Alykhan Velshi (born 6 February 1984) is a lawyer, policy analyst, and ministerial assistant. He has worked at the predominantly neoconservative American Enterprise Institute and was manager of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he co-founded the Center for Law and Counterterrorism with Andrew C. McCarthy. He has written pieces in support of George W. Bush's foreign and military policies. Velshi previously worked as director of issues management for Stephen Harper. He used to work as chief of staff for two leaders of the official opposition of Ontario, Patrick Brown and Vic Fedeli, who were then leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. Currently he is working in the private sector as Huawei Technologies Canada's vice-president of corporate affairs.

Early life
Velshi was born and raised in Toronto. He attended the Toronto French School, a private school in Lawrence Park. He holds a law degree from the London School of Economics and passed the New York bar exam in 2006. He is an Ismaili Muslim and is a distant relative of journalist Ali Velshi and former Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament Murad Velshi.

Political views

Foreign policy and the Middle East
Velshi has written extensively about foreign policy, particularly with regard to the Middle East. His position is pro-Israel and strongly supportive of George W. Bush's foreign policy. In a December 2002 letter to the National Post newspaper, he argued that Canada should ban the political wing of Hezbollah. While attending the LSE, he wrote an academic piece defending George W. Bush's argument for "preemptive" war in Iraq as being grounded in both historical precedent and "original texts on international law". Just before graduating, he wrote an article for the National Review entitled "Choosing Sides: The challenge for Muslims", in which he argued that moderate Muslims were often reluctant to counter what he described as "Islamist extremism".  This article favourably quoted George W. Bush's remark, "You're either with us or you're with the terrorists". In January 2006, he criticized The Globe and Mail newspaper for referring to Israel's separation barrier as a "wall"; Velshi argued that it should be called a "fence."

Velshi wrote a column for The Hill in June 2006, encouraging the United States Senate to endorse regime change in Iran by passing the Iran Freedom Support Act.  This bill authorized the President of the United States to provide $10 million in assistance to dissident organizations inside and outside Iran.  Velshi attempted to address concerns that this aid would be directed toward militant organizations by arguing that the terms of the bill restricted aid to groups that "oppose the use of terrorism, support democratic values and human rights and display a willingness to commit Iran to the existing nuclear non-proliferation framework".

In the same year, Velshi wrote an article for the Somaliland Times entitled "Somalia's Collapse into Jihadism".  He called for the United States to recognize the breakaway republic of Somaliland, arguing that this would demonstrate a commitment to the "Bush doctrine" and also be in America's strategic interests.  He also opposed the Union of Islamic Courts in Somalia, and defended the government of Ethiopia for supporting what he described as the "democratically-elected transitional government based in Baidoa".

Velshi later supported the prosecution of two New York men accused of broadcasting Hezbollah's al-Manar television network in the United States.

Security and terror suspects
In 2006, Andrew C. McCarthy and Velshi wrote a white paper entitled "We Need A National Security Court".  This work argued that America's counter-terrorism strategies of the 1990s were insufficient for responding to what the authors described as the "international terrorist threat" after September 11, 2001.  They called for the establishment of an American national security court, to be staffed by independent, life-tenured judges with responsibility for the full range of national security issues.

In September 2006, Velshi and Howard Anglin wrote an article for the National Review entitled "Who's Really Ignoring the Geneva Conventions?".  This piece argued that the conventions "did not anticipate the threat posed by today's militant Islamists", and should not be applied to enemy combatants whom the authors identified as "the terrorists we fight today".

United Nations
In August 2006, Velshi wrote a piece entitled "The United Nations' Failed Peacekeeping in Lebanon".  This work asserted that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon had failed to disarm Hezbollah, and argued that a "new international force [would] therefore have to be willing and able to engage offensive operations" against the Lebanese organization.

Later in the year, Velshi wrote an article entitled "Will the UN appoint another crook?".  This work described Kofi Annan's legacy as United Nations Secretary General as one of "scandal and failure", asserting that the UN was implicated in an "elaborate child prostitution ring" in the Congo and referring to the UN's Oil-For-Food program in Iraq as "the biggest financial fraud of modern times".  Velshi also described Annan's eventual successor Ban Ki-Moon, as unfit for the position, accusing him of bribery and of holding anti-American views.  In the same article, Velshi accused United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of "allowing bureaucratic subordinates in the State Department to dictate policy, refusing to draw bright lines in international negotiations with Iran, and distinguishing herself from her predecessor Colin Powell only by being less perfidious and perhaps more comely".

Canada
In late 2006, Velshi described the prosecution of Canadian-born newspaper baron Conrad Black as a "tragedy", and as representative of a legal system "focused less on securing justice than on bringing down the high and mighty while pandering to the politics of envy".  He argued that the legal proceedings had ruined Black's financial status and reputation before any finding of guilt, and further asserted that the regulatory state created by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was ultimately responsible for this situation.  In the same article, Velshi wrote that Black "hearkened back to the good old days of grand newspaper proprietors, family dynasties and concern for the value of the brand rather than vulgar things like day-to-day movements in share prices". Black was subsequently convicted of obstruction of justice and diverting company funds for his personal benefit, and was sentenced to 78 months in an American prison.

Velshi described Canada's health care system as "old and decrepit" in a March 2006 letter to The Globe and Mail newspaper, sarcastically comparing Canada's system to existing models in Cuba and North Korea.

In 2011, Velshi left government service and founded a website to promote the ideas put forward by Ezra Levant in his book Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands.  He subsequently returned as the Director of Planning for the Prime Minister's Office later in 2011. The website, EthicalOil.org, launched a campaign to compare Canada's 'Ethical Oil' against OPEC's 'Conflict Oil' and features controversial advertisements comparing conditions for women, gays and other minorities in OPEC countries to those in Canada. EthicalOil.org has staged counter-protests in response to opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline project.

Ministerial aide

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Velshi was hired as senior special assistant to Jason Kenney, Canada's newly appointed Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, in early 2007. His official title was changed to "Director of Communications" later in the year.

Velshi supported flying of the Canadian Red Ensign at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in 2007, describing the flag as "an enduring source of Canadian patriotism".  Senator Roméo Dallaire criticized this decision, arguing that the Red Ensign did not deserve to be placed on equal footing with the Flag of Canada and the Flag of France. Velshi later defended the Conservative government decision's not to fly flags at half-mast for Canadian soldiers killed in combat, arguing that this gesture was not permitted under Canadian law.

Velshi was the official contact on a late 2007 government press release commemorating the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah, wherein the festival was erroneously described as marking "the triumph of the Jewish people against tyranny more than two million years ago".  He later said that the document went through several revisions before its release, and that the word "millennia" was accidentally changed to "million years" somewhere along the way.

Velshi moved to the department of Environment Minister John Baird in August 2008 as Director of Parliamentary Affairs, where he was responsible for "advising and briefing the minister on legislative issues [and] overseeing the legislative approval process".  The Hill Times described this as an important position, in that Velshi had a role in formulating the government's response to Liberal Party Stéphane Dion's proposed Green Tax Shift.

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Jason Kenney was promoted to Minister of Citizenship and Immigration after the 2008 federal election, and Velshi returned to work with him as Director of Communications and Parliamentary Affairs.

In late 2008, Velshi articulated the Harper government's position that conscientious objectors from the United States military were not legitimate refugees in Canada. He also defended the government's introduction of limits on the refugee and immigration process on the grounds a few months later, on the grounds that failed refugee claimants and others were abusing the federal pre-removal risk assessment program (which is intended to ensure that people will not be deported from Canada to face torture).

March 2009 controversies
Canadian Arab Federation

See also Canadian Arab Federation - Dispute with Jason Kenney and Federal Funding

In early 2009, Jason Kenney became involved in a public controversy with Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) president Khaled Mouammar.  At one stage, Mouammar responded to Kenney's support for Israel in the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict by describing the minister as a "professional whore who supports war".  Kenney later accused CAF leaders of promoting anti-Semitism, and suggested that the organization's funding would be reviewed.  Other CAF representatives described Mouammar's choice of language as unfortunate, but rejected the charge of anti-Semitism and expressed concern that the proposed cuts were vindictive in nature. In March, the CAF circulated a letter in which several organizations called for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to "restrain" Kenney and "put an end to his dangerous campaign of attacking [the] CAF with slandering and damaging accusations for which he has provided no evidence".

Velshi offered that the signatories to this letter represented only a "tiny" and "quite radicalized minority" of Arab-Canadian organizations. He added that Kenney's position toward the CAF was unchanged, and was quoted as saying, "Groups that promote hatred and anti-Semitism don't deserve a single red cent of taxpayer support. End of story."  The National Post's coverage of this matter noted that the letter circulated by the CAF condemned "all forms of racism" and asserted that the CAF's criticism of Israeli military policies had been wrongly conflated with anti-Semitism.

On 18 March, Velshi on behalf of Minister Kenney announced that government funding to the CAF would not be renewed after the current contracts expire. CAF executive director Mohamed Boudjenane expressed surprise at this decision, indicating that these contracts allowed his organization to help settle and provide English lessons for recent immigrants.

In a subsequent email sent to Arab organizations, CAF President Khaled Mouammar argued that the CAF was the victim of a "well-planned Zionist campaign ... being waged by the Canadian Jewish Congress and B'nai Brith supported by some politicians" to intimidate Arab Canadians. He also stated that this campaign "was developed after the Lebanon war of July, 2006, to suppress all criticism of Israel and equate it with anti-Semitism." Velshi argued in response that Mouammar's naming of the Canadian Jewish Congress and B'nai Brith "[did] not just disdain Zionists, but the Jewish community as a whole." He also said of Mouammar's email, "It's the ugliest, most vile sort of language. It's not surprising to us that he is again engaged in this sort of reprehensible rhetoric trying to pit community against community."

Velshi also reported Kenney was considering re-examining all refugee cases heard by Mouammar during his tenure as a member of Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), after reports surfaced that the acceptance rate in cases heard by Mouammar was disproportionately higher than the average rate. Velshi stated that "I think it's fair for Canadians to ask why Mouammar's acceptance rate was so much higher than the IRB average for the same countries, as well as whether he was letting people in who he shouldn't have."

George Galloway

On 20 March 2009, a Canada Border official refused British politician George Galloway permission to enter Canada, likely based on the "preliminary decision of inadmissibility" made by the Canadian government. Velshi told the media that the Canadian government would not reverse this decision, stating that Galloway had expressed sympathy for the Taliban cause in Afghanistan and describing him as an "infandous street-corner Cromwell who actually brags about giving 'financial support' to Hamas, a terrorist organisation banned in Canada. The decision to ban Galloway was supported by the Canadian Jewish Congress, B'nai Brith Canada and Jewish Defence League of Canada, which took credit for initiating the action. It was subsequently noted that Velshi had begun preparing media lines regarding Galloway several days before the ban was announced.

Galloway described the decision to forbid him entry as "irrational, inexplicable and an affront to Canada's good name", adding that it "further vindicated the anti-war movement's contention that unjust wars abroad will end up consuming the very liberties that make us who we are". He threatened legal action against the Harper government, asserting that he was not a supporter of terrorism and was not barred from entering any other country, including Israel.

Velshi defended the Kenney's decision to the media, saying that the minister would not "provide special treatment to a man who brags about giving 'financial support' to Hamas, a banned terrorist organization in Canada, or who offers sympathy for Canada's enemies in Afghanistan [...]."

The National Post suggested that Galloway did support Hamas by citing a 2007 interview in which he described them as a national liberation movement rather than a terrorist organization. Galloway later stated, "I don't raise money for Hamas. That's just a false statement. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a supporter of Hamas."

New Democratic Party MP Olivia Chow accused the Harper government of censorship for refusing to allow Galloway to speak in Canada. Galloway was ultimately not able to enter Canada, but instead addressed his supporters by a video link.

On 27 September 2010, Federal Court judge Richard Mosley found that Kenney's office had acted inappropriately, using "a flawed and overreaching interpretation of the standards under Canadian law for labelling someone as engaging in terrorism or being a member of a terrorist organization." He also determined that the Canada Border Services Agency had produced its assessment of Galloway on scant evidence after receiving instructions from Velshi. Noting that Velshi had told reporters the decision to bar Galloway was made on national security grounds, Mosley wrote, "one might hope that a ministerial aide would exercise greater restraint in purporting to speak on behalf of the government, his comments to the press amount to little more than posturing." In October 2010, Galloway said he would sue the Canadian Government for breaching his privacy rights and branding him a terrorist.

References

1984 births
Living people
Canadian Ismailis
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Canadian people of Indian descent
Canadian people of Gujarati descent
Khoja Ismailism


St Lawrence's Church at Stratford-sub-Castle is a 13th-century Grade I listed Church of England parish church, to the north of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It stands close to the abandoned settlement of Old Sarum and the River Avon, and is about  north of Salisbury Cathedral.

Construction and architecture
The church stands at the north end of Stratford-sub-Castle village, but was formerly surrounded by a medieval settlement.

A chapel at Stratford is first mentioned in 1228, dependent on St Martin's church. The presence of an earlier building is known from evidence of walls and floors of a 12th or 13th-century building, found in 2008 in the churchyard. The present church has an early 13th-century chancel, indicated by the chancel arch and a blocked lancet window in the north wall. There was a consecration in 1326, for reasons that are unclear.

The west tower was erected in the 13th or 14th century and rebuilt in 1711 by Thomas Pitt, a wealthy merchant who had bought Old Sarum manor. The nave was built in the 15th century. Alterations and repairs in the next two centuries and around 1711 included renewal of windows; the wagon roof, with carved bosses, is from the 16th century. The building is in flint and stone, in places chequered, and may incorporate masonry from Old Sarum Cathedral: two pieces of stone have lozenge decoration in Norman style. The church was designated as Grade I listed in 1972.

Interior
The Purbeck marble font is probably from the late 12th century, but may have been brought from elsewhere. The bowl was originally square but the corners were removed to make it octagonal, thus there are four faces with carving and four that are plain. The shaft and base are modern.

The interior is called "attractive" by Julian Orbach in his update of Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England volume. The wagon roofs of the nave and chancel are from the later 16th century, and have carved wooden heads at the bosses and various busts at the corbels. The pulpit with tester is from the early 17th century.

Orbach considers the chancel screen to be perhaps an assemblage made as part of the 1711 work, with a round-headed arch of that period inserted into a structure from the 15th or 16th century. Also of c.1711 is the full-height panelling above the altar, which Orbach calls "remarkable" and "good enough for a City of London church". The window is flanked by Commandment panels, and the reredos has fine foliage carving, pilasters and a broken pediment. The altar rail has turned balusters and there is dado panelling and panel-fronted pews. The elaborate royal arms is from 1713.

The west gallery is c.1800 and carries the organ, which was built in 1852 by J. W. Walker as a barrel organ and converted to keyboard action in 1876. The only stained glass of note is the east window of 1894, by Lavers and Westlake. The interior was carefully restored in 1905 by W. D. Caröe.

In 1553 there were three bells, but one was sold in 1584. In 1998, another of the original bells was sold and five new bells hung, retaining the last original bell (dated 1594) as the treble, making a ring of six.

Churchyard
A section of the churchyard contains graves of 52 service personnel of World War I and World War II that are looked after by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Most from the former war (47) were from local war hospitals, and around half of those are Australian soldiers. Standing over the graves is a Cross of Sacrifice.

Between the church and the road stands the parish war memorial, erected in 1922. The tapering limestone shaft carries a gabled depiction of the crucifixion, in all about  tall.

Parish
Although technically a chapelry of St Martin's until at least 1701, St Lawrence was regarded as a parish church from 1394 or earlier, having its own graveyard and baptistry.

In 1937, part of the parish was transferred to create a new parish for St Francis's Church in the expanding northern suburbs of the city. The Old Sarum area was added to Stratford-sub-Castle  parish in 1953, and there were further boundary changes affecting St Lawrence and St Francis in 1968. Today, there is a united benefice named 'Salisbury St Francis and Stratford sub Castle', although the two parishes remain distinct.

The parish registers date from 1654, and those not in current use are held in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre at Chippenham.

References

Further reading
 St Lawrence Church at Stratford-sub-Castle community site. Accessed March 2023.

External links

13th-century church buildings in England
Church of England church buildings in Wiltshire
Churches in Salisbury
Grade I listed churches in Wiltshire


Joseph Shore (16 April 1948 - 6 July 2021) was an American operatic Baritone and voice teacher. He has excelled particularly in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi.

Early life and studies

Born in Carthage, Missouri, Shore suffered from a congenital heart disease called coarctation of the aorta, and, at the age of 19, underwent open heart surgery. In college he majored in theology with a second major in speech and drama and did his masters work in theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. He later did masters work in voice and opera at the University of Tulsa School of Music. After little vocal training, Shore won the 1974 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions at the district level and became an apprentice artist at the Santa Fe Opera. Fellow apprentices included Ashley Putnam, Vinson Cole, and Chris Merritt. The next year he won all the levels of the Met auditions and was one of the ten national finalists. That same year, Ted Harris, Shore's vocal coach, introduced him to basso-opera singer Jerome Hines and Shore was then given a leading role in Hines' opera on the life of Christ, I Am The Way. Mr. Shore sang with the Hines company until 1996 and developed a close artistic relationship with Hines. While in New York, Mr. Shore also studied with legendary baritone Cesare Bardelli.

Career

Shore performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the San Francisco Opera, the San Diego Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the New Jersey State Opera, Tulsa Opera, Opera Omaha, the Arizona Opera, the Nevada Opera, the Toledo and Dayton Operas, the Lyric Opera of Dallas, the Fort Worth Opera, the Goldovsky Opera Theater, the Chamber Opera Theatre of New York, New York Grand Opera, Opera Classics of New Jersey, the Chautauqua, Aspen, and Northern Ireland Festivals, the Edmonton Opera, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, the BBC, the Belfast Grand Opera, the Youngstown Symphony, the Savannah Symphony, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, the Raleigh Symphony, and the Jerome Hines Opera Troupe. Shore performed roles such as Macbeth, Rigoletto, Germont, Amonasro, Renato, and Falstaff, among the Verdi roles, as well as Alfio, Tonio, Scarpia, Barnaba, Telramund, Pizarro, and Salieri.

In 1988, Shore became a voice teacher and accepted appointments to the faculties of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of British Columbia and Indiana University. In 1995, he published an interview with Jerome Hines in the NATS Journal. Among his students in the pop field were Alexz Johnson and Michael Bublé, and in opera Campbell Vertesi, Bryn Vertesi, David Fankhauser, Davide di Ragusa, Siphiwe McKenzie, Le Roy Jameson, Tyler Lincoln, and Paul Grindlay. His most famous student was Jerome Hines himself who studied informally with Shore and dedicated his book, The Four Voices of Man, to him.

Shore's heart disease worsened over the years and shortened his career. He received an artificial heart valve in 1994 and had to replace it in 2006. Then 58 years old, he contracted lung disease due to heart complications and had to retire from professional singing.

Shore lived in Burnaby, B.C. teaching voice. Much of his pedagogical writing, including his biography, is available from his web site.

Awards
In addition to the Metropolitan Opera auditions Shore also won the Bruce Yarnell Memorial Award for Baritones in 1981 and the WGN Auditions in 1976.

References

1948 births
Living people
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary alumni
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary alumni
University of Tulsa alumni
American operatic baritones


Kumron Chinsri (, born 14 May 1988) is a professional footballer from Thailand. He currently plays for Krung Thai Bank FC in the Thailand Premier League.

He played for Krung Thai Bank FC in the 2008 AFC Champions League group stages.

Asian Champions League Appearances

References

1988 births
Living people
Kumron Chinsri
Men's association football midfielders
Kumron Chinsri


Oisterwijk is a railway station located in the centre of Oisterwijk, Netherlands. The station was opened on 1 May 1865 and is located on the Breda–Eindhoven railway between Tilburg and Eindhoven. The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

Train services
The following services currently call at Oisterwijk:
2x per hour local services (stoptrein) Tilburg Universiteit - Weert

Bus services
There is a bus stop outside the station called Station NS.

Services 205 and 289 call at this station, as well as service 140 from and to 's-Hertogenbosch and Tilburg.

External links
NS website
Dutch Public Transport journey planner

Railway stations in North Brabant
Railway stations opened in 1865
Railway stations on the Staatslijn E
Oisterwijk
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 1860s


Decha Phetakua (; born January 30, 1983) is a retired professional footballer from Thailand. before moving to PTT Rayong.

References

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Living people
Decha Phetakua
Decha Phetakua
Men's association football defenders
Decha Phetakua
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Decha Phetakua
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Decha Phetakua
Decha Phetakua


Field-programmable gate array prototyping (FPGA prototyping), also referred to as FPGA-based prototyping, ASIC prototyping or system-on-chip (SoC) prototyping, is the method to prototype system-on-chip and application-specific integrated circuit designs on FPGAs for hardware verification and early software development.

Verification methods for hardware design as well as early software and firmware co-design have become mainstream. Prototyping SoC and ASIC designs with one or more FPGAs and electronic design automation (EDA) software has become a good method to do this.

Why prototyping is important

Running a SoC design on FPGA prototype is a reliable way to ensure that it is functionally correct. This is compared to designers only relying on software simulations to verify that their hardware design is sound. About a third of all current SoC designs are fault-free during first silicon pass, with nearly half of all re-spins caused by functional logic errors. A single prototyping platform can provide verification for hardware, firmware, and application software design functionality before the first silicon pass.
Time-to-market (TTM) is reduced from FPGA prototyping: In today's technological driven society, new products are introduced rapidly, and failing to have a product ready at a given market window can cost a company a considerable amount of revenue. If a product is released too late of a market window, then the product could be rendered useless, costing the company its investment capital in the product. After the design process, FPGAs are ready for production, while standard cell ASICs take more than six months to reach production.
Development cost: Development cost of 90-nm ASIC/SoC design tape-out is around $20 million, with a mask set costing over $1 million alone. Development costs of 45-nm designs are expected to top $40 million. With increasing cost of mask sets, and the continuous decrease of IC size, minimizing the number of re-spins is vital to the development process.

Design for prototyping
Design for prototyping (DFP) refers to designing systems that are amenable to prototyping. Many of the obstacles facing development teams who adopt FPGA prototypes can be distilled down to three "laws":

 SoCs are larger than FPGAs
 SoCs are faster than FPGAs
 SoC designs are FPGA-hostile

Putting a SoC design into an FPGA prototype requires careful planning in order to accomplish prototyping goals with minimal effort. To ease the development of the prototype, best practices called, Design-for-Prototyping, influences both the SoC design style and the project procedures applied by design teams. Procedural recommendations include adding DFP conventions to RTL coding standards, employing a prototype compatible simulation environment, and instituting a system debug strategy jointly with the software team.

Partitioning issues
Due to increased circuit complexity, and time-to-market shrinking, the need for verification of application-specific-integrated-circuit (ASIC) and system-on-chip (SoC) designs is growing. Hardware platforms are becoming more prominent amongst verification engineers due to the ability to test system designs at-speed with on-chip bus clocks, as compared to simulation clocks which may not provide an accurate reading of system behavior. These multi-million gate designs usually are placed in a multi-FPGA prototyping platform with six or more FPGAs, since they are unable to fit entirely onto a single FPGA. The fewer number of FPGAs the design has to be partitioned to reduce the effort from the design engineer. To the right is a picture of a FPGA-based prototyping platform utilizing a dual-FPGA configuration.

System RTL designs or netlists will have to be partitioned onto each FPGA to be able to fit the design onto the prototyping platform. This introduces new challenges for the engineer since manual partitioning requires tremendous effort and frequently results in poor speed (of the design under test). If the number or partitions can be reduced or the entire design can be placed onto a single FPGA, the implementation of the design onto the prototyping platform becomes easier.

Balance FPGA resources while creating design partitions
When creating circuit partitions, engineers should first observe the available resources the FPGA offers, since the design will be placed onto the FPGA fabric. The architecture of each FPGA is dependent on the manufacturer, but the main goal in design partitioning is to have an even balance of FPGA resource utilization. Various FPGA resources include lookup tables (LUTs), D flip-flops, block RAMs, digital signal processors (DSPs), clock buffers, etc. Prior to balancing the design partitions, it is also valuable to the user to perform global logic optimization to remove any redundant or unused logic. A typical problem that arises with creating balanced partitions is that it may lead to timing or resource conflict if the cut is on many signal lines. To have a fully optimized partitioning strategy, the engineer must consider issues such as timing/power constraints and placement and routing while still maintaining a balanced partition amongst the FPGAs. Strictly focusing on a single issue during a partition may create several issues in another.

Placing and routing partitions
In order to achieve optimal place and routing for partitioned designs, the engineer must focus on FPGA pin count and inter-FPGA signals. After partitioning the design into separate FPGAs, the number of inter-FPGA signals must not to exceed the pin count on the FPGA. This is very difficult to avoid when circuit designs are immense, thus signals must utilize strategies such as time-division multiplexing (TDM) which multiple signals can be transferred over a single line. These multiple signals, called sub-channels, take turns being transferred over the line over a time slot. When the TDM ratio is high, the bus clock frequency has to be reduced to accommodate time slots for each sub-channel. By reducing the clock frequency the throughput of the system is hindered.

Timing requirements
System designs usually encompass several clock domains with signals traversing separate domains. On-board clock oscillators and global clock lines usually mitigate these issues, but sometimes these resources may be limited or not fulfill all design requirements. Internal clocks should be implemented within FPGA devices since clock line and clock buffers connections are limited between FPGAs. Internal clocked designs which are partitioned across multiple FPGAs should replicate the clock generator within the FPGA, ensuring a low clock skew between inter-FPGA signals. In addition, any gated clock logic should be transformed to clock enables to reduce skew while operating at high clock frequencies.

Clock domains crossings should not be partitioned onto separate FPGAs. Signals passing through the crossing should be kept internal to a single FPGA, since the added delay time between FPGAs can cause problems in a different domain. It is also recommended that signals routed between FPGAs be clocked into registers.

Debugging
One of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks in FPGA prototyping is debugging system designs. The term coined for this is "FPGA hell". Debugging has become more difficult and time-consuming with the emergence of large, complex ASICs and SoC designs. To debug an FPGA prototype, probes are added directly to the RTL design to make specific signals available for observation, synthesized and downloaded to the FPGA prototype platform.

A number of standard debugging tools are offered by FPGA vendors including ChipScope and SignalTAP. These tools can probe a maximum of 1024 signals and require extensive LUT and memory resources. For SoC and other designs, efficient debugging  often requires concurrent access to 10,000 or more signals. If a bug is not able to be captured by the original set of probes, gaining access to additional signals results in a “go home for the day” situation. This is due to long and complex CAD flows for synthesis and place and route that can require from 8 to 18 hours to complete.

Improved approaches include tools like Certus from Tektronix or EXOSTIV from Exostiv Labs.

Certus brings enhanced RTL-level visibility to FPGA-based debugging. It uses a highly efficient multi-stage concentrator as the basis for its observation network to reduce the number of LUTs required per signal to increase the number of signals that can be probed in a given space. The ability to view any combination of signals is unique to Certus and breaks through one of the most critical prototyping bottlenecks.

EXOSTIV uses large external storage and gigabit transceivers to extract deep traces from FPGA running at speed. The improvement lays in its ability to see large traces in time as a continuous stream or in bursts. This enables exploring extended debugging scenarios that can't be reached by traditional embedded instrumentation techniques. The solution claims saving both the FPGA I/O resources and the FPGA memory at the expense of gigabit transceivers, for an improvement of a factor of 100,000 and more on visibility.

See also
Hardware emulation
Prototype
SystemC
System on a chip

References

External links
FPGA Prototyping Solutions
S2C Rapid Prototyping Solutions
Synopsys HAPS Family
proFPGA Prototyping Boards
HyperSilicon Prototyping Boards
FPGA Prototyping Docs & Papers
FPGA-Based Prototyping Methodology Manual (FPMM) - co-authored with Xilinx

Gate arrays


Pornsak Pongthong (; born 9 May 1987) is a Thai professional footballer who plays for Pattaya Dolphins United in Thai League 3.

Honours

Club
Sriracha
 Thai Division 1 League Champions (1): 2010

Pattaya Dolphins United
Thai League 3 Eastern Region Champions (1): 2022–23

References

External links
 Goal.com
 Info.thscore.com

1987 births
Living people
Pornsak Pongthong
Pornsak Pongthong
Men's association football midfielders
Pornsak Pongthong
Pornsak Pongthong
Pornsak Pongthong
Pornsak Pongthong
Pornsak Pongthong
Pornsak Pongthong


Yodrak Namuangrak (, born September 19, 1989), simply known as Yod (), is a Thai professional footballer who plays as a left back for Thai League 2 club Rayong.

International career

Yordrak played for Thailand U19, and played in the 2008 AFC U-19 Championship.

International goals

Under-19

Honours

Club
Sriracha
 Thai Division 1 League: 2010
BG Pathum United
 Thailand Champions Cup: 2021

External links
 Profile at Goal

1989 births
Living people
Yodrak Namuangrak
Yodrak Namuangrak
Men's association football fullbacks
Yodrak Namuangrak
Yodrak Namuangrak
Yodrak Namuangrak
Yodrak Namuangrak
Yodrak Namuangrak
Yodrak Namuangrak
Yodrak Namuangrak


Chalitpong Jantakul  (; born 4 March 1989 is a Thai professional footballer who plays as a defender for Lamphun Warrior.

International career
After defeating Palestine in the 1st preliminary round of the qualifiers for the 2012 London Olympics men's football tournament on penalties, the Thai national football team was disqualified for fielding an ineligible player, Jantakul, in the first leg. He had received a one-match suspension from the 2008 AFC U-19 Championship, and although he was listed as part of the team for the 2010 Asian Games men's football tournament (and sat out the first game as per the suspension), it was deemed that he had not served his suspension, as the Asian Games tournament was not sanctioned by the AFC.

International

Honours

Club
Sriracha
 Thai Division 1 League (1): 2010

 Lamphun Warriors
 Thai League 2 (1): 2021–22

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Chalitpong Jantakul
Chalitpong Jantakul
Men's association football defenders
Chalitpong Jantakul
Chalitpong Jantakul
Chalitpong Jantakul
Chalitpong Jantakul
Chalitpong Jantakul
Chalitpong Jantakul
Chalitpong Jantakul
Chalitpong Jantakul
Chalitpong Jantakul
Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
Chalitpong Jantakul


Forthcoming may refer to:

"Forthcoming", a song from the 1992 album Atmos, composed by Miroslav Vitous and performed by Jan Garbarek
"Forthcoming", a song from the 1997 album Care in the Community by Monk & Canatella
"Forthcoming", a song from the 1999 album Protechtion by Adam Beyer
Forthcoming, a 2000 book by Jalal Toufic

Not to be confused with:

Fourthcoming, a 2009 album by FourPlay String Quartet


Kennett was an important copper mining town in northern California, United States until it was flooded by Shasta Lake while Shasta Dam was being constructed. Kennett is submerged under approximately 400 ft. of water (depending on the lake level). It was the largest, most important mining town in the area outside of Redding and Shasta.

Early history
Prior to settlement by Euro-Americans, the land around Kennett was home to nine major groups of Wintu, living in approximately 250 villages. The Wintu name for the Kennett site was Munuktsiraw. They first came into contact with Europeans some time in the early 19th century, in the form of fur-trappers and traders. By 1835 it is estimated that 75% of their population had been decimated by diseases from contact with whites and Mexicans.

The first Anglo-American settler in the area was Pearson Reading, who was given a land grant by the Mexican government in 1843. Rather than drive the Native Americans out, as was commonly done at the time, Reading befriended them and taught them agricultural skills. Shasta County was created in 1850, and by 1852 large numbers of settlers had begun to arrive in search of gold and other precious ore. After the Wintoon War of 1858-59, almost all Wintu were either dead or forced onto reservations. The first recorded mention of the Kennett site was in an article from the Daily Alta California dated June 7, 1852, announcing that gold had been discovered in Backbone Creek, which became the location of Kennett. One of the first Anglo-American men to settle in this location was John Sisk, who arrived in June 1857 via the Lassen Trail.

Besides mining, Kennett also grew as a result of railroad construction. Colonel James Scobie established a railroad camp near Kennett, which resulted in a number of businessmen opening shops nearby to cater to the needs of the railroad workers. When the railroad was complete, it became the most important factor in Kennett's growth.

Founding
Sometime during the construction of the railroad, the settlement on Backbone Creek was named Kennet in honor of a railroad-man "Squire" Kennet. Little else is known about him, and there are no official records related to him. At some point, the town of Kennet began to be spelled Kennett, possibly through the mistake of a mapmaker.

In 1884, 24-year-old Charley Golinsky arrived in Kennett with the intention of opening a store to serve the miners in the area. Golinsky's store quickly became the most important in town, and was even used as a polling place in 1886. His store also became the Kennett post office, and Golinsky was elected postmaster. After expanding his store to include a hotel, he brought his extended family to Kennett, and they became the town's most prominent family.

The two largest mines in the area were the Mammoth and Golinsky mines. They contained extremely pure copper ore, and brought great wealth to the small town. Parts of these mines are still above water, but can only be accessed by hiking through dense foliage or up a steep embankment from the lake. Also, measures have been taken to seal off the mines due to safety concerns.

World War I and the Depression
Kennett continued to prosper, and saw an economic boom during World War I brought on by the increase in metal prices. The end of the war contributed to an economic depression for the town, as the expanded mines, smelters, and railroad lines were too large to be supported by a peacetime economy. The largest mine in Kennett, the Mammoth mine, closed permanently in 1923, devastating the local economy. In 1931, Kennett was disincorporated, as the population had dropped below the level required to be an incorporated city.

Shasta Dam and the end of Kennett
The federal government had considered building a dam in the area since the 1870s, and the New Deal gave them the perfect opportunity to do so. In 1935, construction on Shasta Dam began. There is no record of any public hearings to ask Kennett residents their opinion. The diminished population of the town was likely considered too insignificant to matter. Most people sold their land to the government willingly, while some waited until the waters began to rise before abandoning their homes. Kennett was completely submerged by 1944, one year before the completion of the dam.

References

External links
 http://www.terrastories.com/bearings/inundated-underwater-cities

Former populated places in California
1931 disestablishments in California
Former settlements in Shasta County, California
1852 establishments in California


Supoj Wonghoi () is a professional footballer from Thailand. He currently plays for Pattaya Dolphins United in the Thai League 3.

Honours

Club
Uthai Thani
Thai League 3 (1): 2021–22
Thai League 3 Northern Region (1): 2021–22

Pattaya Dolphins United
Thai League 3 Eastern Region (1): 2022–23

References

http://th.soccerway.com/players/suphot-wonghoi/287865/

Living people
Supoj Wonghoi
1987 births
Men's association football defenders
Supoj Wonghoi
Supoj Wonghoi
Supoj Wonghoi
Supoj Wonghoi
Supoj Wonghoi
Supoj Wonghoi


Nantapol Supathai () is a Thai professional footballer who plays for Phrae United in the Thai League 3.
He was voted the best goalkeeper in the 2010 Thai Division 1 League.

External links
Thai Premier League Profile in English
Thai Premier League Profile in Thai
https://web.archive.org/web/20120430012529/http://www.thaipremierleague.co.th/news_detail.php?nid=00216

1982 births
Living people
Nantapol Supathai
Nantapol Supathai
Nantapol Supathai
Nantapol Supathai
Nantapol Supathai
Men's association football goalkeepers


Microponics, in agricultural practice, is a symbiotic integration of fish, plants, and micro-livestock within a semi-controlled environment, designed to enhance soil fertility and crop productivity. Coined by Gary Donaldson, an Australian urban farmer, in 2008, the term was used to describe his innovative concept of integrated backyard food production. It is important to note that while "microponics" had been previously used to refer to an obscure grafting method in hydroponics, Donaldson's application of the term was derived from the amalgamation of micro-livestock (micro-farming) and the cultivation of fish and plants, a practice commonly known as aquaponics.

History
The origins of microponics can be traced back to the integrated aquaculture experiments conducted by the New Alchemy Institute during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The New Alchemists developed innovative food production models that revolved around the integration of various elements, including fish, plants, ducks, rabbits, and other organisms, all housed within their solar and wind-powered Cape Cod Ark bio-shelter.

The concept of integrated aquaculture, which involves converting the by-products (waste) of one species into the feedstock (food, fertilizer, etc.) for another species, deeply resonated with Gary Donaldson when he was introduced to it in the mid-1970s. His vision was to create a backyard food production system that empowered ordinary households to cultivate their own fresh and clean food using modest skills and appropriate technology. Recognizing that water was a fundamental necessity for all plant and animal species, Donaldson believed that aquaculture should play a central role in any integrated backyard food production system.

While inspired by the idea of integration from the New Alchemists, Donaldson faced a challenge regarding scale. The Cape Cod Ark, which measured just under 30 meters in length and 6 meters in height, proved to be too large for an average backyard setting.

Furthermore, in the 1970s, the translation of the New Alchemists' work into an Australian context was hindered by the lack of information about the culture of Australian fish species. However, in the following two decades, aquaculture in Australia matured, and local researchers identified several suitable freshwater aquaculture species. By 2007, Gary Donaldson became confident that limited quantities of Australian freshwater fish could be successfully grown in as little as 600 liters of water in a backyard environment.

The concept of integrated aquaculture served as a precursor to aquaponics, which gained international momentum by the mid-2000s. While aquaponics is typically defined as the combination of recirculating aquaculture and hydroponics to produce fish and plants, Donaldson found this concept to be limiting. He continued to advocate for a more holistic approach to small-scale food production, incorporating the integration of micro-livestock. Microponics, as a concept, suggests that recirculating aquaculture can be advantageously combined with almost any plant growing system. One of the key issues with aquaponics, similar to many aquaculture practices, is its reliance on fishmeal and oil derived from wild catch marine species. The inherent greater bio-diversity in microponics offers the potential to reduce or even eliminate this dependency.

Integrations within microponics
The integrations embodied within microponics include:

 Fish and crustaceans
 Vegetables, herbs, and fruit
 Chickens for meat and eggs
 Japanese quail
 Rabbits and other micro-livestock
 Muscovies
 Geese and other waterfowl
 Live animal protein - worms, black soldier fly larvae, mealworms
 Fodder plants - including duckweed
 Snails

Given its emphasis on backyard food production, microponics tends to focus on smaller micro-livestock species but, where space and local planning laws permit, the concept can be expanded to include traditional species such as pigs, goats, sheep, and even micro-cattle breeds like the Dexter.

Advantages
The advantages of microponics food production systems include:

 Empowerment of families to produce their own clean, fresh food.
 Conservation through water reuse and recycling.
 Organic fertilization of plants with natural fish emulsion.
 Efficient use of space through Its small footprint.
 Reduced reliance on purchased livestock rations.
 Educational value as a learning resource for students of all ages.

Disadvantages
Some disadvantages of microponics are:

 Initial expense for housing, tank, plumbing, pumps, and grow beds.
 The infinite number of ways in which a system can be configured lends itself to varying results, conflicting research, and successes or failures.
 Limitations in heavily urbanized environments, where a lack of space or local regulations may restrict certain integrations within the microponics system.

See also
 Horticulture
 Permaculture

References

 Paul Bryant, Kim Jauncey and Tim Atack (1981). "Backyard Fish Farm".

Horticulture


This page shows the results of the Gymnastics Competition at the 2003 Pan American Games, held from August 2 to August 5 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Medal table

Artistic gymnastics

Men's competition

All-around

Floor exercise

Parallel bars

Pommel horse

Rings

Horizontal bar

Vault

Team

Women's competition

All-around

Floor exercise

Uneven bars

Balance beam

Vault
Held on 2003-08-05

Team
Held on 2003-08-02

Rhythmic gymnastics

Women's competition

Individual all-around

Hoop

Ball

Clubs

Ribbon

Group all-around

Group ribbon

Group hoop-ball

See also
Pan American Gymnastics Championships
South American Gymnastics Championships
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

References
 Sports 123
 Results
 cbc
 Folha Online (Portuguese)

P
2003
Events at the 2003 Pan American Games


The second Hatta Cabinet () was Indonesia's ninth cabinet. It was formed after the Indonesian leadership, which had been imprisoned by Dutch forces, returned to the capital, Yogyakarta. It served from 4 August to 14 December 1949.

Composition

Cabinet Leadership
Prime Minister: Mohammad Hatta
Deputy Prime Minister:  Sjafroedin Prawirnegara  (Masyumi Party)

Departmental Ministers
 State Coordinating Minister for Domestic Security: Sultan Hamengkubuwana IX
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Agus Salim
Minister of Home Affairs: Wongsonegoro (PIR)
Minister of Justice: Soesanto Tirtoprodjo (PNI)
Minister of Finance: Lukman Hakim (Indonesian National Party – PNI)
Minister of Welfare: Ignatius J. Kasimo (PKRI)
Minister of Supply of People's  Provisions: Ignatius J. Kasimo (PKRI)
Minister of Education & Culture: S. Mangunsarkoro (PNI)
Minister of Health ad interim: Dr. Surono
Minister of Public Works: Herling Laoh (PNI)
Minister of Transportation: Herling Laoh (PNI)
Minister of Religious Affairs: Masjkur (Masyumi)
Minister of Labor and Social Affairs: Koesnan (PGRI)
Minister of Information: Samsudin (Masyumi)

State Ministers (without portfolio)
State Minister: Dr. Soekiman Wirjosandjojo (Masyumi)
State Minister: Djuanda Kartawidjaja
State Minister: Dr. Johannes Leimena (Parkindo)

Changes
Due to Hatta's departure for the Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference, from 6 August 1949, via Presidential Decision No. 10/A/1949, Defense Minister Sultan Hamengkubuwana IX became acting Prime Minister. He also became acting Foreign Minister while Agus Salim was unable to perform his duties from 21 October. Effective from 1 December, Dr. Johannes Leimena replaced Minister of Health ad interim Dr. Surono, leaving only two state ministers.

The end of the cabinet
The cabinet was dissolved after a fundamental change in Indonesia's political system with the establishment of the United States of Indonesia, a result of the Round Table Conference. With the coming into force of the Federal Constitution on 14 December, the cabinet was automatically dissolved and replaced by the Republic of the United States of Indonesia Cabinet, also led by Hatta.

References

Notes

Cabinets of Indonesia
Indonesian National Revolution
1949 establishments in Indonesia
1949 disestablishments in Indonesia
Cabinets established in 1949
Cabinets disestablished in 1949


Piece of the Sky () is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Aglauco Casadio.

Plot
Severino Balestra, a peddler who goes around the various village festivals of the Po delta selling trinkets, returns to Migliarino, where three elderly people live who make ends meet with a few barber jobs, or poaching eels. Marina also lives there, the young woman who had an affair with him the previous year and who now works in the village inn.

Severino tells the three naive old unlikely stories about big cities and progress. In the evening, after unsuccessfully trying to spend the night with Marina in the inn, Severino stops by the three elderly people and here proposes them a deal: the sale of pieces of the sky, which will make them rich because they will be able to get the rent paid from the planes. that pass from there. Of course - he tells them - they will only be able to use the property when they are dead.

The three naive elders accept the deal and give him 3,000 lire, all their savings, as an advance. Then they decide to kill themselves in order to immediately take advantage of their investment and try to do it in the only way possible in that area: by drowning in the swamps. But they did not calculate that many areas have now been cleared and when one of the three jumps into the water, it is only a few centimeters deep.

Severino, who had not realized the consequences of his gesture, meanwhile remained in the village to make his scams. He meets Marina again and this time the girl, who is in any case attracted by Severino's cialtronesca sympathy, does not reject him and goes away with him among the reeds.

Here Severino understands the intentions of the three elderly and desperate, believing that they are really committing suicide, he starts looking for them in the swamp. The three meanwhile, after the failed dive into the water, get drunk, but they really run the risk of drowning because the old boat on which they live goes out to sea and sinks. They are rescued by the guards, with whom they have been in conflict for years over poaching.

In the end Severino, happy that nothing has happened, gives back to the elderly the money he had had as an advance of that hectare of sky they wanted to buy and leaves because the village festival is over. Marina leaves with him.

Cast
 Silvio Bagolini
 Nicola Bongiorno
 Salvatore Cafiero
 Marina De Giorgio as Mary II
 Luigi De Martino
 Franca Droghetti
 Lia Ferrel as Mary I
 Ignazio Leone as Riccardo
 Enrico Mangini
 Marcello Mastroianni as Severino Balestra
 Felice Minotti
 Leonilde Montesi as Derna
 Carlo Pisacane
 Polidor as Pedretti
 Rosanna Schiaffino as Marina
 Nino Vingelli as Impresario

References

External links

1959 films
Films scored by Nino Rota
1950s Italian-language films
1959 comedy films
Italian black-and-white films
Films with screenplays by Tonino Guerra
Italian comedy films
1950s Italian films


Phuwadol Suwannachart (, born June 20, 1982), is a Thai retired professional footballer who played as a striker.

International career

In November 2013, he debuted for Thailand playing against Iran in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification; he received a red card in the following game.

International

Honours

Club
TOT S.C.
 Provincial League: 2006

Individual
 Thai Division 1 League top scorer: 2011

References

External links
 Profile at Goal

Living people
1982 births
Phuwadol Suwannachart
Phuwadol Suwannachart
Men's association football forwards
Phuwadol Suwannachart
Phuwadol Suwannachart
Phuwadol Suwannachart
Phuwadol Suwannachart
Phuwadol Suwannachart
Phuwadol Suwannachart
Phuwadol Suwannachart
Phuwadol Suwannachart
Phuwadol Suwannachart
Phuwadol Suwannachart


The Aqua Alexandrina () was a Roman aqueduct located in the city of Rome. The 22.4 km long aqueduct carried water from Pantano Borghese to the Baths of Alexander on the Campus Martius. It remained in use from the 3rd to the 8th century AD.

History

The aqueduct was constructed in AD 226 as the last of the eleven ancient aqueducts of Rome. It was built under the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus to supply his enlargement of the Baths of Nero, which were renamed Thermae Alexandrinae. The aqueduct was repaired for the first time in the era of Diocletian between the 3rd and 4th century, later between the 5th and 6th century and finally in the 8th century during the reign of Pope Adrian I. The aqueduct was described in the 17th century by Raffaello Fabretti (1680).

Route
The Aqua Alexandrina received its water from the Pantano Borghese swamp near the city of Gabii, now a part of Monte Compatri. The same spring has supplied the Acqua Felice since 1586. The first 6.4 km of the total 22.4 km were tunnelled underground, later run on the surface and 2.4 km was carried on brick arches traversing the valleys of the Roman Campagna.

Some of its last section inside the city remains uncertain but the aqueduct entered the city at Porta Maggiore and ended on the Campus Martius at the Thermae of Alexander, between the Pantheon and the Piazza Navona.

Technical details
Depending on the season, the aqueduct supplied 120,000 to 320,000 cubic meters of water per day.

The arches of the aqueduct are made of concrete with brick coating. There are four small travertine brackets at the top of each pillar whose function remains unknown.

Remains

The longest continuous above-ground stretch of the aqueduct runs through the district of Centocelle along Via dei Pioppi and Via degli Olmi. Monumental arches are looming above busy Viale Palmiro Togliatti north of Via Casilina. The road runs along the old ditch of Centocelle (Fosso di Centocelle) where the arches reached a height of 20–25 m. Formerly the crossing was an impressive feature of the Roman countryside but now it is totally surrounded by a densely built residential neighbourhood. The brick surface is very well preserved here contrary to the other sections were erosion affected it heavily.

A second longest visible stretch runs along Via dell'Acquedotto Alessandrino south of Via Casilina. The arches carried the aqueduct through a valley with the lowest point at the crossing of present-day Via Carlo Della Rocca. The ruins are surrounded by houses and a public park called Parco Giordano Sangalli. The arched stretch ends at the crossing with Via di Tor Pignattara.

It is possible to follow the aqueduct from Centocelle towards Pantano Borghese through open fields and scattered farmsteads until the Grande Raccordo Anulare, the great ring road of Rome. There are significantly lower arched stretches at the crossing points of ditches and hollows for example behind the Tor Tre Teste housing estate where a public park was established around the ruins.

Gallery

See also

List of aqueducts in the city of Rome
List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire
List of Roman aqueducts by date

Ancient Roman technology
Roman engineering

References

External links
 Lacus Curtius article
 Roman Aqueducts
 Andrea Polett

Buildings and structures completed in the 3rd century
Alexandrina
Rome Q. XIX Prenestino-Centocelle
Severus Alexander
Monte Compatri


Chakrit Buathong (, born September 8, 1985), is a Thai retired professional footballer who played as a winger.

Honours

International
Thailand U-23
 Sea Games  Gold Medal (1); 2005

International career

In July, 2011 Chakrit was called up in a friendly match against Myanmar.

International

References

External links
 Profile at Goal

1985 births
Living people
Chakrit Buathong
Chakrit Buathong
Men's association football utility players
Chakrit Buathong
Chakrit Buathong
Chakrit Buathong
Chakrit Buathong
Chakrit Buathong
Chakrit Buathong
Chakrit Buathong
SEA Games medalists in football
Men's association football wingers
Competitors at the 2005 SEA Games


is a Japanese talent show from Nippon Television that ran from 1971 to 1983. On October 24, 1982, the series was retitled  to reflect its switch from monaural to stereo broadcasting. On April 3, 1983, it was again retitled to .

The show was created by songwriter Yū Aku, who also served as one of the judges.

In 2021, Nippon TV reused the title for the music show Nogizaka Star Tanjō!, hosted by comedy duo Pekopa and starring members of girl group Nogizaka46, which ran for two seasons. Unlike the original, the show was not a competition and only open to Nogizaka46 members, especially those of the fourth generation. It was followed by Shin Nogizaka Star Tanjō! in 2022, hosted by comedy duo Ozwald and featuring the Nogizaka46 fifth generation members.

Staff

Hosts
 Kinichi Hagimoto (October 3, 1971 to April 6, 1980)
 Hayato Tani and Tamori (April 30, 1980 to April 5, 1981)
 Kyu Sakamoto and Mako Ishino (April 12, 1981 to January 3, 1982)
 Yasushi Yokoyama and Kiyoshi Nishikawa (January 10, 1982 to September 25, 1983)

Judges
Hagimoto, Tani/Tamori, Sakamoto/Ishino eras
 Toshi Matsuda
 Yū Aku
 Taiji Nakamura
 Shunichi Tokura
 Takashi Miki
 Koichi Morita

Nishikawa era
 Asei Kobayashi
 James Miki
 Kyōkei Ōmoto
 Katsuhisa Hattori
 Nobuhiko Obayashi
 Shinpei Asai
 Rieko Zanma
 Hiroshi Kamayatsu

YasuKiyo era
 Michiya Mihashi
 Tetsuya Gen

Other staff
 Tatsuya Takahashi and Tokyo Union (band performance)
 Akio Okamoto and Gay Stars (band performance)
 Ryōzō Yokomori (accordion)
 Hajime Doi (choreography)
 Reiko Inoue (assistant during the Hagimoto era)
  (Horn Yuki, Kūko Shimizu, Yuki Kitahara, and Amami Koyama) (assistants in the beginning of the Hagimoto era)
 Rinrin & Ranran (worked with Inoue during the Hagimoto era)
 Yūko Kitamura (assistant during the Hagimoto era)
 Yukihide Kurobe
 Seiroku Saitō
 Yūjirō Fubuki
 Kōji Nishiyama
 Nobuko Shima (assistant during the Tani/Tamori era)
 Sayaka Itō (assistant during the Sakamoto/Ishino era and the first part of the YasuKiyo era)
 Rabbit Sekine (assistant during the Sakamoto/Ishino era)
 Aiko Wakamatsu
 Toshihiko Hori
 The Birds Seven Plus 1 (selected members of Nippon Television Music Academy)
 Hidetoshi Itō (narrator during the YasuKiyo era)

Notable winners
Masako Mori
Junko Sakurada
Momoe Yamaguchi
Hiromi Iwasaki
Pink Lady
Mako Ishino
Yoshie Kashiwabara
Kyōko Koizumi
Akina Nakamori
Yukiko Okada
Akiko Matsumoto

References

1970s Japanese television series
1980s Japanese television series
1971 Japanese television series debuts
1983 Japanese television series endings
Nippon TV original programming
Japanese reality television series


Narej Karpkraikaew (, born September 1, 1983) is a retired professional footballer from Thailand.

References

1983 births
Living people
Narej Karpkraikaew
Narej Karpkraikaew
Men's association football forwards
Narej Karpkraikaew
Narej Karpkraikaew
Narej Karpkraikaew
Narej Karpkraikaew
Narej Karpkraikaew


Suchon Sa-nguandee (; born March 10, 1982) or formerly Chalakorn Sa-nguandee (), simply known as Chon (), is a Thai professional footballer who plays as a left back for Thai League 3 club Kasem Bundit University.

Honours

International
Thailand U-23
 Sea Games  Gold Medal (1); 2005

External links
 Suchon Sa-nguandee profile at Port website

1982 births
Living people
Suchon Sa-nguandee
Suchon Sa-nguandee
Men's association football wingers
Suchon Sa-nguandee
Suchon Sa-nguandee
Suchon Sa-nguandee
Suchon Sa-nguandee
Suchon Sa-nguandee
Suchon Sa-nguandee
Suchon Sa-nguandee
SEA Games medalists in football
Competitors at the 2005 SEA Games


The Ruby Cycle Co Ltd.  was a British motorcycle manufacturer based in Ancoats Manchester. Founded in 1909 the factory produced a range of motorcycles under the Royal Ruby brand until 1932.

History
The Ruby Cycle Co. were originally bicycle makers based in Cannel Street, Ancoats surrounded by the Manchester cotton mills and like many bicycle makers of the time turned to producing by motorcycles from 1909.  The Royal Ruby motorcycles were expensive as all the cycle parts were manufactured by the company in Manchester, but engines were brought in from JAP and Villiers.

The range included 250cc 2 strokes and 4 strokes as well an unusual 'Ladies Model' with a specially lowered  frame. Top of the range was a 976cc side valve V-twin.  During the first world war production at the factory turned to munitions and components to support the war effort, but in 1916 a large export order for the V-twin was commissioned by the Imperial Russian Army. The motorcycles were produced but delivery of the order was disrupted by the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1919.   Although a few motorcycles were delivered to Russia, it is not clear whether all payments were forthcoming. After the war ended the British motorcycle market was saturated with ex military machines, but munitions work had supported the company and, with a re-arranged board,  a new factory was built on Moss Lane, Altrincham where production of motorcycles restarted in 1921, together with their own Ruby leaf sprung forks and rear suspension using the same method,   but the results were very expensive,  sales were extremely slow and the company went bust completely in 1922.  The name  was sold to Albert Horrocks of Bolton in 1927. Horrocks developed a new saddle-tank motorcycle in 1928 with Villiers and JAP engines and Albion and Sturmey-Archer gearboxes. Royal Ruby motorcycle production ended around 1931 but one-off motorcycles may have been assembled from spare parts up to 1933.

Cyclecars
As well as motor cycles the company also made cyclecars at two separate times. There was a major boom in cyclecar production before World War I and between 1913 and 1914 one was made under the Royal Ruby name with 10hp V twin JAP engine, two speed gearbox and either shaft or belt drive to the rear wheels. Only a few are thought to have been made.

Another Royal Ruby car, this time a three wheeler was announced in 1927 with single cylinder JAP engine but only a prototype was apparently made designed by Maurice Edwards. A modified version appeared in 1928 called the MEB (Maurice Edwards Bolton) made by commercial vehicle bodybuilders Bromilow and Edwards in Bolton.    A tuned version had some success at Brooklands and Montlhery driven by Gwenda Stewart and Douglas Hawkes between 1930 and 1932.

See also
 List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom

References

External links
 http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Ruby_Cycle_Co
 http://www.yesterdays.nl/royal-ruby-1913-p-1111.html

Defunct motorcycle manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1909
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1932
Defunct companies based in Manchester
Manufacturing companies based in Manchester
1927 mergers and acquisitions
1909 establishments in England
1932 disestablishments in England
British companies disestablished in 1932
British companies established in 1909


EGLU ((2S)-α-ethylglutamic acid ) is a drug that is used in neuroscience research. It was one of the first compounds found that acts as a selective antagonist for the group II metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR2/3), and so has been useful in the characterization and study of this receptor subfamily.

References

MGlu2 receptor antagonists
MGlu3 receptor antagonists
Glutamic acids


Andrew of Perugia (; died ) was a Franciscan friar and Bishop born in Perugia, Italy, and active in China in the 14th century. He was Bishop of Quanzhou (ancient Zaiton) in Fujian from 1322.

He was initially sent to China in 1307 by Pope Clement V as a member of a group of seven Franciscan bishops (Andrew of Perugia, Andreuccio d'Assisi, Gerardo Albuini, Nicola da Banzia, Ulrico von Seyfriedsdorf, Peregrino da Castello, Guglielmo da Villanova) who were to act as suffragans to consecrate John of Montecorvino Archbishop of Peking and summus archiepiscopus 'chief archbishop'. Only three of these envoys arrived safely: Gerardus, Peregrinus and Andrew of Perugia (1308).

The three suffragans consecrated John in 1308 and succeeded each other in the episcopal see of Zaiton, established by Montecorvino. In 1322, Andrew of Perugia was nominated bishop of the see of Zaiton by John of Montecorvino.

A 1326 letter by Andrew to Friar Warden of the Convent of Perugia is known, mentioning the archbishop.

Andrew died around 1332 in Quanzhou. His tombstone has been discovered in 1946, and has been transferred to Beijing, with a copy left in the Quanzhou Maritime Museum. Remarkably, the tombstone displays "Nestorian" Christian iconography.

One of his successors to the see of Zaiton seems to have been James of Florence, who died in 1362.

See also

List of Roman Catholic missionaries in China

Notes

References
 Henry Yule Cathay and the Way Thither Hakluyt Society, 1866
 James Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Part 16: V. 16 Kessinger Publishing, 2003 ,

Italian Franciscans
People from Perugia
13th-century births
1332 deaths
Bishops appointed by Pope Clement V


Narat Munin-noppamart () is a Thai retired footballer who played as a centre-back and is the manager of Thai League 3 club Chamchuri United. He has made an appearance for the Thailand national football team for 1 game in 2006.

References

External links

1978 births
Living people
Narat Munin-noppamart
Narat Munin-noppamart
Men's association football defenders
Narat Munin-noppamart
Narat Munin-noppamart
Narat Munin-noppamart
Narat Munin-noppamart
Narat Munin-noppamart
Narat Munin-noppamart


Knightshade is a New Zealand rock/hardrock group. They formed in Te Puke in 1982. The band based themselves in Hamilton in the mid-1980s when the lineup changed. The lineup then consisted of Wayne Elliott (vocals), Alan Grady (drums), Rik Bernards (guitar), Jon Bell (bass), Paul Martin (guitar). Paul Martin left the band and Gavin Lind rejoined. This was the lineup that performed and recorded the majority of their work. Craig Pollock replaced Gavin Lind on guitar in 1991. They have had several top 20 singles and have supported major touring acts including Deep Purple, ZZ Top, Bon Jovi, Jimmy Barnes, The Angels, Iggy Pop and Guns N' Roses. They have also released several EPs, a live album and a ‘best of’ studio album in 1995. Knightshade are still based in Hamilton.

The band went their separate ways in 1997, but after a 14-year hiatus they reunited in 2010 and released a new single, 'Rough at the Top', a year later. On 6 June 2014 the band finally returned to the public stage and gave a long-anticipated gig in Hamilton at the Altitude, with several further gigs the same year. 2015 saw the band with their latest line-up, including; Scott Williams on drums, Neil McDonald on bass, and Kingsley Smith on Keyboards. Wayne, Rik, and Craig remained the core original members of the band. Knightshade were invited to perform as part of the bill for the Gemini party, hosted by Paul Martin, on 31 May  2015. The headlining act was Devilskin with Medusa Glare also appearing on the same bill. The rest of 2015 saw the band working on new material and honing the new line-up. On 6 November 2015 they performed at the Mount, at the newly opened 'Totara Street' venue.  This was their first gig in the Bay area in almost 20 years. It was a kind of 'coming home' gig for Wayne and Rik, who originally came from the Bay of Plenty area. (Wayne from Te Puke and Rik from Whakatane).

Recording sessions started for the new material towards the end of 2015 and into 2016, but were stalled after Wayne returned for more chemo treatment. After 3 or 4 months of this, Wayne's health temporarily returned and the band decided to announce one final gig, scheduled for 6 August 2016. The band rehearsed for nearly 3 months, with Gael Ludlow joining them to add her vocals for the song Out for the Count. By the time of the gig, the Altitude venue in Hamilton had sold out, with people coming from all over New Zealand for their last chance to experience the band live. A camera crew filmed the concert and have been slowly editing the footage for a full-length Live DVD. At the same time, the band were working on their new single, U Say, which was released on 29 September 2017. This was the first of 4 new songs to be released by Knightshade from the final line-up.

Wayne Elliott died on 4 December 2018, one week after his 67th birthday. The NZ music scene was stunned by the news of this and thousands of fans, friends, family, and bandmates (past & present) gave personal tributes and acknowledgements. Wayne's funeral was held on 10 December at Newstead Cemetery, just outside of Hamilton City.

3 more singles are due for release, posthumously, with the next single due early 2019. The concert footage from the 2016 final gig is also still due for full DVD release, but no time frame has been given yet.

Discography

Knightshade on Compilation Albums
3 Points of Metal album, 1984
Attack From Downunda album, 1986
Vicious Vinyl album, 1987
Bark Number One album, 1995
Old Skool of Rock: Vol 2 album, 2008
Simply The Best: 80s Rock Ballads album, 2008
No Peace For The Wicked album, 2011

Albums
Out For the Night album, 1987 (vinyl only)
Knightshade best-of album, 1995 (CD only)

EPs
Out For The Count 4 track EP, 1986 (vinyl only)
The Physical You 4 track EP, 1987 (vinyl only)

Singles

Videos
 Knightshade reunites - You Don't Need Me - LIVE 6 June 2014
 Knightshade reunites - The Physical You - LIVE 6 June 2014
 The Physical You - (OFFICIAL) LIVE at the Altitude, Hamilton, 6 June 2014

Performances
 6 June 2014, KNIGHTSHADE with 8FORTY8, Venue: Altitude, Hamilton.
 21 November 2014, KNIGHTSHADE with 8 steps to Madness, Spex & Gary; at the Mayfair, New Plymouth.
 5 December 2014, KNIGHTSHADE with 8 steps to Madness, Spex & Gary; at the Altitude, Hamilton.
 31 May 2015, KNIGHTSHADE with Devilskin, Medusa Glare, Pet & Ali; at the Altitude, Hamilton.
 6 November 2015, KNIGHTSHADE with Sabbatage, at Totara Street, the Mount.
 6 August 2016, KNIGHTSHADE with Unholy Rollerz, at the Altitude, Hamilton.

References

External links
 Waikato Times article
 Htown Wiki Article
 Stuff Knightshade reunites

New Zealand heavy metal musical groups


Thasana Chamsa-ad (, born November 21, 1982) is a former professional footballer from Thailand.

References

1982 births
Living people
Tassana Cheamsa-art
Tassana Cheamsa-art
Men's association football defenders
Tassana Cheamsa-art
Tassana Cheamsa-art
Tassana Cheamsa-art
Tassana Cheamsa-art
Tassana Cheamsa-art
Tassana Cheamsa-art


TRT Avaz is a channel broadcast by the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation with focusing on Turkey and Balkans. It was launched in Turkey on March 21, 2009 and broadcasts throughout the Balkans, Turkic Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Caucasus.

Programs are televised in Azeri, Bosnian, Turkmen, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Uzbek with Turkish-language subtitles, and include documentaries, talk shows, culture and music programs as well as region-specific films and soap operas. Audiences also have the opportunity to learn Turkish through tutorials.

The channel's name was announced by President Abdullah Gül as "Avaz", a word that means "voice" in many Central Asian languages.

See also

 Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
 List of television stations in Turkey

External links

 TRT Avaz's Official Website

International broadcasters
Television stations in Turkey
Turkish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2009
2009 establishments in Turkey
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation


Intharat Apinyakool (, born 30 May 1982) is a Thai retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

International career

He played for Thailand at the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship in New Zealand and the 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Brazil.

Honours

Club
Bangkok Christian College
 Thai Division 1 League (1): 2001–02

References

External links
 Profile at Goal

1982 births
Living people
Intharat Apinyakool
Intharat Apinyakool
Men's association football goalkeepers
Intharat Apinyakool
Intharat Apinyakool
Intharat Apinyakool
Intharat Apinyakool
Intharat Apinyakool
Intharat Apinyakool
Intharat Apinyakool
Intharat Apinyakool
Intharat Apinyakool
Intharat Apinyakool


Robert Nixon may refer to:
 Bob Nixon (Zimbabwean politician), Zimbabwean politician
 Robert A. Nixon (1900–1948), American politician
 Robert Nixon (politician) (born 1928), retired Canadian politician
 Robert Nixon (comics) (1939–2002), British comics artist
 Robert Nixon (prophet), 15th or 17th century prophet in Cheshire, England
 Robert Samuel Nixon (1909–1998), MP in the Northern Ireland Parliament for North Down
 Robert Nixon (serial killer) (1919-1939), American serial killer
 Robert Nixon (filmmaker) (born 1954), American filmmaker


Ignazio Leone (19 April 1923 – 30 December 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 105 films between 1952 and 1976.

Selected filmography
 The Walk (1953)
 I Chose Love (1953)
 Amici per la pelle (1955)
 A Woman Alone (1956)
 Wives and Obscurities (1956)
 Piece of the Sky (1959)
 Slave of Rome (1960)
 Le pillole di Ercole (1962)
 I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra (1962)
 Julius Caesar Against The Pirates (1962)
 Zorro and the Three Musketeers (1963)
 002 Operazione Luna (1965)
 Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula (1966)
 Electra One (1967)
 I 2 deputati (1968)
 The Two Crusaders (1968)
 Brutti di notte (1968)
 Indovina chi viene a merenda? (1969)
 Io non spezzo... rompo (1971)
 Armiamoci e partite! (1971)
 A forza di sberle (1974)

External links

1923 births
1976 deaths
Italian male film actors
20th-century Italian male actors


Great Totham is a village and civil parish in Maldon district, Essex, England, and midway between Chelmsford and Colchester. The village includes the Island of Osea in the Blackwater estuary and is separated into two parts, north and south. The north side and the south side are about a mile and a half apart, distributed along the B1022. The parish contains the hamlet of Totham Hill.

History
According to the old maps, before the time of the enclosures, the outskirts of Great Totham North were part of Tiptree Heath, which was then a haunt of smugglers, attested in the name of a house in Mountains Road called Spirits Hall. The 'mountain' in question is Beacon Hill which at    is one of the highest points in the village of Great Totham. St Peter's Church which dates to Norman times. There is also the thatch-roofed Barn Chapel. This became a chapel in 1822 when an Isaac Foster donated the barn to be a place of worship for non-conformists.

The ancient road to Colchester by Tiptree Heath led through the parish of Great Totham, which in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) was held of the Queen's manor of East Greenwich by William Beriff, an Alderman of Colchester, as her sub-tenant.

Great Totham village school's centenary was in 1977, but by that time the Victorian building, now demolished, had been replaced by a larger modern school on a different site. Honeywood School, a Grade II listed building, is a church school which was founded by the Honywood family of Marks Hall at Coggeshall in the mid-19th century, which had inherited the manor of Great Totham. This is still in use as the church hall and meeting room.

In the north of Great Totham there is a United Reformed Church dating to 1871. Recently refurbished, it is used for services and activities including a pre-school playgroup. Nearby, and adjoining the small village green, is the Compasses public house which dates to the late 17th century. The Prince of Wales pub in Totham South was gutted by fire in 1990 with loss of historic features, but it has been rebuilt and reopened.

Trades and crafts at Great Totham either died out or have been brought up to date. There are no longer walking stick makers, brickworks or saddlers. Old gravel pits have become recreation areas for fishing lakes.

Great Totham has a village sign. A plaque, dated October 2002, attached to the village sign of the north area reads:
On 17 October 1952, two Gloster Meteors of No 72 Squadron, Royal Air Force, crashed nearby killing both pilots.
F/O Charles Muldownie from Rotherham and P/O Ian Carmichael from Devon. Two local people were injured and many were affected by the accident.

Local people assisted at the time and this village green became the base for recovery operations by RAF personnel. This plaque is in memory of the pilots and for all those involved.

Governance
The population of the electoral ward was 3,660 at the 2011 Census. Elected representatives at different levels of government act for Great Totham and surrounding villages. Two elected district councillors represent the parish on Maldon District Council. Great Totham is part of the Witham parliamentary constituency, and is represented in the House of Commons by Priti Patel of the Conservative Party.

Community

St Peter's Church on Church Road was Grade II listed in 1959, and dates to the 13th century.

The nearest NHS (National Health Service) hospitals are Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford and Colchester General Hospital in Colchester.

Great Totham Primary School is in Walden House Road, Great Totham. The school is divided into 14 classes, two per year group. The school's motto is "Enjoy, Respect, Achieve".
In its Ofsted inspection in October 2007, the school received an overall rating of Grade 2, 'Good'.

The closest National Rail service is in Witham or Hatfield Peverel, operated by Abellio Greater Anglia, with destinations including London Liverpool Street and Ipswich, Clacton, Harwich, Braintree and Norwich via the Great Eastern Main Line.
The nearest London Underground line is the Central line at Newbury Park.

The Witham South District of Girlguiding UK comprises two Rainbow packs for girls aged 5–7 years old, three Brownie packs for girls aged 7–10 years old, a Guide unit for girls aged 10–14 years old and a Ranger unit for girls aged over 14 that live in Wickham Bishops, Great Totham and the surrounding villages.

Climate
In East Anglia, the warmest time of the year is July and August, when maximum temperatures average around 21 °C (70 °F). The coolest time of the year is January and February, when minimum temperatures average around 1 °C (34 °F) East Anglia's average annual rainfall is about 605 millimetres , with October to January being the wettest months.

References

External links

Great Totham Primary School
Great Totham Cricket Club

Maldon District
Villages in Essex


Felice Minotti (19 November 1887 – 21 March 1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in 91 films between 1908 and 1963.

Selected filmography

 The Revenge of Maciste (1921)
 Maciste on Vacation (1921)
 The House of Pulcini (1924)
 Chief Saetta (1924)
 Emperor Maciste (1924)
 The Courier of Moncenisio (1927)
 Maciste against the Sheik (1926)
 The Giant of the Dolomites (1927)
 Company and the Crazy (1928)
 The Last Tsars (1928)
 Judith and Holofernes (1929)
 When Naples Sings (1930)
 Villafranca (1934)
 Don Bosco (1935)
 Under the Southern Cross (1938)
 Pietro Micca (1938)
 The Sin of Rogelia Sanchez (1940)
 Blood Wedding (1941)
 The Son of the Red Corsair (1943)
 Two Hearts (1943)
 A Yank in Rome (1946)
 His Young Wife (1946)
 Eleven Men and a Ball (1948)
 Sicilian Uprising (1949)
 Anthony of Padua (1949)
 Women and Brigands (1950)
 Nobody's Children (1951)
 Piece of the Sky (1959)

References

External links

1887 births
1963 deaths
Italian male stage actors
Italian male film actors
Italian male silent film actors
20th-century Italian male actors


Slaven Krajačić (born 14 September 1980) is a Croatian sportsperson. He started his career as a sprinter specializing in the 100 metres, and competed at the 2000 Olympic Games. Since 2003, he has competed as a bobsledder, competing in two Winter Olympics, earning his best finish of 20th in the four-man event at Vancouver in 2010.

Athletics career
He was born in Zagreb, and enrolled the sports club Hrvatski Akademski Atletski Klub Mladost, the athletics section of Mladost. He became Croatian 100 metres champion in 2000, and 60 metres indoor champion in 2001.

In 1998 he reached the quarter-final of the 1998 World Junior Championships. His first major senior event was the 2000 Olympic Games. He competed in the 100 metres event, but did not progress from the first round. He also competed with the Croatian team in the 4 x 100 metre relay, but was knocked out in the heats there as well.

His personal best time was 10.47 seconds, achieved in the heats at the 1998 World Junior Championships. He also has 6.68 seconds in the 60 metres, achieved in February 2001 in Šempeter, Slovenia. He came close to his personal best time on several occasions, running seasons bests of 10.50 seconds in 2000 and 10.48 seconds in 2002. However, he retired from international athletics after the 2002 season.

Bobsleigh career
After his retirement from athletics, Krajačić took up bobsleigh, participating in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, as a part of the national four-man bobsleigh team. The team also consisted of 44-year-old Ivan Šola, as well as two athletes, Jurica Grabušić and Dejan Vojnović. Krajačić had been a teammate of Vojnović in the 2000 Olympic relay race. The bobsleigh team finished in 23rd place overall. Four years later in Vancouver, Krajačić finished 20th in the four-man event.

His best finish at the FIBT World Championships was 24th in the four-man event at Calgary in 2005. That same year, Krajačić earned his best finish in a World Cup with a 23rd-place finish in the four-man event at Lake Placid, New York.

References

1980 births
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Croatian male sprinters
Croatian male bobsledders
Living people
Olympic athletes for Croatia
Olympic bobsledders for Croatia
Sportspeople from Zagreb


The 2002–03 Pro Tour season was the eighth season of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. On 24 August 2002 the season began with Grand Prix Sapporo. It ended on 10 August 2003 with the conclusion of the 2003 World Championship in Berlin. The season consisted of 21 Grand Prixs and 6 Pro Tours, held in Boston, Houston, Chicago, Venice, Yokohama, and Berlin. Also Master Series tournaments were held at four Pro Tours. At the end of the season Kai Budde was proclaimed Pro Player of the Year for the third time in a row.

Grand Prixs – Sapporo, London, Cleveland

GP Sapporo (24–25 August)
 Shinichi Kumagai
 Masahiko Morita
 Satoshi Nakamura
 Itaru Ishida
 Kenji Kimoto
 Junichi Kinoshita
 Yuta Hirosawa
 Nobuaki Shikata

GP London (31 August – 1 September)
 Jakub Slemr
 Christoph Hölzl
 Bram Snepvangers
 Craig Stevenson
 Pedro Velhinho
 Christophe Haim
 Dario Minieri
 Gérard Garcia

GP Cleveland (7–8 September)
 Valentin Moskovich
 Gabriel Tsang
 Jeremy Pinter
 Matthew Schrempp
 Adam Prosak
 Dave Williams
 Brian Davis
 Rob Dougherty

Pro Tour – Boston (27–29 September 2002)

Boston saw Phoenix Foundation win once again. This put all team members on top in regards to overall Pro Tour victories as no other player had then won more than two Pro Tours. The victory was dryly commented as not surprising anyone anymore.

Tournament data
Prize pool: $200,100
Players: 363 (121 teams)
Format: Team Sealed (Odyssey, Torment, Judgment) – first day, Team Rochester Draft (Odyssey-Torment-Judgment) – final two days
Head Judge: Nat Fairbanks

Top 4

Final standings

Pro Player of the year standings

Grand Prixs – Hamburg, Utsonomiya, Copenhagen, Philadelphia

GP Hamburg (28–29 September)
 Simon Hockwin
 Arndt Meier
 Jens Krause
 Patrick Plößer
 Nico Wendt
 Piotr Sienko
 Dennis Schmitz
 Jean Charles Salvin

GP Utsonomiya (12–13 October)
 Rei Hashimoto
 Shuhei Nakamura
 Tsuyoshi Fujita
 Masashi Oiso
 Eiji Nomura
 Masanori Kobayashi
 Jin Okamoto
 Junichi Kinoshita

GP Copenhagen (12–13 October)
 Bob Maher, Jr.
 Jens Krause
 Kai Budde
 Fredrik Boberg
 Dirk Baberowski
 Jens Thorén
 David Linder
 Fleurent Jeudon

GP Philadelphia (26–27 October)
 Jeff Cunningham
 Shaun Doran
 Eli Aden
 Morgan Douglass
 Nick Eisel
 Craig Krempels
 Patrick Sullivan
 Jacob Rabinowitz

Pro Tour – Houston (8–10 November 2002)

Pro Tour Houston featured the Extended format. The Ice Age and Mirage-blocks had just rotated out of the format along with 5th Edition, thus removing several of the former key cards from the format. Also Onslaught had become legal for Extended play shortly before the tournament. The most played deck was a "Reanimator"-deck that aimed to get a big creature into the graveyard early via . Afterwards it would try to get that one into play with . Other much-played decks included a combo-deck revolving around  and a green-black midrange control deck called "The Rock".

Justin Gary won Pro Tour Houston with a deck revolving around . His teammates of "Your Move Games" (YMG), Rob Dougherty and Darwin Kastle, came in second and third. Instead of breaking the format with one kind of deck the YMG players in the top 8 even played all different decks, thereby losing games exclusively to one another. It was Rob Dougherty's fifth final day appearance.

Jens Thorén from Sweden won the final of the Master Series against Gary Wise.

Tournament data
Prize pool: $200,130
Players: 351
Format: Extended
Head Judge: Rune Horvik

Top 8

Final standings

Winner's deck

Justin Gary's deck, named Turbo Oath, was designed to get a huge  into play with  quickly. The deck and sideboard was mainly blue, but also included black and green.

Masters – Booster Draft

Pro Player of the year standings

Grand Prixs – Melbourne, Los Angeles, Reims, New Orleans

GP Melbourne (23–24 November)
 Ben Seck
 Tristan Gall
 Jarron Puszet
 Shun Jiang
 Richard Grace
 Milton Jian Xiong Lin
 Chris Allen
 Jake Hart

GP Los Angeles (23–24 November)
 Philip Freneau
 Bob Maher, Jr.
 Brian Hegstad
 Ken Krouner
 Peter Swarowski
 Allen Sun
 Nick Eisel
 Gerardo Gordinez Estrada

GP Reims (30 November – 1 December)
 Alex Mack
 Benjamin Caumes
 Patrick Mello
 Emmanuel Vernay
 Hans Joachim Hoeh
 Régis Lavoisier
 Christoph Lippert
 Anton Jonsson

GP New Orleans (3–4 January)
 Zvi Mowshowitz
 Eugene Harvey
 Michael Pustilnik
 Diego Ostrovich
 Jeff Cunningham
 Morgan Douglass
 Carl Lobato
 Trey Van Cleave

Pro Tour – Chicago (17–19 January 2003)

In Chicago Kai Budde won his seventh Pro Tour. On his way to the title he defeated, William Jensen, Jon Finkel, and Nicolai Herzog, some of the most accomplished players in the game. Finkel had his tenth Top 8 showing, a feat matched even today only by Kai Budde and Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa. In the Masters final Franck Canu defeated Ken Ho.

Tournament data

Players: 349
Prize Pool: $200,130
Format: Rochester Draft (Onslaught)
Head Judge: Mike Guptil

Top 8

Final standings

Masters – Standard

Pro Player of the year standings

Grand Prixs – Hiroshima, Sevilla, Boston

GP Hiroshima (25–26 January)
 Motokiyo Azuma
 Osamu Fujita
 Takao Higaki
 Kang Jisang
 Junichi Kinoshita
 Yoshitaka Nakano
 Tsuyoshi Fujita
 Atsushi Tabuchi

GP Sevilla (22–23 February)
 Anton Jonsson
 Carlos Romão
 Eivind Nitter
 Antoine Ruel
 Stan van der Velden
 Adriano Rohner
 David Brucker
 Javier Perez Fresnedo

GP Boston (22–23 February)
 Brian Kibler
 Matthew Cory
 Aaron Breider
 Mark Zajdner
 Ben Rubin
 Joshua Wagener
 Zvi Mowshowitz
 Eric James

Pro Tour – Venice (21–23 March 2003)

Osyp Lebedowicz won Pro Tour Venice with a white and red deck revolving around the Cycling mechanic. It was the second-most popular deck at the tournament trailing only the deck played by his opponent Tomi Walamies in the final. Walamies played a red deck with a Goblin theme. The Masters was won by the Japanese team "PS2".

Tournament data

Players: 310
Prize Pool: $200,130
Format: Onslaught Block Constructed (Onslaught, Legions)
Head Judge: Collin Jackson

Top 8

Final standings

Winner's decklist

Osyp Lebedowicz won the tournament with the following red and white deck revolving around the Cycling mechanism:

Masters – Team Rochester Draft

Pro Player of the year standings

Grand Prixs – Kyoto, Singapore, Prague

GP Kyoto (29–30 March)
 Akira Asahara
 Hisaya Tanaka
 Masashi Oiso
 Akihiro Takakuwa
 Itaru Ishida
 Shuhei Nakamura
 Ryouma Shiozu
 Yoshiaki Tashiro

GP Singapore (29–30 March)
 Mikael Polgary
 Terry Soh
 Kelvin Yew Teck Hoon
 Sam Lei Kang Lau
 Chang Chua
 Kai Cheong Tang
 Gary Talim
 Antonino De Rosa

GP Prague (12–13 April)
 Stefan Jedlicka
 Raphaël Lévy
 Thomas Gundersen
 David Jensen
 Jelger Wiegersma
 Gabriel Nassif
 Anton Jonsson
 Armin Birner

Pro Tour – Yokohama (9–11 May 2003)

Making the final eight for the third time this season Mattias Jorstedt won Pro Tour Yokohama. Jon Finkel also made another Top 8 appearance thus extending his lead in this category to eleven. In the final of the last Masters tournament Bob Maher, Jr. defeated Gabriel Nassif.

Tournament data

Players: 243
Prize Pool: $200,130
Format: Booster Draft (Onslaught-Legions)
Head Judge: Rune Horvik

Top 8

Final standings

Masters – Extended

Pro Player of the year standings

Grand Prixs – Pittsburgh, Amsterdam, Bangkok, Detroit

GP Pittsburgh (31 May – 1 June)
1. Illuminati
 Justin Gary
 Zvi Mowshowitz
 Alex Shvartsman
2. Prodigy
 James Duguid
 Charles Gindy
 Manny Orellana
3. Phoque Foundation
 Jean Charles Salvin
 Pasquale Ruggiero
 Jairo Liquidano
4. Northern Lights No. 5
 Justin Schneider
 Michael Krzywicki
 Mike Long

GP Amsterdam (7–8 June)
1. Rankko Bongo Wheshiwheshi
 Wilfried Ranque
 Carlos Romão
 Jose Barbero
2. Ace Ten Off
 Kamiel Cornelissen
 Jon Finkel
 Eric Froehlich
3. Object of Affection
 Tomi Walamies
 Jens Thorén
 Anton Jonsson
4. Boston Tea Party
 André Delere
 Rolf Ottovordemgentschenfelde
 René Kraft

GP Bangkok (12–13 July)
 Tsuyoshi Fujita
 Itaru Ishida
 Vincent Gan
 Osamu Fujita
 Masahiko Morita
 Tsutomu Yamada
 Peerapat Ekpoorthorn
 Noppadol Srirattana

GP Detroit (12–13 July)
 Bob Maher, Jr.
 Eugene Harvey
 Joshua Ravitz
 Alex Shvartsman
 Mark Herberholz
 Matt Severa
 Morgan Douglass
 Derek Starleaf

2003 World Championships – Berlin (6–10 August 2003)

German Daniel Zink won the 2003 World Championship, defeating Jin Okamoto from Japan in the finals. Both players played manaheavy control decks built around . Kai Budde was declared Pro Player of the year for the third time in a row as none of his pursuers made significant points at this tournament. The United States won the national team competition, defeating Finland in the finals.

Tournament data
Prize pool: $208,130 (individual) + $213,000 (national teams)
Players: 309
Formats: Standard, Rochester Draft (Onslaught-Legions-Scourge), Extended
Head Judge: Rune Horvik

Top 8

Final standings

National team competition

  United States (Justin Gary, Gabe Walls, Joshua Wagner)
  Finland (Tomi Walamies, Tuomo Nieminen, Arho Toikka)

Pro Player of the year final standings

After the World Championship Kai Budde was awarded his fourth Pro Player of the year title.

References

Magic: The Gathering professional events


Gaoussou Bamba (born June 17, 1984) is an Ivorian footballer. He currently plays for Yangon United FC.

References

1984 births
Living people
Ivorian men's footballers
Ivorian expatriate men's footballers
Bamba Gaoussou
Bamba Gaoussou
Expatriate men's footballers in Thailand
Expatriate men's footballers in Myanmar
Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Thailand
Footballers from Abidjan
Men's association football forwards
Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Myanmar