Praia da Granja is a FEE Blue Flag beach located in the Northwest of Portugal, and belongs to the Vila Nova de Gaia municipality, Porto District.
This place is also located in the town of São Félix da Marinha. The northern boundary of the beach is bordered by the Ribeira da Granja.

Name origin
The word Granja means Farm. The geographical location of Granja came from a Bishop Farm situated there in 1758. It belonged at that time to the "Crúzios" Monks and Priests.
They used it on hot days as a place to rest and introspect.
Portuguese poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, who was from Porto, spent the summertime there with her family in their beach house mansion by the sea.
The city of Espinho can be found to the south, while the cities of Porto and Gaia can be found to the north.

Facilities
During the summer months Praia da Granja is patrolled by lifeguards. There are several licensed bar, restaurant concessions along the beach. there are toilet and shower facilities and there are opportunities to hire parasols and sun loungers.

See also
Grande Porto
Beaches in Portugal

References

Beaches of Porto District
Vila Nova de Gaia
Blue Flag beaches of Portugal


Dar El Tarbiah School (In Arabic:مدرسة دار التربية) is an Egyptian educational institution founded in 1958 by Dr. Nawal El Degwi. Dar El Tarbiah was the first English-language instruction medium institution founded by Egyptians. It provides education in the Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 12 (In the Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 6, the school is called 'Baby Home School'). The institution currently includes seven schools in Cairo and is one of the first educational institutions in Egypt. It has national, international, American and I.G.C.S.E.(British) sections.

I.G.C.S.E. (British) section

Zamalek

Agouza
Dar elTarbiah I.G.C.S.E. Agouza was established in 1990 with grades 10 to 12. In 2007, Pre-IGCSE(usually shortened to Pre-IG ) classes were opened for admission.

References

Educational institutions established in 1958
Schools in Cairo
1958 establishments in Egypt


Auchterarder railway station served the village of Auchterarder near Gleneagles in the Scottish county of Perth and Kinross.

History
Opened by the Scottish Central Railway, then by the Caledonian Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission in 1956.

References

Notes

Sources

 Auchterarder station on navigable O. S. map
 Disused stations

External links
 RAILSCOT on Scottish Central Railway

Disused railway stations in Perth and Kinross
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1956
Former Caledonian Railway stations


Jan Heller Levi (born 1954, New York City) is a poet who teaches at CUNY Hunter College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Life
She grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. Levi is the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets for her first book, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder. She has also received two awards form the Poetry Society of America, the George Bogin Memorial Award, and the Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award.

Prior to teaching at Hunter College, Levi also taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City. She is married to the Swiss novelist and playwright, Christoph Keller, and the couple divide their time between New York City and St. Gallen, Switzerland.

In a review of Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, poet Alice Fulton writes,

Jan Heller Levi's work countervails the implications of this curmudgeonly koan with passional, self-critical intelligence. Ardent yet free of gush, the spontaneity and conversational ease of her poems assure that the quality of wonder, like that of mercy, is not strained. In addition to unguardedness and heart, there is backtalk—bite and edge, lip and lash.

Bibliography
 A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, Edited by Jan Heller Levi (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1995)
 Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, Edited by Jan Heller Levi (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
 Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, Consulting Editor: Jan Heller Levi (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006)
 Once I Gazed at You in Wonder: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 1999)
 Skyspeak: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2005)

References

Sources
 http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/11/05/poetry/
 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/63

Living people
1954 births
Beloit College alumni
American women poets
Jewish American poets
Hunter College faculty
Sarah Lawrence College faculty
American women academics
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American women


Donna Masini is a poet and novelist who was born in Brooklyn and lives in New York City.

Life
She graduated from Hunter College and New York University. Her work frequently deals with urban life and the working-class. Her first book of poems, That Kind of Danger, received the Barnard Women Poets Prize, chosen by Mona Van Duyn. In addition, she has received a National Endowment for the Arts  fellowship and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Her poem, "Anxieties," recently appeared in Best American Poetry 2015.

Masini's work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2015, Poetry,  American Poetry Review,  Ploughshares,  TriQuarterly, Paris Review, Ms., KGB Bar Book of Poems, Georgia Review, Parnassus, Boulevard, Open City et al.

Masini is a professor of English and teaches poetry as a part of CUNY Hunter College MFA Program in Creative Writing. She has also taught at Columbia University and New York University

She is currently working on The Good Enough Mother, a new novel of obsession, psychoanalysis and class.   She lives in New York City.

Awards
Barnard Women Poet’s Prize, That Kind of Danger
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
Pushcart Prize

Bibliography

Poetry

Novels
About Yvonne  New York: WW Norton and Co. 1998.

Anthologies
 David Lehman ed., Sherman Alexie, guest ed.  Best American Poetry 2015  Simon and Schuster, 2015
 Jason Koo, ed. Brooklyn Poets  Brooklyn Arts, 2017
 Major Jackson, ed. Renga for Obama  Harvard University, 2017
 Donna Masini: Turning to Fiction, Video interview with Param Vir, 2012
 Jerry Williams, ed. It's Not You It's Me: Poems of Breakup and Divorce Overlook Press, 2012
 Michael Meyer, ed.  The Bedford Introduction to Literature Macmillan, 2011

References

External links
Donna Masini Official Homepage
Donna Masini, "A Gate" Academy of American Poets
Poetry Foundation, A Change of World, Episode 4, podcast
Brooklyn Poets: Poet of the Week (Interview)
Boston Review, Stephen Burt  Ten Poems and One Contributor's Note You Should Strongly Consider Reading
Donna Masini "Anxieties," Academy of American Poets
"Donna Masini" Italian American Writers
"Donna_Masini and June Jordan", Poetry Branching Out
"Donna Masini listens to Robert Creeley reading James Wright's poetry at the 1996 festival in Martin's Ferry, Ohio."

20th-century American poets
1954 births
Living people
Poets from New York (state)
Hunter College alumni
New York University alumni
Columbia University faculty
21st-century American poets
20th-century American novelists
American women poets
American women novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
Novelists from New York (state)
American women academics


Louise A. DeSalvo (September 27, 1942 – October 31, 2018) was an American writer, editor, professor, and lecturer who lived in New Jersey. Much of her work focused on Italian-American culture, though she was also a renowned Virginia Woolf scholar.

DeSalvo taught memoir writing as a part of CUNY Hunter College's MFA Program in Creative Writing, published over 17 books, and was a Virginia Woolf scholar. She edited editions of Woolf's first novel Melymbrosia, as well as The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, which documents the controversial lesbian affair between these two novelists. In addition, she wrote two books on Woolf, Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work and Virginia Woolf's First Voyage: A Novel in the Making. DeSalvo's publications also include the memoir, Vertigo, which received the Gay Talese award and was also a finalist for Italy's Primo Acerbi prize for literature. Vertigo holds as one of the most widely taught Italian American books and has been said to influence almost every Italian American memoir written since. DeSalvo's memoir, Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family, was also named a Booksense Book of the Year for 2004. One of DeSalvo's most popular books to date is the writer's guide Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives.

Life
DeSalvo and her husband raised their children in Teaneck, New Jersey, before they moved to Montclair to be closer to their grandchildren.

Works

Major works

Vertigo
Reprinted by The Feminist Press and translated into Italian by Nutrimenti.

List of works
Virginia Woolf's First Voyage: A Novel in the Making (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 1980)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (Brill Academic Publishers, Incorporated, 1987)
Casting Off (Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1987)
Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work (Ballantine Books, 1990)
Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Writers, Edited By Louise DeSalvo, Katherine Hogan, and Kathleen W. D’Arcy (Beacon Press, 1991)
Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers, and Artists Write About Their Work on Women, Edited by Carol Ascher, Sara Ruddick, and Louise DeSalvo (Routledge, 1993)
Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives of Woolf, Lawrence, Barnes, Miller (Plume, 1994)
Breathless: An Asthma Journal (Beacon Press, 1997)
Vertigo: A Memoir (Penguin, 1997)
Adultery: An Intimate Look at Why People Cheat (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives (Beacon Press, 2000)
A Green and Mortal Sound: Short Fiction by Irish Women Writers, Edited by Louise DeSalvo, Katherine Hogan, and Kathleen Walsh D’Arcy (Beacon Press, 2001)
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, Edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell Leaska (Cleis Press, 2001)
Melymbrosia by Virginia Woolf, Edited by Louise DeSalvo (Cleis Press, 2002)
The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, Edited by Louise DeSalvo and Edvidge Giunta (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2003)
Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family (Bloomsbury, 2005)
On Moving: A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again (Bloomsbury, 2009)
Scrivere per stare meglio (Audino, 2011)
The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity (St. Martin's Griffin, 2014)

Awards
Booksense Book of the Year 2004, Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family
The Douglass Society Medal for Distinguished Achievement
Jenny Hunter Endowed Scholar for Creative Writing and Literature at Hunter College
Gay Talese Award, Vertigo
The President's Award from Hunter College

References

American women writers
American writers of Italian descent
Writers from Montclair, New Jersey
Writers from Teaneck, New Jersey
Hunter College faculty
1942 births
2018 deaths
21st-century American women


Frederick John Pym Gore CBE RA (8 November 1913 – 31 August 2009), was an English painter.

Biography
Gore was born into the world of art; his father, Spencer Frederick Gore, was a painter, President of the Camden Town Group until his early death in March 1914, and his mother, Mary Joanna (Molly) Kerr, was a dancer from Edinburgh.

As a young man Gore's ambition was to be a philosopher, but as a student at Trinity College, Oxford (following in the steps of his great uncle Bishop Charles Gore), he soon found that his real passion was for drawing and painting at the Ruskin School of Art which he attended almost daily.

Leaving Oxford, and arriving in London, Gore trained at the Slade under Henry Tonks and at the Westminster School of Art with Mark Gertler and Polunin from whom he learnt the flat-on-the-floor method of painting backdrops for the theatre: most useful later on when as an active member of the Balalaika Dance Group as dancer and organiser of events, he enhanced their productions with his professional expertise. He wrote a very successful folk ballet.

Pre-World War II, his career took off when a Greek patron saw his work and asked him to spend a year travelling and painting in Greece.  Visits and extended sojourns to France followed, and an exhibition at Gallery Borghese in Paris in 1938 when Vauxelles called him the English fauve. Soon after, however, he was forced to leave and return to the UK.

During World War II, Gore was camouflage officer for the south-east and helped prepare the troops for the D-Day invasion.

In 1946, he began teaching at Saint Martin's School of Art, where he was Head of Painting from 1951 until 1979.  In 1961 he was appointed Vice-Principal of Saint Martin's until he retired from the post in 1979. His students and colleagues there included many of the most accomplished artists of the twentieth century who continue to acknowledge the encouragement they received from Gore.

Summer months for many years were spent painting outside: on the Greek islands of Paros (1950s) and later on Aegina. Then during the 1960s, the rich hinterland of Majorca, followed by the brilliantly-lit landscapes of Provence.

He exhibited at the Redfern Gallery until they took to abstract art, the Juster Gallery (NY), Fosse, Lavenham, Richmond Hill Gallery – always keeping his independence to exhibit wherever he so wanted.

Gore was a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum (1967–1984), and was Chairman of its Artistic Records Committee (1972–1986).

In 1972, Gore was elected as a Royal Academician, and from 1976 to 1987 he was Chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts Exhibitions Committee.

In 1980, Gore visited the US for the first time to deliver a dissertation at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut. Staying en route in New York he was so exhilarated by its exciting light and ambience that since then he visited almost yearly. He made an important contribution as a figurative painter with an enormous experience of paint, composition and colour to show the vitality of the US, when American artists had mostly turned to abstraction and were exploring painterly possibilities in a different direction. Gore was made CBE in 1987.

In 1991 he designed a series of posters for the London Transport Museum.

His last solo exhibition was at the Richmond Hill Gallery, London (January 2009).

His published books include "Abstract Art",  "Painting: Some Basic Principles" and "The Baptism, Piero della Francesca"; he is also the author of an unpublished translation of poems by Baudelaire.

Gore died age 95 on 31 August 2009. He is buried in Brompton Cemetery.

Personal life
Frederick Gore had a son and two daughters - Dr. Charles David Gore, Dr. Georgiana Sarah Gore, and Geraldine Lucy Gore. His wife Constance (Connie) survived him.

Works

References

External links
  The Government Art Collection
 Southampton City Art Gallery
  The Bridgeman Art Library
 Fosse Gallery
 War paint: art, war, state and identity in Britain, 1939–1945, Issue 8846 By Brian Foss (Page 16) on Google Books
  – The Times obituary
 Frederick Gore – Daily Telegraph obituary
  – Guardian obituary

1913 births
2009 deaths
People educated at Lancing College
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
20th-century British painters
British male painters
21st-century British painters
Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
Royal Academicians
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Middlesex Regiment officers
British Army personnel of World War II
Burials at Brompton Cemetery
Camoufleurs
Academics of Saint Martin's School of Art
Alumni of the Ruskin School of Art
20th-century British male artists
21st-century British male artists


Arere Anentia (1931–1979) was a long-distance runner from Kenya.

Anentia competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics, but failed to advance past 5000 metres heats. He won 3 miles at the 1958 AAA Championships
At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, he finished third in the 6 miles race. By this result he became the first Kenyan athlete to win a medal at any intercontinental championships, together with Bartonjo Rotich, who won bronze medal over 440 Yards Hurdles. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and finished 19th over 10000 metres and was to participate the marathon race, but did not start.

References

External links
Biography of Arere Anentia

1931 births
1979 deaths
Kenyan male long-distance runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Kenya
Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Kenya
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games


, also known as JUN, is a Japanese professional wrestler and former Japanese professional wrestling ring announcer, working for the Pro Wrestling Secret Base. Ogawauchi's greatest fame came as the fifth member of the Crazy Max stable in Toryumon.

Career

Toryumon (2001-2004)
Jun Ogawauchi debuted as a member of the T2P project, a particular branch of the Toryumon system led by Último Dragón, wrestling his early career in Mexico. He began to make appearances in Toryumon Japan in 2002 alongside classmate Shuji Kondo, but Kondo was clearly considered to be of a higher rank to Ogawauchi. This would be a theme of Ogawauchi's career for many years, with him suffering in the shadow of his peers. He struggled through a few injuries once he came to Toryumon Japan on a permanent basis and also impressed on the last T2P show with his performance against T2P monster Toru Owashi.

Ogawauchi received his biggest break in 2003. Crazy Max, arguably the greatest stable in Dragon System history, declared they were looking for a new member. However, fans were shocked when Takamichi Iwasa, who had been appealing to become the 5th member, was denied the spot, and the place was actually given to the rookie Ogawauchi on May 11, 2003, who was renamed to simply JUN. After a slow start where he struggled to gain acceptance, an impressive performance in the 2003 Rey de Parejas lead to an increase in his charisma and alterations in his ring style to fit in with his new team-mates. These alterations were rewarded when he defeated Shuji Condo for the British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight Championship. He is the last person to date to have held that particular title, as the title was vacated on November 10, 2003 and has not been revived since. However, disaster struck in December when he suffered an injury during a match against "brother" Yasshi. Rumours also circulated that his injury had been worsened during a Crazy Max trip to South Korea. This was bad news, as Cima himself had declared that 2004 would be a renaissance year for Crazy Max.

Ogawauchi retired from active professional wrestling in February 2004, tearfully citing herniated cervical vertebrae which were causing numbness in his left arm. His final match was a tag team match on February 26, 2004 alongside his Crazy Max mentor Cima in a loss to the Aagan Issou team of Shuji Kondo and "brother" Yasshi. Following the loss, Ogawauchi took the microphone and told his Crazy Max team-mates how much he loved them. Don Fujii then helped him to climb up the corner of the ring and pose for one last time, and Cima carried him out on his back. In an interesting note, they never played the 10 bell salute for Ogawauchi, a custom for leaving wrestlers, suggesting there was a glimmer of hope for a return.

Dragondoor and El Dorado (2005-2008)
Ogawauchi resurfaced on July 19, 2005 on the debut show of Dragondoor Project, reuniting with several of his T2P classmates on the show, such as Toru Owashi, Shuji Kondo and Milano Collection AT. Still firmly retired, Ogawauchi worked as the ring announcer for the promotion. Jun was not the only T2P star to resurface for the promotion, as he was joined by Mototsugu Shimizu, Kinya Oyanagi and Venezia.

When Dragondoor ended in early 2006, Ogawauchi moved on to the followup promotion Pro Wrestling El Dorado set up by Dragondoor owner Noriaki Kawabata. To fit with the El Dorado theme, Ogawauchi has taken to dressing as a pirate for his ring announcing duties, donning a look reminiscent of Jack Sparrow. El Dorado ceased operations in December 2008 due to dwindling fan interest caused by the departure of the Aagan Iisou stable.

Pro Wrestling Secret Base (2009-present)
Following El Dorado's closure, several former members formed Pro Wrestling Secret Base, a small scale continuation of El Dorado wrestling out of Chofu. Initially working as a ring announcer, Ogawauchi made a return to the ring after five years on October 20, 2009. He teamed with Masa Takanashi against Kinya Oyanagi and Satoshi Kajiwara. Though Ogawauchi was pinned by Oyanagi, it marked the beginning of his return to full-time active wrestling. Ogawauchi continues to wrestle for Secret Base as a member of the promotion's home army, regularly teaming with Mototsugu Shimizu. Since returning, he has wrestled most notably for Big Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro-Wrestling's NEVER series. On May 4, 2015, Ogawauchi defeated Go to win the Captain of the Secret Base Openweight Championship, losing the title to Mototsugu Shimizu on September 9.

Championships and accomplishments

 Guts World Pro Wrestling
 GWC Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Chango
 Pro Wrestling Secret Base
Captain of the Secret Base Openweight Championship (1 time)
Secret Base Six Man Tag Team Tournament (2011) – with Ken45º & Kinya Oyanagi
Toryumon
British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

References

External links
DGUSA, A Toryumon and Dragon Gate fansite
Jun Ogawauchi @ PuroresuCentral

Japanese male professional wrestlers
1979 births
Living people
21st-century professional wrestlers
British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight Champions


Cheloor is a place in Irinjalakuda municipality, Thrissur district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is around 1 km from the famous Koodalmanikyam Temple.

Location
Cheloor is bordered by Edakulam on the south, Edathirinji on the west, Kanteshwaram on the north and Irinjalakuda town on the east.

Irinjalakuda and Moonupeedika are the nearest towns.

Transportation
Irinjalakuda Municipal Bus Stand and Irinjalakuda KSRTC Bus Stand are the nearest bus stands. Irinjalakuda Railway Station at Kalletumkara is the nearest railway station.

Places of worship
 Cheloor Kavu
 St. Mary's Church
 Mariyaman Kovil
 Vettathu Ambalam
 Panokkil Ambalam
  Thamarath SreeRama Temple

Bank branches
 Irinjalakuda Town Co-operative Bank Ltd
•South Indian bank

References

Villages in Thrissur district


Egypt Kids is an educational video game, released in 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It was developed by EMG and published by Cryo Interactive under the Cryo Kids brand. The game was made in association with Réunion des Musées Nationaux. The Russian version was localised by Nival Interactive. The game is available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Polish.

Plot
The game is set in Heliopolis, a city located on the banks of the River Nile, in Ancient Egypt. The player solves mysteries to learn about subjects like life in Egypt and the Egyptian Gods. Dragoo, a mischievous young dragon, is the player's guide through the game. The game also includes an Ancient Egypt multimedia encyclopaedia.

Gameplay
The game consists of many interactive and educational workshops, each revolving around a theme such as architecture, hieroglyphs, religion, and music.

Development
This was Cryo, the Louvre and the Réunion des musées nationaux's third collaboration after Egypt and Egypt II.

Reception

Olaf Szewczyk of Polygamia thought the game offered a pale representation of the interesting Egyptian culture.

See also
 Egypt: 1156 B.C.: Tomb of the Pharaoh
 Egypt 2: The Heliopolis Prophecy
 Egypt 3: The Egyptian Prophecy

References

External links
 Egypte Kids at Microïds
 Website

2001 video games
Adventure games
Children's educational video games
Cryo Interactive games
Europe-exclusive video games
Microïds games
Video games developed in France
Video games set in Egypt
Windows games
Windows-only games


Fukche Advanced Landing Ground  is an airfield in the Demchok sector of the union territory of Ladakh, India. It was built shortly before the 1962 Sino-Indian War and was revived in 2008. It is located adjacent to Koyul, 34 km northwest of Demchok.

Location

The Fukche Landing Ground is in the Koyul Lungpa river valley, close to the confluence of the river with the Indus River (called "Sengge Zangbo" locally). The Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, which runs along the Indus River, is only  2.5 kilometres away. Beyond the LAC is Chinese-controlled Demchok sector up to the Chang La pass (also called Xingong La).

There is a regular highway from Fukche to Dungti and beyond (leading to Leh and Chushul), and an unmetalled road to Demchok, 34 km southeast at the southern tip of the Indian-controlled Demchok sector.

China runs a "Sengge Zangbo highway" adjacent to the LAC and a "Kigunaru highway" going to Chang La and beyond.

History
The landing ground was first prepared in 1961 in advance of the 1962 Sino-Indian war. It was the sixth such landing ground to be prepared in Ladakh, starting with Leh in 1948 (which was in the midst of the First Kashmir War). According to a retired Army officer, "The Landing Grounds were built on grounds that were hard, barren and sandwiched between almost a range of parallel running mountains. At most places it was a question of removing boulders, filling potholes and generally leveling the ground. The good old infantry equipment of a pick axe, shovel and crow bar came in very handy."

After the 1962 Sino-Indian war, the airstrip fell out of use. It was reopened on 4 November 2008 by the Indian Air Force, when an AN-32 transport aircraft was successfully landed there.
The reactivation of the landing ground, along with another reactivation of the Daulat Beg Oldi airstrip earlier in May of the same year, allows Indian forces to deploy faster and in greater numbers, which China is believed to have taken as a threat. During the 2013 Depsang standoff, China demanded the bunkers being constructed at Fukche be stopped. But the Indians pointed out the constant upgrading of the Chinese infrastructure on their side of the LAC. In the end, the Chinese disengaged at Despang without insisting on concessions regarding Fukche.

Facilities
The airfield has an unpaved gravelly runway of 2 miles length. It accommodates small transport aircraft, meant for inducting or recycling troops at the border.

Road connectivity

"Chushul-Dungti-Fukche-Demchok Highway" (CDFD road), along the southern bank of Indus river which marks the LAC, will be converted to a single-lane 7.45 m wide 135 km long national highway with paved shoulder by 31 March 2025. Chushul and Fukche Airstrips lie along this highway. It will also provide faster access to the Nyoma airbase.

"Likaru-Mig La-Fukche Road" (LMLF Road), through 19,400 ft Mig La, commencement of construction was announced by the BRO on 15th August 2023. After the completion, it will overtake the "Chisumle-Demchok Road" (via Umling La, 19,300 ft) to become the highest motorable road in the world. Road via Umling La already passes at a height higher than the base camp of world's tallest mountain, the Mount Everest.

See also
 List of Indian ALGs
 India-China military deployment on LAC
 India-China Border Roads

References

Bibliography

Further reading
 Air Marshal K. K. Nohwar, Pace of Infrastructure Development in Border Areas: Adequate?, Centre for Air Power Studies, 13 March 2018

External links
 IAF's ALG

Indian Air Force bases
Buildings and structures in Ladakh
Transport in Leh


LED art is a form of light art constructed from light-emitting diodes. LEDs (light emitting diodes) are very inexpensive to purchase and have become a new way to make street art. Many artists who use LEDs are guerrilla artists, incorporating LEDs to produce temporary pieces in public places. LEDs may be used in installation art, sculptural pieces and interactive artworks.

Infamous LED art

In early 2007, there was a bomb scare in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States caused by a guerrilla marketing campaign. An advertising firm working for Cartoon Network to promote the network's animated television show Aqua Teen Hunger Force, hired two artists to produce art for the ad campaign. The artists placed LED signs in various locations across ten cities. However, Boston was the only city that reacted by shutting down bridges and bringing in bomb squads to remove the LEDs. The majority of the light boards were removed and the artists were arrested. Cartoon Network general manager Jim Samples resigned as a result of the incident.

Artists and works incorporating LEDs
Jenny Holzer - One of the most well known artists who incorporates LEDs into her work. She uses familiar statements and reinterprets them to alter their meanings.
Liz LaManche - creates large paintings illuminated by color-changing LED light for a motion effect
Liu Dao - an art collective in China that uses actors and filmmakers to make animated LED portraits. The group also combines traditional Chinese arts like papercutting with LEDs to highlight China's journey from tradition and modernity, and is directed by Thomas Charvériat to find originality through international collaboration.
Titia Ex - artist from Amsterdam who is known for her installation Flower of the Universe
Leo Villareal - combines LED lights and encoded computer programming to create illuminated displays
Mel and Dorothy Tanner - Creators of Lumonics, a multi-sensory art experience that features their LED-based sculptures, connected to a DMX lighting controller.

Blinkies are small electronic devices that make very bright (usually flashing) light using LEDs and small batteries. They are often sold by vendors at night-time events that have fireworks displays such as Independence Day, Canada Day, or Guy Fawkes Night. They are also popular at raves, New Year's Eve parties and nighttime sporting events.

There is no industry standard or official name for blinkies, but most common names use some combination of the terms flash, magnet, strobe, body, blink, light, and/or jewelry. Common examples are blinkies, blinkees, body lights, blinky body lights, magnetic flashers, or flashing jewelry.

Uses
Blinkies are most often used for amusement at raves, parties and nighttime events. Their other uses include:
 Blinkies imprinted with company logos at conventions
 Safety lights for children during Halloween, or nighttime events
 Fun and safety during camping trips
 Emergency flashers for disabled automobiles or lost hikers (most blinkies have over a one-mile visibility range at night)
 The term blinky is often used for bicycle lights which flash. In some countries, blinkies can be used as a primary light on a bicycle.
 Blinkies also can be attached to mobiles (cell phones). When the mobile turns on, makes a call, or receives a call, the blinky will keep flashing.
 "Winky blinkies" can refer to stage and film props which display lighting effects, or "gags," during a dramatic production.

Construction

Body
A typical blinky is a small plastic two-piece cylinder wide enough to accept a button cell battery with a small etched circuit board on the face and threads on the open end, paired with a cylinder cap which screws on to seal and secure as one. The flashing LED circuit board face can be round and enclosed by the cylinder, or a variety larger colored shapes such as logos that are glued to the outside face of the cylinder end. Common designs utilize a rubber ring gasket as an on/off switch. When placed between the batteries and circuit board inside the front cover, tightening the screw base deforms and flattens the gasket forcing the battery tip to contact the back of the printed circuit board, which completes the circuit. Modern blinkees are more likely to use a battery case that opens with a small eyeglasses type screw and a push button on/off switch.

Back
The most common designs use a set of strong magnets, one at the back of the blinky, and another that can be removed. This allows the light to be easily attached to clothes, or stuck onto any magnetic metal such as buttons or belt buckles. Clips are often used to make earrings, a loop can make a pendant, or a ring can be welded to the back to make a finger ring. Double sided adhesive pads are sometimes used to stick the blinky directly to the body, most often in the navel.

Circuit board
The circuit board typically has anywhere from 2 to as many as 25 micro-LEDs. LEDs that emit different colors within the visible spectrum are commonly used, whereas ultraviolet or infrared LEDs are less common in blinkies. Blue, white, violet, and ultra-violet LEDs often require two or more battery cells, due to their higher voltage requirements. The visible side of the etched circuit board can be constructed to flash in a variety of ways, especially where there are multiple LEDs in multiple colours. A clear plastic conformal coating material such as silicone, acrylic or epoxy protects the fragile LEDs on the exposed front of the board. Shaped boards have literally hundreds of variations combined with imprinting. Common shapes (besides the classic small circle) are stars, hearts, flowers, flags, animals, holiday symbols (like Halloween jack-o-lanterns), and sports team logos.

References

External links
Tutorial on making LED throwies
LED Throwies blog
A tutorial on how to make more advanced LED graffiti: LED tags and figures using perspex and other light leading materials
Graffiti Research Lab

Light art
Light-emitting diodes
Contemporary art
Display technology
Optoelectronics


The Lower South West Football League is a country Australian rules football league incorporating teams from towns located within the South West and Great Southern regions of Western Australia.

History

Australian Rules Football in the lower south west region of Western Australia has been played since the early part of the 20th century.  For the first half of the century, the two major leagues that existed in the region were the Nelson Football Association and the Warren Football Association.

The Nelson Football Association included teams from the areas of Bridgetown, Greenbushes, Balingup, Nannup and Boyup Brook.  The Warren Football Association was based in Manjimup and also included teams from the surrounding areas of Jardee, Pemberton, Northcliffe and Deanmill.  Other smaller leagues such as the Bridgetown and Nannup Football Associations also existed, but only for short periods of time.

The Lower South West Football League was formed in 1959, as a result of a merger between the Nelson Football Association and the Warren Football Association.  The merger of the two Associations was not easy with each league seeking to protect its interests and the clubs in each association were determined that they would not be overshadowed.  After several meetings and lengthy discussions, the League was officially formed on 31 March 1959.  The first league matches were scheduled for 26 April 1959, including reserves (B Grade) and colts (C Grade) matches.

Mr LW Gates, President of the Nelson Association prior to the merger, and one who played an important part in the merger, became the League's first President and Mr Joe Rowberry was elected vice president.

The inaugural teams included Boyup Brook, Bridgetown, Deanmill, Royals, Imperials, Tigers, Nannup and Southerners.  Several of these inaugural clubs resulted from mergers.  Bridgetown resulted from the merger of Warriors (maroon and yellow) and Rovers (red and blue), Tigers resulted from the merger of Jardee (green and gold) and Fire Brigades (blue and white), and Royals resulted from the merger of Greenbushes Centrals (blue and white) and Balingup (black and white).  Southerners were formed by the amalgamation of Pemberton (red and blue) and Northcliffe (white and red), the two southernmost towns in the district, thus the naming Southerners.

Nannup only competed for one year and Royals competed for five years, before both teams left to join the Blackwood Football Association.  The league remained as a six-team league for the next 44 years, when Kojonup joined the league in 2008 after transferring from the Great Southern Football League.  Kojonup were previously known as the Magpies and wore black and white, but were required to change their colours and adopt a new logo (Cougars) to avoid a clash with Manjimup Imperials.

The only changes to the league since then have been the changes of logos for Boyup Brook and Deanmill.  In 1987, Boyup Brook changed from being known as the Tigers to the Roos.  This was also accompanied by a change in colours (to green and white).  In 1997, Deanmill changed their nickname from The Mill to Hawks.

The official league colours were initially black and yellow, but have since changed to red, blue, green and yellow.  The league has competed in numerous country carnivals, including the Mobil and Wesfarmers Country Carnivals (held in Perth) and the Great Southern Carnival.

Current clubs

Former clubs

Grand final results

Club information

Boyup Brook - Competed in the Nelson Football Association from 1938 to 1958.  They were originally known as the Boyup Brook Tigers wearing yellow and black, but changed their nickname to the Roos and their colours to green and white in 1987.

Bridgetown - A single Bridgetown Football Club had existed since 1904 in the Nelson Football Association wearing blue and red, until the club split in the 1920s into the two clubs, Rovers and Warriors.   The Bridgetown Rovers (blue and red) and Bridgetown Warriors (maroon and yellow) both competed in the Nelson Football Association from 1921 to 1958.  The two clubs merged prior to the commencement of the LSWFL in 1959 to form the Bridgetown Bulldogs.

Deanmill - Founded in 1920 as No 1 Mill, changed to Deanmill in 1937. Deanmill later adopted the Hawks logo in 1997.

Imperials -  The earliest records available indicate that a Manjimup Football Club first played as a team in 1917.  The Manjimup Imperials Football Club first came into being in 1930 following the disbanding of the Manjimup Football Club, though the history of both are considered part of the club as it is now known.

Kojonup - Moved to the LSWFL from the Great Southern FL in 2008, also changing their name and colours from the Kojonup Magpies, wearing black and white, due to Manjimup Imperials already possessing both the logo and colours.  Kojonup originally came from the now defunct Central Great Southern FL before it was merged with the Southern Districts FL in 1990 to become the Great Southern FL.  Kojonup won 10 premierships in the Central Great Southern FL (in 1961, 1964–65, 1969, 1973–74, 1976, 1979, 1981 and 1988) and one premiership in the Great Southern FL (in 1997).  Kojonup won their first League premiership in the LSWFL in 2014.

Tigers - Prior to the commencement of the LSWFL in 1959, Jardee FC (green and yellow) and Fire Brigades FC (blue and white) merged to become the Tigers FC. At the start of the LSWFL Tigers were the most successful club, winning three of the first four league premierships (1959,1960 & 1962).

Southerners - Originally Pemberton Warriors and Pemberton Jayes merged to become Pemberton FC. Prior to the commencement of the LSWFL in 1959 Pemberton FC and Northcliffe FC merged to become Southerners FC.  Southerners are the most successful club with 20 league premierships, having never gone more than six years without winning a premiership.

Royals - Founding club from the Nelson FA.  Played 5 years in the LSWFL before later forming the Central Districts FA with Kirup FC, Nannup FC and Balingup FC. The Central Districts FA was later renamed the Blackwood FA sometime in the 1970s. Now defunct.

Nannup - Founding club from the Nelson FA. Played only one year in the LSWFL before later forming the Blackwood DFA (a.k.a. Central Districts FA) with Kirup FC, Greenbushes FC and Balingup FC. The league folded in the mid-1970s and Nannup went into recess. Re-formed in 1993 and joined the Onshore Cup competition.

Records

The following records are current to the end of the 2019 season.

Ladders

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

References

Australian rules football competitions in Western Australia
Professional sports leagues in Australia
1959 establishments in Australia


APCOM is an important press agencies in Italy.
Founded by the Italian journalist Lucia Annunziata in 2001, is based in Rome, Italy and has offices in Budapest, Brussels, Moscow and New York City. Since its foundation has an exclusive partnership with Associated Press for Italy and Switzerland and in 2008 has signed an agreement with RIA Novosti. Is an exclusive partner in Italy of MINDS International.

In 2003 was acquired by Telecom Media News, a division of Telecom Italia Media and provide report and news for La7 and MTV Italy news programmes, teletext and websites.

On April 29, 2009 the Italian businessman Giancarlo Abete (through Gruppo Abete) has acquired a majority stake (60%) in Telecom Media News.

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20081019183843/http://www.apcom.net/

2001 establishments in Italy
Mass media in Rome
News agencies based in Italy
Telecom Italia Media


Collection is an album by Jason Becker released by Shrapnel Records on November 4, 2008. The album includes three new songs in addition to some older recordings. It includes many musicians and features guitarists such as Marty Friedman, Greg Howe, Joe Satriani, Michael Lee Firkins, Steve Vai, and Steve Hunter.

Collection
This album contains a mixture of remastered songs from Becker's previous projects, as well as three new songs. Even though he can no longer move and speak due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, he was still able to compose for the album. He explained his method in an HTML file included on the album disc.

"I used a music software program called LogicPro with a Mac computer and a synthesizer keyboard hooked up to it. My father had invented a very fast and effective communication system for me when I was losing my voice. It is a sign language that requires only eye movements and is faster than any computer. I would try to explain to my caregiver (usually my dad, mom, or my close friends) what to play on the keyboard. When they got fairly close, I would have them take me into LogicPro where I could edit every part of every note. After composing in this way I got together with my friend and co-producer, Dan Alvarez. We worked on arrangements and sounds to make it better. Then we got musician friends to add their talents to the mix."

In addition to 13 tracks, the disc also includes bonus features that are playable on a computer. These features include demo versions of Becker's piece End of the Beginning recorded while he could still barely play, as well as a demo of Go Off! from Cacophony and a recording of Becker "noodling" on guitar.

Track listing

Musicians

 Jason Becker - Guitar, Producer, Mixing
 Dan Alvarez - Organ, Piano, Arranger, Keyboards, Choir, Chorus, Synclavier, Drum Programming, Keyboard Arrangements
 Caren Anderson - Soprano
 Atma Anur - Drums
 Jennie Bemesderfer - Alto
 Mike Bemesderfer - Flute, Throat Singing
 Gregg Bissonette - Percussion, Drums
 Matt Bissonette - Bass, Vocals
 Joey Blake - Vocals
 Deen Castronovo - Drums
 Bryan Dyer - Choir, Chorus
 Cathy Ellis - Soprano
 Michael Lee Firkins - Dobro, Guitar
 Marty Friedman - Guitar
 Steve Hunter - Guitar
 Danny Griffin - Throat Singing
 Greg Howe - Guitar
 Raz Kennedy - Vocals
 Marc LaFrance - Vocals
 Alison Lewis - Choir, Chorus
 Dave Lopez - Guitar
 Salar Nader - Tabla, Dhol
 DJ D Sharp - Beats
 Jimmy O'Shea - Bass
 Melanie Rath - Vocals
 Steve Rosenthal - Cymbals
 David Lee Roth - Vocals
 Joe Satriani - Guitar
 Anisha Thomas - Soprano
 Brett Tuggle - Keyboards, Vocals
 Steve Vai - Guitar

Production
 Mike Varney - Executive producer
 Ashley Moore - Mastering
 Jason Becker - Producer, Mixing
 Dan Alvarez - Producer, Mixing
 Mike Bemesderfer - Producer, Editing, Mixing
 Matt Bissonette - Bass, Vocals, Producer
 Steve Fontano - Producer
 Marty Friedman - Producer
 Greg Howe - Producer
 John Lowry - Engineer
 Bob Rock - Producer, Mixing

Personnel
 Gary Becker - Cover Painting
 Mark Leialoha - Photography
 Tony Masterantonio - Graphic Design
 Ross Pelton - Photography
 Dave Stephens - Graphic Design

References

2008 albums
Jason Becker albums
Shrapnel Records albums
Albums produced by Mike Varney


The Online Operating System was a fully multi-lingual and free to use web desktop written in JavaScript using Ajax. It was a Windows-based desktop environment with open-source applications and system utilities developed upon the reBOX web application framework by iCUBE Network Solutions, an Austrian company located in Vienna.

About the project

OOS.cc, which is short for Online Operating System, was a web application platform that mimicked the look and feel of classic desktop operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X or KDE. It consisted of various open source applications built upon the so-called reBOX web application framework.

As applications could be executed in an integrated and parallel way, the OOS could have been considered a web desktop or webtop. It provided basic services such as a GUI, a virtual file system, access control management and possibilities to develop and deploy applications online. As the Online Operating System was executed within a web browser, it was no real operating system but rather a portal to various web applications, offering a high usability and flexibility.

The project was partly funded by grants from the Internetprivatstiftung Austria (IPA). As at 01.08.2008 almost 20.000 users have joined the oos.cc community, using the offered featured and applications.

History

The development of the web desktop was started by iCUBE Network Solutions in 2005, followed by the first beta releases in 2006. Hence, together with YouOS and eyeOS, it can be considered to be one of the first publicly available systems of its kind. The first full version including core-level multi-language support, the file system and a basic set of applications was released to the public in March 2007 on the occasion of a national exhibition (ITnT Austria ) and has left beta state half a year later in October 2007.  The first release considered stable (1.0.0) was published in July 2007. The project itself and the contained applications have received several national innovation awards (see,) and have gained attention mainly due to the comprehensive approach taken (see,).

OOS.cc started as a national project. The full platform including all offered applications are currently available in three languages (German, English as well as Spanish) and is receiving increasing coverage around the world (for examples see, or).

The current version is 1.3.01 from 01.08.2008.

Technical overview

The project is fully written in JavaScript, exclusively using DHTML techniques to run in any web browser without any additional software installation needed. The system implements a modern kind of web application model, excessively using Ajax for communicating between client components and the Java server backend in an exclusively asynchronous manner. Aim is to offer users the unique interaction behavior following the desktop metaphor, which is the main idea of any web desktop.
Also typical for this sort of web application is the broadly use of Javascript-on-demand techniques, cutting the complete project source into pieces and loading them instantly when needed.

Based on this technical basis, reBOX was the framework library all applications in oos.cc were built of. It is a fully flexible and extensible API, including a GUI widget set, communication mechanisms and server services offering general and framework specific services.

The Online Operating System itself consisted of a basic framework, which was able to launch any JavaScript application using the reBOX library.
The user interface was based on the behavior of the Windows desktop with a start menu, a task bar and a desktop background. All applications were running in this environment. At server side, there were Java based web services that ran to serve the client processes and to provide data from the relational database in the backend.

oos.cc also provided an integrated development environment called Developer Suite, which allowed the community to build own applications for the desktop environment based on reBOX (see development section below).

License

All applications available in oos.cc were open source under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL).

The reBOX development toolkit is free to use developing any applications for the webtop.

Features

As mentioned above, all applications published on oos.cc are open source based on the EUPL, and can be "installed" or "deinstalled" to what-ever preferences the user has.

Besides global services like the multi-language support or the global theme support, as well as some minor tools and games, oos.cc offered four major services that could be used completely free of charge.
 Integrated and fully flexible file storage (1 GB per user)
 HTTP as well as FTP file transfer from and to local file system
 User-based file-shares within the oos-community
 WebDAV access
 Document Management (including Version Control and File Locking mechanisms)
 Image publishing, organization and post-processing
 A free sub domain (user.oos.cc) for web- or image publishing, directly integrated in the desktop
 Groupware applications, including free mail, fetchmail and contact management
 An integrated development environment where oos-applications can be created directly from within the system (see development section below)

Next releases were planned to focus on an extensive security and privacy suite, dealing with challenges like anonymous communication (browsing as well as temporary mail-addresses) as well as offering encrypted password and file storage and connectivity services. Since its initial stable release, OOS.cc could have been accessed using https to ensure secure communication.

Limitations and drawbacks
 Limited number of applications: no commercial applications can be hosted. Only reviewed applications are being published
 No processing of popular office formats (.doc, .odt, etc.)
 Limited language support: Only English, German and Spanish
 Dependence on foreign infrastructure: No possibility to extend storage, no additional/guaranteed bandwidth, etc.

Development

One of the key focuses of the team was right from the beginning to offer a very flexible and comprehensive API, that can be used to develop not only custom applications within oos.cc, but also stand-alone web-applications or to integrate single components in existing web-sites. By decoupling the development from web-related "problems" using the reBOX API web-applications can be development in a similar fashion to any Java program: Elements can be positioned and can interact like in high-level object oriented programming languages, without taking care of divs, browser specific behavior or communication handling. The framework also offers multi-language and theme support for existing as well as newly created applications, allowing changing almost every aspect of the look and feel of the used components according to the preferences of its users.

For taking advantage of this approach, one of the applications offered in the OOS was an integrated Development Suite, allowing directly writing and executing code and hence creating new programs within the boundaries of the web computer. All applications on oos.cc were released as open source, thus all existing programs were offered to be imported, reviewed or changed and then locally deployed. Following this idea, every user was free to submit changed or newly created applications to be included in the globally offered application set. The last release offered features like auto-completion and an outline-window.

See also
 Web portal
 Web desktop

Similar applications
 Jolicloud
 youOS
 eyeOS
 DesktopTwo
 SilveOS
 G.ho.st
 The Sky Pc

References

External links
 Official Project Homepage [dead]
 Project Description
 Official Company Homepage

Web desktops
Web 2.0
Cloud computing
Software using the European Union Public Licence


Šakarvai Lake is in the Ignalina district of eastern Lithuania, Aukštaitija National Park, about  southwest of Palūšė village. The lake connects with Lake Lūšiai and Lake Žeimenys.

Sources

Sakarvai


The Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) is an orchestra in the Chicago area.

The Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra is a member of the League of American Orchestras and the Chicago Southland Convention & Visitors Bureau.

History
The Park Forest Orchestra was founded by volunteer musicians in 1954.

In 1978, the orchestra re-formed into a professional chamber orchestra. In 1982, it was renamed to reflect its regional mission. Carmon DeLeone served as Music Director for 25 years beginning in 1986. DeLeone became Conductor Laureate in 2011. David Danzmayr was appointed Music Director from 2012-2016.

Stilian Kirov became the Music Director in 2017.

References

External links
Official website

Orchestras based in Illinois


The 2nd Richmond Trophy was a non-championship Formula One race held at Goodwood Circuit, West Sussex, England. It was a short race of only 11 laps and was won by Reg Parnell in a Maserati 4CLT/48. Parnell also set fastest lap.

Classification

1Grid places drawn by ballot

References
 Results at Silhouet.com
 Results at ChicaneF1.com

Richmond
Richmond Trophy Race
20th century in West Sussex
Richmond Trophy
Richmond Trophy


Caliper Corporation was founded in 1983 as a developer of mapping software and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Caliper develops geographic information systems (GIS) and transportation software. Caliper is also a consulting and R&D provider offering professional services in quantitative management consulting, transportation, and decision support systems development.

Caliper is the developer of the TransCAD transportation planning software, TransModeler traffic simulation software, and Maptitude GIS packages.

TransCAD
TransCAD is software for transportation planning. In addition to the standard point, line, area, and image layers in a GIS map, TransCAD supports route system layers and has tools for creating, manipulating and displaying routes. TransCAD uses a network data structure to support routing and network optimization models. TransCAD includes trip generation, distribution, mode choice, and traffic assignment models that support transportation planning and travel demand forecasting. TransCAD has a set of dynamic segmentation and linear referencing tools for managing highway, rail, pipeline, and other networks.

Product history
TransCAD was first released as a MS-DOS-based transportation GIS package in 1985. TransCAD 3.0, the first Microsoft Windows version, was released on May 28, 1996. TransCAD 4.8 was replaced by TransCAD 5.0 on January 2, 2008, and later TransCAD 6.0 and TransCAD 7.0. The most current version is TransCAD 8.0.

Web-based version
TransCAD for the Web is a web-based version of TransCAD that uses application source code that can be edited using Javascript, HTML, and ASP.NET. Application templates (Mapplications) are used to create a web application or service. The default templates include Ajax applications and mashups that use Google Maps via the Google Map API. TransCAD for the Web was the first web-based GIS for Transportation (GIS-T), and remains the only transportation GIS with web development capabilities.

Maptitude for Redistricting
Maptitude for Redistricting is a related, but separate product, to Maptitude. By 2001, Caliper's new redistricting mapping technology was being used by over fifty percent of the United States's legislatures to draft new electoral district boundaries following the 1999 census. In 2011, California established a citizens redistricting commission that used Maptitude to successfully redraw the maps.

References

External links
 Official Mapping Software Website

GIS software companies
GIS software
Software companies based in Massachusetts
Traffic simulation
Software companies of the United States
Companies based in Massachusetts
1983 establishments in Massachusetts


Genesys is an educational video game, released in 2000 for Windows-based PCs and Apple Macintoshes. It was developed by Cybele Productions and Wanadoo Edition.

The player is guided by Jeanne Moreau through Claude Richardet's game. The game allows the player to discover the key stages of the evolution of various human societies around the world.

External links
 Genesys  at Microïds

History educational video games
Adventure games
2000 video games
Windows games
Microïds games
Classic Mac OS games
Video games developed in France


Peptide T is an HIV entry inhibitor discovered in 1986 by Candace Pert and Michael Ruff, a US neuroscientist and immunologist. Peptide T, and its modified analog Dala1-peptide T-amide (DAPTA), a drug in clinical trials, is a short peptide derived from the HIV envelope protein gp120 which blocks binding and infection of viral strains which use the CCR5 receptor to infect cells.

Peptide T has several positive effects related to HIV disease and Neuro-AIDS.  A FDG-PET neuro-imaging study in an individual with AIDS dementia who completed a 12-wk treatment with intranasal DAPTA, showed remission in 34 out of 35 brain regions after treatment. A placebo-controlled, three site, 200+ patient NIH-funded clinical trial, which focused on neurocognitive improvements, was conducted between 1990 and 1995. The results showed that DAPTA was not significantly different from placebo on the study primary end points. However, 2 of 7 domains, abstract thinking and speed of information processing, did show improvement in the DAPTA group (p<.05).  Furthermore, twice as many DAPTA-treated patients improved, whereas twice as many placebo patients deteriorated (P=.02). A sub-group analysis showed that DAPTA had a treatment effect and improved global cognitive performance (P=.02) in the patients who had more severe cognitive impairment.

An analysis of antiviral effects from the 1996 NIH study showed peripheral viral load (combined plasma and serum) was significantly reduced in the DAPTA-treated group. An eleven-person study for peptide T effects on cellular viral load showed reductions in the persistently infected monocyte reservoir to undetectable levels in most of the patients. Elimination of viral reservoirs, such as the persistently infected monocytes or brain microglia, is an important treatment goal.

Peptide T clinical development was stopped due to the propensity of the liquid nasal spray to lose potency upon storage and shifted to its shorter oral analog, the pentapeptide CCR2/CCR5 antagonist RAP-103 (Receptor Active Peptide) for neuropathic pain and neurodegeneration. RAP-103 also blocks CCR8, which may be important in neuropathic pain. Inhibitors of CCR5, including DAPTA, prevent and reverse neurodegeneration and are therapeutic targets in stroke/brain injury and dementia, such as in Parkinsons Disease.

Popular culture
In the 2013 biographical film Dallas Buyers Club, protagonist Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) promotes the use of injected peptide T as a treatment for HIV/AIDS and Alzheimer's disease and sues the FDA over their efforts to limit his ability to use peptide T, as it was an unapproved medicine. Additional information on Woodroof's court challenge to the FDA related to his obtaining access to peptide T can be found in the article by Marsha Cohen in Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly (vol.18:471) [Cohen, 1991]. Woodroof's challenge was in part responsible for the 1987 revisions to the FDA investigational drug regulations that expanded access to experimental drugs for patients with serious diseases with no alternative therapies.

References

Entry inhibitors
Peptides
HIV/AIDS


Mark G. Thomas (born 5 June 1964 on Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England) is a human evolutionary geneticist, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London since 2009. Prior to this, he was Cancer Research Campaign Postdoctoral Research Fellow at King's College London and then Wellcome Trust postdoctoral researcher in the department of Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He has acted as Editor-in-chief of the journal Annals of Human Genetics from 2015 to 2019 and Oct 2020 to Jan 2021.

Scientific career
Thomas is notable for a number of scientific publications in the fields of human demographic and evolutionary history inference, molecular phylogenetics of extinct species using ancient DNA, Cultural evolutionary modelling, and molecular biology. In 1994 Thomas was one of the first people to read the DNA sequence of the extinct woolly mammoth and in 1998 he coauthored a paper providing genetic support to the claim of recent patrilineal common ancestry among the Jewish priestly caste known as Kohanim (singular "Kohen", "Cohen", or Kohane). Between 2000 and 2003 Thomas coauthored several other papers on the origins of various Jewish and Judaic groups, including the Lemba, otherwise known as the "Black Jews of Southern Africa". In 2002 Thomas coauthored a paper providing Y chromosome evidence for a very high Anglo-Saxon component of patrilineal ancestry in central England. This result proved unpalatable for many archaeologists and led to Thomas developing the "apartheid-like social structure" model to explain the discrepancy between archaeological and genetic estimates of the scale of Anglo-Saxon migration.

Thomas has also worked extensively on the evolution of lactase persistence (see Lactose intolerance), the ability of some humans to produce the enzyme lactase throughout their adult life and thus to consume appreciable quantities of fresh milk without the discomforts of lactose malabsorption. In 2004 he led a study to show that most lactase persistent Africans did not have the same mutation causing it as Europeans. In 2007, in collaboration with Joachim Burger's group in Mainz, Germany, he showed that the genetic variant that causes lactase persistence in most Europeans (-13,910*T) was rare or absent in early farmers from central Europe. In 2009 Thomas led a computer simulation study indicating that lactase persistence started to co-evolve with the culture of dairying in the LBK (Linearbandkeramik) culture.

In 2009 – in collaboration with Prof Stephen Shennan and Dr Adam Powell – Thomas published a study in the journal Science showing that population density and or migratory activity are likely to be a major determinants in the maintenance or loss of culturally inherited skills, and that this seemed to explain a number of curious features of the appearance of behavioural modernity in humans at different times in different parts of the world.

Together with Kristian Kristiansen at the University of Gothenburg and Kurt Kjaer at the University of Copenhagen, Thomas was awarded a major European Research Council synergy grant in 2020, totalling €10 million over six years. This project (titled 'COREX: From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory') will study human biological and cultural evolution from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age through a combination of genomic, archaeological, environmental and isotopic datasets.

Selected scientific publications
 Hagelberg E, Thomas MG, Cook Jr CE, Sher AV, Baryshnikov GF, Lister AM. 1994. DNA from ancient mammoth bones. Nature 370:333-334.
 Thomas, MG; Skorecki K, Ben-Ami H, Parfitt T, Bradman N, Goldstein DB (1998). "Origins of Old Testament priests". Nature 394: 138–40. . .
 Thomas, M. G., Hagelberg, E., Jone, H. B., Yang, Z. & Lister, A. M. 2000a Molecular and morphological evidence on the phylogeny of the Elephantidae. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 267, 2493-500.
 Thomas, M. G., Parfitt, T., Weiss, D. A., Skorecki, K., Wilson, J. F., le Roux, M., Bradman, N. & Goldstein, D. B. 2000b Y Chromosomes Traveling South: The Cohen Modal Haplotype and the Origins of the Lemba—the "Black Jews of Southern Africa". Am J Hum Genet 66, 674-86.
 Thomas, M. G., Stumpf, M. P. & Harke, H. 2006 Evidence for an apartheid-like social structure in early Anglo-Saxon England. Proc Biol Sci 273, 2651-7.
 J. Burger, M. Kirchner, B. Bramanti, W. Haak, M. G. Thomas (2007) Absence of the Lactase-Persistence associated allele in early Neolithic Europeans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: pp3736–3741.
 Yuval Itan, Adam Powell, Mark A. Beaumont, Joachim Burger and Mark G. Thomas (2009) The Origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe. PLoS Comput Biol 5(8): e1000491.
 Powell, A., Shennan, S., and Thomas, M.G. (2009) Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior. Science 324: pp 1298 – 1301.
 B. Bramanti, M. G. Thomas, W. Haak, M. Unterlaender, P. Jores, K. Tambets, I. Antanaitis-Jacobs, M. N. Haidle, R. Jankauskas, C.-J. Kind, F. Lueth, T. Terberger, J. Hiller,9§ S. Matsumura, P. Forster, J. Burger (2009) Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers. Science 326: pp 137 – 140.
 Helena Malmström, M.Thomas P. Gilbert, Mark G. Thomas, Mikael Brandström, Jan Storå, Petra Molnar, Pernille K. Andersen, Christian Bendixen, Gunilla Holmlund, Anders Götherström, and Eske Willerslev (2009) Ancient DNA Reveals Lack of Continuity between Neolithic Hunter-Gatherers and Contemporary Scandinavians. Current Biology 19, pp 1–5.

See also
Y-chromosomal Aaron
Lemba people
Lactase persistence
Behavioural modernity

References

External links

Official web site at UCL

1964 births
Living people
English geneticists
Academics of University College London


Les Ballets Africains is the national dance company of Guinea and is based in Conakry. It is one of the first African national dance companies. It has toured extensively around the world. Although the French name might suggest the idea of European ballet to English speakers, the focus of the company is actually on promoting traditional African dance and culture.

History
The roots of Les Ballets Africains go back to Guinean poetry student, dancer, choreographer, and musician Fodéba Keïta. In France, in 1948, he founded a poetry group for Africans, which gradually evolved into the drumming, dancing, and storytelling African Theater Ballet of Fodeba Keita.

The company toured Europe from 1951 to 1955 and the United States in 1953. It became Les Ballets Africains in 1952 in Paris. Some initial strong opposition came from various tribes, who were offended that others were dancing their dances and singing their songs, but that objection was eventually overcome.

In the 1950s, among the notable musicians recruited were djembe drummers "Papa" Ladji Camara of Mali and Guinean Famoudou Konaté.

In 1958, after Guinea obtained its independence from France, then President of Guinea Ahmed Sékou Touré made the ballet the national ensemble. Regional and nationals orchestras from Syliphone supported Les Ballets Africains on tours.

In 1959, the company performed in the United States, with a run of 48 performances on Broadway, following a successful European tour. They appeared at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1964.

In 1967, while touring in Quebec, Canada, the troupe's director had to go to court in Montreal to answer the charge of inciting minors to give an indecent performance, since both men and women performers, regardless of age, were dancing topless, as was traditional. The judge dismissed the charge.

When President Sékou Touré died in 1984, government support came to an end, and the troupe encountered financial difficulties for several years, but has subsequently resumed touring.

In 1991, Italo Zambo, the company's artistic director, noted that the Los Angeles day performances differed from the night ones and performances in Africa and Europe in one respect: traditionally, Guinean men and women dance bare-chested.

Notable past members
Famoudou Konaté
Kemoko Sano
Moustapha Bangoura
Mouminatou Camara
Aly Diabate
Abou Sylla (N'Camara Abou Sylla)
Arafan Toure
Rolande Raphaël
Wigbert Raphaël

See also
 National Ballet of Rwanda
 Royal Ballet of Cambodia

References

External links

 Jennifer Dunning,  "Guineans Sketch Their History, but Hipness Breaks the Spell" (review), The New York Times , 20 March 2006.
 New York Daily News review by Mary Talbot, 12 April 1996.

1952 establishments in French West Africa
Folk dance companies
Guinean culture
Performing groups established in 1952


Lee Wilkof (born June 25, 1951)  has spent decades as one of the stage and screen's most prolific character actors.
He has appeared in over 125 films and television roles since 1973, 10 Broadway productions, and resident  and regional theaters throughout the United States.

Biography

Early life
Wilkof is from Canton, Ohio. He is the middle child of Anne Louise and Darwin Wilkof. He has two brothers, Todd and Robert. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1972 and studied acting with Austin Pendleton in New York City.

Career
After graduating from UC, Wilkof co-wrote and performed in a comedy revue called The Present Tense in 1977 at the Park Royal Theatre in New York City. Shortly after its closing Wilkof moved to Los Angeles and took small film and television roles. His big break came in 1982 with the leading role as Seymour in the original Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors."

Wilkof directed the film No Pay, Nudity with a cast that stars Nathan Lane, Gabriel Byrne, and Frances Conroy.
In 2023 he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Terence Blanchard's Champion, as The Announcer.
He plays the banjo and sings in the musical quartet Twenty Mule Team Weiner Train. He is the winner of the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest # 217.

Personal life
Wilkof lives in Gardiner, New York with his wife, painter Connie Grappo. They have a daughter Perrie who is an acclaimed baker living in Columbus, Ohio.
Wilkof was diagnosed with stage two throat cancer in 2020, and is currently cancer free.

Theater
Broadway
 Sweet Charity Revival, as Herman, 1986
 The Front Page Revival, as Schwartz, 1986–1987
 She Loves Me Revival, as Ladislav Sipos, 1993–1994
 Kiss Me, Kate Revival, as First Man (singing Brush Up Your Shakespeare), 1999-2001
 The Boys from Syracuse Revival, as Dromio of Syracuse, 2002
 Democracy, as Gunther Nollau, 2004–2005
 The Odd Couple Revival, as Vinnie, 2005–2006
 Breakfast at Tiffany's, as OJ Berman, 2013
 Holiday Inn, as Danny, 2016
 Waitress, as Joe, 2018

Off-Broadway, Regional and Tour
 The Present Tense, 1977
 Little Shop of Horrors, as Seymour, 1982
 Angry Housewives, as Lewd, 1986
 Assassins, as Samuel Byck, 1990
 Do Re Mi, (Encores! Concert), as Fatso O'Rear, 1999
 Little Shop of Horrors, Broadway Florida tryout, as Mr. Mushnik, 2003
 Ballad of Little Pinks at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, 2003
 Face The Music, Encores! Concert, as Martin Van Meshbesher, 2007
 Wicked First National Tour, as The Wizard (2007–2008)
 Wicked San Francisco production, as The Wizard (2009–2010)
 The Iceman Cometh The Goodman Theatre, as Hugo Kalmar 2012
 Guys and Dolls Carnegie Hall, as Harry the Horse (2014)
 The Iceman Cometh  Brooklyn Academy of Music, as Hugo Kalmar 2015
 Little Shop of Horrors, Kennedy Center, as Mr. Mushnik, 2018

Select filmography
 Serial  (1980)
 Wholly Moses! (1980)
 The Entity (1981)
 Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star (1986)
 Kill Me Again (1989)
 Chattahoochee (1989)
 This Boy's Life (1993) - Principal Shippy
 The Associate (1996)
 Private Parts (1997)
 The Grey Zone (2001)
 School of Rock (2003)
 Imaginary Heroes (2004)
 Mojave Phone Booth (2006)
 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
 Love Comes Lately (2007)
 Leaves of Grass (2009) - Professor Levy
 YellowBrickRoad (2010)
 Anesthesia (2015) - Ray

Selected television
 Disco Beaver from Outer Space (1978)
 W.E.B. as Harvey Pearlstein (1978)
 Delta House as Einswine (1979)
 Hart to Hart as Stanley Friesen (1979-1982)
 Matlock Episode: "The Reporter" as Dr. Randolph (1987)
 Max Headroom as Edwards (1987–88)
 100 Centre Street as Alexander Weiss (2001)
 Ally McBeal as District Attorney Nixon (1998–2002)
 Law & Order franchise as various characters (1991–2019)

Awards and nominations
 Obie Award for The Present Tense
Drama Desk Award nomination for The Present Tense Drama Desk nomination for Assassins Tony nomination for Kiss Me, Kate Drama Desk nomination for Kiss Me, Kate''

References

External links

 Broadway World Biography

1951 births
Living people
American male singers
American male film actors
American male musical theatre actors
American male television actors
Musicians from Canton, Ohio
Male actors from Ohio
Singers from Ohio
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University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music alumni


Christopher Green may refer to:

Christopher Green (art historian) (born 1943), art history professor
Christopher Green (author), Australian speculative fiction author
Christopher Green (legal scholar), professor of Constitutional Law
Christopher Green (paediatrician) (born 1948), Australian author of best-selling books on raising toddlers
Christopher Green (physician) (1652–1741), Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge
Christopher Green (Sacramento mayor) from 1872 to 1877
Christopher Green (writer-performer) (born c. 1968), British comedian and writer
Christopher D. Green (born 1959), professor of psychology and philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada

See also
Chris Green (disambiguation)
Chris Greene (disambiguation)


The Flint Six "55" Four Door Brougham was manufactured by Flint Motors Division of Flint, Michigan.

Flint Six "55" Four Door Brougham specifications (1926 data)

 Color – Optional
 Seating Capacity – Five
 Wheelbase – 120 inches
 Wheels – Artillery
 Tires - 32" x 6.20" balloon
 Service Brakes – Hydraulic, expanding on four wheels
 Emergency Brakes – Contracting on rear
 Engine  - Eight-cylinder, vertical, cast en bloc, 3-3/8 x 5 inches; head removable; valves in side; H.P. 27.34 N.A.C.C. rating
 Lubrication – Force feed
 Crankshaft - Seven bearing
 Radiator – Cellular type
 Cooling – Centrifugal pump
 Ignition – Storage Battery
 Starting System – Two Unit
 Voltage – Six to eight
 Wiring System – Single
 Gasoline System – Vacuum
 Clutch – Single plate
 Transmission – Selective sliding
 Gear Changes – 3 forward, 1 reverse
 Drive – Spiral bevel
 Springs – Semi-elliptic
 Rear Axle – Semi-floating
 Steering Gear – Ross cam and lever

Standard equipment
New car price included the following items:
 tools
 jack
 speedometer
 ammeter
 motometer with lock
 electric horn
 transmission theft lock
 automatic windshield cleaner
 demountable rims
 stop light
 front bumper
 spare tire carrier
 rear-view mirror
 sun visor
 cowl ventilator
 headlight dimmer
 clock
 closed cars have heater and dome light.

Optional equipment
The following was available at an extra cost:
 extra tire
 tube
 rim
 tire cover
 gasoline gauge on dash

Prices
New car prices were F.O.B. factory, plus Tax:
 Five Passenger Touring - $1595
 Four Passenger Coupé - $2195
 Five Passenger Sedan - $2285
 Five Passenger Brougham - $2735
 Four Passenger Sport Roadster - $1950

See also
 Flint (automobile)

References
Source:

Cars of the United States


The 2008–09 UCI Oceania Tour was the fifth season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 12 October 2008 with the Herald Sun Tour and ended on 15 February 2009 with the Oceania Cycling Championships.

The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Oceania Tour cycling jersey. Hayden Roulston of New Zealand was the defending champion of the 2007–08 UCI Oceania Tour. Peter McDonald of Australia was crowned as the 2008–09 UCI Oceania Tour champion.

Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded.
The UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows:
 Multi-day events: 2.HC, 2.1 and 2.2
 One-day events: 1.HC, 1.1 and 1.2

Events

2008

2009

Final standings

Individual classification

Team classification

Nation classification

Nation under-23 classification

External links

UCI Oceania Tour

2009 in Oceanian sport
2008 in Oceanian sport


Leila Daw  (born 1940) is an American installation artist and art professor; her work uses diverse materials to explore themes of cartography and feminism.

Life and work

Leila Daw received her Masters of Fine Arts from the St. Louis School of Fine Arts at Washington University, and her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She was a professor of art from 1974 through 1976 at Tusculum College, Maryville College, and Forest Park Community College, from 1976 through 1990 at Southern Illinois University, and from 1990 to 2002 at the Massachusetts College of Art. In 2002 she retired from teaching to become a full-time artist.

Daw's works include permanent installations at the Bradley International Airport and the New Haven Free Public Library; she has also participated in group exhibits at the Contemporary Arts Center and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Daw was one of a group of artists who took part in the design of the St. Louis MetroLink light rail system, and she became a member of the MetroLink project management team. Her work Red River (1991) at Centenary College of Louisiana, a pattern of wildflowers in a public lawn, is imbued with symbolism of menstruation and menopause. Art by Daw originally commissioned for the Massachusetts Turnpike – a set of steel park benches painted to look like oversized folded paper maps – is on exhibit at the DeCordova Museum in  Other works of Daw have been more ephemeral: her Pre-Historic River Channel (1981), for instance, used skywriting to map the course of the Mississippi River at an earlier age when it bypassed the current location of St. Louis.

Over the years, Daw has incorporated a great diversity of materials into her work. As Joanna Frueh writes, "Since the early 1980s she has used acrylic, pencil, bronzing powders, metal leaf, Mylar, foil, and other mixed media on paper and canvas in order to create maps that replicate the terrain in regions where she has lived – St. Louis and Boston – and traveled, by car, plane, and imagination, such as the American desert West."

References

Further reading
. As cited by .
. Review of a show by Daw at the Atrium Gallery in St. Louis.

. Review of a show by Daw at Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery in Boston.
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. Review of a group exhibit at the Mystic Art Association, featuring a four-part painting of natural disasters by Daw, Doesn't Stand a Chance.
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External links
Artist's web site
Leila Daw on Flickr

1940 births
American women installation artists
American installation artists
Artists from Charleston, West Virginia
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts alumni
Wellesley College alumni
Tusculum University faculty
Southern Illinois University faculty
Massachusetts College of Art and Design faculty
Living people
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Alksnaitis is a lake in the Ignalina district, eastern Lithuania. It is located in the Aukštaitija National Park, about  northwest of Linkmenys village. The lake connects with Alksnas, Ūkojas and Linkmenas lakes.

Sources

Ignalina District Municipality
Alksnaitis


Steve William Abana (born 1969 in Fourau, Malaita) is a Solomon Islands politician. He is a former Member of Parliament for Fataleka and was the Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition from August 2010 to March 2011.

Abana studied at the Fiji College of Agriculture (FCA), where he obtained a Diploma in Tropical Agriculture. Before his political career, he was a teacher at the Honiara High School. He then entered business, exporting cocoa during the height of the ethnic tension. After being successful, he started Anolpha Enterprises and became the managing director.

His career in national politics began when he was elected MP for Fataleka, a constituency in his native Malaita Province, in the April 2006 general election. In October, he benefited from a reshuffle in Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare's Cabinet, and was appointed Minister for National Planning and Aid Coordination. In November 2007, Sogavare dismissed him from office, accusing him of seeking support to oust him from the premiership. The following month, the Sogavare government was toppled by a motion of no confidence, and Abana supported new Prime Minister Derek Sikua, who re-appointed him as Minister for National Planning and Aid Coordination.

As leader of the Democratic Party, Abana was a key member of Sikua's Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement government. Abana led the Democratic Party into the August 2010 general election, campaigning on a promise of "more recognition to tribal landowners by registering all tribal lands in the name of tribes"; "the implementation of a National Adaptation Plan to address Climate Change for the most vulnerable communities; a focus to improve the standard of living in villages consistent with the Millennium Development Goals"; a pledge "to ensure that 80 percent of energy in the country be produced from renewable resources"; and electoral reform to introduce preferential voting. The election was a comparative success for the Democrats: They obtained thirteen seats (out of fifty), whereas no other party obtained more than three, and Abana was re-elected MP for Fataleka.

Abana then stood for the premiership, against Danny Philip of the breakaway Reformed Democratic Party. Abana received the support of twenty-three MPs, but Philip was elected Prime Minister with the support of twenty-six. Abana became the formal Leader of the Opposition, and appointed the Shadow Cabinet.

He stepped down as Leader of the Opposition on 23 March 2011, stating briefly that the Opposition needed to "revive itself". Two weeks later, he joined the ranks of the government, bringing with him several other Opposition MPs.

See also
 Leader of the Opposition (Solomon Islands)
 Shadow Cabinet of Solomon Islands

References

1969 births
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Malaita Province
Government ministers of the Solomon Islands
Leaders of the Opposition (Solomon Islands)
Solomon Islands Democratic Party politicians


Friedrich Köhnlein (Koehnlein) (12 December 1879 – 5 July 1916) was a German chess master and problemist.

He won at Düsseldorf 1908 (the 16th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A). He also took 2nd at Munich 1904 (Quadrangular, Rudolf Spielmann won), took 5th at Nuremberg 1906 (the 15th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A, won by Savielly Tartakower), won at Munich 1907, and tied for 11-14th at Hamburg 1910 (the 17th DSB Congress, Carl Schlechter won).

He died during World War I in the Battle of Somme.

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Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville is a municipality in Les Jardins-de-Napierville Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada, situated in the Montérégie administrative region. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 1,735. It completely encircles the village of Napierville.

Demographics

Population

Language

Attractions

 Fromagerie le Métayer (Cheesemaker)
 Douglass Cemetery
 Nathaniel Douglass House

See also
List of municipalities in Quebec

References

External links
Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville official website

Incorporated places in Les Jardins-de-Napierville Regional County Municipality
Municipalities in Quebec


Reverend Sir Leslie Boseto   (born April 17, 1933), a clergyman, was a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands, from 1997 to 2010.

He lives on the island of Choiseul.

See also
Politics of the Solomon Islands

References

External links
Member page on Parliament website

1933 births
Living people
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Choiseul Province
Solomon Islands religious leaders
Solomon Islands knights


Peter Boyers (born September 30, 1962) is a former member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands. He represented the Vona Vona constituency in Western Province. He lost his seat in the 2010 national election. He was Minister of Finance of the Solomon Islands from 2005 to 2006.

He founded the Kadere Party in 2014.

References

1962 births
Living people
Finance Ministers of the Solomon Islands
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from the Western Province (Solomon Islands)

Political party founders


Jack M. Lauzon (born December 5, 1961) is a Canadian retired Thoroughbred horse racing jockey whom The Blood-Horse magazine called "one of the most respected riders in Canada."

Lauzon began his professional riding career in 1981 and met with considerable success at Fort Erie Racetrack, Greenwood Raceway and Woodbine Racetrack and won races in the United States. He is a two-time winner of Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate. He won his first Plate in 1988 aboard Regal Intention then the following year missed winning the race again when his horse was beaten by less than a nose. In 1994 he won his second Plate aboard Basqueian plus went on that year to win the third leg of the Canadian Triple Crown series, the Breeders' Stakes.

Accident and recovery
In August 1996 Jack Lauzon was competing at the Macau Jockey Club near Hong Kong when he was involved in a racing accident that most believed would end his career. He was paralysed from the chest down after fracturing three vertebrae and was within a hair of severing his spinal cord. After more than two and half years of painful rehabilitation therapy, he returned to racing  in April 1999.  In 2005, writer/broadcaster Peter Gross won a Sovereign Award for Outstanding Newspaper Article with the story of Lauzon's accident and recovery titled "The Amazing Story of Jack Lauzon" which appeared in The Game newspaper.

Jack Lauzon retired in 2007 and became a jockey's agent. As a Agent for Omar Moreno guided Omar to become a Two-time Sovereign Award (Canada) and  Eclipse Award (America) Leading Apprentice.

With  His contribution to the sport of Thoroughbred racing was honoured with the 2008 Avelino Gomez Memorial Award.

References
 May 22, 2008 Bloodhorse.com article titled Jack Lauzon Wins Avelino Gomez Award
 The 2005 Sovereign Awards at Horse-races.net

1961 births
Avelino Gomez Memorial Award winners
Canadian jockeys
People from Welland
Living people


Bernard Ghiro (born August 28, 1960) is a Solomon Islands politician and a former member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands.

Political career
Ghiro became active in national politics when he contested the Central Makira constituency in the 2001 general elections. He was elected after defeating the incumbent MP Japhet Waipora. He was re-elected in the 2006 elections, but was defeated by Hypolite Taremae in the 2010 elections. In the 2014 elections he ran in the East Honiara constituency, but failed to be elected.

References

External links
Member page on Parliament website

1960 births
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Makira-Ulawa Province


Ludger Ltd is a biotechnology company with R&D and manufacturing facilities at the Culham Science Centre, Oxford, UK. The company specialises in technology for the measurement and control of biopharmaceutical glycosylation.

History
The company was founded in 1999 by its chief executive, Dr Daryl Ludger Fernandes. Dr Fernandes had developed glycoprofiling technology for his doctorate in the Glycobiology Institute at the University of Oxford and in the late 1980s was responsible for transfer of that technology to Oxford GlycoSciences (OGS).

In 2000, the company won a UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Smart award to develop biopharmaceutical glycoanalysis technology.; in 2001, it won a UK DTI Link grant for a collaborative R&D project to develop rapid glycoanalysis technology with GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Oxford.

The company's focus is to provide products, services for characterisation and quality control of biopharmaceutical glycosylation. Current products include kits and reagents for detailed analysis of N-linked and O-linked glycans by HPLC and mass spectrometry.

Current services include contract glycosylation analysis to support biopharmaceutical development and regulatory submissions to the US Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency, glycoprofiling method development, and training in biopharmaceutical glycoprofiling procedures. The key glycoprofiling modules include monosaccharide analysis, sialic acid analysis to determine relative levels of human vs non-human sialylation, oligosaccharide profiling, and detailed glycan structure analysis.

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Biotechnology companies established in 1999
British companies established in 1999


Seth Gukuna (born August 21, 1961) is a Solomon Islander politician.

Biography
Gukana was born August 21, 1961. He earned a bachelor of science at the University of Waikato in 1987 and a Master of Business Administration at the University of the South Pacific in 1998. Early in his career, he served as the Solomon Islands' ambassador to Taiwan. While serving as ambassador in 2002, he apologized to the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for causing a traffic accident while driving under the influence. He was first elected to Parliament in the 2006 general election to represent a constituency in Rennell and Bellona Province. He was appointed Minister for Culture and Tourism in 2007. He was later appointed Minister of Infrastructure Development.

References

1961 births
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Rennell and Bellona Province
Ambassadors of the Solomon Islands to Taiwan


Flint Automobile Company was founded by A. B. C. Hardy in 1901 and went out of business in 1903 after manufacturing only 52 automobiles in the $750–$850 price range.

History
Alexander Brownell Cullen Hardy (1869–1948) began working at Durant-Dort in 1889. By 1895, he was supervising production of the Diamond, a low-cost buggy. In 1898, J. Dallas Dort took a two-year leave of absence from his position as president of Durant-Dort, and Hardy stepped into his place.

After Dort's return in 1900, Hardy took his own leave of absence, and while touring Europe discovered the automobile. On his return, he supposedly told Durant to "get out of the carriage business before the automobile ruins you." Although Durant didn't act at the time, Hardy struck out on his own and established  Flint's first automotive manufacturer, in 1901.

However, the company's Roadster failed to distinguish itself from the popular, lower-priced Oldsmobile, and in 1903 the Flint Automobile Company folded. Hardy returned to Durant-Dort and wound up as vice-president of General Motors until his retirement in 1925.

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Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1903
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Francis Zama (born 3 July 1956) is a Solomon Islands politician. He is a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands, and was elected to Parliament representing Tetepare on Rendova Island, South New Georgia on 5 December 2001 and was re-elected on 5 April 2006. He was Minister of Finance of the Solomon Islands from 2003 to 2005 and in 2007.

References

Finance Ministers of the Solomon Islands
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
1956 births
Living people
People from the Western Province (Solomon Islands)


"Looking for Love" is a song released under Karen Carpenter's name. It is regarded as the first release by what was to become the Carpenters. The music was written by Karen's brother, Richard Carpenter. It was recorded in 1966 and released on record label Magic Lamp, a small label with a limited budget. Even though Richard Carpenter does participate on the recording, it is printed "Karen Carpenter" on the recording contract and record label.

The record has now become a collectors' item and is worth between $2,000 to $2,500 as only 500 copies of the 45 rpm single were pressed. The single did not chart commercially and no music video was shot for the song (because promotional music videos were in their infancy at the time). This process led Magic Lamp to defunct, but the song, along with its B-side "I'll Be Yours", were later included on the 1991 4-CD box set From the Top.  According to the liner notes for the album From the Top, the master tapes for this recording and its flip side were lost in a fire at Joe Osborn's house in 1974.  All CD reissues have been made from a 45rpm copy owned by Richard Carpenter.

References

1966 debut singles
1966 songs
Karen Carpenter songs
Songs written by Richard Carpenter (musician)


Rollin Joseph Lutz (February 18, 1925 – October 20, 2008) was an American professional baseball player and coach, as well as the first non-Japanese manager in Japanese professional baseball.

Life
Lutz was born on February 18, 1925, in Keokuk, Iowa. Lutz was a high school baseball standout and signed a professional contract the St. Louis Browns in 1941. After the US became involved in World War II, Lutz enlisted in the United States Marine Corps after graduating from high school and served in the South Pacific theater.

Baseball career
After returning from military service, Lutz was signed by the St. Louis Browns as an amateur free agent before the 1946 season. He played for minor league teams in Elmira, New York and San Antonio, Texas in the Brown's farm system, while earning bachelor's and master's degrees in science. His only major league experience was when he appeared with the Browns in the , playing first base and going 6-for-36 in 14 games, with one triple and 2 RBI in 14 games with the team for a .167 batting average. The Browns traded him on July 24, 1951 to the Brooklyn Dodgers together with Johnny Bero and cash in exchange for Ben Taylor.

Coaching
Following his major league career, Lutz coached high school baseball, football and basketball in Argyle, Iowa and Davenport, Iowa, where he led Davenport's baseball to a state championship, and was an athletic coach at Parsons College in Iowa.

Lutz became the head coach of the Southern Illinois University baseball team, leading the Salukis to the 1968 College World Series, in which they lost the final game 4-3 in nine innings to the University of Southern California Trojans, after finishing the regular season with a 34-12 record. Lutz was selected as the National Coach of the Year in 1968 by the American Association of College Coaches. The following season, Lutz led the #1 nationally ranked Salukis to a 36-7 regular season record and the 1969 College World Series. Having played in the major leagues for Bill Veeck, Lutz adopted some of his flourishes, including female batgirls, giveaway contests for fans and skydivers landing on the pitching mound. Through the 1969 season, Lutz had coached the team to a 149-48 record (plus two ties) in four seasons as coach.

The Cleveland Indians named Lutz as their first-base coach in 1971, after he had been coordinator of its minor league teams. He was on the team's coaching staff in 1972 and 1973.

He was hired by the Hiroshima Carp in 1974 as a batting instructor. The following season, Lutz became the first foreigner to manage a team in Japanese professional baseball, when he was selected to manage the Carp. Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn was hired to serve as the team's temporary pitching coach, after having worked together with Lutz on the Indians' coaching staff. As manager, Lutz had the team change the color of its caps to red to represent the team's fighting spirit. Lutz left the team after 15 games due to an umpiring dispute, but the Carp went on to win its first-ever Central League championship under replacement manager Takeshi Koba.

Retirement
Lutz moved with his family to Sarasota, Florida in 1969 while he was part of the Cleveland Indians organization. He spent 12 years as the executive director of the Boys Club in Sarasota, until he left in 1988 following concerns regarding the financial management of the organization.

He died at age 83 on October 20, 2008, after years of declining health resulting from a stroke and diabetes.

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