title: Chen Shixiang

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Chen Shixiang or Sicien H. Chen (; 5 November 1905 – 25 January 1988) was a Chinese entomologist. A native of Jiaxing, Zhejiang, he graduated from Fudan University in Shanghai in 1928 before going to France for his doctoral work at the University of Paris. He returned to China in 1935. From 1954 to 1982 he was the director of the Entomological Society of China (中国昆虫学会). He also founded the journal Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, of which he was editor-in-chief from 1954 to 1969.

References

1905 births
1988 deaths
20th-century Chinese zoologists
Academic journal editors
Biologists from Zhejiang
Chinese entomologists
Chinese expatriates in France
Coleopterists
Fudan University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Scientists from Jiaxing
University of Paris alumni


title: Aulacodes pulchralis

text:
Aulacodes pulchralis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1915. It is found in New Guinea.

References

Acentropinae
Moths described in 1915


title: Rodgers House

text:
Rodgers House may refer to:

Places and structures

United States
(by state, then city)

 Humphreys-Rodgers House, Huntsville, Alabama, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
 Patrick Rodgers Farm, Pleasant Hill, California, NRHP-listed
 Moses Rodgers House, Stockton, California, listed on the NRHP in San Joaquin County, California
 Thomas Rodgers House, Paris, Kentucky, listed on the NRHP in Bourbon County, Kentucky
 Rodgers House (Shelbyville, Kentucky), listed on the NRHP in Shelby County, Kentucky

See also
 Rogers House (disambiguation)


title: Grigory Naginsky

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Grigory Mikhailovich Naginskiy (; born June 16, 1958, in Orsk, Orenburg Oblast) is a Russian politician, Candidate of Sciences. Senator – member of the Federation Council from Leningrad Oblast in 2003–2010, member of Industrial Policy Committee and Commission in natural monopolies.

Biography

Naginskiy graduated from Ural Polytechnic University in 1980, with a specialization in Heat and Power Engineering. Additionally, he was a candidate in Economic Sciences. He began his career in 1980 as an engineer in the Installation and Construction Directorate – 90 and continued his career up to the level of Deputy Chief Engineer. Following the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Naginskiy managed the remedial works for reactor 4.

Since 1994, Naginskiy has been deputy General Director of Installation and Construction Directorate – 90. In 1995 he initiated the integration of a range of enterprises of Sosnoviy Bor in a single holding, at the same year became the Board Chairman of Holding CONCERN TITAN-2. In 1996, he was appointed  Vice President of Public Associations "Soyuz Chernobul — Sosnoviy Bor" and President of NNO "Federation of Judo in Sosnoviy Bor." In 1999 he began to develop a political career and took various positions in different committees of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Oblast. During the period 2003-2001, Naginskiy was a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. He was appointed in 2010 as a Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, and then in April 2011 as the Head of Federal Special Construction Agency.

Awards
Order of Courage for the strong spirit and self-sacrificing during the activity in Chernobyl NPP accident consequences elimination.
Honored Builder of Russian Federation for the merits in construction and for the longstanding and dedicated work.

References

External links
 Biography on atomic-energy.ru
 Biography on lobbying.ru
 Profile at Forbes

Living people
1958 births
People from Orsk
Members of the Federation Council of Russia (after 2000)
United Russia politicians
Deputy Defence Ministers of Russia
Recipients of the Order of Courage (Russia)


title: AsiaSat 8

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AsiaSat 8 then AMOS-7 is a Hong Kong-turned-Israeli geostationary communications satellite which is operated by the Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (Asiasat).

Satellite description
AsiaSat 8 was built by Space Systems/Loral, and is based on the LS-1300 satellite bus. The satellite carries twenty-four Ku-band transponders and one Ka-band payload, and was planned to be initially positioned above the equator, at a longitude of 105.5° East, providing coverage of southern and south-eastern Asia, China and the Middle East.

Launch
SpaceX was contracted to launch AsiaSat 8, using a Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle. The launch took place from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) on 5 August 2014 at 08:00 UTC.

Falcon 9 upper stage
The Falcon 9 upper stage used to launch AsiaSat 8 is derelict in a decaying elliptical low Earth orbit that, , had an initial perigee of  and an initial apogee of . One month on, in September 2014, the orbit had decayed to an altitude of  at its closest approach to Earth, and by November 2014 had decayed to a  perigee.

AMOS-7
In December 2016, Spacecom made a US$88 million four-year agreement with AsiaSat to lease AsiaSat 8 Ku-band. It is providing service at 4° West.

See also

 List of Falcon 9 launches

References

External links

Spacecraft launched in 2014
AsiaSat satellites
SpaceX commercial payloads
Satellites using the SSL 1300 bus
Satellite television
Communications satellites of Israel
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit


title: Richard Griffin, 2nd Baron Braybrooke

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Richard Griffin, 2nd Baron Braybrooke (3 July 1750 – 28 February 1825) was an English politician and peer. He was known as Richard Aldworth-Neville or Richard Aldworth Griffin-Neville to 1797.

Early life

Aldworth was born on 3 July 1750 in Duke Street, Westminster. He was the only son and heir of Richard Neville Aldworth Neville and the former Magdalen Calandrini. His father was a diplomat who served as MP for , , and . His only sibling was sister Frances, who became the wife of Francis Jalabert.

His maternal grandfather was Francis Calandrini, first syndic (or civil magistrate) of Geneva. His paternal grandparents were Richard Aldworth of Stanlake, and the former Catherine Neville (a daughter of Richard Neville of Billingbear House). His father assumed the name and arms of Neville in August 1762, when, on the death of the Countess of Portsmouth (widow of his maternal uncle Henry Neville Grey before her marriage to John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth), he succeeded to the estate of Billingbear.

He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford, on 20 June 1768, was created M.A. 4 July 1771, D.C.L. 3 July 1810, and was incorporated LL.D. of Cambridge in 1819.

Career

Neville served as a Lieutenant in the Berkshire Militia in 1779. He was Member of Parliament for  from 10 October 1774 till the dissolution in 1780, and for  in the next parliament till his appointment as agent to the Buckinghamshire Militia in February 1782. On the 21st of the same month he was returned for , and was re-elected there for the three succeeding parliaments (1784, 1790, 1796).

On the death, in May 1797, of his father's maternal uncle John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, by whom he had been adopted as heir, Griffin-Neville succeeded to the Braybrooke barony. He assumed the additional surname and arms of Griffin, and came into possession of the Audley End estate until the death in 1802 of Dr. Parker, son-in-law of the late Baron, who had a life interest in it. Braybrooke increased the property by the purchase of neighbouring manors and farms from the Earls of Bristol and Suffolk, and other acquisitions.

He became Lord Lieutenant of Essex and custos rotulorum of the county immediately after his accession to the peerage (19 January 1798), and was also vice-admiral of Essex, recorder of Saffron Walden, high steward of Wokingham, hereditary visitor of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and provost marshal of Jamaica.

Personal life
On 19 June 1780 Aldworth-Neville married Catherine Grenville at Stowe, Buckinghamshire. Catherine was the youngest daughter of Prime Minister George Grenville and the former Elizabeth Wyndham (daughter of Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet and sister of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont). Together, they were the parents of six sons (including twins who died immediately after birth) and four daughters:

 Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Braybrooke (1783–1858), who married Lady Jane Cornwallis, eldest daughter of Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis and Lady Louisa Gordon (fourth daughter of Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon) in 1819.
 Hon. Henry Neville-Grenville (d. 1809), a Captain in the dragoons who died while serving in Spain after the Battle of Talavera.
 Hon. George Neville-Grenville (1789–1854), Dean of Windsor and Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria; he married his second half-cousin once removed, Lady Charlotte Legge, second daughter of George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth and Lady Frances Finch (second daughter of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford) in 1816.
 William Neville-Grenville, who died young.
 Hon. Catherine Neville-Grenville (d. 1841), who died unmarried.
 Hon. Mary Neville-Grenville, who married Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet, of Hawarden.
 Hon. Caroline Neville-Grenville (d. 1868), who married Paul Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock in 1817.
 Hon. Frances Neville-Grenville, who died young.

Lord Braybrooke died on 28 February 1825, after a lingering illness, at his seat at Billingbear House, and was buried at Laurence Waltham. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest surviving son, Richard.

References

Attribution

1750 births
1825 deaths
Royal Berkshire Militia officers
Lord-Lieutenants of Essex
Aldworth Neville, Richard
Aldworth Neville, Richard
Aldworth Neville, Richard
Aldworth Neville, Richard
Aldworth Neville, Richard
Aldworth Neville, Richard
Aldworth Neville, Richard
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
Barons Braybrooke


title: London Buslines

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London Buslines was a bus operator in London that operated services under contract to London Buses between July 1985 and March 1996.

History
London Buslines was formed to bid for bus services being put out to tender by London Buses as part of the deregulation of London bus services. It was owned by coach company proprietor Len Wright.

It commenced trading on 13 July 1985, when it became the first private operator to operate a London Buses service on  route 81. Further contracts to operate other routes were won including routes 79, 90, 92, 190, 203, 258 and 285.

Operations commenced with second hand Daimler Fleetlines, with later purchases being Leyland Olympians and Dennis Darts. Initially operating out of Len Wright Travel's Isleworth garage, in October 1989 a garage was established in Southall.

On 20 March 1996, London Buslines was purchased by CentreWest, which in turn was sold to FirstBus in March 1997 and after being retained as a separate brand for a period, integrated into First London.

References

External links
Showbus gallery

Former London bus operators
1985 establishments in England
1996 disestablishments in England


title: The Pressure (song)

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"The Pressure" is a song by American recording artist Jhene Aiko, taken from her debut studio album, Souled Out (2014). The song premiered on Vogue magazine's website and was released for digital download on July 17, 2014, as the second single from the album through ARTium Recordings and Def Jam Recordings. The song was written by Aiko, while production was handled by longtime collabarotors Mac Robinson and Brian Warfield under their production name Fisticuffs.
Backed by a guitar-tinged, hip-hop production containing synths, metallic slaps and a shaky beat "The Pressure" is a PBR&B song that thematically revolves around Aiko's stress of finishing her debut album.

Upon release The Pressure was met with generally positive reviews from music critics; who commended the song's lyrical content, Aiko's vocals and the atmospheric production. Commercially the song did not fare well, only making an appearance on the US Hot R&B Songs chart.
The song's accompanying video was released on September 2, 2014 and was directed by rapper Childish Gambino and Calmatic, during the video it depicts the challenges of being in a relationship and shows various scenes including Aiko drinking beer and eating pizza with her friends, writing songs and playing with her child, before changing to darker themes including friends fighting and lovers leaving. To further promote the song Aiko performed at the Streamy Awards 2014.

Background
In 2011 Aiko revealed that her debut album would feature production from producers Fistcuffs, who helped produce the majority of Aiko's 2011 mixtape Sailing Soul(s).
In 2014 Aiko revealed she worked with No I.D., Key Wayne, Fisticuffs and Dot Da Genius and stated she would only be working with them so the sound was cohesive, she also revealed that her and the producers were working together in order to "make sure each song goes well with the other".
The song was written by Aiko herself, along with her frequent collaborators Mac Robinson and Brian Warfield while the latter two handled the song's production under their production name Fisticuffs.
"The Pressure", premiered on vogue.com on July 17, 2014, and was released to ITunes a day later as the second official single on July 18, 2014.

Composition
The Pressure is a PBR&B song  built over a "guitar-tinged", hip-hop production
with a length of three minutes and fifty-nine seconds. The Pressure is a "smooth" song that moves along "subtly" and contains a guitar and a synth production, Gregory Adams of Exclaim noted the song's production as being "smooth and steady clack, airy, reverberated guitar noodling and the occasional shooting-star synth line".
Christina Lee of Idolator described the song's production and musical style as containing "metallic slaps and a shaky beat".
Ana Leorne, writing for The 405, highlighted the song's "cool, laid-back" production, which helps to highlight Aiko's vocals. According to Richard of DJ Booth "The Pressure" contains "layering wavy guitar riffs and ambient synths over a deliberate percussion".

Lyrically the song was inspired by the Aiko's stress of finishing her debut album, during her first verse Aiko "maintains her cool" exhaling deeply, however during the song Aiko's lyrics become "sharper" with this concept being introduced in the lyric "You are such a liar / I never denied you, I was for sure," following the sharper verse Aiko becomes "flat-out dismissive". The lyric "I don't wanna see you go, but I don't have time to solve this / And you don't have the right" was interpreted by a reviewer from Direct Lyrics as Aiko reflecting on the "difficulty and stress she experienced while putting the finishing touches on "Souled Out"."

Reception
Upon release The Pressure was met with generally positive reviews from music critics.
Jeff Benjamin of Fuse TV praised the singles production and compared it to the work of PBR&B singer Miguel, Benjamin also praised Aiko's vocals noting them as "spine-tingling". Christina Lee of Idolator praised the song's production and commended the song's lyrical content especially the "sharper" lyrics. Gregory Adams of Exclaim gave the song praise calling the song "steamy" and praised the song's smooth and subtle production, Adams further gave praise to Aiko's delivery of the song's lyrics which he described as being done "".

Dimas Sanfiorenzo of Global Grind gave the song a mixed review praising the song over all, but believed the song was too similar to Aiko's previous work, however
Brandon TNT West of Global Grind listed the song on his "Top 5 Tracks of the Week" and wrote an extensive review of the song and noted the song's musical style as having a "lightly trippy mood" that works well with Aiko's vocals continuing to say "If you can picture a ball of cotton landing softly on freshly fallen snow on a cold January night, you can sense the vibe in The Pressure."
Elle Breezy of the singers room compared the song to Aiko's single "The Worst" stating that both songs have similar "cool jazziness" tones.

Music video
On September 2, 2014 Aiko released the song's accompanying video which was directed by rapper Childish Gambino and Calmatic, the song's video depicts the challenges of being in a relationship. During the video Aiko is seen with blonde dreads and features a cameo from her daughter Namiko.
The video starts around a dimly lit Aiko, as the camera rolls through a series of vignettes, the scenes consist of the singer drinking beer and eating pizza with her friends, enjoying an herbal refreshment with a gentleman on a couch, writing songs and playing with her child. The scenes then begin to tick up tension, with friends fighting, lovers leaving and Aiko sending her child off to celebrate a birthday without her, this is followed by Aiko fading out.
Mike Wass of Idolator praised the song's video, commended the visual for capturing the song's "languid, confessional vibe", continuing to praise the videos "slight psychedelic twist" which Wass called "interesting".

Track listing
Digital download
The Pressure - 3:59

Credits
Credits adapted from All Music.

Jhené Aiko - Primary Artist, Composer
Mac Robinson - Composer
Brian Warfield - Composer

Charts
The Pressure debuted at twenty five on the US Hot R&B Songs chart, the following week the song rose to twenty three with 528,000 U.S. streams a 177 percent jump.

Certifications

Release history

References

2014 singles
Jhené Aiko songs
2014 songs
Def Jam Recordings singles
Music videos directed by Calmatic
Songs written by Jhené Aiko


title: California (novel)

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California is a novel by American author Edan Lepucki described as "post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction", in which characters Frida and Cal flee Los Angeles to live in the wilderness of post-apocalyptic California. The novel rose to prominence after Stephen Colbert urged his viewers to pre-order copies of the book from sellers other than Amazon.com – part of an ongoing dispute between the online bookseller and Colbert's own publisher, the Hachette Book Group. On 21 July 2014, Colbert announced that the novel would debut on The New York Times Best Seller list at number 3.

Plot
Main characters Frida Ellis and Calvin Friedman are young lovers who, having fled a nearly-destroyed Los Angeles, are living in an abandoned house in Northern California as subsistence foragers and farmers. Wealthier survivors live in "Communities" with internet access, private security, and other luxuries.

The couple leave their home when Frida discovers she is pregnant. The protagonists abandon their former lives and seek the support of a community in which to raise their child. The couple struggle to decide whether or not to tell their new community about Frida's pregnancy which might sway a communal vote to determine if the couple should be allowed to stay.

The "Colbert Bump"

On June 4, 2014, Colbert used his television show, The Colbert Report, to satirically attack bookseller Amazon over the company's decision to remove particular titles from sale, including books from the publisher of Colbert's own three books, the Hachette Book Group. Colbert retaliated by encouraging his viewers to pre-order copies of California, published by Hachette subsidiary Little, Brown, from independent retailer Powell's Books to demonstrate its popularity.

The title was subsequently reviewed by national US papers including The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. The New York Times suggested that Lepucki had "won the literary Lotto".

From plans for an initial print run of 12,000 copies, Hachette upped its inventory to 60,000 copies. The book became "one of the most preordered debut titles in Hachette history". Lepucki spent three days signing 10,000 copies at Powell's headquarters.

Reception
The novel received generally positive reviews, though many reviewers pointed out that the book might not have otherwise received national attention had it not been for Colbert's campaign against Amazon, thus "subjecting this modest post-apocalyptic tale to intense scrutiny". The Boston Globe, though, called the novel "a mostly solid first book". The Washington Post suggested specific elements (including Lepucki's plot twist) were "thrilling" and "amusing".

The New York Post included the book in its "29 best books of the summer" and the Orlando Weekly listed it in its "2014 Summer Guide".

See also
Cultural impact of The Colbert Report

References

External links

2014 American novels
American post-apocalyptic novels
Little, Brown and Company books
2014 debut novels


title: José Greci

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José Greci (10 January 1941 – 1 June 2017) was an Italian film, television and stage actress.

Life and career
Born in Ferrara as Giuseppina Greci, the daughter of the journalist and television writer Luigi. In 1956 at just fifteen years old Greci enrolled at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art; after two years she left the academy to debut on stage.

Greci made her film debut in 1959, playing the Virgin Mary in William Wyler's Ben-Hur. From then she started appearing in dozens of genre films, soon becoming one of the most prolific actresses in 1960s Italian cinema, particularly becoming a star in the sword-and-sandal and eurospy genres. Also active on television, she gradually abandoned her career during the seventies. She died in Rome, Italy on 1 June 2017, aged 76.

Selected filmography

 La cento chilometri (1959) - The Cello Player Friend of Elena
 Ben-Hur (1959) - Mary (uncredited)
 Revenge of the Barbarians (1960) - Sabina
 Romolo e Remo (1961) - Estia
 Le italiane e l'amore (1961) - (segment "Un matrimonio")
 Il sangue e la sfida (1962)
 Colossus of the Arena (1962) - Revia
 The Rebel Gladiators (1962) - Arminia
 War Gods of Babylon (1962) - Crisia
 Zorro and the Three Musketeers (1963) - Isabella
 Goliath and the Sins of Babylon (1963) - Regia / Chelima
 The Bread Peddler (1963) - Amanda
 Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963) - Dona Blanca - Francisco's Daughter
 Hercules Against the Mongols (1963) - Bianca de Tudela
 The Ten Gladiators (1963) - Livia
 Death on the Fourposter (1964) - Kitty
 Hercules Against the Barbarians (1964)  - Arminia / Armina
 'Sword of the Empire (1964) - Nissia, blonde slave
 Revenge of The Gladiators (1964) - Priscilla
 Espionage in Tangier (1965) - Lee Randall
 Seven Rebel Gladiators (1965) - Assuer
 Operation Poker (1965) - Helga
 Last Man to Kill (1966) - Ellen
 Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula (1966) - Lynn
 Maigret a Pigalle (1966) - Arlette
 Bury Them Deep (1968) - Sign. Gennaroni
 All on the Red (1968) - Yvette
 All'ultimo sangue (1968) - Consuelo
 The Most Beautiful Couple in the World (1968)
 The Sicilian Connection (1972) - Lucia
 Catene (1974) - (final film role)

References

External links

1941 births
2017 deaths
Italian film actresses
Italian television actresses
Italian stage actresses
Actors from Ferrara
Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni


title: Bent Faurby

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Bent Faurby (born 21 March 1937) is a Danish author and schoolteacher who has specialized in children's literature, writing both fiction and informative works covering a variety of subjects.

Biography
Born in Kolding, Faurby attended Silkeborg Seminarium (teacher training college) where he received his diploma in 1960. In 1962, he took up a teaching assignment in Upernavik in northwest Greenland which later led to two factual books about Greenland in 1996. Faurby got his first book published in 1976.

His many reading books and easy readers for children and young people address everything from footballers to snakes. His work includes reader-friendly literature in the areas of history, geography and biology. Attractive Danish topics he has written about include Tordenskjold, the Øresund Link, pirates and sharks. Some of his books combine fact and fiction as in Toms rejse til Island (Tom's Trip to Iceland) which contains much information about volcanos and geysers. It is one of 12 in his popular Tom series, illustrated by his wife Irene Hedlund.

Faurby, who received the Skriverpris for læservenligt forfatterskab (Award for Reader-Friendly Writing) in 1998, lives in Højbjerg, a southern district of Aarhus. He is married to the Danish illustrator and children's writer Irene Hedlund who has illustrated many of his books.

External links
Bent Faurby at Litteratursiden with a list of his works.

References

1937 births
Danish children's writers
People from Aarhus
People from Kolding
Living people


title: Portadas al Día

text:
Portadas al Día (before Portada's) is a Venezuelan Spanish language show produced by and broadcast live by Venevisión. The show is aired Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to noon and follows a News magazine format and addressees a variety of topics covering family life from national to international events. The show's segments offer a variety of entertainment featuring food, gossip, games, humor, celebrity interviews and more.

History
Portada's began in 2005 with Leonardo Villalobos, Chiquinquirá Delgado, Francisco León, Mariangel Ruiz and Zoraya Villarreal as the show's first presenters.

In 2014, the show celebrated its 9th anniversary being on air.

On June 26, 2023, the magazine was renamed Portadas al Día, changing the recording studio and with it the dynamics of the program.

Presenters

  Lead Animator
  Co-animator/ Panelist
  Guest entertainer
  Special guest

References

External links

Venezuelan television news shows
Venevisión original programming
2005 Venezuelan television series debuts
2000s Venezuelan television series
2010s Venezuelan television series


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's shot put

text:
The Men's shot put at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme took place at Hampden Park on 27 and 28 July 2014.

Results

Qualifying round

Final qualification mark was set at 20.00 metres, and athletes reaching that marked qualified for the final. Where less than twelve made the mark, the first twelve athletes were to qualify for the final as of right. In the event, three athletes qualified through reaching the mark; the next nine qualified for the final without reaching the mark.

New Zealand's Tomas Walsh was the best mark from the first round, at 21.24 metres, a new Commonwealth Games record

Final

References

Men's shot put
2014


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's shot put

text:
The Women's shot put at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, was held at Hampden Park on 30 July 2014.

Final

References

Women's shot put
2014
2014 in women's athletics


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's discus throw

text:
The Men's discus throw at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme took place at Hampden Park on 30 and 31 July 2014.

Results

Qualifying round

Final

References

Men's discus throw
2014


title: Torre dello Sperone

text:
The Torre dello Sperone is a medieval tower in Cagliari, southern Sardinia, Italy. It is located in the Stampace historical quarter of the city.

The tower was part of the city's fortifications built in white limestone by the Pisan in the 13th century. A Latin inscription on the facade of the tower state that the tower was completed in March 1293 during the government of the Captain of the people Alberti.

Sources
Giancarlo Sorgia. Cagliari. La suggestione delle epigrafi. Cagliari, Edizioni della Torre, 1993.

Towers completed in the 13th century
Towers in Cagliari
Buildings and structures in Cagliari


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's discus throw

text:
The Women's discus throw at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, took place at Hampden Park on 31 July and 1 August 2014.

Results

Qualifying round

Final

References

Women's discus throw
2014
2014 in women's athletics


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's javelin throw

text:
The Men's javelin throw at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme took place at Hampden Park between 1 and 2 August 2014.

Results

Qualifying round
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 78.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Final

References

Men's javelin throw
2014


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's javelin throw

text:
The Women's javelin throw at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, was held at Hampden Park on 30 July 2014.

Final

References

Women's javelin throw
2014
2014 in women's athletics


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's hammer throw

text:
The Men's hammer throw at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme took place at Hampden Park on 28 and 29 July 2014.

Results

Qualifying round

Final

References

Men's hammer throw
2014


title: 2C2P

text:
2C2P is a financial services company headquartered in Singapore. The company primarily provides payment gateway services to businesses.

Overview
Businesses using 2C2P's platform include Lazada, Thai Airways International, and Lenovo.

History
2C2P was founded in Bangkok, Thailand in 2003 by Myanmar-born computer programmer Aung Kyaw Moe. In 2007, the company moved its headquarters to Singapore.

In 2009, 2C2P first secured a seed investment. 2C2P has since received financial backing from venture capitalists Amun Capital, GMO Venture Partners and Digital Media Partners.

In 2012, 2C2P launched an alternative payment method called 123, a local-currency alternative payment channel for non-credit-card payment processing.

In the fiscal year of 2014, the company processed over US$2.2 billion in transactions. Also in 2014, 2C2P partnered with Mastercard to launch easyBills, a platform that enables cardholders to pay utilities, mobile, and other bills via smartphone or the web.

In 2015, 2C2P completed the migration of its services to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and became the first online payment provider offering online credit card installments  in Thailand.

In 2018, the company partnered with five major corporations to launch the first QR code payment gateway in Thailand.

In early 2020, 2C2P announced the launch of its investment arm, 2C2P.VC. In late 2020, the company refreshed its branding and website to create a more international and accessible look and feel.

In 2022, the company was named a participant in the Bank of Thailand's retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot testing program.

In April 2022, 2C2P entered a strategic partnership with Chinese financial and payment company Ant Group, with the latter taking on a majority stake and linking Ant's Alipay+ payment service with 2C2P's existing payment gateway platform.

Products and services
2C2P provides payment acceptance, payouts, issuing, digital goods aggregation and reselling services.

The company supports 250 payment methods, including electronic payments, mobile payments, credit cards, and offline payments. The company also aggregates bill payments, digital goods and services - issuing wallets, cards and loyalty programs, and offering mobile top-ups, transportation tickets, and others.

See also
 List of online payment service providers
 Electronic commerce
 Payment gateway
 Payment service provider

References

External links

Online companies of Singapore
Mobile payments
Online payments
Payment service providers


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's hammer throw

text:
The Women's hammer throw at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, took place at Hampden Park on 27 and 28 July 2014.

Results

Qualification

Final qualification mark was set at 65 metres, and athletes reaching that marked qualified for the final. Where less than twelve made the mark, the first twelve athletes were to qualify for the final as of right. In the event, only three qualified automatically, and nine reached the final without making the mark.

Canada's Sultana Frizell was the best mark from the first round, at 68.92 metres, a new Commonwealth Games record

Final

References

Women's hammer throw
2014
2014 in women's athletics


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's long jump

text:
The Men's long jump at the 2014 Commonwealth Games was part of the athletics programme. The two-day event was held at Hampden Park on 29 and 30 July 2014.

Qualifying round

Qualifying rule: qualification standard 7.90m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Final round

References

Men's long jump
2014


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's long jump

text:
The Women's long jump at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, was a two-day event held at Hampden Park on 30 and 31 July 2014.

Records

Qualifying round

Final round

References

Women's long jump
2014
2014 in women's athletics


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's triple jump

text:
The Men's triple jump at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme took place at Hampden Park on 1 and 2 August 2014.

Results

Qualifying round

Final

References

Men's triple jump
2014


title: Esposende, Marinhas e Gandra

text:
Esposende, Marinhas e Gandra is a civil parish in the municipality of Esposende, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Esposende, Marinhas and Gandra. The population in 2011 was 11,111, in an area of 17.31 km².

References

Parishes of Esposende


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's triple jump

text:
The Women's triple jump at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, took place at Hampden Park on 28 and 29 July 2014.

Records

Results

Qualifying round

Final

References

Women's triple jump
2014
2014 in women's athletics


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's high jump

text:
The Men's high jump at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, was a two-day event held at Hampden Park on 28 and 30 July 2014.

Records

Results

Qualifying round
Qualification: 2.20 (Q) or 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Final

References

Men's high jump
2014


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's high jump

text:
The Women's high jump at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, was a two-day event held at Hampden Park on 30 July and 1 August 2014.

Results

Qualifying round
Qualification: 1.85 (Q) or 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Final

References

Women's high jump
2014
2014 in women's athletics


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's pole vault

text:
The Men's pole vault at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at Hampden Park on 1 August 2014.

Records

Results

Jump-off

Final

References

Men's pole vault
2014


title: Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's pole vault

text:
The Women's pole vault at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, was held at Hampden Park on 2 August 2014.

Records

Final

References

Women's pole vault
2014
2014 in women's athletics


title: Serenity: Leaves on the Wind

text:
Serenity: Leaves on the Wind is a 2014 six-issue comic book miniseries published by Dark Horse Comics, based on the 2002 science fiction television series Firefly, and the 2005 feature film into which it was adapted, Serenity.

It is the third comic book miniseries to be based on Firefly after the 2005 miniseries, Serenity: Those Left Behind and the 2008 miniseries, Serenity: Better Days. It is the first miniseries not written by Firefly creator Joss Whedon. His brother Zack Whedon writes all six issues. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and Season Nine penciller, Georges Jeanty, is the penciller. The miniseries continues the story roughly 39 weeks after the events of the film. The first issue was published January 29, 2014, and the last issue was published June 25, 2014. Each issue is 32 pages long.

A hardcover volume collecting the entire series was published in November 2014.

Leaves on the Wind #1 won Diamond Comics Distributors's 2014 Gem Award for Licensed Comic of the Year. Comic nominees for the award are chosen based on sales performance and quality, and the winners are selected by comic book specialty retailers.

Plot

Chronology
The overall chronology of Serenity – Leaves on the Wind is not specified. However, the events portrayed appear to take place at an unspecified time after the events of the film Serenity, as well as after the events portrayed in the related graphic novelizations Float Out and It's Never Easy.

Part 1
The storyline opens with a heated television debate between influential pro-Alliance and pro-Independence members. Following the very public revelation of the atrocities committed on the remote planet Miranda, the Alliance attempt to contain the resulting political fallout and to suppress Anti-Alliance riots and protests. The Alliance has been forced onto the political defensive: their public stance is that those responsible for the Miranda Transmission are terrorists who must be brought to justice. Aboard an Alliance battle cruiser, ranking officials including the apparent senior official, Kalista, are aware that the crew of Serenity were responsible for broadcasting the transmission, and conspire to capture them via a network of informers and undercover Alliance agents.

A resurgent group of anti-Alliance rebels calling themselves the  ‘New Resistance’ , headed by a young woman named Bea, resolve to group together under the leadership of Captain Malcolm ‘Mal’ Reynolds, and they formulate a plan to find him. Shortly after, Bea is approached by a man claiming to be able to contact Reynolds.

Aboard the Serenity, most of the crew members who survived the events portrayed in the film Serenity have taken temporary refuge in a remote sector of space. River Tam has retained her assigned role as Serenity's helmsman. Inara Serra has resolved to stay aboard the ship. Zoe Washburne is unsettled by the imminent birth of her child, and the romantic relationship between Simon Tam and Kaylee Frye continues.
It is also revealed that, at some point in the recent past, Mal and Inara have both acknowledged their mutual attraction, and consummated their relationship. However, Jayne Cobb has left the ship to settle with his mother, in parts unknown.

The remaining crew are hungry and partly demoralized, having been forced to abandon their normal sources of income out of fear of capture. Further, the Alliance has punished Inara for collaborating with Mal (now a sought-after fugitive) by voiding her registration as a companion, effectively rendering her a societal outcast. Knowing the urgent need to refuel and replenish their dwindling supplies, Inara tries to persuade Mal to bring them out of hiding in order to find a job. Mal and Inara retire to their quarters, and make love.

Shortly after, Zoe's daughter Emma is born aboard Serenity. Simon informs Mal that Zoe suffered a haemorrhage during the birth, and that she may die if she does not receive hospital treatment. River sets course for a nearby hospital satellite that is providing service to an asteroid mining operation.

Jubal Early, the bounty hunter whom Mal supposedly left for dead at the end of the ‘Firefly’ episode ‘Objects In Space’, infiltrates the Alliance cruiser and confronts Kalista, proposing to claim an Alliance bounty in return for capturing Mal.
Bea locates Jayne, promising him payment in return for helping to locate Mal.

Part 2
Jubal Early and Kalista formulate a plan to capture Serenity. Bea becomes impatient at the protracted delay in finding Mal, and with Jayne's crudity.

The crew of Serenity hurry to get Zoe aboard the hospital satellite, while Inara emphasizes to Mal their status as hunted fugitives. A doctor informs Simon that Zoe can be saved, but will be in recovery for at least five days. The conundrum forces Mal to a decision to temporarily abandon Zoe, and stage a later rescue – knowing she will be detained by the Alliance upon leaving surgery.

Back aboard Serenity, Mal chastises himself for leaving Zoe to be captured. River proposes that the contents of her own memory be extracted and used against the Alliance as potential leverage in exchange for Zoe, knowing that the only method of ‘extracting’ her memory is to be placed in an induced coma.

Bea and Jayne track down and board Serenity. Bea asks Mal to lead the New Resistance. Mal refuses, accusing Bea of compromising his crew's safety and ordering Bea and Jayne to leave immediately. Having stowed away on Bea's vessel, Early murders her crew, stealthily boards Serenity and destroys Bea's vessel, thus trapping Bea and Jayne on board Serenity.
Zoe wakes in an Alliance infirmary and is confronted by an Alliance Lieutenant, Rodgers, who presents her with an ultimatum: if Zoe does not reveal the whereabouts of Serenity, she will be sentenced to a prison camp on a remote planet.

On Serenity, Mal chastises Jayne, telling him his mercenary nature and lust for money are what have resulted in their safety being jeopardized, and that Jayne will have to leave the ship as soon as possible.

Part 3
River, still in an induced coma, dreams of leaving for the Alliance Academy, meeting her damaged compatriots, being an unwilling subject of human experimentation and being rescued by Simon. Jubal Early disables Simon, but his assault is secretly witnessed by Kaylee.

Inara professes her need of, and unconditional love for 'All of' Mal, and tells him the time has come to distribute Serenity's emergency rations. Collecting the rations, Mal is ambushed and disabled by Early.

Meditating on the present hopelessness of her situation, Bea laments coming aboard Serenity. Jayne comforts Bea, telling her Mal is a man of principle who fights to defend his beliefs. Left alone by Jayne, Bea accidentally accosts Early and offers him tea, failing to recognise him as a saboteur. Early secures the Serenity but fails to account for Kaylee, who strikes him down with a pipe wrench, binds him and threatens to torture him.

Regaining consciousness, River reveals that she is not the sole subject of the Alliance's human enhancement programme. She urges Simon and the rest of the crew to find and free the remaining test subjects. Mal refuses, asserting that their exclusive goal is to rescue Zoe, but gradually changes his mind as Inara explains that a more honourable aim would be to achieve both goals.

Zoe is transported to an unnamed prison camp from which she resolves to escape as soon as possible. Her declaration amuses a fellow inmate, who asserts that ‘No one gets out of here’.
Realising that it will be nearly impossible to find Zoe and free River's compatriots without help from a member of the Alliance, Mal finds and asks for help from the disgraced Alliance Operative whose life he spared.

Part 4
Under the hostile stares of the entire crew of Serenity, the Operative comes aboard. As Serenity lifts off from the Operative's planet, Kaylee drops Jubal Early to an intended death from the trash-dump bay while the ship ascends to altitude.

With the help and co-operation of the Operative and Bea, and with the dual objective of freeing both River's compatriots and Zoe, Mal and the crew form a plan to obtain a less conspicuous shuttle and bypass Alliance security. Disturbed by the presence of the Operative on Serenity, Kaylee voices her concerns to Inara, who replies that despite anyone's sensibilities, using the Operative is the only way to ensure success - but assures Kaylee that neither she, nor Mal, have forgotten the Operative's role in their predicament.

At the prison camp, Zoe reasserts her intention to escape. She is told that the entire planet consists of desert, and that Alliance policy is to allow the prisoners to kill each other. Witnessing the random brutality around her, Zoe violently intervenes to stop a fistfight, earning the enmity of most of the prison colony.

With Serenity on the planet Sihnon, the crew and Bea travel to a New Resistance safehouse where Bea uses Mal to win co-operation. Using an Alliance shuttle, Mal, the crew and the Operative invade the Alliance Academy building, realising too late that the unguarded building is a trap. As the Operative engages in a standoff with Kalista's lieutenant, Denon, the crew reach the holding chamber where River's compatriots are being held, but the doctor in charge of the human enhancement programme activates one of the experimentation subjects. Able to read the subject's mind and deduce her intentions, River whispers to the crew to run for their lives.

Part 5
The activated test subject attacks River and the crew of Serenity. She easily overpowers the crew, breaking Jayne's arm and dangerously wounding Mal, who tells Bea to make good her escape. Semi-conscious, Mal has a series of flashbacks, culminating in his speech to the members of the New Resistance on Sihnon. He manages to activate the emergency recall mechanism for the shuttle, then helps River subdue the test subject with a tranquillizer injection.

Continuing to mount a defence of those inside the Alliance Academy, the Operative is severely beaten by Denon, but manages to defeat and kill him. The Operative is joined by Bea, but Kalista appears, prompting the Operative to surrender. Kalista gives the Operative his choice of death. The Operative chooses the ‘honourable’ death of ritual suicide, but is interrupted by the arrival of a shipload of New Resistance Browncoats who attempt to kill the Alliance members present. Mal, River and Jayne emerge from the Academy, carrying the test subject as their unconscious captive. The Browncoats cease fighting, and escort the crew to their shuttle. Mal orders that the wounded Lieutenant Rodgers be detained and brought aboard.

The crew tend to the wounded Mal and Jayne, and the Alliance test subject is restrained. Lieutenant Rodgers informs Bea that the New Resistance has already fallen: the welcome but perplexing influx of money and resources that allowed the formation of the New Resistance had in fact been provided by the Alliance, with the goal of exposing and compromising all militant dissenters. Mal responds by promising Rodgers that if the crew of Serenity are harassed by the Alliance in future, he will respond with violence. Mal then informs the defiant Rodgers that he need not say out loud where Zoe is being held, as River is able to read his mind.

Part 6
In the prison camp, Zoe has been fighting off potential assassins for some time. She is informed by her one-eyed compatriot that although she fights well, she will eventually be defeated by overwhelming numbers. Zoe responds that she expects her friends will come for her.

Able to invade the mind of the captive Lieutenant Rodgers, River correctly deduces which planet Zoe is being held on. She elaborates on the psychic and mental damage inflicted on the test subject the crew have rescued from the Alliance Academy, and Simon promises to try to help the subject regain her lost humanity. Mal and the crew initiate their plan to rescue Zoe, and Bea offers to help. Mal rejects her, but relents after Bea informs him that her father had fought under Mal's command during the Battle of Serenity Valley.

Back in the prison camp, Zoe hears Serenity enter the planet's atmosphere, and knows her rescue is imminent. The following morning, she breaks away from the prison group, but is pursued by guards. Assisted by Mal, Bea and the Operative using Serenity's Mule transport, and with Jayne acting as sniper from a nearby rock outcropping, she escapes, but the Mule is nearly swamped by prison guards determined to re-capture her. Reaching and taking off in Serenity, the crew abandon Lieutenant Rodgers on the surface of the prison planet.
Landing on the planet Theophrastus, Mal parts company with the Operative, and watches him walk away. Wanting to claim vengeance for her dead husband Hoban Washburne, Zoe leaves Serenity without the crew's knowledge and challenges the Operative to a duel to the death. The outcome is not shown, but Zoe is later shown back on the ship. Mal asks her: ‘You all right?’ Her reply is: ‘Getting there, Sir’.

The rescued test subject reveals her name as Iris, and is welcomed aboard Serenity. She states her intent to remain free, and her desire to avenge herself on the Alliance – a plan welcomed by Bea. Mal offers Zoe a chance to settle down away from the chaos aboard Serenity and raise her daughter, but Zoe refuses, stating that the crew of Serenity are her daughter's family. Inara asks Mal what the next course of action is, and Mal responds typically, saying they will ‘Take to the sky; see where it leads’.

On the Operative's planet, an old woman informs Kalista that Jubal Early was found half-dead in the branches of a nearby tree. Taking him aboard an Alliance shuttle, Kalista informs the terribly wounded Early that he will be obliged to complete his assignment to locate Serenity, and adds that she will be providing ‘help’ – the remaining complement of Alliance human-experimentation subjects. The series concludes as Kalista mounts the bridge of her shuttle, removing her wig and displaying the cross-hatched scars on her scalp, revealing that she herself is one of the human-experimentation subjects.

Publication dates
Issue #1: January 29, 2014
Issue #2: February 26, 2014
Issue #3: March 26, 2014
Issue #4: April 30, 2014
Issue #5: May 28, 2014
Issue #6: June 25, 2014
Hardcover: November 5, 2014

See also
 List of comics based on television programs
 List of comics based on films

Notes

References

2014 comics debuts
Comics based on films
Comics based on television series
Dark Horse Comics limited series
Firefly (franchise) comics


title: 2014 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships – Men's singles

text:
James Ward was the defending champion, but lost the re-match of the 2013 final to James Duckworth with the Australian winning the title this year, 6–3, 6–4.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References
 Main draw
 Qualifying draw

2014 MS
Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships - Men's Singles


title: Ground freezing

text:
Ground freezing is a construction technique used in circumstances where soil needs to be stabilized so it will not collapse next to excavations, or to prevent contaminants spilled into soil from being leached away.
Ground freezing has been used for at least one hundred years.

Pipes are run through the soil to be frozen, and then refrigerants are run through the pipes, freezing the soil.
Frozen soil can be as hard as concrete.

Design
Some ground freezing projects use common salt brine as the refrigerant, but other projects benefit from using more exotic refrigerants, like liquid nitrogen.

Examples
Soil contaminated with radioactive elements that leaked from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was contained through ground freezing.

A project in Boston known as the Big Dig used ground freezing during some of its tunneling, to allow its wide tunnels to be built under or through soil that supported existing infrastructure that would have been difficult or expensive to support using more traditional excavation methods.

In northern Canada and arctic Alaska, passive pipe systems are used that do not require any external power to keep the ground frozen. These systems use in-ground evaporators and above-ground radiators filled with liquid refrigerant. When ambient temperatures fall below ground temperatures, the liquid vapor starts condensing in the radiator, reducing the pressure in the system causing the liquid in the evaporator to boil and evaporate. This process results in heat transfer from the ground to the air and keeps the ground in a permanent frozen state.

See also
 Pykrete, a composite building material which utilizes similar properties in frozen sawdust

References


title: Thomas Frank (disambiguation)

text:
Thomas Frank (born 1965) is an American political commentator.

Thomas (or Tommy or Tom) Frank''' may also refer to:
 Thomas Frank (priest) (died 1731), English priest
 Thomas Peirson Frank (1881–1951), British civil engineer and surveyor
 Thomas Frank (football manager) (born 1973), Danish football manager
 Thomas Hilbourne Frank (born 1932), politician from Antigua and Barbuda
 Tommy Frank (born 1993), British boxer

See also
Thomas Franck (disambiguation)

Thomas Franke (born 1988), German footballer
Thomas Franke (drummer), drummer with U.D.O., a German heavy metal band


title: 1976 Australian Tourist Trophy

text:
The 1976 Australian Tourist Trophy was a motor race staged at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, Australia on 21 November 1976. It was open to Group A Sports Cars and was recognized by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as an Australian national title. The race, which was the fourteenth Australian Tourist Trophy, was won by Stuart Kostera of Western Australia, driving an Elfin MS7.

Results

Key:
 NC  = Not classified
 DNF = Did not finish
 DNS = Did not start

Race statistics
 Race distance: 30 laps, 88.2 miles, 141.9 km
 Pole position: Jim Phillips, 1:48.6
 Number of starters: 28
 Number of classified finishers: 7
 Race time of winning car: 57:37.9
 Fastest lap: Jim Phillips, 1:48.8

References and notes

External links
 Elfin-Repco Holden MS7, www.ibcholdings.com.au

Australian Tourist Trophy
Tourist Trophy
Motorsport at Phillip Island


title: The Boat Race 1845

text:
The 7th Boat Race took place on the River Thames on 17 March 1845. The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was the first time the event was contested along The Championship Course, from Putney to Mortlake. The race was won by Cambridge who beat Oxford by a distance of ten lengths.

Background

The Boat Race, first held in 1829, is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues") and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues").  Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having defeated Cambridge by  lengths in the previous race held in 1842. However, Cambridge led overall with four wins to Oxford's two.

The universities failed to agree on a location or a date for a race in 1843 or 1844, so no contests were held those years.  In November 1844, the Cambridge University Boat Club secretary wrote to Oxford in an attempt to restart the Easter running of the Boat Race.  The Oxford committee "seemed willing" and in the Lent term proposed a change to the course, to race above Putney Bridge rather than below it on 15 March.  It was the first Boat Race to be conducted between Putney and Mortlake on The Championship Course, previous races having taken place between Westminster Bridge and Putney Bridge, or on the Thames at Henley between Hambleden Lock and Henley Bridge.  Cambridge arrived in London on the Wednesday before the race, Oxford following two days later. Following their displays in practice rows, Cambridge were considered favourites for the race.

Cambridge "rowed in an outrigger built by Searle,  in length,  in breadth", while Oxford's boat was "expressly built for this match by King of Oxford" and  long. However, the river conditions on the day were so rough that the Cambridge crew abandoned using their new boat and instead used their training boat, which was built by Logan and belonged to Second Trinity Boat Club.

The umpire for the race was W. H. Harrison, Commodore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, while the starter was Edward Searle.

Crews
The Oxford crew weighed an average of 11 st 9 lb (73.8 kg),  per rower more than their Light Blue opposition. None of the crews had rowed in previous Boat Races.

Race
The conditions for the race were "of the most inclement possible" and the water "very rough".  Cambridge won the toss and elected to start from the Middlesex station, handing the Surrey station to Oxford. The Light Blues made the better start but swell from a steamer dislodged the oar of Richardson and allowed Oxford to take the lead.  Cambridge gradually recovered to draw level and by Bishop of London's Walk were clear. Despite poor steering from both coxes (and Henry Munster losing his hat while waving it at the crowds), Cambridge were three lengths ahead by Hammersmith Bridge.  They continued to pull away and won by ten lengths in a time of 23 minutes 30 seconds. It was their fifth victory overall, to Oxford's two since the first Boat Race of 1829.  Cambridge inflicted a second defeat on Oxford later that year, winning the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.

References
Notes

Bibliography

External links
 Official website

1845 in sports
The Boat Race


title: Azbuka Vkusa

text:
Azbuka Vkusa (), translated in English as Alphabet of Taste, is a premium supermarket chain founded by Maxim Koscheenko and Oleg Lytkin. The first store was opened in Moscow in 1997. As of 2015, it operated 90 stores in Moscow, Petersburg and its suburbs.

Ownership
The founders, Maxim Koshcheenko and Oleg Lytkin control more than 50% of Gorodskoi Supermarket Ltd, a company which operates the chain. 6.9% of the company belongs to the top 14 network managers. Much of the rest of the company is in the hands of VMHY Holdings Limited, owned by the former owners of "Expobank" - Andrey Vdovin, Cyril Jakubowski, Paul and Peter Maslowski Hambro, who gradually acquired control from the other two co-founders of the network - Oleg and Sergey Vereshchagin Trykin. As of 2011 Oleg and Sergey Vereshchagin Trykin ceased being shareholders in VMHY Holdings. As of 2013 more than 12% of the network owned by the sons Paul Maslovskoye - Yuri and Alexei.

Private Labels
Azbuka Vkusa launched their store brands in 2011.

Azbuka Vkusa has expanded steadily since 1997, balancing external acquisitions and internal growth. The table below charts that growth using figures provided courtesy of the company.

References

Supermarkets of Russia
Retail companies established in 1997
Companies based in Moscow


title: Dynamatic Technologies

text:
Dynamatic Technologies is an Indian precision engineering company, based in Bangalore. The company is a global supplier of parts to aerospace, automotive, hydraulic and security assemblers. Udayant Malhoutra is the CEO & Managing Director of the company.

History
Dynamatic Technologies was incorporated in 1973 as a manufacturer of hydraulic pumps. In the 1990s, it expanded to aerospace grade components and aircraft assemblies. In the early 2000s, the company tied up with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and was involved in fabrication and assembly of HAL's subsonic intermediate training jets. It started making body parts for Sukhoi Su-30MKI and Lakshya jets. It then began supplying flap track beams to Airbus for its A320 family of aircraft and the wide-body 330 aircraft. This followed part contracts with Boeing for Boeing CH-47 Chinook and Bell Textron for Bell 407 helicopters. Dynamatic soon became the supplier of flap track beam assemblies for all of Airbus' single-aisle aircraft and Boeing's P-8 maritime aircraft for Indian, US and Australian navies. In September, 2021 Dynamatic Technologies awarded a contract for manufacturing  Aerostructure Assemblies for Boeing's F-15EX Eagle II Fighter Aircraft.

Acquisitions
In 2008, Dynamatic acquired the British aerospace parts manufacturing company Oldland CNC for 16 million.
In 2011, Dynamatic acquired German automotive component manufacturer Eisenwerke Erla GmbH.

See also
 Automotive industry in India

References

Engineering companies of India
Manufacturing companies based in Bangalore
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange


title: Özgenur Yurtdagülen

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Özgenur Yurtdagülen, a.k.a. Özge Nur Yurtdagülen, (born August 6, 1993) is a Turkish female volleyball player. She is  tall at . Currently, she plays for Galatasaray in the middle blocker position. Yurtdagülen is a member of the Turkey women's national volleyball team.

She is a student of Business Administration at Bahçeşehir University.

Career

Clubs
Yurtdagülen began her sports career at the age of eleven in Yeşilyurt, and played there in all age categories. In June 2012, she transferred to Galatasaray.

National team
She played in the Turkey girl's and junior women's national team.
She was called up to the Turkey women's national volleyball team, and played at the 2014 Women's European Volleyball League that won the gold medal.

Awards

National team
 2014 Women's European Volleyball League -  champion
 2015 FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship -

See also
 Turkish women in sports

References

External links
Özgenur Yurtdagülan at Scoresway

1993 births
Turkish women's volleyball players
Yeşilyurt volleyballers
Galatasaray S.K. (women's volleyball) players
Bahçeşehir University alumni
Living people
Turkey women's international volleyball players
Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey
Mediterranean Games medalists in volleyball
21st-century Turkish sportswomen
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Charles Dayan (real estate developer)

text:
Charles Ben Dayan (born 1941) is an American real estate developer, the founder of Bonjour Capital and co-founder of Bonjour Jeans.

Biography
Born to a Syrian Jewish family, who had emigrated from Mandatory Syria to Mandatory Palestine (the immediate predecessor of modern Israel). Dayan emigrated to the United States in 1967, and in 1972, with his brothers Eli and Avi, founded Bonjour International, a company that was the first to import low-cut French-style jeans into the United States using the Bonjour name. He served as president of Bonjour International. By 1982, Bonjour had $150 million in annual sales. After leaving Bonjour International, Dayan founded the real estate development firm Bonjour Capital. Larger investments are made with partners and include the renovation of 5 Beekman Street with Joseph Chetrit; the $290 million 2005 purchase (together with partners Joseph Chetrit and Yair Levy) of the 800,000 square foot historic 620 5th Avenue and its 2011 sale to RXR Realty, LLC for $500 million; and the purchase of the Blake Hotel in Charlotte. When not in a partnership, Dayan focuses on new developments in gentrifying neighborhoods in Long Island City in Queens; Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill in Brooklyn; and Manhattanville in Manhattan.

Personal life
He is married to Ariela Ben-Dayan. Dayan was an early proponent of the green movement in the textile industry. His brother Eli Dayan, founded the disco Tunnel in 1986. Dayan serves on the executive committee of the Israel Cancer Research Fund.

References

External links
Bonjour Capital website

American people of Syrian-Jewish descent
American real estate businesspeople
American Sephardic Jews
1941 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Israeli emigrants to the United States
Israeli Sephardi Jews
Sephardi Jews in Mandatory Palestine
Israeli people of Syrian-Jewish descent


title: Carey House

text:
Carey House may refer to:

 Carey House (Denison, Iowa), United States
 Carey House (Wichita, Kansas), United States
 J. W. Carey House, Prosser, Washington, United States


title: Enodoc

text:
Saint Enodoc, originally Wenedoc, was a sub-Roman Pre-congregational saint of Cornwall.

Enodoc was originally recorded as a man. Historian Nicholas Orme says that in the 16th century the name was apparently misunderstood as that of a woman.

Enodoc's feast day was observed at Bodmin Priory on 7 March. St Enodoc's Church, the parish church of Trebetherick in Cornwall is dedicated to this saint, and its churchyard is home to the grave of John Betjeman.

Enodoc should not be confused with Saint Enoder, who was probably a son of King Brychan Brycheiniog, originally called Wenheden.

References

Medieval Cornish saints
Welsh Roman Catholic saints
6th-century Christian saints


title: Joseph Trounsell Gilbert

text:
Sir Joseph Trounsell Gilbert CBE QC (30 August 1888 – 23 January 1975) was a Bermudan barrister, judge and politician who ended a distinguished legal and political career as Chief Justice of Bermuda and as President of the Legislative Council of Bermuda.

Biography
Born on 30 August 1888, Trounsell Gilbert was educated at Bedford School and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He was called to the Bar in 1914 and became a member of Lincoln's Inn. He was Attorney General, and a member of the Executive Council, of Bermuda between 1938 and 1952. He was Chief Justice of Bermuda, and President of the Legislative Council of Bermuda, between 1952 and 1958.

Sir Trounsell Gilbert retired in 1958 and died on 23 January 1975.

His great-uncle, also Joseph Trounsell Gilbert, had been attorney-general of British Guiana from 1863.

References

1888 births
1975 deaths
People educated at Bedford School
Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford
Bermudian Queen's Counsel
Knights Bachelor
Members of Lincoln's Inn
20th-century King's Counsel
Attorneys General of Bermuda
20th-century Bermudian lawyers
Chief justices of Bermuda


title: 2014–15 West Midlands (Regional) League

text:
The 2014–15 West Midlands (Regional) League season was the 115th in the history of the West Midlands (Regional) League, an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and southern Staffordshire. It has three divisions, the highest of which is the Premier Division, which sits at step 6 of the National League System, or the tenth level of the overall English football league system.

Premier Division

The Premier Division featured 19 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs:
A.F.C. Bridgnorth, promoted from Division One
Gornal Athletic, relegated from the Midland Football Alliance
Haughmond, promoted from Division One

League table

Results

References

External links
 West Midlands (Regional) League

2014-15
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title: Bete Amhara

text:
Bete Amhara (Amharic: ቤተ አማራ,  Ge'ez: ቤተ ዐምሐራ, translation: "House of Amhara") was a historical region located in north-central Ethiopia, covering most of the later Wollo Province, along with significant parts of North Shewa. The state had 30 districts, including Ambassel, Lakomelza, Laikueyta, Tatakuyeta, Akamba, Ambassit, Atronsa Mariam, Genete, Feresbahir (most probably located in the northern part of Dessie, where there is a small lake called Feres Bahir or Bahir Shasho), Amba Gishen, Gishe Bere, Wasal, Wagada, Mecana-Selasse, Tabor, Tedbaba Mariam,  Zoramba, Daje, Demah, Ephrata and Ewarza. The region is the source of much of Ethiopia's clothing, eating culture, language, and education.

History

The 13th-14th century hagiography of Amhara saint Tekle Haymanot traces Bete Amhara as far back as the mid 9th century AD as a location. With the rise of the Solomonic Dynasty in 1270 under Emperor Yekuno Amlak, and until the establishment of Gondar as the new imperial capital around 1600, the Debre-Birhan to Mekane-Selassie region (Werillu in Wollo) was the primary seat of the roving Amhara emperors. This period is most significant in the formation of the medieval Ethiopian state, the spread and consolidation of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity (following the example set by the Zagwe kings in preserving the Axumite heritage) and propagating to the core provinces (besides Tigray, Wolkayt, and Lasta) of Bete Amhara, Gojjam, Begemdir, northern Shewa, Gafat, and Damot

The region’s recorded history, in fact, goes back to the first decades of the second millennium. For example, St. George’s Church in the town of Woreilu (whose Tabot is reputed to have been carried by Emperor Menelik at the Battle of Adwa) was established around 1200. The parish of Mekane Selassie (መካነ ሥላሴ), near Neded and the home of the famous cathedral by the same name, served as a favorite royal playground. The construction of Mekane Selassie (meaning: the abode of the Trinity) was begun by Emperor Naod (1494-1508) and completed by his son Emperor Libna Dengel (royal nom-du-guerre, Wanag Seged). This was a year before the church (along with a large number of monasteries in the region) was sacked in 1531 by a destructive Ottoman-backed invasion. Francisco Alvarez, who had earlier visited the church, confirms that its size was some 150 feet by 150 feet—wholly covered in gold leaf, inlaid with gems, pearls and corals. Astounded by the wealth and workmanship, the Yemeni chronicler of Ahmed Gragn notes: "The imam asked all the Arabs who were with him, ‘Is there the like of this church, with its images and its gold, in Byzantium, or in India, or in any other place?' They replied, ‘We never saw or heard of its like in Byzantium or India or anywhere in the world.

Due to the origin of the Solomonic Dynasty in Bete Amhara, the regions rulers played a disproportionate role  in the politics of the Ethiopian state. In the medieval era, the Tsahife Lam (ጻሕፈ ላም), governor of the Bete Amhara province, was the most senior military officer next to the Emperor. Along with that, the Jantirar of Ambassel (the center of Bete Amhara and lordship of Yekuno Amlak himself prior to his ascension as Emperor of Ethiopia), was tasked with protecting Amba Geshen. One of the mountains of Ethiopia where most of the male heirs to the Solomonic Dynasty were interned, the Emperors also kept the imperial treasury there even after it was no longer a royal prison.

Geography and ethnography
The Bete-Amhara districts included:

Geshen
Ambassel (including Amba Gishen)
Ambassit
Akamba
Atronsa Mariam
Daje
 Demah
 Ephrata
Ewarza.
Feresbahir (most probably located in the northern part of Dessie, where there is a small lake called Feres Bahir or Bahir Shasho)
Genete
 Gishe Bere
 Lakomelza
 Laikueyta
 Mecana-Selasse
 Tabor
Tatakuyeta
 Tedbaba Mariam
 Zuramba
Wagada
 Wasal

Cities
The historic and modern cities found in the province include:

 Ankober
 Debre Berhan
 Debre Tabor
 Kombolcha
 Weldiya
 Amba Mariam
Hayq
 Debre Sina
 Mekane Selassie
 Mekane Selam
 Were Ilu
 Kobo

Culture

The region is the source of much of Ethiopia's clothing culture, eating culture, language, education system. An example is the fundamental modal system used by music of the Ethiopian highlands called qenet, of which there are four main modes: , , , and . Abba Gregorius (1596-1658), the famous monk whose Jesuit association and global travels disseminated invaluable knowledge overseas about Ethiopia, is said to hail from Woreilu. In a 1650 letter to the German scholar Hiob Ludolf (1624-1704), the Ethiopologist deservedly known as the father of Ethiopian Studies, Abba Gregorius describes himself as follows:

"As to my origins, do not imagine, my friend, that they are humble, for I am of the House of Amhara which is a respected tribe; from it come the heads of the Ethiopian people, the governors, the military commanders, the judges and the advisers of the King of Ethiopia who appoint and dismiss, command and rule in the name of the King, his governors, and grandees.”

Religion
The dominant religion of the province was Christianity, in the form of Ethiopian Orthodoxy. As the state religion, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church played a critical role in the development of the province as a whole.

See also
 Amhara people
 Amhara Province
 Amhara Region

References

Regions of Ethiopia


title: 2014 Pan American Combined Events Cup

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The 2014 Pan American Combined Events Cup was held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, at the Terry Fox Stadium on July 16–18, 2014.  The event was hosted by the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club, and served also as the Canadian Championships.   For the first time, junior categories were included in the cup, while there were also three Canadian competitors in a youth category.

A detailed report on the event and an appraisal of the results was given.

Complete results were published.

Medallists

Results

Men's Decathlon Senior
Key

Women's Heptathlon Senior
Key

Men's Decathlon Junior
Key

Women's Heptathlon Junior
Key

Medal table

Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 41 athletes (plus 48 guests and locals) from 10 countries.

 (6 + 2 guests)
 (11 + 40 guests)
 (1)
 (7)
 (2)
 (2 + 2 guests)
 (1)
 (3)
 (1)
 (7 + 4 guests)

See also
 2014 in athletics (track and field)

References

Pan American Combined Events Cup
Pan American Combined Events Cup
Pan American Combined Events Cup
International track and field competitions hosted by Canada
Pan American Combined
Pan American Combined Events Cup


title: Antiochos (strategos of Sicily)

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Antiochos (; ) was a high-ranking Byzantine official and governor of Sicily who participated in a conspiracy against Emperor Constantine V ().

Very little is known about his life and career other than his involvement in the conspiracy against the emperor, which came to light in the summer of 766. According to Theophanes the Confessor, Antiochos was a former logothetes tou dromou and at the time serving as the military governor (strategos) of the theme of Sicily. The conspiracy included nineteen of the highest state officials, including several other strategoi, and was headed by the brothers Strategios and Constantine Podopagouros. After the plot's discovery, the conspirators were publicly paraded and humiliated at the Hippodrome of Constantinople on 25 August 766, following which Strategios and Constantine were beheaded at the Kynegion, while the others were blinded and exiled. Theophanes further reports that once every year, agents were dispatched by the emperor to deliver a hundred lashes to the exiled conspirators.

In his chronicle, Theophanes portrays the conspiracy as part of a reaction against Constantine V's iconoclast policies, stating that some of the conspirators were adherents of the iconophile hermit Stephen the Younger of Mount Auxentios, whom the emperor had had publicly humiliated and executed the previous November. Modern scholarship on the other hand is not as clear as to the motivations of the emperor, i.e. whether the death of Stephen, the execution of the nineteen officials and other acts of persecution was due to his hardening stance against iconophile sentiment, or had political motives as a reaction to plots against his life (in which Stephen too may have been implicated).

References

Sources

8th-century births
8th-century deaths
8th-century Byzantine people
Byzantine Iconoclasm
Byzantine governors of Sicily
Logothetai tou dromou


title: Enoder

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Saint Enoder, (also known as Tenenan, Tinidor and Ternoc) was a 5th-century Cornish saint from Brecknockshire in South Wales. He is venerated in the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches.

He is known to history mostly through the medieval lists of the children of King Brychan of Brycheiniog where he was originally called Wenheden and should not be confused with Saint Enodoc. Today, he is remembered in the name of St Enoder a parish and hamlet in Cornwall. His Feast day is the last Thursday in April.

References

Medieval Welsh saints
Medieval Cornish saints
5th-century Christian saints
Children of Brychan


title: Lê Lê Lê

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"Lê Lê Lê" is a 2011 song by Brazilian sertanejo duo João Neto & Frederico. It was a pre-release from their 2012 live album and DVD Ao Vivo em Palmas(Live from Palmas).
Already their biggest hit for them in Brazil and Latin markets in 2011, it gained big popularity on European dance charts in 2012, including in Spain, Portugal, France, Netherlands, UK.

It was re-released by BIP Records in May 2014 for major European markets charting in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Appearances
Besides the live album Ao Vivo em Palmas, "Lê Lê Lê" has appeared in a great number of Latin-inspired dance compilations including:

2012
Été 2012 (Smart)
Ritmo latino [2012] (Polystar)
Hot Latina 2012 (EMI)
¡Tacatá! The Latin Hits 2012 Vol. 2 (Universal)

2013
Zumba Fitness – Dance Party 2 (Universal)
The Dome Vol. 65 (Polystar)
Let's Dance – Das Tanzalbum 2013 (Polystar)
Clubfete 2013.02 (Ballhaus)
Die Hit-Giganten – Best of Sommerhits (Sony)
2014
RTL II präsentiert: Ritmo do Brasil (Polystar)
MNM Big Hits 2014 Vol. 2 (Warner)
Hitzone 10 (Sony)

Track list
Europe
"Lê Lê Lê" (radio edit) (2:39) – (BIP / BIP-Club-644)

In popular culture
"Lê Lê Lê" was used as a theme song for the telenovela series Cheias de Charme in 2012.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

2011 singles
2014 singles
Portuguese-language songs
2011 songs


title: Lyndsay Belisle

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Lyndsay Belisle (born October 1, 1977, in Hazelton, British Columbia) is a retired amateur Canadian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the women's flyweight category. Considering one of the world's top female freestyle wrestlers in her decade, Belisle has claimed two silver medals each in the 48 and 51-kg division at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and at the 2006 World Wrestling Championships in Guangzhou, China, and seized an opportunity to compete for Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Throughout her sporting career, Belisle trained full-time for the Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club in Burnaby, British Columbia under her personal coach Mike Jones.

Belisle made sporting headlines at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she captured a silver medal in the women's 48-kg division, losing to U.S. wrestler Patricia Miranda by a powerful pin.

When women's wrestling made its debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Belisle qualified for the Canadian squad in the inaugural 48 kg class. Earlier in the process, she outclassed Mongolia's Tsogtbazaryn Enkhjargal to snatch both the trophy and ticket from the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Madrid, Spain. She lost two straight matches each to Japan's Chiharu Icho on technical superiority, and Germany's Brigitte Wagner by a formidable 4–3 verdict, leaving her on the bottom of the prelim pool and placing eleventh in the final standings.

At the 2006 World Wrestling Championships in Guangzhou, China, Belisle grappled her way at three kilograms heavier to pick up a silver medal in the final match against Japan's Hitomi Sakamoto in the 51-kg division.

References

External links
Profile – International Wrestling Database
Canadian Olympic Team Bio

1977 births
Living people
Canadian female sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Canada
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 2003 Pan American Games
Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
People from the Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine
Sportspeople from British Columbia
World Wrestling Championships medalists
Pan American Games medalists in wrestling
Universiade medalists in wrestling
Universiade silver medalists for Canada
Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games


title: Networked swarming warfare

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The concept of networked swarming warfare was first proposed by HUO Dajun in 2003. The key feature of the information age is the networking of organizational structure. The rising networked organization will overcome the limitation of traditional geography and link the operational resources distributed widely to form a military action network which combine  strike range, speed and lethality, three elements of originally different developing, fundamentally transforming our idea of battle space. With the trend of decentralization of forces, we need to develop more small units with independent combat functions; meanwhile we can join these small units into a whole network as the technology's development. The warfare based on this network is called networked swarming warfare.

Definition
Networked swarming warfare (NSW) is the wide-scope maneuver warfare to attack dynamically the enemy in parallel by flexible utilization of "assembly" and "dispersion", which integrates the multiple forces distributed widely into the operational network with obvious flowing feature in a multi-dimensional space. It provides us with a networked form of operations which allows organizational flowing that amount of dispersed combat units on battlefield could rapidly formulate the operational swarms which  centering on objectives and rebuild according to the requirements of battlefield environment.

Connotations
 For the organization of forces, supported by information technology, abide by the networking logic of organizational structure，it can integrate multiple operational resources dispersed widely into an intact force network to achieve information interaction, functional coupling and capabilities clustering.
 For the deployment of forces, in form of nonlinear deployment with multidimensional space, NSW is the greatly dispersed, flexible and irregular deployment and changes the mode of "deploying before striking", focusing on deploying during the moving and the combination of deployment and attacks, and dominating the situation development by flexible maneuvering, stop and dash, dispersion and assembly.
 In space distribution, NSW emphasizes mobile and dispersed in wide-scope space.
 In time distribution, NSW is non-sequential and conducts parallel operations to the common target or a series of interrelated targets.
 In patterns of operations, it adopts the method of dispersed deployment of forces and dynamic assembling of operations by combinations of small combat units with rapid assembly and dispersion which similar to the pattern of "long-range raid".

Features
Networked swarming warfare has three essential features:

 Organizational flowing

On informationized battlefield, the flowing of elements of combat effectiveness would be further strengthened, which is the inevitable result of the combination of dispersion and fast pace. The mutual influence and integration of network space and traditional geographic space make the flow of force, firepower, information and organizational interaction become the dominant advantage of warfare in information age. "Clustering forces by flowing" become its fundamental form. To adapt to these requirements, we do not only need the flow of force, firepower and information but also the flowing of organizational structure, that is to say, a flexible and dynamic force structure. To some extent, as an objective-oriented organization, NSW unite the operational elements and units in different fields into a military network according to the operational objectives, once the objectives be achieved it would be dispersed immediately and rebuild according to new objectives. Hence, NSW is an organizational form of forces based on overall reflection and flexibility, achieves the integration of flow of material forces and information by efficient coordination. Like an amoeba, it can continuously change its shapes according to the changes of living environment. During the operations, led by objectives and supported by information network, mobilize material flow and force flow by information flow, the widely dispersed combat units on battlefield can rapidly formulate the combat swarms centered on targets and rebuild according to the changes of battlefield environment.

The organizational flowing can ensure the immediate reflection and flexibility of the whole operational system; appropriately seize the opportunity for battle: and transfer the tasks to make the operational forces and tasks be best matched with each other. All the combat units dynamically change their roles in reconnaissance, strike and containment and realize the dominance of battlefield by the high-flexible form of operations. NSW is conducted in space of flows. "The flows in network change with time that neither the flows nor network are unalterable, they both reveal the forms of changes of adaptation in time and experience accumulation". To complete the dynamic assembly of operational forces in flowing, we need to explore and seize the opportunity for battle promptly in the complicated and changeable battlefield environment, center on objectives and unite the appropriate operational forces together to form an operational network and concentrate and release the effectiveness in flowing to achieve the operational objectives. Meanwhile, organizational flowing is inevitably based on flexibility to adapt to the rapid changes on the battlefield. That is also the necessity of information technology paradigm, that is to say, "information technology paradigm is based on flexibility", that is one of the decisive features of social organizations characterized as changeable and flowing. Similar to dynamic rebuilding capability of enterprises in information age, "flexible" organizations can better adapt to the rapid changes of future battlefield, has quick adaptability and relatively stable operational efficiency. The key is information flowing, with constitution of organizational structure in favor of information flowing, it can strengthen the overall and multi-channel communication and connection, and promote overall adaptability, reflection and sustainability.

 Objective-centered

Liddell Hart figured out that "although be a generic term, 'objective' is not a perfect word. It has some material and geographical meaning which makes it easy to cause the confusion of thoughts." Usually called objective, is the expected result of military actions, stipulates a common direction for various operational forces and actions. To some extent, objective here is the relatively abstract objective. But in the future warfare, objective of the military actions would be largely associated with the military targets; sometimes we may make definition and identification directly by military targets. In this sense, objective would have some material and geographical meaning, refers to the possible entity or object to be attacked or treated with some other actions. In the past, due to the limitations of technology and maneuvering capability, the relative location changes of the targets were relatively slow and the targets and combat areas usually tied with each other; tasks distribution and coordination for different operational groups usually clarified by combat areas or battle lines. While NSW's establishment is centered on flows, represents a dynamic space idea, operations of NSW are not limited to small geographical area any more but flows on wider battlefield. Therefore, in form of organizational coordination, NSW emphasizes the center of objective, that is to say, make precise deployment and coordination in accordance with the specific targets and points, distribute the targets to various operational groups or units, and command the whole operation by the control of specific targets of different durations and phases. The core idea of NSW is centered on objective; it is nonlinear operation in essence and smashes the traditional pattern of horizontally pushing from front to back that the whole operational process is led, designed and commanded by objective. With the investigation of the inter-connection of various elements of the enemy, start from the key nodes, select the targets that best serving for the objective achievement and be most favorable to disturb the integrated deployment of the enemy. NSW, having changed the traditional forms of tasks distribution and coordination organizing according to zones, weakening the combat boundary line and main direction of attack, it make objective-oriented task distribution that based on target deployment, target-action and target- coordination organizing. It emphasizes more on target selection and operational deployment, the overall combat is led by objective and makes appropriate operational deployment around the achievement of objective also conduct coordination that centered on objectives. For specific coordination, distributes obvious tasks for each operational swarm (unit) and deadlines of task completion but leaves no specific methods or steps for task completion, so that centering on the objective and tasks the commanders at different levels can conduct relatively independent command and control according to the overall operational intention and practice on the battlefield. Such kind of coordination can better match with the requirements of organization flowing, maximize the information efficiency, being prompt, flexible and precise, so as to achieve the operational objectives with the most appropriate force and method.

To understand "objective-centered", we shall understand the relationship between the specific military targets and operational objective (purpose). NSW is to dynamically constitute a military operational network which centering on targets (operational objective) and organize the coordination centering on the objective (specific target), which is the opposite of traditional forms of tasks distribution and coordination organizing according to zones. While centering on objective, the combat shall not become the mechanical process of detailed information collecting of the strike targets and launching assault. If focuses too much on specific targets in tactics level but not objective or task, it may draw the attention of the commanders to tactics of weaponry and platform but not to the operational and strategic situation, which might lead to the war of attrition in operational or strategic level. As Liddell Hart said that objective is not a perfect word, to understand it we shall put it into various levels.

 Multi-directional maneuvering attacks

Emphasizing on multi-direction maneuvering attacks, NSW would rush forward to the enemy in multi-forms, from multi-positions and directions to achieve the unexpected attack purpose. "Multi-direction maneuvering attacks" aim to explore and create the weaknesses of the enemy, then conduct powerful strikes. In the future warfare, facing the three-dimensional, rapid and in-depth assaults of the powerful enemy, one can never win to play hard ball with the enemy by assembling the main forces assembly; it is necessary to use wide forces and firepower maneuvering to mobilize and pin down the enemy and deduct its overall structure to explore and create the weaknesses of the enemy. While pitting against each other, the two armies are always in different locations and the locations would be dynamically changed, that the opportunity for battle are just occurs at the moment of situation changing. That is the glamour of maneuvering. The precise maneuvering dominated by information can make the army be more flexible and be able to deploy troops on wider zones to make prompt attacks to the weakest position of the enemy, then to disrupt and dismantle the order and integration of the enemy. Emphasizing on winning by maneuvering does not mean to ignore the effect of firepower but to strike the balance between firepower and maneuvering, regard information and firepower as the insurance of maneuver conducting, then use firepower destroy the enemy by maneuvering. Nowadays, people pay too much attention to firepower and even emphasizing firepower at the expense of maneuvering, which would make the future warfare reach the situation of impasse and consumption. Though the view of winning by firepower is once common, by the analysis of war history, the advantage of winning by maneuvering is obvious and we Chinese army has fine tradition in maneuver warfare which shall not be lightly thrown away. Actually, the organic combination of information, maneuvering and firepower in information age has fundamentally changed the characteristics of firepower and maneuvering. A networked troop has the capability of dispersing into smaller combat units and the independent distributed combat units can make rapid multi-directional maneuvering and have the flexibility of synchronously using various kinds of firepower, that the mobility of battlefield is more apparent. Hence, the warfare in information age is formulated around flows; flows of forces, firepower, information and organizational interaction have become the dominant advantage of warfare in information age. In forces deployment and application, NSW strive for "a nonlinear attack dynamic enabled by distributed operations", that is to say, conduct attacks dynamically in multi-position, multi-line and multi-direction, be assembled during the moving, be assembled while striking the enemy, disperse immediately once the task be completed and seek  next opportunity for battle. Dispersed deployed operational forces, by time synchronization and accelerated selection of targets, deploy assembly in time with the advantages in space to conduct multi-directional maneuvering attacks to the enemy. Achieve the surprise effect by multi-directional maneuvering attacks while keeping the multi-directional security with the surprise. Multi-directional maneuvering attacks aim to attack the weaknesses of the enemy surprisingly, destroy the mental and material cohesion of the enemy by surprise "precise maneuvering". By the application of speed advantage and flexibility of deployment, "identify actual situation of the enemy and initiate attack against the enemy's potential hazardous parts", analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy in changing situation and then crack the connections to seize the dominance on battlefield.

Critics

See also
Network-centric warfare, a related United States-based theory

Sources
 Huo Dajun. Study on Networked Swarming Warfare. Beijing: National Defense University Press. 2013. https://book.douban.com/subject/25929630/
 Michael Raska.  PLA concepts of ‘Network Swarming Warfare’. https://asiatimes.com/article/chinas-evolving-cyber-warfare-strategies/

Military theory
Warfare by type
Military strategy


title: 2014 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

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The Men's road race of the 2014 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 28 September 2014 in Ponferrada, Spain. It was the 81st edition of the championship, and Portugal's Rui Costa was the defending champion.

After attacking with around  remaining, Poland's Michał Kwiatkowski held off the rest of the field to become his country's first world road race champion. Kwiatkowski held on by a second to beat Australia's Simon Gerrans, while Spain's Alejandro Valverde finished in third place for the third successive world championships.

Qualification

Qualification was based on performances on the UCI run tours during 2014. Results from January to the middle of August counted towards the qualification criteria on both the 2014 UCI World Tour and the UCI Continental Circuits across the world, with the rankings being determined upon the release of the numerous tour rankings on 15 August 2014.

The following 48 nations qualified.

Course
The race was held on the same circuit as the other road races and consisted of 14 laps. The circuit was  long and included two hills. The total climbing was  per lap and the maximum incline was 10.7%.

The first  were flat, after which the climb to Alto de Montearenas started, with an average gradient of 8%. After a few hundred metres the ascent flattened and the remaining  were at an average gradient of 3.5%. Next was a descent, with the steepest point after  at a 16% negative gradient.

The Alto de Compostilla was a short climb of , at an average gradient is 6.5% with some of the steepest parts at 11%. The remaining distance of  was downhill thereafter, prior to the finish in Ponferrada.

Schedule
All times are in Central European Time (UTC+1).

Participating nations
204 cyclists from 44 nations started the men's road race. The numbers of cyclists per nation are shown in parentheses.

  Algeria (1)
  Argentina (3)
  Australia (9)
  Austria (6)
  Belgium (9)
  Belarus (3)
  Brazil (3)
  Canada (3)
  Colombia (9)
  Costa Rica (2)
  Croatia (3)
  Czech Republic (3)
  Denmark (6)
  Ecuador (1)
  Eritrea (2)
  Estonia (3)
  France (9)
  Great Britain (9)
  Germany (9)
  Greece (1)
  Ireland (3)
  Italy (9)
  Japan (3)
  Kazakhstan (3)
  Latvia (3)
  Lithuania (3)
  Luxembourg (1)
  Morocco (5)
  Netherlands (9)
  New Zealand (3)
  Norway (3)
  Poland (9)
  Portugal (6)
  Romania (3)
  Russia (6)
  Slovakia (3)
  Slovenia (6)
  South Africa (3)
  Spain (9) (host)
  Sweden (1)
  Switzerland (3)
  Ukraine (6)
  United States (6)
  Venezuela (4)

Prize money
The UCI assigned premiums for the top 3 finishers, with a total prize money of €16,101.

Results

Final classification
Of the race's 204 entrants, 95 riders completed the full distance of .

Riders who failed to finish
109 riders failed to finish the race.

References

External links
 Men's road race: The route

Men's road race
UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
2014 in men's road cycling


title: 2014–15 FK Borac Banja Luka season

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The 2014–15 season is FK Borac 5th season in Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This article shows player statistics and all matches (official and friendly) that the club have and will play during the 2014–15 season.

Players

Squad statistics

Top scorers
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.

Transfers

In

Out

FK Borac Banja Luka seasons
Borac Banja Luka


title: Bruce Hemara

text:
Bruce Stephen Hemara (born 19 October 1957) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A hooker, Hemara represented Manawatu at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, for the team's 1985 tour of Argentina. He played three matches for the All Blacks but did appear in any tests.

References

1957 births
Living people
Rugby union players from Palmerston North
People educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School
New Zealand rugby union players
New Zealand international rugby union players
Manawatu rugby union players
Rugby union hookers
Māori All Blacks players