Caste system in Kerala

The caste system in Kerala differs from that found in the rest of India. While the Indian caste system generally modelled the four-fold division of society into Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras, in Kerala the Nambudiri Brahmins formed the priestly class and only rarely recognised anyone else as being other than Shudra or untouchables outside the caste system entirely. Thus, the Kerala caste system was ritualised but it was not the varna model found elsewhere. Even inside Kerala, North Kerala castes are different from South Kerala. Until the recent past, they did not follow marriage alliances, citing the differences.

Kerala's caste system was closer to feudalism than to the "Varna" system.  Nambuthiris held the vast majority of the lands.

Also, Kerala had one of the highest migration of different cultures at different times in history, due to its geographical connectivity. The migrants included Babylonians, Arabians, and Jews, and later various Europeans, as well as Sri Lankans, Buddhists monks, Jains and many more.

History
A theory presented by Pullapilly and also by Rene Barendse, who  is a Fellow of the International Institute for Asian Studies, claims that the caste system established by Nambudiri Brahmins of Kerala was in accordance with the will of Parasurama, an avatar of Vishnu.The Nambudiris had control of 64 villages and asserted that they had powers given to them by the gods, so much so that they considered even other Brahmin groups to be outside the caste hierarchy. Both writers consider this to be the traditional Nambudiri myth of origin. The Nambudiri Brahmins were at the top of the ritual caste hierarchy, outranking even the kings. Anyone who was not a Nambudiri was treated by them as an untouchable.

By the late nineteenth century, the caste system of Kerala had evolved to be the most complex to be found anywhere in India, and the exploitation of it had become considerable. Barendse explains this development:

By this time there were over 500 groups represented in an elaborate structure of relationships and the concept of ritual pollution extended not merely to untouchability but even further, to un-approachability and even un-seeability. The system was gradually reformed to some degree, with one of those reformers, Swami Vivekananda, having observed that it represented a "mad house" of castes. The usual four-tier Hindu caste system, involving the varnas of Brahmin (priest), Kshatriya (warrior), Vaishya (business person, involved in trading, entrepreneurship and finance) and Shudra (service person), did not exist. Kshatriyas and vaishyas were rare. Kshatriya castes such as Varma as well as Vaishya castes as such a Vaniyan, Vanika, Vanika, Arya Vaishya constituted less than 2% of the total population.

The roles left empty by the absence of these two ritual ranks were taken by the Nairs as they were Kings, naduvazhis (feudal lords) and deshavazhiz.

The process of amelioration of caste distinctions by various social reform movements were overtaken by the events of 1947. With independence from Britain came the Indian constitution, and Article 15 of that document outlawed discrimination on the grounds of caste and race. Myron Weiner has said that the ideological basis for caste "... may be (almost, but not quite) moribund" and that:

Weiner points out that despite the ideological demise:

Although distinctions between the various communities are outlawed, the Indian governments – both at national and at regional level – do still recognise them, but this recognition is for the purpose of positive discrimination. Throughout post-independence India, including in Kerala, there exists a framework of reservation which is fluid in nature and attempts to recognise the socio-economic disparities between various castes. Depending both on local circumstances and on the changing modern socio-economic environment, castes are classified as Forward Classes (or General), Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes, and the Scheduled Tribes. These classifications determine what - if any - assistance a caste community receives in any given area. Formal classification lists are compiled for the latter three groups; any community which is not listed in any of those categories is, by default, a Forward Class.

Writing in the context of violence against Dalits elsewhere in India, Frontline magazine said in 2006 that:  However, Frontline goes on to note that the situation in Kerala now, is not as severe, to the extent that those seeking to research:

Untouchables
The Nambudiris had varying rules regarding the degrees of ritual pollution while interacting with people of different castes, which also included other Brahmins- such as Iyers, whose touch required a Nambudiri to bathe before resuming rituals. In a similar manner, most castes practised the principles of untouchability in their relationship with the other regional castes. Untouchability in Kerala is not restricted to Hindus, and George Mathew says that, "Technically, the Christians were outside the caste hierarchy, but in practice a system of inclusion and exclusion was developed ...". Among Christians, the established Syrian Christians also practised the rules of untouchability. In the colonial period, many lower castes were converted to Christians by the European Missionaries, but the new converts were not allowed to join the Syrian Christian community and they continued to be considered as untouchables even by the Syrian Christians. Syrian Christians derive status within the caste system from the tradition that they were elites, who were evangelised by Thomas the Apostle. Anand Amaladass says that "The Syrian Christians had inserted themselves within the Indian caste society for centuries and were regarded by the Hindus as a caste occupying a high place within their caste hierarchy." Syrian Christians followed the same rules of caste and pollution as that of Hindus and they were considered as pollution neutralisers.

The rules of untouchability were severe to begin with, and they were very strictly enforced by the time of the arrival of the Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth century. Robin Jeffrey, who is a professor specialising in the modern history and politics of India, quotes the wife of a Christian missionary, who wrote in 1860 that:

Nonetheless, higher ranked communities did have some social responsibility for those perceived to be their inferiors: for example, they could demand forced labour but had to provide food for such labourers, and they had responsibilities in times of famine to provide their tenants both with food and with the seeds to grow it. There were also responsibilities to protect such people from the dangers of attack and other threats to their livelihood, and so it has been described by Barendse as "an intricate dialectic of rights and duties".

Sambandam

Sambandham or sambandham (literally "relationship") was a concubinage system primarily followed by the Nair and Ambalavasi castes with Namboothiri in the state of Kerala.

During ancient times progeny out of these morganaic union where considered higher rank in caste system and had given special titles such as Nambiar in North Malabar.

All of these were matrilineal communities. The hypergamous institution of sambandam was involved in the establishment of and competition for status among these higher caste groups.The custom is no longer observed.

Demographics
Around 2003, the Government of Kerala recognised 53 Scheduled Castes, 35 Scheduled Tribes and 80 Other Backwards Classes. The 2001 Census of India recognised 68 Scheduled Castes, who comprised 9.8% of the population. They were 99.9% Hindu, with a negligible number of Sikhs and Buddhists. The Census recognised 35 Scheduled Tribes, comprising 1.14% of the population and with 93.7% being Hindus. A further 5.8% were Christian, and the remainder Muslim or "not stated".


Chick (1936 film)

Chick is a 1936 British comedy crime film directed by Michael Hankinson and starring Sydney Howard, Betty Ann Davies and Fred Conyngham. It is based on the 1923 novel of the same title by Edgar Wallace, which had previously been made into a 1928 silent film. The film was made at Elstree Studios. The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.

Cast
 Sydney Howard as Chick Beane
 Betty Ann Davies as Peggy
 Fred Conyngham as  Sir Anthony Monsard
 Cecil Humphreys as Sturgis
 Mae Bacon as Gert
 Wallace Geoffrey as Latimer
 Aubrey Mather as The Dean
 Arthur Chesney as Lord Frensham
 Edmund D'Alby as Rennie
 Robert Nainby as Mr. Beane
 Merle Tottenham as Maid
 Aubrey Fitzgerald as Banks
 Fred Rains as Warden
 Eric Micklewood as Undergraduate
 Joe Monkhouse as Mason
 Richard Morris as Clerk
 Aubrey Pollock as Lawyer


Jonny Gray (actor)

Jonathan Gray (born May 5, 1999) is a Canadian actor known for the series Max & Shred.

Career
Jonathan Gray was born in Ilderton, Ontario, Canada. In 2012, he won a video contest to become a reporter for the King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament in Thailand. In 2014, he was cast in the main role in the series Max & Shred on Nickelodeon, interpreting 'Max Asher'.

Filmography


Nick Stevens (cricketer)

Nicholas Gerard Stevens (born 20 May 1994) is an Australian first-class cricketer who plays for Queensland.


Violent by Nature

Violent by Nature is the second album from Arizona thrash metal band Atrophy, released in 1990 on Roadrunner Records. Like their previous album Socialized Hate, it was co-produced by prolific producer/engineer Bill Metoyer, and recorded in Los Angeles. They followed up with tours of the USA and Europe with the likes of Sacred Reich, Coroner and Forced Entry, but shortly after, Chris Lykins left the band to pursue a medical school course and the band split up after Roadrunner Records lost confidence in the band because of the departure of one of its leading songwriters;  as such, Violent by Nature would be Atrophy's final album before their 22-year breakup from 1993 to 2015. The model for the artwork is Richie Bujinowski (now Cavalera), who would later become Max Cavalera's adopted stepson and frontman of Incite.

Track listing
"Puppies and Friends" (Chris Lykins, Rick Skowron, Tim Kelly) – 3:32
"Violent By Nature" (Lykins, Kelly) – 3:54
"In Their Eyes" (Lykins, James Gulotta, Skowron, Kelly) – 5:02
"Too Late to Change" (Lykins, Gulotta) – 5:29
"Slipped Through the Cracks" (Lykins) – 5:28
"Forgotten But Not Gone" (Brian Zimmerman, Gulotta, Kelly) – 5:00
"Process of Elimination" (Zimmerman, Gulotta, Kelly) – 4:46
"Right to Die" (Zimmerman, Gulotta, Kelly) – 4:00
"Things Change" (Lykins) – 4:05

Credits
 Brian Zimmerman – vocals
 Chris Lykins – guitar
 Rick Skowron – guitar
 James Gulotta – bass
 Tim Kelly – drums
 Kevin Sparks – 12-string guitar on "Too Late to Change"
 Recorded and mixed at Track Record, North Hollywood, California, USA
 Produced by Bill Metoyer and Atrophy
 Engineered and mixed by Bill Metoyer
 Second engineered by Ken Paulakovich
 Mastered by Eddie Schreyer at Futuredisc, Hollywood, USA
 Cover art by Paul Stottler

External links
Roadrunner Records band page
BNR Metal discography page
Encyclopaedia Metallum album entry


Hirotoshi

Hirotoshi (written: 弘寿, 弘年, 博敏, 博俊, 裕稔, 浩俊 or 広俊) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

, Japanese sumo wrestler
, Japanese samurai
, Japanese businessman
, Japanese baseball player
, Japanese baseball player
, Japanese baseball player
, Japanese baseball player
, Japanese footballer


AutoIt

AutoIt  is a freeware programming language for Microsoft Windows. In its earliest release, it was primarily intended to create automation scripts (sometimes called macros) for Microsoft Windows programs but has since grown to include enhancements in both programming language design and overall functionality.

The scripting language in AutoIt 1 and 2 was statement-driven and designed primarily for simulating user interaction. From version 3 onward, the AutoIt syntax is similar to that found in the BASIC family of languages. In this form, AutoIt is a general-purpose, third-generation programming language with a classical data model and a variant data type that can store several types of data, including arrays.

An AutoIt automation script can be converted into a compressed, stand-alone executable which can be run on computers even if they do not have the AutoIt interpreter installed. A wide range of function libraries (known as UDFs, or "User Defined Functions") are also included as standard or are available from the website to add specialized functionality. AutoIt is also distributed with an IDE based on the free SciTE editor. The compiler and help text are fully integrated and provide a de facto standard environment for developers using AutoIt.

Features

 Scripting language with BASIC-like structure for Windows
 Compiling into standalone executables
 Add-on libraries and modules for specific apps
 Supports TCP and UDP protocols
 Supports component object model (COM)
 Call functions in DLL files
 Run console apps and access the standard streams
 Include data files in the compiled file to be extracted when running
 Create graphical user interfaces, including message and input boxes
 Play sounds, pause, resume, stop, seek, get the current position of the sound and get the length of the sound
 Simulate mouse movements
 Manipulate windows and processes
 Automate sending user input and keystrokes to apps, as well as to individual controls within an app
 Unicode support from version 3.2.4.0
 64-bit code support from version 3.2.10.0
 Supports regular expressions
 Compatible with User Account Control
 Object-oriented design through a library

Usage
AutoIt is typically used to produce utility software for Microsoft Windows and to automate routine tasks, such as systems management, monitoring, maintenance, or software installation. It is also used to simulate user interaction, whereby an application is "driven" (via automated form entry, keypresses, mouse clicks, and so on) to do things by an AutoIt script.

AutoIt has can also be used in low-cost laboratory automation.  Applications include instrument synchronisation, alarm monitoring and results gathering.  Devices such as CNC routers and 3D-printers can also be controlled.

Examples

Hello world
; Make available a library of constant values.
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

; Displays "Hello, world!" in a messagebox.
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Title", "Hello, world!")

Automating the Windows Calculator
; Make available a library of constant values.
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

; Display a message box with a timeout of 6 seconds.
MsgBox($MB_OK, "Attention", "Avoid touching the keyboard or mouse during automation.", 6)

; Run the Windows Calculator.
Run("calc.exe")

; Wait for the calculator to become active with a timeout of 10 seconds.
WinWaitActive("[CLASS:CalcFrame]", "", 10)

; If the calculator did not appear after 10 seconds then exit the script.
If WinExists("[CLASS:CalcFrame]") = 0 Then Exit

; Automatically type the current year into the calculator.
Send(@YEAR)

; Let's slow the script down a bit so we can see what's going on.
Sleep(600)

; Automatically type in 'divide by 4', and then sleep 600 ms.
Send("/4")
Sleep(600)

; Hit the return key to display the result, and sleep 600 ms.
Send("{ENTER}")
Sleep(600)

; Copy the result to the clipboard using the Windows shortcut Ctrl+C.
Send("^c")

; Declare, and assign the contents of the clipboard to, a variable.
Local $fResult = ClipGet()

; Check to see if the variable contains a decimal point or not.
If StringInStr($fResult, ".") Then
    ; Display a message box with a timeout of 5 seconds.
    MsgBox($MB_OK, "Leap Year", @YEAR & " is not a leap year.", 5)
Else
    ; This message will only display if the current year is a leap year.
    MsgBox($MB_OK, "Leap Year", @YEAR & " is a leap year.", 5)
EndIf

; Close the Windows calculator - always tidy up afterwards.
WinClose("[CLASS:CalcFrame]")

Find average
; Find Average by JohnOne, modified by czardas
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

_Example() ; Run the example.

Func _Example()
    ; Display an input box and ask the user to enter some numbers separated by commas.
    Local $sInput = InputBox("Find Average", "Enter some numbers separated by commas: 1,2,42,100,3")

	; If an error occurred then exit the script.
	If @error Then Exit

    ; Populate an array with the user's input.
    Local $aSplit = StringSplit($sInput, ",")

    ; Pass the array to the function _Find_Average() and then check for errors.
    Local $fAverage = _Find_Average($aSplit)
    If @error Then Exit

    ; Display the result in a message box.
    MsgBox($MB_OK, "Find Average", "Result: " & $fAverage)
EndFunc   ;==>_Example

Func _Find_Average($aArray)
    ; If the input is not of the correct type (an array), then return an error along with the details.
    If Not IsArray($aArray) Then Return SetError(1, 0, VarGetType($aArray))
	; More detailed checks are possible, but for brevity just one is performed here.

    ; Declare a variable to store the sum of the numbers.
    Local $iArraySum = 0

    ; Loop through the array.
    For $i = 1 To $aArray[0]
        ; Increment the sum by the number in each array element.
        $iArraySum += Number($aArray[$i])
    Next

    ; Return the average rounded to 2 decimal places.
    Return Round($iArraySum / $aArray[0], 2)
EndFunc   ;==>_Find_Average

History
 January 1999 - First AutoIt Version (1.0)
 August 1999 - AutoIt v2 and AutoItX
 September 1999 - First AutoIt version with Compiler
 December 2002 - AutoIt v3 (Public Beta)
 February 2004 - AutoIt v3 (Stable)
 September 2006 - Auto3Lib started
 November 2007 - AutoIt v3.2.10.0 released, Auto3Lib incorporated into AutoIt v3
 May 2008 - AutoIt v3.2.12.0 released, incorporating added GUI functionality
 December 2008 - AutoIt (and AutoItX) v3.3.0.0 released
 December 2009 - AutoIt v3.3.2.0 released
 January 2010 - AutoIt v3.3.4.0 released
 March 2010 - AutoIt v3.3.6.0 released
 April 2010 - AutoIt v3.3.6.1 released
 December 2011 - AutoIt v3.3.8.0 released
 January 2012 - AutoIt v3.3.8.1 released
 December 2013 - AutoIt v3.3.10.0 released
 June 2014 - AutoIt v3.3.12.0 released
 July 2015 - AutoIt v3.3.14.0 and v3.3.14.1 released
 September 2015 - AutoIt v3.3.14.2 released
 February 2018 - AutoIt v3.3.14.3 released

The developers of AutoIt originally released the source code under the GNU General Public License (GPL), but the practice was discontinued beginning with version 3.2.0 in August 2006. Following the terms of the GPL, some of the code from version 3.1 was used to create a fork by the AutoHotkey project, where the community is continuing to develop and release the code under the GPL.


Joseph B. Chambers

Private Joseph B. Chambers (May 4, 1833 – October 8, 1909) was an American soldier who fought in the American Civil War. Chambers received the country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor, for his action at the Battle of Fort Stedman on 25 March 1865. He was honored with the award on 27 July 1871.

Biography
Chambers was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania on 4 May 1833. He enlisted in the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Chambers died on 8 October 1909 and his remains are interred at the Oak Park Cemetery in Pennsylvania.

Medal of Honor citation


Michael White (producer)

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| birth_place   = Glasgow, Scotland
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| awards        = {{ubl|Tony Award for Best Play | 1971: Sleuth | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival | 1994: She Loves Me | Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Musical | 1994: She Loves Me | Evening Standard Award for Best Musical | 1973: The Rocky Horror Show | 1976: A Chorus Line | 1978: Annie | Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Film | 1982: Moonlighting | 1983: The Ploughman's Lunch | Boston Society of Film Critics Best American Film | 1982: My Dinner With Andre}}}}Michael Simon White' (16 January 1936 – 7 March 2016) was a British theatrical impresario and film producer. White produced 101 stage productions and 27 films over 50 years.

Early life
Michael White was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Doris (Cohen), who became successful in property development and management, and Victor White, who ran a glove making business. His mother was Eastern European Jewish and his father was born in Dublin, Ireland. As White suffered from asthma as a boy, his parents decided he would be educated as a boarder at the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz in Switzerland from age 7, where he was the only boy who did not speak the French language. He then graduated from the Sorbonne in Paris.

Career
After working as a Wall Street runner in New York City in the 1950s, White took an interest in theatre, spending five years as assistant to Sir Peter Daubeny for his World Theatre seasons in London.

White produced his first West End play, the London premiere of Jack Gelber's The Connection in 1961. Known for bringing the risqué to the stage his productions included Sleuth, Oh! Calcutta!, Two Gentlemen of Verona and the original Theatre Upstairs production of The Rocky Horror Show.

Concurrently, White produced films, including the film version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (both 1975). Later, he was responsible for The Comic Strip Presents... with Peter Richardson, which began on the opening night of Channel 4 in 1982.

However, losses on films mounted, and he was declared bankrupt in 2005 after suffering a heart attack at the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles.

Media
White's autobiography, Empty Seats, was published in 1985.

White's life story was the subject of the 2013 documentary film The Last Impresario, directed by Gracie Otto. The film made its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2013,Cara Nash, "'The Last Impresario' to premiere at BFI London Film Festival" , FilmInk.com.au, 5 September 2013. where it was positively received by critics.Stephen Dalton, "The Last Impresario: London Review", The Hollywood Reporter, 13 October 2013.

Personal life
White was married twice. With his first wife, the 1960s model and designer Sarah Hillsdon (1965-1972), he had three children. With his second wife, Louise, an heiress 26 years his junior, he had a son.

White died on 7 March 2016 of heart failure, aged 80.

Selected theatrical productions
This list is incomplete, currently listing only White's most notable theatre works:

Musicals
As producer:
 Oh! Calcutta! (1970, West End)
 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1973, West End)
 The Rocky Horror Show (1973, West End)
 Two Gentlemen of Verona (1973, West End)
 A Chorus Line (1976, West End)
 Annie (1978, West End)
 She Loves Me (1994, West End revival)

Plays
As producer:
 Sleuth (1971, Broadway)
 City Sugar (1978)

Filmography
As producer or executive producer:
 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
 Jabberwocky (1977)
 The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
 Going With The Wind (1981)
 My Dinner With Andre (1981)
 Polyester (1981)
 Shock Treatment (1981)
 Countryman (1982)
 Moonlighting (1982)
 Urgh! A Music War (1982)
 The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
 Dead on Time (1983)
 Heat and Dust (1983)
 The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)
 Strangers Kiss (1983)
 The Supergrass (1985)
 High Season (1987)
 Eat the Rich (1987)
 White Mischief (1987)
 The Deceivers (1988)
 Nuns on the Run (1989)
 The Pope Must Die (1991)
 Robert's Movie (1994)
 Widows' Peak (1994)
 Enigma (2001)
Appearing as himself:
 The Last Impresario'' (2013)


Platyplectrurus

Common names: Thorn tail snakes.
Platyplectrurus is a genus of nonvenomous shield tail snakes endemic to the Western Ghats of India. Currently, 2 species are recognized.

Geographic range
Found in the Western Ghats of South India. Found in high elevation (> 1200 m asl) montane Shola forests, under rocks, fallen logs and in piles of debris.

Species

*) Not including the nominate subspecies.
T) Type species.


Mirko Damjanović

Mirko Damjanović (Cyrillic: Мирко Дамјановић) (1937–2010) was a Serbian football coach. He was head coach of FK Partizan from 1973 to 1974.

He also worked at FK Rad, FK Leotar and FK Sartid among others, and finished his career as a coach of FK Takovo. Damjanović died on 26 December 2010.


Congregation of Jesus

The Congregation of Jesus is one of two congregations of Religious Sisters founded during the 17th-century through the work of the nun Mary Ward, who was dedicated to female education. The other congregation is the Sisters of Loreto, a name they shared until recently, which is also spread widely around the world. In England their primary house is The Bar Convent in York, the oldest such community in the country. Members of the congregation add the postnominal initials of C.J. or CJ after their names.

History

Mary Ward was a member of a Roman Catholic family during the period of persecution of Catholics in Tudor England. Originally attempting a life of contemplation in the Spanish Netherlands, she became convinced that she was called to serve in a more active way, especially in her native country. She saw education as the best way for women to further their own gifts and was joined in this vision by a small band of other English women. Under her leadership, they established a religious community in Saint-Omer in 1609 which soon opened a school to educate the daughters of English Catholic families.

The community was founded in the spirit of the Society of Jesus, envisioning a life in which the Sisters would not confined to a cloister and would be free to meet the various needs of the people they served as needed. This, however, quickly met criticism and opposition from Church authorities. The Council of Trent had forbidden new religious congregations and confined religious women to enclosure. Ward's response was, "There is no such difference between men and women... as we have seen by example of many saints who have done great things." She founded houses and schools in Liège, Cologne, Rome, Naples, Munich, Vienna, Pressburg and other places, often at the request of the local rulers and bishops, but papal approval eluded her. In 1631 Mary Ward’s Institute was suppressed by Pope Urban VIII.

Summoned to Rome in 1632 Mary was forbidden to leave the city Rome or to live in community. In 1637 for reasons of health Mary was allowed to travel to Spa and then on to England. She died just outside York, during the English Civil War, on January 30, 1645.

The Institute
By the end of the 17th century the institute was well established in Bavaria in Munich, Augsburg, Burghausen. It also had a foothold in England in London and York. The congregation had no formal name for many years. The Sisters had been commonly called the "English Ladies" in Europe, or the "Jesuitesses" or the "Galloping Girls" in England. By the start of the 18th they had begun to use the name Institute of Mary. They received approval as a religious institute by the Holy See in 1877. The different autonomous branches which had developed around the world commonly adopted the name of Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1900.

Bar Convent
Mother Frances Bedingfeld (who would go by the alias of "Mrs. Long", due to the continued persecution), was the leader of the community Ward had founded in London, which had been leading a discrete community life since their establishment. In 1686 she received a request by a leader of the Catholic community in York, Sir Thomas Gascoigne to provide education for the daughters of their community there. A group of Sisters went there in 1686 and opened Bar Convent, where they operated a boarding school for girls.

Current status
The Congregation of Jesus is an international congregation of just under 2,000 sisters in twenty-four countries spread over four continents.  The international centre is in Rome.

The community of the Bar Convent continued to operate the school which they had founded when they became established in York until 1985, at which time they transferred its administration to the local diocese.

In 2002 this congregation was allowed to adopt the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, as had been envisioned by Ward. At that time they adopted the name which she had intended for them.

At present there are some 2,000 members of the congregation. The English Sisters of the congregation have communities in York, London and Cambridge. The congregation is also present in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Israel, India, Italy, Korea, Moldova, Nepal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine and Zimbabwe. The current Superior General is Sister Jane Livesey, CJ, from England.


The Fortune Hunter (1920 film)

The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1920 silent film comedy directed by Tom Terriss. It is based on a 1909 stage play by Winchell Smith. It stars Earle Williams and Jean Paige and was produced by the Vitagraph Company of America.

Cast
Earle Williams - Nathaniel Dunham
Jean Paige - Betty Graham
Van Dyke Brooke - Sam Graham
Nancy Lee - Josie Lockwood
William Holden - Banker Lockwood
Charles Trowbridge - Harry Kellogg
Frank Norcross - Sheriff Pete Willing
Billy Hoover - Tracey
Louise Lee - Angie
Earl Metcalfe - Roland Barnett


Hof am Leithaberge

Hof am Leithaberge is a town in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria in Austria.

Geography
Hof am Leithaberge lies in the industrial area of Lower Austria. Die About 36.74 percent of the municipality is forested.


TamoGraph Site Survey

TamoGraph Site Survey is an application for performing Wi-Fi site surveys and RF planning. It supports 802.11ax, 802.11ac, 802.11n, 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g wireless networks. TamoGraph is developed by TamoSoft, a privately held New Zealand company founded in 1998 that specializes in network analysis software.

Functionality
TamoGraph is used for measuring and visualizing such WLAN characteristics as signal strength, signal-to-noise ratio, signal-to-interference ratio, TCP and UDP throughput rates, etc. Visualizations are overlaid on floor plans or, in case of outdoor surveys, on site maps that can be imported from one of the online map services. Data is collected by a portable computer using a compatible Wi-Fi adapter.

Features
 Passive, active and simultaneous passive/active survey modes.
 RF modeling.
 Automatic access point location
 Automatic virtual access point placement and capacity planning in predictive models.
 Detailed information about access points: channel, supported rates, encryption, etc.
 Support for outdoor surveys using GPS
 Spectrum analysis
 Customizable reporting in PDF and HTML formats


Archaeological Museum of Poros

The Archaeological Museum of Poros is a museum located on Koryzis Square in Poros,  Greece.

The museum was built in the 1960s on a plot of land donated by the Koryzis family. The displays of the museum date from the Mycenaean era to Roman times.

The museum contains a notable collection of artefacts dug by the French Archaeological School in Troezen such as
collections of funerary stelae, ancient inscriptions and geometric pottery. The collection also includes excavations of the sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalavreia, ancient inscriptions and Hellenistic figurines from Agios Konstantinos in Methana and items such as pottery, bronze vessels and figurines from the old excavations at Hermione.


Place du Luxembourg

The Place du Luxembourg (French) or Luxemburgplein (Dutch), meaning "Luxembourg Square", is a square in the European Quarter of Brussels (Belgium). It is better known by local European bureaucrats and journalists by one of its nicknames, Place Lux or Plux. It is served by Brussels-Luxembourg Station.

History

Early history
The Place du Luxembourg was a central feature of the Leopold Quarter, an area developed in the first few decades after the Belgian Revolution, and the most prestigious residential area in the capital for the bulk of the 19th century. The district had been designed in the 1830s, but the original design did not include provisions for a train station. When the new Leopold Quarter Station was built in 1854, architect Antoine Trappeniers was commissioned to draw up plans for a large public square leading to the station building. / was then in an embryonic state, and the square was created as its end point. The square was designed in a neoclassical style and to be as symmetrical as possible. Construction was carried out primarily between 1855 and 1861. The square was popular among merchants and restaurant and cafe owners due to its proximity to the station. One house on the corner of / was, at one time, the home of Auguste Beernaert, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1884–1894.

1980s to present
The station was the central feature of the square for much of its existence. However, with the construction of the Espace Leopold (which now houses the European Parliament) starting in 1989, the character of the square changed significantly. Designs changed frequently, amidst much legal and political wrangling, but ultimately the tracks of the previously open air station were covered over by the flagstone mall that is now seen outside the parliament. The bulk of the station building itself was torn down in 2004, and rebuilt underground, leaving only the central entrance which now serves as an information office. By 2008, the European Parliament complex was complete.

Residents' associations and cultural heritage promoters have been critical of many aspects of the construction of the parliament and redesign of the train station. Some believe that the scale of the complex is simply too large for the area, and that efforts have not been adequate to integrate it with its largely neoclassical surroundings. While many have praised the originality and professionalism of the design of the buildings, the design has also faced criticism for being too large, cold, and remote.

In recent years, the Place du Luxembourg has become a hotspot for afterwork nightlife activity, primarily on Thursday and Friday nights. The square is colloquially known as Place Lux or Plux. The trash left on the square by the Thursday night revellers has become an irritant for local residents, and Brussels politicians have threatened to shut down the party.

Design and area

The Place du Luxembourg consists largely of restaurants and bars which dominate the wide pavements, with some banks and other retail services, serving the employees and members of the neighbouring European Parliament, as well as the other European Institutions and associated organisations which are mostly located close by.

In the centre of the square is a statue of John Cockerill, a prominent British-Belgian 19th-century industrialist, which is a copy of the statue outside Seraing town hall in Liège. The figure of Cockerill is leaning against an anvil and surrounded by an industrial figures from period: a glassmaker, a mechanic, a puddler and a miner. Cockerill's motto, Work and Intelligence, are engraved upon the statue.

Directly behind the statue on the eastern side of the square is the square's principle structure. The former entrance to Leopold Quarter Station (now the subterranean Brussels-Luxembourg Station with its entrance moved east) is a listed building and was taken over by the European Parliament and Belgian authorities as a joint information office and museum. It now houses the "infopoint" of the Parliament.

The building forms part of Parliament's Espace Léopold (the complex of Parliamentary buildings in Brussels) along with two new buildings either side which border the square. The whole complex of Parliamentary buildings dominate the eastern view of the square, with the dome of Parliament's Paul-Henri Spaak building mirroring the clock at the top of the station facade – creating a popular shot of Parliament from the square. Openings each side of the old station building lead directly to the Esplanade of the European Parliament, the pedestrian mall running the length of Parliament.

Map of the square

Future
In plans to rebuild parts of the Brussels European Quarter, the Place du Luxembourg would become one of three main pedestrian squares, each focusing on a different theme. Due to its proximity to the European Parliament, the Place du Luxembourg would focus on citizens. Also planned is the potential clearing of space between Rue d'Arlon and / for a new square, possibly as a long extension of the Place du Luxembourg creating a vast boulevard-like public space. The Brussels transportation authority, STIB/MIVB has provisional plans to build a metro extension with a stop on the square at Brussels-Luxembourg Station. In 2011 plans were announced in partnership between the municipality of Ixelles and the EP to try to reduce the "mess" left by revellers on busy nights, which the local authority deemed to be "totally unacceptable."


William Mugeyi

William Mugeyi (born 4 July 1969) is a Zimbabwean footballer who last played for Bush Bucks in South Africa. He is the twin brother of Zimbabwean footballer Wilfred Mugeyi.

Career
Born in Salisbury (now Harare), Mugeyi had a 13-year club football career, spending most of it playing as a left back alongside his twin brother in the South African Premier Division with Umtata Bush Bucks. He won the Zimbabwean league with Black Aces in 1992 before moving to South Africa with Bush Bucks in 1993.

Mugeyi made several appearances for the Zimbabwe national football team, including twelve FIFA World Cup qualifying matches. He helped Zimbabwe win the 2000 COSAFA Cup, scoring twice in the final against Lesotho.


Lamborghini 350GTV

The Lamborghini 350 GTV was a Lamborghini prototype and forerunner of its first production model, the 350 GT, presented to the public at the 1963 Turin Auto Show.

Development

The 350 GTV body was designed by Franco Scaglione and built by Carrozzeria Sargiotto in Turin. Giorgio Neri and Luciano Bonacini built the tube frame chassis in Modena. Giotto Bizzarrini developed a 3.5 litre dry sump racing-specification V12 engine, with an output of  at 8,000 rpm, and torque of , using the DIN measurement standard, for use in the car.

Ferruccio Lamborghini was dissatisfied with several design features of the 350 GTV, and with the state of tune of the engine. He commissioned Carrozzeria Touring to redesign the car to be more practical and had the engine detuned to  at 6,500 rpm for use in the production car. The new body and retuned engine resulted in the first production Lamborghini, the 350 GT.

Lamborghini continued with the 350 GTV as a show-only prototype. During assembly, the workforce discovered that the body panels would not fit around the engine. Since he had no further plans for the 350 GTV beyond being a show car, Lamborghini had the engine bay ballasted with bricks and kept the bonnet shut throughout the Turin Auto Show. The incomplete show car also lacked brake calipers, foot pedals and windshield wipers.

After the 1963 Turin Auto Show, the 350 GTV was placed into storage. The 350 GTV remained in storage until the mid-1980s, when car dealer Romano Bernandoni and his cousin, Lamborghini expert Stefano Pasini, convinced the management to sell the 350 GTV to them. Bernandoni and Pasini did not receive the gauges and steering wheel with the car. They did, however, receive several proposals to modify the car into running condition and accepted one. During the modification process, the car's colour was changed from its original pale blue to deep metallic green at the owner's request.

The 350 GTV was then sold to a Japanese collector, who placed the car in the Noritake Collection. Several years later, the 350 GTV was placed on display at the Lamborghini Museum in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy.


Jason Chimera

Jason Chimera (; born May 2, 1979) is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Playing career
Chimera played his junior career in the WHL, for Medicine Hat and Brandon. He was selected 121st overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft by his hometown team, the Edmonton Oilers, mostly because of his outstanding skating. Chimera played three seasons on the Hamilton Bulldogs, which at that point was the Oilers' farm team  in the American Hockey League.  In his final season, he was named to the AHL First All-Star team.

Chimera played two seasons for Edmonton before being traded to the Phoenix Coyotes for draft choices.  Because of the NHL lockout, he did not play the following season and went to play in Italy for  Mastini Varese. Chimera was subsequently dealt to the Columbus Blue Jackets, without playing a game in Phoenix, as part of a trade for Geoff Sanderson.

With the Blue Jackets, Chimera predominantly played left wing on the team's third line. He was usually centered by Manny Malhotra and spent significant time playing alongside right wingers such as Dan Fritsche and Trevor Letowski. However, Chimera began the 2008–09 season as the veteran presence on a line with rookies Derick Brassard and Jakub Voracek.

He was a member of the 2007 Canadian IIHF World Championship team that won gold in a 4–2 win against Finland in Moscow.

Chimera was traded to the Washington Capitals on December 28, 2009 for Chris Clark and Milan Jurčina. Chimera was re-signed a two-year contract extension with the Capitals on September 29, 2011.

Chimera was re-signed a two-year contract extension with the Capitals on November 8, 2013.

On July 1, 2016, Chimera signed a two-year deal as a free agent with the New York Islanders. During the subsequent season, Chimera played in his 1,000th game.

In the 2017–18 season, his final season under contract with the Islanders, Chimera was dealt at the trade deadline to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for Chris Wagner on February 26, 2018.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International


Greenhill, Falkirk

Greenhill is a village which lies in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is located on the outskirts of Bonnybridge,  west of Falkirk. Greenhill is situated south of the Forth and Clyde Canal and north of the railway line at Greenhill Junction.

According to the 2001 census the village has 1,265 residents.


Butler, Tennessee

Butler is an unincorporated community in Johnson County in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is located along the northern shore of Watauga Lake.
Butler is served by a post office, assigned ZIP Code 37640.

History
The town was originally located on Roan Creek  at its confluence with the Watauga River. Settlement began in 1768. For many years the community was called Smith's Mill for the gristmill that Ezekial “Zeke” Smith built on the bank of Roan Creek in 1820. After the Civil War, it was renamed in honor of Colonel Roderick R. Butler of Johnson County, who then represented the area in the state legislature and had been a commander in the 13th Tennessee Cavalry in the Union Army.

Aenon Seminary, a secondary school, was established in Butler in 1871. It later became Holly Spring College, offering education up to a bachelor's degree, and enrolling as many as 200 students. In 1906 it was purchased by the Watauga Baptist Association, which renamed it Watauga Academy. It operated under that name until 1948, when the town was inundated by the formation of Watauga Lake.

Butler was the birthplace of U.S. Congressmen B. Carroll Reece of Tennessee and Robert R. Butler of Oregon (grandson of the town's namesake).

Inundation and relocation

The original town of Butler was subject to frequent flooding, experiencing major floods in 1867, 1886, 1901, 1902, 1916, 1924, and 1940. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) began the construction of the Watauga Dam in 1942 which created the Watauga Lake. The construction was delayed because of the ongoing World War II, but was finished in 1948 when the water steadily began rising and the town slowly became submerged under the lake. Butler was the only incorporated town inundated by a TVA reservoir. In 1948, before the reservoir was filled, the town, which at the time had a population of about 600 and included more than 125 homes and 50 businesses, was relocated to higher ground. The relocation project required construction of  of roads and highways, three bridges, and  of utility lines, as well as relocation of 1,281 graves. The town's new site is located on Tennessee State Route 67 at .

The original town is now known as "Old Butler." Old Butler, called “the town that wouldn’t drown,” is commemorated in a museum in Butler and by "Old Butler Days" which is an annual festival held each year in August right in the heart of the town. In 1983, a drawdown of the lake exposed the remains of Old Butler for a brief time, allowing former residents to visit the site.


4364 Shkodrov

4364 Shkodrov, provisional designation , is a background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 7 November 1978, by American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Schelte Bus at the Palomar Observatory in California. The asteroid was named after Bulgarian astronomer Vladimir Shkodrov.

Orbit and classification

Shkodrov is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements. Based on osculating Keplerian orbital elements, the asteroid has also been classified as a member of the Flora family (), a giant asteroid family and the largest family of stony asteroids in the asteroid belt.

It orbits the Sun in the inner main belt at a distance of 2.0–2.7 AU once every 3 years and 7 months (1,297 days; semi-major axis of 2.33 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.14 and an inclination of 2° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins at Palomar Observatory, two nights prior to its official discovery observation.

Physical characteristics

Shkodrov is an assumed, stony S-type asteroid, which is also the overall spectral type for members of the Flora family.

Rotation period

In 2010 and 2013, two rotational lightcurves of Shkodrov have been obtained by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis of the photometric observations in the R-band gave a rotation period of 17.256 and 17.302 hours with a brightness variation of 0.40 and 0.35 magnitude, respectively (). In 2015, Petr Pravec published a refined period of 17.3233 hours and an amplitude of 0.42 magnitude ().

Diameter and albedo

According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Shkodrov measures 4.21 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.24. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an identical albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the Flora family's parent body – and calculates a diameter of 4.94 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 13.7.

Naming

This minor planet was named after Bulgarian astronomer Vladimir Shkodrov (1930–2010), professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and founder of the Bulgarian National Observatory. The asteroid also honors his collaboration with the discoverers on the International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey despite difficult times. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 August 1991 ().

Notes


Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi

Abdulmalik Abduljalil Al-Mekhlafi (; born 19 August 1959) is a Yemeni  politician. He formerly served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.

Early life

Ali was born in the village of Husˤin in the Mekhlaf of Shara'b As Salam, Taiz Province on 19 August 1959. He received his early education from his grandfather Faqih Ali Radman Mekhlafi. He earned a Bachelor of law degree in 1984.

In 1978 Mekhlafi worked in private journalism, especially the student corner in The Republic Newspaper. He also worked on the student program broadcast in Taiz. From 1979 to 1981 he again worked as a journalist for The Republic.

Politics
At age fifteen he joined the Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation of Yemen. From 1977-81 he held various positions in the party. In 1981 he became a member of the group's executive leadership and supervisor of the group's official newspaper. He was elected secretary-general of the group in July 1982 at age 23, a difficult period for the organization, just after the October movement failed.  In 1985 he served as the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. In September 1993 he served as  Secretary General of the organization after political parties were legalized in Yemen.

He was a founding member of the Arab National Conference in 1990 and was repeatedly elected to the Secretariat and the Executive Committee of the National Conference. He was the founder of the Islamic National Conference member in 1994 and a member of the Coordinating Committee and follow-up of the conference previously. Thereafter he help multiple political and governmental positions.
1992: In the Supreme Committee for Elections 5/1993 Member: Grant degree Minister, at the same time apologized for the membership of the Supreme Committee for Elections because of disagreement with the freezing of his political party work.
1997: Adviser for (then president) Ali Abdullah Saleh, for elections, on the demand of the oppositions and agreement with the ruling party
5/1997: Member of the Advisory Board.
2001 a member of the Shura Council
2012: Secretary General of the Arab National Conference (OIC)
2013: Member of the National Dialogue Conference
2014: the president, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi adviser
2015: Deputy Prime Minister/ Minister Of Foreign Affairs


P. D. Orton

Peter Darbishire Orton (28 January 1916 – 7 April 2005) was an English mycologist, specialising in agarics.

Background and education
Peter Darbishire Orton was born in Plymouth, the son of marine scientist, J.H. Orton. He was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences, Music and History, receiving his degree in 1937. He then studied at the Royal College of Music, interrupted by wartime service in the Royal Artillery. On completing his studies, Orton obtained a position as a music teacher at Epsom College in Surrey.

Researches in mycology
P.D. Orton became interested in fungi through fellow amateur A.A. Pearson, who was also a keen musician. Specialising, like Pearson, in agarics, Orton developed considerable expertise in identifying species and in 1955 received a Nuffield Foundation grant to work with Dr R.W.G. Dennis, head of mycology at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and F.B. Hora at Reading University on a revised checklist of British agarics and boletes. The resulting New Checklist, published in 1960, was accompanied by 280 pages of descriptive and revisionary notes by Orton, including many new species. It remained the standard reference work for 45 years.

In 1960 Orton took up a position at the newly opened Rannoch School in Perthshire, Scotland, where he taught biology, English, and music. He remained there till he retired in 1981. During this period, he published many papers on Scottish agarics, particularly those collected on his doorstep, in the Caledonian pine woods around Rannoch. He also contributed, with Prof. Roy Watling, to the British Fungus Flora series, published by the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. He frequently visited his friend and fellow mycologist T.J. Wallace in Membury, Devon, publishing a number of new agaric species from Dawlish Warren and other Devon localities.

In 1986, he moved to Crewkerne, Somerset, where he continued to collect and publish on agarics, his last paper appearing in 1999.

Orton published extensively on British and European agarics and boletes, describing well over 100 species new to science from the British Isles. The agarics Cortinarius ortonii Moënne-Locc. & Reumaux and Entoloma ortonii Arnolds & Noordeloos are named after him. His collections are retained in the mycological herbaria at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Selected publications
Dennis, R.W.G., Orton, P.D., & Hora, F.B. (1960). New checklist of British agarics and boleti. Supplement to Transactions of the British Mycological Society
Orton, P.D. (1960). New checklist of British agarics and boleti part III. Notes on genera and species. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 43: 159-439
Orton, P.D. (1986). British Fungus Flora 4. Pluteaceae: Pluteus & Volvariella. Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Garden
Orton, P.D. (1986). Fungi of northern pine and birch woods. Bulletin of the British Mycological Society 20: 130-145
Orton, P.D. (1987). Notes on some agarics from Scotland. Notes from the Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh 44: 485–502.
Orton, P.D. (1999). New and interesting agarics from Abernethy Forest, Scotland. Kew Bulletin 54: 705-714


Gladstone Peak

Gladstone Peak is a high mountain summit in the San Miguel Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.  The  thirteener is located in the Lizard Head Wilderness,  southwest by west (bearing 234°) of the Town of Telluride, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating San Juan National Forest and Dolores County from Uncompahgre National Forest and San Miguel County.  The mountain was named in honor of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

Mountain


Hermann Weiss

Hermann "Harry" Weiss (born March 17, 1909, date of death unknown) was an Austrian ice hockey goaltender who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics and in the 1936 Winter Olympics.

In 1928 he participated with the Austrian ice hockey team in the Olympic tournament.

Eight years later he was a member of the Austrian team in the 1936 Olympic tournament. He played all six matches as goaltender.


Programmable magnet

Programmed magnets, or polymagnets are magnetic structures that incorporate correlated patterns of magnets with alternating polarity, designed to achieve a desired behavior and deliver stronger local force. By varying the magnetic fields and strengths, different mechanical behaviors can be controlled.

Correlated magnet pairs can be programmed to attract or repel with a prescribed force and engagement distance, or, to attract or repel at a certain spatial orientation. Correlated magnets can be programmed to interact only with other magnetic structures that have been coded to respond. Correlated magnets can even be programmed to attract and repel at the same time. Compared to conventional magnets, the correlated magnet provides much stronger holding force to the target and stronger shear resistance. The programmable behavior is achieved by creating multipole structures comprising multiple magnetic elements (maxels) of varying size, location, orientation, and saturation. The sizes of maxels range from 1 mm to 4 mm. By overlapping these maxels, a very intricate magnetic field can be produced. There are four main functions that correlated magnets can achieve: align, attach, latch, and spring.

Programmed magnets can be programmed, or coded, by varying the polarity and/or field strengths of each source of the arrays of magnetic sources that make up each structure. The resulting magnetic structures can be one-dimensional, two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and even four-dimensional if produced using an electromagnetic array.

Correlated magnetic structures can be developed from ferrites, rare-earth materials (e.g. Neodymium magnet, Samarium–cobalt magnet), ceramics, and electromagnets alike, and the correlation effects are scalable from very large permanent magnets to nanometer-scale devices. Multipole magnetic devices may be constructed from discrete permanent magnets, or by exposing heated magnetizable material to a coded magnetic field.

The science of correlated magnetics was created in 2008 by Larry W. Fullerton in his laboratory at Cedar Ridge in North Alabama. Correlated Magnetics Research (CMR) was formed to pursue research and development of the Coded Magnets technology and to license the technology to business entities across industry. More than 65 patents have been filed for the technology in the U.S. and around the world. CMR uses the term "polymagnets" for this technology. The coding theory used to design radio frequency signals in communication and radar is applied to form the magnetic regions of correlated magnets. The discovery was announced during a press conference in October, 2009, in Huntsville, Alabama. The world first's 3D magnetizing printer is developed by CMR, which is called MagPrinter. This printer consists of a magnetizing coil in a cabinet with a motion-control system. A polymagnet can be easily made from reprogramming a conventional magnetic material in a few minutes.

Applications
Correlated magnetics is an enabling technology that can produce very strong yet safe industrial magnets. For the small size applications, correlated magnets can be used in positioning devices, consumer electronics, magnetic couplings, and vehicle attachment. Potential applications include attach and release work-holding mechanisms, magnetic separators, fluid seals and valves, motor and motion control, factory automation, prosthetics, security devices, and power generation. Correlated magnets is a relatively new technology in history. More applications and research opportunities will be explored.


Bolax (Elis)

Bolax () was a town of Triphylia in ancient Elis. Bolax surrendered to Philip V of Macedon in the Social War.

Its site is unlocated.


Eileen Hogan

Eileen Hogan (born 1 March 1946 in London) is an English painter and book artist. She is a Research Professor at Wimbledon College of Art (a constituent college of the University of the Arts London), a patron of Mindroom and a trustee of the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

Life and work
Hogan was born in London and studied at Camberwell School of Arts (1963–1967), the Royal Academy Schools (1967–1970), the British School of Archaeology at Athens (1970–1971) and the Royal College of Art (1971–1973). Robert Medley, Head of Painting at Camberwell, was himself an influence on Hogan, and provided his students with an eclectic mix of visiting lecturers, including Frank Auerbach, Ronald Kitaj, Anthony Fry, Patrick Procktor and Euan Uglow.

Hogan remembers:
 "Euan Uglow would have a model in for several months. The model would keep the same pose, and we would all draw intensely and slowly. Auerbach would be different.  He would draw in the studio, charcoal flying everywhere, and we'd work in a haze of

Carel Weight was the Professor of Painting at the RCA and in a catalogue for an exhibition of Hogan's paintings at The Fine Art Society in 1993 he wrote:
 "She found her motifs in the parks and gardens of South London near her home. The paintings were very original. The skies were blotted out by rich, dark trees, dense olive in colour with long shadows cast by trees across the foreground and the scenes were peopled by dark shapes. All these elements were evocative of the late summer afternoons with a suggestion of thunder in the
George Melly wrote in The Guardian (1993) about a painting from the time when Hogan lived in Athens:
 "…Athinas shows a rainy street of shoddy shops whose Greek lettering is the only explanations of its Hellenic title (we might otherwise be in Huddersfield). There are written graffiti, reflections, groups of people with umbrellas. There's something going on here. Something being kept from us. As uneasy as a Hitchcock

Hogan has shown regularly at The Fine Art Society, London since 1980  – the most recent exhibition being with the painter Leonard Rosoman RA in 2008. Commissions and awards include recording the Women's Royal Naval Services for the Artistic Records Committee of the Imperial War Museum, a Churchill Traveling Fellowship for research in America, Australia and Japan, and most recently, in 2009, as the Artist-in-Residence for The All England Lawn Tennis Club Championships.

Throughout Hogan's career, her paintings have related to places which have significance for her, and she has developed specific projects over a number of years. She painted Ian Hamilton Finlay in his garden at Little Sparta, between 1997 and 2006 (triptych of IHF shown in the BP Portrait Award in 2007, portrait of IHF, shown in the RA Summer Exhibition 2008, and Beehives at Little Sparta, shown in the RA Summer Exhibition in 2009). Other portraits include Lady Sainsbury of Preston Candover, formerly Anya Linden, ballerina, shown in the BP Portrait Award 2009.

In 2006 The Fine Art Society exhibited her series of paintings based around four garden squares, near her home. Christopher Gibbs wrote in the accompanying publication:
 "…Each garden is a concealed world of which the outsider gets a green veiled glimpse, each has in common areas for maintenance, recreation and repose. These intriguing spaces, which Eileen now shares with us, have inside them atmospheres and characteristics which even the most incorrigible snoopers can never sense, and unique vantage points from which to contemplate the surrounding architecture, its joys and woes..."

Hogan's interest in book art was triggered by her love of lettering, the relationship between words and images and lettering as drawing. She produced three books with the Lion and Unicorn Press when she was a student at the Royal College of Art and went on to establish The Camberwell Press at Camberwell College of Arts, and was its Director from 1984 to 1997. Recent exhibitions of Hogan's book art include Eileen Hogan's Poetry Box (San Francisco Center for the Book) in 2007, in 2009 Romilly Saumarez Smith: Bindings for Eileen Hogan Victoria and Albert Museum. and in the same exhibition, expanded to include Saumarez Smith's jewelry and Hogan's portraits of Saumarez Smith, at the Yale Center for British Art in 2010.

2019 - Personal Geographies: Yale Center for British Art

 2011 – Royal Academy Summer Show also 2010, 2009,2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1974
 2010 – Structured Elegance: Bookbindings and Jewelry by Romilly Saumarez Smith, Yale Center for British Art
 2009 – BP Portrait Awards, National Portrait Gallery (also 2007); Romilly Saumarez Smith: bookbindings for Eileen Hogan, Victoria and Albert Museum;
 2008 – The Fine Art Society London, with Leonard Rosoman; (solo exhibitions at The Fine Art Society in 2006, 2000, 1997, 1992, 1988, 1986, 1985, 1982 and 1980)
 2007 – Eileen Hogan's Poetry Box San Francisco Center for the Book;, Laing Gallery, National Portrait Gallery of Scotland
 2006 – Unregulated Printing, Cambridge University
 2005 – Portraits, Power and Politics, Buckinghamshire County Museum; Recent Acquisitions: Yale Center for British Art
 2004 – The Writer and the Garden, British Library
 2002 – Processes of Renewal:  Toshiba Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum
Earlier solo exhibitions include at the Imperial War Museum (1984) and the British Council in Athens (1983 and 1971)

Selected public collections
 British Library
 Buffalo University New York
 Cambridge University Library
 Esme Fairbairn Trust
 Gleeson Library University of San Francisco
 Government Art Collection
 Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
 Stadsbibliotheek Haarlem
 Houghton Library, Harvard
 Imperial War Museum, London
 The Library of Congress, Washington DC
 National Library of Australia
 Newberry Library, Chicago
 Nuffield Foundation
 Rijksmuseum-Meermanno, Hague
 Stanford University
 Tullie House City Museum, Carlisle
 Victoria and Albert Museum, London
 University of the Arts, London
 Yale Center for British Art


Club Barcelona Atlético

Club Barcelona Atlético is a Dominican professional football team based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Founded in 1989 as Bancredicard FC, the team changed its name to Club Barcelona Atlético in 2003. It currently plays in the Liga Dominicana de Fútbol.

History
Club Barcelona Atlético, commonly known as Barcelona Atlético, is a football team from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The club has won two First Division titles making it one of the most successful clubs in the history of Dominican football. Barcelona Atlético was founded in 1989 by Ángel González Baliño.

Early Days
Previously known as San Cristóbal Bancredicard. It was founded in the capital Santo Domingo and has been champion of the maximum category in 3 occasions and this one was changed of name in 2003 by Club Barcelona Athletic by means of an agreement and dissolution of the bank Bancredito and Intercontinental Baninter.

Internationally, he was the 2nd team with more appearances, as he has 2 appearances in the Champions Cup of CONCACAF, where his best participation was in the 1992 edition, in which they were eliminated in the first round by The Solidarité Scolaire de Guadalupe.

They are nicknamed The Blaugrana Quisqueyanos.

Home stadiums
Estadio Parque del Este (1989–07), (2015)
Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez (2007–14, 2016-)

Achievements
Liga Dominicana de Fútbol: 1
 2016

Liga Mayor Coca-Cola: 1
 2007

Campeonato Nacional: 3
 1991, 1992, 1994


Frequencies from Planet Ten

Frequencies from Planet Ten is the debut album by rock band Orange Goblin. It was released in 1997 by Rise Above Records. In 2002 it was reissued as a double CD coupled with their second album, Time Travelling Blues (1998). The reissue version contains two bonus tracks, both taken from their Man's Ruin EP, Nuclear Guru. The latter bonus track is a cover of Black Sabbath's "Hand of Doom". The original Japanese press also contains these two bonus tracks.

Both "Saruman's Wish" and "Lothlorian" have their basis in J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings. Saruman is an evil wizard and Lothlórien is a mythical forest which is home to a race of elves.

Track listing

Personnel
 Ben Ward - vocals
 Pete O'Malley - guitar
 Joe Hoare - guitar
 Martyn Millard - bass
 Duncan Gibbs - keyboards
 Chris Turner - drums


Richard Huish College, Taunton

Richard Huish College is a further education and sixth-form college in Taunton, Somerset, England. Located on a single site in South Road, about a mile from the center of Taunton, it offers A-level courses, apprenticeships and vocational courses.

The college has around 2,000 full-time students aged 16–18 studying A Levels and BTEC courses, and 500 studying for apprenticeships and professional qualifications. A small number of GCSEs are offered for 16-year-old students wanting to progress to the sixth form.

History
The college was named after its benefactor, Richard Huish, a Taunton wool merchant from the 17th century who made his fortune in London. When he died in 1615, his will included monies to establish an educational facility in Taunton, which came into fruition as a grammar school for boys in the 18th century. Since 1979, Richard Huish College has been a sixth form college.

Campus

The college occupies a site of 8 hectares (20 acres), of which 70% is sports fields, in the south of Taunton. Its buildings, which range in age from 1880 to 2015, take their names from some of the trees that cover the campus. The site is alleged to have previously been an Aboretum.

Over the period 2000–2009, a variety of building projects resulted in the Willow Building, the Hawthorn Building, Linden, and in 2009 Rowan House. In 2003, the Learning Centre at the heart of the campus, which is named after the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, a former pupil of Huish's Grammar School, was extended and completely refurbished.

In 2006 the sports dome was opened, which at the time was a ground breaking project for an inflatable dome for sports. It is due to be replaced during 2016, by a sports hall, including a viewing area, gym, changing facilities and a classroom. During 2015, a new cafe area and social space was built, including the first floor Redwood Suite. The cafe area includes a Costa Coffee. The Redwood Centre was renovated to house the drama and dance studios.

Curriculum
The college offers a large range of A Level and BTEC subjects. There are more than 45 subjects offered at A Level (Level 3). As well as traditional school subjects, many other A Level subjects are offered such as archaeology, classical civilisation, dance, economics, environmental studies, geology, government and politics, law, photography, psychology, sociology and statistics.

An increasing range of BTEC courses (Level 3 vocational courses equivalent to A Levels) are offered. They currently include applied science, business, creative media production, graphic design, health and social care/health sciences, information technology, music production, popular music and sport. A small number of GCSEs are offered for those wanting to progress to the sixth form. The College places a strong emphasis on the breadth of its enrichment activities for students.

The college also delivers apprenticeships and traineeships in the areas of accountancy, medical administration, business and administration, call centre operations, customer service, healthcare, IT user and IT professional, team leading and management, health and social care. At Level 4 and above, the college offers FdA and BA degrees in business and sports development and coaching, and professional courses in Accountancy (AAT, ACCA and CIMA) and Institute of Leadership and Management course (ILM). There are also short courses in computer skills and bespoke training services.

Exam results
The college's A2-Level exam results are as follows:

2003/2004 - 99.3% pass rate
2004/2005 - 99.7% pass rate: A-B: 71%
2005/2006 - 99.8%+ pass rate: A-B: 75%
2006/2007 - 99.2%+ pass rate: A-B: 74%
2007/2008 - 99%+ pass rate: A-B: 55%
2008/2009 - 99%+ pass rate: A-B: 69%
2009/2010 - 99.3% pass rate: A-B: 55.9%
2010/2011 - 99.4% pass rate: A-B: 58.8%
2011/2012 - 99.1% pass rate: A-B: 56.5%
2012/2013 - 99.1% pass rate: A-B: 55.2%
2013/2014 - 98.7% pass rate: A-B: 55%
2014/2015 - 99% pass rate: A-B: 57%

Notable students
Gareth Andrew, cricketer currently playing for Oxfordshire, former player of Worcestershire, Somerset and Hampshire Cricket Clubs
Andrew Castle, former British number one tennis player and television presenter
Arthur C. Clarke, author and inventor
Stephen Daldry, film and theatre director. His films include Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002), The Reader (2008) and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
Neil Edwards, former Somerset and Nottinghamshire cricketer
Carl Gazzard, former County Cricketer for Somerset
William Gibson, professor of ecclesiastical history at Oxford Brookes University
Rebecca Huxtable, producer and co-presenter of The Scott Mills Show on BBC Radio 1
Jack Leach, England international cricketer currently playing for Somerset County Cricket Club
Hannah McKeand, polar explorer who set the record for the fastest journey to the South Pole in 2006
Keith Parsons, cricketer
Michael Parsons, former player of Somerset County Cricket Club
Adam Pengilly, British skeleton racer
Andy Robinson, former head coach of the England national rugby union team
Edward S. Shire, physicist who co-invented the radar proximity fuse, also worked with John Cockroft and Ernest Rutherford
Sam Spurway, former cricketer
Paul Williams, Church of England bishop
Linda Woodhead, professor and academic specialist in religious studies at Lancaster University
Robert Woodman, cricketer currently playing for Devon County Cricket Club

Sport
Huish Sport runs a sports enrichment programme.  Each year, over 500 students participate in Huish Sport across 19 different sports.

Richard Huish College currently offers performance sport programmes for Cricket, Football, Rugby and Basketball. There is also the 'Active Huish' scheme which encourages students to take part in sports they previously would not have considered and also provides a more relaxed atmosphere in which to exercise.


Piecewise linear manifold

In mathematics, a piecewise linear (PL) manifold is a topological manifold together with a piecewise linear structure on it. Such a structure can be defined by means of an atlas, such that one can pass from chart to chart in it by piecewise linear functions. This is slightly stronger than the topological notion of a triangulation.

An isomorphism of PL manifolds is called a PL homeomorphism.

Relation to other categories of manifolds

PL, or more precisely PDIFF, sits between DIFF (the category of smooth manifolds) and TOP (the category of topological manifolds): it is categorically "better behaved" than DIFF — for example, the Generalized Poincaré conjecture is true in PL (with the possible exception of dimension 4, where it is equivalent to DIFF), but is false generally in DIFF — but is "worse behaved" than TOP, as elaborated in surgery theory.

Smooth manifolds
Smooth manifolds have canonical PL structures — they are uniquely triangulizable, by Whitehead's theorem on triangulation  — but PL manifolds do not always have smooth structures — they are not always smoothable. This relation can be elaborated by introducing the category PDIFF, which contains both DIFF and PL, and is equivalent to PL.

One way in which PL is better behaved than DIFF is that one can take cones in PL, but not in DIFF — the cone point is acceptable in PL.
A consequence is that the Generalized Poincaré conjecture is true in PL for dimensions greater than four — the proof is to take a homotopy sphere, remove two balls, apply the h-cobordism theorem to conclude that this is a cylinder, and then attach cones to recover a sphere. This last step works in PL but not in DIFF, giving rise to exotic spheres.

Topological manifolds

Not every topological manifold admits a PL structure, and of those that do, the PL structure need not be unique — it can have infinitely many. This is elaborated at Hauptvermutung. The Kirby–Siebenmann class is an obstruction for giving a topological manifold a PL-structure.

The obstruction to placing a PL structure on a topological manifold is the Kirby–Siebenmann class.  To be precise, the Kirby-Siebenmann class is the obstruction to placing a PL-structure on M x R and in dimensions n > 4 this ensures that M has a PL-structure.

Real algebraic sets
An A-structure on a PL manifold is a structure which gives an inductive way of resolving the PL manifold to a smooth manifold. Compact PL manifolds admit A-structures. Compact PL manifolds are homeomorphic to real-algebraic sets.  Put another way, A-category sits over the PL-category as a richer category with no obstruction to lifting, that is BA → BPL is a product fibration with BA = BPL × PL/A, and PL manifolds are real algebraic sets because A-manifolds are real algebraic sets.

Combinatorial manifolds and digital manifolds
 A combinatorial manifold is a kind of manifold which is discretization of a manifold. It usually means a piecewise linear manifold made by simplicial complexes.
 A digital manifold is a special kind of combinatorial manifold which is defined in digital space. See digital topology.


Broomfield and Kingswood

Broomfield and Kingswood is a civil parish in the Maidstone district of Kent, England.  The parish lies to the east of Maidstone, south of the A20 road to Folkestone. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,545, increasing to 1,604 at the 2011 Census.  The parish covers the villages of Broomfield and Kingswood.

Town twinning
 Broomfield, Colorado


Karsy Dolne

Karsy Dolne  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pacanów, within Busko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately  south-east of Pacanów,  east of Busko-Zdrój, and  south-east of the regional capital Kielce.

The village has a population of 52.


Jászfelsőszentgyörgy

Jászfelsőszentgyörgy is a village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.

Geography
It covers an area of  and has a population of 1,905 people (2013 estimate).

Population


2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup

The 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup was the second edition of the ICC Intercontinental Cup, a cricket competition for (then) 12 nations from Asia, Africa, North America and Europe. All the games were scheduled for three days and were designated first class.

The teams played each other team in each of the four groups once. The winners of each group progressed to a semi-final from 23 to 25 October, and then a final from 27 to 29 October, hosted by Namibia. The groups were as follows:

Africa: Kenya, Namibia, Uganda (won by Kenya)
Asia: Hong Kong, Nepal, United Arab Emirates (won by the United Arab Emirates)
Europe: Netherlands, Ireland, Scotland (won by Ireland)
N America: Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands (won by Bermuda)

The United States were going to compete in the North American group, but were expelled from the competition by the ICC because of ongoing political problems within cricket in the US.

The tournament was won by Ireland who defeated
Kenya in the final.

Playing conditions
The competition was run by the International Cricket Council to support the development of the longer form of the game in 12 of its associate members. The points system had been determined so as to encourage positive play. For instance, there were 14 points for a win, and the first innings was restricted to 90 overs, which can encourage attacking play as a team approaches the 90 over mark. In the event of a tie (i.e. all wickets down in the last innings with the scores being equal) each side was awarded 7 points.

Bonus points for batting were available for every 25 runs scored. There was no limit to how many points can be scored in the first innings, but batting points were restricted to 4 points (300 runs) in the second. 0.5 points were available for every wicket taken.

Group stage

Africa Group

22–24 April: Kenya (32pts) beat Uganda (15pts) by 168 runs

The 2005 competition finally got underway on 22 April the Lugogo Stadium in Kampala. The Kenyan team was just starting to recover from the tremendous upheavals and political difficulties that have racked the Kenyan Cricket Association. This had led to their match against Namibia, which was scheduled to begin on 26 February to be put back to 2 June. With the old-look side restored, Kenya were clear favourites again.

On the first day, Kenya scored 321 in an innings dominated by their veteran captain Steve Tikolo, who scored 149. However, the only real support he got was from Modi (56). In reply, Uganda were struggling at 37 for 3 at stumps. The second day saw continued Kenyan domination. Odoyo took 5 for 34 as Uganda subsided for 168. The ball was certainly on top as Kenya's second innings teetered to 85 for 6, with one day left to play. On the final day, Kenya were all out for 116, setting a target of 270. This was more than beyond them as Onyango took 6 for 21 to skittle the Ugandans for 108.

14–16 May: Namibia (31.5pts) beat Uganda (17pts) by 3 wickets

Uganda won the toss and elected to bat at Lugogo Stadium, Kampala, and were quickly struggling on 9 for 2. Wickets fell regularly throughout the first day, which also saw an interruption for rain and curtailed by bad light. Namibia bowled well, with Gerrie Snyman taking 3 for 45. Uganda finished the first day on 225 for 9, mostly thanks to Franco Nsubuga, who scored 64. On the second day, Uganda were all out for 231, before dismissing Namibia for 201, which was somewhat of a recovery after they fell to 66 for 6. Namibia then took 5 quick wickets to wrest the advantage from the Ugandans when time was called at 60 for 5.

On the final day, Uganda rallied with Olweny (25), Kwebiha (39), Nsubuga (28) and Kishore (22*) helping the Ugandan total to 211 for 9 declared. Namibia then went for their target, always losing wickets along the way. But half-centuries from AJ Burger, Swanepoel and Kotze finally saw them through with 3 wickets remaining. Namibia now go on to meet Kenya in what will be the deciding match of the African group. Uganda are eliminated.

3–5 June: Kenya (17pts) drew with Namibia (15pts)

With only half a point separating the two teams, it was not surprising that Kenya declared on 300 for 6, as soon as they had secured maximum first innings batting points, and with 8 potential balls left before their 90 overs were up. Namibia instead chose to bat on to take a first innings lead at 335 for 9 declared, with Burger making 87 and Snyman 75. By the end of the second day, Kenya were 112 for 2 in reply - scoring useful points as the game looked to be heading for a draw. By the time they declared on 282 for 9, with Suji top-scoring on 72, they had set a theoretical target of 248, and they looked as though they would sneak it on points. By the time they had reduced Namibia to 68 for 5, they had secured their semi-final qualification.

Asia Group

24–26 April: United Arab Emirates (30pts) beat Hong Kong (12.5pts) by 7 wickets

Hong Kong, making their ICC Intercontinental Cup debut, showed their inexperience in Sharjah. The first day saw them dismissed for 127, with the UAE moving to 126 for 7 by close. They only added onto their score on the second day, to leave the game as a tie on first innings. Hong Kong were then dismissed cheaply again, this time for 184, and then let the UAE move to 144 for 3 at close. The game ended early on the third day, with no more wickets falling. The UAE had taken only 46 overs to knock off the runs.

30 April-2 May: Nepal (8.5pts) drew with Hong Kong (5.5pts)

In Kathmandu, the first day was abandoned without a ball being bowled. The second day was also severely hampered by rain, but there was time for the Nepalis to bowl Hong Kong out for 91 after putting them into bat. The third and final day allowed for 54 overs, in which Nepal scored 101 for 7 declared and Hong Kong moved to 37 for 3 as Nepal tried to pick up as many points as possible before their group decider with the United Arab Emirates.

7–9 May: Nepal (32pts) beat the United Arab Emirates (11pts) by 172 runs

Nepal won the toss in Kathmandu and batted first. After losing two quick wickets they consolidated and finished a rain-affected first day on 246 for 5. On day two they declared on 287 for 7. Nepal's bowlers then performed well, dismissing the United Arab Emirates for 164, with Arshad Ali carrying his bat for 81. In reply, Nepal proceeded to 45 for 2 by stumps on the second day. On the third and final day, Nepal declared on 125 for 6. Binod Das then took 5 for 27 to help dismiss the Emiratis for 76.

And so, despite Nepal clearly showing their dominance in the group they do not progress to the next round. Nepal thrashed UAE and were well on top against Hong Kong but, because their game against Hong Kong was ravaged by rain, they do not progress to the semi-finals in Namibia. Whether the ICC will change the points system because of this is yet to be seen.

Europe Group

29–31 July: Netherlands (5.5pts) drew with Scotland (4pts)

The Scots went into this tournament as favourites, being holders of the Intercontinental Cup and the ICC Trophy. However, rain in Utrecht prevented them from a good start against the Dutch, who bowled well enough to have them all out for 217 on the first day. Ian Stanger hit his second first-class fifty and Ryan Watson 46, but South African-born Ryan ten Doeschate took three important, albeit expensive, wickets and medium-pacer Edgar Schiferli finished with four for 46. In reply, Maurits van Nierop lashed out, taking 24 off the Scottish bowlers as the Dutch made 31 for 0 to see them to stumps on day 1. Play was impossible on the next two days, and the Scots now needed to thump Ireland in Aberdeen if they were to have any hope of qualifying for the semi-finals.

13–15 August: Ireland (30.5pts) beat Scotland (17pts) by three runs

The start of the match at Aberdeen was delayed due to rain, but when it did get underway, Ireland immediately got into trouble. The first two partnerships didn't add a single run, four batsmen departed for ducks, and Craig Wright got four wickets for the hosting Scots. Ireland crumbled to 128 for 9 before 17-year-old Greg Thompson from Lisburn hit 35 from number 10 to become the top scorer of the innings. Steven Knox hit 38 for the Scots, however, as they moved to 104 for 2. Tight bowling frustrated the Scots, who were looking for quick runs, but at least Cedric English hit 66 to lift them to 234 - a lead of 62. Ryan Watson and Dewald Nel got a wicket each before stumps, the Irish second innings score 46 for 2. Dominic Joyce, brother of more famous Ed, came to the crease as the new batsman on the third morning, and he scored 61 before being lbw to Dewald Nel - a crucial innings. The rest of the batsmen stuck in, defending against Paul Hoffmann, who bowled 18 overs for 33 runs, but only got the one wicket.

The Scots - needing a victory after the wash-out in Utrecht against the Dutch - went after  the target. But the former Essex bowler, Adrian McCoubrey, took four for 17 as the Scots crashed to 34 for four, and despite 31 not out from Craig Wright, his two last partners were both run out, and Scotland finished on 131 - four runs short of victory. Thus, the finalists of the last tournament were knocked out before the last game.

23–25 August: Ireland (11pts) drew with Netherlands (6pts)

The first day of the match at Stormont, Belfast was rained off, and Ireland, knowing that plenty of runs would give them enough to see them through to the semi-finals, chose to bat out 90 overs. The entire top order contributed with half-centuries and centuries - Jeremy Bray top scoring 135 - as the Dutch bowlers were slaughtered, debutant Ernst van Giezen taking two for 107 as the best bowler. Ireland declared on 407 for 4, having realised they could get no more points, and immediately dug into the Dutch top order. A recovery was staged thanks to a 115-run stand between Ryan ten Doeschate and Alexei Kervezee, but when Andre Botha took two wickets the Dutch realised the futility of their task. The match was eventually abandoned as a draw, which sent Ireland into the semi-finals of the tournament.

Americas Group

23–25 August: Bermuda (30.5pts) beat Canada (17.5pts) by 48 runs

Bermuda pulled off a narrow victory over Canada in Toronto to leave them favourites to win the Americas group. Canada won the toss and put Bermuda into bat, a decision that was soon vindicated as their guests were skittled for 125 in 59.5 overs, with only Clay Smith (52) and Janeiro Tucker (25) putting up any sort of resistance. The damage was done by Canada's 21-year-old left-arm medium pace bowler, Umar Bhatti, who got 8 for 40. By the end of the first day, Canada had already overhauled this total, and were on 149 for 6. The innings closed on the second day at 207, of which 76 were made by Ashish Bagai. Bermuda did better in their second innings, mostly due to Tucker's 123 that helped swing the game. By the time they had finished their innings they had 311 on the board and a defendable lead of 229. Early wickets saw the hosts collapse to 17 for 4 before a recovery took them to 164 for 6. A final push by Bermuda saw them all out for 181, and put the Bermudians in control of the group: a win in their next game would see them in the semi-finals. Scorecard

27–29 August: Bermuda (31.5pts) beat Cayman Islands (8.5pts) by an innings and 105 runs

Cayman Islands got off to a good start in their first Intercontinental Cup match in their history - indeed, their inaugural first class match. Amid rains at Toronto, they made their way to 109 for 1, before Bermudian off spinner Dwayne Leverock unleashed himself on the Cayman batting line-up. In 27 overs he took five for 56, playing a major part in dismissing the Caymans for 197 just before rain stopped play on day one. On day two, however, Bermuda took over, with captain Clay Smith making 138 and Irving Romaine scoring 111 as the team raced to 387 for 7. Kevin Hurdle then took two wickets in five expensive overs as the Caymans were 50 for 4 at the second day's close of play. It took 14 overs for Leverock and Bermuda to wrap up the Cayman innings for 85, thus taking 31.5 points and assuring themselves of a semi-final spot. Leverock finished with match figures of eleven for 72, the best figures in the tournament so far this year.

31 August-2 September: Canada (33.5pts) beat Cayman Islands (14.5pts) by 120 runs

Canada dominated proceedings at Toronto, getting the win but not getting enough points to qualify for the semi-finals. Batting first, they made 340, with Dean Maxwell recording a maiden first class century despite retiring hurt on 58. He returned when Umar Bhatti was dismissed and the score was 241 for 7, adding a further 56 before falling to Ronald Ebanks, and Canada declared without sending in number 11 Henry Osinde. The fast bowler menaced the Cayman batting line-up, however, taking seven for 53 as the Caymans were bowled out for 159, before quick runs from Qaiser Ali and Ashish Bagai gave Canada a 332-run lead before declaring again. Kevin Sandher and Sunil Dhaniram then took care of the Caymans' batting, bowling them out shortly before tea on day three, with 41-year-old Pearson Best scoring 53 as the Caymans managed an all-time high score of 212.

Knockout stages
Namibia was elected to host the knockout stages of the Intercontinental Cup on 5 April 2005.

Semi-finals

Final


Nijō Mochimichi

, son of regent Nijō Motonori, was a Japanese kugyō (court noble) of the Muromachi period (1336–1573). He held a regent position kampaku three times from 1453 to 1454, from 1455 to 1458 and from 1463 to 1467. He was the father of regent Nijō Masatsugu.


In 0 to ∞

In 0 to ∞ is an album by Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., released in 2010 by Important Records. The album is a followup to their 2001 cover of Terry Riley's In C.

Release

The album was released on CD and LP. The LP release was limited to 100 copies on yellow vinyl and 100 copies on clear vinyl. The remaining 800 copies will be on standard vinyl

Track listing

Personnel

 Tsuyama Atsushi - monster bass, voice, soprano sax, recorder, chimpo pipe, temple block, cosmic joker
 Higashi Hiroshi - synthesizer, dancin'king
 Shimura Koji - drums, Latino cool
 Ichiraku Yoshimitsu - drums, doravideo
 Kawabata Makoto - guitar, organ, synthesizer, analog guitar synthesizer, gong, glockenspiel, tape-loop, voice, speed guru

Guests

 Cotton Casino - voice

Technical personnel

 produced & engineered by Kawabata Makoto


Lisa Edmonds

Lisa Edmonds (née O'Nion) (born 5 June 1967 in Hertfordshire, England)  is a wheelchair basketball player from Australia.  She was part of the silver medal winning Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team  at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. She retired from competitive wheelchair basketball in 2013 and is regarded as one of the pioneers of the women's game in Australia.

Wheelchair Basketball

Career

At the age of 20, Craig Jarvis, a Sport and Recreation Officer at the Prince of Wales Hospital Spinal Cord Injuries Unit, introduced Edmonds to wheelchair basketball. She stated that: I left the hospital, bought a basketball and pushed up and down the street trying to bounce the ball. I absolutely loved the challenge and being active.   Edmonds was part of the birth of women's wheelchair basketball in Australia. In 1989, she was a member of the training/selection camp for the first ever National women's team, now known as the Gliders. This camp was organized by Susan Hobbs. Edmonds went on to play 104 games for Australia from 1989 to 2002 and represented Australia at three Summer Paralympics.  She was captain of the National team in 2002.

Edmonds played for the North Sydney Bears (now Stacks Goudkamp Bears) in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League since its inception in 2000. She was named in the League's All Star Five for four consecutive years - 2000 to 2003. She retired from competitive wheelchair basketball in September 2013.  On her retirement she commented: If you start playing wheelchair basketball and fall in love with it and want to be the best you can be, you have to live it, breathe it, dream it and make the basketball something you can't be without, and in some cases the wheelchair!.

Representative Summary
On her retirement in September 2013, Edmonds representative career for Australia spanned from 1989 to 2002.  She played for Australia 44 times in official international competitions and 60 times in other international competitions.

Education
In the England she attended, Woodlands Primary School and Nicholas Hawksmoor. In 2008, she completed an Advanced Diploma Event Management (TAFE).


Aso-class patrol vessel

The Aso-class patrol vessel is a class of PL type patrol vessel of the Japan Coast Guard. PL stands for Patrol vessel Large, and the class is named after Mount Aso, the largest active volcano in Japan.

This class is one of the new patrol vessel classes to intercept spy boats of DPRK. These classes are called "高速高機能大型巡視船", High-speed, high-functionality patrol vessel, large. Having Bofors 40 mm L/70 autocannon with fire-control system, this class is safely able to deal with heavily armed spy boats of DPRK which intrude into Japanese waters. The hull of this class is bulletproof in case of close-range firefights.

In the back of the bridge's side, this class has display devices that can be used to instruct other ships to stop even at nighttime. And on the bridge superstructure, this class is equipped with the LIDAR system to acquire targets with high accuracy. At the same time, this system enables them to perform search and rescue missions more safely.

Ships in the class


Punak

Punak is a rich neighbourhood in north-west Tehran, the capital city of Iran.
The name of one of the most expensive and promising neighborhoods in the city of Tehran, located in the northwest.  Part of it is in Region 2 and another part in District 5.  According to the latest statistics, there are about 22,000 people.


António Carneiro

António Teixeira Carneiro Júnior (16 September 1872, Amarante – 31 March 1930, Porto) was a Portuguese Expressionist painter, illustrator, poet and art professor.

Biography
He was born into a working-class family. At the age of seven, he was abandoned by his father and lost his mother not long after. In 1879, he was placed in an orphanage operated by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia. It was there that he received his basic education and had his first drawing lessons.

His talent was noticed early and, thanks to the efforts of his teacher and the school's Director, he was able to enroll at the "" in 1884, where he studied with João Marques de Oliveira until 1888. That year, he turned eighteen and left the orphanage, where he took up sculpture with António Soares dos Reis, but returned to painting after Reis' suicide, entering the workshop of João António Correia. In 1891, he wrote his first poems and, two years later, was married. In 1895, he was reunited with his father, who had returned from Brazil.

Two years later, he was able to go to Paris after receiving a scholarship sponsored by . He attended the Académie Julien, studying with Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. In 1900, he won a Silver Medal at the Exposition Universelle for his triptych "Life". He returned to Porto in 1911 and became a teacher at the Escola. Unable to make a living from his art, he took a two-year hiatus to exhibit in Brazil from 1914 to 1916. After his return, he was appointed Chair of the drawing department in 1918.

During these years, he became a contributor to several magazines, including Atlantida (Atlantis), and joined a new cultural organization called  (Portuguese Renaissance); designing their magazine's logo. He also illustrated the works of several authors, including António Correia de Oliveira and João de Deus.

In 1925, the death of his daughter, Josefina, had a significant effect on his work. Despite the emotional effects of that tragedy, he accepted an appointment as Director of the Escola in 1929. He never served in that capacity, however, as he was vacationing in Brazil at the time of his appointment and died shortly after his return.

In 1936, his book of poetry, Solilóquios: sonetos póstumos, was published, with an introduction by .


Hans Reiche

Hans Reiche (28 November 1914 - 30 September 2000) was an electrical engineer and philatelist who became a world authority on Canadian stamps.

Life
Born in Berlin, Reiche received a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Berlin Technical University in 1936, before travelling first to England in 1939, where he was interned after the start of World War Two, and then to Camp Monteith in Ontario, Canada in 1940. He was released in 1942 with the help of Albert Einstein, who was a friend of the family, and he then started a long career working for the Canadian Government.

His father was the noted physicist Fritz Reiche who studied with Max Planck. Hans and his mother Bertha, donated Fritz's papers to the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics after his death in 1969. Hans' mother, formerly Bertha Ochs, was the daughter of the composer Professor Siegfried Ochs, the founder and conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Choir.

Non-philatelic documents about Hans Reiche and his family are held in the Ottawa Jewish Archives.

Philatelic interests
Reiche's main philatelic interests were Canadian constant plate varieties, about which he was a prolific author, Canadian pre-cancels and old German states. At different times he received the Bronze, Silver and Gold Medals of the German Philatelic Society.

He was prominent in many philatelic organisations including the British North America Philatelic Society, The Ottawa Philatelic Society, The Canadian Philatelic Society of Great Britain (Fellow 1979), The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (Fellow 1982) and others. Reiche was a constant contributor to the newsletters and journals of philatelic organisations. Particularly notable was "Postmarked Ottawa" in The Canadian Philatelist, the official journal of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada.

After his death, Reiche's philatelic papers were acquired by the Canadian Postal Archives, part of the National Archives of Canada.

Selected publications
Canada: Catalogue of constant plate varieties (Billig's Specialized Catalogues Vol.7), Fritz Billig, Jamaica, New York, 1954.
Canada, the Admiral stamps of 1911 to 1925. (Two volumes)
Canada Steel Engraved Constant Plate Varieties, 1982.
Admiral Colour Identification.