Paul Marie Louis Pierre Richer (17 January 1849 – 17 December 1933) was a French anatomist, physiologist, sculptor, medallist, and anatomical artist who was a native of Chartres. He was a professor of artistic anatomy at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine (1898).

Richer was an assistant to Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière, and from 1882 to 1896 was chief of the laboratory at the Salpêtrière Hospital. With Charcot he performed research of hysteria and epilepsy, and also performed studies of medicine and its relationship to art.

In 1903, Richer was appointed to the chair of artistic anatomy at the École des Beaux-Arts, and in 1907-08 was president of the Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine (French Society for the History of Medicine). His sculptures can be found in museums throughout Europe, including the Musée d'Orsay. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Medallic art

 1899 plaquette 50 Years' Jubilee of the Société de biologie.
 1900 plaquette Prof. Dr Raphael Blanchard.
 1902 plaquette Prof. Dr E. J. Marey.
 1903 plaquette Prof. Dr J. B. A. Chauveau. A remarkable work.
 1906 plaquette International Medical Congress at Lisbon, etc.

Published works
 Étude descriptive de la grande attaque hystérique ou attaque hystéro-épileptique et de ses principales variétés (1879)
 Études cliniques sur l'hystéro-épilepsie ou grande hystérie (1881)
 Les Démoniaques dans l'art, with Jean-Martin Charcot (1887)
 Hypnotisme, with Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1887)
 Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales, with Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1887)
 Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtrière (1888–1917)
 Les Difformes et les malades dans l'art, with Jean-Martin Charcot (1889)
 Anatomie artistique : description des formes extérieures du corps humain au repos et dans les principaux mouvements: avec 110 planches renfermant plus de 300 figures dessinées (1890)
 Paralysies et contractures hystériques (1892)
 L'Anatomie dans l'art : proportions du corps humain, canons artistiques et canons scientifiques, conférence faite à l'Association française pour l'avancement des sciences (1893)
 Physiologie artistique de l'homme en mouvement (1895)
 Dialogues sur l'art et la science (1897)
 Introduction à l'étude de la figure humaine (1902)
 Nouvelle anatomie artistique du corps humain (6 volumes, 1906–1929), including Morphologie: la femme (1920).
 Nouvelle anatomie artistique. Les animaux (1910)
 Lettre à en-tête de l"Institut de France (1925)

 English translations
 Artistic Anatomy, translated and edited by Robert Beverly Hale (1971)
 New Artistic Anatomy: Female Morphology, translated and edited by Allana M. Benham (2015)

 See also
 A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière''

References

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Wynnum North may refer to:

 Wynnum, Queensland
 Wynnum North railway station


Heliconius ismenius, the Ismenius tiger or tiger heliconian, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in Central America and northern South America. They are abundant as far south as Ecuador and Venezuela and as far north as southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. H. ismenius are more commonly called the tiger-striped long wing butterfly.  H. ismenius nickname is derived from its long wing structure as well as the beautiful burnt orange and black stripes. Pierre André Latreille, a French zoologist, described Heliconius ismenius in 1817. H. ismenius resembles a number of other butterflies, an example of Müllerian mimicry.

Life and characteristics

Like any other butterfly, Heliconius ismenius start as eggs, grow to a larval, caterpillar stage, pupate and then mature into butterflies. The eggs are spread out under separate leaves with the mother only placing one or two eggs in a specific location of the host plant. The eggs are small and yellow approximately 1.3 mm (height) x 0.8 mm (width). As the larvae mature, they become larger, approximately 2 cm in size, and become colored. They have an orange head and anal plate and a white body with black spots all over. According to Beltran, the pupae were observed to have a strong bowed thorax with five pairs of black spine in the abdomen. As well, the pupae are brown in color and contain an average of three gold colored spots on the pupae dorsum. As a grown butterfly the antenna have short black spines all around as well as the short horns on the head.

Heliconius ismenius are known for feeding on specific plants. The plant a specific H. ismenius stays on throughout its lifetime is called a host plant. The host plants popular for H. ismenius are found in subgenera Distephana and genera Granadilla. They feed on Passiflora platyloba, P. ambigua, P. alata, and P. pedata in Costa Rica only.

Throughout the rainforests they are found no higher than 1,500 meters. During the night, it is common that the adults form groups 3 to 10 meters above the ground. These groups are normally located along the forest edges on branches and tendrils of the host plants and trees.

Member of a Müllerian mimicry ring
H. ismenius shares the appearance of a number of other similar looking butterflies, of both the same genus and other genera (Melinaea, Tithorea) as a member of the "tiger" Müllerian mimicry ring. Various butterfly species that share the trait of being toxic and unpalatable have evolved to share the same aposematic  tiger stripe pattern to mutually advertise this protective trait, thereby increasing its recognition among predators.

Subspecies
Listed alphabetically:
 H. i. boulleti Neustetter, 1928
 H. i. clarescens Butler, 1875 – tiger-striped longwing
 H. i. fasciatus Godman & Salvin
 H. i. ismenius Latreille, 1817
 H. i. metaphorus Weymer, 1883
 H. i. occidentalis Neustetter, 1928
 H. i. telchinia Doubleday, 1847 – tiger-striped longwing
 H. i. tilletti Brown & Fernández, 1976

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References

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Malcolm MacLeod Atterbury (February 20, 1907 – August 16, 1992) was an American stage, film, and television actor, and vaudevillian.

Early years and education
A native of Philadelphia, Atterbury was the son of Malcolm MacLeod, Sr. and Arminia Clara (Rosengarten) MacLeod. He had an older sister, Elizabeth, a twin brother, Norman, and a younger brother, George Rosengarten MacLeod. After his father's death his mother remarried to General William Wallace Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania Railroad. Through this marriage, he had a half-brother, William Wallace Atterbury Jr.

He graduated from The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

In the mid-1930s, Atterbury decided to pursue a career in drama. He enrolled at Hilda Spong's Dramatic School using an assumed name. Later, after revealing his true identity, he went on to "finance a summer theater for the Hilda Spong Players at Cape May, and they, in turn, asked him to be their managing director."

Career

Radio
In 1928, Atterbury was the bass singer in a quartet that sang on WLIT in Philadelphia. In 1930, he became the program director of a radio station in Philadelphia. He went on to become business manager of WHAT.

Theatre
Atterbury was a devoted theatre actor.  He owned and operated two theatres in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, the Tamarack Playhouse in Lake Pleasant, New York and the Albany Playhouse Co. in Albany.  He also appeared on Broadway in the original cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as Scanlon.

Film
Atterbury is perhaps best known for his uncredited role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959), as the rural man who exclaims, "That plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops!" Four years later, Atterbury appeared as the Deputy in Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). He further appeared in such films as I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), Crime of Passion (1957), Blue Denim (1959), Wild River (1960), Advise and Consent (1962), and Hawaii (1966). His last film was Emperor of the North Pole (1973).

Television
Atterbury made frequent appearances on television. He was cast in five episodes of CBS's Perry Mason during the late 1950s and early 1960s, playing the role of murderer in three of the episodes such as Sam Burris in the 1957 episode, "The Case of the Angry Mourner".

His guest-starring roles included appearances on Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Asphalt Jungle, Have Gun - Will Travel (episode: "Shot by Request"), Wagon Train, Window on Main Street, Straightaway,  Bonanza, Hazel, Kentucky Jones, The Odd Couple (1970 TV series, episode: "A Barnacle Adventure"), The Rookies, The Sheriff of Cochise, The Fugitive, State Trooper, Rescue 8, Fury, The Man from Blackhawk, The Tall Man, The Invaders (episode: "The Trial") and The Andy Griffith Show (episode: "The Cow Thief", 1962), The Bob Newhart Show (episode: "No Sale").

He had a regular role as Grandfather Aldon in the 1974–75 CBS television family drama, Apple's Way.

Personal life
Atterbury was married on February 6, 1937 to Ellen Ayres Hardies (1915–1994) of Amsterdam, New York, daughter of judge Charles E. Hardies Sr. and sister of Charles Hardies Jr., who later became Montgomery County district attorney.

Filmography

Dragnet (1954) - Lee Reinhard
Man Without a Star (1955) - Fancy Joe Toole (uncredited)
The Rawhide Years (1955) - Luke, Paymaster (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956) (Season 1 Episode 27 "Help Wanted" as the Blackmailer)
Silent Fear (1956) - Dr. Vernon
Gunsmoke (1956) - Seldon
The Lone Ranger (1956) - Phineas Tripp (uncredited)
 Frontier (1956) Season 1, Episode 19 The Assassin as Donley
The Steel Jungle (1956) - Mailman
Miracle in the Rain (1956) - Special Delivery Man (uncredited)
Stranger at My Door (1956) - Rev. Hastings
A Day of Fury (1956) - Gaunt Farmer (uncredited)
Crime in the Streets (1956) - Mr. McAllister
Dakota Incident (1956) - Bartender / Desk Clerk
Johnny Concho (1956) - Milo, Mail Dispatcher (uncredited)
Storm Center (1956) - Frank (uncredited)
Toward the Unknown (1956) - Hank - Bell Technical Rep.
 Reprisal! (1956) - Luther Creel (uncredited)
Crime of Passion (1957) - Police Officer Spitz
Slander (1957) - Byron (uncredited)
Hot Summer Night (1957) - Jim - Newspaper Man on Street (uncredited)
Fury at Showdown (1957) - Norris
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) - Charles Rivers
Valerie (1957) - Sheriff
Blood of Dracula (1957) - Lt. Dunlap
The Walter Winchell File "The Witness" (1957) - MAJ Frank Spears
The Dalton Girls (1957) - Mr. Sewell, the Bank Manager
Perry Mason (1957 TV series) (1957) (Season 1 Episode 7 "The Case of the Angry Mourner") - Sam Burris
Too Much, Too Soon (1958) - Older Attrendant (scenes deleted)
The High Cost of Loving (1958) - Harry Lessing (uncredited)
From Hell to Texas (1958) - Hotel Clerk
No Time for Sergeants (1958) - Bus Driver with Applications (uncredited)
How to Make a Monster (1958) - Security Guard Richards
Badman's Country (1958) - Buffalo Bill Cody
Rio Bravo (1959) - Jake (Stage Driver) (scenes deleted)
High School Big Shot (1959) - Mr. Grant
North by Northwest (1959) - Man at prairie crossing (uncredited)
Blue Denim (1959) - Marriage License Clerk (uncredited)
Hell Bent for Leather (1960) - Gamble
Wild River (1960) - Sy Moore
From the Terrace (1960) - George Fry
Summer and Smoke (1961) - Rev. Winemiller
Advise & Consent (1962) - Senator Tom August
The Birds (1963) - Deputy Al Malone
Cattle King (1963) - Abe Clevenger
Seven Days in May (1964) - Horace - White House Physician (uncredited)
The Fugitive (1964 TV series 2, episode 3 ‘Man on a String’) -Sheriff Mead Joy in the Morning (1965) - Willis J. Calamus (uncredited)
The Fugitive (1966 ‘Stroke of Genius’, season 3, episode 20) - Sheriff BilsonThe Chase (1966) - Mr. ReevesHawaii (1966) - Gideon HaleThe Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk (1967) - Clams DaggettThe Learning Tree (1969) - Silas NewhallEmperor of the North (1973) - HoggerThe Towering Inferno (1974) - Jeweler (uncredited)Little House on the Prairie'' (1979) - Brewster Davenport

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1992 deaths
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Epilobium brachycarpum is a species of willowherb known by the common names tall willowherb, tall annual willowherb, panicled willowherb and tall fireweed. It is native to and widespread in North America, where it is a resident of varied open and woodland habitats. It has also been introduced to some areas in South America. This is a tall glandular, hairy annual herb occasionally reaching two metres in height. It is somewhat gangly and thin like an erect weed, with narrow, curving, pointed leaves up to a few centimetres in length. The flower has four petals which may be so deeply notched that they look like four pairs. They are generally light purple or pink, with darker veining. The fruit is a capsule 1 to 3 centimetres long.

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Photo gallery

brachycarpum


Berlin Beirut is a 2004 German-Lebanese short film by the Lebanese director Myrna Maakaron.

Cast and characters

Awards
Winner of the BERLIN TODAY AWARD 2004.
Winner of the DISCOVERY CHANNEL FILM PRIZE as BEST GERMAN DOCUMENTARY at the 47th International Leipzig Festival For Documentary And Animated Films
Winner of the BEST DOCUMENTARY in Portugal at the FIKE 2004 - Évora International Short Film Festival
Winner of the BEST SHORT FILM at the Carthage Film Festival 2004
Winner of the BEST PRIZE at the Bayreuther Filmfest "kontrast 2005"
Winner of the BEST BERLIN FILM at Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2005
Winner of the SEDICIORO as BEST SHORT, section documentary at the "2nd Film Festival Forlì City"- Italy 2005
Special Mention at the 7ème Biennale des cinémas arabes à Paris - 2004
Special Mention at the International Short Film Festival Hamburg - 2004

References

External links
 Official Website
 Teaser

2004 films
2004 comedy-drama films
German comedy short films
Lebanese short films
2000s Arabic-language films
Lebanese comedy-drama films
German comedy-drama films
2000s German films
German drama short films


Humberto Mariles Cortés (June 13, 1913 – December 7, 1972) was a Mexican equestrian who competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics. He won both individual and team show jumping events in 1948, and placed sixth-ninth in 1956. In 1952 he finished 12th in the individual three-day eventing and won a bronze medal with the team.

At the Pan American Games Mariles won a team gold medal in show jumping in 1955. In 1964 he shot a driver who forced his car off the road. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison, but was released by presidential pardon after five years. In 1972 he was arrested in Paris for drug smuggling, and died in prison before the trial.

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The Dominican Republic is divided into three macro-regions, which are in turn divided into ten regions.

In 1858 the country was divided in 3 departments: Cibao (North), Ozama (Southwest), and Seybo (Southeast).

References

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A scientific technique is any systematic way of obtaining information about a scientific nature or to obtain a desired material or product.

Scientific techniques can be divided in many different groups, e.g.:

 Preparative techniques
 Synthesis techniques, e.g. the use of Grignard reagents in organic chemistry
 Growth techniques, e.g. crystal growth or cell cultures in biology
 Purification techniques e.g. those in chemistry
 Measurement techniques
 Analysis techniques, e.g. ones that reveal atomic or molecular composition.
 Characterization techniques, e.g. ones that measure a certain property of a material.
 Imaging techniques, e.g. microscopy

In some cases these methods have evolved into instrumental techniques that require expensive equipment. This is particularly true in sciences like physics, chemistry, and astronomy. It is customary to abbreviate the names of techniques into acronyms, although this does not hold for all of them. Particularly the advent of the computer has led to a true proliferation in the number of techniques to the point that few scientists still have a good overview over all that is available. See, for example, the list of materials analysis methods and :Category:Scientific techniques.

See also
 Protocol (natural sciences)
 Scientific method


Violette Malan is a Canadian editor and fantasy writer. She has a PhD in 18th-century English literature, and has worked as a teacher and a book reviewer.

Selected works
 Dead In The Water (editor with Therese Greenwood), 2006, Napoleon Publishing,
The Mirror Prince series
 The Mirror Prince, 2006, DAW Books,
 Shadowlands , 2012, DAW,
Dhulyn and Parno series
 The Sleeping God, 2007, DAW,
 The Soldier King, 2008, DAW,
 The Storm Witch, 2009, DAW,
 Path of the Sun, 2010, DAW,

References

External links
 Violette Malan's official Web site

Canadian fantasy writers
Canadian women novelists
Living people
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Year of birth missing (living people)


Epilobium ciliatum, known by the common names fringed willowherb, American willowherb, slender willow herb, and northern willow herb is a species of flowering plant in the willowherb family Onagraceae. This species is native to much of North America, southern South America, and East Asia. It is an introduced species in much of Eurasia and Australia.

This perennial herbaceous plant usually occurs in wetlands, but may be found in a great variety of habitats, including disturbed areas and roadsides, at elevations below .

Description
Epilobium ciliatum is a clumping perennial often exceeding  in height. It has thickly veined lance-shaped leaves which may be up to 15 centimeters long toward the base of the plant. The foliage, stem, and inflorescence are covered in bristly hairs and glands.

There are four sepals. The regular, trumpet-shaped flowers have four petals which are so deeply notched they look like four pairs. They are white to light purple or pink with dark veining. There are eight stamens and a club-shaped stigma. The fruit is a narrow, hairy, four-chambered capsule up to 10 centimeters in length which may be held on a long stalk. The seeds are downy and can float for long distances with the wind.

Subspecies
Three subspecies are currently recognized:
 Epilobium ciliatum ssp. ciliatum
 Epilobium ciliatum ssp. glandulosum — (Lehm.) Hoch & P.H.Raven
 Epilobium ciliatum ssp. watsonii — (Barbey) Hoch & P.H.Raven

Taxonomy
Epilobium ciliatum may be a cryptic species complex. The Rocky Mountain Willowherb (Epilobium saximontanum) is sometimes included as yet another subspecies.

The three currently recognized subspecies may each constitute a distinct species. If so, E. ciliatum ssp. watsonii would perhaps use the name E. adenocaulon and include those populations, while E. ciliatum ssp. glandulosum would perhaps use the name E. bergianum and include those populations. The others named  E. ciliatum ssp. ciliatum populations would remain.

Distribution and habitatEpilobium ciliatum'' is native to the southern part of Canada and most of the United States of America. It arrived in northern Europe early in the 20th century and spread rapidly, reaching Finland in about 1920. It is a plant of moist places, stream-sides, ditches, ponds, gardens, roadsides, recently cleared areas and wasteland.

References

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment for Epilobium ciliatum
CalFlora database — Epilobium ciliatum (Slender Willow herb)
Epilobium ciliatum — Photo gallery

ciliatum
Flora of Northern America
Flora of southern South America
Flora of temperate Asia
Flora of the California desert regions
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


Alan William Westover (born 7 September 1954) is a professional basketball coach best known for his tenure with the Melbourne Tigers in the National Basketball League (NBL), where he coached the team to four consecutive Grand Finals, winning two championships, and being the second winningest coach in league history (based on winning percentage over 100 games coached). Westover also played for the Melbourne Tigers in their inaugural season in the NBL.

Westover was the coach of the Shiga Lakestars of the Basketball Japan (BJ) League in Ōtsu City, Shiga. In his first year with the Lakestars, Westover helped the club reach their highest number of wins in their seven-year history, and to the second round of the play-offs where they lost to eventual champions, Okinawa.

Westover has a son (Boden) who also played professionally for the Melbourne Tigers.

Head coaching record

Coaching History
• 28 years coaching experience - Over 1500 games coached
• VBA/SEABL - 511 games as Head Coach
• VJBL/Metro League - 413 junior games Head Coach
• NBL 6 seasons - Head Coach
• NBL 15 seasons - Assistant Coach

Senior Head Coaching Achievements
• NBL Champions - 2006, 2008 – Melbourne Tigers
• NBL Runner-up - 2007, 2009 – Melbourne Tigers
• NBL Head Coach - (Melbourne Tigers) Second winningest coach in NBL history (based on
winning percentage over 100 games coached)
• SEABL Champions - 1989 - Ballarat Miners
• National Champions - Victoria U20 State Team - 1994
• VBA Champions – 1989 (Ballarat Miners) and 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998 (Melbourne Tigers)
• Big V Champions - 2008, 2009
• Youth League 2 – Coach of the Year, 2017
• Shiga Lakestars (Japan) 2011/13 – Best two seasons in team history & 2011/12 BJ League
All-Star Coach
• Melbourne Tigers Hall of Fame, class of 2017

Junior Head Coaching Achievements
• VJBL Under 14 Champions (state/classic/nationals) - 2000
• VJBL Under 16 Champions (state/classic) - 2002
• VJBL Under 18 Champions (classic) - 2004
• VJBL Under 20 Champions (state) - 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006

References

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Route 114 is a Connecticut state highway in the western suburbs of New Haven, running from Orange to Woodbridge. Other than at its junction with Route 63, it is signed north and south.

Route description
Route 114 begins as Racebrook Road at an intersection with US 1 in Orange and heads north. It intersects with Route 34 in northern Orange  from the south end and continues northward into the town of Woodbridge. In Woodbridge, it passes over the Wilbur Cross Parkway without a junction, then intersects with Route 243  later and with Route 313 another  after that. As Route 114 approaches Woodbridge center, it shifts to Center Road making a sharp right turn then crossing the Wepawaug River. Route 114 continues east for another  before ending at an intersection with Route 63.

History
Route 114 was established as part of the 1932 state highway renumbering. It  originally ran in a "C" pattern within the town of Woodbridge, connecting at both ends with Route 63 (then Route 67) and serving Woodbridge center. The original route used modern Route 114 from its north end until the intersection with Route 243. Then it proceeded east along Route 243 (Ansonia Road/Fountain Street) until it met Route 63 again in the Westville neighborhood of New Haven. In 1951, the southern segment of Route 114 was relocated and extended south to its current terminus at Route 1 using former SR 442. The old alignment became an unsigned state-maintained road (part of reconfigured SR 552).

Junction list

References

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Doukhobors at Veregin is a National Historic Site of Canada located in the village of Veregin, Saskatchewan, and designated so in 2006. The site is also known as  National Doukhobor Heritage Village.

The site includes four historical buildings associated with Veregin's role in its heyday as the administrative and spiritual centre of the Canadian Doukhobors in the early 20th century.

The buildings

The main building of the site is the prayer house, constructed in 1917  as the spiritual meeting place of the community and personal residence of the leader of the majority of the Doukhobors, Peter Vasilevich Verigin. It is an intricately decorated two-storey building, inspired by the architectural traditions brought by the Doukhobor settlers from Russia. The building is surrounded by a large open space that was used for community outdoor meetings.

The other several other buildings located on the grounds are - A Doukhobor house, Tolstoy and Prayer Home, bakery, banya (bath house), granary, barn, and blacksmith. There is also a statue of Leo Tolstoy and a millstone.

The Museum and Registration Building showcases many artifacts including Peter V. Verigin's own "Rockaway" Coach.

Events
The headquarters of the organization of Community Doukhobors, Peter Verigin's Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood (CCUB), was located in Veregin from the organization's incorporation in 1917 until its move to Brilliant (near Castlegar, British Columbia).

Even though the majority of the Doukhobors moved from Saskatchewan to British Columbia even earlier, the Saskatchewan years loom large in their history. This is why Veregin was chosen by Doukhobor organizations as the site to celebrate the 60th, 75th and 100th anniversaries of their arrival to Canada in 1899.

Sources
 LIEU HISTORIQUE NATIONAL DU CANADA DES DOUKHOBORS-À-VEREGIN
  New Designation Recognizes the National Historic Significance of the Doukhobors at Veregin, Saskatchewan (Doukhobor Genealogy Website)
 Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada. "Doukhobors at Veregin" National Historic Site of Canada

External links
National Doukhobor Heritage Village
National Doukhobour Heritage Village - museum information
Article and photos of the museum and buildings
Documentary press release about the village

Museums in Saskatchewan
National Historic Sites in Saskatchewan
Open-air museums in Canada
Religious museums in Canada
History museums in Saskatchewan


Sino-Japanese is often used to mean:

 Sino-Japanese vocabulary: That portion of the Japanese vocabulary that is of Chinese origin or makes use of morphemes of Chinese origin (similar to the use of Latin/Greek in English).
 Kanbun: A Japanese method of reading annotated Classical Chinese in translation; writing with literary Chinese for Japanese readers.
 The on'yomi or 'Chinese reading' of Chinese characters in Japanese.

"Sino-Japanese" is also used to refer to that which occurs between China and Japan, such as:

 The First Sino-Japanese War between 1894 and 1895, primarily over control of Korea.
 The Second Sino-Japanese War between 1937 (some say the true start date is 1931) and 1945, from 1941 on as part of World War II
 Sino-Japanese relations
 Sino-Japanese Journalist Exchange Agreement
 Chinese people in Japan
 Japanese Chinese cuisine, the style of Chinese cuisine served by Chinese in Japan
 Japanese people settled in China, and/or their descendants
 Japanese orphans in China
 People of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent

See also
Japanese China (disambiguation)


"You Can't Count On Me" is the second single and lead commercial single released by Counting Crows from their album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings.

Critical reception
Billboard magazine gave the single three-and-a-half stars, calling it "a pleasant surprise" and saying "Duritz's vocals are still more whiny than soulful, but he can deliver a lyrical twist like he's holding an ice pick."

"You Can't Count On Me," was released to radio stations on February 4, 2008. A music video for the song was released on March 20, 2008. To promote the album, the band performed on Private Sessions, Good Morning America, Late Show with David Letterman, The View and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Frontman Adam Duritz has stated in concert that the song is about "people mistaking you for a dependable guy".

Charts

References

2008 singles
Counting Crows songs
2008 songs
Geffen Records singles
Song recordings produced by Brian Deck
Songs written by Adam Duritz
Songs written by Dan Vickrey
Songs written by David Bryson
Songs written by Charlie Gillingham
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George Bowman, or Bo Mun Soen sa Nim, is a Zen master and licensed psychotherapist living at Furnace Mountain in Clay City, Kentucky (he does not teach there). He received Dharma transmission from Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim in 1992, and is a former teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen. He was a founding member of the Providence Zen Center in 1972 and also did koan study with Joshu Sasaki from 1977 to 2003. Furnace Mountain is run by Dae Gak Soen Sa Nim—another former Kwan Um line teacher. He was a resident teacher at the Cambridge Buddhist Association from 1991 to 1999, and in 1994 became a guiding teacher of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. Today he travels to Boston, Massachusetts most months to lead a "floating zendo" named the Single Flower Sangha. Bowman has given inka to his student David Dayan Rynick, who was the first individual to be acknowledged as a teacher outside of the Kwan Um lineage.

See also
Dae Gak
Furnace Mountain
Providence Zen Center
Kyozan Joshu Sasaki
List of Rinzai Buddhists
Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

Notes

References

Further reading

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Seon Buddhists
Kwan Um School of Zen
Zen Buddhist spiritual teachers
American Zen Buddhists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Cicindela hybrida, also known as the northern dune tiger beetle, has a wide distribution in the Palaearctic region. Cicindela hybrida hybrida is common in Central Europe, even in artificial habitats.

The species is divided into the following subspecies:
 Cicindela hybrida hybrida Linnaeus, 1758
 Cicindela hybrida kozhantshikovi Lutshnik, 1924
 Cicindela hybrida magyarica Roeschke, 1891

 Cicindela hybrida pseudoriparia Mandl, 1935
 Cicindela hybrida transversalis Dejean, 1822

References

Gallery

External links
Picture story about the biology of the Northern Dune Tiger Beetle Cicindela hybrida

hybrida
Beetles described in 1758
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus


The plantar metatarsal ligaments are ligaments in the foot.

Ligaments of the lower limb


The dorsal metatarsal ligaments are ligaments in the foot.

Ligaments of the lower limb


The interosseous metatarsal ligaments are ligaments in the foot.

Ligaments of the lower limb


The 2004 Florida Atlantic University Owls football team represented Florida Atlantic University in the 2004 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The team was coached by Howard Schnellenberger and played their home games at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Schedule

Game summaries

At Hawaii

References

Florida Atlantic
Florida Atlantic Owls football seasons
Florida Atlantic Owls football


Feidlimid mac Tigernaig (died 588) was a King of Munster from the Raithlind branch of the Eoganachta. This branch of the family only rarely provided a king in Munster. He succeeded Fergus Scandal mac Crimthainn as king in 582.

A proverb stated that every descendant of Echu (his great-great grandfather) shall not go to Cashel even if he was King of Munster. This applied to Feidlimid who was barred from Cashel and instead built the fort of Bodumbir, south of the capital. He had married Cumman, the widow of Coirpre Cromm mac Crimthainn thereby claiming the throne. The kinglists of the Laud Synchronisms omit him from the list and instead substitute Feidlimid mac Coirpri Chruimm in favor of the Glendamnach branch.

Notes

See also
Kings of Munster

References

Annals of Tigernach
Francis J.Byrne, Irish Kings and High-Kings
Book of Leinster,{MS folio 150a} Fland cecinit.
Laud Synchronisms
The Chronology of the Irish Annals, Daniel P. McCarthy

External links
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork

Kings of Munster
588 deaths
6th-century Irish monarchs
Year of birth unknown


Alexander Sdvizhkov is a Belarusian journalist. He is the deputy chief editor for Zgoda, a weekly periodical.

Sdvizhkov was jailed for 3 years for printing cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. "We did the right thing by speaking out against Islamic hysteria," Sdvizhkov said. He is currently being held at the Belarusian Interior Ministry's transfer prison in Minsk, with no means of communication and no date set to hear his appeal. The arrest is the first arrest in Europe since the Danish cartoons issue came up.

References

Freedom of expression
Living people
Belarusian journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Imprisoned journalists


The Orkhon inscriptions (also known as the Orhon inscriptions, Orhun inscriptions, Khöshöö Tsaidam monuments (also spelled Khoshoo Tsaidam, Koshu-Tsaidam or Höshöö Caidam), or Kul Tigin steles () are two memorial installations erected by the Göktürks written in the Old Turkic alphabet in the early 8th century in the Orkhon Valley in what is modern-day Mongolia. They were erected in honor of two Turkic princes, Kul Tigin and his brother Bilge Khagan.

The inscriptions, in both Chinese and Old Turkic, relate the legendary origins of the Turks, the golden age of their history, their subjugation by the Tang dynasty, and their liberation by Ilterish Qaghan.  According to one source, the inscriptions contain "rhythmic and parallelistic passages" which resemble that of epics.

Discovery and translation
The inscriptions were discovered by Nikolay Yadrintsev's expedition in 1889, published by Vasily Radlov. The original text was written in the Old Turkic alphabet and was deciphered by the Danish philologist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1893. Vilhelm Thomsen first published the translation in French in 1899. He then published another interpretation in Danish in 1922 with a more complete translation.

Region
Orkhon Valley is a region on the western Orkhon River in modern-day Mongolia, near Ögii Lake. More specifically, they stand about fifty miles north of the Erdene Zuu Monastery, and approximately twenty-five miles northwest of the Ordu-Baliq.

Importance
Before the Orkhon Inscriptions were deciphered by Vilhelm Thomsen, very little was known about Turkic script. The scripts are the oldest form of a Turkic language to be preserved. When the Orkhon inscriptions were first discovered, it was obvious that they were a runic type of script that had been discovered at other sites, but these versions also had a clear form, similar to an alphabet. When Vilhelm Thomsen deciphered the translation it was a huge stepping stone in understanding old Turkic script. The inscriptions provided much of the foundation for translating other Turkic writings.

The scripts follow an alphabetical form, but also appear to have strong influences of rune carvings. The inscriptions are a great example of early signs of nomadic society's transitions from use of runes to a uniform alphabet, and the Orkhon alphabet is thought to have been derived from or inspired by a non-cursive version of the Sogdian script.

Restoration
Both inscriptions are part of the Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mongolia. TIKA (Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency) showed interest in the site in the late 20th century and finalized their project to restore and protect all three inscriptions. Since 2000, over 70 archeologists from around the world (specifically from Uighur, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tataristan and Turkey) have studied the area and performed excavations. The site is now protected by fences with buildings for research work and storage of artifacts. The total cost of the project is around 20 million dollars and eventually will include the building of a museum to house the inscriptions and other recently discovered artifacts.

Historical context
They were erected by the Göktürks in the early 8th century. They commemorate the brothers Bilge Khagan (683–734) and Kul-Tegin (684–731), one a politician and the other a military commander. Both were descendants of Ilterish Qaghan of the Second Turkic Khaganate, which was a prominent Turkic nomadic society during the Tang dynasty.

The Göktürks have left artifacts and installations all over their domain, from Manchuria to the Black Sea. But only in modern-day Mongolia have any memorials to kings and other aristocrats been found. The ones in Khöshöö Tsaidam consist of tablets with inscriptions in Chinese and Old Turkic characters. Both monuments are stone slabs originally erected on carved stone turtles within walled enclosures. Bilge Khagan's stone shows a carved ibex (the emblem of Göktürk Kagans) and a twisted dragon. In both enclosing's, evidence of altars and carved depictions of human couples were found, possibly depicting the respective honorary and his spouse.

The Old Turkic inscriptions on these monuments were written by Yollug Tigin who was nephew of Bilge Khagan. These inscriptions together with the Tonyukuk inscription, are the oldest extant attestation of that language. The inscriptions clearly show the sacred importance of the region, as evidenced by the statement, "If you stay in the land of the Ötüken, and send caravans from there, you will have no trouble. If you stay at the Ötüken Mountains, you will live forever dominating the tribes!".

Content of the inscriptions

A full English translation of the inscriptions may be found in The Orkhon Inscriptions: Being a Translation of Professor Vilhelm Thomsen's Final Danish Rendering

The two monuments themselves have engravings on all four sides. However, some of the script was not preserved, or is missing, and therefore only portions of the original message remain. What follows is a summary of the most complete section of the inscriptions.
One translation of the first and second monuments seems to indicate that the text continues from one side to the other.

The first portion of the Turkic translations seems to be Bilge Khagan discussing the commemoration of the tablet, as well as mentioning the extent of the empire. One passage reads,

The inscriptions also highlight Bilge Khagan's accomplishment of uniting his people. As one passage reads,

The rest of the inscriptions are broken up and sporadic, but seem to detail the conquests against the Kirghiz and the Tangut peoples and also the death of Kul-Tegin in battle, and eventually the succession of Bilge Khagan by his son. Bilge Khagan's mother El Bilga Khatun was also mentioned in these inscriptions.

The following is an excerpt from the last paragraph of the inscriptions (in Old Turkic and English languages):

Relations with the Chinese

The inscriptions seem to have mixed views on Tang Chinese influence. On the one hand, it seems to contain the view that the Turks despise the Chinese. It appears as though Bilge Khagan wanted to distinguish his people from the Chinese in order to remain a strong independent society. In the inscription Bilge Khagan reprimands those Turks who have been influenced by Chinese culture and have adopted a Chinese way of life. As one passage reads,

The claimed enslavement of the Turks also did not help the reputation of the Chinese. Bilge Khagan seems to blame the Chinese for the disunion of his Turkic state. This Turkic view of the Chinese seems to be negative.

Orkhon inscriptions indicate prisoners of war have often designated the status of slavery. Inscriptions found in the First Turkic Khaganate also imply that terms denoting slavery or other forms of subordinate status, such as qul (male slave) and küng (female slave or handmaiden), are frequently applied to a population of defeated political entities.

However, the translation also reveals a degree of diplomacy with the neighboring Chinese, as evidenced by his statement,

Bilge Khagan also references the hiring of Chinese artists when he claims,  To further complicate the already muddled view of the Chinese, the inscriptions contain both Turkic and Chinese translations. Thus, the inscription contains evidence that Bilge Khagan had cultural interaction with the Tang dynasty.

See also
 Old Turkic alphabet
 Bilge Khagan
 Kul Tigin
 History of the Turkic peoples

References

Citations

Sources

 Report of the 28th Session of the World Heritage Committee
 Sören Stark Die Alttürkenzeit in Mittel- und Zentralasien. Archäologische und historische Studien (Nomaden und Seshafte, Band 6). Reichert: Wiesbanden 2008, pp. 76–78, plates 5-7.

External links
 Omniglot: Old Turkic Language
 Orkhon Inscriptions Text

1889 archaeological discoveries
8th-century inscriptions
History of Mongolia
Archaeological sites in Mongolia
Chinese inscriptions
Göktürk inscriptions
Speeches by heads of state


Jefferson Middle School may refer to one of several different educational institutions, including:

Jefferson Leadership Academies (formerly Thomas Jefferson Middle School), Long Beach, California
Jefferson Middle School (Oceanside, California)
Jefferson Middle School (San Gabriel, California)
Jefferson Middle School (Merritt Island, FL)
Jefferson Middle School (Champaign, Illinois), Champaign, Illinois
Jefferson Middle School (Fort Wayne, Indiana), public school in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Jefferson Middle School (Midland, MI)
Jefferson Middle School (Columbia, MS), Columbia, Mississippi
Jefferson Middle School (Columbia, Missouri), Columbia, Missouri
Jefferson Middle School (St. Charles, MO), St. Charles, Missouri
Jefferson Middle School (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Albuquerque, New Mexico
Jefferson Middle School (Jefferson City, Tennessee), Jefferson City, Tennessee
Jefferson Middle School (Oak Ridge, Tennessee), Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Jefferson Middle School, Arlington, Virginia
Jefferson Middle School (Madison, Wisconsin), Madison, Wisconsin
Jefferson Middle School (Olympia, Washington), Olympia, Washington

See also
 Thomas Jefferson Middle School (disambiguation)


Epilobium cleistogamum is a species of willowherb known by the common name selfing willowherb. This plant is endemic to central California where it is a resident of vernal pools and mudflats. It is a small annual plant with fuzzy pointed green leaves. Some of the leaves have hairs which are knobby and gland-tipped. The flowers are usually cleistogamous, that is, they self-pollinate without opening. Some of the flowers do open to reveal pinkish-purple to nearly white, deeply notched petals. The fruit is a tough four-sided capsule about a centimeter long.

References

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Photo gallery

cleistogamum
Flora of California
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


Rubén Uriza Castro (May 27, 1920 – August 30, 1992) was a Mexican show jumping champion, and Olympic champion. He participated at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London where he won a gold medal in Team Jumping as a member of the Mexican winning team. He also received a silver medal in Individual Jumping. Both aboard his horse Harvey. He was born in Huitzuco, Guerrero and died in Mexico City.

References

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1920 births
1992 deaths
Sportspeople from Guerrero
Olympic gold medalists for Mexico
Olympic silver medalists for Mexico
Equestrians at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic equestrians for Mexico
Mexican male equestrians
Olympic medalists in equestrian
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
20th-century Mexican people


The Kermesse in Bruges, or The Three Gifts is a burlesque ballet in three acts created by the Danish ballet master and choreographer August Bournonville to music by Holger Simon Paulli, first performed by the Royal Danish Ballet on 4 April 1851. The Danish title is Kermessen i Brügge eller De tre Gaver.  The ballet tells the story of three brothers who receive magic gifts from an alchemist.

Plot summary
At a church fair (or kermesse) in 17th century Bruges three brothers (Adrian, Geert, and Carelis) receive magical gifts from the alchemist Mirewelt. The two older brothers, Adrian and Geert, leave their sweethearts behind and set off into the world with their gifts (a sword and a ring) to seek their fortunes. The magical gifts bring disappointment to the two men but, back home, the brothers discover Carelis' magic lute brings happiness to all. Adrian, Geert, and Mirewelt are charged with sorcery and sentenced to death at the stake, but Carelis appears and his magic lute sets everyone to dancing joyfully. The condemned are released and reunited with their sweethearts while Carelis and Eleonore, the alchemist's daughter, embrace. Carelis' magic lute is locked away in a chest, to be taken out only at the yearly kermesse.

Characters
Adrian, brother to Geert and Carelis.
Geert, brother to Adrian and Carelis.
Carelis, brother to Adrian and Geert.
Johanna, sweetheart of Adrian.
Marchen, sweetheart of Geert.
Trutje, mother to Johanna and Marchen.
Mirewelt, an alchemist.
Eleonore, Mirewelt's daughter and Carelis' beloved.
Madame von Everdingen, a beautiful widow.

Music
The music is composed and arranged by Holger Simon Paulli, who liberally borrowed musical material from other composers and also from his own earlier works. To illustrate the young couple's love for one another Paulli lets Carelis, in the scene in which he is alone with Eleonore, play the romanesca, a 17th-century aire de danse, on the viola da gamba. Extensive sections of the marketplace scene in Act I are danced to various passages from Rossini's opera comique Le Comte Ory (1828), whilst the round dance in the same scene is taken from Paulli's music for Bournonville's ballet, The White Rose. In the scene set in Madame van Everdingen's home, music from Ferdinand Hérold's opera Zampa and Rossini's finale from his opera L'assedio di Corinto are used. Paulli's own voice as a composer is heard in the many dances, such as the pas de deux for Eleonore and Carelis in Act I; similarly, the obligatory final galop is a characteristic example of the dance music Paulli wrote for Bournonville.

History

The Kermesse in Bruges is composed of equal parts folk tale and contemporary satire. Bournonville's burlesque ballet about Flemish life in the seventeenth century was first performed in 1851, two years after the introduction of Denmark's first liberal constitution, at a time when Europe was in turmoil. The Kermesse in Bruges is, in its own way, Bournonville's comment on a period which had to learn to administer freedom. The alchemist Mirewelt cannot predict the consequences when, out of sheer gratitude, he gives the three brothers a share in his magic powers, but his three gifts quickly prove to be all it takes to turn the social order in Bruges upside down. The moral of the tale is that success in battle and love are short-lived gifts whereas the cheerful disposition will, as Bournonville himself wrote, always triumph and endure. There is indeed much cheerfulness in this Danish classic which also contains one of Bournonville's most beautiful dance compositions, the pas de deux in Act I, Carelis' declaration of love to Eleonore. This pas de deux received its definitive form when Bournonville restaged the ballet in 1865.

Later important productions are Harald Lander's and Valborg Borchesnius' version from 1943, where some scenes were omitted in an attempt to tighten the structure. In 1966, Flemming Flindt and Hans Brenaa made their own treatment. The costumes were in bright colours in the fashion of the day, but the performance also had a brush of something mysterious and medieval in the lighting and grouping.

In 1979 Brenaa created a new version, in which the ballet received a cinematic speed and a cheerful energy. This version was kept until 2000, when Dinna Bjørn, Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter, and the stage producer Jan Maagaard injected a serious shade into the cheerful lightness of the earlier production.

In 2000, Peter Schaufuss also created a version of The Kermesse in Bruges for his own company, The Peter Schaufuss Ballet.

See also
List of ballets by title

Notes

References
Bournonville:The Kermesse in Bruges

Ballets by August Bournonville
1851 ballet premieres
Belgium in fiction


The 2005 season was the Detroit Lions' 76th in the National Football League (NFL) and their 82nd since moving to Detroit and becoming the Lions. The Lions failed to improve on their 6–10 record in 2004.

The Lions began their 2005 season with a 17–3 win over the rival Packers. However, the next week, the Lions were throttled, 38–6, by the Bears in Chicago. By week 10, the Lions had a 4–5 record after they had defeated the Arizona Cardinals 29–21 at home. However, the Lions lost five consecutive games following that win, and were eliminated from the playoffs with a 16–13 overtime loss to the Packers. The Lions would win one more game for the rest of the season, which was a 13–12 win over the Saints. The season concluded with a 35–21 loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion Steelers.

During the season, after the Lions lost 27–7 on Thanksgiving Day to the Atlanta Falcons, the Lions fired Steve Mariucci, and hired Dick Jauron to be the interim head coach for the remainder of the season.

Staff

Roster

Regular season

Schedule

Game summaries

Week 1

Standings

References

External links
 2005 Detroit Lions at Pro-Football-Reference.com

Detroit
Detroit Lions seasons
Detroit Lions


TheaterWeek was a national weekly magazine catering to artists and lovers of theater and cabaret. It covered Broadway, off-Broadway, regional and educational theater with articles that included profiles and interviews of actors, directors and designers, reviews, theater news and behind-the-scenes looks at shows. The magazine was founded and first edited by Mike Salinas. Later, Bob Sandia and then John Harris edited the magazine. Columnists as Peter Filichia, Alexis Greene, Charles Marowitz, Ken Mandelbaum, Davi Napoleon, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, and Michael Riedel were featured. The New York Daily News called the magazine "influential".

The magazine was published from August 1987 to January 1997, when it closed amid financial struggles. Its columnists went on to write for such other magazines and internet sites as Playbill, InTheater, TheaterMania.com and Broadway.com.

After the magazine closed, its assets were purchased by Playbill.

References

 Article about publisher Charles Ortleb
 Obituary for the founder of TheaterWeek, Playbill

External links
 TheaterWeek article by Michael Buckley
 TheaterWeek article by Michael Goldstein
 Article by Ken Mandelbaum for TheaterWeek
 Article by Michael Kantor from TheaterWeek
 Article by Davi Napoleon reprinted in The Faster Times that originally appeared in TheaterWeek

Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1987
Magazines disestablished in 1996
Magazines published in New York City
Theatre magazines
Weekly magazines published in the United States
Entertainment magazines published in the United States


Admiral Jehu Valentine Chase (January 10, 1869 – May 24, 1937) was a career navy officer, who is most remembered for his leadership of USS ''Minnesota during World War I.

Chase was born in Pattersonville, Louisiana on 10 January 1869, and graduated from the United States Naval Academy 6 June 1890.

As commanding officer of the USS ''Minnesota when she was mined in September 1918, Chase was awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal in recognition of his seamanship and leadership in bringing his ship safely to port without loss of life.

Admiral Chase was Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet, from 17 September 1930 to 15 September 1931, and Chairman of the General Board from April 1932 until his retirement in February 1933. He died at Coronado, California on 24 May 1937.

Family

Chase's father was Judge Valentine Chase of St. Mary Parish. Valentine Chase was an active Republican, and was murdered during Reconstruction on 17 October 1868 by a group of unidentified men possibly associated with the Knights of the White Camelia paramilitary organization.

Chase's father-in-law, Henry Clay Taylor, was also a Rear Admiral of the U.S. Navy, and many of Chase's descendants have also served as Navy leaders. His two sons, Jay Valentine Chase and Harry Taylor Chase, each commanded ships during World War II; his great-grandson James F. Caldwell Jr. is an admiral who currently serves as director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.

Chase's grandson Griff Chase served as a police officer of the Compton Police Department in the 1960s. He later committed suicide by cop in Harbor City after injuring his back and becoming an alcoholic.

Namesake
The USS Chase was named in Chase's honor.

Decorations
Admiral Chase's decorations included: Navy Distinguished Service Medal, Navy Spanish Campaign Medal and World War I Victory Medal with Clasp.

References

Footnotes

External links

1860s births
1937 deaths
United States Naval Academy alumni
People from Patterson, Louisiana
United States Navy rear admirals (upper half)
Recipients of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal


Silver mica capacitors are high precision, stable and reliable capacitors. They are available in small values, and are mostly used at high frequencies and in cases where low losses (high Q) and low capacitor change over time is desired.

History
Mica has been used as a capacitor dielectric since the mid-19th century.  William Dubilier invented a small mica capacitor in 1909 which was used in decoupling applications.  They were put into large scale commercial production to meet military requirements in World War I.  Mica is less prone to crack under mechanical shock than glass, a useful property for equipment subject to shellfire.  Like glass, mica has a substantially higher permittivity than paper so capacitors can be made smaller.  In 1920 Dubilier developed a capacitor consisting of a flaked sheet of mica coated on both sides with silver.  He formed the Dubilier Condenser Company to manufacture them.  Ceramic capacitors were also used in the 1920s due to a shortage of mica, but by the 1950s silver mica had become the capacitor of choice for small-value RF applications.  This remained the case until the latter part of the 20th century when advances in ceramic capacitors led to the replacement of mica with ceramic in most applications.

Types
There are 2 distinct types of mica capacitor.

Clamped mica capacitors
Now obsolete, these were in use in the early 20th century. They consisted of sheets of mica and copper foil sandwiched together and clamped. These had even worse tolerance and stability than other clamped capacitors since the mica surface is not perfectly flat and smooth. References to mica capacitors from the 1920s often refer to this type.

Silver mica capacitors
Commonly known as silver mica capacitors, these rendered clamped mica capacitors obsolete. Instead of being clamped with foils these are assembled from sheets of mica coated on both sides with deposited metal. The assembly is dipped in epoxy. The advantages are:
 Greater stability, since there are no capacitive airgaps that can change dimension.
 Airtight enclosure removes the risk of oxidation or corrosion of plates or connections.
 Greater capacitance per volume, since there are no airgaps between plates and mica, the conducting surfaces can be thinner.
 No clamping mechanism is needed.

They are sometimes informally referred to as mica capacitors. Any modern reference to mica capacitors can be assumed to mean these, unless pre-World War II equipment is being discussed. Even though these capacitors are extremely useful, silver mica capacitors are less commonly used today due to bulkiness and high cost. There is a high level of compositional variation in the raw material leading to higher costs in relation to inspection and sorting. They are getting closer to obsolescence as advances are made in ceramic and porcelain materials.

Silver mica capacitors are still indispensable in some custom applications. Circuit designers still turn to mica capacitors for high-power applications such as RF transmitters and electric instruments and amplifiers because cheaper ceramic and porcelain capacitors can't withstand heat as well. Silver mica remains widely used in high-voltage applications, due to mica’s high breakdown voltage. Silver Mica capacitors are used at 100 V to 10 kV, ranging from a few pF up to a few nF, and the average temperature coefficient is around 50 ppm/°C.

References

Capacitors


Troy Anthony DeVries (born July 27, 1982) is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Portland State and New Mexico.

Portland State Career

A Guard who transferred from Portland State after the 2002 fall semester. Played in five games at Portland State in the fall of 2002, costing him the entire 2002–03 year of eligibility. Finished as one of the top 3-pt and FG shooters in MWC history. Career 3-pt average of 45.0% is the highest mark in UNM history. His 48.0* career accuracy in MWC games is the highest in MWC history. 147 career 3-pt FGs is tied with Lamont Long for eighth place in UNM history. Hit a 3-pt in 29 consecutive games, the second longest streak in UNM history.

2001–02 Freshman Season (Portland State)
Devries saw action in 27 games with six starts and averaged 4.7 ppg and 1.1 assists as a freshman and hit 41.2% of 3-point attempts and was named Academic All-Big Sky.

2002–03 Sophomore Season (Portland State)
Played in five games at Portland State, averaged 11.8 ppg and 4.2 rpg but sat out the second semester after transferring to UNM.

University of New Mexico career

2003–04 Junior Season
Named honorable mention All-MWC for the 2003–04 season. Devries earned CoSIDA Academic All-District and Academic All-MWC honors in 2003–04 for having over a 3.5 g.p.a  as a communications major. Started 21 of 22 games after making his debut against Coppin State on 12–21–03, Averaged 10.7 ppg, 2.9 rpg and 2.95 apg, Shot 44.4% from the field and 44.6% from 3-pt range is 6th all-time for a season at UNM and would have ranked 14th in the NCAA had he made one more 3-pt to qualify.

2004–05 Senior Season
Named 3rd Team All-MWC after shooting 45.1% from 3-pt. range, ranking third in the league and fifth highest mark in school history also earned CoSIDA Academic All-District VI honors and MWC Scholar Athlete recognition, MVP of the 2004 Cmcast Lobo Invitational after scoring 49 points on 16–24 shooting, 13–20 from 3-pt range, in the two-game event and made 93 3-pt which is the fourth most in a season at UNM, Averaged 11.0 ppg, 2.4 rpg and 2.5 apg, Was ninth in the NCAA in 3-pt led the MWC with 2.82 3-pt per-game and ranked 38th in the NCAA, Shot 51.3% from 3-pt range in MWC play, the third highest mark in MWC history .

Professional career

NBL

Joined the West Sydney Razorbacks of the NBL in Australia prior to the 2007/08 season as an import player. DeVries was influential in getting the Razorbacks off the bottom of the ladder. He was in the top 20 in the league for 3-pt %, finishing with final statistics of 17.7 ppg, 2.3 assists per game, 2.3 rebounds per game, 44% 3PT, 45% FG, 75.5% FT, averaging 27.8 minutes per game.

DeVries won the 2007–08 NBL All Star Three Point Shootout, beating out Kirk Penney in the finals.

Tied the NBL single game record going a perfect 8–8 from 3PT.

D-League
On October 30, DeVries was acquired by the Los Angeles D-Fenders.

References

External links
 West Sydney Razorbacks Player Profiles
 CB Lleida's profile

1982 births
Living people
Adelaide 36ers players
Australian people of American descent
Basketball players from Washington (state)
Bàsquet Manresa players
BG Karlsruhe players
CB Girona players
Baloncesto Málaga players
FC Porto basketball players
Liga ACB players
Los Angeles D-Fenders players
Melilla Baloncesto players
New Mexico Lobos men's basketball players
People from Mount Vernon, Washington
Portland State Vikings men's basketball players
Shooting guards
West Sydney Razorbacks players
American men's basketball players


Washington Local School District may refer to:

Washington Court House City School District, Fayette County, Ohio
Washington Local School District (Lucas County), Lucas County, Ohio

See also

 Washington School District (disambiguation)
 Washington School (disambiguation)
 Washington (disambiguation)


The collateral ligaments of the interphalangeal joints of the foot are fibrous bands that are situated on both sides of the interphalangeal joints of the toes.

Ligaments of the lower limb


Utricularia ochroleuca, the yellowishwhite bladderwort, pale bladderwort, or cream-flowered bladderwort, is a small, perennial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. It is usually found affixed to the substrate. U. ochroleuca is a circumboreal species and is found in North America, Asia, and Europe.

See also
 List of Utricularia species

References

Carnivorous plants of Asia
Carnivorous plants of Europe
Carnivorous plants of North America
ochroleuca


Nelson Dewey Generating Station was a base load, coal-fired electrical power station located in Cassville, Wisconsin, in Grant County. The station was owned by Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL), an Alliant Energy company. It was shut down in late December 2015. The plant was demolished in late 2017.

It is named for Nelson Dewey (1813–1889), the first Governor of Wisconsin.

Units

See also

List of power stations in Wisconsin

References

External links
Zebra Muscles - New Sightings in Wisconsin (Archive)
Wisconsin Power and Light - Nelson Dewey Power Plant, Cassville, Wisconsin (Archive)
 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190214/http://www.alliantenergy.com/docs/groups/public/documents/pub/p015319.pdf

Energy infrastructure completed in 1959
Energy infrastructure completed in 1962
Buildings and structures in Grant County, Wisconsin
Former coal-fired power stations in the United States
Alliant Energy
Coal-fired power stations in Wisconsin
Former power stations in Wisconsin


Epilobium densiflorum is a species of willowherb known by the common names denseflower willowherb, dense spike-primrose or dense boisduvalia. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Baja California, where it is found in a variety of habitats. This is an erect annual often exceeding a meter in height with fuzzy green foliage. The pointed leaves are up to 8 centimeters long near the base of the plant, and the upper leaves are generally more hairy than the lower. The stem may branch or not. The top of the stem is occupied by a hairy, leafy, densely flowered inflorescence. Each flower has four deeply notched petals in shades of pinkish purple to nearly white with dark veining, each about a centimeter long. The fruit is a cylindrical capsule about a centimeter long.

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Photo gallery

densiflorum


Sino-Korean may refer to:
 Sino-Korean vocabulary, Korean vocabulary composed of morphemes of Chinese origin
 People's Republic of China–North Korea relations
 People's Republic of China–South Korea relations
 Republic of China–South Korea relations
 Chinese people in Korea (also known Hwagyo)
 Koreans in China (also known as Joseonjok or Chaoxianzu)
 Sino–Korean cuisine, a hybrid cuisine developed by Chinese and Koreans

See also
Chinese-language literature of Korea
Chinese influence on Korean culture


Oxide Radio is a student radio station run by members of Oxford University in Oxford, England. It was established in 2001 and as Altered Radio made brief forays onto FM in 2004 and 2005 before complications regarding FM licensing and funding forced it onto Internet-only broadcast. It relaunched in Michaelmas Term 2017 with a rebranded interface and website and now broadcasts 24/7. It features a wide range of different shows that broadcast throughout the Oxford term: music shows of all genres, from indie tracks to Nordic tunes; chat shows featuring student agony aunts, or interviews with people affiliated with Oxford; forays into contemporary vibe culture; and plenty of news and sport for good measure too covering stories in Oxford and further afield.  Despite its very limited central University funding, since 2009 Oxide Radio has allowed any students to get involved with the society, without any subscription charges or fees, giving students the opportunity to share their passions and voice with a global audience.

History

Oxide Radio was founded in 2001 spearheaded by Simon Demetriou, following the demise of the previous student radio station, Oxygen FM. Broadcasting from 1997 to 2001, Oxygen FM was Oxford University's student radio station, which was based in the Westgate Centre, broadcast full-time on FM as well as an internet stream. Oxygen's closure came about as a result of fabricating a whole day's programming in an attempt to deceive the Radio Authority, which led to a record fine of £20,000 and a shortening of the broadcast licence by two years, the most serious sanctions the Authority had ever imposed.

Given that the expiry of Oxygen FM's licence and the subsequent dissolution of the organisation had left students without a station, a new station was formed in 2001 as Fusion FM, before becoming Oxford Student Radio approximately 10 months later.  It was then rebranded as Altered Radio in 2003. Initially broadcasting from an office in Little Clarendon Street, Oxford, the station transferred ownership to OSSL (Oxford Student Services Limited, the financial arm of the university's Student Union), and was accommodated in the student union buildings in 2003.

A third rebranding to Oxide Radio was shortly followed by the impact of a Student Union financial crisis. In significant monetary difficulties during 2006, OUSU cut Oxide's £5,700 per year budget completely and presenters were forced to pay membership dues to keep the station afloat. This has since been reverted but the cuts did see an increased move towards the application for sponsorship.

Nick Griffin controversy
In Hilary Term 2007, British National Party leader Nick Griffin was invited to speak on Oxide. Despite the presenters receiving death threats, the broadcast was scheduled to go ahead until OUSU (the university's student union) demanded that the broadcast be cancelled as part of their "No Platform Policy". Griffin criticised the decision by saying, "Fundamentally, this is not only an attack on freedom of speech but an attack on Oxford students' rights to hear things and make their own minds up." Nick Griffin and David Irving, the controversial historian, were later invited to speak at the Oxford Union about free speech, the cancelled Oxide show cited as one of the reasons for the invitation being extended. As a result of this controversy, Oxide Radio was granted editorial independence from OUSU and its own constitution.

January 2009 relaunch

The station began broadcasting once more on 18 January 2009; previous station manager Katie Traxton (08-09) returned to present a valedictory edition of her past show "Sunday Lunch.".

The first week saw a number of technical difficulties and the Head of Technical, Richard Fine posted a postmortem at the end of the week reviewing the problems and discussing solutions. The second week of broadcasting went much more smoothly, with most shows being delivered on schedule, and almost no dead air. Relying almost entirely on freeware or student-designed systems, Oxide now prides itself on its technical and financial independence in an increasingly commercialised world. Whilst there are still reports that the broadcast is not accessible in some colleges due to restrictions on internet radio usage, it is now freely accessible via iTunes and the programmes' Radio section.

2017 relaunch
Following two years of dormancy after a series of limiting handovers, Oxide was rebranded and relaunched in Michaelmas Term 2017 after a new committee had been appointed during the summer. It coincided with OUSU moving their office space and a new studio was founded. Broadcasting began on Tuesday 10 October 2017 (1st week MT) with an interview with Chris Patten, the university's chancellor at the time followed by two music shows. In the second week of broadcasting a lot more shows were added to the schedule after due training had been given to non-committee members.

In February 2023, Oxide, along with the university's Recording Society, held an interview with Jamie Stewart of the group Xiu Xiu, hosted by Leo Brnicanin, one of the station managers.

Technical information
Since January 2009, the station has been running on a heavily computer-based setup. The core component is the open-source broadcasting suite Rivendell, which maintains a central database of available music and audio, tracks audio usage for licensing reports, and handles automated playback of broadcast logs. Significantly, the use of this system has allowed many shows on the station to pre-record their episodes for playback later, relaxing the time constraints on presenters. The easy availability and size of the audio database has also encouraged some shows like 'Sliced Bread' to begin experimenting with things like sound effects.

In 2012, after years of enduring technical breakdowns and software crashes, Oxide Radio successfully gained OUSU funding to transform the technical architecture from an outdated Linux-based setup to a Mac OS X based system with new mixers, microphones, and software. Technical guidance was provided by the university's IT services, but all work was completed by committee at the time.

In 2017, as part of the relaunch, and as a consequence of OUSU moving their offices, a new Oxide studio was created and kitted out with a brand new mixer and microphones. The Technical Officer, Jethro Lundie Brown (17-18), was instrumental in configuring the new setup and wrote the majority of the new presenter's manual.

The current Oxide Radio website was developed by the committee in 2017 using the SquareSpace platform.  This has provided the opportunity for the Oxide to showcase the full scope of outputs the society creates and curates.  The site receives several thousand daily visitors from all over the country.

The station currently broadcasts a single 128-kilobit MP3 stream through an Icecast2 server.

Awards
BBC Radio 1 Student Radio Awards Bronze 2003: Newcomer of the Year
BBC Radio 1 Student Radio Awards Gold 2003: Best Female Presenter
Student Radio Awards Gold 2005: Off-Air Promotions and Imaging
Student Radio Awards Bronze 2006: Best Specialist Music Programme
Student Radio Awards Bronze 2007: Student Radio Newcomer of the Year

See also
 Oxford University Broadcasting Society

References

External links
 Oxide Radio website

2001 establishments in England
Radio stations established in 2001
Culture of the University of Oxford
Oxford Brookes University
Radio stations in Oxfordshire
Student radio in the United Kingdom


Gross Lengden is a village in the Gleichen in the Göttingen district of Lower Saxony, Germany, about ten kilometers east of Göttingen. It had 1,040 inhabitants as of 2005.   The village lies at the foot of the hills leading to the Mackenröder Spitze.

The village's heart is characterized by small winding streets and well-preserved half-timbered houses. In two years running (1996, 1997), it won prizes for improved village appearance.

The earliest mention of the community is an AD 822 chronicle of the Fulda Abbey, where it is referred to as "Lengidi" and "Lengithi.“

Government

Mayor: Joachim Johannes Thiery

Significant people associated with Gross Lengden

Heinrich Albert Lion (born in Bamberg in 1796; died in Groß Lengden in 1867), Classical philologist
Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld (1853–1933), co-founder of the  Karl-May-Verlag publishing house

Sources

Das bietet Groß Lengden:  http://www.gleichen.de/gr-lengden/home.htm

Gross Lengden:  http://www.gross-lengden.de/

Villages in Lower Saxony


Tribonyx is a small genus of birds in the rail family, containing two extant species and one recently extinct species. The genus is endemic to Australia and New Zealand. They are sometimes lumped with the moorhens in Gallinula.

Species
The living and recently extinct species are:

References

Bird genera
Rallidae
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Taxa named by Bernard du Bus de Gisignies


In the human foot, the plantar or volar plates (also called plantar or volar ligaments) are fibrocartilaginous structures found in the metatarsophalangeal (MTP) and interphalangeal (IP) joints. The anatomy and composition of the plantar plates are similar to the palmar plates in the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) and interphalangeal joints in the hand; the proximal origin is thin but the distal insertion is stout. Due to the weight-bearing nature of the human foot, the plantar plates are exposed to extension forces not present in the human hand.

The plantar plate supports the weight of the body and restricts dorsiflexion, whilst the main collateral ligament and the accessory collateral ligament (together referred as the collateral ligament complex, CLC) prevent motions in the transverse and sagittal planes.

The major difference between the plantar plates of the MTP and IP joints is that they blend with the transverse metatarsal ligament in the MTP joints (not present in the toes). The MTP joint of the first toe differs from those of the other toes in that other muscles act on the joint, and in the presence of two sesamoid bones.

The plantar plate is firm but flexible fibrocartilage with a composition similar to that found in the menisci of the knee (composed roughly of 75% type-I collagen), and can thus withstand compressive loads and act as a supportive articular surface. Most of its fibers are oriented longitudinally, in the same direction as the plantar fascia, and the plate can thus sustain substantial tensile loads in this direction.

Metatarsophalangeal joints
At the metatarsophalangeal joint the plantar plate plays an important role in the foot's weight-bearing function.

The plantar plate is attached to the proximal phalanx, to the major longitudinal bands of the plantar fascia, and to the collateral ligaments.  Together with the collateral ligaments, it forms a soft tissue box which is connected to the sides of the metatarsal head.  The plate from the substantial distal insertion of the plantar fascia and can withstand tensile loads in line with the fascia itself.  The plate can withstand compressive loads from the metatarsal head because of the orientation of the fibers in its fibrocartilage.

The skeleton of the foot rests on a multi-layered ligamentous system of beams and trusses that responds to weight-bearing on irregular surfaces.  A transverse system at the MTP joints is formed by the plantar plates and the deep transverse metatarsal ligament.  The strong, longitudinal fibres of the deep plantar fascia are inserted along this transverse system to form a strong longitudinal system.  The longitudinal system controls the longitudinal arches of the foot, whilst the transverse system controls the splay of the forefoot.  Both systems are centered on the plantar plates and activated weight-bearing pressure on the metatarsal heads.

The tendon of the extensor digitorum longus muscle extends the MTP joint by using the plantar fibroaponeurotic structure as a sling.  The muscle becomes a deforming force if the MTP joint is held in an extended position over a long time, such as in a high-heeled footwear.  The muscle extends at the IP joints when the MTP joint is flexed or in neutral position.  Flexion is primarily performed by intrinsic foot muscles; the second toe (the) is unique as it has two dorsal interossei but no plantar interossei muscles.  The lumbrical muscles, attached to the medial side of the lesser toes, act as unopposed adductor, but become insufficient plantar flexors with chronic extension.

Notes

References

Ligaments of the lower limb


Posta may refer to:

Places
 Posta, Burrabazar, a neighbourhood in Kolkata
 Posta, Lazio, a comune (municipality), in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Lazio
 Posta, Pirna, part of the town of Pirna in the Sächsische Schweiz, district of the Free State of Saxony, Germany
 Posta, the central business district of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
 Posta Fibreno, comune (municipality) in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio
 Posta River, a tributary of the Arieş River in Romania
 Posta Ybycua, a division (compañía) of the city Capiatá in Central Department, Paraguay
 Piz Posta Biala, a mountain of the Glarus Alps, located north of Sumvitg in the canton of Graubünden
 Posta del Chuy, a historic inn situated 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) away from Melo, Cerro Largo, Uruguay

Postal services
 Posta Kenya, the postal corporation of Kenya
 Posta (company), the postal service of the Faroe Islands
 Posta e Kosovës, company responsible for postal service in Kosovo
 Poșta Moldovei, company responsible for postal service in Moldova
 Poșta Română, the national operator in the field of postal services in Romania
 Magyar Posta, the postal administration of Hungary
 Posta Uganda, the company solely responsible for postal service in Uganda
 Posta Shqiptare, the national postal service of Albania

People
 Sándor Pósta (1888–1952), Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion in the sabre competition
 Adrienne Posta (born 1948), English actress and singer

Other uses
 Posta sudada, traditional Colombian cuisine meat dish, particularly of Antioqueña
 Posta Rangers F.C., Kenyan professional football club, based in Nairobi
 Posta seeds, another name for Khas khas (Opium poppy) seeds, used mainly in cooking in India
 Posta (newspaper), a popular Turkish tabloid
 Posta Sandstone

See also
 La Posta Mountain Warfare Training Facility
 La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians
 La Posta Astro-Geophysical Observatory
 Poșta (disambiguation)


The collateral ligaments of metatarsophalangeal joints are strong, rounded cords, placed one on either side of each joint, and attached, by one end, to the posterior tubercle on the side of the head of the metatarsal bone, and, by the other, to the contiguous extremity of the phalanx.

The place of dorsal ligaments is supplied by the extensor tendons on the dorsal surfaces of the joints.

References

Ligaments of the lower limb


SCCY

 Service Canada Centres for Youth
 SCCY Industries an American weapons producer


Janaki Devi Bajaj (7 January 1893 – 21 May 1979) was an Indian independence activist who was jailed for participating in Civil Disobedience Movement in 1932.

Early life and career
She was born on 7 January 1893 in Jaora in Jaora State into an Agarwal family. At the age of eight, she was married to 12-year-old Jamnalal Bajaj, a boy of her own community and similar family, in a match arranged by their families in the usual Indian way. The marriage was entirely harmonious and conventional, and Jankidevi was a devoted wife and mother. At the time of their wedding, the Bajaj family was one of very average, middle-class tradespeople; over the years, Jamnalal would build a large business empire and become one of India's earliest industrialists.

Jamnalal participated in the freedom struggle movement, and Jankidevi also took up khadi spinning on charkha, working for Gauseva and the betterment of the lives of harijans and their temple entry in 1928. After independence, she worked with Vinoba Bhave on Bhoodan movement. She served as President of Akhil Bhartiya Goseva Sangh for many years since 1942. She was conferred Padma Vibhushan the second highest civilian award in 1956. She published her autobiography titled, Meri Jivan Yatra in 1965.

Legacy
She died in 1979. Many educational institutions and awards have been set up in her memory, including Janaki Devi Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Janaki Devi Bajaj Government PG Girls College Kota and 'Jankidevi Bajaj Gram Vikas Sanstha' established by Bajaj Electricals. The Ladies' Wing of Indian Merchants' Chamber  instituted the IMC-Ladies Wing Jankidevi Bajaj Puraskar for Rural Entrepreneurs in the year 1992–93.

Works
 Bajaj, Janaki Devi. Meri Jivan Yatra (My Life Journey). New Delhi: Martand Upadhaya, 1965 (1956).

References

Jankidevi Bajaj's Life - Gandhian Social Worker & True Disciple of Vinoba Bhave

External links
 Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation official website

Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in social work
Women writers from Madhya Pradesh
Indian independence activists from Madhya Pradesh
People from Jaora
1893 births
1979 deaths
Bajaj Group
Indian women activists
Marwari people
Gandhians
Prisoners and detainees of British India
Indian autobiographers
Indian women non-fiction writers
Women autobiographers
20th-century Indian women writers
20th-century Indian non-fiction writers
Hindi-language writers from India
Social workers from Madhya Pradesh
Women educators from Madhya Pradesh
Educators from Madhya Pradesh
Janaki


(born July 28, 1976 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actress, author and former AV idol. She was one of the top actresses in the AV field during the late 1990s and in her dominant period from 1996 to 1999 was called "The AV Queen".

Life and career

Early life and AV career
Yuri Komuro, who was born in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture on July 28, 1976, commented in a news article, "I've always had a strong sexual awareness, even as a kid." While still in kindergarten she asked a neighborhood boy to play with her breasts. Komuro recalls once, still at an early age, inviting a university student to give her a blow job before she knew what the term meant. She comments that the resultant experience with cunnilingus would today be considered a sex crime.

Komuro began studying for a career as a travel agent before she began work in the adult entertainment field. Her decision to work in the AV industry was based on a desire to do something more unusual. "I thought if I did this," she comments, "I could change my life, Otherwise, I figured my future would be pretty predictable." Komuro made her AV debut at age nineteen with h.m.p. on their Tiffany label in January 1996. Komuro continued working for h.m.p. for her first two years in the AV industry.

In January 1998 Komuro appeared in the Alice Japan video Sexy Butt directed by Tohjiro and starred in a number of other Alice Japan series over the next two years. In May 1998, Komuro was featured in the pseudo-documentary style adult video Legend Of An AV Idol directed by Kei Morikawa for Atlas21.

Komuro took advantage of her popularity as an AV idol to engage in a business venture, endorsing a perfume which, it was claimed, was based on the smell of a pair of panties she had worn for several days without changing. The perfume was called "Asoko," literally meaning, "That place," a Japanese euphemism for the genitals.

As a reigning AV star in the 1990s, Komuro could depend on a guarantee of one million yen (about US$10,000) or more per video. In spite of her high earnings, however, after retiring from the AV field, Komuro realized that she had not been very wise with her money. "I blew my money in all kinds of spectacular ways, What was left, I used to buy a car and personal computer. If I had saved the income from just three films, things wouldn't be so tight now. Life is hard for AV actresses once they retire."

Post-AV career
After announcing her AV retirement plans in 1999 with Last Scene, Komuro commented, "When I look back at my acting days, it was lots of fun. Just by following somebody's instructions to disrobe I could make millions, or even tens of millions of yen. I think back on the opportunity with a sense of gratitude."

Komuro's AV industry past was reflected in her role in director Masato Ishioka's debut feature film, , where she played the role of Miki, a former tantai (star-quality) AV actress whose adult video career is kept a secret from her husband. Kei Morikawa, Komuro's AV director from her Atlas21 days, has a role as an AV director. The film was presented at several international film festivals, including the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. It was nominated for Best Asian Feature Film at the Singapore International Film Festival, and won Ishioka the Directors' Week Special Jury Award at the Fantasporto competition. It was released theatrically in Japan on October 27, 2001.

In April 2002, Komuro co-starred with Kyoko Aizome in the Shintōhō Eiga pink film Molester In a Hospital which was also directed by Aizome. The film, mixing mystery and eroticism, involves a hospital where several patients and staff have been raped on the night shift. The hospital's head (Kyoko Aizome) wants to avoid damaging the hospital's reputation and brings in an undercover investigator (Yuri Komuro) under the guise of a patient counselor. The movie was also released as a video on the Alice Japan Babylon label (KR-9172) in October 2002.

Though she concedes, "Most of what I do has some sort of connection with eroticism," writing had always been one of Komuro's interests. During her AV career she had written a series of essays expressing her thoughts on topics such as friends, family, work, love, the AV industry, and sex. In December 1998 a collection of these essays were published under the title . When fellow AV idol Runa Hoshizaki gave Komuro an introduction, she began pursuing writing as a career. Komuro wrote sex-advice articles, conducted interviews with sex industry workers, and wrote pieces which were serialized in journals.

In 2006, it was reported that Komuro had moved on to a second career in journalism, covering the field of erotic entertainment. In spite of her lifelong involvement with erotic entertainment, looking back on her AV career, Komuro says, "I never had an orgasm during a film shooting. Except when somebody worked on me with a vibrator." In 2006, seven years after retirement from the AV industry, Komuro stated, "I'm finally at the stage where I can really enjoy sex."

References

Bibliography

External links

1976 births
Japanese female adult models
Japanese pornographic film actresses
Pink film actors
Living people
Actresses from Kanagawa Prefecture
Models from Kanagawa Prefecture


Sino-Vietnamese is often used to mean:

 Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary, the portion of the Vietnamese vocabulary of Chinese origin or using of morphemes of Chinese origin.

People of Chinese origin in Vietnam:
 Hoa people or "Overseas Chinese"
 Ngái people, rural-dwelling Hakka Chinese people, counted separately from the Hoa people
 San Diu people or "Mountain Yao"/"Mountain Chinese ", Yao people who speak an archaic dialect of Cantonese as well as Iu Mien

People of Vietnamese origin in China:
 Gin people, one of the 55 officially recognised ethnic minorities of China, whose native language is Vietnamese
 Vietnamese people in Hong Kong

Conflicts:
 Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979

Language and nationality disambiguation pages


Who Do You Think You Are is the third studio album by Canadian band Dala. It was released on August 14, 2007.  The band toured Canada promoting the album and opening for Matthew Good during the Nothing to Hide tour.

Track listing

Personnel
 Sheila Carabine - lead and background vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards
 Amanda Walther - lead and background vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, harmonica, keyboards
 Mike Roth - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, percussion, producer, engineer
 Dan Roth - electric guitar(tk 3,4,10), bass (tk 2,5)
 Adrian Vanelli - drums and percussion
 Michael Carabine - electric and acoustic guitars
 Kevin Fox - cello
 Adrian Walther - bass
 Andrew Rozalowzky - bass (tk 7)
 Maria Jocobsson - harp
 Gary Craig - drums and percussion(tk 8)
 Bill Bell - guitars(tk 8)
 Tawgs Salter - bass, percussion, guitar(tk 9)
 Jason Chapman - keyboards(tk 5)
 Tim Walther - tambourine
 Andrew Carabine - pan flute

Reception
Who Do You Think You Are was released to critical acclaim.

References

External links

2007 albums
Dala (band) albums


Taukelina Finikaso (born 10 January 1959) is a political figure from the Pacific nation of Tuvalu. At the 2006 general election, he was elected MP for his home constituency of Vaitupu. He was educated in Kiribati and Fiji before acquiring a Law Degree at the University of Tasmania and a master's degree in International Law from Sydney University. Finikaso was admitted on 16 October 1987 to the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. Prior to entering into politics, Finikaso worked as a lawyer and then as a Permanent Secretary under the different ministries of the Government. Finikaso has been a Member of Parliament for the Constituency of Vaitupu from 2006 to 2019.  He was not re-elected in the 2019 general election.

Career

1987–1992: Crown-Counsel in the Attorney General's Office
1992–1994: Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Natural Resources
1994–1996: Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Home Affairs & Labour
1996–1997: Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health and Human Resources Development
1997 – Established the office for the Trade Commissioner in Asia, based in Hong-Kong
1997–1998: Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health, Women and Community Affairs
1998–1999: Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Works, Energy and Communications
2000–2005: Tuvalu's High Commissioner to Fiji

Ministerial offices

Newly elected Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia initially appointed him Minister of Communications and Works, then as Minister for Communications, Transport and Tourism.

At the September 2010 general election, Finikaso was re-elected as MP for Vaitupu. Maatia Toafa was elected to the premiership, and appointed Finikaso as part of his Cabinet, with the portfolio of Minister for Communications, Transport and Fisheries. He lost office just three months later, when Toafa's government was brought down by a motion of no confidence.

Taukelina Finikaso was appointed the Foreign Minister on 5 August 2013; and served as the minister during the Sopoaga Ministry.

See also

List of foreign ministers in 2017
Foreign relations of Tuvalu
Politics of Tuvalu

References

External links

People from Vaitupu
Members of the Parliament of Tuvalu
Communication ministers of Tuvalu
Environment ministers of Tuvalu
Fisheries ministers of Tuvalu
Foreign Ministers of Tuvalu
Labour ministers of Tuvalu
Public works ministers of Tuvalu
Transport ministers of Tuvalu
Tourism ministers of Tuvalu
Living people
1959 births