Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China

The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China (Japanese: , Chinese: 中华人民共和国和日本国和平友好条约, pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó hé Rìběnguó hépíng yǒuhǎo tiáoyuē) is a peace treaty concluded between the People's Republic of China and Japan on August 12, 1978. The treaty was signed in Beijing by Huang Hua (1913 – 2010), Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, and Sunao Sonoda (1913 – 1984), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan. The treaty went into effect on October 23, 1978 with the state visit of Vice Premier of the PRC Deng Xiaoping (1904 – 1997) to Japan.  The treaty had its origin in the Joint Communiqué of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China of 1972. Negotiations on a formal peace treaty began in 1974, but were drawn out over various disputes until 1978. The treaty ultimately consisted of five articles, and was strongly opposed by the Soviet Union.


Susanna Hoffs (album)

Susanna Hoffs is the second solo album by Susanna Hoffs. The style of the album is more folk-oriented than her earlier work. Columbia Records disagreed with this style and dropped her from their roster, resulting in Hoffs signing to London Records.

The album is much more personal and deals with issues like abusive relationships and insecurities; "Weak With Love" is about John Lennon's assassination. The album was promoted by forming a band for an extensive tour.

The album was released to enthusiastic reviews but, like its predecessor, it failed to sell as well as expected.

Track listing

Personnel
Susanna Hoffs – vocals, guitar, producer
David Baerwald – guitar, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals, producer
Jon Brion – guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion, drums
Bill Bink – guitar
Charlotte Caffey – guitar
Jason Falkner – guitar, bass, organ, keyboards, drums, percussion, chimes
David Kitay – guitar, percussion, producer
Larry Klein – guitar, bass
Greg Leisz – guitar
Mark Linkous – guitar, banjo
Linda Perry – guitar, backing vocals
Anders Rundblad – guitar
Jeff Trott – guitar
Davey Faragher – bass, backing vocals
Dan Schwartz – bass
Chris Fudurich – keyboards, assistant engineer
Kevin Gilbert – keyboards
Bruce Kaphan – pedal steel guitar
Bill Bottrell – cello, percussion, backing vocals
Thomas Caffey – strings, engineer
Curt Bisquera – drums, percussion
Lenny Castro – percussion
Mick Fleetwood – drums
Jim Keltner – drums
Brian McCleod – drums, percussion
Jeremy Stacey – drums
Michael Urbano – drums
Julie Christiansen – backing vocals
Sally Djorosky	– backing vocals
Petra Haden – backing vocals
Rachel Haden – backing vocals
Matt Wallace – producer, engineer
Jack Joseph Puig – producer, engineer, mixing
Ken Alydice – engineer
Jim Champagne – engineer, assistant engineer
Paul DuGre – engineer
Jerry Jordan – engineer
Michael Letho – engineer
Clif Norrell – engineer
Jim Scott – engineer
Noel Hazen – assistant engineer
Tom Nellen – assistant engineer
John Paterno – assistant engineer
Phillip Dixon – photography
Matthew Sweet – backing vocals


2014 Asian Junior Badminton Championships – Boys singles

The Boys' Singles tournament of the 2014 Asian Junior Badminton Championships was held from February 19–23 in Taipei, Taiwan. The defending champions of the last edition was Soo Teck Zhi from Malaysia. Aditya Joshi, Jonatan Christie and Zhao Junpeng were the top 3 seeded this year. Shi Yuqi of China emerged as the champion after beat Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan in the finals with the score 19–21, 21–16, 21–16.

Seeded

  Aditya Joshi (Second Round)
  Jonatan Christie (Quarter Final)
  Zhao Junpeng (Semi Final)
  Cheam June Wei (Second Round)
  Shi Yuqi (Champion)
  Pham Cao Cuong (Quarter Final)
  Ryan Ng Zin Rei (Second Round)
  Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (Quarter Final)

Draw

Finals

Top Half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom Half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8


Breach (upcoming film)

Breach (also titled Anti-Life) is an upcoming American-Canadian science fiction action film directed by John Suits and starring Bruce Willis.

Cast
Bruce Willis as Clay Young
Cody Kearsley as Noah
Callan Mulvey as Teek
Kassandra Clementi as Hayley
Rachel Nichols as Chambers
Timothy V. Murphy as Commander Stanley
Angie Pack as Isabella Ortega
Thomas Jane as Admiral
Corey Large as Lincoln
Swen Temmel as Fitzgerald
Ralf Moeller as Vyrl
Elicia Davies as Veronica
Johnny Messner as Blue

Production
Filming wrapped on October 2019.


Invasion of the Pod People

Invasion of the Pod People (released in some countries as Invasion: The Beginning) is a 2007 science-fiction film produced by The Asylum.

Like several other films by The Asylum, Invasion of the Pod People is a mockbuster whose release coincided with the premiere of The Invasion, although the plot of Pod People borrowed heavily from the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, of which The Invasion is a reworking.

Plot
The film is about Melissa (Erica Roby), a young woman living in Los Angeles, who works for a large corporation.

One night, there is a freak meteor shower. The next morning, Melissa goes about her day but as time passes, slowly becomes aware that those around her have changed since the meteorites fell. It's as if their minds are no longer their own. For example, Melissa's supervisor Samantha seduces her into a passionate lesbian encounter, even though Samantha had never shown any signs of being a lesbian.

Melissa soon realizes that the townsfolk have been replaced by a race of aliens known as Pod People. The aliens grow in large seed pods and gradually take the form of a particular person, eventually taking over their bodies once the growth process is complete. The Pod People try to take control of Melissa, but she flees the town to warn humanity of the invasion in progress.

Cast
 Erica Roby - Melissa
 Jessica Bork - Samantha
 Sarah Lieving - Louise
 Danae Nason - Billie
 Shaley Scott - Taylor
 Michael Tower - Vickland
 David Shick - Andrew
 Amanda Ward - Casey
 Marat Glazer - Det. Pete Alexander
 Lorraine Smith - Bailey
 Leigh Scott - Zach
 Elliot Salter - Pawnbroker
 Justin Jones - James
 Nat Magnuson - Photographer

Reception
Stefan Birgir Stefansson of sbs.is heavily criticized the film, writing that it "Looks like it was made by a film student who thinks he's the real deal, even though he can't crasp [sic] how light or sound really works. An idiotic remake that puts everyone involved to shame and perhaps, a place in hell! And yes, pod-people=lesbians..." Dread Central wrote a mixed review, as they felt it was "okay for what it is; an instantly forgettable retread neither deserving of much praise nor scorn."


White Stuff Clothing

White Stuff is a British fashion and lifestyle brand that sells women’s, men’s and kids' clothing, accessories, homeware and gifts in over 120 shops in the United Kingdom, shops in Germany, via mail-order catalogues and through its website. The brand has become known for its traditional British styles, idiosyncratic boutique stores and innovative marketing campaigns.
White Stuff was founded in 1985 when two friends, George Treves and Sean Thomas, decided to form a business to fund their love for skiing. Starting under the name “Boys from the White Stuff”, their printed T-shirts and sweatshirts became instantly popular in the alpine region of Val d'Isère. The pair opened the first White Stuff Clothing store in London in 1991.

History
White Stuff was founded in 1985 by two friends, George Treves and Sean Thomas. Keen skiers, the pair decided to work together to find a way of funding their passion. They devised a business plan to sell T-shirts with abstract motifs that would appeal to skiers. They thought up the name "Boys from the White Stuff" – a play on the title of the popular film and TV series “Boys from the Blackstuff” by Alan Bleasdale. Sean Thomas sold the initial batch of 100 T-shirts very quickly in the company’s inaugural year, while George Treves stayed at home in the UK to work on a course at catering college.

The following season, they began printing sweatshirts as well as T-shirts which, according to Treves, “started to gain Alpine kudos as a grass roots level; it had an aspirational value for holidaymakers who had seen ski workers wearing it”. Treves and Thomas toured the French Alpine ski resort town of Val d'Isère, selling their products in hotels and bars from a suitcase. During the off-seasons, when they could not sell their garments, Treves worked as a decorator and Thomas as a driver.

At the turn of the 21st Century, Treves and Thomas were continuing to design White Stuff’s clothing lines. In February 2004 Thomas and Treves hired Sally Bailey, former Brand Director of Miss Selfridge, to help develop the brand. Over the next five years, Bailey moved the White Stuff label away from its original image as a winter wear retailer to begin focusing on a more bohemian, urban audience. Bailey stepped down from her position as CEO in 2013 and was replaced by Jeremy Seigal, formerly of Watson and The Perfume Shop. In 2018, Jo Jenkins, previously at Marks and Spencer joined the company as CEO.
By 2018, the company had grown to have more than 115 stores across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, including stores in Guernsey and Isle of Man. White Stuff is also available in many House of Fraser and John Lewis stores in the UK, and in Germany as part of Karstadt.

White Stuff Foundation
The White Stuff Foundation was founded in May 2010, in celebration of the company's 25th anniversary. Today the foundation is based in Lambeth, London. White Stuff Clothing stated their aim to fulfil 25 pledges to show White Stuff's social and environmental commitments, and in particular aims at helping disadvantaged young people. The first of the White Stuff’s pledges was the creation of a charitable foundation, into which White Stuff donate 1% of their annual profits.

Currently the White Stuff Foundation supports more than 100 small and local charities in the UK. These are predominantly in the urban areas close to White Stuff's stores and distribution centres, and every branch of White Stuff is partnered with its own charity. The White Stuff Foundation also supports two charities in India and two in Denmark. Donations accepted by the White Stuff Foundation go towards supporting these partner charities.

White Stuff stores are responsible for hosting their own fundraising events. This has led to the creation of many campaigns, including Surf Relief, Give a Gnome a Home, National Wear a Tea Cosy on Your Head Day and Charity Flip Flops, as well as local events, such as bake sales and raffles throughout each year. White Stuff stores will also sell the props used as part of their window displays at the end of every season, with proceeds going to the White Stuff Foundation.

Stores
In 1991, the first White Stuff shop was opened in Clapham, London. White Stuff boutiques are, according to the company website, “more than just shops, they are places where people can meet and socialise.” White Stuff regularly hosts events inside its stores (including the regular White Stuff Book Club), allows customers to bring pets inside with them, and has dedicated areas for children with colouring books and dens. Some White Stuff stores include their own cinemas, pick ‘n’ mix counters and bespoke changing rooms decorated in themed styles.

White Stuff has more than 100 stores including Edinburgh, Nottingham, Manchester and Battersea.


Nalanda Open University

Nalanda Open University (NOU) is a university at Patna in Bihar state, India. It is the only university in Bihar providing education through distance and open education. Nalanda Open University Degree/Diploma /Certificates are eligible for higher studies, public & private sector employment and service promotions. It is recognized by University Grants Commission (UGC). It is a member of Association of Indian Universities which is mainly concerned with the recognition of Degrees/Diplomas awarded by the Universities in India, which are recognized by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, and abroad for the purpose of admission to higher degree courses in Indian Universities. It is an open university which means that it follows an open-door academic policy and is open to everyone for admission with minimum requirements.

It is the second largest open university in India after Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU).

It is at present functioning from its camp office which is located at Biscomaun Bhawan, 2nd,3rd,4th and 12th Floors, Patna-800001. However, it is in the process of setting up its own campus after UGC made it mandatory for all universities in India to have their own campuses. New campus of Nalanda Open University is being constructed at Rajgir, Nalanda, Bihar adjacent to the ancient ruins of Nalanda. The campus is around 40 acres in area with building having 1.10-lakh square feet built up space and it is as per the requirement of UGC. It is expected to be completely built by August 2020.

A tender has been floated by the university for University Automation System(UAS) software which would enable the university to provide most of its services such as registration of students, issue of admit cards, results, verification of degree, students records, study material, etc online. Software is expected to be in force within a year.

History

The university was established in March 1987 by an ordinance issued by the Government of Bihar. It is the only university in the state of Bihar meant for imparting education exclusively through distance education. In 1995, Nalanda Open University Act was passed by the legislature of Bihar replacing the earlier ordinance and this university thereafter came under the authority and jurisdiction of the passed act. It is named after the famous Buddhist Nalanda University of Nalanda, the ancient seat of learning.

Courses
Degree courses at undergraduate level and degree as well as diploma courses at post graduate level are offered. Certificate courses for 6 or 9 months are provided. Nalanda Open University is the only university where courses on Bihari languages (Magahi, Bhojpuri, Maithili) are offered.

Post graduate degree programs

NOU offers a Master of Arts (M.A) in Magahi, Bhojpuri, Rural Development, Economics, Geography, Hindi, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Public Administration, Journalism & Mass Communication, Education and Urdu.

The university offers a Master of Science in Geography, Botany and Mathematics. It offers Master of Computer Application (MCA), Master of Library & Information Science (One Year Course), and Master in Commerce (M.Com).

Post graduate diploma programmes

The university offers post graduate diploma programmes in Marketing Management, Financial Management, Journalism and Mass Communication, Yogic Studies and Disaster Management.

Graduate or degree programmes

The university offers B.A. Honours in Economics, Hindi, History
, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Geography, Tourism, and Home Science

NOU offers Bachelor of Science (Honours) in  Botany, Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, Zoology, and Home Science.

It offers Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Library and Information Science (one-year course), and Bachelor of Computer Applications.

Intermediate programmes

Intermediate of Art
Intermediate of Commerce
Intermediate of Science

Certificate programmes

The university offers a nine-month certificate programme in Computing, Library Science, Clinical Dental Technique, Dental and Oral Hygiene, ECG Technique, Laboratory Technique, Medical Laboratory Technique, Physiotherapy and Yoga Therapy, and Operation Theatre Assistant.

It offers a six-month programme in the languages of Magahi, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Pali, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Urdu and the fields of Disaster Management, Indian Constitution and Panchayati Raj, Abolition of Child Labour, Bio-fertilizer Production, Buddhist Studies, Jain Studies, Child and Women Rights, Child Psychology and Guidance, Christian Studies, Environment Studies, Floriculture Technology, Health and Environment, Food and Nutrition, HIV and Family Education, Insurance Services, Hindu Studies, Islamic Studies, Sikh Studies, Legal awareness among Women, Medicinal and Aromatic Plant, Nutrition and Child Care and Soil Health Management.

NOU also offers a four-week certification programme in Home Usages of Computers.

Schools

School of Computer Education and Information Technology
School of Economics, Commerce and Management
School of Health and Environmental Science
School of Indian and Foreign Languages
School of Indology
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
School of Library and Information Science
School of Pure and Agricultural Sciences
School of Social Sciences
School of Teacher's Education

Recognition
NOU is a state open university duly established by an act of legislature of Bihar and is recognised by Distance Education Council, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi.

Nalanda Open University Degree/Diploma /Certificates are eligible for higher studies, public & private sector employment and service promotions.


Anderson–Carlson Building

The Anderson–Carlson Building is a historic six-flat apartment building in the West Ridge community area of Chicago, Illinois. George E. Carlson and F. Anderson commissioned the building, which was completed in 1928 and owned by Anderson's family for the first 27 years of its existence. The building was designed by Godfrey E. Larson, a Chicago architect who later worked as a field representative for the Public Works Administration. The apartment was built in the Spanish Baroque Revival style, which can be seen in the pilasters and swan's-neck pediment in its entryway and the two windows designed to resemble balconies. While many six-flat apartments were constructed in West Ridge and neighboring Rogers Park in the 1920s, the Anderson–Carlson Building is the only one designed in the Spanish Baroque Revival style and one of the few with a highly detailed design. The building has been largely unaltered since its construction; with the exception of one window, every major feature of the building is still present, and five of its six apartments have maintained their original design. On November 15, 2003, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.


Veeravalli S. Varadarajan

Veeravalli Seshadri Varadarajan (18 May 1937 – 25 April 2019) was an Indian mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles, who worked in many areas of mathematics, including probability, Lie groups and their representations, quantum mechanics, differential equations, and supersymmetry.

Biography

Varadarajan's father, Seshadri, was an Inspector of Schools in the Department of Education. He was transferred to Madras and there the medium of instruction was generally English. After his high school studies, Varadarajan joined Intermediate for two years at Loyola College, Madras where he was taught mathematics by K.A. Adivarahan, a very strict disciplinarian who made a strong impression on Varadarajan. Varadarajan received his undergraduate degree in 1957 from Presidency College, Madras and his doctorate in 1960 from the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta, under the supervision of C. R. Rao. He was one of the "famous four" at the Indian Statistical Institute during 1956-1963 (the others being
R. Ranga Rao, K. R. Parthasarathy, and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan). In 1960, after his doctorate, Varadarajan went to Princeton University as a post-doctoral fellow and in the Fall of 1960 he went to the University of Washington, Seattle where he spent the academic year, followed by a year at the Courant Institute at NYU, after which he returned to the Indian Statistical Institute in 1962.  He joined the Department of Mathematics at UCLA in 1965.  Varadarajan was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study during the periods September 1968 until December 1968 and January 1976 until June 1976 .  In March 2019, it was announced by UCLA that Varadarajan and his wife had donated $1 million to the Department of Mathematics at UCLA to establish the Ramanujan Visiting Professorship.

Contributions

Varadarajan's early work, including his doctoral thesis, was in the area of probability theory. He then moved into representation theory where he has done some of his best known work. In the 1980s, he wrote a series of papers with Donald Babbitt on the theory of differential equations with irregular singularities. His latest work has been in supersymmetry.

He introduced Kostant–Parthasarathy–Ranga Rao–Varadarajan determinants along with Bertram Kostant, K. R. Parthasarathy and R. Ranga Rao in 1967, the Trombi–Varadarajan theorem in 1972 and the Enright–Varadarajan modules in 1975.

Recognition

He was awarded the Onsager Medal in 1998 for his work. He was recognized along with 23 Indian and Indian American members "who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics" by the Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program in 1 November 2012.

Bibliography
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Varadarajan, Veeravalli S. Supersymmetry for mathematicians: an introduction. Vol. 11. American Mathematical Society, 2004.

Varadarajan, Veeravalli S. Geometry of quantum theory. Springer Science+Business Media, 2007.


Sagrada Família (Barcelona Metro)

Sagrada Família is a metro station in Barcelona Metro network. It is named after the famous, and adjacent, Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, a church first designed by architect Antoni Gaudí and still under construction. It is served by TMB-operated Barcelona Metro lines L2 and L5.

The station takes the form of two separate sections linked by a corridor within the paid area of the station complex. Both sections also have their own street entrances:

 The L2 section is located under Marina street, between Mallorca and Provença streets and has two accesses, one at each side of the station. The upper level has two halls. The trains run on the lower level that has two platforms, one bigger than the other one.
 The L5 section is located under Provença street, between Sardenya and Marina streets. The upper level has two halls and is equipped with a TMB Information Center and commercial areas. The trains run on the lower level.

The L5 section of the station was the first to open, with the opening, in 1970, of the line between Diagonal and Sagrera. The L2 section followed in 1995, with the opening of the line between Sant Antoni and this station.

Gallery

External links

Information about L2 metro station at TMB
Information about L5 metro station at TMB
Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona
Information about L2 metro station at Trenscat.com
Information about L5 metro station at Trenscat.com


Nepenthes sanguinea

Nepenthes sanguinea (; from Latin sanguineus "blood red") is a large and vigorous Nepenthes pitcher plant species, native to Peninsular Malaysia and southernmost Thailand, where it grows at 300–1800 metres (1000 to 6000 feet) altitude. The pitchers are variable in size, from 10–30 cm (4 to 12 inches) tall, and range from green and yellow to orange and red. The insides of the pitchers are usually speckled with its two main colors. It was introduced to Victorian Britain around 1847 by Cornish plant hunter and botanist Thomas Lobb via the Veitch Nurseries.

Cultivation
This highland pitcher plant can be grown on a windowsill or in partly shaded areas outside, as well as in a terrarium, provided that it is large enough to accommodate this Nepenthes.

Natural hybrids
? N. albomarginata × N. sanguinea
 N. macfarlanei × N. sanguinea
 N. ramispina × N. sanguinea


Sons Ltd

The Soul of North Staffs Recording & Publishing or Sons is an independent record label based in Stoke-on-Trent. The company was formed in 2004 by Neil Graham, Seb Clarke, Al Padmore, James Wakefield and Tangwyn Davies. The label consists solely of bands native to the North Staffordshire area and has become a noted figure both locally and nationally, having recently received attention from Steve Lamacq and Huw Stephens (6music, BBC Radio 1) as well as Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie (BBC Radio 2) SONS has earned comparisons to Factory Records for its DIY ethic and its unique 'SONS sound'.

Associated bands
This Is Seb Clarke
The Novellos
The Title
Tommy Turbo & The Turbervilles
La Dies
The Rough Charm
The Fortunas
Friends of Ken

The label has been noted for coining their own 'SONS Sound'. All of the bands use the labels in-house basement studio situated Hanley, Staffordshire. Their releases are recorded using a tape unit giving the tracks their own raw energy and endearing warm quality. The 'SONS Sound' has been likened to that of the Motown and Soul records of the 1960s and 1970s.

SONS Showcase Nights
The label regularly hosts large showcase events in the centre of Stoke-on-Trent. These events feature all of the bands on the SONS roster as well as DJs such as Steve Lamacq, Chris Hawkins, and Jon Kennedy. These showcase nights have become a regular marker in the Stoke Music calendar and a centrepiece for the burgeoning scene. The showcases have earned an infamous insignia both in the local and national radar thanks to the late night antics of the audience, band members, special guests and the NME coverage of the events.

The first SONS Showcase took place at the King's Hall and featured DJ slots from Andy Rourke of The Smiths, Huw Stephens, Russ Winstanley the Northern Soul Legend. Since then there have been a further three showcase nights which have taken place at the Victoria Hall in Hanley. These have been hosted by, amongst others: Carl Barât, Alexa Chung, Colin Murray and Phill Jupitus. The showcase was the label's most successful to date; they now have another showcase planned for late 2010.

Chart Success
SONS' first chart success came with the simultaneous release of 3 singles in January of 2007 by This Is Seb Clarke, Friends of Ken and The Title. These singles charted respectively at 7, 9 and 15 in the UK Independent Chart and received national airplay across 6music and Radio 1.

In March 2008 the label once again released 4 singles simultaneously, all of which entered into the top 5 of the UK Independent Chart in their first week of release: This Is Seb Clarke, the label's longest serving signees marked the label's highest chart position to date, knocking The Futureheads off the number 1 spot. However, due to the label's financial constraints, only 1000 copies of each single were pressed, leading to all singles dropping out of the top 40 a week later due to lack of physical stock.

Full release details
SONSTISC000001 This Is Seb Clarke - Rover
SONSTISC0002   This Is Seb Clarke - Spring Morning Sunshine]
SONSTITL0003   The Title - Slippin' and Slidin'
SONSTISC0004   This Is Seb Clarke - I Just Can't Carry On
SONSFROK0005   Friends of Ken - Backwards
SONSTITL0006   The Title - Madman
SONSNOVS0001   The Novellos - The  Lady is Not for Turning
SONSRAPH0001   Raphaels - Charming Man
SONSTISC0005   This Is Seb Clarke - Rock n' Roll Alamo Part 7
SONSNOVS0002   The Novellos - Not So Sure
SONSTISC0011   This Is Seb Clarke - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
SONSTTTT0012   Tommy Turbo & The Turbervilles - (Her Name Is) Sophie


Battle of Nuremberg (2006 FIFA World Cup)

The Battle of Nuremberg (, ; also known as Massacre of Nuremberg) is the nickname of a football match played in the Round of 16 of the 2006 FIFA World Cup between Portugal and the Netherlands at the Frankenstadion in Nuremberg on 25 June 2006. Russian referee Valentin Ivanov issued a FIFA World Cup record four red cards and 16 yellow cards, setting a new record for cards shown at any FIFA-administered international tournament.

The match
Portugal and the Netherlands had met at the semi-final stage of the previous major tournament, UEFA Euro 2004 held in Portugal, which had finished 2–1 to the host nation, but had not featured the same level of animosity between the players. A total of five Dutch and eleven Portuguese players who took some part in that fixture were also on the field in Nuremberg. The match ended 1–0 to Portugal, with Maniche scoring in the 23rd minute; he had also scored the winning goal in 2004.

Mark van Bommel was booked in the second minute, and also before the goal Dutch defender Khalid Boulahrouz was booked for a foul which injured Cristiano Ronaldo and would eventually force the substitution of Portugal's star winger before half time. Ronaldo, uncharacteristically, left in tears, and proceeded to describe Boulahrouz's tackle as "clearly an intentional foul to get me injured." In the meantime, Maniche had been booked for a foul on Van Bommel after 19 minutes.

Shortly after the goal, Portugal's defensive midfielder Costinha slid into Dutch veteran Philip Cocu, receiving a yellow card. He was then the first to be sent off just before half time after being shown a second yellow card for a handball. After Petit had been cautioned in the 50th minute, Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Luís Figo both received yellow cards, with Figo's coming as a result of a touchline melee with Mark Van Bommel during which Figo headbutted him. Portugal manager Luiz Felipe Scolari controversially gave his approval to this headbutt by stating after the match, "Jesus Christ may be able to turn the other cheek but Luís Figo isn't Jesus Christ."

Boulahrouz was sent off in the 63rd minute with a second caution after fouling Figo, which sparked a melee on the touch-line, involving Boulahrouz (who confronted Simão), André Ooijer and the Portuguese bench, necessitating the intervention of the fourth official Marco Rodríguez. Portugal's playmaker Deco roughly fouled Dutch defender John Heitinga and was booked; the Netherlands had not given the ball back after Portugal had cleared it into touch to allow a player to receive medical treatment, thus breaking one of football's unwritten rules. In the ensuing brawl, Wesley Sneijder pushed Petit to the ground and was also cautioned. The Netherlands' Rafael van der Vaart received a yellow card, apparently for dissent.

After that, Portugal's goalkeeper Ricardo (presumably for time wasting) and left-back Nuno Valente (for a rough foul) were punished. Deco received his second caution and was dismissed in the 78th minute for delaying the restart after a free-kick was awarded. Cocu escaped a caution for wrestling Deco to the ground in his attempt to retrieve the ball. In the 88th minute, Simão drew the ire of the Dutch goalie Edwin van der Sar after the Portuguese player's leg made contact with the custodian in his attempt to score a goal, but the referee decided against taking any disciplinary action. In injury time, Van Bronckhorst was sent off for a second yellow card for a foul on Tiago.

A scene was shown on television footage during the match in which Boulahrouz, Deco, and Van Bronckhorst were sitting together on the sidelines after being sent off, the latter two having a discussion, both being teammates at FC Barcelona. Commentator Gary Bloom referred to the scene as the "Bad boys' corner".

Aftermath

In the aftermath of the match, referee Ivanov was criticised by FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who suggested that Ivanov should have given himself a yellow card for his poor performance during the match. Blatter later regretted these words and promised to apologise officially.

When Portugal faced England in the subsequent quarter-final, they were without the suspended Deco and Costinha. Portugal managed to reach the semi-finals. However, they had two players suspended for that match due to accumulated yellow cards (including the ones against the Netherlands).

Match details


Reputation (Dusty Springfield album)

Reputation is the thirteenth studio album by British singer Dusty Springfield, and twelfth released. Issued on the Parlophone Records label in the UK and the rest of Europe in June 1990, Reputation was not only Springfield's first studio album in eight years at the time but also her first album to be released in her native UK since 1979's Living Without Your Love. After a string of commercially overlooked albums through the late 1970s and early 1980s Reputation finally managed to resurrect Springfield's career and belatedly resulted in her being re-evaluated and recognised by both music critics and the general public as the UK's foremost 'blue-eyed soul' singer. Mainly produced by Pet Shop Boys and Julian Mendelsohn and recorded in the UK over a period of some eighteen months, Reputation became her highest charting and best-selling album in the UK since 1970's From Dusty with Love, peaking at No. 18 and selling 60,000 copies within two weeks of its release.

Background
In late 1987, Springfield was beginning to look back towards the UK as a source of recording work, due in large part to her collaboration with Pet Shop Boys on their single "What Have I Done to Deserve This?". Pet Shop Boys had contacted Springfield's manager to ask if Springfield would perform guest vocals on the duet. Being a fan of their work, Springfield accepted the offer and the song became a massive hit all over the world, peaking at No. 2 in both the UK and the United States, which proved to be the biggest hit of her career in the US. This renewed Springfield's confidence in recording, as well as interest in her work from the general public, and led to another hit single "Nothing Has Been Proved", also written by Pet Shop Boys with Springfield in mind. The song was written for the movie Scandal, an account of the so-called Profumo affair of 1963, starring Joanne Whalley and John Hurt. "Nothing Has Been Proved" made the Top 20 in Britain, and led to yet another hit single, "In Private", which peaked at No. 14 on the British charts. Despite the fact that "In Private" never was commercially released in the US it managed to become a dance-floor hit in the States as well, peaking at No. 14 on Billboard'''s Hot Dance Club Play chart in early 1990. Both singles were included on Reputation, and Pet Shop Boys collaborated with Springfield on half the album's tracks, which made up side B of the original vinyl edition. Side A included tracks produced by the Pet Shop Boys' longtime collaborator Andy Richards, Swing Out Sister producer Paul Staveley O'Duffy and Dan Hartman. Three of these titles were also mixed by the Pet Shop Boys' co-producer Julian Mendelsohn. Critics gave Reputation very favourable reviews, saying it was a long overdue return to form for Springfield, and the album spawned two further single releases, the title track "Reputation" and the ballad "Arrested by You", written by Rupert Hine and Jeanette Obstoj.

Dan Hartman contributed to the production of three songs from the album; "Send It to Me," "Time Waits for No One" and "Born This Way". "Time Waits for No One" was written by Hartman and Holly Knight. He also played various instruments and provided backing vocals. In a 1990 interview with Springfield, she revealed "Certainly the record company wanted to keep it as much in this country as possible. They finally relented on Dan Hartman, but basically they wanted it to be as British as possible." The three songs were produced at Hartman's own Multi Level Studios, located within his riverside home in Connecticut. Both Springfield and her close friend Helene Sellery stayed at his home during the sessions, which were reported to be slower than anticipated as Hartman was as fussy as Springfield about her vocals, and stopped and started her over and over again.

Release
The Reputation album was, in late 1990, followed by the video collection Reputation – The Videos, released on VHS in the UK and Europe by EMI's subsidiary Picture Music International, including the promo videos for "Nothing Has Been Proved", "In Private", "Reputation", "Arrested by You", interviews with Springfield, as well as a fifth animated promo video for the album track "I Want to Stay Here".

The Reputation album was first released in the US in 1997, then under the title Reputation and Rarities''.

An expanded version of the album, including multiple mixes and tracks recorded but not included on the original album, was released in August 2016 on Cherry Red Records. The 3 disc set includes videos.

Track listing

Personnel
 Simon Bell – backing vocals track: A1, A4,
 Andy Caine – backing vocals track: A1
 Brian Spence  – backing vocals track: A1
 Lance Ellington – backing vocals track: A1
 Andy Richards – keyboards track: A1
 Dan Hartman – all instruments except sax solo track A2, all instruments, programming & backing vocals track A4, additional overdubs & vocals track A5
 Crispin Cioe – saxophone solo track A2
 Claudia Fontaine – backing vocals track A3
 Paul Staveley O'Duffy – drum programming track A3
 Phil Palmer – guitar track A3
 Jean de Aguir – keyboards track A3
 Will Mowat – keyboards track A3
 Luís Jardim – percussion track A3
 Snake Davis – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone track A3
 Sylvia Mason-James – backing vocals track A4
 Geoffrey Williams – programming, vocal harmonies track A5
 Fonzi Thornton – backing vocals track A5
 Tawatha Agee – backing vocals track A5
 Vaneese Thomas – backing vocals track A5
 Jingles – bass guitar track A5
 Michael Graves – organ track A5
 Simon Stirling – programming track A5
 Carol Kenyon – backing vocals track B1
 Katie Kissoon – backing vocals track B1
 Gary Maughan – Fairlight programming & keyboards track B1, Fairlight programming track B3
 Jay Henry – vocals track B2
 Neil Tennant – vocals track B3
 Angelo Badalamenti – orchestral conductor track B3
 Courtney Pine – saxophone track B3
 Tessa Niles – backing vocals track B4

Production
 Andy Richards – record producer track A1
 Peter Jones – sound engineer, mix track A1
 Paul Wright – assistant engineer track A1, sound engineer track B3
 Michael Ade – mix assistant track A1
 Richard Arnold – mix assistant track A1, A2
 Steve Fitzmaurice  – mix assistant track A1
 Dan Hartman – producer track A2, producer, arranger & mix track A4, producer track A5
 Rico Conning – sound engineer track A2, track A4
 Jeremy Wheatley – assistant engineer track A2
 Tom Lord-Alge – mix track A2
 Paul Staveley O'Duffy – producer & engineer track A3
Holly Knight – arranger track A4
 Geoffrey Williams – arranger track A5
 Simon Stirling – arranger track A5
 Tim Hunt – sound engineer track A5
 Dave Ogrin – mix track A5
 Pet Shop Boys – producers tracks B1-B5
 Julian Mendelsohn – producer tracks B1-B5, sound engineer track B1, mix tracks A2, A3, A4
 Danton Supple – assistant engineer tracks B1, B2
 Ren Swan – sound engineer track B2
 Angelo Badalamenti – orchestral arrangement track B3
 Dave Eden – assistant engineer track B3
 David Jacobs – assistant engineer track B5
 Track B3 recorded at Sarm West Studios, London, November 1988
 Track B1 recorded at Sarm West, May 1989
 Track B2, B4 & B5 recorded at Sarm West, between August and November 1989
 Track A3 recorded at Mayfair Recording Studios (London), mixed by Julian Mendelsohn at Sarm West, between August and November 1989
 Track A1 recorded at Townhouse Recording Studios and Sarm West (UK), late 1989/early 1990
 Track A2 recorded at Townhouse Recording Studios and Sarm West (UK), additional recording at Multi-Level (US), mixed by Tom Lord-Alge at The Hit Factory (NY), late 1989/early 1990
 Track A4 recorded at Multi-Level (US), Townhouse Recording Studios (UK), mixed by Julian Mendelsohn at Sarm West (UK), late 1989/early 1990
 Track A5 recorded at Marcus Studios & Townhouse Recording Studios (UK), additional overdubs and vocals at Multi-Level (US), mixed by Dave (O) Origin at The Hit Factory, February 1990.

Chart performance

Singles

 Official promo singles for "Born this Way" and "Daydreaming" were released to radio and clubs.

Certifications

Sources

 Howes, Paul (2001). The Complete Dusty Springfield. London: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. .
 O'Brien, Lucy (1988, 2000): Dusty. London: Pan Books Ltd. .
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Corrado Hérin

Corrado Hérin (4 August 1966 – 31 March 2019) was an Italian luger and mountain bike racer. He died on 31 March 2019 in an ultralight flight accident in Torgnon, Italy.

Biography
Originally from Fénis, Aosta Valley, he competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. A natural track luger, he won four medals at the FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships with two gold in the doubles (1986, 1992) and two silvers at the 1990 event (singles, doubles).

Hérin also won three medals in the men's doubles event at the FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships with one gold (1993) and two silvers (1985, 1987).

Hérin was involved with mountain biking during his career in luge during the 1990s, winning a bronze medal in the downhill event at the 1994 World Mountain Biking Championships in Vail, Colorado. He remained active in mountain biking from 1997 to 2002 after retiring from luge.

He won the UCI mountain bike Downhill World cup in 1997 racing for the Sintesi Verlicchi team. In 2016 he returned to racing at the age of 50 and won the Mountain Bike Downhill Masters World Championships in Val Di Sole, Italy.


Mia (Bad Bunny song)

"Mia" (stylized in upper case; English: "Mine") is a song by Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny featuring vocals from Canadian rapper Drake. The song was released through Rimas Entertainment, OVO Sound and Warner Bros. Records on October 11, 2018 as the second single from his debut studio album, X 100pre (2018). It was written by Benito Martinez, Aubrey Graham, Edgar Semper Vargas, Elvin Peña, Francis Diaz, Henry Pulman, Luian Malave Nieves, Joseph Negron Velez, Noah Assad and Xavier Semper Vargas, and produced by DJ Luian and Mambo Kingz.

"Mia" peaked at number five on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Bunny's first top 10 single on the chart as a lead artist and Drake's 26th. The song also topped the charts in Spain, and reached the top 10 in Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland and Venezuela; as well as the top 20 in France, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Background
On January 25, 2018, Bad Bunny teased the song and posted a snippet on Instagram. Shortly before the release of the song, Drake posted a picture of himself posing on the set of the video. It is the first song on which Drake sings entirely in Spanish.

Music video
The song's accompanying music video was released on October 11, 2018 and was directed by Fernando Lugo.

Personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.
 Greg Moffett – assistant mixing engineering
 Les Bateman – engineering
 Lindsay Warner – engineering
 David Castro – engineering
 Chris Athens – mastering
 Noah Shebib – mixing
 Noel Campbell – mixing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history


Anderson High School, Lerwick

The Anderson High School (AHS) is a comprehensive secondary school in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland.

The AHS is the largest school in Shetland with around 80 staff and about 700-800 pupils from age 11 to 18.

Pupils transfer to the AHS from other schools. Pupils also transfer from Junior High Schools after S4 (age 16), leading to more pupils in S5 than in S4.

In 2005, the school was awarded Schools of Ambition status.

History

The school was founded by Arthur Anderson and officially opened in 1861. The school has had two different names;

 AEI Anderson Educational Institute
 AHS Anderson High School


André Pochan

André Pochan (1891 in Fourmies, France – ?) was a French physicist and mathematician and Egyptology enthusiast. He taught at Cairo High School from 1930 to 1937. In 1934 he investigated the coloration of the Khufu and Khafra pyramids. Deported to Mauthausen in 1943, he survived the death camps and, as such, he was awarded the Medal of the Resistance and Commander of the Legion of Honor. His main research focused on the Egyptian pyramids, especially the pyramid of Cheops, and he became known as a "highly independent pyramid scholar". His research was highly criticized by the Egyptologist Jean-Philippe Lauer. In 1971 he published L 'Enigme de la Grande Pyramide (Robert Laffont, Paris).


Ænema

"Ænema" is a song by rock band Tool, released as the third single from their second major-label release Ænima. Adam Jones made a video for the song using stop-motion animation; it is included in the Salival box set. The song reached number twenty-five on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in August 1997.

The song makes extensive use of hemiola, a musical technique in which the emphasis in a triple meter is changed to give the illusion that both a duple and a triple meter occur in the song.

The song is cast in terminally climactic form, in which two verse/chorus pairs give way to a climactic ending on new material.

Lyrical references
Keenan incorporates into the lyrics part of comedian Bill Hicks' sketch "Goodbye You Lizard Scum" from his album Arizona Bay by stating the line "learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay." Hicks appears in the liner notes/sleeve as a doctor, and a lenticular image below the case tray illustrates a large portion of California disappearing leaving only the Pacific Ocean, as is mentioned in the song. California falling into the sea is a prediction made by Edgar Cayce, also known as "The Sleeping Prophet," about the end of days in which California and New York are to sink into the ocean among a plethora of other devastating weather changes.

In general, the song is a diatribe against celebrity culture, particularly around Los Angeles. This includes everything from the Church of Scientology (with the line "Fuck L. Ron Hubbard and fuck all his clones"), to possibly rappers ("gun-toting hip gangster wannabes"), to drug addicts, Hollywood executives and actresses whom Maynard views as scum and wishes would all be flushed down the proverbial toilet.

The title of the song is an amalgam of the words "Anima", "Enema" and perhaps also "Æon".  "Æon" is featured in the works of Aleister Crowley. "Anima", Carl Jung's concept of the female persona found in males, is evoked by Keenan in the lines:

Also:

Learn to swim.

In addition to being a humorous aside, this line can be seen as a metaphoric command to abandon the materialism Keenan sees in Angeleno culture and learn to navigate the 'feminine' unconscious.  The ocean is a traditional symbol for the 'feminine' (mother ocean, etc.) and also for the vast latent psychological energies postulated in the models of Freud and Jung:

In this sense, the 'ground' can be seen as the 'Ego' in Freud's terminology.  Here the 'Ego' has become hopelessly corrupted and needs to be subsumed, drowned and absorbed by the unconscious so it can be resurrected in a new form on the shores of 'Arizona Bay'. This point was reiterated on Tool's follow up album in the song "Reflection": "I must crucify the ego before it's far too late"

The occult use of the word "Enema" in the title again poetically communicates what Keenan believes to be the 'shithole' nature of the culture of Los Angeles that can only be cured by destructive and ultimately transformative 'feminine' energy.

Just when Maynard's ranting becomes hopelessly misanthropic and no interpretation is possible but that of a prayer for an old testament-scale destruction of a modern-day Sodom by a great Goddess, Keenan gives the listener a hint to the metaphorical nature of the language:

During the period the song was written, Keenan abandoned Los Angeles for Arizona – ironically a landscape with even less literal water/rain/tidal forces than Los Angeles – which is perhaps another hint that Keenan's apocalyptic deluge is symbolic: the ending of one consciousness/value system/Weltanschauung and the emergence of a new one.  One possible interpretation is that the lyrics are nothing more than a description of a purely internal drama during a transitional time in the author's life.

Music video
Adam Jones directed the video for "Ænema" which features stop-motion animation with art design by Cam de Leon.  The video revolves around a humanoid figure with alien-like features. Throughout the video the character ventures through an aquatic world. A hose-like organ (resembling an umbilical cord) which squirts out water protrudes from its abdomen and fills the room in which the figure stands. Towards the end of the video a human character wearing business attire tosses the figure in a water-filled box.

Track listing

Awards
Tool received the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for "Ænema", at the 40th Grammy Awards in 1998.

Chart performance


Phymatura

Phymatura is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 2 described species in Phymatura.

Species
 Phymatura blanchardi
 Phymatura brevicollis (Kraatz, 1857)


Qujur-e Sofla

Qujur-e Sofla (, also Romanized as Qūjūr-e Soflá) is a village in Charuymaq-e Markazi Rural District, in the Central District of Charuymaq County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 51, in 10 families.


Jarrod Atkinson

Jarrod Atkinson is an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon. He began the 2008 season on the rookie list but was elevated to the senior list to replace Andrew Lovett and debuted in round 7.

Jarrod Atkinson was a mature-age draftee aged 23 when he was picked up by Essendon in the 2007 rookie draft after impressing selectors as a defender in the VFL with the Bendigo Bombers in that same year.

He started the 2008 season showing great potential playing in the pre-season cup where his size and speed suggested he could succeed at the elite level. Jarrod also showed he is out to make the most of his opportunity at Essendon by breaking the Club's sprint record over 20m with a time of 2.73 Seconds previously jointly held by Alwyn Davey, Courtenay Dempsey and Leroy Jetta.

Atkinson's efforts were rewarded by being promoted to the senior list in April 2008 after Scott Lucas was placed on the long-term injury list. He played his debut game for Essendon, along with fellow debutants, Darcy Daniher and David Myers, in Round 7 against Port Adelaide at the Dome. He finished the year playing five senior games.

He played a further five games in 2009 and seven in 2010.

He was delisted by the club before the 2011 season.


The Day the Music Died (disambiguation)

The Day the Music Died is a February 3, 1959, plane crash in which Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper died.

The Day the Music Died may also refer to:
"American Pie", a song by Don McLean, where the phrase is featured at the end of each verse
The Day the Music Died (album), an album by Beneath the Sky
The Day the Music Died (radio), a BBC musical/comedy series
The Day the Music Died, a novel by Joseph C. Smith


Lump in My Throat

"Lump in My Throat" is a song from The Departure's debut album, Dirty Words. It was released as the lead single from that album on 4 April 2005, and reached #30 in the UK Singles Chart.

Track listing
7" R6659
"Lump in My Throat" - 3:20
"The City Blurs Your Eyes"
CD CDR6659
"Lump in My Throat" - 3:20
"Under the Stairs"
Maxi-CD CDRS6659
"Lump in My Throat" - 3:20
"Lump in My Throat" (James Ford remix)
"Be My Enemy" (Lamacq Live session)
"Lump in My Throat" (video)

External links
Video link


Achatinella lila

Achatinella lila is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinellidae. This species is endemic to the northern Ko‘olau Mountains, Oahu.

Shell description
Its shells are glossy, colorful yellow and green.

The shell is sinistral, ovate-conic, thin but strong, nearly smooth, brilliantly glossy. The shell has 5.5 whorls. The embryonic whorls are burnt sienna brown (weathering to
whitish in adult shells), or sometimes there is a light median zone. The last whorl has either a uniform blackish chestnut, or a chestnut peripheral band and baso-columellar patch on a yellow ground, or like the last but with a green band midway between periphery and suture, or with sutural and peripheral bands and a baso-columellar patch of yellow on a chestnut ground. There are also a few specimens more or less intermediate between these patterns.

The aperture is moderately oblique, and colored white or faintly lilac within. The peristome is acute, and slightly or not thickened within. The columellar fold is strong, and is colored purple or white.

The height of the shell is 17.0 mm. The width of the shell is 11.0 mm.

Conservation
Achatinella lila is the first Hawaiian achatinelline to be reintroduced from captive stocks, a significant milestone in the conservation of the endemic gastropod fauna of the islands. Achatinellines have long generation lengths, caused by slow maturity (5 years) and reproductive rates (1-7 offspring per year depending on the species). The snails also have significantly long lifespans (>10 years), making these species particularly prone to population declines as a result of invasive predators, habitat alteration, and over-collection. Prior to the modern reintroductions, the species was limited to a single wild population in the Ko'olau Mountains of Oahu. Six snails from the imperiled population were taken in 1997, and along with their offspring were grown until introductions were possible, in numbers of 50 snails per cohort. Frequent photograph-based identification monitoring occurs, along with searches for shells of dead individuals. Future conservation measures include continued monitoring and augmentation of the current population with new cohorts.


Scouting and Guiding in Spain

The Scout Movement in Spain consists of about 30 independent associations, most of them active on the regional level. Due to the regionalisation of Spain, even the larger nationwide associations are divided into regional sub-associations with individual emblems, uniforms and Scout programs.

Associations
Spanish Scout associations are divided in three organizational groups:
Associations affiliated to the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
Associations affiliated to the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)
Independent organizations, including a number of members of the smaller international umbrella organizations.

WOSM member organizations
The Federación de Escultismo en España is the National Scout Organization within WOSM. It serves 58,744 Scouts (as of 2004) and consists of three member organizations:
Federación de Scouts-Exploradores de España (full member; interreligious; ASDE)); its sub-associations include
Scouts de Canarias
Movimiento Scout Católico (full member; Catholic; MSC)
Federació Catalana d'Escoltisme i Guiatge (observer; Federation of Catalan Scouts and Guides); its member organizations are
Acció Escolta de Catalunya (interreligious; also affiliated to ASDE; WOSM-Member only)
Escoltes Catalans (secular)
Minyons Escoltes i Guies Sant Jordi de Catalunya (Catholic).

WAGGGS member organizations
Spanish Guiding is affiliated to WAGGGS via the Comité de Enlace del Guidismo en España, an umbrella federation serving 7.154 members (as of 2003). The Comité has two member organizations; both are again umbrella federations:
Federación Española de Guidismo
Asociación Guías de Aragón
Associació Guiatge Valenciá
Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca
Euskal Eskaut Gia Elkartea
Federació Catalana d'Escoltisme i Guiatge
Escoltes Catalans
 Minyons Escoltes i Guies de Catalunya

Independent Scout organizations
Independent (or non-aligned) Scout organizations in Spain include:
Asociación Española de Guías y Scouts de Europa (500 members; Catholic); affiliated to the Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe
WFIS en España; affiliated to the World Federation of Independent Scouts; with three regional members:
Associació Catalana de Scouts
Asociación de Scouts Independientes de Madrid
Asociación Galega de Escultismo, Breogán Scouts
Asociación de Guías y Scouts ASA - Andalucía
Federación de Asociaciones Scouts Baden-Powell
Asociación Juvenil De Escultismo Andaluz
Centre Marista d'Escoltes
Federación Scout Regional de Madrid

Past organizations

Scouts Hispanos

Scouts Hispanos was a Spanish Catholic Scouting organization created in Madrid by the priest Jesús Martínez in 1934, which had some social impact and was adopted in other cities, but was cut short with the advent of the Spanish Civil War.

International Scout and Guide units in Spain
Boy Scouts of America, served by the Transatlantic Council in Madrid and Rota
Girlguiding UK, served by British Guides in Foreign Countries
Girl Scouts of the USA, served by USAGSO headquarters
The Scout Association served by British Scouting Overseas, operates units in Fuengirola and Madrid
Scouts et Guides de France operates one group in Barcelona

Emblems

Scout-like organizations
Organización Juvenil Española


Long Marston railway station

Long Marston railway station was a station at Long Marston, Warwickshire on the Great Western Railway line between  and , which became part of the Great Western Railway's new main line between Birmingham and Cheltenham.

History
The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway opened a single track branch line from Honeybourne to Stratford on 12 July 1859. Long Marston station was opened just south of the village. The OW&WR became part of the Great Western Railway, which in 1908 upgraded the route into a double-track main line.

In 1966 British Railways withdrew passenger services from Long Marston station. Freight services through Long Marston continued until 1976, when the track between Long Marston and Stratford was lifted.

Long Marston Depot

The track between Honeybourne and Long Marston remains open for non-passenger trains to and from Long Marston depot, which was built as a Ministry of Defence facility known as Long Marston Central Engineering Park. Since the privatisation of British Rail in the mid-1990s, rolling stock companies (ROSCOs) have used it to store out-of-lease rolling stock. The site is secure and secluded to minimise the risk of vandalism.

The Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway Society was based at the former MoD depot, but in 2011 moved its stock elsewhere.

Long Marston Military Railway
In 2014, it was announced that a volunteer-run working military railway would be created on the site of the former Ministry of Defence depot. The Long Marston Military Railway project sought to keep alive military railway skills, such as re-railing of trains, as well as locomotive driving and track laying, following the disbanding of the British Army's last railway unit, the Royal Logistic Corps 275 Railway Squadron, in March 2014 as a result of Government defence cuts. The 79 Railway Squadron had been disbanded in 2012.

A "Military Railfest" was planned for 6–10 May 2015 and was expected to include about 20 former army locomotives. Barclay 0-4-0DM Mulberry was already at Long Marston and was joined by USATC S160 Class 2-8-0 number 3278 on 22 April 2014. The project had been using the shed vacated by the Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway.

In March 2015, it was reported that the project had collapsed and that the majority of the site would be redeveloped for housing, with sidings retained for the storage of London Underground District line stock for Vivarail's conversion into diesel multiple units.


Stupno

Stupno   is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D36 highway.


Cameron Gibson

Cameron Gibson (born 14 August 1982 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand swimming competitor. He won a bronze medal in the 200m backstroke at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in a time of 2:00.72 minutes.

He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics.  In the latter he swam the final, freestyle, leg for the New Zealand team which finish fifth in the final of Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay.


Entoprocta

Entoprocta whose name means "anus inside", or Kamptozoa, is a phylum of mostly sessile aquatic animals, ranging from  long. Mature individuals are goblet-shaped, on relatively long stalks. They have a "crown" of solid tentacles whose cilia generate water currents that draw food particles towards the mouth, and both the mouth and anus lie inside the "crown". The superficially similar Bryozoa (Ectoprocta) have the anus outside a "crown" of hollow tentacles. Most families of entoprocts are colonial, and all but 2 of the 150 species are marine. A few solitary species can move slowly.

Some species eject unfertilized ova into the water, while others keep their ova in brood chambers until they hatch, and some of these species use placenta-like organs to nourish the developing eggs. After hatching, the larvae swim for a short time and then settle on a surface. There they metamorphose, and the larval gut rotates by up to 180°, so that the mouth and anus face upwards. Both colonial and solitary species also reproduce by cloning — solitary species grow clones in the space between the tentacles and then release them when developed, while colonial ones produce new members from the stalks or from corridor-like stolons.

Fossils of entoprocts are very rare, and the earliest specimens that have been identified with confidence date from the Late Jurassic. Most studies from 1996 onwards have regarded entoprocts as members of the Trochozoa, which also includes molluscs and annelids. However, a study in 2008 concluded that entoprocts are closely related to bryozoans.

Names
"Entoprocta", coined in 1870, means "anus inside". The alternative name "Kamptozoa", meaning "bent" or "curved" animals, was assigned in 1929. Some authors use "Entoprocta", while others prefer "Kamptozoa".

Description
Most species are colonial, and their members are known as "zooids", since they are not fully independent animals. Zooids are typically  long but range from  long.

Distinguishing features
Entoprocts are superficially like bryozoans (ectoprocts), as both groups have a "crown" of tentacles whose cilia generate water currents that draw food particles towards the mouth. However, they have different feeding mechanisms and internal anatomy, and ectoprocts undergo a metamorphosis from larva to adult that destroys most of the larval tissues; their colonies also have a founder zooid which is different from its "daughters".

Zooids

The body of a mature entoproct zooid has a goblet-like structure with a calyx mounted on a relatively long stalk that attaches to a surface. The rim of the calyx bears a "crown" of 8 to 30 solid tentacles, which are extensions of the body wall. The base of the "crown" of tentacles is surrounded by a membrane that partially covers the tentacles when they retract. The mouth and anus lie on opposite sides of the atrium (space enclosed by the "crown" of tentacles), and both can be closed by sphincter muscles. The gut is U-shaped, curving down towards the base of the calyx, where it broadens to form the stomach. This is lined with a membrane consisting of a single layer of cells, each of which has multiple cilia.

The stalks of colonial species arise from shared attachment plates or from a network of stolons, tubes that run across a surface. In solitary species, the stalk ends in a muscular sucker, or a flexible foot, or is cemented to a surface. The stalk is muscular and produces a characteristic nodding motion. In some species it is segmented. Some solitary species can move, either by creeping on the muscular foot or by somersaulting.

The body wall consists of the epidermis and an external cuticle, which consists mainly of criss-cross collagen fibers. The epidermis contains only a single layer of cells, each of which bears multiple cilia ("hairs") and microvilli (tiny "pleats") that penetrate through the cuticle. The stolons and stalks of colonial species have thicker cuticles, stiffened with chitin.

There is no coelom (internal fluid-filled cavity lined with peritoneum) and the other internal organs are embedded in connective tissue that lies between the stomach and the base of the "crown" of tentacles. The nervous system runs through the connective tissue and just below the epidermis, and is controlled by a pair of ganglia. Nerves run from these to the calyx, tentacles and stalk, and to sense organs in all these areas.

Feeding, digestion, excretion, circulation and respiration
A band of cells, each with multiple cilia, runs along the sides of the tentacles, connecting each tentacle to its neighbors, except that there is a gap in the band nearest the anus. A separate band of cilia grows along a groove that runs close to the inner side of the base of the "crown", with a narrow extension up the inner surface of each tentacle. The cilia on the sides of the tentacles create a current that flows into the "crown" at the bases of the tentacles and exits above the center of the "crown". These cilia pass food particles to the cilia on the inner surface of the tentacles, and the inner cillia produce a downward current that drives particles into and around the groove, and then to the mouth.

Entoprocts generally use one or both of: ciliary sieving, in which one band of cilia creates the feeding current and another traps food particles (the "sieve"); and downstream collecting, in which food particles are trapped as they are about to exit past them. In entoprocts, downstream collecting is carried out by the same bands of cilia that generate the current; trochozoan larvae also use downstream collecting, but use a separate set of cilia to trap food particles.

In addition, glands in the tentacles secrete sticky threads that capture large particles. A non-colonial species reported from around the Antarctic Peninsula in 1993 has cells that superficially resemble the cnidocytes of cnidaria, and fire sticky threads. These unusual cells lie around the mouth, and may provide an additional means of capturing prey.

The stomach and intestine are lined with microvilli, which are thought to absorb nutrients. The anus, which opens inside the "crown", ejects solid wastes into the outgoing current after the tentacles have filtered food out of the water; in some families it is raised on a cone above the level of the groove that conducts food to the mouth. Most species have a pair of protonephridia which extract soluble wastes from the internal fluids and eliminate them through pores near the mouth. However, the freshwater species Urnatella gracilis has multiple nephridia in the calyx and stalk.

The zooids absorb oxygen and emit carbon dioxide by diffusion, which works well for small animals.

Reproduction and life cycle
Most species are simultaneous hermaphrodites, but some switch from male to female as they mature, while individuals of some species remain of the same sex all their lives. Individuals have one or two pairs of gonads, placed between the atrium and stomach, and opening into a single gonopore in the atrium. The eggs are thought to be fertilized in the ovaries. Most species release eggs that hatch into planktonic larvae, but a few brood their eggs in the gonopore. Those that brood small eggs nourish them by a placenta-like organ, while larvae of species with larger eggs live on stored yolk. The development of the fertilized egg into a larva follows a typical spiralian pattern: the cells divide by spiral cleavage, and mesoderm develops from a specific cell labelled "4d" in the early embryo. There is no coelom at any stage.

In some species the larva is a trochophore which is planktonic and feeds on floating food particles by using the two bands of cilia round its "equator" to sweep food into the mouth, which uses more cilia to drive them into the stomach, which uses further cilia to expel undigested remains through the anus. In some species of the genera Loxosomella and Loxosoma, the larva produces one or two buds that separate and form new individuals, while the trochophore disintegrates. However, most produce a larva with sensory tufts at the top and front, a pair of pigment-cup ocelli  ("little eyes"), a pair of protonephridia, and a large, cilia-bearing foot at the bottom. After settling, the foot and frontal tuft attach to the surface. Larvae of most species undergo a complex metamorphosis, and the internal organs may rotate by up to 180°, so that the mouth and anus both point upwards.

All species can produce clones by budding. Colonial species produce new zooids from the stolon or from the stalks, and can form large colonies in this way. In solitary species, clones form on the floor of the atrium, and are released when their organs are developed.

Taxonomy

The phylum consists of about 150 recognized species, grouped into 4 families:

Evolutionary history

Fossil record

Since entoprocts are small and soft-bodied, fossils have been extremely rare. In 1977, Simon Conway Morris provided the first description of Dinomischus, a sessile animal with calyx, stalk and holdfast, found in  Canada's Burgess Shale, which was formed about . Morris regarded this animal as the earliest known entoproct, since its mouth and anus lay inside a ring of structures above the calyx, but noted that these structures were flat and rather stiff, while the tentacles of modern entoprocts are flexible and have a round cross-section.

In 1992 J.A. Todd and P.D. Taylor concluded that Dinomischus was not an entoproct, because it did not have the typical rounded, flexible tentacles, and the fossils showed no other features that clearly resembled those of entoprocts. In their opinion, the earliest fossil entoprocts were specimens they found from Late Jurassic rocks in England. These resemble the modern colonial genus Barentsia in many ways, including: upright zooids linked by a network of stolons encrusting the surface to which the colony is attached; straight stalks joined to the stolons by bulky sockets with transverse bands of wrinkles; overall size and proportions similar to that of modern species of Barentsia.

Another species, Cotyledion tylodes, first described in 1999, was larger than extant entoprocts, reaching 8–56 mm in height, and unlike modern species, was "armored" with sclerites, scale-like structures. C. tylodes did have a similar sessile lifestyle to modern entoprocts. The identified fossils of C. tylodes were found in 520-million-year-old rocks from southern China. This places early entoprocts in the period of the Cambrian explosion.

The Maotianshan Shales fossil, Cotyledion tylodes, has been reevaluated as being an ancient, sclerite-bearing entoproct (originally having been identified as a putative carpoid echinoderm). This entoproct interpretation of Cotyledion, however, has been questioned by Mark McMenamin, who considers it best interpreted as a stem group echinoderm based on the morphology of its stem sclerites.

Family tree
When entoprocts were discovered in the nineteenth century, they and bryozoans (ectoprocts) were regarded as classes within the phylum Bryozoa, because both groups were sessile animals that filter-fed by means of a "crown" of tentacles that bore cilia. However, from 1869 onwards, increasing awareness of differences, including the position of the entoproct anus inside the feeding structure and the difference in the early pattern of division of cells in their embryos, caused scientists to regard the two groups as separate phyla. "Bryozoa" then became just an alternative name for ectoprocts, in which the anus is outside the feeding organ. However, studies by one team in 2007 and 2008 argue for sinking Entoprocta into Bryozoa as a class, and resurrecting Ectoprocta as a name for the currently identified bryozoans.

The consensus of studies from 1996 onwards has been that entoprocts are part of the Trochozoa, a protostome "superphylum" whose members are united in having as their most basic larval form the trochophore type. The trochozoa also include molluscs, annelids, flatworms, nemertines and others. However, scientists disagree about which phylum is mostly closely related to enctoprocts within the trochozoans. An analysis in 2008 re-introduced the pre-1869 meaning of the term "Bryozoa", for a group in which entoprocts and ectoprocts are each other's closest relatives.

Ecology

Distribution and habitats
All species are sessile. While the great majority are marine, two species live in freshwater: Loxosomatoides sirindhornae, reported in 2004 in central Thailand, and Urnatella gracilis, found in all the continents except Antarctica. Colonial species are found in all the oceans,  living on rocks, shells, algae and underwater buildings. The solitary species, which are marine, live on other animals that feed by producing water currents, such as sponges, ectoprocts and sessile annelids. The majority of species live no deeper than 50 meters, but a few species are found in the deep ocean.

Interaction with other organisms
Some species of nudibranchs ("sea slugs"), particularly those of the genus Trapania, as well as turbellarian flatworms, prey on entoprocts.

Small colonies of the freshwater entoproct Urnatella gracilis have been found living on the aquatic larvae of the dobsonfly Corydalus cornutus. The ectoprocts gain a means of dispersal, protection from predators and possibly a source of water that is rich in oxygen and nutrients, as colonies often live next to the gills of the larval flies. In the White Sea, the non-colonial entoproct Loxosomella nordgaardi prefers to live attached to bryozoan (ectoproct) colonies, mainly on the edges of colonies or in the "chimneys", gaps by which large bryozoan colonies expel water from which they have sieved food. Observation suggests that both the entoprocts and the bryozoans benefit from the association: each enhances the water flow that the other needs for feeding; and the longer cilia of the entoprocts may help them to capture different food from that caught by the bryozoans, so that the animals do not compete for the same food.

Entoprocts are small and have been little studied by zoologists. Hence it is difficult to determine whether a specimen belongs to a species that already occurs in the same area or is an invader, possibly as a result of human activities.


NetBus

NetBus or Netbus is a software program for remotely controlling a Microsoft Windows computer system over a network. It was created in 1998 and has been very controversial for its potential of being used as a trojan horse.

NetBus was written in Delphi by Carl-Fredrik Neikter, a Swedish programmer in March 1998. It was in wide circulation before Back Orifice was released, in August 1998. The author claimed that the program was meant to be used for pranks, not for illegally breaking into computer systems. Translated from Swedish, the name means "NetPrank".

However, use of NetBus has had serious consequences. In 1999, NetBus was used to plant child pornography on the work computer of a law scholar at Lund University. The 3,500 images were discovered by system administrators, and the law scholar was assumed to have downloaded them knowingly. He lost his research position at the faculty, and following the publication of his name fled the country and had to seek professional medical care to cope with the stress. He was acquitted from criminal charges in late 2004, as a court found that NetBus had been used to control his computer.

There are two components to the client–server architecture. The server must be installed and run on the computer that should be remotely controlled. It was an .exe file with a file size of almost 500 KB. The name and icon varied a lot from version to version. Common names were "Patch.exe" and "SysEdit.exe". When started for the first time, the server would install itself on the host computer, including modifying the Windows registry so that it starts automatically on each system startup. The server is a faceless process listening for connections on port 12345 (in some versions, the port number can be adjusted). Port 12346 is used for some tasks, as well as port 20034.

The client was a separate program presenting a graphical user interface that allowed the user to perform a number of activities on the remote computer. Examples of its capabilities:
 Keystroke logging
 Keystroke injection
 Screen captures
 Program launching
 File browsing
 Shutting down the system
 Opening / closing CD-tray
 Tunneling protocol (NetBus connections through a number of systems.)

The NetBus client was designed to support the following operating system versions:
 Windows 95
 Windows 98
 Windows ME
 Windows NT 4.0

Netbus client (v1.70) works fine in Windows 2000 and in Windows XP as well. Major parts of the protocol, used between the client and server interaction (in version 1.70) are textual. Thus the server can be controlled by typing human understandable commands over a raw TCP connection. It is more difficult than using the client application yet allows one to administrate computers with NetBus from operating environments other than Windows, or when original client is not available. Features (such as screen capture) require an application with ability of accepting binary data, such as netcat. Most of more common protocols (like the Internet Relay Chat protocol, POP3 SMTP, HTTP) can also be used over a raw connections in a similar way.

NetBus 2.0 Pro was released in February 1999. It was marketed commercially as a powerful remote administration tool. It was less stealthy, but special hacked versions exist that make it possible to use it for illegal purposes.

All versions of the program were widely used by "script kiddies" and was popularized by the release of Back Orifice. Because of its smaller size, Back Orifice can be used to gain some access to a machine. The attacker can then use Back Orifice to install the NetBus server on the target computer. Most anti-virus programs detect and remove NetBus.


Compaction of ceramic powders

Compaction of ceramic powders is a specific forming technique for ceramics. It is  a process in which ceramic granular materials are made cohesive through  mechanical densification, involving (hot pressing) or not (cold  forming) temperature exposition.
The process permits an efficient production of parts ranging widely in  size and shape to close tolerances with low drying shrinkage. Traditional  (for instance: ceramic tiles, porcelain products) and structural (for  instance: chip carriers, spark plugs, cutting tools) ceramics are  produced.
Cold compaction of ceramic powders ends up with the realization of the  so-called green piece, which is later subject to sintering.

The background: traditional & advanced ceramics
Ceramic industry is broadly developed in the world, so much so that only in Europe the current investment is estimated at € 26 billion. Advanced ceramics are crucial for new technologies, addressed particularly to thermo-mechanical and bio-medical applications, while traditional ceramics have a worldwide market and have been suggested as materials minimizing the impact on the environment (when compared to other finishing materials).

The production process of ceramics
Up-to-date ceramic technology involves invention and design of new components and optimization of production process of complex structures. Ceramics can be formed by a variety of different methods which can be divided into three main groups, depending on whether the starting materials involve a gas, a liquid or a solid. Examples of methods involving gases are: chemical vapour deposition, directed metal oxidation and reaction bonding, whereas examples of methods involving liquids are: sol-gel process and polymer pyrolysis. Methods involving solids, and especially powder methods, dominate ceramic forming and are extensively used in the industry.

The practical realization of ceramic products by powder methods requires the following steps: ceramic powder production, powder treatment, handling and processing, cold forming, sintering and evaluation of the performance of the final product. Since this process permits an efficient production of parts ranging widely in size and shape to close tolerances, there is an evident interest from industry. For instance, metallurgical, pharmaceutical and forming of traditional and advanced structural ceramics represent common applications.

Mechanics of forming of ceramic powders
It is a well-established fact that the performance of a ceramic component critically depends on the manufacturing process. In particular, initial powder characteristics and processing, including cold forming and sintering, have a strong impact on the mechanical properties of the components as they may generate a defect population (microcracks, density gradients, pores, agglomerates) within the green and sintered compounds. In particular, the mechanical characteristics of the solid obtained after cold forming (the so-called ‘green body’) strongly affect the subsequent sintering process and thus the mechanical properties of the final piece.

Many technical, still unresolved difficulties arise in the forming process of ceramic materials. In fact, if on one hand the compact should result intact after ejection, should be handleable without failure and essentially free of macro defects, on the other hand, defects of various nature are always present in the green bodies, negatively affecting local shrinkage during sintering, Fig. 1.

Defects can be caused by densification process, which may involve highly inhomogeneous strain fields, or by mold ejection. Currently, there is a high production reject, due to the fact that manufacturing technologies are mainly based on empirically engineered processes, rather than on rational and scientific methodologies.

The industrial technologies involved in the production of ceramics, with particular reference to tile and sanitaryware products, are directly connected to a huge amount of waste of material and energy. Consequently, the set-up of manufacturing processes is very costly and time consuming and not yet optimal in terms of quality of the final piece.

There is therefore a strong interest from  the ceramic industry in the availability of tools capable of modelling and simulating: i) the powder compaction process and ii) the criticality of defects possibly present in the final piece after sintering. Recently, an EU IAPP research project  has been financed with the aim of enhance mechanical modelling of ceramic forming in view of industrial applications.

During cold powder compaction, a granular material is made cohesive through mechanical densification, a process which modelling requires the description of the transition from a granular to a dense and even a fully dense state (Fig. 2).

Since granular materials are characterized by mechanical properties almost completely different from those typical of dense solids, the mechanical modelling must describe a transition between two distinctly different states of a material. This is a scientific challenge addressed by Piccolroaz et al. in terms of plasticity theory.

A key point in their analysis is the use of the ‘Bigoni & Piccolroaz yield surface’, previously developed, see Fig. 3.

The mechanical model developed by Piccoloraz et al. (2006 a;b) permits the description of the forming process (Fig. 4).
The INTERCER2  research project is aimed to develop novel constitutive descriptions for ceramic powders and more robust implementation in a numerical code.


Marah (plant)

Marah (the manroots, wild cucumbers, or cucumber gourds) are flowering plants in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), native to western North America. They are also commonly called Old man in the ground. The genus (which Kellogg noted was characterized by extreme bitterness) was named for Marah in , which was said to be named for the bitter water there.

Except for the isolated range of Marah gilensis (Gila manroot) in west-central Arizona and island populations (M. macrocarpus var. major), all manroot species inhabit overlapping ranges distributed from Southern Canada to Northern Mexico. Although Marah oreganus (coastal manroot) extends inland into Idaho, all other manroot species except M. gilensis are confined to areas within 300 km of the Pacific Ocean coast.

Description
The manroots are perennial plants, growing from a large tuberous root. Most have stout, scabrous or hairy stems, with coiling tendrils that enable them to climb up other plants; they can also grow rapidly across level ground. Their leaves tend to have multiple lobes, up to 7 in some species. The fruits are striking and easily recognised. They are large, and spherical, oval or cylindrical. At a minimum they are  in diameter, but can be up to  long, and in many species they are covered in long spines. Both leaf and fruit shape vary widely between individual plants and leaves can be particularly variable even on the same vine.

The anthropomorphic common names "manroot" and "old man" derive from the swollen lobes and arm-like extensions of the unearthed tuber. On old plants, the tuber can be several meters long and weigh in excess of .

Taxonomy and systematics

Marah species hybridize freely where ranges overlap and this, in addition to intra-species leaf and fruit variability, makes definite identification of specimens a particular challenge.

A proper genetic analysis of Marah phylogeny has not yet been undertaken. The standard taxonomy has been based on morphological comparisons and geographic considerations.

Some authors include the manroots in genus Echinocystis. Considered as a separate genus, however, it includes six or seven species, some of them with well-defined varieties within them:

Marah fabacea – California manroot
Marah fabacea var. agrestis
Marah fabacea var. fabacea
Marah gilensis – Gila manroot
Marah guadalupensis – often included in M. macrocarpus var. major
Marah horridus – Sierra manroot
Marah macrocarpa – Cucamonga manroot
Marah macrocarpa var. macrocarpa
Marah macrocarpa var. major
Marah macrocarpa var. micrantha
Marah oreganus – coastal manroot
Marah watsonii – Taw manroot

Use by humans

Marah oreganus was used medicinally by Native Americans. The Chinook made a poultice from the gourd. The Squaxin mashed the upper stalk in water to dip aching hands. The Chehalis burned the root and mixed the resulting powder with bear grease to apply to scrofula sores. The Coast Salish made a decoction to treat venereal disease, kidney trouble and scrofula sores.

The dried spiky fruit can be soaked in water so that the spikes can be easily removed. They are difficult to remove otherwise. The hard fruit becomes soft in water and once the spikes are gone, the fruit makes a very efficient loofa. The tubers of M. fabaceus and M. macrocarpus contain saponins which can act as a natural soap.

Tubers of M. fabaceus were crushed and thrown into bodies of water by the Kumeyaay to immobilize fish. The tubers contain megharrhin, a saponin-like glucoside. Saponins lower the surface tension of water allowing the formation of bubbles.  It is likely that the substance enters the fish's circulation through the gill arches where only a single-cell epithelium separates the water from the animal's red blood cells. The affected fish float to the surface.

Like many medicinal plants, at least some Marah species are toxic if ingested and deaths have been reported from ingesting them.

Seeds of Marah fabaceus have been reported as being hallucinogenic.


Galeola faberi

Galeola faberi is an orchid species in the genus Galeola found in central and southern China, as well as in Nepal, the eastern Himalayas, Vietnam and Sumatra.

The phenolic compounds p-hydroxybenzaldehyde, 4,4'-dihydroxy-diphenyl methane, 2,4-bis(4-hydroxybenzyl) phenol, 5-methoxy-3-(2-phenyl-E-ethenyl)-2,4-bis (4-hydroxybenzyl) phenol (IV), p-hydroxybenzyl alcohol (V), 4-(beta-D-glucopyranosyloxy) benzyl alcohol (gastrodin), bis[4-(beta-D-glucopyranosyloxy) benzyl] (S)-2-isopropylmalate and bis [4-(beta-D-glucopyranosyloxy) benzyl] (S)-2-sec-butylmalate can be isolated from the rhizome of G. faberi.


Amana Melome

Amana Melome is a Euro-Caribbean-American singer-songwriter currently based in Stockholm. She was born in Germany and raised around the world. After finishing high school in Florence, Italy she returned to America to earn her college degree and graduated from NYU, in New York City. Her music reflects her jazz heritage as she follows in the footsteps of her grandfather, the late bass player Jimmy Woode who was the youngest musician in Duke Ellington's orchestra and accompanied many jazz legends such as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis. Her late grandmother was also a jazz vocalist, and her aunt Shawnn Monteiro is still active in the jazz scene today.

Early life
Born in Germany but raised around the world, Melome is a singer, songwriter, actress who sings in Italian, French, German, and English. Having grown up exposed to the music of her family, Melome followed in the footsteps of her grandfather Jimmy Woode, the youngest musician in Duke Ellington's band.

Career
Melome moved to Los Angeles to pursue music after graduating, where she met Saverio "Sage" Principini and recorded her first album Indigo Red and her sophomoric album Phoenix Rising, both recorded at the infamous Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood. After a U.S. release on indie label Savana Records, Amana's Indigo Red became the first CD to be sold in Whole Foods Markets, as they coined her music as "organic" and had her perform a mini-tour of the west-coast stores. Indigo Red was released in Europe on Irma Records in 2008. Following the American and European release of her record, Melome was headlining festivals and clubs, performing for private events for Fendi and Christian Dior before she landed herself a lead role on the most popular Italian sitcom Un medico in famiglia which aired on national TV.

Melome's music is said to evoke the jazz roots of her family with a sound that is a mix of neo-soul, jazz and folk, occasionally mixed with world inspired by her many travels.

Melome has recently finished recording her third album Lock and Key at Manifest Studios in Los Angeles which is due for release in January 2015. The EP brings new collaborations and production by the talented duo Itai Shapira and Adam Berg of the Decoders, who have worked with the likes of Aloe Black and Rhye.

Discography
 2008: Indigo Red
 2011: Phoenix Rising
 2014: Lock and Key

Singles
 2008: Caterpillar, Bella Farfalla, Platonic
 2011: Twisted
 2014: Lock and Key


Wushu at the 2010 Asian Games – Women's nanquan

The women's Nanquan / Nandao all-round competition at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China was held on 13 November at the Nansha Gymnasium.

Schedule
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Results


2008 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships

The 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships were the 62nd annual men's and 26th annual women's championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's and women's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.

The tournaments were played concurrently during May 2008 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Defending team champions Georgia defeated Texas in the men's championship, 4–2, to claim the Bulldogs' sixth team national title.

UCLA defeated California in the women's championship, 4–0, to claim the Bruins' first team national titlw.

Host sites
This year's tournaments were played at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma.


Cunji

Cunji may refer to,

 Cunji, Guinea-Bissau, place in West Africa
 Tunicate, various sea squirt species known as cunji in Australia


Tactostoma macropus

Tactostoma macropus, the longfin dragonfish, is a species of barbeled dragonfish found in the Pacific Ocean down to depths of .  This species grows to a length of  TL.  This species is the only known species in the genus Tactostoma.


Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment is a graduate school at The New School within The Schools of Public Engagement that offers degrees in environmental policy and sustainability studies, nonprofit management, organizational change management, public policy and urban policy, as well as a PhD. program in public and urban policy and three graduate certificates.

History

In 1964, the J. M. Kaplan Center for New York City Affairs was founded as the first teaching and research center in the United States devoted to the study of a single metropolitan area. In 1975, under the leadership of Dean Henry Cohen, the Kaplan Center evolved into the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy (now the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy), which was named in honor of the former New School trustee Robert J. Milano (1912–2000), who had also been a member of the advisory board of the J.M. Kaplan Center.  Curriculum is structured to encourage creative thinking in aid of progressive social, economic, and political change in the public, private, and nonprofit arenas.

Academics
Milano offers the following Master's Degrees:
MS in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management
MS in Nonprofit Management
MS in Organizational Change Management
MS in Public and Urban Policy

Milano offers Graduate Certificates in Organizational Development, Sustainability Strategies, and Leadership and Change.

Students in any master's program at the Milano School can pursue one of the following specializations or work with a faculty advisor to develop their own. The subject areas are sets of related courses that can help students tailor their graduate programs to their personal goals.
 Applied Quantitative Methods and Data Visualization
 Community Development Finance
 Economic and Workforce Development
 Finance
 Food and the Environment
 Global Management
 Global Urban Futures
 Housing and Community Development
 Leadership and Change
 Leading Sustainability
 Politics, Media, and Advocacy
 Social Entrepreneurship
 Social Policy

Milano also offers a PhD Program in Public and Urban Policy, and a joint BA/MS program with Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and with the Bachelor's degree in The Schools of Public Engagement.

Centers and Institutes
The Center for New York City Affairs is a nonpartisan institute seeking to advance innovative public policies.

Accreditation
The Public and Urban Policy program is accredited by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration.