, is a collection of five short romantic comedy stories written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya, who also authored the shōjo manga series Fruits Basket. One chapter from the series was published in Hana to Yume on June 20, 1998, and the complete one-volume series was published by Hakusensha on November 19, 1999.

Plot
In "Songs to Make You Smile", quiet, sullen-faced vocalist Atsushi Takahashi prepares for an upcoming performance with his band at his high school festival. He encounters shy Anzu Nakata, who admires his lyrics and defends him from members of another band. Learning that she had been bullied in middle school, he gradually falls in love with her. Late one day at school, he finds her being tormented by members of the other band and fights them, resulting in a cancellation of both performances and a suspension from school for Atsushi. Meeting her at school, he sings a song made just for her, knowing that she had listened to his songs when she was being bullied in middle school, and she smiles with happiness.

"Ding Dong" follows teenage Chisato, whose father died in a traffic accident and who lives with her stepmother. She reflects how her father never gave her Christmas gifts and overhears a conversation between her stepmother and a neighbor in which the neighbor calls her a burden to her stepmother. She eventually realizes that she had been expecting her father to automatically know what she had been wishing for. Her stepmother reveals that her father had felt disconnected from her after his first wife's death, as he had left all the child-raising to her. She then shows her where he had kept all the presents he had wanted to give her.

Release
Natsuki Takaya wrote and illustrated the five stories. In January 1993, "Ding Dong" appeared in a special issue of the manga magazine Hana to Yume Planet. In 1998, "Princess Dark Black" appeared in the 15 January issue of Hana to Yume Step, while "Songs to Make You Smile" first appeared in the fourteenth issue of Hana to Yume. Hakusensha compiled the five stories into a collection and published it on 19 November 1999.

Madman Entertainment licensed the series for English-language translation and distribution in Australia and New Zealand, and released it as Because You Smile When I Sing on 8 October 2008. Chuang Yi published the collection in Singapore. At the 2009 New York Anime Festival convention, Tokyopop announced that it had licensed the series for an English-language translation in North America as Songs and Laughter. It published the collection as Songs to Make You Smile: Stories from the Creator of Fruits Basket on 1 May 2010.

Chapter list

Reception
Songs to Make You Smile was positively received by English-language readers in North America. It sold an estimated 758 copies, reaching the 132nd place on ICv2's list of the 300 best-selling graphic novels for April 2010.

Johanna Draper Carlsen, a reviewer for Publishers Weekly, had lukewarm feelings towards the collection, writing that the artwork was "stiff" and the stories emotionally overwrought; according to her, the short stories were unlikely to appeal to fans of Fruits Basket, who she thought would be put off by the false feeling of overdone emotions. A French reviewer rated the collection 2 out of 5 stars, finding the art dated and awkward. The reviewer wrote that "Princess Dark Black" was the stand-out story of the collection, with the rest mediocre, and  concluded that the collection would appeal to fans of Takaya.

References

External links

1998 manga
Hakusensha manga
Natsuki Takaya
Romantic comedy anime and manga
Shōjo manga
Tokyopop titles


Stocklinch is a village and civil parish  north-east of Ilminster in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England.

History

The village is one Somerset's nine Thankful Villages (from a total of 52 villages in England and Wales), in which all the men who served in World War I came home, and one of only 14 doubly thankful villages in the country as it also did not lose any soldiers in World War II.

Governance

The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Chard Rural District. The district council is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.

Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing and fire services, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning.

It is also part of the Somerton & Frome county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one member of parliament by the first past the post system of election.

Religious sites

The Church of St Mary Magdalene dates from the 13th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building, while the Church of St Mary the Virgin, which is of the same vintage, is Grade II* listed. In 1931 the two parishes they served, Stocklinch Ottersey and Stocklinch Magdalen, were combined into one parish.

References

External links

 Stocklinch village website
 Medieval houses of Stocklinch

Villages in South Somerset
Civil parishes in Somerset


Crisologo Abines (August 3, 1947 – January 28, 2008) was a former First Lieutenant in the Philippine Army assigned in the Logistics Service, Visayas Command. A Filipino public servant who was the youngest municipal mayor during his generation serving the Cebu Province . He was elected to three consecutive terms in the House of Representatives, representing the 2nd District of Cebu from 1987 to 1998. He served in the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Congresses.

After his service in Congress, Abines was tried along with three others for the 1999 homicide case of his assailant inside a cockpit in Santander, Cebu. He was eventually acquitted by the Sandiganbayan, upon presentation of evidence that he was instead the victim and was first fired upon.

During the 2007 elections, Abines served as the provincial chairman of the United Opposition for Cebu. He died of a myocardial infarction in January of the following year.

Notes

People from Cebu
1947 births
2008 deaths
United Opposition (Philippines) politicians
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Cebu


The International Coffee Organization (ICO) was set up in 1963 in London, under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) due to the economic importance of coffee. It administers the International Coffee Agreement (ICA), an important instrument for development cooperation.

It was a result of the five-year International Coffee Agreement signed in 1962 at the UN in New York City and renegotiated in 1968, 1976, 1983, 1994 and 2007 at the ICO in London.

The International Coffee Council is the highest authority of the Organization and is composed of representatives of each Member Government. It meets in March and September to discuss coffee matters, approve strategic documents and consider the recommendations of advisory bodies and committees.

The ICO's headquarters is located at 222 Gray's Inn Road in London and its current executive director is the Brazilian José Sette.

The United States officially withdrew from the International Coffee Agreement in June 2018. As of February 2, 2022 ICO Member Governments represent 93% of world coffee production and 63% of world consumption.

Membership
As 2 February 2022, its membership comprises 42 producing members and 7 importing members.

Exporting Member Countries

Importing Member Countries

See also
Economics of coffee

References

External links

Agricultural organisations based in England
Coffee organizations
Coffee
Intergovernmental organizations established by treaty
International organisations based in London
Organisations based in the London Borough of Camden
Organizations established in 1963
1963 establishments in England
International agricultural organizations
Coffee in the United Kingdom


The Evangelical Reformed Churches in Poland (in Polish its called the Ewangeliczny Kosciol Reformowany) is a Reformed church in the country of Poland. This church is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches and strives to teach ERC principles to their followers and follow the sacred scripture (ERC Poland).

Origin
Evangelical Reformed Churches (Ewangeliczny Kosciol Reformowany) in Poland were founded in 1995 and since 2006 are members of the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches. There are two particular churches (in Poznań and Wrocław) and two mission churches (in Gdańsk and Legnica). In their teaching and practice the ERC in Poland follow the two main Reformers: Martin Luther and John Calvin.

Doctrine
The confessional standards of the ERC in Poland are the Three Forms of Unity.

Magazine
The ERChurches in Poland publish a quarterly magazine Reformacja w Polsce.

Association
CREC EuropeERC Poland

Reformed denominations in Europe
Protestantism in Poland


James Patrick Moore Jr. (born 1953 in Illinois) is an author, professor, television commentator, lecturer, corporate executive, nonprofit CEO, and former senior government official. Today, he serves as the founder, President and CEO of the Washington Institute for Business, Government, and Society headquartered in Washington, D.C. Just prior to launching the Washington Institute, he taught international business, corporate ethics, and leadership and management at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University while sitting on a number of corporate and nonprofit boards both in the United States and overseas. He also served as Executive Director of the Business and Public Policy Initiative at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

Early life and education

Moore was born in Joliet, Illinois while his father, Dr. James P. Moore, was in medical residency. His mother, Dorothy Robinette Woodring Moore, was the head of the World War II Canteen at Joseph Horne Department Store in Pittsburgh and served as an assistant to the legendary Gwilym Price, President and CEO of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, in the years after the war.

The Moore family settled in Ford City, Pennsylvania in 1954 where Moore’s father set up his medical practice. Moore graduated from Kiskiminetas Springs School, better known as The Kiski School in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania in 1971 where he headed up several student organizations and founded what became the School's largest organization, the St. Andrew Society which helped serve the poor by donating groceries, books, toys, and educational supplies throughout the region. He then was graduated from Rutgers College of Rutgers University in 1975 with highest distinction in political science. It was there that he headed for two years the acclaimed Rutgers Glee Club, now known as the Rutgers University Glee Club.  He then went on to receive a Masters in Public and International Affairs at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh in 1976.

Government career

From graduate school Moore was hired as a legislative assistant to Congressman William Ketchum, a Republican from Bakersfield, California who sat on the House Ways and Means Committee. After the Congressman’s death in 1978, he was named legislative director for the newly elected Congressman Charles Pashayan of Fresno, California. During his tenure on Capitol Hill he helped to draft several pieces of major legislation enacted into law related to business, government spending, and foreign policy.

In 1980 he decided to return to his legal residence in Western Pennsylvania to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. The political realities of reapportionment that year, however, prevented him from doing so. Consequently, he absorbed himself in the duties of the Board of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, to which he had been appointed by President Ronald Reagan. He became heavily involved in the selection of a new executive director for the museum and was a major proponent and force in having the private sector underwrite a greater share of museum activities.

Three years later Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige Jr. appointed Moore as his Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade Information and Analysis as well as the Head of the U.S. delegation to the Industry Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France. As a result of a major reorganization within the Department, he soon was made responsible for monitoring, analyzing, promoting, and working with U.S. industry at home and abroad on behalf of the U.S. Government. He also worked with the Director-General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, now known as the United States Commercial Service in overseeing the commercial operations in U.S. embassies around the world. In addition he held the investment portfolio for the U.S. government in attracting foreign investment into the United States. During this period he traveled extensively throughout the United States and around the globe to represent and speak on behalf of the interests of U.S. industry, delivering numerous speeches, some of which were in French and German.

Moore also led a five-member U.S. delegation to Lisbon, Portugal in the aftermath of Portugal's accession to the European Union to advise the government and private sector regarding its views on how to work towards a greater free market economy after years of socialism. He also held the rank of ambassador while representing the United States before the Bureau of International Expositions in Paris, France.

The Secretary then asked him to serve as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Economic Policy. It was in this position that he worked with country desk officers to help execute and maintain bilateral and multilateral trade and economic relationships. He headed negotiations on behalf of the U.S. Government with such countries as China, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia. He helped to initiate talks with Canada that led to the creation of the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement which later was absorbed into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He also was one of the senior negotiators in launching the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations which led to the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

In 1988 he was named the chief negotiator for the United States and worked with a team of forty U.S. officials across different departments and agencies in concluding what would become the last trade and economic agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. He worked closely with Secretary of Commerce C. William Verity, the former CEO of Armco (known today as AK Steel Holding), Chairman of the Board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Chairman of the U.S.-Soviet Business Council. Verity had been a long time business and political authority on the Soviet Union. With his support and that of President Reagan, Moore advanced creating a series of business joint ventures between U.S. and Soviet business leaders in response to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's opening up of the Soviet market, better known as perestroika. The rationale for doing so was to allow Soviet businesses to understand how the free market worked in the West and to find ways to see how U.S. and Soviet businesses could work together into the future. Moore also addressed the sensitive issue of the Soviet Jewish community which faced immigration quotas at the time. He met privately with Jewish leaders both inside and outside the Soviet Union to explain the government's approach and to ensure that the position of the U.S. Government in moving forward with an agreement would be help advance the objectives of Soviet Jewry.

It was during this period that President Ronald Reagan nominated Moore to serve as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development. Confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate, he worked with nine deputy assistant secretaries covering such U.S. industrial sectors as aerospace, textiles, services, consumer goods, basic industries, and high technology. He also was confirmed unanimously to be a member of the Board of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and sat on the board of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (ex officio) where he was involved in helping to provide some of the first financing of projects in the former Communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. He also was a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviewed sensitive foreign investments in the United States pertaining to national security. In addition, he served simultaneously as U.S. Ambassador to the Bureau of International Expositions in Paris, France.

Immediate post-government career

At the conclusion of the Reagan Administration, Moore was named a distinguished fellow at the business school of the University of Colorado, Denver. During that time, he helped trigger the launch of the Global Forum in Aspen, Colorado which brought together global leaders from business, government, and academia to discuss critical issues of the day. Serving as its chairman, with the university serving as the secretariat, he helped organize its first conference on the post-Communist transition of the Soviet Union. The four-day meeting, covered gavel to gavel by C-SPAN, consisted of top business and political leaders from the United States and the Soviet Union. Several of the Soviet participants would later be appointed ministers by Soviet President Boris Yeltsin and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

During this period Moore founded ATI, an investment banking firm, with offices in Washington, London, Doha, and Moscow. He also accepted the Vice Chairmanship of the International Press Center and Club in Moscow, whose mission was to work with journalists from the former Soviet Union to provide understanding and technical know how on the workings of a free press. The multimillion-dollar complex hosted President Yeltsin and world leaders who delivered speeches on a wide range of subjects, much like the National Press Club in Washington.

American Prayer Project

Beginning in October 1997, Moore became engaged in writing the first of three books on the subject of prayer in the context of American history. He quickly found through the Library of Congress that nothing had been written on the topic. That discovery led him to begin to research and ultimately write One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America and its publication on November 1, 2005 by Doubleday.

The book was adapted into an audio production by Random House Audio. Joining Moore in reading the book were 20 prominent Americans who gave voices to the characters in his book. Some of those narrators were Senator John McCain (Stonewall Jackson, George Patton), actor Roscoe Lee Browne (Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass), journalist Hugh Sidey (Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney), Broadway star Ben Vereen (spirituals of the slaves), and historic novelist Gail Buckley (Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt). U.S. Senate Chaplain Lloyd John Ogilvie, actor David Conrad (Woodrow Wilson, Douglas MacArthur, J.C.Penney) and U.S. House Chaplain Daniel Coughlin recreated the prayers they delivered to their respective chambers the day after September 11, 2001, and former astronaut Frank Borman recited the prayer he transmitted on Apollo 8 from space to earth on Christmas in 1968.

The book also led to the creation of a series of music CDs by PBA Music Publishing, the first entitled The Many Voices of One Nation Under God. This part of the American Prayer Project was launched to show how American genre music is rooted in prayer from African American Spirituals (i.e., jazz, rhythm and blues, gospel) to the hymns of Appalachia (i.e., folk, country). The eclectic mix of composers and performers such as Leonard Bernstein, Loretta Lynn, Tupac Shakur, and Dave Brubeck show how prayer has become the inspiration to even contemporary music. Moore wrote the liner notes.

In turn, the book was brought to the television screen in a public television miniseries entitled Prayer in America. The Emmy award-winning Duncan Group produced the film with Moore acting as the consulting producer. The project, including its outreach across the United States through Outreach Extensions, was funded by a grant from the Templeton Foundation.

The film also generated a five-part program that will be video streamed into public, private, and parochial middle schools and high schools across the United States. The multimedia firm Questar distributed the program in the fall of 2008.

The American Prayer Project produced The Treasury of American Prayer, also published by Doubleday, and The Crossings Treasury of American Prayer, published by Crossings Publishers in the fall of 2008. Both books are a compilation of prayers written by Americans over the years and provide descriptions of those prayers to put them and their authors into their proper and historical context.

The American Prayer Project was launched on November 8, 2005 at Washington National Cathedral. In conjunction with the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, Moore served as the host for the evening with performers from a dozen faith traditions.

One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America was also published in a "Patriot's Edition", the proceeds of which were contributed to the soldiers wounded in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Academia, lectures and commentary

Moore has taught international business, ethics, and management and leadership at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University since 1999. In 2009 he headed an academic and business executive team to China to discuss the global economic crisis and to help educate young Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs on the realities of the global marketplace. He has received several awards by the faculty and students for outstanding teaching.

He has lectured at universities and colleges around the United States including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and all of the United States service academies. He also has lectured at universities in Europe, the Middle East, Japan, and China. In addition he has addressed a wide range of audiences outside of academia from the medical staff of the Mayo Clinic to senior corporate executives at such companies as 3M, Merck, Ciba-Geigy, and the New York Stock Exchange.  In 2011 and 2012 he addressed the senior executives of British corporations during the annual meeting of the Confederation of British Industry.

For more than a dozen years, Moore has been a guest commentator on CNBC, CNN, the Fox News Channel and other news programs, discussing issues from political and economic hotspots around the world to domestic politics in the United States and their impact on the domestic and global economy. His articles and speeches have been translated into dozens of languages. He was the first Westerner to be interviewed on Al Jazeera television when it was launched in 1966.

He also has written op-ed articles on a variety of subjects for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times.

Moore also has written th prefaces to the books Dream World, Midnight Musings, and Surviving Hard Times by Magda Herzberger, a survivor of the Holocaust and the Nazi camps of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Bremen.  He also has written the preface to her latest book Midnight Musings.

Awards
Texas Legislature Resolution of Commendation (H.R. 13), Austin, Texas
Inductee, Ford City Hall of Fame, Ford City, Pennsylvania
Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Kiski School (Kiskiminetas Springs School), Saltsburg, Pennsylvania
Beta Gamma Sigma Professorial Honoree, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
[Padre Pio] Award, Capuchin Franciscan Friars, Province of St. Augustine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Senate Resolution of Commendation, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Distinguished Teaching Award, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
The CSFN Award, Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and Holy Family College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cap and Skull Society (Honorary), Rutgers College of Rutgers University
Distinguished Fellow, University of Colorado Denver Business School, Denver, Colorado

Selected board and council memberships

 The Kiski School
 Harvey Nash (Global)
 Harvey Nash (USA)
 APCO
  Center for Natural Lands Management

References

External links

American Prayer Project
""'One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America""' – The Book (Doubleday)
""'One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America""' - The Audio (Random House)
""'Prayer in America""' - The Film (Duncan Group)
 ""'Prayer in America""' - The School Program (Questar)
 ""'The Many Voices of One Nation Under God""' - The Music CD
 ""'The Treasury of American Prayer""'
 ""'The Crossings Treasury of American Prayer""'
""'Houston Chronicle""'

Miscellaneous
(Georgetown University)
Television Commentary (CNBC)
Lecture and Media Agent (Greater Talent Network)

Selected opinion/editorial articles

Five Myths About Our Sputtering Economy  [New York Times]
Outsourcing and the 21st Century Economy (with Craig Barrett, former CEO, Intel) - [Wall Street Journal]
 American Prayers, on D-Day and Today [Washington Post] More Than Just a Man of Firsts'' [Washington Post]

1953 births
Living people
People from Joliet, Illinois
American television personalities
Male television personalities
Rutgers University alumni
University of Pittsburgh alumni
People from Ford City, Pennsylvania
The Kiski School alumni


The Football Conference season of 2000–01 was the twenty-second season of the Football Conference, also known as the Nationwide Conference for sponsorship reasons.

Changes since the previous season
 Boston United (promoted 1999–2000)
 Chester City (relegated from the Football League 1999–2000)
 Dagenham & Redbridge (promoted 1999–2000)
 Leigh RMI (promoted 1999–2000)

Locations

Final  league table

Results

Top scorers in order of league goals

 Footballtransfers.co.uk, thefootballarchives.com and Soccerbase contain information on many playerson whom there is not yet an article in Wikipedia.
Source:

References

External links
 Official Football Conference Website
 2000–01 Conference National Results

National League (English football) seasons
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English


Auzay () is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Auchay-sur-Vendée.

See also
Communes of the Vendée department

References

Former communes of Vendée


Jan De Maeseneer (born 30 June 1952, in Ghent) is a Belgian family physician and has been Head of the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care of Ghent University (1991–2017).

In 1977, De Maeseneer graduated as a medical doctor at Ghent University and since 1978 works as a family physician at the Wijkgezondheidscentrum Botermarkt in Ledeberg (Ghent). In 1981, he started working as a part-time assistant at the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care at Ghent University. In 1989 he obtained a PhD. with the thesis The functioning of 94 GP trainers at the State University of Ghent: an explorative research. His research at the university focuses on Health Professional Education, Health Promotion, Health inequity, Primary Health Care, Health Services Research and Global Health. He published more than 150 articles in scientific journals.

Career
Since 1996 he has been a member of the Wonca International Classification Committee (WICC), which produced the International Classification of Primary Care, and of the Research Committee of the World Organization of Family Doctors.

In 1997, he started an international cooperation "Primafamed-network" for the development of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine in Africa and in 2008 participated in the launch of the African Journal for Primar Health Care and Family Practice.

In 2009, he became the Vice-Dean for Strategic Planning of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Ghent University, where he was responsible for a fundamental curriculum reform as Chairman of the Educational Committee for the undergraduate medical curriculum (1997–2016).

Jan De Maeseneer chaired the Strategic Advisory Council for Welfare, Health and Family, advising the Flemish Minister (2010–2018). Chairman of the European Forum for Primary Care.

He was the Secretary-General of the Network: Towards Unity for Health.

Since 2010, he is the Director of the International Centre for Primary Health Care and Family Medicine, Ghent University, designated by the World Health Organisation as a "WHO-Collaborating Centre on Primary health Care" .

In 2012 Jan De Maeseneer became a member of the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education at the Institute of Medicine in Washington.

In 2013 Jan De Maeseneer was appointed as Chair of the Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health of the European Commission (EXPH).

In 2016–2018, he was a member of The Lancet Commission on Primary Health Care in China.

Awards
 2004: Five-Star Doctor Award for Excellence in Health Care (Orlando – USA)
 2008: Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Mayor the San Simon (Cochabamba-Bolivia)
 2011: Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (London – UK)
2014: Prince Mahidol Award for Excellence in Health Professional Education (Bangkok, Thailand)
 2014–2015: laureate of the Belgian Francqui Chair, Antwerp University

References

External links
 Universiteit Gent
 Scientific publications

1952 births
Living people
Belgian general practitioners
Ghent University alumni
Academic staff of Ghent University


Avrillé () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

The 16th-century Château de la Guignardière is located just outside the town.

See also
Communes of the Vendée department

References

Communes of Vendée


Aubigny () is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Aubigny-Les Clouzeaux.

See also
Communes of the Vendée department

References

Former communes of Vendée


Barra de São Miguel (São Miguel being Portuguese for Saint Michael) may refer to:

Barra de São Miguel, Alagoas, a municipality of Alagoas, Brazil
Barra de São Miguel, Paraíba, a municipality of Paraíba, Brazil


Antigny () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

See also
Communes of the Vendée department

References

External links

Official site

Communes of Vendée


Angles () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

Geography
The river Lay forms all of the commune's eastern border. Angles is located to the south of the department between plains and marshes, 7 kilometres from the beaches of La Tranche sur Mer and Longeville sur Mer. The town is noted for its old alleys and its Romanesque and Gothic church.

Climate

Angles has a oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Angles is . The average annual rainfall is  with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Angles was  on 7 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was  on 14 January 1987.

History
Georges Clemenceau, a resident of the nearby Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard, described Angles at the beginning of the century as "a small town located at the extreme edge of the grove at the exact point where the sea retreats from the vast plain of Vendeen green marsh and where livestock is the country's industry. The agricultural vocation has long been the economic engine of an entire region, but since the early writings of the Tigris, much has changed ...

In the early eleventh century the area was subject to numerous Norman invasions, a concern that led to a  significant depopulation during this period. However,  the Tower of Moricq was constructed by local lords such as the Prince of Talmont in 1040 to safeguard the security of the area. They aimed to attract people to the area, especially the barons by providing real estate and financial resources to the development of agricultural activity and a church. In this context the city had its foundation around 1075 with the establishment, on the ruins of an ancient Gallo-Roman church of Sancta Maria Anglis (St. Mary of the Angels) by William son of Herbert.

On March 8, 1999, the city had a population of 1582 inhabitants, and a density of 46 inhabitants per km ². Tourism is a contributor to what is otherwise an agricultural economy and in the summer months tourists stay in Angles in campsites and cottages in the area.

Personalities
 René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
 Raoul Pacaud (1862–1932), Deputy of the Vendée (1914–1919, 1928–1932)
 Albert Deman (1927–1996)

See also
Communes of the Vendée department

References

External links

Official site

Communes of Vendée


Aizenay () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

Geography
Aizenay is 15 km north-west of La Roche-sur-Yon, 25 km from Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and Challans and 30 km from Les Sables d'Olonne (on the Atlantic Ocean Vendée coast).

Aizenay is bordered by the communes of La Chapelle-Palluau, Maché, Apremont, Coëx, La Chapelle-Hermier, Martinet, Beaulieu-sous-la-Roche, Venansault, La Génétouze and Le Poiré-sur-Vie.

Its northern boundary follows the course of the river Vie. The Aizenay Forest is the most prominent natural feature of the commune.

History
There are the remains of cave dwellings along the edge of the Vie river. St. Benedict died in Aizenay in 360 at the Abbey of St. Benedict Quinçay. The church was registered an Aizenay Historical Monument in 2007.

On March 27, 1944, an American B-17 named "Big Red" crashed at the edge of the Aizenay in the woodland, killing 4 people. It was part of the 388th brigade which was bombing targets in the Bordeaux region at the time. 50 years later, in December 1994, the book "His Name Was Big Red" was published. On 1 July 1995 the "Path of Remembrance" was created and a monument erected on the site of the crash of the bomber.
In fact, the pilot of "Big Red" survived; he hid in nearby woods, and was eventually hidden in a barn in a small hamlet called "La Nicolière", by Mme Idais, who lived in the hamlet. She risked her life (and those of the residents) by hiding the pilot.
He was eventually disguised, put on a train, and went to Spain.
The pilot died of cancer in the 1990s, but his widow returned to see Mme Idais (by then aged 80) to present her with a copy of the book, translated into French.
This book is now available to buy in Aizenay, but at the time, her copy was the only one!

Economy
The commune is a producer of wood, having notable forest resources. The commune has several plastics industries such as Cougnaud SA Atlantique Menuiserie, and Lapeyre-Saint-Gobain and businesses making textiles and footwear. The microwave firm Brandt also operates in the commune, as do several small mills and various agro-food companies.

There are many cattle, dairy, livestock and arable farms at Aizenay. The town's goat's cheese is well known.

Aizenay has a number of restaurants. "Le Fougerais" in Aizenay, a gourmet restaurant listed in the Michelin guide, closed in 2005.

Population

Landmarks

Church of Saint-Benoît
This church with its colorful stained glass, characteristic of the early twentieth century is a fine example of neo-Gothic architecture. It opened for worship on Christmas Day 1905, and it was consecrated in 1965. A processional cross, a true treasure of the church, was given as a gift by Louis XIII on April 19, 1622. The church also includes a sanctuary lamp in silver (17th century), chalices, statues and old crucifixes.

When restoration work began on the church in late 2005, workers were surprised to discover, beneath the floor, several sarcophagi and basements. The site has been protected since, and archaeological excavations took place in February 2007.

Aizenay Forest
To the east of the town, is Aizenay Forest, with a surface area of 420 hectares. It is classified as an area of special ecological interest.

There are five wooded areas open to the public, including La Grande Barriere, la Foret, le Cail Blanc, le Grand Bois, la Zone verte and le Bouquet. The River Vie and the River Yon meander through the forest.

Other landmarks
There are a few archaeological remains including a necropolis of the early Middle Ages around the old church and the château de "La Marronnière", which is the remains of the main building which replaced the central fortress in the fourteenth-fifteenth century. Today the  château is run down and no longer has any interest.

There is also the presence of several mansions such as "La Petitière" (mansion converted into a farm), "La Giraudinière" (an old château) or the "Grand Plessis". The commune has several other old buildings, including the Ecclesia de Asineis of the eleventh century, Asiniacum and Asianum of the twelfth, Asen, Asyanensis, Asiniacum and Aisenei of the thirteenth, Asiano, Ayzenoys and Aizenois of the fourteenth, Izenay of the seventeenth etc.

There are also outstanding features such as the "Bonnefonds" chimney.

Transport
The commune is connected by the D948 highway from southeast to northwest, the D978 highway from south to north and the D6 highway from the southwest to the northeast. The short D2948 road also connects roads by passing through the southern outskirts of the main town.

See also
Communes of the Vendée department

References

Communes of Vendée


L'Aiguillon-sur-Vie (, literally L'Aiguillon on Vie) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Vendée department

References

Communes of Vendée


L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer (, literally L'Aiguillon on Sea) is a former commune in the Vendée department in western France. It was merged with La Faute-sur-Mer to form L'Aiguillon-la-Presqu'île on 1 January 2022.

Population

Geography
The river Lay forms all of the commune's northwestern border, then flows into the Atlantic Ocean, which forms all of its western border.

See also
Communes of the Vendée department

References

Former communes of Vendée
Populated coastal places in France


Sainte-Florence () is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. Since January 1, 2016, it is part of Essarts-en-Bocage.

See also
Communes of the Vendée department

References

Former communes of Vendée


Mummy brown, also known as Egyptian brown or Caput Mortuum, is a rich brown bituminous pigment with good transparency, sitting between burnt umber and raw umber in tint. The pigment was made from the flesh of mummies mixed with white pitch and myrrh. Mummy brown was extremely popular from the mid-eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. However, fresh supplies of mummies diminished, and artists were less satisfied with the pigment's permanency and finish. By 1915, demand had significantly declined. Suppliers ceased to offer it by the middle of the twentieth century.

Mummy brown was one of the favourite colours of the Pre-Raphaelites. It was used by many artists, including Eugene Delacroix, William Beechey, Edward Burne-Jones, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and Martin Drolling.

History
Before "mummy brown" was used as a pigment, Egyptian mummies were known for their medicinal qualities. People used materials derived from mummies to treat a wide range of medical complaints, from toothaches to dysentery.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, people began producing pigment from mummies. The pigment was made from the flesh of Egyptian mummies or Guanche mummies of Canary Islands (both human and feline), mixed with white pitch and myrrh. The earliest record of the use of mummy brown dates back to 1712 when an artist supply shop called "À la momie" in Paris sold paints, varnish, and powdered mummy. In 1797, a Compendium of Colors published in London proclaimed that the finest brown used as a glaze by Benjamin West, the president of the Royal Academy, "is the flesh of mummy, the most fleshy are the best parts."

The pigment was popular from the mid-eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. However, the demand for mummy brown sometimes exceeded the available supply of true Egyptian mummies, leading to occasional substitution of contemporary corpses of enslaved people or criminals. By 1849, it was described as being "quite in vogue."

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, mummy brown began to fall out of popularity. Fresh supplies of mummies diminished, and artists were less satisfied with the pigment's permanence and finish. The Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones was reported to have ceremonially buried his tube of mummy brown in his garden when he discovered its true origins.

By 1915, demand for mummy brown had slowed so much that one London colourman claimed he could satisfy his customers' requests for twenty years from a single Egyptian mummy. By the start of the 20th century, mummy brown had largely ceased production in its traditional form due to a continued decline in the supply of available mummies as well as a significant drop in demand.

Today, mummy brown cannot be bought from any paint shop. In 1964, Time magazine reported that the sole distributor of the pigment, London colourmaker C. Roberson, had run out of mummies a few years prior. A tube of mummy brown pigment purchased from Roberson in early 1900s is on display at the Forbes Pigment Collection of the Harvard Art Museum.

Visual characteristics
Ancient mummy brown is a rich brown pigment with a warm vibrancy. The colour is intermediate in tint between burnt umber and raw umber. It has good transparency. It could be used in oil paint and watercolour for glazing, shadows, flesh tones, and shading.

The modern equivalent sold as "mummy brown" is composed of a mixture of kaolin, quartz, goethite, and hematite, with the hematite and goethite (generally 60% of the content) determining the colour. The more hematite, the redder the pigment, while the others are inert substances that can vary the opacity or tinting strength. The colour of mummy brown can vary from yellow to red to dark violet, the latter usually called "mummy violet".

Permanence
Mummy brown exhibits poor permanence. It fades easily and cracks when used alone.  However, when mixed with oil paints, it dries and the tendency to crack is diminished. It was also extremely variable in its composition and quality, and since it contained ammonia and particles of fat, it was likely to affect other colors it was used with.

Notable occurrences

Many artists, including Eugene Delacroix, William Beechey, Edward Burne-Jones, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and Martin Drolling, are thought to have used mummy brown in their palettes. However, few works have been tested for its presence because the process is destructive.

Some popular paintings included in previous articles and research papers are thought to have been painted with mummy brown based on their visual characteristics. Examples include the Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones, Interior of a Kitchen by Martin Drolling, and Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix.

See also
 Caput mortuum (pigment), a pigment also known as cardinal purple
 Mummia, a medicinal preparation sometimes made from mummies

Notes

References

Iron oxide pigments
Pigments
Shades of brown
Mummies


Chlorodimethylsilane, also called dimethylchlorosilane and abbreviated DMCS, is a chemical compound with the formula (CH3)2SiHCl.  It is a silane, with a silicon atom bonded to two methyl groups, a chlorine atom, and a hydrogen atom.

Its structure, including bond lengths and bond angles, has been determined using Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy.

References

Chlorosilanes


Slaviša Mitrović (Славиша Митровић; born July 5, 1977) is a retired Bosnian-Herzegovinian Serb footballer.

Club career
A big forward, Mitrović played in the UAE League with Alahli and Al-Wahda (UAE) and in Romanian League with Național București and in the Second Division with SC Concordia Chiajna. He was the second top scorer with Alahli in UAE League with 19 goals.

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
People from Visoko
Sportspeople from Zenica-Doboj Canton
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Men's association football forwards
Bosnia and Herzegovina men's footballers
OFK Bečej 1918 players
Nyíregyháza Spartacus FC players
FC Progresul București players
Suwon Samsung Bluewings players
Shabab Al Ahli Club players
Al Wahda FC players
Al-Wakrah SC players
CS Concordia Chiajna players
Nemzeti Bajnokság II players
Liga I players
K League 1 players
UAE Pro League players
Qatar Stars League players
Liga II players
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia and Montenegro
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Serbia and Montenegro
Expatriate men's footballers in Romania
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Expatriate men's footballers in South Korea
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in South Korea
Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
Expatriate men's footballers in Qatar
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Qatar


Dubai Royal Air Wing (otherwise simply known as the “Royal Airwing”) is the paramilitary airline of the government of the United Arab Emirates.

Dubai Royal Air Wing, located on the southeast side of Dubai International Airport (DXB), consists of a VIP terminal dedicated to the UAE Royal family and special interest flights and is primarily is used by the Emir of Dubai, the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, members of the Dubai Royal family, as well as other influential government officials based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The airline provided Emirates with their first aircraft but the two are not affiliated beyond both having ties with the government of Dubai.

Fleet

Current fleet

The Dubai Air Wing fleet consists of the following known aircraft (as of July 2023):

Historic fleet
The airline fleet previously included the following known aircraft:

References

External links

 Dubai Royal Airwing
 Presidential Flight (Abu Dhabi)

Airlines of the United Arab Emirates
Government-owned companies of Dubai
Air transport of heads of state
Government-owned airlines
Royal vehicles


Association Scientifique Internationale pour le Café (ASIC) (established 1966 in Paris) was initiated by Institut Français du Café et du Cacao, to "establish an inventory of scientific and applied knowledge and to encourage, carry out and coordinate research likely to contribute to a better use of coffee and its derivatives and to the improvement of coffee quality in the mutual interest of producers, wholesalers, industrialists and consumers."

ASIC has been active in major areas of coffee production such as agronomy, chemistry, physiology and logistics.
It organizes the annual Scientific colloquium on coffee, the ASIC 2008 to be held in Campinas, Brazil, and publishes
bulletins on scientific development.
ASIC is governed by a fifteen-member Board, of which not more
than 1/4 represent private industry.
Its president is Andrea Illy.

See also

References

Scientific organizations based in France
Coffee organizations
Organizations established in 1966
1966 establishments in France
Agricultural organizations based in France
1966 in Paris
Coffee in Europe


Grlom u jagode (Cyrillic: Грлом у јагоде, "The Unpicked Strawberries") is a 1975 Yugoslavian TV series directed by Srđan Karanović and co-written by Karanović and Rajko Grlić. Depicting the life and times of a young man nicknamed Bane Bumbar, the series achieved huge popularity throughout SFR Yugoslavia.

Revolving around Bane, his family, and his circle of friends, the series also portrays 1960s Belgrade, Serbia and Yugoslavia.

Overview
Bane Bumbar is growing up in Stara Karaburma neighbourhood with his parents Sreta and Olja, his half-sister Seka Štajn (his mother's child form a previous marriage) and his maternal grandmother Elvira.

His circle of friends includes characters such as Miki Rubiroza, Glupi Uške, Boca Čombe, as well as his off-and-on girlfriend Goca.

Occasionally narrated by Bane and other characters from a distance of 10–15 years, each one of Grlom u jagodes 10 episodes depicts a different year from 1960 to 1969, inclusive, with Bane's various endeavours, concerns, education, love life, etc. taking center stage during each particular episode.

Main charactersBane Bumbar is a city kid growing up in post-war Belgrade, the capital of communist Yugoslavia. Born Branislav Živković' to parents Sreta and Olja, both of whom fought in the World War II on the Partisan side, his birth date is in 1945, couple of days before the war officially ended.

Episodes

References

External links

Radio Television of Serbia original programming
1976 Yugoslav television series debuts
1976 Yugoslav television series endings
Television series set in the 1960s
Serbian drama television series
Serbian-language television shows
1970s Yugoslav television series
Television shows set in Belgrade
Television shows filmed in Belgrade
Coming-of-age television shows


Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger (April 17, 1907 – June 14, 1989) was a Canadian politician.  He first ran for the House of Commons of Canada in 1945 in the district of Charlevoix—Saguenay under the banner of the Social Credit Party of Canada, but was defeated.  Much later, in the 1962 election, he ran again in the district of Charlevoix and was elected.  He was re-elected in 1963 and left Parliament before the 1965 election.  Prior to his federal political experience, he was elected mayor of Beaupré, Quebec in 1945 and served until 1964. While mayor he led the effort to build the famous ski resort Mont-Sainte-Anne, which opened in 1966.

References

External links

1907 births
1989 deaths
People from Chaudière-Appalaches
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Social Credit Party of Canada MPs
French Quebecers


Sue Mosteller  (born 1933) is a writer and teacher who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Biography
Mosteller is a Sister of St. Joseph of Toronto. She first traveled from Ohio to board with the community and later entered the order after thriving under their supervision. She holds a degree in English from the University of Toronto and taught in schools in British Columbia and Ontario for 15 years.

Since 1971, Mosteller has been a member of the L'Arche Daybreak Community which is part of an international network of faith-based communities, founded by Jean Vanier, for those with developmental difficulties. She asked to be assigned to live and work with the community after hearing Vanier speak at the University of St. Michael's College and participating in a pilgrimage to Lourdes. She described the way he spoke about people with disabilities as a "turning point in my life". In 1976 Mosteller became L'Arche Daybreak's second Community Leader (Executive Director) and in 1985, she established Dayspring, a centre for spiritual growth, with Henri Nouwen. She lived with the L'Arche Daybreak community for 40 years, leaving in 2011 to live with a small group of sisters.

Beyond living as a member of the Daybreak community, Mosteller also held a leadership role within the wider L'Arche organization. She was the first person elected to hold the role of International Coordinator after Jean Vanier. Holding the position for nine years, Mosteller traveled extensively, assisting with the birth of new L'Arche communities in multiple countries. During her time in the position the L'Arche network expanded from 30 to 65 global communities.

Mosteller was a colleague and close friend of Father Henri Nouwen when he lived at L'Arche Daybreak (1986 - 1996). Nouwen credited her with being instrumental in fostering a maturity in his spirituality. As he states in his book The Return of the Prodigal Son, Mosteller "opened up the third phase of my spiritual journey. […] Her words struck me like a thunderbolt." When Nouwen died in 1996, he entrusted Mosteller with his estate, making her the literary executrix of his works. She went on to oversee the founding of the Henri J.M. Archives and Research Collection at the John M. Kelly Library, University of St. Michael's College in Toronto.

Mosteller works as Trustee for the Henri Nouwen Legacy and continues to be a member of L'Arche Daybreak. Additionally, Mosteller lectures and gives retreats around the world. She currently lives in Toronto.

On November 5, 2011, Mosteller received an Honorary Doctorate from Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto in recognition of her "lifelong commitment to sharing the love of God with many of society's marginalized people and her significant contributions to Christian life and learning over several decades".

On December 27, 2019 she was honoured in the New Year's appointments to the Order of Canada as an Officer of the Order.

Books
Mosteller has written three books. Her first book, My Brother, My Sister, is about Jean Vanier and Mother Teresa. Her second book, Body Broken, Body Blessed, is a collection of stories from L'Arche. Her third book, Light Through the Crack, is her own story and the stories of people she has accompanied over the years.

References

External links
Sue Mosteller - Penguin Random House Canada
Sister Sue Mosteller - Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto

Canadian spiritual writers
Living people
1933 births
Sisters of Saint Joseph
20th-century Canadian nuns
Officers of the Order of Canada
21st-century Canadian nuns
Women religious writers
Canadian women non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
University of Toronto alumni


Marinus Ludwig Sørensen (29 January 1898 – 13 February 1965) was a Danish track and field athlete who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he was a member of the Danish relay team which finished fifth in the 4 × 100 metre relay competition. He also participated in the 100 metre event and but was eliminated in the quarter-finals.

References

External links
list of Danish athletes

1898 births
1965 deaths
Danish male sprinters
Olympic athletes for Denmark
Athletes (track and field) at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Athletes from Copenhagen


Prince Royal may refer to the Crown Prince in the case of the following monarchies:-
 Prince Royal of Portugal, the Prince Royal of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves
 Prince Royal of Haiti, see Jacques-Victor Henry, Prince Royal of Haiti
 Prince Royal of France, to either of:
 Louis XVII of France, during the monarchy of 1791–1792
 Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, during the July Monarchy

It may also refer to:
 HMS Prince Royal (1610), a ship of the English Royal Navy
 Prince Royal (horse), Italian/French Champion racehorse
 Nissan Prince Royal, a Japanese vehicle built for the Imperial Household of Japan.

See also
 Prince Imperial (disambiguation)
 Princess Royal, a style customarily awarded by a British monarch to his or her eldest daughter
 Prince Royal's College, a school in Thailand


Filemon R. Balbastro Jr. (November 13, 1940 – February 2, 2008), better known as Billy Balbastro, was a Filipino lawyer and entertainment columnist.

Early life
Balbastro was born in Oton, Iloilo. By the age of fifteen, Balbastro was covering the entertainment beat for the Philippine Free Press and the Kislap-Graphic. He graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1962, and worked for ten years in the Commission of Elections (COMELEC) with stints in Vigan and Romblon. His columns appeared in the Abante and Abante Tonight tabloids. From 1982 to 1985, Balbastro was the president of the Philippine Movie Press Club.

Balbastro hosted a showbusiness-themed radio program, Showtime with Billy, which aired over DZMM. He also was a member of the Committee for Cinema of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

Filmography

Radio
Showtime With Billy (2000–2008; DZMM)

TV Show
Movie Magazine (1985–1992); GMA Network)
Two for the Road (1979–1980; GMA Network)
Troika Tonite (1993–1995; ABC 5)

Movies
Sinong Pipigil sa Pagpatak ng Ulan? (1979; publicity and promotions)
High School Circa '65 (1979; publicity staff)
Kaaway ng Batas (1990; public relations officer)
Lt. Madarang: Iginuhit sa Dugo (1993; publicity and promotions)
Lab Kita ... Bilib Ka Ba? (1994; publicity and promotions)
Costales (1995; publicist)
Tapatan ng Tapang (1997; publicity and promotions)
Tampisaw (2002; promotion and publicity)
Takaw-tingin (2004; promotion and publicity)
Anak ni Brocka (2005)
Kaleldo (2006; publicity and promotions)
Twilight Dancers - Mr. Big Judge (2006)
Troika (2007; publicist)

Death
Billy Balbastro died from lung cancer on February 2, 2008, in Parañaque.

Notes

20th-century Filipino lawyers
Filipino radio journalists
Filipino LGBT writers
Filipino LGBT lawyers
People from Iloilo
University of the Philippines alumni
1940 births
2008 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer in the Philippines
Visayan people
20th-century Filipino LGBT people
21st-century Filipino LGBT people


Necropolitan Press, founded in 1993 by editor and author Jeffrey Thomas, is an independent publisher in the genres of horror, science-fiction, dark fantasy, and "the Unclassifiable." Necropolitan Press ceased producing new releases in 2001.

In March 2008, it was announced that Necropolitan Press would be resuming a publication schedule, beginning with Paul G. Tremblay's The Harlequin & The Train novella.

History
Jeffrey Thomas founded Necropolitan Press in 1993 in reaction to his discovery of the then-flourishing small press, causing him to become so enthused with the idea that he "developed the desire to produce some publication or other" of his own. Thomas chose the name for his publishing imprint due to the sound of it—fond of the similarity to the word Metropolitan but with a horrific bent. At the time, Thomas worked as a paste up artist in a print shop, allowing him to create the Necropolitan Press releases during his breaks by using a "light table to paste up the pages the old fashioned way, with an exacto knife and wax."

The initial publication from Necropolitan Press was The End magazine, which ran for four issues under the imprint with a fifth issue being released as a co-production with artist Jon C. Gernon's Zero Publishing. Throughout its run, this fiction anthology zine received newsstand distribution in addition to catalog sales, the internet—at the time—not being a viable distribution alternative. In 1995, Thomas would begin releasing single author and anthology chapbooks, starting with his own collection The Bones of the Old Ones and Other Lovecraftian Tales and averaging one non-magazine release per year. Necropolitan Press releases maintained low print runs; Jeff VanderMeer's The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris, by Duncan Shriek, for instance, was produced in a 300-copy edition.

Necropolitan Press ceased producing new releases in 2001, the reasons being the press's financial drain on Thomas and the desire of Thomas to focus on his own work. Thomas would later lament this decision, stating that he "always had a great enthusiasm for publishing, [and that he] found it extremely rewarding to bring the work of other authors to the hands of readers eager for something a little out of the ordinary."

In December 2007, Thomas mentioned in an interview that Necropolitan Press may be resurrected with the help of Nick Curtis, whose involvement would alleviate the previous financial and time-related strains the venture placed on Thomas. Curtis was an enthusiast of Thomas's work who had created and maintained an official website for Thomas (including a blog and forum), all of which had revealed to Thomas "his [Curtis's] innovative approach to graphic design." According to Thomas, Curtis proposed the resurrection of Necropolitan Press. Officially, Thomas holds the position of "Publisher/Editorial Director" while Curtis is termed the "Assistant Publisher/Design Director".

Leading up to the resurrection, Thomas had "been talking to some very talented authors in regard to potential new projects." In March 2008, prior to the official announcement of the publishing imprint's return, Paul G. Tremblay mentioned that his forthcoming novella The Harlequin & The Train would be released on Necropolitan Press. In April 2008, Thomas made the official announcement of the press's return and of the forthcoming novella.

Magazines published
The first project published by Necropolitan Press was The End magazine, which ran five issues at the rate of one a year starting in 1993.  The fifth and final issue was produced in cooperation with New York–based artist Jon C. Gernon's Zero Publishing imprint, the Necropolitan Press designation used to denote editor Jeffrey Thomas's work on the title.

Works published

2008+

The following is a list of all the Necropolitan Press anthology and single author collection titles announced/printed since the relaunch of the imprint in 2008.

1995–2001
The following is a list of all the Necropolitan Press anthology and single author collection titles printed during the initial years of the company. One additional title was announced, The Terrible Woman and Other Erotic Horrors by Scott Thomas, but this was withdrawn from the publishing schedule on May 5, 2001—the intended contents were later released in Nether: Improper Bedtime Stories as well as Shadows Of Flesh, both released by Delirium Books in 2004.

References

American speculative fiction publishers
Book publishing companies based in Massachusetts
Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
Companies based in Westborough, Massachusetts
Fantasy book publishers
Horror book publishing companies
Publishing companies established in 1993
Science fiction publishers
Small press publishing companies


Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist, best known for his monumental florilegium, the Hortus Eystettensis (lit. The Garden at Eichstätt), 1613.

Biography

Besler was born in Nuremberg, Germany on February 13 1561, the son of Michael Besler. His first wife was Rosine Flock, who he married on 31 January 1585. Later he married Susanne Schmidt on 1 December 1596. Altogether he had 16 children. He was elected a member of the city council in 1594.

Besler established a pharmacy, Zum Marienbild, at Nuremberg's Hay Market in 1589, and developed his own botanical garden and collection of specimens, for which he became well known.

He was curator of the garden (Eichstätt Garden) of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (1561–1612), Prince-bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria. The bishop was an enthusiastic botanist who derived great pleasure from his garden, which rivaled Hortus Botanicus Leiden among early European botanical gardens outside Italy.

The gardens surrounded the bishop's palace, Willibaldsburg, which was built on a hill overlooking the town. These gardens had been started in 1596 and designed by Besler's colleague, Joachim Camerarius the Younger (1534–1598), a physician and botanist. Upon Camerarius' death in 1598, Besler had the remainder of Camerarius' plants moved to Eichstätt and carried on the work of planting and supervision.

The gardens were ransacked by invading Swedish troops under Herzog Bernhard von Weimar in 1633-4, but were reconstructed and opened to the public of Eichstätt in 1998.

Besler died in Nuremberg on 13 March 1629.

Work
In 1611, the bishop, who was already quite ill, commissioned Besler to compile a codex of the plants growing in his garden, a task which Besler took sixteen years to complete, the bishop dying shortly before the work was published in 1613. Plates were not signed at the bottom and in some the names of the artist are hidden away in the illustration. These include those of Kilian, J. Leypolt, or the initials G.R., G.H., D.K., and F.H. The names used for the plants were polynomials. This plant atlas or Florilegium was published by Ludwig Jungermann and printed in large format.

Besler did not consider himself  scientist, but rather relied on the extant literature of his time including Camerarius, Clusius, Fuchs, Tabernaemontanus and Lobelius, but his work predated the introduction of many overseas plants to Germany. He indexed the collection with both the Latin and old German names. At publication it represented the largest and most magnificent example of its type.

Legacy

Besler was commemorated by Plumier in naming a genus of shrubs Besleria.

References

Bibliography

Books

Websites

External links
 Hortus Eystettensis (1640)

17th-century German botanists
1561 births
1629 deaths
16th-century German botanists


Upset may refer to:

 Upset (band), an American rock band
 Upset (competition), where a likely winner loses
 "Upset" (Hit the Floor), an episode of the television series Hit the Floor
 Upset (horse), a racehorse
 Upset (wastewater treatment), temporarily decreased effluent quality
 Aircraft upset, a dangerous aviation condition
 Upper set, in mathematics
 UpSet Plot, in data visualization
 Upset forging, a forging process where a workpiece's diameter is increased by compressing its length.
 Upset, a type of fault in wood, see Shakes (timber) § Thunder shake or upset


Hound is a village and civil parish in the borough of Eastleigh in southern Hampshire, England.  The parish encompasses the villages of Netley, Butlocks Heath and Old Netley, and includes such landmarks as Netley Castle and Netley Abbey.  In the 2001 census, the parish had a headcount of 6,846 living in 2,928 households.

History
The 1868 National Gazetteer described the parish as being in the Hundred of "Mainsbridge" and containing Sholing and Woolston as well as Netley.  The land was mainly arable farmland at this point, with some pasture and woodland, including a substantial amount of common land. The parish has been recorded from about 1370, when John de Bothby, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, held the living of Hound.

The civil parish was previously in South Stoneham Rural District from 1894 until the district disappeared in 1932, and in Winchester RD from then until the present Borough of Eastleigh's formation in 1974.

Parish church
The parish church of St Mary the Virgin is medieval (although a Saxon origin has been suggested) with some Victorian rebuilding.  It contains a stained glass window by Patrick Reyntiens. The east window portrays the Virgin and Child flanked by two angels and was designed by Reyntiens in 1958–59. A second Reyntiens stained glass window was added in 1972 this time on the theme of justice and peace.

References

Villages in Hampshire
Borough of Eastleigh


Fritiof Normann Andersen (30 May 1898 – 24 January 1954) was a Danish track and field athlete who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he was a member of the Danish relay team which finished fifth in the 4 × 100 metre relay competition. He also participated in the 100 metre event but was eliminated in the first round.

References

External links
list of Danish athletes

1898 births
1954 deaths
Danish male sprinters
Olympic athletes for Denmark
Athletes (track and field) at the 1920 Summer Olympics


Ludmila Ezhova Grebenkova ( (Lyudmila Yezhova Grebenkova), born 4 March 1982) is a Russian former competitive gymnast. She won bronze in the team event at the 2004 Summer Olympics and four medals at the World Championships.

Career
Ezhova was a mainstay of the Russian team from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She also represented Russia at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing where she competed only balance beam. She was particularly noted for her work on balance beam where she was a four (4) time world and European medalist, including a gold medal. Her balance beam routines were characterized by a wide array of difficult acrobatic skills connected in immediate, unusual sequencing.

In 1997, Ezhova placed 8th in the all-around at Russian Championships. The following year she placed 10th in the all-around at the Russian Cup. In the Spring of 1998, she competed on uneven bars and balance beam in the team final at European Championships in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Individually, she earned a bronze medal on balance beam, tying with Romanian Simona Amânar. At the 1999 Russian Cup, Ezhova placed 9th in the all-around. Ezhova was not named to the World Team for Russia. In 2000, she was not named to the Russian team for European Championships or the Olympic Games.

Ezhova made the team for the 2001 World Championships in Ghent, Belgium. She competed on uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise in the team final and helped earn the silver medal. Individually she earned a silver medal on balance beam. At the 2002 European Championships in Patras, Greece, she helped the Russian team earn the gold medal by competing on uneven bars and balance beam. Individually she won the gold medal on balance beam and placed 7th on the uneven bars. That same year she made her second World Championships team. There was no team competition at the 2002 World Championships but she earned a bronze medal on uneven bars and placed 6th place on balance beam. In 2003, Ezhova placed 13th at the Russian Championships.  At the 2003 World Championships in Anaheim, California, the Russian team of which Ezhova was a member, greatly faltered and placed 6th in the team competition. Individually, however, she earned a bronze medal on balance beam. Ezhova did not compete on the European Championships team. Later that year she made the team for the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics. At the Olympics, Ezhova competed on uneven bars and balance beam in both qualifications and the team final. The Russian team earned a bronze medal in the team competition. Individually, Ezhova did not advance to any individual finals.

In 2008 Grebenkova returned to gymnastics to compete at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Here she competed for the team on balance beam. The Russian team placed 4th in the team final.

Eponymous skill
Ezhova has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.

More informations about the move can be found on the new gymnastics'database

Post-retirement
Ezhova-Grebenkova was a team and rec coach at Southeastern Gymnastics in Charlotte, North Carolina, along with her husband Georgy Grebenkov, also a former Olympic gymnast. Up until early 2018 she was a Gymnastics coach at WOGA Gymnastics.

As of spring of 2018 she and her husband own and coach at Golden Grip Gymnastics in Plano, Texas.

Competitive history

See also

 List of Olympic female gymnasts for Russia

References
 Gymn Forum: Ludmilla Yezhova
 Gymn Forum: Results

External links

1982 births
Living people
Russian female artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts for Russia
Gymnasts at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics
European champions in gymnastics


Barra Airport  is the airport serving Barra, Brazil.

Airlines and destinations
No scheduled flights operate at this airport.

Access
The airport is located  from downtown Barra.

See also

List of airports in Brazil

References

External links

Airports in Bahia


Inhurst is a hamlet in Hampshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Baughurst.

History
Inhurst House was established as a school in the 1960s but closed in July, 1999 when it merged with Cheam School. It was bought and renovated by Bewley Homes and is now their head office.

Governance
The hamlet of Inhurst is part of the civil parish of Baughurst and is part of the Baughurst and Tadley North ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council. The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.

Notable residents
Inhurst House was the home of Frederick Stokes, the first captain of the England national rugby union team, who played for and captained the team in the first three rugby internationals, all between England and Scotland. He was also the youngest ever president of the Rugby Football Union.

References

External links

Villages in Hampshire


Wang Zili (; born June 14, 1968) is a retired Chinese chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1995, becoming the fifth from China.

Career

Wang gained the grandmaster title in 1995. He was twice national champion, in 1988 and 1999. He participated for the China national chess team in five Chess Olympiads (1988–1996) with an overall record of 52 games played (+23, =18, -11); one World Men's Team Chess Championship (1989) with an overall record of 9 games played (+3, =2, -4); and three Asian Team Chess Championships (1991–1995) with an overall record of 24 games played (+14, =8, -2). In 1997 Wang qualified for the FIDE World Chess Championship knockout tournament in Groningen. He was beaten in the first round by Utut Adianto.

He reached his highest FIDE rating of 2603 in July 2000, when he was ranked worldwide at 86th.

References

External links

Wang Zili games at 365Chess.com
Wang Zili at Chessmetrics
Wang Zili FIDE rating history at benoni.de
Wang Zili - New In Chess. NICBase Online.

1968 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Chess players from Anhui
People from Bozhou


Treborough is a small village and civil parish  south of Dunster, lying amongst the Brendon Hills within the Exmoor National Park in the Somerset West and Taunton district of Somerset, England.

History

The name Treborough is thought to be derived from the Celtic treberg meaning "hamlet by the waterfall", or wooded place or hill, from the Old English treow for tree.

Treborough was part of the hundred of Carhampton.

Within the village are a pair of lime kilns which date from the early 19th century and are made from flat-bedded local slate.

Governance

The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

The village falls within the non-metropolitan district of Somerset West and Taunton, which was established on 1 April 2019. It was previously in the district of West Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and part of Williton Rural District before that. The district council is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.

Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing and fire services, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning.

It is also part of the Bridgwater and West Somerset county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Geography

Treborough Woods are a  area which contain the site of a slate quarry which was used for 500 years until production finished in World War II.

Religious sites

The Church of St Peter dates from the 14th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.

References

External links

Exmoor National Park information on Treborough

Civil parishes in Somerset
Villages in West Somerset
Lime kilns in the United Kingdom


Singles, B-Sides & Live is a compilation album by English rock group Electrelane. It was released on CD in 2006 by Too Pure. Tracks 7, 8 and 9 are from their EP I Want To Be President.

Track listing

All songs were written by Electrelane, except where noted.

 "Film Music (Original Version)" – 4:11
 "Come On" – 4:50
 "Le Song (Original Version)" – 3:10
 "U.O.R. (Original Version)" – 5:23
 "John Wayne" – 2:38
 "I Love You My Farfisa" – 4:10
 "I Want to Be President" – 4:46
 "I Only Always Think" – 5:08
 "I've Been Your Fan Since Yesterday" – 5:07
 "I'm on Fire" (Bruce Springsteen) – 2:18
 "Long Dark (Albini Version)" – 4:14
 "Oh Sombra! (John Peel Session)" – 3:05
 "More Than This (Live)" (Bryan Ferry) – 4:34
 "Birds (Live)" – 4:03
 "Those Pockets are People / The Partisan (Live)" (Electrelane, Anna Marly, Hy Zaret) – 8:02
 "Today" – 8:30

Release history

References

Electrelane albums
B-side compilation albums
2006 compilation albums
Too Pure compilation albums


Dalem may refer to:

 Dalem, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Gorinchem
 Dalem, Moselle, a commune of the Moselle department in France
 Dalem (Raja), a royal title on Bali

See also
 Dahlem (disambiguation)
 Dalum (disambiguation)


Rhodes State College, formally James A. Rhodes State College, is a public community college in Lima, Ohio. It offers associate degrees and shares a campus with the Ohio State University at Lima. High school students comprise over 50% of those enrolled at Rhodes State College.

History

Rhodes State College, previously Lima Technical College, was founded in 1971 in Lima, OH.  This institution was based primarily on technical training of students who lived in Allen County, OH.  Over five hundred students enrolled during the first year.  By the mid-1990s, Lima Technical College offered over seventy Associate and other certificate degree programs.

In 2002, Lima Technical College changed its name to James A. Rhodes State College in order to honor the former governor.  Rhodes played a major role in developing Ohio's two-year colleges. It is now referred to as Rhodes State College.

References

External links
Official website

Lima, Ohio
Public universities and colleges in Ohio
Education in Allen County, Ohio
Buildings and structures in Lima, Ohio
Community colleges in Ohio
Universities and colleges established in 1971


Langrish is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is next to the civil parish of Stroud and is 2.7 miles (4.3 km) west of Petersfield, on the A272 road.

Rail connections
The nearest main railway station is Petersfield, 2.3 miles (3.7 km) east of the village.

Village church
The church of St John the Evangelist is on the NW side of the village on the west side of the A272 road.

Langrish House
 On the south side of the village east of a minor road to East Meon is Langrish House, parts of which date to the early 1600s.  It is said that Royalist prisoners were kept these there after the nearby Battle of Cheriton that was won by Parliametarian General Sir William Waller.  Since the mid 19th Century, Langrish House has been owned by the Ponsonby-Talbot family and today it also operates as a country house hotel.  To the north of the House is an small industrial facility, originally part of the Langrish House estate, where parts were made for nose-cone of the supersonic airliner Concorde.

Sport
Langrish has been host to the British Sidecarcross Grand Prix a number times and hosted it again in 2012, on 26 and 27 August.

References

External links

Villages in Hampshire


Thuringian is an East Central German dialect group spoken in much of the modern German Free State of Thuringia north of the Rennsteig ridge, southwestern Saxony-Anhalt and adjacent territories of Hesse and Bavaria. It is close to Upper Saxon spoken mainly in the state of Saxony, therefore both are also regarded as one Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect group. Thuringian dialects are among the Central German dialects with the highest number of speakers.

History
Thuringian emerged during the medieval German Ostsiedlung migration from about 1100, when settlers from Franconia (Main Franconia), Bavaria, Saxony, and Flanders settled in the areas east of the Saale River previously inhabited by Polabian Slavs.

Characteristics
The Thuringian dialect is characterized by a rounding of the vowels, the weakening of consonants of Standard German (the lenition of the consonants "p," "t," and "k"), a marked difference in the pronunciation of the "g" sound (which is most common in the areas of North Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt areas), and a highly-idiosyncratic, melodic intonation of sentences. The second German consonant shift manifested itself in a manner different from that elsewhere in the areas that spoke High German. In many words, "b" is pronounced as "w" or "f" would be in Standard German. For example, the word "aber" (but) is pronounced as "awer". The Thuringian dialect has advanced beyond the stage of basilect.

Classification

Grouping according to German dialectology:
  (East Middle German, East Central German)
  (Thuringian)
  (Central Thuringian)
  (West Thuringian)
  (East Thuringian)
  (North Thuringian)

Another way to subdivide it is:
  / Thuringian
  / North Thuringian: around Mühlhausen and Nordhausen
 : in Eichsfeld
  / North-east Thuringian: spoken around Artern as well as in the adjacent areas of Querfurt, Halle and Merseburg of Saxony-Anhalt
 : in Mansfeld
  / West Thuringian: around Bad Salzungen and Eisenach, with transitions into the East Franconian (Henneberg) and (East) Hessian dialect area
  / Central Thuringian: spoken around the Turingian capital Erfurt, Gotha, and Ilmenau
  / Ilm Thuringian: around Rudolstadt, Jena, and Weimar
  / East Thuringian: spoken around Eisenberg and Altenburg as well as in the adjacent area of Naumburg, Weissenfels and Zeitz in Saxony-Anhalt
  / South-east Thuringian: around Schleiz, Greiz, Saalfeld and Gera, as well as around Ludwigsstadt in neighbouring Bavaria

References

Central German languages
German dialects
Languages of Germany
Thuringia


The 312th Airlift Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve squadron, assigned to the 349th Operations Group, stationed at Travis Air Force Base, California.  It is an associate unit of the active duty 22d Airlift Squadron, 60th Air Mobility Wing. It operates C-5M Galaxy aircraft supporting the United States Air Force global reach mission worldwide. The mission is to provide services and support which promote quality of life and project global power through combat-proven airlift and airdrop.

History

World War II

The unit was constituted as 312 Troop Carrier Squadron on 23 October 1943. Activated on 1 November 1943 and assigned to 349 Troop Carrier Group at Sedalia Army Air Field, MO. Moving to Alliance AAFld, NE, 20 January 1944; Pope Field, NC, 11 March 1944; Baer Field, IN, 7–15 March 1945; Barkston, England, 30 March 1945; Roye/Amy Airfield, France, 18 April-13 July 1945 providing aerial transportation in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. Moved to Bergstrom Field, TX, 17 September 1945 – 7 September 1946. Principally operating C-53 and C-47, 1943–1944, and C-46, 1944–1946. Inactivated on 7 September 1946. Redesignated as 312 Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium on 10 May 1949. Moving to Hamilton AFB, CA, 27 June 1949.

Air Force reserve and Korean mobilization
Inactivated on 2 Apr 1951. Redesignated as 312 Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 26 May 1952, F-51 Mustang fighters. Activated in the Reserve on 13 Jun 1952.

Return to the reserves
Resumed its reserve operations as a fighter-bomber squadron from 1952 to 1957. Redesignated as 312 Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium on 1 September 1957, with C-119 transport aircraft.

The 312th was called to active duty during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and from 1968 to 1969, with C-124. Moved to Travis AFB, CA, 25 July 1969 and redesignated as: 312 Military Airlift Squadron (Associate) on 25 July 1969.
Flying C-141 Starlifters between 1969 and 1973 & C-5 Galaxys from 1973. Redesignated 312 Airlift Squadron (Associate) on 1 February 1992.

The squadron airlifted United States troops between the continental United States and Southeast Asia and flew other strategic airlift missions as needed across the Pacific Ocean, including channel flights, contingency and humanitarian relief operations, and joint training exercises.  Flew missions in support of anti-terrorism operations after 11 September 2001 terrorist attack on the U. S.

On September 15, 2014, the wing was presented with the 2013 Outstanding Reserve Aircrew Award, the President's Award for displayed outstanding ability and professionalism by overcoming multiple system emergencies while flying Air Mobility Command missions between Rota Spain and Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan. The 312th has provided airlift support for Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S. government for the Global War on Terrorism.

Lineage

 Constituted as the 312th Troop Carrier Squadron on 23 October 1943
 Activated on 1 November 1943
 Inactivated on 7 September 1946
 Redesignated 312th Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium on 10 May 1949
 Activated in the reserve on 27 June 1949
 Ordered to active service on 1 April 1951
 Inactivated on 2 April 1951
 Redesignated 312th Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 26 May 1952
 Activated in the reserve on 13 June 1952

 Redesignated 312th Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium on 1 September 1957
 Ordered to active service on 28 October 1962
 Relieved from active duty on 28 November 1962
 Redesignated 312th Military Airlift Squadron on 1 July 1966
 Ordered to active service on 26 January 1968
 Relieved from active duty on 2 June 1969
 Redesignated 312th Military Airlift Squadron (Associate) on 25 July 1969
 Redesignated 312th Airlift Squadron (Associate) on 1 February 1992
 Redesignated 312th Airlift Squadron on 1 October 1994

Assignments
 349th Troop Carrier Group, 1 November 1943 – 7 September 1946
 349th Troop Carrier Group, 27 June 1949 – 2 April 1951
 349th Fighter-Bomber Group (later 349th Troop Carrier Group), 13 June 1952
 349th Troop Carrier Wing, 14 April 1959
 938th Troop Carrier Group (later 938 Military Airlift Group), 11 February 1963
 349th Military Airlift Wing (later 349 Airlift Wing), 1 July 1973
 349th Operations Group, 1 August 1992 – present

Stations

 Sedalia Army Air Field, Missouri, 1 November 1943
 Alliance Army Air Field, Nebraska, 20 January 1944
 Pope Field, North Carolina, 11 March 1944
 Baer Field, Indiana, 7–15 March 1945
 RAF Barkston Heath (AAF-483), England, 30 March 1945

 Roye-Amy Airfield (A-73), France, 18 April – 13 July 1945
 Bergstrom Field, Texas, 17 September 1945 – 7 September 1946
 Hamilton Air Force Base, California, 27 June 1949 – 2 April 1951
 Hamilton Air Force Base, California, 13 June 1952
 Travis Air Force Base, California, 25 July 1969 – present

Aircraft

 Douglas C-53 Skytrooper (1943–1944)
 Douglas C-47 Skytrain (1943–1944, 1955–1956)
 Curtiss C-46 Commando (1944–1946, 1949–1951, 1952–1955, 1957–1958)
 Beechcraft T-7 Navigator (1949–1951)
 Beechcraft T-11 Kansan (1949–1951)
 North American T-6 Texan (1952–1954)
 North American P-51 Mustang (1952–1954)
 North American T-28 Trojan (1953–1956)
 Lockheed T-33 T-Bird (1953–1957)
 Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star (1953–1957)
 Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor (1955–1956)
 Republic F-84 Thunderjet (1956–1957)
 Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (1958–1966)
 Douglas C-124 Globemaster II (1966–1969)
 Lockheed C-141 Starlifter (1969–1973)
 Lockheed C-5 Galaxy (1973–present)

Decorations
Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with Combat "V" Device: 1 August 2002 – 31 July 2002. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: 23 December 1964 – 22 January 1965; 26 January 1968 – 1 June 1969; 1 July 1974 – 30 June 1975; 1 July 1975 – 30 June 1977; 1 July 1992 – 30 June 1994; 1 Jul 1994 – 15 Aug 1995; 1 July 1996 – 30 June 1998; 1 August 2000 – 31 July 2002; 16 August 2003 – 17 August 2004; 18 August 2004 – 17 August 2005; 18 August 2005 – 17 August 2006; 18 August 2006 – 17 August 2007; 18 August 2007 – 17 August 2008; 18 August 2008 – 17 August 2009. Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm: 1 April 1966 – 28 January 1973.

References

 Notes

Bibliography

External links

Military units and formations in California
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Dale "Chip" Rosenbloom (born July 3, 1964) is an American filmmaker, known for Shiloh, Across the Tracks, and Fuel. He has produced twenty-five films and television movies. He was the co-owner and vice chairman of the Los Angeles Rams professional football franchise. From 2008 to 2010 he was the team's controlling owner, having inherited control of the team his family first acquired in the 1970s. Rosenbloom sold the family's remaining stake to co-owner Stan Kroenke in 2010. He is president of Rosenbloom Entertainment and founder/owner of Open Pictures.

Life and career
Rosenbloom was born July 3, 1964, in New York City. His father, Carroll Rosenbloom, was a businessman who, first with the Baltimore Colts and then the Los Angeles Rams, was the winningest owner in NFL history. Following his father's death in 1979, Rosenbloom's mother Georgia Frontiere became majority owner of the Rams. She later moved the team to St. Louis. Frontiere died in 2008, at which time Rosenbloom became controlling owner of the team. The family sold the majority interest in the team to Stan Kroenke at the end of the 2010 season. Rosenbloom remains a part owner of the Rams, and serves as the team's vice-chairman.

After graduating the USC Film School (now the USC School of Cinematic Arts) Rosenbloom began his career at Aaron Spelling Studios, followed by working in development for Mace Neufeld Productions. He began his career as an independent filmmaker in 1990. Among his films in the early 1990s were Across the Tracks, Nails, and the ABC movie Ride With the Wind. In 1997, he wrote, produced, and directed the multi-award-winning feature film Shiloh which tells the story of a young boy who rescues an abused dog.

Rosenbloom produced the WB Keri Russell vehicle Eight Days a Week. From here Rosenbloom began making documentary films. Notably, Reckless Indifference, is the true story of a teenage fight gone wrong and the sentencing injustice that followed. It won the International Press Academy Award, and is taught in several law schools.

In 2007, Rosenbloom produced the Weinstein Group film The Girl in the Park. That same year he was nominated for a Tony Award for producing the August Wilson play Radio Golf.

In 2008, he produced the documentary Fuel which was short-listed for an Oscar.

In 2013, Rosenbloom executive-produced The Call. Rosenbloom also executive-produced the film Careful What You Wish For.

Rosenbloom is producing the untitled Ryan Ferguson documentary, the story of a young man who was convicted of a murder based on the dream of a friend. A controversial case, it is being examined by director Andrew Jenks, and Rosenbloom is partnering with journalist Dylan Ratigan on this project, which explores the injustices of the justice system.

Additionally, he has written a number of songs for musical artists including Dayna Lane, Sheena Easton, and Rita Coolidge, and is the composer of the theatrical musical based on the Clint Eastwood movie Bronco Billy, set to premiere in 2015.

Charitable work
Rosenbloom has recently been active in social justice, and was among the people who signed Russell Simmons' letter to the President calling on the Federal Government to reform the mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines. He and his wife Kathleen were the seed financers behind the awareness campaign to help change these laws with Families Against Mandatory Minimums. Rosenbloom and his wife are also on the President's Council for Feeding America, the United States' largest hunger relief organization.(ANN) Additionally, he serves on the advisory boards of the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative, the Fulfillment Fund, the Veteran Jobs Corps, the Variety Club, Urban Farming, and Earth Justice.

Awards
Rosenbloom's productions have been honored with several awards, including the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Best Documentary Audience Award for Fuel, a 2007 Tony nomination of Best Play for his Broadway stage production of August Wilson's play Radio Golf, and then a 1997 Humanities Award and 1998 Genesis Award of Best Feature Film for his film Shiloh.

Filmography

Director

 Shiloh (1996)

Writer
 Instant Karma (1990)
 Shiloh (1996)
 Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season (1999)
 Saving Shiloh (2006)

Producer

 Instant Karma (1990)
  Across the Tracks (1991)
 Nails (1992)
 A Woman, Her Men, and Her Futon (1993)
 Ride With the Wind (1994)
 Red Ribbon Blues (1995)
 Shiloh (1996)
 Eight Days a Week (1997)
  Confessions of a Sexist Pig (1998)
  Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season (1999)
 Reckless Indifference (2001)
 Learn the Game: The Big Football Game (2004)
 Saving Shiloh (2006)
  Fan-Demanium (200)
 The Girl in the Park (2007)
 Alice Upside Down (2008)
 Fuel (2008)
 Open Graves (2009)
  Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain (2010)
  Radio Free Albemuth (2011)
 Janeane from Des Moines (2012)
 Fame High (2012)
  The Call (2013)

Awards and nominations

Rosenbloom won Best Film, for Shiloh at the 1997 Chicago International Film Festival, the Crystal Heart Award for Shiloh at the 1997 Heartland Film Festival, the 1997 Humanities Award for Shiloh, the 1998 Genesis Award for Best Feature Film for Shiloh, garnered a 2007 Tony nomination of Best Play for Radio Golf, won the Best Documentary Audience Award for Fuel at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and the 2012 Silverdocs, Best Documentary award, for Fame High.

Personal life
In 1988, he married Kathleen Melville in the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their son Alexander and daughter Olivia.

References

External links

1964 births
American documentary filmmakers
Film producers from California
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Businesspeople from Baltimore
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Living people
Los Angeles Rams owners


Maruthamunai is a coastal village located along the eastern coastline, about 358 kilometres away from the capital city, Colombo. It has an estimated population of 13,948, predominantly Muslims. Maruthamunai Located in Kalmunai, Ampara District in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.

December 2004 tsunami

Maruthamunai was one of the villages most severely affected in Sri Lanka by the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004.
The disaster killed 922 residents of the village, displaced 11,086, 1,391 houses were completely destroyed and 1,359 were partially damaged.  Previous to the disaster the population of the village was officially 17,393. In addition to over 1,300 homes, many public buildings were destroyed by the tsunami.

Maruthamunai is bounded on the North by Periyaneelavanai village, on the West by paddy fields together with the river bed of the Batticaloa Lagoon, on the South by another conventional village - Pandiruppu, and on the East by the Bay of Bengal of the Indian Ocean. Maruthamunai had an extent area of 2.11 square kilometers and a Muslim population of about twenty thousand in 2004, before the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004.

GS divisions and population (2022)

Source: http://www.kalmunai.ds.gov.lk

Schools
 Al Manar Central College(N.S)
 Al Minan Vidyalaya
 Akbar Vidyalaya
 Pulavermani Sharifdeen Vidyalaya
 Shams Central College (N.S)
 Al Madeena Vidyalaya
 Al-Hambra

References

Villages in Ampara District


Frauenberg may refer to:

 Frauenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, in Germany
 Frauenberg, Styria, in Austria
 Frauenberg, Moselle, a commune of the Moselle department in France
 Hluboká nad Vltavou, a town in South Bohemia, known as Frauenberg in German
 Frauenberg (Bavaria), a mountain near Grafenau, Bavaria, Germany
 Frauenberg (Hesse), a mountain near Marburg, Hesse, Germany


This list of SST Records bands includes several artists who have released music through the California independent record label SST Records.

Artists

Notes

SST