John A. “Jack” Zduriencik (; born January 11, 1951) is an American radio broadcaster and former professional baseball executive, scout, and player. He currently works as a radio host for KDKA-FM, which is affiliated with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also served as the general manager of the Seattle Mariners from 2008 until 2015.

Career

Zduriencik began his career in professional baseball as a second baseman in the Chicago White Sox farm system. From 1973 to 1974, he spent time playing for both the Gulf Coast White Sox and the Appleton Foxes.

Following his playing career, Zduriencik spent several years as a coach for both baseball and football. His coaching tour included stops at Austin Peay State University (1975–77), Clairton High School (PA, 1977–80), and Tarpon Springs High School (FL, 1980–82).

Zduriencik returned to professional baseball in 1983. Successive roles involving scouting and player development comprised most of the next two-plus decades of his experience, as he spent time in the positions of:

Area scout, 1983–1989, New York Mets
National crosschecker, 1990 and 1994–1995, New York Mets
Director of scouting, 1991–1993, Pittsburgh Pirates
Director of minor league operations, 1995–1998, New York Mets
Special assistant to the general manager, 1998, New York Mets
Director of international operations, 1998–1999, Los Angeles Dodgers
Director of scouting, 1999–2006, Milwaukee Brewers
Special assistant to the general manager, 2006–2008, Milwaukee Brewers
Director of amateur scouting, 2006–2008. Milwaukee Brewers
Special assistant to the GM for player personnel, 2008, Milwaukee Brewers.

Zduriencik was so successful in Milwaukee that many observers felt that he deserved a large part of the credit for the Brewers' eventual return to playoff contention in 2008. Brewers general manager Doug Melvin praised Zduriencik's efforts when he was quoted as saying: "No doubt about it, he deserves almost all the credit for the young players we have. The players he has drafted are making an impact at the big league level."

In recognition of his success with the Brewers, Baseball America made Zduriencik the first non-GM to receive their Major League Executive of the Year Award in 2007.

Seattle Mariners

In October 2008, following a dismal season and the firing of GM Bill Bavasi, the Seattle Mariners announced the hiring of Zduriencik as the franchise's new general manager. At the time, the team was the first to have lost 100 games while shouldering a player payroll of more than $100 million, and it was reported by critics at the time to be a good hire.

At an October 2008 press conference following his hiring, Zduriencik got right to the point in introducing his philosophy going forward in Seattle: “I'd love to have guys with good makeup and good character, committed to the city and the ballclub. But, when all is said and done, talent wins.”

One of Zduriencik's first moves was hiring Don Wakamatsu, the first Asian-American manager in MLB history. Next, during the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings in Las Vegas, Nevada, Zduriencik made a remarkable three-team, 12-player trade that sent star closer J. J. Putz to the New York Mets as well as prospect second baseman Luis Valbuena to the Cleveland Indians. In return, the Mariners received outfielders Franklin Gutiérrez and Endy Chávez and first baseman Mike Carp, a prospect in the Mets' organization, as well as starting pitcher prospect Jason Vargas. During the beginning of spring training, Zduriencik signed Mariners fan favorite Ken Griffey Jr. to a one-year deal.

After an 85-77 finish in 2009, Zduriencik's teams slumped to 61–101 in 2010, 67–95 in 2011, 75–87 in 2012, and 71–91 in 2013.

On December 7, 2013, Seattle Times columnist Geoff Baker wrote a scathing article about Zduriencik, quoting past employees to show that he is difficult to work with.  He was accused of lying about knowledge of Josh Lueke's criminal past before a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays. He is also accused of lying on his original job application that he has an advanced knowledge of and fondness for contemporary baseball Sabermetrics of the Billy Beane mold, knowing that it would be beneficial in getting him hired. An employee whom Zduriencik fired, Tony Blengino, made the claim that he, not Zduriencik, falsified Jack's resume, according to Baker's article in the Seattle Times: "Blengino, who was working for the Milwaukee Brewers with Zduriencik at the time, said he authored virtually the entire job application package Zduriencik gave the Mariners in 2008, depicting a dual-threat candidate melding traditional scouting with advanced statistical analysis."

Asked to respond to accusations by former manager Eric Wedge and Blengino, Zduriencik said: “I am aware of some of the comments of former members of our baseball operations group, and I find them unjust, misleading and one-sided. I don’t believe the airing of ‘dirty laundry’ should take place in the public arena, so I am not going to talk about internal meetings, daily conversations and personnel decisions.”

Zduriencik subsequently issued a public statement in response to the accusations in Baker's column. The statement read in part: "I can also say that our current statistical analysis group is doing excellent work. Our dedicated staff and the tools they are using are a key component in our decision making process, and are light years ahead of where we have been. I am engaged with their work on a daily basis and very excited in the improvements made... We have never deviated from our rebuilding plan. We have stayed the course, and we now have a talented group of young players. We are hard at work looking into every option to add to this core group, as we said we would, and we are looking forward to 2014 and beyond."

Zduriencik's assertion that advanced metrics have always been part of his office's player evaluation process seems to have been borne out by his 2009 hire of Jeff Kingston to be his assistant general manager. Kingston's grounding in advanced metrics was noted in a 2009 article in the Dickinson Magazine published by his alma mater: "Much of Kingston’s research involves Sabermetrics, a scientific statistical analysis of players and teams designed to project future performance." In addition, the Mariners' Baseball Operations Analyst, Wesley Battle, and Quantitative Analyst, Jesse Smith, brought a sabermetric perspective to their work with the club's front office. In 2014, the Mariners enjoyed an 87-win season, an improvement of 16 wins over the previous year's total, and missed the playoffs by a single game.

On August 26, 2014, the Mariners extended Zduriencik's contract to a multi-year deal, based on the positive performance of the team in the 2014 season. Club President Kevin Mather expressed confidence that the Mariners were "in position to be a contender for many years to come" and thought Zduriencik was making a "valiant effort".

The Mariners fired Zduriencik on August 28, 2015. During his tenure in Seattle, the Mariners posted a 505–595 record, which was the fifth-worst record in baseball.

Education

Zduriencik earned a bachelor's degree in education at California University of Pennsylvania, followed by a master's degree in physical education at Austin Peay State University.

Personal

Self nicknamed "Trader Jack", Jack is married to Debbie Zduriencik. They have one daughter, Kimberly. He is also an alumnus of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity.

Zduriencik currently works as the pre- and post-game co-host for the Pittsburgh Pirates on their flagship station KDKA-FM.

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Living people
Los Angeles Dodgers executives
Major League Baseball general managers
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Pittsburgh Pirates scouts
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People from New Castle, Pennsylvania


Urecho is a village in the Mexican state of Querétaro. It is located in the municipality of Colón. It has 1,666 inhabitants, and is located at 2,100 meters above sea level.

References

Populated places in Querétaro


Magnus Larsson was the defending champion, but lost in the first round this year.

Ivan Lendl won the title, defeating Michael Stich 7–6(7–2), 6–3 in the final.

Seeds

  Petr Korda (second round)
  Ivan Lendl (champion)
  Michael Stich (final)
  Andrei Medvedev (first round)
  Thomas Muster (second round)
  Karel Nováček (quarterfinals)
  Henrik Holm (first round)
  Arnaud Boetsch (quarterfinals)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

External links
 Singles draw

Singles


Shaarey Shomayim or Shaarei/Shaaray Shamayim/Shomoyim ( "Gates of Heaven") may refer to the following Jewish synagogues:

Canada
Shaarei Shomayim (Toronto)

United States
Congregation Sha'arai Shomayim (Mobile, Alabama)
Sha'arai Shomayim Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama
First Roumanian-American congregation (Congregation Shaarey Shamoyim), Manhattan, New York
Gates of Heaven Synagogue (Shaarei Shamayim), Madison, Wisconsin

See also
Shaar Hashamayim (disambiguation)


Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT Jodhpur or IITJ) is a public technical university located in Jodhpur in the state of Rajasthan in India. It is one of the eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India under The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011 which declares these eight IITs as well as the conversion of the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University to IIT. The Act was passed in the Lok Sabha on 24 March 2011 and by the Rajya Sabha on 30 April 2012.

History
IIT Jodhpur was first announced by the Central Government in July 2007, although the formal announcement was made in 2008, with IIT Kanpur mentoring IIT Jodhpur . In July 2008, the first academic session of IIT Jodhpur began at the IIT Kanpur campus, with 109 undergraduate students in Computer Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. The institute was sanctioned as an IIT for Rajasthan, and not for Jodhpur in specific. It was after considering various cities, including Ajmer, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota and Udaipur that the Prof. Vijay Shankar Vyas led committee suggested Jodhpur as the location for the IIT in Rajasthan. In late 2009, the MHRD granted final approval for establishing the institute at Jodhpur.

A portion of the MBM Engineering College under JNV University, Jodhpur was identified as the location for the transit campus of IIT Jodhpur. In May 2010, classes of IIT Jodhpur were shifted from IIT Kanpur to the transit campus in Jodhpur. In July 2017, the academic and residential campuses of IIT Jodhpur were migrated to the permanent campus. Construction of the permanent campus is still in progress.

Campus

Permanent campus
IITJ is located about 24 km from Jodhpur city on National Highway 65 which connects Jodhpur to Nagaur. The site spans over  of land around Jhipasni and Gharao villages. M. M. Pallam Raju, then Union Minister for Human Resources Development, laid the foundation stone on 16 April 2013.

The permanent campus is being built on a self-sustainable model, catering for its own energy and water requirements. The campus' masterplan got 'GRIHA Exemplary Performance Award' under 'Passive Architecture Design' category at the 8th GRIHA Summit held during 2–3 March 2017, at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

Transit academic campus

Until the first migration of IITJ to the permanent campus, IIT Jodhpur used to function from its transit campus, at the Department of Computer Science, MBM Engineering College. The transit campus is separate from the main campus of MBM Engineering College. The transit academic campus has 20 laboratories, six classrooms of 50-person capacity and four classrooms of 200-person capacity. Two of the four large classrooms have networking and video conferencing facility to facilitate video-conferencing lectures.

The academic campus' sports facilities include basketball, football, cricket, volleyball and badminton courts.

Transit residential campus

IIT Jodhpur had set up its transit residential campus at Kendranchal colony on New Pali Road, Jodhpur. Faculty and students used to reside in the transit residential campus, which had a dining facility and a health center. It has courts for outdoor and indoor sports. There was a computer center and library annexure.

The residential campus was connected to the academic campus by institute's buses which run at frequent intervals.

Organisation and administration

Governance

All IITs follow the same organization structure which has President of India as visitor at the top of the hierarchy. Directly under the president is the IIT Council. Under the IIT Council is the board of governors of each IIT.
Under the board of governors is the director, who is the chief academic and executive officer of the IIT. Under the director, in the organizational structure, comes the deputy director. Under the director and the deputy director, come the deans, heads of departments, registrar.

Departments
The Institute has organised its academic activities to be conducted through 14 Departments & Schools. The departments are:
 School of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
 School of Management & Entrepreneurship
 School of Liberal Arts (SoLA)
 Biosciences and Bioengineering
 Chemical Engineering
 Chemistry
 Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
 Computer Science & Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Humanities & Social Sciences
 Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
 Mathematics
 Mechanical Engineering
 Physics

Academics

Admissions
For undergraduates, IIT Jodhpur offers BTech programs. Admissions to BTech programs are carried through Joint Entrance Examination, after completing 10+2 schooling.

For PG Courses, it offers MTech, MSc, MSc – MTech, MTech – PhD, MBA and PhD programs. The eligibility criteria for MTech involves degree in BTech, B.E. or BSc (Engineering) with at least 60% marks or 6.5/10 Cumulative Performance Index (CPI) or Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). A valid GATE score is necessary for considering enrollment for MTech program. The MSc programs are administered through JAM exam with other minimum qualifying criterion in place.

Rankings

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur was ranked in 30th place among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2022.

Research
At IIT Jodhpur sponsored research and development programs were and are carried out in Centers of Excellence in the areas of information and communication technology, energy, and systems sciences. The French government had shown its interest in helping IIT Jodhpur develop its research and academic institute. IIT Jodhpur has signed an Agreement on Academic Exchanges and MoU with Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.

Student life

Cultural festivals
The annual inter-collegiate festival Ignus, usually held in the month of February is a cultural and technical festival hosted by the student body. It features competitions and events involving participants from all over the country, and concerts by eminent performers.

The annual inter-collegiate sports week, Varchas is another event organized by the student body. It involves participation from a number of institutes around the country in various sports competitions including athletics, badminton, basketball, football, cricket, chess, tennis, table tennis, volleyball and Jodhpur mini-marathon.

Students are also actively involved in activities like dramatics, literary arts, stargazing, music, quizzing, and fine arts. The Entrepreneurship Cell, which supports the growth of startups involves the student community in innovation and business activities as well.

See also
 List of universities and higher education colleges in Jodhpur
 Indian Institutes of Technology
 Arid Forest Research Institute (AFRI) Jodhpur

References

External links

 Official website, IIT Jodhpur

Jodhpur
Colleges in Jodhpur
Engineering colleges in Jodhpur
Educational institutions established in 2008
2008 establishments in Rajasthan


Mehmet Salih Uzun (b. 1970 Kocaeli, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and former and final leader of the Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi, ANAP).

Biography
Uzun was born in the northwestern Anatolian town of Gölcük in Kocaeli Province. He graduated from the Ankara University's Faculty of Political Sciences. After receiving his Master's degree from the same university, Uzun completed his PhD at Selçuk University.

Salih Uzun was elected 7th president of ANAP at the party congress on October 26, 2008. He served as leader until October 2009 when Motherland Party was merged to Democratic Party. He is succeeded by Hüsamettin Cindoruk, who is the leader of Democratic Party.

He is married and has a child.

External links
Motherland party official website

1970 births
People from İzmit
Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences alumni
Leaders of political parties in Turkey
Living people
Motherland Party (Turkey) politicians
Democrat Party (Turkey, current) politicians


Rijad Delić  is a Bosnian volleyball player at the highest national level.

He played for Bosnia's most successful volleyball club OK Kakanj, in the team which achieved the Premier League of Volleyball of Bosnia and Herzegovina national championship and the National Cup of Bosnia and Herzegovina double in the 2003-2004 season and for the 2004-2005 national championship winning team and the national cup winning team in 2005-2006.

Prior to joining OK Kakanj Rijad Delić played for most of his career for OK Zenica in the Premier League of Volleyball of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996–2003).  He played as Opposite.

References

See also

 Emir Bajramović
 Almir Aganović
 Ermin Lepić
 Damir Bjelopoljak
 Salih Fazlić

1973 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Zenica
Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina men's volleyball players


Svend Borchmann Hersleb Vogt (10 February 1852 – 4 February 1923) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Conservative Party.

He was born in Kristiania as the son of Nils Lorentz Vogt and his wife Karen Johanne Holmboe. His maternal grandfather was Hans Holmboe. He was a grandnephew of Even Hammer Holmboe and Leonhard Christian Borchgrevink Holmboe, and nephew of Jens and Hans Conrad Holmboe. He was named for professor of theology Svend Borchmann Hersleb.

He finished his secondary education in Kristianssand in 1869 and graduated as cand.jur. in 1873. He worked as a law clerk for the district stipendiary magistrate of Nordmøre from 1874, and was hired as a lawyer in 1876. In 1882 he started his own law firm, and gained access to Supreme Court cases. He was a presiding judge in Borgarting from 1902, having held the position on a non-permanent basis since 1895. Parallel to this he had worked in the Office of the Auditor General of Norway. From 1898 to 1923, the year of his death, he chaired this office as Auditor General of Norway.

He was a member of Kristiania city council for an unknown period. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament during the terms 1892–1894 and 1904–1906, representing the constituency of Kristiania, Hønefoss og Kongsvinger. From 1904 to 1905 he met as a regular representative, covering for Francis Hagerup who was Prime Minister. Vogt was also a member of public committees, including a "Commission on treatment of dangerous lunatics".
Svend Borchman Hersleb Vogt had several children.

References

1852 births
1923 deaths
Members of the Storting
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Politicians from Oslo
19th-century Norwegian lawyers
20th-century Norwegian judges
Auditors general of Norway
Svend Borchmann Hersleb


Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (IIT Bhubaneswar) is a public technical university established by the government of India in 2008, located at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

The institute admits a students for bachelor's, master's programs via JEE Advanced and Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering respectively. The permanent campus at Argul, Khordha District was inaugurated by the current prime minister of India, Narendra Modi on 24 December 2018. The area of research are on science, engineering and humanities.

History

Earlier controversy
Establishing an IIT in Odisha was a long-standing demand for several decades. As the state ranked at the bottom in terms of centrally funded academic and research institutions, there were strong allegations of Congress led central government neglect. There were several incidents of protest, both locally in Odisha, the National Students Union of India (NSUI), and eminent nonresident Indian academics. An organization called Agamee Odisha was formed, that spearheaded mass agitation throughout the state. There also have been stray incidents of violence related to the issue of Odisha's neglect. Politicians including the Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik, cast this festering issue as a sign of severe neglect of the state by the UPA government in New Delhi. In May 2007, this became a major issue in the Indian parliament. The opposition NDA staged a walk-out in the Indian parliament, accusing the ruling UPA of neglecting the state's economic development. Sections of the media reported that the Congress party led UPA government had been embarrassed by this issue. Eventually, the HRD minister Mr. Arjun Singh relented, leading to the inception of IIT Bhubaneswar.

Establishment
The birth of the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, came on the 60th anniversary of the country's Independence on 15 August 2007 when Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India at that time, made the announcement about the expansion of IIT system in the country. Further, the National Development Council of the Planning Commission, in its 54th meeting held on 19 December 2007, approved the proposal as part of the approval process of the 11th Five Year Plan (2007–12).

The actual birth of the institute was announced by the Minister of Human Resource Development Shri. Arjun Singh in a press conference on 28 March 2008. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education, Government of India, vide its Order dated 9 May 2008 decided that IIT Kharagpur would mentor the setting up of this new IIT for 2–3 years. It was further decided that the Director of the mentor IIT i.e. IIT Kharagpur, would be the mentor Director of the new IIT pending selection of regular Director and the chairman, Board of Governors (BOG) of IIT Kharagpur would also be the Chairman of the BOG of this new mentored IIT Bhubaneswar.

The Union Cabinet, at its meeting held on 17 July 2008 approved setting up eight new IITs including IIT Bhubaneswar at a cost of  per IIT. The Cabinet also approved creation of the post of Director and Registrar along with 30 Faculty per year for each of the new IITs.  It was also decided that pending amendment of the Institute of Technology Act, 1961 for inclusion of IIT Bhubaneswar as an Institute of National Importance, the Institute would start functioning under aegis of Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar Society to be registered under the Societies' Registration Act, 1860 (Act XXI of 1860).

Papers were filed on 19 July 2008 with the Registrar of Societies Odisha, Cuttack for registration of IIT Bhubaneswar Society and the society was registered on 22 July 2018.

IIT Bhubaneswar became the first amongst the eight new IITs to become operational with a sanctioned intake of 40 students each in the disciplines of Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Classes for the first batch of students started from the campus of IIT Kharagpur at Kharagpur, the mentor Institute for IIT Bhubaneswar on 23 July 2008 with admission of 95 students. IIT BHUBANESWAR became an Institute of National Importance from 29 June 2012 with notification of Amendment in the Institutes' of Technology Act, 1961 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, (Department of Higher Education) Government of India published in the Gazette of India dated 2 July 2012.

The process of selection of Faculty and the Registrar were initiated through an issue of advertisement on all India basis. Shri Bata Kishore Ray from MHRD Govt. of India joined as the first employee and first Registrar of the institute on 31 December 2008.

To finalise the site for the permanent campus of IIT Bhubaneswar, the MHRD had set up a Site Identification Committee under the Chairmanship of Shri Ashok Takhur, Additional Secretary to the Government of India which visited Odisha during 24–25 December 2008. After visiting four sites proposed by the Government of Odisha i.e. Banki, Ramdaspur in Cuttack district and Gayabandh and Jatni in Khordha district, the Committee recommended the site at Jatni. The recommendation of the committee was approved by the Government of India on 13 January 2009. The Government of Odisha agreed to provide  of land free of cost out of which  had been given physical possession on 10 February 2009. The State Government also agreed to provide other facilities including a four-lane road from National Highway No.5 ( Kolkata-Chennai) to the IIT. Prof M Chakraborty, deputy director, IIT Kharagpur joined as the Director of IIT Bhubaneswar on 19 May 2009. He took over the rein from Prof D. Acharya, the earlier Director of the institute. IIT Bhubaneswar became operational in the city of Bhubaneswar on 22 July 2009 with shifting 2008 batch of students from IIT Kharagpur and admission of 117 new students in 2009. The Institute started functioning at IIT Kharagpur's Extension Centre built in 1998 in Bhubaneswar.

Campus and location

Permanent Campus
The Government of Odisha has allotted about 936 acres of Government land for permanent campus of the institute. In addition, the State Government is acquiring about 16 acres of private land at its own cost to make the land contiguous. The Foundation Stone of the permanent campus at Arugul, on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar was laid on 12 February 2009. Construction of 4-lane access road from the National Highway 5 and provision of water and electric supply to the campus by the State Government have made considerable progress. The Government of Odisha has also agreed to provide 75 acres of land along the Puri-Konark coastline to set up an Innovation Centre for Climate Change.

 The site near Jatni Railway Station on the East Coast Railway is 35 kilometres from Biju Patnaik Airport Bhubaneswar. The land is picturesque with Barunai Hill on one side and a reserve forest nearby. The site is at 20° 10' N and 85° 42' E. A total of  of land has been allocated towards the self-contained campus for nearly 10,000 students and 1,100 faculty. A science park is being set up as a part of this institution to support industry oriented research activities. The institute has started operating in its new campus at Arugul from academic year 2015–16. The campus construction began on 14 August 2011, Chief minister Naveen Patnaik laid the foundation stone of the IIT campus at Aragul village near Jatni. The campus master plan has been prepared by Vastunidhi Architects, Noida.

Marine Campus
IIT Bhubaneswar is the first IIT to set up a separate marine campus in 2011 for conducting research in rising sea levels, ecology, disaster management, marine ecosystems, fishery development, and other areas. This campus, which will be a part of the School of Earth, Ocean and Environment Sciences, will be set up near Chilka lake. It will have educational facilities for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Temporary Campuses
The institute used to operate from a number of locations within the city of Bhubaneswar which included Extension Centre of IIT Kharagpur, Toshali Bhawan and Workshop cum Laboratory Complex near IIT Kharagpur Extension Centre for laboratory facilities, particularly of 3rd and 4th year students. Besides, the Institute had also received tremendous support from other institutes viz. Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology and Central Tool Room & Training Centre for laboratory and workshop facilities, respectively.

Hostel & Housing
Hostel facilities to students have been provided through a 200 capacity Dr. A. N. Khosla Hall of Residence of IIT Kharagpur near its Extension Center. In addition, the institute has two hostels (started in July 2015) at its permanent campus, Mahanadi Hall of residence(MHR) of 800 capacity for boys and Subarnarekha Hall of Residence(SHR) for girls of 200 capacity. The institute has also provided housing facility for the Faculty members and the staff members at its campus, Faculty Quarter(FQ) and Staff Quarter(SQ).

Education Hub
Several other universities and research institutions are either present or being established in the vicinity, including AIIMS Bhubaneswar, NISER, IIIT, XIMB, one of the Indian government's proposed National Universities of international calibre, and the Institute of Physics. NISER's campus is 2 km away from the IIT. Other institutions, such as Sri Sri University, premier law school National Law University Odisha, as well as the world's biggest academic institution, Vedanta University, will be in the neighboring places of Cuttack and Puri respectively. An advantage of this IIT is its location at Bhubaneswar, an emerging education hub, that is being promoted as an Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) by the government. A total of 40 km2 of land has been allocated for the purpose, out of which about 60% will be devoted to research and development. An estimated  will be invested by the Indian government within the next few years in order to develop the institute.

Connectivity
The Odisha state government is constructing a four-lane expressway directly from the National Highway No. 5 (a part of the Golden Quadrilateral) to this new IIT for increased connectivity. Khurda Rd railway station is 4 km away from the campus, and the Biju Patnaik airport is 35 km away. A new international airport is being constructed even closer to the IIT campus at a distance of 12 km.

Organization and administration

Governance

All IITs follow the same organization structure which has President of India as visitor at the top of the hierarchy. Directly under the president is the IIT Council. Under the IIT Council is the board of governors of each IIT.
Under the board of governors is the director, who is the chief academic and executive officer of the IIT. Under the director, in the organizational structure, comes the deputy director. Under the director and the deputy director, come the deans, heads of departments, registrar.

Schools
The institute has adopted the concept of Schools rather than Departments for promoting inter-disciplinary research. At present the following Schools offer academic programmes:

 School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Bio Science & Mathematics)
 School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management (Economics, English & Psychology)
 School of Mechanical Sciences (Mechanical Engineering)
 School of Infrastructure (Civil Engineering)
 School of Electrical Sciences (CSE, ECE & Electrical Engineering)
 School of Mineral, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (Metallurgy & Material Engineering)
 School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences (Geology, Atmospheric & Ocean Science)

Research Centres

 Virtual & Augmented Reality
 Design & Innovation
 Probiotics & Human Microbiome
Material Science
AI & Mechatronics
Human-Computer Interface
Quantum Chemistry
Protein Biophysics
Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Coastal Observatory
Chips 2 Startup

Structure

Academics

The academic programmes of Institute include BTech (Hons.) in Computer Science, Civil, Electrical, ECE and Mechanical Engineering with an intake capacity of 50 each at the undergraduate level. BTech (Hons.) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering is with intake capacity of 20. The institute also started Dual degree courses in Mechanical and Civil with intake of 10 from academic year 2016–17, which has been increased to 15 for Mechanical and 13 for Civil as of 2020–21. The Institute started the Doctoral programme from the academic session 2009–2010 and will offer admission to the joint MTech-PhD Programme from July 2012. The institute has broadly adopted the course curricula, syllabi and other academic regulations of IIT Kharagpur, the mentor institute.

Academic year
The academic year is divided into two semesters, a spring semester and an autumn semester. Between these two regular semesters, the academic year also includes a shorter summer quarter, during which some courses are offered. The institution follows the credit-based system of performance evaluation. The credits allocated to each course depends on the total number of contact hours, including lectures, tutorials and laboratory sessions. Each course is usually worth three credits. The typical course load per semester is 21–24 credits for undergraduate students.

Undergraduate programs
IIT Bhubaneswar offers undergraduate degrees in six technical disciplines and integrated five-year programs for undergraduate students leading to MTech degrees.

The BTech degree is based on a four-year program comprising eight semesters. The first year of the BTech curriculum has common courses from various departments. At the end of the first year, an option to change departments is given to meritorious students on the basis of their performance in the first two semesters. From the second year onwards, the students take courses offered exclusively by their departments that are known as "electives". In addition to these, the students takes inter-disciplinary courses known as "Lateral courses" and breadth courses for courses in humanities and social sciences, and management and information technology.
During the 7th & 8th semester, undergraduate students undergo co-curricular practical training in Indian industry and undertake a Research project.

Admission

Admission to these programs is through the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), taken by students seeking admission into the IITs after completing 12 years of schooling. As of 2016, the total undergraduate student intake every year is 260, with 40 students in each of the above-mentioned disciplines and 20 in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.Each Dual degree courses has an intake of 10 students. The plan is to have 2,500 students within 3–4 years, which will expand to 10,000 students within 15 years.

Postgraduate programs
The MTech degree is based on a two-year program comprising four semesters. Research is included as a component in the MTech level.

Institute offers Joint MTech — PhD programs in all its schools except for the Schools of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Social Sciences & Management.

Doctorate programs

Institute has been admitting students into PhD programs since 2009.

Rankings

IIT Bhubaneswar was ranked at 701–750 in the world by the QS World University Rankings 2022 list.

Among engineering colleges, IIT Bhubaneswar ranked 11 by India Today in 2022. It ranked 36 among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2022

It was ranked 1001–1200 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2023, 301-350 in Asia and 351-400 among Emerging Economies in 2022.

Library
The central library, which started functioning in January 2010, is a  room with a collection of 23000, text books. In addition, the mentor institute, IIT Kharagpur, provides IIT Bhubaneswar with access to its online resources such as e-databases, e-journals and abstract indexing services.

Collaborations

Foreign
Sources:
 University of Quebec, Canada
 University of Waterloo, Canada
 York University, Canada
 Texas A&M University, US
 Warwick Manufacturing Group, UK
University at Buffalo, US
McGill University, Canada
 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
 University of Edinburg, UK
 University of Western Ontario, Canada
 University of North Texas, US
 University of Warwick, UK
 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US
 Washington University in St. Louis, US
 University of Southampton, UK
 National Oceanography Centre, UK
 University of Concepción, Chile
 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, US
 University of Surrey, UK
 University of Manchester, UK
 University of British Columbia, Canada
 Association for Overseas Technical Co-operation and Sustainable Partnership, Japan

National

 DRDO
 OPTCL
 AIIMS BBSR
 BHEL
 NALCO
NMDC
WHEEBOX
NHAI
MOES
AICTE
ISRO
SDI BBSR

Student life

Festivals

 Alma Fiesta: Alma Fiesta is the annual socio-cultural festival of Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar. It is a three-day festival. Usually launched during the mid weeks of January, Alma Fiesta offers a number of events that range from cultural performances like Odissi, Gotipua to clay modeling workshops, Euphony (War of rock bands), Spotlight (Stage play competition). The events organized also include modern dance forms like hip-hop, vocals, duets, karaoke, single minute extempore, spelling bee, pencil sketching as well as a youth marathon. Alma Fiesta also maintain a social drive named Prayatna.
 Wissenaire: Wissenaire is the annual techno-management festival of Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar which is held in its permanent campus located in Argul, Odisha. It is a three-day- long event usually held in the month of January every year. Wissenaire encompasses various sectors of technology, science and management. These include quizzing, coding, designing, robotics, planning and testing the creativity and innovative spirit of the young, intelligent minds.
 Entrepreneurship Summit: E-Summit, organized by the E-Cell hosts a number of panel discussions, workshops, competitions, and start-ups with the presence of personalities from industries, academia, and government.

Societies
The student societies are:
 Robotics and Intelligent Systems Club (R.I.S.C)
 FEBS - The Society of Finance, Economics and Business of IIT Bhubaneswar. The society deals with domain like Finance, Economics, Business, Product management, Consulting, Data Science and Machine Learning.
 Web Design Society. (WebnD)
 Astronomy Society.(Nakshatra)
 Programming Society. (Neuromancers)
 Dance Society.(D-Gang)
 Dramatics Society. (The Fourth Wall)
 Entrepreneurship Cell.(E-Cell)
 Film Making Society. (Cinewave)
 Fine Arts Society. (Kalakriti)
 Literary Societies. (Panacea, Abhivyakti)
 Music Society.(Aaroh)
 Photography Society. (Clix)
 Social Welfare Society. (Souls for Solace)
 Quiz Society

Startup Incubation
The Department of Science & Technology and the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India sanctioned Rs.1.50 Crore for establishing a Startup Centre at IIT Bhubaneswar. The then Director of IIT Bhubaneswar inaugurated the center on 20 June 2016. The Startup Centre is envisioned to have enrollment minimum of 10 startups in the 1st year of its commencement. This facility is going to be made available to all budding entrepreneurs of the region. Additionally, the Institute established an in-house technology incubator, as a part of well-thought-of incubation-cum-entrepreneurial eco-system with the objective of encouraging students to take up entrepreneurship. This facility would be made available to the outgoing students and to the faculty of the institute. In 2017, the institute received license and incorporation certificate from Registrar of companies to run IIT Bhubaneswar Research and Entrepreneurship Park, a not for profit company which will act as a nodal center for promoting entrepreneurship, research, and startup activities.

Dance as a B tech Subject
In 2015, IIT Bhubaneswar introduced Odissi dance as a BTech subject becoming the first IIT in the country to introduce any dance form in its curriculum. Noted Odissi exponents Kum Kum Mohanty, Iliana Citaristi along with other experts in the field have been roped in to design the curriculum and the exam pattern for the course. Any student who continues it until the final year will get a diploma in dance as well.

References

External links

Bhubaneswar
Education in Bhubaneswar
All India Council for Technical Education
Universities and colleges established in 2008
Engineering colleges in Odisha
Science and technology in Bhubaneswar
2008 establishments in Orissa


is a Japanese manga artist, who often works in adult hentai manga.

Career

Naruko's career began in 2002 with the release of his first work, Hitai ("forehead"), in Comic Kairakuten. His first tankōbon collection of hentai manga, Shōjo Material, was published by Wanimagazine on June 30, 2008, and scored a big hit, becoming the highest selling adult manga of 2008.

Naruko also works in other fields. In 2005, he drew the manga adaptation of the popular anime, Kamichu!, which was later translated into French. Naruko is the original character designer for the anime Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, and he also designed the characters for A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-.

His work is characterized by mostly full-colored pages, realistically drawn characters, and vivid backgrounds.

Works

Books

 Kamichu! ベサメムーチョ（落越友則、舛成孝二、倉田英之の合同ペンネーム）原作。2005年 - 2007年、月刊コミック電撃大王（メディアワークス）連載 全2巻）
 Shōjo Material (2008年、ワニマガジン社 )

Comics not collected in books

 ネネ（2003年 - 10話まで（連載中断）、COMIC快楽天（ワニマガジン社）連載）
エレベーターアクション(2004年、COMIC失楽天 12月号)
クラスメイド(2005年、COMIC快楽天 02月号)
でこぼこ(2005年、COMIC快楽天 04月号)
ふたり(2005年、COMIC快楽天 05月号)
TRYあんぐる(2005年、COMIC快楽天 09月号)
スーサイドライン(2005年、COMIC失楽天 09月号)
BOY or CHICKEN? (2006年、COMIC快楽天 02月号)
ふとんぶ (2006年、COMIC快楽天 06月号)
はだかの学校 (2006年、COMIC快楽天 10月号)
クラスメイド マニアックス (2007年、COMIC快楽天 02月号)
ぱらそる (2007年、COMIC失楽天 09月号)
りぞらば (2007年、COMIC快楽天 10月号)
なめねこ (2008年、COMIC快楽天 02月号)
BiKiNi (2008年、COMIC快楽天 10月号)

References

External links
 Personal website

Living people
Manga artists
Year of birth missing (living people)


The Svyato-Troitsky Markov Monastery (Holy Trinity Markov Monastery) is one of two modern-day monasteries in Vitebsk.  The second, for females, is  Svyato-Dukhov Monastery.
Markov Monastery was founded in the 14th–15th century. A legend indicates that a certain Mark found a place to stay alone and built a chapel there. Afterwards he was joined by like-minded persons, who formed the monastery.
The monastery existed until 1576, when  it was abolished. At that time, the monastery's Тrinity Church became a parish church. The monastery was revived in 1633 by a duke Lev Oginski.

In the 12th century the wooden Troitsky (Trinity) Cathedral and Pokrovskaya (Intercession) Church existed in the monastery area. In 1656 Patriarch of Moscow Nikon presented the monastery with a miraculous copy of Kazan Virgin icon.
In 1690 the Pokrovskaya (Intercession) Church was burned down was reconstructed. In 1760 a stone cathedral was constructed to house the Kazan Virgin icon.
After the October Revolution, in 1920, the  Svyato-Troitsky Markov Monastery was again suppressed.  All the  buildings except the Kazan Cathedral of 1760 were demolished. The Kazan church was the only functioning Vitebsk church during the Soviet era.
The monastery was revived again on 23 November 2000. Now it is situated at an industrial site, surrounded by factory buildings.

Christian monasteries in Belarus
Buildings and structures in Vitebsk


The Meyers MAC-125 is a light sport aircraft developed in the United States in 1947, produced in a small series as the MAC-145.

Design and development
The basic design, common to both models, was that of a low-wing cantilever monoplane of all-metal construction with side-by-side seating for two in a fully enclosed cabin. The main gear wheels of the undercarriage were retractable, and the tailwheel was steerable. The aircraft structure incorporated a framework built up of welded steel tube which extended lengthwise from the engine firewall to the rear of the cabin, and spanwise from one undercarriage well to the other. Around this framework was a conventional, monocoque fuselage. The MAC-125 was powered by a single 125-hp engine while the MAC-145 production model had a 145-hp engine instead and a larger tail fin.

The first prototype was lost during spin testing for certification while being flown by Al Meyers. Meyers parachuted to safety, sustaining a broken ankle, and although the aircraft was destroyed, its steel inner structure was salvaged and used to build the second prototype. Certification was subsequently successfully achieved with this aircraft.

Production and operations

Only twenty MAC-145s were built, each to a specific customer order, a business strategy that insulated the Meyers company from the poor market conditions that bankrupted many small American aircraft manufacturers in the late 1940s. Production continued until 1955 when the larger, 4-seat Meyers 200 was certified and began production. The Meyers Aircraft Company was acquired by the Aero Commander division of Rockwell International in 1965.  The type was never produced by Rockwell, and the design again changed hands as part of the Meyers package when sold to Interceptor Corporation in 1968 and subsequently to Prop-Jets Inc in 1982.

The MAC-145 type certificate was subsequently acquired by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, who flew a highly modified version of the design in 1997 as the Micco SP-20.

Examples of Meyers-built MAC-145s are still active in 2011.

Variants
 MAC-125 - prototypes with Continental C125 engine (2 built)
 MAC-145 - production version with Continental C145 engine (20 built)

Specifications (MAC-145)

See also

Notes

References

External links

 Meyers "145" – Flying

1940s United States sport aircraft
MAC-145
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1947


Apapátaro is a village in the Mexican state of Querétaro. It is located in the municipality of Huimilpan. It has 1141 inhabitants, and is located at 1970 meters above sea level.

References

Populated places in Querétaro


Valentin Valentinsen (21 December 1861 - ??) was a Norwegian engineer and politician for the Liberal Party.

Born in Haugesund as the son of ship-owner Johannes Valentinsen, he took a technical education and started his career at a shipyard in Laksevaag. In 1887 he was hired as head of the machine department in a shipyard in Mykolaiv, nicknamed the City of shipbuilders. In 1889 he went on to Jarrow, England, working as a machine constructor at the Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited. He then traveled to Chicago in 1890 and to San Francisco and the Union Iron Works in 1890. He returned to Norway in 1893.

He was a member of Haugesund city council from 1904, serving as deputy mayor in 1907 and 1908 and as mayor from 1909. He was then elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1910 and 1913, representing the constituency of Haugesund.

References

1861 births
Year of death missing
Members of the Storting
Mayors of places in Rogaland
Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
Norwegian engineers
People from Haugesund
Norwegian expatriates in Ukraine
Norwegian expatriates in England
Norwegian expatriates in the United States


Julia was a Herodian Princess who lived in the 1st century and possibly in the 2nd century in the Roman Empire.

She was of Jewish, Nabataean, Edomite, Greek, Armenian and Persian ancestry. Julia was the daughter of the Herodian Prince, later King, Tigranes VI of Armenia and his wife Opgalli. In the spring of 58 her father was crowned as King of Armenia by Roman Emperor Nero in Rome and ruled there until 63. Julia had a brother called Gaius Julius Alexander, who was the Roman Client King of the Kingdom of Cetis, a small region in Cilicia.

Her paternal grandparents were the Judean Prince Alexander and his unnamed wife. Through her father, Julia was the great, granddaughter of Cappadocian Princess Glaphyra and Judean Prince Alexander. Julia was the great, great granddaughter of King Archelaus of Cappadocia, King of Judea Herod the Great and his wife Mariamne. Julia along with her brother and father were last the known descendants of the Kings of Cappadocia.

Little is known on Julia's life. At an unknown date Julia married a Roman Senator called Marcus Plancius Varus. Varus was a prominent and wealthy Roman, who owned large estates in Galatia. Varus served as a Proconsul in Bithynia and later in Pontus during the reign of Roman Emperor Vespasian who ruled in the Roman Empire 69–79.

After Varus concluded his term as a Proconsul, he and Julia settled in Perga, the capital of the Roman province of Pamphylia. Julia became a priestess and served in the temple of the Ancient Greek Goddess Artemis in Perga. Artemis was the most important Goddess in Perga.

Julia bore Varus two children who were:
 Son, Gaius Plancius Varus, who became a Roman Senator and served as a consul during the reign of Roman Emperor Hadrian, who reigned 117–138. Gaius like his father became a prominent patron and prominent citizen in Perga.
 Daughter, Plancia Magna. Plancia Magna married a man of Roman Senatorial rank from Perga, a local citizen called Gaius Julius Cornutus Tertullus. Cornutus Tertullus and Plancia Magna had a son called Gaius Julius Plancius Varus Cornutus, who was Julia and her husband's only grandchild. Plancia Magna like her father and brother became a prominent patron and prominent citizen in Perga.

Sources
 https://web.archive.org/web/20050104093812/http://www.iznik.bel.tr/bld-gov/eng/eistkapi.htm
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080509195203/http://www.serifyenen.com/heritage_Summer2005.asp
 acsearch.info ancient coin search engine: Kings of Armenia

1st-century Romans
Herodian dynasty
People from Roman Anatolia
Julii
1st-century Roman women
Priestesses from the Roman Empire


Egmont Bight is a shallow embayment at the southern end of the Encombe valley in Dorset, England. It is part of the Jurassic Coast.

Geology
The bay exposes good sections of Upper Kimmeridge shale and mudstone, with some bituminous shale and some small calcareous nodules.

On foot the stony beach is only accessible at low tide by walking  west around Egmont Point from the beach at Chapman's Pool. There is no safe route down from the clifftop coast path, across Houns-tout cliff, nor around the Freshwater Steps promontory at the beach's western end.

See also
 List of Dorset beaches

References

Gallery

Bays of Dorset
Hills of Dorset
Jurassic Coast
Corfe Castle


Ola Bertelsen (10 October 1864 – 26 November 1946) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Liberal Left Party.

Born in Haugesund as the son of a bricklayer, he enrolled as a law student in 1883 and graduated as cand.jur. in 1888. He worked as an attorney in his hometown, before being appointed chief of police in 1911. In 1917 he was appointed estate administrator. Finally, from 1921 to 1934 he worked as district stipendiary magistrate (sorenskriver) of Karmsund.

He was a member of Haugesund city council from 1896 to 1898, later serving as mayor from 1904 to 1907. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament during the term 1931–1933, representing the Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties.

References

1864 births
1946 deaths
Deputy members of the Storting
Mayors of places in Rogaland
Free-minded Liberal Party politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
Norwegian jurists
People from Haugesund


Norwegian serfdom can be a way of defining the position of the Norwegian lower class farmers, though they were not actually in serfdom by European standards. The evolution of this social system began about 1750.

The institution only applied in the Kingdom of Norway, not in the rest of Denmark-Norway. Iceland (a Norwegian dependency) had its own system of serfdom, while a somewhat similar institution, the stavnsbånd, existed in Denmark proper. Slavery was the backbone of the Dano-Norwegian colonies in the Caribbean.

Overview

The system of Norwegian inheritance was based on a paternal line. Usually the younger sons got a share of the original farm, thus splitting it up in smaller homesteads. In the eastern parts of the country, and to some extent the mountain municipalities, the smaller homesteads still belonged to the main farm, and the lesser farmers were obliged to work the fields on the main farm as well as their own, in exchange for living there. This could lay heavy burdens on the smaller homesteads.

As time passed, the smaller homesteads passed from farmer to farmer, and the actual bonds between the families could be broken. In Hedmark, a main farm could govern up to ten smaller homesteads, spread around in the forests and fields connected to the farm. Social exploitation could often be a result of this policy, and also a strict social order, not to be broken (described in some of the novels of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and later Ingeborg Refling Hagen and Alf Prøysen). The difference from serfs elsewhere was that the farmer did not directly own the life and property of the homesteader (Husmann), but in most cases, he practically did. In Hallingdal this was most common in the lower parts of the valley, and, at some point, all the serfs were evicted, and the homesteads torn down. Many of the Norwegian migrants to America came from this social class. So did also the main stock of Norwegian workers, as the land got crowded and the splitting of farms came to an end about 1860.

In the western parts of the country, things worked differently. Here, farms were divided, but not ranked in the same way as in the east. The farms existed at a more equal level, and though small, they were more independent. Socially this paid back in less exploitation. As neighbouring fields in the western parts of Norway were often equally barren, all farmers had to struggle in the same way.

After 1860, smaller homesteads were often bought from the main farms, and erected as independent farms. This made it easier for many of the homesteaders. They also got their own union in time, Norsk Småbrukarlag (union of Norwegian small farmers). Today, many of those homesteads are mostly used for leisure.

Cultural impact

Many of the traditional folk musicians of Norway, and the greater part of singers and storytellers, seem to have belonged to this social layer, if not lower. The central farms were as a rule the first to adapt to modern standards and music. Hence, the medieval ballads and the oldest folk instruments survived in the poorer homesteads. Fiddlers are as a rule to be found both on lesser and bigger farms, and the hardanger fiddle tradition was common in all social layers. Myllarguten was from a lower class, but some of his teachers were not.

In Norwegian fairy tales, the heroes and heroines often represent people from this group. Askeladden is often said to come from "a humble cottage in the woods". The fairy tale king is often represented with a greater farm, not a castle. Hence, he is in the role of a manor farmer of Norway.

References

Sources

Online

Social history of Norway
Norway
Agriculture in Norway
Labour in Norway


Power of Ten is the tenth studio album by British-Irish singer Chris de Burgh, released in 1992 on A&M Records.

Track listing
All tracks written by Chris de Burgh.
"Where We Will Be Going" – 4:30
"By My Side" – 4:24
"Heart of Darkness" – 4:45
"In Your Eyes" – 4:49
"Separate Tables" – 3:38
"Talk to Me" – 3:51
"The Connemara Coast" (with The Chieftains) – 3:47
"Brother John" – 4:55
"Shine On" – 4:59
"A Celebration" – 3:49
"She Means Everything to Me" – 3:19
"Making the Perfect Man" – 5:16

"Separate Tables" was also recorded as an English duet as well as an English/German duet with Greek singer Vicky Leandros and released on her 2000 album Jetzt!.
Lyrics and music of the track "Heart of Darkness" appear again as a recurrent motif in the later Chris de Burgh album Moonfleet & Other Stories, released in 2010, particularly in the track "The Light on the Bay".

Personnel

 Chris de Burgh – lead and backing vocals, additional acoustic guitar (2, 8, 9)
 Danny McBride – electric guitar, lead guitar
 Geoff Richardson – acoustic guitar, viola (1)
 Jamie West-Oram – electric guitar (6)
 John Giblin – bass
 Rupert Hine – keyboards
 Michael Witzel – drums, percussion
 Tim Sanders – saxophone
 Paddy Moloney – arrangements (7)
 Miriam Stockley – additional backing vocals (4, 6, 9)
 Linda Taylor – additional backing  vocals (4, 6, 9)

Production

 Produced by Rupert Hine
 Engineered and mixed by Stephen W. Tayler at Metropolis Studios (London, England).
 Assistant technician – James Cadsky
 Art direction and design – Norman Service
 Photography – Richard Haughton
 Management – Dave Margereson and Kenny Thomson for Mismanagement, Inc.

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

Chris de Burgh albums
1992 albums
Albums produced by Rupert Hine
A&M Records albums


ROH, (, , Revolutionary Trade Union Movement literally in English) was a communist national trade union centre in Czechoslovakia from 1945 to 1990. In Communist Czechoslovakia (1948–1989) it was a monopolistic trade union, wherein the membership was often mandatory for employees of state industries.

Foundation

ROH was founded in the Czech Lands in 1945, emerging out of the factory councils and workers militias that evolve out of the wake of the Second World War. After World War II, communists became dominant in the trade union movement once the war ended. They were however not the sole political force in the initial phase of ROH, the Trade Union Department of the Communist Party was wary of 'syndicalist' tendencies in the factory councils.

In April 1946 the Slovak trade unions merged into ROH. The Slovak unions merged with their Czech counterparts, adopting the slogan "One factory - one trade union organization". However, during 1947 ROH membership in Slovakia dropped sharply for political and economical reason, ROH lost a third of its members in the area.

Antonín Zápotocký, a communist pre-war labour leader who had been imprisoned for six years during the war, became the chairman of ROH in June 1947. Evžen Erban, a left-wing Social Democrat, became the general secretary of ROH. In the leading body of ROH, the Central Trade Union Council (ÚRO), there were 94 communists, 18 Social Democrats, 6 National Socialists and 2 from the People's Party.

Prague Spring
During the Prague Spring of 1968, ROH became somewhat more independent. However, developments in the trade union field were somewhat slower than in other organizations. In March 1968 hardline leaders were removed from their positions in ÚRO. In September 1968 ÚRO reaffirmed that the process of internal reforms and adoptions of new statues in the affiliated unions would continue. Between November 1968 and January 1969 some unions (like the Metal Workers' Union) threatened to launch strikes if the pro-reform leaders wouldn't be reinstated to their positions in the Communist Party.<ref name="spr">Ekiert, Grzegorz. 'The State against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. p. 188</ref>

Ahead of the 7th ROH congress, held March 4–5 March 1969, 75% of the delegates were elected from the affiliated unions through secret ballots (for the first time). The congress did steer a moderate course, as the trade union movement was pressured from both pro-reform sectors as well as Communist Party hardliners. In the ROH leadership elected at the congress, different political strands were represented. Karel Poláček was the ROH chairman at the time. Gradually, however, ROH returned to following the line of the Communist Party.

Organization
ROH was organized along democratic centralist lines. The national leadership was the Central Trade Union Council (ÚRO). The organ leading ROH between ÚRO meetings was its 14-member presidium. In the districts, there were the District Trade Union Council (KOR). The KORs had around 20 members each, elected at District Trade Union Conferences.

ROH published the newspaper Práce''.

As of August 1958 ROH had over 3 800 000 members.

International cooperation
ROH was a member of the World Federation of Trade Unions. The WFTU had its headquarters in Prague.

Later period
In 1989, autonomous trade unions and strike committees surged in Czechoslovakia, which called for the dissolution of ROH. A parallel Trade Union Coordination Centre was formed. ROH tried to manage the situation by declaring its independence from the Communist Party. The Slovak branch of ROH decided to subordinate itself to the Coordination Centre. The Czech ROH organization hesitated somewhat, but at a trade union conference held 2–3 March 1990 ROH dissolved itself. In its place a new trade union federation, ČSKOS was founded.

See also

 Bohemian-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions
 Confederation of Trade Unions of the Slovak Republic

References

National trade union centers of Czechoslovakia
1945 establishments in Czechoslovakia
1990 disestablishments in Czechoslovakia
Trade unions established in 1945
Trade unions disestablished in 1990
World Federation of Trade Unions
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic


Ivan Lendl was the defending champion, but did not participate this year.

Michael Stich won the title, defeating Petr Korda 6–2, 2–6, 6–3 in the final.

Seeds

  Michael Stich (champion)
  Andrei Medvedev (first round)
  Cédric Pioline (second round)
  Magnus Gustafsson (quarterfinals)
  Petr Korda (final)
  Marc Rosset (second round)
  Arnaud Boetsch (first round)
  Wayne Ferreira (quarterfinals)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References

External links
 Singles draw

Singles


Eastern Wind is singer/songwriter Chris de Burgh's fifth studio album, released in 1980.  It did not make the UK Albums Chart or Billboard 200, but was at the time the second best-selling album in Norway after Abbey Road by the Beatles.

Track listing
All songs written by Chris de Burgh
"The Traveller" – 4:11
"The Record Company Bash" – 3:54
"Tonight" – 3:28
"Wall of Silence" – 3:48
"Flying Home" – 3:59
"Shadows and Lights" – 3:11
"Sailor" – 4:15
"Some Things Never Change" – 3:14
"Tourist Attraction" – 3:09
"Eastern Wind" – 5:17

Personnel
 Chris de Burgh – lead and harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar
 Tim Wynveen – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmony vocals
 Al Marnie – bass, harmony vocals
 Glenn Morrow – keyboards, synthesizers
 Erik Robertson – acoustic piano (3, 7), organ (3, 7)
 Jeff Phillips – drums, percussion
 Dick Heckstall-Smith – percussion (6, 8, 9)
 John Anthony Helliwell – saxophone
 Lisa Dal Bello – backing vocals (2, 5, 8)
 Colina Phillips – backing vocals (6, 8)
 Sharon Lee Williams – backing vocals (6, 8)

Production
 Producer – David Anderle
 Assistant Producer – Kenny Thomson
 Engineer – Hayward Parrott
 Assistant Engineer – David Taylor
 Recorded at Manta Sound Studios, Toronto.
 Art Direction and Photography – Michael Ross
 Illustration – Allan Manham
 Management – Mismanagement, Inc.

References

Chris de Burgh albums
1980 albums
Albums produced by David Anderle
A&M Records albums


John A. Fraser (November 6, 1840 – May 4, 1908) was a political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Victoria County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1874 to 1878 and from 1886 to 1894 as a Liberal member.

He was born on Boularderie Island, Nova Scotia, the only surviving son of the Reverend James Fraser, a missionary for the Church of Scotland. Fraser was educated in Halifax. He was postmaster for Big Bras D'Or and served as a member of the municipal council. In 1865, he married Frances Helen Plant. Fraser did not run for reelection in 1878 and 1882.

References
The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1889, AJ Gemmill

1840 births
1908 deaths
Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs


All Japan Intercollegiate Volleyball Championship (全日本バレーボール大学男女選手権大会 Zen Nippon Barēbōru Daigaku Danjo Senshuken Taikai) is an annual nationwide intercollegiate volleyball tournament. It is the largest scale amateur sport event in Japan.

The tournament, organized by the Japan College School Volleyball Federation and Asahi Shimbun, takes place in December at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.

Previous winners
Men

Women

References

Volleyball competitions in Japan
Student sport in Japan
Recurring sporting events established in 1948
1948 establishments in Japan


Ubayakathirgamam is a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Muruga, who is worshipped as presiding deity of Kali Yuga. The prefix Ubaya- means "second" or "sub" in Tamil. Hence the temple got its name, as it is considered to be a second Kathirgamam (Kataragama) of the country. This temple is in Puloly in the Jaffna Peninsula of Sri Lanka.

Location

Ubayakathirgamam can be reached by taking a walk through Vallipuram Road, from Manthikai Junction, which is on the Point Pedro - Jaffna Road. A Vinayagar temple named Periyadevanatthay Alayam is also situated beside Ubayakathirgamam. Devotees from Puloly and Point Pedro come regularly to the daily Poojas. During the Karthikai Star on the month of Karthikai, the temple will be filled by devotees from all over the country for its Camphor Festival. It should also be noted that the Theertham festival falls on a Thiruvona Star, close upon to the Theertham festival of Kataragama temple.

How to reach
The temple is at a distance of 31.7 km from Jaffna Railway station. One has to drive from Jaffna towards Point Pedro, via Nelliyady and Manthikai junction. The temple is at 1.7 km from the Manthikai (Manthigai) Government Hospital.

Temple timings
On normal days, the morning puja is performed at 7:00 am. Temple is open for devotees from 07:00 to around 12:00 noon. Evening puja is performed by around 05:00 pm and the temple is open for devotees from 05:00 to 08:00 pm.

Moolavar

Ubayakathirgamam Moolavar is a Chakkara Yantra, which appeared on a white rock itself. As unlike in other temples of Muruga, the Moola Linga is in the form of a Chakkara Yantra, hence the temple got its name "Ubayakathirgamam Sri Chakkara Shanmugar Alayam". The noticeable feature of this Chakkara Yantra is it was not made by hand of man. It is a Suyambu Linga, the Holy one revealing himself in nature on the white rock. There are a few projections and letters representing God Vinayagar and the Shakties of Siva, to the right of the yantra. The Wood apple tree, which is also said to have divine power as the Thala Viruksha of the temple, is named as Vilatheeswaran.

History

This temple was discovered and named Ubayakathirgamam by Lady T.S.Logambal devotee of Muruga, who hails from Tirunelveli, a city in Tamil Nadu. The Lady Logambal publication mentions that in the year 1909, God Muruga appeared in a dream to Lady Logambal and informed the existence of the Chakkara Yantra on the surface of a rock by the side of a wood apple tree at Pachchima Pulavar Kana Nagaram. He told her to draw a picture of the yantra and keep it with her for her daily prayers. It was impossible for her to locate the village which was in Sri Lanka (then named as Ceylon), as she is an Indian.

In year 1911, Muruga informed her in her dream that the place is in the Jaffna Peninsula of Ceylon. The scholars in Jaffna informed her that Puloly is the Tamil equivalent of the above-mentioned Nagaram, which was named in Sanskrit. After reaching Jaffna, she succeeded in discovering the holy site, in a Visakha day in the month of Vaikasi, which is according to Skanda Purana, the birth day of God Muruga.

It was year 1924, after a long period, God Muruga instructed in her dream that the Yantra of the temple is, as appeared by itself, has the strong power than the other temples and will give divine favours to the devotees. So it again became a duty of Lady Logambal to spread the message to the devotees in Ceylon.

In a leaflet printed and published on 25 July 1924, Lady Logambal clearly instructed the people of the village South Puloly the power of the temple and its Chakkara as informed to her God Muruga. It is mentioned in the pamphlet that there must have been a famous temple at this site in olden days and that it had come to ruins.

The Temple’s Divine Power

The Yantra drawn up by Muthulinga Swamigal at Kathirgamam is considered a major reason for the divine grace of Kathirgamam. Similarly since the appearance of Ubayakathirgamam to the villagers, with the guidance of Lady Logambal, the temple was a miracle for the villagers. It is so common to hear from the villagers, mentioning the wishes those were fulfilled by worshiping the temple and its Chakkara Yantra.

It is also mentioned that once when the people were not knowledgeable regarding the Yantra, the white rock where the Suyambu Linga appeared in nature was tried to be removed to build a Vinayagar Temple nearby. In spite of seven explosions by Subramaniam, an experienced man in blasting rocks, the rock was safe without any damage. This was known as a miracle and the rock and the wood apple tree on it were assumed to be having super natural powers, by the villagers.

Devotees from all over the country go to this temple to worship Sri Chakkara Shanmugar and Vilatheeswaran and fulfill their wishes.

See also
Hinduism in Sri Lanka
Katirkamam (Hindu temple)

References

UBAYA KATHIRGAMA TEMPLE Pamphlet 1. (September, 1970)
(Shanmugar Temple The Moolalingam which Appeared in Nature.) Puloly South, Puloly, Ceylon.

Hindu temples in Jaffna District
Murugan temples in Sri Lanka


The AJS S3 V-twin is a British motorcycle designed and built by the  Wolverhampton, England company A. J. Stevens & Co. Ltd. Launched in 1931, the AJS S3 was  a 496 cc transverse V-twin tourer with shaft primary drive (but chain final drive), three-speed bevel-driven gearbox and alloy cylinder heads. The 50 degree V configuration was effective for air cooling and with a tank top 'dashboard' was conceived as a luxury cruiser. It had been expensive to develop and at £65 was more expensive than the  AJS of the same year, so the S3 did not sell in large numbers, and by the end of 1931 AJS had gone into liquidation and been taken over by Matchless motorcycles who discontinued production.

See also
 List of motorcycles of the 1930s

References

External links
 AJS S3

S3 V-twin
Motorcycles introduced in the 1930s


Shane Stephen Rattenbury (born 25 August 1971), is the Attorney-General of the ACT and former Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly, and a member of the multi-member district unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Molonglo from 2008 to 2016 and the electorate of Kurrajong since 2016 for the ACT Greens. He was the first Speaker in any Parliament in the world representing a Green political party.

Early life, education and career before politics
Rattenbury first moved to Canberra in 1984. He attended Canberra Grammar School and went on to gain a BEc and LLB(Honours) from the Australian National University and commenced employment, working with the Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Tourism. Prior to his election to the Assembly, Rattenbury travelled between Amsterdam and Australia as the International Political Director of Greenpeace International. During this time, he gained publicity for his work on global campaigns on climate change and whaling.

Political career
In the 1996 federal election, Rattenbury was the Greens candidate for the newly-created Division of Namadgi in the southern suburbs of Canberra. He came in 3rd with 7.22% of the primary vote.

Rattenbury stood for the ACT Greens in the 1998 Australian Capital Territory general election in the seat of Ginninderra, attracting 1896 primary votes, or 3.76% of the formal vote,  and narrowly missing winning the electorate's fifth seat on preferences behind the Osborne Independent Group's Dave Rugendyke.

Rattenbury again stood for election to the ACT Legislative Assembly at the 2001 ACT election, as a candidate in the electorate of Ginninderra for the ACT Greens. After the distribution of preferences, Rattenbury was defeated by both Labor's Wayne Berry and the Australian Democrats' Roslyn Dundas.

In June 2008, the ACT Greens announced that Rattenbury would again stand as a candidate for election in the electorate of Molonglo. Independent polling released in October suggested the Green vote had doubled since the last election at the expense of Labor, with the Liberal vote remaining relatively unchanged. Commentators predicted the Greens would hold the balance of power and decide who forms government. The Greens stated they were willing to court both major parties. With 82.1 per cent of the vote counted, Labor had obtained 37.6 per cent of the vote, with the Liberals at 31.1 per cent and the Greens at 15.8 per cent. Swings were recorded against both Labor (−9.3 per cent) and the Liberals (−3.7 per cent) with a +6.6 per cent swing towards the Greens, resulting in the election of Rattenbury, Meredith Hunter, Amanda Bresnan, and Caroline Le Couteur.

Parliamentary career and election as Speaker
After deliberations with both the Labor and Liberal parties, the Greens chose to support a Labor minority government. Hunter was a key negotiator of the Parliamentary Agreement between the ACT Greens and the Labor Party. Under the agreement, the Greens secured a range of policy outcomes in the areas of schools and education, health service provision, housing, public transport and gay rights. It also ensures that the Greens will Chair three of the Assembly's key committees. In exchange, the Greens agreed to maintain confidence in Chief Minister, Jon Stanhope. The Greens also secured Government support for the nomination of Rattenbury as Assembly Speaker. While on the cross bench in the 7th Assembly, Rattenbury was Greens spokesperson in the portfolios of Attorney-General, Environment, Climate Change and Water, Energy, Police and Emergency Services, Tourism, Sport and Recreation.

Ministerial roles
Following the 2012 ACT election, Rattenbury was the only Greens MLA to retain his seat in the Assembly. With the election resulting in a hung parliament, Rattenbury, who held the balance of power, announced he would support Katy Gallagher and the Labor Party in the formation of government. The ACT Labor Caucus agreed to appoint Rattenbury as a minister in Gallagher's five-member cabinet, and to support 100 Greens policies. Rattenbury served as the ACT Minister for Ageing, Minister for Housing, Minister for Corrections, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, as well as, Minister for Territory and Municipal Services in the Second Gallagher Ministry and the First Barr Ministry.

Rattenbury was re-elected at the 2016 ACT election. Following the election, Rattenbury was joined by party colleague Caroline Le Couteur in the Legislative Assembly, taking the Greens tally to 2 out of 25 total seats in the Assembly. Rattenbury subsequently struck a deal with the minority Labor Government to retain a place in the cabinet as the Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Minister for Justice, Consumer Affairs and Road Safety, Minister for Corrections, and Minister for Mental Health. Although a member of the Barr government, he reserved the right to withdraw from Cabinet discussions on divisive issues and vote independently in the Assembly.

Re-elected again at the 2020 ACT election with six Greens elected to the then 25 member Assembly, the Greens negotiated a Parliamentary and Governing Agreement with Labor which saw three Greens enter the Ministry. Rattenbury holds the portfolios of Attorney-General, Minister for Water, Energy and Emissions Reduction, Minister for Gaming and Minister for Consumer Affairs.

Personal life
In 2019, Rattenbury admitted that he had tried the drug MDMA once in his 20s.

See also

 2008 Australian Capital Territory general election
 Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, 2008–2012

References

External links

Shane Rattenbury: Website
 Shane Rattenbury: ACT Legislative Assembly website
 Shane Rattenbury's Inaugural Speech to the ACT Legislative Assembly (11 December 2008)
 Shane Rattenbury on Greenpeace TV

1971 births
Living people
Australian Greens members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
Australian public servants
Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
Speakers of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
People associated with Greenpeace
People educated at Canberra Grammar School
21st-century Australian politicians


Amanda Bresnan (born 4 December 1971) is an Australian politician and a former member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. Bresnan was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Brindabella for the ACT Greens at the 2008 election and defeated at the 2012 election

Early life and education
Amanda Bresnan was raised in Brisbane and studied at Griffith University. She moved to Canberra to work in policy development in the public and community sectors. Initially, Bresnan entered the ACT Government's Graduate Program and later became a senior policy officer in ACT Health. She went on to become policy manager for the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia and the director of policy at the Mental Health Council of Australia.

Political career
Bresnan ran for election for the electorate of Molonglo in the 2004 ACT Election representing the ACT Greens. She was unsuccessful in winning a seat in the multi-member electorate. However, the Greens' lead candidate, Deb Foskey, was elected.

In the 2007 Australian federal election, Bresnan ran for the House of Representatives seat of Canberra, again representing the Australian Greens. The candidature of Bresnan and Meredith Hunter for the House of Representatives was part of an extensive campaign in the ACT to elect Kerrie Tucker end coalition control of the Australian Senate immediately after the election, as territory Senators take their place at this time as opposed to their state counterparts in the following July. The ACT holds two seats with only three-year terms, so a larger quota than normal is required for election. Despite a swing of 5.1 percent to the Greens on 21.5 percent, their best result in any state or territory, the party fell narrowly short.

In June 2008, the ACT Greens announced that Bresnan would again stand for election, this time in Brindabella, at the upcoming election. Independent polling released in October suggested the Green vote had doubled to tripled since the last election at the expense of Labor, with the Liberal vote remaining relatively unchanged. Commentators predicted the Greens would hold the balance of power and decide who forms government. The Greens stated they were willing to court both major parties. At the close of counting on election night, with 82.1 per cent of the vote counted, Labor had obtained 37.6 per cent of the vote across the ACT, with the Liberals at 31.1 per cent and the Greens at 15.8 per cent. Swings were recorded against both the Labor (-9.3 per cent) and Liberal (-3.7 per cent) parties with a +6.6 per cent swing towards the Greens. This resulted in the election of Bresnan, Meredith Hunter, Shane Rattenbury and Caroline Le Couteur. Rattenbury became the sole member for the Greens in 2012 as the rest of the Greens MLAs were defeated.

Parliamentary career
While in parliament, Bresnan held the portfolios of Health, Mental Health, Transport, Disability, Housing, Ageing, Multicultural Affairs, Industrial Relations and Corrections. She was also the ACT Greens' Party Whip.

See also
 2008 Australian Capital Territory general election
 Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, 2008–2012

External links

 Amanda Bresnan: Official Website and Newsfeed
 Amanda Bresnan: Parliamentary Website and Information
 Amanda Bresnan's Inaugural Speech

References

1971 births
Australian Greens members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
Living people
Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
21st-century Australian politicians


Meredith Hunter (born 22 July 1962) is an Australian former politician who was a member of the multi-member unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Ginninderra for the ACT Greens from 2008 to 2012. She was also the Parliamentary Convenor of the ACT Greens.

Early life and background
Hunter (née Stevenson) was born in Canberra to John and Judy Stevenson. Her grandmother, Mary Stevenson, was the first woman elected to the ACT Advisory Council and was president of the Liberal Party's ACT Women's Branch. She was educated at the Australian National University and was later made an Adjunct Professional Associate at the University of Canberra.

Hunter had a high profile in the community sector prior to her election. She began her career as a youth worker in Canberra and went on to become a prominent youth affairs advocate. She was the director of the Youth Coalition of the ACT for over ten years and held executive positions with a number of national peak bodies, including the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition and National Shelter. Hunter was also a vocal spokesperson on community sector viability and social welfare issues, serving on the Board of the ACT Council of Social Service and as Chairwoman of ACT Shelter. Notably, Hunter was appointed Chair of the Youth Homelessness Strategy and Chair of Anti-Poverty Week. In 2008, she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Youth Coalition for her contribution to children and young people.

Political career: 2004 - 2008

Early candidature
Hunter first ran for election for the electorate of Ginninderra in the 2004 ACT general election representing the ACT Greens. She significantly outperformed ACT Labor Party candidates Mary Porter and Wayne Berry in primary votes, though they went on to defeat her after the distribution of preferences. She ran as a candidate for election to the House of Representatives representing the electorate of Fraser for the Australian Greens in the 2007 federal election. Hunter achieved a swing of 2.1% towards the Greens, however was unsuccessful in defeating sitting Labor member, Bob McMullan. The candidature of Hunter and Amanda Bresnan for the House of Representatives was part of an extensive campaign in the ACT to elect Kerrie Tucker and end coalition control of the Australian Senate immediately after the election, as territory Senators take their place at this time as opposed to their state counterparts in the following July. The ACT holds two seats with only three-year terms, so a larger quota than normal is required for election. Despite a swing of 5.1 percent to the Greens on 21.5 percent, their best result in any state or territory, the party fell narrowly short.

ACT election campaign
In June 2008, the ACT Greens announced that Hunter would again stand for election, again in Ginninderra, at the upcoming election. Independent polling released in October suggested the Green vote had doubled to tripled since the last election at the expense of Labor, with the Liberal vote remaining relatively unchanged. Commentators predicted the Greens would hold the balance of power and decide who forms government. The Greens stated they were willing to court both major parties. At the close of counting on election night, with 82.1 per cent of the vote counted, Labor had obtained 37.6 per cent of the vote across the ACT, with the Liberals at 31.1 per cent and the Greens at 15.8 per cent. Swings were recorded against both the Labor (-9.3 per cent) and Liberal (-3.7 per cent) parties with a +6.6 per cent swing towards the Greens. This resulted in the election of Hunter, Bresnan, Shane Rattenbury and Caroline Le Couteur.

Parliamentary career

Formation of government

After deliberations with both the Labor and Liberal parties, the Greens chose to support a Labor minority government. Hunter was a key negotiator of the Parliamentary Agreement between the ACT Greens and the Labor Party. Under the agreement, the Greens secured a range of policy outcomes in the areas of schools and education, health service provision, housing, public transport and gay rights. It also ensures that the Greens will Chair three of the Assembly's key committees. In exchange, the Greens agreed to maintain confidence in Chief Minister, Jon Stanhope. The Greens also secured Government support for the nomination of Rattenbury as Speaker of the Assembly. The agreement between the ACT Greens and ACT Labor requires the Government to report on progress against the measures outlined in the agreement on an annual basis. The first joint communiqué on the progress of the agreement was issued in July 2008. The next communiqué was due to be issued in July 2010.

ACT Greens leader
Prior to the negotiation of the agreement, Hunter was appointed Parliamentary Convenor of the ACT Greens, a role equivalent to that of a Parliamentary Party Leader, and was party spokesperson for the portfolios of Treasury, Community Services, Education, Women and Children and Young People. Hunter has been visible in the media on issues surrounding education and literacy and ACT finances. Hunter was supportive of the 2009-10 ACT Budget where it progressed measures outlined in the parliamentary agreement, but signaled the Greens' concerns about the size of the budget deficit. Most commentators agreed that the Budget was a victory for the Greens. She has also been a vocal critic of the Federal Government's intervention in the ACT's same sex civil union reforms. Hunter was the Chair of the Climate Change, Water and Environment Committee and was a member of the Justice and Community Safety Committee. At the 2012 ACT Elections, Hunter narrowly lost the 5th seat in Ginninnderra to Yvette Berry of the Labor Party, after suffering an ACT wide swing of more than 6% from the Greens. Her party could only return one MP, which was Shane Rattenbury, who thereby naturally became her successor as the Leader of the Greens.

See also
 2008 Australian Capital Territory general election
 Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, 2008–2012

References

External links

 Meredith Hunter: ACT Greens website
 Meredith Hunter: ACT Legislative Assembly website
 Meredith Hunter's Inaugural Speech to the ACT Legislative Assembly

1962 births
Australian Greens members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
Living people
Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
21st-century Australian politicians


Caroline Le Couteur (born 1952) is an Australian politician. She was elected to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Molonglo for the ACT Greens at the 2008 election and defeated at the 2012 election In October 2016, she was re-elected to the assembly representing the new electorate of Murrumbidgee, serving a single term until her retirement in 2020.

Life before election
Le Couteur grew up in the Canberra suburb of Yarralumla. Her father was the British physicist Kenneth Le Couteur. She was educated at Telopea Park High School and the Australian National University where she studied economics. She moved to Nimbin after the holding of the Aquarius Festival there in 1973 and stayed there for 11 years. While in Nimbin she was instrumental in forming a pre-school and primary school and became a solar (photovoltaic) panel retailer and installer.   She subsequently moved back to Canberra and worked for the federal and territorial governments firstly in information technology and later in renewable energy policy. She later became an Executive Director of locally based, now ASX listed, company Australian Ethical Investment as well as their information technology manager.

Le Couteur was active in the local environment community. She was at the time of her election one of the two national councillors  of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and had previously been on the ACF's board.  She was a keen supporter of groups such as the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society, Pedal Power, Oxfam, Anglicare and the Conservation Council.

Le Couteur has dual British-Australian citizenship.

Political career
Le Couteur stood for the ACT Greens in the electorate of Molonglo in 1998 supporting the Green incumbent Kerrie Tucker. She remained active in the Greens and stood again in Molonglo in 2008. Before the 2008 election the Greens had one member, Deb Foskey. Prior to the 2008 election polling conducted by Patterson Market Research and published in The Canberra Times suggested the Green vote had significantly increased since the last election at the expense of Labor, with the Liberal vote remaining relatively unchanged. Commentators predicted the Greens would hold the balance of power and decide who forms government. The Greens stated they were willing to court both major parties. At the close of counting on election night, with 82.1 per cent of the vote counted, Labor had obtained 37.6 per cent of the vote across the ACT, with the Liberals at 31.1 per cent and the Greens at 15.8 per cent. Swings were recorded against both the Labor (−9.3 per cent) and Liberal (−3.7 per cent) parties with a +6.6 per cent swing towards the Greens. This resulted in the election of Amanda Bresnan, Meredith Hunter, Shane Rattenbury and Caroline Le Couteur. Le Couteur, Bresnan and Hunter were defeated at the 2012 election.

Le Couteur stood as a candidate for the new Murrumbidgee electorate in the 2016 election, and was successfully re-elected. After being sworn in as a member of the Assembly, Le Couteur was appointed chair of the Parliamentary Planning Committee. During her time in the Assembly, Le Couteur was involved in the passage of legislation committing the ACT to a 'zero emissions by 2050' target and a ban on political donations by the property industry. She announced her retirement from politics ahead of the 2020 election.

Personal life
Le Couteur has described herself as an "ageing hippie" and has admitted to smoking cannabis in her youth, as well as having tried acid.

References

External links

Caroline Le Couteur: Website
 Caroline Le Couteur: Legislative Assembly Members' page
 Caroline Le Couteur's Inaugural Speech

1952 births
Living people
Australian Greens members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
People from Canberra
21st-century Australian politicians
Australian people of Jersey descent
Women members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
21st-century Australian women politicians


Aziz Mohammad Khan (1931–1992) or Aziz Qaisi was an Urdu poet, short story writer, and film writer. He was born and educated in Hyderabad, Telangana. He started writing early and established himself as a poet and story writer. He moved to Mumbai in the late nineteen-fifties, and became an active part of Mumbai's literary and film scene. He was associated with a number of films, including Kunwara Baap, Ankur, and Dayavan. Early in his life, he became associated with the Progressive Writers' Movement, which had a presence in Hyderabad and Mumbai.

Work and contribution
Aziz Qaisi started writing early, and by the mid-1950s had already written poetry and short stories. Although he is known primarily as a poet, he also wrote prose. His poems consists of both ghazals as well as nazms. He published three poetry collections. His works has been translated into other Indian languages as well as English.  His poems and stories have been part of various important anthologies of Indian and Urdu literature. His contribution to contemporary Indian literature is significant. He is counted among the important poets who contributed significantly to Urdu poetry after 1947 and introduced new trends.

Filmography

 Dushman Duniya Ka (1996) (dialogue) (screenplay) (story),
 Indrajeet (1991) (screenplay),
 Dayavan (1988) (dialogue), (Lyrics),
 Apne Apne (1987) (script)
 Sarkari Mehmaan(1978)(dialogue)
 Oonch neech Beech
 Pyaar Bana Afsana
 Kunwara Baap (1974) (written by)
 Rakhi Aur Hathkadi (1972) (Screenplay)
 Bansi Birju (1972) (dialogue) (screenplay) (story)
 Ankur (1974)
 Rakhi Aur Hathkadi (1972) (screenplay)

References

External links
  Awaz Sayeed's sketch of Aziz Qaisi
  Aziz Qaisi's Shairi collectio on ShairOShairi.com
  Poetry Pakistanway

1931 births
1992 deaths
Urdu-language poets from India
20th-century Indian Muslims
Writers from Hyderabad, India
Poets from Andhra Pradesh
20th-century Indian poets
Indian male poets
20th-century Indian male writers


At the End of a Perfect Day is singer Chris de Burgh's third album, released in 1977.

Critical reception
The Irish Times called the album one of de Burgh's "darkest, most bittersweet releases."

Track listing
All compositions by Chris de Burgh
"Broken Wings" – 3:06
"Round and Around" – 3:06
"I Will" – 3:30
"Summer Rain" – 4:00
"Discovery" – 3:21
"Brazil" – 3:13
"In a Country Churchyard (Let Your Love Shine On)" – 3:56
"A Rainy Night in Paris" – 3:21
"If You Really Love Her, Let Her Go" – 4:01
"Perfect Day" – 4:01

Personnel

 Chris de Burgh – lead vocals, backing vocals (1-7, 9, 10), Spanish guitar solo (1), guitar (2-5, 7, 9, 10), foot tap (2), harpsichord (5), acoustic piano (8)
 Alun Davies – acoustic guitar (1)
 Bryn Haworth – electric and slide guitars (10)
 Dave Markee – bass (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10), backing vocals (10)
 Paul Hart – acoustic piano (4, 5, 7, 10)
 The Spiteri Band – acoustic piano, guitars, bass, drums, percussion, flute and backing vocals on "Brazil"
 Jorge Spiteri : Guitar, acoustic piano, backing vocals
 Joseito Romero : Guitar, flute, backing vocals
 José Manuel Arria : Bass guitar
 Bernardo Ball :Drums, percussion
 Gerry Conway –  drums (1, 3, 4)
 Dave Mattacks – drums (5, 7, 10), percussion (5)
 Barry Morgan –  drums (5), percussion (5)
 Morris Pert (as "Maurice Pert") –  percussion (2)
 Jimmy Jewell – saxophone (2, 8), brass (4)
 John Mumford – brass (4)
 Brian Rogers – string arrangements (3, 5), horn arrangements (5)
 Del Newman – string arrangements (7, 9)
 Paul Samwell-Smith – backing vocals (1, 2, 3, 9, 10)
 Sue Lynch – backing vocals (7)

Production

 Producer – Paul Samwell-Smith
 Engineer – Mike Bobak
 Assistant Engineer – Nick Cook
 Art Direction – Fabio Nicoli
 Cover Design – Nick Marshall
 Photography – Roger Stowell

Notes

Chris de Burgh albums
1977 albums
Albums produced by Paul Samwell-Smith
A&M Records albums
Albums recorded at Morgan Sound Studios


Prothalamion, the commonly used name of , is a poem by Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), one of the important poets of the Tudor period in England. Published in 1596, it is a nuptial song that he composed that year on the occasion of the twin marriage of the daughters of the Earl of Worcester, Elizabeth Somerset and Katherine Somerset, to Sir Henry Guildford and William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre respectively.

Prothalamion is written in the conventional form of a marriage song. The poem begins with a description of the River Thames where Spenser finds two beautiful maidens. The poet proceeds to praise them and wishing them all the blessings for their marriages. The poem begins with a fine description of the day when on which he is writing the poem:

The poet is standing near the Thames River and finds a group of nymphs with baskets collecting flowers for the new brides. The poet tells us that they are happily making the bridal crowns for Elizabeth and Katherine. He goes on his poem describing two swans at the Thames, relating it to the myth of Jove and Leda. According to the myth, Jove falls in love with Leda and comes to court her in the guise of a beautiful swan. The poet feels that the Thames has done justice to his nuptial song by "flowing softly" according to his request: "Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song". The poem is often grouped with Spenser's poem about his own marriage, the Epithalamion.

American-born British poet T. S. Eliot quotes the line "Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song" in his 1922 poem The Waste Land. English composer George Dyson (1883–1964) set words from Prothalamion to music in his 1954 cantata Sweet Thames Run Softly.

Notes

External links

 Text of Prothalamion
  Renascence Editions

Poetry by Edmund Spenser
Culture associated with the River Thames


Joan Marshall (born Joan Schrepferman; June 6, 1931 – June 28, 1992) was an American film and television actress. She is best known for her appearances in The Twilight Zone's "Dead Man's Shoes", and Star Trek's "Court Martial".

Early life
She was born Joan Schrepferman on June 6, 1931 in Chicago, where she was raised. When she was 17, she had polio that paralyzed her face, neck, spine, and vocal cords, leaving her temporarily unable to speak. She began her career performing as a showgirl in Chicago clubs.

Career
After appearing as a dancer in The Chicago Kid (1945) and in a part in the television series Have Gun – Will Travel playing Sheriff Quinn's daughter Molly in S1 E26 "Birds of a Feather" (1958), she moved to California around 1959. In 1959, she reprised the Lauren Bacall role of Sailor Duval in the short-lived television series version of the film Bold Venture. During the 1960s, Marshall frequently guest-starred on various television series, including Tales of Wells Fargo, Maverick, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, Gunsmoke, and The Jack Benny Program. She also appeared in the films Homicidal (using the stage name Jean Arless) and Tammy and the Doctor opposite Sandra Dee and Peter Fonda.

Marshall also appeared in the 15-minute unaired pilot of The Munsters as Phoebe Munster (who strongly resembled Morticia Addams). Before the series was picked up, The Munsters was retooled and Marshall was replaced by actress Yvonne De Carlo. Marshall continued guest-starring in episodic television throughout the 1960s before her last role in the 1975 film Shampoo with Warren Beatty. She also worked as Barbra Streisand's personal assistant on her self-produced 1976 film A Star Is Born.

Personal life and death
Marshall was married five times. She had three children with her first two husbands. Marshall's third marriage was to director Hal Ashby in August 1969; she divorced him a year later in 1970, and married for a fourth time to Jeffrey A. Stein in 1978, whom she also divorced. In 1990 she married for a fifth time, this time to executive Mel Bartfield. She bought property in Jamaica. She died there of lung cancer at age 61 on June 28, 1992.

Filmography

References

External links

1931 births
1992 deaths
20th-century American actresses
Actresses from Chicago
American film actresses
American television actresses
American expatriates in Jamaica