35th GMA Dove Awards

The 35th Annual GMA Music Awards (the show had a name change in 2004-05) were held on April 28, 2004 recognizing accomplishments of musicians for the year 2003. The show was held at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, and was hosted by Deion Sanders and Yolanda Adams.

Nominations were announced months earlier by Steven Curtis Chapman and Toby McKeehan.

The event was transmitted live to theaters in 50 cities as part of Regal Entertainment Group "One Night Only" event. The livecast was shown at Regal Cinemas, United Artists Theatres, and Edwards Theatres.  There was no delayed television broadcast, as part of a controversial move by broadcast rights holder United Paramount Network, scorned by Sanders for leaving CBS' The NFL Today (UPN owned CBS) in favour of Disney's NFL Countdown in the weeks between the awards ceremony and broadcast date, cancelled the television broadcast.  This move was similar to a 1989 incident on CBS' 60 Minutes when a story on Richard Petty intending to air on the show in the weeks before the Daytona 500 was cancelled following reporter Diane Sawyer's defection to ABC.  (That story was later edited and rewritten with Harry Reasoner the following season.)

The ceremony was eventually broadcast in December 2004 on Pax (now Ion Television).

MercyMe won Artist of the Year, plus two other awards, while Jeremy Camp was awarded New Artist of the Year.

Performers

Telecast ceremony
The following performed:

Presenters

Telecast ceremony
The following presented:

Amy Grant and Vince Gill — introduced video message from Bono
Bono — introduced Jars of Clay
Stephen Baldwin
Derrick Mason
Bethany Hamilton
Kristy Starling
R.J. Helton
LaShell Griffin
Steven Curtis Chapman
TobyMac
Kirk Franklin
Michael W. Smith
Mary Mary
Michelle Williams
Charlie Peacock

Awards

General

Artist of the Year
MercyMe
Michael W. Smith
Randy Travis
Stacie Orrico
Switchfoot

New Artist of the Year
Across the Sky
Casting Crowns
Jeremy Camp
Kristy Starling
Todd Agnew

Group of the Year
Jars of Clay
MercyMe
Newsboys
Switchfoot
Third Day

Male Vocalist of the Year
Bart Millard
David Phelps
Jeremy Camp
Mark Schultz
Steven Curtis Chapman

Female Vocalist of the Year
CeCe Winans
Joy Williams
Nichole Nordeman
Rebecca St. James
Stacie Orrico

Song of the Year
"All About Love" - Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman, songwriter
"Everything to Me" - Avalon
 Chad Cates, Sue Smith, songwriters
"Great Light of the World" - Bebo Norman
Bebo Norman, songwriter
"He Reigns" - Newsboys
Peter Furler, Steve Taylor, songwriters
"If We Are the Body" - Casting Crowns
Mark Hall, songwriter
"Lord Have Mercy" - Michael W. Smith
Steve Merkel, songwriter
"Meant to Live" - Switchfoot
Jonathan Foreman, Tim Foreman, songwriter
"Three Wooden Crosses" - Randy Travis
Doug Johnson, Kim Williams, songwriter
"You Are a Child of Mine" - Mark Schultz
Mark Schultz, Chris Eaton, songwriters
"Word of God Speak" - MercyMe
Pete Kipley, Bart Millard, songwriters

Songwriter of the Year
Mark Hall

Producer of the Year
Brown Bannister
Christopher Harris
Marc Byrd
Steve Hindalong
Steven V. Taylor

Pop

Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year
"(There's Gotta Be) More to Life" - Stacie Orrico
"You Are a Child of Mine" - Mark Schultz
"I Still Believe" - Jeremy Camp
"If We Are the Body" - Casting Crowns
"Word of God Speak" - MercyMe

Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year
All About Love - Steven Curtis Chapman
Casting Crowns - Casting Crowns
Simple Things - Amy Grant
Stacie Orrico - Stacie OrricoStories & Songs - Mark Schultz

Rock

Rock Recorded Song of the Year
"All About You" - Nate Sallie"Ammunition" - Switchfoot"Dirty" - Audio Adrenaline
"Free" - Plumb
"Get This Party Started" - TobyMac

Rock Album of the Year
Believe - Big DismalLose This Life - TaitPhenomenon - Thousand Foot Krutch
Picking Up the Pieces - Seventh Day Slumber
Say It Loud - Sanctus Real

Rock/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year
"Gone" - Switchfoot"Meant to Live" - Switchfoot"Sing a Song" - Third Day
"This Fragile Breath (The Thunder Song)" - Todd Agnew
"You Are So Good to Me" - Third Day

Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year
Furthermore: From the Studio, From the Stage - Jars of Clay
Grace Like Rain - Todd Agnew
So Much for Substitutes - DownhereThe Beautiful Letdown - SwitchfootWorldwide - Audio Adrenaline

Modern Rock Recorded Song of the Year
"Beautiful Day" - Sanctus Real"Breaking Me Down" - Downhere"Go" - Andy Hunter°
"I Am Understood" - Relient K
"Savior" - Skillet

Modern Rock Album of the Year
2 - Apt.core
A Beautiful Glow - Rock n Roll Worship Circus
Beautiful Lumps of Coal - Plumb
Perfect Change - DakonaTwo Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do - Relient KRap/Hip-Hop

Rap/Hip Hop Recorded Song of the Year"Believe" - GRITS (featuring Jennifer Knapp)"Dear Slim Pt. 2" - KJ-52
"Jubilee" - Souljahz
"Love Is In The House" - TobyMac
"Raised in Harlem" - T-Bone, Michael Tait and Donnie Lewis

Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year
Gospelalphamegafunkyboogiediscomusic - T-Bone
Holy Culture - The Cross MovementIt's Pronounced Five Two - KJ-52Lil iROCC Williams - Lil iROCC Williams
The Exodus - Gospel Gangstaz

Inspirational
Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year"Everything To Me" - Avalon"Free (Take My Life)" - Jill Paquette
"In the Garden/There Is None Like You (Remix)" - Watermark with Shane & Shane
"Jesus Is" - Jaci Velasquez
"My Hope" - Darlene Zschech & Hillsong

Inspirational Album of the YearAbove It All - The MartinsBecoming - Christine Dente
Forgiveness - Jim Witter
Live...This Is Your House - Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Take Hold of Christ - Sandi Patty

Gospel

Southern Gospel Recorded Song of the Year
"Gentle Shepherd" - Gaither Vocal Band
"He Forgets" - Legacy Five"The Cross" - The Crabb Family"The Promise" - The Martins"When the Savior Wipes the Tears From Our Eyes" - The Hoskins Family

Southern Gospel Album of the Year
A Cappella - Gaither Vocal Band
Best of Friends - Joyce Martin McCollough, Karen Peck Gooch, Sheri Easter
Great Day - The Hoppers
Quartets - Greater VisionThe Walk - The Crabb FamilyTraditional Gospel Recorded Song of the Year
"Breakthrough" - The Born Again Church Choir
"Holiness Is Right" - The Born Again Church Choir
"I Need You to Survive" - Hezekiah Walker & The Love Fellowship Choir"Poor Man Lazarus" - Fisk Jubilee Singers"View The City" - Rizen

Traditional Gospel Album of the Year
Ann McCrary - Ann McCrary
Believe - Aaron NevilleCeCe Winans Presents...The Born Again Church Choir - The Born Again Church ChoirRizen - Rizen
Shirley Caesar & Friends - Shirley Caesar

Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song of the Year
"Because of Who You Are" - Vicki Yohe"Hallelujah Praise" - CeCe Winans"I Need More Love" - Robert Randolph & The Family Band
"I Need You Now" - Smokie Norful
"The Presence of the Lord" - Byron Cage

Contemporary Gospel Album of the Year
Donnie McClurkin Again - Donnie McClurkin
Bringing It All Together - Vickie Winans
Byron Cage: Live at New Birth Cathedral - Byron CageI Need You Now: Limited Edition - Smokie NorfulOn the Inside - Alvin Slaughter
Speak Life - Joe Pace & The Colorado Mass Choir

Country & Bluegrass

Country Recorded Song of the Year
"Closer To Home" - Connie Smith, Sharon White, Barbara Fairchild (SW & F)
"Family Man" - Andrew Peterson
"Love Never Fails" - Connie Smith, Sharon White, Barbara Fairchild (SW & F)
"Pray for the Fish" - Randy Travis
"Stand by the River" - Dottie Rambo and Dolly Parton"Three Wooden Crosses" - Randy TravisCountry Album of the Year
Colors - The Oak Ridge Boys
Love Never Fails - Connie Smith, Sharon White, Barbara Fairchild (SW & F)
Refuse To Be Afraid - LordSong
The Christmas Guest - Andy Griffith
The Other Side - Billy Ray CyrusWorship & Faith - Randy TravisBluegrass Recorded Song of the Year
"Love is Free" - George Hamilton IV
"She Found Jesus Alive" - The Hoppers"So Many Years, So Many Blessings" - The Lewis Family"Teach Me To Love Like That" - LordSong
"Walkin Through The Fire" - Connie Smith, Sharon White, Barbara Fairchild (SW & F)

Bluegrass Album of the YearWondrous Love - Blue HighwayPraise & Worship

Worship Song of the Year
"Above All" - Randy Travis
Lenny LeBlanc, Paul Baloche, songwriters
"God of Wonders" - Third Day
Marc Byrd, Steve Hindalong, songwriters
"He Reigns" - Newsboys
Steve Taylor, Peter Furler, songwriters"Here I Am to Worship" - SalvadorTim Hughes, songwriter"Throne Room" - CeCe Winans
CeCe Winans, Andraé Crouch, songwriters

Praise and Worship Album of the Year
Adoration: The Worship Album - Newsboys
Illuminate - David Crowder BandOfferings II: All I Have to Give - Third DayThrone Room - CeCe Winans
Worship Live - Salvador

Urban

Urban Recorded Song of the Year"Dance, Dance, Dance" - Mary Mary"Let Go" - Souljahz
"Love, Peace & Happiness" - Out of Eden
"Nobody Like Jesus" - Darwin Hobbs
"Showpiece" - Out of Eden

Urban Album of the Year
Based on a True Story - Sandtown
Broken - Darwin Hobbs
Free - Virtue
Soul Music - Lisa McClendonUnclassified - Robert Randolph & The Family BandOthers

Instrumental Album of the YearAn Acoustic Christmas - Tom HembyI Can Only Imagine - Fletch Wiley
Irish Christmas - Craig Duncan
Masterpiece - Anthony Burger
The Trumpet Sounds - Rod McGaha

Spanish Language Album of the Year
Amar a Alguien Como Yo - Patty CabreraCon Poder - SalvadorEl Poder Esta En Ti - René González
Exitos de Hoy - Various artists
Trono de Gracia - Don Moen

Special Event Album of the Year!Hero The Rock Opera (Forefront Records)City on a Hill: The Gathering (Essential Records)
Mansion Over The Hilltop (Daywind Records)
Next Door Savior (Creative Trust)
Passion: Sacred Revolution (Sixsteps Records)

Children’s Music Album of the Year
Acorns to Oaks - Celeste Clydesdale
Canciones de Gozo Para Ninos - Alejandro Allen and Edgar Arceo
Crazy Praize: Songs From the Lighter Side Vol. 2 - Ed Kee and Dave Hunt
I Can Only Imagine... Lullabies for a Peaceful Rest - Various artistsShout Praises Kids 3 - Jeff SandstromSongtime Kids: All New Praise Songs - Dennis Dearing and Kevin Stokes

Choral Collection of the Year
Extreme! Youth Worship - Steven V. Taylor and Johnathan CrumptonHigh Praises - Phil Barfoot and Lari GossHymns for Praise & Worship - John E. Coates and Travis Cottrell
Inhabit The Praise - Geron Davis, Wayne Haun and Steve Carey
Simply Worship - Rob Howard, David Guthrie and Dale Bleam

Recorded Music Packaging of the Year!Hero The Rock Opera - Various artistsBethany Newman (art director)City on a Hill: The Gathering - Various artists
Robert Beeson, Jordyn Thomas (art directors)
Furthermore: From the Studio, From the Stage - Jars of Clay
Tim Parker (art director)Here in America - Various artists
Rusty Mitchell, Jill Paquette, Scott Hughes, Stephanie McBrayer (art directors)The Agony Scene - The Agony Scene
Don Clark (art director)In Bright Mansions - The Fisk Jubilee Singers
Jim McAnally (art director)

Musicals

Musical of the YearA Thrill of HopeEvidence of GraceThe Love of JesusThe Wonderful Cross

Youth/Children’s Musical of the YearAcorns to OaksCity on a Hill ChristmasNoelle, The FirstThe Christmas S.O.C.C.E.R. TeamThe First LeonVideos

Short Form Music Video of the Year
"(There's Gotta Be) More to Life" - Stacie Orrico
"Dear Slim" - KJ-52
"Breathe Slow" - Mars Ill
"Hoy Mas Que Nunca" - Miguel Angel Guerra
"Legacy" - Nichole Nordeman
"You Get Me" - ZOEgirl

Long Form Music Video of the Year#1 Hits Live - The Crabb FamilyAlive - Audio AdrenalineFree At Last: The Movie (10th Anniversary) - dc TalkSteven Curtis Chapman Live - Steven Curtis Chapman'Third Day Live In Concert, The Come Together Tour - Third Day'''


Sekta

Sekta is a village in the Imphal East district of Manipur, India. Sekta Archaeological Living Museum is situated in the village.


Matsuo, Iwate

was a village located in Iwate District, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

The village of Matsuo was created on April 1, 1889 within Kita-Iwate District with the establishment of the municipality system. Kita-Iwate and Minami-Iwate Districts merged to form Iwate District on March 29, 1898. On September 1, 2005, Matsuo, along with the towns of Ashiro and Nishine (all from Iwate District), was merged to create the city of Hachimantai and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

Matsuo was formerly known as the home of Japan's largest sulfur mine—the Matsuo Kōzan —and, later, as the home of the Matsugawa geothermal power plant. The iron and copper Matsuo mine was also located there before abandonment in 1971.

As of September 2005, the village had an estimated population of 6,786 and a population density of 28.89 persons per km². The total area was 234.85 km².

Sister cities
  Miyako, Iwate
  Nago, Okinawa

Friendship and cooperation cities:
  Altenmarkt, Salzburg

Local attractions
 Hachimantai hot spring resort
 Toushichi hot spring
 Matsuogawa hot spring
 East Hachimantai onsen resort
 Kanezawa spring

External links
 Official website of Hachimantai


Love Me (Lil Tecca song)

"Love Me" is a song by American rapper Lil Tecca. The track was originally released as a single on October 29, 2018, before being re-released as a single on July 15, 2019, to act as a pre-release single for his debut mixtape We Love You Tecca.

Music video
The music video for the track was released on November 18, 2018, on Lil Tecca's official YouTube channel. It has racked up over 22 million views as of January 2020. The video was directed by Dave Del Rosario.

Critical reception
Alphonse Pierre of Pitchfork called the track "impressive" and a "refreshing genre-fusing track", saying that Tecca "quickly separated himself from being labeled an A Boogie clone". Daniel Spielberger of HipHopDX gave the song a more mixed review, saying that although the track was a "pleasant dancehall vibe", and that Tecca "did a good job rapping along with the groove", he said the track had some "questionable production choices", and that "the heavy Auto-Tune and bizarre helium effects didn’t bode well with the more organic, breezy beat".

Commercial performance
Following the debut of Lil Tecca's mixtape We Love You Tecca debuting at number four on the Billboard 200, the song debuted at number 97 the week ending September 13, 2019.

Charts


2007 TAC Cup season

The 2007 TAC Cup season was the 16th season of the NAB League competition. Calder Cannons have won there 4th premiership title after defeating the Murray Bushrangers in the grand final by 50 points.

Ladder

Grand Final


Union Federal Party

The Union Federal Party (Afrikaans: Verenigde Federale Party) was a white liberal South African party that broke away from the United Party after the 1953 election. It never gained any seats in Parliament, and ceased to exist in 1960.

Background
The party was led by Senator Heaton Nicholls who was previously the United Party opposition leader in the Senate. It was formed on 10 May 1953. It was founded by members of Torch Commando from Natal. The party was also said to have support from leaders of the Commando in other provinces.

It was a British diaspora party, committed to retaining links with the British Commonwealth and monarchy. The party was centred in Natal, concerned with ensuring the province's autonomy. Federal provincial autonomy was seen as a way preventing Afrikaner nationalism from dominating the political scene and could include ceding from the Union if that occurred or English language rights in the Union were interfered with. It also wished to explore liberalising the non-white franchise. The liberal franchise policy for non-whites included Indians to be enrolled on a communal voters roll similar to the Coloureds in the Cape Province and the possibility of a voters roll for Black South Africans who were highly educated.


Gulay language

Gulay (Gulai, Gulei) is a Bongo–Bagirmi language of Chad. An eighth of speakers are Pen (Peni), and do not like to be called Gulay.


Raymond Unwin

Sir Raymond Unwin (2 November 1863 – 29 June 1940) was a prominent and influential English engineer, architect and town planner, with an emphasis on improvements in working class housing.

Early years
Raymond Unwin was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire and grew up in Oxford, after his father sold up his business and moved there to study. He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. In 1884 he returned to the North to become an apprentice engineer for Stavely Iron & Coal Company near Chesterfield.

Unwin had become interested in social issues at an early age and was inspired by the lectures and ideals of John Ruskin and William Morris. In 1885 he moved to Manchester and became secretary of Morris's local Socialist League. He wrote articles for the League's newspaper and spoke on street corners for its cause and for the Labour Church.  He also became a close friend of the socialist philosopher Edward Carpenter, whose Utopian community ideas led to his developing a small commune at Millthorpe near Sheffield.

In 1887 he returned to Staveley Iron as an engineer, working on development of mining townships and various other buildings, and joined the Sheffield Socialist Society.

In 1893 he married Richard Barry Parker's sister Ethel, and formed a partnership in 1896 based in Buxton, Derbyshire. The partners preferred the simple vernacular style and made it their aim to improve housing standards for the working classes. They were also members of the Northern Art Worker's Guild and were close friends of Edgar Wood (1860–1935) the leading Arts and Crafts architect in the North of England and a founding member of the group.

Planning career

In their various writings, including their book The Art of Building a Home (1901), Parker and Unwin aimed to popularise the Arts and Crafts Movement, and as a result of their success thousands of homes were built on their pattern in the early part of the 20th century.

A notable example of one of their earliest collaborations at Clayton, Staffordshire, is dated to 1899, and was originally called the Goodfellow House after the man who commissioned it. Parker and Unwin were involved in designing many of the interior fittings, which remain in the house to this day, and the initial layout of the large gardens. Goodfellow sold the house in 1926 to Colley Shorter who ran the nearby pottery works of Wilkinson's and Newport. He renamed it Chetwynd House and when he married his star designer Clarice Cliff in 1940, she moved into the house and lived there until 1972. It is her association that has made the house particularly famous since.

In 1902 Parker and Unwin were asked to design a model village at New Earswick near York for Joseph and Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, and the following year they were given the opportunity to take part in the creation of Letchworth (loosely based on the Utopian plan of Ebenezer Howard), when the First Garden City Company asked them to submit a plan.

In 1903 they were involved with the "Cottages Near a Town Exhibit" for the Northern Art Workers Guild of Manchester.  In 1904 after their plan was adopted they opened a second office at Baldock. In 1905 Henrietta Barnett asked them to plan the new garden suburb at Hampstead, now known as Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Unwin moved from Letchworth to Hampstead in 1906, and he lived here for the rest of his life at the farmstead Wyldes Farm.

In 1907, Ealing Tenants Limited, a progressive cooperative in west London, appointed him to take forward the development of Brentham garden suburb.

Unwin joined the Local Government Board in December 1914. In 1915 he was seconded to the Ministry of Munitions to design the villages of Gretna and Eastriggs and supervise others. From 1917 he had an influential role at the Tudor Walters Committee on working-class housing whose report was published in 1919, the year in which he was appointed Chief Architect to the newly formed Ministry of Health. That post had evolved into the Chief Technical Officer for Housing and Town Planning by the time of his retirement in November 1928.

His demonstration during the Great War of the principles of building homes rapidly and economically whilst maintaining satisfactory standards for gardens, family privacy and internal spaces, gave him great influence over the Tudor Walters Committee and hence, indirectly, over much inter-war public housing. This report marked Unwin's definitive break from the traditional 'garden city' concept, as it proposed that the new developments should be peripheral 'satellites' rather than fully-fledged garden cities. Unwin became technical adviser to the Greater London Regional Planning Committee in 1929 and largely wrote its two reports, the first published in that year and the second in 1933.

Unwin was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) from 1931 to 1933, was knighted in 1932 and consulted by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the New Deal in 1933. In 1936 he was appointed visiting Professor of Town Planning at Columbia University and in 1937 he received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for architecture. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1935 and by Harvard University in 1937.

Death and legacy

Raymond Unwin died at Lyme, Connecticut at the home of his daughter on 29 June 1940.

Footnotes

External links

DSA Architect Biography Report: Parker & Unwin
Andrew Saint, Unwin, Sir Raymond (1863–1940), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 2 Nov 2010
 The Town Extension Plan, 1912 Warburton lecture.
 Pollack, Theo Mackey, "The Best Planning Book is a Century Old: A Look Back at Unwin's Town Planning in Practice." New Urbs, The American Conservative, 12/15/2017.


Holland Park, Surrey

Holland Park is a park in the city of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, located within Whalley / City Centre beside Central City. It is  in size and although it is not the largest park in the city, it has been called the "Central Park" of Surrey city centre. Originally a piece of land that was unused and not landscaped, the city of Surrey designated the area as an urban park and was transformed in the mid 2000s.

As the park is centrally located, it has become the focal point of a multitude of events and congregations throughout the year. The annual Fusion Festival, Surrey Pride, various music gatherings as well as other civic and cultural events have taken place within the park. In 2010, Holland Park also hosted one of the Vancouver Winter Olympics celebrations during the games.

Amenities
 Sports Fields
 Basketball courts
 Playground
 Picnic area
 Public washroom

Transportation
Holland Park is accessible by numerous bus services including Translink's 96 B-Line as well as the regional Skytrain system with the closest station being the King George station.

Gallery


Athylia viduata

Athylia viduata is a species of longhorn beetle in the subfamily Lamiinae. It was described by Pascoe in 1864.


Anton Yelchin

Anton Viktorovich Yelchin (; March 11, 1989 – June 19, 2016) was an American actor. He played Pavel Chekov in three Star Trek films: Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and the posthumously released Star Trek Beyond (2016). Born to a Russian Jewish family in Leningrad, Yelchin and his family moved to the United States when he was a baby. In the late 1990s, Yelchin began appearing in television and film roles. His role in Steven Spielberg's miniseries Taken helped further his career. Yelchin also starred in Huff, the films Fright Night, Hearts in Atlantis, Alpha Dog, Like Crazy, Green Room, and the posthumously released Trollhunters.

Early life
Yelchin was born on March 11, 1989, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). His parents, Irina Korina and Viktor Yelchin, were pair figure skaters who were stars of the Leningrad Ice Ballet for 15 years. His family is Jewish and were subjected to religious and political oppression in the Soviet Union. Yelchin said that his grandparents "suffered in ways [he] can't even begin to understand under Stalin". Nationally, Yelchin's parents were the third-ranked pair team; they thus qualified for the 1972 Winter Olympics, but were not permitted to participate by the Soviet authorities. Yelchin said the reason was unclear: "I don't exactly know what that was – because they were Jewish or because the KGB didn't want them to travel."

Yelchin's family left for the United States in September 1989, when Anton was six months old, and were thereafter granted refugee status from the Department of State. His mother worked as a figure skating choreographer and his father as a figure skating coach, having been Sasha Cohen's first trainer. Yelchin's uncle is the children's author and painter Eugene Yelchin. In an article published in the Los Angeles Times in December 1989, Yelchin's mother stated, "A woman came up, saw Anton, and said, 'He's beautiful. He will be actor.'" Yelchin stated that he "wasn't very good" at figure skating, his parents' profession.

Yelchin was born with cystic fibrosis. However, details of his medical condition were only revealed in 2017 after his death by a foundation established in his name, the Anton Yelchin Foundation.

Yelchin attended the Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies in Tarzana, California, and enrolled at the University of Southern California in the fall of 2007 to study film.

Career

After his film debut in A Man Is Mostly Water, Yelchin's early roles in both film and television included A Time for Dancing, Delivering Milo, House of D and Taken. He guest-starred in the Season Four episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm as Stewart, Cheryl David's cousin and a self-described magician who knows a card trick. Yelchin played Bobby Garfield in Hearts in Atlantis (2001), which is based on Stephen King's novel. He won a 2002 Young Artist Award (Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor) for this performance.

In Showtime's television series Huff, Yelchin played Byrd Huffstodt, the 14-year-old son of the eponymous character (Hank Azaria). In 2006, he guest-starred in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Tru Love", as a boy who falls in love with his teacher. He also appeared in the Criminal Minds episode "Sex, Birth & Death" as Nathan Harris, a boy who has murderous urges towards prostitutes and approaches Dr. Spencer Reid to help him before he actually does kill.

In Alpha Dog, Yelchin played Zack Mazursky, a character based on real-life murder victim Nicholas Markowitz. USA Todays review described Yelchin's performance as "heartbreakingly endearing". After the film's premiere, Markowitz's mother praised his portrayal of her son. Yelchin subsequently headlined Fierce People, which received a limited release on September 7, 2007. In 2008, he played the title role in Charlie Bartlett, a film about a wealthy teenager in a public high school. He also appeared alongside the Russian duo t.A.T.u. in the film You and I (which was filmed in Moscow during the summer of 2007), and co-starred in Middle of Nowhere.

Yelchin played supporting roles in two blockbuster films released in May 2009: Star Trek, in which he played teenage navigator Pavel Chekov, and Terminator Salvation, in which he played a young Kyle Reese.

In 2011, Yelchin played Charley Brewster in Craig Gillespie's remake film Fright Night, starred in the romantic drama Like Crazy, and voiced Clumsy Smurf in the film adaptation of The Smurfs and its sequel. He replaced Russell Tovey for the voice role of Albino Pirate in the American version of the animated film The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (also known as The Pirates! Band of Misfits) (2012). Yelchin voiced Shun in Studio Ghibli's  From Up on Poppy Hill.

Yelchin again played the role of Chekov in the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness. He also played the lead in the thriller Odd Thomas (2013) and the horror comedy Burying the Ex (2014). In 2015, Yelchin starred in the independent horror film Green Room, which premiered at the Cannes film festival that year and received limited theatrical release in May 2016.

Shortly before his death, Yelchin reprised his role as Chekov in Star Trek Beyond, which was released on July 22, 2016. He completed filming several independent films which were released posthumously. Yelchin also recorded the voice role of Jim in Guillermo del Toro's Trollhunters.

Personal life
Yelchin enjoyed playing the guitar, which he said gave him a lot of fulfillment, and was a fan of acoustic blues music. He once played for a punk band called the Hammerheads. He was also interested in photography. In January 2018, an exhibit of Yelchin's photography entitled Anton Yelchin: Provocative Beauty was displayed at New York City's De Buck Gallery.

Anton's photography has since been critically acclaimed by various magazines around the world as exhibits continue. https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/fotografia/2019/11/mostra-anton-yelchin-spazio-field-palazzo-brancaccio-roma/

Death
On June 18, 2016, when he failed to arrive at a party, Yelchin was found by friends just before midnight pinned between his Jeep Grand Cherokee and a brick pillar mailbox outside his house in Studio City, California, the victim of what was described as a "freak accident". As Yelchin got out of his car and went to check his locked gate, the vehicle apparently rolled back down his driveway, which was on a steep incline, and trapped him against the pillar and a security fence. Yelchin was pronounced dead on June 19, 2016, at the scene at the age of 27, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office identified the cause of death as "blunt traumatic asphyxia" and stated that there were "no obvious suspicious circumstances involved".

Tributes

Following Yelchin's death, the producers of Star Trek stated that the role of Chekov would not be recast and that the character would be written out of any subsequent Star Trek films. Star Trek Beyond was dedicated to Yelchin and Leonard Nimoy, who had also died between the release of Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond. Smurfs: The Lost Village was dedicated to Yelchin, as he had provided the voice of Clumsy Smurf in the live-action Smurfs films. Additionally, We Don't Belong Here, Rememory, Porto, Newness, Thoroughbreds, and the first two episodes of Trollhunters are dedicated to him, with the entirety of Trollhunters being dedicated to him upon its conclusion in May 2018. Yelchin was also featured in the "In Memoriam" section during the 89th Academy Awards.

In October 2017, a bronze statue of Yelchin was erected at his grave in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Celebrities present at the unveiling ceremony included Jennifer Lawrence, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, J. J. Abrams, Emile Hirsch, Demi Moore, Jon Voight, Drake Doremus, and Jeremy Saulnier. Saldana spoke at the ceremony, paying tribute to Yelchin: "It is a bittersweet moment, because we're here for Anton, and he's not here with us. But, it alleviates my heart knowing that we'll keep him alive. We're going to keep remembering him in the hopes that by practicing all the things he believed in and remembering all the love that he gave us, and all the joy he gave us, we're able to just keep him here with us."

Yelchin was memorialised in the online video game, Star Trek Online. He received a memorial plaque alongside several other late Star Trek actors; such as Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, and Star Trek creator himself, Gene Roddenberry.

On January 28, 2019, Viktor and Irina Yelchin premiered a documentary about their son, Love, Antosha, at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Lawsuit
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), the manufacturer of the Grand Cherokee, was aware of 2014 and 2015 models having a high rate of rollaway incidents due to a gearshift design that could make it difficult for the driver to determine whether the vehicle was in park or still in gear. FCA had already recalled all 2014–15 Grand Cherokees for this concern in April 2016, but the software patch to repair the vehicles did not reach dealers until the week of Yelchin's death. Following his death, FCA accelerated the recall campaign and took steps to get the affected Jeeps repaired more quickly than originally planned.

On August 1, 2016, the attorney for Yelchin's parents announced that they were planning to file a wrongful death lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler. The dealership that Yelchin purchased the vehicle from stated that he was responsible for his own death, because he had allegedly "misused" and "modified" the vehicle. The dealer also asked to be removed from the lawsuit. On March 22, 2018, it was announced that Yelchin's family and Fiat Chrysler had confidentially settled out of court.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Accolades


Flour bleaching agent

Flour bleaching agent is the agent added to fresh milled grains to whiten the flour by removing the yellow colour pigment called xanthophyll. It whitens the flour and this flour is used in baking industry

Overview
Usual flour bleaching agents are:
Organic peroxides (benzoyl peroxide)
Calcium peroxide
Chlorine
Chlorine dioxide
Azodicarbonamide
Nitrogen dioxide
Atmospheric oxygen, used during natural aging of flour

Use of chlorine, bromates, and peroxides is not allowed in the European Union.

Bleached flour improves the structure-forming capacity, allowing the use of dough formulas with lower proportions of flour and higher proportions of sugar . In biscuit making, use of chlorinated flour reduces the spread of the dough, and provides a "tighter" surface. The changes of functional properties of the flour proteins are likely to be caused by their oxidation.

In countries where bleached flour is prohibited, microwaving plain flour produces similar chemical changes to the bleaching process. This improves the final texture of baked goods made to recipes intended for bleached flours.


Rory Karpf

Rory Karpf is an American filmmaker specializing in sports related themes.
He has won four Emmys and a Peabody Award for his work.

In 2007, Karpf directed Dale, a theatrical film on the life of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt. When it premiered on the cable network CMT, it was the highest rated program in the network's history. It is also believed to be the highest selling sports DVD of all time.

After the success of Dale, Karpf went on to direct the racing related films The Ride of Their Lives, Together and Tim Richmond: To the Limit, which was part of ESPN's   30 for 30 series. Karpf was praised for directing "one of only a few films in the series that tells its story with a clarity that we didn’t have when the events occurred."

He continued his relationship with ESPN directing two more films for the network, Wendell Scott and Herschel.
In 2011 he wrote and directed the short film Marbles, an official selection in the Los Angeles Short Film Festival.

In 2011, Karpf directed Herschel, the only authorized film  on Heisman trophy winning football player Herschel Walker. He followed that up with Lolo, a documentary on Olympic track athlete Lolo Jones. Karpf was granted exclusive access to Jones and was able to uncover material never before seen on the athlete.

He is currently working on a film about a tornado that hit Atlanta in 2008.


A Man Could Get Killed

A Man Could Get Killed is a 1966 adventure comedy film directed by Ronald Neame and Cliff Owen, shot on various locations in Portugal and starring James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Sandra Dee, Anthony Franciosa, and Robert Coote. The fourteen-year-old Jenny Agutter worked on the film but did not appear in the final cut.

The screenplay was written by Richard L. Breen, and T. E. B. Clarke and David E. Walker based on the Walker's novel Diamonds For Danger. The film introduced the melody of "Strangers in the Night" by German composer Bert Kaempfert, which won the Golden Globe Award for "Best Original Song in a Motion Picture" of 1967.

Plot
A search is on for stolen diamonds and a government agent has been killed trying to recover them. When an unsuspecting William Beddoes arrives in Lisbon on behalf of an American bank, he is mistaken for the dead agent's replacement.

Hatton-Jones of the British embassy comes to Beddoes' aid. Also taking an interest is Aurora Celeste, the dead man's lover, as well as Steve Antonio, a smuggler, who is being pursued by Amy Franklin (a woman who, as a young girl, once had a crush on him).

All of the above end up aboard a yacht belonging to Dr. Mathieson, who appears to be the mastermind of the crime and knows where the hidden diamonds are. Beddoes ends up engineering an escape for all and the gems wind up safely in the hands of Hatton-Jones,  the dead agent's actual successor.

Beddoes books a flight for home, assuming he will never see any of these people again, but Aurora steals his passport so that he could not leave.

Cast
 James Garner as William Beddoes
 Melina Mercouri as Aurora Celeste
 Sandra Dee as Amy Franklin
 Tony Franciosa as Steve Antonio
 Robert Coote as Hatton-Jones
 Roland Culver as Dr. Mathieson
 Grégoire Aslan as Florian
 Cecil Parker as Sir Huntley Frazier
 Dulcie Gray as Mrs. Mathieson
 Martin Benson as Politanu
 Peter Illing as Zarik
 Niall MacGinnis as Ship's Captain
 Virgilio Teixeira as Inspector Rodrigues
 Isabel Dean as Miss Bannister
 Daniele Vargas as Osman
 Ann Firbank as Miss Nolan
 John Bartha as Ludmar

Production
The cast had a falling out with director Cliff Owen who was replaced by Ronald Neame in July 1965.  Neame recalled that co-stars James Garner and Tony Franciosa did not get on well and their fight in the film became a real brawl.

Garner calls the film "disappointing" although he says he enjoyed playing backgammon with Melina Mercrouri and her husband Jules Dassin; he admits to punching Tony Franciosa, claiming it was because he "kept abusing the stunt men" and would not pull his punches in fight scenes.

It was the last film Sandra Dee made under contract to Universal. According to a 1965 interview with the actress, she "begged [the producers] not to make [her] do the picture. So I spent a miserable four months in Lisbon, little fishing villages and in Rome, making a picture that should have taken eight weeks. We had two changes of directors, and I ended up playing Come September all over again."

Soundtrack
The score for A Man Could Get Killed was composed by the German Bert Kaempfert, partially with the assistance of Herbert Rehbein and recorded under the musical direction of Universal's Joseph Gershenson. It introduced the melody of the song "Strangers in the Night", which was initially designated to be sung by Melina Mercouri but she insisted that her voice would not fit to the melody and it should be given to a man. Eventually, the version by Frank Sinatra became a global number one hit and by now is considered a standard of easy listening music. The tune, listed in the original sound track as "Beddy Bye", permeates the movie throughout and won the Golden Globe Award for "Best Original Song in a Motion Picture" of 1967, beating the other nominated compositions "Un homme et une femme" by French orchestra leader Francis Lai, "Born Free" by John Barry, which won the 1966 Academy Award for Best Original Song, "Alfie" by Burt Bacharach, and  "Georgy Girl" by Tom Springfield from the eponymous movies, the latter two also having been Oscar nominees of 1966.

The overall score to the movie, often resorting to Latin and even seemingly Greek influenced imagery, found a more mixed reception. The soundtrack LP - in fact a rerecording of the score - was produced by Milt Gabler and recorded at Polydor Studios, Hamburg, Germany. It was originally released on a LP by Decca (Decca DL 74750) and on a CD in 1999 by Taragon Records, then combined with Bert Kaempfert's LP Strangers in the Night (original release 1966, Decca DL 74795).


Treaty of Valparaiso

The Treaty of Valparaiso was an agreement between Chile and Bolivia that ended the War of the Pacific. Signed on April 4, 1884, the third treaty of the war forced Bolivia to give Antofagasta to Chile.


Cordell, Kentucky

Cordell is an unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Kentucky, in the United States.

History
A post office was established at Cordell in 1898, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1975. The community was named in honor of the Cordell family of settlers.

Notable people
Country singer Ricky Skaggs was born in Cordell.


Yang Bozhen

Yang Bozhen (1919–1987) was a Chinese diplomat. He was Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Sweden (1964–1969).


Coffee Republic

Coffee Republic is a British coffee bar and deli franchise chain founded in 1995.

History

Coffee Republic was founded in 1995 by brother and sister team Bobby and Sahar Hashemi, opening its first site in London's South Molton Street.

In 1996 Coffee Republic Ltd was founded in Greece by Kostas Dalakouras and partners, and still operates in Horeca market all over Greece, providing gourmet coffee products and services. The company is Coffee Republic S.a. now and owns the national trademark for  Greece.

By 1997 Coffee Republic had opened a further 7 stores in London and opened its first stores in Newcastle and Manchester.

The group was listed on AIM in 1998 by reversing into Arion Properties. The group grew to 24 branches after opening 17 new sites between March and November and had expanded to York, Birkenhead, Newcastle and Manchester.

Coffee Republic switched from AIM to the full list in July 2000. At this point, it had 61 coffee bars and cafés and announced plans to open 80 more by 2002.

Bobby Hashemi stepped down as chief executive in March 2001, but continued as a non-executive director; he returned as executive chairman in the summer of 2002.

Coffee Republic bought the GoodBean coffee bar chain in December 2001, thus gaining 12 outlets in south-east England and seven further sites under construction. The acquisition took the group to 108 outlets.

In July 2002, the group announced plans to halt its expansion programme, sell underperforming bars and launch a strategic business review as annual losses grew. A number of takeover talks ensued with easyGroup, Benjys and Caffè Nero but all offers were rejected. Coffee Republic sold 13 sites to Starbucks and returned to an AIM listing.

In August 2003, Coffee Republic unveiled a survival plan to convert itself into a New York-style deli-bar chain called Coffee Republic Deli and whittle its numbers down to a core of 50 outlets. It piloted the concept at Baker Street and Exchange Street in London.

In June 2004 Coffee Republic sold eight outlets in Cardiff and southern England to Caffè Nero.
The group signed its first franchise deal in November 2005 and ended the year with four franchised outlets. It intended to retain just 10 to 15 bars under company ownership.

In October 2006 Founder Bobby Hashemi was ousted in a shareholder revolt and replaced as chairman by Peter Breach.
The company signed a franchise agreement in 2007, with the intent to see the brand launched in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and also Turkey.
In June 2006 its first bar opened in Bulgaria in Burgas and in July its first bar opened in Turkey in Istanbul.

From 1 May 2008, customers were offered free Wi-Fi across the majority of UK coffee bar estate (10 minutes free then further access subject to purchase). The WiFi is supplied by CommsPort.
Another bar was opened in Malta Airport.

In June 2008 its first bar opened in Romania in Bucharest.

In July 2008 Coffee Republic announced that Steven Bartlett, the former shareholder who ousted the company's founder, had stepped down as chief executive.

In August 2008 the first bar in Kuwait opened.

In September 2008, a contactless payment trial was launched, a new quick and easy way to pay for purchases of £10 and under using OneTouch payment.

In December a contactless loyalty card trial was launched with sQuid.

The company's first bar opened in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in January 2009 but has since closed.

The company was placed into administration in early July 2009 and trading in shares was suspended.  At the end of July, following the closure of 18 bars, Coffee Republic was bought out of administration by property firm Arab Investment Ltd.  The new company trades as Coffee Republic Trading Ltd.

In September the company announced that it had secured a deal to open the highest urban coffee shop in the UK, 300 m up on the observation deck of the Pinnacle building in London.

Branches

Concession Partners
Coffee Republic has 99 Concessions operated by 7 partners:
Greene King,
Cineworld,
Ealing Londis,
Travelodge,
Shell,
Enterprise Inns,
London Town Hotels.


Ball and chain

A ball and chain was a physical restraint device historically applied to prisoners, primarily in the British Empire and its former colonies, from the 17th century until as late as the mid-20th century. A type of shackle, the ball and chain is designed so that the weight of the iron ball at the end of the short chain restricts and limits the pace at which its wearer is able to move, making any attempt at escape much more difficult.

A ball and chain believed to date to the 17th century was found in the United Kingdom in 2009. It consists of a sphere of high-grade iron approximately  across and weighing around . The chain is of some  in length and terminates in a leg iron or shackle.


Stephen Roodhouse Gloyne

Stephen Roodhouse Gloyne (24 December 1882 – 25 September 1950) was an English pathologist who worked at the London Chest Hospital from 1911 to 1948. There he built up the pathology department almost from scratch. He kept a large animal house, was director of the Barnes Research Department, and expanded the specimen collection started by Peacock. In 1941, during the Second World War, all but 18 of the 400 specimens in the collection were destroyed, causing Gloyne to comment that his life's work had gone up in smoke.

He wrote a biography of the Scottish surgeon John Hunter.

Selected publications
 John Hunter. E. & S. Livingstone, Edinburgh and London, 1950.


Svidník gas field

The Svidník gas field is a natural gas field located in Svidník, Prešov Region. It was discovered in 2008 and developed by Aurelian Oil & Gas and Romgaz. It will begin production in 2015 and will produce natural gas and condensates. The total proven reserves of the Svidník gas field are around 408 billion cubic feet (11.5×109m³), and production is slated to be around 100 million cubic feet/day (2.8×105m³) in 2015.


Étrépilly, Aisne

Étrépilly is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Population


Stansstad

Stansstad is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.

Geography

Stansstad has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of .  Of this area, about 32.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 49.6% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 15.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and 2.4% is unproductive land.  In the 2004/09 survey a total of  or about 8.8% of the total area was covered with buildings, an increase of  over the 1981/82 amount.  Over the same time period, the amount of recreational space in the municipality increased by  and is now about 0.99% of the total area.  Of the agricultural land,  is used for orchards and vineyards and  is fields and grasslands.  Since 1981/82 the amount of agricultural land has decreased by .  Rivers and lakes cover  in the municipality.

Demographics
Stansstad has a population () of .  , 15.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. In 2015 a small minority (234 or 5.3% of the population) was born in Germany.  Over the last 4 years (2010-2014) the population has changed at a rate of -1.44%.  The birth rate in the municipality, in 2014, was 9.1, while the death rate was 8.0 per thousand residents.

, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 14.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) are 63.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 22.6%.  In 2015 there were 1,800 single residents, 1,950 people who were married or in a civil partnership, 222 widows or widowers and 424 divorced residents.

In 2014 there were 2,131 private households in Stansstad with an average household size of  2.03 persons.  Of the 629 inhabited buildings in the municipality, in 2000, about 34.5% were single family homes and 39.6% were multiple family buildings.  Additionally, about 13.7% of the buildings were built before 1919, while 14.8% were built between 1991 and 2000.  In 2013 the rate of construction of new housing units per 1000 residents was 1.36.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 2.7%.

Most of the population () speaks German  (90.1%), with Italian being second most common (2.1%) and Albanian being third (1.5%).

Historical population
The historical population is given in the following chart:

Politics
In the 2015 federal election the most popular party was the SVP with 83.8% of the vote, followed by local parties with the remaining 16.2%.  In the federal election, a total of 1,805 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.0%.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 88.6% of the vote.  Most of the rest of the votes were given to local, small right-wing parties (10.8%).

Education
In Stansstad about 77.9% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).

Economy
Stansstad is a high-income community.  The municipality is part of the regional center of Stans.

, there were a total of 2,163 people employed in the municipality.  Of these, a total of 74 people worked in 26 businesses in the primary economic sector.  The secondary sector employed 525 workers in 63 separate businesses.  A minority (26.1%) of the secondary sector employees worked in very small businesses.  There were 10 small businesses with a total of 198 employees and two mid sized businesses with a total of 190 employees.  Finally, the tertiary sector provided 1,564 jobs in 355 businesses.  There were 20 small businesses with a total of 495 employees and two mid sized businesses with a total of 222 employees.

In 2014 a total of 1.4% of the population received social assistance.

In 2015 local hotels had a total of 19,501 overnight stays, of which 51.8% were international visitors.

Transport
Stansstad is served by Stansstad station on the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line, on which the Lucerne S-Bahn S4 service provides two trains per hour. The village is also served by post bus services, including services to Bürgenstock, Stans and Büren, and by shipping services of the Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees on Lake Lucerne.

Sights

The main sights of Stansstad are a museum of the fortifications, a tower (Schnitzturm), and the chapel Marie Linden in Kehrsiten.

Heritage sites of national significance
The prehistoric lakeside settlement at Kehrsiten and the Teller/Palisaden and Schnitzturm, all part of the medieval fortifications are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.  The prehistoric settlement is part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps a UNESCO World Heritage Site.


Araianwali

Araianwali is a village in Batala in Gurdaspur district of Punjab State, India. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.


Lindholmen, Karlskrona

Lindholmen is a small island to the immediate south of the city of Karlskrona in the south east of Sweden. Since the end of the 17th century, it has formed part of the Karlskrona Naval Base. It contains a number of facilities for the base including the Polhem Dock (Pohlhemsdockan) and the Ropewalk (Repslagarebanan).


Antonio Francesco Vezzosi

Antonio Francesco Vezzosi (4 October 1708, at Arezzo, Italy – 29 May 1783, in Rome) was an Italian Theatine and biographical writer.

Life

In 1731 he entered the Theatine Congregation. On account of his unusual abilities he was appointed professor of philosophy at the seminary at Rimini (1736–38). In 1742 he was sent to Rome as professor of theology at Sant'Andrea della Valle. While here he became favourably known for his scholarship and orthodoxy. His superiors entrusted him with the editing of the collected works of Cardinal Tommasi (11 vols., Rome, 1749–69).

The attention of Pope Benedict XIV was thus called to him, and in 1753 the pope appointed him professor of church history at the College of the Sapienza and examiner of candidates for the episcopal office. Later he was also elected general of his congregation.

Works
Among his publications are an oration on Pope Leo X, "De laudibus Leonis" (Rome, 1752), and the biographical work "I scrittori de' Chierici regolari detti Teatini" (2 vols., Rome, 1780), which formed the basis of the "Bibliotheca Teatina" of P. Silvos.


National Council of Churches

The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, usually identified as the National Council of Churches (NCC), is the largest ecumenical body in the United States. NCC is an ecumenical partnership of 38 Christian faith groups in the United States. Its member communions include mainline Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, African-American, evangelical, and historic peace churches. Together, they encompass more than 100,000 local congregations and 40 million adherents. It began as the Federal Council of Churches in 1908, and expanded through merger with several other ecumenical organizations to become the National Council of Churches in 1950.

History
The first efforts at ecumenical organization emerged in 1908 with the creation of the Federal Council of Churches (FCC). The FCC was created as a response to "industrial problems" that arose during the rapid industrialization of the US. The primary concern was the protection of workers in a host of areas including wages, working conditions, child labor, and a six-day work week (reduced from seven).

During the next 40 plus years, FCC remained engaged in the domestic social problems of the day as well as international problems that threatened to draw the US into war. Its progressive social program along with support of conscientious objectors to World War II garnered stiff criticism from Christian fundamentalist circles. By 1950, numerous programs and efforts of social uplift had formed in addition to the FCC. Seeking greater unity, a dozen ecumenical bodies (including the FCC) gathered in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1950 to discuss how to more effectively organize their common work. Out of this meeting, via the merger of the Federal Council of Churches with several other ecumenical bodies, emerged the NCC.

Membership

The council's 38 member communions include mainline Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, African-American, evangelical, and historic peace churches. Individual adherents of more than 50 Christian faith groups actively participate in NCC study groups, commissions and ministries. Some of these participants belong to Christian faith groups such as the Catholic Church, fundamentalist groups, Southern Baptists, and Missouri Synod Lutherans, which are not officially a part of the council's membership.

All NCC member organizations subscribe to the NCC's statement of faith, which forms the preamble to the NCC's charter:

Social and political advocacy

The Social Creeds

Since its founding in 1950, one of the primary activities of NCC has been to effect positive change for the betterment of society. Adopted in December 1908, "The Social Creed of the Churches" was a statement by members of the Federal Council of Churches against what it described as "industrial problems". The document spelled out a list of principles, including:

Equal rights and complete justice for all men in all stations of life
Protection of the worker from dangerous machinery, occupational disease, injuries, and mortality
Abolition of child labor
Regulation of the conditions of toil for women as shall safeguard the physical and moral health of the community
A living wage as a minimum in every industry
Provision for the old age of the workers and for those incapacitated by injury
Abatement of poverty

In 2007, the NCC updated its social creed to reflect a new era of globalization. The goal was to "offer a vision of a society that shares more and consumes less, seeks compassion over suspicion and equality over domination, and finds security in joined hands rather than massed arms." In addition to those areas mentioned in the 1908 creed, the "Social Creed for the 21st Century" included additional principles, including:

System of criminal rehabilitation based on restorative justice and end to the death penalty
Limits on the power of private interests in politics
Just immigration policies
Sustainable use of earth's resources
Nuclear disarmament and redirection of military spending
Religious dialogue
Strengthening multilateral diplomacy, United Nations, and the rule of international law

These creeds have formed the basis, growing out of a common Christian faith, of the work of the NCC in public policy matters.

The NCC in Washington
For a number of years the NCC maintained a separate policy advocacy office in Washington, DC. Located in the United Methodist Building on Capitol Hill, the NCC Washington Office served as an ecumenical hub through which it could interact with the numerous denominational policy offices also located in the Methodist Building. Its work centered on areas mentioned in the creeds but also primarily focused around two programs, Eco-Justice and the Ecumenical Poverty Initiative. Both of these programs have been spun off into separate independent organizations since NCC restructuring in 2013.

NCC partners with dozens of other faith-based groups in DC and elsewhere, such as Bread for the World, Habitat for Humanity, and Children's Defense Fund, to press for broad policy initiatives that address poverty issues. The council helped launch the Let Justice Roll grassroots anti-poverty campaign that has been successful in raising the minimum wage in more than 20 states since 2005.

In 2018, the council issued a statement opposing  the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Civil rights movement

NCC was closely aligned with leaders in the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Andrew Young. The NCC was an important link to mainline churches for the civil rights movement and it consistently condemned segregation during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other actions. In a speech to NCC in 1957, King thanked the NCC for its support: "This great body—the National Council of Churches—has condemned segregation over and over again, and has requested its constituent denominations to do likewise."

The NCC continued to be closely intertwined with the civil rights movement throughout the 1950s and 1960s. NCC created a Race Relations Sunday to educate and call to action mainline Christians nationwide. In 1961, Andrew Young left his position with the National Council of Churches to join the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, eventually becoming that organization's executive director. When the Civil Rights Act was introduced in 1964, NCC lobbied heavily for its swift adoption.

Vietnam War

Since its inception, the NCC had been skeptical of the usefulness of war. During World War II, the Federal Council of Churches formed a Committee on Conscientious Objectors to advocate for the right of people of faith to refuse military service. So it is no surprise as the Vietnam War intensified, NCC found itself in opposition to growing US military action. In 1965, the General Board stated that "unilateral action by the United States in Southeast Asia will not lead to peace." The NCC's position against the Vietnam War became increasingly strident in the 1960s and 1970s, and in some cases, alienated the laity of some member communions.

Middle East peace

NCC has been a consistent supporter of a negotiated solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In partnership with the World Council of Churches, it has traditionally sought to balance its approach, seeking safety and protection for both the Jewish and Palestinian communities. It has focused on meeting needs of the victims of this conflict in all communities and supporting continued negotiations. Since the late 1960s the NCC has taken positions sympathetic towards Palestinian land rights and supportive of a secure Israel.

More recently, NCC has been particularly concerned with the plight of Christian communities in the region. Some of NCC's member communions have congregations or partners in the region that are being directly affected. However, the NCC's "witness to the need for vigilance in brokering peace extends to our concern for all people in the region, whether they be Christians, Jews, Muslims, Baha'is or others, and whether they be Israelis, Palestinians, Syrians, Egyptians, or others."

Poverty

The council has supported many poverty alleviation efforts, including increases to the minimum wage and ecumenical efforts such as the Circle of Protection and the Faithful Budget Campaign. In 2013, during restructuring, NCC spun off its department dealing with poverty issues into a new organization, the Ecumenical Poverty Initiative. NCC continues its work on poverty through its support of EPI as well as partnerships with other likeminded organizations.

Environment

During the oil crisis of the late 1970s, NCC issued a statement in which it called for "Ecological Justice". The statement called for more work on renewable energy, reductions in energy sources that pollute, and support for energy sources that did not have adverse effects on communities (health, economic, etc.). This statement helped form the basis for the creation of the NCC's Eco-Justice program. Housed in the NCC Washington Office, the program focused on federal environmental policy. In 2013, the Eco-Justice program was spun off into its own organization, Creation Justice Ministries. CJM continues to work with NCC and its 38 member communions to coordinate efforts to protect the environment.

Mass incarceration
Over the past three years, NCC has taken a more active role in the struggle against mass incarceration. As early as 1979, NCC recognized the problem of a justice system based on retribution and the over-representation of communities of color in the prison population. More recently, NCC has worked for sentencing reform to reduce mandatory minimum sentences, advocated for clemency for individuals who were over sentenced, and prison conditions. In addition, NCC has also broadened this work to include police reform, especially in the wake of much publicized shootings in places such as Baton Rouge, Minneapolis, and Dallas.

Publishing and research
The NCC fostered the multi-denominational research effort that produced the Revised Standard Version and the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, and holds the copyright to both translations.

The NCC sponsors the research program on which the Uniform Sunday School Lesson Series is based. The series began in 1872 under the auspices of the National Sunday School Convention.

The NCC also published until 2012 the annual Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, since 1916 a widely used reference work on trends, statistics and programmatic information on religious organizations in North America. Future editions of the yearbook will be published by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB).

Theological and ecumenical dialogue
The NCC Faith and Order Commission is an ongoing, scholarly, ecumenical dialogue among North American Christian theologians and ecclesiastical historians, including evangelical, Pentecostal, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, mainline Protestant, and African-American scholars. In 2007, the commission celebrated its fiftieth anniversary.

Facilities
The council was the original anchor tenant in the 19-story Interchurch Center built in 1952 adjacent to Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary and The Riverside Church in New York City. It vacated these premises in 2013 when it consolidated its offices in the building long used by its public-policy staff at 110 Maryland Avenue, NE, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.


Modern valence bond theory

Modern valence bond theory is the application of valence bond theory, with computer programs that are competitive in accuracy and economy with programs for the Hartree–Fock method and other molecular orbital based methods. The latter methods dominated quantum chemistry from the advent of digital computers because they were easier to program. The early popularity of valence bond methods thus declined. It is only recently that the programming of valence bond methods has improved. These developments are due to and described by Gerratt, Cooper, Karadakov and Raimondi (1997); Li and McWeeny (2002); Joop H. van Lenthe and co-workers (2002); Song, Mo, Zhang and Wu (2005); and Shaik and Hiberty (2004).

In its simplest form the overlapping atomic orbitals are replaced by orbitals which are expanded as linear combinations of the atom-based basis functions, forming linear combinations of atomic orbitals (LCAO). This expansion is optimized to give the lowest energy. This procedure gives good energies without including ionic structures.

For example, in the hydrogen molecule, classic valence bond theory uses two 1s atomic orbitals (a and b) on the two hydrogen atoms respectively and then constructs a covalent structure:-

ΦC = (a(1)b(2) + b(1)a(2)) (α(1)β(2) - β(1)α(2))

and then an ionic structure:-

ΦI = (a(1)a(2) + b(1)b(2)) (α(1)β(2) - β(1)α(2))

The final wave function is a linear combination of these two functions. Coulson and Fischer
pointed out that a completely equivalent function is:-

ΦCF = ((a+kb)(1)(b+ka)(2) + (b+ka)(1)(a+kb)(2)) (α(1)β(2) - β(1)α(2))

as expanding this out gives a linear combination of the covalent and ionic structures. Modern valence bond theory replaces the simple linear combination of the two atomic orbitals with a linear combination of all orbitals in a larger basis set. The two resulting valence bond orbitals look like an atomic orbital on one hydrogen atom slightly distorted towards the other hydrogen atom. Modern valence bond theory is thus an extension of this Coulson–Fischer method.

Spin-coupled theory
There are a large number of different valence bond methods. Most use n valence bond orbitals for n electrons. If a single set of these orbitals is combined with all linear independent combinations of the spin functions, we have spin-coupled valence bond theory. The total wave function is optimized using the variational method by varying the coefficients of the basis functions in the valence bond orbitals and the coefficients of the different spin functions. In other cases only a sub-set of all possible spin functions is used. Many valence bond methods use several sets of the valence bond orbitals. Be warned that different authors use different names for these different valence bond methods.

Valence bond programs

Several groups have produced computer programs for modern valence bond calculations that are freely available.


The 1998 City of Imola motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 6 September 1998 at Imola.

500 cc classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eleven has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Constructors' Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.


Argyrolopha

Argyrolopha is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.

Species
Argyrolopha costibarbata  Hampson, 1914
Argyrolopha punctilinea  Prout, 1921
Argyrolopha trisignata  (Mabille, 1900)


Aaron Gate

Aaron Gate (born 26 November 1990) is a New Zealand track cyclist, who rides for UCI Continental team Black Spoke Pro Cycling Academy since 2020.

He won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit event with teammates Sam Bewley, Marc Ryan, Jesse Sergent and Westley Gough. On 24 February 2013 in Belarus, Gate won the world championship title in the omnium event. Alongside Pieter Bulling, Regan Gough, and Dylan Kennett, he came fourth in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 Rio Olympics, being beaten by Denmark to the bronze medal. He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España.

Major results

2012
 1st Stage 5 Tour of Wellington
 3rd  Team pursuit, Olympic Games
 3rd  Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
2013
 1st  Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
2014
 3rd  Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
2015
 An Post Rás
1st Stages 2 & 5
2016
 1st  Overall Tour of Southland
1st Stage 5
 1st Stage 6 An Post Rás
2017
 2nd  Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
2018
 1st  Mountains classification Tour of Austria
2019
 1st  Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
1st Stage 1
 1st Stage 1 Belgrade–Banja Luka
 5th Overall Circuit des Ardennes
 9th Antwerp Port Epic
2020
 2nd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
 1st Stage 1

Grand Tour general classification results timeline


Uniform national swing

Uniform national swing, or UNS is a system for translating opinion polls, which give overall vote proportions, to expected eventual parliamentary seats in a constituency based first past the post system, as in the UK general elections. Under the uniform national swing, changes in the vote proportions (swing) since the previous election are assumed to be constant across all constituencies. By applying this change to the previous per-constituency based vote proportions, a prediction for which party would have the most votes in each constituency may be made, which is then counted and totalled for a final seat count.

Alternative methods exist, such as the proportional national swing system. However, UNS has proven acceptably accurate in the past, and so is commonly used in UK media for seat count predictions.

External links
 BBC seat calculator using UNS, for the 2010 United Kingdom general election


Santa Rosalía Parish

Santa Rosalía is one of the 22 parishes located in the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality and one of 32 of Caracas, Venezuela.


Second Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge

The Second Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge (, Wuhan Changjiang Er Qiao) is a bridge across the Yangtze River in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. It is located northeast (downstream) of the historic central area of the city's Hankou District and is the northern crossing for the Inner Ring Road. It is a cable-stayed bridge built of pre-stressed concrete, has a central span of . It is  in length (including the  main span) and is  wide. Its main bridgeheads are  high each, pulling 392 thick slanting cables together in the shape of double fans, so that the central span of the bridge is well-balanced on the piers and the bridge's stability and vibration resistance are ensured.

History
The bridge was completed in 1995 with four lanes of traffic capable of handling 50,000 vehicles per day. The bridge featured a median reserved for a branch line of the then planned Wuhan Metro Line 1. By the 2000s, due to growth in population of Wuhan, actual traffic demand using the bridge averaged 100,000 vehicles per day, peaking at 190,000 daily vehicles.  The metro line reservation was removed in 2003 when the bridge was renovated and expanded to six lanes.  With the opening of the Erqi Yangtze River Bridge downstream in 2011 typical traffic using the Second Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was 120,000 vehicles per day.

Photo gallery


A Remark Hugh Made

A Remark Hugh Made is a studio album by Hugh Hopper and Kramer, released in 1994 by Shimmy Disc.

Track listing

Personnel
Adapted from A Remark Hugh Made liner notes.

Musicians
Bill Bacon – drums, percussion
Hugh Hopper – bass guitar
Randolph A. Hudson III – guitar
Kramer – vocals, slide guitar, piano, organ, mellotron, percussion, production, engineering, bass guitar (3)
Gary Windo – tenor saxophone, vocals

Additional musicians
Robert Wyatt – lead vocals (1)
Production and additional personnel
DAM – design
Michael Macioce – photography
Steve Watson – assistant producer, assistant engineer

Release history


Andy Preston (politician)

Andy Preston (born 31 July 1966) is an English politician, charity chairman, and businessman. He was elected Mayor of Middlesbrough in May 2019. He previously stood for the role of elected mayor of Middlesbrough in 2015. He was previously well known on Teesside as a high-profile philanthropist, having enjoyed a successful career in the city.

Charity work
After retiring from fund management, Preston moved back to the North of England. Between 2002 and 2008 Preston was a patron of international children's charity ARK. He was also chairman of charity Fairbridge Teesside from 2005 to 2010. The first charity he founded, in 2011, was Middlesbrough and Teesside Philanthropic Foundation which raises and distributes funds to boost communities across the urban area of Teesside.

An early supporter and trustee of the charity was public relations executive Mark Bolland The Foundation is supported by a number of local businesses including Middlesbrough Football Club, Steve Gibson's Bulkhaul and Cleveland Cable Company. It has also won support from Olympic long jumper Chris Tomlinson. After being elected mayor of Middlesbrough, Preston stood down from his role as chairman of the Foundation, relinquishing any decision-making role in the charity's activities but continuing in an honorary role of founder. By this time the charity had raised more than £3 million.

A couple of years after launching the Philanthropic Foundation, Preston launched a new charity called CEO Sleepout which holds events across the UK to raise funds to combat homelessness and poverty.
In December 2016 Preston launched a charity restaurant, The Fork in the Road, in Middlesbrough with the goal of providing employment opportunities for ex-offenders, recovering addicts and the long term unemployed. A number of the Fork in the Road restaurant’s staff came through a programme designed to offer precious opportunities to those who need a helping hand – recovering addicts, ex-offenders and the long-term unemployed. The fit-out costs and working capital for this social enterprise came from CEO Sleepout charity and Public Health England. Preston transferred the Fork in the Road from CEO Sleepout to another local charity, Recovery Connections, after being elected mayor of Middlesbrough in 2019

Preston previously chaired Tees Valley Education, an academy trust operating in some of the UK's most disadvantaged areas.

Business

Andy Preston has been involved in numerous businesses in North East England and also invests in commercial property. He and his brother Chris restored the former Kirby College in Middlesbrough, converting it into apartments. In 2013, through a £1 million renovation they also converted a 19th-century Middlesbrough building previously known as the Cleveland Club into office accommodation called Boho Four Gibson House. He has also invested in a number of start-up businesses in the North East of England.

Politics

Andy Preston was historically an active member of Labour Party. In 2013 he spearheaded a successful campaign to retain the role of elected mayor of Middlesbrough when then Mayor Ray Mallon called a referendum on the position. Preston stood for election as an independent in 2015 to become elected mayor of Middlesbrough, narrowly losing out to Labour's Dave Budd. In 2016 Preston took up a voluntary role as Tees Valley business ambassador for the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign ahead of the referendum to decide whether the country should remain or leave the European Union. After being linked as a potential candidate to become the first Tees Valley Mayor, Preston ruled himself out of the race but warned against the election of a "career politician".

In February 2019, Preston came under heavy criticism from the local Labour party after a controversial Facebook post entitled "Immigration Can Bring Big Benefits and Big Negatives", in which he was accused of 'dog whistle racism'. Middlesbrough's MP Andy McDonald labelled Preston's post as "irresponsible and dangerous" and that he used the issue as a "cheap and easy way to get publicity".  However, Preston was heavily supported by the public and an online poll suggested that 89% of residents agreed with his assertion that he was “100% certain that recent and rapid immigration to some parts of central Middlesbrough is causing new problems and a clash of cultures is developing.”  Of his Labour Party critics Preston stated: "If professional politicians and some snowflakes aren’t happy with me then that’s fine. I’ll keep sticking up for people - regardless of what abuse politicians and their lackeys send me."

Mayor of Middlesbrough
Preston was elected as Mayor of Middlesbrough on 2 May 2019. He won in the first round with 59% (17,418) of the votes counted, with Labour's Mick Thompson coming second with 6,693 votes.


Gachi, Fars

Gachi (, also Romanized as Gachī; also known as Kachī) is a village in Qarah Bagh Rural District, in the Central District of Shiraz County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,226, in 532 families.


Eugenio Tandonnet

Eugenio Tandonnet was a French utopian socialist, who lived in Uruguay and Brazil during longer periods. Tandonnet was a follower of Charles Fourier. In 1845 he founded Revista Socialista in Brazil.


Sainte-Menehould

Sainte-Menehould (; German:Sankt Mathilde) is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. The 18th-century French playwright Charles-Georges Fenouillot de Falbaire de Quingey (1727–1800) died in Sainte-Ménéhould. It was the subprefecture of the arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould until its abolition in April 2017.

History
Dom Pérignon, the Benedictine monk who made important contributions to the production and quality of Champagne wine, and is often (erroneously) credited with its invention, was born in Sainte-Menehould around 1638.

As part of the county of Clermont-en-Argonne, Sainte-Menehould was in the Duchy of Lorraine until 1641, when the county was ceded to France; in 1648, it was granted as an appanage to Louis, le Grand Condé, effectively making it independent of Crown control.

Condé established Sainte-Menehould as his capital and fortified it in 1652, when he was leader of the 1650-1653 civil war known as the Fronde des nobles. The military engineer Vauban worked on the fortifications as a member of Condé's regiment; he changed sides when captured by a Royalist patrol in early 1653. Condé's governor, the Comte de Montal surrendered the town in November 1653, allegedly in return for a payment of 50,000 pistoles.

After his return to France in 1659, Condé retained Clermont, which remained in his family until the abolition of feudalism in France during the French Revolution in 1790. The next year, Louis XVI passed through the town during the Flight to Varennes, where he was recognized, allegedly on account of the similarity between his face and the image on the coinage. The royal party left the town before the significance of the king's recognition had been acted upon, but they were pursued along the road towards Varennes and arrested by Citizen Drouet the local postmaster.

130 years later Ste-Menehould was important in the Champagne Riots of 1910/1911.

Cuisine

The town and its several restaurants pride themselves on serving a local specialty called pied de cochon or pig's trotter à la Sainte-Menehould, which are cooked for hours, to the point of softening the bones and making them edible.

Twinning

 Cupar, Fife, Scotland

Cap-Pelé, NB, Canada


International Information Technology University

International IT University or International university of information technologies  (, Halyqaralyq aqparattyq tehnologııalar ýnıversıteti) - established in close collaboration with educational organization iCarnegie which represents American IT university Carnegie Mellon in 2009 by order of President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Formation of the qualified, international recognized IT specialists in Kazakhstan became the purpose of creation of a higher educational institution of a similar profile. International IT University provided with grants from government of Republic Kazakhstan and national
infocommunication companies, which cover disciplines by Kazakhstan and the U.S. educational systems.

Academic activities B-)

Bachelor specialties
Information Systems
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Computer Science
Management in IT
Finance in IT
Electronic Journalism
Radio Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications
Mathematical and Computer Modeling

Magistracy specialities
Information Systems
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Project Management
Mathematical and Computer Modeling

iCarnegie courses
Education in International IT University goes by education programs of iCarnegie - branch enterprise of Carnegie Mellon

High School Program Courses
 High School Program courses  - training courses for applicant's basic knowledge of programming, the main objectives of which are:
To teach applicants to program in Java
To teach to use the modern approach of object-oriented programming (OOP)
To teach to create applications with animations, sounds and control via the keyboard
Provide certificates of iCarnegie, which will be considered for admission to IITU
Provide an opportunity to work on interesting projects
Provide an opportunity to learn from an Honorary Professor with the U.S. on international standards
To teach how to create web-pages with games.

International cooperation
International cooperation of university is carried by improving the training system in accordance with international standards, professional development of teaching staff, use of new technologies and leading practices in teaching and research activities through collaboration with foreign universities under direct contracts:

Laboratory

Huawei Cloud Computing of Innogrid
Huawei Cloud Computing of Innogrid - in August 9, 2011 was created the laboratory of open systems and cloud computing in close cooperation between Chinese company Huawei, ICT Holding "Zerde" and International IT University.
The main purpose of the laboratory is focused on research in the fields cloud computing, open systems using the technology Open Source.

Apple Training Center
iOS Application Development - course introduces students to the programming language Objective-C and application development for mobile devices based on iOS. At the end of the course, students will be able to develop applications and programs in Objective-C for iPhone, iPad, and other iOS devices, as well as working in a development environment XCode. The course includes an introduction to the language of Objective-C, the application of the concepts of object-oriented programming in the development of the language, study of the development paradigm of MVC, the work of the various components in the development environment Xcode. Before the start of the course the student should be familiar with object-oriented programming, be familiar with the syntax of C-like languages and have a basic knowledge of graphic design tools, compilers and debuggers.

Mac OS X Application development- course will teach students to develop applications for the operating system Mac OS X. At the end of the course the students will experience working with Cocoa Framework and Objective-C.
Requires prior knowledge of programming language Objective-C. The course includes an overview of the platform and operating system, Mac OS X, the principles of designing application interfaces for personal computers.

Advanced Apple Development - course is designed for in-depth study of methods and means of developing applications based on Apple technology. The course includes a more detailed study of the language Objective-C, and additional third-party libraries, development environments XCode, the debugger works, methods of combining different languages and technologies with programs in Objective-C, frameworks WebKit, ParseKit, Cocoa, RestKit, writing web applications using Objective-C and XCode, architecture operating systems Mac OS X, Apple iOS, kernel Darwin, as well as the hardware architecture of devices Apple
iPhone/iPad.

Microsof Labaratory —

Social projects and activities
Hackday Almaty 2011 - in 29–30 April 2011, in the walls of IITU was held IT-event Hackday. The event was attended by more than 500 master class listeners and 396 registered participants of the different projects in the IT sections and sections of Content and Media. In the event was announced 104 projects, of which 88 projects were submitted.

Hackday Almaty 2012 - in 28–29 April 2012, in the walls of IITU was held second IT-event Hackday 2012. In this year there were over 800 participants in different projects took part in the sections IT, Media and Content. In conjunction with IT-university partners of Hackday 2012 were:

Management
Rector - Damir Abduhalievich Shynybekov
Vice-Rector - Uskenbaeva Raisa Kabievna
Director of Marketing and PR - Taykenova Mayrash Gomarovna

University partners

University anthem


Portrait of a General

Portrait of a General is a c.1550 portrait of an unknown general by the Venetian artist Titian. It is now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Kassel).

Sources

General
General


Adalelm, Count of Troyes

Adalelm (died 8 April 894) was the Count of Troyes from 886 to his death. He was a son of Emenon, Count of Poitou, and a Robertian.

He succeeded his maternal uncle Robert I, Count of Troyes, in 886. In 891, he organised the transferral of the abbey of Saint-Loup to within the walls of the town. In 893, he confirmed the donation of Chaource to the abbey of Montiéramey, made originally by his uncle. In 894, he and his brother Adhemar of Poitou attacked Aurillac, but he died fifteen days after.

He does not seem to have had any children by his wife Ermengard. Richard, Duke of Burgundy, profited from the troubles that followed his death to seize the county of Troyes.

Sources
de Saint Phalle, Édouard. "Comtes de Troyes et de Poitiers au IXe siècle: histoire d’un double échec." In Christian Settipani and Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan, Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval. 2000.


Meprin B

Meprin B (, meprin-b) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

 Hydrolysis of proteins, including azocasein, and peptides. Hydrolysis of -His5-Leu-, -Leu6-Cys-, -Ala14-Leu- and -Cys19-Gly- bonds in insulin B chain

This membrane-bound metalloendopeptidase is present in mouse intestines.


Higher (Ezio album)

Higher is the fifth album, and the fourth studio album, by Ezio, released in 2000. Produced by Peter Van Hooke, the record also features contributions from Paul Carrack and Rod Argent.

Track listing

All songs written by Ezio Lunedei except Sweet Thing, written by Van Morrison.

"Still ice cold" – 4:32
"At that moment" – 7:00
"You're strange" – 3:38
"Perfect" – 4:00
"Higher"  - 4:50
"Meet me in the Gods" – 6:17
"Oranges" – 4:57
"Anymore" – 4:41
"Freedom" – 5:15
"Sometimes silence" – 4:57


Janet basis

In mathematics, a Janet basis is a normal form for systems of linear homogeneous partial differential equations (PDEs) that removes the inherent arbitrariness of any such system.  It was introduced in 1920 by Maurice Janet.  It was first called the Janet basis by Fritz Schwarz in 1998.

The left hand sides of such systems of equations may be considered as differential polynomials of a ring, and Janet's normal form as a special basis of the ideal that they generate. By abuse of language, this terminology will be applied both to the original system and the ideal of differential polynomials generated by the left hand sides. A Janet basis is the predecessor of a Gröbner basis introduced by Bruno Buchberger for polynomial ideals. In order to generate a Janet basis for any given system of linear pde's a ranking of its derivatives must be provided; then the corresponding Janet basis is unique. If a system of linear pde's is given in terms of a Janet basis its differential dimension may easily be determined; it is a measure for the degree of indeterminacy of its general solution. In order to generate a Loewy decomposition of a system of linear pde's its Janet basis must be determined first.

Generating a Janet basis

Any system of linear homogeneous pde's is highly non-unique, e.g. an arbitrary linear combination of its elements may be added to the system without changing its solution set. A priori it is not known whether it has any nontrivial solutions. More generally, the degree of arbitrariness of its general solution is not known, i.e. how many undetermined constants or functions it may contain. These questions were the starting point of Janet's work; he considered systems of linear pde's in any number of dependent and independent variables and generated a normal form for them. Here mainly linear pde's in the plane with the coordinates  and  will be considered; the number of unknown functions is one or two. Most results described here may be generalized in an obvious way to any number of variables or functions.
In order to generate a unique representation for a given system of linear pde's, at first a ranking of its derivatives must be defined.

Definition
A ranking of derivatives is a total ordering such that for any two derivatives ,  and
, and any derivation operator  the relations  and
 are valid.

A derivative  is called higher than  if . The highest
derivative in an equation is called its leading derivative. For the derivatives up to order two of a single function  depending on  and  with  two possible order are
 the  order  and the  order .

Here the usual notation  is used. If the number of functions is higher than one, these orderings have to be generalized appropriately, e.g. the orderings  or  may be applied.
The first basic operation to be applied in generating a Janet basis is the reduction of an equation  w.r.t. another one . In colloquial terms this means the following: Whenever a derivative of  may be
obtained from the leading derivative of  by suitable differentiation, this differentiation is performed and the
result is subtracted from . Reduction w.r.t. a system of pde's means reduction w.r.t. all elements of the system. A system of linear pde's is called autoreduced if all possible reductions have been performed.

The second basic operation for generating a Janet basis is the inclusion  of integrability conditions. They are obtained
as follows: If two equations  and  are such that by suitable differentiations two new equations
may be obtained with like leading derivatives, by cross-multiplication with its leading coefficients and subtraction of the resulting equations a new equation is obtained, it is called an integrability condition. If by reduction w.r.t. the remaining equations of the system it does not vanish it is included as a new equation to the system.

It may be shown that repeating these operations always terminates after a finite number of steps with a unique answer which is called the Janet basis for the input system. Janet has organized them in terms of the following algorithm.

Janet's Algorithm Given a system of linear differential polynomials  , the Janet basis corresponding to  is returned.

 S1: (Autoreduction) Assign

 S2: (Completion) Assign

 S3: (Integrability conditions) Find all pairs of leading terms  of  and  of  such that differentiation w.r.t. a nonmultiplier  and multipliers   leads to

and determine the integrability conditions

 S4: (Reduction of integrability conditions). For all  assign

 S5: (Termination?) If all  are zero return , otherwise make the assignment , reorder  properly and goto S1

Here  is a subalgorithm that returns its argument with all possible reductions performed,  adds certain equations to the system in order to facilitate determining the integrability conditions. To this
end the variables are divides into multipliers and non-multipliers; details may be found in the above references. Upon successful termination a Janet basis for the input system will be returned.

Example 1 Let the system  be given with ordering  and .  Step S1 returns the autoreduced system

Steps S3 and S4 generate the integrability condition  and reduces it to , i.e. the Janet basis for the originally given system is  with the trivial solution .

The next example involves two unknown functions  and , both depending on  and .

Example 2 Consider the system

in  ordering. The system is already autoreduced, i.e. step S1 returns it unchanged. Step S3 generates the two integrability conditions

Upon reduction in step S4 they are

In step S5 they are included into the system and the algorithms starts again with step S1 with the extended system. After a few more iterations finally the Janet basis

is obtained. It yields the general solution  with two undetermined constants  and .

Application of Janet bases

The most important application of a Janet basis is its use for deciding the degree of indeterminacy of a system of linear homogeneous partial differential equations. The answer in the above Example 1 is that the system under consideration allows only the trivial solution. In the second Example 2 a two-dimensional solution space is obtained. In general, the answer may be more involved, there may be infinitely many free constants in the general solution; they may be obtained from the Loewy decomposition of the respective Janet basis. Furthermore, the Janet basis of a module allows to read off a Janet basis for the syzygy module.

Janet's algorithm has been implemented in Maple.

External links

 www.alltypes.de – Implementation of Janet's basis


Allahabad Cricketers

Allahabad Cricketers (इलाहाबाद क्रिकेटर्स) was founded as a cricket club in 1985 at Madan Mohan Malviya Stadium in Allahabad for young cricketers. Its first coach and manager was Ramesh Pal. He appointed Alok Ranjan Singh as the club's first full-time captain.

Famous Players
The players like Ashish Zaidi, Gyanendra Pandey, Obaid Kamal, Mohammad Saif, Mohammad Kaif, Vinod Pandey, Rambabu Pal, Jyoti Yadav have grown while playing for this club. The main practice ground for this club has been Madan Mohan Malviya Stadium in the historical Alfred Park of Allahabad.

One of its prodigies, Rambabu Pal who was in under-16 India camp along with Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli, committed suicide at the age of 34.

Allahabad has produced several cricketers for Under-19 and University of Allahabad cricket team. L.B. Kala, Ramesh Pal, Brijesh Sahay, B.N. Agrwal, Arun Singh, Ravindra Singh, Vinod Pandey, Alok Singh, Mohammad Asif and many others went on to play for the university team.

Allahabad Cricketers has had several senior players from the Ranji trophy teams of Uttar Pradesh and Railways right from the beginning. Veteran players like K.B. Kala, Hyder Ali, Mohammad Tarif, Sekhar Anand, Giridhari Mishra, have guided players for many years.

Coaches
Allahabad Cricketers has produced coaches who were trained at Sports Authority of India. Following the footsteps of Ramesh Pal, others like Devesh Mishra, Arun Singh, Ravindra Singh and many more become qualified and successful coach for next generation of players in different parts of India.


Maritigrella crozierae

Maritigrella crozierae, the tiger flatworm, is a species of marine polyclad flatworm in the family Euryleptidae. It is found on the eastern coasts of North America and the Caribbean Sea where it feeds on colonial sea squirts.

Description
Maritigrella crozierae is a large flatworm. The upper side of its body is boldly striped in yellow and black. The underside is creamy white with a sucker near the centre. The margin is ruffled, rimmed with orange and fringed with small orange tentacles. It has a tubular pharynx and two tentacles at the front of its head, formed from folds of parts of the front of its body. Just behind these is its brain, with two elongated clusters of ocelli (eyespots) on either side. It usually grows to about  in length and occasional individuals may reach twice this size.

Distribution
Maritigrella crozierae is found in shallow water in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Its range extends from South Carolina to Florida and includes the Gulf of Mexico and Bermuda.

Biology
Maritigrella crozierae is common in the Indian River Lagoon where it feeds exclusively on the mangrove tunicate, Ecteinascidia turbinata. In other parts of its range it feeds on other sea squirts but seems to become habituated to the species it first ate. It everts its pharynx into a zooid and sucks out the interior tissues. A colony of mangrove tunicates is often home to two flatworms, each eating about 19 zooids a day. The tunicate produces a secondary metabolite called trabectedin which has been shown to have anti-tumour properties. As it feeds, the flatworm gradually builds up the concentration of this chemical in its body. For this reason, it may be of interest to the pharmaceutical industry as a source of this compound which has been approved for medical use in the European Union.

Maritigrella crozierae is a simultaneous hermaphrodite, which means that an individual has both male and female gonads at the same time. Fertilisation is internal by hypodermic copulation. One individual approaches another from behind, rears up and falls forward, piercing the other with a fine stylet and inserting white bundles of sperm. Often the second individual reciprocates and both are inseminated at the same time. About 48 hours later, several clumps of cream coloured eggs are laid. These later hatch into larvae known as Muller's larvae which are planktonic.


Suzhouwan East station

Suzhouwan East (Chinese: 苏州湾东) is a station of Line 4, Suzhou Rail Transit. The station is located in the Wujiang District of Suzhou. It has been in use since April 15, 2017, the same time of the operation of Line 4.


Léo Staats

Léo Staats (1877 - 1952) was a French dancer, choreographer and director.

Life and career
Léo Staats studied ballet with Francis Merante, a dancer at the Paris Opera, and reportedly  made his debut in 1887. In 1908 he became Ballet Master at the Paris Opera. From 1926-28 he served as the first choreographer for shows at the Roxy movie palace in New York City. His choreography style was described as Neo-classical.

Works
Selected works include:
La nuit de Valpurgis (Faust) (1908, Gounod)
Namouna (1908, Lalo)
Javotte (1909, Saint-Saëns)
Espana (1911, Chabrier)
Les folies françaises ou Les Dominos (1911, Couperin)
Les abeilles (1917, Stravinsky)
Taglioni chez Musette (1920, Auber, Boieldieu, Meyerbeer, Weckerlin)
Frivolant (1922, Poueigh)
Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied (1923, Pierné)
La nuit ensorcelée (1923, Chopin)
Siang-Sin (1923, Huë)
Istar (1924, D'Indy)
Soir de fête (1925, Delibes)
Orphée (1926, Ducasse)
La prêtresse de Koridwen (1926, Ladmirault)
Impressions de music-hall (1926, Pierné)
L'écran des jeunes filles (1929, Roland-Manuel)
Le rustre imprudent (1931, Fouret)
Un jardin sur l'Oronte (1932, Bachelet)
Roselinde (1933, Hirschmann)
Le rouet d'Armor (1936, Piriou)
Iléana (1936, Bertrand)