Kapuas River (Barito River)

The Kapuas River (or Kapueas) is a river in the Indonesian part of Borneo island. It originates in the Müller Mountain Range at the center of the island and flows south until merging with the Barito River and discharging into the Java Sea. It should be distinguished from another Kapuas River, which starts on the other side of the same mountain range in central Borneo, but flows to the west and empties to the South China Sea.

The river is about  long and up to  deep. It flows through marshy region rich in tropical forests, nearly parallel to the Barito River, and merges with the latter about 60 km from the Java Sea coast, within the town of Kualakapuas (lit. mouth of Kapuas in Indonesian). Between 1880 and 1890, a 30 km long canal was dug by the Dutch colonizers between the Kapuas and Barito river for agricultural purposes. The Kapuas River is narrow (about 50 m) and very winding in its upper stream. It straightens and widens up to 450 m in its lower reaches. There, it contains several elongated islands (shorter than 2 km). Its discharge rate varies through the year reaching the maximum in the peak of rainy seasons in April and November. The river is navigable up to 420 km from the mouth. Significant deposits of coal and gold were discovered upstream. Because of the lack of infrastructure, the gold is mined mostly by primitive methods, with only one commercial mine on the river, and the coal is not explored yet. Several bridges cross the Kapuas River. One of them, located near the village Lungku Layang, Timpah (), Kapuas District (), Central Kalimantan, collapsed on 3 April 2009 killing one and injuring 6 people working under the bridge.

Barito Bridge
The Barito Bridge is the third longest suspended span in Indonesia a length of 230 meters after Kutai Kartanegara Bridge (270 meters) and Mamberamo Bridge (235 meters). The Kutai Kartanegara Bridge collapsed in November 2011.


Hometown Jamboree

Hometown Jamboree was an American country music radio and television show simultaneously broadcast each Saturday night by KXLA radio, Pasadena, California and KLAC-TV/KCOP and KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, California beginning in 1949. The show was hosted by Cliffie Stone and first held at the American Legion Stadium in El Monte, California, and later at the Harmony Park Ballroom in Anaheim, California. Hometown Jamboree was sponsored by the Hub Furniture store once it moved to Anaheim. The show was the springboard for many of country music's premier musicians including Tennessee Ernie Ford, Billy Strange, Zane Ashton (aka Bill Aken), Speedy West, and a host of others.

Hometown Jamboree premiered as a weekly TV broadcast in December 1949 over KLAC-TV (later known as KCOP) in Los Angeles; in 1953 it moved to KTLA-TV, where it ran until its cancellation in 1959.

Performers

 Charlie Aldrich
 Molly Bee
 Jeanne Black
 Jimmy Bryant
 Tennessee Ernie Ford
 Dallas Frazier
 Johnny Horton
 Ferlin Husky
 Skeets McDonald
 Merrill Moore
 Joanie O'Brien
 Gene O'Quin
 Tommy Sands
 Carl Saunders
 Cliffie Stone
 Billy Strange
 Merle Travis
 Speedy West


Sar Huyeh

Sar Huyeh (, also Romanized as Sar Hūyeh and Sar-e Hūyah; also known as Sarhūyān and Sar-i-Huyān) is a village in Zhavarud-e Gharbi Rural District, Kalatrazan District, Sanandaj County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,066, in 260 families.


Turone's goal

Turone's goal () has been for decades one of the most debated events in the history of Italian Football. It refers to the disallowing of a goal scored by Roma versus Juventus in a crucial match for the 1980–81 Serie A championship. It occurred during one of the last matches of the league season when the two teams were, along with Napoli, fighting for the title.

Facts
The event occurred in Turin on 10 May 1981 during the match between Juventus and Roma. At the time, Juventus were topping the Serie A by one point over second-placed Roma; after that match there would have been just two games each to play.

The match turned out to be a tight game, with many fouls and hard tackles from both sides. In the second half Juventus's midfielder Giuseppe Furino was shown a red card for persistent fouling and sent off. The match still remained tight until 10 minutes before the end when, following a move by Roma started by Carlo Ancelotti, the sweeper Maurizio Turone headed goalwards a ball played to him by the forward Roberto Pruzzo. The goalkeeper, Dino Zoff, could not save it and it seemed the away team had achieved the 1-0 scoreline that they needed. However, the linesman signaled to the referee, Paolo Bergamo, that Turone was offside and the goal was disallowed; the match eventually ended 0-0.

With two games left each of the season, the title was essentially still to play for. Juventus won their next two games: a tough 1-0 victory against Napoli at the notorious Stadio San Paolo, and a 1-0 victory against Fiorentina. Although Roma beat Pistoiese, they could only manage a draw with Avellino on the final day of the season. So Juventus won its 19th Italian League title by two points (44 vs 42). The disallowed goal gave rise to a huge controversy that endures in anti-Juventus circles - such as in the strong rivalry with Roma.

The TV images never clarified, in a definitive way, if the player's position was irregular or not. In the following years, it continued to come in succession conflicting opinions, projections with new technologies and accusations of manipulation of slow motion; in any case, from then on, the so-called "Turone's goal" remained a hot topic in Italian football for decades to come.


John Bernard (died 1674)

Sir John Bernard (23 August 1604 – 5 March 1674) of Abington Park, Northamptonshire was an English landowner and briefly a Member of Parliament.

Biography
The eldest son of Baldwin Bernard of Abington, Northamptonshire, he succeeded his father in 1610.

He was knighted on 24 September 1661, and on 31 March 1664 he was elected Member of Parliament for Northampton, but was unseated on 26 April in favour of Sir Henry Yelverton.

In 1669 he sold Abington Park, having previously extended it, to William Thursby, a future MP for Northampton. He died in 1674.

He had married firstly Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Clement Edmondes; they had four sons, who all predeceased him, and four daughters. His second wife, Elizabeth, was daughter of John and Susanna Hall and granddaughter (and only surviving descendant) of William Shakespeare. They had no children.


Theodore, Saskatchewan

Theodore is a village in the rural municipality of  Insinger No. 275, Saskatchewan, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.  Theodore is located on Saskatchewan Highway 16, the Yellowhead, in southeastern Saskatchewan. Theodore post office first opened in 1893 at the legal land description of Sec.1, Twp.28, R.7, W2 . Theodore is located between Yorkton and Foam Lake.

In 1974, with the end of passenger rail service, the Theodore railway station was adopted for use as a senior citizens' centre; it serves as the home for the Theodore Historical Museum.

Demographics

N/A = Data Not Available

Area statistics
Lat (DMS)  	 51° 25' 25" N
Long (DMS) 102° 55' 15" W
Dominion Land Survey Sec.15, Twp.28, R.7, W2.
Time zone (cst) UTC-6

Location


Alan Mehdizadeh

Alan Mehdizadeh (; born 4 September 1982) is a British-Iranian actor, appearing on stage and screen. He played the role of Don in the West End musical, Kinky Boots.

Early life
Alan Mehdizadeh was born in Hastings, East Sussex. His father is Iranian, and his mother is English. He is the eldest of 4 siblings.

Whilst it is not immediately clear as to the specific nature of the issues he is referring to, Alan suggests he suffered a difficult childhood in a recent interview, (and even went as far as to attribute them for his career success so far), "having had a difficult upbringing, it’s made me more determined and ambitious than I probably would have been had I had a “conventional” childhood. I try to succeed in spite of my experience."

His early career started at the Questors Theatre in Ealing, where he appeared in a youth production of 'Godspell', when he was 14. He then went on to perform at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in a production of 'Watership Down', where he played Cowslip. He also regularly appeared in popular BBC children's programme 'Grange Hill'.

Education
Mehdizadeh graduated from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 2007 (where he read Drama). Whilst studying, he also founded the long-running Curtain Call Musical Theatre Society which recently celebrated its 10th birthday with a gala performance at which Mehdizadeh gave a speech, and sung.

Other educational institutions attended include Richmond Upon Thames College, and Drayton Manor High School.

Career
As of 15 August 2016, Mehdizadeh joined the West End production of 'Kinky Boots' in the role of Don. The hit musical recently won Best New Musical at the 2016 Olivier Awards, and continues to play at the Adelphi Theatre in London. Mehdizadeh left the production in June 2018.

Another of Mehdizadeh's  notable credits to date is the role of Big Davey in the West End musical 'Billy Elliot the Musical', (which he played for two years between May 2013 and May 2015). Mehdizadeh also appeared in the same role for both the worldwide live cinema release, and the subsequent DVD release of the show. Mehdizadeh further, played the role of Big Davey at the 10th anniversary gala performance in May 2015.

In 2016, Alan was appearing in the UK premiere production of 'Swap!', written and directed by TV star Ian Ogilvy. The play toured the UK. Alan played Harry "The Hammer" Henson alongside several TV personalities (including Kim Tiddy & Louisa Lytton).

In 2012, he originated the roles of Dad and The MC in a stage adaptation of Oliver Jeffers' book 'The Incredible Book Eating Boy' at the Belfast arts venue, The MAC.

Mehdizadeh is also the founder, and artistic director of UK production company What Was That? Productions, with whom he has produced and appeared in many productions.


Oakfield Wood

Oakfield Wood is a 2.8 hectare nature reserve west of Wrabness in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.

This is former farmland which is being converted into a "green burial ground", overlooking the Stour Estuary. A native broadleaved tree is planted for each burial with a wooden plaque at the base. When the burial ground is full, it will be managed by the trust as a nature reserve.

There is access to the site carpark from Wheatsheaf Lane by a track which leads through Wrabness Nature Reserve carpark.


Crocanthes venustula

Crocanthes venustula is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Turner in 1933. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are orange-yellow, with two blackish transverse lines at one-third and two-thirds and a minute subapical blackish dot. The hindwings are whitish-yellow with a fuscous discal dot and a faint transverse line from the tornus.


Ángel Custodio Loyola

Ángel Custodio Loyola (September 4, 1926 – September 24, 1985), was a Venezuelan singer and composer, known as a pioneer in the joropo genre.  He wrote many popular songs, including "El Gavilán", "Tierra Negra", "Carnaval", "Sentimiento Llanero", "Catira Marmolereña", "Faenas Llaneras", and "Puerto Miranda". He is considered to have been one of the greatest exponents of llanera music.

Partial discography
Pasaje contramarcado (Discomoda DCM-119)
Buenos Aires llaneros (Discomoda DCM-195)
Sentimiento llanero (Discomoda DCM-246)
Corrío Apureño (Discomoda DCM-256)
El guachamarón (Discomoda DCM-287)
Travesias de Mata Larga (Discomoda DCM-298)
El tigre de Masaguarito (Discomoda DCM-414)
Señores, Aquí está un llanero (Discomoda DCM-462)
Ay! Catira Marmoleña (Discomoda DCM-623)
Sentir Venezolano (Philips 40.097)
El Indio Modesto Laya (Palacio LPS-66.386)
El Guariqueño si sabe (Cachilapo LPC-017)

Compilations
El Disco de Oro de Ángel C. Loyola (Discomoda DCM-973)
Ángel C. Loyola-El Carrao-Eneas Perdomo (Discomoda LP-TB 1402)
Bravos del Canto Llanero (Discomoda DCM ER-20010)
Clásicos llaneros de Ángel Custodio Loyola (Discomoda 601537)
Loyola y El Carrao (Foca Records FD-43398673)


Fatima Besnaci-Lancou

Fatma Besnaci (1954 – present), known as Fatima Besnaci-Lancou, her pen name, is a French writer known for her work on Memories of harkis in France. Harkis were Algerian auxiliaries who fought for France  during Algerian War (from 1954 to 1962).

Biography
Fatma Besnaci (whose pen name is Fatima Besnaci-Lancou) was born in 1954 in Novi (now called: Sidi Ghiles), a town in Tipaza Province in northern Algeria. She is the eldest of eight siblings.

Fatima Besnaci-Lancou's father was a harki who fought in the Algerian War. After the war, French Army brought her family to France on 21 November 1962 as she was eight years old.

In France, Fatima Besnaci-Lancou and her family were placed and lived in few different Harkis camps located in various French regions. They were first in Camp at Rivesaltes, subsequently were moved to Bourg-Lastic, to Mouans-Sartoux (which was a "hameau de forestage"). As a daughter of a “Harki”, Fatima spent 15 years of her childhood in Harki Camps in France.Fatima attended school in Harki camps where they were taught in French. Children of Harkis then were not permitted to integrate with other French students.

Key events
During the official visit of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in France in June 2000, Algerian President, in response to a journalist's question on Harkis on TV declared that  he was “not ready to accept Harkis'visit or return to Algeria..."  He further declared and compared harkis to French collaborators under the Nazi occupation of 1940-44.”.

From that day on, Fatima Besnaci-Lancou fused her anger and decided to write. She was determined to write the true story of harkis in contrary to what is being said; and her desire to have her children to know their mother's life story.  She rolled out her first personal testimonial life story as a Daughter of Harki in 2003.

On March 4 the same year, after Fatima published her book Daughter of a Harki,  a notable historian and a former leader of FLN, Mohammed Harbi, after having read Fatima's book, wrote his view point in Le Monde, To say at last the war is over, in order to also explain that the Algerian drama had to be seen in its complexity and not in a manichean way.

January 10, 2004, she organized a demonstration, with the motto, the request for recognition of the neglect of the Harkis were victims, and the discrimantion they are still subject. The support of  Human Rights League (LDH), Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), and International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA). Fatima was criticized by some former Harkis for working with these organizations as they did not support Harkis in 1962 when they arrived in France. Fatima felt it "better than never".

The same year, Fatima founded the Association Harkis and Human Rights with Hadjila Kemoum. The objective is to work on the perspective memories of Harkis and its history.  Also in 2004, Fatima worked to revisit with children of harkis and of Algerian immigrants. Fatima opened door to Manifesto for Recuperation of Confiscated Memories", those who stood up against the "simplification of the history"; classified as the "good "and the "mean";  people those "by choice, chance or necessity", again encounter themselves faced with the war in Algeria.

In 2005, Fatima was awarded the Seligmann Prize against racism and antisemitism, (founded by Françoise Seligmann) for her book Daughter of a Harki.  February 28, 2005, she broadcasts a press release criticizing some aspects of the Law of February, 25th, 2005.  In December 2005, Fatima was named  as Honorary Citizen of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Var).

In February 2006, Fatima organized a symposium at the National Assembly : The harkis during colonization and the aftermath. In September 2006, Fatima wrote and dedicated the book  Our Mothers, words hurt, another story of Harkis based on several testimonials of first generation Harki women who came to France in 1962 with their husbands.  Then in November, Fatima published testimonials of former harkis in  Thirteen chibanis harkis.

In August 2008, Fatima published  Common Misconception of the harkis with Abderahmen Moumen. In October 2008, Fatima organized series of public events with the Association of Harkis and Human Rights (series of cultural and scientific events,   exhibitions, films, theater, international symposium, debates, lectures, under the generic title of French and Algerians, Art, Memories, History to share different visions of history).

She continued work of reconciliation between the Algerian harkis and immigrants through meetings, particularly with the Algerian writer, Maïssa Bey; while the situation remain highly critical and exigent against harkis remained in Algeria or state of reception of former harkis living in France and wish to travel to Algeria.

After the "Manifesto for Recuperation of Confiscated Memories," was published in 2004, an article France Algeria: the Ways of Reconciliation. " appeared in the newspaper "Le Figaro" by Yazid Sabeg and Fatima Besnaci-Lancou, followed by the France-Algeria: Go Beyond the Historical Dispute signed by prominent French and Algerian personalities, which  was published in the daily "Le Monde" on December 1, 2007.

May 29, 2009, Fatima organized with the assistance of the National Museum of the History of Immigration (CNHI), the National Institute for Pedagogical Research (INRP), a study day for teachers How to teach the history of harkis.".

She is a member of " Marianne of Diversity " and a Board member of "Memories and History " of the Memorial of Rivesaltes. She is an editor in chief of the Journal of the NGO PLAC 21.

Bibliography
 Fille de harki/Daughter of a Harki, Éditions de l’Atelier, (2003), 2005 (preface by Jean Daniel et Jean Lacouture, afterword by Michel Tubiana), .
 Témoignage et regard d’écrivain , dans Lila Ibrahim-Lamrous, Catherine Milkovitch-Rioux (dir.),  Regards croisés sur la guerre d’Algérie, collection « littératures », Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2005, pp. 245–249.
 Nos mères, paroles blessées - Une autre histoire de harkis/Our Mothers, words hurt, another story of harkis'''', Éditions  Zellige, 2006 (preface by Claude Liauzu), .
 Treize chibanis harki/Thirteen chibanis harkis, éd. Tiresias, 2006 (preface by Gilles Manceron, afterword by Amar Assas, .
 With Gilles Manceron, Les harkis dans la colonisation et ses suites/The harkis during colonization and the aftermath, Éditions de l'Atelier, 2008 (preface by Jean Lacouture), .
 With Abderahmen Moumen, Les harkis/Common Misconception of the harkis,  Éditions Le Cavalier Bleu, collection « idées reçues », 2008, .
 Le rapatriement vu par une femme de harki, témoignage recueilli par Fatima Besnaci-Lancou ,  dans C. Harrir, J.J. Jordi, A. Perroy (dir.), Les valises sur le pont – La mémoire du rapatriement maritime d’Algérie – 1962, Marines éditions, 2009.
 Des vies - 62 enfants de harkis racontent/Some lives - 62 children of Harkis are speaking out  (dir.), éd. de l'Atelier, 2010 (preface by Boris Cyrulnik), .
 With  Benoit Falaize et  Gilles Manceron (dir.), Les harkis, Histoire, mémoire et transmission/Harkis, History, memory and transmission'', preface by Philippe Joutard, Ed. de l'Atelier, septembre 2010, .

External links
 Website of Association Harkis et droits de l’Homme.

Notes and references
This article has been expanded with material from the corresponding page in French Wikipedia.


Swietlan Kraczyna

Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna is an American painter/printmaker in Florence, Italy. His work can be found in private collections and galleries around the world, as well as in the Prints and Drawings Collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Early life
Swietlan Nicholas ("Nick") Kraczyna was born in 1940 to Russian parents in the town of Kamen-Kashirsky, Poland, near the Russian-Polish border. In 1945, while World War II was still going on, his family emigrated westward to flee the advancing Russian Army, and eventually settled in a Polish refugee camp in Western Germany at the end of the war. In 1951, the family was sponsored by an American church group to move to New Haven, CT, where Kraczyna completed his junior high and high school years.

In 1962, Kraczyna graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a B.F.A. in painting; in 1964 he earned an M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University. That same year, he and his wife Amy Luckenbach moved to Florence, Italy, where Kraczyna still lives. Amy, a successful puppet-maker and puppeteer, died of cancer in 2009.

Kraczyna became a master of multi-plate color etching in the early 1970s. His art reflects ancient themes and traditions of the Italian Renaissance often inspired by music, dance, mythology, and theater. The countryside of Tuscany which surrounds him daily, both in his primary home in the hills of Colleramole (just south of Florence), and in his secondary home in the hills of Barga (just north of Lucca), is also a frequent inspiration for his work.

Teaching graphic arts
Kraczyna has taught etching and printmaking in the United States, England, Italy, and the Czech Republic. In 1967, he moved his artistic focus from painting to the graphic arts and set up the first printmaking department at Villa Schifanoia's Rosary College Graduate School of Fine Arts in Fiesole (Florence), where he taught for 16 years. In 1970 he was one of ten artists to represent the United States at the Palazzo Strozzi Biennale di Grafica. In 1983, he co-founded, together with Maria Luigia Guaita and others, the Florentine International School of Advanced Printmaking 'Il Bisonte', where he taught until 1992. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Florence, from 1994 until the program's closure in spring 2016, and has been teaching at Syracuse University in Florence since 1998. Every summer, his workshop in multi-plate color etching in Barga, Italy, attracts students from all over the world: Japan, Korea, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Turkey, United States, England and Italy. Many of his students now teach in prestigious schools or have become well known as printmaking artists. Amongst them Sandro Bracchitta, Toni Pecoraro, Albert Puplampu, Andrea Serafini, Chesney Floyd, Maya Hardin, Gianfranco Pacini, Marco De Luca, Daphna Guttmann, Vincenzo Burlizzi, Erico Kito, Charles W. Goolsby, Maureen Banker, Gary Lisa, Sun Jung Kim, Albert Beach, Zeynep Baransel, Patricia Alejandra Cordoba, Sandra Rigali, Katherin Godwin, Manuel Ortega, Silvia Papucci, Juan Esteban Sandoval, Makiko Ogata, Giovanni Greppi and Hubertine Heijermans, who is the eldest.

Marino Marini
From 1973 until 1980 Kraczyna worked as the technical assistant to the painter and sculptor Marino Marini on the complete series of his color etchings. During this time, Kraczyna worked extensively on adjusting the many colors used in the large-scale color etchings of the maestro while perfecting the personal technique he had developed in the medium. Kraczyna has lectured on and demonstrated his multi-plate color etching technique in universities and art schools in the United States, England, Italy, Mexico, Columbia and the Czech Republic.

Books and exhibits
Kraczyna is co-author of I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and comprehensive techniques of etching. In 1975 he published Dancing the Labyrinth: Multi-Plate Color Etchings 1975–1985 with an introduction by Corrado Bologna (Belforte Editore, Livorno, Italy). From 2007-2008, he was Artist in Residence at Syracuse University, New York, where he held an exhibit of multi-plate color etchings entitled "Icarus and Stravinsky" at the university museum gallery, as well as an exhibit entitled "Labyrinths" at the Point of Contact Gallery (Syracuse, NY) inside a complex structure of mirrors created around 25 drawings and etchings inspired by Borges' notion of the labyrinth. In 2003 Kraczyna held a large exhibit of his works entitled "Icarus: 40 Years of Flight" at the Fondazione Ricci, in Barga, Lucca, where Kraczyna illustrated and engraved in memory his graphic work from 1962–2002.

Publications

1993 Swietlan Kraczyna: thirty year retrospective
1998  Swietlan N. Kraczyna, Artist-in-Residence
1985 I Segni incisi: guida alla xilografia e alla incisione in nero e a colori.
1985 The Rite of Spring and the Nine Variations on a Theme of Igor Stravinsky:
1982. Oneiric Carnival, Swietlan Kraczyna
In 2006, in honor of the forty-year anniversary of the catastrophic flood of 1966, 83 of Kraczyna's photographs were published in the volume "The Great Flood of Florence: A Photographic Essay,"  including 10 photos for which Kraczyna was awarded the Fiorino d'Oro, the highest honor of merit bestowed upon a resident of Florence.
2011: The Marriage of Harlequin with an exhibit in Barga, and in 2012 an exhibit at the Bisonte Gallery in Florence.


Amyna natalis

Amyna natalis, the ilima moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is widespread from tropical Asia into northern Australia. It is an introduced species in Hawaii, where it is found on Oahu.

Description
The wingspan of the male is 20 mm and of the female is 26 mm. Body dull brown. Forewings with indistinct sub-basal, antemedial, postmedial and sub-marginal single waved lines with a few grey scales on them. Reniform represented by a small spot. Abdomen and hindwings are fuscous. Abdomen with an indistinct postmedial line.

Ecology
Larvae have been recorded on Abutilon incanum, Sida cordifolia, Sida fallax, Sida rhombifolia and Waltheria americana. The caterpillars are green loopers.

Bioacoustics
Males have been observed producing a continuous ultrasonic song of high intensity (about 102 dB SPL measured at a distance of 10 cm). During song production the animals were perching on plants and moving their wings up and down quickly. Simultaneously, by twisting the wings it seems likely that a male-specific bubble in the forewing functions as a tymbal, resulting in sound production. The sound production may be associated with the release of a pheromone from putative scent-disseminating structures on the underside of the forewing tymbal.


William Leckonby

William Bader Leckonby (September 16, 1917 – October 22, 2007) was an American football player, coach of football and golf, and college athletics administrator.  He played college football at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York and from 1939 to 1941 in the National Football League with the Brooklyn Dodgers.  Leckonby served as the head football coach at Lehigh University from 1946 to 1961, compiling a record of 85–53–5.  His 85 wins are the most of any coach in the history of the Lehigh Mountain Hawks football program, and his tenure of 16 seasons as head coach is the longest in team history.  Lecknoby was also the head golf coach at Lehigh, tallying a mark of 161–62, and from 1962 to 1984 he served as the school's athletic director.


Menominee Township, Michigan

Menominee Township is a civil township of Menominee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,939 at the 2000 census. The city of Menominee borders the southern end of the township but is administratively autonomous.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which  is land and  (1.10%) is water.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,939 people, 1,570 households, and 1,169 families residing in the township.  The population density was 54.2 per square mile (20.9/km²).  There were 1,782 housing units at an average density of 24.5 per square mile (9.5/km²).  The racial makeup of the township was 98.88% White, 0.03% African American, 0.41% Native American, 0.10% Asian, 0.08% from other races, and 0.51% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.46% of the population.

There were 1,570 households out of which 30.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.2% were married couples living together, 4.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.5% were non-families. 20.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 2.87.

In the township the population was spread out with 22.8% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 28.5% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 105.0 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 104.9 males.

The median income for a household in the township was $41,435, and the median income for a family was $48,516. Males had a median income of $33,872 versus $22,238 for females. The per capita income for the township was $18,815.  About 4.8% of families and 7.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.7% of those under age 18 and 6.9% of those age 65 or over.


Ellipsocephalus

Ellipsocephalus is an extinct genus of blind trilobite that lived during the Cambrian. The genus comprises benthic species inhabiting deep, poorly lit or aphotic habitats. E. hoffi is a common trilobite mainly from central Europe (Czech Republic).

Distribution
 E. hoffi occurs in the Middle Cambrian of the Czech Republic (Jince Formation).
 E. polytomus has been found near Viken, Näkten lake, Jämtland, Sweden.
 E. sanctacrucensis is known from the Middle Cambrian of Poland (Słowiec Sandstone Formation, Paradoxides insularis and P. pinus-zones, near Brzechów, Holy Cross Mountains).

Description
Ellipsocephalus is approximately oval in shape and definitely convex, and it has opistoparian sutures that are directed slightly outward from the front and the back of the eyes. The central raised area of the headshield (or cephalon) called glabella has approximately parallel sides that are slightly concave and a rounded front. Lateral furrows are indiscernible, as is the occipital ring. The ridges connecting the eye with the glabella (or palpebral lobes) are not distinctly separated from the thin eye ridges. The area between the front of the glabella and the border is somewhat inflated. The free cheeks (or librigenae) are half as wide as the fixed cheek. Some species have genal spines (like E. sanctacrucensis), while the most known species (E. hoffi) has a slightly angular genal angle. Ellipsocephalus has 12 thorax segments. The tailpiece (or pygidium) is 4× wider than long.

Behaviour
Ellipsocephalus and some other primitive micropygous Cambrian genera, such as Bailiella, enroll differently from other trilobites so that the posterior thorax segments and pygidium bend under the thorax. This is called "double enrollment".


Valleyfield, Newfoundland and Labrador

Valleyfield, Newfoundland is a village and was served by the C.N.R. It joined the Rural District of Badger's Quay-Valleyfield-Pool's Island in April 1980 until 1992 when the District merged with other nearby towns to form New-Wes-Valley. Valleyfield has a good harbour, and is the location of the Beothic Fisheries fish plant.

History
Valleyfield first appears in the 1891 Census as Northwest Arm, with eleven families living there. It was settled by families mainly from Greenspond and Pool's Island. The first settlers in Valleyfield were James and Thomas Ricketts, who were originally from Seal Cove; William Welcher and Christopher and John Stratton from Greenspond; Peter and James Burry, and Abraham, Samuel, and Abel Stratton. In the early 1900s more people moved to Valleyfield including the Winters, Starkes, Sturge, Kean, Blackmore, Hunt, and Roberts.

Church History
In 1891, forty of the 77 people in Valleyfield were Methodist, and in 1903 a Methodist church was built in Valleyfield. The church was dedicated on February 12th, 1905. By 1921 the population was 454 and 211 of them were Methodist.


Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 10000 metres

These are the results of the Men's C-2 10000 metres competition in canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics.  The C-2 event is raced by two-man sprint canoes. Heats and final took place on July 27.

Medalists

Final
With only nine teams competing, a final was held.


Endstufe (novel)

Endstufe ("final stage) is a 2004 novel by the German writer Thor Kunkel. Set in a hedonistic version of the Third Reich, it follows a biologist who works for the SS where he oversees the secret production of pornographic films.

Themes
According to Kunkel, his intention with the novel was to "penetrate the private" and "use pornography as a poetic metaphor to fully grasp the phenomenon of the Third Reich".

Reception
The novel immediately became controversial in Germany, when the publisher Rowohlt Verlag cancelled its contract with Kunkel two months before the scheduled release. The editor Alexander Fest motivated this by accusing Kunkel of "self-indulgent amoralism". After the book had been published by Eichborn Verlag, it created a debate in German newspapers. Der Spiegel called the novel "pure revisionism" for its portrayal of NS Germany as a "leisure society", while the end of the novel gives a detailed portrayal of Allied rapes and brutality. Der Spiegel also criticised Kunkel for the fact that the novel is not about the Holocaust and noted that the title, Endstufe, also is the name of a far-right German rock band. Further, Der Spiegel published private e-mails from Kunkel's former publisher Ulrike Schieder who complained about the novel's portrayal of Allied soldiers as "bloodthirsty animals" and of Germans as victims.

Kunkel dismissed the accusations as ridiculous, and accused his accusers of being upset only because the novel is "about the moral dimensions of everybody", in that it does not portray the sexual perversions of the Soviet and American armies as more righteous than those of the German side. He also argued that his critics did not understand his black humour, and that the book would have been uncontroversial in Britain or the United States, describing himself as an "Anglophile German".

An additional controversy surrounded Kunkel's claim that the novel was based on intense research about actual German pornography from the NS era. When this was questioned, Kunkel said that he had used what he called "intuitive research".


Plover Cove Country Park

Plover Cove Country Park () is a country park in Hong Kong located in the Northeastern New Territories. The original country park was established on 7April 1978, covering  of natural terrain in the administrative North District and Tai Po District. A northern extension to the park, Plover Cove (Extension) Country Park, was designated on 1June 1979, covering the Double Haven islets and Ping Chau.

Ecology

Wild animals residing in the woodlands include Malayan porcupine, Chinese ferret-badger, Chinese pangolin, leopard cat and Pallas's squirrel. There have been records of Indian cuckoo and red-winged crested cuckoo on Kat O and in Lai Chi Wo inside the park.

New and rare species of butterflies in Hong Kong such as yellow coster and bi-spot royal were discovered in the country park recently. Wu Kau Tang and Lai Chi Wo are especially rich in butterflies.

Scenic spots

Bride's Pool, a waterfall plunge pool, is only  in diameter and  deep, known among Hongkongers for the folklore tale that recounts how a bride was drowned here on her way to her wedding.

Geological formations feature in the country park Ping Chau, Ma Shi Chau and Wong Chuk Kok Tsui all contain some of the oldest rock formations in Hong Kong.

Hiking trails within the country park include the Bride's Pool Nature Trail, Tai Mei Tuk Family Walk, Chung Pui Tree Walk, Wu Kau Tang Country Trail and Ping Chau Country Trail in the Plover Cove (Extension) Country Park

Plover Cove (Extension) Country Park

The northern extension of Plover Cove Country Park was designated in 1979. It includes the Double Haven islets and Yan Chau Tong Marine Park. Islands within this part of the park include: Ping Chau (Tung Ping Chau) in Mirs Bay, three islets of Double Haven: Yan Chau, Pak Ka Chau and Pak Sha Tau Tsui. Other islands: Crooked Island, Tui Min Chau, Crescent Island, Double Island, Wu Yeung Chau and Port Island opposite Long Harbour and Tolo Channel.


2018 Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, Proposition 1

Proposition 1 was an Anchorage, Alaska direct initiative bathroom bill. A public vote on the proposition was held on April 3, 2018. It would have made it legal for "any employer, public accommodation, or other person to establish and enforce sex-specific standards or policies concerning access to intimate facilities such as locker rooms, showers, changing rooms, and restrooms." The measure defined the term 'sex' as "an individual's immutable biological condition of being male or female, as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at the time of birth."

The proposition was the result of a petition campaign headed by Alaska Family Action, a Christian public policy organization. The group organized a petition titled "Regulating Access to Facilities Such as Locker Rooms and Bathrooms on the Basis of Sex at Birth, Rather Than Gender Identity." The Anchorage Municipal Clerk's Office certified over 6,200 valid signatures on the petition and authorized the referendum in July 2017. Local opponents of the bill were led by Fair Anchorage, a coalition of organizations.

Anchorage voters rejected Proposition 1 by a vote of 52.64% to 47.36%.


Jessica Dovanne

Jessica Dovanne (born February 3, 1986) is a Canadian rugby union player. She represented  at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. In 2013, she was part of the Canadian squad that won the 2013 Nations Cup and the sevens team that took the 2013 Hong Kong Sevens title.

She started playing in highlight (after representing the province as a trampoline and tumbling competitor) and played for the University of Victoria. She then became one of the original centralized national sevens athletes in 2008.


Abdullah Mohamed al-Dawood

Abdullah Mohamed al-Dawood is a Saudi author, known for self-help books and conservative views.

In May 2013, his Twitter comment about the harassment of working women generated negative international publicity. al-Dawood argued that his comment was misunderstood due to mistranslation and misquoting.


True Believers (Akcent album)

True Believers is the second English and multi platinum album  by Romanian dance, pop  group Akcent released across Europe on September 18th 2009.

Track listing

 Stay With Me
 That’s My Name (Radio Edit)
 Happy People
 Lovers Cry
 Tears
 I Turn Around The World
 Runaway
 Umbrela ta
 Next to Me
 True Believer
 Delight
 O noapte si o zi
 Lacrimi feat. Roller Sis


Battle of San Salvador (1642)

The Battle of San Salvador (1642) was an expedition launched by the Dutch against the Spanish and their aboriginal allies in 1642. The battle ended as a loss for the Spanish, after 6 days of fierce fighting. The Spanish defeat confirmed the rise of the Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia.

Background
Having lost the previous Battle of San Salvador the previous year, the Dutch amassed a bigger strike force to beat the Spanish out of Formosa.

The Spanish meanwhile, having lost the trust of the aboriginals during the previous battle, were low in morale and dispatched a letter to Manila to request reinforcements, but Governor-General Corcuera sent only two small vessels carrying twelve sailors and twenty soldiers, further lowering the morale of Spanish stationed in the fort.

The Siege

One evening in early August 1642, a sampan landed in front of the Spanish fort. Its passengers hurried ashore to deliver a letter to a Chinese man sojourning there. The letter said that the Dutch had readied a large expedition against the Spanish fort. It advised the man to "go away at all events, since the enemy was coming, not as in the previous year, but with a much greater force; and therefore it seemed . . . that the Dutch would seize Jilong without fail." The Spanish prepared for a siege. Several days later, the Dutch arrived with four large ships, several smaller ones, and 369 Dutch soldiers.

Knowing that the Dutch would try to land a force on San Salvador in an effort to capture the hilltop positions, the Spanish attempted an attack on the Dutch landing party. Twelve Spanish soldiers, eight Pampangans, and thirty or forty aboriginal archers inflicted heavy damage on the landing soldiers, as "our men fired their guns at a crowd, and some used three balls at one shot; and the Indian bowmen, who were very skillful, also inflicted much damage on the Dutch, all the more as they came boldly on." The Dutch, however, maintained their discipline and forced the small force to retreat. They climbed the hill and captured the Mira. Then they trained their gun on La Retirada. The Spanish soldiers who defended it were few and lacked supplies, but they fought hard because they knew that if the Dutch captured the redoubt the Spanish were lost. But the Dutch were better equipped: "For every ten balls we shot," wrote one Spaniard later, "they responded with two hundred or more." Another wrote that the Dutch fired their guns "so incessantly that it seemed to be the Judgment Day; and they gave no respite to our men, who were few in number and worn out with fatigue." After four days of shooting, the Dutch battered the walls down and stormed the hill.

Having captured the redoubt, the Dutch aimed their cannon against the main fortress below and then sent a messenger with a white flag and a letter in Latin demanding surrender. The governor offered his surrender.

Aftermath
After the surrender, the Dutch confiscated the Spanish arms and flags and ferried the Spanish troops first to Tayouan, then to Batavia, and then finally back to Manila. The Dutch victory cemented their status as a rising power in Southeast Asia and curtailed further Spanish expansion. In the meantime, the Spanish quarreled about who deserved blame for the loss of Formosa. The Spanish governor who had surrendered to the Dutch was afraid he would be held responsible and refused to go back to Manila. Corcuera received the lion's share of the blame and made powerful enemies in Manila. In 1644 Diego Fajardo Chacón, his successor as governor-general, had him locked up to stand trial for the loss of Formosa. The prosecution charged that he had ordered the destruction of Fort San Domingo and the redoubt that protected San Salvador, that he had withdrawn three of the four companies of soldiers that defended the colony, and, finally, that he had installed as its last governor an inferior soldier who could neither read nor write. These actions were, the prosecution alleged, "the total cause of the loss of the Isla Hermosa." Corcuera spent five years imprisoned in the Philippines as the trial dragged on. "A strange turn of fortune!" wrote a contemporary. "Don Sebastian [Corcuera] had been the most absolute and the most dreaded lord in the world." Corcuera was freed by royal order. In 1651 he was named governor of Panama for a second time, but he declined. He did accept the post of governor and captain general of the Canary Islands in 1659, serving there until his death the following year.


Collective identity

Collective identity is the shared sense of belonging to a group.

In sociology

In 1989 Alberto Melucci published Nomads of the Present, which introduces his model of collective identity based on studies of the social movements of the 1980s. Melucci based his ideas on the writings by  Touraine (1925- ) and  Pizzorno (1924-2019), specifically their ideas on social movements and collective action respectively.

Alberto Melucci writes: "collective identity is an interactive and shared definition produced by several individuals (or groups at a more complex level) and concerned with the orientation of action and the field of opportunities and constraints in which the action takes place". Unsatisfied with the gap between theories on how collective actions form and how individuals find motivation, Melucci defines an intermediate process, in which individuals recognize that they share certain orientations in common and on that basis decide to act together. He considers collective identity as a process that is negotiated over time with three parts: cognitive definition, active relationship, and emotional investments.

 Cognitive Definition: the formulation of a cognitive framework concerning goals, means, and environment of action
 Active Relationship: the activation of relationships among participants
 Emotional Investments: emotional recognition between individuals

Melucci, in his writing "The Process of Collective Identity" argues for collective identity as a useful analytical tool to explain social movements. It addresses not only the processes within the system of the collective actor such as leadership models, ideologies, or communication methods, but also external relations with allies and competitors which all shape the collective actor. He goes on to state that it can help better understand the development of modern collective action, distinct from formal organizations, amidst the rapid development of the field of social science research. In addition, it makes collective groups as systematic collectives and not entities of ideology or defined simple value sets that could antagonize or glorify certain groups. For conflict analysis, this distinction can change the language and nature of analysis completely.

In social psychology

Social psychologists had interest in concepts of identity and individuality since its early days, tracing as far back as the work of George Mead. His theories focused on the relationship between individual identity and society. He theorizes a chicken-and-egg relationship between society and identity. Preexisting social structure and conditions shape a person’s identity, which in turn, interacts with others and shapes the new and emerging social structure.

More contemporarily, Polletta and Jasper defined collective identity as “an individual’s cognitive, moral, and emotional connections with a broader community, category, practice, or institution.” The collective identity of a group are often expressed through the group’s cultures and traditions. The origin of the identity can be from within the group or outside the group, but ultimately, a collective identity is only formed upon the group members’ acceptance of the identity. Though defining collective identity to be a self-central concept, they emphasize on its distinction from concepts like ideology, motivation, and personal identity.

Not to be confused with social identity theory or self-categorization theory, collective identity focuses on the identity of the group as a whole, while the other theories focus on the identity of an individual's association with a group.to 2013

In political science

Marxist concepts of class consciousness can be considered a root of collective identity. The identity of the class was tied to its values and interests, and includes solidarity. This idea of solidarity is shared by Durkheim, who argues that collective identity helps create bonds between individuals through shared morals and goals. Max Weber, in his book "Economy and Society", published posthumously in 1922, critiqued Marx's focus on production and instead suggests that class, status, and party form the three sources of collective identity.

Alexander Wendt is well known for his writings on constructivist political theory, in which collective identity play a prominent role as identity is a major determining factor in the role of states in the international order. His approach focuses on group and individual identity, at the domestic and international level. This application of collective identity to explaining and describing the international system is the basis of constructivism. Constructivism has a strong focus on the social discourse that create these identities, which not only designate a country as a collective actor but possible alliances as collective groups. By grouping together countries, either by their own decision or by third parties, new alliances or blocs form through the collective identity assigned to them, even if sometimes this assignment is based on inaccurate binary groupings. Regardless of accuracy of grouping, the very act of grouping these countries together affects how the international system views them and thus treats them, which in return causes the countries to identify with each other in terms of their common position internationally. Further work on collective identity in international relations has been conducted by Richard Ned Lebow, who has argued that states view themselves and others as parts of collective power groups of states, such as rising and falling powers, and simply their sense of belonging to certain power groups or aspiring to be in others affects their interactions with other states, irrespective of the "reality" of their power statuses.

Evolutionary function

Joseph Jordania suggested that in human evolutionary history collective identity was crucial for the physical survival of hominids and early humans. As individual hominids were too weak and slow to survive predators on their own, in the moments most critical to survival (predator attacks, combat situations, mortal danger) humans enter the altered state of consciousness where they do not feel fear and pain, do not question the behavior of other members of their group, and are ready to sacrifice their lives for evolution's more important super-ordinate goals (i.e. survival of the children or the group). Humans sometimes do not have memory of these critical moments. Absence of stressful memories is known as psychogenic amnesia. According to Jordania, human ability to follow the rhythm in big groups, to sing together in harmony, to dance for many hours and enter the ecstatic state, as well as the tradition of body painting, were all the parts of the first universal rituals. These were primarily developed as the means to synchronize each individual group-member's neural activity (through the release of neuro-chemicals), in order to reach the state of collective identity, also known as transcendence. In this state the survival needs of the group can override the instincts of individual survival.


Goodricke (horse)

Goodricke (foaled 12 April 2002) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. A specialist sprinter who excelled over six and seven furlongs and recorded his biggest win in the 2005 William Hill Sprint Cup. He showed some promise as a two-year-old, winning two minor races, but missed the second half of the year after running poorly in the Coventry Stakes. In the following year he competed in handicaps and minor stakes before emerging as a top class performer with a second place in the Prix Maurice de Gheest followed by his win in the Spring Cup. He remained in training as a four-year-old but ran only twice and failed to recover his best form. He was retired to stud but has had very little success as a breeding stallion.

Background
Goodricke was a bay horse with a small white star bred by the Newmarket based Red House Stud. He was sired by Bahamian Bounty, who had his greatest success as a two-year-old in 1996 when he won the Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes and was voted Cartier Champion Two-year-old Colt. After retiring to the National Stud, he became reasonably successful as a sire of sprinters. Goodricke's dam Star won one minor race as a two-year-old in 1997 before becoming a successful broodmare. She produced Goodricke's full-brother Pastoral Pursuits who won the July Cup in 2005.

In October 2003 the yearling colt was offered for sale at Tattersalls and was bought for 110,000 guineas by the bloodstock agent Richard O'Gorman on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed. The colt was sent into training with David Loder at Newmarket, Suffolk.

Racing career

2004: two-year-old season
After finishing second in a maiden race over five furlongs at Windsor Racecourse on 5 April the colt started at odds of 1/5 for a similar event at Leicester Racecourse later that month and recorded his first success, winning by five lengths from Langston Bay. On 14 May the colt contested a novice race (for horses with no more than one previous win) over six furlongs at Nottingham Racecourse. Ridden by Tom Queally, and starting the 4/5 favourite, he took the lead approaching the final furlong and went clear of his rivals to win by three lengths. In June the colt was moved up in class to contest the Group Two Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot. He started a 14/1 outsider and finished ninth of the thirteen runners behind the John Gosden-trained Iceman.

2005: three-year-old season
On his three-year-old debut Goodricke, racing in the colours of Jumeirah Racing, carried 126 pounds in a handicap race over six furlongs at Salisbury Racecourse on 1 May. Returning to the track after an absence of more than ten months he was equipped with a visor for the first time. After starting slowly he stayed on strongly in the closing stages and dead-heated with the Terry Mills-trained Resplendent Glory. He then started favourite for a Listed handicap at York Racecourse ten days later but finished seventh after he was badly hampered at the start, causing his saddle to slip. On 3 June he contested the Listed Surrey Stakes over seven furlongs at Epsom Racecourse and finished second to the Mill Reef Stakes Galeota. He then returned to the ownership of Sheikh Mohammed. At the end of the month the colt started favourite for a race over six furlongs at Newbury Racecourse in which he was ridden by Jamie Spencer. Goodricke took the lead entering the final furlong and drew away from his opponents to win "easily" by four lengths.

On 23 July Goodricke was matched against older horses in a valuable seven furlong handicap at Newbury in which he was assigned a weight of 119 pounds. He finished second of the twenty-four runners, beaten half a length by the five year old New Seeker after staying on strongly in the closing stages. The colt was then stepped up sharply in class when he was sent to France for the Group One Prix Maurice de Gheest over 1300 metres at Deauville Racecourse. Ridden by Olivier Peslier and starting a 20/1 outsider he appeared to be struggling in the early stages but made steady progress in the straight to finish second, half a length behind the favourite Whipper.

On 3 September Goodricke started a 14/1 outsider for the Group One William Hill Sprint Cup over six furlongs at Haydock Park. The favourite for the race was Proclamation, owned by Sheikh Mohammed's wife Princess Haya of Jordan and racing in the Godolphin colours. His fifteen other opponents included, Gift Horse (Stewards' Cup), La Cucaracha, Galeota, Somnus, Lucky Spin (Summer Stakes), Etlaala (Champagne Stakes), Patavellian (Stewards' Cup) and Fayr Jag (Golden Jubilee Stakes). Goodricke was hampered at the start and was switched to the right to obtain a clear run. He overtook the long-time leader Patavellian inside the final furlong and stayed on strongly to win by a length from La Cucaracha, with the 50/1 outsider Ashdown Express a length away in third. After the race Jamie Spencer admitted to being surprised by the colt's performance, commenting "I didn't really believe I could win the race and I thought he would run really well to be placed".

2006: four-year-old season
After Loder retired from training at the end of 2005 Goodricke was transferred to the ownership of Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin team and was trained thereafter by Saeed bin Suroor. After an absence of over a year he returned in a minor race at Yarmouth Racecourse on 12 September. He started the 1/4 favourite but finished fourth of the six runners behind Riotous Applause. Sixteen days later he contested the Listed Guisborough Stakes over seven furlongs at Redcar Racecourse. He again started favourite but failed to recover after swerving at the start and finished ninth of the eleven runners behind New Seeker.

Stud record
Goodricke was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion. He stood for a season the Overbury Stud in Gloucestershire in 2007 before moving to the Allevamento Fattoria Renaccino in Italy for the next two years. He was moved to the Gestüt Ohlerweiherhof in Germany in 2010 and was later relocated to the Czech Republic. He has attracted little interest and sired only a few minor winners.

Pedigree


Apno Nepal Apno Gaurab

Apno Nepal Apno Gaurab is a weekly Marwari Television show (2011–Present) with the objective to get people to know about marwari culture, language, cuisine, talk shows with people from different professions. The show is anchored/produced by Dayaram Agrawal. This show comes every Saturday on Himalaya Television (A private Television Channel of Nepal). Celebrities like Sanjeev Kapoor, Kiran Bedi, Sri Sri Sri Ravishankar, Binod Chaudhary, Anupam Kher etc. have been interviewed in this show. It is the only Marwari show being run in Nepal. This program is quite famous in Nepal, especially among Marwaris.

History


Turbonilla nicholsi

Turbonilla nicholsi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

This species was named after Lieutenant Nichols who collected the type specimen.

Description
The milk-white shell is large and robust. Its length (protoconch missing) measures 8.8 mm. The whorls of the protoconch are decollated in the type specimen. The twelve whorls of the teleoconch are well rounded and slightly shouldered at the summit. They are marked by strong, somewhat sinuous, decidedly protractive axial ribs, of which 14 occur upon the first, 16 upon the second to sixth, 18 upon the seventh, 20 upon the eighth, 22 upon the ninth, and 25
upon the penultimate turn. The intercostal spaces are almost as wide as the ribs. They are well impressed, and terminate a little distance posterior to the suture. The sutures are strongly marked. The periphery and the rather long base of the body whorl are well rounded. They are marked by the feeble continuations of the axial ribs. The entire surface of the base and the spire are marked by numerous, strongly incised spiral striations, of which those on the spire somewhat exceed the ones on the base in strength. The oval aperture is large. The  outer lip is thin, showing the external sculpture within. The columella is slender, sigmoid, and slightly reflected.

Distribution
The type specimen of this marine species was found in the Gulf of California.


Kesavapuram

Kesavapuram is a village in Thiruvattaru taluk, Thiruvallur  district, Tamil Nadu. The village is part of the Viswnabhapuram legislative assembly constituency and the Tirvallur parliamentary constituency. The village is located about 7 km north-east of Marthandam and 31 km north-west of Nagercoil.

The village is home to the St. Sebastian Church which is considered to be 100 years old.


Jurong Rock Caverns

The Jurong Rock Caverns (JRC) (Chinese: 裕廊岛地下储油库, Malay: Gua Batu Simpanan Barang Mentah Jurong) is the first underground rock cavern for oil storage in Southeast Asia. It is owned by Jurong Town Corporation. The rock caverns were officially opened on 2 September 2014 by the third Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong.

Located at a depth of  beneath Banyan Basin on Jurong Island, the  caverns, provide infrastructural support to companies on Jurong Island such as Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron Philips, and meet the storage needs for liquid hydrocarbons such as crude oil, condensate, naphtha and gas oil.

The first phase comprises five  long,  wide and  high caverns with nine storage galleries providing  of storage, and  of tunnels costing SGD 950 million. The second phase is foreseen to double this capacity.


Zinc finger protein 853

Zinc finger protein 853 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF853 gene.


Congolese Diplomatic Academy

The Congolese Diplomatic Academy () is an institute for training diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Kinshasa. It was established in 2006 to improve the quality of the DRC's diplomatic corps, graduating 200 civil servants by 2009. The school cooperates with other institutions from abroad, including ones from France, South Africa, Russia, and the Netherlands.

The director of the academy, as of 2010, was Bonaventure Mpasi Makenga.

Among the staff was Galina M. Sidorova, a Russian diplomat who taught Russian language at the DRC Diplomatic Academy, currently working at the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.


Eloy Teruel

Eloy Teruel Rovira (born 20 November 1982) is a Spanish cyclist. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for Spain in the Men's Omnium. He signed with the  for the 2013 road season, and joined  for the 2014 season. As a rider for the Jamis team at the prestigious Tour of California, Eloy gained widespread coverage for celebrating what he believed to be a victory in the 7th stage, a lap before the end of the race; he ended up 56th.

Major results
2005
2nd Gran Premio Ciudad de Vigo
2007
 7th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2013
 2nd  Points race, UCI Track World Championships
 3rd  Points race, UEC European Track Championships
2014
 2nd  Scratch race, UEC European Track Championships
 3rd  Points race, UCI Track World Championships
2015
 2nd  Points race, UCI Track World Championships
2019
 5th Time trial, National Road Championships


White River Range

The White River Range is a mountain range in White Pine County, Nevada.


Rose Valley, New South Wales (Kiama)

Rose Valley is a locality in the Municipality of Kiama, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It lies west of the Princes Highway to the west of Gerringong about 130 km south of Sydney. At the , it had a population of 76. It had a public school from 1868 to 1877 and 1884 to 1904.


Symphony No. 2 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 14 and subtitled To October, for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution.  It was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academy Capella Choir under Nikolai Malko, on 5 November 1927.  After the premiere, Shostakovich made some revisions to the score, and this final version was first played in Moscow later in 1927 under the baton of Konstantin Saradzhev.  It was also the first time any version of the work had been played in Moscow.

Shostakovich later revisited the events of the October Revolution in his Twelfth Symphony, subtitled The Year 1917.

Structure
The symphony is a short (about 20 minutes) experimental work in one movement; within this movement are four sections, the last of which includes a chorus.  In a marked departure from his First Symphony, Shostakovich composed his Second in a gestural, geometric "music without emotional structure" manner, with the intent of reflecting speech patterns and physical movements in a neo-realistic style.  This choice may have been influenced at least partially by Vsevolod Meyerhold's theory of biomechanics.

Shostakovich placed far more emphasis on texture in this work than he did on thematic material.  He quickly adds sonorities and layers of sound in a manner akin to Abstract Expressionism instead of focusing on contrapuntal clarity.  While much of the symphony consequently consists of sound effects rather than music, the work possesses an unquestionable vitality and incorporates the basic elements of the musical language he used in the rest of his career.

Instrumentation
The symphony is scored for mixed choir (in the final part) and orchestra of piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, (factory) siren, and strings.

Overview
Shostakovich's Second and Third Symphonies have often been criticized for incongruities in their experimental orchestral sections and more conventionally agitprop choral finales.  In the Soviet Union they were considered experiments, and since the days of Stalin the term "experiment" was not considered positive.  Much later, Shostakovich admitted that out of his 15 symphonies, "two, I suppose, are completely unsatisfactory – that's the Second and Third."  He also rejected his early experimental writing in general as "erroneous striving after originality" [the piano cycle Aphorisms] and "infants' diseases" [the Second and Third Symphonies].

The Second Symphony was commissioned to include a poem by Alexander Bezymensky, which glorified Lenin's role in the proletariat struggle in bombastic style.  The cult of Lenin, imposed from the upper echelons of the Party, grew to gigantic proportions in the years immediately following his death.  The work was initially titled "To October".  It was referred to as a Symphonic Poem and Symphonic Dedication to October.  It became To October, a Symphonic Dedication when the work was published in 1927.  It only became known as a "symphony" considerably later.

The spirit of October
During the 1920s in Russia, "October" referred to the spirit of the Revolution, which was a new world of freedom and fellowship reaching politically from the center to the left.  The nearest political idea to this concept was the Trotskyite doctrine of "permanent revolution".

Composition

Shostakovich was commissioned by Lev Shuglin, a dedicated Bolshevik and head of the Propaganda Department of the State Music Publishing House (Muzsektor), to write a large orchestral work with a choral finale, called Dedication to October, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution.  The composer seems to have been dissatisfied with the work; he wrote to Tatyana Glivenko, on 28 May 1927, that he was tired of writing it, and considered the Bezymensky text "abominable".  Nonetheless, it stands as an important representation of Soviet music in the 1920s, and in particular of the notion of "industrial" symphonies intended to inspire the proletariat: the choral section of the work is heralded within the score by way of a blast from a factory whistle, an innovation proposed by Shuglin.

Part of the problem Shostakovich had in writing the symphony was that people expected a successor to his First Symphony, and he no longer believed in writing in the same compositional style.  He also had other projects toward which he wanted to direct his attention as soon as possible, and the First Symphony had taken him nearly a year to write.  As it turned out, the Commissariat for Enlightenment's propaganda department, Agitotdel, regularly commissioned single-movement works on topical subjects.  These works often featured revolutionary tunes and invariably employed sung texts to make the required meaning clear.  Furthermore, because of the non-musical orientation of potential audiences, these pieces were not expected to last more than 15 or 20 minutes at most.

Though Shostakovich had been commissioned by Muzsektor rather than Agitotdel, and was thus expected to produce a composition of abstract music instead of a propaganda piece, writing a short agitprop symphony seemed to solve all of Shostakovich's problems.  Such a work was entirely appropriate for the occasion for which it was being written.  It would also be impossible for Muzsektor to turn it down, and was guaranteed at least some friendly press.  It also sidestepped the stylistic problem of producing a sequel to the First Symphony while also opening the door to experiment with orchestral effects in an entirely new vein.  Most importantly for Shostakovich, the piece took little time to compose, allowing him to return to other projects at his earliest convenience.

The choral section gave the composer particular trouble.  Shostakovich told Yavorsky confidentially, "I'm composing the chorus with great difficulty.  The words!!!!"  The consequent lack of creative fire becomes obvious; the section lacks the drive and conviction that typified many of his later works, the singers sounding melancholy, almost desultory.  It is obviously a stilted, formal addition to a composition already lacking compositional unity.  The final words are not even given a melodic line; instead they are simply chanted by the chorus, culminating in a formulaic apotheosis.  Solomon Volkov admitted of the entire choral section, "[O]ne is tempted simply to cut it off with a pair of scissors".

Chorus: "To October"
Text by Alexander Bezymensky

Russian
Мы шли, мы просили работы и хлеба,
Сердца были сжаты тисками тоски.
Заводские трубы тянулися к небу,
Как руки, бессильные сжать кулаки.
Страшно было имя наших тенет:
Молчанье, страданье, гнет.

Но громче орудий ворвались в молчанье
Слова нашей скорби, слова наших мук.
О Ленин! Ты выковал волю страданья,
Ты выковал волю мозолистых рук.
Мы поняли, Ленин, что наша судьба
Носит имя: борьба.

Борьба! Ты вела нас к последнему бою.
Борьба! Ты дала нам победу Труда.
И этой победы над гнетом и тьмою
Никто не отнимет у нас никогда.
Пусть каждый в борьбе будет молод и храбр:
Ведь имя победы – Октябрь!

Октябрь! – это солнца желанного вестник.
Октябрь! – это воля восставших веков.
Октябрь! – это труд, это радость и песня.
Октябрь! – это счастье полей и станков.
Вот знамя, вот имя живых поколений:
Октябрь, Коммуна и Ленин.

English translation
We marched, we asked for work and bread.
Our hearts were gripped in a vice of anguish.
Factory chimneys towered up towards the sky
Like hands, powerless to clench a fist.
Terrible were the names of our shackles:
Silence, suffering, oppression.

But louder than gunfire there burst into the silence
Words of our torment, words of our suffering.
Oh, Lenin! You forged freedom through suffering,
You forged freedom from our toil-hardened hands.
We knew, Lenin, that our fate
Bears a name: Struggle.

Struggle! You led us to the final battle.
Struggle! You gave us the victory of Labour.
And this victory over oppression and darkness
None can ever take away from us!
Let all in the struggle be young and bold:
The name of this victory is October!

October! The messenger of the awaited dawn.
October! The freedom of rebellious ages.
October! Labour, joy and song.
October! Happiness in the fields and at the work benches,
This is the slogan and this is the name of living generations:
October, the Commune and Lenin.

Reception

In the West, listeners appreciated the orchestral section but not the choral emotionalism that followed.  While some Soviet critics acclaimed it at the time of the premiere, the Second Symphony did not attain lasting success.

Notable recordings

Notable recordings of this symphony include:

Source: arkivmusic.com (recommended recordings selected based on critics reviews)


Parocyptamus

Parocyptamus is a genus of hoverflies, with two known species. The critical characteristic is the narrow, elongated abdomen.

Biology
Larvae are found in ant nests.

Distribution
They are native to parts of Asia.

Species
P. sonamii Shiraki, 1930
P. stenogaster (Curran, 1931)


Brooks High School (Alabama)

Brooks High School (BHS) is a public high school in Killen, Alabama, United States. It was established in 1908 and is part of the Lauderdale County Schools district.

History
The first Killen school was built in 1908 on what is now Jones Avenue and was moved to the present site of Brooks Elementary School in 1935. The tradition of Brooks High School began with the 1968-1969 school year, during which Brooks had an enrollment of 325 students in grades seven through 10. The modern school's enrollment is around 780 students in grades seven through 12.

Notable alumni
 Patrick Hape, former NFL tight end
 Shonna Tucker, singer-songwriter and former bassist for Drive-By Truckers

Notable staff
 Harlon Hill, taught here and became principal after his NFL career.


Rachel Rose (artist)

Rachel Rose (born 1986) is an American visual artist known for her video installations that merge moving images and sound within nuanced environments connecting them to broader subjects—whether investigating cryogenics, the American Revolutionary War, modernist architecture, or the sensory experience of walking in outer space. Rose has presented solo exhibits at the Serpentine Galleries and the Whitney Museum of Art. Rose has presented solo exhibits at Fondazione Sandretto, Turin, Italy (2018); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2018); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2017); Museu Serralves, Porto (2016); The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2016); The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015) and Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (2015).

Among her recent projects are Enclosure (2019), jointly commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory in New York and LUMA Foundation in Arles, Wil-o-Wisp (2018), jointly commissioned and owned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; Everything and More (2015), presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Palisades (2015), at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London in 2014. Rose is the recipient of the 2015 Frieze Artist Award.

In addition to these and other solo exhibitions, the artist's work has been featured in the 2018 Carnegie International, the 2017 Venice Biennale, the 2016 São Paulo Biennial, and numerous other group exhibitions. Rachel Rose is represented by Pilar Corrias Gallery, London and Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York/Rome.

Early life and education
Rose is the daughter of Diana (nee Calthorpe) and Jonathan F. P. Rose. Her father is an urban planner with a focus on sustainable housing, Her uncle is the architect Peter Calthorpe. She started her education by earning a B.A. in humanities and B.A. art from Yale University; an M.A. in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art; and a M.F.A. from Columbia University. She entered graduate school as a painter, and quickly shifted, she studied under Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Work
Rose produces video installations juxtaposing images and sounds.  Her experiential pieces work to convey sensorial aspects of ideas by manipulating sound and image. Her imagery depicts "humanity's shard current anxieties and their multi-layered interconnectivity" as well as humanities' relationship to the natural world, advancing technology, mortality, and history.

Sitting Feeding Sleeping (2013), which she filmed at a cryogenics lab in Arizona zoological parks, and a robotics perception lab, debuted at he Taipei Biennial. Palisades in Palisades (2013) focuses on the human relationship with history and the natural world and was shot in Palisades Interstate Park in New Jersey, site of the Battle of Fort Lee during the American Revolutionary War. A Minute Ago (2014) features found video footage of Philip Johnson conducting a tour of his Glass House and of a 2014 hail storm in Novosibirsk, Siberia.

In October 2015, Rose presented Everything and More, a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Everything and More was inspired by David Wolf's experience of a space walk. The film was partially shot in a neutral buoyancy pool at the University of Maryland. Rose filmed at the University of Maryland's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, plunging a camera into the lab's watery depths. She achieved the film's abstract, vaguely extraterrestrial shots by filming in her kitchen materials with an air compressor on liquids such as milk, oil, water, and ink. Rose projected the video on a semi-transparent screen and covered the windows of the gallery's black box with opaque scrim to achieve an out-of-body feel. Instead of blacking out the room's floor-to-ceiling windows, Rose has covered them with a translucent scrim, dimming but not fully obscuring the view of the rooftop behind it, full of sculptures from the current Frank Stella retrospective.

Lake Valley (2016) debuted at Pilar Corrias gallery in London was a collaboration with a cel animator, and utilized images from the 19th-century illustrations she had archived. Each frame is a composite of elements from 19th-20th century children's book illustrations cut, layered, and re-mapped for the present-day. Wil-o-Wisp (2018) draws from historical accounts of 17th century agrarian England, the story follows Elspeth Blake, a mystic and healer, across three decades. The Philadelphia Museum of Art featured Rose's Wil-o-Wisp in May 2018. Enclosure (2019) is presented on an originally developed holographic screen format and is a heist story about survival in the seventeenth-century agrarian English landscape. In July 2019, Rose will present Enclosure, a solo show at Luma Arles in Arles, France. The Park Avenue Armory will feature Rose's Enclosure in 2020.

Whitney curator Christopher Y. Lew noted "how she was able to gather such a mix of images, and of content as well, and weave it into a unique narrative. She pulled some kind of order out of our whirlpool of information, without ever denying the flood."

Exhibitions

Awards
Rose won the illy Present Future Prize at Artissima 2014 and the Frieze Artist Award for site-specific installations by emerging artists at the London fair.


Socrates in Love

is a 2001 Japanese melodrama novel, written by Kyoichi Katayama and published by Shogakukan, which revolves around narrator Sakutaro Matsumoto's recollections of a school classmate whom he once loved.

It's also known as , which author Katayama used after his editors advised that his original novel title Socrates in Love wouldn't work.

Plot summary

In a small town of southern Japan, Sakutaro "Saku" Matsumoto and Aki Hirose, classmates since junior high, become high school students. During this time they begin to date and their conversations circle around the idea of what love really is, beginning after Saku's grandfather shares his own past love story with Saku.

After a trip the two take to an abandoned island, Aki discovers she has leukemia, which limits her chances to go outside or see Saku. Once Saku learns the truth, he buys flight tickets to take Aki to Australia's Uluru (Ayers Rock); a place she had always wanted to visit after missing the school trip there, but she dies before she could board the plane.

The story takes place as a flashback through Saku's eyes as he and Aki's parents travel to Australia to spread Aki's ashes in the place she had always wanted to see.

Main characters
 Sakutaro "Saku" Matsumoto (松本朔太郎 Matsumoto Sakutarō, サク "Saku"): the narrator who's referred as "Saku-chan" by Aki. His name is taken from Japanese poet Sakutarō Hagiwara's name.
 Aki Hirose (廣瀬亜紀 Hirose Aki, アキ "Aki"): Saku's classmate who later becomes his girlfriend. She has leukemia.
 Ryunosuke Oki (大木龍之介 Ōki Ryūnosuke): a classmate of Saku and Aki. His name is based on Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's name.
 Kentaro Matsumoto (松本謙太郎 Matsumoto Kentarō): Saku's grandfather.

About the title

Socrates in Love is the English translation of author Katayama's original Japanese title, 恋するソクラテス (Koi Suru Sokuratesu).

The novel and its manga adaptation (illustrated by Kazumi Kazui) were published in the United States by VIZ Media under the English translated title of author Katayama's original title.

The 2004 film title, Sekai no Chūshin de, Ai o Sakebu, is abbreviated in Japan as Sekachū (セカチュー).

To date, the 2005 Hong Kong DVD release of the 2004 film adaptation is the only English-language release that has its title Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World in English. The 2004 film and the 2004 TV series still haven't been released to the English-language market outside Hong Kong.

Notes about the novel
Katayama had intended Socrates in Love as part of a trilogy to explore the concept and themes of youth and memories. His editors however decided to take advantage of the "pure Love boom"—a Japanese media trend of novels and films that portray a chaste, undying and tragic love—by publishing the novel under Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World to appeal fans of tragic love stories. In spite of this, only 8,000 copies of the book were printed and distributed, due to the poor sales of Katayama's two previous novels.

A year after the novel's publication, celebrity actress Kou Shibasaki wrote in a guest column for Japanese monthly literary and pop culture magazine Da Vinci (March 2002 issue): "I read it thoroughly even though it made me cry. I wished to have such a relationship in my life." The book became a best-seller, due to Shibasaki's recommendation and the word of mouth. In May 2004 over 3 million copies were sold, surpassing the sales record of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. Shibasaki subsequently appeared in the 2004 film version.

Film and TV adaptations

Film version

Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World was opened nationally in Japan on 8 May 2004, which brought Masami Nagasawa recognition as an actress. It was a huge success, and its theme song, "Hitomi o Tojite" ("With My Eyes Closed") by Ken Hirai, had record sales as well.

TV drama version
Crying out Love, in the Center of the World was adapted as an 11-episode  TV drama series, directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi, and broadcast every Friday on TBS at 10PM, from 2 July to 10 September, in 2004.

Like the film, the drama features an original character that doesn't appear in the novel — Aki Kobayashi, a single-mother friend of adult Sakutaro. She has feelings for him, but he struggles not to see her as the late Aki's replacement. Their situation is complicated when Aki's young son sees Saku as a father figure.

The drama's theme song, "Katachi Aru Mono" (Some Kind of Form), is notable for having been written and performed by Kou Shibasaki, who appeared as Ritsuko Fujimura in the 2004 film adaptation.

Staff
 Script - Yoshiko Morishita
 Filming - Satoru Karasawa
 Direction - Yukihiko Tsutsumi, Yasuharu Ishii, Yuichiro Hirakawa
  Producer - Akihiko Ishimaru
Theme song -  by Kou Shibasaki

Cast
Takayuki Yamada - Sakutaro "Saku" Matsumoto (age 17)
Haruka Ayase - Aki Hirose
Naoto Ogata - Sakutaro "Saku" Matsumoto (age 34)
Sachiko Sakurai - Aki Kobayashi
Koutaro Tanaka - Ryunosuke Ooki
Tasuku Emoto - Akiyoshi Nakagawa
Yuika Motokariya - Tomoyo Ueda
Kaho - Fumiko Matsumoto
Yuki Matsushita - Toshimi Yatabe
Katsumi Takahashi - Junichiro Matsumoto
Satoko Oshima - Tomiko Matsumoto
Satomi Tezuka - Ayako Hirose
Tomokazu Miura - Makoto Hirose
Tatsuya Nakadai (Special appearance) - Kentaro Matsumoto

Awards

Notes about other film adaptations
The 2004 film was remade and released in South Korea as My Girl and I on 23 December 2005. It was then released in Japan on 26 August 2006, under its Japanese title, You Are the Center of My World (僕の、世界の中心は、君だ Boku no, Sekai no Chūshin wa, Kimi da).