Linda S. Bolon (born June 22, 1948) is a Democratic politician who served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 1st District from 2007 to 2010 for 2 terms. A lifelong resident of Columbiana County, Mrs. Bolon graduated from Columbus University. She began a career in auditing, serving as the treasurer of the East Palestine School District before moving on to serve as an auditor for the State of Ohio under former State Auditor, Thomas Ferguson.

In 1995, Mrs. Bolon was elected to the East Palestine City Council, serving in the capacity of a councilwoman for four years, until becoming Columbiana County Treasurer in 1999. Originally appointed, she won election to a full term in 2000. She won a second full term in 2004.

With Republican Chuck Blasdel running for Congress in 2006, Mrs. Bolon sought his open seat in the Ohio House of Representatives. Facing Jim Hoppel, a county commissioner, she won easily and won reelection in 2008 to a second term.

By her second term, Mrs. Bolon was serving in various leadership positions, notably as majority whip. She also served in Finance and Appropriations, Local and Municipal Government and Urban Revitalization as well as Ways and Means. However in 2010, Republicans saw her as a potential pick-up, although not a top tier target. In an overwhelmingly Republican year, Mrs. Bolon was defeated by political newcomer Craig Newbold for the State Representative seat. Following her defeat, Mrs. Bolon returned to Columbiana County where she served as the Columbiana County Treasurer again from 2013 - 2021 serving a total of 4 terms.

One of her biggest goals for Columbiana County was to personally recover the $20.4 million dollars that was illegally invested by a previous county treasurer, Ardel Strabala.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/oh-court-of-appeals/1087184.html

"On or about September 14, 1993, appellant discovered that the Columbiana County Treasurer, Ardel Strabala (“Strabala”), had illegally invested and/or diverted county funds through his son, Steven Strabala.  As a result of this activity, the county experienced significant losses. Strabala subsequently pled guilty to having an unlawful interest in a public contract pursuant to R.C. 2921.42(A)(2)."

Mrs. Bolon may have recovered around $8–11 million in her tenure but the bounty for the rest remains on his son to repay the county.

References

External links
The Ohio Ladies' Gallery: Rep. Linda Bolon (D-Columbiana)
Linda S. Bolon for State Representative campaign website
Project Vote Smart - Representative Linda S. Bolon (OH) profile
https://web.archive.org/web/20080515194212/http://www.lindabolon.com/
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/oh-court-of-appeals/1087184.html

Democratic Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives
1955 births
Living people
Women state legislators in Ohio
People from Columbiana, Ohio
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
People from East Palestine, Ohio


James Smith was a Scottish footballer who played for clubs including Third Lanark, Clyde, Port Vale, Fulham and Dundee United.

Career
Smith played for Rutherglen Glencairn, Glentoran, Third Lanark, Abercorn (loan), Clydebank (as a guest), Clyde, Dunfermline Athletic (loan), Clackmannan (loan), Inverkeithing United (loan) and Plymouth Argyle, before joining Port Vale in May 1922. He played seven games in the 1922–23 season, and claimed goals against Fulham and Coventry City at Craven Cottage and Highfield Road. He badly twisted a knee during a goalless draw at Clapton Orient on 23 September. His contract was cancelled by mutual consent the next month and he moved on to Fulham.

Personal life
Smith worked at J.L. Thompson and Sons during the First World War.

Career statistics

References

Footballers from Glasgow
Scottish men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Glentoran F.C. players
Third Lanark A.C. players
Abercorn F.C. players
Clyde F.C. players
Dundee United F.C. players
Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players
Clackmannan F.C. players
Rutherglen Glencairn F.C. players
Plymouth Argyle F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Scottish Junior Football Association players
NIFL Premiership players


Deep Green is a project that ran under the Information Processing Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The purpose of the project was to develop a decision-making support system for United States Army commanders. The systems developed feature advanced predictive capabilities to enable computers to efficiently and accurately predict possible future scenarios, based on an analysis of the current situation, in order to give army commanders a better view of possible outcomes for their decisions

Deep Green is composed of four major components:

 Blitzkrieg – Battlefield model which analyzes current situation and determines possible future outcomes for use in planning. When a plan is presented, Blitzkrieg analyzes the plan to point out possible results of that course of action to the commander. Blitzkrieg itself does not do planning, it merely determines the likely results of a plan formulated by a human commander.
 Crystal Ball – Performs analysis of possible futures generated from blitzkrieg, and determines the "best" choices by measuring flexibility, usefulness, and likelihood of each. It picks the best of these choices and presents them to the commander. Also updates model of battlefield situation with information pulled from the field. This might include reports from soldiers, through a program similar to the Communicator program that was developed under the Information Awareness Office or through automated RSTA systems such as HART.
 Commander's Associate – this is the user interface and visualization component. It consists of "Sketch-to-decide" which presents the commander with a list of options, and "Sketch-to-plan" which is a screen on which the commander can draw up a plan, which Deep Green will interpret and put into action.

See also

 Heterogeneous Aerial Reconnaissance Team – a RSTA program of the sort that will feed battlespace situational data to "Crystal Ball"
 Information Awareness Office – which developed similar systems, such as Genoa & Genoa II

References

Military equipment of the United States


Vitālijs Aizbalts  (born February 1, 1959) is a Latvian politician. He is a member of the LPP/LC and a deputy of the 9th Saeima (Latvian Parliament). He began his current term in parliament on November 7, 2006. He was born in Daugavpils.

References

External links
Saeima website

1959 births
Living people
Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Deputies of the Saeima
21st-century Latvian politicians


Ainars Baštiks (born October 26, 1958, Liepāja) is a Latvian politician and a Baptist pastor. He is a member of the LPP/LC party.

References

External links
Centrālā vēlēšanu komisija

1958 births
Living people
Politicians from Liepāja
Latvian Baptists
Latvia's First Party politicians
Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Honor to serve Riga politicians
Government ministers of Latvia
Deputies of the 8th Saeima
Deputies of the 9th Saeima
University of Latvia alumni


The 2006 CIS Men's Basketball Championship was held March 16-19, 2006. The Carleton Ravens won their fourth straight national title.

Bracket

Tournament Awards
MVP: Osvaldo Jeanty, Carleton
All-stars:
Ryan Bell, Carleton
Brandon Ellis, Victoria
Jacob Doerksen, Victoria
Ryan Keliher, Cape Breton
Alexander Stephen, StFX

2006
2005–06 in Canadian basketball


A Spell of Winter is a 1995 literary gothic novel by Helen Dunmore, set in England, around the time of World War I. The novel was the first recipient of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996.

Plot summary
Cathy and her older brother Rob grow up without their parents on an estate in rural England in the early 20th century. Their mother had abandoned them for a better life in southern Europe, and their father was committed to a sanatorium. They live with their grandfather and are brought up by one of the servants, Kate. Their governess is Miss Gallagher, but the siblings hate her. Cathy and Rob have little contact with the outside world, and as they get older, they grow closer. An older, wealthy neighbour Mr Bullivant befriends Cathy, but she is more interested in her brother.

Cathy and Rob's contact becomes more intimate and eventually sexual. Miss Gallagher finds out about their liaison and threatens to expose them to their grandfather. Kate notices that Cathy is pregnant and assumes the father is Mr. Bullivant. Cathy wants the pregnancy terminated before anyone else notices, and Kate arranges an illegal abortion for her. Cathy is depressed about losing her baby, but tells no one, not even Rob. To prevent Miss Gallagher finding out, Cathy leads her deep into the nearby woods, ostensibly to show her some wild flowers. Cathy, knowing she will not find her way back home on her own, frightens her with ghost stories, then abandons her. The next day Miss Gallagher is found dead of a suspected heart attack. Cathy is overcome with guilt and withdraws. She and her brother drift apart.

Rob and Kate become close and they leave for a new life in Canada. The Great War starts and all the local boys of age depart to fight in France. Mr. Bullivant serves on a hospital ship. Rob returns from Canada, without Kate, but leaves soon after for France. Cathy later receives news that her brother is missing, presumed dead. After the War, Mr. Bullivant returns and persuades Cathy to travel with him to France to see her mother. Cathy has no interest in her, but agrees to go. In Brittany she finds and reunites with her mother.

Reception
In a review in The Washington Post, American writer and academic Nicholas Delbanco described A Spell of Winter as "an erotic pastoral". He said it is "heady Gothic stuff" reminiscent of Brontë's Wuthering Heights. A less experienced author may have turned this into a "romantic melodrama", but Delbanco stated that Dunmore's "authoritative telling" has produced a "haunt[ing]" tale.

A reviewer at Publishers Weekly called the novel "a finely crafted, if disturbing, literary page-turner". Some readers may find the book's "intensity and darkness", which hovers between "gripping and overwrought", a little "heavy-handed", but the reviewer was impressed by Dunmore's "keen, close writing" and "artful use of metaphor". They felt that the book was worthy of the Orange Prize.

Writing in The New York Times, Louisa Kamps was a little more critical of the novel. She did not find Cathy "very credible, or likable", and felt that she lacks empathy. Attempts by Dunmore to make Cathy a "modern update" of Brontë's Catherine Earnshaw turns A Spell of Winter into "a string of salacious, increasingly overwritten adventures straight out of the pulp-fiction files". The siblings' "incestuous intimacy" in particular stands out as an example of one of these sagas. Kamps noted that once the War starts, Cathy shows signs of "something akin to sympathy for others", but added that it is too late "to believe, or care, that the clouds in Cathy's life are suddenly parting."

References

Works cited

1995 novels
English Gothic novels
Novels set during World War I
Incest in fiction
Women's Prize for Fiction-winning works
Viking Press books
Novels about abortion
Novels by Helen Dunmore


Desario is an American indie rock band based in Sacramento, California.

History
Desario formed in early 2004 when John Conley, Michael Yoas and Jim Rivas, who had played together previously in various other bands including Holiday Flyer, got together and started writing songs. The intention was to veer away from the poppier songs that they produced in their earlier bands and find a more indie rock-based center.  Armed with the start of about 7 songs and a band name, they began looking for a bass player to round out the group.  A chance meeting between Jim Rivas and a friend of Mike Carr's, initiated by a conversation about Jim's The Shins T-shirt, resulted in Mike Carr's introduction into the band.

The fully formed band continued practicing and writing songs and played their first live show on September 8, 2005.  Over the next four years, they continued to refine their sound and recorded what would eventually become their first full-length album. Zero Point Zero was released on March 24, 2009 on Darla Records.

Desario's second full-length album, Mixer, was released on February 28, 2012 on upstart label Test Pattern Records. It was picked as one of the year's best 30 albums by The Big Takeover.

In May 2014, Jim Rivas left the band and was replaced by drummer Kirklyn Cox.

Influences
Desario's sound has evolved into sometimes dark indie rock, but always with a pop and melodic core. As a standard four-piece band, their songs are highlighted by driving drums, melodic bass lines and both rhythm and picked guitar parts. Not always immediately obvious, the complex melodies are sometimes revealed after repeated listenings. Some of Desario's more recent influences include contemporary bands such as Interpol, The Walkmen, and Doves, as well as classic indie bands such as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Stone Roses, and New Order. As if to acknowledge the band's sound's similarity to Scottish indie rock acts, SoundsXP wrote: "Desario call Sacramento, California home, but if you were told they hailed from the somewhat less exotic city of Glasgow you probably wouldn't bat an eyelid.”

Discography
Albums
Zero Point Zero (Darla Records, 2009)
Mixer (Test Pattern Records, 2012)
EPs
Red Returns (Test Pattern Records, 2016)
Haunted (Test Pattern Records, 2016)
Compilations
Little Darla Has a Treat for You v.27: Eternal Spring Edition (Darla Records, 2009)
Singles Going Steady: A Darla Label Sampler, Spring 2010 (Darla Records, 2010)

References

External links
 Official site
 Live Performance History

Indie rock musical groups from California
Musical groups from Sacramento, California
Darla Records artists


Jānis Dukšinskis  (born 8 June 1963, Daugavpils) is a Latvian politician. He is a member of the LPP/LC and a deputy of the 9th Saeima (Latvian Parliament). He began his current term in parliament on November 7, 2006. He is currently a member of the Daugavpils City Council.

External links
Saeima website

1963 births
Living people
Politicians from Daugavpils
Latvian Way politicians
Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Latgale Party politicians
Deputies of the 9th Saeima
University of Daugavpils alumni


The All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism is a group in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The group exists to "To combat antisemitism and help develop and seek implementation of effective public policy to combat antisemitism". The group's co-chairs are MPs Catherine McKinnell (Labour) and Nicola Richards (Conservative) and the president is former Labour MP Lord Mann.

The group commissioned the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism in 2005. The inquiry panel, chaired by former Europe Minister Denis MacShane, gathered written and oral evidence on antisemitism in Britain and published a report of their findings on 7 September 2006. The panel's recommendations included improved reporting and recording of antisemitic attacks; a crackdown on anti-Jewish activity on university campuses; and improved international co-operation to prevent the spread of racist material online.

In 2012, John Mann commissioned an all-party parliamentary inquiry into electoral conduct, based on a recommendation from the antisemitism report of 2006. That inquiry panel was chaired by Natascha Engel and its report was published in October 2013.

The Labour government responded to the inquiry twice and the Coalition government has since responded for a third time. Secretariat to the group is provided by the PCAA Foundation.

References

External links
All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism UK Parliament website
General website for the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism

Antisemitism
Antisemitism in the United Kingdom
2005 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 2005


Inta Feldmane (born 1959) is a Latvian politician. She is a member of the LPP/LC and a deputy of the 9th Saeima (Latvian Parliament). She began her current term in parliament on November 16, 2006.

External links
Saeima website

1959 births
Living people
Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Deputies of the Saeima
Women deputies of the Saeima
Date of birth missing (living people)

Deputies of the 9th Saeima
21st-century Latvian women politicians


Carel S. Scholten (Amsterdam, 1925 – 2009) was a physicist and a pioneer of computing.

He went to the Vossius Gymnasium in Amsterdam and then studied physics from 1945 to 1952 at the University of Amsterdam.

In 1947 he was asked by the Dutch Mathematisch Centrum (which later became the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) to collaborate in building an automatic calculator with his friend and fellow student Bram Loopstra. Their first system, the ARRA I was not a success, but its successor, the ARRA II, on which Gerrit Blaauw also collaborated, was.

In 1954 work started on the ARMAC, which he built together with Loopstra and Edsger W. Dijkstra, who was responsible for the software and collaborated with Scholten for more than 30 years.
The ARMAC was remarkable for its use of transistors.

In 1958 Scholten went to work for Electrologica (later Philips Electrologica), where he developed the Electrologica X1 computer with Loopstra; up to 1964, 40 models were installed, mainly at universities. He remained with Philips Electrologica until 1979, when he switched to the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium, where he stayed until 1985.

In 1991 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.

Publications
 Edsger W. Dijkstra and Carel S. Scholten (1990). Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics. Springer-Verlag  – An abstract, formal treatment of Predicate transformer semantics

External links
 Eredoctor  Carel Scholten overleden - TU Eindhoven(in Dutch) – Obituary by the TU Eindhoven.
 Unsung Heroes in Dutch Computing History – Carel S. Scholten and Bram Jan Loopstra – Illustrated report of his work at the TU Eindhoven.
 Computers ontwerpen, toen (Designing computers, back then) (in Dutch, on the Electrologica Foundation site) – Retrospective address by Carel Scholten on 23-11-1979.

References

1925 births
2009 deaths
20th-century Dutch physicists
Scientists from Amsterdam
Philips employees
University of Amsterdam alumni


Dzintars Jaundžeikars (14 February 1956 – 16 March 2022) was a Latvian politician. He was a member of the LPP/LC and a deputy of the 8th and 9th Saeima (Latvian Parliament). He began his last term in parliament on 16 November 2006, until he was voted out in 2010 Latvian parliamentary election. Jaundžeikars was also Minister of the Interior of Latvia from 3 November 2005 to 7 November 2006. Jaundžeikars died on 16 March 2022, at the age of 66, from COVID-19.

References

External links
 Saeima website

1956 births
2022 deaths
Latvian National Independence Movement politicians
Latvia's First Party politicians
Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Ministers of the Interior of Latvia
Deputies of the 8th Saeima
Deputies of the 9th Saeima
Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies alumni
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Latvia


Jimmy Connors was the defending champion but did not compete that year.

Vitas Gerulaitis won in the final 4–6, 6–3, 6–1, 7–6 against Guillermo Vilas.

Seeds

  Vitas Gerulaitis (champion)
  Guillermo Vilas (final)
  Pat Du Pré (first round)
 n/a
  Vijay Amritraj (second round)
  Peter Feigl (quarterfinals)
  Geoff Masters (second round)
  Tom Gorman (second round)

Draw

Section 1

Section 2

External links
 1979 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships draw

Singles


Oskars Kastēns (born July 19, 1971) is a Latvian journalist and a politician. He is a member of the LPP/LC and a deputy of the 9th Saeima (Latvian Parliament). He is the former Minister for Special Assignments for Society Integration Affairs.

Kastēns is also a member of the board of Global Panel America (Global Panel Foundation), a non-governmental organization.

References

External links
Saeima website

1971 births
Living people
Politicians from Riga
Latvia's First Party politicians
Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Deputies of the 8th Saeima
Deputies of the 9th Saeima
University of Latvia alumni


Stephen Cook is a computer scientist.

Stephen Cook may also refer to:
Stephen Cook (cricketer) (born 1982), cricketer
Stephen Lloyd Cook, Old Testament scholar and professor

See also
Stephen Cooke (born 1983), British footballer
Steven Cook, British artist, photographer, and graphic designer.
Steve Cook (disambiguation)
Jimmy Cook (Stephen James Cook, born 1953), South African sportsperson


Tripuri Nationalism is an ideology that supports self-determination by the Tripuri people. The conflict is in essence ethnic and the Tripuri community, indigenous to the region formed the clear majority of population in the princely state of Tippera, which joined the Republic of India in 1949 as the state of Tripura.

The issue has led to a number of armed uprisings and Insurgency in Tripura.
There was a rebellion in 1950, and armed conflict continued to erupt in the 1980s to 2000s. Since 1989, the armed rebellion was mostly led by the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and the All Tripura Tiger Force ATTF).
The Bengali side retaliated by forming militias of their own, such as the United Bengali Liberation Tiger Front (UBLTF), which destroyed a number of Tripuri villages in 2000.

The NLFT is classified by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism as one of the ten most active terrorist groups in the world, and has been accused of forcefully converting people to Christianity.

Militant activity peaked in 2000 with 514 terrorism-related fatalities in that year. As of 2012, the uprising has largely been brought under control by the authorities through security actions and negotiated surrenders.

Organisations and militant groups

Tripuri political organizations and militant groups include:
All Tripura Tiger Force
National Liberation Front of Tripura

See also
Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council
Tripura rebellion
Naga nationalism
Tamil nationalism
Insurgency in North-East India
Assamese nationalism
Assam movement
United Liberation Front of Axom
Assam conflict

References

External links

Separatism in India
1980s conflicts
1990s conflicts
2000s conflicts


Anatolijs Mackevičs  (born 1956) is a Latvian politician. He is a member of the LPP/LC and a deputy of the 9th Saeima (Latvian Parliament). He began his current term in parliament on November 7, 2006.
In February 2004, Mackevičs was expelled from the opposition People's Harmony Party (TSP) because he joined the Latvian First Party (LPP) faction in the coalition.  At the time, Vice-Chairman of the TSP Group, Andrei Klementev, called this treason.  Along with Mackevičs, four more MPs of the Parliament passed the LPP, who got the sign “the five-man of the transgressor”.  The assumption that LPP paid such a decision to the "rogue" was denied by the deputies themselves.  The MPs who passed the LPP did not deny that this decision was taken to go to the governing coalition of the Saeima, because, according to Mackevičs, "other members of the Saeima elected from among Russian-speaking voters" have no opportunity to be in the coalition, which gives the opportunity to "solve the issues".

References

External links
http://titania.saeima.lv/personal/deputati/saeima_depweb_public.nsf/depArchive.html?ReadForm&unid=86B5F70DD0380236C22571ED003AB696&url=./0/86B5F70DD0380236C22571ED003AB696?OpenDocument&lang=LV (in Polish)
http://arhivs.deputatiuzdelnas.lv/deputatu-kandidati/anatolijs-mackevics.html

Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Deputies of the Saeima
1956 births
Living people
21st-century Latvian politicians


Karina Pētersone (born 19 September 1954 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian politician. She was the Minister of Culture of Latvia from 26 November 1998 to 7 November 2002. She is now a member of the LPP/LC and a deputy of the 9th Saeima (Latvian Parliament). She began her current term in parliament on 7 November 2006.  Currently Director of Support Foundation of the Latvian National Library

References

External links

Saeima website

1954 births
Living people
Politicians from Riga
Latvian Way politicians
Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Ministers of Culture of Latvia
Deputies of the 7th Saeima
Deputies of the 9th Saeima
Women deputies of the Saeima
Women government ministers of Latvia
21st-century Latvian women politicians
University of Latvia alumni
Academic staff of the University of Latvia
Academic staff of Riga Technical University


In Indonesia, Suara Katolik () is the official newspaper of the Catholic Party. It began to be published on 1924, as the mouthpiece of the Javan Catholic Political Union (PPKD). The newspaper focused on social affairs.

The newspaper ceased to be published following the occupation of the Japanese.  The newspaper began to be published again since 1 January 1950, a years after the establishment of the Catholic Party. The newspaper was organized by the Central Executive Council of the Catholic Party.

Bibliography

References

1924 establishments in the Dutch East Indies
Defunct newspapers published in Indonesia
Mass media in Jakarta
Publications disestablished in 1942
Malay-language newspapers published in the Dutch East Indies
Indonesian-language newspapers


Vjačeslavs Stepaņenko  (; born 1977) is a Latvian politician and jurist.

Stepaņenko was a member of the parliament from 2002 to 2005 in parties "Par cilvēka tiesībām vienotā Latvijā" and Latvia's First Party.He is a former member of the Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way (LPP/LC) from 2007 to 2011.

In 2022, Stepaņenko started in the 2022 Latvian parliamentary elections from the party Sovereign Power.

References

External links
Saeima website

1977 births
Living people
Politicians from Daugavpils
National Harmony Party politicians
Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Honor to serve Riga politicians
Deputies of the 8th Saeima
Deputies of the 9th Saeima
Latvian jurists


César Eduardo Portillo Brown (born September 26, 1968 in Barcelona, Anzoátegui) is a retired male basketball player (2.06 metres) from Venezuela, who played as a center during his career.

High school and college
Portillo attended high school in the United States at Miami High School in Miami, Florida.  There, Portillo led Miami High to a state title, with teammate and future NBA player Doug Edwards.  Portillo was named a Parade All-American as a senior.

After his standout high school career, César Portillo committed to the University of Florida.  His time there was cut short after only four games as his Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) came into question and he was asked to re-take the test.  Instead, Portillo transferred to Palm Beach Community College to play.

Following a junior college season where he averaged 19.5 points, 9.9 rebounds and 3.2 blocks per game, Portillo signed with the University of South Alabama.  Portillo played two years for South Alabama, leading them to the NCAA tournament as a junior.

International career
Portillo's first international experience came as a 14-year-old guard as he was a part of Venezuela's entry to the 1983 Pan American Games.  He later competed for the Venezuela national basketball team in his familiar post position at the 1989 Campeonato Sudamericano (4th place) and at the 1990 FIBA World Championship, where the team finished in 11th place.

References

External links
Profile

1968 births
Living people
Basketball players at the 1983 Pan American Games
Centers (basketball)
Cocodrilos de Caracas players
Florida Gators men's basketball players
Franca Basquetebol Clube players
Gaiteros del Zulia players
Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
Liga ACB players
Marinos B.B.C. players
Miami Senior High School alumni
Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
Sportspeople from Barcelona, Venezuela
South Alabama Jaguars men's basketball players
Venezuelan expatriate basketball people in Brazil
Venezuelan expatriate basketball people in Spain
Venezuelan expatriate basketball people in the United States
Venezuelan men's basketball players
1990 FIBA World Championship players
Pan American Games competitors for Venezuela


Diplomatic immunity is a form of legal immunity for diplomats working outside their home countries.

Diplomatic immunity or Diplomatic Immunity may also refer to:

 Diplomatic Immunity (novel), by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2002

Film and television
 Diplomatic Immunity (1991 American film), directed by Peter Maris
 Diplomatic Immunity (1991 Canadian film), directed by Sturla Gunnarsson
 Diplomatic Immunity (Canadian TV series), a news magazine series which ran from 1998 to 2006
 Diplomatic Immunity (New Zealand TV series), a 2009 TV comedy about a fictional consulate

Music
 Diplomatic Immunity (The Diplomats album), 2003
 Diplomatic Immunity (Client Liaison album), 2016
 "Diplomatic Immunity" (song), a 2018 song by Drake from the EP Scary Hours
 "Diplomatic Immunity", song by Charged GBH from City Babys Revenge


Jānis Šmits  (1 April 1968 - 23 September 2019) was a Latvian politician and Lutheran pastor. He was a member of the Latvia's First Party and a deputy of the 8th and 9th Saeima (Latvian Parliament). He was a member of parliament from March 18, 2004 to January 15, 2009. From 2009 he was a member of the Rīga City Council. He was well known for his outspoken conservative stance regarding the defense of Christian values and criticism of homosexuality.

Šmits graduated from the University of Latvia Faculty of Theology in 1997 and subsequently served in a number of Latvian Lutheran churches. From 1994 to 1996 he was one of the military chaplains of the renewed Republic of Latvia Defense Forces. From 1997 to 2004 he was President of the Lutheran Heritage Foundation publishing house.

In 2002 he was one of the initiators in the creation of the LPP. Following the creation of the party he became one of the members of the executive board and advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister on Religious affairs. He was also Secretary to the Council of Religious Affairs and actively promoted the re-establishment of laws regulating church and state relations. In 2004 he became as a member of Parliament, Secretary General of Saeima as well as the Chairman of the National Security Commission. From 2005 to 2006 he was also Chairman of the LPP fraction in Parliament.  In 2006 he was again elected as a member of the 9th Saeima, and then elected to serve as Chairman of the Human Rights and Social Affairs Commission.  Šmits' election to this post resulted in criticism by many liberal organizations.  On January 15, 2009 he lost his seat as a member of Parliament.  Since 2009 Šmits has been a member of Rīga City Council and the Chairman of Rīga City Collegium of Christian Congregations.

Sources

 Informācija par deputātu

1968 births
Politicians from Riga
Latvian Lutheran clergy
Latvia's First Party politicians
Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Honor to serve Riga politicians
Deputies of the 8th Saeima
Deputies of the 9th Saeima
University of Latvia alumni
2019 deaths
Clergy from Riga


Montreux '77 – Live is a live album by American jazz guitarist Joe Pass that was recorded in 1977 at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Reception

In his Allmusic review, critic Scott Yanow wrote "All of Joe Pass' Pablo dates (this one has been reissued on CD via the OJC imprint) are well worth acquiring, but since there are so many others, this one falls just short of being essential."

Track listing
"Blues for Yano San" (Joe Pass) – 6:10
"Blues for Sitges" (Pass) – 8:55
"Blues for Val" (Pass) – 6:05
"Wait till You See Her" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 5:23
"She's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting) – 5:03
"Blues for Martin" (Pass) – 4:20
"This Masquerade" (Leon Russell) – 5:56

Personnel
 Joe Pass – guitar

References

Joe Pass live albums
Albums produced by Norman Granz
Albums recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival
1977 live albums
Pablo Records live albums


Ainārs Šlesers (born 22 January 1970, Riga) is a Latvian business oligarch and politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Latvia, as well as Deputy Mayor of Riga. Currently he is a member of the Latvian Parliament with his political party, Latvia First, holding 9 seats in the parliament.

Business career

Šlesers started his business in Norway, becoming president of the Latvian Information and Commerce Center in Norway in 1992. Through joint ventures together with Frank Varner and Stein Erik Hagen, he opened numerous shopping centres as well as real estate and commercial properties in Latvia. During 1994–1998 he was director general at Norwegian retail chain "Varner Baltija" and Director General of "Varner Hakon Invest", both ventures of Varner-Gruppen. He also was Chairman of the Board and President of JSC Supermarket "Centrs" (1995–1998) and Director General of Rimi Baltija, Ltd (1996–1997).

Šlesers has been credited for bringing among the first foreign investors to Latvia. Through his joint ventures, he has opened and developed Rimi Baltic, Narvesen, Cubus, Bik Bok, Dressmann store chains; major shopping malls in Riga – Galerija Centrs, Mols, Dole, Alfa, Minsk, Origo and Olympia; hotels Radisson Blu Ridzene and Radisson Blu Latvija, as well as large real estate developments – Saules Akmens and Saliena.

Šlesers family are developers of Riga Port City. The 55ha development is the largest mixed-use waterfront project in Northern Europe. The project was originally developed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. The area is expected to house the new Riga RoPax Terminal for passengers and ferries. It is expected to be completed by 2025.

Šlesers family also own and manage Riga Port AS with former Prime Minister Andris Šķēle. Riga Port AS is the leading port company in Latvia, having the largest coal and fertilizer terminals in the Baltics.

Political career
He was the leader of the LPP/LC and a Parliament Deputy of the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Saeima. He was also the Minister of Economics in the cabinet of Vilis Krištopans (1998–1999), Deputy Prime Minister in the cabinet of Einars Repše and Indulis Emsis (2002-2004), Minister of Transport in the cabinet of Indulis Emsis, Aigars Kalvītis and Ivars Godmanis (2004-2009) and Deputy Mayor of Riga in 2009–2010.

Minister of Transport
Šlesers was Minister of Transport and Communications from 2004 to 2009, while also serving as Deputy Prime Minister in Indulis Emsis Government. During these years, he is credited for developing the Riga International Airport into a regional hub, increasing the number of passengers tenfold. The crucial step in the development of the airport was the agreement between Šlesers and Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary about entering the Riga Airport in 2005. At the same time, the Latvian government-owned airline airBaltic has steadily become the largest airline in the Baltics. Due to its fast-paced growth, the Riga Airport was included in the EU railway development project, Rail Baltica. With total investments exceeding 5,8 billion Euros, the project will offer convenient connections to the Baltic Capitals and to Western Europe.

Deputy Riga Mayor
Šlesers took part in the Riga City Council elections in 2009 and received a majority of votes together with the Harmony Party and their leader Nils Ušakovs. Ušakovs became Mayor, while Šlesers became Deputy Mayor. Šlesers left office in 2010 after being elected in the parliament.

Latvia First
In July 2021, Šlesers announced his return to politics and that he would be founding a new political party. The "Latvia First" party was formally founded on 14 August. In the October 2022 election, Šlesers and his party received 9 out of 100 seats in the parliament, and Slesers was ranked the election's second most popular politician in the election according to voters' personal votes.

Personal life

He is married to Inese Šlesere, former politician, with whom he has five children.

References

External links

Members of the Saeima since 1993

1970 births
Living people
Politicians from Riga
Businesspeople from Riga
New Party (Latvia) politicians
Latvia's First Party politicians
Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Latvia First politicians
Ministers of Economics of Latvia
Transport ministers of Latvia
Deputies of the 7th Saeima
Deputies of the 8th Saeima
Deputies of the 9th Saeima
Deputies of the 10th Saeima
Deputies of the 14th Saeima
Spouses of politicians
Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 3rd class


The Canton of Rambervillers is a former French administrative and electoral grouping of communes in the Vosges département of eastern France and in the region of Lorraine. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It had 13,123 inhabitants (2012).

Positioned within the Arrondissement of Épinal, the canton had its administrative centre at Rambervillers.

Composition
The Canton of Rambervillers comprised the following 29 communes:

Anglemont
Autrey
Bazien
Brû
Bult
Clézentaine
Deinvillers
Domptail
Doncières
Fauconcourt
Hardancourt
Housseras
Jeanménil
Ménarmont
Ménil-sur-Belvitte
Moyemont
Nossoncourt
Ortoncourt
Rambervillers
Romont
Roville-aux-Chênes
Saint-Benoît-la-Chipotte
Sainte-Barbe
Saint-Genest
Saint-Gorgon
Saint-Maurice-sur-Mortagne
Saint-Pierremont
Vomécourt
Xaffévillers

References

Rambervillers
2015 disestablishments in France
States and territories disestablished in 2015


Dainis Turlais (born 24 November 1950 in Madona, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian politician and former Soviet and Latvian officer.

After being drafted into the Soviet Army in 1969, he continued his army service in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and became an officer, graduating from the Frunze Military Academy in 1985. From 1985 to 1989 he served as chief of the operative department of the 40th Army during the Soviet–Afghan War. He graduated from the K. E. Voroshilov Military Academy of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces in 1990. He returned to Latvia after the collapse of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.

Before Turlais started his political career, he was commander of the Latvian National Armed Forces (1992–1994), until he retired with the rank of colonel. From 21 December 1995 to 10 July 1997 he was Latvia's Minister of the Interior. From 7 November 2006 to 5 March 2009 he served as a deputy of the 9th Saeima (Latvian Parliament), elected from the LPP/LC party.

In 2011, he was founding member of the Honor to serve Riga party. In 2013 he was elected to Riga City Council, and on 30 May 2019 Turlais was elected the mayor of Riga, but only after 21 days he was sacked in a vote of no-confidence by the Riga City Council, thus making him the shortest-ruling mayor of Riga.

References

External links
Information about the MP

1950 births
Living people
People from Madona
Democratic Party "Saimnieks" politicians
Latvian Way politicians
National Harmony Party politicians
Latvia's First Party politicians
Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Honor to serve Riga politicians
Ministers of the Interior of Latvia
Deputies of the 6th Saeima
Deputies of the 8th Saeima
Deputies of the 9th Saeima
Mayors of Riga


Demetrios Chloros () was a 14th-century Byzantine physician, astrologer, priest and sorcerer who was tried for possessing magic books.

Chloros was a protonotarios, or secretary of the patriarch, and former kanstresios, supervisor of offerings. He was put on trial by the patriarchate of Constantinople because he had transcribed texts with content pertaining to magical practices, including the Coeranis, a portion or all of the Cyranides, and a notebook of invocations and spells he had compiled himself, suggesting he had access to various grimoires. Chloros defended the texts on the basis of their medical value. Other physicians who were witnesses against him called Chloros a disgrace to the art of medicine and said he insulted Hippocrates and Galen by regarding them as magicians. Chloros was subsequently sentenced to live as a monk under surveillance in the monastery of the Peribleptos.

Chloros is known to have vacillated between Orthodoxy and Catholicism. The synodal decree that condemned him gives equal weight to recounting his ecclesiastic career and his movements between Constantinople and the papal court. Since other churchmen advertised themselves as knowledgeable occult practitioners, the mere possession of magic texts is not likely to have been the true or primary cause of action against him.

Evidence in a later case against a physician named Gabrielopoulos included the discovery at his home of a book of spells by Chloros and the Cyranides. Chloros's notebook was said to be "filled with all manner of impiety including incantations, chants, and names of demons."

Selected bibliography
Copenhaver,  Brian P. "Magic." In The Cambridge History of Science. Cambridge University Press, 2006, vol. 3, limited preview online. Full text downloadable.
Greenfield,  Richard P.H. "A Contribution to the Study of Paleologan Magic." p. 151, full text downloadable. Also published in The Occult Sciences in Byzantium (La Pomme d'or, 2006), limited preview online.
Mavroudi, Maria. "Occult Science and Society in Byzantium: Considerations for Future Research." University of California, Berkeley. Full text downloadable. Also published in The Occult Sciences in Byzantium (La Pomme d'or, 2006).

References

14th-century Byzantine physicians
Byzantine clergy
Prothonotaries
Byzantine astrologers
14th-century Byzantine writers


Riss Lake is a small reservoir in the center of the neighborhood Riss Lake, in Parkville, Platte County, Missouri. Forests surround it, and it is bordered on one side by a highway, two sides by the neighborhood Riss Lake and on the last side by the Parkville Nature Reservation. The neighborhood Riss Lake has several pools, a park, a basketball court, a volleyball court and tennis courts. The lake was originally much smaller until a dam was built.

External links

Reservoirs in Missouri
Protected areas of Platte County, Missouri
Buildings and structures in Platte County, Missouri
Bodies of water of Platte County, Missouri


USS Alarka (YTB-229), was a United States Navy tug in commission from 1945 to 1946.

Alarka was laid down on 31 August 1944 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Company at Greenport, Long Island, New York, and was launched on 20 January 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Horace W. Watts, the head of the William and Watts firm which performed electrical work under subcontract during the construction of Alarka. Delivered to the U.S. Navy on 5 April 1945, Alarka was commissioned on 6 April 1945.

Early in May 1945, Alarka departed New York City and proceeded, via the Panama Canal and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to the western Pacific Ocean. She arrived in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, late in August or early in September 1945. She served there and later at Sasebo, Japan, where she was placed out of service sometime late in 1946.

On 23 December 1946, Alarka was sold to the Chinese Supply Commission. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 28 January 1947.

References

 NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive YTB-229 Alarka

Tugs of the United States Navy
Ships built in Greenport, New York
1945 ships
World War II auxiliary ships of the United States


José Echenique (born November 28, 1965 in Caracas) is a retired male basketball player from Venezuela, who played as a power forward during his career. He competed for the Venezuela national basketball team at the 1990 FIBA World Championship.

Personal life
Echenique is the father of Venezuela national team member Gregory Echenique.

References

1965 births
Living people
Venezuelan men's basketball players
1990 FIBA World Championship players
Sportspeople from Caracas
Power forwards (basketball)
20th-century Venezuelan people
21st-century Venezuelan people


James E. Muller is an American cardiologist and medical device executive. He was a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School for over 25 years, where he studied triggers of coronary artery plaque rupture and sudden cardiac death.  He is believed to have coined the term “vulnerable plaque” to denote the plaques at high likelihood of rupture and causation of coronary thrombosis.

Career
He co-founded International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. This organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985, a prize properly attributed to the organization alone rather than any individual members, including co-founders.

He is Founder, Chief Medical Officer, and chairman of the Board of InfraReDx, Inc. which manufactures a catheter-based near-infrared spectroscopy system used to identify cholesterol rich plaques in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. This system was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use to identify lipid core in coronary plaques of interest.

References

Living people
American cardiologists
Harvard Medical School faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)


William Kelly Harrison (July 30, 1870 – August 15, 1928) was born in Waco, Texas and died in San Diego, California. Harrison graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1889. He received the Medal of Honor for actions at the United States occupation of Veracruz, 1914. He is a relative of President William Henry Harrison (genealogical research indicates that while they might have a shared ancestry, both families being from Virginia, there is no evidence of a direct relation). His son, William Kelly Harrison Jr. graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1917 and retired from the United States Army as a lieutenant general.

Medal of Honor citation
Rank and organization: Commander Organization: U.S. Navy Born: 30 July 1870, Waco, Tex. Accredited to: Texas Date of Issue: 12/04/1915

Citation:

For distinguished conduct in battle, engagements of Vera Cruz, 21 and 22 April 1914. During this period, Comdr. Harrison brought his ship into the inner harbor during the nights of the 21st and 22d without the assistance of a pilot or navigational lights, and was in a position on the morning of the 22d to use his guns with telling effect at a critical time.

See also

List of Medal of Honor recipients (Veracruz)
List of United States Naval Academy alumni (Medal of Honor)

References

1870 births
1928 deaths
Military personnel from Waco, Texas
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipients
United States Naval Academy alumni
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
Battle of Veracruz (1914) recipients of the Medal of Honor
United States Navy personnel of World War I


George Hughes, also known as Kwesi Afedzi, is a Ghanaian-born American artist specializing in painting, poetry and performance art.

Early life and education
Hughes received his master's degree in art education at The College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (1992). He received his Master of Fine Arts in painting at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio (2001).

Career
Hughes' paintings and performance art works have been exhibited internationally in Europe, Africa and America. His work references violence and tragedy of colonialism juxtaposed with contemporary global conflicts. His performance art works are interdisciplinary, combining ritual, poetry, sound effects, video, and allegorical configurations. His large paintings feature human and animal body parts combined with commercial signage and global symbols. His two dimensional works are assemblages often incorporating toys and small robots.

He is represented in Switzerland, Germany, Luxemburg, and Austria by Artco Gallery based in Herzogenrath, Germany.
In Portugal he is affiliated with Influx Contemporary Art Gallery, based in lisbon, Portugal.
In Africa he is represented by Artists Alliance Gallery, located in Accra, Ghana.

References

http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/george-hughes-kwesi-afedzi-,-ghana-b.1962-1-c-bip5uao4fw
Helmut Anheier, Yudhishthir Raj Isar, “Cultural Expression, Creativity & Innovation” (2010) pgs 62–77
Holland, Cotter, “New York Times”, Museums and Gallery Listings (5/18/10)
Jegede, dele, “Encyclopaedia of African American Art” (2009), pp. 109–112
Kaiser, Franz, “Museum Paper” (9/29/01) pg 2
“New American Paintings” magazine (8/98)
Svasek Maruska (2007). Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production., pp. 116–122. Pluto Press, London.
Doran Ross (2001). African Arts, Volume 34., pp. 50–57. University of California, Los Angeles. (ISSN 0001-9933)
http://www.artnet.com/artists/lotdetailpage.aspx?lot_id=C17CB54222CE0949C49D442D56923FF5
http://www.gohughes.com/
http://visualstudies.buffalo.edu/people/hughes/bio.html

1962 births
Living people
Artists from New York (state)
American art educators
Bowling Green State University alumni


The Kitchin is a fine dining restaurant in Edinburgh, Scotland, run by Tom Kitchin and his wife Michaela (née Berseilus).  It serves fresh Scottish produce in a French style from Kitchin's time spent with Alain Ducasse.  It was awarded a Michelin star within six months of opening.

Description
The Kitchin was opened by Tom Kitchin and then fiancée Michaela Berseilus in June 2006.  The building is a former whisky bond on the waterfront in the Leith area of Edinburgh. The imprint of Kitchin's work with Alain Ducasse and Pierre Koffmann is noticeable in the style of food served, and the restaurant has received support from other chefs that Kitchin has worked with; including opening with the cutlery and plates formerly used at the three-Michelin-starred restaurant La Tante Claire, operated by Koffman. The interior of the restaurant is decorated with dark woods and shades of grey by design company Cubit Design, and wallpapers by Jocelyn Warner. A window opens from the dining room onto the kitchen area itself, and it has a conservatory-style bar serving snacks and light meals.

The food merges seasonal Scottish produce with French styles and techniques; the restaurant has the mantra "from nature to plate". While chef Tom Kitchin was away filming The Great British Menu for the BBC in March 2008, Pierre Koffman came out of retirement to stand in as head chef.

Within six months of opening, The Kitchin was awarded a Michelin star. In 2009 the restaurant was voted as the second-best restaurant in Britain by Eat Out Magazine, and the best restaurant in the UK by Observer Food Monthly in 2010. The team behind The Kitchin opened a second restaurant, Castle Terrace, in July 2010.

In June 2021, former workers of the Kitchin made allegations of bullying, violence and sexual assault in his restaurants. One alleged a chef burned a woman's arm with a hot tray from an oven, while another claimed staff were repeatedly punched if they were not fast enough. On 3 July, Tom Kitchin suspended two members of staff following these allegations. Kitchin Group said the claims would be "fully and independently" investigated.

Reception
A.A. Gill, writing in The Sunday Times, gave The Kitchin five stars out of five, praised the common-sense approach of the menu construction, and described his food as "the best and most agreeable dinner I've eaten all year". The Independent's Terry Durack gave the restaurant sixteen out of twenty, praising the informality and the avoidance of normal Michelin-star cuisine, but said that the fish course was the "duff note of the night".

References

Restaurants in Edinburgh
Michelin Guide starred restaurants in the United Kingdom
Tourist attractions in Edinburgh
2006 establishments in Scotland
Scottish cuisine


Silvio Bagolini (4 August 1914 – 26 September 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1936 and 1973.

Life and career
Born in Bologna,  Bagolini studied architecture at the Bologna University, without graduating. He made his acting debut with a leading role in a 1934 experimental amateur film, Verde nei prati. Moved to Rome, he enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 1936 he made his professional debut in the film La danza delle lancette, and from then he started an intense career as a character actor, often cast in humorous roles. Also active on stage and on television, in the 1970s he abandoned his career to become manager of a spinning mill.

Selected filmography

 Cavalry (1936)
 The Dance of Time (1936)
The Castiglioni Brothers (1937)
 It Was I! (1937)
 The Former Mattia Pascal (1937)
 Pietro Micca (1938)
 Happy Days (1942)
 The Jester's Supper (1942)
 Hand of Death (1949)
 Variety Lights (1950)
 Feathers in the Wind (1950)
 Vacation with a Gangster (1951)
 Lorenzaccio (1951)
 Operation Mitra (1951)
 Brief Rapture (1951)
 Cats and Dogs (1952)
 The Tired Outlaw (1952)
 Final Pardon (1952)
 The Overcoat (1952)
 The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952)
 Il viale della speranza (1953)
 What Scoundrels Men Are! (1953)
 Farewell, My Beautiful Lady (1954)
 Symphony of Love (1954)
 The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955)
 Love and Troubles (1958)
 Piece of the Sky (1959)
 The Prisoner of the Iron Mask (1962)
 The Thursday (1963)
 Fantabulous Inc. (1967)
 Killer Caliber .32  (1967)

References

External links

1914 births
1976 deaths
Italian male film actors
20th-century Italian male actors
Actors from Bologna
University of Bologna alumni
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni


Battle for the Sun is the sixth studio album by British alternative rock band Placebo. It was recorded in Canada in 2008 and released on 8 June 2009 by record label PIAS. It is their first album with new drummer Steve Forrest, following the departure of Steve Hewitt in 2007.

Battle for the Sun reached number 8 in the UK Albums Chart, and received a generally favourable reaction from critics. Four singles were released from the album: "For What It's Worth", "The Never-Ending Why", "Ashtray Heart" and "Bright Lights".

Production
David Bottrill produced the record, after having previously worked with Tool, Muse, Silverchair, Remy Zero, and dEUS. James Brown, who worked on the band's 2006 album Meds, engineered. It is also the first album with the new drummer, Steve Forrest. Recording took place at Metalworks Studios, Mississauga, Ontario.

On Battle for the Sun, the band utilize new instruments, such as trumpets and saxophones. Molko even experimented with the Springtime (experimental electric guitar made by Yuri Landman).

Content
The material on the album has influences from such bands as PJ Harvey and My Bloody Valentine.

Frontman Brian Molko said on the concept of the album:
We've made a record about choosing life, about choosing to live, about stepping out of the darkness and into the light. Not necessarily turning your back on the darkness because it's there, it's essential; it's a part of who you are, but more about the choice of standing in the sunlight instead.

Molko has also stated that Battle for the Sun is the band's first album with a discernible thematic unity. Molko states that his favourite track from the album is "Speak in Tongues".

Molko was inspired to write bonus track "Unisex" by the movie Cloverfield.

The mastered album features a slight peculiarity on track 9 ("Julien"): the vocals are doubled for a short duration, with a phrase, sung in low volume, preceding itself. Such artifacts can stem from a variety of sources such as production errors, or from encoding within the .mp3 or .mp4 formats, both of which suffer from just such a flaw.

Release
The title track debuted on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show 17 March 2009. After the world première, it became available for free download on the band's official site. At an exclusive secret gig held on 17 March 2009, in London, the band played a number of new songs from the album, including the tracks "Ashtray Heart", "Julien", "Kitty Litter", and "Devil in the Details". They also covered Nik Kershaw's "Wouldn't It Be Good". The album was made available for streaming on the band's official website between 29 May and 31 May 2009.

Battle for the Sun was released on 8 June 2009 as a download, CD, limited edition CD and DVD, LP, and a limited edition box set. It reached number 8 in the UK Albums Chart. Its debut in US marked 10,000 copies sold, and worldwide shipments were 500,000 copies worldwide.

In 2009. It was awarded a diamond certification from the Independent Music Companies Association which indicated sales of at least 250,000 copies throughout Europe.

The box set features the full album plus two extra studio tracks, a CD to access exclusive live recorded tracks, a DVD of the December 2008 Angkor Wat performance, a DVD of exclusive studio footage and a 32-page photo book featuring exclusive artwork, photos and handwritten lyrics as well as the full album on 2 x Heavy Vinyl LP.

Critical reception

Battle for the Sun received a generally favourable reaction from critics. Eddie Fleisher of Alternative Press gave the album 4 and a half out of 5 stars, writing that Battle for the Sun "takes the best elements of their sound and focuses it into a cohesive listening experience ... there's no filler to be found". The review also notes how Steve Forrest as drummer gives the band a much-needed kick and how Brian Molko's lyrics are given more clarity. Fleisher also says the album contains two of the best Placebo songs ever, "Happy You're Gone" and "Kings of Medicine".

Others, however, have been less than receptive. NME said that Battle for the Sun was "a desperately transparent copy of originality. For those who still believe in them, Placebo will, at least, remain an efficacious live band at festivals this summer, but only given that the real thing (Suede, Muse, David Bowie, Nirvana et al) isn't currently on offer." Rolling Stone added that "too many songs ("Devil in the Details") are full of bombast and bland angst, as if these smart guys know better but can't help themselves".

Track listing

 Deluxe Edition bonus DVD 1 Live at Angkor Wat
"Meds" – 5:23
"Because I Want You" – 4:23
"Follow the Cops Back Home" – 4:52
"Black-Eyed" – 3:14
"Post Blue" – 3:55
"Blind" – 4:15
"Drag" – 3:39
"Teenage Angst" – 3:19
"Twenty Years" – 4:55
Detour documentary

 Deluxe Edition bonus DVD 2
In the Studio: The Making of Battle for the Sun documentary

Personnel
 Placebo
Brian Molko – vocals, guitar, Springtime guitar, keyboards, piano
Stefan Olsdal – bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, piano, organ, backing vocals
Steve Forrest – drums, percussion, backing vocals

 Additional personnel
Bill Lloyd – keyboards
Fiona Brice – string arrangements
Peter Cardinalli – brass arrangements
Alex Cooksey – keyboards, piano, backing vocals
Hazel Fernandes – backing vocals
Valerie Etienne – backing vocals

 Technical
David Bottrill – production
James Brown – engineering
Wayne Cochrane – engineering assistance (tracking)
Kevin Dietz – engineering (recording)
Alan Moulder – mixing
Darren Lawson – mixing assistance
John Davis – mastering
Joseph Llanes – sleeve photography
Tim Young – Redux Edition remastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

External links

https://open.spotify.com/album/0sbdMEPj1M3UG2gfKclNbo?si=4UvETKIWSv2ghKJxwW0XFQ
http://www.deezer.com/album/9609398

2009 albums
Placebo (band) albums
PIAS Recordings albums
Albums produced by David Bottrill
Albums recorded at Metalworks Studios


Homines (meaning "men") may refer to :

The name Boni Homines or Bonshommes was popularly given to at least three religious institutes in the Catholic Church.
The Portuguese Boni Homines, or Secular Canons of St. John the Evangelist were a Catholic religious institute.
Homines Intelligentiae is the name assumed by a heretical sect in the Low Countries, which in 1410-11 was cited before the Inquisition at Brussels.
Argumenta ad homines consists of replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking or appealing to a characteristic or belief of the source making the argument or claim.

See also
Hominy


Almops () was, in Greek mythology, a giant  son of the god Poseidon and the half-nymph Helle. He was the brother of Paeon (called "Edonus" in some accounts).

It is from Almops that the now-obsolete name for the region of Almopia and its inhabitants, the Almopes, in Macedonia, Greece, were believed to have derived their name.

Notes

References

 Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

Greek giants
Children of Poseidon
Family of Athamas
Mythology of Macedonia (region)


Lesbian was a  cargo ship which was built by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1923 for Ellerman Lines Ltd. She was seized in 1940 by the Vichy French forces.

History
Lesbian was built by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd as yard number 1211. She was launched on 31 July 1923 and completed in September 1923. Lesbian was the third Ellerman Lines ship to bear that name. She was named after the inhabitants of Lesbos, Greece.

On 24 May 1925, Lesbian ran aground at Kephez, Turkey. She was refloated on 27 May 1925.

Lesbian was operated by Ellerman Lines Ltd until 1937. From 1937 until her capture in 1940, Lesbian was operated under the management of Ellerman & Papayanni Lines Ltd.

War service
Lesbian was a member of a number of convoys during the Second World War.

OG 1

Lesbian was a member of Convoy OG 1, which formed at sea on 2 October 1939 and was destined for Gibraltar. She was carrying a general cargo bound for Piraeus, Greece.

HG 7

Lesbian was a member of Convoy HG 7, which departed Port Said, Egypt on 3 November 1939 and arrived at Liverpool on 22 November. She was carrying a general cargo and also fruit.

HG 17

Lesbian was a member of Convoy HG 17, which departed Gibraltar on 1 February 1940 and arrived at Liverpool on the 11 May. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Liverpool.

HGF 28

Lesbian was a member of Convoy HGF 28, which departed Gibraltar on 26 April 1940 and arrived at Liverpool on 5 May.

Capture, sinking and rediscovery
In 1940, Lesbian was impounded by Vichy French forces at Beirut, Lebanon. During the Allied invasion of Syria and Lebanon in 1941, Beirut was bombed. The Vichy French, fearing that she would be sunk and block the port, took Lesbian a short distance offshore and scuttled her on 14 July 1941.

In 2000 the ship was discovered by two local diving centres, the National Institute for Scuba Diving (NISD) and the Abyss Dive Center. The ship is very well preserved and sitting at a depth of , facing Beirut port.

Propulsion
Lesbian was powered by a triple expansion steam engine of  which was built by Wallsend Slipway Co Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne. The cylinders were 18, 31½ and 54 inches (457, 800 and 1,372 mm) diameter by  stroke. She could make .

Official number and code letters
Official Numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers.

Lesbian had the UK Official Number 147232 and used the Code Letters KPNH until 1933 and GJXK until 1940

References

External links
 Video of a dive on the wreck of SS Lesbian (8m 3s)

Steamships
Ships built on the River Tyne
Military of Vichy France
World War II merchant ships of the United Kingdom
World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea
1923 ships
Ships of the Ellerman Lines
Maritime incidents in 1925
Maritime incidents in July 1941
Maritime incidents in Lebanon
Ships built by Swan Hunter


Giles John Toogood (born 19 November 1961 in West Bromwich) is a former English cricketer. He was educated at North Bromsgrove High School and Oxford University.

He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace and off-break bowler who played first-class and List A cricket for Oxford University between 1982 and 1989. Later, he played minor counties cricket for Shropshire in 1991 and 1992 while playing at club level for Barnt Green, and, briefly, Cambridgeshire, appearing at List A level in the NatWest Trophy for both teams.

In 1985, playing in the University Match against Cambridge University at Lord's, Toogood took 8/52 in the first innings (adding another two wickets in the second). This was the best first-class innings return by an Oxford bowler for 61 years, Tom Raikes having claimed 9/38 against the Army in 1924. As of March 2009, Toogood's feat remains the only example of an Oxford player taking seven or more wickets in a first-class innings since Giles Ridley's 7/110 against Gloucestershire in 1965.

He graduated in medicine and works as a surgeon in Yorkshire.
Married to Carolyn and has 3 daughters.

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Sportspeople from West Bromwich
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Gang Garrison 2 is an open-source indie video game "demake" of Valve's Team Fortress 2. Inspired by the 3D graphics of Team Fortress 2, it takes place in a 2D, 8-bit environment, while retaining its online multiplayer gameplay. The game was started by TIGSource users "mrfredman" and "MedO", with other users contributing to development. It was conceived as an entry into the 2008 TIGSource "Bootleg Demake" competition.

Gameplay

Gang Garrison 2 uses the major gameplay tenets of Team Fortress 2, while modifying them for use in 2D. The player can choose one of nine different classes, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. One is hidden and can be accessed by pressing 'Q' at the class select screen. Each class had their name changed, and lack abilities as specialized as Team Fortress 2 due to technical constraints. The classes are: Runner (Scout), Detonator (Demoman), Rocketman (Soldier), Firebug (Pyro), Constructor (Engineer), Rifleman (Sniper), Healer (Doctor), Overweight (Heavy), and Infiltrator (Spy). Additionally, the main characters from Cave Story make guest appearances as the hidden 10th class. Each character only possesses one special ability and one weapon; for example, the Rifleman's rifle and the Infiltrator's revolver.

There are currently five game modes, with a sixth in development. Capture the flag, which involves capturing a briefcase filled with intelligence, Control Point, where the teams fight for control of specific locations, Generator mode, where each team tries to destroy the opposing team's power generator, Arena, where players try to get rid of the other team's players, King of the Hill, where a single control point needs to be captured and defended for a set time, and Double King of the Hill where two control points are present, but both need to be captured in order for the clock to start. "Critical" shots, special attacks which cause extra damage in Team Fortress 2, have been removed in Gang Garrison 2. Games are played on online gameservers, which the player can find with help of a lobby server or join manually. Servers can also be hosted by players.

Since version 2.5, Gang Garrison 2 has had a "server-sent plugins" system, in which game plugins (which, for example, add voting on the next map or in-game text chat) can be automatically downloaded when joining a server.

Development
Development of Gang Garrison 2 began as an entry into the 2008 TIGSource.com "Bootleg Demake" competition by mrfredman (art), MedO (programming) and Synnah (music). While it did not win the competition, it later grew in popularity on the site's forum. Initially the game lacked several features and balancing, especially class abilities for the Constructor and the Infiltrator, which caused other developers to decompile the code and update the game without consent. The original development team reacted by merging the unofficial changes and releasing the game under an open source license to allow contribution to the official version and avoid further forks. Version 2.0 was released on February 10, 2009. This version included taunts, new music, maps, and options, various graphical improvements, a spectator mode, autobalance, kill notification, and in-game communication. Version 2.1 was released on May 3, 2009. This version included Control Points, new music, maps, various graphical updates, Demoman "sticky counter", sentry hud, and "superburst", a medic ability very similar to Team Fortress 2'''s "Ubercharge", and various other smaller tweaks.

As of 2019, the game continues to be developed as an open source project, with the source code hosted on GitHub. The game is licensed  under the Mozilla Public License. The game was originally licensed as GPLv3, but was relicensed in 2014 due to license incompatibilities.

ReceptionGang Garrison 2 received positive reviews from critics. Darren Gladstone of PC World noted that the game "translates surprisingly well to 2D." Tyler Nagata of Games Radar commented that it "is guaranteed to make you grin when you hear its cover of the TF2 theme song with MIDI-fied bleeps and bloops ... and ... when you start scrolling through the game’s super pixilated takes on TF2 classes." Scott Sharkey of 1UP wrote that the game "was pretty much at the top of the heap [of demakes]," also stating the possibility that he might "prefer this thing to Team Fortress 2" and that it was "a great way to blow a few minutes while putting off work."

Eric Smith of the Team Fortress 2 development team expressed support for the game, announcing version 2.1 on the official TF2'' blog.

See also

 List of open source games

References

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2008 video games
Fan games
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Shooter games
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Windows-only games
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The Winfield House was a historic house at 853 Hancock Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.  Built c. 1880, it was a -story wood-frame structure with exuberant Queen Anne styling.  It was built by John Chamberlin, a traveling hardware salesman.  The house was particularly distinctive for its onion-domed tower near the center of the structure, an unusual placement and topping for such a tower.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Winfield House served as a restaurant for 50 years. The house was demolished in 1998 by its then owners, Eastern Nazarene College, to make way for a campus expansion; all that is left now is stairs leading up to an empty house lot and the elm tree. The carriage house and a portion of the main house floating staircase were moved to a private residence in Stoughton, MA.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts
Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1880
Demolished buildings and structures in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Buildings and structures demolished in 1998


Militari Shopping is a retail park situated in the Militari district of Bucharest, Romania. Located on Iuliu Maniu Boulevard, it has  of floor space.

Beside the Auchan hypermarket and Praktiker DIY store, the shopping center hosts another 61 shops. For kids, Militari Shopping hosts shops such as Imaginarium, Toyplex, Okaidi and Sergent Major that sell toys, clothing, accessories and educational material.

Notes

External links
The Official Website of Militari Shopping

Shopping malls in Bucharest


Norma Goldstein Zarky (April 29, 1917 – October 24, 1977) was a prominent lawyer in Los Angeles, active in the fight for abortion rights and other civil rights.

Biography
Zarky was born in Brooklyn, New York to Maxwell Goldstein and Fannie Senfeld Goldstein. She attended James Madison High School (where the editors of her graduating high school yearbook wrote a poem joking about her aspiration of becoming a lawyer).  She attended Barnard College for one year. She then transferred to the University of Wisconsin, where she received her law degree in 1939 through a combined six-year arts and law program.  She graduated with membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif. She married Hilbert Philip Zarky on July 29, 1939.

Zarky and her husband moved to Washington, D.C. She worked as a lawyer in the Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor, dealing with violations of the Child Labor laws. She also served as a lawyer for the Railroad Retirement Board, and during World War II she was employed by the Office of Price Administration, enforcing price regulations in the clothing industry. She worked for a number of lawyers, including Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., a prominent civil rights lawyer, and for Arthur Goldberg. She co-authored a number of briefs with Rauh on civil rights cases during the 1950s.

In 1954, during the McCarthy Era, the Department of Justice sought to fire Hilbert Zarky from his position with the Department, based primarily on Norma's very brief involvement with Communism when she was an undergraduate in the mid-1930s, along with such "crimes" as their belonging to a liberal book club and being at meetings attended by "suspect" individuals. After she and her husband filed numerous declarations from friends and prominent individuals regarding their loyalty to the United States, he was reinstated to his position.

After Zarky and her family moved to Los Angeles, she worked briefly for attorney Leonard Horwin (later a mayor of Beverly Hills) and then in 1961 joined the law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, where her husband worked, becoming the firm's first woman partner in 1968.  At Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, she practiced primarily in the field of entertainment law.

Death
Zarky died of breast cancer on October 24, 1977.

Pro bono activities
Zarky was the first woman to serve as president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association and was a founding member of Women in Film. She was influential in establishing Public Counsel, which is now "the largest pro bono public interest law firm in the world." She also was active in the Constitutional Rights Foundation. In response to the condition of her daughter, who was born profoundly retarded, Zarky served on the board of trustees of the Exceptional Children's Foundation. She was a founder of California Women Lawyers.

Zarky was particularly active in the fight for legalized abortion.  She was "one of the two leading California attorneys" strategizing the legal battles. She authored the ACLU's amicus brief in People v. Belous, in which the California Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Raymond E. Peters, upheld a woman's right to abortion. She wrote an amicus brief on behalf of the American Association of University Women in Roe v. Wade, the case that established the right to abortion on a nationwide basis.

Zarky was a recipient of the Ernestine Stahlhut Award from the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, given annually to someone who has "attained the respect, admiration and affection of the Bench and Bar by her outstanding character, her dedication to service and her significant contributions to the cause of justice; a person who has challenged women in [the] profession to excel, and who has been an encouragement to young women in our society to seek the law as a profession." She was also a recipient of Women in Film's first Crystal Award, "given to honor outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work in film, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry."

Legacy
In 1979, Women in Film established The Norma Zarky Humanitarian Award, which "is presented to individuals who, like Ms. Zarky herself, have demonstrated enlightened support for the advancement of equal opportunity for all and devotion to the improvement of the human condition."

The University of Southern California awards the Norma Zarky Memorial Award, which was established by the law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp and is awarded to the student who has excelled in the field of entertainment law. At UCLA, the Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Edward Rubin & Norma Zarky Endowed Scholarship Fund was established to financially assist socio-economically disadvantaged students attending the School of Law in celebration of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp's Centennial and to honor the memories of Zarky and Edward Rubin, described as "two seminal figures in the history of the firm:"

References

1917 births
1977 deaths
American civil rights lawyers
Lawyers from Brooklyn
University of Wisconsin Law School alumni
Deaths from breast cancer
Activists from New York (state)
James Madison High School (Brooklyn) alumni
20th-century American women lawyers
20th-century American lawyers


Type-1.5 superconductors are multicomponent superconductors characterized by two or more coherence lengths, at least one of which is shorter than the magnetic field penetration length , and at least one of which is longer. This is in contrast to single-component superconductors, where there is only one coherence length  and the superconductor is necessarily either type 1 () or type 2 () (often a coherence length is defined with extra  factor, with such a definition the corresponding inequalities are  and  ). When placed in magnetic field, type-1.5 superconductors should form quantum vortices: magnetic-flux-carrying excitations. They allow magnetic field to pass through superconductors due to a vortex-like circulation of superconducting particles (electronic pairs). In type-1.5 superconductors these vortices have long-range attractive, short-range repulsive interaction. As a consequence a type-1.5 superconductor in a magnetic field can form a phase separation into domains with expelled magnetic field and clusters of quantum vortices which are bound together by attractive intervortex forces. The domains of the Meissner state retain the two-component superconductivity, while in the vortex clusters one of the superconducting components is suppressed. Thus such materials should allow coexistence of various properties of type-I and type-II superconductors.

Description
Type-I superconductors completely expel external magnetic fields if the strength of the applied field is sufficiently low. Also the supercurrent can flow only on the surface of such a superconductor but not in its interior. This state is called the Meissner state. However at elevated magnetic field, when the magnetic field energy becomes comparable with the superconducting condensation energy, the superconductivity is destroyed by the formation of macroscopically large inclusions of non-superconducting phase.

Type-II superconductors, besides the Meissner state, possess another state: a sufficiently strong applied magnetic field can produce currents in the interior of superconductor due to formation of quantum vortices. The vortices also carry magnetic flux through the interior of the superconductor. These quantum vortices repel each other and thus tend to form uniform vortex lattices or liquids. Formally, vortex solutions exist also in models of type-I superconductivity, but the interaction between vortices is purely attractive, so a system of many vortices is unstable against a collapse onto a state of a single giant normal domain with supercurrent flowing on its surface. More importantly, the vortices in type-I superconductor are energetically unfavorable. To produce them would require the application of a magnetic field stronger than what a superconducting condensate can sustain. Thus a type-I superconductor goes to non-superconducting states rather than forming vortices. In the usual Ginzburg–Landau theory, only the quantum vortices with purely repulsive interaction are energetically cheap enough to be induced by applied magnetic field.

It was proposed that the type-I/type-II dichotomy could be broken in a multi-component superconductors, which possess multiple coherence lengths.

Examples of multi-component superconductivity are multi-band superconductors magnesium diboride and oxypnictides and exotic superconductors with nontrivial Cooper-pairing. There, one can distinguish two or more superconducting components associated, for example with electrons belong to different bands band structure. A different example of two component systems is the projected superconducting states
of liquid metallic hydrogen or deuterium where mixtures of superconducting electrons and superconducting protons or deuterons were theoretically predicted.

It was also pointed out that systems which have phase transitions between different superconducting states such as between  and  or between  and  should rather generically fall into type-1.5 state near that transition due to divergence of one of the coherence lengths.

In mixtures of independently conserved condensates
For multicomponent superconductors with so called U(1)xU(1) symmetry the Ginzburg-Landau model is a sum of two single-component Ginzburg-Landau model which are coupled by a vector potential
 :

where  are two superconducting condensates. In case if the condensates are coupled only electromagnetically, i.e. by  the model has three length scales: the London penetration length
 and two coherence lengths .
The vortex excitations in that case have cores in both components which are co-centered because of electromagnetic coupling mediated by the field . The necessary but not sufficient condition for occurrence of type-1.5 regime is . Additional condition of thermodynamic stability is satisfied for a range of parameters. These vortices have a nonmonotonic interaction: they attract each other at large distances and repel each other at short distances.
It was shown that there is a range of parameters where these vortices are energetically favorable enough to be excitable by an external field, attractive interaction notwithstanding. This results in the formation of a special superconducting phase in low magnetic fields dubbed "Semi-Meissner" state. The vortices, whose density is controlled by applied magnetic flux density, do not form a regular structure.  Instead, they should have a tendency to form vortex "droplets" because of the long-range attractive interaction caused by condensate density suppression in the area around the vortex. Such vortex clusters should coexist with the areas of vortex-less two-component Meissner domains. Inside such vortex cluster the component with larger coherence length is suppressed: so that component has appreciable current only at the boundary of the cluster.

In multiband systems
In a two-band superconductor the electrons in different bands are not independently conserved thus the definition of two superconducting components is different. A two-band superconductor is described by the following Ginzburg-Landau model.

where again  are two superconducting condensates. In multiband superconductors quite generically .
When  three length scales of the problem are again the London penetration length
and two coherence lengths. However, in this case the coherence lengths  are associated with "mixed" combinations of density fields.

Microscopic models
A microscopic theory of type-1.5 superconductivity has been reported.

Current experimental research
In 2009, experimental results have been reported
claiming that  magnesium diboride may fall into this new class of superconductivity. The term type-1.5 superconductor was coined for this state. Further experimental data backing this conclusion was reported in. More recent theoretical works show that the type-1.5 may be more general phenomenon because it does not require a material with two truly superconducting bands, but can also happen as a result of even very small interband proximity effect and is robust in the presence of various inter-band couplings such as interband Josephson coupling.
In 2014, experimental study suggested that Sr2RuO4 is type-1.5 superconductor.

Non-technical explanation
Type-I and type-II superconductors feature dramatically different charge flow patterns. Type-I superconductors have two state-defining properties: The lack of electric resistance and the fact that they do not allow an external magnetic field to pass through them. When a magnetic field is applied to these materials, superconducting electrons produce a strong current on the surface, which in turn produces a magnetic field in the opposite direction to cancel the interior magnetic field, similar to how typical conductors cancel interior electric fields with surface charge distributions. An externally applied magnetic field of sufficiently low strength is cancelled in the interior of a type-I superconductor by the field produced by the surface current. In type-II superconducting materials, however, a complicated flow of superconducting electrons can form deep in the interior of the material. In a type-II material, magnetic fields can penetrate into the interior, carried inside by vortices that form an Abrikosov vortex lattice.

In type-1.5 superconductors, there are at least two superconducting components. In such materials, the external magnetic field can produce clusters of tightly packed vortex droplets because in such materials vortices should attract each other at large distances and repel at short length scales. Since the attraction originates in vortex core's overlaps in one of the superconducting components, this component will be depleted in the vortex cluster. Thus a vortex cluster will represent two competing types of superflow. One component will form vortices bunched together while the second component will produce supercurrent flowing on the surface of vortex clusters in a way similar to how electrons flow on the exterior of type-I superconductors. These vortex clusters are separated by "voids," with no vortices, no currents and no magnetic field.

Animations
Movies from numerical simulations of the Semi-Meissner state where Meissner domains coexist with clusters where vortex droplets form in one superconducting components and macroscopic normal domains in the other.

References

External links
Animations from numerical calculations of vortex cluster formation are available at ""

Superconductivity


Actinoleuca is a genus of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lottiidae.

This is a southern genus and a cold-water genus.

Species
Species within this genus include:
 Actinoleuca campbelli campbelli (Filhol, 1880)
 Actinoleuca campbelli bountyensis Powell, 1955
 Actinoleuca campbelli macquariensis (Hedley, 1916)

References

 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
 NZ Mollusca

Lottiidae
Gastropod genera


The Charles E. White House is a historic house at 101 Billings Road in Quincy, Massachusetts.  This -story wood-frame house was built c. 1905 by Charles White, a traveling salesman.  It is a well-preserved local example of late Shingle styling, with a cross-gable roof configuration and a side-hall entry plan.  It has a number of projecting bay windows, and a gable window set in a curved recess.  Its original shingling has been either covered or replaced by modern siding (see photo).

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1905
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Shingle Style houses
1905 establishments in Massachusetts
Shingle Style architecture in Massachusetts


Events in the year 1545 in Norway.

Incumbents
Monarch: Christian III

Events
 The cathedral chapter at St Mary's Church was dissolved.

Arts and literature

Births
1 April – Peder Claussøn Friis, author (died 1614)

Deaths
Hans Glaser, bergmeister (b. c. 1480)
Hans Rev, bishop (b. c. 1489)

References


The Seth Spear Homestead is a historic house at 47-49 Spear Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.  The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1850 by either Thomas Drake or Seth Spear, who purchased Drake's property.  Spear was one of the largest landowners in the immediate area.  The house is a fairly typical Greek Revival structure, although it has had a large ell added to the rear (sometime before 1876), and its front portico dates to the 1890s.  It now has 5 units rented out.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Houses completed in 1850
Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Greek Revival architecture in Massachusetts


Giulio Calì (26 March 1895 – 20 January 1967) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1927 and 1966.

Life and career
Born in Rome, Calì started his career on stage, being mainly active in Romanesco dialect theater and in avanspettacolo. He made his film debut in 1927, in Umberto Paradisi's Un balilla del '48, but his career ultimately started after the Second World War, when he was cast in a good number of films of different genres and quality, even if usually playing very minor roles. Calì is probably best known for his association with director Alberto Lattuada, who gave him his first significant roles, namely Smarazzacucco in The Mill on the Po (1949) and the sailor in The Overcoat (1952). Other notable directors with whom Calì worked include Steno, Mario Monicelli, Alessandro Blasetti, Mario Mattoli, Luigi Zampa and Luigi Comencini.

Selected filmography

 Schoolgirl Diary (1941) - Un poveraccio (uncredited)
 Before the Postman (1942) - Un passegero (uncredited)
 The Peddler and the Lady (1943) - L'uomo che chiede le alicette (uncredited)
 The Gates of Heaven (1945) - Il napoletano curioso (uncredited)
 The White Primrose (1947) - Barista
 The Mill on the Po (1949) - Smarazzacucco
 Le due madonne (1949)
 Figaro Here, Figaro There (1950)
 Variety Lights (1950) - Magician Edison Will
 Mater dei (1950)
 Cops and Robbers (1951) - The Beggar (uncredited)
 The Passaguai Family Gets Rich (1952) - The Junk Shop Owner
 The Overcoat (1952) - Il sarto
 Five Paupers in an Automobile (1952) - Lo stalliere
 Toto and the King of Rome (1952) - Sonatore di Tromba (uncredited)
 Prisoner in the Tower of Fire (1952) - Giulio
 La trappola di fuoco (1952)
 The Unfaithfuls (1953) - Giulio Cantagalli
 I Chose Love (1953)
 Il viale della speranza (1953) - (uncredited)
 At the Edge of the City (1953) - Calì
 Legione straniera (1953) - Dupont
 One of Those (1953) - (uncredited)
 La valigia dei sogni (1953) - Impiegato della Biblioteca Nazionale
 Musoduro (1953) - Rospo
 A Day in Court (1954) - Augusto Mencacci
 Public Opinion (1954)
 Desiderio 'e sole (1954) - Vitaliano De Bellis
 Nel gorgo del peccato (1954) - Il padrone di casa
 Cuore di mamma (1954) - The Grandfather
 The Pilgrim of Love (1954) - Commissario
 Days of Love (1954) - Pietro Cafalla, nonno di Angela
 An American in Rome (1954) - Padre di Nando
 Tears of Love (1954)
 Lacrime d'amore (1954)
 Too Bad She's Bad (1954) - La guardia notturna
 Due soldi di felicità (1954) - Gigetto
 Ultima illusione (1954)
 Le vacanze del sor Clemente (1955) - Il cameriere della rosticceria
 Toto in Hell (1955) - Caronte
 A Hero of Our Times (1955) - Il giovanottaccio
 The Belle of Rome (1955) - Il cameriere
 Tragic Ballad (1955) - Marinaio genovese
 Motivo in maschera (1955)
 La ragazza di via Veneto (1955)
 My Life Is Yours (1956)
 Una pelliccia di visone (1956) - Jeweler
 Nero's Weekend (1956)
 La capinera del mulino (1956) - il Druso
 Operazione notte (1957)
 The Wolves (1957) - Nazzareno
 The Mysteries of Paris (1957)
 Susanna Whipped Cream (1957) - Un barbone
 The Love Specialist (1957) - The undressed Tramp (uncredited)
 The Lady Doctor (1957) - Un malato di mente (uncredited)
 La canzone più bella (1957)
 La chiamavan Capinera... (1957)
 Gli zitelloni (1958)
 Pia de' Tolomei (1958)
 Gli avventurieri dell'Uranio (1958) - Sten
 Winter Holidays (1959) - Oncle Carlo
 The Defeated Victor (1959) - Gaetano
 La cento chilometri (1959) - The Tall Man Who Sides with Angela
 Nel blu, dipinto di blu (1959) - The Lawyer (uncredited)
 La Dolce Vita (1960) - Mario's Uncle (uncredited)
 Escape by Night (1960) - Driver of the Fake Nuns
 The Traffic Policeman (1960) - The Old Shepherd (uncredited)
 Mobby Jackson (1960)
 Gli incensurati (1961) - La ingaggia ladri
 Scano Boa (1961)
 Nerone '71 (1962) - Francesco
 Colpo gobbo all'italiana (1962) - Costumier
 I tre nemici (1962) - Uomo nel Negozio (uncredited)
 Gladiator of Rome (1962) - Old Christian
 A Girl... and a Million (1962) - The Widower (uncredited)
 8½ (1963) - Un uomo ai fanghi (uncredited)
 Il ribelle di Castelmonte (1964)
 Eroe vagabondo (1966) - (final film role)

References

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1967 deaths
Italian male film actors
Male actors from Rome
20th-century Italian male actors


The A. C. Smith & Co. Gas Station is a historic gas station at 117 Beale Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.  It is a single-story brick, with a front facade divided into three vehicle bays on the left and an office on the right, with a pedestrian entrance to the work area in between.  A low-pitch gable at the center acts a kind of parapet, and there are round decorative panels on the front facade.  The building was constructed in 1926, and is a little-altered example of an early functional automotive filling and service station.  Its original brickwork remains in good condition, and its service bays are distinctively illuminated in part by original skylights.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

References

Commercial buildings completed in 1926
Transport infrastructure completed in 1926
Buildings and structures in Quincy, Massachusetts
Retail buildings in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts
Gas stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Transportation buildings and structures in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
1926 establishments in Massachusetts


Wars and Rumors of Wars is the third full-length album from the band The Chariot. The album is unique in that, the first 25,000 CD cases were hand stamped, signed and numbered by the band, every member stamping 5,000 each. Similarly, the first 300 were stamped in red ink for a special pre-order. They have stated this was done because they felt that CDs were becoming too impersonal, meaning that bands did not have much to do with a CD after the recording was finished, as the artwork would be designed by someone else, and then the whole package would be sent to the printer. The album is the only release by the band to feature guitarists Dan Vokey and Brian Russell Taylor.

Track listing
All lyrics written by Josh Scogin and composed by The Chariot

Personnel
The Chariot
 Josh Scogin - vocals
 Dan Vokey - guitar
 Bryan Russell Taylor - guitar
 Jon "KC Wolf" Kindler - bass
 David Kennedy – drums

Additional Instrumentation
Jeff Gingrich - Cello ("Never I")

Trivia
 There is a hidden message in the song titles. If you take the first and last letter of each song title and lay them out, it spells "The end is nigh and so am I".

References

External links
Wars and Rumors of Wars website

2009 albums
The Chariot (band) albums
Solid State Records albums
Tooth & Nail Records albums
Albums produced by Matt Goldman


Andrés Reggio y Brachiforte (1692–1780) was an officer of the Spanish navy.

Biography
He was born in the Spanish-controlled Sicilian city of Palermo in 1692. He joined the navy as a young man and served throughout the War of the Quadruple Alliance serving in the invasion of Sardinia and at the Battle of Cape Passaro.

In 1720, he took part in the relief expedition to besieged Ceuta and then moved to America, into the fleet of galleons in charge of bringing the money to the port of Cadiz. He returned to the Mediterranean in 1730, where he took part in operations including the reconquest of Oran in 1732 and Naples in 1733. For the next few years, he commanded the Spanish fleet in Ferrol.

In 1739, at the outbreak of the War of Jenkins' Ear he was appointed to command in the Caribbean. He oversaw major construction work to Havana in preparation of a future British attack.

In 1748, he lost the Battle of Havana to the British Admiral Charles Knowles, but Knowles was unable to capitalise: the bullion-laden convoy passed unmolested. Reggio was court-martialled, but was then pardoned and commended by the King for his actions.

In 1749, he returned to Spain, and was appointed Captain-General of the navy, holding this position, he had a meeting on March 1, 1770, 4 days before the Boston Massacre, with a man with whom he had already met in the Antilles and who will have a key role in world history: the governor Luis de Unzaga and Amézaga 'le Conciliateur' to whom he will transfer various things of his own for his new position as governor of Louisiana and also a matter of maximum discretion and security such as the spy network that Unzaga will expand to help create the United States.

He would hold as Captain-General of the navy until his death in 1780, thirty one years later.

References

Spanish admirals
1692 births
1780 deaths
Military personnel from Palermo


Events in the year 1614 in Norway.

Incumbents
Monarch: Christian IV

Events
 8 December - Jens Bjelke became Chancellor of Norway.

Arts and literature

Births

Deaths
15 October - Peder Claussøn Friis, author (born 1545)