title: Port of Zhenjiang

text:
The Port of Zhenjiang is a natural inland river port located on Zhengjiang Prefectural Level city, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. It is one of the succession of large shipping hubs lining the estuary and lower course of the Yangtze. The Port had a throughput of 140,984,000 tonnes of total cargo in 2013, an increase of 4.7%

Setting
Port of Zhenjiang extends on the South Bank of the Yangtze River between Nanjing and Changzhou. The river channel depth averages 11 m, capable of handling ships of up to 50,000 DWT year-round. The Grand Canal's Jiangnan section enters the Yangtze at Zhenjiang.

History
There has been a major port at the location at least since late Han dynasty days. As the port straddled the confluence of the Grand Canal and the Yangtze river, it was a major hub for most Imperial times, its prosperity oscillating with the degree of repair of the Canal.

Chingkiang was one of the ports opened to foreign trade in 1858 by the Tianjin Treaties

Layout
The Port of Zhenjiang extends over 33.8 km of shoreline, and it is divided into seven main port areas:
 Gaozi Port Area  (): On the north shore of the Yangtze.
 Longmen Port Area ():
 Zhenjiang Port Area (): the old port area, has a channel depth of 4m. It is currently being discontinued and re-purposed.
 Jianbi Port Area  (): includes the confluence of the Grand Canal.
 Dagang Port Area  (): It is the main port area, currently with 8 berths of 25,000 DWT, 2 of 5,000 DWT, 1 of 2,000 DWT and 11 barge berths of 100 DWT. The Dagang Port Area Phase III, currently under construction, has 1 container berth of 50,000 DWT, 1 multiple use berth of 30,000 DWT, 1 general cargo berth of 50,000 DWT, 1 bulk cargo berth of 70,000 DWT, 2 berths for 5,000 DWT large Yangtze barges and a river basin for 12 500 DWT barges.
 Gaoqiao Port Area  ():
 Yangzhong Port Area  (): Mostly in development

Administration
The Zhenjiang Port Group Co Ltd () was created in 2005 from the merger of the Zhenjiang City Port Management Bureau () and the Zhenjiang Port Limited Company ()

Operations

Workboats
As of 2012,

References

External links
 Zhenjiang Port Group website

Ports and harbours of China


title: Endometrial stromal nodule

text:
An endometrial stromal nodule is a noninfiltrative, circumscribed proliferation of endometrial stromal cells and is a benign subtype of endometrial stromal tumor. The appearance of the cells is identical to normal endometrial stromal cells. This can only be differentiated from low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma by confirming lack of infiltration.

The differential includes cellular leiomyoma. Diagnosis may be aided by immunostaining; endometrial stromal nodules are positive for CD10; leiomyomas are positive for caldesmon and desmin (and sometimes CD10).

References

Uterine tumour


title: Atlas Ramachandran

text:
M. M. Ramachandran (31 July 1942 – 2 October 2022), better known as Atlas Ramachandran, was an Indian jeweller, film producer and actor. He was the chairman of Atlas Jewellery and is known for the tagline of his jewellery, "Janakodikalude Vishwastha Sthapanam". He had produced and distributed films under the banner "Chandrakanth Films". Vaisali (1988) and Sukrutham (1994) are the major films that he has produced. He has also acted in few movies notably in Subhadram (2007) in a lead role.

Early life
Ramachandran was born in Mullassery on 31 July 1942 into a family with a rich cultural and literary background. His father, V. Kamalakara Menon (d. 1995), was a poet and there were frequent Akshara Shlokam recitation sessions at his home. Ramachandran was the third of the eight children, and the second son. After acquiring his bachelor's degree in commerce from Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur affiliate to Kerala University, Ramachandran left to New Delhi for work.

Career
In Delhi, Ramachandran started his career in the banking industry. He joined Canara Bank and completed a post-graduate degree in economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Later on, selected as a probationary officer by the State Bank of India, he moved to the State Bank of Travancore where he was a field officer, accountant and manager. By the time he left the bank, he was the superintendent of over 100 branches.

In 1974, he moved to Kuwait City to work for the Commercial Bank of Kuwait.
He assumed the post of Administration Manager of the International Division.

Having been convinced of the immense demand for gold ornaments, he opened the first ATLAS showroom in Souk Al Watya in Kuwait.

Kuwait was looted during the Gulf War and Ramachandran experienced a total loss, so he started over in the United Arab Emirates. He introduced the concept of mega-offers in the regional gold trade. From gold bars to luxurious cars, shoppers won generous prizes. ATLAS served well over a million customers. This led to the coining of the now famous slogan, "ATLAS jewellery-Trusted by Millions", with Ramachandran himself serving as the brand ambassador and lending his face and voice for the advertisements.

Philanthropy
Both in his adopted home in the Gulf and in India, his community initiatives include welfare, education, film, literature and music. He gave scores of gold medals in the UAE schools. He also gave scholarships to deserving students of limited means in Kerala. In the same way, customers of Atlas Jewellery were handed over the ornaments selected by them even if they were short of money. He patronised many competitions including reciting the Quran held by the Islamic organisations in the Gulf.

Legal troubles
In the United Arab Emirates (as in many Arabian Gulf countries), loans are secured with a signed cheque for the entire loan amount. Loan providers could present this cheque at any time. If a cheque cannot be processed because the account holder has insufficient funds this can be escalated into a criminal matter and debtors jailed to recoup debt. This is contrary to most developed countries where there are no security cheques and these types of issues only result in civil cases. In the Middle East, many business owners quietly leave the country when they face liquidity issues. Ramachandran stayed in the country to resolve his business and legal troubles. However, he was detained by the Dubai Police in August 2015. He sought to have his charges suspended but did not receive bail and was then imprisoned three months later by the Dubai Court. While in prison, his hospitals were sold to repay some loans. However, most jewellery shops simply closed and became insolvent. After nearly three years, he was released in June 2018. There was a major amendment made to UAE Federal Law on 2 January 2022 that decriminalised bounced cheques.

Death
Ramachandran died in a hospital in Dubai on 2 October, 2022 following a cardiac arrest. He was 80.

Filmography
Ramachandran ventured into film production and distribution. He was known as Vaisali Ramachandran due to the fame of his debut film production Vaisali, an episode from Mahabharata, which was a classic in the Malayalam film industry. He resigned from the Commercial Bank to focus solely on the jewellery business and motion pictures. At the time of his resignation, he was one of the most highly respected and highly paid bank managers in Kuwait. With his new focus, he either produced or distributed the hit films Sukrutham, Dhanam, Kauravar, Chakoram, Vasthuhara, Innale and Venkalam. A number of his films were selected to Indian Panorama, were critically acclaimed, and won prestigious awards.

References

External links
 Atlas Jewellery
 Ramachandran chosen for business excellence award
 Ramachandran signs agreement with Yusuf Ali M.A.
 An Iftar with Atlas Ramachandran in solidarity
 Ramachandran in Aswamedham Kairali TV
 AtlasGroup thinking big
 Interview "Arike en Keralam" on People TV
 Interview on Kaumudi TV
 valentines corner with Ramachandran -2
 valentines corner with Ramachandran -3
 valentines corner with Ramachandran -4
 Presenting Kamalakara Menon Suvarna Mudra for Aksharaslokam

1942 births
2022 deaths
21st-century Indian male actors
Film directors from Thrissur
Film producers from Thrissur
Indian male film actors
Malayalam film producers
Male actors from Thrissur
Male actors in Malayalam cinema


title: Châtelard

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Châtelard or Le Châtelard may refer to the following places:

 Châtelard, Creuse, a commune in the Creuse department, France
 Châtelard, Vaud, a place in the commune of Lutry in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland
 Le Châtelard, Fribourg, a commune in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
 Le Châtelard, Savoie, a commune in the Savoie department, France
 Le Châtelard, Valais, a place in the commune of Finhaut in the canton of Valais, Switzerland

See also
 Châtelard Castle (disambiguation)


title: Identitäre Bewegung Österreich

text:
Identitäre Bewegung Österreich (IBÖ; ) is an Austrian far-right nationalist and Neue Rechte organization. Inspired by the French Bloc identitaire, it belongs to the pan-European Identitarian movement and is the Austrian branch of the organization known as Generation Identity (GI).

The IBÖ opposes liberalism, internationalism, Islam and Islamism, multiculturalism and the melting pot model, instead advocating for ethnopluralism. It has been categorized as being part of the overall Neue Rechte movement by several government agencies and NGOs, including the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism and the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance; likewise, close ties to several irredentist Deutsche Burschenschaft Österreich (DBÖ) and the neo-Nazi scene have been documented.

History

The first Identitarian Austrian organization was founded in spring 2012 and called "WIR - Wiens Identitäre Richtung" (We - Vienna's Identitarian Course/School) and was led by Alexander Markovics. Later the same year the "Identitäre Bewegung Österreich" was founded by Martin Sellner, Patrick Lenart, and Alexander Markovics, among others. The first nationwide media presence occurred in May 2013 as a reaction to the Identitarian so-called counter-occupation of the Votive Church in Vienna against protesting asylum seekers.

On 27 April 2018, several facilities of the Identitarian Movement were searched by the Austrian police, and investigations were started against its leader Martin Sellner on suspicion that a criminal organization was being formed. The newspaper Österreich reported that according to the Identitarians the homes of Sellner and co-leader Patrick Lenart were also raided, computers and documents impounded and the account of the Identitarians in Hungary was closed. On 4 July, ten members and seven sympathizers of the movement were accused of spreading "radical, xeno- and Islamophobic ideology" as well as selling propaganda material over the Internet, and tried in Graz on charges of criminal association, incitement, property damage, coercion, and personal injury.

On 26 July, the court ruled that the IBÖ was not a criminal organization and acquitted all defendants of incitement and criminal association, though two defendants were fined for material damage, one for coercion and assault.

According to the Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz, in March 2019 the Austrian government considered dissolving the IBÖ because Sellner had received a donation of 1,500 euros from Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the Australian perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings at Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, that left 51 dead and injured 50 more. Austria's minister of the interior Herbert Kickl however stated that the suspect in the Christchurch terror attacks had no personal contacts with right-wing groups or individuals in Austria. However, it was later revealed that Sellner had exchanged emails with Tarrant between January 2018 and July 2018 with one inviting Tarrant for a drink in case he ever came to Vienna. Tarrant reciprocated by returning the offer if Sellner ever visited New Zealand or Australia. Shortly afterwards, he booked a rental car in Austria and went on to spend several days there. In another email Sellner sent Tarrant a link to his English language YouTube channel. Sellner confirmed the email exchange but denied ever meeting the latter in person or knowing of his plans.

Ideology

The IBÖ opposes Islamism, multiculturalism and the melting pot model, instead advocating for ethnopluralism. In accordance with Umberto Eco's characteristics of fascist ideology the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) classes it as a neofascist as well as far-right movement. Disapproving of everything they consider being rooted in American imperialism, they oppose Austria's NATO partnership as well as the international sanctions against Russia. Economically, they reject capitalism, communism and socialism in favor of essentialist Third Position economics, promoting a syncretic approach to anti-capitalist and anti-globalist politics and favoring an independent alliance of sovereign nation states with Russia. On their website and Facebook page, they cite the works of Aleksandr Dugin, Dominique Venner, and Alain de Benoist as major influences.

Activities
In February 2013, nine members of the IBÖ attempted a counter-occupation of the Viennese Votive Church that had previously been occupied by refugees to protest living conditions within the government-owned and privately administrated refugee camps they've been assigned to. They were arrested and escorted off the premises by SWAT officers several hours later following a priest's request for police assistance.
On 10 November 2013, the IBÖ briefly occupied a balcony of the Fundamental Rights Agency until police officers arrived to escort them off the premises.
On 17 May 2014, the IBÖ attempted to stage another rally in Vienna's main shopping mile . Despite having been provided with a protective detail by the Federal Police, they were unable to gain access to their planned route as a result of a considerably larger anti-racist counter demonstration. While interaction between the two demonstrations was minimal and largely restricted to a verbal level, State Director Gerhard Pürstl received heavy criticism from both activist groups and national media outlets over the use of heavy-handed riot control tactics. 37 anti-racist protesters were arrested; a banner that Federal Police officers confiscated from a group of activists was later put on display on the IBÖ's website.
On 14 April 2016, a group of roughly 40 IBÖ activists entered University of Vienna's Audimax lecture hall where they stormed the stage while a play by the Jewish playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek was being performed by refugee actors. The activists used a megaphone and a banner poured with fake blood to accuse the audience of being hypocrites while documenting the incident photographically. Attendants of the play report being physically attacked by IBÖ members, although the IBÖ categorically denies accusations of engaging in political violence. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism reports a total of eight charges of assault with grievous bodily harm filed by both members of the audience and IBÖ activists, which are being processed; the Federal Police has dropped all felony charges and announced that it is merely investigating the possibility of an unlawful public disturbance. Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) released a statement on Facebook where he called the stage invasion "peaceful".
On the 27th of that month, the group protested the same play at the Burgtheater by scaling the building and displayed a banner with the word "HEUCHLER!" ("hypocrites") from the roof and dropping leaflets.
On 13 April 2019, the IBÖ organized a protest "for freedom of speech and against the Great Replacement" in front of the Palais Trautson where the Austrian Ministry of Justice is located.

Trial
In May 2018, Austrian state prosecutors announced that they were going to press criminal charges against Martin Sellner and 9 other prominent activists in the movement, among 7 "active sympathisers". The prosecutors cited laws used to combat the mafia, claiming that those accused were guilty of forming a criminal organisation. In addition, the case included counts of hate speech, criminal association, coercion, and damage to private property. The charges came after police raids the previous month, in which the houses of several members of the group, including the house of the leader, Martin Sellner, who was one of those charged following the prosecutors' announcement.

After an extensive court trial in the town of Graz, the accused 17 were found not guilty of the charges for hate speech and of having formed a criminal organisation made against them. However, two of the accused were given fines for cases of property damage during their activism. This was hailed as a major victory by the identitarian movement (particularly Martin Sellner and his then fiancée, American blogger and journalist Brittany Pettibone), who believed the charges made against them to be unfair and an attempt to politically censor and repress the organisation.

See also
Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement (IE/AIM), an alt-right organization from the United States founded in 2016 and rebranded in 2019 modeled after Generation Identity in Europe.

References

External links
Report on the IBÖ by the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (in German)
Official website of the IBÖ  (in German)
Official Youtube channel of the IBÖ (in German)
Official Facebook page of the IBÖ is not available anymore - blocked by Facebook itself

Identitarian movement
Far-right politics in Austria
Anti-Islam sentiment in Austria
2012 establishments in Austria


title: Dhrti

text:
or  or  (), one of the , means to 'act with determination', 'patience', 'firmness', and refers to 'perseverance', 'wearing regularly', and to one of the eleven  Rudrāṇīs There is no correct equivalent English word for  which is derived from   meaning 'to bear'.

 meaning 'fortitude' and 'determination' is defined as the subtle faculty in man that makes him strive continuously towards a goal. It provides courage, enthusiasm, and perseverance to face and overcome all odds and obstacles.

Dhriti was reborn as Madri in Mahabharata.

Vedic relevance

 is the name of a Vedic metre of the type 12.12.8|12.8|12.8., and is a variety of the
. It is also the name of a yoga in the Hindu Calendar. The Vedic Rishis address their prayers to the Visvedevas just as they do the Adityas and the Maruts; who all as a group are the protectors of the ten Rtas including  ('forebearance') which word represents an abstract idea like   and .

As part of the performance of the Ashvamedha yajna, as mentioned in the Shatapatha Brahmana, Asvalayana-srauta-sutra, and Sankhayana-srauta-sutra, the Adhvaryu offered, for the safe movement of the Sacrificial Horse during day-time, three Istis daily to Savitr and at nightfall performed four Dhrti Homas for the safe sheltering of that horse during night-time. While the Dhrti Homas were in progress, a Rajanya (Kshatriya) lute-player (veenagathi) sang three songs (Gatha) made up of many verses in which he praised the royal-sacrificer with the mention of his heroic exploits, viz., the wars he waged, the battles he won, the conquests he made, so on.

Puranic relevance

The Purana Index lists Dhrti, borne by Vijaya, as one of the sons of Dharma who was the son of Brahma, and who married all thirteen daughters of Daksha, each of whom bore Dhrti a son. Dhrtavarta was the son of Dhrti and father of Satyakarma. Nandi was a consort of Dhrti. Niyama was a son of Dhrti. And, Dhrti ('courage') is invoked in the Grahabalis.

In the Stuti of Devi Bhagavatam (V.22.25-42), Devi, who is the Energy for the creation and destruction of the universe, has been praised as having many names and as residing in all in the form of shakti ('power and energy'), amrti ('memory'), dhrti ('steadfastness'), buddhi  ('intelligence'), so on.

Implication

Dhrti meaning 'fortitude' and 'determination' is defined as the subtle faculty in man that makes him strive continuously towards a goal. It provides courage, enthusiasm and perseverance to face and overcome all odds and obstacles. With regard to the three types of  Dhrtis mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita, Swami Tejomayananda states that  Sattvic dhrti is the unswerving fortitude with which one works for a noble cause with enthusiasm and dedication, despite obstacles; Rajasic dhrti is the fortitude displayed for a while, in a part, place or under particular circumstances to achieve particular goals and may dissolve under different circumstances and situations, and  Tamasic dhrti is the stubbornness with which one holds on to the false.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar suggests the three gunas that is determination, similar to dhrti; "The ambition (rajastic) keeps the faith alive. Satvic faith is innocence and is born out of fullness of consciousness." Tamasic faith is due to dullness, complacent that only God will take care of all these things. If there is no faith, there is fear. "In Gyana (state of wisdom) there is alertness without tension [or fear] and faith without complacency." To be one who possesses the higher spiritual knowledge.

The two factors that supply the fuel and the motive force in all sustained endeavours are - buddhi ('understanding') and dhrti ('fortitude'), the former is 'the intellectual capacity to grasp what is happening' and the latter is 'the constancy of purpose and self-application'. Abhinavagupta states that since everyone works therefore, everyone possesses  dhrti; he holds  buddhi to mean 'resolution' and  dhrti to mean 'satisfaction'.

In Hinduism, four things viz. Śruti and Smriti which are society’s codes of ethics, sadacara which is good noble conduct accepted by society; and svasya ca priyam atmanah which is one’s own joy and pleasure, determine Dharma. The sanatana dharma is the eternal universal values to be followed by all people in life, and varnasrama dharma consists of specific duties given to each individual; Dharma means that holds everyone and everything together which leads to material prosperity and spiritual realization in this life itself. According to Manu, Dhrti is one of the ten values necessary for all people at all times that characterize Dharma. Dhrti means fortitude; it means the capacity to hold on to something. It is the sattavic dhrti which is strength, force and ability that makes us hold on to noble values of life.

Sattavic dhrti and Sattvic buddhi are mutually related terms. Krishna explains to Arjuna (Bhagavad Gita Sl. XVIII.30):

प्रवृति च निवृति च कार्याकार्ये भयाभये |
बन्धं मोक्षं च या वेत्ति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी ||

Meaning; "That which knows the paths of work and renunciation, what ought to be done and what not to be done, fear and fearlessness, bondage and liberation, that  'understanding' is  sattvic ('pure')." In the Bhagavad Gita the nature of Sattvic reasoning, Rajasic reasoning and Tamasic reasoning is described this way, as paths of work and renunciation. Which means the function of the intellect is discrimination, the faculty of 'right understanding ' (buddhi) which gives real joy, success and prosperity. With regard to sattvic dhrti he states (Bhagavad Gita l. XVIII.33):

धृत्या यया धारयते मनः प्राणेन्द्रियकिर्याः |
योगेनव्यभिचरिण्या धृतिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी ||

The unwavering 'fortitude' by which through Yoga, the functions of the mind, the Prana and the senses are restrained, that 'fortitude', is sattvic ('pure').
In this context Sankara in his Bhasya on the Bhagavad Gita explains that 'action' (way of works) is movement leading to bondage and 'inaction' (renunciation) leads to liberation. The remote expression – unwavering or unfaltering or unbroken concentration, should be related to resolve or  dhrti; the sense is that the functions of the mind and so forth, maintained through unfaltering resolve, are in fact maintained through concentration.

Yogic relevance

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra II.28 reads:-

योगाङगानुष्ठानादशुध्दिक्षये ज्ञानदीप्तिराविवेकख्यातेः |

"From the consistent practice of the parts of the Yoga-process, on the elimination of the impurity, the radiant organ of perception becomes manifest, until there is a steady discriminative insight."

This means – as impurities are eliminated through the observance of the steps of yoga, a gradual kindling of knowledge occurs up to the full illumination of discriminatory wisdom. Discriminatory wisdom as virtue is the cause of happiness, and both, Vyasa and Vijnanabhikshu in their commentaries list nine causes including as the ninth cause  Dhrti here meaning sustenance; and agree that the  yoga-angas eradicate the impurity in both tangible (drshta) and intangible (adrshta) ways i.e. the physical practices such as purification (shaucha), and through  japa. Elimination means disappearance of the veil on the  sattva mind-field. The body is the sustainer of the senses being their resort but the senses sustain the body by way of providing spiritual and material welfare. The gross elements are the sustainers of the body and also sustain each other; the diverse sub-human, human and celestial bodies are mutually the sustainers and the sustained. Dhrti also means patience, remaining true to duty (dharmas - religious duties, moral rights and duties) even in calamities, and perfection in maintaining wisdom.

Vaishno relevance

Verse II.vi.145 of  Sri Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu states – the steadiness of heart arising from attaining realization of the Lord, from absence of suffering in attaining the realization of the Lord, and from realizing  prema with the Lord is called  dhrti; in this state there is no lamentation for things not attained or for things that have disappeared. Ksama ('tolerance') is included in  dhrti-bhava. The three types of  rati ('relationship of love', 'attraction') are  priti ('affection'),  sakhya ('friendship') and  vatsalya, dhrti along with  vitarka ('conjecture'),  mati ('scriptural conclusion'), nirveda ('self-disgust'), smrti  ('remembrance'), harsa ('joy'), and the type of  bodha arising from destruction of ignorance become somewhat causes of  rati.

References

Yoga concepts
Hindu philosophical concepts
Sanskrit words and phrases


title: Sun Haiying

text:
Sun Haiying (; born 7 October 1956) is a Chinese actor.

Sun is noted for his roles as Shi Guangrong and Hong Qigong in the television series The Years of Intense Emotion (2001) and The Legend of the Condor Heroes (2002) respectively. He has now gained even greater popularity from his breakthrough role as Fan Zeng in King's War (2012).

Sun has won the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival - Best Supporting Actor in 2012 and the Flying Apsaras Award for Outstanding actor in 2002.

Life
Sun was born in a wealthy and highly educated family in Shenyang, Liaoning on October 7, 1956, the son of Hai Na (), an actress, and Sun Haichang (), the President of Liaoning People's Art Theatre.

At the age of 7, he joined the People's Liberation Army in Tibet, he was transferred to Fujian Military Region in 1979. Sun joined Shenyang Theatre in 1989 and became an actor.

On February 26, 2016, Sun's Sina Weibo was banned.

Sun was twice married. Originally wed to a female pharmacist in 1979, there had a son, he died early.

After a turbulent divorce, he remarried in 2002. Lǚ Lìpíng, his second wife, who is also a Chinese notable actress. Both Sun and Lǚ are Protestants.

Political positions

Role of the Chinese Communist Party
Sun questioned the statement "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China", a slogan from a popular Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda song, on his Sina Weibo. He publicly stated that "No matter who appeared, China will exist still."

Cultural Revolution
In August 2015, Sun said in a post on his Sina Weibo that "The Cultural Revolution is a crime against humanity, and we will never forgive it".

Freedom of religion
Sun supported the freedom of religion on his Sina Weibo and opposed the CCP's control of religions.

Filmography

Television

Film

Awards
 2002 Flying Apsaras Award for Outstanding actor
 2012 The Sino-Japanese War at Sea - China Movie Channel Media Awards - Best Supporting Actor

References

External links
  (Banned)

1956 births
Male actors from Shenyang
Male actors from Liaoning
Living people
Chinese male film actors
Chinese male television actors


title: Julie Tan

text:
Julie Tan Shao Yin (born 22 September 1992)  is a Singaporean actress and video game streamer. She was the female lead in That Girl in Pinafore. Tan left MediaCorp as a full-time artiste in 2017.

Early life
Tan was born in Malaysia. She received her education in Singapore and studied Drama at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.

Career
In 2008, she debuted in the telemovie The Promise as a girl with intellectual disability. She was also the first runner-up in The New Paper's New Face.

In 2010, Tan starred in television episodes, including The Illusionist, No Limits and New Beginnings. She auditioned for Alpha Entertainment in 2011, and was given a chance to be part of K-pop girl group Skarf, which she turned down. She worked in television dramas A Tale of 2 Cities and A Song to Remember, as one of the female leads.

In 2013, she starred in movies Judgement Day and That Girl in Pinafore. She became the host for A Date with K-pop Stars, which debuted on 21 February 2014, where she travelled to South Korea and spent time with idols.

In 2013, Tan got her first individual lead role starring in 96°C Café. In the same year, she also starred in Gonna Make It. In 2015, Tan starred in The Dream Makers II as the main villain. It was her breakthrough role and she won her first acting award starring as Dong Zihuai in the drama. In May 2016, it was announced that Tan will take a 6-month break from acting in order to take a four-month acting course at New York Film Academy's school of acting.

Personal life
Tan struggled with childhood trauma and self-harm when she was young, and had gone through treatment with her mother when she was between seven and twelve years old.

Tan revealed that she started her oocyte cryopreservation procedure in August 2023, after ending a 4-year relationship.

Filmography

Television series

Film

Accolades

References

Living people
Singaporean television personalities
Malaysian people of Chinese descent
Malaysian emigrants to Singapore
1992 births
Singaporean film actresses
Singaporean television actresses
21st-century Singaporean actresses


title: Ely Hargrove

text:
Ely Hargrove (1741–1818) was an English bookseller and local historian.

Life
Born at Halifax, Yorkshire, on 19 March (O.S.) 1741, he was the son of James Hargrove of Halifax, by his wife Mary, daughter of George Gudgeon of Skipton-in-Craven. In February 1762 he settled at Knaresborough, as a bookseller and publisher. A few years later he was able to open a branch business at Harrogate.

Hargrove died at Knaresborough on 5 December 1818, and was buried in the churchyard there.

Works

In 1769, according to William Boyne in the Yorkshire Library, there appeared anonymously the first edition of Hargrove's History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate and its Medicinal Waters, which was frequently republished, later with the compiler's name on the title-page. The York edition of 1798 had plates and woodcuts by Thomas Bewick. To the sixth edition,  Knaresborough, 1809, was appended an Ode on Time, reprinted in William Hargrove's York Poetical Miscellany (1835).

Hargrove also compiled:

 Anecdotes of Archery from the earliest ages to the year 1791 . . . with some curious particulars in the Life of Robert Fitz-Ooth, Earl of Huntingdon, vulgarly called Robin Hood, York, 1792 (another edition, by Alfred E. Hargrove, York 1845).
 The Yorkshire Gazetteer, or a Dictionary of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, Monasteries and Castles, principal Mountains, Rivers, &c., in the county of York and Ainsty, Knaresborough, 1806; second edition, 1812.

Under the signature of "E. H. K.", Hargrove contributed papers to the Gentleman's Magazine, and wrote an account of Boroughbridge to the fifth volume of Rees's Cyclopædia. His manuscript collections on Yorkshire history filled sixteen volumes.

Family
Hargrove married, first, Christiana (d. 1780), daughter of Thomas Clapham of Firby, near Bedale, Yorkshire, by whom he had issue twelve children; and secondly, Mary, daughter of John Bower of Grenoside Hall, near Sheffield; she died at York in April 1825, and was buried at Knaresborough, leaving a son, William Hargrove.

Notes

Attribution

1741 births
1818 deaths
English publishers (people)
Historians of Yorkshire
People from Halifax, West Yorkshire


title: Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen

text:
Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen (July 3, 1887 – February 26, 1974) was a Dutch physicist known for her early contributions to the theory of magnetism. She studied at Leiden University under the guidance of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, obtaining her doctorate in 1919. Her thesis  explained why magnetism is an essentially quantum mechanical effect, a result now referred to as the Bohr–Van Leeuwen theorem. (Niels Bohr had arrived at the same conclusion a few years earlier.) She continued to investigate magnetic materials at the "Technische Hogeschool Delft" (now called the Delft University of Technology), first as "assistant" between September 1920 and April 1947, and then she was promoted to "lector in de theoretische en toegepaste natuurkunde" (reader in theoretical and applied physics).

Hendrika van Leeuwen was the sister-in-law of Gunnar Nordström, known as the "Einstein of Finland", who studied in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest, the successor of Lorentz. Her sister Cornelia (Nel) also started a PhD in Leiden, under Willem Keesom, but stopped when she married Nordström and moved with him to Helsinki.

Van Leeuwen was present at the celebration of the golden anniversary of the doctorate of Lorentz, on 11 December 1925,
and on that occasion reported on the role of Lorentz as scientist and teacher.

References

Further reading
 , PDF at www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl

1887 births
1974 deaths
20th-century Dutch physicists
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
20th-century Dutch women scientists
Dutch women physicists
Leiden University alumni
Scientists from The Hague


title: Yi Junqing

text:
Yi Junqing (; born January 1958) is a former Chinese politician. Born in Liaoning province, Yi served as the propaganda chief of the Heilongjiang party organization between 2007 and 2010. In 2010 he was transferred to Beijing to head the Compilation and Translation Bureau of the Central Committee. In January 2013, he was investigated by the party's anti-corruption body. He was dismissed from his positions.

Biography
Yi was born in Donggang, Liaoning in January 1958.

He became involved in politics in July 1976 and he joined the Chinese Communist Party in February 1978.

Yi Junqing received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia.

In March 2007, Yi Junqing was appointed as the Director of the Propaganda Department of the Heilongjiang party organization, a position he held until February 2010. A month later, he was elected as a member of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Standing Committee, joining the elite political ranks of the province.

In February 2010, he was promoted to become the Director of Compilation and Translation Bureau, an organization under the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. While working at the Compilation and Translation Bureau, Yi was said to have played a major role in developing the Confidence doctrine, which later became a major slogan following the 18th Party Congress.

On January 17, 2013, Yi Junqing was dismissed from his position for his lifestyle by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

Personal life
Yi Junqing had a mistress, Chang Yan (), who was married to a post-doctoral researcher in Compilation and Translation Bureau of the Central Committee. They slept together in hotels 17 times, and Chang Yan published a detailed account of their affair later. The extramarital relationship was cited as one of the lifestyle issues that led to Yi's discipline by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

References

1958 births
People from Dandong
University of Belgrade alumni
Living people
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
Marxist humanists


title: List of judgments of the Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered in 2014

text:
The table below lists the judgments of the Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered in 2014.

The members of the court at the start of 2014 were Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, and judges Edwin Cameron, Johan Froneman, Chris Jafta, Sisi Khampepe, Mbuyiseli Madlanga, Bess Nkabinde, Thembile Skweyiya, Johann van der Westhuizen and Raymond Zondo. Justice Skweyiya retired in May.

References

2014
Constitutional Court


title: Jaql

text:
Jaql (pronounced "jackal") is a functional data processing and query language most commonly used for JSON query processing on big data.

It started as an open source project at Google but the latest release was on 2010-07-12. IBM took it over as primary data processing language for their Hadoop software package BigInsights.

Although having been developed for JSON it supports a variety of other data sources like CSV, TSV, XML.

A comparison to other BigData query languages like PIG Latin and Hive QL illustrates performance and usability aspects of these technologies.

Jaql supports lazy evaluation, so expressions are only materialized when needed.

Syntax
The basic concept of Jaql is

source -> operator(parameter) -> sink ;

where a sink can be a source for a downstream operator. So typically a Jaql program has to following structure, expressing a data processing graph:

source -> operator1(parameter) -> operator2(parameter) -> operator2(parameter) -> operator3(parameter) -> operator4(parameter) -> sink ;

Most commonly for readability reasons Jaql programs are linebreaked after the arrow, as is also a common idiom in Twitter Scalding:

source -> operator1(parameter)
-> operator2(parameter)
-> operator2(parameter)
-> operator3(parameter)
-> operator4(parameter)
-> sink ;

Core operators

Expand
Use the EXPAND expression to flatten nested arrays. This expression takes as input an array of nested arrays [ [ T ] ] and produces an output array [ T ], by promoting the elements of each nested array to the top-level output array.

Filter
Use the FILTER operator to filter away elements from the specified input array. This operator takes as input an array of elements of type T and outputs an array of the same type, retaining those elements for which a predicate evaluates to true. It is the Jaql equivalent of the SQL WHERE clause.
Example:

data = [
  {name: "Jon Doe", income: 20000, manager: false},
  {name: "Vince Wayne", income: 32500, manager: false},
  {name: "Jane Dean", income: 72000, manager: true},
  {name: "Alex Smith", income: 25000, manager: false}
];

data -> filter $.manager;

[
  {
    "income": 72000,
    "manager": true,
    "name": "Jane Dean"
  }
]

data -> filter $.income < 30000;

[
  {
    "income": 20000,
    "manager": false,
    "name": "Jon Doe"
  },
  {
    "income": 25000,
    "manager": false,
    "name": "Alex Smith"
  }
]

Group
Use the GROUP expression to group one or more input arrays on a grouping key and applies an aggregate function per group.

Join
Use the JOIN operator to express a join between two or more input arrays. This operator supports multiple types of joins, including natural, left-outer, right-outer, and outer joins.

Sort
Use the SORT operator to sort an input by one or more fields.

Top
The TOP expression selects the first k elements of its input. If a comparator is provided, the output is semantically equivalent to sorting the input, then selecting the first  elements.

Transform
Use the TRANSFORM operator to realize a projection or to apply a function to all items of an output.

See also
 jq
 JSONiq
 XPath
 XQuery

References

External links
 Definition of the JAQL language
 JAQL Introduction
 Comparison against HIVE and PIG
 Adaptive Processing of User-Defined Aggregates in Jaql

2008 software
Query languages
JSON


title: Maria Litto

text:
Maria Litto (1919–1996) was a German ballet dancer, choreographer and film actress. In 1970, she pioneered dance programming on German television.

Early life

Born in Ovenhausen, Höxter, on 9 September 1919, Litto attended the town's primary and secondary schools. From the age of 16, she received training in ballet at the Tanzschule Carus in Holzminden and, when 18, at the Folkwangschule in Essen. She completed her training at the Wuppertal Municipal Theatre.

Career
She joined the Berlin Opera ballet in 1941, first becoming a solo dancer and then, in 1944, prima ballerina. In 1948, she performed in Werner Egk's ballet Abraxas. Thereafter she danced in various films including Third from the Right, Melody of Fate, Maya of the Seven Veils and, taking the lead role, in Queen of the Arena. In 1953, she starred in the musical Die Blume von Hawaii (The Flower of Hawaii) where she played Priness Lia a fictionalised version of Liliuokalani.

In November 1954, she was contracted by the Hamburg Opera. After performing in Hamlet, in 1955 she starred as the snake in Werner Egk's Irische Legende at the Salzburg Festival. Among her subsequent successes were Der Engel von Montparnasse and Formender Willie. She also performed in the musical Fanny at Hamburg's Thalia Theater.

In the 1960s, she devoted more time to choreography together with her husband Heinz Schmiedel. In 1970 she played the lead in the television series Tournee – Ein Ballett tanzt um die Welt, pioneering dance programming on German television. The couple continued to appear in television productions until her husband's sudden death in December 1978. Completely devastated, she withdrew from further appearances. Maria Litto died in Hamburg on 25 October 1996.

Film and television
From 1942 to 1971, Maria Litto appeared in a considerable number of films and television productions. She was also active as a television choreographer until 1979.

Selected filmography
 Love Me (1942)
 Love Premiere (1943)
 Beloved Darling (1943)
 Nora (1944)
 Third from the Right (1950)
 Melody of Fate (1950)
 Professor Nachtfalter (1951)
 Maya of the Seven Veils (1951)
 Queen of the Arena (1952)
 Dunja (1955)
 Three Days Confined to Barracks (1955)
 Three Birch Trees on the Heath (1956)
  (1957)
 I Learned That in Paris (1960)
 The Gorilla of Soho (1968)
 The Man with the Glass Eye (1969)

References

1919 births
German ballerinas
People from Höxter
German women choreographers
German choreographers
Prima ballerinas
1996 deaths
20th-century German ballet dancers


title: Chen Anzhong

text:
Chen Anzhong (; born January 1954) is a former Chinese politician who served in a variety of positions in Jiangxi province. In 2015, he was sentenced to twelve years in prison for corruption.

Biography
Chen was born in Ningyuan County, Hunan in January 1954. During the Down to the Countryside Movement, Chen worked as a sent-down youth at Junshan Farm, in Yueyang, Hunan. Chen began working in March 1972 and he joined the Chinese Communist Party in December 1976.

After the resumption of the University Entrance Examination in 1977, Chen entered Hunan Normal College in March 1978, majoring in political science, after graduating in January 1982 he was accepted to Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party and graduated in December 1984, majoring in scientific socialism. After graduation, he taught there as an instructor.

From September 1985 to June 1993, Chen worked in Changsha as an officer.

In June 1993 he was promoted to become the deputy Party secretary of Hengyang, a position he held until August 1999. From November 1996 to August 1999, he was elected as the mayor of Hengyang; he ascended to a prefecture-level position at age 42.

Chen served as the deputy Party secretary of Jingdezhen and mayor of Jingdezhen between August 1999 to June 2001.

In June 2001, Chen was promoted to become the Party secretary of Pingxiang, he remained in that position until November 2006, when he was transferred to Jiujiang and appointed the Party secretary of Jiujiang.

In January 2008, Chen was elevated to the vice-chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a position he held until January 2010.

In January 2010, Chen was appointed as vice-chairman of Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress.

Downfall
On December 8, 2013, Chen was dismissed, arrested and investigated for corruption by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Chen was sentenced 12 years in prison on June 19, 2015, upon being convicted on charges of bribery; it was said he took 8.1 million yuan (~$1.27 million) in bribes.

References

1954 births
People from Yongzhou
Hunan Normal University alumni
Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party alumni
Living people
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese politicians convicted of corruption


title: Wolfgang H. Berger

text:
Wolfgang "Wolf" Helmut Berger (5 October 1937, Erlangen – 6 August 2017 San Diego, California) was a German-American oceanographer, geologist, micropaleontologist and emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. His research interests comprise "micropaleontology, marine sedimentation, ocean productivity, carbon cycle, ocean history, climate history, and history of oceanography."

Education and career
Berger earned in 1961 his Vordiplom degree in geology at the University of Erlangen and in 1963 his master's degree in geology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In 1968 he received his PhD in oceanography from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). From 1968 to 1970 he did research at the UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and in 1970/1971 he was an Assistant at the Geological Institute of the University of Kiel. In 1971 he became an assistant professor, in 1974 an associate professor, and then in 1981 a professor at the Scripps Institution, where he was in 1996/1997 the interim director. In 1997 Berger became the director of the California Space Institute in San Diego. In 1977 and in 1980 he was a visiting professor at the University of Kiel. In 1987 he did research at the University of Bremen.

His research was especially concerned with the ecology of planktonic foraminifera and the reconstruction of the climate and the marine environment of the Cenozoic.

Berger was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the Geological Society of America.

Awards and honors
1979 – Bigelow Medal, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
1980 – Norwegian Research Fellow
1984 – A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences, Bedford Institute of Oceanography
1986 – Lady Davis Fellow, Hebrew University
1986 – Humboldt Award, presented in Bonn
1988 – Maurice Ewing Medal, presented in San Francisco
1991 – Prince Albert I Medal, presented in Paris
1993 – Balzan Prize, presented in Bern
1998 – Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille, presented in Bern
2001 – Foreign Member, Academia Europaea
2012 - EGU Milutin Milankovic Medal, presented in Vienna

Selected works

 with L. D. Labeyrie (ed.):
 with Eugen Seibold: The sea floor: an introduction to marine geology, Springer 1982, 3rd edition 1996

References

External links
 List of publications by Wolfgang H. Berger, ucsd.edu
 "Innovative Tools for Educators: An Interactive Online Atlas of Ocean Productivity", Wolfgang H. Berger, Director of California Space Institute

1937 births
2017 deaths
American oceanographers
German oceanographers
American paleontologists
German paleontologists
University of California, San Diego alumni
Scripps Institution of Oceanography faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Geophysical Union
Fellows of the Geological Society of America
Micropaleontologists
Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille winners
People from Erlangen


title: Chen Baihuai

text:
Chen Baihuai (; born August 1950) is a former Chinese politician from Hubei province. At the height of his career, he served as the deputy chairman of the province's political advisory body. He was later detained and underwent trial for corruption charges in 2014.

Career
Chen was born in Wuhan, Hubei in August 1950.

Chen joined the workforce in January 1971, working first as an agricultural technician in Xinzhou County. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in June 1973. He worked in the agriculture sector for most of his life.

Chen entered Central China Normal University in September 1982, majoring in economic administration, graduating in July 1985. After graduation, Chen worked in Wuhan as an officer.

In June 1997, he was promoted to become the deputy secretary general of Hubei People's Government, a position he held until February 2003. He was then named head of the provincial department of agriculture.

In January 2009, Chen was promoted to become the vice-chairman of the Hubei Provincial People's Political Consultative Conference, he remained in that position until January 2013.

Downfall
On November 19, 2013, Chen was being investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Chinese Communist Party for "serious violations of laws and regulations". The party investigation concluded that Chen directed subordinates who engaged in the misuse and misappropriation of state-owned lands, took bribes personally and through his family, and sought benefits for his associates. In September 2014, Chen was charged with abuse of power and bribery. His trial took place in the Intermediate People's Court in the coastal city of Fuzhou. Chen was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

References

1950 births
Politicians from Wuhan
Central China Normal University alumni
Living people
People's Republic of China politicians from Hubei
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hubei
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese politicians convicted of corruption


title: Phacelia cronquistiana

text:
Phacelia cronquistiana (Cronquist's phacelia) is a plant species native to Utah and Arizona, known only from Kane and Mohave Counties. It occurs in sagebrush and Pinus ponderosa forests at elevations of .

Phacelia cronquistiana is an erect annual herb up to  tall. Leaf blades are 3–7 mm long and 2–6 mm wide. Flowers are up to 4 mm long, pale purple with a white center.

References

cronquistiana
Endemic flora of California
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


title: Irina Gribko

text:
Irina Petrovna Gribko (, born 16 January 1969) is a retired Soviet rower who won a silver medal in the eights at the 1991 World Championships. Next year her team finished fourth in this event at the 1992 Summer Olympics. She later competed for Belarus and won a bronze medal in the coxless fours at the 1995 World Championships.

References

1969 births
Living people
Olympic rowers for the Unified Team
Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Soviet female rowers
World Rowing Championships medalists for the Soviet Union
World Rowing Championships medalists for Belarus


title: VetBact

text:
The VetBact database contains information about bacteria that are of interest in veterinary medicine. The database was developed at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the National Veterinary Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.

VetBact is primarily intended as a tool for veterinary students and their teachers, but has also proved useful for veterinary practitioners and students attending other academic courses in bacteriology.

History
The first version of the database appeared in Swedish on the website of the National Veterinary Institute in 2006.  The database received a major update and was re-launched as 'VetBakt 1.0' under its own domain name, vetbakt.se, in the following year.  In 2010, a bilingual (English/Swedish) version known as 'VetBact 2.0' was released and the domain name was changed to vetbact.org.  In 2011, three additional modules (VetBactBlog, VetBactQuiz and VetBactLab) were added to the VetBact website.

Contents of the database
This database contains information about over 200 species (and subspecies) of bacteria. These species belong to more than 80 genera and represent 9 of the 29 bacterial phyla. The information about each species comprises etymology, taxonomy, morphology, metabolism, biochemical reactions, host, disease, phylogeny etc. There are more than 300 images for which non-commercial use is permitted under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 license.

The modules VetBactBlog, VetBactQuiz and VetBactLab
These course-oriented modules can be found under the heading 'Course material' on VetBact.
 VetBactBlog is, as the name suggests, a blog.  It offers an RSS feed and provides space for discussions.
 VetBactQuiz contains a number of questions for veterinary students. Automatic feed-back is given as soon as an answer has been submitted.
 VetBactLab is intended to complement, but not replace, experiments in the laboratory.  The purpose of these experiments in silico, or virtual experiments, is to teach students how to identify bacteria that cause various diseases in animals.

The VetBact database, and its modules, is based on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and is now an integral part of the curriculum at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

References

External links

Veterinary medicine
Biological databases


title: Random Recipe

text:
Random Recipe is a Canadian musical group based in Montreal, Quebec. The band members are Frannie Holder (vocals and guitar), Fab (rap, beatbox, steeldrum), Vincent Legault (guitar and keys), and Liu-Kong Ha (percussion and keys). Although the band performs and records primarily in English, many of their songs contain Spanish and Italian lyrics. The band has toured in North and South America and Europe, and has released four albums of pop/folk/rap music.

History

Founding
Holder and Fab met in 2005 while both students at university, studying political science at McGill University and translation at Concordia University, respectively. Their first public performances were free-of-charge and spontaneous, including busking in parks, in taxis, and on the Montreal metro.

In 2007, the pair formed Random Recipe. In 2008, they performed as part of the Pop! Montreal festival, and were hailed by Spin Magazine as one of the top 5 up-and-coming Montreal bands. Their sound was described as eclectic yet accessible; a mix between CocoRosie and the Beastie Boys. In 2009 they received the award for best new group by the Montreal International Music Initiative (MIMI).

2010-2013

In 2010 Random Recipe performed at the Halifax Pop Explosion. They signed with Bonsound Records and in September released an album, Fold It! Mold It!, which appeared on the !Earshot National Top 50 Chart in October. That year, and the next, they performed at the Festival d'été de Québec and at M for Montreal.

The group continued to put on impromptu shows at poutineries and pizzerias.  Legault, who studied percussion and guitar jazz at McGill University and Liu-Kong Ha who studied at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Montréal)  joined the band, rounding out the group's sound to include xylophone, melodica, omnichord, steel drums, and kazoo.

In July 2011, Random Recipe participated in the Canada Day Celebrations on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, performing to an audience that included William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. They also played at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. Random Recipe was awarded the 2011 Mirroir prize for  Best Canadian Artist and RIDEAU's 2011 Étoiles Galaxie prize. The band was nominated in three categories at the 2011 ADISQ (Album of the year - Anglophone, Quebec artist of the year - Other languages, and Album artwork of the year).

Fold It! Mold It!; was re-released and in January 2012 in France via Chapter Two Records.  Random Recipe later took part in collaborations with Pierre Lapointe, Alex Nevsky, DJ Champion and Jérôme Minière.

2014-present

In February 2014, Florent Legault was hired as a fifth musician to accompany the band on long tours.  That year the band performed again at the SXSW festival. Vincent Legault, not fond of extensive travel, left the group in 2015.

In 2018, after returning for a tour in South America, Random Recipe released their fourth album, Distractions. A single, "Fight the Feeling", from the album received regular airplay on Radio Canada. The band then headed out for a tour in Europe, including a set at the Ypsigrock Festival in Sicily.

In 2020, Toyota released a TV commercial for their Toyota Yaris which featured Random Recipe's song 'Out of the Sky'.

Discography
Random Recipe have released four full-length albums, the first three through Bonsound Records and their most recent album independently.

References

External links
 http://www.myspace.com/randomrecipe
 http://www.randomrecipe.ca
 http://randomrecipe.bandcamp.com
 http://www.facebook.com/randomrecipe

Musical groups from Montreal
Canadian LGBT musicians
Musical groups established in 2007
English-language musical groups from Quebec
LGBT culture in Montreal
Canadian musical quintets
Canadian indie rock groups
Trip hop groups
2007 establishments in Quebec


title: Fu Xiaoguang

text:
Fu Xiaoguang (; born February 1952) is a Chinese politician from Heilongjiang province. He served as vice-governor of Heilongjiang between 2003 and 2004. He was demoted and admonished by party authorities in 2013 for spending public funds on a banquet, during which one of his drinking partners reportedly died from overconsumption of alcohol.

Biography
Fu was born in Zhaoyuan County, Heilongjiang in February 1952.

Fu became involved in politics in October 1968 and he joined the Chinese Communist Party in September 1973.

Fu entered Jilin University of Technology in 1973, majoring in design and manufacturer, where he graduated in 1977. After graduation, he worked as an officer in Heilongjiang.

In 1995 he was promoted to become the Chief of Heilongjiang Provincial Communications Department, a position he held until 1999.

Fu was elevated to the vice-governor of Heilongjiang in January 2003; he resigned in October 2004 for serious violation. Beginning in 2010 he served as the chair of the Heilongjiang Table Tennis Association, a largely ceremonial role which gave him sub-provincial level official status. Starting in 2012 he was put in charge of a provincial tourism development project.

Downfall
On December 17, 2013, Fu was placed on "one-year probation" within the Chinese Communist Party for public consumption of alcohol. Fu reportedly spend a large amount of public funds on a banquet he hosted. One of the attendees died and another was seriously harmed due to overconsumption of alcohol. Fu was subsequently demoted one level from a sub-provincial official to the bureau-level.

References

1952 births
People from Daqing
Living people
Chinese police officers
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
People's Republic of China politicians from Heilongjiang
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Heilongjiang
Jilin University alumni


title: Hardus Viljoen

text:
GC Viljoen (born 6 March 1989), known as Hardus Viljoen, is a South African professional cricketer. Viljoen played for Lions in domestic cricket and made one Test match appearance for the South Africa national team. He is a right-arm fast bowler.

Career
Viljoen was called up to the South African squad for the first time on the last day of 2015 as cover for Kyle Abbott. He made his Test debut on 14 January 2016 against England, taking the wicket of England captain Alastair Cook with his first ball in Test cricket, the 20th player to achieve this feat.

Viljoen joined Kent County Cricket Club for a short spell in English county cricket in August 2016, playing in the final four matches of the 2016 County Championship season. He made his County Championship debut on 23 August against Gloucestershire at Bristol, taking five wickets on the first day of the match. At the end of the season Kent made a contract offer to Viljoen but were unwilling to match a more lucrative offer made by Derbyshire who signed the player on a three-year Kolpak contract in December 2016. After playing for the county for two seasons the contract was terminated "by mutual consent" in January 2019, with Viljoen signing in June to play for Kent in the 2019 t20 Blast.

In December 2018, he was bought by the Kings XI Punjab in the player auction for the 2019 Indian Premier League. In July 2019, he was selected to play for the Rotterdam Rhinos in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament. However, the following month the tournament was cancelled.

In September 2019, he was named in the squad for the Paarl Rocks team for the 2019 Mzansi Super League tournament. In April 2021, he was named in Boland's squad, ahead of the 2021–22 cricket season in South Africa. In July 2022, he was signed by the Jaffna Kings for the third edition of the Lanka Premier League.

Personal life
In December 2019, he married Rhemi Rynners, the sister of South African international cricketer Faf du Plessis.

Notes

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
South African cricketers
South Africa Test cricketers
Titans cricketers
Lions cricketers
Easterns cricketers
Kent cricketers
Derbyshire cricketers
Chattogram Challengers cricketers
Punjab Kings cricketers
Lahore Qalandars cricketers
Multan Sultans cricketers
Paarl Rocks cricketers
Jaffna Kings cricketers
Durban's Super Giants cricketers


title: Paul Keenan (composer)

text:
Paul Keenan (1 August 1956 – 26 June 2001) was a British 20th Century contemporary classical composer. His body of composition spans 27 years, though consistently explores his fascination with both Anglo-Saxon texts (from The Exeter Book) and the natural world.

Education
Keenan was born in Birmingham where he attended St Philip's Grammar School. He went on to study composition with Anthony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1999 he was awarded a PhD in Composition from the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Nigel Osborne and Peter Nelson. Keenan also studied privately with Bill Hopkins.

Notable works

 Concerto for Groups of Instruments (1974–76)
 1(picc).alto fl.1.1.1–1.2.2.1–pno.organ–7.3.3.1
 The Ruin (part one) (1976–79)
 Setting of part of The Ruin, an Anglo-Saxon poem from The Exeter Book
 soprano, counter-tenor, 1.1.1.0-1.1.1.0-pno/cel.hpsch/org-2 perc–string quartet
 Palimpsest (1992–95)
 Setting of riddles from The Exeter Book
 soprano, 0.1.1.0–0.0.1.0–pno–perc–string quartet–tape and live electronics
 Squaring xlvii (1996–97)
 Setting of poem by Seamus Heaney from Seeing Things
 soprano, alto/tenor-bass trombone, percussion, tape and live electronics
 Comet Hale-Bopp (1997–98)
 for 43 musicians in 3 groups, and tape electronics
 1. oboe, clarinet, tenor trombone, 6 violoncelli, 4 double-basses (bass 1 & 4 scordatura tuning)
 2. 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 alto flutes, bass flute, cor anglais, 2 horns, 7 violins, 6 violas (tuned down 1/4 tone)
 3. piano, 2 harps (1/4 tone tuning), 5 percussionists: vibraphone, 2 glockenspiels, marimba, chromatic crotales, 2 hand-held crotales, 6 gongs, 6 tam-tams, claves, small Balinese gong, medium Chinese gong, bass drum, tongue drum (8 slots), maracas, small bell
 A Field of Scarecrows (trombone and piano) (1998)
 I quattro libri dell'architettura (for string quartet and tape electronics) (1999–2000)

Awards
Keenan's Concerto for Groups of Instruments won the 1977 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize. Music of Wood and Strings was awarded the 1978 Worshipful Company of Musicians Silver Medal.

Cloudscapes, Palimpsest and Comet Hale-Bopp were all shortlisted by the Society for the Promotion of New Music (now Sound and Music).

Further information
Since his death in 2001, Keenan's work has received numerous broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 Hear and Now, featuring performances by orchestras and ensembles such as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and ECAT. In 1998, a television documentary about Keenan was created by Peter Chapman for broadcast on ITV Border Television.

A select group of academics, composers and performers believe Keenan's music to be a unique and significant contribution to music of the late 20th Century. His pioneering approach to electro-acoustic composition and research into sound phenomenon earned him the description as "the man who split music's atom".

References

1956 births
2001 deaths
British composers
People educated at St Philip's School


title: Guo Yongxiang

text:
Guo Yongxiang (; born February 1949) is a former Chinese politician. He worked for the China National Petroleum Corporation before joining the Ministry of Land and Resources. He was subsequently transferred to work in Sichuan province, and successively served as the Vice Governor and Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Congress. He was investigated for corruption, dismissed from office, expelled from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Guo was a close associate of disgraced former security tsar Zhou Yongkang.

Biography
Guo was born in Linyi County, Shandong in February 1949, during the Republic of China.

Guo joined the Chinese Communist Party in January 1971 and he got involved in politics in December 1972.

During the Cultural Revolution, Guo worked in Shengli Oil Field, Shandong as an officer, he entered the China National Petroleum Corp in August 1990.

He attended Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party in August 1992, majoring in economic administration, where he graduated in December 1994. In July 1998, Guo was appointed as Chief of Office Ministry of Land and Resources.

In January 2000 he was promoted to become the deputy secretary general of Sichuan Committee of Chinese Communist Party, a position he held until December 2002.

In December 2002, he was appointed a Standing Committee member of Sichuan Committee of Chinese Communist Party, the secretary general of Sichuan Committee of Chinese Communist Party and the chairman of CCP Sichuan Provincial Committee Office, he remained in that positions until January 2006, when he was appointed the vice-governor of Sichuan.

In January 2008, Guo was elected as the vice-chairman of the Sichuan People's Congress.

In February 2009, Guo was appointed as the president of Sichuan Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

Downfall
On June 23, 2013, Guo was being investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for "serious violations of laws and regulations".

On April 8, 2014, Guo was dismissed from his government positions and expelled from the CCP.

On October 13, 2015, Guo was sentenced 20 years in the jail.

See also
 List of members of the 11th National People's Congress

References

1949 births
Living people
People from Linyi County, Dezhou
People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese politicians convicted of corruption


title: Guo Youming

text:
Guo Youming (; born December 1956) is a former Chinese politician from Hubei province. He served as the party secretary of Yichang in Hubei province between 2008 and 2011, and the vice-governor of Hubei from 2011 to 2014. In 2013, he was investigated for "serious disciplinary violations", a phrase usually denoting corruption, and subsequently expelled from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Biography
Guo was born in Suizhou, Hubei in December 1956.

Resumption of University Entrance Examination in 1977, Guo entered Wuhan University in February 1978, majoring in water conservancy engineering, where he graduated in January 1982. After graduation,  he worked in Hubei as an officer.

Guo got involved in politics in January 1982 and he joined the CCP in May 1985.

In June 2000 he was promoted to become the party vice-secretary of Yichang, a position he held until February 2008. Guo served as the mayor of Yichang between July and March 2008. In February 2008, Guo was elevated to the party secretary of Yichang.

In November 2011, Guo studied at University of Toronto.

In August 2011, Guo was promoted to become the Vice-Governor of Hubei.

Downfall
In November 2013, Guo was being investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for "serious violations of laws and regulations". On 9 January 2014, Guo was dismissed from his position for corruption.

On 21 April 2014, Guo was expelled from the CCP; his case was handed to the Nanyang Intermediate People's Court in Henan province, where he was charged with bribery. The court found Guo guilty of taking more than 23.8 million yuan (US$3.70 million) in bribes, and sentenced him to 15 years in jail on 9 December 2015.

References

1956 births
People from Suizhou
Wuhan University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Living people
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
Vice-governors of Hubei
Chinese politicians convicted of corruption


title: Siddha cave

text:
Siddha Cave or Siddha Gufa is a cave located in Bimalnagar, Tanahun District, Nepal. It's around 0.5 kilometer inside and around 2,500 people can fit inside. If you would like to go over Siddha Cave then you have to take vehicle from Kathmandu on Prithvi Highway which will take around 4 hours to Bimalnagar, then you have to walk up hills on steps. It will take around half to 1 hour [Depends on how fast you’ll walk] from main highway Bimalnagar to reach to Cave.

See also
List of caves in Nepal

References

Caves of Nepal


title: Marguč

text:
Marguč is a Slovene-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Gašper Marguč (born 1990), Slovenian handball player
Rok Marguč (born 1986), Slovenian snowboarder

Slovene-language surnames


title: Faruk Sokolović

text:
Faruk Sokolović (born 18 September 1952) is a Bosnian film director, television producer, actor and screenwriter.

Filmography

Films

Television

References

External links

1952 births
Living people
Film people from Sarajevo
Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims
Bosnia and Herzegovina film directors
Bosnia and Herzegovina screenwriters
Male screenwriters
Bosnia and Herzegovina male writers


title: Peter H. Turner

text:
Peter Helmer Turner (April 11, 1813June 4, 1885) was an American pioneer and politician.

Biography

Born in Ilion, New York, Turner was in the merchandise business and was in the milling business while living in Ellisburg, New York. In 1840, he moved to Genesee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Territory, and then to the town of Palmyra, in Jefferson County. He was elected to the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1846 serving as a Democrat. Turner then served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1848 and in the Wisconsin State Senate in 1850. In 1859, Turner moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he served on the Madison Common Council and served as president. Turner moved to Dakota Territory in 1871 settling in the Vermillion Valley. He then moved to Sioux City, Iowa, where he died in 1885.

Relatives
There are unsourced assertions on some websites that he was the brother of Joseph Turner (Wisconsin politician), who also came to Wisconsin Territory in 1840.

References

External links

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1813 births
1885 deaths
People from Ilion, New York
People from Ellisburg, New York
Politicians from Sioux City, Iowa
People from Jefferson County, Wisconsin
People from Genesee, Wisconsin
Businesspeople from New York (state)
Wisconsin city council members
Democratic Party Wisconsin state senators
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American businesspeople
Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly


title: Ji Wenlin

text:
Ji Wenlin (; born July 1966) is a former Chinese politician. He was investigated by the Chinese Communist Party's anti-graft agency in February 2014. Previously he served as the Mayor of Haikou and the vice-Governor of Hainan.  He once worked as the secretary of Zhou Yongkang.

Biography
Ji was born in Liangcheng County, Inner Mongolia in July 1966. He graduated from China University of Geosciences, majoring in Geophysics.

He got involved in politics in July 1989 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in August 1994. In 1998 he joined the newly created Ministry of Land and Resources, working as the secretary of Minister Zhou Yongkang.

In 2008 he became a director of the Office Ministry of Land and Resources, a position he held until January 2009.

In February 2011, he was appointed the Mayor of Haikou, capital of Hainan province, then promoted to Vice-Governor of Hainan in January 2013.

On February 18, 2014, he was being investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for "serious violations of laws and regulations". Ji was sentenced 12 years in prison for corruption on March 30, 2016.

References

1966 births
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Inner Mongolia
China University of Geosciences alumni
Living people
Political office-holders in Hainan
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
People's Republic of China politicians from Inner Mongolia
People from Ulanqab
Chinese politicians convicted of corruption


title: Perko

text:
Perko is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Aapo Perko (1924–2021), Finnish shot putter
John Perko (American football, born 1914), American football player
John Perko (American football, born 1918), American football player
Jukka Perko (born 1968), Finnish saxophonist
Kenneth Perko (born 1943), Knot theorist
Perko pair, knot theory
Mike Perko (born 1957), American football player
Rok Perko (born 1985), Slovenian alpine skier
Roman Perko (born 1977), Slovenian skier
Tom Perko (born 1954), American football player
Valentin Perko (born 1950), Slovenian cinematographer and director of photography

See also
Lynn Perko-Truell (born 1964), American musician
Perko Kolevski (1944–2021), Macedonian doctor and politician


title: Yekaterina Kotko

text:
Yekaterina Kotko (, born 20 October 1965) is a retired Soviet rower who won a silver medal in the eights at the 1991 World Championships. Next year her team finished fourth in this event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

References

1965 births
Living people
Olympic rowers for the Unified Team
Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Soviet female rowers
World Rowing Championships medalists for the Soviet Union


title: High-performance plastics

text:
High-performance plastics are plastics that meet higher requirements than standard or engineering plastics. They are more expensive and used in smaller amounts.

Definition

High performance plastics differ from standard plastics and engineering plastics primarily by their temperature stability, but also by their chemical resistance and mechanical properties, production quantity, and price.

There are many synonyms for the term high-performance plastics, such as: high temperature plastics, high-performance polymers, high performance thermoplastics or high-tech plastics. The name high temperature plastics is in use due to their continuous service temperature (CST), which is always higher than 150 °C by definition (although this is not their only feature, as it can be seen above).

The term "polymers" is often used instead of "plastics" because both terms are used as synonyms in the field of engineering. If the term "high-performance thermoplastics" is used, it is because both standard and technical as well as high-performance plastics are always thermoplastics. Thermosets and elastomers are outside of this classification and form their own classes.

However, the differentiation from less powerful plastics has varied over time; while nylon and poly(ethylene terephthalate) were initially considered powerful plastics, they are now ordinary.

History
The improvement of mechanical properties and thermal stability is and has always been an important goal in the research of new plastics. Since the early 1960s, the development of high-performance plastics has been driven by corresponding needs in the aerospace and nuclear technology. Synthetic routes for example for PPS, PES and PSU were developed in the 1960s by Philips, ICI and Union Carbide. The market entry took place in the early 70s. A production of PEEK (ICI), PEK (ICI) and PEI (General Electric and GE) via polycondensation was developed in the 1970s. PEK was offered since 1972 by Raychem, however, made by an electrophilic synthesis. Since electrophilic synthesis has in general the disadvantage of a low selectivity to linear polymers and is using aggressive reactants, the product could hold only a short time on the market. For this reason, the majority of high-performance plastics is nowadays produced by polycondensation processes.

In manufacturing processes by polycondensation a high purity of the starting materials is important. In addition, the stereochemistry plays a role in achieving the desired properties in general. The development of new high-performance plastics is therefore closely linked to the development and economic production of the constituent monomers.

Characteristics
High performance plastics meet higher requirements than standard and engineering plastics because of their more desirable mechanical properties, higher chemical and/or a higher heat stability. Especially the latter makes processing difficult, often requiring specialized machinery. Most high-performance plastics are exploited for a single property (e.g. heat stability), in contrast to engineering plastics which provide moderate performance over a wider range of properties. Some of their diverse applications include: fluid flow tubing, electrical wire insulators, architecture, and fiber optics.

High performance plastics are relatively expensive: The price per kilogram may be between $5 (PA 46) and $100 (PEEK). The average value is slightly less than 15 US-Dollar/kg. High-performance plastics are thus about 3 to 20 times as expensive as engineering plastics. Also in future there cannot be expected a significant price decline, since the investment costs for production equipment, the time-consuming development and the high distribution costs are
going to remain constant.

Since production volumes are very limited with 20.000 t/year the high-performance plastics are holding a market share of just about 1%.

Among the high-performance polymers, fluoropolymers have 45% market share (main representatives: PTFE), sulfur- containing aromatic polymers 20% market share (mainly PPS), aromatic polyarylether and Polyketones 10% market share (mainly PEEK) and liquid crystal polymers (LCP) 6%. The two largest consumers of high-performance plastics are the electrical and electronics industries (41%) and the automotive industry (24%). All remaining industries (including chemical industry) have a share of 23%.

Thermal stability
Thermal stability is a key feature of high-performance plastics. Also mechanical properties are closely linked to the thermal stability.

Based on the properties of the standard plastics some improvements of mechanical and thermal features can already be accomplished by addition of stabilizers or reinforcing materials (glass and carbon fibers, for example) or by an increase in the degree of polymerization. Further improvements can be achieved through substitution of aliphatic by aromatic units. Operating temperatures up to 130 °C are reached in this way. Thermosets (which do not belong to the high-performance plastics, see above) have a similar temperature stability with up to 150 °C. An even higher service temperature can be reached by linking of aromatics (e.g. phenyl) with oxygen (as diphenyl ether group e. g. PEEK), sulfur (as diphenyl sulfone groups in PES or diphenyl group, for example in PPS) or nitrogen (imide group in PEI or PAI). Resulting operating temperatures might be between 200 °C in the case of PES to 260 °C in case of PEI or PAI.

The increase in temperature stability by incorporating aromatic units is due to the fact, that the temperature stability of a polymer is determined by its resistance against thermal degradation and its oxidation resistance. The thermal degradation occurs primarily by a statistical chain scission; depolymerization and removal of low molecular weight compounds are playing only a minor role.

The thermal-oxidative degradation of a polymer starts at lower temperatures than the merely thermal degradation. Both types of degradation proceed via a radical mechanism. Aromatics offer a good protection against both types of degradation, because free radicals can be delocalized through the π-system of the aromatic and stabilized. In this way the thermal stability is strongly increasing. Poly(p-phenylene) can serve as an example, it consists exclusively of aromatics and provides extremely stability, even at temperatures above 500 °C. On the other hand the rigidity of the chains makes it more or less inprocessible. To find a balance between processability and stability, flexible units can be incorporated into the chain (e.g., O, S, C(CH3). Aromatics can also be substituted by other rather rigid units (e. g. SO2, CO). By mixing these different elements the diversity of high-performance plastics is created with their different characteristics.

In practice a maximum temperature resistance (about 260 °C) can be obtained with fluoropolymers (polymers, in which the hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbons have been replaced by fluorine atoms). Among them, PTFE has the largest market share with 65-70 %. Fluorine-containing polymers are, however, not suitable to serve as construction material due to poor mechanical properties (low strength and stiffness, strong creep under load).

Crystallinity
High-performance plastics can be divided in amorphous and semi-crystalline polymers, just like all polymers. Polysulfone (PSU), poly(ethersulfone) (PES) and polyetherimide (PEI) for example are amorphous; poly(phenylene sulfide) (PPS), polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and polyether ketones (PEK), however are semi-crystalline.

Crystalline polymers (especially those reinforced with fillers) can be used even above their glass transition temperature. This is because semi-crystalline polymers have, in addition to a glass temperature Tg, a crystallite melting point Tm, which is usually much higher. For example PEEK possesses a Tg of 143 °C but remains usable up to 250 °C (continuous service temperature = 250 °C). Another advantage of semi-crystalline polymers is their high resistance against chemical substances: PEEK possesses a high resistance against aqueous acids, alkalies and organic solvents.

See also
Commodity plastics
Engineering plastic

References

Thermoplastics


title: Li Chongxi

text:
Li Chongxi (; born January 1951) is a former Chinese politician. From 2013 to 2014, Li served as chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a mostly ceremonial legislative consultation body. Prior to that, Li served as the deputy party secretary of Sichuan province. Li Chongxi has been linked to disgraced former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang.

Career
Li was born in Jianyang, Sichuan in January 1951. Li got involved in politics in April 1972 and he joined the Chinese Communist Party in May 1975.

After taking the National Higher Education Entrance Examination (NCEE) in 1977, Li entered Sichuan University of Finance and Economics in September 1978, majoring in public finance and graduated in August 1982. After graduation, Li worked in Chengdu as an officer.

In March 1995 he was promoted to become the vice-secretary of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, a position he held until March 1996, when he was transferred to Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture and appointed its party secretary. Li served as a Standing Committee member of the CPC Sichuan Committee and Secretary of Sichuan between August 2000 to May 2002.

Li was elevated to the deputy party secretary of Sichuan in May 2002, he remained in that position until September 2011. Li's time in provincial politics saw him work under four successive party secretaries, including Zhou Yongkang, Zhang Xuezhong, Liu Qibao, and Du Qinglin.

In January 2013, Li was promoted to become chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, earning him full provincial status for the first time in his life.

Downfall
On December 29, 2013, Li was being investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for "serious violations of laws and regulations". On January 16, 2014, Li was dismissed from his positions. On September 11, 2014, Li was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party. His successor was selected a year later.

Li Chongxi was indicted on charges of bribery on April 17, 2015. and handed from the Party's disciplinary agents to Nanchang Municipal Intermediate People's Court. On November 3, 2015, the court found him guilty on all counts, including taking bribes worth around 11.1 million yuan (US$1.75 million). Li was sentenced 12 years in jail, and his digital recorder was also confiscated.

References

1951 births
Living people
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Sichuan
People's Republic of China politicians from Sichuan
Politicians from Chengdu
Chinese politicians convicted of corruption


title: Stipčević

text:
Stipčević is a Croatian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Aleksandar Stipčević (1930–2015), Croatian bibliographer, librarian, and historian
Rok Stipčević (born 1986), Croatian basketball player

Surnames of Croatian origin


title: Tičar

text:
Tičar is a Slovene surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 (1875–1946), Slovenian physician and mountaineer
Rok Tičar (born 1989), Slovenian ice hockey player

Slovene-language surnames


title: Urbanc

text:
Urbanc is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Dejan Urbanč (born 1984), Slovenian footballer
Rok Urbanc (born 1985), Slovenian ski jumper


title: Li Chuncheng

text:
Li Chuncheng (; born April 1956) is a former Chinese politician. He spent his early career in Heilongjiang Province, before being transferred to Sichuan in 1998. He served as the Mayor and then Communist Party Secretary of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, between 2001 and 2011. He then served as Deputy Party Secretary of Sichuan Province between 2011 and 2012.

Li was dismissed from his positions in December 2012, as the party's internal disciplinary body investigated Li for corruption. He was then expelled from the Chinese Communist Party, convicted on charges of abuse of power and bribery, and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Li was the first official of sub-provincial rank to be investigated for corruption following the ascension of Xi Jinping at the 18th Party Congress. Li was considered an ally of Zhou Yongkang. Li was an alternate member of the 16th and 18th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party, but failed to be elected to the 17th Central Committee.

Early life
Li was born in Haicheng, Liaoning in April 1956. He has a brother, Li Chunming ().

Career

Heilongjiang
During the Cultural Revolution, Li worked as a sent-down youth (zhiqing) in Shuangcheng County, Heilongjiang. He became involved in politics in April 1973 and he joined the Chinese Communist Party in February 1978.

Li entered Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in September 1975, majoring in electric engineering, where he graduated in July 1978. Li then became a lecturer at HIT for the next nine years. In 1987, Li, then 31, left teaching to become the Deputy Secretary, then Secretary, of the Harbin Communist Youth League organization. In 1992, Li became Vice Mayor of Harbin. In December 1998, Li was 'seconded' to work in Sichuan province. He spent the nearly the rest of his career in Chengdu.

Sichuan
From August 2000 to January 2001, Li served as the Party Secretary of Luzhou. Li then served as the Mayor and Deputy Party Secretary of Chengdu between February 2001 to June 2003. At the 16th Party Congress in November 2002, Li, as Mayor of Chengdu, became an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, a rare feat for someone who was merely a prefecture-level mayor.

In June 2003, he was promoted to become the Party Secretary of Chengdu and a Standing Committee member of the provincial Party Committee. In 2007, Li, who was in a higher position than he was in 2002, failed to get re-elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee. This was seen as an indication that he had become subject to controversy in provincial political circles.

In September 2011, Li was elevated to the Deputy Party Secretary of Sichuan, in charge of day-to-day work of the province. By this time, Li was considered one of the most powerful figures in the province. Li gained back his alternate membership on the Central Committee at the 18th Party Congress in November 2012, with a seemingly optimistic political trajectory.

Corruption investigation
On December 5, 2012, state media announced that Li was being investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) for "serious violations of laws and regulations". Li Chuncheng was the first sub-provincial-level official to fall in what eventually became the toughest anti-corruption campaign in the history of China since 1949, and the first official of his rank to fall under the leadership of Xi Jinping. Li's downfall sent shockwaves through the Sichuan political establishment; it was also seen as a harbinger of the fate awaiting the much more powerful former national leader Zhou Yongkang. On December 6, Shen Yong (), a district-level official, posted lengthy statements to his microblog about Li's alleged wrongdoings. It alleged that Li had spent vast sums of money trying to buy his way to prominence in the Heilongjiang government apparatus, and that he later developed a penchant for "selling" positions in a similar fashion once he was in a position of power, in an attempt to "recoup his investment." The microblog posts further alleged that Li used his position of power to get a manager job for his wife Qu Songzhi at the Chengdu municipal department of health, and, following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, a director position in the Chengdu Municipal Red Cross.

Li's supporters believe that Li had many positive achievements during his tenure as the top official in Chengdu. They cite his efforts to integrate development of urban and rural regions, his bold initiatives to tear down and renovate old parts of town. They also cited that the GDP in Chengdu grew leaps and bounds, from 100 billion yuan in 1998 to some 700 billion yuan (~$114.5 billion) by 2011. His detractors asserted that Li was quick to demolish old buildings without due process, earning him the nickname of Li Chaicheng (a pun on his name, roughly meaning, "Li who tears down the city".) It was believed that his corruption case was related to the new construction projects that took place as a result of his initiatives to raze old city buildings.

On April 30, 2014, following the investigation by the CCDI, Li was removed from all his posts and expelled from the Chinese Communist Party.

Li reportedly had a close relationship with Deng Hong, the Chairman of Chengdu Exhibition and Tourism Group, and a major investor in development projects around Chengdu. Li was said to have given preferential treatment to Deng and other associates in the procurement of government contracts during his time as the party boss of Chengdu. Li has been accused of carrying out "superstitious acts" while he was in office, including belief in Feng shui. Deng allegedly paid three million yuan (~$488,000) for Li to move the party boss's family graves to a more auspicious burying ground.

Li was indicted on charges of bribery, amassing wealth of unclear origin, and abuse of power, on March 19, 2015. On April 23, 2015, Xianning Intermediate People's Court in Hubei province heard Li Chuncheng's case. Li was convicted on all charges, and was said to have taken bribes amounting to some $6.3 million; however, his sentence was reduced for cooperating with the authorities and voluntarily offering up his assets for scrutiny.  He was sentenced 13 years in prison on October 12, 2015.

Personal life
Li married Qu Songzhi (), former director of the Red Cross Society of Chengdu. Qu was sentenced to seven years in prison on January 8, 2016. They have a daughter, Li Jinnuo (). Li was said to have taken bribes through his wife and daughter and given preferential treatment for the activities of his brother.

References

1956 births
Living people
People's Republic of China politicians from Liaoning
People from Haicheng, Liaoning
Political office-holders in Sichuan
Mayors of Chengdu
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
Harbin Institute of Technology alumni
Deputy Communist Party secretaries of Sichuan
Chinese politicians convicted of corruption
Politicians from Anshan
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Liaoning


title: Pietro Pisani

text:
Pietro Pisani (1871–1960) was a Catholic archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See.

Biography
Pisani was born in Vercelli in Italy on 15 July 1871. He was appointed Apostolic Delegate to India and Titular Archbishop of Constantia in Scythia on 15 December 1919. On 21 December 1919, he was ordained a bishop by Cardinal Willem Marinus van Rossum, while the co-consecrators were Archbishop Giovanni Gamberoni, Archbishop of Vercelli and Bishop Giacomo Sinibaldi, Titular Bishop of Tiberias. He resigned as Apostolic Delegate in October 1924 and died on 16 February 1960.

External links
 catholic-hierarchy.org

1871 births
1960 deaths
People from Vercelli
Apostolic Nuncios to India


title: Eveline Bhend

text:
Eveline Bhend (born 6 April 1981) is a Swiss freestyle skier. She was born in Unterseen. She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in slopestyle, where she placed ninth in the final.

References

1981 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Swiss female freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Switzerland
21st-century Swiss women
People from Interlaken-Oberhasli District


title: Li Daqiu

text:
Li Daqiu (; born October 1953) a former politician in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. Li served as the Party Secretary of Hezhou, and the Mayor of Yulin, both cities in Guangxi. He was removed from his posts and expelled from the Communist Party in 2013 and subsequently tried on charges of corruption. In October 2014, Li was convicted of taking bribes of 10.95 million Yuan (~$1.8 million) between 2003 and 2013, and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.

Career
Li was born in Zhaoping County, Guangxi in October 1953.

Li joined the Chinese Communist Party in October 1973 and he got involved in politics in October 1974.

During the Cultural Revolution, Li worked in Zhaoping County as a local officer. He rose through the ranks to become the Vice-Governor of Zhaoping County in November 1987, then he was elevated to the County Governor and the CCP County Committee Vice-Secretary of Zhaoping.

In September 1993 he became the CCP County Committee Secretary of He County, a position he held until April 1996.

Li entered Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party in August 1995, majoring in economic administration, where he graduated in 1999. After graduation, he  was educated in Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.

In June 2001, he was appointed the Mayor of the city of Yulin, Guangxi and the Party Vice-Secretary of Yulin, he remained in that position until May 2003, when he was transferred to Hezhou and appointed the Party Secretary of Hezhou.

In January 2008, Li was elevated to the Vice-Chairman of the Guangxi Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Downfall
On July 6, 2013, state media announced that Li was being investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for "serious violations of laws and regulations". On July 13, Li was dismissed from his position. In September 2013, Li was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and removed from his government posts.

On August 28, 2014, Li's case was brought before the intermediate court of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin province for trial. The prefecture's prosecutor agency alleged that Li took 10.95 million Yuan (~$1.8 million) in bribes during his time as Hezhou party chief and Vice-Chairman of the Guangxi Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, in the process of government business dealings as well as in the arrangement of promotions for officials. On October 13, Li was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.

Li is the highest-ranked official to be convicted of corruption charges in Guangxi since the 18th Party Congress. His downfall has earned him the moniker "Guangxi tiger" (), in reference to Xi Jinping's anti-corruption programme that vowed to take down "tigers" (high-level officials) and "flies" (petty officials).

References

1953 births
Living people
Chinese politicians convicted of corruption
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
People's Republic of China politicians from Guangxi
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Guangxi


title: Camillia Berra

text:
Camillia Berra (born 2 December 1994) is a Swiss freestyle skier. She was born in Champéry. She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in slopestyle, where she qualified for the finals.

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Swiss female freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Switzerland
21st-century Swiss women


title: Sterr

text:
Sterr is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Gil Sterr, American football player
Hans Sterr (1933–2011), German wrestler
Heinrich Sterr (1919–1944), German World War II flying ace


title: Mark Redl

text:
Mark-Patrick Redl (born 6 January 1993) is a German footballer who plays for SV Oberachern.

External links

1993 births
Living people
German men's footballers
Stuttgarter Kickers players
Borussia Dortmund II players
1. FC Kaiserslautern II players
FC 08 Homburg players
SV Oberachern players
3. Liga players
Regionalliga players
Oberliga (football) players
Men's association football goalkeepers


title: Sarmīte Stone

text:
Sarmīte Stone (born 30 May 1963) is a retired Latvian rower who won four medals in the eights at the world championships of 1982–1991, competing for the Soviet Union. She finished fifth in the coxless pairs at the 1988 Olympics and fourth in the eights at the 1992 Games.

References

External links

1963 births
Living people
Olympic rowers for the Soviet Union
Olympic rowers for the Unified Team
Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Latvian female rowers
World Rowing Championships medalists for the Soviet Union