Igor Aleksandrovich Chernyshov (; born 26 June 1984) is a Russian former professional footballer.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League for FC Rostov on 23 July 2005 in a game against FC Shinnik Yaroslavl.

References

1984 births
People from Chernsky District
Sportspeople from Tula Oblast
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Russia men's under-21 international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC Elista players
FC Rostov players
FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players
FC Volgar Astrakhan players
FC Torpedo Moscow players
PFC Spartak Nalchik players
FC Sokol Saratov players
FC Khimki players
FC Irtysh Omsk players
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg players
PFC Dynamo Stavropol players
FC Novokuznetsk players
Russian Premier League players
Russian First League players
Russian Second League players


Our Heart's Hero is the self-titled debut album from Christian pop rock band Our Heart's Hero. It was released on May 18, 2007, through Gotee Records. The album features the Christian radio singles "Back to the Cross", "Because of the Blood", and "Tomorrow".

Track listing
"Save Me" – 3:13
"Because of the Blood" – 3:06
"More Than Everything" – 3:04
"Tomorrow" – 3:47
"To Be a Hero" – 3:07
"Back to the Cross" – 3:32
"Broken" – 3:44
"Alive" – 3:17
"Every Breath" – 4:01
"Never Again" – 3:29
"Angel's Song" – 4:44

References

2007 debut albums
Gotee Records albums


Technicolor is a color film process.
Technicolour (BrE) or Technicolor (AmE) may also refer to:

Music
 Technicolour (Disco Inferno album), 1996
 Technicolor (Marlango album)
 Technicolor (Parachute Band album), 2008
 Tecnicolor, a 1970 album by Brazilian band Os Mutantes
 Technicolour (rock band), a musical group from Finland
 "Life in Technicolor" / "Life in Technicolor II", songs by British rock band Coldplay
 "Technicolour" (song), song by Australian singer Montaigne
 "Technicolour", song by English singer Paloma Faith included on the single "Upside Down"
 "Technicolor", song by French DJ/producer Madeon included on the album "Adventure"

Other
 Technicolor Creative Studios, a multinational corporation that provides the visual effects, motion graphics and animation for entertainment and advertising industries
 Technicolor (physics), theories of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, modeled after the quantum chromodynamics quantum field theory
 Vantiva, the technology company formerly known as Technicolor SA, when Technicolor Creative Studios was spun off.

See also
 Technicolor for Industrial Films, a 1949 sponsored film about how Technicolor can be used in industrial films
 Technicolor Specials (Warner Bros. series), Hollywood color film shorts of the 1930s and 1940s


Pretty Polly is a British brand of women's tights based in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England.

History
The company began in 1919 when Harry Hibbert and Oswald Buckland built a factory in Sutton-in-Ashfield, near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. In 1926 they took over a hosiery wholesaling company that was previously owned by the daughter of a bookmaker who had gained financially from the racehorse Pretty Polly. The Pretty Polly trademark had a parrot as a logo, from another use of the word 'polly'. By 1957, the brand was number two in the UK and the company was bought by Thomas Tilling, who also owned much of the Walton Hosiery company in Sutton-in-Ashfield, which owned the Ballerina hosiery brand. The two companies were merged in 1961 as Pretty Polly Holdings Ltd.

Innovations
In 1959 the company introduced the first non-run seam-free stockings. To update the company's image in 1962, the parrot was replaced with two letter Ps and the phrase Pretty Polly for Pretty Legs forming a new [new what?] . In March 1967, hold-ups were introduced, which avoided the need for suspender belts, and were even featured on Tomorrow's World. It depended on the invention in 1899 of silicone by Professor Frederick Kipping at University College Nottingham. In the late 1960s, Pretty Polly was the best-selling range of hosiery in the UK, with a market share of 20%. In 1982, lycra (invented in 1959) was introduced.

Expansion
In 1967, an Irish subsidiary was opened at Killarney, to keep up with demand. In August 1991 the company was bought from BTR by the American Sara Lee Corporation for $187m who merged it with Elbeo in 1993. The company employed around 2,000 workers at this time. In 2005 when the company was owned by Sara Lee Courtaulds, production was moved from Unwin Road in Sutton in Ashfield to  a 'state of the art' factory on Bridge Foot (A517) in Belper. In May 2006, Sara Lee sold all of its lingerie brands to PD Enterprise, as part of a company known as Courtaulds Legwear.

Advertising
Pretty Polly was the first hosiery company to advertise on TV in 1980. In 1994 Laura Bailey modelled for the company, then in 1998, Eva Herzigová became the face (and legs) of Pretty Polly advertising. Sara Cox also modelled their hosiery. In 1999 the company launched their first bras, known as bbras.
In 2003, English singer Rachel Stevens became the face of PP advertising. In September 2014 it was announced that Sophie Ellis-Bextor would be the Face and Legs of Pretty Polly.

Honours
In 2005, the company was honoured as a Superbrand by the Superbrands Council.

See also
 Pretty Polly Stakes (Great Britain)

References

External links
 Website

 Reviews of legwear products
 Lingerie Uncovered
 Why You should Say Pretty Polly

News items
 Sutton in Ashfield factory closes in April 2005

Sutton-in-Ashfield
Clothing companies established in 1919
Companies based in Nottinghamshire
Hosiery brands
1919 establishments in England


The Potter County Courthouse is the primary government building of Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States.  Located in the Coudersport Historic District in the Potter county seat of Coudersport, it was added the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1975. The courthouse is a Greek Revival structure with some Victorian elements blended into it.

History
The Potter County Courthouse was designed by William Bell of Warren County, with the construction beginning in 1851 and being completed in 1853. In 1888, the roof of the courthouse was altered, leading to controversary over the "squandering" of tax money on a relatively new courthouse. The courthouse was renovated by the Civil Works Administration in the winter of 1933–34.

See also
 List of state and county courthouses in Pennsylvania

References

Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Government buildings completed in 1853
County courthouses in Pennsylvania
Greek Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Potter County, Pennsylvania
Clock towers in Pennsylvania
1853 establishments in Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Potter County, Pennsylvania
Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Pennsylvania


The Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy (, HaMisrad LeNos'im Astrategi'im) is an Israeli government ministry responsible for leading the campaign of expanding the Abraham Accords and the handling of ties on White House matters.

The ministry’s former responsibility was leading a campaign against the BDS movement.

History
The Ministry was created in 2006 for Avigdor Lieberman, whose Yisrael Beiteinu party had just joined the governing coalition. Lieberman had demanded the Internal Security Minister post, but as he was under police investigation, and the post was already held by Avi Dichter, a new ministry was created for him, with the role of coordinating security, intelligence and diplomatic initiatives regarding Iran and other strategic threats. Lieberman left the government on 18 January 2008, and the ministry was closed down in April. In 2009, it was resurrected and repurposed under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ministry was closed in August 2021 by the 36th government of Israel, but was brought back again by the 37th government.

Budget
The Ministry's director general, Sima Vaknin-Gil stated in 2016 that the budget for the Ministry's anti-BDS efforts for that year was NIS 44 million ($11 million).

Activities

Under Gildad Erdan's leadership, the Ministry attempted to keep its activities secret. Erdan and Vaknin-Gil even tried, unsuccessfully, to exempt the Ministry from the Israeli Freedom of Information Law. In 2016, Vaknin-Gil refused to divulge details of the Ministry's activities to a committee of Israeli parliamentarians. "A lot of what we do is under the radar," she told them. However, the Ministry came under a new leadership in 2018; Orit Farkash-Hacohen became the new Strategic Affairs Minister and Ronen Manelis his director general. They announced that they intended to increase the Ministry's transparency which allowed previously secret documents to be published.

The Ministry believes that state propaganda is less effective in persuading the public than institutions and individuals perceived as acting independently. The Ministry has therefore created a "network" of domestic and international organizations to advance the state's "message."

Purchasing favorable news coverage

In January 2020, the Israeli investigative magazine The Seventh Eye reported that the Ministry was buying space in mainstream Israeli newspapers to promote its campaign against the BDS movement.

The campaign began in summer 2017 with a budget of ILS 7 million campaign to influence media outlets such as Yedioth Ahronoth, The Jerusalem Post, and the Keshet Media Group. The Ministry paid NIS 120,000 to place articles in The Jerusalem Post and NIS 70,000 to "sponsor" a conference hosted by the newspaper. In exchange for the sponsorship, the Ministry received a 30-minute-panel at the conference which included a screening of a film produced by the Ministry about BDS and anti-Semitism. Prior to the conference, The Jerusalem Post published several articles and op-eds about supposed "links between BDS and anti-Semitism."

Karin Peretz of the Ministry's "public arena" arm told the Seventh Eye that the payment included "sponsored content" but a spokesperson for the Ministry later stated that Peretz was mistaken and that the payment did not include a series of articles. The Jerusalem Post denied that the articles had been paid for.

In October 2020, The Seventh Eye reported that the Ministry in 2019 had paid The Jerusalem Post NIS 120,000 to publish a special supplement titled Unmasking BDS. The Ministry's own officials were interviewed in the supplement as well as Republican Senator Ted Cruz.

Act.IL
The Ministry supports and funds Act.IL, a grassroots mobilization app that directs its users to serve Israel online. For example, by commenting on and sharing pro-Israel material on social media and to flag, report, and respond to criticism of Israel.

Closure of bank accounts

In 2019, the Ministry announced that a financial campaign had resulted in the shutdown of 30 financial accounts belonging to BDS-promoting non-governmental organizations (NGOs); 20 in Europe and 10 in the U.S. Among them, accounts belonging to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, the Palestinian BDS National Committee, and Al-Haq. The accounts were shut down through a combination of efforts by the Ministry, Shurat HaDin, and the International Legal Forum.

Coordination with NGOs

The Ministry cooperates and coordinates with several Israeli and international pro-Israel non-governmental organizations. Among them, Shurat HaDin, the International Legal Forum, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and the Israel on Campus Coalition. The Ministry has given $445,000 to the American think tank Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, and $40,000 to the American anti-Muslim hate group Proclaiming Justice to the Nations.

In 2017, the Ministry announced the formation of an anti-BDS legal network. As part of this network, the Ministry-funded NGO the International Legal Forum, would distribute grants of NIS 600,000 to professionals and organizations engaged in the legal fight against BDS.

In 2020, the Ministry announced a "financial aid program" to the "pro-Israel network" to counteract the funding crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A diplomatic cable first reported about in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2017 caused controversy as it indicated that the Ministry had attempted to "operate" British Jewish organizations. The Israeli Foreign Ministry which, had sent the cable to the Strategic Affairs Ministry, cautioned it not to do so. "The strategic affairs ministry must understand that ‘operating’ organisations directly from Jerusalem by email and telephone isn't good for their health," it warned.

Criticism
Critics allege that the Ministry is leading a campaign of online trolling, legal harassment and intelligence gathering against BDS activists worldwide. According to Rebecca Vilkomerson, former executive director of the Jewish Voice for Peace, the Ministry's attacks on BDS is part of a campaign "to stifle the growing support for Palestinian rights, using dirty tactics including cyberbullying and false legal claims that intimidate and try to silence criticism of Israeli policy".

The Ministry has also been criticized for its cooperation with, and sometimes funding of, American NGOs, which critics believe could violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Ali Abunimah, founder of the pro-Palestinian website The Electronic Intifada, said "if you had on tape a statement of a senior Russian or Iranian or even Canadian official saying that they were running covert operations, to spy on Americans, and using an organization like the Foundation for Defense of Democracies as a front…it would be a bombshell."

See also
 Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
 Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
 Public diplomacy of Israel (Hasbara)

References

Citations

Sources

External links
Official website

Strategic Affairs
Ministry of Strategic Affairs
Strategic Affairs
Foreign relations of Israel
Propaganda in Israel
Propaganda by topic
Public diplomacy
Public relations
Opposition to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
2006 establishments in Israel


Musa Sultanovich Mazayev (; born 21 April 1977) is a former Russian professional footballer.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2005 for FC Terek Grozny, and played 4 games in the UEFA Cup 2004–05 for them.

Honours
 Russian Cup winner: 2004.
 Russian Second Division Zone South top scorer: 2002 (26 goals).

References

1977 births
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC Akhmat Grozny players
FC Angusht Nazran players
Russian Premier League players
FC Druzhba Maykop players


The Maxau Railway (German: Maxaubahn) was a 9.7 kilometre long, railway line opened in 1862, that linked the old Karlsruhe station with the Rhine at Knielingen, near to the Maxau estate. After the completion of a pontoon over the Rhine, in 1865 the link to the Palatine railway network at Maximiliansau was completed. The line was built by the city of Karlsruhe and operated by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway and later taken over by the Baden state railways. In the course of several renovations in 1895, 1913 and 1938 the course of the line was changed and the original trackbed was given up. During its existence the line provided access to the industrial and port facilities in western Karlsruhe as well as the link between the Baden and Palatine railway networks as part of the Karlsruhe–Landau–Neustadt link.

See also
 Palatine Maximilian Railway

Sources
 Karl Müller, Die badischen Eisenbahnen in historisch-statistischer Darstellung, Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt, 1904, S. 125-130
 Ernst Otto Bräunche (Hrsg.), Rheinhafen Karlsruhe 1901-2001, INFO Verlag, Karlsruhe 2001

External links
 Traces of the Maxau Railway at verkehrsrelikte.de
 Law on the construction of the Maxau Railway at hartmeier.de
 Concession for the construction of the Maxau Railway at hartmeier.de

Railway lines in Baden-Württemberg


M. K. Sankaran Namboothiri () (a.k.a. Pranavam Sankaran Namboothiri) (born 1971) is a Carnatic classical music vocalist and playback singer from Kerala. He is the youngest A Top grade vocalist with All India Radio. Renowned as a child prodigy, he started learning music at the age of ten under the tutelage of C. S. Narayanan Namboothiri. He later trained under T. V. Gopalakrishnan, Mavelikkara Prabhakara Varma, and K. V. Narayanaswamy.

He has conducted concerts in India as well as many foreign countries.

Personal life
Sankaran Namboothiri was born to Krishnan Namboothiri  (Kathakali singer) and Adithi Devi Antharjanom (Madom Illam, Punnayam) in the year 1971. His native place is 'Punnayam' (asamannoor village). He has two elder brothers, Krishnan Namboothiri (Retired Deputy Tahasildar, perumbavoor) and Narayanan Namboothiri (college lecturer BTB college, Palakkad)

He is married to Ms. Smitha Shankaran from Cherthala and they have a child named Sangeeth Krishnan. Currently lives in Vennala, Cochin.

Awards
 Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award (2013)
 Isai – Pulamai Selvan by Lions Club International, Madras in 1984
 Kala Prathibha by M G University, Kerala in 1987
 Ganamrutha Surabi by Sree Vidya Peedam Kaladaikurichi, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu
 Isai Mamani by Harinagar Tamil Association, New Delhi in 1990
 Yuvakala Bharathi by Bharath Kalachar, Chennai in 1995
 Lifetime achievement award by United Writers' Association, Chennai in 2000
 Thulasivana Puraskar by Thulasivana Sangeetha Parishath, 2000
 Best Play Back Singer Award from Gandhi Study Center, Doordarshan Kendra and Raagom Cultural Center in 2008 for the song "Chittattinkaavil" from the film "Nivedyam"

Film songs

Malayalam Album Songs
Pranayamarmaram – 2009.
Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Sapthathi – 2008.
Jai Jai Bhairavi Carnatic Krithis – 2008.

External links
Official website

References

Male Carnatic singers
Carnatic singers
Living people
Singers from Kochi
Malayalam playback singers
1971 births
Indian male playback singers
Recipients of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award


The Quaid e Awam University of Engineering, Sciences & Technology () often referred as 'QUEST' is a public technical and research university located in the urban neighborhood of Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan.

It is one of the best universities in Pakistan, ranks 7th best university among engineering universities in Pakistan.  The university is named after the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Quaid-e_Awam).

Recognized university
This university is recognized by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.

Academic Departments
The following:
Department of Artificial Intelligence
Department of  Automation and Control Engineering
Department of Agro-Food Processing Engineering Technology
Department of Basic Sciences And Related Studies
Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Department of Computer Systems Engineering
 Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electronic Engineering
 Department of Energy & Environmental Engineering
Department of Energy systems Engineering
Department of Environmental Engineering
Department of English (Language and Literature)
 Department of Information Technology
 Department of Mathematics And Statistics
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Physics
Department of Software Engineering
 Department of Telecommunication Engineering

Academics

Undergraduate programs
The system of education is the semester wise system. The academic year is divided into two semesters. University offers four-year (Eight Semesters) Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, English and Mathematics.

Bachelor's degree program is offered by the following departments of university:
 Department of Artificial Intelligence
Department of  Automation and Control Engineering
Department of Agro-Food Processing Engineering Technology
Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Department of Computer Systems Engineering
 Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electronic Engineering
Department of Energy & Environment Engineering
Department of English (Language and Literature)
 Department of Information Technology
 Department of Mathematics And Statistics
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Physics
Department of Software Engineering
 Department of Telecommunication Engineering

Postgraduate program
The new department situated at the front of Administration Block is Post Graduate Department, where various departments of university offer MS, M.Phil and Ph.D degree programs in following areas of research:

Master of Engineering (ME)

Construction Engineering
Civil Engineering
Structural Engineering
Power Engineering
Computer System Engineering
Computer Communication and Networks
Manufacturing Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Management
 Energy Systems Engineering
 Environmental Engineering
Communication Engineering
Industrial Automation and control

Master of Science (MS)

Information Technology
Software Engineering
Mathematics
Computer Science

Campus
Quaid-E-Awam University of Engineering, Science & Technology, Campus Larkana

Affiliated Colleges
Government Habib College of Technology, Nawabshah
Government College of Technology, Khairpur
Government College of Technology, Larkana

Facilities

Q.U.E.S.T Software House, A-Sector
The Chairman of Department of Information Technology (Prof. Dr. Zahid Hussain Abro) recently open a Software House to develop software for University and commercial market of Pakistan.

Labs
All departments have their own laboratories with equipment and facilities for each subject. Especially Departments of Computer Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science have latest infrastructure and technical staff .

Student's Societies
The university support different international and national student societies . These Societies organize seminars about advancements in the technologies, different competitions and debates. The university also provides financial support to these societies to organize such events.

Sports
The university's offers a comprehensive range of facilities for sport and leisure for almost every student sport and participation at all levels. Student common rooms are annexed to every hostel in which facilities are provided for indoor games such as Table Tennis, Badminton, Carom, etc. Facilities exist for outdoor games such as Volleyball, Cricket, Tennis, Hockey, Basketball, Football, Athletics and Bodybuilding. For all these games a sports complex held near the Sector - C Mosque.

Scholarships
The university provides some of the following scholarship opportunities to its brighter and needy students.

 HEC–JAPANESE NEED BASED MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
 IEP-SAC SAUDI ARABIA SCHOLARSHIP
 MORA SCHOLARSHIP
 MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
 Quaid-e-Azam Scholarship (mr)
 Merit Scholarships
 Foreign Funded Scholarship Programs
OGDCL* Scholarship

See also

 List of Universities in Pakistan
 Mehran University of Engineering and Technology
 NED University of Engineering & Technology
 Sindh Agriculture University
 University of Sindh
 Higher Education Commission

References

External links
 Q.U.E.S.T official website

 Uni-Index
 Cultural Days of Q.U.E.S.T on You Tube

Engineering universities and colleges in Pakistan
Public universities and colleges in Sindh
Memorials to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Educational institutions established in 1974
1974 establishments in Pakistan


Brad J. Lamb is a Canadian real estate broker and condominium developer. He had a reality television show named Big City Broker on the HGTV Canada network for several years. The show focused on the workings of his real estate brokerage, "Brad J. Lamb Realty Inc." Lamb received media attention in March 2021. Due to a zoning bylaw violation, tenants living in units above an auto-body repair shop were forced to leave their units permanently by the City of Toronto.

Early life
Lamb was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His father was an Air Canada pilot and his mother a registered nurse. In 1967, the family moved to Montreal, where they settled in the Beaconsfield neighbourhood. Lamb attended Queen's University, where he obtained a degree in engineering. Lamb purchased his first property in London, Ontario in 1984. Early on, Lamb noted how much his real estate agent was earning on his property deals.  A few years after his graduation, bored with his engineering sales position, he obtained his real estate license.

Real estate career
Lamb went to work for Harry Stinson's real estate company in 1988 and became a specialist in selling condominiums in central Toronto. He quickly became Stinson's top agent, making $250,000 in his first year.

In 1995, he left Stinson to start his own firm, Brad J. Lamb Realty. In 2001, Lamb founded Lamb Development Corporation. It specializes in high style condominium projects, such as Flatiron Lofts, Worklofts, Glas, Parc, King Charlotte, Gotham Ottawa, The Harlowe, Theatre Park and Brant Park. The company has spread beyond Toronto to build and develop structures in Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton and Hamilton. Despite the boutique-style size, his agency became one of the most prominent sellers of condominiums in Toronto. In 2007, at the height of the property boom, his company's agents sold some 2,000 condos worth over $800 million. When the market slowed in 2008, the firm still moved about $525 million in real estate. According to Lamb's website, his agents have sold over 22,000 condominiums for over $8 billion as of 2016.

Lamb is known for his billboards, particularly a 2007 series of ads that depicted a lamb with Lamb's head and the slogan "This Lamb Sells Condos."  He has become "a household name in Toronto" and is often featured in the media as a real estate expert.

In 2017, William Shatner accused Lamb of using Shatner's name and caricature likeness in his brochures to sell real estate.

In March 2022, Lamb announced his plans for his King Street West building. These plans included a demolition of the current property to make way for a new 17 story tower featuring 714 sq. m of retail space on the ground floor, and two to three bedroom units above, However, city staff recommended the property for a heritage designation.

Controversies

Wellington House

In 2017, Lamb applied to obtain approval at the city level to build a 23-story building behind two 19-century heritage homes at 422-424 Wellington St. W. in downtown Toronto, a project that was originally marketed as Wellington House. The proposed project required rezoning approval from the City of Toronto, but negotiations for those rule changes broke down, forcing the cancellation of units in the building in 2018. On March 23, 2020, Wellington House partially caught on fire amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Police say that at least one small explosion took place inside the abandoned semi-detached houses. Only two days later, the same building caught fire once again.

Pre-Construction condominiums and cancellations

Besides Wellington House, Lamb cancelled Jasper House condo project in Edmonton in 2017. Early in 2018, Lamb cancelled the James condo at 452 Richmond St. W. due to a re-zoning issue. In 2019, it was announced that Lamb's development of Television City in Hamilton is delayed to 2025. In the same year, another project from Lamb Development Corp. in downtown Toronto was cancelled.

1407-1409 Bloor Street West
In 2021, several tenants were forced by the City of Toronto to evacuate a Lamb-owned property located along Bloor Street West. The reason for their eviction by the City of Toronto was due to the violation of a zoning bylaw. They were living in units only deemed for commercial use. On March 26, after a brief negotiation, Brad Lamb and the tenants came to a collective agreement and shared a statement via their social media channels.

References

External links
Brad J. Lamb Realty official website

1961 births
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Living people
Canadian real estate businesspeople
Real estate brokers
Real estate and property developers
Businesspeople from Vancouver
Businesspeople from Montreal
Canadian engineers


The Lebanese Republic is one of the 51 founding members of the United Nations when it signed the United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945.

Lebanon has played the role and has participated as a non-permanent member in the Security Council between 1953 and 2010. The United Nations system within Lebanon joins forces to provide a tailor-made accurate and beneficial response to Lebanon's development and humanitarian challenges.

Overview
Lebanon participated in the United Nations Conference on International Organization in June 1945 during the closing months of World War II and signed the United Nations Charter helping the way for the establishment of the United Nations. On 29 November 1947, Lebanon was among 13 states that rejected the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine which later established the Jewish state known as Israel in May 1948 though Lebanon does not recognize as such. The country has been subjected to 44 UN resolutions.

Within the UN, Lebanon is continuously developing programs and operations in collaboration with the government and its partners, while taking into account the uniqueness of the Lebanese situation. Combined with the Syrian Civil War that has impacted on Lebanon, which led to the creation of the Lebanon Crisis Response Plan (LCRP) and planned to raise $1.2 billion for the vulnerable communities. The LCRP implementation means a more stable Lebanon and a peaceful coexistence between the Lebanese host and vulnerable communities

In June 2020, Amal Mudallali, Lebanon's permanent representative to the United Nations, became one of the vice presidents of the General Assembly after Lebanon was voted to the position.

See also
List of United Nations resolutions relating to Lebanon

References

External links
  Website of United Nations Lebanon


The Rock Gym is a historic gym located at 45 Forest Avenue in Elberton, Georgia, United States. The gym was built in 1941 and initially served as a National Guard armory. The Elbert County School System also occupied the building and used it for high school basketball games, commencement ceremonies, school dances, and other events. The school system closed the gym in the 1990s, and it was vacant until 2003, when the city considered demolishing the building. The Elbert County Historical Society spent the next nine years restoring the building, and it reopened in 2012 as the Elberton-Elbert County Conference Center and Museum.

The gym was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

References

Commercial buildings completed in 1940
Sports venues on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
Buildings and structures in Elbert County, Georgia
National Register of Historic Places in Elbert County, Georgia


Rudolph Edward "Rudy" Andabaker (August 1, 1928 – September 25, 2016) was a professional American football offensive guard in the National Football League (NFL).

References

External links
NFL.com profile

1928 births
2016 deaths
People from Donora, Pennsylvania
Players of American football from Washington County, Pennsylvania
American football offensive guards
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Pittsburgh Panthers football players


Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal (11 March 1936 – 23 September 1989) was a Bangladeshi songwriter, poet, essayist, critic and presenter. In his early life, he was a singer on East Bengal radio and television. He was a professor of Bengali literature at the University of Rajshahi and worked for the government as the Director General of the Bangla Academy from 1986 until his death. He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in 1987. He published only three collections of poetry before he died of a heart attack in 1989.

Early life and education
Kamal was born in Gobinda village in Ullahpara Upazila, Sirajganj District. In 1959, he passed his MA in Bengali from the University of Dhaka. He received a Commonwealth Scholarship for his PhD on the Bengali Press and Literary Writings, 1818–1831, from the University of London in 1969.

Academic career
Kamal was appointed as a reader in the Bengali Department at Rajshahi University at the age of 53.

References

1936 births
1989 deaths
People from Pabna District
Alumni of the University of London
University of Dhaka alumni
Academic staff of the University of Dhaka
Recipients of the Ekushey Padak
Dhaka College alumni
Pabna Zilla School alumni


Brad Lamb may refer to:
Brad J. Lamb (born 1961), Toronto real estate broker and property developer
Brad Lamb (American football) (born 1967), former wide receiver with the Buffalo Bills
Brad Lamb (golfer), Australian golfer in the 2008 Open Championship


Patrick Sabongui (born January 9, 1975) is a Canadian actor, stunt performer, theatre actor, and drama teacher. He is also known for his role as David Singh in the CW series The Flash.

Personal life
Born to an Egyptian family, Sabongui obtained a BFA in drama for human development at Concordia University. In 2005 he earned a Master of Fine Arts in acting from the University of California, Irvine.

Sabongui lives in Los Angeles and Vancouver with his wife, Kyra Zagorsky, whom he married on August 5, 2002, and their two children.

Filmography

References

External links

1975 births
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male voice actors
Canadian stunt performers
Concordia University alumni
Living people
Male actors from Montreal
University of California, Irvine alumni
Canadian people of Egyptian descent


Guy J. Lyon (July 20, 1933 - November 2, 2001) was an American horse trainer in Thoroughbred racing. He trained primarily in New Jersey for more than three decades. Among his stakes race wins were the 1980 Lamplighter and Eatontown Handicaps at Monmouth Park Racetrack.

Lyon was living at Eatontown, New Jersey at the time of his death in 2001.

References
 November 08, 2001  Thoroughbred Times obituary for Guy Lyon

1933 births
2001 deaths
American horse trainers
People from Eatontown, New Jersey


Frederick Valette McNair (January 13, 1839 – November 28, 1900) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. The destroyer  is named after him.

Biography
McNail was born in Abington, Pennsylvania. He was appointed midshipman on December 21, 1853, graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1857. He served on the Atlantic blockade stations and Mississippi River patrols during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of rear admiral in July 1898. He served as superintendent of the Naval Observatory from June 28, 1890, to November 21, 1894, and Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy from 1898 to 1900. Rear Admiral McNair died in Washington, D.C., on November 28, 1900, while awaiting orders.

He was the father of Frederick V. McNair Jr.; the great-grandfather of tennis star Frederick V. McNair, IV and poet/novelist Lailee McNair.

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1839 births
1900 deaths
Union Navy officers
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
Military personnel from Pennsylvania
People from Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Superintendents of the United States Naval Academy


The Main Valley Railway (German: Maintalbahn) is a single-tracked, main line running alongside the river Main in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. In Miltenberg it connects to the Miltenberg–Walldürn railway. It also has a junction with the Tauber Valley Railway at the Baden town of Wertheim, that runs to Crailsheim.

History

The Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen) first connected the town of Miltenberg to the railway network with a main line railway from Aschaffenburg, which was opened on 12 November 1876. A rail terminus was built south of the Main river on the edge of the old town, which would later be called Miltenberg Hauptbahnhof (main station). The line to Seckach via Amorbach (Seckach–Miltenberg railway, also called the Madonnenlandbahn) begins here.

The extension of the line to Wertheim was opened as a branch line on 21 May 1906 to Stadtprozelten and extended to Wertheim on 1 October 1912. The last 3.85 kilometre-long section was owned by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway (Großherzoglich Badische Staatseisenbahnen). Wertheim had been connected by the Tauber Valley Railway with Lauda since 1868 and by the Wertheim–Lohr railway to Lohr am Main since 1881.

A line was built to a bridge over the Main, which branched off near the entrance to Miltenberg station, and ran along the right (northern) bank to the through station of Miltenberg Nord. All through passenger trains had to push back from the main station to the junction and then reverse to continue their journey. Between the 1950 and 1970s, Heckeneilzugen ("hedgerow expresses") on the Lake Constance–Crailsheim–Aschaffenburg–Frankfurt route ran on this line.

The Hauptbahnhof was closed for passenger traffic in the summer of 1977 and has since served only as a freight yard. Passenger services have stopped since then at the purpose built northern station. This was renamed as Miltenberg and the old terminus as Miltenberg Gbf (freight yard). Since that time, the trains to Seckach via Amorbach have also begun and ended at the former North station. The freight yard was closed in 2005.

In its position paper. Weichenstellung 2017 ("setting the course for 2017"), the council of the Miltenberg (district) supported electrification of the railway line from Miltenberg to Aschaffenburg. This would allow trains to run through to/from Frankfurt am Main and an hourly service on the weekend.

Current situation

Passenger traffic on the Main and Tauber Valley Railways is operated by Westfrankenbahn, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn. There were plans to close both lines, but they were never implemented. Due to the cycle tourism in the Main and Tauber Valley, the line is enjoying greater popularity. From March to October, for example, Deutsche Bahn offers bicycle transport from Aschaffenburg to Crailsheim and either operates bicycle wagons or offers the carriage of bicycles in multipurpose compartments. The line has been renewed extensively in recent years. Regional-Express services run every two hours as the Main-Tauber-Express from Aschaffenburg to Crailsheim and thus do not require a change at Wertheim. The through Regional-Express services are predominantly operated with class 628 diesel multiple units. Siemens Desiro Classic (class 642; Desiro) railcars are mainly used on the Regionalbahn trains from Aschaffenburg to Miltenberg. Since the timetable change in 2017, a train composed of double-deck cars and two class 218 locomotives is also operated on this route. The Regionalbahn services run hourly from Monday to Friday between Aschaffenburg and Miltenberg; on the weekend they run every two hours between Aschaffenburg and Seckach.

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Footnotes

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Railway lines in Bavaria
Railway lines in Baden-Württemberg
Buildings and structures in Aschaffenburg
Miltenberg (district)
Main-Spessart
Buildings and structures in Main-Tauber-Kreis
Railway lines opened in 1876
1876 establishments in Germany
Buildings and structures in Aschaffenburg (district)


Noel Leary (born 3 September 1949) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1970s.

Leary, originally from Ulverstone, failed to make much of an impact at Melbourne, despite winning the reserves' best and fairest award in 1973. He did however became a prominent player in the Tasmanian Football League, firstly at Sandy Bay and then at Clarence. He captain-coached Clarence to premierships in 1979 and 1981.

He was one of the inaugural inductees into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame when it was launched in 2005.

References

Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

1949 births
Living people
Melbourne Football Club players
Clarence Football Club players
Sandy Bay Football Club players
Ulverstone Football Club players
Clarence Football Club coaches
Australian rules footballers from Tasmania
Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame inductees


Publish What You Fund is a global campaign for aid transparency– more and better information about aid.

Background

Publish What You Fund is the global campaign for aid transparency. It advocates for the disclosure of timely, accessible and comparable information on aid by aid agencies and organisations, and was launched at the 2008 Accra 3-High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. Its main funders are the Hewlett Foundation and the Open Society Foundation.

Publish What You Fund urges donors to disclose their aid information regularly and promptly, and in a standardised format that will be comparable with other countries and accessible to all. They support greater disclosure of aid information in line with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standard and promote the central importance of aid transparency within international discussions on aid effectiveness and freedom of information. Their campaign for aid transparency focuses primarily on the EU, U.S. and World Bank, as the world’s largest aid donors.

In December 2011, at the 4-High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, the world’s most prominent development actors committed to publishing their aid information by 2015. Publish What You Fund will be working to ensure that donors redouble efforts to fulfil their commitments.

The Issue

Aid has the power to radically transform lives. It can help lift people out of poverty and give assistance to those living in acute deprivation. But its potential is not being fully realised because we need to know more about how it is spent.

Transparency in aid is essential if aid is to truly deliver on its promise. There is currently too little readily available information about aid, undermining efforts of governments that give aid (aid donors), governments who receive aid (aid recipients) and civil society to promote development and accountability.

 Donor governments don’t know what other donors are spending or planning to spend. This is leading to the duplication of efforts in some areas and underfunding in others. Without aid transparency, donors cannot coordinate to achieve the maximum impact with their scarce resources.
 Recipient governments struggle to know how much aid is invested in their country, let alone where and how it is spent. Recipients need more information to make the most effective use of their own money alongside that of donors. When donors don’t publish their spending plans, this impedes the recipient’s ability to plan long term projects, which in turn hinders development. When recipients can’t include aid flows in their budgets and planning, it is hard for parliament and civil society to hold them to account.
 Civil society in recipient countries, including NGOs, legislators and citizens, have the right to know what aid is coming into the country and what it’s being spent on. Because aid information isn’t freely available, they are hampered in their efforts to hold governments to account. This lack of transparency can lead to waste and increases the potential for corruption.

The Aid Transparency Solution

The starting point for ensuring that aid makes a difference is having timely, comprehensive and comparable information on who is giving what, where it is going, and the impact it is having. Information on aid needs to be regularly published and freely available if it is going to help effective spending, evaluation, and accountability.

In order to promote more effective aid, all donors need to provide their aid information in a common format that meets the needs of recipient governments and civil society. Full engagement from donors would mean that a big picture of all aid flows could be available for all to see.

Activities

Publish What You Fund works alongside others advocating for transparency, both of aid and in other areas. The organisation’s primary advocacy targets are large donors, who can change or prevent the availability of aid information at both the technical/civil service and political level. They produce an annual Aid Transparency Index to support their advocacy efforts; in 2011, the Index showed that the aid information currently made available by donors is poor and that they all need to improve their transparency. The 2012 Aid Transparency Index is currently in development.

Publish What You Fund promotes the International Aid Transparency Initiative as offering a common standard for publishing aid information. Currently, over 40 donor and recipient governments are already signed up to IATI, and over 20 governments and organisations are publishing their information to the IATI standard.

The organisation maintains a small office in London but works with partners and networks internationally, including the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and InterAction in the U.S. and CONCORD’s AidWatch initiative in the EU. It carries out research and monitoring to track the progress of aid transparency in donor countries.

Principles

Publish What You Fund was founded with four key principles:

Information on aid should be published proactively – an organisation should tell people what they are doing, when and how.
Information on aid should be timely, accessible and comparable - the information provided should be in a format that is useful.
Everyone has the right to request and receive information about aid - ensure everyone is able to access the information as and when they wish
The right of access to information about aid should be promoted - an organisation should actively promote the fact that people have this right.

See also
Aid
Aid effectiveness
International Aid Transparency Initiative

References

Further reading
'Accountability, media and the development system: a complicated romance'

External links
http://www.publishwhatyoufund.org
http://www.aidinfo.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20090418032648/http://www.comminit.com/en/node/289977/bbc
https://web.archive.org/web/20080201000912/http://www.okfn.org/

Humanitarian aid organizations
Transparency (behavior)


A quilter is someone who practices the art of quilting.

Quilter may also refer to

People
David Quilter (born 1942), British actor
Laura Quilter  (born 1968), American writer, lawyer, and archivist
Peter Quilter (fl. 1998–2019), British playwright
Roger Quilter (1877–1953), British composer

Other uses
Quilter baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Quilter Cup, a rugby union trophy, United Kingdom
Quilter Labs, American guitar amplifier manufacturer
Quilter plc, British financial services company

Occupational surnames
English-language occupational surnames


Lille Mølle (English: Little Mill) is a historic house museum in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was the last windmill on the old ramparts of Christianshavn. It is a Dutch smock mill erected in 1783 on one of the bastions, replacing a post mill built in 1669. It was turned into a private home in 1916.

Until 2016, the Little Mill was open to visitors on limited opening hours. Everything was left exactly as it stood when the house was still lived in. The home was at the same time highly eclectic and typical of its period. The National Museum closed this historic house museum in 2016.

History

The first windmill

The first windmill on the site was a post mill built in 1669. It was one of numerous windmills which were constructed on Copenhagen's Bastioned Fortifications. The only other of these to survive today is the windmill at the Kastellet fortress. In the event of siege, a fortified city needed secure supplies, including supplies of flour and rolled groats. In the same time, a location on the bastions provided favourable wind conditions.

The second windmill

The old windmill was replaced by a Dutch smock mill erected in 1783. In 1832 the complex was expanded with a four-story steam mill. Together the two mills acted as a grain mill, supplying the citizens of Copenhagen with flour. At the end of the 19th century the mill cap was disassembled and for a while the mill was used by the military for storing straw needed for some nearby barracks, both as fodder for the horses and bedding for the soldiers whose mattresses needed an occasional refill. In 1909 the steam mill was put out of operation.

Conversion into a home

In  1916, Little Mill was acquired by Ejnar Flach-Bundegaard, a young engineer, who turned it into the private home of himself and his wife as well as a small factory, DIAF - Dansk Instrument og apparatfabrik (English: Danish Instrument and Device Factory). Mr. and Mrs. Flach-Bundegaard made their highly eclectic home in the five storey octagonal mill base. The factory was located in the steam mill and a warehouse that has now been demolished on the other side of Christianshavn Voldgade.

The museum today

Ejnar Flach-Bundegaard died in 1949 and his widow in 1974. Shortly before her death, she donated Little Mill to the Danish National Museum, and today everything stands exactly as it did when the couple were alive.

Despite not being a typical home, Little Mill is in some ways characteristic of its period, being furnished in a national romantic yet uniquely personal style.

See also
 Københavns Møllestensfabrik og Møllebyggeri

References

External links

Smock mills in Denmark
Grinding mills in Denmark
Listed windmills in Denmark
Listed agricultural buildings in Copenhagen
Listed industrial buildings in Copenhagen
Listed residential buildings in Copenhagen
Listed buildings and structures in Christianshavn
Windmills completed in 1783
Octagonal buildings in Denmark


Louis Galea (born 2 January 1948) is a Maltese politician who was Malta's representative on the European Court of Auditors from 2010 till 2016. Previously he served in the government of Malta as Minister of Education from 1998 to 2008 and was Speaker of the House of Representatives of Malta from 2008 to 2010.

Education

Galea was educated at De La Salle College in Cospicua and at the University of Malta. As a student Galea was one of the main organisers of the campaign for Better Housing in 1968. He was President of the Students’ Catholic Guild (1969), Secretary of the Students’ Representative Council (1972), and President of the Council (1973). During part of his time at University he also held teaching posts in both State and Private schools. At present he lectures on Social Legislation at the University of Malta.

Political life

Galea was Secretary General of the Nationalist Party from 1977 to 1987. A lawyer by profession, he has devoted most of his energies to politics and has contributed in no small way to increasing and maintaining the Party’s organisation and efficiency. This not only involved the setting up of new party clubs and sections throughout Malta and Gozo, but also the development of the Youth and Woman’s Movements as well as the Workers’ Secretariat and the Migrants’ Secretariat. During his term of office the number of paid up party members shot up.

Galea has been a member of the Nationalist Party’s General Council and Executive Committee since 1972 and was a member of the Administrative Council from 1975 to 1987.

Galea was first elected to Parliament in 1976, and re-elected in 1981, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998 and 2003. Following the 1987 election he was appointed Minister for Social Policy. In 1992 he was appointed Minister for Home Affairs and Social Development.

Minister for Social Development (19951996)

In April 1995, Galea was appointed Minister for Social Development responsible for Health, Social Security, Family and Social Welfare, the Elderly and Women.

Minister for Education (19982008)

Following the Nationalist Party victory in the 1998 elections, Galea was appointed Minister for Education. Following the Nationalist Party victory in the 2003 elections, he was re-appointed Minister for Education and confirmed in 2004.

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Malta (20082010)
In March 2008, Louis Galea failed to get elected to the House of Representatives of Malta, losing his seat to Franco Debono. Galea subsequently lost his place in the Cabinet. In May 2008 he was appointed Speaker of the House of Representatives of Malta by a resolution of the House of Representatives.

Member of European Court of Auditors (20102016)
In January 2010, Louis Galea was nominated as Malta's representative at the European Court of Auditors, succeeding Professor Josef Bonnici.

References

External links
 Official website

1948 births
Living people
Speakers of the House of Representatives of Malta
Nationalist Party (Malta) politicians
University of Malta alumni
Academic staff of the University of Malta
20th-century Maltese politicians
21st-century Maltese politicians


Mirza Bakurovich Alborov (; born 17 December 1987) is a Russian former professional footballer.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2005 for FC Alania Vladikavkaz.

External links

1987 births
Footballers from Vladikavkaz
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players
Russian expatriate men's footballers
FK Mornar players
Expatriate men's footballers in Montenegro
Russian Premier League players
FC Salyut Belgorod players
FC Dynamo Bryansk players
FC Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo players
FC Avangard Kursk players
FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk players
FC Spartak-UGP Anapa players
FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz players


Petar Bogdan Bakshev or Petar Bogdan (; 1601–1674) was an archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Bulgaria, historian and a key Bulgarian National Revival figure. Petar Bogdan restored the Catholic hierarchy. He is most famous for being the author of the first Bulgarian history.

Biography
The biographic data concerning Petar Bogdan is scarce, but the researches confirm that he was born in 1601 in Chiprovtsi in the northwest of Bulgaria, at the time in the Ottoman Empire, and received his name Bogdan. The name Petar was given to the future Archbishop of Sofia after his entering in the Order of St. Francisc in 1618. Probably he was named after his mentor and teacher, and also the first Archbishop of Sofia, Peter Solinat. He came to be well known to the scientific and cultural circles in Bulgaria not until the 1980s, although his life and work coincides with those of already famous men of letters as Petar Parchevich, Filip Stanislavov and Franchesko Soymirovich.

He graduated school in the monastery St. Francisc in Ancona (1620-1623). Petar Bakshev studied later in Vatican from 1623 to 1630, where besides theology he studied also grammar, philosophy, logic, and church history. In 1642 Pope Urban II declared Sofia to be the seat of the Bulgaria's Catholic Archbishopric and appointed Peter Bogdan Bakshev as the Archbishop. The sole purpose of his activity was the social-political, confessional and cultural liberation of Bulgarians from the Ottoman oppression, and the revival of the Bulgarian state. Most Bulgarian historians think of him as the forefather of the Bulgarian National Revival. He had a very good language knowledge and performs the biggest writing activities. Petar Bogdan used Latin, Italian, Greek, Romanian and Turkish.

Together with Petar Parchevich, another highly educated Bulgarian Catholic cleric and diplomat and Franchesko Soymirovich, they visited Austrian monarch Ferdinand II, the king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Sigismund III Vasa, and his heir, Władysław IV Vasa, as well as Wallachian voivode, Matei Basarab. In 1641-1643 P. Bogdan put significant efforts into the development of the school in Chiprovtsi established in 1625. Bakshev was not afraid to write to the Congregation that the school was useful not only for religion but for the Bulgarians themselves. He asked for teachers and books on theology, as well as on some non-clerical subjects: Grammar, Maths, Philosophy and Logic. Petar Bogdan Bakshev left behind  rich literary heritage.

Bakshev Ridge in Antarctica is named “after Petar Bogdan Bakshev (1601-1674), Catholic Archbishop of Sofia, and author of an early Bulgarian historiography published in 1667.”

Works
His numerous translations and reports are interesting not only as historical readings, but also as itineraries. He is considered to be the creator of the Bulgarian historiography, with his first work "Description of the Bulgarian Kingdom" (1640). In his other works he mentioned also the geographical and ethnic borders of Bulgaria and Bulgarian people in Moesia, Thrace and Macedonia. In his works are also many facts about the past of certain towns and the local villages. Later he wrote History of Serbia, History of Ohrid, History of Sofia and The Bishopric of Prizren – books that  convincingly defend the ethnic and political boundaries of Bulgaria. After two centuries, these boundaries were confirmed with the firman of the Turkish sultan for the formation of the Bulgarian Exarchate, and by the decisions of the 1876 Constantinople Conference of the then Great Powers of Europe.

In 1667 Bakshev finished his major work “History of Bulgaria” and tried to prepare European thought of the liberation of the country. The Vatican library today has only the introduction and the first four chapters of the work. The original is believed to have included 20 chapters. Some data implied that the work was printed in Venice, but there is not a single copy preserved. This book was an end of his long lasting diplomatic work. In the introduction of the book he wrote: “Now when I am too old, the only thing to support me is the thought of my country”. Petar Bogdan's greatest work, a history of Bulgaria, was written a century before the Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya of Paisius of Hilendar, but was published after his death. Obsessed by religious activities, this  fighter died in 1674, when he was 72.

A full copy of Petar Bogdan's 200-page history book, titled De antiquitate Patrerni soli, et de rebus Bulgaricis, was found by the Bulgarian historian Liliya Ilieva at the library of Modena University in 2017.

See also
Chiprovtsi Uprising

References

Sources
Петър Богдан Бакшев. Български политик и историк от XVII век, Божидар Димитров
Discovering the historical figure Peter Bogdan.

17th-century Bulgarian historians
Bulgarian Roman Catholic archbishops
17th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Ottoman Empire
1601 births
1674 deaths
People from Chiprovtsi


Archibald Barton (1862 – after 1889) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football Alliance for Small Heath. Barton was born in the Moseley district of Birmingham and played local football for Coles Farm Unity before joining Small Heath. He played competitively only once for the club, in the opening game of the 1889–90 season, deputising at right-back when Fred Speller was switched to the left in the absence of Walter Gittins. Barton died in Birmingham.

References

1862 births
Year of death missing
Footballers from Birmingham, West Midlands
English men's footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
Birmingham City F.C. players
Football Alliance players
Date of birth missing


of Japan, is considered one of the most eminent, if not the most celebrated, students of Japanese philately. He is considered the "dean of Japanese philately" by many in the philatelic world.

Mitsui ran a zinc smelter near Omuta on the southern island of Kyushu where during World War 2, hundreds of Allied POWs were forced to work in the zinc mines and smelter. Many men lost their lives due to disease and constant beatings.  Others were lucky to return home after the war, but the dreams of the daily brutalities of their days at Fukuoka 17 would never leave them. The camp was one of dozens scattered across Japan, which held British, American, Dutch and Australian prisoners of war. Many believed Mitsui should have been executed as a war criminal, or at least been imprisoned for some time.

Collecting interests
Mitsui specialized in the collection and study of postage stamps and postal history of Japan. He was also a collector of German and Austrian philatelic items.

Philatelic literature
Mitsui wrote extensively on philatelic subjects, starting at the age of sixteen. His numerous books include:  Sekai gunji yubin gaiyo, written in 1939 in collaboration with  Professor Yukio Masui of Keio University, and which translates to "Outline of the Military Postal Systems of the World." This book contains a description of the little-known Japanese military postal service. He also published, in 1975, Fuiraterisuto no ashiato, (A Philatelist's Footprints) which is a detailed personal account of his life in philately.

Mitsui contributed many articles to various journals, including, Yubin kitte zasshi: The Japanese Journal of Timbrology, which he himself founded in 1923, Yubin kitte: Japan Philatelic Magazine, Kitte Kenkyu Kai, (Institute of Philatelic Research, Japan), which he founded in 1950, and Kitte kenkyu (Philatelic Research).

Philatelic activity
In addition to founding and contributing to Japanese philatelic journals, Mitsui was an official advisor to the Japanese Communications Ministry and Postal Service Ministry, and also Honorary Counselor of the International Society for Japanese Philately.

Honors and awards
Mitsui was named to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 1984.

Legacy
In 1964 Mitsui donated the very important original sketches and final designs of stamps executed by Kasori Teizo from 1923 to 1952 to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Mitsui's extensive collections of Japanese and worldwide stamps were donated to the Communications Museum in Tokyo when he died.

See also
 Philately
 Philatelic literature

References
 Baron Takaharu Mitsui

1900 births
1983 deaths
American Philatelic Society
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Japanese art collectors
Japanese philatelists
Kazoku
Mitsui family
Philatelic literature
Philately of Japan
Smithsonian Institution people
Commanders of the Order of the White Lion


Mike Vincent is an Australian print, radio and television journalist. He is also the father of New Zealand cricketer Lou Vincent.

Mike has worked as a radio and newspaper journalist for more than 20 years in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Hobart, and Perth, but mostly in his hometown of Adelaide.

He has spent a period of time working for Radio New Zealand in Auckland.

In early 2001 Mike rejoined the ABC as sports producer-presenter for ABC NewsRadio.

His most notable brush with fame was using his right knee to stop Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser from closing his Commonwealth car passenger door to get in one more question.

In 2009 Mike began hosting Rock Dinosaurs on Big River FM in New Zealand. It's every Wednesday night August–March 7-9pm. http://bigriverfm.co.nz/

In 2014 he began a new show on Big River FM called Radio Jimi Hendrix every Wednesday night March–August 7-9pm.

In 2016 Vincent self-published his first book The Dead Philosophers Society (SPAV: Socrates Plato Aristotle Vincent). He describes it as attempted satire but is probably just a collection of rants and cheap shots from his radio shows. There have been several more volumes that have evolved into The War on Dickheads.
https://thewarondickheads.nz/

References

External links
 On-air voices, Mike Vincent

Australian journalists
New Zealand journalists
Australian radio personalities
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Cave Spring High School may refer to:

 Cave Spring Female Academy (Cave Spring, Georgia), listed on the NRHP in Georgia
 Cave Spring High School (Cave Spring, Georgia), listed on the NRHP in Georgia
 Cave Spring High School (Roanoke, Virginia)


Umar Makharbekovich Karsanov (; born 30 December 1981) is a former Russian professional footballer.

He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Alania Vladikavkaz.

References

1981 births
Footballers from Vladikavkaz
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players
FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny players
Russian Premier League players
FC Orenburg players
FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz players


Carl William Preston (born 1991) is an English footballer. He started his career with AFC Bournemouth.

Preston made four first team appearances for AFC Bournemouth. His league debut came against Bury at Dean Court on 20 December 2008. In July 2009, Preston joined Conference South side Weymouth on a one-year contract. He left in August 2009 and signed for then Wessex League side Poole Town.

He went on trial at Reading from 03 - 6 May 2011. Although Carl has had many trials at different clubs he is still playing at Poole Town FC.

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Poole
Footballers from Dorset
Men's association football midfielders
English men's footballers
AFC Bournemouth players
Poole Town F.C. players
Weymouth F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Wessex Football League players


Tom Littler is a British theatre director and the Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London. He  was the founder of theatre company Primavera Productions, a former Associate Director of Theatre503 formerly Artistic Director of Jermyn Street Theatre, which he turned into a producing theatre.

His West End credits include Stephen Sondheim's Saturday Night (for Primavera) which starred Helena Blackman, the runner-up of How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria. Littler was also resident director of the 2009 revival of A Little Night Music at the Garrick Theatre and Menier Chocolate Factory. Littler directed the premiere of Dances of Death by Howard Brenton, a new version of The Dance of Death by August Strindberg at the Gate Theatre (London) in 2013, starring Michael Pennington. He also directed the premieres of Brenton's biographical play about August Strindberg, The Blinding Light, at Jermyn Street Theatre, and his new version of Miss Julie.

Littler was a regular Associate Director of the Peter Hall Season at the Theatre Royal, Bath, working with Sir Sir Peter Hall on productions including Little Nell by Simon Gray, A Doll's House with Catherine McCormack, Born in the Gardens by Peter Nichols, and The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan.

Littler succeeded  Paul Miller as Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre  in December 2022.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British theatre directors


The Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act (the Act) came into force in Canada on April 15, 2007. The Act creates two distinct processes: a disclosure process and a reprisal complaints process. It also creates two new bodies: the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner (PSIC) and the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal.

Definitions
The Act defines wrongdoing as a contravention of any Act of Parliament or of the legislature of a province, or of any regulations made under any such Act; a misuse of public funds or a public asset; gross mismanagement in the public sector; an act or omission that creates a substantial and specific danger to the life, health or safety of persons, or to the environment, other than a danger that is inherent in the performance of the duties or functions of a public servant; a serious breach of a code of conduct established under the Act; and knowingly directing or counseling a person to commit a wrongdoing.

Under the Act, reprisal means any measures taken against a public servant because he or she has made a protected disclosure or has, in good faith, cooperated in an investigation into a disclosure. It can include any measures that could adversely affect the employment or working conditions of the person, or a threat to take any of these measures or to direct a person to do so.

Key highlights of the Act are as follows:

The Treasury Board must establish a code of conduct applicable to the public sector. As well, every Chief Executive must establish a code of conduct applicable to the portion of the public sector for which he or she is responsible.
Any public servant or member of the public can disclose in confidence information about suspected wrongdoing in the public sector.
Public servants who make a good faith disclosure and those who cooperate in investigations are protected against reprisals.
The identity of the person who made the disclosure and of the witnesses and the persons against whom disclosures are made must be protected to the extent possible.
The right to procedural fairness and natural justice of all persons involved in a disclosure process and a reprisal complaint must be respected, including those against whom an allegation or complaint is made.
PSIC has broad investigative powers under Part 11 of the Inquiries Act.
The purpose of investigations under the Act is to bring the existence of wrongdoings to the attention of Chief Executives and to make recommendations concerning corrective measures.
PSIC has exclusive jurisdiction to investigate reprisal complaints from public servants.
Investigations into disclosures of wrongdoing and reprisal complaints are to be conducted as informally and expeditiously as possible.
PSIC may apply to the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal, which can determine whether reprisals have been taken place and impose corrective measures and disciplinary actions.

The Act applies to all employees in the federal public sector. It excludes the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), and the Canadian Forces. However, these organizations must create comparable disclosure protection regimes.

Criticism

The primary source of independent information about whistleblower legislation in Canada is the Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform (FAIR) a registered charity that provides support for whistleblowers. In early 2007, FAIR published an analysis of the Act before it came into force, listing the concerns that FAIR had expressed in its testimony to Parliament during passage of the Act. In February 2011, FAIR published an updated analysis, benefiting from its observations during four years of implementation. This document lists more than two dozen significant shortcomings under the following eight headings:

1) The scope of the law is very narrow

 For members of the Armed Forces, CSIS or the RCMP, the protection from reprisals is either limited or non-existent
 Government misconduct involving the private sector cannot be investigated properly
 The law does not address private sector misconduct at all

2) The range of avenues (for seeking investigation and redress) has been restricted rather than expanded

 All means of access to our normal courts are blocked
 There is little protection against bullying and harassment – for any employee
 Going public or disclosing to the media is strictly prohibited in most circumstances

3) The coverage of wrongdoing excludes most real-life situations

 Restrictive definition of wrongdoing
 Jurisdictional reasons for refusal to deal with disclosures
 Other vague and subjective reasons for refusal to deal with disclosures

4) The provisions for investigations and corrective action are weak

 The Commissioner is restricted to a reactive, fragmented approach
 There is no reliable mechanism to correct wrongdoing or discipline wrongdoers

5) Most complaints of reprisal are likely to be rejected

 Jurisdictional reasons to reject a complaint of reprisal
 Short time limit to file a complaint
 Definitional reasons for rejection of a complaint
 The Commissioner need not refer any case to the tribunal
 Non-government whistleblowers effectively have no protection

6) The tribunal is unlikely to protect anyone

 Near-impossible burden of proof
 Lack of legal assistance
 No access to courts
 Inadequate penalties and remedies

7) The entire process is shrouded in impenetrable secrecy

 Access to Information
 Misclassification of documents
 Secret hearings
 Decisions need not be filed with federal Court
 Gag orders

8) The legal strategy is perverse and ill-conceived

 The law is unwieldy, complex, and costly

Implementation red flags
The agency created to administer the Act – the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner (OPSIC) – has had a troubled history. During its first three years of operation it found no cases of wrongdoing in the federal public service, and no cases of reprisal against any whistleblower. Out of more than two hundred cases received only a handful were investigated, and none of these investigations found anything amiss. Critics claimed that it is implausible that there is no wrongdoing to be found: the agency is mandated to protect about 400,000 public servants working within a system that disposes of more than half a billion dollars each day. In addition some individuals who were turned away by OPSIC (such as veteran Sean Bruyea) have since been vindicated by other means.

Resignation of Integrity Commissioner

In October 2010 the head of OPSIC, Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Christiane Ouimet, unexpectedly resigned less than halfway through her seven-year term, following media reports that she was under investigation by Canada's Auditor General. The Auditor General's report, published in December 2010, was highly critical of Ouimet and concluded that the commissioner had failed to do her job, had been an abusive manager, and had taken reprisals against former staff members. For more than two months Ouimet refused to attend a parliamentary committee that summoned her to appear and explain her actions. When she finally did appear she claimed that she had been victimized by the Auditor General's intensive investigation, that she had done nothing wrong, and that the Auditor General's findings were incorrect. There was further controversy about Ouimet's departure when it became known that the government had paid her more than $500,000 'severance' to resign, with a gag order that prohibits her from criticizing the government (or vice versa). Critics claimed that she had been rewarded for incompetence and misconduct, and paid to keep quiet.

More recent review and analysis of the Act
In 2017 the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (known as OGGO) was asked by the government to conduct a review of the Act. This was the independent review required by law, which should have taken place 5 years after the Act came into force, but would now take place 10 years after. The Committee carried out a thorough, in-depth review, conducting 12 meetings, hearing from 52 witnesses and receiving 12 written briefs. The final report, which was unanimous, called for sweeping changes to the Act, in the form of 15 detailed recommendations. As of March 2021, none of these has been implemented.

In June 2017 the Centre for Free Expression (which has largely taken over the work previously carried out by FAIR) published an updated analysis of the Act, looking both at what's written in the legislation, and how it has worked in practice. Its conclusions include the following: a) the system has been completely ineffective in protecting whistleblowers b) the system has been largely ineffective in exposing government misconduct c) the system is not trusted by public servants d) the system is considered deeply flawed by international experts e) measurement and monitoring of performance has been inadequate f) Parliamentary oversight has been essentially non-existent g) the actions of successive Integrity Commissioners have undermined the system and h) the actions of successive governments have blocked examination and review of the system.

In March 2021, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and the International Bar Association (IBA) published a joint report, the result of a study of national whistleblower laws in 37 countries. Each jurisdiction was awarded a number of points out of 20, based on GAP's 20 International Best Practices for Whistleblower Policies. The highest scores achieved were 16 out of 20, awarded to the European Union, Australia, and the USA. Canada was awarded the lowest score (1 out of 20), alongside Lebanon and Norway.

References

2007 in Canadian law
Canadian federal legislation


Eugene Edward "Gene" Campbell (April 26, 1915 – April 10, 1986) was an American professor of history at Brigham Young University.

Biography
Campbell was born and raised in Tooele, Utah, in a working-class Latter-day Saint family, Edward Campbell and Betsy Ann Bowen.  When Campbell was fourteen, his father, who was a railroad engineer, died suddenly.  His mother was active in the community and her elected position as county treasurer helped the family survive the Great Depression.

Education and military service
Following his 1933 graduation from Tooele High School, his interest in sports led him to attend Snow Junior College in Ephraim, Utah.  He was not very active in sports and student government and received his Associate of Arts degree in 1935.  Then he served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Eastern Canada.  After returning home in 1937 and studying history at the University of Utah, Campbell received his bachelor's degree in history with honors in 1939 and his master's degree in 1940.

In 1939, Campbell married Beth Larsen, whom he knew in high school and had dated for seven years.  They would have five children.

After teaching LDS Seminary part-time for a year, Campbell became a full-time instructor from 1940 to 1944 in Wayne County, Utah, and Magna, Utah.

From 1944 to 1946, during World War II, Campbell served in the Chaplain Corps of the United States Army as a First Lieutenant.  He attended Chaplains School at Harvard University and was assigned to the 71st Infantry Division and received two battle stars.

After the war, Campbell returned to religious teaching in the LDS Church Educational System, this time in the church's Institutes of Religion, first as Institute director at Idaho State University in Pocatello, then as associate director at Utah State University at Logan.  Campbell completed his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in 1952, writing his dissertation on the history of the LDS Church in California.

Academic career
After completing his education, Campbell taught at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, until joining the history faculty of BYU from 1956 to 1980.  At BYU, Campbell worked in various capacities and held many positions, including the history department's acting chair (1958–59) and chair (1960–67), chair of Visiting Professor Lectureships (1965), tour leader for BYU Tours of Europe, associate director for a study abroad program (1965), board member of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies (1972–80), member of the Athletic Advisory Council, member of the Graduate Council, member of the Faculty Advisor Council, president of the BYU chapter of AAUP (1965–66), member of the board of editors for BYU Studies (1968–73), and main speaker at the 1973 and 1980 graduations of the College of Social Sciences.  He also taught history at the Church College of Hawaii, while on leave from BYU in 1967–68.

Campbell was also involved in the larger historical community.  In 1965 he was one of the co-founders of the Mormon History Association, served as its first vice president, and the next year was its second president.  He was active in the Utah State Historical Society, serving as president of its Utah Valley Chapter in 1968 and a Fellow in 1978, an honor only given to fifteen others before, including to Fawn Brodie, Leonard J. Arrington, LeRoy Hafen and Juanita Brooks.  Campbell was a member of the Danforth Associates and the Western History Association, and consulted for the National Endowment for the Humanities for many years starting in 1975.

List of publications
The following is a list of Campbell's published work:

Books

Articles

Papers

Book reviews
Eugene Campbell reviewed numerous books for various academic journals.

Notes

References
 Publisher's foreword to Establishing Zion

Further reading

Reviews of Campbell's work
Fort Bridger: Island in the Wilderness
 Davis, W. N., Jr. (January 1976). Western Historical Quarterly 7: 80.
 Murray, Robert A. (Winter 1976). Utah Historical Quarterly 44 (1): 98–99.
 Raines, Edgar Frank, Jr. (Summer 1976). Arizona and the West 18: 185–87.
 Mattes, Merrill J. (Fall 1976). Colorado Magazine 53: 380–81.

Fort Supply: Brigham Young's Green River Experiment
 Edwards, Elbert B. (Spring 1978). Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (2): 205–06.

Utah's History
 Petersen, Scott R. (August 1978). Mountainwest 4: 58.
 (June–July 1979). Frontier Times 53: 39.
 Layton, Stanford J. (September–October 1979). American West 16: 54–55.
 Smith, Melvin T. (January 1980). Western Historical Quarterly: 74–75.
 Sillito, John R. (Spring 1982). Idaho Yesterdays 26: 37–38.

Utah: A Guide to the State
 Arrington, Leonard J. (Fall 1982). BYU Studies 22: 502–04.

Establishing Zion
 (October 1, 1988). Church News (58): 13.
 Etter, Patricia A. (December 1988). Books of the Southwest (361): 9.
 Walker, Ronald W. (Spring 1989). BYU Studies 29 (2): 126–27.
 Smith, Melvin T. (Spring 1989). Utah Historical Quarterly 57 (2): 181–83.
 Pointer, Richard W. (April 1989). Pacific Northwest Quarterly 80 (2): 73.
 Parrish, William Earl (July 1989). Journal of the West 28 (3): 92.
 Sadler, Richard W. (Fall 1989). Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 22 (3): 152–154.
 Lyman, E. Leo (November 1989). Western Historical Quarterly 20 (4): 454–55.
 DePillis, Mario S. (December 1989). Journal of American History 76 (3): 933–34.
 May, Dean L. (June 1990). Sunstone 14 (3): 55–56.
 Peterson, Charles S. (July 1990). New Mexico Historical Review 65 (3): 384–85.

The Essential Brigham Young
 Guarneri, Carl. (Spring 1993). Journal of the Early Republic 13 (1): 110–12.
 Jones, Gerald E. (December 1993). Church History 62 (4): 573–74.

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Artur Taimurazovich Kusov (; born 3 May 1986) is a Russian former professional footballer.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2004 for FC Alania Vladikavkaz.

Personal life
He is the younger brother of Russian international Alan Kusov.

References

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FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players
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Living people
Men's association football forwards
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FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz players


Chang Zhenming (Simplified Chinese: 常振明), born October 1956 in Beijing, China, is the Chairman of CITIC Group and the Chairman and Managing Director of CITIC Group's Hong Kong listed subsidiary company, CITIC Pacific.

Education and early life
From 1971 to 1977, Chang Zhenming worked at the Dining Hall of the School Affairs Department at Tsinghua University. From 1979 to 1983, he studied Japanese Literature at the Beijing International Studies University, then from 1984 to 1985, he received on-job training at Daiwa Securities in Japan.

Chang Zhenming additionally holds a Master of Business Administration from the College of Insurance in New York City, United States.

Career
From 1985 to 1989, Chang Zhenming was deputy manager of the Treasury division at the China International Trust and Investment Corporation, then deputy manager of the CITIC Industrial Bank, in charge of foreign exchange and bond business.

From 1989 to 1992, Chang Zhenming was deputy representative at the CITIC's office in New York.

From October 1992 to January 1994, Chang Zhenming was vice president of the CITIC Industrial Bank, in charge of fund-raising by issuing bond in the international market, foreign exchange and securities.

From January 1994 to March 2002, Chang Zhenming was assistant president, executive director and vice-president of China Trust and Investment Corporation, in charge of establishing the securities, insurance and trust branches of CITIC, as well as non-banking financial business.

From March 2002 to July 2004, Chang Zhenming was the executive director and vice president of CITIC Group, in charge of non-financial and Hong Kong businesses.

From July 2004 to July 2006, he was vice chairman and president of the China Construction Bank.

Since July 2006, he has been the vice chairman, president, and non-executive director of the CITIC Group. At age 55, his salary is estimated at 2,220,000 USD.

Other
Chang Zhenming is a former president of International Go Federation.  He is a former professional go player, awarded 7 Professional Dan in 1982. A member of China National Team and one of the strongest Chinese players in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he took third place in 1979 New Sport Weiqi Tournament, after Nie Weiping who took first and Chen Zude who took second. He later started career in banking and finance instead of Weiqi.

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Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 (officially abbreviated as PES 2010 and known in Asia as World Soccer: Winning Eleven 2010) is the ninth football video game in the Pro Evolution Soccer series. The game was developed and published by Konami for release on Sony's PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable; Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Windows; Nintendo's Wii; and mobile phones.

PES 2010 was announced on 8 April 2009 and the playable demo for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 versions was released on 17 September 2009. The game itself was released on 23 October 2009 in Europe.

Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona and Argentine player) is a key endorsement player for PES 2010, having featured extensively throughout the promotion and development of the game. He features on the cover alongside Fernando Torres (Spanish and Liverpool F.C. player), another endorsement player. PES 2010 was succeeded by Pro Evolution Soccer 2011.

The game was released on IOS in June 2010.

Features
PES 2010 has the following features.
 PES 2010 contains improved visuals, animations and moves, including live player expressions and movements that will change according to conditions on the field. Animations of dribbling and shots on goal, as well as individual skills, have all been reworked.
 Gameplay has been made more realistic. This includes more versatile goalkeepers and greater control over penalties in terms of placing and accuracy.
 There will be an enhanced online experience: a new development team is solely dedicated to improving online play and other aspects, such as downloadable content and more updates.
 The A.I. has been improved thanks to Teamvision 2.0. Referees have been reworked to make more balanced calls during matches.
 PES 2010 introduces greater strategy control: various strategic elements, such as pass frequency and width of play, can be altered.
 The match-day atmosphere gives a better taste of home and away crowds, which will react spontaneously to all the action on the pitch.
 Master League has been enhanced. It has improved managerial aspects, resulting in an increased managerial career lifespan.
 360-degree control is introduced, available on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 versions of the game via the analog sticks on the respective controllers. PS3 owners will also benefit from this when using the DualShock's D-Pad, but the Wii D-Pad is limited to eight-directional control and the Xbox 360 D-Pad to sixteen-directional control due to their hardware.

Content
With an exclusive deal with UEFA both the UEFA Champions League and (for the first time) the UEFA Europa League are fully licensed. The tournaments are integrated into the Master League mode; however, the Europa League is only available on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions

Double Fusion signed an agreement with Konami for advertising their clients products in the game.

In total, the game includes 258 squads, with 139 of them being officially licensed. Including the empty league, the game has a total of 55 teams that can be changed completely by user editing.

Like previous versions, there is also a separate league with 18 empty teams (Team A, Team B, etc.), each of which can be edited fully. This was initially introduced when Konami failed to get the rights to the German Bundesliga. Since its introduction, it has become very popular amongst the PES community, and as a result, they are usually made into the Bundesliga or another league of one's preference by patch makers. Popular made leagues are the Liga Sagres, Belgian First Division A, Championship, EFL League One, EFL League Two Liga I, Argentine Primera División or Primera División de México, Greek Superleague and Moroccan Botola Pro.

Commentators
 Jon Champion and Mark Lawrenson provide the English commentary.
 Grégoire Margotton and Christophe Dugarry provide the French commentary.
 Wolff-Christoph Fuss and Hansi Küpper provide the German commentary.
 Jon Kabira, Tsuyoshi Kitazawa and Masahiro Fukuda  provide the Japanese commentary.
 Carlos Martínez and Julio Maldonado Maldini provide the Spanish commentary for Spain.
 Pierluigi Pardo and Jose Altafini provide the Italian commentary.
 Pedro Sousa and João Vieira Pinto provide the Portuguese commentary for Portugal.
 Christian Martinoli and Luis García provide the Spanish commentary for Latin America.

Reception

Critical response
The game has received positive reviews. Greg Howson of The Guardian gave PES 2010 a favourable review, stating, "it has quickly became obvious that on the pitch — ultimately where it matters most, of course — PES simply plays the more satisfying and entertaining game of football [in comparison to FIFA 10]. When it comes to the basic on-pitch action there looks to be a clear winner". IGN gave the game an 8.7/10, while PSM3 gave the game an 89. GameSpot, however, gave the PS3 and 360 versions a 6.5.

Other editions

World Soccer: Winning Eleven 2010 - Arcade Championship
On February 24, 2010, the latest Winning Eleven arcade title was released. Arcade Championship 2010 is the latest entry in the arcade Winning Eleven series, and a followup to Arcade Championship 2008. The game retains many of the features of that title, including nationwide online play and the ability to use PlayStation 2 controllers. PlayStation 3 controllers are supported as well, although only in some cabinets. Outside of a major leap in visuals, updates include 300 added motions, the ability to dribble in all directions, and an update in team count to around 230. New systems include the Icon Chat System for simple communication during matches, and a Real Time Player Substitution system which lets you specify player substitutions whenever you like. These systems use the game's touch screen. The game also includes a Tag Play mode. Two players can use two cabinets to control a single team together. Following the match, the game gives you a "Sychro Rate," indicating your compatibility. Konami will be holding an in-game tournament using the Competition Mode to coincide with the UEFA Champions League tournament. The schedule for the in-game tournament is being worked to match the real tournament.

World Soccer: Winning Eleven 2010 - Aoki Samurai no Chousen

On 3 February 2010, Konami announced that it will release World Soccer: Winning Eleven 2010 - Aoki Samurai no Chousen - translated to Challenge of Blue Samurai. (stylised WORLD SOCCER Winning Eleven 2010 Aoki Samurai no Chousen) in spring 2010 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii. The new title is the latest installment in the Winning Eleven series which has sold over 56 million copies (as of September 2009) worldwide. In Aoki Samurai no Chosen players can join the Japanese national team as it goes toe-to-toe against the top teams from around the world in a bid to be crowned world champion. Officially licensed by the Japan Football Association, the new release features the biggest names in Japanese soccer sporting their national team uniforms. The new title builds on the excitement generated during this official "Year of Sports" in Japan and is sure to score a major goal with soccer fans across the country. The game will be an expanded version of the current PES 2010 game having the same AI engine. The game is set to be released on May 20, 2010.

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Harry Conrad Long (13 February 1910 – 29 July 2003) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Launceston's Harry Long made his VFL debut in 1929 and was with Melbourne for most of the 1930s, including a stint as vice-captain. He was a losing preliminary finalist in his last two seasons and retired just before the club claimed their three successive premierships under Checker Hughes. A half back, he also played at Lefroy in Tasmania and in 2005 was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame.

References

Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

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Eurovision 2008 could refer to:

 Eurovision Dance Contest 2008, the second Eurovision Dance Contest that was held in September 2008
 Eurovision Song Contest 2008, the fifty-third Eurovision Song Contest that was held in May 2008
 Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008, the sixth Junior Eurovision Song Contest that was held in November 2008


Hargest may refer to:

People
 Brandon Hargest, member of Jump5 (American Christian music group)
 Brigadier James Hargest CBE
 Brittany Hargest (born August 2, 1988, in Durham, North Carolina)
 George E. Hargest (1906–1983), philatelist of Florida

Other
Hargest, New Zealand, a suburb of Invercargill, New Zealand
 James Hargest College, a large school in the suburb


The Sâne Vive (), or Sâne, is a  long river in the Ain and Saône-et-Loire départements, eastern France. Its source is at Lescheroux. It flows generally northwest. It is a left tributary of the Seille into which it flows between La Genête and Brienne.

Its main tributary is the Sâne Morte.

Départements and communes along its course
This list is ordered from source to mouth:
 Ain: Lescheroux, Saint-Nizier-le-Bouchoux, Courtes, Curciat-Dongalon,
 Saône-et-Loire: Montpont-en-Bresse, La Chapelle-Thècle, Ménetreuil, Jouvençon, La Genête, Brienne,

References

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Rivers of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Rivers of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes