title: Ceropegia striata

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Ceropegia striata is a plant species endemic to Madagascar. It is known only from the Vavavato Massif in the central highlands, at an elevation of approximately 1800 m.

Ceropegia striata is a geophytic plant with a large tuberous base. Stems are thin, green, hairless, less than 3 mm in diameter, twining over other vegetation.  Leaves are narrowly elliptic, up to 3 cm long. Flowers usually solitary. Corolla up to 35 mm long, the lower third forming a hollow sphere about 7 mm in diameter, narrowing into a conical upper corolla, whitish green with purple stripes, with a corona on top.

References

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Endemic flora of Madagascar
Flora of the Madagascar subhumid forests


title: Bad (cuneiform)

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The cuneiform bad, bat, be, etc. sign is a common multi-use sign in the mid 14th-century BC Amarna letters, and the Epic of Gilgamesh. In the Epic it also has 5 sumerogram uses (capital letter (majuscule)). From Giorgio Buccellati (Buccellati 1979) 'comparative graphemic analysis' (about 360 cuneiform signs, nos. 1 through no. 598E), of 5 categories of letters, the usage numbers of the bad sign are as follows: Old Babylonian Royal letters (71), OB non-Royal letters (392), Mari letters (2108), Amarna letters (334), Ugarit letters (39).

The following linguistic elements are used for the bad sign in the 12 chapter (Tablets I-Tablet XII) Epic of Gilgamesh:

bad (not in Epic)
bat
be
mid
mit
sun
til
ziz

sumerograms:
BE
IDIM
TIL
ÚŠ
ZIZ

The following usage numbers for the linguistic elements of sign bad in the Epic are as follows: bad, (0 times), bat, (61), be, (16), mid, (7), mit, (8), sun, (1), til, (11), ziz, (8), BE, (2), IDIM, (2), TIL, (1), ÚŠ, (2), ZIZ, (1).

Instead of a large horizontal,  as seen in the (digitized form, but one type of "bad") , the sign is seen in the Amarna letters as composed of two opposite facing (triangles), the wedges. It can be seen here , Amarna letter EA 153-(lines 153:4, 11), for "King-Lord-mine", "LUGAL, Be-li-ia", or Be-lí-ia", where "bēlu" is Akkadian for "lord".

Literature examples

Amarna letters

The vassal city-state letters to the Pharaoh often reference the King (Pharaoh), as: "King, Lord-mine", where king is represented by LUGAL (king Sumerogram), for Akkadian language šarru-(sometimes LUGAL-ri, represented as "ŠÁR-ri", for king, ŠÁR=LUGAL). For the reverse of EA 362, Rib-Hadda to Pharaoh (plus lines 66–69 on clay tablet side), cuneiform sign be is used for "lord", Akkadian "bēlu". In EA 362, be is only used for the spelling of "lord".

The entire topic of EA 362 is developed on the reverse side, (starting halfway on obverse). The listing of be uses, 10-times, on the reverse (and side lines of 66–69), are as follows:

For "King, Lord-mine" (and partials):

(line 32)--LUGAL
(39)--LUGAL be-li-ia
(40)--be-li
(42)--be-li
(46)--LUGAL
(48)--LUGAL be-li

line 51
(51)--ù be-li i-di i-nu-ma

line 51
"And..Lord know, ..now ("now at this time")..."
"And..Lord know, ..[that] "now at this time"..." (a segue to the letter's ending!)

(53)--be-li-ia
(60)--LUGAL be-li-ia
(64)--LUGAL be-li-ia
(65)--LUGAL
(66)--LUGAL be-li
(68)--LUGAL be-li-ia

Besides be in EA 362, bat is used on the letter's obverse (two adjacent lines).

Form of BAD used in other signs
The BAD/BAT sign has been used in other signs:
 With a Gesh2 sign going through it 𒐕:  for the Neo-Assyrian Cuneiform sign in Sumerian called MUŠEN, Akkadian: iṣṣūrum meaning bird, and giving the sound of ḪU.
 𒑙 as numeric value 2:  A double BAD (also called double BAT, double ESHE3, or double UŠ2)
 𒀫 AMAR (unicode 1202B) meaning calf or Mar (the Akkadian word for "son") This sign is the base for many derivatives.
 𒍘 UŠUMX (unicode u+12358)
 𒍙 UTUKI, in the suffix, again with a Gesh2 sign going through it.
 𒆰 KUL
 𒉄 NAGAR
 𒑧, 𒑨 Elamite numerical 40 and 50
 Inside various letters like 𒄓, 𒄰, 𒇀

External links
Use of be, for Akkadian "Lord", specifically "King, Lord-mine"., (Amarna letter EA 153, lines 153:4, 11)

References

Buccellati, Giorgio. Comparative Graphemic Analysis of Old Babylonian and Western Akkadian, from Ugarit-Forschungen 8, (Neukirchen-Vluyen).
Moran, William L. 1987, 1992. The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 1992. 393 pages.(softcover, )
 Parpola, 1971. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Parpola, Simo, Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, c 1997, Tablet I thru Tablet XII, Index of Names, Sign List, and Glossary-(pp. 119–145), 165 pages.(softcover, )-(Volume 1)
Rainey, 1970. El Amarna Tablets, 359-379, Anson F. Rainey, (AOAT 8, Alter Orient Altes Testament 8, Kevelaer and Neukirchen -Vluyen), 1970, 107 pages.

Cuneiform signs
Akkadian language - three letter syllables


The 2014 Fresno State Bulldogs football team represented California State University, Fresno in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs were led by third-year head coach Tim DeRuyter and played their home games at Bulldog Stadium. They were members of the Mountain West Conference and completed in the West Division. They finished the season 6–8 overall and 5–3 in conference to tie for first place in the West Division, but due to their head-to-head win over San Diego State, they were crowned West Division champions. They lost to Mountain Division champion Boise State in the Mountain West Championship Game. They were invited to the Hawaii Bowl where they lost to Rice.

Personnel

Coaching Staff

Roster

Schedule

Schedule Source:

Game summaries

At No. 15 USC

At Utah

Nebraska

Southern Utah

At New Mexico

San Diego State

At UNLV

At Boise State

Wyoming

San Jose State

At Nevada

Hawai'i

At No. 22 Boise State (MWC Championship game)

Vs. Rice (Hawaii Bowl)

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title: The Last Ship (TV series)

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The Last Ship is an American action-drama television series, loosely based on the 1988 novel of the same name by William Brinkley. The series premiered on TNT on June 22, 2014, and concluded after five seasons on November 11, 2018.

Premise
After a global viral pandemic wipes out over 80% of the world's population, the 218-person crew of an unaffected U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, the fictional USS Nathan James (DDG-151), must try to find a cure and save humanity.

Episodes

Cast

 Eric Dane as Commander, later Captain, and finally Admiral Tom Chandler, is the former commanding officer of  and chief of naval operations, and instructor at the United States Naval Academy.
 Rhona Mitra as Dr. Rachel Scott, a paleomicrobiologist who created the cure for the virus.
 Adam Baldwin as Commander, later Captain, and finally Admiral Mike Slattery, is the former executive officer and later commanding officer of Nathan James and chief of naval operations. Originally from Chicago, he previously served as a homicide detective with the Chicago Police Department. Slattery's son was killed by the virus, and as of season 4, his wife Christine (Ele Keats) and his daughters were still missing.
 Charles Parnell as Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Russell "Russ" Jeter previously served as Nathan Jamess senior enlisted sailor and unofficial chaplain.
 Travis Van Winkle as Lieutenant Daniel Joshua "Danny" Green is leader of the Naval Mountain Warfare Special Forces Unit aboard Nathan James. In season 5, Danny was a member of Delta Team, a four-man covert-action team.
 Marissa Neitling as Commander Kara Green (née Foster) started the series as a combat information center officer on Nathan James before being promoted to tactical action officer (TAO) after the death of Lt. Commander Barker. During season 3, Kara worked in St. Louis as deputy chief of staff to President Michener. In season 4, she returned to duty onboard Nathan James as the TAO.  In season 5, she became the commanding officer of Nathan James.
 Christina Elmore as Lieutenant Commander Alisha Granderson is an officer of the deck on Nathan James. In season 5, she is serving at Naval Station Mayport under Admiral Meylan. In season 5, episode 4, she is stabbed to death by her girlfriend, who is revealed to be a spy for Gran Colombia.
 John Pyper-Ferguson as Ken "Tex" Nolan is a private security/military contractor and former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who joined the crew at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. In the season-2 finale, he tracked down his daughter, but learned that his ex-wife was killed by looters. In the third-season finale, Tex was killed stopping Allison Shaw (recurring seasons 1 and 3; starring in season 2; guest in season 5).
 Jocko Sims as Commander Carlton Burk is head of Nathan James visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) teams. In season 5, he is promoted to executive officer of Nathan James. However, he is killed in the penultimate episode of the show. (recurring season 1; starring seasons 2–5)
 Kevin Michael Martin as Chief Gunner's Mate Eric Miller is a member of the ship's VBSS teams who has worked his way up the enlisted ranks (recurring seasons 1–2, starring season 3–5).
 Bren Foster as Chief Petty Officer Wolf "Wolf-Man" Taylor is a member of the Royal Australian Navy CDT 3 (Special Forces) attached to the US Navy Special Warfare Joint Operations Training Program.  In season 5, Wolf is a member of Delta Team, a four-man covert-action team (recurring season 2, starring seasons 3–5).
 Bridget Regan as Sasha Cooper, a former Navy Intelligence Officer now operating under diplomatic cover in China for the newly reformed US government, she was once romantically involved with Tom Chandler. In season 5, Sasha is a member of Delta Team (season 3–5).
 LaMonica Garrett as Lieutenant Commander Cameron Burk is the brother of CDR Carlton Burk and the TAO of USS Nathan James in season 3.  In season 4, Burk is wounded in action during an attack on Naval Station Rota, Spain, which took him off active duty (main in season 3, guest in seasons 4–5).
 Fay Masterson as Captain Andrea Garnett is the commanding officer of the USS Jeffrey Michener.  Garnett previously served as chief engineer and later executive officer of the Nathan James. Early in season 5, Captain Garnett is fatally wounded in the surprise aerial attack on Fleet Week by paramilitary forces of Gran Colombia.
 Emerson Brooks as Admiral Joseph Meylan is the former commanding officer of USS Hayward, who joins Nathan James after his ship was severely damaged by the Chinese Navy. He briefly takes command of Nathan James ordered by the St. Louis White House (secretly under control of Allison Shaw) to place Captain Chandler under arrest. In season 4, he replaces Andrea Garnett as the executive officer of USS Nathan James under Captain Mike Slattery. In season 5, he is assigned to Naval Station Mayport as a flag officer (recurring in seasons 3–4, starring in season 5).
Jodie Turner-Smith as Sergeant Azima Kandie served in the Kenyan Navy for two years; she is part of the VBSS teams on Nathan James during season 4. In season 5, Azima is a member of Delta Team (recurring in season 4, starring in season 5).

Development and production
In July 2012, TNT ordered a pilot episode for a potential series based on William Brinkley's 1988 novel The Last Ship. Hank Steinberg and Steven Kane wrote the pilot script, and Jonathan Mostow directed the pilot.

The show was filmed at a number of locations across San Diego, including the museum ship  (located in San Pedro), used in filming to represent a Russian ; and aboard the , , and , standing in for the show's fictional .  The series was produced by Channel Road Productions and Platinum Dunes, with Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, Steinberg, and Kane. All seasons of the show were shot at the Culver Studios, in Culver City.

The former Atlantic liner RMS Queen Mary, now berthed at Long Beach, was also used extensively.

In May 2013, TNT placed a 10-episode order for the series. The series premiered on June 22, 2014, at 9:00 pm EDT.  On July 18, 2014, The Last Ship was renewed for a 13-episode second season. The second season started airing on June 21, 2015. On August 11, 2015, The Last Ship was renewed for a 13-episode third season, slated to premiere June 12, 2016. The season-3 premiere was postponed following the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting because the episode also included a mass shooting in a nightclub. On July 31, 2016, The Last Ship was renewed for a 10-episode fourth season, which premiered on August 20, 2017. On September 8, 2016, TNT renewed the series for a 10-episode fifth and final season, which was filmed immediately after season four and premiered on September 9, 2018. The final episode aired on November 11, 2018.

Reception
On Metacritic, the first season has an average score of 60 out of 100 based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".  Rotten Tomatoes gives the show  83% over the five seasons. The website consensus states: "Movie-sized action sequences and a pretty cast provide smooth sailing for The Last Ship, though it's not anything that hasn't been seen before."

In July 2015, Entertainment Weeklys Ray Rahman said of the second season, "The story is getting more interesting as we get an on-the-ground sense of how the pandemic-ravaged US has fared."

References

External links

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2010s American drama television series
2014 American television series debuts
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Television series about families
Television series about viral outbreaks
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title: Max Wenkel

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Max Wenkel (2 February 1864 – 17 March 1940) was a German automobile pioneer and inventor.

Life
Like other automobile pioneers Max Wenkel began his career as an engineer and inventor with the construction of bicycles. He built his first pennyfarthing bicycle while still an apprentice engineer, and was soon taking part in races with well-known cyclists such as Willy Tischbein, who later became Director General of the Continental-Caoutchouc and Guttapercha Company. He accompanied the future founder of the Adler Bicycle and Automobile Company, Dr. Heinrich Kleyer, on a trip to study the manufacture of bicycles in England at the beginning of the 1880s. Later he was employed at the Duplex bicycle factory in Berlin.

In 1895 he successfully experimented with a water velocipede on the rivers Leine and Ihme near Hanover. As early as 1899 he exhibited a small car at the First International Exhibition in Berlin. Between 1901 and 1903 Wenkel travelled through East India, Java, Sumatra and Borneo, where he built the first Wenkelmobils in rather primitive conditions. When back in Germany, the Berlin factory of Schneider & Co started the production of his Wenkelmobil. Wenkel won numerous prizes with it in races in its small-car class. In 1906 and 1907 he travelled the length of South America down to Patagonia in a Wenkelmobil. He was officially commissioned to open up the Cordillera region for motor traffic, and also built flat-bottomed speed boats suitable for Argentine rivers. Wenkel acquired several patents, e.g. for the Wenkelmobil’s friction drive and a high-speed compression and vacuum pump. The Berlin Directory lists him as engineer and owner of a technical bureau and export firm during World War I. When well over sixty he won the prestigious Garbaty Trophy with his speedboat "Java II", in 1929. Three years later he was still making his mark with the invention of a "motor in a trunk car", a newfangled though unsuccessful miniature automobile.

Wenkelmobil

Wenkel's first car, built around 1899, was based on a light tubular steel frame for an air-cooled De-Dion-Bouton engine, originally developed for tricycles. The rear axle was chain-driven. The next model, a four-seater with a break chassis and a stronger water-cooled Aster motor with battery ignition, he was already calling a "Wenkelmobil". With an improved 4-hp version with a Belgian Vivinus engine he travelled through the Far East from 1901 to 1903 and built Wenkelmobils adapted to the tropical climate in Java, where petrol was very cheap. The construction followed that of light American steam cars, with a standing engine in the rear and friction drive. After his return to Berlin Schneider & Co produced several models of the Wenkelmobil, which was at first a reasonably successful small car. The construction of the car was described in a contemporary automobile magazine with reference to the picture alongside:

"The engine a sets the face plate b, which serves as the flywheel, into motion and the rotation is transferred to the discus wheel c.  Through this the shaft dd with the sprocket turns. Thus the chain e drives the rear axle. The speed is adjusted by shifting the discus wheel c on the shaft dd by means of the hand lever fastened to the left of the upper end of the steering column and the articulated lever f. The bearings of the shaft dd with the discus wheel c can be shifted forwards and backwards carriage-like by the hand lever g to the right of the driver's seat. By means of this hand lever the discus wheel c is engaged with the face plate b and the engine, or idling, pressed backwards against the brake arm f to brake the car. So this lever serves both to brake and to engage the clutch. Independently of the aforementioned brake there are two band brakes r1 and r2 on both rear wheels. The beehive radiator n cools the cylinders by means of the belt-driven pump l. The chassis is made of iron-reinforced wood. The front axle is straight, the rear axle is full-length and has no differential."

In 1906 a model with a 9/10 hp engine was produced, but in the long run the car was not able to compete because of its friction drive and lack of a differential. In 1907, while Wenkel was travelling through South America, production of the Wenkelmobil was stopped because of falling demand.

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title: Wushu at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's sanda 70 kg

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The men's sanda (as Sanshou) 70 kg at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar was held from 11 to 14 December at the Aspire Hall 3 in Aspire Zone.

A total of thirteen competitors from thirteen different countries competed in this event, limited to fighters whose body weight was less than 70 kilograms.

Xu Yanfei from China won the gold medal after beating Eduard Folayang in gold medal bout 2–0.

Schedule
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Results
Legend
DQ — Won by disqualification
KO — Won by knockout

References

Results

External links
Official website

Men's sanda 70 kg


title: Tosin Ogunode

text:
Tosin Joseph Ogunode (born 2 March 1994) is a Nigerian-born track and field sprinter who competes internationally for Qatar.

He is the younger brother of Femi Ogunode, another Nigerian-turned-Qatari sprinter who won two golds at the 2010 Asian Games. Tosin Ogunode made his debut at the start of the 2014 season and promptly set an Asian indoor record of 6.50 seconds for the 60 metres event at the Northern Arizona University indoor facility in the United States. This improved Talal Mansour's twenty-year-old record for the distance. This placed him top of the world rankings for a short period. His name is the shortened form of "Oluwatosin" meaning "God is worthy to be worshiped" in Yoruba

References

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1994 births
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Naturalised citizens of Qatar
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Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games
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Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games


title: 2014 Strade Bianche

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The eighth edition of the Strade Bianche cycling race was held on 8 March 2014. The race started in San Gimignano and finished on the Piazza del Campo in Siena's city centre.

The event was won by Poland's Michał Kwiatkowski of . Kwiatkowski had broken clear with Peter Sagan with 21 km remaining. The duo had built a winning lead, and Kwiatkowski distanced his breakaway companion with less than 500m to go on the steep finishing road in the centre of Siena. Sagan was unable to answer the Pole's attack and finished 19 seconds behind Kwiatkowski.

Spaniard Alejandro Valverde set off in pursuit, but was unable to catch the leaders and finished third at 36 seconds from Kwiatkowski. Damiano Cunego and Roman Kreuziger rounded out the top-five.

Teams
The start list included 18 teams – 11 ProTeams and 7 Professional Continental Teams – and a total of 144 riders.

Results

References

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title: Loadout

text:
Loadout was a free-to-play multiplayer third-person shooter developed by Edge of Reality. It was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows, then co-published as a special PlayStation 4 version with P-40 Online Entertainment. Loadout focused on arcade-style multiplayer firefights across a variety of modes and used exaggerated cartoon gore. Players could alter the appearance of their in-game avatar, as well as the properties of their weapons using in-game currency.

Edge of Reality has since discontinued development of the game. On January 23 of 2018, CE-Asia (in collaboration with P-40) published the game on PlayStation 4 in several Asian countries as a paid "Premium Edition".  Other game servers were closed on May 24, 2018, due to the inability to comply with the onset of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation. On September 26, 2020, Loadout Premium's servers were shut down due to inability to afford the server cost, leaving no servers of the game available. However, a fan project is currently attempting to revive the game.

Reception

Loadout received mixed to positive critic reviews (72 on Metacritic), 4 out of 5 stars (51,800 player reviews) on PlayStation 4, and “Very Positive” (35,986 player reviews) on Steam.

The Escapist gave Loadout a rating score of 80 and wrote this bottom line in their review: "A surprisingly well crafted multiplayer shooter full of options, amusing cartoon violence, and rock solid action. That Loadout does all this, and provides a respectably balanced free-to-play ecosystem, is encouraging to see."

Hardcore Gamer rated the game a 9 out of 10 and wrote this closing comment: "It didn’t take me long to realize that Loadout wasn’t an ordinary shooter. It’s an amalgamation of sorts, melding comedy, cartoon violence and competitive multiplayer seamlessly. Edge of Reality seems to be well aware of the genres' over saturation, and contribute very little to the nimiety of mediocrity. Shooters may be all the craze now, but Loadout doesn’t take the challenge of being different sitting down — it stands, with a severed head and a badass rifle. There are few online-only experiences that offer such dynamic gameplay without developing some sort of genre-identity crisis. Hell, the fast-paced matches, alarmingly meaty weapon customization system, and visual hilarity are but a few of the features that make Loadout worth its weight in dismembered limbs. So why wait? There’s simply no better time to kill your friends than the present. Although the game modes may not be innovative, innovation doesn’t always spell fun, and that’s something Loadout has by the explosive crate-full."

PC Gamer gave the game a 77 and said in their review, “Loadouts gun customization and well executed twists on shooter staples make it a free-to-play game that doesn't feel like a compromise."

IGN gave Loadout a 69, stating in their review: “Loadout attempts to compete with Team Fortress 2 at its own game, and it performs admirably thanks to great weapon customization options, strong map design, and a generous free-to-play setup that charges mostly for cosmetics. But the matchmaking system is straight-up broken, leading to frequent frustrating mismatches, and its four maps aren’t enough to keep me around for long."

Game Modes
There are seven game modes: Death Snatch, Blitz, Jackhammer, Annihilation, and Extraction, Domination, and Campaign, most of which are based around collecting Blutonium, a fictional element.

Death Snatch
 Upon killing an enemy player, a vial of Blutonium will drop, which can be grabbed to add to the team's score.

Extraction
 Extraction is a game mode in which the first team to collect the most Blutonium wins. At the start of a match a player is designated as the Collector. Collectors travel around picking up Blutonium and depositing it in the provided baskets to increase their team's score. The Collectors are chosen randomly from the currently alive players.

Blitz
 The map is dotted with poles, and one is designated as a control point. Teams will compete for control of the point, as standing near it slowly raises a cream-colored pair of boxers, as well as taking down the enemy's boxers. When the boxers reach the top of the flag, the point is captured, and it is added to the team's score.

Jackhammer
 Jackhammer is a game mode similar to Capture the Flag, except the player can kill people with the flag. The goal is to take the enemy's hammer and return it to the player's base. When the enemy's hammer is in control, the player can smash people with it, killing them instantly. Each hammer has 5 smashes per capture. Capturing the hammer will add to the team's score.

Annihilation
 Annihilation is a game mode that combines elements from other game modes. The goal is to get a team score of 10,000. Several things can add to the team's score. Players drop Blutonium vials on death, similar to Death Snatch. The vials can be picked up to gain team score points. As well, there are two control points that can be captured to gain a temporary damage buff and add to the team score, similar to Blitz. There is also a Jackhammer, which can be captured and used to kill people. Adding to the team score will give the player a growing supply of personal Blutonium, which can be used to purchase upgrades for their character. There are three types of upgrades. The first is attack, which buffs one's amount of damage dealt, the second is Tank, which increases the amount of damage a player is able to withstand, and Health, which increases the healing that player can give to others and adds to the effectiveness of health packs. Once a team has reached 10,000 points, the team must take the enemy's hammer back to their base, and charge it. Then, the team must take the hammer back to the enemy's base, and smash it inside the base, destroying it, finally winning the match.

Domination
 Domination is a game mode where the player captures points, and each team starts at 0 points. Twenty points are awarded when a point is captured, and 5 per second while the point is captured. Each team must capture the point once it is captured by the other team. If there is a red arrow under the point at the top of the screen, the other team is capturing the point.

Campaign
 In the campaign, up to four players can play cooperatively through missions which are divided into about 5 or 6 “chapters”, each mission with its own goal. Many of these missions have to do with killing aliens known as "Kroads". Each mission will reward the player with different kind of loot, such as loot crates, Blutonium, Spacebux, and other things.

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title: Napoleon and Me

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Napoleon and Me (, , ) is a 2006 Italian-French-Spanish historical comedy-drama directed by Paolo Virzì. It is loosely based on the novel N. by Ernesto Ferrero.

Plot

In Portoferraio, island of Elba, young teacher Martino is fired over his criticism of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Then Napoleon is exiled to reign over tiny Elba.
He hires Martino as his secretary.

Cast

See also
 List of Italian films

References

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2006 films
Films based on Italian novels
Spanish comedy-drama films
2006 comedy-drama films
Films directed by Paolo Virzì
Depictions of Napoleon on film
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French comedy-drama films
2000s Italian films
2000s French films


title: John Dyegh

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John Dyegh (born 2 December 1962) is a Nigerian politician, businessman and philanthropist from Gboko, Benue State who serves as a member of the 9th Nigeria National Assembly, representing Gboko/Tarka Federal constituency at the House of Representatives of Nigeria. Dyegh previously served as a member of committee on Appropriations, Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Education, Gas Resources, Inter-Parliamentary Relations, Science and Technology in the 7th National Assembly.
He ran for the second term as a favourite candidate, bearing the flag of the All Progressives Congress and retained his seat, following the announcement of 28 March National Assembly Polls in the 2015 General Elections in which he polled 67,463 votes to defeat his challenger, Bernard Nenger of the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) with 26,329 votes. He ran for a third term on the platform of the All Progressives Congress and won. Dyegh is currently serving his 3rd term in the National Assembly and is the current House committee chairman on Human Rights.

Early life
John Dyegh was born at Gboko in 1962. He received elementary schooling at LGEA Primary School Gboko, earning First School Leaving Certificate before proceeding to Mbawuar Secondary School Ihugh in Vandeikya Local Government Area, for Senior Secondary School Certificate. He then studied at the Benue State University for both undergraduate and post-graduate degrees. John Dyegh obtained a Doctorate at the same institution, making him the first and the only House of Representatives Member to have represented a constituency with the highest educational qualification from Benue State, a record that is yet to be matched.

Political career
Dyegh garnered political prominence when he ran successfully on the platform of the then main opposition party in Nigeria –  the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) for the House of Representatives seat to represent Gboko/Tarka Federal Constituency. Despite running as an out of favour candidate, he polled overwhelming 85,917 votes to defeat rival, Barr. Tony Ijohor who ran under the umbrella of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but trailed Dyegh by 55,540 votes.

Widely regarded as one of the best performing members of the "Green Chamber" in Benue State, Dyegh enjoys overwhelming support and wider admiration for his speedy rural electrification initiatives, donating more than ten transformers to various communities and sinking over thirty boreholes as well as building classroom blocks in many primary and post-primary institutions of learning in his constituency within only three years in office. Dyegh is known for awarding scholarships to students of higher colleges thereby, ending scholarship drought among the students of college age in his constituency; he donates large sums of money to the poor, a quality that marks him out as a philanthropist. The politician is also credited for his unique ability in executing constituency projects, making him one of the most admired politicians of his generation in his constituency ahead of many others.

Dyegh has sponsored the Nigerian Electoral Offences Commission Bill, 2011. The bill seeks establishment of an Electoral Offenses Commission but received only its first reading on 7 February 2012.

On 20 March 2017, Dyegh accused the Federal Government of Nigeria for failing to protect human lives ahead of cows and other livestock in the country, claiming that some powerful Nigerians were frustrating the passage of the bill prohibiting open grazing pending before the House. Dyegh said this following wanton killing of the Tiv farmers by the Fulani herdsmen in his own state of Benue, with the Nigerian government failing to end the clashes. He cited the case of a bill sponsored by Senator Barnabas Gemade at the Senate to have suffered the same fate. He advised the government to be decisive in curbing the clashes between the herdsmen and farmers.

Controversy

In July 2016, the Commissioner of Public Complaints Commission in Benue State, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav called for the interrogation of Hon John Dyegh, the then Gboko Local Government chairman, Emmanuel Kwagba and Hon Terhemba Chabo of the Benue State House of Assembly over allegation of the destruction of some property belonging to a widow in Ikyumbur, Mbatiav, Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State. In a petition written by Adam Terkula Raphael, son of the widow, Eunice Adam, alleged that Hon John Dyegh and others aided the destruction of his mother's property which included houses, farm produce, a motorcycle and economic trees valued at ten million naira (N10,000,000). Raphael in his petition to the Public Complaints Commission stated that when Hon Dyegh was informed about the initial destruction of 160 lines of yams and cassava by Lagos, a political thug in Gboko and his gang, instead of coming to their aid, Dyegh mobilised the youths to cause further havoc. "He told the whole community that my mother is a very bad woman and they should go ahead and burn down her house",  "He described our house as the only home of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in his own kingdom, Mbatiav and that while he is from the APC nothing of PDP should exist in his own council ward," the petitioner also stressed that the lawmaker was "erroneously informed that my mother had named her dog after him."
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References

External links
Nassnig.org
Whoiswhonigeria.net

Members of the House of Representatives (Nigeria)
Living people
1962 births
People from Gboko
Nigerian businesspeople
Nigerian philanthropists


title: Little Girl Blue (2007 film)

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Little Girl Blue () is a 2007 Czech drama film written and directed by Alice Nellis. The film was awarded "Best Film" at the Czech Lion awards for 2007.

Cast
Iva Bittová as Julie
Karel Roden as Richard
Martha Issová as Cecílie
Miloslav König as Piano shopkeeper
Ivan Franek as Karele
Natálie Drabiscáková as Ardana
Kamila Vondrová as Denisa
Igor Chmela as Young Man
Miroslav Krobot as Gynaecologist
Sabina Remundová as Young Woman
Anna Šišková as Real estate agent
Doubravka Svobodová

References

External links

2007 drama films
2007 films
Czech Lion Awards winners (films)
Golden Kingfisher winners
Czech drama films
2000s Czech films


title: Supercondriaque

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Supercondriaque (also known as Superchondriac) is a 2014 French comedy film written and directed by Dany Boon.

Plot
Romain Faubert is a mature man who can never hide his hypochondriasis. Romain's fears are profitable for his doctor Dimitri Zvenka. Even so, Dimitri really wants to cure the patient who has no other friend than him. He feels that Romain's actual problem is his loneliness rather than anything else. He subsequently helps Romain in seeking an appropriate female companion, but after a great many futile attempts, he loses hope that Romain could ever succeed. In need of an alternative, he decides to take Romain with him when he goes to an eastern European refugee camp (refugees speak, in fact, distorted version of Russian, Ukrainian and Slovenian, where Dimitri sometimes works on behalf of a non-profit organisation. He believes the sight of people who are really suffering might bring Romain to his senses. Yet Romain finally finds the love of his life when he gets to know Dimitri's sister who confuses him with Anton Miroslav, a certain freedom fighter. The real Anton Miroslav has stolen Romain's ID and is hiding in the apartment of the hypochondriac.

Cast
 Dany Boon as Romain Faubert
 Alice Pol as Anna Zvenka
 Kad Merad as Dr. Dimitri Zvenka
 Jean-Yves Berteloot as Anton Miroslav
 Judith El Zein as Norah Zvenka
 Marthe Villalonga as Dimitri's mother
 Valérie Bonneton as Isabelle
 Bruno Lochet as Policeman in the service of the immigration bureau
 Jérôme Commandeur as Guillaume Lempreur
 Jonathan Cohen as Marc
 Vanessa Guide as Manon
 Marion Barby as Nina Zvenka
 Camille Chamoux as Dimitri's secretary
 Étienne Chicot as Professor

Reception
The film earned a total of  internationally. L'Obs called it "un succès fou" — a huge success — "despite the critics" and noted that it attracted more cinemagoers in its first week than any film since Nothing to Declare, Boon's 2010 hit.

See also
 List of French films of 2014

References

External links

2014 films
2014 comedy films
Belgian comedy films
French comedy films
2010s French-language films
Films about diseases and disorders
Films directed by Dany Boon
Films scored by Klaus Badelt
Films set in Europe
Films set in hospitals
Films set in a fictional country
Medical-themed films
French-language Belgian films
2010s French films
Films about hypochondriasis


title: Rosalinda Cauich Ramirez

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Rosalinda Cauich Ramirez (born February 24, 1962) is a Mexican artisan specializing in basket weaving. Her work has been recognized with various awards.

Cauich Ramirez was born in Kopchén, a small community 22 km southwest of Felipe Carrillo Puerto in the southeastern state of Quintana Roo. She received her first basket as a gift when she was seven, but began making them when she was ten. At that time, the municipality brought an instructor to the community to teach fiber arts, and she began making fruit bowls and round baskets with carrying handles. Her father encouraged her interest by collecting materials for her and helping with their preparation.

Today, she has a repertoire of over forty basic designs, which include baskets of various shapes and sizes, animal figures, fruit bowls, carrying bags, cradles, lamp bases, flower vases and more. She principally works with a plant called guaco, a fibrous, resistant climbing vine found in the higher altitudes in the Yucatan Peninsula, originally used by her community to create thatched roofs. There are eleven different species of guaco in Quintana Roo, with the most common called tendón de sapo in Spanish or chiicheních much in Maya. If the vine is tough, she boils it first to take the bark off and divide it into strips. She uses her hands to weave the vines but sometimes uses her feet for stability.

She has passed on her ability to her eight children, her nieces and nephews and her husband, Jacinto Mex Puc.  Her family depends on this activity economically, and her children participate in workshop activities among other activities.

The activity has allowed her to travel and meet other artisans in various parts of Mexico, as well as win various recognitions. She has won first place for pieces made for various crafts competitions, such as first place in the semi rigid fibers category at the 2011 Concurso Nacional de Fibras Vegetales organized by FONART. In 1996, she was named a Grand Masters by the Fomento Cultural Banamex, and in 2011 was named a “distinguished woman of Quintana Roo” by Governor Félix González Canto.

References

Mexican women artists
Basket weavers
Artists from Quintana Roo
1962 births
Living people
Women basketweavers


title: Ann Heinson

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Ann Heinson is an American high-energy particle physicist known for her work on single top quark physics.  She established and led the DØ Single Top Group which first published experimental observations of the top quark, and in 1997 she co-authored a paper which laid the foundations for further investigation into the top quark.

Early life and education
Heinson grew up in Billericay, S.E. England.  She earned both her B.Sc. in Physics (1984) and Ph.D. in High Energy Physics (1988, advisor Peter Dornan) from Imperial College.

Career and research
Heinson worked for the BBC's engineering research department before emigrating to California in 1989.  There, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Irvine on a rare kaon decay experiment E791 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1992, she began working on the DØ collaboration at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. She established and led the DØ Single Top working group from 1995 to 2009.  In 1997, she co-authored the paper "Single Top Quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron," which laid the conceptual foundations for the next decade of top quark experimental research. Under her leadership, the single top working group discovered the first evidence of single top quark production at Fermi Labs Tevatron. She retired in 2012.

Honors and awards
 American Physical Society's Woman Physicist of the Month (July 2012)
 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (December 2010)
 Fellow of the American Physical Society (November 2008)
 UC Riverside Distinguished Researcher Award for Non-Senate Faculty (September 2002)

References

American women physicists
British emigrants to the United States
Particle physicists
British physicists
21st-century American physicists
Alumni of Imperial College London
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Billericay
21st-century American women scientists
Fellows of the American Physical Society


title: Schwickart the Younger of Sickingen

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Schwickart the Younger of Sickingen () (–1478), also written Schweikart, Schweickart or Swicker, was an imperial knight and, from 1459, held the office of Amtmann (akin to a bailiff) in the  Electoral Palatine Amt of Bretten.

Family
Schwickart was the son of Schwickart VI of Sickingen (died before 1468) and Elisabeth Landschad of Steinach. He married Anna Spet of Zwiefalten, daughter of Albert Spet of Zwiefalten and Clara of Ehestetten. Their marriage produced a son, Conrad, who was appointed as advocate, or Vogt, of Bretten from 1504 to 1508.

Life
Schwickart of Sickingen came from an old Kraichgau aristocratic family. His duties as amtmann are recorded in a deed as follows: he is to vouchsafe legal protection for all the townsfolk and inhabitants of the Amt. He is also to provide escorts free of charge for all tradesmen, pilgrims and travellers on the "escort roads" (Geleitstraßen) - part of a law known as the Geleitrecht - and only accept voluntary donations in return. His income was 150 guilders and the use of ten morgens of pasture, a herb garden, wood and right to the "small tithe".

He died on 4 August 1478.

Literature
 Otto Beuttenmüller: Die Vögte im Oberamt Bretten. In: Brettener Jahrbuch, Vol. 5, 1972/73, pp. 89–96.
 Bernd Breitkopf: Die alten Landkreise und ihre Amtsvorsteher. Die Entstehung der Landkreise und Ämter im heutigen Landkreis Karlsruhe - Biographien der Oberamtmänner und Landräte von 1803 bis 1997, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, p. 21, .

1478 deaths
House of Sickingen
Imperial Knights
Year of birth missing


title: Amlatara

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Amlatara is a village in Bankura I Sub District in Bankura district, West Bengal, India.

Demographics
According to '2011 census of India', the village has a population of 863;
Males=457
Females= 406 .

References

Villages in Bankura district


title: Charles Holway

text:
Charles E. Holway (19 April 1885 – November 1975) was an American sprinter. At his peak at the beginning of the twentieth century, following his defeat of champion Australians Jack Donaldson and Arthur Postle, Holway was considered a world champion sprinter. He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and took to running at an early age. He became a professional in 1905, defeating a number of runners in the United States before travelling to England and Wales in 1908. In the latter, he won a national competition in Pontypridd. He took part in the World Sprint Championship in 1911, and his defeat of Postle later in his career was the first time the latter had ever been defeated. Described as "big chested" and "very heavy limbed", Holway's stride while ready in his starting position covered a distance of over .

References

American male sprinters
1885 births
1975 deaths
People from Attleboro, Massachusetts


title: Anandapur, Bankura

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Anandapur is a village in Bankura I Sub District in Bankura district, West Bengal, India.

Demographics
According to 2011 census of India, the village has a population of 42; 22 are male and 20 female.

References

Villages in Bankura district


title: 2014 Wyoming Cowboys football team

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The 2014 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cowboys were led by first year head coach Craig Bohl and played their home games at War Memorial Stadium. They were members of the Mountain Division of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 4–8, 2–6 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for fifth place in the Mountain Division.

Schedule

Schedule Source:

Personnel

Coaching staff

Roster

Box Scores

Montana

Air Force

At #2 Oregon

Florida Atlantic

At Michigan State

At Hawaii

San Jose State

At Colorado State

At Fresno State

Utah State

Boise State

At New Mexico

Statistics

Team

Offense

Defense

Key: SOLO: Solo Tackles, AST: Assisted Tackles, TOT: Total Tackles, TFL: Tackles-for-loss, SACK: Quarterback Sacks, INT: Interceptions, BU: Passes Broken Up, QBH: Quarterback Hits, FF: Forced Fumbles, FR: Fumbles Recovered, BLK: Kicks or Punts Blocked, SAF: Safeties

Special teams

Scores by quarter (all opponents)

References

Wyoming
Wyoming Cowboys football seasons
Wyoming Cowboys football


title: Nurse Love Syndrome

text:
is a yuri visual novel game developed by Kogado Studio's Shimarisu-san Team with the script writer being Sakusa Sakura. The series has an official abbreviated name of "ShiroKoi" using the first two kanji of the first two words of the whole title. The game is a visual novel about a girl named Kaori Sawai who was saved by hospital staff after an accident during her youth and decided to repay them by becoming a nurse at the age of 21. The story starts with Kaori starting her first day as a nurse at the hospital she would start working at and meet other people-some connected to her past.

Gameplay
Being a visual novel, the game offers little gameplay, with the player pressing a button to advance the narrative as they read and occasionally using a menu interface to select choices that affect the game's story and lead to different endings.

Release
The first release of the game was in 2011 exclusively for the PlayStation Portable. In 2012, an expanded version of the original game was released titled Hakuisei Ren'ai Shōkōgun RE:Therapy for Microsoft Windows and PSP featuring an extended storyline for the original main characters, and new character route additions for previously minor characters Yasuko and Ami, as well as a remake-exclusive character, a middle-school girl aged Mayuki. On April 19, 2019, a new version of Hakuisei Ren'ai Shōkōgun RE:Therapy was released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Vita and Nintendo Switch in Japan with improved character sprites and event scenes. The Windows and PlayStation Vita versions were released in English and Chinese simultaneously as Nurse Love Syndrome, published by Degica. The Nintendo Switch version was released in English on December 26, 2019.

A new game in the same series, , was released on PlayStation Vita on April 30, 2015, with a new cast of characters and art design. It was subsequently released for Microsoft Windows on December 25, 2015, and for Nintendo Switch on May 24, 2018.
Hakuisei Aijō Izonshō was in 2016 released in English and Chinese for Windows, and the following year on PlayStation Vita under the title Nurse Love Addiction, localizing the "White Robe" part of the series title to "Nurse", likely due to non-Japanese nurse uniform colors no longer being exclusively of white coloring.

Titled Nurse Love Obsession, a physical version containing both Nurse Love Syndrome and Nurse Love Addiction was published by Limited Run Games for the Nintendo Switch.

Reception
In a review for Digitally Downloaded, Matt S. said that Nurse Love Addiction "[represented] some of the sharpest, most subtle writing that [he'd] come across within the visual novel medium," but called its gameplay "primitive" due to the lack of a flowchart mechanic. Across two "playtests" of Nurse Love Syndrome for Silliconera, Alistair Wong considered the details of nurse life and writing quality in the game's common route to be "enthralling" but the romance routes to be a "mixed bag."

References

External links

2011 video games
Kogado Studio games
LGBT themes in fiction
LGBT-related video games
Medical video games
Nintendo Switch games
PlayStation Portable games
PlayStation Vita games
Romance video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in Kanagawa Prefecture
Visual novels
Windows games
Works about nursing
Yuri (genre) video games


title: Kuntz (disambiguation)

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Kuntz is a German surname.

Kuntz may also refer to:

 Kuntz Electroplating Incorporated, a surface finishing company
 Kuntz, former name of Mad River, California within Trinity County
 Kuntz Stadium, an outdoor soccer facility located in Indianapolis
 Marlene Kuntz, a rock band from Cuneo, Italy


title: Michel Twerski

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Michel Twerski (born May 1939) is an American Hasidic rabbi and composer of Jewish music. He currently heads the Beth Jehudah congregation in Milwaukee. He is the brother of the psychiatrist Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski. Rabbi Twerski is a descendant of the Chernobyler Hasidic dynasty. He is also known as the Hornosteipler Rebbe of Milwaukee.

Family
Rabbi Michel Twerski is married to Rebbitzin Feige Twerski, a Jewish author and lecturer.

Rabbi Michel Twerski is a son of Grand Rebbe Jacob Israel Twerski (1898–1973) of Hornosteipel of Milwaukee, Wisconsin a scion of the Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty, and Dvorah Leah Twerski (1900–1995), daughter of Grand Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam of Bobov. After his father's death, Rabbi Michel succeeded his father as Rebbe of Milwaukee.

Rabbi Michel Twerski is the brother of author, psychiatrist Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski of Israel, and the twin brother of Professor Aaron Twerski, the Irwin and Jill Cohen Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, as well as a former Dean at Hofstra University School of Law.

Children
Baila Geldzahler, wife of the late Rabbi Eliezer Geldzahler, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael in Canarsie.
Cookie Spitz.
Chana Malka Singer, married to R' Dovid Singer.
Yocheved Weiss.
Benzion Twerski, assistant rabbi of Congregation Beth Jehudah.
Ephraim Twerski, Rabbi of Khal Chassidim in Chicago.
Chumie Ausch
Chagi Katz, married to R' Chaim Mordechai Katz.
HaRav Yaakov Moshe Twerski, rabbi in Monsey.
Mordechai Twerski, rabbi in London.
BatSheva

Tributes
Thomas M. Barrett of Wisconsin gave a tribute to Rabbi Twerski in the United States Congress. Rabbi Twerski was honored for his contribution to Jewish life and to the world of music.

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra conducted a tribute honoring Rabbi Twerski's musical contributions.

References

External links
 Website
Blog
 Video recordings

Living people
Religious leaders from Milwaukee
American Hasidic rabbis
Descendants of the Baal Shem Tov
1939 births


title: Andharthaul

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Andharthaul is a village in Bankura I Sub District in Bankura district, West Bengal, India.

Demographics
According to 2011 census of India, the village has a population of 2,177; 1,128 are male and 1,049 female.

References

Villages in Bankura district


title: Ramifications (Ligeti)

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Ramifications is a composition for strings by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. It was finished in 1968 and premiered in 1969.

Composition and premiere

The composition is dedicated to Serge Koussevitzky and his wife, Natalia Koussevitzky and is meant to be a gift for the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress. The first version, for string orchestra, was premiered in Berlin on April 23, 1969. Michael Gielen conducted the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin on this occasion. The version for 12 soloists was premiered a few months later, on October 10, 1969, in Saarbrücken, with the Kammerorchester des Saarländischen Rundfunks under the baton of Antonio Janigro.

Analysis

The piece is in one movement that takes approximately eight minutes to perform. It is scored for an ensemble of 12 strings, split into two groups: Group I comprises four violins, one viola, and one cello; and Group II comprises three violins, one viola, one cello, and one double bass. Moreover, Group I is tuned a quarter tone higher (approximately A=453) than Group II, which is in standard tuning.

In addition, conventional barring is used merely for synchronization and does not function as a metric indicator. Accordingly, no stresses are made when performing the piece, and the piece is meant to be performed fluently and without discernible rhythm. The composition aims to sound as a heterogeneous, amorphous texture in which the two groups try to retune each other. Ligeti's intention was not to create microtonal music, but to create "mistuned music" instead. The performers are seated near to each other, so that the audience can listen to the music as if it is coming from only one source.

The composition is presented in two different versions: one for 12 soloists and one for a string orchestra. For the orchestra version, it is recommended that the instruments are distributed in a balanced manner. Only the orchestra version makes distinctions when performing tutti and solo parts. However, Ligeti himself preferred the version for soloists.

Notable recordings

Following are some of the most well-known recordings of this piece:

References

External links
A preview of the score

Compositions by György Ligeti
1968 compositions
Contemporary classical compositions
Music with dedications
Compositions for duodecet


title: Alan Zegas

text:
Alan L. Zegas (born October 28, 1952) is an American criminal defense attorney. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, received a Bachelor of Science degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, an MBA from The Harvard Business School in 1978, and a J.D. from Rutgers  School of Law-Newark in 1981.  He said that he became a lawyer to defend the “little, powerless person against the powerful forces of government.”

He has law offices in Summit, New Jersey. The New Jersey Monthly magazine named Zegas as one of the "50 Most Interesting People in NJ". He was Editor-in-Chief of the Rutgers Law Review between 1980 and 1981, and clerked for judge H. Lee Sarokin of the U.S. District Court between 1981 and 1983.

Notable cases
In 1989, Zegas represented one of the football players at Glen Ridge High School involved in the sexual assault of a developmentally disabled female student, the only defendant that was acquitted of all substantive sexual assault charges.

Zegas participated in the case of Kelly Michaels in the Wee Care Nursery School abuse trial. Although Michaels was initially prosecuted, the decision was overturned in 1993, after she had spent five years in prison. Zegas represented Michaels on her appeal before the New Jersey Supreme Court, which overturned her conviction.

In 1999, Zegas won the acquittal of David Ford, a teacher who was accused of molesting a dozen girls. Prosecutors had described Ford as a sexual predator while Zegas said he was the victim of hysteria and rumors.

Zegas won an acquittal for Victor Botnick, a chief aide of late New York Mayor, Edward Koch, in a federal prosecution for air piracy in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Zegas also represented former Newark Mayor, Sharpe James, in a federal prosecution in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

In 2017, Zegas represented David Wildstein, one of the principal defendants in "Bridgegate" or the George Washington Bridge Lane Closure Case.  Zegas obtained a probationary sentence for his client.

Fort Lee lane closure scandal

In 2014, Zegas became prominent in the Fort Lee lane closure scandal as legal counsel to David Wildstein, indicating that his client would offer to shed light on the scandal on the condition that he is given immunity from prosecution.

References

External links
Law Offices of Alan L. Zegas

1952 births
Living people
New Jersey lawyers
Lawyers from Newark, New Jersey
Rutgers School of Law–Newark alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni


title: Deborah Ajakaiye

text:
Deborah Enilo Ajakaiye  was born in 1940 in Plateau State in Northern Nigeria, and is a Nigerian geophysicist.  She is the first female physics professor in Africa and her work in geophysics has played an important role in mining in Nigeria.

Early life and education
Ajakaiye was born in 1940 in the city of Jos, the capital of Plateau State in the northern region of Nigeria.  She was the fifth of sixth children.  Her parents believed in equal education of the sexes and distributed household chores among both the male and female children. In 1962 she graduated from the University of Ibadan with a degree in physics.  She received a master's degree at the University of Birmingham in England, and in 1970 received her Ph.D. in geophysics from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. Originally interested in mathematics, Ajakaiye says she chose to pursue geophysics because she believed it could help her country.

Ajakaiye attended the Second International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists held in Cambridge in 1967. A picture of her at the conference banquet, alongside fellow Nigerian physicist Ebun Adegbohungbe, was published in The Woman Engineer's report of the conference in July 1967.

Career
Ajakaiye became the first female professor of physics in Africa in 1980. She has taught at Ahmadu Bello University and the University of Jos, serving as the dean of natural sciences at the latter.  Her work with geovisualization has been used to locate both mineral deposits and groundwater in Nigeria.  She has also created a gravity map of Nigeria, working with several of her female students. After retirement she devoted her time to a Nigeria-based charity, CCWA, which she had founded in 1991.

Awards
Ajakaiye has been recognized for both her scientific advancements and her aid to the nation of Nigeria.  The Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society honored her for her work, making her the first woman to receive the award.  She was also the first black African to be named a fellow of the Geological Society of London.

Books and Publications

 Course Manual and Atlas of Structural Styles on Reflection Profiles from the Niger Delta
 A Bouguer Gravity Map of Nigeria
 A Gravity Interpretation of the Liruei Younger Granite Ring Complex of Northern Nigeria

External Links

 https://twitter.com/glo_debo?lang=en
 https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-deborah-e-ajakaiye-phd-mni-2031bb19b/?originalSubdomain=ng
 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16105317
https://books.google.com/books?id=uPRB-OED1bcC&dq=Deborah+Enilo+Ajakaiye&pg=PP1

See also
 Timeline of women in science

References

Living people
1940 births
Nigerian geophysicists
Nigerian women geologists
Yoruba women scientists
Nigerian women scientists
University of Ibadan alumni
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Academic staff of Ahmadu Bello University
Yoruba women academics
Nigerian women academics
Academic staff of the University of Ibadan
Academic staff of the University of Jos
Nigerian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Yoruba people


title: Boussoit

text:
Boussoit () is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of La Louvière, located in the province of Hainaut,  Belgium.

External links

Former municipalities of Hainaut (province)
La Louvière


title: Daniil Tsyplakov

text:
Daniil Aleksandrovich Tsyplakov (; born 29 July 1992 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia) is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in the high jump.

Career
Born in Khabarovsk Krai, Tsyplakov's first international medal came at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics, where he cleared a personal best of  to take the bronze medal. He improved further at the 2009 European Youth Olympics, topping the podium with a jump of . He equalled his best to win the 2010 Russian junior title but had a poor showing at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, managing only 2.05 m. He jumped a best of  as the runner-up at the Russian junior championships the following year, but was one place off a medal at the 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships, taking fourth place. The highlight of his 2012 season was a personal best of  to take sixth place at the Russian Athletics Championships.

Tsyplakov made his first impacts in the senior ranks in the 2013 season. An indoor best of  brought him third at the Russian Indoor Championships. On the circuit he was second on count-back to Bohdan Bondarenko at the Moscow Challenge and came third at the Athletissima meet with a jump of . He secured a silver medal in the high jump at the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships, runner-up to Douwe Amels on count-back, and was third at the Russian Championships later that year.

A performance of  at the 2014 Russian Indoor Championships marked him in second place to Ivan Ukhov and earned him a spot for the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Major competitive record

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
People from Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Sportspeople from Khabarovsk Krai
Russian male high jumpers
FISU World University Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Russia
Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade
World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia
European Athletics Indoor Championships winners
Russian Athletics Championships winners


title: Ayesha Norrie

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Ayesha Norrie (born 29 March 1997) is an Australian football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Brisbane Roar. She has previously played for Melbourne Victory and Perth Glory in the Australian W-League. She has represented Australia on the under-17 and under-20 national teams.

Club career

Brisbane Roar, 2013–2016
Norrie signed with Brisbane Roar in 2013. She made her debut on 9 November 2013 in a match against Canberra United. She made six appearances for the team during the 2013–14 W-League season. Brisbane finished in fourth place during the regular season with a  record earning a berth to the playoffs.

Returning to the Roar for the 2014–15 W-League season, Norrie made eight appearances for the team. The Roar finished in sixth place during the regular season with a  record. Norrie made 11 appearances for the team during the 2015–16 W-League season. Brisbane finished in fourth place during the regular season with a  record and advanced to the playoffs. During the semifinal match against regular season champions Melbourne City, Brisbane was defeated 5–4 in a penalty kick shootout after 120 minutes of regular and overtime produced no goals for either side.

Melbourne Victory, 2016–2017
In October 2016, Norrie joined Melbourne Victory.

Brisbane Roar, 2017–2018
On 22 September 2017, Norrie returned to Brisbane Roar.

LA Galaxy OC, 2018–2019
In May 2018, Norrie joined United Women's Soccer expansion club LA Galaxy OC ahead of their inaugural season.

Perth Glory, 2019–2020
Norrie returned to Australia, joining W-League club Perth Glory.

Gold Coast United, 2020–2021
In July 2020, Norrie joined Gold Coast United.

Brisbane Roar, 2021–
In September 2021, Norrie returned once again to Brisbane Roar, as part of coach's Garrath McPherson push to rely on local talent.

International career
Norrie has represented Australia on the under-17 and under-20 national teams.

See also

References

Further reading
 Grainey, Timothy (2012), Beyond Bend It Like Beckham: The Global Phenomenon of Women's Soccer, University of Nebraska Press,
 Stewart, Barbara (2012), Women's Soccer: The Passionate Game, Greystone Books,

External links
 Brisbane Roar player profile
 Colorado Pride player profile

1997 births
Living people
Australian women's soccer players
Brisbane Roar FC (A-League Women) players
Melbourne Victory FC (A-League Women) players
A-League Women players
Women's association football midfielders
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Tree House (Le1f mixtape)

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Tree House is the third mixtape by American rapper and producer Le1f. It was released on Camp & Street on September 18, 2013.

Critical reception

Robert Whitfield of The 405 said, "On Tree House, and Le1f's other releases, he's consistently shown himself to be ahead of the rest of the rap scene musically and lyrically." Sean Delanty of Tiny Mix Tapes called the mixtape "an undeniably impressive statement by an increasingly vital voice in the independent hip-hop world."

Accolades

Track listing

References

External links

2013 mixtape albums
Leif (rapper) albums


title: 2014 Copa de la Reina de Baloncesto

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The Copa de la Reina de Baloncesto 2014 was the 52nd edition of the Spanish Queen's Basketball Cup. It is managed by the Spanish Basketball Federation – FEB and was held in Torrejón de Ardoz, in the Pabellón Jorge Garbajosa on February 22–23, 2014. Rivas Ecópolis was the host team. Perfumerías Avenida won its fourth Copa de la Reina title.

Venue

Qualified teams
Besides, Rivas Ecópolis who was designated host of the tournament, the other three top teams at the end of first leg of the LFB Regular Season, qualified for the

(H) Qualified as Host

Draw
The draw was held in Zamora on January 24, 2014.

Bracket

Semi finals

Final

References and notes

External links
 2014 Copa de la Reina official website
 Copa de la Reina official guidebook

2014
2013–14 in Spanish women's basketball
2013–14 in Spanish basketball cups


title: The Seven Swans

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The Seven Swans is a lost 1917 silent film fantasy starring Marguerite Clark. Famous Players Film Company produced and J. Searle Dawley directed.

Plot
Loosely based on The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen, Clark stars as Princess Tweedledee who later falls in love with Prince Charming. An evil witch, yearning to take over a kingdom, turns the Princess's brothers into swans. Moon Fairies vow to turn her brothers back to humans if she knits them seven robes and not speak to another human for a specified amount of time.

Cast
Marguerite Clark - Princess Tweedledee
William E. Danforth - The King
Augusta Anderson - The Wicked Queen
Edwin Denison - The Lord High Chancellor
Daisy Belmore - The Witch
Richard Barthelmess - Prince Charming
Richard Allen - Princess Tweedeldee's Brother
Jere Austin - Tweedeldee's Brother
Joseph Sterling - Tweedeldee's Brother
Frederick Merrick - Tweedeldee's Brother
Lee F. Daly - Tweedeldee's Brother
Stanley King - Tweedeldee's Brother
Gordon Dana - Tweedeldee's Brother

References

External links
The Seven Swans at IMDb.com
AllMovie.com
movie herald(archived)
stills(archived)

1917 films
American silent feature films
Films based on works by Hans Christian Andersen
Films directed by J. Searle Dawley
Paramount Pictures films
Lost American films
American black-and-white films
Silent American fantasy films
1910s fantasy films
1917 lost films
Lost fantasy films
Films based on fairy tales
Works based on The Wild Swans
1910s American films
1910s English-language films
Films about swans


title: Big Zeb

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Big Zeb (foaled 13 May 2001) is a retired, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in National Hunt racing and was best known for his performances in steeplechases over the minimum distance of two miles. He was slow to mature and made little impact in bumpers and hurdle races before being switched to chasing and winning the Swordlestown Cup Novice Chase in 2008. In the following season he won the Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase but fell twice in five races. He reached his peak in the 2009/2010 season when he won the Fortria Chase and the Tied Cottage Chase before defeating a strong field to win the Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival. He won the Fortria Chase and the Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase again in the next season and rebounded from a defeat in the Queen Mother Champion Chase to win the Punchestown Champion Chase. He won both the Fortria Chase and the Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase for a third time in the autumn of 2011 but developed injury problems and failed to win in his remaining five races. He was retired in January 2013, having won thirteen of his thirty-three races.

Background
Big Zeb is a bay horse with a large white star and white socks on his hind legs bred in Fermoy, County Cork by Lyle Buttimer. He was sired by Oscar, a horse who finished second to Peintre Celebre in the Prix du Jockey Club before becoming a leading sire of National Hunt horses. His other major winners have included Lord Windermere (Cheltenham Gold Cup), Rock On Ruby (Champion Hurdle), Oscar Whisky (Aintree Hurdle), Peddlers Cross (Baring Bingham Novices' Hurdle), Black Jack Ketchum (Sefton Novices' Hurdle) and At Fishers Cross (Spa Novices' Hurdle). Big Zeb's dam, Our Siveen, was bought by Buttimer for IR£7,500 in 1989 and produced thirteen foals before her death in 2007: Buttimer described Big Zeb as the "worst looking of the lot". Our Siveen was a great-granddaughter of Rififi, a broodmare whose other descendants included the leading Japanese racehorse Narita Brian.

As a three-year-old gelding, Big Zeb was sent to the Tattersalls Ireland sales in November 2001 where he was sold for 2,400 guineas. He entered the ownership of Patrick Joseph "Paddy" Redmond a hotelier and property developer based in Gorey, County Wexford. The gelding was trained throughout his racing career at Gorey by Colm Murphy.

Racing career

Early career
Big Zeb began his racing career competing in National Hunt Flat races, also known as "bumpers". He made his racecourse debut at Limerick Racecourse on 5 February 2006 when he started 9/4 favourite against thirteen opponents and finished second, two and a half lengths behind the winner Clopf. On his only other start of the season he was beaten two lengths by Captain Cee Bee in a bumper at Fairyhouse in April.

Big Zeb began the next season in a bumper at Fairyhouse, for which he was made odds-on favourite but finished third behind Judge Deed and Rebel Chief. After a break of more than four months, the gelding returned in a novice hurdle race at Fairyhouse on 10 March. Ridden for the first time by Barry Geraghty, he took the lead approaching the second last hurdle and drew clear in "impressive" fashion to win by twelve lengths from fifteen opponents. In the following month he was moved up in class for the Flogas Ireland Novice Hurdle at the Punchestown Festival and started 4/1 joint-favourite with Sizing Europe in a field of twenty-four. Big Zeb tracked the leaders in the early stages before moving into second place at the penultimate hurdle but was unable to make further progress and was beaten three and a half lengths by Sizing Europe.

2007/2008 National Hunt season
On his first appearance of the 2007/2008 season Big Zeb finished second, beaten thirteen lengths by Catch Me in a hurdle race at Fairyhouse on 1 December. He then began to compete in novice steeplechases, making a brief debut over the larger obstacles when he fell at the first fence Leopardstown on 29 December. Three days later at Fairyhouse he reappeared for a beginners' chase and started 11/4 joint-favourite in a field of twelve runners. Ridden by Davy Russell took the lead at the second last fence and went clear of his rivals to win easily by twelve lengths. Big Zeb fell at the first fence again at Gowran Park in January and was then moved up sharply in class for the Grade I Dr P. J. Moriarty Novice Chase. He led at the final fence but was overtaken and beaten five lengths by the French-bred five-year-old J'y Vole. The gelding started favourite for the Grade I Powers Gold Cup at Fairyhouse, but after leading for most of the race, he was caught in the closing stages and finished second to Conna Castle. On his final start of the season, Big Zeb faced both J'y Vole and Conna Castle in the Grade I Swordlestown Cup Novice Chase over two miles at the Punchestown Festival. Ridden by Geraghty, and starting at 4/1, he raced in third place before overtaking J'y Vole approaching the final fence. He drew clear of the field in the closing stages and won by four lengths from Thyne Again.

2008/2009 National Hunt season
After an eight-month break, Big Zeb returned in the Grade I Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet chase at Leopardstown on 27 December in which he was matched against more experienced opponents, including the former Champion Chaser Newmill. He was restrained in the early stages by his amateur jockey Matt "Strawberry" O'Connor before moving up do dispute the lead three fences from the finish. He established a clear advantage in the straight and held off the challenge of Watson Lake to win by half a length. After the race, Murphy said; "He was a store horse last year but he's far more the finished article this season. Physically he's more mature after some niggly muscle problems, but the lack of a run was a worry". Big Zeb failed to complete the course in his next two starts, falling at the last second when traveling well at Punchestown in February and falling four fences from the finish in the Queen Mother Champion Chase on his first visit to the Cheltenham Festival in March. He reverted to smaller obstacles in April and won a hurdle race at Fairyhouse. He ended his season at Punchestown two weeks later when he returned to steeplechasing for the Grade I Kerrygold Champion Chase in which he was matched against the French-bred six-year-old Master Minded, the winner of the last two runnings of the Queen Mother Champion Chase. Big Zeb tracked Master Minded throughout the race, survived a bad mistake at the last fence and made a strong challenge in the closing stages, failing by a head to catch the favourite.

2009/2010 National Hunt season
Big Zeb began his fifth season in November at Navan Racecourse when he carried top weight of 166 pounds on heavy ground in the Grade II Fortria Chase and won by half a length after Geraghty eased him down in the closing stages. Murphy was satisfied by the performance but said that the gelding would be "a stone better on better ground". In December he was sent to England and started favourite for the Grade I Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown Park Racecourse but appeared to be struggling just after half way and finished fourth of the five runners behind Twist Magic, Forpadydeplasterer and Well Chief. The horse was subsequently found to be suffering from ringbone although Murphy also admitted that he regretted running him so soon after his win at Navan. On his final race before the 2010 Cheltenham Festival Big Zeb was matched against the Paddy Power Chase winner Golden Silver in the Grade II Tied Cottage at Punchestown on 31 January. He took the lead four fences from the finish, went clear approaching the last, and won easily by seven lengths. Geraghty described the race as little more than a "strong schooling session".

On 17 March 2010, Big Zeb, ridden by Geraghty, started at odds of 10/1 for the Queen Mother Champion Chase against a field which included Master Minded (the 4/5 favourite), Twist Magic, Forpadydeplasterer, Well Chief and Golden Silver. He made a jumping error but recovered to track the leaders and moved into second place behind Forpadydeplasterer at the second last. He took the lead approaching the final fence and went clear on the run-in to win by six lengths from Forpadydeplasterer, with Kalahari King in third and Master Minded fourth. After the race Murphy said "He's had his bad days, and has made stupid mistakes, but everything has gone really well this year. Every day you live with the horse and for him do this is just magic" while Geraghty said "the horse had a good look around after the last and I thought he was going to pull up, but he found plenty when he needed to. I saw Master Minded coming but I had a lot left when I kicked for home". Commenting on the horses occasionally erratic jumping, Geraghty added "there's probably a fine line between being a great jumper and being a bit of an eejit".

2010/2011 National Hunt season
On his first appearance of the 2010/2011 National Hunt season, Big Zeb repeated his 2009 success by winning the Fortria Chase, beating Golden Silver by one and a quarter lengths. On 13 December Big Zeb was named Irish Horse of the Year at the Horse Racing Ireland awards, beating the Arkle Challenge Trophy winner Sizing Europe and the flat racers Cape Blanco, Rite of Passage and Pathfork. Two weeks later, he won the Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase for the second time, going three lengths clear at the last and holding off the challenge of Golden Silver to win by one and three quarter lengths with Scotsirish third and Captain Cee Bee last of the four runners.

As in the previous season, Big Zeb prepared for Cheltenham with a run in the Tied Cottage Chase. He took the lead three fence from the finish but was overtaken in the closing stages and beaten half a length by Golden Silver, with Sizing Europe seven lengths back in third. According to the Daily Express, Geraghty's ride was criticised by some observers who felt that he had gone to the front too soon. On 16 March he attempted to repeat his 2010 success in the Queen Mother Champion Chase and started the 3/1 second favourite behind Master Minded. He tracked the leaders before moving up to challenge Sizing Europe at the final fence but was outpaced on the run-in and finished second, five lengths behind the winner and four in front of Captain Cee Bee in third. At Punchestown in April Big Zeb, Sizing Europe and Captain Cee Bee met again in the Kerrygold Champion Chase, a race which also attracted Golden Silver and J'y Vole. As at Cheltenham, Big Zeb tracked Sizing Europe before challenging the leader at the final fence, but on this occasion he took the lead and held off the renewed challenge of his rival to win by three quarters of a length despite Geraghty dropping his whip 100 yards from the finish.

2011/2012 National Hunt season
Robbie Power took over from Geraghty as Big Zeb's regular jockey for the 2011/2012 National Hunt season. In November, the gelding began the new season by winning the Fortria Chase for the third time, taking the lead three fences from the finish and beating Noble Prince by two lengths with Forpadydeplasterer a head away in third. In the following month he attempted to win a third Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase and started 8/11 favourite against Noble Prince, Golden Silver, Forpadydeplasterer and Scotsirish. Big Zeb was settled behind the leaders before making his challenge at the last fence and overtaking Noble Prince on the run-in to win by one and a quarter lengths. After the race, Murphy commented "even at ten, he still has loads of pace. He met the last two fences spot-on, when it was needed, and won well."

In the Tied Cottage Chase in February, Big Zeb proved no match for Sizing Europe, who won easily by fifteen lengths. At Cheltenham in March he contested his third Queen Mother Champion Chase and started 13/2 third favourite in a field of eight runners. He moved into third place at the fourth fence and maintained that position throughout, finishing third, beaten one and a quarter lengths and fifteen lengths by Finian's Rainbow and Sizing Europe. He ended his season by finishing third behind Sizing Europe and Realt Dubh in the Punchestown Champion Chase in April.

2012/2013 National Hunt season
In November 2012, Big Zeb attempted to win the Fortria Chase for the fourth time, but was beaten seven lengths into second place by the seven-year-old Flemenstar. In the Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase a month later he was never in contention and finished fourth, twenty-six behind the winner Sizing Europe.

In January 2013, Murphy announced that Big Zeb had failed to recover from joint problems and would be retired from racing, saying that "the decision was made for us. We gave him a bit of time, but he still hadn't responded to treatment so we are retiring him for his own sake. He has been so good to us so it's the right thing to do."

Pedigree

References

2001 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Ireland
Racehorses trained in Ireland
Cheltenham Festival winners
Thoroughbred family 13-a


title: Marsha Berger

text:
Marsha J. Berger (born 1953) is an American computer scientist. Her areas of research include numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and high-performance parallel computing. She is a Silver Professor (emeritus) of Computer Science and Mathematics in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. She is Group Leader of Modeling and Simulation in the Center for Computational Mathematics at the Flatiron Institute.

Berger was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for developing adaptive mesh refinement algorithms and software that have advanced engineering applications, especially the analysis of aircraft and spacecraft.

Education
Berger received her B.S. in mathematics from State University of New York at Binghamton-Harpur College in 1974. She went on to receive an M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1978 and 1982, respectively.

Career and research
Berger's research includes high-performance parallel computing, numerical analysis, and computational fluid dynamics. Specifically she develops software and engineering applications for the spacecraft and aircraft industries. Berger worked at Argonne National Laboratory as a scientific programmer after graduating from SUNY. Her specific duties included developing models for the Energy and Environmental Systems Division. During her time at Stanford, she became associated with the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. After graduating with her Ph.D., she began working at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, first as a postdoc, then as a faculty member. Berger has served as the deputy director of the Courant Institute and still serves as an educator at NYU. She has been a visiting scientist at RIACS/NASA Ames Research Center from 1991 to present.

Berger has pioneered the technique of adaptive mesh refinement which is used in the numerical solution of systems of partial differential equations (PDEs). Her work includes high-performance software and algorithmic innovations and has inspired significant work worldwide. Berger is also known for contributions to Cartesian mesh finite difference methods for numerical PDE's.

Awards and recognition

 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1988
 National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women, 1991
 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2000.
 NASA Software of the Year Award for Cart3D, 2002
 IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award, 2004
 Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2005.
 Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2009
 Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011
 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, 2018

See also
 Adaptive mesh refinement

References

1953 births
Living people
American women computer scientists
American women mathematicians
American computer scientists
Harpur College alumni
New York University faculty
Stanford University alumni
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
21st-century American women scientists
20th-century American women scientists
Silver professors


The 2013 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics took place on May 24–26, 2013.  The event was held at the Estadio Nacional in San José, Costa Rica.  Organized by the Central American Isthmus Athletic Confederation (CADICA), it was the 26th edition of the Junior (U-20) and the 21st edition of the Youth (U-18) competition.  A total of 83 events were contested, 20 by junior boys, 21 by junior girls, 21 by youth boys, and 21 by youth girls.  A total of 22 new championship records were set.  Overall winner on points was Costa Rica.

Medal summary
Complete results can be found on the CADICA and FECOA webpages.

Junior

Boys (U-20)

†: Event without points for team score.

Girls (U-20)

†: Event without points for team score.

Youth

Boys (U-18)

Girls (U-18)

†: Event without points for team score.
‡: This year, a 500g javelin (rather than 600g as before) was used.

Medal table (unofficial)

Team trophies
The placing table for team trophy awarded to the 1st place overall team (boys and girls categories) was published.

Overall

Boys

Junior (U-20)

Youth (U-18)

Girls

Junior (U-20)

Youth (U-18)

Participation
A total number of 247 athletes and 43 officials were reported to participate in the event.

 (89)
 (35)
 (37)
 (14)
 (26)
 (46)

References

International athletics competitions hosted by Costa Rica
Central American Junior and Youth Championships
Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics
Sport in San José, Costa Rica
21st century in San José, Costa Rica
2013 in youth sport


title: Russian Foreign Services

text:
The Russian Foreign Services  is a complex of measures, carried out by specialized companies to help integrate Russians into their new society,  to give wide-ranging support to the Russian citizens while they are abroad. Assistance is provided to ensure comfortable stay of Russian-speaking citizens abroad, through offering the information support during transportation, transfer, accommodation in hotels, organization of excursions, providing concierge services and resolving domestic problems.

History of the question

Every year the passenger traffic of Russian citizens increases for various reasons. During 2013, with different goals around 42.6 million Russians left the country. This value is 14% higher than in 2012. Trips abroad have a tourist character, and also are linked to employment, education and business trips, visits of relatives.
In case of organized tours responsibility for the safe and comfortable stay of people abroad lies on tour operator, but in the case of individual business or friendly trips a person remains with problems alone.
Insufficient knowledge of foreign languages makes uncomfortable staying of Russians abroad. According to official documents slightly more than half of the population of Russia knows foreign languages,  33% of this number on initial level of language proficiency and only 5% speak fluently.
To solve the problems related to  stay Russians abroad  the group of specialized government and private services created.

Embassies of Russian Federation
Embassies of Russian Federations are parts of Russian Foreign Diplomatic Missions subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Embassy of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to the Embassy) is a public government service, which organizes the representation of Russian Federation in foreign countries. According to the main document  embassies serve as representation of the Russian Federation in the state of residence;
ensuring the national interests, the implementation of foreign policy of the Russian Federation in the state of residence;
execution of orders of the President of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation, Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia, as well as agreed with the foreign Ministry of Russia and other Federal structures, enterprises, institutions and organizations.

Foreign trade and economic missions
Foreign trade and economic missions subordinate the Russian Chamber of Commerce and defined as set of measures aimed to establishment and development relations with foreign countries to improve  economic potential of Russia and its regions. The goal of the mission is assistance to Russian entrepreneurs, producers and exporters in the promotion of industrial products, goods and services for foreign markets, providing cooperation between the countries in trade, investment, as well as all types of cooperatives. The mission assists in the organization of congresses and exhibitions and fairs.
Missions can be representatives of regional Russian Chamber of Commerce and their enterprises and organizations, unions and associations of Industrialists and entrepreneurs.

Russian Foreign Cultural Centers
Russian foreign cultural centers subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and exist according to the Article 18 of the Fundamentals of Russian Legislation.
According to this law named "Rights to cultural activities in foreign countries" citizens of Russian Federation shall have the right to carry out cultural activities in foreign countries, to create a cultural institution in the territory of other states, if the latter does not contradict the laws of those countries. Russian Cultural Centers are resource centers that provide access to a broad range of learning materials and popular science information from Russia. Most important function of centers as an educational system facilitating the study of Russian language and culture based on progressive methodology and programs.
Russian Centers look like platforms providing the opportunity to organize artistic performances, academic discussions and informal gatherings of representatives of various cultural groups. Traditionally Russian Cultural Centers are equipped with print, audio and video materials from Russia organized into the following categories:  Culture and Art; Science; Education; Russian Language; History; Society; and Contemporary Russia

Consular centers
Consular center provides civil attitude of the Russian Federation and foreign countries, protection of rights and legitimate interests of the Russian Federation, its citizens and legal entities abroad. These centers are coordinated by the Consular Department of the Structural Unit of the Central apparatus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Today consular activity is providing in 239 consular institutions. In the early 90s Russia created the institution of honorary consuls, which is also an effective mechanism of protection of Russian citizens. In current time there are about 105 of the honorary consuls of the Russian Federation.
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Consular officers carry out notarial actions, registration of Vital records acts, protect the rights of Russian citizens abroad, shall take appropriate actions to guarantee safety of citizens in emergency situations, can organize centralized evacuation of people from the country.

Private Foreign Services
The help provided by Russian diplomatic missions  abroad is minimal and it is given only after the registration in the Consulate and the submission of the list of the documents. It comes down to the issue of different documents and to the fulfillment of notarial operations. Russian citizens can also get support in returning to the motherland, but only in the exceptional situation when they are deficient of the means for living. So in the majority of cases people have to solve themselves their troubles when some complicated domestic  situations and problems arise (the use of the public transport, currency exchange, the purchase of medicine,  ignorance of local laws and traditions, the loss of the luggage, etc.).  Even small domestic problems that can be easily solved in the native country can become extreme for compatriots living in a foreign country and can result not only in financial and time losses, but moral harm as well.
Till 2014 there was no unified information service that was aimed to provide regular 24-hour support to Russian citizens in any place of the globe. Only few companies and societies that exist in the Russian tourist market solve this matter. Among such companies are information "Service of continents", "Wellcare" service, IP-Travel. Such companies operate in the field of tourism collaborating with tourist agencies and tour operators. Problems that can occur during the trip abroad vary a lot and depend on the activity of multiple participants who create a tour product. Any step of the trip is influenced by different factors and companies have to deal not only with matters connected with transportation and accommodation of a tourist in a country abroad and organization of excursions. It’s inevitable that difficulties in communication with officials and commercial bodies or local citizens arise, and it’s connected with the ignorance of laws and traditions of the other country and a language barrier. The cases of injuries, illness and accidents are not rare and it’s not possible to predict them and it’s rather difficult for a person to cope with such a case all alone. The support of the service companies becomes invaluable. But it must be noted that the range of citizens going abroad is not limited to only tourists. Russians go abroad for various reasons, and regardless of the aim of the arrival abroad, a person will initially need help and support. That’s why special attention is paid to the service companies that provide comprehensive support of a Russian-speaking citizen in every step of  stay in a new country.

References

Society of Russia


title: Ogunode

text:
Ogunode is a surname of Nigerian origin. Notable people with the surname include:

Femi Ogunode (born 1991), Nigerian-Qatari sprinter
Tosin Ogunode (born 1994), Nigerian-Qatari sprinter, brother of Femi

Surnames of Nigerian origin


title: Julia Lee Niebergall

text:
Julia Lee Niebergall (15 February 1886 – 19 October 1968) was a musician and ragtime era composer.

Early life and education

Niebergall was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to a family of musicians. Her father played double-bass, her sister piano, and her brother percussion. Herself a pianist, she played at public events, as an accompanist for silent movies. and for ballet and gym classes. She also taught music at a high school.

Career

She is credited with but six musical compositions, two of which—Hoosier Rag and Red Rambler Rag—achieved popular success.  She was a friend of May Aufderheide, one of the most popular female ragtime composers, who also lived in Indiana, and whose father published several of Niebergall’s compositions.

Niebergall reportedly supported herself as a musician and teacher until her death.

Compositions
 Clothilda (1905)
 Hoosier Rag (1907)
 Bryan Cocktail (1908)
 When Twilight is Falling (1909)
 Horseshoe Rag (1911)
 Red Rambler Rag (1912)

References

External links
 Hoosier Rag, played by John Remmers
 Red Rambler Rag, played by Jack Bradshaw
 Horseshoe Rag, played by Nora Hulse
 Red Rambler Rag sheet music
 Hoosier Rag sheet music
 Horseshoe Rag sheet music
 Clothilda sheet music

1886 births
1968 deaths
American ragtime musicians
Ragtime composers
20th-century American women musicians