Kelvinbridge subway station

Kelvinbridge subway station is a Glasgow Subway station serving the Woodlands, Woodside and Hillhead areas of Glasgow, Scotland. It is named after the bridge crossing the River Kelvin, next to the station. This station is one of the two serving Kelvingrove Park, the other being Kelvinhall.

The station – along with the rest of the Subway system – was opened in 1896 and closed for refurbishment in 1977, reopening in 1980. It retains the original island platform layout, and is by far the busiest station to retain this configuration.

The station has a car park, built on the site of the goods yard at Kelvinbridge on the Stobcross to Maryhill Central line.

The station is the deepest station in the network due to its close proximity to the River Kelvin, and was originally entered through a tenement block on South Woodside Road with access to Great Western Road via an external cast iron staircase descending from the eponymous bridge. Following modernisation, a purpose-built surface-level ticket hall has offered direct access to the new main entrance on Great Western Road via a glass-enclosed escalator.

The former station entrance is now the emergency exit from today's station, the emergency exit being marked by red doors at the bottom of the iron staircase, and "keep clear" signs.

Past passenger numbers
 2011/12: 0.913 million annually


United Nations Security Council Resolution 1765 was unanimously adopted on 16 July 2007.

Resolution
Determining that the situation in Côte d’Ivoire continues to pose a threat to international peace and security, the Security Council this morning decided to renew the mandate of the United Nations Operation in that country and of the French forces that support it until 15 January 2008, in order to support the organization of transparent electionswithin the time frame set out in the recently signed Ouagadougou political Agreement.

Unanimously adopting resolution 1765 (2007) and acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Council endorsed the Secretary-General’s recommendations contained in his most recent progress report on the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) (document S/2007/275), which adapt the mission’s role to the new phase of the peace process in Côte d’Ivoire, as set out in the Ouagadougou Agreement.

[That Agreement, signed on 4 March 2007 by President Laurent Gbagbo and Guillaume Soro in Ouagadougou under the facilitation of the Chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso, sets out a series of measures to deal with the political divide.  It calls, among other steps, for creating a new transitional Government; organizing free and fair presidential elections; merging the Forces Nouvelles and the national defence and security forces through the establishment of an integrated command centre; dismantling the militias, disarming ex-combatants and enrolling them in civil services programmes; and replacing the so-called zone of confidence separating north and south with a green line to be monitored by UNOCI.]


Harskamp

Harskamp is a village in the municipality of Ede in the province of Gelderland, the Netherlands. Harskamp has 3,550 inhabitants (2012).


Cocool

Cocool is Norwegian singer Tone Damli's fourth studio album, which was released on 18 October 2010. The album peaked at number 22 on the Norwegian Albums Chart.

Track listing

Charts

Release history


Neogymnomma

Neogymnomma is a genus of parasitic flies in the family Tachinidae. There is one described species in Neogymnomma, N. rufa.


Daniel Munyer

Daniel Munyer (born March 4, 1992) is an American football guard for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Colorado and was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2015.

Professional career

Kansas City Chiefs
After going unselected in the 2015 NFL draft, Munyer signed with Kansas City Chiefs on May 19, 2015. He was waived before the start of the season for final roster cuts, but signed with the team's practice squad. On January 5, 2016, the Chiefs promoted Munyer to the active roster.

On September 3, 2016, Hammond was released by the Chiefs, and was signed to the practice squad the next day, only to be released two days later. He was re-signed to the practice squad on September 20 but was released on October 3.

Arizona Cardinals
On December 28, 2016, Munyer was signed to the Cardinals' practice squad. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Cardinals on January 3, 2017.

In 2017, Munyer made the Cardinals final roster, playing in one game before being placed on injured reserve on November 6, 2017.

On March 22, 2018, Munyer re-signed with the Cardinals.

Indianapolis Colts
On July 24, 2019, Munyer was signed by the Indianapolis Colts. He was released on August 31, 2019.

Tennessee Titans
On October 8, 2019, Munyer was signed to the Tennessee Titans practice squad. He was released on November 5, but re-signed a week later. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Titans on January 20, 2020.


Baria, Chittagong

Baria is a village in Chittagong Division, Bangladesh.


Rodolfo H. Torres

Rodolfo Humberto Torres (born November 20, 1960) is an Argentine mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis who works as a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kansas.

Torres did his undergraduate studies at the National University of Rosario in Argentina, completing a licenciatura there in 1984. He earned his doctorate in 1989 from Washington University in St. Louis, with a dissertation entitled On the Boundedness of Certain Operators with Singular Kernels on Distribution Spaces and supervised by Björn D. Jawerth.
In 2012 he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. He was named a Distinguished Professor in 2016.

As well as his work in pure mathematics, Torres has also published works on light scattering mechanisms for the colorings of birds and insects.


Rouvroy-les-Merles

Rouvroy-les-Merles is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.


Charles Brewer-Carías

Charles Brewer-Carías (born 10 September 1938 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan explorer and naturalist. Known as the "Humboldt of the twentieth century", Brewer-Carías has led more than 200 expeditions to remote parts of the Venezuelan Guayana, particularly the tepuis (table mountains) of the region. His discoveries include the sink holes of Cerro Sarisariñama and the world's largest known quartzite cave, Cueva Charles Brewer.

Around 27 species of animals and plants have been named in his honour, including the bromeliad genus Brewcaria.


Old Marengo County Courthouse

The Old Marengo County Courthouse, built in 1850, is a Greek Revival courthouse building located in Linden, Alabama, U.S.A..  It was the third building to serve as the courthouse for Marengo County, Alabama, out of a total of five purpose-built courthouses.  The courthouse was the site of a notable event on 9 October 1890 when nationally infamous train-robber and outlaw Reuben Houston "Rube" Burrow was shot and killed in the street in front of the building.

History
After Marengo became a county in 1818, the first building to serve as a courthouse was a simple one-room log cabin.  This was too small to meet the needs of the county and on 25 May 1825 the county commissioners met and resolved to have a new two-story structure built on Cahaba Avenue, Linden's business district at that time.  This second courthouse was finished in 1827 and was used until it burned in 1848.  This saw the construction of the third building in 1850, on the site of the old.  The new building would serve as the courthouse continuously, except for a brief period during Federal Reconstruction when the county seat was moved to Demopolis, until 1902.

In 1902, the county commissioners decided that a much larger courthouse was needed. They also decided that a better location was needed, as the business district of Linden had shifted to a location about a mile to the southeast. A new three-story Richardsonian Romanesque style courthouse with a five-story clock tower was then built at the corner of North Main Street and East Coats Avenue, leaving the old courthouse for use as a public school.  In 1915 the building was purchased by the Missionary Society of Linden Baptist Church, for use as a church.  In 1949 the building was sold to the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization for use as a meeting hall.  From the 1960s until the present the building has sat largely empty and unused.

Gallery

External links

 Historical Marker Database - Old Marengo County Courthouse


Mchowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Mchowo  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Babiak, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately  north-east of Babiak,  north of Koło, and  east of the regional capital Poznań.


Oligolophus

Oligolophus is a genus of the harvestman family Phalangiidae with four described species.

Species
 Oligolophus mollis L. Koch (unidentifiable)
 Oligolophus hansenii (Kraepelin, 1896) (Denmark)
 Oligolophus tridens (C. L. Koch, 1836) (central Europe)
 Oligolophus tienmushanensis Wang, 1941 (China)


The Catechism Cataclysm

The Catechism Cataclysm is a 2011 independent, psychotronic dark comedy film directed by Todd Rohal. The film's narrative concerns a bumbling priest named Father Billy who embarks on a camping trip with his childhood idol, Robbie.

Cast

Steve Little as Father Billy Smoortser
Robert Longstreet as Robbie Shoemaker
Koko Lanham as Huckleberry Finn
Miki Ann Maddox as Tom Sawyer
Rico A. Comic as Jim
Wally Dalton as Father O'Herlihy
Joe Ivy as Canoe Shop Owner
Judy Findlay as Old Lady
Barbara Pomer as Milagros Maria
Enrique Olguin as Miguel
Jay Wesley Cochran as Depressed Businessman

Release
The Catechism Cataclysm was produced by Rough House Pictures (David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, and Jody Hill). The film was premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and subsequently screened within such festivals as Maryland Film Festival.

It was acquired for distribution by IFC Films.

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The Spirit of Christmas 2002

The Spirit of Christmas 2002 is the eighth compilation album of Christmas-associated tracks in the annual Spirit of Christmas series. It was released in Australia in November 2002 with proceeds going to The Salvation Army's Red Shield Appeal, which supports at-risk children and youth throughout the country. The compilation has contributions from various Australian artists and was produced by Lindsay Field (also compiler) and Glenn Wheatley. It was issued on cassette and CD by Myer Grace Bros. and distributed by Sony BMG.

Background
The Spirit of Christmas series started in 1993 when Myer, an Australian department store, wished to continue their philanthropic support in the community, "whilst at the same time providing something special for everyone to enjoy". They choose the Salvation Army's Red Shield Appeal for at-risk children and youth throughout the country as the recipients in 2002. Session and touring musician, Lindsay Field was the executive producer and compiler. Field contacted various fellow Australian musicians – including those he had worked with personally – to donate a track for the compilation, most commonly a new rendition of a standard Christmas carol. Together with Glenn Wheatley (former member of The Masters Apprentices and manager of Little River Band), Field produced the recording for Myer Grace Bros. own label which was distributed by Sony BMG.

Track listing
 "Mary's Boy Child" – Human Nature – 2:40
 "Do You Hear What I Hear?" – Delta Goodrem – 3:48
 "O Holy Night" – Birtles Shorrock Goble – 3:40
 "Grown Up Christmas List" – Julie Anthony – 3:25
 "A Star Tonight" – Diesel – 3:25
 "The Christmas Song" – John Farnham – 3:52
 "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" – Invertigo – 3:29
 "Last Christmas" – Nikki Webster – 4:20
 "The Christmas Message" – Ernie Sigley – 3:53
 "Silent Night" – Mark Seymour – 3:07
 "The Little Drummer Boy" – Melinda Schneider – 3:00
 "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" – Renée Geyer – 2:57
 "Please Come Home for Christmas" – Troy Cassar-Daley – 3:13
 "The Twelve Days of Christmas" – Lisa Edwards and Lindsay Field – 4:52


The Biblical Politics of John Locke

The Biblical Politics of John Locke is a 2004 book by Kim Ian Parker, in which the author provides an account of the impact of the Bible on John Locke’s thought.


Siti Saleha

Siti Saleha Mohd Baharum (born 14 March 1990) is an English actress and model.

Background and family
She was born to an English mother, Tracey Johnson, also known as Aishah Rahman and a Malay father Mohd. Baharom Abdul Rahman. She is the third child of four raised in Klang, Selangor. The younger sister of Sam (born Shamsul Annuar Mohd Baharum) who is also the vocalist of Bunkface. She rose to fame when she played the character Nora Elena alongside actor Aaron Aziz in the drama, Nora Elena broadcast on TV3 which received a warm welcome reaching 1.3 million viewers on the site Tonton.com. She is also known as more than just a charming face as she is also a wise woman in financial control.

Personal life
Saleha announced her engagement to a government official named Lutfi Azhar, 30, at a private ceremony at her family's residence in Klang on 26 November 2016. Lutfi proposed to her when they attended her best friend's wedding in Cancun, Mexico, last July.

Saleha  plans to marry Lutfi Azhar after Hari Raya Aidilfitri in 2017.

On 28 July 2017 Saleha married Ahmad Lutfi Azhar. The couple held a beautiful wedding reception attended by 200 guests at TPC Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, on Friday.

Filmography

Film

Drama

Telemovie

Videography


Sled Lake, Saskatchewan

Sled Lake is a northern settlement in Northern Saskatchewan.


Cape Lowland Freshwater Wetland

Cape Lowland Freshwater Wetland is a critically endangered vegetation type of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Environment
This type of riparian vegetation and its accompanying ecosystem is found in the Western Cape, South Africa, on freshwater floodplains, along the lower stretches of rivers and around seasonal vleis and estuaries. The terrain is typically flat and the soil is rich and silty. It is restricted to a winter rainfall area.

This used to be one of the major ecosystems on the Cape Flats of Cape Town. The Cape Flats used to have a great many wetlands, rivers and seasonal vleis, but these have largely been drained and built over for housing. A few remain at places such as Rondevlei.

Ecology
The flora consists of a range of species of tall reed (e.g. Phragmites australis, Typha capensis), Restios, sedges, grasses, floating aquatics and a great many species of shrub. Plant cover is very high.
Sedgelands predominate on the floodplains, floating aquatics grow in the open pools, taller shrubs and small trees grow in drier soils (e.g. Erica and Restio sp.) and the taller, bigger reed-beds dominate on the fringes of permanent water. Some of the most noticeable and dominant species are Senecio halimnifolius, Paspalum vaginatum, Pennisetum macrourum, Triglochin bulbosa, Bolboschoenus maritimus and Juncus krausii.

Plant species which are endemic to this vegetation type include: Passerina paludosa, Aponogeton angustifolius, Aponogeton distachyos, and Cotula myriophylloides.
This ecosystem is not particularly rich in endemics (by Cape Floristic Region standards) but is an exceptionally rich and important habitat for the Waterbirds and Frogs of the Cape. It is also the breeding ground of the endangered Western Leopard Toad.

Threats and Conservation
These ecosystems are threatened by invasive alien plants such as Kikuyu grass, Water Hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes), Red River Gum (Eucalyptus cladocalyx) and Port Jackson (Acacia saligna), as well as the draining and diversion of water for agricultural reasons and development. A significant proportion of these wetlands have now been transformed and lost and the ecosystem as a whole is now classed as endangered. All remaining wetlands are protected by national legislation.


Patricia Crawford

Patricia A. Crawford (September 6, 1928 – February 11, 2008) is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.


Dmytro Zozulya

Dmytro Zozulya (; born 9 June 1988) is a Ukrainian football defender who plays for Andijon.

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Sobralia fragrans

Sobralia fragrans, commonly known as the fragrant sobralia, is a species of orchid found from Mexico to tropical South America.


Stuart Keith

George Stuart Keith (4 September 1931 – 13 February 2003) was an English and American ornithologist.  He was a champion birder, editor of a series of books about African birds, and co-founder of the American Birding Association (ABA).

Early life
Keith was born on 4 September 1931 in Clothall, Britain, near Baldock in Hertfordshire. During World War II, he moved with his mother and three siblings to Toronto, Ontario.  In 1943, he returned to Britain to study classics at Marlborough College. During the Korean War he served as a lieutenant in The King's Own Scottish Borderers, an infantry regiment.  After his service, Keith completed his formal education, receiving an M.A. degree in classics from Worcester College of the University of Oxford.

Career
He returned to North America in 1955.  From 1958, he was a research associate in the ornithology department of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He joined the American Ornithologists' Union in 1959; became an elective member in 1970; and was made a fellow in 1991.  From 1965 to 1973, he served as secretary, then president, of the U.S Section of the International Council for Bird Preservation, now BirdLife International.  In 1969, he helped found the ABA, and he served as its first president, from 1973 to 1976.

In 1978, Keith joined the project that would compile the seven-volume series The Birds of Africa as a member of its Board of Advisors.  In 1980, he became a senior editor, sharing duties with Hilary Fry and Emil K. Urban.  He contributed the sections describing bulbuls and cisticolas, and had completed his work on the final volume (published in 2004) at the time of his death.

With John Gooders, in 1980 he published the Collins Bird Guide to the birds of Britain and Europe.

Keith made contributions in other media as well.  In the 1960s, he produced a film about cranes in Japan; he produced a feature-length film on African birds.  He made recordings of bird songs from Madagascar and continental Africa; with William Gunn, he produced Birds of the African Rain Forests, the first recordings to specialize in the vocalizations of 90 species of African forest birds.

It is for his accomplishments as a birder that Keith is most widely known.  In 1956, he set a one-year record of 594 species seen in the United States and Canada. He was the first to see 4,000 species worldwide, a total which he achieved in the 1970s.  At the time of his death, he had seen more than 6,500 species; however, he was surpassed by Phoebe Snetsinger, who is credited with almost 8,400 species.  Keith's feats were recorded in The Wall Street Journal, People, The New Yorker, and Bird Watcher's Digest.

Recognition
In 1993 he was awarded the Linnaean Society of New York's Eisenmann Medal.   In 1999, he received the Ludlow Griscom Award from the ABA "in appreciation of his vision and leadership in shaping ABA and tireless passion and dedication to the birds of North America."

Later life and death
Keith became a naturalized American citizen in 1994.  He died, of circulatory-related causes, on 13 February 2003 while on a birding trip to Chuuk in Micronesia, having seen a new life bird earlier in the day.

Selected publications
 Keith, Stuart and John Gooders.  1980.  Collins Bird Guide: A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe. Collins, London, UK.  767 pp.  .
 Urban, Emil K.; C. Hilary Fry; and Stuart Keith.  1986.  The Birds of Africa, Volume II: Game Birds to Pigeons.  Academic Press, London, UK.  552 pp.  .
 Fry, C. Hilary; Stuart Keith; and Emil K. Urban.  1988.  The Birds of Africa, Volume III: Parrots to Woodpeckers. Academic Press, London, UK.  611 pp. .
 Keith, Stuart; Emil K. Urban; and C. Hilary Fry.  1992.  The Birds of Africa, Volume IV: Broadbills to Chats.  Academic Press, London, UK.  632 pp.  .
 Urban, Emil K.; C. Hilary Fry; and Stuart Keith.  1997.  The Birds of Africa, Volume V: Thrushes to Puffback Flycatchers.  Academic Press, London, UK.  672 pp.  .
 Fry, C. Hilary; Stuart Keith; and Emil K. Urban.  2000.  The Birds of Africa, Volume VI: Picathartes to Oxpeckers.  Academic Press, London, UK.  600 pp.  .
 Fry, C. Hilary and Stuart Keith.  2004.  The Birds of Africa, Volume VII: Sparrows to Buntings. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.  728 pp.  .


Oxy-fuel combustion process

Oxy-fuel combustion is the process of burning a fuel using pure oxygen instead of air as the primary oxidant. Since the nitrogen component of air is not heated, fuel consumption is reduced, and higher flame temperatures are possible. Historically, the primary use of oxy-fuel combustion has been in welding and cutting of metals, especially steel, since oxy-fuel allows for higher flame temperatures than can be achieved with an air-fuel flame.

There is currently research being done in firing fossil-fueled power plants with an oxygen-enriched gas mix instead of air. Almost all of the nitrogen is removed from input air, yielding a stream that is approximately 95% oxygen. Firing with pure oxygen would result in too high a flame temperature, so the mixture is diluted by mixing with recycled flue gas, or staged combustion.  The recycled flue gas can also be used to carry fuel into the boiler and ensure adequate convective heat transfer to all boiler areas. Oxy-fuel combustion produces approximately 75% less flue gas than air fueled combustion and produces exhaust consisting primarily of CO2 and H2O (see figure).

Economy and efficiency
The justification for using oxy-fuel is to produce a CO2 rich flue gas ready for sequestration. Oxy-fuel combustion has significant advantages over traditional air-fired plants. Among these are:

 The mass and volume of the flue gas are reduced by approximately 75%.
 Because the flue gas volume is reduced, less heat is lost in the flue gas.
 The size of the flue gas treatment equipment can be reduced by 75%.
 The flue gas is primarily CO2, suitable for sequestration.
 The concentration of pollutants in the flue gas is higher, making separation easier.
 Most of the flue gases are condensable; this makes compression separation possible.
 Heat of condensation can be captured and reused rather than lost in the flue gas.
 Because nitrogen from air is absent, nitrogen oxide production is greatly reduced.

Economically speaking this method costs more than a traditional air-fired plant. The main problem has been separating oxygen from the air. This process needs lots of energy, nearly 15% of production by a coal-fired power station can be consumed for this process. However, a new technology which is not yet practical called chemical looping combustion can be used to reduce this cost. In chemical looping combustion, the oxygen required to burn the coal is produced internally by oxidation and reduction reactions, as opposed to using more expensive methods of generating oxygen by separating it from air.

At present in the absence of any need to reduce CO2 emissions, oxy-fuel is not competitive. However, oxy-fuel is a viable alternative to removing CO2 from the flue gas from a conventional air-fired fossil fuel plant. However, an oxygen concentrator might be able to help, as it simply removes nitrogen.

In industries other than power generation, oxy-fuel combustion can be competitive due to higher sensible heat availability. Oxy-fuel combustion is common in various aspects of metal production.

The glass industry has been converting to oxy-fuel since the early 1990s because glass furnaces require a temperature of approximately 2800 degrees F, which is not attainable at adiabatic flame temperatures for air-fuel combustion unless heat is regenerated between the flue stream and the incoming air stream. Historically, glass furnace regenerators were large and expensive high temperature brick ducts filled with brick arranged in a checkerboard pattern to capture heat as flue gas exits the furnace. When the flue duct is thoroughly heated, air flow is reversed and the flue duct becomes the air inlet, releasing its heat into the incoming air, and allowing for higher furnace temperatures than can be attained with air-fuel only. Two sets of regenerative flue ducts allowed for the air flow to be reversed at regular intervals, and thus maintain a high temperature in the incoming air. By allowing new furnaces to be built without the expense of regenerators, and especially with the added benefit of nitrogen oxide reduction, which allows glass plants to meet emission restrictions, oxy-fuel is cost effective without the need to reduce CO2 emissions. Oxy-fuel combustion also reduces CO2 release at the glass plant location, although this may be offset by CO2 production due to electric power generation which is necessary to produce oxygen for the combustion process.

Oxy-fuel combustion may also be cost effective in the incineration of low BTU value hazardous waste fuels. It is often combined with staged combustion for nitrogen oxide reduction, since pure oxygen can stabilize combustion characteristics of a flame.

Pilot plants
There are pilot plants undergoing initial proof-of-concept testing to evaluate the technologies for scaling up to commercial plants, including
 Callide A Power Station in Queensland Australia
 Schwarze Pumpe Power Station in Spremberg, Germany
 CIUDEN in Cubillos del Sil, Spain
 NET Power Demonstration Facility

White Rose plant
One case study of oxy-fuel combustion is the attempted White Rose plant in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The planned project was an oxy-fuel power plant coupled with air separation to capture two million tons of carbon dioxide per year. The carbon dioxide would then be delivered by pipeline to be sequestered in a saline aquifer beneath the North Sea. However, in late 2015 and early 2016, following withdrawal of funding by the Drax Group and the U.K. government, construction was halted. The unforeseen loss of the federal CCS Commercialisation Programme, along with decreased subsidies for renewable energy, left the White Rose Plant with insufficient funds to continue development.


Lim Bo Seng Memorial

The Lim Bo Seng Memorial is an octagonal pagoda-like war memorial at Esplanade Park, Singapore. It was erected in 1954 in honour of the late Lim Bo Seng for his heroic acts and selfless sacrifice during the World War II. The war memorial is the only structure in Singapore that commemorates an individual's efforts in World War II and was gazetted as a national monument in 28 December 2010.

History
In 1946, The Lim Bo Seng Memorial Committee was established to raise funds for the memorial and prepared the proposals of the plan to colonial government, one of which proposed the construction of a memorial park around the late Lim Bo Seng's grave at MacRitchie Reservoir. The colonial government rejected five of the committee's proposals, and would later granted permission in 1953 for a memorial to be built at the Esplanade based on the sixth proposal.

On 3 November 1953 at 5.30 pm, the British Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia Malcolm MacDonald laid the foundation stone for the structure at the ceremony with Lim Bo Seng's widow Gan Choo Neo and her children in present.

Architecture
The memorial was designed by Ng Keng Siang, the first overseas trained Singaporean architect, it was a  high Chinese National Style architecture of octagonal pagoda-like structure made of marble with a three-tier bronze roof, and the marble and concrete pedestal with four bronze lions stand guard around the memorial. The bronze roof and the bronze lions are imported from Hong Kong. Four bronze plaques imprinted with inscription account of Lim's life in English, Chinese, Tamil and Jawi, were installed around the memorial. The memorial occupied the site which was donated by the government measuring  by .

Unveiling of the Memorial
On 29 June 1954, the completed Memorial was unveiled by Sir Charles Loewen, the Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Land Forces in front of a crowd of people with Lim's widow, her children and some members of the Force 136 in present at the 10th death anniversary ceremony of Major-General Lim Bo Seng.

On 29 June 1959 on the 15th anniversary of the death of Major-General Lim Bo Seng, Lim's widow and her eldest son Lim Leong Geok and daughter Lim Oon Geok among others laid wreaths at the Memorial at Esplanade Park and at his memorial tomb at MacRitchie Reservoir.

National Monument
On 28 December 2010, the Lim Bo Seng Memorial was gazetted by the Preservation of Monuments Board as a National Monument along with The Cenotaph and the Tan Kim Seng Fountain at the Esplanade Park and the Singapore Conference Hall along Shenton Way.

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Schöckl

Schöckl (also spelt Schöckel) is a mountain in the Austrian state of Styria. It is about 15 km north of Graz, the capital of Styria.

There is a cableway to the summit from the nearby health resort of St Radegund.

In 1931, the rocket designer Friedrich Schmiedl began a rocket mail service here, launching rockets to St Radegund.

Schöckl Transmitter is situated on the mountain.


Alexis FitzGerald Jnr

Alexis J. G. FitzGerald (7 May 1945 – 15 July 2015) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as a TD and Senator in the 1980s.

FitzGerald stood unsuccessfully for Dáil Éireann at the 1973 general election in Dublin Central, at the 1977 general election in Dublin South-Central, and at the 1981 general election in Dublin South.

FitzGerald then contested the 1981 Seanad election on the Industrial and Commercial Panel, and was returned to the 15th Seanad replacing his uncle Alexis FitzGerald Snr. In the same year he was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin.

FitzGerald was finally elected to the Dáil at the February 1982 general election, when he replaced the retiring Fine Gael TD Richie Ryan as a running-mate of party leader Garret FitzGerald (no relation) in the Dublin South-East constituency. He took his seat in the 23rd Dáil as a minority Fianna Fáil government took office under Charles Haughey, but after Haughey's government fell later that year, FitzGerald lost his Dáil seat to his Fine Gael colleague Joe Doyle at the November 1982 general election.

After his Dáil defeat, he stood again for election to the Seanad on the Industrial and Commercial Panel and was elected to the 17th Seanad. He left the Seanad at the next election in 1987 and returned to his previous career as an auctioneer and estate agent.

FitzGerald and his wife Mary Flaherty were both members of the 23rd Dáil, one of the few married couples to sit in the same Dáil.

He died in July 2015 at the age of 70.


Yulia Savicheva

Yulia Stanislavovna Savicheva (; born 14 February 1987) is a Russian singer who represented Russia in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Biography
Savicheva was born on 14 February 1987. She was born into a family of musicians in the city of Kurgan on the edge of Siberia, located east of the Ural Mountains. Frequent visitors to her parents' home included several Russian songwriters and music producers. Yulia's father (an avid piano player) would regularly compose songs for his daughter to sing; this would subsequently prove to be the beginning of Yulia's career as a singer.

Savicheva's first onstage experience as a singer occurred at the age of four, with the group Agatha Christie. Her dancing there earned her a standing ovation. After this, she began participating in a dance group where, despite her age, she performed as a soloist. A year later, when she was six, the group (in which her father also worked) was invited to work in Moscow. There, she participated in several musical events in the recreation center at MAI. Meanwhile, her mother got a job at the recreation center as manager of the children's department.

All of Yulia's free time was spent with musicians in the recreation center or in the theater. Her first major appearance was a lead role in the recreation center's New Year's performance, which was her first paid performance and for which Yulia had to learn ballroom dancing. At the same time, she was also studying in school and participating in the dance group Zhuravushka.

Her creative potential led to an invitation from L. Azadanova, offering Yulia a place in her dance group, which she took up. It was then that Yulia began to sing as well as dance. Later, in 2001, the producer Poleiko invited her to play the lead role in the New Year's performance at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which she did with such success that she was chosen to play the lead in the next year's performance as well.

In March 2003, Star Factory started its 2nd season. The producer of the project, Maxim Fadeev, had already crossed Yulia's path once before when she had worked as back-vocalist on Russian artist Linda's album, Vorona (Crow) in 1996. Although Yulia participated in the contest, she was eliminated in the semi-finals. Despite this, however, her songs went on to become hits, including "Korabli" (Ships), "Vysoko" (High) and "Prosti za lyubov'" (Sorry for Loving You); and Yulia later came back to host the show.

In March 2004, Yulia participated in another contest, World's Best, as Russia had finished the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in the top 11, the song was pre-qualified for the final. In the final, it was performed fourteenth she, came 11th with her song, "Believe Me". Her first album was finally released in 2005 with the title Vysoko. About half the material on the album was co-written with former musicians from the band Total.

In August 2005, Yulia wrote the song, "Esli v serdtse zhivyot lyubov" (If Love Lives in Your Heart), which became the theme for the TV series Not born beautiful on STS. The song went on to become yet another hit, and she released an album of the same name in November. The album included the title track as well as live versions of songs from her first album. In June 2006, she released Magnit, on which Anastasia Maksimova wrote the majority of the songs. This, too, was very successful.

In September 2007, Savicheva performed concerts in the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka. In February 2008, she released an album titled Origami. Her latest single, "Goodbye, Lyubov'" announces a new album which is yet to be finalised.

And adding up to all that she was in the musical "That Kind of Music". Acting as the daughter of a Ballet dancer who owns a big studio, but since they are about to lose it "Yulia Savicheva" and her friends try to help by making a musical of their own to earn money and this is done with help from the soccer team.

Discography

Studio albums
2005: "Высоко" (High)
2006: "Магнит"
2008: "Оригами"
2012: "Сердцебиение" (Heartbeat)
2014: "Личное..." (Private...)


Dungeon Survival Guide

Dungeon Survival Guide is a supplement to the 3.5 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

Contents
Dungeon Survival Guide is an accessory that explores the features of dungeons in Dungeons & Dragons, and revisits 20 famous dungeons from throughout the game's history.

Publication history
Dungeon Survival Guide was written by Bill Slavicsek and Christopher Perkins, and published in October 2007.

Reception
Shannon Appelcline notes that the Dungeon Survival Guide was "poorly-received", as it was "pure fluff [...] with no stats at all", noting that Wizards did not want to produce books that would be out of date within a year as they were preparing D&D 4th edition.


Paskuqan

Paskuqan is a city and a former municipality in the Tirana County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Kamëz. The population at the 2011 census was 37,349.


Apostolic Nunciature to Sudan

The Apostolic Nunciature to Sudan is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Sudan. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador.

The Apostolic Nunciature to Sudan was established in 1972. It had previously been overseen by a variety of delegations with regional authority, the last of which were the Delegation to Eastern Africa erected in 1960 and the Delegation to the Red Sea Region.

The position of Apostolic Nuncio to Sudan has been vacant since 16 February 2019.

List of papal representatives
Apostolic Delegates to the Red Sea Region
Ubaldo Calabresi (3 July 1969 - 5 January 1978)
Nunciature to Sudan established 29 April 1972.
Apostolic Pro-Nuncio
Giovanni Moretti (13 March 1978 - 10 July 1984)
Luis Robles Díaz (16 February 1985 - 13 March 1990)
Apostolic Nuncios
Erwin Josef Ender (15 March 1990 - 9 July 1997)
Marco Dino Brogi (13 December 1997 - 5 February 2002)
Dominique Mamberti (18 May 2002 - 15 September 2006)
Leo Boccardi (16 January 2007 - 11 July 2013)
Hubertus van Megen (8 March 2014 - 16 February 2019)


Mohammad Mirzai

Mohammad Mirzai (, also Romanized as Moḩammad Mīrzā’ī) is a village in Khaveh-ye Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Delfan County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 586, in 111 families.


Ruhstorf an der Rott

Ruhstorf is a municipality  in the district of Passau in Bavaria in Germany.


Raekoja plats, Tallinn

Raekoja plats () is a town square beside Tallinn Town Hall () in the center of the Tallinn Old Town in Tallinn, Estonia. It is a venue for numerous small festivals or concerts like Tallinn Old Town Days (), and several bars and restaurants are located in the near vicinity. The square also hosts a market regularly, with many stalls selling traditional Estonian items and souvenirs ().

History
There has been a town hall in Tallinn since at least 1322 and a town square next to it ever since then. The hall was rebuilt from 1402 to 1404 into its current form, and a Christmas tree display has been held in the square since 1441, making the Tallinn Christmas tree display over 570 years old.


CHU (radio station)

CHU is the call sign of a shortwave time signal radio station operated by the Institute for National Measurement Standards of the National Research Council of Canada.

History
Radio time signals allowed accurate and rapid distribution of time signals beyond the range of the telegraph or visual signals. This was of particular value in surveying remote areas, where time signals allowed accurate determination of longitude. In the summer of 1914, a survey party at Quinze Dam in the Ottawa River watershed attempted to receive time signals transmitted from Kingston; however, signals were not resolvable and the time signal from NAA in Arlington, Virginia was used instead.

The station was started in 1923 by the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with a call sign of 9CC on an experimental basis until 1928. Regular daytime transmission began under the callsign of VE9OB in January 1929 on a wavelength of 40.8 metres (about 7.353 MHz). Continuous transmission at 90 metres began at the end of 1929, with other wavelengths being used experimentally.  Time signals were generated from the observatory's own pendulum clocks. The transmitter oscillators were condenser-tuned and so frequency stability was not high until quartz crystal control was implemented in 1933.  In 1938 the call was changed to CHU, operating on frequencies of 3.33, 7.335 and 14.67 MHz, at a transmitter power of only 10 W. The 1,000 Hz tone imposed on the carrier was derived from the quartz oscillator that determined transmit frequency, but the seconds pulses were still derived from the observatory pendulum clocks. The station automatically sent its call sign in Morse code once per hour, and pulses were coded to identify the time of day. Since the CHU power was not high enough to cover much of Canada, including survey parties working in the North, observatory time signals were also transmitted by a Department of Transport station with 2 kW power. In 1947 three new transmitters with 300 W power were installed for the three frequencies. In 1951, a Collins transmitter rated for 3 kW was put in service on 7.335 MHz.

Since deciphering even a simple time code "by ear" was occasionally difficult under field conditions, voice announcements of time and station identification were added to CHU in 1952, using a speaking clock made by Ateliers Brillié Frères of France. Fredrick Martin Meach of the Canadian embassy in Paris recorded the time announcements in English, which were stored on strips of photographic film and played back under control of the observatory clocks. In 1960 the speaking clock was replaced with one manufactured by Audichron corporation and rented by the Dominion Observatory; this unit had more intelligible voice quality and lower maintenance. New English voice announcements were recorded by Harry Mannis of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  Bilingual announcements started in 1964, with French speech provided by Miville Couture of CBC Montreal.

Until 1959 the carrier frequency, tone frequency and second pulses were derived from independent sources, and the carrier stability as that of any commercial short wave transmitter. A divider chain was put into service so that all of the CHU signals were derived from Western Electric standard crystal oscillators with pulses for seconds monitored by continuous comparison with the observatory clocks. By 1978 all parts of the CHU transmitted signal were derived from an NRC-designed cesium beam frequency standard.

Also in 1959, the 14.67 MHz transmitter was replaced with a new 20 kW unit. All site antennas were replaced with vertical antennas by 1971.

The station continued to be operated by the Observatory until 1970, when its operation was transferred to the Institute for National Measurement Standards at the National Research Council.

Effective January 1, 2009, CHU's 7 MHz frequency was changed to 7.85 MHz, due to an allocations change and interference on 7.335 MHz.

Broadcast format
CHU's signal is used for continuous dissemination of official Canadian government time signals.  The CHU time signal and radio frequencies are derived from atomic clocks. CHU's announcers are Harry Mannis in English and Simon Durivage in French.

CHU will acknowledge listeners' reception reports with QSL cards.

A similar time signal from the National Research Council is used by CBC radio services daily at noon ET on Radio-Canada's Première Chaîne, and 1p.m. ET on CBC Radio One.

Transmission system
CHU transmits 3 kW signals on 3.33 and 14.67 MHz, and a 10 kW signal on 7.85 MHz. These nonstandard time signal frequencies were chosen to avoid interference from WWV and WWVH. The signal is amplitude modulated, with the lower sideband suppressed (emission type H3E). The same information is carried on all three frequencies simultaneously including announcements every minute, alternating between English and French.

The CHU transmitter is located near Barrhaven, Ontario, 15 km southwest of Ottawa's central business district.

The systems feeding the transmitters are duplicated for reliability, and have both battery and generator protection.  The generator can also supply the transmitters. The announcements are made using digitally recorded voices.  Individual vertical dipole antennas are used for each frequency.

CHU has long been licensed as "fixed service" within the band allocations of the International Telecommunications Union.

CHU's 10 kW signal has been transmitted on 7.85 MHz since January 1, 2009.  Before then, the signal was transmitted on 7.335 MHz, harmonically related to their 14.67 MHz frequency. The frequency change was necessary due to an ITU HF global reallocation at the 2003 World Radio Conference (WRC-03), where the frequency region around 7.3 MHz was turned over to different users.

Time signal format

The primary time signal is a series of 300 ms-long  tones, transmitted once per second, on the second.  The following exceptions to the pattern provide additional information:
 The top of the minute is marked by a half-second-long beep.
 The top of the hour is marked with a one-second-long beep, followed by nine seconds of silence.
 The 29th second of a minute is always omitted (no beep).
 Between one and sixteen seconds past the minute (except at the top of the hour), CHU transmits the difference between UT1 and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by using split tones.  For positive DUT1 values from +0.1 to +0.8 s, seconds 1 through 8 are split.  For negative DUT1 values from −0.1 to −0.8 s, seconds 9 through 16 are split.
 Between 31 and 39 seconds past the minute inclusive, the once-per-second tones are reduced to 10-millisecond "ticks" while a digital time code is transmitted.  The digital time code is formatted so that a Bell 103-compatible 300-baud modem can decode it, and CHU is the only time signal station that uses this format for its time code transmissions.
 For the last 10 seconds of each minute (seconds 50 to 59), the once-per-second tones are again cut to 10 milliseconds each, while CHU transmits a brief voice station identification, followed by voice announcements of the next minute in UTC, alternating between French and English.  French announcements, using the voice of Radio-Canada news anchor Simon Durivage, are transmitted first on the odd minutes, while English announcements, voiced by late CBC Radio announcer Harry Mannis, come first on the even minutes.

The digital time code sends 10 characters at 300 bits per second using 8N2 asynchronous serial communication.  This follows the Bell 103 standard, a 2,225 Hz tone to represent a mark (1 bit) and 2,025 Hz tone for a space (0 bit). Immediately after the 10 ms tick, a mark tone is sent until 133.3 ms, then 110 data bits, ending at precisely 500 ms. The final stop bit is extended by 10 ms of mark tone to ensure it is detected reliably, and the final 490 ms of the second are silent.  The time of day (day of year through second) is transmitted twice during each second from 32 to 39.  During second 31, additional information (year, DUT1, daylight saving time, and leap second warning bits) is transmitted.

Western Canada signal coverage

CHU often cannot be received in Western Canada on any of its broadcast frequencies. Propagation conditions, low transmitter power coupled with the typical two ionospheric hops distances from Ottawa result in relatively weak time signals for Western Canada. Electromagnetic interference can further aggravate reception difficulty in urban areas in the West. CHU can be practically unusable in most of Western Canada, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories, for significant stretches of time.

U.S. stations WWV and WWVH are the fallback in Western Canada. In the high arctic, however, both the U.S. shortwave time stations and CHU become essentially unusable or unreliable.

Canada has no longwave time signal transmitters. The American station WWVB is the only option for reliable time signals during geomagnetic storms in the Western Arctic, based on WWVB's published pattern maps.  If WWVB is not available, those who need precision time transfer may be able to use GPS time transfer instead.


Government of Vietnam

The Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is the executive arm of the Vietnamese state, and the members of the Government are elected by the National Assembly of Vietnam.

Council of Ministers (1980–2001)
The Vietnamese Council of Ministers was entrusted by the 1980 Constitution with managing and implementing the governmental activities of the state. It is described in that document as "the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the highest executive state body of the highest body of state authority." It is accountable to the National Assembly of Vietnam, and, more directly, to the Vietnamese Council of State when the National Assembly is not in session. Its duties include submitting draft laws, decrees, and other bills to the National Assembly and the Council of State; drafting state plans and budgets and implementing them following the National Assembly's approval; managing the development of the national economy; organising national defence activities and assuring the preparedness of the armed forces; and organising and managing the state's foreign relations. Its membership includes a chairman, vice-chairman, cabinet ministers, and the heads of state committees, whose terms of office coincide with that of the National Assembly. The Council of Ministers includes its own standing committee, which serves to co-ordinate and mobilise the council's activities. In 1986 the standing committee was expanded from ten to thirteen members.

Each ministry is headed by a minister, who is assisted by two to twelve deputy ministers. The number and functions of the ministries are not prescribed in the Constitution, but in 1987 there were twenty-three ministries, and a number of other specialised commissions and departments. In apparent response to the call by the Sixth National Party Congress in 1986 for a streamlined bureaucracy, several ministries were merged. The former ministries of agriculture, food, and food industry were joined in a newly created Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry. The ministries of power and mines were merged to form the Ministry of Energy, and a newly created Ministry of Labour, War Invalids, and Social Welfare consolidated the duties of three former ministries. The addition of two new ministerial bodies also resulted from the 6th National Party Congress: a Ministry f Information to replace the Vietnam Radio and Television Commission, and a mission for Economic Relations with Foreign Countries to act as a co-ordinating body for foreign aid.

Cabinet members


Francis Popham (cricketer)

Francis Leyborne Popham (14 October 1809 – 30 July 1880) was an English barrister and cricketer. He was associated with Oxford University Cricket Club and made his first-class debut in 1829.

Popham was a member of the Popham family which at that time owned Littlecote House near Ramsbury.  He was educated at Harrow School and University College, Oxford, matriculating in 1827. He graduated in 1831 and was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1831–43. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in 1837.

Popham bred and owned the racehorse Wild Dayrell, winner of the 1855 Derby.


Maeda Harunaga

was an Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 10th daimyō  of Kaga Domain in the Hokuriku region of Japan. He was the 11th hereditary chieftain of the Kanazawa Maeda clan.

Harunaga was born in Kanazawa as Tokijiro (時次郎), the tenth son of Maeda Yoshinori. His mother was a concubine and he was initially destined for the Jōdo Shinshū priesthood, and was ordained as a priest at the temple of Shōkō-ji in Toyama in 1746; however, with so many of his brothers dying untimely deaths during the O-Ie Sōdō known as the “Kaga Sōdō”  he returned to secular life in 1768 under the name of Maeda Toshiari (利有). In 1771, his brother Maeda Shigemichi officially retired, and he became daimyō. He was received in formal audience by Shōgun Tokugawa Ieharu the same year, and was granted a kanji from Ieharu's name, becoming Maeda Harunaga.

In 1792, he established the Kaga Domain's han school, Meirin-dō, and is also noted for restoring the famed Kenroku-en gardens.

Shigemichi had a son, Maeda Naritaka, after he retired, whom Harunaga adopted  in 1791; however, he died in 1795. Harunaga then adopted Shigemichi's second son, Maeda Narinaga. Although Harunaga married a daughter of Maeda Toshimichi and had his own son, Toshinobu in 1800, when he retired, he turned the domain over to Shigemichi's son, Narinaga. Narinaga then adopted Toshimichi as heir, but Toshimichi died in 1805. Harunaga lived to 1810.

Family
Father: Maeda Yoshinori (1690–1745)
Mother: Onatsu no Kata later Jusei’in
Wife: Maeda Masahime
Concubine: Ito no Kata later Chikoin
son: Maeda Toshinobu (1800-1805) by Ito
Adopted Sons:
 Maeda Naritaka (1778-1795)
 Maeda Narinaga


Arabian Travel Market

Arabian Travel Market a.k.a. ATM is a travel and tourism event, organized annually in Dubai to provide a platform for inbound and outbound tourism professionals in the Middle East and gives information on tourism destinations, accommodation options, tourism attractions and aviation industry in the Middle East and around the world. The event is organized by Reed Exhibitions.

The event, inaugurated in 1995 and hosted at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, is aimed at industry and government decision-makers and provides industry news, products and educational content. 2,700 exhibitors from 83 countries, 68 national pavilions and about 21,000 trade visitors from 157 countries participated in the 2014 event. It covered about 25,000 sq. metres of exhibition space and is widely regarded as the largest international tourism and hospitality event in the region. The event has been noticed by global companies like Google, Mövenpick, both sponsors of the 2013 edition of the event, Emirates, Lazio and Alitalia. It has also featured on the World Tourism Organization UNWTO calendar.

The Arabian Travel Market will host the first ATM Global Halal Tourism Summit as part of its line-up of special focus event which will feature three interactive seminar sessions covering the big picture, halal destination strategies and how to sell halal travel, led by leading Muslim travel industry experts including Faeez Fadhlillah, Co-Founder & CEO, Salam Standard & Tripfez; Nabeel Shariff, Founder and Director of Serendipity Tailormade and Luxury Halal Travel.

Awards and recognitions

ATM won the World Travel Awards, generally considered as the Oscars of the travel industry, for the years, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. It was at the Arabian Travel Market in 2001, the concept of Palm Islands was revealed.

The event recognizes the achievements in the travel and tourism industry by way of Arabian Travel Market awards, distributed annually. It also offers an award, the New Frontier Award, to recognise outstanding contributions to tourism development in the face of overwhelming adversity, supporting the chosen destination by donating exhibition space at the event to the value of US$10,000.


George Carew (cricketer)

George McDonald Carew (4 June 1910 – 9 December 1974) played four Tests for the West Indies between 1935 and 1948. He was a right-hand batsman from Barbados, where he ran a taxi business.

He is best remembered for his innings in the Second Test against England at Port of Spain in 1947-48, when he scored 107 in a first wicket partnership with Andy Ganteaume that put on 173 runs. Wisden reported: "Wearing a chocolate-coloured felt hat and chewing gum the whole time, Carew, in an unorthodox display, used the hook and pull freely in a dazzling exhibition." He toured India with the West Indian team later that year but played only one Test.


Apemosyne

In Greek mythology, Apemosyne (Ancient Greek: Ἀπημοσύνη) was a daughter of Catreus, the son of Minos, and king of Crete. She had a brother Althaemenes, and two sisters Aerope and Clymene.

Apemosyne is mentioned in the account of Apollodorus. According to  Apollodorus, Catreus received an oracle saying that he would be killed by one of his children, and although  Catreus  hid the oracles, his son Althaemenes found out. Fearing that he would be the one to kill Catreus, Althaemenes took Apemosyne and fled with her to Rhodes.

There, Hermes fell in love with Apemosyne, but Apemosyne fled from him. Hermes could not catch her, because she ran faster than him.  On her way back from a spring, Apemosyne slipped on freshly skinned hides that Hermes had laid across her path. Hermes then caught and raped her. Later, when Apemosyne told her brother what had happened, he became angry, thinking that she was lying about being molested by the god. In his anger, he kicked her to death.

Arthur Bernard Cook, saw in the myth of Apemosyne an historical element reflecting the relationship between Minoan Crete and Rhodes, as well as a possible etiological aspect explaining an ancient Rhodian custom involving human sacrifice.

Notes


RABGAP1

RAB GTPase activating protein 1 is a protein in humans that is encoded by the RABGAP1 gene.


Taliban treatment of women

While in power in Afghanistan, the Taliban became notorious internationally for their sexism and violence against women. Their stated motive was to create a "secure environment where the chastity and dignity of women may once again be sacrosanct", reportedly based on Pashtunwali beliefs about living in purdah.

Afghan women were forced to wear the burqa at all times in public, because, according to one Taliban spokesman, "the face of a woman is a source of corruption" for men not related to them. In a systematic segregation sometimes referred to as gender apartheid, women were not allowed to work, they were not allowed to be educated after the age of eight, and until then were permitted only to study the Qur'an.

Women seeking an education were forced to attend underground schools, where they and their teachers risked execution if caught. They were not allowed to be treated by male doctors unless accompanied by a male chaperone, which led to illnesses remaining untreated. They faced public flogging and execution for violations of the Taliban's laws. The Taliban allowed and in some cases encouraged marriage for girls under the age of 16. Amnesty International reported that 80% of Afghan marriages were forced.

Gender policies

From the age of eight onward, girls were not allowed to be in direct contact with males other than a close "blood relative", husband, or in-law (see mahram). Other restrictions for women were:
 Women should not appear in the streets without a blood relative and without wearing a burqa
 Women should not wear high-heeled shoes as no man should hear a woman's footsteps lest it excite him
 Women must not speak loudly in public as no stranger should hear a woman's voice
 All ground and first-floor residential windows should be painted over or screened to prevent women from being visible from the street
 Photographing or filming of women was banned as was displaying pictures of females in newspapers, books, shops or the home
 The modification of any place names that included the word "women". For example, "women's garden" was renamed "spring garden".
 Women were forbidden to appear on the balconies of their apartments or houses
 Ban on women's presence on radio, television or at public gatherings of any kind

Mobility
The Taliban rulings regarding public conduct placed severe restrictions on a woman's freedom of movement and created difficulties for those who could not afford a burqa or didn't have any mahram. These women faced virtual house arrest. A woman who was badly beaten by the Taliban for walking the streets alone stated "my father was killed in battle...I have no husband, no brother, no son. How am I to live if I can't go out alone?"

A field worker for the NGO Terre des hommes witnessed the impact on female mobility at Kabul's largest state-run orphanage, Taskia Maskan. After the female staff was relieved of their duties, the approximately 400 girls living at the institution were locked inside for a year without being allowed outside for recreation.

Decrees that affected women's mobility were:

 Ban on women riding bicycles or motorcycles, even with their mahrams.
 Women were forbidden to ride in a taxi without a mahram.
 Segregated bus services introduced to prevent males and females travelling on the same bus.

The lives of rural women were less dramatically affected as they generally lived and worked within secure kin environments. A relative level of freedom was necessary for them to continue with their chores or labour. If these women travelled to a nearby town, the same urban restrictions would have applied to them.

Employment
The Taliban disagreed with past Afghan statutes that allowed the employment of women in a mixed sex workplace. The claim was that this was a breach of purdah and sharia law. On September 30, 1996, the Taliban decreed that all women should be banned from employment. It is estimated that 25 percent of government employees were female, and when compounded by losses in other sectors, many thousands of women were affected. This had a devastating impact on household incomes, especially on vulnerable or widow-headed households, which were common in Afghanistan.

Another loss was for those whom the employed women served. Elementary education of children, not just girls, was shut down in Kabul, where virtually all of the elementary school teachers were women. Thousands of educated families fled Kabul for Pakistan after the Taliban took the city in 1996. Among those who remained in Afghanistan, there was an increase in mother and child destitution as the loss of vital income reduced many families to the margin of survival.

Taliban Supreme Leader Mohammed Omar assured female civil servants and teachers they would still receive wages of around US$5 per month, although this was a short term offering. A Taliban representative stated: "The Taliban’s act of giving monthly salaries to 30,000 job-free women, now sitting comfortably at home, is a whiplash in the face of those who are defaming Taliban with reference to the rights of women. These people through baseless propaganda are trying to incite the women of Kabul against the Taliban".

The Taliban promoted the use of the extended family, or zakat system of charity to ensure women should not need to work. However, years of conflict meant that nuclear families often struggled to support themselves let alone aid additional relatives. Qualification for legislation often rested on men, such as food aid which had to be collected by a male relative. The possibility that a woman may not possess any living male relatives was dismissed by Mullah Ghaus, the acting foreign minister, who said he was surprised at the degree of international attention and concern for such a small percentage of the Afghan population. For rural women there was generally little change in their circumstance, as their lives were dominated by the unpaid domestic, agricultural and reproductive labour necessary for subsistence.

Female health professionals were exempted from the employment ban, yet they operated in much-reduced circumstances. The ordeal of physically getting to work due to the segregated bus system and widespread harassment meant some women left their jobs by choice. Of those who remained, many lived in fear of the regime and chose to reside at the hospital during the working week to minimize exposure to Taliban forces. These women were vital to ensuring the continuance of gynecological, ante-natal and midwifery services, be it on a much-compromised level. Under the Rabbani regime, there had been around 200 female staff working in Kabul's Mullalai Hospital, yet barely 50 remained under the Taliban. NGOs operating in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 found the shortage of female health professionals to be a significant obstacle to their work.

The other exception to the employment ban allowed a reduced number of humanitarian workers to remain in service. The Taliban segregation codes meant women were invaluable for gaining access to vulnerable women or conducting outreach research. This exception was not sanctioned by the entire Taliban movement, so instances of female participation, or lack thereof, varied with each circumstance. The city of Herat was particularly affected by Taliban adjustments to the treatment of women, as it had been one of the more cosmopolitan and outward-looking areas of Afghanistan prior to 1995. Women had previously been allowed to work in a limited range of jobs, but this was stopped by Taliban authorities. The new governor of Herat, Mullah Razzaq, issued orders for women to be forbidden to pass his office for fear of their distracting nature.

Education
The Taliban claimed to recognize their Islamic duty to offer education to both boys and girls, yet a decree was passed that banned girls above the age of 8 from receiving education. Maulvi Kalamadin insisted it was only a temporary suspension and that females would return to school and work once facilities and street security were adapted to prevent cross-gender contact. The Taliban wished to have total control of Afghanistan before calling upon an Ulema body to determine the content of a new curriculum to replace the Islamic yet unacceptable Mujahadin version.

The female employment ban was felt greatly in the education system. Within Kabul alone, the ruling affected 106,256 girls, 148,223 male students, and 8,000 female university undergraduates. 7,793 female teachers were dismissed, a move that crippled the provision of education and caused 63 schools to close due to a sudden lack of educators. Some women ran clandestine schools within their homes for local children, or for other women under the guise of sewing classes, such as the Golden Needle Sewing School. The learners, parents and educators were aware of the consequences should the Taliban discover their activities, but for those who felt trapped under the strict Taliban rule, such actions allowed them a sense of self-determination and hope.

Health care
Prior to the Taliban taking power in Afghanistan male doctors had been allowed to treat women in hospitals, but the decree that no male doctor should be allowed to touch the body of a woman under the pretext of consultation was soon introduced. With fewer female health professionals in employment, the distances many women had to travel for attention increased while the provision of ante-natal clinics declined.

In Kabul, some women established informal clinics in their homes to service family and neighbours, yet as medical supplies were hard to obtain their effectiveness was limited. Many women endured prolonged suffering or a premature death due to the lack of treatment. For those families that had the means, inclination, and mahram support, medical attention could be sought in Pakistan.

In October 1996, women were barred from accessing the traditional hammam, public baths, as the opportunities for socializing were ruled un-Islamic. These baths were an important facility in a nation where few possessed running water and the bar gave cause for the UN to predict a rise in scabies and vaginal infections among women denied methods of hygiene as well as access to health care. Nasrine Gross, an Afghan-American author, stated in 2001 that it has been four years since many Afghan women had been able to pray to their God as "Islam prohibits women from praying without a bath after their periods". In June 1998, the Taliban banned women from attending general hospitals in the capital, whereas before they had been able to attend a women-only ward of general hospitals. This left only one hospital in Kabul at which they could seek treatment.

Forced confinement
Family harmony was badly affected by mental stress, isolation and depression that often accompanied the forced confinement of women. A survey of 160 women concluded that 97 percent showed signs of serious depression and 71 percent reported a decline in their physical well being. Latifa, a Kabul resident and author, wrote:

The apartment resembles a prison or a hospital. Silence weighs heavily on all of us. As none of us do much, we haven’t got much to tell each other. Incapable of sharing our emotions, we each enclose ourselves in our own fear and distress. Since everyone is in the same black pit, there isn’t much point in repeating time and again that we can’t see clearly.

The Taliban closed the country's beauty salons. Cosmetics such as nail varnish and make-up were prohibited.

Taliban restrictions on the cultural presence of women covered several areas. Place names including the word "women" were modified so that the word was not used. Women were forbidden to laugh loudly as it was considered improper for a stranger to hear a woman's voice. Women were prohibited from participating in sports or entering a sports club. The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) dealt specifically with these issues. It was founded by Meena Keshwar Kamal, a woman who amongst other things established a bi-lingual magazine called Women's Message in 1981. She was assassinated in 1987 at the age of 30, but is revered as a heroine among Afghan women.

Punishments
Punishments were often carried out publicly, either as formal spectacles held in sports stadiums or town squares or spontaneous street beatings. Civilians lived in fear of harsh penalties as there was little mercy; women caught breaking decrees were often treated with extreme violence. Examples:

 In October 1996, a woman had the tip of her thumb cut off for wearing nail varnish.
 In December 1996, Radio Shari’a announced that 225 Kabul women had been seized and punished for violating the sharia code of dress. The sentence was handed down by a tribunal and the women were lashed on their legs and backs for their misdemeanor.
 In May 1997, five female CARE International employees with authorisation from the Ministry of the Interior to conduct research for an emergency feeding programme were forced from their vehicle by members of the religious police. The guards used a public address system to insult and harass the women before striking them with a metal and leather whip over 1.5 meters (almost 5 feet) in length.

 In 1999, a mother of seven children was executed in front of 30,000 spectators in Kabul's Ghazi Sport stadium for murdering her husband (see right). She was imprisoned for three years and extensively tortured prior to the execution, yet she refused to plead her innocence in a bid to protect her daughter (reportedly the actual culprit).
 When a Taliban raid discovered a woman running an informal school in her apartment, they beat the children and threw the woman down a flight of stairs (breaking her leg) and then imprisoned her. They threatened to stone her family publicly if she refused to sign a declaration of loyalty to the Taliban and their laws.
 An Afghan girl named Bibi Aisha was promised to a new family through a tribal method of solving disputes known as baad. When she fled the violence girls often suffer under baad, her new family found her, and a Taliban commander ordered her punished as an example, "lest other girls in the village try to do the same thing". Her ears and nose were cut off and she was left for dead in the mountains, but survived.
 Working women are threatened into quitting their jobs. Failure to comply with the Taliban's threats has led to women being shot and killed, as in the case of 22-year-old Hossai in July 2010.
In 2013, an Indian author Sushmita Banerjee was shot dead by Taliban Militants for allegedly defying Taliban dictates. She was married to an Afghan businessman and had recently relocated to Afghanistan. Earlier, she had escaped two instances of execution by Taliban in 1995 and later fled to India. Her book based on her escape from Taliban was also filmed in an Indian movie.

Many punishments were carried out by individual militias without the sanction of Taliban authorities, as it was against official Taliban policy to punish women in the street. A more official line was the punishment of men for instances of female misconduct: a reflection of a patriarchal society and the belief that men are duty bound to control women. Maulvi Kalamadin stated in 1997, "Since we cannot directly punish women, we try to use taxi drivers and shopkeepers as a means to pressure them" to conform. Here are examples of the punishment of men:

 If a taxi driver picked up a woman with her face uncovered or unaccompanied by a mahram, then he faced a jail sentence, and the husband would be punished.
 If a woman was caught washing clothes in a river then she would be escorted home by Islamic authorities where her husband/mahram would be severely punished.
 If a tailor was found taking female measurements, the tailor would face imprisonment.

International response
The protests of international agencies carried little weight with Taliban authorities, who gave precedence to their interpretation of Islamic law and did not feel bound by UN codes or human rights laws, legislation it viewed as instruments for Western imperialism. After the Taliban takeover of Herat in 1995, the UN had hoped the gender policies would become more 'moderate' "as it matured from a popular uprising into a responsible government with linkages to the donor community". The Taliban refused to bow to international pressure and reacted calmly to aid suspensions.

 In November 1995, UNICEF suspended all aid to education in regions under Taliban control, as they argued the ban on mixing males and females in education was a breach of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the aftermath of the 1995 Beijing Women's Conference, this action moved to solidify UNICEF's role as a leading agency in matters concerning women and children.
 In 1996, Save The Children (UK) also withdrew support as communication with women, the primary child carers, was most difficult.
 UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali expressed his concern regarding the status of Afghan women.
 In 1999, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright publicly stated "We are speaking up on behalf of the women and girls of Afghanistan, who have been victimised...it is criminal and we each have a responsibility to stop it".

In January 2006 a London conference on Afghanistan led to the creation of an International Compact, which included benchmarks for the treatment of women. The Compact includes the following point: "Gender:By end-1389 (20 March 2011): the National Action Plan for Women in Afghanistan will be fully implemented; and, in line with Afghanistan’s MDGs, female participation in all Afghan governance institutions, including elected and appointed bodies and the civil service, will be strengthened." However, an Amnesty International report on June 11, 2008 declared that there needed to be "no more empty promises" with regard to Afghanistan, citing the treatment of women as one such unfulfilled goal.

Pakistani Taliban
Various Taliban groups have been in existence in Pakistan since around 2002. Most of these Taliban factions have joined an umbrella organization called Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Although the Pakistani Taliban is distinct from Afghan Taliban, they have a similar outlook towards women. The Pakistani Taliban too has killed women accusing them of un-Islamic behavior and has forcibly married girls after publicly flogging them for illicit relations.


Zlatko Dalić

Zlatko Dalić (; born 26 October 1966) is a Croatian football manager and former footballer who is the manager of the Croatia national team.

He led the national team to the 2018 World Cup final, where they reached their highest-ever Elo ranking (1,973 points) and highest-ever positioning in the history of Croatia, securing second place to France.

Early and personal life
Born on 26 October 1966, in Livno, then a part of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, today’s modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina, he has Croatian citizenship, and comes from a Croat Catholic family, of father Ivan and mother Kata Dalić. In 1992, he married Davorka Propadalo, with whom he has two sons: Toni and Bruno. Dalić is a practicing Roman Catholic.

Playing career
During his time as a player, Dalić played for a number of clubs.

He started of his youth career at NK Troglav 1918 Livno, before joining Hajduk Split in 1983, and thus starting his senior career. He stayed at Hajduk Split until 1986, after joining Cibalia, which was at that time known as Dinamo Vinkovci. Apart from Hajduk Split and Cibalia, Dalić also played for Budućnost Titograd, Velež Mostar and Varteks. He finished his career in 2000 at Varteks.

Coaching career

Varteks
After ending his playing career in 2000, he became assistant coach at Varteks. From May 2002 to May 2005, Dalić worked as the club's sports director, and during the 2003–04 and 2004–05 seasons he simultaneously acted as assistant coach for Miroslav Blažević.

In May 2005, he was appointed manager of Varteks and in his first season at the helm he won third place in the Croatian First League and reached the final of the Croatian Football Cup. In the first leg of the final, which was played in Rijeka, Varteks lost 0–4 to HNK Rijeka. In the second leg in Varaždin, Dalić nearly created a sensation leading the team to a 5–1 win, but they were one goal short from lifting the silverware.

Rijeka
In the summer of 2007, after his contract with Varteks ended, he became manager of HNK Rijeka, and finished fourth at the end of the 2007–08 season. After being knocked out of the 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup by FK Renova, Dalić was sacked on 1 July 2008 just before the start of the season.

Dinamo Tirana
In the 2008–09 season, Dalić managed Albanian champions Dinamo Tirana, with whom he won the Albanian Supercup. He resigned in February 2009 after losing two derbies in a row versus fellow capital teams Tirana and Partizani.

Slaven Belupo
After a short stint in Albania, he returned to Croatia in 2009 and took over his third Croatian football club, NK Slaven Belupo.

Al-Faisaly
In the 2010–11 season, he became head coach of Al-Faisaly. At the end of the 2010–11 season under Dalić the club enjoyed the greatest success in its history, qualifying for the King's Cup in the Saudi Professional League. Dalić was named Coach of the Year in the Saudi Professional League for the 2010–11 season by Al Riyadh newspapers. In the selection, he beat other more famous coaches working in Saudi Arabia at the time, such as Gabriel Calderón, Walter Zenga and Eric Gerets.

Al-Hilal

On 3 May 2012, Dalić signed a contract with Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal to manage their B team. On 30 January, Al-Hilal agreed with Dalić to coach the first club following the sacking of Antoine Kombouaré. On 9 February 2013, he made his managerial debut with Al-Hilal against his old club Al-Faisaly in the semi-final of the 2012–13 Saudi Crown Prince Cup. Dalić eventually led Al-Hilal to the cup title - the team's sixth consecutive win - which was also Dalić's second major title in his coaching career. During the 2013–14 season, he was the main candidate for the position of sports director at Croatian powerhouse Hajduk Split, but turned down the offer from one of the biggest clubs in Croatian football.

Al-Ain

On 8 March 2014, Dalić was appointed manager of Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates after the team had sacked Quique Sánchez Flores. In his first season, he led the team to finish top of their group in the 2014 AFC Champions League, which was the first time since 2006 that the club progressed through the group stage. On 30 April 2014, Al-Ain announced that Dalić would remain head coach for the next two seasons. In the round of sixteen of the 2014 AFC Champions League, Al-Ain beat Al-Jazira by 4–2 to advance to the quarter-finals; in the quarter-finals, the team beat Al-Ittihad 5–1 to advance to the semi-finals, ultimately losing 4–2 to Al-Hilal, which was Dalić's former team.

On 18 May 2014, Al-Ain won the final game of UAE President's Cup against league champions Al-Ahli 1–0, which secured Dalić's first trophy as manager of Al-Ain.

Dalić won the title of Best Coach of 2014 for his performances; at the end of the first round of the UAE Pro-League, Al–Ain took the first position with one game in hand. Eventually, Al-Ain won their 12th UAE Pro-League title in the 2014–15 UAE Pro-League. The club finished the season 11 points above runners-up Al Jazira and Al Shabab Dubai, only losing two games throughout the season; in this season, they also achieved several records, namely conceding the fewest goals (19), the longest unbeaten run (15 matches), the longest winning run (8 matches), and the biggest home win against Ajman (7–1).

On 12 July 2015, Dalić received the Coach of the Year accolade during the UAE Pro-League award ceremony for the 2014–15 UAE Pro-League season for guiding his side to winning the league title.

Dalić's first match of the 2015–16 season was a UAE Super Cup match between Al-Ain and Al-Nasr Dubai, played on 15 August and resulted in victory for Al-Ain, who won 4–2. Following a 3–0 win against Al-Ahli Dubai in the 10th round of the UAE Pro-League on 5 December, Dalić became the best coach in the league's history since it turned professional, though Al-Ain ultimately finished second in the league in 2016. The club also reached the 2016 AFC Champions League final, ultimately losing 2–3 to Jeonbuk Motors.

Dalić's tenure as manager of Al-Ain saw the club rise rapidly in the Football Database Ranking; initially, the club was ranked 335th in March 2014, when Dalić arrived, and by the time of his departure, the club was ranked 122nd in the world, also reaching 5th position in Asia, according to the ranking.

Dalić formally departed Al-Ain in January 2017, citing a "need for rest" as his reason for departing.

Croatia

On 7 October 2017, following the sacking of Ante Čačić due to a series of poor results, the Croatian Football Federation named Dalić as the head coach of the Croatia national football team. Upon arriving, Dalić announced that he would only remain head coach if Croatia qualifies for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and that the HNS would decide his future if Croatia miss out on qualifying for the finals.

On 9 October, Dalić led Croatia to a 2–0 win over Ukraine in 2018 World Cup qualifying, which also secured second place in their group, and a place in the play-off round. On 19 October, Dalić named Ivica Olić, former Croatia international player, as his assistant manager. Croatia drew Greece in the play-off round, and on 9 November, Dalić led the team to a 4–1 first-leg triumph over Greece, all but securing a place in the 2018 World Cup. In the return leg, on 12 November, Croatia drew with Greece 0–0, but won 4–1 on aggregate, thus securing a place in the World Cup finals. Following this, Dalić officially signed a contract with the Croatian Football Federation, running until 30 July 2020, and would reportedly earn around €500k per year.

Croatia drew a challenging group, with the likes of Nigeria, Argentina and Iceland. On 16 June 2018, Croatia won their opening match of the 2018 World Cup, beating Nigeria by a scoreline of 2–0. However, during the game, forward Nikola Kalinić had refused to come on as a late substitute, citing a back injury as his excuse, although he had used this excuse earlier during a friendly match against Brazil, as well as the previous training session. This prompted Dalić to send him home on just the fifth day of the tournament. Dalić stated that he needed "prepared players, while Kalinić didn't show up at three occasions". Dalić received praise for his treatment of Kalinić, with some stating that he had cemented his position as a head coach with the decision. On 21 June, Croatia overwhelmed football heavyweights Argentina, winning by a scoreline of 3–0, with Ante Rebić, Luka Modrić and Ivan Rakitić scoring the goals. The victory led Croatia to a spot in the knockout stage for the first time since the 1998 FIFA World Cup, in which they finished third place. On 26 June, Croatia topped their group with maximum points following a 2–1 win over Iceland, and drew Denmark in the round of sixteen, advancing after a penalty shootout. Croatia again won through a penalty shootout against hosts Russia in the quarter-finals, setting up a semi-final tie against England. On 11 July, Croatia beat England 2–1, advancing to the final, where they lost 4–2 to France on 15 July 2018. For the achievement, he received the Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport Yearly Award.

On 16 November 2019, in their last match in qualifying for UEFA Euro 2020, Croatia beat Slovakia 3–1, topping the group and securing their place at the finals.

Player statistics

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Honours

Player

Club
Hajduk Split
Yugoslav Cup: 1983–84

Manager
Varteks
Croatian Cup runner-up: 2005–06

Dinamo Tirana
Albanian Supercup: 2008

Al-Hilal
Saudi Crown Prince Cup: 2012–13
Saudi Professional League runner-up: 2012–13

Al-Ain
UAE President's Cup: 2013–14
UAE Pro-League: 2014–15
UAE Super Cup: 2015
AFC Champions League runner-up: 2016

Croatia
 FIFA World Cup runner-up: 2018

Bibliography

Rusija naših snova (eng. Russia of Our Dreams) (2018)

Orders
  Order of Duke Trpimir with Ribbon and Star


Yūko Kotegawa

is a Japanese actress from the city of Ōita.

Biography

Yūko graduated from high school in the city of Ōita. She placed first in the 1976 Miss Salad Girl contest (the runner-up was Yūko Natori). She landed a part in a Kanebo cosmetics commercial and joined Toho Entertainment. Her sister Nobuko is also in acting.

Yūko made her film debut in 1976 in Hoshi to Arashi and in 1979 appeared in Ah! Nomugi Toge. She was cast in the 1983 Toho adaptation of the novel The Makioka Sisters. In 1991 the Japan Academy recognized her as the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for portraying Noriko Kai in the 1989 Toho film Hana no Furu Gogo (or Afternoon when Flowers Fell). She played Aguri (later Yōzei-in), the wife of Asano Naganori, in the 1994 Chūshingura Shijū-shichinin no Shikaku.

She appeared on television in 1977 as the female lead in Bakumatsu Miraijin on NHK. Her 1984 portrayal of Otsū, the love interest of Miyamoto Musashi in NHK's 45-part prime-time series based on the Eiji Yoshikawa novel, was a major high point of her career. She also took the female lead in the 1993 Taiga drama Homura Tatsu opposite Ken Watanabe. In 2004 NHK cast her as the leading lady in Jīji: Mago to ita Natsu with Toshiyuki Nishida.

Meanwhile, she appeared on privately owned networks in many prominent roles. On Tokyo Broadcasting System, Yūko played characters in series in 1980, '81, and '82, including the female lead in Totsuzen no Ashita. Asahi TV cast her in the lead role in two 90 minute specials in the Onyado Kawasemi jidaigeki series (1988–89); Yasuko Sawaguchi, Reiko Takashima and others have played the same character. Nippon Television gave her the lead in the 1990 Ikenai Joshikō Monogatari and second billing in Omoide-zukuri in the following year. She returned to Asahi and jidaigeki in the title role in two series with the title Tōyama no Kin-san vs. Onna Nezumi opposite Hiroki Matsukata (1997 and 1998). A decade later, the network paired the two again, and Yūko portrayed Kikyō, the leading lady, in Surōnin Tsukikage Hyōgo.

A versatile actress, Kotegawa has appeared in many other formats. She is a frequent guest star, playing contemporary and period roles. She has taken the part of the criminal in shows such as Keibuho Furuhata Ninzaburō. Yūko has also appeared in several two-hour dramas. In one of these, in the G.I. Samurai (Sengoku Jietai) franchise, she portrayed Nene, the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. She has done voice acting, taking the part of Yolda in Origin: Spirits of the Past. Yūko counts Subaru, Tiger Corporation, and Lion among her commercial clients.

Filmography

Films
 Imperial Navy (1981), Yōko Hongō
 The Makioka Sisters (1983), Taeko Makioka
 Kozure Ōkami: Sono Chiisaki Te ni (1993)
 47 Ronin (1994), Yōzen-in
 Onmyōji 2 (2003)
 The Homeless Student (2008)

Television
 Sekigahara (1981), Natsu
 Furuhata Ninzaburō (1994), Ari Sasayama
 Sengoku Jieitai: Sekigahara no Tatakai (2006), Kōdai-in
 GeGeGe no Nyōbō (2010), Miyako Iida

External links
日本アカデミー賞公式サイト (Nihon Academy-shō Kōshiki Site) History page

古手川祐子 at JMDB
A-Team Official Website

Sources
This article incorporates material from 古手川祐子 (Kotegawa Yūko) in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on March 9, 2008.


Mydan

Saint Mydan was a legendary pre-congregational saint of medieval Wales known from only one seventeenth century manuscript. He was reputedly the son of Pasgen ab Urien Rheged, and brother of Saint Gwrfyw.

He was a Saint of Cor Catwg, at Llancarfan. He had a brother, Saint Gwrfyw, who was the father of S. Nidan. It is quite possible that Mydan is a misreading for Nidan.


Alakolamada

Alakolamada is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province. The president is Anthony LoCurcio.


Blit (computer terminal)

In computing, the Blit was a programmable bitmap graphics terminal designed by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi Jr. of Bell Labs in 1982.

History
The Blit programmable bitmap graphics terminal was designed by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi Jr. of Bell Labs in 1982.
The Blit technology was commercialized by AT&T and Teletype. In 1984, the DMD (dot-mapped display) 5620 was released, followed by models 630 MTG (multi-tasking graphics) in 1987 and 730 in 1989. The 5620 used a Western Electric 32000 processor (aka Bellmac 32) and had a 15" green phosphor display with 800×1024×1 resolution (66×88 characters in the initial text mode) interlaced at 30 Hz. The 630 and 730 had Motorola 68000 processors and a faster 1024×1024×1 monochrome display (most had orange displays, but some had white or green displays).

The folk etymology for the Blit name is that it stands for Bell Labs Intelligent Terminal, and its creators have also joked that it actually stood for Bacon, Lettuce, and Interactive Tomato. However, Rob Pike's paper on the Blit explains that it was named after the second syllable of bit blit, a common name for the bit-block transfer operation that is fundamental to the terminal's graphics.  Its original nickname was jerq, inspired by Three Rivers' PERQ graphic workstation.

Functionality
When initially switched on, the Blit looked like an ordinary textual "dumb" terminal, although taller than usual. However, after logging into a Unix host (connected to the terminal through a serial port), the host could (via special escape sequences) load software to be executed by the processor of the terminal. This software could make use of the terminal's full graphics capabilities and attached peripherals such as a computer mouse. Normally, users would load the window systems mpx (or its successor mux), which replaced the terminal's user interface by a mouse-driven windowing interface, with multiple terminal windows all multiplexed over the single available serial-line connection to the host.

Each window initially ran a simple terminal emulator, which could be replaced by a downloaded interactive graphical application, for example a more advanced terminal emulator, an editor, or a clock application. The resulting properties were similar to those of a modern Unix windowing system; however, to avoid having user interaction slowed by the serial connection, the interactive interface and the host application ran on separate systems—an early implementation of distributed computing.

Window systems
Pike wrote two window systems for the Blit, mpx for 8th Edition Unix and mux for 9th Edition, both sporting a minimalistic design. The design of these influenced the later Plan 9 window systems 8½ and rio. When the Blit was commercialized as the DMD 5620, a variant of mpx called "layers" was added to System V.3.

9front (a Plan 9 fork) contains Blit emulator that runs its original firmware, which can be used with mux (available in recently released Research Unix v8.)


Garou (singer)

Pierre Garand (born 26 June 1972), known by his stage name Garou (a diminutive of his last name "Garand"), is a Canadian singer and actor from Sherbrooke, Quebec.

He is known for his work in the musical Notre-Dame de Paris (playing Quasimodo in both the original French and English casts) and the No. 1 hits "Belle", "Seul", "Sous le vent", and "La Rivière de notre enfance". He currently holds the SNEP record for most weeks at No. 1.

Profile
Garou began playing the guitar at the age of three at the encouragement of his father (he also plays piano and trumpet). He went on to serve in the military and started a band in 1992 called the Untouchables. In 1997, he was discovered by Luc Plamondon while singing American blues tunes in a Sherbrooke bar. He was drafted by Plamondon to play the role of Quasimodo in his musical Notre-Dame de Paris, which made him a star in France.

His first album Seul became the best-selling French album of 2001 and remains one of the best-selling French albums of all time, achieving 2 million sales in Europe and going three times platinum in Canada.

He continued his string of hits with a live album and his sophomore effort Reviens in 2003. Sales for his third album Garou remained strong and he released his English crossover Piece of My Soul in 2008. The album debuted at No. 2 in Canada and No. 3 in France. Despite this, the album became his first album in France not to reach platinum status although it became his best-selling album in North America in seven years. His next album, Gentleman cambrioleur features cover songs in French and English and became his first album to miss the top five in France, where it modestly peaked at No. 35, staying on the charts for 17 weeks. He released Version Intégrale in 2010 which became another Top 40 hit in France and Canada.

Garou performed the Jean-Pierre Ferland song "Un peu plus haut, un peu plus loin" (A Little Higher, A Little Farther) at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has also performed at the charity event Les Enfoirés for the past 19 years.

His latest effort Rhythm and Blues became his highest peaking album in four years. It is his second covers album and pays tribute to classic R&B music.

He hosted the first two editions of Destination Eurovision, the selection show to choose the French entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, for France 2.

Collaborations

Garou has become well known for his collaborations. He has worked with Luc Plamondon in Notre-dame de Paris. The single "Belle" was lifted from the musical and stayed atop the French charts for a record-breaking 18 weeks. The single remained the most successful song in French history until 2009. In 2000, he had a successful duet with Celine Dion. "Sous le vent" became his third number one single in France. In 2004 he worked with Michel Sardou for his fourth and final No. 1 single, "La Rivière de notre enfance". The following year he appeared with 15-year-old singer Marilou on "Tu es comme ça."

He has also worked with several popular songwriters, including Jean-Jacques Goldman and Pascal Obispo. For his first album in English, Garou collaborated with some of the biggest names in music. The single "Stand Up" was written by Rob Thomas. He also sang the song "First Day of My Life", which was a big hit all over Europe in 2006 for former Spice Girl Melanie C, written by Guy Chambers and Enrique Iglesias.

Personal life

Garou has a daughter named Emelie, with his ex-girlfriend, Ulrika, a former model. After they broke up he dated a former Yemeni singer and entertainer Arwa Jassem known as Lahlouba. From 2007 to June 2010 he dated French singer Lorie.

Garou is a member of the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble since 1999.

Discography

 Seul (2000)
 Reviens (2003)
 Garou (2006)
 Piece of My Soul (2008)
 Gentleman cambrioleur (2009)
 Version intégrale (2010)
 Rhythm and Blues (2012)
 Au milieu de ma vie (2013)
 It's Magic! (2014)
 Soul City (2019)


Katelyn Pope

Katelyn Pope  is an Australian cricketer who plays as a left arm swing bowler for South Australian Scorpions and Adelaide Strikers.

Pope made her debut for the Scorpions in round three of the 2014–15 season against the ACT Meteors.  She played a total of 11 matches that season.  The following season, 2015–16, she was a member of the title winning Scorpions team in the WNCL Grand Final.  In December 2015, she was recruited by Wellington to compete in the New Zealand Women’s Under 21 Tournament.

Pope was added to the Strikers' squad for its WBBL02 campaign (2016–17).  She has been described by the Strikers as being renowned for her consistent line and length bowling.

In November 2018, she was named in the Adelaide Strikers' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season.


Trigrad Gorge

The Trigrad Gorge (, ) is a canyon of vertical marble rocks in the Rhodope Mountains. It is in Smolyan Province, one of the southernmost provinces of Bulgaria.

The gorge encloses the course of the Trigrad River, which plunges into the Devil's Throat Cave and  further emerges as a large karst spring. It later flows into the River Buynovska.

The gorge's west wall reaches  in height, while the east one extends up to . Initially, the two walls are about 300 m apart, but the gorge narrows to about  in the northern section. The gorge is  from the village of Trigrad at  above sea level and has a total length of , of which the gorge proper comprises .

Honour
Trigrad Gap on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, is named after Trigrad settlement and gorge.


Biomics

Biomics is the biological study of biomes, and the processing of obtained information, such as ecological communities of plants, animals, and soil organisms.

Uses
Biomics is part of biogeography, ecosystems, and habitats research. Ecoregions are grouped into both biomes and ecozones.

Biomics, in molecular biology, uses bioinformatics to collectively analyze diverse biome data. A biome may contain very large scale omics information, such as metagenome and pangenome where genomic sequences are mass-produced.