The M426 8-inch shell was a  chemical artillery shell designed for use by the U.S. Army. It was designed to be used with approximately  of GB or VX (nerve agent).

References

Chemical weapon delivery systems
Artillery shells
Chemical weapons of the United States


Gnuspeech is an extensible text-to-speech computer software package that produces artificial speech output based on real-time articulatory speech synthesis by rules. That is, it converts text strings into phonetic descriptions, aided by a pronouncing dictionary, letter-to-sound rules, and rhythm and intonation models; transforms the phonetic descriptions into parameters for a low-level articulatory speech synthesizer; uses these to drive an articulatory model of the human vocal tract producing an output suitable for the normal sound output devices used by various computer operating systems; and does this at the same or faster rate than the speech is spoken for adult speech.

Design
The synthesizer is a tube resonance, or waveguide, model that models the behavior of the real vocal tract directly, and reasonably accurately, unlike formant synthesizers that indirectly model the speech spectrum. The control problem is solved by using René Carré's Distinctive Region Model which relates changes in the radii of eight longitudinal divisions of the vocal tract to corresponding changes in the three frequency formants in the speech spectrum that convey much of the information of speech. The regions are, in turn, based on work by the Stockholm Speech Technology Laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) on "formant sensitivity analysis" - that is, how formant frequencies are affected by small changes in the radius of the vocal tract at various places along its length.

History
Gnuspeech was originally commercial software produced by the now-defunct Trillium Sound Research for the NeXT computer as various grades of "TextToSpeech" kit. Trillium Sound Research was a technology transfer spin-off company formed at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, based on long-standing research in the computer science department on computer-human interaction using speech, where papers and manuals relevant to the system are maintained. The initial version in 1992 used a formant-based speech synthesiser. When NeXT ceased manufacturing hardware, the synthesizer software was completely re-written and also ported to NSFIP (NextStep For Intel Processors) using the waveguide approach to acoustic tube modeling based on the research at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, especially the Music Kit. The synthesis approach is explained in more detail in a paper presented to the American Voice I/O Society in 1995. The system used the onboard 56001 Digital Signal Processor (DSP) on the NeXT computer and a Turtle Beach add-on board with the same DSP on the NSFIP version to run the waveguide (also known as the tube model). Speed limitations meant that the shortest vocal tract length that could be used for speech in real time (that is, generated at the same or faster rate than it was "spoken") was around 15 centimeters, because the sample rate for the waveguide computations increases with decreasing vocal tract length. Faster processor speeds are progressively removing this restriction, an important advance for producing children's speech in real time.

Since NeXTSTEP is discontinued and NeXT computers are rare, one option for executing the original code is the use of
virtual machines. The Previous emulator, for example, can emulate the DSP in NeXT computers,
which can be used by the Trillium software.

Trillium ceased trading in the late 1990s and the Gnuspeech project was first entered into the GNU Savannah repository under the terms of the GNU General Public License in 2002, as an official GNU software.

Due to its free and open source license, which allows customization of the code, Gnuspeech has been utilized in academic research.

References

External links
 Gnuspeech on GNU Savannah
 Overview of the Gnuspeech system

Cross-platform free software
Free speech synthesis software


The 2008–09 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Pennsylvania State University and completed the season by winning the 2009 National Invitation Tournament over the Baylor Bears at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Head Coach, Ed DeChellis, coached his sixth season with the team. The team played its home games in University Park, Pennsylvania at the Bryce Jordan Center, which has a capacity of 15,261, for the twelfth consecutive season. The season marked the team's sixteenth consecutive season as a member of the Big Ten Conference.

Current coaching staff

Roster

Schedule and Results

Preseason

Regular Season and Postseason

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Awards

Players
 Talor Battle
 Big Ten Player of the Week (Nov. 23)
 All Big Ten first team point guard
 Jamelle Cornley
 Big Ten Player of the Week (Jan. 26)
 All Big Ten second team forward
 2009 NIT MVP

Coaches
 Ed DeChellis
 Big Ten Coach of the Year

References

Penn State
Penn State
National Invitation Tournament championship seasons
Penn State Nittany Lions basketball seasons


The Leda-class frigates, were a successful class of forty-seven British Royal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates constructed from 1805 to 1832. Based on a French design, the class came in five major groups, all with minor differences in their design. During their careers, they fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Forty-five of the 47 were eventually scrapped; two still exist:  and .

Origins
The design of the name ship,  of 1800, was based on Sané's design for the French . The British 44-gun fifth rate  captured  in 1782. (The British took Hébé into service as HMS Hebe but in 1805 renamed her HMS Blonde). The class of frigates built to the lines of Leda were in contemporary parlance called the 'Repeat Leda class'.

Pomone and Shannon, the second and third ship of the class respectively, was built using Josiah Brindley's patent method of construction which dispensed with 'lodging' and 'hanging knees', oak elements that had to be grown to shape. Oak suitable for shipbuilding had become increasingly difficult to obtain through the long period of warfare. Bindley's fastenings proved to be weak. Captain Philip Broke of Shannon claimed her topsides were weak and "worked like a basket." Shannon was actually in such poor condition by 1813 that she almost missed her engagement with the .

Characteristics and performance
The vessels of the class were fast, most recording  large and  close-hauled. However, their French-style proportions made them unweatherly compared to frigates designed to British proportions (such as the ). Many captains requested additions to the frigates' false keels to remedy this. The Leda class stood to their canvas well and liked a stiff gale, but were prone to excessive pitching in very heavy seas. All captains complained of the class's poor stowage capacity, the result of their fine French underwater lines, but stowage improved after the introduction of iron fresh-water tanks. Lastly, captains considered the class to be "wet", a result of lively rolling and pitching causing seams to loosen.

Ships of the class

The name Leda was taken from Greek mythology, as was common at the time; the Greek Leda was a woman whom Zeus seduced while he was masquerading as a swan. After Leda, the Admiralty had no more ships to this design for several years. Then with the resumption of war with France either looming or under way, the Admiralty ordered eight further ships to this design in 1802-09:
, wrecked on The Needles in 1811.
, the victor over , off Boston, on 1 June 1813.

 ex-Scamander

In 1812 the Admiralty ordered eight ships to be built of "fir" (actually, of red pine) instead of oak; these were sometimes called the Cydnus class:

The Admiralty ordered seven more vessels to this design in 1812–15, with those constructed in Britain reverting to oak and those constructed in Bombay using teak:

, has survived to the present day.

The Admiralty ordered another six vessels in 1816, but of a modified design that incorporated Sir Robert Seppings's circular stern and "small-timber" form of construction:

A further twenty-three ships were ordered to this modified design in 1817, although the last six were never completed, or not completed to this design:

, in 1866 became a hospital ship moored in Cardiff, which in 1905 was replaced by the Royal Hamadryad Hospital.

, used as a floating church in Cardiff from 1863 to 1891.

, completed 1856 as a screw frigate
, another sailing frigate that has survived to the present day.
, completed 1844 as a 19-gun sixth-rate corvette

The last six ships of the 1817 orders were never completed to this design:
HMS Pegasus - canceled 1831
HMS Nemesis - re-ordered to  design.
HMS Statira - re-ordered to Seringapatam-class design.
HMS Jason - re-ordered to Seringapatam-class design.
HMS Druid - re-ordered to Seringapatam-class design.
HMS Medusa - canceled 1831

Citations

References
Gardiner, Robert (2000) Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars, Chatham Publishing, London.

External links
Origin of the Leda-class frigate


Thomas Perceval Fielden (24 November 1883 – 15 September 1974) was a British pianist and music teacher.  He was director of music at three public schools (Hurstpierpoint College, Fettes and Charterhouse) and was Professor of Pianoforte at the Royal College of Music for over 30 years.  He wrote on the subject of piano technique and gave many recitals.

Life
Fielden, who was born in Chichester on 24 November 1883, was educated at the Royal College of Music (1902–1905) then at Jesus College, Oxford, where he was organ scholar and obtained BA and BMus degrees.  He then studied piano in Berlin, and gave recitals in Germany, Paris and London.  He was director of music at various public schools: Hurstpierpoint College (1903–1908), Fettes (1908–1912) and Charterhouse (1928–1947).  He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1915, and served as lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1943 to 1945.  He was Professor of Pianoforte at the Royal College of Music from 1921 to 1952, when he retired, although he then took up an appointment as Principal of the Rhodesian Academy of Music in Bulawayo, leaving in 1958.  He continued to examine candidates on behalf of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, giving recitals as he went.  His publications were on the topic of advanced piano technique, such as The Science of Pianoforte Technique (1927) and Music and Character (1929).

References

1883 births
1974 deaths
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Academics of the Royal College of Music
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
British classical pianists
Male classical pianists
British Army personnel of World War I
Royal Artillery officers
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century British male musicians


This is a list of notable Nepali people.

Academics
 Harka Gurung, geologist, anthropologist, and author
 Gautama V. Vajracharya, historian
 Surya Subedi, legal academic

Artists

Sushma Shakya, artist
 Ragini Upadhyaya, fine artist and lyricist

Athletes

Cricketers
 Basanta Regmi
 Bikash Dali
 Dhirendra Chand
 Gyanendra Malla
 Jitendra Mukhiya
 Kanishka Chaugai
 Mehboob Alam
 Manoj Baishya
 Manoj Katuwal
 Naresh Budhayer
 Paras Khadka
 Raj Pradhan
 Raju Basnyat
 Raju Khadka
 Rajesh Pulami
 Shakti Gauchan
 Sharad Vesawkar
 Sompal Kami
 Sandeep Lamichhane
 Lalit Rajbanshi

Footballers

Swimmers
 Gaurika Singh
 Karishma Karki
 Sofia Shah
 Sirish Gurung

Other athletes
 Mohan Bam, judo practitioner
 Deepak Bista, taekwondo practitioner
 Shyam Dhakal, alpine skier
 Sipora Gurung, volleyball player
 Jayaram Khadka, cross-country skier
 Mandil Pradhan, mountain biker
 Manikala Rai, ultramarathon runner
 Dachhiri Sherpa, cross-country skier
 Bimala Tamang, karateka
 Devu Thapa, judo practitioner
 Mira Rai, ultramarathon runner

Entertainment

Actors

Filmmakers
 Dayaram Dahal
 Hari Bansha Acharya
 Subash Gajurel
 Tulsi Ghimire
 Manisha Koirala
 Nischal Basnet
 Priyanka Karki
 Saugat Malla
 Rekha Thapa
 Deepa Shree Niraula

Singers

Other entertainers
 Atul Gautam, tabla player
 Hom Nath Upadhyaya, tabla player
 Prabal Gurung, fashion designer
 Teriya Magar, dancer and reality TV show winner
 Santosh Shah, celebrity chef

Entrepreneurs
 Binod Chaudhary, businessman, industrialist, and philanthropist
 Karna Shakya, businessman, industrialist, and philanthropist

Humanitarians
 Pushpa Basnet, founder of Nepal's Early Childhood Development Center
 Anil Chitrakar, founder of Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness
 Sunita Danuwar, founder of Shakti Samuha, an anti-sex trafficking organization
 Tikendra Dal Dewan, retired British Army Gurkha, campaigner for Gurkha welfare
 Durga Ghimire, founder of ABC Nepal, an anti-sex trafficking organization
 Jagadish Ghimire, political analyst, founder of Tamakoshi Sewa Samiti community development organization
 Angur Baba Joshi, education activist and first female school principal in Nepal
 Daya Bir Singh Kansakar, founder of Paropakar Organization, Nepal's first social service organization
 Anuradha Koirala, founder of Maiti Nepal, which supports victims of sex trafficking
 Sarina Prabasi, CEO of WaterAid America
 Mahabir Pun, founder of the Nepal Wireless Networking Project
 Indira Ranamagar, founder of Prisoner's Assistance Nepal
 Himani Shah, chairman of the Himani Trust, former crown princess of Nepal
 Tara Devi Tuladhar, social worker and education activist

Mountaineers

Politicians

Royal and former ruling family

 Princess Jayanti of Nepal
 Princess Jyotshana Basnyat of Nepal
 Queen Tripurasundari of Nepal

Scientists
 Drona Prakash Rasali, veterinarian
 Bodhraj Acharya, biochemist
 Sushila Maharjan, biochemist, biotechnologist
 Lujendra Ojha, planetary scientist

Writers

Poets

Journalists

Playwrights

Prose writers

Other notables
 Bhawana Ghimire, CEO of Cricket Association of Nepal from 2014 to 2016


Rui Pedro da Rocha Fonte (born 23 April 1990) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga Portugal 2 club Paços de Ferreira.

After signing for Arsenal as a 16-year-old, he only made one competitive appearance for the club before signing with Sporting CP, who loaned him several times for the duration of his contract, including at Espanyol, who acquired him permanently in 2011. He subsequently joined Benfica, where injury problems saw him feature sparingly until his release; with his next team, Braga, he notably won the 2016 Taça de Portugal.

All youth levels comprised, Fonte earned 69 caps for Portugal and scored 26 goals.

Club career

Early years and Arsenal
Fonte was born in Penafiel, and joined Sporting CP's youth system at only 9. In 2006 he signed a three-year deal with Arsenal, with a clause stating he was to return to his previous club if the English did not extend the contract beyond the original period.

A regular member of Arsenal's reserves, Fonte made his debut for the first team in a friendly against Barnet in the 2008 pre-season. He made his competitive debut for the Gunners as a substitute for Carlos Vela in a League Cup match against Wigan Athletic on 11 November 2008, a 3–0 home win.

On 30 January 2009, Fonte joined Championship side Crystal Palace on a one-month loan, with his older brother José playing a big role in persuading club and player of each other's merits. He made his debut for his new team in a 0–1 home defeat to Blackpool on the following day, and his loan was subsequently extended until the end of the season; Palace were docked a point and fined £20,000 for fielding him in their final match, despite his loan having expired.

On 19 May 2009, it was announced that Arsenal had decided not to extend Fonte's three-year contract, and the player returned to Sporting. He spent the 2009–10 campaign on loan to Vitória de Setúbal, making his Primeira Liga debut on 17 August in a 0–0 home draw against Vitória de Guimarães (one minute played) and appearing sparingly as they barely escaped relegation; during his stint, he paid the wages of people connected to the organisation due to its severe economic problems.

Espanyol
Fonte played 2010–11 on loan to RCD Espanyol in Spain. He spent the vast majority of his spell with the reserves, his first La Liga appearances consisting of one minute in a 1–0 home victory over Sporting de Gijón on 5 December 2010, and ten in a 0–1 loss to Real Madrid also at the Estadi Cornellà-El Prat two months later.

On 14 July 2011, Fonte signed permanently for two years. On 17 January of the following year he scored his first official goal for the Pericos, in a 3–2 home defeat of CD Mirandés in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey; he repeated the feat in the second leg, albeit in a 2–1 and 4–4 aggregate defeat. In between, he scored his first goal in the league, closing the 3–0 home win over Granada CF.

Benfica
Fonte terminated his contract with Espanyol on 29 January 2013 and, on the next day, signed with S.L. Benfica on a five-and-a-half-year deal. He was initially assigned to the B side in the Segunda Liga, suffering a knee injury in his debut against C.F. União and being sidelined for the rest of the campaign.

In January 2015, Jorge Jesus confirmed that Fonte was promoted to the first team after the loan of Nélson Oliveira. His first competitive appearance took place on the 14th, as he played the first half of the 4–0 home win against F.C. Arouca in the third round of the Taça da Liga.

On 2 February 2015, Fonte, at the time top scorer for Benfica B with 17 goals in 21 matches, was loaned to C.F. Os Belenenses until the end of the season. For 2015–16, he moved to S.C. Braga also on loan.

Braga
On 16 December 2015, after having replaced Wilson Eduardo for the last 11 minutes of regulation time, Fonte scored the 4–3 winner for the hosts against Sporting, helping to oust his former club from the Taça de Portugal. The following 22 May, after being injured for nearly three months, he started in the final of the domestic cup, netting in a 2–2 draw against FC Porto (4–2 penalty shootout win).

Fonte agreed to a permanent three-year contract with Braga on 1 September 2016. He scored 11 goals during the campaign (15 overall), helping to a fifth-place finish.

Fulham
On 17 August 2017, Fonte transferred to Championship club Fulham after signing a three-year contract. He scored in his second league appearance, a 2–0 away victory over Ipswich Town.

Fonte joined Lille OSC from France on 31 August 2018 on a season-long loan, reuniting with his older brother José Fonte. His only goal for the eventual Ligue 1 runners-up came on 28 April 2019, in a 5–0 home defeat of Nîmes Olympique.

Return to Braga
Fonte returned to his homeland and Braga on 21 August 2019, signing a three-year deal. He spent the better part of the 2020–21 season on the sidelines, due to a cruciate ligament injury.

Estoril
On 31 August 2021, Fonte signed a one-year contract with a plus-one option with top-flight club G.D. Estoril Praia. He scored his first goal on 3 October in a 2–2 home draw against Gil Vicente FC, and his second was the only at B-SAD on 12 December.

Later career
Fonte alternated between the first and second tiers the following seasons, with F.C. Famalicão and F.C. Paços de Ferreira.

International career
Fonte made his debut for the Portugal under-21s against Spain on 18 November 2008, scoring the first goal in a 4–1 victory. The following summer, he was part of the team that took silver in the Lusofonia Games, scoring a penalty in a 4–1 win over Angola on the final day.

On 31 March 2015, Fonte was called up to the full side for the first time, for a friendly with Cape Verde, remaining on the bench in the 0–2 defeat in Estoril.

Personal life
Fonte's older brother, José, is also a footballer – a defender, he played most of his professional career in England, and the two were teammates at Sporting (youth), Crystal Palace and Lille.

Their father, Artur, played 12 seasons in the Portuguese top division.

Career statistics

Honours
Benfica
Taça da Liga: 2014–15

Braga
Taça de Portugal: 2015–16, 2020–21
Taça da Liga: 2019–20

Fulham
EFL Championship play-offs: 2018

Portugal U21
Lusofonia Games silver medal: 2009

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
People from Penafiel
Portuguese men's footballers
Footballers from Lisbon
Men's association football forwards
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Sporting CP footballers
Vitória F.C. players
S.L. Benfica footballers
S.L. Benfica B players
C.F. Os Belenenses players
S.C. Braga players
G.D. Estoril Praia players
F.C. Famalicão players
F.C. Paços de Ferreira players
English Football League players
Arsenal F.C. players
Crystal Palace F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
La Liga players
Tercera División players
RCD Espanyol B footballers
RCD Espanyol footballers
Ligue 1 players
Lille OSC players
Portugal men's youth international footballers
Portugal men's under-21 international footballers
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in England
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in France


İstisu (known as Kirovsk and Kirov until 1999) is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 3,038.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


Bürcəli is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,104.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


Willingham St Mary, also known simply as Willingham, is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk located about  south of Beccles in the East Suffolk district. At the 2011 United Kingdom census it had a population of 152.

The A145 road cuts through the western section of the parish where it joins with Shadingfield. Sections of the Sotterley estate are included within its western section. A joint parish council covers the parishes of Ellough, Shadingfield, Sotterley and Willingham St Mary. As well as these parishes, Willingham also borders the parish of Weston.

The village has few services, with the largest population centre where it adjoins Shadingfield. Children attend primary school in Brampton and high school in Beccles. The Fox public house on the A145 is within the parish boundary, although more commonly associated with Shadingfield, and the two parishes share a village hall and playing field, both located on the parish border. The parish church, which was dedicated to St Mary, is no longer standing.

History

At the Domesday survey of 1086, the village of Willingaham formed part of the estates of Hugh de Montfort. It consisted of around 31 families, including at least 15 freemen, and paid 3 geld in taxation.

The village formed part of the estate of Elisabeth Bruisyard in 1281 and passed through various hands, including to the Playters of Sotterley, before becoming part of the estate of the Earl of Gosford who owned the manor in 1846. It consisted of around 1,000 acres and had a population of 156 in 1848; by 1872 Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales gives the population as 142 in 31 houses. The population has fluctuated slightly, although it has remained largely unchanged since the 1801 census.

There are four Grade II listed buildings in the parish. The late 18th century Fox Farmhouse, a late 17th to early 18th century timber framed barn at Moat Farm, a late 17th century timber framed barn at Willingham Hall and the late 16th to early 17th century Willingham Hall.

Willingham Hall is located near to the site of the parish church which is believed to have fallen into disrepair at the beginning of the 16th century, although two possible sites for the church are suggested on maps. The church, which was dedicated to St Mary and existed at the time of the Domesday survey, was recorded as "scarcely visible" by Suckling in 1846, although some remains could be seen in the 1920s. The parish was united with North Cove in 1526 and consolidated with Ellough following the reformation, the stone from the church probably being used to repair All Saints Church, Ellough and St Margarets Church, Sotterley. In 1873 it was united with the church at Sotterley.

The area around the hall and church are considered to be a possible site for a deserted medieval village. A number of ditches and pottery finds indicate buildings were located in this area and settlement is shown on a map from the late 18th century. Human bones have been observed in ploughsoil from one of the suspected sites for the church.

References

External links

Villages in Suffolk
Civil parishes in Suffolk
Waveney District


Havzova is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,240.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


Ürgə is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,817.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


Hirkan (known as Avrora until 1999) is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,781.

During the USSR, this was the state farm that produced the mostly tea in Lankaran region. During the USSR, it was called "Avrora Tea State Farm" where most of the tea production throughout Lankaran district had been performed.
In 1934, it was named Aurora after the cruiser "Avrora" of the Baltic fleet, and a tea growing state farm “Avrora" was established  and thus the foundation of the settlement was laid. It is located in the foothills . In 1964, Hyrkana was granted the status of a city-type settlement.[3] Khanbulanachay reservoir was constructed this settlement. The development of tea growing was accelerated in 1970-1980, in order to meet the need for irrigation of tea plantations, the Khanbulanachay reservoir with a capacity of 52 million m³ (cubic meters) was built on the Basharu river in Lankaran region in 1976, which is  still stands out for its robustness. The construction of the dam started in 1967 and was commissioned in 1977. Its water is widely used for irrigation during summer. During the construction of the reservoir, a large forest area remained underwater, where a village was completely submerged. A large lake has formed in the valley , water, fishing has also developed in this lake. When the water level recedes, one can see the houses and their contents remain as they are, except that the houses are filled with mud. There are also old tractors and other machinery that are underwater. There was also a cemetery here, but during the construction of the dam, they removed the bodies from there and buried them elsewhere but  the headstones of the graves remained.

Population and territory
According to the information available in 2020, the settlement has a population of 3,126 people. The majority of the population, almost 90%, is Talysh people (iranian speaking people native to the region) . Russians also lived in the settlement, but most of them left the settlement. This was one of the largest tea state farms in Azerbaijan, and now more than 99% of those tea bushes have been replaced by houses or bushes. Currently, tea growing is partially developed in the settlement. The population of the settlement is mainly engaged in citrus plants, agriculture and animal husbandry.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


Daşdalıqcar is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,400.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


Darquba is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,365.  The municipality consists of the villages of Darquba and Səbir.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


Tükəvilə is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,344.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


Mycothiol (MSH or AcCys-GlcN-Ins) is an unusual thiol compound found in the Actinomycetota. It is composed of a cysteine residue with an acetylated amino group linked to glucosamine, which is then linked to inositol. The oxidized, disulfide form of mycothiol (MSSM) is called mycothione, and is reduced to mycothiol by the flavoprotein mycothione reductase. Mycothiol biosynthesis and mycothiol-dependent enzymes such as mycothiol-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase and mycothione reductase have been proposed to be good drug targets for the development of treatments for tuberculosis.

See also
 Glutathione, analogous function in other Bacteria
 Bacillithiol

References

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is extraordinarily sensitive to killing by a vitamin C-induced Fenton reaction
Published 21 May 2013. Nature Communications4,
Article number:1881 doi:10.1038/ncomms2898

External links
The Biochemistry of Pathogens: The metabolism and function of mycothiol in the mycobacteria.

Thiols
Acetamides
Propionamides
Tetrahydropyrans


Canovelles () is a municipality situated in the comarca of Vallès Oriental, in the province of Barcelona, part of the autonomous community of Catalonia in northeastern Spain. It is located about  from the local capital of Granollers, with which it forms a conurbation.

Demographics

Population by district

Population distribution
The vast majority of the immigrants of the last decade and their descendants live in the Barriada Nova (New Quarters). However, the members of the immigrant wave in the 1960s and 1970s are gradually moving further into the peripheral districts. Public housing shortages and the high price of private housing are driving young people out of the area, and into municipalities in the same region.

Demographic evolution

Economy
During the 1950s and 1960s, Canovelles saw a dramatic increase and immigration from other parts of Spain – namely from the nearby region of Barcelona. Because of this explosion in population, much of Canovelles' economy stems from the service sector.

Another major source of regional economy comes from the weekly market held every Sunday, comprised by more than 500 shops. This market focus on the distribution of clothing, electronic devices and fruit.

History
Numerous archeological finds from the Neolithic Period and the Roman Empire have been found in Canovelles. One representative is the “Menhir”, a replica of which is displayed at the Can Palots Theater exhibition hall.

The first time the term Canovelles appears in a document is in 1008 AD, in a document pertaining to the Abbot of Sant Cugat.

Between the 1950s and the 1970s, many families from Extremadura and Andalusia arrived to the municipality, increasing the population by a factor of twenty. Since the end of the 1990s people from Morocco, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America have been arriving to Canovelles in great numbers.

During the 1970s, clandestine groups of Marxists organized against the Franquist dictatorship, some of them comprised by more than a hundred militants.

Recent history

A celebration was held in 2008 to celebrate the oldest document (written in 1008) in which a writer mentions the municipality's name.

In 2007, Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) gained an absolute majority in the municipal government under the leadership of José Orive. In 2008, this government approved a thirty percent increase in pay for the mayor and local councillors. This pay increase marked José Orive as an object of controversy when hundreds of stickers criticizing the decision were posted on lampposts and other public objects throughout the municipality. After these stickers had been up for two days, the municipal government paid a cleaning company to remove them. Orive left his position as the Mayor of Canovelles due to personal reasons. Emilio Cordero succeeded Orive as the Mayor of Canovelles in 2016.

Administration

List of mayors since the democratic elections of 1979

List of mayors from 1900 to 1979

Electoral results

1995

1999

2003

2007

Transportation

Highways
C-17 – Located on the exit by Ronda Nord and by the exit at Granollers-Canovelles BV1432 and BV1439

Railways
Granollers-Canovelles railway station – Line 3 of the Rodalies Barcelona

References

External links
Canovelles Town Hall Website (Catalan)
 Government data pages

Municipalities in Vallès Oriental
Populated places in Vallès Oriental


Ernest Salter Davies CBE (25 October 1872 – 10 June 1955) was a Welsh teacher and educationalist, who served as director of education for Kent from 1918 to 1938.  His influence extended beyond Kent, as he was chairman of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, editor of the Journal of Education and President or chairman of trustees of several other institutions.

Life
Salter Davies was born on 25 October 1872 to Thomas Davies, a Baptist clergyman from Haverfordwest, who had married Emma Rebecca Davies (born Hailsham, Sussex), at Haverfordwest, in 1859. Salter was the youngest of four known children and educated at the grammar school there before studying at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.  He then won a scholarship in classics to Jesus College, Oxford.  In 1895, he started work as a teacher, initially at Glasgow Academy before moving to Cheltenham Grammar School in 1897.  He was appointed inspector for higher education in Kent in 1904, becoming the county's Director of Education in 1918.  He was education adviser to Maidstone Prison between 1923 and 1928.  He also held office as President of the Association of Directors and Secretaries for Education (1924), President of the New Education Fellowship (English section) (1932–33) and president of the Library Association (1935). He also served as chairman of trustees of the National Central Library and chairman of the Rural Schools Committee on the Central Council for School Broadcasting.  He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1932.  He retired from his post of Director of Education in 1938, and was then editor of the Journal of Education from 1939 to the spring of 1955.  He was also chairman of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, having been appointed when he was in his seventies and stepping down in 1951. His obituary in The Times described him as "for long a leading figure in educational administration and thought in England".  His own publications included several books on educational themes, including The Aim of Education and Education for Industry and Life. He died at his home in Croydon on 10 June 1955.

References

1872 births
1955 deaths
Welsh educators
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
Alumni of Aberystwyth University
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire


Xanbulan is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,303.  The municipality consists of the villages of Xanbulan and Sərinbulaq.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


Parakənd is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,149.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


Qurumba (also, Quruba) is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 837.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


Moğonojoba is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 637.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


Capital FC is an American soccer team based in Salem, Oregon, United States. Although founded in 2008 as part of the development system for the Portland Timbers USSF D2 organization, beginning in 2011 they were part of the development system for the Major League Soccer franchise of the same name until 2022. The team plays in USL League Two, the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. The men's team is known as Capital Futbol Club Atletico. The women's team, who plays in the USL W League, is known as Capital Futbol Club Atletica.

History
The Timbers joined the PDL in 2009, and played their first ever game on May 9, 2009, against fellow expansion franchise Victoria Highlanders finishing 2–2, with the first goal in franchise history being scored by Jarad Van Schaik assisted by Matt Van Houten.

In 2017, the team announced it would be based out of Salem, in affiliation with Capital FC Timbers.

On April 1, 2022, Capital FC Timbers announced that they were severing all ties with the Portland Timbers and renamed the USL League Two team Capital FC Atletico.

Players

Current roster

Notable former players

This list of notable former players comprises players who went on to play professional soccer after playing for the team in the Premier Development League, or those who previously played professionally before joining the team.

  Fatai Alashe
  Travis Bowen
  Freddie Braun
  Graham Dugoni
  Logan Emory
  Sterling Flunder
  Jake Gleeson
  Miguel Guante
  Erik Hurtado
  Mutanda Kwesele
  Daniel Leach
  Jason McLaughlin
  Andrew Ribeiro
  Brent Richards
  Thomas Ryan
  Ross Smith
  Warren Ukah
  Jarad vanSchaik
  Cameron Vickers
  Collen Warner
  Emery Welshman
  Khiry Shelton
  Mark Sherrod
  Eric Miller

Year-by-year

Men's Team

Women's team

Honors

Portland Timbers U23
USL PDL Champions 2010
 USL PDL regular-season champions 2010
 USL PDL Western Conference champions 2010
 USL PDL Northwest Division champions 2010, 2017
 USL League Two Western Conference champions 2021
 USL League Two Northwest Division champions 2021

Capital FC
 USL League Two Northwest Division champions 2022

Head coaches
  Matt Broadhead (2022–present)
  Aaron Lewis (2017–2021)
  Jim Rilatt (2009–2016)

Stadiums

 John Chambers Field at CFC Complex; Salem, Oregon (2022–present)
 McCulloch Stadium; Salem, Oregon (2017–2021)
 Providence Park; Portland, Oregon (2009–2016)
 Tualatin Hills Park; Beaverton, Oregon one game (2009)
 Kiggins Bowl; Vancouver, Washington three games (2009–2011)
 Lincoln Park Stadium at Pacific University; Forest Grove, Oregon two games (2009)
 Stadium at Tigard High School; Tigard, Oregon two games (2009–2010)
 Hare Field; Hillsboro, Oregon two games (2010–2011)
 Stadium at Gresham High School; Gresham, Oregon one game (2010)
 Stadium at Clackamas High School; Clackamas, Oregon one game (2011)
 Stadium at Sherwood High School; Sherwood, Oregon one game (2011)
 Doc Harris Stadium at Camas High School; Camas, Washington one game (2011)

References

External links

 USL League Two Website

Soccer clubs in Oregon
USL League Two teams
Association football clubs established in 2008
2008 establishments in Oregon
Capital FC
USL W League teams
Women's soccer clubs in the United States


Wincenty Lutosławski (1863–1954) was a Polish philosopher, author, and member of the Polish National League.

Life and career

Early life

Wincenty was the eldest son of Franciszek Dionizy Lutosławski, a landowner from Drozdowo and Maria Lutosławska, nee Szczygielska.  He was half-brother to Józef Lutosławski, who was the father of composer Witold Lutosławski. In his youth he was home schooled. In 1880, after suffering a breakdown, he became an atheist and materialist. A year later he graduated from secondary school in Mitawa and commenced his studies at the Riga Polytechnic, where he lasted only for three semesters. He was unable to complete his studies due to poor health as well as the internal conflict within Arkonia fraternity. In 1884 he enrolled at Dorpat University to study chemistry and philosophy – he was taught among others by the philosopher - Gustav Teichmüller.

In April 1885 he experienced a breakthrough – one he himself described as the „discovery of the Self”. While reading Symposium by Plato, he had a mystical revelation – he discovered the existence and immortality of his own soul. In turn he “converted” to Platonism, which from then on stayed with him all his life. The event influenced his beliefs on the pre-extistence of soul and paligenesis, which he proclaimed as a part of his philosophical reflection and started his long journey to Christianity. The same year Lutosławski travelled to Paris where he studied at École pratique des hautes études under the supervision of the philologist Gaston Paris.

In 1887 Lutosławski moved to Dorpat where he wrote his Masters’ thesis in philosophy but was unsuccessful in finding a job posting there. In 1888, thanks to the influence of the Polish linguist Jan Baudoin de Courtenay, he became a private associate professor in Kazań, where he taught psychology, metaphysics and history of philosophy. In the following years, Lutosławski travelled extensively in North America and Europe. He continued his studies on Plato (that he started in 1887) in places like the British Museum. The effect of these studies was his work, The Origin and Growth of Plato's Logic with an Account of Plato's Style and of the Chronology of his Writings (London 1897). Thanks to the stylometric method, which involved the identification of stylistic differences, he was able to establish a certain chronology of the works written by the most famous student of Socrates.

While writing about Plato, Lutosławski tried to secure employment in what used to be Poland. Being unsuccessful at Jagiellonian University, in 1898 Lutosławski settled in a Galician town of Mera in Spain, where he hosted (among others) Tadeusz Miciński and Stanisław Przybyszewski. The same year he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Helsinki, based on his thesis Ueber die Grundvoraussertzungen und Consequenzen de Individualistichen Weltanschauung. Following this event, Lutosławski came to Krakow, where he was only offered the post of private associate professor.

When he lived in Krakow, Lutosławski was known for his extravagant behaviour – for example, wearing the attire of Polish Highlanders (górale). During his lectures that lasted for many hours, Lutosławski often proclaimed radical social slogans and attacked philosophical positivism as well as pessimism, nihilism, partitioning authorities and so called Stańczycy (loyalists). That worried the University authorities, who ordered him to be placed under surveillance. As a result Dr. Karol Żuławski declared the philosopher to be suffering from severe psychiatric problems, and that combined with his political / philosophical beliefs led to his suspension from academic activity.

In 1899, on the invitation by Zygmunt Balicki, Lutosławski became a member of National League, a secret national-democratic organisation. He was active in it until 1910 and participated in the organisational work – as the commissioner of the Central Committee he set up the branch of the League in Poznan. He maintained a good relationship with the politicians of that option (particularly with Balicki), who often visited him both in his Krakow apartment as well as in Drozdowo.

In 1903 Lutosławski founded Eleusis association, that promoted Catholic national upbringing in the spirit of the romantic poets as well as freedom, meant as moral freedom, that was achieved through asceticism, discipline, exercises of will and abstinence from gambling, sex, tobacco and alcohol. The association published several magazines that supported their ideas – like a yearly “Eleusis” or “Iskra” (Spark). They recruited their members mainly from young representatives of intelligentsia or labourers in Upper Silesia, where the association spread the word about Polish national identity and patriotic sentiments. Lutosławski personally participated in the process of education. The organisation also had significant influence over the scouts movement, as its founders belonged to the association.

The beginning of the 20th century saw Lutosławski yet again travel across the globe with his lectures. He went to the USA, where he held over 100 of the lectures. Between 1904 and 1906 he taught Polish literature at the University College in London. He also got interested in yoga, which he later practised – that in turn helped him overcome his neurosis. His interest resulted in the first Polish handbook on yoga, Rozwój potęgi woli (eng. Development of the will power), written in 1904 but published five years later. In his book Lutosławski outlined the programme of moral development through psychological and physical exercises. As a result, Lutosławski is considered the first Polish yogi.

World War I

Between 1912 and 1916 Lutosławski lived in Switzerland, where in Chateau Barby he founded Kuźnica (eng. Forge), a place where Poles could seek shelter and education. During this period, he also taught at the University of Geneva. After the First World War outbreak, Lutosławski wanted to join Polish Legions, but Balicki successfully dissuaded him from the idea. Between 1916 and 1919 he lived in Paris and patriotically motivated, he closely collaborated with Polish organisations – he wrote pamphlets and press articles on the case of Polish independence – for English, French, American and Polish newspapers.

Interbellum

After the First World War, Lutosławski got himself involved in the works of the Polish Congress Bureau in Versailles – the Polish expert committee that prepared the materials for Polish politicians. He was highly regarded there, particularly thanks to his fluent knowledge of English and he worked especially closely with Eugeniusz Romer, an ethnographer. His duties included publishing brochures in English on the borders of Poland – he supported the return to the pre-partition borders as well as the incorporation of Masuria and Gdańsk to Poland. He opposed the border plebiscites and fought against bolshevik ideology, by publishing about it. He declared his negative opinions on the treaties that extended the appreciation for ethnic minorities in Poland.

On his return from Paris, on 25 August 1919, Lutosławski managed to secure the post of associate professor at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, where he went on to teach logic, psychology, ethics and metaphysics. A year later, he became a professor at this University. It was at this university where he had his first „disciple” – Benedykt Woyczyński. In 1925 Woyczyński wrote his doctorate on the subject of soul in the works of Plato. Even prior to his doctorate, as a member of the philosophical seminar, together with Lutosławski he participated in the Convention of Philosophers in Lwow. He was not a Messianist, but he shared his mentor's deep faith in Christianity, which was able to transform the world. He died of TB in 1927.

In time free from the didactic work, Lutisławski often held public lectures – both in Poland (for example – for the army, thanks to personal permission of Józef Piłsudski and Kazimierz Sosnkowski) and abroad. After 1926, he used to lecture on the theory of national propriety at the events organised by Polska Macierz Szkolna, He was invited to do so by Józef Stemler, with whom he forged a friendship. In 1927 he participated in a pedagogical congress in Italy to promote nationalist Polish ideas. It was there where he debated with the eminent French philosopher – Henri Bergson, whom he had known previously. Around the same time, on his travels to England he got to know Gilbert K. Chesterton and the historian Arnold J. Toynbee.

After 1926 Lutosławski formed a negative opinion on Józef Piłsudski, and declared him a person with no mental or moral qualities for the important roles in the state. Because of these opinions that he put in a little book Tajemnica powszechnego dobrobytu (eng. The secret of the universal wellbeing), his work was censored before publishing and was not distributed. In 1929 Lutosławski retired from Stefan Batory University and in 1931 he moved to Paris. It was there where he started to write down his memoirs, later published as Jeden łatwy żywot (eng. One Easy Life). In 1933 he settled in Dzięgielów near Cieszyn, and a year later in Krakow, where he lived until his death.

World War II

During the Second World War Lutosławski barely left his apartment, thus avoiding the fate of many Krakow academics who got arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen camp. His worries were mainly of a financial nature and that forced him to sell some of the books from his collection. He could however count on the help of his son, who used to send food packages to the family. As Janina Lutosławska recollects, during that period, her father often served as a symbol of encouragement to those who encountered him.

Postwar period

Lutosławski criticised the new authorities, he thought they were striving to convert Poland into yet another Soviet republic. Between 1946 and 1948 he held free private lectures at Jagiellonian University. In 1948 he wanted the University to reinstate him as associate professor but he was refused – again. In 1948 he managed to deliver a speech at the 10th Philosophy Congress in Amsterdam. He polished his metaphysical system then, but did not publish a book on the subject. The book was only published in the 21st century – Metafizyka (eng. Metaphysics), Drozdowo 2004.

Lutosławski died on 28 December 1954. Before his death, he made peace with Sofia Casanova and prepared a document in which he renounced all his beliefs that could contradict the teachings of the Catholic Church. He was buried at Krakow Salwator Cemetery.

Philosophy

Wincenty Lutosławski coined the term "stylometry". A multilingual philosopher, he used literary analysis to establish the chronology of Plato's writings.

It can be described through nationalistic Messianism and eleuterism – metaphysical spiritualist pluralism stemming from the philosophy of Plato. He combined them with Catholicism, programme of moral renewal and individualism. In his opinion eleuterism found its fullness in Christianity, that taught the value of every human soul, that was created by God. In his metaphysics Lutosławski claimed that the spiritual sphere is the primary and securely existing one. The materialistic sphere can be narrowed down to the phenomena. Lutosławski claimed that a human is equipped with fully free will and that we consist of two monads: spiritual, primary one and lower one – a body. Additionally, he supported the ideas of the pre-existence of soul as well as the palingenesis – a cyclical return of the same souls to earth in various human shapes.	Lutosławski was the avid defender and admirer of Polish romanticism, he thought of himself as the heir who got his inspiration from the ideas of Andrzej Towiański, Józef Hoene-Wroński or  August Cieszkowski. He wrote about Juliusz Słowacki, declaring him the author of the spiritualist evolution concept (in opposition to Charles Darwin). This concept involved an immaterial spirit that took on the shape of various species. His Messianism had eschatological perspective and was meant to bring the human race to perfection. It was meant to be achieved by religious transformation of a human and that transformation would also happen at the social, economic and international levels. He perceived the nation as the highest form of human existence, as a spiritual community, that has its mission to fulfill in the world. It was the soul that would create a nation – soul as a self-conscious self rather than a historical heritage or geographical location. The nations formed a certain type of hierarchy and a special mission was ascribed to Poles – nation of Christ. Lutosławski combined all that with the democratic concept of the state.

Because of the contradictions his concept had with the teachings of the Catholic Church, Lutosławski, until his very death was often criticised by orthodox Catholics. Trying to resolve the issue, in later years Lutosławski exchanged letters with Belgian Thomistic philosopher – cardinal. Desire Joseph Mercier, who assured him that his beliefs are not heretical.

In the Second Republic of Poland he continued to proclaim spiritualistic metaphysics and Messianism. He mused on the issue of Polish culture, where he judged individualism as the most important factor. He stated that Poles as a nation have a special relationship with God, thanks to national prophets (poets). The mission of the Polish nation was the creation of God's kingdom on Earth, a kingdom that also looked after the materialistic side of human beings and after the international community. The role of the Poles was also the proclamation of universal values: tolerance, individual freedom, charity, Christianity, strong social bonds. They were to ensure that every single individual self in the world could identify itself with its nation. The degree of such identification could eventually lead to the abolition of certain states, whose existence is often the cause of conflict between them.

Lutosławski criticised the Lwow-Warsaw School, which dominated Polish philosophy. He harshly criticized Kazimierz Twardowski himself, calling him a German scholar – this, despite Twardowski having privately tried to help him and had arranged for him to lecture in Lwów. Others were equally critical of Lutosławski. Władysław Tatarkiewicz proposed banning Lutosławski from representing Polish philosophy abroad; and in May 1923 Tadeusz Kotarbiński wanted to remove him from the committee of the First All-Polish Philosophical Congress in Lwów.

Private life
In 1886, in Spain, Lutosławski met the eminent Galician poet and writer Sofía Casanova. They married on 19 March 1886 and had four daughters: Maria (born 1888), Izabela (born 1889), Jadwiga (born 1891), and Halina (born 1897). The marriage was troubled for a number of reasons, including Jadwiga's death in 1895. Lutosławski had contributed to her death by believing he could cure his daughter's illness with his own energy. The last year Lutosławski and Sofia Casanova could be considered a couple was 1903; they most likely never received a formal divorce or annulment.

On 29 June 1912, Lutosławski married again, in Verdun, France, to Wanda Peszyńska, a member of Eleusis. That second marriage was far happier. The following year the long-awaited son, Tadeusz, was born; he later became a diplomat in England and changed his name to Aleksander Jordan. In 1922 the couple's second child was born: Janina, later an English philologist.

In 1897, in England, Lutosławski interviewed Joseph Conrad. Lutosławski's account, published in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the Polish weekly Kraj, and the ensuing controversy involving the novelist Eliza Orzeszkowa, caused Conrad much distress. He developed a lasting hatred for Orzeszkowa, who accused him of deserting his native Poland. Conrad thereafter adamantly refused to read her novels.

Works
 Principes de stylométrie (1890)
 O logice Platona (I–II, Kraków 1891–1892, I: O tradycyi tekstu Platona, II: Dotychczasowe poglądy na logikę Platona i zadania dalszych badań nad tym przedmiotem)
 O pierwszych trzech tetralogiach dzieł Platona (Kraków 1896)
 The Origin and Growth of Plato's Logic. With an Account of Plato's Style and of the Chronology of His Writings (1897)
 Platon jako twórca idealizmu (Warsaw 1899)
 Źródła pesymizmu (Kraków 1899)
 Z dziedziny myśli. Studja filozoficzne. 1888–1899 (Kraków 1900)
 Wykłady Jagiellońskie (I–II, Kraków 1901–1902)
 The Polish Nation (Berlin 1908)
 Gdańsk and East Prussia (1919)
 Lithuania and White Ruthenia (1919)
 The Ruthenian Question in Galicia (1919)
 Bolshevism and Poland (1919)
 The World of Souls (1924)
 Pre-existence and Reincarnation (1928)
 The Knowledge of Reality (1930)

See also
History of philosophy in Poland
List of Poles

References

External links

1863 births
1954 deaths
Polish nationalists
19th-century Polish philosophers
20th-century Polish philosophers
People from Warsaw
Polish messianism


Rudolph Tegner (12 July 1873 – 5 June 1950) was a Danish sculptor linked to the Symbolist movement. In the early 20th century his work caused considerable controversy in Denmark. A large number of his works are on display in the Rudolph Tegner Museum north of Copenhagen.

Biography
Tegner was born in Copenhagen. He was the son of politician and businessman Jørgen Henry August Tegner and his wife Signe Elisabeth Puggaard. He was trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

He travelled to Greece and to Italy as a young man, where he was particularly impressed by Michelangelo's sculptures in the Medici Chapel. His first major work, A Faun (1891) was installed at Charlottenburg Palace. From 1890 to 1893 he collaborated with the Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland, and then moved to Paris, where he resided until 1897. Tegner's sculptures developed the stylistic innovations of Art Nouveau and the erotic realism of Auguste Rodin. This caused widespread debate in Denmark, which was still heavily influenced by the restrained neo-classical ideals of Bertel Thorvaldsen. Tegner, in contrast, emphasised violent monumental forms which were both eye-catching and provocative.

Tegner was influenced strongly by the ideas of Frederich Nietzsche, especially as filtered through the writings of Georg Brandes. He created a statuette entitled Lucifer with Brandes's Head (1902), a reference to Brandes' nickname "Lucifer". It has been described as showing the author as if he were "almost like his own worst enemy, or at least seems unafraid of aiming barbs at himself." Images of struggling figures influenced by Nietzschean ideas run throughout his work. Brandes himself defended Tegner's most controversial work, a monument to the physician and Nobel Laureate Niels Finsen, which was installed in Copenhagen in 1909. It shows a standing naked man flanked by two kneeling naked women, reaching up to the sky. The sculpture was entitled Mod lyset (Towards the Light). It symbolised Finsen's principal scientific theory, that specific wavelengths of sunlight have healing properties.

In 1911 Tegner married the painter Elna Jørgensen (1889–1976). In 1916, he acquired barren uncultivated land in Zealand in the vicinity of Helsingør. He subsequently built a museum and sculpture park dedicated to his work in this bleak landscape. From 1917 on he installed a number of his sculptures there, mainly on classical themes. He also created a building in an uncompromising minimalist style to function as a museum for his work.
Among the works on display are the sculpture Heracles and the Wild Boar (1919).

Rudolph Tegner died on 5 June1950. He was buried in a mausoleum at the centre of the museum complex, which is open to the public.

See also
 Isaac Wilhelm Tegner (lithographer)

References

External links

 Film "Rudolph Tegner" website
 Rudolph Tegners Museum og Statuepark official website
 English language Tegner website

Other sources
Hans Jørgen Bonnichsen, Myten Rudolph (2003) Tegners skitser og malerier (Rudolph Tegners Museum)

1873 births
1950 deaths
20th-century Danish sculptors
Male sculptors
Art Nouveau sculptors
Symbolist sculptors
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni
Danish male artists
20th-century Danish male artists


Dildo cactus is a common name used for several species of long, narrow cactus, especially

 Acanthocereus tetragonus
 Pilosocereus royenii
 Lava cactus

In addition, Dildo is a common name of Opuntia stricta, and Pilosocereus polygonus is known as the Bahama Dildo.


Call Me Ted is an autobiography written by American businessman Ted Turner, released on November 10, 2008. The book was written over the course of three years with the help of Bill Burke, a former executive for TBS.

Overview
After dropping out of college, Turner began working for his father's billboard company, slowly turning it into an international media empire, including the creation of the first 24-hour news channel CNN. Also discussed are some of Turner's more controversial business moves, such as the disastrous merger of his corporation Time Warner with AOL.

The book delves into Turner's personal life, including the death of his teenage sister, the suicide of his father, and his ten-year marriage to Jane Fonda, an Academy Award winning actress.

Reception
Call Me Ted received fairly positive reviews. Some critics noted that his desire not to dwell in the past raises inherent difficulties when writing an autobiography. The details of his business transactions earned praise.

USA Today said that "Turner's personality infuses every page of Call Me Ted," and named it "One of the best business books of 2008." The Economist said that "Mr. Turner is surprisingly candid... There is a remarkable lack of regret in Mr. Turner's writing, or of defensiveness... Mr. Turner's mantra seems to be to keep moving on." The Daily Beast said, "The new memoir Call Me Ted makes the Mouth of the South seem like a pleasant-even modest!-creature."

References

2008 non-fiction books
American autobiographies
Turner Broadcasting System


Tahiryuaq, formerly Tahiryuak Lake, is a lake located in the Canadian Arctic's Northwest Territories. It is situated in northcentral Victoria Island, north of Prince Albert Sound, southeast of Minto Inlet.

The lake is populated with Arctic char It is designated as a Key Habitat Site because of the high density of nesting king eiders.  In addition, notable populations of Arctic tern, cackling goose, long-tailed duck, Pacific loon, pomarine jaeger, and Sabine's gulls  frequent the area.

Tahiryuak was a caribou hunting region of the Haneragmiut and the Kanianermiut Copper Inuit.

See also
 List of lakes of the Northwest Territories

References

Victoria Island (Canada)
Tahiryuak
Ornithology


Operation Steel Box, also known as Operation Golden Python (German name for the transport in Germany: Aktion Lindwurm), was a 1990 joint U.S.-West German operation which moved over 100,000 U.S. chemical weapons from Germany to Johnston Atoll.

Background
At a United States Army Site near Clausen, West Germany 100,000 GB and VX filled American chemical munitions were stored in 15 concrete bunkers. These munitions were managed by the 330th Ordnance Company (EOD) and guarded by the 110th Military Police Company both headquartered in nearby Münchweiler an der Rodalb. The propellants for these munitions were stored in Leimen Site 67. The GB and VX munitions had undergone a refurbishment from 1980 to 1982. The weapons in this depot were scheduled to be moved due to an agreement between the United States and West Germany. The 1986 agreement, between Ronald Reagan and Helmut Kohl, provided for the removal of 155 mm and 8 inch unitary chemical projectiles.

Conversion
The program sponsor, the Military Sealift Command, brought in the prestigious naval architecture firm, George G. Sharp, inc of New York City as project manager to oversee the design-development efforts to modify and outfit the two crane ships for the mission and assigned former Electric Boat submarine engineer Jim Ruggieri, P.E. as project engineer.  The vessels were outfitted with a collective protection system – or a positive pressure system used to pressurize the house relative to the cargo hold as a means of preventing inadvertent weapon gas migration in the event of a containment failure; manned Laboratories – to provide a safe and comfortable environment to scientists to perform analyses of the products; unmanned “sniffer” and alarming modules to sample cargo hold air to detect containment failures, as well as detect and alarm positive pressure system failure; power generation modules to supplement ship power and emergency power provisions, and specialized communications modules to permit coordination with
security forces.

Operation
Operation Steel Box began on July 26, 1990 and ended on September 22, 1990, but the weapons did not reach their final destination until November. The move from the storage facility to an intermediate facility at Miesau utilized trucks and trains, civilian contractors, and U.S. and West German military personnel. The weapons were repacked and shipped by truck from their storage facility until they reached the railway in Miesau. The truck transport portion of the mission involved 28 road convoys which delivered the munitions the 30 miles from Clausen to Miesau.

The munitions were carried by special ammunition train from Miesau to the port of Nordenham. The train transport was well publicized and escorted by 80 U.S. and West German military and police vehicles. At the port the munitions were loaded onto two modified ships, the SS Gopher State and the SS Flickertail State, by the Army's Technical Escort Unit. The ships were operated by the U.S. Military Sealift Command, and upon leaving Nordenham they sailed for 46 straight days. The ships arrived at Johnston Atoll and on November 18 unloaded the last of their cargo containers.

Reaction and issues

Security and emergency response
Security and emergency response were both concerns during Steel Box. Besides the police and military escort for the trains, the road convoys had restricted airspace overhead. Along the route, emergency response teams were on stand-by. While the ships were in port U.S. Navy EOD Detachments provided underwater hull sweeps to ensure limpet mines were not attached to the ships. The 46-day trip at sea was non-stop, with refueling taking place along the route. The ships were also escorted by the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Bainbridge and USS Truxtun. The transport ships avoided the Panama Canal, for security reasons, and took the route around Cape Horn, the tip of South America. There were no reported chemical agent leaks or security breaches during the transport phase of Steel Box.

International reaction
The 1990 shipments of nerve agents from Germany to the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System facility caused several South Pacific nations to express unease. At the 1990 South Pacific Forum in Vanuatu, the island nations of the South Pacific indicated that their concern was that the South Pacific would become a toxic waste dumping ground. Other concerns raised included the security of the shipments, which were refueled at sea and escorted by U.S. guided missile destroyers, while they were en route to Johnston Atoll. In Australia, Prime Minister Bob Hawke drew criticism from some of these island nations for his support of the chemical weapons destruction at Johnston Atoll.

See also
267th Chemical Company
Johnston Atoll
Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System
Operation Red Hat

References

Steel Box
Steel Box
Steel Box
Steel Box
Johnston Atoll
Palatinate Forest


Şirinsu is a village in the municipality of Liman in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" is a soliloquy written by Robert Browning, first published in his collection Dramatic Lyrics (1842). It is written in the voice of an unnamed Spanish monk. The poem consists of nine eight-line stanzas and is written in trochaic tetrameter. The plot of the poem centers around the speaker's hatred for "Brother Lawrence", a fellow monk in the cloister.

The speaker notes the trivial ways in which Brother Lawrence fails in his Christianity, and then plots to murder, or damn the soul of, Brother Lawrence. However, the poem ends before the speaker can finish, when he is interrupted by the bells proclaiming it is time for vespers.

References
 Lecture on the subject—English 262 "A Survey Of British Literature", Columbus State Community College "Global Campus"

Further reference bibliography
  Abstract: Heldref Publications.

External links

1842 poems
Humorous poems
Poetry by Robert Browning


John Lloyd-Jones (14 October 1885 – 1 February 1956) was the first Professor of Welsh at the National University of Ireland, Dublin, working in Dublin for over 40 years. In addition to his scholarly publications, Lloyd-Jones was also a prize-winning poet.

Life
Lloyd-Jones was born on 14 October 1885 and studied at the schools in Dolwyddelan and Llanrwst, Wales, before winning a scholarship to the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1902. He obtained a degree in Welsh in 1906, studying under Sir John Morris-Jones. He then became a research student at Jesus College, Oxford in 1907 for the postgraduate BLitt.  He later studied Irish at the University of Freiburg with Rudolf Thurneysen and then was appointed as the first professor of Welsh at the National University of Ireland, Dublin.  In his obituary in The Times, it was said of him that he became " a sort of unofficial ambassador from Wales to Ireland". He was external examiner in Welsh for the University of Wales from 1916 until his retirement in 1955.

He won a prize at the National Eisteddfod in Caernarfon in 1921 for a work on the places names of Caernarfonshire, which was published in 1928 as . This was the first modern scholarly study of its kind. In 1922, he won the Chair for his poem on the subject of winter. He was an expert on the Welsh language found in ancient sources, publishing a Vocabulary of Early Welsh Poetry in eight parts. In 1948, the British Academy asked him to deliver the lecture in memory of Sir John Rhys, and his topic was "The Court Poets of the Welsh Princes". He was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature by the University of Wales in 1948. He retired from his professorship in September 1955 and died in Dolwyddelan at the age of 70.

References

1885 births
1956 deaths
Alumni of Bangor University
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
Celtic studies scholars
Academics of University College Dublin
20th-century Welsh poets
People from Dolwyddelan


Üzümçülük is a village in the municipality of Nərimanabad, in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


Səbir is a village in the municipality of Darquba in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


The 1919–20 Quebec Athletics season was the Athletics' first and last season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Quebec franchise, dating from the National Hockey Association (NHA), was re-activated after two seasons of dormancy. The team placed fourth and last in the league in both halves of the season to not qualify for the playoffs. The Quebec franchise would be transferred to Hamilton, Ontario, before the next season.

Off-season
The Quebec NHL franchise had been dormant for two seasons. In the first season, long-time manager Mike Quinn had retired due to ill health and the club's directors voted to suspend the team. Before the second season, the team had been sold to Percy Quinn (no relation), but Quinn was only using the franchise in an ill-fated attempt to resurrect the National Hockey Association (NHA). The NHL owners then cancelled the Quebec NHL franchise, leaving Quebec out of the league for a second season. In May 1919, Calder and Mike Quinn made efforts to return Quebec to the league. This led to the NHL approving a new franchise in December 1919, to be operated by the Quebec Athletic Club and the club's official name in the NHL was the Quebec Athletic Club, leaving the old 'Bulldogs' nickname behind. Mike Quinn returned to manage the team for the season.

Regular season
Joe Malone and Jack McDonald from the Quebec NHA team were 'returned' to the new Quebec NHL team. Malone would lead the league in scoring with 39 goals. Malone would score seven goals in a game against Toronto on January 31, 1920, and six goals in a game against Ottawa on March 10, 1920.

On March 3, the Montreal Canadiens pummeled the Athletics 16–3, setting an all-time NHL record for goals by one team.

Final standings

Record vs. opponents

Playoffs

The Athletics did not qualify for the playoffs.

Player stats

Awards and records
 Joe Malone - NHL scoring champion

Transactions
 Howie Lockhart - Loaned to Quebec by Toronto, March 6, 1920. (Toronto 11, Quebec 2).

References

Notes

See also
 1919–20 NHL season

Quebec Bulldogs season, 1919-20
Quebec


Honors colleges and honors programs are special accommodation constituent programs at public and private universities – and also public two-year institutions of higher learning – that include, among other things, supplemental or alternative curricular and non-curricular programs, privileges, special access, scholarships, and distinguished recognition for exceptional undergraduate scholars.

History

Public universities
Higher education policymakers in state governments overwhelmingly support honors programs not only to better serve exceptional young scholars but also to attract and retain them in their respective public education systems.

Many honors programs began after World War II, when a surge of highly qualified students seeking higher education exceeded the capacities of highly selective private universities.  Current modeled honors programs began in public universities around the beginning of the second half of the 20th century.  The first of the current type can be traced to one that was founded at Michigan State University on November 9, 1956, Based on that foundation, Michigan State University-Oakland, now Oakland University, was the first university founded with assistance of an honors college student advisory group made up of honors students from that first honors college, and was announced on January 3, 1957. Four honors college were founded by 1960, including that at Wesleyan University, the University of Missouri, and at the University of Oregon – Robert D. Clark Honors College.  By 1990, honors programs became ubiquitous and evolved.  Peterson's Smart Choices: Guide to Honors Programs & Colleges, in 2005, indicated that there were nearly 600 honors-type programs at both two- and four-year institutions in the United States.  A 2008 survey of honors programs affiliated with the National Collegiate Honors Council reflects that much of the growth in honors programs is recent, with over 60% of honors programs having been established since 1994.

However, earlier honors programs – those founded before World War II – include Plan II Honors at The University of Texas at Austin, still in existence, which is an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree itself.  The program began with 50 students who were given a broader, less specialized, liberal arts curriculum as opposed to that of the traditional bachelor of arts degree (Plan I).  Michigan's LSA Honors Program, another earlier program, was founded around 1958.

Private universities
One notable early honors program at a private institution, that exists today, is that of Swarthmore College, founded in 1922 by its then President Frank Aydelotte and initially modeled on the tutorial system of Oxford University.

The more recent increase of honors programs at private institutions, beginning around the start of the 21st century, is somewhat a response to the success of honors programs and colleges of public universities. Smaller private institutions, in particular, are desirous of increasing admission yields of exceptional undergraduate scholars being lured by other competing institutions, public and private.

Interinstitutional and multinational
Global Honors College, an exemplary model of an  and multinational honors program, was organized by Waseda University (Tokyo).  The College convenes faculty and undergraduate students from universities worldwide to conduct joint, structured, and sustained investigations of enduring and emerging global issues.  Students from public and private institutions, including Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Yale, Peking, Korea, Waseda, and others, participate in a Global Seminar – an annual, summer-long intensive course on Earth sustainability matters ranging from food and agriculture to natural disasters.

Institutional objectives

Recruiting exceptional students
Recruiting exceptional students is an impetus for offering Honors programs.  In a study of graduation rates by Alexander Astin, 66% of the variation in retention rates between institutions can be explained by differences in the quality of entering students.  And, to some extent, honors colleges and programs attract students who contribute to higher retention rates.

Student retention
But, from another perspective, engineering educators Phillip Wankat and Frank Oreovicz assert that offering honors programs (and merit societies) during the first year, or early in the second year is critical, when losses in enrollment is highest, particularly in rigorous academic disciplines such as engineering.  Wankat and Oreovicz insist that any sort of extra attention – athletics, clubs, informal socials, small first-year seminars, eating meals with professors, visiting professors homes, and the like – helps retain students who have the makings of good scholars.  In the case of undergraduate engineering, extra attention – including offerings of honors programs for undergraduate engineering majors – also helps keep potential engineering majors from changing majors.

Along with Wankat and Oreovicz, there is an ongoing debate on how social media plays a role in the retention of honors students. Corinne R. Green at Purdue University attests that "in the face of new technologies, honors faculty and staff should begin understanding the way their students interact with these technologies to apply them appropriately within the honors experience". Green believes that within the future of honors colleges and programs, there needs to be a push and effort to integrate social media in a way that not only shows off the honors colleges in a good light but also can be properly applied to the curriculum without limiting learning. Green has also taken from others to say that the debate is at a stand-still due to some believing that social media can be incorporated beneficially.

Enrichment vs. acceleration
Research that supports pedagogical approaches are mostly based on empirical evidence and theory. Providing great education and experiencing it is not an exact science.  While many successful institutions of higher learning share consensus on a number of pedagogical approaches, they are not always uniform.

For honors colleges and programs that offer exclusive accredited coursework and labs for participants, the style often places less emphasis on testing and more on personable interaction, such as small seminar-styled classes and mentoring and academic apprenticeship.  Usually, the objective is to cultivate a more  learning experience.  But enrichment is not the objective of all honors colleges and programs.  Engineering, technical fields, undergraduate sciences, and pre-med, for instance, might place more focus on acceleration, in lieu of , with the goal of taking the student further.  In accounting and engineering, for example, professional accreditation is paramount and the academic coursework required is great. For fast and efficient learners, acceleration might be more ideal.  Moreover, accounting and engineering degrees represent professional education.  Students on professional tracks likely aspire to start careers as soon as possible.

Outside honors colleges and programs, not all liberal arts oriented institutions avoid acceleration. Reed College, for example, internationally known for its liberal arts, offers acceleration for its fast learners – for various reasons.  In many cases, concerns over enrichment vs. acceleration are moot because students at the collegiate level can determine their workload by the classes they choose.

Economic influences on enrichment vs. acceleration
The balance between enrichment and acceleration can sometimes fluctuate, correlated to the economy and job market.  In a poor economy, enrichment, for those who can afford it, might be more desirable.  Why rush to be in a bad job market?  Or the reverse correlation can occur: an extended period (a decade, for instance) in a weak economy with a poor job market can serve as a  for liberal arts programs, even those of international rank, swaying academicians and students to surrender liberal arts enrichment in favor of professional education.

Funding requirements of enrichment vs. acceleration
From a funding perspective,  is often more expensive than acceleration.  The logic being that, with acceleration – for math and engineering, as an example – professors simply cover more advanced material at a faster pace – using resources in hand and curricula already developed.  By contrast, enrichment often requires extra materials and resources, particularity during a launch phase.

Considerations and criticism

Funding
Inadequate funding of honors colleges and programs can lead to a system of borrowing faculty members from elsewhere within an institution, which, on one level, has the effect of  undergraduates who are not in the program. Along with that, since money is such an important factor when it comes to honors colleges, they try to attract donors to help with said inadequate funding. This donor funding may be either through donations (whether it be alumni, celebs, or other), or fundraising in direct support to the honors colleges specifically. Notwithstanding concerns over funding, honors programs, initially (in the early 1960s), served as less costly alternatives to scholarships when competing for exceptional students.  However, as programs have evolved, scholarships have become more universally prevalent.

Isolation
Attracting exceptional young scholars is a goal of most if not all universities.  Exceptionally bright, motivated students who perform at high levels cultivate strong leaning experiences for university communities.  The students of many honors programs and colleges usually take the same classes as regular students.  But, to the extent that students of honors colleges and programs are isolated among themselves – by way of exclusive classes or activities or living quarters – the overall benefits might accrue in isolation, while at the same time, can also be a drain on quality academic environment for the larger student population who otherwise would benefit from more interaction with exceptional students.  Further to that end, Michael Harris, in one of his blogs about his experience teaching in an honors college, expressed concern over a " and " academic experience that honors programs tend to cultivate. Harris harbored another concern that some of the new-found (post-1960) enthusiasm over honors colleges and programs were driven more by consumerism, albeit a type of consumerism that was antithetical to altruistic efforts towards elevating learning experiences and academic excellence.

Honors colleges vs. honors programs
Admission to honors colleges and programs is selective.  Honors colleges often have smaller classes.  The difference between an honors college and honors program varies, but has little to do with the level of resources allocated by a university.  For example, some public universities, namely large universities, offer multiple well-funded honors programs for specific academic disciplines, including arts and sciences or liberal arts (with a broad sub-list of possible disciplines, including mathematics), business, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, and computer science.  Aside from that, honors programs, compared to honors colleges, are sometimes smaller and less formal, but might not offer additional resources – such as exclusive residences and academic buildings.

In some institutions, very few, honors programs are built around unique degree programs unto themselves.  Most honors colleges, academically, offer no degrees, but administratively are structured as autonomous collegiate units on equal footing with the other collegiate units of their respective institutions.

The decision to structure an honors program as a college may relate to how an institution itself is structured.  A collegiate university, one that is composed of several constituent colleges might, administratively, favor an honors college over an honors program.  Alternatively, university departments, constituent institutes, and constituent colleges might prefer honors programs specific to their respective missions.  If a university is institute centric, an honors program might be structured as an honors institute.

Selected commentary
Frank Bruni – a journalist with the New York Times and author of the 2015 book Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be, An Antidote To The College Admission Mania – has expressed general  for honors colleges and programs and cites some advantages.

Ratings
Peterson's Smart Choices: Honors Programs & Colleges published its fourth edition in 2005. Several liberal arts oriented institutions, including Reed College, have strongly rejected the validity of ratings, namely those of US News & World Report, arguing that, among other things, the ratings lead to data-driven educational policies that, in turn, cause institutions to alter programs at the expense of quality – simply to look more appealing.  They have asserted that, with respect to liberal arts programs in particular, ratings are insufficient and can be misleading.

See also
 List of honors programs and colleges in the United States
 National Collegiate Honors Council

Notes and references

Notes

References

Ratings references

Academic honours
University and college admissions
University programs
Higher education in the United States
Undergraduate education in the United States


Şilim is a village in the municipality of Kənarmeşə in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


Sərinbulaq is a village in the municipality of Xanbulan in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


Jidi is a village in the municipality of Gəgiran in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

See also
 Judeo-Persian

References

Populated places in Lankaran District


This is a list of players who graduated from the Nationwide Tour in 2008. The top 25 players on the Nationwide Tour's money list in 2008 earned their PGA Tour card for 2009.

*PGA Tour rookie for 2009.
T = Tied
Green background indicates the player retained his PGA Tour card for 2010 (finished inside the top 125).
Yellow background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2010, but retained conditional status (finished between 126 and 150).
Red background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2010 (finished outside the top 150).

Runners-up on the PGA Tour in 2009

See also
2008 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates

References
All information from here  and here , individual player profiles and golfstats.com.
Money list
Player profiles

Korn Ferry Tour
PGA Tour
Nationwide Tour Graduates
Nationwide Tour Graduates


Mikolan is a village in the municipality of Yuxarı Nüvədi in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


Khensur Denma Locho Rinpoche (1928 Kham, Tibet - 23 October 2014, MacLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, India) also known as Lobsang Oser Choying Gyatso, was a Tibetan incarnate lama, or tulku, of the Loseling College of Drepung Monastery. An expert on Yamantaka and Vajrayogini, he is considered an incomparable luminary of Je Tsongkhapa's lineage, is renowned as a holder of the Tantric lineages, a master of the Tantric yogas, and the lineage holder of Ling Rinpoche.

Born in 1928 in Gaba, Kham, the eastern region of Tibet, from the Rongpo clan, where he was recognized at age six as the reincarnation of a famous lama, Choying Gyatso aka Gen Locho, from the local Selkar Monastery  and of Drepung Loseling. At age twelve, at the insistence of Tongpun Rinpoche, Denma Locho Rinpoche entered Drepung Loseling Monastic College outside Lhasa and studied with Tongpun Rinpoche until he departed for China a few years later. Thereafter, he was tutored by Gen Nyima Gyaltsen. He obtained his Lharampa Geshe degree, equivalent to a PhD, and was first in his class. He then completed his tantric exams at Gyume Tantric College in 1958.

His education complete, Rinpoche decided to spend the rest of his life in contemplative retreat and sought the advice and permission of the Nechung, Gadong, and Tenma Oracles, all of whom assented to his request but in 1959, shortly after the Chinese communist army attacked Lhasa, he followed the Dalai Lama into exile in India. Rinpoche lived in Sarnath for two years, then became a research fellow at Calcutta University for two years, and then principal of the Buddhist School of Dialectics in Ladakh for six years. In 1967 he become abbot of a small monastery in Manali before moving to McLeod Ganj. Rinpoche was Abbot of the Dalai Lama's Namgyal Monastery from 1986 to 1991.

Rinpoche first came to the United States in 1978 where he taught for one year at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He taught at Jewel Heart in the United States and the Netherlands several times, at Drepung Loseling Monastery USA, Ladakh and the monasteries of South India.

Locho Rinpoche received many teachings from the late Venerable Ling Rinpoche, the senior tutor to the Dalai Lama, and became the main lineage holder of his teachings. When the Dalai Lama's senior tutor Kyabje Ling Dorjechang passed away and his young reincarnation, the 7th Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche was discovered, the Dalai Lama appointed Rinpoche as his tutor.

Rinpoche's principal gurus were Lithang Kyabgon (Shogdrung Rinpoche) and Lhatsung Dorje Chang, "the two masters from whom Rinpoche received the unique lineages of Manjushri/Yamantaka and Vajrayogini that came to define him;" Yongzin Ling Rinpoche; Trijang Dorje Chang; and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. He passed on all the lineages of empowerment, transmission and instruction, which he had received in Tibet, at various locations in India and Nepal. He was teacher of Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

His body was cremated at Gyuto Monastery on November 3, 2014. The head lamas present for the many services held in his honor were the Gaden Tripa, Rizong Rinpoche; Gyuto Abbot Emeritus, Tongpun Rinpoche; and Gyuto Khen Rinpoche, Jhado Rinpoche.

Bibliography
 Meditative States in Tibetan Buddhism, with Lati Rinpoche, Leah Zahler and Jeffrey Hopkins, Wisdom Publications: 2nd edition, June 15, 1983; ,
 THE WHEEL OF EXISTENCE: The Twelve Links of Dependent existence; Denma Locho Rinpoche: Teachings in the Netherlands, 1987

References

External links
My Life in the Land of Snow by Denma Locho Rinpoche
 Invoking the Truth of the Tri-Ratna: A Supplication for the Swift Return of Kyabje Denma Locho Rinpoche, The Dalai Lama composed a prayer supplicating for Rinpoche’s swift return at the request of his students.
The Gentle Rain of the Immortal Nectar of Denma Locho Rimpoche, Long Life Prayer; printed in Tibetan, transliterated in English and translated into English.
Video, Kyabje Denma Locho Rinpoche teaching on The Fusion of Wisdom and Compassion
Audio, Denma Locho Rinpoche teaching on The Three Principal Aspects of the Path and Steps on the Path
Text, Denma Locho Rinpoche teaching on Three Principal Aspects of the Path
Text, Denma Locho Rinpoche teaching on  The Two Truths

Rinpoches
1928 births
2014 deaths


The Alpine is a medium to large sized breed of domestic goat known for its very good milking ability. They have no set colours or markings (although certain markings are discriminated against). They have horns, a straight profile and erect ears.

The breed originated in the French Alps.  Mature does weigh around 61 kg (135 lbs), and are about 76 cm (30 in) tall at the shoulder. Alpine goats can range from white or gray to brown and black. Alpine goats are heavy milkers. The milk can be made into butter, cheese, soap, ice cream or any other dairy product normally made from cow's milk. They are often used for commercial dairy production, as well as homestead milk goats.

Types
Several sub-types of Alpine goats have emerged, namely:

 Purebred (French) Alpines: the original type from the French Alps
 American Alpines: Alpines with other genetic influences after their introduction to the United States. American Alpines have much of the visual type and temperament as French Alpines, but may have less standard markings or conformation due to crossbreeding.

Characteristics
Alpine goats are a medium to large sized breed. Males are over 81 cm (32 in) tall at the withers and females are over 76 cm (30 in) tall at the withers. Their hair is short to medium in length, and they come in all colours and combinations of colours. They have erect ears and a straight profile, and are described as being "alertly graceful" with the ability to adapt to any climate thanks to their hardy nature. They are the only breed with erect ears that comes in all colours and combinations of colours.

The sexual maturation rate among Alpine goats is at four to five months after birth for buck kids, and five to six months after birth for doe kids. However, doe kids should not be bred until they are at least 75-80 lbs. A doe’s gestation lasts for 145 – 155 days, with 150 being the average. Twins are the most common, but they can have singles, all the way up to quintuplets .

Alpine goats are friendly and highly curious, however they can be independent and strong-willed.

The American Dairy Goat Association faults all-white and Toggenburg patterned individuals.

History
Alpines goats originated in the French Alps.

Milk

Known for its milk, the Alpine goat is famous for its rich dairy production. Alpine goats are extremely popular in the dairy industry for their docile temperament, high quality milk output and long lactation. Alpine milk has relatively low fat content, with an average fat percent of 3.4%. It is higher in sugars than cows' milk but balances itself in terms of the amount of protein. Alpine goats' milk has 2.3 g of protein per 250 ml while cow’s milk has 3.4. A higher protein count is not always good, since it packs more calories with an increased fat content. Compared to Saanen goat milk, it is higher in all nutritional aspects, except the fat content, making it a much healthier choice.

Alpine goats are one of the top milk producers, alongside Saanen and Toggenburg goats. They are distinct from the other two due to their low value of fat content. This could be a direct correlation between the weight of the animal and its habitual environment. However, the Nubian goat's weight is similar to that of the Alpines at maturity, yet it produces less milk, containing a higher proportion of fat, than the Alpine goats.

The peak periods for milk production occur after four to six weeks of parturition (kidding). The optimal weight at which a goat produces optimal milk production is at least 130 pounds. For the Alpine goat that number is higher at 135 pounds and produces 2,134 pounds of milk per lactation. Good nutrition, proper milking procedures, reproductive management, and disease control are also factors that contribute to milk production of the Alpine Goat.

There are four requirements that need to be efficient for optimal dairy production. Dairy goats must be housed in specific conditions so that their milk production is not alarmed by changes. Changes in external factors can cause a decrease in milk production due to the pressure applied on the goat to adapt to these changes. The four factors for optimal production are: adequate ventilation, dry beds, uncontaminated feeder and water supply, minimal labor and disturbance.

Alpine milk, as with all goat milk, must be filtered and chilled immediately upon separation from the lactating doe when intended for human consumption. The temperature at which milk will remain the best is at . Cooling is required immediately of the milk so that there is no excess bacteria growth. Warm bacteria grows at a faster rate and multiplies so that the milk is spoiled. The milk that is refrigerated has a shelf life of about three to four weeks. Freezing the milk increases its shelf life by about four to five weeks.

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Alpine Goats

Goat breeds
Dairy goat breeds
Goat breeds originating in France


Uncial 0154 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 074 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 9th century.

Description

The codex contains two small parts of the Gospel of Mark 10:35-46; 11:17-28, on two parchment leaves (27 cm by 21 cm). It is written in two columns per page, 22 lines per page, in uncial letters.

The Greek text of this codex is mixed. Kurt Aland did not place it in Categories of New Testament manuscripts.

Currently it is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 9th century.

The codex used to be held in Qubbat al-Khazna in Damascus. The present location of the codex is unknown. The manuscript is not accessible.

See also

 List of New Testament uncials
 Textual criticism
 Uncial 0144

References

Greek New Testament uncials
9th-century biblical manuscripts
Lost biblical manuscripts


Tatoba (known as Tatova until 2000) is a village in the municipality of Osakücə in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


Naftoruon is a village in the municipality of Osakücə in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


Talışlı is a village in the municipality of Haftoni in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


Xanlıqlı is a village in the municipality of Haftoni in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


Seliqavol is a village in the municipality of Biləsər in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


Viy is a village in the municipality of Biləsər in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


Ballabur is a village in the municipality of Şağlakücə in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


Horavenc is a village in the municipality of Baliton in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Populated places in Lankaran District


Şivlik is a village in the municipality of Baliton in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan and many good people live there.

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Populated places in Lankaran District