The Wildpark Eekholt is a wildlife park near Großenaspe (Schleswig-Holstein). It hosts about 100 species in Central Europe with over 700 animals on an area of 67 hectares, which nature has designed.

The zoo was founded in 1970. It is also a place of education for the protection of the environment.

External links

Brief portrait with all the important information in Zoo-Infos (de)

Eekholt
Tourist attractions in Schleswig-Holstein
Buildings and structures in Schleswig-Holstein
Wildlife parks
Segeberg


Kempinski Palace Portorož, until 2008 known as Palace Hotel (), is a five-star deluxe hotel in Portorož, a settlement on the Adriatic coast in southwestern Slovenia. It is the only deluxe hotel in Slovenia.

Architecture

The central part of the hotel is the Crystal Hall ().

History
The hotel began to be built in 1908 upon the plans of the Austrian architect Johann Eustacchio and opened on 20 August 1910 at the time of Austro-Hungarian Empire. At that time, it was a tourist attraction of the highest quality. Portorož was, together with Grado and Opatija, categorized as one of the most important coast resorts and spas on the Austrian Riviera. The construction of the hotel was completed in 1912. At the end of 1983, it was proclaimed a cultural monument, and a park in front of hotel was called a monument of designed nature.

The hotel was closed in autumn 1990. In the 2000s, the Slovenian owner, coastal company Istrabenz Hoteli Portorož, signed a contract with a German hotel chain Kempinski to run and manage this hotel for at least 20 years. When they renovated the hotel, the exterior was kept for historical reasons and almost everything else was demolished; however most of the interior was rebuilt in the classical style. The renovation was planned by Slovenian architects API ARHITEKTI and cost about 70 million euros. In addition, a modern hotel building was built next to the original hotel. The hotel was reopened on 18 October 2008.

Notable guests
Among the notable guests of the hotel were
David L Perdue, developer champion fox hunter
Herbert Alsen, opera singer and conductor, director of Vienna Opera (from the 1960s until 1990)
Lex Barker, actor
Pierre Brice, film actor (presumably at the end of the 1960s)
Josip Broz, President of Yugoslavia (1953, 1968) - the Presidential Suite or Tito Suite (No. 112) has been named after him
Yul Brynner, film actor
Božidar Jakac, painter and photographer (from the end of the 1970s to the end of the 1980s)
Marcello Mastroianni, film actor (1956, 1985)
Ivo Pogorelić, piano player
Jože Privšek, jazz pianist, composer, and conductor (in the beginning of the 1970s)
Mikis Theodorakis, composer
Leon Cave, Drummer from English rock band Status Quo
Orson Welles, film actor and director (presumably at the end of the 1960s or in the beginning of the 1970s)
Adriano Celentano, Mina, Patty Pravo (1968), Rita Pavone (1963), Bobby Solo, and Ornella Vanoni, popular Italian singers

External links

Kempinski Palace Portorož homepage

Hotels in Slovenia
Hotels established in 1910
Hotel buildings completed in 1912
Kempinski Hotels
Portorož
Cultural monuments of Slovenia
Monuments of designed nature of Slovenia
20th-century architecture in Slovenia


Baía Farta is a town and municipality in Benguela Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 107,841 in 2014.

See also
List of lighthouses in Angola

References

Populated places in Benguela Province
Municipalities of Angola
Lighthouses in Angola


A polymeric foam is a special foam, in liquid or solidified form, formed from polymers.

Examples include:
 Ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) foam, the copolymers of ethylene and vinyl acetate; also referred to as polyethylene-vinyl acetate (PEVA)
 Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) foam, first grade of polyethylene (PE)
 Nitrile rubber (NBR) foam, the copolymers of acrylonitrile (ACN) and butadiene
 Polychloroprene foam or Neoprene
 Polyimide foam
 Polypropylene (PP) foam, including expanded polypropylene (EPP) and polypropylene paper (PPP)
 Polystyrene (PS) foam, including expanded polystyrene (EPS), extruded polystyrene foam (XPS) and sometimes polystyrene paper (PSP)
 Styrofoam, including extruded polystyrene foam (XPS) and sometimes expanded polystyrene (EPS)
 Polyurethane (PU) foam
 LRPu low-resilience polyurethane
 Memory foam
 Sorbothane
Polyurea foam
Polyethylene foam, as used in PEF rod
 Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) foam
 Closed-cell PVC foamboard
 Silicone foam
 Microcellular foam

See also
Ultralight material

References

Foams
Polymer chemistry


"I've Had Enough" is a single by the band Earth, Wind & Fire issued in January 1982 on Columbia Records. The song peaked at No. 29 on the UK Pop Singles chart.

Overview
I've Had Enough was written by Philip Bailey, Greg Phillinganes and Brenda Russell. The song was included on the band's 1981 studio album
Raise!.

Critical reception
Barney Hoskyns of New Musical Express proclaimed "I've Had Enough is a perfect strike-out". Alan Coulthard of Record Mirror wrote "The other highlight is I've Had Enough, this set's successor to that pair of classics September and Fantasy. The intoxicating horn section and Philip Bailey's falsetto vocal transfer a song of unexceptional proportions into the realms of excellence".

Samples
I've Had Enough was later sampled by German house producer and DJ Tonka in 1998 in his song "Security".

Charts

References

1982 singles
Earth, Wind & Fire songs
Songs written by Brenda Russell
Songs written by Philip Bailey
Songs written by Greg Phillinganes
1981 songs
Columbia Records singles
Post-disco songs


Balombo is a town and municipality in Benguela Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 108,965 in 2014.

References

Populated places in Benguela Province
Municipalities of Angola


Arroxo is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Quirós, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 68 (INE 2111).

Villages
 Arroxo
 El Barón
 El Castañeo
 El Quintanal
 La Fábrica
 San Pedro
 San Salvaor
 Veiga
 Viḷḷagondú

Small towns

References

Parishes in Quirós


Serena Williams was the defending champion, but withdrew due to injury.

Sabine Lisicki won her maiden WTA tour title, defeating Caroline Wozniacki in the final 6–2, 6–4.

Dinara Safina gained the World No. 1 ranking for the first time at the conclusion of this tournament, despite not participating. This is because Williams' withdrawal, and loss of her championship ranking points, allowed her to be superseded by Safina in the rankings.

Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Qualifying

Qualifying seeds

Qualifiers

Qualifying draw

First qualifier

Second qualifier

Third qualifier

Fourth qualifier

Fifth qualifier

Sixth qualifier

Seventh qualifier

Eighth qualifier

External links
 Official results archive (ITF)
 Official results archive (WTA)

Family Circle Cup - Singles
Charleston Open


Numa Andoire (19 March 1908 – 26 November 1994)
was a French football defender and a manager. He participated at the 1930 FIFA World Cup, but never gained any caps with the French football team.

Club career
He played for OGC Nice between 1929 and 1932, FC Antibes in the season 1932-1933, Red Star from 1933 to 1936 FC Nancy for a few months in 1938. He played for AS Cannes from 1936 to 1938, and Toulouse between 1938 and 1939. Then he went back to AS Cannes from 1939 to 1942. He finished his playing career in 1945-1946 at FC Antibes.

International career
He was part of France’s squad for the 1930 FIFA World Cup but was an unused substitute and didn’t gained any cap with France.

Coaching career
He started his coaching career in FC Antibes in 1945-1946 while he was still a player there. He then managed OGC Nice from 1950 to 1952. He then retired from football and ran a hostel in Juan-les-Pins. He came back to football and managed OGC Nice again from 1962 to 1964.

Honours

As a manager
French championship in 1951 and 1952 with OGC Nice
Coupe de France in 1952 with OGC Nice

References

 Les Cahiers de l'Equipe, season 1963-64

1908 births
1994 deaths
Footballers from Alpes-Maritimes
Men's association football midfielders
French men's footballers
1930 FIFA World Cup players
Men's association football defenders
OGC Nice players
Red Star F.C. players
AS Cannes players
Ligue 1 players
French football managers
OGC Nice managers
FC Antibes players


Caimbambo is a town and municipality in Benguela Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 90,838 in 2014.

The town was founded on September 1, 1921, and head as first council chief António Rodrigues.

References

Populated places in Benguela Province
Municipalities of Angola
1921 establishments in the Portuguese Empire


Pres. Gral. Óscar D. Gestido International Airport , formerly called Cerro Chapeu International Airport, is an airport serving Rivera, Uruguay, and Santana do Livramento, Brazil.

History

The airport was opened on June 16, 1979, and is named after Óscar Diego Gestido (1901-1967), President of Uruguay in 1967.

On August 14, 2023 Uruguay and Brazil signed an agreement to internationalize the airport. According to this agreement, as a binational facility, flights originated in Brazil are treated as domestic, even though the facility is in Uruguayan territory.

There are low wooded hills north and east of the runway. The Tacuarembo VOR-DME (Ident: TMB) is located  south-southwest of the airport. The Rivera non-directional beacon (Ident: RV) is located on the field.

Airlines and destinations
No scheduled flights operate at this airport.

Access
The airport is  southeast of Rivera and  southeast of Santana do Livramento.

See also

Transport in Uruguay
List of airports in Uruguay

References

External links
OpenStreetMap - Rivera International Airport
OurAirports - Presidente General Don Oscar D. Gestido International Airport

Airports in Uruguay
Airports established in 1979
Buildings and structures in Rivera Department
Rivera


Chongorói is a town and municipality in Benguela Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 87,278 in 2014.

References

Populated places in Benguela Province
Municipalities of Angola


Brian Gottfried was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Johan Kriek.

Stan Smith won in the final 4–6, 7–6, 7–6, 6–3 against Balázs Taróczy.

Seeds

  Brian Gottfried (quarterfinals)
  Corrado Barazzutti (semifinals)
  Balázs Taróczy (final)
  Stan Smith (champion)
  Johan Kriek (semifinals)
  Tomáš Šmíd (quarterfinals)
  Jaime Fillol (first round)
  Karl Meiler (second round)

Draw

Final

Section 1

Section 2

External links
 1978 Fischer-Grand Prix draw

Singles


Kyösti Kakkonen (born December 7, 1956, in Kiihtelysvaara) is a Finnish businessman and millionaire. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of the Finnish discount retail chain Tokmanni. Kakkonen is also an art collector.

References

External links
Helsingin Sanomat: Kyösti Kakkonen

1956 births
Finnish art collectors
Finnish businesspeople
Living people
People from Kiihtelysvaara


The View from Here is a Canadian television series, which airs on TVOntario. Hosted by Ian Brown, the program airs documentary films.

The series debuted on January 11, 1995, with its debut episode featuring the film Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule.

The series is a frequent nominee for Best Documentary Series at the Gemini Awards, and won the award in 1999 and 2000.

References

External links

 The View from Here

1990s Canadian documentary television series
TVO original programming
2000s Canadian documentary television series
1995 Canadian television series debuts


Bermiego is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Quirós, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 80 (2009).

Bermiego village is home to the Bermiego Yew, one of the oldest yew trees in Europe with an age of about 2,000 years. It has been protected as a natural monument since April 27, 1995, and is included in the conservation plan for the natural treasures of Asturias. The tree can be found just outside the village within the precincts of the village chapel of Santa Maria de Bermiego.

Villages
 Bermiego
 Carrexa

References

Parishes in Quirós


Friedrich von Müller (17 September 1858, Augsburg – 18 November 1941, Munich) was a German physician remembered for describing Müller's sign. He was the son of the head of the medical department in the hospital in Augsburg. He studied natural sciences in Munich and medicine in Munich, under Carl von Voit, and Würzburg. He was awarded his doctorate in Munich in 1882, and became assistant to Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt in Würzburg and later Berlin. He was habilitated in internal medicine in 1888 and became professor of clinical propaedeutics and laryngology in Bonn. He moved to Breslau in 1890, Marburg in 1892, and Basel in 1899, before returning to Munich in 1902.
His approach to clinical teaching and how to improve medical education were widely recognised and influenced medical education in the UK and USA.

In 1907 he became knight, 1911 Hofrat and 1913 Geheimrat in the Kingdom of Bavaria. 1933 he got the Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches (Eagle Shield of the German Empire) with the dedication "DEM GROSSEN KLINIKER" (the great clinician).
In 1922 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina). From 1927 to 1934 he was president of the Deutsche Akademie, a German cultural institute.
1927 the city of Munich made him to an Honorary Citizen (comp. List of honorary citizens of Munich).

References

External links

German otolaryngologists
1858 births
1941 deaths
Physicians from Augsburg


The SPAD XIV was a French biplane floatplane fighter aircraft built by Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD) and flown by the French Navy during World War I.

Development and design
The SPAD XIV was a development of the SPAD XII. It was single-seat biplane powered by a 149 kW (200 hp) Hispano-Suiza 8Bc engine. 40 were constructed and flew in the French Navy during 1918.

Operators

Aeronavale

Specifications

References

 Taylor, John W. R., and Jean Alexander. "Combat Aircraft of the World" New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 68-25459 (Pg.128-129

1910s French fighter aircraft
S.XIV
Aircraft first flown in 1917
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Floatplanes


Foodie 2 Shoes (味分高下) is a Hong Kong television variety game show.  It debuted in August 2007 until October 2007, broadcast from Tuesday to Friday. It consist of 34 episodes and a special ending episode.  Foodie 2 Shoes is a joint collaboration between Taiwan and Hong Kong.  The two hosts are Taiwan's popular singer/composer Harlem Yu and Hong Kong's actor/singer Patrick Tang.  Along with the two hosts are eight lady helpers each representing a type of fruit or drinks known as Angels of Taste.  Because of the difference in the host's background and native language, they both would attempt to speak each other's language, creating an entertaining atmosphere for the audience.  In the beginning of each episode, Harlem would attempt to speak a Cantonese phrase or Patrick attempting a Taiwanese phrase, making the audience laugh and guessing what they are saying.  Afterward, the hosts would give away a free zodiac figure made of 14k gold to an audience that can guess correctly the ingredients of a food sample.  The show then continues with a variety of games that enable guests to use their five senses to differentiate various foods.  Every two episodes will have four guests each in two pairs, often celebrities or famous figures.  The purpose of the show aimed to draw the two culture together with food.  Within each sense game, the winning pair will receive cash as reward and the amount differs in each game.  At the end of each episode, the two pair of guests must play a simple game to determine who gets all the cash that was rewarded.  Foodie 2 Shoes is the name of the first season.  After it ended, the show aired its second season as Boom Boom Ba with new game concepts from February 2009 until end of March 2009.

Game Format
Four celebrity guests, usually actors and singers, are invited each time for two episodes.  They will be paired up into two teams.  Each team will play in a variety of games to earn cash rewards.  The games that the guest will play are randomly chosen by the producer among eight games that test the five senses of human being.  Four of the eight games will be played according and each game rewards a different amount of cash rewards.  After all games are played and cashes rewarded, there will be a fortune switch game to determine which pair of guest will get to keep all of the cash that was rewarded.  In addition to the cash rewarded, the winner will also received additional prizes.  The team that lost will go home empty-handed.  The audience are also able to win prizes at the beginning and intermission of each episode base on simple games.

Angels of the Senses
Alongside with Harlem and Patrick are eight female assistance.  Each assistance represents a different kind of fruit and drink.

Variety Games
Each guest that are invited to the show are subjected to play in four of the following eight games that relate to the five senses of human.  There are two games that related to the sense of touch and three games related to taste.  Each game is rewarded differently in cash amounts.

Sight
Each of the eight assistance carry a case holding a type of food sample and the guest must choose one among the eight cases. Within the cases are two dishes of the same type of food, however, one dish tastes gross with added extra ingredient while the other dish taste delicious. The pair of guest who does the choosing must sample a dish individually while the other pair of guest must observe their expressions. Base on observations, the other team must decide whether who is sampling the nasty dish or the normal dish. A correct guess would earn the team $5000 HK, yet a wrong guess would earn the sampling team $5000 HK. After the observing team guessed, they get to sample a choice of dish while the previous team does the observation for the same deal

Hear
A pair of guest sits between two boards preventing them to see what's behind the board. On one side of the boards is an edible substance while the other side contains something inedible.  During the game, an Angel of Taste from each side of the board will provide sounds using the food item and non-food item respectively.  After providing sounds from both items, the team must then decide within five seconds whether the left or right side contains the edible substance.  Guessed right would earn the team $3000 HK along with the food item.  However, guessed wrong would lead to punishments.  Such punishment can either be asking the team to lick or take a bite out of the inedible item.  The second team gets a chance to do the same as well.

Taste
One member from a team chooses a song to sing while being blindfolded.  During the time they are singing, the guest must take our their tongue from time to time to lick sauces that Harlem and Patrick give them.  After the song ended, the guest uncovers their eye and try to recall as many sauces as possible.  Each correct guess would earn the team $500 HK.  In addition to earning cash from guessing the sauces, Harlem would judge how well the guest sang on a scale of 0-10.  With 10 being the highest, whatever score he gives the guest is multiply by $1000 HK.  The maximum amount of cash the guest can get from singing is $10000 HK.

Touch
One member of a team stands before a board wall with openings for both hands.  Both hosts enable the guest to touch two items: an edible and inedible item.  The guest does not get to freely touch the items, but are limited to as much as the host wants them to touch.  After contact with the items consecutively, the guest must decide whether which item he touched is edible.  Guessed correctly would earn the team $5000 HK. Harlem would hit the guest with the inedible item if guessed incorrectly.

Smell
A team member is blindfolded while sitting between two board wall with an opening.  Each side of a board is a taste Angel attempting to send odor from an item to the guest through the opening.  One Angel will be sending odor from an edible dish while the other is sending odor from a dish that has added an extra ingredient for disgust.  After smelling both sides respectively, the guest must decide within five seconds whether the right or left hand side contains the edible dish base on their sense.  Guessed correctly would earn the team $5000 HK.  However, punishment applies if guessed wrong.  Both team member either have to taste or take a bite of the inedible dish.

Lick
Both team members are given a dish with sauce left-overs.  By licking the sauce, the guests are expected to name the ingredients to make the dish.  Each correct ingredient would earn the team $1000 HK.  If the team can possibly name the dish, $5000 HK would be awarded in addition to each ingredients guessed correctly.

Feel
A certain taste Angel points out a specific part of her body.  This indicates that one member of a team will use that part of their body to feel on items while blindfolded. Harlem and Patrick each will put an item on that part of the guest's body for them to feel on.  One item will be edible and the other is not. Guessed correctly which of the two items is edible will earn the team $5000 HK.

Eat
Pair of guest decides on who is eating and who is passing.  The one eating is blindfolded and the one passing must use an extra-long chopstick to transfer food from a in-circular motion table to the mouth of the blindfolded guest.  The passer can choose whichever food item to transfer.  Once a transfer is good, the blindfolded guest must guess correctly what the food item is in order to count as successful.  If wrong, guest will have to try again on next transfer.  Within a time limit, each team must transfer and guess correctly as many food item as possible.  The team with the most successful transfers and guesses is awarded $5000 HK

Fortune Switch
At the end of every episode, all the cash rewards will be put at stake for a team to take.  Both team must play a simple game chosen randomly by Harlem to determine the rightful owner of the cash prize.  At the end of a first episode, all the cash prize is held by the winning team.  However, the end of a second episode will allow the final winning team to take all the cash rewarded home in addition with many other prizes.  Because every four guests get to be on the show for two episodes, two fortune switch game is played to determine who gets all the money home.

Games (all time-limited)
Biggest apple bite
Poking the most fish balls
Largest watermelon bite
Most corn eaten
Shaking the most toothpicks out
Loudest for opening a bag of chips
Loser must hand over all their cash rewards to the winning team.

Guest List

Complaints
During the process of the games played, much food was wasted and some acts caused disturbance.  When playing the Sight game, some guest spits food out in front of the camera and towards the audience.  In the Eating game, dish after dishes of food are dropped to the floor wasted when a guest can not catch it with their mouth.  Moreover, the Smell game punishes guest to bite diapers or lick disturbing substances when they guessed wrong.  This caused the show to receive multiple complaints from the viewers.

References

TVB original programming


Metro Central

Government schools

 Alexander Sinton Secondary School
 Aloe Secondary School
 Athlone Secondary School
 Belgravia Secondary School
 Bridgetown Secondary School
 Camps Bay High School
 Cape Town High School
 Cathkin Secondary School
 Claremont High School
 Crystal Secondary School
 Holy Cross High School
 Gardens Commercial High School
 Good Hope Seminary High School
 Groenvlei Secondary School
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Pelican Park High School
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 Salt River Secondary School
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 Silverstream Secondary School
 South African College High School
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 Thandokhulu Secondary School
 Trafalgar Secondary School
 Vista High School
 Voortrekker High School
 Westerford High School
 Windermere Secondary School
 Windsor High School
 Zonnebloem Nest Senior School

Independent schools

 B.E.S.T College (Salt River)
 Cannons Creek Independent School
 Darul Islam Islamic High School
 Deutsche Internationale Schule Kapstadt
 Diocesan College
 Herschel Girls' School
 Herzlia High School
 Michael Oak Waldorf School
 St. Cyprian's School
 St. George's Grammar School
 Star College Bridgetown
 Star College CapeTown

Metro South

Government schools

 Ikamvalethu Senior Secondary School
 Aloe Secondary School
 I.D Mkize secondary school
 Beacon Hill Secondary School
 Bergvliet High School
 Claremont High School
 Crestway High School
 Fezeka Secondary school
 Focus College
 Fish Hoek High School
 Grassdale High School
 Grassy Park High School
 Heathfield High School
 Lavender Hill Secondary School
 Livingston High School
 Masiphumelele High School
 Mondale High School
 Muizenberg High School
 Pelican Park High School
 Plumstead High School
 Portland Secondary School
 Sibelius High School
 South Peninsula High School
 Steenberg Secondary School
 Wittebomme High School
 Wynberg Boys' High School
 Vuyiseka Secondary School
 Sinethemba Secondary School
 Sophumelela Secondary School
 Phakama High School
 Philippi High School
 Phandulwazi High School
 Oscar Mpeta
 Ntsebenziswano Secondary School
 Wynberg Girls' High School
 Wynberg Secondary School
 Zeekoevlei High School
 Zwaanswyk High School
 New Eisleben High School

Independent schools

 American International School of Cape Town

Metro North

Government schools

 Belhar Secondary School
 Bellville High School
 Bosmansdam High School
 D.F. Malan High School
 Durbanville High School
 Fairbairn College
 Fairmont High School
 Milnerton High School
 Range Secondary School
 Sinenjongo High School
 Stellenberg High School
 Table View High School
 The Settlers High School
 Tygerberg High School

Independent schools

 Iqra Academy
 Mountain View Academy
 Parklands College

Metro East

Government schools

 Brackenfell High School
 Chris Hani Secondary School
 Eben Donges High School
 Eersterivier Secondary School
 Hottentots Holland High School
 Monument Park High School
 Parel Vallei High School
 Protea Heights Academy
 Strand High School
 Uxolo High School

Independent schools

 False Bay High School

Cape Winelands

Government schools

 Bloemhof High School
 Drostdy Technical High School
 Makupula Secondary School
 Labori High School
 La Rochelle Girls' High School
 Paarl Gimnasium
 Paarl Boys' High School
 Kayamandi High School
 Paul Roos Gymnasium
 Rhenish Girls' High School
 Stellenbosch High School
 Klein Nederburg Secondary School

Independent schools

 Bridge House School

Overberg

Government schools

 De Villiers Graaff High School

 Swartberg Secondary School

 Groenberg Secondary School

Eden & Central Karoo

Government schools

 George Secondary School
 York High School

References

Western Cape
Schools


Are U 4 Real? () is a Swedish young adult book written by Sara Kadefors. It was originally written as a script for a television drama, but after a Swedish television network turned it down, Kadefors got Bonnier Carlsen to publish it as a book in 2001. On 7 April 2009 it was revealed that the book would be released in the United States on 14 May 2009 with a new title, Are U 4 Real? The book is about a girl named Ida who lives in Stockholm and a boy named Sandor who lives in Gothenburg. The two sixteen-year-olds meet for the first time on an Internet chat room, where they eventually fall in love with each other. However, everything goes wrong when Sandor decides to visit Ida in Stockholm.

Plot
Ida is exactly the opposite of the girls Sandor usually talks to in real life. She is an attractive girl from Stockholm who likes to party, while he is a shy boy from Gothenburg who likes to dance ballet. The two first meet in an Internet chat room, where they share their feelings and become close friends. Sandor and Ida eventually fall in love with each other. However, everything goes wrong when Sandor decides to visit Ida in Stockholm.

Publication history
Sandor slash Ida was originally written by Sara Kadefors as a television drama. However, when she pitched the idea to the Swedish television network Sveriges Television, they turned it down. Kadefors therefore tried to get it published as a book, and in 2001 she got it published by Bonnier Carlsen. On 7 April 2009 it was revealed that the book would be published in the United States by Penguin Group on 14 May 2009. Several changes have been made to the English adaptation of the book. Ida's name has been changed to Kyla and Sandor's has been changed to Alex. The book is no longer set in Sweden; Stockholm has been replaced by Los Angeles and Gothenburg by San Francisco. Several parts of the book regarding Ida's sexual experiences have also been removed or censored. Kadefors said she was insulted by the changes, "it's like if the book wasn't good enough, and [Ida's] experiences with sex and alcohol explains why she reacts the ways she does in the book." The book's translator explained that if the book had contained "too much sex" it would have been difficult to sell to stores.

Reception
The episode has received multiple awards. In 2001, it won the prestigious Augustpriset (English: August Award) in the "Best Children-Youth Book" category. It won the Pocketpriset (English: Pocket Award) for being the most sold children's book in 2001. It is one of the most common books for Swedish children between the ages of twelve to fifteen to read during their primary education in Swedish schools. Other common books include Lord of the Flies and Vinterviken.

Film adaptation

A film adaptation of the book was released in Sweden on 4 February 2005. It was written by Kadefors and directed by Henrik Georgsson, Kadefors's husband. The film won an award at the Gothenburg Film Festival, where it premiered. The film also won a Guldbagge Award.

References

External links
Sandor slash Ida at Bonnier Carlsen
Are U 4 Real? at Penguin Group

Swedish children's novels
2001 Swedish novels
Novels set in Stockholm
August Prize-winning works
Swedish-language novels
Young adult novels
Novels about social media
2001 children's books
Children's books set in Sweden


Casares is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Quirós, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 131.

Villages
 Casares
 Faedo
 Fresneo
 La Muela
 La Pachuca
 La Vigutierre
 Toriezo

Parishes in Quirós


Andulo is a town and municipality in Bié Province in Angola. The municipality covers an area of , with a Population of 258,161 in 2014. It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Mussende, to the east by the municipalities of Luquembo and Nharea, to the south by the municipalities of Cunhinga, Mungo and Bailundo and west by the municipalities of Cela and Quibala.

History
Andulo was promoted to the category of town on July 3, 1971 and on this date an annual festival is held to celebrate the event.

2008 incident
In September 2008, Islamic extremists rioted in the city, attacking the property of Christians and murdering the young daughter of a deacon.

References

Populated places in Bié Province
Municipalities of Angola
1971 establishments in the Portuguese Empire


Joseph Michael Maese (born December 2, 1978) is a former American football long snapper. He was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the sixth round (194th overall) of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at New Mexico. He was also a member of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL), as well as the Baltimore Blackbirds of the American Indoor Football Association.

Professional career
Maese was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the sixth round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He was the first pure long snapper ever drafted and the only long snapper drafted that year. He played college football at The University of New Mexico. Maese also played for the Detroit Lions and the Baltimore Blackbirds of the American Indoor Football Association.

Post-football
Following his professional football career, Maese was employed as a firefighter in Howard County, Maryland.

References

1978 births
Living people
American football defensive ends
American football linebackers
American football long snappers
New Mexico Lobos football players
Baltimore Ravens players
Detroit Lions players
Baltimore Blackbirds players
People from Morenci, Arizona


Alban is an unincorporated community in the town of Alban in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States.

Geography
Alban is located in central Wisconsin approximately one-half mile east of Rosholt and approximately three and a half miles northwest of Peru. (Lat: 44° 37' 39.7", Lon: -89° 17' 03.9"). Located at the intersection of State Road 66 and County Road A, the community is the central location of the town government.

History
Alban was named after Colonel James S. Alban, who was a Portage County attorney, but died in combat during the Civil War. The original Alban was actually south of Peru in the town of New Hope. It was moved to its present-day location when it acquired its own Post Office. The Alban Post Office was absorbed by Rosholt's post office in the 1950s.

Alban was once home to a general store and a church. The church was said to have burned down, but its cemetery remains. Today, Alban still has the town hall and garage to the south, with the Rosholt School District's bus garage and other businesses to the north of State Road 66.

Notes

Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Portage County, Wisconsin


Cunhinga is a town and municipality in Bié Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 73,826 in 2014.

History
During the colonial period, the town was called Vouga.

References

Populated places in Bié Province
Municipalities of Angola


RMS Amazon may refer to one of the following Royal Mail Ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company or Royal Mail Lines:

 , an RMSP wooden paddle steamer that burned and sank on her maiden voyage in January 1852, killing 104 people
 , an RMSP ocean liner sunk by  on 15 March 1918.
 , an RML ocean liner transferred to Shaw, Savill Line in 1968 and later converted into the car transporter ship Akarita.

Ship names


River of Tuoni is the debut full-length studio album by Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn.

The songs "River of Tuoni" and "My Only Star" from the album were the first Amberian Dawn tracks to have a music video recorded, in May of 2008 and January 2009 respectively.

The bonus track "Dreamchaser" is an instrumental version of a song by Atheme One, a band which featured founding Amberian Dawn members Tuomas Seppälä, Tommi Kuri, Heikki Saari and Tom Sagar. The song appeared on the band's demo, which had a limited release in 2006 and was later sold through Amberian Dawn's forum and Facebook group in December 2010.

All songs from this album are featured as downloadable content songs on the Rock Band Network.

Track listing

Personnel
Amberian dawn
Heidi Parviainen – vocals
Kasperi Heikkinen – clean guitar parts on "My Only Star", 1st and 3rd solo on "Dreamchaser"
Tuomas Seppala – all other guitars, additional keyboards, producer, assistant engineer
Tom Sagar– keyboards
Tommi Kuri – bass
Joonas Pykälä-Aho – drums

Guest/session musicians
Heikki Saari – drums
Jarmo Lahtiranta – kettle drums
Vakosametti – choir (Erkki Kaikkonen, Juha Palkeinen, Markku Haikenen, Mikko Moilanen, Teemu Paananen, Tommi Kohlemainen) on "My Wings Are My Eyes", "Lullaby" and "Passing Bells"
Peter James Goodman – male vocals on "Lullaby" and "Passing Bells"

Production
Lari Takala – producer, engineer, mixing
Tommi Kuri – producer, assistant engineer
Tero-Pekka Virtanen – mixing
Svante Forsbäck – mastering

External links
 "River Of Tuoni" at discogs

References

Amberian Dawn albums
2008 debut albums


Chinguar is a town and municipality in Bié Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 167,396 in 2022.

Chinguar Municipality is divided into three communes, Chinguar, Kangote and Kutato.

Transport
Chinguar lies on the central (Benguela) railway of Angola.

See also

 Railway stations in Angola

References

Populated places in Bié Province
Municipalities of Angola


Nueva Hespérides International Airport  is an airport serving Salto,  the capital of Salto Department in Uruguay. The airport is  south of the city.

The airport was formerly served by Transporte Aéreo Militar Uruguayo and Aviasur, but currently has no scheduled air service. There are plans to modernize and resume air service between Salto and Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo.

The Salto VOR-DME (Ident: STO) and non-directional beacon (Ident: ST) are located on the field.

Accidents and incidents
20 June 1977: a Transporte Aéreo Militar Uruguayo Embraer EMB110C Bandeirante registration CX-BJE/T584 flying from Montevideo to Salto crashed after striking trees in an orange grove during approach to Salto. The crew of 2 and 3 of the 13 passengers died.

See also

Transport in Uruguay
List of airports in Uruguay

References

External links
OpenStreetMap - Salto
OurAirports - Nueva Hesperides International Airport

Airports in Uruguay
Buildings and structures in Salto Department


Following is a list of Bangladeshi poets, either born in Bangladesh or who published much of their writing while living in the country.

A
Ahsan Habib
Abul Hussain
Abu Zafar Obaidullah
Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal
Al Mahmud
Abul Hasan
Arunabh Sarkar
Abid Azad
Alaol
Azizur Rahman (poet)
Anisul Hoque
Anwar Pasha
Abdul Mannan Syed
Abu Hasan Shahriar
Abdul Hye Sikder
 Abid Anwar
Abdul Ghani Hazari

B
Bimal Guha
Bonde Ali Mia

E
Enamul Karim Nirjhar

F
Farrukh Ahmed
Fazal Shahabuddin

H
Helal Hafiz
Hasan Hafizur Rahman
Humayun Azad

J
Jasimuddin
Jibanananda Das

K
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Khondakar Ashraf Hossain
Kusumkumari Das
Hafiz Rashid Khan
Kaykobad

L
Lalon Shah

M
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Mozid Mahmud
Motiur Rahman Mollik

N
Nirmalendu Goon

R
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah

S
Shah Muhammad Sagir
Shamsur Rahman
Syed Shamsul Huq
Shaheed Quaderi
Sikdar Aminul Haq
Shah Abdul Karim

T
 Tuhin Das

See also
 List of Bangladeshi people

References

Bangladeshi
poets


The Gay Financial Network was created by Walter Schubert in April 1998. It aims to single out businesses which practice discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. It was the first gay-specific company to be advertised in The Wall Street Journal, on February 18, 2000 and has been seen as an example of the merging of gay activism with gay marketing.

References

External links
 Archive home page Gay Financial Network
Organizations established in 1998
LGBT business organizations

Defunct LGBT organizations in the United States


Józef Achilles Puchała (18 March 1911, Kosina – 19 July 1943, Borowikowszczyzna) was a Polish Franciscan friar from the Iwieniec (Ivyanets) monastery, tortured and killed by the Nazis during World War II and beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999.

He was born on 18 March 1911 to Franciszka and Zofii née Olbrycht and was baptized the same day. He entered seminary in Lviv in 1924, took his vows on 22 May 1932, and was ordained on 5 July 1932.

At the age of 16 he was admitted to the order of Franciscans. Between 1932 and 1937 he studied philosophy and theology in Kraków. He was ordained in 1936. After completing his studies he joined the Franciscan friary in Grodno. In 1939 he became a second vicar in Iwieniec (Ivyanets).

At the start of World War II he was moved to a nearby village as a provost of parish of St. Mary Magdalene. After the anti-Nazi uprising in Iwieniec, in June 1943 the local population was arrested by the Germans. Although Puchała had the opportunity, he chose not to escape and instead remained with his parishioners.

"Operation Hermann" was an operation by the Nazi's targeted especially against the Polish resistance movement. One of the many victims of Nazi terror were the Franciscan brothers Joseph Achilles Puchała and Charles Herman Stępień, who were tortured to death. They were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1999 among the 108 Martyrs of World War II,

References

1911 births
1943 deaths
Polish beatified people
Polish civilians killed in World War II
Catholic saints and blesseds of the Nazi era
108 Blessed Polish Martyrs


Bárzana is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Quirós, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 497.

Villages
 L'Arroxín
 Bárzana
 La Casa Vide
 Cuañana
 El Pando
 Pontonga
 Rano
 El Regustiu
 Santa Marina
 Vaḷḷín

References

Parishes in Quirós


Chitembo is a town and municipality in Bié Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 78,156 in 2014.

References

Populated places in Bié Province
Municipalities of Angola


The S. D. Newton House is a historic house at 8 Sycamore Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1846, it is an excellent local instance of Greek Revival styling, and one of the few houses surviving from that period in the neighborhood. which once had many more of such houses. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1980. Unfortunately the current keeper of the home has let it go. Not much original left. Garbage everywhere on the inside. Lead paint, peeling paint. An eyesore it has become. It once was a great piece of local history.

Description and history
The Newton House is located just south of Worcester's downtown area, on the northeast side of Sycamore Street in a mixed residential and commercial area. It is a -story wood-frame house, with a front-facing gable roof and clapboard siding.  It is set on a lot fronted by a low granite curb and a picket fence. The building corners have paneled pilasters, which rise to an entablature below the fully pedimented gable and extending along the building sides. A single-story porch extends across the building width, with fluted Doric columns rising to an entablature beneath a shallow hip roof. The front facade is three bays wide, with the entrance in the right bay, flanked by sidelight windows and narrow pilasters, and topped by an entablature.

The house was built in 1846, and typifies the houses that were built in the immediate area in the 1840s, although it is now one of the few houses left from that period. Most of the houses from that period have been replaced either by later residential construction or commercial buildings. The house's first known occupant was S. D. Newton, a painter; later residents include a victualler and telegrapher. The current resident, a hoarder.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in northwestern Worcester, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

References

Houses completed in 1849
Houses in Worcester, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Worcester, Massachusetts
1849 establishments in Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Greek Revival houses in Massachusetts


Catabola is a town and municipality in Bié Province in central Angola. It is located  by road northeast of Kuito, on the road to Camacupa. The municipality had a population of 126,631 in 2014.

History
Before 1975 the main town was known as "Nova Sintra". On 20 February 1996, the Forças Armadas de Angola (FAA) attacked a UNITA garrison in Lisusu, about  from Catabola. It was captured along with towns such as Andulo, Bailundo, Camapuca and Chiguar during the FAA Christmas Offensive of December 1999. Numerous local government officials and sympathizers of the government were killed during the attack.

References

Populated places in Bié Province
Municipalities of Angola


Cuemba is a town and municipality in Bié Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 56,963 in 2014.

See also

 Railway stations in Angola

References

Populated places in Bié Province
Municipalities of Angola


Rafiq Azad (born Rafiqul Islam Khan; February 14, 1941 – March 12, 2016) was a Bangladeshi poet, editor and writer. He is credited with 45 collections of poetry including Prakriti O Premer Kabita, Asambhaber Paye, Sahasra Sundar, Haturir Nichae Jiban, Khub Beshi Durea Noy, Khamakaro Bahaman Hey Udar Amiyo Batas and others. He is most well known for his poem "Bhaat De Haramjada" (Give me food, bastard) which was written during the famine of 1974. The poet participated in the war against the Pakistani occupation forces in 1971 Liberation War and was awarded ‘Notable Freedom Fighter Award” in 1997. He received Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1984 and national award Ekushey Padak in 2013, for his contribution to Bangla language and literature.

Early life and education
Azad was born on February 14, 1941, in the remote village of Guni in Tangail district, a central region of Bangladesh. He was the youngest of three children of Salimuddin Khan and Rabeya Khan. He earned his bachelor's and master's in Bengali literature from University of Dhaka in 1965 and 1967, respectively.

Career

Literary
Azad was widely regarded as one of the most prolific young poets in the post-Liberation War period. He had 45 books to his credit, including an autobiography. His first book of poetry, Ashombhober Paye, was published in 1973. Since then, he had experimented with language and poetic form, where surrealistic approach was conspicuous.

He described himself as a 'lover of humans, nature and romance'. He depicted love, romance, poverty, sufferings, injustice, urban and rural life through his poems.  Many of his love poems, including ‘He Doroja’ and ‘Bhalobashar Shonga’(Definition of Love), have been used and quoted many times in movies, TV dramas and other media in Bangladesh. He became widely famous when his controversial poem “Bhaat De Haramjada” was published in 1974. At the time the country was going through its worst famine. It was an angry poem about a starving man lashing out in impotent rage- “Bhat De Haramzada, Noile Manchitro Khabo” (“give me food, bastard! Or I will engulf your map, your geography!”). The indication was -if the newly independent country cannot even feed its own people, then what good is the liberation? The poet quickly became the center of a controversy. The Sheikh Mujib administration found the poem to be incendiary and an attack on the ruling party, while his readership hailed it as a rebellious and courageous outburst. In an attempt to settle the debate, Azad explained to the administration, by writing a long analysis of how his poem only reflected the great literary tradition of Bengal and the poem intended no animosity toward the government.

Professional
Throughout his professional life, spanning 50 years, Azad had many roles. He began his career as a lecturer in Kagmari College (now Govt. Maulna Mohammad Ali College) in Tangail in the late 1960s. The year 1971, changed the course of the poet's life, as he traded his pen with a wooden rifle. After March 25th crackdown by Pakistani Military, Azad joined Kader Siddique’s ‘Kaderia Bahini’, a civilian guerrilla force, to fight against the occupying army in the Liberation War. He soon received the necessary arms and equipment from the treasury, provided by then finance secretary Khondokar Asaduzzaman.

He joined Bangla Academy in 1972 and worked there until 1984, as the executive editor of Uttaradhikar, a monthly magazine. He was also the editor of Robbaar, another popular weekly in 1980s. Azad was the director of National Book Center (Jatiyo Grontho Kendro) of Bangladesh for many years. He briefly served as the deputy general manager of BJMC (Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation). Azad returned to Bangla Academy in 1995, for a brief period, to help assist the ‘Young Writers Project’, taking up the role of poetics instructor. Later he went back to teaching and became a visiting professor of literature at Jahangirnagar University in Savar. In the recent years, he had been working in a daily called Amader Shomoy.

Personal life and death
Azad married Adila Bakul in 1969 and together they had four children - Lopa, Rahul, Deepita and Rajeev. In 1983, the couple separated and later that year he married Dilara Hafiz. Together they had two sons - Ovinna and Obyoy. Azad suffered a stroke in January 2016 and remained hospitalized for almost 8 weeks. He died on March 12, 2016, in Dhaka. His body was entombed in Martyred Intellectuals' Cemetery in Mirpur.

Books
 Asombhaber Payae
 Semabadha Jalae, Simito Shobuja
 Ekjibona
 Haturier Nichae Jibon
 Porikirno Panchala Amer Swadesh
 Khub Bashi Durea Nay
 Khamakaro Bahoman Hay Udar Omiyo Batas
 Karo Ashuro Pat
 Pagolar Thekay Pramikar Chiti
 Apar Arannya
 Moulobir Mon Bholo Nay
 Priyo Shareegulo
 Poems on Love Environment and Other Difficulties

Awards
 Kobitalap Award (1979)
 Alaol Literary Award (1981)
 Bangla Academy Literary Award (1981)
 Suhrit Literary Award (1989)
 Poet Ahsan Habib Award (1991)
 Poet Hasan Hafizur Rahman Award (1996)
 Notable Freedom Fighter Award (1997)
 Ekushey Padak (2013)

References

1941 births
2016 deaths
Bangladeshi male poets
Recipients of Bangla Academy Award
Recipients of the Ekushey Padak
University of Dhaka alumni
Academic staff of Jahangirnagar University
Burials at Mirpur Martyred Intellectual Graveyard
20th-century Bangladeshi poets
20th-century Bangladeshi male writers


Artigas International Airport  is an airport serving Artigas, capital of the Artigas Province of Uruguay. The airport is  west of the city, and is close to the border with Brazil.

The airport was opened in November 1973.

The Artigas non-directional beacon (Ident: AT) is located  off the threshold of Runway 29. The Monte Caseros VOR-DME (Ident: MCS) is located  west of the airport.

Accidents and incidents
10 February 1978: a TAMU Douglas C-47A 75-DL registration CX-BJH/T511 flying from Artigas to Montevideo crashed shortly after take-off from Artigas on a domestic scheduled passenger flight. All 44 people on board, comprising 38 passengers and 6 crew, were killed, making this the second-worst crash involving a DC-3 (or derivative), and the worst aviation accident in Uruguay at the time. The airframe in question had first flown in 1943, and was damaged beyond repair in the accident.

See also

 Transport in Uruguay
 List of airports in Uruguay

References

External links
OpenStreetMap - Artigas
OurAirports - Artigas Airport

Airports in Uruguay
Airports established in 1973
Buildings and structures in Artigas Department


Nharea is a town and municipality in Bié Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 126,339 in 2014.

History
Nharea has been promoted to the category of town on August 15, 1965.

External links
Facebook profile

References

Populated places in Bié Province
Municipalities of Angola


Oskar Gröning (10 June 1921 – 9 March 2018) was a German SS Unterscharführer who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and he was in charge of the personal property of arriving prisoners. On a few occasions he witnessed the procedures of mass killing in the camp. After being transferred from Auschwitz to a combat unit in October 1944, Gröning surrendered to the British at the end of the war; his role in the SS was not discovered. He was eventually transferred to the UK as a prisoner of war and worked as a farm labourer.

Upon his return to Germany, he led a normal life, reluctant to talk about his time in Auschwitz. However, more than 40 years later, after learning about Holocaust denial, he decided to make public his activities at Auschwitz. He openly criticised those who denied the events that he had witnessed and the ideology to which he had subscribed. Gröning was notable as a German willing to make public statements about his experience as an SS soldier, which were self-incriminating and which exposed his life to public scrutiny. In particular, he confessed to stealing jewellery and money from gas chamber victims for his personal benefit.

In September 2014, Gröning was charged by German prosecutors as an accessory to murder in 300,000 cases, for his role at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His trial began in April 2015, after the court had ruled that, at the age of 93, he was still fit to stand trial. The trial was held in Lüneburg, Germany. On 15 July 2015, he was found guilty of knowingly facilitating mass murder and sentenced to four years' imprisonment. Following a number of unsuccessful appeals against the prison sentence, Gröning died on 9 March 2018 while hospitalized before he was set to begin his sentence.

Early life and education
Gröning was born in June 1921, in Nienburg in what was then Prussia (today in Lower Saxony), the son of a skilled textile worker. His mother died when he was four. His father, a nationalist and strict conservative, joined Der Stahlhelm after Germany's defeat in the First World War (during which his father had lost an eye), and his father's anger at how Germany had been treated following the Treaty of Versailles increased as his textile business went bankrupt in 1929 due to insufficient capital.

Gröning stated that his childhood had been one of "discipline, obedience and authority". Gröning was fascinated by military uniforms, and one of his earliest memories was of looking at photos of his grandfather, who served in an elite regiment of the Duchy of Brunswick, on his horse and playing his trumpet. He told Der Spiegel in 2005, that as a child, he played marbles in the street with Anne Selig, the daughter of a Jewish ironmonger whose store was next to his home. When Nazi stormtroopers held up a sign outside the shop saying, "Germans, do not buy from Jews," he said, he was unmoved. He joined the Scharnhorst (the Stahlhelm's youth organisation) as a small boy in the 1930s, and later the Hitler Youth when the Nazis came to power in 1933. Influenced by his family's values, he felt that Nazism was advantageous to Germany and believed that the Nazis "were the people who wanted the best for Germany and who did something about it." He participated in the burning of books written by Jews and other authors that the Nazis considered degenerate in the belief that he was helping Germany free itself from an alien culture, and considered that National Socialism was having a positive effect on the economy, pointing to lower unemployment.

Gröning left school with high marks and began a traineeship as a bank clerk when he was 17, but war was declared in 1939 shortly after he started employment, and eight of the twenty clerks present were immediately conscripted into the army. This allowed the remaining trainees to further their banking careers in a relatively short time; however, despite these opportunities, Gröning and his colleagues were inspired by Germany's quick victories in France and Poland and wanted to contribute.

SS career
Gröning wanted to join an elite army unit and set his sights on joining the Schutzstaffel. Without his father's knowledge, he did so in 1940 at a hotel where the SS was recruiting. Gröning said that his father was disappointed to learn this when he came home after having joined.

Gröning described himself as a "desk person" and was content with his role in SS salary administration, which granted him both the administrative and military aspects he wanted from a career.

Auschwitz

Arrival

Gröning worked as a bookkeeper for a year until 1942, when the SS ordered that desk jobs were to be reserved for injured veterans, and that fit members in administrative roles were to be subjected to more challenging duties. Gröning and about 22 of his colleagues travelled to Berlin where they reported to one of the SS economic offices.

They were then given a lecture by several high-ranking officers who reminded them of the oath of loyalty they took, which they could prove by doing a difficult task. The task was top secret: Gröning and his fellow SS men had to sign a declaration that they would not disclose it to family or friends, or people not in their unit. Once this had concluded, they were split into smaller groups and taken to various Berlin stations where they boarded a train in the direction of Katowice with orders to report to the commandant of Auschwitz, a place Gröning had not heard of before.

Upon arrival at the main camp, they were given provisional bunks in the SS barracks, warmly greeted by fellow SS men and provided with food. Gröning was surprised at the myriad food items available in addition to basic SS rations. The new arrivals were curious about what function Auschwitz served. They were told that they should find out for themselves because Auschwitz was a special kind of concentration camp. Immediately someone opened the door and shouted "Transport!", causing three or four people to leave the room.

The next day, Gröning and the other arrivals reported to the central SS administrative building and were asked about their background before the war. One of the officers said Gröning's bank clerk skills would be useful, and took him to barracks where the prisoners' money was kept. Gröning  was told that when prisoners were registered into the camp, their money was stored here and later returned to them when they left.

It became clear that Auschwitz was not a normal internment camp with above-average SS rations, but that it served an additional function. Gröning was informed that money taken from interned Jews was not actually returned to them. When he inquired further, his colleagues confirmed that the Jews were being systematically exterminated and that this had included the transport of prisoners who had arrived the previous night.

Tasks

Gröning's responsibilities included sorting and counting the multitude of currencies taken from arriving deportees, sending it to Berlin, and guarding the belongings of arrivals until they were sorted. He related that he was astonished to learn of the extermination process, but later accepted his part in it, stating that his work became "routine" after several months.

His bureaucratic job did not shield him completely from physical acts of the extermination process: as early as his first day, Gröning saw children hidden on the train and people unable to walk who had remained among the rubbish and debris after the selection process had been completed, being shot. Gröning also heard:

After witnessing this, Gröning claimed, he went to his boss and told him that he could not work at Auschwitz anymore, stating that if the extermination of the Jews is necessary, "then at least it should be done within a certain framework". Gröning claims that his superior officer denied this request citing a document he had signed before being posted, forcing him to continue his work.

One night towards the end of 1942, Gröning and others in their SS barracks on the outskirts of Birkenau were awakened by an alarm. They were told that a number of Jews who were being taken to the gas chambers had escaped and hidden in the woods. They were ordered to take pistols and search the woods. When his group arrived at the extermination area of the camp they saw a farmhouse, in front of which were SS men and the bodies of seven or eight prisoners who had been caught and shot. The SS men told Gröning and his comrades that they could go home, but they decided to remain in the shadows of the woods. They watched as an SS man put on a gas mask and emptied a tin of Zyklon B into a hatch in the cottage wall. Gröning said the humming noise from inside "turned to screaming" for a minute, then to silence. A comrade later showed him the bodies being burnt in a pit. A kapo there told him details of the burning, such as how gases developed in the body and made the burning corpses move.

Gröning claimed that this disrupted the relative tranquillity his job gave him and that he yet again complained to his superior. His boss listened but reminded him of the pledge that he and his fellow SS men made. Gröning thus returned to work. He declared that he manipulated his life at Auschwitz so as to avoid witnessing the camp's most unpalatable aspects.

After Auschwitz

Great Britain
Gröning's application to transfer to a unit on the front-line was successful, and in 1944 he joined an SS unit fighting in the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes. He was wounded and sent to a field hospital before rejoining his unit, which eventually surrendered to the British Army.

He realised that declaring "involvement in the concentration camp of Auschwitz would have a negative response", and so tried not to draw attention to it, putting on the form given to him by the British that he worked for the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt instead. He said he did this because "the victor's always right", and that things happened at Auschwitz which "did not always comply with human rights".

Gröning and the rest of his SS colleagues were imprisoned in an old Nazi concentration camp. He was later sent to the UK as a forced labourer in 1946 where he had a "very comfortable life". He ate good food and earned money, and travelled through the Midlands and Scotland giving concerts for four months, singing German hymns and traditional English folk songs to appreciative British audiences.

Return to Germany
Gröning was released and returned to Germany in 1947 or 1948. Upon being reunited with his wife, he said: "Girl, do both of us a favour: don't ask." He was unable to regain his job at the bank due to having been a member of the SS, so he got a job at a glass factory, working his way up to a management position. He became head of personnel, and was made an honorary judge (a sort of juror) of industrial tribunal cases.

Upon return to Germany, Gröning lived with his father-in-law. At the dinner table, they once made "a silly remark about Auschwitz", implying that he was a "potential or real murderer," whereupon Gröning became enraged, banging his fist on the table and demanding: "This word and this connection are never, ever, to be mentioned again in my presence, otherwise I'll move out!" Gröning said that this request was respected.

Views on Holocaust denial
Gröning led a normal middle-class life after the war. A keen stamp collector, he was once at his local philately club's annual meeting, more than 40 years after the war, when he fell into a conversation about politics with the man next to him. The man told him it was "terrible" that Holocaust denial was illegal in Germany, and went on to tell Gröning how so many bodies could not have been burnt, and that the volume of gas that was supposed to have been used would have killed all living things in the vicinity.

Gröning said little in response to these statements, replying only: "I know a little more about that, we should discuss it some time." The man recommended a pamphlet by Holocaust denier Thies Christophersen. Gröning obtained a copy and mailed it to Christophersen, having written his own commentary on it, which included the words:

Gröning then began receiving phone calls and letters from strangers who tried to tell him Auschwitz was not actually a place for exterminating human beings in gas chambers.

It became apparent that his comments condemning Holocaust denial had been printed in a neo-Nazi magazine, and that most of the anonymous calls and letters were "From people who tried to prove that what I had seen with my own eyes, what I had experienced in Auschwitz was a big, big mistake, a big hallucination on my part because it hadn't happened."

As a result of such comments, Gröning decided to speak openly about his experiences, and publicly denounce people who maintain the events he witnessed never happened. He said his message to Holocaust deniers was:

He also wrote memoirs for his family, consisting of 87 pages.

Later comments
Gröning did not consider himself guilty of any crime, because he was in no way directly involved in the killing. He described his part in the extermination machine as an involuntary "small cog in the gears", which gave him involuntary guilt in turn. Citing his summons to testify against a member of the SS accused of murdering prisoners at Auschwitz, he also said he was innocent in the eyes of the law, pointing to the fact that he spoke as a witness and not as a defendant.

In the BBC book and DVD set Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution', author Laurence Rees indicates that although Gröning had requested to leave Auschwitz after he witnessed killings, his objection was only on the basis of its practical implementation, and not on the general militaristic principle of the mass extermination of enemies. Gröning said that he thought at the time that it was justified due to all the Nazi propaganda he had been subjected to, in that Germany's enemies were being destroyed, which to him made the tools of their destruction (such as gas chambers) of no particular significance. Because of this, he said his feelings about seeing people and knowing that they had hours to live before being gassed were "very ambiguous".

He explained that children were murdered because, while the children themselves were not the enemy, the danger was the blood within them, in that they could grow up to become dangerous Jews. Rees points to Gröning's ultra-nationalist upbringing as indication of how he was able to justify the extermination of helpless children. Gröning said that the horrors in the gas chambers did eventually dawn on him when he heard the screams.

Rees writes that Gröning described his time at Auschwitz as if he were talking about another Oskar Gröning at Auschwitz—and as a result, the post-war Gröning spoke more candidly about his time there by segregating the Gröning that contributed to the running of a death camp from the modern Gröning that condemns Nazi ideology.

Gröning said that the screams of those in the gas chambers had never left him, and he never returned to Auschwitz because of his shame. He said he felt guilt towards the Jewish people, and for being part of the organisation that committed crimes against them, despite "not having been one of the perpetrators myself". He asked for forgiveness from God and from the Jewish people.

Criminal charges and trial
In September 2014, it was reported that Gröning, then aged 93, had been charged by state prosecutors with having been an accessory to murder for his role at Auschwitz receiving and processing prisoners and their personal belongings. The indictment stated that Gröning economically advanced Nazi Germany and aided the systematic killing of 300,000 of the 425,000 Hungarian Jews who were deported to Auschwitz by 137 railway transports during the summer of 1944.

Gröning's prosecution has been reported to have been a part of Germany's final effort to bring the last Nazi war-crimes suspects to justice. State prosecutors managed to charge the defendant on a legal precedent set in 2011 by the conviction of the former Sobibor extermination camp guard John Demjanjuk by a court in Munich for his presence as a guard at the camp rather than for a specific act of murder.

The trial commenced on 20 April 2015 at Lüneburg Regional Court (Landgericht). In an opening statement, Gröning asked for forgiveness for his mainly clerical role at Auschwitz in the summer of 1944, by saying: "For me there's no question that I share moral guilt", the 93-year-old told the judges, acknowledging he knew about the gassing of Jews and other prisoners. "I ask for forgiveness. I share morally in the guilt but whether I am guilty under criminal law, you will have to decide."

During the trial, several of the 60 "co-claimants" gave evidence.

Eva Mozes Kor, who was 10 years old when she arrived at Auschwitz, testified that she and her twin sister were used for the cruel medical experiments conducted by Josef Mengele and that she had lost her parents and older sisters in Auschwitz. Kor conversed with and embraced the defendant after giving evidence, while other Holocaust survivors in the courtroom protested against this gesture. Another witness, Max Eisen, who was 15 years old at the time of entry into Auschwitz, described the brutality of the extermination part of the camp, including extracting gold teeth from dead victims. On 12 May 2015, Susan Pollack, an 84-year-old Briton, gave evidence of how she was taken from Hungary to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen; describing the living conditions encountered at Auschwitz, she said: "I was in a barrack with about 800 other girls ... we were losing weight, we weren't able to use our minds anymore".

That same day, Ivor Perl, an 83-year-old Briton who was born in Hungary into a religious Jewish family, also gave evidence; Perl testified that he was 12 years old when he arrived at Auschwitz and that he and his brother lost their parents and seven siblings in the Holocaust. In July, Irene Weiss, an 84-year-old survivor from the United States, testified that her family was torn apart on arrival at Auschwitz in May 1944, during the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews and that she had lost both her parents, four siblings and 13 cousins at Auschwitz.

Verdict and sentence
On 15 July 2015, he was found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 Jews. Reacting to the sentence, Auschwitz survivor  Kor said that she was "disappointed" adding: "I would like the court to prove to me, a survivor, how four years in jail will benefit anybody." Gröning's defence lawyer, Hans Holtermann, reviewed the decision before planning to appeal.

On 28 November 2016, the appeal was declined by the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH). In August 2017, Gröning was judged to be fit for prison. An appeal to the Federal Constitutional Court also failed. The latter court ruled his age was not a valid reason not to send him to jail.

On 15 January 2018, Gröning applied for pardon as a last measure to avoid imprisonment. The pardon was rejected.

On 9 March 2018, Gröning died while hospitalized in Lower Saxony before he was to begin his sentence. He was 96.

See also

 Little Eichmanns
 Reinhold Hanning
 Ursula Haverbeck
 The Accountant of Auschwitz

Notes

References

Further reading

1921 births
2018 deaths
20th-century German criminals
Auschwitz concentration camp personnel
German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United Kingdom
Holocaust denial
Holocaust trials
People from Nienburg, Lower Saxony
Criminals from Lower Saxony
Waffen-SS personnel
Hitler Youth members
SS non-commissioned officers


Cinfuegos is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Quirós, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, in northern Spain. The population is 81 (2010).

Villages
 Cinfuegos - Pop. 22
 Cuevas - Pop. 3
 El Molín - Pop. 19
 Las Chanas - Pop. 0
 Viḷḷar de Cinfuegos - Pop. 37

References

 Populations data by INE

Parishes in Quirós


Dirk Bockel (born  18 October 1976) is a professional triathlete originally from Schwaikheim, Germany.  He holds Luxembourgish nationality and raced for Luxembourg in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

He led the race for over 30 minutes after he broke away from the pack during the cycling leg of the race.

He competed in his first Ironman in New Zealand in March 2009 where he placed 3rd.

Bockel won Ironman 70.3 Florida in May 2009, marking the first Luxembourgish to ever win an Ironman event.  He crossed the finish line wearing Mickey Mouse ears.

In 2009 Bockel placed 2nd at ITU European Championships and 7th at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii.  This is the best result for any Luxembourg athlete in the history of triathlon up to that point.  In 2011 he went on to break his own Luxembourgish record by placing 4th at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii.

In 2012 Bockel signed with Leopard Trek, marking the first successful integration of a triathlete into a pro cycling team's infrastructure. In the same year, he qualified again for the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii by winning the Ironman Regensburg with a time of 8:12

In 2013 Bockel won the largest triathlon event in the world, Challenge Roth, in a time of 7:52:01, and in 2014 he was crowned Asia-Pacific Champion at Ironman Melbourne.

In 2015, Bockel raced Challenge Denmark (Billund) and won by setting a new course record in preparation for the ITU World Championships. Days before the race he injured himself severely and had to sit out the entire year. Early 2016 Bockel had to undergo a Weil osteotomy and could not race due to his slow recovery from the surgery.

In January 2017 he retired from racing and left the sport section of the Luxembourgish military, after serving the country for over 11 years with an honorable discharge. Since 2017 he started with race commentating and additional public appearances throughout the world.

1st of October he launched his FB Mentorship group and his book package (5 books) on bis blog www.liveandlettri.com/book 3 of them are available on Amazon/Kindle. Since the publication of his book THE ART OF TRIATHLON TRAINING he gained various media attention worldwide.

References

External links

Triathletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics
1976 births
Olympic triathletes for Luxembourg
Luxembourgian male triathletes
People from Rems-Murr-Kreis
Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region)
Living people


Michael Stuart Solwold (born September 30, 1977) is a former American football long snapper and tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens, and New England Patriots. He played college football at the University of Wisconsin.

Early years
Solwold attended Arrowhead High School, where he was named an All-American, All-State, All-Region and All-Conference at tight end, while receiving the 1995-1996 Wisconsin Gatorade State Player of the year award as a senior.

He contributed to his team winning two WIAA Division I state championships (1993 and 1994). He also was a three-year starter in basketball.

College career
Solwold accepted a football scholarship from the University of Wisconsin. As a freshman, he took over long snapper Mike Schneck, who injured his wrist while celebrating Matt Davenport's game-winning field goal against Indiana University.

In 1999, he became the team's long snapper as a junior and was a part of two Big Ten Conference Championships and two Rose Bowl wins.

Professional career

Minnesota Vikings
Solwold was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Minnesota Vikings after the 2001 NFL Draft on April 23. He was waived on August 27.

Dallas Cowboys
On August 30, 2001, Solwold was claimed off waivers by the Dallas Cowboys, who were looking to replace long snapper Dale Hellestrae who was released in a salary-cap move. On September 4, the Cowboys claimed long snapper Randy Chevrier and cut Solwold. On November 14, he was re-signed after Chevrier struggled for three games. He was released on April 18, 2002.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
On May 3, 2002, he was signed as a free agent by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He suffered a broken left foot in the fourth game against the Cincinnati Bengals. He was placed on the injured reserve list on October 1. He wasn't re-signed after the season.

Baltimore Ravens
On June 9, 2003, Solwold signed with the Baltimore Ravens as a free agent, to compete against starter Joe Maese. He was cut on August 30 and signed to the practice squad two days later. He was promoted to the active roster on December 11 and was declared inactive for the last 3 games, to avoid losing him to the New England Patriots. In 2004, he was cut on the first day of training camp, after recovering from a torn chest muscle that he suffered in the first minicamp. On December 12, he was signed to replace an injured Maese.

New England Patriots
On January 12, 2005, he was signed by the New England Patriots to the practice squad for the playoffs. He wasn't re-signed after the season.

References

External links
 2015 Arrowhead Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees

1977 births
Living people
People from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
Players of American football from Waukesha County, Wisconsin
American football tight ends
American football long snappers
Wisconsin Badgers football players
Minnesota Vikings players
Dallas Cowboys players
Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
Baltimore Ravens players
New England Patriots players


Tydeo Larre Borges International Airport ()  is a general aviation airport serving Paysandú, capital of the Paysandú Department of Uruguay. The airport is  south of the city.

It is named in honour of Tydeo Larre Borges, a pioneer of Uruguayan and international aviation, who was the first South-American aviator to cross the South Atlantic.

The airport has been served by government air service provider TAMU (es) and charter operator Aviasur.

The Gualeguaychu VOR-DME (Ident: GUA) is located  southwest of the airport. The Paysandu non-directional beacon (Ident: PN) is located on the field.

See also

Transport in Uruguay
List of airports in Uruguay

References

External links
OpenStreetMap - Paysandú
OurAirports - Tydeo Larre Borges Airport

Airports in Uruguay
Paysandú
Buildings and structures in Paysandú Department


Ḷḷindes is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Quirós, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 73.

Villages
 El Corral
 Cortes
 El Toḷḷo
 Fresneo de Cortes
 Ḷḷindes

References

Parishes in Quirós


Brent Housing Partnership (BHP) was an arms-length management organisation managing council housing in the London Borough of Brent from 2002 to 2017. Due to BHP's poor performance which left homes in disrepair, the council brought housing management back in-house.

References

External links
Brent Housing Partnership

London Borough of Brent


The Nathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, or Newmark Lab, located at 205 N. Mathews Avenue in Urbana, Illinois on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, houses the university's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The Lab was built in 1967, and has been modified and updated a number of times since then. The facility was named after professor and department head Nathan M. Newmark after his death.

The building consists of classrooms and offices surrounding a large open area called the crane bay for large scale experiments, including those of the Newmark Structural Engineering Lab (NSEL). Newmark also contains a professional machine shop where students and faculty can have material fabricated by the staffed professionals, and a student instrumentation workshop where students and faculty can fabricate materials themselves.

In 2011, the M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Student Center was added to the building.

Crane bay
The crane bay is a large open area in the center of Newmark Laboratory with a three-story height. It is where much of the department's structural research and testing is done. There are large doors on both the north and south sides of this area, where trucks and equipment can move through.  The crane bay gets its name from two large yellow hydraulic cranes on rails above the room, which move heavy equipment around. The crane bay houses many structural analysis equipment, including a concrete cylinder crusher for strength tests and beam deflection measurement devices. There is also a  L-shaped concrete reaction wall with hydraulic actuators, which was added in 2004. The crane bay's large open size is also sometimes used for departmental events such as Engineering Open House and the department's annual career fair.

M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Student Center
In 2011, an addition called the M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Student Center, designed by Teng & Associates, was completed at the cost of $7 million, adding   of classrooms, student study space and meeting rooms. The Yeh Center was funded entirely with private gifts, in particular a $4 million gift from M. T. Geoffrey Yeh, a 1953 graduate of the Department of Civil Engineering. Yeh is chairman of Hsin Chong International Holdings, Ltd., a large construction company in China.

The remainder of the funding for the addition came from private sources including alumni and corporate sponsors, and $1.0 million contributions by both the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the College of Engineering. It opened in time for the start of classes in fall 2011.

Organizations that use Newmark facilities
Many student and professional research organizations use Newmark's facilities for various projects and events.

Student
 American Society of Civil Engineers – This society is a student chapter of the national professional organization. ASCE uses Newmark for many social and service events.
 American Concrete Institute – This society is a student chapter of the national professional organization. ACI uses Newmark for general meetings and other events.
 Steel Bridge Team – The Steel Bridge Team designs, fabricates and assembles a steel bridge every year in a competition against teams from other universities. The team fabricates many of their parts in the student workshop of Newmark, and assembles the bridge and stores it in the crane bay. They also store bridges from previous years in the basement of Newmark.
 Boneyard Yacht Club – Concrete Canoe Team fabricates and then races a concrete canoe every year in a competition against teams from other universities. The canoe team fabricates their canoe in the basement of Newmark, and displays canoes of previous years on a wall of the crane bay.

Professional
 Mid-American Earthquake Center – The MAE Center at UIUC is one of three national earthquake engineering research centers established by the National Science Foundation. Its offices are located on the first floor of Newmark Laboratory.

References
Notes

External links

Buildings and structures of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Engineering research institutes
University and college laboratories in the United States


Marvin Cheung Kin-tung, GBS OBE JP (, 20 November 1947 – 13 September 2014) was a Non-official Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. He also held the position of Chairman of the Airport Authority Hong Kong and was a Council Member of the Open University of Hong Kong.

Cheung was born and educated in Hong Kong and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the United Kingdom gaining honours in all parts of his professional examinations. In 2008 he was appointed by the Chief Executive to succeed Victor Fung as Chairman of the Airport Authority. In 2009 he became the non-executive director of HSBC Holdings. At the time of his death, he was also a non-executive Director of Hang Seng Bank, HKR International, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing and Sun Hung Kai Properties. Additionally, he represented Hong Kong on the Trustees Reviews Committee of the International Accounting Standards Board.

Cheung was a member of the Legislative Council, the Urban Council and District Boards. He also served as chairman of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants, Chairman of the Estate Agents Authority and Vice Chairman of the Mandatory Provident Fund Advisory Board, as well as Member of the Board of Inland Revenue, the Standing Committee on Company Law Reform, the Town Planning Board, the Consumer Council, the Council for the Performing Arts and other public service positions.

Cheung was conferred the Silver Bauhinia Star by the HKSAR in 2000 and later was elevated to Gold Bauhinia Star in 2008. He was also awarded an OBE by the Hong Kong government in 1994. He was awarded a Doctor of Business Administration, honoris causa, by Hong Kong Baptist University in 2003.

Accountancy
By trade he was a Certified Public Accountant. He retired in 2003 as the chairman and CEO of KPMG Hong Kong and China. He held fellowships in both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, as well as the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Education
He attended St Paul's Co-Educational College in Hong Kong. He was awarded the honorary doctorate of Business Administration by Hong Kong Baptist University in 2003.

Affiliations
Member of the Barristers Disciplinary Tribunal
Member of the Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council
Member of Operations Review Committee of ICAC
Member of the Witness Protection Review Board
Hon. Treasurer and Council Member of St. Paul's Co-Educational College
Hon. Treasurer and Council Member of St. Stephen's Girls' College
Board member of the Hong Kong International Film Society Ltd.

External links
Profile Asia-Pacific Corporate Governance Conference, hkbu.edu.hk; accessed 14 September 2014.
 Hong Kong Executive/Marvin Cheung biodata], ceo.gov.hk; accessed 14 September 2014.
 Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong website; accessed 14 September 2014.
 Tribute to Cheung from the Open University], ouhk.edu.hk; accessed 14 September 2014.

1947 births
2014 deaths
Alumni of Hong Kong Baptist University
Deaths from cancer in Hong Kong
Chinese accountants
Deaths from leukemia
Hong Kong businesspeople
Hong Kong civil servants
Recipients of the Silver Bauhinia Star
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Members of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
Members of the Urban Council of Hong Kong
District councillors of Eastern District
HSBC people
Sun Hung Kai Properties
HK LegCo Members 1991–1995
KPMG people
Alumni of St. Paul's Co-educational College


The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers is a book by Canadian film journalist Matthew Hays, published in 2007 by Arsenal Pulp Press.

Filmmakers interviewed in the book include John Waters, Pedro Almodóvar, Gus Van Sant, John Cameron Mitchell, Don Roos, Randal Kleiser, Don Mancini, Kenneth Anger, Gregg Araki, Léa Pool, Wakefield Poole, Monika Treut, Rosa von Praunheim, John Greyson, Bruce LaBruce, Robert Lepage, Patricia Rozema, Janis Cole, David Secter, Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman.

The book won a Lambda Literary Award in 2008 in the category of LGBT Arts and Culture.

See also
 List of lesbian filmmakers
 Women in film

References

External links
 The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers at Arsenal Pulp Press

2007 non-fiction books
Canadian non-fiction books
Non-fiction books about same-sex sexuality
LGBT literature in Canada
Lambda Literary Award-winning works
LGBT-related film
Non-fiction books about film directors and producers
2000s LGBT literature
Arsenal Pulp Press books


Isen may refer to:
Isen, Bavaria, a town in Germany
Isen, Kagoshima, a town in Japan
Isen (river) in Bavaria, Germany
The fictitious River Isen in Tolkien's literature
ISEN, a group of three French higher education establishments
Nissae Isen, actor
Tajja Isen, actor


eOTD is the acronym for the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary. The dictionary is a language-independent database of concepts with associated terms, definitions and images used to unambiguously describe individuals, organizations, locations, goods, services, processes, rules, and regulations. The eOTD is maintained by the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA).

History
The eOTD was developed with the support of the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS) an agency of the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). The eOTD is the first dictionary to be compliant with ISO 22745 (open technical dictionaries).

Structure
The eOTD contains terms, definitions and images linked to concept identifiers. eOTD concept identifiers are used to create unambiguous language independent descriptions of individuals, organizations, locations, goods, services, processes, rules and regulations. The process of using concept identifiers from an external open technical dictionary is a form of semantic encoding compliant with the requirements of ISO 8000-110:2008, the international standard for the exchange of quality master data.

The eOTD concept identifiers are in the public domain. Using public domain identifiers as metadata creates portable data that can be legally separated from the software application that was used to create it. The dictionary contains concepts from international, national and industry standards including over 400,000 concepts of class (approved item name), property (attribute), units of measure, currency and common enumerated value (e.g., days of the week). The eOTD does not include a class hierarchy or class-property relationships.

Use
Companies use the eOTD to create data requirement specifications as Identification Guides (IGs) or cataloging templates. These Identification Guides contain the class-property relationships and are used for cataloging, to measure data quality as well as to create requests for data or requests for data validation.

Industrial products and services categorization standards
 eCl@ss
 ETIM (standard)
 UNSPSC
 eOTD
 RosettaNet

See also
 Ontology (information science)

References

Further reading

External links
 ECCMA

Dictionaries by subject
Trade and industrial classification systems


Chanuces is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Quirós, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 37.

Villages
 Chanuces
 El Grandizu
 La Cereizal
 Murias

References

Parishes in Quirós


Hasan Hafizur Rahman (;1932–1983) became the editor of the daily Bengali newspaper Danik Bangla right after the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. He also worked for the government as a high official and edited an account of the independence struggle called The Liberation War of Bangladesh, which was published in sixteen volumes. He was the author of thirteen books including eight collections of poetry and Adhunik Kobi O Kobita (Modern Poets and Poetry), a book of critical essays.

Awards
 Adamjee Literary Award (1967)
 Bangla Academy Literary Award (1971)
 Ekushey Padak (!984)

References

1932 births
1983 deaths
Bengali writers
Recipients of the Independence Day Award
Bangladeshi male writers
Recipients of the Adamjee Literary Award


Belize is a town and municipality in Cabinda Province in Angola. The municipality covers 1,360 km2, and had a population of 19,561 at the 2014 Census; the latest official estimate (as at mid 2019) is 22,514.

References

Populated places in Cabinda Province
Municipalities of Angola


Herbert Kisza (born 16 June 1943 in Podobora, now part of Chotěbuz) is a Czech painter and sculptor.

Life
Kisza was the third child of a Silesian couple. His father was an electrician but painted as a hobby; after Kisza completed elementary school in Český Těšín, his father enrolled him in the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Brno where he attended from 1957 to 1961. He attended College of Applied Arts (UMPRUM) in Prague where he graduated, with a specialization in monumental painting, from the studio of Alois Fišárek in 1967.

In 1972 Kisza moved with his wife to Kadaň, where his daughter, Ester, and his two sons Kryštof, a photographer, and Šimon were born. He taught in the local Afternoon School of Art for three years. In 1991, he opened the U Netopýra Gallery, including his own work, now one of the largest private galleries in Central Europe with a permanent exhibition of the work of a single painter.

He organised several sculpting workshops in Franciscan Monastery in Kadaň and took part in many others elsewhere.

Work

For Herbert Kisza, objective reality is a medium to turn the painting to a dream or a poem full of metaphors and symbols. He uses the legacy of ancient myths for depicting the life of modern society. After moving to Kadaň, its industrial surroundings drew him to ecological topics. The play of light is important in his paintings.

Herbert Kisza has turned to graphic art and sculpture. He also draws ex libris. In 2000 he published a book of photographs about Kadaň with over 1,000 photographs. Kisza's pictures are in National Gallery in Prague and the galleries in Louny, Litoměřice, Most, Liberec and others.

References

External links
 An Exhibition in Rabas Gallery in Rakovník
 Graphic Art examples

People from Cieszyn Silesia
People from Karviná District
Czech painters
Czech male painters
Czech sculptors
Czech male sculptors
1943 births
Living people


Maricao State Forest (Spanish: Bosque Estatal de Maricao) is a state forest located in the eastern Cordillera Central mountains of Puerto Rico. It is commonly known as Monte del Estado due to the fact that it was one of the first forest reserves in Puerto Rico to be designated a state forest in its official name. With an area of , the Maricao State Forest is the largest of the 20 forestry units of the Puerto Rico state forest system.

History
The Maricao State Forest was created after a proclamation on December 22, 1919, by then Governor of Puerto Rico Arthur Yager.

Geography
The forest location makes its environment unique in Puerto Rico for its humid climate, its serpentinite soils and its high rate of animal and plant endemicity. The forest is located on the western region of the Cordillera Central of Puerto Rico and encompasses  of land in a high rainfall area through the municipalities of San Germán, Sabana Grande and Maricao.

Climate
In summer the climate is warm and humid. Thunderstorms are common, along with temperature around 85 °F with heat index in the upper 90s during the daytime. In summer, nighttime is usually cool with low temperature in the mid- to lower 60s. In winter, it is very dry, the forest with mild temperature in daytime and cold in nighttime. Occasional days drop to 40 °F with mid-30s wind chill.

Geology
Almost 100% of the soils of the Maricao forest are derivates of serpentinite, a metamorphic rock that produces red and argillaceous soil whenever it crumbles down. More than 80% of the forest ground is low in depth and close to the bedrock. These soils are acidic with high contents of iron and aluminum oxides.

Biology and ecology

Flora
There are 1,164 species of plants in the forest. Of the 128 species of endemic plants of Puerto Rico, 23 are in the Maricao State Forest. There are plantations of mahogany, eucalyptus, Honduras pine, and others.

Fauna
There are 136 species of birds recorded in the park, 23 of which are endemic. Some examples are the Puerto Rican sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus venator), which is an endangered subspecies, and the Puerto Rican emerald (Chlorostilbon maugaeus).

Recreation

Due to its location along the Luis Muñoz Marín Scenic Route (better known as the Ruta Panorámica), the Maricao State Forest offers some iconic panoramic views of the Cordillera Central and the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico. In clear days it is possible to observe the city of Mayagüez and even Mona Island from the Santa Ana Observation Tower (better known as Torre de Piedra). The forest has hiking trails and is featured in Caribbean guides as an important destination for birdwatching. Hiking trails are accessible from route PR-120, from the Monte del Estado Ecological Park (Parque Ecológico Monte del Estado) and the Monte del Estado Vacation Center (Centro Vacacional Monte del Estado), both of which also provide limited camping and lodging to visitors.

In addition to the Torre de Piedra, other historic attractions within the state forest include the Stone House (Casa de Piedra), the ruins of a former architectural gem built during President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps works during the 1930s, and the Maricao Fish Hatchery, built in 1937 for research purposes and now listed under the National Register of Historic Places as one of the New Deal Era Constructions in the Forest Reserves of Puerto Rico (1933-1942).

Curet Falls (Salto Curet) is an impressive waterfall located along the Lajas River in the northeastern section of the forest reserve. Other waterfalls found in the forest area include El Pilón and La Iglesia waterfalls.

See also

 List of Puerto Rico state forests
 List of National Natural Landmarks in Puerto Rico

References

External links
 Information about Maricao Forest
 Hiking trails (AllTrails)

Puerto Rico state forests
Puerto Rican moist forests
Civilian Conservation Corps in Puerto Rico
1919 establishments in Puerto Rico
Protected areas established in 1919
Maricao, Puerto Rico
Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
San Germán, Puerto Rico


BarNone (1-800-BarNone) was a lead generation company based in Oakland, California, USA. BarNone was founded in 1995, and was later purchased by the First Advantage Corporation in 2005 for their Dealer Services segment. They were later sold to Centrro, Inc. in August 2009.

BarNone connects consumers seeking an auto loan with auto dealerships. Consumers are targeted through direct mail, television ads, and internet marketing. BarNone targets consumers who typically have bad credit that need help with an auto loan.

In 2002, BarNone Inc. acquired rights to "adopt" the former Pets.com sock puppet, portrayed by Michael Ian Black, in their advertisements, replacing Fran Tarkenton. BarNone's slogan is "Everyone Deserves A Second Chance".

Notes

External links
 BarNone official web site
 BarNone Dealer site
 FADV Parent Company site

Marketing companies established in 1995
Companies based in Oakland, California