The Lowering Gasoline Prices to Fuel an America That Works Act of 2014 () is a bill that would revise existing laws and policies regarding the development of oil and gas resources on the Outer Continental Shelf. The bill is intended to increase domestic energy production and lower gas prices.

The bill was introduced and passed in the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.

Background
The administration of President Barack Obama delayed the sale of some oil and natural gas sales off the coasts of Virginia and South Carolina. This bill would require those sales to go forward.

Louisiana and other states along the Gulf of Mexico will receive 37.5 percent of the off-shore royalty payments paid to the federal government for off-shore leases in that area beginning in 2017. The maximum royalty payout is currently $500 million, but would be increased to $1 billion in 2024 by this bill.

Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.

Lowering Gasoline Prices to Fuel an America That Works Act of 2014 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to direct the United States Secretary of the Interior to implement a leasing program that includes at least 50% of the available unleased acreage within each outer Continental Shelf (OCS) planning area considered to have the largest undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources, with an emphasis on offering the most geologically prospective parts of the planning area.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) submit to Congress a new proposed oil and gas leasing program for the 5-year period from July 15, 2015, to July 15, 2021; and (2) approve a final oil and gas leasing program by July 15, 2016.

Prohibits construction of this Act as authorizing the issuance of a lease under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to any person designated for the imposition of sanctions pursuant to specified law.

Directs the Secretary to conduct offshore oil and gas Lease Sale 220 on the OCS offshore Virginia within one year after the date of enactment of this Act.

Directs the Secretary to conduct a lease sale within two years after enactment of this Act for certain areas off the coast of South Carolina. Directs the Secretary to offer for sale by December 31, 2015, leases of tracts in the Santa Maria and Santa Barbara/Ventura Basins of the Southern California OCS Planning Area.

Retains the authority of the United States Secretary of Defense (DOD) with the approval of the President of the United States, to designate national defense areas on the OCS.

Establishes in the United States Department of the Interior: (1) an Under Secretary for Energy, Lands, and Minerals; (2) an Assistant Secretary of Ocean Energy and Safety; (3) an Assistant Secretary of Land and Minerals Management; (4) a Bureau of Ocean Energy; (5) an Ocean Energy Safety Service; and (6) an Office of Natural Resources Revenue.

Abolishes the Minerals Management Service.

Directs the Secretary to establish an Outer Continental Shelf Energy Safety Advisory Board.

Establishes in the Treasury the Ocean Energy Enforcement Fund as depository for non-refundable fees collected from the operators of facilities subject to inspection.

Prohibits the Bureau of Ocean Energy and the Ocean Energy Safety Service from developing, proposing, finalizing, administering, or implementing any limitation on activities under their jurisdictions as a result of the coastal and marine spatial planning component of the National Ocean Policy developed under Executive Order 13547.

Redefines the OCS to include all submerged lands lying within the U.S. exclusive economic zone and the Continental Shelf adjacent to any U.S. territory.

Directs the Secretary to promulgate rules regarding the revenue streams contemplated by the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006, including the timing and methods of disbursements of certain funds under such Act. Increases, for FY2024-FY2055, the maximum amount of qualified OCS revenues distributed to Gulf producing states.

Prescribes requirements for judicial review of any action or decision by a federal official regarding the issuance of an energy lease under this Act.

Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act - Directs the Secretary, when practicable, to encourage the use of U.S. workers and equipment manufactured in the U.S. in all construction related to mineral resource development under this Act.

Streamlining Permitting of American Energy Act of 2014 - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) to direct the Secretary to decide whether to issue a permit to drill within 30 days after receiving a permit application, with specified allowable deadline extensions.

Deems a permit application approved if the Secretary has not made a decision by 60 days after its receipt. Prescribes requirements for denial and resubmission of an application.

Requires the Secretary to collect a single $6,500 permit processing fee per application at the time the decision is made whether to issue a permit.

Directs the Secretary to collect a $5,000 documentation fee to accompany each protest for a lease, right of way, or application for permit to drill.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish a Federal Permit Streamlining Project in every Bureau of Land Management (BLM) field office with responsibility for permitting energy projects on federal land, and (2) enter into a related memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the United States Secretary of Agriculture, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers.

Requires the Secretary to provide matching funding of 50% for joint projects with states to conduct oil and gas resource assessments on federal lands with significant oil and gas potential.

Providing Leasing Certainty for American Energy Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary, in conducting lease sales under the MLA, to offer for sale at least 25% of the annual nominated acreage not previously made available for lease. Shields such acreage from protest and the test of extraordinary circumstances.

Amends the MLA to prohibit the Secretary from: (1) withdrawing any covered energy project without finding a violation of lease terms by the lessee; (2) delaying indefinitely issuance of project approvals, drilling and seismic permits, and rights of way for activities under a lease; or (3) cancelling or withdrawing any lease parcel after a competitive lease sale has occurred and a winning bidder has made the last payment for the parcel.

Requires federal land managers to follow existing resource management plans and continue to lease actively in areas designated as open when resource management plans are being amended or revised, until such time as a new record of decision is signed.

Declares without force or effect BLM Instruction Memorandum 2010-117 (which establishes a process to ensure orderly, effective, timely, and environmentally responsible leasing of oil and gas resources on federal lands).

Protecting Investment in Oil Shale the Next Generation of Environmental, Energy, and Resource Security Act or the PIONEERS Act - Deems the final regulations regarding oil shale management published by the BLM on November 18, 2008, to satisfy all legal and procedural requirements under any law, including the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and NEPA. Directs the Secretary to implement those regulations, including the oil shale leasing program they authorize, without any other administrative action necessary.

Directs the Secretary to hold a lease sale, within 180 days after enactment of this Act, that offers an additional ten parcels for lease for research, development, and demonstration of oil shale resources under the terms offered in the solicitation of bids published on January 15, 2009.

Requires the Secretary, by January 1, 2016, to hold at least five separate commercial lease sales, in multiple lease blocs, in areas of at least 25,000 acres, which: (1) have been nominated through public comment, and (2) are considered to have the most potential for oil shale development.

Planning for American Energy Act of 2014 - Amends the MLA to direct the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) with regard to lands administered by the Forest Service, to publish every four years a Quadrennial Federal Onshore Energy Production Strategy to direct federal land energy development and department resource allocation in order to promote the energy and national security of the United States in accordance with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mission to promote the multiple use of federal lands.

Requires the Secretary to determine a domestic strategic production objective for the development of energy resources from such lands.

Expresses the sense of Congress that federally recognized Indian tribes may elect to set their own production objectives as part of the Strategy.

Grants the relevant Secretary all necessary authority to make determinations regarding which additional federal lands available for leasing at the time the lease sale occurs will be available to meet the production objectives established by the strategies.

National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Access Act - Amends the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 to require the mandatory program of competitive leasing of oil and gas in the National Petroleum Reserve (NPR) in Alaska to include at least one lease sale annually in those areas most likely to produce commercial quantities of oil and natural gas each year in the period 2014-2024.

Directs the Secretary to ensure permits according to a specified time line for all surface development activities, including pipelines and roads construction, to: (1) develop and bring into production areas within the NPR that are subject to oil and gas leases, and (2) transport oil and gas from and through the NPR to existing transportation or processing infrastructure on the North Slope of Alaska.

Requires the Secretary to ensure that any federal permitting agency shall issue construction permits for transportation of oil and natural gas under existing federal oil and gas leases with drilling permits within 60 days after enactment of this Act. Requires approval of drilling permits under new federal oil and gas leases within six months after submission of a permit request to the Secretary.

Directs the Secretary to issue: (1) a new proposed integrated activity plan from among the non-adopted alternatives in the NPR Alaska Integrated Activity Plan Record of Decision dated February 21, 2013, and (2) an environmental impact statement under NEPA for issuance of oil and gas leases in the NPR-Alaska to promote efficient and maximum development of oil and natural gas resources of such reserve.

Nullifies the February 21, 2013, Record of Decision, including its integrated activity plan and environmental impact statement.

Prescribes requirements for the new proposed integrated activity plan.

Requires the Secretary to assess all technically recoverable fossil fuel resources within the NPR, including all conventional and unconventional oil and natural gas.

Directs the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the state of Alaska and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, to implement and complete the resource assessment within 24 months after enactment of this Act.

BLM Live Internet Auctions Act - Amends the MLA to authorize the Secretary to conduct onshore oil and gas lease sales through Internet-based live bidding methods.

Requires each individual Internet-based lease sale to conclude within seven days.

Directs the Secretary to analyze the first ten such lease sales and evaluate the effectiveness of different structures for lease sales.

Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, a public domain source.

Title I would revise existing laws and policies regarding the development of oil and gas resources on the Outer Continental Shelf. Title I is similar to H.R. 2231, the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act, which was passed by the House of Representatives on June 28, 2013. Differences in the estimates primarily reflect a later assumed enactment date.

Title II would make certain amendments to the Mineral Leasing Act, require the United States Secretary of the Interior to conduct new activities related to oil and gas development on federal lands, and authorize the Secretary to conduct auctions for federal onshore oil and gas leases using Internet-based bidding methods. Title II contains provisions that are similar to those in H.R. 1965, the Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act, which was passed by the House of Representatives on November 20, 2013, H.R. 1394; the Planning for American Energy Act of 2013, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 24, 2013; H.R. 1964, the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Access Act, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on June 12, 2013; and H.R. 555, the BLM Live Internet Auctions Act, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 24, 2013. Differences in the estimates primarily reflect a later assumed enactment date.

Procedural history
The Lowering Gasoline Prices to Fuel an America That Works Act of 2014 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on June 19, 2014 by Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA). It was referred to the United States House Committee on Natural Resources and the United States House Committee on the Judiciary. The House voted in Roll Call Vote 368 on June 26, 2014 to pass the bill 229-185.

Debate and discussion
Rep. Hastings, who introduced the bill, argued that "the current turmoil in Iraq has already caused the price of gasoline to increase, and it serves as an important reminder of why we need to increase production here at home" because it is the "best way to protect ourselves from price spikes caused by international conflicts." Hastings blamed President Obama for the high gas prices, saying that "since President Obama took office, gasoline prices have doubled and our federal energy resources have been put under tight lock-and-key." Hastings also argued that the bill would "create over 1 million new American jobs."

Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) supported the bill, arguing that the bill "would allow us to take advantage of our natural resources and expands our energy manufacturing and construction industries."

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) opposed the bill, arguing that it did not solve the true cause of high gas prices which he blamed on "Big Oil in the United States and speculation on Wall Street." DeFazio called the bill the "drill everywhere" bill.

See also
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress
Offshore drilling on the US Atlantic coast

References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 4899
beta.congress.gov H.R. 4899
GovTrack.us H.R. 4899
OpenCongress.org H.R. 4899
WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 4899
Congressional Budget Office's report on H.R. 4899

Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress


title: Kelly Carr

text:
Kelly Carr is an investigative business journalist.

Early life

As a young child in Pennsylvania, Carr went to Holy Name School, where she won an essay contest while in the third grade sponsored by the West Side Woman's Club. In 1989, she was a member of the gymnastics team at the YMCA in Pittston, Pennsylvania. She attended Crestwood High School in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, where she played on the volleyball team. She earned her B.S. in Journalism from West Virginia University in 2003, and her M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College in 2006.

Career

Carr began her career as a sports reporter for the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania while still a high school student. Throughout college, she worked as a sports correspondent for various news outlets, including the Associated Press. After graduating, she worked as a general assignment reporter for the Battle Creek Enquirer, then moved to The Arizona Republic, where she worked as an education and municipal reporter, and became the Online Platform Coordinator in 2007.

Carr taught as an adjunct professor at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and became the training director and online producer for the school's Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.

While working for the center, Carr also worked as a freelance investigative reporter for Reuters. Together with a team from Reuters, she wrote an award-winning series of reports on shell companies. The first report in the series, "A Little House of Secrets on the Great Plains", earned Carr and Brian Glow the 2011 Foreign Press Association Media Award for Financial/Economic Reporting. The entire series earned the team the 2012 New York Press Club Business Reporting Award for Newswire, the 2012 Gerald Loeb Award for News Services, and the 2012 National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism, Periodicals.

In 2014, Carr and Scot J. Paltrow wrote "Unaccountable" for Reuters, a piece on accounting fraud in the U.S. Defense Department that won a Goldsmith Prize Special Citation.

Carr worked on the Luxembourg Leaks project for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The ICIJ team produced a series of reports beginning in 2014 on a cache of leaked confidential tax rulings by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg allowing corporations to save billions of dollars in taxes.

In 2016, Carr received a Spotlight Investigative Journalism Fellowship from The Boston Globe, which includes $100,000 to work on in-depth investigative projects. Working with Jaimi Dowdell, she wrote a series called "Secrets in the Sky" about holes in the Federal Aviation Administration's registration process that won the 2018 TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting.

Selected articles
 "A Little House of Secrets on the Great Plains", winner of several awards
 "Secrets in the Sky, Part 1", 2018 TRACE Award winner
 "Secrets in the Sky, Part 2", 2018 TRACE Award winner
 "Unaccountable", winner of the 2014 Goldsmith Award Special Citation

References

External links
 Luxembourg Leaks, official website

American newspaper writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
American women journalists
Gerald Loeb Award winners for News Service, Online, and Blogging
Goucher College alumni
West Virginia University alumni
Journalists from Pennsylvania
21st-century American women


title: Vahenurme Nature Reserve

text:
Vahenurme Nature Reserve is a nature reserve situated in western Estonia, in Pärnu County.

The nature reserve has been established to protect the biologically diverse wooden meadows and forests of the area. It comprises an area of former agricultural land that has turned or is turning into forest. 239 species of vascular plants have been counted in Vahenurme Nature Reserve. Of these, 12 are protected.

References

Nature reserves in Estonia
Forests of Estonia
Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish


title: Jennings Formation

text:
The Jennings Formation is a geologic formation in Maryland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maryland
 Paleontology in Maryland

References

Additional sources

Devonian Maryland
Devonian geology of Pennsylvania
Devonian southern paleotemperate deposits


The 2014–15 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team represented Clemson University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Led by fifth year head coach Brad Brownell, the Tigers played their home games at Littlejohn Coliseum as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season 16–15, 8–10 in ACC play to finish in a three way tie for sixth place. They lost in the second round of the ACC tournament to Florida State.

Last season
The Tigers finished the season 23–13, 10–8 in ACC play to finish in sixth place. They advanced to the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament where they lost to Duke. They received an invitation to the National Invitation Tournament where they defeated Georgia State, Illinois and Belmont to advance to the semifinals where they lost to SMU.

Departures

Recruiting class

Roster

Schedule

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Clemson Tigers men's basketball seasons
Clemson


title: Mifflintown Formation

text:
The Mifflintown Formation is a geologic formation in Maryland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period.

See also
 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maryland
 Paleontology in Maryland

References

Silurian Maryland
Silurian geology of Pennsylvania
Silurian southern paleotemperate deposits


title: Magothy Formation

text:
The Magothy Formation is a geologic formation in Maryland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Turonian stage of the Cretaceous period.

See also
 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maryland
 Paleontology in Maryland

References

Geologic formations of Maryland
Geologic formations of New Jersey
Cretaceous Maryland
Cretaceous geology of New Jersey
Upper Cretaceous Series of North America
Turonian Stage


title: Matawan Formation

text:
The Matawan Formation is a geologic formation in Maryland and New Jersey. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.

A description of the formation in Maryland from the USGS Tolochester Folio (1917) follows:
The formation consists chiefly of glauconitic sand intimately mixed with dark-colored clay, but all through the material small flakes of mica are abundant. In some places the deposits consist almost entirely of black clay; in others, particularly where the upper beds are exposed, the arenaceous phase is predominant, and some beds consist entirely of sand ranging in color from white to dark greenish-black. Where the glauconite decomposes, the iron oxidizes and the materials are stained reddish-brown and in places are firmly indurated by the iron oxide. In places a small layer of gravel lies at the base of the formation. Small amounts of pyrite are occasionally seen. A prominent feature in several exposures of the Matawan formation in this quadrangle is the presence of large spherical to oblong concretions of clay ironstone, in places very numerous and attaining a length of 5 feet and a thickness of 3 feet. They stand erect in the formation in most places. In the erosion of the bluffs of the formation, they persist long after the inclosing loose sands and sandy clays have been removed and are found scattered over the beaches in large numbers. They are especially noticeable on Dutch Ship Island, on the west side of Gibson Island, and in the high bluff at the mouth of Lloyd Creek.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maryland
 Paleontology in Maryland

References

Cretaceous Maryland
Cretaceous geology of New Jersey
Cretaceous Delaware


title: Monmouth Formation

text:
The Monmouth Formation is a geologic formation in Prince George's County, Maryland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maryland
 Paleontology in Maryland

References

Cretaceous Maryland


title: Billy Walton (hurler)

text:
William Walton (16 May 1961 – 18 November 2012) was an Irish hurler who played as a left wing-forward for the Kilkenny senior team.

Born in Kilkenny, Walton first played competitive hurling during his schooling at St. Kieran's College. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Kilkenny minor team, before later joining the under-21 side. He made his senior debut in the 1981–82 National Hurling League. Walton went on to play a minor role for Kilkenny for just one season, and won one a set of All-Ireland and Leinster medals as a non-playing substitute, as well as a National Hurling League medal.

At club level Walton was a one-time All-Ireland medallist with James Stephens. In addition to this he also won one Leinster medal and one championship medal.

Walton's father, Tom, enjoyed All-Ireland success with Kilkenny in 1947.

For over twenty years Walton acted as selector and manager of a host of underage and adult teams, as well as serving as juvenile coaching officer with James Stephens.

Honours

Team

James Stephens
All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship (1): 1982
Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship (1): 1981
Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1981

Kilkenny
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1982 (sub)
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1982 (sub)
National Hurling League (1): 1981-82

References

1961 births
2012 deaths
James Stephens hurlers
Kilkenny inter-county hurlers


title: Stonehenge Limestone

text:
The Stonehenge Limestone is a geologic formation in Maryland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.

See also
 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maryland
 Paleontology in Maryland

References

Ordovician Maryland


title: Talbot Formation

text:
The Talbot Formation is a geologic formation in Maryland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maryland
 Paleontology in Maryland

References

Geologic formations of Maryland


title: Healthcare in Sierra Leone

text:
Healthcare in Sierra Leone  is generally charged for and is provided by a mixture of government, private and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).  There are over 100 NGOs operating in the health care sector in Sierra Leone.   The Ministry of Health and Sanitation is responsible for organizing health care and after the end of the civil war the ministry changed to a decentralized structure of health provision to try to increase its coverage.

Infrastructure
Sierra Leone is divided into 13 health districts that correspond to the districts of Sierra Leone except for the Western Area Rural and Western Area Urban districts which are combined into the Western Area Health district.  Each district has a health management team and an average of 50 peripheral health units (PHU) and over 100 technical staff.  The management team is responsible for planning, organizing and monitoring health provision, training personnel, working with communities and supplying equipment and drugs.

The PHUs are designed to be the delivery point for primary health care in the country and there are three main types.

 The community health centre carries out health prevention measures, cures and health promotion activities and is in charge of overseeing the other PHUs in the area.  It is planned that each chiefdom, the unit of local government in Sierra Leone below the level of district, should have at least one community health centre.
 Community health posts perform a similar function to community health centres but have fewer facilities and are used to refer patients to the health centre or the district hospital.
 Maternal and Child Health posts are the first level of contact on the ground and are located in smaller towns with populations between 500-2000.  Much of the health care infrastructure was decimated during the Civil War and the health service is still in the process of being organised with hospitals and PHU being rebuilt or created and staff being trained.

Free healthcare scheme
In April 2010 Sierra Leone launched "Free Health Care Medical Insurance", a system of free healthcare for pregnant and breast-feeding women and children under five.  A UN population Fund representative said that medical equipment had been ordered and some drugs distributed as part of the new healthcare scheme but the coverage was not yet 100%.  The initial set up cost of the scheme was $19 million and it is expected to save the lives of more than a million mothers and children.

Healthcare workers had gone on strike over the plans in March 2010 arguing that free healthcare would increase their workload and working hours, the government settled the dispute with pay rises of 200-500%.  Observers argue that many of the women concerned do not even know they have a right for free medical care and that the law would remain a paper tiger if more earnings from the extractive sector was not invested in the countries healthcare system.

The scheme is funded mainly by the United Kingdom and United Nations who have paid to refurbish hospitals, supply drugs and pay healthcare professionals' wages.  The UK alone has agreed to pay for a years worth of drugs for the program and the World Health Organization has provided blood banks in each major town.  The British government's funding came from the Department for International Development (DFID) and amounted to $22.6 million to fund the scheme for the next three years from a total allocation of  $70.5 million for the 10-year-long "Reproduction and Child Health Care" plan. UNICEF also received $7 million from DFID to provide medicines for pregnant women.

Hospitals

There were about 80 hospitals in Sierra Leone in 2020.
 Choithram Memorial Hospital, Freetown,
 Connaught Hospital, Freetown,
 Pujehun Government Hospital, Pujehun,
 Hatfield Archer Memorial Hospital, Rotifunk,
 Holy Spirit Hospital, Makeni,
  Life care Hospital
 Kerry Town Ebola Clinic, Kerry Town,
 Koidu Hospital
 Masanga Hospital, Masanga,
 Njala University Campus Hospital, Bonjema,
 Ola During Children's Hospital, Freetown,
 Princess Christian Maternity Hospital, Freetown,
 Sierra Leone Psychiatric Hospital
 St John of God Hospital,

Traditional medicine
Traditional medicine forms part of the primary health care system in  Sierra Leone.  The traditional medicine programme, run by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, has constructed a training school at Makeni, a healing centre at Kono and conducted workshops to promote co-operation between traditional medicine practitioners and orthodox medical workers.  Members of the programme have also located and collected plants from throughout Sierra Leone used for medicine. The use of traditional medicine in Sierra Leone is common especially for the treatment of malaria and among hypertensive patients, pregnant women, infertile women lactating mothers, Ebola survivors and healthcare students.

See also
 Health in Sierra Leone

References

Sierra


title: Habenaria floribunda

text:
Habenaria floribunda is a species of orchid which is widespread across much of Latin America, the West Indies and Florida.

References

External links

 Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants,  Habenaria floribunda
 IOSPE orchid photos, Habenaria floribunda , Photos By ©Prem Subrahmanyam

floribunda
Orchids of North America
Orchids of South America
Orchids of Central America
Orchids of Belize
Orchids of Mexico
Flora of Florida
Flora of the Caribbean
Plants described in 1835
Flora of Peru
Terrestrial orchids
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


title: Owl's Nest Country Place

text:
The Greenville Country Club, formerly known as the Owl's Nest Country Place, is a country club at 201 Owl's Nest Road in Greenville, Delaware.  The  property was developed in 1915 by Eugene du Pont, Jr., son of Eugene du Pont, as a country estate.  It was one of the first major estates to be built by members of the Du Pont family in northern Delaware.  The main house and three outbuildings were designed by Harrie T. Lindeberg in the Tudor Revival style, and were built in 1915.  The estate's grounds were landscaped by Franklin Meehan and William Warner Parker.  In 1928 an Ellen Shipman-designed boxwood garden was added to the grounds.  The estate has been home to the Greenville Country Club since 1961.

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in northern New Castle County, Delaware

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
Tudor Revival architecture in Delaware
Houses completed in 1915
Houses in New Castle County, Delaware
Golf clubs and courses in Delaware
Du Pont family residences
National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware


title: Doug Brown (runner)

text:
Charles Douglas Brown  (born March 1, 1952 in Detroit, Michigan) is a retired American track and field athlete, whose specialty was the Steeplechase.

Early career
While competing for the University of Tennessee he won the NCAA Championship in the steeplechase twice in a row, which qualified him to run in the 1973 World University Games.  After college he ran with the Athletics West track club, one of the first mega teams sponsored by Nike.  He was United States (Amateur Athletic Union) National Champion in 1973 and 1980.

Olympic athlete
Brown competed for the United States in two Olympic Games, running the steeplechase at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics. He qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but did not compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. He was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead. He was a surprise second place at the 1972 Olympic Trials, sprinting from a battle to make the team around leading contender and hometown favorite, Steve Savage, who had been battling Mike Manley for the lead.  In 1976, with 1972 winner Manley injured hitting a barrier in the first few laps of the race, Brown outsprinted Henry Marsh and picked up the win by 0.03 of a second.  That was not even the most thrilling finish in that race, as Mike Roche fell over the last barrier, managed to right himself and outsprint Don Timm for the final position on the team.

1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Brown ran on the American silver medal winning team at the 1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

References

1952 births
Living people
American male middle-distance runners
American male long-distance runners
American male steeplechase runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic track and field athletes for the United States
Track and field athletes from Detroit
Tennessee Volunteers men's track and field athletes
Congressional Gold Medal recipients
20th-century American people


title: Barbara Barnes

text:
Barbara Barnes  is an English actor.

Career

Television
 Dempsey and Makepeace, ITV mini-series 1 episode- Mary
 Miss Marple (A Caribbean Mystery), 1989, BBC TV mini-series 1 episode- Esther Walters
 Agatha Christie's Poirot Murder In Mesopotamia, ITV mini-series 1 episode- Mrs Leidner
 Agatha Christie's Poirot , ITV TV Series 1 episode- Mrs Lester
 Secrets and Words, 2012, BBC TV mini-series 1 episode- Brenda
 Rosamunde Pilcher, 2014, TV series 1 episode- Mayoress

References

English television actresses
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses


title: Granly Hockey Arena

text:
Granly Hockey Arena (also known as Esbjerg Skøjtehal) is an ice hockey arena located in Esbjerg, Denmark. The arena opened in 1974 and has a capacity of 4,200 people. Its primary tenant is Esbjerg IK. The arena has been home to the ice hockey club Esbjerg Elite Ishockey since 2005.

The rink has also hosted international curling matches, most notably the 2011 World Women's Curling Championship and the 2015 European Curling Championships (both men and women).

References

Buildings and structures in Esbjerg
Indoor ice hockey venues in Denmark
1974 establishments in Denmark
Sports venues completed in 1974
Sports venues in the Region of Southern Denmark


title: Paul Patterson (neuroscientist)

text:
Paul H. Patterson (October 22, 1943 – June 25, 2014) was a neuroscientist and the Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology.

Life and work
Paul Patterson was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Paul and Marge Patterson. His uncle, Clair Patterson, was a scientist who influenced Paul’s future career. He grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, moved to Minnesota during high school, and attended Grinnell College for his undergraduate studies.
He completed his PhD in biology at Johns Hopkins University with William Lennarz in 1970. He then moved to Harvard University as a post-doctoral scholar, and was promoted to assistant professor of neuroscience at the Harvard Medical School. He worked on the functioning of neurons, showing that the brain is in fact “plastic” and the functions of neurons can be changed by their environment and stimulation.

In 1983, he joined the California Institute of Technology as a professor of neuroscience. He continued his work on the mutability of the peripheral nervous system, discovering the role that the leukemia inhibitory factor ("LIF"), a cytokine previously identified based on its immunological function, played in brain function. This discovery led to him being known as a “neuroimmunologist.”

Paul co-edited a book called "The Origins of Schizophrenia" in 2011. He also published a book on neuroimmunology, Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia and Depression, and continued to blog on topics related to these fields until his death in June 2014.

Throughout his career, he focused on human diseases, such as Huntington's Disease (HD), Parkinson's Disease, and Alzheimers. He was on the scientific board for the Hereditary Disease Foundation for almost 30 years. He received research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In addition, he received research funding from non-profit organizations such as Autism Speaks, the McKnight Foundation, the Simons Foundation, the Hereditary Disease Foundation, and private donors.

He was committed to training young scientists and doctors. He established the MD/PhD programs between Caltech and USC, and Caltech and UCLA. He spearheaded training programs at Caltech for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), obtaining grants to support students researching stem cell science from neighboring institutions such as Pasadena City College, Cal Poly Pomona and CSULA.

References

1943 births
2014 deaths
American neuroscientists
Autism researchers
Autoimmune diseases
California Institute of Technology faculty
Grinnell College alumni
Harvard Medical School faculty
Huntington's disease
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Schizophrenia researchers
Scientists from Chicago


title: AMD Eyefinity

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AMD Eyefinity is a brand name for AMD video card products that support multi-monitor setups by integrating multiple (up to six) display controllers on one GPU. AMD Eyefinity was introduced with the Radeon HD 5000 Series "Evergreen" in September 2009 and has been available on APUs and professional-grade graphics cards branded AMD FirePro as well.

AMD Eyefinity supports a maximum of 2 non-DisplayPort displays (e.g., HDMI, DVI, VGA, DMS-59, VHDCI) (which AMD calls "legacy output") and up to 6 DisplayPort displays simultaneously using a single graphics card or APU. To feed more than two displays, the additional panels must have native DisplayPort support. Alternatively active DisplayPort-to-DVI/HDMI/VGA adapters can be employed.

The setup of large video walls by connecting multiple computers over Gigabit Ethernet or Ethernet is also supported.

The version of AMD Eyefinity (aka DCE, display controller engine) introduced with Excavator-based Carrizo APUs features a Video underlay pipe.

Overview
AMD Eyefinity is implemented by multiple on-die display controllers. The HD 5000-series designs host two internal clocks and one external clock. Displays connected over VGA, DVI, or HDMI each require their own internal clock. But all displays connected over DisplayPort can be driven from only one external clock. This external clock is what allows Eyefinity to fuel up to six monitors from a single card.

The entire HD 5000 series of products have Eyefinity capabilities supporting three outputs.  The Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition, however, supports six mini DisplayPort outputs, all of which can be simultaneously active.

The display controller has two RAMDACs  that drive the VGA or  DVI ports in analog mode. For example, when a DVI-to-VGA converter is attached to a DVI port). It also has a maximum of six digital transmitters that can output either a DisplayPort signal or a TMDS signal for either DVI or HDMI, and two clock signal generators to drive the digital outputs in TMDS mode. Dual-link DVI displays use two of the TMDS/DisplayPort transmitters and one clock signal each. Single-link DVI displays and HDMI displays use one TMDS/DisplayPort transmitter and one clock signal each. DisplayPort displays use one TMDS/DisplayPort transmitter and no clock signal.

An active DisplayPort adapter can convert a DisplayPort signal to another type of signal—like VGA, single-link DVI, or dual-link DVI; or HDMI if more than two non-DisplayPort displays must be connected to a Radeon HD 5000 series graphics card.

DisplayPort 1.2 added the possibility to drive multiple displays on single DisplayPort connector, called Multi-Stream Transport (MST). AMD graphics solutions equipped with DisplayPort 1.2 outputs can run multiple monitors from a single port.

At High-Performance Graphics 2010 Mark Fowler presented the Evergreen and stated that e.g. 5870 (Cypress), 5770 (Juniper) and 5670 (Redwood) support max resolution of the 6 times 2560×1600 pixels, while the 5470 (Cedar) supports 4 times 2560×1600 pixels.

Availability

Feature overview for AMD graphics cards

All AMD GPUs starting with the Evergreen series support a maximum of 2 non-DisplayPort displays and a maximum of 6 DisplayPort displays per graphics card.

Feature overview for AMD APUs

AMD Eyefinity is also available in AMD's APU branded product line. The A10-7850K is said to support up to four displays.

Software support

AMD Catalyst supports Eyefinity and enables the user to independently configure and run each attached displays. It facilitates the configuration of "cloned mode", i.e. to copy one desktop onto multiple screens or "extended mode", i.e. to span the workspace across multiple screens and combine the resolutions of all of those displays into one big resolution. AMD calls the extended modes Single Large Surface (SLS) and Catalyst support of certain range of display group configurations. For example, 5x1 landscape and 5x1 portrait are supported since AMD Catalyst version 11.10 from October 2011.

Starting in Catalyst 14.6, AMD supports mixed resolution support, so a single Eyefinity display group can drive each monitor at a different resolution. This is provided through two new Eyefinity display modes, Fit and Expand, in addition to the existing Fill mode. In Fit or Expand mode, AMD compensates for mismatched resolutions by creating a virtual desktop of a different resolution than the monitors, and then either padding it out or cropping it as is necessary.

AMD Eyefinity works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. SLS ("Single Large Surface") mode requires an identical display resolution on all configured displays. AMD validated some video games to support Eyefinity. The short list includes titles such as Age of Conan, ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Serious Sam 3: BFE, Singularity (video game), Sleeping Dogs, Assassin's Creed II, Sniper Elite V2, Soldier of Fortune Online, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2, Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, R.U.S.E., Supreme Commander 2 among others. However, some games not on this short list seem to work as well, e.g. Dirt 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

KMS driver supports AMD Eyefinity.

See also

 AMD FireMV – pre-Eyefinity products for multi-monitor set-ups
 Multi-monitor

References

External links
  playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

AMD IP cores
Multi-monitor


title: Paulo's frog

text:
Paulo's frog may refer to:

 Paulo's lime tree frog, a frog endemic to Brazil
 Paulo's robber frog, a frog endemic to Brazil


title: Cristina García

text:
Cristina García may refer to:
Cristina García (journalist) (born 1958), Cuban-born American journalist and novelist
Cristina Garcia (politician), (born 1977), American politician
Cristina García Rodero (born 1949), Spanish photographer
Cristina García Spínola de Brito (born 1976), Spanish journalist
Cristina García (swimmer), (born 2001), Spanish swimmer


title: Papallacta frog

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Papallacta frog may refer to:

 Papallacta robber frog, a frog endemic to Ecuador
 Papallacta tree frog, a frog found in Colombia and Ecuador

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: Bella Vita (disambiguation)

text:
Bella Vita is a song by DJ Antoine

Bella Vita or La Bella Vita may also refer to:

La bella vita, a 1935 work by Alberto Moravia
"Bella Vita" (David et Jonathan song), a 1987 song by David et Jonathan
La bella vita, a 1994 Italian comedy drama film
"Bella Vita", a 1996 album by Leandro Barsotti

See also
 La vita è bella (disambiguation)
 Belle vie (disambiguation)
 Beautiful Life (disambiguation)
 美麗人生 (disambiguation)


title: Montane frog (disambiguation)

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The montane frog is a frog that is endemic to the hills of central Sri Lanka.

Montane frog may also refer to:

 Montane brown frog, a frog endemic to Japan
 Montane marsh frog, a frog endemic to Western Cape, South Africa
 Montane reed frog, a frog native to Kenya
 Montane robber frog, a frog native to Guatemala and southern Mexico
 Montane sheep frog, a frog found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: Supramontana

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Supramontana is a genus of land planarians from South America.

Description
The genus Supramontana is characterized by the presence of a cephalic retractor muscle not associated with cephalic glands. This muscle is similar to the one found in the genera Issoca and Luteostriata, but in Supramontana the organ lacks cephalic glands, which are present in the other two genera.

The copulatory apparatus of Supramontana has a permanent penis papilla and a long common ovovitelloduct.

Etymology
The name Supramontana comes from the Latin words supra (on the top) and montanus (of the mountains). It is a reference to the type-locality of Supramontana irritata, the city of São Francisco de Paula, in Southern Brazil, whose previous name was São Francisco de Paula de Cima da Serra (on the top of the mountains).

Species
There are two described species in the genus Supramontana:
Supramontana argentina Negrete et al., 2014
Supramontana irritata  Carbayo & Leal-Zanchet, 2003

Phylogeny
A molecular study on the phylogeny of the subfamily Geoplaninae nested the genus Supramontana inside the genus Luteostriata. The two genera formed a monophyletic clade with the genus Issoca. The clade is supported by at least one synapomorphy, the presence of a cephalic retractor muscle derived from the longitudinal cutaneous ventral musculature that anteriorly dissipates by detaching its fibers, making them open in a fan-like fashion towards the body margins.

References

Geoplanidae
Rhabditophora genera


title: Sirtsi Nature Reserve

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Sirtsi  Nature Reserve is a nature reserve situated in western Estonia, and straddles the border between Lääne-Viru and Ida-Viru County.

The nature reserve was founded first and foremost to protect brown bears in the area. It is centred on a system of mires and a bog, and the surrounding forests.

Apart from brown bear, the nature reserve also functions as a sanctuary for other large mammals such as Eurasian lynx and gray wolf. In addition, shy animals such as black stork and Siberian flying squirrel live in the reserve.

The former winter road between Central Estonia and Saint Petersburg ran through this area and its course can still be identified.

References

Nature reserves in Estonia
Ida-Viru County
Lääne-Viru County


title: Elinor DeWire

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Elinor DeWire (born August 3, 1953 in Frederick, Maryland) is an American author, freelance writer, editor, public speaker, educator, and blogger based in Connecticut.  DeWire writes both fiction and nonfiction, but is best known for her books about lighthouses and her work in lighthouse preservation and education.  She occasionally writes under the pseudonyms J.J. Scott, Jessica Scott, and Aline Matthews.

Early life and education

DeWire was born in Frederick, Maryland.

Career

DeWire began her career as an author by writing freelance stories for a Florida newspaper. After selling a story about lighthouses to Mobil's Compass Magazine, she wrote her first book, Guide to Florida Lighthouses, which was published by Pineapple Press in 1987 and remains in print in its third edition.

From 1991-2000 DeWire wrote two columns, "Lifelines" about the U.S. Lifesaving Service, and "Whale Oil and Wicks" about lighthouses, for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Mariners Weather Log.

Since that time DeWire has authored some twenty books about lighthouses, including a series of illustrated, quick-reference e-books about lighthouses,  the "Itty-Bitty-Kitty Guides". She has also written early Victorian-era novels, plus four books and a number of articles about amateur astronomy and sky watching and an e-book about poultry.

She continues to contribute articles about lighthouses to magazines and newspapers, including columns titled "Shore Almanac," "Away from the Bay," "Kids on the Beam," and "Liquidized Lore."  She has been a regular contributor to Weatherwise Magazine, The Beachcomber, Lighthouse Digest", and The Keepers Log, journal of the U.S. Lighthouse Society.  She maintains a blog that focuses on lighthouses and related nautical topics, and has written fiction for several magazines.

DeWire is a public speaker about lighthouse history and lore, and she volunteers for several nonprofit groups devoted to lighthouse preservation and education. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Lighthouse Society and chairs the Education Committee.</ref>

Awards
DeWire's books Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast and Lighthouses of the South have won the Ben Franklin Book Award and the Coast Guard Book Award. She was awarded a short fiction prize in 1992 from the National League of American Pen Women. She is also the recipient of the Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award.

Books by Elinor DeWire

Guide to Florida Lighthouses, Pineapple Press, 1987
Journey through the Universe, Mystic Seaport Planetarium, 1989
Activities for Young Astronomers, Mystic Seaport Planetarium, 1990
Reach for the Sky, Mystic Seaport Planetarium, 1994
Guardians of the Lights: Stories of U.S. Lighthouse Keepers, Pineapple Press, 1995 & 2001
The Lighthouse Activity Book, Sentinel Publications, 1995; E-Z Nature Books, 2007
Lighthouse Victuals & Verse, Sentinel Publications, 1996
Sentries along the Shore, Sentinel Publications, 1997
The Lighthouse Almanac, Sentinel Publications, 2000
The Florida Night Sky, Pineapple Press, 2002  f
Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast, Voyageur Press, 2002, 2011
Lighthouses: Sentinels of the American Coast, Graphic Arts Center Publishing, 2003
Lighthouses of the South, Voyageur Press, 2004
Florida Lighthouses for Kids, Pineapple Press, 2004
Field Guide to Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast, Voyageur Press, 2006
The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press, 2007
Field Guide to Lighthouses of the New England Coast, Voyageur Press, 2008
Lighthouses of Greece, Pineapple Press, 2010
The DeWire Guide to the Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast:California, Oregon and Washington, Paradise Cay Publications, 2010
The DeWire Guide to the Lighthouses of Alaska, Hawai'i and U.S. Pacific Territories, 2012
The Funky Chicken: Memories, Truth and Tribute, Cat in the Window Press, 2013  ASIN: BOOFAS4U6W
Itty-Bitty-Kitty Guide to the Lighthouses of Georgia, Cat in the Window Press, 2014 ASIN: BOOIVTC118
Itty-Bitty-Kitty Guide to the Lighthouses of New Hampshire, 2014 ASIN: BOOKQ4V3RE
Lighthouses Here & There, Cat in the Window Press, 2017
Saving Lord M, Cat in the Window Press
Dr. Bellamy's Broken Wife, Cat in the Window Press
The Lord of Draig Nyth, Cat in the Window Pressa

References

External links
 Pacific NW Lighthouses with Author Elinor DeWire. "the Journal of the San Juans", May 16, 2012.
 Author Website
 Author Blog

1953 births
Living people


title: Stockton-Montmorency

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Stockton-Montmorency is a historic house at 1700 Walnut Green Road in Greenville, Delaware. This elegant brick Colonial Revival house, originally just called "Stockton", was designed by William Lawrence Bottomley and built in 1937 for Helen Page Echols and Angus Echols. The house was purchased in the 1960s by Henry E. I. du Pont, who added "Montmorency" to its name.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in northern New Castle County, Delaware

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
Federal architecture in Delaware
Houses completed in 1937
Houses in New Castle County, Delaware
Du Pont family residences
National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware


title: Brad Glenn

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Bradley Edward Glenn (born April 2, 1987) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in six games for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB) in 2014.

Career
Glenn played college baseball for the University of Arizona and in 2007 he played collegiate summer baseball with the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He was drafted in the 17th round of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft by the Oakland Athletics, but did not sign. He was later drafted in the 23rd round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays, and signed with the team. Glenn was assigned to the Low-A Auburn Doubledays for the 2009 season, where he batted .221 over 64 games. In 2010, he played with the Class-A Lansing Lugnuts and improved, batting .271 with 17 homeruns in 109 games. Glenn was promoted to the High-A Dunedin Blue Jays for the 2011 season, and hit a career-high 26 home runs in 111 games played. He would again move up in the organization, playing the 2012 season with the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats. Glenn struggled in his first season in New Hampshire, batting .239 in 112 games. He split the 2013 season between New Hampshire and the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons, and batted a combined .261 with 22 home runs. He began the 2014 season with New Hampshire again, and was promoted to Buffalo on May 16, 2014.

Glenn was called up for the first time in his career on June 25, 2014. Infielder Jonathan Diaz was designated for assignment to make room on the 40-man roster for Glenn. Prior to his promotion to the Majors, Glenn was batting .381 with the Bisons, with 4 home runs and 22 RBI. He made his MLB debut on June 27, and went hitless in 3 at-bats. On July 5, he recorded his first career hit and walk. Glenn was designated for assignment on July 6 to make room for Nolan Reimold. He cleared waivers and was outrighted to Buffalo on July 8. Glenn elected free agency on November 6, 2015.

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1987 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Arizona Wildcats baseball players
Auburn Doubledays players
Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state)
Brewster Whitecaps players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Dunedin Blue Jays players
Lansing Lugnuts players
Major League Baseball right fielders
New Hampshire Fisher Cats players
People from Cedartown, Georgia
Sportspeople from the Atlanta metropolitan area
Baseball players from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tiburones de La Guaira players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Toronto Blue Jays players


title: McKinley Elevator Corporation

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McKinley Elevator Corporation is an Irvine, California-based provider of accessibility products in California, Arizona and Nevada. Its products include vertical and incline wheelchair lifts, residential elevators, dumbwaiters and car lifts.

History

In 1948, McKinley Elevator Corporation was started by Bill McKinley as an equipment distribution company.

Products and services

McKinley Elevator Corporation specializes in the sales, installation and repair of accessibility lifts and elevators for residential and commercial use. Available products include wheelchair lifts, elevators, stair lifts, car lifts, dumbwaiters and evacuation carriers.

References

Elevator manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Companies based in Irvine, California
American companies established in 1948
Manufacturing companies established in 1948
1948 establishments in California


title: Timo Brunke

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Timo Brunke (born March 11, 1972) is a German slam poet. He won the 2011 Schubart-Literaturpreis.

Life
Timo Brunke was born in Stuttgart, West Germany.  During his school days he participated in literary cabaret and developed since the late 1980s, initially from there, then starting in the late 1990s as the protagonist and networker of German poetry slam scene, their own forms of play poetry, spoken word, the Slam Poetry and experimental poetry.

Brunke studied from 1994 to 1998 Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen. From 1994 to 1998, he was an active member of the group of authors timber market in Tübingen.
From 1998 to 2000, he studied acting training at Frieder Nögge and took between 2002 and 2006 to Christof Stählin Mainz Academy of Poetry and Music SAGO.

In 1999, he founded the Stuttgart Poetry Slam, which he held until 2008 in the local club Rosenau.
Since 2001, he is head of the Experimental Language Workshop "and word games" in the literary Stuttgart
In 2006, he accompanied Bas Böttcher with the textbox project to Paris (Centre Pompidou), Beijing, Berlin (New National Gallery), Abu Dhabi and Bangkok, as well as in May 2008 to Madrid.

Brunke works and lives with his family in Stuttgart since September 2009, and writes columns for the Stuttgarter Zeitung.

Works

Solo programs
Lyrische Pfirsiche (1993)
 Mundschellen in Hülle – Ohrfeigen in Fülle (1995)
 Der Große Trinkspruch vom Ersten und vom Nächsten Schluck (1996)
 Die Weisheit der Jordanbinse (1998)
 Verselust (2000)
 per vers (2001)
 Pension Brunke (2004)
 Vom Verstand in den Mund (2006)
 All das. All diese Dinge. (2007)
 Vom Übergang des Abendlandes - Slampoesie an Musik mit Scott Roller (2011)

Literature
 Warum heißt das so? Eine Sammlung von erstaunlichen Wort-Geschichten. Klett Kinderbuch Verlag. (2009)
 Gedichtbände Erpichte Gedichte - Lyrische Pfirsiche. Verlag Reiner Brouwer (1996). Edition Isele (2005)
 Die Läuterlabe - ein Versdramolett. Verlag Reiner Brouwer (1997)
 Lappalie Lapsus und Lapidar Läppisch in: Die Läuterlabe. Edition Isele (2005)
 Beiträge in diversen Anthologien DAS Gedicht. Nr. x hg. Von Anton G. Leitner
 Himmelhochjauchzend – zu Tode betrübt. dtv-Taschenbuch
 Slam! Poetry. Killroy Media.
 Das Heft, das seinen langen Namen ändern wollte. Sommer (2006)
 Slam Poetry. hrsg. von Petra Anders, Reclam Verlag (2008)

Spoken word
 Pastiorale – Hommage an Oskar Pastior für sieben Sprechstimmen (2007)
 Kommunikazumutung – Verzweit UA (2008)

Recordings
 Lyrik zwei (4 Audio CDs) Verlag: Dhv der Hörverlag (2002)
 All das. All diese Dinge (Audio-CD) Verlag: Der gesunde Menschenverstand (März 2006) .

References

External links
Official website
Poetry Slam - Literatur und Action: Interview mit Timo Brunke, medienkultur-stuttgart

1972 births
Living people
Writers from Stuttgart
German poets
German male poets


title: Colman Rashleigh

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Sir Colman Rashleigh, 2nd Baronet  (4 May 1819 – 27 October 1896) was an English Liberal Party politician.

Early life
Rashleigh was born on 4 May 1819 at Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England.  He was the eldest son of the former Harriet Williams (d. 1831) and Sir John Colman Rashleigh, 1st Baronet (1772–1847), who was created a Baronet of Prideaux on 30 September 1831 when Colman was 12 years old.

His paternal grandparents were Katherine (née Battie) Rashleigh (daughter and co-heir of William Battie, Esq. M.D.) and John Rashleigh, Esq. of Penquite, the first Commissioner and Receiver for Greenwich Hospital. The Rashleigh family had been settled in Cornwall since at least the early part of the 16th century.  His maternal grandfather was Robert Williams, Esq. of Bridehead in County Durham MP.

Rashleigh was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a B.A. in 1843.

Career
Rashleigh held a number of public offices in Cornwall including a Justice of the Peace (JP), Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall, High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1852 and Deputy-Warden of the Stannaries. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for East Cornwall from 1874 to 1880.

He was also invested as a Companion, Order of the Bath (CB) and gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in the service of the Cornwall and Devon Miners' Artillery.

Personal life
On 1 May 1845, Rashleigh married Mary Anne Kendall (1823–1893), the only daughter of Nicholas Kendall of Pelyn MP and Mary Anne Wymond. Her brother was the Rev. Francis Kendall of Lanlivery. Together, they had four children:

 Sir Colman Battie Rashleigh, 3rd Baronet (1846–1907), who married, firstly, Geraldine Frances Walpole, daughter of Lt. Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, in 1872.  He married, secondly, Amy Young Jamieson, daughter of James Young Jamieson, Esq., in 1878.
 Reverend John Kendall Rashleigh (1847–1933), the Rector of St Mabyn in Cornwall who married, firstly, Charlotte Jane Rashleigh, daughter of Charles Edward Rashleigh, in 1871. He married, secondly, Charlotte Maria Hodgson, daughter of Sir Arthur Hodgson, in 1876.
 Harriett Rashleigh (b. )
 Mary Rashleigh (1852–1900), who married her brother's brother-in-law, Col. Henry James Young Jamieson, son of James Young Jamieson.

In 1851 he resided at Great Prideane, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Lady Rashleigh died at the Mayoralty in Bodmin on 6 August 1893 and Sir Colman died on 27 October 1896.

References

External links

1819 births
1896 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Deputy Lieutenants of Cornwall
High Sheriffs of Cornwall
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Cornwall
UK MPs 1874–1880
Colman


title: Yankel Zhuravitzer

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Yaakov Zechariah Maskalik, known publicly as Reb Yankel Zhuravitzer (1897–1938) was a rabbi and underground Chabad-Lubavitch activist in the Soviet Union in the early years of the Joseph Stalin regime. In defiance of the Soviet authorities, Maskalik compiled locations of usable mikvahs (ritual baths) across the Soviet Union and distributed them in little notes to Jewish women in marketplaces. In the early 1930s, he resided in the Moscow suburb of Malakhovka until his arrest in 1935.

Like many Chabad activists arrested by the authorities, he was deported to Central Asia, exiled to the village of Halkina, located 35 miles from the Kazakh city of Chimkent.

Maskalik was arrested by the NKVD in 1935 and executed in 1938. The exact date and location of his execution is not known.

References

Soviet dissidents
Russian Orthodox Jews
Russian people who died in prison custody
Prisoners who died in Soviet detention
Jews executed by the Soviet Union


title: Terry the Tomboy

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Terry the Tomboy is a 2014 comedy television film starring Lia Marie Johnson and written and directed by Wade Randolph.

The film is a spinoff of the AwesomenessTV sketch series "Terry the Tomboy". The film was distributed by Nickelodeon and produced by Brian Robbins. The film premiered on Nickelodeon on June 21, 2014.

Plot
Terry is excited that summer is here and school is out. In anticipation she and her best friend Duncanty create a list of things that they want to accomplish this summer. The most important is to win the county fair pie eating contest. Terry hears a noise and meets a hot boy named Brett who is moving in across the street from Terry. Right when Terry is about to talk to him, Brittanica, Terry's nemesis and former friend, swoops in and tells Brett lies about Terry. Terry gets mad and goes home.

As summer passes, Terry feels awkward and sick. Terry realizes she is in love with Brett, but Brittanica gets in the way so she asks her brother for help and he advises her to become a cheerleader. Terry gives up on cheerleading after an infamous failure at the tryouts. Desperate, Terry becomes a girly girl to catch Brett's eye. At the very end of the Summer, Terry looks for Brett at the Ferris wheel, but when Terry gets there, she sees Brett and Brittanica already on the ride, kissing.

Terry is crushed, but then remembers the pie eating contest. She goes to Duncanty's house and gets him to go to the contest with her. They go to the contest together. Terry wins and is happy, but then sees Duncanty talking to another girl and gets jealous. She walks over to them and pushes the girl down into the mud and tells Duncanty that she needs him instead of Brett and that Duncanty is the only boy she will ride the Ferris wheel with. They share a kiss.

After that, Terry feels that they should stay friends and not go too fast. The film ends with Terry saying that the summer was fun and feels free. She doesn't feel awkward about Brett (who broke up with Brittanica at the fair after discovering her lies). The film ends with all the characters at a dance party.

Cast
 Lia Marie Johnson as Terry the Tomboy
 Noland Ammon as Duncanty
 Charlie Depew as Brett
 Audrey Whitby as Brittanica
 Christopher Bones as Brian
 Brandon Soo Hoo as Napkin Rapkin
 Jennifer Elise Cox as Unfathomable Aunt Peyton
 Tiffany Espensen as Wallaine Rapkin
 John Michael Higgins as Dr. Larry

Release
The film was produced by AwesomenessTV and distributed by Nickelodeon. The film opened on June 21, 2014 on Nickelodeon. It is the first film from Nickelodeon that is based on an AwesomenessTV sketch since they bought the YouTube channel in 2013.

References

External links

2014 television films
2014 films
2014 comedy films
Nickelodeon original films
American comedy television films
Awesomeness (company)
2010s American films


title: John Hern

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John Hern (also Herne) D.D. (d. 24 April 1707) was a Canon of Windsor from 1690 to 1707

Career
He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge where he graduated BA in 1677, MA in 1680 and DD in 1690.

He was appointed:
Rector of East Woodhay, Hampshire 1691-1707
Rector of East Shefford, Berkshire 1694-1707

He was appointed to the fifth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1690 and held this until he died in 1707.

Notes

1707 deaths
Canons of Windsor
Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge
Year of birth missing


title: Francis Woodward

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Francis Woodward may refer to:

Francis Woodward (Australian politician) (1846–1905), New South Wales politician
Francis H. Woodward (born 1939), Massachusetts politician

See also
 Frank Woodward (disambiguation)


title: De Beurs

text:
De Beurs may refer to:
 De Beurs (Harlingen), a former hotel on the Noorderhaven Harlingen
 De Beurs (1635), an exhibition center in Rotterdam from 1635 to 1736
 De Beurs (1736), an exhibition center in Rotterdam from 1736 to 1940
 Beurs van Berlage, a national monument, located on the Damrak and la Bourse in Amsterdam

See also
 Wilhelmus Beurs (1656 – 1700), a Dutch Golden Age painter


The 2014–15 Boston College Eagles men's basketball team represented Boston College during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Eagles, led by first year head coach Jim Christian, played their home games at Conte Forum and were members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season 13–19, 4–14 in ACC play to finish in 13th place. They advanced to the second round of the ACC tournament where they lost to North Carolina.

Last season
The Eagles finished the season 8–24, 4–14 in ACC play to finish in 14th place. They lost in the first round of the ACC tournament to Georgia Tech.

Departures

Incoming Transfers

Recruiting

Roster

Schedule and results

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See also
2014–15 Boston College Eagles women's basketball team

Boston College Eagles men's basketball seasons
Boston College
Boston College Eagles men's basketball
Boston College Eagles men's basketball
Boston College Eagles men's basketball
Boston College Eagles men's basketball


title: Ivy Granstrom

text:
Ivy Granstrom (September 28, 1911 – April 14, 2004) was a blind Canadian Masters athlete.  She is the current world record holder for the W85 3000 metres and 10000 metres.  The accommodation to allow her to be guided through her open competitions set the rules for such competitions where she ran tethered to a guide, Paul Hoeberigs, but it was clear she was exerting the effort (as opposed to a dog being pulled by their leash).

With failing eyesight since childhood, she hid her failing eyesight and trained as a nursing aid with the Red Cross during World War II until her condition was discovered.  She had worked since age 12 cooking for miners in Fernie, British Columbia.  At age 60 she experienced a serious back injury in a car accident.  He doctors told her to expect to be in a wheelchair the rest of her life, to which she muttered an expletive.  She took up walking, jogging and advanced to competition for the blind.  She started masters competition at age 68.  But she had always been athletic.  She participated in the English Bay Polar bear plunge for 76 years and was known as "Queen of the Polar Bear Swims."

She won numerous medals at the Masters Athletics World Championships and World Masters Games.  In addition to her world records, many other records continue as Canadian masters records.  She was the British Columbia athlete of the year in 1982.

She was a 2001 inductee into the Terry Fox Hall of Fame a 1988 appointee to the Order of Canada, is a member of the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Masters Athletics Hall of Fame.

References

1911 births
2004 deaths
Canadian blind people
Canadian disabled sportspeople
Canadian masters athletes
Members of the Order of Canada
Visually impaired long-distance runners
World record holders in masters athletics
Canadian Disability Hall of Fame
20th-century Canadian people
20th-century Canadian women


title: David Robbins Homestead

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The David Robbins House is a historic house at 26285 Broadkill Road in Milton, Delaware.  The two story vernacular wood-frame house was built c. 1850, and is one of a few from the period to survive in the area.  The house was bought in 1925 by Charles G. Jones, an innovator in Delaware's holly industry.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Sussex County, Delaware

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
Houses completed in 1850
Houses in Sussex County, Delaware
National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware


title: Sikhism in Norway

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Sikhism in Norway () has approximately between 4,000–5,000 adherents, mostly living in Oslo, which has two gurdwaras, the Sikh place of worship.

History
Sikhs first came to Norway in the early 1970s. In 1969, the first Sikh who arrived in and settled in Norway was Amarjit Singh Kamboj. Sikhs and other work-related immigrants from India to Norway founded The Indian Welfare Society of Norway (IWS) in 1971. The troubles in Punjab after Operation Blue Star and riots committed against Sikhs in India after the assassination of Indira Gandhi led to an increase in Sikh refugees moving to Norway and other countries. Drammen also has a sizeable population of Sikhs; the largest gurdwara in north Europe was built in Lier.

A Sikh organization, Ungesikher helps young Sikhs assimilate and has incentives to help make Sikhism better known.

To increase knowledge of Sikhs and their culture, Professor of science of religion Mr. Knut A. Jacobsen, University of Bergen, has published a textbook - Sikhismen: historie tradisjon og kultur, in Norwegian for schools. Another reference book, Sikhs in Europe mentioned regarding Sikhs in Norway.

References

Norway
Nep
Religion in Norway


title: Yarah Bravo

text:
Yarah Bravo is a singer-songwriter, rapper, poet, beatmaker. Born to a Chilean mother and a Brazilian father, who came to Sweden as political refugees. She sings and raps in English, Swedish and Spanish.

She is most known for the song Bluebird with the group One Self and for her EPs Love Is The Movement and Good Girls Rarely Make History. Bravo was one of the MC's of the group One Self. Their debut album Children of Possibility was released on the record label Ninja Tune.

Early days

Yarah Bravo started writing as a young teenager, as a way to handle her parents' breakup. She formed her first group at 16 years old: it was an all-girl group called B.o.B. She was part of the hip hop scene in her hometown, Lund, in the 90s. She moved to London as a teenager, at age 18.

Bravo has throughout her career focused on highlighting other female talents and has many times had an all-female band on stage, bringing together up and coming artist for international tours.

Career
In 2008 she curated U.N.I.T.Y the all-female stage at Hip Hop Kemp Festival, with Roxane Shante, Bahamadia, Invincible, Dj Shorty, Stacy Epps, Eternia, Cleo Missaoui, Syster Sol, Vaitea, Darshania and others.
Bravo has collaborated with many artists, including Fat Freddys Drop, French experimental hip hop group TTC (Big Dada) and Polish Jazz duo Skalpel (Ninja Tune), Gavlyn, Organized Threat, The Polish Ambassador, Mykah 9, Abstract Rude, Aceyalone, Figub, Miss ill, The Electric, The Nextmen, Rodney P, Dynamite Mc, and Kidkanevil, Anna The Unused word.

She has worked with and shared the stage with some notables: Talib Kweli, Manu Chao, Grand Master Flash, Mos Def, Roots Manuva, De La Soul, The Herbaliser, The Gotan Project.

Yarah Bravo has toured the world several times with different artists and constellations. And performed at many festivals including Roskilde, Splash Festival, Fusion Festival, Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival - Sète, Soundwave Croatia, Electric Castle, Open'er Festival.

In 2011 Yarah went into fashion for a short period of time and opened a pop up boutique shop "The Captain Love Bubble" in London, Shoreditch, together with Mimi Fresh (stylist to Erykah Badu) and fellow hip hop artist Sheila Mukasa.

Bravo has lived in Sweden, England, the United States and Germany.

Discography

Studio albums
According to Discogs and MusicBrainz, Yarah Bravo has released two albums:
 Good Girls Rarely Make History  (Mothergrain Records, 2008)
 Love Is The Movement  (Duzz Down San, 2014)

Collaborative albums
 Children Of Possibility with One Self  (Ninja Tune 2005)
 Organically Grown with One Self   (Mothergrain Records / OGS 2006)

Collaborations
 One Self – Be Your Own (Ninja Tune, 2005)
 One Self – Bluebird (Ninja Tune, 2005)
 One Self – Paranoid / Over Expose (Ninja Tune, 2005)
 Skalpel feat Yarah Bravo – Voice of Reason (Ninja Tune)
 Dj Vadim feat Yarah Bravo – The Pacifist (Ninja Tune)
 Dj Vadim feat Yarah Bravo – She Who Is Tested (Ninja Tune)
 Dj Vadim feat Yarah Bravo – Cum Shots (Ninja Tune)
 Dj Vadim feat Yarah Bravo – You are Yours (Ninja Tune)
 The Electric feat Yarah Bravo – Beautiful (BBE Records)
 The Polish Ambassador feat Yarah Bravo – Nobody's Alone
 Paco Mendoza feat Yarah Bravo – Candela

References

Living people
Swedish women rappers
Swedish singer-songwriters
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Richard Gee

text:
Richard Gee (6 October 1817 – 14 March 1902) was an Anglican priest who was Canon of Windsor from 1894 to 1902.

Career
Gee was the son of Mr. William Gee, of Mortlake, Surrey, and was born on 6 October 1817. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford where he received his ordination in 1840, and graduated BA in 1840 and MA in 1843. His former college appointed him a Doctor of Divinity (DD) in 1867.

He had a long ecclesiastical career in Hertfordshire, where he was Vicar of Abbots Langley from 1844 to 1878. The Bishop of St Albans appointed him Honorary Canon of St Alban's Cathedral in 1865, and he served as Proctor of St. Alban's Diocese 1874–1880.

In 1878 he was appointed Vicar of New Windsor, serving as such until he was appointed Canon of Windsor by Queen Victoria in 1894. He was appointed to the fifth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1894 and held this until he died in 1902. Gee was also a Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen from 1884 until her death in 1901, Reader of the Chapel Royal, Windsor in 1878, and Warden of St. Mark's school, Windsor in 1894.

Family
Gee married, in 1841, Marianne Jackson, daughter of Captain R. N. Jackson, RN. They were married for more than 60 years, and left three daughters. The eldest daughter Evelyn Gee became the wife of Sir Richard Rivington Holmes, KCVO (1835–1911), Librarian at Windsor Castle.

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1817 births
1902 deaths
Canons of Windsor
Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford


title: Shramik Mukti Dal

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Shramik Mukti Dal (toilers’ liberation league) is a socio-political organization in Maharashtra, India.  It is an organization working in eleven districts of Maharashtra, organizing farmers and toilers on issues of drought, dam and project eviction, and caste oppression. The Shramik Mukti Dal (SMD) follows an ideology not simply based on Marxism but on Marx-Phule-Ambedkarism.

SMD has been instrumental in waging a movement for water rights for more than two decades.  Much of development was uncontrolled, rapacious excavation of sand from riverbeds for the construction industry in drought-prone areas of Western Maharashtra, which had led to the drying up of the wells in the nearby farms. SMD along with local communities, socially committed ecological engineers, science-activists and other activists, progressive intellectuals, and media people led a prolonged, successful struggle to stop this unlimited excavation of this sand and built the Baliraja dam. This idea came out of detailed discussions with the people of the villages -Balawadi and Tandulwadi on the two sides of the river Yerala. The idea was that people in the villages will receive preferential right to excavate a limited amount of sand in the river in their village, sell it after paying due royalty to the government. This money financed finance the Baliraja dam, which helped eliminate the effects drought in these two villages.

Some of the leading members include Bharat Patankar (President and Full-time Organizer] , Waharu Sonawane(Vice President and well-known Adivasi poet and activist), Sampat Desai (National Organizer), Indutai Patankar, Gail Omvedt, Mukti Sadhna (Shramik Muktiwadi Yuva Sanghatna), Rahul Savita  (Shramik Muktiwadi Yuva Sanghatna), Shailesh Sawant (Shramik Muktiwadi Yuva Sanghatna).

History
Shramik Mukti Dal was founded in the 1980s by activists in Maharashtra, influenced not only by the radical Marxist movement but also by feminists and anti-caste movements. The Shramik Mukti Dal fights for alternatives in today's inequalitarian, caste, class and gender-ridden ecologically unsustainable society.  The following have been some of its accomplishments:

 The initial effort was a peasant-built and managed small dam, the Bali Raja Dam.  This came out of the movement fighting drought in Khanapur taluka of Sangli district.  Farmers saw the sand being auctioned from the dried-up river bed, so much that it was depleting the water aquifers and increasing the drought.  They said, “Why don’t we stop this, use the sand once for funds to build our own dam which will seal in the water and irrigate our lands”  After a struggle of many years the dam was built, with careful removal of the sand and providing water according to the principles of SMD on an equalitarian basis: even the landless would get a share of water.  It remains the only dam built and managed by the people.
 SMD has recognized the necessity of an autonomous cultural movement.  It has been instrumental in starting such movements and is a part of the Balijan cultural movement at the national level.  At present a major campaign is the “Vithal-Rukmai mukti andolan.”  A state high court decision regarding the Vitthala temple at Pandharpur, the most popular in Maharashtra,  turned the management over to a committee, with several obnoxious provisos: that it be made up only of “Hindus” (when the entire movement always included Muslims and others as well); that the purush sukta which was the earliest proclamation of caste-varna be recited (which is against the anti-caste and anti-Vedic principles of the movement); that priests wear silken clothes (which is against the “bahujan” nature of the deity). The SMD is fighting to have these clauses removed from the act, and to turn the temple management over to a committee chosen from the Varkaris, made up of men and women in equal numbers and with representation of all castes.

 In regard to the notorious SEZs, the SMD has led a movement in Alibag taluka of Raigad district against a thermal power project of the Tata and Reliance groups.  It is the only movement which has succeeded in stopping such a huge project.  The alternative it has offered is for a “people’s SEZ” in which farmers would keep ownership of their land and themselves install various ecologically sustainable energy-producing devices. .["Towards a prosperous and Beautiful Konkan: An Alternative Energy Plan to the Proposed Power Projects in the Konkan" (SMD, n.d.).

 The building of windmills has been an important recent project of the government, turning land over to huge multinational companies.  These have been forcibly acquiring the land at very low rates from the farmers.  With the argument that “the wind over our land is ours” and we have the right to a share in the development that windmills provide, the farmers in Sangli and Satara districts have fought for keeping ownership of the land and giving it on lease to the companies at the rate of Rs 200,000 per acre.  In addition, the village panchayats get Rs 15,000 per megawatt per year from the energy generated.  Its victory has been to force the government to agree to these principles.

 SMD leads one of the biggest movement of dam evictees in Maharashtra and most advanced in India.  The movement does not oppose dams as such but has several main principles.  It has proposed and won changes that reduce the land submerged and the number of evictees.   “First rehabilitation, then the dam,” is another principle.  Then, farmers are given land within the command area where the irrigation will benefit them as well, and have been collected a “water allowance” until the irrigation is completed.  Fights regarding several dams – Uchangi, Urmode, Wang,  -- in eight districts of Maharashtra have been carried out on this basis.  Finally, women among the dam evictees are recognized as independent holders of rehabilitated land.

 Through supporting its women's wing, Stree Mukti Sangharsh, Stri Mukti Sangarsh Calval (Women's Liberation Struggle Movement; after SMS) that was founded in March 1985 worked on issues of drought and water in Khanapur taluka of Sangli district. It took up the slogan of “hirvi dharti, stri shakti, manav mukti” (green earth, women's power, human liberation). Women in Stree Mukti Sangharsh came from general anti-drought movements and also took up issues as alcoholism, dowry deaths, atrocities against women, and discrimination on Employment Guarantee Scheme's schemes. One of the worst issues faced women in the area were by deserted women came from all castes and communities. "Deserted women, cast-away women, thrown away women or parityakta- taklelya striya are different terms used interchangeably for women who are thrown out of their marital homes or in some cases who have chosen to step out themselves." SMS/SMD has led a long struggle with the deserted women 'parityaktas" to get plots of land from the government, land that was allotted to 'homeless' people. After decades of organizing they won the land. They continue to fight to keep the land.

Shramik Mukti Dal leads a movement of equitable water distribution from 1983 onwards. It was successful in forcing the government to change the plans of the command areas from inequitable basis to equitable water distribution patterns, thereby providing minimum water of sustainability by doing agriculture, etc. In 2005, the Government of Maharashtra approved Tasgaon-Atpadi Equitable Water Distribution Alternative, awarding water rights, even to the landless. SMD is a major leading constituent of the Pro-People Water Strategy Form (Loiabhimukh Pani Dhoran Sangarsh Manch).
Caste annihilation movement: by organizing caste annihilation conferences, SMD has started a struggle on the basis of a practical program going towards caste annihilation.  I has been taking lead in fighting against atrocities on dalits and other oppressed castes

Manifesto
An excerpt from the SMD manifesto:

A revolution that creates a new ecologically balanced, prosperous, non-exploitative society is not an "event" that takes place in one day. It is necessary to start this process of revolutionary transformation from today itself. Briefly, revolution is not a single "event" but a "process" that makes change. It is a process of striking one blow after another against the roots of the established capitalist, casteist, patriarchal, social-economic structure, and establishing again and again the roots creating the new society. It is a process of new creation.

References

Mahatma Phule Vision 2014 – SMD Resolution 1
Shramik Mukti Dal

Political parties in Maharashtra
Indian Marxists
Water in India
Ambedkarite organisations
Marxist organizations
1980s establishments in Maharashtra
Political parties established in the 1980s


title: Sam Martin (singer)

text:
Samuel Denison Martin (born February 7, 1983) is an American Grammy Award-winning musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. His song "Want to Want Me" (released by Jason Derulo) holds the record for the most adds in the American contemporary hit radio history.

Following signing to Artist Publishing Group, Martin's first song he wrote for another artist became the song "Daylight" by Maroon 5, which peaked at number one on the Billboard charts. His writing on the album Fly Rasta, released by Ziggy Marley, led it to becoming a number-one reggae album as well as a receiving a Grammy Award.

Martin rose to the public eye in 2014 for not only writing but being a featured artist on David Guetta's number-one singles "Lovers on the Sun" and "Dangerous". His work extends to projects with One Direction, Nick Jonas, Zedd, Flo Rida, Prince Royce, The Chainsmokers, Pitbull, Jon Bellion, Snoop Dogg, T.I., Julia Michaels, Armin van Buuren and G-Eazy. Sam Martin also has a side project called "Con Bro Chill" who have released singles including "We Should Hang Out".

Career

Early beginnings
Martin was born in New York City and raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon. He attended Lakeridge High School and went to Berklee College of Music for two years.

2012–14: Breakthrough
Martin's breakthrough came with the writing and release of "Daylight" by Maroon 5. In 2014 Martin was the contributing singer and co-writer on the song "Lovers on the Sun" and "Dangerous" by David Guetta
Martin also collaborated with Ziggy Marley on the song "Lighthouse" from his album Fly Rasta. In 2015, Fly Rasta won the grammy for best Reggae Album.

Discography

Singles

As lead artist
"Rather Be Alone" (with Robin Schulz and Nick Martin)
Released September 2019

"Sabotage"
Released January 2019

"Sugar Is Sweet"
Released February 2019

"Long Live The Billionaire"
Released March 2018

Blue Tuesday (EP)

 "It Was Always You" Released December 2018
 "All My Tears" Released December 2018
 "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" Released December 2018
 "A Day In The Life" Released December 2018
 "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" Released December 2018

"Bring Me Home"
Released June 2017

"It's Gonna Get Better"
Released October 2017

"Song For My Unborn Son"
Released January 2015

As featured artist

Songwriting credits

References

Living people
1983 births
People from Lake Oswego, Oregon
Singer-songwriters from Oregon
Singers from New York City
Berklee College of Music alumni
21st-century American singer-songwriters
Singer-songwriters from New York (state)


title: ROHS (disambiguation)

text:
RoHS is the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive by the European Union.

ROHS may also refer to:

 Red Oak High School (Texas) in Red Oak, Texas, United States
 Royal Oak High School in Royal Oak, Michigan, United States
 China RoHS, the Chinese version of the above Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive.


title: Charles Proby

text:
Charles James Proby M.A. (23 January 1771 – 2 February 1859) was a Canon of Windsor from 1814 to 1859.

Family
He was the son of the Very Revd. Baptist Proby and Mary Russell.

He married Frances Sharrer, daughter of Revd. John Sharrer on 30 June 1814. They had the following children:
Gertrude Mary Proby
Frances Susan Proby
Agnes Mary Proby
Charles John Proby
Churchill Proby

Career
He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where he graduated B.A. in 1792, and M.A. in 1795.

He was appointed:

Vicar of Bishop’s Tachbrook, Warwickshire 1803
Chaplain to John Proby, 2nd Earl of Carysfort when ambassador to Berlin
Vicar of St Mary's Church, Twickenham 1818 - 1859

He was appointed to the fifth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1814 and held this until he died in 1859.

Notes

1859 deaths
Canons of Windsor
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
1771 births


title: Yoav Ben-Tzur

text:
Rabbi Yoav Ben-Tzur (, born 11 June 1958) is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Shas and as a Minister in the Ministry of Labor. Ben-Tzur previously served as the acting Minister of Health between January and April of 2023.

Biography
Born in Kfar Saba, Ben-Tzur attended school in Netanya, and the Or Yisrael yeshiva in Petah Tikva. During his military service in the IDF, he served in the Soldier Teachers unit. He later became a reserve captain in the Nahal Brigade. Between 1985 and 1992, he worked at the Or Hadash middle boarding school. In 1993, he became Immigration Co-Ordinator in the Northern District for the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The following year, he took up the position of Deputy Director General of the National Centre for the Development of Holy Places, where he worked between 1994 and 1997. He then became CEO of HaMeshakem in 1998, serving until 2008. In 2001, he became chairman of the Jerusalem Religious Council, a position he held until the following year. He later worked as director-general of Shas' Ma'ayan HaChinuch HaTorani school system from 2007 until 2013.

A member of Shas, Ben-Tzur was placed twelfth on the Shas list for the 2013 Knesset elections, but failed to win a seat, as Shas won eleven seats. However, he entered the Knesset on 22 June 2014 as a replacement for Ariel Atias, who resigned in order to take a break from politics. He was re-elected in 2015, April 2019, 2019 and 2020. In May 2020 he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Development of the Periphery, Negev, and Galilee and Deputy Minister of the Interior. He subsequently resigned from the Knesset and was replaced by Yosef Taieb. He was re-elected to the Knesset in the March 2021 elections.

Ben-Tzur has a master's degree in Business and Public Administration from the University of Manchester. He is married with seven children, and lives in Jerusalem.

References

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1958 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Deputy ministers of Israel
Israeli chief executives
Israeli educational theorists
Israeli Orthodox rabbis
Members of the 19th Knesset (2013–2015)
Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–2019)
Members of the 21st Knesset (2019)
Members of the 22nd Knesset (2019–2020)
Members of the 23rd Knesset (2020–2021)
Members of the 24th Knesset (2021–2022)
Members of the 25th Knesset (2022–)
People from Kfar Saba
Rabbinic members of the Knesset
Shas politicians


title: Giovanni Romero

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Giovanni Romero was an Italian colonel who participated in several conflicts during the 19th century. He participated in the Second Italian War of Independence and the Third Italian War of Independence, most notably leading the 4th Africa Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Adwa of the First Italo-Ethiopian War before being killed at the battle. Romero was also a posthumous recipient of the Gold Medal of Military Valour.

Italian Wars of Independence
Giovanni was born on 8 March 1841, at Mortara, Lombardy as the son of Giuseppe Romero and Maddalena Gabetti. He volunteered for the 11th Infantry Regiment on 24 June 1859, during the Second Italian War of Independence. Romero proceeded to participate at the Battle of San Martino and for his service at the battle, he was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valour as well as a promotion to Second Lieutenant of the 15th Infantry Regiment. He then partook in campaigns within Umbria after Sardinia annexed the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He was subsequently transferred to the 1st Bersaglieri Infantry Regiment and promoted to Captain on 7 June 1866, and returned to the 51st Infantry Regiment and then participated in the Third Italian War of Independence. During the Battle of Custoza, Romero launched an ambitious charge at the Austrian lines, managing to capture Belvedere along with several soldiers, including 4 officers. For this, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Savoy.

Service in Eritrea and Adwa
In 1873, when the corps of Alpine troops had been formed, it was assigned to the companies of the Cuneo District and Romero was promoted in 1883 while commanding a battalion of the 42nd Infantry Regiment. In November 1889, as a Lieutenant Colonel, he became a teacher at the Caserta Non-commissioned Officers School for 4 years. He was promoted to Colonel on March 1894 and commanded the 29th Infantry Regiment. When relations between Italy and Ethiopia began to sour, Romero adamantly left Naples on 30 December 1895, to arrive at Massawa in January 1896. There, he was given commands of battalions VII, VIII, IX and XI of the 4th African Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Reserve Brigade. During the Battle of Adwa, when the Brigade was set to capture Colle Rebbi Arienni, the Brigade suddenly found themselves being overwhelmed by the Shaan hordes as they managed to collapse the entire Italian positions. In a last attempt to defend the road to Colle Rebbi Arienni, Romero spread his battalions out but was killed in a hand-to-hand duel.

Medal Citation
Two years later, the Italian government posthumously awarded Romero with the Gold Medal of Military Valour. Its citation read:

Legacy
A street in Mortara is named after Romero.

References

1841 births
1896 deaths
Italian Army officers
Italian colonels
Recipients of the Silver Medal of Military Valor
Recipients of the Gold Medal of Military Valor
Italian military personnel killed in the First Italo-Ethiopian War


title: Polygala nana

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Polygala nana, commonly known as candyroot or low bachelors' buttons, is a small herbaceous plant native to the southeastern United States. The root has a sweet liquorice flavor when it is chewed, but it is usually hidden underground until the plant flowers. The seeds  of candyroot are dispersed by ants.

Taxonomy
French botanist André Michaux described candyroot as a variety of Polygala lutea in 1803. Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle reclassified it as a species in 1824. The species name is the Latin word nanus "dwarf".

Description
Candyroot grows as a clumping herbaceous plant  tall, more commonly  tall. Growing from the base of the plant are the spathulate (spoon-shaped) leaves, which are  long and  cm wide. The yellow flowerheads are composed of tiny flowers arranged in racemes, and are  high by  wide.
They appear from April to June, from March to October in Alabama, and year-round in the Everglades. The seeds are smaller than 1 mm in size. The edible root tastes of licorice.

Polygala nana resembles Polygala lutea, which is a taller plant. It also resembles the rare species P. smallii of Miami-Dade County, which has seeds longer than 1 mm.

Distribution and habitat
Polygala nana is found across the southeastern United States from far eastern Texas through Louisiana and Arkansas to Florida and north as far as the Carolinas. Arkansas, where it is found in Ashley, Bradley and Calhoun Counties, marks the northwestern limits of its range. It grows in moist soil in meadows or coniferous woodlands.

References

nana
Flora of the Southeastern United States
Plants described in 1803
Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
Taxa named by André Michaux
Flora without expected TNC conservation status