Cherma's is a major apparel retail store located in Hyderabad, India.

It was started with their brand of shirts and jeans called Cherma's, which became hugely popular because of the affordable prices.

Cherma's has its apparel manufacturing unit located in Apparel Export Park at Gundlapochampally, near Hyderabad...

History
This clothing retail outlet was started by Capt. Kayarmin Pestonji  in 1980 and is synonymous with fashionable ready-made garments. Earlier known as Babsons the first store was opened in Abids. cherma's  made a common low-income group family to wear ready-made garments in 1980 or even today. One of their ads which became popular was "you name it! we have it"

Pestonji family was originally from the small seaport town of Tarapore in the Thana District and settled in Hyderabad 200 years ago. Capt. K.F. Pestonji’s father Late Ferozsha Dadabhoy Pestonji was a senior Government Officer in the state of Hyderabad and retired as Director of Industries. He and his wife had two sons and one daughter. The elder son, Mr. Dadafrid F Pestonji, after completing his MBA from Andhra University has migrated to Bombay in 1965 and is settled in the business of exporting garments. Daughter Mrs Farida S Wadia is married to Mr. Sam F Wadia, who is in the business of manufacturing fire engines and fire fighting equipment at Ahmedabad. Capt. K. F. Pestonji, the youngest remained at Hyderabad, married Ms. Gool H Nakra resident of Secunderabad. They have four children – Cherazad, Maniza, Jasmine and Kaizad.

Capt. K. F. Pestonji started flying at A.P Flying Club in 1967 and got his Commercial Pilot’s Licence in 1970. Flying Instructor training at Hissar, Haryana 1971. Joined AP Flying club in 1972 as a flying instructor

In 1975 started manufacturing Handloom Cloth at Primary Societies located around Hyderabad, for supply to his elder brother D.F. Pestonji, to convert the same as garments and Export. In 1978 Mrs. G.K. Pestonji (who had resigned her job with Canara Bank after the birth of their two daughters) started selling export surplus garments of her brother-in-law, which business grew slowly but steadily and necessitated Capt. K.F. Pestonji resigning his job from the State Government and join in the business.

Capt. Pestonji is a very active National Seeded Motor Rallyist in both two-wheeler and four-wheeler categories, having won a number of National and International events. He has won the first Himalayan Rally in 1980 and the 3rd Himalayan Rally in 1982 in the Indian Cars Class.

He is very actively involved with Community work and nominated Trustee in The Old Parsi Fire Temple Trust. And now he is the President of Dr. Nania Educaitonal Trust which provides education to poor and needy irrespective of the Community.

He is a member of the Local Managing Committee of NIFT

He has served as member of the AP Minorities Commission, Government of Andhra Pradesh from 1991 to 1994 and he has been renominated by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh to the Minorities Commission, which was Statutory body, for the period 1999 to 2002. He is also a member of a committee constituted by A P Red Cross Society.

He is a Member of the Direct Taxes Advisory Committee constituted by the Income Tax Department of Andhra Pradesh.

He is the recipient of the "Samman Patra" award for Andhra Pradesh Region for the Financial Year 1997-98 by the Income Tax Department, Government of India on 30 July 2000.

He is also the recipient of a higher award for the second consecutive year and had been honoured with "Rashtriya Sanman" on National Level for the Financial Year 1998-99 by the Income Tax Department, Government of India on 11 March 2002.

He is a recipient of the "Best Management Award" from the Government of Andhra Pradesh on 1 May 2002, for his outstanding contribution in maintenance of Industrial Relations, Labour Welfare and Productivity.

Management

Kaizad Kayarmin Pestonji
Being born in a family that was already at the centre of retail business in the city of Hyderabad. Kaizad, from the very beginning had a keen interest in joining the group and heading all its expansion plans. Keeping this in mind, he pursued his Bachelors in Commerce and Computers and followed that up with an MBA from the University Of Warwick which boasts of one of the best MBA Programmes in Europe.

Having graduated in the year 2010, he was very quick to jump into his Business. Along with him, came in a whole new set of Ideas, Goals & Targets.

Kaizad initiated the bringing in of Footwear. A category completely Alien to the Group. This was a huge success and today accounts for over 10% of the Groups Turnover. Apart from this, he has brought in several new and fresh Brands in the Men’s and Children’s wear which contributes huge volumes to the Group. He is also involved in Enhancing & Developing the In-house Brand of Cherma’s such as KAIJAS, SHAMROCK, JASIKA, SIM ONE etc. which are manufactured at our own facility – Singh Casuals Pvt Ltd.

Store
In Hyderabad, they have branches at Secunderabad, Abids, Ameerpet, Kukatpally and Malakpet.

References

Companies based in Hyderabad, India
Indian companies established in 1978
1978 establishments in Andhra Pradesh


John Phillip Harison Acocks (7 April 1911 – 20 May 1979) was a South African botanist noted for his publication "Veld Types of South Africa" and his extensive botanical collection of some 28 000 specimens from South Africa and Namibia. In 1938, he was seconded to go on a joint collecting trip of four months with Swedish botanist Adolf Hjalmar Frederick Hafström between Cape Town and Victoria Falls.

Early life and education

He was born in Cape Town to John Martin Acocks and Sarah Phoebe Petty. Matriculated from the South African College Schools (SACS) and attended the University of Cape Town between 1929 and 1935 obtaining a B.A. and M.Sc. He studied under Robert Stephen Adamson (1885–1965) and Margaret Levyns (1890–1975).

Career
His first appointment was in January 1936 as pasture ecologist at the Pasture Research Section, part of the Division of Plant Industry. He set out to do botanical surveys of new pasture research stations. In 1945, he was transferred to Estcourt to the Botanical Survey Section of the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology which later became the Botanical Research Institute. From 1948, he was permanently posted at the Grootfontein College of Agriculture in Middelburg.

Acocks contributed greatly to South African botany in three distinct areas. Firstly, his treatment of the vegetation regions (Veld Types) of South Africa, in which he classifies vegetation into 75 classes, continues to be a valuable reference work for researchers and is an outstanding achievement for a single individual. Secondly, his analysis of the impact of humans on vegetation has largely been revised by current research insights, specifically with regard to the effect of fire on grasslands, savannas and forests. There is, though, ample evidence showing considerable changes in Karoo fauna and flora over the last three centuries. Finally, his pioneering views on veld rehabilitation and management remain important guidelines for the farming communities of South Africa.

He was President of Section C of the SA Assoc. for the Advancement of Science in 1963, and awarded the Senior Capt. Scott Medal by the SA Biol. Soc. in 1977.

Acocks worked on a revised version of the Veld Types, which he completed shortly before his death, and which is lodged in the archives of the National Botanical Institute (NBG). His second book, Key Grasses of South Africa, was published in 1990.

Legacy

Acocks is commemorated by many specific names including Cliffortia acocksii H.Weim., Erica acocksii Compton, Restio acocksii Pillans and Diospyros acocksii De Wint. His specimens are housed at BM, BOL, Cedara College of Agriculture, Dohne Agricultural Development Institute, GRA, Grootfontein Agricultural College, K, KMG, M, MO, NH, NU, P, PRE, PREM, S, STE(NBG), Toowoomba Agricultural Development Centre.

Bibliography
 Veld Types of South Africa (with accompanying Veld Type Map) – John Phillip Harison Acocks   (Botanical Research Institute, 1975)
 Acock's Notes: Key Grasses of South Africa – (Grassland Society of South Africa, 1990)

References

1911 births
1979 deaths
Writers from Cape Town
South African people of British descent
20th-century South African botanists
Agrostologists
South African ecologists


The Battle of Kupa occurred at Kupa river in 819. It involved Frankish vassal Duke Borna of Dalmatia, with an army of Guduscani, against the advancing army of Frankish rebel, Duke Ljudevit of the Slavs in Lower Pannonia. During the battle, the Guduscans abandoned Borna and joined Ljudevit. While Borna's forces suffered massive losses, he managed to escape with his bodyguards. However, Dragomuž, Ljudevit's father-in-law, who sided with Borna, was killed. Ljudevit suffered heavy casualties that included 3,000 soldiers and over 300 horses. Afterwards, Ljudevit used the momentum to invade Dalmatia in December 819.

Sources

Kupa
9th-century military history of Croatia
Kupa
819
9th century in Croatia

History of Slovenia
Battles involving Slovenia


Ahmad Awaluddin "Awal" bin Ashaari (born 6 August 1981) is a Malaysian actor, model and TV host.

Early life and career
Awal Ashaari was born in Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He holds a diploma from Universiti Teknologi MARA in mass communications.

He then went on to work at Leo Burnett advertising, where its executive creative director Yasmin Ahmad is also a filmmaker, as an account executive, but felt he did not belong there. He then went on to become a newsreader for 8TV's Twenty Hundred News for eight months in 2003. It was also at that time was the first season of Malaysian Idol competition and Awal managed to reach the final 30 cut-off. Later in 2004, FCUK had a model search competition and he was selected.

Besides modelling and fashion spreads, Awal hosts Beat TV on Astro Ria. He has also been involved in numerous Malay dramas such as Impak Maksima, Noktah Erna and Cinta Medik.
Previously, he was the host of One in a Million, a Malaysian reality singing competition show. He was also the host for a reality TV show on Astro Ria, Mari Menari season 1 with Lisa Surihani.

Personal life

Awal married actress Scha Alyahya on 4 May 2012. Lara Alana is his first child with Scha. His second child, another daughter, was born on 12 February 2021 and bestowed the name Lyla Amina.

Filmography

Film

Television series

Television

References

External links

1981 births
Malaysian male actors
People from Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian people of Malay descent
Malaysian television personalities
Living people
Malaysian infotainers
One in a Million (Malaysian TV series)


Peng Si (born 1980 in Hengyang, Hunan Province) is a contemporary Chinese painter based in Beijing. While still a student at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts, Peng exhibited his paintings alongside those of long-established artists in the Third National Oil Painting Exhibition. He graduated from the Central Academy in 2004. As a member of the "post-80s" generation of artists in China, Peng has been involved in several prominent group shows in the last few years; he has also been the subject of many solo exhibitions, and his work is featured in the collections of major galleries at Beijing's 798 Art Zone. Critics have praised his "implementation (of techniques) and reflection on Chinese and Western art", especially his calligraphic skill and his "thorough examination of trends in artistic thought" from the May Fourth Movement through the post-1949 period in China.

Peng Si's paintings of figures and landscapes are known for their melancholic, dreamlike, and uncannily modern blend of classical Chinese and traditional Western idioms. His brushwork is highly refined and precise, and his coloration is notable for its extreme technical difficulty.

Beijing's Yuan Center included his work in After Culture, a 2008 exhibition that also featured paintings of older, more famous Chinese artists like Ma Kelu, Shang Yang, Ding Fang, and Ma Lu.

Notes and references

External links
 Peng Si on Artnet

Living people
Central Academy of Fine Arts alumni
1980 births
Painters from Hunan
People from Hengyang


Mohamed Rabbae (8 March 1941 – 17 May 2022) was a Moroccan-born Dutch politician and activist.

Life
Born in Berrechid, in the French protectorate in Morocco, then controlled by Vichy France, Rabbae fled in 1966 as a student from Morocco to the Netherlands, when activists against the regime of King Hassan II were taken prisoner. In the Netherlands he finished his studies, carried out various activities and was involved in various actions for foreigners' rights, including the so-called 182 Moroccans church after asylum-seekers were threatened to be expelled by the then State Secretary of Justice  in the First Van Agt cabinet. In 1983, he was director of the Dutch Center Foreigners (NCB).
At the 1994 Dutch general election, he became an MP for the political party GreenLeft. For the elections of that year he was one of the two top candidates, along with Ina Brouwer. During the campaign, in an interview with NRC Handelsblad, Rabbae expressed understanding for people who wanted the book The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie banned. He said that "an attempt to have such a book banned with democratic means is better than following Khomeini and other forces of darkness". His party lost one of its six seats in those elections but gained six at the next ones, while Rabbae was still a candidate.

In 2002, Rabbae left parliament, and for some time he was an alderman in Leiden. On his first working day after a period of several months of absenteeism due to heart surgery, he resigned as an alderman. This was because of errors that had been made in his absence, but for which he took responsibility.

Rabbae was on the executive board of several organizations, especially in the field of policies on ethnic minorities. In March 2008, he was co-organizer of a large public meeting on Dam Square in Amsterdam in the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

On 7 April 2008, Rabbae stated in an interview that there should be an Islamic political party, "a kind of Islamic Christian Democratic Appeal". He said he would be available as an adviser for such a party. Three months later, in another interview to the same newspaper, he confirmed this declaration but precised that he himself did not intend to leave his then-present party Groenlinks, "as long as Groenlinks stays in the vicinity of my ideas".

During a political meeting in November 2010, Rabbae labelled as a fascist the far-right PVV leader Geert Wilders. In the aftermath, the Groenlinks (GL) leader Femke Halsema tweeted first that he did not speak for the party, then that he had gone too far according to her, but that she recognized his freedom of speech. After the first tweet, he sent his resignation letter to the party. The GL top was also against a judicial procedure against Wilders by several people, among whom Rabbae and a GL MP, , who had subsequently been blocked from becoming a member of the party top.

Rabbae died on 17 May 2022 at the age of 81.

Publication
Naast de Amicales nu de UMMON; De mantelorganisaties van de Marokkaanse autoriteiten in Nederland, Nederlands Centrum Buitenlanders, 1993 (Now besides the Amicales, the  (UMMON); The mantle organizations of the Moroccan authorities in the Netherlands) , 9789055170111

References

External links

 Parlement biography

1941 births
2022 deaths
Aldermen of Leiden
Anti-globalization activists
Dutch anti-racism activists
Dutch social justice activists
Dutch political activists
Dutch Muslims
GroenLinks politicians
Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)
Moroccan emigrants to the Netherlands
Minority rights activists
People from Berrechid


Perry Friedman (born May 15, 1968) is an American professional poker player who won the 2002 World Series of Poker $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event and is a founding member of the Tiltboys.

World Series of Poker
Friedman has cashed 49 times at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), winning the 2002 World Series of Poker $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event, earning $176,860, he also has made seven other final tables, 3rd in the $2,500 Seven-card stud event at the 2000 World Series of Poker won by Chris Ferguson, 4th at the 2002 World Series of Poker in the $2,000 S.H.O.E. event won by Phil Ivey, 3rd in the $2,000 No Limit Hold'em event at the 2005 World Series of Poker won by Erik Seidel, 7th in the 2007 World Series of Poker $3,000 No Limit Hold'em event won by Shankar Pillai, 4th in the 2012 World Series of Poker $5,000 Seven-card stud event won by John Monnette, 3rd in the 2017 World Series of Poker $10,000 Seven-card stud event won by Mike Wattel, and 7th in the 2022 World Series of Poker $3,000 H.O.R.S.E event won my Lawrence Brandt.

World Series of Poker bracelets

Other poker events
At the World Poker Tour 2004 Legends of Poker, Friedman just missed making the six-player final table finishing in 9th for $49,575.

, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,132,000. His 43 cashes as the WSOP account for $1,053,319 of those winnings.

References

External links
 Official Facebook page

1968 births
American poker players
Living people
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
Stanford University alumni


5,7-Dihydroxytryptamine (5,7-DHT) is a purported neurotoxin used in scientific research to decrease concentrations of serotonin in the brain. The mechanism behind this effect is not well understood, but it is speculated to selectively destroy serotonergic neurons, in a manner similar to the dopaminergic neurotoxicity of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA). What is known is that this compound is in fact not selective in depleting serotonin content, but also depletes norepinephrine. To selectively deplete serotonin stores, it is commonly administered in conjunction with desmethylimipramine (desipramine), which inhibits the norepinephrine transporter.

See also
 DSP-4
 6-Hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA)
 para-Chlorophenylalanine (PCPA)

References

Neurotoxins
Tryptamines


Sino-Pack is an exhibition of packaging products held in China annually.

History
The exhibition was initially held in 1994. It has always been one of the most influential packaging exhibitions in China. In 2008, more than 200 internationally reputable exhibitors from 14 countries and regions participated in the show, which occupied an exhibition area of 11,000 square meters and lead to business prospects for more than 13,000 professional visitors from 54 countries and regions.

Sino-Pack & China Drinktec 2009

The 16th China  International Exhibition on Packaging Machinery & Materials (Sino-Pack  2009) along with the  13th China  International Exhibition on Beverage, Brewery and Wine Technology (China  Drinktec 2009) was held on    3 – 6 March 2009 in   Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. It occupied   20,000 sq.m. Exhibition area,  and had 500  exhibitors.

The exhibitions were  organized by China  Foreign Trade Centre (Group), Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd, and the relevant eindustry associations.

References

External links
Official Site
drinktec

Packaging
Recurring events established in 1994
Trade fairs in China


The 2009 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Fiesta Conference or known as the 2009 Motolite PBA Fiesta Conference for sponsorship reasons, was the last conference of the 2008-09 PBA season. It started on February 28 and finished on July 17. The tournament was shortened to accommodate the training of the national basketball team for the FIBA Asia Championship 2009 qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. The last conference had games on Thursdays and Saturdays. The tournament is an import-laden format, which allows an import or a non-Filipino player for each team and with a new height limit of 6-foot-6.

Two teams had new names before the start of the conference: the former Red Bull Barako was now known as the Barako Bull Energy Boosters, and the former Air21 Express were called as the Burger King Titans. However, with the failure of several business deals that would have changed the franchise's upper management, the Titans renamed into the Burger King Whoppers by their seventh game into the conference, retaining their old management headed by the Lina family.

Format
The following format was observed for the duration of the conference:
The teams were divided into 2 groups, based on their performance in the 2008–09 PBA Philippine Cup elimination round. Group A are teams that finished the Philippine Cup's elimination round in 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th and 9th positions, while Group B are the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th and 10th.

Group A:
Alaska Aces
Burger King Whoppers
Coca-Cola Tigers
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters
Sta. Lucia Realtors

Group B:
Barako Bull Energy Boosters
Barangay Ginebra Kings
Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants
San Miguel Beermen
Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters

Teams in a group will play against each other once and against teams in the other group twice; 14 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records. Ties are broken among point differentials of the tied teams, except for ties for #2, #5 and #8. Standings will be determined in one league table; teams do not qualify by basis of groupings.
Wildcard phase:
WC1: #3 vs. #10, with #3 having the twice-to-beat advantage
WC2: #4 vs. #9, with #4 having the twice-to-beat advantage
WC3: #5 vs. #8 in a knockout game
WC4: #6 vs. #7 in a knockout game
Best-of-three quarterfinals:
QF1: WC2 vs. WC3
QF2: WC1 vs. WC4
Best-of-seven semifinals:
SF1: QF1 vs. #1
SF2: QF2 vs. #2
Third-place playoff: losers of the semifinals
Best-of-seven Finals: winners of the semifinals
This is basically same format used throughout the 2004-05 PBA season, save for WC3 and WC4 were conducted in a best-of-3 series.

Classification round
The May 17 game between the Barangay Ginebra Kings and the Alaska Aces held at the Albay Astrodome in Legaspi was canceled when the playing court was judged as too slippery, with Ginebra leading 9–2, and 8:04 remaining in the first quarter. The game was stopped twice and the stoppages lasted two hours before the game was canceled. The game was restarted at the Araneta Coliseum on May 22.

Team standings

Results
Results above and to the left of the gray boxes are first round games; those below and to the right are second round games.

Eighth seed playoff

Second seed playoff

Bracket

Wildcard phase
Note: Rain or Shine and Burger King possessed the twice to beat advantage but it was not used as their opponents failed to win to extend the series into a deciding game.

Quarterfinals

(3) Rain or Shine vs. (6) Purefoods

(4) Burger King vs. (5) Sta. Lucia

Semifinals

(1) San Miguel vs (4) Burger King

(2) Barangay Ginebra vs (3) Rain or Shine

Third place playoff

Finals

Awards
Fern-C Finals MVP: Jonas Villanueva
Best Player of the Conference: Jayjay Helterbrand
Best Import of the Conference: Gabe Freeman

Players of the Week

Statistical leaders

Locals
*refers that the local had a higher statistic than an import

Imports

Imports
The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.

References

External links
 PBA.ph

PBA Fiesta Conference
Fiesta Conference


Woodland Community College is a public community college in Woodland, California. It is a part of the Yuba Community College District and is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges.

History
In the fall of 1975, Woodland offered courses in an outreach program. In 1981 the California Postsecondary Education Commission labeled Woodland as an official education center. In 1990, Woodland Center (now Woodland Community College) relocated to its current  parcel of land. In 1999, Yuba Community College District notified its intent for Woodland Center to become a self-sufficient community college, the same year that a Child Development center was opened on campus. The next year the district received the approval from the State Chancellor's office to begin Woodland Center's process of being a comprehensive college.

In 2006, Woodland Community College began the accreditation process through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, completing the process in June 2008 with the notification of initial accreditation.

References

External links
Official website

California Community Colleges
Universities and colleges in Yolo County, California
Buildings and structures in Woodland, California
Schools accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
1975 establishments in California
Universities and colleges established in 1975


Nater Guru () is a Bengali movie released in 2003. Directed by Haranath Chakraborty, it featured Jeet, Koel Mallick, Ranjit Mallick and Moushmi Chatterjee. The film was Koel Mallick's cinematic debut. It was successful at the box office.

Plot
A romantic comedy based on Samaresh Basu's populer novel, Nater Guru revolves around four main leads, Robi, Shashi Bhushan, Sulochona and Manisha. Shashi and Sulochona are an estranged couple who are mutually separated from each other but not divorced legally. The separation is out of misunderstandings, egoism and preconceived notions from both sides. After 15 years, Sulochona is a business tycoon while Shashibushan is a worthless race course bookie. Their only daughter Manisha is a dancer, and resides with her mother. Sulochana suffers a heart attack and Manisha unable to get help turns to her father. The father-daughter combo decide that the ailing Sulochona can't be given any stress or anxiety. Hence they carry a stealth operation. They decide to hire Shashi's friend and ally Rabi (Jeet) Maitra and present him as Durgadas. Rabi is required by Manisha to give proxy whenever necessary. He becomes regular. But the two often quarrel and fight over irrelevant issues. Rabi gets insulted by the behaviour of Manisha. Rabi touches Sulochona's feet as Durgadasand brings forth his singing prowess. The music actually heals Sulochona and she is able to walk again. Sulochona loves Rabi. Meanwhile, Sulachona accidentally unravels Rabi's originality. Suluchona admires Rabi's honesty and self-esteem. Rabi's honesty and simplicity makes Manisha fall in love with him. Durgadas creates trouble. But with Shashi's cooperation the lovers reunite. Shashi and Sulochona rediscover their long lost love and the couple get reunited.

Cast
 Jeet as Rabi Maitra
 Koel Mallick as Manisha
 Ranjit Mallick as Manisha's Father
 Moushmi Chatterjee as Manisha's Mother
 Kanchan Mullick as Rabi's Friend
 Nimu Bhowmik
 Ashok Mukhopadhyay
 Pushpita Mukherjee as Mani
 Koushik Bhattacharya
 Sachin Mullick

Soundtrack

The album is composed by S. P. Venkatesh for Nater Guru. Singers are Jhantu, SwaranLata, Monu, Pravakar and Anuradha Sriram.

References

External links

2003 films
2000s Bengali-language films
Bengali-language Indian films
Indian romantic comedy-drama films
2003 romantic comedy-drama films
Films based on works by Samaresh Basu
Films scored by S. P. Venkatesh
Films directed by Haranath Chakraborty


Matilda (1990 – February 11, 2006) was a  hen, and the first chicken to receive the title of World's Oldest Living Chicken from Guinness World Records. She is thought to have been descended from the Red Pyle color variation of the Old English Game breed. She was a pet of Keith and Donna Barton of Bessemer, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.

Matilda's name was taken after the Australian folk song  "Waltzing Matilda", and given to her as a result of her penchant for stepping side to side (as if she were waltzing) against the wire panels on the sides of her cage.
Unlike most hens, Matilda never produced eggs.  Her veterinarians believed Matilda's lack of egg production contributed significantly to her extraordinarily long lifespan of sixteen years.

Another contributing factor to Matilda's longevity was her having lived the majority of her life indoors, inside a large wire cage, where she had a stable, protected environment year-round.

Magic career
On October 19, 1990, Keith and Donna went to the Alabama State Fairgrounds in Fairfield, Alabama, and paid $10 () to purchase Matilda from Steve Shaffield of Warrior, Alabama.

Under the stage names of Mort The Mystifying and Donna, Keith and Donna they were pursuing their goal of becoming professional magicians, and Matilda was part of their plan. On June 5, 1991, she made her debut performance in Keith's and Donna's magic show.

To make Matilda magically appear, Keith would produce an egg from two cardboard tubes, which were shown empty and then nested one inside the other. After cracking the egg, dropping its contents into an empty pan, and adding a few drops of hot sauce, Keith would place the lid on the pan and immediately lift the lid to reveal Matilda. Her magic career would span well over a decade.

Celebrity status

World's Oldest Living Chicken

Considering that the average lifespan of a chicken is generally no more than seven to eight years, in 2001, Keith and Donna contacted Guinness World Records, at which point Matilda was eleven years old. After the documentation of Matilda's age had been verified and substantiated, Guinness World Records proclaimed fourteen-year-old Matilda to be World's Oldest Living Chicken on April 27, 2004. Keith and Donna were presented with a congratulatory letter and official certificate from Guinness World Records.

Matilda's title of World's Oldest Living Chicken is recorded in the data banks at Guinness World Records, but has not been included in their books or on their website.

The Tonight Show

As a direct result of Matilda's receiving the title of World's Oldest Living Chicken, Keith, Donna and Matilda were guests of The Tonight Show in an episode that taped and aired on September 9, 2004. Also appearing on the show were Terry Bradshaw, Jim Brown and Howie Long. Musical guests were Kirk Franklin and Yolanda Adams. Matilda, who was accustomed to performing on stage, strutted on top of Jay's desk, nibbled breadcrumbs, played with her favorite toy, and did a well-received impersonation of the NBC peacock.

Ambassador of good will
Following her appearance on The Tonight Show, Matilda became an ambassador of good will, appearing as an honored guest at numerous charitable events in Birmingham, Alabama, including:

Blessing of the Animals at St. Martin's in the Pines (October 3, 2004) (October 2, 2005)
Tails and Art Benefit for the Alabama Animal Foundation (October 17, 2004)
Wet Nose Ball for TEARS (The Emergency Animal Rescue Service) (May 14, 2005)
 Picasso Pets for Hand-in-Paw (August 28, 2005)

Olivia Bearden Award

On September 22, 2005, the Greater Birmingham Humane Society held their annual awards luncheon at The Club in Birmingham, Alabama. The Olivia Bearden Award, which recognizes the specific service of an animal to another living creature (human or animal), was presented to Matilda. Magically appearing to accept her award, Matilda perched on top of the plaque as it was held by Keith.

Death
Due to age-related health problems, Matilda retired from show business on October 17, 2005, and died, at the age of sixteen, on February 11, 2006.

Posthumous honors

Broken Perch Ceremony

To honor Matilda's contributions to the world of magic, a Broken Perch Ceremony was conducted on Saturday, August 5, 2006. The ceremony, which was held at the Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, was hosted by the Southeastern Association of Magicians and Ring 35 of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. Based on the Broken Wand Ceremony, which was initially performed in 1926 at the funeral of Harry Houdini, the Broken Perch Ceremony for Matilda was the first time that a magician's animal had been formally recognized and honored by the magic community.

Bob Sanders, President of Ring 35, officiated at the ceremony; Jacque Meyer, Executive Director of the Greater Birmingham Humane Society, delivered the eulogy; and Bill Pitts, Past President of the International Brotherhood Of Magicians, conducted the Broken Perch ritual. In honor of Matilda's many accomplishments, Bob Sanders presented Keith and Donna with a Commendation, which had been drafted by Alabama Governor Bob Riley.

Alabama Animal Hall of Fame

The Alabama Veterinary Medical Association inducted Matilda into the Alabama Animal Hall of Fame on September 9, 2006, at a black tie dinner, which was held at Embassy Suites Montgomery Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama. The ceremony was exactly two years to the date on which Matilda had appeared on The Tonight Show. Two dogs, Gucci and Muffin, were also inducted.

See also
 List of individual birds

References

Individual chickens
1990 animal births
2006 animal deaths
Bessemer, Alabama
Individual birds in the United States


Kombat is a town in Namibia.

Kombat may also refer to:
 Kombat (military rank)
 Kombat (photograph), a World War II photograph
 Kombat Armouring, a Russian armoured vehicle and car manufacturer
 Kombat (song), a song made by Lyube as a tribute to World War II veterans

See also
Combat (disambiguation)
Mortal Kombat, a video game franchise


The Secret Supper is a thriller novel written by Javier Sierra.    The original Spanish title is La Cena Secreta, winner of the 2004 Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja literary award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world.  The English translation by Alberto Manguel was published in 2006.

Plot summary

It is set while Leonardo da Vinci is painting The Last Supper. The story is told in Agostino Leyre's words, as mysterious letters come in to Rome. He is a chief inquisitor,  and so he decides to investigate who had sent these mysterious letters, hinting at heresy. He goes to Santa Maria delle Grazie, where he meets various monks, priests and nuns. But while he is there, various suspicious deaths and rumours takes him into a search for truth- the meaning of The Last Supper. Intrigued, he finds yet another mystery - a blue leather-bound book, portrayed in tarot cards left by the killer of several pilgrims, known as 'The Soothsayer'.

Main characters
Agostino Leyre- Chief Inquisitor at Rome, called to investigate The Soothsayer
Beatrice d'Este- Duchess, died along with her newborn baby
Leonardo da Vinci- Artist, inventor and author, painter of The Last Supper and Maesta
Father Alessandro- Librarian who helps Agostino with his search
Brother Benedetto- A one-eyed monk who is not what he seems...
Brother Guglielmo- The cook at Santa Maria
Brother Giberto- A red-haired monk
Father Prior- tries to decipher the identity of the Soothsayer along with Agostino
Bernardino Luini- One of Leonardo's ex-apprentices who starts his own hunt for answers
Marco Forzetta- Another one of Leonardo's ex-apprentices

References
The Secret Supper, Javier Sierra, 2006 (Atria Books)
La Cena Secreta, Javier Sierra, 2004 (Plaza & Janés)

Thriller novels
Cultural depictions of Leonardo da Vinci
21st-century Spanish novels


Petar Mrkonjić (before 1645 – after 1669) was a legendary hajduk from the Imotski region in the Dalmatian Hinterland, in modern-day Croatia, active during the Cretan War (1645–1669) between the Republic of Venice and Ottoman Empire as a guerrilla leader serving Venice.

History

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić had found no historical documents on Petar Mrkonjić.  Folklorist Stjepan Grčić did not believe Petar Mrkonjić was a historical figure.

According to Anđelko Mijatović, it is generally believed that the epic personality of Petar Mrkonjić is a historical figure, and that he was born in Imotski; he is possibly the same person as Petar Imoćanin ("Petar from Imotski"), who lived in the mid-17th century and is said to have greatly damaged properties of the Republic of Ragusa, after which the Ragusans urged the Venetians to stop him, as he was a Venetian subject.

Legacy
Mrkonjić has become the subject of poems and Croatian patriotic songs. One of the earliest mentions of Mrkonjić were written by the Venetian-Croatian friar and poet Andrija Kačić Miošić (1704-1760) in Vitezovi Imotske krajine.

In Serbian epic poetry, he has a hero status along with other hajduks such as Starac Vujadin, Pecija, Golub, Starina Novak, Bajo Pivljanin, and others. He is also the subject of a poem by Serbian linguist Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787-1864) in Jaut-beg i Pero Mrkonjić.

During the Great Eastern Crisis, set off by a Serb uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1875 in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzegovina Uprising (1875–77)), Prince Peter adopted the nom de guerre of hajduk Petar Mrkonjić of Ragusa, and joined the Bosnian Serb insurgents as a leader of a guerilla unit. In 1925 the "Organization of Serbian Chetniks - Petar Mrkonjić" was founded, though it was banned by King Alexander I of Yugoslavia four years later when he instituted a dictatorship. In World War II, there was a Chetnik command named "Petar Mrkonjić", with 700 fighters. Babić formed the paramilitary Petar Mrkonjić-brigade in April 1992. The "Medal of Petar Mrkonjić" was also given by Republika Srpska.

References

17th-century Croatian people
17th-century Croatian military personnel
Republic of Venice military personnel
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown
Characters in Serbian epic poetry


Alarko Holding is one of the largest business conglomerates in Turkey; it is listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange. It operates in a variety of sectors, including construction, electricity generation and distribution, tourism, and real estate. It was founded by İshak Alaton and Üzeyir Garih in 1954.

History
As of 2014, it operates in the fields of contracting, energy, industry, tourism, aquaculture and real estate. In addition, Alarko Education and Culture Foundation (ALEV) was established in 1986 to take part in social responsibility projects within the Holding.

Greenhouse gas emissions
Climate Trace estimates Cenal coal-fired power plant emitted over 7 million tons of the country’s total 560 million tons of greenhouse gas in 2021.

See also
 List of companies of Turkey

References

External links
 Official website
 Alarko Holding bloomberg.com
 Biography of İshak Alaton at Biyografi.net

Companies listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange
Conglomerate companies of Turkey
Holding companies established in 1954
Companies based in Istanbul
Holding companies of Turkey
Turkish companies established in 1954


Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation, formally the National Museum of Science and Technology, is a Canadian Crown corporation responsible for overseeing national museums related to science and technology. The name is based on the Latin root of the word ingenuity. Until June 2017, the corporation was branded as Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation

The corporation oversees the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. The organization is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario.

The corporation's museums are associated with the Canadian Museum Association, the Virtual Museum of Canada and the Canadian Heritage Information Network. Ingenium has an open documents portal where the corporation shares working documents and corporate plans. It also maintains an open data portal.

Ingenium Centre
In 2016, the Government of Canada announced $150 million in funding to build the Ingenium Centre. The state-of-the-art facility is designed to protect and showcase Canada's national science and technology collection of 85,000 artifacts and nearly two million 2D artifacts.

Construction started in 2017. The completed building is 36,000 m2 and almost 10 storeys high. The library, archives, conservation labs, workshops and staff moved in 2019 and early 2020. The artifact move is expected to last through 2021.

History
Ingenium was established through an act of parliament (the Museums Act) on July 1, 1990, and is governed by a board of trustees headed by a president and chief executive officer. The museum's reconstruction, "digital strategy" and its change of name were documented in the TVOntario film "How to build a museum for the 21st century", broadcast in December 2018.

Since 2007, Ingenium is supported by the Ingenium Foundation. The foundation achieved official charity status on April 1, 2008.

In 2014, the Canada Science and Technology Museum was forced to close because of toxic mould pollution. Three years into the renovation, in 2017, the three museums under the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation, the museum's CEO Alex Benay announced the rebranding of the network to Ingenium.

As of September 2018, the Ingenium's Science and Technology Museum stopped collecting artifacts for the foreseeable future.

Exhibits
Exhibits are housed in the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum and the Canada Science and Technology Museum, all located across Ottawa, Ontario. Shared, the three museums under the corporation host twenty permanent exhibitions:

 Artifact Alley - Artifact Alley is the main hall of the Canada Science and Technology Museum. The hall displays more than 700 artifacts, some of which are interactive.
 Canola! Seeds of Innovation - created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the creation of Canola in collaboration with the Canola Initiative National Advisory Committee (CINAC)
 Crazy Kitchen + - the oldest exhibition in the collection, it dates back to 1967 when the Canada Science and Technology Museum opened to display optical illusions
 Discovery Park - Outdoor Exhibition - an exhibition on renewable energy and technologies
 Engines: Power to Fly - showcases the museums' collection of airplane engines
 Food Preservation: The Science You Eat - explores the science of food preservation
 From Earth to Us - the exhibition explores how natural resources are transformed
 Hidden Worlds - a display of the technologies that help humanity discover our world like microscopes and telescopes
 Life in Orbit: The International Space Station - developed with the Canadian Space Agency. Visitors learn about life in space
 Main Exhibition Hall - the main hall of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum
 Medical Sensations - explores the world of medical innovation and technology in Canada
 Sound by Design - showcases the changes in sound technology that have occurred in the last 150 years
 Steam: A World in Motion - an exhibition about steam transportation and how it ruled Canada from 1900 to 1960
 Technology in our Lives - explores the relationship between household technologies and Canadians since the Second World War. It also features a tiny house
 Wearable Tech - explores technologies that are designed for the human body since the 1800s
 ZOOOM - Children's Innovation Zone - a hands on children's exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum
 Into the Great Outdoors - discovers the technologies used by Canadians to explore the outdoors
 Canada in Space - the newest permanent exhibition at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum about Canada's achievements in space
 Health in Space: Daring to Explore - talks about the works Canadians have done to improve understanding of health in space

Each museum also hosts temporary exhibitions.

Notes

References

Federal departments and agencies of Canada
Canadian federal Crown corporations
1990 establishments in Ontario
Department of Canadian Heritage
Museum associations and consortia
Ingenium


Mijat Tomić (died 1656) was a hajduk who led brigands which fought against Ottoman Empire rule in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Biography
He was born in the village of Brišnik near Tomislavgrad. Although his exact birth date is uncertain, Mijat is said to have lost his parents at a young age, and by 1640, was known to have had at least two brothers and two sisters.

As a child, Mijat was reputed to have been physically strong, a characteristic that was later proven in future battles. One legend states that he won while competing in some games popular with the local Muslim population. The defeat did not sit well with the Muslims and they decided that he should be killed. Mijat then fled to the mountain Vran, marking the beginning of his life as a hajduk.

Facts about the life of Mijat Tomić were published in the 18th century book Cvit razgovora naroda i jezika iliričkoga aliti rvackoga (1747) by Franciscan priest, Filip Grabovac. In reference to Tomić, Grabovac claimed that, following his death, "never existed a real hajduk like him nor will there ever be one".

Mijat Tomić died on or around 20 July 1656 (on the feast day of St. Elijah) in Doljani, a settlement near Jablanica in present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina. Many poems and legends are in the agreement that he was betrayed by his godfather, Ilija Bobovac. A Venetian source about Mijat's death states that there were more cheers in Sarajevo on the news of his death "than when news arrived about the capture of Baghdad" a few years earlier (1638).

Trivia

Hajdučka Republika Mijata Tomića, a self-proclaimed micronation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, is named after him, and his image is on their national flag.

See also
Hajduk Veljko

References

Sources
 MARKO DRAGIĆ Poetika i Povijest Hrvatske Usmene Književnosti, ffst.hr; accessed 30 November 2015.

External links
 Mijat Tomić profile, tgbrisnik.homepage24.de

Bosnia and Herzegovina Roman Catholics
1656 deaths
People from Tomislavgrad
Year of birth unknown
Blidinje plateau
17th-century Bosnian people


The Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award is a biennial, invitational Australian art award for works of new media art, instituted in 2008 under the auspices of the Queensland Government and the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art at the Queensland Art Gallery. The award is worth A$75,000 and is acquisitive. The National New Media Art Award also includes a tandem scholarship valued at A$25,000 for an emerging Queensland artist.

Nine artists or collaborations were shortlisted for the 2008 award, and seven for the 2010 award. The inaugural winner of the award was Peter Alwast and of the scholarship was Leah Barclay, as announced by the Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, on 31 October 2008. The outcome of the 2010 competition was announced on 27 August 2010.

Winners
 2010 (award) - Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine, You Were in My Dream (2010)
 2010 (scholarship) - TBA
 2008 (inaugural award) - Peter Alwast, Everything (2008)
 2008 (inaugural scholarship) - Leah Barclay

References

Further reading
 R. Storer, N. Evans, et al., Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award 2010, exh. cat., Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2010
 Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award 2008 Catalogue, Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2008

External links
 Gallery Barry Keldoulis
 Leah Barclay

Australian art awards
Awards established in 2008
2008 establishments in Australia


Christine Margaret Shrimpton (born 15 July 1945) is an English former 1960s model and actress.

Personal life
Shrimpton is model Jean Shrimpton's younger sister and was the girlfriend of the Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger from 1963 to 1966. According to the Stones biographer Stephen Davis, their 1966 album Aftermath was a source of embarrassment for Shrimpton, since "people generally identified her with the [album's] scathing put-downs", and that it led to an argument she and Jagger had while attending a party hosted by Guinness heir Tara Browne in April 1966.

In popular culture
In the BBC Four biographical film We'll Take Manhattan (2012), about her sister Jean and photographer David Bailey's affair in New York City, Shrimpton is played by Clemmie Dugdale. It's thought that the Small Faces song "Talk to You" is about her. In the movie This Is Spinal Tap, the character of the drummer is named "Mick Shrimpton," which is likely a sly aside to Jagger and his first famous girlfriend.

Films
G.G. Passion (1966) as G.G.'s main girlfriend
Moon Zero Two (1969) as Boutique Attendant
My Lover My Son (1970) as Kenworthy's Friend
 All the Right Noises (1971) as Waitress

References

External links

Living people
English female models
The Rolling Stones
Actresses from London
Mick Jagger
1945 births


Torbjørn Gaarder (1885–1970) was a Norwegian chemist. He has been called "a pioneer of biochemistry in Norway".

He was born in Kristiania, took the dr.philos. degree and studied biochemistry and physiology in Copenhagen and the United States. He was appointed professor at Bergen Museum in 1931, and served at the University of Bergen from 1948 to 1955. He was also editor-in-chief of the periodical Naturen between 1925 and 1946, succeeding Jens Holmboe.

References

1885 births
1970 deaths
Norwegian science writers
Academic staff of the University of Bergen


Couvade is a term which was coined by the anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor in 1865 to refer to certain rituals in several cultures that fathers adopt during pregnancy.

Couvade can be traced to Ancient Egypt as a "sacred birth custom, of when a child is born, the man experiences the ritual of "labor" in which he takes to his bed, and undergoes periods of fasting and purification, and the observance of certain taboos".

The Ancient Greek writer Plutarch mentions a report by Paeon of Amathus of a custom in Cyprus honouring the myth of Ariadne (who had died while pregnant) in which a young man would lie down and imitate the crying and gesturing of women during labor.

The term "couvade" is borrowed from French, which derives it from the verb couver ("to brood, hatch"). The term's use in the modern sense derives from a misunderstanding of an earlier idiom faire la couvade, which meant "to sit doing nothing".

An example of couvade was from the Cantabri, who had a custom in which the father, during or immediately after the birth of a child, took to bed, complained of having labour pains and was accorded the treatment usually shown to women during pregnancy or after childbirth. Similarly, in Papua New Guinea, fathers built a hut outside the village and mimicked the pains of labour until the baby was born. Similar rituals occur in other cultural groups in Thailand, Russia, China, India and many indigenous groups in the Americas.

In some cultures, "sympathetic pregnancy" is attributed to efforts to ward off demons or spirits from the mother or seek favour of supernatural beings for the child. Couvade has been reported by travelers throughout history, including the Greek geographer Strabo (3.4.17).

According to Claude Lévi-Strauss, the custom of couvade reinforces the institution of the family in some societies by "welding" together men and their wives and future children.

See also
Couvade syndrome

References

External links

 Couvade in Tribal Cultures

Rituals
1865 introductions
Human pregnancy


A Kentucky Cardinal is American writer James Lane Allen's third novel.  It was published in 1894 as the first of the A Kentucky Cardinal series.

1894 American novels
Novels set in Kentucky


Joka is a locality in South West Kolkata, India. It is a part of greater Behala region. This place is mostly known for Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and ESI-PGIMSR,ESIC Medical College and Hospital.

Administration
Joka and part of Pailan-Daulatpur (adjoining area of Joka) are a part of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. The area is under jurisdiction of the Haridevpur Police Station and Thakurpukur Police Station of South West Division (Behala Division) of Kolkata Police.

Geography
Joka is bordered by Thakurpukur to the north, Pailan to the south, Asuti Maheshtala to the west and Nepalgunge, Rania to the East.

Joka composed of many small areas like Diamond Park, Nabapally, 22 Bigha, Yani Sarani, Check Post, Sri Bardhan Pally,Bardhan Pally,Hanspukur, Rasapunjo, Kalua, Sonar Bangla etc.

Demographics
As per 2011 Census of India Joka had a total population of 9,302, of which 4,645 (50%) were males and 4,657 (50%) were females. Population below 6 years was 763. The total number of literates in Joka was 7,803 (91.38% of the population over 6 years).

Kolkata urban agglomeration
The following municipalities and census towns in the South 24 Parganas district were part of the Kolkata Urban Agglomeration in the 2011 census: Maheshtala (M), Joka (CT), Balarampur (CT), Chata Kalikapur (CT), Budge Budge (M), Nischintapur (CT), Uttar Raypur (CT), Pujali (M) and Rajpur Sonarpur (M).

Transport
Joka is well connected with the rest of Kolkata by the 4-lane Diamond Harbour Road (NH 12) and  4 lane James Long Sarani.

There is another road called "Bakhrahat Road" which connects joka with some parts of south 24 paraganas like Bakhrahat, Bibirhat, Nodakhali, Dakshin raypur, Amtala, Burul, Pujali, Budge Budge etc.

Joka-BBD Bagh Metro railway constructions are expected to be operational by 2022.

The old Joka Tram depot is now closed and tram services no longer exist.

Bus routes include-

Private Bus
12C Pailan — Howrah Station (via Behala, B.N.R.)
12C/1A Konchowki — Howrah Station
12C/1B Pailan — Howrah Station (via Kabardanga, Haridevpur, Tollygunge, Rabindra Sadan)
83 Falta — Babughat
210 Raichak — Esplanade (Express Bus)
235 Amtala — Salt Lake Karunamoyee
75 Raipur — Babughat (Via Bakhrahat Road, Thakurpukur bazar, Behala, khidirpore, Esplanade)
SD8 Bibirhat — Nandi Bagan (Via Bakhrahat Road, Thakurpukur bazar, Mominpur, Hazra, Gariahat, Ballygunge)

Mini Bus
11A Diamond Park — Howrah Maidan
131 Joka — Ruby Hospital
Thakurpukur-Sealdah (Bus starts from diamond park)
Thakurpukur-Bagbazar (Bus starts from diamond park )

SD Bus Route
SD5 Sonarpur — Khariberia
SD9 Esplanade — Noorpur
SD9/1 Esplanade — Noorpur
SD14 Taratala — Sahararhat
SD16 Sirakole — Mukundapur
SD18 Esplanade — Diamond Harbour/South Bishnupur/Raidighi
SD19 Esplanade — Patharpratima / Gangadharpur
SD22/1 Esplanade — Nainan Sector 4
SD27 Dostipur — Akrafatak
SD31 Taratala — Jhinki Hat
SD76 Amtala — Ruby Hospital

CSTC bus routes
AC4B Joka – New Town (via Kabardanga, Tollygunge, Rashbehari, Gariahat, Ruby Hospital, Science City, SDF)
AC4R Joka-Ruby Crossing
EB2 Joka-Ballygunge
AC12D Howrah Station — Joka
AC52 Howrah Station — Amtala
S3W Joka — Ecospace (Aliah University) (via Thakurpukur, Behala, Taratala, New Alipore, Chetla, Rashbehari, Gariahat, Ruby Hospital, Science City, SDF, New Town, Narkelbagan)
Joka - Balurmath

CTC Bus
C8 Joka – Barasat via Kabardanga, Haridevpur, Tollygunge, Rashbehari, Gariahat, Ruby Hospital, Science City, SDF, New Town, Narkelbagan, Eco Park, City Centre 2, Airport, Madhyamgram
C14/1 Joka – Madhyamgram via Kabardanga, Haridevpur, Tollygunge, Rashbehari, Gariahat, Ruby Hospital, Science City, Ultadanga, Baguihati, Airport, B.T. College
C37 Amtala – Howrah Station
C38 Joka – Howrah Station
C46 Nabanna – Baruipur via Khidderpore, Behala, Thakurpukur, Amtala, Sirakole, Dhamuah, Surjapur, Sarberia
E45 Joka – Digha via Kabardanga, Haridevpur, Tollygunge, Rashbehari, Esplanade, Santragachi, Dhulagarh, Mecheda, Nandakumar, Henria, Contai, Ramnagar

VS Series (WBSTC AC Volvo Bus)
VS6 Esplanade — Diamond Harbour

WBSTC Non AC
ST25 Esplanade — Ramganga
ST26 Esplanade — Usthi
ST27 Esplanade - Kakdwip/Patharpratima Bazar
ST28 Esplanade — Namkhana
ST29 Esplanade — Dhola
ST32 Esplanade — Bakkhali
ST37 Esplanade - Raidighi

Ola Shuttle

Falta-Kasba
Joka-Infospace
Joka-Ecospace
Joka-Sector 5
Joka-Salt Lake (to Yuba Bharat krirangan during 2017 under-17 football world cup)

Auto Rickshaw
Joka-Taratala
Joka-Majerhat
Thakurpukur-Amtala
Thakurpukur-Pailan

Economy
In accordance with the recent developments in Joka, mainly Joka-BBD Bagh metro, the area has started to develop rapidly. Projects like Genexx Valley, Imperial Riddhi Siddhi have come up, providing housing facilities. Joka has also seen a rise in Retail and fast food chain - Domino's being a prominent player in the area. ESIC hospital is also located in Joka, serving the residents in the area with all the medical facilities.

Culture
This locality houses one of the important centers of the Bratachari movement containing Gurusaday Museum.

Education

Joka has the Indian Institute Of Management Calcutta (IIMC), India's first IIM established by Govt. Of India in the year 1961.

Schools in the area include Vivekanada Mission School, Pailan World School and Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kolkata Model School,St Mary's Convent School,Children Academy High School,Joka perfect school,St. Gregorios School,Gurukul Vidya Mandir Secondary School,Kalua Primary School,Ideal Mission School,St. Andrews Public School,El Bethel School.

Ministry of Labour & Employment has started a Medical College in this area (in the campus of erstwhile ESIC Joka Model Hospital) since 2013.

Notable residents
Bir Bahadur Chettri (Gold Medalist in Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics)
Srabanti Chatterjee (Tollywood film actress)
Soham Chakraborty(Tollywood film actor)

References

Neighbourhoods in Kolkata
Kolkata Metropolitan Area


Natural order could refer to:

Science
 Natural order (philosophy), concept in philosophy
 Natural order hypothesis, hypotheses of second-language acquisition
 Ordo naturalis, Latin for "natural order" once used to describe plant families
 In enumeration, a natural ordering in which a set of items might be enumerated
 The natural order defined for the monus operation, on monoids and semirings

Music
 Natural Order (album), 1990 album by Hellbastard

Card games
 Natural order (cards) refers to the standard ranking of cards within a suit e.g. from Ace (high) to Deuce (low) or Deuce (high) to Seven (low).

See also
 Natural sort order


This is a list of newsreels by country.

Algeria

Actualités Algériennes

Argentina

Informativo Cinematográfico EPA
Noticiario Panamericano
Noticiero Argentina al Día
Sucesos Argentinos

Australia

Cinesound Productions
Movietone News

Belgium

Belgavox

Bulgaria

Kinokronika

Brazil

Canal 100
Cinejornal Informativo

Canada

Associated Screen News of Canada
Canada Carries On and The World in Action were World War II-related newsreels produced by the National Film Board of Canada
Canadian Army Newsreel produced by the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit, for internal consumption only.

Chile

Noticiario Chileno Emelco
Chile en marcha
Noticiario Nacional Chilefilms
Visión de Chile
Chile Color
Noticiario Regional

China
China Today
Xinwen Jianbao ()
Democratic Northeast ()

Cuba

Noticiero Latinoamericano ICAIC

Czechoslovakia

Československý filmový týdeník

France
Fox Movietone, a French subsidiary produced by Fox Europa
Gaumont-Actualités
Pathé-Journal
Éclair-Journal
Actualités Françaises

Germany

From 1925 to 1930

 UFA Wochenschau

From 1930 to 1933

 UFA-Tonwoche
 Deulig-Tonwoche
 Fox Tönende Wochenschau
 Emelka-Tonwoche
 Tobis Wochenschau

Nazi Germany

 UFA-Tonwoche (Until 1940)
 Die Deutsche Wochenschau – (The German Weekly Newsreel)

German Democratic Republic

Der Augenzeuge
DEFA Wochenschau

Federal Republic of Germany

Welt im Film
Neue Deutsche Wochenschau
Die Zeit unter der Lupe
Blick in die Welt
Welt im Bild
UFA Wochenschau
Fox Tönende Wochenschau

Hungary
Magyar Filmhirado

India
Indian News Parade

Ireland
Amharc Éireann
Universal Irish News

Italy
 Giornale LUCE
 La Settimana Incom
 Ciac
 Cinemondo (Corona Cinematografica)
 Obiettivo Cinegiornale
 Mondo Libero ASTRA
 Fox Cinegiornale

Lithuania
 Tarybų Lietuva (1945 - 1987)
 Lietuvos Kronika (1987 - 2002)

Japan
 Mainichi World News/Daimai News (Mainichi Shimbun/Daiei/Riken) 1947–1970
 Nikkatsu World News/Mainichi News (Mainichi Shimbun/Nikkatsu) 1954–1993
 Nippon News/Asahi News (Asahi Shimbun/Nippon Eiga/Toho) 1940–1992
 Toei News (Toei Company/TV Asahi) 1959–1978
 Yomiuri International News (Yomiuri Shimbun/Shochiku) 1949–1997

South Korea
 Daehan News (1953-1994)

Mozambique
 Kuxa Kanema

Netherlands
Polygoon

Netherlands Indies
 Djawa Hodo (Japanese occupation)
 Nampo Hodo (Japanese occupation)
 Berita Film di Djawa (Japanese occupation)
 Wordende Wereld

Netherlands New Guinea
 Nieuw-Guinea Kroniek

New Zealand
Weekly Review
Pictorial Parade

Norway
Filmavisen

Poland
 Polska Agencja Telegraficzna (Polish Telegraphic Agency) PAT (1927-1945)
 Polska Kronika Filmowa (Polish Film Chronicle) (1944-1995)

Portugal
 Jornal do Condes (Castello-Lopes) (1918-192?)
 Jornal Português (Secretariado de Propaganda Nacional) (1938-1951)
 Imagens de Portugal (Secretariado Nacional de Informação) (1951-196?)

Romania
 Carpathia Jurnal (1931 - ?)
 Jurnal sonor (1937-8? - 1941)
 Jurnal de război (1941 - 1944)
 Jurnalul cinema ONC-UFA (1942 - 1944?)
 Jurnalul militar (1948)
 Jurnalul de actualităţi (post WWII)
 Săptămîna în imagini

Russia
 Russian chronicler ((,translit. Letopisets Rossii; 1992-2002)

Soviet Union
Cinema Week (, translit. Kino Nedelya; 1918-1920)
Kino-Pravda (1922-1925)
Novosti dnya (; 1944-1992)

Spain
No-Do (1943-1981)

Sweden
  SF-Journalen

Switzerland
 Ciné-Journal Suisse

United Kingdom
British Movietone News, the first British sound newsreel, and the last (1929-1979).
British Paramount News
Pathe's Animated Gazette (1910), Weekly
Pathé Gazette
Eve's Film Review
British Pathé News
Empire Newsreel
Empire News Bulletin
Gaumont Graphic
Around the Town
Gaumont Mirror
The Gen produced by Royal Air Force
Topical Budget (1911-1931); in 1917 was taken over by the War Office, became War Office Official Topical Budget; eventually Pictorial News.
BBC Television Newsreel (1948-1954)
Universal News
Workers' Topical News (1930-31)
Worker's Week-End (1943)

United States
Columbia Pictures' Newsreel (Columbia Pictures) 1931-1972
 Hearst Metrotone News 1914–1967
Hearst-Selig News Pictorial 1914-1915
 Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial 1915-1916
International Newsreels
The March of Time (Warner Bros./Time, Inc.) 1935-1951
Movietone News (20th Century Fox) 1928-1963
News of the Day (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) 1930-1974
Pathé News 1910-1956
RKO-Pathé (RKO Pictures/Pathé)
Warner-Pathé (Warner Brothers Studios/Pathé)
Paramount News (Paramount Pictures) 1925-1957
Universal Newsreel (Universal Studios) 1929-1967
U.S. Information Service
Workers Film and Photo League (Communist Party USA) 1920s-1936

Yugoslavia
Filmske Novosti

Venezuela
Bolivar Films

See also

California Newsreel

External links

British newsreels
A History of the British Newsreels
Digital News Archive – British Pathé

German newsreels
German newsreel archives - Wochenschau Archiv

Italian newsreels
Italian newsreel archives - Archivio Istituto Luce (100.000 videos)

Soviet newsreels
CSDF-Museum: magazines (1931–1993)
Kinozhurnaly ″Novosti dnya″

Russian chronicler
 https://www.net-film.eu/newsreels-page-3/

Lithuanian newsreels
 https://www.lrt.lt/paieska?q=Taryb%C5%B3+Lietuva&type=3
 https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/38534/lietuvos-kronika-2002-05
 https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000178010/lietuvos-kronika-1998-09-1757


The Renault Altica is a concept car made by Renault and was debuted at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show. The design of the car is a 3-door 4-seater shooting-brake. The Altica has a luggage capacity of 1,300 litres and four seats, and also features butterfly doors.

Performance

Although the car emits a low 140 kg/km CO2 emissions for its class (also due to its aerodynamics and a rear feature called "Synthetic Jet"), the Renault Altica is able to accelerate from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 7.5 seconds and its 2.0 litre diesel produces  and  of torque.

The Synthetic Jet is a patented aerodynamic device that consists of a 2 mm wide slot located at the extreme rear of the roof. Through this slot air is alternately sucked and blown to control the separation of air depending on the Altica's speed. At  it is claimed that the Synthetic Jet reduces the Altica's Cd by 15% resulting in improved fuel economy.

References

External links

Altica
Grand tourers
Coupés
Cars introduced in 2006


Jean Talon (1626 – 1694) was the first Intendant of New France.

Jean Talon or Jean-Talon may also refer to:

Places
Jean-Talon, an electoral district in Quebec, Canada
Jean Talon Building, a government office building in Ottawa, Canada
Jean-Talon Market in Montreal

Transit
Jean-Talon Street on the Island of Montreal
Jean-Talon station (Montreal Metro), in Montreal
Jean-Talon station, now Parc station, a multimodal station in Montreal


Timber mafia refers to organized crime in the field of illegal logging in timber.

Brazil

Brazil has rampant illegal logging, with deforestation increasing in 2013. The mafia intimidate opponents, however they also have a veneer of legitimacy.

Congo
Congo is also a victim of the illegal timber trade.

India
Protected forest areas in parts of India – such as Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Jharkhand – are vulnerable to illegal logging by timber mafias that have coopted or intimidated forestry officials, local politicians, businesses and citizenry. Non-state groups have joined the nexus in militancy-affected areas such as Kashmir. Clear-cutting is sometimes covered-up by conniving officials who report fictitious forest fires.

Many studies indicate large losses of forest cover to indiscriminate logging by timber mafias, with over a million hectares in the environs of Chhotanagpur alone being illegally transferred by the forest department directly to industrial, mining and logging companies. Besides the environmental degradation, public financial losses can be substantial: One 1994 estimate of stolen timber in the state of Karnataka amounted to Rs. 10 billion (about US$230 million). Veerappan was a notorious bandit who, until his shooting death by state police in 2004, specialised in illegally logging sandalwood in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

As with coal, there have been incidents of substitution of low-grade wood for high-quality timber when the procurement of wood is authorised for government use. In an incident in 2005, officials determined that high-quality deodar wood meant for military and railway use had been substituted with lower-quality chir wood in Jammu and Kashmir state; the higher quality wood was intercepted in the process of being smuggled across the state border into Punjab.

Indonesia
The forests of Borneo have faced illegal logging which threatens livelihood and the ecosystem.

Romania
The forest industry in Romania is dominated by a “timber mafia” or a “forest mafia.” Half of all Romanian timber is illegally harvested. Those who cross the timber mafia or attempt to enforce Romania’s forest laws are targeted for retribution.

Corruption is a deep rooted issue in Romania that attracts foreign timber companies such as HS Timber which has been implicated in the illegal timber trade, leading Ikea to end sourcing from them. Romania is facing European Commission scrutiny for its failure to halt illegal logging, highlighting the critical situation.

References

Mafia
Illegal logging
Organized crime in Indonesia
Forestry in Indonesia
Organized crime in Brazil
Forestry in Brazil
Organised crime in India
Forestry in India
Organized crime in Africa
Forestry in Africa
Forestry in Romania
Organized crime in Romania


This is a detailed discography for American country musician David Allan Coe. He started his career in 1970 on SSS International Records before signing with Columbia Records and staying with the label for 15 years. In the 1990s, he released albums through several independent labels such as his own DAC Records. Most of these releases have been reissued under different names and/or cannibalized for various compilations. Overall, Coe's discography consists of 42 studio albums, 4 live albums, 1 collaborative studio album, and 1 audiobook, plus many compilation albums.

Studio albums

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s and 2010s

Collaborative albums

Live albums

Audiobooks

Compilation albums

Singles

1960s and 1970s

1980s

Guest singles

Music videos

References

Country music discographies
Discographies of American artists


Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation (MSEUF), also known as Enverga University, is a private, non-sectarian university, which is situated mainly in Lucena, Quezon. It has satellite campuses in Candelaria, Catanauan, Sampaloc, San Antonio, and Calauag which are located in the province of Quezon, Philippines. The university is named after to its founder, Atty. Manuel S. Enverga. Enverga University also has the second highest number of accredited academic college degrees/programs offered in the whole Southern Tagalog Region, behind University of the Philippines Los Banos.

History

Luzonian Colleges
The Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation was built after World War II. The debilitating aftermath of the war brought education to a halt. The economic dislocation that ensued left many young people of school age with little chance of getting an education. Parents from many parts of Quezon Province had to mortgage their lands or sell their last carabao to send their children to college in Manila. The situation presented both a challenge and an opportunity to a group of pioneering and vision-driven individuals led by Dr. Manuel S. Enverga who founded the Luzonian Colleges on January 14, 1947, to give needy students access to higher education.

The Securities and Exchange Commission granted Luzonian Colleges its charter on February 11, 1947. A little more than a month later, the Bureau of Private Schools issued a government permit for the school to open in April 1947.

In the summer of 1947, 102 students, mostly youthful war veterans, enrolled in the two-year Associate in Arts program in the College of Liberal Arts, the first college to be established. The secretarial course opened on May 2, 1947, even as the young college obtained official permission to open the secondary school and the education programs in June 1947. Meanwhile, in 1948 heeding the clamor of the citizens of Sampaloc, Quezon, a high school was put up in that town.

Barely two years after, the College of Law opened to serve the needs of Associate in Arts graduates who wanted to take up law at nighttime. The complete commerce program was given the authority to open on October 5, 1949. The year 1950 saw the opening of a satellite campus in Catanauan, Quezon. The Institute of Graduate Studies and Research and the College of Engineering opened in 1955, giving Luzonian students more varied career choices. The San Antonio, Quezon campus was set up on June 22, 1959. In 1960, the school started to offer technical courses and two years later, the College of Architecture, became a fully independent academic program from the College of Engineering.

The University
The Luzonian Colleges attained full university status on August 8, 1968, with education secretary Onofre D. Corpus signing the university charter. Two years later, on February 12, 1970, the Luzonian University became a foundation, a strategic decision that demonstrated the civic-mindedness of its founders and incorporators who donated their shares of stocks to the University, a move that would eventually prove to be unique but forward looking in the annals of higher education.

Founder-president Dr. Manuel S. Enverga died on June 14, 1981, secure in the knowledge that the university he founded would continue to serve the citizens of Quezon and the rest of Luzon. The Board of Trustees approved the renaming of the Luzonian University Foundation to Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation in 1983 in recognition of the founder-president’s magnanimity.

Meanwhile, the Institute of Physical Education and Sports began to operate in 1979 as an adjunct of the College of Education while the College of Criminology and Law Enforcement, that used to be under the umbrella of the College of Arts and Sciences, became a full-fledged college in 1986. Similarly, the citizens of Candelaria, Quezon gathered written petitions for a satellite campus to open in the area.

Thus, on June 15, 1992, with the required physical plant and laboratory facilities in place, the Candelaria campus started its operations. The Department of Education, Culture and Sports gave full recognition to the secondary education program on December 18, 1992. The full permit for the college programs was released in 1995.

The global need for competent mariners spurred the opening of the Institute of Maritime Studies in 1993. The BS Tourism program was offered in 1997 under the College of Arts and Sciences. Two years later, the program was merged with the Institute of Hotel and Restaurant Management organized in 1995 due to the parallelism and similarity of courses, faculty and laboratory requirements.

Meanwhile, the Environmental Science and Public Administration programs were offered in school year 2000–01 in response to the growing need for professionals in environmental management and preservation and public governance.

The Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation offers various postgraduate programs in the liberal arts, education, physical education, business administration, public administration, and computer studies, and undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences, public administration, accountancy, business administration, law, education, engineering, criminology and law enforcement, architecture and fine arts, computer studies, maritime education and also technical courses.

The various colleges and institutes have qualified, dedicated and competent faculty members and academic administrators who make education in the University excellence – driven, relevant, and adaptable to contemporary global needs.

On March 11, 2009, the Commission on Higher Education granted autonomous status to the university. At that time, the university shortened and applied the name "Enverga University".

Board of trustees

Executive committee

College departments

Notable alumni

Proceso Alcala, 12th Secretary of the Department of Agriculture
Orlan Calayag, administrator of the National Food Authority
Jenny Miller, Filipina actress, GMA Network
Mau Marcelo, first winner of Philippine Idol (2006)
Ahtisa Manalo, Binibining Pilipinas International 2018
Ysmael Baysa, current CFO of Jollibee corporation

World linkages

Osaka, Japan
Abu Dhabi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Singapore
Hanoi, Vietnam

References

Universities and colleges in Lucena, Philippines


Robert Dickson (c.1765 – 20 June 1823) was a fur trader, and later an officer in the British Indian Department in Upper Canada, who played a prominent part in the War of 1812.

Early life
He was born in Dumfries, Scotland where his father was a merchant. When his father's business failed, Robert and his brothers, William and Thomas, traveled to Canada to work for their cousin Robert Hamilton. While Robert's brothers made careers for themselves in Newark and the Niagara peninsula, Robert found routine office work tedious, and was sent to Mackinac Island in 1786 to trade on his own.

He spent many years trading among the Sioux, Winnebago, and Ojibwe in modern northern Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota.  In 1797, he married Ista Towin or Totowin (Helen Elizabeth), the daughter of chief Wakinyanduta (Red Thunder) of the Cuthead band of the Yanktonai Dakota.

War of 1812
During the years preceding the War of 1812, Dickson and other British and Canadian traders were angered by American encroachments into the area where they traded, in which they had previously enjoyed a monopoly. As war appeared imminent, Dickson began recruiting warriors from among the tribes with which he traded, and gathered them at the British military outpost at Fort St. Joseph. When news of the outbreak of war arrived, Dickson and his followers joined the garrison of Fort St. Joseph, led by Captain Charles Roberts, in an attack on the American fort at Mackinac Island. They successfully captured the island from its unwary American garrison. He subsequently led his followers south to join the British army at Amherstburg, where they took part in the Siege of Detroit, which caused the surrender of an American army. In the autumn following these victories, Dickson travelled to Montreal, where he was appointed to the Indian Department as Agent and Superintendent for the Western Indian tribes.

During 1813, he led contingents of Indians at the unsuccessful Siege of Fort Meigs and Battle of Fort Stephenson. In 1814, he recruited fresh contingents of the Western Indians and led them at the successful defense of Mackinac Island and the Engagement on Lake Huron. He ended the war at the captured post of Prairie du Chien, where he quarreled with Andrew Bulger, the post's commandant.

After the war, he retired from the Indian Department although, while on a visit to Scotland in 1816, he applied unsuccessfully to be the Indian Department agent at Amherstburg.

The war had ruined Dickson's fur trading business. He nevertheless resumed trading, but died unexpectedly at Drummond Island in 1823.

References

British Indian Department
Canadian people of the War of 1812
Canadian fur traders
1765 births
1823 deaths
People from Dumfries


Badshahi Ashurkhana is an ashurkhana near Charminar in Hyderabad, India. It was constructed in memory of martyrdom of Imam Hussain, and is used during the mourning period of Moharram.

It is now classified as a heritage site and is looked after by the ancestral hereditary Mutawalli Mujawer Mir Nawazish Ali Moosvi 11 generations custodian along with state Department of Archaeology and Museums.

History

It was built by Muhammed Quli Qutb Shah in 1594, three years after building the Charminar. The brilliantly coloured tile-mosaic decoration was completed under Abdullah Qutb Shah in 1611.

After the Mughal conquest of Hyderabad, in a display of Sunni sectarianism, Aurangzeb used the ashurkhana as a horse stable for the Mughal cavalry, destroying part of the building in the process. The monument was restored by Asaf Jah II in the period 1764-65; a new entry gate was added, along with outer halls and wooden colonnades.

The Monument
Ashurkhana include sites like the Niyaz Khana (offering place), Naqaar Khana (drums place), Sarai Khana's (rest taking place for devotees) Abdar Khana (drinking water place), Langar Khana (food serving place), Makan-e-Mujawer (Mujawer Residence), Daftar-e-Mujawer (Mujawer office), Alawa Chabutra, and Guardroom. The Ashur Khana stands today with enamel tiles that have retained their lustre and vibrant colours even after four centuries. The intricate design in hexagons is exquisite.

References

Buildings and structures in Hyderabad, India
Tourist attractions in Hyderabad, India
Shia Islam in India
Qutb Shahi architecture
Hyderabad State
Religious buildings and structures in Hyderabad, India


Knut Fægri (17 July 1909 – 10 December 2001) was a Norwegian botanist and palaeoecologist.

Fægri was born in Bergen. He was the son of Major Ole A. Fægri (1875–1962) and Gudrun Stoltz (1881–1940) and the nephew of the botanist, natural scientist, and politician Jørgen Brunchorst (1862–1917).

Academic career
Fægri received his examen artium at the Bergen Cathedral School in 1926 and received his doctorate in 1934 with the thesis Über die Längenvariationen einiger Gletscher des Jostedalsbre und die dadurch bedingten Pflanzensukzessionen. He was hired as a research fellow at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, was appointed professor at Bergen Museum in 1946 and from 1948 jointly at the museum and the University of Bergen. He retired in 1979. He was also editor-in-chief of the periodical Naturen between 1947 and 1977.

Societal engagement
Fægri was much engaged in discussions of social issues of broad public interest. He was outspoken in his criticism of the negative effects of hydroelectric power development on nature and biodiversity. He often had controversial views. For example, in the 1960s he agitated for a liberal act on use of marijuana, which he saw as something the state should leave to the individual citizen to decide about. Privately, he was a proponent of naturism and he appeared naked in a discussion on that topic broadcast on Swedish television.

Honours
Fægri was named an honorary doctor at Uppsala University in 1977, received the Millennium Botany Award in 1999, and was named Commander of the Order of St. Olav in 1979.

Personal life
Fægri married the museum director Nancy Meyer (1912–2007) in 1941. Their son Knut Fægri Jr. became a chemistry professor.

Selected bibliography
This is a list of Fægri's most notable works:

Über die Längenvariationen einiger Gletscher des Jostedalsbre und die dadurch bedingten Pflanzensukzessionen (1934)
Quartärgeologische Untersuchungen im westlichen Norwegen I-II (1935–40)
Studies on the Pleistocene of Western Norway III-IV (1943–49)
Text-Book of Modern Pollen Analysis (4 editions 1950–1989, with Johannes Iversen)
Norges planter I (1958)
Norges planter II 1960)
The Distribution of Norwegian Vascular Plants: Coast Plants (1960)
The Principles of Pollination Ecology (1966, with the Dutch botanist Leendert van der Pijl)
Krydder (1966)
Dikteren og hans blomster (1988)

References

1909 births
2001 deaths
People educated at the Bergen Cathedral School
20th-century Norwegian botanists
Norwegian ecologists
Norwegian botanical writers
Academic staff of the University of Bergen
Palynologists
Scientists from Bergen
Presidents of the International Union of Biological Sciences


Hans Skjervheim (9 October 1926 – 22 February 1999) was a Norwegian philosopher. He was born in Voss.

He was a research fellow at the University of Oslo from 1963, professor at the Roskilde University from 1968, lector at the University of Bergen from 1969, and professor there from 1982. His work Deltakar og tilskodar og andre essays (Participant and Onlooker, and Other Essays, 1976) was selected for the Norwegian Sociology Canon in 2009–2011.

Selected bibliography
This is a list of Skjervheim's most notable works:

Objectivism and the Study of Man (1959)
Vitskapen om mennesket og den filosofiske refleksjonen (1964)
Det liberale dilemma (1968)
Ideologianalyse, dialektikk, sosiologi (1973)
Deltakar og tilskodar og andre essays (1976)
Filosofi og dømmekraft (1992)
Teknikk, politikk og utopi (1996)
Selected Essay (1996)
Mennesket selected essays, eds. Jon Hellesnes and Gunnar Skirbekk (2002)

References

1926 births
1999 deaths
20th-century Norwegian philosophers
Norwegian essayists
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Academic staff of the University of Bergen
20th-century Norwegian writers
20th-century essayists
People from Voss


Oz-story Magazine was an annual periodical devoted to the literature and art of Oz, the fantasy land created by L. Frank Baum. It was published in six volumes between 1995 and 2000.

Oz-story was published by Hungry Tiger Press, and edited by David Maxine, assisted by Eric Shanower, who was responsible for a significant share of the artwork in the volumes. Oz-story printed a variety of Oz-related features and illustrations, by writers and artists closely associated with the Oz mythos — Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson, W. W. Denslow, John R. Neill, Jack Snow, Rachel Cosgrove Payes and many others — including modern contemporaries like Shanower and Edward Einhorn.

The most notable single work in the six volumes of Oz-story was arguably Eloise Jarvis McGraw's novel The Rundelstone of Oz, never previously published, which appeared in the sixth and final volume. Rare Baum novels were reprinted in Oz-story:

 Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea in No. 1
 Policeman Bluejay in No. 2
 The Flying Girl in No. 3
 Daughters of Destiny in No. 4
 The Woggle-Bug Book in No. 5
 Annabel in No. 6.

Oz-story generally earned high praise from critics and reviewers during its limited existence.

References

Annual magazines published in the United States
Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1995
Magazines disestablished in 2000
Magazines published in California
Oz (franchise)


Jon Hellesnes (born 16 September 1939) is a Norwegian philosopher, novelist and essayist.

He was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Tromsø in 1985. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Selected bibliography
This is a list of his most notable works:

Academic
Sosialisering og teknokrati (1975)
Jakta etter svikaren (1978)
Hermeneutikk og kultur (1988)
René Descartes (1999)
Om Hans Skjervheim (1999)

Other
Carolus, klovnen (novel, 1982)
Farar i metropolis (essays, 1984)
Den postmoderne anstalten (novel, 1986)
Maska bak andletet (essays, 2002)
Illusjon? (essays, 2004)
Om livstolkning (essays, 2007).

References

1939 births
Living people
Norwegian philosophers
20th-century Norwegian novelists
21st-century Norwegian novelists
Norwegian essayists
Academic staff of the University of Tromsø
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
20th-century essayists
21st-century essayists


The Annie Award for Best Animated Home Entertainment Production is awarded annually by ASIFA-Hollywood, a non-profit organization that honors contributions to animation, to the best animated direct-to-video film of the year. It is one of the Annie Awards, which honor contributions to animation, including producers, directors, and voice actors. The Annie Awards were created in 1972 by June Foray to honor individual lifetime contributions to animation.

History
In 1992, the scope of the awards was expanded to honor animation as a whole; the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature was created as a result of this move, and subsequent awards have been created to recognize different contributions to animation. The Annie Award for Best Animated Home Entertainment Production was created in 1995, and has been awarded yearly since. It was originally known as the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Production; the name of the award was changed in 1997 to the Annie Award for Best Home Video Production, was changed again in 1998 to the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Home Video Production,  and was changed in 2002 to the current name. To be eligible for the award, the film must have been released in the year before the next Annie Awards ceremony, and the developers of the game must send a five-minute sample DVD of the film to a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood.

As of 2008, the Annie Award for Best Animated Home Entertainment Production has been awarded to thirteen direct-to-video films. The Gate to the Mind’s Eye, a film in the Mind's Eye series, was the first film to win the award. Macross Plus, an original video animation, was the first film to feature Japanese anime to be nominated for the award; the only other film featuring anime to be nominated is the Wachowskis' The Animatrix, a series of animated videos set in the fictional universe of The Matrix series. The film production company Walt Disney Television Animation has had nine of its films nominated for the award, more than any other company, and DisneyToon Studios, a division of Walt Disney Television Animation, has had eight of its films nominated for the award.

Winners and nominees

1990s

2000s

References

External links
 Official website of the Annie Awards

Annie Awards


Maria Elisabeth of Austria (German: Maria Elisabeth Josefa Johanna Antonia; 13 August 1743 – 22 September 1808) was an archduchess of Austria and princess of Tuscany, Bohemia, and Hungary as the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis Stephen. She was an abbess of the Convent for Noble Ladies in Innsbruck  in Innsbruck from 1780 until 1806.

Early life

Born on 13 August 1743, Maria Elisabeth Josefa Johanna Antonia was the sixth (fourth living) of the sixteen children of Maria Theresa, absolute ruler of the Habsburg monarchy, and Francis I Stephen, Holy Roman Emperor. She was given the customary education of an archduchess with a focus on religion, foreign languages, and etiquette, designed to make her a good consort. She was known as Elisabeth or Liesl in her family.
As an infant, Elisabeth was small, frail, and sickly, worrying her family. Probably as a result of some gastrointestinal disease, she often failed to retain food and developed slowly. On the advice of the imperial doctors, she was moved to  (later Archduke Rainer Palace, demolished in 1957) in Wieden; she was also prescribed chocolate drinks. Eventually, Elisabeth strengthened and grew into a lively child, who liked games and jokes, and teased her many siblings often. She was also very vain as a result of being considered the most beautiful among the archduchesses from an early age.
In adolescence, Elisabeth was described as unstable and eccentric, without any particular interests. She was fun-loving and neglected her studies. She earned her mother's censure by liking gossip and mocking everyone, offending her siblings and attendants with ironic comments. Her staff changed often, as few could stand her. Elisabeth was a difficult child to raise, and five ayas were appointed in turn to educate her; even her confessor needed to be changed once. Her mother considered her childish and immature, calling her eine Kokette der Schönheit ('a pretty coquette'), observing: 'It mattered not if the look of admiration came from a prince or a Swiss guard, Elisabeth was satisfied.'

She was active in court life: at the wedding of her brother Joseph in 1765, she played the part of Apollo in the operetta Il Parnaso confuso by Christoph Willibald Gluck.

Marriage negotiations
Elisabeth was considered a valuable asset in dynastic marriage negotiations due to her beauty. She was a subject of marriage speculations at an early age, but many proposals were denied because of the Viennese court's high expectations for the status of her groom.When King Charles III of Spain was widowed in 1761, there were negotiations between Spain and Austria about a marriage between him and Elisabeth, but these ultimately failed. A marriage with King Stanisław II August of Poland was suggested after his succession in 1764, but both Catherine the Great of Russia and Maria Theresa disapproved for political reasons. The empress of Russia was wary of the Habsburg monarchy becoming stronger in Central and Eastern Europe, and Elisabeth's mother considered King Stanisław untrustworthy and of lowly origins. Next, her cousin, Prince Benedetto, Duke of Chablais, was proposed. Elisabeth declared herself very willing, but her brother Joseph did not find the match politically advantageous enough. In 1767, Elisabeth was already twenty-four, considered late to be unmarried for a princess in the 18th century.

In 1768, simultaneously with the discussions of a marriage between her younger sister Archduchess Maria Antonia and Dauphin Louis Auguste (the future Louis XVI), a suggestion was made to engage Elisabeth to the widowed Louis XV of France, the dauphin's grandfather. A marriage contract was prepared and the negotiations were almost completed. However, before they could be finalised, Elisabeth fell ill with smallpox. Although she made a full recovery, it was reported that the illness had terribly scarred her face and destroyed her beauty, thus disrupting all plans of marriage. Additionally, the Choiseul party at the French royal court opposed the idea of King Louis XV remarrying.

Abbess in Innsbruck
Elisabeth was appointed canoness of the Convent for Noble Ladies in Innsbruck by her mother, which had been established by her mother in 1765 to pray for the soul of her late husband, Francis Stephen. Like her unmarried sister Maria Anna, she did not live in the convent but continued to spend her time with the imperial court in Vienna.

After the death of her mother Maria Theresa in 1780, Elisabeth and her sisters Maria Anna and Maria Christina were asked by their brother Joseph II to leave court because he shunned the presence of women there, and wanted to put an end to what he referred to as his sisters Weiberwirtschaft or 'women’s republic'. In May 1781, Elisabeth went to Innsbruck, where she would reside in the Imperial Castle as abbess for fifteen years, until January 1806. She did not live a monastic life: the convent afforded its members high rank, a personal allowance, a suite of rooms, and the freedom to participate in public life and high society. Elisabeth entertained much in her apartments, receiving guests and arranging family receptions. During this time, she was described as obese, and was referred to as the 'Kropferte Liesl' because of her smallpox scars. She became known and feared for her sharp wit; her friends described her as popular with a fiery personality. Sir John Swinburne described her sharp wit and humorous self-irony upon his visit.

Her younger brother Leopold, who succeeded Joseph as emperor in 1790 involved her more in state affairs, giving her representational tasks. In 1790, she ceremoniously opened the Landtag (State Diet) of Tyrol in his place, and often acted as his representative at ceremonial occasions. She received many important guests and entertained artists such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. She was allowed to travel again and visited the Puster Valley several times with her chamberlain, Count Spaur, and spent the winter of 1800-1801 in Bruneck.

Flight to Linz and death
In January 1806, Elisabeth fled from Innsbruck to Vienna and then to Linz when Tyrol was taken over by Napoleon Bonaparte’s ally, the Kingdom of Bavaria. She spent her last years there, dying on 22 September 1808 at the age of sixty-five. She was buried in the Old Cathedral.

Ancestry

References

Bibliography

External links

1743 births
1808 deaths
Austrian princesses
18th-century Austrian people
19th-century Austrian people
18th-century Austrian women
19th-century Austrian women
Burials at the Imperial Crypt
House of Habsburg
Daughters of emperors
Children of Maria Theresa
Daughters of kings


Allameh Helli Schools, named after Al-Hilli, are schools found in various cities of Iran as part of the National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents. Students study subjects in depth, similar to college courses. Allameh Helli Schools are gifted schools for boys only, while Farzanegan schools are the equivalent for girls.

History of Allameh Helli Schools

The schools were named after Al-Hilli, an 8th-century Shi'ite scholar born in Hilla, Iraq. He was proficient in Ijtihad.

History

The school was founded in 1976 as the National Iranian Organization for Gifted and Talented Education(NODET).

See also
Gifted education
Shahid Soltani School - Equivalent NODET center in Karaj, Iran.

References

External links
 Official website of Tehran's Allameh Helli School
 Official website of Tehran's Allameh Helli 2 High School
 Official website of Tehran's Allameh Helli 3 High School
 Official website of Tehran's Allameh Helli 4 High School

Boys' schools in Iran
Schools in Tehran
National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents


In nonstandard analysis, a monad or also a halo is the set of points infinitesimally close to a given point.

Given a hyperreal number x in R∗, the monad of x is the set

If x is finite (limited), the unique real number in the monad of x is called the standard part of x.

References

Nonstandard analysis


The Bloomfield Falls (Aboriginal: Wujal Wujal) is a cascade waterfall on the Bloomfield River near Cape Tribulation, close to Wujal Wujal in Queensland, Australia. It is within the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area.

Features and location
The falls are  high.
The traditional custodians of the land surrounding the Bloomfield Falls are the Indigenous Australian Kuku Yalanji clan.

Access to the waterfall is provided via the Bloomfield Track, south of Cooktown. In the wet season it is not possible to visit the falls.

See also

 List of waterfalls of Queensland

References

Waterfalls of Far North Queensland
Cascade waterfalls