Mexico–United Kingdom relations are the bilateral relations between Mexico and the United Kingdom. Both nations are members of the G-20 major economies, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the United Nations.

History

After Mexico achieved its independence in September 1821, Britain was the first European great power to recognize Mexican sovereignty. Soon afterwards, Emperor Agustín de Iturbide sent a diplomatic envoy to London to establish diplomatic communications between the two nations. In 1837, both nations ratified a Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, to abolish the slave trade.  The British established a network of merchant houses in the major cities. According to historian Hilarie J. Heath, the results were bleak:
Trade was stagnant, imports did not pay, contraband drove prices down, debts private and public went unpaid, merchants suffered all manner of injustices and operated at the mercy of weak and corruptible governments, commercial houses skirted bankruptcy.

In November 1838, Mexico was involved in a brief war with France known as the Pastry War. Britain supported Mexico and intervened to find a diplomatic solution to end the war. In March 1839, Mexico and France ended their war when Mexico acquiesced to French demands.

In 1861, Mexican President Benito Juárez suspended Mexico's interest payments to its creditors in France, Spain, and Britain. This act angered the three nations and in October 1861 the Convention of London was signed by the three nations to send joint navy ships to Mexico as a show of force to demand repayment by the Mexican government. In December 1861 the "triple-alliance" took the port of Veracruz and nearby towns. After a few months, both the Spanish and British government became evidently aware that Emperor Napoleon III of France was planning to initiate regime change in Mexico in order to expand its empire and take advantage of the fact that the United States was involved in its civil war (1861–65) and was not able to implement the Monroe Doctrine. The U.S. did not recognize the regime propped up by French troops.  In early 1862, Britain and Spain pulled its forces from Mexico. This French invasion would later be known as the  Second French intervention in Mexico. In 1864, France installed a puppet emperor in Mexico thus creating the Second Mexican Empire which lasted until 1867 with the execution of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico Britain had recognized his government, despite President Juárez never leaving the national territory. It nearly took 20 years for diplomatic relations to be restored, which was accomplished during the tenure of President Porfirio Díaz.  Díaz was a liberal Army general who had defended Mexico against the foreign invasion.

After 1880, the British turned their attention in Mexico primarily to investments in railways and mines, sending both money and engineers and skilled mechanics. The British invested £7.4 million in railways during the decade of the 1880s, jumping to £53.4 million in 1910s. The decade-total of new investment in mining went from £1.3 million in 1880s to £11.6 million in 1910s. Investments in land and other properties rose from near zero in 1880s to £19.7 million in 1910s. The totals reached £135 million, almost as much as the United States. In 1900, there were 2800 British citizens living in Mexico, a relatively small number in contrast to the 15,000 Americans, 16,000 Spaniards, 4000 French, and 2,600 Germans. The British were famed for their sophisticated clubs, and their elaborate sports program - English football became a highly popular sport across Mexico; while cricket found no interest amongst the Mexican populace.

During World War I (1914-1918), Mexico was neutral while involved in its own civil war (1910-1920). In 1917 British intelligence intercepted the Zimmermann Telegram, and gave it to the United States government. Zimmermann was the German Foreign Minister who tried to induce Mexico to join the war against the United States in the hope of diverting American attention away from Europe. Mexico ignored the offer since it realized that its weak military would be quickly overwhelmed by the Americans.

In March 1938, President Lázaro Cárdenas expropriated all oil reserves, facilities, and foreign oil companies in Mexico. The British government, alongside the United States government, demanded compensation from the expropriation which the Mexican government refused to pay. As a result, diplomatic relations between the two nations were severed. Although relations were restored in 1942, the British government held out until 1947 in regards to demanding payment and was duly recompensated for the expropriation.

In May 1942, Mexico declared war on the Axis Powers during World War II, thus officially entering on the side of the Allies. As a result of this, diplomatic relations between Mexico and the UK were re-established. Mexico was one of only two Latin-American countries to send soldiers abroad to fight in World War II (the second country being Brazil). In 1944, both nations elevated their diplomatic representations to the level of embassies, and Sir Charles Bateman became the first British ambassador in Mexico and Alfonso Rosenzweig Diaz became the first Mexican ambassador to the United Kingdom. After the war, bilateral relations between the two nations normalized and trade re-commenced. In 1966, the first direct flights between Mexico City and London were inaugurated.

During the Falklands War (April - June 1982), Mexico remained neutral during the conflict, however, it was well known that the Mexican government did not support the military junta in Argentina at the time and secretly supported the UK.

Relations in the 21st century

The Year of Mexico in the United Kingdom and the Year of the United Kingdom in Mexico, taking place in 2015, was a year of extensive, diverse and stimulating exchanges between Mexican and British people in terms of art, culture, science, the academic sector, business and tourism. Initially, it was to be a solely cultural project agreed between the chairman of the National Council for Culture and the Arts of Mexico, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, and the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries of the United Kingdom, Edward Vaizey on 4 July 2013. Subsequently, the ministries of foreign affairs of both countries decided to expand the scope of the Dual Year to other areas.

The many cultural events that took place in the United Kingdom included exhibitions of artists such as the British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington and Carlos Amorales; a folkloric Mexican dance spectacle by the Ballet Folklórico de México; a Lucha libre show at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as many seminars and concerts. Mexico was the guest of honor at the 2015 London Book Fair.

In Mexico, a special drama series, "Los británicos" (The British), production of the BBC and British Council, aired on Canal 22 in February–April. Art exhibitions include artists such as Michael Landy, Stephen Willats and Simon Starling. The UK will be the guest of honor at the Feria de las Culturas Amigas held in Mexico City and the Guadalajara International Book Fair.

In March 2015, President Enrique Peña Nieto, accompanied by the First Lady, Angélica Rivera, paid a state visit to the United Kingdom.

In September 2022, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard flew to London to represent Mexico and attend the State funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

High-level visits

Presidential visits from Mexico to the United Kingdom

 President Luis Echeverría (1973)
 President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (1985)
 President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1990, 1992)
 President Ernesto Zedillo (1996, 1998)
 President Vicente Fox (2002, 2005)
 President Felipe Calderón (2007, 2009)
 President Enrique Peña Nieto (2013, 2015)

Royal and Prime Ministerial visits from the United Kingdom to Mexico

 Queen Elizabeth II (1975, 1983)
 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1981)
 Charles, Prince of Wales (1966, 1970, 1993, 2002, 2014)
 Prime Minister Tony Blair (2002)
 Prime Minister David Cameron (2012)

Bilateral agreements
Both nations have signed several bilateral agreements such as an Extradition Treaty (1886); Agreement for the Transmission of Diplomatic Pouches (1946); Agreement for Consular Relations (1954); Agreement of Scientific and Technical Cooperation (1975); Agreement of Cultural Cooperation (1975); Agreement of Air Transportation (1988); Agreement of Cooperation in the Fight Against the Illicit Traffic and Abuse of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1990); Agreement to Avoid Double Taxation and Prevent Tax Evasion in Taxes on Income and Capital Gains (1994); Agreement of Mutual Assistance in the Investigation, Assurance and Confiscation of Criminal Products and Instruments different from those of the Traffic of Narcotic Drugs (1996); Treaty on the Execution of Criminal Sentences (2004); Agreement for the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments (2006) and an Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Studies, Degrees, Diplomas and Academic Degrees of Higher Education between both nations (2015).

Trade
In 1997, Mexico signed a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union, of which the United Kingdom was a member until 2020. Since the implementation of the free trade agreement in 2000, trade between the two nations has increased dramatically. In 2018, two-way trade between Mexico and the UK reached over US$4.6 billion. Mexico exports to the UK include: gold, automobile parts, beer and other electrical equipment. British exports to Mexico include: alcohol, medicine, transistors and various other products. Mexico's trade with the UK amounted to 7.5% of total trade within the EU. Between 1999 and 2012, British companies invested over US$8 billion in Mexico and over one thousand British companies have set up shop in Mexico.

The two countries signed a continuity agreement on 15 December 2020, which came in to effect on 1 January 2021. In July 2023, the United Kingdom has signed the agreement to acceed to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade bloc of which Mexico is a founding member.

Transportation
There are direct flights between both nations with the following airlines: Aeroméxico, British Airways, TUI Airways and Virgin Atlantic.

Drug trafficking
It has been reported that Mexican drug cartels have been using the port city of Liverpool for smuggling cocaine into Britain and Europe. In 2012, it was reported that the Sinaloa Cartel had drug distribution networks in England. In 2013, Scotland Yard broke a cocaine importation ring involving corrupt British Airways cargo workers at Heathrow Airport importing cocaine from Mexico City.

In 2017, it was reported that the Sinaloa Cartel had formed a pact with a Romanian crime syndicate who had control over transportation, which would allow the cartel to operate in Britain. A spokesperson for the National Crime Agency said "intelligence indicates that the Romanian OCG [organised crime group] are still being supplied by a Mexican OCG linked to the Sinaloa cartel. It is assessed that this network of OCGs will continue to supply large volumes of class A drugs into the UK."

Resident diplomatic missions
 Mexico has an embassy in London.
 United Kingdom has an embassy in Mexico City, a consulate-general in Cancún and a consulate in Monterrey.

See also
 Accession of the United Kingdom to CPTPP
 British immigration to Mexico
 Cornish diaspora
 Mexicans in the United Kingdom

References

Further reading
Calvert, Peter. The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1914: The Diplomacy of Anglo-American Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1968.
Katz, Friedrich. The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1981.
Rosenberg, Emily S. "Economic Pressure in Anglo-American Diplomacy in Mexico, 1917-1918". Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs 17 (May 1975), 123-52.
Tischendorf, Alfred. Great Britain and Mexico in the Era of Porfirio Díaz. Durham: Duke University Press 1961.
Tischendorf, Alfred. "The Anglo-Mexican Claims Commission, 1884-1895". Hispanic American Historical Review XXXVII (Nov. 1957), 471-79.

United Kingdom
Bilateral relations of the United Kingdom


Joseph Delia (born October 11, 1948) is an American singer, musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger. He is the lead vocalist and keyboardist of the eponymous blues rock band Joe Delia & Thieves, after previously touring as a session and studio musician with Chuck Berry, Pat Benatar, and Stevie Wonder. He is also prolific composer of film and television scores, best known for his long-running collaborations with filmmaker Abel Ferrara on films like Ms. 45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, Body Snatchers and Zeros and Ones.

Biography

The Bruthers
Born in Brooklyn, Delia began his career as a teenager in the early sixties, playing piano and singing with his group The Bruthers, who signed to RCA Records and released the 1966 single "Bad Way to Go". Managed by promoter Sid Bernstein, The Bruthers went on to work as a backup band on tours with rock 'n' roll artists Stevie Wonder, The Crystals, Chuck Berry, Little Eva and the Isley Brothers. "Bad Way to Go" was included on the compilation album, Pebbles, Volume 8. Bad Way to Go, compiling The Bruthers' sole single and some unreleased studio recordings, was released Sundazed Records in 2003.

Studio work
During the seventies, Delia studied composition, arranging, piano and bass violin under the likes of Don Sebesky, Eddie Gómez, and Jimmy Garrison. He was later chosen for the position of Composer in Residence at Sarah Lawrence College for two years under the direction of Shirley Kaplan and June Ekert.  He eventually made his way into the studio scene in New York City, playing keyboards and writing arrangements for such diverse artists as Dusty Springfield, Grace Slick, Janis Ian, Pat Benatar, Helen Schneider, The Left Banke, Cory Daye and Engelbert Humperdinck, as well as writing jingles and scoring many industrial films. In Denmark, Delia is best known for his collaboration in the early 1980s with the popular Danish songwriter Kim Larsen when Larsen unsuccessfully tried to break into the American music industry. The eventual result was two albums credited to Kim Larsen and Jungle Dreams; the albums both sold well – but only in Denmark.

Film and television
Among Delia's earliest experiences in the music business were co-writing and singing for The Muppets' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show., composing jingles for major advertising campaigns, and co-composing a children's musical titled Lollapalooza which was produced by Joseph Papp and Bernard Gertsen for the New York Shakespeare festival.

After scoring two low-budget features for director Abel Ferrara during the 1970s, the two teamed up on a third film, Ms. 45 (1980).  This working relationship continued for over twenty years, resulting in scores for most of Ferrara's body of work, including China Girl, King of New York, Dangerous Game, The Addiction, The Funeral, Subway Stories and The Blackout, on which Delia wrote the original score and collaborated on songs with rap artist Schoolly D. Delia appears as himself in A Short Film About the Long Career of Abel Ferrara, (which is included the Artisan DVD release of King of New York). Delia wrote music for a 1985 episode of Miami Vice, directed by Ferrara, in which Delia makes an uncredited appearance as a musician. Delia's collaboration with Ferrara came to a hiatus ever since the latter fired him during the making of New Rose Hotel (1998). He eventually reunited with Ferrara with the 2017 documentary Alive in France.

Other credits during the nineties include the HBO film The Enemy Within; and Drunks, starring Richard Lewis and Faye Dunaway.  He also scored the television series Dellaventura, starring Danny Aiello, and scored the second season of the sci-fi series War of the Worlds.  He composed music for twenty-six episodes of the BBC children's show Growing Up Wild/Madison's Adventures, was musical director for Richard Belzer's HBO and Showtime specials, and scored the Emmy Award-winning ten-part series Lost Civilizations for NBC/Time–Life.

Delia's later film scores include Jenniphr Goodman's comedy hit The Tao of Steve, released by Sony Classics; Fever, by Alex Winter; Ricky 6, written and directed by Peter Filardi; A Jersey Tale, by Michael Tolajian; My Best Friend's Wife, by Doug Finelli; Bitter Jester, produced by Richard Belzer; Bridget, by Amos Kollek; the jazz segments for the PBS film Partners of the Heart, by Bill Duke; and Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (a prequel to Brian De Palma's Carlito's Way) directed by Michael Bregman and executive produced by Martin Bregman. He composed theme music for a season of Pee Wee's Playhouse, while continuing to score feature films.

He composed for three seasons on the History Channel's most successful series Digging for the Truth, and wrote the score for the Discovery Channel series Weapon Masters.

Delia scored the PBS series Nova, the BBC web series Becoming Human, National Geographic Channel's "Pythons", and the PBS/National Geographic Channel joint productions Blue Holes and King Solomon's Mines.

Later bands and production work

Delia toured internationally with rock singer David Johansen, in the 1980s, producing and co-writing his solo album Sweet Revenge, and continued with the co-creation of the Buster Poindexter Show. Over the next five years he served as musical director and piano player for the live show, and is credited as musical director and co-arranger of the self-titled Buster Poindexter album which yielded the hit song "Hot Hot Hot".

Partnering with Scandinavian singing star Kim Larsen in the early eighties, Delia produced and co-wrote two albums that topped the pop charts throughout Europe, including a 1981 number one single in France ("Donnez Moi du Feu"), sold-out tours, and platinum albums in France, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

In the early nineties, Delia produced a series of albums on BMG/Music Masters for jazz greats Stanley Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard, Jim Hall, Louis Bellson and his own album Scene of the Crime, which he produced with Max Weinberg (of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band).

In 2010, Joe Delia toured with his new band Thieves, featuring Steven Roues, Billy Roues, Klyph Black, James Benard and Pj Delia.

Discography
with The Bruthers
 "Bad Way to Go" / "Bad Love" (1966, RCA)
 Bad Way to Go (2003, Sundazed)

as Killer Joe
 Scene of the Crime (1991, Hightone)

as Joe Delia & Thieves
 Smoke & Mirrors (2011, Amusing Muse)

Filmography

References

External links

American male composers
21st-century American composers
Musicians from Brooklyn
Living people
Sarah Lawrence College alumni
1948 births
21st-century American male musicians


The Philadelphia Tea Party was an incident in late December 1773, shortly after the more famous Boston Tea Party,  in which a British tea ship was intercepted by American colonists and forced to return its cargo to Great Britain.

Background
Both the December 16, 1773, Boston Tea Party and the Philadelphia incident were the result of Americans being upset about Great Britain's decision to tax the American colonies despite a lack of representation in Parliament. The tax on tea particularly angered the colonists, so they boycotted English tea for several years, during which time merchants in several colonial cities resorted to smuggling tea from The Netherlands. It was generally known that Philadelphia merchants were greater smugglers of tea than their Boston counterparts.

As a result, the East India Company appealed for financial relief to the British government, which passed the Tea Act on May 10, 1773. This Act of Parliament allowed the East India Company to sell tea to the colonies directly and without "payment of any customs or duties whatsoever" in England, instead paying the much lower American duty. The resulting tax break allowed East India to sell tea for half the old price and cheaper than the price of tea in Great Britain, enabling the firm to undercut prices offered by colonial merchants and smugglers.

The Tea Act infuriated colonials precisely because it was designed to lower the price of tea without officially repealing the tea tax of the Revenue Act of 1767. And colonial leaders thought the British were trying to use cheap tea to "overcome all the patriotism of an American," in the words of Benjamin Franklin.

Prelude
Word was received in North America by September, 1773, that East India Company tea shipments were on their way. Philadelphians held a town meeting on October 16 at the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall).   This meeting was organized by Dr. Benjamin Rush, Colonel William Bradford, Thomas Mifflin, Dr. Thomas Cadwalader, and other local leaders and members of the Philadelphia Sons of Liberty. They adopted eight resolutions, one of which stated: "That the duty imposed by Parliament upon tea landed in America is a tax on the Americans, or levying contributions on them without their consent." The most important one read:

Printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette, these declarations comprised the first public protest against the importation of taxed tea from England.

In Boston three weeks later, a town meeting at Faneuil Hall declared "That the sense of this town cannot be better expressed than in the words of certain judicious resolves, lately entered into by our worthy brethren, the citizens of Philadelphia." Indeed, Bostonians adopted the same resolutions that Philadelphians had promulgated earlier. The Boston Tea Party followed just a few weeks later, on December 16, 1773.

Event
On December 25, the British tea ship Polly sailed up the Delaware River and reached Chester, Pennsylvania. Commanded by one Captain Ayres, the ship carried 697 chests of tea consigned to the Philadelphia Quaker firm of James & Drinker. Several Philadelphia gentlemen proceeded to intercept the Polly and escorted Ayres to the city. Two days later, there was a mass meeting of 8,000 Philadelphians in the State House yard to address the situation. This was the largest crowd assembled in the American colonies up to that point. A number of resolutions were adopted, the first one being "that the tea... shall not be landed." It was further determined that the tea should be refused and that the vessel should make its way down the Delaware River and out of the Delaware Bay as soon as possible.

Captain Ayres was probably influenced by a broadside issued by the self-constituted "Committee for Tarring and Feathering" that plainly warned him of his fate should he attempt to unload his ship's cargo. Dated November 27, the handbill read, in part:

The flyer also warned river pilots that they would receive the same treatment if they tried to bring in the Polly. (Another such broadside specifically warning river pilots was later issued on December 7.) Consignees of the tea would also suffer dire consequences if they accepted shipment. Captain Ayres was ushered to the Arch Street Wharf and from there returned to his ship. He then refitted the Polly with food and water and sailed it back to Britain, still laden with its cargo of tea.

Perhaps due to the Quaker influence in Philadelphia, the "Philadelphia Tea Party" was relatively nonviolent and did not cause loss to any innocent merchants, since no tea was destroyed. In fact, local merchants may have even helped Captain Ayres with his expenses in returning to England.

Influence
Restrained as it was compared to Boston's, the Philadelphia Tea Party was one of the incidents that led to the calling of the Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia the following September. Furthermore, in 1809, Dr. Benjamin Rush wrote to John Adams:

Both Pennsylvania and Philadelphia were regarded as having been far more conservative before and during the Revolutionary War than the New England colonies and most of the Southern colonies—and this historic reputation persists to this day.  But the Philadelphia Tea Party highlights that the radicals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania played a much more active role in the American Revolution than generally acknowledged.

Footnotes
 William C. Kashatus, Historic Philadelphia: The City, Symbols & Patriots, 1681-1800 (McFarland & Co., 1992), at 14.
 Edward S. Gifford, Jr., The American Revolution in the Delaware Valley (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Soc. of Sons of the Revolution, 1976), at 21-22.
 Robert H. Wilson, Philadelphia: Official Handbook for Visitors (New York: C.S. Hammond & Co., 1964), at 56.
 Francis Burke Brandt, The Majestic Delaware: The Nation's Foremost Historic River (Philadelphia: Brandt & Gummere Co., 1929), at 103.

References

Further reading
Cummins, Joseph. Ten Tea Parties: Patriotic Protests That History Forgot (Quirk Books, 2012) .

1773 in the Thirteen Colonies
Philadelphia in the American Revolution
History of Philadelphia
Tarring and feathering in the United States


Meep or MEEP may refer to:

Fiction
 Beep the Meep, a fictional alien who appeared in the Doctor Who weekly comic strip
 The Meeps, a fictional anthropomorphic animal band/dance troupe created by American Idol showrunner Simon Fuller
 Meep (American Horror Story), a character in the television series American Horror Story
 Meeps, an alien life form depicted in the War Against the Chtorr series of novels by David Gerrold
 "Meep", the primary vocabulary of Beaker on The Muppet Show
 "Meep meep", an imitation of the sound produced by Looney Tunes character Road Runner
 Meep, a 2015 picture book by Andy Geppert

Science and technology
 Meep!, a computer tablet made by the company Oregon Scientific
 Mir Environmental Effects Payload

See also
 Beep, beep (disambiguation)


Indian Feudalism is a book by Indian professor Ram Sharan Sharma. The book analyses the practice of land grants, which became considerable in the Gupta period and widespread in the post-Gupta period. It shows how this led to the emergence of a class of landlords, endowed with fiscal and administrative rights superimposed upon a class of peasantry which was deprived of communal agrarian rights.

Professor Sharma studies in detail the basic relationships in early medieval society down to the eve of the Ghorian conquests. He argues in favour of a "feudalism largely realising the surplus from peasants mainly in kind through superior rights in their land and through forced labour, which is not found on any considerable scale... after the Turkish conquest of India."

The third revised edition of the book was published by Macmillan Publishers in 2005.

See also
 Indian feudalism

References

History books about India
Historiography of India
Indian feudalism
Books by Ram Sharan Sharma
2005 non-fiction books


Bišče () is a settlement on the right bank of the Kamnik Bistrica River in the Municipality of Domžale in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Name
Bišče was attested in written sources as Wittschicz in 1439 and Wischicz in 1444, among other spellings.

References

External links

Bišče on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Domžale


Tẹẹ (), or Tai, is an Ogoni language and the language of the Tai tribe of the Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria. It is to a limited degree mutually intelligible with Khana, the main Ogoni language, but its speakers consider it to be a separate language.

Phonology
The Tẹẹ sound system is typical of an Ogoni language and identical to that of Khana, with the exception of four or five voiceless sonorants not found in that language. The voiceless  is also found in other Ogoni languages, and voiceless  and  are also found in other languages of Nigeria.

Vowels
There are seven oral vowels, , spelt (i e ẹ a ọ o u), and five nasal vowels,  (spelt this way also). All may occur in long or short forms.

Consonants

A glottal stop  appears before any otherwise vowel-initial stem. The alveolar consonants are apical.

Tẹẹ includes a rather unusual series of voiceless sonorants. The voiceless palatal  sounds rather like the voiceless palatal fricative , but is not as noisy (that is, there is not much random-frequency noise in its sound spectrum). Similarly,  is a voiceless approximant, not a voiceless fricative . The voiceless bilabial nasal, , is only known to occur in one word,  (an unidentified abdominal organ), and then only for some speakers. All of the voiceless sonorants are actually voiced during the second half of their enunciation. That is,  is pronounced  However, they are considerably shorter than their voiced homologues, and hence cannot be considered /hC/ sequences with an otherwise unattested consonant .

Tone
Tẹẹ has three tones: ,  and .
 The high tone is indicated by an acute accent : á, ã́, é, ẹ́, ẽ́, í, ĩ́, ó, ọ́, ṍ, ú, ṹ;
 The low tone is indicated by a grave accent  : à, ã̀, è, ẹ̀, ẽ̀, ì, ĩ̀, ò, ọ̀, õ̀, ù, ũ̀;
 The middle tone is indicated with no diacritic.

References
Citations

Bibliography

Indigenous languages of Rivers State
Ogoni languages


Joe Ferris was an American college baseball pitcher who won the 1964 College World Series Most Outstanding Player award while a sophomore at University of Maine. He is the only player from University of Maine to win that award.

In 1964, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Bourne Canalmen of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He was inducted into the University of Maine Hall of Fame in 1988.

References

Maine Black Bears baseball players
College World Series Most Outstanding Player Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Baseball pitchers
1940s births
Baseball players from Maine
Bourne Braves players


Brdo () is a settlement in the Municipality of Domžale in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Name
Brdo was attested in written sources as Ek in 1345 and  Echk in 1410, among other spellings.

Church

The church in Brdo is located above the hamlet of Goropeče. It is dedicated to the Saint Nicholas. It is a chapel of ease and belongs to the parish of Saint George in Ihan. The church is originally a Gothic single-nave church that was reworked in the Baroque style in 1750, when the bell tower and chapel were added. The sacristy dates from 1718. The rib-vaulted chancel dates to the 14th century and contains paintings by a student of the 15th-century master painter Bolfgang. The church has Renaissance and Baroque furnishings, and the main altar was created in 1669.

References

External links

Brdo on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Domžale


GameZombie TV is a web series that produces original video game shows. GameZombie was the recipient of a Webby Honoree Award for Online Video in 2008  and 2009, a Davey Award, a Webby Award, and a People's Voice Webby Award in 2010, and nominated a finalist for Best Web Video at the 4th Annual Mashable Awards. The student-run game media studio, based out of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater and Indiana University at Bloomington, has amassed one of the most complete video game developer interview series on the web. GameZombie has created upwards of 450 videos for online distribution. GameZombie's videos have amassed over 8,000,000 unique, aggregate views since the company's first video went online in March 2007. GameZombie TV's constructivist, project-based learning environment is a finalist for the MacArthur Foundation's 4th Annual Digital Media and Learning Competition

History
GameZombie was started by Spencer Striker in March 2007 while he was a graduate student in Indiana University’s Masters in Immersive Mediated Environments program.  When based in Bloomington, Indiana, GameZombie became the city's largest employer of student interns. Around 50 to 60 students between the two universities take GameZombie for academic credit each semester in order to gain experience in a multimedia studio.

Original Video Series

Developer Interview Series
GameZombie’s video game developer interview series includes over 200 video interviews with notable game developers, video game personalities, and makers of gaming peripherals.

GameZombie's annual gaming conference coverage includes the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the Game Developers Conference, the Penny Arcade Expo, Gen Con, Comic-Con, and the World Series of Video Games. Series interviews include: Peter Molyneux of 'Fable 2,' Ed Boon of 'MK vs DC,' Todd Howard of 'Fallout 3,' Ben Mattes of 'Prince of Persia,' Cliff Bleszinski of 'Gears of War 2,' Eric Holmes of 'Prototype,' Clint Hocking of 'Far Cry 2,' Evan Wells of 'Uncharted 2,' Neill Glancy of 'Stranglehold,' Chuck Beaver of 'Dead Space,' Fatal1ty (pro gamer), The Angry Video Game Nerd (gaming critic), Geoff Keighley (gaming host), Al Alcorn (co-creator of Pong), Ralph Baer ('inventor' of video games), Tommy Tallarico of 'Video Games Live,' and Jane McGonigal of 'I Love Bees.'

ButtonMashers
ButtonMashers, a live studio production, was shot in a $2.5 million HDTV studio at Indiana University.
 The 14 episodes produced over two seasons featured the collaboration of hundreds of students and accumulated millions of views around the web.

Ultimate Challenge
GameZombie's 'Ultimate Challenge' is a motion graphics based original web series where three college aged gamers get trapped inside a fictional NES game. Over the course of six episodes the main characters encounter slime monsters, princesses, and boss battles.

References

Sources
GameZombie.tv - Videogame Reviews | Visit gamezombie.tv, KillerStartups.com, September 1, 2008
Gamers become Zombies; win Webby Award Telecomment, Vol. 18, Fall 2008
GameZombie has put B-town on the Web-Tech Map Bloom Mag, June/July 2009, (business/finance, pg 68); Szymanski, Zak
I4U News Interview: GameZombie GDC, March 16, 2007
Technology's role is all games in Bloomington's creative class, the Bloomington Source, May 7, 2009; Casady, Danny
IU Students Up For a Webby Award , Inside Indiana Business, May 14, 2009
GameZombie TV continues development at UW-Whitewater, Marketing & Media Relations, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, October 15, 2009
Web series project offers real-life experience to UW-W students, GazetteXtra.com, Kayla Bunge, October 30, 2009
New class allows students to work in video game industry, Royal Purple, Matt Gardner, November 11, 2009
UW-Whitewater rolls dice on new gaming major, Royal Purple, Rob Gauler, December 9, 2009
Votes needed to win people's voice award , Marketing & Media Relations, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, April 16, 2010
UW-W student group could win Webby Award, BizTimes.com, April 22, 2010
IU Office of Scholarships, GameZombie.tv honored with Webby Awards, IU News Room, Sarah Booher, April 19, 2010
GameZombie TV sweeps Webby Awards in Student category , Marketing & Media Relations, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, May 5, 2010
Student-run GameZombie TV named best Web video finalist , Marketing & Media Relations, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, December 9, 2010
GameZombie.tv continues expanding, Royal Purple, Ben Holzhueter, September 21, 2011
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The term  in Japanese religious terminology refers to a theory widely accepted until the Meiji period according to which Indian Buddhist deities choose to appear in Japan as native kami to more easily convert and save the Japanese. The theory states that some kami (but not all) are local manifestations (the , literally, a "trace") of Buddhist deities (the , literally, "original ground"). The two entities form an indivisible whole called gongen and in theory should have equal standing, but this was not always the case. In the early Nara period, for example, the honji was considered more important and only later did the two come to be regarded as equals. During the late Kamakura period it was proposed that the kami were the original deities and the buddhas their manifestations (see the Inverted honji suijaku section below).

The theory was never systematized but was nonetheless very pervasive and very influential. It is considered the keystone of the shinbutsu-shūgō (syncretism of Buddhist deities and Japanese kami) edifice. Honji suijaku has often been seen as similar to interpretatio Romana,
a mode of comparison promoted in antiquity by scholars such as Tacitus who argued that barbarian gods were just the foreign manifestations of Roman or Greek deities.

The term honji suijaku itself is an example of the Japanese practice of Yojijukugo, a four-character combination of phrases which can be read literally or idiomatically.

History

Early Buddhist monks did not doubt the existence of kami but saw them as inferior to their buddhas. Hindu deities had had the same reception: They were thought of as non-illuminated and prisoners of saṃsāra. Buddhist claims of superiority, however, encountered resistance; monks tried to overcome it by deliberately integrating kami in their system. Japanese Buddhists themselves wanted to somehow give the kami equal status. Several strategies to do this were developed and employed, and one of them was the honji suijaku theory.

The expression was originally developed in China and used by Tendai Buddhists to distinguish an absolute truth from its historical manifestation (for example, the eternal Buddha from the historical Buddha, or the absolute Dharma from its historical forms, the first being the honji, the second the suijaku). The term makes its first appearance with this meaning in the Eizan Daishiden, a text believed to have been written in 825. The honji suijaku theory proper later applied it to buddhas and kami, with its first use within this context dated to 901, when the author of the Sandai Jitsuroku says that "mahasattvas (buddhas and bodhisattvas) manifest themselves at times as kings and at times as kami." The dichotomy was applied to deities only in Japan and not, for example, in China.

A different but equivalent explanation, the idea that Buddhist deities choose not to show themselves as they are, but manifest themselves as kami, was expressed in a poetic form with the expression , which meant that to assist sentient beings, deities "dimmed their radiance and became identical to the dust of the profane world." Their brightness would otherwise be such to destroy mere mortals.

In the 10th and 11th centuries there are numerous examples of Buddhist deities and kami pairings: The deities are usually Kannon, Yakushi, Amida or Shaka Nyorai. The association between them was usually made after a dream or revelation made to a famous monk, later recorded in a temple's or shrine's records. By then, kami in Japan were universally understood to be the form taken by buddhas to save human beings, that is, local manifestations of universal buddhas. Around the beginning of the Kamakura period the pairings had become solidly codified in large temples or shrines. The frequency of the practice is attested by the , or "hanging buddhas," found in many large shrines—metal mirrors that carry on the front the effigy of the shrine's kami and on the rear the relative Buddhist deity. The name shows that they are usually hung from a shrine's outer wall.

As the theory gradually spread around the country, the concept of gongen ("provisional manifestation", defined as a Buddha that chooses to appear to the Japanese as a kami) evolved. One of the first examples of gongen is Hie's famous . Under the influence of Tendai Buddhism and Shugendō, the gongen concept was adapted, for example, to religious beliefs tied to Mount Iwaki, a volcano, so that female kami Kuniyasutamahime became associated with Jūichimen Kannon Bosatsu (eleven-faced Kannon), kami Ōkuninushi with Yakushi Nyorai, and Kunitokotachi no Mikoto with Amida Nyorai.

Practice
The honji suijaku paradigm remained a defining feature of Japanese religious life up to the end of the Edo period. Its use was not confined to deities but was often extended even to such historical figures as Kūkai and Shōtoku Taishi. It was claimed that these particular human beings were manifestations of kami, which in turn were manifestations of buddhas. Sometimes the deity involved was not Buddhist. This could happen because the theory was never formalized and always consisted of separate events usually based on a temple or shrine's particular beliefs.

Nothing was fixed: A deity could be identified both as a honji and a suijaku in different parts of the same shrine, and different identifications could be believed to be true at the same time and place. The religious situation during the Middle Ages was, therefore, confused and confusing. Historians have tried to concentrate on the reformers of that age with a clear philosophy and little interest in kami questions because they are easier to understand. The theory was ultimately beneficial to the kami, which went from being considered unilluminated outsiders to actual forms assumed by important deities. The ultimate expression of this shift is Ryōbu Shintō, in which Buddhist deities and kami are indivisible and equivalent like the two sides of a coin.

The use of the honji suijaku paradigm was not limited to religion—it had important consequences for society in general, culture, art and even economy. Buddhism, for example, proscribed fishing, hunting, and agriculture because they involved the killing of living beings (insects, moles and the like in the case of farming), but the honji suijaku concept permitted people to void the prohibition. If one fished for oneself, the reasoning went,  you were guilty and should go to hell. However, if the catch was offered to a kami that was a known emanation of a buddha, the gesture had an obvious karmic value and was permissible. The idea allowed the forbidding of individual, and therefore uncontrolled, economic activity. Applied as it was to all major economic activities, this interpretation of honji suijaku allowed a thorough control of popular dissent.

How important the concept was can be understood from how the idea that some local phenomenon may be somehow linked to an absolute and sacred object found extensive application in the medieval and early modern periods. It was often said that temple lands in Japan were local emanations of Buddhist paradises or that an artisan's work was one with the sacred actions of an Indian Buddha.

Art

The honji suijaku paradigm found wide application in religious art with the  or . The  (see image above) shows Buddhist deities with their kami counterparts, while the  show only Buddhist deities, and the  show only kami.

The , or "Hachiman in priestly attire", is one of the most popular syncretic deities. The kami is shown dressed as a Buddhist priest and is considered the protector of people in general and warriors in particular. From the 8th century on, Hachiman was called Hachiman Daibosatsu, or Great Bodhisattva Hachiman. That he is dressed like a Buddhist priest is probably meant to indicate the sincerity of his conversion to Buddhism. By the 13th century, other kami would also be portrayed in Buddhist robes.

Shintōshū

The Shintōshū is a  book in ten volumes believed to date from the Nanboku-chō period (1336–1392). It illustrates with tales about shrines the honji suijaku theory. The common point of the tales is that, before reincarnating as tutelary kami of an area, a soul has first to be born and suffer there as a human being. The suffering is mostly caused by relationships with relatives, especially wives or husbands.

The book had great influence over literature and the arts.

Inversion
The dominant interpretation of the buddha-kami relationship came to be questioned by what modern scholars call the  or  paradigm, a theology that reversed the original theory and gave the most importance to the kami. Supporters of the theory believed that, while those who have achieved buddhahood have acquired enlightenment, a kami shines of his own light. The doctrine was first developed by Tendai monks, and its first full formulation is attributed to Jihen, a monk tied to the great Ise shrine who was most active around 1340. In the first fascicle of the Kuji hongi gengi he argued that, in the beginning, Japan had only kami and that only later did buddhas take over. He believed that for this reason there had been a decadence in the country's morals and that a world where kami dominated would soon reappear. In the fifth fascicle of the same work, he compared Japan to a seed, China to a branch and India to a flower or fruit. Just like flowers that fall and return to the roots, India had come back to its roots, the kami were the honji and the buddhas their manifestations.

Yoshida Kanetomo was influenced by these ideas and brought them further, making a clean break with the past, becoming the creator of Yoshida Shintō and bringing inverted honji suijaku to maturation.

While it is usually claimed that inverted honji suijaku was a reaction of native cults to the dominance of Buddhism, it also came out of Buddhist intellectualism. The theory is not per se anti-Buddhist and does not question the existence of buddhas but simply seeks to invert the established order of importance between kami and buddhas. Why Buddhists should develop such a theory to the detriment of their own divinities is unclear, but it is possible that it was developed by shrine monks, or shasō, who took care of the shrine part of temple-shrine complexes to enhance their status.

Notes

References

Encyclopedia of Shinto, Basic Terms of Shinto, Honji Suijaku Setsu, accessed on November 2, 2008
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Japanese historical terms
Shinto terminology
Shinbutsu shūgō
Gongen
Buddhism in the Heian period
Buddhism in the Kamakura period
Religious interpretation


Brezje pri Dobu (; ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Domžale in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Name
Brezje pri Dobu was attested in written sources as Pirch in 1287.
The name of the settlement was changed from Brezje to Brezje pri Dobu in 1953. In the past, the German name was Bresje.

References

External links

Brezje pri Dobu on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Domžale


Film gris (, French for "grey film"), a term coined by experimental filmmaker Thom Andersen, is a type of film noir which categorizes a unique series of films that were released between 1947 and 1951. They came in the context of the first wave of the communist investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Thematic elements
Films gris offer a leftist criticism of society in general, and of capitalism in particular.
They typically examine such themes as the psychological damages of class, the false promises of middle class happiness, and the pitfalls of materialism.

Distinction from film noir
Film gris differs from film noir in some of the following ways:
 Film gris is a little more pessimistic and cynical than film noir. The dividing line between crime and law enforcement is often blurred.
 Films gris tend to blame society rather than the individual. For example, films gris will tend to focus less on what a criminal is doing, and more on how society has produced the criminal class.
 The audience identification is often with the collective in a way atypical of Hollywood films.
 The alluring and treacherous femme fatale’s motives are more obvious and easier to identify than in film noir.

List of films gris
Andersen identifies the following as films gris:

1947
Body and Soul
1948
Force of Evil
They Live by Night
1949
Thieves' Highway
Knock on Any Door
We Were Strangers
1950
The Asphalt Jungle
The Breaking Point
The Lawless
Night and the City
Try and Get Me! (The Sound of Fury)
1951
The Prowler
He Ran All the Way

List of film gris directors
Jules Dassin
Abraham Polonsky
Nicholas Ray
John Huston
Joseph Losey

See also
 Neo-noir
 Message picture
 United States in the 1950s

Sources
 Andersen, Thom. "Red Hollywood." Literature and the Visual Arts in Contemporary Society. Eds. Suzanne Ferguson and Barbara S. Groseclose. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. (1985).
 Hirsch, Joshua. "Film Gris Reconsidered." The Journal of Popular Film and Television 34.2. (2006).
 Maland, Charles. "Film Gris: Crime, Critique, and Cold War Culture in 1951." Film Criticism 26.3. (2002).

References

Film genres
Anti-capitalism
Film noir
Criticism of capitalism
Hollywood blacklist
1940s in film
1950s in film
Film genres particular to the United States


The One Roxas Triangle, also known as the One Roxas Triangle Tower 1 or Roxas Triangle Tower One, is a residential condominium skyscraper located in Makati, Philippines. It is owned by Roxas Land Corp., and was developed by the combined efforts of Ayala Land, Inc., Hongkong Land, Ltd. and Bank of the Philippine Islands. It stands at 174.3 metres (571.85 feet).

The Project Team
The One Roxas Triangle was designed by international architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP in cooperation with local architectural firm Pimentel Rodriguez Simbulan & Partners; while the structural design was provided by international engineering company Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire Inc. in cooperation with renowned local engineering firm Aromin & Sy + Associates. Construction management works were provided by TCGI Engineers, quantity surveying works by Davis, Langdon and Seah Philippines, and the general contractor is D.M. Consunji, Inc.

Members of the engineering and design team are Flack & Kurtz Consulting Engineers, LLP in cooperation with  DCCD Engineering Corp. (Mechanical and Electrical Works); N.B. Franco Consulting Engineers (Sanitary and Fire Protection Works); Belt Collins (HK) Ltd. (Landscape Architecture); Shen Milson & Wilke (Acoustic Design); Control Risks Pacific Pty. Ltd. (Security Services); and Paul Lau (Feng Shui consultancy).

Two Roxas Triangle

Twenty years after the launch of One Roxas Triangle, Roxas Land Corp. launched the second tower called Two Roxas Triangle last 2013 to address the needs of uppermost luxury segment of market. The general contractor is Makati Development Corporation (Ayala Land construction arm) and it is slated to completion on 2019. The complex that both towers are part of is called Roxas Triangle Towers.

References

External links

 One Roxas Triangle at Emporis
 One Roxas Triangle at Skyscraperpage
 Roxas Triangle Tower Project Page on SOM.com

Skyscrapers in Makati
Residential skyscrapers in Metro Manila
Makati Central Business District
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill buildings
Residential buildings completed in 2000


Armando Chacón (7 August 1914 – ?) was a Salvadoran football player and manager.  He is the father of former FAS, Atlético Marte and Sonsonate midfielder in the 1960s , Armando Chacón, and is often referred to as "Armando Chacón Senior" when there is a chance of confusion between the two.

Club career
Nicknamed El Tamarindo, he was one of the first Salvadoran players to play abroad, playing for Universidad Católica in Chile.  He also played club football for the now defunct C.D. 33 in the Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador winning the 1937 and 1938 league titles with them.

International career
On March 28, 1935 he made his international debut  in El Salvador's second group stage match at the 1935 Central American Games against Honduras, where he also got his first goal, scoring the third in a 3-4 loss.
Chacon scored  goals for the El Salvador national football team from 1935 to 1943. He represented his country at the 1935 Central American Games.

Manager career
After retiring as a player Chacón became a coach, he was the first ever coach of Salvadoran powerhouse club C.D. FAS and also coached C.D. Dragón.
He went on to win a title with Once Municipal in the 1948/1949 season, the club's first title and up until 2006 their only one.

Honours
International
Central American and Caribbean Games Bronze Medal (1): 1935

References

Year of death missing
Salvadoran men's footballers
El Salvador men's international footballers
Salvadoran expatriate men's footballers
Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
Salvadoran expatriate sportspeople in Chile
Salvadoran football managers
1914 births
C.D. FAS managers
Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for El Salvador
Competitors at the 1935 Central American and Caribbean Games
Men's association football midfielders
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in football


The Spy Next Door is a 2010 American spy halloween action comedy film directed by Brian Levant, written by Jonathan Bernstein, James Greer and Gregory Poirier, produced by Robert Simonds with music by David Newman. The film stars Jackie Chan, with a supporting cast of Amber Valletta, Magnús Scheving, Madeline Carroll, Will Shadley, Alina Foley, Billy Ray Cyrus and George Lopez.

Filming started in late October 2008 in Rio Rancho, New Mexico and was finished in late December 2008. The film tributes Chan's films by showing clips, references and even referencing Chan's real life childhood.

The Spy Next Door was released on January 15, 2010 in the United States by Lionsgate, and also released on DVD and Blu-ray format on May 18, 2010. It received negative reviews from critics and it earned $45.2 million on a $28 million budget.

Plot
Bob Ho is an operative of the CIA as an undercover agent on loan from the Chinese Intelligence, who decides to retire after putting Russian terrorist Anton Poldark behind bars and marry his longtime girlfriend Gillian, who lives next door and has three children from previous relationships, Farren (a step-daughter), Ian and Nora. None of them know about his real job and think he works at a pen-importing company.

One day, Gillian leaves to visit her father in a hospital in Denver, Colorado and leaves Bob to take care of her children, but Farren and Ian despise him and plot to get rid of him. Using technology from the CIA, Bob is able to take control and gradually bond with the children. His partner, Colton James, informs him that Poldark has escaped from jail and they suspect there is a mole in the CIA. Colton sends a file to Bob's computer for a top-secret formula for an oil-eating bacteria Poldark is working on. While snooping around Bob's house, Ian downloads the file, which he mistakes for music, onto his iPod. Poldark discovers the download and sends some of his henchmen to Bob's house, but Bob overpowers them.

After the attack, Bob and the children hide at a Chinese restaurant, where Poldark's teenage henchman, Larry, tries to kill Bob. Bob defeats him and is forced to tell the children about his job. His boss Glaze then arrives, points a gun at him, and demands the downloaded file, revealing himself to be working for Poldark. Bob knocks out Glaze with Nora's turtle, then hides in a hotel with the children. Farren tells Gillian over the phone about Bob's secret. As they wait, Farren stubbornly holds out hope that her biological father will come back to get her so she can have a "real family". Bob tells her that family is more than just sharing blood ties with someone, revealing that he never knew his birth parents and was raised in a Chinese orphanage. As a result, Bob chose to think of everyone else at the orphanage as his family despite not being related to anyone there. Farren realizes that her father is not coming back for her and accepts Ian and Nora as her siblings. Fearing for her children's safety, Gillian flies home to take them back and angrily breaks up with Bob for lying to her.

Bob heads to an abandoned factory to confront the Russian terrorists but finds that Ian, wanting to become a spy, followed him and Farren has run away from home to try and help as well. The three are captured by the Russians, who trick Ian into revealing that the file is on his iPod quite easily since Ian does not know how to handle an interrogation. As Poldark, his partner Tatiana, and Glaze go to Gillian's house, Bob and the children escape and return home, where Poldark and his crew arrive soon after. Bob, Gillian's family, and the terrorists fight, with the children using Bob's hidden gadgets to defeat some of them, and soon after Colton and his crew arrive to arrest the Russians and Glaze. Gillian initially rejects Bob but changes her mind when the kids express their heartfelt approval of him with Farren even calling Gillian "Mom" for the first time. In the end, Bob and Gillian get married. At the altar, Bob confesses to Gillian that Bob is not his real name, which Gillian and her children accept with a laugh.

Cast

 Jackie Chan as Bob Ho, a spy for the CIA and Gillian's neighbor, boyfriend, and eventual husband
 Amber Valletta as Gillian, Bob's neighbor, girlfriend, and eventual wife
 Magnús Scheving as Anton Poldark, a Russian terrorist
 Madeline Carroll as Farren, Gillian's 13-year-old daughter
 Will Shadley as Ian, Gillian's 10-year-old son
 Alina Foley as Nora, Gillian's 6-year-old daughter
 Billy Ray Cyrus as Colton James, Bob's partner
 George Lopez as Glaze, Bob's corrupt boss
 Lucas Till as Larry, a teenager working with Poldark
Katherine Boecher as Tatiana Creel, Poldark's girlfriend and henchman
 Tim Connolly as Russian thug
 Troy Brenna as Russian thug
 Jeff Chase as Russian thug
 Mark Kubr as Russian thug
 David Mattey as Russian thug
 Scott Workman as Russian thug
 Esodie Geiger as Principal
 Arron Shiver as Scientist
 Richard Christie as Judge

Soundtrack
 "Secret Agent Man" – Performed by Johnny Rivers
 "The Way It Was" – Written and Performed by Daniel May
 "Ba Ma De Hua" – Performed by Jackie Chan (theme song of Rob-B-Hood, a film also made by Chan)
 "One Way or Another" – Performed by Blondie

Release

Box office
In its first weekend, in the US, The Spy Next Door made $9.7 million in 2,924 theaters, opening at #6. It grossed $12.9 million over the four-day period, ranking #5 on that term. The film grossed $45.1 million on a $28 million budget.

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 12% based on 89 reviews, with an average rating of 3.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Lacking a script funny enough to cover up for Jackie Chan's fading physical gifts, The Spy Next Door fails on every conceivable level." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, it holds an average score of 27 out of 100 based on 21 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.

Most film critics targeted the film for "lacking a script," and "looking old" such as Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune for being "True Lies without the striptease or the Arab-maiming" and Kyle Smith of The New York Post who also claimed the film is "ripping off True Lies." Lael Loewenstein of Variety gave the film a negative review saying the film's "cartoonish jokes and misfired gags are likely to elicit more eye rolls than laughs." Daniel Eagan of The Hollywood Reporter also disliked the film saying most of the film is "pretty tired stuff from Pacifier-style slapstick to comic relief delivered by, of all people, erstwhile country star Billy Ray Cyrus" and that Chan "seems stiff" and "clad in unattractive clothes and forced into dumbed-down situations."
David Stratton of At the Movies dismissed the film calling it "a sad viewing experience". He added "The woeful screenplay, the mundane direction, by Brian Levant, and the indifferent acting all combine to sink a stupid plot which should never have got off the ground." Carrie Rickey of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film 2½ stars. Rickey, giving the film the benefit of the doubt, wrote "The plot may be forgettable, but the execution is frantic and funny. The Spy Next Door is a movie that will bring smiles to kids – and their grandparents."

Home media

The Spy Next Door was released on DVD and Blu-ray on May 18, 2010.

Awards and nominations

See also

The Pacifier
True Lies
Man of the House
Kindergarten Cop
Big Momma's House

References

External links

2010 films
2010 action comedy films
2010s spy comedy films
American films about Halloween
American action comedy films
American spy comedy films
Films about dysfunctional families
Films about the Central Intelligence Agency
Films about the Russian Mafia
Films directed by Brian Levant
Films scored by David Newman
Films shot in New Mexico
Lionsgate films
Relativity Media films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


Malcolm Francis Marsh (born September 24, 1928) is an American attorney and jurist from the state of Oregon. He is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland, Oregon. A native of Oregon, he served as an active judge for eleven years, and was in private legal practice in Salem before that.

Early life

Marsh was born in Portland, Oregon, on September 24, 1928, the son of lawyer Francis Marsh. His father's twin brother was Eugene E. Marsh, onetime Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and President of the Oregon State Senate. Both brothers served as president of the Oregon State Bar. The family moved to McMinnville southwest of Portland in 1935. In 1946, he joined the United States Army and served as a corporal in Japan until discharge in 1947.

Professional career

After returning to Oregon, he enrolled at the University of Oregon in Eugene where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1951. Marsh then attended the University of Oregon School of Law, and graduated in 1954 with a Bachelor of Laws. In 1953, he married the former Shari Long, and they had three children. After graduating from law school, Marsh entered private practice in McMinnville, working for his father. Later in 1954 he moved to Salem where he partnered with Ned Clark and specialized as a trial attorney in products liability. He was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1979. In 1983, he was named Salem's First Citizen.

Federal judicial service

While in Salem he became friends with later United States Senator Mark Hatfield in the 1950s, and remained in private practice in the city until 1987. The friendship with Hatfield helped lead to President Ronald Reagan nominating Marsh for a judgeship on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in 1987 after Edward Leavy moved to the Ninth Circuit. Nominated on February 2, 1987, he was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 20, 1987, and received his commission on March 24, 1987, for the Portland-based court. On April 16, 1998, Marsh took senior status.

Notable cases

Marsh oversaw the legal proceedings by the federal government against the State of Oregon over the Fairview Training Center in Salem in the late 1980s. In 1989 and 1990 he presided over two lawsuits by the NBA against the Oregon Lottery over the lottery's Sports Action games. He also was the judge in several legal proceedings in the late 1980s and early 1990s over logging on federal lands.

In February 1992, the Oregon Republican Party sued the Oregon Secretary of State to force all Oregon Senate seats to be contested in the 1992 election following redistricting from the 1990 Census. Marsh heard the case and ruled for the state, saying the state did not need to hold all the elections in one year and could retain the staggered system. Later in 1992, he presided over the lawsuit against the Vernonia School District for the district's random drug testing policy. In the case, Marsh ruled the testing policy was constitutional, but was overturned by the United States Circuit Court for the Ninth Circuit, which in turn was overturned on appeal by the Supreme Court.

Over several years Marsh presided over several cases concerning salmon. This included later oversight of the Sohappy v. Smith case concerning tribal rights to salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest. He also heard the first challenges to the dams on the Columbia River under the Endangered Species Act after some salmon runs were listed as endangered.

Marsh presided over the 1995 trial of several former followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh after their failed assassination plot against U.S. Attorney for Oregon Charles H. Turner. Turner had investigated the Rajneeshees and their activities including their bioterror attack. At trial two Rajneeshees were found guilty in the plot and Marsh sentenced them to five years in prison. He later sentenced another conspirator to five years of probation for their role in the plot.

Marsh was the main person from the judiciary involved with the design of the new Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse. He worked with the General Services Administration to design the 16-story, and nearly $130 million building to ensure adequate space for 30 years. In 1997, he oversaw the move of the court to the new Hatfield Courthouse.

References

External links

Cases filed in the Oregon District Court before Malcolm F. Marsh

1928 births
Living people
People from McMinnville, Oregon
Lawyers from Portland, Oregon
University of Oregon alumni
University of Oregon School of Law alumni
Politicians from Salem, Oregon
Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon
United States district court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan
20th-century American judges
Lawyers from Salem, Oregon
21st-century American judges


American football
 Wildcat formation

Other uses
 Wildcat strike action, a strike action of workers that is not authorized by union leadership
 Wildcatter, a person who drills for oil in areas not yet known to have oil fields
 Wildcat banking, the unusual practices of banks chartered under state law from 1816 to 1863 in the United States


Boutmy may refer to:

 Émile Boutmy, French political scientist and sociologist
 Joop Boutmy, Dutch amateur football (soccer) player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
 Josse Boutmy, an organist and harpsichordist of the Austrian Netherlands


David Matthews (born November 8, 1967) is an American author and screenwriter. Matthews is of African American and Jewish descent. His memoir Ace of Spades recounts growing up in the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland as a biracial child who could pass for white.

Matthews' Jewish mother had schizophrenia and left his father when Matthews was only a few months old. As a result, Matthews was raised by his father, Ralph Matthews, Jr., an African American journalist who counted Malcolm X and James Baldwin among his friends. The Matthews family lived in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., but in 1977 moved next to the segregated Bolton Hill area of Baltimore, a tiny enclave of rich, white families, which was surrounded by the primarily black ghetto of west Baltimore. He describes himself as not initially fitting in with either the black or white children in his public elementary school, sparking his decision to "pass" as white. Matthews attended Baltimore City College High School where he attempted to "pass" as not only white, but Jewish. Lacking any cultural knowledge of Jewish life, Matthews was not accepted as a Jew and continued to search for an identity. Matthews' first book, Ace of Spades details this search, and is presented in a somewhat acerbic coming-of-age literary style.

Matthews currently resides in New York City and Los Angeles.

Published work

He is the author of two non-fiction books. His first, "Ace of Spades", is an autobiographical memoir. His second, "Kicking Ass and Saving Souls" follows the adventurous life of Stefan Templeton.

His work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Huffington Post, and he has contributed to "The Autobiographers Handbook".  He has also written the introduction for the Paris Review edition of The Catcher in the Rye.

Film and television

Matthews' television credits include Law & Order: Los Angeles; Story Editor for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Executive Story Editor for Season 4 of HBO's Boardwalk Empire; Co-Producer on F/X's Tyrant; and Supervising Producer on HBO's Vinyl.

See also
 Stefan Templeton

References

Sources
Smith Magazine - Memoirville - Interview with David Matthews

External links
Review of Ace of Spades (The New York Times)

1967 births
Living people
American memoirists
Jewish American writers
African-American writers
American biographers
21st-century African-American people
21st-century American Jews
20th-century African-American people


Češenik (; in older sources and locally: Čemšenik, ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Domžale in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Češenik Manor

Češenik Manor ( or graščina Češenik; ) stands at the north end of the settlement. It was built after 1581, when the previous structure burned down after a lightning strike. The manor was burned by the Partisans on March 16, 1944. The building was repaired after the war and converted into apartments.

References

External links

Češenik on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Domžale


Hugh Pitcairn (August 16, 1845 – July 19, 1911) served as the first United States consul general to Hamburg, German Empire, from 1903 to 1908. He was the brother of Pennsylvania railroad magnate Robert Pitcairn and industrialist John Pitcairn.

Early life
Pitcairn was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, to John Pitcairn Sr. (1803–1884) and Agnes McEwan. He was one of six children resulting from the marriage, and also had two older half-siblings from his father's first marriage.

In 1846, he emigrated with his family to Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where his uncle, Alexander Pitcairn, had started a woolens business.

He received a public school education in Allegheny and Altoona, Pennsylvania. He began his career in the railroad service, and held a series of executive positions in the field: first as superintendent of the Susquehanna Division of the Northern Central Railway, in 1866; then as superintendent of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad in 1868, next as superintendent of the Evansville, Henderson and Nashville Railroad in 1870, and finally, as superintendent of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway from 1872 to 1875.

Pitcairn then went back to school to study medicine, and following graduation from Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1880, spent two years in post graduate study at the Universities of Berlin and Vienna. He then practiced medicine in Harrisburg from 1880 to 1897.

In 1875, Pitcairn purchased a half interest the Altoona Tribune, a Pennsylvania daily newspaper. He was to retain this share until his death.

Political career
A Republican, Pitcairn was quite active in local and state politics. On July 28, 1897, he was appointed by President William McKinley to the post of consul to Hamburg. He was promoted by President Theodore Roosevelt to the post of consul general on January 5, 1903, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 12, 1903. He was the first person to hold this post for Hamburg. He retired from the consulate in November 1908 to the reported regret of the citizens of Hamburg, in order to devote his full attention to the practice of medicine and his duties as partial owner of the Altoona Tribune.

Later life and death
Pitcairn died in Hamburg, on July 19, 1911. He was survived by his wife and five children.

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Ambassadors of the United States to Germany
People from Pennsylvania
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Drexel University alumni
University of Vienna alumni


State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America is a collection of pieces about the United States, with one essay on each of the fifty states. It was conceived of and edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey.

Background
Weiland and Wilsey stated that they were inspired by the Federal Writers Project of the 1930s, in which the US government helped to create jobs by sending writers across the country and commissioning pieces on their sights and experiences. The two previously edited Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup, in which they commissioned 32 authors to write pieces on the 32 countries competing in the 2006 World Cup; they decided a similar approach could be taken with the United States.

Both Weiland and Wilsey decided that they wanted a mixture of approaches for the collection; while several well-known authors (e.g., Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Dave Eggers) were included, they deliberately avoided certain authors that were closely associated with a particular state - for instance, Garrison Keillor with Minnesota, or Carl Hiaasen with Florida. The collection has a mix of familiarity, with some authors writing about places in which they have lived their entire lives, while others visited the state for the first time.

Editing process
Editors Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey both agree that they were heavy, interactive editors. "I mean no dishonor to any of the writers to say that we worked very closely with them all to revise as much as possible, to make every piece as lasting and solid and convincing as possible," Weiland told Bookslut. "And I take great pride in that kind of work. I've done it on The Baffler and on Granta and now at The Paris Review. And to Sean, likewise, that means a lot to him—he did it at The New Yorker and continues to do it for McSweeney's....I think [the writers] saw very quickly we wanted to make a book that would still be read decades from now...and that meant...not even taking their A-minus work, but pushing them for their absolute best." Each essay, Weiland said, went through at least six rounds of edits.

Editorial point of view
Weiland told Bookslut that State by State had served for both its editors as "a kind of reminder of the many things we [as Americans] have to be confident about.... Despite many reasons not to feel optimistic, chiefly during the last eight years of the Bush administration—deep down, I think we’re all right." Wilsey told Brooklyn Rail that he was sorry the late David Foster Wallace had declined to be in the book: "Nobody gets at what makes America the extravagantly sad country it is like Wallace did." Asked whether he hates any states, Wilsey replied, "I hate Maine. I hate New England. It's so claustrophobic, no vistas, the landscape is constantly choking you. The people in New England just don't seem kind; they're all hardened and beaten down by the harsh winters. As a Californian, you're not always kind, but you're always nice, and within the framework of niceness you can either be mellow or stoked. I'm a stoked Californian. New England somehow flattens that. Granted, I went to boarding school there for three years, and those were some of the worst years of my life, so that's probably a big part of my dislike for it."

Presentation to Barack Obama

As he documented in an essay for The Guardian, Sean Wilsey personally presented a copy of State by State to Barack Obama in late 2008. Wilsey was invited to attend an event after donating his portion of the advance for the book to Obama's campaign. "When he turned to shake my hand, for some reason I chose to address him by his first name, saying, 'Barack, I brought you this book.'" Six photographs were taken of the handover. "As I handed it to him I was thinking we, all of us, did this for you. I think you can see that in the [accompanying] picture." Obama was very interested in the book and began reading it in front of Wilsey.

Distribution to schools and related coverage

Select institutions received complimentary copies of State by State. Many educators received the book with respectful interest and enthusiasm. On the website The Millions, a teacher asked whether he should assign the book in his 21st century literature class. It was one of four tomes he was considering; the others were "[Charles] Bock's Beautiful Children, [Joshua] Ferris' Then We Came to the End, and Brock Clarke's An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England. "My students are really intelligent, and so just about anything is fair game." Millions contributor Edan Lepucki responded, "Of the four you're considering teaching, I think State by State is the best, since it showcases so many great writers. While I enjoyed Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End, I think a workplace narrative would be lost on most teenagers."

Professor Tyler Cowen, on the site Marginal Revolution: Small Steps to a Much Better World, noted that he was thinking of assigning State by State to his graduate students at Berlin's Freie Universität along with Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

Manhattan's progressive Calhoun School used State by State for its Upper School students in 2012 as required summer reading. The school assigned fifteen essays, two of which are graphic essays, or comic strips. "There's interesting material in every essay and we are certain that this book will spark a wide variety of interesting conversations between students, teachers and parents," the school noted on its website.

Matt Weiland and two of his writers were hosted by a Milwaukee high school for a reading at an assembly. "I wasn't sure what high school students would make of it, but we were careful to select the pieces with the most drinking and the most sex," Weiland told Bookslut. Columbia, the alumni magazine of Columbia University, of which Weiland is a graduate, profiled him in an article called "This Land Is Weiland" and praised him as "a consummate intellectual".

Essays

 Alabama - George Packer
 Alaska - Paul Greenberg
 Arizona - Lydia Millet
 Arkansas - Kevin Brockmeier
 California - William T. Vollmann
 Colorado - Benjamin Kunkel
 Connecticut - Rick Moody
 Delaware - Craig Taylor
 Florida - Joshua Ferris
 Georgia - Ha Jin
 Hawaii - Tara Bray Smith
 Idaho - Anthony Doerr
 Illinois - Dave Eggers
 Indiana - Susan Choi
 Iowa - Dagoberto Gilb
 Kansas - Jim Lewis
 Kentucky - John Jeremiah Sullivan
 Louisiana - Joshua Clark
 Maine - Heidi Julavits
 Maryland - Myla Goldberg
 Massachusetts - John Hodgman
 Michigan - Mohammed Naseehu Ali
 Minnesota - Philip Connors
 Mississippi - Barry Hannah
 Missouri - Jacki Lyden
 Montana - Sarah Vowell
 Nebraska - Alexander Payne
 Nevada - Charles Bock
 New Hampshire - Will Blythe
 New Jersey - Anthony Bourdain
 New Mexico - Ellery Washington
 New York - Jonathan Franzen
 North Carolina - Randall Kenan
 North Dakota - Louise Erdrich
 Ohio - Susan Orlean
 Oklahoma - S. E. Hinton
 Oregon - Joe Sacco
 Pennsylvania - Andrea Lee
 Rhode Island - Jhumpa Lahiri
 South Carolina - Jack Hitt
 South Dakota - Said Sayrafiezadeh
 Tennessee - Ann Patchett
 Texas - Cristina Henríquez
 Utah - David Rakoff
 Vermont - Alison Bechdel
 Virginia - Tony Horwitz
 Washington - Carrie Brownstein
 West Virginia - Jayne Anne Phillips
 Wisconsin - Daphne Beal
 Wyoming - Alexandra Fuller

Afterword: Washington, D.C. - A Conversation with Edward P. Jones

External links
 Interview at WorldHum
 New York Times review

2008 non-fiction books
2008 anthologies
Essay anthologies
Books about the United States
HarperCollins books


This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886).

References
Sources
Budden, Julien (1992), 'Ponchielli, Amilcare' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London)

Lists of operas by composer

Lists of compositions by composer


Laxminarayan Innovation Technological University (LITU) is a public state university of the Government of Maharashtra situated at Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. It was established in 1942 and is one of the oldest engineering colleges for Chemical Engineering and Technology in India.

History
The Laxminarayan Innovation Technological University is one of the premier institutes in India for Chemical Engineering. The land, donated by Rao Bahadur D. Laxminarayan, housed both the Nagpur University and the Institute. The Laxminarayan Institute of Technology was founded in 1942 by Laxminarayan of Kamptee. His work brought him into contact with complex problems that required the aid of technologists. He believed the lack of qualified thinkers should not stand in the way of progress, so he donated the main part of his property, then estimated at ₹ 3,520,540 to the Nagpur University in his will dated 3 May 1930, for "Teaching of Applied Science and Chemistry". Subsequently, a committee was appointed by Nagpur University on 6 February 1932, known as the "Bequest Scheme Committee", that consisted of notable men from the fields of science, industry, and public affairs throughout India. The committee recommended establishing an Institute of Technology to teach industrial chemistry with particular emphasis on the application of science to the industrial development of the province, then known as the Central Provinces and Berar.

In 1934, the scheme was prepared for starting a two-year BSc (Tech) course. The present site for the Institute was selected in the year 1936 by Harisingh Gour. In 1937, the University appointed Ram Simha Thakur as the officer-on-special duty to oversee the construction of the Institute.

The Institute started functioning with admissions into a two-year BSc (Tech) program in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Technology, and Oil Technology on 1 August 1942 with S.A. Saletore, Professor of Organic Chemistry (Applied) as Director-in-Charge. It was officially inaugurated on 9 January 1943 by N.R. Sirkar.

The development from 1942 to 1947 was not very noteworthy because of World War II. However, the students' numbers increased to 34, and 11 members of the staff were appointed.

On 28 July 1945, the Executive Committee of the Nagpur University appointed R. B. Forster, the then-Head of the Department of Chemical Technology at the University of Bombay as Director of the Institute. Ing. H. G. Kayser took over as the Director in 1950, succeeded by P. S. Mene in 1951. The number of admissions increased to 36 and the four-year degree course started in 1951. The courses of study were revised to provide for more intensive specializations.

In 1959, the Ministry of Education recommended a recurring grant for the building and equipment. The AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) decided to increase the intake of engineering graduates in all institutions and recommended that the Laxminarayan Institute of Technology should admit 60 students instead of 36 and start a 5 Year Integrated Course in Chemical Engineering. In 1969, the University Grants Commission (UGC) gave an additional grant for starting a three-year BSc (Tech) course in Oil Technology. The Institute took in sixty students to start the Five Year Integrated Course in 1967. During these years, the post-graduate degrees of Nagpur University in the field of Technology were awarded on the basis of a research thesis. The MTech courses (Petro-Chemical Technology, Oil Technology, Paint Technology, and Chemical Engineering) began in 1967 and were pursued more in 1969.

The institute introduced two new courses in 1971: three-year programs in Food and Petro-chemical Technology. In 1976, a BSc Technology. course in Cellulose Technology was introduced.

In response to the new educational pattern of 10+2, the Institute introduced a Four Year BTech (Chemical Engineering) course and the first set of students were admitted in 1977. In 1994, the Institute discontinued its BSc.Tech. course and replaced it with a new BTech course in Chemical Technology with a specialization in Petrochemical Technology, Food Technology, Pulp & Paper Technology, Oil Technology, and Plastic & Polymer Technology. Presently, the Institute offers a Four Year BTech (Chemical Engineering) program, Four Year BTech program in Chemical Technology with areas of specialization such as Petrochemical Technology, Food Technology, Pulp & Paper Technology, Oil Technology, Plastic & Polymer Technology, and Surface Coating Technology.

Both the houses of Maharashtra state legislature have passed the Bill of Laxminarayan Innovation Technological University (LITU). On 03 rd August 2023 by Legislative assembly and on 04th august 2023 by legislative council unanimously passed the bill during the monsoon session of state Legislature.

Admissions
Admissions to the undergraduate course are done through the Maharashtra Health and Technical Common Entrance Test. The Institute offers programs through seven disciplines.
 Chemical Engineering
 Food Technology
 Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals Technology
 Surface-coating Technology
 Paper and Pulp Technology
 Oils, Fats and Surfactants Technology
 Plastics and Polymers Technology

Rankings

The institute was ranked no. 46 in Mint C-Fore Top Government Engineering College Rankings in 2008 and has consistently found its place among the top fifty engineering colleges in India in leading education surveys.
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked it 136th among engineering colleges in 2021.

Accreditations
The institute has been accredited with A+ grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with a score of CGPA 3.48 out of 4.

Notable alumni
 Harish Bhimani, Indian voiceover artiste, writer and anchor. He is the voice of Samay (Time), the narrator of the TV series Mahabharat.
 Suresh Kashinath Haware, nuclear scientist, politician and managing director of Haware Engineers & Builders Pvt. Ltd
 B. D. Kulkarni, Distinguished Scientist of Chemical Engineering and Process Development at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.
 G. S. Laddha, former director of Alagappa College of Technology
 Arun Lakhani, Managing director of Vishvaraj Infrastructure Ltd. and Vice President of Badminton Association of India
 Urmila M. Diwekar, President of Stochastic Research Technologies LLC And Vishwamitra Research Institute, First women to receive Cecil Award for Environmental Chemical Engineering
 SHYAM SUNDER BANG, former Executive Director Jubiliant Lifesciences Ltd.
 Kunal Girotra, Co-founder Lunar Energy
 Vinayak Marathe, Former Senior Vice President Reliance Industries
 DR. ATUL NARAYAN VAIDYA, Director NEERI
  Dilip Gaur, Director, Aditya Birla Management Corporation Private Ltd (ABMCPL) and former Managing Director of Grasim Industries

Infrastructure
Institute has a campus of about  located at Amravati Road in the western part of the city and houses all the departments of the Institute.

See also
 Nagpur
 Nagpur University
 List of educational institutions in Nagpur

References

External links
Official site - Laxminarayan Institute of Technology
 Official Alumni Network - Laxminarayan Institute of Technology

1942 establishments in India
Universities and colleges established in 1942
Engineering colleges in Nagpur
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University


George Frederick Tarrant (7 December 1838 in Cambridge – 2 July 1870 in Cambridge) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1860 to 1869.  Mainly associated with Cambridge Town Club (aka Cambridgeshire), Tarrant made 71 known appearances in first-class matches.

Tarrant was a member of the second All England XI to tour Australia, travelling out on the SS Great Britain in 1863. The team played several matches in Australia before travelling to New Zealand where they played five games. They returned to Australia to complete the remainder of the 19 tour matches.

Tarrant was a right arm fast bowler who was for a time rated the second fastest bowler in England after John Jackson.  He bowled roundarm around the wicket from a "long, lively run-up".

Tarrant took 421 wickets at 11.89 with a best analysis of 10/40. He took five wickets in an innings 41 times and ten wickets in a match 16 times.

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English cricketers of 1826 to 1863
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Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire cricketers
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