Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership (SWCP) is a conservation program devoted to the protection and preservation of Nebraska’s Eastern Saline Wetlands. Limited to the floodplain swales and depressions within the Salt Creek, Little Salt Creek, and Rock Creek drainages, it is estimated that the Eastern Saline Wetlands once covered an area in excess of .  Recently, due to extensive degradation, draining and filling through commercial, residential, and agricultural development, less than  remain, and many of these remnants are highly degraded. It is becoming increasingly important to preserve this unique wetland resource.  Although several existing programs have been recognized to address saline wetland conservation needs, they alone have not been enough to ensure the long term protection of this endangered resource. The Saline Wetland Conservation Partnership (SWCP) was created to offer additional protection and management of the state’s diminishing saline wetlands.

History
The SWCP is unique in its approach to preserve the integrity of Nebraska’s Eastern Saline Wetlands by taking a partnership approach to address the conservation of saline wetlands and the needs of the community.  Since 2002, the City of Lincoln has received three Nebraska Environmental Trust (NET) grants and other state and federal funding programs for the implementation of the Eastern Saline Wetlands Project to meet the further conservation needs of Nebraska’s Eastern Saline Wetlands. The City of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Lower Platte South Natural Resource District (LPSNRD), The Nature Conservancy, and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (NGPC) are the full-share partners, which established the Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership in 2003. An implementation plan was developed in 2003 and is the primary responsibility of the SWCP’s full-share partners.  To ensure the success of the plan, full-share partners are often required to work closely with other partners and private land owners. Other partners have contributed to the SWCP through their support of Nebraska Environmental Trust grants awarded to the Partnership and/or through providing resources for the conservation and restoration of the Eastern Saline Wetlands.

Implementation Plan for the Conservation of Nebraska’s Eastern Saline Wetlands
The Implementation Plan for the Conservation of Nebraska’s Eastern Saline Wetlands is a holistic watershed approach designed to preserve both wetlands and their surrounding watersheds, and its implementation involves local, state, and federal agencies working in concert with private individuals and organizations to develop additional strategies and programs that encourage saline wetland conservation. The Plan includes Comprehensive Strategies and five Landscape Objectives. The Comprehensive Strategies are not specific to any one property, but are broader in scope and are necessary for the overall successful conservation of saline wetlands and the landscape objectives establish projection and restoration targets for the conservation of about  of saline wetlands.

Categories of saline wetlands

In the Resource Categorization of Nebraska’s Eastern Saline Wetlands, wetlands are categorized into one of four groups:
Category 1 – Site currently provides saline wetland functions of high value or has the potential to provide high values following restoration or enhancement measures.
Category 2 – Given current land use and degree of degradation, site currently provides limited saline wetland functions and low values.  Restoration potential is low.  These sites are so degraded that they are not considered as restorable in the Landscape Objectives section.  If, in the future, a Category 2 wetland is determined to be restorable, then the restoration will be considered as contributing to Landscape Objective 4.
Category 3 – Site is functioning as a freshwater wetland having freshwater plant communities on a saline soil.  Currently provides freshwater wetland values and no feasible restoration measures exist to re-establish the historic salt source and saline plant associations.
Category 4 – Site is functioning as a freshwater wetland having freshwater plant communities on a non-saline hydric soil.

Land acquisition
The partnership acquires property containing saline wetlands from willing sellers, which includes fee-title acquisition, which keep the land in private ownership but protect it in perpetuity.   Since 2003, members of the partnership have acquired approximately  of land containing saline wetlands through fee-title acquisition, and approximately  containing saline wetlands through conservation easements.

It is recognized that many of the saline wetlands are on private lands and have been sustained by private landowners voluntarily. The Partnership is willing to work with these land owners by providing a number of programs that will continue to support these sustainable use efforts.  Private land programs provide both technical and financial assistance to land owners for the implementation and use of conservation practices.

Wetland sites under SWCP management
The Partnership is currently responsible for the management of over  of saline wetlands and associated conservation zones from various sites in Lancaster and Saunders Counties.  Several of the sites are accessible to the public for recreational uses.

Educational outreach
Since its inception, the SWCP has initiated several educational activities to involve and inform the communities in and around Lincoln, NE about the unique saline wetlands and what’s being done to protect the rare resource.  The Partnership established an annual program with the Environmental Studies class of one Lincoln, NE public high school on saline wetlands in 2005.  Field trips to some of the saline wetland sites are held annually for these students. These field trips include presentations to the students by personnel of the LPSNRD, NGPC, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  Topics covered regarding the saline wetlands include vegetation, hydrology, entomology, restoration and mitigation, management, well monitoring and sampling, wildlife, and the relationship of urbanized development with natural areas.

The Partnership also holds educational presentations for elementary students attending several local schools.  Each year, information on the saline wetlands is presented to students attending the Earth Wellness Festival and various elementary school nature nights, and sponsors elementary school field trips to saline wetland locations.

The unique dynamics of the saline wetlands also provide for research opportunities at higher levels of education.  University involvement on hydrological and entomological research is aided by students and professors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  Ongoing research is critical for the understanding of ecological relations within, and the environmental services provided by, the saline wetlands.

References

Gilbert, M.C. and R.C. Stutheit, eds.  Resource Categorization of Nebraska Eastern Saline Wetlands Interagency Study Project.  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.  1994.
Genrich, Terry, Ted LaGrange, Glenn Johnson, Brent Lathrop, and Dan Schulz.  Implementation Plan for the Conservation of Nebraska’s Eastern Saline Wetlands.  Lincoln, NE:  Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership.  2003.
Gersib, R.A. and G. Steinauer.  A Biological and General Assessment of Eastern Nebraska Saline Wetlands in Lancaster and Saunders Counties.  Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.  Lincoln, NE.  1991
Malmstrom, Tom.  2008 Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership Progress Report.  Lincoln, NE.  2009.
Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership. Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership Brochure. Lincoln, NE:  Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership.  2003.
Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership.  Information Sheet.  Lincoln, NE.  2007.

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20041126054546/http://nwi.fws.gov/

Environmental management schemes
Wetland conservation in the United States
Environment of Nebraska


Bursaphelenchus is a genus of nematodes (roundworms) in the order Aphelenchida. Most are obligate mycophages, but some feed on wood, with two species, the red ring nematode (B. cocophilus) and the pine wood nematode (B. xylophilus), economically significant as pests of coconut palms and of pine trees, respectively. Given that Bursaphelenchus species are usually hard to distinguish from one another except by trained nematologists with access to microscopes or DNA sequence analysis, the entire genus is put under quarantine in some countries. Where this is not the case however, these nematodes are becoming established as model organisms for nematode developmental biology, ecology and genetics.

As of 2009, there are about 70 to 90 species in the genus. New taxa are described frequently.

Ecology
Bursaphelenchus contains a single described hermaphroditic species, okinawaensis, and over 100 described gonochoristic species. They inhabit soil or decaying wood, feeding on the wood itself or fungal hyphae growing in it, such as those of grey mould (Botrytis cinerea). They are sometimes beneficial when they reduce the fungal load inside the wood, but when they consume the plant tissue they are known to cause the death of living trees.

These nematodes are phoretic, dispersed between trees when their dauer larvae are transported by insects. Species involved include bark beetles, weevils, flat-faced longhorn beetles such as sawyer beetles, and soil-nesting bees. The process of dauer larva formation is not well understood, but it is of research interest because it is significant in the epidemics of plant diseases caused by these nematodes, such as pine wilt.

Selected species
Bursaphelenchus includes:

 Bursaphelenchus abietinus Braasch & Schmutzenhofer, 2000
 Bursaphelenchus abruptus
 Bursaphelenchus africanus Braasch, et al., 2007
 Bursaphelenchus anatolius
 Bursaphelenchus antoniae
 Bursaphelenchus arthuri
 Bursaphelenchus borealis
 Bursaphelenchus chitwoodi
 Bursaphelenchus clavicauda
 Bursaphelenchus cocophilus – red ring nematode
 Bursaphelenchus conicaudatus
 Bursaphelenchus doui
 Bursaphelenchus eggersi
 Bursaphelenchus eremus
 Bursaphelenchus fraudulentus
 Bursaphelenchus fungivorus Franklin & Hooper, 1962
 Bursaphelenchus gerberae
 Bursaphelenchus hellenicus Skarmoutsos, Braasch & Michalopoulou, 1998
 Bursaphelenchus hildegardae
 Bursaphelenchus hofmanni Braasch, 1998
 Bursaphelenchus hunti
 Bursaphelenchus hylobianum
 Bursaphelenchus kevini
 Bursaphelenchus mucronatus
 Bursaphelenchus okinawaensis Kanzaki, et al., 2008
 Bursaphelenchus paracorneolus
 Bursaphelenchus parvispicularis
 Bursaphelenchus pinasteri
 Bursaphelenchus piniperdae Fuchs, 1937
 Bursaphelenchus platzeri
 Bursaphelenchus poligraphi
 Bursaphelenchus rainulfi
 Bursaphelenchus sachsi
 Bursaphelenchus seani Giblin & Kaya, 1983
 Bursaphelenchus sexdentati Rühm, 1960
 Bursaphelenchus sinensis
 Bursaphelenchus singaporensis
 Bursaphelenchus thailandae
 Bursaphelenchus tusciae
 Bursaphelenchus vallesianus
 Bursaphelenchus xylophilus – pine wood nematode, pine wilt nematode
 Bursaphelenchus yongensis

References

Aphelenchida


TV Belgiek is an editorial, animated series regarding the Belgian politics and royalty, produced by MagicWorlds. The series treats contemporary issues not older than 1 week. The episodes take about 2 to 3 minutes and can be viewed weekly on the website of TV Belgiek.

MagicWorlds practices a unique animation style which returns in other series as well such as Celebville and Earth Predator. These series are also based on contemporary issues such as celebrity life and international politics.

History
TV Belgiek made its debut on the Internet in June 2006 and immediately became a hit. In March 2007 RTL-TVI, a channel in the French-speaking part of Belgium, took over the series and broadcast TV Belgiek daily during the electoral campaigns. Also the episodes on TV became a great success. TV Belgiek now has a market share of 29% and has up to 450,000 viewers daily. TV Belgiek is currently starting its fourth season.

Cast & Writers
The voices are mainly done by Dirk Denoyelle, André Lamy and Angélique Leleux. The scripts are written by MagicWorlds founder Dimitri Oosterlynck, Marcel Sel and Jean Bart.

External links
 TV Belgiek
 MagicWorlds
 RTL
 Celebville

Belgian animated television series


Harry Mason Comins (January 24, 1882 – April 15, 1962) was a Michigan politician.

Political life
The Flint City Commission select him as mayor in 1938 for two one-year terms.

References

Mayors of Flint, Michigan
1882 births
1962 deaths
20th-century American politicians


Imagery is a literary technique.

Imagery may also refer to:
 Imagery (album), a 1997 album by death-metal band Neuraxis
 Imagery (sculpture), sculpture focused in religious topics

See also
 Image
 Images (disambiguation)


Amita Sharma (born 12 September 1982) is an Indian former cricketer who played primarily as a right-arm medium-fast bowler. She appeared in five Test matches, 116 One Day Internationals and 41 Twenty20 Internationals for India between 2002 and 2014. She played domestic cricket for Railways, Assam and Delhi.

Sharma first played for India in 2002, and soon established herself as an integral member of the side. She took 14 wickets in the 2005 World Cup in South Africa and helped her side into the final.

In 2012, in a WODI against England, Sharma and Gouher Sultana scored 58 for the 10th wicket, which at the time was a record in WODI history.

References

External links

Living people
1982 births
Cricketers from Delhi
Indian women cricketers
India women Test cricketers
India women One Day International cricketers
India women Twenty20 International cricketers
Railways women cricketers
Assam women cricketers
Delhi women cricketers


Ceferino is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Ceferino Garcia (1912–1981), champion boxer born in Naval, Biliran, Philippines
Ceferino Giménez Malla (1861–1936), Spanish Roman Catholic catechist and activist for Spanish Romani causes
Ceferino Labarda (born 1981), bantamweight boxer from Argentina
Ceferino Namuncurá (1886–1905), saintly religious student venerated in northern Patagonia and throughout Argentina
Ceferino Peroné (1924–2015), Argentine cyclist
Ceferino Quintana (1894–1977), American politician

See also
 Zeferino
 Zephyrinus

Spanish masculine given names


Michael Joseph Baxter (born December 7, 1984) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs.   He is now a hitting coach and recruiting coordinator for his alma Mater, Vanderbilt University.

Early years
Baxter was born and raised in the Queens, New York neighborhood of Whitestone, where he attended St. Luke's Parish school and part of the Bayside Little League. He graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School in 2002. Baxter attended Columbia University, and he then attended Vanderbilt University. In 2004 and 2005, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He was selected by the San Diego Padres in the fourth round (128th overall) of the 2005 amateur entry draft.

Professional career

San Diego Padres
Baxter's contract was purchased by the Padres and he was promoted to the major leagues on September 6, 2010 and hit a pop fly to second base off Vicente Padilla of the Los Angeles Dodgers in his first at-bat, as a pinch hitter. He appeared in 9 games that season, all as a pinch hitter, with his only hit being on September 26 off Francisco Cordero of the Cincinnati Reds.

New York Mets

2011
After being placed on the 60-day disabled list in March 2011, Baxter began his rehab in Single-A, before being claimed off waivers by the New York Mets on July 22. He was called up by New York on August 8. In his first game, he hit an RBI double against San Diego to bring the Mets closer to what would end up being a come-from-behind victory. On September 28, 2011, the final game of the Mets' season, Baxter hit his first career major league home run. It gave the Mets a 3–0 lead, and was the last home run and RBI of the season for the team. He was non tendered by the Mets after the season and became a free agent. On December 16, he re-signed a minor league contract with the Mets. He also received an invitation to spring training as part of the deal.

2012
In 2012, Baxter began the season on the Mets active roster as a reserve outfielder. On June 1, during a game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Baxter made a difficult catch against the outfield wall, injuring his shoulder in the process. He was subsequently placed on the team's disabled list on June 3. Despite the recoil, his big play led to Johan Santana's no-hitter, the first no-hitter in Mets' history. Baxter began a rehab assignment with the Single-A St. Lucie Mets on July 15, before being promoted to the Double-A Binghamton Mets and last to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons. On July 30, Baxter was activated from the 15-day disabled list. On August 4, during a game against the San Diego Padres, Baxter set a New York Mets franchise record by recording five walks in a nine-inning game, tying the record for most walks in a nine-inning game in the National League; this was most recently achieved by Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies. Baxter also tied a New York Mets franchise record for most walks in a game, regardless of the number of innings played. He tied Vince Coleman, who achieved the feat on August 10, 1992, in a 16-inning game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

2013
In 2013, Baxter was on the Mets' active roster for opening day for the second consecutive year. Despite being considered a front-runner for a starting outfield spot at the beginning of spring training, the starting job was instead given to Marlon Byrd, again relegating Baxter to a reserve role. In June, Baxter was sent down to the Triple-A Las Vegas 51s. On August 3, the Mets recalled Baxter to replace David Wright who was placed on the 15-day disabled list. Baxter was optioned down on August 24 when Lucas Duda was recalled. He was called back up on September 8.

Los Angeles Dodgers

On October 17, 2013, Baxter was claimed off waivers by the Los Angeles Dodgers. He made the opening day roster and appeared in 4 games and was hitless in 7 at-bats before he was optioned to the minors. He was designated for assignment on April 6, 2014, cleared waivers, and was outrighted to AAA Albuquerque, where he hit .289 in 119 games.

Chicago Cubs
Baxter signed a minor league contract with the Chicago Cubs in January 2015. He was assigned to the Cubs Triple-A Iowa team to start the season.

Baxter's contract was selected by the Cubs and he was called up on May 19, 2015, as part of a number of roster moves made by the Cubs that day. He would be optioned back down to Iowa on June 2 but recalled on June 3. On July 29, 2015, Baxter was designated for assignment by the Chicago Cubs.

Seattle Mariners
On December 15, 2015, Baxter signed a minor league deal with the Seattle Mariners. He became a free agent on November 7, 2016.

Post-baseball career
Baxter has served as a hitting coach and recruiting coordinator for the Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team at Vanderbilt University since 2018.

Awards and honors
 2008 Arizona Fall League All-Prospect Team

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Albuquerque Isotopes players
Archbishop Molloy High School alumni
Baseball players from New York (state)
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Binghamton Mets players
Chicago Cubs players
Columbia Lions baseball players
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Everett AquaSox players
Fort Wayne Wizards players
Hyannis Harbor Hawks players
Iowa Cubs players
Lake Elsinore Storm players
Las Vegas 51s players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Major League Baseball outfielders
New York Mets players
People from Whitestone, Queens
Peoria Saguaros players
Portland Beavers players
San Antonio Missions players
San Diego Padres players
St. Lucie Mets players
Tacoma Rainiers players
Vanderbilt Commodores baseball coaches
Vanderbilt Commodores baseball players


Recology, formerly known as Norcal Waste Systems, is a waste management company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company collects and processes municipal solid waste, reclaiming reusable materials. The company also operates transfer stations, materials recovery facilities (MRFs), a number of landfills, and continues to spearhead renewable energy projects. Recology is the largest organics compost facility operator by volume in the United States.

Recology Inc. is the parent to approximately 40 operating companies, including Recology San Francisco, Recology CleanScapes (Seattle), and Recology Portland.

Description

Recology promotes recycling, composting, and other waste-reduction programs to minimize the amount of materials sent to landfills.

Just south of San Francisco, Recology brings solid and residential waste from Recology San Mateo County to the Shoreway Environmental Center, a large, multi-purpose recycling center and Materials Recovery Facility that is operated by South Bay Recycling, a joint venture between Recology and Potential Industries.

In early 2009, after an investigation, the company obtained a court order against various organized illegal "poachers" who were raiding curbside recycling containers to sell the contents for scrap.

As of 2015, the company employed approximately 3,000 employees, with revenues of approx $800 million. The company is 100% employee-owned through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).

History
The company has a long history in the Bay Area, and holds a no-bid contract for garbage collection in San Francisco. In 1932, the city granted a permanent concession to the city's 97 independent garbage collectors; shortly thereafter those 97 independents banded together to form the company that would become Norcal Waste Systems. Since that time, the company has held a permanent no-bid, no-franchise-fee contract to collect the city's garbage and recyclables. The company works closely with SF Environment to achieve the City's diversion and sustainability goals.

In 2012, San Francisco voters considered Proposition A, a ballot measure that would have put the City's waste collection to five separate competitive-bid contracts. Residents Tony Kelly and retired Judge Quentin Kopp collected enough signatures to put Proposition A on the city's ballot. Prop A was overwhelmingly voted down, with 77% of the vote going for the continuation of Recology's services.

In 2021, subsidiaries of Recology operating in San Francisco were assessed $36 million in criminal penalties following a corruption scandal involving bribery and fraud.

Artist-in-residence program
Recology, with the impetus of environmental artist Jo Hanson, created an artist-in-residence program in 1990, allowing local artists to use materials found in its materials recovery and processing facilities to create art. It was the first, and for a long period, only such program in the United States. The residency has since become highly competitive, hosting artists from across the country.

Among the program's alumni are Nathaniel Stookey, who composed Junkestra, a classical music composition for thirty instruments made out of the company's refuse, Terry Berlier, who now sits on the board of the program, muralist Sirron Norris, and filmmaker Nomi Talisman. The PBS NewsHour highlighted the AIR Program in their Canvas series in 2019.

References

External links
Official website
Artist-in-Residence Program

See also
Recycling in the United States
Resource recovery

Companies based in San Francisco
Recycling in the United States
Employee-owned companies of the United States
Waste management in the United States


Tsugi may refer to:

Ghost-Cat of Gojusan-Tsugi, a 1956 Japanese film directed by Bin Kado
Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi (video game), side-scrolling action-adventure game from Sunsoft
Thomas Tsugi (born c. 1571), Japanese Jesuit preacher
Tsugi Takano, female novelist from Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan


is a public urban park, situated at 4 chōme Fukushima in Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Japan.

The park was constructed at the site of the former spinning factory of the Dai-Nihon Spinning Company (current company is Unitika, Ltd.), and is the largest park in Fukushima ward. In the park, spinning factory's old brick wall constructed around 1894 remains, which stopped the fire from air raids during World War II.

There is a legend that here is a cradle place of Wisteria floribunda (Japanese:Noda-Fuji), some Wisteria floribunda is cultivated even today in the park. Fuji-An garden (Japanese Fuji-An no Niwa) where Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Ashikaga Yoshiakira visited, is also restored in the park.

In 2001, the public pool and training centre were renovated and are currently operated by Konami Sports Co.Ltd.

Facilities

Public pool and training centre : admission required
Play ground (mainly for amateur baseball) : admission required
Fuji-An garden
Parking lot : a fee is charged

Activities in the park
 The Autumn Fukushima Ward residents' festival

Access
The nearest train station is  on the Keihan Nakanoshima Line.

See also
Osaka
Nakanoshima
Utsubo Park

References

External links

Official page of Shimo-fukushima park  (Japanese language)

Photographs

Fukushima-ku, Osaka
Parks and gardens in Osaka


Daniel Roan (born 31 December 1976) is the sports editor for BBC News, currently employed by BBC Sport.

Biography
Daniel Roan was born on 31 December 1976 and was brought up in Northampton, England. Roan went to Wellingborough School. He matriculated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in 1995 to read Social and Political Sciences. He graduated with a second-class degree in 1998.

In 2012, Roan was banned from all media activity involving Manchester City following an interview with Patrick Vieira, which had been originally arranged to promote Football Against Hunger, a charity Vieira was involved with. Vieira was quoted in the interview as stating that city rivals Manchester United receive favourable refereeing decisions when playing at home. Roan was accused of deliberately taking Vieira's comments out of context and engaging in "leading and aggressive questioning".

In 2018, Roan faced calls to resign following his comments at the memorial for Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four other victims of a fatal helicopter crash. Roan alleged that the Leicester City's boss had a "mistress who died in the crash". Following, Roan issued an apology to explain that the comments were made off-air and with "no offence intended".

Personal life

In July 2018, Roan was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Northampton.  Roan is a native of Northampton.

References

External links

 Roan's blog – BBC Sport

1976 births
Living people
BBC newsreaders and journalists
British broadcasters
British sports journalists
Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
People from Northampton


Roman Raymond Frederick (July 31, 1929 – August 23, 2001) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played five games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1954–55 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1943 to 1959, was spent in the minor leagues.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

References

External links

1929 births
2001 deaths
Brandon Wheat Kings players
Buffalo Bisons (AHL) players
Calgary Stampeders (WHL) players
Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
Chicago Blackhawks players
Chicoutimi Saguenéens (QSHL) players
Edmonton Flyers (WHL) players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Ontario Hockey Association Senior A League (1890–1979) players
Ottawa Senators (QSHL) players
Sportspeople from Fort Frances


iXL Enterprises was an international interactive agency that operated from 1996 until 2002. The company was founded by Atlanta entrepreneur Bert Ellis, who also served as the company's chairman and CEO. At the company's height in 1999, which coincided with the height of the dot-com boom, iXL had around 1500 employees, a quarterly revenue of $33 million, and was publicly traded on the Nasdaq exchange, with ticker symbol "IIXL". After a series of acquisitions, it is now part of the Razorfish agency, owned by Publicis Groupe.

iXL had its headquarters in Atlanta, with additional offices in Berlin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Hamburg, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, New York City, Richmond, San Diego, San Francisco, São Paulo, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. The company also had smaller "satellite offices" in Amsterdam, Dallas and Memphis, Tennessee. Many of these offices started out as local interactive agencies that were purchased by iXL, such as Micro Interactive, which became the New York office. It was part of what some in the industry called "The Fast Five", a group of "e-consultancies" that also included Razorfish, Scient, Viant and USWeb/CKS.

Notable clients included GE, Delta Air Lines, Budget Rent-A-Car, Chase Bank, Merrill Lynch, The Home Depot, FedEx and WebMD.

In November 2001, iXL merged with former competitor Scient, with the two companies operating under the Scient name, but the leftovers were rebranded as Creative Bubble. In July 2002 the joint company filed for bankruptcy. Assets from Scient were purchased by SBI Group in 2003, and merged into Razorfish. That company was then acquired by aQuantive in 2004, and merged into Avenue A | Razorfish. aQuantive was then purchased by Microsoft in 2007, and then subsequently sold to Publicis Groupe in 2009.

References

Online companies of the United States
Marketing companies established in 1996
Companies disestablished in 2002
Online advertising services and affiliate networks


Esther von Kirchbach, (née von Carlowitz; 26 May 1894 – 19 February 1946) was a German journalist, poet and chaplain of the Confessing Church.

Personal life
Esther was the eldest daughter of four children of Adolph von Carlowitz, Saxonian officer and later War Minister. At the beginning of the First World War, shortly before she graduated, she married Graf Georg zu Münster ("Count George of Munster"), who died of war injuries two years later. As a young widow with a child, she home-studied Mathematics, German, Philosophy and History in Marburg and Leipzig.

In 1921 she married theologian Arndt von Kirchbach, a priest with two children from a previous marriage. Together the couple had six children. As head of Protestant youth work, as Hofprediger of the Sophienkirche and as Superintendent of Freiburg, von Kirchbach was heavily involved in the Church. Together, the von Kirchbachs wrote articles, essays and letters and gave lectures addressing the status of women in various circles.

She died at the age of 51 from complications during surgery for an embolism.

Career
In 1927 Esther von Kirchbach led the Bundes für eine lebendige Volkskirche ("Society for a Living People's Church") in Dresden. Starting from the Nazi takeover in 1933, she fought against the Nazi policy of Gleichschaltungspolitik der Kirchen (roughly, "Political Synchronisation of Churches"). Her husband was also one of the leading representatives of the Inclusive Church in Dresden. Together, they continued their literary work and lecturing, despite repeated arrests and Adolph von Carlowitz's dismissal.

In 1934 Esther was the German delegate to the International Women's Congress in Budapest. In 1945, she was the only woman on the Advisory Board of the Regional Office engaged with refugees and war victims. She took refugees into her own parsonage in Freiberg.

Legacy
In Freiberg, a refuge and an association for the promotion of women's work were established in 1991. This committed non-profit organisation continues the work Esther von Kirchbach began.

Her life was commemorated on a German stamp.

Literary works
 Die Hausgemeinde
 Gebot und Gebet: Katechismus im Alltag
 Unser Gästebuch 1945 : Aufzeichn., Begegnungen u. Brief
 Rund um einen Tisch, Berlin 1938.
 Von Sonntag und Alltag, Hamburg 1939.
 Johanna Spyri, die Jugenderzählerin aus den Bergen, Stuttgart 1940.

Notes

Sources
Arndt von Kirchbach: Lebenserinnerungen RGG III S1296
This page was abridged and translated from the German Wikipedia on 23 March 2009.

External links

 Herausgabe des Postwertzeichens

1894 births
1946 deaths
German women writers


The Cusrow Wadia Institute of Technology is a polytechnical educational center in Pune, India.  It was founded in 1938 by the Modern Education Society of Pune.

The Modern Education Society was founded in 1932 in Pune by Prin. V. K. Joag, an educationalist, and Sir Cusrow Wadia, an industrialist.  In 1938, the Society opened the institute with a department of applied electricity. Today, the Institute provides a wide variety of programs.

Sir Wadia had a strong belief in the value of electronics to Indian industry. He made many donations to the Institute after its founding. He would also frequently invite dignitaries to speak to students there. As a leader of the Society, Joag worked to enlarge and improve the Institute.

References

Engineering colleges in Pune


Colombia has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1980. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.

The Colombian submission is decided annually by the Consejo Nacional de Cinematografía, a branch of the Colombian Ministry of Culture. , Colombia has entered the competition 30 times, and has been nominated once for an Academy Award.

Submissions
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Colombia for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.

In 2004, Colombia announced that it had selected Maria, Full of Grace as its Oscar submission, and the film was touted as an early front-runner to win the award. However, the film was disqualified by AMPAS which said that the film, a drama which had won Best Colombian Feature at the Cartagena Film Festival, featuring mostly Colombian characters and starring Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Moreno in the title role, did not qualify as a majority Colombian production because it was written and directed by an American, Joshua Marston. After an unsuccessful appeal, Colombia was allowed to send El Rey as a replacement. Although it was disqualified, however, Catalina Sandino Moreno was eventually nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and holds the title as the only Colombian nominated to an acting category.

Ciro Guerra is currently the director with most submissions with four films, and his 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent is the only Colombian film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. Directors Sergio Cabrera, Carlos Moreno and Jorge Alí Triana have each had their films selected two times, but none have been nominated. Triana's son Rodrigo had one of his films selected in 2006. The actor with the most appearances in the Colombian submissions is renowned Colombian actress Vicky Hernández who co-starred in five of the national nominees. All Colombian submissions were filmed primarily in Spanish, with the exception being Birds of Passage (2018) that was filmed primarily in Wayuu language.

Shortlisted Films
Since 2014, Colombia has announced a list of finalists or eligible films that varied in number over the years (from 3 to 16 films) before announcing their official Oscar nominee, except in the year 2022 where an official list was not announced. The following films have been shortlisted by the Colombian Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences:

 2014: Dust on the Tongue · Los hongos
 2015: Ella · Gente de bien · Land and Shade
 2016: Anna · Dark Beast · The Seed of Silence
 2017: The Animal's Wife · The Dragon Defense · X500
 2018: Killing Jesus · Virus Tropical · We Are the Heat
 2019: Days of the Whale · Litigante · El Piedra
 2020: Accidental Blessing · After Norma · Disobedience or How to Train Fighting Roosters · La fortaleza · Jaguar: voz de un territorio · Jinetes del Paraíso · Luz
 2021: Ángel de mi vida · Noise · Suspensión · Valley of Souls
 2023: Alis · Anhell69 · The Border · I'm Cris from Tierra Bomba · Itzia, Tango & Cacao · Línea de tiempo · Nubes grises soplan sobre el campo verde · The Other Shape · The Other Son · Pepe Cáceres · Petit Mal · Simona Amaya, vivir o morir por la libertad · Somos ecos · Ultraviolence

See also
List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
Cinema of Colombia
List of Colombian films

Notes

References

External links
The Official Academy Awards Database
The Motion Picture Credits Database
IMDb Academy Awards Page

Colombia
Academy Award


Hector Salisbury Highton (December 10, 1923 – September 28, 1985) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played twenty-four games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1943–44 season. On January 7, 1944, he was sent to the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League with Gord Buttrey and $10,000 for goaltender Mike Karakas. He retired in 1951 after a stint with the Pacific Coast Hockey League.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

References

External links

1923 births
1985 deaths
Canadian expatriates in the United States
Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
Chicago Blackhawks players
Los Angeles Monarchs players
Portland Eagles players
Providence Reds players
St. Louis Flyers players
Ice hockey people from Medicine Hat
Vancouver Canucks (WHL) players
Victoria Cougars (1949–1961) players


Beth Shalom Synagogue () is the principal synagogue of Athens, Greece.  It was built in 1935 of white Pentelic marble, the architecture is an austere Greek Revival style; the building was renovated in 1975. The synagogue is managed by Rabbi Gabriel Negrin, who was elected by the council of Athens’ Jewish community following the death of the long time leader Jacob Arar in 2014.

See also
Etz Chaim Synagogue (Athens)
Ancient Synagogue in the Agora of Athens
History of the Jews in Greece

References

Further reading

External links

Sephardi Jewish culture in Greece
Sephardi synagogues
Greek Revival synagogues
Synagogues in Athens
Synagogues completed in 1935
Orthodox synagogues


Port Alma Wind Farm is a large wind farm project located on the north shore of Lake Erie in the Municipality of Chatham–Kent, Ontario, Canada.

It began generating electricity in November, 2008. It is owned and operated by Kruger Energy. The power will be fed into the Ontario electricity market administered by the Independent Electricity System Operator.

The wind farm consists of forty four Siemens 2.3 (MW) Mark II wind turbines, with an installed capacity of 101.2 (MW). It is capable of generating approx. 300 (GWh) annually, which will produce enough energy to power 30,000 households.Port Alma Current Output

The project study area is approx. 285 km2 centred on Port Alma.

A substation was built to step-up the power to transmission level voltage and approximately  of transmission line was built for connection to the Hydro One owned 230 kV circuits about   east of Tilbury.

See also

List of wind farms in Canada
List of offshore wind farms

References

External links
http://www.krugerenergie.com/port_alma/en/information.htm
http://www.powerauthority.on.ca/Page.asp?PageID=924&ContentID=5102
https://web.archive.org/web/20091021071549/http://iw.kruger.com/KrugerEnergy/port_alma/index_A.htm
Sygration Ontario Hourly Generator Output
 Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) website

Wind farms in Ontario


Hygrophorus penarioides is a species of mushroom in the Hygrophoraceae. Found in Sweden, it grows in a mycorrhizal association with oak trees. It was formerly identified as Hygrophorus penarius, a similar species typically found in association with both beech and oak; analysis of internal transcribed spacer sequence data demonstrated that the species were different.

See also

List of Hygrophorus species

References

penarioides
Fungi of Europe
Fungi described in 2007


Michael Robert Alexander Brown (born 19 April 1966 in Glasgow) is a Scottish businessman and fugitive convicted in absentia of theft, perjury and perverting the course of justice. Between 10 February and 30 March 2005 he donated £2.4 million to the Liberal Democrats. He was the largest donor the party had ever had, giving ten times more than anything it had received before.

Biography
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Michael Brown claimed to have been the son of a lord and to have attended Gordonstoun and St Andrews University. In fact, he had failed his maths O Grade at his local school, and did a City and Guilds in catering at Glasgow College of Food Technology.

Brown resided in Majorca, Spain and claimed to have been an international bond trader, whose clients were vetted by United States embassy officials and Special Branch before he accepted their money. Brown's clients included former Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards.

In June 2008, after being charged with various counts of fraud and money laundering, Brown fled bail and an arrest warrant was subsequently issued. The charges of fraud and money laundering were later discharged by the judge at trial.

Brown was last known to live in Templewood Avenue, Hampstead, northwest London. He told various former clients he had been suffering from cancer, then took the surname Campbell-Brown and stopped shaving, before he disappeared. Neighbours of his Hampstead flat said that in the weeks before he disappeared he had changed his appearance by growing a full beard instead of his usual goatee and allowed his usually blond-dyed hair to turn grey. His lawyer disputed claims that Brown changed his appearance to abscond.

The City of London police conducted an extensive search both in the UK and abroad, including the home of Paul Strasburger, a fellow Liberal Democrat donor who had put up bail for Brown prior to his disappearance.

Brown is believed to have reappeared in the Caribbean in late 2008. Credit cards connected to Brown were used there in September and October 2008 in Antigua and Barbuda, according to reports by a team of private detectives working for two of Brown's creditors. Records seen by The Observer newspaper showed that a credit card in the name of M. Campbell-Brown — a name used by Brown in the weeks before he disappeared — was used in Antigua and Barbuda at two cash dispensers during this period.

In a brazen move, Brown directed his solicitor, Jamil Ahmud, to issue a statement on his behalf that he had not used any credit cards in the past three years in the Caribbean.

In September 2011, it was reported by The Guardian that Brown was living in the Dominican Republic under a false identity. On 6 January 2012, he was arrested by the Dominican police.

Trial
In August 2008 Southwark Crown Court Judge Wadsworth decided that the trial could proceed in the defendant's absence and as private funding had run out to his legal team, Brown would be eligible for legal aid.

In November 2008, a trial was held in the Crown Court in absentia. The jury was told Brown carefully crafted an "illusion of wealth and influence" designed to give him social acceptability which he craved, which included pretending his father was a lord, claimed connections with royalty, and promised investors returns of up to 50%. Martin Edmunds, QC, prosecuting, said he used the money to fund an "extravagant lifestyle", pay business expenses and keep other investors happy with "pretend" returns.

Brown rented a £49,000-a-year Mayfair apartment where he "conducted negotiations" with Edwards, an impressive office in the same area, a Range Rover with the number plate 5 AVE.  Brown also spent £2.5m on a private jet, £400,000 on an ocean-going yacht and £327,000 on an entertainment system for his home in Majorca.

On 28 November 2008, the jury took nine-and-a-half hours to convict him on four counts – two thefts, one of furnishing false information and one of perverting the course of justice between 9 February 2005 and 17 April 2006. He was convicted in his absence and sentenced to seven years in prison.

Electoral Commission on donation to Liberal Democrat party
Because he was residing in Majorca, Spain, at the time of the donation, and was not registered to vote in the United Kingdom, Michael Brown used a company name as the official legal donor. In October 2006 the High Court in London ruled that the company which Brown used to donate the money to the Liberal Democrats, 5th Avenue Partners, had never traded in bonds.
The Electoral Commission issued a statement stating:

Robert Mann, a Los Angeles lawyer, has issued a High Court writ demanding £683,000 from the Lib Dems claiming that they allowed their desire for the windfall to overcome any doubts about its source.

On 20 November 2009, the Electoral Commission issued a press release, stating that:

A full case summary was also made available on the Commission's website.

In April 2010, the fugitive fraudster, Michael Brown, was one of the subjects of Britain's first televised election debate.

References

1966 births
Living people
Criminals from Glasgow
Scottish fraudsters
Place of birth missing (living people)
Liberal Democrats (UK) people
2008 crimes in the United Kingdom
2008 in London
British people convicted of theft
British people convicted of perverting the course of justice
People convicted of fraud


Peter McGibbon (August 19, 1873 – October 10, 1936) was a Canadian politician.

Biography
Born in St. Thomas, Ontario, McGibbon was a physician by profession. During World War I, he was a medical officer with the 1st Black Watch and the 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1915. A city councillor for the city of Bracebridge, Ontario, he was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Muskoka in 1917 as a Unionist. He was defeated in 1921 but was re-elected in 1925 as a Conservative for the newly created electoral district of Muskoka—Ontario. He was defeated in 1935.

References

Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
People from St. Thomas, Ontario
Canadian recipients of the Military Cross
1873 births
1936 deaths


Hemant, () is an Indian male given name. It is the namesake of Hemanta, one of the six Indian ecological seasons—Ritu—in northern half of Indian subcontinent, which runs in early winter approximately from November to December. The female version of the name is Haimanti.

Notable people named Hemant include:
Hemant Batra (born 1967), Secretary General of regional legal association SAARCLAW
Hemant Bhagwani
Hemant Birje (born 1965), Indian actor
Hemant Brijwasi, Indian singer
Hemant Chaturvedi, Indian cinematographer
Hemant Chauhan, Gujarati writer and singer specializing in religious and folk songs
Hemant Choudhary, Indian actor
Hemant Divate, Marathi poet, translator and publisher
Hemant Godse, Indian politician
Hemant Gokhale
Hemant Goswami (born 1971), Indian social activist
Hemant Gupta
Hemant Gurung, (born 1958), Bhutanese politician
Hemant Joshi, Indian professor of Mass Communication and Journalism
Hemant Kanitkar (born 1942), Indian former cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1974
Hemant Kanoria
Hemant Karkare (1954–2008), former chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad
Hemant Katare
Hemant Khandelwal
Hemant Khava
Hemant Kinikar
Hemant Kumar (1920–1989), Indian musician and singer
Hemant Lakhani (born 1935), British Indian convicted for an illegal arms deal
Hemant Lall
Hemant Madhukar, Indian film director and producer
Hemant Mahaur
Hemant Mehta, Indian-American blogger and author
Hemant Mishra, Indian actor
Hemant Mohapatra, Indian poet writing in English
Hemant Pandey, Indian actor and comedian
Hemant Patil, Indian politician
Hemant Rao, Indian artist
Hemant Sharma, Nepalese singer
Hemant Shesh (born 1952), Hindi writer, poet and former Indian civil servant
Hemant Singh (born 1951), the present titular Maharaja Rana of Dholpur
Hemant Singh (cricketer), Indian cricketer
Hemant Soren, Indian politician
Hemant Talwalkar, Indian cricketer

Indian masculine given names
Masculine given names


Zeitenspiegel Reportagen is an agency of writers and photographers based in Weinstadt, near Stuttgart, Germany. The agency works for all of the major German magazines such as Stern, Focus, GEO, and Die Zeit, as well as international newspapers and magazines.

In 2008, Zeitenspiegel members received awards, including the Ernst Schneider Award of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce and a first-place finish in the European Parliament Prize for Journalism. The agency’s signature style is reportage.

Journalism Academy
The Zeitenspiegel-Reportageschule Günter Dahl trains the next generation of feature journalists. The Zeitenspiegel members and renowned reporters and photographers share their skills and knowledge with young people in one-year courses. The Zeitenspiegel-Reportageschule Günter Dahl was voted the second-best Journalism Academy in Germany on journalismus.com.

Hansel Mieth Prize
Since 1998, Zeitenspiegel has presented annual awards to members for reporting on socially relevant themes in memory of its honorary member Johanna “Hansel” Mieth. The Hansel Mieth Prize is presented to a reporter-photographer team for a completed feature in German, published or unpublished. Up-and-coming journalists can compete for the annual Gabriel Grüner Grant, which funds research on an exceptionally promising story.
Zeitenspiegel dedicates this award to its member and friend Johanna Hansel Mieth of Santa Rosa, California (1909-1998).

External Links
Official website

References

German journalism organisations
Stuttgart (region)


Jackson is a ghost town in the western desert of Box Elder County, Utah, United States. It lies on the western end of the Lucin Cutoff, just west of the Great Salt Lake. Jackson was never much more than a railroad siding, named by the railroad for a prospector who operated a mine in the area. On February 19, 1904, during a collision between two Southern Pacific trains, a carload of dynamite exploded, wrecking everything within an  radius, including the majority of lives within the town of 45. The effects are credited to concussion, although officials at the time were surprised by the disaster's magnitude.

Notes

Ghost towns in Box Elder County, Utah
Ghost towns in Utah


The Durham University Journal was the official journal of Durham University in England, from its foundation in 1876 until its cessation in 1995. At the beginning of its run, the journal focused primarily on news related to the university itself, but beginning with the interwar period the journal shifted to publishing academic articles unrelated to university business.

References

1876 establishments in England
Durham University
Magazines published in England
Magazines established in 1876
Magazines disestablished in 1995
Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom


Elaine Paige in Concert was a video recording of a concert performance at Birmingham Symphony Hall, which was part of Elaine Paige's 1991 UK tour.

The set list featured songs from her musical theatre, as well as a number of tracks from her 1991 album Love Can Do That.

Track listing

 "I Have Dreamed" (Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II)
 "Anything Goes" (Cole Porter)
 "Love Can Do That" (Diane Warren)
 "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" (Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber)
 "Heart Don't Change My Mind" (Robbie Buchanan/Diane Warren)
 "The Rose" (Amanda McBroom)
 "Oxygen" (Nik Kershaw)
 "Love Hurts" (Boudleaux Bryant)
 "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Freddie Mercury)
 "One Night in Bangkok" (Benny Andersson/Björn Ulvaeus/Tim Rice)
 "He's Out of My Life" (Tom Bahler)
 "True Colours" (Billy Steinberg/Tom Kelly)
 "Radio Ga Ga" (Roger Taylor)
 "What'll I Do/Who" (Irving Berlin/Jerome Kern/Otto Harbach/Oscar Hammerstein II)
 "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin/Harry Warren)
 "Well Almost" (Mike Chapman/Holly Knight)
 "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" (Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber)
 "I Know Him So Well" (Benny Andersson/Björn Ulvaeus/Tim Rice)
 "Memory" (Andrew Lloyd Webber/T. S. Eliot/Trevor Nunn)

Musicians

Elaine Paige - vocals
Ian Wherry - musical director, keyboards
Pete Zorn - guitar

Production credits

Producer and director - John G. Smith
Executive producer - Deke Arlon
Soundtrack mixers - Ian Wherry, Bill Tansley and Peter Jones

Elaine Paige albums


Giuseppe Bertoloni (16 September 1804, in Sarzana – 19 December 1874, in Bologna) was an Italian botanist and entomologist.

He was professor of botany in the University of Bologna which conserves his collections in the University Museum. Bertoloni worked especially on the flora and fauna of Mozambique. He was a member of La Società Entomologica Italiana.

His father Antonio (1775-1869) was a physician and botanist in Bologna.

Publications
Partial list

Illustrazione dei prodotti naturali del Mozambico. Academia delle scienze dell'instituto de Bologna. Dissertazione 4: 343-363 (1852)
 Coleoptera nova Mozambicana. Rendiconto delle sezione delle R. Academia delle scienze dell'instituto di Bologna 1855: 51-53 (1855)
 Illustratio rerum naturalium Mozambici. Coleoptera. Dissertatio 5. Memorie delle Academie delle scienze dell'instituto di Bologna. Memorie della sezione delle scienze naturali 1855 (1855)

He also published extensively in the Bolognese journal Nuovi annali delle scienze naturali (1834-1854).

References

Anon Boll. Soc. ent. ital. 2 :210-213, bibliography
Sforza G, G.storico Lunigiana 3:128-144, bibliography

External links
DEI Zalf Bio and Portrait

Italian entomologists
1804 births
1874 deaths


The Dzungar people (also written as Zunghar or Junggar; from the Mongolian words , meaning 'left hand') are the many Mongol Oirat tribes who formed and maintained the Dzungar Khanate in the 17th and 18th centuries. Historically, they were one of the major tribes of the Four Oirat confederation. They were also known as the Eleuths or Ööled, from the Qing dynasty euphemism for the hated word "Dzungar", and as the "Kalmyks". In 2010, 15,520 people claimed "Ööled" ancestry in Mongolia. An unknown number also live in China, Russia and Kazakhstan.

Origin
The Dzungars were a confederation of several Oirat tribes that emerged in the early 17th century to fight the Altan Khan of the Khalkha (not to be confused with the better-known Altan Khan of the Tümed), Tümen Zasagt Khan, and later the Manchu for dominion and control over the Mongolian people and territories. This confederation rose to power in what became known as the Junggar Basin in Dzungaria between the Altai Mountains and the Ili Valley. Initially, the confederation consisted of the Oöled, Dörbet Oirat (also written Derbet) and the Khoid. Later on, elements of the Khoshut and Torghut were forcibly incorporated into the Dzungar military, thus completing the reunification of the West Mongolian tribes.

According to oral history, the Oöled and Dörbet tribes are the successor tribes to the Naimans, a group of Mongols who roamed the steppes of Central Asia during the era of Genghis Khan. The Oöled shared the clan name Choros with the Dörbet. Zuun gar "left hand" and Baruun gar "right hand" formed the Oirat's military and administrative organization. The Dzungar Olot people and the Choros became the ruling clans in the 17th century.

History

In 1697, two relatives of Galdan Boshugtu Khan, Danjila and Rabdan, surrendered to the Qing Kangxi Emperor. Their people were then organized into two Oolod banners and resettled in what is now Bayankhongor Province, Mongolia. In 1731, five hundred households fled back to Dzungar territory while the remaining Olots were deported to Hulunbuir. After 1761, some of them were resettled in Arkhangai Province.

The Dzungars who lived in an area that stretched from the west end of the Great Wall of China to present-day eastern Kazakhstan and from present-day northern Kyrgyzstan to southern Siberia (most of which is located in present-day Xinjiang), were the last nomadic empire to threaten China, which they did from the early 17th century through the middle of the 18th century.

During this time, the Dzungar pioneered the local manifestation of a ‘Military Revolution’ in Central Eurasia after perfecting a process of manufacturing indigenously created gunpowder weapons. They created a mixed agro-pastoral economy, as well as complementary mining and manufacturing industries on their lands. The Dzungar managed to enact an empire-wide system of laws and policies to boost the use of the Oirat language in the region.

After a series of inconclusive military conflicts that started in the 1680s, the Dzungars were subjugated by the Manchu-led Qing dynasty (1644–1911) in the late 1750s. Clarke argued that the Qing campaign in 1757–58 "amounted to the complete destruction of not only the Dzungar state but of the Dzungars as a people." After the Qianlong Emperor led Qing forces to victory over the Dzungar Oirat (Western) Mongols in 1755, he originally was going to split the Dzungar Khanate into four tribes headed by four Khans.

The Khoit tribe was to have the Dzungar leader Amursana as its Khan. Amursana rejected the Qing arrangement and rebelled since he wanted to be leader of a united Dzungar nation. Qianlong then issued his orders for the genocide and eradication of the entire Dzungar nation and name. Qing Manchu Bannermen and Khalkha (Eastern) Mongols enslaved Dzungar women and children while slaying the other Dzungars.

In 1755, the Qianlong Emperor ordered the genocide of the Dzungars, moving the remaining Dzungar people to the mainland and ordering the generals to kill all the men in Barkol or Suzhou, and divided their wives and children to Qing forces, which were made out of Manchu Bannermen and Khalkha Mongols. Qing scholar Wei Yuan estimated the total population of Dzungars before the fall at 600,000 people, or 200,000 households. Oirat officer Saaral betrayed and battled against the Oirats. In a widely cited account of the war, Wei Yuan wrote that about 40% of the Dzungar households were killed by smallpox, 20% fled to Russia or Kazakh tribes, and 30% were killed by the Qing army of Manchu Bannermen and Khalkhas, leaving no yurts in an area of several thousands li except those of the surrendered.

During this war, Kazakhs attacked dispersed Oirats and Altays. Based on this account, Wen-Djang Chu wrote that 80% of the 600,000 or more Dzungars, especially Choros, Olots, Khoid, Baatud and Zakhchin, were destroyed by disease and attack which Michael Clarke described as "the complete destruction of not only the Dzungar state but of the Zungars as a people." Historian Peter Perdue attributed the devastation of the Dzungars to an explicit policy of extermination launched by Qianlong, but he also observed signs of a more lenient policy after mid-1757.

Mark Levene, a historian whose recent research interests focus on genocide, has stated that the extermination of the Dzungars was "arguably the eighteenth century genocide par excellence." The Dzungar genocide was completed by a combination of a smallpox epidemic and the direct slaughter of Dzungars by Qing forces made out of Manchu Bannermen and (Khalkha) Mongols.

Anti-Dzungar Uyghur rebels from the Turfan and Hami oases had submitted to Qing rule as vassals and requested Qing help for overthrowing Dzungar rule. Uyghur leaders like Emin Khoja were granted titles within the Qing nobility, and these Uyghurs helped supply the Qing military forces during the anti-Dzungar campaign. The Qing employed Khoja Emin in its campaign against the Dzungars and used him as an intermediary with Muslims from the Tarim Basin to inform them that the Qing were only aiming to kill Dzungars and that they would leave the Muslims alone, and also to convince them to kill the Dzungars themselves and side with the Qing since the Qing noted the Muslims' resentment of their former experience under Dzungar rule at the hands of Tsewang Rabtan.

It was not until generations later that Dzungaria rebounded from the destruction and near liquidation of the Dzungars after the mass slayings of nearly a million Dzungars. Historian Peter C. Perdue has shown that the annihilation of the Dzungars was the result of an explicit policy of extermination launched by Qianlong, Perdue attributed the elimination of the Dzungars to a "deliberate use of massacre" and has described it as an "ethnic genocide".

The Qing "final solution" of genocide to solve the problem of the Dzungars made the Qing sponsored settlement of millions of Han Chinese, Hui, Turkestani Oasis people (Uyghurs) and Manchu Bannermen in Dzungaria possible, since the land was now devoid of Dzungars. The Dzungaria, which used to be inhabited by Dzungars is currently inhabited by Kazakhs. In northern Xinjiang, the Qing brought in Han, Hui, Uyghur, Xibe, and Kazakh colonists after they exterminated the Dzungar Oirat Mongols in the region, with one third of Xinjiang's total population consisting of Hui and Han in the northern area, while around two thirds were Uyghurs in southern Xinjiang's Tarim Basin. In Dzungaria, the Qing established new cities like Ürümqi (former Dihua of Qing, 迪化) and Yining. The Qing were the ones who unified Xinjiang and changed its demographic situation.

The depopulation of northern Xinjiang after the Vajrayana Buddhist Oirats were slaughtered, led to the Qing settling Manchu, Sibo (Xibe), Daurs, Solons, Han Chinese, Hui Muslims, and Turkic Muslim Taranchis in the north, with Han Chinese and Hui migrants making up the greatest number of settlers. Since it was the crushing of the Buddhist Öölöd (Dzungars) by the Qing which led to promotion of Islam and the empowerment of the Muslim Begs in southern Xinjiang, and migration of Muslim Taranchis to northern Xinjiang, it was proposed by Henry Schwarz that "the Qing victory was, in a certain sense, a victory for Islam". Xinjiang as a unified defined geographic identity was created and developed by the Qing. It was the Qing who led to Turkic Muslim power in the region increasing since the Mongol power was crushed by the Qing while Turkic Muslim culture and identity was tolerated or even promoted by the Qing.

Qianlong explicitly commemorated the Qing conquest of the Dzungars as having added new territory in Xinjiang to "China", defining China as a multi ethnic state, rejecting the idea that China only meant Han areas in "China proper", meaning that according to the Qing, both Han and non-Han peoples were part of "China", which included Xinjiang which the Qing conquered from the Dzungars. After the Qing were done conquering Dzungaria in 1759, they proclaimed that the new land which formerly belonged to the Dzungars, was now absorbed into "China" (Dulimbai Gurun) in a Manchu language memorial.

The Qing expounded on their ideology that they were bringing together the "outer" non-Han Chinese like the Inner Mongols, Eastern Mongols, Oirat Mongols, and Tibetans together with the "inner" Han Chinese, into "one family" united in the Qing state, showing that the diverse subjects of the Qing were all part of one family, the Qing used the phrase "Zhong Wai Yi Jia" 中外一家 or "Nei Wai Yi Jia" 內外一家 ("interior and exterior as one family"), to convey this idea of "unification" of the different peoples. In the Manchu official Tulišen's Manchu language account of his meeting with the Torghut leader Ayuka Khan, it was mentioned that while the Torghuts were unlike the Russians, the "people of the Central Kingdom" (dulimba-i gurun 中國, Zhongguo) were like the Torghut Mongols, and the "people of the Central Kingdom" referred to the Manchus.

The Hulun Buir Oolods formed an administrative banner along the Imin and Shinekhen Rivers. During the Qing dynasty, a body of them resettled in Yakeshi city. In 1764 many Oolods migrated to Khovd Province in Mongolia and supplied corvee services for the Khovd garrison of the Qing. Their number reached 9,100 in 1989. A united administrative unit was demanded by them.

The Dzungars remaining in Xinjiang were also renamed Oolods. They dominated 30 of the 148 Mongol sums during the Qing dynasty era. They numbered 25,000 in 1999.

References

Sources

External links
 «Начальные времена» ойратской истории
 ДНК нации или Исторический психотип ойратов
 Четыре типа ойратской красоты
 Последние данные по локализации и численности ойрат (htm републикация)

Oirats


Doone is a surname. It may refer to:

People
 Allen Doone (1878–1948), American tenor and comic actor
 Gideon Doone, Micronesian politician, Governor of Chuuk State from 1986 to 1990
 James Joseph Hayes Doone (1888–1953), Canadian lawyer and political figure
 Peter Doone, New Zealand police officer and lawyer, Commissioner of Police from 1996 to 2000
 Rupert Doone (1903–1966), English dancer, choreographer, theatre director and teacher

Fictional characters
 the title character of Lorna Doone, an 1869 novel, as well as various adaptations
 Carver Doone (the villain) and other members of the Doone clan, characters in the novel

See also
 Doon (disambiguation)


The Tower Osaka is a high rise apartment building situated at Hotarumachi, 1-1 Fukushima, Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is the highest building in Fukushima ward.

Access
The nearest train stations are  on the Keihan Nakanoshima Line, and  on the JR Osaka Loop Line and Hanshin Main Line.

See also
Osaka
Hotarumachi
Nakanoshima
List of tallest buildings in Osaka

Fukushima-ku, Osaka
Skyscrapers in Osaka
Residential skyscrapers in Japan
Mitsubishi Estate
Residential buildings completed in 2008
2008 establishments in Japan


Pagnell may refer to:

Boothby Pagnell, village in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England
Hooton Pagnell, village in the metropolitan borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England
Newport Pagnell, town in the Borough of Milton Keynes, England
Newport Pagnell Rural District, rural district in Buckinghamshire, England, from 1894 to 1974
Newport Pagnell services, motorway service station between junctions 14 and 15 of the M1 motorway
Newport Pagnell Town F.C., football club based at Newport Pagnell, near Milton Keynes


Chad Daniel Huffman (born April 29, 1985) is an American former professional baseball outfielder and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines.

Career

Amateur
Huffman attended Elkins High School in Missouri City, Texas, and Texas Christian University (TCU), where he played for the TCU Horned Frogs' baseball team from 2004 to 2006 and football team from 2003 to 2005.  With the baseball team, he was named to the All-Conference USA Tournament Team in both 2004 and 2005. In 2005, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

San Diego Padres
The San Diego Padres selected Huffman in the second round, with the 53rd overall selection, of the 2006 Major League Baseball draft. Huffman won the 2009 AAA Home Run Derby in PGE Park as a member of the hometown Portland Beavers.

Huffman was waived by the Padres prior to the 2010 season to make room on the 40 man roster for Matt Stairs.

New York Yankees
He was claimed off waivers by the Yankees.

On June 13, 2010, the New York Yankees recalled Huffman to replace the injured Marcus Thames. Prior to the call up, Huffman hit .279 with 5 home runs, 22 RBIs, and an on-base percentage of .344 over 190 at bats with the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. On June 13, 2010, Huffman had his first career hit in his first Major League at bat.

Huffman was designated by assignment by the Yankees on September 15.

Cleveland Indians
On September 17, he was claimed by the Cleveland Indians and optioned to the Triple-A Columbus Clippers. Huffman was removed from the 40-man roster on November 3 and sent outright to Columbus.

Chiba Lotte Marines
On December 14, 2013, Huffman signed a one-year deal with the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. During the 2014 season, Huffman batted .270 with 20 doubles, four home runs and 28 RBIs in 67 games. He also spent the 2015 season with Chiba Lotte.

Detroit Tigers
On December 30, 2015, Huffman signed a minor league contract with the Detroit Tigers. On March 28, 2018, Huffman became a free agent.

St. Louis Cardinals
On November 18, 2016, Huffman signed a minor league deal with the St. Louis Cardinals that included an invitation to spring training.

The Cardinals promoted Huffman to the major leagues on June 7, 2017. On June 13, he hit a triple against the Milwaukee Brewers as a pinch hitter to garner his first major league hit since 2010.

On July 25, 2017, he was outrighted and given unconditional release.

Washington Nationals
On July 27, 2017, he signed a minor league deal with the Washington Nationals. He elected free agency on November 6, 2017.

Second Stint with Tigers
Huffman signed a minor league contract with the Detroit Tigers on November 25, 2017. The deal included an invitation to the Tigers' 2018 spring training camp. Huffman played the full 2018 season at the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens. Huffman won his second Triple-A Home Run Derby in 2018 at Huntington Park as a member of the Toledo Mud Hens. He helped lead the team to its first playoff berth in 2018 since 2007. He elected free agency on November 3, 2018.

Awards and honors
 2004 All-Conference USA Tournament Team
 2004 C-USA Freshman of the Year
 2004 Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American
 2005 Louisville Slugger Second-Team Pre-season All-American
 2005 All-Conference USA Tournament Team
 2005 2nd-team all-Conference C-USA
 2006 NCBWA preseason second-team All-American
 2006 Louisville Slugger Third-Team All-American
 2006 NCBWA 3rd team All-American
 2006 Rivals.com Honorable Mention All-America
 2006 Northwest League Player of the Week
 2006 Northwest League Post-Season All-Star
 2006 Baseball America Short-Season All-Star
 2007 California League Mid-Season All-Star
 2008 Texas League Mid-Season All-Star
 2008 Arizona Fall League Rising Stars
 2009, 2018 AAA Home Run Derby winner
 2010 Inducted into the Elkins HS Baseball Hall of Fame

Personal life
Huffman is the son of Debbie and Royce Huffman (TCU Horned Frogs football player 1969–73), and has two older brothers, Royce Jr., an all-conference performer in TCU Horned Frogs football and TCU Horned Frogs baseball from 1995 to 1999, and Scott, who played football and baseball at Rice University from 1998 to 2002.

References

External links

1985 births
American expatriate baseball players in Japan
Baseball players from Texas
Chiba Lotte Marines players
Columbus Clippers players
Eugene Emeralds players
Falmouth Commodores players
Fort Wayne Wizards players
Lake Elsinore Storm players
Leones del Caracas players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Living people
Major League Baseball left fielders
Memphis Redbirds players
New York Yankees players
Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders
Baseball players from Houston
Peoria Saguaros players
Phoenix Desert Dogs players
Portland Beavers players
San Antonio Missions players
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees players
St. Louis Cardinals players
Syracuse Chiefs players
TCU Horned Frogs baseball players
TCU Horned Frogs football players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Toros del Este players
American expatriate baseball players in the Dominican Republic


Pare Ko (English: "My Pal") is a song by the Eraserheads. It was included in their debut album, Ultraelectromagneticpop!. It was the band's third hit single. The song was later adapted into a movie of the same title starring Claudine Barreto and Mark Anthony Fernandez. It was covered by APO Hiking Society and later Spongecola.

Controversy
The single and the album was nearly censored by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI) due to the Tagalog profanity "‘Tang Ina" (Filipino slang whose rough English equivalent is son of a bitch, shortened from 'Putang Ina'). Swear words were unheard of in Philippine music at the time, and as such their record label asked them to record a radio edit of the song; they retitled it "Walang Hiyang Pare Ko", where "Tang Ina" was changed to "'Lang Hiya". It can also be found in Ultraelectromagneticpop! but not in the remastered 25th anniversary version of the album.

Covers
APO Hiking Society covered the song in 2001 for their 17th and final studio album Banda Rito
Sponge Cola also covered the song for the 2005 cover compilation album Ultraelectromagneticjam!: The Music of the Eraserheads
Johnoy Danao covered the song once again for the 2012 compilation album The Reunion: An Eraserheads Tribute Album
Rivermaya lead vocalist from 2007-2011 Jason Fernandez covered the song as a Wishclusive on Wish 107.5 last 2018.

In popular culture
The song was adapted into a Star Cinema movie in 1994 starring Claudine Barretto, Gwapings members Mark Anthony Fernandez and Jomari Yllana along with Jao Mapa, Victor Neri and Gio Alvarez.

On the June 2, 2019, episode of Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho, this was played as the background music.

References

Eraserheads songs
1993 songs
1993 singles
Obscenity controversies in music
Songs written by Ely Buendia
Tagalog-language songs


Norman John Speck (July 30, 1886 – November 18, 1952) was a professional football player during the early years of the National Football League (NFL). Speck won two NFL championships with the Canton Bulldogs in 1922 and 1923. He played for the Professionals-Bulldogs team during their time in the Ohio League from 1911 until 1919, with the only exception being in 1913, when Speck left Canton after three games to join the Elyria Athletics. After a 20-0 defeat to the Akron Indians, Speck, and seven other former Athletics showed up under the name of the Coleman Athletic Club to challenge Canton. Coleman then defeated Canton 26-0. Speck also played during the 1924 season with the Akron Pros, however most of his professional career was spent with Canton.

References
Let's Play Two
Shelby Who?

Notes

1886 births
1952 deaths
Canton Bulldogs players
Canton Bulldogs (Ohio League) players
Canton Professionals players
Akron Pros players
Elyria Athletics players
Shelby Blues players
Players of American football from Canton, Ohio


Additional Housing Grant (abbrev: AHG) is an additional subsidy over and above the regular market subsidy and Central Provident Fund Housing Grant that new and resale HDB (Housing & Development Board) flat buyers in Singapore can enjoy.  It offsets the purchase price of a new or resale HDB flat in Singapore, thereby reducing the housing loan a flat buyer needs to take.

Overview
The AHG was first introduced on 3 Mar 2006 to help lower-income citizen families buy their first HDB flat.  Under the AHG, households earning below the monthly income ceiling can qualify for an additional subsidy (refer table).  The AHG has since undergone two enhancements.  The first was in Aug 2007, and the second enhancement was on 6 Feb 2009.

The latest increase in income ceiling from S$4,000 to S$5,000 increases the coverage of the AHG from 50 to 60 percent of resident households.  In addition, the condition of continuous employment preceding the flat application is reduced from two years to one year.

The enhanced AHG is applicable to the purchase of flats as follows:

Eligibility conditions
The AHG will only be given once to each eligible family.  As with the current scheme, the enhanced grant is given to Singapore Citizen only (not Singapore Permanent Residence spouse or an undischarged bankrupt), and can only be used as capital payment for the flat purchase.  The balance, if any, must be used to reduce the mortgage loan before a housing loan from HDB can be granted.

In addition to the current eligibility conditions to buy a new flat and the conditions of income ceiling and continuous employment, the family will have also to meet the following eligibility conditions to apply for the AHG:

Family Nucleus
The applicant must form a family comprising the applicant and his/her:
spouse; or
fiance/fiancee; or
parents and siblings; or
children under your legal custody (if you are widowed or divorced).

Household Status
The applicant and the other essential family members listed in the application for purchase of the flat:
 are currently not owners of a flat bought direct from the HDB or a resale flat bought with the CPF housing grant; and
 have not sold a flat bought direct from the HDB or a resale flat bought with the CPF housing grant; and
 have not enjoyed other forms of housing subsidy (for example, bought an Executive Condominium from developer, enjoyed benefits under the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme, privatisation of HUDC estate etc.).

Undischarged Bankrupt
The recipients of the housing grant must not be an undischarged bankrupt.

Details and benefits of enhanced AHG
The AHG is graduated to allow families with lower income to enjoy a higher grant.  The details of the enhanced grant are as follows:

References

External links

Public housing in Singapore
Real estate in Singapore


Dashadong Station (), formerly Dashadi Station () during planning, is a station on Line 5 of the Guangzhou Metro. It is located underground the junction of East Dashadi Road () and Zhendong Road (), in the Huangpu District. It opened on 28December 2009.

Gallery

References

Railway stations in China opened in 2009
Guangzhou Metro stations in Huangpu District


Boruch is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Boruch Ber Leibowitz, main student of Rabbi Chaim Brisker famed for his Talmudic lectures
Boruch Greenfeld, (1872–1956), rabbi and Torah scholar
Boruch Israel Dyner (1903–1979), Belgian–Israeli chess master
Boruch of Medzhybizh (1753–1811), the first major "rebbe" of the Hasidic movement to hold court in Mezhbizh and Beis Medrash
Marianne Boruch (born 1950), American poet


The Synagogue in the Agora of Athens is an ancient synagogue located in the Ancient Agora of Athens.

During an excavation in the summer of 1977, a piece of Pentelic marble apparently once part of a curvilinear frieze over a doorway or niche was discovered a few meters from the northeast corner of the Metroon.  The marble fragment is incised with the images of a seven-branched Menorah and a Lulav, or palm branch.     The synagogue is thought to date from the period between 267 and 396 CE.

Biblical reference
The apostle Paul is said in the Book of Acts to have visited a synagogue in Athens.  The identity of that synagogue cannot be firmly established.

See also
History of the Jews in Greece
Oldest synagogues in the world

References

Ancient synagogues
Ancient Jewish Greek history
Synagogues in Athens
Ancient Agora of Athens


Henry Graham Dakyns, often H. G. Dakyns (1838–1911), was a British translator of Ancient Greek, best known for his translations of Xenophon: the Cyropaedia and Hellenica, The Economist, Hiero and On Horsemanship.

Life
Henry Graham Dakyns was born on Saint Vincent in the West Indies, the second son of Thomas Henry Dakyns of Rugby, Warwickshire. His mother Harriet Dasent was the sister of George Webbe Dasent, translator of the Icelandic sagas. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1860.

Dakyns was a tutor for Lord Alfred Tennyson's children, and subsequently House Master and Assistant Master at Clifton College from 1862 to 1889. Though he never played himself, he started the Rugby Football Club at Clifton College.

Graham had numerous correspondences with Tennyson and his wife, Henry Sidgwick, John Addington Symonds and T.E. Brown and other nineteenth century literary figures.

Translations
Agesilaus, Project Gutenberg
Anabasis, Project Gutenberg
The Cavalry General
Cyropaedia, Gutenberg Press
The Economist, Gutenberg Press
Hellenica, Gutenberg Press
Hiero by Xenophon, Gutenberg Press
The Memorabilia, Project Gutenberg
On Horsemanship by Xenophon, Gutenberg Press
On Revenues, Project Gutenberg
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians, Project Gutenberg
The Sportsman, Project Gutenberg
The Symposium, Project Gutenberg

Works on Dakyns
Letters to a Tutor: The Tennyson Family Letters to Henry Graham Dakyns by Robert Peters. Scarecrow Press, 1989

References

External links

 Letters between T.E. Brown & Grahams
 Henry Graham Dakyns Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
1911 deaths
1838 births
Greek–English translators
People educated at Rugby School
19th-century British translators


Ifaistos Limnou B.C. (also known as: Ifestos Limnou B.C. or Hephaestus Lemnos B.C.) (Greek: Ήφαιστος Λήμνου K.A.E.) was a Greek professional basketball club that was based on the Greek island of Lemnos, in Myrina. The club was named after the Greek god Hephaestus.

History
Foinix Larissas was replaced in its Greek competition by Gymnastikos S. Larissas, after the two clubs merged in 2015, thus ending Foinix's presence in Greek basketball competitions. The club played in the  3rd-tier level Greek B League during the 2015–16 season, and was promoted to the 2nd-tier level Greek A2 League, for the 2016–17 season.

In the summer of 2017, Gymnastikos then merged with Faros Keratsiniou, and then took Faros' place in the upcoming top-tier level Greek Basket League's 2017–18 season. Faros retained all of its amateur and junior clubs. Gymnastikos' club name then officially became Gymnastikos Syllogos Larissas Faros 2017, abbreviated as G.S.L. Faros 2017.

Ifaistos Lemnou was then officially created on 25 October 2017, under the ownership of Pantelis Boumbouras, and being based in Myrina, on the Greek island of Lemnos. In July 2018, Ifaistos merged with GSL Faros. After the merger of the two clubs, GSL Faros' club history was then returned to the club, which was re-named to Gymnastikos S. Larissas 1928. The club played its first official game against Peristeri, on 3 October 2018, in the Round 16 phase of the Greek Cup. Ifaistos lost the game, by a score of 91–81.

After the end of the 2019–20 Greek Basket League season, the club was disbanded.

Arena
The club played its home games at the 1,260 seat capacity Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall, which is located in Myrina, on the Greek Island of Lemnos. The arena is named after the late Greek volleyball player Nikos Samaras.

Season by season

Notable players

Greece:
 Dimitris Charitopoulos
 Georgios Diamantakos
 Costis Gontikas
 Sotirios Manolopoulos
 Spyros Mourtos
 Michalis Pelekanos
 Dimitris Stamatis
 Michalis Tsairelis

Europe:
 Rolands Freimanis
 Vlad Moldoveanu

USA:
 Tyrone Brazelton
 Sean Evans
 Marcus Gilbert
 Toddrick Gotcher
 Cliff Hammonds
 Mario Little
 Jerry Smith
 Antwaine Wiggins

Head coaches

 Sotiris Manolopoulos

References

External links
Official website
Greek Basket League Profile

Basketball teams established in 2017
Basketball teams in Greece
Lemnos
Basketball teams disestablished in 2020


Schwarzsee is a lake at Laret, between Davos and Klosters in the Grisons, Switzerland. It is located at an elevation of 1504 m.

Lakes of Switzerland
Lakes of Graubünden
Davos
Klosters-Serneus


Pohick Bay Regional Park is a regional park on Pohick Bay of the Potomac River, in Fairfax County, northern Virginia.

Geography
The park is located on State Route 242, north of Mason Neck State Park.

It is protected and operated by the NOVA Parks agency of Northern Virginia, formerly the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority.

Water recreation
Pohick Bay Regional Park includes a boat launch; and the Pirate's Cove water park.

See also

External links
NOVA Parks.org: Pohick Bay Regional Park website

NOVA Parks
Parks in Fairfax County, Virginia
Regional parks in Virginia
Water parks in Virginia


Swapan Kumar Chakravorty (Bengali: স্বপন কুমার চক্রবর্তী; 29 July 1954 – 25 September 2021) was an Indian academic who was a distinguished Professor of Humanities at the Presidency University, Kolkata. He also served as a Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Director General of the National Library of India along with Secretary, and Curator of the Victoria Memorial Hall. Chakravorty was chairperson of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor on Library Matters, Ashoka University, and Distinguished Visiting Faculty, S. P. Jain School of Global Management.

Life and career
An alumnus of Calcutta Boys' School, Presidency College, Kolkata and Jadavpur University, Chakravorty obtained his D. Phil. from Oxford University. He joined the English Department at Jadavpur in 1985 and was Head from 2005 to 2007. He was also at one time Joint Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records.

Chakravorty also taught at the Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, the University of Calcutta, and Universiti Malaya. His visiting assignments and lectures include those at the University of Alabama, Institute of English Studies at London University, and King's College, London. He delivered the Hudson Strode Renaissance Lectures at the University of Alabama, Brajendranath Bandyopadhyay Memorial Lecture, Sunitikumar Chattopadhyay Memorial Lecture and Jitendranath Chakrabarti Memorial Lecture at Bangla Akademi, Kolkata, Sombhu Mitra Memorial Lecture of Paschimbanga Natya Akademi, Kolkata, Buddhadeva Bose Memorial Lecture of Paschimbanga Kabita Akademi, Buddhadeva Bose Memorial Lecture of CSSSC, Shakti Chattopadhyay Memorial Lecture, Sukhalata Rao Memorial Lecture, and Ranajay Karlekar Lecture at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, the Foundation Day Orations at Bangiya Sahitya Parishat and the Centre for Archaeological Research and Training, Eastern India, Kolkata, the first Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Lecture, the first Satyendra Prasanna Mukherjee Memorial Lecture, Bhaskar Chakraborti Memorial Lecture in Kolkata, and the first Kabindranath Phukan Memorial Lecture at Gauhati University, Guwahati. Other special lectures delivered by Chakravorty in Kolkata included Subodh Chandra Sengupta Memorial Lecture, Kalyan Maitra Memorial Lecture, and the first Raghab Bandyopadhyay Memorial Lecture.

Chakravorty died from post-COVID-19 complications on 25 September 2021.

Books
Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
contributing editor of The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007) and Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007). (General Editors: Gary Taylor et al.; awarded the distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize by the Modern Language Association, USA)
(edited with Abhijit Gupta) Print Areas: Book History in India (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004) and Movable Type: Book History in India II (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008).
(edited with Abhijit Gupta) Moveable Type: Book History in India (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2009)
(edited with Abhijit Gupta) Founts of Knowledge: Book History in India (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2015)
(with Tani Barlow and Suzana Milevska) Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Kolkata: Seagull, 2006)
Shakespeare (Kolkata: Papyrus, 1999)
Bangalir ingreji sahityacharcha (Kolkata: Anustup, 2004)
editor of Mudraner sanskriti o bangla boi (Kolkata: Ababhas, 2007). Awarded the Naransingha Dass Prize by the University of Delhi, 2010
editor of Nameless Recognition: The Impact of Rabindranath Tagore on Other Indian Literatures (Kolkata: National Library, 2012)

Articles
 Imminent ruin and desperate remedy: Calcutta and its fragments
Obituary on Anandabazar Patrika শিক্ষাবিদ স্বপন চক্রবর্তী প্রয়াত, শোকপ্রকাশ মুখ্যমন্ত্রীর ()

References

Academic staff of Presidency University, Kolkata
University of Calcutta alumni
Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
Academic staff of Jadavpur University Department of English
Jadavpur University alumni
1954 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India
Academics from Kolkata


Kruger Inc. is a Canadian corporation which manufactures publication papers, tissue, lumber and other wood products, corrugated cartons from recycled fibres, green and renewable energy, and wines and spirits. Kruger Inc. operates facilities in Québec, Ontario, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the United States.

History

The origins of Kruger Inc. date back to 1904, when Joseph Kruger founded a fine paper business in Montreal.  Gene H. Kruger, the founder's son, became president of the company in 1928 at the age of 25 and expanded it into the manufacture of newsprint, paperboard, and tissue products.

As chairman of the board and CEO, Joseph Kruger II, Gene's son, has overseen the company's continual expansion into specialty publication papers, North American tissue products, wines and spirits, forest and wood products, renewable energy and recycling, as well as its modernization with special emphasis on the environment.

Activities
The company's activities are divided into two major divisions:  Industrial Products (publication papers, forest products, containerboard and packaging) and Consumer Products (tissue products, wines and spirits).  Kruger Inc.’s subsidiary, Kruger Energy, develops and operates hydroelectric, solar, wind power, biomass cogeneration and biogas energy projects.

Kruger has sorting and recovery centres that supply its mills with recycled paper and containerboard for the production of recycled stock and recycled paper products.

Industrial products

Publication papers
This Kruger business unit produces newsprint, and coated, directory and supercalendered paper.

Kruger Publication Papers comprises four paper mills, three of which are located in Québec:  Trois-Rivières, Kruger-Wayagamack, Brompton (Sherbrooke), and the other in Newfoundland and Labrador:  Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited. All four paper mills are certified under ISO 9001:2000 (Quality Management), PwC ICoCTM (Chain of Custody) and PEFC (Chain of Custody).  Each has its own recycling facilities, secondary effluent treatment system, and environmental and energy conservation programs.  Two paper mills also have deinking facilities and produce approximately 300,000 tonnes of deinked pulp per year, which is used to manufacture various Kruger Inc. paper and tissue products.

Containerboard and packaging
Kruger owns KRUPACK Packaging.  Its plants in LaSalle (Quebec) and Brampton (Ontario) manufacture containers for food, beverages, dairy products, meat, fruit and vegetables, flowers, chemicals, textiles and clothing.  They also produce boxes for large electrical appliances, auto parts and other industrial products.

Consumer products

Tissue products
Kruger's Tissue Products business unit includes four mills in Canada:  Crabtree, Sherbrooke, Gatineau, New Westminster, and one in the United States:  Memphis, Tennessee. Its mills have a combined annual papermaking capacity of approximately 294,000 gross air dried metric tonnes (GADMT), which represents 37% of Canada's total installed tissue manufacturing capacity, making Kruger Inc. Canada’s leading tissue products manufacturer.

Kruger Products’ Away-From-Home business leads the Canadian tissue market by providing quality products to market segments such as office buildings, healthcare, food service, manufacturing, and lodging.  Designed to meet unique end-user needs, the product line includes bath and facial tissue, towels, wipes, napkins and skin care products.

Brands include Cashmere, Scotties, SpongeTowels, Purex, White Swan, and White Cloud.

Wines and spirits
The Wines and Spirits business unit was created in September 2006, when Kruger Inc. acquired Maison des Futailles, L.P., a Québec company founded in 1922 by the S.A.Q.'s bottling plant (Société des Alcools du Québec or Québec liquor board).  It has seen impressive growth over the past decade and today distributes approximately 20% of all wines marketed in Québec and continues to expand into other provinces and the United States.

Kruger Energy
Kruger Energy specializes in renewable energy, such as hydroelectricity, wind energy, biomass cogeneration, and biogas energy.

Boreal forest destruction
A 2007 Greenpeace report on the state of Canada's boreal forests states, "Less than 48 per cent of the total area under Kruger management in Quebec and Ontario remains intact. Kruger is involved in severe controversy on the Island of René-Lavasseur, where logging is carrying on not only in intact forest areas but also in important caribou habitat and without respect for the rights of traditional land owners, the Innu First Nation of Betsiamites....None of Kruger's forested lands is certified to the standards of the Forest Stewardship Council." Kruger achieved FSC certification in March 2011.

References

External links

Pulp and paper companies of Canada
Electric power companies of Canada
Companies based in Montreal