Environmental Choice New Zealand (ECNZ) is the official ecolabel of New Zealand. The label is owned and endorsed by the Ministry for the Environment of the New Zealand Government. The Environmental Choice programme, which started in 1992, is administered by the New Zealand Ecolabelling Trust on behalf of, but independently from, the Ministry for the Environment. The trust and the programme are part of the Global Ecolabelling Network.

The label identifies products and services that meet high-quality environmental standards throughout their life cycle. It is New Zealand's only ISO Type I ecolabel and the country's most comprehensive and robust product-focused certification. About 2000 products and services are eligible to carry the label.

See also
Green marketing

References

External links
Environmental Choice New Zealand

Environment of New Zealand
Environmental certification


AGP may refer to:

Science and technology
 Accelerated Graphics Port, a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a graphics card to a computer's motherboard
 Advance Game Port, a third-party GameCube accessory
 Aerosol-generating procedure, in medicine or healthcare
 Ambulatory glucose profile, a standardized report for interpreting a person's daily glucose and insulin patterns
 Arabinogalactan protein, glycoproteins found in the cell walls of plants
 Orosomucoid, or alpha-1 acid glycoprotein

Organisations
 Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic, India
 Asom Gana Parishad, a political party of Assam
 Associação Guias de Portugal, the national Guiding association of Portugal
 Guinean Press Agency (French: Agence Guinéenne de Presse)

People
 Charles Marvin Green Jr., better known as Angry Grandpa (1950–2017), American Internet personality
 Alejandro García Padilla (born 1971), Puerto Rican politician
 A. George Pradel (c. 1938), mayor of Naperville, Illinois
 Arthur Guyon Purchas (1821-1906), Welsh-New Zealander clergyman

Transport
 Australian Grand Prix, a car race
 Málaga Airport (IATA code), Spain
 Motor torpedo boat tender, a US Navy hull classification

Other uses
 Rome General Peace Accords (), a 1992 treaty ending Mozambique's civil war
 Autogynephilia, a disputed 1980s psychological typology of transfeminine people
 Artificial grass pitch, a sports pitch made from synthetic materials


Bashar Jaafari, also Ja'afari, (; born April 14, 1956) is the former Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

His qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts and French literature, a Diploma of Higher Studies in translation and Arabization from the University of Damascus, a Diploma of International Political Relations from the International Institute of Public Administration, a Diploma of Higher Studies in International Organization's Management and a Doctorate 3rd cycle in political science from the University of Sceaux, State Doctorate in political science from the Paris University and a State Doctorate in History of Islamic Civilization in South East Asia from the University of Sharif Hedayatullah.

Diplomatic career
Jaafari began his career in 1980 as a diplomat in the Syrian Foreign Ministry. He served as a diplomat in France, until 1983 as the embassy's secretary and adviser to the Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations in 1991. He later returned to France, appointed as an adviser at the Syrian embassy in Paris in 1997. He was also appointed as the Syrian ambassador to Indonesia in 1998 and as director of the International Organizations Department at the Syrian Foreign Ministry in 2002.

On 22 November 2020, Jaafari became the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Personal life
Jafaari is married with three children. He is fluent in Arabic, English, French and Persian.

Books
 The Lobbies in the U.S.A (Damascus, 1983)
 The Syrian Foreign Affairs 1946–1982 (Damascus, 1986)
 The United Nations and the New World Order (Damascus, 1994)
 Moslem High Priests of the Far East "Historical Saga on the Way Islam Entered and Spread into the Malay Archipelago (Damascus, 2003)
 The Syrian Politics of Alliances 1918–1982 (Damascus, 2015)

Legal actions
He sued his daughter Yara's former husband the actor Mustafa El Khani in 2017 accusing him of defamation and libel after he accused his son Amir of attacking a police detachment in Damascus in a post on Facebook.

See also
Embassy of Syria in Russia

References

External links

1956 births
Permanent Representatives of Syria to the United Nations
Ambassadors of Syria to Indonesia
Damascus University alumni
Living people


Marvin Angulo Borbón  (born 30 September 1986) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who currently plays for Municipal Liberia.

Club career
On 1 October 2009 it was thought he will join the Melbourne Victory from CS Herediano as an injury replacement player for Billy Celeski. The deal was agreed in principle on 21 September 2009.  However, he was yet to gain clearance from FIFA, and was unable to take the field for Melbourne Victory until the 10 January 2010 fixture against the Newcastle Jets.

He was released by Melbourne Victory during the 10/11 off-season and returned to Herediano, despite rumours of Melbourne wanting to extend his loan.

International career
Angulo has made two appearances for the Costa Rica national football team, his debut coming in a friendly against Peru on 22 August 2007. In January 2008 he played his second and final international against Sweden.

Transfer Rumors
Angulo has been linked to a transfer from this current club Saprissa to the Major League Soccer team New York Red Bulls

Honours

Herediano
 Liga FPD: Clausura 2012

Saprissa
 Liga FPD: Clausura 2014, Apertura 2014, Apertura 2015, Apertura 2016, Clausura 2018, Clausura 2020, Clausura 2021
 CONCACAF League: 2019

Individual
 Liga FPD Player of the Year: Apertura 2007, Apertura 2015, Apertura 2016

References

External links

 Melbourne Victory profile
  Profile at Nacion

1986 births
Living people
People from Heredia (canton)
Sportspeople from Heredia Province
Men's association football midfielders
Costa Rican men's footballers
Costa Rica men's international footballers
C.S. Herediano footballers
Melbourne Victory FC players
Deportivo Saprissa players
A-League Men players
Costa Rican expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia
2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup players


Taoga Niue is the main Government department to support and promote the use and preservation of the Niuean culture, language and tradition. Taoga Niue is the sixth pillar of the Niue Integrated Strategic Plan (NISP). Taoga Niue is now a Government Department with their main office at Paliati, Niue High School.

Niuean culture

See also

 Tāoga Niue Museum

References


Pachyplichas is a genus containing two extinct species of New Zealand wren, a family of small birds endemic to New Zealand.

Species
 †P. yaldwyni (South Island stout-legged wren) – South Island, New Zealand
 †P. jagmi (North Island stout-legged wren) – North Island, New Zealand

Description
The stout-legged wrens formed a species pair.  They had reduced wings and robust legs indicating that they were adapted to a terrestrial existence and were either flightless or nearly so. Genetic evidence has indicated that Pachyplichas is nested within Xenicus, and stout legged wrens must have evolved from a gracile legged ancestor. A cladogram is given below.

References

Notes

Sources

Extinct birds of New Zealand
Holocene extinctions
Fossil taxa described in 1988
Bird genera
Late Quaternary prehistoric birds


Amanat Baghdad Sports Club () is an Iraqi professional football team based in Karkh District, Baghdad, that competes in the Iraq Stars League, the top tier of Iraqi football. Formed in 1957 as Amanat Al-Asima (), the team merged with Al-Baladiyat SC in 1977, who had finished as runners-up of the 1975–76 Iraq FA Cup.

History
On 1 July 1957, Amanat Al-Asima () were formed to represent the Mayoralty of Baghdad. Amanat Al-Asima won the Iraq Central FA Premier League title in the 1958–59 season and won the Police Director General Cup twice in 1959 and 1960.

In 1977, Amanat Al-Asima merged with Al-Baladiyat SC to form Al-Amana SC (). On 5 August 2009, Al-Amana SC was renamed to Baghdad SC (). In 2014, Baghdad SC renamed to Amanat Baghdad SC ().

Merged teams

Al-Baladiyat
Al-Baladiyat SC () was a club formed in 1974 by the merger of Isalat Al-Mai and Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab. Al-Baladiyat finished as runners-up of the Iraq FA Cup in the 1975–76 season.

Isalat Al-Mai
Isalat Al-Mai () was a team formed in 1954. Isalat Al-Mai won the Iraq Central FA Second Division in the 1959–60 season.

Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab

Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab () was a team formed in 1956. Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab won the Iraq Central FA Premier League four times in 1956–57, 1960–61, 1964–65 and 1970–71, and finished as runners-up in 1967–68. They also won the Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup in 1965. The team wore red shirts.

Stadium
Since 2011, Amanat Baghdad have got their own stadium. The Amanat Baghdad Stadium holds 5,000 people.

Current squad

First-team squad

Technical staff
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Managerial history
  Ahmed Khalef
  Thair Ahmed
  Essam Hamad
  Jamal Ali
  Wissam Talib

Honours

Major
National
Iraqi Division One (second tier)
Winners (1): 1990–91
Regional
Iraq Central FA Premier League (top tier)
Winners (1): 1958–59

Minor
Police Director General Cup
Winners (2): 1959, 1960

Individual honours
2009 FIFA Confederations Cup
The following players have played in the FIFA Confederations Cup whilst playing for Al-Amana:
 2009 – Essam Yassin

References

External links
 Amanat Baghdad Official website
 Club page on Kooora
 Amanat Baghdad Facebook

Sport in Baghdad
1957 establishments in Iraq
Football clubs in Baghdad


The LXXVI Panzer Corps (LXXVI Panzerkorps, 76th Armoured Corps) was a panzer corps of Nazi Germany during World War II. The headquarters were formed in France under Army Group D on 29 June 1943 as LXXVI Army Corps but renamed a month later. In August it shipped to Italy to become part of 10th Army. It spent the rest of the war in Italy fighting in the Italian Campaign mainly under 10th Army but with short periods from February 1944 (Battle of Anzio) and January 1945 (Spring 1945 offensive in Italy) under 14th Army. The Corps was commanded for most of its active fighting by General Traugott Herr.

Order of battle
In 1943 the corps included:
 1st Parachute Division
 26th Panzer Division
 65th Infantry Division
 90th Panzergrenadier Division

On 25 August 1944 the composition of the corps was:
 1st Parachute Division
 278th Infantry Division
 71st Infantry Division
 5th Mountain Division
 162nd Turkestan Division

Commanding officers
Lieutenant-General (Generalleutnant) Traugott Herr, 23 July - 31 August 1943 (acting)
General of Armoured troops (General der Panzertruppe) Traugott Herr, 1 September 1943 – 28 February 1944
Lieutenant-General  Dietrich von Choltitz, 28 February 1944 – 15 April 1944 (acting)
General of Armoured troops Traugott Herr, 15 April 1944 – 23 November 1944
Lieutenant-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Hauck, 24 November - 16 December 1944 (acting)
General of Armoured troops Traugott Herr, 17–26 December 1944
Lieutenant-General Gerhard Graf von Schwerin, 27 December 1944 - 31 March 1945 (acting)
General of Armoured troops Gerhard Graf von Schwerin, 31 March – 25 April 1945
Lieutenant-General Karl von Graffen, 25 April 1945 – 8 May 1945 (acting)

Area of operations

Source: Lexicon der Wehrmacht and Axis History Factbook

References
Sources
 Lexicon der Wehrmacht
 Axis History Factbook
Citations

P076
Military units and formations established in 1943
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945


The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure (stylized The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel's Undersea Adventure) is a dark ride attraction based on the 1989 Disney animated film The Little Mermaid, located in Paradise Gardens Park at Disney California Adventure and in Fantasyland at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom Park, where it is titled Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid (stylized Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid). The ride opened on June 3, 2011 at Disney California Adventure, and on December 6, 2012 at Magic Kingdom.

History
In the early-to-mid-1990s, Walt Disney Imagineering attempted to develop a Little Mermaid dark ride for Disneyland Paris and Magic Kingdom parks. Early plans for Tokyo DisneySea and Hong Kong Disneyland also included this ride. None of these versions were actually built, although a computer-generated ride-through animatic was included on the Platinum Edition DVD of The Little Mermaid in 2006.

Disney later went on to design and build a different version of the attraction for Disney California Adventure, as part of an effort to revitalize that park in the 2000s. The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure opened on June 3, 2011 in an area of Paradise Pier formerly occupied by Golden Dreams.

In September 2009, Disney announced that Mickey's Toontown Fair at the Magic Kingdom would be demolished to make room for an expansion of Fantasyland. One of the new elements would be a Little Mermaid dark ride, much like the one slated for construction in California. Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid opened on December 6, 2012.

On March 20, 2014, the attraction at Disney California Adventure closed for maintenance. It reopened May 10, 2014 with several enhancements; new sea creature figures were added throughout the ride, a view of King Triton's castle was added, the "Under the Sea" scene was given a blacklight treatment, and the Ariel and Prince Eric figures' sculpted hair was replaced with realistic hair in the "kiss the girl" and "finale" scenes.

Summary

Exterior and queue
At Disney California Adventure, the building is modeled after a 20th-century aquarium, featuring a statue of King Triton at the top. The queue passes beneath a series of canopies and into the building itself. The loading area features a large, hand-painted mural depicting the story's major characters.

The Magic Kingdom attraction has a different exterior and queue, featuring Prince Eric's castle and the surrounding cliffs. Guests enter through a cavern at low tide, and part of the queue includes an interactive scavenger hunt with Scuttle. The mural in the loading area is also substantially different from the one at Disney California Adventure.

Ride
At both Parks, Guests board one of 105 Omnimover vehicles themed as large, colorful clamshells (Similar to the ones found at The Seas with Nemo & Friends at Epcot). These proceed through an opening in the broken hull of Prince Eric's ship. Scuttle greets the Guests and makes a muddled attempt to tell them Ariel's story, while the instrumental version of "Fathoms Below" plays behind him. The clamshells then rotate backwards as they make their way along the beach and descend "underwater" (an effect achieved through projections and blasts of cold air). As they continue their descent, the clamshells travel through rocky underwater passages filled with seaweed and coral (in Disney California Adventure, clams, fish, seahorses, and starfish can be seen in the passages as well.) Ariel and Flounder can be seen briefly through an opening overhead.

The underwater passage opens to reveal Ariel in her grotto, singing "Part of Your World." She is surrounded by her collection of treasures from the human world. Flounder floats along beside her while Sebastian occasionally appears among the bric-à-brac. As he reminds Ariel about the wonders of being under the sea, King Triton's castle can be seen in the distance, and the scene opens up to a large underwater garden where Sebastian conducts dozens of singing, dancing sea creatures through the song "Under the Sea."

The celebration fades as Flotsam and Jetsam, Ursula's pet eels, welcome the Guests to the sea witch's lair. The clamshells pass into the mouth of an enormous beast's skeleton and find Ursula singing "Poor, Unfortunate Souls" inside, standing at her crystal ball and surrounded by her collection of lost souls. Ahead, a vortex of light surrounds Ariel as she trades her voice for a pair of human legs.

The clamshells ascend among projected bubbles and splash onto the shore of a lagoon. Sebastian sings "Kiss the Girl" while Eric and Ariel sit together in a boat, leaning in to kiss each other before backing away sheepishly. After leaving the lagoon, the clamshells pass before a doorway to Prince Eric's castle, where silhouettes of Ariel and Eric are seen finally kissing. A golden orb glows from within Ariel's neck, signifying that she has regained her voice. The orb proceeds to encircle the two, creating a heart shape as Ariel and Eric kiss. The smoking silhouette of a giant, defeated Ursula is visible on the horizon.

The clamshells proceed into the final scene of the attraction, where King Triton, Sebastian, Flounder, and several sea creatures celebrate the wedding of Ariel and Eric. The couple waves goodbye from a gazebo on the ocean's edge. Fireworks explode in the sky overhead. As the clamshells pass into the unload area, Scuttle finishes his story by exclaiming that he's "not such a bird-brain after all."

The attraction offers 103 standard clamshells, as well as two wheelchair-accessible vehicles (WAV's) for Guests who are unable to transfer from their wheelchair.

Music
Arranger Danny Troob adapted Alan Menken's original songs for the attraction. He also wrote an orchestral medley for the loading area, several transitional cues, and a new arrangement for the finale. Some of the scenes use the original vocal performances from the film, with Jodi Benson providing the voice of Ariel and Pat Carroll providing the voice of Ursula. There are also new performances by Phillip Lawrence as Sebastian, Chris Edgerly as Scuttle, and Tress MacNeille as Flotsam and Jetsam.

See also
 2011 in amusement parks
 2012 in amusement parks
The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
Magic Kingdom
Disney California Adventure

References

External links
 Official page at Disneyland Resort's website
 Official page at Walt Disney World Resort's website

Amusement rides introduced in 2011
Amusement rides introduced in 2012
Amusement rides manufactured by Sansei Technologies
Audio-Animatronic attractions
Dark rides
Disney California Adventure
Fantasyland
Ariel's Undersea Adventure
Magic Kingdom
Omnimover attractions
Paradise Pier
Paradise Gardens Park
Works based on The Little Mermaid
2011 establishments in California
2012 establishments in Florida
Mermaids in popular culture
Fiction about witchcraft
Fish in popular culture


The Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations is Syria's foremost diplomatic representative at the United Nations.

List of heads of mission
The Permanent Representatives were the following:
1946–1948: Fares al-Khoury
1951–1953: Farid Zeineddine
1953–1957: Rafik Asha
1962–1964: Salah el-Dine Tarazi
1965–1972: George Tomeh
1972–1975: Haissam Kelani
1975–1978: Mowaffak Allaf
1978–1979: Hammud al-Shufi
1981–1986: Dia Allah El-Fattal
1988–1990: Ahmad Fathi Al-Masri
1996–2003: Mikhail Wehbe
2003–2006: Faisal Mekdad
2006–2020: Bashar Jaafari
2020–2023: Bassam al-Sabbagh

References

United Nations
Syria


The Diggers Club is Australia's largest gardening club, with over 85,000 members.

They were established in 1978 to provide diverse seeds and plants which were disappearing from circulation and promoted heirloom fruit and vegetable revival in the 1990s.

It was originally a commercial business established by Penny and Clive Blazey to provide gardeners with all their gardening needs. Over the years, the club has extended its conservation efforts with extensive seed and plant preservation programs. In 2011 The Diggers Foundation - a registered not-for-profit charity - was formed, enabling the club to evolve from a commercial business to a not-for-profit.

Gardens

Heronswood
Located on the Mornington Peninsula, Heronswood is the home of The Diggers Foundation.

Heronswood is listed on the Register of the National Estate. It is also listed in Oxford Companion to Gardens as one of only four gardens in Victoria, alongside the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, Mawallock and Rippon Lea.

The first law professor at Melbourne University, William Hearn, employed Edward Latrobe Bateman to design Heronswood's main house in 1866. The house, which is of an asymmetric Gothic Revival design, was completed in 1871.

The Garden of St Erth
In 1854 Matthew Rogers, a Cornish stonemason, left Sydney in pursuit of gold discovered near Mount Blackwood in Victoria. In the 1860s he built a sandstone cottage, naming it "St Erth" after his birthplace in Cornwall now restored and forming the centrepiece of the gardens.

During the Gold Rush, the site was a town of 13,000 people and feverish activity. Now, 160 years later, you can visit the last remaining stone cottage.

Cloudehill
Cloudehill has been made by Jeremy Francis from one of the ‘home’ properties of the famous Woolrich family Rangeview nursery & flower farm. In 1895, George Woolrich was granted a ‘Village Settlement’ ten-acre block which he cleared and planted to cherries and raspberries. In 1919 his sons, Jim and Ted, took over the property and commenced work on their Rangeview project. Rangeview was to be the first of many ornamental plant nurseries in the Dandenongs in those years and operated through to the late 1960s.

References

External links

 Diggers Club products
 Diggers Foundation
 About The Diggers Club
 Become a Member

Mail-order retailers
Seed companies
Victorian places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate


Devils Desk is a stratovolcano in Alaska's Katmai National Park, split between the Kodiak Island and Lake and Peninsula boroughs of that U.S. state. Its peak, which is located in Kodiak Island Borough, lies  above sea level. It has an elevation of . The age of the volcano is not certain, but a sample from the southwest face of the volcano was dated at 245,000 years old. The edifice represents the neck of a formerly larger stratovolcano, whose flanks have been removed by glacial erosion. The summit is almost encircled by Hook Glacier.

See also
List of volcanoes in the United States of America

References

External links
 Devils Desk at the Alaska Volcano Observatory

Volcanoes of Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
Volcanoes of Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska
Volcanoes of Alaska
Stratovolcanoes of the United States
Katmai National Park and Preserve
Pleistocene stratovolcanoes


Michelle Stilwell (nee Bauknecht; born July 4, 1974) is a Canadian athlete and politician. She represented Canada at four Summer Paralympic Games (2000, 2008, 2012 and 2016), as well as the 2015 Parapan American Games. She competed in wheelchair basketball before becoming a wheelchair racer, and is the only female Paralympic athlete to win gold medals in two separate summer sport events.

As a politician, she represented the electoral district of Parksville-Qualicum in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2013 to 2020 as part of the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus, and served as Minister of Social Development and Social Innovation of British Columbia from 2015 to 2017.

Early life and education
Michelle Bauknecht was born on July 4, 1974, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is the youngest of four children, and worked at her parents' hotel in her youth. Weeks before graduating from River East Collegiate, she broke her neck from a fall at the age of 17 and became an incomplete quadriplegic, with limited hand and wrist functions. After the accident, she competed in wheelchair basketball, through which she met her husband Mark Stilwell at the 1996 National Championships in Montreal. Stilwell eventually moved to Calgary, and completed her Bachelor of Science degree in psychology at the University of Calgary in 1999.

Athletic career
Stilwell stayed in Calgary from 1997 until 2000 to train for the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team, winning gold at the 1998 Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championship. She then competed as a reserve for Team Canada at the 2000 Paralympic Games, where her team won the gold medal. Afterwards, Stilwell, her husband Mark, and their newborn son moved to Parksville, British Columbia in 2001.

However, Stilwell was forced to forgo wheelchair basketball after undergoing surgery for a herniated brain stem. Although unable to compete at the national level, Stilwell continued to play basketball locally where she was spotted by coach Peter Lawless, who convinced her to try for wheelchair racing. At the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships, she won gold in the women's T52 200m event, and silver in the women's T52 100m event.

Stilwell qualified for the 2008 Paralympic Games where she won two gold medals in the women's T52 200m and 100m events. At the 2011 World Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand, she won the gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 400m events, as well as the silver medal in the 800m event; she set the World Championship records in the 100m and 200m races.

At the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Stilwell defended her Paralympic gold medal in the women's 200m event in 33.80 seconds, shattering her Games record by over two seconds. Four days later, Stilwell captured a silver medal in the 100m event after mishap caused her to fall behind Marieke Vervoort. The following year, she competed in the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships and won gold at the 100m, 200m and 800m events, setting a new world record in the women's T52 800m race. She took the gold medal in the women's T52 100m event at the 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto.

In 2016, her last Paralympic Games, Stilwell earned gold medals at the women's 100m and 400m events, setting a Paralympics record during the latter race with a time of one minute and 5.42 seconds. The following year, Stilwell announced her retirement from competitive sports. She was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2017, and the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 2019.

She was named to the board of directors of the Canadian Paralympic Committee in 2022.

Political career
With incumbent BC Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly for Parksville-Qualicum Ron Cantelon declining to seek re-election, Stilwell was acclaimed as the party's candidate for the riding in the 2013 provincial election. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia at the May election, and was named government caucus chair and Parliamentary Secretary for Healthy Living in June 2013, before adding Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health for Seniors to her responsibilities in June 2014. Following Don McRae's resignation from cabinet, Stilwell was sworn in as Minister for Social Development and Social Innovation in February 2015.

Stilwell was re-elected in 2017 and retained her post in Premier Christy Clark's cabinet, until the Liberal minority government's defeat in a non-confidence motion. After the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP) formed government in July 2017, Stilwell served on the Official Opposition bench as critic for Tourism, Arts and Culture for the remainder of the 41st Parliament.

After losing her seat in the 2020 election to BC NDP candidate Adam Walker, Stilwell joined CVM Medical as director of COVID-19 rapid testing in 2021.

Electoral record

References

External links

 Michelle Stilwell - Cœur Handisport
 Official Liberal Party Website
 Official Wheelchair Racing Website

1974 births
21st-century Canadian politicians
21st-century Canadian women politicians
21st-century Canadian sportswomen
Living people
Wheelchair basketball players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
BC United MLAs
Canadian female wheelchair racers
Canadian politicians with disabilities
Canadian sportsperson-politicians
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games
Members of the Executive Council of British Columbia
Olympic wheelchair racers for Canada
Paralympic gold medalists for Canada
Paralympic silver medalists for Canada
Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
Paralympic track and field athletes for Canada
Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
People from Parksville, British Columbia
People with tetraplegia
Politicians from Winnipeg
Athletes from Winnipeg
Women government ministers of Canada
Women MLAs in British Columbia
World record holders in para-athletics
University of Calgary alumni


The discography of American R&B singer Keri Hilson consists of two studio albums, 29 singles (including 17 as a featured artist), and 31 music videos. Hilson began her career as a songwriter, penning tracks for several artists in the mid-2000s as part of the five-person production and songwriting team The Clutch. Together, they co-wrote songs for artists including Mary J. Blige, Omarion, The Pussycat Dolls and Britney Spears. Hilson's solo discography began when she was featured on "Hey Now (Mean Muggin)", a 2004 single by American rapper Xzibit, which reached the top 10 in the United Kingdom. In 2006, Hilson signed to Mosley Music Group, a record label created by American record producer and rapper Timbaland.

The following year, Hilson was featured on Timbaland's single "The Way I Are", which topped the charts around the world, including Australia, Germany, England Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom. "Energy" was released as Hilson's debut single as a solo artist in May 2008. Her debut studio album In a Perfect World... was released in March 2009 and debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart and number one on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album was later certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for selling more than 500,000 copies. "Return the Favor", another collaboration with Timbaland, was released as the album's second single and reached the top 20 in Ireland and the United Kingdom, and the top 30 in Austria and Germany. Subsequent singles from the album include, "Turnin Me On" and "Knock You Down", the latter of which reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and number one on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Both songs received platinum certifications in the United States. A reissue of In a Perfect World... included the single "I Like", which reached number one in Germany and Slovakia, while charting within the top 10 in three other countries. Throughout 2009 and 2010, Hilson was featured on several singles by other artists, including "Number One" with R. Kelly, "Medicine" with Plies and "Got Your Back" with T.I.

Hilson's second studio album No Boys Allowed was released in December 2010 and debuted at number 11 on the US Billboard 200 chart and number seven on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album's lead single "Breaking Point" only charted on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at number 44. "Pretty Girl Rock" was released as the album's second single and reached the top 20 in Germany and New Zealand, and the top 30 in the United States, Austria and Slovakia. The song received a platinum certification in the United States. "One Night Stand", featuring American singer Chris Brown, and "Lose Control (Let Me Down)", featuring American rapper Nelly, were released as the album's third and fourth singles, respectively.

Studio albums

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Other charted songs

Other appearances

Soundtrack appearances

Album appearances

Music videos

Songwriting and production credits
 indicates a song that was released as a single.

Notes

References

External links

Discography
Discographies of American artists
Pop music discographies
Rhythm and blues discographies


The Knud Peninsula is located on the eastern coast of Ellesmere Island, a part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It stretches eastward into Nares Strait. It is separated from the Bache Peninsula by Flagler Bay.

Archaeologists have found Thule culture houses on Knud Peninsula.

References

Ellesmere Island
Peninsulas of Qikiqtaaluk Region


Shattered EP is an EP by Orthodox Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu.

Track listing
"Smash Lies" – 3:24
"So Hi So Lo" – 3:41
"Two Child One Drop" – 6:02
"I Will Be Light" – 3:35

Charts

References

Matisyahu albums
2008 debut EPs


Million Dollar Boy is the third solo studio album by the Canadian rapper K.Maro. The album was released in Europe on 21 October, 2005. There were three singles released from that album.

Track listing
"K.M.A.R.O"
"Les frères existent encore"
"Histoires de luv" feat. Shy'm
"K.Pone. Inc."
"Gangsta Party"
"Million Dollar Boy"
"Nice And Slow" feat. Shy'm
"Juss Shake"
"Dirty"
"Strip Club"
"Nouveau Millenaire"
"The Greatest"  feat. Divin
"Simple Vie"

Singles
"Histoires de luv"
"Les frères existent encore"
"Gangsta Party"

Certifications

References

External links
 K'Maro - Million Dollar Boy

2005 albums
K.Maro albums
French-language albums


Diego Viera (born April 10, 1972 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan  football (soccer) forward who played professionally in Uruguay and Major League Soccer.

Viera began playing for C.A. Cerro in the Primera Division Uruguaya in 1990.  On February 7, 1996, the Tampa Bay Mutiny selected Viera in the fifth round (forty-seventh overall) of the 1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft.  In 1998, he signed with the Florida ThunderCats in the National Professional Soccer League.

References

Living people
1972 births
C.A. Cerro players
Florida ThunderCats players
Major League Soccer players
National Professional Soccer League (1984–2001) players
Tampa Bay Mutiny players
Tampa Bay Cyclones players
Uruguayan men's footballers
Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football forwards


Monteiro's storm petrel (Hydrobates monteiroi) is a seabird species from the storm petrel family, Hydrobatidae. The cryptic species was once considered to be conspecific with the band-rumped storm petrel.  The species is endemic to the Azores.

Taxonomy
The existence of a separate species was first hinted at by the discovery of two distinct breeding seasons of Hydrobates storm-petrels in the Azores. Both populations were initially thought to be of band-rumped storm petrels; however, one population breeds during the cool season, and the other during the hot season. A closer study of these two breeding populations found differences in their morphology and moult. Examination of the mtDNA found that the two populations were indeed genetically isolated, and the hot-season-breeding population was elevated to full species rank, Hydrobates monteiroi, Monteiro's storm petrel. The species is named for biologist Dr Luis Monteiro, who was the first to notice morphological and acoustic differences between the two seasonal populations from the Azores.

It was formerly defined in the genus Oceanodroma before that genus was synonymized with Hydrobates.

Breeding
Monteiro's storm petrel is only known to breed on a few islets in the Azores, with most breeding occurring on the Baixo and Praia islets off the coast of Graciosa. Like in all Procellariiformes, a single egg is laid and is incubated by both parents. Laying occurs between late April and early July (in contrast to the band-rumped storm petrel, which on these islands lays between October and December). The earliest chicks hatch in June and the last chicks fledge by October. The young will return to the colony from 2 years old onwards.

Foraging ecology
The species is thought to forage in the local seas all year round, possibly near the breeding sites; this is in contrast to the band-rumped storm petrel, which disperses to the West Atlantic. The diet of Monteiro's storm-petrel is unknown, but analyses of stable isotopes in the feathers suggest that it differs from that of the band-rumped storm petrel as well. Monteiro's storm-petrels feed at the sea surface, but they can also forage underwater by performing shallow dives of  on average.

Conservation
The species has a low reproductive output due to competition with other burrowing petrels, and some years, the young and some prospectors are preyed upon by the long-eared owl. The species has been assessed as Vulnerable by the IUCN because of its small population (estimated at 250–300 breeding pairs in 1999 and 328–378 pairs in 2016) and restricted breeding range.

References

Monteiro's storm petrel
Birds of the Azores
Endemic fauna of the Azores
Monteiro's storm petrel


The royal flags of Thailand () are personal royal flags that are usually flown in Thailand, along with the national flag, to honor the King and royal family. Unlike the royal standards displayed only in special ceremonies and in particular locations, the royal flags are seen throughout Thailand. They are not commonly seen outside the country.

Description
The main royal flags are that of the king of Thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn, known as the "Tenth king" (Rama X), and his consort Queen Suthida. The flag of the previous monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, and the flag for Queen Dowager Sirikit are still widely used. These flags are in plain colors with their respective royal cyphers. Other members of the royal family, such as Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn and Princess Chulabhorn Walailak, also have their own plain-color flags, but these are not seen very often, except at ceremonies personally led by them.

The royal flags are not only used officially, but also unofficially. They are displayed by Thai citizens of any social class or background at any location, usually beside the Thai flag, as a homage to their king. Honoring the royal family is a characteristic feature of Thai culture.

These flags are sold at most small stores and grocery stores in every town and village of Thailand. They come in many different sizes. Usually the symbol is printed only on one side of the flag.

Flag of the King

The King's flag is in yellow, the color of Monday, the day of his birth. It always has a symbol in the middle. There are a variety of symbols, but recently most king's flags have different symbols, such as the symbol marking King Bhumibol's 80th birthday or the one commemorating the 60th anniversary of King Bhumibol's accession to the throne.

Both emblems in the center of the flag are quite complex, involving Buddhist iconography and ancient royal symbols of authority as well, such as the multi-tiered white umbrella. The king's symbols are always topped by the royal crown. Sometimes light rays are emanating from the top of the crown, these are also an element of royal symbology. In simplified versions of the flag the central symbol may come simply outlined in red.

Yellow is the color identified with the king in Thailand (as well as the previous king, both were born on a Monday). Many Thais like to wear yellow shirts as an informal homage to their king, especially on Mondays, the day of his birth.

Flag of the Queen
Queen Suthida's flag Patcharasutha Phimonlak is purple. It is the color of Saturday, and on her birth day, there is a symbol "ส.ท." in the middle. The symbol is the abbreviation of Queen Suthida Patcharasutha Phimonlak (ส.ท. : สุทิดา) under the Royal Crown. This flag has been in effect from June 2019 until now, after the royal coronation ceremony.

List of royal flags

See also
King of Thailand
Royal Standard of Thailand
List of Thai flags
List of flags of the Royal Thai Armed Forces

Notes and references

External links

Chakri dynasty
 2
Thai monarchy
Thai culture


This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Luis Obispo County, California.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.

There are 37 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 3 National Historic Landmarks.

Current listings

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See also

List of National Historic Landmarks in California
National Register of Historic Places listings in California
California Historical Landmarks in San Luis Obispo County, California

References

San Luis Obispo


Narcisse Théophile Patouillard (2 July 1854 – 30 March 1926) was a French pharmacist and mycologist.

He was born in Macornay, a town in the department of Jura. He studied in Besançon, then furthered his education at the École Supérieure de Pharmacie in Paris, where in 1884 he earned a diploma with a doctoral thesis involving the structure and classification of Hymenomycetes called "Des Hyménomycètes au point de vue de leur structure et de leur classification".

Patouillard was a practicing pharmacist for more than forty years, first in Poligny (1881–84), and later in Fontenay-sous-Bois (1884–85), Paris (1886–1898) and Neuilly-sur-Seine (beginning in 1898). From 1893 to 1900, he was préparateur to the chair of cryptogamy at the École Supérieure de Pharmacie in Paris. In 1884 he was one of the founders of the Société mycologique de France and served as its third president in 1891–92. In 1920 he became an honorary member of the British Mycological Society.  He died in Paris, aged 71.

Patouillard is highly regarded for his taxonomical work in mycology, and during his career, he described numerous genera and species of fungi. The following are some of the genera that he is the taxonomic authority of: Guepiniopsis, Hirsutella, Lacrymaria, Leucocoprinus, Melanoleuca and Spongipellis. A mycological species called Inocybe patouillardii (brick-red tear mushroom) is one of the species named after him.

He was the author of nearly 250 works, and was a leading authority on tropical mycology. Over 100 of his publications involved studies of fungi from diverse locales such as Brazil, Java, Guadeloupe, Mexico, New Caledonia, the Gambier Islands, Philippines, et al.

Selected writings
 Tabulae analyticae Fungorum (Analytic tables of fungi), 1883–1889.
 Les Hyménomycètes d'Europe. Anatomie générale et classification des champignons supérieurs (The Hymenomycetes of Europe. General anatomy and classification of the higher fungi) 166 pp. 1887.
 Fragments mycologiques: Notes sur quelques champignons de la Martinique (Notes on certain mushrooms of Martinique) in Journal of Botany 3 pp. 335 - 343, 1889.
 Essai taxonomique sur les familles et les genres des Hyménomycètes (Taxonomic essay on the families and genera of Hymenomycetes), 1900.

See also
 :Category:Taxa named by Narcisse Théophile Patouillard

References
 "This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia."
 Mushroom the Journal (biographical data, list of publications & genera described.)

1854 births
1926 deaths
People from Jura (department)
French mycologists
French pharmacists


Live Without Sense is the first live album by German thrash metal band Destruction. It was released on January 1, 1989.

Track listing

Personnel
Destruction
Schmier – bass, vocals
Harry Wilkens – lead guitar
Mike Sifringer – rhythm guitar
Oliver "Olli" Kaiser – drums

Production
Joachim Luetke – cover illustration

References

Destruction (band) albums
1988 live albums
SPV/Steamhammer live albums
Live thrash metal albums


This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Erie County, Pennsylvania.

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

There are 50 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.  Another 2 properties were once listed but have been removed.

Current listings

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Former listings

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See also

 List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Pennsylvania
 List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Erie County

References

Erie County


The Layover EP is the first solo extended play by American rapper and record producer Evidence. It was released on November 25, 2008, via Decon. Recording sessions took place at Soundproof East, Chop Shop Studios, The Ether, The Lab NYC, Dirt Class West, Daddy's Crib, Soundproof West, Studio 1, Dirty Science Lab 12. Production was handled by The Alchemist, Khrysis, DJ Babu, Sid Roams, and Evidence himself. It features guest appearances from Aloe Blacc, Blu, Defari, Elzhi, Fashawn, Krondon, Phonte and Will.i.am. The album didn't reach the Billboard 200 chart, however, it peaked at No. 27 on the Heatseekers Albums in the United States, and received generally favourable reviews from music critics.

Background
The idea for The Layover EP originally came about while Evidence was on tour with Little Brother, and was originally going to be a 5 track release produced entirely by North Carolina producer Khrysis for free download. He later strayed from the idea and decided to make it an official release. Evidence cites Ice Cube's Kill at Will, Pete Rock & CL Smooth's All Souled Out and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's Creepin on ah Come Up as influences for the project, saying they were examples of extended plays "that were really quality" and served as the perfect vehicle to get the next album released shortly after.

DJ Premier ranked the album 2nd in his top 20 albums of 2008 list.

In the video for "The Far Left" when the Alchemist says "To the atmosphere so I can really find out" he holds up a drawing of a slug and an ant. This is a reference to the hip hop group Atmosphere, which consist of rapper Slug and producer Ant.

The Layover Mixtape
In addition with the release of The Layover EP, Evidence collaborated with DJ Skee to produce The Layover Mixtape which was available on Evidence's Myspace for free download. Other collaborators featured on the mixtape include Defari, Bishop Lamont, Chace Infinite, Dilated Peoples, U-N-I, Big Pooh, Aloe Blacc, Fashawn, Mickey Factz, Theo, Kes Kaos, Phonte, Montage One, Mitchy Slick, Big Twin, Diz Gibran, Styliztik Jones, Krondon, Rakaa Iriscience and Crooked I. The mixtape track listing varies with songs from The Layover EP, commercial tracks that Evidence rapped over, and Dilated Peoples' Fresh Rhymes and Videotape EP.

Track listing

Personnel

Michael "Evidence" Peretta – vocals, producer (tracks: 5, 10), recording (tracks: 1, 3-5, 7, 10), executive producer
Phonte Coleman – vocals (track 2)
Johnson "Blu" Barnes – vocals (track 2)
William "will.i.am" Adams – vocals & recording (track 2)
Marvin "Krondon" Jones – vocals (track 4)
Duane A. "Defari" Johnson Jr. – vocals & recording (track 5)
Alan "The Alchemist" Maman – vocals (track 7), producer & recording (tracks: 3, 7, 9), mixing (tracks: 7, 9), executive producer
Santiago "Fashawn" Leyva – vocals (track 7)
Jason "Elzhi" Powers – vocals (track 9)
Egbert Nathaniel "Aloe Blacc" Dawkins – vocals & recording (track 9)
Joey Chavez – additional vocals & producer (track 4)
Tavish "Bravo" Graham – additional vocals & producer (track 4)
Cat Summers – additional vocals (track 6)
Kamilah – additional vocals (track 8)
Noelle Scaggs – additional vocals (track 10)
Rakaa "Iriscience" Taylor – additional vocals (track 10)
Kurt "DJ Revolution" Hoffman – scratches (tracks: 1, 5, 10)
Chris "DJ Babu" Oroc – scratches (track 3), producer (track 8), recording (tracks: 6, 8)
Christopher "Khrysis" Tyson – producer & recording (tracks: 1, 2)
Brock Korsan – recording (tracks: 2, 4, 7, 8), management
Tommy Hoffman – recording (track 9)
Eddie Sancho – mixing (tracks: 1-6, 8, 10)
Tom Coyne – mastering
Yoram Benz – cover design
Kalani Fujimori – layout design
Brian "B+" Cross – photography

Charts

References

External links

2008 EPs
Decon albums
Albums produced by Khrysis
Evidence (musician) albums
Albums produced by DJ Babu
Albums produced by Evidence (musician)
Albums produced by the Alchemist (musician)


The Johan Peninsula is located on the eastern coast of Ellesmere Island, a part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It stretches eastward into Nares Strait. Buchanan Bay is to the north, Rosse Bay to the east (separating the peninsula from Pim Island), and Baird Inlet lies to the south.

There are several glaciers surrounding the peninsula, including Leffert Glacier, Jewell Glacier, Saate Glacier, Fram Glacier, Twin Glacier, Alfred Newton Glacier, MacMillan Glacier, Allen Glacier, Green Glacier, and Small Glacier.

References

Ellesmere Island
Peninsulas of Qikiqtaaluk Region


Kunjithai (meaning "small coconut tree" in Malayalam) is a small village in Paravur Taluk, Ernakulam district in the state of Kerala, India. It is about 26 km from Ernakulam City. It is a lakeside village with the Pallipuram Lake as its western boundary. The ancient port town Muziris (Pattanam) shares its boundary with Kunjithai.

Kunjithai has a healthy population of the Anglo-Indian community which can be considered the highest in the Paravur Taluk and is one of the prominent Anglo-Indian community in Ernakulam district itself. Kunjithai has two places known as Kotta and Kothalam, which are believed to be the ruins of kings. But nothing remains there apart from the place name. Kunjithai is the one of the most fishing boat manufacturing Place in Kerala. Here around 30 Boat yards and 2000 peoples working.

References

Villages in Ernakulam district


Gayle Williams (18 December 1973 – 20 October 2008) was an aid worker for SERVE Afghanistan of joint British and South African nationality. She was shot on her way to work in Kabul, Afghanistan by two men on a motorbike. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, claimed responsibility for her death and said she had been killed "because she was working for an organization which was preaching Christianity in Afghanistan".

Education and early career
Williams was born in Zimbabwe and raised in Empangeni, KwaZulu Natal. Her mother took her to live in Middlesbrough, England during her secondary school years, after which she went back to South Africa to study biokinetics and occupational therapy at the University of Zululand. Afterward, she returned to London to work with disabled and deprived children.

Work in Afghanistan
Williams had been fascinated with Afghanistan, and worked with Afghan refugees in camps in Pakistan, starting to learn Dari and Pashto. She was determined to work in-country and was stationed in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar in 2006, working with disabled children, blind and deaf children, and children hurt and maimed by landmines and fighting in the country.

The charity SERVE Afghanistan is Christian in its beliefs, but denied that it tried to spread Christianity. Colleagues stressed that Williams was extremely careful not to try to convert Afghans.

She was well aware of the risks of working in Afghanistan. Some 4,000 people had been killed there in 2008, of whom one third were civilians. Taliban violence had been targeted against aid workers to spread fear and undermine the Government's claims to be bringing security. In April 2008, because of the danger to charity workers there, Serve recalled its staff from Kandahar to Kabul.

Williams had attended the funeral of a colleague a few weeks before her own death, and expressed a wish to be buried in the same Christian cemetery in Kabul if she were to die in Afghanistan. A friend recounted at her funeral that she said, "These bodies are only temporary. When I get to heaven I will have a new body."

Responses to her death
On October 20, 2008 Williams was shot, at close range, while walking on a quiet street in Kabul.

Douglas Alexander, UK Secretary of State for International Development, condemned the murder: "Her killing was a callous and cowardly act by people who would take Afghanistan back to the dark days of the Taliban tyranny which scarred the country for so long."

Mike Lythe, head of Serve Afghanistan, said, "This is a tragedy...  She knew the dangers, but Afghanistan is where she wanted to be." Following the killing, the organisation suspended its work in the country. The Foreign Office also updated its advice for people travelling to the country, stating that no part should be "considered immune from violence".

The London-based scholar Ziauddin Sardar described the killing as "another barbaric act in the name of Islam" and called on all Muslims to condemn the Taliban.

Following Williams' funeral, her mother and sister met President Hamid Karzai who wished to express his condolences. Her sister Karen Williams stated that they had forgiven the killers as Gayle would have done.

The family arranged a memorial service in London the week after. They asked for no flowers but for donations to be sent for the welfare of deprived Afghan children.

Responding to the murder of Gayle Williams, there were calls for Christians to end evangelism. However, a worldwide commission of evangelical Christian theologians, meeting in Bangkok on 23–25 October, reaffirmed the importance of holistic mission.

A "prayer walk" for Williams' family and colleagues was arranged for 8 November 2008 in London, stopping to pray outside embassies of countries where Christian believers face persecution.

The Centre for Safety and Development, which gives training to avoid attacks on humanitarian workers, notes that Williams trustfully walked the same route to work each day, and advises workers with NGOs to take more precautions.

References

1973 births
2008 deaths
Zimbabwean people of English descent
21st-century Christian martyrs
British charity and campaign group workers
British people murdered abroad
Deaths by firearm in Afghanistan
English people of South African descent
English people of Zimbabwean descent
People from Empangeni
People killed by the Taliban
People murdered in Afghanistan
South African people murdered abroad
South African people of English descent
South African people of Zimbabwean descent
White Rhodesian people


Colusa Unified School District is located in Colusa, California. The district is formed by the following three schools: Burchfield Primary School, Egling Middle School, and Colusa High School; which currently have 34, 31 and 26 staff members, respectively. The Burchfield Primary School's mascot is the BraveHawks, the Egling Middle School's mascot is RiverHawks and Colusa High School's is the RedHawks. The mascots for the three schools were changed to a Non-Native American name through a voting process effective August 2011. In addition to these physical schools, the district also has a Colusa Alternative Home School which assists families with the desire to educate children at home.

References

External links

School districts in Colusa County, California


The Mexican paradox is the observation that Mexicans exhibit a surprisingly low incidence of low birth weight (especially foreign-born Mexican mothers), contrary to what would be expected from their socioeconomic status (SES). This appears as an outlier in graphs correlating SES with low-birth-weight rates. The medical causes of lower rates of low birth weights among birthing Mexican mothers has been called into question.

The Hispanic paradox refers to the same phenomenon observed across the populations of South and Central America, where Mexicans remain the healthier.

Description
The results of a study showed that the mean birth weight of Mexican-American babies was 3.34 kg (7.37 lbs), while that of non-Hispanic White babies was 3.39 kg (7.48 lbs.). This finding re-emphasized the independence of mean birth weight and LBW. This however did not refute the discrepancies in LBW for Mexicans. The study also showed that the overall preterm birth rate was higher among Mexican Americans (10.6%) than non-Hispanic Whites (9.3%). In North Carolina, from 1996 to 2000, the infant death rate was 6.1 for Mexican-born infants, in comparison to 6.6 for White infants, and 15 for Black infants. The overall hypothesis of the authors was that this finding reflected an error in recorded gestational age, described in a strongly bimodal birth-weight distribution at young gestational ages for Mexican-Americans.

Many external effects come into play, such as the Mexican diet, extended family ties, low levels of stress, strong religious beliefs and strong ties to their communities. A 1995 study suggested that the Virgin of Guadeloupe encouraged healthy births thanks to its iconic pregnancy symbolism. Another study suggested that resistance to changes in diet is responsible for the positive birth weight association for Mexican-American mothers. Yet another study showed that Mexicans blend traditional and modern medicine, a potential explanation for the paradox.

It was also observed that, the longer Mexican women live in the United States, the more their infant mortality risks increased. Lower occurrences of periodontal disease with Mexican-American women was also suggested as an explanation for the Mexican paradox. Another study revealed that, beyond healthy births, Mexican infants also have lower developmental outcomes in their development years.

A 2014 study concluded that the Mexican paradox is disappearing slowly, most of the comparison data between Mexican infants and White infants being fairly similar in recent years. Another 2016 study showed that the Mexican paradox erodes in the third generation of the immigrated family.

It was also verified that Mexicans have less high blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases and most cancers. than the US population in general.

See also
 French paradox
 Hispanic paradox
 List of paradoxes
 Low birth weight paradox

References

Further reading

Health paradoxes
Health in Mexico
Obstetrics
Epidemiology


Martin Bronstein (born 1935) is a British-Canadian actor, writer, columnist, broadcaster and journalist.

Early life and education
Bronstein was born in London, England.

Career
Bronstein moved to Canada in 1959 and worked as a copywriter, journalist and comedy writer. He also worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviewing a series of entertainers, including Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Bob Dylan, Jack Benny, Dudley Moore, Dizzy Gillespie, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Nina Simone, and Duke Ellington.  With John Morgan, he wrote a comedy series, Funny You Should Say That, for CBC.

Bronstein was a founding member in 1970 of the Jest Society, which became the Royal Canadian Air Farce in 1973. He left the comedy troupe to return to journalism in 1974 but continued to write for the troupe for the rest of the decade. In 1982, he returned to Britain to become editor of Squash Player International magazine and has written extensively on the sport in the ensuing decades.

References

External links
 Royal Canadian Air Farce history
 Canada's Walk of Fame

1935 births
Living people
CBC Radio hosts
Canadian male comedians
Canadian male journalists
Canadian male non-fiction writers
Canadian television personalities
Canadian male screenwriters
Canadian sketch comedians
Comedians from London
Comedians from Montreal
English male journalists
Journalists from London
Journalists from Montreal
Royal Canadian Air Farce
Television personalities from Montreal
English emigrants to Canada
Writers from London
Writers from Montreal
20th-century Canadian comedians
20th-century Canadian screenwriters
20th-century Canadian male writers


A list of films produced by the Tollywood (Bengali language film industry) based in Kolkata in the year 2004.

A-Z of films

References

External links
 Tollywood films of 2005 at the Internet Movie Database

2004
Lists of 2004 films by country or language
 Bengali
2004 in Indian cinema


Sins is a 1986 CBS television miniseries starring Joan Collins. An adaptation of the 1982 novel of the same name by Judith Gould, it is the story of a woman who survives the horrors of the Nazi occupation of France and endures a succession of challenges as she rises in the world of fashion.

Produced by New World Television with a budget of $14 million, Collins also served as executive producer with her then-husband Peter Holm, and the miniseries contained 85 costume changes for her role (reportedly a record for a single production); Collins retained all of her costumes after filming as part of her contract. Carly Simon co-wrote and performed the theme song, "It's Hard to be Tender."

Plot
Helene Junot is a successful businesswoman and a leading name in the world of fashion. In 1980s New York, she attends a reception for the launch of her new magazine, Woman Of Today, which could make or break her publishing company. Meanwhile, several people from Helene's past are conspiring to destroy her.

In France during World War II, 13-year-old Helene is raped and brutalized at the hands of the Gestapo (led by the sadistic Nazi commander, Karl Von Eiderfeld) as they murder her pregnant mother, caught sending messages for the Allied Forces. Though Helene later escapes, her younger brother and sister, Edmund and Marie, are deported to a concentration camp. In 1949, with the war over, Helene goes to work as a dressmaker with her aunt at the grand home of the Count and Countess De Ville. There, she begins to show her talents as a fashion designer and also is wooed by the Count's son, Hubert. However, Hubert's parents do not approve of him seeing a "servant girl", which ends their romance.

In 1955, Helene moves to Paris and begins working for leading fashion designer Odile as a model. Odile soon makes Helene a director at her fashion house. In 1959, Helene meets and falls in love with American army officer David Westfield when he is visiting Paris, but their affair is short-lived when David is transferred to Vietnam and is killed in action. At the same time, Helene has hired an investigator named Otto Mueller, as she wants to find her brother and sister and the Gestapo commander responsible for the death of her mother years earlier. However, the search will be costly, and Helene agrees to become the mistress of the abusive Count De Ville (Hubert's father) in order to finance her search, much to Hubert's dismay and humiliation. Mueller succeeds in finding Helene's brother Edmund, now a grown man but living in a mental institution in a permanently catatonic state after years of torture and abuse at the hands of the Nazis. Helene takes him home with her and hires a doctor and a nurse to bring him back to health.

Helene also meets American composer Eric Hovland, an older man with whom she falls in love and later marries. However, their marriage is short-lived when Hubert De Ville, still obsessed with Helene, breaks into their home and tries to rape her. When Eric tries to protect her, Hubert murders him, but threatens to use his family connections to blame Helene for the crime if she reports him. Helene reluctantly agrees and tells the police it was an accident, but then discovers that the incident and their conversation afterwards had been taped as Eric was recording music at his piano at the time. She then blackmails the De Villes for 100 million francs, or she will have Hubert arrested for murder and destroy their family's reputation. Count De Ville reluctantly agrees and Helene uses the money to begin her own fashion magazine, Couture. However her victory over the De Villes is bittersweet as she finds out she is pregnant with Eric's child, but miscarries and learns she can never have children because of an injury she sustained after being raped by the Nazis during the war. Soon after, Mueller informs Helene that he has tracked down the ex-Nazi commander Von Eiderfeld, who is now a wealthy businessman living in Austria. Helene and Edmund have him prosecuted as a Nazi war criminal and he is sentenced to life imprisonment, but vows to have revenge on Helene.

In the 1960s, Helene then throws herself into her work and Couture becomes a huge success, while Edmund marries his nurse, Jeanne. However, when she is pregnant with their first child, Jeanne becomes ill. The baby is born prematurely and Jeanne dies, leaving Edmund to raise their daughter, Natalie, alone. Meanwhile, Helene meets Italian publisher Marcello D'Itri, who tries to secure a loan from her to save his floundering fashion magazine. Helene offers to buy his magazine, on the condition that it is renamed Couture Italiana, but with Marcello kept on as editor-in-chief, to which he agrees. But while she is in Venice, Helene runs into David, who had not died in Vietnam as reported and has been trying to find her for years. Now a U.S. congressman, David asks Helene to marry him. David's mother does not approve of their engagement, feeling that Helene's somewhat chequered past will taint David's future career. Also knowing that she cannot give David children, Helene reluctantly breaks off their engagement. Some years later in the 1970s, Helene's empire has expanded and she hires American architect Steve Bryant, and his jealous wife Zizi, to design and build a new skyscraper in New York named the Junot Tower. Steve falls in love with Helene, much to Zizi's annoyance, but their relationship remains platonic.

In 1982, at a fancy dress ball in Venice to mark the 50th issue of Couture Italiana, Helene learns that Marcello has been embezzling from the magazine behind her back, and she forces him to resign. At the party, Helene once again meets David, who is now a married U.S. senator. Moments later, Hubert arrives at the ball to gloat that Von Eiderfeld was released from prison that day. Some time later, Helene finally begins a relationship with Steve, but when Zizi finds the two of them together, Steve suffers a heart attack and dies, for which Zizi blames Helene.

A couple of years later, Helene's enemies Von Eiderfeld, Hubert, Marcello and Zizi join forces in a conspiracy to destroy her. Helene has launched a new magazine, Woman Of Today, but has taken out huge loans and sold off a large amount of stock in her company, Junot Publications, in order to finance it. When the first issue is a failure, Helene's enemies buy up large portions of the stock between them. They also manage to lure Helene's long-time editorial associate, Luba Tcherina, away from her, while bribing her banker, Adam Gore, into calling in her outstanding loans so that she will become bankrupt. However, Marcello and Zizi are not content to merely ruin Helene, they want to kill her and hire a hitman with an attack dog to mutilate her. Helene's enemies are foiled, first when her banker Gore is exposed for fraud and commits suicide, saving Helene from bankruptcy, and then when an attempt on her life fails. Her enemies then turn on themselves, and in an ensuing struggle, Zizi shoots and kills Von Eiderfeld. Meanwhile, Helene has gained precious time to relaunch her new magazine, this time with her talented niece Natalie at the helm. The second issue is a huge success, but not before Helene is shot by the hitman who was hired to kill her as he attempts to carry out his contract. However, she is only wounded and survives, while David kills the hitman. After Helene recovers, David divorces his wife and he and Helene later marry. Finally finding true happiness, Helene decides to hand her publishing empire over to Natalie to run.

Cast
 Joan Collins as Helene Junot
 Catherine Mary Stewart as Young Helene Junot
 Timothy Dalton as Edmund Junot
 Steven Berkoff as Major Karl Von Eiderfeld
 Jean-Pierre Aumont as Count De Ville
 Neil Dickson as Hubert De Ville
 James Farentino as David Westfield
 Faith Brook as Julie Westfield
 Gene Kelly as Eric Hovland
 Joseph Bologna as Steve Bryant
 Lauren Hutton as Zizi Bryant
 William Allen Young as Jacques Danvers
 Giancarlo Giannini as Marcello D'itri
 Capucine as Odile
 Marisa Berenson as Luba Tcherina
 Paul Freeman as Mueller
 Élizabeth Bourgine as Jeanne
 Judi Bowker as Natalie Junot
 Allen Garfield as Adam Gore
 Arielle Dombasle as Jacqueline Gore
 Régine as Madame Liu
 Ginette Garcin as Madame Guerin

Production
Adapted from the 1982 novel Sins by Judith Gould, the teleplay was written by Laurence Heath. The miniseries was produced by, among others, Collins and her then-husband Peter Holm. Directed by Douglas Hickox, Sins was filmed in 1985 at Studios de Billancourt in Paris, and on location in France, Italy, and New York. Many of Collins' costumes were designed by Valentino.

Broadcast and reception
The seven-hour miniseries was broadcast in three parts on CBS starting on February 2, 1986. Jon Corry of The New York Times called Sins "a very pretty production" and "a hymn to consumerism." He wrote:

An episode of the hit ABC series Growing Pains entitled "Reputation", which was also originally telecast in February 1986, made multiple indirect references to the miniseries, including the audio of a faux television advertisement and the reading aloud of a fictitious listing description in TV Guide.

Some retrospective reviewers consider Sins to be emblematic of the campy excesses of 1980s-era television, with Collins playing a "superhuman version of the sort of tough-as-tacks heroine Joan Crawford used to play in her Hollywood heyday," and the lavish production design being described as the "aesthetic apex" of melodramatic miniseries.

Video/DVD
Sins was released on home video in the 1980s and 90s, and released on DVD in the UK (as a 3-disc set) in 2003. Although the miniseries was originally shown in three parts, the DVD has the version shown on syndicated television and is split into seven episodes of varying lengths (between 30 minutes and 55 minutes each). Only the first episode includes the opening credit sequence. The DVD "special features" consist of written profiles for Joan Collins, Timothy Dalton, Marisa Berenson, Jean-Pierre Aumont, and Joseph Bologna, as well as a photo gallery section and weblinks for Collins and Dalton.

The DVD was released in the US in 2011. This edition was a 2-disc set and retains the miniseries' originally broadcast format as three episodes, though there are no bonus features.

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1986 television films
1986 films
1980s American television miniseries
Television shows based on American novels
Television series by New World Television


Brandon Ward (born December 11, 1972) is a retired U.S. soccer midfielder who played one season in Major League Soccer as well as the USISL and National Professional Soccer League.

Ward attended the Indiana University, playing on the men's soccer team from 1991 to 1994.  In his senior season, the Hoosiers went to the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship only to lose to the Virginia Cavaliers.  Various sources place Ward with three different teams during 1995, the Hampton Roads Mariners, Richmond Kickers and Indiana Blast.  On February 7, 1996, the Columbus Crew selected Ward in the sixth round (fifty-first overall) of the 1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft.   He played six games for the Crew before being released.  He then joined the St. Louis Ambush in the National Professional Soccer League.  He spent two seasons with the Ambush before being again being drafted by the Crew, this time in the first round of the 1998 MLS Supplemental Draft.  The Crew released him on April 1, 1998 before Ward played a game.  He then signed with the Chicago Stingers of the USISL.

References

Living people
1972 births
American men's soccer players
Chicago Sockers players
Columbus Crew players
Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer players
Major League Soccer players
National Professional Soccer League (1984–2001) players
St. Louis Ambush (1992–2000) players
A-League (1995–2004) players
Columbus Crew draft picks
Men's association football midfielders


"Histoires de luv" is fourth single by French-Canadian rapper K.Maro, and the first single from his third studio album Million Dollar Boy. The song contains mix of French and English lyrics.

Track listings
 CD single
 "Histoires de luv" — 3:47
 "Strip Club" — 4:19

 12" maxi
 "Histoires de luv" — 3:47
 "Million Dollar Boy"

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links
 Song information

2005 songs
2006 singles
K.Maro songs
Franglais songs


Ahmed Kashi (born 18 November 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Annecy.

Born in France, he is a former Algeria international, and was a member of the squad at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.

Club career
Born in Aubervilliers, France, Kashi made his first team debut for Châteauroux on 15 April 2008, playing as a starter in the team's 2–0 league loss to Reims. In the summer of 2008, Kashi signed a one-year professional contract with Châteauroux.

On 18 July 2015, Kashi joined Charlton Athletic. He made his debut for Charlton against Queens Park Rangers on 8 August 2015, and scored his first goal for the club against Peterborough United in the League Cup on 25 August 2015. At the end of the 2017–18 season, Charlton entered into contract talks with Kashi. However, on 19 June 2018, caretaker manager for Charlton Athletic Lee Bowyer stated that Kashi would not be renewing his contract with the club.

On 16 July 2018, Kashi joined Troyes on a two-year deal. He was loaned out in January 2019 to Oxford United of EFL League One until the end of the season. He returned to his parent club at the end of the season, having made 12 appearances (11 of them in League One) without scoring. After his return, he was relegated to the Troyes' reserve team due to a conflict with the club.

On 3 February 2020, Kashi signed with Annecy.

International career
Born in France, Kashi holds French and Algerian nationality and was therefore eligible to represent both nation. In an interview in 2009, he indicated that he would prefer to represent Algeria in international competition. In 2015, he was part of the Algeria national team at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, where he made his international debut in the final group stage match against Senegal.

Career statistics

Club

References

External links

Living people
1988 births
Sportspeople from Aubervilliers
French men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
French sportspeople of Algerian descent
2015 Africa Cup of Nations players
Algeria men's international footballers
Algerian expatriate men's footballers
Algerian expatriate sportspeople in England
Algerian men's footballers
LB Châteauroux players
FC Metz players
Charlton Athletic F.C. players
ES Troyes AC players
Oxford United F.C. players
FC Annecy players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National players
English Football League players
Championnat National 2 players
Footballers from Seine-Saint-Denis


Ryan Jungwook Hong (홍정욱; born March 14, 1970) is a Korean entrepreneur, businessman, and politician. Hong is the chairman and owner of Herald Corporation and related companies, a leading content and lifestyle group in Korea, and the founding chairman of Organica, a pioneering Korean natural food company. Hong also heads the Olje Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting classics education.

Biography
Ryan Jungwook Hong was born in Seoul, Korea, the son of Won Namgung (Kyungil Hong), a celebrated Korean actor. Hong graduated from Apgujeong Elementary School and Apgujeong Middle School in Seoul. He left Korea in 1985 to study in the U.S. and went on to graduate from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1989. He received his A.B., magna cum laude, in East Asian Studies from Harvard University in 1993 and J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1998. He also studied political science at Seoul National University in Korea and international politics at the graduate school of Peking University in China.

After passing the New York State Bar in 1998, Hong joined the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Lehman Brothers in New York, but left the firm in 1999 to co-found an internet startup in California. In 2001, he returned to Korea to fulfill his military duty. In December 2002, he acquired Herald corporation, a venerable newspaper company, in a leveraged buyout. He turned the company around and quickly expanded its business into the internet, broadcasting, magazines, and education.

In 2008, Hong resigned as chairman of Herald corporation and was elected to the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, representing Nowon District in Seoul. Serving on the Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification Committee, he was the chairman of the ruling Grand National Party's International Affairs Committee and the Honorary Ambassador of Grant Aid for the Korean government. In 2012, however, he decided not to seek reelection and returned to his companies.

Upon return, Hong transformed Herald corporation into a content and lifestyle group with businesses ranging from media and education to natural foods and biodegradable plastics. Herald corporation publishes The Korea Herald, the nation's dominant English newspaper, and The Herald Business, Korea's largest afternoon financial daily; runs Herald Edu, Korea's largest English immersion campus network; manages Herald Artday, an online art auction company, and Herald Design Forum, one of Asia's premier design forums; and owns Biota, a manufacturer of biodegradable plastic films. Since 2005, Herald corporation has enjoyed over a decades of consecutive of growth and profitability, and is now one of Korea's most profitable media companies.

In 2013, with the belief that "within nature lies cure for humanity," Hong also founded Organica, a pioneering premium natural food company offering whole foods, natural snacks, cold-press juices, and salads. Organica's brands include Just Juice, Korea's premier cold-press HPP juices, and Season to Season, a premium selection of organic grains and superfoods. Through acquisitions and expansions, Hong is propelling Organica to serve as a benchmark for natural foods not only in Korea but also throughout Asia. His recent acquisitions include Cheonbo Natural Food, a leading organic grains distributor, in 2013, and Ansung Production Center, large-scale HPP facilities of CJ CheilJedang, in 2015, and Green Farm, an organic vegetable supplier, in 2016.

Philanthropy
In 2011, Hong established Olje Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting classics publication and education by offering Olje Classics and Olje Selections – a carefully curated series of Western and Eastern literature, philosophy, religion, and history books – to the public at low costs and donating 20% of the books to schools, libraries, armed forces, prisons, etc.

Hong has served on the Board and the Operating Advisory Committee of the National Museum of Korea since 2008 and has been a member of the Choate Board of Trustees since 2016, in addition to founding the Young Friends of the Museum. He is also a member of the Operating Committee of the Seoul National University Museum of Art. In 2014, Hong founded Herald Philharmonic Orchestra to promote and support classical music.

In 2015, Hong engaged both Herald corporation and Organica to fund World Wide Fund for Nature's premier ecological footprint report for Korea and help WWF Korea protect endangered species and increase the awareness of climate change. A strong proponent of a plant-based diet, he has championed diverse initiatives to support organic farming and sustainable foods in Korea.

Recognition
In 2005, Hong was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2005, an Asia 21 Fellow by Asia Society in 2006, and a Young World Leader by the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt in 2008. During his 4-year term in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, he won numerous awards, honors, and distinctions. He also received an honorary doctorate degree in political science at Yongin University.

Publication
In 1993, Hong authored Seven Acts Seven Scenes, a memoir of his experience in the U.S. and China, which has sold over 1.3 million copies to date.

Personal life
Hong and his wife, Nicole Junghee Sohn, a ceramics sculpture artist, live in Seoul, Korea. They have three children, Josephine Jisung, Claire Jisu, and Alexander Euisung.

References

External links
 Jungwook Hong Facebook
 Jungwook Hong Website
 Jungwook Hong collected news and commentary at The Korea Herald
 Jungwook Hong collected news and commentary at The Herald Business

1970 births
Living people
Politicians from Seoul
Korean politicians
Liberty Korea Party politicians
Stanford Law School alumni
Harvard University alumni


This is a list of Hawaiian species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) and continues to the present day.

The Hawaiian Islands include the eight major islands (the Windward Islands) and the small islands and atolls of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. They are all part of the U.S. state of Hawaii, except Midway Atoll, which is a separate U.S. territory.

The islands of East Polynesia (including New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter Island) were among the last habitable places on earth colonized by humans. Estimates for the timing of Polynesian settlement in Hawaii have varied over the decades, but a 2010 study based on radiocarbon dates of more reliable samples suggests that Hawaii was first settled about 1219 to 1266 CE. In 1778, British explorer James Cook became the first recorded European to arrive in Hawaii. An influx of European and American explorers, traders, and whalers arrived shortly after. Hawaii was annexed by the United States in 1898 and became a state in 1959.

Numerous species have disappeared from Hawaii as part of the ongoing Holocene extinction, driven by human activity. Human contact, first by Polynesians and later by Europeans, had a significant impact on the environment. Both the Polynesians and Europeans cleared native forests and introduced non-indigenous species for agriculture (or by accident), driving many endemic species to extinction. Fossil finds in caves, lava tubes, and sand dunes have revealed that Hawaii once had a native eagle, two raven-size crows, several bird-eating owls, and giant ducks known as moa-nalo. Today, many of Hawaii's remaining endemic species of plants and animals are considered endangered. Hawaii has more endangered species and has lost a higher percentage of its endemic species than any other U.S. state. The endemic plant Brighamia now requires hand pollination because its natural pollinator is presumed to be extinct.

This list of extinct species only includes the indigenous biota of Hawaii, not domestic animals like the Hawaiian poi dog. Many extinction dates are unknown due to a lack of relevant information.

Mammals (class Mammalia)

Bats (order Chiroptera)

Vesper bats (family Vespertilionidae)

Birds (class Aves)

Waterfowl (order Anseriformes)

Ducks, geese, and swans (family Anatidae)

Rails and cranes (order Gruiformes)

Rails (family Rallidae)

Shorebirds (order Charadriiformes)

Gulls, terns, and skimmers (family Laridae)

Albatrosses and petrels (order Procellariiformes)

Petrels and shearwaters (family Procellariidae)

Pelicans, herons, and ibises (order Pelecaniformes)

Ibises and spoonbills (family Threskiornithidae)

Hawks and relatives (order Accipitriformes)

Hawks, eagles, kites, harriers and Old World vultures (family Accipitridae)

Owls (order Strigiformes)

True owls (family Strigidae)

Perching birds (order Passeriformes)

Crows and relatives (family Corvidae)

Extinct in the wild, crows and relatives (family Corvidae)

Reed warblers (family Acrocephalidae)

Hawaiian honeyeaters (family Mohoidae)

Thrushes (family Turdidae)

Possibly extinct, thrushes (family Turdidae)

True finches (family Fringillidae)

Possibly extinct, true finches (family Fringillidae)

Incertae familiae

Insects (class Insecta)

Dragonflies and damselflies (order Odonata)

Narrow-winged damselflies (family Coenagrionidae)

Possibly extinct

Grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets (order Orthoptera)

True crickets (family Gryllidae)

Extinct in the wild

True bugs (order Hemiptera)

Mealybugs (family Pseudococcidae)

Beetles (order Coleoptera)

True weevils (family Curculionidae)

Butterflies and moths (order Lepidoptera)

Pyralid moths (family Pyralidae)

Owlet moths (family Noctuidae)

Possibly extinct, owlet moths (family Noctuidae)

Data deficient, owlet moths (family Noctuidae)

Geometer moths (family Geometridae)

True flies (order Diptera)

Long-legged flies (family Dolichopodidae)

Fruit flies and relatives (family Drosophilidae)

Snails and slugs (class Gastropoda)

Order Stylommatophora

Family Achatinellidae

Family Amastridae

Family Pupillidae

See also
 Endemism in the Hawaiian Islands
 List of endemic birds of Hawaii
 List of Oceanian animals extinct in the Holocene
 List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene
 List of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene
 List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene
 List of extinct bird species since 1500
 Holocene extinction

Notes

References

Extinct
Hawaiian Islands
Extinct animals
Extinct


Ananda Central College-Elpitiya (Sinhala: ආනන්ද ම‍ධ්‍ය මහා විද්‍යාලය-ඇල්පිටිය), is a co-educational National school in the Elpitiya division, Galle district, Sri Lanka. It provides education for around 4000 students  in grades 1 to 13.

Location and size

Ananda Central College is situated on the left side of the road towards Pitigala 100 meters from the main city of Elpitiya in the Galle District. It consists of over 4500 students and a staff of about 130 teachers.

History
Ananda Central College was founded in the 1940s. During the World War II after the Japanese dropped bombs on Colombo 5 April 1942. In case Anagarika Dharmapala and Colonel Henry Steel Olcott tried to establish schools across the country, and as a result they founded The Ananda Central College.

During World War II bombing, people left Colombo - Sri Lanka towards the cities/villages inside the country. As a result, branches of schools in Colombo was formed in inner cities/villages in order to provide education. Ananda College - Elpitiya was started as a result of that.

Initially, the school was started in a temporary small hut made with cadjan leaves (Pol Athu) at 11th Mile Post at Elpitiya Pitigala Road. It was started with few number of students and the first principal was M.W. Karunananda from Colombo Ananda College. The land for the school was provided by Gunasekara who was living in the area that time. Goluwamulle Rathnalankara, S. T. Molligoda, and Sebbakutti Arachchi were pioneers in starting the school. Initially the teachers from Colombo carried out teaching and it was managed by Colombo Parama Vignanartha Buddhist Society (පරම විඥානාර්ථ බෞද්ධ සමාගම). After Karunananda’ time as the first principal, E.W. Gunapala, D.C.L. Amarasinghe and O. K. D. Silva served as principals.

After World War II was over in 1945, people who came from Colombo went back again. At that time the principal, O. K. D. Silva, teachers and surrounding residents handed over the college to the Government. On 16 January 1945, the Education Minister Hon. C. W. W. Kannangara took over the school to the government. After that the college went on a huge transformation and development. That time the college was named as G/Elpitiya Government School. After that J. Amarasinghe, A. Thanthrigoda, D. Francis Silva, and M. K. Wijethilaka served as principals of the school. While the school was in 11th mile post, the school produced some prominent persons such as D.P. Athukorala and Rupa Karunathilake.

During Principal M. K. Wijethilaka's time, the school was moved to current location at Elpitiya on 30 March 1955. The new building was opened by Educational Director T.T. Jayasuria and Prime Minister John Kotelawala. During this time from Grade 6 to Senior High School level studies were carried out in the English language. During this time the school was changed to a Senior High School and the name of the school was changed to G/Ananda Central College (G represents Galle). During this time many courses added and new buildings, laboratories were built.

In 1958, GCE A/L Arts Section was started and in 1960, 05 students were elected to university education. This time the principal was Peter Rajapaksa.

In 1963, A. Thrimavithana was appointed as the principal and he changed the school time only for morning session (previously morning and evening sessions). He took over the provincial educational office land to the school. In 1965, W. Thambavita was appointed as the principal to school and this time GCE A/L Science and Arts Sections were established. The number of students in the school was increased up to 1,500. New laboratories, two story buildings, commerce lab were built at this time. During that time with 10 donors in the vicinity of school built the library, while the teachers and students prepared the ground for construction. During Thambavita's time the school achieved a significant progress of education and sports.

After Tambavita's time, in 1978 P. Jinadasa became the principal. During his time the school became a Central College. Rupa Karunathilaka Auditorium was built at this time. The playground was built by filing a huge marshy land. During this time also the school achieved many progress on educational achievements such as many students were selected to university studies on science and mathematics.

In 1981, Thamara Saman Deepika who was a student of the school won the all island badminton tournament and progressed up to national, and international level. In 1985, the school was selected to hold Mahapola 10th Anniversary which was a prominent event.

1986, G. A. Somadasa became the principal of the school. During this time the school became a nominated as a National School. After his time, in 1996, G. Jinadasa was appointed as the school principal on a temporary basis.

In 1997, B. H. Ariyadasa (a former student of the college) became the principal. He got a change in location of employment and Danasiri Silva joined as the principal.

Subsequent to those initial leader's leading the school, many other principals led the school.

In addition to the Ananda Central College – Elpitiya, adjacently a primary school was there which was named as Elpitiya Buddhist Mix School (BTS). During 1970, the principal of that school, J. Kariyawasam made this school as a trial primary school for Ananda Central College – Elpitiya, but was not legally connected. After Kariyawasam, K.C. Perera and D.S. Maginarachchi became principals of the primary school. In 1979 the primary school legally combined with Ananda Central College- Elpitiya, during P. Jinadasa's time.

Ananda Central College is a village of schools. It has been serving for many years and continue to serve the area, province and the country.

Houses
The students are divided into 4 houses:
 Gamunu
 Parakum
 Thissa
 Vijaya

References

Buddhist schools in Sri Lanka
Buildings and structures in Elpitiya
Schools in Galle District


Panchagarh-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Mazharul Haque Prodhan of the Awami League.

Boundaries
The constituency encompasses Atwari, Panchagarh Sadar, and Tetulia upazilas.

History
The constituency was created in 1984 from the Dinajpur-2 constituency when the former Dinajpur District was split into three districts: Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, and Dinajpur.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

References

External links

Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh
Panchagarh District
Rangpur Division


Modern Vampires (also known as Revenant) is a 1998 American black comedy-horror film written by Matthew Bright, directed by Richard Elfman and starring Casper Van Dien, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Kim Cattrall, Natasha Lyonne, Udo Kier and Rod Steiger. It was released direct to video on October 19, 1999.

Plot

Dallas, a vampire, continuously bites people without permission from The Count. He is especially infuriated after Dallas turns Nico, a young woman and serial killer known as the "Hollywood Slasher" and orders her immediate death. 20 years after his exile, he returns to Los Angeles to pay a visit to his vampire friends: Ulrike, Vincent, Richard and Richard's pregnant wife Panthia. To celebrate Dallas' return, the five decide to spend the night clubbing in one of The Count's many vampire bars. Unfortunately, The Count is also there and he threatens Dallas to leave town.

Dr. Van Helsing, leader of Van Helsing's Institute of Vienna, is currently after the band of vampires. However, realizing that he is too old to handle the extermination alone, puts an ad in the newspaper for help. He gets Crips member Time Bomb, who does not believe in vampires but is willing to put a stake through anyone's heart for money. The pair succeed in subduing and killing Vincent. Van Helsing tells Time Bomb that 20 years ago, his son Hans was good friends with Dallas, who promised to save his life from a fatal genetic disorder by turning him into a vampire. After discovering this, Helsing killed Hans and his wife committed suicide out of grief, vowing to destroy Dallas for what he did to his son.

Dallas, having grown protective of Nico, drives around looking for her. After sharing a bit of each other's blood, Dallas reveals who he is and explains that the vampire community is out to get her, fearing her recklessness with expose the existence of vampires. After an attack by Van Hellsing and Time Bomb, Dallas takes Nico to live with Richard and Panthia, who clean her up and take her shopping for some new clothes. Panthia develops a mother-like complex towards Nico and starts treating her like a daughter. While the four go out one night, Nico befriends a human woman named Rachel. Returning home they find  a hysterical Ulrike, who revealing Vincent's death to the others. Knowing that this was Van Helsing's handiwork, Dallas theorizes that he's closing in on them. Having concluded that even two vampire hunters will not be enough against the vampire infestation, Van Helsing and Time Bomb bring in three more Crips members - Soda Pop, L'il Monster, and Trigger.

Dallas then decides to take Nico to see her mother's house, as Nico has little memory of her human life. Nico has him kill her verbally and sexually abusive stepfather an exchanges heated words with her neglectful mother, who she claims never loved her. As they leave the trailer park, they are attacked by four of The Count's henchmen but manage to kill them. While driving back, Dallas reveals that he was ordered to kill Van Helsing, but chose not to after befriending Hans. He hoped that by curing Hans he could change his father's attitude towards the vampire community. This failed, leading to Van Helsing became vengeful towards Dallas and killed Hans without mercy. The Count then banished Dallas as punishment for not carrying out his order to kill him.

The next night, Nico gets a call from Rachel and invites Nico out to party. Meanwhile, Dallas pays a visit to The Count and begs him to spare Nico, but The Count once again threatens him to bring him Nico. With Nico and Dallas out, Van Helsing and his Crip employees storm the house and kill Richard and Panthia. They tie Ulrike to a bedpost, but she taunts the Crips into having sex with her before Van Helsing finally stakes her too. They are unaware that having sex with a vampire turns a person into a vampire. Suddenly, Nico returns, horrified at the carnage. She attacks Trigger and Rachel is accidentally shot with Nico shooting Trigger in retaliation. Time Bomb subdues Nico as Dallas returns home, coming face to face with Van Helsing. Dallas offers to lead Van Helsing to The Count if he releases Nico. Van Helsing reluctantly agrees as they all head for The Count's house.

Unfortunately, The Count's henchmen intercept them and take Nico and Van Helsing to The Count, where he hooks up Nico to a blood-draining machine and places Van Helsing in a box with only his head sticking out. Just as The Count is about to crack open Van Helsing's skull with a hammer, Dallas drives the van through the wall of the club. Dallas and the Crips, now vampires, come out and manage to kill The Count and his henchmen. Afterwards, Nico is set free and Rachel, in order to save her life, has been turned into a vampire. Nico, Rachel, and Dallas decide to move to New York. In the closing scene, a pajama-clad Van Helsing runs down an alley, screaming for forgiveness from his son. As he utters apologies to God and his son Hans, he screams for help, revealing vampire fangs in front of two police officers.

Production
Production began during late June 1997 in Los Angeles, under the working title of Revenant. A few months later, work on the film was complete.

Differences between R-rated and unrated versions
 The DVD version contains more explicit gore than the edited R-rated VHS release.
 In the Spanish DVD version by Manga Films, the title does not appear onscreen during the opening credits.

Reception
The movie has received third place Best International Film award at the Fant-Asia Film Festival in 1997.

See also
 Vampire film

References

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1998 films
1998 direct-to-video films
1998 comedy horror films
American comedy horror films
Crips
American vampire films
Films set in Los Angeles
Films directed by Richard Elfman
Films with screenplays by Matthew Bright
Films scored by Michael Wandmacher
Films scored by Danny Elfman
1990s English-language films
1990s American films