Homi K. Bhabha

Homi K. Bhabha (; born 1 November 1949) is an Indian English scholar and critical theorist. He is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is one of the most important figures in contemporary post-colonial studies, and has developed a number of the field's neologisms and key concepts, such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence. Such terms describe ways in which colonised people have resisted the power of the coloniser, according to Bhabha's theory. In 2012, he received the Padma Bhushan award in the field of literature and education from the Indian government. He is married to attorney and Harvard lecturer Jacqueline Bhabha, and they have three children.

Early life and education
Born in Bombay, India, into a Parsi family, Bhabha graduated with a B.A. from Elphinstone College at the University of Mumbai and an M.A., M.Phil., and D.Phil. in English Literature from Christ Church, Oxford University.

Career
After lecturing in the Department of English at the University of Sussex for more than ten years, Bhabha received a senior fellowship at Princeton University where he was also made Old Dominion Visiting Professor. He was Steinberg Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania where he delivered the Richard Wright Lecture Series. At Dartmouth College, Bhabha was a faculty fellow at the School of Criticism and Theory. From 1997 to 2001 he served as Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. In 2001–02, he served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at University College, London. He has been the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University since 2001. Bhabha also serves on the Editorial Collective of Public Culture, an academic journal published by Duke University Press. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India in 2012.

Ideas

Hybridity
One of his central ideas is that of "hybridisation," which, taking up from Edward Said's work, describes the emergence of new cultural forms from multiculturalism. Instead of seeing colonialism as something locked in the past, Bhabha shows how its histories and cultures constantly intrude on the present, demanding that we transform our understanding of cross-cultural relations. His work transformed the study of colonialism by applying post-structuralist methodologies to colonial texts.

Ambivalence
The idea of ambivalence sees culture as consisting of opposing perceptions and dimensions. Bhabha claims that this ambivalence—this duality that presents a split in the identity of the colonized other—allows for beings who are a hybrid of their own cultural identity and the colonizer's cultural identity. Ambivalence contributes to the reason why colonial power is characterized by its belatedness. Colonial signifiers of authority only acquire their meanings after the "traumatic scenario of colonial difference, cultural or racial, returns the eye of power to some prior archaic image or identity. Paradoxically, however, such an image can neither be 'original'—by virtue of the act of repetition that constructs it—nor identical—by virtue of the difference that defines it." Accordingly, the colonial presence remains ambivalent, split between its appearance as original and authoritative and its articulation as repetition and difference. This opens up the two dimensions of colonial discourse: that which is characterized by invention and mastery and that of displacement and fantasy.

Cultural difference, enunciation, and stereotype
Bhabha presents cultural difference as an alternative to cultural diversity. In cultural diversity, a culture is an "object of empirical knowledge" and pre-exists the knower while cultural difference sees culture as the point at which two or more cultures meet and it is also where most problems occur, discursively constructed rather than pre-given, a "process of enunciation of culture as 'knowledgeable.'" Enunciation is the act of utterance or expression of a culture that takes place in the Third Space. Since culture is never pre-given, it must be uttered. It is through enunciation that cultural difference is discovered and recognized. The enunciative process introduces a divide between the traditions of a stable system of reference and the negation of the certitude of culture in the articulation of new cultural, meanings, strategies, in the political present, as a practice of domination, or resistance. Therefore, cultural difference is a process of identification, while cultural diversity is comparative and categorized. Moreover, it is that possibility of difference and articulation that could free the signifier of skin/culture from the fixations of racial typology, however, the stereotype impedes the circulation and articulation of the signifier of "race" as anything other than that. An important aspect of colonial and post-colonial discourse is their dependence on the concept of "fixity" in the construction of otherness. Fixity implies repetition, rigidity and an unchanging order as well as disorder. The stereotype depends on this notion of fixity. The stereotype creates an "identity" that stems as much from mastery and pleasure as it does from anxiety and defense of the dominant, "for it is a form of multiple and contradictory beliefs in its recognition of difference and disavowal of it."

Mimicry
Like Bhabha's concept of hybridity, mimicry is a metonym of presence. Mimicry appears when members of a colonized society imitate and take on the culture of the colonizers. Lacan asserts, "The effect of mimicry is camouflage...it is not a question of harmonizing with the background, but against a mottled background." Colonial mimicry comes from the colonist's desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as a subject of a difference that is, as Bhabha writes, "almost the same, but not quite." Thus, mimicry is a sign of a double articulation; a strategy which appropriates the Other as it visualizes power. Furthermore, mimicry is the sign of the inappropriate, "a difference or recalcitrance which coheres the dominant strategic function of colonial power, intensifies surveillance, and poses an imminent threat to both 'normalized' knowledges and disciplinary powers." In this way, mimicry gives the colonial subject a partial presence, as if the 'colonial' is dependent for its representation within the authoritative discourse itself. Ironically, the colonists desire to emerge as 'authentic' through mimicry—through a process of writing and repetition—through this partial representation. On the other hand, Bhabha does not interpret mimicry as a narcissistic identification of the colonizer in which the colonized stops being a person without the colonizer present in his identity. He sees mimicry as a "double vision which in disclosing the ambivalence of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority. And it is a double vision that is a result of what [he has] described as the partial representation/recognition of the colonial object...the figures of a doubling, the part-objects of a metonymy of colonial desire which alienates the modality and normality of those dominate discourses in which they emerge as 'inappropriate colonial subjects'."

The colonists' desire is inverted as the colonial appropriation now produces a partial vision of the colonizer's presence; a gaze from the Other is the counterpart to the colonizer's gaze that shares the insight of genealogical gaze which frees the marginalized individual and breaks the unity of man's being through which he had extended his sovereignty. Thus, "the observer becomes the observed and 'partial' representation rearticulates the whole notion of identity and alienates it from essence."

Third Space
The Third Space acts as an ambiguous area that develops when two or more individuals/cultures interact (compare this to urbanist Edward W. Soja's conceptualization of thirdspace). It "challenges our sense of the historical identity of culture as a homogenizing, unifying force, authenticated by the originary past, kept alive in the national tradition of the People." This ambivalent area of discourse, which serves as a site for the discursive conditions of enunciation, "displaces the narrative of the Western written in homogeneous, serial time." It does so through the "disruptive temporality of enunciation." Bhabha claims that "cultural statements and systems are constructed in this contradictory and ambivalent space of enunciation." As a result, the hierarchical claims to the innate originality or purity of cultures are invalid. Enunciation implies that culture has no fixity and even the same signs can be appropriated, translated, rehistoricized, and read anew.

Influences
Bhabha's work in postcolonial theory owes much to post-structuralism. Notable among Bhabha's influences include Jacques Derrida and deconstruction; Jacques Lacan and Lacanian psychoanalysis; and Michel Foucault's notion of discursivity. Additionally, in a 1995 interview with W. J. T. Mitchell, Bhabha stated that Edward Said is the writer who has most influenced him. In the social sciences, Edward W. Soja has most thoroughly relied on and transformed Bhabha's approaches to understanding notion of space, action, and representation.

Reception
Bhabha has been criticized for using indecipherable jargon and dense prose. In 1998, the journal Philosophy and Literature awarded Bhabha second prize in its "Bad Writing Competition," which "celebrates bad writing from the most stylistically lamentable passages found in scholarly books and articles." Bhabha was awarded the prize for a sentence in his The Location of Culture (Routledge, 1994) that reads:

If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to "normalize" formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.

Professor Emeritus of English at Stanford University Marjorie Perloff said that her reaction to Bhabha's appointment to the Harvard faculty was one of "dismay," telling the New York Times that "He doesn't have anything to say." Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of media studies at New York University, remarked on Bhabha's writing: "One could finally argue that there is no meaning there, beyond the neologisms and Latinate buzzwords. Most of the time I don't know what he's talking about."

In a 2005 interview, Bhabha expressed his annoyance at such criticisms and the implied expectation that philosophers should use the "common language of the common person," while scientists are given a pass for the similar use of language that is not immediately comprehensible to casual readers. In his review entitled "Goodbye to the Enlightenment," Terry Eagleton provided a more substantive critique of Bhabha's work, explaining in The Guardian (8 February 1994) that "Bhabha's aim is to put the skids under every cherished doctrine of Western Enlightenment, from the idea of progress to the unity of the self, from the classical work of art to the notions of law and civility." Bhabha uses India, for instance, as an example of alternative possibilities when he argues that the very idea and practice of secularism is changing.

Personal life
He is married to attorney and Harvard lecturer Jacqueline Bhabha. The couple have three children together named Leah Bhabha, Ishan Bhabha, and Satya Bhabha.

Incomplete works

Books

Includes book editing

 The Location of Culture, Routledge (1994; )
 Edward Said Continuing the Conversation, co-ed. with W. J. T. Mitchell (originally an issue of Critical Inquiry), 2005.
 "Cosmopolitanisms" in Public Culture 12.3, eds. Sheldon I. Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, Carol Breckenridge, Arjun Appadurai, and Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2000.
 "In a Spirit of Calm Violence," 1993.
 "Modernity, Culture, and The Jew," eds. Laura Marcus & Bryan Cheyette, 1998.
 "Conversational Art" in Conversations at the Castle: Changing Audiences and Contemporary Art, Mary Jane Jacob and Michael Brenson, eds. (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1998).
 "On Cultural Choice," 2000.
 "V.S. Naipaul," 2001
 "Democracy De-Realized," 2002.
 "On Writing Rights," 2003.
 "Making Difference: The Legacy of the Culture Wars," 2003.
 "Adagio," 2004.
 "Still Life," 2004.
 Foreword to The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, transl. Richard Philcox, 2004.
 "Framing Fanon," 2005.
 "Without Boundary," with Fereshteh Daftari and Orhan Pamuk, 2006.
 "The Black Savant and the Dark Princess," 2006.

Articles

 Bhabha, Homi K.; Parthasarathy, R. "Indo-Anglican attitudes." TLS, Times literary supplement 3 (1978): 136.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Apologies for Poetry: A Study in the Method of Mill and Richards." Journal of the School of Languages [New Delhi] 3.1 (1975): 71-88.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Representation and the colonial text: a critical exploration of some forms of mimeticism." The Theory of reading. Ed. Frank Gloversmith. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1984.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Remembering Fanon. Introduction to the English edition of Black skin white mask." Black skin white mask. London: Pluto Press, 1986.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "'What does the Black man want?'." New Formations 1 (1987): 118-130.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Remembering Fanon: self, psyche, and the colonial condition." Remaking history. Ed. Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani. Seattle: Bay Press, 1989.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Hybridité, identité et culture contemporaine." Magiciens de la terre. Ed. Jean Hubert Martin. Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 1989.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "At the limits." Artforum 27.9 (1989): 11-12.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Imaginings." New statesman & society 2.70 (1989): 45-47.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Articulating the archaic: notes on colonial nonsense." Literary theory today. Ed. Peter Collier and Helga Geyer-Ryan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "The other question: difference, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism." Out there: marginalization and contemporary cultures. Ed. Russell . New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Interrogating identity: the postcolonial prerogative." Anatomy of racism. Ed. David Theo Goldberg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "DissemiNation: time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation." Nation and narration. Ed. Homi K. Bhabha. London; New York: Routledge, 1990.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Novel metropolis." New statesman society 3.88 (1990): 16.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "A question of survival: nations and psychic states." Psychoanalysis and cultural theory: thresholds. Ed. James Donald. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Art and National Identity: A Critics' Symposium." Art in America 79.9 (1991): 80-.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "'Race', time and the revision of modernity." The Oxford Literary Review 13.1-2 (1991): 193-219.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Postcolonial criticism." Redrawing the boundaries: the transformation of English and American literary studies. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt and Giles B. Gunn. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1992.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Of mimicry and man: the ambivalence of colonial discourse." Modern literary theory: a reader. Ed. Philip; Waugh Rice, Patricia. 2nd ed. ed. London; New York: E. Arnold, 1992.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "A good judge of character: men, metaphors, and the common culture." Race-ing justice, en-gendering power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the construction of social reality. Ed. Toni Morrison. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Postcolonial authority and postmodern guilt." Cultural Studies. Ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula A. Treichler. New York: Routledge, 1992.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Double visions." Artforum 30.5 (1992): 85-59.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Freedom's basis in the indeterminate." October 61 (1992): 46-57.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "The world and the home." Social text 10.2-3 (1992): 141-153.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Beyond the pale: art in the age of multicultural translation." Cultural diversity in the arts: art, art policies and the facelift of Europe. Ed. Ria Lavrijsen. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, 1993.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Culture's in between." Artforum 32.1 (1993): 167-170.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "The commitment to theory." Questions of third cinema. Ed. Jim Pines and Paul Willemen. London: BFI Pub., 1994.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Frontlines / borderposts." Displacements: cultural identities in question. Ed. Angelika Bammer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: Indiana University Press, 1994.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Remembering Fanon: self, psyche and the colonial condition." Colonial discourse and post-colonial theory: a reader. Ed. R. J. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "The enchantment of art." The artist in society: rights, roles, and responsibilities. Ed. Kathy Becker, Carol Acker, and Ann Wiens. Chicago: Chicago New Art Association, New Art Examiner Press, 1995.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Are you a man or a mouse?" Constructing masculinity. Ed. Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson, and Carrie Weems. New York: Routledge, 1995.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Homi Bhabha on the New Black Intellectual." Artforum international 34.2 (1995): 16-17.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Dance this diss around." Artforum 33.8 (1995): 19-20.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "[Dialogues with Homi Bhabha, et al.]." The fact of blackness: Frantz Fanon and visual representation. Ed. Alan Read. Seattle: Bay Press, 1996.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Postmodernism/postcolonialism." Critical terms for art history. Ed. Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Unpacking my library ... again." The post-colonial question: common skies, divided horizons. Ed. Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti. London; New York: Routledge, 1996.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Day by day . . . with Frantz Fanon." The fact of blackness. Ed. Alan Read. Seattle: Bay Press, 1996.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Laughing stock." Artforum 35.2 (1996): 15-17.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Unsatisfied: notes on vernacular cosmopolitanism." Text and Nation: Cross-Disciplinary Essays on Cultural and National Identities. Ed. Laura Garcia-Moreno and Peter C. Pfeiffer. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1996. 191-207.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "World and the home." Dangerous liaisons: gender, nation, and postcolonial perspectives. Ed. Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti, and Ella Shohat. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Postscript: bombs away in front-line suburbia." Visions of suburbia. Ed. Roger Silverstone. London; New York: Routledge, 1997.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Designer creations." Artforum 36.4 (1997): 11-14.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "[Reviews of: Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India; and Subaltern Studies, vol. 9, Writings on South Asian History and Society]." TLS. Times Literary Supplement .4923 (1997): 14-15.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Halfway house." Artforum 35.9 (1997): 11-13.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Queen's English." Artforum 35.7 (1997): 25-27.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Front lines / border posts." Critical inquiry 23.3 (1997).
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Dance this diss around." The crisis of criticism. Ed. Maurice Berger. New York: New Press, 1998.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "The white stuff." Artforum 36.9 (1998): 21-23.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "On the irremovable strangeness of being different [one of "Four views of ethnicity"]." PMLA 113.1 (1998): 34-39.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Liberalism's sacred cow." Is multiculturalism bad for women? Ed. Susan Moller Okin and Joshua Cohen. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1999.
 Bhabha, Homi K. (interviewer). "Alter/Native Modernities - Miniaturizing Modernity: Shahzia Sikander in Conversation with Homi K Bhabha." Public culture: bulletin of the Project for Transnational Cultural Studies 11.1 (1999): 146-152.
 Bhabha, Homi K. "Afterword: an ironic act of courage." Milton and the imperial vision. Ed. Rajan Balachandra and Elizabeth Sauer. Pittsburgh, Pa: Duquesne University Press, 1999.
 Bhabha, Homi K.; Dudiker, Karsten (trans.). "'Angst' in kultureller Ubersetzung." Heterotopien der Identitat: Literatur in interamerikanischen Kontaktzonen. Ed. Hermann Herlinghaus; Utz Riese. Heidelberg, Germany: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1999. 83-97.

Interviews

 Bennett, David, and Collits, Terry. "Postcolonial critic: Homi Bhabha interviewed by David Bennett and Terry Collits." Literary India: comparative studies in aesthetics, colonialism, and culture. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan; Lalita Pandit. SUNY series in Hindu studies. Albany: State Univ. of New York, 1995.
 Hall, Gary; Wortham, Simon. "Rethinking Authority: Interview with Homi K. Bhabha." Angelaki 2.2 (1996): 59-63.
 Koundoura, Maria; Rai, Amit. "Interview: Homi Bhabha." Stanford humanities review 3.1 (1993): 1-6.
 Mitchell, W.J.T. "Translator translated (interview with cultural theorist Homi Bhabha)." Artforum 33.7 (1995): 80-84.

General Criticism

 Easthope, Anthony. "Bhabha, hybridity, and identity." Textual practice 12.2 (1998): 341-348.
 Fludernik, Monika. "The constitution of hybridity: postcolonial interventions." Hybridity and postcolonialism: twentieth-century Indian literature. Ed. Monika Fludernik. Tubingen, Germany: Stauffenburg, 1998. 19-53.
 Leonard, Philip. "Degenerescent Lections: Legal Fictions in Rushdie, Derrida, and Bhabha." New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics 32 (1997): 109-119.
 Phillips, Lawrence. "Lost in Space: Siting/Citing the In-Between of Homi Bhabha's The Location of Culture." Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2.2 (1998).
 Perloff, Marjorie. "Cultural liminality / Aesthetic closure?: The interstitial perspective of Homi Bhabha."
 Ray, Sangeeta. “The nation in performance: Bhabha, Mukherjee and Kureishi.” Hybridity and postcolonialism: twentieth-century Indian literature. Ed. Monika Fludernik. Tubingen, Germany: Stauffenburg, 1998. 219-238.
 Thompson, Paul. “Between identities: Homi Bhabha interviewed by Paul Thompson.” Migration and identity. Ed. Rina Benmayor, Andor Skotnes. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
 Xie, Shaobo. “Writing on boundaries: Homi Bhabha's recent essays.” ARIEL: A review of International English literature 27.4 (1996): 155-166.


Oleg Bakhmatyuk

Oleg Bakhmatyuk (Ukrainian: Олег Бахматюк, born August 14, 1974) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician, the owner of UkrLandFarming.

Education
Oleg Bakhmatyuk was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.

In 1996, Oleg graduated from the Chernivtsi Economics and Law Institute specializing in management of the production sphere.

In 2005, he graduated from Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas with specialist diplomas in management and engineer-physicist.

Career
During 1996–2001, Oleg had been the Administrator and Desk Officer, the Manager, the Deputy Head of Supply Division Department, the Head of Commercial Department at KGD as a representative of Itera in Ivano-Frankivsk Region.

In 2001, he founded the Precarpathian Finance Corporation.

Since 2002 he had become a Deputy of Ivano-Frankivsk City Council, the member of Economic Revival Faction, the member of the City Council Committee on issues of finance planning, prices and budget. In 2002, he also held the position of the Deputy of the President of KGD company Ostap Darmogray. Later in 2002 he left KGD and was leading Precarpathian Finance Corporation.

During 2002–2004, Oleg Bakhmatyuk was a business partner of Ihor Yeremeyev in oil, agrarian business and region gasification.

In 2003, Bakhmatyuk bought the Avangard poultry factory and created the same named company.

In 2003 he founded Stanislavska Torgova Kompaniya (Stanislavskiy Trade Company) that became an owner of the largest chain of grocery stores in Ivano-Frankivsk Region (under the brand Favorit). Later he has given it in for the debts to the competitors from Pakko-Holding. Thus the chain of supermarkets Favorit was sold to the Pakko-Holding company in 2010.

Bakhmatyuk has also owned the following Ivano-Frankivsk media: Reporter, the newspaper IF.UA, 3 studia, Galitskiy Correspondent.

In 2004, Oleg Bakhmatyuk founded the commercial bank Financial Initiative.

In 2005, Oleg had been appointed as the Head of the Office of Investments Expert Estimation and Corporate Financing at the national stock company NSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, then – the Advisor to the Head of NSC Naftogas of Ukraine.

On July 25, 2006, he was appointed as the Deputy Chairmen of the Board at NSC Naftogas of Ukraine.

In 2006, he bought a controlling stake in region gas distribution companies: IvanoFrankivskGas, LvivGas, ZKGas, ChernivtsiGas and VolynGas.

In 2007, Oleg sold the controlling stake of region gas companies to the RosUkrEnergo AG company, owned by Dmitriy Firtash.

On January 17, 2007, Bakhmatyuk was dismissed from the held position at Naftogas as well as from the public service.

Since 2011 Bakhmatyuk joined the founders of VAB Bank. As a result of the economic and banking crisis in Ukraine in 2014-2015, the bank, like 99 other Ukrainian banks (out of 180 as of 2013), was withdrawn from the market by the decision of the National Bank of Ukraine. Oleg Bakhmatyuk is the only one of their ex-owners of liquidated banks who proposed to cover the bank's debts to the Deposit Guarantee Fund and the NBU.

Agricultural business
In 2003, Bakhmatyuk bought the Avangard poultry factory and created the same named company.

Since 2007 Oleg Bakhmatyuk has been leading the Board of Management at Avangard Agro Holding. The company holds a 33% share of the Ukrainian egg market.

On April 29, 2010, the Ukrainian agricultural holding Avangard (SPV-company Avangardco Investments Public Limited) raised $187.5 million for 20% of the share capital during the initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange.

In 2010, Bakhmatyuk bought the assets of the American chicken processing company Townsends Inc. in the United States. The idea to  restore the work of the poultry processing plant and establish a USA meat supply to Ukraine and Russia, however, failed.

In 2011, Bakhmatyuk founded UkrLandFarming, the major vertically integrated agro holding of Ukraine (as a result of assets merger with Avangard), which is the largest agricultural lands lessee, producing grain and cattle breeding.

In 2011, he bought the company Dakor Agro Holding and Rise that made UkrLandFarming one of the largest vertically integrated agricultural companies in Ukraine.

In 2013, he bought the agricultural holding Valinor that significantly strengthened his position in this area.

During 2014-2015, Bakhmatyuk and his companies suffered great losses due to the conflict in Donbass Region and annexation of the Crimea where the company owned significant capital. As a result, the total debt has increased.

In April, 2016, he re-headed the Board of Directors of Avangard Agro Holding.

Recognition
Oleg Bakhmatyuk has been an award winner of the National Program Person of the Year – 2009 for the Farmer of the Year nomination.

Family
Oleg Bakhmatyuk is married. He raises three daughters and one son.

His sister, Nataliya Vasilyuk, is the Head of Avangard Agro Holding and was recognized as the best business woman of Ukraine’s agricultural sector (2019).

References


Craven House

Craven House (also known as Fisher House) is a large office building in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England located on Michaelson Road close to the eponymous bridge. Constructed in the 1960s the building is noted for its length of roughly  and consists of seven floors making it one of the tallest storied buildings in the town. The gross floor area stands at around . Craven House is owned by the Department of Work and Pensions through Barrow Borough Council and currently houses the town's principal Jobcentre alongside leasing office space to the headquarters of successful shipping company James Fisher & Sons - the only Barrow based company listed on the London Stock Exchange.

In 2003 the entire external fabric of the building was recladded and a further £1.7 million was spent in 2013 on refurbishing the inside of the building and installing a new roof. Craven House generates around £176,000 for Barrow Borough Council per annum, making it the largest individual commercial asset under the council's possession.

Tenants
 Agilisys
 Cumbria County Council
 James Fisher & Sons
 Jobcentre


Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy

The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy (also known as Sculptor Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy or the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that is a satellite of the Milky Way. The galaxy lies within the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered in 1937 by American astronomer Harlow Shapley using the 24-inch Bruce refractor at Boyden Observatory. The galaxy is located about 290,000 light-years away from the Solar System. The Sculptor Dwarf contains only 4 percent of the carbon and other heavy elements in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, making it similar to primitive galaxies seen at the edge of the universe.

Metallicity
The metallicity of Sculptor dwarf appears to be broken up into two distinct groups, one with [Fe/H] = -2.3 and the other with [Fe/H] = -1.5. Similar to many of the other Local Group galaxies, the older metal-poor segment appears more extended than the younger metal-rich segment.

Measurements
Using both Hubble Telescope and Gaia observations 12 years apart, about 100 stars in the galaxy were mapped accurately, and 3D motions of about 10 of those stars enable trajectories to be mapped as well.

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2017 Colorado Rockies season

The 2017 Colorado Rockies season was the franchise's 25th in Major League Baseball. It was the 23rd season the Rockies played their home games at Coors Field. Bud Black became the new Rockies Manager after the resignation of Walt Weiss. Black in his first season was a finalist for the Manager of the Year award. The Rockies finished the season 87–75 in third place in the National League West Division, 17 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers. They did, however, receive the second wild card spot in the National League and advanced to the playoffs for the first time since 2009. In the Wild Card Game, they lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Offseason and spring training
December 13, 2016: Ian Desmond was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.
December 15, 2016: Mike Dunn was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.
January 17, 2017: Alexi Amarista was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.
January 28, 2017: Greg Holland was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.
February 1, 2017: Eddie Butler was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Chicago Cubs for James Farris (minors).
April 2, 2017: Ryan Hanigan was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.

For their pre-season spring training, the Rockies participated in the Cactus League, finishing with a 16–15 win–loss record. In addition, two of their games finished tied and are not included in the standings.

Regular season

Summary
The Rockies won their Opening Day game on April 3, defeating the Milwaukee Brewers, 7−5.  Relief pitcher Greg Holland, making his Rockies debut, earned the save, his first save since September 17, 2015.

Holland won the National League Reliever of the Month Award for April.

On Mother's Day, Holland broke the franchise record of converting 16 consecutive saves to start a season, formerly held by José Jiménez, which he had set in 2002.

For the month of May, Charlie Blackmon won his first MLB Player of the Month Award, for the National League.  He led the NL in hits (42) and triples (five), was second in batting average (.359), fourth in runs scored (24), tied for fifth in RBI (22), and tied for seventh with a 1.037 OPS.  Holland won his second consecutive NL Reliever of the Month Award, going for 20-for-20 in save opportunities, a 1.31 ERA and 0.82 WHIP through May.

On June 18, 2017, Nolan Arenado hit for the cycle versus the San Francisco Giants.  The home run was a walk off, securing a 7−5 win off Giants closer Mark Melancon.  The 288th cycle in MLB history, it was the eighth by a Rockies player, and the 17th overall accomplished at Coors Field.  It was only the sixth time in MLB history that a cycle included a walk-off home run; Carlos González did the same on July 31, 2010, versus the Chicago Cubs.

During the June 28 game versus the Giants, Arenado knocked down a line drive batted by pitcher Ty Blach as he was facing third base, spun on his stomach, and, without getting up on his feet, threw out Blach at first base.

Arenado set career-highs with three home runs and five hits, while tying a career-high seven RBI in an 18–4 rout of the San Diego Padres on July 19. He tied the franchise record held by Jeff Cirillo and Todd Walker for the number of total bases in a single game with 14, and became the first player in Rockies history to reach both three home runs and five hits in a single game.  He also became the first player in the majors to reach 80 RBI.  Named NL Player of the Week for the fourth time of his career on July 23, Arenado hit .458/.480/1.000 with four home runs and 13 RBI in five games.  He later won NL Player of the Month Award for July, his second career monthly award, after hitting .389/.423/.744 with eight home runs, 35 hits, 15 extra base hits, 30 RBIs and 18 runs scored in 22 games.

With a two-run home run versus José Ureña of the Miami Marlins on August 11, Arenado became the first major leaguer of 2017 to reach 100 RBI, doing so in 112 games.  He had batted .441 and 77 RBI with runners in scoring position (RISP).

On September 16 versus the Padres, Arenado drove in his 125th run of the season, becoming the first third baseman and first Rockies player to do so in three consecutive seasons.  Later that September, he became the 11th player in major league history to drive in 130 or more runs in three successive seasons.  Writing for The Sporting News, Joe Rivera noted that per Fangraphs Arenado was the fourth player in history to net at least 100 defensive runs saved within his first five seasons (103).

On September 29, 2017, Blackmon homered versus Hyun-Jin Ryu of the Los Angeles Dodgers to reach 102 RBI, surpassing Darin Erstad in 2000 for the major league record of RBI by a leadoff hitter in one season.

Season standings

National League West

National League Wild Card

Record vs. opponents

Transactions
April 5, 2017: Jason Motte was released by the Colorado Rockies.
July 5, 2017: Chad Qualls was released by the Colorado Rockies.
July 26, 2017: Pat Neshek was traded by the Philadelphia Phillies to the Colorado Rockies for Jose Gomez (minors), J.D. Hammer (minors), and Alejenadro Requena (minors).
July 30, 2017: Jonathan Lucroy was traded by the Texas Rangers to the Colorado Rockies for a player to be named later.  The Colorado Rockies sent Pedro Gonzalez (minors) (August 23, 2017) to the Texas Rangers to complete the trade.
August 1, 2017: Jordan Lyles was released by the Colorado Rockies.

Major League Debuts
Batters
Mike Tauchman (Jun 27)
Ryan McMahon (Aug 12)
Pitchers
Antonio Senzatela (Apr 6)
Kyle Freeland (Apr 7)
Shane Carle (Apr 14)

Roster

Game log

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|May: 17–12 (Home: 8–7; Away: 9–5)
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|June: 15–12 (Home: 7–2; Away: 8–10)
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July: 12–12 (Home: 9–4; Away: 3–8)

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| 84 || July 2 || @ Diamondbacks || 4–3 || Rodney (3–2) || Ottavino (1–3) || || 34,556 || 48–36 || L2
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| 85 || July 3 || Reds || 5–3 || Hoffman (5–1) || Castillo (0–1) || Holland (27) || 49,131 || 49–36 || W1
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| 86 || July 4 || Reds || 8–1 || Bailey (1–2) || Freeland (8–7) || || 48,338 || 49–37 || L1
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb"
| 87 || July 5 || Reds || 5–3 || Gray (2–0) || Feldman (7–6) || Holland (28) || 32,188 || 50–37 || W1
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 88 || July 6 || Reds || 6–3 || Romano (1–1) || Chatwood (6–10) || || 27,328 || 50–38 || L1
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb"
| 89 || July 7 || White Sox || 12–4 || Márquez (6–4) || Holland (5–9) || || 38,386 || 51–38 || W1
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 90 || July 8 || White Sox || 5–4 || Kahnle (1–3) || Holland (1–1) || Robertson (13) || 48,118 || 51–39 || L1
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb"
| 91 || July 9 || White Sox || 10–0 || Freeland (9–7) || Rodon (1–2) || || 36,541 || 52–39 || W1
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|colspan="10"|88th All-Star Game in Miami, Florida
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| 92 || July 14 || @ Mets || 14–2 || deGrom (10–3) || Gray (2–1) || || 27,582 || 52–40 || L1
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 93 || July 15 || @ Mets || 9–3 || Lugo (4–2) || Chatwood (6–11) || || 34,783 || 52–41 || L2
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb"
| 94 || July 16 || @ Mets || 13–4 || Hoffman (6–1) || Matz (2–3) || || 28,745 || 53–41 || W1
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb"
| 95 || July 17 || Padres || 9–6 || Márquez (7–4) || Perdomo (4–5) || Holland (29) || 37,561 || 54–41 || W2
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb"
| 96 || July 18 || Padres || 9–7 || Senzatela (10–3) || Lamet (3–4) || Holland (30) || 40,101 || 55–41 || W3
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb"
| 97 || July 19 || Padres || 18–4 || Gray (3–1) || Richard (5–10) || || 37,128 || 56–41 || W4
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| 98 || July 21 || Pirates || 13–5 || Williams (4–4) || Hoffman (6–2) || || 41,192 || 56–42 || L1
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| 99 || July 22 || Pirates || 7–3 || Márquez (8–4) || Kuhl (3–7) || Holland (31) || 48,235 || 57–42 || W1
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| 100 || July 23 || Pirates || 13–3 || Freeland (10–7) || Nova (10–7) || || 40,118 || 58–42 || W2
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 101 || July 24 || @ Cardinals || 8–2 || Leake (7–8) || Senzatela (10–4) || || 40,486 || 58–43 || L1
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| 102 || July 25 || @ Cardinals || 3–2 || Rosenthal (3–4) || McGee (0–1) || || 41,514 || 58–44 || L2
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| 103 || July 26 || @ Cardinals || 10–5 || Martinez (7–8) || Hoffman (6–3) || || 38,162 || 58–45 || L3
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbbbbb"
| — || July 28 || @ Nationals || colspan=7|Postponed (rain); Rescheduled for July 30
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| 104 || July 29 || @ Nationals || 4–2 || Márquez (9–4) || Roark (8–7) || Holland (32) || 33,989 || 59–45 || W1
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| 105 || July 30 || @ Nationals || 10–6 || Freeland (11–7) || Fedde (0–1) || Holland (33) || 33,248 || 60–45 || W2
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| 106 || July 30 || @ Nationals|| 3–1 || Jackson (2–1) || Gray' (3–2) || Doolittle (6) || 31,118 || 60–46 || L1
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|August: 12–15 (Home: 8–8; Away: 4–7)
|-
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September/October: 15–14 (Home: 7–8; Away: 8–6)

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! colspan=9 | Legend:       = Win       = Loss       = PostponementBold = Rockies team member
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Postseason Game Log

 Player stats

 Batting

 Starters by position Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in Other batters Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in Pitching

 Starting pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Other pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Relief pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts''

Awards and league leaders

Awards
 Fielding Bible Awards:
 Nolan Arenado (3B)
 DJ LeMahieu (2B)
 National League All-Stars:
 Nolan Arenado (3B—starter)
 Charlie Blackmon (CF—starter)
 Greg Holland (RHP)
 DJ LeMahieu (2B)
 National League Player of the Month Awards:
 May:  Charlie Blackmon
 July:  Nolan Arenado
 Players Choice for Majestic Athletic Always Game Award:  Nolan Arenado
 Rawlings Gold Glove Awards:
 Nolan Arenado (3B)
 DJ LeMahieu (2B)
 Rawlings Platinum Glove Award for the National League:  Nolan Arenado
 Silver Slugger Awards:
 Nolan Arenado (3B)
 Charlie Blackmon (CF)

National League leaders

Batting statistics
 Batting champion: Charlie Blackmon
 Doubles leader:  Nolan Arenado
 Hits leader:  Charlie Blackmon
 Runs scored leader:  Charlie Blackmon
 Strikeouts leader:  Trevor Story
 Triples leader:  Charlie Blackmon
 Total bases leader:  Charlie Blackmon
 Ref:

Farm system


Reza Ghotbi

Reza Ghotbi (, 1940 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian engineer who headed National Iranian Radio and Television during Pahlavi dynasty. He currently lives in the United States. During the time he attended Alborz High School, he developed ties to the Pan-Iranist Party.


Richard Pape

Richard Bernard Pape MM (17 March 1916 – 19 June 1995) was a British Second World War escapee, adventurer, autobiographer and novelist.

Pape was born in 1916 in Roundhay, Leeds, Yorkshire.

During the Second World War adventures, he became a navigator in a Short Stirling bomber. He was shot down close to the German/Dutch border, was twice captured and twice escaped, and was eventually repatriated by the Germans after substituting a sick man's urine for his own. He subsequently suffered a drunken motorcycle accident on the Isle of Man, which led to his being hospitalised at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, for pioneer plastic surgery under Archibald McIndoe: he thus became a member of the Guinea Pig Club.

After the war, he wrote a book-length account of his adventures, Boldness Be My Friend. The book was brought to Anthony Blond's London literary agency in 1952 by Vanora McIndoe, Sir Archibald's daughter. After being read and approved by Blond's colleague Isabel Colegate, it was published in 1953 by Paul Elek, who paid a £600 advance.

In June 1965, Pape returned his Military Medal to the Queen in protest at The Beatles having been awarded the MBE. He was quoted as saying: "The Beatles' MBE reeks of mawkish, bizarre effrontery to our wartime endeavours."

He died in Canberra, Australia in 1995 at the age of 79.

Selected publications
Boldness Be My Friend 1953
Cape Cold to Cape Hot 1956
Sequel to Boldness 1959
Fortune Is My Enemy 1960
No Time to Die 1962


Transatlanticism (disambiguation)

Transatlanticism may refer to:

Transatlanticism (album), album by Death Cab for Cutie 2003
Transatlanticism (culture), the cultural exchange between Great Britain and the United States, as reflected in British and American literature
Transatlanticism, or Atlanticism, the belief in or support for strong relations between North America and Europe
Transatlantic relations


Fort Devens-Sudbury Training Annex

The Fort Devens-Sudbury Training Annex was a former annex of Fort Devens that was operational from 1942 to the 1990s. It originally opened as an ammunition dump for the base, and old railroad lines and bunkers can still be seen in the area. It then functioned as a dumping ground for the Natick Laboratories until the 1980s. In the 1990s, the site was cleaned up and turned into the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge.

External links
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/sudbury.htm
http://classes.colgate.edu/dkeller/geol101/sums/fortd.htm


Feminist Theory (journal)

Feminist Theory is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of women’s studies. The journal's editors-in-chief are Stacy Gillis (Newcastle University), Celia Roberts (Lancaster University), Carolyn Pedwell (Newcastle University), and  Sarah Kember (Goldsmith's College). It was established in 2000 and is currently published by Sage Publications.

Abstracting and indexing
Feminist Theory is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2015 impact factor is 1.268, ranking it 12th out of 40 journals in the category "Women's Studies".


Andrzej Błasik

Andrzej Eugeniusz Błasik (11 October 1962 – 10 April 2010) was a Lieutenant General in the Polish Armed Forces and a Commander of the Polish Air Force. Błasik was born in Poddębice, People's Republic of Poland. He died in the Tu-154 crash near Smolensk, Russia.

Education
During 1977–1981 Błasik was educated at Aviation High School at the University Officers' School of Aviation in Deblin. Afterwards he joined the 'School of Eaglets', gaining in 1985 the military rank of second lieutenant in the group of pilots of the passenger aviation corps.

In the period from 1993 to 1995 he studied at the National Defence University in Warsaw, after completing the diploma and he became a certified officer. He was also a graduate of the Netherlands Defence Academy in The Hague in 1998 and the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama, United States (2005).

Military service
At the first grade – a pilot – he was sent to 8 Regiment Fighter-Bomber in Mirosławiec. In 1987 he was transferred to 40 Regiment Fighter-Bomber in Świdwin, where he was a senior pilot, commander of a key officer of the squadron navigator, squadron commander and deputy commander of the squadron. Since 1995, he served in the Air Force Command, Air Force and Air Defense [2] in Warsaw. He was successively chief inspector duties Navigation Division, Senior Inspector Department of Training and Operations Branch chief specialist.

In 2001 he became Head of Training 2 Tactical Air Brigade in Poznań, and in 2002 became commander of the 31st Air Base in Poznań. He commanded a military unit in 2003 received the "Mark of Honour of the Polish Armed Forces" for the protection of international maneuvers in "NATO Air Meet 2003". Since 2004, he was head of the Combat Applications Division at Headquarters Air Force, while in 2005–2007 he commanded the 2nd Tactical Air Brigade. On 15 August 2005 he was promoted to brigadier general. After a short time, he served as commander-rector of the School Officers of the Air Force. On 19 April 2007 he was appointed commander of the Air Force and was promoted to major general.

On 15 August 2007 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general.

As a pilot he had 1,300 hours total flying time. As an instructor he had the power to train in all weather conditions on airplanes Su-22 and PZL TS-11 Iskra. He also piloted the Lim-6.

Death

Błasik died in a plane crash near Smolensk, in which the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński also died.

Personal life
Błasik was married. He had two children.

Awards
 Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta – 2010, posthumously
 Silver Cross of Merit (2006)
 Bronze Cross of Merit (1998)
 Silver Medal Armed Forces in Service for the Country
 Bronze Medal Armed Forces in Service for the Country
 Gold Medal of Merit for National Defence
Legion of Merit Commander – 2009, "for his outstanding accomplishments as the leader of the Polish Air Force".
 Grand Officer of the Order of Merit (2008, Portugal)


Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation Measures for Marine Turtles of the Atlantic Coast of Africa

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concerning Conservation Measures for Marine Turtles of the Atlantic Coast of Africa is a 1998 multilateral environmental memorandum of understanding that entered into effect on 1 July 1999 under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), also known as the Bonn Convention. The MoU focuses on the protection of six marine turtle species that are estimated to have rapidly declined in numbers along the Atlantic Coast of Africa. The MoU covers 26 range States (Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Portugal (Azores, Madeira), São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain (Canary Islands), Togo and United Kingdom). As of May 2013, 23 range States have signed the MoU.

Development of MoU

Marine turtles are thought to be numerous along much of the Atlantic Coast of Africa. The area includes nesting sites, feeding areas and migration corridors of importance to six species of marine turtles. To protect these species an Article IV agreement was concluded and came into effect on 1 July 1999.

Signatories to the Marine Turtles of Atlantic Coast of Africa MoU:
 Benin (29 May 1999)
 Congo (29 May 1999)
 Equatorial Guinea (29 May 1999)
 Gabon (29 May 1999)
 Guinea (29 May 1999)
 Guinea-Bissau (29 May 1999)
 Mauritania (29 May 1999)
 Democratic Republic of Congo (12 November 1999)
 Gambia (12 November 1999)
 Ghana (12 November 1999)
 Nigeria (12 November 1999)
 Togo (12 November 1999)
 Angola (9 May 2002)
 Morocco (9 May 2002)
 São Tomé and Príncipe (9 May 2002)
 Senegal (9 May 2002)
 Sierra Leone (9 May 2002)
 Cameroon (18 September 2002)
 Côte d'Ivoire (18 September 2002)
 Liberia (24 November 2005)
 Namibia (21 February 2006)
 Cape Verde (8 January 2007)
 South Africa (6 November 2007)

In addition, the CMS Secretariat also signed the MoU (29 May 1999).

The “Nairobi Declaration”, adopted at the May 2002 meeting, drew attention to the problem of by-catch in industrial fishing operations and emphasized the importance of involving local communities in the development and implementation of conservation activities. It seeks to maximise the advantages of cooperation between related conventions and NGOs, and the integration of marine turtle conservation measures within the emerging African Process for the Development and Protection of the Marine and Coastal Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Aim of MoU
The aim of the MoU is to safeguard six marine turtle species that are estimated to have rapidly declined in numbers during recent years due to excessive exploitation (both direct and incidental) and the degradation of essential habitats.

Species covered by MoU

The MoU protects six species of marine turtles:
 Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta)
 Atlantic ridley turtle (Lepidochelys kempii)
 Olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)
 Green turtle (Chelonia mydas)
 Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricate)
 Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)

Fundamental components
Conscious that concerted, coordinated action must be taken immediately to address the threats posed to the existing populations, the Signatories agree to work closely together to improve the conservation status of the marine turtles and the habitats on which they depend. To that end, they shall:
 Endeavour to put in place measures for the conservation and, where necessary and appropriate, strict protection of marine turtles at all stages of their life cycle (including eggs, hatchlings, juveniles, sub-adults and adults)
 Review and, as necessary, revise national legislation, and ratify or accede to those international conventions most relevant for the conservation of marine turtles, so as to enhance the legal protection given to these species
 Implement in their respective countries, subject to the availability of necessary resources, the provisions of the Conservation Plan annexed to the MoU
 Facilitate the expeditious exchange of scientific, technical and legal information needed to coordinate conservation measures; and cooperate with recognized scientists of international organizations and other range States in order to facilitate their work conducted in relation to the Conservation Plan
 Assess the implementation of the MoU and Conservation Plan at regular meetings
 Provide the secretariat an annual report on the implementation of the MoU and Conservation Plan

The MoU took effect on 1 July 1999 and shall remain in effect indefinitely subject to the right of any Signatory to terminate its participation by providing one year's written notice to all of the other Signatories.

Meetings
Meetings of Signatories are organized regularly to review the conservation status of the marine turtles and the implementation of the MoU and Conservation Plan. National reports by individual Signatories and a report prepared by the Secretariat are also submitted.

The First Meeting of Signatories took place in the UNEP Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya, May 2002. A Conservation Plan, which had been drafted at the previous meeting, was revised and adopted.

The Second Meeting of Signatories was held in Dakar, Senegal, 5–7 March 2008. During the meeting the Signatories reviewed the implementation of the MoU, updated the Conservation Plan and established a Consultative Committee on Science and Technology. Furthermore, the second meeting amended the MoU in order to:
 Establish an Advisory Committee
 Encourage the CMS Secretariat to take necessary measures for effective regional coordination of the MoU
 Recall the decisions and accord reached during the first Meeting of Signatories and make explicitly clear in the text of the MoU that this instrument is open to all States with impacts on marine turtles and relevant interests in the region

Secretariat
The CMS Secretariat — located in Bonn, Germany — provides the Secretariat functions. From October 2005 until the end of July 2012 the coordination services for the MoU were provided by the Coordination Unit known by its French acronym URTOMA. Since August 2012, the administration of the MoU has been shifted to the CMS Secretariat in Bonn until other arrangements can be found.

Conservation Plan
In May 2002, the range States gathered in Nairobi to conclude a comprehensive Conservation Plan. The text of the MoU states that the Plan shall aim to improve basic knowledge of species and migration routes, reduce mortality of marine turtles, enhance cooperation among range States and secure funding for the initiation and/or continuation of conservation programmes; the Plan shall also provide for the identification of key habitats for nesting and foraging, for population monitoring a research and the eventual preparation of national marine turtle action plans that take into account the needs of local human populations.

The Conservation Plan, adopted in 2002 and revised, focuses on the establishment of a database on turtle ecology (distribution, migration patterns, etc.) and on threats (mature and extent of direct exploitation, by-catch rate, impact of coastal management, pollution, etc.).

Activities and Successes
The CMS Secretariat has published two reports, entitled “Conservation Measures for Marine Turtles of the Atlantic Coast of Africa: CMS Technical Series Publication No.5” and “Biogeography and Conservation of Marine Turtles of the Atlantic Coast of Africa: CMS Technical Series Publication No.6.”

Furthermore, the MoU has supported a number of small-scale project activities in various countries, with a view to stimulating broader initiative and supported the development of basic training and awareness materials such as the funding of the production of French language marine turtle identification posters developed by WIDECAST, an NGO working on turtle conservation in the Caribbean. On a more practical level, through the MoU a project, which started in 2001 and was successfully concluded in 2003, was funded. The project aimed at uncovering the migratory patterns of the Green Turtle population nesting at Poilão, Guinea-Bissau.


Re Wakim; Ex parte McNally

Re Wakim; Ex parte McNally was a significant case decided in the High Court of Australia on 17 June 1999. The case concerned the constitutional validity of cross-vesting of jurisdiction, in particular, the vesting of state companies law jurisdiction in the Federal Court.

Background
As part of the national corporations law scheme instigated after the High Court's ruling in New South Wales v The Commonwealth (1990) the states were required to legislate for the formation of corporations. As a result of this the states had to vest the Federal Court with state jurisdiction to allow the Commonwealth to have effective judicial control over corporations law.

The proceedings
Four sets of proceedings were launched in the High Court by various parties. Given the similarity of the issues to be decided each was heard and decided at the same time.

The first two proceedings were launched by respondents in Federal Court proceedings who were allegedly liable for damages in negligence. They had issued writs of prohibition against the Federal Court.

The third proceeding involved writs of certiorari and prohibition against the Federal Court. One of the orders sought to be quashed was an order for the winding up of a company. The prosecutors sought to prevent the Federal Court from enforcing this order.

The final proceeding involved an application for special leave to appeal the decision of the Full Federal Court affirming orders for the issue of summonses under the corporations law of the Australian Capital Territory.

Arguments
There were two principal arguments in favour of the validity of the legislation:
 that any deficiency in the power of either the states or the Commonwealth to enact a cross-vesting scheme was made good by both the states and the Commonwealth legislating to give effect to the scheme; and
 that the Commonwealth has power to consent to the conferring of jurisdiction by the states on courts created by the Commonwealth parliament.

The decision
The leading judgement on the main issue of cross-vesting of jurisdiction was written by Gummow and Hayne JJ. In relation to the first argument advanced in favour of the validity of the legislation it was held that no amount of Commonwealth-state co-operation could supply a power that did not exist. Their Honours considered that such a situation would simply allow legislative amendment of the Constitution.

The second argument was advanced on the basis that the Commonwealth, as the national polity, could do what was necessary "to protect its own existence and the unhindered play of its legitimate activities”. Their Honours also rejected this argument on the basis that convenience or desirability was not a valid criterion of constitutional validity.

Ultimately, it was held that the jurisdiction that may be conferred on a federal court was prescribed by, and limited to, the heads of power contained in ss 75 and 76 of the Constitution and that no other polity could confer jurisdiction on federal courts.

Consequences
The ramifications of the court's decision were immediately apparent. It had raised the possibility that every decision made by a federal court exercising state jurisdiction was invalid. Although the states and the Commonwealth quickly moved to legislate to allow for the affirmation of federal decisions by the state supreme courts, the decision had represented a significant blow to the national corporations law scheme. Subsequent decisions in Bond v The Queen and R v Hughes would eventually see the effective downfall of the scheme and lead to the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).


Dudaran, Gilan

Dudaran (, also Romanized as Dūdarān) is a village in Deylaman Rural District, Deylaman District, Siahkal County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.


Claudia Darius

Claudia Darius is a classically trained, German mezzo-soprano. She studied both German literature and history before turning to singing, beginning her musical training at the Bergischen Gesangsinstitut (Bergischen Singing Institute) and then in 1993 began studying with Christoph Scheeben. As a specialist in lieder, she has pursued master classes with Ingeborg Danz, Diane Forlano, Benjamin Luxon, Barbara Pearson, and Anthony Rolfe-Johnson.

She performs all musical styles from contemporary to baroque and has sung in Germany and abroad completing tours in Austria, Czech Republic, Guatemala, Italy, Poland and Spain. Her repertoire includes
Brahms' Alto Rhapsody, Monteverdi's complaint about Bach's oratorios, and premiers with both Peter Michael Hamel and . She has appeared at such venues as the Frankfurter Festival of Frankfurt and the New Music Days Festival in Witten and has worked with renowned conductors including such as Alicja Mounck, Peter Neumann, Helmuth Rilling, and Gothard Stierl. In 1993 she won the singing competition of the Verband Deutscher Konzertchöre (VDKC).


Haukar RC

Haukar RC is an Icelandic rugby team based in Hafnarfjörður.


Jean-Marc Chanelet

Jean-Marc Chanelet (born 23 July 1968 in Paris) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Honours
 Coupe de France: 1998–99, 1999–2000
 Trophée des Champions: 1999


Tappeh-ye Mir Ahmad

Tappeh-ye Mir Ahmad (, also Romanized as Tappeh-ye Mīr Aḩmad) is a village in Sarakhs Rural District, in the Central District of Sarakhs County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,639, in 574 families.


Wenona, Michigan

Wenona was a historical settlement in the U.S. state of Michigan, located in what is now Bay City at .

The village was founded in 1863 by Henry W. Sage (1814-1897), a merchant and philanthropist, who along with John McGraw also founded the Sage, McGraw & Company sawmill on the west bank of the Saginaw River. The sawmill, which was the largest in the state, was an early economic center of the community. Sage initially platted the settlement with the name "Lake City", but because there was another Lake City in Michigan, it was renamed Wenona after the mother of Hiawatha in the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. George H. Bates became the first postmaster on February 14, 1865. Wenona incorporated as a village in 1867, and, in 1877 the Michigan Legislature consolidated Wenona with two other nearby villages, Banks and Salzburgh to form the city of West Bay City. In 1905, West Bay City merged with Bay City.

The fortunes created from the sawmill operation in Wenona and the lumber industry it supported formed the basis of important early gifts to Cornell University.


Clayton Oscar Person

Clayton Oscar Person,  (May 16, 1922 – September 1, 1990) was recognized internationally as an authority on the genetics of host-parasite relations. He was born and raised in Aylesbury, Saskatchewan, Canada and died in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His writings have made a major contribution to the development of a rigorous theoretical basis for our understanding of how the genetic structure of parasitic populations interacts with that of their host populations. This was known as the gene-for-gene relationship. His theoretical methods have been applied widely in the practical management of parasitic diseases in agriculture and forestry.

Biography

Education

After service overseas in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1941-1945, he returned to enroll at the University of Saskatchewan where he was awarded Honours in Biology in 1950 and the MA in 1951. He studied for the Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, then spent two post-doctoral years abroad — one at the University of Lund, Sweden and another at the John Innes Institute in England.

Career

Dr. Person was employed for several years (1956-1961) as Research Officer with Agriculture Canada in its Dominion Rust Research Laboratory, Winnipeg. He was then appointed as the first Head of the Department of Genetics at the University of Alberta. In 1966 he joined the Department of Botany of the University of British Columbia. Dr. Person has served the Canadian scientific community in various capacities, including participation in the establishment of the Genetics Society of Canada and later as its president; as Chairman of the NSERC Committee for Plant Biology, and as a member of the Canadian National Committee for the International Union of Biological Science. His scholarly achievements have received wide recognition.

He has been an Invited participant in numerous international symposia. In 1971 he was a visiting professor at Punjab Agricultural University. In 1975 he served as consultant to the FAO (United Nations) on coffee diseases in Ethiopia. He was an invited scholar at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Centre in Italy in 1982. Dr. Person is an acknowledged authority on the genetics of plant parasites. His major research contribution has been to clarify the genetic basis of microevolutionary change in host-parasite systems. His work constitutes a major contribution to modern theory of host-parasite interaction in plant populations. It has found important applications in plant breeding throughout the world.

Awards and recognitions

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1970, and was designated Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society in 1981. He was awarded the British Columbia Science Secretariat Medal in 1981, the Flavelle Medal by the Royal Society of Canada and the Medal of the Genetics Society of Canada, both in 1982. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1986.


The Cinema Murder

The Cinema Murder is a 1919 American silent drama film starring Marion Davies, adapted from the 1917 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim.

The Cinema Murder is considered to be a lost film.

Plot
As described in a film magazine, Elizabeth Dalston (Davies), who is training for a future on the stage, witnesses what appears to be a murder. Horrified, she is not quite clear as to the details, but maintains a strict secrecy. On an ocean liner returning to the United States she becomes acquainted with Philip Romilly (Barrie), a playwright, who prepares her for her first stage vehicle. The murderer is also a passenger on the ship, but the trip is made without serious adventure. The play opens and is a success, Elizabeth sharing in the calling. Sylvanus Power (Randolf), whose money made the show possible, lays siege to Elizabeth's affections, but the new star is in love with Philip. Sylvanus then determines to ruin Philip by connecting him to the murder, only to find that the man supposedly killed is alive and well. The film ends with Philip and Elizabeth together.

Cast
 Marion Davies as Elizabeth Dalston
 Peggy Parr as The Fiancée
 Eulalie Jensen as Mrs. Power
 Nigel Barrie as Philip Romilly
 W. Scott Moore as Douglas Romilly
 Anders Randolf as Sylvanus Power
 Reginald Barlow as Power's "Man Friday"
 James Holmes as Power's "Man Saturn"

Production
In her 7th film, Marion Davies starred in this murder mystery, playing an actress who may or may not have witnessed a murder. The Rialto Theater in New York City claimed that this film broke its all-time attendance record with 52,000 tickets sold in one week.

Reception
Critics of the time, especially those of Variety, January 14, 1920, mentioned that this particular movie, which opened at the Rialto, was so packed that at 10:00 PM the movie house owner had to turn people away after an entire day when people had been lined up around the block just to try to get in.

Critics felt that the director, George D. Baker, had done a wonderful job with the adaptation, but did mention that Marion Davies would have done better if the script had actually been written to fit her as opposed to her attempt to act the part in a starring role.


Distorted (band)

Distorted is a heavy metal band from Bat-Yam, Israel.

History
The band was formed in 1996 and released two demos until 2002 when they began concentrating more seriously on playing live. In 2001, the band released its first official release, a self-titled EP, which was followed by another EP which was recorded in 2003 and release in 2004 - Illusive. Following the release of those EPs, the band started performing extensively around the Tel Aviv area, supporting such international bands as Edguy, Destruction, and Megadeth, and such local bands as Betzefer, Salem, and Orphaned Land.

In 2003 and 2004 the band began to write the music for their debut album Memorial which was recorded in 2005 in Studio Underground in Sweden. The band then signed a deal with NMC Records in Israel and the French label Bad Reputation for worldwide release. The album was released on March 13, 2006, in Israel and May 2, 2006, in the rest of Europe, and the band toured in Israel and Europe in support of the album, including performing at the 2007 Metal Female Voices Fest in Belgium, and supporting Aborted on their European tour. On July 12, 2007, the band signed a worldwide distribution three-album deal with UK based label Candlelight Records.

The band parted ways with its longtime lead singer Miri Milman in late 2008 due to personal reasons and musical differences. The band then announced the new singer will be Michal Akrabi.

Michal performed with the band on some shows, including opening for Draconian on their show in Israel and the 2009 Hellelujah Metal Fest but it was announced on May 26, 2009, that Michal would leave the band as she's leaving Israel to study music in the UK. The band will continue without her as they announced they will be continue writing material for their third album, due for release in 2010 on Candlelight Records.

In March 2010, the band announced its newest lead singer - a promising young singer by the name of Dor Mazor. Dor's debut show with the band took place on June 3, 2010, at the Barby club in Tel Aviv, Israel, opening for Swallow the Sun.

Influences
The band cite their influences as Opeth, Nevermore, Dark Tranquility and The Gathering, though there is a heavy Middle-Eastern influence to their sound, similar to countrymates Orphaned Land.

Band members

Current members
Dor Mazor - lead vocals (2010–present)
Raffael Mor - guitar, harsh vocals (1996–present)
Benny Zohar - guitar (1996–present)
Guy Shalom - bass (1998–present)
Amir Segev - drums, percussion (2008–present)

Timeline

Former members
Miri Milman - lead vocals (1998–2008)
Michal Akrabi - lead vocals (2008–2009)
Ori Eshel - drums, percussion (1996–2006)
Matan Shmuely - drums, percussion (2006–2007)
Shaked Furman - drums, percussion (2007–2008)

Discography

Studio albums
(2006) Memorial
(2008) Voices from Within

Singles and EPs
(2001) Distorted
(2004) Illusive

Demos
Distorted (1998, three tracks)
Demo (2000, two tracks)


Houghton Library

Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, is Harvard University's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts. It is part of the Harvard College Library, the library system of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

History

Harvard's first special collections library began as the Treasure Room of Gore Hall in 1908. The Treasure Room moved to the newly-built Widener Library in 1915. In 1938, looking to supply Harvard's most valuable holdings with more space and improved storage conditions, Harvard College Librarian Keyes DeWitt Metcalf made a series of proposals which eventually led to the creation of Houghton Library, Lamont Library, and the New England Deposit Library. Funding for Houghton was raised privately, with the largest portion coming from Arthur A. Houghton Jr., in the form of stock in Corning Glass Works. Construction was largely completed by the fall of 1941, and the library opened on February 28, 1942.

Along with much else, Houghton holds collections of papers of Samuel Johnson, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Margaret Fuller, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family, Amos Bronson Alcott and his daughter Louisa May Alcott, along with the papers of other notable transcendentalists, Theodore Roosevelt, T.S. Eliot, E.E. Cummings, Henry James, William James, James Joyce, John Updike, Jamaica Kincaid, Gore Vidal, and many others.

Houghton also holds the letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the 54th Massachusetts during the Civil War, and was killed during the assault on Fort Wagner.

Collections

Houghton has five main curatorial departments:
Early Books and Manuscripts, which includes a large collection of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and over 2,500 incunabula.
Early Modern Books and Manuscripts, featuring the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson, one of the largest collections of books and manuscripts relating to Samuel Johnson and his circle.
Modern Books and Manuscripts, which collects material from 1800 to the present, including the papers and libraries of Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Leon Trotsky, Gore Vidal, John Updike, Amy Lowell, and collector Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Jr., among many others.
Modern Books & Manuscripts New Acquisitions Blog
Printing & Graphic Arts which documents the history and art of book production.
The Harvard Theatre Collection covering the history of the performing arts.


Outbound Love

Outbound Love (; literally "Unrequited Love in Double Cities"), is a Hong Kong  romantic comedy serial produced by TVB. Filming for this series took place in Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Synopsis
Travel agency employee, Law Sik Sik (Aimee Chan) travels to Malaysia alone for work but all her plans was disrupted by a "playful" tour guide there, Luk Kung Tsz (Ruco Chan). Both of them thus hold grudges against each other because of this incident. Meanwhile, Sik Sik's boyfriend Ching Zin Bok (Matt Yeung) proposes to her and they held their engagement ceremony back in Hong Kong. When Sik Sik thinks she's the world's most blissful bride, a clip of her boyfriend cheating on her was played during the engagement ceremony. With a broken heart, Sik Sik goes to Malaysia where she meets Kung Zi again at her workplace. From then, both of them developed good feelings for each other. Zin Bok's sister Ching Zin Zan (Lin Xiawei) supports her best friend decision to break up with her brother instead of forgiving him. Under Sik Sik's introduction, Zin Zan gets to know chef Cin Jun (Tony Hung) and starts learning cooking from him. After getting along with Cin Jun for some time, Zin Zan falls for him however Cin Jun only likes Sik Sik. When Cin Jun prepares to profess his love for Sik Sik, Zin Bok comes back to seek Sik Sik's forgiveness with the help of Kung Tsz...

Cast
Ruco Chan as Luk Kung Tsz (陸恭梓)
Aimee Chan as Law Sik Sik (羅式適)
Lin Xiawei as Ching Chin Chan (程展禛)
Tony Hung as Chin Chun (錢進)
Mat Yeung as Nic, Ching Chin Bok (程展博)
Samantha Ko as Wong Kei Ying (黃淇英)
Vivien Yeo as Yvonne, Lau Yam (劉音)
Amy Fan as Law Shu Shu (羅書舒)
Elliot Ngok as Law Wai (羅威)
Elaine Yiu as Hong Yi Kiu (康以蕎)
Mary Hon as To Wai Sum (杜惠心)
Benz Hui as Tse Wan Fung (謝雲鋒)
Helen Ma as Lei Lai Sze (李麗詩)
Rachel Kan as Siu Mei Ling (邵美玲)
Law Lok Lam as Sky, Mak Kwai Tin (麥貫天)

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Machias Valley Grange, No. 360

The Former Machias Valley Grange, No. 360 is a social and civic meeting hall at 1 Elm Street in Machias, Maine.  Built in 1907, it features a distinctive design that eliminates support posts in its dining hall and auditorium.  Now owned by a local artists' cooperative, it continues to function as a social and civic meeting space.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Description and history
The former Machias Grange hall is set on the south side of the Machias River, opposite the town's downtown area, at the junction of Obrien and Elm Streets.  It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and concrete foundation.  Its main entrance is set at the eastern end of the long side facing Elm Street, under a hip-roofed portico supported by turned posts.  The facade facing Obrien Street is distinguished by a deeply overhanging second story, with the overhang supported by large Queen Anne-inspired brackets.  There are two pairs of sash windows on each of the main floors on this facade, and a single sash window at the attic level.

The main entrance opens into a foyer area that extends along the east side of the building, with stairs leading to the auditorium upstairs, and doors leading to the dining area that occupies most of the downstairs.  The kitchen occupies the northeastern corner.  The upstairs auditorium has a simple raised platform stage (with no backstage area) at the far end.  The dining room ceiling is supported by a combination of heavy wooden timbers, with metal rods oriented laterally to them, eliminating the need for supporting pillars.  A similar support system is also used in the ceiling of the auditorium, but it is obscured by a suspended tin ceiling.

The Machias Grange was organized in 1903, and met in the town's Pennell Block until it built this structure in 1907.  Records of the period have not survived, so the building's architect is not known.  Because of the building's sizable dining room and kitchen, it quickly became an important local venue for social and fraternal events, dances, and religious services.  When the town's last movie theater closed, the Grange also screened films here.  With the Grange's membership in decline, the building was sold in 2001 to the Beehive Cooperative, an artists' cooperative, which has restored the building and continues to offer it as a social and community meeting space.


David Dawson (cricketer)

David Graham Dawson (born 7 March 1982 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) is an Australian cricket player, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers and New South Wales. He plays club cricket for Kingborough Cricket Club.

David Dawson broke into the Australian first class cricket scene in spectacular fashion, when on debut, he became the first batsman to ever score a century on debut, and carry the bat through the innings at the same time. Like the Tigers senior keeper, Sean Clingeleffer he has fallen victim to the Tigers' policy of not picking a specialist keeper for one day cricket, and also fails to get regular games in the Pura Cup team. However he has developed a reputation for eking out dogged innings when required, including a 144 not out to save a game against the Southern Redbacks.


Ambient Weather

Ambient Weather is an Arizona based weather station and software manufacturer that specializes in customized solutions and products for the home and office, industry, schools, resorts, government and the media.

Ambient Weather's exceptional growth has landed the company on the Inc. Magazine's Top 500/5000 list Honor Roll  of fastest growing private companies for five consecutive years (2004 - 2008) and helped build the network of personal weather stations with Weather Underground (weather service).

Ambient Weather was named one of the 500 largest Internet Retailers ranked by annual sales in the United States according to Internet Retailer magazine back in 2007.

Ambient Weather's flagship product Virtual Weather Station is a software package for connecting personal computers to weather stations and the Internet, which displays, plots and stores data for monitoring and analysis.

Ambient Weather launched a weather station cloud service in 2017. AmbientWeather.net provides live data monitoring, graphs and historical data, email and text alerts, and API, IFTTT, Amazon Alexa and Google Home integration.


John Clerk, Lord Eldin

John Clerk, Lord Eldin FRSE FSA (1757– 30 May1832) was a Scottish judge based in Edinburgh.

Life

He was the eldest son of Susannah Adam, the sister of John Adam and Robert Adam, and John Clerk of Eldin. He was born in April 1757 in Edinburgh.

Though originally intended for the Indian Civil Service, he was apprenticed to a Writer to the Signet. After serving his articles he practised for a year or two as an accountant, and eventually was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates on 3 December 1785.

He had an extensive practice at the bar. A keen Whig, on 11 March 1806 he was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in the Grenville administration, an office which he held during the year that the ministry lasted. His practice at the bar had been for some time falling off, and his health had already begun to fail, when, on 10 November 1823, he was appointed an ordinary Lord of Session in place of William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne. Assuming the title of Lord Eldin, he took his seat on the bench 22 November; but his health was poor. After five years of judicial work he resigned in 1828, and was succeeded by John Fullerton, Lord Fullerton.

His father, his uncle George and himself were friends of the geologist James Hutton.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1784.

Clerk died unmarried at his house at 16 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, on 30 May 1832. He was buried with his ancestors in the Eldin vault in the Old Kirk of Lasswade, just south of Edinburgh.

His collection of pictures and prints was sold by auction at his house in March 1833; a serious accident occurred, the floor giving way.


Daniel Humair

Daniel Humair (born 23 May 1938 in Geneva) is a drummer, composer, and painter.

He is widely renowned and became a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1986 and Officier in 1992. He has played with many jazz performers notably Jean-Luc Ponty, Chet Baker, Michel Portal, Martial Solal, Dexter Gordon, Gerry Mulligan and Eric Dolphy.

Humair is also a talented painter. He describes his own work as "figurative abstract" and has created a coherent œuvre proving his passion and knowledge of artistic painting.

Discography
 1960 Connection
 1960 Hum!!! René Urtreger, Pierre Michelot (Vega)
 1960 Dermaplastic with Martial Solal
 1962 Chet Is Back! with Chet Baker
 1964 Jazz Long Playing with Jean-Luc Ponty, Michel Portal, Eddy Louiss (Philips)
 1967 Sunday Walk with Jean-Luc Ponty, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Wolfgang Dauner (MPS)
 1967 From Sticksland with Love with George Gruntz (MPS)
 1968 European Episode and Impressive Rome  with Lee Konitz and Martial Solal (Campi)
 1969 It's Nice to Be With You with Jim Hall (MPS)
 1971 Child of Gemini with Roland Hanna (MPS)
 1971 Huffin'n'Puffin' with Ray Nance
 1972 Morning! (Musica)
 1974 Jazz à Juan with Lee Konitz (SteepleChase)
 1975 Black Narcissus with Joe Henderson - (Milestone)
 1979 Humair Jeanneau Texier with Henri Texier
 1979 Triple hip trip with David Friedman (Owl/Universal)
 1980 East Side West Side (Owl)
 1980 Humair, Louiss and Ponty, Vol. 1 Dreyfus
 1983 Wings with Franco Ambrosetti (Enja)
 1985 Scratch with Kenny Barron (Enja)
 1985 Tentets with Franco Ambrosetti (Enja)
 1985 Easy to read with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark
 1986 Pastor with Michel Portal
 1986 Welcome (Soul Note)
 1986 Movies with Franco Ambrosetti (Enja)
 1987 Surrounded 1964/1987 with Eric Dolphy, Portal, Solal, Texier, Louiss, Mulligan
 1988 From Time to Time Free with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark
 1988 Movies Too with Franco Ambrosetti (Enja)
 1988 9.11 pm Town Hall (Label Bleu)
 1990 Up Date 3.3 with François Jeanneau and Henry Texier (Label Bleu)
 1991 Earthcake (Label Bleu)
 1991 Edges (Label Bleu)
 1991 Humair, Louiss and Ponty, Vol. 2 (Dreyfus)
 1993 Open Architecture (Ninety-One)
 1993 Usual confusion with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark
 1996 L'opera de Quat'sous – Die Dreigroschenoper – The Threepenny Opera with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark
 1996 Akagera (JMS)
 1997 Trio HLP (Dreyfus)
 1998 Quatre Fois Trois (Label Bleu)
 1998 Die Dreigroschenoper (Polygram)
 1999 Triple Entente (Mercury/Universal)
 1999 Humair Urtreger Michelot (Sketch)
 2001 Liberté Surveillée (Sketch)
 2003 Baby Boom (Sketch)
 2003 Paris Abstractions with Benjamin Koppel (sax) and Palle Danielsson (bass)
 2006 European Jazz Factory with Benjamin Koppel (sax), Gueorgui Kornazov (trombone), Cedric Piromalli (piano) and Thommy Andersson (bass)
 2009 Baby Boom II (Bee Jazz/NRW)
 2010 Pas de Dense (Zig Zag Territoires)
 2011 Quatre-Trois-Deux-Un with Benjamin Koppel (sax), Jakob Anderskov (piano) and Thommy Andersson (bass)
 2012 Project Cristal''

External links
 Official site of Daniel Humair


Brassocattleya

Brassocattleya or Brasso-cattleya, abbreviated Bc. in the horticultural trade, is an intergeneric orchid hybrid derived from the genera Brassavola and Cattleya.  Brassocattleya contains both hybrids that appear in nature (in Brazil, see the species list below), as well as hybrids from cultivation (which are referred to by their grex names).

Species
Species include:
× Brassocattleya arauji Pabst & A.F.Mello
× Brassocattleya felisminiana Campacci
× Brassocattleya lindleyana Rolfe
× Brassocattleya litoralis Campacci
× Brassocattleya rubyi Braga


Blue-spotted Mexican tree frog

The blue-spotted Mexican tree frog (Smilisca cyanosticta) is a species of frogs in the family Hylidae found on the Atlantic slopes of southeastern Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala, between Jalapa de Díaz in Mexico and Sierra del Mico in Guatemala. Its natural habitats are humid mid-altitude and montane forests, and it can also occur in secondary forest. Breeding takes place in temporary pools and streams and in depressions in logs that fill up with water. It is threatened by habitat loss and, potentially, chytridiomycosis.


Randall Silvis

Randall Silvis is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and teacher.

Life
Born in Madison Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, he was educated at Clarion University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In 2008, Silvis was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from Indiana University of Pennsylvania for his distinguished literary accomplishments.

Awards
He won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 1984 for his first book, selected by Joyce Carol Oates. He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Award, plus six fellowship awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for his fiction, drama, and screenwriting. His novels An Occasional Hell and Two Days Gone were finalists for the Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing from the International Association of Crime writers, and two of his short stories were nominated for a Pushcart Award. Two Days Gone and Only the Rain were both Amazon #1 Bestsellers in psychological suspense.

Books
 The Luckiest Man in the World, short stories (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984).
 Excelsior, novel (New York: Henry Holt, 1988).
 Under the Rainbow, novel (Sag Harbor: Permanent Press, 1993).
 An Occasional Hell, novel (Sag Harbor: Permanent Press, 1993).
 Dead Man Falling, novel (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996).
 Mysticus, novel (Los Angeles: Wolfhawk Books, 1999).
 On Night's Shore, novel (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2000).
 Disquiet Heart, novel (New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002). Also published as Doubly Dead, novel (2004)
 North of Unknown: Mina Hubbard's Extraordinary Expedition into the Labrador Wilderness, nonfiction (New York: The Lyons Press, 2005). Originally published as Heart So Hungry (Knopf Canada 2004)
 In a Town Called Mundomuerto, novel (Omnidawn Books, 2007)
 Hangtime, A Confession, novel (Kitsune Books, 2009)
 The Boy Who Shoots Crows, novel (Penguin/Berkley, 2011)
 Flying Fish, novel (PS Publishing UK, 2012)
 Blood & Ink, novel (Kindle Scout, 2015)
 Two Days Gone, novel (Sourcebooks, 2017)
 Only the Rain, novel (Thomas & Mercer, 2017)
 Walking the Bones, novel (Sourcebooks, 2018)
 First the Thunder, novel (Thomas & Mercer, 2018)
 A Long Way Down, novel (Sourcebooks, 2019)


Almalu, Mahneshan

Almalu (, also Romanized as Ālmālū) is a village in Mah Neshan Rural District, in the Central District of Mahneshan County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 426, in 93 families.


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Oulad Nacer

Oulad Nacer is a town and rural commune in Fquih Ben Salah Province, Béni Mellal-Khénifra, Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 26,527 people living in 3918 households.


Photonic integrated circuit

A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) or integrated optical circuit is a device that integrates multiple (at least two) photonic functions and as such is similar to an electronic integrated circuit. The major difference between the two is that a photonic integrated circuit provides functions for information signals imposed on optical wavelengths typically in the visible spectrum or near infrared 850 nm-1650 nm.

The most commercially utilized material platform for photonic integrated circuits is indium phosphide (InP), which allows for the integration of various optically active and passive functions on the same chip. Initial examples of photonic integrated circuits were simple 2-section distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers, consisting of two independently controlled device sections - a gain section and a DBR mirror section. Consequently, all modern monolithic tunable lasers, widely tunable lasers, externally modulated lasers and transmitters, integrated receivers, etc. are examples of photonic integrated circuits. Current state-of-the-art devices integrate hundreds of functions onto single chip.
Pioneering work in this arena was performed at Bell Laboratories. Most notable academic centers of excellence of photonic integrated circuits in InP are the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, and the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

A 2005 development showed that silicon can, even though it is an indirect bandgap material, still be used to generate laser light via the Raman nonlinearity. Such lasers are not electrically driven but optically driven and therefore still necessitate a further optical pump laser source.

Comparison to electronic integration
Unlike electronic integration where silicon is the dominant material, system photonic integrated circuits have been fabricated from a variety of material systems, including electro-optic crystals such as lithium niobate, silica on silicon, Silicon on insulator, various polymers and semiconductor materials which are used to make semiconductor lasers such as GaAs and InP. The different material systems are used because they each provide different advantages and limitations depending on the function to be integrated. For instance, silica (silicon dioxide) based PICs have very desirable properties for passive photonic circuits such as AWGs (see below) due to their comparatively low losses and low thermal sensitivity, GaAs or InP based PICs allow the direct integration of light sources and Silicon PICs enable co-integration of the photonics with transistor based electronics.

The fabrication techniques are similar to those used in electronic integrated circuits in which photolithography is used to pattern wafers for etching and material deposition. Unlike electronics where the primary device is the transistor, there is no single dominant device. The range of devices required on a chip includes low loss interconnect waveguides, power splitters, optical amplifiers, optical modulators, filters, lasers and detectors. These devices require a variety of different materials and fabrication techniques making  it difficult to realize all of them on a single chip.

Newer techniques using resonant photonic interferometry is making way for UV LEDs to be used for optical computing requirements with much cheaper costs leading the way to petahertz  PHz consumer electronics.

Examples of photonic integrated circuits
The primary application for photonic integrated circuits is in the area of fiber-optic communication though applications in other fields such as biomedical and photonic computing are also possible.

The arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) which are commonly used as optical (de)multiplexers in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) fiber-optic communication systems are an example of a photonic integrated circuit which has replaced previous multiplexing schemes which utilized multiple discrete filter elements. Since separating optical modes is a need for quantum computing, this technology may be helpful to miniaturize quantum computers (see linear optical quantum computing).

Another example of a photonic integrated chip in wide use today in fiber-optic communication systems is the externally modulated laser (EML) which combines a distributed feed back laser diode with an electro-absorption modulator  on a single InP based chip.

Current status
Photonic integration is currently an active topic in U.S. Defense contracts. It is included by the Optical Internetworking Forum for inclusion in 100 gigahertz optical networking standards.


Legionario

Legionario is a Spanish independent film directed by Eduardo H. Garza. It is his first feature and he also produced it besides his wife Sylvia Vivanco. The film had a worldwide digital release on VOD in 33 territories.

The film is also available on SVOD platforms around the world. It's been said that the film was done a tight budget but looks of a higher one.

Plot
The morning after his homecoming party from his last tour in Afghanistan, a Spanish special forces soldier wakes up besides the corpse of a young woman, who is not his fiancée. Desperate to find his girl he decides to look for her knowing that he could be accused of a murder that seems like the perfect setup.

Production Details
In the film stars Raúl Tejón, Diana Palazón and Luis Mottola. It was shot during August 2014 and was finished by the filmmaker on December 2016.

The Afghan town scenes was shot in the outskirts of Madrid on a paintball zone that was covered with chroma screens in order to replace the background in postproduction. The main story was shot on the known building in the city of Madrid called "Torre Metropolitana" which is a 24-story building. The Matte paintings and some aerial shots were done in the south of the island of Gran Canaria.

The Spanish Army collaborated with the filmmakers by letting them shoot inside two of their bases. El Goloso and la FAMET. Where the filmmakers had the chance to use URO VAMTAC vehicles and flew on Spanish Army's Chinook helicopters for some of their scenes.

Reception
This film has gathered mixed reviews. Making an average of 3 stars (out of five stars).