King Charles the Martyr, or Charles, King and Martyr, is a title of Charles I, who was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 until his execution on 30 January 1649. The title is used by high church Anglicans who regard Charles's execution as a martyrdom. His feast day in the Anglican calendar of saints is 30 January, the anniversary of his execution in 1649. The cult of Charles the Martyr was historically popular with Tories. The observance was one of several "state services" removed in 1859 from the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England and the Church of Ireland. There remain some churches and parishes dedicated to Charles the Martyr, and his cult is maintained by some Anglo-Catholic societies, including the Society of King Charles the Martyr founded in 1894 and the Royal Martyr Church Union founded in 1906.

Reign

Charles I, head of the House of Stuart, was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his death on 30 January 1649. He believed in a sacramental version of the Church of England, called High Anglicanism, with a theology based upon Arminianism, a belief shared by his main political advisor, Archbishop William Laud. Laud was appointed by Charles as the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633 and started a series of reforms in the Church to make it more ceremonial. This was actively hostile to the Reformist tendencies of many of his English and Scottish subjects. He rejected the Calvinism of the Presbyterians, insisted on an episcopal (hierarchical) form of church government as opposed to presbyterian or congregational forms, and required that the Church of England's liturgy be celebrated with all of the ceremony and vestments called for by the 1604 Book of Common Prayer. Many of his subjects thought these policies brought the Church of England too close to Roman Catholicism. The Parliament of England objected both to Charles's religious policies and to his Personal Rule from 1629 to 1640, during which he never summoned Parliament. These disputes contributed to the English Civil War.

Trial and execution

After the royalists were defeated by the Parliamentarians, Charles was put on trial. He was charged with attempting to govern as an absolute monarch rather than in combination with Parliament; with fighting against his people; with continuing the war after the defeat of his forces (the Second English Civil War); with conspiring after defeat to promote yet another continuation; and with encouraging his troops to kill prisoners of war. He was sentenced to death.

There is some historical debate over the identity of the man who beheaded the King, who was masked at the scene. It is known the regicides approached Richard Brandon, the common Hangman of London, but that he refused, and contemporary sources do not generally identify him as the King's headsman. Ellis's Historical Inquiries, however, name him as the executioner, stating that he stated so before dying. It is possible he relented and agreed to do the deed, but there are others who have been identified. William Hewlett was tried for the murder after the Restoration and convicted. In 1661, two people identified as "Dayborne and Bickerstaffe" were arrested but then discharged. Henry Walker, a revolutionary journalist, or his brother William, were suspected but never charged. Various local legends around England name local figures.

According to Philip Henry, the decapitation was greeted by a moan from the assembled crowd, some of whom then dipped their handkerchiefs in Charles'  blood, thus starting the cult of the Martyr King. Henry was a royalist propagandist; neither Samuel Pepys nor any other eyewitness source corroborates him.

It was common practice for the head of a traitor to be held up and exhibited to the crowd with the words "Behold the head of a traitor!" Although Charles's head was exhibited, the words were not used. In an unprecedented gesture, one of the prominent leaders of the revolutionaries, Oliver Cromwell, allowed the King's head to be sewn back on his body so the family could pay its respects. Charles was buried privately and at night on 7 February 1649, in the Henry VIII vault inside St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. The King's son, King Charles II, later planned an elaborate royal mausoleum which was never built.

Martyrdom

Charles is regarded by many members of the Church of England as a martyr because, it is said, he was offered his life if he would abandon the historic episcopacy in the Church of England. It is said he refused, however, believing that the Church of England was truly "Catholic" and should maintain the Catholic episcopate. His designation in the Church of England's calendar is "Charles, King and Martyr, 1649".  Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London, wrote "Had Charles been willing to abandon the Church and give up episcopacy, he might have saved his throne and his life. But on this point Charles stood firm: for this he died, and by dying saved it for the future." In fact, Charles had already made an Engagement with the Scots to introduce Presbyterianism in England for three years in return for the aid of Scots forces in the Second English Civil War.

Both high church Anglicans and royalists fashioned an image of martyrdom, and after the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy the Church of England's Convocations of Canterbury and York added the date of Charles's martyrdom to its liturgical calendar (Lesser Festival).

Observance
The Calendar of the Book of Common Prayer included among the red letter days "state services" commemorations of the Gunpowder Plot, the birth and restoration of Charles II, and the execution of Charles I. In addition, a proclamation made at the beginning of each reign from Charles II to Victoria annexed special services for these days to the Prayer Book by royal mandate (approved unanimously by Convocation). Special sermons were preached, and hundreds of sermons on King Charles the Martyr were printed from the 1660s until the late eighteenth century. The title of the service for 30 January was:

In 1859 the State Services were omitted from the Prayer Book by royal and parliamentary authority but without the consent of Convocation. Vernon Staley in 1907 described the deletion as ultra vires and  "a distinct violation of the compact between Church and Realm, as set forth in the Act of Uniformity which imposed the Book of Common Prayer in 1662". Of the three commemorations, only that of King Charles I has been restored in the calendar in the Alternative Service Book of 1980 – although not as a Red Letter Day – and a new collect composed for Common Worship in 2000. The Society of King Charles the Martyr campaigns for restoration in England of the observance to the Book of Common Prayer. It is included in some of the calendars of other Churches of the Anglican Communion.

Dedications

There are Anglican churches and chapels dedicated to Charles King and Martyr in England, Scotland, Ireland, the United States, Australia, and South Africa. The six in England are:
 Church of King Charles the Martyr, Falmouth, Cornwall
 Church of King Charles the Martyr, Peak Forest, Derbyshire
Church of King Charles the Martyr, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire
Church of King Charles the Martyr, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Church of King Charles the Martyr, Newton-in-Wem, Shropshire
Church of King Charles the Martyr, Shelland, Suffolk

Other churches include:
 Charles Church, Plymouth – not dedicated to Charles as martyr; Charles himself demanded it be named for himself for his financial support. Destroyed in the Blitz; only ruins remain.
 Chapel of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland

Former dedications include the Tangier Garrison chapel in 17th-century English Tangier, and a missionary chapel in Wakkanai established by United States Forces Japan personnel.

See also
 Calves' Head Club, which celebrated 30 January in mockery of Charles's death
 Eikon Basilike
 "On the Martyrdom of King Charles I", sermon by Jonathan Swift

References

Citations

Sources
 Primary

 Secondary

External links

 Historical documents on Charles as Martyr from Project Canterbury
 The Website of the Society of King Charles the Martyr in England
 Society of King Charles the Martyr official website
 Charles the Martyr: What to Read by Richard Mammana

Anglo-Catholicism
Martyr
Charles
Charles I
January observances
Charles
Protestant martyrs of England
Folk saints


Modestus was a Roman cognomen. It may refer to:

 Julius Modestus (1st century BC), Roman freedman and grammarian
 Marcus Mettius Modestus (procurator) (1st century AD), Roman governor of Egypt
 Aufidius Modestus (1st century AD), Roman philologist, commentator on Horace
 Mettius Modestus, Roman consul AD 82
 Gaius Trebonius Proculus Mettius Modestus (2nd century), Roman senator
Modestus (apologete) (2nd century), Christian apologist who wrote against Marcion
 Quintus Aiacius Modestus Crescentianus, consul alongside Marcus Pomponius Maecius Probus in 228
 Saint Modestus, legendary saint and educator of Saint Vitus, martyr under Diocletian (c. 304)
 Modestus, martyr at Agde alongside Saint Tiberius during the Diocletianic persecution
 Domitius Modestus (fl. 358–377), Roman politician
 Gaius Sollius Modestus Sidonius Apollinaris (5th century), Roman poet and diplomat
 Modestus (bishop of Trier) (died 489), saint
 Modestus of Jerusalem (died 630), Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem
 Modestus (Apostle of Carantania) (8th century), Irish missionary to the Carantanians and saint
 Modestus or Pseudo-Modestus (9th century?), supposed author of the Libellus de vocabulis rei militaris
 Modestus Yao Z. Ahiable (b. 1948), Ghanaian politician
 Modestus Kilufi (b. 1959), Tanzanian politician
 Modestus Fernando (b. 1963), Sri Lankan army colonel
 Modestus Setiawan (b. 1982), Indonesian footballer

See also
 Modest (disambiguation)


The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown.  Formerly the high sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial.  The high sheriff changes every April.

The position of High Sheriff of Cumbria has existed since the creation of the non-metropolitan and ceremonial county of Cumbria in 1974 which saw the abolition of the former shrievalties of Cumberland and Westmorland.  As well as Cumberland and Westmorland Cumbria also includes former parts of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.

The non-metropolitan county of Cumbria was abolished on 1 April 2023 and replaced with two unitary authorities known as Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness. The two new unitary authorities continue to constitute a ceremonial county named "Cumbria" for the purpose of lieutenancy and shrievalties, being presided over by a Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria and a High Sheriff of Cumbria.

List of high sheriffs

1974: George Nigel Fancourt Wingate, of Bridge End House, Cockermouth
1975: Michael Charles Stanley,  of Halecat, Witherslack, Grange-over-Sands
1976: Joseph Hugh Harris, of Brackenburgh, Calthwaite, Penrith
1977: Edward Hubert Fleming-Smith, of Hawksdale Hall, Dalston, Carlisle
1978: Richard Hugh Cavendish, of Holker Hall
1979: Stafford Vaughan Stepney Howard, of Greystoke Castle, Penrith
1980: Charles Henry Bagot, of Levens Hall
1981: Timothy Ross Fetherstonhaugh, of The College, Kirkoswald, Penrith
1982: William John Montague Chaplin of Finsthwaite House, Ulverston
1983: Peter Eric Fyers Crewdson of Summerhow, Kendal
1984: Edward Peter Ecroyd, of Low House, Armathwaite, Carlisle
1985: Major Antony James Robinson Harrison, of Wreay Hall, Wreay, Carlisle
1986: Major Nigel James Clarkson Webb, of Buckstone House, Burton-in-Kendal, via Carnforth, Lancs.
1987: William Victor Gubbins, of Eden Lacy, Lazonby, Penrith
1988: Roger Brockbank, of Common Head, Staveley, Kendal
1989: Major Timothy Richard Riley, of Burbank House, Blencowe, Penrith
1990: Thomas Peter Naylor, of The Clock House, Far Sawrey, Ambleside
1991: Ian Cufaude Carr, of Brown Hill, Walton, Brampton
1992: Myles Christopher Ross Sandys, of Graythwaite Hall, Ulverston
1993: Margaret Washington
1994: Frederick John Richard Boddy, of Curwen Woods, Burton
1995: Hugh William Lawson, of Croplands, Heads Nook, Carlisle
1996: Henry Charles Fraser Bowring, of Whelprigg House, Barbon
1997: John Henry Fryer-Spedding, Mirehouse, Keswick
1998: Simon Philip Pease, Underley Grange, Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth
1999: Arthur Ian Bullough, of Friars Garth, Walton, Brampton
2000: Lady Hothfield, Drybeck Hall, Appleby
2001: Robert Bryce Hasell-McCosh of Dalemain, Pooley Bridge, Penrith
2002: David William Trimble, of Deepdale, Dalston, Carlisle
2003: Antony Richard Leeming of Skirsgill Park, Penrith
2004: Frederick Charles Theodore Markham, Morland House, Morland, Penrith
2005: Dr Adam Charles Illingworth Naylor
2006: Robert Lawie Frederick Burgess
2007: Claire Theresa Hensman
2008: Graham William Lamont
2009: Elizabeth Honor Susan Thornely
2010: James Ronald Carr of Warwick-on-Eden
2011:  Iona A Frost-Pennington of Ravenglass
2012:  Juliet Deirdre Jean Westoll, of Longtown.
2013:  Diana Ruth Matthews of Windermere.
2014: Martyn Peter Telford Hart of Bankhead, Newby East, Carlisle.
2015: Samuel Miles Alan Rayner of Murley Hill, Oxenholme Road, Kendal.
2016:  (Group Captain) (Thomas) Richard Lee (RAF rtd) of Egremont
2017: Alistair George Milne Wannop of Linstock, Carlisle.
2018: Simon Frederick Michael Berry of Windermere.
2019: Marcia Elaine Reid Fotheringham,  of Brampton.
2020:  Julie Elizabeth Barton of Ulverston.
2021: David George Beeby of Cockermouth
2022: Alan McViety
2023:  Samantha Scott

References

Sheriff
Cumbria
High Sheriffs of Cumbria


Jet Grind Radio (released as Jet Set Radio in Europe) is a video game for the Game Boy Advance system, which is based on the Dreamcast title of the same name. The game was developed by Vicarious Visions and published by THQ.

Gameplay

Jet Grind Radio is an action platform game based on the Dreamcast version. The gameplay of Jet Set Radio differs in several key areas from its Dreamcast counterpart. Instead of being a 3D game using polygons, the game is a 2D game with an isometric viewpoint. The goal of the game is to traverse through neighborhoods and find key locations to tag them with graffiti under a specific time frame. Players can grind on rails and perform tricks. When a key location is reached, players must tag it with graffiti that may require a single press of a button, or a sequence of buttons that need to be pressed at the correct time. The game offers a graffiti editor to customize and create unique graffiti tags. Players can collect hidden icons scattered throughout in order to expand the number of graffiti tags. After completing the story mode of a specific neighborhood, three new time attack modes are unlocked for that neighborhood. The three modes involve tagging an entire city, racing, and performing tricks. Jet Grind Radio also offers 4-player multiplayer that allows players to compete within the unlocked time attack modes.

Plot

Like in the Dreamcast version, the player assumes the role of one of the GG's, a graffiti gang, led by Beat (who is also the first playable character in all versions apart from Jet Set Radio Future. The Rokkaku group and the Tokyo-to construction conglomerate have teamed up to clamp down on the "Rudies", the game's term for the Graffiti spraying teenagers. The object of the game is to "Tag" certain surroundings with graffiti before the time limit runs out or "before the indomitable array of cops arrive".

Development and release
Jet Grind Radio was developed by Vicarious Visions who previously developed the GBA demakes for Tony Hawk Pro Skater and published by THQ. The game utilizes the same engine and isometric perspective as the Tony Hawk Pro Skater GBA titles. Despite the hardware limitations, cartoony graphics were designed to emulate the look of cel-shaded graphics. The music count was reduced from more than 21 to around 8, and the songs that remained were reduced to 30 to 45-second samples. The levels ranged from exact duplicates to reminiscent counterparts of the original Jet Set Radio. Soundtrack was developed by Shin'en and recreated six tracks from the original game into repeating, 1-minute long songs The game was released in North America on June 26, 2003, and in Europe on February 20, 2004, under the name of the original Dreamcast version, Jet Set Radio.

Reception

Jet Grind Radio was received with positive reception among critics. The game has an aggregated score 74 out of 100 based on 22 reviews. The game was featured in IGNs as a runner up for their "Game of the Month" of June 2003, and was also the runner up for "Best Extreme Sports" category in IGN's 2003 Awards.

When it came to the game's presentation and accuracy to the original Dreamcast version, the game received high praise among critics. GameSpot praised the game for being matching the quality of the console version stating: "Jet Grind Radio is just as enjoyable on the GBA as it was on meatier consoles". GamePro complimented the visual style, stating the environments were beautifully detailed and ripped straight from the original. IGN gave a more lukewarm response, but still praised the game and developers for attempting to stay as faithful to the original. GameZone gave a similar response, stating that the game doesn't deserve as much praise as the original game, but still thought the game was unique enough to stand out against other Game Boy Advance titles. Edge magazine, in contrast, was more critical and preferred the game sacrifice more authenticity in favor of utility. Game Informer praised it for staying true to the game design and retaining the gameplay and levels of its predecessors. Game Informer also had criticisms regarding the control-scheme of maneuvering the character in the isometric perspective, concluding: "All told, this GBA edition is done well enough that fans of the series will be satisfied with the on-the-go experience, but don't expect to be blown away".

References

External links
 Vicarious Visions official page (archived)
 THQ official page (archived)

2003 video games
Action games
Game Boy Advance games
Game Boy Advance-only games
Graffiti video games
Platformers
Roller skating video games
Sega video games
Single-player video games
THQ games
Vicarious Visions games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games developed in the United States
Video games with isometric graphics


Patrick Clarke (born 18 May 1985) is a retired Scottish footballer who plays as a forward. Clarke started his career with Dunfermline Athletic who he played for over two spells. He has also played for Raith Rovers, Cowdenbeath, Clyde, Dundee and East Fife, as well as Berwick Rangers and Arbroath on loan.

Career

Fife
Clarke who was born in Edinburgh started his career at Hibernian before joining Dunfermline Athletic. He made his senior debut on 17 April 2004, in a 1–1 draw with Dundee United. His next appearance was a month later, when he came on as a substitute against Rangers. He joined Berwick Rangers on loan from October 2004 to January 2005. He was released by Dunfermline when he returned from his loan.

Clarke then joined Fife rivals Raith Rovers. He made his debut against Clyde on 12 February 2005, and scored two goals. Clarke joined Arbroath on a six-month loan in August 2005, and got his first senior hat-trick when Arbroath beat East Stirlingshire 7–2 in November 2005. Clarke returned to Rovers in January, and remained there until the end of the season.

Clarke joined another Fife club, Cowdenbeath in July 2006. He made a great start to his career at Central Park, scoring 4 goals in his first four games. His rich vein of form continued throughout the season, and he scored 5 goals in one match versus Stranraer in March 2007. He ended the season with 17 goals. Clarke got his third career hat-trick against former club Berwick Rangers in October 2007.

Clyde & Dundee
On 15 January 2008, it was announced Clarke had signed a pre-contract agreement with Scottish First Division side Clyde. However, both clubs agreed a fee which allowed Clarke to move to Broadwood Stadium on 29 January 2008. He made his debut in a 3–1 defeat by Stirling Albion on 2 February 2008. He scored his first goal three weeks later, netting Clyde's only goal in a defeat to Dunfermline Athletic, from the penalty spot. Despite scoring a double on the final day of the season in a 3–0 win over Stirling Albion, Clyde still finished in the playoff position due to Greenock Morton winning. However, he netted once in a 6–5 aggregate win over Alloa in the playoffs semifinals, and scored a goal in both legs of the 3–0 aggregate final win over Airdrie United. Clarke's contract was terminated in June 2009, following Clyde's relegation and financial troubles. He went on to sign for Dundee on a three-year contract.

Fife return
On 15 July 2010 it was announced that Pat Clarke had been released by Dundee so he could join Dunfermline Athletic on a 2-year contract. On 1 January 2012, he signed on loan to First Division Raith Rovers. In June 2012 Clarke signed a permanent deal with the Stark's Park side following his release by Dunfermline. Clarke signed for East Fife in July 2013, playing for the side for just one season before leaving in May 2014.

See also
Clyde F.C. season 2007-08 | 2008–09

Honours
Dundee
Scottish Challenge Cup: 2009–10

References

External links
 (2003–2008)
 (2008–2014)

1985 births
Living people
Footballers from Edinburgh
Scottish men's footballers
Scottish Premier League players
Scottish Football League players
Scottish Professional Football League players
Hibernian F.C. players
Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players
Berwick Rangers F.C. players
Raith Rovers F.C. players
Arbroath F.C. players
Cowdenbeath F.C. players
Clyde F.C. players
Dundee F.C. players
East Fife F.C. players
Men's association football forwards


Murray Smith (14 June 1940 – 28 December 2003) was a British television writer and producer. He was associated with many British films and TV shows, including the ITV series The XYY Man, Strangers and Bulman, all featuring actor Don Henderson in the role of George Bulman. Smith also wrote scripts for such series as The Sweeney, Minder, and Dempsey and Makepeace, and also wrote several novels.

He also wrote five screenplays for British exploitation director Pete Walker. These included Die Screaming, Marianne and The Comeback.

Filmography

Television

References

External links

1940 births
2003 deaths
British male television writers
British television producers
20th-century screenwriters


Campo Grande International Airport , sometimes also informally referred to as Antônio João Airport, after the neighborhood where it is located, is the airport serving Campo Grande, Brazil.

It is operated by AENA.

Some of its facilities are shared with the Campo Grande Air Force Base of the Brazilian Air Force.

History
The airport started operating in the 1930s as a military airfield. In the 1950s, the airport began to operate with commercial flights. The passenger terminal was dedicated in 1964.

Between 1975 and 2022 it was operated by Infraero. The passenger terminal was enlarged from 1,500m² to 5,000m² during the 1980s and to 6,082 m in 1998.

Previously operated by Infraero, on August 18, 2022 the consortium AENA won a 30-year concession to operate the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Access
The airport is located  from downtown Campo Grande. It is served by public transportation with bus lines 409 and 414.

See also

List of airports in Brazil
Campo Grande Air Force Base

References

External links

Airports in Mato Grosso do Sul
Airports established in 1953
Campo Grande


Beginning may refer to:

Beginning, an album by Pakho Chau
Beginning (play), a 2017 play by David Eldridge
Beginning (2020 film), a Georgian-French drama film
Beginning (2023 film), an Indian Tamil-language drama film
"Beginning", a song by heavy metal band Kotipelto
"Beginning", a 2018 track by Toby Fox from Deltarune Chapter 1 OST from the video game Deltarune

See also

Begin (disambiguation)
Beginnings (disambiguation)
In the Beginning (disambiguation)
The Beginning (disambiguation)


The Indianapolis Blues were in the National League for only the 1878 season, after playing as an independent team in 1877. They finished in fifth place, one of just two teams to finish below .500.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pitching

Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

References
1878 Indianapolis Blues season at Baseball Reference

Indianapolis Blues season


Yuri Romanov (born 24 July 1982, Minsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian professional boxer who fights in the lightweight division.

Professional career

Debut fight
Romanov's first fight as a professional boxer was in April 2002, in  Molodechno, Belarus, when he beat fellow debutant Anton Serov with a seventh round knockout.

First title fight
After only two fights, Romanov fought Polish boxer Krzysztof Bienias in Wroclaw, Poland for the IBF Youth Light Welterweight Title. Romanov lost a close ten round points decision.

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
People from Maladzyechna
Lightweight boxers
Belarusian male boxers
Sportspeople from Minsk Region
21st-century Belarusian people


Maria Ulfah (; born 21 December 1955) is an Indonesian qāriʾah (reciter of the Quran) and manager of the Central Institute for the Development of Quranic Recitation. She is the winner of two Indonesian national Qur'an recitation contests and is internationally recognized as one of the world's master reciters and teachers of recitation. She is also a lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Qur'an and at the National Islamic University in Indonesia, as well as the first woman to win an international Qur'an recitation award in Malaysia in 1980. She's considered an internationally significant figure in the field, and has been referred to as Southeast Asia's premier female reciter of the Qur'an.

Personal life
Ulfah was born in Lamongan Regency, East Java, on December 21, 1955, to Haji Mudhoffar and Hajjah Ruminah. She was the ninth child of twelve. In 1981, she married Mukhtar Ikhsan, a pulmonologist and respiratory physician and lecturer at the medical school of the University of Indonesia. She has three children: Ahmad Nabries, Mohammad Labib, and Rifky Mubarak.

Career
Ulfah was introduced to Qur'an recitation by her father, Haji Mudhoffar, who taught her that she was equal to any man or woman. He staged Qur'an reciting competitions in their hometown to give his daughter experience. She began training at age 6, with instruction from her older sister. Her interest in the art grew as she attended an Islamic boarding school that encouraged her to pursue recitation. Since the 1980s, Ulfah has been an internationally popular and respected figure in Qur'anic recitation. Ulfah is a scholar of the history of Qur'anic recitation in the Indonesian archipelago, as well as a lecturer at the Institute for Qur'anic Studies in Jakarta.

Ulfah's recitation was featured on the companion CD to Approaching the Qur'an by Michael Sells, and she has toured Malaysia, Egypt, Australia, the United States, Canada, and several European countries. During her 1999 tour in the United States for which Ulfah was accompanied by Anne Rasmussen, her trip was hosted by the Middle East Studies Association of North America.

See also
Muammar Z.A.
Mu'min Ainul Mubarak

External links
Personal website

References

1955 births
Indonesian Muslims
Indonesian Quran reciters
Javanese people
Living people
People from Lamongan Regency
Women scholars of Islam
Indonesian women
Indonesian people of Egyptian descent


Adolf von Becker (14 August 1831 – 23 August 1909) was a Finnish genre painter and art professor of German descent. He was one of the first Finnish artists to study in Paris, who taught many of the young artists of the Golden Age of Finnish Art.

Biography
Becker was born in Helsinki, where he began his artistic studies at the newly founded Finnish Art Society Drawing School; he also studied law. In 1853, he completed his law degree and became a trainee at the Court of Appeals in Turku. While there, he continued to make drawing expeditions into the countryside and made the acquaintance of Robert Wilhelm Ekman, who encouraged him to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He took Ekman's advice and graduated there in 1856.

In 1858, he received a recommendation to study with Thomas Couture in Paris, but was overwhelmed by the huge cosmopolitan city and left to enroll at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf instead. The course of study proved to be disappointing however, so he returned to Paris to try again. When Couture closed his teaching studios in 1860, Becker applied to and was accepted at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied with Felix-Joseph Barrias, Ernest Hébert, Leon Cogniet and Leon Bonnat.

In 1864, he travelled to Spain on a scholarship and made copies of the Old Masters in Madrid. Later, he visited Italy and, on his return to France, he rented a studio outside Paris from Alfred Wahlberg, who he had met in Düsseldorf. In 1868, he returned to Finland to take a position at the University of Helsinki drawing school; replacing the late Magnus von Wright. He was appointed a Professor there in 1879.

Private teacher
Meanwhile, in 1872, he had started his own private drawing school. He was known as a very strict teacher. Studies there were however interrupted by his frequent travels. Among his best-known students were Helene Schjerfbeck, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Helena Westermarck and Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

As the 19th-Century drew to a close, he came under increasing criticism from the younger generation of artists for being too conservative. This came to a head at the Exposition Universelle in 1889, when the older generation, represented by Becker, Walter Runeberg and Berndt Lindholm, came into open confrontation with a younger faction led by Ville Vallgren and Albert Edelfelt. Soon after, disagreements developed between him and the  and he began to exhibit independently.

He retired from the University in 1892 and returned to Paris. As he grew older, he found the winters there too cold, so he moved to Nice in 1904. He died while vacationing in Vevey, Switzerland, aged 78.

Works

See also
 Finnish art

References

External links

 More paintings and drawings by Becker @ the Kansallisgalleria
 Paintings with cats by Becker @ The Great Cat

1831 births
1909 deaths
Artists from Helsinki
Finnish people of German descent
Finnish realist painters
19th-century Finnish painters
Finnish male painters
19th-century Finnish male artists


Bill O'Brien is a television series actor, and the Senior Advisor for Program Innovation for the National Endowment of the Arts.

Bill O'Brien was appointed to serve as Deputy Chairman of Grants and Awards for the National Endowment for the Arts shortly after the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, where he supervised the design and implementation of grants and awards programs, designed and led national leadership initiatives, developed partnerships to advance discipline fields, and managed the panel review process across multiple arts disciplines.

In 2009 he was appointed Senior Advisor for Program Innovation for the Endowment. This appointment serves as the senior executive at the NEA responsible for exploring, examining and identifying innovative and emerging practices, programs and endeavors in the arts that are transformative and potentially worthy of federal government support or acknowledgement. In this capacity, he has served as the agency's lead on the Walter Reed/NEA Healing Arts Partnership (including Operation Homecoming) investigating the role of the arts in helping to heal military service members recovering from traumatic brain injuries and psychological health issues, the State Department's "Declaration of Learning" initiative and various activities of interest to the agency at the intersection of arts, science, technology and the humanities.

Prior to these appointments, O'Brien was named the NEA's Director of Theater and Musical Theater in July 2006, where he designed and directed national leadership initiatives, promoted partnerships to advance the theater field, and managed the review process for theater and musical theater applications. In 2007, he designed and initiated the NEA National New Play Development program—administered by Arena Stage, which featured the NEA Outstanding New American Play and Distinguished New Play Development selections.

Before joining the NEA, he served for seven years as producing director and managing director for Deaf West Theater (DWT) where he received a Tony and a Drama Desk nomination for producing the Broadway sign language production of Big River and received three Ovation Award nominations for his work on the production of Big River at Deaf West (as producer, sound designer and lead actor). That production went on to win three Best Musical awards (Ovation, LADCC and Back Stage Garland Awards) and the cast of Big River was awarded the 2004 Tony Honor for Excellence in Theatre.  Other productions he produced for Deaf West include A Streetcar Named Desire (Ovation Award for Best Play) and Oliver! (Ovation Award for Best Musical).  He has appeared in Deaf West productions of True West and Big River (Backstage West Garland Award for Lead Actor, Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor).

His advocacy efforts on behalf of the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act of the United States Department of Education helped garner Deaf West Theatre the Secretary of Health and Human Services Highest Recognition Award for “bridging the gap between the deaf and hearing worlds through theatre.”

In addition, O'Brien has served as executive vice president on the executive board of the National Alliance for Music Theatre and as a task force member, conference speaker, and grant panelist with Theatre Communications Group, both national service organization for the theater and musical theater fields.

O'Brien also performed onstage in 48 states in numerous national touring and regional productions, was an American College Theatre Festival Irene Ryan Acting Competition National Finalist and has recurred in all seven seasons as Kenny, Marlee Matlin's interpreter, on The West Wing.

O'Brien graduated with a degree in Musical Theater from the University of Northern Iowa in 1985.

Selected filmography
Gideon's Crossing (2001)
Two episodes, as Conor McGrath

Providence (2002)
Great Expectations''' episode, as Brian McCulleyThe West Wing (2000–2005)
22 episodes, as Kenny Thurman (sign language interpreter for Joey Lucas, the role performed by Marlee Matlin).Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2007)Silencer'' episode, as Detective Peter Lyons

Additional Actor/Singer/Composer/Songwriter Credits
• Composed the score for the independent film "Church".
• 7 year ensemble member of NBC's "The West Wing" (as Kenny, Marlee Matlin's sign language interpreter)
• Recurring and featured roles on network television, including "Law and Order", "Providence" and "Gideon's Crossing".
• Over 700 performances in 48 states playing Will Rogers in "The Will Rogers Follies".
• Performed roles on national tours and in regional theatre productions including Buddy in "The Buddy Holly Story", Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet", George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life", Mark Twain/voice of Huck in "Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
• Composed music for national tours of "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Hand-made Stories" (National Technical Institute for the Deaf
• Composed the score for the independent film "Church".

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male television actors
University of Northern Iowa alumni


Eriophorum callitrix, commonly known as Arctic cotton, Arctic cottongrass, suputi, or pualunnguat in Inuktitut, is a perennial Arctic plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. It is one of the most widespread flowering plants in the northern hemisphere and tundra regions. Upon every stem grows a single round, white and wooly fruit. The seeds are covered in this cottony mass and usually disperse when the wind carries them away. Eriophorum callitrix has narrow, grass-like leaves. Its habitats include tundra and calcareous bogs.

This plant is food for migrating snow geese, caribou and their calves. The Inuit used the seed heads as wicks in seal oil lamps. Clumps were placed into babies' pants and then thrown away when soiled.

References

External links

Polarhusky.com

callitrix
Plants described in 1831


Raddon Top is the highest point of the Raddon Hills, a small ridge of hills in the Shobrooke area of Mid Devon. The summit is at some 235 metres above sea level, making it a significant feature in the surrounding countryside.

There is an unclassified road that traverses the hill which is the main route from the village of Cheriton Fitzpaine to Exeter.

There were earthworks on the summit, but by the 16th century these had almost been ploughed away. Archaeological excavations in 1994 revealed remains of an Early Iron Age palisaded enclosure and an Iron Age hillfort with timber ramparts. The same excavations also uncovered a much earlier Neolithic causewayed enclosure.

References

Hill forts in Devon
Hills of Devon
Causewayed enclosures


Coskata (also Coskaty, Cross Katy, or Koskata Head) is a village in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States.  Its elevation is 3 feet (1 m), and it is located at  (41.3542871, -70.0202925), 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Wauwinet.

References

Villages in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Villages in Massachusetts
Populated coastal places in Massachusetts


Madaket (also Madaquet, Maddaket, Maddequet, Madeket, or Mattaket) is a census designated place (CDP) in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 236 at the 2010 census. Its elevation is 26 feet (8 m) on the western end of the island.  The various spellings of its name led the Board on Geographic Names to designate its official spelling in 1966. It is also home to the Madaket Ditch, one of the earliest public works projects in America. It was also home to a famous islander by the name of Mildred Carpenter Jewett or more commonly known as "Madaket Millie".

History

Madaket was home to Mildred Carpenter Jewett, a Nantucket native commonly referred to as "Madaket Millie" who spent much of her life in the area as a volunteer for the United States Coast Guard. Born in 1907, she served as a Coastal Defense Specialist during World War II, patrolling the shores for German submarines as well as training dogs to accompany military personnel during patrols. At one point, she discovered a live mine and towed it away from the shore, where it was disposed of by a Navy minesweeper.

On January 3, 1947, the same day that the Madaket Coast Guard Station was shut down, a Panamanian steamer called the Kotor ran aground near Madaket. Millie noticed the steamer, and her quick actions in alerting the Coast Guard and organizing a rescue mission were credited with the saving of the ship and crew. Millie continued to serve the Coast Guard on the island in various roles until her death in 1990.  She was promoted to the rank of honorary officer in 1965, and she received the agency's Meritorious Public Service Commendation in 1975.

Geography
Madaket is located at the western end of Nantucket island. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.4 mi2 (6.2 km). 2.0 mi2 (5.1 km) of it is land and 0.39 mi2 (1.0 km) of it (17%) is water.

Demographics

References

Villages in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Villages in Massachusetts
Populated coastal places in Massachusetts


North Mundham is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the B2166 road two miles (3.2 km) southeast of Chichester.

Etymology

The earliest known appearance of the name is se northra Mundan ham, which is listed as appurtenant in a charter from AD 680 by which Cædwalla of Wessex gave Pagham to Wilfrid. Mund is the nominative plural of the Old English word munda, meaning "protector" or "guardian." The suffix -ham is the Old English noun meaning "homestead, village, manor or estate." The suffix -hamm is the Old English for enclosure, land hemmed by water or marsh or higher ground, land in a riverbend, rivermeadow or promontory". Both appear as -ham in modern place-names.

History
Mundham (not distinguishing between North Mundham and South Mundham) was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 in the Hundred of Stockbridge as having 30 households, plough lands, church and mills, and a value of 8 pounds.

Governance
An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward includes Oving with a total ward population taken at the 2011 census of 2,252.

References

External links

Villages in West Sussex
Chichester District


Polpis (also Milton Poadpis or Podpis) is a village in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States.  Its elevation is 7 feet (2 m).  The different spellings of its name led the Board on Geographic Names to designate its official spelling in 1900.  The community lies 3.5 miles (5.5 km) northwest of Siasconset.

References

Villages in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Villages in Massachusetts
Populated coastal places in Massachusetts


Jean-Louis Prianon (born February 22, 1960 in Saint-Joseph, Réunion) is a retired long-distance runner from France, who represented his native country in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in fourth place.

Achievements

References
 1988 Year Ranking

1960 births
Living people
French male long-distance runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for France


Shawkemo (also Middle Field Land, Shawaukema, or The) is a village in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States.  Its elevation is .  The name Shawkemo is an Indian word meaning "middle field of land". Shawkemo lies  west-northwest of Siasconset.

References

Villages in Massachusetts
Villages in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Populated coastal places in Massachusetts


Moredon Halt railway station was on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway in Wiltshire. The station, a few miles north west of Swindon, opened on 25 March 1913 on the section of the line from Swindon Town to Cirencester that had itself opened in 1883.

Moredon Halt was built primarily for milk traffic and passenger services were not advertised, though it appears to have been used by infrequent passengers throughout its short life. It officially closed in September 1924 but the Oakley book referred to below indicates that passenger receipts were still recorded up to 1935.

The single-platform station faced a siding that led to Moredon power station and up 100 coal wagons arrived each day. The M&SWJR line as a whole closed to passengers in 1961, but coal deliveries to the power station remained until 1969.

Route

References

 Wiltshire Railway Stations, Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 2004,

Disused railway stations in Wiltshire
Former Midland and South Western Junction Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1913
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1924
1913 establishments in England


Siasconset  is a census designated place (CDP) at the eastern end of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, United States with an elevation of 52 feet (16 m), and a population of 205 at the 2010 census. Although unincorporated, the village has a post office, with the ZIP code 02564.

The various spellings of its name, Sconset, Sconset, Seconset, Siasconsett, or Sweseckechi led the Board on Geographic Names to designate its official spelling in 1892. Three of the four golf courses located on the island are in Siasconset: the Siasconset Golf Club, the Sankaty Head Golf Club, and the Nantucket Golf Club.

History

The area was settled as a fishing village in the 17th century. The core of Auld Lang Syne, one of the older fishing shacks, is believed to date from the 1670s, potentially making it one of the oldest houses on Nantucket. Various other cottages date from the 18th and 19th centuries. Many of the houses were haphazardly expanded, contributing to the unique look of these Nantucket cottages.

In the 19th century a whaling station was present in the village. In 1877 Edward Underhill from Wolcott, New York, bought land in the village, and constructed new cottages in the fashion of the original fishing shacks, and then rented them to summer tourists before they were sold after his death.

In the early 20th century, Sconset was a summer retreat for an actor's colony which included Digby Bell, George Fawcett, Joseph Jefferson, Charles Penrose, Hassard Short, William H. Thompson and his wife Isabel Irving, DeWolf Hopper, Frank Gillmore and his daughters Ruth and Margalo Gillmore, among others.

Bill Belichick, coach of the New England Patriots football team, has lived in Siasconset in the NFL off-season since 1979 and owns several properties in the town with a combined value of over $10 million.

In recent years, the exposed bluffs of the village have experienced significant erosion. A local remediation program using geotubes has proven controversial.

Etymology
Siasconset is a Wampanoag Algonquian term for “place of great bones.” Si from missi, meaning “great;” ascon from askon, meaning “horn or bone”.

External links
 Timeline and digital exhibition

References

Villages in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Villages in Massachusetts


Philippe Khorsand (February 17, 1948 – January 29, 2008) was a French actor. His father was Iranian and his mother was French. He first appeared in a number of small roles in the 1970s. One of his most memorable roles as husband and father in Tableau d'honneur (1992).

Khorsand died of a hemorrhage at the age of 59 in Paris.

Partial filmography

 Laisse aller... c'est une valse (1971) - Homme de Varèse
 Hippopotamours (1976) - Un danseur guinguette (uncredited)
 Lâche-moi les valseuses!... (1977) - Philippe
 Le mors aux dents (1979) - Flipper
 Rien ne va plus (1979) - Le conducteur au péage / Jacky / M. Alexandre
 Inspector Blunder (1980) - Le satyre Alphonse Rouchard
 T'empêches tout le monde de dormir (1982) - Michel
 Édith et Marcel (1983) - Jo Longman
 Zig Zag Story (1983) - Police inspector
 Attention une femme peut en cacher une autre! (1983) - Raphaël
 Les Compères (1983) - Milan
 P'tit Con (1984) - Eric
 La vengeance du serpent à plumes (1984) - Ratoff
 La galette du roi (1986) - Clermont
 Si t'as besoin de rien, fais-moi signe (1986) - Grabowsky
 Sauve-toi, Lola (1986) - Rafael Zappa, alias Maurice
 The Joint Brothers (1986) - Un flic
 Les oreilles entre les dents (1986) - Korg
 Keep Your Right Up (1987) - Le passager
 Septième ciel (1987) - Croque-Monsieur
 Les années sandwiches (1988) - Sammy
 Corps z'a corps (1988) - Jean Chabert
 My Best Pals (1989) - Antoine Jobert
 L'aventure extraordinaire d'un papa peu ordinaire (1990) - Sauveur
  (1990) - Charley
 Le zèbre (1992) - Casenave
 Tableau d'honneur (1992) - Paul Martin - le père de Jules
 Une journée chez ma mère (1993) - Lamatte-Verbé, Le banquier
 La Soif de l'or (1993) - Jacques
 La Vengeance d'une blonde (1994) - Régis Montdor
 Les Misérables (1995) - Le policier / Javert
 Men, Women: A User's Manual (1996) - Restaurant chief
 The Best Job in the World (1996) - Le gardien de l'immeuble
 Messieurs les enfants (1997) - L'huissier
 Don Juan (1998) - Monsieur Dimanche
 Si je t'aime, prends garde à toi (1998) - Gamal
 Total western (2000) - Bergosa
 L'affaire Marcorelle (2000) - Georges
 Victoire (2004) - Jean-Paul
 Le courage d'aimer (2005) - (scenes deleted)
 Le temps des porte-plumes (2006) - Le curé
 Musée haut, musée bas (2008) - Frilon - l'administrateur
 La sonate des spectres (2015) - (final film role)

External links
IMDb
Obituary

1948 births
2008 deaths
French male film actors
Male actors from Paris
French people of Iranian descent
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery


Wauwinet is a village in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States.  Its elevation is 3 feet (1 m).  Named for an old local Indian chief, it lies on the northeastern coast of Nantucket Island, 4.7 miles (7.5 km) north-northwest of Siasconset. There is an upscale hotel and restaurant just north of the Gatehouse that features both harbor and oceanfront beach activities. Beyond Wauwinet is access by Four Wheel Drive only to Great Point lighthouse and Coatue.

References

Villages in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Villages in Massachusetts


Khursand (, also romanized as Khūrsand; also known as Khorsand) is a city in the Central District of Shahr-e Babak County, Kerman province, Iran, and serves as the administrative center for Khursand Rural District.

At the 2006 census, its population was 7,847 in 1,663 households, when it was a village in Khursand Rural District. The following census in 2011 counted 6,672 people in 1,828 households, by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 8,252 people in 2,435 households.

References

Shahr-e Babak County

Cities in Kerman Province

Populated places in Kerman Province

Populated places in Shahr-e Babak County


SSi Canada (formerly known as SSi Micro Ltd.) is a Canadian wireless broadband internet service provider primarily serving remote areas that lack terrestrial service options. SSi was established in 1990 by Jeffrey Philipp and is headquartered in Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories. SSi is also a provider of Satellite Communication services, offered in locations that do not have terrestrial service options. They offer turnkey Internet systems to other ISPs. They have a local market serving all 25 communities in Nunavut and several in the Northwest Territories. These two territories account for 1/3 of Canada's landmass covering . They also have an international market including Africa, Indonesia and Kiribati.

SSi Canada has used the Motorola Expedience line of product to deliver licensed broadband Internet services for many years, transmitted over a licensed spectrum of 2.5-2.6 GHz in Canada. The Expedience system consist of base stations that deliver a wireless signal throughout the community, and of residential subscriber units (or RSUs) that are provided to customers, which receive the signal from the base stations.  in 2016-17, SSi upgraded their network to 4G-LTE wireless and mobile technology.

History
SSi Canada (formerly known as SSi Micro) was founded in 1990 in Fort Providence. They provided businesses with a fully equipped sales, training and technical service centre along with computer sales and repairs. At this time SSi became the 13th division of a much larger group of companies operated by the Philipp family since 1965. This group of companies offered a vast range of services and employment opportunity in the community of Fort Providence, including the Snowshoe Inn, coffee shop and gift shop. For many years the company also operated the ferry that provided the only road access from southern Canada to the Northwest Territories prior to the opening of the Deh Cho Bridge.

SSI Micro was one of the first Internet Service Providers (ISP's) in Northern Canada. They opened a branch in Yellowknife in 1995.

Canadian services

As of February 2008, SSi was the largest ISP in Northern Canada providing broadband Internet services in all 25 Nunavut Communities under the Qiniq brand, and in 31 Communities throughout the Northwest Territories under the Airware brand.

SSi often uses Connecting the North and "People. Ideas. Technology." as their advertising slogans.

In March 2004, SSi launched the first commercial Canadian implementation of 2.5 GHz NLOS (non line of sight) wireless broadband Internet service in Yellowknife.

Industry Canada's Broadband for Rural and Northern Development (BRAND) program became the catalyst for the creation of Nunavut Broadband Development Corporation (NBDC), a not for profit group tasked with identifying the Nunavut's broadband needs. At this time, outside of government worker connections in the 11 largest communities, Internet was not readily available to Nunavut residents.

NBDC issued a comprehensive request for proposal (RFP) to vendors and put the financing together for building a network to serve the needs of the people of Nunavut. SSi won this RFP in the spring of 2004. As a result of winning this RFP, SSi designed and deployed the Qiniq network

In 2005, SSi officially launched the Qiniq network. This network provides broadband services to all 25 communities in Nunavut. Inuit comprise 85% of the population of Nunavut and are avid users of broadband services. Broadband is used to improve the educational, economic, social and cultural opportunities in the territory. Many e-commerce and informational web sites are now readily available online from businesses based in Nunavut.

The Qiniq network is managed centrally by SSi out of their head office in Yellowknife. SSi maintains the satellite infrastructure, the wireless networks, all back-end hardware as well as the billing and management.

SSi does not sell to end users directly. Qiniq services are offered in each Nunavut community by a local resident, which are referred to as community service providers, or "CSP". In each community there is a local resident who is trained and contracted to provide services in their respective community. The CSPs sign up users, take payments and provide technical support to their clients. CSPs deal with SSi in Yellowknife directly for their training and support. CSPs provide Qiniq clients the ability to deal with someone local, typically a long-time Northern resident who understands the culture and language of their community.

SSi offers services in the following communities in Nunavut, under the brand name Qiniq:

In 2006, SSi Launched the AirWare network. This network was similar in design to the Qiniq network and provided broadband services to 30 communities in the Northwest Territories. The AirWare network also had a local representative in each of the communities that processed payments and provided technical support to their local clients. As with the Qiniq network, the CSPs provided AirWare clients the ability to deal with someone local, typically a long-time northern resident who understands the culture and language of their community. However, federal funding for the Airware project ceased in 2010, and over the next few years SSI had no choice but to gradually wind down service in those communities.

SSi offered services in the following communities in the Northwest Territories, under the brand name AirWare:

In 2010 SSi was selected by the Government of Nunavut to provide, maintain and operate its Wide Area Network (WAN), ensuring Internet and Intranet connectivity for all government departments.

In 2012, SSi established its own state-of-the-art ground station satellite teleport in Ottawa. Having previously leased southern teleport facilities, SSi now had its own location connecting the north to the world's Internet backbone.

The Fight for Fair Competition
For the past many years, SSi has championed the cause for fair pricing and open competition in the northern communications market. SSi has been demanding better service for consumers in a series of regulatory proceedings before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). In 2011, SSI filed a complaint with the CRTC on Northwestel's pricing for backbone connectivity, the essential fibre communications link between northern Canada and the rest of the world. SSI also presented detailed concerns at CRTC hearings regarding Northwestel's monopoly operations, whereby shareholders were benefiting from the existing regulatory framework much more than consumers. As a result, the CRTC had ordered Northwestel to lower its wholesale rates and upgrade its ageing network to provide better services to the public. As well, the CRTC has been conducting a holistic review into the regulatory framework for the North.

International services
 New Year's Eve 2004, SSi worked with the Global Development Group to deploy a mobile broadcast system in Banda Aceh and Jakarta to assist emergency relief in Indonesia. Satellite networks were deployed in both Banda Aceh and Jakarta to enable relief workers and other non-governmental organizations (NGO's) to access the Internet and utilize Voice over IP technologies in order to improve communications with the rest of the world, and to assist with coordination of aid within the country.
 In 2005, SSi supplied a turn-key ISP system in Kiribati for Telecom Services Kiribati Limited (TSKL). Kiribati is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean straddling the equator. Kiribati resides on 33 atolls dispersed over . Services were installed in the three largest centers, Betio, Bairiki, and Bikenibeu.

Awards and highlights
 SSI Micro in a joint venture with the NWT Power Corporation won the Next Generation Solution Award at the Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA) in 2000. This satellite network was the first of its kind to be built in Canada and fifth in the World.
 SSI Micro's Qiniq Network was awarded at the Wireless Communications Association International (WCA) for provisioning underserved communities with NLOS broadband wireless technology in 2005.
 SSI Micro was the first company in Canada to launch a Wireless NLOS Broadband Network.
 In 2006 SSI Micro's Qiniq network was named "Business of the Year" by the Baffin Chamber of Commerce at the Nunavut Business Achievement Awards.
 In 2005 SSi Micro's QINIQ network was designated as an "Intelligent Community" by the Intelligent Community Forum, a New York City based think tank.
 In 2018, SSi Mobile, managed by SSi Micro, won the Startup Canada High Growth Award in the North Startup Canada Awards.

Sponsorships
SSi Canada is listed as a sponsor for several local non profit associations.
 Folk on the Rocks - Yellowknife's annual music festival
 Yellowknife Montessori School - alternative education
 NWT Amateur Speed Skating Association

References

Sources
 About QINIQ
 Broadband for Nunavut: From Vision to Reality
 Nunavut Broadband Development Corporation
 Nunavut Launches The “ Largest, Coolest Hot Spot on Earth ”
 Infrastructure Agreement Providing Greater Broadband Access in the Northwest Territories

External links
 SSi Canada
 QINIQ Official Site
 AirWare Official Site

Internet technology companies of Canada
Companies based in Yellowknife
Telecommunications companies established in 1990
Internet service providers of Canada
Privately held companies of Canada
1990 establishments in the Northwest Territories


"All the Way" is a song recorded by the British singer Craig David. It was written by David and Mark Hill his third studio album The Story Goes... (2005), while production was helmed by Hill. It was released on 8 August 2005 as the album's lead single, his first single he released with new label Warner Bros. Records after Wildstar Records went bankrupt. After missing the top ten with previous singles "World Filled with Love" and "You Don't Miss Your Water ('Til the Well Runs Dry)", "All the Way" returned David to the top three. It was the highest-charting single from The Story Goes... but not the biggest-selling as "Don't Love You No More (I'm Sorry)" spent over double the number of weeks inside the UK top 75.

Chart performance
"All the Way" charted at number three on the UK Singles Chart, returning David to the top forty. "All the Way" spent six weeks inside the UK top 75.

Music video
The music video became the sixth Craig David video directed by Max & Dania.

Track listing

Notes
  signifies an additional producer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

2005 singles
2005 songs
Craig David songs
Music videos directed by Max & Dania
Songs written by Craig David
Songs written by Mark Hill (musician)


HPE Service Activator is a service provisioning and activation software platform from Hewlett Packard Enterprise.  Once installed and integrated with a Customer Service Provider's (CSP) environment, HPESA automates the processes inherent in the creation and activation of new telecommunications services.  It is not specific to any network or service type and can apply across fixed, mobile, or internet environments.  HPESA software is activation-centric, but engages the entire fulfillment stack as defined by the TeleManagement Forum's Business Process Framework (eTOM) framework, including order management, resource inventory and service activation.

The core of the platform is a highly scalable workflow engine that executes activation-oriented workflows, and is designed to support various plug-ins that control activation targets in a CSP's network and IT service infrastructure - regardless of the protocol used for the activation.  Open, standards-based architecture allows HPSA to be integrated with content partner activation systems and other OSS/BSS software.

History

HP Service Activator was originally developed in 2000 as an Internet Data Center solution in Spain.  In 2001, it transitioned to HP Service Activator under the purview of the HP Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) group within the Consulting & Integration organization (now under Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Communications Technology Group).  HP Service Activator software was formerly branded HP OpenView Service Activator (OVSA), but HP has since retired the name OpenView from use.  In 2004, it re-launched as a global CSP Activation solution.  As of 2021, HPE offers Service Activator 9.0 with HPESA 7.0 reaching end of service life in December 2022.

Solutions

The core platform may be implemented alone or in conjunction with one or more HPSA solutions.  The solutions, which are built as customizations on top of HPSA, are service-specific and pre-packaged from field-developed IP to accelerate deployment time.  They include:

• HP Service Activator Solution for VPN Services (HPSA-VPN) -
Layer 2 and Layer 3 Virtual Private Network (VPN) services

• HP Service Activator Solution for Metro Ethernet (HPSA-ME) -
Layer 2 Virtual Private LAN Services

• HP Service Activator Solution for Residential IP Services (HPSA-RIPS) -
Multi-play residential services delivered over an IP infrastructure

• HP Service Activator Solution for Managed Services (HPSA-MSS) -
Managed Services for VoIP, Wireless LAN and Security

Technical data
HP Service Activator Software runs on HP-UX, Sun Solaris (operating system), Linux (Only some certified distributions), and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Standards supported include: OSS through Java (OSS/J) interfaces, web-services and XML/SOAP.

References

External links
HP Service Activator is now part of enhanced Interactive Unified Mediation suite

Service Activator


Kordiimonas gwangyangensis (strain GW14-5T) is a marine bacterium that can degrade a number of polycyclic hydrocarbons. It was first found in Gwangyang Bay.

References

External links
Type strain of Kordiimonas gwangyangensis at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria


Blood Monkey is a 2007 American direct-to-video natural horror film produced by RHI Entertainment and directed by Robert Young. It aired on various video on demand channels, before officially premiering in the United States on the Syfy Channel on January 27, 2008. Filmed in Thailand, it is the first film in the Maneater Series produced under an agreement with Syfy.

The film followed a group of six students studying primates in Asia under the demented Professor Hamilton who find themselves under attack from bloodthirsty primates in the jungle.

Reviewers panned the film, criticizing the acting, dialogue, plot, low-quality special effects, and the lack of appearances by the titular monster, the monkeys. They also questioned the appearance of F. Murray Abraham in the film, though note that his performance was its only positive aspect.

Plot

Anthropological professor Conrad Hamilton attempts to study a new species of primate, possibly the missing link between humanity and the great ape, found in a hidden valley deep within the jungles of Thailand. Hamilton's initial research team tries to capture one of these new (and very large) primates, but they are all killed. Hamilton and his assistant Chenne, who survive because they are away from the campsite, scour the area looking for clues and the remains of their team.

Meanwhile, another research team is inbound: a crew of college anthropology students with no idea what is in store. The students, Seth, Amy, Greg, Sydney, Josh, and Dani, are flown into a remote region of the African jungle and picked up by a guide who drives them deeper into the bush. He drops them off in a panic at the edge of the trail/road, which leads further into the foliage, claiming "bad things" are in there and will not go further. He heads back the way he came, leaving the students to march forth into the unknown. They walk until they reach the trail's end and set up camp. As evening sets in, noises from the jungle raise suspicion until a pair of glowing green eyes can be seen close by, watching. Before the unknown creature attacks, Chenne arrives with a flare that scares off the unseen menace.

Chenne escorts the students to the relative safety of Professor Hamilton's camp, and the following day they meet the obsessed man and somewhat learn of his mission and purpose. Hamilton professes dream findings in an uncharted valley deep within the jungle and their potential for career-launching documentation. He has Chenne confiscate their mobile phones and hand out information bracelets for each member containing their emergency contact info. Then he leads the slightly unwilling team to the valley entrance. After a pep talk, Hamilton convinces the students to continue and rappel down the cliffside and into the valley, injuring Josh in the process.

On their first night in the valley, Hamilton passes around a skull and explains that it belongs to the creature he is looking for. The students cannot identify the skull since its characteristics are both human and primate in nature, but nearly twice the size of any known human or primate cranium. They are soon interrupted by a bloody survivor from the original research team, who Hamilton and Chenne quickly shelter and care for. The man dies shortly afterward, and Hamilton tells Chenne that the creatures let him go as a warning.

During the night, Sydney visits the outhouse, only to be dragged away into the jungle. The next morning, Hamilton tells the team that Sydney came to him scared and homesick and wanted to go home, so Hamilton has Chenne take her out of the jungle, leaving everyone suspicious. However, Chenne drags Sydney through the brush in another part of the jungle and eventually leaves her battered and beaten. Sydney eventually stumbles into an unseen creature that tears the right side of her face off.

The team continues to follow Hamilton and Chenne, who appear to be tracking something with a GPS reader. Unknown to the students, Hamilton is tracking each of them by a hidden chipset in their bracelets. At the moment, he is tracking Sydney's bracelet. The team eventually demands more information about their expedition, and Hamilton comes mostly clean. The students remain unaware that they are being tracked but resolve to steal the AK-47 in Hamilton's possession and maintain control of the situation to themselves. Seth begins leaving a trail through the jungle by tying off pieces of cloth to trees.

On their third night, while the students begin to fashion their plan for the following day, a foul-smelling rain begins pouring down on their tents. Just as they recognize the smell as urine, Josh is yanked out of his tent and dragged up into the trees. Panic sets in as the team scatters and begins following his screams through the jungle. As Greg attempts to save Josh, Chenne accidentally shoots him, but then proceeds to tie him to a tree as bait. She camps out nearby with her gun, but one of the monsters sneaks up on Chenne and kills her before mauling Greg.

Hamilton runs across Seth during the chaos and knocks him unconscious after listening to his complaints. Hamilton locates the two remaining students, Dani and Amy, and continues his venture, ordering Dani to document everything with her video camera. Believing themselves to be the only survivors, both girls have little choice other than to follow the professor in hopes of being rescued. The professor successfully tracks Sydney's bracelet and finds it still attached to her severed arm, dangling from a tree. Hamilton examines an apparent rigging done to the tree, only to spring a trap that results in several bamboo shoots impaling him through the back. He delivers a final address to the girls before he dies.

Just as they turn to run, Seth appears, to their delight. They run back to their campsite, only to find it cleared of their tents and equipment. Completely panicked, they keep running while the monster seems to be following close by in the brush and in the trees. Dani is soon pulled up into the trees and killed, leaving only Seth and Amy standing. They run further still and reach a cave, where they see Seth’s entire cloth trail assembled and attached to the opening. They go into the cave and use the night vision from Dani's video camera to move around. At least one of the creatures follows them into the cave, grabs Seth, and kills him.

Amy sheds light on one of the monsters for the first time, revealing it to be a large Gorilla-like ape with a bloody set of fangs. Several more gorillas enter the cave, and Amy screams in terror as one of them bears down on her and kills her.

Cast
 F. Murray Abraham as Professor Conrad Hamilton
 Matt Ryan as Seth Roland
 Amy Manson as Amy Armstrong
 Matt Reeves as Greg Satch
 Laura Aikman as Sydney Maas
 Sebastian Armesto as Josh Dawson
 Freishia Bomanbehram as Dani Sudeva
 Prapimporn Karnchanda as Chenne

Production
In October 2006, RHI Entertainment made a deal with the Sci Fi Channel to produce a series of ten made-for-television natural horror films to air on the network the following year. Dubbed the "Maneater" series by RHI Entertainment, Blood Monkey was the first film of the series to be released. Although the agreement called for the films to premiere on SciFi, the first six films in the series actually premiered in Canada on video on demand due to an existing pre-licensing agreement.

F. Murray Abraham felt his character was "so interesting because he is so monomaniacal". For one scene, in which the characters had to scale a high cliff, the actors learned abseiling—the controlled descent down a rope along an extremely steep cliff or slope—and performed the stunt themselves. Abraham said it was a "thrilling" challenge. Matt Ryan felt the most challenging part of filming the movie was all of the running through the jungle that was required for many scenes.

Release
Blood Monkey premiered in Canada on the subscription-based video on demand channel Movie Central on Demand earlier in 2007 as well as other VOD channels before it aired on Syfy, then the Sci Fi Channel, on January 27, 2008. It was released on DVD on November 6, 2007 by Genius Entertainment, with no extras. The film was re-released to DVD on July 22, 2008 as one of three films included on the first volume of the "Maneater Series Collection" film sets. The other two films were In the Spider's Web and Maneater, the second and third films in the series, respectively.

Reception
Blood Monkey was panned by critics. Horror.com's Staci Layne Wilson felt Blood Monkey was "abysmal" with forgettable, expendable actors following F. Murray Abraham. In reviewing the film for DVD Talk, author Nick Lyons thought the six students were "stereotypical" and expressed sorrow that "respected award winning actor F. Murray Abraham...lowered himself to star in this." Noting that other films in the genre are often "so bad it's good", he felt Blood Monkey failed to accomplish even this dubious achievement. Most of the film was deemed "unwatchable" for mostly having scenes of the characters walking about aimlessly and a seeming lack of production values.  Monsters and Critics.com's Jeff Swindoll also questioned Abraham's apparently not knowing "better than to star in this dreck" as a "cheapjack version of Captain Ahab". He panned the film's laughable special effects, though he offered it minor praise for its "rather bleak ending" similar to the series' titular title Maneater. David Johnson of DVD Verdict criticized the film's low budget and "trite" acting, with no fright value when the actual creature doesn't appear until even the end of the film... Scott Weinberg, reviewing the film for FEARnet, considers the film "extra-stupid" and also notes the film's lack of appearances by the titular creature. Stating "the dialog is rotten, the actors are bad, and the FX are hilarious", he felt Abraham delivered "a patently perfect performance" and notes that he "gets progressively more outlandish as the movie goes on."

References

External links
 Official Sonar Entertainment Blood Monkey website

2007 films
2007 horror films
2000s English-language films
Films about apes
Maneater (film series)
Syfy original films
American natural horror films
Films directed by Robert Young
American monster movies
American exploitation films
Films shot in Thailand
Films set in jungles
Films set in Thailand
2000s American films
English-language horror films