Andrew Lawrenceson Smith, also known as Anders Lauritzen Smith (born in Braco ca. 1620, dead ca. 1694 in Stavanger), was a  Scottish craftsman, woodcutter and painter. He was married to Maren Knudsdatter.

He is one of the most notable artists from the Stavanger renaissance, well known for his works in the Stavanger Cathedral. When he moved to Norway, he first settled in Bergen, but later moved to a farm in Sola near Stavanger.
Andrew Smith is seen as one of the leading representatives of the Cartilage baroque art period. It is known as Cartilage baroque because the woodcarvings resemble the curves in a human ear.

In the 1650s he was appointed to make a new pulpit for Stavanger Cathedral. The impressive pulpit was finished in 1658 and is seen as one of the more significant art works in Norway from the Cartilage baroque art period.  He also created the five epitaphs for some of the priests and their families, in the nave and aisle of the medieval cathedral. He also created a number of important works of Christian art and church art in the Stavanger Region of Norway.

References

Related reading
Platou, Dorothea S. (1928) Anders L. Smith : en norsk billedskjærer fra 1600 årene (Stavanger : Dreyers grafiske anstalt)

External links
Aftenbladet.no – Norwegian site

17th-century Scottish painters
Scottish male painters
Year of birth uncertain
Year of death uncertain
1620 births
1694 deaths
People from Sola, Norway
Scottish emigrants to Norway


The Rasmussen Lowlands is a 3,000 km2 coastal plain complex of wetlands in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It was designated a Ramsar wetland of international importance by the Ramsar Convention on May 24, 1982. It is also classified as an Important Bird Area.

The poorly drained area consists of flat lowlands overlain by marine silts and sand, with numerous tundra ponds throughout.

Shorebirds numbering up to 500,000 individuals  nest in the ponds and surrounding areas. The vulnerable peregrine falcon nests in the adjacent escarpment, with nearly 6% (80 pairs) of the national population observed here in 1995.

References

Ramsar sites in Kitikmeot Region
Geography of Kitikmeot Region
Wetlands of Kitikmeot Region
Important Bird Areas of Kitikmeot Region
Plains of Kitikmeot Region
Important Bird Areas of the Arctic


Jumbo Elliott may refer to:

Jumbo Elliott (coach) (1915–1981),  American track and field coach
Jumbo Elliott (American football) (born 1965),  American football player
Jumbo Elliott (baseball) (1900–1970),  American baseball pitcher


Mark Illsley (born June 4, 1958) is a film director best known for writing and directing the film Happy, Texas, which starred William H. Macy and Steve Zahn, and directing Bookies.

Illsley was raised in Santa Rosa, California where he made films as a teen with a Super-8 camera. He graduated from the USC School of Cinema-Television in 1981, where he met and started working relationship with Kevin Reynolds.

Happy, Texas triggered a bidding war that played out at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, with Harvey Weinstein and Miramax beating out other suitors, which included Fox Searchlight, Paramount Classics and New Line Cinema.

He married his wife Jill Zimmerman on September 29, 2001.  They divorced in 2016.

References

External links

1958 births
American male screenwriters
Living people
People from Santa Rosa, California
USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni
Film directors from California
Screenwriters from California


Dangerous Mind () is a 2006 Taiwanese television series starring River Huang, Guang Yun, Lee Lieh, Jack Kao, Cai Can-De and James Wen. It is adapted from the novel of the same name by Taiwanese writer Hou Wen Yung. The series focuses on the conflicts among teachers, students, and the parents during the Taiwanese educational reform from the students' aspects.

In 2007, River Huang won Best Actor and Dangerous Mind was awarded Best Television Series at the 42nd Golden Bell Awards, Taiwan.

Plot summary
Xie Zheng-Jie (Jay) is a senior in Taipei Municipal Li Ren Junior High School. He has to take the national senior high school entrance exams in the near future. One day, a school inspector from Taipei Education Bureau abruptly goes to Li Ren and tells them that there is a report on Mr. Zhan, a math teacher in Li Ren Junior High, who uses the music class period to give students math exams. After hearing this, Mr. Zhan is very angry. Later, he finds out that those letters were sent by Shen Wei, a student in his class. Hence, Shen Wei is forced to transfer to another class. After Jay refuses to participate in Mr. Zhan's cram school, he is forced by Mr. Zhan to move his desk to the hallway outside and participate in the class from the hallway all day long because he reads comic books during class.  Mr. Zhan calls Jay's mother, wanting her to come to school and deal with the problem, but he humiliates Jay's mother in front of Jay. Jay loses his temper and shoves Mr. Zhan, which causes a small physical altercation between the two. The school gives Jay a harsh warning, which is comparable to a three-strikes-you're-out type of punishment. Jay and his mother disagree on the warning and this leads to a conflict between Jay's family and the school. At the same time, Jay's parents face a divorce. Jay is also given the elbow by other students. All of these consecutive incidents cause Jay to think of the real meaning in his daily routine - taking tests, going to cram school, studying hard, and what he really needs in his future life.

Cast
 Xie Zheng-Jie (Jay), played by River Huang: The protagonist in the story, a fifteen-year-old boy in ninth grade. He used to get good grades and study hard. He is also considered to be a witty student in school. But after meeting Shen Wei, Eileen, and Gao Wei Qi, there are a lot of incidents in his life make him think about the future he wants to have.
 Zhang Xin-Ru, played by Zhi Pei-Huei: A schoolmate of Jay, and also the girl Jay has a crush on. She has a good feeling toward Jay, too.
 Shen Wei, played by Bryan Chang: He used to be Jay's classmate, but he is forced to transfer to another class due to the "blackmail" incident. He is diagnosed with a brain tumor. He has the spirit of revolution which makes him positively fight against the authorities and query various systems and unreasonable phenomena.
 Gao Wei-Qi, played by Hu Huan-Wei: A troublemaker and rebel in Li Ren Junior High. He was cultivated into a rebel because of a bad domestic atmosphere.
 Zhao Ru-Hao, played by Deng Sheng-Yao: A classmate and good friend of Jay. He is always a goody-goody with perfect grades. He is not an ambitious boy and just wants to enter Jian Guo High School and a good university. His relationship with Jay has been challenged after the conflict between Jay and Mr. Zhan.
 Zhang De-Cai, played by Guan Yun: A dean in Li Ren Junior High School and also the father of Zhang Xin Ru. No matter what happens, he only wants to retain the prestige of the school and deal with the problems as quickly as possible.
 Zhang Mei-Li, played by Lee Lieh: Jay's mother. She is an editor working in Taipei News Daily, and she is in a marital crisis.
 Xie Xian-Tang, played by Jack Kao: Jay's father. He cannot stand the aggressive attitude of his wife Zhang Mei Li, therefore the marriage is likely to break.
Zhan Chao-Wei (Mr. Zhan), played by James Wen: The ace among the math teachers in Li Ren, a strict math teacher who is supported by many parents of the students. After he has a conflict against Jay, he only want to assure his benefits and the status quo in the school; therefore he unscrupulously goes on the attack against Jay.
Peng Qi-Wen (Ms. Peng), played by Tsai Tsan-te: An English teacher in Li Ren Junior High School. Her teaching ideas are in total contrast to Mr. Zhan's  and she treats her students in a very friendly way.
Eileen, played by Gwei Lun-mei: An eighteen-year-old dropout who makes a living by selling drugs and being a prostitute. She often has a "don't care" attitude toward others when she actually feels lonely.
Lawrence, played by Lan Cheng-lung: Eileen's boyfriend. He is very skillful at computers and the Internet. He sometimes uses his talent to be a hacker and helps out Jay.
Professor Hao, played by Xie Li-Jing: An educationist who is unsatisfied with the educational system today in Taiwan. She often participates in call-in talk shows and preaches about her ideas of educational reform.
Qiu Xian, played by Guo Shi-Lun: Jay's mother's colleague who is also an editor in Taipei News Daily. He likes Jay's mother and also supports the protest held by Jay's family.

Differences between the novel and the series
 In the novel, Zhan Chao-Wei has been teaching for 20 years, while in the series, he is much younger.
 When Zhan Chao-Wei is at university in the TV series, he has a record of rioting. This does not occur in the novel.
In the series drama, Zhan Chao-Wei finally joins Xie Zheng-Jie in rioting, and gets married with Peng Qi-Wen. In the novel, he resigns.
In the novel, the riot was at the Ministry of Education's door, and it is hardly quashed by the police. In the series, the riot occurs outside Li Ren's gate.
In the novel, Shen Wei sings a song and kills himself, but in the series, his life is spared.
Zhang Xin-Ru is a fictional character who appears in the series.

Music
OP: I dream of (我希望)
Songwriting: Wang Chiyao, Hou Chihchien
Singer: Lin Kuanyin
ED: Ode to Joy
Original: Beethoven
Songwriting: Hou Chihchien
Singer: O.Jay
Interlude: 教室環遊
Songwriting: Wang Chiyao, Hou Chihchien
Singer: River Huang, Hu Huan Wei, Deng Sheng Yao, Zhuang Hsiangwei

Awards

References

Taiwanese drama television series
Public Television Service original programming
2006 Taiwanese television series debuts
2006 Taiwanese television series endings
Television shows based on Taiwanese novels


Nem (Vietnamese: món nem) refers to various dishes in Vietnamese, depending on the locality.

Nem may refer to:

Nem rán, known in foreign countries as spring rolls, fried rolls or Vietnamese Imperial rolls, are made of either minced pork or prawns, wrapped in bánh tráng and deep fried. In southern Vietnam, it is referred to as chả giò. Nem rán rế is a similar dish as nem rán; however, it is wrapped in woven bánh tráng.
Nem cuốn (Gỏi cuốn in southern Vietnam), nem rolls, salad rolls, or summer rolls, is a Vietnamese dish traditionally consisting of pork, prawns, vegetables, bún (rice vermicelli),  fresh herbs and other ingredients wrapped in Vietnamese bánh tráng. In southern Vietnam, it is referred to as gỏi cuốn.
Nem chua is a Vietnamese fermented pork dish, usually rolled or cut in bite sizes. The meat is sweet, sour, salty and spicy. It is often served with bird's eye chili, garlic and Vietnamese coriander.
Nem chua rán are a type of nem made from ground pork and pork skin according to the recipe and process quite close to nem chua and fried in cooking oil (or grilled).
Nem nướng are Vietnamese barbecued pork meatballs typically eaten wrapped in bánh tráng with fresh herbs, bún (rice vermicelli) and dipped in some sort of sauce.
Nem bì, also known as tré, with the main ingredient are pork skin chopped into fibers, can be added fried lean shoulder meat, skin and boiled fat. Then, all wrapped in guava leaves or banana leaves.
Nem chạo, also known as nem thính, is a popular dish in the cuisine in the northern provinces of Vietnam.

See also
 NEM (disambiguation)


The Humberhead Levels is a national character area covering a large expanse of flat, low-lying land towards the western end of the Humber estuary in northern England. The levels occupy the former Glacial Lake Humber, an area bounded to the east by the Yorkshire Wolds and the northern Lincolnshire Edge, a limestone escarpment, and to the west by the southern part of the Yorkshire magnesian limestone ridge. In the north the levels merge into the slightly more undulating Vale of York close to the Escrick glacial moraine, and to the south  merge into the Trent Vale.

Glacial Lake Humber
During the last ice age, a glacier extended across this area almost to where Doncaster now is. The main glacial front was at Escrick where the Escrick moraine marks its furthest extension. This was the northern limit of an extensive lake which was impounded by the blocking of the Humber Gap by another ice front. The lake bottom gradually filled with clay sediments which are up to 20 metres thick. The clay sediments are locally overlain by peat deposits forming raised mires. At the base of the peat layers are the remains of a buried forest.

Early settlement
The Humberhead Levels have been settled for several thousand years. The drier northern area was settled before the Roman era. The lighter soils there were easier to drain with hand tools, and the area was extensively cleared for small-scale pastoral farming.
The system of easily navigable rivers was used by invading late fifth- and sixth-century Angles and eighth- and ninth-century Vikings who were able to penetrate deep into the countryside.

References

External links
Sea Level research in the area
Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve

Humber
Geography of the East Riding of Yorkshire
Geography of Lincolnshire
Humber
Levels in the United Kingdom
Natural regions of England


Cartilage Baroque, or Bruskbarokk and similar terms, denotes a stylistic period centering around the middle of the 17th century in Northern Europe, particularly in Scandinavia and Germany. Primarily a style of ornament, it is known as Bruskbarokk in Norwegian, Bruskbarok in Danish and Knorpelbarock in German (all these use the local words for cartilage), and style cartilage may be encountered in French, often referring to work in Alsace. However, the various terms can be applied to a bewildering range of styles of Northern Mannerist and Baroque ornament. In English these terms are mainly found in translated texts from European languages.

There is much use of strapwork in which, instead of leather or paper forms being imitated, the shapes may give the impression of imitating flayed skin or cartilage, including the cartilage giving the ear its shape, whether or not this was actually the intention, hence the origin of the name. The style has some relation to the auricular style of the same period, which is seen in its purest and most famous form in Dutch silverwork. This does take its name from resembling somewhat the shape of the ear, as does the German term Ohrmuschelstil.

Dealing mainly with interior architecture, it marked the transition from High-Renaissance and Mannerism to established Baroque, placing it during the years 1620–1660. Cartilage Baroque draws heavily on established Renaissance art forms, but gets its distinctive style from added ornamental elements, such as leaves and garlands, and a suppressed curvature.

The Scottish craftsman, woodcutter and painter Andrew Lawrenceson Smith is seen as one of the leading examples in the use of cartilage baroque, especially for his work in Stavanger Cathedral.

See also

Stavanger Renaissance
 Auricular style

Notes

References
Frederiks, J.W., Wrought Plate of North and South-Holland from the Renaissance Until the End of the Eighteenth Century, 2014, Springer, , 9789401036979, google books

Further reading
Roberts, Daniela, "German Knorpelwerk: Auricular dissemination in prints, woodcarving, stucco and painted wall decorations, 1620-1670".  Conference paper.
Platou, Dorothea S. (1928) Anders L. Smith : en norsk billedskjærer fra 1600 årene (Stavanger : Dreyers grafiske anstalt)

Baroque art
Decorative arts


Bouvincourt-en-Vermandois is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography
The commune is situated on the D268 road, some  northwest of Saint-Quentin.

Population

See also
Communes of the Somme department

References

Communes of Somme (department)


Devil in Disguise can refer to:
"(You're the) Devil in Disguise", a 1963 single by Elvis Presley
"Christine's Tune", a song from the 1969 album The Gilded Palace of Sin by the Flying Burrito Brothers
A cover version (by that name) of "Christine's Tune", from the 1982 live album Last Date by Emmylou Harris
A song from the 1982 album Grasshopper by J. J. Cale
A 2009 novel by Julian Clary
"Devil in Disguise", a song by Rancid from their 2023 album Tomorrow Never Comes

See also
Angel in Disguise (disambiguation)


Methyl methanesulfonate (MMS), also known as methyl mesylate, is an alkylating agent and a carcinogen. It is also a suspected reproductive toxicant, and may also be a skin/sense organ toxicant. It is used in cancer treatment.

Chemical reactions with DNA
MMS methylates DNA predominantly on N7-deoxyguanosine and N3-deoxyadenosine, and to a much lesser extent also methylates at other oxygen and nitrogen atoms in DNA bases, and also methylates one of the non-carbon bound oxygen atoms of the phosphodiester linkage. Originally, this action was believed to directly cause double-stranded DNA breaks, because homologous recombination-deficient cells are particularly vulnerable to the effects of MMS. However, it is now believed that MMS stalls replication forks, and cells that are homologous recombination-deficient have difficulty repairing the damaged replication forks.

See also

 Dimethyl sulfite, a chemical with the same molecular formula but different arrangement

References

Methyl esters
Methylating agents
Mesylate esters
Reagents for organic chemistry
IARC Group 2A carcinogens


is a tactical role-playing game developed by Sacnoth for the Neo Geo Pocket Color. It was published by SNK in 1999 in Japan and 2000 in the United Kingdom. A prospective North American release was cancelled when the console was pulled from sale. Following the exploits of the titular mech-piloting mercenary group during a civil war, the gameplay focuses on combat using mechs, with actions determined by commands imputed using a pool of action points.

The game was the last title developed by Sacnoth under SNK, and their last for the Neo Geo Pocket Color. It was directed and written by Matsuzo Machida, had character designs by Miyako Kato, and music by Yoshitaka Hirota. In contemporary and retrospective reviews, Faselei! saw praise for its gameplay and technical achievements. Several journalists have named it one of the platform's best titles. Machida, Kato and Hirota would later collaborate on Sacnoth's Shadow Hearts series.

Gameplay

Faselei! is a tactical role-playing game where players take on the role of Shotaro Kurosawa, member of the titular mercenary group, across thirteen story chapters. The game features three modes; the story campaign, a battle mode used for earning in-game currency and items, and a multiplayer versus mode. In the latter, two consoles with the game installed can be connected via a link cable allowing battles between mechs, with the winner taking a variety of prizes from the loser ranging from items to the defeated mech. Combat is performed using the TS (Toy Soldier) mechs, which can be switched out for new models, upgraded and outfitted with different abilities, weapons and supplies between missions. Completing a mission quickly will award a higher rank, raising Shotaro's standing and granting access to a wider selection of items between missions.

During combat, the player directly controls Shotaro's TS, with him usually assigned one combat partner driven by the game's artificial intelligence. The turn-based battles play from a top-down perspective, with units represented with sprites across a map. Rather than selecting commands from a menu, players use equipped functions called Chips, issuing commands to the TS which it automatically carries out. Commands range from basic movement and attacks to later unlocking more advanced abilities such as examining enemy unit statistics. Depending on the terrain and enemy movements, assigned actions can be interrupted and cancelled. The number of Chip commands is limited by the action bar, though this can be either upgraded between missions or expanded using special Chips to enable more actions per turn.

Synopsis
The game is set during 2099 in the aftermath of World War III. The Middle Eastern nation of Istar attempted to broker peace between the surviving nations, but its king was assassinated and his two sons ended up in conflict. The older son, Aerbel, established himself as dictator of Istar with the backing of the Syrian military, while the younger, Kein, formed the rebel faction. Shotaro Kurosawa works for the 13th Independent Armoured Division, also called Faselei, a mercenary group in the employ of the rebels. Faselei successfully pushes back the Istar army, with Shotaro regularly clashing with leading Istar soldier Alen Zemecks, later revealed to have assassinated Istar's king for personal reasons. Aerbel is eventually deposed and killed, but Zemecks retreats to a base in Syrian territory, planning to unleash a nuclear weapon and trigger another war. Faselei successfully stop the weapon, Zemecks kills himself after his final defeat by Shotaro, and Faselei are rescued from the Syrian army by the intervention of the United Nations Forces.

Development and release
Faselei! was developed by Sacnoth, a company founded by former Square composer Hiroki Kikuta with funding from SNK, creators of the Neo Geo Pocket Color (NGPC) handheld console. It was Sacnoth's final project for SNK, and their final product for the NGPC. It was directed by Matsuzo Machida (credited as Matzuso Itakura), and produced by Jun Mihara, who would become Sacnoth's CEO. The character designs were created by Miyako Kato, who had also worked on Sacnoth's Dive Alert. Additional artwork was contributed by Machida, Takamusa Ohsawa, and mech designer Minoru Saegusa. The music was co-composed by Yoshitaka Hirota and Kazumi Mitome. As with his work on Dive Alert, Hirota had to create music with only three sound layers−the melody, the countermelody, and the bass line−and an additional sound effect channel used for drum beats.

The game was first announced in August 1999, releasing in Japan on 22 December of that year. Its Western release was confirmed in February 2000, originally planned for March of that year. It was featured in advertisements during E3 in May 2000, with its Western release date being announced as June of that year. While Faselei received a limited release in the United Kingdom, the North American release was cancelled in the wake of Aruze acquiring SNK and shutting down its North American offices in 2000 following the NGPC's commercial failure. The UK version had prepared shipments of 10,000 units, an average run for an NGPC title at the time. Unconfirmed estimates placed the number of UK copies in circulation at 5000 as of 2004.

The sudden closure of SNK's American branch and the short notice of the game's regional cancellation meant that preview builds and advertisements had already been sent out to the press. North American cartridges of Faselei! were originally shipped back to Japan for recycling, then were sold to liquidators when SNK was wound up and ended up in circulation through the internet and as part of a later reissue of the console in North America. A complete boxed English release has become a collector's item. Multiple staff members, including Machida, Kato, Hirota and Ohsawa would go on to hold central roles on Sacnoth's Shadow Hearts series.

Reception

In Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, the game was scored 24 out of 40 points, a relatively low score for the magazine. The reviewer for Game Informer praised it as one of the best titles released for the console, noting its storyline and praising its gameplay and customisation. Electronic Gaming Monthly noted some cliched dialogue and its interface as negatives, but otherwise praised its narrative and gameplay. The magazine Pocket Gamer, as part of a feature on the console for its first issue, was less positive than other outlets. The writer faulted the storyline as disjointed and its interface as cumbersome, but lauding the gameplay and its multiplayer functions.

In a 2011 article for Hardcore Gaming 101, John Szczepaniak called it "a wonderful little game", citing its gameplay and narrative tone as positives despite balancing issues. In a 2019 review for RPGFan, Pete Leavitt cited it as the best NGPC game released in the West, saying: "This is not a case of mystique masking the flaws of a rare game that isn't actually good. Faselei! is beautifully complete, and wherever possible, it must be played." Nick Thorpe, writing for the Retro Gamer website, called it "one of the most essential games for the [NGPC]", citing its storyline and gameplay compared to other titles on the console.

In a 2004 retrospective article on SNK, GameSpot noted Faselei! as one of the most eagerly anticipated NGPC titles for North America due to its visual and audio achievements. In a retrospective article on rare or overlooked video game titles in 2004, GMR called it a well-loved game, citing its gameplay depth and technical accomplishments on the platform. As part of an article on the console in its August 2005 issue, Retro Gamer listed Faselei! as one of the ten best games for the system, highlighting it as "an incredibly absorbing strategy title" and mentioning its then-high resale value. Faselei! was also included as one of the titles in the 2010 book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. In 2014, HobbyConsolas identified Faselei! as one of the twenty best games for the platform. Likewise, Time Extension regarded it as one of the best games for the NGPC.

Notes

References

External links

1999 video games
Neo Geo Pocket Color games
SNK games
Tactical role-playing video games
World War III video games
Video games scored by Yoshitaka Hirota
Video games developed in Japan


Thomas Abraham is an Indian and is the founder president and chairman  of the Global Organization for People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), having previously founded the organization and served as its president. He was the Convener of the First Global Convention of People of Indian Origin held in New York, where GOPIO was formed. Earlier, Dr. Abraham served as the executive trustee of GOPIO Foundation. He is also president of Innovative Research and Products, Inc., Stamford, CT, US, a multi-client market research firm in new generation technologies specializing in advanced materials, nanotechnology, electronic components, energy generation and storage devices, etc.

Accomplishments
Dr. Abraham, born, September 11, 1948, has been influential in the Non-Resident Indian/People of Indian Origin NRI/PIO movement over the last four decades.  Dr. Abraham coined the word PIO (people of Indian origin) in 1989, when he put together the First Convention of People of Indian Origin in New York.  Dr. Abraham initiated several NRI/PIO Indian community institutions in the last five decades, as follows:

1.	Federation of Indian Association (FIA) of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut – 1977 (Served as president till 1981)

2.	National Federation of Indian-American Associations (NFIA) – 1980 (Served as president from 1980-'86 and as chairman 1986-'92)

3.	Global Organization for People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) – 1989 (Served as convener and president, 1989–2004; chairman 2004–2009)

4.	Indian American Kerala Cultural and Civic Center – 1993 (Served as chairman of the board from 1997 to 2004)

5.	Jagdish Bhagwati Chair for Indian Political Economy at Columbia Univ. ($4.0 million endowment) – 1992-2000 (Served as co-chairman)

6.	National Indian American Association for Senior Citizens (NIAASC) – 1998

7.	South Asian Council for Social Services (SACSS) – 2000

8.      The Indus Nanotechnology Association (TINA) – Launched Oct. 2007

Dr. Abraham was honored with Bhratvanshi Gaurav Award (Person of Indian Origin Pride) instituted by Anthar Rashtriya Sahayog Nyas (Trust for International Cooperation) and presented by former vice president Bhairon Singh Sekhawat on January 4, 2008, in New Delhi and Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (Overseas Indian Honor) award by President of India Pratibha Patil on January 9, 2008, in New Delhi. Dr. Abraham was also recognized with Distinguished Alumni Award at the 4th Convocation of the Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) in Jaipur on November 15, 2008. In 2011, the Indian Abroad at is annual award ceremony bestowed Life Time Achievement Award for Public Service to Dr. Abraham for his continued service to the Global Indian Diaspora community for four decades.

Personal
A resident of Stamford, CT (USA), Dr. Abraham stays with his wife, Dr. Susy Abraham, a retired geriatrician who worked at Sarah Neuman Rehabilitation and Health Center division Jewish Home and Hospital in Mamaroneck, New York and Hebrew Home for the Aged Riverdale, Bronx, New York, has a daughter Nitya, associate professor of urology at Albert Einstein School of Medicine and Montefiore Health Center in the Bronx, New York and a son, Jay, who is a design engineer for new generation aircraft engines with Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, Connecticut

References

External links
GOPIO
Innovative Research & Products homepage
NRI Online References to Thomas Abraham

1948 births
American politicians of Indian descent
Living people
Recipients of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman


Henri Marchal (June 24, 1876 – April 10, 1970) was a French architect and civil servant. He devoted a great part of his life to research on the art and archeology of Cambodia and the conservation and restoration of Khmer monuments at the archeological site of Angkor, in Cambodia.

Marchal was born in Paris.  After his baccalauréat in 1895, he was admitted to the École des beaux-arts, section of Architecture, where he attended the workshop led by Gaston Redon.

He was appointed Inspector of civilian buildings of Cambodia in 1905. In 1910 he gained the Khmer language license and was appointed assistant curator of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Museum in Phnom Penh. In 1912 he was dispatched to Saigon, as Inspector of civilian buildings of Cochinchina.

Following the death of Jean Commaille (murdered by bandits while carrying the pay of workers), in 1916 he was dispatched to Angkor to manage Conservation d'Angkor by EFEO. He resumed the cleaning works on Angkor Wat and the excavation of main monuments in central Angkor Thom: Baphuon, the Bayon, Phimeanakas, Preah Pithu, the Royal Palace ecc.).

In 1919 Henri Marchal was appointed permanent member of EFEO and "Curator of Angkor".

Then he began also excavation and cleaning of other monuments outside Angkor Thom: Ta Prohm (in 1920), Preah Khan, Neak Pean, Phnom Bakheng (1922–29), Prasat Kravan (with Henri Parmentier and Victor Goloubew) and Banteay Srei among others.

In 1930 he went to Java to learn the principles of anastylosis from the archeological service of the Dutch East Indies, aware of the limits of the consolidation methods used previously in Angkor. Upon his return, he decided to apply the method of anastylosis for the first time in Angkor on the temple of Banteay Srei. The restoration was unanimously applauded as success.

In 1933 he left the Conservation d'Angkor office to replace Henri Parmentier as Chief of the archaeological service of EFEO, but he reassumed the charge of Curator of Angkor from 1935 to 1937 (because of the tragic suicide of Georges Trouvé) and again from 1947 (replacing Maurice Glaize) to 1953. At that time he was more than seventy-five years old and in an interview on The New York Times said «the work is getting too hard for me»!!!

In the meantime in 1938, on the way back to France, he visited India and Ceylon, which he described in Souvenirs d'un Conservateur, and before returning to Angkor he led an archeological mission at Arikamedu (called Virampatnam by the French), in Puducherry.

From 1948 to 1953 he directed restoration works on the buildings located along the west roadway of Angkor Wat, the Baphuon (1948), Banteay Kdei, Preah Khan and Thommanon (1950). From 1954 to 1957 he was appointed technical advisor of historical monuments and Chief of Department of Public Works of the newly formed Kingdom of Laos.

His love for Angkor and Khmer civilization is testified by his settling in Siem Reap after his retirement, in 1957, until his death in 1970.  He died there, aged 93.

Selected works

 1924–26 – "Les portes monumentales du groupe d'Angkor", AAK 2/1, p. 1–26, pl., ph.
 1924–26 – "Notes sur le Palais Royal d'Angkor Thom", AAK 2/3, p. 303–328.
1925 – "Pavillons d'entrée du Palais Royal d'Angkor Thom", in Études asiatiques (2), Paris, EFEO/G. van Oest (PEFEO 20), p. 57–78, pl. 32-41.

 1937 – "Kutîçvara » et « Notes sur les Terrasses des Éléphants, du Roi lépreux et le Palais Royal d'Angkor Thom", BEFEO 37/2, p. 333–360.
 1939 – La collection khmère, (Musée Louis Finot), Hanoi, EFEO, 170 p., 13 pl.
 1948 – L'architecture comparée dans l'Inde et dans l'Extrême-Orient, Paris, G. van Oest, 262 p.

 1951 – Le décor et la sculpture khmers, Paris, G. van Oest, 135 p.
 1957 – Le Temple de Vat Phou, province de Champassak, Saigon, edited by département des Cultes du Gouvernement royal du Laos, 37 p.

References

External links
 Short transcript of Marchal's Archeological Guide to Angkor

Bibliography
 Henri Marchal's biography on EFEO web site

1876 births
1970 deaths
French archaeologists
Architects from Paris
French emigrants
Immigrants to Cambodia


Kingsford Community School is a secondary school in Beckton in the London Borough of Newham, East London, England. It opened in September 2000, and educates full-time students from the ages of 11 to 16. The current headteacher is Joan Deslandes, who was appointed an OBE in 2017 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to education.

International School
Kingsford Community School is a long-standing holder of the British Council's International School Award in recognition of the international dimension to the school's curriculum and provision.

Confucius Classroom
In 2001, Kingsford became one of the first schools in the United Kingdom to introduce lessons of Mandarin to its curriculum.  In 2007, the school became the first Confucius Classroom, a centre for promoting Mandarin Language and Chinese Culture, in London and the South-East.  Subsequently, the school has worked closely with both the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and Hanban (the National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language), now CLEC (Chinese Center for Language Education and Cooperation) in order to develop its own Chinese learning programme and also to promote the teaching of the Chinese language and culture to other schools in the capital and South-East region. As a designated SSAT ‘hub school’, Kingsford works closely with both CLEC and the SSAT with the aim of expanding the network of Confucius Classrooms in the UK. This task has been facilitated by Kingsford’s partner school in China, Peking University Middle School.  The school’s considerable expertise has led to it being recognised by Hanban (now CLEC) as one of the best Confucius Classrooms in the world. Kingsford has played an instrumental role in developing the Mandarin Excellence Programme, which offers pupils a unique immersion experience and the opportunity to leave the school with the prestigious HSK level 3 proficiency certificate, and scholarships to continue Mandarin studies at top institutions in China.

Links with independent schools
Pupils who take part in the school's Scholarship Aspiration Programme are able to secure fully funded scholarships at leading independent schools, boarding and day schools, at home and abroad.
In recent years graduates from the programme have benefited from and enriched the learning communities of prestigious institutions such as Brighton College, Eton College, Wellington College, and University College School Hampstead, as well as many others across the UK.  The school's Head Teacher Joan Deslandes has been a member of a number of influential groups formed to strengthen partnerships between the public and independent sectors.

The 100 Group
The 100 Group was a collection of the 50 leading state school heads and 50 independent school heads selected in discussion between former Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, headmaster of Brighton College, Richard Cairns, and Joan Deslandes, headteacher of Kingsford Community School. The heads were chosen on the basis of their standing in their sectors, their commitment to furthering co-operation between the independent and state sectors and their public contributions to educational debate.

On 22 January 2010 Kingsford hosted the 100 Group's second annual conference, on the subject of social mobility.  The event included contributions from Vince Cable MP and Michael Gove MP (Secretary of State for Education). Former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, also addressed the conference via a video message.  “I want to congratulate the 100 Group for its innovative role in bringing state and independent schools together to improve education and social mobility and particularly the pioneers of that partnership, Kingsford Community School and Brighton College, whose successful alliance is a blueprint for others”, he said.

Ofsted Report
In October 2022, Ofsted rated the school as "good" with many areas, including Leadership and Management and Behaviour and safety of pupils being graded "outstanding". According to the report, "Pupils are very well prepared to succeed and flourish in modern
Britain." . />

References
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External links
School Website: http://www.kingsfordschool.org.uk

Educational institutions established in 2000
Secondary schools in the London Borough of Newham
2000 establishments in England
Community schools in the London Borough of Newham
Beckton
Specialist language colleges in England


Stepping Stone is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Lari White. Released on July 28, 1998 as her first album for Lyric Street Records after leaving RCA Nashville. The album's title track was a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts in mid-1998; "Take Me" and "John Wayne Walking Away" were also released as singles.

The track "Only God Could Stop Me Loving You" was originally recorded by Billy Ray Cyrus on his 1994 album Storm in the Heartland. Canadian country music band Emerson Drive would later record the song for their 2002 debut album Emerson Drive and release it as a single. "You Can't Go Home Again (Flies on the Butter)" was later recorded as "Flies on the Butter (You Can't Go Home Again)" by Wynonna and Naomi Judd on Wynonna's 2003 album What the World Needs Now Is Love, from which it was released as a single.

Track listing

Personnel
Lari White — vocals
Paul Leim — drums
Mike Brignardello — bass
Biff Watson, Chuck Cannon — acoustic guitar
Dann Huff, Jeff King — electric guitar
Matt Rollings, John Hobbs, Steve Nathan — keyboards
Dan Dugmore, Paul Franklin — steel guitar
Aubrey Haynie — fiddle, mandolin
Terry McMillan — percussion
Steve Gibson — mandolin
Chris Rodriguez, Lisa Cochran, Mary Ann Kennedy, Pam Rose — background vocals

Chart performance

References

[ Stepping Stone] at Allmusic

1998 albums
Lari White albums
Albums produced by Dann Huff
Lyric Street Records albums


There have been five Wallace Baronetcies; two in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, and three in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. All are now extinct.

Wallace baronets, of Craigie Wallace, Ayr (1638—1659)
Created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.
Sir Hugh Wallace, 1st Baronet (c. 1600–1660) (resigned the baronetcy in 1659)

Wallace baronets, of Craigie, Ayr (8 March 1670—18 August 1770)
Created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.
Sir Thomas Wallace, 1st Baronet (died 1680)
Sir William Wallace, 2nd Baronet (died 1700)
Sir Thomas Wallace, 3rd Baronet (1665–1728)
Sir Thomas Wallace, 4th Baronet (1702–1770) extinct on his death.

Style of baronet subsequently assumed by:
Sir Thomas Dunlop Wallace (1750–1835)
Sir John Alexander Dunlop Agnew Wallace (1775–1857)

Wallace baronets, of Hertford House, London (24 November 1871—20 July 1890)
Created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet (1818–1890) extinct on his death.

Wallace baronets, of Terreglestown, Kirkcudbright (25 January 1922—5 February 1940)
Created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
Sir Matthew Gemmill Wallace, 1st Baronet (1854–1940) extinct on his death.

Wallace baronets, of Studham, Bedfordshire (8 June 1937—24 May 1944)
Created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
Sir Cuthbert Sidney Wallace, 1st Baronet (1867–1944) extinct on his death.

See also
Craigie Castle, Ayrshire – a Wallace family barony.

References

Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom


Stefan Hantel, better known by his stage name Shantel (born 2 March 1968), is a German DJ and producer based in Frankfurt. He is known for his work with Romani brass orchestras, DJing and remixing traditional Balkan music with electronic beats.

Background and early life
Shantel is of Greek descent on his paternal side. His maternal grandparents were Ukrainian Jews from Chernivtsi.

Career
Shantel began his DJ career in Frankfurt, Germany, and was inspired by the audience reaction to Romani brass bands such as Fanfare Ciocărlia and trumpeter Boban Marković to infuse electronically tweaked Balkan Romani music into his DJ set. Shantel released two compilations of his popular DJ night, Bucovina Club, on his own Essay label, which won the Club Global award in the 2006 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music. He was one of several DJs to remix recordings of Taraf de Haïdouks and Kočani Orkestar on the Electric Gypsyland compilations from Belgium's Crammed Discs label, and released his next album on that label. He gained popularity in Turkey after recording the clip of 'Disko Partizani' in Istanbul. Shantel's 2007 album Disko Partizani departed somewhat from the techno sound of Bucovina Club, concentrating more on the music's Balkan roots. The album was awarded Platinum award in Turkey by Mü-Yap in 2008 and 2009. In 2011 he released an album with Oz Almog named Kosher Nostra Jewish Gangsters Greatest Hits. This album is a wild mix of Swing, Jazz, Twist, Charleston and Yiddish songs and Ballads.

Discography

Albums
 Club Guerilla (1995)
 Auto Jumps & Remixes (1997)
 Higher than the Funk (1998)
 Great Delay (2001)
 Bucovina Club Vol. 2 (2005)
 Bucovina Club (2006)
 Disko Partizani (2007)
 Planet Paprika (2009)
 Anarchy + Romance  (2013)
 The Mojo Club Session (2014)
 Viva Diaspora  (11th of Sept. 2015)

EPs and participations
 Super Mandarine (1994)
 EP (1997)
 No. 2 (1997)
 "II" EP (1998)
 Oh So Lovely EP (1998)
 Oh So Lovely Remixes (1998)
 Backwood (2001)
 Inside (2001)
 Bucovina (2003)
 Disko (2003)
 Gypsy Beats and Balkan Bangers (2006)
 Disko Partizani Remixes (2008)
 Kosher Nostra Jewish Gangsters Greatest Hits  (2011)

References

External links

 Shantel on MSN Music
 Shantel page on the Crammed Discs website

1968 births
Living people
German DJs
Folk-pop singers
German people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
German people of Greek descent
Musicians from Frankfurt
Electronic dance music DJs


Jacques Léonard (born December 2, 1936) is a Canadian accountant, educator, and politician in the province of Quebec. He served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1976 to 1985 and again from 1989 to 2001 and was a cabinet minister in the governments of René Lévesque, Jacques Parizeau, and Lucien Bouchard. Léonard is a Quebec sovereigntist and a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ) and Bloc Québécois (BQ).

Early life and career
Léonard was born in Saint-Jovite, in the Laurentides region of Quebec. He received a diploma in accountancy in 1959 and a master's degree in commercial sciences from the Université Laval in 1962. After working for two years in the Montreal firm of Clarkson and Gordon, he continued his studies in Paris, France, from 1964 to 1966. Léonard taught at the École des hautes études commerciales and the Université national du Rwanda from 1966 to 1968, at which time he returned to Quebec. From 1968 to 1976, he was a professor and vice-dean of education at the Université de Montréal.

Léonard became a member of the sovereigntist Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale in 1962 and joined the Parti Québécois after the former party wound down in 1968. He ran unsuccessfully as a PQ candidate in Labelle in the 1970 and 1973 provincial elections. The PQ won a historic majority government in the 1976 provincial election, and Léonard was elected on his third attempt in Labelle over one-term Liberal incumbent Roger Lapointe.

Legislator (1976–85)

Cabinet minister (1976–84)
Planning
Léonard was named to René Lévesque's first cabinet on November 26, 1976, as the minister of state responsible for planning. This was intended as one of five "superministry" portfolios in the cabinet; Léonard was entrusted with working on long-term strategy for land use rather than having the day-to-day administrative duties of a department. On March 2, 1978, he was also named as vice-president of the treasury board.

In May 1979, Léonard was a signatory to a deal that saw the governments of Quebec and Canada invest one hundred and fifty million dollars in Quebec's pulp and paper industry.
Municipal affairs
Léonard was reassigned as municipal affairs minister on November 6, 1980, exchanging portfolios with Guy Tardif. Shortly after his appointment, he ordered the municipal government of Aylmer to focus on basic administration after receiving a troubling audit of the city's finances.

In 1981, a representative of Montreal's municipal government requested that the Lévesque government impose a freeze on the construction of shopping centres, arguing that they often destroy traditional city centres. Léonard responded that he was reluctant to intervene, particularly as municipalities already had the power to impose a freeze themselves.

Léonard was re-elected in the 1981 general election, in which the Lévesque government was returned with a second consecutive majority, and was kept in the municipal affairs portfolio. He sought to restructure Montreal's municipal government in 1982, giving the smaller suburban communities more power in relation to the city. He faced opposition to this measure from long-standing Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, whose power was threatened by the reform.

In 1983, Léonard attempted to pass legislation permitting the Quebec government to withhold funds from municipalities that accept federal money for job creation purposes. This bill was blocked in the legislature in December 1983, after the opposition Liberal Party threatened a filibuster. The Union des Municipalités du Québec also strongly opposed the measure, and discussions between the two levels of government reached an impasse in early 1984. After Léonard was moved to a different portfolio, the Lévesque government abandoned the legislation.
Transport
Léonard was shifted to the position of transport minister on March 5, 1984. Two months later, he said that the Quebec government would not make a bid for Nordair (which was then being sold by the federal government) but would oppose any deal under which the company would leave the province.

Opposition member (1984–85)
In late 1984, the Parti Québécois went through an internal crisis over Premier Lévesque's intention to de-emphasize Quebec sovereignty in the next provincial election. Léonard sided with the hardline indépendantiste wing of the party and resigned from cabinet on November 22. Five days later, he left the PQ caucus to sit as an independent member of the assembly. From the opposition benches, he demanded that Lévesque not make any constitutional agreement with Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney that would result in a weakening of Quebec's Charter of the French Language.

In early 1985, Léonard joined an informal grouping of former PQ MNAs centered around the newly formed Rassemblement démocratique pour l'indépendance. He resigned his seat on May 23, 1985, to become dean of the faculty of education at the Université de Montréal, a position he held until his return to politics in 1989.

Legislator (1989–2001)

Opposition member (1989–94)
Léonard returned to the Parti Québécois after Jacques Parizeau, a fellow indépendantiste and former cabinet colleague, became party leader in 1988. He was re-elected to the Quebec legislature in the 1989 provincial election over Liberal incumbent Damien Hétu, who had been elected in Labelle in 1985. The Liberals won a majority government provincially under Robert Bourassa's leadership, and Léonard re-entered the legislature as a member of the official opposition. For the next five years, he served as his party's finance critic. In 1993, he accused the Bourassa government of taking a laissez-faire approach to the economy and of having no overall vision.

Cabinet minister (1994–2001)
Transport minister
The Parti Québécois won a majority government under Parizeau's leadership in the 1994 general election. Léonard was re-elected to the legislature and rejoined cabinet on September 26, 1994, as minister of transport, ironically the same position he had resigned from ten years earlier. He was also appointed to a second term as vice-president of the treasury board.

After his appointment, Léonard argued that highways are an exclusively provincial jurisdiction and tried to postpone the government of Canada's planned national highway program. He announced increased penalties for persons driving under the influence of alcohol in 1995 and introduced legislation to require photographs on Quebec driving licenses. He also expressed scepticism about mandatory helmet laws for cyclists, saying that safety education was a better approach.

In early 1995, Léonard and industry minister Daniel Paillé announced a proposal to save the financially troubled MIL Davie Inc. shipyard with a ferry construction contract. Later in the year, he announced that the Parizeau government had no choice but to drop the plan on the grounds it had become too expensive and complex. Following protests from the shipyard workers, the government reversed itself a second time and agreed to a modified sixty-six million dollar construction program over two years.
Treasury Board president
Parizeau announced his resignation as premier after the sovereignty option's narrow defeat in the 1995 Quebec referendum. On November 3, 1995, while still leading a caretaker administration, he shuffled his cabinet and named Léonard as president of the treasury board and minister responsible for administration and the public service. In the following months, Parizeau, Léonard, and finance minister Pauline Marois worked in committee reviewing government expenses and revenues in a bid to reduce public spending.

Léonard was kept in the treasury board portfolio when Lucien Bouchard succeeded Parizeau as premier on January 29, 1996. He was also named to the priorities committee, an "inner cabinet" with significant control over the government's direction, and was named as minister responsible for the Laurentides. Over the next two years, he played a central role in the Bouchard government's ultimately successful effort to eliminate the provincial deficit.

He announced several austerity measures in March 1996, making significant spending cuts in areas such as health, education, and social assistance; the total cuts for the fiscal year amounted to $2.2 billion. In announcing these measures, Léonard said, "We have fallen behind other Canadian provinces in cleaning up public finances. Quebec must act now." He also expressed scepticism about proposed pay equity legislation later in 1996, arguing that it would put a strain on public-sector spending.

In late 1996, Léonard announced that the Bouchard government would try to achieve $1.4 billion in savings from Quebec's public-sector unions, to be achieved by unfreezing pension reserve funds rather than by taking measures that would result in significant job losses. The unions responded with a plan that focused on early retirement and employee buyouts. Negotiations continued into 1997.

Léonard introduced more severe funding cuts, amounting to $2.3 billion, in March 1997. At the same time, however, he noted that the Quebec's financial situation was improving and that no comparable cuts would be needed in the future. He also argued that the Bouchard government's austerity plan would benefit Quebec sovereignty in the long term, saying "once Quebec is much more financially solid, Quebecers will look at the future with much more confidence in themselves and their state." Ultimately, an unexpectedly high rate of voluntary retirement in the public sector allowed the government to reach its goals without difficulty. Léonard announced further cuts of one billion dollars in 1998 and noted that the province would be out of debt the following year.

Re-elected in the 1998 general election, Léonard was kept in the treasury board portfolio in Bouchard's post-election cabinet shuffle. In January 1999, he began a new round of negotiations with public-sector workers on collective agreements. After protracted discussions, the two sides agreed on a nine per cent wage increase over four years.

After years of cutbacks, Léonard projected a $1.1 billion budget surplus in March 1999 and announced new public spending in areas such as health, education, and information technology. He also introduced new hiring in the public service, with a particular focus on minority communities. The same financial trend continued the following year, and Léonard introduced more new program funding in 2000.

Lucien Bouchard resigned as premier on March 8, 2001, and was succeeded by Bernard Landry. Léonard used the occasion to announce his own resignation from both cabinet and the legislature, saying "You are witnessing a changing of the guard. My decision will allow one more young person to be promoted to cabinet." He returned to accountancy work and, in 2002, became a professor of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He joined the board of governors of the Conseil de la Souveraineté du Québec in early 2003.

Federal politics
In 2003–04, Léonard led a Bloc Québécois review of Canadian federal spending practices. He concluded that there had been sharp increases in some areas, including opinion polls, office furniture, and the office of the privacy commissioner of Canada.

Léonard ran as a Bloc Québécois candidate in the Montreal division of Outremont in the 2006 federal election and finished a close second against incumbent Liberal cabinet minister Jean Lapierre. Léonard later served as the Bloc's vice-president and worked on the party's campaign in the 2008 federal election.

Electoral record
Federal

Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

Provincial

Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

References

1936 births
Living people
Parti Québécois MNAs
Bloc Québécois candidates for the Canadian House of Commons
Candidates in the 2006 Canadian federal election
Academic staff of the Université de Montréal
Université Laval alumni
French Quebecers


The Daisy Civic List () was a regionalist, Christian democratic, centrist Italian political party active in Trentino.

History
It was founded in 1998 by Lorenzo Dellai and other local politicians active in several centrist parties, both from the centre-left and the centre-right at the national level, as the Italian People's Party, Italian Renewal, the United Christian Democrats and splinters from the Christian Democratic Centre.

In the 1998 provincial election the Civica won 22.0% of the vote and Dellai was appointed President of the Province of Trento, at the head of a centre-left coalition, along with two major allies: the Democrats of the Left (DS) and the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (PATT).

Taking example from Trentino and bordering Veneto, where Massimo Cacciari formed a similar list named Together for Veneto for the 2000 regional election, four centre-left parties united to form Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL) in 2001. Since that moment, the Daisy Civic List became the provincial section of the national party with the similar name, although maintaining some of its autonomy and peculiarities. In particular it was more conservative and than national DL, because of its explicit characterization as a Christian-democratic party.

In the 2003 provincial election the party won 25.9% of the vote and its leader Lorenzo Dellai was re-elected by a landslide: 60.8% compared to 30.7% of his major opponent, Carlo Andreotti.

In 2007, when DL merged with the DS, although most of the members of the Daisy Civic List joined the new Democratic Party (PD), they rejected the merge at the regional level, where Civica and the DS continued to act as distinct parties.

In 2008 Trentino centrists decided to retain a double party affiliation: to the PD at the national level, to the Daisy at the regional one, and Giorgio Lunelli, the party coordinator, declared that the Daisy would not join the Democratic Party "neither today, nor after the [provincial] election, never".

After the defeat of the centre-left in Trentino in the 2008 general election, Daisy was divided among those who wanted to continue on the road toward the consolidation of the regional party and those who wanted to establish the provincial PD along with the local Democrats of the Left. On 30 April the party decided both the merger into PD and the creation of a new regional party federated with it, as supported by both Dellai and Lunelli.

Daisy thus suffered the separation of the "Democrats" from the "regionalists". Dellai, Lunelli, supported by former Senator Mauro Betta and eight provincial deputies out of twelve, decided to take part to the foundation of the regionalist party, while Senator Claudio Molinari and Deputy Letizia De Torre decided to join the PD. The new regionalist party, named Union for Trentino (UpT), was launched on 7 June, while the provincial PD was established on 8 June. With the foundation of UpT the Daisy ceased to exist.

Popular support
The electoral results of the Civica in the Province of Bolzano since 1998 are shown in the table below.

References

Sources
Provincial Council of Trento – Legislatures
Trentino Alto-Adige Region – Elections
Provincial Government of Trento – Elections
Cattaneo Institute – Archive of Election Data
Parties and Elections in Europe – Province of Trento
Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections

External links
Official website

Political parties in Trentino
Christian democratic parties in Italy
Catholic political parties


Green Eyed Soul is the fifth studio album to be released by Lari White, and the first to be released on her own Skinny White Girl label. White began working on the songs for "Green Eyed Soul" while still signed as a country artist on Lyric Street Records. The soul and gospel flavored material was a departure from her country label origins, and she decided to release the album independently.

The album was originally released in Europe on May 10, 2004 by Mesmerizing Records. The U.S. release followed on July 26, 2005 on White's Skinny White Girl label in partnership with Emergent Music Marketing and RED Distribution.

Track listing
 "Nothing But Love" (Lari White, Kimmie Rhodes, Kevin Savigar) – 4:06
 "Let's Keep It Together" (White, Rick Neigher) – 5:08
 "Right Here Right Now" (White, Gary Nicholson) – 5:05
 "Eden Before the Fall" (White, Nicholson) – 4:27
 "Because I'm A Woman" (White) – 4:49
 "Groove w/ Me Baby" (White, Chuck Cannon, Jeffrey Steele) – 8:21
 "We Got It Goin' On" (White, Savigar) – 4:35
 "One More Time" (White, Travon Potts) – 4:21
 "Loved Right" (White, Cannon) – 5:13
 "High" (White, Paul Thorn, Billy Maddox) – 5:53
 "Bare" (White) – 3:00

Personnel
 Lari White — Vocals
 Michael Rhodes — Bass
 Dan Needham — Drums
 Tim Akers — Keys
 Jerry Mcpherson — Guitars
 Jim Horn — Saxophones and Flute
 Mike Haynes — Trumpet and Flugel Horn
 Barry Green — Trombone
 Connie Ellisor — Strings
 Frederick L. Vaughn — background vocal leader, background vocals
 Sherrie Kibble — background vocals
 Dana Dixon — background vocals
 Elissa N. Oats — background vocals
 Dion Jackson — background vocals
 Kimberly Mont — background vocals
 Nirva Dorsaint — background vocals
 Shandra Penix — background vocals

References

External links
 [ Green Eyed Soul] at Allmusic

2004 albums
Lari White albums
Albums produced by Lari White


Fanny Young Cory (October 17, 1877 – July 28, 1972) was a cartoonist and book illustrator best known for her comic strips Sonnysayings and  Little Miss Muffet. Cory was one of America's first female syndicated cartoonists.

She went by several pen names: F. Y. Cory, F. Cory Cooney and Fanny Cory Cooney but eventually used Fanny Y. Cory as her professional name. She sometimes used FYC as a signature on her early work.

Early life and education
Fanny Young Cory was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on October 17, 1877, the daughter of Benjamin Sayre Cory and Jessy Salter McDougall. As a child, she drew or sketched on anything she could find. When Cory was ten years old, her mother died of tuberculosis. Two years later, Cory's father moved the family to Helena, Montana.

Cory was 14 when she began to study under artist Mary C. Wheeler, the art supervisor of the Helena school system. In 1894, her older brother Jack and his wife Bertha invited her to stay in New York with them. Two years later, Cory enrolled at the Metropolitan School of Fine Arts. The following year, she was accepted by the Art Students League. Although Cory was a top student, the family had little money to spare for her education. In addition, Cory wanted to help care for her sister Agnes, who had tuberculosis. So, Cory left school.

Illustration career
 Wanting to support herself and her ailing sister Agnes, Cory began selling her drawings. She made her first sale in 1898 to The Century Magazine. As her career blossomed, Cory did covers and interior illustrations for magazines including Century, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Scribner's, The Saturday Evening Post and St. Nicholas.

Cory illustrated numerous books including a 1902 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. She illustrated L. Frank Baum's books The Master Key and The Enchanted Island of Yew. She illustrated Marion Hill's The Pettison Twins (McClure, Phillips & Co, 1906). Cory illustrated William L. Hill's Jackieboy in Rainbowland (Rand McNally & Company, 1911). Between 1913 and 1926, Cory decided to focus on raising her children, and she put her career on hold.

To relax, Cory began painting whimsical watercolors of fairies, flowers, birds, and other small animals. She made one for each letter of the alphabet, each one accompanied by a poem. She called them her "Fairy Alphabet." Cory considered these paintings her finest work, although she said she had no plans for them. The Montana Historical Society museum exhibited the paintings in the 1950s, but it was not until the 1980s that The Fairy Alphabet was published. The book was re-released by Riverbend Publishing in 2011.

Comic strips
Cory's first attempt at cartooning, Ben Bolt, or, The Kid You Were Yourself, flopped. But in the 1920s, needing money to send her children to college, Cory decided to try again. She began producing a single-panel cartoon called Other People's Children.

In 1926, Cory began her favorite comic, Sonnysayings, distributed by the Ledger Syndicate. It featured a precocious 5-year-old boy and his view of the world. Sonnysayings appeared in many newspapers throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and Scotland, under the name of Fanny Y. Cory. By 1935, Sonnnysayings had moved to King Features, where it ran until Cory's retirement in 1956. The cartoon was so popular that E. P. Dutton released a book collection in 1929.

In 1935, Cory launched Little Miss Muffet, syndicated by King Features until June 30, 1956. Designed to compete with Little Orphan Annie, the cartoon featured the adventures of orphan Milly Muffet and her dog. (Little Miss Muffet was written by Tecla Scheuring from 1940 to 1946.) A Little Miss Muffet comic book was published in 1948 and 1949 by Best Books.

Personal life
Cory returned to Montana in 1902 after the death of her sister Agnes. Her brothers, Jack and Bob, wanted to try their luck at gold mining, and they invited their sister to join them. The siblings had three cabins built northeast of Helena, not far from the mine. Cory called hers a "studio."

In 1904, Cory married Fred Cooney and moved to his ranch on the Missouri River near the community of Canyon Ferry. She embraced ranch life, creating her illustrations with her drawing board in her lap as she sat by the window in the living room of the ranch house. She planted large gardens, canned the produce, and decorated her canning labels with illustrations. The couple had 3 children: Sayre, Robert, and Ted. In 1951, Cory was named Montana Mother of the Year. Cory retired in 1956. She moved to the Puget Sound area to be near her daughter, Sayre. She died in 1972 in Stanwood, Washington.

Her brother J. Campbell Cory also became a cartoonist. Fanny Cory was related to Kate Cory, particularly noted for her photographs and paintings of the Hopi.

References

External links

 "Montana Mother and Artist"  from the Summer 1980 issue of Montana, The Magazine of Western History
 UNCG American Publishers' Trade Bindings: Fanny Y. Cory

1972 deaths
1877 births
American children's book illustrators
American women illustrators
American speculative fiction artists
Fantasy artists
People from Waukegan, Illinois
American female comics artists
American comic strip cartoonists
People from Stanwood, Washington


Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school located in Worcester, England, locally referred to as "Blesseds". It is a co-educational school, in which there are just over 1,000 students, aged between 11 and 16. The school was opened in 1963 as Blessed Edward Oldcorne School by the local Roman Catholic community and named after Edward Oldcorne, a Jesuit priest executed in 1606 for his part in the Gunpowder plot. The current head of the school is Greg McClarey who took over from Sean Devlin as head at the end of the 2016–2017 academic year.

The school has a wide catchment area and takes pupils from Droitwich, Pershore and Fernhill Heath within Worcestershire. In 2011, 98% of pupils achieved five or more A*-C grades for GCSEs. The school is rated as a 'Category 1' school by the Local Authority.

For more information please look at the UK government website on Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/116999#school-dashboard

Subjects

As part of the school's structure, there are a variety of different subjects which form individual departments:

 Maths
 English Literature
 English Language
 Biology
 Chemistry
 Physics
 Religious Education
 Pastoral
 French
 German
 Spanish
 Geography
 History
 Computer Science
 Enterprise and Marketing
 I Media
 Physical Education
 Food Preparation and Nutrition
 Design and Technology
 Child Care
 Music
 Fine Art
 Art
 Graphics
 3D Design
 Photography
 Textiles

References

Schools in Worcester, England
Educational institutions established in 1963
Secondary schools in Worcestershire
Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Birmingham
1963 establishments in England
Voluntary aided schools in England


Stavanger Renaissance (Stavangerrenessansen) is the name for the cultural period which peaked in the middle of the 17th century in the vicinity of Stavanger, Norway. It was characterized principally by church art, largely decorated altarpieces, pulpits, baptismal fonts and wall surfaces.

The Stavanger Renaissance is an important period for Norwegian church art and décor. Art work from this period are found around the southwestern coast and throughout western Norway. Examples of churches representing by the art of the Stavanger Renaissance would include parish churches in Oddernes (1620), Årdal (ca. 1620), Røldal (1627-1629), Vestre Moland (1630) as well as Utstein Abbey (1625–1650).

History
The Protestant Reformation from 1537 had not yet changed the art in the local churches.  Much of the old Roman Catholic art was still present in the churches. Church authorities wanted to change this, so they ordered new lutheran art and reconstruction of old churches. At the start of the 17th century, the time was right. The city of Stavanger became more and more popular for immigrants who worked as artists.

The first of these artists was the German born painter Peter Reimers (active 1607–25), whose art work first appeared in Kinsarvik during 1607. Reimers left more than forty large and small church work dating from 1607 to 1626. He performed a variety of decorative works and altarpieces as well as portraits. Reimers was succeeded  by Gottfried Hendtzschel, who was initially hired by the widow of Peter Reimers to complete her husband's assignments. Other significant artists from the period include Andrew Lawrenceson Smith (Anders Smith) and craftsmen Thomas and Laurits Snekker.

See also
Cartilage Baroque

References

Other sources
Froysaker, Tine (2003) Church Paintings of Gottfried Hendtzschel in Norway - Part I & II (Goteborg University)
Gundhus, Grethe (2005) I Guds og Bevaringens navn Fortellingen om tre altertavler og et øksemord (Kulturminner – en ressurs i tiden)
Kloster, Robert (1936) Stavangerrenessansen i Rogalands kirker (Stavanger Museum)
Cristie, Sigrid (1982) Materi og skulptur 1536-1814 (Norges kunsthistorie, Volume 3)
Grevenor, Henrik (1928) Norsk malerkunst :under renessanse og barokk 1550-1700

External links
Stavanger Cathedral

Norwegian art


The American Football Association Challenge Cup (also known as the American Association Cup or simply American Cup) was the first major U.S. soccer competition open to teams beyond a single league.  It was first held in 1884.  In the 1910s, it gradually declined in importance with the establishment of the National Challenge Cup.  It was last held in 1924.
The trophy was made by Tiffany & Co. and is described as "a very elegant sterling silver trophy. It is a vase about thirteen inches high surmounted by a Roman athlete. On either side is a foot ball and goal post, while in front on a large shield is the inscription".

History

Founded in 1884, the American Football Association (AFA) was the first non-league organizing body in the United States.  Allied with the Football Association, the AFA sought to standardize rules for teams competing in northern New Jersey and southern New York.  Within two years, this region began to widen to include teams in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.  Within a year of its founding, the AFA organized the first non-league cup in U.S. soccer history.  Teams from New Jersey and Massachusetts dominated the first twelve years.  Then in 1897, Philadelphia Manz brought the title to Pennsylvania for the first time.  Soccer in the United States went through a downturn in the late 1890s.

As a result, the AFA suspended the cup from 1899 until 1906.  By that time, the growth in the sport had led to a confusion of rules and standards.  This led to a movement to create a truly national body to oversee U.S. soccer.  Drawing on both its position as the oldest soccer organization and the status of the American Cup, the AFA argued that it should be the nationally recognized body.  In October 1911, a competing body, the American Amateur Football Association (AAFA) was created. It quickly spread outside the northeast U.S. and began its own cup in 1912, the American Amateur Football Association Cup.

That year, both the AFA and AAFA applied for membership in FIFA, the international organizing body for soccer. In 1913, the AAFA gained an edge over the AFA when several AFA organizations moved to the AAFA.  On April 5, 1913, the AAFA reorganized as the United States Football Association. FIFA quickly granted a provisional membership and USFA began exerting its influence on the sport.  This led to the establishment of the National Challenge Cup that fall.  The National Challenge Cup quickly grew to overshadow the American Cup.  However, both cups were played simultaneously for the next ten years.  Declining respect for the AFA led to the withdrawal of several associations from its cup in 1917.  Further competition came in 1922 when USFA created the National Amateur Cup.  That spelled the death knell for the American Cup.  It played its last season in 1924.

List of champions

References

External links
 Annual results

Defunct soccer competitions in the United States
Soccer cup competitions in the United States


Jean-Philippe may refer to:

Jean-Philippe (film)
Jean-Philippe (given name)

See also
Jean Philippe, French singer


Armin Wolf (; born 19 August 1966) is an Austrian journalist and television anchor. In 2017 Politico Europe called him "one of Europe’s most skilled (and feared) political journalists". He was named "European Journalist of the Year 2019" at the Prix Europa media contest.

Early life and education
Born in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Wolf graduated from the University of Vienna with a master's degree and from the University of Innsbruck with a doctorate in political science. In 2010 he earned an MBA degree at the Berlin School of Creative Leadership at Steinbeis University in Berlin.

Career
Wolf began his broadcasting career in 1985 as a freelance reporter for ORF, Austria's public broadcasting company. In 1987 he moved to Vienna as a reporter and editor for foreign affairs at ORF's premier radio station Ö1. In 1991/92 he was based in Washington D.C. as U.S. correspondent. From 1995 to 2002 he was political editor, chief correspondent and managing editor of various TV news programs at ORF.

Since 2002, Wolf has been presenting ORF's news show ZIB 2, presently alternating with Martin Thür and Marie-Claire Zimmermann. ZIB 2 is being broadcast Mondays through Fridays and has a market share of up to approximately 30 percent. In 2018, he interviewed Russian president Vladimir Putin.

In addition, Wolf has published three books on political communication and taught courses in political science at the universities of Vienna and Innsbruck.

Recognition
For his interviews Wolf has been distinguished with several awards, e.g. Austria's "Journalist of the Year" 2004 and 2018 and four Romy awards as Austria's most popular TV anchor in 2006, 2007, 2012, and 2019. For Austria's most popular Twitter account he was elected "Onliner of the Year" in the Media category by visitors to the web site werbeplanung.at and by visitors to werbeplanung.at's Facebook page in 2011. He was elected "Communicator of the Year" 2012 by visitors to the web site of the Public Relations Association Austria. Prestigious German awards include the following:

2019 –  (Leipzig)
2018 – Grimme-Preis (Special Award)
2016 – Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis

Personal life
Wolf lives with his wife, Austrian journalist Euke Frank (editor-in-chief of the magazine Woman), and her two children in Vienna. From 2001 to 2004 he was married to ORF presenter Birgit Fenderl.

Wolf's great-grandfather was mountaineer and canon lawyer .

References

This article is based in part on material from the German Wikipedia

External links

 Armin Wolf on about.me
 Wolf's blog (in German)
 Biography on Wolf's Blog (in English)
 Biography on the ORF website (in German)
  (in German)
  (in German)

Austrian journalists
Austrian television presenters
1966 births
Living people
ORF (broadcaster) people
Mass media people from Innsbruck
University of Innsbruck alumni
University of Vienna alumni


Bouzincourt () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

The name Bouzincourt is derived from the words for forest (bosquet) and the typical Picardy village suffix '-court' . It was therefore a wooded village.

Geography
Bouzincourt is situated on the junction of the D938 and D20 roads, some  northeast of Amiens.

Places of interest
The church of St. Honore was destroyed during World War I but reconstructed in 1920 in the shape of a bullet. The tower is 36m high.
The stained-glass windows were restored by l'École de Nancy, and are worthy of attention.
The ‘muches’, man-made tunnels where the population hid during times of war.

Population

See also
Communes of the Somme department

References

External links

 Bouzincourt, Communauté de communes du Pays du Coquelicot

Communes of Somme (department)


The Westminster Theatre was a theatre in London, on Palace Street in Westminster.

History
The structure on the site was originally built as the Charlotte Chapel in 1766, by William Dodd with money from his wife Mary Perkins. Through Peter Richard Hoare it came into the hands of the family owning Hoare's Bank, and was called St Peter's Chapel.

It was altered and given a new frontage, by John Stanley Coombe Beard for use as a cinema, St James's Picture Theatre, opened in 1924. The conversion was by a group with court connections including Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood. The film shown at the opening was Rob Roy.

The Picture Theatre then became a venue for drama in 1931 after radical alterations, at the hands of Alderson Burrell Horne (1863–1953). Horne was known in the theatrical world as Anmer Hall, and also used the stage name Waldo Wright.

The theatre was bought by the Westminster Memorial Trust in April 1946 as a memorial to men in Moral Re-Armament (MRA) who gave their lives in World War II. The Trust held it for more than 30 years. Besides putting on productions for the MRA, it was let out to other companies. It was the base for Furndel Productions, run by actor Alan Badel and producer William Anthony Furness, for example with The Ark in 1959. Influential on the MRA productions was Peter Howard, as playwright and also in changing the running of the theatre, where he replaced amateurs of the early period in the 1940s by professional technicians, and brought in the director Henry Cass.

In 1966 the theatre was remodelled, with the addition of an arts centre, after MRA fundraising in 1965. Further work was carried out in 1972, with the addition of two floors. The premises were decorated with a work of art by professor Lennart Segerstråle called "Barbed wire or reconciliation".

MRA withdrew from drama at the Westminster Theatre in 1990, for reasons of cost. Plans were drawn up to extensively remodel the theatre in the early 2000s. A campaign by the owner to save the theatre ended when a fire destroyed 75% of the building on 27 June 2002, with demolition coming soon afterwards. In May 2009, plans for a new 314-seat theatre and a smaller cabaret stage, flats and a restaurant, all situated on the site of the original building, were given approval by Westminster City Council. The new St James Theatre (now The Other Palace) opened in September 2012.

Notable productions
 Harley Granville Barker's Waste, 1936. Directed by the author; this was the first full public production.
 Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History by C. L. R. James, 1936, directed by Peter Godfrey, starring Paul Robeson, Orlando Martins and Harry Andrews.
 Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, 1943, with Martita Hunt as Mrs Cheveley.
 Eden and Adelaide Phillpotts's comedy Yellow Sands, from 29 March 1945, with Cedric Hardwicke as Richard Varwell
 Henry V, July 1953, Elizabethan Theatre Company, notable as the first London play directed by John Barton
 The Duenna with music by Julian Slade; lyrics and book by Dorothy Reynolds; London production, opened 28 July 1954 and ran for 134 performances.
 Freedom, 1955, with an African cast, set in the imaginary country Bokondo, filmed in 1956 in Nigeria.
 The Hurricane, 1961, with Muriel Smith and Phyllis Konstam. Filmed as The Voice of the Hurricane.
 British Touring Shakespeare Company, Hamlet, 2002

References

External links
 History of the Westminster Theatre

Buildings and structures demolished in 2002
Demolished buildings and structures in London
Former buildings and structures in the City of Westminster
Former theatres in London
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1766
Theatres completed in 1931


Afon Wyre ( ), (), is a small river in the county of Ceredigion, Wales; also called Afon Wyre Fawr ("Great Wyre") and formerly Gwyrai.

The river runs north from its source for about 1.5 miles or 2.5 km, through Lledrod, and then turns west for the bulk of its course (about 8 miles or 13 km), passing through Llangwyryfon and Llanrhystud (where it is joined by the Wyre Fach (Little Wyre) and Carrog) before emptying into Cardigan Bay.

References

External links
Photos of the Afon Wyre and surrounding geography on geograph.org.uk

Wyre


The pink abalone, scientific name Haliotis corrugata, is a species of large edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.

Subspecies
 H. c. corrugata W. Wood, 1828 (synonyms: Haliotis diegoensis Orcutt, 1900; Haliotis nodosa Philippi, 1845)
 H. c. oweni Talmadge, 1966 - synonym: Haliotis oweni Talmadge, 1966

Distribution
Pink abalones can be found along the Pacific coast of North America from Point Conception, California to Bahia de Santa Maria, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Description
The shell is thick and characterized by strong corrugations and is more circular than other American abalones. The two to four open respiratory apertures have edges that are strongly elevated above the surface of the shell. These holes collectively make up the selenizone, which forms as the shell grows. The epipodium is a “ruffle” of tissue along the side of the foot. The head and epipodial tentacles are black, but the epipodial fringes are a mottled black and white, with many tubercles on the surface and a lacy edge.

"The large shell is subcircular or short, oval, very convex, like a halfglobe. The surface is corrugated all over with nodose  wrinkles. The three open perforations are elevated and tubular. The inner surface is dark, very brilliantly iridescent. The roughened muscle scar is distinct. The outline is more rounded than usual, being a very short oval. The back is very convex. The strong epidermis is dull,olive-brown with usually wide oblique greenish intervals. The sculpture begins as crowded spiral cords or lirae, but over the greater part of the body whorl these become nodose at short intervals, or are crossed by obliquely radiating corrugations. It is angled at the row of the holes. Below these there is a distinct spiral channel or furrow, bounded below by a more or less distinct row of nodules. And between this and the columellar margin it is obliquely corrugated. The folds scalloping the lower part of the columellar margin. The spire does not project above the general outline of the shell. The inner surface is dark, iridescent, with red predominating in the coloration. The muscle impression is large, distinct, roughened all over, and like fine mosaic work in its brilliant coloration. The flat or concave columellar plate slopes strongly inward, and is not at all truncate at the
base. Above it, it almost conceals the small cavity of the spire. The large tubular perforations number sometimes two, but
normally three."

Ecology

Habitat
This species occupies sheltered waters at depths between 20 and 118 feet (6 – 36 m). They are herbivores, feeding on kelp and drifting algae.

Life cycle
Pink abalone have separate sexes and broadcast spawn from March to November. Maturity is reached at about 1.4 in (35 mm) length or three to four years. Lifespan is 70 years or more.

Predators
Predators of this species other than mankind are sea otters, sea stars, large fish, and octopus.

Diseases
Pink abalones are subject to a chronic, progressive and lethal disease: the Withering Syndrome or abalone wasting disease, leading to mass mortality.

Threats and conservation
Pink abalone are threatened by historic overharvesting, illegal harvest, withering abalone syndrome disease, and climate change. In 1996, the California Department of Fish and Game closed the commercial and recreational abalone fisheries in California, but populations continued to decline. California has a Abalone Recovery Management Plan to guide conservation efforts.

The pink abalone is a US National Marine Fisheries Service Species of Concern. Species of Concern are those species about which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service has some concerns regarding status and threats, but for which insufficient information is available to indicate a need to list the species under the US Endangered Species Act.

Information regarding the status of pink abalone in Mexico is scant. A commercial fishery for pink abalone is still in place in Mexico and is managed by local cooperatives.

References

 Geiger D.L. & Owen B. (2012) Abalone: Worldwide Haliotidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. viii + 361 pp. [29 February 2012] page(s): 77

External links
 Gastropods.com
 Withering Syndrome in Black Abalone

corrugata
Commercial molluscs
Gastropods described in 1828
Taxa named by William Wood (zoologist)


KGTL (620 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Homer, Alaska.  The station is owned by Peninsula Communications, Inc.  It airs a news/talk format.

The station was assigned these call letters by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 17, 1987.

The  price of electricity was increased by 47% in July 2008. In February 2009 KGTL applied for Special Temporary Authority from the FCC to operate with 2,500 watts full-time.

Translators

References

External links
 AM 620 the answer Facebook

GTL
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1987


Édouard-Gaston Daniel Deville,  (February 21, 1849 – September 21, 1924) was the first to perfect a practical method of photogrammetry, the making of maps based on photography. He was the Surveyor General of Canada (1885–1924) and Canada's Director General for the Bureau of Surveys (1922–24). During his lifetime, Canadian surveyors had used his phototopography to map 83,678 square kilometres, roughly the size of Ireland (84,421 square kilometres).

Early life
Before Deville moved to Canada in 1874, he had attended naval school, served in the French navy (reaching the rank of Captain) and had conducted hydrographic surveys in the South Sea islands and Peru.

Career
In 1875, Deville began working as a surveyor and astronomer in Quebec, Canada. He was quickly promoted to the position of the province's top surveyor, Inspector of Surveys. He passed exams in high-level survey theory, earning the rare designation of Dominion Topographic Surveyor. In 1880, he joined the survey for homesteads in the Prairie provinces with the Department of the Interior in Ottawa. For many years, Deville directed Canadian surveying activities. He used innovative techniques to deal with the challenges of surveying in Canada, including a special method of mapping mountainous regions that he invented.

In 1881, Deville was appointed inspector for Dominion Land Surveys. In 1885, he became Surveyor General of Canada.

In 1922, he represented Canada at a geophysics conference in Rome, and his expertise on mountain surveys became sought after internationally. A copy of his camera was used to map the north slope of Mount Everest. His technology was adopted by the Geological Survey of Canada and the International Boundary Commission.

Inventions
To meet these challenges of surveying in the Rocky Mountains Deville experimented with mapping methods developed by French army engineer Aimé Laussedat. Deville used Laussedat's principle of elevated photography, and refined a technique of creating large-scale maps from these photographs. This required him to design a rugged, lightweight field camera that could be carried long distances.

In 1886, his camera was used for the first time in the Rockies. Surveyors would place the camera on a mountain peak, point the lens at the horizon and take panoramic shots of the surrounding peaks. Each view would be measured in relation to the survey station. Surveyors took photos in the short summer season, then would complete their calculations and mapping in their offices during the winter. This allowed larger areas to be surveyed more accurately, in less time, and at one-third the cost of conventional surveying.

In 1893, Deville introduced his innovative mapping technique at the Chicago World Fair. He continued to promote it through pamphlets and a comprehensive textbook. Deville's method of making maps based on photographs became known as phototopography or photogrammetry.

With the arrival of fixed-wing aircraft, surveyors could use Deville's camera to create aerial photographs for surveying flat and remote parts of the country, as well as regions with high elevations.

Honors
1882, was a Founding Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1905, received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Toronto
1916, became a Companion of the Imperial Service Order
1922, made an Honorary member of Engineering Institute of Canada
Mount Deville in Yoho National Park, British Columbia is named in his honour.

References

Natural Resources Canada- Trailblazer Biography
Britanica Biography Édouard Gaston Deville
Parks Canada- People of National Historic Significance

1849 births
1924 deaths
French emigrants to Canada
Canadian surveyors
Canadian Companions of the Imperial Service Order
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)


John Peel's Record Box is a documentary film made by Elaine Shepherd, released on 14 November 2005 on Channel 4. It was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award.

Contents
The box contains a small private collection of the British radio DJ John Peel who died in 2004 at the age of 65. Peel's main archive contained more than 100,000 vinyl records and CDs. This smaller collection is 143 singles, some of them doublettes, stored in a wooden box representing some of his favourites. According to the documentary, there are no singles by Peel's favourite group, The Fall, because he kept them in a separate box.

The film features interviews with John's wife Sheila Ravenscroft, radio DJs and artists including Mary Anne Hobbs, Sir Elton John, Ronnie Wood, Roger Daltrey, Feargal Sharkey, Jack White, Michael Palin and Miki Berenyi.

Inside John Peel's Record Box

External links

2005 television films
2005 films
2005 documentary films
Channel 4 documentaries
Documentary films about rock music and musicians
Record collecting
John Peel
2000s British films
British musical documentary films


Vigrestad Station () is a railway station located at Vigrestad in Hå, Norway on Sørland Line. The station is served by the Jæren Commuter Rail between Stavanger and Egersund. The station is  south of the city of Stavanger.

References

External links
 Jernbaneverket Vigrestad profile

Railway stations on the Sørlandet Line
Railway stations in Hå
Railway stations opened in 1878
1878 establishments in Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1870s


The Chemistry of Death is a novel by the British crime fiction writer Simon Beckett, first published in 2006. The novel introduced the character of Dr David Hunter, who has gone on to feature in other novels by the writer.
The Chemistry of Death was nominated for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger by the Crime Writer's Association in 2006.

The book was adapted into a six-part television series The Chemistry of Death, streaming on Paramount+ in the UK on January 19, 2023.

Plot
Forensics expert David Hunter is recovering from a shattering tragedy three years earlier. While he is working in an isolated Norfolk village as a doctor, a woman's mutilated corpse is discovered. Police want to exploit Hunter's forensic knowledge to help identify the killer, but he is wary of involvement. Another woman disappears and the small community in which Hunter has taken refuge is divided by suspicion, including suspicion of Hunter himself.

References

2006 British novels
Dr David Hunter (series)
Novels set in Norfolk
Bantam Books books


Henrik Plenge Jakobsen (born 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish conceptual artist, who works in a variety of media, from sculpture and installation art to performance art and public intervention.

He has studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1987 to 1994, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques, Paris, France, from 1992 to 1993.

Henrik Plenge Jakobsen lives in Copenhagen.

Work
Plenge Jakobsens project is socio-critical in the sense that he examines and discusses political, economical, cultural and social structures forming the foundation of modern life. Like the Situationists, he is interested in finding a meaningful art form capable of defining a place in the public space, while directly making use of everyday institutions. His project does not seek to cannibalize reality but to incorporate reality into the work itself. His work is radical exactly because it insists on the work's real presence rather than interrogating the foundation of reality. For Plenge Jakobsen, art and reality are not separate spheres that can be temporarily forced together. Existing in the world, art represents one of the realities that constitute life.
Henrik Plenge Jakobsens work can be described as a configuration of visual elements in spatial arrangements, often involving an additional element of action or performance. Many of his works combine sculptural elements and objects in a plastic display positioned between sculpture and installation. Differing from the theatrical and systemic, "total" form of classic installation art. Plenge Jakobsens installation stratagems are based on a more unrestrained, flexible arrangement in which the room is merely an arbitrary architectural frame rather than a meaningful collaborator.

Exhibitions
Recent solo exhibitions have included Eggjastokkur (2011) and Liten Skandinavisk Teori (2019)  at NoPlace, Oslo; Mainframe at Kunstverein für Die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf in 2010; Manhattan Engineering District, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France in 2007; J’Accuse, South London Gallery, London, England in 2005 and Circus Portikus, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 2003.

Henrik Plenge Jakobsen is represented by Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris, France.

References

External links
 The Homepage of Henrik Plenge Jakobsen

1967 births
Living people
Danish contemporary artists
Danish conceptual artists
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni


Sybille Bammer was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.

Agnieszka Radwańska won in the final 6–2, 1–6, 7–6(4), against Jill Craybas.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

External links
Draw and Qualifying Draw

Singles
Pattaya Women's Open - Singles
 in women's tennis


Written in Bone is a novel written by the British crime fiction writer Simon Beckett, first published in 2007. It is the second novel to feature Dr. David Hunter.

Set in the Outer Hebrides, this crime novel features forensic anthropologist Dr. David Hunter.  In this volume, he is called in to examine a badly burned body found in a deserted house on a small island while contending with both personal and professional obstacles.  It received positive reviews as being better than Beckett's first novel, with satisfying plot twists and well-implemented scientific details.

References

2007 British novels
Dr David Hunter (series)
Novels set in the Outer Hebrides
Bantam Press books
Delacorte Press books


Jean de La Rochetaillée (died 1437) was a French churchman, eminent jurist, and Cardinal. His real name was Jean de Fort.

He was bishop of Saint-Papoul in 1413, bishop of Geneva in 1418, and bishop of Paris in 1421/2. He became archbishop of Rouen in 1423, but fell out with his chapter. From 1430/1 he was archbishop of Besançon.

He was created titular Patriarch of Constantinople in 1412, and Cardinal in 1426. He was Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church in 1436/7. Jean attended the Council of Basel from May 1433 to April 1435, functioning as the council's vice-chancellor too.

References

External links
Biography

1360s births
1437 deaths
Clergy from Lyon
15th-century French cardinals
Canon law jurists
Archbishops of Besançon
Bishops of Paris
Archbishops of Rouen
Bishops of Saint-Papoul
Year of birth unknown
Latin Patriarchs of Constantinople


Brusand Station () is a railway station located at Brusand in the municipality of Hå in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located on the Sørland Line. The station is served by Jæren Commuter Rail between Stavanger and Egersund. The station is  south of the city of Stavanger and was opened one year after Jæren Line was completed, in 1879. Prior to 1922, the name was simply Bru.

References

External links
 Jernbaneverket Brustad profile

Railway stations on the Sørlandet Line
Railway stations in Hå
Railway stations opened in 1879
1879 establishments in Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1870s


Kiril Yordanov () (born June 14, 1956) is the former mayor of Varna, the third-largest city in Bulgaria. He held the post from 1999 to 6 March 2013 as an independent when he was forced to step down after the anti-corruption protests involving even the self-immolation of one of the protesters Plamen Goranov.
Yordanov was born in Varna, and graduated from the University of Sofia in 1982 with a degree in law.
He worked in Varna Province Court from 1984 to 1991. From 1991 to 1997 he was governor of Varna Province (oblast). He is married and has one child. It is believed that he was controlled by the crime organization - TIM

See also
 2013 Bulgarian protests
 Plamen Goranov
 2013 Bulgarian parliamentary election

External links
 Кирил Йорданов

Living people
1956 births
Politicians from Varna, Bulgaria
Mayors of places in Bulgaria


Trevor Christie (born 28 February 1959) is an English footballer who played as a striker.

Christie was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and began his career with Leicester City before joining Notts County in 1979. He enjoyed arguably his most successful years with County, winning promotion to the First Division in 1981. He was County's top scorer in the 1983–84 season, a season in which they were relegated.

He went on to play for Nottingham Forest, Derby County, Manchester City, Walsall, Mansfield Town, Kettering Town, Hucknall Town and Arnold Town.

External links

1959 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Leicester City F.C. players
Notts County F.C. players
Nottingham Forest F.C. players
Derby County F.C. players
Manchester City F.C. players
Walsall F.C. players
Mansfield Town F.C. players
Hucknall Town F.C. players
Arnold Town F.C. players
Kettering Town F.C. players
Men's association football forwards
Northern Counties East Football League players
Footballers from Newcastle upon Tyne