Raz Meirman (; born August 15, 1977) is an Israeli model, best known as the former host of HaMerotz LaMillion, the Israeli version of the American reality show, The Amazing Race, which first aired on CBS in 2001.

Raz Meirman became famous in his young years. His first job was a model, and he was featured in worldwide pageants and contests. He also took part in Rokdim Im Kokhavim, the Israeli version of the Strictly Come Dancing / Dancing with the Stars franchise, and was eliminated before the season finale.

See also
Look (modeling agency)

References

Living people
1977 births
Israeli game show hosts
Israeli male models
Israeli television personalities
Jewish male models
Tel Aviv University alumni


Sprintermästaren (literally: "The Sprint Champion") is an annual international Group One harness event for trotters. It is held at Halmstad Racetrack in Halmstad, Sweden, and is a stakes race for 4-year-olds. The purse in the 2011 final was ≈US$288,000 (€200,000), of which the winner Orecchietti won half. The event is sometimes referred to as "Sweden's Hambletonian".

Racing conditions
From the beginning, Sprintermästaren was open only for Swedish four-year-old trotters. In 2002, the conditions were changed and the event has since then been open for foreign four-year-olds as well. The distance, one mile, has been the same since the beginning of the event in 1971. The final of the event is preceded by a number of elimination races, taking place the same day. Since 1995, the number of elimination heats has been three per year.

Past winners

Drivers with most wins
 5 - Stig H. Johansson
 5 - Örjan Kihlström
 2 - Erik Adielsson
 2 - Stefan Melander
 2 - Robert Bergh
 2 - Johnny Takter

Trainers with most wins
 6 - Stig H. Johansson
 4 - Stefan Melander
 3 - Stefan Hultman
 3 - Robert Bergh
 2 - Sören Nordin

Sires with at least two winning offsprings
 3 - Andover Hall (Brad de Veluwe, Nuncio, Perfect Spirit)
 2 - Count's Pride (Alex Pride, Gaston Pride)
 2 - Speedy Somolli (Mr Lavec, Regent Broline)
 2 - Super Arnie (Beijing Boy, Dust All Over)
 2 - Super Bowl (Active Bowler, Ultimo H.)
 2 - Tibur (Callit, Drottning Sund)

Winning stallions that have also sired winners
 Mr Lavec (1995), sire of First Lavec (2001)

Winner with lowest odds
 Winning odds: 1.24 - Charme Asserdal (1977)

Winner with highest odds
 Winning odds: 42.55 - Beijing Boy (1999)

Fastest winner (finals only)
 1:09.3 (km rate) - Uncle Lasse (2016)

All winners of Sprintermästaren

See also
 List of Scandinavian harness horse races

References

Harness races in Sweden


Jacques Picard (July 5, 1828 – June 6, 1905) was a notary and political figure in Quebec. He represented Richmond-Wolfe from 1867 to 1890 and Wolfe from 1890 to 1892 as a Conservative member in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

He was born in Sainte-Élisabeth, Lower Canada, the son of Jacques Picard and Thérèse Lebeau. Picard was educated at the Collège de l'Assomption and the Séminaire de Joliette. He qualified as a notary in 1852 and set up practice at Wotton. Picard was mayor of Wotton from 1860 to 1862 and registrar for Wolfe County from 1862 to 1867. He was also a justice of the peace, a lieutenant-colonel in the militia and served as a member of the school board and president of the Agricultural Society.

Picard was reelected to the Quebec assembly in 1871, 1875, 1878, 1881 and 1886 in Richmond-Wolfe and then in Wolfe in 1890 after the riding was split. In 1873, Picard married Orpha Généreux. He retired from politics in 1892 and became deputy minister of Agriculture. In 1896, Picard was named crown lands agent at Sherbrooke. He died in Wotton at the age of 76.

His grandson Jacques Miquelon and his great grandson André Bourbeau also served in the Quebec assembly.

References

1828 births
1905 deaths
Conservative Party of Quebec MNAs
Mayors of places in Quebec
People from Lanaudière


At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World is a short film by David Cronenberg and part of the To Each His Own Cinema anthology film.

Plot
In the film Cronenberg explores for the first time on film his Jewish identity. The short film is part of a compilation of other short films from 35 auteurs that the Cannes Film Festival commissioned for its 60th anniversary. Cronenberg plays the title character, an old man holding a gun to his head, which Maclean's Brian D. Johnson described as "Cronenberg shoots himself shooting himself." He prepares to commit suicide on television while commentators discuss Jews and cinema.

Production
Cronenberg said, "I've never thought of myself as a Philip Roth whose subject was his Jewishness, but I've never denied it." He decided to finally deal with issues involving his Jewish identity because of Hezbollah's mission statement. He said, "It's pretty interesting to hear someone say our goal is to kill every Jew in the world wherever they are. That means me and my children. It does evoke a reaction."

Reception
Stuart Klawans said that "It is, on its face, the very opposite of a Purim story, not only because the last Jew will die but because no determined enemy does him in." Scott Foundas said that Cronenberg's piece "goes so far as to presage not just the end of movies as we know them but of the people frequently credited with popularizing them."

Petter Brunette in Cannes said that it was "weirdly droll yet chilling." Todd McCarthy said that Cronenberg's short film was "Occupying a provocative, confrontational zone all its own" amongst the others in the compilation.

Cronenberg aired many opinions about the future of cinema in interviews and press conferences following his short's viewing. He said at a press session with several other directors that, "The form of cinema as we know it already is a thing of the past."

References

2007 films
Films about Jews and Judaism
Films directed by David Cronenberg
French short films
Films about suicide
2007 short films


KPFR (89.5 FM) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve Pine Grove, Wasco County, Oregon, United States.  The station, which began broadcasting in 2005, is currently owned by Family Stations, Inc. and airs several Christian ministry broadcasts from noted teachers such as RC Sproul, Alistair Begg, Ken Ham, John F. MacArthur, Adriel Sanchez, Dennis Rainey, John Piper, & others as well as traditional and modern hymns & songs by Keith & Kristyn Getty, The Master's Chorale, Fernando Ortega, Chris Rice, Shane & Shane, Sovereign Grace Music, Sara Groves, & multiple other Christian and Gospel music artists.

Programming
KPFR broadcasts a Christian radio format to the greater Portland, Oregon, area from a transmitter on Mount Hood.  A significant portion of the station's programming is provided by Family Radio.

History
This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on June 11, 2002.  The new station was assigned the call letters KPFR by the FCC on June 27, 2002.

On July 18, 2002, the Educational Media Foundation reached an agreement to transfer the construction permit for KPFR to Family Stations, Inc., as part of an elaborate settlement involving station applications in three states.  The deal was approved by the FCC on September 9, 2002, and the transaction was consummated on December 6, 2002.  KPFR received its license to cover from the FCC on June 16, 2005.

References

External links

PFR
Radio stations established in 2005
Wasco County, Oregon
Family Radio stations
2002 establishments in Oregon


Duan Zhengming, also known by his posthumous name as the Emperor Baoding of Dali, was the 14th emperor of the Dali Kingdom. In 1081, Gao Zhisheng and his son, Gao Shengtai, forced Duan Zhengming's predecessor, Duan Shouhui (Emperor Shangming), to abdicate and replaced him with Duan Zhengming. In 1094, Gao Shengtai forced Duan Zhengming to relinquish the throne to him and renamed the Dali Kingdom to "Dazhong Kingdom". Gao Shengtai ruled briefly until his death in 1096, after which the throne was returned to the Duan family – Duan Zhengming's younger brother, Duan Zhengchun, became the new ruler and restored the kingdom's former name.

In fiction

Duan Zhengming is fictionalised as a minor character in the wuxia  Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils by Louis Cha.

Dali emperors
11th-century Chinese monarchs
Chinese Buddhist monarchs
Monarchs who abdicated


Nicolas Miletitch was the editor-in-chief of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) from 2006 to June 2009.

He joined the AFP in 1977. In 1978–81, he served as a correspondent in Moscow from where he was expelled owing to his connections with dissidents. Later, he was a head of the AFP bureau in Belgrade (1988–94) and Moscow (1998–2001). In 2003, Miletitch became editor-in-chief for Europe & Africa, and from 2006 to 2009 was the editor-in-chief of the AFP. He has been appointed Moscow bureau chief in 2010.

In 1998, in his book Trafics et crimes dans les Balkans, he published his study of organized crime in the Balkans.

In 2008, he, along with Jean Crépu, made the television documentary L'Histoire Secrète de l'Archipel du Goulag. The documentary covers events related to creation and publication of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Thanks to his reputation as a man risking danger to help what was arguably a genuine resistance movement in the USSR while posted there as a journalist, Nicolas Miletitch received precious help in the making of his documentary from Solzhenitsyn himself and the "invisibles" – members of an underground network that provided precious data on the history of the camps and also helped Solzhenitsyn escape police surveillance, secretly write, make copies, conceal and smuggle the monumental manuscript of The Gulag Archipelago. These "invisibles" are the subject of the documentary.  The extensive interview granted by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for L'Histoire Secrète de l'Archipel du Goulag is his last filmed appearance.

An English language version of L'Histoire Secrète de l'Archipel du Goulag was projected during a premiere at the American University of Paris in 2010, but it has never been shown or broadcast since then.

TV documentary
 L'Histoire Secrète de l'Archipel du Goulag (online in Russian)

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
News editors
French film directors


Gao Shengtai (died 1096) was the founder and the only emperor of the short-lived Dazhong Kingdom from 1094 until his death in 1096. He was from Cang Mountain in the present-day southern Chinese province of Yunnan.

Life
In 1080, Duan Lianyi, the 12th ruler of the Dali Kingdom, was overthrown and killed by Yang Yizhen, who seized the throne from him. Gao Shengtai and his father, Gao Zhisheng, the Marquis of Shanchan (in present-day Kunming, Yunnan), led military forces to attack Yang Yizhen and defeated him. They restored the Dali monarchy by installing Duan Shouhui on the throne.

However, in 1081, Gao Zhisheng and Gao Shengtai forced Duan Shouhui to abdicate and replaced him with Duan Zhengming.

In 1094, Gao Shengtai forced Duan Zhengming to relinquish the throne to him, after which he renamed the Dali Kingdom to "Dazhong Kingdom" with the era name "Shangzhi".

Death
He died of illness in 1096. Before his death, he instructed his son, Gao Taiming, to return the throne to the Duan family. Duan Zhengchun, Duan Zhengming's younger brother, became the new ruler and he restored the kingdom's former name. In spite of this power transition, Gao Shengtai's relatives and descendants still occupied highly influential positions in the Dali Kingdom after his death. Gao Shengtai was given the posthumous name "Emperor Fuyou Shengde Biaozheng".

In fiction

Gao Shengtai is fictionalised as a minor character in the wuxia  Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils by Louis Cha.

1096 deaths
Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils
Founding monarchs
Bai people
Dali Kingdom


UNOSAT is the United Nations Satellite Centre. It is hosted at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), with the mission to promote evidence-based decision making for peace, security and resilience using geo-spatial information technologies. UNOSAT provides the United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies with satellite analysis, training and capacity development, at their request. UNOSAT also supports the UN Member States with satellite imagery analysis over their respective territories and provides them with training and capacity development in the use of geospatial information technologies.

Mandate
UNOSAT is mandated to provide United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies with satellite analysis, training and capacity development, at their request, as well as to continue supporting Member States with satellite imagery analysis over their respective territories and to provide training and capacity development in the use of geospatial information technologies.

History
UNOSAT was launched in 2001 as a project funded by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). Hosted at CERN since 2002, UNOSAT expanded its activities and the Humanitarian Rapid Mapping service was established in 2003. That same year, UNOSAT starts a partnership with the International Charter Space and Major Disasters and becomes the United Nations focal point.

UNOSAT joined UNITAR in 2009, becoming a programme unit. The same year, the rapid mapping service extends its operations to human rights contexts.

In 2014 and 2015, the offices in Nairobi, Kenya and Bangkok, Thailand are opened, both with a regional focus.

In June 2021, following the recommendation of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) passes a resolution recognizing UNOSAT as the United Nations Satellite Center.

Funding
UNOSAT is a programme of UNITAR and therefore all funding goes through the Institute. UNITAR is a project-based organization and does not receive any funds from the regular United Nations budget. The institute is financed entirely from voluntary contributions mainly from UN Member States, other UN agencies, international and Intergovernmental organization, NGOs and the private sector.

Offices
UNOSAT’s main office is hosted at the UNITAR headquarters, in Geneva (Switzerland) and benefits from an office at CERN through its historic partnership. UNOSAT is also represented in UNITAR regional offices in New York City (US), in Bangkok (Thailand), and Nairobi (Kenya). UNOSAT also manages project related offices in the Pacific: in Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands.

See also

 UNITAR
 CERN
 United Nations

References

External links
 official website
UNITAR website

Geographical technology
Remote sensing organizations
Organizations established by the United Nations
United Nations organizations based in Geneva


Torbay Heights is a suburb of the North Shore, located in Auckland, New Zealand. It is currently under local governance of Auckland Council and is situated next to Torbay.

Demographics
Torbay Heights covers  and had an estimated population of  as of  with a population density of  people per km2.

Torbay Heights had a population of 7,707 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 414 people (5.7%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 540 people (7.5%) since the 2006 census. There were 2,520 households, comprising 3,825 males and 3,882 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.99 males per female, with 1,521 people (19.7%) aged under 15 years, 1,614 (20.9%) aged 15 to 29, 3,702 (48.0%) aged 30 to 64, and 864 (11.2%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 79.7% European/Pākehā, 6.2% Māori, 2.2% Pacific peoples, 16.7% Asian, and 3.0% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 49.1, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 53.7% had no religion, 36.3% were Christian, 0.2% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.7% were Hindu, 1.1% were Muslim, 0.9% were Buddhist and 1.7% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 1,836 (29.7%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 522 (8.4%) people had no formal qualifications. 1,542 people (24.9%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 3,441 (55.6%) people were employed full-time, 936 (15.1%) were part-time, and 198 (3.2%) were unemployed.

Education
Glamorgan School is a coeducational contributing primary (years 1-6) school with a roll of  students as of  Glamorgan Kindergarten (preschool) is down the road near Glamorgan School, and has 61 students as of March 2020.

References

External links
 Glamorgan School website

Suburbs of Auckland
North Shore, New Zealand


Endrit Shala  (born 2 December 1981 in Pristina, Kosovo) is a Kosovo politician. He is a member of the NISMA. Shala is considered to be Fatmir Limaj's right hand and close political partner.

After the Kosovo War of 1999, Shala became a member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo. Shala currently serves as the Minister of Trade and Industry in the government of the Relublic of Kosova.

References

1981 births
Living people
Politicians from Pristina
Kosovo Albanians
Democratic Party of Kosovo politicians
Shala (tribe)


Group E Series Production Touring Cars was an Australian motor racing category for production based sedans competing with limited modifications. It was current from 1964 to 1972.

Although production car racing in Australia had gained momentum with the running of the first Armstrong 500 endurance race at Phillip Island in 1960, no national guidelines for this type of racing existed until 1 January 1964 when the Group E regulations were introduced by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as part of a major review of Australian motor sport categories. Vehicles racing in Group E had to be one of at least 1000 units which had been produced in 12 months and could compete only with strictly limited modifications. The rules were framed to cater for cars such as those that had been contesting the Armstrong 500 (which had moved from Phillip Island to the Mount Panorama Circuit at Bathurst in 1963), although that race continued to run under its own regulations which at the time limited the field to Australian built cars only. From 1967 the minimum production requirement for Group E was changed to 5000 units produced internationally or 500 produced and/or sold in Australia.

In 1969 Group E cars were eligible to compete in the Australian Touring Car Championship alongside the more highly modified Group C Improved Production Touring Cars for the first time. The local market component of the eligibility rules for Group E was relaxed in 1970 such that models of which 200 units had been sold in Australia within 12 months were now eligible.  The annual Hardie Ferodo 500 endurance race at Bathurst continued to be run under regulations differing from Group E, with the former still being more restrictive in terms of permitted modifications. For 1971 CAMS introduced the Australian Manufacturers' Championship title which was to be contested over a series of endurance races for Group E cars and the Hardie Ferodo 500 was included in this series for the first time in 1972. By this time the eligibility rules had been changed again with a vehicle now accepted if it was one of 200 manufactured or assembled in Australia or if it was a recognised FIA Group 1 Touring Car of which at least 100 units had been sold in Australia.

In 1973 CAMS replaced both Group E and Group C with a new Group C Touring Car category which specified a level of modifications between those applicable in the two superseded classes. The Australian Touring Car Championship, Australian Manufacturers' Championship and the Bathurst endurance race would all be run to the new Group C rules from that year.

Production car racing in Australia was revived in 1981 when CAMS introduced regulations for "Group E Series Production Cars", officially redesignated to its current "Group 3E Series Production Cars" name in 1988.

References

External links
Images of Group E cars contesting the 1972 Hardie Ferodo 500 at Bathurst Retrieved from www.autopics.com.au on 7 April 2009

Motorsport categories in Australia


Kwon Soon-Hyung (, born June 16, 1986) is a South Korean football player who currently plays for Seongnam FC.

He was called AN Global on January 1, 2019.

On November 18, 2008, Kwon was as one of sixteen priority member, join Gangwon FC. He played first pro league game in Incheon, April 5, 2009, but team was defeated by Incheon United.

After finishing his contract with Gangwon, Kwon joined Jeju United on December 14, 2011.

Club career statistics

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
South Korean men's footballers
Gangwon FC players
Jeju United FC players
Gimcheon Sangmu FC players
Seongnam FC players
K League 1 players
K League 2 players
Men's association football midfielders


Kjell Egil Eimhjellen (20 October 1928 – 23 July 2023) was a Norwegian microbiologist.

Eimhjellen took the siv.ing. degree at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1953, and studied at Stanford University from 1957 to 1959. From 1960 to 1996 he worked at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, except for stays at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1969 to 1970 and 1980 to 1981. He started as a lecturer, but was promoted to professor. He was dean of the Department of Chemistry from 1975 to 1977, and deputy rector of the university from 1984 to 1990, under rector Dag Kavlie.

Eimhjellen was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.

Egil Eimhjellen resided in Ranheim. He died on 23 July 2023, at the age of 94.

References

1928 births
2023 deaths
Norwegian microbiologists
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Norwegian Institute of Technology
Norwegian expatriates in the United States
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences


Roberto Contreras (1928–2000) was an American actor best known for playing Pedro in the TV western series The High Chaparral. His film and television career spanned nearly 40 years from 1954 to 1993, including featured roles in Topaz and Scarface.

He played the bartender in “Heritage of Anger” S2 E37 of Have Gun Will Travel 6-6-59.

The son of director Jaime Contreras, he was born on December 12, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. He is also the father of actor Luis Contreras. Contreras died on July 18, 2000, in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

La rebelión de los colgados (1954)
En carne viva (1954)
The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956) - Carlos (uncredited)
The Black Scorpion (1957) - Chumacho (uncredited)
Ride a Violent Mile (1957) - Abruzo (uncredited)
The Flame Barrier (1958) - Village Indian
The Badlanders (1958) - Pepe (uncredited)
Holiday for Lovers (1959) - Policeman (uncredited)
The Miracle (1959) - Knife Grinder (uncredited)
The Magnificent Seven (1960) - Villager (uncredited)
Gold of the Seven Saints (1961) - Armenderez, Gondora Gunman
California (1963) - Lt. Sanchez
Rio Conchos (1964) - Mexican at Corral (uncredited)
Mara of the Wilderness (1965) - Friday
Brainstorm (1965) - Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
Marriage on the Rocks (1965) - Assistant (uncredited)
Alvarez Kelly (1966) - Sanchez (uncredited)
The Appaloosa (1966) - Flacco the Pulqueria Bartender (uncredited)
The Professionals (1966) - Bandit (uncredited)
Chubasco (1967) - Wheelman (uncredited)
The Last Challenge (1967) - Hotelero (uncredited)
Topaz (1969) - Muñoz
El extraño caso de Rachel K (1973)
Pets (1973) - The Gardener
Cantata de Chile (1976)
Black Samurai (1977) - Chavez
The Dark (1979) - Max
The Day Time Ended (1979) - Gas station attendant
Barbarosa (1982) - Cantina Owner
Scarface (1983) - Emilio Rebenga
Blue City (1986) - Hot Dog Vendor
The Underachievers (1987) - Hispanic Man
Blood In, Blood Out (1993) - Cruz's Grandfather (final film role)

References

External links

 The High Chaparral Home Page

1928 births
2000 deaths
American male television actors
Male actors from St. Louis
20th-century American male actors


Adrian Thomas is Emeritus Professor of Music at Cardiff University School of Music. He specializes in Polish Music.

Academic career

Thomas began his professional career at Queen's University Belfast in 1973. Between 1983 and 1984, he was a visiting fellow at University of California, San Diego, and after his return to Queen’s University he became the Hamilton Harty Professor of Music in 1985. He held this position until 1996, when he took up his role at Cardiff University. He retired in 2010.

In addition to this, in 1983, 1986 and 1987, he held composition fellowships at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. Between 2003 and 2006, Thomas was the Professor of Music at Gresham College in London.

Public career

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Thomas conducted concerts with the Ulster Orchestra and contemporary music ensembles such as Lontano. In the 1980s he had several compositions broadcast by BBC Radio 3, including a commission for the BBC Singers, Black Rainbow (1989). In 1990-93 he was seconded by Queen’s University to the BBC, to become the Head of Music for BBC Radio 3, where, in 1993, he initiated the music and arts festival, Polska!, a nationwide celebration of Polish music and culture.

Between 2003 and 2006, as Gresham Professor of Music, Thomas delivered series of public lectures on Polish and Central European music. He was subsequently elected a Fellow of Gresham College (2006–09) and Emeritus Professor in 2009.

He has served on public committees and boards at the Arts Councils in Northern Ireland and Wales and on the Research Panel for the Performing Arts at the Arts and Humanities Research Board (2000–03).

Academic interests

Adrian Thomas is a specialist on Polish music and has published widely on the topic. He has given research papers, public talks and broadcasts in Europe, the USA and Australia. He is the author of over fifty entries on twentieth-century Polish music in the Second Edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2000–01). For his 1997 book, Górecki, Thomas received the Wilk Book Prize for Research in Polish Music (2002). He has received awards from the Polish Composers' Union (1989), the Polish Government (Order of Merit for Polish Culture, 1996) and the Lutosławski Society in Warsaw (2005).

Books

 Witold Lutosławski: Cello Concerto (Ashgate, in preparation),
 Polish Music since Szymanowski (Cambridge: CUP, 2005), )
 Górecki (Oxford: OUP, 1997), )
 Bacewicz: Chamber and Orchestral Music (Los Angeles: USC, 1985), )

External links
 Webpage at Cardiff University
 Adrian Thomas's Lectures at Gresham College
 Adrian Thomas's webpage (since 2011)

20th-century classical composers
Academics of Cardiff University
BBC executives
Living people
Professors of Gresham College
Year of birth missing (living people)
Male classical composers
20th-century male musicians


Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion is the title of the August 25, 2008 live CD/DVD release by San Francisco-based rock band Thee Oh Sees. Recorded during their Sucks Blood era in 2007, the performances include songs from previous albums, as well as others that were unreleased at the time. Some of those that had not appeared on any album were later reworked for 2008's The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In, here performed in the more subdued psychedelic folk manner which characterized the band's sound during this period. This album was the final appearance of percussionist Patrick Mullins, who left the band after "Sucks Blood".

The live footage on the DVD was filmed over the course of four days in San Francisco. It features the band performing in mostly unconventional locales, such as on the shoulder of a highway and near the beach. The video footage was directed by Brian Lee Hughes.

Release
The first issue of the album was released by Tomlab as a CD/DVD set.. In 2009, HBSP-2X (now known as Captcha Records) issued the album on vinyl in yellow (limited to 300 copies), green, white, and black.

In 2011, Burger Records released a series of cassette tapes by Thee Oh Sees that contained two full-length albums on each cassette. Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion was paired with Dog Poison from 2009. Like the others, it was limited to 300 copies.

Track listing
Gilded Cunt
Island Raiders
Ship
Block of Ice
Curtains
Dumb Drums
We Are Free
Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion
Make Them Kiss
Golden Phones
If I Had a Reason
Highland Wife's Lament
Dreadful Heart
Ghost in the Trees
Iceberg
Second Date

Song appearances
 Tracks 11, 13, and 16 originally appeared on 3 & 4
 Tracks 1, 2, 6, and 7 originally appeared on The Cool Death Of Island Raiders
 Tracks 3, 10 and 15 originally appeared on Sucks Blood
 Track 9 originally appeared on Demos - EP
 Tracks 5, 8, and 12 made their first appearances on this album.
 Tracks 4 and 14 were modified and later appeared on Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In

Credits
Petey Dammit - Guitar
Brigid Dawson - vocals
John Dwyer - vocals, guitar
Patrick Mullins - drums, percussion, saw

Personnel
Brian Lee Hughes - director

References

Oh Sees albums
2008 live albums


Victor Robert (1822 – January 25, 1885) was a farmer, carpenter and political figure in Quebec. He represented Rouville in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to 1878 as a Liberal. His name also appears as Victor Robert, dit Lafontaine.

He was born in Chambly, Lower Canada, the son of Jean-Baptiste Robert, dit Lafontaine and Marie-Anne Tifault. He established himself at Marieville. Robert served as justice of the peace, member of the municipal council and mayor of Marieville. In 1846, he married Euphrasie Désautels. Robert was defeated when he ran for reelection to the Quebec assembly in 1878 and 1881. He died at Marieville in 1885.

His son Joseph-Edmond also represented Rouville in the Quebec assembly.

References

1822 births
1885 deaths
Quebec Liberal Party MNAs
Mayors of places in Quebec
Canadian justices of the peace


Shahed Ahmed (; born 13 September 1985) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Sporting Bengal United.

Background
Ahmed was born in Tower Hamlets, East London, and is of Bangladeshi descent.

Playing career
After beginning as a youth player at Wimbledon, Ahmed signed a professional contract with Wycombe Wanderers in 2004. He made four appearances in The Football League for Wycombe, scoring one goal in the 2–0 victory against Kidderminster Harriers in August 2004. He also made one appearance in other competitions, before leaving in 2005.

Ahmed later played non-league football with Wingate & Finchley, where he made 17 league appearances.

Ahmed's Bangladeshi roots and British residency, means that he can play for either Bangladesh or England. In January 2010, he was targeted by the Bangladesh Football Federation to represent Bangladesh at the 2010 South Asian Games; he was unable to do so due to his exams.

In February 2011, Ahmed joined Sporting Bengal United in the Essex Senior Football League, where he later became club captain.

Personal life
In 2004, at the time of his move to Wycombe, Ahmed commented: "You do not see too many Asian players in football because they need to make a breakthrough. Other sports, such as cricket and squash, are more popular with the Asian community and parents do not encourage their children to play and watch football."

Ahmed is Muslim and fasts during Ramadan. He also changes his diet and adapts his training around his fasting.

References

External links

1985 births
Living people
English Muslims
English people of Bangladeshi descent
British Asian footballers
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Wimbledon F.C. players
Wycombe Wanderers F.C. players
Wingate & Finchley F.C. players
Sporting Bengal United F.C. players
English Football League players
Footballers from East Ham


Edmond Dyonnet  (1859-1954) was a landscape painter, portraitist and photographer, He was born French and a naturalised Canadian. He taught numerous students in Quebec province and was an academician and secretary of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1910-1947), author of a history of the Academy with Hugh Jones in 1934, and a charter member of Montreal’s Arts Club in 1912.

Biography
He was born on 25 June 1859 in Crest, Drôme, France, to Ulysses-Alexandre Dyonnet, industrialist, and Goullioud Albine. The real family name is Guyonnet de Pivat but due to an error of births during the French Revolution, the surname became Dyonnet. Edmond died in Montreal on 7 July 1954, at age 95. He was buried with his family in the cemetery of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, in Montreal.

Edmond had two younger sisters, Emma Dyonnet, wife Lorin (1866–1947) and Clémence Dyonnet, wife Chabot (18? -1905). Ulysses, the father of Edmond, had an older brother Leon Dyonnet Goullioud who married Helen, the sister of Albine. Leon Dyonnet made a fortune in corsets for women in association with Amyot from 1886 to 1891 and set up the Dominion Corset company, rue de la Couronne in Quebec City. The couple had a daughter artist, cousin of Edmond Dyonnet: Eugénie Dyonnet, who immigrated to Canada in 1872 and died in 1875 in Montreal.

Edmond Dyonnet was born in Drôme in 1859, and at 9 years old, he followed his father and immigrated to Italy, he continued his primary education in Turin, from 1868 to 1873, in municipal schools and then returned to France with his family in the Drôme. He studied at Crest high school from 1873 to 1875. His father Ulysses met in Paris the brother of Judge George Baby who convinced him to emigrate to Quebec.

On May 16, 1875, the family emigrated to Canada. In 1882, Dyonnet moved to Labelle, Quebec in the Laurentian mountains. The village was founded by Father Antoine Labelle. Ulysses Dyonnet was a pioneer; he cleared land and resumed two mills, a sawmill and a flour mill. The timber industry was thriving. Using the north Rouge River (Quebec) for transportation of the wood, it was then sawed at the family business in Labelle, located near the Iroquois Falls. The trade was intense and the family expanded.

The young Edmond stayed in Montreal, where he studied drawing at the National Institute of Fine Arts from 1875 to 1881. One of his teachers was Abbé Joseph Chabert (1831–1894). In 1882, he returned to Italy and studied painting at the Accademia Albertina in Turin with Andrea Gastaldi and Pier Celestino Gilardi. After Turin, he did a complete tour of Italy and then went to Naples in 1883 and to Rome at the Villa Medici in 1884.

When he returned to Canada in 1890, Edmond settled in Montreal and taught in the school founded by Abbé Joseph Chabert. In 1899, he went to paint in the Gaspé, in the Laurentians and in Berthier-sur-Mer. Not much is known about his personal life. Edmond Dyonnet never married and had no children. At the turn of the century, he supported his sister Emma, widow of Ernest Lorin who died in February 1899. His father Ulysses died the following year in 1900. Edmond raised his three nephews and nieces, Alice Lorin (1886–1907), Gabrielle Lorin (1897–1985) and Louis Gustave Lorin (1898–1956). Dyonnet was interested in many things and never stopped reading books. The nonagenarian was said to go outside daily, only prevented by the worst of the winter storms in Montreal. At his death, his niece Gabrielle Lorin inherited and donated all the archives in 1967 to the University of Ottawa.

Activities

Edmond Dyonnet was famous as a landscape painter and portraitist, especially among the wealthy and cultivated citizens of Montreal. Judges, doctors, and community leaders all ordered their portraits. He was one of the founders of the School of Fine Arts with Alfred Laliberté and Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté. He taught there from 1922 to 1925, and also became professor of drawing at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, at the Conseil des Arts et Métiers of  Quebec, and at McGill University (1920–1936).

He trained thousands of students including Narcisse Poirier, Clarence Gagnon, Thomas Garside, Alexander Young Jackson, Marc-Aurèle Fortin and Jack Bush. He never tolerated mediocrity, nor half finished work. He frequently used to say "Rub it out and do it over again."

He was a member of the Art Association of Montreal.  In 1893 he became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and became its Secretary from 1910 to 1947. He was also a member of the Pen and Pencil Club, and a member of the Arts Club. He lived a long time in Montreal at 1207 Bleury Street.

Although he was French by birth, he didn't want to stay only in the French-Canadian community so he learned and spoke perfect English. His reputation expanded in the English-speaking environment. Most of his friends were on the English side. He never painted religious paintings, although Quebec was very influenced by Catholicism.

Dyonnet's work is varied and numerous, distributed in many private collections and museums. There is yet no inventory of his work. He preferred the portraits to landscapes. His inspirations were Nicolas Poussin and Claude Gellée (also known under the name Le Lorrain), two great painters of the seventeenth century. He never really appreciated Impressionism and criticized Vincent van Gogh at the end of his life.

He received a silver medal at the Buffalo exposition in 1901 and also at the Canadian exhibition at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. France made him an Officier d'académie  Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1910.

In 1968, the University of Ottawa published his autobiography, Memoirs of a Canadian artist.

Works in museums
Several Canadian museums own his paintings and drawings. In Montréal they can be seen in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and in the collection of the Power Corporation of Canada. In Ottawa the National Gallery of Art and the Canadian War Museum both own works by Dyonnet. In Toronto (Ontario) his works can be seen in the Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as in Kingston, Ontario at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, and in Victoria (British Columbia) in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Notes

External links
 List of Canadian painters
 Charles Ignace Adélard Gill
 George Horne Russell

Bibliography
 Edmond Dyonnet, Mémoires d'un artiste canadien, 1968, Éditions de l'Université d'Ottawa
 Noël E. Lanoix, « Edmond Dyonnet », dans Les biographies françaises d'Amérique, Montréal, Les journalistes associés éditeurs, 1942, 640 p., p. 583.

1859 births
1954 deaths
People from Crest, Drôme
French emigrants to Canada
Canadian male painters
20th-century Canadian painters
19th-century Canadian painters
19th-century Canadian photographers
20th-century Canadian photographers
19th-century Canadian male artists
20th-century Canadian male artists
Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery


Diplomatic relations between Germany and Romania began in 1880, when, following the Congress of Berlin, the German Empire recognized the independence of the Romanian United Principalities.

Romania joined the Axis powers in November 1940, but following the coup d'état of August 1944 switched sides and fought side by side with the Soviets until the Red Army reached Berlin. Between 1967 and 1989, Germany invested an estimated billion German Marks to ransom the Germans of Romania, permitting a total of 226,654 Germans to leave Communist Romania.

There is a German international school in Bucharest, Deutsche Schule Bukarest. Romania has the Romanian Cultural Institute "Titu Maiorescu" in Berlin.
Both countries are full members of the European Union and NATO.

Germany's main European ally (September 1943 - August 1944)

After the September 1943 Armistice of Cassibile with Italy, Romania became the second Axis Power in Europe. The Romanians shared in the spoils of Operation Achse, Regia Marina's 5 CB-class midget submarines in the Black Sea being transferred to the Romanian Navy. Romania also captured 496 Italians, mostly naval personnel (2 of them later died). Before the month was out, Germany had agreed to systematically supply the Romanian Army with German military vehicles, via the Olivenbaum I-III and Quittenbaum I programs. Deliveries started in November 1943, and by August 1944, Germany had supplied Romania with 10 times more armored vehicles (Panzer III, Panzer IV, and Sturmgeschütz III) than during the entire pre-Cassibile period. Having acquired the license to produce the Messerschmitt Bf 109, Romania planned to assemble 75 from German parts. Deliveries began in May 1944, but only 6 were completed before Romania left the Axis in August 1944. Eleven more were completed by the end of the war with the remaining 58 completed after the war. In 1944, Romania had also gained access to certain Wunderwaffen, such as the Werfer-Granate 21. The first Romanian-made Fiesler Storch was completed in October 1943, followed by 9 more by May 1944. From March 1944, Germany also contributed to the design and construction of the M-05 and M-06 prototypes of the Mareșal tank destroyer: Alkett contributed to the Romanian design team and Telefunken radios along with Böhler armor were provided. The 75 mm Reșița gun (production started at the end of 1943) used the projectile chamber of the German Pak 40. Technology transfers between the two countries were not necessarily one-way, however. On 6 January 1944, Antonescu showed Hitler the plans of the M-04 prototype of the Mareșal tank destroyer. In May 1944, Lieutenant-Colonel Ventz from the Waffenamt acknowledged that the Hetzer had followed the Romanian design. German-led Army Group South Ukraine could not take major operational decisions without securing Ion Antonescu's approval, even as late as 22 August 1944 (the day before he was dismissed). An entire German army (the 6th) came under Romanian command in May 1944, when it became part of Romanian general Petre Dumitrescu's Armeegruppe. For the first time in the war, German commanders came under the actual (rather than nominal) command of their foreign allies. This Romanian-led army group had 24 divisions of which 17 were German.

Resident diplomatic missions

 Germany has an embassy in Bucharest and consulates-general in Sibiu and Timișoara.
 Romania has an embassy in Berlin and consulates-general in Bonn, Munich, and Stuttgart.

European Union
While Germany was one of the founding members of the EU, Romania joined the EU in 2007.

See also
 Foreign relations of Germany
 Foreign relations of Romania
 German Military Mission in Romania
 List of ambassadors of Germany to Romania
 Romanians in Germany
 Germans of Romania

References

External links
Bilateral relations on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania

Romania
Bilateral relations of Romania


Agbado may refer to some places in Africa:

Benin
Agbado, Benin, a village in Collines Department

Nigeria
Agbado, Ekiti, a village in Ekiti State
Agbado, Kogi (or Agbedde), a village in Kogi State
Agbado-Oke Odo, a Local Council of Ifako-Ijaiye, a suburban city-district of Lagos
Agbadi, a village in Benue State


Wojciech Fibak was the defending champion but lost in the final 6–1, 6–1 to Brian Gottfried.

Seeds

  Brian Gottfried (champion)
  Wojciech Fibak (final)
  Sandy Mayer (semifinals)
  Corrado Barazzutti (second round)
  Balázs Taróczy (quarterfinals)
  Jan Kodeš (first round)
  Víctor Pecci (first round)
  Bob Hewitt (quarterfinals)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

External links
 1977 Fischer-Grand Prix Draw

Singles


Team Unique is a senior-level synchronized skating team from Helsinki, Finland, representing the figure skating club Helsingfors Skridskoklubb (HSK). Established in 1993 and competing at the senior level since 1996, Team Unique are the 2013 world champions, 2009 world silver medalists and the 2013 and 2016 Finnish champions. Currently, they are ranked seventh in the world by the International Skating Union. The team's home club, HSK, is also the home club to the junior team Team Mystique.

History
Team Unique were established in 1993 and have competed at the senior level since 1996. Until the 2008–09 season, they stood out from the other Finnish top senior teams by having a few male skaters. Head-coached by Mirjami Penttinen since 2000, the team have a long history from the early 2000s of placing third behind Marigold IceUnity and Rockettes at the two Finnish Championships Qualifiers and Finnish Championships.

By placing second or first at the national competitions and so beating Rockettes, Team Unique qualified as Team Finland 2 to the World Championships in 2002, 2003 and 2007, placing sixth, fourth and fifth, respectively, and in 2009, earning silver. The 2012–13 season was, however, historical for the team in terms of competition results – before winning the 2013 World Championships, they won Finlandia Trophy, the Cup of Berlin, the French Cup, the Second Finnish Championships Qualifier and the Finnish Championships. Team Unique's success continued abroad through the 2013–14 season as they won Finlandia Trophy and Leon Lurje Trophy and took their fourth straight victory at the French Cup. However, they placed second at both the national Qualifiers and third at the Finnish Championships, and consequently, did not qualify for the 2014 World Championships, under the season's coefficients on the three national competitions.

Programs

Competition results (1998–2008)

Competition results (2008–20)

Programs

Media appearances
Team Unique performed on the season one of the Finnish Dancing on Ice on 2 November 2013. They also appeared as background skaters in the December 2013 music video for "Selvästi päihtynyt" by Finnish pop singer Jenni Vartiainen.

References

External links
 Official website of Team Unique

Senior synchronized skating teams
Sports clubs and teams in Finland
Figure skating in Finland
Sports clubs and teams in Helsinki
World Synchronized Skating Championships medalists
1993 establishments in Finland


Communauté de communes des Trois Rivières ("association of communes of the three rivers") may refer to the following associations in France:

Communauté de communes des Trois Rivières, Aisne
Communauté de communes des Trois Rivières, Calvados
Communauté de communes des Trois Rivières, Côtes-d'Armor
Communauté de communes des Trois Rivières, Eure-et-Loir
Communauté de communes des Trois Rivières, Marne
Communauté de communes des Trois Rivières, Morbihan
Communauté de communes des Trois Rivières, Seine-Maritime
Communauté de communes des Trois Rivières, Vosges


Pin Heel Stomp is an EP that was released November 30, 1997 by The 5.6.7.8's. "The Barracuda" is featured in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Soundtrack.

Track listing
 "Pin Heel Stomp"
 "Dance in the Avenue A"
 "Arkansas Twists"
 "Hey! Mashed Potato, Hey!"
 "Spell Stroll"
 "The Barracuda"

References

1997 albums
The 5.6.7.8's albums


Little Red Riding Hood () is a 1920 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Svatopluk Innemann.

Cast
Ludmila Innemannová as Grandmother
Zdena Kavková as Karkulka Podhorská
Josef Zora as Father
Arnošta Záhoříková as Mother
František Beranský as Jirka
Josef Rovenský as Wizard
Karel Noll as Night watch Vrána
Eman Fiala as Cobbler Smůla
Karel Hruška as Tailor Nitka
Antonín Frič as Reeve
Jan W. Speerger as Forester Dubský

References

External links

1920 films
1920s Czech-language films
1920 drama films
Czechoslovak black-and-white films
Films based on Little Red Riding Hood
Czech silent films
Czech black-and-white films
Czechoslovak drama films
Silent drama films


Andrew "Andy" Roland Rein (born March 11, 1958) is an American former wrestler who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics, for the United States. Rein was born in Stoughton, Wisconsin. In 1984, he won the silver medal in the freestyle 68 kg competition. In 2022, Rein was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.

References

External links

1958 births
Living people
Wrestlers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
American male sport wrestlers
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in wrestling
People from Stoughton, Wisconsin
Sportspeople from Dane County, Wisconsin
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games medalists in wrestling
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Wrestlers at the 1979 Pan American Games
20th-century American people
21st-century American people


Kinetik Control is a Finnish rock band formed in 2004 by the composer and lyricist Sauli Vuoti. The band's sound used to incorporate electronic elements to rock and pop music, but nowadays the music is more pop oriented. Kinetik Control has released eight singles, one EP and three albums. Kinetik Control's most known songs are "The Mutt", "No-One Knows About Us", "Give A Little Love", "All Fours" and "Chinese Medicine", which featured Michael Monroe as a guest musician.

History

Enslaving the Audio (2006)
The group's first EP, Enslaving the Audio, was recorded in Oulu at Q-Studio and in the group's own Studio Kinetik during winter 2006. The EP was mixed and mastered by Mikko Karmila at Finnvox-studios. The musical style on the EP can be described as pop/rock with gothic influences. In contrast to the original plans, the EP was released in electronic format only, although a limited edition of 100 copies was pressed. However, the EP brought some raised eyebrows in Europe as Metal Hammer (UK) chose the group as the newcomer of the month in October 2007.

Lack of Divine Inspiration (2007–2008)
After the positively received EP, Tweak and Dexter begun writing new material for their debut album, Lack of Divine Inspiration. In 2007 Kinetik Control inked a deal with Bonnier Amigo Music Group and the recordings of the debut album, Lack of Divine Inspiration, were initiated in October 2007. The album was recorded in Studio Kinetik and in Finnvox-studios. The album was released in Finland in May 2008.

The song "Vanguard of the New World" was released as a single on 18 November and on its release week it topped both the Official Finnish Download Chart and the Official Finnish Single Chart. A music video for the song was also filmed. In Autumn 2008 the band made a distributing contract with CMM Marketing / Enorm Music and Lack of Divine Inspiration was released in Europe 28 October 2008. During the latter part of the year 2008 the band played shows extensively in Finland.

2009-2010
Kinetik Control finished the recordings of the new album Only Truth Remains in October 2009. The album was mixed by Jyrki Tuovinen at Fried Music in Helsinki and it was mastered by Svante Forsbäck. Michael Monroe appears as a special guest on the album, performing on several songs.

The first single of the album, "In This Life" was released in April 2010, and it went directly on the 4th position of the Finnish Download Chart. In August 2010 the band released the second single "All Fours", as a free download on the web pages of one of the largest TV-stations of Finland, MTV3. The second album Only Truth Remains was released on 29 November and it entered the official Finnish album chart and conquered the first place of the independent music chart. The album got good reviews, for example 5/5 in the largest music magazine in Finland, Soundi. The second single "All Fours" stayed on Swedish Radio's Finska Pinnar program's chart for ten weeks in a row. Kinetik Control also toured Finland extensively during the first part of 2011.

2011-2013
Kinetik Control started to record their third album Live To Work And Work To Die in late 2011. The band toured in Finland and Central Europe extensively in 2011–2012. The album was produced by AH Haapasalo. The album was released in April 2013, in Finland by Toyboyz and in the United States Of America by Water Music Records. The album was the first, where the band shortened their name simply to Kinetik. The album entered the official Finnish album chart, but the entry was later removed, because the distribution of the album did not meet the criteria of the official chart in terms of being available in a required amount of different record stores. Distribution of the album was initially done exclusively with Recordshop X and CDON.com and was only sold from their outlets, which made it impossible to meet the criteria. The band had a highly notable, nationwide advertising campaign in cooperation with Verkkokauppa.com, and also performed live in acoustic in the Finnish national TV-channel Yle Fem. Two singles were released from the album, "Heaven's Disgrace" and "True Love Is Hard To Find". The band also filmed a music video of the song "Give A Little Love".

2014
In 2014 the band started a break after performing live at NAMM and Popkomm among others. In September 2015, the band announced a concert booking deal with My Music Agency. The band announced that they would start using the original, full name Kinetik Control again.

2018
In 2018, the band released a new single "Last Choice", and announced that it was working with on new music. The band now presented itself as a trio. The music on the new single was electronic in the vein of the debut album, but with more pop sensibility.

Members
 Sauli Vuoti – vocals, guitar, synthesizer
 Harri Hytönen – guitar

Discography

Studio albums
 Lack of Divine Inspiration (2008)
 Only Truth Remains (2010)
 Live To Work And Work To Die (2013)

Mini albums
 Enslaving the Audio (2006)

Singles

Music videos
 Vanguard of the New World (2008, directed by Ahti Ahde)

The music video for the song “Vanguard of the New World” was directed by Ahti Ahde. The video was shot in Helsinki during spring 2008. The theme of the video follows closely the subjects of the record and the lyrics, namely the grip of money and power over the modern day man.

 All Fours (2010, directed by Tuukka Lappalainen)

The music video for the song “All Fours” was directed by Tuukka Lappalainen. The video was shot in Helsinki during winter 2010.

 Give A Little Love (2013, directed by Valtteri Hirvonen)

The music video for the song "Give A Little Love" was directed by Valtteri Hirvonen. The video was shot in Helsinki during winter 2013.

References

External links
The official webpage of Kinetik Control
The official MySpace-page of Kinetik Control
Kinetik Control on Last.fm site
Kinetik Control on Vampirefreaks site
Kinetik Control on CMM-marketing site
Kinetik Control on Trig site

Finnish rock music groups
Musical groups from Helsinki
2004 establishments in Finland
Musical groups established in 2004


Biblioteca Municipal de Guayaquil (Guayaquil Municipal Library) is a public library in Guayaquil, Ecuador and is operated by the municipal government.

External links
 Biblioteca Municipal de Guayaquil

Libraries in Ecuador
Buildings and structures in Guayaquil


Joseph Garon (May 8, 1814 – October 17, 1890) was a notary and political figure in Quebec. He represented Rimouski in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to 1871 as a Conservative.

He was born in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada, the son of Régis Garon and Marie-Louise Hudon dit Beaulieu. He qualified as a notary in 1835 and set up practice in Rimouski. In 1846, Garon married Éliza Garon, the daughter of another notary. He was one of the directors of the mutual fire assurance company for Rimouski, Témiscouata and Kamouraska counties. Garon ran unsuccessfully to represent Rimouski in the legislative assembly of the Province of Canada in 1854, 1858 and 1861 and he was defeated when he ran for reelection to the Quebec assembly in 1871. He died in Montreal at the age of 76.

References

1814 births
1890 deaths
Conservative Party of Quebec MNAs


The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In is the seventh studio album by San Francisco-based rock band Thee Oh Sees. The album was the first to be released under the name "Thee Oh Sees", after the band had previously been known as "OCS", "The Ohsees", and "The Oh Sees". It is their seventh studio album overall.

Background
Their previous album, Sucks Blood, already used the name "Thee Oh Sees" on the interior of both CD and vinyl releases, while the exterior continued to use the name "The OhSees".

This album seems to get its title from The master's bedroom, it's worth spending a night there, a 1920 painting by surrealist Max Ernst. Additionally, the phrase is a line in the Mekons song "Hostile Mascot," from their album Retreat From Memphis.

This album marked the first appearance of Mike Shoun, the drummer that joined the band following the departure of previous drummer, Patrick Mullins. Shoun's arrival marked a change in the band's sound. John Dwyer noted that his style "brought it up to a more party thing". The change in style can be observed in Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion, which was recorded prior to the creation of The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In (both were released in 2008). The songs "Block of Ice" and "Ghost In The Trees" appear on both releases, but the latter performances on The Master's Bedroom... are faster and more rock-oriented. "Two Drummers Disappear" also features Chris Woodhouse as second drummer. Woodhouse was the mix engineer for the twelve of the songs on the album that were recorded in San Francisco. The remaining three tracks, "Graveyard Drug Party", "Maria Stacks", and "You Will See This Dog Before You Die", were recorded in New York City with mix engineers Dave Sitek (of TV on the Radio) and Chris Moore. Jigmae Baer was the drummer for these three tracks, rather than Mike Shoun.

The songs were influenced by a variety of artists, including Adam and the Ants ("Visit Colonel"), Taj Mahal ("Poison Finger"), and Pink Floyd's "The Scarecrow" ("Graveyard Drug Party"). "Ghost In The Trees" was adapted from "Putrifiers" by Yikes, one of Dwyer's previous bands. He would later allude to this work againh with 2012's album Putrifiers II. "Block Of Ice" was heavily influenced by Red Krayola's song "Hurricane Fighter Plane" as well as Malcolm Mooney's work with Can. "Block Of Ice" had also appeared on the album Deuteronomy by The Intelligence in 2007. The two bands had toured together, and The Intelligence recorded their cover of the song before John Dwyer had recorded a studio version with his own band. Lars Finberg, the leader of The Intelligence, would later go on to join Thee Oh Sees as second drummer and second guitarist in 2011.

Release
The vinyl pressings of the album have been made in different colors. The initial pressing by Tomlab in 2008 was on purple vinyl, and the second was on black vinyl. In 2010, In The Red Records issued two different pressings. One was a traditional black series, and the other was a limited pressing on clear blue vinyl.

In 2011, Burger Records released a series of cassette tapes by Thee Oh Sees that contained two full-length albums on each cassette. The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In was paired with the following album Help for this series.

Artwork
The cover art was created by William Keihn, who has contributed the cover art to other Thee Oh Sees' albums. Keihn also created the art for Ty Segall's album Melted, which features a similar character in a mask. The album art was originally a gift given to John Dwyer, who in turn requested it to be used for The Master's Bedroom....

The artwork, (along with the artwork from the following album Help) was later included in the cover for Singles Vol. 1 and 2, in the form of marker drawings on two different fans' chests.

Track listing

Personnel
Thee Oh Sees
 John Dwyer - vocals, guitar
 Brigid Dawson - vocals
 Petey Dammit - bass
 Mike Shoun - drums (Tracks 1-5, 7-10, 12, 14, and 15)

Guest Musicians
 Jigmae Baer - drums (Tracks 6, 11, and 13)
 Dave Sitek - mellotron (Track 6) and organ (Track 13)
 Chris Woodhouse - percussion, drums (Track 5)

Credits
 William Keihn - cover art
 Jan Lankisch - Layout
 Archie McKay - Photography
 Chris Moore - recording engineer (Tracks 6, 11, and 13)
 Dave Sitek - recording engineer (Tracks 6, 11, and 13)
 Chris Woodhouse - recording engineer (Tracks 1-5, 7-10, 12, and 14-15) and mix engineer

References

2008 albums
Oh Sees albums


Plasmodium juxtanucleare is a species of parasite in the family Plasmodiidae. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.

Description
This species was first described in 1941 by Versiani and Gomes. The subgenus is named after Professor Gordon F. Bennett.

Parasite densities tend to be low (0.1–1% infected erythrocytes). Multiple infections of the same erythrocyte may occur.

The trophozoites have scanty cytoplasm and are irregular in shape. When fully grown they may be round, oval or irregular. They adhere closely to the nucleus and have 1-2 pigment granules. While a vacuole may be present there is no ring form unlike that of other species.

The trophozoites produce two to six merozoites per erythrocyte. The merozoites have scanty cytoplasm and do not exceed the size of the nucleus when fully developed.

The schizonts are small and always found juxtaposed to the erythrocyte nucleus.

The gametocytes resemble those of Plasmodium relictum and may displace the nucleus. They are of variable shape:oval, round, elongated or even irregular. They do not exceed the size of the nucleus.

Perhaps the most characteristic feature of this genus is the formation of pedunculated oocyts in the mosquito midgut.

Distribution
This species is found in a number of countries including Brasil, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Mexico, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania and Uruguay. It is thought that this species probably originated in South East Asia but this requires confirmation.

Clinical features and host pathology
The disease caused by this parasite is similar to that caused by Leucocytozoon caulleryi.

P. juxtanucleare is one of the causes of chicken malaria. Clinical findings associated with high parasitemia are anemia, diarrhea and weight loss that may lead to death. Body temperature is not elevated. Increases in the thrombocyte number and total leukocyte and basophil count have been reported.

The course of the parasitemia showed low levels initially and reaching a peak after 15 days; trophozoites were the most commonly observed form, followed by schizonts (first detected on day 12) and gametocytes (first seen on day 27). The typical distribution after the gametocytes have appeared is trophozoites (80%) schizonts (17%) and gametocytes (3%).

P. juxtanucleare also infects black-footed penguins. Five fatal cases were reported in a Sounth African zoo. Laboratory findings included parasitemia, splenomegaly, pulmonary oedema and schizonts in the reticuloendothelial system.

This species infects the Chinese bamboo partridge, white eared-pheasant, Malayan jungle fowl (Gallus gallus spadiceus), Sri Lankan junglefowl, grey-winged francolin, crested francolin, wild turkey and the Indian peafowl.

Known vectors
Culex annulus
Culex gelidus
Culex molestus Forskal
Culex pipiens fatigens
Culex pipiens pallus
Culex pseudovishnui
Culex saltanensis Dyar 1928
Culex (Culex) sitiens Wiedmann
Culex tritaeniorhynchus

Mansonia crassipes

Bennettinia
Bennettinia is a subgenus of Plasmodium created in 1997 by Valkiunas. in honour of the parasitologist Gordon F. Bennett. Plasmodium juxtanucleare is the sole species in this subgenus.

The characteristic features are:
Schizonts contain scant cytoplasm, are often round, do not exceed the size of the host nucleus and stick to it.
Gametocytes while varying in shape tend to be round or oval, do not exceed the size of the nucleus and stick to it.

References

juxtanucleare
Parasites of birds


The Northern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA) was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1886 to 1986. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania, with the Tasmanian Football League and North West Football Union representing the rest of the state. It was based in the city of Launceston.
The three most successful clubs of the old NTFA, Launceston, North Launceston and City-South, went on to compete in the short-lived TFL Statewide League.

From 1947 to 1983 the NTFA was a six team competition, in 1984 George Town and Deloraine joined to make eight teams.

In 1987, the NTFA merged with the North West Football Union to form the Northern Tasmanian Football League.

At the end of 1995 the Tasmanian Amateur Football Association disbanded, The southern clubs help form the Southern Football League, The northern clubs formed a competition called the Northern Tasmanian Football Association. There is no relationship between the old and new NTFA.

NTFA premierships

Winners by year

Most wins

Tasmanian State Premiership

This was contested semi regularly between the premiers of the Tasmanian Football League, North West Football Union and the NTFA.

The winners from the NTFA were –
 1905 – North Launceston (unofficial)
 1906 – North Launceston (unofficial)
 1928 – City
 1930 – City
 1932 – City
 1933 – Launceston
 1934 – Launceston
 1935 – Launceston
 1937 – Launceston
 1938 – Launceston
 1947 – North Launceston
 1949 – North Launceston
 1950 – North Launceston
 1954 – City
 1957 – Longford
 1960 – City-South
 1966 – City-South
 1972 – City-South
 1973 – Scottsdale

Best and Fairests

Hardesty Cup
 1924 – L. J. Keogh
Tasman Shields Trophy
 1925 – Harold Wade
 1926 – Len Gaffney
 1927 – Len Gaffney, Fred Odgers
 1928 – Neil Edwards
 1929 – Jim Milbourne
 1930 – Leo Wescott
 1931 – Laurie Nash
 1932 – Laurie Nash
 1933 – Bill Cahill
 1934 – Jock Connell
 1935 – Ted Pickett
 1936 – Bill Cahill
 1937 – Fred Smith
 1938 – Max Pontifex, Fred Smith
 1939 – Jock Connell, Tom Ryan
 1940 – Lloyd Bennett
 1941 – Frank Horsenail
 1945 – Frank Horsenail
 1946 – Lance Crosswell
 1947 – Lance Crosswell
 1948 – Terry Cashion, Harry Styles
 1949 – Max Rees
 1950 – Terry Cashion
 1951 – Terry Cashion, Darrell Crosswell
 1952 – Bill Byrne, Charlie Dennis, Laurie Moir
 1953 – Laurie McGee
 1954 – Charlie Dennis, Laurie McGee
 1955 – Charlie Dennis
 1956 – Jim Ross
 1957 – John Fitzallen
 1958 – Jim Ross
 1959 – Bob Bye
 1960 – Bob Bye
 1961 – Eddie Thomas
 1962 – Darrell Pitcher
 1963 – Kevin McLean
 1964 – Charlie Thompson
 1965 – Nigel Wilson

Hec Smith Memorial Medal
 1966 – Barry Lawrence
 1967 – Peter Webb
 1968 – Alby Dunn
 1969 – John Burns
 1970 – John Davis
 1971 – Stuart Palmer
 1972 – Max Hadley
 1973 – Derek Peardon
 1974 – David Berne
 1975 – Ian Marsh
 1976 – Paul Ellis
 1977 – Stephen Nicholls
 1978 – Ricky Rattray
 1979 – David Noonan
 1980 – Grant Allford
 1981 – Paul Reinmuth
 1982 – Jamie Dennis
 1983 – Rod Thomas
 1984 – Jamie Dennis
 1985 – Stephen Howe
 1986 – Darren Cook
 1986 – Malcolm Upston

References
Full Points Footy: NTFA Summary Chart 1896 to 1986

Northern Tasmania
Defunct Australian rules football competitions in Tasmania


Leonard Duncan Albert Hussey, OBE (6 May 1891 – 25 February 1964) was an English meteorologist, archaeologist, explorer, medical doctor and member of Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic and Shackleton–Rowett Expeditions. During the latter, he was with Shackleton at his death, and transported the body part-way back to England.

Hussey was also a member of the armed forces during World War I, serving in France and with Shackleton in Russia. After returning to private practice, Hussey rejoined the war effort in 1940 and became a decorated medical officer with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Returning once again to civilian practice in 1946, he was a member of the Royal College of Physicians, a lecturer, author, and Boy Scouts leader prior to retirement. Many of the items he collected during his career were donated to a number of museums.

Early life

Hussey was born to James Hussey and Eliza Hussey (née Aitken) in Norman House, Norman Road in Leytonestone, in London. His father was a machine operator in the stationery printing industry . By 1900, the family resided at 342 Kingsland Road in Leytonestone. Leonard Hussey had eight siblings in total; three brothers, James, William and Percy and five sisters, Maude, Beatrice, May, Blanche and Daisy.

Hussey attended Strand School and Hackney P.T. Centre. On 6 October 1909, Hussey entered the University of London, taking as course in psychology and gaining a Bachelor of Science second class at King's College London, as well as degrees in meteorology and anthropology.

Career

Sudan and Shackleton

From 1913, Hussey had undertaken employment as an anthropologist and archaeologist at a dig in Jebel Moya, Sudan as part of Henry Wellcome's Expedition. Alongside O. G. S. Crawford, Hussey worked on a monthly pay of £8. While in the Sudan, he read in a month-old newspaper about Shackleton's intention to embark on an Antarctic Expedition, and 'The idea gripped me'. He wrote to Shackleton expressing his interest in joining the project. Shackleton replied telling Hussey to call on him when he returned to London. 'My luck in this respect was later explained to me by Shackleton, who said he was greatly amused to find amongst nearly five thousand applications to join the expedition, one that came from the heart of Africa.' Shackleton agreed to select him for the expedition, later telling him that he did so because he "looked funny".

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914–17

Hussey joined the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917's Weddell Sea party as a meteorologist, keeping a leather-bound diary of the entire expedition. He was a popular member of the group due to his humour and perpetual playing of his five-string banjo, in company with Dr. James McIlroy's imitations of the trombone and bagpipes.  Frank Worsley stated "Hussey was a brilliant wit, and his keen repartee was one of the few joys left to us. Often we would combine to provoke him just for the pleasure of hearing his clever retorts and invariably he would emerge the victor, no matter how many of us tried to best him." On 22 June 1915, Hussey and the crew staged a four-hour "smoking concert" and costume party, during which Hussey dressed as a black minstrel. Roland Huntford recorded in Shackleton of Hussey's tendency to be "determinedly cheery to the point of egregiousness".

The instrument, weighing twelve pounds, was rescued from the wreck of the Endurance as "vital mental medicine" by Shackleton, who made an exception of his instructions that each person could take only 2 pounds in weight of personal belongings, so that it could be saved. On 24 April 1916, while Shackleton took five other men from camp on South Georgia on the James Caird to find help, Hussey was one of the 22 men left behind on Elephant Island to await rescue, and continued to use his banjo to improve morale.

World War I
Hussey initially joined the London University contingent of the Officers' Training Corps, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the cadets on 13 November 1912. Hussey progressed to the full armed forces in the later years of the First World War, and was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 19 January 1917, serving in France, as well as operating with Shackleton on operations at Murmansk in northern Russia as part of the Polar Bear Expedition. He was promoted to temporary lieutenant on 19 July 1918, and to the temporary rank of captain on 8 October. Hussey was demobilised on 14 May 1919, retaining the rank of captain.

Shackleton–Rowett Antarctic Expedition 1921–22

Following the end of World War I, Hussey qualified in medicine and returned to Shackleton for his expedition to Antarctica aboard the Quest in 1921–22.

Hussey was asked by Frank Wild, following Shackleton's death in harbour in South Georgia, to escort the body to England while Wild himself assumed command of the Quest. Hussey arrived in South America and cabled England with news of the explorer's passing.  Shackleton's widow responded that the explorer should be buried at Grytviken in South Georgia, and Hussey carried out these instructions.

Medical career in London

Following his return to England, Hussey practised medicine in London until 1940. He had become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, while residing at 328 Clapham Road, in London.

World War II
Hussey joined the RAF as a medical officer during the Second World War, with the rank of flight lieutenant and the serial number 87314. He served in Iceland as First Senior Medical Officer in the temporary rank of squadron leader, to which he was promoted on 1 July 1943 and then at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire. He was Mentioned in Despatches on two occasions in 1945, on 1 January and 14 May. Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1946 New Year Honours, Hussey retained his links to the RAF for a time after the end of the war, serving in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as a squadron leader, until his retirement on 10 February 1954.

Later career
Following the end of the war, Hussey resumed his medical practice, operating as a GP in Hertfordshire up until 1957. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours for his war service, and in 1949 he served on the SS Clan Macauley as a ship's surgeon, sailing from England to South Africa and Australia. Hussey was involved in the re-formation of the London Banjo Club and served for several years as president despite often being abroad for his work as ship's surgeon.  He also published his account of the Trans-Antarctic expedition entitled South with Endurance. By 1957, having retired from his practice, Hussey became President of the Antarctic Club. A Shackleton-Hussey trophy was created and awarded by Hussey to several scout movements from the 1960s, including the Chorleywood Scout pack, of which Hussey was at one time the President of as part of his growing involvement in the scout movement following his retirement.

Death
In 1960, Hussey retired to Worthing, and was forced to curtail his lecturing career due to poor health. His notes and lantern slides were donated to Ralph Gullett, a local scout leader and friend, who took over his lecturing. His banjo, which he took along with him on expeditions and later had on display at his practice, was signed by all the members of Endurance, and donated to the National Maritime Museum and was valued in 2004 at over £150,000. Hussey died in London in 1964 at the age of 72, and was survived by his wife, who died in 1980. The couple had no children, and his estate was passed to his housekeeper, Margaret Mock, until her own death in 1999.

Published works and decorations
Hussey published a number of works throughout his life, including editing the records of both of Shackleton's expeditions, and a number of articles in partnership with other expedition members.

 South with Shackleton – Hussey's account, published in 1949, of the 1914–1916 expedition.
 Scurvy in Polar Regions – in The Lancet

He was also the recipient of a number of decorations for his work in both world wars and as a member of Shackleton's expeditions.

 A Military OBE
 British War Medal
 Mercantile Marine War Medal
 Victory Medal
 Defence Medal
 War Medal 1939–1945 with Oak leaves for Mention in Despatches, 1 January and 14 May 1945.
 Silver Polar Medal with the Antarctic 1914–16 bar.

Notes

References

Further reading
 Worsley, Frank A.: Shackleton's Boat Journey W.W. Norton & Company, London 1998

External links

 Leonard Duncan Albert Hussey – Obituary from HMS Endurance Tracking Project.
 Leonard Duncan Albert hussey – Biography from HMS Endurance Tracking Project.
 Leonard Hussey – Biography  from Cool Antarctica

1891 births
1964 deaths
English explorers
English meteorologists
English anthropologists
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
Alumni of King's College London
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
People from Leytonstone
British Army personnel of World War I
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Royal Air Force Medical Service officers
British Army personnel of the Russian Civil War
Military personnel from London


Dag Kavlie (born 14 April 1939) is a Norwegian shipping engineer. He was a professor and rector (1984–1990) at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and later worked for the Research Council of Norway.

Career
He was born in Oslo, and took the siv.ing. degree at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1963. He then spent a year as a conscript in the Royal Norwegian Navy, took the doctorate in ship construction at the Institute of Technology, studied at the University of California at Berkeley before entering the shipping sector. In 1972 he took the Ph.D. degree. He then returned to academia, being hired as a lecturer at the Institute of Technology. In 1976 he was promoted to professor. From 1980 he was the deputy rector of the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and from 1984 to 1990 he served as rector. Deputy rector during this period was Kjell Egil Eimhjellen. The Kavlie–Eimhjellen team was succeeded in July 1990 by rector Karsten Jakobsen and deputy rector Emil Spjøtvoll. Kavlie continued as a professor until 1991.

He was a member of the technical committee of Det Norske Veritas for many years, and has also held positions in NTNF, the European Science Foundation, the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress and the Nordic Research Council, a predecessor of NordForsk. During his research career he was also a visiting scholar at Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1993 he was hired in the newly established Research Council of Norway, and from 1995 to 1998 he was their director of strategy. He later worked as an advisor. Among other projects, he was responsible for the establishment of fourteen new "Centres of Research-Driven Innovation". In 2012 he was appointed by Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide to serve on the Governing Board of the U.S. Norway Fulbright Foundation for Educational Exchange.

He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.

Personal life
Kavlie resides in Vestre Aker, Oslo. His hobbies include horticulture, cycling and cross-country skiing. He participates regularly in the Birkebeinerrennet ski race.

References

1939 births
Living people
Engineers from Oslo
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Norwegian Institute of Technology
Rectors of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian expatriates in the United States
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences


Svatopluk Innemann (18 February 1896 – 30 October 1945) was a Czech film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor and actor. He was one of the pioneers of Czech cinema.

Biography and works
Innemann, was a son of the Czech director Rudolf Innemann and opera singer Ludmila Lvová-Innemannová. He was born in Slovenia during their engagement, but was raised in Prague, where he studied to be a pork butcher. Around 1918 he became interested in film, and began to work as a camera operator. As cameraman, he co-created his first film with Otto Heller. From 1919 he worked independently.

Innemann's early career was varied; he was involved in operettas, comedies and melodramas, short films and documentaries, often as cameraman. He made his directorial debut in silent films with the fairy-tale Little Red Riding-hood in 1920. In 1925 he directed the popular comedy From the Czech Mills and made a biographical film about Josef Kajetán Tyl, an important personality of the Czech National Revival. In 1927 he directed The Lovers of an Old Criminal, starring the Czech actor Vlasta Burian. He directed a total of 16 silent films: in 1931 he directed his first sound film, Poslední bohém (The Last Bohemian), about the Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, and made the popular comedy Muži v offsidu (Men in Offside) with Hugo Haas in the title role. It remains popular in the Czech Republic.

The 1932 film Před maturitou, made in cooperation with the Czech writer Vladislav Vančura, is considered Innemann's second creative peak. In 1933, he directed the crime film Vražda v Ostrovní ulici, the first film to be made in the Barrandov Studios. His film career ended in 1937 with Švanda dudák, based on a theme by Josef Kajetán Tyl. Later, during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, he intended to perform his own play with very controversial topic (he tried to portray German leader Adolf Hitler), but from 1940 had to undergo treatments for a mental disorder. He was one of the very few Czech filmmakers who claimed German citizenship during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. During World War II, Innemann cooperated with the ambitious Czech director and Nazi collaborator Václav Binovec. At the war's end, Innemann's wartime activities were investigated. He died on 30 October 1945 at his home in Klecany, near Prague, with the investigation incomplete.

Filmography

Director

Little Red Riding Hood (1920)
Zelený automobil (1921)
Komptoiristka (1922)
Venoušek a Stázička (1922)
Buď připraven (1925)
From the Czech Mills (1925)
Josef Kajetán Tyl (1925)
Švejk v ruském zajetí (1926)
Lásky Kačenky Strnadové (1926)
Falešná kočička (1926)
The Lovers of an Old Criminal (1927)
Prague at Night (1927)
Ve dvou se to lépe táhne (1928)
Neviňátka (1929)
Plukovník Švec (1929) - director
Tchán Kondelík a zeť Vejvara (1929)
Fidlovačka	(1930)
Muži v offsidu (1931)
Třetí rota	(1931)
Karel Havlíček Borovský (1931)
Poslední bohém (1931)
Psohlavci (1931)
Malostranští mušketýři (1932)
Sňatková kancelář (1932)
Před maturitou (1932)
Písničkář (1932)
Šenkýřka "U divoké krásy" (1932)
Drž je! (1933)
Vůně domova (1933)
Prodaná nevěsta (1933)
Skřivánčí píseň (1933)
Vražda v Ostrovní ulici (1933)
U Svatého Antoníčka (1933)
Hudba srdci (1934)
Z bláta do louže (1934)
Tři kroky od těla (1934)
Sextánka (1936)
Arme kleine Inge (1936)
Tvoje srdce inkognito (1936)
Bílý cíl (1937)
Švanda Dudák (1937)

Cinematographer

Československý Ježíšek (1918)
Aloisův los (1918)
Akord smrti (1919)
Láska je utrpením (1919)
Divoká Marina (1919)
Boby nesmí kouřit (1919)
Utrpením ke slávě (1919)
Dáma s malou nožkou (1919)
Vzteklý ženich (1919)
Zlatá žena	(1920
Šílený lékař (1920)
Sněženky (1920)
Za svobodu národa (1920)
Za čest vítězů (1920)
Magdalena (1920)
Děvče ze stříbrné hranice (1921)
Jak Vašíček přišel k nohám (1921)
Závěť podivínova (1923)
Lešetínský kovář (1924)
The Lantern (1925)
Okovy (1925)

Actor
Byl první máj (1919)
Dáma s malou nožkou (1919)

Notes

References

External links

1896 births
1945 deaths
Film people from Ljubljana
Czech film directors
Czech cinematographers
Czech screenwriters
Male screenwriters
Silent film directors
Czech male film actors
Czech male silent film actors
20th-century Czech male actors
Czech film editors
20th-century screenwriters
Czech collaborators with Nazi Germany


John Thomas (14 October 1712 – 22 August 1793) was an English churchman, Bishop of Rochester from 1774.

Life
Born in Carlisle, Cumbria, he was the eldest son of John Thomas (died 1747), vicar of Brampton, Cumberland, by his wife Ann, daughter of Richard Kelsick of Whitehaven, a captain in the merchant service. He was educated at the Carlisle grammar school, and went to The Queen's College, Oxford, matriculating on 17 December 1730. Soon after his admission he received a clerkship from the Provost Joseph Smith (1670–1756).

He became assistant master at an academy in Soho Square, and then private tutor to the younger son of Sir William Clayton, bart., whose sister he later married. On 27 March 1737, Thomas was ordained a deacon, and on 25 September received priest's orders. On 27 January 1738, he was instituted rector of Bletchingley in Surrey, a living in the gift of Sir William Clayton. He graduated B.C.L. on 6 March 1742, and D.C.L. on 25 May 1742, and on 18 January 1749, he was appointed chaplain in ordinary to HM The King (George II), a post which he retained under George III.

On 23 April 1754, he was made a prebendary of Westminster, and in 1762 he was appointed sub-almoner to the archbishop of York. On 7 January 1766, he was instituted to the vicarage of St Bride's, Fleet Street, London, and in 1768 he became Dean of Westminster and of the Order of the Bath.

On 13 November 1774, he was consecrated bishop of Rochester. He marked his episcopacy by repairing the deanery at Rochester and rebuilding the bishop's palace at Bromley, which was in a ruinous state. He died at Bromley on 22 August 1793, and was buried in the vault of the parish church of Bletchingley.

Works
Thomas's ‘Sermons and Charges’ were collected and edited after his death by his nephew, George Andrew Thomas, in 1796 (London; 3rd ed. 1803). Several of his sermons were published separately in his lifetime. His portrait in the robes of the Bath, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, was formerly in the library of Queen's College. An engraving from it by Joseph Baker is prefixed to his ‘Sermons and Charges.’

Family
He was twice married: first, in 1742, to Anne Blackwell, widow of Sir Charles Blackwell, Bt and daughter of Sir William Clayton, 1st Baronet, and Martha Kenrick. She died on 7 July 1772, and on 12 January 1776 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Baldwin of Munslow in Shropshire, and widow of Sir Joseph Yates, judge of the court of king's bench. He left no children. Among other bequests he founded two scholarships at Queen's College for sons of clergymen educated at the grammar school at Carlisle, and during his lifetime he had endowed two similar scholarships at Westminster School.

References

Attribution

1793 deaths
Bishops of Rochester
18th-century Church of England bishops
Canons of Westminster
Deans of Westminster
1712 births
18th-century Anglican theologians
English sermon writers


Locomotives built or sold by the Westinghouse Electric Company

Westinghouse's transportation division (rail equipment) was founded 1894 and sold to AEG 1988, later merged into Adtranz and Bombardier. Production of locomotives ended after the early 1950s.

Electric locomotives
Usually built in partnership with the Baldwin Locomotive Works, see Baldwin-Westinghouse electric locomotives.

Diesel-electric locomotives
Early examples built in partnership with William Beardmore and Company (Beardmore) of Glasgow, Scotland.

Gas Turbine-electric locomotives

In addition, Westinghouse produced and supplied electrical and traction equipment for Baldwin diesel locomotives from 1939 to 1955 and Lima-Hamilton diesels from 1949-1951 until production at Lima, Ohio ended with the merger into Baldwin. Fairbanks-Morse diesels also used Westinghouse electrical and traction equipment.

References

Citations

Sources

Westinghouse


Lake Magenta is an ephemeral salt lake in the Wheatbelt area of Western Australia.

The lake is located  north-east of Jerramungup and  east of Pingrup.

The lake is part of the  Lake Magenta Nature Reserve as is the bushland to the west of the lake. The area is in relatively pristine condition and contains a rich array of flora and fauna. Water quality and the health of vegetation has begun to decline in the area as salinity of surface runoff has increased and groundwater levels have risen.

Lake Magenta has a wetland area located to the south, and is on the southern end of an  chain of lakes from Lake Biddy in the north, through Lake Stubbs (and the town of Newdegate), Lake Buchan and Lake Lockhart. There are three other lakes nearby to the east: Lake Morris, Lake Royston and Lake Cobham.

The lake is a broad flat-floored valley with long paleo-drainages to the north and more steeply incised drainage lines to the south. The soils in the area are described as siliceous and calcareous loamy soils of minimal development. The rest of the area is composed of hard and sandy alkaline yellow and mottled sands.

See also

 List of lakes of Western Australia

References

Magenta
Magenta


is a city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It includes Ishigaki island and the Senkaku Islands territory. The city is the political, cultural, and economic center of the Yaeyama Islands. New Ishigaki Airport serves the city. As of December 2012, the city has an estimated population of 48,816 and a population density of 213 persons per km2. The total area is 229.00 km2.

It is also the location of the Senkaku Islands (see below in the Geography section).

History

The current city of Ishigaki was founded in 1908 as Yaeyama Village, an amalgamation of the Ishigaki, Ōhama, and Miyara magiri. In 1914 it was renamed to Ishigaki Village, and grew to become Ishigaki Town in 1926. Ishigaki was elevated to city status on July 10, 1947.

Historical footnote: One of the first Frenchmen ever to visit Japan, Guillaume Courtet, came ashore at Ishigaki in 1636.

Geography
The city of Ishigaki covers the entirety of Ishigaki Island (). The island is surrounded by coral reefs. The highest point on Ishigaki Island is Omotodake ().

The uninhabited Senkaku Islands are located  north of the Ishigaki Island. The Senkaku Islands cover roughly .

Economy
Ishigaki produces sugarcane and pineapples. Tourism is also an important part of the economy of the city.

Transportation
New Ishigaki Airport and Ishigaki Port serve the city.

Climate
Ishigaki has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af) with frequent cyclones so not equatorial. "Summers" are hot and "winters" warm. Precipitation is abundant throughout the year; the rainiest months are August and September (due to tropical storm/typhoon) while the driest months are December and July.

Sights
The town of Ishigaki has various sights to offer.
 Gongen Do is a Shinto shrine close to the center of Ishigaki town which was founded in 1614. The shrine was destroyed during a flood in 1771. The present buildings date from 1787. The neighbouring building is Torin Ji, a buddhist temple which was founded in 1614 as well. It houses several statues dating from 1737 which possibly represent tutelary gods of Ishigaki Island.
 Close by is Miyaradunchi, a residential building dating from 1819. Its architecture with a hip roof consisting of red tiles is similar to samurai houses on mainland Japan, but there have never been samurai on the Yaeyama Islands.
 The Museum of the Yaeyama Islands, Shiritsu Yaeyama Hakubutsukan, is on Main Street in the center of Ishigaki town. Various kinds of boats and other items referring to the history and culture of the Yaeyama Islands can be seen. It is famous for being the southernmost museum of Japan.
 Fuzaki Kannon Do is a small Shinto shrine dating from 1742. It is  west of the town on a hill offering a scenic view of Ishigaki and Iriomote, the neighbouring island. The shrine is dedicated to Kannon.
 Tojinbaka is tomb in a typical Chinese style about  west the town on the ring road. 400 Chinese labourers who died during a rebellion on a ship sailing to America in 1852 are buried here.
 Kabira Bay

Notable people from Ishigaki
 Yukiya Arashiro (born 1984) professional cyclist
 Yudai Arashiro (born 1995) professional cyclist
 Yōkō Gushiken (born 1955) boxer
 Rimi Natsukawa (born 1973) folk singer
 Begin (band)  (all members born 1968) pop musical group
 Kaima Taira (born 1999) professional baseball pitcher

Sister cities

In Japan
 Wakkanai, Hokkaido
 Okazaki, Aichi
 Kamiita, Tokushima
 Kitakami, Iwate

Overseas
 Su'ao, Taiwan
 Kauai County, Hawaii, United States

References

External links

Cities in Okinawa Prefecture
Port settlements in Japan
Populated coastal places in Japan


Victoria A. Graffeo (born 1952) is a former judge of the New York State's Court of Appeals. Judge Graffeo was appointed to the court by Republican Governor George Pataki in 2000 for a 14-year term. Governor Andrew Cuomo declined to appoint her to a second term, and she left the bench on November 29, 2014.

Education
Graffeo graduated from the State University of New York at Oneonta in 1974. She earned her law degree from Albany Law School three years later.

Legal experience
She was in private practice (1978–1982) before entering government service in 1982 as an assistant counsel to the New York State Division of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.

She served as counsel to then New York State Assembly Minority Leader Pro Tempore Kemp Hannon (1984) and as chief counsel to then Assembly Minority Leader Clarence D. Rappleyea, Jr. (1989–1994).

On January 1, 1995, she was appointed Solicitor General for the State of New York by Attorney General Dennis C. Vacco and served in that capacity until appointed, in September 1996, by Governor George E. Pataki to fill a vacancy in the State Supreme Court, Third Judicial District.

She was elected that November to a full term as Justice of New York's State Supreme Court and, in March 1998, became an associate justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Third Judicial Department.

Her selection for a 14-year term to New York State's Court of Appeals, also by Governor Pataki, was confirmed by the New York State Senate on November 29, 2000. Judge Graffeo applied to the New York State Commission on Judicial Nominations to be considered for appointment to a second term. The Commission included Graffeo on its list of seven candidates for the position. Governor Andrew Cuomo declined to reappoint Graffeo and instead selected Appellate Division, Third Department Justice Leslie E. Stein for the position. Stein's nomination was confirmed by the New York State Senate on January 9, 2015.

Personal life
Victoria Graffeo, who comes from an Italian American family, resides in Guilderland, New York.

References

External links
Albany Law School website
JUDGE VICTORIA A. GRAFFEO: COMMITTED, CONSERVATIVE, COLLEGIAL

1952 births
Living people
Albany Law School alumni
American jurists
American people of Italian descent
Judges of the New York Court of Appeals
New York (state) lawyers
People from Guilderland, New York
People from Rockville Centre, New York
Solicitors General of New York (state)
State University of New York at Oneonta alumni
20th-century American women judges
20th-century American judges
21st-century American women judges
21st-century American judges
New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department justices


Inge Johannes Tjernes Johansen (21 May 1928 – 5 December 2018) was a Norwegian electrical engineer and academician.

Career
Johansen was born in Gjerpen to an electrician and a homemaker. He took the sivling. degree, and in 1957, the dr.techn. degree. From 1959 to 1985, he was a professor of high-voltage technology at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. From 1975 he was the deputy rector, from 1976 to 1984 he served as rector, and from 1985 to 1989 was the director of the NTNF. In 1990, he returned to academia as a professor of elkraftteknikk. He chaired the Statoil board from 1984 to 1987 but resigned together with the rest of the board members after they lost control over spending in the Mongstad project.

Johansen contributed to the establishment of Kathmandu University, for which a university building was named after him: the Prof. Inge Johansen Engineering Block.

Johansen was decorated in 1981 as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav for his work in technical research and education in Norway.

Bibliography
 "Energi og Etikk -Etiske perspektiver på elforsyning", Forlaget Press, 2006

References

Links
 Inge Johansen at NTNU.no
 Inge Johansen, private archive at (University Library of Trondheim, Dorabiblioteket)

1928 births
2018 deaths
Norwegian electrical engineers
Academic staff of the Norwegian Institute of Technology
Rectors of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
People from Skien
Equinor people


Pulsar is a French progressive rock band whose influences include Pink Floyd and King Crimson, plus classical musicians and composers such as Gustav Mahler.

During the early 1980s, the group performed and composed the music for a Franco‑Austrian musical theatre production. Their most recent album is Memory Ashes (2007).

History
Pulsar is the first French band to have signed with an English label, which was called "Kingdom Records".

The band recorded and published its first album, Pollen, in 1975. Philipe Roman left the band shortly after. The following year, the group recruited bassist Michel Masson, who later collaborated with them on The Strands of the Future (1976) and Halloween (1977).

In the early eighties, together with director Bruno Carlucci, in musical theatre, Pulsar adapted a short story by Austrian novelist Peter Handke: "Bienvenue au Conseil D'Administration!" (1981). The quintet comprised Gilbert Gandil on guitar and bass, Victor Bosch at the drums, Jacques Roman on keyboard, and Roland Richard playing the flute and saxophone, along with Louis Paralis taking  the place of Michel Masson.

From 1974 to 1989, their albums were produced by CBS. Later, they were produced by Musea, a French label which had bought the distribution rights. The band launched a comeback in 1989, publishing Görlitz.

The group's most recent album is Memory Ashes (2007), produced by Cypress Music. In 2008, Goldmine Magazine listed Halloween among the top 25 albums of progressive rock.

In 2013, Jacques Roman and Gilbert Gandil released the album Way to Lhassa band with the band Siiilk.

Band members

Discography
1975: Pollen
1976: The Strands of the Future
1977: Halloween
1981: Bienvenue au Conseil d'Administration
1989: Görlitz
2007: Memory Ashes

Authorship
The introduction of the album Halloween, credited as one of the band's compositions, is the traditional Irish tune "Londonderry Air".

References

External links
 Pulsar official fan Page on Facebook
 Band History

French progressive rock groups
Musical groups established in 1974
Musical groups from Lyon
Musea artists


Hannibal Penney was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He spent many years performing in films, Shakespearean plays and as a regular on Ryan's Hope.
He co-starred alongside William F. McGaha  in the 1972 biker film J.C. where he played the part of David Little, a black biker.

He is mostly known to TV viewers as Dr. Clem Moultrie, the tall and handsome neurosurgeon in Ryan's Hope, a role he played from 1975 to 1978.

External links

Ryan's Hope Characters (M)

Interview
 http://ryansbaronline.tripod.com/penneysod77.html

Male actors from Tennessee
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Actors from Chattanooga, Tennessee