Croftnacreich

Croftnacreich is a hamlet on the Black Isle, in Ross and Cromarty in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is  north-west of North Kessock, next to the A9 road and close to the village of Artafallie.


Baranauskas

Baranauskas is the masculine form of a Lithuanian family name. Its feminine forms  are: Baranauskienė (married woman or widow) and Baranauskaitė (unmarried woman).

The surname may refer to:

Antanas Baranauskas, Lithuanian poet and bishop
Tomas Baranauskas, Lithuanian historian
Stasys Baranauskas, Lithuanian football player


Reginald Thatcher

Sir Reginald Sparshatt Thatcher OBE (11 March 1888 – 6 May 1957) was an English musician, teacher and musical administrator. He was assistant music-master at Clifton College, 1911; director of music, Royal Naval College, Osborne, 1914; director of music at Charterhouse School, 1919 and Harrow School, 1928–36. He was appointed as Sir Adrian Boult's deputy in the BBC music department in 1937, and was principal of the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), London, from 1949 to 1955.

Life and career
Thatcher was born at Midsomer Norton, Somerset, the son of a brewer at Welton, Midsomer Norton, and one of fifteen children. He was educated privately, and then won an open organ scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London. From there he progressed to Worcester College, Oxford, as organ scholar in 1907. He graduated in 1910, and then took a doctorate in music.

After leaving Oxford Thatcher's first post was assistant music master at Clifton College, from 1911. Thatcher was appointed director of music at the Royal Naval College, Osborne in 1914, but during the First World War he joined the army, and was awarded the Military Cross and the OBE. In 1915 he married Ruth Trethowan; they had one daughter and one son. The latter was killed in action in 1942. After the war Thatcher served successively as director of music at Charterhouse School (1919–28) and Harrow School (1928–36).

In 1937 Sir Adrian Boult, who combined the roles of director of music at the BBC and chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, was in need of a deputy to take over day-to-day administrative work, leaving him freer to concentrate on the orchestra. Thatcher, an old friend from their university days, became Boult's deputy director. Thatcher's nature was unassertive and sensitive, and although, with Boult's support, he was several times offered the post of director, he always refused. During the Second World War, when the BBC had to be evacuated from London, Thatcher organised three successive moves for the music department, first to Evesham, then Bristol and finally to Bedford. As The Times put it, "he left for the quieter life of the RAM in 1943".

At the RAM Thatcher first held the post of warden; he was promoted to vice-principal in 1945, and on the death of the principal, Sir Stanley Marchant, in 1949, Thatcher was appointed as his successor. The Times obituarist said of his tenure:

The obituarist added that Thatcher's term of office at the academy was "marked by the urbanity towards staff, students, and strangers that he had inherited from Merchant".

Thatcher was the composer of the hymn, Come ye faithful. Portraits of him by Walter Stoneman and Elliott & Fry hang in the National Portrait Gallery, London. His portrait was also painted by Rodrigo Moynihan.

Thatcher was knighted in 1952. Ill health led him to retire in from the RAM 1955, and he died at his home in Cranleigh, Surrey, two years later, at the age of 69. His widow survived him, and died in 1981.

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Malaysia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Malaysia sent athletes to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.  The country qualified athletes in archery, cycling, sailing, wheelchair tennis, athletics and swimming. This is considered as Malaysia's best performance at the Paralympics, winning the Gold medal for the first time.

Funding
The National Sports Council in Malaysia identified 61 Paralympic qualifying events in 13 sports for the 2016 Summer Paralympics and provided them with funding assistance to athletes to compete in them as part of their qualifying campaigns.  They also provided local training for athletes.

Medallists
The following Malaysian competitors won medals at the Games.

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Archery

Archery was one of the sports where competitors benefited from the funding of the National Sports Council in Malaysia to try to qualify for the 2016 Games.

Men's

Athletics

Men's track events

 Mohamad Faizal Aideal Suhaimi was originally qualified for T12 event but later recategorised to T13 event.

Men's field events

Women's track events

Women's field events

Legend: DSQ =Disqualified Fn =False Start IPC 17.8 =Disqualified by rule IPC 17.8 PB =Personal Best PR =Paralympic Record RR =Regional Record SB =Seasonal Best WR =World Record

Cycling

With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, Malaysia qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements.

Men's track cycling event

Legend: DNS =Did not start PR =Paralympic Record WR =World Record

Men's road event

Powerlifting

Sailing

One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top seven finish at the 2015 Combined World Championships in a medal event where the country had not already qualified through via the 2014 IFDS Sailing World Championships.  Malaysia qualified for the 2016 Games under this criteria in the SKUD 18 event with a sixteenth-place finish overall and the seventh country who had not qualified via the 2014 Championships.  The boat was crewed by Nurul Amilin Balawi and Junell Mustafah.

<small>Legend: DNF =Did not finish

Swimming

Table Tennis

Men's individual

Wheelchair tennis
Malaysia qualified one competitor in the men's single event, Abu Samah Borhan. This slot came about via a Bipartite Commission Invitation place.


Slobodan Boškan

Slobodan Boškan (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Бошкан, born 18 August 1975) is former Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia men's national volleyball team, 2000 Olympic volleyball champion, medalist of European Championship and World League.

Career
In 2000, he was part of the Yugoslav team which won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He played one match.


Anna Wu

Anna Wu Hung-yuk (Traditional Chinese: 胡紅玉; born 1951, Hong Kong), GBS, JP is a former non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. She qualified as a solicitor after graduating from the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. She is currently a management consultant.

Formerly, she served as Chairperson of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority and Council Member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.

On 26 April 2013, she was appointed Chairperson of the Competition Commission, a position she continues to hold today.

Politically, she is considered on good terms with the pan-democratic camp. She has urged democratic parties to "roll up their sleeves" and set up a shadow cabinet that offers alternative policy programmes, in preparation for a time when they might hold political office.

Public service

In 1975, Wu was a founding member of the Hong Kong Observers, a group of liberal-minded intellectuals and professionals.

From 1993 to 1995 she was a member of the Legislative Council, but left disappointed having failed to put through three equal opportunities bills, citing government and bureaucratic intransigence towards greater public accountability.

She was Chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission, set up in 1996.

From October 1997 to July 1999, she was chairperson of the Hong Kong Consumer Council (HKCC). She became a member of HKCC in 1989 and was its vice-chairman from 1993. At that time, she headed its Legal Protection Committee (1992–97) and Consumer Legal Action Fund Management Committee. She was also vice-chairman of the Competition Policy Committee. Later, as chairperson, Wu was instrumental in the establishment of the Consumer Legal Action Fund (CLAF) in 1994. She then chaired the Management Committee of CLAF from December 1994 to January 1998, and chaired the Board of Administrators from January 1998.

Wu was chairman of the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

In January 2009, Wu joined the Executive Council (Exco) under Chief Executive Donald Tsang. When CY Leung became Chief Executive on 1 July 2012, Wu was one of only four members retained in the new Exco. Shortly afterwards she took the chair of the new Committee on the Implementation of Moral & National Education, set up to allay public concern over the government's controversial Moral & National Education Curriculum, which encourages loyalty to the 'motherland', China, and which is widely seen as tilted towards the Communist Party's version of history and loyalty. Wu resigned from the Executive Council in 2017.

Wu has also been a member of the Law Reform Commission and the Hospital Authority. She was a director of the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation and a non-executive director of the Securities and Futures Commission.


María Esther de Miguel

María Esther de Miguel (1 November 1929, Larroque, Entre Ríos Province - Buenos Aires, 27 July 2003) was an Argentinian writer.

Biography
Miguel was the daughter of a Spanish immigrant and Jewish mother. At the age of eight, she won a literary contest in composition at school, which was the beginning of her writing career. In her adolescence, she began writing novellas at the Congregación de los Paulinos in Buenos Aires. Her studies included philosophy and literature, earning a scholarship to study literature in Italy. When she returned to Argentina, she abandoned her Catholic religious vocation, and worked as a teacher and journalist. Miguel served as director of the literary magazine Señales and collaborated in the literary supplement of the newspaper La Nación. She served in a leadership role at the Fondo Nacional de las Artes.

Miguel was married to the editor Andrés Alfonso Bravo. She died of colorectal cancer in 2003.

Selected works

 1961 "La hora undécima" (novela)
 1965 "Los que comimos a Solís" (short stories)
 1970 "Calamares en su tinta" (novela)
 1972 "En el otro tablero" (short stories)
 1973 "Pueblamérica" (novela) - republished in 1998 with the title "Violentos jardines de América"
 1980 "Espejos y daguerrotipos" (novela)
 1983 "Jaque a Paysandú" (novela)
 1986 "Dos para arriba, uno para abajo" (short stories)
 1991 "Norah Lange" (biography)
 1993 "La amante del restaurador" (novela)
 1995 "Las batallas secretas de Belgrano" (novela)
 1996 "El general, el pintor y la dama" (novela)
 1997 "En el otro lado del tablero " (short stories)
 1999 "Un dandy en la corte del rey Alfonso" (novela)
 2001 "El palacio de los patos" (novela)

Awards

 Premio Emecé (for La hora undécima)
 Premio del Fondo Nacional de las Artes (for Los que comimos a Solís)
 Segundo Premio Municipal (for Los que comimos a Solís)
 Premio Municipal (for Espejos y daguerrotipos)
 Premio Planeta (for El general, el pintor y la dama)
 Premio Nacional de Literatura
 Palma de Plata of the Pen Club
 Konex Award
 Premio Dupuytrén


History of Scots law

The history of Scots law traces the development of Scots law from its early beginnings as a number of different custom systems among Scotland's early cultures to its modern role as one of the three legal jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.  The various historic sources of Scots law, including custom, feudal law, canon law, Roman law and English law have created a hybrid or mixed legal system, which shares elements with English law and Northern Irish law but also has its own unique legal institutions and sources.

Origins

The nature of Scots law before the 12th century is largely speculative but most likely was a folk-right system applying a specific customary legal tradition to a certain culture inhabiting a certain corresponding area at the time, e.g. Brehon law for the Gaels (Scoti and men of Galloway and Ayrshire), Welsh law for lowland Britons of Yr Hen Ogledd, Udal law for the Norse of Caithness and the islands, and Anglo-Saxon custom in Lothian and Borders. The earliest preserved Scottish law code is the Leges inter Brettos et Scottos, promulgated under David I (r. 1124 – 1153) and regulating Welsh and Gaelic custom. The Leges Quatuor Burgorum (‘Laws of the Four Burghs’) was promulgated sometime between 1135–57 and regulated Lothian law.

It is difficult to say with any certainty to what degree contemporary Scots law still incorporates these customary sources.  There is evidence to suggest that as late as the 17th century marriage laws in the Highlands and Islands still reflected Gaelic custom, contrary to Catholic religious principles. The formation of the Kingdom of Scotland and its subjugation of the surrounding cultures, completed by the Battle of Carham, established what is approximately the boundaries of contemporary mainland Scotland.  The Outer Hebrides were added after the Battle of Largs in 1263 and the Northern Isles were acquired in 1469, completing what is today the legal jurisdiction of Scotland.

Feudalism
In the 12th century King David I began the gradual introduction of feudalism in Scotland and established feudal land tenure over many parts of the south and east, which eventually spread northward. As feudalism began to develop in Scotland a number of separate court systems developed.

Sheriffs were appointed by the King in the south and over time spread north.  Their scope gradually developed and they were fully established across mainland Scotland by 1300. The sheriffs were originally appointed by the King as royal administrators and tax collectors but their powers grew and as early as 1214 they were holding court to hear a variety of cases.  Feudal lords were also normally permitted to hold court where disputes between their tenants, including criminal matters, were adjudicated. By the 14th century some of these feudal courts had developed into "petty kingdoms" where the King's courts did not have authority, except for cases of treason. Burghs, towns which had been given this special status usually by the King, also had their own set of local laws dealing mostly with commercial and trade matters. The burghs themselves established their own separate court system by authority of the King to administer and enforce these laws. The burgh laws were collected as the Leges burgorum by 1270, though the laws applied by the burgh courts and the sheriff courts were similar. Ecclesiastical courts also played an important role in Scotland as they had exclusive jurisdiction over matters such as marriage, contracts made on oath, inheritance and legitimacy.  These courts, unlike their lay counterparts, were generally staffed by educated men who were trained in both Roman and Canon law and offered a more sophisticated form of justice. Litigants seem to have preferred to bring disputes before the ecclesiastical courts or an ecclesiastical arbiter rather than the lay courts in Scotland.

Wars of Independence
During the period of English control over Scotland there is some evidence to suggest that King Edward I attempted to abolish Scottish laws that were contrary to English law, as he had done in Wales.  King Edward I also reformed the legal institutions of Scotland during this period with the organisation of a Scottish government in September 1305. He also sent out pairs of justices, one Englishman and one Scotsman, to oversee different regions in Scotland.

During the Wars of Scottish Independence legal developments in Scotland appeared to have slowed, likely affected by the widespread social turmoil.  There is some evidence that there were attempts to codify the law of the time and a small number of reforming statutes were passed by the Parliament of Scotland evidencing at least some concern for remedying deficiencies in the law.  Under Robert the Bruce the importance of the Parliament of Scotland grew as he called them more frequently and its composition shifted to include more representation from the burghs and lesser landowners. In 1399, a General Council established that the King should hold a parliament at least once a year for the next three years so, "that his subjects are served by the law". In 1318, a parliament at Scone enacted a code of law that drew upon older practices, but it was also dominated by current events and focused on military matters and the conduct of the war. Nevertheless, the Act also codified procedures for criminal trials and protections for vassals from ejection from the land.

Scotland's three oldest universities, the University of St Andrews, the University of Glasgow and the University of Aberdeen were also founded following the wars and the Education Act 1496 was passed requiring those who administered justice in Scotland to learn Latin and study law for at least 3 years at school.

From the 14th century we have surviving examples of early Scottish legal literature, such as the Regiam Majestatem (on procedure at the royal courts) and the Quoniam Attachiamenta (on procedure at the baron courts).  Both of these important texts, as they were copied, had provisions from Roman law and the ius commune inserted or developed, demonstrating the influence which both these sources had on Scots law.

Stewart Dynasty
The Stewart dynasty, founded by King Robert II in 1371, was defined by the growing authority and power of the Scottish Kings and development of existing legal institutions.  In 1469, the Parliament of Scotland affirmed the ultimate authority of King James III and rejected the authority of imperial notaries in Scottish civil matters. The recognition of the sovereign authority of the Scottish Kings was connected to the influence of the ius commune in Scots law. For example, the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges of 1438 was an attempt to limit papal authority in France and recognise the sovereign authority of King Charles VII of France.  Various customary laws, such as the Law of Clan MacDuff, came under attack from the Stewart Dynasty which consequently extended the reach of Scots common law.

From the reign of King James I to King James V the beginnings of a legal profession began to develop and the administration of criminal and civil justice was centralised.  The Parliament of Scotland was normally called on an annual basis during this period, with the notable exception of King James IV, and its membership was further defined.  The number of burghs also continued to expand, including the introduction of burghs of barony, and their authority remained largely undisturbed. The evolution of the modern Court of Session also traces its history to the 15th and early 16th century with the establishment of a specialised group of councillors to the King evolving from the King's Council who dealt solely with the administration of justice.  In 1528, it was established that the Lords of Council not appointed to this body were to be excluded from its audiences and it was also this body that four years later in 1532 became the College of Justice.

The growing activity of the parliament and the centralisation of administration in Scotland called for the better dissemination of Acts of the parliament to the courts and other enforcers of the law.  There was still a great reliance on the old laws, codified in the Regiam Majestatem and Quoniam Attachiamenta among others, which persisted.  Throughout the late 15th century various unsuccessful attempts were made to form commissions of experts to codify, update or define Scots law.  The legal uncertainty which this situation created prompted increased reliance on the ius commune found in Canon law and there are a number of examples of statutes from this period which clearly drew from Roman law.

Men educated in the law also became increasingly important alongside the early development of the College of Justice and ecclesiastical courts, filling the need for experts in advocacy, pleading and court procedure. The study of law was popular in Scotland and many students travelled to Continental Europe to study canon law and civil law. In 1532, when the College of Justice established rules of practice and a closed list of ten lawyers permitted to appear before them, six had studied law abroad. This also expanded the influence of Roman law and the ius commune on the Scottish common law.  The general practice during this period, as evidenced from records of cases, seems to have been to defer to specific Scottish laws on a matter when available and to fill in any gaps with provisions from the ius commune embodied in civil and canon law, which had the advantage of being written.

Great Britain
The Act of Union 1707 unified the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England to form Great Britain. Article 19 of the Act confirmed the continuing authority of the College of Justice, Court of Session and Court of Justiciary in Scotland. Article 3, however, merged the Parliament of Scotland with the Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, with its seat in the Palace of Westminster, London.

The Parliament of Great Britain was now unrestricted in altering laws concerning public right, policy and civil government, but concerning private right, only alterations for the evident utility of the subjects within Scotland were permitted. The Scottish Enlightenment then reinvigorated Scots law as a university-taught discipline. The transfer of legislative power to London and the introduction of appeal to the House of Lords (now to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom) brought further English influence. In the nineteenth century new areas of public policy that had not been part of Scottish law, in areas such as public health, working conditions, the protection of investors, were legislated for by the British Parliament, challenging the uniqueness of the system. Acts of the Parliament began to create unified legal statutes applying in both England and Scotland, particularly when conformity was seen as necessary for pragmatic reasons (such as the Sale of Goods Act 1893). Appeal decisions by English judges raised concerns about this appeal to a foreign system, and in the late 19th century Acts allowed for the appointment of Scottish Lords of Appeal in Ordinary. At the same time, a series of cases made it clear that no appeal lay from the High Court of Justiciary to the House of Lords.

Today the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom usually has a minimum of two Scottish justices to ensure that some Scottish experience is brought to bear on Scottish appeals. Scots law has continued to change and develop, with the most significant change coming under devolution and the formation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.

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USS Palos (1865)

The first USS Palos was a 4th rate iron screw tug in the United States Navy during the late 19th century. She was named for Palos de la Frontera in Spain, the place where Christopher Columbus started the first voyage to America.

Palos was built by James Tetlow, Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1865 and was put into service as yard tug at the Boston Navy Yard the following year. Placed in ordinary in 1869, the tug was converted to a gunboat and commissioned 11 June 1870, Lieutenant C. H. Rockwell in command.

Departing Boston 20 June for the Asiatic Station, Palos steamed across the Atlantic Ocean and through the Mediterranean Sea, becoming the first American warship to transit the Suez Canal 11–13 August, and arrived at Singapore, via Aden and Ceylon, 25 September. Following a brief stay at that port, the gunboat put out for Hong Kong and for the next 22 years operated on the China and Japan coasts and inland waters.

In May 1871, the warship sailed from Shanghai for Nagasaki, Japan, and thence Korea as part of the Asiatic Squadron under Rear Admiral John Rodgers carrying U.S. Minister to China Frederick Low on a diplomatic mission to the “Hermit Kingdom.” While engaged in surveying the Salee River 1 June, she was fired upon by a Korean fort, two men from the squadron being wounded before return fire stopped the attack. Admiral Rodgers waited ten days for an official apology and then ordered Palos, gunboat Monocacy, and a 650 man landing party into action, the two warships supporting an assault and capture of the main Korean fort 10 June and the taking of four others the next day. The squadron departed the Korean coast 3 July without renewing negotiations.

Palos continued her operations on the Asiatic Station into 1891, cruising the Chinese and Japanese coasts, visiting the open treaty ports and making occasional voyages up the Yangtze and Canton Rivers. From June to September 1891, anti-foreign riots up the Yangtze forced the warship to make an extended voyage as far as Hankow, 600 miles upriver. Stopping at each open treaty port, the gunboat cooperated with naval vessels of other nations and repairing damage. She then operated along the north and central China coast and on the lower Yangtze until June 1892 when she sailed for Nagasaki, arriving on the 19th.

Palos was condemned as unfit for further service there 6 July and was decommissioned and sold at auction 25 January 1893. She was subsequently scrapped.


Verin Bazmaberd

Verin Bazmaberd (; formerly, Verin Agdzhakala, Aghjaghala Ulia, and Verkhnyaya Agdzhakala) is a town in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.


Perła, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Perła  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dębno, within Brzesko County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately  north-east of Dębno,  east of Brzesko, and  east of the regional capital Kraków.


Ogrodniki, Białystok County

Ogrodniki  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dobrzyniewo Duże, within Białystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.


Baseball at the 1990 Asian Games

Baseball was contested by four teams Chinese Taipei, Japan, South Korea and China as a demonstration sport at the 1990 Asian Games in Fengtai Softball Field, Beijing, China from 3 October to 5 October 1990.

Chinese Taipei won the competition with a 2–1 record. South Korea and Japan finished second and third with the same record, the host nation China finished last without winning a match.

Medalists

Results


Alfred Stork

Alfred Stork (April 11, 1871 – March 16, 1945) was a merchant and political figure in British Columbia, Canada. He represented Skeena in the House of Commons of Canada from 1921 to 1926 as a Liberal.

He was born in Bolton, Ontario, the son of James Stork. Stork was a merchant and hardware dealer in Fernie and then Prince Rupert. In 1898, he married Emily Parkinson. He was mayor of Fernie in 1904 and mayor of Prince Rupert in 1910. Stork was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the House of Commons in 1917. He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1926. Stork died in Brampton, Ontario at the age of 73.


Scherezade García

Scherezade García (sometimes Scherezade García Vasquez) (born 1966) is a painter, printmaker and installation artist from the Dominican Republic based in New York City.

Early life and education
Born in Santo Domingo, García was active in visual arts from the time she was a girl. In 1986 she received a full merit scholarship to study at Parsons, the New School for Design in New York City and has been based there ever since. She had received her AAS from the Altos de Chavón School of Design, a Parsons affiliate, in La Romana, in her home country. After receiving her BFA from Parsons, she received an MFA from the City College of New York.

Career
She has since served on the faculty of Parsons. In 2015 she received a career grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. A co-founder of the Dominican York ProyectoGráfica, García is a member of the advisory board of No Longer Empty.

Much of García's work deals with themes relating to immigration and the desire to belong in a new country; she has stated that her interest lies in the Caribbean, especially the Hispanic diaspora, and her art is informed by aspects of her black and European heritage. Four of her mixed-media works are in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Other works may be found in the collections of El Museo del Barrio, the Housatonic Museum of Art, and the  Museo de Arte Moderno Santo Domingo.

Selected Works

 Paradise Redefined: at the Lehman College Art Gallery, December 2006, a sculptural installation of tent like structures covered with images of Dominican tenant buildings and bodegas, with light, street sounds and fragments of Spanish language emanating from within. Intermittently breaking wave sounds add to the mix coming from a mural size beach scene. "The installation is concerned with issues of identity and homeland, and the expectations of a better life, which often characterize stories of migration to the United States." said Benjamin Gennochio critic for the New York Times.

 Hurricane Sandy Altar: 2013, is a painting featured in an essay by Abigail Lapin Dardashti titled El Dorado: the Neobaroque in Dominican American Art, focusing the use of gold by Dominican artists who subvert myths and dreams constructed by imperialist and neocolonialist economic and political systems

 Transit/Liquid Highway: September 2015, exhibited in the lobby of Columbia University's Wallach Art Gallery Miller Theatre, is a site-specific mural explores the relationship between the Dominican Republic and immigrants new homeland. Large images of waves and found objects both intermix losses and gains of migration

 Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas, 2018. Garcia's work was included in this group exhibition curated by Abigail Lapin Dardashti at BRIC Gallery. It explored the dynamic of the Haitian/Dominican diaspora. Garcia's painting, Acariciando el chivo (Caressing the Goat), hearkens to the 19th century after the island's separation and re-colonization by Spain. Depicted as an androgynous, Black child holding a goat, Ulises Heureaux - known as Lili and born illegitimately to a Haitian father and a mother from St.Thomas - is shown in Garcia's beautifully abstracted painting as a ghostly image existing between two swirling universes. As the man who led the country of Santo Domingo during the years 1882 until Lili's assassination in 1899 he was considered heroic, and very much a contradiction of the 20th century myth of racial whiteness that the dictator Trujillo later projected.

 Memories of a Utopian Island: Also at the BRIC exhibition Garcia presented a video animation Conversation Thread in collaboration with Vladimir Cybil Charlier. Two projected silhouettes of the artists tackle contemporary issues related to their island of origin that includes both Haiti and Dominican Republic. Speaking in a mixture of French, English and Spanish and Haitian Creole the silhouettes talk back and forth about an environment of equality and collaboration rather than one of friction. On another wall Borlette (Lottery) combines the sculptural inner tubes made of rice paper beaded to resemble Voodou flags, signature elements respectively of Garcia and Chavelier's individual practices.


Thomas Bak

Thomas Tadeus Bak is a German visual artist, art director, writer and composer, mainly known for his work in photography.

Biography
Bak was born the son of immigrants from Szczecin, Northern Poland. He was entitled as "Germany’s Youngest Draughtsman" at the age of eleven due to his first publication in a German graphic magazine for mature readers and elected twice as the "Official Graphic Designer of the Hochschule fuer Kuenste Bremen" during his studies of Book/Graphic Design and Photography at this university. Bak worked as an art director in European design studios and advertising agencies before he began to lecture the Photographic Master Class of the IAA (International Academy of Arts) at the age of twenty-seven in Germany, France and Poland.  His works are featured in various releases for the music industry, including publications of former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy and Dalis Car. He was the youngest photographer ever decorated with the Reinhart-Wolf-Preis and the BFF (Bund Freischaffender Foto-Designer) as the "Best of the Best" in 2004.

Bibliography

Primary literature (books by Bak)
 Ene Mene Mysterium. Eine Sechspostkartennovelle. (1993)
 Den Hænden nach ein Hundt. (1995)
 AThMN. An Act of Tarot. (1995)
 Vropa. 22 Photographies. (1996)
 BVCH DER VVAND=LVNGEN & VVIRBEL=SÆVREN. Fynff=Zehn Blætter ihrer Længe nach betichtet. (1998)
 V.R.Op.A. : C I — IV. (1999)
 COSMONAVCIONES et Polaroïdes. (1999)
 Hand= bzw. Flusz=Abdrykke; Zwölf Absichten bald "Cosmonauciones" tätoliert. (2000)
 Atavista : 33 Photographic Compositions. (2000)
 Arche Nada; Yber dem Vm=Gang mit Todtem. Allsoh : "Gryner Fuchs" tætolirt. (2001)
 Vff=Tact zum Eiligen Kriege; Polaroïden & Tincturen. (Allrot, 2002)
 Fynff Tincturen. (Pan Press, 2002)
 The Tourist, Plates I — XXXV. (2006)
 Ex Ceterra Incognita, Capricci Erotici e Verticale. (2008)
 The Tourist, Plates XXXVI — LXXX. (2012)
 Ornament City, Essays & Capricci. (TK Verlag Hamburg, 2012)
 Psylens. (Pan Press / S.Ph.In.X. Camera Obscura International, 2013)
 On Love considered as one of the Fine Arts. Essays & Essails by Bak (TK Verlag Hamburg, 2014)
 Les Chants de Marlboror / AFFORISMEN IN SPE (Pan Press, 2015)

Secondary literature (selection)
 Inferso. KUBO Art Award 2000, Xzeit Edition Berlin ()
 Manfred Schmalriede, Norbert Waning: Reinhart-Wolf-Preis 2004
 Bund freischaffender Fotodesigner: Das BFF-Jahrbuch 2005 ()
 Peter Rautmann, Jörn Christiansen: Vier Jahrzehnte Fotografie in Bremen. Focke-Museum, 2003 ()
 Ein tierisches Vergnuegen. Kunstsammlung der Sparkasse Bremen / Edition Hachmann, 2006 ()
 ATAVISTA. L'Œuvre Photographique du Thomas Bak. 2006 (Cannes, France)
 Gemeinsam, aber getrennt. 2008 (Gesellschaft "Forum e.V." zur Foerderung der Polnischen Kultur, Ministry of Culture and Communication Germany)
 BAK = ATAVISTA. The Photographic Works of Thomas Tadeus Bak. Second Edition, 2008 (IAA Publications, St.Magnus)
 Bak — The Photographic Capriccio. Sheets from 1998 to 2008 (Galerie Hilaneh von Kories / Photoselection GmbH)
 TAZ / Die Tageszeitung, 1990 (newspaper interview in German)
 Profifoto #2, 2005 (interview in German, 8 pages)
 Zoo Magazine #20, edited by Bryan Adams. 2008 (interview & retrospective in English, 8 pages)
 Profifoto #10, 2008 (retrospective in German, 6 pages)
 Schwarzweiss #87, Das Magazin fuer Fotografie. 2012 (retrospective 2008 — 2012 in German, 8 pages)
 Alambic Parisienne #2, 2013 (interview in French; featuring current works, 8 pages)

Exhibition history (selection)
 1999 "Three Positions of Contemporary Photography" at the Profile Intermedia 02, Congress Center Bremen, Germany
 "AThMN," Media Center Bremen
 2000 "Inferso," Municipal Gallery (Bremen) & "Inferso," Kulturbrauerei GmbH (Berlin, Germany)
 2001 "Paradogs," Profile Intermedia 04 (Bremen)
 2002 "Four Decades of Photography in Bremen," Museum for the State’s History
 2004 "A=N," photokina (Cologne, Germany)
 "A=N," Design Center (Stuttgart, Germany)
 "AThMN/Metamorphoses," Institut Français & Goethe-Institut Budapest (Hungary)
 2005 "V.R.Op.A." at the headquarters of the Tokyo Journal (Japan)
 Gallery B (Nagoya, Japan)
 2006 "Ein tierisches Vergnügen," Sparkasse Bremen
 Retrospective "Atavista" at the gallery Marc Piano (Cannes, France)
 Retrospective "Atavista" at the International Academy of Arts (Lesmona, Germany)
 2008 Retrospective "Das Photographische Capriccio. Blätter aus den Jahren 1998 bis 2008" at Galerie Hilaneh von Kories / Photoselection GmbH (Hamburg, Germany)

Movies
 1993 : Incubus (22 min.)
 1999 : Χάλκανθον ~ SECRET FIGVRES VVRITTEN ON VVATER (8 min.)
 2005 : Atavista (40 min.)
 2008 : Edgar Alien Poe (28 min.)
 2012 : Rainbows On Fire (4 min.)
 2013 : L’OVE is the LAVVN / Love is the Lawn, MMXIII (6 min.)


Good Old Boat

Good Old Boat (GOB) is a niche magazine dedicated to hands-on sailboat owners, those inclined to tackle much of the maintenance tasks and improvement projects themselves. Good Old Boat publishes reviews of boats long out of production, stories from sailors who have learned lessons out on the water, technical articles about equipment installations and repairs, essays on the joy and endless fascination that sailing provokes, and much more.

Overview

The company was an early adopter (1997) of a “virtual organization” business model, in that there is no central office or headquarters.  Rather, the few employees and a larger number of freelancers, many of whom are regular contributors, work remotely in various locations around the United States and the world.

The magazine differs from advertising-driven publications in that while it accepts a limited amount of advertising, revenue is primarily driven through subscriptions and newsstand sales.  In addition, article titles are absent from the cover art, a journalistic design decision differing from many other publications.

History

Good Old Boat was founded and edited by Karen Larson and Jerry Powlas in 1997.  In January 2018 ownership changed hands to former employees Karla Sandness, Michael Robertson and Nancy Koucky.

Notable contributors
Reese Palley
Lin and Larry Pardey
Robert Perry
Alan Lucas


Regina Vandysheva

Regina Vandysheva (born October 31, 1992) is a Kazakhstani model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Kazakhstan 2014 and represented her country at Miss World 2015 pageants.

Personal life
Currently, Regina is being an Athlete as her professional career. In 2014, Regina was crowned as Miss Almaty 2014. Together at the event the reigning Miss Kazakhstan 2013, Aiday Isaeva gave a crown to Regina. Automatically she competed at Miss Kazakhstan 2014 National contest.

Miss Kazakhstan 2014
On November 28, 2014 Regina was crowned as Miss Kazakhstan 2014 represented Almaty. The pageant was held in Central Asia at the Republic Palace. Regina had become the 18th woman who named as Miss Kazakhstan

Miss World 2015
According to the official website of Miss Kazakhstan Organization, Regina joined at Miss World 2015 pageant and placed Top 20.


Shahine Ezell

Shahine Ezell (Dallas, Texas) is a film and television actor, record producer, talent manager and songwriter. Ezell is Leighton Meester's talent manager as well as the songwriter and record producer of "The Nomads". He attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and California Institute of the Arts for Acting.

He started his career on the television show Strong Medicine. Then moved on to work on movies: Driftwood (2006 film), Detention, Remember the Daze, and Days of Wrath. He also appeared on the NBC show Crossing Jordan. He now is working on Leighton Meester's debut album.


Mount Robie Reid

Mount Robie Reid  is a mountain in the southern end of the Garibaldi Ranges overlooking the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. It lies to the north of Mission, British Columbia, Canada and on the west side of the upper end of Stave Lake, and to the northeast of the group of summits known as the Golden Ears. It has a prominence of  relative to the lowest col between the valleys of Tingle and Osprey Creeks (Osprey Creek is tributary to the Pitt River drainage).

Together with Mount Judge Howay, which lies northeast across the deep valley of Tingle Creek, it was known as one of the Snow Peaks, and until its renaming in 1944 was referred to by old-timers as Old Baldy.  Its name commemorates Robie Lewis Reid, a noted historian and educator whose colleague Frederic W. Howay is commemorated by Mount Judge Howay.  Although relatively low, views of it dominate the mountain skyline from western Abbotsford and is also visible from Maple Ridge, North Surrey and New Westminster-Coquitlam, though from most of Mission it is invisible due to intervening smaller mountains and hill country.


Photosynthate partitioning

Photosynthate partitioning is the deferential distribution of photosynthates to plant tissues.  A photosynthate is the resulting product of photosynthesis, these products are generally sugars.  These sugars that are created from photosynthesis are broken down to create energy for use by the plant.  Sugar and other compounds move via the phloem to tissues that have an energy demand.  These areas of demand are called sinks.  While areas with an excess of sugars and a low energy demand are called sources.  Many times sinks are the actively growing tissues of the plant while the sources are where sugars are produced by photosynthesis—the leaves of plants.  Sugars are actively loaded into the phloem and moved by a positive pressure flow created by solute concentrations and turgor pressure between xylem and phloem vessel elements (specialized plant cells).  This movement of sugars is referred to as translocation.  When sugars arrive at the sink they are unloaded for storage or broken down/metabolized.

The partitioning of these sugars depends on multiple factors such as the vascular connections that exist, the location of the sink to source, the developmental stage, and the strength of that sink.  Vascular connections exist between sources and sinks and those that are the most direct have been shown to receive more photosynthates than those that must travel through extensive connections.  This also goes for proximity those closer to the source are easier to translocate sugars to.  Developmental stage plays a large role in partitioning, organs that are young such as meristems and new leaves have a higher demand, as well as those that are entering reproductive maturity—creating fruits, flowers, and seeds.  Many of these developing organs have a higher sink strength.  Those with higher sink strengths receive more photosynthates than lower strength sinks.  Sinks compete to receive these compounds and combination of factors playing in determining how much and how fast sinks receives photosynthates to grow and complete physiological activities.


1977 Romanian local elections

Local elections were held in the Socialist Republic of Romania on 20 November 1977.

A mandate represented two and a half years, according to 1965 Constitution of Romania.


Karuppu Sami

Karuppu Sami (கருப்பசாமி Karuppasāmi) is one of the regional Tamil Hindu male deities popular among the rural social groups of Tamil Nadu and parts of Kerala (Sabarimalai, Achenkovil and small shrines). He is one of the 21 associated folk-deities of Ayyanar and is hence one among the demi gods or  Kaval Deivams of the Tamil heritage.  He was believed to come from the Kerala region (Erumeli) as an assistant to Ayyanar (Ayyappan) during the Sangam Age.  He was a local hero and then after his passing, the locals eventually worshipped his spirit (a Dravidian practice) and he was elevated as a "kaval deivam", just like Ayyanar was.

Temples and shrines
Karuppu Sami temple is mostly found in the outskirts of the Village. Usually, the whole village contributes to the maintenance of the temple. These temples/shrines do not have traditional Gopurams and have large statues of Gods with large eyes, holding weapons like bow and arrow, swords, sickle and other weapons. There could also be statues of 7 Kannimaar goddesses/Saptha Kanniyar (7 virgins) and animals, often a hunting dog, a lion and horse alongside the main idol of Karuppusami.

Worship
Karuppanar worship is a very ancient ancestral clan-based worship system. Most officiating priests are non-Brahmins and derive from local lineages that had initiated the cult generations ago. The worship pattern is non-Vedic or non-Agamic through folk tales, songs and arts (Villu pattu, Karakattam, Koothu etc.). The local priest might offer flowers or vibuthi (holy ash) to the worshippers and may play the role of an oracle for Shamanism. Various persons within the clan system are identified to play to the role of oracle on annual turn basis. They undertake vradham and maintain chastity and purity during the period. During the festivals, oracles get into trance state (Saami aadudhal) and deliver counselling messages to the group assembled there without bias.  Before the oracles deliver counselling messages, oracles stand on top the aruval (aruval Mel vakku).  The normal problems addressed are family problems, financial troubles and local community and social issues for resolving within the community group with the agreement of local ancestral god through oracle. Whenever the wishes of the people are granted, they give their offerings to Him based on what they vowed to offer.

Karuppu Sami is also worshipped in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, Guadeloupe, and Martinique under the name Dee Baba, Maangadu Karupu, or Sangili Karuppar. Offerings of cigarettes, camphor, biscuits, butter, cloves, ghee, and alcohol as well as a sacrifice of a black chicken or goat are made to him here.

Annual festivals
The village committee would decide on when the annual festival be conducted. The time of the year when this would fall varies with villages and their local customs - each of which will be associated a folk-lore. Generally, the mass convention assembly of a large number of related family members is organized during the spring season for a period of 2 to 3 days. The commencement of the festival will be with that of a hoisting of the flag and tying the "Kaappu". After this time, villagers cannot go out of the village but can come in from a different village. During this annual gathering, a large number of goats and chicken are sacrificed for Karuppanar. He is also offered Beedis (country made cigarettes) or cigars and Naravam or some form of modern alcohol.


The 2019 European Parliament election in Finland for the election of the delegation from Finland to the European Parliament took place on 26 May 2019.

Working committee, consisting of the party secretaries of all parliamentary parties, suggested in May 2017 that the Finnish parliamentary election, scheduled for April 2019, should be organized simultaneously with the European Parliament election. The suggestion was under consideration of the Minister of Justice Antti Häkkänen but did not see enough parliamentary support to pass. Ultimately, the 2019 Finnish parliamentary election took place on 14 April 2019.

Opinion polls

Results


Agriculture and Food Act of 1981

The Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 (, also known as the 1981 U.S. Farm Bill) was the 4-year omnibus farm bill that continued and modified commodity programs through 1985. It set specific target prices for 4 years, eliminated rice allotments and marketing quotas, lowered dairy supports, and made other changes affecting a wide range of USDA activities. The next year this farm bill was amended to freeze the dairy price support level and mandate loan rates and acreage reserve provisions for the 1983 crops (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, ). Again in 1984, amendments were adopted to freeze target prices, authorize paid land diversion for feed grains, upland cotton, and rice, and provide a wheat payment-in-kind program for 1984 (Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act of 1984, ).


Aqa Vali

Aqa Vali (, also Romanized as Āqā Valī) is a village in Sepiddasht Rural District, Papi District, Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 26, in 5 families.


So Happy I Could Die

"So Happy I Could Die" is a song from American singer Lady Gaga, taken from her second major release and her third extended play, The Fame Monster (2009). It was written by herself, Nadir "RedOne" Khayat, and Nicolas "Space Cowboy" Dresti, with production helmed by RedOne. Inspired by Gaga's fear of what she described as the "Alcohol Monster", the song is about the influences of alcoholism, and also explores several sexual themes in its lyrics as well as liberalism.

Musically, it is a Europop song with Auto-Tune effects.  "So Happy I Could Die" received mostly positive reviews, with critics complimenting its sexual nature. The song charted in Hungary, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Performances for the song transpired during The Monster Ball Tour (2009–2011), during which Gaga wore a mechanically controlled moving dress while singing the song.

Background and recording
Lady Gaga collaborated with RedOne and Space Cowboy in writing and producing "So Happy I Could Die". All three of them were the main instrumentalists behind the song and recorded it at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles. Other personnel who worked on the song includes Johny Severin for vocal editing and audio engineering, Dave Russell for audio engineering and Mike Orton for mixing the song at Sarm West Studios. An occasional drinker, the song represents Gaga's fear of what she describes as the "Alcohol Monster", as evident of several lyrics in the song, such as the chorus; "Happy in the club with a bottle of red wine, stars in our eyes and we're having a good time." In an interview with MTV, Gaga professed that the song is about the euphoric effects of alcohol—the so-called "happy place"—and explained that her fear is split between two songs. "My fear of alcohol. My fear of drugs... fear of addiction. [...] But alcohol is funny because it takes you down to this very happy place and just like forgetting all your problems and for just a minute you're so happy, and then all of a sudden, [your] stomach turns and go way down... And that's my relationship with consumption and abuse." Other meaning behind the song was given by a writer for Elle magazine, which described it as "about masturbating while thinking about a woman". While writing the song, the singer was inspired by English singer Lily Allen and Tasmin Archer's hit "Sleeping Satellite" (1992).

Music and lyrical interpretation
"So Happy I Could Die" is a mid-tempo Europop song, which is filled with Auto-Tune, giving it an echoing effect. According to the music sheet published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing on the website Musicnotes.com, the song is written in the time signature of common time, and is composed in the key of A minor with a tempo of 100 beats per minute. Gaga's voice ranges from the tonal nodes of A3 to A4 and the song follows a basic sequence of F–G–Em–Am as its chord progression. As Gaga sings the chorus, its melody emulates Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful of Sunshine" (2008). Paul Lester of BBC suggested that "So Happy I Could Die" is reflective of the LGBT themes common in Gaga's songs, while Slant Magazine journalist Sal Cinquemani asserted that it telegraphed the "instructive" execution of the singer's rejection of "any and all intimacy with others". "'So Happy I Could Die' is a love song," he remarked, "but the object of her affection is herself—looking at herself, drinking with herself, dancing with herself, touching herself."

Academic Richard J. Gray found parallels between the song and the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood". He noted that through the song's lyrics, Gaga embodied both the young girl as well as the "ravenous" wolf. Gaga acts as the viewer, the drinker as well as the sexual aggressor. In the book, The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga, Gray expanded on his analysis of the lyrics:
In the wilderness of the dance floor, Gaga recognizes the wolf-woman she has become and refuses to misrepresent herself any longer. She notes that in the quiet of the night, despite falsehoods and tears, she can feel satisfaction by touching herself. By stroking herself and perhaps her metaphorical wolf-pelt, Gaga is engaging in a moment of self-acceptance and self-soothing. Lady Gaga realizes that it will be difficult to maintain her dualistic nature, and alludes to upcoming death when she tells audiences that she is so content that she would welcome death. These words appear to foreshadow the end of [The Fame Monster], as the singer alludes to a calm acceptance of her spiritual/ghostly side.
Comparisons between the song and Britney Spears's "Touch of My Hand" from the latter's fourth studio album In the Zone were made by music critics. However, Bradley Stern of the music website MuuMuse remarked that its lyrics and music were "too dark to place [it] in the same realm as Spears' ode to self-exploration". During the chorus Gaga sings, "Happy in the club with a bottle of red wine / Stars in our eyes 'cause we're having a good time / Hey-ey, Hey-ey / So happy I could die." Melinda Newman from the website HitFix compared the song's sound with Madonna while also noting similarities in the refrain containing the lines "hey-ey-hey-ey" to Rihanna. Tony Hardy from the website Consequence of Sound described "So Happy I Could Die" as a "chilled" song with lyrics open to interpretation. He felt that potential themes of the song may be Sapphic desires, the singer's alter ego and "transient" effects of wine and fame. A writer of Popjustice compared the song's "ravey" beats with work by DJ Tiësto.

Critical response

Describing it as a "pop fluff" song, Simon Price of The Independent wrote that "there's always a suggestion of something interesting going on behind those glitter-encrusted eyes". NME Ben Patashnik applauded the song's suggestive nature; "'So Happy I Could Die' perfectly evokes the feeling of being alone in a crowded room with its icy beats, suggesting Gaga takes refuge in masturbation as the only way to retain control." "So Happy I Could Die" was declared as the twenty-seventh best Lady Gaga song by Rolling Stone, who concluded: "Gaga exults in the pleasures of club-hopping, drinking and bi-curiosity." Under the Radar columnist Nick Hyman avouched that "So Happy I Could Die" was an uninspiring track, while Evan Sawdey of PopMatters felt that Gaga's vocals were the worst out of any of her songs. "It's a bit of a disappointment, too, because for someone who is so painfully deliberate in crafting their unique visual image, it’s a let down to see that some of that quality control couldn’t be applied to the song selection that will ultimately define their legacy."

Bradley Stern of MuuMuse felt that the song was a continuation to Gaga's own "Starstruck" from The Fame, as they had the same "squeaky synthesizers and urban flavoring to engage in some self-indulgence". He went on to describe its music and lyrics as "dark" while also calling the song "[m]inimal and moody". Digital Spy's Nick Levine described the singer as "titillating" in the song while singing about "'touching herself' at the sight of a 'lavender blonde'". Melinda Newman from the website HitFix felt the song gave a chance to Gaga to explore her singing talents and concluded, "Hypnotic and a fun sing-along, this could be a single." Tony Hardy from Consequence of Sound noted that the song, which had a "promising" title was "not that bad". An editor of Popjustice felt that the song was not suitable for a single release but noted it was important to "the whole 'Fame Monster' thing". A more mixed review came from a writer of the website musicOMH who felt that the pace of The Fame Monster "slowed slightly" with "So Happy I Could Die". He went on to describe its lyrics as "too contrived" and added that it "lacks the fizz of the earlier tracks". Similarly, Andrew Ryce from Beats per Minute felt that the song was an "unconvincing anthem for hedonism, sounding more like a wistful lament than a party track".

Chart performance
Upon release of the album, "So Happy I Could Die" garnered minor commercial success. It attained its highest position in Hungary, where it peaked at number ten on the Hungarian Singles Chart on the chart issue dated November 23, 2009. In Europe, it managed to debut in musical charts in Sweden and the United Kingdom, where it debuted at number fifty-three and eighty-four, respectively. In the US, the song charted at number 35 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Digital Songs for the issue dated April 3, 2010.

Live performances
"So Happy I Could Die" was part of the setlist of Gaga's second headlining concert tour, The Monster Ball (2009–2011). On the first version of the tour, Gaga performed the song alongside "Teeth", wearing a black leather corset. During the revamped Monster Ball shows, it was performed after playing some of her songs on the piano. She was then caught by a "tornado", which was portrayed by a cylinder shaped video screen lowered from the ceiling, covering the singer. Reappearing on stage, Gaga started performing the song while a hydraulic lift raised her high up in the air. She was seen wearing her "Living Dress", a white costume that moves on its own accord, complete with wings and a long train. The dress was mechanically and remotely controlled for its movements. It was inspired by the creations of designer Hussein Chalayan and was made by Vin Burnham. Gaga's references for the performance was both Dorothy as well as Glinda the Good Witch, from the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz. According to Academic Richard J. Gray, Gaga merged both the characters in the performance, demonstrating the overall story arc of the tour, about self-sufficiency towards freedom and personal growth. He also listed is as the "most awe-inspiring and show stopping sight of the [tour]."

Credits and personnel

Lady Gaga – vocals, songwriter, producer, keyboards, background vocals, arrangement
Nadir "RedOne" Khayat – songwriter, producer, programming, keyboards, arrangement, audio engineering
Nicolas "Space Cowboy" Dresti – songwriter, producer, programming, keyboards
 Johny Severin – vocal editing, audio engineering
 Dave Russell – audio engineering
 Mike Orton – audio mixing
Credits adapted from The Fame Monster album liner notes.

Charts


Furu Platinum

Furu Purachina (降るプラチナ, lit. Falling Platinum) is Akino Arai's fourth official album release.

Track listing
"スプートニク"
(SUPUUTONIKU, Sputnik)
"願い事"
(Negaigoto, The Wish)
"ガレキの楽園"
(Gareki no Rakuen, Paradise of Rubble)
"Flower"
"Orange Noel"
"愛の温度"
(Ai no Ondo, Temperature of Love)
"Réve"
(Dream)
"音叉"
(Onsa, Tuning Fork)
"赤い砂白い花"
(Akai Suna Shiroi Hana, Red Sand White Flower)
"降るプラチナ"
(Furu Purachina, Falling Platinum)
"メロディ"
(Merodi, Melody)

External links
 www.akinoarai.com

 Sputnik review by Houston Press


Bill Smith (Canadian musician)

William Ernest Smith (usually called Bill Smith) (born 12 May 1938) is a Canadian writer, editor, record producer, saxophonist, and clarinetist of English birth. He has served as the editor of CODA magazine since 1976 and is a co-founder of Sackville Records, a Canadian record label that specializes
in jazz.

Biography
Born in Bristol, Smith studied aeronautical design at the North Staffordshire Technical Institute and played drums and trumpet in England before moving to Toronto in 1963 when he became the art director of CODA, a jazz music magazine. In 1967 he was promoted to the role of co-publisher of CODA with John Norris. He succeeded Norris as editor of the magazine in 1976. In 1968 Smith and Norris co-founded Sackville Records, is a Canadian record label specializing in jazz music.

While working at CODA, Smith began seriously studying and performing jazz as a saxophonist and clarinetist in Toronto. He developed a modest, conversational style and began performing in freely improvised settings in the mid-1970s, first with pianist Stuart Broomer and percussionist John Mars in the jazz trio "Broomer, Mars & Smith". He then performed with his own jazz trio, the Bill Smith Ensemble (BSE) from 1980–1989. Other members of the BSE included violinist David Prentice and double bass player David Lee. The BSE recorded several albums, both as a trio and with guests Leo Smith and Joe McPhee.

Smith performed in London in April 1983 as " Four Nights of Canadian Improvised Music" with fellow Canadian saxophonist, Maury Coles, starting at the Seven Dials Jazz Club, Covent Garden, run by Matthew Wright of Ray's Jazz Shop.  They were accompanied by local musicians Paul Rutherford (trombone), Paul Rogers (bass) and Nigel Morris (drums). This was followed by gigs at Club Extempore, Haverstock Hill, Club Improv, Conway Street and the New Merlin's Cave. Other musicians involved included Jim Dvorak, Roger Turner, Ollie Blanchflower, Marcio Mattos, Eddie Prevost, Elton Dean and Harrison Smith (no relation).

In addition to his work with the BSE, SMith performed as a sopranino saxophonist in Zes Winden (1986–88). He was also co-producer with Ron Mann of a feature-length documentary about the October Revolution in Jazz, Imagine the Sound (1981), and published a collection of his jazz photography and reminiscences, Imagine the Sound, no.5: The Book (Toronto, 1985). In 1989 Smith moved the editorial offices of CODA to Hornby Island, northwest of Vancouver, and thereafter played saxophone and drums locally. The magazine's business office remains in Toronto, under Norris.

Discography
CCMC, Music Gallery LP
PICK A NUMBER Bill Smith Trio (David Lee and David Prentice), Onari LP
CONVERSATIONS with Stuart Broomer
RASTAFARI, Leo Smith with The Bill Smith Ensemble (Bill Smith, David Lee, David Prentice and Larry Potter), Sackville LP and CB
ZES WINDEN, Zes Winden (with Bill Smith, John Tchicai, Dies Le Duc, Klaas Hekman, Ad Peijnenburg and Frans Vermeerssen), BVHaast LP

With Joe McPhee
Visitation (Sackville, 1983 [1985]) LP and CD


Lelis (genus)

Lelis is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:

 Lelis bicolor Chaudoir, 1896
 Lelis obtusangula (Chaudoir, 1852)
 Lelis quadrisignata (Buquet, 1834)
 Lelis rutila (Bates, 1869)
 Lelis viridipennis Chaudoir, 1869


Great Synagogue (Constanța)

The Great Synagogue of Constanța is a disused former Ashkenazi synagogue ”for the Jews called « Polish »”, located at 2 C. A. Rosetti Street, corner with Petru Rareş Street in the city of Constanța, Romania.

The synagogue was built between 1910 and 1914 in a Moorish Revival architectural style on the site of an earlier synagogue, erected in 1867/1872, in the
place of an older synagogue, built after a firman of Sultan Abdul Azis.The first steps were initiated in 1907, but the original building application submitted in 1908 was denied due to concerns about the strength of the proposed dome and galleries. Architect Anghel Păunescu thus replaced the proposed dome with a semi-cylindrical vault intended to express the same "seduction of the curved space".

In the interwar period, there had been two main synagogues in Constanța: there was also a  Sephardic Temple, built between 1905 and 1908 in a Catalan Gothic architectural style, The sephardic synagogue was heavily damaged during the Second World War when it was used as an ammunition warehouse, later further damaged by an earthquake, and was demolished in 1989 under the rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Condition
As the Jewish population in Constanța declined, the synagogue fell into disuse. Photographs show the synagogue was still in use - and in good repair - as recently as 1996, but once abandoned, the building had been "ransacked of anything not nailed down". The structure of the building is still standing, but is in an advanced state of degradation and is in danger of collapsing.

Only three of the four walls are intact, and the roof has partially collapsed. A tree grows in the middle of the sanctuary and most of the stained glass windows have been smashed.

Journalists Florin Anghel and Cristian Andrei Leonte blamed local officials and popular opinion for allowing the building to "crumble to the point of collapse", noting that synagogues in other cities were "splendidly renovated and converted into cultural centres or exhibition halls." Aurel Vainer, president of the Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania, blamed lack of interest for the deterioration of the synagogue.

In November 2014, a team of architects from Bucharest were hired to inspect the building, assess the necessary repairs and estimate costs.

Architecture
The synagogue has three levels. The exterior doors and windows display a Moorish influence. Inside, the worship area is divided into three naves with traditional Jewish decorations.


Tapasa vai Ganga

Tapasa vai Ganga (Ganga was brought to the earth only by Tapa ie penance meaning which a great task can only be achieved by Tapa or Penance) is the biography of Radha Krishna Choudhary, an eminent historian and littérateur of Mithila, written by dr. Binod Bihari Verma, published in 1995.

Overview
This biography, contains two parts in the same volume. The first part deals with the sequence of life of Prof Radha Krishna Choudhary, and the second part deals with the analysis of his thinking, creative and academic works.

Contents
 Aamukh (Foreword)
 Aabhaar gyaapan (Acknowledgements)
 Part I: Jeevan dhara (Life story)
 Biyar mul evam purvaj (Genealogy and forefathers)
 Pitamah (Grandfather)
 Mata pita (Parents)
 Vishvak sthiti (Global situation)
 Tatkaalin bhartiya rajniti (Indian political situation)
 Janma (Birth)
 Mithila mata sa agaadh prem (Love of mother mithila)
 Baalsangi koshik vinaash leela (Destruction caused by Kosi river)
 Balyakaal (Childhood)
 Vidyarthi jeevan (Student life)
 Bhagalpur ma college (College study in Bhagalpur)
 Tatkaalin vampanthi andolan (Contemporary leftist movement)
 Rashtraprem o svatantrata snagram (Patriotism and freedom struggle)
 1942 ke nau din (Nine days of 1942)
 1943: Bangaalak akal piditak seva (Service to the drought hit Bengal in 1943)
 Uttar bihar rilif kameti (North bihar relief committee)
 Anya sabha samitik ayojan (Organisation of other conferences and meetings)
 Lekchararak pad par niyukti (Appointment as Lecturer)
 Bivah (Marriage)
 Kumharaarak utkhanan (Archaeological excavation at Kumhar)
 Shikshakak rup ma (As an educationist)
 Chhatrak sansmaran (In the memory of his students)
 Parivar (Family)
 Mitra varg (Friends)
 Devghar baas (Stay at Deoghar)
 Antim samay (Last stage)
 Sanstha aur vyaktitva sa sampark (Contact with various people and institutes)
 Vibhinn sanstha dvara samman aur pratishtha (Awards by various institutes)
 Itihaas sambandhi maulik shodh (Original research in history)
 Maithili sahitya ke Radha Krishna Choudharik yogdaan (Contribution of Radha Krishna Choudhary to Maithili Literature)
 Maithili lekhan (Maithili writings)
 Upsanhaar (Afterword)
 Part II: Chintan dhaara (Thinking)
 Rachna dhaara: krititva (Creative writing)
 Krititva charcha (Discussion of creative writing)
 Sarantidha (Sarantidha)
 Dhammapada (Dhammapada)
 Maithili sahityak sarvekshan (Survey of Maithili literature)
 Vidyapati kaalin mithila (Mithila in the times of Vidyapati)
 Mahakavi lal das (Mahakavi Lal Das)
 Parishisht (Appendices)
 Biyar moolak vanshavriksha (Genealogical chart of Biyar mool)
 Pratham mathili lekhak sammelan ma itihaas vibhagak sabhapatik bhashan (Declamation at first Maithili writers conference as the chairperson of history department)
 Srimati shanti devik sansmaran (Srimati Shanti Devi remembers)


Rolls-Royce 100EX

The Rolls-Royce 100 EX (EX stands for experimental model) is a concept car developed by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars in 2004.

Main features
9.0 litre V16 engine
6-speed automatic transmission
Dimensions:
Height
Width
Length

The car was produced to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the meeting of businessman Charles Rolls and engineer Henry Royce.

Rolls-Royce 101EX

In 2004, the 101EX, a grand tourer coupe prototype based on the 100EX, was presented at the Geneva International Auto Show.

The 101EX shares its aluminium space frame chassis technology with the 2003 Phantom, albeit in a shortened version. The car is  shorter than the Phantom saloon, with a lower roofline and shallower glass area. Power comes from a BMW 9.0L V16 engine. It debuted at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show. This car was featured in the film Johnny English Reborn, and for the film Rowan Atkinson asked of BMW to use one of the V16s intended originally for the Phantom, to which BMW agreed.

The 101EX produces  at 5900 rpm and  of torque at 2900 rpm.

The updated body styling of the 101EX would serve as the basis for the Phantom Drophead Coupé and Phantom Coupé.


Holopaw

Holopaw is an American indie band from Gainesville, Florida.  The band was named after the town of Holopaw in Osceola County, Florida, although none of the members of the band have ever lived there.  One of its members, John Orth, collaborated with Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock and others in 2002 to release the album Sharpen Your Teeth under the band name Ugly Casanova. Another member, Michael Johnson (Ape School), went on to join Kurt Heasley's Lilys.

History
John Orth and Jeff Hays played as a duo for some time before joining with Michael Johnson, Ryan Gensemer, and Tobi Echevarria as Holopaw for the first two albums.  Johnson, Gensemer and Echevarria relocated to Philadelphia.  Holopaw now consists of Orth, Patrick Quinney, Jeff McMullen, Matt Radick, and Ryan Quinney.

 "depending on when you ask us holopaw is or has been or will be somewhere on the continuum of nothing-comic adaptation-songwriting duo-play a sometime show duo-long distance recordathon-actual record-recording rock band-actual touring rock band with shows in different towns that people come to and everything....right now we’re around the actual recording touring rock band end of that spectrum....well maybe not touring but we’re working on getting back to that...."

Members
 John Orth - Vocals/Artwork
 Jeff Hays - Guitars/Pedal Steel/Vocals
 Patrick Quinney - Guitars
 Matt Radick - Keyboards/Cello/Guitars
 Jeff McMullen - Bass
 Ryan Quinney - Drums

Discography

Studio albums
Holopaw (Subpop, January 21, 2003)
Quit +/or Fight (Subpop, August 9, 2005)
Oh, Glory. Oh, Wilderness. (Bakery Outlet / Obscurist Press, November 3, 2009)
Academy Songs, Volume 1 (Misra, January 15, 2013)

External links
 Official Website
 Portfolio of John Orth


Akkalkuwa

Akkalkuwa is a town and the administrative headquarters of Akkalkuwa taluka of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra state. Akkalkuwa lies in Satpuda range of hills, with Narmada river forming northern boundary. Akarni and Taloda talukas lie on the east while southern and western boundaries are occupied by Gujarat state. Because of the hilly terrain with more than fifty percent area falling under forest. This taluka has no Nagarpalika. Big villages are Khapar and Molgi in this taluka. Population of this town is 17,840(2011).


Kakeda Toshimune

Kakeda Toshimune (died 1548) was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, who served the Date clan.


Préchacq

Préchacq is the name of several communes in France:
 Préchacq-les-Bains, Landes
 Préchacq-Josbaig, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
 Préchacq-Navarrenx, Pyrénées-Atlantiques


Tsukunft shturem

The  () was the self-defence organisation of the Tsukunft, the youth organisation of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland,  between 1929–1939. Its centre was Warsaw, where the shturem had 200–300 members.


Rickettsia heilongjiangensis

Rickettsia heilongjiangensis is a species of gram negative Alphaproteobacteria, within the spotted fever group, being carried by ticks. It is pathogenic (causing rickettsiosis).


Gordon Higginson

Sir Gordon Robert Higginson  (8 November 1929 – 5 November 2011) was an English engineer and academic who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton from 1985 to 1994. He was co-author of the standard text on hydrodynamic lubrication and the Higginson Report on A levels.

Early life
Higginson was born in Leeds in 1929. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and the University of Leeds from which he received the degrees of BSc and PhD, both in Mechanical Engineering.

Career
Higginson worked briefly for the Ministry of Supply and was then appointed Lecturer at Leeds in 1956.  In 1962 Higginson became an Associate professor at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham and in 1965 he was appointed to a chair in Civil Engineering in what is now the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences at the University of Durham. His research interest was hydrodynamic lubrication and tribology, later extending to bio-engineering.

In the 1990s he served as chair of the engineering board of the Science and Engineering Research Council, the major grant-awarding body in UK academia.

He came to wider prominence when he chaired a committee set up to advise on the reform of the A Level system, producing the "Higginson Report" into the use of technology to support learning in colleges. Despite gaining widespread approval, the report was curtly rejected by the government, but many of the detailed proposals still enjoy some currency.

Within the Further Education sector of England there was, arguably, a more successful "Higginson Report". The Learning and Technology Committee, chaired for the FEFC by Gordon Higginson, published its report in 1996. Known universally across English FE as the "Higginson Report", it made a number of recommendations for how the FEFC should go about supporting colleges' use of IT. It set a framework for Information & Learning Technology (ILT) development across the FE sector over following years.

Following the privatisation of the railway system in the UK in the 1990s, he was the founding Chair of the Railway Heritage Committee, which supervised the transfer of historic artefacts and records to collecting institutions.

Higginson was knighted in the 1992 New Year Honours. The University of Leeds conferred the degree of LLD honoris causa on him in 1994 and the University of Loughborough conferred the degree of DSc honoris causa in 2002. Higginson was also appointed a Deputy Lieutenant (DL). The University of Durham has both a lecture series, the annual Higginson Lecture, and a building named in his honour.

Higginson was married from 1954 until her death in 1996 to Marjorie Rannie. They had three sons and two daughters.


Edmond-Frédéric Le Blant

Edmond-Frédéric Le Blant (12 August 1818, Paris – 5 July 1897, Paris) was a French archaeologist and historian.  He was the father of the military artist Julien Le Blant.

He studied law and having qualified to practice, he obtained in 1843 a situation in the customs under the Finance Board. This position assured his future and he was free to follow his scientific inclinations. During a voyage through Italy (1847) he visited the Kircher Museum, and his intercourse with G. B. de Rossi determined him to undertake in France the scientific work which the founder of Christian archeology had undertaken in Rome.

As early as 1848 Le Blant was commissioned to collect the inscriptions of the earliest days of Christianity in Gaul, and like de Rossi, he made an investigation of manuscripts, printed books, museums, churches, and the Gallo-Roman cemeteries. In 1856 appeared the first volume of his "Recueil des inscriptions chrétienne des Gaules antérieures au VIIIe siècle". The second volume of the work (Paris, 1865) obtained for its author his election as a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. A third volume appeared in 1892 under the title of "Nouveau Recueil". In the course of his researches Le Blant did not overlook any questions raised by his documents. He wrote learned articles on the method of Christian epigraphy, on Christian art, on the origin, progress, popular beliefs, and moral influence of Christianity in ancient Gaul. When he resigned his post as sub-commissioner of the customs (1872) he continued to devote himself to his studies.

He tried to gather into one "Corpus" the Christian sarcophagi of which so many have been preserved in the south of France. In 1878 he published in Paris his "Etudes sur les sarcophages chrétiens de la ville d'Arles", which was followed by a second work "Etudes sur les sarcophages chrétiens de la Gaule" (Paris, 1886). In the introduction he treats of the form, ornamentation, and iconography of these monuments; he dwells upon the relationship between the sarcophagi of Arles and those of Rome, and the difference between them and those of the south-west of France, in which he finds more distinct signs of local influence. His studies and his personal tastes led him to take an interest also in the history of the persecutions and the martyrs.

In numerous writings he treats in particular of the judicial bases of the persecutions and the critical value of the Acts of the Martyrs. These studies were crowned by his work "Persécuteurs et Martyrs" (Paris, 1893), in which he displays his knowledge of history and his deep Christian convictions.

In 1883, Le Blant became director of the Ecole Française at Rome; his name figures between Geffroy and Louis Duchesne.

In addition to his works mentioned above we may mention his collaboration with Jacquemart in "Histoire artistique, industrielle et commerciale de la porcelaine" (Paris, 1862); "Manuel d'épigraphie chrétienne" (Paris, 1869); "Les Actes des martyrs, Supplément aux Acta sincera' de Dom Ruinart" (Paris, 1882).


Samisoni Rabaka

Samisoni Rabaka Nasigavesi (born 19 April 1969, in Nadi) is a Fijian former rugby union player who played as a scrum-half. His brother is the late Tomasi Rabaka, who was also a Fijian international.

Career
Grown up in the Votualevu village, in Nadi. He started his rugby career playing for the St.Mary's Rugby Club, before joining Dratabu Rugby Club and then, Airport Rugby Club. Rabaka played for the Nadi provincial team, which he captained. He first played for the Fiji national team during a test match against Samoa, in Suva, on 20 June 1992. He narrowly missed a place in the 1999 Rugby World Cup Fiji squad, however he traveled with the team as an emergency replacement for Jacob Rauluni. Rabaka was part of the Fiji roster for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, where he played the pool stage matches against France in Brisbane on 11 October and against Japan in Townsville, on 23 October, the latter being his last test cap for Fiji. In his career, he scored 29 points and 3 tries in aggregate. He also represented Fiji at sevens level.

Notes

External links

Sami Rabaka profile at Teivovo.com


Kenfig Hill

Kenfig Hill () is a village in Bridgend County, South Wales. It is bordered by Pyle to the south-west, Cefn Cribwr to the north-east, North Cornelly to the south and Moel Ton-Mawr mountain to the north.

The nearest train station is Pyle on the South Wales Main Line.

Sport and leisure
Bedford Park is a popular park for leisure activities. Kenfig Hill RFC are a rugby union team founded in 1897, and play their home games at Croft Goch Playing Fields. The village is also home to Kenfig Hill AFC, an association football team that competes in the Port Talbot Football League First Division.

Notable buildings
The village of Kenfig Hill has several buildings of note, historical and modern. St Theodore church, began in 1889 and completed in 1891, was designed by Halliday & Anderson, with the south aisle added in 1909 by Cook and Edwards of Bridgend. Moriah Chapel is built in the early 19th century tradition, architect unknown but believed to have been completed in 1850 with the full-width porch a later addition.

Cynffig Comprehensive School, constructed between 1957 and 1961, was designed by Denis Clarke Hall. It has been described as the "most complete expression of post-war Modernism in the county".

Notable residents
Arthur Bassett, dual-code international rugby player
Peter Cottrell, soldier, sailor and author
Jayce Lewis (Musician/Producer)
Cliff Davies, international rugby union player and British Lion
Alan Edwards, international rugby league player
Howard Marks, author and drug smuggler
Nathan Stephens, athlete and Paralympian
Brian Radford, international rugby league player


Fontana dell'Acqua Paola

The Fontana dell'Acqua Paola also known as Il Fontanone ("The big fountain") is a monumental fountain located on the Janiculum Hill, near the church of San Pietro in Montorio, in Rome, Italy.  It was built in 1612 to mark the end of the Acqua Paola aqueduct, restored by Pope Paul V, and took its name from him.  It was the first major fountain on the right bank of the River Tiber.

History
The Fontana dell'Acqua Paola was inspired by the popularity of the Fontana dell'Acqua Felice, built in 1585-88 by Pope Sixtus V.  Pope Paul V decided to rebuild and extend the ruined Acqua Traiana aqueduct built by the Emperor Trajan in order to create a source of clean drinking water for the residents of the Janiculum Hill, who were forced to take their water from brackish springs or from the polluted Tiber.   He raised funds for his project in part by imposing a tax upon wine, which caused complaints among some residents.  The funding from this tax and other sources allowed him to purchase the rights to the water of a spring near Lake Bracciano, not far from Rome, as the source for the fountain.

The fountain was designed by Giovanni Fontana, whose brother had worked on the Fontana dell'Acqua Felice, and Flaminio Ponzio.  They used white marble from the nearby ruins of the Roman Temple of Minerva in the Forum of Nerva, and constructed a massive gateway of five arches for the arrival of the water.   At the top of the fountain are the papal tiara and keys, above the Borghese family coat of arms of an eagle and a dragon, supported by angels. The inscription praises Pope Paul in poetic terms for bringing water to the residents of the district.

Unlike the Fontana dell'Acqua Felice, which had an abundance of statues on biblical themes, the theme of the Fontana dell'Acqua Paola was water. Five abundant streams poured through the arches into five marble basins.  In 1690 Carlo Fontana designed an additional semicircular pool for the water which overflowed from the marble basins.  Marble posts were put in place to keep coachmen from watering their animals in the fountain, but the pool was tempting to many local residents, who bathed in the water. An ordinance was issued in 1707 forbidding residents to bathe in the fountain.

The form of the fountain served as an inspiration for the later Trevi Fountain.

Dedication
The Latin dedicatory inscription atop the fountain reads:

PAVLVS • QVINTVS • PONTIFEX • MAXIMVS
AQVAM • IN • AGRO • BRACCIANENSI
SALVBERRIMIS • E • FONTIBVS • COLLECTAM
VETERIBVS • AQVAE • ALSIETINAE • DVCTIBVS • RESTITVTIS
NOVISQVE • ADDITIS
XXXV • AB • MILLIARIO • DVXIT
ANNO • DOMINI • MDCXII • PONTIFICATVS • SVI • SEPTIMO

The English line-for-line translation:

Paul the Fifth, Supreme Pontiff [brought]
water from the region of Bracciano,
gathered from the most healthy sources,
by restoring old channels of the Alsietina* water aqueduct
and adding new ones,
from 35 mile-stones away
in the year of the Lord 1612, the seventh year of his pontificate.

Note: the dedication misidentifies the restored aqueduct as the Alsietina aqueduct, built by emperor Augustus in 2 B.C.E. to supply a Naumachia, a large artificial lake used to stage mock naval combat for entertainment. However, the quality of the water from the Alsietina was poor, and Pope Paul instead restored the aqueduct Traiana, built by emperor Trajan around 109 C.E.

In music

The American composer Charles T. Griffes wrote a character piece for piano entitled "The Fountains of Acqua Paola" as part of his Roman Sketches, Op. 7 (composed 1915-16).  Griffes never visited Rome or Italy.  Rather, the pieces in his collection were inspired by a collection of poems by William Sharp entitled Sospiri di Roma (1891).

In cinema

The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino opens with a scene taking place in front of the fountain.


Juan Ríos Ovalle

Juan Ríos Ovalle (1863–1928) was a Puerto Rican musician and composer of danzas. Among his most popular danzas are: Angelina, La Graciosita (The Little Funny One), Lluvia de Perlas (Rain of Pearls), Odalisca, and Teresa.

Early years
Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1863 into a family of musicians, Ríos Ovalle became a prolific clarinet musician and danza composer.  He also composed aguinaldos, hymns, danzones and sacred music. He did not possess a lot of formal education, yet had a natural talent for music.

Professional career
Rios Ovalle was one of the few confidants of Juan Morel Campos, among whom was also musician Cosme Tizol. While not possessing the professional stature or scale of Morel Campos, he was nevertheless considered the unquestionable successor to him, in particular when it came to danzas.  Some experts believe that had Rios Ovalle been exposed to greater music education, it is possible he would have climbed much higher yet in his impact as a musician and composer.

Composer
He created over 50 musical compositions. His danzas are characterized by their high lyrical character. Upon the untimely death of master Morel Campos in 1896, Ríos Ovalle succeeded him as the most prolific representative of Ponce's danza tradition. He authored various well known compositions, including "Angelina", "Teresa", "Rain of pearls", "Odalisque" and "La Graciosita".

Musicican
Ríos Ovalle fine tuned his musical skills in the Juan Morel Campos's Orchestra, where he played first clarinet. His name became well known in Puerto Rico as well as among musicians and composers internationally.

Orchestra director
In addition to his clarinet and composer skills, he was an outstanding orchestra director. His danzas are arrhythmic and his Orchestra used the güiro as the only percussion instrument.

Recordings
He recorded with RCA Victor Records in 1917 and 1921. Some of his recording were with the Paco Tizol Orchestra.

Delicias sextet
For many years Rios Ovalle has a sextet that performed at the famed Teatro Fox Delicias. Its job was to provide a musical background for the soundless movies of the early 20th century played there. His sextet would have a preview of the soundless movie prior to its premiere showing and they would practice for hours several nights before the movie's opening night.  Renown pianist Antonia "Toñita" Príncipe ("the Princess of the keyboard") would provide coverage in the piano. In addition to soundless movies, Rios Ovalle sextet also interpreted arias for local operas voices including Aida, Lucia y Casta Susana.

Compositions
The following is a list of some of Rios Ovalle's danzas:
Angelina
Teresa
Lluvia de Perlas (Rain of Pearls)
Odalisca
La Graciosita (The Little Funny One)

Later years
He died in Ponce in 1928.

Legacy
 There a relief sculpture on the right front wall face of the Concha Acustica de Ponce engraved with his face and shoulders as well as his name.


Udaya Tara Nayar

Udaya Tara Nayar is a film journalist in India.

Early life
Udaya Tara Nayar was born in Trivandrum on 15 August 1947 as the fifth child of Shri S Ayyappan Pillai, Commissioner of Trivandrum Corporation, and Jebalabai. She had her initial schooling at Holy Angels Convent, Kunnukuzhi, Trivandrum.  Her father moved to Mumbai after he retired and Udaya Tara Nayar continued her schooling in Mumbai at St Anthony’s High School, Chembur. She graduated in English Literature and French from the University of Mumbai as a student of Ramnarain Ruia College in 1966.

Career

Early career
Udaya Tara Nayar began her journalism career in 1967 at Screen, under the mentorship of editor Shri S S Pillai, her paternal uncle. Pillai fostered an ethic of writing "from her conscience, adhering to facts and truths , treating all as equal, not hurting anyone, taking a detached, objective approach." This helped Mrs Nayar earn a reputation for being unbiased and balanced in her writing.

In 1995, Mrs Nayar launched the Screen Awards, the first awards of the Hindi cinema industry to be judged by a jury representing all sectors and crafts of the industry. Under her leadership, the Screen Awards became noted for their fairness and freedom from manipulation and bias.

In 1996, Mrs Nayar left Screen to pursue personal commitments. In her absence, the publication changed from a broadsheet format to a magazine format. Mrs Nayar returned in 1998 as editor, and restored the broadsheet format.

In 2000, Mrs Nayar once again left Screen to help raise her grandchildren. It was at this time that Dilip Kumar approached her to write his biography, The Substance and the Shadow, which made the Amazon bestseller list within two weeks of its publication.

Awards and honours
Mrs Nayar has won the following honours, recognitions and awards for her contribution to cinema journalism:
 Head of the National Jury for Books in the National Film Awards three times 1996, 1998 and 2004.
 Member of the Script Advisory Committee of Children's Film Society, India in 1998-1999.
 Member of the Advisory Council of Film and Television Institute of India in 1998-1999.
 Head of the Jury for the Aravindan Awards in Kerala.
 Honoured by the Chief Minister of Kerala, Shri A.K. Antony as a Global Malayalee in 2000, an award bestowed on distinguished Malayalees for their contribution to social betterment.
 The Best Junior Citizen award by the South Bombay Jaycees Committee in 1989 for creating a healthy trend in clean journalism.
 The Salaam Bombay Magazine award for the Best Cinema Journalist in 1989.
 The K.A. Abbas Memorial Award for Excellence in Film Journalism in 1989.
 The Priyanka Gandhi Award for Excellence in Film Journalism and championing of clean film journalism in 2004, given by the World of Priyanka Gandhi magazine.
 The 50th National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, were announced by a committee headed by Prakash Jha, Rajiv Mehrotra and Udaya Tara Nayar for the feature films, non-feature films and books written on Indian cinema.

Personal
Mrs Nayar is married to V V Nayar, a pharmaceutical executive. They have one daughter, Vasanthamalini, and two grandchildren. , Mrs Nayar is writing a book of short stories set in the southern India of her youth, dedicated to her grandchildren.


Omar Linares

Omar Linares Izquierdo (born October 23, 1967 in San Juan y Martínez, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba) is a former Cuban baseball player. Linares, who played third base for the Cuban national team and for Pinar del Río and Vegueros in the Cuban National Series wearing the number 10 on his jersey, is considered one of the greatest Cuban players of all time. Linares's first steps in the world of sports were as a track and field athlete where he was considered a promising star at a young age. Linares soon decided to follow the steps of his father Fidel Linares in the world of baseball. He is well known in Cuba for having started a baseball career at a very young age. It is to Cuban baseball broadcaster Bobby Salamanca to whom it is attributed the popularity of Linares's nickname "El Niño" (The Kid) after Linares impressed Salamanca with his baseball skills as a teen being called to the roster of Cuban national team being only 17, it is to former manager Jose Miguel Pineda that Linares attributes the authority of his nickname in 1982. After a career as a player in Cuba, Linares along with other Cuban baseball stars such as Antonio Pacheco, Orestes Kindelan and German Mesa in coordination with the Cuban national baseball commission decided to give it a try in the Nippon Professional Baseball. Linares went on to spending three unproductive seasons with the Chunichi Dragons wearing the number 44 on his jersey to later after return to Cuba. In 2009 Linares decided to become a batting coach and first base coach for longtime rival team Industriales helping them to conquer a national championship (his first as an assistant coach). Although Linares never received an official retiring ceremony, the season of 2001–2002 is considered to be his last appearance in Cuban National Baseball Series.

Career in Cuba
Linares spent 20 seasons with Pinar del Río in Cuba's National Series, compiling a career .368 batting average, the best in the league's history, with 404 home runs (third among all-times in Cuban league), 1,547 runs batted in and 264 stolen bases.

He led the National Series in batting average four times, in RBIs four times and in walks six times.

At the end of his career, Linares spent three seasons with the Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Central League. He retired in 2004.

International career
As a 14-year-old, Linares was the starting second baseman for the Cuban National youth team at the world championship, where they got the gold. His debut in Cuban national baseball series at the age of 14 was marked by his father's decision of not allowing him to play with Forestales (second team of Pinar del Río) on road games, therefore Linares only played home games that year. The inclusion of Linares in the Cuban national team at the age of 17 as an optional replacement of slugger Jose "Cheito" Rodriguez short after a controversial suspension of "Cheito" by the Cuban National baseball commission is attributed to former manager Jose Miguel Pineda. After being called up, Linares was a mainstay on the Cuban national baseball team under the guidance of baseball star Luis Giraldo Casanova during much of the 1980s and 1990s, as the starting third baseman on world championship winning teams in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1998 and 2001. He was part of Cuba's Olympic gold medal teams in 1992 and 1996, and the silver medal team in 2000. Linares also played for the Cuban national team in the 1999 Baltimore Orioles – Cuban national baseball team exhibition series.

Personal life
Linares's full name is Omar Linares Izquierdo. He is the son of former Cuban baseball player Fidel Linares and Francisca "Panchita" Izquierdo. Omar has three daughters, one from his first marriage and two from his second marriage with current wife Dianelys. He has been recalled as a very soft-spoken and shy individual. He has always proclaimed his love for his family as he also refers to the loss of his father as the saddest experience of his life.

Bibliography
In 2002 Juan A. Martinez de Osaba y Goneaga, a baseball enthusiast and annalist, published a book called El niño Linares as part of his tribute to Cuban baseball, especially to those players born in Pinar del Río Province. The book is believed to be the closest and more intimate review of Omar's life as it includes transcripts of interviews with Omar himself, family members and also former teammates such as Luis Giraldo Casanova, Juan Castro, Yobal Dueñas and others and also longtime manager Jorge Fuentes.


Bogołomia-Kolonia

Bogołomia-Kolonia  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chodecz, within Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.

The village has a population of 14.


Sootea (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Sootea (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam Legislative Assembly. Sootea forms part of the Tezpur Lok Sabha constituency.

Member of Legislative Assembly
 1962: Bijoy Chandra Bhagabati, Indian National Congress
 1967: N.C. Bhuyan, Indian National Congress
 1972: Swarna Probha Mahanta, Indian National Congress
 1978: Golok Kakati, Janata Party
 1985: Robin Saikia, Independent
 1991: Kushal Sahu, Indian National Congress
 1996: Padma Hazarika, Asom Gana Parishad
 2001: Praneswar Basumatari, Indian National Congress
 2006: Padma Hazarika, Asom Gana Parishad
 2011: Padma Hazarika, Asom Gana Parishad
 2016: Padma Hazarika, Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2016 result


Cornel Tatu

Cornel Tatu (born July 12, 1983) in Sibiu, is a former Romanian rugby union football player and currently a coach. He played as a flanker.

Club career
During his career, Tatu played mostly for Steaua București in Romania and for București Wolves a Romanian professional rugby union team based in Bucharest that competed in the European Rugby Challenge Cup competition. He ended his career at Stejarul Buzău.

International career
Tatu gathered 12 caps for Romania, from his debut in 2003 against Argentina to his last game in 2013 against Spain. He was a member of his national side for the 6th  Rugby World Cup in 2003, where he played a single match in Pool A against Argentina, which was his debut for the Oaks.

Honours
Steaua București
 SuperLiga: 2003, 2005, 2006
 Romanian Cup: 2006, 2007, 2013


Christian Caldwell

Christian Caldwell (Caddell), was a cross-dressing witch-hunter active in Morayshire, Scotland during the 1660s.

Biography
Caldwell signed a contract with the shire of Moray (Elgin) under her alias John Dickson, . Her true identity is unknown but as witch-pricking was a trade for men she disguised herself as a man to pursue her career.

Witch-Pricking
Caldwell formed her first contract with the Baillie of Spynie, John Innes, and was granted to live in the shire for one year and in turn would identify witches for a salary of 6 shillings a day. A practice for her identification of witches was testing for the devil's mark: "[A] spot on the body where a pin could be slipped in without bleeding or pain". Isobel Gowdie, a Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft at Auldearn near Nairn during 1662, might have been one of her victims. The practice involved stripping and shaving the victim completely and pushing the pin in repeatedly until the right spot was found.

Accusations and Sentence
In Tain she wrongly accused a man called John Hay, an influential court messenger who ordered her arrest. Dickson was accused of witchcraft and interrogated in Edinburgh on 30 August 1662 on the basis of "false accusation, torture, and causing death of innocent people in Moray". Her true gender was discovered. She was banished to a fever-subjected plantation in Barbados on 4 May 1663, the day her last victim was burnt in Forres.


Skiti Agiou Panteleimonos

The Skete Agiou Panteleimonos, not to be confused with the monastery of the same name, some kilometres away, is a skete of the Koutloumousiou monastery in Mount Athos Greece. The skete is one of only a handful of Idiorrhythmic monasteries in the world.

The Skete was founded in 1785 by the monk Charalampos near the town of Karies, and is a dependent of the Koutloumousiou monastery. Today the skete consists of 19 cells with 20 monks, a library with 40 manuscripts of more than 500 books, as well as a church housing 200 icons and saintly relics.