St. Philip's Priory situated on New London Road in Chelmsford, Essex, UK was a Premonstratensian priory of canons regular. It was dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Sorrows and St. Philip Benizi. In the summer of 2022, the canonry relocated to London, founding the Priory of Our Lady of Sorrows, Peckham, in the Archdiocese of Southwark. St Philip's returned to the care of the Diocese of Brentwood.

The site of St Philip's Priory was formerly a private house, but was brought by Mr. Henry Shepperd in 1927 for the purpose of installing a community of Servite nuns. The priory and  chapel were solemnly blessed and opened on 15 September 1927, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, by Arthur Doubleday, Bishop of Brentwood. The Servites ran the priory and an adjoining school until the 1990s when the house was purchased by the diocese for use as a presbytery for the nearby parish of Our Lady Immaculate. The Premonstratensian community, which had originally been founded in 2004 in Manchester, established their home at the priory in October 2008 at the request of Bishop Thomas McMahon of Brentwood. In September 2022, the house became a presbytery for local parishes once more.

The Premonstratensians served the parish of Our Lady Immaculate on New London Road, together with that of Holy Name, in the Moulsham Lodge area of Chelmsford. The canons also functioned in other roles, such as in academia and chaplaincy work. They now engage in similar ministries in their London priory, serving the parish of Our Lady of Sorrows, Peckham.

In 2016, Fr Hugh Allan O.Praem., Prior of Norbertine Community of St Philip's Priory, was appointed the Apostolic Administrator of the Prefecture of the Falkland Islands and Ecclesiastical Superior of the Missions of the islands of Ascension, St Helena and Tristan da Cunha. In keeping with his appointment, he was also given the title of titular Abbot of Beeleigh. Before the Reformation the Premonstratensians had a house at Beeleigh Abbey in Maldon and owned land throughout Essex, including in the Moulsham area where St. Philip's Priory stood.

References

External links
St. Philip's Priory Website
Parishes of Our Lady Immaculate and Holy Name
Canons Regular of Prémontré (Premonstratensians) Homepage

Premonstratensian monasteries in England
Monasteries in Essex
Buildings and structures in Chelmsford (city)


Socrates II is a chess program that, in 1993, won the 23rd North American Computer Chess Championship. It ran on an IBM PC. This was the first and only time that a stock microcomputer won this event, finishing ahead of past winners Cray Blitz and HiTech.  The authors, Don Dailey and Larry Kaufman, renewed their collaboration twenty years later to create the Komodo chess engine.

See also
 Kasparov's Gambit

References
ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall

Chess software


The Copeland Report was the result of a United States Congressional investigation of forestry for the purpose of outlining a  coordinated plan that would "insure all of the economic and social benefits which can and should be derived from productive forests by fully utilizing the forest land."  The investigation was called for by Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York in Senate Resolution 175 (72d Congress, 1st sess., 1932)
Earle Clapp, later Chief Forester of the US Forest Service, supervised the report.

The report was finished in April 1933 and was a two-volume, 1,677-page document titled A National Plan for American Forestry which described and evaluated all aspects of forestry from timber, water, range and wildlife to recreation, state aid and fire protection. This report became the blueprint for forestry in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and had its beginnings in a senatorial discussion of unemployment, where reforestation might be a source for jobs. Previous reports had given the state of the forests, but without offering a plan for improvement.

In the Copeland Report the main recommendations were: (1) A large extension of public ownership of forest lands, and (2) more intensive management on all forest lands.

Notes

References
Godfrey, Anthony. The Ever-Changing View: A History of the National Forests in California. USDA Forest Service Publishers, 2005. .
Steen, Harold K. The U.S. Forest Service: A History. University of Washington Press, 1976. .

Environmental reports
United States federal public land legislation


The Campania regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.

Antonio Bassolino (Democrats of the Left) was elected President, defeating Antonio Rastrelli (National Alliance), who had been replaced in 1999 by a centre-left ribaltone led by Andrea Losco (People's Party).

Results

References

Elections in Campania
2000 elections in Italy


Hinduism is the most followed religion in Bihar, followed by nearly 82.7% of total population as per 2011 Census. Islam is the second-most followed religion which is followed by nearly 16.8% of population. There is also a significant population of Jains and Christians in the state.

History of religion in Bihar

Hindu Goddess Sita, the consort of Lord Rama, is believed to have been born in Sitamarhi district in the Mithila region of modern-day Bihar. It was the Ancient Bihar that give birth to new Indic religions: Buddhism and Jainism. Gautama Buddha attained Enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, a town located in the modern day district of Gaya in Bihar. Vasupujya, the 12th Jain Tirthankara was born in Champapuri, Bhagalpur. Vardhamana Mahavira, the 24th and last Tirthankara of Jainism, was born in Vaishali around the sixth century BC. Bodh Gaya in Bihar is an important pilgrimage center for the global Buddhists. The tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, was born here in 1666 and spent his early years here before moving to Anandpur. The Gurdwara at Patna Sahib marks the birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh.

Religious demographics
The main religions in the Indian state of Bihar are Hinduism (practiced by 82.7% of the population) and Islam (16.9%) as of 2011.
As Per Recently Released Bihar caste-based survey 2022,Hinduism is Practised by 81.99% and Islam is Followed by 17.70%.

Total number

Total percentage

Hinduism

Hinduism is the main religion of the state, being practiced by 82.7% of the total state population. The Hindu population in Bihar is 86,078,686 as of 2022
 census report. Hindus are majority in all the districts in Bihar except Kishanganj. Most of the festivals stem from it. There are many variations on the festival theme. While some are celebrated all over the state, others are observed only in certain areas. But Bihar being so diverse, different regions and religions have something to celebrate at sometime or the other during the year. So festivals take place round the year.On arrival in any part of this state, a tourist finds around him evidence of the extent to which religion enters into the daily life of the people. The calendar is strewn with festivals and fairs of different communities living together. Many of these are officially recognised by the days on which they take place being proclaimed as Government holidays.

The battle cries of the Bihar Regiment, consisting of 17 battalions, are "Jai Bajrang Bali" (Victory to Lord Hanuman).

Hindu pilgrimage

Hindu pilgrimage sites in Bihar are as follows:
Mahavir Mandir
Sitamarhi
Deo, Bihar
Madhubani
West Champaran
Munger
Buxar
Jamui
Darbhanga
Bhagalpur
Sultanganj
Mithila region

Buddhism
The name Bihar derives from the Sanskrit word vihāra, an important institution of Buddhism meaning "abode". The land of Bihar is considered important in Buddhism as Siddhartha Gautama was said to have attained enlightenment in Bodh Gaya under the Bodhi Tree, making Bodh Gaya the holiest site in Buddhism and a key place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Bihar's Gaya district. Gautama Buddha preached many sermons in different places in Bihar, including Vaishali and Rajgir. Even after his Mahaprinirvana, disciples carried on the doctrine of Buddhism in the regions of Magadha, Bihar. Gautama Buddha's disciples opened several monasteries and universities such as Nalanda University and Vikramshila University. Magadha emperor Ashoka the Great became a Buddhist and made Buddhism the state religion, spreading its doctrine to different parts of India and abroad.

Buddhist Pilgrimage

Buddhist pilgrimages in Bihar are as follows:

Mahabodhi Temple
Bodhi Tree
Bodh Gaya
Gaya
Vaishali
Pawapuri
Nalanda
Rajgir
Kesariya
Vikramashila
Areraj
Pataliputra

Sikhism

The capital of Bihar, Patna, is one of the holiest cities in Sikhism. The tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, was born here in 1666 and spent his early years here before moving to Anandpur. The Gurdwara at Patna Sahib marks the birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh. Patna was visited by Guru Nanak in 1509 as well as Guru Tegh Bahadur in 1666. Takht Shri Harmandir Saheb (also known as Patna Saheb) is one of the Five Takhts of Sikhism. Guru Nanak Dev visited Patna and stayed in GaiGhat in 1509, and later same place was visited by Guru Tegh Bahadur along with his family in 1666. Gurdwara Pahila Bara (commonly known as Gurdwara Ghai Ghat) is dedicated to these two Guru and is situated at the same holy place.
Other shrines are Gurdwara Gobind Ghat and Gurdwara Guru ka Bagh. Gurdwara Bal Leela is directly related to the childhood of Guru Gobind Singh. Gurdwara Handi Sahib was built in the memory of Guru Teg Bahadur, who stayed here in 1666 with Mata Gujri and Bala Preetam.

After the partition of India in 1947, many Sikhs came to Patna. The total population of Sikhs in Bihar is only 20,780. Most of Bihari Sikhs are Nanakpanthi. Most of the Sikhs are residing in Patna and mainly they are self-employed or in business.

Sikh Pilgrimage

Sikh pilgrimages in Bihar are as follows:

Takht Shri Harmandir Saheb
Guru ka Bagh
Ghai Ghat
Handi Sahib
Gobind Ghat
Bal Lila Maini
Guru Bagh

Jainism

Vardhamana Mahavira, the 24th and the last Tirthankara of Jainism, was born in Vaishali around sixth century B.C. Rajgir is birthplace of Munisuvrata, the twentieth Jain tirthankara and Pawapuri is nirvana place of Mahavira the last Jain tirthankara. Pataliputra and Vaishali is significant religious place in Jainism. Champapuri is a Jain pilgrimages where all the five kalyanaks of lord Vasupujya have taken place. The tallest statue of Jain tirthankara Vasupujya which stands 31 Feet in height was built in Champapuri in 2014. The Panch Kalyanak Pratishtha Mahotsav of the statue was done from 27 Feb to 3 Mar 2014.

Jain Pilgrimage

Jain pilgrimages in Bihar are as follows:

Rajgir
Pawapuri
Pataliputra
Jamui
Arrah
Vikramashila
Champapuri
Kundalpur,_Bihar
Nalanda
Gunawa
Mandar Hill
Vaishali

Islam

Islam constitutes second largest religion in Bihar. According to 2011 Indian census, there were 17,557,809 Muslims constituting 16.9% population of the state.

Christianity

Padari ki haveli is a Roman Catholic church of centuries. Holy Saviour Church of Arrah is also historically important site.

Baháʼí Faith

In 2012, plans were announced for the construction of a local Baháʼí Faith House of Worship in Bihar Sharif. This would be the second Baháʼí House of Worship in India (the first being the well-known Lotus Temple in Delhi), and one of the first two local Baháʼí Houses of Worship in Asia (the other being in Battambang, Cambodia).

In 2013, the Baháʼí World Centre released an hour-and-a-half-long video in five languages entitled Frontiers of Learning, showing Baháʼí community-building activities in four cities from different continents, the fourth of which is Bihar Sharif.

Other religions

Sarnaism has a presence among the tribal populations.

See also
Religion in India

References

Religion in the British Empire


D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (MUCTR) () is a public research university in Moscow, and is the largest Russian center  for education and research in the field of chemical technology. The history of MUCTR can be traced back to the Moscow Industrial School initially founded in 1898. The university acquired its current name and status in 1992 with its Moscow campus mainly located on Miusskaya Square and in Tushino. The university's other two branches are situated in Novomoskovsk (Tula Oblast) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan). In 2023, the university was ranked # 1,955 by US News & World Report.

The university offers bachelors, specialists credential, masters and PhD programs in various areas of chemistry, sustainable development, petrochemistry, biotechnology, materials of modern energy and nanotechnology, and several other specialities.

As of 2020, around 9,000 students were enrolled at MUCTR, of which around 800 came from the  Commonwealth of Independent States, Myanmar, Iraq, India, China, United States, European Union, and African countries. High school students can engage with the university via its numerous pre-university training centers, evening schools, and online e-learning programs. In addition, the university offers vocational education programs that are offered  by the International Academy of Business in Moscow.

The D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia is one of the leading centers of scientific and innovative research. The university regularly implements projects carried out under federal target programs, as well as numerous grants initiated by scientific foundations. Only in 2020, the university carried out 202 researches, 40 grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and 9 from the Russian Scientific Foundation. As of 2021, MUCTR has more than 120 cooperation agreements with universities and companies from more than 35 countries around the globe. In 2018, under the state program "Industry Development and Increasing its Competitiveness," the university founded the Mendeleev Engineering Center, which now hosts most of its laboratories and scientific equipment. As of 2021, preparations are underway at the Tushino complex to create an innovative scientific and technological center called "Mendeleev Valley". The Mendeleev Valley project was approved by a government decree issued in 2019.

History

The Moscow Industrial School

On January 9, 1880, the Moscow City Duma approved the founding of several realschule in Moscow. The Duma would later allocate 100 thousand rubles in support of the project for the purchase of land and more than 260 thousand rubles for the construction of buildings. A year later, the Duma issued a decree establishing a new metropolitan institution - a full-time realschule with mechanical-technical and chemical-technical departments. As initially planned, the school was supposed to have a  boarding house able to accommodate from 50 to 100 students. The inclusion of dormitories led to additional expenditures, and the overall construction cost for the institute increased to 360 thousand rubles. However, the very same year, construction of the school was suspended as a result of a new program of administrative reforms initiated by Tsar Alexander II of Russia. The implications of these reforms included the reformation of technical education in the Russian Empire while a new special commission of the Ministry of National Education was established to deliberate on the matter of technical education. According to the reports provided by the commission, the Moscow City Duma was planning "to build in Moscow an industrial school (secondary technical, four-year) with five general education preparatory classes."

In the end, the Moscow Industrial School would be founded towards the end of the 1890s.  Initially, the building was supposed to be constructed on  street, but this site was subsequently given to the Pushkin Museum.nstead the new site for the Moscow Industrial School was allocated on the Miusskaya Square – it was around 4000 square sazhens.

On November 18, 1896, the Special Construction Commission for the Construction of Industrial School Buildings was established with the geologist Alexander Krylov as its chairman and Maxim Geppener as the primary architect. On December 30 of the same year, Krylov was appointed the first director of the LPA. According to plans for the project, the complex of buildings included a three-storey "school building" (currently part of the Main building of the Russian Chemical Technical University overlooking Miusskaya Square), a three-storey "house for teachers and servants" (now the children's technopark "Mendeleev Center"), as well as a one-story building for LPU service. In November 1896 the Russian architect  was appointed as the head of the commission dedicated to the construction of Moscow Industrial School buildings. On December 30 Geppener was also appointed as the first director of the Moscow Industrial School. Among the milestones included in this working project was the construction of a three-story educational building, a three-storey house for the professors and staff, and a one-storey campus for the facilities.

The ceremonial laying of the foundation stone of the Moscow Industrial School took place on May 23, 1898, and a decree issued by The State Council issued a decree that would imply opening the classes on July 1 of the same year. First, all the classes were held at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry with the result that students would only move into a new state-of-the-art campus equipped with all of the newest technologies in 1902 when construction was finally completed. The campus was finally inaugurated on the 24th of February, 1903. During the official opening ceremony, it was declared that the Moscow Industrial School would be named in honor of the 25th anniversary of the reign of the emperor Alexander II of Russia. The first faculty of the school were top graduates from  Moscow State University,  The Imperial Moscow Technical School, as well as retired officers. The first cohort of 27 students graduated in the spring of 1906.

Moscow D. Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology (MCTI)
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the name of Emperor Alexander II was removed from the title of the School. The following year the Moscow Industrial School would be renamed as the Moscow Chemical Technical College, and later, in 1919, it was given the name of the famous Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. At that time, the Moscow Chemical Technical College was mostly training practical engineers.

However, the school would subsequently undergo a further spate of name changes and reorganisations under the new authorities. On December 22, 1920, the technical school was reorganised to become the D. Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology (MCTI) until on February 13, 1923, the school was again renamed the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology (MHTI). With this reorganisation MHTI became the first specialised chemical engineering educational institution in the country.

In the early 1930s, the United Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology was created on the basis of MCTI and consisted of five main branches:

 The Moscow D. Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology
 The Faculty of Chemistry of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University (then reorganised into the NBC Protection Military Academy named after Kliment Voroshilov)
 The Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the Second Moscow State University (subsequently reorganised into the Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies)
 The Faculty of Chemistry at the Moscow State University (returned to Moscow State University)
 The Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering Engineers (founded February 22, 1931, on the basis of the mechanical department of the Moscow Chemical Engineering Institute, later reorganised into the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering)

By 1933, the United Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology had been dissolved as a parent entity, and the Moscow D. Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology became an autonomous educational institution.

At the onset of World War II MCTI would be partially evacuated to Kokand (Uzbekistan) as part of the evacuation of essential industries conducted by the Soviet authorities in response to Operation Barbarossa the German military invasion of the Soviet Union. On March 23, 1943, the institute would be brought back from Kokand and on June 15 of the same year, a new branch of the institute would be opened in the Russian city Dzerzhinsk operating until 1945. After the war in 1949, the Moscow D. Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology was granted the use of two building complexes formerly belonging to the Crafts School named after  on Miusskaya Square. A decade later, in the beginning of October 1959, MCTI expanded again to open another branch in  Stalinogorsk (now – Novomoskovsk). By 1965 the institute started construction of a new student complex in Tushino, however, due to a partial work freeze at the beginning of the 1970s, the process of placing the Tushino building complex into operation took quite a longer time than originally forecast. Another campus constructed concurrently with the one in Tushino was also opened in Shelepikha in the 1970s.

MCTI was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1940 in accordance with a decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. On February 11, 1971, the university would receive another prestigious award in the form of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

MCTI has honorary degrees to outstanding scientists and public figures with the practice starting in 1961. Notable awardees of honorary MCTI degrees include Krishnasami Venkataraman, , Dennis Meadows, Margaret Thatcher, Eberhard Diepgen, Jacques Cousteau, Samak Sundaravej, Galina Vishnevskaya, Yuri Oganessian, and others. MCTI faculty would also receive recognition such as in 1974, when Valery Sergievsky, Vladislav Nikolaev, Nikolai Kizim (teacher in the Novomoskovsk branch) and Evgeny Yurtov were awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize in Science and Engineering for their work on thermodynamics and chemical kinetics.

University of Chemical Technology of Russia

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992, the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology was renamed to become the D.I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (MUCTR) which retained a focus on specialization in the fields of chemistry and chemical technologies.

From 1999 to 2010 MCTI and three other institutes (including the Moscow Aviation Institute, KBP Instrument Design Bureau in Tula, and NIKIET named after N. A. Dollezhal) were under one-sided US sanctions implemented after the backdrop of US-Iranian conflict. US government found the links between these research centers and Russian foreign policy towards Iran, claiming that these are "organizations promoting the development of weapons of mass destruction in other countries.". These sanctions would subsequently be lifted in 2010 after the US government recognized that contemporary Russian politics now "aligns with the interests of US foreign policy and security.".

Since 2015, the university has had the status of a federal state budgetary educational institution of higher education according to the decree issued by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the university has the status of a federal state budgetary educational institution of higher education. In the same year the rector of the university  was fired because he was unable to comply with the obligation to increase teachers' salaries granted earlier by a decree of the President of Russia.

In 2016, the Ministry of Higher Education attempted to merge the University of Chemical Technology of Russia with the National University of Science and Technology MISiS. However, the plan was not implemented after as a public petition campaign initiated to preserve the autonomy of Mendeleev University gained several tens of thousands of signatures.

In September 2021, Professor Ilya Vorotyntsev  was appointed as the acting rector of the university. As of 2021, the university included eight faculties, two institutes, the Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences,  the Children's Technopark, the Center for Digital Transformation, and various other research and educational centers and laboratories. The university prepares bachelors, specialists, masters, postgraduate and doctoral students for careers in the fields of chemical technology, sustainable development, petrochemistry, biotechnology and other areas. As of 2020, there were approximately 9,000 students enrolled at MUCTR, out of which around 800 hailed from the Commonwealth of Independent States, Myanmar, Iraq, India, China, United States, European Union, and African countries.
In 2021 the Ministry of Higher Education included MUCTR in the new program "Priority 2030" aimed at supporting domestic universities. The program launched after the conclusion of a prior education initiative under the title Project 5-100. As a result of these programs, MUCTR became a part of the second group of universities in "Territorial and/or industry leadership", qualifying MUCTR to receive additional federal sponsorship till the end of 2022.

Structure

As of the 2021/22 academic year, the university has the following structure:

Faculties
Faculty of Biotechnology and Industrial Ecology
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Faculty of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Digital Technologies and Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Technology of Oil & Gas Chemistry and Polymer Materials
Faculty of Technology of Inorganic Substances and High-Temperature Materials
Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Technologies and Biomedical Products
Faculty of pre-university training
Faculty of Humanities
Institute of Modern Energetics and Nanotechnology (as a faculty)
Institute for Problems of Chemistry and Sustainable Development (as a faculty)
Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences (as a faculty)

 Departments and more
 Department of magistracy
 Department of part-time studies
 Pre-university training center
 Night chemistry school
 Night math school

Branches
 Novomoskovsk Institute (MUCTR Branch, located in Tula Oblast, Russia)
 MUCTR branch in Tashkent

Academics

Educational activities

Since 2015, MUCTR has been the head of the federal educational and methodological association in the field of higher education in chemical engineering specialties. Among other things, the association has been endeavouring to prepare new all-Russian all-Russian educational standards for the chemical industry. The university also remains the primary organization relied upon by CIS member states for training, professional retraining and advanced training of personnel working in the chemical industry. Starting in 2019 MUCTR has also become a member of the Rosatom consortium of flagship universities, a university consortium whose main task is to coordinate science and activities of higher, postgraduate and additional professional education in the interests of the nuclear industry.

In 2018 MUCTR signed an agreement with the Kazan National Research Technological University on cooperation in the educational sphere. A year later, together with Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, MUCTR launched a joint bachelor's program to train specialists in modern materials science and renewable energy.

In 2020, together with the Moscow Innovation Agency, MUCTR launched a master's program under the title "Business Management in the Digital Economy". At the same time, MUCTR signed an agreement with the Perm State Agrarian and Technological University to create an Internet platform that to offer programs in the continuing professional education sector. Recently in 2021, the university launched an online bachelor's program in chemical technology. This initiative was implemented together in cooperation with the Far Eastern Federal University, Tomsk Polytechnic University and other universities, with the support of Sibur.

As of 2021, MUCTR consists of two branches located in Novomoskovsk and in Tashkent. The history of the former branch can be traced back to 1959 when it started as a faculty of the Dmitri Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology at the Stalinogorsk Chemical Combine. Due to a rapid decrease in the number of applicants to this branch, there have been ongoing discussions since 2019 on the possibility of closing the branch. The first foreign branch of MUCTR located in Tashkent was initially launched back in 2019, while its official opening ceremony took place on May 27, 2021.

The curriculum is approved by the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of Uzbekistan, and training is conducted in Russian, following the Federal Educational Standards of Russia. The Tashkent branch prepares MA students for careers in materials science and protection of materials from corrosion, and chemical technologies of nanomaterials. BA students can pursue degrees in materials science and technology, nanomaterials and nanosystems; technology of artistic processing of materials; technology of synthetic biologically active substances, chemical pharmaceuticals and cosmetics; and safety of technological processes and production.

Recognition and rankings
2023
 1,955th place in the ranking by US News & World Report.

2021
 257th place in the international ranking RUR 2021 Natural Sciences World University Ranking
43rd place in the top 100 Russian universities in the engineering and technical fields, according to the newspaper Kommersant
 47th place in the ranking of the best universities in Russia according to Expert RA
 852 place in the international ranking of scientific institutions of the SCImago Institutions Rankings
 Entered the rankings of the global QS World University Rankings index, group 801-1000
 Small Grand Prix of the RBK Communication Laboratory in the field of scientific communication

2020
 559th place in the world and 17th among Russian universities in the global ranking of universities Round University Ranking
 Leader in the ratings of employers in the field of biochemical enterprises according to the "Expert" version (developed with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science, the presidential platform "Russia is a country of opportunities", the Presidential Grants Fund, Ural Federal University and the St. Petersburg branch of the Higher School of Economics)
Winner in the category "Effect of presence" for the best promotion of scientists in the media for the award "Communication Laboratory" RVC in 2020
 48th place in the ranking of educational institutions according to Interfax (since 2017, the university is above 52nd place)
 58th place in the ranking of the best universities in Russia according to Expert RA 2019 and earlier
 Reflected in group 1101-1200 of the international domestic rating "Three missions of the university" (2019)
 Placed in group 401–450 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities in Chemical Engineering (2018)
Took 705th place in the global ranking SCImago Institutions Rankings (2018 год)

Research
In 2010–2014, under the “Megagrant programs”, MCTUR launched the International Laboratory of Functional Materials Based on Glass named after Academician P. D. Sarkisov. The laboratory was initially headed by the Italian scientist Albert Paleari and the head of the Department of Chemical Technology of Glass and Sitalls Vladimir Sigaev. One of the laboratory's key contributions has been the creation of radioactive microspheres that could be potentially used for the treatment of oncological diseases. In 2017 the university also launched the International Center for Laser Technologies which has been investigating femtosecond laser modification of the structures of optical materials. The center is currently headed by Peter Kazansky a professor from the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry, the center developed an "eternal archive disk" based on nanostructured glass. Distinctive features of this material include its durability, resistance to aggressive environments and potential to store large amounts of information. As of 2020, a prototype of a data storage medium with a diameter of 120mm has been developed.

Specialists from MUCTR regularly publish articles in international peer-reviewed journals in collaboration with Russian and foreign colleagues. In 2020-2021 alone, the media reported about the following MCTUR-supported studies:

 search for new forms of delivery of targeted cancer drugs using silica gel;
 work on natural plastic components obtained from agricultural waste;
 development of an environmentally friendly and economical way of processing sulphur dumps at enterprises;
 creation of a new sorbent technology for an elusive form of radioactive iodine - iodomethane, which retains up to 99.5% of the dangerous isotopes;
 study of hydrogen fuel and development of new inexpensive ways to convert hydrogen and its compounds from molybdenum blue;
 an alternative method of extracting xenon from natural gas and, as a result, reducing the cost of anaesthesia;
 development of new light-emitting devices based on aerogel from Silicon dioxide with embedded luminescent particles  and much more.

In October 2018, the "Mendeleev Engineering Center" was founded with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The coordination of many scientific laboratories, including ones specialising in petrochemistry, agrochemistry, pharmaceuticals, radiochemistry, polymer chemistry, and fine organic synthesis has been achieved under the auspices of the Mendeleev Engineering Center. There are more than 80 units of the latest equipment for elemental and molecular analysis, electron microscopy, and determination of physicochemical parameters of solids and liquids. In 2020, the center's profit amounted to more than 4.8 million rubles, and its revenue - was 42.5 million rubles.

In 2019, the Russian government signed a decree on the creation of an Mendeleev Valley Innovation Scientific and Technological Centre on the territory of the MUCTR Tushino campus. According to the project description, the center is supposed to unite both scientific and business representatives to reduce the time between scientific discovery and its practical implementation. Particularly it might help to stipulate import substitution in Russia in the field of chemical industry. There are five main startup trends in the Mendeleev Valley – high tech, chemistry, agrochemistry, agrobiotechnology and biotechnology; medical and pharmaceutical chemistry; special purpose and high-energy substances. Center has three main clusters which are all curated by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Initially, the number of private investments in the project was estimated at around 5 billion rubbles. The project was supposed to launch in 2020, however, as of the end of 2021 the working date has still not been confirmed.

MUCTR and its Novomoskovsk branch work on the development of the Composite Valley INTTS, located on 29 hectares special economic zone Uzlovaya in Tula oblast. The project was initially supported by the Tula State University and later approved by the Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin in January 2021. The launch is scheduled for 2023. MUCTR announced its plans to invest in the research on high-tech chemistry that the university scientists would conduct in the center. Besides MUCTR, the project is supported by the Moscow State University, Rosatom, and the Russian Academy of Science.

Partnership

MUCTR employees regularly participate in the projects sponsored by federal target programs, scientific grants, and research under agreements with leading companies in the chemical industry, including the state corporation Rosatom, Sibur, Pharmasynthesis, EuroChem, Mikron Group. As of 2021, the university has signed more than 120 partnership agreements on scientific and educational cooperation with universities and organizations from more than 35 countries across the globe. The university cooperates with such leading centers as Royal Society of Chemistry and German Maico-Mannesmann Akademie für Wissenschaft und Bildung.

In 1995, under the interinstitutional agreements with UNESCO, the university opened the program "Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development". In 2005, together with the Kurchatov Institute, Uralchem, and Uralkali, they launched the International Educational and Scientific Center for Transfer of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnologies. Since 2020, the university signed up an agreement with the Crimean Federal University and the Sevastopol National Technical University to study the process of how to make drinking water from seawater. MCTUR laboratories help the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology with the development of COVID-19 vaccine, and since June 2021 they agreed to cooperate to ensure drug safety in Russia.

In May 2020, MUCTR and the Russian Federal Environmental Operator (FEO) initiated the creation of a federal scientific and educational consortium "Advanced EcoTechnologies", the task of which is to create an infrastructure for handling I-II class waste and scientific exchange in this industry. Besides MCTUR and FEO, the consortium includes Viatka State University, Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov, Udmurt State University, and other organizations.

Other activities
Since 1905, the Academic Big Choir has been operating at the MUCTR. In the early 1900s, the choir repeatedly invited Sergei Diaghilev to participate in "Russian Seasons" in Paris. As of 2021, the choir includes around 120 people. The choir cooperates with the Polyphonic Association of the Tuscany, Milan Conservatory, Sheremetev Center Chamber Choir, Academic Choirs of Moscow State University, Central Bank of Russia and Rybinsk Aviation-technological academy.

The university also publishes largely-circulated newspaper Mendeleevets that since 2001 has been registered as media. Its first issue was released on June 27, 1949. The predecessor was the newspaper "Moscow Technologist", the printing press release of which was interrupted with the beginning of the WWII.

In 2020, MUCTR, together with the Federal Environmental Operator, launched the project titled Mendeleev Classes to promote the education of high school students. The project operates in Udmurtia, Irkutsk, Kirov, Kurgan and Saratov Oblast. Students could take classes in chemistry, physics and mathematics. Graduates of the program receive additional 10 points for the results of the state examination that will be counted upon admission to the university. In 2020, the university opened Russia's first children's chemical technopark "Mendeleev Center", its main audience is from 14 to 18 years old, but there are projects for children from 8 to 13 years old.

Buildings

MUCTR campus on Miusskaya street includes several historical buildings located between  and Miusskaya Square, not far from the metro stations Mendeleyevskaya and Novoslobodskaya. The main building was designed in 1898 by the architect Maxim Geppener for the Moscow Industrial School in an eclectic style of architecture. Initially, it was a three-story building with large windows in the auditoriums, but later two other wings were added. In 1909 the main entrance was decorated with a bas-relief depicting Dmitry Mendeleev. Already in the Soviet times, the main building also got two more additional floors. In 2018 the campus was largely renovated with an update of  brickwork, roofing, facade finishing, replacement of the drainpipes, and hydrophobization. The other buildings of the campus were founded at the end of the XVIII–beginning of the XIX century.

In May 1966, a monument to the university members who took part in the Great Patriotic War was erected in the courtyard near the main entrance at the expense of teachers, staff and students. The authors of the work were graduate students A. A. Volkov and A. A. Ershov. The inscription "Eternal glory to the Mendeleev soldiers who fell in the battles for the Soviet Motherland" is engraved on the stylobate while the marble slabs contain lists of the Mendeleev soldiers who died during the war.

Tushino complex is located nearby the metro station Skhodnenskaya. The construction of this nine-storey building started back in 2004. The overall amount of investments in the project amounted to 800 million rubles. MUCTR Tushino complex is one of the largest educational buildings in Russia with a total area of 27 thousand square meters that could accommodate up to 1500 people. The complex consists of three nine-storey wings, which house 57 laboratories, classrooms, and an assembly hall. The opening ceremony took place in 2008 and was officiated by Mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov. The territory of this complex is used for the Mendeleev Valley Center, the opening of the first facilities which is scheduled for 2021.

Central library is located nearby the metro station Baumanskaya. In 2019, more than 850 library units were relocated to the Tushino campus.

Shelepikha campus was opened in the 1970s, nearby the metro station Krasnopresnenskaya. Throughout the years the buildings hosted the Department of Life Safety, the Center for the MUCTR History and the Chemical Industry, the Faculty of Military Education. As of 2021, the complex is decommissioned.

Student campus is located nearby the metro station Planernaya. The campus includes three dormitory buildings with 758 student apartments, each of which might accommodate up to five people.

Notable people

Rectors and directors

 Directors of Moscow Industrial School
 Krylov Alexander Alekseevich (January 1, 1898 - February 16, 1899)
 Vladimirsky Sergei Alekseevich (August 7, 1899 - September 26, 1902)
 Doktorov Alexander Petrovich (November 6, 1902 - June 8, 1911)
 Zograf, Konstantin Yurievich (June 8, 1911 – 1918)
 Directors of Moscow D. Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology
 Panteleev Vladimir Petrovich (March 1921 – 1921)
 Ivanov Alexander Konstantinovich (1921-February 1922)
 Tishchenko Ivan Alexandrovich (February 1922 - February 13, 1923)
 Director of the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology
 Dukelsky Mark Petrovich (1929)
 Gurvich Moisey Natanovich (March 7, 1929 - December 20, 1930)
 Chuzhin Yakov Emmanuilovich (1930-1931)
 Tikhmenev Nikolai Sergeevich (1931-1 March 1933)
 Orlov Illarion Prokofievich (March 1, 1933 - March 29, 1936)
 Maslov Alexey Matveyevich (March 29, 1936 - December 30, 1937)
 Pilsky Joseph Yakovlevich (December 30, 1937 – 1943)
 Dybina Praskovya Vasilievna (1943-1948)
 Zhavoronkov, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1948-1962)

Rectors of the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology
 Kaftanov, Sergei Vasilievich, 1962-1972
 Yagodin, Gennady Alekseevich (1973-1985)
 Sarkisov Pavel Djibrayelovich (1985-11 December 1992)
 Rectors of the D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia
 Kolesnikov Vladimir Alexandrovich (2005-2015)
 Aristov Vitaly Mikhailovich (2015—2016)
Yurtov Evgeny Vasilievich (2016—2017)
 Mazhuga Alexander Georgievich (July 1, 2017 - September 29, 2021)
Ilya Vladimirovich Vorotyntsev (September 29, 2021 – present)

Alumni
 Vladimir Yevtushenkov- entrepreneur, chairman of the board of directors and owner of the majority stake in Sistema.
  - scientist in the field of technical chemistry, academician, twice Hero of Socialist Labor.
  - scientist in the field of chemistry organophosphorus compound, Hero of Socialist Labour (1978), laureate of the Lenin Prize (1974), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
 Dmitrii Knorre - scientist in the field of chemical kinetics, molecular biology and bioorganic chemistry. He was an academician of the  Academy of Sciences and a laureate of the Lenin Prize
 George Koval - Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously, since 2007), in 1940-1948 he conducted intelligence activities in the United States, since 1953 he taught at the MUCR
 Ulmas Mirsaidovich Mirsaidov - Tajik theoretical chemist and professor at the Nikitin Institute of Chemistry
 Valentin Koptyug - scientist in the field of physical, synthetic and applied organic chemistry, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, chairman of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry
  - scientist in the field of chemistry polymers, twice laureate Stalin Prize (1949, 1951), Lenin Prize laureate (1986). He was an academician of the Academy of Sciences.
 Valery Legasov - Soviet inorganic chemist, full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1981), member of the government commission to investigate the causes and the consequences of the Chornobyl disaster, for which in 1996 he was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Russia.
 Alexander Kovarski - physical chemist and professor
  - laureate of Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
  - scientist-chemist, laureate of the Nobel prize.
  - scientist in the field of chemistry, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1988–2001, Advisor to the RAS since 2001.
  - laureate of the Lenin Prize in 1966, chief researcher at Karpov Scientific Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry.
  - Soviet organic chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1949), vice president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1958-1962).
 Mikhail Khodorkovsky - entrepreneur, public and political figure, publicist, co-owner and head of the oil company Yukos.
  - scientist in the field of materials science, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, laureate of Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

References

Sources

Dmitri Mendeleev
Universities and colleges in the Soviet Union
Universities and colleges established in 1880
1880 establishments in the Russian Empire


Papyrus 59 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 𝔓59, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. The manuscript has been palaeographically assigned to the seventh century.

 Contents
Gospel of John 1:26.28.48.51; 2:15-16; 11:40-52; 12:25.29.31.35; 17:24-26; 18:1-2.16-17.22; 21:7.12-13.15.17-20.23.

 Text
The Greek text of this codex is a mixed text-type. Aland placed it in Category III.

 Location
It is currently housed at the Morgan Library & Museum (P. Colt 3) in New York City.

See also

 List of New Testament papyri

References

Further reading
 L. Casson, and E. L. Hettich, Excavations at Nessana II, Literary Papyri (Princeton: 1946), pp. 79–93.

New Testament papyri
7th-century biblical manuscripts
Collection of the Morgan Library & Museum
Gospel of John papyri


Souryam () is a 2008 Indian Telugu-language action film produced by V. Anand Prasad on Bhavya Creations banner and directed by cinematographer Siva, who made his directorial debut. It stars Gopichand, Anushka Shetty, Poonam Kaur and Manoj K. Jayan  along with Ajay, Ali, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Sudha, Tanikella Bharani and M. S. Narayana in the pivotal roles, the music was composed by Mani Sharma.
The film was released theatrically on 25 September 2008. It was remade in Kannada-language as Shourya, into Dhallywood as Mone Boro Koshto and in Tamil-language by Prabhu Deva as Vedi. The film was later dubbed in Malayalam and Hindi as Shouryam and Meri Shapath and released in 2009.

Plot
Vijay (Gopichand) comes to Kolkata in search of his lost sister. In a series of events, he ends up getting caught in a brawl with some goons and in self-defense chops a man's arm off. Later Vijay approaches a college in Kolkata to apply for a job and he is asked to get a signature in the sports quota. He later meets Gymson (Ali) and finds out he is the strongest teacher in the college. He meets a bubbly college girl Swetha (Anushka Shetty) and soon, they fall in love. One day, the gangster's son named Ajay (Ajay) finds out that Vijay is alive and he swears to avenge his father's insult and arrest.

At a party, Ajay finds and meets Swetha and asks if she wants to sleep with him and cuts her blouse down. Swetha was disrespected and embarrassed, then later, Ajay follows her and Divya (Poonam Kaur), and cornering the girls with his men. After his father sent him a picture of the person he needs to abduct, Ajay found out that Divya is the key and abducted her by force. Divya was able to escape from the goons then she finds a man who comes to rescue her, who was apparently Vijay, and fights them in vain and also kills Ajay. Its aftermath resulted to an injured Divya as she was taken by Vijay to the hospital. At the hospital, Vijay revealed to Swetha that he was looking for Divya, his long lost separated sister who hated him for ignoring her when they were kids. But unbeknownst by Divya, he was forced to ignore her sister because of his dream for her to have a better life than to live in the streets with him. He hides his identity from her and grew up with the influence of a police officer until he is ready to find her in the present day to meet her. But when gangsters chase Swetha and Vijay at the hospital, Vijay was forced to fight and kill some of Ajay's goons in front of Swetha which made her scared of him on the way he fights ruthlessly and grimly. Vijay reveals his past life as a police officer to Swetha. The police officer who raised Vijay was made to die by Sivarama Goud,a gangster.

Vijay then finally decided to end the problem. He finally faced Sivarama Goud (Manoj K. Jayan), Ajay's gangster father and the ruthless mastermind who also terrorized an innocent village. He created a clever plan to make Sivarama and his men to be punished in all of their crimes from the village and to other people making them end behind bars. After narrating, Divya is taken by Vijay to safety. She then pleads Vijay to accept Swetha which he reciprocates.

After a while, Vijay, who decided to check on Divya, finds out that she was abducted again. Vijay is shocked to see Sivarama out of jail again and takes Divya as bait. Divya, still innocent of Vijay's true relation to her, pleads on Vijay not to fight for her anymore because they are not related. But because Sivarama made her realize that his long lost brother will die in front of her, she emotionally forgives him for the past as she briefly watches Vijay being beaten up by Sivarama's goons.

Vijay had the strength to finish the job successfully when he felt his sister finally acknowledging him as her brother.
After a while, it was seen that Vijay and Divya are leaving to start a new life again as siblings and the two invited Swetha to come along with them.

Cast

Gopichand as ACP T. Vijay IPS
Anushka Shetty as Swetha
Poonam Kaur as Divya, Vijay's estranged sister
Manoj K. Jayan as Sivarama Goud (voice dubbed by P. Ravi Shankar)
Ajay as Ajay, Sivarama's son
Ali as Gymson
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Swetha's father
Sudha as Swetha's mother
Tanikella Bharani as Karim
M. S. Narayana as Dr. Aarogyam
Sarath Babu as Commissioner Sarath
Vinaya Prasad as Sarath's wife
Pruthviraj as Police Officer
Banerjee as DCP
Subbaraya Sarma as Church Pastor
Krishna Bhagawan as Dr. Krishna Bhagawan MBBS
Raghu Babu as Athidhi Sastry
Aarthi as Aarthi
Pavala Shyamala as Colony Woman
Fish Venkat as Sivarama Goud's henchman
C. V. L. Narasimha Rao as Principal
Ramaraju as Divya's uncle
Ramachandra as Student
Malladi Raghava as Judge
Hema Sundar as Judge
Vijaya Rangaraju as Goon
Rachana Maurya (special appearance in song "Ole Ole")
Anil Ravipudi (cameo as Hospital receptionist)

Soundtrack

Music was composed by Mani Sharma and released on Aditya Music.

Remakes
The film was remade into Kannada-language as Shourya, in Dhallywood as Mone Boro Koshto and in Tamil-language by Prabhu Deva as Vedi.

Reception

Souryam received positive reviews. Idlebrain rated it 3/5, stating that "The film is aimed mainly at the masses and B/C center crowds. The film's commercial success depends on how the crowds embrace the sister sentiment in the film." Sify also rated it 3/5, giving it the verdict of "mass entertainer" Greatandhra similarly rated it 3/5,calling it"Full Length Mass Entertainer" 123telugu rated it 3/5,calling it "another 'Gopichand' brand flick" Fullyhyd rated it 3.25/5,stating "If you are looking for a masala entertainer, and can tolerate the excessive blood and gore, you will enjoy Souryam."

References

External links

2008 films
Films shot in Kolkata
Telugu films remade in other languages
2000s masala films
2000s Telugu-language films
Films directed by Siva (director)
Films scored by Mani Sharma
Fictional portrayals of the Andhra Pradesh Police
2008 directorial debut films


Tomás Ó Súilleabháin (born 1973 in Dublin) is an Irish actor. He regularly appears on Irish television and in film roles. Ó Súilleabháin regularly contributes to the Irish Language arts.

Selected filmography

Film
Arracht (2019) - Director/Writer
Song of the Sea (2014) - Spud and Bus Driver (voices; Irish version)
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) - RUC Officer
Studs (2006)
Trouble with Sex (2005)
Adam & Paul (2004)
The Fixer (2004)
Intermission (2003)
On the Edge (2001)
Underworld (1999)

Television
 Acceptable Risk (TV Series - 6 episodes) (2017)
Rásaí na Gaillimhe (TV Series) (2009)
The Clinic (2008)
Bill (2008)
The Running Mate (2007)
Showbands (Drama Series) (2006)
Fergus's Wedding (2002)
Paths to Freedom (2003)
On Home Ground

Music
Showbands - Original Soundtrack (2006)

External links

TV.COM
Tomas O'Suilleabhain at film.com
Tomas O'Suilleabhain MP3

References

1973 births
20th-century Irish people
21st-century Irish people
Irish male film actors
Irish male stage actors
Irish male television actors
Irish male voice actors
Male actors from County Dublin
Living people


Bajram Sadrijaj (born 10 August 1986) is a Kosovar footballer who most recently played for FV Bosporus Thannhausen.

Club career
Born in Augsburg, he  played for TSG Thannhausen, FC Memmingen and Borussia Dortmund before he was forced to retire due to injuries sustained in a car crash in 2010. He returned to football in 2013 for his first professional club and later played for SC Bubesheim before joining Türkiyemspor Krumbach.

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
Footballers from Augsburg
German people of Albanian descent
Men's association football forwards
Kosovan men's footballers
TSG Thannhausen players
FC Memmingen players
Borussia Dortmund players
Borussia Dortmund II players
Bundesliga players
3. Liga players


Brady William Dougan (born August 30, 1959) is an American banker and CEO of Exos. From 2007 to 2015, he was the chief executive officer of Credit Suisse. Before this, Dougan was CEO of Investment Banking and acting CEO of Credit Suisse Americas. On 10 March 2015, it was announced that Tidjane Thiam, the CEO of Prudential, would replace Dougan as the next CEO of Credit Suisse in June 2015.

Early life
Dougan received a BA in Economics in 1981 from the University of Chicago and an MBA in Finance in 1982 from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Career
After starting his career in the derivatives group at Bankers Trust, Dougan was hired by Allen Wheat to join Credit Suisse Financial Products in 1990. In 1996 he was named Head of the Equities division, a position he held for five years before being appointed Global Head of the Securities division in 2001. From 2002 to July 2004, he was Co-President, Institutional Services at Credit Suisse First Boston, and from 2004 until the merger with Credit Suisse in May 2005, he was Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse First Boston. Dougan has served on the Executive Board since 2003. From May 2005 to year-end 2005, he was Chief Executive Officer of the Credit Suisse First Boston division at the Bank. From January 2006 he was CEO Investment Banking and acting CEO Credit Suisse Americas, since 2007 he is the Group CEO. In March 2015 it was announced that Dougan would leave Credit Suisse in June 2015. Between 2007 and 2014, Brady Dougan, perceived 160 millions Swiss francs, while the bank's shares lost 70% of their value.

Philanthropy
Between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012, he donated $25,000 or more to Vanderbilt University.

References

External links

1959 births
Living people
American businesspeople
Credit Suisse people
University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumni


Gagal Bhadaure is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,596 people living in 468 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


Bhatauli  is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,411 people living in 588 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


Jason Nesmith may refer to:
 Jason NeSmith, musician in the band Casper & the Cookies
 Jason Nesmith, fictional character in the film Galaxy Quest
 Jason Nesmith, guitarist in the band Nancy Boy, which was co-founded with Donovan Leitch Jr., and son of Michael Nesmith of The Monkees


Gian Giacomo Crispo (1446–1453) was the fourteenth Duke of the Archipelago, etc., from 1447 to 1453, son of the thirteenth Duke Giacomo II Crispo and Ginevra Gattilusio.

Life
He was born six weeks after the death of his father, succeeded him as an infant, and thus needed a regency during his minority. His paternal grandmother dowager Duchess Francesca Morosini, who had exercised great influence during the regency of his father, claimed the regency, but Niccolo of Syra and Santorin and William of Anaphe had her imprisoned and resumed regency with the support of Venice.  When Niccolo died, Francesca Morosini, the archbishop and the Naxians elected his son Francesco in his place in the regency and successfully asked Venice to ratify it.

He died at only age six or seven. In accordance with the marriage contract of his paternal aunt Adriana Crispo, spouse of Domenico Sommaripa of Andros, she would succeed her brother if he died without heirs, making her the legal hair of her nephew.  However the late duke's cousin Francesco of Santorin, and grand-uncle William II, both wanted to succeed themselves and contested the rights of Adriana by applying the Salic Law, and it was the latter of the three candidates who was given the support of Venice, who wished to avoid civil war because of the Ottoman threat.

In the agreement, William II, who had a daughter but now son, would also make his male contestant Francesco of Santorin his heir in Naxos, while his daughter would inherit his fief Anaphe; Adriana Crispo would have the support and protection of his fleet in a time when the Greek island were plagued by Corsairs. After the succession of William II, the dowager duchess Francesca retired to Venice after having founded the church and monastery of St Antonio dedicated to the Knights of St John in 1452.

References

1446 births
1453 deaths
Gian Giacomo
Gian Giacomo
15th-century dukes in Europe
15th-century Venetian people


The Grassen is a mountain of the Urner Alps, located east of the Titlis in Central Switzerland. The summit is the tripoint between the cantons of Berne, Obwalden and Uri.

References

External links
 Grassen on Hikr

Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Switzerland
Mountains of the canton of Uri
Mountains of the canton of Bern
Mountains of Obwalden
Bern–Uri border
Bern–Obwalden border
Obwalden–Uri border


Bhirpani  is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,877 people living in 662 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


Papyrus 60 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 𝔓60, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek.  It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, it contains John 16:29-19:26.

The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the sixth or seventh century.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category III.

It is currently housed at The Morgan Library & Museum (P. Colt 4) in New York City.

See also
 List of New Testament papyri

References

Further reading
 L. Casson, and E.L. Hettich, Excavations at Nessana II, Literary Papyri (Princeton: 1946), pp. 94–111.

New Testament papyri
7th-century biblical manuscripts
Collection of the Morgan Library & Museum
Gospel of John papyri


"Disco Girl" is a song released by Greek singer Sakis Rouvas on 17 December 2001 by Minos EMI. It was released as a two track CD single with the original song and a remix, both of which were produced by Desmond Child and Phoebus.

The original Greek CD single includes bonus content along with the two versions of the song. When the CD is played on a computer, it features videos, photographs and information on Rouvas's career to date. The bonus content also features clips from the making of the four different "Disco Girl" covers in the Dominican Republic and an exclusive interview with the single's producer, Desmond Child, speaking about the production of Ola Kala and his impressions on the popular Greek musician and their collaboration.

The song was released in France by Universal Music on 17 June 2002 with an English version with lyrics by Andreas Carlsson.

Music video
The music video of the song was directed by French directors Antonin Bonnet and Tanguy Dairaine of the production company Happy Design and was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa. At the start of the video, Rouvas is water skiing and splashes a young woman on the beach with water when he passes. The video then moves to a bar scene before Rouvas jumps from the highest diving board of a pool, and impresses the woman. Scenes of the two spending time together are seen next. When the woman falls asleep, Rouvas steals a large diamond from her safe causing a brief police chase which he escapes from. The video ends with Rouvas joining three women on a speedboat and dropping the diamond into the ocean.

Track listing

Greek CD single
 "Disco Girl" – (3:54)
 "Disco Girl" (Remix by Mark Olivier) – (6:49)

Promotional CD
 "Disco Girl" (Radio Edit) – (3:54)
 "Disco Girl" (Club Mix) – (6:48)
 "Disco Girl" (Club Mix) – (3:38)
 "Disco Girl" (Mom Remix) – (8:11)

French CD single
 "Disco Girl" (Greek Version) – (3:54)
 "Disco Girl" (English Version) – (3:54)

Charts and certifications
"Disco Girl" received that platinum certification in Greece before the single was even released, selling over 20,000 copies. The award was officially presented to Rouvas on 26 January 2002 during a certification party held at NJV-Athens Plaza in Syntagma Square.

The song debuted on the Greek Singles Chart at number three during the week of 24 December 2001 before moving and peaking at number one the next week. After a one-week slide back to number three, the song returned to number one for its second and final week in the position. The song left the chart in the middle of 2002 after 18 weeks on the chart. It returned to the singles chart in September 2005 for one week at number 19 leading to a total of 19 weeks on the chart.

Shortly after the song's French release, it entered the French Singles Chart on 22 June 2002 and peaked at number 79, charting for seven consecutive weeks.

Awards

Arion Music Awards
2002: Best Male Pop Singer

Release history

References

External links
Sakis Rouvas' Official Website

2001 singles
Dance-pop songs
Greek-language songs
Number-one singles in Greece
Sakis Rouvas songs
Songs written by Desmond Child
Songs written by Phoebus (songwriter)
English-language Greek songs
Minos EMI singles
2001 songs


The Cabinet committee is a set of committees in the Government of Canada that are responsible for enacting the Government's agenda. The cabinet committees under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as of January 2017 were as follows:
Agenda, Results and Communication Cabinet Committee
Canada in the World & Public Security Cabinet Committee
Canada-United States Relations Cabinet Committee
Defence Procurement Cabinet Committee
Diversity and Inclusion Cabinet Committee
Environment, Climate Change and Energy Cabinet Committee
Growing the Middle Class Cabinet Committee
Intelligence and Emergency Management Cabinet Committee
Litigation Management Cabinet Committee
Treasury Board

Former Cabinet committees
 Cabinet Committee on Security, Public Health and Emergencies, established under the Martin government

References

Government of Canada


Bhuji/Bhujee is ward number 7 of the seven total ward numbers of Umakunda Rural Municipality/उमाकुण्ड गाउँपालिका then village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone in the Bagmati Province of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,285 people living in 450 individual households.

Around 80 percent of people are Sunuwar/सुऩुवाऱ/मुखीय in Bhuji. They depend on agriculture and some of them work in the British Army (BGA); Indian Army (IGA); Gurkha Contingent Singapore Police Force (GCSPF) and in Gulf countries.

In Bhuji there is one Kasthem Secondary School, which is up to 10 class SEE then SLC; two primary level schools named as (Thinkepu Ni.Ma.Bi and Dilkharka Ni.Ma.Bi) and one Thinkepu pre-primay school.

'Bhujee Health Post' Centre is the area's major Health Centre and is located at Poldim, Bhuji.

The administrative office of the ward is located at Koldanda, Bhuji.

Bhuji has its own stories and legends to be heard but recently it has gained its popularity due to the football tournament known by Bhujee League, which was started in the year 2055 BS (1998 AD) by different name then aiming to entertain the locals through the small competition of football.  Due to nation's unstable political situations and other factors the competition didn't take place in some of the years in between 2055 BS (1998 AD) to 2067 BS (2010 AD). In 2068 BS (2011 AD) the competition was renamed as Bhujee League, and it has been run successfully and continuously every year in between the gap time of Nepalese Biggest festival Dashain and Tihar time. And now the competition has gained the popularity and which has not only managed to attract the players from different villages from the surroundings but also many players, teams from the capital city and other cities too. Locals, business people and entrepreneurs have been benefited by the Bhujee League smoothly.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


Bijulikot  is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4,697 people living in 942 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


Chanakhu  is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,359 people living in 451 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


Enguerrand II, Lord of Coucy, known as of La Fère or of Marle, was a French nobleman.  He was also lord of Marle, La Fère, Crécy (sur-Serre), Vervins, Pinon, Landouzy (la-Ville), Fontaine (lès-Vervins), and of several other places.  Unlike his father, the brigand-lord Thomas de Marle, Enguerrand II peacefully administered his lands, building a chapel in his castle (the chapel's foundations survive as some of the oldest remains in Coucy).  Enguerrand joined the army of Louis VII of France during the Second Crusade.  He died in battle and was buried in Nazareth.

In 1131, he married Agnès de Beaugency, daughter of Mathilde de Vermandois and Raoul I of Beaugency. Agnès gave him two sons:
 Raoul I, Lord of Coucy
 Enguerrand

His main leisure pursuit was hunting in the woods, where legend holds he met and killed a fierce lion or beast which had been terrorising the area, and founded the Order of the Lion to commemorate the event.

References

Lords of Coucy
12th-century French people
Christians of the Second Crusade


Chisapani, Ramechhap  is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,058 people living in 579 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


The Emilia-Romagna regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.

Vasco Errani (Democrats of the Left), who had replaced Pier Luigi Bersani in 1999, was re-elected President, defeating Gabriele Cané, the candidate of Forza Italia

Electoral system
Regional elections in Emilia-Romagna were ruled by the "Tatarella law" (approved in 1995), which provided for a mixed electoral system: four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation, using the largest remainder method with a droop quota and open lists, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a "single regional constituency", where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with the Hare method among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian system: the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was elected to the presidency of the Region while the other candidates were elected regional councilors.

A threshold of 3% had been established for the provincial lists, which, however, could still have entered the regional council if the regional list to which they were connected had scored at least 5% of valid votes.

The panachage was also allowed: the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a provincial list connected to another candidate.

Parties and candidates

Results

References

2000 elections in Italy
2000 regional election
April 2000 events in Europe
2000


Ulster County Area Transit (UCAT) is the county-owned operator of bus transportation in Ulster County, New York, providing fixed-route, deviated-fixed route, and commuter transit.

Service area
UCAT provides service primarily in the corridors of the major state and U.S. highways traversing Ulster County,  servicing primarily the Route 209, Route 28, Route 32,  Route 9W and Route 299 corridors. Service is also provided out of the county to Poughkeepsie and Newburgh for connections with Metro-North Railroad at Poughkeepsie, and Short Line Bus in Newburgh and Ellenville. Within Ulster County, connections are available to Trailways of New York inter-city and commuter services to both New York City and Albany.

Routes
The full route is given. UCAT is a fixed route provider with complementary paratransit mirroring the fixed route time tables and servicing an area 1 1/2 miles on either side of the fixed route.
In 2010, the routes were given letters (previously, routes were identified by destination only). Those are also denoted in the table below.

Weekday service

Weekend service
On Saturdays, the following services operate:
Ulster-Poughkeepsie LINK
Route K (weekday route)
Route S (weekday route)
Route E (weekday route)
Route Z (weekday route)

On Sundays, only the Ulster-Poughkeepsie LINK operates.

Former Routes

Fleet
All buses are assigned to UCAT local service except where otherwise noted. These assignments are not always followed. Paratransit buses occasionally used in revenue service as well. Accurate as of 11/2020.

See also
Trailways of New York, the major private carrier in Ulster County along Routes 28 and 32

References

External links
Ulster County Area Transit

Transportation in Ulster County, New York
Surface transportation in Greater New York


Chuchure  is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,226 people living in 452 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


A trade defence instrument is a European Union  anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, or safeguard measure carried out to defend its producers against unfairly traded or subsidised imports and against dramatic shifts in trade flows in so far as these are harmful to the EU economy.

The use of trade defence instruments by the European Union is based on rules set by the World Trade Organization.

References

External links

European Union law


O. K. Sato (March 13, 1871 - March 23, 1921) was an American vaudeville performer who was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His act was notable for its juggling of the comedic style and was an early use of the so-called "tramp" juggling style popularized by W. C. Fields. In fact, Sato and Fields are known from Fields' surviving correspondence to have maintained a relationship in which the two traded gossip and ideas for their acts.

Biography
He was born as Frederick L. Steinbrucker on March 13, 1871, in Trenton, New Jersey. He was one of four children of Karl Gottfried Steinbrücker, a German national, who was born in the town of Kleineutersdorf in Thuringia. Gottfried, with his wife Wilhelmina Senf, emigrated to Trenton, New Jersey, where he worked as a cigar maker.

Sato began his career at Coney Island and met his wife, Marguerite Wartenburg, an aerialist while touring in Europe.  They were married in 1896.

After Sato retired from the stage he was a real estate developer in Irvington, New Jersey, where he died suddenly of a heart attack on Wednesday, March 23, 1921.

References

Further reading
 W. C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography, edited by Ronald J. Fields. Prentice-Hall, 1973. . (Collection of Fields's letters and scripts, with commentary)
 Juggler's bulletin 1947

Jugglers
American performance artists
1871 births
1921 deaths
Vaudeville performers
Artists from Trenton, New Jersey
People from Irvington, New Jersey


Dadhuwa  is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4,320 people living in 806 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


Duragaun  is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,986 people living in 676 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


Line 4 (Italian: Linea 4) is a commuter rail service operated by the Ente Autonomo Volturno (EAV) company in the city of Naples, Italy. It connects 7 stations.

Stations

See also
 List of suburban and commuter rail systems

References

External links
 Urbanrail.net Naples rail website

Transport in Naples


Deurali, Ramechhap  is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,459.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


William Williams (1855 or 1856 – 1911) was a Welsh doctor with a particular interest in issues of sanitation.

Life
Williams was the second son of John Williams of Dolgelly.  He matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford in 1877 at the age of 21, holding an Open Scholarship in science and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in 1881. He obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Oxford in 1887 as a non-collegiate student.  Williams also studied in Berlin and at St Mary's Hospital, London, winning scholarships in anatomy, physiology, medical jurisprudence, midwifery and pathology. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1887, obtained a Diploma in Public Health in 1888 and was awarded his MD in 1894.

He held the position of president of the Sanitary Inspection Association of South Wales and Monmouthshire as well as public posts in Glamorgan, including School Medical Officer and Director of the County Public Health Laboratory.  He also served as president of the South Wales branch of the British Medical Association, and was a Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health and the Royal Sanitary Institute.  He was a university examiner, examining in preventive medicine at Oxford and in state medicine at the University of London.  In 1904, Williams delivered the Milroy Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians.  His works included several publications on sanitation, water supplies and the adulteration of milk, and he helped to trace the cause of an outbreak of typhoid in Clydach to the milk supply.  He died in Brighton after a short illness.

References

1850s births
1911 deaths
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
19th-century Welsh medical doctors
20th-century Welsh medical doctors
British public health doctors


Pietro Zeno (died 1427), was lord of Andros from 1384 until his death in 1427, and a distinguished diplomat in the service of the Republic of Venice.

Life
Pietro Zeno was the son of the Venetian bailo at Negroponte, also named Pietro Zeno. In early 1384 he married Petronilla Crispo, daughter of Francesco I Crispo, tenth Duke of the Archipelago, as part of the latter's attempt to secure Venetian recognition of his usurpation of the ducal throne after murdering his predecessor, Nicholas III dalle Carceri. According to the wedding agreement signed on March 1384, Pietro was to receive as his wife's dowry the islands of Andros and Syros; he was eventually infeoded with Andros on February 2, 1385.

Zeno was a very able diplomat; the historian of Frankish Greece William Miller calls him "a diplomatist of unrivalled experience in the tortuous politics of the Levant" and "the most useful diplomatist of the age". As a result, the Venetians employed him in several difficult and delicate negotiations. He played a role in the negotiations that saw the return of Argos to the Republic of Venice after its occupation by the Byzantine Despot of the Morea, Theodore I Palaiologos. In the aftermath of the Battle of Ankara in 1402 he was sent to the Ottoman court to seek Ottoman support against the Florentine adventurer Antonio I Acciaioli, who had recently captured Athens from Venice. Playing on Ottoman fears of a concerted Christian campaign against them in the aftermath of their disastrous defeat at Ankara, he managed to extract a number of concessions from Süleyman Çelebi in the Treaty of Gallipoli, concluded in January or early February 1403: Venice was granted a strip of territory on the Greek mainland opposite the whole length of the island of Euboea, which was a Venetian possession; the Northern Sporades were ceded to the Byzantines; the transfer of the County of Salona to the Knights Hospitaller was ratified; the tribute levied on the Marquisate of Bodonitsa was not raised; and finally the Sultan promised to restore Athens to Venice. In the event, the latter promise remained a dead letter, and Venice was forced to recognize Acciaioli rule over Athens a few years later. In 1404, Zeno visited England to seek the aid of Henry IV of England, but without any tangible success.

Despite his great diplomatic ability and prestige, even Zeno found it difficult to manoeuvre among the various competing powers of the era. Many islands were left destitute and almost depopulated by the repeated Ottoman raids. Andros managed to escape relatively unscathed, but in return Zeno was forced to pay tribute and provide harbour and shelter for the Turkish ships there. Nevertheless, in 1416, the island was raided and almost the entire population carried off by the Ottomans. At about the same time Albanians crossed from Euboea over into the island, settling in its northern part. In 1427, Pietro Zeno died, and was succeeded by his son Andrea, who was of poor health and only had a daughter. In 1437, Andrea too died, and the island was taken over by Venice, which installed a governor there until 1440, when its ownership was given to Crusino I Sommaripa.

References

Sources

14th-century births
Year of birth unknown
1427 deaths
Pietro
Pietro
14th-century Venetian people
Republic of Venice diplomats
Ambassadors of the Republic of Venice to the Kingdom of England
Ambassadors of the Republic of Venice to the Ottoman Empire
15th-century Venetian people
Republic of Venice people of the Ottoman–Venetian Wars


Dhyaurali  is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,111 people living in 616 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


The Franklin Sedan was manufactured by the H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company Company of Syracuse, New York.

Franklin Sedan specifications (1926 data)

 Color – Several
 Seating Capacity – Five
 Wheelbase – 119 inches
 Wheels - Wood
 Tires - 21” x 5.25” balloon
 Service Brakes – transmission type
 Emergency Brakes – contracting on rear wheels
 Engine  - Six cylinder, vertical, cast en bloc, 3-1/4 x 4 inches; head removable; valves in head; H.P. 25.3, S.A.E. formula
 Lubrication – Separate force feed
 Crankshaft - Seven bearing
 Cooling – Air
 Ignition –Storage battery
 Starting System – Two Unit
 Voltage – Six
 Wiring System – Single
 Gasoline System – Vacuum
 Clutch – Dry plate
 Transmission – Selective sliding
 Gear Changes – 3 forward, 1 reverse
 Drive – Spiral bevel
 Rear Springs – Full elliptic
 Rear Axle – Semi-floating
 Steering Gear – Worm and gear

Standard equipment
New car price included the following items:
 automatic windshield wiper
 Watson stabilizers
 stop light
 spare tire
 cover
 tire carrier and lock
 bumper front
 bumperettes rear
 mirror
 electric primer
 hand tire pump
 complete set of tools, including Zerk oil gun.

Optional equipment
The following was available at an extra cost:
 None

Prices
New car prices were available F.O.B. Syracuse, New York, on the following models:
 Sedan - $3200
 Touring - $2650
 Sport Sedan - $3350
 Coupé - $2700
 Sport Runabout - $2800
 Enclosed-drive Limousine - $3500
 Cabriolet - $4400

See also
 Franklin (automobile)

References
Source:

Vintage vehicles
Defunct companies based in Syracuse, New York


Al Este Bodega y Viñedos is a winery in Médanos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It consists of vineyards (in owned lands that exceed ) and an adjacent winery, located  south of the city of Buenos Aires on the southern tip of the Buenos Aires province.  The project has been developed under the direction of the Italian wine maker Alberto Antonini.

In its first submission to a wine contest, Al Este was awarded a silver medal in the White Wine category in the 2009 Decanter World Wine Awards, the world's largest wine contest, celebrated in London.  Al Este's award-winning wine is recommended by Decanter in sixth position as one of the top chardonnays in 2009.

History
In the early 20th century several European immigrants arrived to Médanos and brought the wine making tradition with them. Although at some point a multitude of small growers planted a combined surface of approximately 200 hectares of vineyards, they were unable to successfully complete the wine making process given lack of scale, inadequate technology and the country's ups and downs which led to their disappearance.

The Médanos terroir, that had traditionally been dedicated to garlic and pastures, has striking similarities to Bordeaux, France in terms of its soil, weather conditions and proximity to the sea. More recently, the idea of starting a wine project in Médanos got reignited as a result of a trip to France which provided renewed confidence in the terroir's  potential.

In 2000, a hectare and a half was planted on an experimental basis with nine grape varietals.  In a second stage, after analyzing the obtained quality standards for each grape variety at the Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), 25 additional hectares were planted mainly with six varietals.

Grape varieties
Al Este produces several varietals.

Red: Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Tannat, Cabernet Franc

White: Chardonnay, Sauvignon blanc

Vineyards and winery
The vineyards are located at 39 degrees latitude south, where the Patagonia and Pampa converge, approximately 40 km from the Atlantic Ocean.   Windy springs help develop thicker skins that contribute to the intense color of these wines.
The geological foundation of the Médanos region is limestone, leading to a soil structure that is heavy in calcium.  The soil has high sand content, which doesn't retain as much humidity, and as a consequence this terroir absorbs and liberates heat faster creating a large temperature range which favors the development and growth of grapes.

Topography:  Flatland with meadows (médanos)

Soil type: Sandy over a calcareous plate

Irrigation system:  Dripping

Frost protection: Water spraying by aspersion

Harvesting and grape selection: Manual

Plant support system: Espalier

The winery produces red and white wines, which are aged in French and American oak and in bottles in its underground cellars.  It is the first company to grow, produce and sell premium wines in the Buenos Aires Province.

Domaine Al Este
Domaine Al Este is a 290 hectares terroir located in Médanos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Developed by Al Este, it was the result of a careful analysis and screening of land in this new terroir that was particularly apt for the growth of vineyards dedicated to the production of premium wines.

The vineyards are located at 39 degrees latitude south, where the Patagonia and Pampa converge, approximately 40 km from the Atlantic Ocean.

Topography:  Flatland with meadows (médanos)

Soil type: Sandy over a calcareous plate

Weather: Oceanic influence, with a windy Spring

Rainfall: 500mm per year

See also
Medanos (appellation)
Buenos Aires wines

References

External links
 Avec des nouvelles régions l’Argentine pourrait convoquer des nouveaux investisseurs
Lanzarán vinos producidos al sur de Buenos Aires
El mapa vitivinícola se extiende por la Provincia de Buenos Aires

Wineries of Argentina
Buenos Aires Province


Ralph of Coucy, (c. 1134 – 1191), Lord of Coucy, Lord of Marle, La Fère, Crécy, Vervins, Pinon, Landouzy, and Fontaine.  He was the son of Enguerrand II, Lord of Coucy and Agnes de Beaugency.

History
Ralph married Agnes of Hainault, daughter of Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut.
They had:
Ada, married Dirk van Beveren
Yolande, married Robert II of Dreux

Ralph married the second time to Alix II of Dreux, daughter of Robert I, Count of Dreux and Hawise, countess of Perche.
They had:
Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy (d.1243)
Thomas, lord of Vervines (d.1252/3)
Agnes (d.1214)

By his later marriage, Ralph became cousin to Philip II of France. He attended the King of France in 1181 during the war against Philip I, Count of Flanders. He left for the Holy Land, where he died in the siege of Acre in November 1191.

Notes

References

Sources

1130s births
1191 deaths
Christians of the Third Crusade
Lords of Coucy


Wapti  is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,015 people living in 602 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


Dragonetto Clavelli was a lord of Nisyros.

He married Agnese Crispo (1386–1428), daughter of Francesco I Crispo, tenth Duke of the Archipelago, and wife Fiorenza Sanudo, Lady of Milos.

References

Dukes of the Archipelago
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
14th-century Venetian people
15th-century Venetian people


The Kuwait Amateur Radio Society (KARS) (in Arabic, الجمعية الكويتية لهواة اللاسلكي) is a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Kuwait.  The organization uses KARS as its official international abbreviation, based on the English translation of the organization's name.  KARS operates a QSL bureau for those members who regularly communicate with amateur radio operators in other countries, and offers radio equipment to its members for their use.  KARS represents the interests of Kuwaiti amateur radio operators and shortwave listeners before Kuwaiti and international telecommunications regulatory authorities.  KARS is the national member society representing Kuwait in the International Amateur Radio Union.
Board members:Hamad Alnusif, 9K2HN ( Chairman ),   Eng. Faisal Alajmi, 9K2RR ( Vice Chairman ),   Waleed Abul, 9K2OK ( General Secretary ),   Basel Albaker, 9K2RX ( Treasurer ),   Ahmad Ali, 9K2QA ( member ),   Nawaf Almuharib, 9K2NM ( member ),   Ali Mubarak, 9K2SS ( member )

See also
Amateur Radio Association of Bahrain
Emirates Amateur Radio Society
Qatar Amateur Radio Society

References

Kuwait
Communications and media organizations based in Kuwait
1979 establishments in Kuwait
Organizations established in 1979
Radio in Kuwait
Organizations based in Kuwait City


The Noma Literary Prize (Noma Bungei Shō) was established in 1941 by the Noma Service Association (Noma Hōkō Kai) in accordance with the last wishes of Seiji Noma (1878–1938), founder and first president of the Kodansha publishing company. It is awarded by the Noma Cultural Foundation, the largest single shareholder in Kodansha. The Noma Literary Prize has been awarded annually to an outstanding new work published in Japan between October and the following September. The Noma Prize includes a commemorative plaque and a cash award of 3 million yen. It is one in a series of Noma Prizes.

Sponsorship Prize (1941–1946)

Noma Literary Prize (1941–present)
An archive of past prize winners is maintained by Kodansha.

Noma Children's Literature Prize (1963–present)

Noma Children's Literature New Face Prize
This prize was last awarded in 1998.
09 1971 — Rie Yoshiyuki for Mahōtsukai no kushan neko (Sneezing Cat, a Magician).
33 1995 — Eto Mori for Uchu no Minashigo
34 1996 — Nahoko Uehashi for Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

See also

 Noma Prize
 Noma Literacy Prize
 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa
 Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations

Notes

References
 Schierbeck, Sachiko Shibata, Marlene R. Edelstein (1994).  Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. ; OCLC 32348453

External links
 J'Lit | Awards : Noma Prize for Literature | Books from Japan (Noma Literary Prize)
 J'Lit | Awards : Noma Prize for New Writers | Books from Japan (Noma Literary New Face Prize)

Kodansha
1941 establishments in Japan
Japanese literary awards
Awards established in 1941
Awards established in 1979
Awards established in 1963
Fiction awards
Children's literary awards
First book awards
Noma Prize


The fourth season of the Reborn! anime television series compiles episodes 74 through 101, which aired in Japan from March 15, 2008 to September 27, 2008 on TV Tokyo. Titled as Katekyō Hitman Reborn! in Japan, the Japanese television series was directed by Kenichi Imaizumi, and produced and animated by Artland. The plot, based on the Reborn! manga by Akira Amano, follows how Tsunayoshi "Tsuna" Sawada, the candidate to be the Mafia boss of the Vongola Famiglia, and his friends are accidentally sent to the future nearly 10 years later. As they arrive, they discover that the Millefiore Mafia family has been annihilating the Vongola.

Four pieces of theme musics are used for the episodes: one opening theme and three ending themes. The opening theme is "88" by LM.C, which is used throughout the entire season. The first ending theme is "Stand Up!" by Lead, which is used until episode 76. This is followed by "Ameato" by w-inds. until episode 89, and then "Cycle" by Cherryblossom until episode 101.

Marvelous Entertainment released the season into seven DVD compilations labeled as "Burn" volumes, with each containing four episodes. Burn.1 was released on September 17, 2008. The final volume of the season, Burn.7, was released on March 18, 2009. On March 21, 2009, Japan's d-rights production company collaborated with the anime-streaming website called Crunchyroll in order to begin streaming subbed episodes of the Japanese-dubbed series worldwide. New episodes are available to everyone a week after its airing in Japan.

Episode list

References
General

Specific

External links
 Official Reborn! website
 Official anime website
 TV Tokyo's official anime website

2008 Japanese television seasons
Season 4


The Sanford Mainers are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Sanford, Maine. The team, a member of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, plays their home games at Goodall Park.

In late 2001, New England Collegiate Baseball League approached the Town of Sanford about the potential of having a team. Sanford's former Parks and Recreation Director Marcel Blouin met with various officials, and proposed Goodall Park as the home field for a team.

Start-up funds were provided through local businessmen Allen Mapes, Ron Woodward, and Geoff Titherington, as well as Neil Olson, a businessman from Bethel, Maine who had previously been involved with the Lowell All-Americans organization, a former member of the NECBL. In the second year, local investors Bob Hardison, Bob Gonyou, Joe Vitko, Gary Miller, and Curtis Jacks also joined the management team. After a few years, the Mainers' management group agreed the team should be operated by the shareholders, and shifted ownership to a volunteer group of citizens of Sanford-Springvale and local communities, becoming a non-profit organization.

Mainers attendance
The following is a list of Sanford Mainers attendance figures at Goodall Park dating back to the team's inception in the 2002 season. The team's record average attendance came in the 2005 season, when an average of 699 spectators attended each home game.

Postseason appearances
Since 2002, the Sanford Mainers have claimed the league championship twice, the organization's first in 2004 and their second in 2008. Since then, the Mainers have appeared in the final round (2014 and 2016), but fell just short to the Newport Gulls and Mystic Schooners, respectively. In the franchise's history, the team has made the postseason all but three times.

Media
The team's games are broadcast on the NECBL Broadcast Network through BlueFrame Technology, as well as locally on 104.3 FM, AM 1220 The Legends WWSF. Until the 2012 season, games were only broadcast on the NECBL Broadcast Network. The radio station announced in March 2012 plans to broadcast away games, as well.

References

External links
 Sanford Mainers Official Site
 NECBL Website

New England Collegiate Baseball League teams
Amateur baseball teams in Maine
2002 establishments in Maine
Sanford, Maine
Baseball teams established in 2002


The 2003–04 Divizia B was the 64th season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system.

The format has been changed from two series of 16 teams to three series, each of them consisting of 16 teams. At the end of the season, the winners of the series promoted to Divizia A and the last three places from all the series relegated to Divizia C.

Team changes

To Divizia B
Promoted from Divizia C
 Petrolul Moinești
 Unirea Urziceni
 Juventus București
 Dacia Mioveni
 Rarora Râmnicu Vâlcea
 Jiul Petroșani
 Oltul Sfântu Gheorghe
 Armătura Zalău
 FC Vaslui
 Poiana Câmpina
 Electrica Constanța
 Chindia Târgoviște
 Minerul Motru
 Certej
 Tricotaje Ineu
 Laminorul Roman
 Building Vânju Mare
 ACU Arad
 Precizia Săcele
 Oașul Negrești
 Callatis Mangalia

Relegated from Divizia A
 Sportul Studențesc București
 UTA Arad

From Divizia B
Relegated to Divizia C
 Bucovina Suceava
 Gilortul Târgu Cărbunești
 Foresta Fălticeni
 UM Timișoara

Promoted to Divizia A
 Petrolul Ploiești
 Apulum Alba Iulia
 FC Oradea

Other
Divizia A clubs and bitter rivals, Petrolul Ploiești and Astra Ploiești merged. Astra was absorbed by Petrolul and Oțelul Galați, which initially relegated after the promotion/ relegation play-off against FC Oradea, remained in the top-flight.

Callatis Mangalia was promoted from Divizia C as the best next runner-up, in order to occupy the vacant place.

Renamed teams
Chindia Târgoviște was renamed as FCM Târgoviște.

CS Certej merged with Mureșul Deva, was moved from Certeju de Sus to Deva and renamed as CS Deva.

Extensiv Craiova was renamed as FC Craiova.

League tables

Seria I

Serie II

Seria III

Top scorers
20 goals
  Ionuț Mazilu (Sportul Studențesc)

17 goals
  Gabriel Apetri (Jiul Petroșani)

13 goals
  Viorel Gheorghe (Petrolul Moinești)
  Cristian Turcu (CFR Cluj)

12 goals
  Răzvan Cociș (Universitatea Cluj)
  Florin Anghel (FC Vaslui)
  Valentin Badea (FC Vaslui)

11 goals
  Robert Roszel (Olimpia Satu Mare)

9 goals
  Iulian Ștefan (Pandurii Târgu Jiu)
  Florin Maxim (Sportul Studențesc)

8 goals
  Constantin Barbu (Dacia Mioveni)
  Marius Păcurar (Politehnica Iași)

7 goals

  Constantin Borza (Midia Năvodari)
  Damian Militaru (Jiul Petroșani)
  Tiberiu Bălan (Sportul Studențesc)
  Gigel Ene (Rulmentul Alexandria)
  Dan Codreanu (Universitatea Cluj)

See also

2003–04 Divizia A

References

Liga II seasons
Rom
2003–04 in Romanian football


Dimipokhari  is a 2 no. Ward of Sunapati Rural Municipality in Ramechhap District which falls under 3 no. province of Nepal.It is located at north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,997 people living in 626 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District


Doramba  is a populated place and a ward (ward no. 2) of Doramba Rural Municipality. It was a village development committee before 10 March 2017. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,640 people living in 664 individual households.

On 10 March 2017, local level body of Nepal restructured into 753 units, thus this local level unit merged with other VDCs to form Doramba Rural Municipality. Now total area of this ward is  and total population (2011 Nepal census) is 3,273.

References

External links
Ward No. 2 of Doramba Rural Municipality

Populated places in Ramechhap District
Wards and electoral divisions of Nepal


Duragau  is a village development committee in Ramechhap District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,239.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ramechhap District

Populated places in Ramechhap District