John Eli Ivey Jr. (January 21, 1919 – May 24, 1992) was an American educator, a proponent of regional cooperation between colleges and universities, and was best known for innovations in the use of communications technology—specifically television—in education.  He was a founder of the Southern Regional Education Board, served on the 1960 panel that recommended to John F. Kennedy the creation of the Peace Corps, and designed the University of South Florida.

Ivey was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, but from age five grew up in Auburn, Alabama, attending Auburn High School and the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, the latter from which he graduated from in 1940 with his B.S. degree.  He then studied sociology at the University of North Carolina under Howard Odum, earning his Ph.D. from that institution in 1944.  He briefly worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority, before returning to the University of North Carolina in 1947, where at 28 years old he became the youngest full professor in that institution's history.

In 1948 Ivey was called to head the nascent Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), an alliance of 16 Southern states which sought to improve education through regional cooperation.  Under Ivey, the SREB created a mechanism for colleges and universities in different states to share facilities and educational programs so that each state would not have to create duplicate programs.  At the same time, Ivey resisted attempts by segregationist politicians to turn the SREB into an instrument to circumvent racial desegregation.

In 1957, Ivey left the SREB to become executive vice–president at New York University.  After two years at NYU, Ivey left to join the faculty at Michigan State University, where he became dean of the College of Education in 1961.  While at Michigan state, he founded the Learning Resources Institute, which promoted the use of multimedia in education, and the Midwest Project on Airborne Television Instruction, which broadcast courses to rural schools via airborne transmitters in the same manner as satellite television would in the future.  Ivey remained at Michigan State until 1976, when he retired to Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

In addition to his work in educational technology and regionalism, Ivey served on the panel which made recommendations to John F. Kennedy on the creation of the Peace Corps, was the racial-integration consultant to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, was secretary of the American Council on Education, and chaired the Florida Survey of Higher Education and the Survey of Reorganization of the Atlanta Schools System.

In 1951, Ivey received the Freedom Foundation Medal and five years later he received an Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship. Today, it is known as Eisenhower Fellowships.

Selected publications
Community Resources (co-author, 1951)
  Education. The Crisis, 1950(November), 628–632.
Exploring the South (co-author, 1949)
Building Atlanta's Future (co-author, 1948)
Education for the Use of Regional Resources (1945)
Channeling Research into Education (1944)

References

Resources
John Ivey, Jr., promoted education by electronics. (Obituary) Chicago Tribune, May 31, 1992.
Barrett, E. Inventory of the Records of John E. Ivey, Jr., 1957-1959. Archives, Library. New York University, 1981.

External links
Oral History Interview with John Ivey from Oral Histories of the American South

1919 births
1992 deaths
Auburn High School (Alabama) alumni
Auburn University alumni
Michigan State University faculty
New York University faculty
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
American sociologists


Bazancourt is the name of several communes in France:

 Bazancourt, Marne, in the Marne department
 Bazancourt, Oise, in the Oise department


Hernán Larraín Fernández (born September 21, 1947) is a conservative Chilean lawyer, university lecturer, and politician; he served as the Chilean Minister of Justice and Human rights, appointed by president Sebastián Piñera, between 2018 and 2022. Larraín's former public service positions include a Senate seat representing the 11th district, the Maule Region (1994-2010), the Presidency of the Senate (2004-2005) and the  presidency of the Independent Democratic Union (Unión Demócrata Independiente, UDI) from 2006 to 2008 and 2015–2017. The UDI is a conservative political party with strong links to the Opus Dei, that opposes abortion and has historically supported Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. His appointment as Minister of Justice and Human rights has been controversial despite his attempt to distance himself from the UDI's ideology regarding human rights to achieve a more conciliatory tone as a minister.

Larraín is married to Magdalena Matte, a Chilean civil engineer, businesswoman and politician involved in the Kodama case. They have six children, among them is Pablo Larraín, a well known film maker. Hernán Larraín is of Basque descent. He is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank the Inter-American Dialogue.

Early years

Hernán Larraín was born in Santiago de Chile. He studied at the Saint George's College. He entered the School of Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and received a law degree in 1971. At the university, Larraín obtained the "J.Tocornal" and "P.Montenegro" awards, given to the best student of the class. Larraín received a scholarship from the Ford Foundation to pursue his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree at the London School of Economics.

Larraín has been professor of the School of Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he served as secretary-general. Despite having belonged to the Gremialista movement, he did not join the Independent Democratic Union until after the assassination of its founder Jaime Guzmán in 1991.

References

External links

 Official site of Hernán Larraín
Biography on Senado.cl
Biography on BCN.cl, National Congressional Library

1947 births
Living people
20th-century Chilean lawyers
21st-century Chilean lawyers
Candidates for President of Chile
Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Chilean Ministers of Justice
Chilean people of Basque descent
Independent Democratic Union politicians
Hernan
Members of the Inter-American Dialogue
Members of the Senate of Chile
Politicians from Santiago
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni
Presidents of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Student Federation
Presidents of the Senate of Chile


The Valea Luncanilor (also: Luncani, in its upper course: Pârâul Vânătorului) is a right tributary of the river Strei in Romania. It discharges into the Strei in Streisângeorgiu. Its length is  and its basin size is .

Tributaries
The following rivers are tributaries to the river Valea Luncanilor:

Left: Oțapu, Valea Văcăriții, Purcăreț
Right: Valea Morii, Valea Roșie, Alun, Scaiu, Bulac, Valea Bobaii, Ocoliș, Chitid, Grid

References

Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Hunedoara County


Swanee River is a 1939 American film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart. It is a biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biographical films of the time, the film was more fictional than it was factual.

Plot
The family of Stephen Foster (Ameche) insists that he accept a seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job in Cincinnati, but he prefers to write songs. Stephen's prospective father-in-law Andrew McDowell has no faith in Stephen, who wants to write "music from the heart of the simple people of the South." The struggling composer is content to sell "Oh! Susanna" for fifteen dollars to minstrel singer E. P. Christy and allows Christy to take credit as its writer.

Soon, the song is sweeping the country, and Stephen follows it with "De Camptown Races" and goes on tour with Christy's troupe, called Christy's Minstrels. Solvent at last, Stephen marries Jane McDowell (Leeds), and a daughter Marion is born to them. Inspired by his wife's beauty, Stephen writes "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair."

However, Stephen's prosperity ends when his classical music fails and the advent of the Civil War brands his music as traitorous. When he turns to drinking, Jane leaves him, but two years later she returns to encourage him to write "Old Folks at Home." Stephen never hears the composition performed, however, for on the night that Christy presents the song to a New York audience, the composer dies of a heart attack.

Cast
 Don Ameche as Stephen Foster
 Andrea Leeds as Jane McDowell Foster
 Al Jolson as Edwin P. Christy
 Felix Bressart as Henry Kleber
 Chick Chandler as Bones
 Russell Hicks as Andrew McDowell
 George H. Reed as Old Joe, McDowell's Coachman
 Richard Clarke as Tom Harper
 Diane Fisher as Marion Foster
 George P. Breakston as Ambrose
 Al Herman as Tambo
 Charles Trowbridge as Mr. Foster
 George Meeker as Henry Foster
 Leona Roberts as Mrs. Foster
 Charles Tannen as Morrison Foster
 Clara Blandick as Mrs. Griffin
 Nella Walker as Mrs. McDowell
 Harry Hayden as Erwin
 Esther Dale as Temperance Woman
 Harry Tenbrook as Jim (uncredited)
 John Hamilton as doctor at Foster's deathbed (uncredited)
 Robert Emmett Keane as agitator in cafe' (uncredited)
 Mae Marsh as Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)
 Matthew Beard as extra (uncredited)

Background
According to a news item in Hollywood Reporter, David O. Selznick was interested in working on this film. Material contained in the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Theater Arts Library adds that Richard Sherman worked on a treatment, but his participation in the final film has not been confirmed. In story conferences, Darryl F. Zanuck suggested Nancy Kelly for the role of Jane and Al Shean for Kleber. Twentieth Century-Fox publicity materials at the AMPAS Library note that some sequences were shot along the Sacramento River. Studio publicity also adds that Don Ameche learned to dance the soft shoe and play the violin for his role in this film. A news item in Hollywood Reporter adds that Andrea Leeds was borrowed from Samuel Goldwyn to make this picture.

There was an earlier screen biography of Foster only four years before this one. In 1935, Mascot Pictures produced a film on Foster's life entitled Harmony Lane, which was directed by Joseph Santley and starred Douglass Montgomery. Still another fictionalized biopic of Foster would be made in 1952. A B-picture entitled I Dream of Jeannie, it was released by Republic Pictures and starred Bill Shirley (Jeremy Brett's singing voice in My Fair Lady) as Foster.

In the film, Stephen Foster marries a girl from the South, but in real life, his wife was from Pittsburgh, as Foster was.  Additionally, Foster was not known as a Confederate sympathizer nor was he or his songs criticized for this aspect during his actual life, unlike the film.

The film's final scene is wholly inaccurate; there was no performance by E. P. Christy on the day Foster died. In reality, Christy died nearly two years before Foster; he committed suicide by throwing himself out of a window at his home in New York City, in May 1862. Foster himself died in January 1864.

Awards
Nominated for an Academy Award in the Music Scoring category.

References

Notes on Swanee River at the TCM database

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Films directed by Sidney Lanfield
Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
Films with screenplays by Philip Dunne
Cultural depictions of Stephen Foster
1930s historical films
American historical films
Films scored by Louis Silvers
1939 drama films
1930s English-language films
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Örebro, formed in 2001.
Interesting facts about the guitar player Niklas Kallgren. He apparently got a son around 2010 and 6 months later he met a new woman on tour and left his new born baby and the mother.

The new woman apparently left him a few months after.

In 2023 he decided to reject shared responseability for his son and wanted to leave his son to social workers and focus on other

History
Truckfighters was formed in Örebro, Sweden in 2001. After releasing EPs Desert Cruiser and Headed For God's Warehouse in 2001 and 2002 respectively, they recorded the split-EP Truckfighters Vs. Firestone; Fuzzsplit of The Century with local Swedish band Firestone in 2003. In 2005 they released their debut album Gravity X on both Fuzzorama Records and MeteorCity Records. Their follow-up album, Phi, was released in 2007 by Poison Tree Records in the U.S. and on the Fuzzorama label elsewhere. Their sound has been described as classic desert rock, similar to bands like Dozer, Fu Manchu, and Kyuss. They have been featured on the MTV Sweden show "Fuzz". The band has done extensive touring over the years, playing more than 300 live shows, most of them in Europe. Their first US tour, in July 2011, included stops in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland.

The film Truckfighters (Fuzzomentary) by Joerg Steineck and Christian Maciejewski portrays the band's life.
It was released in December 2011 and features interviews with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. The film provides an ironic, entertaining view of the three "ordinary" guys who transform into Fuzz Monsters onstage.

Their album Universe was released on February 24, 2014. As a teaser, The Chairman EP was released in October 2013.

The band's most recent studio album, V, was released on September 30, 2016. It marks a significant change in style for the trio, as they intermingle their trademark heavy stoner rock sound with lengthy atmospheric sections.

On February 21, 2018, the band announced on their Facebook page that they are going on a "long, long hiatus" and "Might come back stronger than ever (that's the only way) or not at all!"

On March 4, 2019, the band was announced to reconvene to play an exclusive set at Psycho Las Vegas 2019, and took the Pool stage on Aug 28th as a part of a reunion tour.

During the second half of 2019 and early 2020 the band toured the album Gravity X in its entity from finish to start.

Members

Current line up
 Ozo (Oskar Cedermalm) - vocals and bass
 Dango (Niklas Källgren) - guitar
 Toro (Johan Marberg) - drums (Session)

Former members
 Pezo (Oscar Johansson) - drums (in the band (2001-2003) (2008-2009) (2011-2012) (2017))
 El Danno (Daniel Israelsson) - drums (2016)
 Enzo (Axel Larsson) - drums (2015)
 Poncho (Andre Kvarnström) - drums (2013-2014)(Now in Blues Pills)
 Frongo (Fredrik Larsson) - drums (2010–2011)(Now in GRID)
 Pedro (Pär Hjulström) - drums (2009–2010)
 Fredo (Winfred Kennerknecht) - guitar  (left the band in 2008)
 Paco (Andreas von Ahn) - drums (left the band in 2008 due to wrist injury)

Session musicians

 Franco (Fredrik Nilsson) - guitar stand-in one European tour 2006
 Mckenzo (Danne Mckenzie) - drums (September–December 2012)
 Lobo (Aaron Michael Boyer) - session drummer shows in Jan-March 2017
 Taco (Robert Wiiand) - session drummer shows summer and fall 2016 - spring 2017
 Maco (Marcus Johansson) - session drummer shows fall 2016

Discography

Studio albums

EPs and singles

Compilation appearances
 "Analougus" on The Ultimate Fuzzcollection Volume One CD (2004 Fuzzorama Records)
 "Freewheelin'" on Road to Nowhere CD (2007 Poison Tree Records)
 "In Search Of (The)" on ...And Back to Earth Again: Ten Years of MeteorCity CD (2007 MeteorCity Records)

References

External links

 Truckfighters film
 Truckfighters at Myspace
 List of magazine and website reviews of Gravity X
 MeteorCity

Swedish heavy metal musical groups
Swedish stoner rock musical groups


The following is a list of ecoregions in Western Sahara, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Terrestrial ecoregions

Palearctic

Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
 Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets

Deserts and xeric shrublands
 Atlantic coastal desert
 North Saharan steppe and woodlands

Freshwater ecoregions
 Dry Sahel
 Permanent Maghreb
 Temporary Maghreb

Marine ecoregions
 Saharan Upwelling

References
 Burgess, Neil, Jennifer D’Amico Hales, Emma Underwood (2004). Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.
 Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573-583.
 Thieme, Michelle L. (2005). Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.

Western Sahara
Ecoregions


Beaucaire is the name of several communes in France:

 Beaucaire, Gard, in the Gard department
 Gare de Beaucaire, a railway station
 Beaucaire, Gers, in the Gers department

See also
 Le souper de Beaucaire, a political pamphlet written by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1793


Lviv or Lwów pogrom may refer to:
Lwów pogrom (1914)
Lwów pogrom (1918)
Lviv pogroms (1941)


Caboolture South is a suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. In the , Caboolture South had a population of 5,300 people.

Geography
The suburb is bounded to the north and west by the Caboolture River and to the east by Cundoor Creek, its tributary.

The North Coast railway line enters the suburb from the south-east (Morayfield) and exists to the north-east (Caboolture). The line splits the suburb with the areas west of the line being residential areas with associated services, while the areas east of the line are used for industry and agriculture.

The Burpengary–Caboolture Road (Morayfield Road) runs through from south to north.

History
The name Caboolture is from the Yugarabul Aboriginal language meaning place of carpet snake which is located south of the original Caboolture township.

Caboolture State School opened on 4 August 1873. In 1890  it became Caboolture South State School. In 1908 it was renamed Morayfield State School.

Caboolture Special School opened in January 1980.

In the , Caboolture South recorded a population of 4,857 people, 51% female and 49% male.
The median age of the Caboolture South population was 31 years, 6 years below the national median of 37.
People identifying as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up 5.6% of the population.
77.7% of people living in Caboolture South were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand 4.9%, England 3.6%, Philippines 0.8%, Scotland 0.7%, Samoa 0.6%.
89.1% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1.1% Samoan, 0.3% German, 0.3% Cantonese, 0.3% Arabic, 0.3% Italian.

In the , Caboolture South had a population of 5,300 people.

Education
Caboolture Special School is a special primary and secondary (Prep-12) school for boys and girls at Torrens Road (). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 250 students with 70 teachers (63 full-time equivalent) and 87 non-teaching staff (54 full-time equivalent).

There are no mainstream schools in Caboolture. The nearest government primary schools are Caboolture State School in neighbouring Caboolture to the north and Morayfield State School in neighbouring Morayfield to the south and Minimbah State School in neighbouring Morayfield to the south-west. The nearest government secondary schools are Caboolture State High School in neighbouring Caboolture to the north-east and Morayfield State High School in neighbouring Morayfield to the south-east.

Amenities
Market Plaza shopping centre with Woolworths and specialty shops is at 49-55 Morayfield Road (on the corner with Market Drive, ).

Caboolture Baptist Church is at 74-92 Grant Road ().

Caboolture Arboretum is at 3 Mainsail Drive in the north-west of the suburb beside the Caboolture River (). It provides green space for recreation with walking paths and duck ponds.

Leemon Park is at 14-24 Penhurst Street, extending to other nearby streets ().

References

Suburbs of the City of Moreton Bay


Super Swing Golf: Season 2 (Super Swing Golf in Europe, and Swing Golf PangYa 2nd Shot!! in Japan) is a golf video game developed and published by Tecmo for the Wii. It was released in the North America on December 11, 2007. It is the sequel to Super Swing Golf, and both are based on the Korean free online multiplayer golf game, PangYa.

Gameplay
Super Swing Golf: Season 2 includes an improved story mode, with an overworld map that does not necessarily follow events in a set order. On top of the multiplayer Stroke Play, Match Play and Balloon Pop games that came with the first game, two new multiplayer games were added to the party mode. The game has largely remained the same beyond these changes, the addition of new courses, and various cosmetic tweaks.

The game has two different control schemes; either using the Swing control scheme with the Wii Remote used as though it were a golf club, or using the Button control scheme which is similar to the Mario Golf-style of control scheme.

Reception

The game was met with average reception upon release; GameRankings gave it a score of 71.69%, while Metacritic gave it 70 out of 100.

GameSpy gave the game two-and-a-half stars out of five, criticizing the game for being more of an expansion pack over the first game than a true sequel. 1UP.com gave the game a B−, reporting that the game has surprising depth that can be off-putting to those just looking to have a good time. IGN handed out a score of 7.3 out of 10, and reported that despite just adding incremental improvements over the previous installments, "Super Swing Golf: Season 2 is still the best overall golf experience you can find on Wii." GameSpot gave the game seven out of ten, calling it a good golf game, despite the minimal improvements over its predecessor.

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Nicholas Anthony Christopher Candy (born 23 January 1973) and Christian Peter Candy (born 31 July 1974) are British luxury property developers. The brothers were estimated to share a joint net worth of £1.5 billion in the Estates Gazette rich list 2010, placing them at position 52 in the list of the richest property developers in the United Kingdom.

Early life and education
Born in London to a Greek-Cypriot mother and English father, the brothers were educated at Priory Preparatory School and Epsom College in Surrey. Christian was later studying for a business management degree at King's College London but did not graduate. Nick graduated from University of Reading with a degree in Human Geography.

Career
In 1995, they bought their first property, a one-bedroom flat in Redcliffe Square, Earl's Court, London. Using a £6,000 loan from their grandmother, the brothers renovated the £122,000 apartment while living in it. Eighteen months later they sold it for £172,000, making a £50,000 profit.

In their spare time between 1995 and 1999, the brothers began renovating flats and working their way up the property ladder. Eventually they were able to give up their day jobs where Nick worked in advertising for J. Walter Thompson and Christian for investment bank Merrill Lynch and established Candy & Candy in 1999, of which Nick is CEO. Nicholas and Christian, who did collaborate on the prestigious One Hyde Park scheme in London, operate separate independent businesses and have done for a number of years. In June 2018, Candy & Candy was renamed Candy Property in order to reinforce Nick Candy's sole ownership of the business and to align with his wider portfolio of companies. In 2004, Christian established CPC Group in Guernsey, to specialise in  high-end residential developments around the world. Some of their more high-profile developments, however, have been in London.

In 2016 and 2017 they were involved in high-profile litigation in the High Court in London which put their reputations on the line.  Mark Holyoake claimed in the High Court action that the Candy Brothers had used threats against him and his family to extort total repayments of £37m against a £12m loan. Although they were cleared of extortion, Mr Justice Nugee said in his judgment "the protagonists...have been willing to lie when they consider their commercial interests justify them doing so". Mr Justice Nugee went on to say "he had found none of Mr Holyoake's claims to be true, and that there had been no undue duress, influence, intimidation or unlawful interference with economic interests." In June 2018, following another application by Mr. Holyoake, the Court of Appeal rejected Mark Holyoake's bid challenging the high-profile high court ruling in December 2017 (above). Lord Justice David Richards concluded that Mr Holyoake's arguments had "no real prospect of success" meaning Mr Justice Nugee's original decision in 2017 was affirmed.

In recent years Nick Candy has diversified his interests outside of real estate and developed a portfolio of global investments (often in high tech, leading edge technology) through his private investment fund Candy Ventures. Candy Ventures, alongside Qualcomm Ventures was reported to have led a $37 million funding round for a leading augmented reality and computer vision company.  Candy Ventures acquired the intellectual property assets of leading augmented reality start-up Blippar in January 2019.

The website for Candy Ventures lists 18 investments within the companies portfolio, including Blippar, UK fashion house Ralph & Russo and data processing company Hanzo Archives.  Nick Candy is currently in dispute with Ralph & Russo, which filed for bankruptcy in March 2018, in the UK High Court over a disagreement over the terms of a £17 million loan given by Candy Ventures to the company.

Candy Ventures acquired a stake in Blippar and another tech start-up, Crowdmix, after both companies were placed into administration. The takeovers were both facilitated by Paul Appleton, who worked as the administrator for the two companies and was appointed administrator in the Ralph & Russo bankruptcy. Their portfolio includes mining investments in the Runruno gold mine in the Philippines, which has faced opposition from human rights groups after the demolition of local communities in 2012, which caused injuries to six local people. The development has also been blamed for causing landslides leading to deaths in the area. On 28 May 2022, The Times reported that Candy Ventures is considering a bid to buy The Hut Group, though journalist Oliver Shah was sceptical, pointing to "a series of disastrous investments in tech start-ups" and "no record of big acquisitions". However, on 15 June 2022, Bloomberg reported that Candy Ventures had pulled out of the bidding process for The Hut Group.

On 9 March 2022, Nick Candy, a boyhood fan, confirmed he was planning a consortium bid to take over Chelsea Football Club after owner Roman Abramovich put the club up for sale following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The sale process was halted the following day after Abramovich's assets, including the club, were frozen to stop him making money from Chelsea, but the UK government was open to considering a variation to its sanctions licence to allow a sale so long as Abramovich received no funds. On 25 March 2022, The Athletic reported that Candy's bid to acquire Chelsea had failed, despite support from South Korean firms Hana Financial and C&P Sports Group.

In July 2022, his Luxembourg-registered investment vehicle, Candy Ventures SARL, sued Aaqua BV and its major shareholder, Robert Bonnier, for an alleged fraud. He claimed that Bonnier misled him about Aaqua, a false claim that Apple and LVMH are interested to invest in Aaqua, so requested to the court to froze Bonnier's assets and nullify the swap of his shares in Audioboom Group PLC, a podcast platform, with Aaqua. Later, the High Court issued a freezing order against Bonnier, but ordered that Candy Ventures had to obtain a £10 million bank guarantee to maintain the freezing order. In August 2022, the freezing orders were discharged. On 7 September 2022, Bonnier demanded £150 million in damages from Candy for falsely obtained freezing orders that turned his technology company into a credit risk.

In 2023 Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) and Nick Candy’s Candy Capital announced that they have formed a partnership to develop a “super-prime” real estate development in Dubai.

Notable development projects

One Hyde Park (2004)

In 2004, the brothers sought an investment partner to help them buy the site of Bowater House in Knightsbridge, with plans to demolish it and construct 86 luxury apartments.

After setting up a joint venture with Waterknights – a private company owned by the Prime Minister of Qatar – they purchased the site from Land Securities in 2005 for £150m. One Hyde Park was also financed by a £1.15 billion development loan from the German bank, Eurohypo, a successor to the defunct Dresdner Bank, which was led by Matthias Warnig, a long-term associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

They then hired the architect Richard Rogers to design the exterior, and used their own Candy & Candy to handle interior design. One Hyde Park: The Residences of Mandarin Oriental, London, was constructed in four years after obtaining planning permission in 2006, with the finished development housing three commercial units: Rolex, McLaren Automotive and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank. Despite its name, the building's address is located at 68-114 Knightsbridge, London. In 2015, The Guardian obtained a leaked recording of a 2010 promotional video for One Hyde Park, which features Richard Rogers, Nick Candy and Christian Candy, and Stephen Smith, a tax advisor for the Candy Brothers, who demanded changes to the video to "improve the tax profile" to avoid an enquiry by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs, which at the time was led by Ian Barlow, a former director of a Candy brothers company in the British Virgin Islands.

The One Hyde Park development officially launched in January 2011 and had a profound effect on the global real estate market, breaking a number of industry records as the most expensive residential development in the world. It was reported that the penthouse apartments alone fetched some of the highest prices on record. Since the development opened, apartments at the complex have been purchased by the superrich, including Viktor Kharitonin, a Russian billionaire and business partner of Roman Abramovich, Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who bought a triplex penthouse in 2010 for £136 million, Anar Aitzhanova, a Kazakh singer whose husband was shot dead in 2004, and Ekaterina Fedun, the daughter of Russian billionaire and Lukoil shareholder Leonid Fedun. Other owners of flats in the bloc include Temur Akhmedov, the son of sanctioned Russian-Azeri oligarch Farkhad Akhmedov, whose $460 million superyacht is now frozen in Germany due to EU sanctions following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. On 18 June 2022, The Telegraph reported that Alexander Ponomarenko, a sanctioned Russian oligarch accused of purchasing a palace on behalf of President Vladimir Putin, is the owner of an apartment at One Hyde Park valued at £60 million.

In October 2018, it was reported that Nick Candy refinanced his penthouse at One Hyde Park with an £80 million mortgage from Credit Suisse in order to pursue rental opportunities. The property is reportedly valued at £160 million.

In April 2021, Bloomberg reported that Nick had placed his penthouse on the market for £175 million. In August 2020, Nick also announced that his yacht, the Eleven Eleven was up for sale for €59.5 million.

NoHo Square (2006)

In 2006, the site of the former Middlesex Hospital was purchased for £175m by Project Abbey (Guernsey) Holdings Ltd – an investment consortium which included Kaupthing Bank, the now defunct Icelandic bank, and was led by the Candy's CPC Group. In February 2007, the brothers applied to Westminster City Council for planning permission to redevelop the 1.2 hectare (3 acre) site into a mixed use development of several hundred new residential units and office space. The plans were met with strong criticism from local residents over the Candy's choice of NoHo Square as the name for the new development.

Planning permission for NoHo Square was granted in November 2007; however, the completion of demolition of the hospital in 2008 coincided with the collapse of Kaupthing as a result of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Kaupthing was the largest shareholder in the Guernsey-based consortium which bought the Middlesex site from University College Hospital in 2006, and with the bank in administration, the NoHo Square development stalled. As a result of CPC Group being partners with Kaupthing in another property development over in the US, the Candy brothers were able to transfer their equity stake in NoHo Square to the bank and in exchange take full control of the US development.

Chelsea Barracks (2007)

In April 2007, the Candy brothers acquired the Chelsea Barracks in a joint venture with Qatari Diar, part of the Qatar government's investment arm. In what is believed to be Britain's costliest residential property deal, the Candy brothers and the Qatari government have bought the 12.8-acre site from the Ministry of Defence for £959m.

In 2010, Candy's CPC Group brought an £81 million lawsuit against the Qatar Diar after the latter pulled out of the project, which was later settled out of court. Qatari Diar's decision to abandon the project came after pressure from Prince Charles, who criticised the plans and Qatar's Prime Minister and Chairman of Qatari Diar, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al-Thani, calling the plans "brutish". Specifically, Charles was quoted as saying the Chelsea Barracks project would be “a gigantic experiment with the very soul of our capital city” and went on saying “it should be scrapped in favour of something more “old-fashioned”. High Court judge, Mr. Justice Vos ruled that Charles’ intervention in the design of the project was immediately recognized and raised serious political issues that needed to be dealt with at the highest level inferring that Charles had intervened unlawfully.

Beverly Hills 9900 Wilshire development (2008)
In April 2007, the Candy brothers purchased – through CPC Group – an eight-acre site in Beverly Hills, California, known as 9900 Wilshire, with their equity partners Kaupthing for a reported £250m.

CPC Group hired architect Richard Meier to design a condominium and retail complex in place of the former Robinsons-May department store.  Victor Bardack of the Beverly Hills North Homeowners Association said: "To put two huge projects on the already-impacted intersection of Santa Monica and Wilshire boulevards is grossly detrimental to the community,[...] It'll be gridlock forever." The controversy stemmed from the Sheikh being part owner of a Middle Eastern newspaper that has been accused of being anti-Semitic and anti-American.

CPC Group served a written notice of default on Kaupthing shortly after. In the same month, the situation was made worse when the acquisition loan to the project from Credit Suisse became past due, and, additionally, it became increasingly difficult to get financing on the 250 condominiums that the original plans catered for. This was due to the collapse of the property market and banks pulling their funding. It was later reported that CPC Group – after negotiating full control of the development from Kaupthing – defaulted on a US$365.5 million bank loan.

Gordon House
Christian agreed to purchase Gordon House from the Royal Hospital Chelsea in 2012. He exchanged contracts, consisting of two lease agreements for £20 million and £48 million. Christian began elaborate subterranean building works, including a 60 ft swimming pool and a cinema. Even though he had not completed on the purchase, the start of the works triggered a rule that the purchase had been "substantially performed", so he had to pay the SDLT levy. He decided not to move in, despite having paid £27.4 million of the price, and gave it to Nick, who finished the works and completed on the purchase — at which point he became liable to pay the tax again.

Personal life
Christian married Emily Crompton, socialite and former nightclub hostess, in a lavish ceremony in 2010. They had twins in 2013, Isabella Monaco Evanthia and Cayman Charles Wolf. They lived between UK and Monaco.

On 29 September 2012, Nick married the Australian-British actress-musician-TV presenter Holly Valance in Beverly Hills, California, US. In November 2013 in London, they had their first child, a daughter, Luka Violet Toni. Their second daughter, Nova Skye Coco, was born in September 2017. On 8 April 2022, Candy and Valance were pictured with former US President Donald Trump and British politician Nigel Farage at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, with a tweet by Farage indicating that the group had dinner together. A report in The Times on 28 May 2022 indicated that Candy is also friends with comedians Jimmy Carr and David Walliams, referring to Candy as "any Olympic level name dropper".

In December 2021, The Daily Mirror published a photograph revealing that Nick attended a party with the then Conservative London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey on 14 December 2020, which would have broken coronavirus restrictions at the time. The publication of the photograph in December 2021 followed reporting by The Times in March 2021, which named Nick as the leader of fundraising for Shaun Bailey's London mayoral campaign. In June 2020, The Guardian also reported that Candy had donated £100,000 to the Conservative Party in March 2020.

References

External links
CPC Group
Candy & Candy Design

Living people
Business duos
British real estate businesspeople
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
English people of Greek Cypriot descent
People educated at Epsom College
English businesspeople
People from Banstead


Solidaridad Obrera could refer to:

Solidaridad Obrera (historical union), the union founded in 1907
Solidaridad Obrera (periodical), the newspaper founded in 1907
Confederación Sindical Solidaridad Obrera, the union founded in 1990


Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne is an Indian television series directed by Prakash Jha that revolved around the life of Mungerilal, played by Raghubir Yadav. The serial was conceptualised by Neeraj Kumar (police officer) who also gave it its iconic name which has stuck in the collective conscience of its audience. Neeraj Kumar took inspiration  from James Thurber's story Secret Life of Walter Mitty and went on to script the first four episodes of the show. Subsequent episodes were written by Manohar Shyam Joshi. Its hugely popular and celebrated theme song song-  'Sapnon Ke Naam Nahin, sapnon ke daam nahi, sapno ke ghodon par kissi ki lagaam nahi, Mungerilal ke Haseen Sapne...' were also penned by Neeraj Kumar.

Plot
Mungerilal is a small-time clerk who gets bossed around by his wife at home and by his boss at office. To top that, Mungerilal's father in law rubs salt on Mungerilal wounds by exaggerating his own achievements as a Police Inspector. Mungerilal overcomes all this by day dreaming, where he takes revenge on his boss, his father-in-law. Mungerilal also dates his beautiful colleague. As he basks in the glory of his accomplishments, his wife wakes him up to ruin dream. It was somewhat inspired by the principles of a wish fulfillment device.

Cast
Raghubir Yadav as Mungerilal
Ruma Ghosh as Mungerilal's wife
Kamia Malhotra as Miss Madhu Malkani

References

External links

Television shows based on Indian novels
DD National original programming
Indian comedy television series
Television shows about dreams
1980s Indian television series
1989 Indian television series debuts
1990 Indian television series endings


In Australian Aboriginal art, a Dreaming is  a totemistic design or artwork, which can be owned by a tribal group or individual.
This usage of anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner's term was popularised by Geoffrey Bardon in the context of the Papunya Tula artist collective he established in the 1970s.

Terminology

"Dreamtime" or "Dreaming" is commonly used as a term  for the animist creation narrative of Aboriginal Australians for a personal, or group, creation and for what may be understood as the "timeless time" of formative creation and perpetual creating. In addition, the term applies to places and localities on indigenous Australian traditional land (and throughout non-traditional Australia) where the uncreated creation spirits and totemic ancestors, or genii loci, reside.

The term was coined by W. E. H. Stanner in 1956, and popularized from the 1960s. based on the description of indigenous Australian mythology by Lucien Levy-Bruhl (La Mythologie Primitive, 1935).

The term "Dreaming" is based on the root of the term altjira (alcheringa) used by the  Aranda people, although it has since been pointed out that the rendition is based on a mistranslation.
Stanner introduced the derived term of "dreamtime" in the 1970s.

Contemporary Indigenous Australian art

"A Dreaming" is a story owned by different tribes and their members that explains the creation of life, people and animals. A Dreaming story is passed on protectively as it is owned and is a form of "intellectual property". In the modern context, an Aborigine cannot relate, or paint someone else's dreaming or creation story without prior permission of the Dreaming's owner. Someone's dreaming story must be respected, as the individual holds the knowledge to that Dreaming story.  Certain behavioural constraints are associated with dreaming ownership; for instance, if a Dreaming is painted without authorisation, such action can meet with accusations of "stealing" someone else's Dreaming. Geoffrey Bardon's three books on Papunya (1971, 1976, 1978) specifically mention conflict related to possession of a dreaming story.  He uses as an example the Honey Ant Dreaming painted in contemporary times on the school walls of Papunya.  Before the mural could be painted, all tribes in Papunya: the Pintupi, Warlpiri, Arrernte, and Anmatyerre, had to agree that the honey ant was an acceptable mural, since Papunya is the meeting place for all tribes.  After the mural was painted, one of the senior elders, Long Tom Onion, reminded Bardon that he, the elder, had suggested the mural be painted.  Later, Bardon realised Long Tom Onion owned that Dreaming.  He comprehended the importance of Dreaming ownership among indigenous Australians, especially those who retain tribal and traditional connections.

Among the Central Desert tribes of Australia, the passing on of the Dreaming story is for the most part gender-related.  For example, the late artist from the Papunya movement, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, painted ceremonial dreamings relating to circumcision and love stories, and lessons for "naughty boys".  His daughters Gabriella Possum and Michelle Possum have tended to paint the "Seven Sisters" Dreaming or the Pleiades, as they inherited that Dreaming through the maternal line.  Consequently, they have painted their "Grandmother's Country", which is an expression of their inherited ownership of the land through knowledge of the dreamings.  Clifford and his daughters have not painted the same subjects; Clifford has never painted the "Seven Sisters Dreaming".  By tribal law, his daughters are not allowed to see male tribal ceremonies, let alone paint them.

Dreamings as "property" have also been used by a few Aboriginal tribes to argue before the High Court of Australia their title over traditional tribal land.  Paintings of Dreamings, travelling journeys and ceremonies tend to depict the locations where they occur.  There have been cases in which 10-metre-long paintings have been presented to the Court, as evidence of the tribe's title deed after terra nullius was struck down during the tenure of Chief Justice Gerard Brennan.

See also
 Anangu
 Embodied imagination

References

 Bardon, G. and Bardon, J. (2005), Papunya: The Story After the Place, Melbourne: University of Melbourne, Miegunyah Press

Australian Aboriginal mythology
Creation myths


Highway 42 is a north-south highway in central Israel. It leads from just south of Ashdod Interchange in the south to Gan Rave interchange in the north. The road is  long.

Junctions and interchanges on the highway

See also

 List of highways in Israel

42


Beauchêne is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:

 Beauchêne, Loir-et-Cher, in the Loir-et-Cher department
 Beauchêne, Orne, in the Orne department
 Saint-Julien-en-Beauchêne, in the Hautes-Alpes department


Movile may refer to:
 Movile, a village in the commune Iacobeni, Sibiu County, Romania
 Movile Cave in Constanța County, Romania
 Movile (company)


National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia (NUACA) (), is a state university in Yerevan, Armenia.

History
A technical school opened within the newly established Yerevan State University in 1921, graduating its first students in 1928. In July 1930, the Armenian Construction Institute, which by this stage had departments of Architecture and Construction, Hydrology and Chemical Engineering, was established with prominent architect Mikayel Mazmanyan as its first director.

On 11 July 1989, on the basis of the related departments and chairs of the National Polytechnic University of Armenia, the Architectural/Construction Institute was established by the decree of the Armenian SSR Council of Ministers. It was renamed as the  Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction in 2000. Its first rector  was Arest Baglaryan who served between 1989 and 2006, since which time Professor Hovhannes Tokmajyan has been the rector.

In 2014, the university was renamed as the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia (NUACA).

In 2020, the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia established the Great Caucasus format together with the Abkhazian State University, the Russian North-Caucasus Federal University and the South Ossetian State University. The four universities will work more together and spread the use of the Russian language.

Faculties
Currently, the university has 5 faculties:
Faculty of Architecture.
Faculty of Design.
Faculty of Management and Technology.
Faculty of Urban Economy and Ecology.
Faculty of Construction.

References

External links
Official site

Universities and colleges established in 1921
1921 establishments in Armenia
Universities in Armenia
Education in Yerevan


Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway may refer to:

 Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway, designated along Interstate 10 in the rural areas of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Florida
 Pearl Harbor Memorial Expressway, designated along US-169 through Tulsa, Oklahoma
 Pearl Harbor/ Memorial Highway, designated along State Highway 77H in Norman, Moore, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
 Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway, part of Interstate 69 running through Shiawassee County, Michigan
 Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway, Interstate 65 through Johnson County, Indiana

See also
 Pearl Harbor Memorial Turnpike Extension in New Jersey
 the West Shore Expressway in New York, ceremonially designated the Pearl Harbor Memorial Expressway by Gov. George Pataki.
 Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge (disambiguation)

References


The following is a list of ecoregions in Mauritania, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Terrestrial ecoregions

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

 Sahelian Acacia savanna
 West Sudanian savanna

Flooded grasslands and savannas

 Saharan halophytics

Deserts and xeric shrublands

 Atlantic coastal desert
 North Saharan steppe and woodlands
 Sahara desert
 South Saharan steppe and woodlands
 West Saharan montane xeric woodlands

Freshwater ecoregions
 Dry Sahel
 Senegal-Gambia Catchments
 Temporary Maghreb

Marine ecoregions
 Sahelian Upwelling

References
 Burgess, Neil, Jennifer D’Amico Hales, Emma Underwood (2004). Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.
 Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573–583.
 Thieme, Michelle L. (2005). Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.

Mauritania
Ecoregions


Tie Your Mix Down: A Queen Tribute is a Queen tribute album. It features various covers of Queen songs by various artists.  Despite the album's name, these songs are not remixes of original Queen material, but are cover versions performed by the artists themselves.  The covers are very techno and electronica influenced, and because of this the album is unpopular among the band's fans.

Track listing
 Tie Your Mother Down (Die Krupps Remix) - 3:43 - May
 Sheer Heart Attack (Chemical Whore Remix) - 3:42 - Mercury
 Another One Bites the Dust (Meeks Remix) - 3:47 - Deacon
 Keep Yourself Alive (Sigue Sigue Sputnik Remix) - 4:41 - May
 Save Me (Interface Remix) - 4:11 - May
 Get Down, Make Love (Die Krupps Remix) - 3:52 - Mercury
 We are the Champions (Rosetta Stone Remix) - 4:01 - Mercury
 I Want It All (Julian Beeston Remix) - 4:50 - May
 We Will Rock You (KMFDM Remix) - 4:58 - May
 It's Late (Sheep on Drugs Remix) - 4:02 - May
 One Vision (Spahn Ranch Remix) - 4:22 - Queen
 Killer Queen (System Effect Remix) - 3:51 - Mercury

References

Queen (band) tribute albums
2000 compilation albums
Cleopatra Records compilation albums


Calvignac (; ) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France.

See also
Communes of the Lot department

References

Communes of Lot (department)


There are several lists of lunar eclipses

On the Moon, by the Earth
 Type
 List of central lunar eclipses
 Total penumbral lunar eclipse

 Classification
 List of saros series for lunar eclipses
 Tetrad (astronomy) contains lists of tetrads in the late-20th and 21st centuries

 By era
 Lunar eclipses by century
 Historically significant lunar eclipses

On Earth, by the Moon


Stephanie Losee (born in Cold Spring Harbor, New York) is an American author, journalist, and Director of Content at Autodesk. Her previous roles were Head of Content for Visa, Executive Director of Brand Content for POLITICO, and Managing Editor of Dell Global Marketing, where she directed editorial content strategy.

Losee co-wrote the nonfiction books Office Mate: The Employee Handbook for Finding--and Managing--Romance on the Job with Helaine Olen (Adams Media: 2007) and You've Only Got Three Seconds: How to Make the Right Impression in Your Business and Social Life with Camille Lavington (Doubleday: 1997).

Her works have appeared in five anthologies: The Maternal is Political, Cup of Comfort for Writers, Horse Crazy, Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak, and  It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure. Her articles have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine; Fortune; the Los Angeles Times; the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine; Child; The Huffington Post; San Francisco; and Salon, among others. She is a frequent commentator on KQED (TV), Northern California Public Radio and a "City Brights" columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Stephanie Losee has appeared on CBS' The Early Show, CNN Headline News, Fox Business News, and NPR, as well as other television programs and radio shows across the country and in Britain, Europe, and Russia. Her books have been translated into Russian, Korean, and Danish. Losee has taught business writing courses to communications professionals in cities around the world and serves as a writing consultant for several Fortune 500 companies.

From 1990 to 1998 she was a reporter and contributing writer at Fortune, where she covered the technology industry. She was a regular anchor for "The Fortune Business Report" on cable station NY1 News. Previously she was an editor at PC Magazine.

She graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in English.

She lives in San Francisco.

1965 births
American non-fiction writers
Dartmouth College alumni
Living people
People from Cold Spring Harbor, New York


Colonia Manuel González is a locality in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. It is the seat of Zentla Municipality. It has an area of 241 km2.

It has an elevation of 950 meters above mean sea level.

In 1884, it was founded with the name of "Colonia Manuel González" by Italian immigrants coming mainly from the north such as Veneto, Friuli, Piedmont, Lombardia, and some southerners like Abruzzo, Sicily and Calabria.  Every summer they celebrate the arrival of the Italian immigrant community. In 1926, Zentla was established as a city. The main economic activities in Zentla are  agriculture, the sugar industry, and fishing. Zentla is known for its piloncillo production.  The main festival is the "day of sugar" in May.

References

External links
 http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/contenido.aspx?refnac=302000001

Populated places in Veracruz


Kim Andersson (born 21 August 1982) is a Swedish handball player for Ystads IF.

He was voted into the All-Star Team as Best right back at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship, where Sweden finished 5th. He was part of the Swedish team that won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Club play
Andersson participated on the THW Kiel team that won the EHF Champions League in 2007. He is Swedish champion from 2004 and 2005 with IK Sävehof, and German champion from 2006 and 2007 with THW Kiel. He once again became Swedish champion 2022 with Ystads IF.

References

External links
Kim Andersson on THW Kiel's webpage

1982 births
Living people
Swedish male handball players
Expatriate handball players
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic handball players for Sweden
Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
Olympic medalists in handball
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Ystads IF players
IK Sävehof players
THW Kiel players
KIF Kolding players
Handball-Bundesliga players
People from Kävlinge Municipality
Sportspeople from Skåne County


Highway 44 is an arterial road in central Israel.  It connects Tel Aviv-Yafo and Holon to Ramla, Lod and the Shefela. It is numbered as a north–south road and follows a north-west to south-east path.

Route description
Highway 44 begins in the coastal plain at the south-eastern edge of Tel Aviv at Holon Interchange with the Ayalon Highway. It travels south-easterly, passing Mikve Yisrael, Holon's industrial zones, and Azor. It then crosses Highway 4 at HaShiv'a Interchange. This section is named HaShiv'a Road in memory of seven guards killed in 1948. Southeast of HaShiv'a Interchange the road crosses Beit Dagan Junction with Route 412, which connects it with Rishon Letzion and Yehud. The road then passes the Volkani Institute, the Tzrifin Military base, Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center and various industrial parks.

As Highway 44 enters the municipality of Ramla, it is briefly named Herzl Boulevard. Historically, the road continued straight through beautiful downtown Ramla. Since the mid-1990s, the road makes a left turn at Ramla North Junction onto HaHashmoa'im Street, bypassing Ramla along its northern edge. Just east of Ramla, the road passes Ramlod Interchange with Highway 40 and rejoins the original route, continuing past the Nesher Industrial Zone and the Nesher Cement Factory, one of the most impressive landmarks in the area.

Historically, just past Nesher, the road connected at Gezer Junction with Route 424 to the Gezer Regional Council. That junction was moved 1 km. further south to accommodate Nesharim Interchange with Highway 6 and Route 431. The road then continues past several agricultural communities until Nachshon Junction. Until this point, the road has travelled with almost no changes in elevation, averaging 75 meters above sea level. After Nachshon Junction, it begins a slow ascent into the foothills of the Judean Mountains, passing several more agricultural communities and national forests. The road finally ends at Shimshon Junction with Highway 38.

History
For centuries prior, while Jaffa and its seaport served as the gateway into Palestine, the section of Highway 44 between Jaffa and Ramla formed part of the historic highway connecting Jaffa to Jerusalem and Bethlehem. The historic highway then followed modern highway 424 to Latrun, and continued to Jerusalem along the route of modern Highway 1.

After the establishment of the State, this road operated for many years as one of the main routes connecting the coastal plain with Jerusalem via Highway 38 and Sha'ar HaGai (Bab al-Wad). In 1948, the Latrun section of the old road to Jerusalem (Highway 1) was taken over by Jordan.  Traffic between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem was diverted to a new route called "Kvish HaGvura" (Road of Valor) of which Highway 44 served as the connection between Nachshon Junction and Shimshon Junction with Highway 38 leading to Sha'ar HaGai.

Future
The Israel Ministry of Transport has announced a grade separation of Highway 44 with the Lod-Na'an Railway line at HaHashmonain Street adjacent to Ramla North Junction.  The road will be raised to pass over the rail line. The estimated completion date is 2014 and the cost will be 160M Shekels.

Junctions and Interchanges

References

See also
 List of highways in Israel

Roads in Israel


Kahn Singh Nabha (30 August 1861 – 24 November 1938) was a Punjabi Sikh scholar, writer, anthologist, lexicographer, and encyclopedist. His most influential work, Mahan Kosh, inspired generations of scholars after him. He also played a role in the Singh Sabha movement.

Biography
He was born into a Sikh family to Narain Singh and Har Kaur at the village of Sabaz Banera, located in what was then Patiala State. His father, Narain Singh succeeded to the charge of Gurdwara Dera Baba Ajaypal Singh at Nabha, after the death of his grandfather Sarup Singh in 1861. Kahn Singh was the eldest of three brothers (the other two being Meehan Singh and Bishan Singh) and one sister (Kahn Kaur).

He did not attend any school or college for formal education, but studied several branches of learning on his own. By the age of 10 he was able to quote freely from the Guru Granth Sahib and Dasam Granth. In  Nabha, he studied Sanskrit classics with local pandits and studied under the famous musicologist Mahant Gajja Singh. In Delhi, he studied Persian with Mawlawis.

In 1883, he continued his study of Persian for two years and assisted Gurmukh Singh, a leader in the Singh Sabha Movement, in publishing Sudhararak. In 1887, he was appointed the tutor to Ripudaman Singh, heir apparent to Nabha State. He continued to serve Nabha State in several capacities, from Deputy Commissioner in 1896, to Foreign Minister in 1911, to the personal secretary of Maharaja Hira Singh, to judge of the High Court in 1912. Between 1915-17, he served the neighbouring Patiala State.

In 1885, he had a chance meeting with Max Arthur Macauliffe which led to a lifelong friendship as well as scholarly collaboration between the two. When Max Arthur Macauliffe was researching his six volume work entitled "The Sikh Religion", Macauliffe depended a great deal on his advice and guidance in the work he was then doing on Sikh scriptures and the history of early Sikhism; such was his admiration for Kahn Singh that when it was published by the Clarendon Press Kahn Singh was assigned the copyright of the work.

Works and compositions
His books Gurmat Prabhakar and Gurmat Sudhakar are the standard guide books for understanding Sikhism. His work, Mahan Kosh (known as the Sikh encyclopedia), is his magnum opus. He published magazine Khalsa Gazette and is also regarded as one of the founders of the weekly newspaper, Khalsa Akhbar. Works from the period 1882–1911 include:
Raj Dharam – This was his first book written at a time when he was serving with Maharaja Hira Singh. This was published and distributed on government expense.
Ham Hindu Nahin (We are not Hindus) – First published in 1898, the book is a critique on the distinction of the Sikh religion and identity. Bhai Kahn Singh stressed upon the distinct identity of the Sikhs. Initially published in Hindi, it was later translated into Punjabi.
Gurmat Prabhakar (1898) – Studded with beautiful examples from Sri Guru Granth Sahib, this book condemns the superstitions prevailing in the Indian society. Difficult words have been made simpler through special commentaries at different places in the book.
Gurmat Sudhakar (1898) – this book contains evidences from Dasam Granth, Works of Bhai Gurdas, Janam Sakhi Guru Nanak, Gurbilas, Guru Nanak Prakash, Suraj Prakash, Panth Prakash, Sau Sakhi (Guru Ratan Mala), Rehatnama, etc. supporting the various practices and beliefs of Sikhism.
Sad Parmarth
Gurchand Divakar (1924)
Gur Shabdalankar (1924)
Roop Deep Pingal (ed., 1925)
Gur Shabad Ratnakar Mahan Kosh (1930) – Also called the Encyclopedia of Sikh Literature, this monumental work was started in 1912 and completed in 1926 after 14 years of research and painstaking effort and finally published by the princely state of Patiala. The state spent Rs.51,000 on its publishing. At 3338 pages, the book was divided into four volumes and was priced at Rs.110. It still serves as one of the most reliable reference material for research on Sikh faith and beliefs and also on the Punjabi culture.
Gurmat Martand (published posthumously in 1962) – A two-volume work which incorporated the earlier published works Gurmat Prabhakar and Gurmat Sudhakar as well as an unpublished work, Gur Gira Kasauti, from 1899. This work defines and codifies Sikh theological concepts and practice with the help of references called from authentic sources.
Gur Mahima Sangraha – This book contained the biographies and important works reflecting the Sikh thought of some of the most famous Punjabi and Hindi poets. It is considered as a very important historical document and still remains unpublished.
Anekarthak Kosh (ed., 1925)
Naam Mala kosh (ed., 1938)

See also
 Max Arthur Macauliffe
 Singh Sabha Movement

References

External links

Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
Punjabi’s pioneering encyclopaedist – on The Sunday Tribune, India.
Nabha
 Historical documents on Kahn Singh Nabha

Indian Sikhs
Sikh writers
Scholars of Sikhism
1861 births
1938 deaths
People from Punjab, India
Indian encyclopedists
Singh Sabha movement


There will be 230 lunar eclipses in the 21st century (2001–2100): 87 penumbral, 58 partial and 85 total.

Eclipses are listed in sets by lunar years, repeating every 12 months for each node. Ascending node eclipses are given a red background highlight.

See also: List of lunar eclipses, List of 20th-century lunar eclipses, and List of 22nd-century lunar eclipses

List of lunar eclipses between 1998 and 2100

Eclipses from August 1998 are included to complete the first eclipse set.

References
This list was compiled with data calculated by Fred Espenak of NASA's GSFC.

Lunar eclipses
Lunar eclipses
21
Science timelines
Lunar eclipses by time


Red River Landing was the name of a community located in northern Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community was located near the Red River and the Mississippi River, adjacent to the current location of Louisiana State Penitentiary.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains a river-monitoring gauge at this location, approximately 5 miles (8 km) downstream of the Old River Control Structure.

History
In 1836, a post office was established at Red River Point in northern Pointe Coupee Parish.  This area was once a major economic point and the transfer point for all immigration and mail.  Before the advent of the railroads, daily stages ran from this community to Shreveport, Louisiana.  However, after the old railroad bridge collapsed, the once thriving community began to decline steadily.  In 1902, the post office was changed to Torras, after Joseph Torras, whose son-in-law, N. P. Phillips, founded the area.

References

Geography of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Baton Rouge metropolitan area
Ghost towns in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana


Mount Davis is a mountain located in Coos County, New Hampshire. The mountain is located along Montalban Ridge, a series of summits extending south from Mount Washington in the White Mountains.

Mount Davis is named after the Davis family of Massachusetts, a political dynasty whose members, over 220 years, have held at least 20 federal and state elected offices throughout New England.

See also

 List of mountains in New Hampshire
 White Mountain National Forest

References

Mountains of New Hampshire
White Mountains (New Hampshire)
Mountains of Coös County, New Hampshire


General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 8 March 1994. They were won by the governing Antigua Labour Party under the leadership of Lester Bird. Bird had been appointed leader of the ALP before the elections, after his father and predecessor Vere Bird announced his intention to retire. Lester Bird became Prime Minister after elections. Voter turnout was 62.3%. This was the first election contested by the United Progressive Party, under future Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer.

The elections were described as neither free nor fair, as they were marred by several problems, including failing to guarantee a secret ballot, a deficient registration process open to abuse, and the inflation of the voter registry by 25% with the names of deceased people or emigrants.

Results

References

Antigua
Elections in Antigua and Barbuda
General election
Antiguan general election


The Green Knight is the 25th novel by Irish writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch, first published in 1993.

Plot summary
The lives of Louise Anderson and her daughters Aleph, Sefton and Moy become intertwined with a mystical character whose destiny both affects and informs the novel's central conflicts which include a murder that never actually occurs, sibling rivalry, love triangles, and one extremely sentient dog who dearly misses his owner.  This novel loosely parodies the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; however, it is largely a comedy of errors with bizarre twists and turns in circumstances that threaten the stability of a circle of friends in a London community.

Characters
Lucas Graffe, a dark, Byronic figure who mentally tortures his brother Clement, the antagonist
Louise Anderson, an emotionally repressed mother of three girls
Sefton, daughter of Louise, a student and lover of history
Aleph, daughter of Louise, the beautiful and elusive eldest sister
Moy, daughter of Louise, a sensitive lover of all living things
Joan, a childhood friend of Louise and mother of Harvey
Harvey, family friend of the Anderson sisters and Joan's son
Clement, brother of Lucas
Bellamy, an ascetic and aspiring monk
Peter Mir, a strange figure who becomes entwined in the lives of the others
Anax, a border collie who desperately misses Bellamy who gave him up to prove his Christian convictions

Reception
Publishers Weekly referred to the book as "...far from perfect, but passages of intense writing and keen depictions of people grappling with afflictions of the soul remind us that Murdoch's perspective is invaluable."

References

1993 British novels
Novels by Iris Murdoch
British magic realism novels
Novels set in London
Chatto & Windus books
Parody novels
Novels based on poems


A beachside is the coastal area near a beach. It may also refer to:
Beachside Soccer Club, A youth soccer club in CT
Beachside FC, an association football club in Hobart, Australia
Beachside, Newfoundland and Labrador
Beachside State Recreation Site, a park in Oregon


A legal recourse is an action that can be taken by an individual or a corporation to attempt to remedy a legal difficulty.

 A lawsuit if the issue is a matter of civil law
 Contracts that require mediation or arbitration before a dispute can go to court
 Referral to police or prosecutor for investigation and possible criminal charges if the matter is a criminal violation
 Petition to a legislature or other law-making body for a change in the law if a law is thought to be unjust.
 Petition to a president or governor or monarch other chief executive or other official with power to pardon.

See also

Legal principles
 Habeas corpus
 Damnum absque injuria, loss without injury
 Arm's length principle
 Sovereign immunity. The immunity of state officials or state entities to torts with respect to its subjects.

Examples
 Arranged marriages may leave the woman without legal recourse.
 Bookies and confidence tricksters  to block legal recourse.
 Victims of bullying may have legal recourse in the United States.
 The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 purportedly leaves consumer groups without legal recourse.
 Diploma mills and essay mills employ various legal techniques to leave their customers without legal recourse.
 In termination of employment, an employee may have legal recourse to challenge such a termination in at-will presumption of employment in the United States.
 Victims of joke theft have little legal recourse, but have occasionally exacted their own vengeance.
 Lynchings
 Military tribunal
 Rumsfeld v. Padilla

Legal terminology


Seva Novgorodsev MBE (Russian: Се́ва Новгоро́дцев, which is a pseudonym, his real name being Vsevolod Borisovich Levenstein (Всеволод Борисович Левенштейн); born 9 July 1940) is a former radio presenter on the BBC Russian Service, and is famous through the former Soviet Union.

He created the music programme «Рок-посевы» ("Rock sowing" or "Rock crops", in Russian containing a pun with the name Seva) and the chat shows «Севаоборот» (Sevaoborot, a pun with the Russian word sevooborot, "crop rotation") and «БибиСева» (BBSeva). He has also written the books «Рок-Посевы» (Rock the Seva way) and «Секс, наркотики, рок-н-ролл» (Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll).

He was Russia's first radio deejay, and he has also features in a number of films.  In 1981 he married actress Karen Craig, with whom he co-wrote a Russian cookbook for Sainsbury's in 1990, but they later divorced. He is now married to Olga, who is a designer.

On 4 September 2015, at the age of 75, Seva retired from broadcasting.

Filmography
A View to a Kill (1985) - Soviet Helicopter Pilot
Spies Like Us (1985) - Tadzhik Highway Patrolman
Leto (2018) - Antiquarian

References

External links
 BBC, "Seva Novgorodsev: The DJ who 'brought down the USSR'", 5 September 2015

Seva's page on the BBC Russian Service website
BBC Russian Service online
Seva's personal site (mirror)

British radio presenters
British music journalists
BBC World Service people
Russian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Russian music journalists
Russian Jews
Members of the Order of the British Empire
1940 births
Living people


Swamp Thing is a platform video game for the NES and Game Boy. Based on the animated series of the same name, of the DC Comics superhero character Swamp Thing. It was published by THQ and released in December 1992.

A Swamp Thing title was also in development by Microsmiths for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis but was canceled. It would have been published by NuVision Entertainment.

Gameplay
The NES version of Swamp Thing borrows the game engine from The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants. Its introduction features the origin story of Swamp Thing and as depicted in the 1991 animated series. The player takes the role of the title character battling foes throughout the Louisiana swamps and other locations in a side-scrolling format. Swamp Thing's attack methods include punching and firing "sludge balls" which are acquired throughout the game. The player must venture through various stages, which include a graveyard, chemical factory, toxic dump, and finally, Arcane's lab. Bosses include Arcane's Un-Men, Dr. Deemo, Weedkiller, Skinman, and finally, Arcane himself.

In Game Boy's Swamp Thing, stages include the Arctic, the desert, and contaminated rainforests. Swamp Thing also uses tools like camouflage and thorn skin, and he must recycle scattered garbage in order to score points and gain additional powers.

Reception

Aside from marginal graphics, the NES Swamp Thing has received average to generally negative reviews for its high difficulty, poor music, and dull gameplay. While perhaps faring better than its NES counterpart, the Game Boy version of Swamp Thing was not met with high praise either, getting a 2.5/5 score from Nintendo Power.

Notes

References

1992 video games
Imagineering (company) games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Game Boy games
Platformers
THQ games
Cancelled Sega Genesis games
Video games based on DC Comics
Swamp Thing in other media
Works by Len Wein
Video games scored by Mark Van Hecke
Video games set in Louisiana
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in swamps


Parlange (pronounced Parr lawn ja) is the name of a community located in southern Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community was along Louisiana Highway 1, on the banks of False River.

History
Just northeast of Parlange is a plantation home known as Parlange Plantation. The plantation was named for Charles Parlange, a Frenchman.  The home was originally owned by Marquis Vincent de Ternant. Parlange was the childhood home of Virginie Amelie Gautreau (née Avegno), descendant of the Marquis and the infamous Madam X of the John Singer Sargent portrait in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

From 1902 to 1904, a post office served the surrounding community.

References

Geography of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Baton Rouge metropolitan area
Towns in Louisiana


"When I'm with You" is the third single from Faber Drive's debut album Seven Second Surgery. The song peaked at number 19 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart. The song is about a couple in which the guy spends a long time away from his girlfriend and his promise to stay with her and spend more time with her. The music video was filmed in a hospital and premiered on February 20, 2008 on MuchMusic's MuchOnDemand.

Music video
The music video describes a young woman who lost her boyfriend in a car accident. The video starts off with doctors rushing in with the patient who appears to be the injured boyfriend. A series of clips show the band singing and the desperate doctors trying multiple methods of saving the young man but failing. Meanwhile, the young woman tries to approach other people at the hospital, presumably to ask where her boyfriend is, but they don't respond. The video ends with her discovering her own body in the hospital and realizing that she is in fact the one who died. Shortly afterward, the young man's heartbeat flatlines, and doctors try to revive him but fail. The girlfriend takes his hand in her own and brings him back to life. The young woman walks outdoors into white light and into the afterlife.

Chart performance
The song debuted at number 88 on the week of February 2, 2008. It hit the Top 40 on the week of March 15, 2008 reaching number 27. It reached number 19 on the week of April 16, 2008 and left the chart four weeks later, spending a total of twenty weeks on the chart.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certification

References

2008 singles
Faber Drive songs
Canadian pop punk songs
Songs written by Brian Howes
2007 songs
Rock ballads
Universal Records singles


General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 9 March 1989, the second after it had become an independent Commonwealth realm. The elections were won by the governing Antigua Labour Party (ALP), whose leader Vere Bird was reelected as Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 60.7%.

This was Bird's eighth and final election victory. He resigned as Prime Minister in 1994, just before the subsequent general elections. Bird was replaced by his son, Lester Bird, the long-time party chairman.

Results

References

Antigua
Elections in Antigua and Barbuda
General election
March 1989 events in North America


The following is a list of ecoregions in Equatorial Guinea, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). The country's three distinct geographic regions (Río Muni on the African mainland, Bioko island, and Annobón island) are home to distinct ecoregions.

Terrestrial ecoregions

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

 Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests (Bioko)
 Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests (Río Muni)
 Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests (Bioko)
 São Tomé, Príncipe, and Annobón forests (Annobón)

Mangroves

 Central African mangroves (Río Muni)

Freshwater ecoregions
 Central West Coastal Equatorial (Río Muni)
 Northern West Coastal Equatorial (Bioko)
 São Tomé, Príncipe, and Annobón (Annobón)

Marine ecoregions
 Gulf of Guinea Central (Bioko Island, Río Muni)
 Gulf of Guinea Islands (Annobón)

References
 Burgess, Neil, Jennifer D’Amico Hales, Emma Underwood (2004). Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.
 Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573-583.
 Thieme, Michelle L. (2005). Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.

Equatorial Guinea
Ecoregions


Meskhi () is a Georgian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
 Leila Meskhi (born 1968), Georgian tennis player
 Mikheil Meskhi (1937–91), Georgian football player
 Mykhaylo Meskhi (born 1997), Ukrainian football player

Surnames of Georgian origin
Georgian-language surnames


is a medical text translated into Japanese during the Edo period. It was written by Sugita Genpaku, and was published by Suharaya Ichibee () in 1774, the third year of An'ei. The body comprises four volumes, the illustrations, one. The contents are written kanbun-style. It is based on the Dutch-language translation , often known in Japan as , of Johann Adam Kulmus’ Latin , published before 1722 (exact year is unknown) in Gdańsk, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. As a full-blown translation from a Western language, it was the first of its kind in Japan.

Background
On 4 March 1771, the eighth year of Meiwa, the students of Rangaku medicine Sugita Genpaku, Maeno Ryōtaku, Nakagawa Jun'an, et al., by studying performing autopsies on criminals executed at the Kozukappara execution grounds (now, there is a possibility that Katsuragawa Hoshū was at this facility as well, but from the description in , it seems more likely that he was not). Both Sugita and Maeno had the book Ontleedkundige Tafelen, imported from Holland. Sugita, marveling at the accuracy of the work while comparing it by eye with his autopsies, proposed to Maeno that it be translated. For some time, Sugita had a desire to translate something from Dutch; now he would get approval for this. He met with Maeno the very next day (5 March) and began translation. The one who recommended Kaitai Shinsho to the shōgun was Katsuragawa Hosan.

At first, Sugita and Nakagawa could not actually read Dutch; even with Maeno who could, their Dutch vocabulary was inadequate. It would have been difficult for them to consult with the Dutch translations and translators (Tsūji) in Nagasaki, and naturally there were no dictionaries at the time. A translation from any other Western language would have been out of the question, as the government of the time did not allow contact with any other Western nation. Therefore, in a process comparable to cryptanalysis, they progressed with translation work. In his later years, Sugita would detail the process in Rangaku Koto Hajime.

In the second year of An'ei (1773), as they arrived at a translation goal, in order to ascertain society's and above all the authorities' response, they released the , a five-page flyer.

In 1774, Kaitai Shinsho was published.

Influences
Maeno Ryōtaku was at the center of the translation work, but his name is only mentioned in the dedication written by the famous interpreter Yoshio Kōsaku. By one account, Maeno was on the way to study at Nagasaki; when he prayed at a Tenman-gū for the fulfillment of his studies, he vowed not to study in order to raise his own name, so he abstained from submitting it. By another account, since he knew that the completed works were not completely perfect, the academic Maeno could not submit his name in good conscience.  Sugita Genpaku said, "I am sickly and numbered in years as well. I do not know when I will die." While he knew the translation was imperfect in places, he rushed to publish. The publication of "Anatomic Illustrations" was also Sugita's design; in regard to this, Maeno is said to have had shown dislike for it. However, the man would actually go on to live an extremely long life for the time (he lived to the age of eighty-five). Unsure of when he would die and unsure of whether the government would approve the distribution of the Western ideas, it could be said this was a risky but important move.

Nakagawa Jun'an, after Kaitai Shinsho’s publication, also continued his study of Dutch, along with Katsuragawa Hoshū, and took on the natural history of Sweden according to Thunberg.  Katsuragawa Hosan was a same-generation friend of Sugita's. With his status as a hōgen, he served as a court physician to the shōgun. He was not a direct influence on the translation work itself, though his son Hoshū did participate. Also, he provided for the  supplementary materials that amounted to three volumes of Dutch medical texts. Upon the publishing of Kaitai Shinsho, since there was a possibility that it encroached on the Bakufu's taboos, Katsuragawa was the one who ran it by the Ōoku.  Katsuragawa Hoshū was the son of the hōgen Katsuragawa Hosan, and would become a hōgen himself later on. He is said to have been involved with the translation work from early on. Afterwards, he would serve to develop rangaku along with Ōtsuki Gentaku.

There are others that had to do with the translation work, like Ishikawa Genjō, whose name appears in the opening pages, Toriyama Shōen,  Kiriyama Shōtetsu, and Mine Shuntai (among others) whose names appear in Rangaku Koto Hajime.  Yoshio Kōgyū (posthumously Yoshio Nagaaki) was a Dutch tsūji. He wrote the preface to Kaitai Shinsho, and admired what he felt to be Sugita and Maeno's masterpiece.  Hiraga Gennai, on Shōgatsu of the third year of An'ei, visited the home of Sugita Genpaku. The translation of Kaitai Shinsho’s text was nearly complete, and he was informed that they were looking for an artist for the dissection figures.  Odano Naotake was a bushi from Kakunodate in the Akita Domain, and the artist. By Hiraga Gennai's referral, he got to drawing Kaitai Shinshos figures off the original pictures. Until Kaitai Shinshos first edition, it took the short time of half a year. It was his first time working in Edo, and yet it was historical record-setting work for Japanese science.

Content

Kaitai Shinsho is generally said to be a translation of Ontleedkundige Tafelen. However, other than the work itself, Bartholini's, Blankaart's, Schamberger’s, Koyter’s, Veslingius', Palfijn's,  and others' works were also consulted; the cover is based on Valuerda's. Of course, Asian sources and opinions also had an influence.

The book is not a mere translation; the translation was done mostly by Maeno Ryōtaku and then transponed into classical Chinese by Sugita. There are notes in various places left by Sugita, as leftovers from the work. All those lengthy footnotes that cover more than 50% of Kulmus' book were left out.

The contents are split into four volumes:

Volume I
General remarks; forms and names; parts of the body; skeletal structure: general remarks about joints; skeletal structure: detailed exposition about joints.
Volume II
The head; the mouth; the brain and nerves; the eyes; the ears; the nose; the tongue.
Volume III
The chest and the diaphragm; the lungs; the heart; arteries; veins; the portal vein; the abdomen; the bowels and stomach; the mesentery and lacteals; the pancreas.
Volume IV
The spleen; the liver and gall bladder; the kidneys and the bladder; the genitalia; pregnancy; the muscles.

The illustrations only comprise one volume.

Effect afterwards
After the publication of the Kaitai Shinsho, there was besides the development in medical science, the progress of the comprehension of the Dutch language. Also, it is important to note that Japan, even under its extreme isolationist policies, still had some foundation to understand the products of Western culture. It also helped to give a chance for promotion for such talents as those of Ōtsuki Gentaku.

In translation, some words had to be coined (that is, there were no Japanese words that existed for them prior to the work). Some of them, such as the terms for , , and  are still used to this day as a result. A great number of anatomical terms were transliterated using Chinese characters. They disappeared quickly during the following decades.

The fact that this was a first translation means that misunderstandings were practically unavoidable. There are many mistranslations in the Kaitai Shinsho; later on, Ōtsuki Gentaku retranslated it and released the  in the ninth year of Bunsei (1826).

In his last years, Sugita Genpaku would write about the work on Kaitai Shinsho in . This text had a great influence on writings about the modernization of Japanese medicine.

See also
Sugita Genpaku
Nakagawa Jun'an
Satake Shozan
Hiraga Gennai
Kaitai-Shin Show (an educational program on NHK)

References

Screech, Timon and Carl Peter Thunberg. Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and the Shogun's Realm, 2005. .
Takashina Shūji, Yōrō Takeshi, Haga Tōru, et al. Present Day in the middle of Edo – Akita Dutch Pictures and "Kaitai Shinsho", 1996. .

External links

Johann Adam Kulmus.  Kaitai shinsho. Illustrations from the original text.  Historical Anatomies on the Web, National Library of Medicine.
 Kaitai Shinsho

1774 non-fiction books
1770s in medicine
History of anatomy
Rangaku
1770s in Japan
History of science and technology in Japan
Medical books
Illustrated books
Kanbun
Translations into Japanese


HSV Sea Slice was an experimental vessel, built by Lockheed Martin, for the United States Navy, later used in commercial service.

History
Based on a variant of the SWATH hull design, known as "SLICE," Sea Slice is characterized by four teardrop-shaped submerged hulls—double the number seen on most previous designs. The design reduces waves and drag, which allows a SWATH vessel to "...operate at higher speeds while retaining their characteristic low motions in a seaway". Designed for operation in the same area as, and to mount similar armament to, a littoral combat ship-type corvette, the planned weapon options included the Millennium Gun and the NetFires System, intended to launch Lockheed's (now cancelled) Loitering Attack Munition.

Sea Slice was withdrawn from Navy service and made available for purchase for civilian use, and purchased by Danish company, Advanced Offshore Solutions ApS, for conversion to a wind farm support vessel.

In May 2019 the vessel was scrapped in Esbjerg, Denmark after a failed attempt to repair the engine.

See also
 Sea Shadow (IX-529)
 Sea Fighter (FSF-1)

References

External links

Small waterplane area twin hull vessels
Experimental ships of the United States Navy
High speed vessels of the United States Navy


Rhenium oxide may refer to:
 Rhenium(IV) oxide, ReO2
 Rhenium trioxide, ReO3
 Rhenium(VII) oxide, Re2O7


Dúnchad Muirisci mac Tipraite (died 683) was a King of Connacht from the Ui Fiachrach branch of the Connachta. He was of the Ui Fiachrach Muaidhe sept based along the River Moy. This line was descended from Fiachnae, a brother of Ailill Molt (died 484).

His epithet shows that he won control of the Muiresc region on the Moy and his line provided the later kings of Ui Fiachrach. Both the king lists and the annals attest to his rule as king in the years 682–683. However, they give his father as Máeldub whereas genealogies such as the Book of Ballymote name Máeldub as his grandfather and Tipraite as his father.

The annals record that he was killed in 683 but do not mention who was responsible. His known sons were Indrechtach mac Dúnchado (died 707), a king of Connacht, and Aillil.

Notes

See also
Kings of Connacht

References

 Annals of Tigernach
 Francis J.Byrne, Irish Kings and High-Kings
 Book of Leinster,Section 30
 Laud Synchronisms
 The Chronology of the Irish Annals, Daniel P. McCarthy

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

683 deaths
Kings of Connacht
Monarchs from County Mayo
People from County Sligo
7th-century Irish monarchs
Gaels
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
7th-century births
7th-century deaths


The first of the Lade Baronetcies, of Warbleton in the County of Sussex, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 11 March 1731 for John Lade (sometimes spelled "Ladd"), a prosperous Southwark brewer and MP for Southwark. By the terms of the patent, the childless first baronet's niece's third son succeeded as second baronet, and changed his surname from Whithorne to Lade, but died without issue, when the baronetcy became extinct.

However, the first baronet left his fortune to another great-nephew, John Inskip, an MP for Camelford, who also took the name of Lade, and who was created a baronet, also of Warbleton, in 1758. He, unfortunately, died the next year following the amputation of his leg after a fall from a horse. His wife Mary, the sister of Henry Thrale, was pregnant at the time of his death and bore a posthumous son who succeeded to the baronetcy. This Sir John Lade was cited by Samuel Johnson as an example of a young man whose personal gifts were not equal to his fortune—Johnson's intimacy with the Thrales giving him an opportunity to know the young baronet. On the death without issue of the second baronet of the second creation, 10 February 1838, the second baronetcy also became extinct.

Lade baronets, of Warbleton (1731)

Sir John Lade, 1st Baronet (1662–1740)
Sir John Lade, 2nd Baronet (1721–1747)

Lade baronets, of Warbleton (1758)
Sir John Lade, 1st Baronet (–1759)
Sir John Lade, 2nd Baronet (1759–1838)

References

Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain
Baronetcies created with special remainders


Adrian Willem Ban Kwie Lauw-Zecha (born 1933), better known as Adrian Zecha, is an Indonesian hotelier and founder of several international hotel companies including Regent Hotels, GHM Hotels, Aman Resorts, and Azerai Resorts, among others. Zecha was also part-owner of the renowned London’s Dorchester Hotel, and Bangkok’s The Sukhothai Hotel through his investment company.

Family background
Zecha was born in Sukabumi, Indonesia into the Lauw-Sim-Zecha family, part of the Cabang Atas or Chinese gentry of colonial Indonesia. His family is of Peranakan Chinese and Bohemian roots. He is a great-grandson of the late nineteenth-century magnate and mandarin Lauw Tek Lok, the first Luitenant der Chinezen of Bekasi (a high-ranking post in the civil bureaucracy) by the latter's controversial interracial marriage to Louisa Zecha, an Indo plantation owner of Bohemian descent. On being widowed, Louisa Zecha went on to marry another Chinese magnate, Sim Keng Koen, the first Kapitein der Chinezen of Sukabumi, where her great-grandson Adrian Lauw Zecha was born.

Zecha's father, the plantation owner Aristide William Lauw-Zecha, was the first native-born Indonesian to graduate from any American university, Iowa University, in 1923. The connection with America continued with Zecha and his four brothers, who were all educated in the United States.

Zecha is also a cousin of the Malaysian royal, Che Engku Chesterina (née Sim-Zecha). His brother, Austen Zecha, was the founder of TBWA-ISC Group, an agency that is credited with the award-winning “Malaysia Truly Asia” campaign for Tourism Malaysia in 1999. Another brother, Alwin Zecha, was the illustrious founder and executive chairman of the Pacific Leisure Group, a leading destination management company with offices in 38 countries worldwide, and also served as a board member and Chairman for numerous other organizations, including PATA.

Early life and career
Zecha attended Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. Following graduation, he briefly attended Johns Hopkins University to pursue a medical degree on his father’s wishes, but later dropped out and instead pursued a Master in Journalism from Columbia University.

In 1956, when President Sukarno nationalised the country's private businesses, many members of the Lauw-Sim-Zecha family fled to Singapore, the Netherlands, and the United States. At the time the 23-year-old Zecha was in New York, working at Time magazine. In 1961, Zecha launched Asia Magazine, the first regional newspaper colour supplement in Asia.  When the magazine faltered a year later, Rupert Murdoch was persuaded by Zecha to invest in the magazine (in what was his first Asian investment). The magazine was a part of English speaking families until 1998. It was held above water for its last ten years by Giro Semba and Olav Mueller-Uri until it finally closed in 1998.

In 1970, Zecha started a new travel and lifestyle magazine named Orientations based in Hong Kong. With the advent of in-flight magazines, Orientations dropped its travel content and progressed over the years to become a publication focused on the arts of East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Himalayas. It is now the leading magazine in this field and its contributors are renowned scholars and researchers from around the world.

Hotels
Zecha's first experience of the hotel business was when a friend asked him to help the Marriott Hotel chain broker land deals in Asia.  This experience led to Zecha joining with Robert Burns and Georg Rafael in 1972 to found Regent International Hotels, which was one of Asia's first luxury hotel groups. The trio built 12 hotels before Zecha sold his 30% stake for $30 million in 1986. He then moved into real estate speculation, forming an investment fund that, among other deals, bought Bangkok's Regent Hotel and London's Dorchester Hotel before eventually selling them.

While in Phuket looking for a site upon which to build a holiday home, Zecha was walking along Pansea Beach when he came across a coconut plantation which occupied a prime location. Plans to build a home on a site soon developed into an idea to build a small boutique resort in partnership with longtime friend Anil Thadani. The two spent mainly their own money as no banks would lend for the project due to the small number of planned rooms, instead of the 500-room hotel they thought would be more practical. Amanpuri opened in January 1988 at a cost of US$4 million with only 40 rooms. Its success, followed by that of Amandari in Bali, confirmed to Zecha the viability of a chain of minimalist boutique resorts in remote, natural settings.

In 1992, Zecha sold a controlling interest in Silverlink, the holding company which owned Aman Resorts, to Clement Vaturi, an old friend whose family owned the Hoteliere Immobliere chain of French hotels. Zecha was left with only 45% of the share holdings. The arrangement was satisfactory to both parties until Vaturi's controlling interest effectively came under the control of Los Angeles-based Colony Capital, a real estate investment fund. A lawsuit between Vaturi and Colony Capital promised to drag on, putting Zecha's plans to expand the number of Aman resorts on hold. Dispirited, and by now owning only 45% of Silverlink's shares, he resigned from his position as CEO in 1998.

By 2000, Colony Capital and Vaturi had settled their lawsuit, which led to Vaturi getting his Silverlink shares back. He soon sold his shares to Lee Hing Development, a Hong Kong property fund which was affiliated with Thadani's Schroder Capital Partners (a Singapore-based fund). With the controlling investors now sharing his vision, Zecha returned as chairman and CEO. In the intervening period Zecha founded Maha Resorts, which opened its Hacineda de San Antonio in Mexico in October 2000.

In 2007, Zecha announced that he had reached an agreement with DLF Ltd, India's largest real estate company, to form a partnership to acquire a controlling interest in Aman Resorts for US$250 million. DLF Group sold the company in 2013 to a joint venture between Russian real estate investor Vladislav Doronin and American entrepreneur Omar Amanat for US$358 million. Controversy ensued when Doronin announced that Zecha was stepping down as CEO and that he would assume the position. A London High Court injunction against Doronin reinstated Zecha as CEO, alleging that Doronin did not have board approval to remove him. The ruling, however, was limited, as it returned Zecha to his role for only 17 days. Olivier Jolivet, a longtime Aman executive, was appointed to the role which he held until February 2017.

In addition to his history at Aman Resorts, Zecha  also chairman and director of General Hotel Management Ltd (GHM), a developer and manager of luxury hotels and resorts. Zecha was also a partner with Georg Rafael in Rafael Hotels Limited, a company that was sold to Mandarin Oriental Group in May 2000.

In February 2017, Zecha began the soft opening for the first hotel under his new Azerai hotel brand which aims to provide more affordable lodging for adventurers and "the younger crowd". This was followed in 2020 by a venture with Naru Developments to launch Azumi, a ryokan-inspired hotel brand based in Japan.

Awards
In 2005 Adrian Zecha was awarded the Innovation Award at the 16th annual Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific (HICAP).

In 2010 Adrian Zecha was awarded the 2010 Travel & Leisure Design Champion Award. The celebration was held at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

In 2011, he was awarded an award for lifetime achievement during the International Luxury Travel Market event in Shanghai.

References

1933 births
Living people
Hoteliers
Lauw-Sim-Zecha family
Cabang Atas
Indonesian people of Chinese descent
Indonesian businesspeople
Singaporean businesspeople
20th-century Indonesian businesspeople
20th-century Singaporean businesspeople
21st-century Indonesian businesspeople
21st-century Singaporean businesspeople
Indo people