title: Abu Ishaq Ibrahim (Buyid)

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Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, also known by his honorific title of Umdat al-Dawla ("Mainstay of the Empire"), was a Buyid prince, who was the youngest son of the Buyid ruler Mu'izz al-Dawla.

Life

Family and conflict with the Hamdanids

Abu Ishaq was born on 21 September 953, his father was Mu'izz al-Dawla, while his mother was a daughter of the Dailamite officer Ispahdost. Abu Ishaq had four brothers named Bakhtiyar, Habashi, Marzuban, Abu Tahir, and a sister named Zubayda. Abu Ishaq, during his youth, was tutored in Baghdad. In 967, Mu'izz al-Dawla died and was succeeded by Bakhtiyar, who was then given the title of "'Izz al-Dawla". In ca. 972, Abu Ishaq was given the honorific title of "Umdat al-Dawla".

In 973, while Izz al-Dawla and his Turkish general Sabuktakin were campaigning in the territories of the Hamdanid ruler Abu Taghlib, the latter outflanked the Buyid army and marched towards Baghdad. Abu Ishaq, along with his mother, the Abbasid Caliph al-Muti, including the women and children of the city, fortified themselves in a castle, waiting for Sabuktakin to return to Baghdad. The vizier of 'Izz al-Dawla, Ibn Baqiyya, shortly arrived to Baghdad and aided Abu Ishaq in strengthening the defenses of Baghdad. In the end a treaty was made, which resulted in the restoration of Mosul and its surrounding areas to the Hamdanids.

Rebellion of Sabuktakin
Some months later, 'Izz al-Dawla, who had financial difficulties, tried to solve them by seizing the Turkish fiefs, most of which were in Khuzestan. At the same time, he dismissed Sabuktakin from his post. These actions made most of the army become hostile to 'Izz al-Dawla, and while 'Izz al-Dawla was away from Baghdad, the army under Sabuktakin then wished to make Abu Ishaq to become the new Buyid ruler of Iraq. Abu Ishaq shortly received these news, and at first thought to join them, but after the urging from his mother, he declined the proposal.

The army then shortly openly rebelled, and Abu Ishaq along with his mother and brother Abu Tahir, including their followers, then made an agreement with Sabuktakin to stop resistance in return for safety. The rebels shortly managed to capture Baghdad, and then marched towards Wasit, where 'Izz al-Dawla had fortified himself. During the siege, Sabuktakin died, and was succeeded by Alptakin as the leader of the rebels.

Fortunately for the family of 'Izz al-Dawla, his cousin, 'Adud al-Dawla, the ruler of Fars, who had been ordered by his father Rukn al-Dawla to aid 'Izz al-Dawla, arrived to Iraq, and in 974, along with 'Izz al-Dawla and Abu Ishaq, including other officers, advanced towards al-Mada'in, and by 975 the rebels were completely defeated. After order was made in Iraq, Abu Ishaq was given a robe of honor by Rukn al-Dawla. He was also appointed as the governor of Ahvaz by 'Izz al-Dawla.

Invasion of 'Adud al-Dawla and the flight to Syria
In 976, after the death of Rukn al-Dawla, war shortly ensured between 'Izz al-Dawla and 'Adud al-Dawla. Abu Ishaq was then sent to 'Askar Mukram in Khuzistan to secure the front of Izz al-Dawla's kingdom. Meanwhile, 'Adud al-Dawla was advancing towards Ramhurmuz, where he routed the army of the city and captured it. After receiving the news of the fall of Ramhurmuz, 'Izz al-Dawla ordered Abu Ishaq to withdraw from 'Askar Mukram and return to Iraq. 'Adud al-Dawla then advanced towards Iraq, and routed another army, which made Abu Ishaq, his brother, and Ibn Baqiyya flee from the frontier.

'Adud al-Dawla eventually managed to capture Baghdad, and gave 'Izz al-Dawla and his brothers permission to settle in Syria. 'Izz al-Dawla, along with his son Marzuban ibn Bakhtiyar and his brothers Abu Ishaq and Abu Tahir, then went to Damascus, which had been captured by the rebel Alptakin and his followers. Alptakin warmly received the Buyid brothers and their followers, but then made them involved in his conflict with the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. A battle shortly ensued at Ramla. However, during the battle, Marzuban betrayed Alptakin and abandoned the battlefield.

The forces of Alptakin were shortly defeated, and Abu Tahir was killed, while Abu Ishaq was taken captive by the Fatimids. After this event, Abu Ishaq is no longer mentioned any source. He died in 994/95.

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title: Fire Phone

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The Fire Phone is a discontinued 3D-enabled smartphone developed by Amazon and manufactured by Foxconn. It was announced on June 18, 2014, and marked Amazon's first foray into the smartphone market, following the success of the Kindle Fire. It was available for pre-order on the day it was announced. In the United States, it launched as an AT&T exclusive on July 25.

Notable for its hallmark feature "Dynamic Perspective" using four front-facing cameras and the gyroscope to track the user's movements, the phone's Fire OS adjusts the UI so it gives the impression of depth and 3D. Other notable Amazon services on the phone include X-Ray, used for identifying and finding information about media; Mayday, the 24-hour customer service tool; and Firefly, a tool for automatically recognizing text, sounds, and objects, and offering a way to buy recognized items through Amazon's online store.

The phone received mixed reviews. Critics praised the Dynamic Perspective, Firefly and, to a lesser extent, the packaged headphones, but derided the build, design, Fire OS version of Android, specifications, and exclusivity to AT&T. Amazon does not release sales figures for any of its devices, but based in part on its quickly declining prices and an announced $170 million write-down, analysts have judged it a commercial failure. Amazon ceased production of the Fire Phone in August 2015 and discontinued sales soon after.

History

Development
The Fire Phone was rumored to be under development for several years prior to its release. Amazon reportedly started work on the phone in 2010, showing a prototype to AT&T in 2011. The first mention of a possible phone designed by Amazon appeared August 2010 in the New York Times, with a source within Lab 126 claiming; "entering the mobile phone market… seemed out of Amazon's reach. But… Amazon had not definitively rejected the idea of building a phone in the future." Shortly thereafter, some claimed Amazon might purchase WebOS from Hewlett-Packard, using its software and patents to create an Amazon phone. According to current and former employees of the company, the project for the Fire Phone started after Apple announced the iPhone 4 in 2010, and was codenamed "Tyto" for a genus of owl. Jeff Bezos reportedly "...envisioned a list of whiz-bang features... NFC for contactless payments, hands-free interactions to allow users to navigate the interface through mid-air gestures and a force-sensitive grip that could respond in different ways to various degrees of physical pressure", most of which ultimately did not end up in the final product. He also "obsessively monitored the product", requiring "even the smallest decisions needed to go by him". Frustration built up over what appeared to Lab126 workers to be extraneous features such as Dynamic Perspective, although they continued to work on the project due to the money being paid to them by Jeff Bezos.

Later, in 2012, The Wall Street Journal contended that Amazon was testing a smartphone, with a screen size between four and five inches. Bloomberg also reported Amazon as looking to acquire patents in order to defend against allegations of infringement concerning the use of wireless technology of the phone. The Verge claimed "multiple sources" confirming the existence of the Amazon phone and it would be announced alongside the updated Kindle Fire and Kindle Paperwhite in September.

In 2013, reports claimed Amazon would partner with HTC to create a "Kindle Phone" which would be free with Amazon Prime membership. Amazon denied these rumors, stating that the company "will not launch a phone this year" and that if it did, it "would not be free". It continued to develop its phone while denying such rumours, and by 2013, it had split into two projects: "Duke" and "Otus". "Duke" was intended to be the higher end device in its portfolio, while Otus would serve as a low-cost or free (to Amazon Prime members) alternative to Duke. Jeff Bezos later reconsidered, believing only a phone which could set itself apart, could compete against established phone manufactures such as Apple, and a lower-cost, bare-bones phone would hurt the Amazon brand. Although many rumors were not accurate, several final specs, the use of 3D, and the release date were correctly reported.

Release
The phone was introduced in Seattle in the Fremont Theatre, at a press event held by Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos. As a limited time promotion, buyers were offered a year of Amazon Prime and 1,000 Amazon coins with the purchase of a Fire Phone. Amazon's Fire Phone was priced at $199 for the 32GB version and $299 for the 64GB version on AT&T (with a two-year contract). The pricing range puts it on the same playing field with Android and Apple flagship smartphones. Six weeks after the introduction of the phone to the market, its price with a two-year contract was cut from $199 to $0.99 and the off-contract price went from $650 down to $449. In November 2014 the price for the unlocked version dropped to $199 and even further to $179 in April 2015. After a further price drop to $130 in August 2015, the device eventually was listed as unavailable on the Amazon site.  On August 27, 2015, the "Phandroid" website reported that Amazon had discontinued the Fire Phone.

Specifications

Hardware

The Fire Phone uses a 4.7-inch IPS LCD Gorilla Glass 3 polarized touchscreen display with a pixel density of 315 ppi. Its front features the screen and a rounded rectangular home button below the display. The back, made of the same Gorilla Glass, houses the camera, LED flash, and secondary microphone. The sides of the phone are made of a soft touch plastic. On the top of the phone there is a lock/power button and a 3.5 mm jack for headphones. The left side of the device has 3 buttons made of anodized aluminum: two volume buttons and a camera shortcut button. When the camera button is pressed, the camera app opens; when held down, Firefly is opened. The bottom of the phone has the primary microphone, a micro-USB connector port, and dual stereo speakers with Dolby Digital sound processing.

The phone uses a Snapdragon 800 chip paired with an Adreno 330 GPU and 2 GB of RAM. Internal storage is non-expandable, with options of 32 GB or 64 GB. The rear camera is a 13 MP CMOS sensor with an f/2.0 five-element wide aperture lens with OIS. The battery is non-removable and has a capacity of 2400 mAh; Amazon claims this provides up to 22 hours of talk time and up to 85 hours of standby time.

The head tracking "dynamic perspective" camera array used a set of four low-resolution wide angle (120°) IR cameras and IR illuminators, synchronised with a global camera shutter. The computer vision algorithms were executed on a dedicated custom low power processor.

According to the product teardown site iFixit, the BOM of the Fire Phone is estimated to be approximately $205; this figure is higher than the IPhone 5S but lower than the Samsung Galaxy S5.

Accessories
Included with the phone are earbuds Amazon claims to be "tangle-free"; the earbud tips can be attached to each other magnetically and also have a flat cable in order to minimize tangling. These earbuds can be purchased separately as a standalone accessory. Also included with the phone are the USB cable and power adaptor, as well as a quick start guide. The phone is available only in black, but first-party cases can be purchased in black/cayenne leather or black/cayenne/citron/blue/royal polyurethane.

Operating system and software
Similar to the Kindle Fire tablets, the Fire Phone uses a forked version of Android called Fire OS. The Fire Phone was preloaded with version 3.5 of Fire OS, which is based on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The fork replaces Google's default UI with a carousel of recently accessed content and apps (called "Home Carousel"), and also serves to promote Amazon's various services. A new feature introduced with the Fire Phone is the presence of "active widgets", widgets underneath the icon showing recent activity and/or information about the app. Pre-loaded applications on the Fire Phone include Amazon Appstore, Amazon Video, Amazon Music, Amazon's Silk browser, and Audible Audiobooks. Although the phone uses Android, it does not have Google Play Store pre-installed. As of Fire OS 3.6.8, Google Play and Google Services can be easily sideloaded. An update, Fire OS 3.5.1, brought quick app switching (dubbed "Quick Switch" and accessed by tapping twice on the home button), folders (dubbed "App Grid Collections"), pinning of apps on the home screen, improved photo taking capabilities, sending of high resolution videos via MMS, and improved battery life.

 Also introduced with the Fire Phone is a three-panel design for apps: the leftmost panel displays settings, the center panel is the main screen for apps, and the rightmost panel is used for "delights" - features specific to an app. The example given at the press conference was the music app: the main panel displays the music playing, the left panel shows navigation and settings, and the right panel shows the "delight" of live song lyrics.

Using the four front cameras and the gyroscope, the Fire Phone provides shortcuts based on the orientation of the device. Marketed as "Dynamic Perspective" with actions such as tilt, swivel, and peek, they allow a user to navigate menus/access shortcuts, view notifications, and reveal quick actions respectively. This also allows a user to scroll through a webpage or flip a page in a book by tilting the phone.

Photos taken with the Fire Phone are automatically backed up to Amazon's Cloud Drive; Amazon offers unlimited photo storage for this device.

Mayday and Firefly are also selling points of the phone. Mayday is a free, 24-hour customer support service for users of Amazon's devices, allowing the customer service access to the device in order to show a user particular functions of their device. Firefly uses the camera and microphone to identify objects that can be bought from Amazon (such as media) or to scan useful information (such as addresses and phone numbers). An update added the ability to translate text, as well as identify famous pieces of art.

The Fire Phone can also send its screen to any Miracast enabled device, including the Fire TV, Xbox, Sony PlayStation 3/4, or select Samsung Smart TVs. It can also function as a second screen.

Reception

Critical reception
The reception to the Fire Phone was mixed. Although reviewers found Firefly and the Dynamic Perspective features to be significant differentiators, they also noticed several drawbacks. Such drawbacks include the 2013-level technical specs (including the lack of Bluetooth LE), the underdeveloped OS, its high price, and the exclusivity of the device to AT&T's network. The hardware also received a mediocre reception: while some liked the design, others were concerned about the durability of the glass as well as the thickness and weight. However, the headphones were well received by at least one reviewer from Gizmodo, who said that "all cheap headphones should at least be this great."

Engadget'''s Brad Molen stated, "Although Amazon's debut phone isn't bad, per se, but there's little incentive to switch carriers or platforms to buy it. Its unique features don't provide enough utility, and come at the expense of battery life and performance.". They also criticized the "limited [Amazon] ecosystem", including the lack of frequently used apps available on other platforms. The reviewer gave the phone a final rating of 70 out of 100.Re/code's Walt Mossberg opined that the Fire Phone is "perfectly suited for people heavily invested in the company's ecosystem… But to top Apple and Samsung, Amazon needs to do better."

David Pierce from The Verge gave the phone a 5.9 out of 10; although praising the phone's picture taking abilities, the "solid" battery life, and "cool ideas like Dynamic Perspective and Firefly",  the main drawbacks included the confusing interface, bland design, Firefly's poor accuracy, and the phone's commercialism. He concluded by saying, "Amazon’s first smartphone is a series of interesting ideas in a package that is … much less than the sum of its parts."

Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times compared the phone to "Mr. Pine's purple house" (in which the eponymous character paints his house purple to stand out from others), stating that "Amazon has built a nice, solid, plain white house. You'll love living in it, if you can ignore all the purple.". This references the "superficial features" of the Fire Phone, "born of the same superficial impulse", including Dynamic Perspective. He also criticized the phone's appearance, stating it "looked more like a prototype than a finished product." Unlike The Verge, The New York Times felt the interface was "relatively simple to navigate".The Wall Street Journals Geoffrey Fowler praised Amazon for "attempting to make inroads which might disrupt the giants", saying the smartphone market needed new ideas. All the same, the reviewer compared the phone's features to "the grown-up equivalent of a 9-year-old riding a bike with his hands in the air" - gimmicks, without much real-world usage. He also stated the battery never lasted for an entire day, a "telephonic cardinal sin".

ZDNet's Zach Whittaker wrote the Fire Phone could be described in 2 ways: a motion sickness inducer, or a gimmicky device at best, but one that has great potential. Unlike other reviewers, he felt the phone was "beautifully constructed" and "easier to hold". Dynamic Perspective, on the other hand, gave him motion sickness and made the text harder to read. He concluded the Fire Phone had strong hardware, but that the software let it down. James Kendrick, another of ZDNet's authors, expressed that the "feature in Fire OS that makes devices so nice to use is the large carousel toward the top of the home screen (..) Fire OS is similar to iOS in one regard in that it hides the power of the OS under the hood. What’s exposed is the part of the OS that makes the Amazon device comforting and easy to use. (..) That’s why Fire OS is better than Android for the majority of smartphone and tablet users."

The Fire Phone has been labeled as the most-polluting phone by Greenpeace, who claims Amazon's servers are powered by non-renewable sources of energy. Amazon disputes these claims, countering Greenpeace's data is incorrect and misleading. This led to a large number of one-star reviews being left on Amazon's website, as a form of protest on the part of Greenpeace activists and/or its supporters.

Technology reviewer and Internet personality Marques Brownlee stated in his Smartphone Awards video the Fire Phone was the "Bust of the Year", saying; "… it wasn't really a good phone in any way, and there was no real reason for people to buy it (..) It just didn't really have anything going for it."

When asked about the perceived flop of the Fire Phone during Business Insider's Ignition conference of 2014, Jeff Bezos defended the product, saying it was a "bold bet", and his company had to take such bets in order to stay relevant. He continued, saying it would "take many iterations", and "some number of years" before getting it right, comparing it to the Kindle line of e-readers.

 Commercial reception
The Fire Phone occupied the number one spot on the "Best Selling" list on Amazon.com, before sales dropped significantly after 2 weeks. Amazon shares dipped by 10% July 24, 2014, one day prior to its launch on AT&T, due to increased losses incurred by the development of the Fire Phone. On July 25, 2014, several AT&T stores reported little to no sales, although several stores experienced increased foot traffic and interest for the Fire Phone. Amazon has yet to release official sales figures for the device.

According to Chitika Insights, an advertising company, by analyzing ad impressions from July 25 to August 14, 2014 (20 days after the release of the device), the Fire Phone constituted approximately 0.02% of the smartphone market in the United States and Canada. The device's usage share "remained steady but relatively flat". The Guardian later extrapolated based on data from ComScore and Chitika, claiming that no more than 35,000 Fire Phones were sold in the first 20 days. In September 2014, The New York Times reported that sales had been "dismal", and that "analysts say Amazon has sold only a few tens of thousands" of Fire Phones.

In October 2014, during the announcement of 3rd quarter financial results, Amazon stated they took a $170 million hit due to costs associated with the Fire Phone and had over $83 million worth of Fire Phones in inventory, but declined to comment on how this would affect predictions for the 4th quarter. The company's CFO Tom Szkutak indicated its pricing strategy being initially too high was the reason for the product's poor consumer reception.

 Fire Phone 2
An updated version called the Fire Phone 2''' was leaked in media. Its exterior changes appear to be a 12MP camera and a 6 inch screen. Due to the discontinuation of Amazon's phone division, the phone would reportedly only be sold to Amazon staff at a steeply discounted price.

Models

See also
 Comparison of smartphones
 List of 3D-enabled mobile phones
 Microsoft Kin
 HTC First

References

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Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2014
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title: Joy Grant

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Audrey Joy Grant  (born 1951) is the current governor of the Central Bank of Belize. She was a Belizean Senator and the head of the Ministry of Energy, Science & Technology, and Public Utilities. After beginning her career in economic development projects, she became an environmental conservationist and developed numerous projects throughout the Caribbean region to protect forests and marine life.

Biography
Audrey Joy Grant was born on 5 February 1951 in Belize City, British Honduras. After attending high school in Belize City, she worked for a year at Barclay’s Bank and then moved to Canada for university studies. She earned an undergraduate degree in commerce and a Master of Business Administration in International Finance from the University of Alberta, Canada. Grant moved to Barbados, where she worked on economic development projects for thirteen countries from throughout the Caribbean at the Caribbean Development Bank. After eight years, she relocated to Washington, DC and began working at the Belize Embassy.

In 1989, Grant returned to Belize to spearhead a conservation project funded by the Massachusetts Audubon Society with help from the Nature Conservancy and US scientists. The project, Programme for Belize was a co-founded by Grant and she became its first executive director, acquiring over 300,000 acres (4% of Belize's land mass) of tropical rain forest as reserve for the project. At the time, conservation programs were in their infancy and she won two different sustainability certifications for her program of ecoforestry of Belizean mahogany. After over a decade with Programme for Belize, in 2001, Grant became Vice President and Managing Director of the Atlantic Conservation Region of the Nature Conservancy. She oversaw conservation efforts in twenty of the eastern states of the US and 10 Central American and Caribbean countries, and in 2003 launched an effort to create a program which encompassed the Caribbean marine basin from Cuba to Venezuela. Leaving the Nature Conservancy in 2005, she began working as a senior director for the Natural Capital Project. In 2008, she was appointed as Ambassador Exemplary and Plenipotentiary at the Embassy of Belize, Brussels, Belgium; Ambassador Designate to the Kingdom of Spain and to the Netherlands, Germany, and France; and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the European Commission, which she continued until 2012. Grant was appointed to the committee to design the United Nation's Green Climate Fund in 2011.

In 2012, Grant was appointed as a Belizean Senator by Prime Minister Dean Barrow and appointed as the first Minister of Energy, Science & Technology and Public Utilities. The new ministry's goals were to develop a sustainable development plan by integrating policy and regulatory laws on energy, science and technology into national decision making processes.

She has been the governor of Central Bank of Belize since October 2016.

References

1951 births
Living people
Governors of Bank of Belize
Ambassadors of Belize to Belgium
Ambassadors of Belize to Spain
Ambassadors of Belize to the Netherlands
Ambassadors of Belize to France
Ambassadors of Belize to Germany
Belizean environmentalists
Members of the Senate (Belize)
People from Belize City
University of Alberta alumni
Government ministers of Belize
Women ambassadors
Women government ministers of Belize
Belizean women diplomats


title: Christopher Atkinson

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Christopher Atkinson may refer to:

 Christopher Atkinson (missionary) (fl. 1652–1655), early Quaker missionary from Westmorland and one of the Valiant Sixty
 Christopher Atkinson Saville (c. 1738–1819), English merchant and politician

See also
 Atkinson (surname)


title: Joseph Rogers (English cricketer)

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Joseph Alfred Rogers (1 February 1908 – 28 August 1968) was an English cricketer from Bath, Somerset who played for Gloucestershire between 1929 and 1933. A right-handed bat and right-arm fast bowler, Rogers made 46 first-class appearances, taking 45 wickets at a bowling average of 36.53 runs per wicket. His batting yielded 461 runs with one half-century. He also played minor county cricket for Oxfordshire County Cricket Club. His great-grandfather Charles Rogers played for the Marylebone Cricket Club, and Charles' five sons and grandsons also played first-class cricket.

References

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1908 births
1968 deaths
Cricketers from Bath, Somerset
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Oxfordshire cricketers


title: Herbert A. Bartholomew

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Herbert Almon Bartholomew (November 3, 1871 – October 26, 1958) was an American politician from New York.

Life
Bartholomew was born on November 3, 1871, on a farm in Whitehall, Washington County, New York, the son of Heman Almon Bartholomew (1834–1922) and Alice Lanta (Douglass) Bartholomew (1841–1921). In 1896, he married Harriet Gibson Douglass (1874–1962), and they had two sons: Herbert Almon Bartholonew Jr MD and Corp. Harry D. Bartholomew (died 1932).

Bartholomew was a member of the New York State Assembly (Washington Co.) in 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939–40. He was Chairman of the Committee on Canals in 1924; and of the Committee on Internal Affairs of Towns and Counties from 1927 to 1934 and from 1936 to 1940.

He was a delegate to the 1936, 1944 and 1952 Republican National Conventions; and an alternate delegate to the 1940 Republican National Convention.

He was Sergeant-at-Arms of the State Assembly from 1951 to 1955, officiating in the 168th, 169th and 170th New York State Legislatures.

He died on October 26, 1958, in Koch's Nursing Home in Glens Falls, New York; and was buried at the Brick Church Cemetery in Whitehall.

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1958 deaths
Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
People from Whitehall, New York
Politicians from Glens Falls, New York


title: P. maxima

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P. maxima may refer to:

 Paracrocidura maxima, an African mammal
 Pectinodonta maxima, a true limpet
 Phyllosticta maxima, a plant pathogen
 Pinctada maxima, a pearl oyster
 Pisulina maxima, a cave snail
 Pitta maxima, a bird endemic to North Maluku
 Pollex maxima, an Indonesian moth
 Premna maxima, a plant endemic to Kenya
 Problepsis maxima, a Japanese moth
 Psetta maxima, a demersal fish
 Pseudoeurycea maxima, a salamander endemic to Mexico
 Purlovia maxima, a therocephalian therapsid


title: Career Achievement Award

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The Career Achievement Award, also referred to as the Career Achievement Medal, is an award of the Volcanology and Igneous Petrology Division of the Geological Association of Canada. First awarded in 1993, it is given to scientists "in recognition of career achievements in the field of volcanology and/or igneous petrology".

Recipients
Source:

 1993 - W. Robert A. Baragar
 1994 - William H. Mathews
 1995 - Jack G. Souther
 1996 - T. H. Pearce
 1998 - J. Nicholls
 1999 - P. Roeder
 2000 - K. L. Currie
 2001 - Ron Emslie
 2003 - Don Francis
 2005 - Jaroslav Dostal
 2006 - Robert Kerrich
 2008 - Sandra M. Barr
 2009 - Don Baker
 2010 - Kelly Russell
 2011 - Georgia Pe-Piper
 2012 - John Stix
 2013 - Réjean Hébert
 2014 - not awarded
 2015 - not awarded
 2016 - Joseph Whalen
 2017 - Barrie Clarke
 2018 - Roger Mitchell
 2019 - Donald B. Dingwell
 2020 - John Greenough

See also

 List of geology awards
 List of geologists
 List of awards named after people

References

Canadian science and technology awards
Geology awards
Awards established in 1993


title: Joëlle Bergeron

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Joëlle Bergeron (born 28 June 1949 in Charlieu) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She became a card-carrying member of the National Front when it was created in 1972  and at the end of the 1970s she was responsible for the party's Brittany section. Her late husband Daniel Bergeron was a member of the Front National's Central Committee and a candidate for the party in national, regional and local elections  and after he died, she took his place as Front National candidate for the 2011 cantonal elections in Lorient, obtaining 15.39% of the vote in North Lorient and later standing as candidate for the party in senatorial and National Assembly elections. She was elected as a member of the National Front at the European election in May 2014 but was asked to stand down after she called for European immigrants to be given the right to vote. She refused and instead resigned from the party two days after the election to sit as an independent MEP.

On 18 June 2014, it was announced that she was joining the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group in the European Parliament, which is led by Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party.

In spite of her previous 42-year membership of the National Front and her longstanding organizational activities within it, the EFDD stated in announcing her admission to the group that she had "joined the National Front with great hopes but realised that their philosophy was very different" and went on to add that she was an "Anglophile, with the desire for democratic self-determination and a respect among different nations".

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1949 births
Living people
People from Loire (department)
National Rally (France) politicians
Europe of Freedom and Democracy MEPs
MEPs for West France 2014–2019
21st-century women MEPs for France
Jean Monnet University alumni


title: MAMA Award for Best OST

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The Mnet Asian Music Award for Best OST (베스트 OST) is an award presented annually by CJ E&M Pictures (Mnet). It was first awarded at the 1st Mnet Asian Music Awards ceremony held in 2004; Jo Sungmo won the award for his song "By Your Side" in Lovers in Paris series, and it is given in honor for the performers with the best soundtrack contribution in a television series.

Winners and nominees

 Each year is linked to the article about the Mnet Asian Music Awards held that year.

Gallery of winners

Notes

References

External links
 Mnet Asian Music Awards official website

MAMA Awards
Film awards for Best Song


title: Joseph Rogers (West Indian cricketer)

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Joseph Cephas S. Rogers (died 21 January 1946) was a West Indian cricketer who played for Trinidad and Tobago cricket team between 1908 and 1922. He took fifty-one wickets at a bowling average of 16.74, and scored six half-centuries with the bat. He died in Trinidad. He also represented the West Indies cricket team during a 1910/11 tour by the Marylebone Cricket Club.

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Notes

Sources

1946 deaths
Date of birth unknown
Pre-1928 West Indies cricketers
Trinidad and Tobago cricketers


title: No Romeo

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No Romeo is the debut studio album by English singer Lauren Henson, known professionally as Indiana. It was originally scheduled to be released on 1 September 2014, but has been subject to several pushbacks and was eventually released on 16 January 2015. The album spawned six singles: "Bound", "Smoking Gun", "Mess Around", "Solo Dancing" and "Heart on Fire". No Romeo was produced mainly by Henson's writing partner, John Beck.

The album debuted at number 17 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 3,646 copies in its first week.

Track listing

Charts

Release history

References

2015 debut albums
Albums produced by Jesse Shatkin
Epic Records albums


title: KWDW-LP

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KWDW-LP (93.9 FM) is a low-power FM radio station licensed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. The station is currently owned by Jesuristo Es Mi Fortaleza Church Inc.

History
The callsign was KWDW-LP on April 3, 2014.

References

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WDW-LP
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Radio stations in Oklahoma City
Spanish-language radio stations in Oklahoma
2014 establishments in Oklahoma
Radio stations established in 2014


title: Marzuban ibn Bakhtiyar

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Marzuban ibn Bakhtiyar was a Buyid prince, and the son of the Buyid ruler of Iraq, 'Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar.

Little is known of Marzuban's life. In 970, he married a daughter of the Turkic officer Bukhtakin Azadruwayh. In 975, he received the title of  () from the Abbasid caliph al-Ta'i, while several other of his family members and officers received other titles. After the defeat of his father in 977 at the hands of his relative 'Adud al-Dawla, he, along with his father and uncles went to Damascus, where they were warmly received by its ruler, Alptakin, who, however, made them involved in his conflict with the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt.

A battle shortly ensured at Ramla between the army of Alptakin and the Fatimids. However, during the battle, Marzuban betrayed Alptakin and abandoned the battlefield. The forces of Alptakin were shortly defeated, and Marzuban's uncle Abu Tahir was killed, while his other uncle Abu Ishaq Ibrahim was taken captive by the Fatimids. Nothing further is heard of Marzuban.

References

Sources

10th-century births
10th-century Iranian people
Buyid princes
Year of death unknown
10th century in Asia


title: Mammadbaghir Sheykhzamanli

text:
Mammadbaghir Saleh oglu Sheykhzamanli (Azerbaijani: Məmmədbağır Saleh oğlu Şeyxzamanlı; 1880–1920) was a first head of the organization for Combating Counterrevolution - Azerbaijani special services.

Biography
Mammadbaghir Sheykhzamanli was born in 1880 in the Elisabethpol, the present-day Ganja, Azerbaijan. In June 1919 he was appointed the head of Organization for Combating Counterrevolution established by the national government of  Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. After working for a while, Sheikhzamanli was dismissed from his post in August 1919, in connection with his political activities as a member of the Musavat Party in the first cabinet of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

As a Member of Parliament, Sheykhzamanli participated in the discussion of some important public issues, including the draft laws and resolutions. Because of his consistent struggle to achieve the independence of Azerbaijan and irreconcilable political position, Mammadbaghir Sheykhzamanli was arrested by the Bolsheviks after the Russian occupation of Azerbaijan and shot in May 1920.

Personal life
His daughter Rukia Sheykhzamanli was married to Kamil Rafibeyli (Aran), the son of Khudadat Rafibeyli.

See also
 Naghi Sheykhzamanli

References

Politicians from Ganja, Azerbaijan
1880 births
1920 deaths


title: Custos Rotulorum of Meath

text:
The Custos Rotulorum of Meath was the highest civil officer in County Meath. The position was later combined with that of Lord Lieutenant of Meath.

Incumbents

1679–?1714 Henry Hamilton-Moore, 3rd Earl of Drogheda  (died 1714)
1769–?1781: Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington (died 1781)
1781–1842 Richard Wellesley (died 1842)

For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Meath

References

Meath


title: Reneta Kamberova

text:
Reneta Petrova Kamberova (; born 12 September 1990 in Pazardzhik) is a Bulgarian Group rhythmic gymnast. She was a member of the Bulgarian winning team that won gold at the 2014 World Championships in the group all-around and a 2011 World and 2016 Olympic Group all-around bronze medalist.

Career
A veteran of the Bulgarian Group. Kamberova has competed in 4 World Championships, Kamberova has been practising gymnastics since the age of 7. The Bulgarian group won bronze in all-around at the 2011 World Championships in Montpellier, France. She was member of the Bulgarian Group that competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

In June 2014, she and the Bulgarian group won a gold medal in the 10 clubs event of the 2014 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships. They won gold medal at the 2014 World Cup Final in Kazan, Russia in 3 Balls + 2 Ribbons and silver in 10 Clubs. In September 22–28, Kamberova and her group mates won gold in the group all-around at the 2014 World Championships, 17 years later since the Bulgarian group won gold at the 1996 World Championships, they also won silver medal in 3 Balls + 2 Ribbons.

On 22 December 2014, Kamberova and her colleagues from the national gymnastics team were chosen as the team of the year in Bulgarian sport.

Kamberova was a member of the Bulgarian group that competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Together with Lyubomira Kazanova, Mihaela Maevska, Tsvetelina Naydenova, Hristiana Todorova), they won the Group All-around bronze medal. They dedicated their medal to their teammate Tsvetelina Stoyanova, who had attempted to commit suicide and fell from her apartment in Sofia.

Detailed Olympic results

References

External links

 Rhythmic Gymnastics Results

1990 births
Living people
Bulgarian rhythmic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Bulgaria
Sportspeople from Pazardzhik
Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships
Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships
Olympic bronze medalists for Bulgaria
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
European Games competitors for Bulgaria
Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games
Olympic medalists in gymnastics


title: George Johnstone (1764–1813)

text:
George Johnstone (10 December 1764 – 20 November 1813) was a British politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain and then in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1800 to 1813.

Johnstone was born in Pensacola, Florida.  He was one of four illegitimate sons of George Johnstone, then a captain in the Royal Navy, later an admiral. His mother was Martha Ford.

He was elected at a by-election in 1800 as Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Aldeburgh.
The following year, he bought an estate in Wales and began canvassing the borough of Hedon in Yorkshire, and topped the poll at the 1802 general election.
He was re-elected 3 times, facing a contest only in 1807,
and held the seat until his death in 1813.

See also
Cannizaro Park

References

External links

1764 births
1813 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
British MPs 1796–1800
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
UK MPs 1801–1802
UK MPs 1802–1806
UK MPs 1807–1812
UK MPs 1812–1818
British East India Company people


title: New Zealand cricket team in Pakistan in 2003–04

text:
The New Zealand cricket team toured Pakistan in November to December 2003 and played a five-match One Day International (ODI) series against the Pakistan cricket team. Pakistan won the series 5–0. New Zealand were captained by Chris Cairns and Pakistan by Inzamam-ul-Haq.

ODI series

1st ODI

2nd ODI

3rd ODI

4th ODI

5th ODI

References

External links
 CricInfo

2003 in New Zealand cricket
2003 in Pakistani cricket
International cricket competitions in 2003–04
New Zealand cricket tours of Pakistan
Pakistani cricket seasons from 2000–01


title: Saadia (given name)

text:
Saadia (, ) or Saadiya is an Arabic, Hebrew and Berber masculine and feminine proper name. It is used as a forename and more rarely as a surname.  According to some classical rabbinical sources, the name derives from the Hebrew verb Sa'ad (,  support), and means "God has supported". According to researchers at the Wissenschaft des Judentums, however, it is an artificially Hebrewised form of the Arabic name Sa'id (Happy سعيد). It is indeed common that in Arabic speaking countries, people called Saadia are also known as Sa'id.

Saadia Gaon, who seems to have been the first to have borne this forename, and is often just referred to as "Saadia," without further explanation; signing himself 'Sa'id ben Yosef "at the beginning of his career, he went on, in his work 'Sefer haGalouï' to call himself "Saadyahou" (סעדיהו) ; Moses ibn Ezra also uses the form Sa'adel (סעדאל).

People with the given name
Saadia Gaon (892-942), rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the Geonic period
Saadia Ibn Danan (died 1493), rabbi, poet, and Dayan in Grenada
Saadia Marciano (1950–2007), Israeli social activist, politician, and founder of the Black Panthers
Saadia Himi (born 1984), Dutch model and beauty queen
Saadia Kobashi (1904–1990), leader of Yemenite Jews in Israel and one of the signatories to Israel's declaration of independence
Saadiya Kochar, Indian woman photographer and solo traveller

See also
Saadia (disambiguation)
Saadia naif alzaidy

References

Hebrew masculine given names
Masculine given names
Hebrew feminine given names
Arabic-language feminine given names
Feminine given names
fr:Saadia (homonymie)


title: Ben Bruce

text:
Benjamin Paul Bruce (born 31 October 1988) is an English musician. He is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of rock band Asking Alexandria and has also performed as a solo artist. Bruce founded the band while he was living in Dubai but the band split and he moved back to the United Kingdom, where he then started the band again under the same name with Danny Worsnop.

Biography

Early life
Bruce was born in Wandsworth, South London on 31 October 1988. At the age of six he and his family moved to Dubai. He would later move back to England in 2006 at age 17 in order to gain recognition in the music industry, which he would gain after forming Asking Alexandria.

Bruce started playing the electric guitar at the age of 12 after being inspired by blues guitarists such as Eric Clapton, B.B. King and Gary Moore he then started listening to pop punk groups such as Blink-182, Sum 41 and Green Day and later, metal bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden. He insisted on learning to play electric guitar and would learn songs by ear. Bruce has stated that some of his favourite records consist of: Metallica's Kill 'Em All for its raw and aggressive sounds, Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, and Slipknot's debut album which influenced him into more extreme metal genres.

2006–present: Asking Alexandria

Bruce originally formed his first band in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2006.  The band's original line-up consisted of completely different members compared to that of the band's lineup from 2008. The band released their debut album titled 'The Irony of Your Perfection'. Bruce moved back to England, Nottingham in 2006 at the age of 17 and the band followed only to leave after a month due to not being fully committed but Bruce wasn't willing to stop anytime soon. He then reassembled his second band with new members from the local area, including lead singer Danny Worsnop, of which he had moved into his flat apartment in York. He carried the name 'Asking Alexandria' over to the new lineup due to not wanting to bother to come up with a brand new name, so he stuck with the old one. When asked why he chose that particular name, he explained that "Most bands have a pretty shit band name, so I just came up with something. I came up with Alexandria as a human name, because people relate to humans." although the reason for using the word 'asking' is not explained.

The band released their first official debut album titled Stand Up and Scream in 2009 via Sumerian and Victory records, produced by Joey Sturgis. Although it didn't chart in the UK, it did chart in the US, peaking at; 4 in the Top Heatseekers, 24 in the Top Hard Rock Albums and 29 in the Top Independent Albums. The band's second album, titled Reckless & Relentless, was released in 2011 via Sumerian records, which again featured Joey Sturgis. This time, the album did chart in the UK, peaking at 7 on the UK Rock Chart, and also charted in Australia at 30 on the Australian Albums Chart. They released their third album, titled From Death to Destiny in 2013 via Sumerian Records and peaked in the US at 5 and the Top Hard Rock Albums at 1, and also charted in the UK at 28 and in Australia at 11, making it their most commercially successful album to date.

2014–present: Solo
Bruce announced that he would start recording his first album as a solo artist on 6 January 2014, after Danny Worsnop's open involvement with both Asking Alexandria, his solo album, and his latest project We Are Harlot. When interviewed by Artistdirect's Rick Florino, Bruce stated that he had recorded his solo album when asked about the direction it is leaning into he responded with "There's nothing really heavy about it. There are a few classic rock 'n' roll tunes on there. Really, it's a lot of softer rock stuff." and compared it to Keane or Oasis, going on to say that it is a more of a chilled rock album, he also stated that he is the primary vocalist of the album and has eased off the guitar duties for this particular album. In January 2015, Danny Worsnop stated that Bruce has completed his album and will be releasing it that same year.

In March 2014, Bruce was revealed as a featured artist on the cover compilation album of Florence + The Machine, released by Sumerian Records, of which he covered the single Shake It Out. When Rocksound queried on the sound of the solo album, Bruce stated that he'd describe it as "Chilled out. I'd honestly liken it to Keane, Robbie Williams and Oasis." and further stated that he finds Robbie Williams to be his main influence. It was also revealed that the album will be released through Sumerian Records later in 2015, however due to the departure of Danny Worsnop from Asking Alexadria, Bruce decided to put his solo career on hold while he gets his main band up and running again with a new singer and album. Since then he has stated that he has written more material for his solo project and intends to record new songs along with re-recording his older ones once he has some time off from touring.

Other ventures

2011–present: BB Clothing
Bruce started his own clothing line originally in 2011 and existed as an online business, separated from official merchandise associated with Asking Alexandria. Bruce remained inactive on the project after 27 June 2013, the last date which he added new designs to his brand, but released a statement that more designs will be released in the following year.

2014–present: KBB Records

In March 2014, it was announced that Bruce, along with Asking Alexandria's manager, Kyle Borman, had launched a record label called 'KBB', and had signed a rap metal band called 'Scare Don't Fear'. The band themselves decided to sign with KBB due to other record labels requesting them to change their style of music, while Ben Bruce expressed that he didn't want anything to change in their sound and to maintain it instead, giving the band more freedom in their creativity.

It was revealed later that month that Caroline Records will be in a distribution partnership with KBB Records. The label's first release and the band's debut album, 'From the Ground Up', was released on 17 June the same year. In May the same year, it was revealed that metal band 'The Family Ruin' had also been signed and added to the roster and will be releasing an album later the same year.

When he was asked why he created the label in the first place, he explained that he loved every aspect of music and wanted to be further involved in the music industry whether it's writing it, performing it, or helping other bands, and explained that it initially started with "groups of my friends starting bands and asking for my help to manage them. I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great if I could actually help bands that I think are worthy of being helped and deserve to be somewhere more than just giving them advice?'"

Current roster
Scare Don't Fear (2014–present)
The Family Ruin (2014–present)
Run 2 Cover (2015–present)
A Fall To Break (2015–present)

Filmography
Released on 13 October 2017, Ben Bruce was featured in the film American Satan. Bruce plays the character 'Leo Donovan'.

Ben has also done filming the spin-off series of American Satan called Paradise City in 2019, the series was later released on 25 March 2021.

Discography
Asking Alexandria

 Stand Up and Scream (2009)
 Reckless & Relentless (2011)
 From Death to Destiny (2013)
 The Black (2016)
 Asking Alexandria (2017)
 Like a House on Fire (2020)
 See What's on the Inside (2021)
 Where Do We Go from Here? (2023)

Collaborations and other songs

Accolades

References

English heavy metal guitarists
English heavy metal singers
Musicians from London
Musicians from Dubai
Kerrang! Awards winners
Asking Alexandria members
21st-century English singers
21st-century British guitarists
1988 births
Living people
Metalcore singers


title: Proteothrinax

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Proteothrinax baumgartneri is an extinct species of shark. It was classified based on two relatively complete teeth and two isolated crowns, described from the Eocene (Lutetian) Weitwies Subformation in Austria. Due to the limited material available and its similarities to Chlamydoselachus fiedleri, it has been suggested that the criteria with which P. baumgartneri is separated from Chlamydoselachus fiedleri are within the normal variation of Chlamydoselachus.  This would therefore make P. baumgartneri a junior synonym to Chlamydoselachus fiedleri and, since there is only one identified species within genus Proteothrinax, the whole genus a junior synonym to Chlamydoselachus.

References

Chlamydoselachidae
Eocene fish of Europe
Eocene sharks

Fossil taxa described in 1983


title: 2013–14 Ligue Magnus season

text:
The 2013–14 Ligue Magnus season was the 93rd season of the Ligue Magnus, the top level of ice hockey in France. Diables Rouges de Briançon defeated Ducs d'Angers in the championship round.

Regular season

Playoffs

Relegation
 Brest Albatros Hockey - Drakkars de Caen 3:4 (6:1, 2:3, 4:5, 5:1, 0:1, 3:2 SO, 3:4)

References

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Fra
Ligue Magnus seasons


title: Alena Fomina-Klotz

text:
Alena Sergeyevna Fomina-Klotz (née Fomina; ; born 5 July 1989) is a Russian tennis player. From 2005 to October 2017, she represented Ukraine.

Career
She has won one singles title and 26 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 3 April 2017, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 520. On 24 July 2023, she peaked at No. 102 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Fomina made her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Topshelf Open, partnering Christina Shakovets in doubles, but lost her first-round match against Maria Kirilenko and Yanina Wickmayer.

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Doubles: 47 (26 titles, 21 runner-ups)

Notes

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Sevastopol
Ukrainian female tennis players
Russian female tennis players
Ukrainian emigrants to Russia
Naturalised citizens of Russia
Ukrainian sportspeople in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian War


title: Doctor Geek's Laboratory

text:
Doctor Geek's Laboratory is an audio show created by Dr. Scott Viguié that operates as STEM outreach (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and is used by some homeschooling parents as part of their science curriculum. The show portrays a fictional laboratory populated by humorous characters who are trying to bring about the world of tomorrow today. Most of the episodes include a non-fiction element by interviewing scientists, corporate leaders, and others who are actively working on bleeding edge technology and trying to bring it to the consumer. The first season of the show is available as a box set from Blackstone Audio.

Characters
 Doctor Geek played by Dr. Scott Viguié
 Mister Flask played by Chris Harrington
 DEUS-X played by Calliope Collacott
 Madame Oracle played by Calliope Collacott
 Mister Creature played by Sacha Dzuba and Phil Harrington
 Claire played by NYT Bestselling Author Debbie Viguié
 Rick played by Star Mage comic creator JC De La Torre
 Sam played by Rita De La Torre

Science Fair
Doctor Geek's Laboratory has done live episodes and presentations at many libraries and conventions.  The lab hosted its first annual science fair in September 2014 at the South Florida Museum.

References

External links

Science education


title: Independence Medal (Venda)

text:
The Independence Medal was instituted by the President of the Republic of Venda in 1979, for award to all ranks in commemoration of the independence of Venda.

The Venda Defence Force
The 900 member Venda Defence Force (VDF) was established upon that country's independence on 13 September 1979. The Republic of Venda ceased to exist on 27 April 1994 and the Venda Defence Force was amalgamated with six other military forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).

Institution
The Independence Medal was instituted by the President of Venda in 1979.

Award criteria
The medal was awarded to all ranks in commemoration of the independence of Venda.

Order of wear

Since the Independence Medal was authorised for wear by one of the statutory forces which came to be part of the South African National Defence Force on 27 April 1994, it was accorded a position in the official South African order of precedence on that date.

Venda Defence Force until 26 April 1994

Official VDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the General Service Medal.
 Succeeded by the Long Service Medal, Gold.
Venda official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Police Medal for Combating Terrorism.
 Succeeded by the Police Establishment Medal.

South African National Defence Force from 27 April 1994

Official SANDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Independence Medal of the Republic of Bophuthatswana.
 Succeeded by the Independence Medal of the Republic of Ciskei.
Official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Independence Police Medal of the Republic of Bophuthatswana.
 Succeeded by the Police Establishment Medal of the KwaZulu Homeland.

The position of the Independence Medal in the official order of precedence was revised twice after 1994, to accommodate the inclusion or institution of new decorations and medals, first in April 1996 when decorations and medals were belatedly instituted for the two former non-statutory forces, the Azanian People's Liberation Army and Umkhonto we Sizwe, and again upon the institution of a new set of honours on 27 April 2003, but it remained unchanged on both occasions.

Description
Obverse
The Independence Medal is a medallion struck in copper, 38 millimetres in diameter, depicting an elephant's head on a shield and inscribed "13 9 1979" above, "INDEPENDENCE" to the left and "DUVHA LA VHUDILANG" to the right of the shield.

Reverse
The reverse displays the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Venda.

Ribbon
The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide, with a 5 millimetres wide brown band, a 2 millimetres wide yellow band, a 5 millimetres wide green band and a 1 millimetre wide yellow band, repeated in reverse order and separated by a 6 millimetres wide blue band.

Discontinuation
Conferment of the Independence Medal was discontinued when the Republic of Venda ceased to exist on 27 April 1994.

References

Military decorations and medals of Venda
Awards established in 1979
Awards disestablished in 1994
1979 establishments in Africa
1994 disestablishments in Africa


title: Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya

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Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya  was an Indian scholar of Sanskrit. He had served as a professor of Sanskrit at the Scottish Church College in  Calcutta.

He was a key figure in reviving many manuscripts of the Paippalāda-Saṃhitā and its ancillary literature like the Āṅgirasakalpa after painstaking search over years in Orissa and south-west Bengal. Durgamohan Bhattacharyya’s discovery of a living tradition of the Paippalāda-Saṃhitā, unknown until then, was hailed in the Indological world as epoch making. Ludwig Alsdorf went so far as to say that it was the greatest event in Indology. Bhattacharyya died in 1965 leaving his edition of the text incomplete. This task was completed by  his son Dipak, whose critical edition of the first 18 kāṇḍas was published by the Asiatic Society, Calcutta came out in three volumes in 1997, 2008 and 2011.

Early life
In the early 1900 he with other members of his family, migrated to Sahanagar, Lalbag in the district of Murshidabad. The family was poor and could not send its young children to an English medium school. His early education was derived from tols and chatuspathis, where the main subjects taught were Bengali and Sanskrit, the medium of education primarily being Bengali. Durgamohan was an exceptionally brilliant student and by the year 1915 he had appeared at several Sanskrit Upadhi examinations and topped the list of candidates for the several examinations on Sanskrit conducted by the Government of Bengal. He acquired the highest degrees in Kavya, Sankhya and Purana and got the title of Bhagavataratna.

Durgamohan with his widowed mother (Sarada) and only younger brother moved to his maternal uncle's house in Calcutta. Coming to know about the keen desire of Durgamohan to study English, his senior maternal uncle took him to Suresh Chandra Kundu, then the headmaster of Town School, Calcutta, an institution of great reputation. It was an immense task for Durgamohan to achieve as he had already reached the age of 16 and he was required to complete the normal course of ten years in a single year. He successfully completed the task and in 1917 he sat for the Entrance Examination of the University of Calcutta and was declared successful, obtaining a place in the First Division of successful candidates.

The Intermediate Examination (F.A.) was achieved in 1919 at the Vidyasagar College, the B.A. Examination with a First Class honours Degree in Sanskrit from the Scottish Church College was gained in 1921 and the master's degree in Sanskrit was obtained in 1923 from the University of Calcutta.

Career

Early career
After completing his studies in the University, Durgamohan decided to take up the educational line as his field of activities.
Having served as a Professor of Sanskrit in the Narasinha Dutt College of Howrah for some time, he joined the Scottish Church College as a professor of Sanskrit and Bengali and eventually became the head of the department of Sanskrit in the early thirties. In 1952 he was inducted in the West Bengal Senior Educational Service as Professor of Vedic Language, Literature and Culture in the Postgraduate Training and Research Department of the Sanskrit College, which position he occupied till the date of his death.

He used to be invited by learned societies like the Asiatic Society of Bengal, the Asiatic Society of Bombay, the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, and others to deliver talks on specific topics particularly the Vedas. He was awarded gold medals by the Asiatic Societies for his services in the field of Sanskrit.

Work on Paippalāda-Saṃhitā
He had come to infer from many sources that of the four Vedas, the Atharva Veda and its practice had not become extinct in India as many scholars of repute used to hold and propagate. To prove his conviction in this regard he visited a large number of places all over India, and, ultimately a few years before his death, he was able to locate a place in Orissa, Guhiapal to be precise where he found the Atharva Veda to be actively practiced and there he discovered several Oriya manuscripts in which the Paippalāda-Saṃhitā, one of the nine versions of the Atharva Veda was faithfully reproduced. The discovery was made known to the world and the belief about the extinction of the practice of Atharva Veda was proved incorrect. He was hailed for his painstaking effort and perseverance in the unearthing of the Paippalāda-Saṃhitā as an epoch making discovery.

He started serious work on the Paippalāda-Saṃhitā, and publications also started which received acclamations from scholars all over the world. But unfortunately Durgamohan fell ill with cancer and died on 12 November 1965. His task was completed by his son Dipak Bhattacharya whose critical edition of the first 18 kāṇḍas published by the Asiatic Society, Calcutta came out in three volumes in 1997, 2008 and 2011.

(Input source Mrs Lila Chakraborty, Mr Joy Bhattacharya)

Personal life
Durgamohan had five sons and four daughters. His wife Bhavani Bhattacharya died in 1992.

References

1899 births
1965 deaths
Scholars from Kolkata
Indian Sanskrit scholars
Vidyasagar College alumni
Scottish Church College alumni
Academic staff of Scottish Church College
University of Calcutta alumni
Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
20th-century Indian scholars


title: KHVJ-LP

text:
KHVJ-LP (95.3 FM) was a low-power FM radio station licensed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. The station was owned by Iglesia De Restauraction, El Monte De Los Olivos.

History
The station was assigned the call sign KHVJ-LP on February 17, 2014. KHVJ-LP's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on June 27, 2018, due to the station having been silent since October 1, 2016.

References

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HVJ-LP
Radio stations established in 2014
2014 establishments in Oklahoma
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Radio stations disestablished in 2018
2018 disestablishments in Oklahoma
Defunct religious radio stations in the United States
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title: 2013–14 Icelandic Hockey League season

text:
The 2010–11 Icelandic Hockey League season was the 23rd season of the Icelandic Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Iceland. SA Vikingar defeated Hunar in the championship round, 3-0.

Regular season

Final
 SA Vikingar - Ísknattleiksfélagið Björninn 3:0 (4:3, 6:1, 5:3)

References

External links
 Icelandic Ice Hockey Federation

Icelandic Hockey League
Icelandic Hockey League seasons
2013–14 in Icelandic ice hockey


The 12405 / 12406 Bhusaval–Hazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana Express is a Superfast Express train belonging to Indian Railways – Northern Railway zone that runs between  and  in India.

It operates as train number 12405 from Bhusaval Junction to Hazrat Nizamuddin and as train number 12406 in the reverse direction, serving the states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.

Coaches

The 12405 / 06 Bhusaval–Hazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana Express has 1 AC 2 tier, 2 AC 3 tier, 13 Sleeper class, 3 General Unreserved and 2 SLR (Seating cum Luggage Rake) coaches. It does not carry a pantry car.

As is customary with most train services in India, coach composition may be amended at the discretion of Indian Railways depending on demand.

Service

The 12405 Bhusaval–Hazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana Express covers the distance of 1476 kilometres in 25 hours 45 mins (57.32 km/h) and in 24 hours 25 mins as 12406 Hazrat Nizamuddin–Bhusaval Gondwana Express (60.45 km/h).

As the average speed of the train is above , as per Indian Railways rules, its fare includes a Superfast surcharge.

Routeing
The train runs from Bhusaval Junction via , , , , , , , , , , ,  to Hazrat Nizamuddin.

Traction

As the entire route is fully electrified, it is hauled by a Bhusaval-based WAP-4 or Tughlakabad-based WAP-7 locomotive on its entire journey.

Timings

 12405 Bhusaval–Hazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana Express leaves Bhusaval Junction every Tuesday and Sunday at 05:40 hrs IST and reaches Hazrat Nizamuddin at 07:25 hrs IST the next day.
 12406 Hazrat Nizamuddin–Bhusaval Gondwana Express leaves Hazrat Nizamuddin every Friday and Sunday at 15:25 hrs IST and reaches Bhusaval Junction at 15:50 hrs IST the next day.

Rake sharing
The train shares its rake with 12409/12410 Raigarh–Hazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana Express.

References

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo4xQeeDF4E
 http://www.irfca.org/gallery/GeneralScenes/GONDWANA+EXPRESS.jpg.html

 https://www.flickr.com/photos/8893421@N06/7561325836/

External links

Transport in Delhi
Transport in Bhusawal
Express trains in India
Rail transport in Maharashtra
Rail transport in Madhya Pradesh
Rail transport in Uttar Pradesh
Rail transport in Delhi
Named passenger trains of India


title: Entelo

text:
Entelo, Inc. is a privately held technology company located in San Francisco, California. Entelo offers a SaaS platform used by recruiters and hiring managers to find potential employees.

History
Entelo was founded in May 2011 and launched in October 2012 with an undisclosed amount of seed funding. Initially, Entelo offered two products: Search, which allowed recruiters to browse over 300 million social profiles using standard Boolean search, and Sonar, a predictive algorithm used to determine which candidates were most likely to leave their current job. In June 2013, Entelo announced $3.5 million in Series A funding, led by Battery Ventures and Menlo Ventures.

Entelo launched its Diversity product in April 2014, allowing recruiters to source candidates from underrepresented groups based on gender, ethnicity, and veteran status. Its email tracking and outreach tool, Track, was released in January 2015. The company launched a candidate-ranking analytics solution called Stack in October 2015 and followed up with a mobile companion to Stack in October 2016. In June 2017, Entelo raised $20 million Series C round of funding led by U.S. Venture Partners with Battery Ventures, Shasta Venture and Correlation Ventures.

Products
Diversity: When paired with Search, allows recruiters to locate candidates of under-represented groups.

They have used algorithms to find pick up on programmers who may be looking for a new place to work.

References

2012 establishments in California
E-recruitment
Employment websites in the United States
Privately held companies based in California


title: To Catch a Killer (TV series)

text:
To Catch a Killer is a true crime episodic docudrama produced for OWN Canada (Corus Entertainment) by Ocean Entertainment.  The series follows a squad of civilians working under the guidance of Dr. Michael Andrew Arntfield as they seek new evidence in unsolved murder cases. The civilians come from diverse backgrounds, bringing new technology and fresh eyes to these cases. The civilians are Registered Psychologist Antonella Magnatta, Danya Dixon, Renee Willmon, Peter Leimbigler and Douglas Montgomery.

Each of the 8 one-hour-long episodes features a single case ranging in age from 13 to 45 years.  Inspired by the work of Dr. Arntfield’s cold case society the team passes their findings on to the relevant police department.

International broadcast
 — Began airing on 17 December 2014 on CI.

Episodes

 Cold CASE: Awcock
 Cold CASE: McWilliam
 Cold CASE: Buller
 Cold CASE: English
 Cold CASE: Gurczenski
 Cold CASE: Roach
 Cold CASE: Frost
 Cold CASE: White

Notes

See also
Cold Case Files, USA / A&E, 1999 (true cases)
Solved, USA / ID, 2008 (true cases)
Cold Justice, USA / TNT, 2013 (true cases)

References
 "To Catch a Killer features Canadian cold cases", The Star.com, published Feb. 28, 2014

External links
 OWN: To Catch a Killer - official site

2014 Canadian television series debuts
Television series by Corus Entertainment
2010s Canadian crime television series


title: Maureen White

text:
Patricia Maureen White, more commonly known as Maureen White, is a specialist in international humanitarian affairs and a fundraiser for the American Democratic Party. She is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she runs a program on conflict and humanitarian crisis. She has written extensively about humanitarian and migration issues for the SAIS Review of International Affairs.

Education
White received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College and a Master of Arts degree from the London School of Economics.

Career

Early career
She worked in international economic research in New York City (First Boston Corporation), Tokyo (Nomura Research Institute) and London (Royal Institute for International Affairs). At the time of her marriage in 1986, she was an assistant vice president at the First Boston Corporation. Early in her career, White worked for a Japanese TV agency.

International affairs
White represented the U.S. Government at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) during the second term of the Clinton Administration, from 1997 to 2001.

She was appointed as senior advisor on humanitarian issues to Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke in the State Department's Office of the Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan. She traveled extensively in both countries dealing with needs of people who were displaced as a result of conflict and natural disaster." She served from 2009 to 2013.

White is now a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.

Organizational boards
White serves on the boards of a number of organizations, including the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC), Refugees International, The Center for Global Development, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Women's Foreign Policy Group.

She has served on the board of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) since 1995, rotating off during her terms of government service. Her roles with the IRC have included:
 1990s: Traveled to Bosnia and Kosovo to monitor conditions.
 2001-2004: Served as chair of the Post Conflict Development Committee.
 2004-2009: Served as chair of the IRC Overseers.
 2008: Served on the Commission on Iraqi Refugees, traveling on an investigatory mission to Syria and Jordan.

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Institute and the Middle East Institute.

Political fundraising and finance
White has held positions as finance chair for the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2006 and as finance co-chair for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. She has been involved in fundraising for her 2016 presidential campaign as well.

White and her husband, Steven Rattner, have contributed to and raised millions of dollars for the Democratic Party and the campaigns of Democratic candidates. They have been called "D.N.C.'s A.T.M."

Legal matters
Serving on a jury in 2011, hearing a grand larceny case brought by actor Robert De Niro against an art gallery director, White was reported by another juror to have threatened to walk out during deliberations on the grounds that she had important work to do, stating that "20 million people are in trouble in Afghanistan because she was here." The juror said he felt bullied into giving up his vote to convict.

However, jury foreman Robert Lubeck said that Cohen's account of the deliberations and of White "was highly inaccurate." "I don't think that her behavior was anything outlandish," Lubeck said. "She's a very elegant woman. To make her out to be anything but that is wrong, and inaccurate."

In October 2008, White was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after she stopped at a toll booth and failed to proceed when the gate was up. Her blood alcohol level was 0.17. After pleading guilty, she was fined, and her driver's license was suspended for 90 days.

Personal life
Since 1986, White has been married to Steven Rattner. They have four children.

References

American humanitarians
Living people
American political fundraisers
Mount Holyoke College alumni
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Acalypha cupricola

text:
Acalypha cupricola is a species of spurge native to the copper-rich soils of Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is an absolute metallophyte, restricted to steppic savanna in copper outcrops. Surface mining is destroying some of its habitat, but it is not considered to be fragmented, and so is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN. It can also be found growing in other metalliferous habitats, such as mine debris and lands disturbed by mining. This species is a candidate for use in phytoremediation of metal-contaminated sites.

References

cupricola
Near threatened plants
Endemic flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


title: John Hoyland (writer)

text:
John Hoyland (1750–1831) was an English Quaker author. Known as a writer on the Romani people, he also published a religious work.

Life
Hoyland has been described as "of Sheffield, Yorkshire", and as "formerly of York". In the summer of 1814 he began to study the Romani of the East Midland counties Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, and Hertfordshire, and their poor economic state. He is reported to have fallen in love with a "black-eyed gipsy girl"; but Walter Simson's assertion that he married one is considered unfounded. He carried out extensive survey work, and sought to draw attention to his perception that the Romani needed religious conversion, as well as a better standard of living. A sympathetic observer, Hoyland also supported forced education of the Romani.

Hoyland died at Northampton on 30 August 1831.

Works
Hoyland's Epitome of the History of the World from the Creation to the Advent of the Messiah, first published anonymously (London, 1812), reached a third edition under the title The Fulfilment of Scripture Prophecy (1823). It is a euhemeristic work, in which Elijah is the prototype of Phaeton, as Jephtha's daughter is of Iphigenia. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, and Present State of the Gypsies (York, 1816) is mainly based on Matthew Raper's translation of Heinrich Moritz Gottlieb Grellmann's Zigeuner.

Notes

Attribution

External links

1750 births
1831 deaths
English Quakers
English writers
Romani studies scholars
Quaker writers
English male writers


title: Mcmurdodus

text:
Mcmurdodus is an extinct genus of sharks and the sole member of the family Mcmurdodontidae, in the order Hexanchiformes. It contains two extinct species.

Species
 Mcmurdodus featherensis White, 1968
 Mcmurdodus whitei Turner, & Young, 1987

References

Devonian sharks
Hexanchiformes
Prehistoric fish of Australia


title: 2013–14 OB I bajnoksag season

text:
The 2013–14 OB I bajnoksag season is the 77th season of the OB I bajnoksag, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. The league proper was not contested this season, as four of the top Hungarian teams competed in the multi-national MOL Liga. The top-ranked Hungarian team in the league was crowned national champions. Dab.Docler was recognized as Hungarian champion this year.

Teams

Results
Game by game results can be viewed here

References

OB I bajnoksag seasons
Hun
OB


title: Custos Rotulorum of King's County

text:
The Custos Rotulorum of King's County was the highest civil officer in King's County, Ireland (now County Offaly). The position was later combined with that of Lord Lieutenant of King's County.

Incumbents

1687–? Robert Grace
1761–1764 Charles Moore, 1st Earl of Charleville
1766–1822 Charles Moore, 6th Earl of Drogheda
1828–1841 Lawrence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse

For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of King's County

References

King's County


title: Lawn bowls at the Summer Paralympics

text:
Lawn bowls has been contested at Summer Paralympics on six occasions, first appearing on the schedule in 1968 and having its most recent outing at the 1996 games. The competitions were initially divided by sex, with singles and doubles events for men and women. In 1976, divisions by disability category were introduced, greatly expanding the number of events and medals. Participation peaked at the 1976 edition, with 80 entrants from 13 countries competing in 16 events. Great Britain was the most successful nation in this sport at each of the games it was held.

Summary

Medal table

References

Paralympics
Lawn bowls


title: John Hoyland (disambiguation)

text:
John Hoyland was a British artist.

John Hoyland may also refer to:

John Hoyland (organist) (1783–1827), English organist and composer
John Hoyland (writer) (1750–1831), English Quaker author, known as a writer on the Romani people


title: Acalypha wilderi

text:
Acalypha wilderi was a species of spurge that was only known from forested habitats along the northern and western sides of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, at elevations of 200–300 m. Very little is known about this species, but collections suggest it was a small shrub rarely exceeding 2 m in height. Its habitat has been greatly modified for agriculture, roads, housing, plantations and invasive species, and has not been seen since 1929, and was declared extinct in 2014. This species may be synonymous with A. raivavensis and A. tubuaiensis.

Possible causes of extinction:
the reason for its extinction is unknown.

References

wilderi
Extinct plants
Endemic flora of the Cook Islands


title: 2008 Havant Borough Council election

text:
The 2008 Havant Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of Havant Borough Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was:
Conservative 32
Labour 3
Liberal Democrats 3

Background
Before the election the Conservatives ran the council with 31 of the 38 seats. 14 seats were contested at the election with a total of 55 candidates standing at the election. As well as full slates from the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats, there were 9 candidates from the UK Independence Party and 2 each from the Green party and the English Democrats.

Election result
The Conservatives increased their majority on the council after Mike Sceal took a seat in Warren Park ward from Labour. This took the Conservatives to 32 seats, while Labour dropped to 3 seats on the council. Meanwhile, Liberal Democrat Faith Ponsonby held a seat in Battins ward to keep the Liberal Democrats having 3 councillors. Overall turnout at the election was 32.2%.

Ward results

Barncroft

Battins

Bedhampton

Bondfields

Cowplain

Emsworth

Hart Plain

Hayling East

Hayling West

Purbrook

St Faiths

Stakes

Warren Park

Waterloo

By-elections between 2008 and 2010
A by-election was held in Waterloo ward on 4 September 2008 after the death of councillor Wendy Brown. The seat was narrowly held for the Conservatives by Ray Bastin with a majority of 48 votes over the Liberal Democrats.

References

2008 English local elections
Havant Borough Council elections
2000s in Hampshire


title: South African cricket team in Pakistan in 1997–98

text:
The South African national cricket team visited Pakistan in October to November 1997 and played a three-match Test series against the Pakistani national cricket team. South Africa won the Test series 1–0. South Africa were captained by Hansie Cronje and Pakistan by Saeed Anwar. In addition, the teams played in a Limited Overs International (LOI) tournament which South Africa won.

Test series summary

1st Test

2nd Test

3rd Test

References

1997 in South African cricket
1997 in Pakistani cricket
South African cricket tours of Pakistan
International cricket competitions from 1997–98 to 2000
Pakistani cricket seasons from 1970–71 to 1999–2000


title: Hassan Abdoulaye

text:
Hassan Abdoulaye is a former Chadian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He made two appearances for the Chad national football team.

See also
 List of Chad international footballers

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chadian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Chad men's international footballers
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Daniel Shulman (disambiguation)

text:
Daniel Shulman may refer to:

 Dan Shulman, Canadian sportscaster
 Daniel Shulman, a touring member of the band Garbage

See also
 Daniel Schulman (disambiguation)


title: Bulubadiangan Island

text:
Bulubadiangan Island (variously Bulobadiangan island or Bulubadiangan Islet) is a privately owned island in northeastern Iloilo, Philippines. It is part of barangay Polopińa, Concepcion. The Sandbar Island Beach Resort on Bulubadiangan is moderately known within the Philippines.

Location and geography

Bulubadiangan Island is east of Panay Island in the Visayan Sea. Part of the Concepcion Islands, it is a small island off the end of Igbon Island. Bulubadiangan is  at its highest point. Bulubadiangan is  from Igbon and  from Pan de Azucar Island. It is connected to Danao-Danao Island by a small reef. Although privately owned, Bulubadiangan is part of the Polopińa barangay, which has a population of 3,419 according to the 2010 census.

Places of interest

The main feature of Bulubadiangan is its  sandbar, which is exposed at low tide. The sandbar is a popular destination for tourists visiting Concepcion.

Resorts:

1. Sandbar Beach Resort

2. Villa Manuela Island Resort

See also

 List of islands in the Philippines

References

External links

 Bulubadiangan Island at OpenStreetMap

Islands of Iloilo
Private islands of the Philippines


title: Displays2Go

text:
Displays2go is a manufacturer and e-commerce retailer of point-of-sale displays based in Fall River, Massachusetts.

A subsidiary of TAKKT AG, this online business-to-business wholesaler markets its products mainly to retail stores and trade shows. The company adopted its current name in 1996 when it transitioned from a local acrylic display manufacturer to an online merchant, expanding its product line to include store fixtures, trade show supplies, retail media and digital marketing products.

History

1974–2011

Founded in 1974 by George Patton, the company was originally an in-house display manufacturer known as George Patton Associates, Inc. Targeting mainly New England area businesses, GPA expanded rapidly due to Patton's persistent marketing efforts. In 1992, he sold the company to his sons, Tom and Chris.

Their catalog business quickly grew, forcing the company to acquire a larger warehouse. In 1997, plans were made to build a new 45,000 sq. ft plant near the company's location on Market St. in Warren, RI, but Warren's water main expansion fell 1600 feet short of where the Pattons planned to build the new warehouse, preventing its construction. Later that year, a purchase and sales agreement was signed on a second location in Warren for an estimated $1.4 million, but it fell through for undisclosed reasons. In 2000, GPA started building a 261,000 sq. ft warehouse and office building in Bristol, RI.
The company began focusing on Internet marketing and was renamed to Displays2go.

2012–present

In 2012, Displays2go was acquired by the TAKKT Group (ETR: TTK), a subsidiary of the German conglomerate Franz Haniel & Cie., for $120 million. Felix Zimmerman, TAKKT Group's former CEO, later on explained that the acquisition was made to "further diversify [the group's] product portfolio and noticeably extend [its] e-commerce competence."

References

1974 establishments in the United States
Online retailers of the United States
Companies based in Rhode Island
Corporate subsidiaries


title: Sidick Aboubakar

text:
Sidick Aboubakar is a former Chadian professional football player. He made three appearances for the Chad national football team.

See also
 List of Chad international footballers

References

External links

Living people
Chadian men's footballers
Chad men's international footballers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Men's association football forwards
1989 births


title: Raoul Heinrich Francé

text:
Raoul Heinrich Francé (May 20, 1874, in Vienna, Austria – October 3, 1943, in Budapest, Hungary) was an Austro-Hungarian botanist, microbiologist as well as a natural and cultural philosopher and popularizer of science. His botanical author abbreviation is "Francé".

Biography

Francé (birth name: Rudolf Heinrich Franze) was born on 20 May 1874 in Altlerchenfeld (Vienna) and studied as a self-taught very early in analytical chemistry and "Mikrotechnik" (microscopy).
At 16 he was the youngest member of the Royal Hungarian scientific society, as its deputy magazine editor, he worked from 1893 to 1898.
From 1897 Francé studied biology for eight semesters and became a student under the Hungarian protozoa scientist (Protozoenforscher) Geza Entz.
During this time he undertook fourteen botanical expeditions.
In 1898 he was appointed Deputy Head of the Institute of Plant Protection of Agricultural Academy in Hungarian-Altenburg.
Here he published his first natural philosophical work.
Thereupon Francé received in 1902 the invitation to come to Munich.
In 1906 he founded the "Deutsche Mikrologische Gesellschaft" (German micrological Company) and its institution over which he presided as director.
He was editor of this company and co-founder of the journal Mikrokosmos (1907).
He was editor of other periodicals, such as Jahrbuch für Mikroskopiker and Mikrologische Bibliothek.

In 1906 Francé initiated the eight-volume monumental work Das Leben der Pflanze ("The Life of Plants"), whose first four volumes (1906–1910) are from his own pen.
The publishing company advertised this book as "Pflanzen-Brehm" ("Plant-Brehm", after the famous book "Brehms Tierleben").

In 1922, he published a popular version of the scientific evidence on the soil biota in a booklet "Das Leben im Ackerboden" (Life in the soil).

Throughout his busy life he wrote 60 books and a variety of popular science articles and writings.

Francé's Germs of Mind in Plants was his only book translated into English by A. M Simons. The book revolted against mechanistic botany and argued that plants are like humans because they have a sense life and purpose. Francé was not satisfied with the position held by neuropsychology but he did not claim that plants can feel pain or have a soul. It was negatively reviewed as a philosophical, not a scientific work.

In the "Walter Seifert Verlag" he was the editor of the journal Telos – Halbmonatsschrift für Arbeit und Erfolg) ("Telos – Fortnightly Magazine for Work and Success"). As a renowned graphic artist Francé developed the technique of "feather stitch" (Federstich), which is rooted in the copper engraving (Kupferstich).

Stages of his life are Dinkelsbühl, Wroclaw, Salzburg, Munich and Dubrovnik-Ragusa. In his life he wrote many books in which he anticipated many modern ecological ideas. Francé died of leukemia in 1943 in Budapest. He is buried together with his wife in Oberalm, Austria.

Legacy
In 1898, botanist Ernst Lemmermann published Franceia, which is a genus of green algae belonging to the family Oocystaceae and named in Francé's honour.

Organic farming is based in part on the findings by Francé, which were published in his books "Das Edaphon" (:wikt:edaphon, any animal or plant found in soil), 1913, and "Das Leben im Ackerboden", 1922, (Life in the soil) and a series of articles in the journal Mikrokosmos made available for a broad public. But this scientific source is usually concealed.

His wife Annie Francé-Harrar, a well-known biologist and author, worked many years with him and continued after his death in 1943 parts of his scientific work.

Today Francé is rediscovered as the founder of "Biotechnik" (Now called "Bionics"). His books Das Edaphon and Das Leben im Ackerboden were again published as reprints since 1959.
Many of his then and now progressive ideas only gained their assessment at the end of the 20th century.

In Munich and Dinkelsbühl a street bears his name.

Works

 Germs of Mind in Plants. 1905.
 Das Sinnesleben der Pflanzen. 1905.
 Les sens de la plante. 2013. .
 Die Natur in den Alpen. Leipzig 1910
 Die Alpen gemeinverständlich dargestellt. Leipzig 1912
 Die silbernen Berge. Stuttgart 1912
 Die Welt der Pflanze. Berlin 1912
 Das Edaphon. Untersuchungen zur Oekologie der bodenbewohnenden Mikroorganismen. München 1913.
 Die Gewalten der Erde. Berlin 1913
 Spaziergänge im Hausgarten. Leipzig 1914
 Die technischen Leistungen der Pflanzen. (Grundlagen einer objektiven Philosophie II). Leipzig 1919
 Einführung in die wissenschaftliche Photographie. Gemeinsam mit Gambera. Stuttgart 1920
 Das Gesetz des Lebens. Leipzig 1920
 Der Weg der Kultur. Leipzig 1920
 Die Pflanze als Erfinder. Stuttgart 1920
 München. Die Lebensgesetze einer Stadt. (Grundlagen einer objektiven Philosophie III. Teil). München 1920
 Zoesis. Eine Einführung in die Gesetze der Welt. München 1920
 Bios. Die Gesetze der Welt. (Grundlagen einer objektiven Philosophie IV-V. Teil). Stuttgart und Heidelberg 1921
 Das Leben der Pflanze. Stuttgart 1921
 Das Leben im Ackerboden. Stuttgart 1922.
 Die Kultur von morgen. Ein Buch der Erkenntnis und der Gesundung. Dresden 1922
 Ewiger Wald. Ein Buch für Wanderer. Leipzig 1922
 Süd-Bayern. Berlin 1922
 Das wirkliche Naturbild. Dresden 1923
 Der unbekannte Mensch. Stuttgart und Heilbronn 1923
 Die Entdeckung der Heimat. Stuttgart 1923
 Die Welt als Erleben. Grundriß einer objektiven Philosophie. (Grundlagen einer objektiven Philosophie VI). Dresden 1923
 Plasmatik. Die Wissenschaft der Zukunft. Stuttgart und Heilbronn 1923
 Das Buch des Lebens. Ein Weltbild der Gegenwart. Berlin 1924
 Die Seele der Pflanze. Berlin 1924
 Grundriß einer vergleichenden Biologie. (Grundlagen einer objektiven Philosophie I). Leipzig 1924
 Richtiges Leben. Ein Buch für jedermann. Leipzig 1924
 Telos, die Gesetze des Schaffens. Dresden 1924
 Das Land der Sehnsucht. Berlin 1925
 Der Dauerwald. 1925
 Der Ursprung des Menschen. Stuttgart und Heilbronn 1926
 Bios - Die Gesetze der Welt. Taschenbuchausgabe Leipzig: Kröner 1926
 Der Weg zu mir. Der Lebenserinnerungen erster Teil. Leipzig 1927
 Phoebus. München 1927
 Vom deutschen Walde. Berlin 1927
 Der Organismus. München 1928
 Naturgesetze der Heimat. Wien und Leipzig 1928
 Urwald. Stuttgart 1928
 Welt, Erde und Menschheit. Berlin 1928
 Die Waage des Lebens. Eine Bilanz der Kultur. Leipzig 1929
 So musst du leben! Eine Anleitung zum richtigen Leben. Dresden 1929
 Das Leben vor der Sintflut. Berlin 1930
 Korallenwelt. Der siebente Erdteil. Stuttgart 1930
 Lebender Braunkohlenwald. Eine Reise durch die heutige Urwelt. Stuttgart 1932
 Naturbilder. Wien 1932
 Braunkohle - Sonnenkraft. Berlin 1934
 Von der Arbeit zum Erfolg. Ein Schlüssel zum besseren Leben. Dresden 1934
 Sehnsucht nach dem Süden. Gemeinsam mit Annie Francé-Harrar. Leipzig 1938
 Luft als Rohstoff. 1939
 Lebenswunder der Tierwelt. Eine Tierkunde für Jedermann. Berlin 1940
 Leben und Wunder des deutschen Waldes. Berlin 1943

New editions
 Die Entdeckung der Heimat. Reprint (1923). Mit einer Einführung von Gerhard Tenschert. Asendorf 1982
 Das Leben im Boden. Das Edaphon. Reprint (Das Edaphon 1913 and Das Leben im Ackerboden 1922). Einführung von René Roth, Ontario/Kanada, Edition Siebeneicher, Deukalion Verlag 1995

Literature

  Andreas Daum, Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1998, , end. edition 2002, including a short biography.
René Romain Roth: Raoul Heinrich Francé And The Doctrine Of Life. 2000. Biography.
 Stephen Sokoloff: Raoul Francé's Heritage - A Nightmare for Specialists.  1993.
 Oliver Botar: Raoul Heinrich France and Early 20th Century Central European Biocentrism. 2010

 Klaus Henkel: "Die Renaissance des Raoul Heinrich Francé." Mikrokosmos, 86 (1): 3-16, 1997
 Werner Nachtigall: "Der Bildungswert der Kleinwelt. Was bedeuten R. H. Francés „Gedanken über mikroskopische Studien“ für unsere Zeit?" Mikrokosmos, 86 (6): 321–328, 1997

See also
 D'Arcy Thompson (On Growth and Form, 1917)

References

External links

 In memoriam: Raoul Heinrich Francé (1874–1943)
 Stiftung Raoul Heinrich Francé and Annie Francé-Harrar
 Mikrokosmos. Journal founded by Raoul Heinrich Francé.

1874 births
1943 deaths
20th-century Austrian philosophers
20th-century Austrian botanists
Organic farmers
Scientists from Vienna
Scientists from Austria-Hungary


title: River Solent

text:
The River Solent is a now-extinct river which during the Paleocene would have flowed around the area which is now the coastlines of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in England.

History
The River Solent was one of three major rivers in central and southern England, together with the Proto-Thames and Bytham, but unlike the other two it was not destroyed by the extreme Anglian Glaciation around 450,000 years ago. It became extinct after flooding following the end of the last ice age, becoming submerged and incorporated into the Solent, a strait of the English Channel that sits between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire.  The River Solent's source was the River Frome, and the River Solent's tributaries, the River Test, River Itchen, the Hampshire River Avon and the River Medina, still survive today.  Several towns on both the South Coast and the Isle of Wight are built near features of the River Solent; Cowes and East Cowes are built around the mouth of the River Medina, which formed due to the flooding of one of the shallow valleys formed by the River Solent.

Geology
The areas around the River Solent are, like most of Hampshire, made up of chalk and Tertiary (mostly Eocene) clays and sands with minor limestones.

References

Rivers of Hampshire
Rivers of the Isle of Wight
Former rivers


The 2014–15 Loyola Marymount Lions men's basketball team represented Loyola Marymount University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Lions were coached by new head coach Mike Dunlap. The Lions competed in the West Coast Conference and played their home games at Gersten Pavilion. They finished the season 8–23, 4–14 in WCC play to finish in a tie for ninth place. They lost in the first round of the WCC tournament to Santa Clara.

Before the season

Departures

Recruits

Roster

Schedule and results

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References

Loyola Marymount Lions men's basketball seasons
Loyola Marymount
Loyola Marymount
Loyola Marymount
Loyola Marymount Lions men's basketball
Loyola Marymount Lions men's basketball


title: Abakar Adoum

text:
Abakar Adoum (born 18 August 1984) is a retired Chadian football player. He has made three appearances for the Chad national football team.

See also
 List of Chad international footballers

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Chadian men's footballers
Chad men's international footballers
Footballers from N'Djamena
Men's association football midfielders


title: List of Portuguese films of 2000

text:
A list of Portuguese films that were first released in 2000.

See also
2000 in Portugal

References

2000
Lists of 2000 films by country or language
2000 in Portugal


title: Rareș Takács

text:
Rareș Takács (born 10 December 1991) is a Romanian professional football player who plays as a defender for FK Csíkszereda.

Career
Born in Turda, Romania, Takács started playing football in his hometown as a youngster for Arieșul Turda. Later he moved to Cluj-Napoca at Ardealul Cluj and in 2010 he joined Universitatea Cluj together with other teammates. In 2012, he was loaned to the lower division teams CS Ștefănești and FCM Reșița but at the end of the year, he returned to Universitatea Cluj.

Takács made his debut in Liga I in May 2013, in a match that was lost by Universitatea Cluj in front of CFR Cluj.

Honours
Universitatea Cluj
 Liga III: 2017–18

References

External links
 Profile on Universitatea Cluj official site

1991 births
Living people
People from Turda
Romanian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
ACS Sticla Arieșul Turda players
Liga I players
FC Universitatea Cluj players
Liga II players
FC Olimpia Satu Mare players
CS Sportul Snagov players
FK Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc players
Romanian sportspeople of Hungarian descent
Footballers from Cluj County


title: Mahamat Adoum

text:
Mahmat Adoum (1957/1958–18 December 2021) was a Chadian professional footballer who played as a right winger for Gazelle FC. He made one appearance for the Chad national team in 1999.

Later in his life, Adoum became the director of his former club Gazelle FC. He also worked as a member of the N'Djamena football league and the Chadian Football Federation. Adoum, nicknamed "Vava", died on 18 December 2021, at the age of 63 in N'Djamena. In January 2023, a ceremony was held in his honour.

See also
 List of Chad international footballers

References

External links

1950s births
2021 deaths
Chadian men's footballers
Men's association football wingers
Chad men's international footballers
Gazelle FC players
Place of birth missing


title: Lobophyllia ishigakiensis

text:
Lobophyllia ishigakiensis is a species of coral found in Indo-Pacific waters. It is widespread but uncommon throughout its range. It has a narrow depth range, and is susceptible to coral bleaching and disease. It is also threatened by the global loss of coral reef habitats.

Distribution and habitat
Lobophyllia ishigakiensis is found in the Indo-Pacific region. Its range extends from Madagascar and the east coast of Africa, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, to Japan, the East China Sea, Samoa and Australia. It is found in sheltered areas of reefs away from direct wave action to depths of .

Biology
Lobophyllia ishigakiensis is a zooxanthellate species of coral. It obtains most of its nutritional needs from the symbiotic dinoflagellates that live inside its soft tissues. These photosynthetic organisms provide the coral with organic carbon and nitrogen, sometimes providing up to 90% of their host's energy needs for metabolism and growth. Its remaining needs are met by the planktonic organisms caught by the tentacles of the polyps.

Status
This coral has a wide range but is rare throughout its range. It is particularly susceptible to coral bleaching and to coral diseases. The main threats faced by corals in general are related to climate change and the mechanical destruction of their coral reef habitats; increasing damage from extreme weather events, rising sea water temperatures and ocean acidification. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the conservation status of this species as being "vulnerable". All corals receive protection by being listed on CITES Appendix II.

References

Lobophylliidae
Animals described in 1990
Vulnerable animals
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN