Liu Yin (; born August 19, 1981 in Harbin, Heilongjiang; usually referred to in the media as Yin Liu) is a Chinese curler from Harbin. For many years she played third on the Chinese national team skipped by Wang Bingyu.

Curling career

2002–2009
Liu has played internationally for China since 2002, when she was an alternate on the team at the  when she had only been curling for two years.

In 2004, she was a full member of the team. She played third for the team at the , and then second at the 2005 World Women's Curling Championship, her first experience at World's. The team finished 7th. The following season, Liu was playing lead for the team for the , and then she played third once again at the 2006 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, where the team finished 5th.

For the 2006–07 season, Liu threw last rocks for the team while Wang held the broom as skip. The season included their first Pacific Championship, an Asian Winter Games bronze medal and a disappointing 7th-place finish at the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship.

At the 2007 Pacific Championships, Liu was back throwing second stones when the team won their second Pacific Championship. She was promoted to the third position for the 2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in which she earned a silver medal- China's first medal at a World Championship. Since then, Liu has played third for the team. She won her third Pacific Championship in 2008, which was followed by a gold medal at the 2009 Winter Universiade and, most importantly, by a World Championship gold medal at the 2009 World Women's Championship.

2010–2014
Liu Yin competed for Team China at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her team qualified for the playoffs, but in the Semifinal match they lost to eventual Gold medalists Team Sweden. In the Bronze medal match they faced Team Switzerland skipped by Torino Silver medalist Mirjam Ott. They Chinese pulled off a 12 -6 victory and became the first curling team from an Asian nation to win an Olympic medal.

Just a month after the Olympics, Liu and Team China competed at the 2010 World Championship in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, where they finished a disappointing 7th out of 12 teams. Later in 2010 Liu returned to the Pacific Curling Championship, losing to Korea in the final to earn a silver medal for the third time.

Liu played in the 2011 World Championship, where Team China defeated Team Denmark for the bronze medal. After World's she took some time away from curling, missing the Pacific Championships in 2011 and the World Championships in 2012. Liu returned to international competition in 2012 at the Pacific Championships, where her team won the gold medal for a fifth time.

At the 2013 World Championship Liu and Team China struggled, finishing 9th with a record of 4–7. In the fall, Team China settled for silver at the 2013 Pacific Championships. Playing Korea in the finals, China was up 8-6 only to give up 3 points in the 10th end.

China failed to automatically qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics and so had to compete in the qualification event to try to earn one of the last two spots. Liu's team won the event, defeating Japan in the final 7–6. At the Olympic games in Sochi Liu failed to make the playoffs, finishing with a record of 4–5.

Personal life
Liu married in 2011. Her husband is an ice hockey coach.

Teammates
2010 Vancouver Olympic Games

2014 Sochi Olympic Games

Wang Bingyu, Skip
Liu Yin, Third
Yue Qingshuang, Second
Zhou Yan, Lead

References

External links

1981 births
Living people
Chinese female curlers
Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Curlers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for China
Olympic curlers for China
Sportspeople from Harbin
World curling champions
Olympic medalists in curling
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Asian Games medalists in curling
Curlers at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
Curlers at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for China
Universiade medalists in curling
Pacific-Asian curling champions
FISU World University Games gold medalists for China
Competitors at the 2009 Winter Universiade
21st-century Chinese women


23rd Brigade may refer to:

Australia
 23rd Brigade (Australia)

Greece
 23rd Armoured Brigade (Greece)

Iran
 23rd Airborne Special Forces Brigade, former name of 65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade (Iran)

United Kingdom
 23rd Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)
 23rd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
 23rd (Nigerian) Brigade, later 1st (West Africa) Infantry Brigade, a World War II brigade
 23rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery

See also
 23rd Division (disambiguation)
 23rd Battalion (disambiguation)
 23 Squadron (disambiguation)


The remote component environment (RCE) is an integration environment for scientists and engineers to analyze, design, and simulate complex systems (e.g., aircraft, satellites, and space vehicle). It focusses on the collaboration in multidisciplinary teams. Treating complex systems requires many experts and several analysis, design, and simulation tools. In RCE, the tools are integrated and coupled to workflows. RCE executes the workflows and fetches the results from the involved tool servers. RCE is extensible and supports different scientific applications with slightly different requirements. RCE is built upon the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). It is open source and published under the Eclipse Public License (EPL).

Development of the RCE platform took place in the SESIS project.

Previously the platform was known by Reconfigurable Computing Environment. Since it has been open sourced the name changed to Remote Component Environment.

References

External links
 Official RCE website

Java platform software
Grid computing projects
Distributed computing architecture
Scientific simulation software


Frederick Chamberlain Hoey (January 21, 1865 – December 7, 1933) was an American manager in professional baseball in the late 19th century.

Hoey's first involvement with baseball was as the business manager for New York Giants owner Andrew Freedman in 1898. In July 1899, Hoey was named manager of the Giants, succeeding John B. Day, under whom the team had gone 29–35. Managing the 1899 Giants through the end of the season, Hoey compiled a record of 31 wins and 55 losses in 87 games (one contest ended in a tie). It was his only stint as a major league manager.

Outside of baseball, Hoey was a well-known competitor in pigeon-shooting, a precursor to the sport of trap shooting. Hoey also worked as a representative for the stables of Joseph E. Widener, and lived the final 20 years of his life in Paris.

See also
San Francisco Giants general managers and managers

References

External links
Baseball-Reference manager page

1865 births
1933 deaths
New York Giants (NL) managers
Sportspeople from New York City


23rd Battalion may refer to:

23rd Reserve Battalion, CEF, an infantry unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War
23 Service Battalion, a Combat Service Support unit of The Canadian Forces Reserve since 1965
23rd Battalion (Australia), an infantry battalion of the Australian Army that served in World War I
 2/23rd Battalion (Australia), an infantry battalion of the Australian Army that served in World War II
23rd Battalion (New Zealand), a World War II infantry battalion


Narpatganj is a town and municipal headquarter of Narpatganj (community development block) of Forbesganj subdivision in the Araria district of Bihar state, India.

Geography
Narpatganj is  municipal headquarter of Narpatganj (community development block), one of the 9 blocks in Araria district.

Location
National Highway 57 passes through Narpatganj. Nearest airport is Bagdogra airport.

Administration and politics
Narpatganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is the assembly constituency for the city. Jai Prakash Yadav (BJP) elected in 2020 is the MLA.

Transport
Nearest airport is Bagdogra (IXB) which is approximately 175 KM.

References

External links
 About Narpatganj
 Natpatganj News

Cities and towns in Araria district


Megalancistrus parananus is a species of armored catfish native to Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay where it is found in the Paraguay, Paraná, and Uruguay River basins.  This species grows to a length of  SL.

References

Ancistrini
Fish of South America
Fish of Brazil
Fish of Argentina
Fish of Paraguay
Fish of Uruguay
Fish described in 1881
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters


Sir Matthew Deane, 4th Baronet (c. 1706 – 10 June 1751) was an Irish baronet and politician.

He was the eldest son of Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Baronet and his wife Jane Sharpe, only daughter of Reverend William Sharpe. In 1747, he succeeded his father as baronet. Deane sat in the Irish House of Commons for Cork City from 1739 until his death in 1751.

He married Salisbury Davis, daughter of Robert Davis. They had three daughters, but no male heir and so Deane was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother Robert.

References

1700s births
1751 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland
Irish MPs 1727–1760
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Cork City


Andrew Harris (born 17 November 1970) is an English former professional footballer who made 40 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham City, Oxford United and Exeter City. He played as a midfielder.

Life and career
Harris was born in Birmingham. He joined Birmingham City as an apprentice under the YTS scheme, and turned professional two years later. He made his debut on 11 November 1989, substituting for John Frain in a goalless draw at Leyton Orient in the Football League Third Division. In March 1990, he signed on loan for Telford United, and scored once from six appearances in the Football Conference. He went on loan in October 1991 to Oxford United of the Second Division, where he played only once, and the following month was allowed to move to Exeter City. In two-and-a-half years at Exeter Harris played 38 games in the third tier, scoring one league goal, which came against Stoke City.

In April 1994, he moved into non-league football with Nuneaton Borough of the Southern League Premier Division. He played twice that season, and was a regular in 1994–95, scoring three goals from 31 Southern League Midland Division matches, before moving on to another Midland Division club, Corby Town, ahead of the 1995–96 season. He joined Midland Alliance team Hinckley Athletic in November 1995, but only played twice before returning to the Southern League Midland Division and moving nearer home to Solihull Borough. He rejoined Hinckley Athletic late in 1996, but a knee injury disrupted his return.

In July 1998, Peter Frain was appointed manager of Knowle Town with Harris as his assistant and player. He left for Paget Rangers of the Southern League Western Division at the end of the season.

References

1970 births
Living people
Footballers from Birmingham, West Midlands
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Birmingham City F.C. players
Telford United F.C. players
Oxford United F.C. players
Exeter City F.C. players
Nuneaton Borough F.C. players
Corby Town F.C. players
Hinckley Athletic F.C. players
Solihull Borough F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Southern Football League players


Marcus Fayette Cummings (March 11, 1836 – 1905) was an American architect active in the Capital District region of the U.S. state of New York. Born in Utica, he later established his practice in the city of Troy, where many of his buildings are located in the Central Troy Historic District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Firm listed as Cummings & Brit in the Gazetteer and Business Directory of Rensselaer County, N. Y., for 1870–71. In 1891 he made his son, Frederick, a partner in the office, and promptly retired to Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard. He maintained only a financial interest in the office of M. F. Cummings & Son, which would last into the 1930s.

Buildings
Verbeck House – Ballston Spa, New York
Glens Falls Insurance Company Building – Glens Falls, New York
Rockwell House Hotel – Glens Falls
North Adams Public Library – North Adams, Massachusetts (built 1865-67 as a mansion for Sanford Blackinton)
Johnson Manufacturing Company – North Adams (1872)
Saratoga Springs Town Hall; Saratoga Springs, NY (1871)
Clinton County Courthouse – Plattsburgh, New York
Washington County Courthouse – Salem, New York
Stillwater United Church – Stillwater, New York
National State Bank Building – Troy, New York
Ilium Building – Troy
Rensselaer County Courthouse – Troy
Mt. Ida Presbyterian Church – Troy
School 1 Building – Troy
Jewett House (1872) at 199 East Main Street in North Adams. Eclectic brick and stone trim

Gallery

References
Notes

External links

1836 births
1905 deaths
Architects from New York (state)
People from Utica, New York
People from Troy, New York
People from Tisbury, Massachusetts


Sir Nicholas Pelham (1650 – 8 November 1739) was a British politician.

The third son of Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet (but the first by Thomas' third wife Margaret), Pelham was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.

Pelham was knighted on 20 April 1661, and served in several post-Restoration Parliaments for Seaford and Sussex, and then in Lewes from 1702 to 1705. He married Jane Huxley, daughter of James Huxley of Dornford, by whom he had two sons and one daughter:
 Thomas Pelham (c.1678–1759)
 James Pelham (c.1683–1761)
 Margaret Pelham, married Sir William Ashburnham, 2nd Baronet

In 1726, his great-nephew, the Duke of Newcastle, brought him back into Parliament at Lewes, at the by-election that ensued after the death of another of Nicholas's great-nephews, Henry Pelham; Henry's brother Thomas had declined to take the seat until after he returned from Constantinople. However, Thomas was again in England by the next general election in 1727, and Sir Nicholas stood down in his favour. Sir Nicholas died at an advanced age in 1739.

References

1650s births
1739 deaths
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
British MPs 1722–1727
Knights Bachelor
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies
Younger sons of baronets
English MPs 1661–1679
English MPs 1680–1681
English MPs 1689–1690
English MPs 1702–1705
Nicholas


Matthew Deane may refer to:

Sir Matthew Deane, 1st Baronet (c. 1626–1711) of the Deane Baronets
Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Baronet (c. 1680–1747), Irish MP for Charleville and Cork County
Sir Matthew Deane, 4th Baronet (c. 1706–1751), his son, Irish MP for Cork City
Matthew Deane (actor) (born 1978), Thai actor and TV host

See also
Matt Dean, Minnesota politician
Deane (surname)


San Ignacio Department may refer to:
 San Ignacio Department, Paraguay, now known as Misiones Department
 San Ignacio Department, Misiones, Argentina

Department name disambiguation pages


Narahia is a large village in Madhubani district of the Indian state of Bihar.  Narahia is also called for the Mithalanchal land of Bihar.

Geography
Narahia is located in north Bihar, near the border of India and Nepal (about 30 km by road). It is surrounded by Balan and Bihul rivers. Narahia is located in Laukahi Block of Madhubani district.

It is alongside the East-west corridor (Porbander to Silcher NH 57).

Demographics
2762 families residing there. Its population includes 13740 of which 7019 are males while 6721 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Narahia village population of children age 0-6 is 2646 which makes up 19.26% of the population. The average sex ratio of Narahia village is 958 which is higher than Bihar state average of 918. The child sex ratio as per census is 938 was higher than Bihar average of 935.

Narahia village has lower literacy rate compared to Bihar. In 2011, the literacy rate was 53.17% compared to 61.80% for Bihar. Male literacy stands at 64.33% while female literacy rate was 41.58%.

Administration
This village comes under Laukahi police station, and Laukha laukahi Vidhan sabha kshetra, and Phulparas constituency.

Education
SSP High School is located there

Economy
Narahia supports a business hub.

Narahia hosts a branch of Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank IFSC code- CBIN0R10001. It has two ATMs.

Transport
National Highway 57 and National Highway 104 pass through Narahia. The closest railway station is Nirmali and Ghoghardiha.

The nearest airport is Patna Airport some 200 km away. Darbhanga Airport is about to open for civil flights. It is around 80km m away.

References

External links
 About Narahia
 Satellite map of Narahia

Cities and towns in Madhubani district


Wilbert Harrison (1867 – after 1892) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football Alliance for Birmingham St George's and Small Heath.

Harrison was born in the Bordesley Green district of Birmingham. He played football for Birmingham Excelsior before joining Birmingham St George's in 1886. He became the star of their attack, and played for them in the Football Alliance, but was one of several players offloaded when the club got into financial difficulties and joined local rivals and fellow Football Alliance club Small Heath in August 1891. He played only once for Small Heath's first team, scoring both goals in a 2–2 draw at Ardwick in January 1892, but his career was in decline, and later that year he returned to local football with Summerfield Saints.

References

1867 births
Year of death missing
Footballers from Birmingham, West Midlands
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Birmingham Excelsior F.C. players
Birmingham St George's F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Date of birth missing
Place of death missing
Football Alliance players


Albert Bitran (1931 in Istanbul, Turkey – 9 November 2018 in Paris, France) was a French painter, engraver and sculptor.

Biography

Albert Bitran was born in 1931, in a Jewish Sephardic family, in Istanbul, Turkey. After his studies at the French Collège Saint Michel, having both diplomas in French and Turkish, he is admitted in the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, in Paris.

In 1948, at seventeen, he arrives in Montparnasse, knowing already that he wants to become a painter, not an architect. Leaving the school after 8 months, he moves into a studio at the American pavillon of the Cité Universitaire, where he joins the circle of expatriated artists who had come to Paris for inspiration: Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Youngerman from the U.S, many South Americans, Ricardo Porro from Cuba, Jesús Rafael Soto from Venezuela, Serge Poliakoff from Russia, Pablo Palazuelo from Spain, and two young artists : Georges Koskas from Tunisia and Horia Damian from Romania, who had a most decisive influence on his debut as a painter.

Bitran begins to explore a strict, geometric language. Jean-Robert Arnaud, who just opened his gallery in Saint Germain des Prés the Avant-Garde “place to be", organizes in 1951, Bitran's first solo exhibition; he also publishes one of his graphic work in the first Cimaise magazine, and in 1954, exposes one of his painting on the walls of the Theatre of Babylone, for the opening of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Henri-Pierre Roché, prestigious art collector, future author of Jules et Jim, friend of Marcel Duchamp and Brancusi, makes Bitran a generous offer: he will lease him a large room Boulevard Arago, providing him with the materials for painting in exchange of some works. There, Bitran experiments geometrical almost optical drawings on paper with coloured pencils. Denise René organizes an exhibition in her famous gallery and Henry-Pierre Roché writes the preface of the catalogue. Yet, Bitran starts searching for a more personal expression: informal, gestual, architectural, the lyrical abstraction movement with which he would be associated for the next sixty years. The Birth of a Landscape is an impressive example of his new freedom. This large collage of 1956 will be shown in the exhibition L’Envolée Lyrique, at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, in 2006 and is now in the Gandur Fondation for Art, in Geneva.

In 1958, Albert Bitran becomes French citizen, marries Claude Ledoux, moves to a studio, rue des Plantes, Paris and buys an old farm in Rigny-le-Ferron, Aube, where he sets up a ceramic studio. In Paris, he joins the painters Marfaing, Doucet, Gillet, Corneille, Bengt Lindström, Tabuchi, at the Galerie Ariel, where Jean Pollack will show Bitran's work during the next forty years. Bitran also works on graphics: etching and lithography, first at Mourlot, then at Bellini and Leblanc's printing houses.  In 1961, for the first time in Scandinavia, Boerge Birch presents a personal exhibition of Bitran in his Copenhagen gallery. Northern countries, that he visits often, are now showing a great interest in his work. In Holland, he exhibits regularly, first at Nova Spectra in The Hague, then, from 1971 on, in Amsterdam at the Gallery Martin de Boer. His major themes in the sixties are Landscapes, The Studio, Inside-Outside, Laterals, and Verticals. In 1968, he moves to rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, in Montparnasse, where he will work and live until 2000.

"Doubles", an analytic interrogation of his painting becomes his major theme in the seventies. The French philosopher, Claude Lefort, writes the essay «Bitran, or the Question of the Eye » published by SMI in 1975 and in 1978 by Gallimard. As a conclusion to this pictural adventure, "Sextuor", a sequence of six paintings in a closed cycle, is exhibited according to a plan designed by architect Ricardo Porro, in museums and galleries in Norway, Denmark, Holland, France, and Austria,

In 1979 and 1980, Bitran chairs the seminar of the Salzburg Summer Academy, and Manès Sperber prefaces the catalogue of his exhibition at the Traklhauss. In the early eighties, Bitran sets up a studio in the Lot, where he experiments new techniques on paper and cardboard mixing oil, ink, fusain and pastel... He creates the "Grandes Formes" (Great Forms) that Patrick Bongers chooses for his first exhibition at Galerie Louis Carré, Paris in 1987; these works will also be exhibited at the Boisserée Gallery in Köln, at Art Point in Tokyo, at Louis Stern in Los Angeles ….

During Bitran’s retrospective in the Campredon Museum at l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in 1991, an interview with art historian, Jean Paris, was filmed and later published in Coloquio Artes, review of the Gulbenkian’s Foundation in Lisbon. Revisiting souvenirs from his childhood and his many travels in Turkey, Bitran’s new theme comes directly from the Mediterranean world. Fascinated by the form of the Arcades, he gives in his painting the       « inside-outside » impression of the form without being figurative. For his large paintings and his sculptures, more space is needed. In 2000, Bitran builds his home and his studios on the ruins of an old cinema in Montrouge, south of Paris.

With his new theme Les Noirs,( The Blacks)  he goes right into « what he always thought of as the major color : black ». - from Affinités en noir major, catalogue of the exhibition in 2017, galerie Convergences, Paris.

In the following years, Bitran participates in more than fifty exhibitions worldwide among others: Kunst des 20 Jahnunderts, Galerie Schilling, Köln, 2001. Lecciones de tinieblas, Academia 13, Mexico City, 2007. 20 Modern Turkish Artists of the XX century, SantralIstanbul, 2011, Modernités Plurielles, Centre Pompidou, 2013, and holds personal exhibitions in galleries and museum in France, Turkey and in England at the London’s Grosvenor Gallery, in 2010 and 2011.

Albert Bitran had the distinction of "Officier des Arts et Lettres".  He died 9 November 2018, aged 87.

(To visualize works of Albert Bitran online refer to the section "External links - Bank of images of ADAGP" below).

See also
Lyrical Abstraction
Tachisme
Art Informel
School of Paris

References
In French and English:

"Albert Bitran" Introduction, A Journey through Painting by Jean-Luc Chalumeau, including  Bitran ou la Question de l'Oeil by Claude Lefort. Lienart Editions 2019. }

"Albert Bitran or the Triumph of Grey" by Gérard-Georges Lemaire. catalogue from the exhibition Albert Bitran Paintings & drawings, Obliques at Grosvenor Gallery in 2010.

In French:

"Bitran ou la chaleur des gris" by Charles Estienne, Ariel Gallery, 1956.

"Bitran, ou l’élaboration d’un nouveau sentiment de la nature" by Denys Chevalier, XXème siècle, periodical, 1963.

"BITRAN" by Michel Courtois, Birch Gallery, Copenhague, 1961.

"L’Atelier", text by Georges Boudaille, 1964.

"Epreuves", text by Jean-Louis Baudry, la Balance, Bruxelles, 1966.

"Bitran ou la question de l’oeil" by Claude Lefort, édition SMI, 1975.

"Dessins, 1955-1975" text by Alain Bosquet, SMI, Paris, 1976.

"Le Mirliton du Ciel" 1985, poems by Albert Memmi.

"Fleuve" 1986, poems by Jean-Dominique Rey.

"Entretien avec Albert Bitran" by Jean Paris, Coloquio Artes, Lisbon, 1992.

L'École de Paris 1945-1965, Dictionnaire des peintres by Lydia Harambourg, Ides et Calendes, 1993 ().

"Albert Bitran, l'Oeuvre", Georges Borgeaud. Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, Suisse, 1993.

"Albert Bitran, Arcades", introduction by Pierre Daix, 1998.

"Dossier Albert Bitran" by Jean-Luc Chalumeau, Verseau, periodical, 1997.

"Bitran ou la lumière de l’image" by Pierre Daix, la Main Parle, Paris, 2003.

"Bitran: où règne l’ARCADE magistrale" by Lionelle Courbet-Viron, Area, periodical, 2003.

"Albert Bitran, Récit d'une Vie" by Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Vernissages, periodical, 2008.

"Peindre la peinture" by Frédérique le Graverend, AREA, N°21 Spring 2010.

Public collections
Works of Albert Bitran are represented in the following public collections:

 Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
 Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris.
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo/Norway.
 Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden.
 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Rhodes Island School of Design Museum, New York, U.S.A.
 University Museum, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Hammer Museum, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
ISTANBUL MODERN, Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
İstanbul State Art and Sculpture Museum, Istanbul Resim ve Heykel Müzesi, Turkey.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Donation Jacqueline Delubac, Lyon, France.
Musée d'Arts de Nantes, Donation Gildas Fardel, Nantes, France.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark.
 Ny Carlsbergfondet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Randers Kunstmuseum, Randers, Denmark.
Contemporary Art Society, London, UK.
Gemeente Museum,  Art Museum in the Hague, Netherlands.
Centraal Museum, Utrech, Netherlands.
 Cuban State Collection, Havana, Cuba.
Landhuis Bloemhof, Curaçao.
 Gentofte Rådhus, Copenhagen, Denmark.
 Foundation Roi Baudoin, Thomas Neirynck Collection, Brussels, Belgium.
 Art Foundation Jean-Claude Gandur, Geneva, Switzerland.
 Museum der 20-Jahrunderts, Vienna, Austria.
Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria.
 F.R.A.C. Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France.
Les Abattoirs, musée de Toulouse, France.
 Musée Municipal de Saint Dié, France.
 Musée des Beaux-Arts H. Rigaud, Perpignan, France.

Recent exhibitions
2008:

 Galerie Nev, Ankara

 Hands, Institut Français, Istanbul

2010:

 Obliques, Grosvenor Gallery, Londres

2015:

 Albert Bitran, huiles sur papier, galerie Convergences, Paris
2017:

 Affinities in major black, Convergences gallery and Gratadou-Intuiti gallery, Paris

2019:

Albert Bitran, galerie Bertrand Trocmez, Clermont-Ferrand

References

External links
 Banque d’images de l’ADAGP A large number of reproductions of Albert Bitran's works.

1931 births
2018 deaths
20th-century French painters
French male painters
21st-century French painters
21st-century French male artists
20th-century French sculptors
20th-century French male artists
French male sculptors
Turkish emigrants to France
Turkish Jews
Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres


Joseph John Lagowski was an American chemist working at The University of Texas at Austin.

Lagowski studied chemistry at the University of Illinois and received bachelor's degree in 1952. Later he studied at the University of Michigan to become Master of Science in 1954. In 1957 he finished graduate studies and received Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Lagowski continued studying in the University of Cambridge in England on a Marshall Scholarship with a title of D.Phil. received in 1959. He was a professor at The University of Texas from 1959 until his retirement in 2008.

His research dealt with non-aqueous solutions and organometallic pi-complexes. In 1978 he published a paper in which he described the strange spectroscopic and electrochemical behaviour of caesium and gold solution in liquid ammonia - pale yellow instead of blue colour was observed. This confirmed the existence of the auride ion Au−, which is a rare example of a single noble metal anion.
He was the sixth editor of the Journal of Chemical Education (1979–1996).

Notes

References
 University of Texas website

Year of birth missing
2014 deaths
American chemists
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Michigan State University alumni


Oosterbeek is a railway station located in Oosterbeek, Netherlands. The station opened on 16 May 1845 and is on the Amsterdam–Arnhem railway (Rhijnspoorweg). The station was originally called Oosterbeek Hoog, as there was also a station called Oosterbeek Laag, meaning Lower Oosterbeek. This railway station was located on the Arnhem–Nijmegen railway. The station is the least used on the Amsterdam–Arnhem railway, with less than 600 passengers per day.

Train services
, the following train services call at this station:
Local Sprinter service: Ede-Wageningen - Arnhem

External links
NS website
Dutch Public Transport journey planner

Railway stations in Gelderland
Railway stations on the Rhijnspoorweg
Buildings and structures in Renkum
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in 1845


Schroon Lake ( ) is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Schroon in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 833 at the 2010 census, or just over half of the total population of the town of Schroon.

Geography
Schroon Lake CDP is located in the center of the town of Schroon, at the northern end of Schroon Lake, the water body. U.S. Route 9 is the main road through the community, while Interstate 87 passes through the western part of the CDP. The CDP extends north along US 9 to Alder Meadow Road and south to Kates Way. The closest I-87 access is from Exit 28 (NY-74), north of the hamlet or Exit 27 (South Schroon Road) to the south. US 9 leads north  to North Hudson and south the same distance to Pottersville, while I-87 leads north  to Plattsburgh and south  to Albany.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Schroon Lake CDP has a total area of , of which  is land and , or 27.34%, is water.

Demographics

References

Census-designated places in New York (state)
Census-designated places in Essex County, New York


Goin' Latin is a studio jazz album with Latin percussion and style by Ramsey Lewis which was released by Cadet Records in 1967. The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart and No. 16 on the Billboard Soul Albums chart.

Critical reception
Thom Jurek of Allmusic noted Richard Evans' "arrangements and bottom-heavy soulful sound mix well with Lewis' indulgence in bossa nova, discotheque boogaloo, and Latin soul-lite on this set."

Track listing

Side 1
"Hey, Mrs. Jones" 	                                (Marion Miller, Robert L. Reagan) 	                                        4:01
"Summer Samba" 	                                        (Marcos Valle, Norman Gimbel, Paulo Sérgio Valle)                             	                        3:09
"One, Two, Three" 	                                (David White, John Medora, Leonard Borisoff)	        3:26
"Free Again" 	                                        (Joss Baselli, Armand Canfora, Robert Colby, Michel Jourdan)	                        2:56
"Down by the Riverside" 	                                (Traditional; adapted by Esmond Edwards)                       	                        3:43

Side 2
"Blue Bongo" (Richard Evans) — 4:19
"I'll Wait for You" (Richard Evans) — 3:17
"Function at the Junction" (Edward Holland, Jr., Shorty Long, Lamont Dozier) — 3:04
"Spanish Grease" (Willie Bobo, Melvin Lastie) — 3:11
"Lara's Theme (Somewhere My Love)" [from Doctor Zhivago] (Maurice Jarre, Paul Francis Webster) — 2:36
"Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vince Guaraldi) — 3:12

Charts

Personnel
Cleveland Eaton -   Bass
Ramsey Lewis -	 Piano, Keyboards
Maurice White -	 Drums
Doug Brand -	         Supervising Engineer
Don Bronstein -	 Photography
Brian Christian -	 Engineer
Esmond Edwards	-        Producer, Adaptation, Supervisor
Richard Evans -         Arranger
Tom Gorman -	         Cover Design
Hollis King -	         Art Direction
Erick Labson -	         Mastering
Andy McKaie -	         Reissue Supervisor
Shigeo Miyamoto -	 Mastering
Cameron Mizell -	 Production Coordination
Isabelle Wong	  -      Design

References

Ramsey Lewis albums
Cadet Records albums
1967 albums
Albums produced by Esmond Edwards


The 1998 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany was the second race of the 1998 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on June 6 in the Rottalstadion in Pocking, Germany The second Czech Republic SGP, it was won by Swedish rider Tony Rickardsson, his second career win.

Starting positions draw

The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Gerd Riss, Robert Barth (both from Germany) and Antonín Kasper, Jr. (from Czech Republic) as Wild Card.
Draw 14.  (6) Brian Andersen →  (27) Jacek Krzyżaniak
Draw 21.  (21) Jesper B. Jensen →  (25) Peter Karlsson

Heat details

The intermediate classification

See also
 Speedway Grand Prix
 List of Speedway Grand Prix riders

References

External links
 FIM-live.com
 SpeedwayWorld.tv

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Speedway Grand Prix
Speedway Grand Prix
1998


Jo Anne Van Tilburg is an American archaeologist best known for her research on the statues of Easter Island (Rapa Nui).  Her primary specialty is rock art.

Van Tilburg was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1965, receiving her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986. She is currently Research Associate of The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and Director of the UCLA Rock Art Archive.

Van Tilburg directs "Captured Visions", an award-winning rock art recording project in the Great Basin. Other projets in which Van Tilburg is involved include the administration of a small grants program, training in field methods, and the creation of prototype digital storage projects for special collections.

Van Tilburg is also director of the Easter Island Statue Project. She has conducted seasonal fieldwork in the Pacific since 1982, including in the Republic of Palau and on Easter Island. She is considered one of the world's leading experts on Easter Island statues, and has worked closely with the Easter Island community to inventory, describe and catalog nearly 900 statues. She has produced a typological analysis and classification of the statue corpus that is a significant aid to chronological studies. She has conducted extensive archival and museum studies throughout the world and, since 1995, has researched the life of Edwardian archaeologist Katherine Routledge, the first woman (in company with her husband and fellow anthropologist William Scoresby Routledge), to conduct field work on Easter Island and in the Pacific. Van Tilburg wrote a biography of Routledge entitled Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island.

In 1998 she completed an experimental archaeology project to make and move a replica statue on Easter Island. A documentary film and web site were produced for Nova by WGBH Boston.

In 1989, Van Tilburg founded the Rapa Nui Outrigger Club (RNOC) as a sports club and integral part of Kahu Kahu O Hera, an association of artisans, elders and others on Easter Island. The stated purposes of the RNOC are to:

Provide an exciting and positive athletic experience for the Rapa Nui young people;
Teach outrigger canoe paddling skills as a way to develop a healthy body, seek personal achievement, appreciate cooperative effort, and foster pride;
Stimulate young people's interest in Rapa Nui prehistory.
Encourage the understanding and appreciation of Rapa Nui's role in Polynesian seafaring history;
Explore the natural environment of the Pacific Ocean and the ecology of Rapa Nui as part of that environment;
Develop cultural exchanges with other Pacific islanders and continental peoples through the celebration of Rapa Nui maritime skills.

Publications

References

American archaeologists
University of Minnesota alumni
Living people
American women archaeologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Researchers in Rapa Nui archaeology
21st-century American women


Ekma is a Tehsil town and Taluka of Banwari Amnour in Saran district of Bihar state, India.

See also
Eksar
Asahani

References

External links
 Satellite map of Ekma

Cities and towns in Saran district


Folk saints are dead people or other spiritually powerful entities (such as indigenous spirits) venerated as saints, but not officially canonized. Since they are saints of the "folk", or the populus, they are also called popular saints. Like officially recognized saints, folk saints are considered intercessors with God, but many are also understood to act directly in the lives of their devotees.

Frequently, their actions in life as well as in death distinguish folk saints from their canonized counterparts: official doctrine would consider many of them sinners and false idols. Their ranks are filled by folk healers, indigenous spirits, and folk heroes. Folk saints occur throughout the Catholic world, and they are especially popular in Latin America, where most have small followings; a few are celebrated at the national or even international level.

Origins
In the pre-Christian Abrahamic tradition, the prophets and holy people who were honored with shrines were identified by popular acclaim rather than official designation. In fact, the Islamic counterparts of the Christian saints, associated most closely with Sufism, are still identified this way. Early Christians followed in the same tradition when they visited the shrines of martyrs to ask for intercession with God.

Thus, there is a long tradition for the veneration of unofficial saints, and modern folk saints continue to reach popularity in much the same way as ever. Tales of miracles or good works performed during the person's life are spread by word of mouth, and, according to anthropologist Octavio Ignacio Romano, "if exceptional fame is achieved, it may happen that after his [or her] death the same cycle of stories told during life will continue to be repeated." Popularity is likely to increase if new miracles continue to be reported after death. Hispanic studies professor Frank Graziano explains:

[M]any folk devotions begin through the clouding of the distinction between praying for and praying to a recently deceased person. If several family members and friends pray at someone's tomb, perhaps lighting candles and leaving offerings, their actions arouse the curiosity of others. Some give it a try—the for and the to begin intermingling—because the frequent visits to the tomb suggest that the soul of its occupant may be miraculous. As soon as miracles are announced, often by family members and friends, newcomers arrive to send up prayers, now to the miraculous soul, with the hope of having their requests granted.

This initial rise to fame follows much the same trajectory as that of the official saints. Professor of Spanish Kathleen Ann Myers writes that Rose of Lima, the first canonized American saint, attracted "mass veneration beginning almost at the moment of the mystic's death." Crowds of people appeared at her funeral, where some even cut off pieces of her clothing to keep as relics. A lay religious movement quickly developed with Rosa de Lima at the center but she was not officially canonized until half of a century later. In the meantime, she was essentially a folk saint.

As the Church spread, it became more influential in regions that celebrated deities and heroes that were not part of Catholic tradition. Many of those figures were incorporated into a local variety of Catholicism: the ranks of official saints then came to include a number of non-Catholics or even fictional persons. Church leaders made an effort in 1969 to purge such figures from the official list of saints, though at least some probably remain. Many folk saints have their origins in this same mixing of Catholic traditions and local cultural and religious traditions. To distinguish canonized saints from folk saints, the latter are sometimes called animas or "spirits" instead of saints.

Local character
Folk saints tend to come from the same communities as their followers. In death, they are said to continue as active members of their communities, remaining embedded within a system of reciprocity that reaches beyond the grave. Devotees offer prayers to the folk saints and present them with offerings, and folk saints repay the favors by dispensing small miracles. Many folk saints inhabit marginalized communities, the needs of which are more worldly than others; they therefore frequently act in a more worldly, more pragmatic, less dogmatic fashion than their official counterparts. Devotion to folk saints, then, frequently takes on a distinctly local character, a result of the syncretic mixing of traditions and the particular needs of the community.

The contrast between the manner in which Latin American and European folk saints are said to intercede in the lives of their followers provides a good illustration. In Western Europe, writes anthropologist and religious historian William A. Christian, "the more pervasive influence of scientific medicine, the comparative stability of Western European governments and above all, the more effective presence of the institutional Church" have meant that unofficial holy people generally work within established doctrine. Latin American holy persons, on the other hand, often stray much further from official canon. Whereas European folk saints serve merely as messengers of the divine, their Latin American counterparts frequently act directly in the lives of their devotees.

During the Counter-Reformation in Europe, the Council of Trent released a decree "On the Invocation, Veneration, and Relics, of Saints, and on Sacred Images," which explained that in Roman Catholic doctrine images and relics of the saints are to be used by worshipers to help them contemplate the saints and the virtues that they represent but that those images and relics do not actually embody the saints. In the same way, folk saints in Europe are seen as intermediaries between penitents and the divine but are not considered powerful in and of themselves. A shrine may be built "that becomes the location for the fulfillment of the village's calendrical obligations and critical supplications to the shrine image—the village's divine protector," Christian writes, but "in this context the shrine image and the site of its location are of prime importance; the seer merely introduces it, and is not himself or herself the focal point of the worship."

In pre-Columbian Mesoamerican tradition, on the other hand, representation meant embodiment of these holy figures rather than mere resemblance, as it did in Europe. Thus, pre-Hispanic Mexican and Central American images were understood to actually take on the character and spirit of the deities they represented, a perspective that was considered idolatry by European Catholics. As the inheritors of this tradition, folk saints of the region often are seen to act directly in the lives of their devotees rather than serving as mere intermediaries, and they are themselves venerated. Visitors frequently treat the representations of folk saints as real people, observing proper etiquette for speaking to a socially superior person or to a friend depending on the spirit's disposition—shaking hands, or offering it a cigarette or a drink.

The popularity of a particular folk saint also depends on the changing dynamics and needs of the community over time. The popular devotion to Yevgeny Rodionov provides an example. Rodionov was a Russian soldier who was killed by rebels in Chechnya after he reportedly refused to renounce his religion or remove a cross he wore around his neck. He is not recognized by the Russian Orthodox Church as an official saint, yet within a few years of his death he had gained a popular following: his image appeared in homes and churches around Russia, his hometown started drawing pilgrims, and he began to receive prayers and requests for intercession. Rodionov became a favorite folk saint for soldiers and came to represent Russian nationalism at a time of conflict when the country was still reeling from the dissolution of the Soviet Union. As one journalist observed in 2003, his death and transition into the role of a folk saint served "to fill a nationalist hunger for popular heroes" when heroes were sorely needed.

Devotions
A devotee might visit the shrine of a folk saint for any number of reasons, including general requests for good health and good luck, the lifting of a curse, or protection on the road, but most folk saints have specialties for which their help is sought. Difunta Correa, for example, specializes in helping her followers acquire new homes and businesses. Juan Bautista Morillo helps gamblers in Venezuela, and Juan Soldado watches over border crossings between Mexico and the United States. This practice is not so different from that of canonized saints—St. Benedict, for example, is the patron saint of agricultural workers—but it would be hard to find a canonized saint to look after narcotics traffickers, as does Jesús Malverde. In fact, a number of folk saints attract devotees precisely because they respond to requests that the official saints are unlikely to answer. As Griffith writes, "One needs ask for help where the help is likely to be effective." So long as followers come before them with faith and perform the proper devotions, some folk saints are as willing to place a curse on a person as to lift one.

An offering to a folk saint might include the same votive candles and ex-votos (tributes of thanks) left at the shrines to canonized saints, but they also frequently include other items that reflect something of the spirit's former life or personality. Thus, Difunta Correa, who died of thirst, is given bottles of water; Maximón and the spirit of Pancho Villa are both offered cigarettes and alcohol; teddy bears and toys are left at the tomb of a little boy called Carlitos in a cemetery in Hermosillo, Mexico. Likewise, prayers to folk saints are often paired with or incorporate aspects of the Rosary but (as with many canonized saints) special petitions have been composed for many of them, each prayer evoking the particular characteristics of the saint being addressed. Other local or regional idiosyncrasies also creep in. In parts of Mexico and Central America, for example, the aromatic resin copal is burned for the more syncretic spirits like Maximón, a practice that has its roots in the offerings made to indigenous deities.

As long as the spirits come through for their followers, devotees will return. Word of mouth spreads news of cures and good fortune, and particularly responsive spirits are likely to gain a large following. Not all remain popular however, as in the case of Cutubilla whose cult has long since died out. While official saints remain canonized regardless of their popularity, folk saints that lose their devotees through their failure to respond to petitions might fade from memory entirely.

Many folk saints are venerated exclusively in private homes by their devotees. For some devotion merely consists in the veneration of images or statues and the dissemination of prints or holy cards with the saint's image. This is because a folk saint may not have a special public shrine of their own and they are not represented by the institutional Church. Instead devotees usually erect small altars in their houses decorated with images of the saint, candles, flowers and other items. They also place holy cards in their cars or in their pockets to express their devotion and through distributing holy cards. Imagery plays an essential part in the establishing of a folk saint's cult and the maintenence of that devotion.

Relationship with the Catholic Church
In areas where the Catholic Church has greater power, it maintains more control over the devotional lives of its members. Thus, in Europe, folk devotions that are encouraged by the Church are quickly institutionalized, while those that are discouraged usually die out or continue only at reduced levels. For similar reasons, folk saints are more often venerated in poor and marginalized communities than in affluent ones. Nor are folk saints found in shrines to the canonical saints, though the reverse is often true: it is not uncommon for a folk saint's shrine to be decorated with images of other folk saints as well as members of the official Catholic communion. Shrines in the home, too, frequently include official and unofficial saints together. Graziano explains:

 Catholicism is not so much abandoned as expanded [by folk practitioners]; it is stretched to encompass exceptional resources. Whereas Catholicism ... defends a distinction between canonical and non-canonical or orthodox and heterodox, folk devotion intermingles these quite naturally and without reserve.

List of folk saints by country

See also
Apotheosis
:Category:Folk saints
Folk religion
Folk Catholicism
Folk Christianity
Chinese folk religion
Orisha
Saint
Phallic saint
Secular saint
Military saint
:Category:Supernatural beings identified with Christian saints

References

Sources

External links


Olallie Lake Guard Station is a former guard station in the Clackamas ranger district of the Mt. Hood National Forest, in Jefferson County, Oregon. Built in 1939, the cabin is in the Olallie Scenic Area near Olallie Butte and Mount Jefferson in the Cascade Mountains.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Its NRHP nomination explains its significance:Possessing very high qualities of design and execution, the Guard Station is a very good example of an architectural locution invested with special aesthetic and associative values by the agency that created it.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Oregon

References

External links

Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
Government buildings completed in 1939
Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Oregon
Mount Hood National Forest
Civilian Conservation Corps in Oregon
National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Oregon
1939 establishments in Oregon


The 2009 Men's Asia Pacific Floorball Championships were the sixth such championships in men's floorball. They were held from March 25 to March 29, 2009 in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. All matches were played at the Lee Chung Gymnasium. Singapore came into the tournament as defending champions.

The 2009 Men's Asia Pacific Floorball Championships were just the second to be held outside of Singapore City.

The tournament was organised by the Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation (AOFC).

A new floorball world record was set on March 26, 2009, when Japan defeated India, 59:0. The previous world record was in a women's under-19 friendly, where Poland defeated Ukraine by a score of 50:0.

Championship results

March 25, 2009

March 26, 2009

March 27, 2009

March 28, 2009

March 29, 2009

Standings
Official Rankings according to the AOFC

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| style="text-align:center;" colspan="3"|Asia Pacific Floorball Championships

See also
 Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation
 List of Asia Pacific Floorball Champions

External links
 IFF - Official APAC 2009 Webpage

Mens Asia Pacific Floorball Championships, 2009
Floorball competitions
Floorball in Oceania
Floorball in Asia


"How About You" is a song by American rock band Staind. It was released on December 23, 2003, as the third single from the band's album 14 Shades of Grey. The song reached No. 10 on Billboard's Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts.

Charts

References

2004 singles
Staind songs
2003 songs
Elektra Records singles
Songs written by Aaron Lewis
Song recordings produced by Josh Abraham
Songs written by Mike Mushok


Molecular electronic transducers (MET) are a class of inertial sensors (which include accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt meters, seismometers, and related devices) based on an electrochemical mechanism. METs capture the physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the surface of electrodes in electrochemical cells as the result of hydrodynamic motion. They are a specialized kind of electrolytic cell designed so that motion of the MET, which causes movement (convection) in the liquid electrolyte, can be converted to an electronic signal proportional to acceleration or velocity. MET sensors have inherently low noise and high amplification of signal (on the order of 106).

History of molecular electronic transducers

MET technology had its origins in the 1950s, when it was discovered that very sensitive, low-power, low-noise detectors and control devices could be made based on specially designed electrochemical cells (which were referred to as “solions”, derived from the words solution and ions). Up through the 1970s, the US Navy and others supported development of solion devices for sensitive sonar and seismic applications, and a number of patents were filed. However, early solion devices had a number of serious problems such as lack of reproducibility and poor linearity, and practical production of devices was abandoned in the US and progress languished for decades.

However, fundamental physics and mathematical studies of the underlying electrochemical and fluid flow dynamical processes continued, principally in Russia, where the field came to be known as “molecular electronics”. In recent years both mathematical modeling and fabrication capabilities improved dramatically, and a number of high-performance MET devices have been developed.

Principles of operation

At the heart of a MET device are two (or more) inert electrodes at which a reversible redox reaction occurs, which does not involve either plating of a metal or evolution of a gas. Typically, the aqueous iodide-triiodide couple is used:

	3 I− → I3− + 2 e−   			anode reaction

	I3− + 2 e− → 3 I−			cathode reaction

When a voltage in the range of ~ 0.2 to 0.9V is applied across the electrodes, these two reactions occur in a continuous fashion. After a short time, the electrochemical reactions deplete the concentration of triiodide ions [I3−] at the cathode and enrich it at the anode, creating a concentration gradient of [I3−] between the electrodes. When the cell is motionless, the electrochemical reaction is limited by the diffusion of I3− to the cathode (a slow process), and the current dies down to a low steady-state value.

Motion of the device causes convection (stirring) in the electrolyte. This brings more I3− to the cathode, which in turn causes an increase in the cell current proportional to the motion. This effect is very sensitive, with extremely small motions causing measurable (and low noise) inertial signals.

In practice, the design of the electrodes to create a device with good performance (high linearity, wide dynamic range, low distortion, small settling time) is a complex hydrodynamic problem.

Advantages of MET sensors

The main advantage of MET sensors over competing inertial technologies is their combination of size, performance and cost. MET sensors have performance comparable to fiber optic gyroscopes (FOGs) and ring laser gyros (RLGs) at a size close to that of MEMS sensors, and at potentially low cost (in the tens to hundreds of dollars range, in production). In addition, the fact that they have a liquid inertial mass with no moving parts makes them rugged and shock tolerant (basic survivability has been demonstrated to >20 kG); they are also inherently radiation hard.

Applications

Depending on the configuration of the MET device, a variety of inertial sensors can be produced including:
Linear accelerometers
Linear velocity meters
Seismic sensors
Seismometers
Angular accelerometers
Angular rate sensors
Gyroscopes
Tiltmeters
Pressure transducers

References

Navigational equipment


This page shows the results of the Men's Central American and Caribbean Basketball Championship, also known as the 2003 Centrobasket, which was held in the city of Culiacán, Mexico from June 17 to June 22, 2003.

Competing nations

Preliminary round

2003-06-17

2003-06-18

2003-06-19

2003-06-17

2003-06-18

2003-06-19

Second round
2003-06-20 — 5th/8th place

2003-06-20 — 1st/4th place

Final round
2003-06-21 — 7th/8th place

2003-06-21 — 5th/6th place

2003-06-21 — 3rd/4th place

2003-06-21 — 1st/2nd place

Final ranking

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References
FIBA
LatinBasket

Centrobasket
2002–03 in North American basketball
2003 in Central American sport
2003 in Caribbean sport
2003 in Mexican sports
International basketball competitions hosted by Mexico


Con Anima is a chamber choir based in Aberdeen, conducted by Professor Paul Mealor.

History
Con Anima was founded in 1995, and between that date and 1999 gave a number of concerts, mostly at St Mary’s Chapel, Blairs, Aberdeen.

In late 2001 Con Anima re-formed, and met informally for several months, before asking local pianist Robert Howie to direct them in a public concert. They have performed several times a year ever since.

Con Anima regularly perform concerts in St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen and St Machar's Cathedral as well as travelling further afield. Among the high points of their performing history are a concert featuring Lux Aeterna and other works by renowned American composer Morten Lauridsen in the composer's presence as part of the 2007 Sound festival of contemporary music; and a concert of twentieth-century French music with the distinguished French organist Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin, also in 2007.

In early 2008 Con Anima appointed professor Paul Mealor, Senior Lecturer in Music and Concerts Coordinator at the University of Aberdeen, as its principal conductor. However, they continue to work also with guest conductors including professor Andrew Morrisson, Organist and Master of Choristers at St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, and Dr Roger Williams (organist), Master of Chapel & Ceremonial Music and Organist to the University of Aberdeen.

Repertoire
Con Anima's repertoire spans sacred and secular music from the 16th to the 21st centuries and performances have included world premieres by Paul Mealor and Kyle McCallum.

Recordings
Con Anima's first CD, Paul Mealor: Stabat Mater, was released in October 2009. It includes several previously un-recorded works by Paul Mealor.

In August 2008 members of the choir took part in Phil Cunningham's Grace Notes - a television programme on Scottish church music, filmed in Monymusk Parish Church, Aberdeenshire and broadcast on BBC Two (Scotland) on 21 February 2009.

References

External links

 Con Anima page on Facebook

Scottish choirs
Musical groups established in 1995


Kako is a town in Jehanabad district of Bihar, a state in northeastern India. Until 1984, Kako was a part of the Gaya district. In 2010, the town's state representation was shifted from the Jehanabad constituency to the Ghosi constituency of Bihar's Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly). Though the population density is very high, the basic infrastructure is not optimal.

Demographics

Kako is located in the Jehanabad district, Bihar state. Kako has a population of 3,554 families, with 23,037 people in all: 11,890 male, 11,147 are female (). Children under the age of 6 make up 18.08% of the total population (around 4165 children). In 2011, the literacy rate of Kako was 67.22% compared to 61.80% in the state. In Kako, literacy for males stands at 76.77%, above female at 57.02%.

Geography

Kako is located at an elevation of .
Temperatures vary from . The climate ranges from very hot in summer to very cold in winter. The average annual rainfall is , 90 percent of which comes from monsoons. The soil is very fertile, known locally as Kemal.

National Highway 110 passes through Kako. The closest airport is Patna and Gaya, and the closest railway station is  away at Jehanabad.

Agriculture

Most of the people of Kako depend on agriculture. The main crops are rice, wheat and pulses (a type of legume harvested for its dry seed). The land is very fertile, and there are ponds useful to agriculture. Some people are also engaged in vegetable farming.

Tourism

Bibi Kamal – This tomb is situated  from Kako, holding the remains of a revered Muslim woman, Bibi Kamal Sahiba. Bibi Kamal's Urs takes place in November every year when cooked rice with milk " Kheer " is distributed among devotees seeking her blessings.
Sun temple – The Sun temple draws many locals to Kako during the Vedic festival of Chatth Puja.
Barabar Caves – These rock-cut caves are  from Kako. The Archaeological Survey of India has petitioned UNESCO for the inclusion of Barabar hills in the world heritage list of monuments.
Nalanda – Famous for "KUND" of Sufi saint Makhdoom Sharfuddin Yahya Maneri R.A. and a Buddhist tourist attraction in Rajigir,  from Kako.
Bodh Gaya – This Buddhist pilgrimage site is  from Kako.
 Ramayana Circuit – As per local legends and the epic Ramayana, Lord Ram's stepmother, Rani Kekaiy of Ayodhya, lived there for some time, and the village took its name after her.

References

Villages in Jehanabad district


Neu-Ems Castle ( or Schloss Glopper) is a medieval castle in Hohenems in the province of Vorarlberg, Austria. It was the fortification of the nobility Herren von Ems (Lords of Ems). Neu-Ems Castle is  above sea level.

Location
The castle is in the mountainside east of the town, in its mountain village Emsreute on a crest above the Rhine valley.

History
Approved by Emperor Louis IV the Bavarian, Ritter Ulrich I. von Ems (Knight Ulrich I of Ems) in 1343 built a new castle to have a comfortable home for his large family in dangerous times. He placed it near his fortress Alt-Ems on a hilltop.

During the Appenzell Wars in 1407 the castle was destroyed and rebuilt shortly afterwards.

In 1603 a chapel was assembled to the ground floor. Except two lancet windows in the northern wall there is nothing left over of it today. Since 1835 the former winged altar of this chapel is exhibited in the Tyrolean State Museum in Innsbruck.

Since 1843 the stronghold is privately owned by the family Waldburg-Zeil.

See also
 List of castles in Austria

References

External links
Website of Hohenems: Schloss Glopper or Neu-Ems

Castles in Vorarlberg


Verda T. "Vitamin" Smith, Jr. (October 30, 1923 – February 14, 2000) was a National Football League (NFL) running back for the Los Angeles Rams from 1949 through 1953.

Smith served in the United States Army and participated in the Battle of Normandy before enrolling at Abilene Christian University where he sprinted, threw javelin and played college football for the Wildcats. In the NFL, Smith was a return specialist. In 1950, he set a record by returning three kicks for touchdowns in a single season. That record would stand until 1967.

References

1923 births
2000 deaths
United States Army personnel of World War II
American football running backs
American football return specialists
Abilene Christian Wildcats football players
Los Angeles Rams players
People from Lake Dallas, Texas
Players of American football from Denton County, Texas
People from Sweetwater, Texas


"Inside the Ivory Tower" is a ranking of the world's best university programs in international relations. The ranking is published by the Foreign Policy magazine in collaboration with the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project at the College of William & Mary. The survey is based on input from "all international relations scholars employed at a college or university who have an affiliation with a political science department or school of public policy and who teach or conduct research on issues that cross international borders."

The first TRIP Faculty Survey was conducted in 2004. One of the questions asked respondents to rank International Relations graduate schools in the U.S. The survey has since expanded to include undergraduate programs. The survey began including universities outside of the U.S. in 2009. The survey was last conducted in 2018, and asks the respondents to rank the top five international relations programs by degree level. The rankings are determined by the percentage of respondents who list a particular school.

2018 rankings

2014 rankings

2012 rankings

2009 rankings
Methodology note for 2009 rankings: Undergraduate programs were ranked by individual country in this particular survey.  For full undergraduate listings, see the original survey.

2007 rankings
Methodology note for 2007 rankings: Only schools based in the United States were ranked in this particular survey.

2005 rankings
Methodology note for 2005 rankings: Only the graduate programs of schools based in the United States were ranked in this particular survey.

References

External links
 Foreign Policy's 2018 Ivory Tower Rankings
 Foreign Policy's 2012 Ivory Tower homepage and link to rankings
 2009 Rankings
 2007 Ivory Tower Rankings
 2005 Ivory Tower Rankings
 TRIP Faculty Survey

University and college rankings


Harry Johnson (8 August 1913 – 1976) was an English footballer  who played at left-back for Newcastle United, Port Vale, and Hartlepools United in the 1930s.

Career
Johnson played for Walker Park, before joining Newcastle United in 1933. He spent four years at the club, making five league appearances. During his time at St James' Park, the "Magpies" were relegated out of the First Division in 1933–34 and made unsuccessfully pushes for promotion in 1934–35, 1935–36, and 1936–37. He signed with Port Vale in June 1937. He made 21 Third Division North and cup appearances in the 1937–38 season, before he was transferred away from The Old Recreation Ground to Hartlepools United.

Style of play
Johnson was a tough-tackling left-back.

Career statistics
Source:

References

1913 births
1976 deaths
Footballers from Newcastle upon Tyne
English men's footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
Newcastle United F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Hartlepool United F.C. players
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"Heaven's Kitchen" is Bonnie Pink's fifth single from the album Heaven's Kitchen. The single was released under the Pony Canyon label on April 18, 1997. "Heaven's Kitchen" was also released as a vinyl (limited picture) on April 18, 1997.

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CD

Limited Picture Vinyl

Oricon Sales Chart

1997 singles
Bonnie Pink songs
Pony Canyon singles
1997 songs
Songs written by Bonnie Pink


James J. Metcalfe (September 16, 1906 – March 1960) was an American poet whose "Daily Poem Portraits" were published in more than 100 United States newspapers during the 1940s and 1950s.  Prior to his literary career, he served as a Special Agent for the FBI, where he aided in the ambush of gangster John Dillinger, and also as a reporter for the Chicago Daily Times newspaper.

Early life and FBI Career
Metcalfe was born in Berlin, Germany and emigrated to the United States as a boy.  His mother was a concert pianist,   He was educated at Notre Dame, and obtained a law degree from Loyola University.  Soon after completing law school, Metcalfe joined the FBI's Chicago Bureau, where he participated in operations against several Midwestern gangsters, including Ma Barker, Pretty Boy Floyd, and John Dillinger.  Metcalfe was among the agents who ambushed Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, resulting in Dillinger's death.

In later years, after achieving fame as a nationally syndicated poet, Metcalfe wrote a poem in tribute to those who served with him during the FBI's early years, entitled "We Were the G-Men:

Newspaper reporter
After leaving the FBI, Metcalfe joined the staff of the Chicago Daily Times as a reporter.  He was assigned to infiltrate the German American Bund, with a view to exposing its activities to the public.  His stories on the Bund helped to lead to the formation of a Congressional committee to investigate Nazi activity in America, and later won him and two other reporters, one being his brother, John C. Metcalfe, and the other, William Mueller, the National Headliners Club's Medal of Honor for the Best Story of 1937.

Poet
During the 1940s, Metcalfe returned to a favorite childhood pastime: writing poetry.  Metcalfe wrote hundreds of short poems about the human condition that appealed to people across a vast spectrum of careers and backgrounds.  His first book of poetry, entitled "Portraits", contained 750 poems; he later published at least sixteen other titles.  Metcalfe mused about love, friendship, life, religion, time, old age, youth, candy, vacations, holidays, envy and numerous other subjects.  His poetry also appeared in Hallmark greeting cards.

Metcalfe indicated that he started writing poetry as a teenager, when he "used to fall in love with all the girls and write poems to them to win them over. It didn't always work, but it was worth trying."  In later years, in the dedication of one of his books of poetry, he promised his readers that he "will not touch my pen, except it be in prayer to God, or praise of my fellowmen."

Metcalfe wrote and published at least seventeen books of poetry:

 Portraits (1947)
 Poem Portraits: A Collection of Verse (1948)
 Poem Portraits: 107 Selected Poems (1948)
 Garden in My Heart: Poem Flowers of Faith and Friendship (1949)
 Poems For Children (1950)
 James J. Metcalfe's Portraits: 100 Selected Poems (1950)
 More Poem Portraits: A Further Collection of Verse (1951)
 My Rosary of Rhymes: Poetic Beads of Faith and Friendship (1952)
 Love Portraits (1953)
 Love Portraits (1954)
 Portraits: 100 More Selected Poems (1954)
 Daily Poem Portraits (1954)
 Garden in My Heart (1955)
 Portraits: 100 Selected Poems (1956)
 Poem Portraits of the Saints (1956)
 Poem Portraits of Inspiration (1958)
 Poem Portraits for All Occasions'' (1961)

A representative Metcalfe poem
One of Metcalfe's poems is about "The Friends I Had":

Family and later life
Metcalfe and his wife Lillian Hammer Metcalfe had 3 children: Donald, James, and Kristina Marie.  The Metcalfe family lived in Chicago, Dallas, and California.  In his later years, Metcalfe delighted in retelling, not merely the poems for which he had become famous, but also stories of his FBI and reporter days, including his experiences with several notorious American mobsters.  The Metcalfe's lived for several years in a modest ranch house in Dallas, which Metcalfe referred to as "the house that poems built."

Metcalfe died in March 1960, at the age of 53.

External links
 Some of Metcalfe's poems, and a brief biography
 Website maintained by Metcalfe's daughter, Kristina
 We were the G-Men, a poem by James J. Metcalfe

1906 births
1960 deaths
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents
20th-century American poets
University of Notre Dame alumni
American male journalists
20th-century American journalists
American male poets
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers


Zawady is a district of the city of Poznań in Poland, located in the northern part of Nowe Miasto.

Neighbourhoods of Poznań


The 1981 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Johnny Majors, in his fifth year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of eight wins and four losses (8–4 overall, 3–3 in the SEC). The Volunteers offense scored 244 points while the defense allowed 265 points.

Schedule

Roster

Game summaries

At USC

Team players drafted into the NFL

References:

References

Tennessee
Tennessee Volunteers football seasons
Tennessee Volunteers football


IPredator was a VPN service offered with the stated goal of providing internet privacy. It was co-founded by Peter Sunde, as a response to the introduction of IPRED in Sweden, which will allow copyright holders and law enforcement officials to request personal information about copyright infringement suspects.

History
On 12 August 2009, beta testing invitations were sent out to those who entered their email addresses into the beta signup form. Additionally, the homepage has changed to reflect the beta. The service initially only used PPTP (supported natively in XP, Vista, Windows 7, OS X and Linux through the use of PPTP-linux) to tunnel the connection through servers (vpn.ipredator.se which resolves to multiple IP addresses) located in Sweden.

On September 14, 2009, IPredator "The Second Batch" became available for public consumption.

On November 28, 2009, IPredator became publicly available and exited the beta stage. This was done in response to the FRA law coming into effect on December 1st, a law which would allow the FRA to intercept internet communications crossing the Swedish border. In concert, The Pirate Bay changed its logo on December 1, 2009, to an image depicting FRA as Glass Joe, the first and weakest opponent from the video game Punch-Out!!. The image linked to IPredator's website with the message "FRA vs IPredator - It's on!"

OpenVPN support was added in August 2012.

In July 2013, PayPal stopped providing payment services to IPredator. In addition, all the organization's funds had been frozen for up to 180 days. The account was reinstated the next month. Conversely paysafecard, to which many customers had switched while PayPal was unavailable, canceled support for iPredator.

In October 2020, IPredator was merged into Njalla, a privacy-focused domain name and hosting service also founded by Sunde.

See also
 Comparison of virtual private network services

References

External links

Static Residential Proxies

The Pirate Bay
Virtual private network services


Qari Zainuddin Mehsud (died ), commonly known as Qari Zain, was a citizen of Pakistan, a member of the Mehsud tribe, and a leader of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP/Pakistani Taliban) in South Waziristan, one of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.  Pakistan's Daily Times described him as the "self-appointed successor of Taliban commander Abdullah Mehsud" although he feuded with Baitullah Mehsud over leadership of the Pakistani Taliban.  In the months before his assassination, the Pakistani government unofficially supported Zainuddin as a counter to Baitullah.

Life
Qari Zainuddin, a member of the Shaman Khel sub-clan of the Mehsud tribe, was born in Shaho Deeba village of South Waziristan's Sarokai subdivision.  He received education from the Jami'a Speen Mosque, the Darul Uloom Faizoo in Lakki Marwat and also in the seminary of Maulana Taqi Usmani in Korangi, Karachi.  After his education, he traveled in support of the Taliban to Afghanistan.

Zainuddin joined Abdullah Mehsud, his cousin, after  Abdullah attempted to assert his leadership of the Pakistani Taliban in the wake of Nek Muhammad Wazir's death in 2004.  After Abdullah and later his brother Masudur Rahman were killed, Qari Zain assumed leadership of the Abdullah Mehsud faction.

Rivalry within Pakistani Taliban
After Nek Muhammad's death, Abdullah Mehsud and Baitullah Mehsud both vied for dominance of the Pakistani Taliban.  When Abdullah died in a raid by Pakistani security forces and later his successor perished in a bomb explosion, Qari Zain and other members of Abdullah's faction suspected that Baitullah played a role in the attacks.  The rivalry continued after Zainuddin obtained leadership of Abdullah's group.

Senior Taliban leader Maulvi Nazir, whose relationship with Baitullah had deteriorated over the issue of sheltering Uzbek militants, offered his support to Zainuddin.  After Nazir and Baitullah, along with Hafiz Gul Bahadur, pledged in February 2009 to set aside their differences to focus efforts upon NATO forces in Afghanistan, Qari Zain's forces allied with a group led by Turkestan Bhittani, an older Taliban figure who had unofficially aligned with the government in its fight against Baitullah.

In March 2009 the two competing factions distributed pamphlets that leveled accusations against the other groups' leader.

Zainuddin's pamphlet, distributed on 16 March, stated:
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"Baitullah Mehsud is not involved in jihad because Islam does not allow suicide attacks, which his group is perpetrating."
"Our doors are open to all those who have suffered injustice at the hands of Baitullah."
"We also warn people against keeping contacts with Baitullah or facilitating him in prolonging his rule."
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In response Baitullah Mehsud called Abdullah Mehsud (and indirectly Zainuddin as Abdullah's successor) a "puppet of the government", and said: "Zainuddin and his comrades are cruel robbers and have rebelled against Islam and the [Mehsud] nation."

In a June 2009 interview with Geo News, Qari Zainuddin Mehsud said that "Islam cannot spread with the use of force but with invitation," and added that he was against suicide attacks inside Pakistan. He also distanced himself from the TTP by denouncing the organization and reaffirmed his commitment to the cause of Tehrik-e-Taliban Afghanistan.  "We are Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan, and we have nothing to do with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan." Zainuddin and Turkestan Bhittani held a jirga with about a hundred Mehsud tribal elders to rally against Baitullah Mehsud.

Personal rivalry with Baitullah
The rivalry between Qari Zain and Baitullah also had a personal aspect in addition to their respective differences over preferred methods and goals.  Baitullah had killed several of Zainuddin's family members, including his father.
Just six days before Qari Zainuddin's death he said in interview with Geo TV,"Islam does not allow carrying out activities within Pakistan and this is the main cause that led to the difference with Baitullah Mehsud."He said scholars like Maulana Hasan Jan declared suicide attacks as un-Islamic. The declaration led to the killing of Maulan Hasan by Baitullah.He said "Islam cannot spread with the use of force but with invitation," Qari Zain observed he also clarified, "We are Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan and we have nothing to do with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan,".

Assassination
On 23 June 2009, Qari Zainuddin Mehsud was killed in Dera Ismail Khan by bodyguard Gulbadin Mehsud, who escaped after the attack.  According to Baz Mohammad, who was also wounded and was one of Zainuddin's aides, the gunman attacked immediately following morning prayers.  Zainuddin was pronounced dead at the hospital from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and chest.  Mohammad placed blame for the attack upon Baitullah Mehsud.

At the funeral, Turkestan Bhittani vowed to continue the fight against Baitullah Mehsud.  After the ceremony Zainuddin's brother Misabhuddin was appointed the new leader of the Abdullah Mehsud group.  Misabhuddin told BBC News that he would not rest until Baitullah's death and that he would continue the "jihad against American and its allies in Afghanistan."

See also
Operation Black Thunderstorm

References

Pashtun people
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan members
2009 deaths
People from South Waziristan
Year of birth missing


The Aztec Hotel is a historical landmark building in Monrovia, in the San Gabriel Valley, California. The hotel is an example of Mayan Revival architecture still in existence. It was designed by architect Robert Stacy-Judd, and built on U.S. Route 66 in 1925-26. The hotel opened to the public in September 1925, and contained over 40 rooms.

The hotel has a revivalist style that mixes an abstraction from Maya architecture sources along with art deco and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.

The Aztec Hotel was designated a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The hotel's owners began restoration to preserve as much of the original ornamentation as possible in 2000 under the National Park Service's Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program. Kathie Reece-McNeill undertook a renovation of the Aztec Hotel between 2000-2005. She utilized funds and expertise provided by the State of California Office of Historic Preservation and the National Route 66 Foundation. Project Manager Glen Duncan and Historic Architect Joe Catalano worked on the renovation.

The hotel was featured in the 2009 romantic comedy Spooner. Scenes were filmed in front of the hotel as well as many interior scenes showing the lobby, bar, hallways and inside one of the rooms.

The Aztec Hotel has been reputed to be haunted for decades. San Gabriel Valley in Time notes "The Aztec Hotel has gained notoriety for being one of the most haunted places in the San Gabriel Valley. These reported stories have helped increase the lure of the Hotel and its history."

The hotel was closed for renovations in 2012. As of 2021, the Aztec Hotel remains closed with the opening date still unknown.

References
Notes

Further reading
 Gebhard, David and Peres, Anthony. Robert Stacy-Judd: Maya Architecture and the Creation of a New Style. Capra Press. 1993.
 Ingle, Marjorie I. The Mayan Revival Style: Art Deco Mayan Fantasy. University of New Mexico Press. 1989.

External links
California Historic Route 66 Association: Monrovia: Aztec Hotel
Flickr: Aztec Hotel Photos album

Hotels in Los Angeles County, California
Art Deco hotels
Mayan Revival architecture
Monrovia, California
Buildings and structures on U.S. Route 66
U.S. Route 66 in California
Hotel buildings completed in 1924
Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in California
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California
History of Los Angeles County, California
Hotels established in 1924
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Sursand is an Indian town in the Mithila region of Bihar near the Indo-Nepal border. It is about 25 kilometres away from Sitamarhi, the district headquarters, and approximately 5 kilometers away from Bhitthamore.

History
The village has the ruins of a fortress known as Sursandgarh, which was constructed during the Mughal period by King Sursen.

According to an account published in the Bengal District Gazetteers,
The name of the place is said to be derived from Sur Sen, a chieftain who once lived there. After his death, it lapsed once more into jungle, until it was reclaimed by two brothers—Mahesh Jha and Amar Jha, the founders of the present Sursand family. These brothers, the story runs, left their home at Ghograha, in the district of Darbhanga, and came to settle at Jadupati, a village belonging to them, 8 miles from Sursand. One day Mahesh Jha went with his astrologer to hunt in the woods at Sursand, and came across the ruins of Sur Sen's fort.  The astrologer having told him that the man who made a home there would be a Raja, Mahesh Jha acted on his advice and cleared the jungle. The several branches of the Sursand family sprang from his son, Chaudhri Kelwal Krishna. Amar Jha's branch did not prosper, and his descendants are impoverished. Chaudhri Hirdai Narayan, a descendant of the elder branch, added largely to the family estates.

Gallery

Archaeological geography
In the outskirts of the modern town, the area locally known as Garh Devi Sthan has a three-metre high circular mound covering about two acres of ground.

Notable people
Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra served as the Union Deputy Minister for Planning from 1954 to 1962.

Schools and College
Jawahar Lal Neharu Memorial College, Nawahi, Sitamarhi

References

External links
About Sursand
Satellite map of Sursand
Bengal district gazetteers 1901

Cities and towns in Sitamarhi district
Transit and customs posts along the India–Nepal border


Chloride Electrical Storage Company was a British company that manufactures and sells storage batteries. The company has approximately 35 subsidiary companies in the UK, several being dormant, most are wholly owned and some 22 subsidiary and associated companies in overseas countries.

Early history
The company was originally registered as Chloride Electrical Storage Syndicate on 12 December 1891. It was formed in a deal between the Electric Storage Battery Company (E.S.B. Co.) of New Jersey, and the United Gas Improvement Company based in Pennsylvania and John A. E. Hickson to expand outside the USA using patents and "applications" assigned by the parent companies. It was reconstituted as the Chloride Electrical Storage Company in 1902.

Products
Until 1914–1918 most of the demand was for large stationary batteries used in early generating stations and for domestic lighting installations. New and growing demand came for batteries on submarines, and after the First World War, the company's batteries were in growing demand for use in train lighting, motor vehicles and as accumulators for valve radio receiving sets.

Acquisitions
The company made acquisitions of alkaline battery and lead-acid battery manufacturing companies and became a supplier of automotive and traction batteries.

The company acquired two of its moulded battery casings suppliers, Lorival in 1927 and United Ebonite Manufacturers in 1934, merging them in 1939, to form a new subsidiary United Ebonite & Lorival Ltd.

Customers
The company supplied Indian Railways, Ford, Rolls-Royce and Vauxhall. Demand increased during the Second World War.

References

External links
 http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Chloride_Electrical_Storage_Co

Battery manufacturers
Manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Manufacturing companies established in 1891
British companies established in 1891
Companies based in Manchester


Slayer is a 2006 vampire themed television film written and directed by Kevin VanHook and starring Casper Van Dien and Kevin Grevioux. The film's plot involves an elite commando squad dealing with a deadly and bloodthirsty vampire clan living in the South American rain forest. It was produced for the Sci Fi Channel.

Plot

There's something strange going on in the rain forest down in South America. There have always been legends about vampires living in the jungle and feeding off animals, but now they are suddenly attacking humans and quite viciously, too. Not only are they hunting together in packs "like roving dogs," but they don't seem to be bothered by sunlight, and knives and bullets don't kill them. Of course, the military doesn't buy that they are vampires, just "tribal anomalies who BELIEVE that drinking human blood will give them power," but Colonel Jessica Weaver (Lynda Carter) is sending Captain Tom "Hawk" Hawkins (Casper Van Dien), Sergeant Alex Juarez (Alexis Cruz), and the rest of his platoon back down there to finish the job they started some six months ago when they first encountered these tribal anomalies. She's already sent Hawk's second-in-command and best friend, Grieves (Kevin Grevioux), a huge, hulking man, on ahead so that he can get a feeling for what is happening. The mission is made all the more imperative since Jessica has just found out that Laurie Williams (Jennifer O'Dell), a University entomologist, Jessica's goddaughter, and Hawk's ex-wife, is on a field expedition down there. Hawk and his men are to leave immediately for Agua Caliente, a small town along a river in a no-fly zone, where they are to rendezvous with Grieves and look for Laurie.

Meanwhile, in South America, Laurie, along with her guide, Luiz, and a couple of aides, are making their way through the forest when they come across a young boy threatening a man with a wooden stake. Laurie, quick-thinker that she is, plays dumb blonde and approaches the boy, speaking to him in bad Spanish... "Porque usted threatenez el hombre?" With the kid distracted by her act, Laurie quickly grabs the stake and backhands the boy to the ground. El hombre, whose name is Javier Vasquez (Tony Plana), explains that the boy is from a local village. His grandmother was recently killed, and the boy believes vampires did it. Apparently, he simply lost it and attacked Javier as he was walking through the forest alone. Turns out that Javier owns a hotel in Agua Caliente, and he does not have many guests, so he invites Laurie to stay there. Dreaming of a nice hot bath, Laurie happily accepts.

Grieves and his small band of soldiers aren't faring quite as well. While stopped at a bar in a small village, they are attacked by vampires, who overpower them. When Grieves comes to, he is surrounded. The vampires take him and his men to their nest in a nearby cave. Guillermo (Ski Carr), the leader, explains that Grieves has already been bitten and will soon turn into a vampire himself. Guillermo wants Grieves to join his group of vampires and teach them guerrilla tactics. He releases Grieves, who tries to fight himself free, but it isn't long until Grieves turns into a vampire. His first blood meal is from one of his own men.

Hawk and his platoon are making their way towards Agua Caliente when they notice the trailmarkers (blue ribbons) left by Laurie. They figure that they are about three days behind and decide to camp for the night. During the night, Hawk wakes up to see a vampiress, Estrella (Joyce Giraud) squatting outside his tent. He shoots her, but a half-dozen other vampires jump them, and the fighting begins. Several vampires get staked, but Hawk loses three men, too. They decide that they might be able to make better time and cut the risk of vampire attacks by renting a fishing boat and heading to Agua Caliente on water.

The next day finds them doing just that. The boat makes stops at trading posts along the way. At one of them, Hawk runs into an old lady selling a "vampire souvenir" that turns out to be a dogtag from one of Grieves' men. As they continue making their way up the river, they pass another village that the vampires ambushed. The villagers are disposing of their bloody dead by floating them away in the river. In another spot, they stop to talk with a man who is dragging a body down to the river. He tells them that the vampires are getting smarter, and they're now using guns. A short while later, the boat hits something in the water; they notice a body caught in the nets, so they haul it in. The body suddenly springs to life and they find themselves being attacked by a vampire. But it isn't just any vampire. It's Reyes (Eddie J. Fernández), one of the soldiers in Grieves' squad. At a sugar plantation, they learn that an organized group of vampires, some of them soldiers led by a "Negro grande" attacked and killed most of the plantation workers. It's becoming painfully obvious to Hawk what's happening.

Laurie and her group have made it to the Hotel Agua Caliente. Before taking her bath, Laurie has tea with Javier, who warns her that she must be careful if she goes into the forest around Agua Caliente. There ARE vampires here, Javier warns, even though Laurie doesn't believe in them. Javier explains the legend that says the first vampires drank from a fountain of youth, the same fountain from which Ponce de Leon was searching. The waters gave them immortality, but the cost was that they were forced to drink human blood. Later, as Laurie prepares for bed, she gets a call on her cellphone from Hawk, who has been trying to reach her for days. He explains that he's on his way to Agua Caliente, will be there tomorrow, and says that Laurie is NOT to go into the jungle until he gets there. Still unconvinced about vampires, Laurie goes to bed, only to be awakened to find Estrella, fangs bared and blood on her face, staring down at her. The two of them tussle until Javier comes into the room and orders Estrella out. Javier then takes Laurie to the vampire cave.

That night, the vampires led by Grieves attack Hawk and his men. Hawk manages to fight them off but is badly wounded by Grieves. Alex thinks he might be able to follow the vampires to their nest, so Hawk gives permission. The next thing Hawk knows, he is waking up in a bed in a hotel room with Colonel Weaver standing by. She informs Hawk that he has been out of it for over 24 hours and, in that time, she learned that Laurie is missing and flew down immediately. Thanks to Alex's tracking, they now know where the vampires are holed up, so Hawk leads his men on an ambush.

Unfortunately, they find themselves being ambushed by the vampires. An all-out melee ensues, during which Hawk manages to slit Grieves' throat, but not enough to destroy him. Estrella, who has a thing for the upperdog, tosses a long wooden stake to Hawk. Hawk is about to plunge it through Grieves' chest but stops. "We'll take him back with us," Hawk says. "We'll find a cure for this."

"Only one of us is walking out of here alive," says Grieves and leaps toward Hawk's back.

Without turning around, Hawk thrusts the stake between his legs and behind him so that it sails right through Grieves' heart. "I know," says Hawk, as Grieves dies.

But it's not over yet. Enter Javier Vasquez, who introduces himself as a conquistador from the court of Queen Isabella I of Spain, who sent him to the new world to convert the natives... except it was the natives who converted him and his daughter Estrella. Then Javier brings out Laurie, who explains to Hawk why the vampires have recently changed their hunting tactics, thanks to man's infringement on the rain forests. As more and more of the forests are cut down and the animal population wiped out, vampires have had to turn to humans for their food. Now they're tired of living in caves and want to re-enter the world of men, but on their own terms.

Javier invites Hawk to join him and to take Grieves' place, but Hawk refuses, so Javier changes into a giant bat. As Hawk and Javier (as a giant bat) fight each other, Estrella and Laurie duke it out. Laurie throws a stake through Estrella's chest. Hawk shoots at a huge stalagtite that falls from the cave ceiling and impales Javier, pinning him to the cave floor. Hawk then cuts off Javier's head. Hawk and Laurie kiss. Enter Colonel Weaver and Alex. Jessica explains that they were waiting outside all the time but that Hawk wanted to save Laurie himself. Laurie melts. One remaining vampire leaps at Colonel Weaver, but she shoots him through the heart with a dartgun. Laurie and Hawk leave the cave in each other's arms.

Cast
 Casper Van Dien as "Hawk"
 Kevin Grevioux as Grieves
 Ray Park as Acrobatic Twins
 Danny Trejo as Montegna
 Tony Plana as Javier
 Pablo Espinosa as Jimmy
 Alexis Cruz as Alex
 Jennifer O'Dell as Dr. Laurie Williams
 Merritt Bailey as Merritt
 Ski Carr as Guillermo
 Lynda Carter as Colonel Jessica Weaver
 Joyce Giraud as Estrella

Development
Slayer was filmed in Puerto Rico on a $2,000,000 budget. The company Tata Elxsi Visual Computing Lab handled the post production. The film premiered on the Sci-Fi channel on 8 July 2006.

Release
Slayer was released on region 1 DVD in the United States on November 21, 2006, distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment. The DVD included subtitles and Dolby Digital 5.1, as well as special features including a commentary by Van Dien and the director, and a photo and concept art gallery.

Reception
The film received negative reviews from critics. Dread Central awarded the film two out of a possible five mugs of blood and said "Slayer is pretty much what you'd expect; a bit dull, full of hammy acting, logic gaps you could drive a truck through, and ridiculously sparse on the special effects." The website Absolute Horror awarded the film two out of four stars.

Background
Casper Van Dien and Kevin Grevioux earlier appeared in separate vampires films: Dracula 3000 and the Underworld series respectively. Van Dien portrayed Van Helsing in his movie, while Grevioux played the Lycan Raze in the first Underworld film. Kevin VanHook also worked in DC Comics' vampire-themed comics, Superman and Batman vs Vampires and Werewolves.

See also
 Vampire film

References

External links

2006 horror films
2006 television films
American vampire films
American independent films
Syfy original films
2006 films
Films shot in Puerto Rico
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


Balmonte is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions) in Castropol, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 260 (INE 2005).

References

Parishes in Castropol


James Edward Baker (3 August 1911 – 22 February 1974) was an English footballer.

Career
Baker played for non-League Darlaston, before signing for Second Division side Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1930. However, he never made an appearance for their first team and departed for fellow second flight team Charlton Athletic after just one season at Molineux.

He joined Port Vale from the Londoners in June 1934. Despite being utilized as a left-back on occasion he managed to rack up a respectable tally of 8 goals in 21 games for the Hanley based club. However, he never won a regular first team spot and was released in April 1936, at which point he moved on to Barrow.

Career statistics
Source:

References

Footballers from Wolverhampton
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Darlaston Town F.C. players
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Charlton Athletic F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Barrow A.F.C. players
English Football League players
1911 births
1974 deaths


Love Songs is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Luther Vandross. It was released by Sony Music Entertainment unit  J Records on January 29, 2009.

Track listing
UK version

"Never Too Much" – 3:50
"Give Me the Reason" – 4:45
"Your Secret Love" – 4:01
"Dance with My Father" – 4:25
"Take You Out" – 3:26
"Got You Home" – 3:38
"Power of Love/Love Power" – 4:21
"So Amazing" – 3:41
"Buy Me a Rose" – 3:48
"Love the One You're With" – 3:45
"Any Love" – 5:02
"Always and Forever" – 4:53
"Endless Love" (Duet with Mariah Carey) – 4:18
"Love Is on the Way (Real Love)" – 4:43
"Heaven Knows" – 5:00
"Here and Now" – 5:22
"A House Is Not a Home" – 7:08
"See Me" – 5:29
"The Best Things in Life Are Free" (Duet with Janet Jackson) – 4:36

Charts

Certifications

References

2009 compilation albums
Luther Vandross compilation albums
Compilation albums published posthumously


James Edward Baker may also refer to:

James Baker (footballer, born 1911) (1911–1974), English footballer
Father Yod (James Edward Baker, 1922–1975), American New Age commune founder known as Father Yod or Yahowha.

See also
James Baker (disambiguation)