission, the Legal Services Corporation, the Marine Mammal Commission, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, and the State Justice Institute.

The Senate amended H.R. 4660 to use it as a legislative vehicle for a "minibus" bill that would appropriate funding for the United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Department of Transportation, and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as the Departments of Commerce and Justice covered by the original House bill. The bill would appropriate $120 billion total for all of those agencies.

Department of Defense
The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2015 (H.R. 4870; 113th Congress) would provide funding for the United States Department of Defense for fiscal year 2015 of approximately $491 billion. The bill included a provision that forbade the transfer of Guantanamo Bay prisoners, a reaction to the controversial exchange of five prisoners in exchange for the return of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from the Taliban. Two amendments from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) failed. The first would have prohibited the use of any funds for use with the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 in order to give the Iraq War "an official, legal end." The amendment was voted down 31–17, with Rep. Frelinghuysen arguing that there were no funds devoted to Iraq in the bill and all the troops had left in 2011. Lee's second amendment would have required the executive branch to report to Congress on actions taken under the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists from 13 years ago. This amendment was also defeated, 27–21, with Frelinghuysen arguing that it could give away classified information.

Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies
The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 (H.R. 4923; 113th Congress) would make appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for FY2015. The bill would appropriate $34 billion, which is only $50 million less than these agencies currently receive. The appropriations for the United States Department of Energy and the United States Army Corps of Engineers are made by this bill.

Financial Services and General Government
The Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2015 (H.R. 5016; 113th Congress) would make appropriations for the United States Department of the Treasury, the United States federal courts, the Executive Office of the President of the United States, and Washington, D.C. The bill would appropriate $21.285 billion. The Hill described this bill as "one of the most contentious of the annual 12 appropriations bills."

Legislative Branch
The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015 (H.R. 4487; 113th Congress) would appropriate $3.3 billion to the United States Congress for fiscal year 2015. The bill is considered one of the two easiest appropriations bills to pass each year. The House and Senate customarily defer to each other regarding each chamber's spending levels, so this bill only includes funding for the House and not the Senate.

Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies
The Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 (H.R. 4486; 113th Congress) would appropriate $71.5 billion to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and for military construction, approximately $1.8 billion less than fiscal year 2014 due to a decrease in the need for military construction. The bill is considered one of the two easiest appropriations bills to pass each year.

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
The Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 (H.R. 4745; 113th Congress) would appropriate $17 billion to the United States Department of Transportation and $40.3 billion to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. It would spend $1.8 billion less than in fiscal year 2014. President Barack Obama and his administration strongly opposed the bill. The White House released a statement saying that the bill "fails to make needed investments in our Nation's infrastructure, provides insufficient support for critical housing programs for low-income Americans and the homeless, and includes objectionable language provisions."

Legislation passed
On September 9, 2014, Rep. Hal Rogers introduced the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 a continuing resolution that would fund the federal government of the United States through December 11, 2014 by appropriating $1 trillion. This was necessary because the Senate had not passed any of the House's approved appropriations bills. On September 17, 2014, the House voted in Roll Call Vote 509 to pass the bill 319–108. On September 18, 2014, the United States Senate voted in Roll Call Vote 270 to pass the bill 78–22.

On
December 11, 2014, the House passed the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, popularly called the "cromnibus" bill,
combining an omnibus spending bill funding the federal government
through October 2015, with a continuing resolution for the Department of Homeland Security through February 2015. The House passed a two-day continuing resolution (a
"CR" for short) at the same time, to prevent a government shutdown until
the Senate could take action.

On February 27, 2015, a one-week continuing resolution was passed just hours before the Department of Homeland Security was to shut down. The full-year appropriations bill was passed on March 3, after Republican House leadership dropped demands to attach provisions rolling back Obama's executive actions on immigration.

History
Although writing and passing annual appropriations bill is a basic and essential task for Congress, it often fails to meet the appropriate deadlines. Between fiscal year 1977 and fiscal year 2014, Congress only passed all twelve regular appropriations bills on time in four years - fiscal years 1977, 1989, 1995, and 1997. Every other fiscal year since 1977 has required at least one continuing resolution.

In 2013, Congress failed to agree on any regular appropriations bills prior to the start of fiscal year 2014. An attempt was made to pass the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 (H.J.Res 59) prior to October 1, but the House and Senate could not agree on its provisions, leading to the United States federal government shutdown of 2013. The federal government resumed operations on October 17, 2013, after the passage of a continuing resolution, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, that provided funding until January 15, 2014. On January 15, 2014, Congress passed another continuing resolution,  Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, to provide funding until January 18, 2014. Congress finally passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, an omnibus appropriations bill, on January 17, 2014, to provide funding for the remainder of fiscal year 2014.

In reaction to the events of 2013, House Committee on Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers stated that his goal is to pass all twelve regular appropriations bills for 2015 before Congress has a recess in August because he wants to avoid a similar situation. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) shared this goal of finishing all of the appropriations bills on time.

In debating whether Congress would succeed at this, analysts looked at several issues. On the one hand, Congress has successfully agreed on an overall spending level of $1.014 trillion as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. There was also "pent-up demand in Congress to influence the actions of federal agencies through the setting of spending priorities." On the other hand, different parties controlled the House and the Senate.

As of May 29, 2014, Senator Mikulski had set the goal of having all of the annual appropriations bills reported by the Senate Appropriations Committee by July, an "aggressive timetable," and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had left two weeks open in both June and July for the consideration of appropriations bills. Republicans, however, have been upset with the strict limits that Reid has been placing on the amendment process and want open amendments on these appropriations bills. When the Senate began considering its first "minibus" bill, Senator John Thune (R-SD) said that "we'd like a process that at least allows us to get votes on amendments." Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) also wanted a more open amendment process, saying that "as long as members are allowed to bring amendments as long as they want to, I'm certainly prepared to defend the (agriculture) portions of the bill." However, Republicans were not expecting an open amendment process being allowed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

The House began working on its sixth appropriations bill during the week of July 7, 2014. At that time, The Hill reported that "it remains likely that both chambers will ultimately pass a short-term measure in September to keep the government funded at current levels through the midterm elections," due to a stalled appropriations process in the Senate over a dispute about the amendment process.

See also
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States House Committee on Appropriations
Authorization bill
United States federal budget
2015 United States federal budget

External links
Congress.gov's chart "Appropriations by Fiscal Year"

References

Government finances in the United States
United States federal appropriations in the 113th Congress
Lists of United States legislation


title: List of Portuguese films of 2001

text:
A list of Portuguese films that were first released in 2001.

See also
2001 in Portugal

References

2001
Lists of 2001 films by country or language
2001 in Portugal


title: Ujina

text:
Ujina is a Village located in Hodal-Nuh road in Nuh district in Haryana.
In Ancient time, Ujina was popular with the name of Ujina Lake as in rainy season it totally covered with water and people of nearby territories often came here for sightseeing.
Ujina has 100% Hindu population. The People of Ujina actively participated in every war of Independence of India, whether it was the 1857 war; The First war of Independence or the Satyagrah by Mahatma Gandhi.

History
Ujina village was founded by Baba Baijal in nearly 1057 AD.

Geography
Ujina  is located at . It has an average elevation of 194 metres (636 feet).
It is 83 km from the capital New Delhi. It is located in the far south east area of Haryana.

Climate
Climate in Ujina is Extreme.
Lowest Temperature: 3-5 degrees
Highest Temperature: 44-45 degrees

Demographics
 India census,
In Ujina village population of children with age 0-6 is 1418 which makes up 16.89 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Ujina village is 897 which is higher than Haryana state average of 879. Child Sex Ratio for the Ujina as per census is 878, higher than Haryana average of 834.

Ujina village has lower literacy rate compared to Haryana. In 2011, literacy rate of Ujina village was  74.77 % compared to 75.55 % of Haryana. In Ujina Male literacy stands at 84.10 % while female literacy rate was 64.41 %.

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Ujina village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village.
Mamta Bai w/o Munesh FOJI is newly elected Sarpanch of Ujina .

Transportation
Ujina is situated on the Nuh Hodal highway. A frequent bus service is provided by Haryana Roadways. Nearest airport is IGI airport, New Delhi. Nearest railway station is Palwal (34 km) and Gurgaon (58 km).

Educational institutions

Schools
 Kalyan Senior Secondary School
 Aditya Army Public School
 Adarsh International School
 Government Girls Senior Secondary School
 Government Boys School
 Geeta Vidya Mandir
 Blue Bird Public School
 S.V.N Coaching and Computer Center

Nearby colleges
 Government College for women, Salaheri, Nuh
 Yasin Mev Degree College, Nuh
 Mewat Engineering College, Palla, Nuh (Haryana)
 Government College, Nagina
 Modish Polytechnic, Punhana
 Shanti Sagar Jain Girls College, Ferozepur Jhirka
 Government Polytechnic, Uttawar
 Industrial Training Institute, Ujina
 Industrial Training Institute, Nagina
 Industrial Training Institute, Ferozepur Jhirka
 Industrial Training Institute, Nuh
 S.D.Mewat Institute of Technology and Management, Raoli, Ferozepur Jhirka
 Shaheed Hasan Khan Mewati Government Medical college, Nalhar, Nuh

Banking facilities
 State Bank Of India
 Union Bank
 Sarv Haryana Gramin Bank (Formerly Gurgaon Gramin Bank)
 Gurgaon Central Co-operative Bank

Nearby cities and towns
 Nuh
 Sohna
 Taoru
 Palwal
 Pinangwan
 Gurgaon
 F.P. Jhirka
 Faridabad
 Delhi
 Hodal
 Narnaul
 Hathin
 SmartPur(TAIN)

References

Cities and towns in Nuh district
Haryana


title: Anna-Louise Crago

text:
Anna-Louise Crago is a Canadian activist, researcher and author in the field of Sex workers' rights. She has also researched violence and other human rights abuses against sex workers, the homeless and drug addicts in more than 25 countries. Crago is a former sex worker, and has had several works published.

Sex work and activism
Crago worker as a prostitute for several years on the streets in Montréal, and in indoor locations in Montréal, Gatineau, Toronto and Niagara Falls. She joined Stella, l’amie de Maimie, a Montréal organisation run by, and for, sex workers, later becoming their coordinator of health, legal and social services. She was part of the team that received the AIDS Action Award in 2006, awarded by the NGO Human Rights Watch and leading advocacy organization, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.

She spoke out strongly against the Prostitution Bill (Bill C-36) proposed by the Stephen Harper government, including attending protests and making a written submission to the Senate of Canada. Since the bill passed into law Crago has campaigned for its repeal. She also campaigns for decriminalizing sex work globally.

Higher education, research and works
Crago received a BFA in 2003 and an MA in 2010, both from Concordia University in Montreal. She was granted a Trudeau Foundation Scholarship in 2013 to pursue research on the experience of sex workers during armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is currently a PhD candidate and Trudeau scholar at the University of Toronto, researching sex work, violence and law and policy.

In 2009 Crago co-ordinated and was the lead author in research organised the Sex Workers' Rights Advocacy Network to study police violence against sex workers in Europe and Central Asia.

Crago was involved as an expert during the 2012 preparation of the World Health Organization's Recommendations for Female, Male and Transgender Sex Workers.

The Lancet produced a special issue for the XX International AIDS Conference, 2014. Crago was the co-editor and also co-author of the article An action agenda for HIV and sex workers and co-author of Human rights violations against sex workers: burden and effect on HIV, both articles appearing in this edition.

Awards
 2006 AIDS Action Award (co-recipient)
 2016 Canadian Governor General’s Award for advancing sex workers’ human rights and gender equality.

Selected works

  co-author Jayne Arnott

 Ne dans le Redlight: The Sex Workers' Movement in Montreal in  co-author: Jenn Clamen
  co-authors: Prof Chris Beyrer, MD, Prof Linda-Gail Bekker, PhD et al.
  co-authors Dr Michele R Decker, ScD, Sandra K H Chu, LLM et al.

References

Sex worker activists in Canada
First Nations activists
Concordia University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
21st-century First Nations people
Living people
Canadian female prostitutes
Year of birth missing (living people)
First Nations academics
Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case winners


title: J. Andrew Keith

text:
John Andrew Keith (August 31, 1958 – August 7, 1999) was an American author and games developer.

Career
J. Andrew Keith, and his brother William H. Keith Jr., responded to ads in Journal of the Travellers Aid Society for authors to write for Game Designers' Workshop (GDW); Loren Wiseman started them with freelancing for GDW in the late 1970s and the three of them set up much of the early material for Traveller. J. Andrew Keith's wrote so much for the Journal of the Travellers Aid Society that he began to use the pseudonyms John Marshal and Keith Douglass. The Keith brothers were making enough money that they were able to freelance full-time by 1979. The Keith brothers then began working for FASA by the end of 1980. FASA began publishing adventures for Traveller beginning with Ordeal by Eshaar (1981) by the Keith brothers, who then wrote the "Sky Raiders" trilogy (1981-1982) for FASA. J. Andrew Keith briefly edited the magazine High Passage in 1982 before the High Passage Group told FASA that they could no longer publish material for High Passage; FASA replaced this magazine with a new magazine by J. Andrew Keith called Far Traveller beginning in October 1982. FASA ended its support of Traveller in 1983, so the Keith brothers continued writing Traveller material with the new company Gamelords, but continued working for FASA on other games. The Keith brothers wrote seven supplements for Gamelords, including The Mountain Environment (1983), The Undersea Environment (1983), and The Desert Environment (1984).

J. Andrew Keith wrote some adventures for Fantasy Games Unlimited's Chivalry & Sorcery before the line ended in 1984. The Keith brothers then worked on some of FGU's other lines in 1985 including Aftermath!, Daredevils, Flashing Blades, and Psi World. The Keith brothers also designed Freedom Fighters (1986), one of the last role-playing games published by FGU.

Works

Andrew was a rather prolific Science Fiction and Role-Playing Game author, and the bibliography presented below is in no way comprehensive. Several of these works were with various co-authors, most commonly his brother, William H. Keith Jr.

 A note regarding pen names in the words of William H. Keith Jr.:
"We shared several [pen names]: Keith William Andrews, Keith Douglass, and H. Jay Riker. Back in the Traveller days, when he was doing a ton of writing for the old Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, he used several pen names, including Keith Douglass and John Marshall, so it wouldn't look like the journal was entirely an Andrew Keith production."

Science fiction novels
 Wing Commander: False Colors
 Wing Commander: Heart of the Tiger
 The Fifth Foreign Legion: March or Die
 The Fifth Foreign Legion: Honor and Fidelity
 The Fifth Foreign Legion: Cohort of the Damned
 Battletech: Blood of Heroes
 Battletech: Mercenary's Star

Science fiction short stories
 The Legacy of Leonidas
 Rendezvous with Death
 Orion Rising

Traveller RPG material
Books, Supplements, and Folio Adventures: Cargonaut Press, Digest Group Publications, FASA, Gamelords, GDW, Marischal Adventures, and Seeker.

 Escape
 Letter of Marque
 Faldor: World of Adventure
 Rogues in Space: Letter of Marque
 Rogues in Space: Scam
 Starport Planetfall

GDW
 The Traveller Adventure
Alien Module 1 Aslan (1984)
Alien Module 2 K'kree (1984)
Alien Module 3 Vargr (1984)
Alien Module 4-Zhodani (1985)
Alien Module 5 Droyne (1985)
Alien Module 7-Hivers (1986)
 BeltStrike: Riches and Danger in the Bowman Belt
 Alien Realms
 Aliens for Traveller
 Arctic Environment
 Chamax Plague
 Horde
 Night of Conquest
 Merchant Prince: Special Supplement 1
 Exotic Atmospheres: Special Supplement 2 (1983)
 Nomads of the World Ocean
 Murder on Arcturus Station
 Traveller Adventure 13: Signal GK
 Double Adventure 6, Divine Intervention/Night of Conquest
 Travellers' Aid Society Alien Encyclopedia
 World Builder's Handbook

Gamelords
 The Mountain Environment (1983)
 The Drenslaar Quest (1983)
 The Undersea Environment (1983)
 Ascent To Anekthor (1984)
 Startown Liberty (1984)
 The Desert Environment (1984)
 Duneraiders (1984)
 A Pilot's Guide to the Drexilthar Subsector (1984)
 Wanted: Adventurers (1984) under the pen name, John Marshal

FASA
 The Trail of the Sky Raiders
 The Legend of the Sky Raiders
 Fate of the Sky Raiders
 Harrensa Project (1983)
 Ordeal by Eshaar (1981)
 Stazlekh Report, The (1983)
 Uragyad'n of the Seven Pillars

Marischal Adventures
 Flight of the Stag
 Salvage Mission (1981, 1987)
 Trading Team(1981, 1987)

Digest Group Publications
 Grand Census
 Grand Survey

Magazine articles

 Adventures in Traveller: Exploration
 Adventures in Traveller: Trade and Commerce
 Adventures in Traveller: Wilderness Situations
 Adventurette: Jailbreak
 Adventurette: Night Rescue
 Adventurette: The Last Bastion
 Adventurette: Trial By Justice
 Amber Zone: Drannixa Gambit
 Amber Zone: Embassy in Arms
 Amber Zone: Lockbox
 Amber Zone: Raid on Stataorlai
 Amber Zone: Royal Hunt
 Amber Zone: Small Package
 Amber Zone: The Birthday Plot
 Amber Zone: Tournament
 Amber Zone: Tuktaar Connection
 Amber Zone Ventures Afar
 Amber Zone: Without a Trace
 Awaiting Shipment: Petrochemicals
 Azun
 Bestiary: Afeahyaltow
 Bestiary: Crested Jabberwock
 Bestiary: Doyle's Eel
 Bestiary: Garhawk
 Bestiary: Ice Crawler
 Bestiary: Luugir
 Boarding Pass: Jalas Glennol
 Caledon Highlanders
 Care and Feeding of NPCs
 Casual Encounter: Emil "Boomer" Brankovich
 Casual Encounter: Enli Iddukagan
 Casual Encounter: Fast "Johnny" McRae
 Casual Encounter: Gamaagin Kaashukiin
 Casual Encounter: Glorinna Firella
 Casual Encounter: Gunnar Haelvedssen
 Casual Encounter: Ramon San Yarvo
 Casual Encounter: Ringaal DeAstera
 Casual Encounter: Simone Garibaldi
 Civilian Striker Weapons
 Closest Encounter
 Compleat Starport
 Computer Implants
 Computer Software for High Guard
 Contact: Ael Yael
 Contact: Aslan
 Contact: The Girug'kagh
 Contact: Irklan
 Contact: The Girug'kagh
 Contact: The Virushi
 Dev Landrel
 Flare Star
 Hunting Bugs
 I'm a Doctor, Not a. . .
 In Transit: Grav Mining Vehicle
 In Transit: Orbital Tug
 Newcomers, The
 Outside the Expanses: Reaver's Deep
 Parachutes
 Periastron
 Pilot's Guide to Ea Subsector
 Pilot's Guide to the Caledon Subsector, A
 Pilot's Guide to the Scotian Deep Subsector
 Planetfall: Supplementary Material for MegaTraveller
 Port Authority Handbook: Arrival In-System
 Port Authority Handbook: Communications
 Port Authority Handbook: Convoys
 Port Authority Handbook: Interdicted Planets
 Port Authority Handbook: Inward Clearance
 Port of Call: Rejhappur
 Port of Call: Roakhoi
 Reavers' Deep Sector
 Referee's Guide to Planet-building, Parts I and II
 Religion in the Two Thousand Worlds
 Ship's Locker: Flares and Signalling Devices
 Ship's Locker: Torches and Welding Equipment
 Ship's Locker: Vargr Corsair Bands
 Small Cargoes and Special Handling
 Small Cargoes: Three for the Road
 Small Cargoes: Afeahyakhtow
 Small Cargoes: Hkyadwaeh
 Storm
 Striking it Rich
 Temperature in Traveller
 Traveller: The Final Frontier
 Traveller's Gear: Body Pressure Suit
 Travelling Without a Starship
 Umpire Strikes Back!, The
 Vargr Grav Platforms
 Vland!
 Wardn
 Wardn Enigma
 World's of the Imperium: Fisher's World
 appeared in Challenge, Far and Away, Far Traveller, High Passage, Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society, MegaTraveller Journal, Space Gamer, Traveller Chronicle, and Travellers' Digest.

Miscellaneous Traveller Credits: FASA, and Seeker
 Adventure Class Ships I - Booklet II
 Adventure Class Ships II - Booklet I & II
 Aslan Mercenary Ships - Booklet I & II
 I.S.C.V. Leander - Booklet (scenarios: The Hostage, Terminal Velocity, and Raider!)
 I.S.P.M.V. Fenris - Booklet (scenarios: Boring From Within, Prisoners at Large, and Surprise Reversed)
 I.S.P.M.V. Tethys - Booklet (scenarios: Enemy Action, Staff Meeting, and Retreat from Stiara)
 Merchant Class Ships - Booklet I & II
 Starport Module I: Hotel Complex - Booklet (scenarios: Break-In, The Gamblers, and Hostages) (1981)
 Z.I.S.M.V. Vlezhdatl - Booklet (scenarios: Boarding Action, Prize Crew, and Escape) (1981)

References

External links
Brother William H. Keith's web site: WHKeith.Com – William H. Keith
J. Andrew Keith Memorial web page: John Andrew Keith Memorial Site

1958 births
1999 deaths
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
American science fiction writers
Role-playing game designers


title: Robert Hussey

text:
Robert Hussey (1801–1856) was an English churchman and academic, professor of ecclesiastical history at Oxford.

Life
Born on 7 October 1801, he was fourth son of William Hussey, rector of Sandhurst, near Hawkhurst in Kent. For a time at Rochester grammar school, in 1814 he was sent to Westminster School, in 1816 became a king's scholar, and in 1821 was elected to Christ Church, Oxford. There he resided for the remainder of his life. He obtained a double first-class in the B.A. examination, Michaelmas 1824, and proceeded M.A. in 1827 and B.D. in 1837.

After a few years spent in private tuition, Hussey was appointed one of the college tutors, and held the post until he became censor in 1835. He was appointed select preacher before the university in 1831 and again in 1846. He was proctor in 1836, in which year he was an unsuccessful candidate for the head-mastership of Harrow School. In 1838 he was appointed one of the classical examiners at Oxford, and from 1841 to 1843 was one of the preachers at the Royal Chapel, Whitehall.

In 1842 Hussey gave up his college duties on his appointment to the newly founded regius professorship of ecclesiastical history. the canonry of Christ Church later attached to the professorship was not then vacant, a salary was paid by the university.
In 1845 Hussey was presented by the dean and chapter of Christ Church to the perpetual curacy of Binsey. He was subsequently appointed rural dean by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, and was elected one of the proctors in convocation for the diocese of Oxford.

In 1854, when the new hebdomadal council was appointed, Hussey was chosen one of the professorial members. He died rather suddenly of heart disease on 2 December 1856. To the dean and chapter of Christ Church he bequeathed the ecclesiastical history and patristic theology works of his library, for the use of his successors in the chair.

Works
For the benefit of his students, Hussey edited the histories of Socrates of Constantinople (1844), Evagrius Scholasticus (1844), Bede (1846), and Sozomen (3 vols. finished after his death, 1860). In a volume of Sermons, mostly Academical (Oxford, 1849), he published a Preface containing a Refutation of the Theory founded upon the Syriac Fragments of three of the Epistles of St. Ignatius, then recently discovered and published by William Cureton. His conclusion, later generally adopted, was that these fragments of the Ignatian Epistles contain only certain extracts from the Epistles, and not the whole text. In 1851, at the time of Universalis Ecclesiae he published a manual on The Rise of the Papal Power traced in Three Lectures (reissued, with additions, in 1863).

Hussey was opposed to the Oxford Movement but was not partisan. He issued a pamphlet in February 1845 containing Reasons for Voting upon the Third Question to be proposed in Convocation on the 13th inst., in which he argued the unreasonableness of the proposal to condemn Tract 90 a second time, four years after its first appearance. He wrote also An Essay on the Ancient Weights and Money and the Roman and Greek Liquid Measures; with an Appendix on the Roman and Greek Foot, Oxford, 1836, based on examination of ancient coins.

Family
Hussey married Elizabeth Ley, sister of his friend and contemporary at Christ Church, the Rev. Jacob Ley. She survived him with one daughter. His eldest sister, Charlotte Sutherland, gave to the Bodleian Library in 1837 a large collection of historical prints and drawings.

Notes

Attribution

1801 births
1856 deaths
19th-century English Anglican priests
Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford
19th-century English historians
Regius Professors of Ecclesiastical History


title: 1933–34 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team

text:
The 1933–34 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1933–34 NCAA men's basketball season in the United States. The head coach was Willard Witte, coaching in his fourth season with the Cowboys. The team finished the season with a 26–4 record and were named national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation.

Schedule and results

|-
!colspan=9| Regular season

Source

References

Wyoming Cowboys basketball seasons
Wyoming
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament championship seasons
Wyoming Cowboys Basketball Team
Wyoming Cowboys Basketball Team


title: Moody Towers

text:
Moody Towers are twin 18-story high-rise residence halls located in the Wheeler District on the campus of the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, United States.  It was named for William Lewis Moody, Jr. and his wife Libbie Shearn Moody of Galveston, Texas, and houses 1,100 students. The towers also house the largest dining hall on the campus.

A mass shooting from atop Moody Towers was prevented when police arrested Albert J. Russell, Jr. in 1972.  Russell, who was not a student, was trespassing on university property around the sixth anniversary of the mass shootings at the University of Texas at Austin, and attempted to go atop one of the towers with a loaded M14 rifle and a loaded .22 Long Rifle.  Upon arrest, he told police he would've shot people had he been allowed on the rooftop.

See also

University of Houston student housing

References

External links
Moody Towers

Residential skyscrapers in Houston
Residential buildings completed in 1970
Twin towers
University and college dormitories in the United States
University of Houston campus


title: Adam Burrows

text:
Adam Burrows is a noted professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University.

Education

Burrows received his undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career
Adam Burrow's has a wife and one step-daughter and currently lives and the town of Princeton, New Jersey. Burrows's primary research interests are supernova theory, exoplanet and brown dwarf theory, planetary atmospheres, computational astrophysics, and nuclear astrophysics. Well known as a pioneer in the theory of exoplanets, brown dwarfs, and supernovae, he has written numerous fundamental and influential papers and reviews on these subjects during the last ~30 years. He has collaborated with more than 150 co-authors on more than 300 papers and given more than 300 invited talks and colloquia.

He is a past chair of the board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA) of the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences; was the BPA Liaison to the 2010 Decadal Survey of Astronomy; and has been a consultant for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.  He has served on the Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) of the NRC; on the NRC Rare Isotope Science Assessment Committee; on the Subcommittee on the Implementation of the DOE Long-Range Plan for Nuclear Physics; as the chair of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) advisory board; as the co-chair of NASA's Universe Subcommittee; as the chair of NASA's Origins Subcommittee; as a co-chair of NASA's Strategic Roadmapping Committee "Search for Earth-like Planets"; as a co-chair of NASA's Origins/SEUS Roadmapping committee; and as a primary author of NASA 2003 Origins Roadmap. Burrows is also the director of the Princeton Planets and Life Certificate Program and is on the board of trustees of the Aspen Center for Physics.

In 2011, Burrows delivered a talk, "Explosive Astrophysics: Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts," at the first Starmus Festival in the Canary Islands. The talk was published in the book Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space.

Honors and awards
Burrows is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American Physical Society (1992), and a fellow of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science (PCTS), the 2010 Beatrice M. Tinsley Centennial Professor, and a former Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.

Selected papers

References

Living people
Princeton University faculty
Princeton University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: List of Portuguese films of 2002

text:
A list of Portuguese films that were first released in 2002.

See also
2002 in Portugal

References

2002
Lists of 2002 films by country or language
2002 in Portugal


title: Acanthastrea rotundoflora

text:
Acanthastrea rotundoflora is a species of coral found in Indo-Pacific waters from the Red Sea to Australia and the East China Sea. The species in uncommon throughout its range, and is threatened by the global loss of coral reef habitats.

Description
Colonies of Acanthastrea rotundoflora are either massive or encrusting. The corallites are plocoid and rather widely separated, and in small colonies there is a conspicuous central corallite. The septa have long pointed teeth. The general colour of this coral is rusty-brown, dark brown or green.

Biology
Acanthastrea rotundoflora is a zooxanthellate species of coral. It obtains most of its nutritional needs from the symbiotic dinoflagellates that live inside its soft tissues. These photosynthetic organisms provide the coral with organic carbon and nitrogen, sometimes providing up to 90% of their host's energy needs for metabolism and growth. Its remaining needs are met by the planktonic organisms caught by the tentacles of the polyps.

Status
This coral has a wide range and is moderately common. It is less susceptible to coral bleaching than some related species because it occurs in deeper water. The population trend for this species is unclear, but the main threats faced by corals in general are related to climate change and the mechanical destruction of their coral reef habitats; increasing damage from extreme weather events, rising sea water temperatures and ocean acidification. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the conservation status of this species as being a "near-threatened species". All corals receive protection by being listed on CITES Appendix II.

References

Lobophylliidae
Animals described in 1975
Near threatened animals


title: 1947 in Brazil

text:
Events in the year 1947 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government
 President: Marshal Eurico Gaspar Dutra
 Vice President: Nereu Ramos

Governors
 Alagoas: Antonio Guedes de Miranda (till 29 March); Silvestre Pericles (from 29 March)
 Amazonas:
 till 1 March: Siseno Sarmento
 1 March-8 May: João Nogueira da Mata
 from 8 May: Leopoldo da Silva Amorim Neves
 Bahia: Cândido Caldas then Otávio Mangabeira
 Ceará:
 till 3 February: José Machado Lopes
 3 February-1 March: José Feliciano de Ataíde
 from 1 March: Faustino de Albuquerque
 Espírito Santo: Moacir Ubirajara da Silva (till 29 March); Carlos Fernando Monteiro Lindenberg (from 29 March)
 Goiás: Joaquim Machado de Araújo (till 22 March); Jerônimo Coimbra Bueno (from 22 March)
 Maranhão: Saturnino Bello
 Mato Grosso: Jose Marcelo Moreira then Arnaldo Estêvão de Figueiredo
 Minas Gerais: Alcides Lins (till 19 March); Milton Soares Campos (from 19 March)
 Pará: José Faustino Santos (till 11 March); Luís de Moura Carvalho (from 11 March)
 Paraíba: José Gomes da Silva (till 4 March); Osvaldo Trigueiro (from 4 March)
 Paraná: Antônio Augusto de Carvalho Chaves then Moisés Lupion
 Pernambuco: Demerval Peixoto
 Rio de Janeiro: Hugo Silva
 Rio Grande do Norte:
 until 15 January: Ubaldo Bezerra de Melo
 15 January-31 July: Orestes da Rocha Lima
 from 31 July: José Augusto Varela
 Rio Grande do Sul: Pompílio Cylon Fernandes Rosa (till 26 March); Walter Só Jobim (from 26 March)
 Santa Catarina: Aderbal Ramos da Silva
 São Paulo: José Carlos de Macedo Soares (till 14 March); Ademar de Barros (from 14 March)
 Sergipe:
 till 30 January: Antônio de Freitas Brandão
 30 January-29 March: Joaquim Sabino Ribeiro
 from 29 March: Jose Rollemberg

Vice governors
 Ceará: Osvaldo da Costa e Silva
 Espírito Santo: José Rodrigues Sette
 Goiás: Hosanah de Campos Guimarães
 Maranhão: Saturnino Bello (from 22 October)
 Minas Gerais: José Ribeiro Pena (from 4 September)
 Paraíba: José Targino Pereira da Costa (from 1947)
 Piauí: Osvaldo da Costa e Silva (from 28 April)
 Rio Grande do Norte: Tomaz Salustino (from 31 July)
 São Paulo: Luís Gonzaga Novelli Júnior (from 28 November)

Events

January
19 January - Parliamentary elections are held, for 19 vacant seats in the Chamber of Deputies, one additional Senator for each state (except Santa Catarina, which elected two), and for all state Governors and legislatures   The Brazilian Communist Party wins nearly 10% of the vote in the state elections, becoming the third party in the state of São Paulo (ahead of the UDN) and the single largest party in the federal capital, Rio de Janeiro.

May
May 7
President Eurico Gaspar Dutra signs a decree-law, which suspends the functioning of the General Command of Workers.
The Superior Electoral Court decides to cancel the registration of the Communist Party of Brazil.
31 May-17 June - The South American Basketball Championship 1947 is held in Rio de Janeiro.

August
6 August - The Brazilian Socialist Party is founded.

October
2 October - The São Paulo Museum of Art opens to the public.

December
22 December - The airline Lóide Aéreo Nacional is founded by Ruy Vacani.

Arts and culture

Books
Mario de Andrade - Contos Novos (posthumously published)

Films
The End of the River (British film made in Brazil), directed by Derek Twist

Music
Valdir Azevedo - "Brasileirinho"

Births

January
25 January - Tostão, footballer

February
4 February - Garibaldi Alves Filho, politician
5 February - Regina Duarte, actress and politician
21 February - Renata Sorrah, actress

June
18 June - Antonio Galves, mathematician (d. 2023)

July
16 July - Valnice Milhomens, pastor, apostle, author and televangelist
26 July - Siron Franco, painter, designer and sculptor

August
24 August - Paulo Coelho, novelist

October
17 October - Nuno Leal Maia, actor

December
14 December - Dilma Rousseff, 36th President of Brazil
31 December - Rita Lee, singer (d. 2023)

Deaths
12 January - Júlio Afrânio Peixoto, physician, politician and writer (born 1876)
21 April - Heitor da Silva Costa, civil engineer, designer and constructor of the Christ the Redeemer monument in Rio de Janeiro (born 1873)
21 July - Johann Baptist Reus, German-Brazilian Jesuit leader (born 1868)

References

See also
1947 in Brazilian football
List of Brazilian films of 1947

1940s in Brazil
Years of the 20th century in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil


title: Dorian ♭2 scale

text:
The Dorian 2 scale, also known as the Phrygian 6 scale, is the second mode of the jazz minor scale (or the ascending melodic minor scale). It is on the second degree of the jazz minor scale. Without the minor second above the root, the scale would just be the Dorian mode. The reason it is also known as Phrygian 6 is because if the scale did not have the major 6th then it would be enharmonic with the Phrygian mode.

This scale is commonly used in Assyrian music, most especially in the folk dance genre. Though to add color and to retain the Phrygian tradition of Assyrian music, the major sixth may at times be simultaneously altered to the minor sixth during the course of the composition.

See also
 Jazz scale

References

Modes (music)


title: Mike Muller

text:
Mike Muller (born September 18, 1971) is an American ice hockey coach and a retired ice hockey defenseman. , he is the head coach of the Minnesota Loons junior hockey team in the North American 3 Hockey League.

Playing career

United States
He was drafted in the 2nd round of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft by the Winnipeg Jets out of Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minnesota and played for the University of Minnesota between 1990 und 1992.

Russia
Muller started his professional career in the 1992–93 season playing eleven games for HC Moscow Dynamo of the Russian International Hockey League. He was the first foreign hockey player in the Russian International Hockey League, in which he was a member of the championship team in the 1992–93 season.

Germany
Until 1997, he played in the AHL, IHL and ECHL, before moving to Germany. Muller represented several second- and third-division teams from Germany, including EHC Neuwied, Iserlohner EC, Bietigheim Steelers, Moskitos Essen, EV Ravensburg and EHF Passau Black Hawks. He retired from playing after the 2009–10 season.

Coaching career
In his early coaching career, Muller worked at the youth level, coaching the under-20 squad of Italian club HC Eppan in 2011–12. He then returned to Ravensburg, where he had spent three years as a player, taking over as youth coach while also serving as assistant on the club's men's team in the second German division.

Prior to the 2015–16 season, Muller was appointed head coach of ESV Kaufbeuren, a member of Germany's second-tier DEL2. In December 2015, he signed a contract extension through the 2016–17 season. On February 16, 2016, Muller was fired by ESV Kaufbeuren after a series of two wins and 13 losses since the beginning of the new year.

In March 2019, Muller was announced as the head coach of the Breezy Point North Stars of the North American 3 Hockey League (NA3HL). The team ceased operations after his first season. When the franchise was re-activated as the Minnesota Loons in 2021, he was brought back as head coach.

Career statistics

References

External links

Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey players
HC Dynamo Moscow players
Moncton Hawks players
Springfield Falcons players
Minnesota Moose players
Grand Rapids Griffins (IHL) players
Mississippi Sea Wolves players
Baton Rouge Kingfish players
Rockford IceHogs (UHL) players
Essen Mosquitoes players
EHF Passau Black Hawks players
Ravensburg Towerstars players
SC Bietigheim-Bissingen players
EHC Neuwied players
Iserlohn Roosters players
Winnipeg Jets (1979–1996) draft picks
Ice hockey coaches from Minnesota
Living people
1971 births
Ice hockey coaches
American ice hockey coaches
American men's ice hockey defensemen
Ice hockey players from Minnesota


title: Labour Conventions Reference

text:
, also known as the Labour Conventions Reference, is a landmark decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council concerning the distinct nature of federal and provincial jurisdiction in Canadian federalism.

Background

The federal treaty power
As part of the British North America Act, 1867, the Parliament of Canada was granted power to implement certain treaties:

During the 1920s, as a result of the growing political and diplomatic independence of the various Dominions of the Empire, the Balfour Declaration of 1926 stated that the United Kingdom and the Dominions were:

When Canada subsequently gained full independence following passage of the Statute of Westminster 1931, s. 132 was not amended to reflect its changed status.

The Labour Conventions
As a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles, the International Labour Organization was established, in which Canada became a member. Between 1919 and 1928, the ILO adopted several conventions, including:

 the Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919,
 the Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921, and
 the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928.

Their ratification and implementation were not carried out, following a 1925 reference to the Supreme Court of Canada which declared that only the provincial legislatures had the competence to do so with the first two conventions, except with respect to federal civil servants and workers in those parts of Canada not within the limits of a province. The decision in that ruling was unanimous.

In 1935, the Parliament of Canada ratified the conventions, and subsequently passed:

 The Weekly Rest In Industrial Undertakings Act,
 The Minimum Wages Act, and
 The Limitation of Hours of Work Act.

This change in position followed the Privy Council's decision in the Aeronautics Reference, which declared:

As there was debate as to whether the Parliament had the competence to pass these Acts, reference questions were given to the Supreme Court as to in what particular or to what extent each of them was ultra vires.

Reference to the Supreme Court of Canada
The Court was evenly divided, 3-3, on each of the questions.

Duff CJ, holding that all Acts were intra vires, as the conventions arose from the Treaty of Versailles, said:

In his dissent, Rinfret J (as he then was) argued that the conventions were separate and did not arise as a consequence of the Treaty, the 1925 Reference was binding, and moreover that they were not properly ratified at all, declaring:

Appeal to the Privy Council
The Board held that all Acts were ultra vires. In his ruling, Lord Atkin held:

 "The obligations [arising from the conventions] are not obligations of Canada as part of the British Empire, but of Canada, by virtue of her new status as an international person, and do not arise under a treaty between the British Empire and foreign countries."
 "No obligation to legislate in respect of any of the matters in question arose until the Canadian executive, left with an unfettered discretion of its own volition, acceded to the conventions, a novus actus not determined by the [Treaty of Versailles]."
 "For the purposes of sections 91 and 92 [of the BNA Act] ... there is no such thing as treaty legislation as such."
 "The question is not how the obligation is formed, that is the function of the executive: but how is the obligation to be performed and that depends upon the authority of the competent legislature or legislatures."

Even though the Statute of Westminster 1931 had made Canada fully independent in governing its foreign affairs, the Board held that s. 132 did not accordingly evolve to take that into account. As noted at the end of the judgment,

Aftermath

Labour relations
The scope of the federal jurisdiction with respect to labour relations, as determined by the 1925 reference, continued to apply until 1955, when the Stevedores Reference held that it extended to all works and undertakings falling under it. In that judgment, Abbott J declared:

Federalism

The Reference served to promote the concept of dual federalism, where the provinces could act as separate communities within a wider political union. As a result, spillover effects by an Act passed by one level of government onto the other level are not tolerated, and are dealt with by the courts through declaring the measure to be ultra vires, or "read down" so that it remains within the jurisdiction of the originating legislature.

As to its general effect on federal and provincial jurisdiction, it has been suggested that the "watertight compartments" doctrine, generally construed as stating that nothing can be added or taken away, may be more properly described as meaning that a head of power can encompass more than it did at the beginning of Canadian Confederation in 1867, but it should not encompass less. The Supreme Court in 2011 summarized its present approach in Reference re Securities Act:

External relations
The Reference expressly left undecided the question as to the extent of the federal power to negotiate, sign and ratify treaties that deal with areas falling within provincial jurisdiction.

After 1949, the Supreme Court tended to side more with the federal government, and in 1955 subsequently ruled that international agreements between provinces and foreign governments were allowed only if they did not involve treaty obligations but merely reciprocal or concurrent legislative action.

This judgment has generated extensive debate about the complications that were introduced in implementing Canada's subsequent international obligations, and it has been condemned for being out of touch with Canadian economic and political realities. The Supreme Court of Canada has indicated in several dicta that it may be ready to revisit the issue in an appropriate case.

An indication that that may eventually happen came in a comment by Dickson CJ in 1987:

Further reading

Notes

References

Canadian federalism case law
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council cases on appeal from Canada
1937 in Canadian case law
Canadian labour case law
Canadian constitutional case law
Supreme Court of Canada cases


title: Kenje Ogata

text:
Kenje Ogata (June 1, 1919 – January 18, 2012) was one of five documented Nisei to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.

Early years
Kenje Ogata was born June 1, 1919, in Gary, Indiana, the son of Clay Kamezo and Wai (née Mitsuda) Ogata. As a young man he grew up in Sterling, Illinois, participating in Boy Scouts and graduating in 1936 from Sterling High School. Following his graduation he worked in the plating room of the National Manufacturing Company. Interested in aviation, Ogata earned his pilots license through Civilian Pilots Training Program (CPTP).

World War II
Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Ogata boarded a train to Chicago, Illinois, to join the service. Due to his Japanese heritage he was discouraged from joining the service by those taking enlistments. However, Ogata was determined to join the service telling the recruitment office "I am here to serve". Enlisted and sent through training, Ogata was assigned as a medical corpsman to Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois. Despite his requests for reassignment, prejudice against those of Japanese heritage remained and his requests were refused. Ogata, unwilling to accept this, enlisted the support of the Sterling community receiving letters of support and recommendation from the town's mayor, police chief, city attorney, and local judges attesting to his character. Eventually the Army would agree and transfer Ogata.

In 1943, Ogata was transferred December 31, 1943, to Army Air Corps and assigned to the 49th Bomb Wing, 451st Bomb Group, 726th Squadron, 15th Air Force in Italy. Consisting of B-24s Ogata trained as a ball turret gunner. While serving with the 451st Bomb Group Ogata would rise to the rank of Staff Sergeant, complete thirty-five missions, and survive two crashes. For his service and injuries sustained in combat he would receive the Air Medal with three bronze oak leaf clusters and the Purple Heart.

References

External links

1919 births
Recipients of the Air Medal
United States Army Air Forces soldiers
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
American military personnel of Japanese descent
2012 deaths
People from Gary, Indiana
People from Sterling, Illinois


title: List of Portuguese films of 2003

text:
A list of Portuguese films that were first released in 2003.

See also
2003 in Portugal

References

2003
Lists of 2003 films by country or language
2003 in Portugal


title: Valerio Nava

text:
Valerio Nava (born 17 January 1994) is an Italian footballer who plays as a right back for Serie D club Lentigione.

Club career
Born in Calcinate, Nava began his career in local Atalanta, being assigned to the Primavera squad in 2011.

On 9 July 2013, after finishing his graduation, Nava was loaned to Serie B club Novara. He played his first match as a professional on 11 August,  starting in a 3–0 home success against Grosseto, for the campaign's Coppa Italia.

Nava made his Serie B debut late in the month, playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–1 home win against Siena Calcio.

In subsequent seasons, he alternates between the Serie B and Lega Pro playing respectively for Carpi, Spal, Ascoli, Cittadella, Catania and Alessandria.

On 9 January 2019, he signed a 1.5-year contract with Rimini.

On 9 January 2020, he signed a 1.5-year contract with Vis Pesaro.

On 31 August 2021, he moved to Serie C club Pergolettese.

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
People from Calcinate
Footballers from the Province of Bergamo
Italian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Serie B players
Serie C players
Serie D players
Atalanta BC players
Novara FC players
AC Carpi players
SPAL players
Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC players
AS Cittadella players
Catania FC players
US Alessandria Calcio 1912 players
SS Juve Stabia players
AS Pro Piacenza 1919 players
Rimini FC 1912 players
Vis Pesaro dal 1898 players
US Pergolettese 1932 players
Italy men's youth international footballers


title: Long Service Medal, Gold

text:
The Long Service Medal, Gold was instituted by the President of the Republic of Venda in 1985, for award to all ranks for thirty years exemplary service.

The Venda Defence Force
The 900 member Venda Defence Force (VDF) was established upon that country's independence on 13 September 1979. The Republic of Venda ceased to exist on 27 April 1994 and the Venda Defence Force was amalgamated with six other military forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).

Institution
The Long Service Medal, Gold was instituted by the President of Venda in 1985. It is the senior award of a set of three medals for long service, along with the Long Service Medal, Silver and the Long Service Medal, Bronze.

Venda's military decorations and medals were modelled on those of the Republic of South Africa and these three medals are the approximate equivalents of, respectively, the Good Service Medal, Gold, the Good Service Medal, Silver and the Good Service Medal, Bronze.

Award criteria
The medal could be awarded to all ranks for thirty years of exemplary service.

Order of wear

Since the Long Service Medal, Gold was authorised for wear by one of the statutory forces which came to be part of the South African National Defence Force on 27 April 1994, it was accorded a position in the official South African order of precedence on that date. The position of the Long Service Medal, Gold in the official order of precedence was revised twice after 1994, to accommodate the inclusion or institution of new decorations and medals, first in April 1996 when decorations and medals were belatedly instituted for the two former non-statutory forces, the Azanian People's Liberation Army and Umkhonto we Sizwe, and again upon the institution of a new set of honours on 27 April 2003.

Venda Defence Force until 26 April 1994

Official VDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Independence Medal.
 Succeeded by the Long Service Medal, Silver.
Venda official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the National Force Long Service Medal, 30 Years.
 Succeeded by the Police Star for Merit.

South African National Defence Force from 27 April 1994

Official SANDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Gold of the Republic of Bophuthatswana.
 Succeeded by the John Chard Decoration (JCD) of the Republic of South Africa.
Official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Medal for Faithful Service in the Prisons Service, Gold of the Republic of Bophuthatswana.
 Succeeded by the Police Star for Merit of the Republic of Venda.

South African National Defence Force from April 1996

Official SANDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Gold of the Republic of Bophuthatswana.
 Succeeded by the Gold Service Medal of the Azanian People's Liberation Army.
Official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Medal for Faithful Service in the Prisons Service, Gold of the Republic of Bophuthatswana.
 Succeeded by the Police Star for Merit of the Republic of Venda.

The position of the Long Service Medal, Gold remained unchanged, as it was in April 1996, when a new set of honours was instituted on 27 April 2003.

Description

Obverse
The Long Service Medal, Gold is silver-gilt medallion, 38 millimetres in diameter, depicting the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Venda.

The suspender is in the form of a pair of crossed elephant tusks and is different on the full size and miniature medals. On the full-size medal, depicted at the top, the ends of the tusks reach to approximately the ten-thirty and one-thirty clock positions on the medallion, while on the miniature medal, as depicted alongside, they reach to approximately the nine-thirty and two-thirty clock positions on the medallion.

Reverse
The reverse is inscribed "MENDELE WA TSHUMELO YA TSHIFHINGA TSHILAPFU MIINWAHA YA FURARU", the number of years service.

Ribbon
The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide, with a 4 millimetres wide blue band and an 8 millimetres wide green band, repeated in reverse order and separated by an 8 millimetres wide yellow band.

Discontinuation
Conferment of the Long Service Medal, Gold was discontinued when the Republic of Venda ceased to exist on 27 April 1994.

References

Military decorations and medals of Venda
Long service medals
Awards established in 1985
Awards disestablished in 1994
1985 establishments in Africa
1994 disestablishments in Africa


title: Acanthobrama marmid

text:
Acanthobrama marmid, or the Mesopotamian bream or Tigris bream, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is widespread and abundant in the Tigris–Euphrates river system. It lives in many kinds of lowland waters, and can also tolerate modified water bodies such as reservoirs and moderately-polluted rivers.

It can grow up to a length of 30 cm. It is caught commercially but is of low value.

References

marmid
Fish described in 1843
Fauna of Iraq
Freshwater fish of Western Asia


title: The Flaming Crisis

text:
The Flaming Crisis is a 1924 American short silent Western film written and directed by William H. Grimes.

Plot
A young black newspaperman is convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to prison. He escapes and makes his way to the southwestern cattle country, where he falls in love with Tex Miller, a beautiful cowgirl. Having rid the territory of an outlaw band, he gives himself up to the law, thinking that he will be sent back to prison. After discovering that the real murderer has confessed, he returns to Tex and the country he has come to love.

Cast
 Calvin Nicholson as Newspaperman
 Dorothy Dunbar as Tex Miller
 Talford White
 Henry Dixon as Mark Lethler
 Kathryn Sherman
 Marie Chester
 Arther Yeargan
 William Butler

References

External links

1924 films
1924 Western (genre) films
1920s crime films
1920s romance films
American black-and-white films
American crime films
American romance films
Films directed by William H. Grimes
Silent American Western (genre) films
1920s American films
English-language romance films
1920s English-language films


title: César Martins

text:
César Henrique Martins (born 28 December 1992), sometimes known as just César, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a  centre-back for Grêmio Novorizontino.

Club career
Born in Mairinque, in the São Paulo state, César Martins started competing in hometown club Atlético Sorocaba in the Campeonato Paulista, where his performances sparked the interest of Ponte Preta which signed him on a loan deal on 26 April 2013.

At Ponte Preta, César Martins assumed a starting position, helping the team reach the 2013 Copa Sudamericana Finals, lost to Lanús, moving permanently to Macaca side in December 2014. As the Brazilian team sought to benefit financially from recent performances, on 2 July 2014, they announced that César had signed a five-year deal with incumbent Portuguese champions Benfica for an undisclosed fee, later confirmed to be €2.2M for half of his economic rights.

On 14 December 2014, he debuted in the Primeira Liga, in a Benfica 0–2 away win at Porto, replacing injured Luisão. In late January 2015, he suffered a muscular injury, missing several months, only reappearing on 2 May 2015, when he played for reserve side in a 1–0 home win against Braga B in Segunda Liga.

On 18 July 2015, César Martins was loaned to Flamengo, until 30 June 2016. Despite being regularly used, his spell was not without controversy. In May 2016, he was approached by Flamengo fans outside a shopping market, who verbally insulted him and threw rocks at his car, with his wife and child inside. Two weeks later, in a match with Palmeiras, he stopped a Gabriel Jesus's goalbound shot with his hands, committing a professional foul, which carried a potential nine match ban. Flamengo asked Benfica to retain him for another year, but they declined.

Upon returning to Portugal, he was loaned to Nacional for one-year. He played 30 games there, not avoiding relegation as the club finished last in  Primeira Liga. Nacional's President attacked him saying he was the worst centre-back he had ever saw. César defended himself saying he always gave it all for the club and it was coward to name a culprit. In July 2017, he went on his third loan at Benfica, now to Vitória de Setúbal. Mid-season, César requested to return to Brazil and signed with Juventude from Série B. Eight months later, he terminated his contract with Benfica and joined Santa Clara on a two-year deal.

Honours
Ponte Preta
Copa Sudamericana: Runner-up 2013

Benfica
Primeira Liga: 2014–15
Taça da Liga: 2014–15
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 2014

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
Footballers from São Paulo (state)
Brazilian men's footballers
Men's association football central defenders
Clube Atlético Sorocaba players
Associação Atlética Ponte Preta players
S.L. Benfica footballers
S.L. Benfica B players
CR Flamengo footballers
C.D. Nacional players
Vitória F.C. players
Esporte Clube Juventude players
Grêmio Esportivo Novorizontino players
C.D. Santa Clara players
S.C. Farense players
Club Bolívar players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Bolivian Primera División players
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Expatriate men's footballers in Bolivia
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Bolivia


title: Samuel Hunter (editor)

text:
Samuel Hunter (1769–1839) was a Scottish journalist, magistrate and officer of yeomanry. He was the editor of the Glasgow Herald.

Life
He was born on 19 March 1769 in the manse of Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire the son of Rev John Hunter (1716–1781) and his second wife Margaret McHarg (d. 1786).

Receiving his elementary education there, he qualified as a surgeon at Glasgow University, and for a time, about the end of the 18th century, practised his profession in Ireland. Somewhat later he acted as captain in the North Lowland Regiment of fencibles, and settled in Glasgow.

On 10 January 1803 Hunter became editor and co-proprietor of the Glasgow Herald and Advertiser, to which he then for 34 years spent most of his time running. Soon afterwards, in a French invasion scare, he figured first as major in a corps of gentlemen sharpshooters, and secondly as colonel commandant of the fourth regiment of Highland local militia.

Sitting on Glasgow town council, Hunter also rose to be a magistrate. He was an implacable opponent of political reform and in 1820 fresh military activity in response to radical unrest brought him forward as commander of a choice corps of gentlemen known as the Glasgow Sharpshooters. From this time till 1837, when he retired from the Herald—then a sheet of four pages, appearing bi-weekly—he was one of the most prominent Glasgow citizens.

After retiring Hunter settled at Rothesay, and he died on 9 June 1839 whilst visiting his nephew, Rev Dr Archibald Blair Campbell, D.D., parish minister of Kilwinning, Ayrshire. He was buried in Kilwinning churchyard.

References

Attribution

1769 births
1839 deaths
Scottish newspaper editors
Scottish surgeons
People from Dumfries and Galloway
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Councillors in Glasgow
The Herald (Glasgow) editors


title: Acanthobrama microlepis

text:
Acanthobrama microlepis, called the blackbrow bleak or the Caucasian bream, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae.  It reaches a maximum size of 25 cm (9.8 in) TL. The species is found in lakes and rivers of the southwestern Caspian Sea drainage basin, including Sefīd-Rūd, Kura River and Aras River.  It has also been introduced to Iraq.

It is an ubiquitous species, which inhabits all kinds of freshwater bodies "with standing or slowly flowing waters as larger streams, rivers, reservoirs and lakes".  Hydroelectric exploitation of the river systems does not seem to have impacted this species. Populations are in decline in Iran. The species is locally fished, but commands a low price, and is rarely a targeted species.

References

microlepis
Fish described in 1863
Taxa named by Filippo De Filippi


title: List of bluegrass music festivals

text:
This is a list of bluegrass music festivals that have Wikipedia articles or are otherwise verified by an independent, reliable, published source. This list may have some overlap with the umbrella topic list of folk festivals, and more complete overlap with list of country music festivals.

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a subgenre of country music. Bluegrass was inspired by the music of Appalachia. It has mixed roots in Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and English traditional music, and also later influenced by the music of African-Americans through incorporation of jazz elements.

Festivals

North America

Oceania

Europe

Gallery

See also
List of music festivals

References

External links

Bluegrass


title: Rebeka Montoya

text:
Rebeka Montoya is an American actress. Montoya is known for her recurring role as Delores Padilla in the ABC daytime soap opera, General Hospital, from 2011 to 2012. In 2014 she joined the cast of ABC comedy-drama series, Mistresses, as Antonia Ruiz. In 2004 Montoya had a role in the Telemundo telenovela Prisionera, and later guest-starred in Las Vegas, Castle, Southland, and Psych.

Filmography

References

External links

Living people
American television actresses
21st-century American actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Alison Harmelin

text:
Alison Harmelin is the co-founder and chief brand officer at Zeel.com, an on-demand in-home health & wellness company. Prior to Zeel, from 2005 to 2015, she was an American television journalist for CBS News based in New York City. Harmelin last served as a fill-in anchor for CBS News Up-to-the-Minute and also served as a fill-in anchor for the CBS Morning News and CBSN. Harmelin was also a correspondent for CBS Newspath, the network's 24-hour daily news service, anchor and reporter for CBS MoneyWatch, and frequent contributor to CBS Radio News and CBSNews.com.

Career
Harmelin covered breaking news for more than a decade, including Hurricane Sandy, the aftermath of the September 11th attacks and the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. She reported live from New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina. She covered the Collapse of Bear Stearns in 2008 and the impact of the Great Recession on the American people.

Harmelin began her career at NBC News in London, has covered the White House and the Supreme Court in Washington D.C., and worked as a local anchor and reporter at television stations in central Pennsylvania and Philadelphia before moving to New York City. Prior to her work in television, Harmelin clerked for a Los Angeles-based law firm. She later worked for then District Attorney of Philadelphia, Lynne Abraham.

In 2003, she was nominated for an Emmy for her investigative series on child sex trafficking on the Internet.

Personal life
Harmelin was born and raised in Philadelphia. Her father is Stephen Harmelin, the former White House Director of Speechwriting and a former White House Aid to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1964 to 1965. She graduated with honors from the University of Southern California and attended the Paris-Sorbonne University.

Harmelin sits on the committee for New Yorkers for Children (in foster care), and once served as a board member for the Alliance for Lupus Research. She is married to Internet entrepreneur and investor, Samer Hamadeh.

References

External links
 Twitter

University of Southern California alumni
American women journalists
Living people
Television personalities from Philadelphia
American reporters and correspondents
Year of birth missing (living people)
CBS News people
Journalists from Pennsylvania
21st-century American women


title: Harry Jefferies

text:
Harry Jefferies (1891 - ????) was an English cricketer notable for his two first-class cricket appearances for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in 1919. A bowler of unknown style and handedness, Jefferies took five wickets - all of them during just one of his two games - at a bowling average of 18.60 runs per wicket. He batted four times without scoring a run.

Born in Bristol, Jefferies made his debut in the County Championship on 23 May against Sussex in Gloucester. He took three wickets for the cost of 38 runs in the first innings, and two for fifty-five runs in the second as Gloucestershire took a twenty-four run victory. He did not bowl in his second match, against Yorkshire on 26 May.

References
Notes

Sources

1891 births
Date of death unknown
Cricketers from Bristol
Gloucestershire cricketers
English cricketers


title: Jesús Ochoa

text:
Jesús Ochoa may refer to:

 Jesús Ochoa (actor) (born 1959), Mexican actor
 Jesús Ochoa (footballer) (born 1981), Mexican soccer player


title: Iveta Grigule-Pēterse

text:
Iveta Grigule-Pēterse (born 30 September 1964) is a Latvian politician formerly for the Latvian Farmers' Union (until 2017). She was elected to the European Parliament in 2014 as the sole representative for the Union of Greens and Farmers.

She was formerly a member of the Latvian Green Party and was elected to the Saeima in 2010 for the Union of Greens and Farmers. She was excluded from the Green Party in 2011 but successfully ran as an independent for the Union of Greens and Farmers in the 2011 Latvian parliamentary election. In 2013, she joined the Latvian Farmers' Union.

She opposed the Latvian adoption of the Euro in January 2014.

In February 2017 Grigule left the Latvian Farmers' Union.

Member of the European Parliament

She was elected to the European Parliament in the May 2014 elections, and joined the eurosceptic Europe of Freedom and Democracy group, which soon thereafter became the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group. On 16 October 2014 it was reported that Grigule was defecting to the European People's Party, leading to the crisis in the EFDD group as it was temporarily one country short of the required seven member states. Nigel Farage, EFDD co-president and head of UKIP (whose members made up more than half the group), claimed that Grigule was pressured to stand down if she wanted to lead a parliamentary delegation to Kazakhstan. In April 2015 she joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats group.

In 2016 Grigule voted against a European Parliament resolution to condemn Russia's use of propaganda. The move was harshly criticised by Prime minister Māris Kučinskis who categorically distanced himself from it and said that "she has crossed all the boundaries that were there to cross," and that "the party board is prepared to have Grigule leave". Initially she refused to publicly explain her voting record, but after meeting with the Latvian Farmers' Union chairman Valdis Veinbergs Grigule claimed that she had voted against the resolution because she believed it popularized Islam. Veinbergs called her a valuable contribution to the party and assured that as long as he's chairman Grigule won't be kicked out from the party.

In November 2016 the Baltic Centre for Investigative Journalism Re:Baltica reported that Grigule and another Latvian MEP Andrejs Mamikins were circumventing the 2014 ban of hiring close relatives as assistants, with Grigule employing Mamikins' wife Natalya and Mamikins employing Grigule's daughter Anete. All four of them declined to comment, whether it was as a result of a mutual agreement.

In December 2017, according to the ranking website MEPRanking.eu, Grigule was ranked as the least effective Latvian MEP and one of the least effective members of the European Parliament in general, receiving 0.36 score units and ranking 736th out of 751.

References

1964 births
Living people
Politicians from Riga
Latvian Green Party politicians
Latvian Farmers' Union politicians
University of Latvia alumni
21st-century Latvian women politicians
Deputies of the 10th Saeima
Deputies of the 11th Saeima
Union of Greens and Farmers MEPs
Europe of Freedom and Democracy MEPs
MEPs for Latvia 2014–2019
Women MEPs for Latvia
Women deputies of the Saeima
Latvian Academy of Culture alumni


title: Jairus Birech

text:
Jairus Kipchoge Birech (born 14 December 1992) is a Kenyan steeplechase runner. He holds a personal best time of 7:58.41 minutes for the 3000 metres steeplechase, which ranks him among the top ten of all time. He was the gold medallist at the 2014 African Championships in Athletics and silver medallist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

He was a silver medallist at the African Junior Athletics Championships in 2011 and went on to place fourth at the 2011 All-Africa Games. He competes frequently on the IAAF Diamond League and was the 2014 Diamond Race winner. He was the fastest steeplechase in the world in 2014.

Career
Born in Uasin Gishu, Birech began competing in the steeplechase as a teenager and dipped under nine minutes for the 3000 metres steeplechase for the first time in 2010, recording 8:50.0 minutes in Nairobi. He made his breakthrough at international level in the 2011 season. He started with his first medal for Kenya at the 2011 African Junior Athletics Championships, where he was the silver medallist in a Kenyan 1–2 with Gilbert Kirui. His European debut resulted in a victory at the Miners Day Meeting in Velenje. He ran at his first Diamond League race soon after and his personal best time of 8:11.31 minutes (for fifth at the Meeting Areva in Paris) ranked him thirteenth in the world that year, marking him out as one of Kenya's emerging talents. He won at the Barcelona Meeting and fifth at the DN Galan Diamond League. In his senior debut for Kenya, at the age of eighteen, he came fourth behind an Ethiopian trio in the steeplechase at the 2011 All-Africa Games.

He began his 2012 season in Australia and won at the Sydney Track Classic. Another win came at the Kawasaki Super Meet, where he broke the meeting record. At the Doha Diamond League meet he set a personal best of 8:06.72 minutes, but this was only enough for fourth in a quick race. He found himself behind Kenyan opposition on several occasions that year, coming third at the Golden Gala, fourth at the Olympic trials, Meeting Areva and Memorial Van Damme, and fifth at Herculis. He performed better towards the end of the season, placing second to Paul Kipsiele Koech at the Athletissima meet, winning at the Birmingham Grand Prix, and setting a meet record at the Hanžeković Memorial. His best run of 8:03.43 minutes ranked him fifth in the world that year, behind four other Kenyans.

Birech beat Emmanuel Bett in a sprint finish at the Cross Internacional de Itálica in January 2013. He won on the track in May, improving the meet record at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo. On the 2012 IAAF Diamond League circuit he appeared regularly in the steeplechase but only twice made the top three (third at the London Grand Prix and second at the Weltklasse Zürich) A fourth place at the Kenyan trials saw him miss a major tournament again and slipped down the end-of-year steeplechase rankings, coming ninth for 2013. He performed well in long-distance races, however, coming runner-up at the Cross Internacional de Venta de Baños and fourth in a 10K best of 29:00 minutes at the BOclassic.

He had a breakthrough in the 2014 Diamond League season. After a fourth-place finish in Doha, he had back-to-back wins in Rome and at the Bislett Games, running a personal best and world-lead of 8:02.37 minutes in the latter. He was a narrow second to Koech at the IAAF World Challenge Beijing, but came out top in national competition at the Kenyan Athletics Championships. He was the world's dominant steeplechaser that year, losing only once between June and September. At the major events of the year, he was the favourite for the 2014 Commonwealth Games but was upset by fellow Kenyan Jonathan Ndiku, who beat Birech by two seconds, but he reversed that placing at the 2014 African Championships in Athletics to take the continental gold medal. On the circuit, he won the Diamond League races in Lausanne, Monaco, and Birmingham before going on to win the series final at the Memorial Van Damme, setting a new best of 7:58.41 minutes in the process. This mark made him the eleventh man to complete the distance in under eight minutes and placed him tenth on the all-time lists.

Personal bests
3000 metres steeplechase – 7:58.41 min (2014)
2000 metres steeplechase – 5:57.2 min (2009)
2000 metres – 4:58.76 min (2011)
3000 metres – 7:41.83 min (2013)
10K run – 29:00 min (2013)

References

External links

Living people
1992 births
People from Uasin Gishu County
Sportspeople from Rift Valley Province
Kenyan male steeplechase runners
Kenyan male long-distance runners
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Kenya
Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for Kenya
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Diamond League winners
IAAF Continental Cup winners
Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 All-Africa Games
African Games competitors for Kenya
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Beyhan Sultan (daughter of Selim I)

text:
Beyhan Sultan (; "leader of Kings", died 1559), also known as Peykhan Sultan, was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Selim I and probably Ayşe Hafsa Sultan. She was the sister of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

Marriage
In 1513, Beyhan Sultan married vizier Damat Ferhat Pasha. However, on 1 November 1524, Ferhet Pasha quelled the rebellion of Janberdi and was executed on the orders of her brother Suleiman the Magnificent.

She was alienated from her brother and refused to remarry and lived in a self exile from Istanbul in her palace at Skopje.

Beyhan Sultan's loyalty to her husband surpassed her loyalty to her family, which was a rare occasion.
Ferhat was executed on the grounds of rapacious and ruthless conduct in the provinces  which he was assigned.
Through the intercession of  Suleiman's mother Ayşe Hafsa Sultan, Ferhat had been pardoned after his first offences, but he continued to provoke the complaints from his constituents, the sultan ordered him executed.
After 1524, she was remarried to Mehmed Pasha, with whom she had a daughter, Esmehan Hanımsultan (sometimes she is indicated as daughter of Ferhad).

Issue
The number and paternity of Beyhan's children is debated: Beyhan's only certain daughter was Esmehan (or Ismihan) Hanımsultan, but it is uncertain whether she was the daughter of the first or second marriage. Additionally, documents relating to Ferhad Pasha's execution mention his and Beyhan's children when they talk about his family's grief, but without specifying their name, number or gender.

The question therefore remains disputed.

Death and burial
Beyhan Sultan died in her palace a Skopje in 1559. Her resting place is located inside the türbe of her father Selim I in Yavuz Selim Mosque.

Depictions in literature and popular culture
In the TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Beyhan Sultan is portrayed by Turkish actress Pınar Çağlar Gençtürk.

References

Sources

16th-century Ottoman princesses
1559 deaths


title: Jack Hafer

text:
Jack Hafer is an American film producer and film executive.  As of 2015, he was the head of the production company Boulevard Pictures.  Hafer was also department head of the Biola University Cinema & Media Arts Department.

Career
Hafer Was the producer of the film, To End All Wars (2001) starring Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Carlyle.  The film screened at the Cannes Film Festival, won Best Picture at the Heartland Film Festival, was awarded the Commander in Chief Medal of Service, Honor and Pride by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and showcased at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival Cinema for Peace.

Hafer was vice president and general manager of GMT Studios in Culver City, California.

In 2005, Hafer received a Santa Barbara Award for Excellence in film at the Cinema in Focus Festival.

Hafer recently finished the narrative feature, Not That Funny, starring Tony Hale.  He was also developing several features including James Dean: the Movie, Fallen Earth, and Gideon.

Their documentary work includes production on Wall of Separation (PBS), Lines That Divide and School's Out – all part of  The Culture Wars: A Series.

In 2014 Hafer was an associate professor at Biola University,  and a member of the Producers Guild of America.  He produced the annual Biola Media Conference on the CBS Studio Lot, a conference for Christian industry professionals.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Biola University faculty


title: Samuel Hunter

text:
Samuel Hunter may refer to:

Samuel Hunter (cyclist) (1894–1976), British cyclist
Samuel Hunter (editor) (1769–1839), Scottish newspaper proprietor
Samuel Hunter (gymnast) (born 1988), British artistic gymnast
Samuel D. Hunter (born 1981), American playwright
Samuel Black Hunter (1855–1935), Canadian politician

See also
Sam Hunter (disambiguation)