In the 1975 Intertoto Cup no knock-out rounds were contested, and therefore no winner was declared.

Group stage
The teams were divided into ten groups of four teams each.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Group 9

Group 10

See also
 1975–76 European Cup
 1975–76 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
 1975–76 UEFA Cup

External links
  by Pawel Mogielnicki

1975
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Locomotive No. 44 of the Brunswick State Railway Company (Braunschweigische Landes-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BLE) was a tank locomotive for mixed passenger and goods traffic. The locomotive, built in 1934 by Krupp, had a 2-8-2T wheel arrangement and a two-cylinder superheated engine. Leading and trailing wheels were housed in a Bissel bogie. Rather unusual for such a locomotive were the smoke deflectors which were attached directly to the side tanks and extended as far as the front buffer beam.

After the takeover of the BLE by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1938, the engine was given the running number 79 001, re-using a number previously given to a Saxon XV HTV that had been retired in 1933.

The engine survived the Second World War and was sold to the  (DEG), and sent to their  (BSE) in 1947. It was transferred to the  (FKE) in 1949, the  (TWE) in 1960, and then returned to the FKE in 1966. It was retired there in 1973.

The running number 79 001 was allocated in 1951 to the former French locomotive, 1-242.TA.602, which had ended up in German hands after the war.

References

 Weisbrod, Bäzold, Obermayer: Das große Typenbuch deutscher Dampflokomotiven. Transpress Verlag

See also
List of DRG locomotives and railbuses

2-8-2T locomotives
Private locomotives of Germany
Steam locomotives of Germany
Krupp locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1934
Individual locomotives of Germany


Yenikənd is a municipality and village in the Oghuz Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 379.

References

Populated places in Oghuz District


Michael Alexander Strautmanis (born Michael Alexander Young, March 24, 1969) is an American lawyer and political organizer who served as chief of staff to Valerie Jarrett in the White House Office of Public Engagement during the Presidency of Barack Obama.  He currently works as Executive Vice President for Public Engagement at the Obama Foundation.

Early life and education
Michael Alexander Strautmanis was born in Chicago and lived briefly on the South Side with his mother. When his mother married a Latvian immigrant, Juris Strautmanis, they moved to the Uptown neighborhood located in Chicago's North Side. He would later take the last-name of his step-father due to a fractured relationship with his biological father. He attended a prestigious local prep school, the Jesuit-run St. Ignatius College Prep, on a financial-aid program. His mother was a teacher at Jenner Elementary School, while his step-father was a guidance counselor.

He graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1991 with a degree in advertising, although he initially started as a theater major. His interest in law arose from a summer job he had in college as a bicycle messenger, where he was inspired by the law firm buildings that he delivered packages to; one of these buildings was Sidley Austin law firm. The year before law school, he called the head of human resources of Sidley 13 times and was eventually given a job as a paralegal. As a paralegal, he worked under Michelle Obama from 1991 to 1992.

Strautmanis became close friends with Michelle Obama at Sidley, who was influential to his interest in law. He later attended the University of Illinois College of Law and would spend late-night study sessions with then-Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. at IHOP. He earned his J.D. in 1994. After, he practiced complex litigation, labor and employment law, and intellectual property matters in Chicago at Michael Best & Friedrich.

Early political career
As a young lawyer with an interest in politics, Strautmanis met Thomas Hynes, an influential politician in Chicago, at a Christmas party, which lead to Strautmanis helping Hyne's son with Bill Clinton and Al Gore's Illinois statewide campaign. Wanting to go to Washington, Strautmanis gave his resume to then U.S. Assistant Attorney General Deval Patrick after Patrick gave a speech in Chicago; soon after, he was given a position in Washington to serve in the Clinton Administration as the Special Assistant to the General Counsel at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), staying in the position from 1998 to 1999.

Strautmanis later secured a position as legislative director and counsel for then U.S. Congressman Rod Blagojevich and aided in him winning the 2002 Illinois gubernatorial campaign. During this period, Strautmanis had temporarily left this position to volunteer for Barack Obama's U.S. House of Representatives 2000 campaign, although he would return once Obama lost. In 2002, Strautmanis left to work for the American Association for Justice as a lobbyist for trial lawyers, a position he kept till 2005.

Obama Administration
He served as Chief Counsel and the Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs on Obama's presidential transition team. In December 2008, Obama announced in a press release that Strautmanis would serve as Chief of Staff to the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Engagement for Valerie Jarrett.

Post-political career
In March 2013, he announced his resignation from the White House staff in order to accept a post with the Walt Disney Corporation specializing in corporate citizenship. In November 2015, the Obama Foundation announced Strautmanis would become the Vice President of Civic Engagement.

Strautmanis is on the board of directors for Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Works
In 2018, Strautmanis detailed his longstanding relationship with Michelle and Barack Obama and his experiences in the Obama White House in a chapter in West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House.

References

1969 births
American lawyers
Disney people
Living people
Obama administration personnel
People associated with Sidley Austin
People of the United States Agency for International Development
Politicians from Chicago
University of Illinois College of Law alumni


War Department Report is a 1943 American documentary film directed by Carl Marzani.  It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

The film's primary intended audience was war workers; it consisted of "battle footage, analysis of Axis military and industrial strength, and pep talks about America's superior resources." Some of the footage came from John Ford's Field Photo section of the Office of Strategic Services.

The Academy Film Archive preserved War Department Report in 2012. The film is part of the Academy War Film Collection, one of the largest collections of World War II era short films held outside government archives.

References

External links
, posted by the San Diego Air & Space Museum

1943 films
American documentary films
American World War II propaganda films
American black-and-white films
1943 documentary films
1940s English-language films


Gerhard Kleppinger (born 1 March 1958) is a German football manager of SV Sandhausen and former player.

References

External links

1958 births
Living people
German men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Germany men's under-21 international footballers
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
SV Darmstadt 98 players
Hannover 96 players
Karlsruher SC players
FC Schalke 04 players
Borussia Dortmund players
KFC Uerdingen 05 players
German football managers
SV Darmstadt 98 managers
FC St. Pauli managers
Olympic footballers for West Germany
West German men's footballers
Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany
Olympic medalists in football
FC Gütersloh managers
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen managers
2. Bundesliga managers
SV Sandhausen managers
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Footballers from Darmstadt (region)
FSV Frankfurt managers
People from Darmstadt-Dieburg


Make Me a Millionaire is the second television game show of the California Lottery, having replaced The Big Spin on January 17, 2009. Originally contracted for a four-year run, the show was cancelled after eighteen months, with its final episode telecast on August 7, 2010. On July 9, five unaired episodes were uploaded to the California Lottery's official YouTube page.

Contestants received a guaranteed minimum prize of $2,000, while the grand prize was a progressive jackpot of at least $1,000,000.

Games
The show had four random-play games, and did not retain the Big Wheel or Dream Machine from the show's predecessor. The games are described here in the order of their appearance in the show. Some other merchandise was also given away in addition to the stated prizes.

The following games were mostly based on the second format of the Florida Lottery's Flamingo Fortune.

Lucky Penny
Lucky Penny gives to each of three players a prize of either $2,000 in cash or a car. Each player begins with ten "penny" tokens and gets four turns to generate a random number from 1 to 9 that matches or comes close to a target number; the target number in each turn is a different digit in the price of the car. At each turn, the difference between a player's random number and the target number is the number of pennies that the player loses; matching the target number exactly wins back two of the previously lost pennies (a player cannot have more than ten pennies). At the end of the game, each player with at least one penny left wins the car. With no pennies, a player gets $2,000.

The game appears similar to The Price Is Right'''s pricing game Lucky Seven, but with the fundamental difference that Lucky Penny is purely a game of chance.

Safe Cracker
In Safe Cracker, two players compete for up to $92,000 in cash. The game offers two rounds, but only the first-round winner gets the option of continuing to the second round.

In the first round, each player begins with $2,000 and gets up to five turns to add to it. The players alternate in choosing from a set of ten safes. When chosen, a safe is opened to reveal its contents and remove it from further play. Seven of the safes have amounts ranging from $1,000 to $20,000. The other three are empty. Players accumulate values until one of the players has chosen two empty safes. That player leaves with half of his or her accumulated amount. The other player receives a $5,000 bonus and the option to leave with the accumulated winnings or go to the second round. In the second round, the player chooses one safe out of five. Three of those safes will double the player's winnings, but the other two will halve the winnings. Regardless of the outcome, each player receives 500 Make Me a Millionaire scratchers.

California Cool
California Cool is a one-player game with up to four rounds and cash prizes ranging from $5,000 to $200,000. In each round, the player picks a number from one to five, to reveal a statement about California. The player gains money only when the choice reveals a true statement. After each round, the player may leave with the accumulated winnings or continue to the next round.

In the first round, the player wins $5,000 for each choice that reveals a true statement. The round begins with one play in which all five statements are true, ensuring a win. The game is reset with one false and four true statements, and the round continues until the player picks the false statement. At the end of the first round, the player's accumulated winnings may range from $5,000 to $25,000.

For the remaining rounds, the payoff is either a doubling (for a true statement) or halving (for a false statement) of the winnings, with one play per round; a false statement also ends the game. Round 2 has one false statement; another false statement is added in each successive round, so that there are only two true statements in round 4. A player who wins round 4 will have doubled the first-round winnings three times, resulting in total accumulated winnings ranging from $40,000 to $200,000.

Millionaire
All six contestants who have not been in a game yet appear on stage, and the host calls the name of the one person who gets to play the last game (after the show reveals it by putting the six contestants under the spotlight, and then turning off one spotlight at a time until only one stays lit; Walberg then calls that person's name). The remaining five each receive $2,000 and 500 Make Me a Millionaire scratchers. Millionaire pays a minimum of $10,000 with a jackpot starting at $1,000,000 and increasing by $200,000 each time it is not won.

The game begins by generating a random number from 1 to 50, which counts as the first winning number and awards the player $10,000. Each subsequent winning number awards them an additional $10,000. Play continues to get up to ten more winning numbers by guessing whether the next random number will be higher or lower than the previous winning number. Winning all eleven numbers (each number represents one letter of the word "millionaire") augments the earnings to the jackpot. After one wrong guess, the player must choose before each turn whether to leave with the accumulated earnings or continue to play (by saying the show's title). A second wrong guess ends the game and the player's earnings are halved (the $10,000 minimum is not halved). From the show's premiere through July 18, 2009, the player won only $10,000 when the game ended from a second wrong guess. Regardless of the outcome, the winner receives 1,000 Make Me a Millionaire scratchers (or a bonus prize).

Jackpot winners

The biggest winner is Natalie Marston, a former Snow White performer at Disneyland who won $5.2 million.

Broadcast history
The first show was recorded on December 14, 2008 and broadcast on January 17, 2009. It aired weekly on Saturdays, in the early evening, at a time specific to each local station. The show was produced by 3Ball Productions and Milestone Entertainment for an initially anticipated four-year run, and featured Mark L. Walberg as host, with co-presenter Liz Hernandez. The show had the same four games throughout its one-and-a-half-year run. Twelve contestants were featured on each show, from whom seven were assigned randomly to play the games; the remaining five received $2,000 minimum cash or prizes. Contestants learned their assignments only as each game began, although only one of those contestant assignments was televised, and that was for the Millionaire game.

On May 4, 2010, the California Lottery announced that the show was being cancelled and would not be replaced. The last program was telecast on July 3. Money that had been allocated for production of the show will be used for prizes for the lottery's scratch-off games.

In a significant production accomplishment for the initial recordings in December 2008, series director Rich DiPirro rehearsed and directed the first three episodes from Tokyo via internet hook-up as the production was being staged live in Hollywood.

Getting on the show
Contestants got on the show by mailing in a winning "Make Me a Millionaire" scratch-off ticket. Future winners of the "Make Me a Millionaire" Scratchers games (honored until December 22, 2010), and Fantasy 5 Second Chance Draw coupons (accepted by mail if postmarked by December 31, 2010), still provided the opportunity to play the games and win prizes off-air.Lottery TV Show , California State Lottery. Retrieved 2010-07-05.

When the show began, The Big Spin scratchers were also honored until those tickets expired. A $5 Fantasy 5'' ticket still provided a coupon for a second-chance drawing, with the chance to win the new show's progressive jackpot instead of the Fantasy 5 Dream Machine's $150,000.

Stations
The show aired weekly on Saturdays, in the early evening, at a time specific to each local station.
 Bakersfield - KBFX-CD
 El Centro, CA/Yuma, AZ - KYMA
 Eureka - KIEM-TV
 Fresno - KSEE
 Los Angeles - KCAL-TV
 Monterey/Salinas - KION-TV
 Redding/Chico - KRVU-LD
 Sacramento - KTXL
 San Diego/Tijuana - XETV
 San Francisco - KRON-TV
 Santa Barbara/San Luis Obispo/Santa Maria - KSBY

References

External links
 Make Me a Millionaire FAQ, California State Lottery

American game shows about lotteries
2000s American game shows
2010s American game shows
2009 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings


Wonky is a subgenre of electronic music known primarily for its off-kilter or “unstable” beats, as well as its eclectic, colorful blend of genres including hip-hop, electro-funk, 8-bit, jazz fusion, glitch, and crunk. Artists associated with the style include Joker, Rustie, Hudson Mohawke, Zomby, and Flying Lotus. The genre includes the related styles of purple sound and aquacrunk.

History
Wonky initially emerged in 2008 as a colorful, exuberant style drawing on hip hop, synth-funk, glitchy electronica, and more eclectic influences, in contrast with the austere sound of the UK's ongoing dubstep and grime scenes.  Other influences included American hip hop producers J Dilla and Madlib, with some artists drawing more explicitly on an instrumental hip-hop sound rather than dubstep. The term "wonky" has been rejected by various artists associated with the style.

Characteristics
Wonky is known for its off-kilter rhythms and typically features garish synthesizer tones, melodies, and effects. The "unstable" sound of wonky is often achieved by producing unquantised beats, abandoning the metronomic precision of much electronic music. Artists also use heavy sub-bass, which has been attributed to synergistic effects of bass with the drug ketamine, which became popular in UK clubs during the dubstep era. BBC Music called it a style of "slightly out-of-phase beats and synthesisers that wobble woozily, like they've warped after being left out in the sun."

Purple sound emerged in Bristol in late 2008 out of the splintering dubstep scene and took inspiration from wonky, which it is sometimes considered a part of. It incorporates synth-funk from the 1980s and G-funk production from the '90s into dubstep, while also introducing many aspects of grime and 8-bit music (several prominent purple sound artists cite video game music as a large influence).

See also
Dubstep
Future bass

References

Electronic music genres
English styles of music
2000s in music
2000s in British music
2010s in music
2010s in British music


Top is a village and municipality in the Oghuz Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 370.

References

Populated places in Oghuz District


Children's Hospital of Michigan (CHM) is a for-profit, pediatric acute care hospital located in Detroit, Michigan. The hospital has 227 beds and is affiliated with both the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Michigan State University Medical School. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to pediatric patients aged 0–21 throughout eastern Michigan and the Detroit area and is a part of the Detroit Medical Center. The hospital features the only freestanding pediatric Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center in the Detroit region, 1 of 3 in the state. It is an international provider of pediatric neurology, neurosurgery, cardiology, oncology and diagnostic services including Positron Emission Tomography and MRI.

History
Children's Hospital of Michigan was founded in 1886 with a financial gift from whisky entrepreneur Hiram Walker. It was further endowed in the 1930s with a one million dollar gift from U.S. Senator James Couzens.

Clinical specialties
The hospital offers a wide variety of clinical specialties, including:
Autism, Burn Care, Cardiac Services, Cleft Palate/ Craniofacial Surgery, Communication Disorders, Critical Care, Dentistry/Oral Surgery, Dermatology, Ear, Nose and Throat, Emergency Care, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Genetic Disorders, Hematology and Oncology, Imaging Services, Immunology, Rheumatology and Allergy, Infectious Disease, Intensive Care, Myelomeningocele Care, Neonatal/ Perinatal Medicine, Nephrology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Pediatric Surgery, Pharmacology/ Toxicology, Physical Medicine/ Rehabilitation, Reconstructive Surgery, Poison Control Center, Psychiatry/Psychology and
Pulmonary Medicine.

Children's is one of 10 centers nationally testing new drugs to treat spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative problem that affects the spinal cord and nerves, resulting in muscle wasting and weakness. It houses the first pediatric cardiac catheterization laboratory of its kind in North America. Doctors at Children's Hospital performed the first successful advanced computer-assisted robot-enhanced surgical procedure at a children's hospital in the U.S. CHM cardiovascular surgeons performed the first pediatric heart transplant in Southeast Michigan. CHM is the only pediatric institution in the world with its own Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center. Positron Emission Tomography is a type of nuclear medicine procedure that measures metabolic activity of the cells of body tissues. Children's Hospital performed the first successful pediatric bone marrow transplant in Michigan.

Controversy
In late 2019, the physician group, University Pediatrics announced that they were separating from the Wayne State University School of Medicine and instead joining the Central Michigan University. In retaliation, Wayne State announced that they were creating their own physician group, Wayne Pediatrics and gave doctors who taught medicine at the university 30 days to switch over their affiliation to Wayne Pediatrics or lose their teaching privileges. The group University Pediatrics has had an exclusive contract with the Detroit Medical Center and DMC's owner, Tenet Healthcare decided that doctors from Wayne Pediatrics would lose their affiliation with the hospital and doctors with Wayne Pediatrics would not be able to treat or admit patients at the hospital. In April, 2020 Wayne State officials announced that they were taking up legal action against Tenet Healthcare. The judge later sided with Tenet' ability to control what physicians practice at their hospitals, and subsequent appeals by Wayne State failed. In November 2020, DMC C.E.O. sent out letters to Wayne State pediatricians informing them that they no longer had admitting privileges at the Children's Hospital of Michigan, but these pediatricians would be allowed to practice at DMC's adult hospitals.

Awards
Children's Hospital of Michigan in, 2008 received, American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) MAGNET Recognition designated for nursing excellence. Children's Hospital is the only children's hospital in Michigan with this award.

Children's is in the Leapfrog Group's 2008 Top Hospital list for patient quality and safety. The Leapfrog Group rankings are based on a survey conducted at 1,220 hospitals across the U.S.

As of the 2020-21 rankings, Children's Hospital of Michigan has placed nationally in 6 ranked pediatric specialties on U.S. News & World Report. The hospital was also ranked as #3 children's hospital in Michigan behind C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.

References

External links

 Children's Hospital of Michigan website
 Detroit Medical Center

Hospitals in Detroit
Midtown Detroit
Teaching hospitals in Michigan
Hospitals established in 1886
1886 establishments in Michigan
Detroit Medical Center
Children's hospitals in the United States
Tenet Healthcare
Pediatric trauma centers


Hickman Elementary School may refer to:
Hickman Elementary School - San Diego Unified School District - San Diego, California
Hickman Elementary School - Metro Nashville Public Schools - Nashville, Tennessee
Hickman Elementary School - Garland Independent School District - Garland, Texas


Suç is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Klos. The population at the 2011 census was 2,716.

References

Former municipalities in Dibër County
Administrative units of Klos (municipality)
Villages in Dibër County


Down the Road is the debut solo studio album by American country music artist Larry Stewart. It was his first solo release, as he had left his role as lead singer of the band Restless Heart a year before. The album was released in 1993 on RCA Records Nashville and it produced three singles for him on the Billboard country charts: "Alright Already" at number five, "I'll Cry Tomorrow" at number 34 and "We Can Love" at number 62. Also included is "When I Close My Eyes", a number two hit in 1997 for Kenny Chesney.

Brian Mansfield of Allmusic rated the album four stars out of five, saying that he considered it more country than Stewart's work in Restless Heart.

Track listing

AOmitted from cassette version.

Personnel
Compiled from liner notes.

Musicians

 Eddie Bayers — drums
 Suzy Bogguss — background vocals
 Larry Byrom — electric guitar
 Bruce C. Bouton — steel guitar
 Mark Casstevens — acoustic guitar
 Carol Chase — background vocals
 Chad Cromwell — drums
 Bill Cuomo — synthesizer
 Dan Dugmore — acoustic guitar, steel guitar
 Stuart Duncan — fiddle
 Rick Giles — background vocals
 Vince Gill — background vocals
 Doyle Grisham — steel guitar
 Rob Hajacos — fiddle
 John Jorgenson — electric guitar
 Chris Leuzinger — electric guitar
 Brent Mason — electric guitar
 Terry McMillan — percussion
 Steve Nathan — piano, synthesizer, Hammond B-3 organ
 Michael Noble — acoustic guitar
 Danny Parks — electric guitar
 Dave Pomeroy — bass guitar
 Michael Rhodes — bass guitar
 Brent Rowan — electric guitar
 John Wesley Ryles — background vocals
 Larry Stewart — lead vocals, piano
 Harry Stinson — background vocals
 Cindy Richardson Walker — background vocals
 Biff Watson — acoustic guitar
 John D. Willis — electric guitar
 Dennis Wilson — background vocals

Technical
 Mike Clute — additional recording
 Scott Hendricks — producer, mixing
 John Kelton — recording
 John Kunz — additional recording
 Larry Stewart — producer
 Hank Williams — mastering

References

1993 debut albums
Albums produced by Scott Hendricks
Larry Stewart (singer) albums
RCA Records albums


Armin Gessert  (June 13, 1963 – November 8, 2009) was a computer game developer from Germany. Along with Manfred Trenz and Chris Hülsbeck, he was one of the developers of the 1987 computer game The Great Giana Sisters for Commodore 64. His previous employers included the labels Rainbow Arts and Blue Byte. He was the founder of Spellbound Entertainment.

Career
In 1994, he established his own company, Spellbound Entertainment. Spellbound released several titles, including Desperados, Desperados 2, and Airline Tycoon. Gessert’s last title, Great Giana Sisters DS, was released in 2009 in Germany and Australia.

Death
Gessert died of a heart attack on November 8, 2009.

References

External links
 Spellbound Entertainment

 Confirmation of Gessert's death

1963 births
2009 deaths
20th-century German inventors
German video game designers
Video game programmers


Lis is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Mat. The population at the 2011 census was 3,824.

Demographic history
Lis (Liz) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a hass-ı mir-liva settlement in the vilayet of Mati. The village had a total of nine households which were represented by the following household heads: Petër Syimiri, Gjon Birjuvi, Marin Franko, Tanush Birjuvi, Gjon Gjiriki, Palko Pipi, Gjon Xhani, Nikolla Todi, and Dom Valandidi.

References

Former municipalities in Dibër County
Administrative units of Mat (municipality)
Villages in Dibër County


Pimienta is a Spanish word, meaning "pepper". It may refer to:

 Pimienta, Honduras, a municipality in the Cortés department
 rana pimienta ("pepper frog"), a local name of the frog Leptodactylus labyrinthicus
 Pimienta (film), a 1966 Argentine film

People
 Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta (born 1961), Mexican architect and furniture designer
 Francisco Díaz Pimienta (1594–1652), Spanish naval officer
 Francisco Javier García Pimienta (born 1974), Spanish retired football player and football manager
 Juan de Torrezar Díaz Pimienta (died 1782), Spanish military officer and colonial official
 Lido Pimienta (born 1986), Colombian-Canadian musician
 Pavel Pimienta (born 1976), volleyball player from Cuba
 Raymondt Pimienta (born 1982), Aruban football player

See also
 Pimenta (disambiguation)


Hallavar is a village in the municipality of Qumlaq in the Oghuz Rayon of Azerbaijan.

References

Populated places in Oghuz District


Macukull is a village and a former municipality in the Burrel County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Mat. The population at the 2011 census was 1,565.

Demographic history
Macukull (Maçukli) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a settlement belonging to the timar of Ali in the vilayet of Mati. The village had a total of 11 households which were represented by the following household heads: Lazar Gjyrka, Gjergj Gjika, Lazar Stojko, Nik Mazaraku, Pal Vishlati, Todor Vishlati, Lazar Urani, Kola Budi, Petra Firuni, Mihal Kalovaxhi, and Dimitri Gurbanëshi.

References

Former municipalities in Dibër County
Administrative units of Mat (municipality)
Villages in Dibër County


LMS diesel shunter 7058 was based on an earlier Armstrong Whitworth prototype of 1932, which had been tested by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.  It was initially numbered 7408 and then re-numbered 7058.

War Department use
It was loaned to the War Department between 1941 and 1943 for use at the Longmoor Military Railway, but, despite the extensive period of time spent on loan, no WD number was allocated.

Post-war use
It passed to British Railways upon nationalisation in January 1948, which allocated it number 13000. However, it was withdrawn in November 1949 (and scrapped shortly afterwards) before the number had been applied. The number 13000 was then used instead for the first of the Class 08 shunters.

See also
 LMS diesel shunters

References

7058
Diesel shunter 7058
War Department locomotives
Armstrong Whitworth locomotives
C locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1934
Standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain
Scrapped locomotives
Individual locomotives of Great Britain
Unique locomotives
Diesel-electric locomotives of Great Britain


Triantafyllia (, before 1927: Λάγενη - Lageni, Macedonian: Лаген;  or Лаген) is a village in the municipality of Florina, West Macedonia, Greece.  The population was 81 in 1981 and it grew to 101 by 1991.  The village is set amongst the mountains of Northern Greece, on the slopes of Mount Vernon.  The town has stone architecture.

Demographic history

References

External links

Populated places in Florina (regional unit)
Florina


Dyson Falzon (born 9 March 1986) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.

Falzon has also earned one cap for Malta, appearing in a 3–0 loss to Slovakia on 15 August 2006.

Honours

Valletta
Maltese Premier League: 2007–08

References

External links
 Dyson Falzon at MaltaFootball.com

Living people
1986 births
Maltese men's footballers
Sirens F.C. players
Mosta F.C. players
Valletta F.C. players
Ħamrun Spartans F.C. players
Gżira United F.C. players
Mqabba F.C. players
Maltese Premier League players
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Men's association football midfielders
Malta men's youth international footballers
Malta men's under-21 international footballers
Malta men's international footballers
Mediterranean Games competitors for Malta


Derjan is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Mat. The population at the 2011 census was 1,102. It includes the following settlements: Derjan, Urxallë, Barbullej, Dukagjin, Gjoçaj, Lam i Madh, Zall Gjoçaj.

Demographic history
Derjan (Dirjani) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a settlement belonging to the timar of Ali in the vilayet of Mati. The village was relatively small with a total of five households which were represented by the following household heads: Pal Balazi, Mihal Divalmi, Andrija Kipota, Gjergj Divalmi, and Gjon Kipota. In the register, a certain Mark Kastrioti from Derjan is attested as a yamak stationed in the village of Shtjaknëz (modern Shqefën).

References

Former municipalities in Dibër County
Administrative units of Mat (municipality)
Villages in Dibër County


Forsythe Technology, Inc. is an IT infrastructure, professional services and financial services company located in Skokie, Illinois.

History
The company was founded in 1971 under the name Forsythe McArthur. With $200 in capital and a telephone on a dining room table as an office, founder Rick Forsythe and partner Jim McArthur started the company.  In 1980 Jim McArthur sold his half of the company to Rick Forsythe.  In 1982, Forsythe opened its first two offices to be located outside of Illinois in Georgia and Wisconsin.  In 1988, the employee stock ownership program was established and in 2006 employees purchased the company from Rick Forsythe.  In 2013 Forsythe reported its 43rd consecutive profitable year with revenues of $1.1 billion. In 2015 Forsythe formed the Meta7 division to focus solely on the Oracle Red Stack.

On May 1, 2018, Forsythe was acquired by Sirius Computer Solutions, Inc.

References

External links
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In statistical mechanics, the corner transfer matrix describes the effect of adding a quadrant to a lattice. Introduced by Rodney Baxter in 1968 as an extension of the Kramers-Wannier row-to-row transfer matrix, it provides a powerful method of studying lattice models. Calculations with corner transfer matrices led Baxter to the exact solution of the hard hexagon model in 1980.

Definition

Consider an IRF (interaction-round-a-face) model, i.e. a square lattice model with a spin σi assigned to each site i and interactions limited to spins around a common face. Let the total energy be given by

where for each face the surrounding sites i, j, k and l are arranged as follows:

For a lattice with N sites, the partition function is

where the sum is over all possible spin configurations and w is the Boltzmann weight

To simplify the notation, we use a ferromagnetic Ising-type lattice where each spin has the value +1 or −1, and the ground state is given by all spins up (i.e. the total energy is minimised when all spins on the lattice have the value +1). We also assume the lattice has 4-fold rotational symmetry (up to boundary conditions) and is reflection-invariant. These simplifying assumptions are not crucial, and extending the definition to the general case is relatively straightforward.

Now consider the lattice quadrant shown below:

The outer boundary sites, marked by triangles, are assigned their ground state spins (+1 in this case). The sites marked by open circles form the inner boundaries of the quadrant; their associated spin sets are labelled {σ1,...,σm} and {σ'1,...,σ'm}, where σ1 = σ'1. There are 2m possible configurations for each inner boundary, so we define a 2m×2m matrix entry-wise by

The matrix A, then, is the corner transfer matrix for the given lattice quadrant. Since the outer boundary spins are fixed and the sum is over all interior spins, each entry of A is a function of the inner boundary spins. The Kronecker delta in the expression ensures that σ1 = σ'1, so by ordering the configurations appropriately we may cast A as a block diagonal matrix:

Corner transfer matrices are related to the partition function in a simple way. In our simplified example, we construct the full lattice from four rotated copies of the lattice quadrant, where the inner boundary spin sets σ, σ', σ" and σ'" are allowed to differ:

The partition function is then written in terms of the corner transfer matrix A as

Discussion

Recursion relation

A corner transfer matrix A2m (defined for an m×m quadrant) may be expressed in terms of smaller corner transfer matrices A2m-1 and A2m-2 (defined for reduced (m-1)×(m-1) and (m-2)×(m-2) quadrants respectively). This recursion relation allows, in principle, the iterative calculation of the corner transfer matrix for any lattice quadrant of finite size.

Like their row-to-row counterparts, corner transfer matrices may be factored into face transfer matrices, which correspond to adding a single face to the lattice. For the lattice quadrant given earlier, the face transfer matrices are of size 2m×2m and defined entry-wise by

where 2 ≤ i ≤ m+1. Near the outer boundary, specifically, we have

So the corner transfer matrix A factorises as

where

Graphically, this corresponds to:

We also require the 2m×2m matrices A* and A**, defined entry-wise by

where the A matrices whose entries appear on the RHS are of size 2m-1×2m-1 and 2m-2×2m-2 respectively. This is more clearly written as

Now from the definitions of A, A*, A**, Ui and Fj, we have

which gives the recursion relation for A2m in terms of A2m-1 and A2m-2.

Diagonal form

When using corner transfer matrices to perform calculations, it is both analytically and numerically convenient to work with their diagonal forms instead. To facilitate this, the recursion relation may be rewritten directly in terms of the diagonal forms and eigenvector matrices of A, A* and A**.

Recalling that the lattice in our example is reflection-invariant, in the sense that

we see that A is a symmetric matrix (i.e. it is diagonalisable by an orthogonal matrix). So we write

where Ad is a diagonal matrix (normalised such that its numerically largest entry is 1), αm is the largest eigenvalue of A, and PTP = I. Likewise for A* and A**, we have

where Ad*, Ad**, P* and P** are defined in an analogous fashion to A* and A**, i.e. in terms of the smaller (normalised) diagonal forms and (orthogonal) eigenvector matrices of A2m-1 and A2m-2.

By substituting these diagonalisations into the recursion relation, we obtain

where

Now At is also symmetric, and may be calculated if Ad*, Ad** and R* are known; diagonalising At then yields its normalised diagonal form Ad, its largest eigenvalue κ, and its orthogonal eigenvector matrix R.

Applications

Spin expectation value

Corner transfer matrices (or their diagonal forms) may be used to calculate quantities such as the spin expectation value at a particular site deep inside the lattice. For the full lattice given earlier, the spin expectation value at the central site is given by

With the configurations ordered such that A is block diagonal as before, we may define a 2m×2m diagonal matrix

such that

Partition function per site

Another important quantity for lattice models is the partition function per site, evaluated in the thermodynamic limit and written as

In our example, this reduces to

since tr Ad4 is a convergent sum as m → ∞ and Ad becomes infinite-dimensional. Furthermore, the number of faces 2m(m+1) approaches the number of sites N in the thermodynamic limit, so we have

which is consistent with the earlier equation giving κ as the largest eigenvalue for At. In other words, the partition function per site is given exactly by the diagonalised recursion relation for corner transfer matrices in the thermodynamic limit; this allows κ to be approximated via the iterative process of calculating Ad for a large lattice.

The matrices involved grow exponentially in size, however, and in actual numerical calculations they must be truncated at each step. One way of doing this is to keep the n largest eigenvalues at each step, for some fixed n. In most cases, the sequence of approximations obtained by taking n = 1,2,3,... converges rapidly, and to the exact value (for an exactly solvable model).

See also

 Transfer-matrix method

References

Exactly solvable models
Lattice models
Matrices
Statistical mechanics


(, meaning "co-humanity" or "humaneness") is a Confucian virtue meaning the good quality of a virtuous human when reaching for higher ideals or when being altruistic.  is exemplified by functional, instinctual, parental feelings and intentions of encouragement and protection for their children. It is considered the outward expression of Confucian ideals.

Yan Hui, one of the Four Sages, once asked his master to describe the rules of . Confucius replied, "One should see nothing improper, hear nothing improper, say nothing improper, do nothing improper." Confucius also defined  in the following way: "wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others." Confucius also said, " is not far off; he who seeks it has already found it."  is close to man and never leaves him.

Interpretation of the Chinese character
The single logogram for  is a composite of two distinct common hanzi, 人 (man, a man, a person) and 二 (two), with 人 assuming its common form inside another character, to which various interpretations have been assigned. Internally  can mean "to look up" or "to aspire to higher principles or ideals" and, externally one often hears that  means "how two people should treat one another". While such folk etymologies are common in discussions of Chinese characters, they are often misleading.

In the case of —usually translated as "benevolence" or "humaneness"—humaneness is human-ness, the essence of being human. For Confucius, the interaction of a completely dependent infant and caring parent is the most emotionally charged human interaction, "To love a thing means wanting it to live...". The Way of humaneness is human interaction and, through shared experience, knowing one's family. "Fan Chi asked about humaneness. The Master said it is loving people. Fan Chi asked about wisdom. The Master said it is knowing people." In other words, human love and interaction is the source of humaneness, the source of the human self.

Another common interpretation of the graphical elements is Man or a man connecting Heaven and Earth.

Pre-imperial epigraphic sources testify to alternative writings of the same character: 忎 (given as a variant of 仁 in the Shuowen dictionary), 身 with 心 below (⿱身心), and the latter compound with 人 on the right.

Principles of , , and
The principle of  is related to the concepts of  and .  is often translated as "ritual";  as "righteousness". These three interrelated terms deal with agency as Confucians conceive it.  is action deemed appropriate by society,  is action that is indeed correct, while  deals with the relationship between the agent and object of the action. Often the same action is both  and ; however, that is not always the case.

 is the outward expression of Confucian ideals, while Hopfe M, Lewis and Woodward R. Mark. Religions of the World. Pearson Education Inc: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 07458.ren}} is both the inward and outward expressions of those same ideals. According to Hopfe and Woodward: "Basically,  seems to mean 'the course of life as it is intended to go'.  also has religious and social connotations. When a society lives by , it moves smoothly: men and women respect their elders and superiors; the proper rituals and ceremonies are performed; everything and everyone is in its proper place."

Nature of

Traditional views
 relies heavily on the relationships between two people, but at the same time encompasses much more than that. It represents an inner development towards an altruistic goal, while simultaneously realizing that one is never alone, and that everyone has these relationships to fall back on, being a member of a family, the state, the world, and ultimately the Tao.

 is not a concept that is learned; it is innate Everyone is born with the sense of . Confucius believed that the key to long-lasting integrity was to constantly think, since the world is continually changing at a rapid pace.

 has been translated as "benevolence", "perfect virtue", "goodness", or "human-heartedness". When asked, Confucius defined it by the ordinary Chinese word for love, , saying that it meant to "love others".

 also has a political dimension. Confucianism says that if the ruler lacks , it will be difficult for his subjects to behave humanely.  is the basis of Confucian political theory; the ruler is exhorted to refrain from acting inhumanely towards his subjects. An inhumane ruler runs the risk of losing the Mandate of Heaven or, in other words, the right to rule. A ruler lacking such a mandate need not be obeyed, but a ruler who reigns humanely and takes care of the people will be entrusted by Heaven and trust by the people therefore follows, for the benevolence of his dominion shows that he has been mandated ( ) by heaven. Confucius himself had little to say on the active will of the people, though he believed the ruler should definitely pay attention to the needs of the people and take good care of them to minimize wants. Mencius, however, stated that the people's opinion on certain weighty matters should be polled.

 also includes traits that are a part of being righteous, such as:  (), meaning to make one's words complement one's actions;  (), which means to properly participate in everyday rituals;  (), meaning seriousness; and  (), which means righteousness. When all these qualities are present, then one can truly be identified as a  (), or "superior man"—a morally superior human being. Confucians held the view that government should be run by  who concentrate solely on the welfare of the people they govern.

See also
Agape
Charity (virtue)
Disciples of Confucius
Interbeing
Ubuntu philosophy

References

External links

 Confucius, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, § 6
 Yen Ooi, Ren. The Ancient Chinese Art of Finding Peace and Fulfilment (Welbeck Books) ISBN 9781787398221

Altruism
Concepts in ethics
Confucian ethics
Virtue


The 2009 Superleague Formula season was the second Superleague Formula championship. The series was rebranded the "Superleague Formula by Sonangol" for this season and also 2010 with the Angolan oil company becoming the title sponsor. It began on June 28 at Magny-Cours and finished on November 8 at Jarama.

The field remained at 18 clubs for the 2009 season but Beijing Guoan did not return to try to retain the title which they won with Davide Rigon in 2008, however Rigon did return in the car of Olympiacos CFP despite GP2 commitments. In Estoril, María de Villota became the first woman to race in the series and Sébastien Bourdais became the most successful racing driver to enter the series having been dropped by Scuderia Toro Rosso just weeks earlier. Bourdais described Superleague as "the best alternative to F1".

Liverpool F.C., run under Hitech Junior Team with driver Adrián Vallés, were crowned series champions for the first time at the last event of the season.

Teams and drivers
 All teams competed on Michelin tyres.

 Giorgio Pantano had signed an official deal with Al Ain before the team announced they would not be able to compete in this season. A week later however, they changed their decision and entered the championship with drivers Miguel Molina and Esteban Guerrieri before having Sevilla FC take their place from round 3 at Donington Park.
 Beijing Guoan and Borussia Dortmund did not compete this year.
 FC Midtjylland, Olympique Lyonnais and Sporting CP made their debut in 2009.
 CR Flamengo and A.S. Roma swapped race teams prior to round 4 of the series, with Flamengo switching from ADR to Azerti and Roma going the other way.
 Reid Motorsport took over the cars of Galatasaray S.K. and Sevilla FC from Ultimate Motorsport prior to round 5 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.

Test/reserve drivers

Driver changes
Changed teams
 Yelmer Buurman: PSV Eindhoven → R.S.C. Anderlecht
 Craig Dolby: R.S.C. Anderlecht → Tottenham Hotspur
 Davide Rigon: Beijing Guoan → Olympiacos CFP
 Duncan Tappy: Tottenham Hotspur → Galatasaray S.K.

Entering/Re-Entering Superleague Formula
 Enrique Bernoldi: IndyCar Series (Conquest Racing) →  CR Flamengo
 Jonathan Kennard: Sabbatical →  A.S. Roma
 John Martin: British Formula Three Championship (Räikkönen Robertson Racing) →  Rangers F.C.
 Miguel Molina: World Series by Renault (Prema Powerteam) →  Al Ain
 Nelson Panciatici: Spanish Formula Three Championship (Hache International) →  Olympique Lyonnais
 Giorgio Pantano: GP2 Series (Racing Engineering) → A.C. Milan
 Pedro Petiz: Porsche Supercup (Racing Team Jetstream) → Sporting CP
 Ho-Pin Tung: GP2 Series (Trident Racing) →  Atlético Madrid

Leaving Superleague Formula
 Bertrand Baguette: Al Ain → World Series by Renault (Draco Racing)
 Ryan Dalziel: Rangers F.C. → Rolex Sports Car Series (Alegra Motorsports)
 Robert Doornbos: A.C. Milan → IndyCar Series (Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing)
 Borja García: Sevilla FC → Atlantic Championship (Condor Motorsports)
 Stamatis Katsimis: Olympiacos CFP → Greek Rally Championship (Mitsubishi Lancer)
 Alessandro Pier Guidi: Galatasaray S.K. → FIA GT Championship (Vitaphone Racing)
 Tuka Rocha: CR Flamengo → Sabbatical
 Andy Soucek: Atlético Madrid → FIA Formula Two Championship
 Enrico Toccacelo: Borussia Dortmund → Sabbatical
 James Walker: Borussia Dortmund → World Series by Renault  (P1 Motorsport)

Mid-season changes
 Carlo van Dam replaced Dominick Muermans at PSV Eindhoven at the midway point of the season.
 Franck Perera replaced Jonathan Kennard at A.S. Roma also at the midway point of the season. Julien Jousse replaced Perera to complete the final two rounds for A.S. Roma.
 Enrique Bernoldi was replaced by Jonathan Kennard at CR Flamengo at the Monza round while Bernoldi was on FIA GT Championship duty.
 Duncan Tappy was replaced by Scott Mansell at Galatasaray S.K. at the Donington round. Ho-Pin Tung replaced Mansell after Donington and completed the rest of the season for Galatasaray.
 Miguel Molina was replaced by Esteban Guerrieri at Al Ain at the Zolder round. Al Ain left the series after the Zolder round. Guerrieri represented Sevilla FC at the Donington round.
 Sébastien Bourdais replaced Esteben Guerrieri at Sevilla FC from the Estoril round onwards to complete the season for Sevilla.
 Esteban Guerrieri replaced Davide Rigon at Olympiacos CFP from the Estoril round onwards to complete the season for Olympiacos.
 Ho-Pin Tung was replaced by María de Villota at Atlético Madrid at the Estoril round. María de Villota completed the season for Atlético Madrid.
 Álvaro Parente replaced the injured Tristan Gommendy at F.C. Porto at the Estoril round.

2009 Schedule
 The calendar for the season was announced on January 29, 2009.
 Adding to last year's qualifying and race format, a third 'Super Final' race was added to 4 out of the 6 events for the top six points scorers from the weekend's first two races (although it was initially the top three finishers from the two races qualifying – it was changed prior to round 4 of the season). The six cars raced to decide a 'Weekend Winner' and to whom the top prize money would go but no points were awarded for this race.
 Official race commentary on the SF World Feed same from Ben Edwards and Bruce Jouanny for every round of the season. Jonathan Green and Martin Haven have also featured in the commentary box. Ben Constanduros and Warren Pole were the pitlane reporters and interviewers.

Race calendar and results

 Race 2 starts with reverse grid from finishing order of Race 1.

Test calendar and results
 There was an initial shakedown of the new car at Magny-Cours, France on April 28, 2009 by the Alan Docking Racing team. Australian John Martin completed laps of the circuit in the updated Rangers F.C. car, before signing up to drive for them. There were further tests at Zolder, Belgium from June 17–18 in which no real pacesetter was obvious, although Dominick Muermans and John Martin put in solid runs to go quickest. Prior to the opening round, most cars tested at Magny-Cours on June 26 in which Adrián Vallés for Liverpool F.C. and Hitech Junior Team was ultimately fastest.

Championship standings

References

External links
 Superleague Formula Official Website
 V12 Racing: Independent Superleague Formula Fansite Magazine

Superleague Formula
Superleague Formula season
Superleague Formula


Portmead (or Port Mead) ( ) is a suburban district of Swansea, Wales which falls within the Penderry ward.  Portmead is mostly residential and approximates to the area either side of north western part of Petregethin Road.

Districts of Swansea


Baz is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Mat. The population at the 2011 census was 2,228.

Demographic history
Baz (Bazëda) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a settlement belonging to the timar of the local Albanians Kali Gjergji, Gjonima, Gjergji, and Todori in the vilayet of Mati. The village had a total of six households represented by the following household heads: Andrija Kimiza, Uksiç Bardi, Lazar Muzaka, Tole Skura, Peber Kimiza, and Kaznish .

References

Former municipalities in Dibër County
Administrative units of Mat (municipality)
Villages in Dibër County


Two vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Seabear:

  was an  launched at John Brown, Clydebank on 6 July 1918 and sold for scrap in February 1931.
  was an  launched at Redfern on 6 November 1943. The ship was originally to have been named  but was renamed in 1943. It arrived at Preston for breaking up on 12 December 1958.

References

Royal Navy ship names


Ben Fountain (born 1958) is an American writer currently living in Dallas, Texas. He has won many awards including a PEN/Hemingway award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories (2007) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for his debut novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012).

Early life
Fountain was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He grew up in Elizabeth City, a tobacco town in eastern North Carolina. His family moved to Cary, near Raleigh, when he was 13. Fountain earned a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980, and a J.D. degree from the Duke University School of Law in 1983. After a brief stint practicing real estate law at Akin Gump in Dallas, Fountain quit law in 1988 to become a full-time fiction writer.

Writing career
While collecting articles about things he was interested in, Fountain was riveted by Haiti, regarding it "like a laboratory, almost ... Everything that’s gone on in the last five hundred years—colonialism, race, power, politics, ecological disasters — it’s all there in very concentrated form. And also I just felt, viscerally, pretty comfortable there." Speaking little French, let alone Haitian Creole, he went for his first trip abroad there in 1991 and at least thirty more times. From this came four of the best regarded stories in his 2006 breakthrough collection of short stories: Brief Encounters With Che Guevara when Fountain was forty-eight. He has won numerous awards and inclusion of his work in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best (2006).

Fountain's debut novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, was released in early May 2012. Ang Lee directed a film adaptation, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which began filming in 2015 and was released in November 2016.

Personal life
Fountain married Sharon (née Monahan), an attorney, in 1985; they met when both were students at Duke University School of Law. They have two children.

Awards and honors

 2002 Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award
 2003 Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award
 2005 Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award
 2004 Pushcart Prize
 2005 O. Henry Award
 2006 Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction
 2007 O. Henry Award
 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
 2007  Whiting Award
 2012 National Book Award (fiction), finalist, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards International Author of the Year shortlist for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
 2012 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards 2012, Best Fiction finalist for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award (fiction), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (fiction), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize (fiction), runner-up, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
 2013 Chautauqua Prize, shortlist, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Bibliography

Books
 Brief Encounters With Che Guevara (Ecco, 2006, )
 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ecco, 2012, )
 Beautiful Country Burn Again (Ecco, 2018, )

Short fiction
 "Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera," Zoetrobe: All-Story, Spring 2002
 "The Good Ones Are Already Taken," The Barcelona Review

References

External links

 Profile at The Whiting Foundation
 All-story.com

21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
American male short story writers
Duke University School of Law alumni
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winners
Living people
Writers from Dallas
Writers from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
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1958 births


Lokomotiv Metalex Bild is a Bulgarian handball team based in Varna.

History
Handball club Lokomotiv – Varna was established in 1963 with Mr. Georgi Velikov as a president of the club and its first coach the honoured master of sports Dimitar Nushev. Mr. Alexander Evtimov was elected as a president of Handball club "Lokomotiv Nadin" in 2003. Mrs. Rumyana Radusheva has been a president of Handball club "Lokomotiv Metalex Build" since 2004.

Trophies
Lokomotiv Metalex Bild has been a Champion of Bulgaria 11 times since the year 2000 (in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2017, 2018, and 2019) and 9 times a winner of Bulgarian Cup (1998, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019) and the First champion of Beach handball in 1997. From 1998 until 2007 was 5 times Champion of Bulgaria of Beach handball.

Lokomotiv Varna currently holds the record for the longest unbeaten streak in the history of handball with 73 consecutive wins during period from June 4, 2016 till nowadays.

European record

Current squad 2008/2009
''The numbers are established according to the official website: www.lokomotiv-mb.com
Men's

Coach: Hristo Yordanov

Women's

Coach: Zdravko Petrov

Stadium information
Name: - Kongresna
City: - Varna
Capacity: - 6,000

External links
 Lokomotiv Metalex Bild Official Website

Lokomotiv Metalex Bild


Design for Death is a 1947 American documentary film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was based on a shorter U.S. Army training film, Our Job in Japan, that had been produced in 1945–1946 for the soldiers occupying Japan after World War II. Both films dealt with Japanese culture and the origins of the war.

Following the war, Peter Rathvon at RKO, who had seen Our Job in Japan during his own military service, decided to produce a commercial version of the film. He hired the original writer and editor to work on the new project. Theodor S. Geisel, better known by his pen name Dr. Seuss, co-authored Design for Death with his wife Helen Palmer Geisel. Elmo Williams was the editor for both films. Subsequently, Sid Rogell replaced Rathvon, and became the film's producer.

The film was given wide release in January 1948; a review in Daily Variety characterized it as "a documentary of fabulous proportions ... one of the most interesting screen presentations of the year". Bosley Crowther, writing in The New York Times, was not complimentary; he wrote that the film "makes the general point that too much control by a few people is a dangerous – a 'racketeering' – thing and that another world war can be prevented only by the development of responsible, representative governments throughout the world. That is a valid message, but the weakness with which it is put forth in a melange of faked and factual pictures and in a ponderous narration does not render it very forceful".

In his memoir, Elmo Williams maintains that he and Geisel created Design for Death nearly in its entirety, and that the credits for Fleischer and Warth were nominal ones. Rogell, Fleischer, and Warth received the Academy Awards for the film.

Copies of Design for Death are apparently rare. Geisel thought that they had all been destroyed. However, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sponsored a screening in October 2005, and parts of the film were included in the documentary The Political Dr. Seuss. Some materials related to Design for Death, including its script, are in an archive of Geisel's papers at the University of California, San Diego.

Cast
 Kent Smith as Narrator
 Hans Conried as Narrator

References

External links

1947 films
1947 documentary films
American black-and-white films
American documentary films
Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
Black-and-white documentary films
Films directed by Richard Fleischer
Films with screenplays by Dr. Seuss
Documentary films about World War II
Documentary films about Japan
Japan in non-Japanese culture
Occupied Japan
RKO Pictures films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films
English-language documentary films


The Inland Revenue Staff Federation (IRSF) was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

History
The Union was born in the late 19th century, when a group of tax clerks met together to fight for higher pay, higher status and better conditions. At that time clerks were hired by surveyors of taxes, they were usually employed on a temporary basis, paid low wages and denied sick leave, holidays or promotion. Clerks who asked for better conditions were branded as agitators and sacked.

So it took courage when a group of clerks met on 8 January 1892 and agreed a draft constitution to set up the Association of Tax Clerks another of the Federation's parent unions.

The Federation was founded on 1 January 1936 with the merger of the Association of Officers of Taxes, the National Association of the Taxes Assessing and Collecting Services and the Valuation Office Clerical Association.  Its Assistant Secretary from 1936 until World War II was future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom James Callaghan.

In 1937, the Federation, which represented taxes and collection staff, was joined by valuation staff. The roots of the Federation go back to 1883 and the founding of the London Association of Assessors and Collectors, but only after 1937 did it fully represent all staff grades at the Inland Revenue.

In 1938, the Inland Revenue Minor Establishments' Association joined the union.  The union initially operated on a federal basis but, in 1939-40, it became a single organisation. These changes took place under the leadership of William Thomas Seddon.

At the 1986 Jubilee Celebration, the IRSF was described as a modern efficient organisation, with a high profile in the trade union movement, with a membership of 55,000.

In 1996, the IRSF merged with the National Union of Civil and Public Servants to form the Public Services, Tax and Commerce Union.

Only two people held presidency of the union twice, those being G B Walker and William Robert Roy Skinner. The first female president of the Federation was Winifred Mary Kidd in 1956.

General Secretaries
1936: Douglas Houghton
1960: Cyril Plant
1976: Tony Christopher
1988: Clive Brooke

Presidents

1936–1937 John Roughton Simpson
1937–1938 David Thomson
1938–1941 William Thomas Seddon
1941–1944 James Cyril Jagger
1944–1946 William Frederick Botterill Smith
1946–1949 Reginald George Cox
1949–1951 Gerald Benjamin Walker
1951–1953 Richard Henry LeFevere
1953–1955 William Robert Roy Skinner
1955–1957 Winifred Mary Kidd
1957–1958 Gerald Benjamin Walker
1958–1960 William Robert Roy Skinner
1960–1962 J. V. Boyle
1962–1964 G. W. Davies
1964–1966 J. G. C. Hopkins
1966–1968 W. G. Lloyd
1968–1970 J. Bibby
1970–1972 W. Wilson
1972–1974 D. L. Thomas
1974–1976 W. Bartlett
1976–1978 T. I. McKeon
1978–1980 S. C. Walters
1980–1982 T. T. Bagguley
1982–1984 C. H. Boote
1984–1986 C. Salt
1986 -    F. R. Winrow

References

External links
Catalogue of the IRSF archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

Trade unions established in 1936
Trade unions disestablished in 1996
Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom
Civil service trade unions
1936 establishments in the United Kingdom


Bitgum  () is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. It had a population of around 792 in January 2017.

History
Before 2018, the village was part of the Menameradiel municipality. Bitgum gained notoriety in 1895, when three brothers from the village (Keimpe, Wybren and Marten Hogerhuis) were arrested for their alleged and disputed involvement in a burglary in the village of Britsum. The involvement of the Social Democrat Party's leader, Pieter Jelles Troelstra two years later, catapulted the village into the national headlines.

Aircraft crash
On June 9, 2016, a demonstration fighter jet crashed in the lake next to 'De bodde', the pilot saved himself by ejecting from the aircraft.

Gallery

References

Waadhoeke
Populated places in Friesland


Jackie's Back (stylized as Jackie's Back!) is a 1999 television film directed by Robert Townsend. It premiered on the Lifetime Television Network on June 14, 1999.

Plot
Presented as a mockumentary, Jackie's Back chronicles the life and career of Jackie Washington (Jenifer Lewis), a 1960s/1970s R&B diva. After several years of toiling in obscurity, Washington decides to organize her own comeback concert with filmmaker Edward Whatsett St. John (Tim Curry) filming the event. The film also features numerous cameo appearances by celebrities.

Cast
 Jenifer Lewis as Jackie Washington
 Tim Curry as Edward Whatsett St. John
 T.V. Blake as Antandra Washington (Jackie's daughter)
 Tangie Ambrose as Shaniqua Summers Wells (Jackie's daughter)
 Robert Bailey, Jr. as Wilson Wells (Jackie's grandson)
 Whoopi Goldberg as Nurse Ethyl Washington Rue Owens (Jackie's sister)
 Loretta Devine as Snookie Tate (Jackie's childhood friend)
 Tom Arnold as Marvin Pritz (Jackie's former manager)
 Alan Blumenfeld as Ivan
 Loren Freeman as Kim
 Johnny Brown as Reverend Eustace Barnett
 Julie Hagerty as Pammy Dunbar
 David Hyde Pierce as Perry
 Kathy Najimy as Lola Molina
 Kyla Pratt as Little Jackie Washington
 Rudy Ray Moore as Dolemite
 Isabel Sanford as Miss Krumes
 JoBeth Williams as Jo Face
 Mary Wilson as Vesta Crotchley (Jackie's 3rd grade teacher)
 Richard Lawson as Milkman Summers (Jackie's Ex-Husband #1)
 Reynaldo Rey as Cadillac Johnson (Retired Pimp)

Cameos

 Patti Austin
 Charles Barkley
 Diahann Carroll
 Eddie Cibrian
 Jackie Collins
 Don Cornelius
 Taylor Dayne
 Melissa Etheridge
 Kathy Griffin
 Sean Hayes
 Ricki Lake
 Howie Mandel
 Camryn Manheim
 Penny Marshall
 Bette Midler
 Liza Minnelli
 Rosie O'Donnell
 Dolly Parton
 Donna Pescow
 Chris Rock
 Eva Marie Saint
 Grace Slick
 Robert Townsend
 Bruce Vilanch

External links

1999 television films
1999 films
1999 comedy films
American mockumentary films
Films directed by Robert Townsend
Films scored by Marc Shaiman
Lifetime (TV network) films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films


Rukaj is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Mat. The population at the 2011 census was 2,507.

References

Former municipalities in Dibër County
Administrative units of Mat (municipality)
Villages in Dibër County


Bitgummole () is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 911 in January 2017. Before 2018, the village was part of the Menameradiel municipality.

History
The village was first mentioned in 1622 as Beetgumer Meulen, and means "wind mill of Beetgum". The mill was a grist mill for rye which has been known to exist on the dike since the 16th century. Bitgummole was built on a dike from around 1300. It started to develop during the 18th and 19th century. A church was built in 1924.

Bitgummole was home to 494 people in 1840. The wind mill burnt down in 1862, and was never rebuilt. In 1963, it was awarded village status.

References

Waadhoeke
Populated places in Friesland


Miguel Faílde Pérez (23 December 1852, in Guacamaro, Matanzas – 26 December 1921) was a Cuban musician and bandleader. He was the official originator of the danzón, composer of the first danzón, Las alturas de Simpson, and the founder of the Orquesta Faílde.

Faílde's father was a Galician immigrant, and his mother a parda (dark mulata). He was first taught music by his father, who was a trombone player, and at ten played cornet in the Banda de Bomberos (firemen) de Matanzas. Later he learnt harmony and composition under a French tutor, Federico Peclier. He also learnt the viola and double bass. Faílde was one of many musicians who actively conspired against the Spanish colonial rule; his life included the time of the Cuban War of Independence.

His orchestra was highly successful, though his major achievements were the creation of the danzón and the compositions he wrote, many of which have been adapted since for other rhythms. The danzón was, in his own words, a development of the danza, and that was the child of the contradanza. "De la danza al danzón había un simple paso." (from the danza to the danzón is a simple step) Actually, it was not quite such a simple step. For a start, the danzón was a much slower dance than both the contradanza and the danza; and it allowed for pauses between the different sections of a number. Both these features were welcomed in the tropical climate of Cuba. Perhaps even more significantly, the danzón was a couple dance, though not a moving one like the waltz. The contradanza and danza were both sequence dances involving the whole dance-floor, as were all ballroom dances before the waltz.

The habanera was the established favourite before the danzón came on the scene. It was also a slow dance, and a descendant of the contradanza. The habanera had the advantage of being a sung genre, which the danzón was not until much later. Both genres made use of syncopated creole rhythms; in the danzón it is the cinquillo. In retrospect it is often difficult to see why one genre is preferred to another; the quality of compositions and the orchestras which choose to play it must have some influence.

Did Faílde really invent the danzón? The doubt is caused by the work of Manuel Saumell, who anticipated many of the rhythms which came later in the 19th century, and who may be the most important Cuban composer of that century. At length the Cuban government made Faílde the official inventor of the danzón – in 1960, by which time the danzón had become a relic, and its 'child', the chachachá, had taken over.

After his death in 1921 he was interred in the Necropolis San Carlos Borromeo, Matanzas.

References

1852 births
1921 deaths
Cuban cornetists
Cuban composers
Male composers
Cuban bandleaders
Danzón composers
Danzón musicians
Cuban male musicians
People from Spanish Cuba


Berltsum () is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 2,529 in January 2017. Until 2018, the village was part of the Menameradiel municipality.

History
The village was first mentioned in 1355 as Berlichem, and means "settlement of the people of Berilo (person)". The village of Tutingum or Tutgum which was located to the north probably merged into Berltsum in the 15th century, and the name disappeared in the 19th century. Berltsum developed as a terp (artificial living hill) village along the river Riedstroom several centuries before Christ. Berltsum was never a city, but did receive rights. In the 12th century, it was burnt down by the Vikings.

It developed into a centre of horticulture and fruit cultivation. The domed Dutch Reformed church was built between 1777 and 1779 as a replacement of its medieval predecessor. Mennonites were present in Berltsum as early of 1550, and used to have a clandestine church. In 1843, a church was built which could also be used a conference centre.

Berltsum was home to 1,310 people in 1840. At the end of the 19th century, Berltsum started to industrialize and in 1899, an auction was established.

Gallery

References

External links
Berlikum.com

Waadhoeke
Populated places in Friesland


BHW, incorporated as BHW Holding AG, is German bank providing terminating deposits and mortgage loans. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Postbank Group.

History
The company was founded in Berlin in 1928 as Beamten-Heimstättenwerk, which roughly translates as civil servants' home (building) society. After World War II, it moved its registered office to Hameln.

In 1990, it was re-organised as BHW Holding GmbH to become BHW Holding AG later, followed by an initial public offering in 1997. In March 2005, Deutsche Postbank announced that it has acquired a 9.2% stake in the company. Later that year, Deutsche Postbank made public its intent to purchase more than 90% of BHW's shares and made an offer to remaining shareholders. The acquisition was completed in 2005.

Until 2019, BHW Kreditservice GmbH took over the management of customers of other mortgage banks and building societies, such as Axa Bausparkasse and DSL Bank (so-called loan processing as an outsourcing service), in addition to servicing its own customers.

DB Bauspar, which is part of the Deutsche Bank Group, sold home savings contracts under the BHW brand name from January 6, 2014 to December 31, 2015; in 2019, the two providers were merged under the BHW name.

References

DHL Group


Blessum  is a small village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 89 in January 2017. Before 2018, the village was part of the Menameradiel municipality.

History
The village was first mentioned between 1250 and 1275 as Blesingum, and means "settlement of the people of Blesse (person)". Blessum is a terp (artificial living hill) village from the early Middle Ages, and was known to be inhabited in the 9th century. It was located along the former Middelzee, and had a little harbour.

The Dutch Reformed church was built by monks around 1250, and was modified in the 15th century. The tower is from the 13th or 14th century and was restored in 1879. Nowadays, it is only used 8 times a year as church, and its main purpose is village house and bed and breakfast. The Ringia State was built before 1469 by Doecke Rinia, the local judge. It was demolished in 1823 and replaced by a farm.

Blessum was home to 169 people in 1840. Ironically, Blessum has become more isolated due to the nearby construction of railway lines and motorways, because it is nowadays located at a dead-end road. During World War II, it was home to many onderduikers (people in hiding). There was a constant watch from the church tower and a silent alarm was given when people approached the village.

Gallery

References

Waadhoeke
Populated places in Friesland


Said Brahimi (17 March 1931, in Bône – 27 December 1997, in Annaba) was an Algerian-born French international football and Algerian international football player.

International goals
Scores and results list. France's goal tally first.

References

External links
 Profile

1931 births
1997 deaths
Men's association football forwards
Algerian men's footballers
Algerian emigrants to France
French men's footballers
France men's international footballers
FC Sète 34 players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
People from Annaba
FLN men's international footballers


Ulëz  is a city and administrative unit in the municipality of Mat, Albania. It has a population of 1,229 as of the 2011 Albanian census. Ulëz is home to the Ulëz Hydroelectric Power Station and designated as part of the Ulza Regional Nature Park.

References

Administrative units of Mat (municipality)
Former municipalities in Dibër County
Towns in Albania


Johan Wilhelm Heinrich Giess aka Willi Giess (21 February 1910, in Frankfurt-am-Main – 28 September 2000, in Swakopmund)  is noted for having started an official herbarium at Windhoek, his extensive collection of Namibian plants and generally furthering botanical knowledge of the territory.

Giess arrived in South West Africa with his parents on 4 February 1926 and was drawn into farming by being one of the first students to attend the Agricultural College of Neudamm near Windhoek. From 1931-33 he was employed by the Animal Breeding Institute at the University of Halle where he specialised in karakul breeding. On his return to South West Africa, he managed a karakul farm and later bought his own farm in 1937 at Dornfontein Süd.

With the outbreak of the Second World War he and other Germans were interned in South Africa at a camp called Andalusia, now known as Jan Kempdorp. During his internment he studied botany with Prof. Otto Heinrich Volk, who had arranged classes for scholars in the camp. The tuition they received in the various sciences was of sufficient quality to be recognised after the war as being of university standard.

As an ancillary activity Volk taught the students practical botany, assembling a herbarium from plants growing within the confines of the camp. The students also produced a booklet, a key to the genera of grasses, entitled "Bestimmungschlüssel für Südwest-Afrikanische Grasgattungen", illustrated with engravings on pieces of wood and typeset with lead from toothpaste tubes. Some of the type and engravings are on display at the Swakopmund Museum.

Immediately after his release, Giess was employed as plant collector at the University of Stellenbosch. His botanical training during the war had not been forgotten, and in 1953 he was offered the post of curator at the national herbarium in Windhoek.

The nucleus of the new herbarium was a donation of 2 000 specimens from the initiator of the scheme, Prof Heinrich Walter of Hohenheim Technical University. Giess spent four years establishing the infrastructure of the herbarium, while continuing work on his farm. When the South West African Administration assumed management of the herbarium in 1957 they offered Giess the curatorship on a permanent basis, a post in which he served until his retirement in 1975.

Giess resumed work under M.A.N. Müller, his successor. During his association with the herbarium he collected some 18 750 meticulously labelled specimens which are housed at BM, K, LUA, M, NBG, P, PRE and WIND. His field trips ranged over most of Namibia, visiting remote regions such as the Okavango River, Brandberg, Lüderitz, Erongo Mountains and Kaokoveld. He was founding editor of the botanical journal Dinteria (1968-1991) and compiled a Preliminary Vegetation Map of South West Africa (1971) and Bibliography of South West African Botany (1989).

Awards & honours
1968 Lineé Medal (silver) from the Royal Academy of Sciences
1980 Gold medal from the South African Academy of Sciences
1980 Recognised by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for his contribution to Merxmüller's Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika

Giess is commemorated in the names of numerous plant species, a beetle and a termite. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Giess when citing a botanical name.

Bibliography
Grasse Van Suidwes Afrika/Namibie - Blythe Loutit, M. A. N. Muller, W. Giess (Département Agriculture and Nature Conservation, 1983)
Bibliography of South West African Botany - W. Giess (S.W.A. Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, 1989)

References

20th-century German botanists
Namibian botanists
Namibian taxonomists
1910 births
2000 deaths
Scientists from Frankfurt
Botanists with author abbreviations


Deinum () is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in Friesland, The Netherlands. Before 2018, the village was part of the Menameradiel municipality.

Population
In 2017 Deinum had a total of 915 residents, of which 508 male and 482 female. The amount of non-western immigrants was 1% or less.

Ages
The largest age group in Deinum was between 45 and 65 years old, taking up 33% of the total population.

Households
Deinum had a total of 345 households, of which 46% had children and 54% had not. The average size of a household was 2.6 persons.

Notable buildings
 The Protestant church of Deinum

Transportation
Deinum railway station
Leeuwarden vrij-baan

Gallery

References

External links

Waadhoeke
Populated places in Friesland


The Society of Architectural Illustrators (SAI) was founded in the United Kingdom by Eric Monk in 1975 to encourage the use of the architectural perspective or model as a valuable part of the communication process between architect and the general public. It changed its name to the Society of Architectural and Industrial Illustrators in the 1980s in a bid to increase membership. This did not work and the name was finally changed, after a protracted debate, to the Society of Architectural Illustration in the 1990s. This last name change was at the behest of the Charities Commission which insisted that the Society exists for the benefit of the art and not the artist. In 2019 the Society relinquished its charity status and reverted to its original name.

The SAI was the first organisation worldwide to provide the services of a professional body to the public and practitioners in architectural illustration and this lead has been followed in other major countries, most notably by the American Society of Architectural illustrators. SAI members work in several disciplines including illustration, animation, model making and photography.

The objectives of the SAI are to:
 foster the use of the Architectural Perspective as a necessary communication medium between Designer and Layman.
 acknowledge the time-honoured status of Architectural Illustration and formalise its position as that of a separate discipline.
 establish high standards and the conferring of a professional qualification to those meeting such requirements.
 make regular distribution of details of members to potential clients and provide a clients' advisory service.
 hold exhibitions and meetings as required by the membership. Issue journals and newsletters for the exchange of ideas between members.
 provide guidance and help in matters of contracts, copyright and other legal and business affairs.
 provide an effective human instrument of friendship and co-operation between members.

The present patron of the Society is British painter Ben Johnson. Previous patrons include Sir John Betjeman, Sir Hugh Casson and Gordon Cullen.

The president of the Society is Don Coe FSAI, previously chairman of the Society for 25 years. Richard Rees FSAI took office as chairman at the 2015 AGM.

See also
Architectural illustrator
American Society of Architectural Illustrators

References

External links
Official website

1975 establishments in England
Architecture groups
Architecture organisations based in the United Kingdom
Arts organisations based in the United Kingdom
Arts organizations established in 1975
Organisations based in East Sussex
Architecture-related professional associations
Professional associations based in the United Kingdom


IRSF is an acronym that may mean:

 Inland Revenue Staff Federation, a trade union in the United Kingdom
 The South African Astronomical Observatory's  Infrared Survey Facility
 International Revenue Share Fraud, a type of phone fraud.


Erysimum siliculosum is a biennial or perennial herb from Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan, reaching 30-90 cm in height. It is closely related to Erysimum mongolicum. This species inhabits sandy areas and dunes from 400 to 1400 m of altitude.

Description
Erysimum siliculosum produced trichomes malpighiaceous throughout, mixed with 3-forked ones on calyx. Stems erect, often branched at base and above. Basal leaves rosulate, often persisting, petiolate; leaf blade filiform to linear, rarely linear-oblanceolate, 1.5–8 cm × 1-2(-5) mm, longitudinally folded, base narrowly attenuate, margin entire, apex acute. Cauline leaves similar to basal.

Reproductive biology
Erysimum siliculosum flowers from May to July, depending on the altitude.

Racemes are corymbose, densely flowered, ebracteate or rarely lowermost few flowers bracteate, elongated considerably in fruit. Fruiting pedicels are ascending or divaricate-ascending, (2-)4–6 mm, stout, narrower than fruit. Sepals are oblong-linear, (6-)7-9(-10) × 1–2 mm, united, persistent well after fruit maturity, strongly saccate.

Petals are bright yellow, obovate or broadly spatulate, (1.1-)1.4-1.8(-2) cm × 5–8 mm, apex rounded; claw distinct, subequaling sepals. Filaments yellow, 6–10 mm; anthers linear, 2–3 mm. Ovules 50-100 per ovary.

Fruit are oblong to oblong-linear, strongly 4-angled, slightly angustiseptate, (5-)7-10(-14) × 2–3 mm, smooth, erect and often appressed to rachis, straight; valves with a prominent midvein and slightly winged keel, outside with transversely oriented malpighiaceous trichomes, inside glabrous; style slender, (4-)5-10(-12) mm, cylindric; stigma strongly 2-lobed, with lobes often divergent. Seeds are oblong, 1.1-1.4 × 0.7-0.9 mm. 2n = 14.

References

siliculosum
Flora of Russia
Flora of Kazakhstan
Flora of Turkmenistan
Flora of Xinjiang
Garden plants of Asia


Journey into Medicine is a 1947 American documentary-style film. The film stars James Karen as Michael Kenneth Marshall, a young medical student who goes through medical training at Columbia and Cornell. During his internship in pediatrics, Marshall loses one of his patients, a young girl to diphtheria. This case inspires him to enroll in the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and pursue a career in public health. While studying at Johns Hopkins, Marshall helps battle an outbreak of diphtheria in Baltimore, which confirms to him his chosen vocation.

The film was made by the United States Information Service for use by the U.S. State Department. The film was meant to be shown outside the United States as a promotional film for American medicine and public health efforts abroad.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The Academy Film Archive preserved Journey into Medicine in 2011. The film is part of the Academy War Film Collection, one of the largest collections of World War II era short films held outside government archives.

References

External links

 Journey into Medicine at the National Archives and Records Administration

1947 films
1947 documentary films
American documentary films
American black-and-white films
Black-and-white documentary films
Promotional films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films


Gribi būt miljonārs? (English translation: Want to be a millionaire?) was a Latvian game show based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

The show was hosted by Ģirts Līcis (earlier by Mārtiņš Ķibilds).

Gribi būt miljonārs? was broadcast from 2002 to 2008. It was shown on the Latvian TV station TV3 on Wednesday at 20:20 (UTC+2).

Rules
The main goal of the game was to win 50,000 lati (20,000 lati - 2003 to 2005 and 10,000 lati - 2002 to 2003) by answering 15 multiple-choice questions correctly. When a contestant got the fifth question correct, he would leave with at least 100 lati (50 lati - 2003 to 2005 and 25 lati - 2002 to 2003). When a contestant got the tenth question correct, he would leave with at least 1,000 lati (500 lati - 2003 to 2005 and 320 lati - 2002 to 2003). There were three lifelines - "fifty fifty", "phone a friend" and "ask the audience". Later, at the third season, there was sometimes a fourth lifeline, that you could get if you answer at least five questions. It was called, "three wise men". It meant, that in 30 seconds three celebrities could tell you what they think is the answer to the question.

Prizes

Winners
There is only one winner in Latvian version, Elita Rumpe, who win 10,000 lati on 18 December 2002.

Gallery

References

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
2000s Latvian television series
2002 Latvian television series debuts
2008 Latvian television series endings
TV3 (Latvia) original programming


Mali Health, established in 2006, is a non-governmental organization with  501(c)(3) status that works to enable communities in Mali, Africa to design, build and implement their own health care systems through:
 Fostering the agency of residents to address community health needs
 Promoting health education, prevention, and early care-seeking
 Enhancing financial, geographic, and cultural access to quality health care for poor families

Maternal and child health in Mali
One of the 10 poorest countries in the world, Mali's life expectancy at birth is 55 years. Nearly 50% of the population of 16,455,903 is under 14 years of age and Mali has the second highest birth rate in the world, making high maternal and child mortality a national crisis. In Mali, 1 and 5 children die before their 5th birthday, mostly from five treatable, preventable diseases: malaria, diarrhea, acute respiratory tract infections, measles, and malnutrition. The infant mortality rate (death before 1 year of age) is 104.3 deaths/1000 births, the second highest in the world. Only 27% of children under 5 sleep beneath insecticide-treated mosquito nets—one of the most effective ways to treat malaria—and only 34.8% of children under 5 years with fever receive treatment with any type of antimalarial medication.

In 2014, high maternal mortality (1 in 22 women die in childbirth) led Save the Children to rate Mali the 3rd worst country to be a mother in 2014. Only 52% of births among women aged 15–19 are attended by a skilled health professional.

Mali is dependent on international development organizations and foreign missionary groups for much of its health care. The total expenditure on health makes up only 7% of the national GDP and Mali has 0.1 hospital beds per 1,000 people. This health crisis is compounded by high levels of poverty—over 50% of the population lives on less than $1 a day (PPP)—and low levels of literacy, with a literacy rate of 39%.

History
Mali Health was founded in Sikoro, a slum community on the outskirts of Bamako, Mali by Caitlin Cohen, Lindsay Ryan and Erica Trauba, students at Brown University who had previously volunteered in Bamako.

Cohen, Ryan and Trauba believed that the role of an international development organization is to foster rather than replace local groups and government action. Similarly, Mouhammadoun (Modibo) Niang, Rokia Savané (vice-president of Coordination Des Associations Et ONG Feminines Du Mali), Siriki Coulibaly (adviser to Sikoro's chief and the town’s official representative to Mali Health) and numerous other leaders in Sikoro were frustrated by a history of failed projects, including a huge aid-agency water project that left the community without water, without the $30,000 they had contributed, and without many children, as many died due to iron contamination.

Programs

Action for Health
In 2008 the international NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) estimated that free malaria testing and treatment dramatically increased the number of people surviving the disease, and the World Health Organization's 2010 World Health Report concluded that direct payments are a major obstacle to health coverage in low income countries.

However, user fees—in which patients pay money for services at a clinic or hospital—remain one of the largest barriers to health care for the poor in developing countries. Through its program Action for Health, Mali Health seeks to help families who are unable to afford health care for their children. Focusing on the first 1,000 days of life, when development is the most critical and the most vulnerable, Action for Health children receive subsidized primary care.  Mali Health’s Community Health Workers visit enrolled families to monitor children's health and provide health education on issues such as malaria and malnutrition.

After launching in 2010, the program grew quickly and now serves almost 2,000 children.  The program has had success in increasing care-seeking and childhood survival rates: while the average Malian child visits a doctor once every four years, children in Action for Health average 2-3 visits per year.

Communications & Advocacy
The Communications & Advocacy Program aims to bring health education to the masses and incite relevant and productive discussions about health topics that directly affect communities.  Mali Health employs a number of media to generate these discussions.  Health Radio (included in Sustainia's 2014 list of 100 of the most sustainable solutions to community development) mobilizes community members around health and promotes health education and prevention. The show is broadcast by local announcers on Bamako’s most popular radio station, which serves one million listeners weekly.

References

Cohen, Caitlin (2008). "Jenzabar Foundation Grant application."

Medical and health organisations based in Mali


Komsi is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Mat. The population at the 2011 census was 4,283.

References

Former municipalities in Dibër County
Administrative units of Mat (municipality)
Villages in Dibër County


is a railway station built in Ureshino, Saga, Japan, by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu).

Lines
Ureshino-Onsen Station is served by the Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen. It is not a major station on the line, and roughly half of all trains bypass this station.

Platforms
The station is composed of 2 side platforms serving two tracks.

History
Ureshino-Onsen Station opened on 23 September 2022 when the Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen began revenue service.

References

External links
 Saga prefecture explanation meeting data

Railway stations in Saga Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 2022


Abdullah Al Shemali (born 18 June 1988, in Kuwait City) is a Kuwaiti football midfielder, who plays for the  Kuwaiti Premier League club Al Qadsia.

He played for Al-Arabi in the 2007 AFC Champions League group stage.

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Kuwaiti men's footballers
Kuwait men's international footballers
2011 AFC Asian Cup players
Al-Arabi SC (Kuwait) players
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Kuwait City
Kuwait Premier League players