title: Thomas Praytor

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Thomas "Moose" Praytor IV (born February 28, 1990) is an American professional stock car racing driver who currently competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 9 Chevrolet for his family team, Max Force Racing.

Racing career

Praytor started racing at eight years old in a borrowed yard kart from a family friend. He quickly progressed from karts to Bandoleros, where Praytor would drive one that was sponsored by The Outdoor Channel. He later began racing late models, running in the Southeast and picking up three US Army Rookie of the Year titles, local and state titles. Praytor and the Max Force Racing team earned the Ironman Status of the Gulf Coast competing in every Pro and Super Late Model Race at Mobile International Speedway and Five Flags Speedway while finishing in the top 10 of the Championship standings at both tracks.

Praytor made his first ARCA Racing Series start at the inaugural ARCA Mobile 200 at the Mobile International Speedway in 2012. He made later starts at Talladega Superspeedway and also saw starts with Venturini Motorsports. In the 2013 season, Praytor ran for rookie of the year as it was his first full season in ARCA. He drove the No. 2 Ford/Chevrolet for Hixson Motorsports and finished the season ninth in points and also earning the HG Adcox Sportsmanship Award. Returning to the Hixson No. 2 in 2014, Praytor acquired sponsorship DK-LOK Fittings and Valves and ended the season eighth in points. Praytor was also named the Hard Charger Driver after the Herr's Chase the Taste 200 in Winchester. For the 2015 season, Praytor and his father Tommy started their team, Max Force Racing, which fielded the No. 9 DK-LOK Ford for Praytor, who would finish ninth in points. The team was named in memory of Thomas's brother Max, who died in June 2001.

Praytor statistically had his best season in 2016. Competing in all 20 events and earning 4 top-10 finishes, he went on to finish 5th in season points. The following year, Praytor dropped to seventh in points, not earning a top-10 that year but still having a consistent season overall.

In 2018, the team would cut back their schedule, only running the first four races before taking a break. The team would return to field their No. 9 car for Jesse Iwuji at Chicago. Additionally, the Max Force team entered a second car at Daytona, the No. 99, for Ronnie Osmer. Their only races in 2019 came at Talladega, where Praytor would finish 20th in the race. Their next race would not come until Daytona in 2020, where it was later revealed that they took most of the 2019 season off so Praytor could spend time with his newborn son, (Hugh) Thomas Praytor V.

Personal life

Praytor was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, and is the son of local realtor and owner of Praytor Realty, Thomas ("Tommy") Praytor III, who also used to drive racecars.

Praytor is nicknamed "Moose". The name derived from one of Praytor's first cars being sponsored by The Outdoor Channel and featuring a giant Moose coming out of the rear wheel well. When that paint scheme was run, the name "Thomas" above the window net on the car was changed to "Thomoose", which was later shortened to "Moose" and the nickname stuck. Every car Praytor has driven since then has had "Thomoose Praytor" above the window net.

Praytor is a weekly host on the Inside ARCA Racing radio show on WNSP, a station in his home state of Alabama. Praytor's segment, the "Moose Call", is named after his nickname.

In 2008, Praytor's team had a car for sale, which led to a partnership with Warner Brothers Pictures for the film series Final Destination fourth installment, The Final Destination. Filmed at Mobile International Speedway, Praytor and fellow driver David Ellis worked as stunt drivers for the film.

During the 2013 season, Praytor joined up with Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback A. J. McCarron to design a McCarron replica helmet; Praytor wore the helmet at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega, after which it was donated to the Alabama Institute of the Deaf and Blind to benefit the annual Race Fever Action.

On May 9, 2022, it was revealed that Praytor was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis. On lap 5 of the 2022 General Tire 200, Praytor lost movement in his left arm and leg. He would drive with his right hand, until the red flag came out with 10 laps to go. He went through a driver change, with Sean Corr taking over his car for the remaining 10 laps. Medical personnel removed Praytor from the car, where he was transported to the infield care center. He had flu-like symptoms just a few days prior to the race.

Motorsports career results

ARCA Menards Series
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

 Season still in progress
 Ineligible for series points

References

External links

Living people
ARCA Menards Series drivers
1990 births
Racing drivers from Alabama
Sportspeople from Mobile, Alabama


title: Thomas Hou

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Thomas Yizhao Hou (born 1962) is the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work in numerical analysis and mathematical analysis.

Academic biography
Hou studied at the South China University of Technology, where he received a B.S. in Mathematics in 1982.
He completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1987
under the supervision of Björn Engquist.
His dissertation was titled Convergence of Particle Methods for Euler and Boltzmann Equations with Oscillatory Solutions.
From 1989 to 1993, he taught at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
at New York University. He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1993. He became the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics in 2004.

Research
Hou is known for his research on multiscale analysis and singularity formation of the three-dimensional incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. He is an author of the monograph Multiscale finite element methods. The multiscale finite element method developed by Hou and his former postdoc, Xiao-Hui Wu, was one of the earliest multiscale methods and has found many applications from the engineering community. A variant of his method has been adopted by several major oil companies in their new generation of flow simulators. Hou has worked extensively on computational and analytical aspects of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. In 2014, Hou and his former postdoc, Guo Luo, presented convincing numerical evidence that the axisymmetric Euler equations develop finite time singularity from smooth initial data. In 2022, Hou and his former Ph.D. student, Jiajie Chen, made a breakthrough by proving the finite time singularity of the axisymmetric Euler equations with smooth data and boundary (the so-called Hou-Luo blowup scenario). Hou’s recent work on the potentially singular behavior of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations has also generated a lot of interests.

Hou is also known for his work in computational fluid dynamics. His early work on the convergence of the point vortex method for incompressible Euler equations was very surprising and considered as a breakthrough. The level set method developed by Hou and co-workers was the first level set method for multiphase flows and has found many applications. The Small-Scale Decomposition method developed by Hou-Lowengrub-Shelley was considered a tour de force for fluid interface problems and has been used widely in computational fluid dynamics, materials science, and biology.

Hou was cofounder of SIAM Journal on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, and he served as the editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2007. He was also cofounder of Advances in Adaptive Data Analysis.

Awards and honors
Hou has won several major awards. He received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 1990.
He was awarded the Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing in 1997 and the Francois Frenkiel Award from the American Physical Society in 1998. He received the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2001, the Computational and Applied Sciences Award from the United States Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM) in 2005, the Outstanding Paper Prize from SIAM in 2018 and the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize from SIAM in 2023. He was an invited speaker at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin,
and he was a plenary speaker at the 2003 International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Sydney.

Hou has also been inducted into several scholarly societies.
He was elected Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009.
He was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2011.
He was elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 2012.

References

External links
 Thomas Y. Hou professional home page

1962 births
Living people
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
South China University of Technology alumni
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
California Institute of Technology faculty
20th-century American mathematicians
Chinese mathematicians
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
21st-century American mathematicians


title: Small Drum Corps Association

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Small Drum Corps Association (SDCA), was founded in 2007 to develop venues for smaller drum and bugle corps to perform and compete.

About
SDCA provides venues for smaller drum corps to perform and potentially compete. The association welcomes concert and parade-only corps, as well as active members of Drum Corps International or Drum Corps Associates. Membership is open, meaning any group that performs at a hosted event is considered a member of the association. Drum lines, color guards and marching bands are not excluded.

Sanctioned events are often hosted in conjunction with community events, such as parades and festivals. Emphasis is placed on audience engagement and entertainment. Scoring, if available, features spectator input.

Like DCI and other associations, SDCA pays appearance fees to participating groups.

See also
 Drum Corps Associates
 Drum Corps International
 Mid-America Competing Band Directors Association

References

External links

Drum and bugle corps

2007 establishments in the United States


title: Feedbin

text:
Feedbin is an open source feed reader. It is a web application which can be self hosted on a web server or used through a paid subscription. It has an Android client based on News+.

References

External links

Free software programmed in Ruby
Cross-platform free software
News aggregators


title: Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress – Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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The following is a list of Teen Choice Award winners and nominees for Choice Movie Actress – Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Formally awarded as two separate categories in 2010: Choice Movie Actress – Sci-Fi and Choice Movie Actress – Fantasy.

Winners/Nominees

2010s

References

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Actress
Awards for actresses


title: Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt

text:
Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt, Sr., is a historian. He has been a professor at the University of Iowa since 1975.

For most of his academic career, he has focused his research and writing on the historical mystery: "the end of shorter hours,” asking why after over a century of steady work reductions, during which work hours were cut nearly in half, shorter hours were considered an essential part of human progress, and most people (including John Maynard Keynes) expected the process to continue, did working hours stop getting shorter and the dream of increasing free time disappear?

With writers such as Joseph Pieper and Hannah Arendt, he has also explored the “rise of the world of total work”— the unique modern glorification of work as a modern crypto-religion.

He is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and books, including Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work (1987, Temple, see NY Times book review,
Washington Post review); Kellogg's Six-Hour Day (1995, Temple, see NY Times book review) Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream (2013, Temple, see short review, NY Times), The Age of Experiences: Harnessing happiness to Build a New Economy (Temple, 2020, Foreword by Joe Pine).

Hunnicutt is a member of the Academy of Leisure Sciences and past co-director of the Society for the Reduction of Human Labor. Professor Hunnicutt received his MA and PhD in American History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  He has served as chair of Leisure Studies and head of the Division of Physical Education at the University of Iowa. He has worked as a consultant to unions and businesses interested in shorter work hours and the potential of leisure to improve the community and workplace.

Hunnicutt has written for The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Salon, and the Huffington Post, and appeared in a variety of nationally and internationally broadcast television and radio programs including: ABC News, NBC News, PBS, the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations, the Today Show, the Charlie Rose Show, and appeared in the PBS special, “Running Out of Time” and the German documentary, “Frohes Schaffen - Ein Film zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral”.

Recent international interest in alternative work schedules (4-day, and thirty-hour weeks), has renewed and broadened interest in his work – see Salon.

See also the profile article about his scholarship and career, published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct 20, 2014.

Works

 Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work (1988)
 Kellogg's Six-Hour Day (1996)
 Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream (2013)
 The Age of Experiences: Harnessing Happiness to Build a New Economy (2020)

References

 http://www.chronicle.com/article/Time-to-Imagine/149395

University of Iowa faculty
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
American male non-fiction writers


title: RX1

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RX1 may refer to:

 Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1 digital compact camera
 RX1, FIA rallycross racing category


title: Dead Men Ride

text:
Dead Men Ride (, ) is a 1971 Italian-Spanish Spaghetti Western film directed by Aldo Florio.

Cast

References

External links

Spaghetti Western films
1971 Western (genre) films
1971 films
Spanish Western (genre) films
Films scored by Bruno Nicolai
1970s Italian-language films
1970s Italian films


title: Daada

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Daada is a 1988 Indian Kannada-language film,  directed by P. Vasu and produced by R. K. Manik Chand. The film stars Vishnuvardhan, Geetha, Suparna and Sangeetha. The musical score was composed by Vijay Anand.

Cast

Vishnuvardhan as Ganga alias Daada and Gururaj
Geetha
Suparna Anand as Press Officer Sudha
Sangeetha as Seetha
K. S. Ashwath as Senior Daada
Pandari Bai as Daada's mother
Ramesh Bhat as Krishna
Devaraj as Micheal
Avinash as Gopi
Sudarshan
Mysore Lokesh as Raja
Balakrishna
Sundar Krishna Urs
Doddanna
Lohithashwa
Shanimahadevappa
Lakshman

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Vijay Anand.

References

External links

1988 films
1980s Kannada-language films
Films directed by P. Vasu


title: Stoddard King

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Stoddard King (August 19, 1889 – June 13, 1933) was an American author and songwriter.

Biography
King was born on August 19, 1889, Jackson, Wisconsin to Louis Andrew King and his wife, Clara Viola (Stoddard) King.  At a young age, King and his family moved to Spokane, Washington, where his father acted as a freight agent for the Spokane International Railway. In 1907, King began to work for The Spokesman-Review. The owner, William H. Cowles encouraged King to apply to Cowles alma mater, Yale University, and loaned the King family money for the tuition. While attending Yale, King was an editor of the Yale Record and managing editor of the Yale Daily News, and a member of the Elizabethan Club and Skull and Bones, while continuing to write for The Spokesman-Review. King became a very popular writer for magazines across the nation. Some of his best known pieces are “What the Queen Said” and “The Raspberry Tree”. People often liked King’s writing because of the humor he added to it. People also liked King because he was gentle, loving, sane, dignified, and friendly.

During his time at Yale, King also helped write the song “There's a Long Long Trail A-Winding”. The song ended up being one of King’s best-known works and even became a World War I anthem. Not only could King write well, he was also very smart. He graduated from Yale as eighth in his class. After college, King began working for Harper’s Weekly as an associate editor. He also served in the National Guard during World War I. In 1914, King joined the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), after he had worked with Alonzo Elliot and composed other songs such as “There’s A Wee Cottage On The Hillside” and “Enchanted River”. Although known for many things, King still preferred to be recognized as a columnist for The Spokesman-Review. He eventually returned to Spokane, where he died on June 13, 1933, at forty-three years of age.

Literature and literacy criticism
King was a poet, humorist and columnist. As a humorist, his work is uncommon because it comes from the West. His work can be categorized with other notable humorists such as Mark Twain and Eugene Field, although they came from Missouri.  Also, his style is unlike classic humorists of European literature, although he drew influence from them.

King’s poetry while writing daily as a columnist for the Spokane Spokesman-Review consistently reflects his comic sensibility. However, his work cannot be solely deemed humorous, for many of his poems have outstanding merit. An example are his volumes of poetry that were published in New York and written in rhyme and meter. Highly esteemed poet Vachel Lindsay confirms the quality of King’s poems, saying:

“Stoddard, the King of the revels of Spokane, is a jester of royal descent. He is to be compared to Falstaff, in the taverns, to Touchstone in the Forest of Arden. He is the grave digger in Hamlet, the porter listening to the gate in Macbeth. He is like the jester in King Lear, faithful to Cordelia. He is like Ariel, in the Tempest. Ninety of the pieces in his book are royal wit, and nine of them are big poems."

His publicity agent Lee Keedick was another advocate for the undeniable quality of King’s work. Not only does he discuss his work but also his in-person presentation of it. “His appearance in a lecture tour will enable his hearers to get the best possible presentation of his carefully fashioned verses, for he reads his own poetry with the inimitable style of a born actor.”

Literature and songs
 What the Queen Said, and Further Facetious Fragments (1924)
 Ballad of the Spirit of Christmas (1926)
 Grand Right and Left (1927)
 Listen to the Mocking-Bird (1928)
 The Raspberry Tree, and Other Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1930)
 Pioneer Daze (1930)
 "There’s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding"
 "There’s a Wee Cottage on the Hillside"
 "Enchanted River"
 "Oh Oh Abdullah"
 "Roll Along, Cowboy"
 "Tiddedidee-o"

References

Writers from Spokane, Washington
1889 births
1933 deaths
Songwriters from Washington (state)
Yale University alumni


title: Sports School Zenit Boyarka

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Sports School Zenit Boyarka () is a Ukrainian sports school located in city of Boyarka that was fielding its association football team Zenit at the Ukrainian national amateur competitions in 2008 and 2009 as well as the 2009–10 Ukrainian League Cup.

It sometimes is being confused with another professional FC Inter Boyarka which folded the same year when Zenit appeared in the city. The club moved to Boyarka in 2007 from a town of Volodarka.

External links
 Sports School Zenit Boyarka 1–5 FC Ros Bila Tserkva (ДЮСШ #Зеніт Боярка 1-5 ФК #Рось Біла Церква ). FC Ros Bila Tserkva website. 14 November 2015.

Sport schools in Ukraine
Football clubs in Boyarka


title: Rod Tafoya

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Rod Tafoya is currently an Indy Ball player at 57 years old. He has a lifetime ERA of 7.68 according to his profile on Baseball Reference. He was signed in April 2014 by the Alpine Cowboys and coach Ryan Stevens to participate in the independent Pecos League.  On June 25, 2014-Rod was activated by the Cowboys and pitched one out in a lefty-lefty situation against the Santa Fe Fuego in the bottom of the eighth inning in the Cowboy's 6–3 loss to the Fuego.  He pitched against the Pecos League's second best hitter, All Star Nick Billinger, who was batting .461.  Tafoya retired Billinger with an outside slider that was hit to the first baseman for an out.  He has since then been signed for the 2015 season...

Early life
Tafoya graduated from St. Michael's High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where as a senior he posted a 2–5 record with a 0.89 ERA.  He was voted by district coaches to the All-District 2-AAA Team as both a right fielder and pitcher. Later that year he signed a letter of intent to play collegiately in the NAIA with the New Mexico Highland Cowboys.  He pitched for the Cowboys immediately as a freshman, joining the starting rotation during the playoffs against Mesa State.  He stayed ay NMHA from 1982 to 1985.

In 1985, Rod transferred to NAIA powerhouse Newman University, where he met Newman coach Paul Sanagorski, who was the pitching coach for the Jayhawk Summer League's Wichita Broncos.  The Broncos reached the NBC (National Baseball Congress) World Series that summer.  At Newman, Rod achieved an NAIA All-District 7 mention while posting a 6–2 record and 86 strikeouts (a then school record).  He also received his college degree in business management.

Professional career
In 1986, Rod signed his first professional baseball contract for the Puerto Vallarta Dolphins of the Mexican Winter League's AA.  He won 10 games as the team's no 1 starter, making the league's All-Star Team.

In 1987, he pitched for the AA Mexican Tabasquena League's Comalcalco Cocaoteros after posting a 5–5 record.  He was optioned to the Mexican League's AAA Aguascalientes Rieleros in June 1987 at the age of 23.

In 1989, Rod finally signed with an American minor league team.  The Boise Hawk's manager Mal Fichman invited Tafoya to an “invite only” tryout camp in Ontario, California, where Tafoya was one of three players signed by the Hawks.  He was the team's no. 5 starter posting a 3–4 record with 44 strikeouts in 47 innings and a 3.26 ERA.

After an arm injury in the Mexican League's AA Winter League in 1989, Tafoya signed with the Class-A New York-Penn League's Erie Sailors as their no. 5 starter.  The arm injury flared up again and Tafoya was released in July 1990.

In 1991 Rod played in amateur baseball wherever he could find a team.  He was introduced to the Men's Senior Baseball League in 1994 at the age of 29 while living in Oregon.  In his first three years in the league he won 37 games while losing only three.

In 1997, Rod returned to minor league baseball at 33 years old, signing with the Prairie League's Regina Cyclones.  He led the team in wins with six.

Return to Mexico
In 2005, Rod returned to Mexico pitching in the Zona 5A League in Chihuahua, Mexico.  He went 5–0 with a 0.96 ERA for Mar y Sol, including a championship start over Villahermosa to win the Zona 5A championship, Casas Grandes first since 1977.  This prompted another AA Mexican League promotion to pitch for the Astros de Piedras Negras of the Liga Instuccional de Coahuila.  He went 3-0 for Piedras Negras as a 41-year-old veteran.

In 2012, Rod resurfaced in professional baseball, pitching for the Santa Fe Fuego of the Independent Pecos League.  He was chosen to be the team's no.1 starter, pitching game one in front of a packed house at his home town of Santa Fe, New Mexico.  He was credited with a no-decision in his team's 16–8 victory over Trinidad.

Also in 2012, Rod wrote his autobiography entitled Ageless Arm… My Passion Lives in the Core, published by Speaking Volumes.

He was signed by the Taos Blizzard of the Pecos League the following year and posted an 0–1 record with 12 innings pitched, one walk, 12 strikeouts, and a 2.25 ERA as a 49-year-old professional.

300th win
From 1994 to 2014 while in both the 25-and-over MSBL and the 18-and-over MABL (Men's Adult Baseball League) Rod recorded a record of 301–60.  His 300th victory came on May 4, 2014, at the age of 49.  He pitched a 139-pitch complete game over the Albuquerque Colt 45's-as his Albuquerque Yankees won 13–4.  In this historic game, Rod recorded 13 strikeouts.

The “300-Game” story went viral through an article written by the Associated Press, as over 71 stories were written in various newspapers across America, including Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Fox News, Fox Sports, MSNBC Sports, Boston Herald, Miami Herald, USA Today among many others.

On May 28, 2014-the City of Santa Fe honored Rod with a proclamation from the mayor proclaiming Rod “The Ageless Arm” Tafoya “300th Victory Day” in Santa Fe.

During the 20-year time period it took Rod to win 300 games, he recorded the following milestones en route to 300:

 In May 2013, Rod recorded an “MSBL State Record” 23 strikeouts in 9 innings against the Albuquerque Indians in a playoff victory.
 In 2013, at the age of 49, playing in his first 50-and-over regional tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada-Rod recorded a 22-strikeout game with no walks against 8-time national champion Sacramento Tribe.
 From 1994 to 2014, Rod pitched and won a total of seven MSBL/MABL state championships in nine tries.  Three out of the seven state championships were in the 18-and-over MABL when Rod was 42–48 years of age, showing his durability as a pitcher.  All of his state championship victories were complete games.
 Five no hitters, including one perfect game.
 One “20-Game Win Season” in 1998.
 One “20 Home Run Season” in 1998.
 “Four Home Runs” in one game in 1998.
 One 17–0 season 1n 1999, including a 1.17 ERA
 A no-hitter with 14 strikeouts at age 47.
 A “double win victory day” in the MSBL Puerto Rican Winter Tournament which included 222 pitches, an MVP, and a Puerto Rico Winter Tournament championship at age 47.
 From 1986 to 2014 his team's amassed a total of 23 championships, including 14 state championships (7 in New Mexico), 8 national championships, (11 second-place finishes in national competition), and one professional championship.
 Rod won a combined total of 94 amateur and professional games from 1982 to 1993, giving him a total of 395 wins in his career through 2014.  This encompasses 32 years...
 Won an average 15 wins per season for 20 straight years...  Lost an average of three games per season for 20 straight years... (301-60)
 Played with over 87 teams from 1982 to 2014
 Threw over 70,00 pitches (with no arm surgery)

References

1964 births
Sportspeople from Santa Fe, New Mexico
Minor league baseball players
Living people


title: Purbeck Valley Folk Festival

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The Purbeck Valley Folk Festival is a folk music festival held on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England.

The inaugural event was organized in August 2009 near Kimmeridge Bay as the Purbeck Folk Festival. In 2014, the festival was held during 22–24 August at Wilkswood Farm, Langton Matravers, and had an attendance of 2,400 visitors. In 2015, the festival adopted its current name and moved to Purbeck Valley Farm in Harman's Cross.

It takes place over three days across five stages, and in addition to the music includes workshops, Purbeck Rising, Purbeck Poetry Slam, a children’s area with crafts, storytelling, puppet shows, theatre/games, circus skills and clowns, youth music workshops,
a craft area (including crochet, clay, origami, candle, jewellery and tutu making) and a healing area.

Artists who have appeared at Purbeck Valley Folk Festival

Headlining acts at the festivals since 2015 include:

2015: Richard Thompson, Hot Rize, Justin Currie, Stornaway, Chris Difford, Kathryn Tickell and the Side

2016: Villagers, The Proclaimers, Eliza Carthy and the Wayward Band, Kathryn Roberts and Seth Lakeman

2017: Turin Brakes, Gabby Young, Badly Drawn Boy, Kathryn Williams, This is the Kit, Michele Stodart, Lady Maisery and 3 Daft Monkeys

2018: King Creosote, Richard Thompson Electric Set, Beth Orton, Elephant Sessions

2019: Thea Gilmore, Afro Celt Sound System, Cara Dillon Band, 3 Daft Monkeys, Flook

2021: Thea Gilmore, Afro Celt Sound System, Cara Dillon Band, 3 Daft Monkeys, Flook

2022: Jackie Oates and John Spiers, Glenn Ross and The Caverick Sisters

2023: The Magic Numbers, Newton Faulkner, Sarah Jarosz, Seth Lakeman, Kathryn Williams, Lady Nade

Purbeck Rising

Purbeck Rising showcases up and coming talent. It is an opportunity for bands, duos or singer songwriters to perform in front of a panel of judges from other local folk festivals including Wimborne, Wessex and Bridport Folk Festivals, after taking part in a selection process.

Previous performers include:

2023: Aayushi, Amica, Arquebus Trio, The Ashen Keys, Laura Loh, Rachel Hill

2022: Rob Clamp, Megan Linford, Den Miller Music, Igloo Hearts, Anna Renae, 14 Wolves

References

External links

Music festivals in Dorset
Isle of Purbeck
Folk festivals in the United Kingdom


title: Air Force Command (Germany)

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The Air Force Command () is the high command of the German Air Force of the Bundeswehr as well as the staff of the Inspector of the Air Force. It was formed in 2012, as a merger of the German Air Staff (Führungsstab der Luftwaffe) with parts of the Air Force Office (Luftwaffenamt), and the Air Force Forces Command (Luftwaffenführungskommando), as part of a larger reorganization of the Bundeswehr. The headquarters of the command are in Gatow, Berlin, but some of the staff is in Köln instead.

References

Military units and formations established in 2012
Air force commands of Germany
German Air Force


title: Jayasimha (1987 film)

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Jayasimha is a 1987 Indian Kannada-language film,  directed by  P. Vasu and produced by K. C. N. Chandrashekhar and K. C. N. Mohan. The film stars Vishnuvardhan, Mahalakshmi, Vajramuni and N. S. Rao. The film has musical score by Vijay Anand.

Cast

Vishnuvardhan
Mahalakshmi
Vajramuni
N. S. Rao
Umashree
Sudheer
Lohithaswa
Master Amith
Sundar Raj
Babu Singh
Kanchana
Janaki
Chi Ravishankar
Mysore Lokesh
V. R. Bhaskar
Bob Christo
Jayamalini
Disco Shanthi
Shani Mahadevappa
Sridhar
Bemel Somanna
Janardhan

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Vijay Anand.

References

External links

1987 films
1980s Kannada-language films
Films directed by P. Vasu
Kannada remakes of Hindi films
Films scored by Vijayanand


title: FC Afips Afipsky

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FC Afips Afipsky () was a Russian football team based in Afipsky. It was founded in 2012. In 2014–15 season, it advanced to the professional level, the third-tier Russian Professional Football League.

On 18 June 2018 it was announced that FC Afips is dissolved because of financial problems.

References

External links
  Official site

Association football clubs established in 2012
Sport in Krasnodar Krai
2012 establishments in Russia
Defunct football clubs in Russia
Association football clubs disestablished in 2018
2018 disestablishments in Russia


title: Jiří Kornatovský

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Jiří Kornatovský (born 2 March 1952, Plasy, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech painter, draughtsman and printmaker.

Life
Jiri Kornatovsky’s artistic standpoint and life opinions were formed mostly by his childhood and youth spent in Plasy, where he roamed almost daily, until the age of 21, in an abandoned Cistercian monastery.

After graduating from a technical teaching school in Pilsen, he studied at the College and High Art School of Vaclav Hollar in 1977-82, followed by the study of monumental painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague with professors Arnošt Paderlík and Jiří Ptáček (1982–87).

At the end of the 1980s he published a number of spiritual manifestos and in 1991 he co-founded Hermit Foundation in the Cistercian monastery of Plasy. He created the Codes and Signs project at  the international art symposium Hermit 92. In the following years he attended study and creative residences in the Carmelite monastery in Sejny, Poland (1992), in Florence (1993), New York City and Boston (1994-1995) and Hohenosig, Germany (1997). During his stay in the USA he held a series of exhibitions and lectures. In 2005 and 2006 he worked in the Augustinian monastery at the Lesser Quarter in Prague and again he visited the United States (Los Angeles).

In the years 1998-99 he founded his own Gallery Hermit in Prague.

He works as a university professor at the Charles University in Prague and at the Art and Design Faculty, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. He lectured at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he carried out the legendary Burning lecture.  He introduced and defined the principle of his discovery of declarative drawing as a process method of artistic creation and the approach to it at a lecture in the Bachelard amphitheatre at the Sorbonne in Paris.

He says about himself that he does not know where the artistic work begins and the presence of everyday reality ends. Meditation in the process of the linear layering of the structure of the painting is always present even without him striving for it. He perceives analysis and interpretation in art as negative fragmentation of the painting and disintegration of the character of the self. He reflects the aesthetics of St. Augustine mainly when it comes to integration and wholeness.

Work

Jiří Kornatovský is mostly known as an author of unique large black and white charcoal drawings of plastic objects on giant cardboard that gained him respect and recognition.
These drawings stand outside the Czech artistic tradition due to their artistic rendition, and when they first appeared on the art scene in the middle of the 1980s, they seemed to be an apparition.

In his approach, the drawing is mostly a record of its own creation, not a composition of form with arbitrary influence. Up to a certain point, it is a documentation of action. This action is of a psychological and physical character and is designed for private space and not for the public. The author is not primarily concerned with representation. His work is not about diversity of images and their individual messages. Kornatovský focuses on continuity, the repetition of actions of a ritual character. The subject is, therefore, rather a certain maintenance of the order of events in the rhythm of cyclical (archetypal) time.

Kornatovský’s "discovery" of the abstract object that is the carrier of the subjective experience and personal transformation is, by its own simplicity and the number of universal archetypal meanings, unique and independent. When considered in the history of art, it may be compared, for example, to the Black Suprematic square of Kazimir Malevich, White Paintings of Robert Rauschenberg, Morgenstern’s Fish’s Night Song or John Cage’s "4´33´´".

At the very beginning there were drawings and large graphic sheets depicting relationships (Two – Free variation on an hour of the lovers, 1988, etching, All at once, 1989, etching, GASK, And tickle, charcoal on paper, 200 x 380 cm, 1988), sometimes with a hidden erotic subtext (Shape of adventure, 1987). They are characterised by accurate execution and the use of abstract symbols derived from natural shapes. The composition of the event contains a secret. Space is not defined, the story pours over the horizon where we cannot see (Is anybody else coming? (Countryside), etching with aquatint, 1988, GASK), the outlined opening into the interior of the object offers only darkness but there is light coming out of the crack on the other side (One, 1988).

At the end of the 1980s Kornatovský drew abstract playful images dedicated to his family (… oh you people, 1989) and celebrating the joy of a newborn child (That and that and that-a-thing, 1988, charcoal on paper, 150 x 360 cm).

Giant objects from the beginning of the 1990s offer perfect spatial illusion of voluminous figures of organic shape (And out/aerial meditation, charcoal on cardboard, 220 x 500 cm, 1990–92, It, charcoal on cardboard 220 x 480 cm, 1989–92). The time range of their creation bears witness to how technically demanding these drawings are.

When interpreting the large-format drawing from the same period (From nowhere to nowhere – Forget everything/ You are what you cannot remember/, graphite, cardboard, 220 x 460 cm, 1990–97, GASK) it is necessary to also take into account the social atmosphere by the end of the 1980s and the seemingly hopeless situation of young artists, participants of the unofficial group Confrontations. According to the author, the drawing reflects feelings, in which the experience of a child is mixed with the empty spaces of an abandoned monastery and the situation of the confined space of a studio. Another variation on the same theme is a stark, almost technical drawing of a broken tube with a dark mouth (From nowhere to nowhere/silence, charcoal on cardboard, 220 x 480 cm, 1989).

The series of meditation drawings (Meditation by drawing) derives from Meditation (1990, exhibited 2006, Museum Kampa), where the plastic object in the shape of a toroid encloses some abstract country inside. The surface of the rotational body is sometimes disrupted and expands into space (In space, 1992). The torus itself represents a perfect shape that has neither end, nor beginning and optically centralises attention to the middle, just like the electric toroid coil, which induces the magnetic field in its centre (Prayer, charcoal 275 x 705 cm, 2000-20003, Meditation in archetype, combined technique on canvas, 210 x 220 cm, 2006, Meditation by archetype, combined technique on canvas, 210 x 220 cm, 2000-2010).

This shape also offers the possibility of mathematical transformation, during which the whole object can be turned inside out through eversion (like From nowhere to nowhere, 1990-7), to work in a 4D space and to decrease the central space through shortening of the axis, leading to  final degeneration into a sphere. (It, charcoal on cardboard, 220 x 480 cm, 1989–92).

The drawings, however, cannot be interpreted merely as a mathematical game. The author often creates them in a monastery cloister over the span of a few years and besides the artistic performance they are also a result of spiritual concentration connected with meditation. (To one point, charcoal on cardboard, 220 x 280 cm, 2000).

Objects depicted are neither anchored in space, nor related to earth. A mild asymmetry sometimes gives the impression of them growing upwards (Meditation by drawing, charcoal on cardboard, 600 x 220 cm, 1988–89). Titles of the meditation drawings offer riddles rather than explanations (Meditation eastern, 1990–97, 220 x 520 cm, Liturgic meditation, 1990–94).

The large format paintings sometimes only capture a part of the depicted object in order to leave space for pondering about the things that surpass us (Right left, Martin meditation, charcoal on cardboard, 220 x 540 cm, 1989–93, Eternal story, charcoal on cardboard, 220 x 500 cm, 1990–94, Sanctus, charcoal on cardboard, 220 x 520 cm, 1997–99), or they directly refer to infinity (88.88.88., combined technique on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, 2010). Organic form in the drawing resembling a gastrula can be interpreted as an immersion of what was on the surface into the inside, into the darkness, into the closure from the outside world (Remembering an idea, charcoal on canvas, 210 x 240 cm, 2005-6).

The key to understanding Kornatovský’s drawings may be St. Augustine’s treatise on the reflection of the world of ideas and sensory reality (Augustine, charcoal on paper, 280 x 340 cm, 2000-3, St. Augustine II, combined technique on canvas, 140 x 160 cm, 2007, Contemplation, charcoal on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, 2008).

Awards
 1994	Mayor of Kraków Award, Graphic Art Triennial, Kraków, Poland
 2008	Laureate of the Franz Kafka Prague circle Award

Representation in collections
 National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
 National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
 Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
 Museum Kampa, Meda Mládková collection, Prague, Czech Republic
 GASK – the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná hora, Czech Republic
 West Bohemian Gallery, Pilsen, Czech Republic
 Aleš South Bohemian Gallery, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic
 Klatovy/Klenová Gallery, Czech Republic
 Gallery of Modern Art Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic
 Regional Gallery Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
 Regional Gallery Liberec, Czech Republic
 Consulate General of the Czech Republic, Los Angeles, USA
 Bellini Gallery, Florence, Italy
 Artists Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
 Kentler International Drawing Center, New York, USA
 Private collections in Czech Republic and abroad

Selected solo exhibitions

 2014  Intuiti Gallery, Paris, France
 2013 Michel Journiac Gallery - Sorbonne, Paris, France
Galerie du Tableau, (with Richard Conte), Marseille, France
Hollar Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
 2012 Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
 2009 Takasaki City Gallery, Japan (with J. Váchal)
 2008 Parliament of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
 2006 ASTO Museum, Los Angeles, USA (with K. Czerpak)
Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic
Pilsen City Gallery, Czech Republic
 2004 The world paper, Frankfurt, Germany
 2003 National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
 1997 Hermit Gallery, Prague,  Czech Republic
 1995 Kentler International Drawing Space, New York City
PAAS gallery, New York City
 1994  Boston Center for the Arts
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
PAAS gallery, New York City
 1993 Nová síň Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
 1992 The Hague City Hall
 1991 OKO Gallery, Amsterdam
Plasy monastery, Czech Republic
Kortenhoef, North Holland
 1990 St. Nicholas Church, Prague, Czech Republic
 1985 Plasy monastery, Czech Republic
 1980 Plasy monastery, Czech Republic

Group exhibitions
 Jiří Kornatovský participated in more than 200 group exhibitions both at home and abroad

References

Publications
 (cz)Jiří Kornatovský : Meditace kresbou, 2011, Fenclová H, Pangrácová L, Kroupová M, kat. nestr., G. Klatovy/Klenová , OG Liberec,
 (cz, jap) Jiří Kornatovský a Josef Váchal: Hory a srdce, 2009, Hucl I., Klínková H., Jindra P., Hánová M., Fišer M., sborník, 96 str., Muzeum Šumavy Sušice,
 (cz, en, jap) Jiří Kornatovský, 2006, Binder I, Mládková M, kat. 12 s., Nadace J a M Mládkových,
 (cz, en) Jiří Kornatovský: Meditace kresbou / Meditation in drawing, 2003, Janištinová Jirková A, Raimanová I, kat. 36 s., NG Praha,
 (cz) Jiří Kornatovský: Meditace - modlitby, 2003, Kornatovský J, Koval M, kat. 8s., G. J. Jílka, Šumperk
 (cz) Jiří Kornatovský: Kresby, 2002, Tetiva V, kat. 32 s., AJG Hluboká,
 (en) Jiří Kornatovský: Graphic Drawings, 1995, Pánková M, kat. 4 s., PAAS Gallery, New York
 (cz) Jiří Kornatovský: Kresby, 1994, tx. Kornatovský J, G. Klatovy/Klenová
 (cz) Jiří Kornatovský: Kresby, 1991, Pánková M, Vojtěchovský M, kat. 20 s., Unie výtvarných umělců České republiky, Praha
 (cz, en, fr, de) Jiří Kornatovský: Nototo (Kresby, grafika), 1989, Raimanová I, kat. 4 s., klášter Plasy
 (cz) Jiří Kornatovský: Kresby, grafika, obrazy, 1989, Machalický J, kat. 8+1 s., SČVU, Praha
 (cz) Jiří Kornatovský: Kresby, grafika, 1988, Kotalík J, kat. 8 s., PKO KS Hroznová

Encyclopaedia
 (cz) Slovník českých a slovenských výtvarných umělců 1950 - 2001, 2001, Pavliňák P, Výtvarné centrum Chagall, Ostrava,
 (cz) Nová encyklopedie českého výtvarného umění, 1995, Horová A, Academia, Praha,
 (cz, en) Grafika: Obrazová encyklopedie české grafiky osmdesátých let / Pictorial Encyclopaedia of the Czech prints of the 1980s, 1993, Hošková Vomočilová S, Schleppe S, Středoevropská galerie a nakladatelství, Praha,

External links
 Information system abART: Kornatovský Jiří
 Faculty of Fine Art and Design, West-Bohemian University in Pilsen:Jiří Kornatovský

1952 births
Czech painters
Czech male painters
Living people
Academic staff of Charles University
Academic staff of the University of West Bohemia
People from Plasy


title: 2014 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia – Doubles

text:
Potito Starace and Adrian Ungur won the title, beating František Čermák and Lukáš Dlouhý 6–2, 6–4

Seeds

  František Čermák /  Lukáš Dlouhý (final)
  Ken Skupski /  Neal Skupski (quarterfinals)
  Frank Moser /  Alexander Satschko (semifinals)
  Lee Hsin-han /  Alessandro Motti (semifinals)

Draw

Draw

References
 Main Draw

Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia - Doubles
2014 Doubles
Friuli


title: Karonga North (Malawi Parliament constituency)

text:
Karonga North is a constituency for the National Assembly of Malawi, located in the Karonga District of Malawi's Northern Region. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system. The constituency is currently represented by DPP MP Vincent Winstone Ghambi.

Election results

References

Constituencies of the National Assembly of Malawi


title: Gustav Münzberger

text:
SS-Unterscharführer Gustav Münzberger (17 August 1903 – 23 March 1977), born in Weißkirchlitz (Sudetenland), was a carpenter and factory worker before his involvement in the Holocaust. Following the Nazi German invasion of Poland at the onset of World War II he was posted as a serviceman in August 1940 at the Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre at Schloss Sonnenstein in Pirna. He arrived at the Treblinka extermination camp in late September 1942 and became assistant to deputy commandant SS-Oberscharführer Heinrich Matthes, in charge of leading Jews into the gas chambers and gassing them.

Treblinka was built as part of the most deadly phase of the Final Solution, known as Operation Reinhard. The camp operated between  and . During this time, more than 800,000 people – men, women, and children – were murdered there, with other estimates exceeding 1,000,000 victims.

Münzberger was an operator of the gas chambers at the Totenlager, and later Chief of the Leichentransportkommando corpse transport team. On 21 June 1943 he was promoted from the rank of SS-Rottenführer to the rank of SS-Unterscharführer. During the Treblinka revolt he was on holiday at home. After the closure of Treblinka, he was sent to Trieste in Italy at the end of November or early December 1943. The Risiera di San Sabba killing centre was being set up there. Münzberger was arrested twenty years later in West Germany on 13 July 1963.

He was charged with war crimes at the Treblinka trials lasting from 12 October 1964 till 24 August 1965, and sentenced for 12 years imprisonment. He served six years and was released on good behavior in 1971. He died six years later.

See also
 Fritz Schmidt (SS officer) in charge of the engine feeding exhaust to the gas chambers
 Karl Pötzinger, head of the cremation kommando in the Totenlager
 Max Möller (SS officer), ordinance at Camp 2 Auffanglager in Treblinka

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1977 deaths
Holocaust perpetrators in Poland
SS non-commissioned officers
Sonderabteilung Einsatz R personnel
Treblinka extermination camp personnel
People convicted in the Treblinka trials
People from Teplice District


title: Robert Gill (gridiron football)

text:
Robert Gill (born February 27, 1984) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. Gill did not play college football.

College career
Gill played basketball at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi before transferring to Texas State, where he competed in track & field, running the 200-meter dash in 21.14 seconds and the 400-meter dash in 46.52 seconds.

Professional career
Gill signed with the Green Bay Blizzard but was cut before the 2008 af2 season started. He signed with the Louisville Fire but never played for them and was traded to the Texas Copperheads. After two games with the Copperheads, Gill was released and signed by the Lubbock Renegades. In July 2009, Gill signed with the Milwaukee Iron. He played for the Abilene Ruff Riders in 2010. He played for the Kansas City Command in 2011 and 2012. Gill signed with the Arizona Cardinals in April 2013. In June 2013, Gill posted a video of himself running 25 mph on a treadmill to YouTube. The video has over 3,000,000 views. The Cardinals released Gill and Robby Toma on August 21, 2013. Gill signed with the Toronto Argonauts prior to the 2014 season. He was released by the Argonauts on November 11, 2014.

Personal life
His mother, Marie, moved to San Antonio from Panama.

References

External links
Toronto Argonauts bio

1984 births
Living people
American players of Canadian football
Canadian football wide receivers
Players of American football from San Antonio
Players of Canadian football from San Antonio
American football wide receivers
Basketball players from San Antonio
Track and field athletes from San Antonio
Texas A&M–Corpus Christi Islanders men's basketball players
Texas State Bobcats men's track and field athletes
Milwaukee Iron players
Dallas Vigilantes players
Abilene Ruff Riders players
Kansas City Command players
Toronto Argonauts players
American men's basketball players


title: Comega Building

text:
The Comega Building is located on 222 Avenida Corrientes in the corner of Alem Avenue, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

History
The Comega Building was the first reinforced concrete skyscraper built in Argentina and the first in Buenos Aires to show an exterior fully lined with travertine. It was built, in rationalist style, between 1931 and 1934 on a project by Ing. Alberto Stein and architects Enrique Douillet and Alfredo Joselevich. When first built it rivaled another architectural giant, the SAFICO Building, also built in rationalist style just 200 meters to its west on Avenida Corrientes. However, in 1936 the Kavanagh Building greatly surpassed both buildings in height.

It was built for Compañía Mercantil y Ganadera S.A. (COMEGA), in a privileged area which previously had occupied the residence of Francisco Madero, then transformed into Grand National Hotel.

At the time of its opening the 19th floor was planned for collective use and assembly, but the place was soon allocated for the renowned confitería-restaurante (café) "Comega Club", which ran until 1969. That place was specially prepared for major events that could be seen from a height, such as the arrival of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin in 1934, Carlos Gardel's funeral in February 1936, and the final extension of the Avenida Corrientes in 1937. A new restaurant opened on the same site in 2000, followed by the Restaurant-Café "A222 " from 2004 until its closure in early 2012.

A notable feature of the building was its five elevators, these being the first high-speed lifts of Buenos Aires, capable of climbing 180 meters per minute. there was also a hair salon in one of its levels, for the use of its office occupants.

A declared architectural heritage of the city, the building has recently been renovated with much of its original features restored.

Description
Since its opening, one of the great attractions of the Comega Building was its strategic location, at the corner of Avenida Corrientes and Avenida Leandro N. Alem, near the Stock Exchange, the Casa Rosada and other public offices, and headquarters of major exporters.

From the building one can see, among other things, the neighborhood of Puerto Madero, the Ecological Reserve, the Rio de la Plata, and much further away, the silhouette of the city of Colonia (Uruguay), and some buildings in the city of Quilmes.

Its exterior has straight edges and is devoid of ornaments. It consists of two wings and a higher multi-storey central tower of 21 floors and 88 meters high. Together they surround a central open courtyard, facing Avenida Leandro N. Alem. It also has two levels of underground garage.

Its interior features granite cladding and stainless steel counters, extremely novel and expensive features for its time.

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Office buildings completed in 1933
Buildings and structures in Buenos Aires
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1933 establishments in Argentina


title: Kathanayaka

text:
Kathanayaka is a 1986 Indian Kannada-language action drama film written and directed by P. Vasu, and produced by P. Vimal Kumar and R. Vijayalakshmi under Sri Gajalakshmi Combines. The film stars Vishnuvardhan, Sumalatha, Vajramuni and Seema in the lead roles. The film has musical score by M. Ranga Rao.

Kathanayaka marks P. Vasu's directorial debut in Kannada.

Cast

Vishnuvardhan as Ranga / Prabhu
Sumalatha as Sujatha
Vajramuni as Dasappa
Leelavathi
Srinivasa Murthy as Forest Officer Kumar
Seema as Inspector Girija
Dinesh
Umesh
Sathish
Sundar Raj as Mahesh
V. R. Bhashar
Krishna Rao
Kamala
Vijayabarathi
Srilakshmi
Shakunthala

Production
Kathanayaka is the first film independently directed by P. Vasu, following his split from Santhana Bharathi.

References

External links

1986 films
1980s Kannada-language films
Films scored by M. Ranga Rao
Films directed by P. Vasu


title: Oscar Bruno

text:
Oscar P. Bruno is Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for research on numerical analysis.

Academic biography
Bruno received the Licenciado degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 1982, and he completed the PhD in mathematics at New York University in 1989.
His adviser was Robert V. Kohn, and his dissertation was titled The Effective Conductivity of an Infinitely Interchangeable Mixture.
He taught at the University of Minnesota from 1989 to 1991, and he was at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1991 to 1995.
He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1995.

Awards and honors
In 1994, Bruno was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
He was inducted as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2013.

References

External links
 Oscar P. Bruno professional home page

Living people
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
California Institute of Technology faculty
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Argentine mathematicians
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
University of Buenos Aires alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: 1978–79 Liga Bet

text:
The 1978–79 Liga Bet season saw Hapoel Bnei Nazareth, Hapoel Umm al-Fahm, Hapoel Ramat HaSharon and Beitar Be'er Sheva win their regional divisions and promoted to Liga Alef.

North Division A

North Division B

Hapoel Beit Eliezer withdrew from the league during the season.

South Division A

South Division B

References
Saturday at Bet leagues, The tables (Page 7) Hadshot HaSport, 29.4.79, archive.football.co.il

Liga Bet seasons
Israel
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title: Guri (film)

text:
Guri is a 1986 Indian Kannada-language action film, directed by  P. Vasu and produced by Parvathamma Rajkumar. The film stars Rajkumar, Archana and Jai Jagadish, with Pandari Bai in a guest appearance. The film has musical score by Rajan–Nagendra. This was director P. Vasu's second movie as independent director in any language. The film was remade in Tamil in 1991 by P. Vasu himself as Adhikari. This was the last movie of Rajkumar which was remade in other language.

Plot
Customs Officer Kaliprasad is newly deputed and nabs a notorious gang of smugglers. While handing them over to police, he befriends the local police inspector. Living with his retired School Teacher father and young sister, he leads a contented life. His happiness doubles when the police inspector is engaged to his sister.

However, Rudrayya, the corrupt mafia leader is irritated by Kaliprasad's efficiency. Kaliprasad's work is threatening his illegal business and he wants to set Kaliprasad right. Kaliprasad snubs Rudrayya and kicks him out of his house, when he invites to Kaliprasad to the wrong side of the law.

Enraged, Rudrayya gets Kaliprasad framed on smuggling charges and is imprisoned, his sister's engagement gets broken. Kali's sister kills herself. Kali's father loses mental balance. Dejected as to where his ideals led him and his family, Kali escapes from Police imprisonment and plots his revenge against Rudrayya, taking the law into his own hands. Disguising himself as a Muslim Cleric, Military Officer and others, he breaks Rudrayya's illegal empire. He also rescues a village belle and loves her. However, nothing can deter him from his aim, Seeing Rudrayya's end. He kills Rudrayya, while he is watching the movie "Johnny Yuma" and himself succumbs to police fire.

Cast

Soundtrack
The songs by the Rajan–Nagendra duo were instant hits and well received.

References

External links

1986 films
1980s Kannada-language films
Films scored by Rajan–Nagendra
Films directed by P. Vasu
Kannada films remade in other languages


title: National Workers' Party

text:
The National Workers' Party (, NPR) was a political party in Poland.

History
The NPR was established in Warsaw on 23 May 1920 by a merger of the National Workers' Union and the National Party of Workers. Strongest in Greater Poland, Pomerania, Łódź and Silesia, it had around 150,000 members by the following year. It received around 5% of the vote in the 1922 elections, winning 18 seats in the Sejm and three in the Senate.

The party was a member of the Józef Piłsudski governments until 1926, but then split into two factions; one retained the NPR name, whilst the other became known as NPR-Left. The NPR-Left supported Piłsudski's Sanation regime, whilst the NPR, which had been reduced to around 80,000 members, opposed it. The 1928 elections saw the NPR's vote share fall to 2%. As a result, it was reduced to 11 seats in the Sejm and two in the Senate.

In 1930 the NPR joined the Centrolew alliance, which contested the 1930 elections. The alliance won 79 seats, of which the NPR took eight. It later became part of the Front Morges, and by 1934 only had around 20,000 members. The party boycotted the 1935 elections, and in 1937 it merged with the Polish Christian Democratic Party to form the Labor Party.

Ideology
The party's platform in 1921 called for social solidarity and a strong parliamentary democracy, and supported autonomy for national minorities except Jews.

Election results

Sejm

References

Defunct political parties in Poland
1920 establishments in Poland
1937 disestablishments in Poland
Political parties established in 1920
Political parties disestablished in 1937


title: Air Force Office (Germany)

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The Air Force Office () was a high command authority of the German Air Force of the Bundeswehr, responsible for the conceptual planning as well as the training, supply, and equipment of the Air Force. In 2013, it was disbanded after its functions were merged into the new Air Force Command (Kommando Luftwaffe), along with those of the other high command bodies of the German Air Force.

In addition to the Air Force Office and Air Force Forces Command, a number of their subordinate units were disbanded, including the Air Force Training Command.

The subordinate elements of the Air Force Office were:

 Surgeon General of the Air Force
 Bundeswehr Air Traffic Services Office
 Air Force Support Group (supporting the Air Force Forces Command and Air Force Office)
 Legal Advisor Center
 Air Force Training Command
 Air Force Officer School
 Air Force Non-Commissioned Officer School
 Air Force Technical School 1 (with Air Force Bands 1 and 2)
 Air Force Technical School 3 (with Air Force Bands 3 and 4)
 Air Force Training Regiment
 Air Force Specialized Schools
 German Air Force Command United States/ Canada
 Air Force Flying Training Center, United States, Holloman AFB
 2nd German Air Force Training Squadron, NAS Pensacola
 3rd German Air Force Training Squadron, Goodyear Airport
 German participation in Euro NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT), Sheppard AFB
 Air Force Tactical Training Center Air Defense Missiles, Fort Bliss
 Air Force Weapon Systems Command
 Maintenance Regiment 1
 Avionics Center
 Aircraft Technology Center
 Maintenance Regiment 2
 Maintenance Group 21
 Maintenance Group 22
 Maintenance Group 25
 Air Defense Missile Center
 Weapon Systems Support Center

References

German Air Force
Air force commands of Germany
Military units and formations established in 1956
Military units and formations disestablished in 2013


title: 2014 World Indoor Archery Championships

text:
The 2014 World Indoor Target Archery Championships was the 12th edition of the World Indoor Archery Championships. The event was held in Nîmes, France, from February 26 to March 2, 2014, and was organized by World Archery.

Events

Recurve

Senior

Junior

Compound

Senior

Junior

Medal table

Participating nations
45 nations registered 353 athletes across disciplines, significantly more than in Las Vegas in 2012.

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References

World Championship
World Archery
2014
International archery competitions hosted by France


title: Ayushman Bhava (1998 film)

text:
Ayushman Bhava is a 1998 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by  Suresh Vinu and produced by Ambili Pravachambalam. The film stars Jayaram, Divya Unni, Mohini and Innocent. The film has musical score by Johnson and songs by A. T. Ummer.

Plot
Govinda Menon is in deep financial crisis and he is facing attachment of his family property and he decides to end his life as he ran out of options to save his pride. However he ends up saving the life of Suryan(Jayaram) who attempted suicide in front of his eyes. Govinda Menon takes Suryan to his house masquerading him as the son of his friend and a famous writer who wants solitude to write the story for a film.

Suryan comes from an affluent family and was thrown out of his family due to a misunderstanding and he became lonely and desperate and didn't see any reason to live. Govinda Menon enters into an agreement with Suryan to end his life after an year and he takes an LIC policy in Suryan's name with him as Nominee so that he gets the money after Suryan's death.  However, Suryan falls in love with Sumangala (Divya Unni), Menon's daughter and wants to live again.

Govinda Menon is upset with Suryan and wants to break their love. However, things take a turn when Suryan is traced by his family members. Watch the full movie to know how the story unfolds in the end.

Cast
Jayaram as Suryan
Divya Unni as Sumangala
Mohini as Priya
Innocent as Govinda Menon
Srividya as Suriyan's mother
Jagathy Sreekumar as Madhava Menon, brother in law of Govinda Menon and LIC agent.
Manka Mahesh as Devaki, wife of Govinda Menon
Manju Pillai as dance teacher Gangavathy.
Sai Kumar as Prakash, lover of Priya
Augustine as Moosakutty
K.T.S. Padannayil as father of Govinda Menon
Pala Narayanan Nair as father of Priya (Mohini)
Chali Pala as Moosakutti's advocate
Sajitha Betti as Priya (Child)

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Johnson and A. T. Ummer.

References

External links

1998 films
1990s Malayalam-language films


title: Marko Gobeljić

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Marko Gobeljić (; born 13 September 1992) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a right back for Greek Super League club Kifisia.

Club career

Sloga Kraljevo
Gobeljić started training football with local football school Bubamara 1991, and later passed all youth categories of Sloga Kraljevo. He had started playing with the first team as a bonus player in the 2010–11 season. In his debut season he played 27 league games and one Serbian Cup match, against Red Star Belgrade in front of a full Kraljevo City Stadium on 22 September 2010. At the beginning of his senior career, he was mostly used as a midfielder, but he also appeared as a right-back in some matches during the spring half-season, after Jovica Vasilić left the club.

For the 2011–12 season, after Sloga was promoted in the First League, he scored a total of three goals over the course of 31 league matches. He played most frequently as a central midfielder, but he also appeared as a right-back in some matches. At home 1–2 defeat against Čukarički, he played on stopper place, after Boban Dmitrović had been substituted out at the half-time. Previously he scored a goal in the same game. Later, during the competition, he scored two more goals in matches against Proleter Novi Sad and OFK Mladenovac.

During the 2012–13 season, Gobeljić continued playing primarily as a central midfielder until coach Neško Milovanović moved him to right-back before the end of the season. He was the most standard player of the season, making 32 First League appearances and one cup appearance away against OFK Beograd, when Sloga lost 5–0. Although he did not score a goal, he was nominated for the man of the match once that season.

In the following season, the first team captain Aleksandar Božović dropped out of the starting eleven, with the more experienced Bojan Šejić replacing him on goal. Gobeljić got an armband as a vice-captain ahead Miloš Janićijević and Nemanja Miletić. On 25 September 2013, Gobeljić scored a goal in a cup match against Vojvodina, which went into overtime after a 1–1 tie. He also scored against Srđan Žakula in the penalty series, although Sloga was eliminated after penalties. as Sloga's captain he was nominated for man of the match. Around this time he began playing more frequently as a utility player. He played mostly matches as a right-back during the season.

Napredak Kruševac
Gobeljić signed a contract with Napredak in July 2014, and took number 77 jersey. He made his Serbian SuperLiga debut for Napredak in home defeat against Čukarički on 9 August 2014, when he replaced Ibrahima Mame N'Diaye at the beginning of second half. He was recognized as one of the best players for the first half-season. On 9 April 2015, Gobeljić scored his first goal for Napredak against Vojvodina, in what was Napredak's first ever win against Vojvodina in Novi Sad. During the regular season, Gobeljić made 26 league and one cup appearance, scoring one goal total. Finally, he played both matches in the league play-off against Metalac Gornji Milanovac, after which Napredak was relegated from the SuperLiga.

After Napredak was relegated to the Serbian First League, Gobeljić played all matches until the end of first half season. He started season as a right-back, but after Igor Zonjić joined the club, he moved back to the midfield. During the season, he was playing on both positions. He scored a goal in a match against ČSK Pivara on 19 March 2016. After Napredak won the 2016 Serbian First League, he was also elected in the team of the season by Sportski žurnal, along with teammates Bojan Beljić and Ibrahima Mame N'Diaye.

In summer 2016, before the start of new season, Gobeljić played several friendly matches and scored two goals, against Radnički Niš on 25 June, and Radnik Surdulica on 16 July 2016. He scored his first goal in the 2016-17 season from Miloš Vulić's assist against Red Star Belgrade on 22 July 2016 at Rajko Mitić Stadium. In the following league match against Partizan, Bojan Šaranov fouled Gobeljić for penalty kick, which Nenad Šljivić scored. On 10 September 2016, he scored his second season goal against Čukarički, after which he was nominated man of the match and took a place in team of the fixture. In October 2016, he extended his contract with Napredak to the summer 2018. Gobeljić also scored a goal in the next fixture match, against Novi Pazar. He scored against Partizan on 25 November 2016. Gobeljić also scored three goals during the winter break-off season. On 14 April 2017, he scored his last goal for Napredak that season against OFK Bačka.

Red Star Belgrade

On 7 June 2017, Belgrade media reported about Gobeljić's signing with Red Star Belgrade, after his long-time friend Jovan Kastratović shared a picture of his contract on Instagram. Gobeljić was officially promoted by club's sports director Mitar Mrkela two days later, penning a three-year contract. He made his debut for Red Star in the second leg of the first qualifying round of the 2017–18 Europa League, substituting Ricardinho against Floriana. Only minutes after taking Ricardinho's place, Gobeljić was sent off after one bad tackle on one of the opposing players. He played his first eternal derby on 27 August 2017 as a left back. He scored his first goal for Red Star in their 5–0 victory over Radnik Surdulica on 29 November 2017.

On 13 May 2018, he made two assists in Red Star's 1–2 away win against Vojvodina as a right-back, and was named man of the match. On 20 July 2018, Gobeljić lead the team as a captain in 3–0 victory over Dinamo Vranje, in the first fixture of the 2018–19 Serbian SuperLiga campaign.

On 16 July 2019, Gobeljić got a red card after making a bad tackle on Sūduva defender Vaidas Slavickas during the first qualifying round of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League. Slavickas's leg broke in two different areas and had to undergo surgery. Gobeljić visited him in the hospital to apologize.

On 22 June 2020 he tested positive for COVID-19.

On 25 May 2021, Gobeljić caused a controversy after Red Star's penalty shoot out win against Partizan Belgrade in the 2020–21 Serbian Cup final, lowering his shorts and making a cojones gesture towards Vladimir Stojković. Shortly after, Red Star apologized for the incident, claiming that Gobeljić will be punished for his actions.

International career
Gobeljić was called by coach Slavoljub Muslin to the Serbia national team in September 2016 and he made his international debut in a friendly 3–0 loss to Qatar. He also received a call for a friendly match against United States, on 29 January 2017.

Style of play
Through the professional career, Gobeljić affirmed himself as a utility player. He has started as a central midfielder being capable of playing left and right. Playing with Sloga Kraljevo, he converted to right-back for a period, while playing for Napredak and Red Star. In his third season with Napredak, manager Dragan Ivanović moved him upfield, where he spent mostly time as a second striker and winger. Joining Red Star Belgrade, Gobeljić changed many places on the field at the beginning, including left-back and defensive midfielder positions.

Internationally, coach Slavoljub Muslin used him as a centre forward and attacking midfielder.

At the age of 24, Gobeljić was described as one of the best and the most intelligent footballers in the Serbian domestic competition. He is characterized by his abilities and passing skills.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours
Sloga Kraljevo
Serbian League West: 2010–11
Napredak Kruševac
Serbian First League: 2015–16
Red Star Belgrade
Serbian SuperLiga (6): 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
Serbian Cup (3): 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23

References

External links
 Marko Gobeljić stats at utakmica.rs

1992 births
Living people
Serbian men's footballers
Serbia men's international footballers
Footballers from Kraljevo
Men's association football utility players
FK Sloga Kraljevo players
FK Napredak Kruševac players
Serbian First League players
Red Star Belgrade footballers
Serbian SuperLiga players
Men's association football fullbacks
Men's association football midfielders


title: Sky's the Limit (band)

text:
Sky's The Limit, is an America rock band formed in Virginia in 1998. The band was the first major project to highlight Dave Elkins as an artist.

History
Sky's the Limit was created in 1998 in Virginia. After performing a series of local shows they completed and released a self-titled album Sky's The Limit. The CD release quickly fell out of print and today copies are rare to find. The band disbanded as Dave Elkins formed Mae in 2001. In 2010 the album Sky's the Limit was re-released as a digital download through Spartan Records.

References

American emo musical groups
Musical groups from Virginia
Musicians from Norfolk, Virginia


title: Round Lake Area Schools

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Round Lake Area Schools, also known as Round Lake School District and sometimes identified as Community Unit School District 116, is a school district based in Round Lake, Illinois.

Schools
The district operates Round Lake High School and a number of middle and elementary schools.

• Round Lake Senior High School (Panthers)

• John T. Magee Middle School (Cougars)

• Round Lake Middle School (Wildcats)

• Beach Elementary School (Bobcats)

• Ellis Elementary School (Eagles)

• Indian Hill Elementary School (Chiefs)

• Murphy Elementary School (Mustangs)

• Village Elementary School (Vikings)

• Kindergarten at Pleviak
 Early Education Center

References

External links

School districts in Lake County, Illinois


title: 1993 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

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The men's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 1993 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 15 at the Port Island Sports Center.  The last champion was Tom Jager of US.

This race consisted of one length of the pool in freestyle.

Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:

Results
All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats
The first round was held on August 15.

B Final
The B final was held on August 15.

A Final
The A final was held on August 15.

References

1993 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships


title: Sapore di te

text:
Sapore di te () is a 2014 Italian film directed by Carlo Vanzina and written by Carlo and Enrico Vanzina. It depicts the lives of several groups of characters interacting at the beach of Forte dei Marmi during the mid-1980s. The film is set thirty years after the Vanzinas' 1982 film Sapore di mare, also set at Forte dei Marmi, but is not a sequel to that film.

Cast

 Vincenzo Salemme: Onorevole Piero De Marco
 Maurizio Mattioli: Alberto Proietti
 Nancy Brilli: Elena Proietti
 Katy Saunders: Sabrina Proietti
 Serena Autieri: Susy Acampora
 Martina Stella: Anna Malorni
 Giorgio Pasotti: Armando Malenotti
 Andrea Pucci: Sandro
 Valeria Graci: Michela
 Fiammetta Cicogna: Nicoletta

References

External links

Italian comedy films
2014 films
Films directed by Carlo Vanzina
Films set in the 1980s
Films set on beaches
Films set in Tuscany
2010s Italian-language films
2010s Italian films


title: Matahiwi

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Matahiwi is a farming community  upriver from Whanganui, New Zealand, home to the Māori hapū known as Ngā Poutama of the iwi Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi. The township takes its name from the bush-clad puke (hill) on the western side of the Whanganui River, right above the local marae, whose name translates as "the face on the ridge" (mata, face; hiwi, ridge).

History and culture

Early settlement

The original settlement of Ngā Poutama was across the river at Hikurangi (also known as Poutama). In the 1840s it had a population of about 200. Hikurangi was renamed in 1850 with the biblical name Karatia (Galatia), often spelled Karatea. That settlement is now deserted; the urupa (burial ground) is still known as Hikurangi.

The Kawana flour mill at Matahiwi was named in honour of Governor George Grey, who had donated the millstones as a personal gift to the Ngā Poutama people. It operated for over 50 years from 1854 and was restored in 1980.

Matahiwi was a way station for the paddle steamers that were the main transportation up the Whanganui River before the building of the road. The remains of the sternwheeler Tuhua that grounded in 1890 are on the far side of Moutere Island.

Modern settlement

Matahiwi is predominantly a sheep and beef farming area, much of it under management of Atihau-Whanganui Incorporation, which was established in 1970 to farm 101,000 acres of land vested into the Aotea Maori Land Council by Whanganui Māori between 1902 and 1904.

Marae

There are three marae in the Matahiwi area. Maranganui Marae and Tuarua meeting house ar affiliated with Ngāti Tuera. Matahiwi or Ohotu Marae and Tānewai meeting house are affiliated with Ngā Poutama and Ngāti Tānewai. Waitahupārae Marae and Waitahupārae meeting house are affiliated with Ngāti Patutokotoko.

The present-day Matahiwi or Ohotu Marae was established by Maehe Ranginui in 1902. His daughter Te Kehu, noting its similarity to the one they had left behind in Karatia, shed tears (wai) in the presence of her husband (tāne) Nikorima; the wharepuni (sleeping house) is thus known as Tānewai (a name also linked with the founder of Hikurangi).

References

External links
 Matahiwi Marae website

Populated places in Manawatū-Whanganui
Settlements on the Whanganui River
Whanganui District


title: Air Force Forces Command (Germany)

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The Air Force Forces Command (), previously the Air Fleet Command () from 1970 to 2001, was a high command authority of the German Air Force of the Bundeswehr, responsible for the operations of the Air Force. In 2013, it was disbanded after its functions were merged into the new Air Force Command (Kommando Luftwaffe), along with those of the other high command bodies of the German Air Force.

Its subordinate elements were:
 Air Force Operations Command
 German Joint Force Air Component Command Headquarters (JFAC HQ)
 National Air Defense Command Center
 German Space Situational Awareness Center
 Air Force Support Command
1st Air Division in Southern Germany
2nd Air Division in Eastern Germany
4th Air Division in Western Germany
Air Command and Control Section 1
Air Command and Control Section 3
Air Command and Control Section 2
Surface-to-Air Missile Wing 5
 SAM Battalion 22
SAM Battalion 23
Surface-to-Air Missile Wing 2
 SAM Battalion 21
 SAM Battalion 24
Surface-to-Air Missile Wing 1
 SAM Battalion 25
 SAM Battalion 26
 Air Transport Wing 61 (disbanded 31 December 2017)
 Air Transport Wing 62
 Air Transport Wing 63
 Helicopter Wing 64
 Ministry of Defence Transport Wing
 Fighter-Bomber Wing 31 “Boelcke”
 Fighter-Bomber Wing 33
 Fighter Wing 73 "Steinhoff"
 Fighter Wing 74
 Reconnaissance Wing 51 "Immelmann"
German Air Force Tactical Training Center Italy
Air Force Regiment "Friesland"

References

Air force commands of Germany
Military units and formations disestablished in 2013
Units and formations of the German Air Force
Military units and formations established in 1970


title: Bruno Crastes

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Bruno Crastes (born 15 May 1965) is a French fund manager specializing in absolute return/global bond strategies and CEO of .

Early life and education
Bruno Crastes was born on May 15, 1965, in the suburbs of Lyon. He received a BA in mathematics from the University of Lyon and graduated in actuarial sciences from the Institut de Science Financière et d’Assurances.

Career
After graduation, he started his career at Bank Louis Dreyfus as a proprietary trader on bond market. He then moved to Indosuez Asset Management (later known as Crédit Agricole Asset Management and then Amundi), a French asset management company. He began managing global fixed income portfolios at Crédit Agricole Asset Management and rose through the ranks and from 1994 on, he headed the global fixed income desk. He was appointed CIO of CAAM London in 2002 and then CEO in 2005. The same year, he was the top manager in the Citywire Fund Manager ratings for France,. He topped the league again in 2006. In 2007, he was nominated for the "CIO of the Year" award. In 2010, following the creation of Amundi, he was appointed member of the executive committee and Deputy Head of the Institutional Investment Division.  "Top fund manager and fixed income specialist for over 20 years", Bruno Crastes has been made famous developing an innovative range of absolute return range of open-ended funds called VaR funds from March 1999. One of the VaR funds, CAAM Invest VaR 20 I EUR fund, won the Lipper award for Global macro in Europe in 2010.

In 2010, he co-founded  with Vincent Chailley, focusing on liquid absolute return strategies. He was nominated "Best global bond manager of the past five years" in June 2013 with a performance of 89.71% vs. 33.65% for the peer group.
In December 2014, he arrived second in the Top 100 European fund managers ranking of l'Agefi Suisse.
He is currently acting as Group Corporate & Market Strategy Director of  and Vincent Chailley as Group CIO. He received the "Prix spécial BFMTV" on behalf of  in February 2015. His fund  won the absolute return bond fund award at the Investment Week Specialist awards ceremony in Autumn 2015.
2.2 billion-euro ($2.5 billion) of  fund are linked to Lars Windhorst and slumped due to illiquidity in 2019.
He is on the board of Tennor, a vehicle owned by Lars Windhorst.  has emerged as among the biggest buyers of this Tennor bonds (previously Sapinda).

Natixis holds 23.4% of  shares via Natixis Investment Managers.

On December 30, 2022, he was sentenced in France by the Autorité des Marchés Financier (the French FCA) to a fine of 15 million euros for three technical grievances on non-compliance with investment rules,  was fined 75 million euros on this occasion.

See also
Natixis Global Asset Management#Subsidiaries and strategic partnership

References

External links
 Official Website

Living people
1965 births
French money managers
French company founders
Businesspeople from Lyon
French expatriates in the United Kingdom
French hedge fund managers


title: Arabian scops owl

text:
The Arabian scops owl (Otus pamelae) is a small owl endemic to Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Yemen. The current population of the species is estimated to be about 60,000 individuals.

References

Arabian scops owl
Birds of the Arabian Peninsula
Arabian scops owl
Arabian scops owl


title: Leonard Schulman

text:
Leonard J. Y. Schulman (born September 14, 1963) is professor of computer science in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for work on algorithms, information theory, coding theory, and quantum computation.

Personal biography
Schulman is the son of theoretical physicist Lawrence Schulman.

Academic biography
Schulman studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he completed a BS degree in mathematics in 1988 and a PhD degree in applied mathematics in 1992.
He was a faculty member in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1995 to 2000 before joining the faculty of the California Institute of Technology.  From 2003-2017, he served as the director of the Center for Mathematics of Information at Caltech.  He also participates in the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter.  In 2017-2018, he was a EURIAS Senior Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Research
Schulman's research centers broadly around algorithms and information.  He has made notable contributions to varied areas within this space including clustering, derandomization, quantum information theory, and coding theory.  In coding theory he proved the Interactive Coding Theorem (a generalization of the Shannon Coding Theorem.)  In clustering, his work on quantifying the effectiveness of Lloyd-type methods for the k-means problem, was named a Computing Reviews "Notable Paper" in 2012.  In quantum computation, he is known for his work on the non-abelian hidden subgroup problem, and for his work on noise thresholds for ensemble quantum computing.

Awards and honors

Schulman received the MIT Bucsela Prize in 1988, an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1992 and an NSF CAREER award in 1999.  His work received the IEEE S.A. Schelkunoff Prize in 2005.  Schulman was also recognized for the ACM Notable Paper in 2012. In 2022 he was awarded the FOCS Test of Time Award  for his work on  error correction in the setting of interactive communication.  He was the editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Computing for two terms (2013-2018.) He was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, in the 2022 Class of SIAM Fellows, "for seminal contributions to coding theory, quantum computing and matrix analysis, and outstanding service".

References

External links
 Leonard Schulman professional home page

American computer scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
California Institute of Technology faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Living people
Theoretical computer scientists
1963 births
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics


title: Tommy Gustafsson

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Tommy Gustafsson (born 2 July 1948), known as Tommy "Gyxa" Gustafsson, is a Swedish former footballer who played as a forward.

Career
Gustafsson began his football career in the small club, Åstorps IF, which he represented from age ten in 1958 until 1969. In 1970, he transferred to Landskrona BoIS, where he contributed to the promotion of this club to the Swedish top league, Allsvenskan, already during his first season for the club. He scored the opening goal in the first qualifying match (of three), against Sandvikens IF in front of 15 685 attenders at Landskrona IP. Two seasons later "Gyxa" and his Landskrona BoIS won the Swedish Cup. He also contributed to the clubs Allsvenskan bronze medals in 1975 and 1976. In the beginning of his time in BoIS, he played forward together with Sonny Johansson and Dan Brzokoupil. During his two last seasons for Landskrona BoIS, he played as midfielder instead. He represented Landskrona BoIS at 326 occasions and scored 56 goals. After the 1978 season he stepped down and played for the small club Kågeröds BIF

Personal life
He is the father of the current coach at IFK Norrköping, Jens Gustafsson.

His nickname was not related to football; as a young kid he could simply not pronounce his surname and "Gustafsson" became "Gyxa", and it is under that nickname he is remembered among the Landskrona BoIS supporters. He is still a frequent guest at Landskrona BoIS' home games. In the autumn of 2013 he was one of the most well-known people who signed a successful protest against introducing artificial turf at his former home ground as footballer.

References

Living people
1948 births
Men's association football forwards
Swedish men's footballers
Landskrona BoIS players
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Government of Puntland

text:
The Government of Puntland () is the supreme governing authority of the autonomous region of Puntland State of Somalia. The legal structure of Puntland consists of the judiciary, legislative (House of Representatives) and the executive (the President and his nominated council of Ministries) branches of government. Puntland has conducted four presidential elections (1998, 2004, 2009, 2014). Presidents are elected by a 66-member unicameral parliament. Since 1998, the governing bodies have been located in the regional capital of Garowe.

Establishment
Following the outbreak of the civil war in 1991, a homegrown constitutional conference was held in Garowe in 1998 over a period of three months. Attended by the area's political elite, traditional elders (Issims), members of the business community, intellectuals and other civil society representatives, the autonomous Puntland State of Somalia was subsequently officially established so as to deliver services to the population, offer security, facilitate trade, and interact with both domestic and international partners.

Government agencies
 Puntland Agency for Social Welfare (PASWE)
 Puntland Highway Authority (PHA)
 Puntland State Agency for Water, Energy and Natural Resources (PSAWEN)
 Puntland Petroleum and Mineral Agency (PPMA)

Cabinet

References

External links
 Official Government Website

Puntland
Politics of Somalia
Political organisations based in Somalia
Government agencies established in 1998


title: Brush with Danger

text:
Brush with Danger is an American action thriller film produced and directed by Livi Zheng. The film stars Ken Zheng, Livi Zheng, Norman Newkirk, Nikita Breznikov, Michael Blend, and Stephanie Hilbert. The film was written, produced, and directed by a brother-sister duo from Indonesia, Livi Zheng and Ken Zheng, who after pursuing martial arts and filmmaking separately, came together to create this martial arts action thriller. The film was released in theaters in the United States on September 19, 2014.

Synopsis
Siblings Ken and Alice become entangled with Seattle criminals who want to exploit their talent as martial artists.

Cast

 Ken Zheng as Ken Qiang
 Livi Zheng as Alice Qiang
 Norman Newkirk as Justus Sullivan
 Nikita Breznikov as Nick Thompson
 Michael Blend as Marcus Gilani
 Stephanie Hilbert as Elizabeth St. Clouds

Production

Brush with Danger was shot in Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles, California.

Release
The film received a limited release in the United States on September 19, 2014, and in Indonesia on November 26, 2015.

Reception
The film was critically panned and holds a 20% score on Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. On Metacritic, it holds a score of 22 based on four reviews.

Anita Gates of The New York Times wrote "One of the many strange things about this genre-confused film is that Alice and Ken, who are fictional siblings portrayed by real ones, never say where they’re from. Instead we get numerous references to Asia in general and the occasional sentence beginning, 'In my country.'" Gates added that "the script consists of singularly unoriginal dialogue" and called the screenplay "colloquial".

Giving the film 1.5 out of 5 stars, Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle wrote that the film "is ultimately hobbled by a paucity of credible acting" and that while "the Zhengs might be people to keep an eye on", the film "isn’t the most promising of starts". Simon Abrams of The Village Voice criticized the action scenes as "poorly choreographed" and that they "do nothing to extenuate the film's offensive characterizations".

Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times praised the cinematography and said that while the storytelling was not sophisticated, the film was "undauntedly upbeat".

References

External links

2014 films
American action thriller films
2014 action thriller films
Films shot in Washington (state)
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


title: Cougar Software

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Cougar Software developed budgeting, planning and forecasting software for real estate investors in the commercial real estate industry globally. Cougar Software was founded in Australia in 1992. It later moved to Toronto. The company had offices in Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and the U.S.

In February 2015 Cougar was acquired by MRI Software of Solon, Ohio.

History
Cougar Software was founded in Sydney, Australia in 1992 by Bruce Millar. Oren Rosen, who previously held leadership positions with firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, joined Cougar Software as Vice President in 2007, and then took over as the company's Chief Executive Officer in 2008.

In 2014, Rosen was appointed to the board of the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE), reinforcing the company's support of OSCRE industry standards.

Cougar Software worked in partnership with various consulting and technology firms in the real estate management realm, including Hipercept, RealFoundations, MRI Software, and iKindi.

Cougar Software was acquired by MRI Software on February 3, 2015 and is now referred to as MRI Strategic Planning.

Recognition
Cougar Software was a 2014 finalist in the Real Estate Technology Innovation category of the "Digie" Awards.

References

Companies based in Toronto
Defunct software companies of Canada
Real estate valuation
1992 establishments in Australia
Companies based in Sydney
Software companies of Australia
Software companies established in 1992
Software companies disestablished in 2015
2015 disestablishments in Ontario
2015 mergers and acquisitions


title: Tuskys

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Tuskys (formerly Tusker Mattress), was a Kenyan supermarket chain. It was one of the large supermarket chains in the Great Lakes Area. It employed nearly 6,150 people, 6,000+ in Kenya, and 150 in Uganda.

Location
The head office of Tuskys is located at the Gami Properties Complex, along Mombasa Road, in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. The coordinates of the home office are:1°20'05.0"S, 36°53'38.0"E (Latitude:-1.334722; Longitude:36.893889).

Overview
As of August 2018, Tuskys owned and operated sixty supermarkets in Kenya and Uganda. Tuskys employs more than 6,000 people in Kenya. As of July 2018, Tuskys had closed four stores in Kampala, Uganda and remained with three stores in Kampala, at Makerere, Ntinda and Kitintale.

Ownership
Tuskys is a wholly Kenyan, privately held company owned by seven children of Joram Kamau, the founder of the business who died in 2002. The table below summarizes the shareholding within the company as of August 2014. As of August 2020, the company has been placed under observation by the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK). It faces a Ksh 2 million debt and the risk of insolvency unless it recapitalizes.

Other considerations
Beginning in April 2013, Tuskys entered into a private deal with Ukwala Supermarkets a rival chain, whereby Tuskys would buy six Ukwala stores in the Nairobi area. To arrive at a fair price, Tuskys took over the management of two of the stores to assess traffic and commercial flow at those locations. The two chains did not consult the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK), as required by law. When CAK learned of the transaction, the regulator stopped the deal and fined the two chains a total of KES:5.3 million (about US$38,000). CAK ordered the management arrangements to be reversed. When the supermarket chains did not move fast enough, CAK closed the two stores in question.

Fallen retail giant
In July 2020, the Cabinet Secretary of Trade, Betty Maina told The EastAfrican news center that the government of Kenya was closely monitoring Tuskys Supermarket which was slowly sliding into financial trouble after failing to pay suppliers. The Kenya Association of Manufacturers, whose members form the bulk of Tuskys's suppliers, said the retailer is facing debt payment challenges and is flouting the joint Prompt Payment Code of Practice that provides for payment of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) within 30 days from the date of the invoice while other goods should be 45 days. Tuskys proposal was to extend this to 150 days for goods supplied earlier than December 2019. It is argued that the retailer would be dishonouring its commitments to manufacturers resulting in cash flow problems for them.

Tuskys (Tusker Mattresses LTD) has fallen from 64 to only 5 open stores. The remaining stores are a shell of the retail gem with their sales yielding lower due to stock-outs as suppliers kept off. The margins from these stores are being wiped off as they are using diesel powered generators to provide power as Kenya Power have pulled the plug on them over pending bills settlement.

The retail giant is reported in plans to relocate its headquarters from Nairobi's City Cabanas bus terminus to Athi River as the chain struggles to service rent. Tusky's exit from the Greenspan mall in Donholm has hit ICEA's Investment arm as their anchor tenant has had major financial difficulties. According to Ruth Okal, an Investment manager in ICEA Lions Property, they started observing a strain in rental payments from Tuskys mid 2019. It is reported that Tuskys has arrears of 26 million Kenyan Shillings with the GreenSpan Mall as of Q4 2020 billings. A distress process of surrender with the retailer is currently undergoing with almost all rent arrears are being cleared.

Sibling rivalry, aggressive debt fuelled expansions and fierce competition is blamed for Tuskys' downward spiral from the sub-section: How Tuskys lost its tusks. Tuskys fierce sibling rivalry is evidenced by the third generation grandkids of the founder, in the full glare of television cameras, hounded the CEO Dan Githua the same year Yusuf Mugweru took, his step-brother, Stephen Mukuha to court for slapping him. The following year Stephen Mukuha and, his other brother, George Gachwe were arraigned in court over theft of 1.64 billion from the retailer following investigations that started in February 2012 when Mugweru sounded the alarm over theft of funds from Tuskys accounts. It is reported that attempts to reconcile the siblings has never worked out.

See also

List of supermarket chains in Kenya
Economy of Kenya

References

External links
Webpage of Tusker Mattress Company Limited (Tuskys)

Supermarkets of Kenya
Retail companies established in 1990
Nairobi
Kenyan companies established in 1990


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Radio P3 may refer to:

DR P3, Danish radio station
NRK P3, Norwegian radio station
NRK P3 Pyro, Norwegian internet-based music radio station
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See also
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title: Nokia 130

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Nokia 130 and Nokia 130 Dual Sim are Nokia-branded entry-level feature phones from HMD Global. Originally introduced September 2014 by Microsoft Mobile, the 130 supports one Mini-SIM card and 130 Dual Sim supports two Mini-SIM cards.  The cost will be equivalent of 19 Euros when bought unlocked and SIM-free. Its available colors are red, black, and white, depending on region and market.

The phones are targeted at emerging markets, and initially went on sale in China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, and Vietnam.

In 2017 a new version of the Nokia 130 was released under the same name (see Nokia 130 (2017)). It is slightly larger (111.5 x 48.4 x 14.2 mm), has small optical design changes and features a built-in flashlight and camera.

Specifications
Nokia 130 runs on an updated Series 30+ UI. The phone comes pre-loaded with various apps, the Snake Xenzia game, and audio/video playback support. The audio player supports MP3, WAV, AAC files.  The video player supports MP4 (H.263) files.

The Nokia 130 and 130 Dual both provide the user with very long use times:

 Standby time up to 864 hours (36 days) for Nokia 130, and 624 hours (26 days) for Nokia 130 Dual Sim
 Talk time up to 13 hours (0.54 days)
 Video playback time up to 16 hours (0.67 days)
 Music playback time up to 46 hours (1.92 days)

See also
 Nokia 3-digit series
 Nokia 100
 Nokia 101 (2011)
 Nokia 103
 Nokia 106

References

External links
Official
 Nokia 130, nokia.com
 Nokia 130 Dual, nokia.com
Other
 Nokia 130, gsmarena.com
 Nokia 130 Dual, youtube.com
 What is Nokia Bluetooth SLAM and how do you use it?

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Nokia 130
Mobile phones introduced in 2014
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery