Arrigo Minerbi (10 February 1881 – 9 May 1960) was an Italian sculptor.

Life
Born to a Jewish family in Ferrara on 10 February 1881, he took a course in arts and crafts before working as a ceramicist, designer, teacher and stucco-artist in Florence, Ferrara and Genoa (in this period he produced a gigantic "Neptune" in iron and cement in 1910 at Monterosso al Mare, and other fountains in Genoa).

Aged 35 he moved to Milan where, in 1919, he put on an exhibition of his work to the critics and the public in the Galleria Pesaro. That exhibition also toured successfully to the 1920 Regionale di Ferrara, back to Milan in 1922 before going to the Primaverile Fiorentina that year, and finally being invited to the Venice Biennale, where he exhibited his silver group "Last Supper" (now in Oslo Cathedral). On 14 June 1925, in the Parco delle Rimembranze at Bondeno, he unveiled his "La Madre" as a monument to the dead of the First World War, for which he was later made an honorary citizen of Bondeno, though this was revoked by the promulgation of the Fascist race laws and only re-conferred in 2004.

Minerbi was the favourite artist of Gabriele D'Annunzio, for whom he produced "Luisa", a portrait of D'Annunzio's mother (as well as the tomb in the Chiesa di San Cetteo at Pescara, now Pescara Cathedral) and the bust of Eleonora Duse: both these portrait busts were exhibited at the Vittoriale degli Italiani of Gardone Riviera. In 1937 he was commissioned to produce the first (from the left) of five bronze doors for Milan Cathedral (on the theme of The Edict of Constantine), but he was subsequently forced into hiding at Gavazzana by racial persecution and only completed the doors in 1948.

Works
Self-portrait (1914, bronze, ; marble, Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Ferrara);
The Martyr (bust of Cesare Battisti, 1917, Castello del Buon Consiglio in Trento);
The Victory of the Piave (1920, three bronze exemplars: Torre della Vittoria in Ferrara; Vittoriale degli Italiani in Gardone Riviera; cuggiono);
Monument to Italian Doctors Fallen in War (1924, Chiostro della Sanità Militare in Florence);
Mattino di Primavera (1929, Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Rome);
Saint Francis preaching to the birds (1929, Tomba Cusini, Cimitero Monumentale in Milan);
The Last Supper (1930, silver group, Oslo Cathedral),
Luisa (bust of Gabriele D'Annunzio's mother, Vittoriale degli Italiani in Gardone Riviera);
Eleonora Duse (bust, Vittoriale degli Italiani in Gardone Riviera);
Tomb of Luisa D'Annunzio (1939, Pescara Cathedral);
L'Assunta (1940, Chiesa delle Grazie, Milan);
La Porta dell'editto di Costantino (1948, Milan Cathedral),
Don Orione morente (1952, Rome),
Madonna Salus Populi Romani (1953, Rome – Monte Mario)
ungilded copy of the Madonna Salus Populi Romani (1954, East Boston – Don Orione Shrine)

Sources

Other projects

1881 births
1961 deaths
Artists from Ferrara
20th-century Italian Jews
Jewish sculptors
20th-century Italian sculptors
20th-century Italian male artists
Italian male sculptors


Edward Leigh (born 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician.

Edward Leigh may also refer to:
Edward Leigh (writer) (1602–1671), known for his works on religious topics, and Member of the Long Parliament
Edward Chandos Leigh (1832–1915), British cricketer and barrister
Edward Leigh (cricketer, born 1913) (1913–1994), English cricketer
Edward Leigh, 5th Baron Leigh (1742–1786)
Ed Leigh (born 1975), British television presenter

See also
Edward Lee (disambiguation)
Edward Lea (1837–1863), U.S. naval officer


Konstantin Sureni Khudaverdyan (1929, Yerevan – 1999, Yerevan) was an Armenian historian, Doctor of History, Professor (1974), academic of the International Academy of Sciences of Nature and Society. From 1988 to 1999 he was the editor-in-chief of Armenian Encyclopedia.

Biography
Khudaverdyan finished the Yerevan State University in 1951. From 1974 to 1988 he was the head of Modern public history department of Institute of history of Armenian Academy of Sciences. Khudaverdyan's works are dedicated to the Armenian culture, inter-ethnic relations, Armenian genocide and related issues.

Khudaverdyan is an author of University textbooks, "History of Armenian People" research (8 volumes, co-author), "The Armenian Genocide under the light of decades" (co-author, in Russian, 1995) and other books, over 120 publications.

Sources
Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, ed. by Konstantin Khudaverdyan, Vol. 2, pp. 539–540

20th-century Armenian historians
1929 births
1999 deaths
Yerevan State University alumni
Writers from Yerevan


Neto or Mars Neto is the name of one of the deities of ancient Iberian Peninsula. It was revered in many places of the Peninsula, but mainly by the Iberians and Celtiberians. He was probably a god of war.

Name and functions
Macrobius in his Saturnalia, calls Neto both a sun god and equivalent in Hispania to the Roman Mars and Apollo. A name Neito appears on the Celtiberian Botorrita bronze plaque. The name also recalls an Irish war god Neit whose name might be derived from the same Celtic root meaning passion or conflict.

References

Lusitanian gods
Basque and Iberian deities
War gods
Solar gods
Martian deities


Ventanas Power Plant is a coal-fired electrical generating station in Quintero, Valparaíso Region, Chile. The plant produces 875MW of electricity, and is the largest power plant in Chile. The plant was originally built in 1964 then expanded in 1977, 2010 and 2013. It is currently operated by Gener S.A. The plant employs 965 own workers and 870 contractual employees.

Impacts of Ventana Unit 4
The latest addition to AES Gener's Ventanas coal-fired complex, Campiche was originally scheduled for completion in May 2011. However, in June 2009, Chile's Supreme Court ordered that construction be halted, citing improper zoning of the plant. AES Gener had already completed 40% of the $500 million project before it was halted. Subsequent regulatory changes allowed construction of the plant to resume, but the project was again suspended in early 2010 as Puchuncaví municipality took legal steps against the plant due to environmental concerns. In July, 2010, AES Gener reached an agreement with Puchuncaví to renew construction of Campiche, promising in return to invest nearly US$80 million in environmental improvements of the company's local thermal power plants, in public projects and forestation. The plant was brought online in March 2013. In late December 2013, several tons of sardines washed up dead on Ventanas beach near the plant, spurring renewed controversy over Campiche's environmental impact and prompting calls for suspension of operations.

See also

List of power stations in Chile
List of largest power stations in the world

References

Energy infrastructure in Valparaíso Region
Coal-fired power stations in Chile
Coasts of Valparaíso Region


The Madra were an ancient people who lived in northwest Panjab in ancient India.

Madra may also refer to:
 Madra Kingdom, as described in the text of the Mahabharata
 Uttaramadra,  a northern branch of the Madra Kingdom
 Madri, a princess of the Madra Kingdom, who was to become a wife of King Pandu
 Madra Mountains, a mountain range in the Aegean range of Turkey
 Madra (album), the debut album of the band Miranda Sex Garden
 Mądra, a Polish feminine surname

See also

Madras (disambiguation)


John D. Day (from Kinmundy, Illinois, born 1947) is an electrical engineer, an Internet pioneer, and a historian. He has been involved in the development of the communication protocols of Internet and its predecessor ARPANET since the 1970s, and he was also active in the design of the OSI reference model. He has contributed in the research and development of network management systems, distributed databases, supercomputing, and operating systems.

Day received his BSc degree in electrical engineering in 1970 and MSc degree in 1976 from the University of Illinois.
From 1969 through 1978 he worked on the Illiac IV supercomputer project.

Day was adjunct professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2006 and is currently a lecturer in Computer Science at Boston University Metropolitan College.

Day is the author of the 2008 book Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals, which gave rise to Network IPC, later referred to as the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA), and the RFC documents RFC 520, RFC 728, RFC 731, and RFC 732. He has also published articles on the history of cartography, on topics such as Matteo Ricci's 16th–17th century maps.

References

External links
 John Day Papers (CBI 165), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
 Oral history interview with John Day, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Describes his computer science education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including vignettes of student life in the late 1960s and early 1970s and campus protests over work on the ILLIAC IV computer. A second portion of the interview gives highlights of his work on network standards-setting, including Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

Researchers in distributed computing
American computer scientists
Living people
1947 births
University of Illinois alumni
Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty
Boston University faculty


Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956) is an Indian writer from Mumbai. She also writes with Ishrat Syed as Kalpish Ratna.  Swaminathan and Syed are both surgeons. Swaminathan won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Fiction) for Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit.

Bibliography
1993: The True Adventures of Prince Teentang
1994: Dattatray's Dinosaur and Other Stories
1997: Cryptic Death
2000: Ordinary Mr Pai Two Urban Fairy Tales
2002: The Weekday Sisters
2002: Gavial Avial
2003: Ambrosia for Afters
2003: Jaldi's Friends
2006: The Page Three Murders
2006: Bougainvillea House
2007: The Gardener's Song
2009: Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit
2010: The Monochrome Madonna
2012: I Never Knew It Was You
2013: The Secret Gardner
2017: Greenlight

Awards and honors
2009: Vodafone Crossword Book Award, winner, Venus Crossing
2010: The Hindu Best Fiction Award, shortlist, Venus Crossing

References

External links
 Experimental Writer, by Sitanshi Talati-Parikh, Verve Online, September 2007
 Black, White, and Grey: Exclusive interview with 'The Monochrome Madonna' author Kalpana Swaminathan, by Arun Kale, Helter Skelter Magazine, June 2010

English-language writers from India
Living people
1956 births


The Kapsch Group, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, is an international corporation specializing in telematics, information technology and telecommunication.

History and operations
In September 1892, Johann Kapsch (1845–1921) founded a precision engineering workshop in Vienna, with the state-owned and operated Post- und Telegraphenverwaltung (Mailing- and Telegraph-Administration) among its first clients. In 1916, the company changed its name to Telefon- und Telegrafen-Fabriks-Aktiengesellschaft Kapsch & Söhne in Wien ("Telephone and Telegraph Manufacturing Stock Company Kapsch & Sons in Vienna"). During World War I, the company produced night sights for the Austrian Model 1895 rifle and carbine. With the growing number of inventions, Kapsch expanded its product range by adding the manufacturing of capacitors, tin tubes and dry batteries. In 1923, Kapsch started to manufacture radios, with the first TV sets following in 1955. After the Second World War, Kapsch was heavily involved in rebuilding the Austrian telephone network.

In 1978, the company focused on digital communications systems. This was followed by the entry into the mobile phones market in 1985. That same year, Kapsch was involved in the introduction of the digital telephone infrastructure in Austria and Hungary.

Between 1989 and 1999, the company founded international subsidiaries and representations in Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Slovenia, and Croatia.

In 1994, Europe's trains were equipped with train radio systems by Kapsch. In 1995, Austria's EcoPoint System was implemented.

In 2000, the company acquired traffic control technology from Bosch and Saab and founded subsidiaries and interests in Asia, Australia, South America and South Africa, followed by the acquisition of Schrack BusinessCom a year later.

In 2002, the Kapsch Group was into three business areas, namely Kapsch BusinessCom AG, Kapsch CarrierCom AG and Kapsch TrafficCom AG. The latter implements the electronic toll collection system based on microwave technology in Austria in 2003. A year later, the commercial operation of Austria's nationwide truck tolling system is going operational and new representative offices in China and a branch office in Croatia are founded.

In 2005, the Kapsch Telematic Services GmbH is founded with branch offices in Czech Republic and Hungary.

In 2006, Kapsch TrafficCom AG implements a toll system in Czech Republic. Three years later, the firm was awarded the implementation of the Gauteng tolling project in South Africa and implemented a toll system in Republic of Belarus in 2013.

In 2014, Kapsch TrafficCom acquired Advanced Traffic Management Software (ATMS) provider Transdyn. That same year, Kapsch CarrierCom acquired Prodata Mobility Systems NV.

In fiscal year 2014/15, the Kapsch corporate group generated total revenue of €908.8 million, with more than 5,700 employees worldwide.

In 2015,  Kapsch CarrierCom acquired a controlling stake in Streetline, Inc., a provider of smart parking solutions based in California. Also in 2015, the company bought the transport business Schneider Electric Industries, advised by Conquest Advisory.

In 2017, Kapsch TrafficCom acquired a controlling stake in Fluidtime Data Services GmbH, an Austrian IT company for Integrated Mobility and Mobility-as-a-Service.<ref>Kapsch TrafficCom acquires 75 percent of Fluidtime' 'https://www.kapsch.net/KapschGroup/press/ktc/ktc_170112_pr</ref>

In the fiscal year 2019/20, the company generated a turnover of €1,137.9 million.

Allegations of irregular payments to South African and Zambian politicians
In 2019, Kapsch, and its South African operation, Electronic Toll Collection Pty, were accused of paying kickbacks to a South African company, "ProAsh". The payments were revealed by the former CEO of the Electronic Toll Collection, who subsequently testified to The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture. An investigation was promised by the Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, but has not led to action as of February 2021. Kapsch was also accused of using the Electronic Toll Collection Pty to launder bribes for Zambian politicians.

 Group organisation
Kapsch BusinessCom AG (KBC)
In 2001, Kapsch AG bought the majority of former Schrack BusinessCom AG, which was subsequently merged with the Kapsch Enterprise division. As a result of this merger Kapsch BusinessCom AG was founded and expanded its activities and outreach throughout Central Europe. Today, the company has subsidiaries in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Turkey and Poland.

The company is a regional reseller and integration partner to technology companies in the IT, network and telecommunications sector: Cisco Gold Certified Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner, Aastra Training Provider.Kapsch BusinessCom AG produces the Card Reader and GINA Box for the Austrian e-Card system, which is placed in doctors’ offices.

Kapsch TrafficCom AG (KTC)
Kapsch TrafficCom AG is an international supplier of "intelligent road traffic telematic solutions". The company develops and sells products, systems and services primarily for electronic toll collection (ETC) systems and specializes in solutions for open road tolling (ORT), multi-lane free-flow (MLFF) and high occupancy tolling (HOT).

In addition, the company supplies traffic management systems, with a focus on road safety and traffic control, and electronic access systems and parking management.

The company, with headquarters in Vienna, has subsidiaries and interests in 23 countries. The company has performed 210 installations in 35 countries (as of March/2009) in Europe, Australia, North America, Latin America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and in South Africa, and about 13 million on-board units (OBUs) and over 11,300 equipped lanes.Kapsch TrafficCom AG built the Austrian Truck Tolling System, which went on stream in 2004.

Since 2004, the company established subsidiaries in Moscow, Russia and Slovenia and has entered into a joint venture agreement with Busi Impianti S.p.A., Italy, creating Kapsch-Busi S.p.A.

In 2014, Kapsch acquired Atlanta-based Transdyn Inc from Powell Industries, establishing Kapsch TrafficCom NA in the United States.

Since June 26, 2007, 30.3% of Kapsch TrafficCom AG has been listed in the Prime Market on the Vienna Stock Exchange. Kapsch Group Beteiligungs GmbH retains possession of 69.7%. Overall 2.2 million new and 1.16 million old shares were brought to the market. The IPO was 14 times over-subscribed.
In the fiscal year 2019/20, Kapsch TrafficCom AG'' generated a turnover of €731.2 million.

References

External links
  Homepage of the Kapsch AG
  Homepage of Fluidtime, a Kapsch Group company

Companies based in Vienna
Technology companies of Austria
Technology companies established in 1892
1892 establishments in Austria-Hungary
Austrian brands


William James Vincent Tomlinson (10 August 1901 – 16 May 1984) was an English schoolmaster and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire and Cambridge University from 1920 to 1924.

Tomlinson was born at Winshill, Derbyshire the son of Robert George Tomlinson and his wife Christiana Gibson Bowie. His father was a director of Salt's Brewery in Burton-on-Trent and had also played cricket for Derbyshire. He was educated at Felsted School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tomlinson made his first-class debut for Derbyshire in August 1920 when he bowled 5-53 against Sussex, taking the wickets of Harold and Arthur Gilligan and Maurice Tate. However that was to remain his best performance. He played three more games in the season when Derbyshire failed to win a match. He played six games in 1921 when under Guy Jackson the team moved up to 12th in the Championship. In 1922 he played two games for Cambridge University and twelve games for Derbyshire who reached 11th in the championship,  accompanying Wilfred Hill-Wood in both teams. In 1923 he played two games for Derbyshire and  ten for Cambridge University culminating in the Varsity match which that year, was nicknamed the "Thunderstorm match". Oxford ran up a high score before overnight storms created a very sticky wicket and the Cambridge team which included Gubby Allen and Claude Ashton were quickly dismissed in two innings. Tomlinson played one game for Derbyshire in 1924 and then stayed with club cricket. He was a right-arm medium pace bowler and took 58 first-class wickets with an average of 32.24 and a best performance of 5-53. He was a right-hand batsman and played 65 innings in 38 first-class matches with a top score of 66 and an average of 14.94.

After university, Tomlinson joined the teaching staff of St Cyprian's School preparatory school in Eastbourne and played club cricket for Free Foresters, Eastbourne, and for the school's St Cyprian's Cygnets team comprising staff, parents, old boys and friends. In 1933 he married Rosemary Vaughan Wilkes, the eldest daughter of the proprietors and in 1936 succeeded his father-in-law as headmaster. In 1939 the school buildings in Eastbourne were burnt down, and the school decamped to Midhurst, until the premises were requisitioned by the army in 1940. After a period in Gloucestershire, the school joined Summer Fields School in Oxford. In 1948 Tomlinson took a headmastership again at Norwich at Langley Junior School. He retired to  Elsing, Norfolk where he died aged 82.

Tomlinson's sister Wanda married Keith Bullen a schoolmaster and poet in Cairo and founded Manor House School in Egypt.

References

1901 births
1984 deaths
People educated at Felsted School
Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Derbyshire cricketers
Cambridge University cricketers
English cricketers
Free Foresters cricketers


Lea Antonoplis (born January 20, 1959) is a former professional tennis player from the U.S. who won the Wimbledon Girls' Singles in 1977 and four WTA doubles titles.

Early life
Antonoplis attended Glendora High School from 1974 to 1977 and graduated from the University of Southern California.

Tennis career
In 1974, Lea played an exhibition match arranged by Dale Jensen in Claremont, Ca with Tracy Austin, Lawrence McCutcheon, and Elgin Baylor.

Also in 1974, Antonoplis played in her first Grand Slam match at the US Open, losing to Sue Mappin in three sets. In the 1977 Wimbledon Championships, Antonoplis won the junior singles, beating compatriot Peanut Louie-Harper in the final in straight sets.
In 1979, she won her first WTA doubles title in the Player's Canadian Open with Diane Evers, defeating Chris O'Neil and Mimmi Wikstedt 2–6, 6–1, 6–3. In 1983, she won two doubles titles with Barbara Jordan. In Indianapolis, they beat Rosalyn Fairbank and Candy Reynolds 5–7, 6–4, 7–5 in the final, and in Hershey, they beat Sherry Acker and Ann Henricksson 6–3, 6–4. In 1986, she won her fourth and last WTA doubles title with Barbara Gerken, beating Gigi Fernández and Susan Leo 6–1, 6–2 in the final.

Antonoplis also acquired some notability at a 1976 satellite tournament in South Orange, New Jersey when she won a three-set semifinal match against Renée Richards. This was the first tournament in which Richards competed after it was revealed that she had undergone a sex-change procedure.

WTA Tour finals

Doubles 10 (3–7)

References

External links

1959 births
Living people
Sportspeople from West Covina, California
American female tennis players
Tennis people from California
USC Trojans women's tennis players
Wimbledon junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles


Patrick Leonard (born 1956) is an American musician.

Patrick Leonard may also refer to:
Patrick Leonard (baseball) (born 1992), American baseball player
Patrick Leonard (footballer) (1877–?), Scottish professional footballer
Patrick Leonard (politician), Irish politician, businessman and landowner
Patrick James Leonard (1847–1899), Medal of Honor recipient
Patrick Thomas Leonard (1828–1905), Medal of Honor recipient


Pedro Ramón Cubilla Almeida (25 August 1933 in Paysandú, Uruguay – 16 March 2007 in Montevideo, Uruguay) was a Uruguayan professional footballer and manager.

Player career
Pedro Cubilla started his career as a professional playing for Uruguayan clubs Nacional, Peñarol, Rampla Juniors and Liverpool de Montevideo in the Primera División Uruguaya.  He continued his international career in Argentina playing for Huracán between 1963–1964 and Quilmes in 1966 in the Primera División Argentina after being transferred from River Plate in 1965, where he spent a year inactive due to an injury. He returned to Uruguay in 1967 where he played for C.A. Defensor.

In 1968, he was transferred for the former NASL Canadian team Toronto Falcons coached by the legendary Ladislao Kubala.

He also played for the Uruguay national football team, taking part of a European tour previous to the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile.

Coaching career
His career as a professional coach includes Uruguayan clubs Fénix, Huracán, Danubio, Rampla Juniors, Central Español and Huracán Buceo. Internationally he coached Chilean Santiago Morning, Paraguayan Club Olimpia, Ecuadorian Deportivo Quito and C.S. Cartaginés of Costa Rica.

Pedro Cubilla also worked together with his younger brother Luis as the Assistant Coach for Uruguayan clubs Nacional, Peñarol, Paraguayan Club Olimpia and the Uruguay national football team.

In 1998, he was named president of the Uruguayan National Association of Football Trainers.

Art
Besides football he had a passion for painting. He created many paintings containing scenes of the Afro-Uruguayan candombe culture, tango bars and portraits.

References

External links
 Art of Pedro Ramon Cubilla

1933 births
2007 deaths
Uruguayan men's footballers
Uruguay men's international footballers
Uruguayan football managers
1962 FIFA World Cup players
Uruguayan Primera División players
Peñarol players
Rampla Juniors players
Liverpool F.C. (Montevideo) players
Club Atlético Huracán footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
Expatriate football managers in Chile
Danubio F.C. managers
Rampla Juniors managers

Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Paysandú
Uruguayan painters
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada


Troy Smith (born July 30, 1977) is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the sixth round of the 1999 NFL Draft and later tore his ligament in his leg on a 14-yard reception thrown by Donovan McNabb in a game. His leg could not be healed, which forced him to discontinue play in the National Football League (NFL).

He played basketball and football at Junius H. Rose High School and continued playing both sports at East Carolina University (basketball in his freshman year and football in his sophomore, junior, and senior years).

He is now the head coach of the Hope Middle School Mustangs football team in Greenville, North Carolina, the same town where he was born and raised.

References

1977 births
Living people
American football wide receivers
East Carolina Pirates football players
Philadelphia Eagles players
Sportspeople from Greenville, North Carolina
Players of American football from North Carolina


John Dunlop Southern (5 November 1899 – 7 February 1972) was a Royal Navy officer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in occasional games between 1919 and 1934.

Southern was born at Friar Gate, Derby. He made his debut for Derbyshire in a match against Australian Imperial Forces, scoring 43 in his second innings. In 1920 he played two matches – against Sussex and Leicestershire – and in 1922 one match against Worcestershire. After a break on naval service he reappeared for Derbyshire for one game in 1934 against Hampshire. He was a right-hand batsman and played 10 innings in 5 matches with a top score of 43 and an average of 9.5.

Southern became a naval lieutenant in 1923 and lieutenant-commander in 1931. In 1938 he was posted to , the Royal Navy base at Chatham, for training duties. He was then executive officer on , an escort carrier. He officially retired in 1943 but became acting commander and was later assigned to , an RDF training establishment at Camp Douglas, on the Isle of Man. He was then in the Naval Training Department at the Admiralty, HMS President. He retired fully in April 1946.

Southern retired to Seend Head House, Seend, near Melksham, Wiltshire where he died aged 73.

References

1899 births
1972 deaths
Royal Navy officers
Derbyshire cricketers
English cricketers
Royal Navy officers of World War II


PathEngine is a software company as well as an advanced path finding software development kit, created under the leadership of Thomas Young. The company was founded after Young left Infogrames Sheffield, and the first commercial version of the software was offered in 2002. The software uses a technique called points of visibility path finding, where the agent takes into account dynamic obstacles and agent shape when navigating between points. Over time, the software has been optimized with rapid bug-fixes, and has been made to support platforms such as the Xbox 360. PathEngine has been used in games such as Titan Quest, among others.

History
PathEngine was founded in 2000. The first version of PathEngine SDK was released in early 2002. By the end of 2005, over 50 finished products had been released that used PathEngine.

In 2007, the 5.10 version was released. Improvements included a new graph search core and several bugfixes. In 2010, PathEngine released version 5.23.

Features
PathEngine supports personal computers running the Microsoft Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, as well as the game consoles of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

PathEngine implements the search for the path and the movement of the agent in a three-dimensional medium with dynamic obstacles. There is a dynamic control overcoming obstacles and automation of content. Such a technology applied to some very large and detailed worlds includes special optimization for embossed surfaces (or other surfaces that combine detailed obstacles with a good overview and large open spaces).

License terms
PathEngine is a commercial software product created solely for the purpose of being licensed by third parties. There are three types of licenses for PathEngine SDK, each of which differs in price and level of access to the source code. In addition, each license may differ depending on which and how many platforms the final product will be released on.

References

External links
 PathEngine official website

Software companies of France
Video game engines
Software development kits


Gaston Leroux was a French writer.

Gaston Leroux may also refer to:
Gaston Leroux (ice hockey) (1913–1988), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
Gaston Leroux (politician) (born 1948), member of the Canadian House of Commons


The Comunidad Israelita de El Salvador () is the only Conservative synagogue in El Salvador.  (There are several Orthodox synagogues.)

History
The first synagogue was located in the city center in 1949. Currently, the community center is located in San Benito, a beautiful neighborhood of San Salvador.

See also
History of the Jews in El Salvador

Conservative Judaism in North America
Conservative synagogues
Synagogues in El Salvador


The following is a chronological list of Minnesota State Bar Association Presidents, beginning in 1901 when the organization was reconstituted.

References

Minnesota State Bar Association


The Première rhapsodie (First Rhapsody), L. 116, CD. 124, by Claude Debussy is a piece for accompanied clarinet. Composed between December 1909 and January 1910, it was dedicated to the French clarinet professor Prosper Mimart.

In 1909, Gabriel Fauré, Director of the Conservatoire de Paris, named Debussy to its board of directors (le Conseil Supérieur). One of Debussy's first duties was to supply two works for the next year's clarinet examinations. The Rhapsodie was first performed as part of the examinations on July 14, 1910. The original composition was for clarinet and piano; Debussy published his own orchestration of the accompaniment in 1911, after the official premiere with Mimart.

In 1901, Debussy had been commissioned to write a work for alto saxophone and orchestra by Elise Hall, but never finished the 1903 draft during his lifetime. This "Second Rhapsody" was later completed by Jean Roger-Ducasse as Rapsodie pour orchestre et saxophone.

Excerpts

References

External links

Performance of the Première rhapsodie by Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) and Peter John Stoltzman (piano) from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format

Compositions by Claude Debussy
Compositions for clarinet
Music dedicated to ensembles or performers
1910 compositions
Rhapsodies


Assuerus Regimorter or Regemorter, M.D, (1614–1650) was an English physician, an early researcher into rickets.

Life

The son of the Rev. Ambrose Regemorter, he was born in London in December 1614, and baptised at the Dutch church in Austin Friars, 6 January 1615. He was educated at the school of Thomas Farnaby, and afterwards studied medicine at the University of Leyden, where he graduated M.D. 11 Feb. 1636, maintaining a thesis on ague. On 29 March 1636 he was incorporated M.D. at Oxford.

He began practice in London, and became a licentiate of the College of Physicians, 30 September 1639, a candidate or member, 22 December 1642, and a fellow, 11 November 1643. He delivered the Gulstonian lectures in 1645, and was a censor in 1649. Regimorter lived in Lime Street, London, and had a large practice as a physician. He died 25 November 1660, and left £20 to the College of Physicians.

Works
He was one of the three physicians who about 1644 began the investigation of rickets. At the end of the preface to Tractatus de Rachitide, published in 1650, his initials are the last, following those of Francis Glisson, and George Bate. He and Bate had numerous conferences with Glisson, who was the real author of the book, as is stated in the preface.

Notes

References

External links
British History Online
Royal College of Physicians

17th-century English medical doctors
1614 births
1650 deaths


William Audley Bowdler (7 September 1884 – 20 February 1969)  was a Liberal Party politician in England who served briefly as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the early 1920s.

Background
He was born in Kirkham, Lancashire, the son of W. H. Bowdler and E. A. Richards, of Clifton, Lancashire. He was educated at Rossall School. In 1918 he married Marguerite Parkes, of Woldingham. They had one son and three daughters.

Political career
He started his parliamentary career in March 1922 when he was selected as the Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate for the Holderness division of East Yorkshire. As a Lancastrian, he was an outsider to the constituency not expected to defeat the sitting Unionist MP Arthur Wilson who had held the seat for 22 years. During the 1922 general election campaign held in November, The Times were happy to write off his prospects of victory; "The Conservatives hold on Holderness is not believed to be seriously endangered. The farmers may be cross, but many of them have voted Conservative all their lives, and will not easily break with their political traditions." His victory, on a swing of 16% was therefore a surprise;

Another General Election came around a year later and despite the Liberal Party experiencing something of a revival, Bowdler lost his seat in the House of Commons at the 1923 general election, to a new Conservative candidate Samuel Savery,

He did not stand again.

References

1884 births
1969 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1922–1923


Giuseppe ("Joseph") Lechi (5 December 1766 – 9 August 1836) was an Italian general in the Kingdom of Italy during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography

Born in Aspes and being the first son of Faustino Lechi and his wife Doralice Bielli, the general Giuseppe Lechi was already considered a man of great light and shadows ("dark and gloomy"), reckless and unscrupulous similar to his uncle the Count Galliano Lechi, who was very dear, and a model, to Giuseppe. His grandfather Pietro was a famous Freemason and a follower of the Enlightenment.

Born a subject of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, he undertook the military career in the Austrian army up to the rank of captain. On the arrival of Napoleon in Italy, influenced also by his brother Giacomo, Giuseppe organized with his other brothers Teodoro and Angelo and other friends – all of them members of the "Casino dei Buoni Amici" free-masonnic secret society – the Bresciana revolution of 18 March 1797.

Giuseppe entered the temporary government of Brescia and organized the Brescian Legion that General Bonaparte sent to fighting in Emilia, Marche and then in Central Italy.

It was in Città di Castello, in 1798, that happened the famous episode of the discussed donation of Raphael's painting "The Marriage of the Virgin" to Giuseppe Lechi by the City Council.

In the spring of 1799 Giuseppe Lechi with his unit was engaged in a military campaign in Valtellina attempting to curb an anti-French revolt. Forced to retreat by the Austro-Russians, he joined the Italian Legion of General Pietro Teulié in Dijon.

Back in Italy with Napoleon he fought at Marengo (14 June 1800) where he was promoted to the rank of division general on the field itself.

After the Peace of Lunéville (9 February 1801) he became commander of division under Joachim Murat and one of his friends, followers and advisors. In the same time, Giuseppe entered the new legislative body of the Italian Republic.

More and more bound up with the "Murat's circle", General Lechi joined the Masonry of the Scottish Rite (becoming in the follow the Great Master of the Grand Lodge of Naples) and those groups of patriots who supported the ideal of the Italian unification.

In 1804, Giuseppe Lechi participated in the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples fighting in the Adriatic regions under general Saint-Cyr. In 1805 he was again in Naples with Murat and Joseph Bonaparte, to whom too he would become closely tied by friendship and personal fidelity.

In the years 1808 and 1809 Lechi was in Spain at the service of Joseph Bonaparte that has yielded away in the meantime the Kingdom of Naples to Murat; Joseph conquered the city of Barcelona and becomes temporarily the governor there.

In 1809 he faced a trial in France (apparently for claims of violence, embezzlement and abuse) but escaped the judgment and was sent back to Naples at the service of his friend, the new king, Joachim Murat.

Lechi was also involved in the conspiracies of general Domenico Pino, probably also as a link for Murat himself in the plot.

On 31 January 1814, Giuseppe was governor of Tuscany handing over Livorno to the English Fleet in an attempt made by Murat to bargain a separate peace with Austria. In 1815 "Joseph" Lechi was as always at Murat's side in his last and hopeless stand against the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino (2–3 May 1815). As a prisoner of war, Lechi refused to swear any fidelity to the new Habsburgic regime and remained jailed in Lubiana till 1818.

Freed, Lechi settled down in his family's Villa of Montirone near Brescia and married Eleonora, daughter of Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon. He then died of cholera in 1836 in Montirone.

Notes

External links
 http://www.storiadimilano.it/Personaggi/Milanesi%20illustri/personaggi_avventurosi.htm
 Istituto Storico delle Insorgenze, L'insurrezione di Brescia
 Paolo Martinucci: "PREMESSE STORICHE E CULTURALI DELL’INSORGENZA NEL BERGAMASCO E NEL BRESCIANO", http://www.identitanazionale.it/inso_1002.php

1766 births
1836 deaths
18th-century Italian people
Deaths from cholera
Italian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
Italian Freemasons
Italian generals
Italian military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
People of the Kingdom of Naples (Napoleonic)


Georgefield is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in  The Municipality of the District of East Hants in Hants County.

Communities in Hants County, Nova Scotia
General Service Areas in Nova Scotia


The Lory Meagher Cup (; often referred to as the Meagher Cup) is the fifth-highest inter-county senior championship  in hurling. Each year, the champion team in the Lory Meagher Cup is promoted to the Nicky Rackard Cup.

The Lory Meagher Cup, which was introduced for the 2009 season, provides a meaningful championship for fifth tier teams deemed "too weak" for the fourth tier Nicky Rackard Cup.

The winners of the championship receive the Lory Meagher Cup, named after former Kilkenny hurler Lory Meagher who many regard as one of the greatest hurlers of all time.

The title has been won by 9 different counties, 5 of whom have won the title more than once. The all-time record-holders are Louth, who have won the cup on 3 occasions. Monaghan are the title holders, defeating Lancashire by 3-22 to 3-20 in the 2023 final.

History
Following the success of the Christy Ring Cup and Nicky Rackard Cup for the lower tier hurling teams, it was decided in 2008 to investigate the possibility of introducing a fourth tier. The Hurling Development Committee (HDC) proposed the new four-tier structure in place of the existing three-tier model. It, and the second and third-tier competitions, were to consist of eight teams. The proposals were accepted at a special GAA Congress in October 2008. Another second tier competition, the Joe McDonagh Cup, was added in 2018, moving the Lory Meagher Cup down into tier 5.

Format

Group Stage
The 6 teams will play each other once in the group stage. The top 2 teams in the group will advance to the final.

Final and Promotion
The winner of the final will be promoted to the Nicky Rackard Cup.

Teams

2024 Cup
Six counties will compete in the 2024 Lory Meagher Cup, with Fermanagh relegated from the Nicky Rackard Cup:

List of Finals

Roll of Honour

Performances by county

Performances by province

Team records and statistics
Legend
  – Champions
  – Runners-up
  – Semi-finals/Quarter-finals/Round 2
  – Group Stage
 CR – Christy Ring Cup
 NR – Nicky Rackard Cup
 —  – Inactive

For each championship, the number of teams (in brackets) are shown.

Debut of teams

Seasons in Lory Meagher Cup
The number of years that each county has played in the Lory Meagher Cup between 2009 and 2024. A total of 12 counties have competed in at least one season of the Lory Meagher Cup. Fermanagh and Leitrim have participated in the most championships. The counties in bold participate in the 2024 Lory Meagher Cup.

List of Lory Meagher Cup counties
The following teams have competed in the Lory Meagher Cup for at least one season.

Other records

By decade
The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of Lory Meagher Cup titles, is as follows:

 2000s: 1 for Tyrone (2009)
 2010s: 2 each for Longford (2010, 2014), and Warwickshire (2013, 2017)
 2020s: 2 for Louth (2020, 2022)

Finishing positions

 Most championships
 3,  Louth (2016, 2020, 2022)

 Most second-place finishes
 3,  Fermanagh (2012, 2014, 2020)
 3,  Lancashire (2018, 2019, 2023)

 Most third-place finishes
 3,  Cavan (2018, 2020, 2023)
 Most fourth-place finishes
 3,  Leitrim (2013, 2014, 2016)
Most fifth-place finishes
 3,  Lancashire (2015, 2016, 2022)

 Most sixth-place finishes
 1,  Cavan (2022)
 1,  Fermanagh (2017)
 1,  Warwickshire (2023)
 Most semi-final finishes
 2,  Leitrim (2010, 2012)
 2,  Longford (2009, 2021)
 2,  South Down (2009, 2011)
 2,  Warwickshire (2011, 2012)
 Most quarter-final finishes
 2,  Fermanagh (2009, 2011)
 Most round 2 or round 3 finishes
 1,  Cavan (2009)
 1,  Leitrim (2011)
 1,  Longford (2012)
 1,  South Down (2010)
 1,  Warwickshire (2009)

Unbeaten sides

 6 teams have won the Lory Meagher Cup unbeaten:
  Donegal had 4 wins in 2011
  Tyrone had 3 wins in 2012
  Warwickshire had 3 wins and 1 draw in 2013
  Longford had 3 wins and 1 draw in 2014
  Louth had 5 wins in 2016
  Warwickshire had 6 wins in 2017

Beaten sides
The group stage of the cup has resulted in 9 'back-door' Lory Meagher Cup champions:

  Tyrone (2009) were beaten by  South Down in round 1.
  Longford (2010) were beaten by  Donegal in round 1.
  Fermanagh (2015) were beaten by  Sligo in round 5.
  Sligo (2018) were beaten by  Cavan in round 3.
  Leitrim (2019) were beaten by  Lancashire in round 1.
  Louth (2020) were beaten by  Fermanagh in round 1.
  Fermanagh (2021) were beaten by  Cavan in round 1.
  Louth (2022) were beaten by  Monaghan in round 2 and  Longford in round 3.
  Monaghan (2023) were beaten by  Cavan in round 2.

On 0000 occasions a team was defeated twice but have remained in the championship:

  Louth (2022) were beaten by  Monaghan and  Longford but still qualified for the final.
 000 (000) were beaten by 000 and 000 but still qualified for the final.

Final success rate
Only two counties have appeared in the final more than once, being victorious on all occasions:

  Louth
  Warwickshire

On the opposite end of the scale, only one county has appeared in the final more than once, losing on each occasion:

  Lancashire

Consecutive participations

 9, Leitrim (2009–2017)
 9, Warwickshire (2009–2017)

Leitrim and Warwickshire have the record number of consecutive participations in the Lory Meagher Cup, taking part in 9 seasons.

Winning other trophies
Although not an officially recognised achievement, no team have ever achieved the distinction of winning the Lory Meagher Cup and their respective Division in the National Hurling League.

Biggest wins

 The most one sided finals:
 15 points – 2021: Fermanagh 3-26 - 1-17 Cavan
 13 points – 2022: Louth 3-27 - 3-14 Longford
 12 points – 2013: Warwickshire 2-16 - 0-10 Longford
 11 points – 2020: Louth 2-19 - 2-08 Fermanagh
 8 points – 2010: Longford 1-20 - 1-12 Donegal
 The most one sided other matches:
 29 points – 2011: South Down 4-25 - 0-08 Leitrim

Scoring Events (2009–2011)

 Most goals in a match:
 8 – 2009: Tyrone 3-09 - 5-06 South Down
 8 – 2009: Donegal 3-16 - 5-11 Tyrone
 Most points in a match:
 37 – 2009: Longford 5-15 - 2-22 Donegal
 Most goals by one team in a match:
 5 – 2009: Tyrone 3-09 - 5-06 South Down
 5 – 2009: Longford 5-15 - 2-22 Donegal
 5 – 2009: Donegal 3-16 - 5-11 Tyrone
 5 – 2010: Longford 5-13 - 1-13 South Down
 Most points by one team in a match:
 25 – 2011: South Down 4-25 - 0-08 Leitrim
 Highest aggregate score:
 58 – 2009: Longford 5-15 - 2-22 Donegal
 Lowest aggregate score:
 29 – 2009: Fermanagh 0-14 - 1-12 Leitrim
 29 – 2010: Fermanagh 0-19 - 1-07 Cavan

Successful defending
Only three teams were able to defend their title the following year. None of these teams were able to do so. These are:
  Longford on 0 attempts out of 1 (2011)
  Warwickshire on 0 attempts out of 1 (2014)
  Louth on 0 attempts out of 1 (2021)
Usually defending champions are promoted and a number of teams survived the first year of the Nicky Rackard Cup. These are:

 00 on 00 attempts out of 00 (0000)

Gaps

 Longest gaps between successive cup titles:
 6 years:  Fermanagh (2015–2021)
 Longest gaps between successive Lory Meagher Cup final appearances:
 8 years:  Longford (2014–2022)
 Longest gap between successive championship appearances
 7 years,  Cavan (2010–2017)
 7 years,  Longford (2014–2021)

Active gaps

 Longest active gaps between since last title:
 12 years:  Donegal (2011–)
 11 years:  Tyrone (2012–)
 6 years:  Warwickshire (2017–)
 5 years:  Sligo (2018–)
 4 years:  Leitrim (2019–)
 2 years:  Cavan (2021–)
 2 years:  Fermanagh (2021–)
 1 year:  Longford (2022–)
 1 year:  Louth (2022–)
 Longest active gaps since last cup final appearance:
 12 years:  Donegal (2011–)
 11 years:  Tyrone (2012–)
 9 years:  Longford (2014–)
 6 years:  Warwickshire (2017–)
 5 years:  Sligo (2018–)
 4 years:  Leitrim (2019–)
 2 years:  Fermanagh (2021–)
 1 year:  Louth (2022–)
 Longest active gap since last cup appearance
 12 years:  Donegal (2011–)
 11 years:  South Down (2011–)

Provinces

 Only on 5 occasions has the Lory Meagher Cup final involved two teams from the same province:
 Tyrone vs Donegal (2009)
 Donegal vs Tyrone (2011)
 Tyrone vs Fermanagh (2012)
 Fermanagh vs Cavan (2021)
 Louth vs Longford (2022)
 The province providing the highest number of different winning teams is Ulster, with three:
  Donegal
  Fermanagh
  Tyrone
Province success rates
 Ulster 44% (4 out of 9 counties)
 Connacht 40% (2 out of 5 counties)
 Britain 33% (1 out of 3 counties)
 Leinster 17% (2 out of 12 counties)
 Munster 0% (0 out of 6 counties)

Longest undefeated run
The record for the longest unbeaten run stands at 000 games held by 00 (0000–0000).

Miscellaneous

 Best finish by a debuting team
 Champions,  Tyrone (2009)
 Best finish by a debuting team (after 2009)
 Champions,  Louth (2016)
 Highest winning record
 0%, 00 (00 wins in 00 matches)
 Lowest winning record
 0%, 00 (00 wins in 00 matches)
 Most played match
 0, 00 vs 00 (0000)

Player records

Top scorers

In a season

In final

See also

Lory Meagher Cup records and statistics
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (Tier 1)
Joe McDonagh Cup (Tier 2)
Christy Ring Cup (Tier 3)
Nicky Rackard Cup (Tier 4)

References

All-Ireland inter-county hurling championships
Hurling cup competitions


Multiscale geometric analysis or geometric multiscale analysis is an emerging area of high-dimensional signal processing and data analysis.

See also
Wavelet
Scale space
Multi-scale approaches
Multiresolution analysis
Singular value decomposition
Compressed sensing

Further reading

Signal processing
Spatial analysis


Hillsvale is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in  The Municipality of the District of East Hants in Hants County.

Hillsvale is located on the border between East Hants & West Hants.

Hillsvale was once the home of the McClare Brothers Lumber Mill (McClare Bros. Ltd). As of November 2021, you can still see what remains of the buildings and the huge sawdust piles behind them.

References
Hillsvale on Destination Nova Scotia

Communities in Hants County, Nova Scotia
General Service Areas in Nova Scotia


Eredivisie, literally translated to English as Honorary Division, refers to the top level of competition in Netherlands in a number of sports, most commonly association football. Professional sport leagues that utilize the title include:
 Eredivisie, the men's association football league.
 Beloften Eredivisie, the men's association football reserve league
 Eredivisie (basketball), former name for men's basketball league, which is now known even in Dutch by the English-language name of Dutch Basketball League.
 Eredivisie (women), the women's association football league.
 Eredivisie (women's handball), the women's handball league.
 Eredivisie (men's handball), the men's handball league.
 Eredivisie (ice hockey), the men's ice hockey league.


Apex Hotels is an operator of four star hotels based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company operates 8 hotels in the United Kingdom.

History
Executive Chairman of Apex Hotels, Norman Springford, was previously an employee of the Inland Revenue and owner/operator of a number of public houses, bingo halls, and the Edinburgh Playhouse. In 1996 Norman opened his first hotel, the Apex International Hotel, in Edinburgh. The group now own 8 UK hotels across London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee.

References

External links

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Companies based in Edinburgh
Hotels established in 1996
Hotel chains in the United Kingdom


Sophus Christian Munk Aars (1 October 1841 – 11 April 1931) was a Norwegian civil servant and writer.

He was a son of priest and politician Nils Fredrik Julius Aars (1807–1865) and his wife Sofie Elisabeth Stabel. He was a grandson of priest and politician Jens Aars and a first cousin of banker and politician Jens Ludvig Andersen Aars. He was a second cousin of philosopher Kristian Birch-Reichenwald Aars and architect Harald Aars. In 1885 he married Marie Fredrikke Schydtz (1804–1886).

Munk enrolled as a student in 1861 and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1868. He was hired as a civil servant in the Norwegian Ministry of the Interior from 1872, and worked there until 1917. He was better known for his several books, having "won himself a name in the literature" of the day, starting with 1886's I skoven ('In the Forest'). Most of his books were about the forest and wildlife.

References

1841 births
1931 deaths
Norwegian civil servants
Norwegian writers


Russia has submitted films for the American Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1992. Prior to that, Russian SFSR-produced films formed the vast majority of motion pictures submitted by the former Soviet Union. The Foreign Language Film award is handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.

Each year, the Academy invites countries to submit their best films for competition, with only one film being accepted from each country. The Soviet Union received a total of nine nominations in the category between 1968–1984, including three winners – War and Peace, Dersu Uzala and Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears. Eight of the nominees, including all three winners, were produced by Russian film studios. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, films representing the Russian Federation have had a further seven nominations, including one Oscar win for Burnt by the Sun.

Nikita Mikhalkov has been chosen to represent Russia five times. While The Barber of Siberia was disqualified when the print did not arrive in Los Angeles in time, three other films were nominated for an Oscar.

Submissions
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Russia for review by the Academy since 1992. All Russian submissions were filmed mostly in Russian.

Among the submissions were a horror film about vampires (2004), a Russian film dubbed into German (1999), a controversial anti-corruption film (2014) and a slew of historical dramas.

In 2022, Russia's Oscar Committee, headed by Pavel Chukhray, confirmed its intention to submit a film. However, days later, the Russian Film Academy announced they would not enter. Chukhray resigned in protest and said he was not consulted about the decision. Nikita Mikhalkov, alluding to the United States' reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, had previously said, "The way I see it, choosing a film that will represent Russia in a country that, in fact, now denies the existence of Russia, is simply pointless."

See also
 List of Soviet submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
 Cinema of Russia
 Cinema of the Soviet Union
 List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film

Notes

References

Russian
Academy Award


St Mary of the Angels Roman Catholic Church () is located in Canton, Cardiff. It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff. It opened on 3 November 1907.

The parish priest is Rev. Canon David Hayman.

Church history
The church was designed by architect Frederick Walters and built by W. T. Morgan. The foundation stone of the church was laid on 20 January 1907 by Bishop Hedley and later that year, on 30 October, the altar was consecrated before the church opened on 3 December. The tower was added in 1916. The church is built using roughly dressed Pennant sandstone and cut Bath stone ashlar dressings, in a late 12th-century French style.

In January 1941, the sacristies and St Ann's Chapel in the church were destroyed by an air raid to be rebuilt 10 years later.

In 1952, the church was temporarily closed to repaint and clean the church as well as to install new lighting and amplifiers. The church was repainted again in 1962.

It became a listed building in 1975, as a building of quality by a noted ecclesiastical architect.

In 1991 the church came under the care of the Archdiocese of Cardiff after many years under the Benedictine community.

On 11th October 2022, it was announced that the parish priest, Canon Peter Collins, was to be the new Bishop of East Anglia, in succession to Bishop Alan Hopes.  He was ordained bishop and installed as the fifth Bishop of East Anglia at St John the Baptist Cathedral in Norwich on 14th December 2022.

In January 2023, Archbishop Mark O'Toole appointed Rev. Canon David Hayman, the Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Cardiff, and parish priest of Pontypool, as the new parish priest.

The church underwent an internal reordering in 2000.

The parish has taken responsibility for the parish records of Sacred Heart, Leckwith, Cardiff.

Schools
The church is closely linked to St Mary's R C Primary School in Canton, and to Mary Immaculate High School in Wenvoe.

Catholic higher education for ages 16 to 18 is provided by St David's Catholic College in Penylan, supported by the church.

In the news
The babies of Charlotte Church and Gavin Henson were baptised at St Mary of the Angels church. Ruby Henson was baptised on 28 June 2008 by Fr. Delaney OSB, who Church described as her favourite priest. Their son Dexter Lloyd Henson was christened in August 2009.

In Charlotte Church's Confessional Song, one line is "Poor old Father Delaney", referring to the St Mary's parish priest.

Church Groups
Altar Servers Guild of St. Stephen
St Mary's Music Group
Choir
Ministers of the Word
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
Parish Council
Parish Advisory Council
Children's Liturgy
Offertory group
Saint Vincent de Paul Society
Prayer Group

External links
 Church Website
 Parish YouTube channel

References

Grade II listed churches in Cardiff
Saint Mary
Roman Catholic churches in Cardiff
Frederick Walters buildings
Grade II listed Roman Catholic churches in Wales
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1907
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom
1907 establishments in Wales
Romanesque Revival church buildings in the United Kingdom


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Sir Robert Robertson  (17 April 1869 – 28 April 1949) was a British chemist who served as HM Government's Government Chemist between 1921 and 1936. He was the first person to establish that two types of natural diamond existed.

Life

Robert Robertson was born in Cupar, Fife, the son of J. A. Robertson, a doctor of dental surgery, and Euphemia Russell. He was educated at Bell Baxter High School.  Robertson won the Balgonie Gold Medal in 1885 as Dux of Madras Academy, Cupar, one of the two schools that amalgamated to form Bell Baxter in 1889. The School Honours Boards list the winners of that medal from its institution in 1861.

After leaving school he attended St Andrews University, where he graduated in both Arts and Science. The same institution would later award him an honorary LLD.

He was then appointed assistant in the laboratory of the city analyst in Glasgow. He later obtained the post of analyst in the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey. His work as Director of Explosives Research during the Great War was recognised with the award of a KBE. He was also honoured with his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917. In 1921 he became Chief Government Chemist, a post held until his retirement in 1936. He came out of retirement during the Second World War to head the Armaments Research Department which had been relocated to Swansea University's laboratories.

In 1922 he was elected President of the Faraday Society, in 1924 President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and from 1925 to 1927 he was a council member of the Royal Society of London. In 1944, he was awarded the Royal Society's Davy Medal "[i]n recognition of his researches on explosives, analytical methods, the internal structure of diamond, and infra-red absorption spectra".

Sir Robert Robertson's archives are held by Archive Services, University of Dundee.

Family

Robertson married Kathleen Stannus Stannus in 1903. They had two children: Jesanne Euphemia Stannus in 1909, and Robert Hugh Stannus in 1911. He was brother-in-law to Hugh Stannus Stannus.

References

1869 births
1949 deaths
People from Cupar
People educated at Bell Baxter High School
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
19th-century British chemists
20th-century British chemists
19th-century Scottish people
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Fellows of the Royal Society
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Christen Thorn Aamodt (4 August 1770 – 8 May 1836) was a Norwegian priest.

He was born in Kvinesdal in Vest-Agder, Norway. He was the son of "poor parents". Despite his background, he enrolled as a student in 1789, and eventually graduated with the cand.theol. degree. He was hired as a curate in Vinje in Telemark in 1798 and Nes in Buskerud during 1803. He then became vicar in Valle in Aust-Agder  in 1804. In 1810 he was promoted to dean of Raabyggelagen, which corresponded to the rural inland areas of Aust-Agder including the traditional district of Setesdal.

After five years at Lund in Rogaland from 1814 to 1819, he became dean in Lister, his home district and located in the western part of Vest-Agder. He was especially noted for his years in the Setesdal valley, where he worked with improving the local schools, postal system and health. He did so through his profession as well as involvement in the Royal Norwegian Society for Development (Det Kongelige Selskap for Norges Vel), which was established in 1809.

References

External links
South Norway's Setesdal Valley

1770 births
1836 deaths
18th-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy
People from Kvinesdal
19th-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy


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John Francis Henning (November 22, 1915 – June 4, 2009) was a U.S. labor leader, civil servant, and a former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand (1967–1969) and Under Secretary of Labor (1962–1967). Called "one of organized labor's greatest leaders" and "legendary" for his defense of labor, he is also credited with a positive role in the defense of minimum wage laws and civil rights.

Biography
John Francis Henning was born in San Francisco, California, in November 1915 to lower middle-class Irish American parents. His paternal grandfather, Thomas Henning, was born in Rathfriland, County Down, Northern Ireland. His maternal grandfather was a member of Teamsters Local 85, one of the oldest Teamsters locals in the West. His father was a plumber and charter member of the United Association of Journeymen Plumbers, Gas Fitters, Steam Fitters, and Steam Fitters' Helpers of the United States and Canada who lost his job during the anti-union drives after World War I for his work with the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in English literature from Saint Mary's College of California, he took a position with the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists in San Francisco in 1938, and in 1949 began working for the California Labor Federation (CLF) (the official American Federation of Labor organization in California) as administrative assistant to the Executive Secretary-Treasurer. In 1970, the CLF elected him as Executive Secretary-Treasurer, a position he held until 1996.

He was active in the Knights of the Red Branch, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, in the 1940s, and a strong supporter of the Irish republicanism, the Irish Northern Aid Committee, and the Irish American Unity Conference. He also co-founded the Irish Literary and Historical Society in the 1945.

From 1959 to 1962, Henning was Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. He served as Under Secretary of Labor in the U.S. Department of Labor from 1962 to 1967, where, as Nancy Pelosi noted in a 2000 tribute in Congressional Record, "he was instrumental [...] in preventing restaurants from counting tips as wages under minimum wage laws, and in encouraging the U.S. labor movement to take strong stands for civil rights." From 1967 to 1969, he was U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand. Henning also worked for civil rights during his term as Regent of the University of California from 1989 to 1997, responding to apartheid in South Africa by attempting to divest the University's holdings there.

He was a close friend and ally of labor leader César Chávez, and helped the United Farm Workers win passaged of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act. He also successfully pushed for the restoration of the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (CalOSHA) after it was abolished in 1988 by Governor George Deukmejian.

Henning was also a former regent or member of the board of trustees of Lone Mountain College and St. Mary's College of California. He served on the San Francisco Public Welfare Commission, San Francisco Fair Employment Practices Commission, and San Francisco Board of Permit Appeals.

In 1997, St. Mary's College of California created the Henning Institute to encourage and present scholarship on Catholic social thought. The John F. Henning Center for International Labor Relations was created by the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 to promote the study of labor and policy research in the global economy.

Henning and his wife, Betty, had seven children (John Jr., Brian, Patrick, Nancy, Daniel, Thomas, and Mary). Betty Henning died in 1994. His son, Patrick, served as California state labor commissioner and then director of the state's employment development department.

John Henning died at his home in San Francisco on June 4, 2009, in his sleep after a long illness.

Awards and honors
Henning was named a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1986.

He received honorary doctorates from Saint Anselm College, St. Bonaventure University, and St. Mary's College of California.

Notes

External links
California Labor Federation
Henning Institute, St. Mary's College of California
John F. Henning Center for International Labor Relations, University of California, Berkeley

1915 births
2009 deaths
People from San Francisco
Saint Mary's College of California alumni
American trade union leaders
University of San Francisco people
Ambassadors of the United States to New Zealand
United States Department of Labor officials
Activists from California
20th-century American diplomats


On 27 March 2009, at least one boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy capsized. The boat is believed to have been carrying 250 migrants from Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine and Nigeria. A rescue attempt involving the Italian and Libyan navies rescued 21 survivors from the boat and retrieved 21 bodies. A further 77 bodies subsequently washed up on the shores of Libya before rescue efforts were called off. Two other boats also went missing between Libya and Italy, carrying around 250 more people between them. A fourth boat, carrying 350 people, was rescued by an Italian merchant ship on 29 March in the same area of sea.

Boat confirmed sunk
One vessel was confirmed by Libyan authorities to have capsized. It was a wooden fishing boat with a legal capacity of 50 persons and was attempting a crossing from Libya to Italy while carrying around 250 migrants. The boat set off from Sidi Bilal, near Tripoli, where survivors have said that it was already in a poor condition and possibly holed. The vessel is thought to have capsized  off the Libyan coast on 27 March 2009 in high winds and seas. A search and rescue attempt was made on 29 March by the Libyan Navy, Italian Navy and local fishing boats, which recovered 21 people alive from the upturned boat and a further 23 bodies. At least 10 Egyptians and 10 Gambians were among the dead, along with Tunisians, Palestinians and Nigerians. Those rescued were returned to Tripoli and 17 were admitted to hospital for treatment. A further 77 bodies washed ashore on beaches to the west of Tripoli, including at Sebrata, on 31 March, the same day that search and rescue efforts were called off and the Libyan authorities made the news public. The remaining passengers were listed as missing, presumed dead.

Other boats
A second boat, similar to the one that capsized and carrying another 350 people, was rescued by an Italian merchant ship in the same area of sea on 29 March after being spotted by a nearby oil platform. Two more similar boats arrived in Italy in subsequent weeks, and a further two remained missing, having left Libya but never arrived in Italy. Coastguards from the two countries continued to search for the latter two boats. The capsized boat and the two that went missing are thought to have carried at least 500 people, of whom 200 were Nigerian.

The smuggling season normally runs from April to October but boats were sailing throughout the winter of 2008-9, which brings poor weather.

Reaction
Apart from the search attempts, the Italian and Libyan navies agreed to begin joint patrols of the area between the two countries from May 2009 in an attempt to halt the people smuggling operations.

See also
 May 2007 Malta migrant shipwreck
 2011 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck
 2013 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck

References

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The role of a Turkey national football team manager was first established in 1923 with the appointment of Ali Sami Yen. The most successful manager is Fatih Terim, he managed the national team in 136 matches, winning 70 matches. Guus Hiddink holds the record as the highest paid national team manager in the history of Turkish football.

Statistics

References

Turkey national team managers (TFF)
RSSSF.com – Turkey national team coaches

Turkey


Nemesis is a 2009 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the 20th book of the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series. Set in Latium during AD 77, the novel stars Marcus Didius Falco, informer and imperial agent. In Ancient Greece and Rome, Nemesis was the spirit of divine retribution against those who had succumbed to hubris (overweening pride). In the book, Falco is warned by Anacrites, the Imperial Chief Spy, to be wary of Nemesis following Falco's inheritance of his father's sizeable fortune, while the Claudii, the novel's primary antagonists who meet unpleasant endings, are revealed to have fallen foul of their hubris.

Plot summary
The story, set in Latium in 77 AD, opens with the deaths of Falco's newborn son (posthumously named Justinianus) and Marcus Didius Geminus, alias Favonius, Falco's estranged father. Following the funeral, Falco is astounded to discover that his father has left him and the rest of the Didii family a sizeable fortune. There is a problem, before Geminus died, he impregnated Falco's friend Thalia and as a result, he is now forced to adopt Thalia's child when it is born.

Frustrated at this turn of events, Falco audits his father's business contacts, debtors and creditors but soon discovers a debt owed which was never paid because the creditor, Julius Modestus, has disappeared. He travels to the towns south of Rome with his adopted daughter Albia (who is unhappy that Falco's brother-in-law Aulus has married someone else) to look for Modestus but can't find him. He pays the debt owed to Modestus' nephew, Sextus Silanus (and to investigate the disappearance of Silanus' uncle) while his friend Lucius Petronius Longus, the captain of the vigiles in Rome's Twelfth District, finally discovers Modestus, who has been murdered and eviscerated. A clan of Imperial freedmen in the Pontine Marshes, the Claudii (consisting of four siblings named Nobilis, Probus, Virtus and Pius and their wives and female siblings) are implicated in Modestus' grisly murder but as Falco and Petronius investigate further, they attract the interest of the Imperial Chief Spy, Anacrites who, as usual, takes the case away from them.

Another victim emerges, a courier is found murdered and mutilated in the same manner as Modestus, while Anacrites' behaviour begins to become more erratic (and suspect) even as Falco and Petronius (covertly) investigate the murders further, eventually discovering more victims and the murderers, who are none other than the four Claudii brothers. It is thus discovered that Modestus may have been killed by the Claudii for attempting to speak out against them. Falco and Petro' find Pius prowling around Falco's house and abduct him; failing to extract any information from Pius, they send him away to become a slave in a mine. Virtus and Probus are finally apprehended while Nobilis dies by falling upon the swords of Falco and his comrades.

After the Claudii are wiped out, they surmise that the Claudii may have had a fifth brother who could be a confederate. The identity of this brother and his connections to Falco, his friends and the imperial government are finally deduced; Falco and Petronius realise that Anacrites has been manipulating them all along. The Didii, Camilli (Falco's in-laws) and Petronii families realise that they know too much and their lives (and possibly even the Flavian dynasty) are perhaps threatened by this missing brother. Forced to make a difficult decision, Falco and Petronius take matters into their hands, conspiring to "send Nemesis to deal with him" once and for all.

Themes

 Rural life in the Pontine Marshes region of Italy in the Roman era
 Geminus' death, and its effect on Falco and his family fortunes (by way of inheritance)
 Anacrites' personal history and backstory
 Flavia Albia's emergence as an independent delatrix, anticipated in The Ides of April (2013)

References

External links
 lindseydavis.co.uk Author's Official Website

Marcus Didius Falco novels
2009 British novels
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Minotaur Books books
Century (imprint) books


The UNIS Flyers are an ice hockey club located in Heerenveen, Netherlands. The team competes in the BeNe League and also takes part in the Dutch Cup. Home games are played in the  ice hockey arena  which forms part of the Thialf complex.

History
The UNIS Flyers were founded in 1967 and played their first season in the Eredivisie in 1971-72. The Flyers set the Eredivisie record for the most consecutive championships with 7 between 1976 and 1983.

Heerenveen is the smallest Dutch city currently represented in the BeNe League (although the Belgian city of Herentals is smaller).

Over the years, the Flyers have competed under a variety of different names, since 2013 they have been known as the UNIS Flyers, due to a sponsorship deal with industrial electronics company UNIS Group.

 Names marked with * are sponsorship names.

Championships
 National Championship
 9 times Champion: 1976-77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 2015-16, 2016-17
 Dutch Cup
 12 times winner: 1976-77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1987–88, 1997–98, 2001-02, 2015-16, 2016-2017

Season results
 Recent seasons from 2005-06 to 2012-13.
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points

Roster

Updated February 25, 2019.

Staff
 Mike Nason – Head Coach
 Jacco Landman – Assistant Coach
 Rob van Aalderen – Team manager
 Theo van der Duin - Equipment manager
 Erik Veen – Physiotherapist
 Piety Elsinga - Physiotherapist

Former coaches
  Alex Andjelic
  Dave Hyrsky
  Chuck Norris

Notable players
  Alwin Assenberg
  Jolke Balt
  Jeroen Beeksma
  Cole Byers

References

External links
 UNIS Flyers
 Netherlands Ice Hockey Union
  website TYSC Tilburg

BeNe League (ice hockey) teams
Ice hockey teams in the Netherlands
 Ice hockey clubs established in 1967
1967 establishments in the Netherlands
 Sport in Heerenveen


Leo Maximilan Baginski, known as Max Baginski (born June 7, 1891, in Kolmar (now Chodzież), Province of Posen; died March 19, 1964, in Locarno, Switzerland) was a German entrepreneur, inventor and marketing specialist. He invented the „Spalt“-tablet, an analgesic bearing a characteristic split-mark. He donated the funds for building the Catholic parish church of St. Katharina in Bad Soden am Taunus, Germany.

Early life
Max Baginski was born as one of seven children of a mason and contractor. After the death of his father in 1897, he lived with aunt and uncle. After school he went to Berlin, where he completed a mercantile apprenticeship. He quit his first job after six months and started his own business marketing a first patented invention, an all-purpose bottle cap. In 1912 he acquired the pharmaceutical firm Dr. Ballowitz & Co. in Berlin. While he served in the German armed forces during World War I, his companies were run by three of his sisters. In 1920 he married Katharina Stanke (1900–1982). The couple had three daughters and one son and lived during 1920er on island Schwanenwerder.

Inventions

The big success of another invention, a massage device, enabled Baginski to expand his enterprise. In 1931 he teamed up with the prominent serologist  Hans Much (1880–1932) and founded another company named  „Prof. Dr. med. Much’sche Präparate m.b.H.“, where the „Spalt“-tablet was created in 1932. After World War II, however, most of his production plants ended up in the soviet zone. Baginski himself was accused of having had employed forced labourers, arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. There he vowed to build a church, if he would survive.

The Soviet authorities released Max Baginski in August 1948. From his enterprises only the Dr. Ballowitz & Co. had escaped disappropriation, but fortunately, this was where all his trademarks had been registered. This enabled Baginski to go on producing his articles which he did in Bad Soden am Taunus, a spa town some 15 Kilometers northwest of Frankfurt am Main. In 1953, a new factory of the Prof. Dr. med. Much AG started production and in 1955 Baginski fulfilled his vow by providing the funds for a new church for the town’s catholic parish, a new vicarage and a kindergarten that today bears Baginski’s name.

Death
Before his death in 1964, Max Baginski put his son Jürgen in control over the Prof. Dr. med Much AG. Jürgen Baginski sold the company in 1972 to American Home Products Corp.  This group, that changed its name to Wyeth in 2002, integrated the “Much AG” to its subsidiary Whitehall International. The factory in Bad Soden was closed in 1993.

References
 Christoph Friedrich: Spalt. Festschrift zum 75. Jubiläum, Whitehall-Much GmbH, Münster 2007
 Rudolf von Nolting: Geheimrat L.M. Baginski und sein Werk. Nach privaten Aufzeichnungen und Dokumenten, Bad Soden a. Ts. 1993
 Joachim Kromer: Chronik der katholischen Pfarrgemeinde St. Katharina Bad Soden a. Ts., Materialien zur Bad Sodener Geschichte / 20, Bad Soden 1996

1891 births
1964 deaths
People from Chodzież
People from the Province of Posen
Businesspeople from Hesse
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
German businesspeople in the healthcare industry


Johnny Dollar may refer to:

 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, a radio drama
 Johnny Dollar (musician) (1933–1986), American country and rockabilly musician
 Johnny Dollar (blues musician) (1941–2006), American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
 Jonny Dollar (1964–2009), English record producer and songwriter


Oluf Andreas Aabel (9 October 1825 – 24 December 1895) was a Norwegian priest and writer.

He was born in Sogndal as the son of priest Peter Pavels Aabel. He was a brother of Morten Andreas Leigh Aabel, and an uncle of Hauk Aabel.

He finished his secondary education at Christiania Cathedral School in 1843, and graduated with the cand.theol. degree in 1847. After graduation, he worked as a teacher; he was also a research fellow at the Royal Frederick University from 1851 to 1854, but did not pursue an academic career. He was instead hired as a curate in Land in 1857 and Sigdal in 1863. He then became vicar in Jevnaker in 1878 and in Søndre Land in 1897. In 1881 he was promoted to dean of Hadeland and Land.

He translated Georg Benedikt Winer's Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Sprachidioms in 1852, and published a translation of the biblical work of Otto von Gerlach. He also published a work of his own, Omrids af Det christelige Troesindhold, which came in two editions in 1855 and 1864.

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Norwegian translators
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Fiduciary management is an approach to asset management that involves an asset owner appointing a third party to manage the total assets of the asset owner on an integrated basis through a combination of advisory and delegated investment services, with a view to achieving the asset owner's overall investment objectives. In principle, the model can be applied to the investments of any asset owner. In practice, the label is currently only used in relation to the management of institutional assets as opposed to retail assets and in relation to the management of assets of pension funds in particular and insurance companies to a lesser degree.

Background
Fiduciary management originally evolved in the Netherlands and the UK in the early years of the 21st century.

One of the first to air the concept was Anton van Nunen and in the Netherlands it was first implemented at VGZ, a Dutch insurance company, where Haitse Hoos was the first Chief Investment Officer of a fiduciary mandate. After that, the concept was adopted quickly by Dutch pension funds. According to research by  Bureau Bosch , more than 75% of Dutch pension fund assets were managed using the fiduciary management model by Q1 2009.

UK pension schemes started using fiduciary management in 2003, when some clients of River and Mercantile Solutions (formerly P-Solve), the ex-investment consulting arm of Punter Southall, asked it to implement its investment advice for them. The model has since gained considerable ground in the UK.

One of the first international fiduciary mandates was implemented by the Germany company Henkel in 2006. The UK investment bank RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland, Solutions team led by Bart Kuijpers) developed an approach to virtually manage multi-country pension plans in a holistic manner. The mandate to select external managers was eventually awarded to BlackRock, where RBS managed the risk of the mismatch between assets and liabilities via a liability driven investment mandate.

Overview
The primary drivers for the emergence of fiduciary management as an asset management model are the increasing complexity of asset management and the (increasing) economies of scale in asset management. The complexity manifests itself primarily in three different ways: a) increasing range of options available for the investment of assets and management of risk (e.g. new asset classes such as hedge funds and new instruments such as swaps and other financial derivative instruments), b) increasing regulatory complexity (e.g. the Financial Assessment Framework (FTK) for Dutch pension funds) and c) the increasing (real or perceived) instability and or volatility in financial markets which calls for a more dynamic approach to asset management. Only those asset owners that have sufficient scale can organise themselves in an economically efficient and sustainable manner to handle this increasing complexity. Increasing specialisation (a direct result of the increasing complexity itself) and availability of increasingly powerful information technology have contributed to a further increase in the minimum size that is required to efficiently manage institutional assets. These factors are consistent with the fact that fiduciary management has – at least to date – been adopted by pension funds primarily. After all, many pension funds are relatively small (at least in terms of the modern standards in the finance industry where tens of billions are the standard) and are managed by part-time, lay trustees. As a result, many pension funds lack the scale and skill to effectively and efficiently manage the increasing complexity internally.

Fiduciary management helps such organisations by providing an integrated solution by providing advice on the setting of an appropriate investment strategy, the construction and dynamic management of a well-diversified portfolio, the implementation of that portfolio (including the selection and appointment of third party asset managers and custodians, and continuous monitoring and oversight of risk on an integrated basis. It is a form of outsourcing in which the implementation and oversight of a pension fund’s investment strategy are all entrusted to a single external provider (the fiduciary manager) subject to the investment strategy set by the asset owner. Important to note is that, despite the label 'fiduciary management', by law fiduciary duty generally cannot be delegated. Strategic decisions must therefore continue to be taken by the asset owner.

The providers of fiduciary management services can be divided into three groups:

 Asset managers
These are commercial organisations that traditionally specialise in the management of specific asset management products in specific asset classes. Some of those have evolved to offer a 'total solution', including advisory services. They in turn can be divided into three groups: a) diversified asset managers with expertise in a broad range of asset classes, b) multi-managers, and c) (liability) hedging specialists. Leading examples in the first group include AXA, Blackrock, BMO Global Asset Management, Goldman Sachs, ING, Kempen and Robeco – Corestone while Russell Investments and SEI  are leading examples of the second group. Cardano is an example of the third group.

 Pension delivery organisations
These are organisations that have been created by pension funds by spinning off their in-house teams into independent organisations that specialise in providing solutions for pension schemes. This group is particularly prevalent in the Netherlands. Leading examples in this group include APG (formerly part of the ABP Pension Fund), Blue Sky Group (originally part of the KLM Pension Fund), MN  (formerly part of the PMT Pension Fund) and PGGM (formerly part of the PFWZ Pension Fund).

 Investment consultants
These are commercial organisations that have traditionally offered advisory-only services. Some of those have evolved to offer a 'total solution', including delegated services. Some of these organisations offer their services under the label 'fiduciary management', while others describe their services by alternative labels such as 'implemented consulting', 'delegated consulting' or 'delegated chief investment officer'. Examples in this group are Aon Hewitt, Angeles Investment Advisors, Mercer, River and Mercantile Solutions and Towers Watson.

More information
Anton van Nunen has written a book on Fiduciary Management. More information can be found on The Fiduciary Management Group on LinkedIn.

See also
Aon Hewitt
BlackRock
Goldman Sachs
MN
River and Mercantile Solutions
Robeco
Russell Investments
SEI Investments

References

Van Nunen, Anton foreword by Ezra, Don. Fiduciary Management: Blueprint for Pension Fund Excellence. John Wiley and Sons, 2007. ,  the Dutch version
Fiduciair Management  – the book is also available in German and Japanese
New Perspectives on Fiduciary Management by Wouter Pelser et.al. 2011
Current Challenges for the Fiduciary Manager by Wouter Pelser 2013
Going Dutch: The Future of Fiduciary Management
What Does Fiduciary Duty Mean?
Dutch Articles:
Fiduciair Beheer 2008 – article in Dutch by Anton van Nunen and Haitse Hoos
What is Fiduciary Management – article in Dutch by Anton van Nunen

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Janez Lenarčič (born 6 November 1967) is a Slovenian diplomat who has been serving as European Commissioner for Crisis Management in the Von der Leyen Commission since 2019. He is a former Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights within the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Early life and education

Lenarčič holds a degree in international law from the University of Ljubljana, 1992.

Career in diplomacy
Lenarčič entered the Slovenian foreign service in 1992 . His first posting in 1994-1999 was at the Mission of Slovenia to the United Nations in New York.
From 2000 to 2001 Lenarčič worked as adviser to the foreign minister and Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek. From 2002 to 2003 he served as secretary of state in the office of the prime minister.
Lenarčič was ambassador of Slovenia to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna from 2003 to 2006, and chaired the OSCE Permanent Council in 2005 during the Slovenian chairmanship.
From 2006 to 2008 Lenarčič was secretary of state for European affairs, including representing Slovenia during the Lisbon Treaty negotiations in 2007 and later representing the Slovenian EU Council Presidency to the European Parliament in 2008.

Lenarčič then moved to Warsaw as Director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) until 2014.

In 2014 Lenarčič was named secretary of state in the cabinet of the Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar. In 2016 he moved to Brussels as Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the EU.

Member of the European Commission, 2019–present
In 2019 Lenarčič was nominated by Prime Minister Marjan Šarec (Renew Europe) for the post of Slovenia's European Commissioner in the Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen.

In early March 2020, Lenarčič was appointed by von der Leyen to serve on the Commission's special task force to coordinate the European Union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Awards
Lenarčič received France's highest award, the Légion d'honneur.

References

External links

 CV at the Slovenian Government's website
 Janez Lenarčič takes up job as new ODIHR director

1967 births
Government ministers of Slovenia
Living people
OSCE ODIHR directors
Diplomats from Ljubljana
Permanent Representatives of Slovenia to the United Nations
Slovenian European Commissioners
University of Ljubljana alumni
European Commissioners 2019–2024


John Dennis Ryan (October 10, 1864 – February 11, 1933) was an American industrialist and copper mining magnate.  He served as President of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and was a founder of the Montana Power Company.

Biography
Ryan was born on October 10, 1864, in Hancock, Michigan, in Copper Country. He began selling lubricating oil in the western American states from a base in Denver, Colorado. Relocating to Butte, Montana, he later became close to Margaret Daly, the widow of banking and mining magnate Marcus Daly, who had died in 1900, and he acquired an interest in 1901 in the Daly Bank and Trust Co. in Anaconda, becoming its president. As such, he was closely involved with the management of Mrs. Daly’s fortune.

Marcus Daly had been heavily involved in copper mining, and was involved with a syndicate led by Standard Oil principals Henry H. Rogers and William Rockefeller which created a new company, Amalgamated Copper Mining Company, and acquired Daly's Anaconda Copper Co., with Daly retaining a financial interest.

Amalgamated was in competition with Copper Kings William A. Clark and especially F. Augustus Heinze. Clark initially sided with Heinze, but later sold his holdings to Amalgamated. Heinze’s mines in Butte were consolidated in 1902 as the United Copper Company. Thus, no single organization was able to monopolize copper extraction in Montana. In addition, although Butte was then the most prolific copper-mining district in the world, Amalgamated could not control other copper-mining districts, such as those in Michigan, Arizona, and countries outside the United States. Ryan is reputed to have had exceptional negotiating skills. He convinced Heinze to walk away with abundant compensation.

Rogers and Rockefeller were then able to gain complete control of Butte's copper as they merged them all with Amalgamated.  Ryan became its president, and was rewarded with significant package of Amalgamated shares. The "right hand" of John Ryan was Cornelius Kelley, a young attorney who soon was given the position of vice-president. The reorganized company was again named Anaconda, as it had been under Daly.

Henry Rogers died suddenly in 1909 of a stroke, but William Rockefeller brought in his son Percy Rockefeller to help with leadership. During World War I, Ryan took leave from Anaconda to work for the government and the American Red Cross. He was named Director General of the Red Cross' War Relief Program in 1917.

President Wilson appointed Ryan as new head of the Aircraft Production Board in April 1918, succeeding Howard Coffin. Shortly after the war had ended in late 1918, Ryan resigned and returned to private business.

Kelley served as President of Anaconda in the interim. After the War, Ryan assumed the position of Chairman, with Kelley continuing as company president.

Under Percy Rockefeller, Ryan and Kelley, Anaconda acquired additional mining businesses outside the United States and by the 1920s, was expanding into new areas of activity which included manganese, zinc, aluminum, uranium and silver. It became the fourth largest company in the world.

He died on February 11, 1933, in Manhattan, New York City.

Legacy
In 1928 Ryan and Percy Rockefeller aggressively speculated on Anaconda shares, causing them to go up at first (at which point they sold) and then to go down (at which point they bought them back). Known today as a "pump and dump", at the time it was not illegal, and was actually quite common. The prices, under the pressure of a "joint account" set up by Ryan and Rockefeller of nearly a million and a half shares of Anaconda Copper Company, fluctuated from $128 in December 1928 to $40 in March 1929.

Smaller investors were completely wiped out. The results are still considered one of the great fleecings in Wall Street history. The American Senate hearings concluded that those operations cost the public, at the very least, $150 million.

When the U.S. stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, Anaconda suffered serious financial setbacks. Moreover, at the same time, copper prices started going down dramatically. Things at Anaconda worsened as the Great Depression set in.

Ryan's Anaconda shares, once worth $175 each, had dropped to $4 at the bottom of the Great Depression. Ryan died in 1933, and was buried in a copper coffin. His protege', Cornelius Kelley, was named Chairman of Anaconda in 1940. In 1977, the company was purchased by Atlantic Richfield Corporation (Arco) and operations shut down permanently in 1982.

Ryan is credited with consolidation of several regional electrical generating companies into a single entity, Montana Power Company. This providing Anaconda with low-cost electricity for its mines and smelters. As president of Montana Power, he fostered electrification of the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway and electrical improvements in the mines.

A 1933 Senate banking committee called the stock manipulating operations of Anaconda in the late 1920s one of the greatest frauds in American banking history and a leading cause of the 1930s depression.

John D. Ryan was named ninth in a listing of the 100 most important people in Montana of the 20th century. He was inducted posthumously into the National Mining Hall of Fame at Leadville, Colorado in 2005. Carrie Johnson, a historian, wrote a story about Ryan's rise to power which was published in Montana – The Magazine of Western History.

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1864 births
1933 deaths
American businesspeople in metals
People from Hancock, Michigan
People from Butte, Montana
Anaconda Copper
American mining businesspeople
Businesspeople from Michigan


Domagojević dynasty () was a native Croatian dynasty that ruled in Croatia, probably from 864 until 892, with interruptions. After the Trpimirović dynasty, they are the most well known Croatian dynasty in the Early Middle Ages.

The dynasty was named after Domagoj, the first member of the dynasty known by name. The most famous of the Domagojević dynasty members are Domagoj (founder) and Branimir.

The relation between Domagoj and Branimir is controversial. Some historians think that Branimir was a son of Domagoj; some think they were in some other family relation. Others think that there was no family relationship between them.

Dukes of Croatia
Domagoj (864–876)
Unnamed son of Domagoj (876–878)
Branimir (879–892)

See also
 List of rulers of Croatia
 Duchy of Croatia

References

External links
Members of the Domagojević family among the Croatian statesmen (in English)
House of Domagojević in the chronology and history of Croatia (in Italian)
The History of Croatia (in Croatian) by Rudolf Horvat

Croatian dynasties
Lists of monarchs
Medieval Croatian nobility
9th-century Croatian people
Duchy of Croatia