title: Messalina (1924 film)

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Messalina is a 1924 Italian historical drama film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and starring Rina De Liguoro, Calisto Bertramo, and Gildo Bocci. It portrays the life of Messalina, the third wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius.

Cast
 Rina De Liguoro as Messalina
 Calisto Bertramo
 Gildo Bocci as Apollonio
 Bruto Castellani as Tigrane
 Mario Cusmich
 Édouard de Max
 Alfredo de Felice
 Aristide Garbini as Narciso
 Rita Jolivet
 Augusto Mastripietri as Claudio
 Gino Talamo as Ennio
 Gianna Terribili-Gonzales as Mirit
 Adolfo Trouché
 Lucia Zanussi as Egle

References

Bibliography
 Moliterno, Gino. Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

1924 films
Italian historical drama films
Italian epic films
Italian silent feature films
1920s Italian-language films
Films directed by Enrico Guazzoni
1920s historical drama films
Films set in ancient Rome
Films set in the Roman Empire
Films set in the 1st century
Italian films based on plays
Cultural depictions of Messalina
Italian black-and-white films
1924 drama films
Silent historical drama films
Silent adventure films
1920s Italian films


title: Botswana at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

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Botswana competed in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland from July 23 to August 3, 2014.

Medalists

Athletics

In the women's 400 metres final, Botswana's Amantle Montsho placed fourth; she was subsequently suspended after failing a doping test.

Men
Track and road events

Field events

Women

Badminton

Men

Boxing

Men

Women

Judo

Women

Squash

Men
Individual

Table tennis

Men

Women

Mixed

References

Nations at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Botswana at the Commonwealth Games
2014 in Botswana sport


title: The Sack of Rome (film)

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The Sack of Rome (Italian: Il Sacco di Roma) is a 1920 Italian silent historical film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and Giulio Aristide Sartorio. The film portrays the 1527 Sack of Rome.

Cast
 Beppo Corradi
 Tullio Ferri
 Irma Julians
 Ida Magrini
 Giuseppe Majone Diaz
 Silvia Malinverni
 Haydee Mercatali
 Livio Pavanelli
 Carlo Simoneschi
 Raimondo Van Riel

References

Sources
 Moliterno, Gino. Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

1920 films
Films set in the 1520s
Italian historical drama films
Italian silent feature films
1920s Italian-language films
Films directed by Enrico Guazzoni
1920s historical drama films
Films set in Rome
Italian black-and-white films
1920 drama films
Silent historical drama films
1920s Italian films
Sacks of Rome


title: Cameroon at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

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Cameroon competed in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland from 23 July – 3 August 2014.

Medalists

Athletics

Men

Women

Combined events – Heptathlon

Judo

Men

Women

Weightlifting

Men

Women

 Powerlifting

Wrestling

Men's freestyle

Women's freestyle

References

Nations at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Cameroon at the Commonwealth Games
2014 in Cameroonian sport


Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire is a portrait painting by the English painter Thomas Gainsborough of the political hostess Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. It was painted between 1785 and 1787.

Background
During her years in the public eye, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire was painted several times by both Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds.

Gainsborough's painting of her around 1785, in a large black hat (a style which she made fashionable, and came to be known as the 'Gainsborough' or 'portrait' hat), has become famous for its history. After having been lost from Chatsworth House for many years, it was discovered in the 1830s in the home of an elderly schoolmistress, who had cut it down somewhat in order to fit it over her fireplace. In 1841 she sold it to a picture dealer for £56, and he later gave it to a friend, the art collector Wynne Ellis. When Ellis died, the painting went for sale at Christie's in London in 1876, where it was bought by the Bond Street art dealer William Agnew for the then astronomical sum of 10,000 guineas, at the time the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction. Three weeks later it was stolen from the London gallery of Thomas Agnew & Sons, a theft that was highly publicised at the time, and for years the newspapers printed stories about claimed sightings of the painting.

However, not until 25 years later did it become known that the thief had been the notorious "Napoleon of Crime", Adam Worth. He had intended to sell it to come up with the bail to release his brother from prison, but when his brother was freed without bail, he decided to keep it for himself, for "a rainy day", and brought it to his adopted homeland, the United States. In early 1901, through the American detective agency Pinkerton's, he negotiated a return of the painting to Agnew's son for $25,000. The portrait and payment were exchanged in Chicago in March 1901, and a couple of months later the painting arrived in London and was put up for sale. The Wall Street financier J. P. Morgan immediately travelled to England to obtain the painting and later claimed to have paid $150,000 for it.

The painting remained in Morgan's family until 1994, when it was put up for sale at Sotheby's and was purchased by the 11th Duke of Devonshire for the Chatsworth House collection for $408,870.  After more than 200 years, the painting returned to Chatsworth.

See also
List of heists in the United Kingdom

References

Georgiana
1780s paintings
Georgiana
Stolen works of art


title: Makrand Desai

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Makarand Desai (Makarand Balwantrai Desai), (born 1935) was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Gujarat, who also remained BJP's National Secretary in the late 1980s. He was a cabinet minister in Government of Gujarat from 1975 to 1976 and from 1977 to 1980, and held Industries portfolio. He was elected to Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Vadodara City constituency in 1975 state elections, though he lost the 1980 state elections, He lost again in 1985 state elections from Sayajigunj Assembly Constituency, and shifted to national level politics.

He was a chemical engineer and worked as Jt Vice President at Jaycees International before entering politics in 1969. He studied BE, MS and then CE at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) .

After he died, his wife, Neela Desai also remained active in politics, and in May 2014, she was one of few people invited from Gujarat to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi.

References

1935 births
Indian chemical engineers
State cabinet ministers of Gujarat
Bharatiya Jana Sangh politicians
People from Vadodara
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Year of death missing
Gujarat MLAs 1975–1980
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat


title: The Lacassane Company

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The Lacassane Company is a land management company, with a goal of sustainable land management using an environmental management scheme that involves a host of tools including holistic management. Located primarily in Jefferson Davis and Cameron parish, with property in Ragley, Louisiana, the company headquarters is in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

History
Founded in 1929, by eight Lake Charles area businessmen, with land purchased from Jim Gardiner. The company was formed with 2250 common shares of stock with share-holders including, W. P. Weber, H. G. Chalkley, C. O. Noble, Henry Pomeroy, George M. King and Frank Roberts, M. J. Muller, and purchased 21,000 acres that included farm machinery, implements, stock, and cattle bought for $380,000.00, that included what was the Lowery and Illinois plantations, that became known as "The Illinois Plant", and "The Lowery Plant".

The Lacassane company continued with the previous form of tenant farming, increasing the original cattle herd, establishing trapping, hunting, oil and gas leases, and then the wetlands mitigation project. The Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1937, when the company sold  south of the Illinois Plant to the United States Government for $51,774.00.

Current
The Illinois Plant is called the Lacassane Coastal Prairie Mitigation Bank and the Ragley property, in conjunction with the "Calcasieu Mitigation Bank" and partnered with  Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP), is known as the Bill Jackson Longleaf Savannah Mitigation Bank. Both have been designated (through The Lacassane Company) by the Corps of Engineers as a mitigation bank providing ecosystem services to the public in the form of Environmental mitigation (compensatory mitigation) to ensure the no net loss wetlands policy is followed to prevent Biodiversity loss that keeps the greenhouse debt in check. The Lacassane Company partnered with The Coastal Plain Conservancy to hold conservation servitudes on the land. The banks are monitored and maintained by Wildlands, Inc., an environmental consulting and plant propagation company.

The company operations now include land leases for waterfowl (Waterfowl Limited Liability Company) and other hunting, cattle grazing, alligator hide and egg harvesting, oil and gas exploration, and wetland projects. A pumping system through canals, laterals, the Bell City ditch, the Lacassine Bayou and the Mermentau River provides irrigation for the farming operations. The company's SIC code (Lessors of Real Property, NEC) is 6519 and the NAICS CODE (Lessors of Other Real Estate Property) is 531190.

Seed Propagation Project
In 2006, The Lacassane Company became the parent company of Louisiana Native Seed Company, that provides ecospecies such as Little Bluestem, Brownseed Paspalum, Florida Paspalum, Switchgrass, Partridge Pea, and Eastern Gamagrass and has consultants with experience in Agricultural science and botany. The Louisiana Native Seed Company is listed as a provider for the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service.

The Lacassane Club
The Lacassane Club was founded in 2013, as a subsidiary of The Lacassane Company, on 14,000 of the 21,000 acres owned by the company. The company offers personal and corporate hunting memberships that include access to the lodge, separate sleeping quarters called casitas and a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house called Jed's Cabin. The staff includes the club manager, a head guide, 4 other guides, an executive chef, and a Zoology/Wildlife Management biologist.

References

External links
 United States EPA Compensatory Mitigation website
 National Mitigation Banking Association
 Endangered Species and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Recovery Crediting Guidance

Real estate companies of the United States
Agriculture companies of the United States
Soil and crop science organizations
Economy and the environment
Environmental engineering
Environmental mitigation
Real estate companies established in 1929
Renewable resource companies established in 1929
1929 establishments in Louisiana
American companies established in 1929


title: João de Lisboa

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João de Lisboa (c.1470 – 1525) was a Portuguese explorer. He is known to have sailed together with Tristão da Cunha, and to have explored Río de La Plata and possibly the San Matias Gulf, around 1511-12.
The Brazilian historian Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen erroneously stated that he was in Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigation voyage.

He is the author of a Treatise on the Nautical Needle, dated 1514, which is extant in a later copy included in an undated (ca. 1550?) Portuguese nautical atlas.

He died in 1525 while traveling in the Indian Ocean.

Treatise of Seamanship
It is composed by the Brief Treatise on Seamanship and a "Treatise on the Nautical Needle found by João de Lisboa in the year 1514". Thereafter, an atlas of 20 charts follows.

The 20 charts present:
Chart 1: Newfoundland, Azores, Iceland, England, Lisbon;
Chart 2: Central America, Antilles Sea, South America northwest;
Chart 3: Antilles Sea, South America coast from Maracaibo Gulf to Maranhão;
Chart 4: South America coast, from Rio de Janeiro to the Magellan Strait, with La Plata River;
Chart 5: Coast from Maranhão to the South of Brazil;
Chart 6: From the Brazilian northeast to the west of Africa;
Chart 7: South Atlantic islands;
Chart 8: North Atlantic, with Bacallaos Land (Newfoundland), Iceland, England, Lisbon;
Chart 9: Western Europe
Chart 10: West Africa and Brazilian Northeast.
Chart 11: Guinea Gulf;
Chart 12: Western Africa;
Chart 13: Eastern Africa;
Chart 14: Southwest islands in the Indian Ocean;
Chart 15: Red Sea and Persian Gulf;
Chart 16: From Persian Gulf coast to Sri Lanka;
Chart 17: Far East from the Siamese Gulf to Japan;
Chart 18: Bengala Gulf;
Chart 19: Insulindia;
Chart 20: Globe of the world - radial representation centered at the North Pole;

The book can be found in Torre do Tombo National Archive (Colecção Cartográfica nº166), with an additional information that the maps are made of parchment.

The maps of the Tratado clearly date from after 1514. For instance, it shows the Magellan Strait or Japan (which was only reported by the Portuguese in 1543). On the other hand, the position of certain Portuguese flags is not consistent with historical events; in particular in one of the charts, Portuguese castles are drawn in Inca territory, something that was never reported in any official document. Based on the presence of Japan, Armando Cortesão dated the atlas as "circa 1560", while other authors date it to "circa 1550".

References

External links
Mapas no Tratado de Marinharia

Portuguese explorers
1470 births
1525 deaths
15th-century Portuguese people
16th-century Portuguese people
15th-century explorers
16th-century explorers

16th-century Portuguese writers
16th-century male writers


title: Quiet Song

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Quiet Song is an album by pianist Paul Bley, clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre and guitarist Bill Connors recorded in 1974 and released on Bley's own Improvising Artists label in 1975.

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 2½ stars noting "Although there are some interesting instrumental colors, much of the music rambles and wanders without much purpose and the results are rather inconclusive and slightly disappointing considering the talent involved".
The Penguin Guide to Jazz said "Most of the pieces are improvised and most are thoughtful and introspective rather than dramatic".

Track listing
 "Solo" (Jimmy Giuffre) - 0:56
 "Duet" (Bill Connors) - 4:35
 "Play Blue" (Paul Bley) - 3:23
 "Clarinet" (Jimmy Giuffre) - 0:52
 "Yeah, Guitar" (Paul Bley) - 3:48
 "Carol" (Paul Bley) -1:43
 "Trio" (Paul Bley) -1:44
 "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) - 3:34
 "Laurent" (Paul Bley) - 2:04
 "Quiet Song" (Paul Bley) - 9:47

Personnel
Paul Bley - piano
Jimmy Giuffre - clarinet, flute
Bill Connors - guitar

References

1975 albums
Paul Bley albums
Improvising Artists Records albums


title: Amir Abbas

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Dato' Dr. Amir bin Abbas is a Malaysian medical doctor and the current Chancellor of the International Medical University. He was Pro-Chancellor from 2011 to 2013 and later became Chancellor from 2013 to 2018.

He obtained his medical degree (MBBS) from the University of Malaya, Singapore in 1961. He received the MRCP in 1969 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1983. He was head of the Health Research Department at the Institute of Medical Research (1969-1972) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the National University of Malaysia (1972–1975), a member of the University Council 1987–1998 and a member of the council of the University of Malaya 1981–1987. He was also a board member at the UM University Hospital. He is managing director of Meditek Equipment Sdn. Bhd.

He has also served as Chairman of the Malaysian Medical Association of Selangor (1982–1985) and President of the College of Physicians of Malaysia (1986–1988). He was a member of the National Council for Scientific Research and Development (1981–1987).

See also
Malaysian university leaders

References

Living people
Malaysian medical doctors
Academic staff of the International Medical University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the National University of Malaysia


title: Fiona Hale

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Fiona Hale (February 7, 1926 - April 22, 2014) was an American actress. Her career began in 1949 in the movie Harriet Craig. She is known for her roles in Minority Report (2002), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and Seven Pounds (2008).

Hale was born in New York City.

Partial filmography
 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
 Seven Pounds (2008)
 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
 Minority Report (2002)
 Corky Romano (2001)
 Shotgun (1955)
 Interrupted Melody (1955)
 Harriet Craig (1949)

References

External links

1926 births
2014 deaths
American film actresses
American television actresses
Actresses from New York (state)
21st-century American actresses


title: Harry Freeman (journalist)

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Harry Freeman (1906 – January 7, 1978) was a 20th-Century American journalist, best known for serving in the New York bureau of TASS. The magazine editor Joseph Freeman was his brother.

Background
Freeman's family came from Piratin near Lviv, part of the Poltava district in the Ukraine, then in the Russian empire. His parents, Stella and Isaac Freeman, were Jewish and lived in the Pale of Settlement as per anti-semitic laws of the Tsarist regime.  His parents worked as shopkeepers.

Freeman graduated from Cornell University with a degree in history.

Career
In his 1952 memoir, Whittaker Chambers called Freeman "the best mind that I was to meet among the American Communist intellectuals." Freeman brought Chambers to work at the Daily Worker newspaper:  both had recently joined the Communist Party (then using the name the Workers Party of America), Freeman was "writing foreign news." Chambers met his wife when he was covering the 1926 Passaic Strike with Freeman.  Freeman and Chambers signed a petition with colleagues (including Sender Garlin, Vern Smith, and John Loomis Sherman) that asked the Central Committee of the Communist Party to have Louis Engdahl removed as editor.  Later, Freeman took over the copy desk, while Chambers succeeded him on foreign news (later in turn succeeded by James S. Allen).  In 1929, he succeeded his brother at TASS and lived with his wife Vera Schaap (wife of Al Schaap, a Young Communist League founder) and his brother Joseph in an apartment on Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights, rented from Eugene Lyons (formerly with TASS, by then with United Press correspondent in Moscow).  Chambers recalled Freeman's guests included Sender Garlin, Abe Magill, James S. Allen, Joseph North (of the Daily Worker and New Masses), Anna Rochester, Grace Hutchins, Nadya Pavlov, and Kenneth Durant.  When Freeman moved to TASS, Garlin took over on the Daily Worker'''s copy desk.

During the 1929 factionalism in the Party, Freeman was a Lovestoneite (follower of Jay Lovestone.)

Freeman also worked at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper and the New Masses magazine (where his brother Joseph had succeeded as editor-in-chief not long after Chambers entered the Soviet Underground).  He also contributed to Pravda''.  He was also a United Nations correspondent and from 1946 to 1948 served as vice president of the Foreign Press Association.

McCarthyism
Freeman appeared before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on February 21, 1956, on the scope of Russian intelligence operations in America. He invoked the Fifth Amendment when declining to answer many questions. He did say that he had never spied against the U.S. and had no association with the Communist Party since August 1941.  His testimony was the first of many Americans at TASS, coming in response to a claim by defector Yuri Rastvorov in 1954.

Later years and death
In 1976, Freeman received the Order of Friendship award from the Soviet Union.

Freeman died at age 72 on January 7, 1978 (Saturday).

References

See also
 Joseph Freeman, brother
 Whittaker Chambers, comrade and colleague
 Kenneth Durant, TASS mentor
 TASS, employer
 Communist Party, affiliation
 Order of Friendship, award

1906 births
1978 deaths
Cornell University alumni
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
Ukrainian Jews
Jewish American writers
Jewish socialists
American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
American Marxists
American communists
Members of the Communist Party USA


title: Internet prostitution

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The Internet has become one of the preferred methods of communication for prostitution, as clients and prostitutes are less vulnerable to arrest or assault and for its convenience.

Origins of Internet advertising
During the latter half of the twentieth century, most off-street prostitution was advertised locally using personal advertisements in the printed press or postcards in the windows of commercial premises such as newsagent's shops. As direct references to prostitution were not acceptable, the advertisements were carefully worded with euphemistic terms such as large chest for sale. In larger cities, tart cards were placed in telephone boxes.

By the year 2000, the Internet, and access to it had grown large enough for some in the sex industry to see it as a marketing tool. As use of the Internet has subsequently grown, so has the use of it by the sex industry.

In 2007 Harriet Harman, then Minister for Women in the UK, put pressure on the Newspaper Society, the trade body representing local newspapers, not to carry advertisements for sexual services. As a result, the society updated its guidelines for members in 2008, effectively banning such advertisements. As the majority of local newspapers were members, this ban increased the move towards Internet advertising.

Mobile devices such as smartphones have further increased the use of the Internet both generally and for prostitution websites.

In the Netherlands, the Internet had grown in importance by the mid 2010s as a platform for recruiting prostitutes' clients, with escort workers advertising their mobile telephone numbers online.

Types of websites

Listing sites
There has been a rise in the number of escort/prostitution listing websites, that advertise for both independent and agency escorts. Some are free, while others charge to add a listing. Others are free for a basic listing but charge for some additional features. A notable example is the website The Erotic Review.

Forums
Forums were amongst the first sites to be used by escorts. With the rise of other social media, their use has declined.

Personal websites
It has become simple and easy for independent escorts to create a personal website for the purposes of advertising their prostitution services.

Reviews
A number of sites have a section where clients can leave reviews for escorts. Some outside the industry regard this as degrading to the escort; however, most involved in the industry do not share this view.

The practice of posting online reviews of escorts dates back to 1999 when The Erotic Review, a review site that allows customers to rate their experiences with sex workers, was created.

Punternet was originally the foremost review site despite adverse publicity from Harriet Harman and Vera Baird (see below). In recent years, Adultwork has had a larger number of reviews posted. UK Punting, founded in 2010, is a sex worker review website which only includes client comments and has no input from sex workers.

Books reviewing the providers of sexual services in the United Kingdom have been published by George McCoy since 1996 and by 2013 McCoy was running a website reviewing over 5,000 massage parlours and individuals.

Safety
A feature of some early websites, particularly forums, were sections where safety warnings could be posted about dangerous clients, referred to as "dodgy punters" (and to a lesser degree, bad escorts).

As these warnings were spread over about a dozen websites, the process of keeping up to date with the information in them could be time-consuming. In 2006, talks took place in the industry about setting up a centralised warning website that would be automatically updated from the existing websites by RSS feeds. It was agreed that a newly created website, Saafe, would carry the centralised warnings. The new website launched in January 2007. However, the centralised warnings did not work as well as envisaged and the project was discontinued in 2010.

In December 2011, Lynne Featherstone, then Equalities Minister, announced the Home Office would provide £108,000 to establish a national online network to collate and distribute information between schemes that allow sex workers to report violent incidents, known as "Ugly Mugs" schemes. This money was to fund a 12-month pilot scheme run by UK Network of Sex Work Projects (UKNSWP).

On 6 July 2012, the National Ugly Mugs Pilot Scheme was launched. The scheme was a success and continued after the 12-month pilot period.

Social media
Since the rise of social media, escorts and escort agencies have used sites such as Facebook and Twitter to promote their services. Because of its more relaxed guidelines, Twitter is the most popular. With the rise of social media as a means of communication, the use of forums by sex workers and their clients has fallen.

Online payments
The rise of online payment systems have enabled escorts and agencies to take payments for services. When PayPal first started in 2001, escorts were amongst their first customers. PayPal subsequently changed its policies and no longer allows escorts to use the system.

In 2013, escort agency Passion VIP of Birmingham, England became the first agency to accept the virtual currency Bitcoin.

Controversies

Punternet
In 2009 Harriet Harman asked the then governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger to close down the Punternet website. She said that it was increasing the demand for prostitution in the UK, an activity which she described as degrading to women and which she said was putting them at risk. Punternet is hosted in California, despite being a review site for prostitution in the UK. Harman's actions did not result in the website being closed down; instead it received an increase in traffic due to the publicity generated. The website owners thanked Harman for the increase in business.

In January 2010 at a Westminster Hall debate on Violence against Women, then Solicitor General Vera Baird again called for the site to be taken down.

In 2018 Trishna Datta, an outreach worker from Ilford, Essex, launched a petition to have the Punternet website taken down. She said that website lacked adequate safety measures to ensure details which could put sex workers in danger were not revealed. Additionally she expressed concern that some of the sex workers reviewed on the site might be underage or victims of trafficking or sexual assault. Punternet commented that they would report underage prostitutes to the authorities, and that they encourage customers to report underage prostitutes and victims of trafficking to Crimestoppers UK.

Bogus escort agencies scam
In 2010, Suffolk Trading standards started Operation Troy, targeting bogus online escort agencies. These agencies promised large earnings in an effort to recruit escorts. A registration fee was charged to those wanting to join, but no work materialised.

In July 2013, six members of the gang running this scam were jailed; the leader, Toni Muldoon, for seven and a half years. It was estimated the scam netted £5.7m from 14,000 victims.

Adultwork
AdultWork is a UK website which allows sex workers to specify the services they provide before being booked for a job. The site is funded by sex workers, who pay to have their profiles displayed. In February 2014, an unnamed Northern Irish woman successfully sued the website for unauthorised use of intimate photographs of herself. She was awarded £28,000 damages.

See also
 Bad date list
 Prostitution in the United Kingdom

References

External links
 National Ugly Mugs Scheme
 Ireland & UK Ugly Mugs Service

Prostitution in the United Kingdom
Sexuality and computing


title: Praises to the Twenty-One Taras

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Praises to the Twenty-One Taras is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara (, ; Tibetan སྒྲོལ་མ, Drolma) also known as Ārya Tārā, or Jetsun Dolma (Wylie:rje btsun sgrol ma).

It appears in the Derge Kangyur as "“Offering Praise to Tara through Twenty-One [verses] of Homage” (Wylie: sgrol ma la phyag 'tshal ba nyi shu gcig gis bstod pa)."

The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.

Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Translations
An early manuscript version, titled Twenty-One Hymns to the Rescuer Mother of Buddhas (二十一種救度佛母贊), described as an "Imperially commissioned translation of the hymn to the rescuer mother of Buddhas ... in Manchu, Tibetan, Mongolian, and Chinese scripts", was created in the late 18th century by calligrapher Yongrong 永瑢 (1744–1790). It is held by the National Library of China.

Commentaries
Modern English language commentaries include 2007 works by Palden Sherab, and by Adeu Rinpoche and Urgyen Rinpoche a 2005 work by Thubten Chodron, a 1999 work by Bokar Rinpoche, and a 1992 work by Martin Willson.

Online commentaries include a 1997 commentary by Khempo Yurmed Tinly Rinpoche, a 2004 commentary by Palden Sherab, and a 2013 commentary by Geshe Dawö.

Extensive descriptions of traditional rituals associated with Tara, including the "Twenty-One Praises", can be found in Steven V. Beyer's 1978 book, The cult of Tārā: magic and ritual in Tibet.

References

External links
 (illustrated, traditional)
 (illustrated, modern)
 The 21 Taras Description of each of the 21 Taras on Tara Mandala, the website of Lama Tsultrim Allione’s retreat centre.

Tibetan Buddhist practices
Tibetan Buddhist texts
Taras


title: Etheostoma variatum

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Etheostoma variatum, the variegate darter, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. It is native to the eastern United States where it occurs primarily in the Ohio River basin; it is present in the states of Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky with a small population in Virginia. It is a large darter, growing to  long, orange-red with black vertical barring on its body, and horizontal barring on its front dorsal fin. Its typical habitat is swift-flowing riffles with rubble, boulder and gravel. No major threats have been identified for this fish and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern".

Description
Etheostoma variatum is large in size for its family; it has an average length of between . It has a wide variety of markings. There is a red-orange band on its dorsal fin, which is followed by a blue-green band and a red-brown band at the edge of the fin. There are also red spots located on its other fins.

This darter has large pectoral fins, which are used to keep the fish upright in the fast-moving streams it inhabits. It also has four to six saddles along its back. Three to four of these saddles tend to be dark and visible while the remaining saddles are not.

Habitat
Etheostoma variatum lives in small and medium rivers and streams. They tend to live within riffles that contain small rocks. The darter will tend to live in the fastest flowing riffles. In order to survive, it needs rivers and streams with high water quality. Due to this attribute, the fish is often viewed as an indicator of good water quality.

The darter lives predominantly in the states of Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky. It has also been found within Virginia, although only rarely.

Behavior

Diet
The diet of E. variatum consists of crustaceans, insect larvae and other aquatic invertebrates.

Reproduction
During the early spring, males establish spawning territory, which will occur from April to May. After spawning, the eggs are laid in riffles by females, who will bury them with pebbles. After the eggs are buried, they are abandoned by the parents.

Status
The population trend of this fish seems to be stable and it is a common species with numerous sub-populations over a wide range, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern".

References

variatum
Fish described in 1819
Freshwater fish of the United States
Endemic fish of the United States


title: Rugby League Federation Ghana

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The Rugby League Federation Ghana is the governing body for the sport of rugby league in Ghana. The RLFG was formed on 6 April 2014.

Ghana 13s Championship

Teams

  Accra Bears
  Panthers RLFC
  Nungua Tigers
  Skolars RLC

National Team

The Ghana national rugby league team represents Ghana in the sport of rugby league.

Coming into existence in 2012, the Ghanaian Rugby League project was started up by the Rugby League European Federation (RLEF) and UK Sport International’s programme after Rugby League 9s were introduced as a Category 3 Sport by the Commonwealth Sports Committee.

Gallery

Male Teams

Gallery

Female Teams

See also

 Ghana national rugby league team

References

Rugby league in Africa
Sports governing bodies in Ghana
Rugby league governing bodies
Sports organizations established in 2014


title: Military Air Transport Command

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The Military Air Transport Command (COTAM) (French: Commandement du transport aérien militaire) was a command of the French Air Force. It was formed in February 1962 from the Groupement d'Unités Aériennes Spécialisées and disbanded on 11 March 1994, when it became Commandement de la Force Aérienne de Projection (CFAP). Larousse Encyclopedia Online says the headquarters was at Vélizy – Villacoublay Air Base.

Structure 1985
In 1985, the Air Force had four major flying commands, among which was the Military Air Transport Command. CoTAM counted 28 squadrons:
Ten fixed-wing transport squadrons included:
ET 1/60
ET 3/60
:fr:Escadron de transport 1/61 Touraine
ET 2/61
ET 3/61
ET 1/63
ET 2/63
ET 1,2,/64
ET 3/64 (Transall NG) (Évreux)
ET 1/65 (Villacoublay)
ET 2/65 (Villacoublay)
The remainder were helicopter and liaison squadrons, at least five of which were overseas, including six Escadrons de Transport Outre Mer (Overseas Transport Squadrons):
:fr:Escadron d'hélicoptères 1/67 Pyrénées (Cazeux Air Base)
EH 2/67 (Metz)
EH 3/67 (Villacoublay)
EH 4/67 (Apt)
EH 5/67 (Istres)
Escadron de Transport Outre Mer 50 (Réunion)
Escadron de Transport Outre Mer 52 (Nouméa, New Caledonia)
Escadron de Transport Outre Mer 55 (Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport, Dakar, Senegal)
ETOM 58 (Fort-de-France)
ETOM 82 (Papette)
ETOM 88 (Djibouti)
CIEH 341 (Chambéry, moved later to Toulouse-Francazal)
ELA 41 (Metz)
ELA 43 (Bordeaux)
ELA 44 (MS.760 Paris, Broussard, Nord 262) (Aix)
ELAS 1/44 at Solenzara Air Base, Corsica)

Senior leader transport
The acronym COTAM was used to designated flights carrying important French leaders:
 COTAM 0001 : President of the French Republic.
 COTAM 0002 : Prime Minister of France.
 COTAM 0003 : Minister of Defence (France).
 COTAM 0004 - 0009 : High ministerial authorities.
 COTAM 0010 - 0099 : high authorities of the state.

While the acronym of the French military air command is now CFAP, the abbreviation COTAM continues to be used as a call sign of French military transport aircraft.

See also
:fr:Escadron d'hélicoptères 01.044 Solenzara - Solenzara helicopter unit from c.1988

References

Commands of the French Air and Space Force
Military units and formations established in 1962
Military units and formations disestablished in 1994
Air force transport commands


title: 2007–08 Torneo Argentino A

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The 2007–08 Argentine Torneo Argentino A was the thirteenth season of third division professional football in Argentina. A total of 25 teams competed; the champion was promoted to Primera B Nacional.

Club information

Zone A

Zone B

Zone C

First stage

As Zone 3 had 9 teams and Zones 1 and 2 8 teams, each team of Zone 1 played against 1 team of Zone 2 to complete the fixture.

Zone A

Zone B

Zone C

Final stage

Group A

Group B

Championship final

Promotion/relegation playoff B Nacional-Torneo Argentino A

Talleres (C) remained in the Primera B Nacional by winning the playoff.

Relegation playoff

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!colspan="5"|Relegation/promotion playoff 1

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!colspan="5"|Relegation/promotion playoff 2

Alvarado was promoted to 2008–09 Torneo Argentino A by winning the playoff and Alvarado was relegated to 2008–09 Torneo Argentino B.
Central Córdoba (SdE) was promoted to 2008–09 Torneo Argentino A by winning the playoff and Luján de Cuyo was relegated to 2008–09 Torneo Argentino B.

See also
2007–08 in Argentine football

References

Torneo Argentino A seasons
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title: Carr's Mill Landfill

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The Carr's Mill Landfill (JTC Carrs Mill Landfill) is a controversial landfill in Howard County, Maryland in the United States. Its official address is 15900 Carrs Mill Road in Lisbon, Maryland.

Carr's Mill is the second official landfill built in Howard County, Maryland which operated from 1953 to 1977. Howard County's first landfill was New Cut in Ellicott City, Maryland which operated from 1944 to 1980. Alpha Ridge Landfill operated between 1980 and 1997 before the county switched to offsite waste disposal.

"Bushy Park" and "Carrs Mill"

The namesake millhouse was situated on the northern portion of an estate, near the intersection of modern Bushy Park Road and Carrs Mill Road. Carr's Mill is part of the original estate of Charles Alexander Warfield. Warfield married Elizebeth Ridgley of Laurel in 1771 and settled in a log home at "Bushy Park" in Glenwood, Maryland. The same year he started construction on his slave plantation manor home. The property later was owned by the "Hammond" family of the Major Charles Family line. The manor stood for over 150 years, burning in 1933 and demolished in 1947. A new house was built over the original foundation. In 1978 the property was purchased by the Clevenger family and had been subdivided down to 342 acres, but was still actively farmed. In 1983 it had been subdivided down to a 190-acre parcel named "Bushy Park Farm" and sold again. A portion of the original estate became the Carr's mill landfill. Warfield is buried at Bushy Park. The walled cemetery remains, but the majority of the 1300 acre farm has been redeveloped as the Western Regional Park, operated by Howard County.

Environmental

Both Carr's Mill and New Cut landfill were reaching capacity in the early 1970s. With the approval and construction of the Rouse Company development Columbia, the population of the county would quadruple while the landfill was in operation. County executive Edward L. Cochran was already starting the controversial process of selection of a new site, when Carr's Mill became a site of hazardous waste dumping by Western Electric in 1976. Howard County spent millions of dollars to cap the landfill and dispose of hazardous materials after contamination of groundwater on the site. In July 1976, an anonymous tip stated that Francis "sonny" Bohager was bribed $250 from F.P.R Bohager & Sons Inc of Fells Point to allow hazardous waste onsite. Police intercepted two Bohager trucks dumping 101 barrels hazardous materials from Farboil Paint Co. on Key Highway and Western Electric Company by the service road of Carr's Mill. Western Electric had contracted the company to haul 2,700 barrels of hazardous waste in 1976. In July 1976, police reported barrels of hazardous waste were reported to be found buried at the landfill, but were not investigated further. In December, a task force selecting new landfill sites offered Carrs Mill as a site for landfill consolidation for Western Howard County before shipment out of county which was only implemented at the historic Trinity Church property in Elkridge. Carrs Mill ceased operations in 1977.

In 1991, contaminants were discovered in test wells at the landfill site. In 1993, 900 drums of waste were found at the same location where the uninvestigated barrels were reported. 30 more were found in September in an overgrown area feeding into the Cattail creek by Geo-Trans, who was performing a $7.8 million contamination investigation at all three landfill sites. Metal detector tests found 100 more drums within 100 ft. John J. O'Hara, chief of the Howard County Bureau of Environmental Services announced to the press there was no way of finding who dumped the toxic waste, despite a police report, markings on the barrels, and a County effort to fine the companies. Ground water tests revealed Trichloroethylene and a form of dichlorothene level far higher than EPA limits. In 1994, the county held an evening meeting announced that day in the Baltimore Sun, to inform residents about the 840 drums found so far by posting a copy of the report in the Public works Building in Ellicott City. A $2.4 million mitigation plan removed 4,000 tons of soil, capped 8 acres of the landfill trenches, and drilled 14 pumping wells to clean ground water around the site. In 1997, Waste Management of Maryland (purchaser of F.P.R Bohager and Sons), The Beatrice Company (purchaser of Farboil Co), and Lucent Technologies paid $2.85 million toward cleanup of the site without admitting liability.

Altogether, the Carrs Mill Landfill has been cited with seven EPA Clean Water Act Violations. The landfill site has been renamed to Carrs Mill Park, although no amenities exist onsite and few indications are given to the public about its former use,

See also
Landfills in the United States
Environment of the United States
Waste in the United States

References

Landfills in the United States
Buildings and structures in Howard County, Maryland
Environment of Maryland
1953 establishments in Maryland
1977 disestablishments in Maryland


title: 2014 Lahore clash

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The Model Town operation, more commonly known as the Model Town tragedy or the Lahore massacre (), or simply Lahore incident, was a violent clash that ensued between the Punjab Police and Pakistan Awami Tehreek activists on 17 June 2014 resulting in several protesters being killed by the police gunfire. Five police officers remain under arrest. The standoff lasted for almost 11 hours when the police's anti-encroachment squad launched an operation to remove the barriers from the road leading to the offices of Minhaj-ul-Quran and the residence of PAT founder Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri in Model Town, Lahore, even though police officials were given a court order by PAT leaders, stating "due to terrorism issue place security barriers in front of Minhaj-ul-Quran and the residence of PAT founder Dr.Qadri.

The incident was broadcast live on various local news channels and there were conflicting accounts of how the standoff began. Police claimed that they were attacked by people inside the PAT secretariat, a claim that is denied by party chief Qadri. In the live footage broadcast on television, the policemen were shown firing assault rifles and lobbing tear gas canisters at the protesting masses while the protesters threw stones at the police.

Qadri strongly condemned the attack and called it the worst form of state terrorism. Qadri vowed to avenge the deaths of his political workers by bringing about a revolution that would hasten the end of the rule of prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif.

Following the incident, Qadri′s importance grew in Pakistani politics where he had "otherwise been regarded by most observers as posing little threat to the government". Where some analysts considered Qadri a "political non-entity" before the incident, others expressed concern that the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) government reacted "disproportionately and aggressively" in this matter, "shooting itself in the foot" and feeling "'insecure' with the attention that Qadri [had] managed to attract".

Background
On 16 June 2014, the Pakistan Awami Tehreek founder and chief Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri warned the government of "serious consequences" if anything was to happen to him on his return to Pakistan on 23 June 2014. For some time, Qadri had been amassing the support of political parties in the opposition to form a grand alliance against the incumbent Nawaz Sharif administration. Qadri had successfully rallied for and acquired the support of political stalwarts like Pakistan Muslim League (Q) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rasheed in forming a "grand alliance" against the government.

The incident
At around 1am PKT on 17 June 2014, the Punjab Police launched an anti-encroachment operation to remove barriers outside the offices of Minhaj-ul-Quran International and Qadri's residence in the Model Town suburb in Lahore. The police reached the PAT headquarters in a large contingent and demanded the party workers to remove the barricades which they claimed were illegal. The raid was untimely in contrast to the routine morning raids the police often conducts in similar cases.

The PAT workers insisted that the barricades were legal and that they had been set up four years ago to protect Qadri's home and office when he issued a decree against the Taliban. Nevertheless, the police carried on with their operation to demolish the Jersey barriers with bulldozers prompting the PAT workers and activists to resist the police efforts by starting a protest against the police action.

London Plan
There are serious concerns of civil society of Pakistan that the whole plot was designed by some ex- government officials  though Dr. Qadri and his party denied these charges. The liberal political parties also insisted that the whole event was drafted in London sometimes referred as London Plan.

Live media coverage
After the initial protests, the police retreated for a while, only to return in greater numbers at 5 am. In the meantime, PAT workers had also managed to amass a crowd of supporters and called in the local media. The protesters started pelting the police squad with stones to protest against the removal of barriers. The violent resistance from the protesters led the police to retreat once again. Throughout the ensuing clash, reporters and journalists managed to cover the scenes in live broadcasts aired across various national news channels for the rest of the night and the following day.

Negotiations with PAT
Upon gauging the violent reaction from the protesting crowds, DCO Muhammad Usman and DIG Operations Rana Jabbar negotiated with PAT general-secretary Khurram Nawaz Gandapur and chief security officer (CSO) Altaf Shah. Shah was adamant that he and his party workers would not let the police remove the barriers. According to the Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Chaudhry Shafique Ahmad, there were two rounds of negotiations between the party officials and the police where the party workers were asked to remove the hurdles on their own.

When the negotiations failed to bring fruit, the police returned for a third time with a 100-strong squad at 9:30 am to forcefully remove the barriers. They were met with fierce retaliation yet again as the protesters pelted the police.

Violent measures
The police returned for a fourth time at 11:20 am. This time, the force was led in groups commanded by seven-to-eight SPs where some put focus on firing directly into the crowd while others used various tactics to disperse the crowds, like firing tear gas and charging with batons. With the police firing weapons directly into the crowd of protesters, 8 protesters (including 2 women one of whom was pregnant) died at the scene while around 80 protesters were gravely injured.

Anarchy
Amidst all the chaos and police brutality, media cameras were able to capture an unknown vandal smashing cars. It was later identified that the "handlebar-mustached vandal", Gullu Butt was a known police tout and had been a known activist of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N), the party in government. Butt brandished a club he used to smash cars and was also heard chanting slogans. In one footage, Butt was also seen leading the law enforcement officers' charge against the protesters. Soon afterwards, Model Town SP Tariq Aziz was seen chatting and hugging Butt.

Later in an editorial written for the Daily Times, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf information secretary Andleeb Abbas called Butt a "henchman" of the PML-N government and accused the state police as having "aided, abetted and applauded [the vandal] with absolutely no inhibition for the atrocious crimes that he was committing".

Police claims
The police claimed that the Minhaj-ul-Quran administration had deployed a private militia that was manning the barriers and had effectively converted the residential area into a no-go area. Qadri later said that the number of arrests was understated by the police as more than 200 of his party workers were missing and unaccounted for.

On the complaint of a sub-inspector, the Faisal Town Police later registered a case against more than 3000 PAT workers under sections 7ATA, 302, 324, 353, 148/149 of the Pakistan Penal Code. The police FIR also formally nominated Hussain Mohiuddin, the son of the PAT chief Qadri, as the main accused.

Formal inquisition
Immediately following the incident, the Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif ordered a judicial inquiry into the events that unfolded on the day. He said he was "saddened over the killings" and would not hesitate to resign if held responsible for the negligence. He assured that he had already constituted a judicial commission to probe the incident.

Sharif denied any knowledge of the police operation and claimed complete ignorance of the bloodshed. His opponents ridiculed him for not knowing about the incident despite the live broadcast that covered the "bloody episode that continued for hours". Upon watching the TV footage, Sharif ordered for the immediate arrest of the notorious vandal Gullu Butt. Sharif also asked the federal minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal was to brief the house on the Lahore killings.

Tampering evidence
On 19 June 2014, it was reported that several police officials went to a hospital where the wounded were being treated and altered the medico-legal certificates of injured police officials to show "fake bullet injuries" in order to justify their claim that PAT workers also shot at the police. Qadri accused the provincial government of tampering with the evidence in the hospital records and denied that his party workers had any arms at all. He also asked the police to produce the confiscated weapons before the media in order to prove their claim.

Qadri rejects judicial commission
The PAT chief Qadri said that the reason for the police action was to "threaten him and his party" before his arrival in Pakistan on 23 June 2014. He openly rejected the judicial commission and said that the judicial commission could not independently conduct an impartial investigation as long as the PML-N is in government. He expressed concerns that the police may use bribery and scare tactics to coerce false eyewitness accounts in their favour. Later, while addressing a press conference on 21 June 2014 via video-link from Canada, Qadri urged for an investigation team comprising representatives of the ISI, MI and IB, and a judicial commission of three supreme court judges to probe the incident.

Rana Sanaullah justifies police action
In justifying the police operation, the Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah Khan told the press that "for a person who consistently defies the constitution and the democratic system, Tahir-ul-Qadri had been trying to bulldoze the Pakistani democracy by spreading anarchy". He blamed the religious leader of inciting hatred by asking innocent civilians to take oaths on the Quran to amass against the government. Tahir-ul-Qadri later vehemently denied such claims and called this justification for the operation as being preposterous.

Rana Sanaullah also justified the operation by claiming that the police were able to identify several armed men and weapons at the Minhaj-ul-Quran offices, a claim refuted by several PAT officials. After the operation ended, no police official was immediately held responsible for mishandling and criminal negligence.

Ministers removed from posts
In a press conference at the PML-N Central Secretariat in Lahore on 21 June 2014, Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif said that he had decided to remove the Punjab Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Rana Sanaullah Khan (who has been restored by Punjab Government on May 29, 2015) and Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Dr Toqueer Shah from their posts to ensure fair and transparent investigation into the incident.

Reaction of the Opposition parties
Following the incident, major parties in opposition including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League (Q; PML-Q) boycotted the Punjab Assembly in protest.

The Human Rights Watch strongly condemned the 'lethal force' by the Police and demanded full investigation. "The Pakistani authorities need to explain why police officers found it necessary to fire live ammunition directly into a crowd of protesters throwing rocks," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "There are a lot of dead and wounded people in Lahore today, and no clear reason why."

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has strongly condemned the police action at the Tahirul Qadri Secretariat.

 Pakistan Peoples Party condemned the attack. The opposition leader Syed Khursheed Shah said that the events were a "conspiracy against democracy allegedly hatched by Shahbaz Sharif". He condemned the use of force against Tahir-ul-Qadri's supporters.
 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf also condemned the attack and the party's central president Javed Hashmi asked the government to stop the killings of innocent people immediately. PTI's Punjab president Ejaz Chaudhry demanded an apology from prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the chief minister Shahbaz Sharif while stating that the "government was responsible for [the] incident" and that "there was no justification for such an incident".
 Muttahida Qaumi Movement condemned the police action and announced a day of mourning for the victims. Party leader Farooq Sattar called the police operation "undemocratic and barbaric". MQM's deputy convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqi stated that "the protest of the PAT workers was peaceful".

An all parties conference (APC) of political and religious parties except PMLN, PPP, and Awami National Party (ANP) called by PAT head Dr Qadri on 29 June 2014, condemned the killings and demanded an investigation by Supreme Court's three-member bench. The APC reiterated the demand for Chief Minister's resignation and arrest of the Punjab's to top police officers. The PMLN's central and provincial governments responded to the demands that the investigations are already underway. The federal information minister, Pervez Rasheed, maintained that the parties participating in the APC are trying to "keep their politics alive" as they have no representation in the parliament.

See also
Sahiwal killings
2010 Abbottabad police killings
List of cases of law enforcement brutality in Pakistan
List of the innocent people  how killed the punjab  police

References

2014 in Pakistan
2014 protests
2010s in Lahore
Pakistan Awami Tehrik
Protests in Pakistan
2014 in Pakistani politics


title: K. nepalensis

text:
K. nepalensis may refer to:

 Kar nepalensis, a ground beetle
 Kerria nepalensis, a scale insect
 Kobresia nepalensis, a bog sedge
 Krananda nepalensis, a geometer moth


title: Mohammed Surti

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Mohammed Surti is a leader of the Indian National Congress  from Surat in Gujarat. He was a government minister of Gujarat. He was falsely convicted for  his involvement in the 1993 Surat bomb blasts and was imprisoned, and he was proven innocent and acquitted after spending 12 years in prison.

In October 2008, a TADA court in Surat sentenced Mohammad Surti to 20 years in prison. Later on 18 July 2014, The Supreme Court acquitted all the 11 accused convicted for the 1993 Surat bomb blast including Surti.

See also

 Communalism (South Asia)

References

People from Surat
Indian politicians convicted of crimes
Living people
Gujarat MLAs 1980–1985
Indian prisoners and detainees
Indian Muslims
Indian National Congress politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Indian National Congress politicians from Gujarat


title: Hugh Davis Graham

text:
Hugh Davis Graham (September 2, 1936 – March 26, 2002) was an American historian and sociologist. He was the author of several books about the civil rights movement.

Early life
Graham was born on September 2, 1936, in Little Rock, Arkansas, one of three sons of a Presbyterian minister. He studied history at Yale University and completed a Ph.D. in history at Stanford University in 1964.

Career
From 1967 to 1971 he taught at Johns Hopkins University, where he served as director of the Institute of Southern History. In 1968–69 he co-directed a task force for the Kerner Commission on civil disorders and co-edited the commission's report, Violence in America. He taught for 20 years at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, before moving in 1991 to Vanderbilt University, where he was Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History, dean of the social science division, and later dean of graduate studies and research. He later became an adjunct professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Graham's early interest in civil rights and southern politics led him to join Numan Bartley in 1975 in writing Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction, an update of the classic work by V.O. Key. While teaching at the University of Maryland, he began a new line of scholarship involving the making and implementation of federal policy. These studies led to three major books and a national reputation as the most successful pioneer in the new field of policy history.

His first policy study, The Uncertain Triumph (1984), dealt with the enactment and implementation of major federal aid for public education. Next came his most influential book, The Civil Rights Era (1990), which dealt with the enactment and implementation of the three major civil rights acts. His last policy study, which complemented his work on civil rights, was Collision Course (2002). It showed how early civil rights legislation, intended largely to correct injustices to African Americans, eventually offered protections to immigrant minorities who were among Americans with the highest incomes, revealing "the often unforeseen, or unwanted, effects of social legislation".

Death
Graham died on 26 March 2002 in Santa Barbara, California.

Partial bibliography
Violence in America: Historical And Comparative Perspectives. Ed. with Ted Robert Gurr. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1969.
Huey Long (Great Lives Observed). Prentice Hall. 1970.
Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction. With Numan V. Bartley. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1976.
The Uncertain Triumph: Federal Education Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Years. University of North Carolina Press. 1984.
The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972. Oxford University Press. 1990.
Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America. Oxford University Press. 2003.
The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era. With Nancy Diamond. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004.

Notes

1936 births
2002 deaths
Writers from Little Rock, Arkansas
Yale University alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Maryland, Baltimore County faculty
Vanderbilt University faculty
Vanderbilt University administrators
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
American sociologists
20th-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
20th-century American male writers


title: Harrisburg Heat

text:
Harrisburg Heat may refer to:

Harrisburg Heat (1991–2003), an indoor soccer team that was part of the Major Indoor Soccer League
Harrisburg Heat (2012–), a professional indoor soccer team that is part of the Major Arena Soccer League


title: Taeniolella

text:
Taeniolella is a genus of asexual fungi hyphomycetes in the family Mytilinidiaceae. Some of the species are lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling), others are saprophytic, while others are endophytic. The genus was circumscribed in 1958 by Canadian mycologist Stanley John Hughes, with Taeniolella exilis as the type species. Major revisions of the lichenicolous species in the genus were published in 2016 and 2018.

Species

Taeniolella alta
Taeniolella americana
Taeniolella andropogonis
Taeniolella aquatilis
Taeniolella arctoparmeliae
Taeniolella arthoniae
Taeniolella atra
Taeniolella atricerebrina
Taeniolella bhagavatiensis
Taeniolella bilgramii
Taeniolella breviuscula
Taeniolella caespitosa
Taeniolella caffra
Taeniolella christiansenii
Taeniolella chrysotrichis
Taeniolella cladinicola
Taeniolella curvata
Taeniolella delicata
Taeniolella dichotoma
Taeniolella diederichiana
Taeniolella diploschistis
Taeniolella exilis
Taeniolella faginea
Taeniolella filamentosa
Taeniolella friesii
Taeniolella hawksworthiana
Taeniolella hunanensis
Taeniolella ionaspidicola
Taeniolella lecanoricola
Taeniolella longissima
Taeniolella multiplex
Taeniolella muricata
Taeniolella pertusariicola
Taeniolella phaeophysciae
Taeniolella phialosperma
Taeniolella plantaginis
Taeniolella pseudocyphellariae
Taeniolella pulvillus
Taeniolella punctata
Taeniolella pyrenulae
Taeniolella ravenelii
Taeniolella robusta
Taeniolella rolfii
Taeniolella sabalicola
Taeniolella santessonii
Taeniolella sapindi
Taeniolella serusiauxii
Taeniolella stilbospora
Taeniolella stilbosporoides
Taeniolella strictae
Taeniolella subsessilis
Taeniolella thelotrematis
Taeniolella toruloides
Taeniolella trapeliopseos
Taeniolella typhoides
Taeniolella umbilicariae
Taeniolella umbilicariicola
Taeniolella vermicularis
Taeniolella verrucosa
Taeniolella weberi

References

Mytilinidiales
Dothideomycetes genera
Lichenicolous fungi
Taxa described in 1958
Taxa named by Stanley Hughes


title: John D. Cressler

text:
John D. Cressler (born 1961) is an American academic and author, currently the Regents Professor and holder of the Schlumberger Chair in Electronics at Georgia Tech.

Early life and education
John D. Cressler was born in 1961 and grew up in Georgia. He received his B.S. in physics from Georgia Tech in 1984, and his Ph.D. in applied physics from Columbia University in 1990. From 1984 to 1992, he was on the research staff at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and from 1992 to 2002 he served on faculty at Auburn University. In 2002, he joined the faculty at Georgia Tech, and is currently Schlumberger Chair Professor of Electronics, in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Research
Cressler's research is focused on the advancement of silicon-germanium (SiGe) electronics, with particular application to extreme environments. He has edited and authored various technical works related to SiGe and extreme environment electronics.

Awards
The 2021 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal was presented to John D. Cressler for inspirational teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.

Personal life
Cressler married his wife Maria while an undergraduate at Georgia Tech. They have three children.

Publications
Cressler has authored three books related to SiGe electronics engineering, two works of non-fiction, and two novels.

Technical Non-Fiction

 Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors, Artech House
 The Silicon Heterostructure Handbook: Materials, Fabrication, Devices, Circuits, and Applications of SiGe and Si Strained-Layer Epitaxy, CRC Press
 Extreme Environment Electronics, CRC Press

Non-Fiction

 Silicon Earth: Introduction to the Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Revolution, Cambridge University Press
 Reinventing Teenagers: The Gentle Art of Instilling Character in Our Young People, Xlibris (self-published)

Fiction

 Emeralds of the Alhambra, Sunbury Press
 Shadows in the Shining City, Sunbury Press
 Fortune's Lament, Sunbury Press

References

American non-fiction writers
Living people
1961 births
Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia Tech alumni
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Auburn University faculty
Georgia Tech faculty


title: Tiesa

text:
Tiesa (English: truth) was the official daily newspaper in the Lithuanian SSR. Established in 1917, the newspaper soon became the official voice of the Communist Party of Lithuania. After the Lithuanian victory in the Lithuanian–Soviet War, the party and the newspaper were outlawed in Lithuania. Thereafter, it was first printed in exile and later illegally in Kaunas. Tiesa survived irregular publishing schedules, frequent relocations, staff changes, and other difficulties and, after the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in June 1940, became the official daily of the new communist regime. At its peak, its circulation exceeded 300,000 copies. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tiesa lost its official status and its circulation shrunk. The publication was discontinued in 1994.

History

Early history
The first issue of Tiesa was published by the Lithuanian section of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks) in Petrograd on April 12, 1917. In October 1917, Tiesa became the official newspaper of the Lithuanian section. From April to December 1918, it was published in Moscow. By December 12, 1918, 91 issues of Tiesa were published.

In March–April 1919, five issues of the newspaper were published in Vilnius, the proclaimed capital of the short-lived Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was the official newspaper of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Lithuania and Belorussia. When Poland captured Vilnius during the Vilna offensive, Tiesa evacuated and was printed with interruptions in Raseiniai, Kaunas, Königsberg, Bellshill and Smolensk as the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Lithuania. In March 1926, it settled more permanently in Kaunas, the temporary capital of Lithuania. The communist party was outlawed in Lithuania, therefore Tiesa had to be printed illegally. There were 157 issues published in Kaunas.

Lithuanian SSR
After the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in June 1940, Tiesa was legalized and became a daily. It appeared first as Liaudies balsas (June 16–25) but soon recovered its historical name. It continued to be the official outlet of the Communist Party of Lithuania until the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The newspaper was reestablished in Moscow in February 1942. There, 85 issues were published until July 1944. In August 1944, after the Soviet victory in Vilnius offensive, the newspaper relocated to Vilnius. Once again, it became a daily. From August 1945, in addition to being the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Lithuania, Tiesa was also the official voice of the communist government, specifically the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR and the Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR. It had permanent correspondents in Moscow and New York. In 1967, Tiesa received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

Independent Lithuania
After the first free parliamentary elections in February 1990, Lithuania declared independence from the Soviet Union. Lietuvos aidas became the official newspaper of the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas. The Communist Party of Lithuania reorganized itself into the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (LDDP). Tiesa followed suit and became the newspaper of the LDDP. In 1992, Tiesa became a privately owned publication. On July 1, 1994, it was discontinued and replaced by daily Diena (English: day). The last issue of Diena was published in 1996.

Content
Tiesa was dedicated to communist ideology. It advocated socialist revolution and criticized other political parties. It reported on the activities of the Communist Party of Lithuania and its organizations, and published their programs, resolutions, statements and manifestos. Tiesa also reported on world and Lithuanian news, analysing stories through a communist point of view. The newspaper also published stories on the life of workers, peasants and soldiers. Occasionally it also published fiction, mostly poems.

Editors
The editors-in-chief were:

References

External links
Digital archive 1917–47

Communist newspapers
Defunct newspapers published in Lithuania
Eastern Bloc mass media
Lithuanian-language newspapers
Newspapers established in 1917
Publications disestablished in 1994
Daily newspapers published in Lithuania
1994 disestablishments in Lithuania
Communism in Lithuania


title: 2016 Portuguese presidential election

text:
The 2016 Portuguese presidential election was held on 24 January. This election chose the successor to the President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, who was constitutionally not allowed to run for a third consecutive term.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the candidate supported by PPD/PSD, CDS-PP and PPM, won the election on the first round with 52% of the vote. Marcelo also won in every single district in the country and only lost a few municipalities in the south of the country. Turnout was higher than that of the 2011 election, but reached a record low in a presidential election with no incumbents as only 48.66% of the electorate cast a ballot.

Background and election procedure
Aníbal Cavaco Silva had served two consecutive five-year terms as president, the maximum number, and the 2016 election was to choose a successor for a term beginning on March 9. In Portugal, the president is the head of state, has mostly ceremonial powers. However, the president does have some political influence and can dissolve the Parliament of Portugal if a crisis occurs. The president also has an official residence in the Belém Palace in Lisbon.

In order to stand for election, candidates had to each gather 7,500 signatures of support one month before the election, and submit them to the Constitutional Court of Portugal. On December 29, 2015, the Constitutional Court certified ten candidates as having met the requirements to appear on the ballot. This was a record number; the highest number of presidential candidates had previously been six.

Under Portuguese law, a candidate must receive a majority of votes (50% plus one vote) to be elected. If no candidate achieved a majority in the first round, a runoff election (i.e., second round, held between the two candidates who received the most votes in the first round) would have been held on February 14.

Portugal had about 9.7 million registered voters by election day.

Candidates

Official candidates
Henrique Neto, member and former MP of the Socialist Party.
António Sampaio da Nóvoa, independent candidate and former rector of the University of Lisbon (2006–2013), supported by LIVRE and the PCTP/MRPP. The Socialist Party urged its supporters to either vote for him or Maria de Belém.
Cândido Ferreira, nephrologist MD, independent candidate and former leader of Leiria district branch of the Socialist Party.
Edgar Silva, regional MP for the Legislative Assembly of Madeira from the Portuguese Communist Party, supported by the Portuguese Communist Party.
Jorge Sequeira, psychologist, researcher and university professor.
Vitorino Silva, paver and former president of the parish of Rans, also a former member of the Socialist Party, more commonly known as Tino de Rans.
Marisa Matias, sociologist who has worked in the areas of environment and public health, and European MEP of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left, supported by the Left Bloc and the MAS.
Maria de Belém, former president of the Socialist Party (2011-2014) The Socialist Party urged its supporters to either vote for her or António Sampaio da Nóvoa.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, former leader of the Social Democratic Party (1996–1999), supported by the Social Democratic Party and the CDS – People's Party.
Paulo de Morais, independent candidate, former deputy mayor of Porto (2002–2005), anti-corruption activist.

Unsuccessful candidates
Manuel João Vieira, independent candidate.
Manuel Almeida, independent.
Paulo Freitas do Amaral, university professor, former mayor of Oeiras; withdrew and supported Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Orlando Cruz, withdrew in favour of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Graça Castanho, withdrew due to having lost her nomination signatures in a storm.
Castanheira Barros, independent candidate, former member of the Social Democratic Party; withdrew and supported Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Manuela Gonzaga, historian and writer; was supported by the People–Animals–Nature.

Decided not to run
Fernando Nobre, Independent candidate which had contested the previous presidential election.
António Vitorino, former European Commissioner (1999–2004).
Paulo Portas, former leader of the CDS – People's Party (1998–2005, 2007–2016), former Minister of National Defence (2002–2005) and of Foreign Affairs (2011–2013) and also former Deputy Prime Minister (2013–2015).
Manuela Ferreira Leite, former leader of the Social Democratic Party (2008–2010).
António Guterres, former Prime Minister (1995–2002).
Manuel Carvalho da Silva, former union leader of CGTP (1986–2012).
Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister (2004–2005).
Rui Rio, former mayor of Porto (2002–2013).
Alberto João Jardim, former President of the Regional Government of Madeira (1978-2015).

Campaign period

Candidates' slogans

Candidates' debates
There were several number of debates between all the candidates in the three TV networks RTP, SIC, TVI. There was a radio debate between all candidates plus on January 19, there was a final debate between all of candidates on RTP1.

Completed televised debates:

Opinion polling

Campaign budgets

Voter turnout
The table below shows voter turnout throughout election day including voters from Overseas.

Results

National summary

|-
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Candidates
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|Supporting parties
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" colspan="2"|First round
|-
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;"|Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;"|%
|-
|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" |
|align=left|Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
|align=left|Social Democratic Party, People's Party, People's Monarchist Party
|align="right" |2,413,956
|align="right" |52.00
|-
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#d11a91 align="center" |
|align=left|António Sampaio da Nóvoa
|align=left|Independent
|align="right" |1,062,138
|align="right" |22.88
|-
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=darkred align="center" |
|align=left|Marisa Matias
|align=left|Left Bloc, Socialist Alternative Movement
|align="right" |469,814
|align="right" |10.12
|-
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#777777 align="center" |
|align=left|Maria de Belém
|align=left|Independent
|align="right" |196,765
|align="right" |4.24
|-
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=red align="center" |
|align=left|Edgar Silva
|align=left|Portuguese Communist Party, Ecologist Party "The Greens"
|align="right" |183,051
|align="right" |3.94
|-
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#777777 align="center" |
|align=left|Vitorino Silva
|align=left|Independent
|align="right" |152,374
|align="right" |3.28
|-
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#777777 align="center" |
|align=left|Paulo de Morais
|align=left|Independent
|align="right" |100,191
|align="right" |2.16
|-
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#777777 align="center" |
|align=left|Henrique Neto
|align=left|Independent
|align="right" |39,163
|align="right" |0.84
|-
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#777777 align="center" |
|align=left|Jorge Sequeira
|align=left|Independent
|align="right" |13,954
|align="right" |0.30
|-
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#777777 align="center" |
|align=left|Cândido Ferreira
|align=left|Independent
|align="right" |10,609
|align="right" |0.23
|-
|colspan="3" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,642,015
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|-
|align=right colspan="3"|Blank ballots
|width="65" align="right" |58,964
|width="40" align="right" |1.24
|-
|align=right colspan="3" |Invalid ballots
|width="65" align="right"|43,588
|width="40" align="right"|0.92
|-
|colspan="3" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,744,597
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|-
|colspan=3|Registered voters/turnout
||9,751,398||48.66
|-
|colspan=5 align=left|Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}

Results by district

Maps

See also
 President of Portugal
 Politics of Portugal

Notes

References

External links
 Official results site, Portuguese Justice Ministry
 Portuguese Electoral Commission
 ERC - Official publication of polls

2016 elections in Portugal
2016
January 2016 events in Portugal
2016


title: Dudleyville, Alabama

text:
Dudleyville, also known as Pittsborough, is an unincorporated community in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States. Dudleyville was named for Peter Dudley, who established the first trading post in the area. The town was incorporated on February 2, 1839. A post office was operated in Dudleyville from 1836 to 1907. Major Lemuel Montgomery, the first American soldier killed in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, was formerly buried in the Dudleyville cemetery, before his grave was moved to Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. Abram Mordecai, a trader who installed the first cotton gin in Alabama, lived for a time in Dudleyville. It was here that Albert J. Pickett visited him in 1847 and gathered information from him to use in his History of Alabama. County Line Baptist Church, which is located east of Dudleyville, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Notable person
 William S. Key, former Warden of Oklahoma State Penitentiary and Major general during World War II.
 Claude Pepper, former U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative from Florida, was born near Dudleyville.

References

Unincorporated communities in Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Unincorporated communities in Alabama


title: Yongrong

text:
Yongrong (28 January 1744 – 13 June 1790) was a Manchu prince and calligrapher of the Qing dynasty in China. He was born in the Aisin Gioro clan as the sixth son of the Qianlong Emperor; his mother was Imperial Noble Consort Chunhui.

Biography
In 1759, he was adopted into the lineage of his granduncle Yunxi (允禧; 1711–1758) as Yunxi's grandson, because Yunxi had no son to inherit his Prince Shen peerage. Yongrong was made a beile in the same year. In 1772, he was promoted to junwang (second-rank prince) as "Prince Zhi of the Second Rank" (質郡王). In 1789, he was further promoted to qinwang (first-rank prince), as "Prince Zhi of the First Rank" (質親王). He died in 1790 and was posthumously honoured as "Prince Zhizhuang of the First Rank" (質莊親王).

He was succeeded by his fifth son, Mianqing.

Artist

Yongrong is best known for his work as a general editor of the Siku Quanshu, and for his calligraphy in the manuscript Twenty-One Hymns to the Rescuer Mother of Buddhas (). He was also a poet and painter of Chinese paintings with landscape painting as his focus, with knowledge of astronomy and mathematics.

Family
Primary Consort

 Imperial Princess Consort Zhizhuang, of the Fuca clan (質莊亲王福晋 富察氏, d. March 1772)
 Miancong (綿聰; 22 March 1766 – 15 August 1780), first son
 Second daughter (5 February 1768 – 8 February 1768)
 Mian'ai (綿愛; 22 February 1769 – 8 September 1771), second son
 Fourth daughter (3 October 1770 – 20 September 1779)
 Step Imperial Princess Consort Zhizhuang, of the Niohuru clan (質莊亲王继福晋 鈕祜祿氏)
Mianxin (綿信; 14 August 1775 – 25 November 1777), fourth son
 Princess of the Fourth Rank (縣主; b. 1 September 1776), fifth daughter
 Married Deqin (德欽) of the Aohan in January/February 1793
 Mianqing, Prince Zhike of the Second Rank (質恪郡王 綿慶; 17 June 1779 – 27 November 1804), fifth son

Secondary Consort

 Secondary consort, of the You clan (側福晉 尤氏)
 First daughter (20 March 1766 – 27 November 1769)
 Third daughter (23 July 1769 – 7 July 1770)
 Mianci (綿慈; 21 December 1770 – 23 May 1773), third son

Concubine

 Mistress, of the Geng clan (耿氏)
 Mianyi (綿意; 12 May 1787 – 12 June 1792), sixth son

Ancestry

In fiction and popular culture
 Portrayed by Zhou Yicheng in Story of Yanxi Palace (2018)
 Portrayed by Zhang Jinze in Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace (2018)

See also
 Prince Shen

References

External links

1744 births
1790 deaths
Qianlong Emperor's sons
Qing dynasty calligraphers
Artists from Beijing
Qing dynasty imperial princes
Prince Shen


title: Neil Berkett

text:
Neil Berkett is a New Zealand-born England-based businessperson.

Berkett is currently the chairperson of Guardian Media Group, having succeeded Amelia Fawcett in 2013. He joined the board in 2009.

Berkett is active in NZEdge.com, an organisation that connects expat New Zealanders.

He attended Heretaunga College and the Victoria University of Wellington.

References

Notes

External links
Content on Guardian website

Living people
People educated at Heretaunga College
Victoria University of Wellington alumni
New Zealand businesspeople
New Zealand emigrants to the United Kingdom
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Monfortinho Airport

text:
Monfortinho Airport  is an airstrip near the Portugal-Spain border serving Monfortinho, in the Castelo Branco municipality of Portugal.

The runway is  southwest of the village.

See also
Transport in Portugal
List of airports in Portugal

References

External links
 OurAirports - Monfortinho
 Google Earth

Airports in Portugal


title: David Frigerio

text:
David Frigerio is an American screenwriter and producer. He is the writer/producer of the 2023 film Land of Bad directed by William Eubank starring Academy Award winner Russell Crowe The cast also stars Liam Hemsworth Luke Hemsworth Milo Ventimiglia Ricky Whittle Daniel MacPherson Chika Ikogwe

He is the producer of the 2023 film Muzzle directed by John Stalberg Jr. starring Aaron Eckhart and Stephen Lang.

He is the producer of the 2023 film Bad Hombres directed by John Stalberg Jr. The film stars Tyrese Gibson Thomas Jane Luke Hemsworth Diego Tinoco Nick Cassavetes Hemky Madera Paul Johansson

He is the producer and co-writer of the 2019 film Crypto, directed by John Stalberg Jr. and released by Lionsgate. His 2014 film The Signal, directed by William Eubank and starring Laurence Fishburne, Brenton Thwaites, and Olivia Cooke, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released in US theaters on June 13 by Focus Features. In 2010, he wrote and produced Wreckage, directed by John Asher and starring Aaron Paul, Scoot McNairy, and Cameron Richardson.

Background
Frigerio began his writing career as a playwright in New York City, his hometown, writing and producing his first play, an off-Broadway production, at age 21. He is a lover of science fiction and used to attend MUFON conferences, which inspired his work on The Signal. He is strongly influenced by the work of Michio Kaku, Ray Kurzweil, and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

References

External links

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male screenwriters


title: Bayhealth Medical Center

text:
Bayhealth Medical Center is a healthcare system serving the central and southern portion of Delaware in the United States.

Locations
Bayhealth Medical Center operates two hospitals: Bayhealth Hospital, Kent Campus in Dover and Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus in Milford. In addition, it also operates the Bayhealth Emergency Center, Smyrna in Smyrna. Bayhealth Medical Center also operates several outpatient facilities across central and southern Delaware.

Services
Bayhealth Medical Center has a total of 316 beds. Inpatient services include a birthing room and cardiovascular and cancer services. Bayhealth also offers numerous outpatient services, patient and family support services, community outreach, and imaging services. The Kent Campus and Sussex Campus both have a 24-hour emergency department with a Level III trauma center. In addition, Bayhealth Emergency Center in Smyrna has a 24-hour emergency department.

History
In 1921, the Dover Rotary Club launched a fund drive to build a hospital in Dover. The site was chosen in 1925 and Kent General Hospital (now Bayhealth Hospital, Kent Campus) was incorporated. The hospital opened in 1927. Over the years, Kent General Hospital has undergone numerous expansions and service additions to accommodate increasing admissions and to offer better services. The first cardiac surgery was performed at Kent General in 2004. Milford Memorial Hospital opened in 1938 and has undergone numerous expansions and improvements, including the addition of a cancer center in 2002 and an enlarged emergency services department in 2004. The Bayhealth Cancer Institute opened in 2008. In 2009, plans were made to replace Milford Memorial Hospital at its current site.

On May 27, 2016, Bayhealth Medical Center broke ground on a new hospital campus at a new site in Milford that would replace Milford Memorial Hospital. The six-story hospital cost between $275 million and $300 million to build. Bayhealth Sussex Campus, which is composed of Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus and Bayhealth Outpatient Center, Sussex Campus, opened on February 5, 2019. Milford Memorial Hospital will be converted by Nationwide Health Services into a multi-use healthcare-focused community that would include a nursing home.

Controversies
Bayhealth was the owner of Greenwold (Dover, Delaware) at the time of its demolition. Bayhealth staff provided limited options to the community to try to save the house, insisting that it be moved off site for the creation of a staff parking lot. Such actions run counter to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties and this option was not pursued as the onus was placed on an all-volunteer preservation group, the Friends of Old Dover. Bayhealth demolished the house in 2023.

References

External links

Hospital buildings completed in 1927
Hospital buildings completed in 1938
Hospitals in Delaware
Buildings and structures in Kent County, Delaware
Buildings and structures in Sussex County, Delaware
Trauma centers
Buildings and structures in Dover, Delaware


title: Victor Lim

text:
Prof. Dr. Victor Lim Kok Eow (also rendered Victor K.E. Lim) is a Malaysian physician and microbiologist, specializing on antimicrobial resistance and infectious diseases. He is Professor of Pathology and Pro Vice-Chancellor (formerly called Vice-President) of the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur. He is also a member of its Board of Governors.

Career

Lim obtained his medical degree (MBBS) at the University of Malaya in 1974. He then obtained an MSc in Medical Microbiology from the University of London in 1978, and passed the Royal College of Pathologists examination (MRCPath) in 1981.

He was Professor of Microbiology and Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Malaysia and Director of the Infectious Diseases Research Centre at the Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur. After joining the International Medical University (IMU) as a Professor of Pathology, he has been a member of the university's senior management committee as Executive Dean from 2004 to 2011, as Vice President for Education from 2011 and, following a change in senior management titles, as Pro Vice-Chancellor from 2016. He was also Director of the IMU Centre for Education from 2009 to 2015. He is still actively involved in teaching for Doctor of Pathology (Clinical Microbiology) students in National University Of Malaysia.

He has served as President of the Western Pacific Society of Chemotherapy (2004–2008), was the Master of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia (2008–2011) and the President of the Malaysian Society for Infectious Diseases and Chemotherapy (1999–2003). Lim is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Malaysia. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Malaysian Medical Journal 1991–1998. He is also a member of several governmental committees, including the National Antibiotic and Infection Control Committee and the National Medical Testing Accreditation Committee. In addition to antimicrobial resistance and infectious diseases, he is involved in research on medical education.

Personal life

Victor Lim is the 2nd of 3 children. He is flanked by his elder sister Ivy Lim, and the late Dr Albert Lim who is an Oncologist. He is married to Professor Dr. Asma Omar, a Professor of Paediatric Cardiology at the University of Malaya.

References

Academic staff of the International Medical University
Academic staff of the National University of Malaysia
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Malaysian microbiologists
Malaysian pathologists


title: Changelab

text:
ChangeLab is a grassroots think tank located in downtown Oakland, California with a satellite location in Seattle, Washington.

History

ChangeLab was founded in Seattle, Washington in 2010. Soya Jung and Scot Nakagawa are senior partners.
<re</ref> ChangeLab is a progressive racial equity think/act laboratory engaging leaders across a broad spectrum of sectors, including government, the private sector, the arts, and progressive advocacy organizations.

Media
ChangeLab has published research papers, including the November 2012 "Left or Right of the Color Line: Asian Americans and the Racial Justice Movement" and the April 2013 "The Importance of Asian Americans? It's Not What You Think", A Different Asian American Timeline, and What They Talk About When They Talk About Us: Asian Americans on the Sunday Shows, an examination of coverage of Asian Americans on MSNBC in 2013-2014.

ChangeLab's blog is called Race Files. Bloggers include Scot Nakagawa, Soya Jung, and Alison Roh Park. Guest bloggers include Deepa Iyer, Prerna Lal, Esther Wang, Naomi Ishisaka, Simon Tam, PaKou Her, Helena Wong, Daniel Hosang, and Yong Chan Miller. Topics on the blog include affirmative action, racism (particularly anti-Asian racism), Asian Americans, civil rights, and white supremacy.

Notes

External links

Asian-American culture in Oakland, California
Asian-American culture in Seattle
Asian-American issues
Think tanks based in the United States
2010 establishments in Washington (state)
Organizations based in Oakland, California


title: Ivan Jovanović (footballer, born 1990)

text:
Ivan Jovanović (; born 28 February 1990) is a Serbian football midfielder who plays for Dolina Padina.

References

External links

 Ivan Jovanović stats at utakmica.rs

1990 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Požarevac
Men's association football midfielders
Serbian men's footballers
FK Teleoptik players
FK Jagodina players
FK Mladi Radnik players
FK Radnički Sombor players
FK Železnik players
Serbian SuperLiga players


title: Tiesa (disambiguation)

text:
Tiesa was the official daily newspaper in the Lithuanian SSR from 1917 to 1994.

Tiesa may also refer to:

 Tiesa (New York), a newspaper published in 1930–2006 in New York, United States
 Kauno Tiesa, former name of Kauno diena, a Lithuanian daily newspaper printed in Kaunas


title: Tomasz Adamczuk

text:
Tomasz Lucjan Adamczuk (4 January 1953 – 21 December 1993) was a Polish politician from the Polish People's Party. He was elected as member of the Sejm in its 9th term and as member of the Senate in its third term. He died after the start of term, but formally his mandate expired 3 February 1994.

References

1953 births
1993 deaths
People from Lublin Voivodeship
Polish People's Party politicians
Members of the Polish Sejm 1985–1989
Members of the Senate of Poland 1993–1997
Polish politicians who committed suicide
Suicides by hanging in Poland


title: Archibald's sign

text:
Archibald's sign (also known as Archibald's metacarpal sign) refers to a feature in the hand characterized by a shortening of the fourth or/and fifth metacarpals when the fist is clenched.

Causes
The causes of Archibald's sign are not known; however, it has been discovered that it occurs more often in populations with certain disorders. Archibald's sign appears to be more common in individuals who have Turners syndrome. It also seems to be more commonly found in pseudohypoparathyroidism of Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy, brachydactyly, acrodysostosis, and occasionally with homocystinuria.

See also
Pseudohypoparathyroidism

References

External links
 Archibald's metacarpal sign
 An image of an individual with Archibald's sign is shown on the left hand in photo b in this picture.

Congenital disorders


title: Children of the Universe (disambiguation)

text:
"Children of the Universe" is a 2014 song by Molly

Children of the Universe may also refer to:

Books
 Kinder des Weltalls (Children of the Universe), 1970 book by scientist Hoimar von Ditfurth
 Children of the Universe, 1976 issue of Superman comic Super-Sons

Music

Songs
"Children of the Universe" – 16:42 " Carnegie Hall Concert (Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra)
"Children of the Universe", song by John Denver, 1982
"Children of the Universe", song by Dorsey Burnette, 1971
"Children of the Universe", song by Flash, 1972
"Children of the Universe", song by Ras Michael and Sons and Daughters, 1983

See also
Child of the Universe (disambiguation)


title: Eric Vanderburg

text:
Eric Vanderburg is an American cyber security, storage networking and information technology professional and writer living in Cleveland, Ohio.

Vanderburg is Vice President of Cybersecurity at TCDI and an author and speaker on information security. He has been interviewed on TV and radio to discuss information security and he presents and conferences and seminars and has participated in panels on information security.

Education
Vanderburg attended Kent State University earning both a bachelor of Science in Technology and a Masters in Business Administration. He also has a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and pursued a doctorate in information assurance.

Life and career
Vanderburg has been interested in technology from an early age, often reading through computer manuals in his library, thus allowing himself to learn "some basics of programming". After spending some time with hackers and "Internet deviants" in the early 1990s, he managed to turn his interest in IT security into a career, and since the late 1990s his interest has primarily been that of cybersecurity within the business world. He has also spoken about the development of DevOps in the business world.

Vanderburg founded Independent Systems Consulting, an IT consulting firm, in 1997, which he ran for almost ten years. He then joined Jurinnov in 2006 where he directed IT, digital forensics, and cybersecurity consulting teams.  In 2009, he built a network operations center at Jurinnov's headquarters to monitor data center operations and to perform transaction monitoring of key business and client systems. In 2016, Vanderburg became Vice President of Cybersecurity at TCDI when TCDI acquired Jurinnov.  He is also a TechMin Network board member.

Vanderburg was involved with Hitachi Data Systems in testing their Essential NAS product which he compared to the Netapp FAS3000 NAS and he partnered with Lateral Data in using their Viewpoint eDiscovery tool to perform large-scale litigation document review.  He worked with Venio on their litigation review tool with early case assessment (ECA), and has worked with companies including Dell, Carbonite, BitDefender, Microsoft and AT&T.

Vanderburg has served as an expert witness in cases involving digital preservation, electronic communication, access control and confidential information disclosure, database management systems, and directory services.

Academic contributions

Vanderburg taught courses in security, database management systems, and computer networking at Remington College's Cleveland-West campus as an instructor and chair of the Computer Networking Technology program. He served as an adjunct instructor in the Computer Information Systems department at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio.  Vanderburg has delivered commencement speeches at the Vatterott College Cleveland campus 2010 commencement and Remington College Cleveland-West campus's final graduation in 2013. He has also taught web-based courses for professional development for eForensics Magazine. Vanderburg has served on the advisory boards for Remington College, Vatterott College, Lincoln School of Technology and Cuyahoga Community College Workforce and Economic Development Division (WEDD).

Publications and bibliography
Vanderburg has published in CIO Magazine, eForensics Magazine, Network World, Computer World, Networks Asia Certification Magazine, PC Security World, CSO Magazine, ARN, TechWorld, and McGladrey Technology News Brief
Vanderburg also maintains a blog called Security Thinking Cap.

Bibliography

See also
 CompTIA Storage+

References

Living people
American technology writers
American business executives
People associated with computer security
Computer networking people
Businesspeople in information technology
Writers from Cleveland
Kent State University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Wrong Ideas

text:
"Wrong Ideas" is a song written by Shel Silverstein and performed by Brenda Lee.  The song reached #6 on the U.S. country chart and #5 on the Canadian country chart in 1974.  It was featured on her 1972 album, New Sunrise.

References

1972 songs
1973 singles
Songs written by Shel Silverstein
Brenda Lee songs
MCA Records singles


title: An Alternative To Loud Boats

text:
An Alternative to Loud Boats was a performance art festival coinciding with the annual Seattle Seafair Albert Lee Cup Hydroplane Races held in late July or early August. It was organized by Roberto Valenza and Phoebe Bosche who were also involved with Red Sky Poetry Theatre.

In 1989, Cydney Gills of Arts Focus magazine joined with An Alternative to Loud Boats. Gillis assisted in writing grants.  An Alternative To Loud Boats received grants from the King County Arts Commission in 1991.

An Alternative to Loud Boats ran for 10 years, each year having a different theme.

1985

1986

1987
An Alternative To Loud Boats celebrates the arts

1988
Censorship

1989
The Struggle For Freedom

1990
Sanctuary

1991
Between Two Fires

1992

1993
No Garnish

1994

References

Poetry festivals in the United States
Festivals in Seattle
Performance art festivals
Spoken word
Festivals established in 1985
Recurring events disestablished in 1994
Art festivals in the United States
1985 establishments in Washington (state)
1994 disestablishments in Washington (state)