The International Home Wrecking Crew (formerly known as the Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew) is a professional wrestling stable that appears primarily in Shimmer Women Athletes but also other independent promotions. As the Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew, former enemies and Minnesotans Rain and Lacey teamed up as a tag team in 2003. English wrestler Jetta was later welcomed into the group. Lacey soon retired from professional wrestling and the International Home Wrecking Crew became a tag team, but in May 2009 Lacey reappeared in a managerial capacity for the team. Their last match was in November 2009, after which time Rain mainly wrestled in Mexico and Jetta retired. Their name is an homage to the Minnesota Wrecking Crew.

History

Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew

IWA: Mid-South (2002–2004)
Lacey and Rain, both of Minnesota extraction, spent most of 2002 feuding with each other in Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South (IWA: Mid-South) as well as Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Minnesota Independent Wrestling and others. However, by the end of 2003, at IWA: Mid-South's Stylin' and Profilin''' the duo found themselves teaming together, in a losing effort, to Daizee Haze and Mickie Knuckles and again the following year at You Gotta See This picking up a return victory.

Women's Erotic Wrestling (2006–2007)
As well as making individual appearances for the company, the Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew have wrestled twice for Women's Erotic Wrestling. In July 2006 the duo defeated the team of Shantelle Taylor and Pussy Willow at Nude and Nasty. The following year, at May's Nude War Games, the two challenged Annie Social and Sumie Sakai for the WEW Tag Team Championship but failed to win gold.

Shimmer Women Athletes (2006–2008)
After continuing to wrestle as singles wrestlers, the two found themselves individually employed by Illinois-based start-up promotion Shimmer Women Athletes from its beginning in 2005. It was not until Volume 5 that the Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew made their presence known, with Lacey confronting Mercedes Martinez for focusing too much on Sara Del Rey and goading her into a tag team match. Martinez actually picked Del Rey as her partner but Lacey's boasting was justified as the Home Wreckers picked up their maiden Shimmer win after Del Rey accidentally hit Martinez with a running boot while aiming for Lacey. During Volume 7 Rain, with Lacey in her corner, found herself wrestling MsChif who was embroiled in a feud with Cheerleader Melissa. When Melissa came to the ringside to attack MsChif she was shoved to the floor by Lacey eventually leading to Rain's loss by disqualification. In return, the two attacked Melissa in her main event match but, in a moment that saw enemies become allies, MsChif ran out to save Melissa and beat down the two, leading to Lacey challenging the two to a tag team match. Once again, on Volume 8, the Home Wreckers proved that teamwork prevails over ad hoc teaming when the two performed a Double Team Tomikaze on MsChif before pinning her to win their second match.

Over the course of Volume 11 and Volume 12, Shimmer held a knock out tournament to crown the inaugural Shimmer Champion. Rain was knocked out in the first round by Nikki Roxx but Lacey found greater success, finding herself in the final against Del Rey. As the match was ending, Lacey knocked the referee over allowing Rain to enter the ring and use her Rain Drop finisher on Del Rey. A returning Roxx and Shimmer founder Allison Danger came to the ringside to carry off Rain, making sure the match stayed even leading to Del Rey picking up the title. This led to the main event of Volume 13 where the Home Wreckers faced their tournament foes Del Rey and Roxx who competently defeated the tag team; Del Rey had both in her Royal Butterfly simultaneously from where Nikki Roxx used her Barbie Crusher on Lacey while Rain received a powerslam from Del Rey and was pinned, marking their first Shimmer tag team loss.

After the team became international (see below) The Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew made two more appearances in their original form. Their final appearance in Shimmer was at Volume 18 in April 2008. In what was deemed an upset victory, the team lost to losing to Ashley Lane and Nevaeh, giving the team their first victory in the promotion since joining the company the volume before. This was also Lacey's last match as an active competitor, as she retired from in-ring action and disappeared entirely from wrestling until ROH's Rising Above in November before returning as manager of the International Home Wrecking Crew the following year.

Ring of Honor (2007–2008)
The tag team made their first appearance in Ring of Honor at The Battle of St Paul in April 2007 as event openers, with Jimmy Jacobs in their corner defeating the Dangerous Angels (Allison Danger and Sara Del Rey). Two months later they appeared at Driven further up the card. They presaged their first International Home Wreckers outing by competing with MsChif and Daizee Haze. Unlike their later Shimmer encounter, the duo managed to score a victory. As Lacey was already a member of Jacobs' The Age of the Fall stable, an invitation was extended to Rain who joined the group and the duo made several appearances, together and apart, for the faction such as at Supercard of Honor III where they held down Jay Briscoe forcing his brother, Mark, to submit.

Full Impact Pro Wrestling (2007–2008)
After their appearance in ROH, the Home Wreckers were challenged by the Dangerous Angels to a rematch at Hot Summer Nights in June 2007. Joined by Amazing Kong and also facing their other enemy Daizee Haze, the three were victorious. Their winning streak outside of Shimmer came to an abrupt end at Cage of Pain II in September when the combined team of Haze and Del Rey defeated them. Danger remained winless over the team, however, as they successfully wrestled their final FIP match against her and Trenesha. By this point, February 2008, the Minnesota Home Wreckers had become part of the larger FIP group Young, Rich and Ready for action (The YRR) and it was their influence the match before, helping Chasyn Rance defeat Seth Delay, that made Danger call demand a match against the pair. After this match Jacobs invited Rain to join Lacey in The Age Of The Fall, which she accepted.

International Home Wrecking Crew (2007–current)

In October at Shimmer's Volume 16, the Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew were booked in a tag team match against MsChif, Daizee Haze and 'The Jezebel' Eden Black. In an interview during the evening, the Home Wreckers revealed that they had selected their partner in the form of English native Jetta who had a career long feud with Black, and had faced MsChif and Haze in England. They referred to her as the "cream of their Oreo" but initially the mix failed to work as Jetta was pinned after 25 minutes, losing the match. The team later announced themselves as the International Home Wrecking Crew and returned at Volume 17 when Rain and Jetta defeated Danyah and Jennifer Blake. Later in that evening the original Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew appeared under their original name but were defeated by Ashley Lane and Neveah. After Lacey retired, the International Home Wreckers became a twosome and they gained a return victory over Ashley Lane and Neveah through unsporting means, as Rain grabbed hold of Neveah's tights.

At Volume 21, Shimmer Women Athletes extended their gold to include tag team champions and crowned the inaugural victors in a six team gauntlet match. The Home Wreckers entered fourth and eliminated the Suicide Blondes (LuFisto) and Jennifer Blake) but once again found themselves suffering defeat at the hands of Ashley Lane and Neveah, who eventually won. Owing to the long history between the two teams in both their forms, Volume 23 was promoted with a two out of three falls tag team match between the two for the gold. The match was mired in controversy as, in their typically comic fashion the team wore masks to the ring to protect themselves from swine flu before being joined by a returning Lacey who had not been seen since the previous year and was thought retired. She reversed a pinfall while the referee was distracted allowing her team to pick up the first fall and then, when the referee attempted to eject her from ringside she displayed her official manager's license. Lacey caused the second fall to go against the team as Jetta checked on her after she was knocked off the apron, leaving Rain to be double teamed and pinned. Lacey was fundamental in the third pin as she handed Jetta a chain to use, giving her the second and decisive fall for her team. However, as the team celebrated with their newly found gold, a backstage official came to the ring and demanded the match be restarted owing to the underhanded tactics of the team and Ashley Lane and Neveah instantly pulled out their double team move and won. The team bounced back with a win over Ariel and Nikki Roxx on Volume 24. The team defeated Rachel Summerlyn and Daffney on Volume 27 after the evil Daffney abandoned Rachel during the match, and their last victory in SHIMMER came against the duo of Jessie McKay and Tenille on Volume 28''.

References

External links
Shimmer Roster

Independent promotions teams and stables
Ring of Honor teams and stables
Women's wrestling teams and stables


HM Prison Deerbolt is a male Category C Training Prison in Barnard Castle, County Durham, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.

History
Deerbolt prison opened in 1973, on the site of a former army camp.

In 1999 four inmates escaped from Deerbolt while with an outside working party. A year later a report from His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons stated that Deerbolt was dangerously overcrowded, with too many inmates and too few resources.

There was a major disturbance at the prison in February 2005 involving six inmates who caused tens of thousands of pounds' worth of damage to the prison chapel. There was another large disturbance at the prison the following June.

Deerbolt Prison was praised by inspectors in 2005 for improving activity and resettlement services but was criticised for inmates spending too much time in their cells.

In 2007 prison officers passed a vote of no confidence in the then governor Deborah Baldwin after D wing and F wing at Deerbolt Prison was taken over by inmates in a five-hour riot. Four prison officers were injured at the premises during the disturbance.

His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons assessment of the prison in June 2011 was that it was fundamentally safe, but work was required to reduce levels of violence and improve discipline. It was noted that the prison had a "challenging population", but staff had worked hard to make improvements since 2007.

The prison was inspected again in 2015. It was described as "a decent and generally safe prison" although some aspects of teaching provision were said to require urgent attention.

On 8 January 2020 four prison officers were hurt when it was reported that the prison authorities had lost control of a wing. An external team of prison officers specifically trained to quell riots, designated as a “tornado team”, were called to regain control. The troubles were contained in the early hours of 9 January and the offending prisoners were moved elsewhere. Source https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/09/prison-officers-hurt-in-county-durham-young-offender-institution-riot

Present day
Deerbolt is a Category C Training Prison and caters for approximately 500 prisoners with no age limit, generally serving sentences up to four years in length from the north-east of England and Humberside area.

The education department at the prison is run by Novus, a subsidiary of The Manchester College, and offers both full and part-time classes in a variety of subjects. Courses include music, art, drama, creative writing, geography, history, maths and information technology. Workshop jobs are available to prisoners who have first completed a qualification in basic literacy or numeracy, completed a manual handling course and have done a first aid qualification. Courses include catering, office skills, building computers, bricklaying, plastering, charity workshop, furniture craft, multiskills, painting and decorating, motor mechanics and fork-lift truck driving.

Deerbolt prison's gym also offers physical education qualifications, as well as being available for recreational use. Other facilities and services at the prison include a library and a prison chaplaincy.

References

External links
 Ministry of Justice pages on Deerbolt
 HMP Deerbolt - HM Inspectorate of Prisons Reports

Deerbolt
Deerbolt
Prisons in County Durham
1973 establishments in England


Billboard Top Hits: 1982 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1992, featuring ten hit recordings from 1982.

The track lineup includes four songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the remaining six songs each reaching the top three of the Hot 100.

Track listing

Track information and credits were taken from the album's liner notes.

References

1992 compilation albums
Billboard Top Hits albums


The  was a fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy established during World War II.

History
Established on 15 November 1943, the IJN 9th Fleet was a headquarters unit established to direct Japanese naval operations in New Guinea. The ships and equipment of the IJN 9th Fleet were under the operational control of the Southeast Area Fleet. It provided support for Japanese troops on the northern coast of New Guinea, and also administered the No.2 and No.7 Base units of land forces assigned to occupy northern New Guinea. By the time the IJN 9th Fleet had been established, much of New Guinea had already been retaken by American forces under Operation Cartwheel, and the IJN 9th Fleet could do little more than provide defensive support and limited supplies.

In March 1944, survivors of the two Base Units merged into the No.27 Special Base unit, at which time the IJN 9th Fleet came under the operational control of the Southwest Area Fleet. It was disbanded on 10 July 1944.

Commanders of the IJN 9th Fleet
Commander in chief

Chief of staff

References

Books

External links

Notes

9
Military units and formations established in 1943
Military units and formations disestablished in 1944


Pietro Venier (died 8 May 1372) was a Governor of Cerigo.

Ancestry
He was a son of Marco Venier, fl. in 1347 and 1363, and wife Caterina ..., paternal grandson of Pietro Venier (died bef. 1360) and wife Bonafemena Quirini, and great-grandson of Marco Venier, Lord of Cerigo, and wife.

Marriage and issue
He married ... and had Francesco Venier (died 1424), who married his cousin Fantina Venier, daughter of Pietro Venier and wife, but died childless.

References

 Ancestry of Sultana Nur-Banu (Cecilia Venier-Baffo)

1372 deaths
Pietro
Year of birth unknown
Kythira
14th-century Italian nobility


The 2002 House elections in Washington occurred on November 5, 2002 to elect the members of the State of Washington's delegation to the United States House of Representatives. Washington has nine seats in the House, apportioned according to the 2000 United States Census. Though competitive races occurred in several districts, no seat switched hands as a result of the elections this year.

Overview

District 1

Incumbent Democratic Congressman Jay Inslee ran for a fourth nonconsecutive term in Congress from this fairly liberal district rooted in portions of the Kitsap Peninsula and Seattle’s northern suburbs. Inslee faced Republican candidate Joe Marine, a former Mukilteo City Councilman and State Representative. Though Marine gave Inslee one of the closest races of his career, the Congressman was successful on election day and bested Marine by a fourteen point margin.

District 2

Freshman Democratic Congressman Rick Larsen, who represents this northwestern Washington-based district, ran for re-election. Larsen faced Republican Norma Smith, an aide to former Congressman Jack Metcalf and a former South Whidbey school board member in the general election. Though Larsen attained a majority of the vote and retained his seat, Smith was able to keep her Democratic opponent to only a five point margin, surprisingly close in this marginally liberal district.

District 3

Though the southwestern Washington-based district that two-term Democratic incumbent Congressman Brian Baird represents is essentially a centrist district, the Congressman was able to perform surprisingly well against Republican State Senator Joseph Zarelli. Baird was overwhelmingly re-elected over Zarelli, receiving over sixty percent of the vote on election day.

District 4

In this solidly conservative, central Washington congressional district, incumbent Republican Congressman Doc Hastings faced Democrat Craig Mason, a sociology professor at Columbia Basin College in the general election. Owing to Congressman Hastings’s popularity and his district’s strong proclivity towards electing Republican candidates, the Congressman was re-elected in a landslide.

District 5

Running for his fifth term in Congress, incumbent Republican Congressman George Nethercutt faced Democratic candidate Bart Haggin and Libertarian candidate Rob Chase as obstacles to another term. In this staunchly conservative district rooted in the socially conservative counties of eastern Washington, Congressman Nethercutt hardly faced a challenge and easily won another term.

District 6

Long-serving Democratic Congressman Norm Dicks, the longest-serving of Washington congressmen, has represented this liberal-leaning, Kitsap Peninsula-based district since he was first elected in United States House of Representatives elections, 1980#Washington. Congressman Dicks faced Republican nominee Bob Lawrence in the general election, who was also his opponent in the previous two elections. Lawrence hardly faced a chance in the general election, and Dicks was swept into his fourteenth term in a landslide.

District 7

This district, the most liberal in Washington, encompasses most of the city of Seattle and has been represented by Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott since he was first elected in 1988. Running for a seventh term this year, McDermott faced off against Republican Carol Cassady and Libertarian Stan Lippman, whom he crushed in the general election by a convincing margin.

District 8

Incumbent Republican Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn ran for a seventh term in this liberal-leaning district and faced Democratic nominee Heidi Behrens-Benedict and Libertarian Mark Taff in the general election. Though this district, based in the eastern suburbs of Seattle, has a tendency to vote Democratic, the potential potency of Behrens-Benedict’s candidacy was hampered by the fact that she has achieved perennial status, running for the same seat two previous times. Ultimately, Congresswoman Dunn was re-elected by a solid margin on election day.

District 9

In his bid for a fourth term, incumbent Democratic Congressman Adam Smith was opposed by Republican State Representative Sarah Casada and Libertarian candidate J. Mills in the general election. Congressman Smith represents a liberal-leaning district that runs from the state’s capital of Olympia to some of the southern suburbs of Seattle, and, true to the liberal tendencies of his constituency, Smith was re-elected by a substantial margin over Casada and Mills.

References

Washington
2002
United States House of Representatives


Billboard Top Hits: 1983 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1992, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1983.

The track lineup includes four songs ("Down Under", "Africa", "Maniac" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart") that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with the remaining six songs each reaching the top five of the chart. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on July 3, 1997.

Track listing

Track information and credits were taken from the album's liner notes.

References

1992 compilation albums
Billboard Top Hits albums


Nemapogon quercicolella is a moth of the family Tineidae. It is found in Eastern Europe.

The moth flies in June depending on the location.

The larvae feed on mushrooms and fungus.

References

Nemapogoninae
Moths of Europe
Moths described in 1852


Billboard Top Hits: 1984 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1992, featuring ten hit recordings from 1984.

The track lineup includes seven songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with the remaining three songs each reaching the top five of the chart.

Critical reception
Heather Phares of AllMusic cited the album as "one of the decade's strongest collections of singles." Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album an A rating and wrote: "After four Brits and Eddy Grant in two years, we get five black artists, five U.K. artists, and 'Talking in Your Sleep.' It didn't mean much—this was also the year of Reagan rampant, with 'Karma Chameleon' the only vaguely progressive moment. But give two cheers for formal evolution, the mass marketplace, the pleasures of false consciousness, and England swinging like a pendulum do."

Track listing

Track information and credits were taken from the album's liner notes.

References

1992 compilation albums
Billboard Top Hits albums


Passendale cheese, named for Passendale, the village where it originated, is one of the best-known cheeses of Belgium. Regular Passendale cheese is produced in two versions, Classic and Prelude. There is also a premium version, Passendale Bel Age.

Passendale Cheese resembles a loaf of bread, with a round shape, and a hard but edible brown rind with spots of white. Inside, the flesh is golden, dotted with small holes and very creamy. It has a firm and damp consistency, slightly sweet bouquet and mild flavor.

History
The Donck family of Passendale started producing cheeses in 1932 with the cooperation of many of the area's milk producers. After World War II, the family began producing milk, butter and yoghurt as well, and eventually relocated their business to a former brewery. In 1978, they launched "de Groot Hof–Grand’Ferme", a cheese inspired by local tradition. In 1980, it was renamed Passendale for export purposes. In 1991 the Comelco group, owner of the company making Passendale, was bought by the Dutch Campina company. The Bongrain group, which bought the company in 2007, has become the second-largest Belgian cheese producer.

Types of Passendale

Classic and Prelude
At the end of the ripening process, the rind of the Passendale Classic is brushed before it is packaged.

Passendale Bel Age
This special version of the cheese ripens for 6 months in the cellars of Cheesemaker Passendale, and has a more distinguished taste.

See also
 List of cheeses

References

Zonnebeke
Belgian cheeses
Cow's-milk cheeses


Billboard Top Hits: 1985 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1994, featuring ten hit recordings from 1985.

The track lineup includes eight songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart and two songs each reaching no. 2.

Track listing

Track information and credits were taken from the album's liner notes.

References

1994 compilation albums
Billboard Top Hits albums


Sucharitra is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 67th melakarta rāgam (parent scale) in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is considered an unattractive raga and is rarely performed. It is called Santāna manjari in the Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music.

Structure and Lakshana

It is the 1st rāgam in the 12th chakra Aditya. The mnemonic name is Aditya-Pa. The mnemonic phrase is sa ru gu mi pa dha na. Its  structure (ascending and descending scale) is as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):
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The swaras used in this scale are shatsruthi rishabham, antara gandharam, prati madhyamam, shuddha dhaivatham and shuddha nishadham. Sucharitra, being a melakarta rāgam, by definition is a sampoorna rāgam (has all seven notes in ascending and descending scale). It is the prati madhyamam equivalent of Yagapriya, which is the 31st melakarta scale.

Janya rāgams
Sucharitra currently has no janya rāgam (derived scale) associated with it. See List of janya rāgams for those janyas associated with other melakarta rāgams.

CompositionsSucharitra scale has been used for the following compositions:Harinamada araaginiyu by Purandara Dasa
 Chintayami santatam by Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna
 Velu mayil by Koteeswara Iyer
 Santana manjari by Muthuswami Dikshitar

Related rāgams
This section covers the theoretical and scientific aspect of this rāgam.Sucharitra's notes when shifted using Graha bhedam, does not yield any other melakarta rāgam. Graha bhedam is the step taken in keeping the relative note frequencies same, while shifting the shadjam'' to the next note in the rāgam.

Notes

References

Melakarta ragas


Penelope Nice is a British comedy actress.

Filmography
Doctors - Sarah Shapiro (1 episode, 2000)
Mr. Bean (1 episode, 1995)
Bodger and Badger (1 episode, 1995)
Drop the Dead Donkey - Nurse (1 episode, 1991)
The Bill - Mrs. Potter (1 episode, 1991)
Press Gang - Mrs. Day  (6 episodes, 1989–1990)
The Franchise Affair (1988) (TV) - Mrs. Wynn
Casualty - Mrs. Lippman (1 episode, 1987)
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1985) - Ann
Tales of the Unexpected - Julie Forester (1 episode, 1983)
BBC2 Playhouse - Tina (1 episode, 1982)
Room Service (1979) TV series - Marlene Barry (unknown episodes)
Within These Walls - Carol Standstead / ... (2 episodes, 1976–1978)

Radio
Revolting People - Cora Oliphant (2001-2004)
Old Harry's Game - Penelope Whittingham/Gracie Fields (4 episodes)
Molesworth - 1987 - Mrs. Molesworth

External links

British actresses
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


The lead arranger, or the mandated lead arranger (MLA), is the investment bank or underwriter firm that facilitates and leads a group of investors in a syndicated loan for major financing. The lead arranger assigns parts of the new issue to other underwriters for placement, and usually takes the largest part itself. It is also called a managing underwriter or a syndicate manager. The arranger is paid either through an arranger fee, through skimming or through structuring fees.

In Europe the term most used is the mandated lead arranger, they generally have the leading role in the financing stage of a project. The arranger often underwrites the financing, then handles syndication or builds up a group to underwrite the full amount and syndicate. As a requirement of its mandate from the project sponsor, the MLA will be committed to raise the complete debt financing, which for a major project could be many hundreds of millions of dollars. But, commercial lenders typically do not want to take more than a small part of the debt for a particular project and will want to pass some of the debt, and hence some of the risk, to other lenders. The process of selling the debt is called syndication.

In large deals with multiple tranches, there may be an arranger for all, or there may be a separate arranger for each tranche. During the syndication process, one of the banks may fulfil the role of book runner. The role of the book runner is simply to keep a record of how much debt each of the potential syndication banks wants to take.

See also
Project finance

References

Loans


Marco Venier (died 1311) was a Lord of Cerigo.

Ancestry
He was a son of Bartolommeo Venier (fl. between 1252 and 1275), and paternal grandson of Marco Venier, Marquess of Cerigo.

Marriage and issue
He married an unknown woman and had Pietro Venier (- bef. 1360), who married Bonafemena Quirini and had Marco Venier, fl. in 1347 and 1363, who married Caterina ... and had Pietro Venier, Governor of Cerigo.

References

  Ancestry of Sultana Nur-Banu

1311 deaths
Kythira
Marco
Year of birth unknown


Billboard Top Hits: 1986 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1994, featuring ten hit recordings from 1986.

The track lineup includes six songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, included the No. 1 song of 1987, "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles, which began its four-week run at No. 1 in December 1986, after Billboard magazine's 1987 chart year had started.

The remaining four songs each reached the top five on the Hot 100.

Track listing

Track information and credits were taken from the album's liner notes.

References

1994 compilation albums
Billboard Top Hits albums


The Kingdom of Romania and Republic of China (ROC) began relations on July 5, 1939.

History
Following the takeover of the capital of Nanking in 1941, Romania broke off relations with the ROC and began recognizing the Japanese-backed Chinese Republic. After the surrender of Japan, relations between the two never resumed, but after the Chinese Communists seized  power in 1949 and Romania abolished the monarchy in 1947, the Romanian People's Republic recognized People's Republic of China (PRC) as the legitimate government of China on October 5 of that year. China and Romania exchanged ambassadors for the first time in March 1950.

When the Soviet Union and many other European communist countries withdrew their advisors from China in 1960, advisors from Yugoslavia were among those that remained.

Relations between the Romania and China improved after Romania broke off ties with the Soviet Union in 1964.

The PRC operates an embassy in Bucharest and a consulate general in Constanța. Romania has an embassy in Beijing and 2 consulates general in Hong Kong and Shanghai. The modern-day Republic of China (Taiwan) has no official diplomatic relations with Romania, although it is represented by Hungary via the Hungarian Trade Office in Taipei and the ROC through the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Budapest.

In 2015, Romania signed an agreement with China General Nuclear Power Group for assistance in building civil nuclear power stations. When the National Liberal Party came into power, it cancelled all projects that the Social Democratic Party government had agreed to with China, including the nuclear power agreement, which Romania cancelled in 2020.

Educational and cultural exchanges
Romania hosts four Confucius Institutes.

See also
 Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China
 Foreign relations of the Republic of China
 Foreign relations of Romania
 Chinese of Romania
 China–European Union relations

References

External links
  Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Romania
  Chinese embassy in Bucharest (in Chinese and Romanian only)
  Romanian embassy in Beijing

Romania
China


Adam Sollitt (born 22 June 1977) is an English football coach and former professional footballer who is goalkeeping coach of National League North side Alfreton Town.

As a player he was a goalkeeper from 1995 to 2012. He notably played professionally for Barnsley, Northampton Town and Rushden & Diamonds, as well as playing in Non-league football for Gainsborough Trinity, Kettering Town, Scarborough, Morecambe, Worksop Town and Matlock Town.

Playing career
Sollitt was promoted to the first team squad of Barnsley and was the club's third choice goalkeeper from 1995 to 1997. Manager Danny Wilson released him, following the club's promotion to the Premier League. He then signed for non league club Gainsborough Trinity who were searching for a replacement for departed veteran Steve Sherwood. His performances earned him the chance to move up a league and at the end of the season he signed for Conference club Kettering Town where he remained for two seasons.

In July, 2000, Sollitt re-signed as a professional, this time for Northampton Town for a fee of £30,000. In his two-year stay at Town, Sollitt played in 16 games for the club before moving to local rivals Rushden & Diamonds in the summer of 2002.

He went on to play for Scarborough, Morecambe, and Worksop Town before moving back to Gainsborough Trinity in 2006. Sollitt signed for Matlock Town in August 2009. Sollitt announced his retirement in 2011 and departed Matlock in 2012.

Coaching career
Following retirement, Sollitt remained with Matlock Town as their goalkeeping coach before moving to a similar role with Alfreton Town in August 2019.

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
Footballers from Sheffield
English men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Barnsley F.C. players
Gainsborough Trinity F.C. players
Kettering Town F.C. players
Northampton Town F.C. players
Rushden & Diamonds F.C. players
Morecambe F.C. players
Scarborough F.C. players
Worksop Town F.C. players
Matlock Town F.C. players
English Football League players
Northern Premier League players


Pontia occidentalis, the western white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Western North America.

The wingspan is 38 to 53 millimeters. The host plants are from the mustard or cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The caterpillars eat especially the flowers, buds and fruit. In the north of the range, one generation flies in June and July; in the south two generations fly from May to August.

External links
 Butterflies and Moths of North-America

occidentalis
Butterflies of North America
Fauna of California
Fauna of the California chaparral and woodlands
Butterflies described in 1866
Taxa named by Tryon Reakirt


Marco Venier was a Marquess of Cerigo.

He was Venetian and won his Marquisate as a result of the Fourth Crusade.

Marriage and issue
He married ... and had Bartolommeo Venier, fl. between 1252 and 1275, who married ... and had Marco Venier, Lord of Cerigo.

References

External links
 Ancestry of Sultana Nur-Banu (Cecilia Venier-Baffo)

13th-century Venetian people
Marco
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Republic of Venice nobility


Billboard Top Hits: 1987 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1994, featuring ten hit recordings from 1987.

The track lineup includes six songs that reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with the remaining four songs ("C'est La Vie", "I Heard a Rumour", "Don't Dream It's Over" and "The Lady in Red") each reaching the top five on the chart.

Track listing

Track information and credits were taken from the album's liner notes.

References

1994 compilation albums
Billboard Top Hits albums


Room Service is a 1979 Thames Television comedy series written by Jimmy Perry without his usual writing partner David Croft.  It and Perry's other work without Croft, High Street Blues (1989, co-written with Robin Carr) "remain contenders for the title of worst British sitcom".  The cast included Penelope Nice, Bryan Pringle and Matthew Kelly.

DVD release
The Complete series was released on DVD on 27 April 2015.

Notes and references

1979 British television series debuts
1979 British television series endings
1970s British sitcoms
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television shows produced by Thames Television


Caught in the Act is the second live album released by Canadian jazz singer Michael Bublé on November 15, 2005. It was filmed and recorded at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. The filmed concert was aired on PBS as an episode of Great Performances, and the show was subsequently released on DVD along with the audio CD to create the album package, although the audio disc only featured eight of the songs from the concert. In 2009, the video was also released in Blu-ray. The concert featured a few guest artists, including Laura Pausini and Chris Botti, as well as an unexpected comedic banter with Josh Groban.

Track listing

Personnel
 Vocals: Michael Bublé
 Musical direction, piano: Alan Chang
 Guitar: Randy Napoleon
 Drums: Robert Perkins
 Bass: Craig Polasko
 Tenor Saxophone: Mark Small
 Alto Saxophone: Robert Wilkerson
 Baritone Saxophone: Frank Basile
 Trombone: Josh Brown
 Trombone: Nick Vagenas
 Lead Trumpet: Jumaane Smith
 Trumpet: Bryan Lipps
 Trumpet: Justin Ray

Chart positions

Album

Certifications

References

Michael Bublé live albums
2005 live albums
143 Records live albums
Albums recorded at the Wiltern Theatre


Mount Morris Consolidated School District is a public school district in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and in the Genesee Intermediate School District.

High school

Athletics

References

External links
mtmorrisschools.org
MMHoops.com

School districts in Michigan
Education in Genesee County, Michigan


Ri Kun-mo, also translated as Ri Gun-mo (5 April 1926 – 2001) was a North Korean politician. He was Prime Minister from 29 December 1986 to 12 December 1988, when he was replaced, reportedly due to poor health. He succeeded Kang Song-san. His successor was Yon Hyong-muk.

In 1998 he was nominated Chief Secretary for North Hamgyong Province, but he was removed in 2001 and presumably died shortly thereafter.

See also
 Politics of North Korea

References

1926 births
2001 deaths
Prime Ministers of North Korea
Members of the 6th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea
Alternate members of the 6th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
People from South Pyongan Province


The Men's Greco-Roman 100 kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program at the Fairgrounds, Judo and Wrestling Hall.

Medalists

Tournament results
The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler. When only two or three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.

Legend
DNA — Did not appear
TPP — Total penalty points
MPP — Match penalty points

Penalties
0 — Won by Fall, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit
0.5 — Won by Technical Superiority
1 — Won by Points
2 — Draw
2.5 — Draw, Passivity
3 — Lost by Points
3.5 — Lost by Technical Superiority
4 — Lost by Fall, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Final

Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).

Final standings

References

External links
Official Report

Greco-Roman 98kg


Kim Il (; 20 March 1910 – 9 March 1984) was a North Korean politician who was served as Premier of North Korea from 28 December 1972 to 19 April 1976.

Early life and career
Kim was born on 20 March 1910, in Hamgyong Province to a poor family of peasants. Kim joined the underground Communist Party in 1932 and fought against Japanese colonial rule from 1935. After the liberation of Korea in 1945, he served as secretary of the Party Committee of Pyongan Province. He was appointed to different important military posts since 1946. Kim Il was elected to the 1st Central Committee on 24 November 1946 and remained a member until his death. After the Democratic People's Republic of Korea proclaimed independence in 1948, he was elected to the 2nd Standing Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and in 1953 he was elected to the 2nd WPK Political Committee (later renamed "Presidium"). In 1954, he became the Minister of Agriculture in the North Korean Cabinet replacing Pak Mun-gyu. He was then appointed his country's First Vice Premier in 1956. Kim was elected a delegate to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Supreme People's Assembly (SPA). By 1970, he was the highest-ranking member of WPK after Kim Il Sung and Choe Yong-gon.

In 1966, Kim Il Sung did not deliver his usual New Year's address. Although the reason is not definitely known, North Korean sources state that he was distracted by the news that Kim Il had been diagnosed with cancer and skipped the address to make arrangements for Kim's medical treatment.

In the 1960s, Kim furthered the North Korean position of independence from both the Soviet Union and China in the Sino-Soviet split. He tried to persuade Romania to stay out of Comecon like North Korea. Kim also took part in the negotiations of trade and defense pacts with the Soviet Union. By March 1967, he declared the conclusion of economic and military agreements with Moscow. He was named Premier in 1972 after Kim Il Sung gave up his premiership to become the President of North Korea. Kim Il was Premier until his resignation on 30 April 1976, due to failing health.

Vice Presidency
Kim immediately became the Vice President, appointed by the SPA. His appointment was renewed on 15 December 1977. He served until his death in 1984, alongside Pak Sung-chul, also Vice President.

Kim was elected to the Presidium of the Politburo of the WPK at the 6th WPK Congress in 1980. At the Congress, Kim Il Sung had proposed Korean reunification under a "Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo", but only if the South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan was ousted. When Chun responded in his New Year's speech of 1981, asking Kim Il Sung to visit the South instead, Kim Il stepped in to denounce the South Korean administration and to call for all of Kim Il Sung's demands to be met before any dialogue could take place. Kim Il issued a statement, saying: "This is nothing but a foolish burlesque designed to whitewash [Chun's] dirty nation-splitting nature and gain public favor with the 'presidential election' at hand... As we have already announced clearly, Chun Doo Hwan is not a man worthy for us to do anything with... [The proposal is] a foolish act of a rogue who does not know where his place is." Kim said:

Three weeks later, Kim Il, in the capacity of Chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, demanded that a conference of 50 people representing the North and 50 the South should be organized. The proposal included the names of the desired Southern representatives, who included prominent politicians of parties banned in South Korea in 1980, but none from its ruling party.

Kim spent much of 1982 receiving medical treatment in Romania. Even after his reappearance in 1983, his health remained poor as evidenced by him missing numerous ceremonial gatherings. He died on 9 March 1984, aged 73. He was awarded a state funeral presided over by a 69-strong funeral committee. His death is said to have marked the end of the period of dominance of the "old guard" of political leaders who were with Kim Il Sung before he ascended to power. At the time of his death, Kim Il was ranked second only to Kim Il Sung and formally outranked even Kim Jong Il, Kim Il Sung's designated successor. Kim Il had been reportedly critical of Kim Jong Il. Nevertheless, KCNA called him the "closest and finest revolutionary comrade-in-arms" of Kim Il Sung and his death "a painful, big loss to our party and people".

Works

References

Works cited

Prime Ministers of North Korea
Vice presidents of North Korea
1910 births
1984 deaths
Militant Korean independence activists
Korean communists
Vice Chairmen of the Workers' Party of Korea and its predecessors
Members of the 6th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 1st Central Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea
Members of the 2nd Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 3rd Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 4th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 5th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 2nd Political Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 2nd Standing Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 3rd Standing Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 4th Political Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 5th Political Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 6th Presidium of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 1st Supreme People's Assembly
Members of the 2nd Supreme People's Assembly
Members of the 3rd Supreme People's Assembly
Members of the 4th Supreme People's Assembly
Members of the 5th Supreme People's Assembly
Members of the 6th Supreme People's Assembly
Members of the 7th Supreme People's Assembly
People of 88th Separate Rifle Brigade


Susana Escobar (born 13 December 1987 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato) is a Mexican swimmer and Olympian. As of October 2008, she attends and swims for the USA's University of Texas at Austin.

At the 2008 Olympics, she set 3 Mexican Records in the 3 events she swam: the 400 free (4:11.99 – 20th), 800 free (8:33.51 – 18th), and 400 IM (4:47.32 – 30th).

She also swam at the 2007 Pan American Games. She also competed at the 2009 World Championships in Rome.  She also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in the 400 m freestyle and the 400 m individual medley.

See also
List of Mexican records in swimming

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Guanajuato
People from Guanajuato City
Mexican female freestyle swimmers
Female medley swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Mexico
Competitors at the 2005 Summer Universiade
Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Texas Longhorns women's swimmers
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico
Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Mexico
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
Mexican sports coaches
Swimming coaches
20th-century Mexican women
21st-century Mexican women


Nawaf Khaled Al Khaldi () (born 25 May 1981) is a retired Kuwaiti footballer who last played for Al-Qadsia.

Al Khaldi has made several appearances for the Kuwait national football team, including three qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

See also
 List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps

References

External links

1981 births
Living people
Kuwaiti men's footballers
Qadsia SC players
Kuwait men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for Kuwait
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2004 AFC Asian Cup players
2011 AFC Asian Cup players
2015 AFC Asian Cup players
FIFA Men's Century Club
Asian Games medalists in football
Footballers at the 1998 Asian Games
Footballers at the 2002 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for Kuwait
Men's association football goalkeepers
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
Khaitan SC players
Kuwait Premier League players


Jyoti swarupini (pronounced jyōti swarūpini) is a ragam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 68th Melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is the prati madhyamam equivalent of Ragavardhini, which is the 32nd melakarta. It is called Jyōtirāga or Joti or Jyōti in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music.

Structure and Lakshana

It is the 2nd rāgam in the 12th chakra Aditya. The mnemonic name for this rāgam is Aditya-Sri. The mnemonic phrase is sa ru gu mi pa dha ni. Its ascending and descending scale ( structure) is as follows:
:
:

See swaras in Carnatic music for details on above notation. The notes used are shatsruthi rishabham, antara gandharam, prati madhyamam, shuddha dhaivatham, kaisiki nishadham.

Jyotiswarupini, being a melakarta rāgam, by definition is a sampoorna rāgam (it has all seven notes in ascending and descending scale).

Janya rāgams
A few minor janya rāgams (derived scales) are associated with Jyotiswarupini. See List of janya rāgams for full list of janya rāgams associated with this and other melakarta rāgams.

Compositions
Here are a few compositions set to this parent musical scale.
Anandamayamanave by (Walajapet Venkataramana Bhagavathar)
Gaanamrutha paanam by Koteeswara Iyer
Jyotiswaroopini by Periyasaamy Thooran
Sri Gayatri baktha durita by Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna
Adineepai

Related rāgams
This section covers the theoretical and scientific aspect of this rāgam.

Jyotiswarupini's notes when shifted using Graha bhedam does not yield any other melakarta rāgam. Graha bhedam is the step taken in keeping the relative note frequencies same, while shifting the shadjam to the next note in the rāgam.

Notes

References

Melakarta ragas


Miguel Ángel Klee Orellana (born 19 February 1977) is a Guatemalan professional football goalkeeper who plays for Rosario Quetzaltenango.

He is also a former member of the Guatemala national team.

Club career
A rather short goalkeeper, Klee began his career with Cobán Imperial in 2003, and after one season with Deportivo Marquense, he joined Xelajú for the Apertura 2008-09 tournament. In 2009, he moved to Suchitepequez.

International career
Klee has made 21 appearances for the full Guatemala national football team, his debut coming in a friendly against El Salvador on March 31, 2004. He represented his country in 7 FIFA World Cup qualification matches. and was selected as a reserve goalkeeper for the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

His final international was an October 2005 World Cup qualification match against Costa Rica.

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
Guatemalan men's footballers
Guatemala men's international footballers
Deportivo Marquense players
Club Xelajú MC players
C.D. Suchitepéquez players
C.D. Malacateco players
2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
Men's association football goalkeepers


Billboard Top Hits: 1988 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1994, featuring ten hit recordings from 1988.

The 1988 volume includes nine songs that reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the remaining song — "Shattered Dreams" by Johnny Hates Jazz — peaked at No. 2.

Track listing

Track information and credits taken from the album's liner notes.

References

1994 compilation albums
Billboard Top Hits albums


The Syrian Scientific Technical Amateur Radio Society (SSTARS) is a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Syria.  The organization was founded in 1947 as the Technical Institute of Radio by a group of amateur radio enthusiasts in Damascus.  Rashid Jalal YK1AA served as the organization president from 1947 until 1983.  The organization formally incorporated under its new name in 2005.

Key membership benefits of the SSTARS include a QSL bureau for those amateur radio operators in regular communications with other amateur radio operators in foreign countries, and a network to support amateur radio emergency communications.  SSTARS represents the interests of Syrian amateur radio operators before Syrian and international regulatory authorities.  SSTARS is the national member society representing Syria in the International Amateur Radio Union.

See also
International Amateur Radio Union

References

Syria
Clubs and societies in Syria
Amateur radio organizations
1947 establishments in Syria
Organizations established in 1947
Radio in Syria
Organizations based in Damascus


Miroslav Milošević may refer to:

 Miroslav Milošević (footballer, born 1975)
 Miroslav Milošević (footballer, born 1976)
 Miroslav Milošević (footballer, born 1985)
 Miroslav Milošević (footballer, born 1986)


Westwood Heights School District is a public school district in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and in the Genesee Intermediate School District.

High school

Hamady High School is a public high school in the Westwood Heights School District in Mount Morris Township, just outside Flint, Michigan.

Elementary school

Colonel Donald McMonagle Elementary is a public elementary school in the Westwood Heights School District in Mount Morris Township, just outside Flint, Michigan. It was previously Westwood Elementary. In 2007, Westwood Elementary was renovated and merged with Hamady Elementary to form one elementary school. The newly renovated elementary school was named after a former graduate of Westwood Heights Schools. Colonel Donald McMonagle graduated from Hamady High School in 1970. He became a NASA astronaut in June 1987.

Athletics

The official mascot of Hamady High School is the hawk. The school colors are blue and white. Hamady is considered a class C school according to the Michigan High School Athletics Association. In 2009, the girls basketball team won the MHSAA Class C Championship, and also won another in 2010.

The Varsity Coach of the Hamady Hawks has been Archie (also spelled Archy) Robinson, who was a 13th Round Draft pick in 1972 for the Miami Dolphins. He teaches at Hamady as well.

References

External links
 hamadyhawks.net
 Public School Districts map
Flint Hamady Hawks historical football scores

School districts in Michigan
Education in Genesee County, Michigan


Denmark–Estonia relations refers to the historical and current diplomatic relations between Denmark and Estonia. Denmark has an embassy in Tallinn, while Estonia has an embassy in Copenhagen. Denmark recognized and established diplomatic relations with Estonia on 5 February 1921. Relations were renewed on 24 August 1991 with Denmark never having recognized Soviet occupation of the country.

Both countries are members of the European Union, NATO and the Nordic-Baltic Eight. Estonian Prime Minister Jüri Ratas described Denmark as a close friend in 2020 and Denmark moreover has a military presence in Estonia.

History

Danish Estonia (13th–17th century)

Danish Estonia refers to the territories of present-day Estonia that were ruled by Denmark firstly during the 13th–14th centuries and again during the 16th–17th centuries. Denmark rose as a great military and mercantile power in the 12th century. It had an interest to end the occasional Estonian and Couronian pirate attacks that threatened its Baltic trade. Danish fleets attacked Estonia in 1170, 1194, and 1197. In 1206, King Valdemar II and archbishop Andreas Sunonis led a raid on Ösel island, Saaremaa. The Kings of Denmark laid a claim on Estonia as their possession, which was recognised by the pope. In 1219 the Danish fleet landed in the major harbor of Estonia and defeated the Estonians in the Battle of Lindanise that brought Northern Estonia under Danish reign until the Estonian uprising in 1343, when the territories were taken over by the Teutonic Order and sold by Denmark in 1346.

Early relations with Estonia (1918–1921)
About 200 Danish volunteers took part in the Estonian War of Independence from 1918 to 1920 comprising the Danish-Baltic Auxiliary Corps led by Danish officer Borgelin. In 1918, Estonian statesman Jaan Tõnisson travelled to Denmark to head the Estonian Foreign Delegation. The Estonian Foreign Delegation situated in Copenhagen was the headquarter for Estonia to seek international recognition from other countries. On 5 February 1921, diplomatic relations were established with Flemming Lerche appointed envoy to Estonia with residence in Helsinki. The next year J.C. Johansen was appointed consul general in Tallinn. Johansen was the only foreign diplomatic envoy in Tallinn during the Estonian Independence War. Economically, relations were minimal as Estonia was reorganizing much of its industries and the Land Reform of 1919 only made the two countries competitors on the international agricultural market. In 1926, Estonia picked Ernst Carlsen as general consul in Copenhagen while a couple of consulates were opened all around the city.

On 18 December 1926, both countries established a conciliation commission. On 13 May 1930, an agreement on reciprocity was signed.

Relations with Soviet Estonia (1940–1991)
Denmark never recognized the Soviet occupation of Estonia. The Estonian government in exile was maintained by its foreign minister in-exile and representative to Denmark August Koern.

After the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Moscow ordered all diplomats abroad to return. However, after consultations with Germany, Denmark refrained from ordering Koern to leave which imitated the policy of the Germans. However, Denmark meticulously began a policy of removing all traces of the Baltic countries in the country, including ordering telecommunications companies to remove all Baltic diplomatic and consular representations from their telephone books. From 1941 to 1952, many Estonian refugees fled to Denmark. From 1945 to 1964, Denmark and the Soviet Union held difficult negotiations on compensation for the Danes who had their properties in Estonia due to nationalization policies. The Soviet Union urged Denmark to publicly admit that Estonia was part of Soviet sovereignty, concessions which Danish politicians would not give. Nonetheless, at a meeting with Andrey Vyshinsky, Danish negotiator Frants Hvass failed at expressing the Danish stance unambiguously which the Russians believed was sufficient enough. Ultimately, the two countries signed an agreement in February 1964 wherein the Soviets would pay Denmark 2.6 million DKK as compensation. Initially, the Danish demanded 20 million DKK.

Official contacts between Denmark and Soviet Estonia were minimal until the Singing Revolution which culminated with Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen signing an agreement with his Estonian counterpart Lennart Meri on renewing diplomatic relations, on 24 August 1991.

Modern relations
In the 1990s, Denmark pursued a policy which aimed at incorporating Estonia into the European Union, NATO and Council of Europe. From 1992 to 2003, the total Danish assistance to Estonia amounted to 147 million euro for defense, environment and fishing. Support to integrate the Russian minority also had a high priority.

Defense assistance
In the 1990s, Denmark assisted Estonia in building a national defense and moreover supported the creation of the Baltic Defence College with Danish Michael H. Clemmesen becoming the first Brigadier general of the college in February 1999 until 2004. The two countries signed their first defense agreement in March 1994. Prior to deployment as part of SFOR, the Estonian peace-keeping unit and reconnaissance unit received training in Denmark. The reconnaissance unit went on to serve under the Danish battalion in KFOR in Kosovo. After Estonia joined NATO in 2004, Denmark focused the Brigade Project aiming at preparing Estonian officers to lead a brigade. In 2009, the 1st Infantry Brigade of Estonia was tied to the Danish Division in training. Estonia moreover supported Danish troops in Afghanistan as part of ISAF.

From 2020 to 2021, 200 Danish soldiers were deployed to Tapa Army Base as part of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence. From 2022 to 2023, a deployment of around Danish 200 soldiers is planned as well.

Environmental assistance (1991–2003)

From 1991 to 2001, Denmark aided Estonia with 31.8 million DKK for different environmental projects in an effort to support Estonia in fulfilling the environmental criteria on EU-membership. Projects included forest conservation, waste-related projects and assistance for the implementation of the Aarhus Convention. In 2002, an additional 21.7 million DKK was granted for 8 projects as the environmental assistance phased out same year.

Cultural relations
The two countries have not signed any cultural cooperation agreements albeit having close relations on the matter. Many exchange projects have been conducted between Danish and Estonian municipalities and the Danish Cultural Institute had an office in Tallinn from 1990 to 2013.

High-ranking visits
Estonian President Lennart Meri visited Denmark in 1994, Arnold Rüütel in 2004, Toomas Hendrik Ilves in 2007, 2011, 2012 and 2015 and Kersti Kaljulaid in 2017.

Conversely, Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen visited Estonia in 2000, Anders Fogh Rasmussen in 2005, 2008 and 2009, Helle Thorning-Schmidt in 2011, Lars Løkke Rasmussen in 2018 and Mette Frederiksen in 2020 and again in 2022.

Royal visits
Queen Margrethe II visited Estonia in 2001 and 2019. The unofficial visit in 2001 was to the former Danish-controlled Saaremaa hosted by President Lennart Meri. Crown Princess Mary visited Estonia in 2014.

Trade
The following table shows the annual trade numbers between the two countries from 1992 to 2020 in euro:

See also
 Foreign relations of Denmark
 Foreign relations of Estonia
 Baltic Air Policing
 Toompea Castle
 Operation Saber Strike
 Accession of Estonia to the European Union

Notes

Bibliography

Estonia
Denmark


Kim Barlow (born March 10, 1969) is a Canadian folk singer and musician.

Biography
Barlow was born in Montreal, Quebec, and raised in rural Nova Scotia, she is of Anglo-Quebecker descent. She studied classical guitar at Florida State University before moving to the Yukon in the 1990s. In 2013 she left the Yukon so she could move back to Nova Scotia.

Music career
Kim Barlow has released on the independent record label Caribou Records in Whitehorse, Yukon and on Jericho Beach Music in Vancouver. Her album Saplings (2010) was produced with Jean Martin of Barnyard Records in Toronto and Bob Hamilton at Old Crow Recording in Whitehorse.

She has toured across Canada and internationally as a solo artist and as part of the Pan Canadian New Folk Ensemble tour with Christine Fellows and Old Man Luedecke. She frequently collaborates with Mathias Kom of The Burning Hell in the side project Spring Breakup.

Her second album, Gingerbread, was a nominee for Roots and Traditional Album of the Year (Solo) at the Juno Awards of 2003.

In 2009, she recorded "Dawson City" for CBC Radio 2's Great Canadian Song Quest.

Discography
 Humminah (Caribou, 1999)
 Gingerbread (Caribou, 2001)
 Luckyburden (Caribou, 2004)
 Champ (Jericho Beach, 2007)
 Saplings (2010)
 How To Let Go (2018)

References

External links
 Official site

1969 births
Living people
Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian folk singer-songwriters
Canadian women singer-songwriters
Florida State University alumni
Musicians from Nova Scotia
Musicians from Yukon
People from Whitehorse
Singers from Montreal
Songwriters from Quebec
Writers from Montreal
21st-century Canadian women singers
21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters


Z Corporation (commonly abbreviated Z Corp.) was founded in December 1994 by Marina Hatsopoulos, Walter Bornhorst, James Bredt and Tim Anderson, based on a technology developed at MIT under the direction of Professor Ely Sachs. The Company was sold to Contex Holding in August 2005, and was ultimately acquired by 3D Systems on January 3, 2012.

ZPrinting relates to the z axis, and adds depth to the other 2 axes x and y, as does 3D printing.

In 1993, ZPrinting was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a new 3D printing technology. In many other rapid prototyping processes, the part to be printed is built up from many thin cross sections of the 3D model. In ZPrinters, a printing head which is similar to inkjet moves across a bed of powder, selectively depositing a liquid binding material in the shape of the section. The operator is required to spread a fresh layer of powder across the top of the model, and repeat the process. When the model is complete, unbound powder is automatically removed. Parts can be built on a ZPrinter at a rate of approximately 1 vertical inch per hour.

Color printing
Zprinters can print components in full color, using inkjet technology from the 2 dimensional printing industry.  The color science has been adapted for use in 3 dimensions.  The color spectrum of the most capable machines is full cmyk, or up to 6 million colors.  Due to the wide range of color choices, the machines are capable of printing gradient color patterns, signifying how the machines differ from other "color" 3D printing systems. Color can be used to simulate the appearance of other materials (as in architectural models or product prototypes ), to highlight surface structures or add annotations to models (as in models used to plan surgeries), or to display the results of structural analyses (such as finite element analysis) directly on the model surface.

Zprinters originally gained recognition through applications in the medical and architectural industry.  Recently, they have gained popularity for creating 3D printed models of people from color 3D-scans, avatars from video games (Space Engineers, World of Warcraft, Assassin's Creed), and artistic and realistic sculptures.

As of 2016, 3D Systems rebranded the Z Corp's 3D printing technology as Color Jet. Quickparts.com, the service bureau owned by 3D Systems, offers service from this printing technology.

Printer modifications
In 2018, Scott Ziv modified a Z Corp Z402 (the first commercially available machine to use binder jetting) to use selective laser sintering to create 3D objects by fusing glitter.

See also
 3D printing
 3D scanning

References

External links
 Watch Video on Z Corporation
 Official website

Computer printer companies
3D imaging


Niccolò Sommaripa (died ca. 1505) was lord of Paros.

He was lord of Paros and in 1503 attacked Andros, ruled by a different branch of the Sommaripa family. He died ca. 1505, and was succeeded by his son Crusino.

References

Sources

1506 deaths
Niccolo
Niccolo
Year of birth unknown


In 1996, Youth Pastor Bill O'Boyle moved to town and put together a band to play for youth group on Wednesday nights. He added a couple of brothers from New York, Christopher and Owen Thomas, and together they formed a Christian pop/rock group they named Just Visiting along with bass guitarist Jess Sutton. In the early days Bill wrote all the music and Owen Thomas wrote most of the lyrics.  Owen Thomas did the primary vocals, and played Sax. Christopher Thomas added drums, percussion.  Bill sang back up and lead on a few songs. The music was written by the Youth Pastor and Owen Thomas.  The band's guitar-based sound has been compared to that of groups like the Foo Fighters, Oasis, and even the Beatles.

In 1996, Just Visiting decided to turn their music from a pastime into a career. The band began to tour persistently, performing at shows and festivals all over the United States.

The group recorded their first album that same year, Gardenshow. In 1998, a second album was completed, Just Visiting; both albums were done on independent record labels. "She Never Walked Away," Jug of Pennies, Jesus Loves you '96 "Don't Ever Let Me See You Cry," and "Cast a Stone" are some of the tracks on the albums.

In 1999, the band changed its name from Just Visiting to the Elms,. A few months later, the group signed with Sparrow Records. A self-titled EP (using the new name), The Elms, was released in 2000. One of the tunes on the EP, "Lifeboat," made it as a Top 13 hit nationwide. Over the years, the Elms have performed with many other Christian groups, including the Waiting, Seven Day Jesus, the O.C. Supertones, Big Tent Revival, Sixpence None the Richer, and Delirious? Other members of the Elms have been bassist Jeff Sutton, who added his talents for over two years before leaving; guitarist Billy Riggs, who joined the band for the 1997 Gospel Music Association National Spotlight Competition; Malcolm McLaughlin, who left in 1999; guitarist James Thompson, who was with the group from 1997–2000; and Florida bass guitarist Matt Erickson, who joined in time to work with the Elms on a full-length album for Sparrow. That album was Big Surprise, a sweetly catchy affair that saw the group adding pop elements that had not previously come through in their sound.

A 2002 tour with Peter Frampton and a new album, Truth, Soul, Rock & Roll, marked their next efforts. The group took a long hiatus from both touring and recording, returning in 2006 with Chess Hotel.

Discography

American Christian musical groups
American pop rock music groups
Musical groups established in 1996


The Meta-leadership framework and practice method is designed to “provide guidance, direction, and momentum across organizational lines that develop into a shared course of action and commonality of purpose among people and agencies that are doing what may appear to be very different work.” Meta-leadership has been “derived through observation and analysis of leaders in crisis circumstances” starting with the September 11 attacks in the U.S.The focus on national preparedness has subsequently been distilled for more general application, though it remains useful to crisis leaders particularly given current and persistent natural and man-made threats requiring the coordination of multiple agencies and organizations in preparation, response, and recovery.

Meta-leadership re-frames the practice of leadership by providing:

1)  A comprehensive organizing framework for understanding and integrating the many facets of leadership;

2)  A method for catalyzing collaborative activity;

3) A focus on improving function and performance across organizational and sector boundaries.

Origins
The framework was developed by Leonard J. Marcus and Barry Dorn of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Joseph M. Henderson Chief of Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and first published in 2006.

The need for such an expansive view of leadership was driven by the increased complexity of natural and manmade threats facing the United States. The challenge was illustrated by the inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina that “revealed profound system weaknesses.” Marcus, Dorn, and Henderson posited that “Leadership, as commonly understood, works to build the capacity within organizations. We premise here that a different brand of leadership is necessary to get beyond that silo thinking to achieve cross-agency and cross-government coordination of strategy and effort for national terrorism and emergency preparedness.”

As put forward in the first published article, effective meta-leadership was dependent upon the capacity of individual leaders to “..envision a new connectivity of strategy and effort and then find a way to communicate, inspire, and persuade broader participation.”; situational awareness, “seeing both the problems to be resolved as well as the people and assets that can be constructively brought to bear; and achieving connectivity, “…a seamless web of people, organizations, resources, and information that can best catch (detect and report), respond, (control and contain), and return to pre-event normal (recover) from a terrorist incident.”

Extensions and Evolution
As a framework premised on integrating theory and practice through ongoing research, teaching, and field observation, meta-leadership has evolved over time as reflected in published work.

The original three-dimensional model meta-leadership framework and practice method was further developed and expanded to a five-dimensional model though work that included Isaac Ashkenazi: The person of the meta-leader, the situation, leading up, leading down, and leading across. Incorporating more recent feedback and research on events such as the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing response and the 2014-2015 response the Ebola outbreak in the United States, the model currently taught at the NPLI uses three dimensions similar to those in the original model, though each has been expanded and refined.

Earlier variants may still be in use in settings beyond the NPLI at Harvard and in publications. The current model in use at the NPLI builds upon but does not invalidate previous versions.

The Difference Between Leadership and Meta-Leadership
As a framework and practice method, meta-leadership draws upon and integrates a wide range of extant leadership scholarship, including that on transformational leadership, shared leadership, followership, complex adaptive leadership, and others.

Meta-leadership is distinct in that it is focused on cross-cutting leadership that generates connectivity among disparate stakeholders in both intra- and inter-organizational settings. “Leadership refers to the recognized or expected span of authority that a person has in his or her formal role.” Meta-leadership is leadership employing influence over authority. “Meta-leaders…seek to influence and activate change well above and beyond established lines of their decision-making and control. These leaders are driven by a purpose broader than that prescribed by their formal roles, and are therefore motivated and capable of acting in ways that transcend usual organizational confines.

Meta-leaders think and perform differently. By taking a holistic view, they intentionally link and leverage the efforts of the whole community to galvanize a valuable connectivity that achieves unity of purpose and effort.

The Three Dimensions of Meta-Leadership
 The person of the Meta-Leader (self-knowledge, awareness, and regulation): Meta-leaders develop high self-awareness, self-knowledge, and self-regulation. They build the capacity to confront fear and lead themselves and others out of the “emotional basement” to higher levels of thinking and functioning.
 The situation (discerning the context for leadership):  With often incomplete information, the meta-leader maps the situation to determine what is happening, who are the stakeholders, what is likely to happen next, and what are the critical choice points and options for action.
 Connectivity (fostering positive, productive relationships): The meta-leader charts a course forward, making decisions, operationalizing those decisions, and communicating effectively to recruit wide engagement and support. The meta-leader navigates the distinct dynamics and complexities of leading four facets of connectivity.
 leading down the formal chain of command to subordinates (within one’s silo), creating a cohesive high-performance team with a unified mission;
 leading up to superiors, inspiring confidence and delivering on expectations; enabling and supporting good decisions and priority setting;
 leading across to peers and intra-organizational units (other silos) to foster collaboration and coordination;
 leading beyond by engaging external entities, including affected agencies, the general public and the media to create unity of purpose and effort in large-scale response to complex events.

Meta-Leadership in Practice
Meta-leadership is particularly valuable in situations requiring connectivity and collaboration among entities, within the public sector (government agency to government agency), within the private sector (organization to organization) and between the public and private sector (where government agencies and private entities become inter-dependent to respond to widespread leadership demands). Meta-leadership is also increasingly valuable as an internal leadership framework for organizations, public and private, as large entities become less hierarchical and rely more heavily on inter-dependent intra-organizational units and extra-organizational partners. In the sphere of government emergency preparedness and response, Meta-Leadership acts as a unifying framework across different organizations and organizational units, intentionally connecting purpose and work to establish a shared course of action in times of critical need for coordinated response.

On a national level, there is a heightened need for effective cross-government and cross-sector collaboration with private and non-profit organizations in order to achieve large-scale preparedness. Meta-leadership principles can provide tools to break down obstacles to collaboration that are often the result of narrow leadership focus on the interests and needs of individual silos of activity.  Meta-leaders are able to imaginatively and effectively leverage system assets, information, and capacities, a particularly critical function for organizations with emergency preparedness responsibilities that are constrained by ingrained bureaucratic patterns of behavior.”

It is the core of the curriculum of the NPLI Executive Education Program for senior government leaders responsible for emergency preparedness and response. It has been widely adopted in public health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States Department of Homeland Security, The Transportation Security Agency, the National Security Council of the White House, and many other public and private entities, to best meet the leadership challenges of unexpected or fast-changing situations.

Invited by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to look at government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, Marcus described the need for meta-leadership in any large-scale crisis, “Going forward, better communication and coordination among all levels of government, or ‘connectivity,’ will prove crucial. That means not just harnessing electronic technology to forge links among agencies, but also building relationships between people—transforming a culture that champions independent decision making into one that values cooperation.”

Similar observations to Hurricane Katrina emerged during analysis of the response to the Boston Marathon Bombings, a large-scale, multi-agency, time-constrained effort studied by NPLI faculty. An additional theory of study emerged from the leadership observed during the Boston Marathon Bombing Response that is now incorporated into the meta-leadership teachings of NPLI: swarm intelligence.

References

Leadership


Billboard Top Hits: 1989 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1994, featuring ten hit recordings from 1989.

The track lineup includes seven songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The remaining three songs all reached the top five of the chart.

Track listing

Track information and credits taken from the album's liner notes.

References

1994 compilation albums
Billboard Top Hits albums


Amrutanjan may refer to:

 Amrutanjan (balm), a pain-relieving balm
 Amrutanjan Healthcare, an Indian pharmaceutical company established in 1893


Club Deportivo Laudio de Fútbol San Rokezar is a Spanish football team based in Laudio/Llodio, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 2002 it plays in Segunda División B – Group 2, holding home matches at Estadio Ellakuri, which has a capacity of 3.500 spectators.

History
Sociedad Deportiva Llodio (1927–40)
Club Deportivo Villosa (1940–72)
Sociedad Deportiva Llodio (1972–2002)
Club Deportivo Laudio (2002–present)

Founded in 2002 as the successor of several clubs dating back to 1927, Laudio reached the fourth tier of Spanish football (Tercera División) a year later. In 2012 the club won its group, but lost 3–0 on aggregate in the playoff final to San Fernando CD. In winning that group, the club qualified for the first time to the Copa del Rey, where they lost in the first round at home by a single goal to neighbours SD Eibar.

Again the group winners, Laudio made the playoffs in 2013 and defeated Mar Menor FC in the final via a goal from Germán Beltrán. In the subsequent cup run, they dispatched Real Unión and Écija Balompié before a penalty shootout elimination in the third round at home to CD Olímpic de Xàtiva.

Laudio's only season in Segunda División B in 2013–14 ended with relegation in 17th place. However, the club was given a further demotion back to the regional leagues due to wage backlogs of €200,000 to its players.

Season to season

1 season in Segunda División B
10 seasons in Tercera División

References

External links
Official website
Futbolme team profile

Football clubs in the Basque Country (autonomous community)
Association football clubs established in 2002
2002 establishments in Spain


Just Visiting may refer to:

 Just Visiting (album series), a 2002 EP series by Cog
 Just Visiting (Cog album), a 2008 compilation rerelease of the EPs
 Just Visiting (band), an American Christian rock band, some of whose members later formed the band The Elms
 Just Visiting (The Elms album), 1998
 Just Visiting (film), a 2001 comedy film
 "Just Visiting" (Birds of a Feather), an episode of Birds of a Feather


Miroslav Milošević (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Милошевић; born 2 July 1975) is a Serbian footballer.

External links
 Profile and stats at Srbijafudbal
 Profile and stats until 2003 at Dekisa.Tripod

1975 births
Living people
Serbian men's footballers
Serbian expatriate men's footballers
FK Napredak Kruševac players
FK Milicionar players
FK Hajduk Beograd players
FK Pelister players
FK Makedonija G.P. players
FK Rabotnički players
Expatriate men's footballers in North Macedonia
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
Men's association football midfielders
FK Horizont Turnovo players


Crusino I Sommaripa (died 1462) was lord of the islands of Paros and later Andros in the Duchy of the Archipelago.

Life
Crusino was a son of Gaspare Sommaripa and Maria Sanudo. His mother was a daughter of the Duchess of the Archipelago Florence Sanudo and her second husband Nicholas II Sanudo, and half-sister of Nicholas III dalle Carceri, the last Duke of the Archipelago from the House of Sanudo. In December 1371, she received the island of Andros as a fief, but when Nicholas III was murdered in 1383 and Francesco I Crispo became the new duke, Andros was taken from her. Maria was compensated with the island of Paros in 1389, on condition that she marry the Veronese Gaspare Sommaripa, a politically insignificant parvenu. Through the intervention of Venice, Maria also succeeded her half-brother Nicholas III as lady of one third of the island of Euboea.

Crusino was a cultured man and an antiquarian; he entertained the fellow antiquarian and scholar Cyriacus of Ancona, who visited Paros often due to its famed marble quarries, with presentations of ancient statues that his men had excavated. On one occasion he even gifted him with the head and leg of an ancient statue, which Cyriacus sent to a friend, Andriolo Giustiniani-Banca of Chios.

In 1440, he recovered control of his mother's possession of Andros, following a Venetian court decision. He gave the nearby island of Antiparos to his son-in-law, a Loredan.

References

Sources

1462 deaths
Crusino 01
Crusino
Triarchs of Negroponte
Year of birth unknown
Crusino
15th-century Italian nobility


Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer is a book written by Edward Yourdon in 1996.  It is the sequel to Decline and Fall of the American Programmer.  In the original, written at the beginning of the 1990s, Yourdon warned American programmers that their business was not sustainable against foreign competition.  By the middle of the decade Microsoft had released Windows 95, which marked a groundbreaking new direction for the operating system, the internet was beginning to rise as a serious consumer marketplace, and the Java software platform had made its first public release.

Due to such large changes in the state of the software industry, Yourdon reversed some of his original predictions.  Notably absent from the book is any significant consideration of the open source software movement, particularly the development of the Linux kernel and the GNU operating system, which would come to have increasing significance in the coming decade in shaping the software industry.  Both the internet, Microsoft's business strategy, and Java, which all feature significantly in Yourdon's thesis, would come to be heavily influenced by this phenomenon.

1996 non-fiction books
Software development books
Software quality
Software industry
Science and technology in the United States
Prentice Hall books


Vicki Goldberg is an American photography critic, author, and photo historian based in New Hampshire, United States. She has written books and articles on photography and its social history.

Biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Goldberg earned a master's degree in art history from New York University Institute of Fine Arts.

Goldberg's books include The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives; Light Matters (a selection of her essays); and The White House: The President's Home in Photographs and History; as well as editing the anthology Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present. Her first biography, Margaret Bourke-White, took an in-depth look at the life and techniques of Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer active in the early to mid-20th Century.

Goldberg co-wrote A Nation of Strangers: Essays with Arthur Ollman, and American Photography: A Century of Images with art historian Robert Silberman. She has also written introductions to a number of photographic monographs.

Margaret Bourke-White and The Power of Photography were included in the American Library Association's lists of best books of their respective years. In 2006, Photography in Print was named by The Wall Street Journal  one of the year's five best books on photography.

Goldberg has written for The New York Times and Vanity Fair. She has lectured in Belgium, England, France, China, Korea, Norway and Portugal as well as America. She currently works as a freelance writer and lecturer.

In 1997, she received the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award. In 1999, she received the Royal Photographic Society's J Dudley Johnston Award.

References

General references
 Vicki Goldberg Biography at the Biography Resource Center

External links

Articles about Goldberg at the New York Times

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Writers from St. Louis
Writers from New York City
New York University Institute of Fine Arts alumni
American art historians
American women historians
Historians of photography
Women art historians
Historians from New York (state)
21st-century American women
John Burroughs School alumni


"The River" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Garth Brooks. In late 1992, it became his ninth Number One hit on the Billboard country charts. It was released in April 1992 as the fifth and final single from his album Ropin' the Wind, and it has appeared on three albums that have sold more than ten million copies each in the US alone, these being Ropin' The Wind, The Hits and Double Live. The song was written by Garth Brooks and Victoria Shaw.

Content
The song is a mid-tempo country pop ballad in which a river is used as an analogy for the pursuit of one's dreams. Through the lyrics, the narrator says that he will continue to pursue his dreams.

Background and production
Garth provided the following background information on the song in the CD booklet liner notes from The Hits:

"Of all songs, most of the letters I receive concern "The River."  It is a song of inspiration... a song that I will be proud of a hundred years from now.  Victoria Shaw is a wonderful writer and a wonderful friend.  And this is what happens when two dreamers get together and write from the heart.  One of the greatest awards that this song has ever received was the fact that it was played at Dale Wehr's funeral.  Quite an honor, cowboy."

Additional personnel on the song included Kenny Malone on percussion, Edgar Meyer on acoustic bass, and Trisha Yearwood on harmony vocals.

Garth has stated that The River was inspired by childhood hero James Taylor.

Critical reception
Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the song as an "ambitious epic". Entertainment Weekly critic Ken Tucker considered it a standout track on the album, saying it "showcase[d]…his ability to imbue baleful country ballads with complex, soulful emotions."

Chart positions

Year-end charts

References

Songs about rivers
1992 singles
Garth Brooks songs
Songs written by Victoria Shaw (singer)
Songs written by Garth Brooks
Song recordings produced by Allen Reynolds
Liberty Records singles
1991 songs


Jacek Zieliński may refer to two Polish football coaches:
 Jacek Zieliński (footballer, born 1961)
 Jacek Zieliński (footballer, born 1967)

See also


Leaflets that are folded are usually used for advertising or marketing purposes, or for information supplementary to labels. There are many types of folds; only the most popular types are listed here. Although it is difficult to put a date on when some of these folds were first used, it is evident that their popularity boomed when the first mass production printers were introduced.

Parallel fold

Different kinds of parallel folds are concertina folds, letter folds and gate folds.

Concertina fold

A concertina fold, also known as a zig-zag fold, accordion fold or z-fold, is a continuous parallel folding of brochures and similar printed material in an accordion-like fashion, that is with folds alternatively made to the front and back in zig-zag folds. Because they do not nest (as in Letter Folds) panels can be the same size. Seen from above, concertina folds resemble a Z or M or series of zigs and zags.

In bookbinding a leporello binding has its pages concertina-folded, as above, but also has front and back boards so that it can be handled like a normal book. Sometimes there is a spine too, which provides a normal page-turning experience while eliminating the gutter of normal bookbinding. The origin of the word is based on the manservant in Mozart's Don Giovanni. At one point in the opera, Leporello unfolds a lengthy concertina list of his master's conquests.

Letter fold

Folding pattern in which the folds are parallel and in the same direction, so that a kind of spiral is produced. The letter fold is a parallel fold. Two or more panels of the same width of the folded signature are folded around one panel. When the signature is folded twice, there are three panels on each side (six pages); with a tri-fold, the result is four panels on each side (eight pages). To allow proper nesting of panels that fold in, inside panels are usually  smaller than outer panels with the inside end panel being the smallest.

Also known as a spiral fold, trifold, brochure fold, business letter, C fold, roll fold and barrel fold.

Gate fold

Also known as a window fold.

Double parallel fold

In double parallel folds the paper is folded in half and then folded in half again with a fold parallel to the first fold. To allow for proper nesting the two inside folded panels are  smaller than the two outer panels.

Double gatefold

In double gatefolds there are three parallel folds. The left and right edges of the paper fold and meet in the middle, without overlapping, along a center fold. The outer panels (the ones that fold in to the middle) are usually  smaller than the inner panels (the ones covered by the panels that fold in) to allow for proper folding and nesting.

French fold
Takes a concertina fold, folded in half down the middle to create 8 individual sections. Also known as cross fold and quarter fold.

See also
Flyer (pamphlet)
Pamphlet
Brochure

References

Advertising publications by format


Dhatuvardhani (pronounced Dhātuvardhani) is a ragam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). Dhatuvardhani is the 69th Melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is called Dhautapanchamam in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music.

Structure and Lakshana

Dhatuvardhani is the 3rd rāgam in the 12th chakra Aditya. The mnemonic name is Aditya-Go. The mnemonic phrase is sa ru gu mi pa dha nu. Dhatuvardhani's  structure (ascending and descending scale) is as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):
:
:
The notes used in this scale are shatsruthi rishabham, antara gandharam, prati madhyamam, shuddha dhaivatham and kakali nishadham.

As Dhatuvardhani is a melakarta rāgam, by definition it is a sampurna rāgam (it has all 7 notes in ascending and descending scale). It is the prati madhyamam equivalent of Gangeyabhushani, which is the 33rd melakarta.

Janya rāgams
A few minor janya rāgams (derived scales) are associated with Dhatuvardani. See List of Janya Rāgams for full list of rāgams associated with Dhatuvardhani and other 71 melakarta rāgams.

Compositions
A few common compositions set to Dhatuvardhani are:

Sukha kara by Koteeswara Iyer
Mahesham bhavayam by Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna

Related rāgams
This section covers the theoretical and scientific aspect of this rāgam.

Dhatuvardhani's notes when shifted using Graha bhedam, yields Gayakapriya, a minor melakarta rāgam. Graha bhedam is the step taken in keeping the relative note frequencies same, while shifting the shadjam to the next note in the rāgam. For further details and an illustration refer Graha bhedam on Gayakapriya.

Notes

References

Melakarta ragas


The following highways are numbered 3B:

United States
 Massachusetts Route 3B (former)
 New Hampshire Route 3B (former)
 New York State Route 3B (former)
 Nevada State Route 3B (former)


A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial counties of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

Hampshire

Isle of Wight

Sources

Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is:

Maps
1607 John Norden
1611 John Speed
1645 Joan Blaeu
1675 John Ogilby
1759 Isaac Taylor

Notes

Mills in bold are still standing, and known building dates are also indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.

References

Windmills
Windmills
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight


Bickershaw is a village, effectively a suburb of Abram, within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, Bickershaw is 3 miles (4.8 km) south-southeast of Wigan.

The Bickershaw Festival was held here in 1972.
Today the village is the location of the main entrance/access road to HMP Hindley, a juvenile prison and Young Offenders Institution mainly serving the Northwest UK, although the main building, HMP Hindley, is situated in neighbouring Hindley.

Bickershaw is the birthplace of Lord Martin Dearnaley.

Villages in Greater Manchester
Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan


Delfi-n3Xt is a Dutch nanosatellite which is operated by Delft University of Technology. It was launched on 21 November 2013. It is a three-unit CubeSat which will be used to demonstrate propulsion and communications systems for future missions.

Delfi-n3Xt was launched successfully by a Dnepr carrier rocket flying from Site 370/13 at the Dombarovsky launch site. Delfi was a secondary payload aboard the rocket, whose primary mission was to deploy DubaiSat 2 and STSAT-3. Delfi was one of 25 secondary payloads aboard the rocket, for a total of 32 satellites.

The Delfi team made contact with the satellite during its first pass.

References

Student satellites
Spacecraft launched in 2013
CubeSats
Satellites of the Netherlands
Science and technology in the Netherlands
Spacecraft launched by Dnepr rockets


Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1972 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring ten hit recordings from 1972.

All tracks on the album reached the top 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, with seven of the songs going to number one on the chart. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on October 19, 1999.

Track listing

References

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits albums
1989 compilation albums
Pop rock compilation albums


The 2008 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit: Finalists in 14 categories (73 books) were announced October 21, winners announced November 18.  The prize for writers and illustrators was $25,000 and "a specially bound copy of the winning book".

Controversy

The Canada Council for the Arts, the award program's administrator, faced some criticism around its nomination of the graphic novel Skim in the Children's Literature category. The nomination was credited to Mariko Tamaki, who wrote the graphic novel's text, but not to her cousin and co-creator Jillian Tamaki, who drew the illustrations.

Two prominent Canadian graphic novelists, Chester Brown and Seth, circulated an open letter to the Canada Council asking them to revise the nomination, arguing that unlike a more traditional illustrated book, a graphic novel's text and illustration are inseparable parts of the work's narrative, and that both women should accordingly be credited as equal co-authors. Their letter was also endorsed by other prominent Canadian and American graphic novelists, including Lynda Barry, Dan Clowes, Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware and Julie Doucet, as well as by Chris Oliveros of Canadian comic and graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly and Peter Birkemore of Toronto comic store The Beguiling.

Melanie Rutledge, a spokesperson for the Canada Council, responded that it was too late to revise the nominations for the 2008 awards, but that the council would take the feedback into account in the future.

The Canada Council later faced controversy over its selection of Jacob Scheier's More to Keep Us Warm as the winner in the poetry category. Di Brandt, one of the poetry award's jurors, was credited by Scheier as a friend and mentor in the book's creation, resulting in debate over whether Brandt should have recused herself from the judging panel.

English

French

References

Governor General's Awards
Governor General's Awards
Governor General's Awards


Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1971 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1971.

All tracks on the album reached the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, with seven of the songs going to No. 1 on the chart.

Track listing

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits albums
1989 compilation albums
Pop rock compilation albums