Robert Tharp (R.T.) Smith (February 23, 1918 – August 21, 1995) was an American World War II fighter pilot and ace, credited with 8.7, 8.9 or 9 Japanese aircraft while fighting with the American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers).

Early life
He was born in York, Nebraska. His family moved to Red Cloud from Hooper, Nebraska in 1927 when his father, Earl W. Smith, was hired as Superintendent of Schools.  He graduated Red Cloud High School in 1935.  Smith attended the University of Nebraska before joining the United States Army Air Corps in 1939, midway through his senior year.  Prior to the time he enrolled in the Air Corps, he worked for the Nebraska State Journal as a proof reader.

Flight training
He received his primary flight training at the Allan Hancock College of Aeronautics at Santa Maria, California. During his training, he was given a couple of check rides with Robert L. Scott, who on May 17, 1942 flew as Smith's wingman on Scott's first combat mission in China. Smith completed basic training with Class 40-C at Randolph Field, Texas and advanced training at Brooks Field, Texas. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in June 1940, and returned to Randolph Field where his first assignment was as a basic flight instructor.

American Volunteer Group
Smith resigned his commission in July 1941 in order to join Colonel Claire Lee Chennault's American Volunteer Group (AVG) as a "soldier of fortune" with the Nationalist Chinese Air Force. The Flying Tigers, as they were soon to be called, were in Burma training in Curtiss P-40s (actually Hawk Model 81-A-2s, or, as the British called them, Tomahawks) when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 8, 1941 (December 7 in the United States).

R.T. Smith (sometimes called "Tadpole" after David Lee "Tex" Hill supplied the answer to a question someone posed to Smith, "What's the 'T' stand for?") saw his first combat action over Rangoon on December 23, 1941, when he was credited with shooting down 1.5 Mitsubishi Ki-21 "Sally" bombers, followed on Christmas Day with credit for two more Sallys and a fighter. Promoted to flight leader in the Third Pursuit Squadron, the "Hell's Angels", Smith was credited with shooting down a total of 8.7, 8.9 or 9 Japanese planes, and was twice decorated by the Chinese government. The AVG continued to fight throughout Burma and southwest China until it was officially disbanded on July 4, 1942.

1st Air Commando Group

Smith returned to the United States on the USAT Mariposa along with 82 other AVG pilots and ground personnel. Prior to being drafted as a private in December 1942, Smith served as the technical advisor on The Sky's the Limit directed by E.H. Griffith and starring Fred Astaire and Joan Leslie. The side of the P-40 Astaire is flying at the beginning of the movie has a sitting Hell's Angel of the AVG's Third Squadron that was on the side of Smith's P-40 #77.

Smith was quickly recommissioned as a U.S. Air Corps second lieutenant and promoted to major the next month. For the next few months, as commanding officer of the 337 Fighter Squadron, 329 Fighter Group at Glendale, California and Paine Field, Everett, Washington, he trained replacement pilots using Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft. Smith married Barbara Bradford in June 1943, adopting her son Brad from a previous marriage to vaudeville performer George Mann.

Shortly after being appointed commanding officer of the 329th Fighter Group in September 1943, he volunteered to return to the China-India-Burma Theater with the 1st Air Commando Group, flying occasional P-51 Mustang missions and commanding that group's B-25 Mitchell squadron in support of British General Orde Wingate's troops working out of India and moving behind Japanese lines in Burma (now Myanmar). One story is told of when Smith was flying alone in his P-51 (named "Barbie" after his wife) and saw a crowd gathered around a jeep on the flying field. Someone was making a speech and Smith assumed it was Phil Cochran, co-commander (with John Alison) of the 1st Air Commando Group.  He put his P-51 into a dive and buzzed the speaker, nearly taking his hat off, at over 450 miles an hour. It was only after Smith landed that he learned the speaker was Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia. Lord Mountbatten was not angry at Smith, but was angry at his aide for having him make a speech on an active flying field. Smith ("R.T." according to Chuck Baisden, for "Round Trip" while in the 1st Air Commando Group) was promoted to lieutenant colonel in March 1944, flew 55 combat missions over Burma, and was awarded the Air Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross and Silver Star.

After discharge

Smith returned to the United States in the late spring of 1944 and was assigned as Director of Flying Training with the 441st Army Air Force Base Unit at Van Nuys, California, a P-38 training base. The Base Operations Officer at the time was Major Barry Goldwater.  He resigned from the Air Corps at the conclusion of World War II and bought a home in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California across from the Los Angeles River when it was actually a river instead of the concrete channel it is today.

After flying DC3s and Constellations between Los Angeles and Kansas City for a year and a half with Trans-World Airlines (TWA), he wrote radio scripts for the Hopalong Cassidy Western Adventure Show, Lum and Abner, The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, and the Clyde Beatty Show. He also wrote the screenplay (with Frank Taussig) for the 1953 movie Perils of the Jungle starring Clyde Beatty.  Smith was co-owner of a toy manufacturing company (Smith-Miller); developed and sold a product for conditioning automobile convertible tops (Top Secret); and worked for Roy Weatherby as a sales manager for Weatherby's Inc.

R. T. and Barbara Smith were divorced in 1955. About this time, Smith joined Lockheed Aircraft Corporation as a technical writer, working his way up through the organization, first as a military sales representative for the F-104 Starfighter, and later to open and manage a new corporate office for Lockheed in Newport News, Virginia.  (Gerhard Neumann, who joined the American Volunteer Group in China, designed the J79 jet engine used in the F-104.)  Smith served at the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve from 1949 to 1966.

Smith married Ronni Burkett in July 1965. During the late 1960s, he joined the Flying Tiger Line, founded by Robert Prescott, a fellow pilot with the American Volunteer Group, first as Vice President for Industrial Affairs in Washington, D.C. and later as Vice President for the Far East, headquartered in Tokyo. He left the Flying Tiger Line and Tokyo in the early 1970s to live and work in Palm Springs, California.

R. T. and Ronni Smith were divorced in the mid-1970s. He returned to the San Fernando Valley, where he wrote and published Tale of a Tiger, based on his original diary entries and several articles for Air Classics. He also established a mail-order business, selling his book and color photographs he shot while he was in the AVG and 1st Air Commando Group, including this often reproduced formation shot of the 3rd Squadron Hell's Angels taken on May 28, 1942 near the Salween River along the China-Burma border.

He died at age 77 (the number he had selected for his first P-40 in the AVG) of lung cancer on August 21, 1995.

Smith was survived by his sister, June, who died in 2001; three sons, Bradford, Robert, and William; and three grandchildren.

Notes

References

External links
 American Volunteer Group Victory Credits
 Photographs taken by R.T. Smith while in the American Volunteer Group
 "Otaki 1/48 P-40E Warhawk" by Pablo Calcaterra, May 30, 2023.

1918 births
1995 deaths
American World War II flying aces
20th-century American memoirists
Flying Tigers pilots
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
Recipients of the Air Medal
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
Recipients of the Silver Star
United States Army Air Forces pilots of World War II
United States Army Air Forces officers
University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
People from York, Nebraska
People from Hooper, Nebraska
People from Red Cloud, Nebraska
Deaths from lung cancer


Jin Zhiyang (, born January 10, 1944) is a Chinese football coach and a former player. He is mainly noted within China for his loyal service towards Beijing as both a successful player and then later as a coach for the team where his greatest achievements was when he managed the team to two Chinese FA Cup titles in the 1996 and then 1997 league seasons. He has also managed several other teams such as Tibet, Tianjin Teda and China on a caretaker basis, while his last senior coaching position was with Beijing Institute of Technology FC.

Playing career
Jin Zhiyang started his playing career with the Beijing youth team and subsequently the senior Beijing team. His greatest achievement came when he won the national league title in 1973 with the Beijing team. He would retire shortly afterwards to begin his management career.

Management career
After he retired from football Jin Zhiyang would begin coaching for the Beijing team before he was offered a chance to become the Head coach of Tibet in 1974. After staying with them for two seasons he would return to Beijing where he was offered the chance to coach the youth team and then the reserves until March 1985 when the club pushed for professionalism within the team and moved Jin to Germany to study professional coaching before returning to Beijing where he continued studying before finally achieving his coaching badges. After the previous Head coach Tang Pengju had a disappointing season with Beijing, Jin was promoted as the club's manager at the beginning of the 1995 league season and would immediately transform the team into genuine title contenders, achieving a runners-up position at the end of the season. While he couldn't go on to win the league title he would go on to win the 1996 and then 1997 Chinese FA Cup titles.

Near the end of the 1997 Chinese league season the Chinese Football Association would hire a foreign coach in Bob Houghton to manage the Chinese football team and Jin Zhiyang was brought in as an assistant coach to help him. This lasted until December 2008 when recently promoted top tier side Tianjin Teda F.C. offered him their head coach position, taking this opportunity to return into management he would lead them at the start of the 1999 league season to a respectable seventh-place position at the end of the season. In 2000 Jin would return to the Chinese football team as their manager, but on only on a part-time caretaker basis to aid the team prepare for some important 2000 AFC Asian Cup qualification games. When he returned to Tianjin Teda F.C. he would once again achieve similar mid-table results from the previous season and leave the club at the end year.

Honours

Player
Beijing
Chinese Jia-A League: 1973

Manager
Beijing Guoan
Chinese FA Cup: 1996, 1997

Beijing Institute of Technology FC
China League Two: 2006

References

External links
Career Biography
News info at sohu.com

1944 births
Living people
Chinese men's footballers
Footballers from Beijing
Chinese football managers
Beijing Guoan F.C. players
Beijing Guoan F.C. managers
Men's association football players not categorized by position
China national football team managers


"Boy Blue" is a song written by Jeff Lynne and performed by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) which first appeared as track number 3 from their 1974 album Eldorado.

Content

Composition

The album version of the song starts with a Baroque-style trumpet and string quartet fanfare – reminiscent of Jeremiah Clarke's "Prince of Denmark's March" (ca. 1700) — and then develops into a minimoog sequence before the song properly begins. The song includes a midway solo of the band's three string players. At the end of the song the string instruments quickly fade, immediately leading into the LP's fourth track "Laredo Tornado".

According to Allmusic critic Michael A. Guarisco "The melody matches the fanfare of the lyrics by matching verses that have a strident sense of swing to them with a sing-along chorus built on a descending-note hook."

Bassist Mike de Albuquerque sings on the song - one of his final appearances in the ELO catalogue.

The US edited single version of the song had many of the orchestrations removed.  ELO writer Barry Delve believes that edits demonstrated "how much the album version's ambitious arrangement lifts 'Boy Blue' from being a fairly standard pop song to something much more remarkable."

Lyrics

The song is an anti-war song set during the Crusades and forms the second dream as part of the overall Eldorado dreamscape. It tells the story of Boy Blue, a war hero returning from a far-off war and the rapturous welcome he receives from his town folk. The chorus is made up of the town folk singing "Hey, Boy Blue is back." Boy Blue rebuffs the hero worship and declares his hatred of war, stating his refusal to ever “take up arms again”.

Reception
The song was released as the second single from the Eldorado album but failed to chart. Billboard said that it had a catchy hook and a similar "smooth sound"  to ELO's previous single "Can't Get It Out of My Head," and had expected it to achieve similar chart success.  Cash Box said "a big symphonic sound surrounds and cushions a driving rock beat on this excellently produced Jeff Lynne track." Record World said that the song "is just familiar enough on the first listen. This azure lad brings on visions of 'Hang On Sloopy,' then heads out on its own."

Allmusic critic Donald A. Guarisco described "Boy Blue" as "a densely-crafted tune that was equal parts string recital, prog-rock, and power pop" and "a smart fusion of pop, prog and rock elements that made a dynamic centerpiece for the first side of Eldorado." Guarisco believed that it "was probably a bit too ambitious to be a hit single."

The song was covered by Rick Altizer on the tribute album Lynne Me Your Ears in a harder rock style.

References

Bibliography

1975 singles
Electric Light Orchestra songs
Song recordings produced by Jeff Lynne
Anti-war songs
Songs written by Jeff Lynne
1974 songs
United Artists Records singles


Decadence is a 1994 British film starring Joan Collins and Steven Berkoff, written and directed by Berkoff and based on his play of the same name.

It was filmed entirely in Luxembourg and featured, as guest stars, Christopher Biggins, Marc Sinden and Michael Winner.

External links

Films directed by Steven Berkoff
1994 films
1994 drama films
British films based on plays
Films scored by Stewart Copeland
British drama films
1990s English-language films
1990s British films


Kallukkul Eeram () is a 1980 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by P. S. Nivas in his directorial debut, starring Bharathiraja, Sudhakar, Aruna and Vijayashanti. The film marked the cinematic debut for both Aruna and Vijayashanti. It was released on 29 February 1980.

Plot
This is  a story of two innocent village girls who fall in love with the Director and Hero of a cinema crew visiting their village for a shoot. Aruna falls  in love with Bharathiraja and Vijayashanthi with Sudhakar.

Bharathiraja's movie crew lands on the picturesque and primeval village. The villagers are enthralled by the visiting crew. Vijaya Shanthi, a witty girl and Aruna, who perpetually wears an expression of shock and surprise combined, her marble-eyes not letting any other emotions through, are constant on lookers. Aruna steps into the frame of the movie and is admonished by Bharathiraja. Vijayshanthi and Aruna stage a role play song with the village children, with V. Shanthi as the heroine and Aruna as the director. Bharathiraja and Sudhakar walk by and catch them in the act. They appreciate the villagers amateur attempt and praise them. Aruna returns some money she finds, which belongs to Bharathiraja and he further appreciates her honesty.

Goundamani, who is Aruna's dad, runs the village laundry. Aruna delivers the laundered clothes to the crew. As she visits Bharathiraja each time, she also secretly sends him a flower or a note.

Vijayashanthi develops romantic feelings towards Sudhakar, only to be told by him that he meets several girls like her and she mistook his friendly gestures. In a moment when a supporting artiste did not show up, Bharathiraja grabs Aruna from the crowd and makes her play a one line part.

Karuppan, who wounded the arm of another villager who once teased Aruna, returns from jail. He finds out about Bharathiraja grabbing Aruna's arm and tries to kill him by rolling rocks on him. However, Aruna finds out and saves Bharathiraja. He notices later that the cloth tied around his injured arm belongs to Aruna's saree. During the village temple festival, Vijayashanthi dances in the play. However, as she was jilted by Sudhakar, she commits suicide. Karuppan tries to molest Aruna in the groves, but Chandrashekar, the village madman kills him.

The crew leaves the village. As they leave, Aruna stops Bharathiraja, but doesn't tell him anything. Hounded by memories of her, he returns and they unite on the river banks. As he holds her hand, Chandrashekar kills him from behind.

Cast

Bharathiraja as himself
Sudhakar as himself
Aruna as Solai
Vijayashanti as Kaathi
Vennira Aadai Nirmala as Nirmala
Goundamani as Velu
Manivannan as Assistant director
Janagaraj
Manobala

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.

Reception
Kanthan of Kalki praised the performances of cast, cinematography and called the film as must watch.

In other media
The song "Siru Ponmani" is reused in Subramaniapuram (2008) in a single scene, playing on a radio set when Azhagar (Jai) and Thulasi (Swathi Reddy) exchange romantic glances.

References

External links

1980 directorial debut films
1980 drama films
1980 films
1980s Tamil-language films
Films directed by P. S. Nivas
Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja
Films with screenplays by Bharathiraja
Indian drama films


Call + Response is a documentary film released in 2008 by Fair Trade Pictures to support human rights activism against human trafficking and slavery on a community level. The film was Justin Dillon's directorial debut. This is the final film that Don LaFontaine voiced the trailers for. The movie was released a month after his death.

Details
The film explores the 21st century slave trade industry and offers firsthand accounts on the issue from Cornel West, Madeleine Albright, Daryl Hannah, Julia Ormond, Ashley Judd, Nicholas D. Kristof, and many other prominent political and cultural figures. The film also includes musical performances from Moby, Natasha Bedingfield, Cold War Kids, Matisyahu, Imogen Heap, Emmanuel Jal, Talib Kweli, The Scrolls, Five For Fighting, Switchfoot, Rocco Deluca, and Justin Dillon.

Call + Response led to the formation of Fair Trade Fund, Inc., d.b.a. Made In A Free World, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending modern-day slavery. All profits from Call + Response, such as from sales of the DVD, soundtrack, and iTunes downloads, are used to support Made In A Free World's projects, aimed at disrupting the business of slavery, particularly child slavery and forced labor.

References

External links

2008 films
Documentary films about prostitution
American documentary films
Documentary films about slavery
2008 documentary films
Films about human trafficking
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


Old St. Patrick's Church may refer to:
 Old St. Patrick's Church (Chicago), listed on the NRHP in Illinois
 Old St. Patrick's Church (Gravois Mills, Missouri), listed on the NRHP in Missouri
 Old St. Patrick's Church (Wellington, Ohio), listed on the NRHP in Ohio


is a Japanese multinational automaker based in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan.

Gearsets
The Mazda G5M five speed manual transaxle came in several gearsets:

See also
List of Mazda transmissions

References

G5M


Fumaria muralis, known as common ramping-fumitory or wall fumitory, is a flowering herbaceous plant in the poppy family (Papaveraceae) native to western Europe and northwestern Africa.

Description
Fumaria muralis is a delicate annual plant that flowers in spring. It is most easily distinguished by its flowers, which have pink petals with dark red or purple tips. There are about twelve flowers per inflorescence.

The stems are initially erect then become sprawling or climbing. They are weak and many-branched, up to 1000 mm (39.4 in) long, and hairless.

The leaves are green or glaucous-green, polyternate, 2- to 4-pinnatisect with narrowly elliptic or oblong last order segments. The first leaves grow singly and are 7–15 mm (0.3-0.6 in) long with a stalk 7–15 mm (0.3-0.6 in), and have three hairless leaflets. Later leaves become more compound and lobed. Mature leaves are three times deeply lobed with three or more leaflets, 3–15 mm (0.1-0.6 in) long. Alternate leaves form a rosette. Leaf segments are egg-shaped to triangular and usually three-lobed and hairless. The blade is gray-green to blue-green, flat, and up to 80 mm long x 40 mm wide (3.2 x 1.6 in).

The flowers are grouped in axillary racemes. Pedicels are subtended by a linear bract and are straight or recurved outwards at fruitification. The corolla is pink, sometimes lightly so, and dark red or purple at the apex; it is 9–12 mm (0.35-0.47 in) in length. It is made up of four petals of which the outer upper and lower ones are free while the two inner ones are fused into a tube closed at the apex. The upper petal is basally prolonged into a spur and ends with two upturned wings, while the lower one has two narrow, spreading or erect wings. The stigma bears three lobes of which the central one is distinctly smaller than the others. There are two sepals laterally attached to the corolla that are whitish with a green midrib, ovate to broadly oblong, dentate at margin in lower two thirds and measuring 3–5 mm (0.12-0.2 in) long and 1.5–3 mm (0.06-0.12 in) wide.

The fruit is an achene which is globose to broadly ovate with an almost smooth to slightly rugose (wrinkled) surface.

Similar species
Similar species include:
 Fumaria bastardii (Bastard's fumitory, tall-ramping fumitory) is very similar but has smaller sepals, shorter peduncle than inflorescence. and strongly rugose fruits. It has pink flowers with purple tips and more than 20 flowers in each inflorescence.  May hybridize with F. muralis.
 Fumaria capreolata (whiteflower fumitory) has larger cream-colored flowers with red-black tips. The inflorescence is at least as long as the stalk. May hybridize with F. muralis.
 Fumaria densiflora (dense-flowered fumitory) is very similar to F. muralis but tends to be more purplish-green, the young leaves are smaller with curled lobes, and it has smaller but more numerous flowers.
 Fumaria melillaica is distinguished by its deeply lacerate sepals and strongly rugose fruits. It is restricted to southern Spain and north-eastern Morocco.
 Fumaria officinalis (common fumitory) has smaller purplish pink flowers (6–9 mm long) with 20-40(-50) flowers per inflorescence and fruits that are distinctly broader than long with truncate or emarginate apex.
 Fumaria parviflora (smallflower fumitory)
 Fumaria reuteri has larger flowers (11–13 mm long), subentire sepals, peduncle shorter than raceme, longer spur and stigma, central lobe as large as the lateral ones

Distribution and habitat
F. muralis is native to temperate and Mediterranean regions of western Europe and western North Africa.

In its native range, it is found in Macaronesia, Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, and Norway.

Outside its native range it is present in Spain, Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the United States.

F. muralis prefers to grow in open, bare patches and is considered a weed of pastures, roadsides, gardens, footpaths, coastal shrub lands and disturbed areas.

Subspecies
Three subspecies are recognized:

 Fumaria muralis subsp. boroei  (Jord.) Pugsley (north-western Europe southwards to France)
 Fumaria muralis subsp. muralis  (the most widespread subspecies)
 Fumaria muralis subsp. neglecta Pugsley (endemic to Great Britain)

References

muralis
Flora of Europe
Flora of Africa


Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Datuk Peter Mojuntin (English: Datuk Peter Mojuntin National Secondary School; commonly known as SMK Datuk Peter Mojuntin or SMKDPM) is one of the secondary schools in Sabah which is located at Penampang, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. It is close to Sabah's Capital, Kota Kinabalu.

Named after Datuk Peter Joinud Mojuntin, State Minister of Municipal Administration, who was killed in 1976 among with other Sabahan politicians, SMK Datuk Peter Mojuntin, State Sports School and ‘Lestari’ School is a suburban school located 15 km from Kota Kinabalu City. The school is named after the late Datuk Peter Mojuntin, a politician from Sabah.  The school was officially opened on 27 February 1979 by the then Education Minister Dato’ (now Tun) Musa Hitam.

History

The school has 99 teachers, 15 non-teaching staff and 1365 students under the leadership of the principal, Pn. Nuraini Fauziah Derin and the majority of the students are from Kadazandusun ethnic who come from the remote areas of Penampang district like Buayan, Terian, and Longkogungan as well as nearby villages within the school area such as Hungab, Babah/Bunduon, Hubah, Sukod (Suok/Kodundungan/Digot), Terawi, Guunsing and many more within the Penampang region (from all villages on both halves of Penampang, Donggongon and Putatan, which are the nearest towns to this school).

SMKDPM has 3 central units - E-Management, Recreational School and Resource Centre Across School.

The E-Management is implemented to achieve a systematic management. The Information System used is the Students Information System, Discipline, Co-curricular, Fees, Attendance, NILAM, Audio Visual Aids, Information System for Malaysian Certificate  of Education, Malaysian Higher certificate of education and Lower Secondary assessment (SPM, STPM and PMR (abolished; now PT3; also abolished)), Automation for the Resource Centre, Salary, Timetable and School Assessment System

Activities conducted by the Resource Centre of the school are:
 Focus Exhibition by every class.
 Mini library in each class.
 Corridors of information and knowledge.

The school building was repainted in stages which started in the year 2002 with the help and co-operation of the YB, community and the education department. A few buildings were erected namely the Open Hall, Squash Court, Hostel Dining Hall, Computer laboratory, the Grooming Room and the Rekacipta (Invention) Studio.

Schools in Sabah
Secondary schools in Malaysia


Uno Åhrén (6 August 1897 – 8 October 1977) was a Swedish architect and city planner, and a leading proponent of functionalism in Sweden.

Biography
Uno Emrik Åhrén was born  in Stockholm, Sweden. He graduated as an architect at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1918.
He was City Planning Manager in Gothenburg 1932-1943 and head of the Riksbyggen 1943-1945. He was appointed professor of urban construction at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1947 through 1963.

In 1930 Åhrén was one of the designers for the Housing Exhibition of the Stockholm International Exhibition, and in 1931 he was one of the six co-authors of the  1931 manifesto, Acceptera, a plea for acceptance of functionalism, standardization, and mass production as a cultural change in Sweden.

Åhrén collaborated with the sociologist, reformer and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Gunnar Myrdal from 1932 though 1935 on a social housing commission, and in 1934 they co-authored The Housing Question as a Social Planning Problem, a work that would prove influential in the structuring of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, the Folkhemmet.  In fact Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, who coined the word Folkhemmet, himself moved into an Åhrén-designed functionalist house in 1936.

Åhrén died at Arvika during 1977.

Work
 Student Union at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1928-1930, with Sven Markelius
 Ford Motor Company, Stockholm, 1930–31
 Flamman Soundfilm Theatre, Hornstull, Stockholm, 1930
 Terrace houses in Norra Ängby, Bromma, Stockholm, 1931–40
 Chief City Planner for Gothenburg, 1932–1943
 Årsta centrum, Stockholm 1943–53
 Chief for the housing cooperative Riksbyggen 1943–1945

See also
Social engineering (political science)

References

1897 births
1977 deaths
Swedish architects
Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne members
KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Swedish urban planners
Housing reformers
Housing in Sweden
Modernist architects from Sweden


Sunday Dinner for a Soldier is a 1944 American drama romance war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Anne Baxter and John Hodiak. It is based on a novelette by Martha Cheavens.

Plot
A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan a Sunday dinner for a soldier at a local Army airbase. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. On the day of the scheduled dinner, another soldier is brought to their home and love soon blossoms between him (Hodiak) and Tessa (Baxter), the young woman who runs the home.

Cast
Anne Baxter as Tessa
John Hodiak as Eric Moore
Charles Winninger as Grandfather
Anne Revere as Agatha
Chill Wills as Mr. York
Robert Bailey as Kenneth Normand
Bobby Driscoll as Jeep
Jane Darwell as Mrs. Dobson

Radio adaptation
On February 19, 1945, Baxter, Hodiak, and Winninger appeared in a radio adaptation of the film on Lux Radio Theatre.

References

"The Screen; Crisis and Romance", The New York Times (January 25, 1945)

External links

Turner Classic Movies listing

1944 films
1940s war drama films
20th Century Fox films
American war drama films
American black-and-white films
Films scored by Alfred Newman
Films based on short fiction
Films directed by Lloyd Bacon
Films set in Florida
Films set on the home front during World War II
World War II films made in wartime
Films with screenplays by Wanda Tuchock
1944 drama films
1940s English-language films


Gwen Stefani is an American singer. She is a member of the rock band No Doubt, whose 1995 album Tragic Kingdom propelled them to stardom and sold 17 million copies worldwide. Before her solo debut, Stefani collaborated with other artists on their albums, including "South Side" with Moby and "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" with Eve and received a Grammy for best rap. Stefani has released three solo studio albums, with Interscope Records: Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (2004), The Sweet Escape (2006) and  This is what the truth feels like (2016) . After the success of her first album, Stefani commented, "All I wanted to do was make a dance record. [...] Not even that — a stupid dance record." Several of her songs have appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, including "Hollaback Girl" which peaked at number one and "The Sweet Escape" at number two.

Stefani's only Grammy Award as a solo artist is the award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for the song "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" in 2002. She won two MTV Video Music Awards in 2005, including Best Choreography for "Hollaback Girl" and Best Art Direction for "What You Waiting For?" At the Teen Choice Awards, Stefani won all four nominations that she received, including Choice Breakout, Best Female Video, and Choice Collaboration for "Rich Girl". Also, she was named the World's Best New Female Artist at the World Music Awards in 2005. Overall, Stefani has received 49 awards from 126 nominations.

Academy of Country Music Awards
The Academy of Country Music Awardss is an annual awards ceremony created by the Academy of Country Music in 1966. Stefani has received one nomination.

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The American Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony created by Dick Clark in 1973. Stefani has received one award from two nominations.

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BMI Music Awards

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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|2006
| rowspan="1"|"Hollaback Girl"
| Pop Songs
|
|-
| "Rich Girl"
| Pop Songs
|
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="1"|2007
| rowspan="1"|"Cool"
| Pop Songs
|
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="1"|2008
| rowspan="1"|"The Sweet Escape"
| Pop Songs
|
|-

Billboard Music Awards

|-
|rowspan="3"| 2005 ||rowspan="2"| "Hollaback Girl"  || Digital Song of the Year   ||
|-
|  Hot 100 Song of the Year ||
|-
| Gwen Stefani
| New Artist of the Year ||

Bravo A-List Awards

|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|2009
| rowspan="2"|Gwen Stefani
| Style Female
|
|-
| Celebrity Designer
|
|-

BRIT Awards
The BRIT Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. Gwen Stefani has won one award from one nominations.

|-
| 2005
| Gwen Stefani
| International Female Solo Artist
|

California Music Awards

|-
|rowspan="1"| 1998 ||rowspan="3"| Gwen Stefani || Outstanding Female Vocalist ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2003 || Outstanding Female Vocalist ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2004 || Outstanding Female Vocalist ||

CMT Music Awards

|-
|rowspan="1"| 2020
| "Nobody but You" (with Blake Shelton)
| Collaborative Video of the Year
|
|-

D&AD Awards
Design and Art Direction (D&AD) is a British educational charity which exists to promote excellence in design and advertising.

|-
| 2006
| "Cool"
| Cinematography
| style="background:#BF8040"| Wood Pencil

ECHO Music Awards

|-
| 2006
| Gwen Stefani
| International Pop/Rock Female Artist of the Year
|

Glamour Women of the Year Awards

|-
| 2005
| Gwen Stefani
| Best Solo Artist
|
|-
| 2016
| Gwen Stefani
| The Icon
|

Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States. Stefani has won 3 awards from 18 nominations, both as a solo artist and member of No Doubt. Every award is individually assigned to each member of the group.

|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" |1997
|Tragic Kingdom
|Best Rock Album
|
|-
|No Doubt
|Best New Artist
|
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|1998
| rowspan="2"|"Don't Speak"
|Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
|
|-
|Song of the Year
|
|-
|align=center|2001
|Return of Saturn
|Best Rock Album
|
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2002 || "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" (with Eve) || Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ||
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|2003
|"Hey Baby"
|Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
|
|-
|Rock Steady
|Best Pop Vocal Album
|
|-
|"Hella Good"
|Best Dance Recording
|
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2004
|"Underneath It All"
| rowspan="2"|Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
|
|-
|align=center rowspan="2"|2005
|"It's My Life"
|
|-
| "What You Waiting For?" || Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ||
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="5"| 2006 ||style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|"Hollaback Girl" || Record of the Year ||
|-
| Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ||
|-
|style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|Love. Angel. Music. Baby. || Album of the Year ||
|-
|| Best Pop Vocal Album ||
|-
|| "Rich Girl" (with Eve) || Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ||
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2008 || "The Sweet Escape" (with Akon) || Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ||
|-

Hungarian Music Awards
The Hungarian Music Awards (Golden Giraffe Awards, before 2004) is an annual award ceremony held by the Hungarian music industry association Mahasz since 1992.

|-
| 2006
| Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
| International Pop-Rock Album of the Year
|

IFPI Platinum Europe Awards

|-
| 2005 IFPI Platinum Europe Awards|2005
| Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
| Album Title
|

Ibiza Music Video Festival

|-
| rowspan="2" | 2016
| rowspan="2" | "Misery"
| Best Hair & Make Up
|
|-
| Best DOP
|

iHeartRadio Music Awards

|-
|2021
| “Nobody but You” (with Blake Shelton)
| Country Song of the Year
|

International Dance Music Awards

|-
|rowspan="1"|  ||rowspan="1"| "What You Waiting For?" || Best Alternative/Rock Dance Artist ||
|-
|rowspan="1"|  ||rowspan="1"| Gwen Stefani || Best Dance Solo Artist ||

JUNO Awards

|-
| 2006
| Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
| International Album of the Year
|

Meteor Ireland Music Awards

|-
| 2006
| Gwen Stefani
| Best International Female
|

MTV Awards

MTV Video Music Award
The MTV Video Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony established in 1984 by MTV. Stefani has received four awards from twelve nominations.

|-
|rowspan="4"|  || "South Side" || Best Male Video ||
|-
|rowspan="3"| "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" || Best Female Video ||
|-
| Best Hip-Hop Video ||
|-
| Viewer's Choice ||
|-
|rowspan="6"|  ||rowspan="4"| "Hollaback Girl"  || Best Choreography  ||
|-
| Video of the Year ||
|-
|  Best Female Video ||
|-
| Best Pop Video ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| "What You Waiting For?" || Best Art Direction ||
|-
|  Best Editing ||
|-
|  || "The Sweet Escape" || Most Earthshattering Collaboration || .

MTV Asia Awards
MTV Asia Awards was another annual award by MTV which were awarded from 2002 to 2008.

|-
|rowspan="1"| 2008 || Gwen Stefani ||  Innovation Award ||

MTV Europe Music Awards

|-
|rowspan="4"| 2005 ||rowspan="1"| Love. Angel. Music. Baby || Album of the Year  ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| "Gwen Stefani" ||  Best Female  ||
|-
| Best Pop ||
|-
| "What You Waiting For?" || Best Video ||

MTV Video Music Japan Awards

|-
|rowspan="1"| 2005 ||rowspan="1"| "What You Waiting For?" || Best Pop Video ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2006 ||rowspan="1"| "Hollaback Girl" || Best Pop Video ||
|-
|rowspan="1"|  2007 ||rowspan="1"| "Wind It Up" || Best Female Video ||

MTV TRL Awards

|-
|rowspan="2"| 2005 ||rowspan="1"| Gwen Stefani || TRL's 1st Lady Award ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| "What You Waiting For" || Best Performance ||

MTV Video Music Latino America Awards

|-
|rowspan="2"| 2005 ||rowspan="3"| Gwen Stefani || Best New International Artist ||
|-
| Best Pop International Artist ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2007 || Best Pop International ||

MTV Australia Music Awards

|-
|rowspan="4"| 2005 ||rowspan="2"| Gwen Stefani ||  Best Female  ||
|-
| Best Dressed ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| "What You Waiting For" || Video of the Year  ||
|-
| Best Pop Video ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2007 ||rowspan="2"| "Wind It Up" ||  Best Female  ||
|-
| Best Pop Video ||

Much Music Video Awards

|-
|rowspan="2"| 2005 ||rowspan="1"| "Rich Girl" || People's Choice: Favourite International Artist ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| "What You Waiting For?" || Best International Video – Artist ||
|-
|rowspan="2"|  ||rowspan="2"| "The Sweet Escape" || Best International Video - Artist ||
|-
| People's Choice: Favourite International Artist ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2015 ||rowspan="1"| "Spark the Fire" || Funniest Video of the Year ||
|-

My VH1 Music Awards

|-
|rowspan="6"| 2001 ||rowspan="1"| "What's Going On" || There's No "I" in Team (Best Collaboration) ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| Gwen Stefani || Female Singer ||
|-
| Navel Academy ||
|-
|"Let Me Blow Ya Mind" ||There's No "I" In Team (Best Collaboration) ||
|-
|rowspan="2"|"South Side" || There's No "I" In Team (Best Collaboration) ||
|-
| My Favorite Video ||
|-

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

|-
| 2006
| "Hollaback Girl"
| Favorite Song
|

NME Awards

|-
| 2005
| Gwen Stefani
| Sexiest Female
|

NRJ Music Awards

|-
| 2005
| Gwen Stefani
| Best International Female
|

One Show Awards

!Ref.
|-
| 2017
| "Make Me Like You"
| Best Music Video
|
|

People Choice Awards

|-
|rowspan="1"| 2006 ||rowspan="3"| Herself || Favorite Female Singer ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2008 || Favorite Female Singer ||
|-
|2019
| Favorite Fashion Icon of the Year
|
|-
|}

People Magazine Awards

|-
|rowspan="1"| 2014 ||rowspan="1"| Gwen Stefani || Style Icon of the Year ||
|-

Premios OYE! Awards

|-
| 2005
| Gwen Stefani
| International Newcomer
|

Q Awards

|-
| 2005
| "What You Waiting For?"
| Best Video
|

Radio Music Awards

|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2005
| Gwen Stefani
| Artist of the Year/ Mainstream Hit Radio
|

Radio Disney Music Awards

|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2016
| Gwen Stefani
| Hero Award
|

Smash Hits Poll Awards

|-
|rowspan="6"| 2005 ||rowspan="2"| "Hollaback Girl" || Best Video ||
|-
| Best Single ||
|-
|rowspan="3"| Gwen Stefani || Best Solo Artist ||
|-
| Smash Hits Stars Of The Year ||
|-
| Sh! Style Icon ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| Love. Angel. Music. Baby. || Best Album ||

Soul Train Music Awards

|-
|rowspan="2"| 2006 ||rowspan="2"| "Hollaback Girl" || Best R&B/Soul Single, Female ||
|-
| Best R&B/Soul or Rap Dance Cut ||

Teen Choice Awards
The Teen Choice Awards is an awards show presented annually by the Fox Broadcasting Company. Stefani has received four awards from fourteen nominations.

|-
| 2001 || "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" || Choice R&B/Hip Hop Track ||
|-
|rowspan="7"| 2005 ||rowspan="4"| "Rich Girl" || Choice Breakout ||
|-
| Best Female Video ||
|-
| Visionary Award  ||
|-
| Choice Collaboration ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| Hollaback Girl|| Choice Single ||
|-
| Choice Summer Song ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| Love. Angel. Music. Baby.|| Choice Album ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2007 ||rowspan="1"| "The Sweet Escape" || Choice: Single ||
|-
| Gwen Stefani || Choice: Female ||
|-
| 2009 || Zuma || Choice Celebrity Baby ||
|-
| 2010 || L.A.M.B || Choice Fashion Line ||
|-
|rowspan="2"|2016 || Gwen Stefani || Choice Summer Music Star: Female ||
|-
| "Go Ahead and Break My Heart" || Choice Country Song ||

VH1 Vogue Fashion Awards

|-
|rowspan="2"| 2001 ||rowspan="1"| "South Side" || Visionary Video ||
|-
|Gwen Stefani || Rock Style ||
|-

Vibe Awards

|-
|rowspan="2"| 2005 ||rowspan="1"| "Can I Have It Like That" || Club Banger ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| "Hollaback Girl" || Hottest Hook ||

World Music Awards
The World Music Awards honors recording artists based on worldwide sales figures provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

|-
| 2005
| rowspan=3| Gwen Stefani
| Best-selling New Female Artist
|
|-
| 2005
| Best-Selling Pop Rock Artist
|
|-
| 2006
| Best-Selling Pop Rock Artist
|

Žebřík Music Awards

!Ref.
|-
| 1997
| rowspan=7|Gwen Stefani
| rowspan=3|Best International Female
|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| 2003
|
|-
| rowspan=2|2004
|
| rowspan=8|
|-
| rowspan=2|Best International Surprise
|
|-
| rowspan=4|2005
|
|-
| Best International Female
|
|-
| Best International Personality
|
|-
| "What You Waiting For?"
| Best International Video
|
|-
| 2006
| rowspan=2|Gwen Stefani
| rowspan=2|Best International Female
|
|-
| 2007
|

See also
List of awards and nominations received by No Doubt

References

External links
 Gwen Stefani official website

Stefani, Gwen
Awards and nominations


Louis  Thomassin (1856–1905) was a French bow maker, or Archetier.

He learned his craft in Mirecourt where he worked for the  Bazin Family.  In 1872  he went to Paris  to work for François Nicolas Voirin  and carried on Voirin's shop after his  death.
He established his own workshop in Paris in 1891.
His son and pupil, Claude, also made fine bows in Paris, based on Voirin's model.
Louis Thomassin's branded bows are of beautiful and of consistent quality. Unfortunately his production was not extensive.

References

 Les Luthiers Parisiens aux XIX et XX siecles Tom 3 "Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume et sa famille - Sylvette Milliot 2006

 Violins & Bows - Jost Thoene 2006

1856 births
1905 deaths
Bow makers
19th-century French people
Luthiers from Mirecourt


Gambling Hangover was the theme of an Australian social marketing campaign to help young male gamblers. It  ran for 2 years from 2008.

The campaign
The two-year campaign was created by Sydney agency The Campaign Palace on behalf of the Responsible Gambling Fund, a part of the New South Wales Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing.

It targeted men aged 18–25 in the "morning after" phase following a gambling binge, when they were most likely to seek help for problem gambling. It identified the three main symptoms of a gambling hangover as "a sick feeling," "anxiety and regrets," and "not liking yourself."

Ads were placed where young men were likely to see them in the morning: in train stations, on buses, on morning radio, and in morning newspapers. Young men were urged to visit gamblinghangover.nsw.gov.au, to SMS for more information, or to call a helpline number if they recognised the gambling hangover symptoms in themselves.

Responses to the helpline and in follow-up research showed the phrase had moved into common usage among young men, and 50 percent of those surveyed were able to recall the campaign.

See also
Gambling in Australia

References

External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20081120041851/http://www.missionaustralia.com.au/news/media-releases/556-young-men-encouraged-end-gambling-hangover

Gambling in Australia
Advertising campaigns
Australian advertising slogans
2008 neologisms
Problem gambling organizations


Death Comes in 26 Carefully Selected Pieces is the tenth album by the Finnish black metal band Impaled Nazarene. It was recorded live at the Tavastia Club in Helsinki on December 19, 2004 and released in 2005.

Track listing
All Lyrics By Mika Luttinen. Music As Noted. Copyright Les Editions Hurlantes.
 "Intro" (M. Makinen) 2:57
 "The Horny and the Horned" (Kimmo Luttinen) 3:30
 "Armageddon Death Squad" (Mikael Arnkil) 2:54
 "Goat Perversion" (K. Luttinen) 1:17
 "1999:Karmageddon Warriors" (Taneli Jarva) 2:40
 "Motörpenis" (Jarva) 2:05
 "Kohta ei naura enää Jeesuskaan" (M. Luttinen) 2:09
 "The Endless War" (Arnkil) 3:57
 "Sadhu Satana" (K. Luttinen) 2:59
 "Ghettoblaster" (K. Luttinen) 2:10
 "Coraxo" (K. Luttinen) 0:15
 "Soul Rape" (K. Luttinen) 1:52
 "Sadistic 666/Under a Golden Shower" (K. Luttinen) 4:24
 "Zero Tolerance" (Alexi Laiho) 1:38
 "The Maggot Crusher" (Reima Kellokoski) 3:27
 "Let's Fucking Die" (Laiho, K. Luttinen) 2:26
 "Tribulation Hell" (Arnkil) 3:11
 "We're Satan's Generation" (M. Luttinen) 2:11
 "Cogito Ergo Sum" (Laiho) 2:13
 "Goat Seeds of Doom" (Arnkil) 3:20
 "Condemned to Hell" (K. Luttinen) 3:53
 "Intro SFP" (K. Luttinen) 0:53
 "Sadogoat" (K. Luttinen) 2:49
 "Vitutuksen Multihuipennus" (K. Luttinen) 2:01
 "The Lost Art of Goat Sacrificing" (Kellokoski) 3:34
 "Total War-Winter War" (K. Luttinen) 3:10

Personnel
Mika Luttinen: Vocals
Tuomio: Lead Guitar
Onraj 9MM: Rhythm Guitar
Arc V 666: Bass
Repe Misanthrope: Drums

Production
Produced by Impaled Nazarene
Recorded, Engineered & Mixed by Tapio Pennanen
Digital Editing & Mastering By Mika Jussila

References

External links
Impaled Nazarene at Metal From Finland
"Death Comes In..." at discogs

Sources
CD- Death Comes in 26 Carefully Selected Pieces

Impaled Nazarene albums
2005 live albums


The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains. It is characterized by a complex array of saltwater bays, islands, and peninsulas carved out by prehistoric glaciers.

Poet Robert Sund called the Puget Sound region "Ish River country", owing to its numerous rivers with names ending in "ish", such as the Duwamish, Samish, Sammamish, Skokomish, Skykomish, Snohomish, and the Stillaguamish. The ish ending is from Salishan languages and means "people of".

History

The Puget Sound region was formed by the collision and attachment of many terranes ("microcontinents") to the North American Plate between about 50 to 10 million years ago. About 15,000 years ago during the Vashon Glaciation, the Puget Sound region was covered by a lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. The glacier that covered the area was about  thick within the vicinity of Seattle. By the time Captain George Vancouver found the Sound in 1792, early native people had already been there for over 5,000 years.

Logging started as early as 1853. In the 1880s logging railroads cut their way into Puget Sound. 1886 the St. Helens fire burned . Mount Rainier National Park started in 1899. The 1902 Yacolt Burn burned . Olympic National Park was established in 1938.

George Vancouver explored Puget sound in 1792. Vancouver claimed it for Great Britain on 4 June 1792, naming it for one of his officers, Lieutenant Peter Puget. It became part of the Oregon Country, and became U.S. territory when the 1846 Oregon Treaty was signed.

After arriving along the Oregon Trail, many settlers wandered north to what is now Washington and settled the Puget Sound area. The first non-indigenous settlement was New Market (now known as Tumwater) in 1846. In 1853 Washington Territory was formed from part of Oregon Territory. In 1888 the Northern Pacific railroad line reached Puget Sound, linking the region to eastern states.

For a long period Tacoma was noted for its large smelters where gold, silver, copper and lead ores were treated. Seattle was the primary port for trade with Alaska and the rest of the country and for a time possessed a large shipbuilding industry. The region around eastern Puget Sound developed heavy industry during the period including World War I and World War II, and the Boeing Company became established in the area.

During World War II the Puget Sound area became a focus for the war industry, with Boeing producing many of the nation's heavy bombers and the ports of Seattle, Bremerton and Tacoma available for shipbuilding. The most important yards in the Sound during World War II were Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding's Seattle and Tacoma yards, also known as Todd Pacific, Todd Seattle and Todd Tacoma and the Puget Sound Navy Yard. They produced a significant portion of destroyers and escort carriers. Smaller operations included Winslow, Associated Shipbuilders and the Lake Washington Shipyard.

Since 1995, Puget Sound has been recognized as an American Viticultural Area by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.

Political geography

The urban region designated the Puget Sound Region is centered on Seattle and consists of nine counties, two urban center cities and four satellite cities making up what has been dubbed "Pugetopolis." Both urban core cities have large industrial areas and seaports plus a high-rise central business district. The satellite cities are primarily suburban, featuring a small downtown core and a small industrial area or port. The suburbs consist mostly of residences, strip malls, and shopping centers. The region is also home to numerous ports. The two largest and busiest are the Port of Seattle and Port of Tacoma, which, if combined, comprise the third largest container port in North America after Los Angeles/Long Beach and New York/New Jersey.

The United States Census Bureau defines the Puget Sound region as the Seattle–Tacoma–Olympia Combined Statistical Area. This includes the Seattle metropolitan area, made up of the following counties (see Fig. STB):

Seattle–Bellevue–Everett metropolitan division
King County: Seattle and its immediate vicinity
Snohomish County: north of Seattle
Tacoma metropolitan division
Pierce County: south of Seattle

Based on commuting patterns, the adjacent metropolitan areas of Olympia, Bremerton, and Mount Vernon, along with a few smaller satellite urban areas, are grouped together in the CSA. The population of this wider region is 4,269,349—almost two-thirds of Washington's population—. The Seattle CSA is the 12th largest CSA, and the 13th largest primary census statistical area in the country.  The additional metropolitan and micropolitan areas included are:

Bremerton–Silverdale metropolitan area
Kitsap County: west of Seattle, separated from the city by Puget Sound; connected to Seattle by ferry and to Tacoma by the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Olympia metropolitan area
Thurston County: southwest of Seattle, at the South Puget Sound
Mount Vernon–Anacortes metropolitan area
Skagit County
Oak Harbor micropolitan area
Island County: northwest of Everett, encompassing Whidbey and Camano Islands in Puget Sound
Shelton micropolitan area
Mason County: west of Tacoma and northwest of Olympia

A state-run ferry system, Washington State Ferries, connects the larger islands to the Washington mainland, as well as both sides of the sound, allowing cars and people to move about the greater Puget Sound region.

Climate

Flora and fauna

North Pacific Oak Woodland is one of the principal plant associations of the Puget Trough, where many of the soils are well drained mesic.

Places

Counties of the Puget Sound region:
Island County
Jefferson County
King County
Kitsap County
Mason County
Pierce County
Skagit County
Snohomish County
Thurston County

In addition, the San Juan Islands (all of San Juan County plus a few islands belonging to Whatcom County) are often considered part of the greater Puget Sound area.

Prominent islands:
Anderson Island
Bainbridge Island
Blake Island
Camano Island
Fidalgo Island
Fox Island
Harstine Island
Herron Island
Indian Island
Marrowstone Island
Maury Island
McNeil Island
Mercer Island
Squaxin Island
Vashon Island
Whidbey Island

Urban centers:
Seattle
Tacoma
Olympia
Everett

Satellite cities:
Bellevue
Bremerton

Other principal cities:
Auburn
Edmonds
Federal Way
Kent
Kirkland
Lakewood
Lynnwood
Marysville
Mount Vernon
Oak Harbor
Puyallup
Redmond
Renton
Shoreline

Military bases:

Joint Base Lewis–McChord
Camp Murray
Naval Station Everett
Naval Base Kitsap
Bangor Annex
Bremerton Annex
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island

See also
Puget Sound
Puget Sound AVA (American Viticultural Area)
Seattle metropolitan area
Peter Puget

Notes

References

Further reading
Jones, M.A. (1999). Geologic framework for the Puget Sound aquifer system, Washington and British Columbia [U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1424]. Reston, VA: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
  Available online through the Washington State Library's Classics in Washington History collection

External links
Puget Sound Regional Council: The four-county regional coordination and planning organization for the Puget Sound region.  It is charged with transportation, land use, and economic development planning for the region.
Prosperity Partnership: An award-winning economic development coalition, dedicated to growing jobs and securing long-term prosperity in the Puget Sound region.
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Oliver S. Van Olinda Photographs: A collection of 420 photographs depicting life on Vashon Island, Whidbey Island, Seattle, and other communities of Washington State's Puget Sound from the 1880s through the 1930s.
Pacific Science Center: Geology of Puget Sound
USGS: Puget Sound earthquake origins
Features Of Puget Sound Region: Oceanography And Physical Processes, Chapter 3 of the State of the Nearshore Report, King County Department of Natural Resources, Seattle, Washington, 2001.

Regions of Washington (state)
Physiographic sections


Claude Auguste Thomassin (1865–1942) was a French bow maker, or .

Son of Louis Thomassin with whom he learned his craft in Mirecourt. In his early career, he worked for the shop of Gand & Bernadel. Many bows from this period are stamped "Gand & Bernadel".  In 1901 the family firm of Gand & Bernadel was taken over by Caressa & Français.  It was at this point that Claude Thomassin set up his own atelier at Rue de Paris in Paris.  Although he continued to produce some bows for his former employers, much of his output from 1901 onwards was branded with his name "Claude Thomassin" or sometimes "C.Thomassin à Paris".

Thomassin has been called one of the best makers of his generation.

"C. Thomassin's work is highly prized and respected for playability and beautiful workmanship" – Filimonov Fine Violins

References

 Les Luthiers Parisiens aux XIX et XX siecles, vol. 3, "Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume et sa famille", Sylvette Milliot 2006

1865 births
1942 deaths
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
Bow makers
19th-century French people
Luthiers from Mirecourt


Vincent "Vinny" Dunn is a New Zealand professional wrestler and former professional rugby league footballer who has competed in several Australasian independent wrestling promotions since his debut in 2005. He has worked for the Australasian Wrestling Federation, Kiwi Pro Wrestling and is currently signed to Impact Pro Wrestling NZ (IPW). Recognized as the IPW's First Triple Crown Champion, he is a former IPW Heavyweight Champion and, in Impact Pro Wrestling Australia, is the first ever IPW South Pacific Champion, which he held from 18 August 2007 until 15 March 2008. Dunn also winner of the annual IPW Armageddon Cup at the 2006 Armageddon Expo.

Professional wrestling career

Early years and training

Impact Pro Wrestling

2005-2007
Dunn made his wrestling debut in 2005 at Impact Pro Wrestling NZ's IPW Genesis in a loss against The Machine.

2008
At Last Rites, Dunn and Knox's match ended in a double disqualification (resulting in Knox retaining the title) caused by The Xtreme Superstars' Davey Deluxeo and Jordan Invincible.

IPW Champion (2009-2010)
On 12 December 2009 at IPW Nightmare Before Xmas, Dunn defeated Joseph Kinkade for the IPW New Zealand Heavyweight Championship.

On May 29, 2010, Dunn successfully retained the championship against Alexander in the main event of the IPW Genesis supercard.  But Dunn was unexpectedly confronted by Reuben de Jong, who responded to the open challenge Dunn had issued the previous month.  Dunn agreed to an impromptu title defence against de Jong, and was defeated to lose the championship.

Dunn regained the title on August 21, 2010, at IPW Rival Turf, only to lose it again later in the evening to “The Deal” Dal Knox.  Dunn had intervened after the main event to rescue A-Class from an assault by a number of wrestlers from NZWPW, only to be attacked himself.  Knox, returning from injury, entered the ring with steel chair in hand, only to turn the weapon on Dunn.  While the NZWPW wrestlers prevented the IPW locker room from coming to Dunn’s assistance, IPW Commissioner Dion McCracken ordered Dunn defend the title against Knox.  McCracken then donned the referee’s shirt to officiate the bout while Knox struck Dunn with numerous chair shots before pinning him to win the championship.

On December 11, 2010 at IPW Nightmare Before Xmas, Dunn defeated Dal Knox to become IPW Champion for the third time.

International exploits
Dunn toured in America with fellow IPW wrestler Jon E. King wrestling for Ohio Valley Wrestling, Rampage Pro Wrestling and WFX Wrestling in Canada.

Personal life
Dunn played for the Hibiscus Coast Raiders in the 2002 Bartercard Cup.

In August 2007, was one of the bachelors in The Edge contest "Three Strangers and a Wedding". He was eliminated before the final 2 were picked by the bride-to-be.

Championships and accomplishments
Impact Pro Wrestling
IPW New Zealand Heavyweight Championship (4 times)
IPW New Zealand Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Kingi
IPW South Pacific Championship (1 time)
Armageddon Cup (2 times) 2006/2010
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #421 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2010

References

External links
Vinny Dunn on Myspace

1980 births
Living people
New Zealand male professional wrestlers
Hibiscus Coast Raiders players
New Zealand rugby league players
Rugby league players from Auckland
20th-century New Zealand people
21st-century New Zealand people


Public Agenda is a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan research and public engagement organization which aims to strengthen democracy and expand opportunity for all Americans. Over the years, it has focused on many issues of concern to the public, most notably K-12 education, higher education  and health care, as well as criminal justice reform, immigration, energy and other issues.

Based in New York City, the organization was founded in 1975 by social scientist Daniel Yankelovich and Cyrus Vance, who served as United States Secretary of State from 1977 to 1980.

According to Caroline L. Gilson of DePauw University, "The audience for Public Agenda Online is wide-ranging: from researchers and policy-makers to concerned citizens and activists. For an academic audience, this site serves as a starting point for students exploring a topic who want to understand how the public weighs in on key issues".

Recent work
Recent initiatives includes "Hidden Common Ground", which seeks to discover and amplify common ground among the public on solutions to politically polarized issues, and "Next-Generation Community Engagement", which offers communities tools, training and other supports that enhance local democracy and civic engagement.

Controversy

Bloggers have sometimes criticized the organization for right or left-leaning research.

Notes

External links
 Official web page

Non-profit organizations based in New York City
Nonpartisan organizations in the United States


is a 1957 French crime drama film directed by Denys de La Patellière who co-wrote screenplay with Michel Audiard, based on the 1956 novel There's Always a Price Tag by James Hadley Chase. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Daniel Gélin and Michèle Mercier.

Synopsis
Penniless painter Robert Mabillon rescues rich man Eric Freminger one evening, when he is trying to throw himself under the wheels of a car. After having gotten quite drunk, Mabillon proposes to renew his luxurious villa in Saint-Jean-Cap on the French Riviera. Nevertheless, Freminger convinces him to become his driver. The same night, Mabillon has witnessed a violent dispute between his host and his seductive wife, Helen. Some time later, he receives a visit by the latter, its intimate ordered to leave as soon as possible to their homes ...

Cast
Michèle Morgan: Hélène Fréminger
Daniel Gélin: Robert Montillon
Michèle Mercier: Jeanne
François Chaumette: Charles Babin
Pierre Leproux: M. Bost, le créancier
Jean Olivier: L' inspecteur-adjoint (as Jean Ollivier)
Hélène Roussel: Une secrétaire
Peter van Eyck: Eric Fréminger
Bernard Blier: Le commissaire Plantavin

Production crew
Director: Denys de La Patellière
Writer: Denys de La Patellière after the work of James Hadley Chase
Producer: Jean-Paul Guibert
Director of photography: Pierre Montazels

Production companies are Cinematografica Associata (Italy) and Films Intermondia (France).

External links
 at Alice Cinema

1957 films
1957 crime drama films
Italian crime drama films
French crime drama films
1950s French-language films
Films based on works by James Hadley Chase
Films based on British novels
Films directed by Denys de La Patellière
Films with screenplays by Michel Audiard
1950s French films
1950s Italian films


Subotica () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Koceljeva municipality, in the Mačva District of Central Serbia. The village had a Serb ethnic majority and a population of 289 in 2002. Former Serbian minister of internal affairs, Vojan Lukić, was born there.

Historical population
1948: 630
1953: 644
1961: 573
1971: 474
1981: 427
1991: 335
2002: 289

References

See also
 List of places in Serbia

Populated places in Mačva District


Subotica is a city and municipality in Vojvodina, northern Serbia.

Subotica may also refer to:

Places
Subotica (Aleksandrovac), village in the Aleksandrovac municipality of the Rasina District
Subotica (Banja Luka), village in the municipality of Banja Luka, in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Subotica, Koceljeva, village in the Koceljeva municipality of the Mačva District
Subotica (Svilajnac), village in the Svilajnac municipality of the Pomoravlje District
Banatska Subotica, village in Bela Crkva municipality, Serbia
Mala Subotica, village in Međimurje County, Croatia
Subotica Podravska, village in Koprivnica-Križevci County, Croatia

Other uses
Subotica (horse)


Thomas E. O'Shea (April 18, 1895 – September 29, 1918) was a United States Army corporal during World War I. He was killed by Germans while trying to rescue others near Le Catelet, France on September 29, 1918. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions. O'Shea was a resident of Summit, New Jersey.

O'Shea is buried in the Somme American Cemetery and Memorial in Picardy, northern France.

Medal of Honor Citation
Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, Machine Gun Company, 107th Infantry, 27th Division.
Place and date: Near Le Catelet, France, 29 September 1918.
Entered service at: Summit, New Jersey.
Birth: New York City, New York.
General Orders No.20. War Department, January 30, 1919.

Citation:
Becoming separated from their platoon by a smoke barrage, Cpl. O'Shea, with 2 other soldiers, took cover in a shell hole well within the enemy's lines. Upon hearing a call for help from an American tank, which had become disabled 30 yards from them, the 3 soldiers left their shelter and started toward the tank under heavy fire from German machineguns and trench mortars. In crossing the fire-swept area Cpl. O'Shea was mortally wounded and died of his wounds shortly afterwards.

Military Awards
O'Shea's military decorations and awards include:

See also

John Cridland Latham
Alan Louis Eggers
List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War I

References

Sources

1895 births
1918 deaths
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
American military personnel killed in World War I
People from Summit, New Jersey
United States Army non-commissioned officers
United States Army personnel of World War I
World War I recipients of the Medal of Honor
Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal
Military personnel from New York City
Burials in Hauts-de-France


Ćukovine () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Koceljeva municipality, in the Mačva District of Central Serbia. The village had a Serb ethnic majority and a population of 375 in 2002.

Historical population

1948: 833
1953: 888
1961: 822
1971: 752
1981: 591
1991: 441
2002: 375

References

See also
List of places in Serbia

Populated places in Mačva District


This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Coshocton County, Ohio.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Coshocton County, Ohio, United States.  The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.

There are 20 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.  Another property was once listed but has been removed.

Current listings

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See also

 List of National Historic Landmarks in Ohio
 Listings in neighboring counties: Guernsey, Holmes, Knox, Licking, Muskingum, Tuscarawas
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Ohio

References

Coshocton


Philip Mackie (26 November 1918 – 23 December 1985) was a British film and television screenwriter. He was born in Salford in Lancashire, England. He graduated in 1939 from University College London and worked for the Ministry of Information Films Division which began a career in film.

Work
In August 1955 Mackie became, along with Nigel Kneale, one of the first two staff scriptwriters to be employed by BBC Television; scriptwriters had previously been employed on short-term or freelance contracts. The same year he adapted one of his television works into a successful stage play The Whole Truth which ran for more than a hundred performances in the West End and was then adapted into a film of the same title by Columbia Pictures.

In the early 1960s he wrote several screenplays for the series of films made at Merton Park Studios, loosely based on Edgar Wallace stories and novels.

Mackie was the producer and writer of the acclaimed 1968 ITV historical drama series The Caesars about the Julio-Claudian Roman emperors and later wrote the 1972 series The Organization and the 1974 series Napoleon and Love, starring Ian Holm, about Napoleon Bonaparte's relationships with his women as a backdrop to his rise and fall as Emperor of the French.

In 1975 and 1976, Mackie adapted two Graham Greene short stories, “Cheap in August” and “A Drive in the Country,” for episodes of Shades of Greene presented by Thames Television.

He also wrote the script for the television adaptation of the defiantly exhibitionist homosexual Quentin Crisp's autobiography The Naked Civil Servant, for which John Hurt won the BAFTA for Best Actor in 1976.

In 1977 he adapted the Raffles stories for Yorkshire Television.

Family
Mackie had four daughters: Susan, Charlotte, Alexandra, and Barbara. One of his granddaughters is actress Pearl Mackie.

Selected filmography

Film
 The Whole Truth (1958)
 Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960)
 Clue of the Silver Key (1961)
 Man at the Carlton Tower (1961)
 The Brain (1962)

Television
 Mr. Rose (1967–1968)
 The Caesars (1968)
 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)
 The Organization (1972)
 Raffles (1975–1977)
 Napoleon and Love (1974)
 An Englishman's Castle (1978)
 Thérèse Raquin (1980)
 Jemima Shore Investigates (1983)
 The Cleopatras (1983)

Footnotes

References

External links

Philip Mackie at Screenonline

1918 births
1985 deaths
British television writers
British television producers
20th-century British screenwriters


Amer Husni Lutfi () (1956 – March 2018) was head of the State Planning Commission of Syria. He served as the minister of economy and trade between 2004 and 2010. Lutfi holds a PhD in economic analysis, which he received from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

References

1956 births
Living people
Syrian ministers of economy
People from Homs
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region politicians


Khaleel-Ur-Rehman Azmi (9 August 1927 – 1 June 1978), also known as Khalil al-Rehman Azmi, was an Urdu poet and literary critic who was born in the village Seedhan Sultanpur in the district of Azamgarh.

Azmi's father Muhammad Shafi was a deeply religious man. Azmi matriculated from Shibli National High School in Azamgarh in 1945. He gained his bachelor's degree in 1948 and his M.A. in Urdu from Aligarh Muslim University. During this period he tutored the British scholar of Urdu, Ralph Russell. He gained his Doctor of Philosophy in Urdu in 1957 from Aligarh Muslim University for a dissertation entitled: Urdu Mein Tarraqipasand Adabi Tahrik.

In 1952 he became a Lecturer in Aligarh Muslim University's Department of Urdu. Four years later, he became a Reader and continued in that role until his death from leukemia in 1978. He was posthumously elevated to the rank of Professor.

He started writing during his early school days and composed poems for Payami taleem, a children's literary magazine. Proficient in both prose and poetry, he was one of the pioneers of Modernism in Urdu and was also aligned with the Progressive Writers Movement. He received the Ghalib Award for Urdu Poetry in 1978. edited by Shaikh Afzal azmi

Work and contributions
 Kaghzi Pairahan (1953): a collection of poetry, nazms and ghazals.
 Naya Ahad Nama (1965): a collection of poetry, nazms and ghazals.
 Nai Nazm Ka Safar (edited): a collection of Urdu poetry from 1936 to 1972
 Fikr-o-Fan (1956)
 Zawiay-e-Nigah (1966)
 Mazameen-e-Nau (1977): a work of literary criticism
 Muqaddama-e-Kalam-e-Aatish
 Taraqqi Pasand Tahreek (1965)
 Urdu Mein Taraqqi Pasand Adabi Tahreek (1972)
 zindagi ae zindagi ( 1983)

References

Further reading

Khaleel-ur-Rehman number, Sha'ir (monthly)
Jadeed Sha'iri ke Naye Chiragh, Shakeel-ur-Rehman

External links
 Urdu Poetry Archive
 Urdu point, Urdu poetry of Khalil-ur-Rehman Azmi
 Shayari, Ghazals & Poetry
 http://www.urdupoetry.com/krazmi.html
 http://aligarhmovement.com/aligarians/Khalil-ur-Rehman-Azm
 http://www.urduyouthforum.org/urduShayri_Khalil_ur_Rahman_Azmi.php?poet=Khalil%20ur%20Rahman%20Azmi
 http://forum.urduworld.com/f863/
 http://www.bestghazals.net/2007/05/khalil-ur-rahman-azmis-ghazal.html
 http://www.urdupoint.com/poetry/book288-poet194

1927 births
1978 deaths
People from Azamgarh
Aligarh Muslim University alumni
People from Aligarh
Indian literary critics
Urdu-language poets from India
20th-century Indian poets
Indian male poets
Poets from Uttar Pradesh
20th-century Indian male writers
Recipients of Ghalib Award


The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) Multilateral Recognition Arrangement (MLA) is an agreement for the mutual recognition of accredited certification between IAF Accreditation Body (AB) Member signatories. This agreement allows for the acceptance of accredited certification in many markets based on one accreditation. The worldwide recognition of certificates granted by IAF MLA signatories and their accredited bodies removes technical barriers to trade, reduces costs and adds value to business and customers.

Admittance to the MLA is granted only after thorough evaluation of an AB's operations by a peer evaluation team that ensures the AB is compliant with both international standards and IAF requirements. IAF Members invest considerable resources into maintaining the integrity of the MLA, thereby retaining the confidence of businesses, specifiers and regulators.

Currently covering the areas of management systems, products, personnel and validation and verification, the IAF MLA is composed of main and sub-scopes as defined in IAF PR 4: Structure of the IAF MLA and List of IAF Endorsed Normative Documents and illustrated in the IAF MLA Status document. Certificates issued on the basis of an IAF MLA main scope are considered equally trustworthy because the certification or validation and verification bodies conform to the same standard, while certificates issued on the basis of a sub-scope are considered equivalent due to being based on the same IAF-endorsed standard or sector scheme.

IAF MLA signatories and their accredited conformity assessment bodies may use the IAF MLA Mark subject to the terms defined in IAF ML 2: General Principles on the Use of the IAF MLA Mark. The MLA Mark provides assurance that the issuing conformity assessment bodies are competent and can be trusted.

It is important to add that not all IAF Members are signatories to the MLA, or that those who are signatories have signed the MLA for all accreditation standards (mainly ISO 17021, ISO/IEC 17024 or ISO 17065). Some IAF members have signed the MLA only for some of the accreditation standards, while others have not signed it at all.

References

External links
 International Accreditation Forum
 IAF MLA Annual Report 2019
 IAF MLA Annual Report 2019 Infographic

Standards


Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul is a 2007 two-disc compilation album featuring unreleased and rare songs by Aretha Franklin recorded between 1966 and 1973 on Atlantic Records. The liner notes, nominated for a Grammy at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, were co-written by Jerry Wexler, who was responsible for producing the sound which solidified Franklin as a legend, and David Ritz, who co-authored Franklin's 1999 autobiography.

Track listing
Disc one, tracks 10, 14 and 18, and disc two, track 1, previously released.

Charts

References

External links
Discogs - Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul images 2CD reMastered 2007-October-16th Rhino Records (8122-79970-3) UK&Europe
 "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" at ghostarchive.org

Aretha Franklin compilation albums
2007 compilation albums


Naftali Wahba Bezem (; November 27, 1924 - October 2, 2018) was an Israeli painter, muralist and sculptor.

Biography

Naftali Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924.  His early adolescence was spent under Nazi oppression, in constant fear for the safety of his parents, who were later murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp.  Naftali immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1939, at the age of fourteen with a Youth Aliyah group. From 1943 to 1946, he studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem with Israeli painter Mordecai Ardon.  He then spent three years studying in Paris. Bezem's son Yitzhak was killed in the 1975 Zion Square refrigerator bombing in downtown Jerusalem.

Art career
In addition to painting and sculpture, Bezem created murals, wall reliefs, tapestries, and stained glass windows. His most famous public works include a wall relief at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the ceiling mural in the main reception room at the President's Residence, Jerusalem.

Awards and recognition
 In 1957, Bezem was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for Painting.

See also
Israeli art

References

Further reading
 Naftali Bezem, Jerusalem, Debel Gallery, Ein Kerem, 1980
 Ted W. Gross, Ben-Dov and I. Mintzer, The Passover Haggadah Illustrated by Naftali Bezem, Tel Aviv, 1982.
 Matthias Kohn, Naftali Bezem, Bern, Benteli Verlag, 1998 (Editions in German and in English).
 Open Museum, Naftali Bezem - Rope Ladder 1996-1999, Open Museum, 2000.

External links

Jewish Israeli artists
Jewish sculptors
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine
Israeli sculptors
Modern sculptors
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni
1924 births
2018 deaths
Burials at Har HaMenuchot


Faizanullah Faizan is the former governor of Ghazni province, Afghanistan. He was appointed in September 2007 he replacing Merajuddin Patan.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Governors of Ghazni Province


Goldburger is a white Austrian wine grape grown primarily in the Burgenland region. The grape is a crossing of Orangetraube and Welschriesling and was created in 1922 by Fritz Zweigelt at the Höhere Bundeslehranstalt und Bundesamt für Wein- und Obstbau (HBLAuBA) in Klosterneuburg.

Synonyms
Goldburger is also known under the synonyms Klosterneuburg 16-8 and Orangeriesling.

References

White wine grape varieties
Austrian wine


Green Hungarian, Butschera (Hungarian) or Putzscheere (German) is a white Hungarian wine grape. It is also found in California, but in recent years the grape has been declining in number of plantings.

The grape variety is likely to have originated from the border area between Hungary and Romania, or the Carpathians. In former times, it was much cultivated in much of central and eastern Europe as a high-yielding grape for simple wines, which has resulted that it is known under a large number of synonyms in different languages. It was also used as a table grape. Today, very little of it remains in cultivation in Europe.

Synonyms
Green Hungarian is also known under the synonyms Aramon du Nord, Bela Pelesovna, Bela Selenika, Belline, Bockseckel, Butschera, Elender, Glockauer, Grüne (Selena) Pelesovna, Gyöngy Szölö, Gyöngyszölö, Heinisch Rot, Hinschen Weiss, Lelt Szoeloe, Misera, Perlentraube, Putchir, Putscheere Bleu, Putscher, Putzcheere, Putzscheere, Raifler, Rothinsch, Rothreifler, Sauerlamper, Talburger, Tokauer, Tokayer, Treitsche, Ungar, Weisser Tokayer, and Zuti Krhkopetec.

References

White wine grape varieties


Sunpentown () is a Taiwanese appliance manufacturing company founded in Keelung, Taiwan in 1985 under the name Sunpentown Electric Company. The company specializes in manufacturing home and kitchen appliances. According to the website, the company's first domestic product was the induction cooker. It developed more kitchen-related appliances including Mr. Rice, a popular rice cooker. In 1993, the company expanded worldwide to areas such as China, Japan and the United States under the name Sunpentown International. Sunpentown International is headquartered in City of Industry, California.

By 1999, Sunpentown produced microcomputer-controlled rice cookers. In 2014, Sunpentown was involved in an energy consumption study involving home and commercial induction cookers.
Sunpentown sells appliances under the SPT logo and brand.

Sunpentown manufactures household appliances such as humidifiers and air conditioners. In 2017, Engadget tested Sunpentown's SU-4010 and SU-9210 humidifier in a lineup with Honeywell's HCM-350 humidifier among others.

References

External links

Taiwanese website

1985 establishments in Taiwan
Companies based in Keelung
Home appliance brands
Home appliance manufacturers of Taiwan
Home appliance manufacturers
Electronics companies established in 1985
Multinational companies
Taiwanese brands


The Kerala State Planning Board is an advisory board under the Government of the State of Kerala, India. It was constituted in 1967 with Chief Minister as Chairman and a non-official as part-time Vice-Chairman. The board assists the state government in formulating a development plan based on a scientific assessment of the resources (material, capital and human) available to the state. A comprehensive economic review of the state is prepared by the board every year.

Members

Finance Minister •  Minister for Home, Vigilance and Tourism •  Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Animal Husbandry •  Minister for Transport •  Minister for Works •  Minister for Water Resources •

Member Secretary
Tikaram Meena
 IAS – IAS

Duties/Responsibilities
The official duties of the Board are performed by eight important divisions. They are:

 Plan Co-ordination Division
 Agriculture Division
 Evaluation Division
 Social Service Division
 Industry and Infrastructure Division
 Decentralized Planning Division
 Perspective Planning Division
 Information and Technology Wing

Plan Co-ordination Division

This Division co-ordinates all the activities concerned with the technical functions of the State Planning Board. It has been entrusted with the following functions:

 Assist in the preparation of Economic Review.
 Prepare reports as to the resource allocation of the state.
 Provide nuts and bolts regarding development plans to the state and Central governments.
 Prepare background papers and notes for discussion between Chief Minister of Kerala and Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission.

Agriculture Division

Agriculture Division deals with the Plan and Budget preparation of the Departments of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Fisheries, Forestry and Wildlife, Co-operation, Water Resources, Ground Water Development and Command Area Development Authority. The Division also reviews the performance of the concerned sectors for the preparation of 'Economic Review' published by the State Planning Board. The projects for external /NCDC assistance are vetted in the Division before they are trainings /workshops /seminars conducted in connection with decentralised planning. The staff of the Division effectively participate in the vetting of the projects submitted for the approval of the State Level Expert Committee.

Evaluation Division

The Evaluation Division of the State Planning Board is functioning since 1969. The Division since its inception has undertaken Monitoring and Evaluation of two externally aided Projects: World Bank assisted Kerala Agricultural Development Project and EEC assisted Kerala Minor Irrigation Project. As part of the People's Campaign for the Ninth Five Year Plan of the State, evaluation studies on development programmes carried out by local bodies were taken up by this Division.

This Division performs the following duties:

 To study the modus operandi of existing government projects and programmes in Five Year Plans and Annual Plans.
 To find out the hurdles in implementation of government programmes and to ensure the beneficiaries the desired results.
 To increase the efficiency of government projects and to provide guidelines over such matters.

Social Service Division

Social Service Division deals with the subjects like education, medical and public health, water supply and sanitation, housing, information and publicity, labour and labour welfare, social welfare, nutrition etc.

Following are the functions of the division:

 Formulation of Five Year Plan and Annual Plan documents.
 Preparation of Annual Plan Budget.
 Providing technical assistance to the State Planning Board over the subjects concerned.

Industry and Infrastructure Division

The Division undertakes the following works.

 Formulation of Five Year Plan and Annual Plan.
 Preparation of Plan Budget.
 Preparation of Economy Review.
 Technical and expert opinion on matters referred to State Planning Board.
 Processing of Government files.
 Preparation of Status Paper on various sectors.
 Project appraisal.
 Preparation of reports of Plan committees and Working Groups.
 Review of implementation of Plan Schemes.
 Preparation of reports/notes on specific issues.
 Answering to LA interpellations.
 Mid term appraisal of Five Year Plans.

Decentralised Planning Division

The Division takes up the preparation of Five year plans, Annual Plans, Budget Estimates, Economic Review etc. relating to :-

 Community Development and Panchayats.
 Rural Development.
 Development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
 Urban Development.
 Co-ordination of Activities of plan formulation and implementation by Local Governments.
 Preparation of Guidelines and instructions for Local level planning.

Perspective Planning Division

The Perspective Division is capable of doing the following works.

 Formulate Five Year Plans, Annual Plans and Annual Plan Budgets.
 Undertake studies on different subjects as and when entrusted to the division.
 Give replies and remarks on Govt. files and the letters from Government departments.

Information and Technology Wing

It is under the supervision of IT Wing that the official website of State Planning Board is monitored and updated. The Wing also provides 'Information Technology' based solutions to all the technical divisions and also to the administration sections of the State Planning Board. It also provides assistance for the computerisation of Economic Review, Plan Budget and also for the project details of the local bodies having undertaken in the District Planning Offices.

See also
 List of Kerala State Government Organizations
 Peoples Planning in Kerala

References

External links
 Economic Review (of Kerala) from 1959 -2012
 Kerala state Planning Board : Official Website

Economic planning in India
Government finances in Kerala
1967 establishments in Kerala
Government agencies established in 1967


Văn miếu Xích Đằng is a Confucian temple located in Hưng Yên City. It is also known as Văn Miếu Hưng Yên. The Văn miếu Xích Đằng was built in 1832, and belongs to the province now located in Hưng Yên City, province of Hưng Yên.

History
The Văn miếu Xích Đằng received its name because it was built in the Xích Đằng village. The Confucius temple was established in 1831 in the Hưng Yên province. It began construction from the seventeenth century, and was restored and embellished by the Nguyễn emperor, Minh Mạng. Remnants of the temple still remain today which consists of two buildings known as Phương Trượng Tower and Tịnh Mãn Tower.

Festivals and holidays
Two traditional temple festival seasons were used to be held on 10 February and 10 August, which are known as lunar calendar dates. The temple organizes cultural activities on the first day of spring, such as worship ceremonies, offering incense, calligraphy exhibitions, ca tru singing, which altogether gradually restores the ancient festival. In the second day of the Lunar New Year, calligraphy exhibits are high on demand in the Xích Đằng Confucius Temple festival, similar to that of the Văn Miếu in Hanoi.

References

Bia Văn miếu Hưng Yên - Viện nghiên cứu Hán Nôm
Văn miếu Xích Đằng trên Báo Hưng Yên
Văn miếu Xích Đằng trên trang web tỉnh Hưng Yên
Văn miếu Hưng Yên trên trang của Tổng cục du lịch

Confucian temples in Vietnam
Temples in Vietnam
Buildings and structures in Hưng Yên province
19th-century Confucian temples


The World Wreckers is a science fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, part of her Darkover series. First published by Ace Books in 1971, it features a complex sub-plot involving the sexual interactions between hermaphrodite native species, known as the chieri, and humans.

The book contains pivotal events in the part of the series that Zimmer Bradley identified as "After the Comyn/Against the Terrans". Every book that follows chronologically, refers to The World Wreckers.

In "Author's Notes on Chronology", Bradley implies that The World Wreckers occurs about eighty years after the events in The Winds of Darkover, basing this assertion on the age of Desideria Storn in the two books.

Plot summary
The mysterious Andrea Closson accepts a contract to wreck the economy of Darkover, so that the planet must turn to the Terran Empire for assistance. Closson's thoughts reveal that she is a native of Darkover, a child of the Yellow Forest.

Regis Hastur survives another assassination attempt. He and his paxman, Danilo Syrtis, discuss the many mysterious deaths besieging the Comyn. Regis recalls that his two sons are among the deceased, and that many of the old Comyn families have died out altogether. He asks the Terrans to seek out telepaths on other worlds and send them to Darkover, for what becomes known as Project Telepath.

At Arillinn, Regis meets Linnea Storn, a matrix technician. He learns that her grandmother was Desideria Leynier-Storn, the leronis who raised Sharra to restore High Windward to its rightful family (as seen in The Winds of Darkover).

Citizens from all over Darkover apply to Regis for assistance, describing economic problems, crop failures, and fires. A member of the ancient Darkovan chieri race arrives and asks to speak to Regis. He volunteers to assist in Project Telepath.

The members of Project Telepath meet and evaluate each other. A number of tests are run. Missy proves to be a troublemaker. They discover that Keral is a hermaphrodite. Further tests prove that Missy, whom they originally believed to be human, is also a chieri. As events unfold, it will become clear that chieri can be either sex, and can change gender at will.

Two free Amazon guides arrive at Arillinn and ask to see the Keeper, Linnea Storn. They describe a recent client, Andrea Closson, whom they guided through the back country. They suspect that she has something to do with the ecological disaster that seems to have befallen Darkover. Linnea contacts Regis with this information.

Regis calls for all of the telepaths on Darkover to join him to combat the threat. During a festival dance, their minds join in ecstasy and call into the castle the form of Andrea Closson, whom one of the chieri identifies as a lost member of his people. Accepted back to her own people, Closson uses her own fortune to restore Darkover's ecology. She is able to find hope in her people's survival in Keral's child with Project Telepath member David Hamilton, a union such as resulted in the strain of the Comyn.

Regis creates a Telepathic Council dedicated to working in limited cooperation with the Terran Empire.

Major characters
 Andrea Closson, head of the corporation informally known as the World Wreckers, a chieri
 Regis Hastur, heir to the domain of Hastur
 Danilo Syrtis-Ardais, his paxman and lover
 Linnea Storn of High Windward, Keeper of Arillinn, future wife of Regis Hastur

Project Telepath characters
 Dr. Jason Allison, a human who has lived a significant part of his youth with the Trailmen
 Dr. David Hamilton, a surgeon
 Missy Gentry, a chieri
 Keral, a chieri
 Desideria Leynier-Storn, an elderly Comyn leronis

Inconsistencies with later books in the series
Regis calls a representative of the Pan-Darkovan League "monsieur". There is no other book in which French phrases are used as part of the Darkovan language.

References

Sources

Darkover books
1971 American novels
Novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley
American science fiction novels
Books with cover art by Frank Kelly Freas
Ace Books books
Novels about intersex


Chen Xianqi () (died 786) was a general of the Chinese Tang Dynasty. He had served under Li Xilie, who had rebelled against Emperor Dezong and claimed the title of emperor of his own state of Chu. Li Xilie, however, by 786, had become repeatedly defeated by Tang forces. When Li Xilie grew ill, Chen had him poisoned and then submitted to Tang, but was himself in turn assassinated by Wu Shaocheng later in the year.

Service under and killing of Li Xilie
Virtually nothing is known about Chen Xianqi's background, including his birth date or his family origin. It is known that he had risen from soldier ranks to serve as an officer below Li Xilie while Li Xilie was the Tang military governor (Jiedushi) of Huaixi Circuit. His wife carried the surname Dou, the same surname as Li Xilie's favorite concubine, a daughter of the official Dou Liang (), whom Li Xilie had forced to become his concubine during the time he claimed imperial title at the emperor of his own state of Chu (a title he claimed in 784).  Dou Liang's daughter, however, was secretly plotting against Li Xilie, and she persuaded Li Xilie that Chen was faithful and capable and thus should be trusted.  Because she and Chen's wife shared the same surname, she informed Li Xilie that she would try to enter a friendship with Chen's wife in order to ensure his loyalty.  After she befriended Chen's wife, she instead involved Chen and Chen's wife in the plot to destroy Li Xilie. When Li Xilie grew ill after eating beef in summer 786, at Chen's instigation, Li Xilie's physician poisoned him to death.

After Li Xilie's death, Li Xilie's son did not announce his death and was planning to kill officers who would not submit to him, and then declare himself Li Xilie's successor.  Li Xilie's concubine Lady Dou, who had just received some peaches as tribute, wrote down the son's plans and hid the plan in a wax ball, and then hid the wax ball in a peach which she then gave to Chen's wife.  Chen, realizing what Li Xilie's son was planning, entered the mansion along with fellow officer Xue Yu () and killed Li Xilie's son.  He then killed Li Xilie's wife, brothers, and sons, and delivered the heads of Li Xilie, his wife, and his sons to the Tang capital Chang'an and submitted to Emperor Dezong.  Emperor Dezong made him military governor of Huaixi.

As Jiedushi
As military governor, Chen tried to show loyalty to the imperial government immediately, and he sent troops to Tang's western borders that fall to help defend against attacks by Tufan.  Just three months after he killed Li Xilie, however, one of LI Xilie's close associates, Wu Shaocheng, killed him and took over as acting military governor.  Li Xilie's concubine also died in the coup.  Emperor Dezong, while mourning Chen, did not dare to wage a campaign against Wu, and he made his own son Li Liang () the Prince of Qian the nominal military governor and Wu the deputy military governor, thus effectively allowing Wu to take over the circuit.

Notes and references

 Old Book of Tang, vol. 145.
 New Book of Tang, vol. 225, part 2.
 Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 232.

8th-century births
786 deaths
Tang dynasty jiedushi of Huaixi Circuit