title: Anya Reading

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Anya Marie Reading is a professor of Geophysics and Associate Head of Research in the School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania.

Early life and education
Reading completed her undergraduate education at the University of Edinburgh, UK, receiving a BSc (Hons) in geophysics in 1991. She earned a PhD from the University of Leeds, UK, which was conferred in 1997. Her thesis developed seismological methods to study the subduction zone beneath New Zealand. Reading continues to focus on Southern Hemisphere continental lithosphere, with emphasis on Australia and Antarctica, and technique development in seismology and computational physical sciences.

Career and impact
Reading's career includes multiple field seasons in Antarctica and Australia which expanded the seismic data available for these regions through the deployment of temporary networks of instruments. Using seismic energy as a means of learning about hidden regions of the continents, her work demonstrated the association between the structure of continents at depth, and the history of plate tectonics for that region.

In 2014, she led research at the University of Tasmania that developed earthquake technology to track deep ocean storms, which "play a key role in global climate". Reading also uses seismology to understand the interaction between glaciers and the bedrock beneath, and coordinates community initiatives in interdisciplinary Antarctic science.

Reading was an early pioneer of computational methods that apply machine learning to geoscience data. This has greatly expanded the analysis toolbox for geophysicists in both fundamental and applied research areas. Such approaches have an added benefit of being able to integrate numerical and categorical data in multivariate syntheses. She has also worked on data visualization methods for the geosciences.

Reading has served on numerous research strategy and policy development committees including the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Earth Sciences, and also as Director of the Australian National Facility for Earth Sounding, ANSIR. She founded the Computational Geophysics and Earth Informatics Group within the School of Natural Sciences at University of Tasmania in 2010.

In 2017, Reading became the first female Professor of Geophysics in Australia and also undertook research visits in connection with the award of a Fulbright Senior Scholarship. She undertakes science outreach including the coordination of the Tasmanian component of the Australian Seismometers in Schools, AuSIS.

Awards and honours
Reading was awarded a Fulbright senior scholarship in 2017.

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title: Ulrike Mathesius

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Ulrike Mathesius is a German–Australian plant microbiologist in the Division of Plant Sciences at Australian National University (ANU).  She is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at the ANU, National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) member and Professor at the ANU in plant science, biotechnology and plant-microbe interactions.  Her research focuses on root microbe interactions and symbionts to parasites.  Mathesius won the 2013 Fenner Medal awarded by the ARC for research in biology (excluding the biomedical sciences) for outstanding early-career researchers under the age of 40.

Background

Mathesius was born in Germany where she received her Diploma in Biology (BSc Hons) at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1995.  She came to Australia in 1993 after spending two years as an undergraduate and spent a year at the ANU's Research School of Biological Sciences (RSBS) working with four different research groups which sparked her interest in a research career.  After she finished her degree in Germany, she won an international post-graduate scholarship to the ANU.  She carried out her PhD at the RSBS between 1996 and 1999, which focused on the symbiosis between rhizobia and legumes.  She joined the NTEU when she finished her doctorate.  This was followed by post doctoral research at RSBS in the area of plant proteomics between 1999 and 2001.  In 2002 she moved to the School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with a Post Doctoral Fellowship from the ARC.  She then held an ARC Research Fellowship and is now an ARC Future Fellow working on the developmental regulation of nodulation, parasitic gall development and lateral root formation in legumes.  Mathesius has two young children and lives in Canberra.

Research

Mathesius investigates how soil microbes shape the plant by developing and applying techniques at a molecular, cellular and whole plant level.  A central idea of her work is that microbes 'hijack' plant signalling pathways for their own purposes. Her research laboratory specializes in investigating quorum sensing, the chemical signalling systems bacteria use to coordinate gene transcription leading to collective behaviour and defining the mechanisms that symbiotic and pathogenic organisms use to manipulate plant development.  They have discovered, that plants using a sophisticated surveillance and response system, can distinguish between harmful and beneficial bacteria and mimic their chemical communication signals in an attempt to thwart their offensives.  This has implications for utilising microbes to alter crop plant performance and for trying to develop nitrogen-fixing symbioses in non-legumes.

Awards and recognition

 2013 - Fenner Medal: Awarded by The Australian Research Council
 2011 - Australian Awards for University Teaching for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning: Awarded by The Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching
 2009 - Joint College Award for Excellence in Education: Awarded by The ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment and the ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
 2009 - Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Education, for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning: Awarded by The Australian National University
 2007 - Peter Goldacre Award: Awarded by The Australian Society of Plant Scientists
 2006 - Rebeiz Foundation for Basic Research Prize: Awarded by Rebeiz Foundation for Basic Research
 2006 - ACT Young Tall Poppy Science Award: Awarded by The Australian Institute for Policy and Science

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title: Helen McGregor

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Helen McGregor may refer to:

 Helen McGregor (writer), writer, actor and lecturer (1974-2021)
 Helen McGregor (geologist) (1974) Australian geologist and climate change researcher
 , an American river-steamboat destroyer by boiler explosion 1830


title: S. K. Dey

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Surendra Kumar Dey, (Sep. 13th, 1906 - May 24, 1989) was India's first Union Cabinet minister for Cooperation and Panchyati Raj. Mr. Dey is remembered as the man who pioneered and steered community development in independent India. He firmly believed that democracy cannot be practiced by government servants and stressed that the fruits of democracy ought to reach every village.

Early life
S. K. Dey was born on 13 September 1906 in Laxmibassa village in Sylhet district in present-day Bangladesh, Mr. Dey went on to study engineering at Purdue University and Michigan in the United States of America. Dey was a son-in-law of the eminent nationalist leader, Bipin Chandra Pal.

Career
He began his career by serving as the Honorary Technical Advisor to the Ministry of Rehabilitation, Government of India (1948–51). It was in this post that Dey proved his mettle as a “social engineer” and was noticed by top government, including then-Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

Tenure as Minister
Dey's vitality and commitment to developing grassroots democracy prompted Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to hand over the reins of Rural Development in newly independent India to Mr. Dey.

After Nehru's death, Dey resigned from the ministry and dedicated his time to build Panchayati Raj institutions in the country. As minister, his pet project was the Community Development Programme (1953) which would later form the basis of Community Development Blocks across the country. Mr. Dey's concept of community development was rooted in his belief that the community could help itself rather than looking “towards the government as Mai-Baap.” Mr. Dey's model of community development is characterized by a three-pronged strategy- development of the area, coordinated
administration and development of the individual and the community.

The first Community Development Project was undertaken in Etawah U.P in 1948. During 1952, 55 such projects were taken up across the country. Taking their success into account, the Community Development Programme was scaled up to all blocks in the country.

Rural Township
In 1949, Dey designed the concept of an agro-industrial township for rural development. The thrust of this model was its focus on a combination of agriculture and industrial development. The township would be provided support in terms of goods and services by surrounding villages. It would be self-sufficient and function on the basis of cooperation.

This model materialized as the “Mazdoori Manzil” project in 1950, in Nilokheri, Haryana. The project benefitted 7000 homeless refugees from Pakistan. Mr. Dey considered this model to be welfare state in action.

Impressed with the model, Nehru termed it to be the “Mecca of Development” and called for the creation of many more Nilokher is across the country. Unfortunately, over the years, Nilokheri has been lost to obscurity and lacks evenbasic facilities such as health, water and education.

S.K. Dey appears to have been influenced, on the one hand, by Rabindranath Tagore’s Shantiniketan experiment for Rural Development and, on the other, by the Gandhian idea of Rural Construction, which laid stress on self-sufficiency and manual labour. It could also be perceived as a Model of Rural Development based on a synthesis of Liberalism, Marxism and Gandhi-ism. The emphasis on individual liberty seems to have been imbibed from Liberalism, stress on right and duty to work from Marxism and that of small scale cottage and village industries from Gandhi-ism.

Panchayati Raj
Dey was a member of the Balwantrai Mehta Committee (1957) that was set up to study the Community
Development Programme. The Committee assessed the extent to which the programme had succeeded in utilizing local initiatives and in creating institutions to ensure continuity in the process of improving economic and social conditions in rural areas. The Committee held that community development would be deep and enduring only when the community was involved in the planning, decision -making and implementation process, thus making a case for a strong Panchayati Raj system. The Balwantrai Mehta Committee proposed a seminal developmental role for Panchayati Raj Institution in rural development and termed these as necessary for the success of community development and national extension programmes.

Dey attributed philosophical connotations to the Panchayati Raj, which he explained in detail in his book “Panchayat-i-Raj, a Synthesis.” He elucidates that the Panchayati Raj was an important link between the individual and the world at large. Dey visualized an intimate relationship
between the Gram Sabha and the Lok Sabha and said that democracy was to flow from the Parliament to the Gram Sabha. Dey urged state governments to give priority to establishing PRIs their respective states. By the 1960s, all states had legislated on PRIs and more 2, 17, 300 Panchayats had come into being.

Other Achievements
Mr. Dey also played an instrumental role in the institution of the National Development Council. Mr. Dey's has made a
marked contribution to the field of development journalism by being the guiding force behind “Kurukshetra”, the
monthly organ of the Ministry of Rural Development. Mr. Dey was a rare blend of a philosopher and practitioner who
played an important role in the nation-building process for more than four decades after Independence. His
pioneering contribution to the concept and implementation of rural development and Panchayati Raj merits special
attention from social scientists, administrators, political leaders and other stakeholders in the project for rural
development and decentralized rural governance

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title: Yue Prefecture (Hunan)

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Yuezhou or Yue Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern Hunan, China, centering on modern Yueyang.

Counties
Yue Prefecture administered the following counties () through history:

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title: Dami Im discography

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The discography of South Korean-born Australian recording artist Dami Im consists of six studio albums, four extended plays, twenty singles and two album appearances. Im began her music career as a gospel singer in Korea and independently released her debut studio album, Dream, in 2010. She was the winner on the fifth season of The X Factor Australia in 2013, and subsequently received a contract with Sony Music Australia. Im released her self-titled second studio album in November 2013, which features selected songs she performed as part of the top twelve on The X Factor. The album debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), denoting shipments of 70,000 copies. Additionally, the album also included Im's debut single "Alive", which topped the ARIA Singles Chart and was certified platinum. She became the first X Factor Australia contestant to follow up a number one single with a number one album on the ARIA Charts.

In January 2014, Im collaborated with Jessica Mauboy, Justice Crew, Nathaniel Willemse, Samantha Jade and Taylor Henderson on a cover of "I Am Australian" to coincide with the Australia Day celebrations. Their cover peaked at number 51 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Im's third studio album Heart Beats was released in October 2014. The album was preceded by its first two singles "Super Love" and "Gladiator", both of which peaked at number 11 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Upon its release, Heart Beats debuted at number seven on the ARIA Albums Chart and became Im's second top-ten album.

In August 2020, Im confirmed she had signed with ABC Music and released a new album in 2021.

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 [ Dami Im] at AllMusic

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title: Patricia Margaret Selkirk

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Patricia Margaret Selkirk,  (née Connell; born 1942) is an Australian plant biologist and ecologist. Her career has focused on Antarctic and subantarctic terrestrial ecosystems and she is recognized as being a pioneering female Australian Antarctic scientist.

Life and career
Patricia Margaret Connell was born in Newcastle, and educated at Narrabeen Girls' High School and The Women's College, The University of Sydney (BSc Hons, PhD). Her father, William Fraser (Bill) Connell (OBE) had been educated at the University of Melbourne, the University of London and the University of Illinois. He held the Chair in Education at the University of Sydney for many years focusing on educational research and teaching. Her mother Margaret Lloyd Peck, studied at the University of Melbourne and the Associated Teachers Training Institute, then taught secondary school maths and science. Selkirk has two younger sisters, Raewyn Connell and Helen Connell. She is married to Antarctic biologist, historian and author, Herbert Dartnall. She has two daughters.

Selkirk held positions at both Sydney and Macquarie Universities including teaching in the open university mode at Macquarie University.

Between 1979 and 2005 Selkirk took part in 18 field trips to the Antarctic and subantarctic islands with Australian, French and New Zealand national polar expeditions including Macquarie and Heard Islands, Iles Kerguelen, the Windmill Islands and the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica.

Research and publications
A plant biologist, Selkirk has published more than 80 papers on a wide range of Antarctic subjects including landscape-level geomorphology, vegetation history and palynology, and studies of plant reproduction and genetics, particularly in mosses. She is lead author, with R. D. Seppelt and the late D. R. Selkirk of the influential 1990 book, Subantarctic Macquarie Island: Environment and Biology. She was the first to recognise the importance of studying the impact of climate change on the subantarctic islands. Selkirk and colleagues established that Macquarie Island had not been significantly glaciated during the last glacial maximum due to the island's low altitude. They also calculated uplift rates for the island, calculating that the island first appeared above the ocean some 700 to 600 thousand years ago. In Antarctica, working with Rod Seppelt, they were instrumental in recognising the importance of the moss beds (lush patches of mosses, growing on ancient abandoned penguin colonies) and establishing the area as a SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest), now Antarctic Specially Protected Area 135.

She continues her research with numerous Australian and international research colleagues, while her long term monitoring projects assume increasing significance with current climate change. Selkirk served on the Australian Antarctic Program's Antarctic Scientific Advisory Committee (1995–2001), and the Antarctic Research Evaluation Group (AREG) and the  Australian Academy of Science's Australian National Committee for Antarctic Research (ANCAR).

Trailblazing in Antarctica
Selkirk was one of the first women scientists to spend substantial time conducting field work on Macquarie Island. In 1959, the first women scientists (Isobel Bennett, Susan Ingham, Mary Gillham and Hope Macpherson) visited the island for a short period of time during the station's annual resupply and worked each day off the Nella Dan. Isobel Bennett visited for three more short times in 1960, 1965, 1965. In 1976, the first female medical practitioner (Zoe Gardner) spent a year on the island, followed by Jeannie Ledingham in 1977 and Lynn Williams in 1979. In 1979/80 scientists Selkirk and Jenny Scott (then a PhD student) spent five months working on the island. She was the postgraduate supervisor of Antarctic ecologist Dana Bergstrom.

Selkirk was also the first female scientist in the Australian Antarctic Program to spend a considerable time working at an Antarctic station. Prior to her first summer at Casey 1982/83, a single female medical practitioner (Louise Holliday) had spent the winter at Davis Station in 1981.

Awards and honours
Selkirk was awarded the Australian Antarctic Medal in 2004 for her 'outstanding service' in support of Australian Antarctic expeditions', as a 'trail blazer, teacher, and inspirational role model for women scientists in Antarctica'. She is considered a pioneer of Australian Antarctic Science.

In 2017 the University of Sydney awarded Selkirk an Alumni Award for Professional Achievement.

The Australian Antarctic Gazetteer includes Selkirk Creek, a Macquarie Island stream named after Patricia Selkirk, in honour of her scientific research on Macquarie Island.

In 2018 Selkirk was awarded the Phillip Law Medal for significant contributions to Antarctic science.

In June 2022, Selkirk was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours for "eminent service to science and conservation, particularly through research of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems, to tertiary education, and as a mentor and champion for women".

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title: Kliti Grice

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Kliti Grice ,  is a chemist and geochemist known for her work in identifying geological and environmental causes for mass extinction events. Her research integrates geological information with data on molecular fossils and their stable carbon, hydrogen and sulfur isotopic compositions to reconstruct details of microbial, fungal and floral inhabitants of modern and ancient aquatic environments and biodiversity hot spots. This information expands our understanding of both the Earth's history and its current physical state, with implications ranging from energy and mineral resource exploration strategies to environmental sustainability encompassing climate dynamics and expected rates, durations and scale of our future planet's health. As one of the youngest women professors in Earth Sciences, she is the founding director of the Western Australian Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre (WA-OIGC) and is a Professor of Organic and Isotope Geochemistry at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.

Early life and education
Kliti Grice obtained her PhD in 1995 at the University of Bristol (UK). Grice's PhD research measured and interpreted the stable carbon isotopic compositions of maleimides (small, polar, nitrogen-containing molecules) in sedimentary organic matter from the Permian Kupferschiefer (highly anoxic Zechstein Sea, NW Germany). These compounds are unique to the chlorophylls of photosynthetic algae and bacteriochlorophylls of anoxygenic photosynthetic green sulfur bacteria (Chlorobi) – a discovery that has underpinned some of her latter breakthroughs.

From November 1995 to February 1998, Kliti undertook a post-doctoral fellowship (100% research) at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research under the guidance of Jaap Sinninghe Damsté (Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; and Spinoza Prize winner - The Netherlands' highest science research award).

During her postgraduate research, Kliti was mentored by Professor James R Maxwell (FRS; former co-editor-in-chief of Organic Geochemistry) and the late Prof. Geoffrey Eglinton (FRS; recipient of the Royal medal, Dan David Prize and NASA gold medal). Other important career mentors include: Roger Summons (MIT, USA; formerly Chief Researcher at Geoscience Australia), FRS, FAA, Fellow American Geophysical Union; the late Prof. John de Laeter (legacy includes John de Laeter Centre-JDLC at CU); and Roland de Marco (Deputy VC Research at University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; formerly Head of Department of Chemistry and Dean of Research at CU).

Career and impact
Grice is renowned for addressing critical palaeobiological questions using innovative analytical approaches. Her investigations into ancient environments and their contemporary analogues have led to improved understanding of Phanerozoic ecosystems, the physiology of plants and algae, and petroleum and mineral geochemistry. Of particular importance was pinpointing sulfide toxicity as an underlying cause of rapid biological turnover, by identifying the frequency of green sulfur bacteria (GSB) remains in mass extinction sedimentary records. More recently, she identified the key role of microbial communities in exceptional fossil preservation, with increased access and utilization of this new biological fossil record. Major scientific breakthroughs have shed light on global anoxic events and their association with mass extinctions. Grice's PhD research on the stable carbon isotopic compositions of maleimides in sedimentary organic matter from the Permian Kupferschiefer underpinned some of her latter breakthroughs (e.g., relationship between GSB, sulfide toxicity and highly dynamic environmental/biological systems). Chlorobi utilise  during photosynthesis to fix , giving a 13C enrichment of lipids that renders them distinct from the lipids of other algae [84, 86]. She has additionally discovered an array of diagenetic products from the carotenoids made by Chlorobi.

At Curtin University Grice has built the Western Australian Organic & Isotope Geochemistry Centre (WA-OIGC) into one of the largest organic geochemical laboratories in the southern hemisphere, with research infrastructure primarily funded by 15 ARC infrastructure grants. This includes four compound specific isotope and bulk isotope analysis facilities (C, H, N and S) available for organic analytes and a 2018 ARC grant ($1.276M) for a Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (TOF-SIMS). Other analytical instrumentation in the WA-OIGC laboratories include gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) equipped with a range of sample introduction methods (liquid injection, SPME, gas analysis, on-line pyrolysis devices, thermal desorption unit) and two-dimensional GC (GC×GC-TOFMS) for complex organic mixtures.  Heavy polar molecules, such as intact lipids and metalloporphyrins, are analysed by Orbitrap liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS).

Grice collaborated with colleagues at UWA (Malcolm McCulloch FAA, FRS and Paul Greenwood) to build the world's second dedicated sulfur-CSIA facility (GC-ICPMS), which measures δ34S of organosulfur compounds. WA-OIGC now also includes a state-of-the-art paleogenomics laboratory, established by Deputy Director Marco Coolen in 2015, capable of nucleic acid extraction from trace biomass of ancient environments. The excellent ancillary facilities at WA-OIGC include core drilling equipment, sample preparation and storage, traditional wet chemistry methods for extraction, chemical cleavage, separation and derivatisation, and more novel techniques including hydropyrolysis for soft thermal fragmentation of macromolecules. The WA-OIGC facilities have led to many national and international partnerships with universities, government and industry.

WA-OIGC is also a major member of the JDLC, a collaborative research venture hosting over $30M worth of excellent analytical and mass spectrometry infrastructure. The JDLC provides access to a range of world-class imaging techniques, including Focused Ion Beam–Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIB-SEM) and an atom probe. The CSIRO Mineral Resources and Petroleum Division, located adjacent to Curtin, has an Advanced Characterisation Facility supporting detailed micro-characterisation of geological samples. MoU arrangements allow CU staff access to this state-of-the-art infrastructure which includes world-class optical microscopy, automated mineralogy, XRD and microbeam XRF mapping, X-ray computer tomography microscopy and a nuclear microprobe. Grice was appointed as a senior research fellow at Curtin University in 1998 and became Professor of Organic and Isotope Geochemistry in 2007. She was awarded the J G Russell Award by the Australian Academy of Science for her research on stable carbon and hydrogen isotope signatures of chemical fossils.

Grice is a member of the Australian National Committee of Earth Sciences (NCES).

Her research has shown that some major biological extinction events can be traced to factors intrinsic to the Earth's systems, rather than external factors such as asteroid impacts.

Awards and honours
2021: Australian Laureate Fellowship
2019: Curtin University research and engagement awards - STEM research excellence medal
2018: ANZAAS Medal
2018: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
2017: Morrison Medal, The Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry
2016: Gibb Maitland Medal from the Australian Geological Society for Outstanding Contributions to the Resources sector WA
2014: Australian Organic Geochemistry (AOGC) Medal
2014: John Curtin Distinguished Professor
2013: Honorary Fellow of the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry
2013: ARC DORA Professorial Fellowship
2012: Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Environmental Chemistry medal
2009: Senior Researcher of the Year award, Curtin University, Division of Engineering, Science and Computing
2008: Australian Research Council (ARC) QEII Fellowship ii
2007: Young Researcher of the Year award, Curtin University, Division of Engineering, Science and Computing
2002: JG Russel Award, Australian Academy of Science
2002: The Premier's Inaugural Science Award for Early Career Achievement in Science, Western Australia
2001: Australian Research Council (ARC) QEII Fellowship i
2001: International Pieter Schenck Award for Outstanding Contributions in Organic Geochemistry

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Kliti Grice at Curtin University
Western Australian Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre (WA-OIGC)

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title: Surendra Gambhir

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Dr. Surendra Gambhir is a United States based Indian author, writer and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of South Asia Studies. He received Padmabhushan Dr. Moturi Satyanarayan Award in 2009 by Pratibha Devisingh Patil, President of India. He also received the Presidential Award in June 2012.

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title: 37 Channels

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37 Channels is the fifth studio album by American rock band Tantric, released on September 17, 2013 via Pavement Entertainment.

Background and recording
On August 8, 2013 via Pavement Entertainment, it was announced that Tantric would be releasing their fifth studio album titled 37 Channels on September 17, 2013.

Lead singer Hugo Ferreira remained the only sole member of the band during the album's recording.

Ferreira commented on the album saying:"I didn't let people jerk off all over this record, I'm very protective of it. I used to let things go, but I literally oversaw every aspect of 37 Channels." Ferreira also explained the songwriting of the album saying:"I can't afford a therapist, so this is what I do. I regurgitate all my angst and pain and confusion and joy. I'm showing more, letting people into my brain and heart."

Soon after the release of the album in the fall of 2013 Hugo recruited drummer TJ Taylor, bassist Scott Wilson and guitarist Derek Isaacs and went on to tour in support of the album.

Track listing

Personnel
Hugo Ferreira – lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar, piano
Austin John Winkler – guest vocals
Shooter Jennings – guest vocals
Leif Garrett – guest vocals
Kenny Olsen – lead guitar
Kevin McCreery – lead vocals
Scott Bartlett – guitar
Johnny K – guitar
 Kevin McCreery – rhythm guitar
Gary Morse – pedal steel guitar
Greg Upchurch – drums
Emanuel Cole – drums
John Abel – bass guitar

Charts
The album debuted at number 24 on the US Hard Rock Albums chart.

References
http://www.amazon.com/37-Channels-Tantric/dp/B00F4MG68E/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_mus?ie=UTF8&qid=1409416673&sr=8-1&keywords=tantric+37+channels

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title: Switched at Birth (season 4)

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On August 13, 2014, ABC Family announced that it has picked up a fourth season of its hit original drama series Switched at Birth, premiering on January 6, 2015. The season is produced by ABC Family, Pirates' Cove Entertainment, and Suzy B Productions, with Paul Stupin and series creator Lizzy Weiss serving as executive producers.

The one-hour scripted drama revolves around two young women who discover they were switched at birth and grew up in very different environments.  While balancing school, jobs, and their unconventional family, the girls, along with their friends and family, experience deaf culture, relationships, class differences, date rape, audism, and other social issues.

Cast

Main
 Sean Berdy as Emmett Bledsoe
 Lucas Grabeel as Toby Kennish
 Katie Leclerc as Daphne Paloma Vasquez
 Vanessa Marano as Bay Madeleine Kennish
 Constance Marie as Regina Vasquez
 D. W. Moffett as John Kennish
 Lea Thompson as Kathryn Kennish

Recurring

Ryan Lane as Travis Barnes
Terrell Tilford as Eric Bishop
Rachel Shenton as Lily Summers
Adam Hagenbuch as Greg "Mingo" Shimingo
Sharon Pierre-Louis as Iris Watkins
Marlee Matlin as Melody Bledsoe
Austin Cauldwell as Josh Padden
Rana Roy as Vimla
Alice Lee as Skye
Max Adler as Miles "Tank" Conroy
Bess Armstrong as Beth Marillo
B.K. Cannon as Mary Beth Tucker
Sarah Stouffer as Tess Ritter
Sayeed Shahidi as Will Bishop
Kim Hawthorne as Hope Paxton
Stephanie Nogueras as Natalie Pierce
Dan J. Johnson as Quinn
Nyle DiMarco as Garrett Banducci
Sean McGowan as Gabe
Shainu Bala as Brandon
Alex Wyse as Howie
Bianca Bethune as Sharee Gifford
Alec Mapa as Renzo
Meredith Baxter as Bonnie Tamblyn-Dixon
Rene Moran as Nacho Rivera
Sam Page as Craig Tebbe
Jill Remez as Juanita

Episodes

Reception

U.S. ratings

References

External links

2015 American television seasons
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title: European route E572

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E 572 is a B-class European route connecting Trenčín in Slovakia to Žiar nad Hronom. The route is approximately 101 km long.

Route and E-road junctions
  (on shared signage  I9 (includes interspersed sections upgraded to  R2) then  I65)
 Trenčín:  ,
 Žiar nad Hronom:  ,

External links
 UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
 International E-road network

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Roads in Slovakia


title: Judith Clements

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Judith Ann Clements  is an Australian academic and educator, specializing in Kallikrein proteases in prostate and ovarian cancers. Clements is the scientific director at the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre – Queensland and was head of the Cancer Research Program at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI) of Queensland University of Technology at the Translational Research Institute (Australia) from 1997–2014.

Research
The Cancer Research Program led by Clements at QUT-IHBI, aims to more clearly understand the molecular and cellular basis for the development, progression, and metastasis of solid tumours.

Clements has commented on her research, stating:
"The primary interest of my group within the Hormone Dependent Cancer Program is the tissue kallikrein family of serine proteases. Our group was one of three worldwide that identified and characterised the expanded human tissue kallikrein gene locus on chromosome 19q13.4 in 1999. Since that time, our research has focused on defining the roles of particular kallikreins, and their variant forms, in hormone dependent cancers such as prostate, ovarian and endometrial cancer. We have used conventional/real time PCR and immunohistochemistry to determine the association of kallikrein expression with clinical disease to determine their usefulness as biomarkers for detection, prognostic outcome and therapeutic approaches. We are also utilizing over-expression and knockout systems to determine the effect of kallikrein expression in cancer cell lines at the cell biology level. Other studies in progress are directed to understanding the structure/function of the kallikreins, their substrate specificity and in vivo interacting proteins and genomic regulation. Other protease research interests are the type 2 trans membrane serine proteases (with Dr John Hooper) and the ADAMs (with Prof Adrian Herington and Dr Dimitri Odorico).

Education
Clements completed her PhD in Endocrinology at Monash University in 1989, her Master of Applied Science in 1983, after completing her Bachelor of Applied Science in 1982 and Diploma of Laboratory Technology in 1969 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Awards
 2017 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
2015 Companion of the Order of Australia
 2012	Women in Technology (WiT) Biotech Outstanding Achievement Award
 2011	Queensland University of Technology Vice Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence
 2007	Gold Medal, E.K.Frey–E.Werle Foundation for pioneering work in the Kallikrein field
 2006	Research featured in "Ten Of The Best" National Health and Medical Research Council funded health and medical research successes
 2005	Alban Gee Prize, Urological Society of Australasia Annual Scientific Meeting
 2001	Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Science Distinguished Award for Excellence in Research
 2000	National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellowship
 2000	Silver Medal and Honorary Membership of the E.K.Frey–E.Werle Foundation (awarded at the International Conference, Kinin 2000, Munich)
 1998	Alban Gee Prize, Urological Society of Australasia Annual Scientific Meeting
 1995	National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellowship
 1991	Prize for an "Outstanding Presentation", Kinin 91, International Conference on Kallikreins and Kinins, Munich, Germany.

References

External links
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 Prostate Cancer Research Centre profile

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Cancer researchers


title: Z-FA-FMK

text:
Z-FA-FMK, abbreviating for benzyloxycarbonyl-phenylalanyl-alanyl-fluoromethyl ketone, is a very potent irreversible inhibitor of cysteine proteases, including cathepsins B, L, and S, cruzain, and papain.  It also selectively inhibits effector caspases 2, 3, 6, and 7 but not caspases 8 and 10. This compound has been shown to block the production of IL1-α, IL1-β, and TNF-α induced by LPS in macrophages by inhibiting NF-κB pathways.

References

Protease inhibitors
Carbamates
Organofluorides


title: Hope Black

text:
Hope Black (née MacPherson, 1919 – 25 January 2018) was an Australian scientist, a marine biologist and malacologist. In 1937 she started working at the National Museum of Victoria. Subsequently, she became Curator of Molluscs at the museum in 1946. One of the first four women to carry out research in the sub-Antarctic in 1959. She was the National Museum's first female curator. When she married in 1965, she was forced to leave the museum, and instead became a science teacher for thirteen years. In 2019 Lake Macpherson on Macquarie Island was named for her.

Career
Appointed as Curator of Mollusks in 1946, Hope MacPherson was Australia's first female curator at the National Museum of Victoria.

Her tenure was brought to a close prematurely, when in 1965 she married and became Hope Black, requiring her retirement from the Victorian public service as a result of the marriage bar. Subsequently, Black worked for 13 years as a science teacher.

Work in marine biology

Hope Black was initially employed in 1937 at Museum Victoria by the support of the Carnegie Corporation. She worked on developing and preparing new display cases for the McCoy Hall dioramas. In 1947 Black collaborated to survey the Snowy River Gorge on horseback, prior construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme.

Between 1957–1963, Black carried out biological surveys of Port Phillip Bay, and her results are still used as baseline data from which to measure environmental change in the area.

Black investigated the genus Teredo, a group of marine bivalve mollusks known as "shipworms". She also surveyed edible molluscs in Victoria. Ultimately, her mollusc research lead to her writing the book Molluscs of Victoria, which was published in 1962.

Notably, Black was also a member of a group of four women (also including Isobel Bennett, Susan Ingham and Mary Gillham) who were the first to carry out research in the sub-Antarctic in 1959. She was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2012. In 2019 Lake Macpherson on Macquarie Island was named for her.

References

External links
Black, Hope (1919 - ), Encyclopedia of Australian Science

1919 births
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Scientists from Melbourne
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Women marine biologists
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title: European route E573

text:
E 573 is a B-class European route connecting Püspökladány in Hungary to Uzhhorod in Ukraine. The route is approximately 193 km long. Its national number in Hungary is 4. Formerly, it began in Nyíregyháza as its southern part was called E77.

Route and E-road junctions
The E 573 routes through two European countries:

 (on shared signage , except for a 23 km  to  shared signage bypass of Nyíregyháza)
 Püspökladány:
 Debrecen:
 Záhony (near Ukrainian border)

 (on shared signage )
Chop (near Hungarian border)
Uzhhorod:  ()

References

External links
 UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
 International E-road network

International E-road network
European routes in Ukraine
Roads in Hungary


title: Abbronzatissima

text:
"Abbronzatissima" (; Italian for "Very tanned") is a song composed by Edoardo Vianello and Carlo Rossi, and performed by Vianello. The single, considered an instant classic in Italy, peaked for two weeks at the first place of the Italian hit parade and sold over 6.5 million copies.

In 1963 Cleto Colombo and The A. Novaris also record the piece (Nuova Enigmistica Tascabile, N. 455).

Track listing
7" single –  PM45-3200
 "Abbronzatissima" (Edoardo Vianello, Carlo Rossi) –    2:29
 "Il cicerone" (Edoardo Vianello, Carlo Rossi) –  	   2:28

References

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Italian songs
Number-one singles in Italy
1963 songs


title: Luis Abinader

text:
Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona (; born 12 July 1967) is a Dominican economist, businessman, and politician who is serving as the 54th president of the Dominican Republic since 2020. He served as the Modern Revolutionary Party candidate for President of the Dominican Republic in the 2016 and 2020 general elections.

Before becoming president, Abinader was the general manager of Grupo Abicor, his family's business consortium, which was started by his father, a former senator and finance minister. The conglomerate includes a real estate and construction company focused mainly on the tourism industry, a cement factory and a private university. He also owns several offshore companies, as revealed by Pandora Papers.

Prior becoming President, he filed a public declaration of assets stating that he had a net worth of over 76 million US dollars. Abinader was proclaimed by Bloomberg as Latin America's richest president.

Early life
Abinader was born in Santo Domingo on 12 July 1967. His parents are from the Cibao region: his mother, Rosa Ramona Sulina "Sula" Corona Caba, is of colonial Canary Islander ancestry and from the province of La Vega; his father was the businessman and political leader José Rafael Abinader, of Lebanese descent and a native of the Santiago Province.  His paternal grandfather was José S. Abinader, a Lebanese immigrant from Baskinta, Mount Lebanon, who arrived to the country in 1898 and settled in the town of Tamboril (located near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros).

Abinader did his secondary education at the Colegio Loyola (); He graduated in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (). He did postgraduate studies in Project Management at Hult International Business School (at the time named Arthur D. Little Institute) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Career

He was elected vice president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party in its 2005 National Convention.

He is currently Executive Chairman of ABICOR Group, which has developed and operated major tourism projects in the country. This family group led the business plan of what is today the company Cementos Santo Domingo, of which he is Vice President.

He has been president of the Association of Hotels in the Puerto Plata area and is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Hotels and Restaurants (ASONAHORES).

He is member of the Board of Directors of the O&M University's Foundation.

He was recognized by the Rhode Island General Assembly for his career in public service, education, and business. He also received acknowledgments from the City Hall of Boston and the Massachusetts Senate for his contributions to higher education, civic engagement, and community service.

Abinader was the vice-presidential candidate of the Dominican Revolutionary Party in the 2012 election and in 2005 was pre-candidate for senator from the province of Santo Domingo.

2016 presidential election

Abinader was the presidential candidate of the Dominican Humanist Party and the Modern Revolutionary Party for the past general elections on 15 May 2016.

Abinader was, along with Soraya Aquino, one of the two presidential candidates in 2016 who had not been born during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961). Giuliani Partners, specifically Rudy Giuliani and John Huvane, advised Abinader in the campaign as security consultants.

2020 presidential election

Abinader successfully ran for President in the 2020 election. Rudy Giuliani and John Huvane once again advised Abinader in the campaign as security consultants.

Suspicions of tax evasion
In October 2021, Abinader was named in the Pandora Papers leak.

The investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) found that Abinader "is linked to two Panamanian companies" (both created before Abinader became president of the country).

 Littlecot Inc. (created on 24 March 2011 and which he owns with his sister and brother). Abinader interviewed by the ICIJ said that Littlecot Inc. holds family property in the Dominican Republic.
 Padreso SA (created on 8 January 2014, and in which his three siblings are shareholders). This company owns and manages shares in six other entities that own properties and extensions of the private university (also owned by his family).

Documents found in the Pandora Papers show that these two companies originally had bearer shares, not registered in the name of any particular person. It also shows that after in 2015, Panamanian law required companies to disclose the identity of the owners of their bearer shares, in 2018, a lawyer for the Abinaders filed a form with an "offshore service company" (Overseas Management Co. or OMC Group) listing Luis Abinader's siblings as shareholders of the companies, instead of "the bearer".

OMC Group is also the service provider that created the company Offshore Dorado Asset Management Ltd. on 2 July 2004 in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands on behalf of Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. Once president, Abinader created the company Offshore Dorado.

Once president, Abinader declared these two companies (and at least seven other offshore companies under a revocable trust). His net worth was approximately US$70 million, according to a public declaration of assets he filed a month after being elected president in 2020.

President of the Dominican Republic

Abinader was sworn in as the President of the Dominican Republic on 16 August 2020.

The inauguration had a reduced number of guests due to the measures taken for the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the international guests was the Secretary of State of the United States, Mike Pompeo, who attended on behalf of President Donald Trump.

He made the fight against illegal immigration one of his priorities. In February 2022, he began construction of a separation wall with Haiti, which will extend over 164 of the 380 kilometers of border.

Foreign relations

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was among those in attendance at Abinader's swearing-in ceremony. Under Luis Abinader's leadership, the Dominican Republic is set to form stronger economic and diplomatic ties with the United States. Under his administration, the Dominican Republic became one of the countries that, along with the US, voted to maintain the arms embargo on Iran.

He is close to the Lima Group, which brings together conservative governments in the Americas to isolate Venezuela and contribute to the fall of its government.

On 24 February 2022, Abinader released a statement denouncing Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

In 2023, a dispute over water in the Dajabón River led President Abinader to close the Dominican Republic-Haiti border.

Personal life

Abinader has been married to Raquel Arbaje Soneh since 1995. She is the daughter of businesspersons Elías Arbaje Farah and Margarita Soneh, both of Lebanese descent. They have three children: Esther Patricia, Graciela Lucía, and Adriana Margarita.

References

External links

 Biography by CIDOB (in Spanish)

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Santo Domingo Institute of Technology alumni
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title: Lesley Joy Rogers

text:
Lesley Joy Rogers (born 31 July 1943) is a neurobiologist and emeritus professor of neuroscience and animal behaviour at the University of New England.

Academic career and education
Rogers obtained Bachelor of Science with honours at the University of Adelaide in 1964. She worked in various positions at Harvard University, New England Medical Centre Hospital, University of Sussex, and Open University. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in 1971 and a Doctor of Science in 1987, both from the University of Sussex.

In 2000, Rogers was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

In 2003, she was awarded the Clarke Medal in zoology from the Royal Society of New South Wales, and also received the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research, the Academic Women's Special Achievement Award and also the Centenary Medal in 2003.

In 2009, Rogers was a member of the Voiceless Scientific Expert Advisory Panel.

Publications

Professor Rogers has published over 200 journal articles and 14 books predominantly focussing on the brain and development.

Selected books
Rogers, L.J. and Vallortigara, G. (eds) (2017) Lateralized Brain Functions: Methods in Human and Non-human Species. Springer Nature, Humana Press.  . (Print) 978-1-4939-6725-4 (Online). NeuroMethods Series, vol. 122.
Rogers, Lesley J; Vallortigara, Giorgio; Andrew, Richard J (2013). "Divided Brains: The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries". Cambridge University Press . .
Rogers, L.J. and Kaplan, G. (2004) Comparative Vertebrate Cognition: Are Primates Superior to Nonprimates? Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York. .
Kaplan, G. and Rogers, L.J. (2003) Gene Worship: Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain, and Gender. OtherPress, New York. .
Rogers, L.J. and Andrew, R.J. (2002) Comparative Vertebrate Lateralization. Cambridge University Press, New York. . Re-issued in 2008 -  Hbk and 978-0-521-78700-0 Pbk.
Kaplan, G. and Rogers, L.J. (1999) The Orang-utans. Allen and Unwin, St Leonards. . Also published by Perseus/Hellix Press, N.Y., 2000. .
Rogers, L.J. and Kaplan, G. (2000) Song, Roars and Rituals: Communication in Birds, Mammals and Other Animals. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. .
Rogers, L.J. (1999) Sexing the Brain. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London . Also published by Columbia University Press, New York in 2001 (hardback  and paperback 023112011) and by Phoenix Paperback, London, in 2000 ().
Rogers, L.J. (1997) Minds of their Own: Animal Thinking and Awareness. Allen and Unwin, St Leonards . Also published by Westview Press, Colorado, in 1998 .
Rogers, L.J.  (1995) The Development of Brain and Behaviour in the Chicken, CAB International, Wallingford, UK. .
Bradshaw, J.L. and Rogers, L.J. (1993) The Evolution of Lateral Asymmetries, Language, Tool Use and Intellect, Academic Press. .

Selected Journal articles
(refereed research papers only)

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Selected Book Chapters

Rogers, L.J. (2017) Eye and ear preferences. In Rogers, L.J. and Vallortigara, G. (eds) Lateralized Brain Functions: Methods in Human and Non-human Species. Humana Press, Springer NeuroMethods Series, vol. 122, pp. 79–102. .
Rogers, L.J. (2011) Sex differences are not “hard-wired”. In J.A. Fisher (ed) Gender and the Science of Difference: Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine. Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, pp. 27–42.  pbk and 978-0-8135-5047-3hbk.

Rogers, L.J. and Kaplan, G. (2004) All animals are not equal: the interface between scientific knowledge and the legislation for animal rights? In C.R. Sunstein and M. C. Nussbaum (eds.) Animal Rights: Law and Policy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 175–202. ()
Rogers, L.J. (2002) Lateralization in vertebrates: Its early evolution, general pattern and development. Advances in the Study of Behavior, Vol. 31, ed. by P.J.B. Slater, J. Rosenblatt, C. Snowdon and T. Roper (eds), Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 107–162. ().
Rogers, L.J. (2000) Evolution of side biases: Motor versus sensory lateralization. In M.K. Manas, M.B. Bulman-Fleming and G. Tiwari (eds) Side-Bias: A Neuropsychological Perspective. Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (), pp. 3–40.
Rogers, L.J.  Development of Lateralisation.  In: R.J. Andrew (ed.), Neural and Behavioural Plasticity: The Use of the Domestic Chicken as a Model, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 507–535 (1991).

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title: Adolphus Edward Shelley

text:
Adolphus Edward Shelley (1812 – May 29, 1854) was an early British colonial official and the first Auditor-General in British Hong Kong.

Early life
Shelley was the third son of Sir John Shelley, 6th Baronet in Michelgrove, Sussex, England. He married his wife Amelia in 1836.  Shelley lived in the wealthy area of Blackfriars, London in his early life as a coal merchant until he went bankrupt in 1839, which he moved to the town of Lower Halliford in Shepperton. Shelley went to India unemployed and became acquainted with Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, the then Secretary of State for War and the Colonies who subsequently provided him with a recommendation letter to the governor of Hong Kong, John Francis Davis for the position of Auditor-General. In addition he is famous for his concept of god given linguistic.

Political career
Shelley was appointed as the first Auditor-General in the Hong Kong colony in 1844. After taking office, he named a street after himself, Shelley Street. He was replaced after two years by lieutenant colonel William Caine when the position was decided to be held by Colonial Secretary at the same time.

Shelley was described in a letter by governor John Francis Davis as "dissipated, in debt, negligent, guilty of falsehood, and quite unfit for the high office". In an 1844 letter to James Matheson and Sir Alexander Matheson, 1st Baronet described Shelley as a "swindler". After he left Hong Kong, Shelly was appointed Assistant Auditor-General of Accounts of Mauritius in 1847. Shelley died in office in Mauritius in 1854.

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title: Euthymios (Agritellis)

text:
Saint Euthymios of Zela the Ethno-Hieromartyr, (), born Eustratios Agritellis, 1876–1921, was the last resident Bishop of the Diocese of Zela near Amasia, Western Pontus, which he served from June 12, 1912,  until his death on May 29, 1921, during the period of the Greek genocide.

His memory is celebrated on May 29, as well as on the Sunday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

Early life
Saint Euthymios was born on July 6, 1876, in the village of Parakila on Lesbos island, where he started his education. At the age of nine he entered the 'Leimonias school', located within the Leimonos Monastery, from where he graduated in 1892.

In the meantime, he was tonsured a monk by the Hegumen of the monastery, Archmandrite Anthimos (Georgiellis), who gave him the name Euthymios. For the next eight years he practiced asceticism in the Leimonos Monastery.

In 1900 he was sent by the monastery to the Theological School of Halki, where he studied from 1900 to 1907. In 1906 he was ordained a deacon by Metropolitan Agathangelos of Grevena, and in 1907 he completed his thesis entitled: "The purpose of monastic life in the East until the 9th century AD."

After his graduation, he returned to Lesbos, where Metropolitan Stephen (Soulidis) of Methymna appointed him the head of the Leimonos School, as well as the itinerant preacher (hierokeryx) of the Metropolis of Methymna. He performed this role between 1909-1910, during which time he was known for his prowess as an orator and the rich content of his sermons. In the 1909-10 school year, he served as headmaster in the municipality of Gera, in the region of Mytilene.

In 1910 he was ordained a priest by Metropolitan Stephen (Soulidis) of Methymna, and served as the protosynkellos of the Metropolis of Methymna until 1912.

In 1912 the Metropolitan of Amasya Germanos Karavangelis (based in Samsun), who was himself a native of Lesbos, received Euthymios as his general commissioner. It is said that the Ecumenical Patriarch himself Joachim III first introduced Euthymios to Metropolitan Germanos, having been informed of the talents of the young clergyman. Thus the Great Church of Christ promoted Euthymios as assistant bishop to the Metropolitan of Amasya, bestowing upon him the illustrious high title of old, of Western Pontus, that of Bishop of Zela (modern Zile). His ordination to the highest order of the Church took place on June 12, 1912, in Constantinople.

Bishop of Zela
Over the next ten years, in the midst of adverse and tragic circumstances, Bishop Euthymios served the vast Metropolis of Amasya, which was the most extensive in Asia Minor, comprising 340 Orthodox communities and a population of over 130,000 Orthodox, who were mostly Turkish in appearance, but Greek in identity. He largely governed the Metropolis of Amasya alone, due to the frequent trips of Metropolitan Germanos to Constantinople and Athens. During his tenure the Metropolis of Amasya started to show signs of unusual progress and revival, including the formation of youth and community organizations. In 1913 in the district of Pafra and in several villages of Western Pontus, he founded many churches, schools for boys, schools for girls, and took care to ensure the proper placement of priests and teachers.

However a short time thereafter, the great persecution of the Anatolian Greeks erupted, especially in the regions of Samsun and Pafra. From then on the activities of the Bishop of Zela changed from efforts for progress and revival, into struggles for relief and retrenchment. He transitioned untiringly from place to place, oftentimes in danger and tried by deprivations and malaise, in order to provide his assistance to those he found in despair or in exile, and to the distressed Orthodox Christians.

Adversity and war
Throughout the First World War he urged all of the schools and the people of Pontus to remain united in remembrance of an annual ethnic ceremony which commemorated the female mass suicide of 30-40 young girls from the village of Hazar in 1680, who preferred to fall from a fortress (known as the 'fortress of Ali') into a 150-meter precipice, rather than to fall into the hands of the Turks. This ceremony was observed on the anniversary of March 25th each year in remembrance of the self-sacrifice of the young girls.

In April 1917 a large force of the Turkish army sent by Refet Bele Pasha and commanded by Mehmet Ali encircled the monastery of the Theotokos near the village of Otkaya (Otkayada), on the west side of Mount Neltes (Nebyan), where the cave called Maara (or the Virgin or Magara) was located, encircling 650 women and children and 60 armed rebels. After six days of resistance most of the besieged were killed or committed suicide. Of those that were captured many of the young girls and women were dishonored, the children shot, and the men beheaded.

In 1919, in response to this act, on the forefeast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, Euthymios gathered 12,000 insurgents outside of the small town of Çağşur (Esençay), under the command of Kyriakos Papadopoulos, resulting in the complete destruction of the Turkish armed forces and the town. From that day onwards Euthymios was considered a wanted man by the Kemalist Turks who viewed him as a leader of the insurgents of Western Pontus. He and other notables were restricted in their activities and suffered due to the interrogations they underwent. The jails were filled with Christians of every age and social status. Everywhere there was exile, the gallows, disgrace, and the sword and fire.

In 1921, by a decision of the Kemalist government, all the Metropolitans, Bishops, and Archimandrites of the Pontus region were obliged to abandon Pontus and leave their seats. The only hierarchs who did not obey this order were Metropolitan Chrysanthos (Philippidis) of Trebizond, Bishop Euthymios of Zela, and Protosyngellos Archimandrite Platon (Aivazidis) of Amasya.

Imprisonment and martyrdom
On January 21, 1921, the Kemalists captured Bishop Euthymios and Archimandrite Platon (Aivazidis), along with many other notables of the city of Amasya. They were condemned to death, and were imprisoned in the Souyia prison in Amasya.

Aware of the ill-treatments and tortures of those arrested with him, and desiring to relieve their suffering, he appealed to the Kemalist government of Ankara to be regarded as the only culprit, and to be the only one punished, in order to allow his fellow prisoners to be released. However he received no response.

His imprisonment continued relatively mildly until April 18, 1921, the day of Pascha. On that day, without being noticed by the jailer, he entered a hall where many expatriates were being detained in isolation, in order to console and encourage them. As a result of this action he became even more suspect, and was isolated in the damp basements of the jails from then onwards. It was through the testimony of other prisoners that were released, that his tortures were made publicly known afterwards, affirming his isolation and sufferings in prison. Sometimes his voice would be heard chanting the memorial service for the repose of departed, which he was chanting on his own behalf.

On the forty-first day of his isolation, on May 29, 1921, completely exhausted from the hardships, deprivations and tortures, he died in custody. It was the irony of fate that his conviction  from the high court in Ankara arrived after his death, with the sentence being the 'Independence of death'. Nevertheless, his dead body was hanged in the central square of the town together with the others who had been sentenced to death including politicians, businessmen, journalists and religious figures of the local Greek community. Afterwards his guardians buried him quietly in the courtyard of the adjacent church.

Thus the Bishop of Zela sealed the good course of his life, by preferring faith and country over death, and becoming a forerunner of other ethnomartyr hierarchs, which were to be martyred in the following catastrophic year for Hellenism (that is, the Asia Minor Catastrophe) in 1922.

On May 30, 1936, on the fifteenth anniversary of his martyrdom, the Leimonos Monastery in Lesbos celebrated the unveiling of his bust. Since then the white likeness of his image reminds pilgrims of the sacrifice of a shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep and remained faithful unto death.

Glorification
In 1992 Euthymios was numbered among the chorus of the Saints by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece.

In 1998 a chapel was built in honour of the Saint at Leimonos Monastery, in the Holy Metropolis of Methymna.

Among the manuscripts at Leimonos Monastery, there are fifty items written in his hand, most of which are notebooks from the time of his studies in Halki.

See also
 Amasya trials
 Greek genocide
 Euthymius (disambiguation)

Notes

Citations

Sources

 Great Synaxaristes:  Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐθύμιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ζήλων. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. 29 Μαΐου.
  Αθαν. Γ. Τσερνογλου. "Εὐθύμιος. Ὁ Ἀγριτέλλης. Έθνομάρτυς ἐπίσκοπος Ζήλων Ἀμασείας (1912-1921)." Θρησκευτική και Ηθική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια (ΘΗΕ). Τόμος 5 (Διοκλητιανός-Ζώτος). Αθηναι – Αθαν. Μαρτινος, 1964. σελ. 1046–1048.
 St. Efthymios Agritellis. Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegial Leimonos Monastery. Retrieved: 12 August 2014.

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title: Index (statistics)

text:
In statistics and research design, an index is a composite statistic – a measure of changes in a representative group of individual data points, or in other words, a compound measure that aggregates multiple indicators. Indexes – also known as composite indicators – summarize and rank specific observations.

Much data in the field of social sciences and sustainability are represented in various indices such as Gender Gap Index, Human Development Index or the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The ‘Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress’, written by Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, and Jean-Paul Fitoussi in 2009  suggests that these measures have experienced a dramatic growth in recent years due to three concurring factors:

 improvements in the level of literacy (including statistical)
 increased complexity of modern societies and economies, and
 widespread availability of information technology.

According to Earl Babbie, items in indexes are usually weighted equally, unless there are some reasons against it (for example, if two items reflect essentially the same aspect of a variable, they could have a weight of 0.5 each).

According to the same author, constructing the items involves four steps. First, items should be selected based on their content validity, unidimensionality, the degree of specificity in which a dimension is to be measured, and their amount of variance. Items should be empirically related to one another, which leads to the second step of examining their multivariate relationships. Third, indexes scores are designed, which involves determining their score ranges and weights for the items. Finally, indexes should be validated, which involves testing whether they can predict indicators related to the measured variable not used in their construction.

A handbook for the construction of composite indicators (CIs) was published jointly by the OECD and by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in 2008. The handbook – officially endorsed by the OECD high level statistical committee, describe ten recursive steps for developing an index:

Step 1: Theoretical framework
Step 2: Data selection
Step 3: Imputation of missing data
Step 4: Multivariate analysis
Step 5: Normalisation
Step 6: Weighting
Step 7: Aggregating indicators
Step 8: Sensitivity analysis
Step 9: Link to other measures
Step 10: Visualisation

As suggested by the list, many modelling choices are needed to construct a composite indicator, which makes their use controversial. The delicate issue of assigning and validating weights is discussed e.g. in. A sociological reading of the nature of composite indicators is offered by Paul-Marie Boulanger, who sees these measures at the intersection of three movements:

 the democratisation of expertise, the concept that more knowledge is needed to tackle societal and environmental issues that can be provided by the sole experts – this line of thought connects to the concept of extended peer community developed by post-normal science
 the impulse to the creation of a new public through a process of social discovery, which can be reconnected to the work of pragmatists such as John Dewey
 the semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce; Thus a CI is not just a sign or a number, but suggests an action or a behaviour.

A subsequent work by Boulanger  analyses composite indicators in light of the social system theories of Niklas Luhmann to investigate how different measurements of progress are or are not taken up.

See also
Index (economics)
Scale (social sciences)

References

Quantitative research
Statistical indicators


title: Whangarei Steam and Model Railway Club

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The Whangarei Steam and Model Railway Club Inc. was formed in 1978 for the purpose of acquiring, preserving, and operating vintage steam and diesel trains for the education and enjoyment of club members and the general public, the railway operates on Museum Live Days and special occasions over its own  main track. The club has in its care two Peckett steam locomotives (one from 1924 and one from 1955), a Union Foundry, one Bagnall diesel loco, a Drewry and a Price diesel shunters.

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

Locomotives

Trams
Whangarei Steam and Model Railway Club has two  gauge former Lisbon trams 520 and 526 acquired by Dave Harre for Heritage Trams for Henderson, Auckland project he was promoting, having previously stored in Aspen, Colorado for another promoted tramway. One of the Lisbon tram bodies was restored by Mr Harre's group prior to the Henderson project (2003-2013) being abandoned and the trams being acquired by the Whangarei Steam Group, which are converting the two trams to  gauge and building an operating tramway attraction.

References

External links

Museums established in 1978
1978 establishments in New Zealand
Heritage railways in New Zealand


title: In the Kitchen (disambiguation)

text:
"In the Kitchen" is a song by R. Kelly.

In The Kitchen may also refer to:

Albums
In the Kitchen (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis album), 1958

Songs
"In The Kitchen", a 1958 song by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
"In The Kitchen", a 2005 song by Field Music, included on the compilation Write Your Own History
"In the Kitchen", a 2005 song by Umphrey's McGee
"In the Kitchen", a song by Killer Mike from the 2009 album Underground Atlanta
"In the Kitchen", a song by Matthew Herbert from the 1998 album Around the House
"In the Kitchen", a song by The Tough Alliance from the 2005 album The New School

Television
En La Cocina (English:  In The Kitchen ), an American television cooking program

Books
In the Kitchen (novel), by Monica Ali


title: Linda Beilharz

text:
Linda Beilharz, OAM, is an Australian adventurer who is the first Australian woman to successfully trek the South and North poles. She completed the North Pole expedition with her husband Rob Rigato and Canadian explorer Sarah McNair-Landry in April 2010. while the South Pole trek was completed in December 2004, she became the first Australian woman to ski 1,100 km from the edge of the Antarctic to the South Pole.
Beilharz and Rigato have also completed a 35-day crossing across the Greenland Icecap in April 2007, and the South Patagonia icecap in 2012, after an earlier unsuccessful attempt in 2009. New Zealander, Kerryn Wratt was the third member of the successful 2012 crossing.

Beilharz lives in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia where she is the Executive Officer of Women's Health Loddon Mallee. She graduated from La Trobe University in 1993 with a Graduate Diploma in Community Development  and Masters in Health Sciences in 1999. She was awarded the 2010 Australian Geographic Adventurer of the Year for her South Pole expedition, was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2006, elected Bendigo Citizen of the Year in 2013  and in the same year awarded an Order of Australia Medal.

She is heavily involved in community work as a member of the Bendigo Sustainability Group, Bush Search and Rescue, and was a past Director of Community Capacity Building with St Luke's Anglicare for 10 years.
She has created learning resources under the title "Journeys for Learning" which supports teachers with information, stories and lesson guides, linking schools to modern day adventures. Beilharz is also a private pilot and instructor for Bendigo flying club.

Publications
Building Communities: The Shared Active Experience.

References

Living people
Australian scientists
Australian women scientists
La Trobe University alumni
1960 births


title: Caryl Nowson

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Professor Caryl Nowson (PhD, APD) holds the Chair in Nutrition and Ageing in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. She is also the team leader of the "Healthy Growing, Healthy Ageing" group within the Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research (C-PAN) at Deakin.

Research interests
Professor Nowson has a longstanding research interest in nutrition and diet related to chronic diseases, ageing and bone health. She has conducted a number of studies evaluating the dietary factors associated with hypertension and osteoporosis.

Professor Nowson and co-workers' report "Vitamin D and health in adults in Australia and New Zealand: a position statement" has prompted discussion on the need for the government to increase the amount of vitamin D into food supply.

In addition, Professor Nowson is conducting research to evaluate the salt intake among school children and raise the awareness of the need to develop strategies to reduce the salt consumption for the benefit of children's health in the long term.

Professor Nowson's recent studies also investigate the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and risks of mortality of adults over the age of 65.

Awards and organization
2005: Inaugural chairperson and one of the founders establishing the Australian Division of the World Action group on Salt and Health (AWASH)
2009: Awarded the Nutrition Society of Australia Medal for excellence in research.
Deputy Chair of the National Committee for Nutrition of the Australian Academy of Science.
Member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory committee of Osteoporosis Australia.

References

Australian women scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Customer (disambiguation)

text:
Customer refers to the purchaser or client in business.

Customer may also refer to:
Customer (song), by Raheem DeVaughn
Customer (tax collector), collector of customs tax


title: Margaret Friedel

text:
Dr. Margaret Hilda Friedel is an Australian rangeland (arid lands) ecology and management researcher, widely cited nationally and internationally for her work on the concept of ecosystem thresholds and her collaborative research with landholders and communities in outback Australia to foster understanding of the nature of rangeland ecosystems and how to balance commercial production with maintenance of a fragile resource base.

Friedel's research is focussed on Australian rangelands from social, ecological and production perspectives, and the human-environment nexus in arid and semi-arid lands. Her research work has included collaborative scenario making to test regional development options for arid land communities, mainly in the Northern Territory. She is also known for her research into the sustainable management of buffell grass – a species useful for pastoral meat production but disadvantageous ecologically as it is invasive and out-competes native grasses.

Friedel is an Honorary Fellow at CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences' laboratory in Alice Springs, Australia and a member of the Alice Springs Regional Weed Reference Group. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Charles Darwin University in Alice Springs.

Background
Friedel attained a Bachelor of Science in 1967 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy, both from the University of Melbourne, Australia. In 1978, Friedel was awarded a Diploma of Education from Murdoch University, Australia.

In 1974, Friedel joined Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Alice Springs initially researching pasture productivity and nutrient cycling in rangelands production systems. Her research expanded to encompass arid land ecology and management, with a focus on woody plant dynamics, fire as a management tool and ground-based rangeland monitoring.

In 1985–1986, Friedel researched similar issues in South Africa and later, from 2000 to 2004, ran a collaborative study in Rajasthan, India using remote sensing to assess land degradation.

The year 1995 marked the beginning of Friedel's involvement in community-based planning and integrated approaches to regional development that incorporate economic, social and ecological values.

Publications
A selection of Friedel's publications are as follows:

 A. C. Grice; H. T. Murphy; J. R. Clarkson; M. H. Friedel; C. S. Fletcher; D. A. Westcott (2020) A review and refinement of the concept of containment for the management of invasive plants. Australian Journal of Botany. Australian Journal of Botany 68(8) 602-616. DOI.org/10.1071/BT20092
 Margaret H. Friedel; Stephen R. Morton (2022) A history of CSIRO’S Central Australian Laboratory, 1: 1953–80: pastoral land research. Historical Records of Australian Science. 2022-11-07 DOI: 10.1071/HR22006
 Margaret Friedel; Allan, Grant; Duguid, Angus (2014) Do we know enough about vegetation dynamics to manage fire regimes in central Australia?  Ecological Management & Restoration Volume 15, Issue 2 p. 128-132.

Awards
1996 - Outstanding Achievement Award, US Society for Range Management, 1996
2007 - Friedel was awarded the Australian Public Service Medal for outstanding public service in the field of arid zone research.
2007 - The Desert Knowledge Research Award was presented to Friedel at the Northern Territory Research and Innovation Awards.
2013 - Awarded a Professorial Fellow at Charles Darwin University.
2017 - Awarded a Fellow of the Australian Rangeland Society in 2017.
2019 - Awarded a Professorial Fellow at Charles Darwin University.

Public lectures
Friedel delivered The 2013 Rangeland Journal Lecture on the topic of "A million years of change: wind, flood and fire in the Simpson Desert", the origin and development of the Simpson Desert.

Achievements
Contributing Author, Working Group II "Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-Technical Analyses", Inter-governmental Panel on climate Change, Second Assessment Report 2002
President, Australian Rangeland Society, 1981–82
Research Fellowship, South African Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, 1985–86
Chair of Publications Committee, Australian Rangeland Society, 1988–95
Chair of International Continuing Committee for Rangeland Congresses, 1995–99
Member of International Continuing Committee for Rangeland Congresses from 1991 to 1999
Member of Federal Government State of Environment Land Resources Reference Group as a specialist on arid Australia, 1994–96
Advisory Editor, The Rangeland Journal
Member of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa

References

Australian women scientists
Living people
Australian ecologists
Women ecologists
Murdoch University alumni
University of Melbourne alumni
CSIRO people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Yagub Mammadov (singer)

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Yagub Mammad oghlu Mammadov (, 5 May 1930 — 5 June 2002) was an Azerbaijani khananda, or mugham singer.

Biography
Yagub Mammadov was born on 5 May 1930 in Aghjabadi District. In 1956 he came to Baku for the Republican Youth Festival and became a laureate of the festival. Then he was invited to the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall. Yagub Mammadov had been working at the Philharmonic since 1958 and at the same time was studying in the class of Seyid Shushinski at the Asaf Zeynalli Music College. Yagub Mammadov was a soloist at the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall for many years and performed at concerts. His mugham performances, recorded on gramophone shafts, have spread throughout the Middle East.

Mammadov died on 5 June 2002 in Baku.

Awards
 People's Artists of the Azerbaijan SSR — 29 October 1990
 Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR — 1 December 1982
 Shohrat Order — 3 December 2001

References

1930 births
2002 deaths
20th-century Azerbaijani male singers
Azerbaijani educators
Mugham singers
People's Artistes of the Azerbaijan SSR


title: I Need an Angel (disambiguation)

text:
"I Need An Angel" is a song written by R. Kelly, covered by Ruben Studdard

I Need An Angel	may also refer to:
I Need an Angel (album)
"I Need an Angel", song by Barbara Orbison
"I Need an Angel", song by Blue Murder from Nothin' But Trouble 1993