Kuntillet Ajrud

Kuntillet Ajrud () is a late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE site in the northeast part of the Sinai Peninsula. It is frequently described as a shrine, though this is not certain.

Excavations
The site was excavated in 1975/76 by Tel Aviv University archaeologist Ze’ev Meshel. The fortress-like main building is divided into two rooms, one large and the other small, both with low benches. Both rooms contained various paintings and inscriptions on the walls and on two large water-jars (pithoi), one found in each room. The paintings on the pithoi show various animals, stylised trees, and human figures, some of which may represent gods. They appear to have been done over a fairly considerable period and by several different artists, and do not form coherent scenes. The iconography is entirely Syrian/Phoenician and lacks any connection to the Egyptian models commonly found in Iron Age IIB Israel art.

The inscriptions are mostly in early Hebrew with some in Phoenician script. Many are religious in nature, invoking  Yahweh, El and Baal, and two include the phrases "Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah" and "Yahweh of Teman and his Asherah." There is general agreement that Yahweh is being invoked in connection with Samaria (capital of the kingdom of Israel) and Teman (in Edom); this suggests that Yahweh had a temple in Samaria, and raises a question over the relationship between Yahweh and Kaus, the national god of Edom. The "Asherah" is most likely a cultic object, although the relationship of this object (a stylised tree perhaps) to Yahweh and to the goddess Asherah, consort of El, is unclear.

An image on the piece of pottery (belonging to a pithos vase) found at Kuntillet Ajrud is adjacent to a Hebrew inscription "Berakhti etkhem l’YHVH Shomron ul’Asherato" ("I have blessed you by Yahweh of Samaria and [his] Asherah"). Scholars disputed about the meaning and the significance of this. The two figures portrayed are generally identifiable as representing the Egyptian god Bes. Also, it is believed that part of this image was drawn after the inscription was written, namely the figure labeled as S (the leftmost humanoid figure depicted).

The excavation report by Ze'ev Meshel was published in 2012.


Ramjee Kunwar

Ramjee Kunwar () (born 19 September 1956; Kaski District, Nepal) is a Nepal Trade Union Congress-Independent (NTUCI) leader,  Senior Vice President of NTUCI and executive member of Nepali Congress Party . He was also the former Vice President and Secretary of NTUCI and currently Acting president.

NTUCI is a major democratic national center of Nepal, established on 1947 A.D.The labor movement in Nepal started on March 4, 1947 in Biratnagar against the hereditary Rana rule for the establishment of democracy and advancement of workers’ rights. In 1948 Late Mr. Girija Prasad Koirala founded the Nepal Mazdoor Congress, later known as the Nepal Trade Union Congress-Independent. NTUCI also actively agitated and protested in 2006 democracy movement in Nepal against the direct and undemocratic rule of King Gyanendra of Nepal. Many leaders of Trade Union along with Mr. Kunwar was put to jail and some fled to India. The ideology of NTUCI was based on democracy, nationalism and socialism. NTUCI is affialiated with International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and International Labour Organization(ILO).

Early involvement
Kunwar did his education from Gandhigram Rural University, Tamil Nadu, India in 1984. As working in a Health sector for  22 years. Mr. Kunwar join Trade Union because of discrimination against the worker's rights, welfare, and socio-economic standard. Mr. Kunwar joined Trade Union in 1990 and has been continuously fighting for the labour cause. Kunwar, flayed the provision of 'no work no pay' in the new policy saying it was against the labourers."The provision is totally against the laborers and we condemn it," Kunwar said.

Activities
In his leadership NTUCI has been actively campaigning to promote social welfare, social justice, human rights, and equality and eliminate child labor on a national level. Mr. Kunwar was also part of the Nepalese delegation to the 98th International Labour Conference (ILC)  with  (ILO)  whom briefed Director General of ILO, Mr. Juan Somavia about  their efforts to have labour related rights incorporated into the new constitution at Geneva, in 2009. Mr. Kunwar has been  actively lobbying and putting  pressure with political parties and government with the partnership of other trade unions, they have succeeded to address the worker rights and job security in the interim constitution of Nepal and in the ratification of ILO conventions.  Mr.Kunwar  addressed the High-Level Meeting with the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and ITUC/Global Unions in Washington D.C. January 2011.

Minimum wage
Kunwar is also one of the key people from Joint Trade Union  in negotiating the minimum wage for workers. After many negotiations and disagreement, In a landmark decision Trade unions and employers have agreed to increase the salary and daily wages of workers. Talks between Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI), Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) and trade unions have resulted in hiking the minimum wage of workers from Rs 4,600 to Rs 6,100 and bringing in Social security plan for workers.The agreement also provides for amending labour laws in favour of industrial harmony. "Trade unions have taken the agreement positive as the agreement has accepted their longtime demand of Social security. Including Social security fund (SSF) in the agreement is the success of labour movement", said Ramjee Kunwar, Acting president of NTUCI.


Greenwald, Pennsylvania

Greenwald is an unincorporated community and coal town in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.


Lactuca cyprica

Lactuca cypria, Cyprus lettuce, is a biennial, erect herb with glandular, hairy stems and a globose rhizome. Leaves alternate, simple, the basal large, oblong, petiolate, 10-15 x 5–7 cm, pinnatisect with a suborbicular terminal lobe, the upper smaller, often with a profound purple colour at the lower surface. Flowers in heads, capitula in corymbs, florets pale yellow, all ligulate, flowers April–July, fruit a pappose achene.

Habitat
In moist, shaded positions, by streams and moist hillsides among pines  and riverine forest on igneous formations at 800–1950 m altitude.

Distribution
Endemic to Cyprus where it is confined to the Troödos Mountains where it in some areas is fairly common: Tripylos, Stavros Psokas, Kryos Potamos, Troödos Forest, Khionistra.


Here's to You, Rachel Robinson

Here's to You, Rachel Robinson is a 1993 young adult novel by Judy Blume, the sequel to Just as Long as We're Together. It is an allusion to a real person, Rachel Robinson, and the Simon and Garfunkel song, "Mrs. Robinson".

Plot
This book is written from the perspective of Rachel Robinson, who is thirteen years old and the youngest child of three. She is regarded as an overachiever and perfectionist, but explains throughout the book that she finds it difficult being intellectually gifted, and uses her perfectionist behaviours as a coping mechanism to deal with problems with her family and with her insecurities regarding her friendships.

Her immediate family consists of her mother Nell, a high-achieving lawyer and later judge, her father Victor, a teacher with a gentle nature, her older sister Jessica, who suffers with cystic acne and the discrimination that comes with it, and her older brother Charles, who was expelled from boarding school and makes their lives a misery. Rachel feels Charles gets all the attention in her family, even if it is negative, and that he is driving their parents to breaking point. She also resents that her brother gets so much attention from teenage girls, especially her friends, Stephanie and Alison.

In the book, Rachel has to deal with her crush on Charles' tutor, Paul Medeiros, (who ends up dating their cousin Tarren), her worries that Stephanie and Alison prefer each other to her, her frequent invitations to join high-achieving school societies, and the fact that the best looking boy in ninth grade (at least, to Stephanie, Alison and Rachel), Jeremy "Dragon" Kravitz, may be interested in her. Through family counseling and a trip to Ellis Island, the Robinson family begin to learn how to put aside their differences and become a closer family.

Allusions and references to other works

The novel's title is a reference to the Simon and Garfunkel song "Mrs. Robinson"; specifically the lines:
"And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson,
Jesus loves you more than you will know"
Judy Blume has stated on her website that she "... had a terrible time coming up with a title for Rachel's story and I'm not happy with the one I finally chose which comes from a line in the book spoken angrily by Charles".

External links
Judy Blume's website


Dewey Martin

Dewey Martin is the name of:
Dewey Martin (musician) (1940–2009), drummer/vocalist best known for his association with the band Buffalo Springfield
Dewey Martin (actor) (1923–2018), American film and television actor


Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt

Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt is an American retail chain of self-serve frozen yogurt. Tutti Frutti has over 100 outlets in California and other states in the US, Indonesia, Vietnam, Tahiti, and Mexico, and around the world.

History
Introduced in 2008 to the United States consumers, Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt expanded to many other countries, including Brazil and Malaysia in 2009, United Arab Emirates in 2010, and the United Kingdom in 2011.

Naza Group
Naza Tutti Frutti's operations include the expansion of the brand in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, and Brunei. Its first flagship store opened in October 2009. By the end of 2009, they had plans for another 4 stores, "25 outlets by the end of 2010, [double that] by 2012," or 30 outlets by March, 2011. In April 2012, the number of Tutti Frutti retail outlets has reached 90 overall, 85 of which are located in Malaysia.

Although it had never been a part of their franchise fees, they have tentative plans to implement the royalty fees in the year 2015.

TFUK
Tutti Frutti United Kingdom (TFUK) enters the European market with its first store located in Covent Garden, Central London on December, 2011. As of November 2013 the Covent Garden (London) branch is closed.

TFUK has previously sponsored Danny Webb in the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing in Qatar and Brad Binder, MotoGP rider.

In the February/March 2012 issue of United Kingdom's Better Business magazine, it was featured as a franchise with good prospects.

Locations
According to the store locator on Tutti Frutti corporate website, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida rank behind California in terms of having the most number of Tutti Frutti stores.

Internationally, Tutti Frutti is present in Australia, Armenia, Brazil, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, England, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Macau, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Qatar, Scotland, Singapore, Tahiti, Taiwan, Vietnam.

Due to a negative reception, Tutti Frutti's entry into Hong Kong resulted in closure of all seven of its store locations in Hong Kong and the surrounding area.


White Lough (Monaghan)

White Lough, also known as White Lake, is a freshwater lake in the northeast of Ireland. It is located in County Monaghan in the catchment of the River Erne.

Geography
White Lough measures about  long west–east and  wide. It is located about  southwest of Ballybay.

Natural history
Fish species in White Lough include perch, roach, pike, tench and the critically endangered European eel.


Plexon

Plexon (from "plexus," a term describing a network of nerve cells) is an American company that "invents, develops, and manufactures hardware and software that acquires, amplifies, records, and analyzes signals from individual brain cells."  It is based in Dallas, Texas and is very close to the campus of Southern Methodist University with a satellite office in Brussels, Belgium.  It primarily services academic researchers doing work in neuroscience and electrophysiology. Plexon equipment has been used in "areas of study including autism, prosthetic limb control for paralysis patients, and the effects of drugs on brain processing and memory." In addition, it also develops equipment and software for behavioral video tracking.

History
Harvey Wiggins of Dallas, Texas founded Spectrum Scientific in 1983.  In the early days of Spectrum Scientific, design and manufacturing was conducted solely by Wiggins with backing and most funding being provided by Don Woodward at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and the National Institutes of Health.  In 1988, the original Multichannel Data Acquisition system (abbreviated as MAP or "Harvey box") was developed and uses hardware filtering of data signals.  The replacement for the MAP, the Omniplex system, was released in 2009 and replaces the hardware filtering components with filtering in software. Due to many contributions like these, Plexon and Harvey Wiggins have become iconic in the neuroscience community.  Dr. Regina Carelli, a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina, describes Harvey as "wonderful--A scientist much more than a salesman."

Spectrum Scientific became known as Plexon in 1996.  Plexon celebrated its 30th anniversary in February 2013.

Since 2001, Plexon has been repeatedly recognized by the technology business community in Dallas, Texas for rapid growth.

Educational training

Plexon sponsors an annual educational training workshop in Dallas


Luena, Moxico Province

Luena, formerly known as Luso, is city in eastern Angola, administrative capital of Moxico Province. It has a population of 273,675 (2014).

History
The Angolan town is best known as the resting place of former UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who was shot and killed in military conflict with Angolan government troops on February 22, 2002.  Later on January 3, 2008, Savimbi's tomb at Luena Main Cemetery was vandalised and four members of the youth wing of the MPLA were charged and arrested.

Climate

Transportation

Luena is serviced by Luena Airport on the north side of the town.

Luena Train Station (Estação Ferroviaria De Luena) is a stop on the Benguela railway central line connecting Luau with Lobito. The station was rebuilt and features a clock tower.

Sports

 Estádio Comandante Jones Kufuna Yembe - Mundunduleno: a football stadium

Notes

External links

 Web Site showing Luena and western experiences in the city


Gail Cobb

Gail Adrienne Cobb (August 17, 1950September 20, 1974) was an American police officer from Washington, D.C., who was the first female police officer in the United States shot and killed while patrolling in the line of duty. She was also the first sworn female officer of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) to have been killed in the line of duty.

Early life and education

Cobb was born in Washington, D.C., on August 17, 1950, the second of five children, and grew up at a row house near the intersection of 14th and D Streets in Northeast, Washington, D.C. Cobb's family moved to Washington, D.C., in the 1930s. Her father was Clinton Cobb, a correctional officer for the District of Columbia who tried to apply to the MPDC in 1953, but was rejected due to being shorter than five feet and eight inches tall. Cobb's mother was Gloria Cobb, a crossing guard at Kingsman Elementary School, who met Cobb's father at Cardoza High School. Cobb's sister, Denise, ultimately went on to become a schoolteacher.

As a child, Cobb attended Catholic schools and was described as an average, but creative and energetic student. She attended Elliot Jr. High School, Eastern High School, and the now-defunct St. Cecilia's Academy. Upon graduating St. Cecila's Academy in 1969, Cobb wanted to become a successful fashion designer. However, she had little means and knowledge on how to go about doing so and ended up becoming a long-distance operator at the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company.

Personal life
Cobb, a single mother, gave birth to a son, Damon Demetrius Cobb, on February 26, 1970. Her son's father, whom Cobb had met in high school, took no responsibility for his son, and Cobb ended up trying to raise him on her own. Cobb's son is currently serving a life sentence in prison at the Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland, after being found guilty of first-degree murder in a 1992 killing. Cobb's parents stated in 1996 that they believed that her untimely murder influenced her son's current legal predicament at the time.

Career
In October 1973, Cobb applied to become an officer with the MPDC, much to the surprise of her family and friends, after the Washington, D.C., government lowered the height requirements for police recruits to five feet. Cobb herself was five feet tall, and graduated from her 34-member police academy class in April 1974, of which 13 members were female. She was well-liked by her trainers, who noted that she was hard-working. She spent most of her patrol work on foot and signed up for training to get a scooter license and was taking a night class to learn sign language.

Death

Late in the morning of Friday, September 20, 1974, around 10:30 am, two men, John Curtis Dortch, a 29-year-old Howard University graduate and former U.S. Army soldier from Silver Spring, Maryland, and John William Bryant, a 24-year-old man from Washington, D.C., began making their way to the Eastern Liberty Federal Savings and Loan bank at 21st and L Streets NW, disguised as construction workers, and each carrying a loaded sawed-off shotgun and handgun. They intended to rob the bank.

Two plainclothes police officers were alerted of the robbery in advance, and saw the two men on the street. The officers stopped them and asked them for identification, before the would-be robbers could even get inside the bank. The two men ran off in separate directions. Cobb was still on probationary duty six months out of the academy and was assigned to foot patrol duty downtown, a block away from the bank. Cobb, who was writing a traffic ticket at the time, was told by a citizen that they saw an armed man run into a garage. Cobb followed the suspect and confronted him inside the garage as he was in the process of changing out of his disguise. Cobb ordered the man to place his hands on the wall. As she called for assistance over her radio, the suspect spun around and fired a single gunshot at Cobb at close range. The bullet went through Cobb's wrist, shattering a wristwatch that was given to her by her mother as a birthday present, continued through her police radio, where it then penetrated her heart. Cobb died at the scene at 20th Street and L Street, NW, and responding officers arrested the suspect at the scene.

Cobb had served with the MPDC for one year and was the first female MPDC officer to be killed in the line of duty, as well as the first African American female law enforcement officer to be killed in the line of duty in the United States. She is survived by her son, Damon Demetrius Cobb, and is buried at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Suitland, Maryland, near the border between Washington, D.C., and Prince George's County, Maryland.

Funeral

Cobb's funeral was ornate and large, even by Washington, D.C.'s standards. The streets leading to Holy Comforter Catholic Church in Southeast, Washington, D.C., were lined with hundreds of police officers, some coming all the way from Hawaii, all standing at attention. A police honor guard made several passes along East Capitol Street before entering the church.

Delegations of uniformed officers filed past Cobb's open casket. Cobb was not buried in uniform; instead, she was wearing a green pantsuit. Her best friend had styled her hair, applied her favorite makeup, and put in gold hoop earrings.

The Mayor of the District of Columbia, Walter Washington, and FBI Director Clarence Kelley were among the many U.S. government officials who attended the crowded service on Tuesday, September 24, 1974. At the hour of the funeral, U.S. President Gerald R. Ford called for a moment of silence as he addressed an International Association of Police Chiefs conference being held across town.

Legacy
Several weeks after Cobb's funeral, her parents purchased a glass curio cabinet in which to house memorabilia regarding their daughter. They displayed a photograph of Cobb in her MPDC uniform, her police badge, along with a 45 rpm copy of her favorite song, "Tell Her Love Has Felt the Need", by Eddie Kendricks and the Young Senators, which had been sung at her funeral, along with proclamations and letters from government officials, and the uniform boots that Cobb had been wearing when she died. Given an entire section all to its own was a letter from U.S. President Gerald R.
Ford, saying that Cobb "has our lasting admiration for the cause of law enforcement and the well-being of our society, a cause for which she made the highest sacrifice."

In 1975, John William Bryant was sentenced to 15 years to life imprisonment after being found guilty by a jury of second-degree murder. He was released on parole in 1992. The following year, in November 1993, he was arrested in Washington, D.C., for possessing crack cocaine and three bags of marijuana. However, a court ruled the cocaine and marijuana impermissible in court as the arresting officers did not have probable cause to believe that Bryant was committing a crime when they discovered them. In July 1997, the D.C. Parole Board revoked Bryant's parole for his possessing marijuana and cocaine, as well as testing positive for marijuana use. Bryant denied ever using marijuana. The D.C. Parole Board decided not to send Bryant back to prison, but rather to send him to an inpatient program for alcoholism treatment, much to the dismay of Cobb's relatives.

In 1996, John Curtis Dortch (born July 19, 1945), who was one of the key architects of the robbery that left Cobb dead, attempted to become a lawyer in West Virginia and Washington, D.C., after finishing a 15-year prison term for his being convicted of second-degree murder on July 30, 1975. After being released from prison on parole in 1989 for "good behavior", Dortch became active in church, helped out an AIDS patient, began tutoring and mentoring children, and started attending law school. Dortch, a graduate of Howard University and a former U.S. Army officer who served in the Vietnam War, was not the triggerman who shot Cobb, however, he attempted to appeal to the courts to allow him to become a lawyer, much to the dismay of Cobb's family and friends. In 1997, the West Virginia Supreme Court denied Dortch permission to practice law in the state in a unanimous 4-0 decision, to the praise of Cobb's surviving family members and friends. Dortch has since written an autobiography of his life, Memoirs of the Prodigal Son: the Road to Redemption, Fifteen Years in Prison and Beyond, released in September 2008.


Meu Nome Não É Johnny

Meu Nome Não É Johnny () is a 2008 Brazilian film directed by Mauro Lima. A box office hit, it was one of the 14 films considered by the Ministry of Culture to represent Brazil in the competition for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2008 ceremony. The film was based on the book Meu Nome Não é Johnny by Guilherme Fiuza.

Synopsis
The film narrates the true story of João Guilherme Estrella, an upper-middle-class man from the State of Rio de Janeiro that would become the head of the drug traffic in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

João is a young boy from an upper-middle-class family of the city of Niterói, the second wealthiest city in the state of Rio. João demonstrates a knack for entrepreneurship early on in his life, when he delivers papers as a teenager, unusual for an upper-middle-class teen in Brazil. Once his parents get divorced, João begins partying a lot, holding lavish parties in the downstairs of his dad's house. At one of these parties, João meets his love interest, Sofia. The more he parties, the more he begins dealing cocaine, tying back to the entrepreneurship alluded to at the start of the film.

The film shows the glamorous side of drug dealing, with João and Sofia dealing in Europe and spending exorbitant amounts of money.

Eventually, João gets caught and sent to prison and court. He tries to lie his way out of the situation in court, but then takes pity on the woman who would get blamed instead of him and does his time in prison. João's story is received as a tale of rehabilitation, as for now he is a successful musician and music producer.

Themes
Glamorization of Drug Lifestyle The drug dealing lifestyle is extremely glamorized in My Name Ain't Johnny. It is painted as a lifestyle that brings money and happiness without much effort, which speaks to the idea present in many Brazilian crime films of social mobility. Though João is already in the upper tier of Brazilians, the prospect of rising even further without much effort acts as even more of an incentive to get involved in the glamorous lifestyle of drugs. This glamorous lifestyle is later juxtaposed with the grim prison, where most (if not all) of the inmates have not come from João's background.

Cast
Selton Mello .... João Guilherme Estrella
Cléo Pires .... Sofia
Júlia Lemmertz .... Estrella's mother
Giulio Lopes .... Estrella's father
Cássia Kiss  .... judge
Rafaela Mandelli .... Laura
Ângelo Paes Leme .... Julinho
Gillray Coutinho .... lawyer


Seksenuşağı, Ortaköy

Seksenuşağı is a village in the District of Ortaköy, Aksaray Province, Turkey.


Rajkahini

Rajkahini (English: Tale of Kings, can also be called Tale of the Raj) is an Indian Bengali-language crime drama film directed by Srijit Mukherji. The shooting of the film completed in June 2015 and the film released on 16 October 2015. The film has an ensemble cast of eleven major female characters led by Rituparna Sengupta and also stars Jaya Ahsan, Jisshu Sengupta, Abir Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee, Kaushik Sen in other pivotal roles.

Plot
In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Srijit's movie Rajkahini is weaved around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing eleven women.
Bengal was broken up twice (1905, and then during Independence) - officially for demographic reasons and ease of administration - but actually, it was a strictly political move to curtail Bengal politics. The narrative follows the erection of the Radcliffe Line as the boundary between the newly formed nations of India and  East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh). As both the Congress and the Muslim League battle it out in courtrooms as to which side of Bengal will get which territory, in another part of Bengal is a brothel, situated right in the middle of Debiganj and Haldibari districts, which is the home and the world to eleven women and two men. Begum Jaan (Rituparna) is the boss, while the other women work under her as prostitutes. Begum's faithful bodyguard is Saleem Mirza (Nigel Akkara), a Pathan, and Sujan (Rudranil Ghosh) as their man-servant and entertainer. Begum Jaan is not concerned about Hindustan or Pakistan, her only concern is her business, which is running badly because of the partition and resulting riots. The local master and Congress worker (Abir Chatterjee) visits the brothel time to time with gifts for everyone.

Meanwhile, the political sky is darkening. The Radcliffe line passes between Debiganj and Haldibari, the former being placed in East Pakistan, and the latter remaining in India. Mr. Profullo Sen (Saswata Chatterjee) from Congress and Mr. Ilias (Kaushik Sen) from Muslim League (who were childhood friends but now separated) meet and discuss about the relocation of the people of the two districts. They discover that in its course, the boundary line has been drawn right through the middle of Begum Jaan's brothel. They meet Begum Jaan and tell her to evacuate her brothel along with her women, who refuses to budge. Meanwhile, the Nawab of Rangpur (Rajatava Dutta) was relocating with his family and followers to West Bengal, where he stayed at the brothel for a night. Begum Jaan complained to him about Mr. Sen and Mr. Ilias, to get them out of their respective parties. After visiting Delhi for the meeting of the rulers of the Princely States, he informed Begum that he is not an influential person anymore, and the Princely States were being integrated in the Indian Union, and the titles were being abolished. Begum decided to fight her own battle.

Exasperated at the futile attempts to evict Begum and her women from the house, Prafulla and Ilias turn to Kabir (Jisshu Sengupta), leader of a criminal gang, for help. Kabir and his gang commits all kinds of heinous crimes in these turbulent times of riots and violence. They chase Sujan and three other girls who were returning from the market. While Sujan manages to save the girls and help them escape, he himself gets butchered by Kabir. Sujan's death adds fuel to the fire in Begum's heart and they decide to have a final confrontation. Meanwhile, after being rejected by Begum Jaan, Master manages to trap a girl (Parno Mittra) into his schemes of getting back at Begum. He joins forces with Kabir and Prafulla. Ilias was dissatisfied with Kabir's ways but accepted the events as necessary for getting the job done.

That night, Kabir and his gang set fire to the brothel. The women, trained to use rifles by Saleem, put up a brave fight. Most of them get killed, however Saleem himself dies the most horrifying death. After the bloodbath, the remaining women including Begum enter the inferno of the house and willingly accept their death in their own "country", while being narrated the story of the legendary Rani Padmini of Rajputana.

When dawn breaks, the house and its inmates have been burnt to dust. The film ends with Ilias, Prafulla, Master and lakhs of refugees from Debiganj and Haldibari coming together to see the remains of Begum Jaan's brothel, as Bharata Bhagya Bidhata plays in the background.

Cast

 Rituparna Sengupta as Begum Jaan
 Jisshu Sengupta as Kabir
 Saswata Chatterjee as Mr. Profullo Mohan Sen
 Abir Chatterjee as Master
 Kaushik Sen as Mr. Muhammad Ilias
 Sudipta Chakraborty as Juthika
 Joya Ahsan as Rubina
 Saayoni Ghosh as Koli
 Sohini Sarkar as Duli
 Parno Mittra as Golaap
 Priyanka Sarkar as Lata
 Ridhima Ghosh as Fatima/Shabnam
 Lily Chakravarty as Kamala
 Ena Saha as Banno
Ditipriya Roy as Bunchki
 Rudranil Ghosh as Sujan
 Rajatava Dutta as Nawab of Rangpur
 Biswajit Chakraborty as Mr. Akhtar, Inspector-in-charge of Debiganj
 Kanchan Mullick as Mr. Shashikanta, Inspector-in-charge of Haldibari
 Nigel Akkara as Saleem Mirza
 Ashok Dhanuka as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Sanjay Gurbaxani as Jawaharlal Nehru
 Dicky Banerjee as Muhammad Ali Jinnah
 Patrick Eyre as Louis Mountbatten
 Steve Burroughs as Hastings Ismay
 Raja Biswas as Cyril Radcliffe

Reception
The film received critical acclaim on its release, despite a few reviewers pointing out cinematic flaws. Upam Buzarbaruah,  reviewing for the Times of India commented that "...Rajkahini's flaws don't take away from the beauty of the concept or its execution". Shomini Sen of IBNLive concluded that "Despite its glaring flaws and over stretched climax it [Rajkahini] makes for a compelling watch". The film also got a fantastic reception in the Film Festival circuit. It was the official selection at the International Film Festival of India at Goa in the Indian panorama section, Mumbai International Film Festival (MAMI), Imagine India Film Festival at Madrid, Hidden Gems Film Festival in Calgary, Sydney Indian Film Festival,  Chennai International Film Festival, All Lights International Film Festival at Kochi, I-Views International Film Festival at Delhi, International Film Festival of Trichur, Habitat International Film Festival at Delhi and competitive sections at the New York Indian Film Festival, International Film Festival of Kerala, Delhi International Film Festival and Melbourne Indian Film Festival. Rituparna Sengupta won the Best Actress for her performance at the Delhi International Film Festival along nominations at New York Indian Film Festival and Melbourne Indian Film Festival.

Remake
A Hindi adaptation Begum Jaan starring Vidya Balan released in April 2017.


C9H14N2O3

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The molecular formula C9H14N2O3 (molar mass: 198.219 g/mol) may refer to:

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Diahouin

Diahouin is a village in western Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Duékoué, Duékoué Department, Guémon Region, Montagnes District.

Diahouin was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished.

Notes


Butterworth Hall Brook

Butterworth Hall Brook is a water course in Greater Manchester, North-West England, which flows through the village of Milnrow and is a tributary of the River Beal.

Course
Rising at Tunshill, just south of Tunshill Farm, where it is almost immediately fed by a small streamlet,  the brook flows in a south-westerly direction towards Milnrow, is culverted under the M62 Motorway, then runs along the eastern boundary of Tunshill Golf Course, then down a clough through Claylands Head, to the hamlet of Butterworth Hall. Flowing past Good Intent, it is again culverted beneath Church Terrace before passing under Bilson Bridge on Newhey Road, joining the River Beal, behind Milnrow Precinct. The brook falls 55m.(180 ft.) and barely exceeds 2 km.(1 1/4m.) in length.

History
Butterworth Hall Brook is named after the hamlet of Butterworth Hall, which surrounded the original manorial hall of the ancient township of Butterworth. In 1867 three men were drowned in Tunshill Colliery, close to the source of the brook, when underground waters feeding the brook broke through old mine workings. Part of the stream bed below Claylands Head, paved with setts, once formed a bridleway called Water Lane. This was the start of two packhorse routes over the Pennines via Tunshill - the Rapes Highway and the Readycon Gap route over Bleakedgate Moor. After serious flooding, the brook was channeled alongside the road, which retains the name of Water Lane.

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Common sheath-tailed bat

The common sheathtail bat, species Taphozous georgianus, is a bat in the family Emballonuridae, occurring in northern Australia.

Taxonomy
A description of the species was first published in 1915 by Oldfield Thomas, his notes on two bat genera resulting in a new subspecies Taphozous australis georgianus. The taxon was included in a revision by Ellis Le Geyt Troughton (1925) that proposed recognition as a species and this status was acknowledged in 1967. Other recognised generic combinations include Saccolaimus georgianus. The holotype, the skull and skin of a female, is held at the British Museum of Natural History and the locality of the collection noted as King George Sound; the species has not been recorded at this location.

Common names also include common sheath-tailed bat or sharp-nosed tomb bat.

Description
The overall colour of the fur is brown or greyish-brown, dark at the back and slightly paler at the front, the basal colour of the hair is creamy. Their snout narrows toward the tip. The colour of the lips and bald head is sepia.  Fine hairs at the underside of the arms are ginger-grey.The forearm range in measurement from 66 to 74 millimetres, the weight range is 19 to 41 grams. They are no larger than 9 centimetres in length.
The outer half is infolded at the edge of the tragus.
A pouch is found at the radial-metacarpal, a gular sac is absent,
The interfemoral membrane covers most of the tail, the tip is bare and prominent.

The roosting position distinguishes it from similar bats, they lay their body close to the surface with the forearms stretched out and shoulders raising the head up. The peculiar posture of the bat is described as crab-like.

It is similar to other sheathtails, smaller than Taphozous troughtoni, which also occurs in northern Queensland, and distinguished from Taphozous hilli of central Australia by the lack of neck pouch (gular sac) in the male and greater interval between the cuspids.

Behaviour
The major activity is hunting and pursuit, its diet is primarily Coleoptera (beetles) although other types of insect are also consumed.
As with most bats, Taphozous georgianus hunts at night.
Their flight follows straight paths that systematically survey a hunting ground by criss-crossing in a grid pattern.
The environs that provides feeding opportunities are over water and bushland, where insects are caught and consumed in flight.
They inhabit arid and tropical regions of the northern Australian continent, close to grassland or woodland. A wide variety of habitat provide them with feeding opportunities. In comparison to other bats they patrol at a medium height, and are often observed over water bodies such as pools and creeks.

While retiring during the day, the bat lays appressed to the surface of a wall or ceiling of its subterranean site.
The colony size is usually small, the distance between the position of the hanging bats is greater than half a metre.
They may also be solitary in a roost, or several individuals, although seventeen in one cave were recorded and collected. At several mining sites in the Pilbara, two horizontal asbestos mines and a vertical shaft, an observation of around fifty individuals was made at each. The species occupies crevices at vertical faces or at the roof in horizontal mine and caves, and prefers the darkest part of the site.
They may pause from foraging on a rock face, resting close to a crevice that will provide refuge is disturbed.

Breeding
Young are born from October to February, the individual producing a single birth. Only the right ovary appears viable, the fetus is only recorded in the right uterine horn. Spermatogenesis occurs throughout the year, although the testes position—more abdominal or distended to the scrotum—is seasonally variable. An early study (Kitchener, 1973) concluded that the species seems monoestrous, although the possibility of a second birth remains for a species with a long breeding period. A later revision noted evidence in the specimens may be lacking if the persistence of corpora luteum after birth is short and the specimens examined were able to be assigned to the revising author's later description as another species, Taphozous hilli.

Ecology
A very common species in its range, in the tropic and subtropic regions of the north and west.
They most frequently occupy caves, abandoned mining operations and fissures in rock faces.
Buildings are also occupied by the species soon after they become vacant, this may have increased opportunities and extended the distribution range. An individual or group's range may vary during the year, they appear to seasonally vacate some residences and relocate to other local sites.

Despite the habit of high flying when commuting, they are required to seek water and may encounter ground level hazards.
The species is noted as vulnerable to barbed wire that snags then entangles the animal as it attempts to free itself, Taphozous georgianus and many other species can be hooked through the easily torn wing membranes; many individuals meet with an often slow demise each year from this widely used and discarded fencing material.
Other threatening factors include destruction of roosting areas by mining, disturbance by human intrusion, and introduced land management practices that results in dilapidation of the local ecology. The state conservation status in Queensland and the Northern Territory is 'least concern'.

Skin punctures by any bat of this region, including this one, carries a risk of exposure to Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) which can result in a rare and fatal rabies-like disease in humans. They are otherwise classified as harmless.


Foster station

Foster is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Purple Line in Evanston, Illinois.  It is located at 900 Foster Street (directional coordinates 2000 north, 900 west), just a few blocks west of Northwestern University's Evanston campus.

History

Structure
Like the rest of the 'L' tracks north of the Wilson station, Foster is elevated on a solid fill embankment, unlike the steel structure commonly associated with the 'L'.  It lacks a formal station house; two staircases on the south side of Foster Street lead up to a small area containing a customer assistant's booth, a farecard vending machine, and two turnstiles.  The island platform is composed of concrete and stretches north from the station entrance, covered by a canopy its entire length.  Southbound trains stop on the west side of the platform, while northbound trains stop at the east part.  The platform can only accommodate six-car trains because the north tip of the platform has been removed, although its framing and canopy are still in place.

Former service
Foster was served by trains of the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad on the Shore Line Route.  Like Noyes and Central, Foster had an additional side platform to the west of the southbound track for exclusive use of the North Shore Line, to prevent disembarking customers from transferring to 'L' trains for free.  The platform was removed sometime after the North Shore Line ceased operations over this section of the rapid transit system in 1955, but its concrete footings can still be seen opposite the current platform north of Foster Street.

Modernization
Closure of the Foster station (along with South Boulevard) was proposed in three of the CTA's six potential options for the renovation of the Purple Line and northern section of the Red Line.

Notes and references

Notes


Syntomostola xanthosoma

Syntomostola xanthosoma is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Paul Dognin in 1912. It is found in Colombia.


Lucious Smith

Lucious Irvin Smith (born January 17, 1957 in Columbus, Georgia) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League. He was signed by the Los Angeles Rams as an undrafted free agent in 1980. He played college football at Cal State-Fullerton and San Diego State.

Smith also played for the Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, and San Diego Chargers.


100 Million

"100 Million" is the second single from Birdman's third studio album, 5 * Stunna. The track features Young Jeezy, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne, and was produced by Cool & Dre. Dre performs the chorus and DJ Khaled performs the intro and outro, but neither of the two are credited. The song discusses what Birdman believes is a major accomplishment: spending 100 million dollars. The song reached number sixty-nine on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and number eighteen on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. The song samples Ozzy Osbourne's "Mr. Crowley".

Music video

The song's music video was released on November 23, 2007 and was directed by Gil Green. The music video starts off with Birdman being interviewed by a parole board in a prison. It then introduces some people, such as Birdman and Fat Joe. The video then shows Rick Ross on a boat with his crew loading drugs. It then flicks to Birdman with various red cars. He sings his verse there and then shows Young Jeezy in a car and then that leads to Lil Wayne in a house. The video concludes with DJ Khaled's outro and Birdman saying that what he is going to do is make a lot of money, which is the overall basis of the song and video. The video was premiered on 106 & Park in January 2008.

Charts


James H. Lawrence

James H. Lawrence served in the California legislature, and during the Mexican–American War, he served in the US Army.


Guanabo

Guanabo is a beach town in the Ciudad de la Habana Province of Cuba. It is a ward (consejo popular) located within the municipality of Habana del Este halfway between the centre of Havana and Santa Cruz del Norte, at the mouth of the Guanabo River, between the Atlantic Ocean coast and the Sierra del Canchón (mountain range).

Overview
Guanabo is a seaside touristic town, with small scale villas and a few low rise hotels.

The town was founded in 1800. In 1827 it was the place where the Peñas Altas uprising was crushed by troops from Havana (Peñas Altas is a neighbourhood east of Guanabo).

External links

Town info (Spanish)


Ma mère me disait

This is the last Dalida album from the 1960s. It contains hits like "L'an 2005" and "Les couleurs de l'amour". Like the album Le temps des fleurs, the songs of the album are more melancholic and most of them are ballads.

Track listing
 Ma mère me disait
 Deux colombes
 Les violons de mon pays
 L'an 2005
 L'anniversaire
 La vie en rose (Version 1965)
 Le vent n'a pas de mémoire
 Naké di naké dou
 Les couleurs de l'amour
 La ballade à temps perdu
 Le sable de l'amour
 Pars

Singles
1969
1969 Les violons de mon pays / Le vent n'a pas de mémoire / Et pourtant j'ai froid / Le sable de l'amour
1969 L'an 2005 / Naké di naké dou / Ma mère me disait / Les anges noirs
1969 Le clan des Siciliens


East Broadway station

East Broadway is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at East Broadway and Rutgers Street in the Lower East Side, it is served by the F train at all times and the <F> train during rush hours in the peak direction.

Station layout

The station has one narrow, slightly curved island platform. There is an abandoned tower at the north end of the platform. The station has two mezzanines, four open staircases, three closed staircases, and one escalator. The full-time entrance at Madison Street has one street staircase, while the part-time entrance at Canal and Rutgers Streets has three. A passageway outside of fare control connects the two areas.

The tile band is medium Parma violet with a slightly darker border, set two tiles high. Captions below show the station name abbreviated as "E BWAY". The I-beams are painted a similar shade of violet. The trackside walls show a considerable pattern of aging and occasional water damage.

The 1992 artwork at this station is called Displacing Details by Noel Copeland, with assistance by students from the Henry Street Settlement.

There are many closed sections at East Broadway. There are restrooms that have been converted to office spaces. Inside fare control, the open intermediate level's mezzanine is split into two halves; the portion between the two halves was shuttered and is now used as maintenance space. Right below the open intermediate level is an entire closed intermediate level mezzanine, which is indicated by a brief intermediate level on staircases from the open mezzanine to the platform and now serves as storage space as well. This closed mezzanine is accessible through fenced-off stairways at the either end of the station.

Unfinished station
The north half of the open intermediate level mezzanine was designed to eventually become a station of the unbuilt IND Worth Street Line. A locked door, located in the north end of the mezzanine, reveals additional closed platform space and an electrical room that hides the rest of the trackway and platform space. In this closed space, the platform floor drops to the level of the intended westbound trackway for the unbuilt line. The unused space runs for no more than  before ending at a solid wall. Another door that leads to the electrical room hides the eastbound trackway. Near the north end of this station, a different ceiling structure angling across marks where the unbuilt subway would have gone. The ramp that descends from the full-time side would have led to the same intermediate level, with a station facility in between, but that was never constructed. On the open intermediate level's mezzanine, the unusual spacing of some of the pillars marks where the line's platforms would have been placed. The closed trackways are also accessible through the closed intermediate level mezzanine, though this level is somewhat lower than that of the trackways.

Exits
All exits are street stairs.
 NE corner of Canal Street and Essex Street
 West side of Rutgers Street between Canal Street and East Broadway
 SE corner of East Broadway and Rutgers Street
 NW corner of Madison Street and Rutgers Street

In addition to the open entrances, there are two closed exits to the southwestern and northeastern corners of Henry Street and Rutgers Street that are accessed through different closed fare control areas. There was also an exit to the northeastern corner of Madison Street and Rutgers Street.

In June 2018, improvements to the East Broadway station's exits were proposed as part of the development of the controversial 247 Cherry, 269 South Street, and 259 Clinton Street skyscrapers. The developers plan to create an entrance at the northeastern corner of Rutgers and Madison Streets; it is unknown if a new entrance will be erected or if the existing closed exit there will be reopened. In addition to a new exit, the developers plan make the station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 with the installation of elevators. The plan was approved that December.


EOC 10-inch 45-calibre naval gun

The EOC 10-inch 45 calibre gun were various similar 10-inch naval guns designed and manufactured by Elswick Ordnance Company to equip ships they built and/or armed for several countries before World War I.

History

Italian service
Elswick supplied later, more powerful "Pattern W" models of its 10-inch 45-calibre guns for the  armoured cruisers. In Italian service these were known as the Cannone da 254/45 A Modello 1906.

Japanese service
The Katori-class battleship Kashima had a secondary armament of four single-gun turrets positioned on each side of the ships superstructure.  In Japanese service these guns were known as 10-inch/45 Type 41 naval guns.

UK service
Elswick supplied 5 of their 10-inch 45-calibre guns for use on the battleship Constitución that they were building for Chile. Britain took the ship over in 1903 as HMS Swiftsure, and the guns were designated BL 10 inch Mk VI in UK service. These guns fired a  projectile using  of cordite MD propellant.


Felix Wedgwood

Arthur Felix Wedgwood (18 July 1877 – 14 March 1917) was an English author, mountaineer and soldier who died on active service during the First World War.

Background
He was born at The Upper House in Barlaston, Staffordshire, a scion of the Wedgwood pottery family. He was the youngest son of Clement Wedgwood and his wife Emily Catherine (née Rendel) daughter of James Meadows Rendel. His elder brothers who survived childhood were Francis Hamilton Wedgwood, Josiah C. Wedgwood and Ralph Wedgwood.

Wedgwood was educated at Newcastle High School, Clifton College, and Trinity College, Cambridge. Felix and Ralph Wedgwood (who also attended Trinity from 1895) are mentioned in Period Piece, the childhood memoir by their second cousin Gwen Raverat (1885-1957). After university, he worked as a civil engineer specialising in the purchase and recovery of shipwrecks.

Mountaineering travels
Wedgwood was an amateur mountaineer, and travelled to South America and to Canada. In 1905 he sailed from Southampton to Buenos Aires. While in Argentina, he suffered frostbite on Aconcagua.  In 1908, having travelled onto Canada, he, Joseph William Andrew Hickson, Edward Feuz, Jr and Gottfried Feuz climbed Mount Assiniboine.  Although they summitted, they were assailed by a storm on the descent. In Canada, he met his future wife, Katharine Longstaff; she was the daughter of Llewellyn W. Longstaff, and sister of a fellow climber Tom Longstaff. She named Wedgwood Peak for him, having been the first to summit it.

The Shadow of a Titan

He published in his only novel in 1910 during "a period when novels in Britain were produced more cheaply, and read more widely, than ever before", entitled The Shadow of a Titan, in the adventure genre. The work echoes themes from Wedgwood's life, albeit with added drama. The main protagonist of the novel is "Maurice Noonan", a Cambridge undergraduate, who is the heir of his uncle "Major Tom Waring", a retired British Army officer and minor landowner from Staffordshire. The action ranges from the Staffordshire Moorlands to the deep interior of "Bolumbia", a fictional South American country, where Maurice must overcome Bolumbia's dictator (The eponymous Titan) "Almirante don Eustauio Etrada de la Camara". The Observer described The Shadow of a Titan as "a masterpiece on a South American dictatorship which [George] Meredith might have fathered". It was also reportedly favourably reviewed in The Morning Post and by Perceval Gibbon in The Bookman.

Marriage and children

Having returned to England, on 20 April 1911 in Wimbledon Felix and Katharine married. They had three children:

 Katharine Frances Wedgwood (11 July 1912 - 2004), married (1936) John Colpoys Cunningham, son of John Francis Cunningham.
 Felicity Emily Wedgwood (1 November 1913 - 2003), married (1943) John Felix Cradock Royds.
 Cecil Felix Nivelle Wedgwood (12 December 1916 — 9 September 1996).

Military service and death

Wedgwood was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 5th Bn North Staffordshire Regiment, a Territorial Force infantry unit, in 1909, and was recommissioned in 1911.  The First World War began in 1914, the 1/5th Bn North Staffs landed in France at Le Havre in May 1915, forming part of the 46th (North Midland) Division which saw action at Loos and The Somme, where his cousin Major Cecil Wedgwood DSO of the 8th Bn was killed in July 1916.  Felix Wedgwood had been promoted to Temporary Captain in May 1916, becoming a permanent Captain in September 1916. Captain A. F. Wedgwood died on active service in March 1917 and was buried at Rossignol Wood Cemetery in Hébuterne, Pas-de-Calais, alongside other men mostly from the North and South Staffs Regiments and New Zealand.  A brief note was published in The Times.  His estate was sufficient to receive notice in The London Gazette

His widow posthumously privately published another book in 1918 entitled Unpublished and Unfinished Stories. She died in 1976.

He is commemorated on the Trinity College Chapel war memorial, and within St John's Church, Barlaston.


Khati

Khati is an Indian caste. Its members live mainly in and around the Malwa region.


Gasteruption jaculator

Gasteruption jaculator is a species of the family Gasteruptiidae, subfamily Gasteruptiinae.

Distribution
This species is mainly present in Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, in the East Palearctic ecozone and in the Near East.

Description
The head and thorax are completely black. The head is strongly rounded, the thorax is elongated in a sort of long neck (propleura), which separates the head from the body. Also the abdomen is strongly stretched, broader at the posterior end and placed on the upper chest (propodeum). The colour of the abdomen is black, with reddish-orange rings. The tibiae of the hind legs are club shaped. In the female the ovipositor is usually very long with a white tip. In resting position, these wasps slowly and rhythmically raise and lower the abdomen.

Life cycle
The females of this parasitic wasp lays its eggs by its long ovipositor on the body of larvae of solitary bees or wasps. On hatching its young larvae will devour grubs and supplies of pollen and nectar of its victim. The adults grow up to  long and can mostly be encountered from May through September feeding on Apiaceae species.

Habitat
Gasteruption jaculator has been found visiting various flowers, or hovering around the nests of solitary bees and wasps in gardens and meadows. The species is commonly found during May to September.


Václav Budka

Václav Budka (born 22 March 1969) is a retired Czech football midfielder.


Canoeing at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's K-2 500 metres

The women's K-2 500 metres canoeing event at the 2011 Pan American Games was held on October 28–29 at the Canoe & Rowing Course in Ciudad Guzman.

Schedule
All times are local Central Daylight Time (UTC−5)

Results

Heats
Qualification Rules: 1..3->Final, 4..7 and 8th best time->Semifinals, Rest Out

Heat 1

Heat 2

Semifinal
Qualification Rules: 1..3->Final, Rest Out

Final


The Zoologist

The Zoologist was a monthly natural history magazine established in 1843 by Edward Newman and published in London. Newman acted as editor-in-chief until his death in 1876, when he was succeeded by James Edmund Harting (1876–1896) and William Lucas Distant (1897–1916).

Originating from an enlargement of The Entomologist, The Zoologist contained long articles, short notes, comments on current events, and book reviews covering the entire Animal Kingdom throughout the world, until The Entomologist was separated again in 1864. Initially, half of the space was devoted to birds, rising to two-thirds later.

In 1916 The Zoologist was amalgamated with British Birds (founded 1908).

Four series
The Zoologist appeared in four series:
 First series: 1843 – 1865 ( vol. 1 – 23)
 Second series: 1866 – 1876 (vol. 1 – 10)
 Third series: 1877 – 1896 (vol. 1 – 20)
 Fourth series: 1897 – 1916 (vol. 1 – 20)

Fourth series, 1897 - 1916
In 1899 Edmund Selous wrote his first articles, in The Zoologist, about his observations near a nest of Nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus).

In the same year Henry Eliot Howard published his first articles in the magazine, about birds in North Worcestershire and in the North-West of Ireland.

Editors
The first editor of The Zoologist was Edward Newman. He died in 1876. Volume 11 of the second series, the thirty-fourth volume of the journal, was the last volume with which he was connected.

The third series, starting in 1877 and ending in 1896, was edited by James Edmund Harting.

William Lucas Distant was the editor of the fourth series, from 1878 to 1914 (vol. 18).

The last two volumes of the fourth series, and of the journal, were edited by Frank Finn.


Les Backman

Lester John Backman (March 20, 1888 – November 8, 1975) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for two seasons. He pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals for 21 games during the 1909 St. Louis Cardinals season and 26 games during the 1910 St. Louis Cardinals season.

He made is debut game in the Major League at the age of 21 on July 3, 1909. He played his last game at the age of 22 on August 28, 1910.


Baixada Fluminense

The Baixada Fluminense (standard ; local pronounce: ) (literally "Fluminense Lowland") is a region in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in southeastern Brazil. It is located on Guanabara Bay, between Rio de Janeiro to the south and the Serra dos Órgãos range of hills to the north.

Its municipalities are part of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region. The Baixada Fluminense region's population is about three million, making it the second most populous region in the state, following only the city of Rio de Janeiro.

This region should not be confused with the Baixadas Litorâneas, located farther to the east in the same state.

Geography

The Baixada Fluminense includes the municipalities of Duque de Caxias, Nova Iguaçu, São João de Meriti, Nilópolis, Belford Roxo, Queimados and Mesquita, all north of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

The municipalities of Magé and Guapimirim (to the east), Japeri, Paracambi and Seropédica.

History
18th century
Until the 19th century, the region was known as the Baixada da Guanabara. It experienced some development during the 18th century, when it was an important corridor for transporting gold mined in the neighboring state of Minas Gerais.

19th century
In the 19th century was one of the first regions to develop coffee plantations. However, during the reign of Emperor Pedro II the region suffered serious economic decline due to the creation of railroads, which led to a sharp decline in the traffic on the region's rivers and roads.

20th century
In the early 20th century the area experienced a great influx of persons arriving from other parts of the country, mainly from Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais and Northeastern Brazil, in search of a better quality of life near Rio de Janeiro, which at the time was the capital of Brazil.

In the second half of the 20th century, the region acquired a reputation for poverty, crime and inadequate social services, which continues to this day. Favelas are located here.

Large marsh drainage projects were undertaken in order to improve sanitary conditions.


Q-PACE

CubeSat Particle Aggregation and Collision Experiment (Q-PACE), originally referred to as Cu-PACE, is a planned orbital spacecraft mission that will study the early stages of protoplanetary accretion by observing particle dynamical aggregation for several years.

Current hypotheses have trouble explaining how particles can grow larger than a few centimeters. This is called the meter size barrier. This mission was selected in 2015 as part of NASA's ELaNa program, and it is scheduled for launch in September 2019.

Overview

Observations of the collisional evolution and accretion of particles in a microgravity environment are necessary to elucidate the processes that lead to the formation of planetesimals (the building blocks of planets), km-size, and larger bodies, within the protoplanetary disk. The current hypotheses of planetesimal formation have difficulties in explaining how particles grow beyond one centimeter in size, so repeated experimentation in relevant conditions is necessary.

Q-PACE will explore the fundamental properties of low‐velocity (< 10 cm/s) particle collisions in a microgravity environment in an effort to better understand accretion in the protoplanetary disk. Several precursor tests and flight missions were performed in suborbital flights as well as in the International Space Station. The small spacecraft does not need accurate pointing or propulsion, which simplified the design.

It will be an air launch to orbit from Virgin Galactic's Cosmic Girl airplane above the Mojave desert in California.

Objectives

The main objective of Q-PACE is to understand protoplanetary growth from pebbles to boulders by performing long-duration microgravity collision experiments. The specific goals are:
Quantify the energy damping in multi-particle systems at low collision speeds (< 1 mm/s to 10 cm/s)
Identify the influence of a size distribution on the collision outcome.
Observe the influence of dust on a multi-particle system.
Quantify statistically rare events: observe a large number of similar collisions to arrive at a probabilistic description of collisional outcomes.

Method

Q-PACE is a 3U CubeSat with a collision test chamber and several particle reservoirs that contain meteoritic chondrules, dust particles, dust aggregates, and larger spherical particles. Particles will be introduced into the test chamber for a series of separate experimental runs.

The scientists designed a series of experiments involving a broad range of particle size, density, surface properties, and collision velocities to observe collisional outcomes from bouncing to sticking as well as aggregate disruption in tens of thousands of collisions. The test chamber will be mechanically agitated to induce collisions that will be recorded by on‐board video for downlink and analysis. Long duration microgravity allows a very large number of collisions to be studied and produce statistically significant data.

Selection process

Q-PACE was selected for flight through NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative which placed it on ELaNa XX. The development of the mission and science investigation was funded through NASA's Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program. It was one of the first two missions selected in SIMPLEx. The other is called LunaH-Map and is led by Craig Hardgrove at the University of Arizona.


Ronny Sanabria

Ronny Sanabria (born 12 April 1964) is a Costa Rican judoka. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics.


Victor Contoski

Victor Contoski (born 1936, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American writer and university professor of Polish descent, best known for his science-fiction chess story Von Goom's Gambit, published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1966. He got his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969. In 1980 he edited a book of poetry by poets of Polish ancestry, Blood of Their Blood.<ref>Victor Contoski, Blood of Their Blood: An Anthology of Polish-American Poetry, New Rivers Press, 1980, ASIN: B00420WB8I</ref> He is retired and resides in Lawrence, Kansas.

Bibliography

 Von Goom's Gambit, Chess Review, April 1966, reprinted in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1966.
 Four Contemporary Polish Poets (translations), Quixote, 1967
 Astronomers, Madonnas, and Prophecies (poetry), Juniper, 1972
 Broken Treaties (poetry), New Rivers, 1973
 Planting Beeches (translations of Harasymoxicz), New Rivers, 1975
 Names (poetry), New Rivers, 1979
 Unease (translations of Rozewicz), New Rivers, 1980
 A Kansas Sequence (poetry), Tellus, 1983
 Midwestern Buildings'' (poetry), Cottonwood, 1997


Asterivora colpota

Asterivora colpota is a moth in the family Choreutidae. It is known from New Zealand.

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The head and thorax are dark bronzy-fuscous sprinkled with whitish. The antennae are black ringed with white. The abdomen is blackish-fuscous, although the segmental margins are brownish. The dark bronzy-fuscous forewings are elongate and rather oblique, rather dilated posteriorly, the costa slightly is arched, the apex obtuse and the termen bowed. The basal and terminal areas are finely sprinkled with whitish and there are two parallel rather curved irregular transverse lines of whitish irroration about two-fifth and a transverse line of whitish irroration from a white mark on the costa at three-fifth. There is also a transverse linear mark of whitish irroration terminated beneath by a white dot and a thick subterminal shade of whitish irroration, somewhat interrupted above the middle. The hindwings are dark grey, although the terminal half is blackish. Here, two parallel lines of whitish irroration are found, running towards the termen on the lower half.


Murex singaporensis

Murex (Murex) singaporensis is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.


Juan de Espinal

Juan de Espinal (1714-1783), a Spanish historical painter, was a native of Seville. He was the son and pupil of Gregorio Espinal, who was also a painter, but he afterwards entered the school of Domingo Martinez, whose daughter he married. He was chosen director of the School of Design which Cean Bermudez and other lovers of art established at Seville. Cean Bermudez says that he possessed more genius than any of his contemporaries, and but for his bad training and indolence would have been the best painter whom Seville had produced since the time of Murillo. A visit to Madrid late in life made apparent his misspent time, and he returned saddened and abashed to Seville, where he died in 1783. His chief works were scenes from the life of St. Jerome, painted for the monastery of San Geronimo de Buenavista, and now in the Seville Museum, and some frescoes in the collegiate church of San Salvador.


Kilian Patour

Kilian Patour (born 20 September 1982 in Saintes) is a French cyclist riding for UC Orléans.

Palmares
2000
 Junior National Road Race Champion
2003
 U23 National Road Race Champion
1st stage 4 Tour de la Manche
1st Brussels-Zepperen
2nd Paris–Troyes
2004
1st Grand Prix de la Ville de Nogent-sur-Oise
3rd U23 National Time Trial Championships
2009
1st stage 1 Tour of Qatar (TTT)


Better (Kim Hyung-jun song)

"Better" () is the second Japanese single by South Korean entertainer Kim Hyung-jun, after "Long Night". It was released on November 19, 2014 on the Swave E&T label. The single was also released on DVD.

Background and development
Before "Betters release, Kim was active in Japan in 2013 with the release of "Always Love You" (featuring K-pop vocalist Kota) and in 2011 with the release of "Long Night". During the first half of 2014 he focused on his acting career, appearing on the television series Melody of Love, and gave concerts in South Korea and abroad.
In the second half of the year, Kim prepared for the Japanese release of "Better" with diet and exercise.

Description
The song, a combination of hip hop, rap and rhythm and blues, features Baby-J and Park Eun-young and was produced by Han Sang Won.

Release and promotion
On October 10 Kim began a three-day Endless Story tour, organized by the Swave E&T label to promote his upcoming single, in Tokyo and Nagoya. In addition to performing "Better", he introduced its music video before its release. According to a spokesperson, the tour "confirm[ed] Kim Hyung Jun's unchanged popularity" and "[Kim] will gain even more fans after releasing his new single in November".

Kim had autograph-signing sessions and fan meetings in Japan's three largest cities: Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Other promotional activities included a November 18–24 special event at Tower Records in Shibuya and a TV appearance on Han Love (韓ラブ). "Better" was released on November 19, 2014. After its release Kim continued his Endless Story tour until November 28, with seven shows in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.

Track listing

Music video

The music video for "Better" was uploaded to YouTube on November 19, 2014. The four-minute, 23-second video was filmed primarily in black-and-white with red tinting. Kim's car was used, since the crew suggested that it would allow them to finish shooting on schedule.

In the video, Kim is "tortured by a lost love" and shots of him singing and dancing appear. Baby-J's rap parts were filmed separately. Between cuts, Kim, Baby-J and Eun Young dramatize the story. "Better" abruptly stops in the middle, and the video changes to full color before the car Kim is driving explodes. The song's title and Kim's name, as part of the closing credits, are superimposed over the explosion.

After release
On January 17, 2015, two months after his Japanese single release, Kim performed at the Seoul Police Promotional Team's Music and Talk Concert with fellow SS501 members Kim Kyu-jong and Heo Young-saeng. Heo, who performed his national service with the Seoul police, invited the other two members to perform at the event.

On March 4, Kim signed with the CI Entertainment agency. His first promotional activity under the new management was a fan meeting in South Korea, Fan Night Live (FNL), at the Blue Square Samsung Concert Hall on April 25. Kim performed his own and SS501 songs (including tracks from the "Better" CD single), and mentioned plans for a solo album in July. Alberto Mondi, an actor and member of Kim's soccer team, hosted the fan question-and-answer segment.

Release history

Charts


Sannikovo, Muromsky District, Vladimir Oblast

Sannikovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 58 as of 2010. There are 3 streets.


Claudia Bandion-Ortner

Claudia Bandion-Ortner (born 30 November 1966) is an Austrian judge and politician, who served as the minister of justice.

Early life and education
Bandion-Ortner was born in Graz on 30 November 1966. She graduated from Karl-Franzens University in Graz in 1989 with a master's degree in law.

Career
Bandion-Ortner began her career as a judge at the regional court for criminal matters in Vienna. Then she became a chief judge. She was appointed minister of justice to the coalition cabinet led by Werner Faymann on 15 January 2009, replacing Johannes Hahn. Although she was an independent figure, the People's Party, partner of the Social Democratic Party in the coalition, nominated her for the post. Her tenure lasted until 20 April 2011 when she was resigned from office and she was succeeded by Beatrix Karl in the post.

After leaving office Bandion-Ortner served as the senior advisor at the international anticorruption academy in Laxenburg, outside Vienna,  from August 2011 to August 2012. In November 2012, Bandion-Ortner was appointed deputy secretary-general of the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz international centre for interreligious and intercultural dialogue (KAICIID) that is based in Vienna.

Personal life
Bandion-Ortner is married and has a child.


Anthony Vollack

Anthony Francis Vollack (August 7, 1929 – September 28, 2015) was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court from 1986 to 2000, serving as Chief Justice from 1995 to 1998.

Biography
Vollack was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and his family moved to Fort Collins, Colorado when he was in high school. He studied at the Colorado Agricultural & Mining College (now Colorado State University), receiving a B.S. degree in 1951. Following service as an officer in the United States Air Force, he attended the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, graduating with a LL.B. in 1956.

Following law school, from 1956 to 1977, Vollack was in solo practice in Denver. In 1964, he successfully ran as a Democrat for State Senator from the 13th District, composed of Jefferson County. In 1968 he was re-elected for a second term representing the 16th District, including both Jefferson and Adams Counties. He was noted for his interest in issues of child welfare and good government.

In 1972, Vollack decided to challenge three-term Republican incumbent Gordon L. Allott for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He was defeated by Floyd K. Haskell in the Democratic primary. Haskell would go on to win the Senate race.

In 1977, Vollack's name was put forward for the District Court bench by the Colorado Merit Selection system, and he was appointed  by Governor Richard Lamm. In 1986, Vollack was elevated to serve as justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. He sat as Chief Justice from 1995 to 1998, during which he helped form the Colorado Judicial Coordinating Council, composed of state and federal judges, and used the power of the "Chief Justice Directive" to modernize court operations. In 2000, he retired from the bench. He then served as an alternative dispute resolution mediator with the Judicial Arbiter Group.

He received numerous awards for his community service, including in 1999 the Champion for Children Award by the Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center.

Personal life
On August 2, 1958, he married Imojean Shelton, a school teacher in Denver who had grown up in Memphis, Tennessee. They were introduced by Senator Estes Kefauver, whose secretary, Jowanda Shelton, was her sister. The couple had two children: Kirk Vollack, a musician and teacher, and Lia A. Vollack (Lurie).


Coal Lake (Alberta)

Coal Lake is a long, sinuous lake located approximately  southeast of the city of Edmonton, just northeast of the city of Wetaskiwin. The lake is in one of the glacial meltwater channels (the North Saskatchewan River follows another) formed when the  of Lake Edmonton, which existed for roughly 100 years at the end of the last ice age, breached its ice dam and drained within a few weeks.  The entire meltwater channel starts east of Nisku, wandering southeast through minor depressions and the chain of Saunders Lake, Ord Lake, three small unnamed lakes, Coal Lake and Driedmeat Lake.

Coal Lake starts east of Kavanagh, Alberta, and ends at a dam built  northwest of Gwynne, Alberta. Since construction of the dam in 1972, Pipestone Creek flows through the southern end of Coal Lake, draining the lake into the Battle River,  southeast of Coal Lake.

Coal Lake was named in 1892 by J.D.A. Fitzpatrick, a Dominion Land Surveyor, for the coal beds present in many places along the northeast shore.


Solute pumping

Solute pumping is a form of active transport of a solute through a cell membrane.

Solute pumping allows a molecule that cannot regularly cross the lipid bilayer (because of concentration gradient, polarity, or other reasons) to enter the cell by way of a protein channel. Unlike diffusion (a form of passive transport), solute pumping requires energy (provided by ATP) to change the shape of the protein channel to allow the molecule to pass through, which is why it is an active transport mechanism.


Câmpia Turzii

Câmpia Turzii (; ; ) is a municipality in Cluj County, Romania, which was formed in 1925 by the union of two villages, Ghiriş (Aranyosgyéres) and Sâncrai (Szentkirály). It was declared a town in 1950 and a city in 1998.

The village of Sâncrai was mentioned in a 1219 document as "villa Sancti Regis" ("village of Holy King"), while Ghiriş was first documented in 1292 as "Terra Gerusteleke" ("Gerusteleke", literally meaning "plot of Gerus" in Hungarian).

Michael the Brave was murdered by agents of Giorgio Basta at the current location of Câmpia Turzii on August 9, 1601.

Câmpia Turzii is the "city of adoption" of Toulouse.

Population

The population has evolved as follows since 1784:
1784: Ghiriş: 565; Sâncrai: 472
1850: Ghiriş: 1,168; Sâncrai: 487
1910: Ghiriş: 1,815; Sâncrai: 704
1930 census: 4,124
1948 census: 6,310
1956 census: 11,518
1977 census: 22,418
2002 census: 26,823
2011 census: 22,223

Military activity
The city is home to the Romanian Air Force's RoAF 71st Air Base, and during the NATO Summit of 2008, the 323rd Air Expeditionary Wing of the United States Air Force. F-15s from RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom flew out during the summit to augment air defence forces for the event.

In April 2015, a U.S. Air Force group of A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft stationed in Germany arrived at the RoAF 71st Air Base to take part in exercises with the Romanian Air Force.

Natives
Cosmin Văsîie, footballer


Mahatma School of Academics and Sports

Mahatma School of Academics and Sports is a part of the Mahatma Education Society.

It is located in Khanda Colony (part of New Panvel). This school teaches English as well as Marathi media and CBSE

The vision of Dr. K. M. Vasudevan Pillai (Founder and CEO) and Dr. Daphne Pillai (Secretary) grew the trust from a single school into a multi-institution, multi-location group delivering education at all levels. Today MES owns and manages over 48 institutions, from pre-primary to post-graduation. It comprises schools, international schools, degree colleges, night colleges, management institutions, engineering colleges, colleges of architecture, colleges of education (including physical education), polytechnic institutions and sports clubs.


Esmaeil Sharifat

Esmaeil Sharifat (, born September 7, 1988) is an Iranian football player, who currently plays for Shahin Bushehr of the Persian Gulf Pro League

Club career
Sharifat began his career with Foolad before joining Esteghlal Ahvaz. He then transferred to Esteghlal. In summer 2012, Sharifat returned to Foolad with signing a three-year contract. On 22 February 2014, he signed a new contract with Foolad until 2018.

Club career statistics
Last update 15 May 2015

 Assist goals

Honours

Club
Esteghlal
Iran Pro League Runner-up (1): 2010–11
Hazfi Cup (1): 2011–12

Foolad
Iran Pro League (1): 2013–14


Abbi Fisher

Abigail E. "Abbi" Fisher-Gould (born August 30, 1957) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States.  Born in South Conway, New Hampshire,  she had one World Cup victory and three podiums. She suffered a knee injury in March 1979, at the pre-Olympic downhill at Lake Placid.

Fisher competed in the Winter Olympics in 1976 and 1980. She was unable to start in the slalom at the World Championships in 1978 due to an ankle injury. and was also named to the U.S. team in 1982.

Fisher married Frank Gould; they have two children and reside in the Sun Valley area in central Idaho.

World Cup results

Race podiums
 1 victory – (1 SL)
 3 podiums – (1 SL, 2 GS)

Season standings


Solar System in fiction

The Solar System and its various bodies (planets, asteroids, moons, etc.) were the earliest objects to be treated as fictional locations in works of science fiction. Among these, imaginary voyages to and explorations of Earth's Moon are found in seventeenth century literature. By the early twentieth century, following the increase in scientific and technological development spurred by the Industrial Revolution, fictional journeys to (or from) the Solar System's other planets had become common in fiction.

Early literature regarding the Solar System, following scientific speculations dating back to the 17th century, assumed that every planet hosted its own native life forms—often assumed to be human in form, if not in attitudes.  Later literature began to accept that there were limits set by temperature, gravity, atmospheric pressure and composition, or the presence of liquids that would set bounds on the possibility of life as we know it existing on other planets.  By the 19th century the Moon was given up as an airless desert, incapable of supporting life on its surface (hopes for subsurface life continued until later).  Jupiter and the planets beyond were too large, too cold, and had atmospheres composed of poisonous chemicals.  Mercury was too close to the Sun and its surface was exposed to extremes of temperature.  The asteroids were too tiny and airless. By the early 20th century, prospects for life in the Solar System focused on Venus, the larger moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and especially Mars.

With the onset of the Space Age, planetary probes cast increasing doubt on the likelihood of extraterrestrial life in the Solar System, at least life of any magnitude greater than organisms such as bacteria. By the mid-1960s, it was firmly established that life could have no foothold on the hostile surfaces of Mercury or Venus, and that Mars could hardly support any macroscopic life forms on its surface, much less an advanced civilization.  In the 1980s it was shown that the surfaces of Jupiter's moons were just as hostile to life.
More recent fiction focused on the Solar System has thus tended to address its exploration for purposes such as terraforming, the engineering of planets for human habitation, than the possibility of any existing life.

Works
The following works or series use multiple planets and other locations within the Solar System as their primary settings:

Novels and series

Adult

Juvenile

Comics and animation
 The Dan Dare comics series (first five stories, 1950 - 1955)
 The Cowboy Bebop manga and anime television series and film (1998 - 2001)
 The Exosquad animated television series (1993 - 1995)
 The Sailor Moon manga and anime television series (1992 - 1997)

Film, radio, and television
 The Space Patrol radio and live action television programs (1950–1955)
 The Tom Corbett, Space Cadet radio and television programs (1950–1955)
 Journey Into Space, BBC radio programs (1953-1956)
 Space Patrol, the puppet television program (1962)
 Sineskwela, Solar System episode
 Defying Gravity, television program (2009)
 The Expanse, television program (2015)

Games


8i (virtual reality)

8i is a virtual reality software company focusing on volumetric human capture. The company was founded in Wellington, New Zealand and has since expanded to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

History
8i was founded in May 2014 by Linc Gasking, Eugene d'Eon, Sebastian Marino and Joshua Feast to develop software that can capture, analyze, compress, and recreate all the viewpoints required for volumetric capture, a process that enables virtual reality headset users to freely lean toward or walk around the captured subject.

The company has built a team experienced in light field research, visual effects, consumer platforms and growing communities by recruiting employees from Weta Digital, YouTube, Nvidia, PayPal, Microsoft Research, Sony Computer Entertainment, DreamWorks, Digital Domain, Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar and Valve.

In October 2015, 8i raised a $13.5 million Series A. Investors included RRE Ventures, Founders Fund Science, Samsung Ventures, and Dolby Family Ventures.

In January 2016, 8i premiered #100humans at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival as part of its New Frontier exhibit. The program featured four VR projects that placed characters captured using 8i technology in distinct environments ranging from a dystopian wasteland to the Grand Canyon.

In January 2017 Steve Raymond was named CEO.


Cabin (ship)

A cabin or berthing is an enclosed space generally on a ship or an aircraft. A cabin which protrudes above the level of a ship's deck may be referred to as a deckhouse.

Sailing ships

In sailing ships, the officers and paying passengers would have an individual or shared cabin.  The captain or commanding officer  would occupy the "great cabin" that normally spanned the width of the stern and had large windows.

On a warship, it was a privileged area, separate from the rest of the ship, for the exclusive use of the captain. In large warships, the cabin was subdivided into day and night cabins (bedrooms) by movable panels, called bulk-heads, that could be removed in time of battle to leave the cabin clear for the gunners to use the stern chasers several of which were usually stationed in the cabin.

On large three decker warships in the age of sail the captain's cabin was sometimes appropriated by the Admiral. The captain would be consigned to the cabin below on the middle gun-deck.

Modern warships

In most modern warships, the commanding officer has a main cabin—the in-port cabin, often adjacent to the ship's central control room (operations room)—and a sea cabin adjacent to the bridge. Thus, when likely to be called from sleep or attending to administration, the commanding officer can go to the sea cabin and thereby be able to appear at the bridge or operations room immediately. The sea cabin is sparsely equipped, containing just a bunk, a desk, and basic toilet facilities. The in-port cabin is more lavishly furnished, with separate bedroom and combination sitting room/office, and more elaborate toiletry facilities.

For ships intended to act as flagships, like the former United States Navy aircraft carrier —now a museum ship—the admiral also has a sea cabin (adjacent to the captain's sea cabin) and an in-port cabin, in addition to the captain's cabins. Admiral Fletcher's sea cabin in the aircraft carrier  during World War II had a bed, an easy chair, a table, and a shower.

Officers normally have their own cabins—sometimes referred to as staterooms—which double as their offices. Some senior petty officers may have cabins for similar reasons.

Sailors sleep in berthing areas.

Passenger ships
In ships carrying passengers, they are normally accommodated in cabins, taking the terminology familiar to seafarers. First-class cabins were traditionally referred to as staterooms, and today many cruise lines now prefer to refer to passenger cabins as staterooms or suites.

Cabin crawl
In cruise ship terms, a cabin crawl is an event where passengers tour the cabins of fellow passengers. A cruise ship may also offer a cabin crawl of cabins or suites which did not sell for a particular sailing. The purpose of a cabin crawl is to give passengers an idea of the space and layout of various cabin options for their next cruise. Cabin crawls are normally organized prior to a cruise, through cruise-fan websites.

Spacecraft
In spacecraft, cabins are required to fully supply food and oxygen for their crew. On missions lasting a year or longer, the cabins have to be self-sustaining, i.e. replenish their own water and oxygen. The space cabin for any long-range manned mission is expected to be reasonably spacious, with approximately 28 cubic metres allotted to each occupant. In addition, cabins have life support systems that should have the capability to meet a variety of off-nominal conditions, including cabin fires, depressurization, and component shutdown or failure. Frequently, these conditions occur so quickly that recovery can be provided only by automatic control systems. In the late 1960s, several experimental ground facilities were developed to evaluate regenerative life support systems for crewed space flight.


Nassaria nebulonis

Nassaria nebulonis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Description

Distribution


2027 World Men's Handball Championship

The 2027 IHF World Men's Handball Championship, will be the 30th event hosted by the International Handball Federation. It will take place in Germany in January 2027.

Bidding process
Five nations expressed interest in hosting the tournament. The awarding of the events took place at the next IHF Council meeting in
Cairo, Egypt on 28 February 2020. Germany was chosen as the host. This will be the sixth time Germany will host this tournament.

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Qualification
The World Championship organizer will be directly qualified, along with the reigning world champions.
Following decision about increasing number of participating teams, the number of compulsory places awarded to each Continental Confederation is divided as follows: four places each for Asia and Europe and six places for Africa.
Starting in 2021 Pan America was split into two zones: the North America and Caribbean Zone, having one compulsory place and the South and Central America Zone having four compulsory places.
One additional place is available for Oceania, but only in the case where that national team rank fifth or higher at the Asian Championship. If no Oceania team places among the top five at the Asian Championship, the IHF will award an additional Wild Card.
In addition, there will be several performance places for the Continental Confederations, which are based on the teams ranked 1–12 of the preceding World Championship.
According to the new qualification system and taking into consideration the results of the 2025 Men’s World Championship, 32 places are distributed as follows:

Host nation: 1
Reigning world champion: 1
Africa: 6
Asia: 4
Europe: 13
Pan America: 5
North America and Caribbean: 1
South and Central America: 4
Oceania/additional Wild Card: 1
Wild Card: 1

1. In view of 2028 Summer Olympics, the IHF Council awarded the United States with Wild Cards for the 2025 and 2027 World Championships.

2. If countries from Oceania (Australia or New Zealand) participating in the Asian Championships finish within the top 5, they will qualify for the World Championships. If they finish placed sixth or lower, the place would have been transferred to the Wild Card spot.

Qualified teams

1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host country for that year.


Jamalganj railway station

Jamalganj railway station is a railway station in Joypurhat, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh.


FL-boat

The FL-boat (Fernlenkboot, literally "remote controlled boat") was a weapon used by the Imperial German Navy during World War I. It was a remote-controlled motorboat, 17 m long, carrying  of explosives, which was intended to be steered directly at its targets - initially the Royal Navy monitors operating off the coast of Flanders.

FL-boats were constructed by Siemens-Schuckertwerke.  They were driven by internal combustion engines and controlled remotely from a shore station through spooled wire unwound behind the boat. The wire was  long and the spool weighed . An aircraft could be used to signal directions to the shore station by radio. The commands available to the boat operator were:

 System test
 Engine start, engine stop
 Set Rudder position
 Turn on a light, to enable the boat to be tracked at night
 Detonate the warhead, to prevent capture of the boat if it missed its target

Planned developments were to use a control station carried on a ship, in an airship or use a radio-control system. The boats could attain speeds of .

On 1 March 1917 an FL-boat hit the Nieuwpoort mole and on 28 October 1917 one hit the Royal Navy monitor HMS Erebus.


Irish cricket team against Afghanistan in the UAE in 2017–18

The Ireland cricket team toured the United Arab Emirates in December 2017 to play three One Day Internationals (ODIs) against the Afghanistan cricket team. The matches were used as a warm-up for the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, scheduled to take place in Zimbabwe in March 2018. Ireland won the series 2–1.

Squads

Ahead of the series, Ed Joyce was ruled out of Ireland's squad with a knee injury, with John Anderson replacing him. Niall O'Brien initially returned home to Ireland for personal reasons and was replaced by Stuart Poynter, but he re-joined the squad prior to the series.

ODI series

1st ODI

2nd ODI

3rd ODI


Francis of Mayrone

Francis of Mayrone (also Franciscus de Mayronis; c. 1280–1328) was a French scholastic philosopher. He was a distinguished pupil of Duns Scotus, whose teaching (Scotism) he usually followed.

He acquired a great reputation for ability in discussion at the Sorbonne, and was known as the Doctor Illuminatus 'Enlightened teacher', as Magister Acutus or Doctor acutus, and as Magister abstractionum 'Master of abstractions'.

Biography
Francis Meyronnes was not only an important medieval French philosopher, but also: a theologian, a student, a teacher, and a minister. He was born (c.a 1288) in Provence, France (located in the southwest region); Meyronnes was probably from a noble family, who were well connected to the house of Anjou. Meyronnes joined the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans. He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Paris (c.a 1304-1307) under John Duns Scotus at the University of Paris.  Meyronnes was considered a Scotist; however, he was more of an independent-minded follower of Scotus
Meyronnes  lectured on the Sentences, in Paris, from 1320 to 1321. In that same year, Meyronnes and Pierre Auriol (both Franciscans) engaged in a famous debate with Pierre Roger ("the champion of Thomism" who would soon be Clement VI); the theological questions discussed were taken from the Sententiae of Peter Lombard (a scholastic theologian, bishop, and author of Four Books of Sentences).
Robert of Anjou, who was at the time the king of Sicily, requested to Pope John XXII to title Meyronnes as a master in theology. So, on 24 May 1323, the chancellor of the University of Paris (commanded by Pope John XXII) deemed Meyronnes to be a master in theology. Francis served as the Provincial Minister of Provence, from 1323 to 1328. During his Provincial Ministering, Francis actively preached, taught, and served as the pope’s ambassador in Gascogne. Francis Meyronnes died in 1328 in Piacenza, Italy, leaving behind an extensive collection of discourses on a wide, comprehensive range of topics. Topics include religion, economics, philosophy, human cognition, politics, the nature of space, and the possibility of other worlds.

He took part in the discussions on the nature of Universals. Following Duns Scotus, he adopted the Platonic theory of ideas, and denied that Aristotle had made any contribution to metaphysical speculation. It is a curious commentary on the theories of Duns Scotus that one pupil, Francis, should have taken this course, while another pupil, William of Occam, should have used his arguments in a diametrically opposite direction and ended in extreme Nominalism.

Writings
Scripta super 4 libros Sententiarum (1507–1567)
De univocatione entis (1490)
Conflatus (1476)
Conflatile (1579)
Passus super Universalia (1479)
Sermones de tempore cum Quadragesimali (1483)
Sermones de Sanctis (1493)
Tractatus de Conceptione B.M.V. (1665)
Theologicae Veritates in St. Augustinum de Civitate Dei (1473)
Veritates ex libris St. Augustini de Trinitate (1520)

Francis Meyronnes major work was his commentary on Sententiae. Currently, the final version of Book 1 of the Sententiae, also called Conflatus, shows a very elaborate Prologue. In this Prologue are twenty-one quaestiones, which have made a huge impression on later commentaries on the Sentences.
A second famous work by Meyronnes are his Quodlibeta, which in Latin means, "Questions on whatever you like". This presented the opportunity for students in medieval universities to question and test their teachers.
Some of Francis Meyronnes’ other works include: his dispute over Trinity with Pierre Roger, lectures on the ars vetus and the physics, a treatise on the transcendentals, a large number of sermons, a treatise on intuitive cognition, and other various political treatises.

Modern editions
Der Tractatus de transcendentibus des Franciscus de Mayronis, edited by Hannes Möhle, Leuven, Peeters, 2004.


Leonard Redshaw

Sir Leonard Redshaw (15 April 1911 – 29 April 1989) was a shipbuilder from Barrow-in-Furness, England.

Like his father, Redshaw became an apprentice ships draughtsman at Vickers shipyard at the age of 16. Though this was unusual at the time, he completed graduate work at Liverpool University in naval architecture, including some time in German plants in 1934. After advancing through management, he became the Shipbuilding Manager at the yard in 1950, aged 39, and then the managing director of the Barrow-based Vickers Shipbuilding Group in 1965. In 1968, he became the chairman of the company, and was knighted for his contributions to British exports in 1972. He retired in 1976, having been promoted to deputy chairman of Vickers. In later life, he was a member of a so-called "Suicide Squad" of older engineers and scientists who volunteered to be first responders in disasters involving nuclear reactors.

At Barrow, Redshaw oversaw the building of HMS Dreadnought, the United Kingdom's first nuclear-powered submarine, and subsequently saw Barrow achieve a monopoly on the construction of British nuclear submarines. The Dreadnought success also led to the yard being appointed the primary builder of the submarines for the UK Polaris programme. During this time, Redshaw was named as the "Builders Chief Polaris Executive"; on this project, he worked opposite and alongside Rear Admiral Hugh McKenzie of the Royal Navy. The pair were mutually hostile, with Redshaw doubting that McKenzie had the business acumen to handle the project, and McKenzie thinking Redshaw and Barrow's plant to be highly outdated.

The shipyard was highly profitable under his management, succeeding while other shipbuilding ventures were failing and becoming the major profit centre of the wider Vickers company. Despite this, Redshaw had a series of protracted disagreements with the ship builders' unions concerning the company's direction, and he was in turn critical of the unions' power.

Redshaw published two books, British Shipbuilding-Welding (1947) and Application of Welding to Ship Construction (1962).

Personal
Redshaw married Joan Mary (née White) in 1939. They had a daughter and a son. He was a gliding enthusiast, logging over 3,000 hours in the air, and owner of several glider models.

A biography of Redshaw, Vickers' Master Shipbuilder: Sir Leonard Redshaw by Leslie M. Shaw, was published in 2011 by Black Dwarf Publications.