Waituhi is a small settlement in the Gisborne District of New Zealand's North Island. It is  northwest of the city of Gisborne, on the western bank of the Waipaoa River. It is notable as the historic site of Popoia pā, and as the setting for several novels and short stories of Witi Ihimaera. Members of the Te Whanau-a-Kai Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki iwi (tribe) are the tangata whenua (“the people of the land”). In 2009 a project to develop a community drinking water supply was started.

History

Ruapani
Ruapani was regarded as the paramount chief of all the Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes around 1525. His influence also extended widely around the region. It is said that the aristocratic lines of descent from Paoa and Kiwa of the Horouta waka converged upon him and his rule was undisputed.
Ruapani lived at a pā, Popoia, near Waituhi.

He had three wives. His first wife was Wairau. His second wife was Uenukukōihu and his third wife was Rongomaipāpā, who was a daughter of Kahungunu and Rongomaiwahine. When Ruapani died, Tūhourangi took Rongomaipāpā as his wife and founded the present Tūhourangi tribe in Rotorua, which is part of the Te Arawa confederation of tribes.
The importance of Ruapani is clearly shown in the whakapapa (genealogy) lines of all the tribes in the Tūranganui-a-Kiwa district. With the emergence of these tribes, like Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata and Ngāi Tāmanuhiri — Ruapani's influence began to wane and he retreated inland to the home of his relations in the Lake Waikaremoana area, where he lived out his days. The Ngāti Ruapani still consider themselves as the descendants of Ruapani.

Rongopai
Rongopai is a great painted wharenui (meeting house) built at Waituhi for Te Kooti in 1887 by the Whānau-a-Kair hapū of the Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki iwi. Local leader and politician Wi Pere was part of the process in creating the wharenui. Rongopai has paintings rather than carvings and is significant to Māori art because of this. Eria Tutara-Kauika Raukura (1834/5 – 1938), the leading tohunga of the Ringatu church, founded by Te Kooti, became a guardian of Rongopai in 1913, and he was still active there as a guardian and tohunga in the mid-1920s.

Another marae at Waituhi is Pakohai.

Another marae at Waituhi is Takitimu

Witi Ihimaera
Waituhi is the setting of several of Witi Ihimaera's novels, including Tangi (1973), The Matriarch (1986), Bulibasha, king of the Gypsies (1994) and Band of Angels (2005).

As Millar states,<ref name=Millar>Millar, Paul – Witi Ihimaera in Robinson, Roger & Nelson Wattie (ed.) - The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature”. 1998. pp. 254–256</ref> much of Ihimaera's fiction is based on fact, but his work is never simply autobiographical. Waituhi, for example, the village setting for many of his narratives, is an imaginative recreation of the actual place. The fictional Waituhi's ‘physical cohesion [providing] an "objective correlative" to the ethos that binds the tangata whenua together’.

OperaWaituhi – The Life of the Village was an opera with music from Ross Harris; libretto by Witi Ihimaera. This four-act opera  is based on the novel Whanau'' and is the story of the writer's life in an East Coast (New Zealand) village. It is scored for 23 soloists, chorus, and full orchestra.
The  opera was first performed at the State Opera House in Wellington in 1984.

Different meanings of 'Waituhi' in Māori
Waituha has some different meanings in Māori:
 A waituhi was a pool of water or bird trough with fixed snares over it.
 or: freshet, first signs of water in a stream.
 Waituhi can also mean: to perform certain rites over a woman at or after childbirth; or
 to perform rites over a child at the cutting of the navel-string.
 Waituhi can also mean: red.

Footnotes

Literature
 Murton, Brian J. (1979) - Waituhi: A Place in Maori New Zealand. in: New Zealand Geographer. Vol. 35 Issue 1, pp. 24–33.

Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki
Populated places in the Gisborne District


Babanusa () is a town in western Sudan.

History
In 1965, 72 Dinka civilians were massacred in the town by an Arab mob during the First Sudanese Civil War.

Climate

Transport

It is a railway junction on the national railway network where the line to Waw in South Sudan branches off to the south from the line westwards to Nyala.

See also

 Railway stations in Sudan

References

Populated places in West Kordofan
Massacres in 1965


Eye to Eye is a Philippine television talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Inday Badiday, it premiered on January 11, 1988. In 1991, the show was expanded into one hour and it was reformatted to include a public service portion. The show concluded on August 9, 1996.

Hosts
 Inday Badiday

Segment hosts
 Nap Gutierrez
 Alfie Lorenzo

Substitute hosts
 Kris Aquino
 Janice de Belen
 Cristy Fermin
 Sharon Cuneta

Segments
 Eye Sore
 Eye Witness Showbiz Balita
 Eye Catcher
 Eye Opener
 Eye of the Week
 Pandora's Box (co-hosted by Alfie Lorenzo)
 Lahat Lahat Na
 Mata ng Bayan
 Mata ng Buhay (The PLDT Good News)
 Sports Eye
 Eye Phone
 Showbiz na Showbiz
 Mata sa Mata

Accolades

References

External links

1988 Philippine television series debuts
1996 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine television talk shows


Coprinopsis lagopus is a species of fungus in the family Psathyrellaceae. Until 2001, the species was known as Coprinus lagopus; advances in the understanding of phylogenetic relationships between the various coprinoid species led to a major reorganization of that genus. It is a delicate and short-lived fungus, the fruit bodies lasting only a few hours before dissolving into a black ink – a process called deliquescence. The vague resemblance of the young fruit body to the paw of a white rabbit has earned this species the common name harefoot mushroom.

Description

The fruit body size of Coprinopsis lagopus can vary tremendously. This fungus gives rise to very small fruit bodies (known as dwarf fruit-bodies), some of which are less than one-hundredth the size of the larger ones. In a series of experiments, Arthur Henry Reginald Buller grew spores on horse dung and noted a large range of size variation: the smallest specimen having a stem length of 1 mm and cap diameter of 0.75 mm, while the largest specimen had a stem length of  and cap diameter of 2 cm. Buller noted that the dwarf fruit-bodies are fully functional, producing and liberating spores in a manner identical with normal ones. The great variation in size has led some authors to erroneously name the dwarf fruit-bodies as new species. For example, George Edward Massee considered the dwarfs to be a new species, Coprinus radiatus. In general, dwarf fruit-bodies have stem lengths from 1–10 mm tall and cap of 0.75–3 mm in diameter, while large specimens have stems that are  tall and 2–5 mm wide, with cap diameters of . The thickness of the stem in the larger specimens is typically 4–6 mm thick, up to 0.8 mm thick at the club-shaped or bulbous base.

The color of the cap surface is pale to very dark-brown at center beneath the whitish to silvery grey veil but becomes paler towards the margin. As the mushroom matures, the shape of the cap becomes more conical or convex, and finally flattens out, with edges curved upward. The veil is initially whitish, then turns to a silvery grey or grey-brown; it eventually splits up, becoming hairy (fibrillose). The gills are freely attached to the stem, very thin and crowded closely together. Initially, the color of the gills is white, then progresses to grayish-brown then to black as the spores mature. In maturity the gill edges dissolve (deliquesce) into a black liquid.

These mushrooms are evanescent, lasting only a few hours before dying; the autodigestive process is enhanced in humid environments. The stem is whitish in color, and is hollow, hairy (flocculose) over the whole surface but especially at lower parts, and becomes smooth (glabrous) with age. The spore print is violet-black.

The species is nonpoisonous. Its edibility is unknown but it is considered too small to be worthwhile.

Microscopic features
Spores have dimensions of 11–13 x 6–8 μm. They are ellipsoid or ovoid in shape, with a rounded base and apex, dark red-brown in color, and nonamyloid.

The cystidia found on the sides of the gills (pleurocystidia) are abundant in large fruit bodies, fewer in number in the smaller specimens. These cells are oval, rounded at the apex with a bulge in the middle, and contracted into a stalk at the base. The length of these cells is typically 100–130 μm, with a width of 35–45 μm. Before the cap expands, each cystidium completely branches an interlamellar space, with both ends attached to the gills, help together by clasping paraphyses. As the gill expands the cystidium breaks away from one gill and projects from the other gill. The basidia (spore-bearing cells) comes in two sizes; long basidia have dimensions of 40 × 8–10 μm, while the shorter basidia have dimensions of 23 × 8–10 μm. The basidia have four spores, which are attached by short sterigmata.

Habitat and distribution
Coprinopsis lagopus grows solitarily or in groups in soil as well as on wood chips, compost heaps, vegetable refuse, horse dung, or cattle dung from autumn to mid-winter. It has a widespread distribution throughout the world.

Similar species
The related species Coprinopsis lagopides (P. Karst) Redhead, Vilgalys & Montcalvo is similar in appearance, but more typically grows on a substrates like humus, or burnt or charred wood; it also tends to deliquesce more quickly and completely than C. lagopus. C. lagopides may be distinguished microscopically by its smaller spores (6–9 by 5–7 μm) that are roughly spherical or ovoid in shape, rather than elliptical as in C. lagopus.

Bioactive compounds
Coprinopsis lagopus produces four sesquiterpene compounds that are collectively named lagopodins, which have some antibiotic activity. A total synthesis of lagopodin A was achieved in 2006.

Genetics
Coprinopis lagopus has been used as a model system for studying mushroom physiology and genetics for many decades.

See also

List of Coprinopsis species

References

Cited texts
 Buller AHR. (1924). Researches on Fungi. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Fungi of North America
Fungi of Europe
lagopus
Fungi described in 1821
Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries


Friedrich Ulfers (born 1934) is Professor of German at New York University. He is a distinguished fellow, having been awarded several honors from New York University. He also is the dean of the media and communications division at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, where he confers on the giving of master's and Ph.D. degrees to students. He has written as a literary critic and a philosopher.

Career
Ulfers was born in Giessen, Germany, in 1934. He immigrated to New York, New York, where he attended college. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the City College of New York in 1959, a master's degree in 1961 from NYU, and a Ph.D. from NYU in 1968.

Ulfers began teaching at NYU in 1982 and has worked with EGS since its conception. He has been chair to a Nietzsche Conference at NYU, chair to a special session on Günter Grass for the Modern Language Association, as well as chair to a session on autobiographical writings at Hofstra University.

Ulfers has served numerous administrative functions, such as the NYU's German department director of undergraduate studies, director of the NYU in Berlin summer program in the department of global affairs and, most recently, director of the Deutsches Haus at NYU.

On 15 March 2007, Ulfers was appointed dean of the media and communications division at the EGS, in the place of Wolfgang Schirmacher.

Ulfers has written on a variety of subjects, such as German romanticism, the novel in the 20th century, philosophy at the turn of the century, and post-structuralism as well as deconstruction.

Works
(2006) Ulfers, Friedrich. Times Square as an Exemplar of Postmodern Urban Space. Toward a New Metropolitanism: Reconstituting Public Culture, Urban Citizenship, and the Multicultural Imaginary in New York and Berlin. Ed. Friedrich Ulfers, Gunter Lenz, and Antje Dallmann. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 251-60.
(2005) Ulfers, Friedrich. "Nietzsche's Amor Fati - The Embracing of an Undecided Fate." Accepted for publication in Poiesis - A Journal of the Arts and Communication.
(2004) Ulfers, Friedrich. "Nietzsche's Ontological Roots in Goethe's Classicism." in: Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition. Ed. Paul Bishop. Boydell & Brewer Ltd (UK).
(2003)Ulfers, Friedrich. "Von der Skepsis zur Utopie: Musils Idee des 'Essaysismus'" in: Skeptizismus und literarische Imagination. Ed. Bernd Hüppauf and Klaus Vieweg. Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
(2002) Ulfers, Friedrich. "Nietzsche's Idea of 'Bildung.'" in: Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication. 4 (2002): 30-36.
(2002) Ulfers, Friedrich. "Friedrich Nietzsche as a Bridge from 19th Century Atomistic Science to the Process Philosophy of 20th Century Physics, Literature, and Ethics." in: Philological Papers (West Virginia University) 49: 21-29.

Prize
The annual Friedrich Ulfers Prize, established in 2013, honors "a leading publisher, writer, critic, translator, or scholar who has championed the advancement of German-language literature in the United States."

See also
List of deconstructionists

References

External links
Friedrich Ulfers @ European Graduate School. Faculty website with biography, bibliography, articles and video lectures. Retrieved May 14, 2010.
Friedrich Ulfers @ New York University. College of Arts and Science. Retrieved May 14, 2010.
Friedrich Ulfers @ New York University. Department of German. Retrieved May 14, 2010.

Deconstruction
German literary critics
Academic staff of European Graduate School
Living people
1934 births
German male writers


"Another World" is the ninth single by Japanese musical artist Gackt. It was released on September 5, 2001, and peaked at second place on the Oricon weekly chart and charted for seventeen weeks. In 2001, with sales of 255,640 copies, it was the 74th best selling single of the year. It is Gackt's best selling single with 285,550 copies sold. He performed the song at the annual New Year's Eve TV show, Kouhaku Uta Gassen.

Gackt used both songs as the introduction and opening to the "Moon Project, while the "Another World" promotional video was used as a preview for his co-written and co-starred 2003 film Moon Child. The music video was filmed in Hong Kong. The song is used in neue MEN's advertisement for Shiseido.

Track listing

References

2001 singles
Gackt songs
Songs written by Gackt
2001 songs


Susan Nicole Downey ( Levin; born November 6, 1973) is an American film producer. Until February 2009, she was co-president of Dark Castle Entertainment and executive vice president of production at Silver Pictures, Joel Silver's production company. Susan is married to Robert Downey Jr. The couple has formed their own production house named Team Downey.

Early life
Levin was born in Schaumburg, Illinois, to Rosie and Elliott Levin, a businessman. She became interested in the movie business at age 12. She graduated from Schaumburg High School as class valedictorian in 1991. She is Jewish.

Interested in pursuing a career in film production, Levin moved to California and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. She began her career at Threshold Entertainment, where she oversaw the development and production of projects based on well-known properties for both the company's film and television slates. These include the feature films Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat Annihilation, as well as the 22-episode TV series Mortal Kombat: Conquest which ran on both TNT and in syndication.

Career

Silver Pictures
Downey held the dual posts of co-president of Dark Castle Entertainment and Executive Vice President of Production at Silver Pictures. Joining Silver Pictures in 1999, she oversaw the development and production of feature films released under both banners, including Thir13en Ghosts and Swordfish.

In 2002, she made her producing debut as a co-producer on Ghost Ship and then co-produced the 2003 release Cradle 2 the Grave. Downey went on to produce the features Gothika and House of Wax, and also served as an executive producer on the critically acclaimed comedic thriller Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Downey later produced Neil Jordan's psychological drama The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard; Guy Ritchie's comedy RocknRolla, starring Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandiwe Newton, Idris Elba, Chris Bridges and Jeremy Piven; the horror thriller Orphan, starring Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard; and the thriller Whiteout, starring Kate Beckinsale.

She was also an executive producer on the Hughes brothers' post-apocalyptic drama The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman.

Sherlock Holmes

Downey was working on production for Guy Ritchie's crime film RocknRolla, during which her husband Robert Downey Jr., visited her office at Silver Pictures and learned about Ritchie's plans for a new Sherlock Holmes film; at her husband's request, Susan set up a meeting with Ritchie, and soon the film had Robert Downey Jr. as its lead. The film became the first time since 2005's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang that the Downeys had worked together, and according to Robert Downey Jr., the couple enjoyed it very much because they did not have to "miss each other" during the long production.

Sherlock Holmes opened to good reviews and record-breaking box office over the Christmas holiday in 2009. It was the couple's most financially successful joint venture to date, and netted Robert Downey Jr. his third Golden Globe Award, his first for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In his satirical, self-deprecating acceptance speech, he started off by thanking his wife: "First of all, I would like to thank Susan Downey for telling me that Matt Damon was going to win, 'so don't bother to prepare a speech.' That was at about 10AM." He continued his speech by noting all the people he supposedly wasn't going to thank (indirectly thanking them for giving him a chance to be in the movie) and again singled out his wife for tribute: "I mean, I really don't want to thank my wife, because I could be bussing tables at the Daily Grill right now if not for her."

Post-Silver Pictures
Susan worked with the production staff of Iron Man 2, Due Date and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows alongside her husband, allowing the couple to work together again after the first Sherlock Holmes completed production.

Team Downey
In June 2010, Robert and Susan Downey announced the formation of their Warner Bros.-based production company Team Downey, and hired David Gambino to be president of production. Their first producing project is Yucatan, a heist film originally crafted by Steve McQueen as a star vehicle for himself.

Columbia Pictures announced on October 20 it had obtained the rights to Neil Strauss' non-fiction 2009 bestseller Emergency! This Book Will Save Your Life. The book is to be developed into a feature produced by Team Downey.

The Downeys are also developing a musical project for Warner Bros. from a pitch by "Next to Normal" composers Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt.

Team Downey produced the family drama The Judge (2014), starring Downey Jr.

In 2011, Team Downey announced plans to produce the tragic, shark-infested tale of the USS Indianapolis and the exoneration of her captain (decades later) due to the efforts of schoolboy Hunter Scott.

Personal life

Susan Levin's first full-credit producer job was for the 2003 thriller Gothika, starring Halle Berry and Levin's future husband, actor Robert Downey Jr. Downey – who was in the process of divorcing his first wife, Deborah Falconer — has said that his most memorable recollection about shooting Gothika was "romancing the producer"; Levin stated to James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio that while she thought Downey was "an amazing actor that we were lucky to have in our movie", her first impression of him was that he was "weird." The two quietly struck up a romance – though she turned down his romantic advances twice for fear that their relationship would not last through the completion of shooting because "he's an actor; I have a real job." The couple eventually made their relationship public in the fall of 2003.

Downey proposed to Levin on November 5, 2003, the night before her 30th birthday. and they were married on August 27, 2005, in a Jewish ceremony at Amagansett, New York. She gave birth to their first son, Exton Elias Downey, on February 7, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. On July 9, 2014, Downey Jr. announced via his Facebook and Twitter that he and his wife were expecting a daughter in November. Their daughter, Avri Roel, was born on November 4, 2014.

Susan is a stepmother to Robert's first son from his first marriage, Indio Falconer Downey, born in September 1993.

Downey credits his wife with helping him with his former drug and alcohol habits, which he quit in 2003, and revitalising his career. "The old saying is true – behind every good man there's an incredible woman. I owe a huge amount – if not all – of my success to Susan. We make a great team, and all that luck I spoke about, that's Susan." Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie describes the couple as "the greatest illustration of a symbiotic marriage that I've ever seen. It's a real yin and yang, and it's made him a joy to work with. Robert would be a pain in the ass if he didn't have Susan to police him." One of Downey's biceps bears a tattoo which reads "Suzie Q" as a tribute to her.

Filmography

Producer

References

External links

1973 births
Living people
American film studio executives
20th-century American Jews
American women business executives
American women film producers
American women in film
Film producers from Illinois
People from Schaumburg, Illinois
USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni
21st-century American Jews
20th-century American women
21st-century American women


Chew Sin Huey (Shi Xin Hui; ; born 23 June 1981), also known as Sing Chew, is a Malaysian-born former singer based in Singapore, who was one of the five popular new talents emerged from the Channel U's popular singing talent show, Project SuperStar 2005 in Singapore.

Early life and education
Shi studied at S.R.J.K (C) Kuo Kuang and Foon Yew High School. She then studied at National University of Singapore and majored in Chinese Studies and Political Science.

Career
She was also involved in campus performances and took up the lead role of a musical and also held a mini concert when she was studying at the National University of Singapore. She had also taken part in Malaysia's popular talent search contest, Astro Talent Quest in the year 2004.

Shi was made popular in Singapore as the first runner-up in the female category of Project Superstar 2005, a singing-cum-talent search competition organised by Channel U of Mediacorp, Singapore. She had garnered the highest points (with the highest score of 44/50 from the judges) during the female finals from her delivery of three songs and received positive comments from the judges panel. However, she lost on a popularity voting system which totals up to 70% of the overall score. Despite missing the top spot in the competition,'s singing talent is widely appreciated and she has been offered a singing contract by Play Music which is now part of Warner Music.

Shi also made many appearances on TV, including her participation in a local Mandarin idol drama Dream Chasers as one of the female lead. Other TV appearances of include her hosting a game show that was being shown on channel U, The 7-eleven game show, where she is the leader of one of the four teams in the show and each team's objective is to eliminate the other teams by arriving at the designated 7-eleven convenience store and play the games. She also appears on a local talk/debate show, Cross Fire, where she showcases her verbal talents and well-structured opinions on social issues which invite guests to voice out their opinion on a particular topic, and as well as Let's Shoot! and also in music oriented variety show like Music in the Air.

Her debut album 从台北到北京 consist of four original tracks, five covers and a cover duet with Tan. She even penned the lyrics for her album's no. 1 hit, 从台北到北京 / From Taipei To Beijing (which is a cover of popular Danish group, Infernal's "From Paris to Berlin"). The song 从台北到北京 was an instant hit with the listeners and became popular as ringtone downloads and received frequent airplay on radio stations as well as in pubs or night hangouts because of its strong rhythmic techno nature. Her music video for the song From Taipei To Beijing  became a hot topic in local newspapers and the online community after a 25-second video was leaked onto the popular video sharing website, YouTube. The video had more than 40,000 hits and she made a stunning return from her reclusion from the industry after almost one year of hiatus while she has been preparing for her debut album. It was shocking for those who had always regarded her as the girl next door because of her demure looks and her plain dress sense and could not accept this major change. Following her debut release, she also became more confident, pretty and fashionable and has shown to critics that she has better fashion sense now after vicious remarks and criticisms were directed at her during her competition days. She was also hailed as Singapore's version of popular and sexy Japanese singer, Kumi Koda by her record company. Her popularity in Singapore landed her on the cover of a few magazines and many other magazine articles and spreads. Her immense popularity even as a debut singer made her the talk of the town for quite a while. Although there is a shift of focus onto her music video and her dressing, the album received good feedback from music professionals and media where most reviews gave her at least 3/5 stars with some as high as 4.5/5 stars because of her steely and emotive delivery which is rare for a newcomer. It also achieved good sales results especially for a newcomer and thus proving her popularity not just in Singapore but also the Malaysia regions. Shi was also ranked as top five Asian pop singer and top five personalities in 2006 by Singapore's premier and most prestigious English newspaper, The Straits Times together with the likes of Asian superstars David Tao and Andy Lau.

However Shi feels that she still needs to improve on many aspects and is set to move on to other regions of the Chinese community like Taiwan and China of which the album title, 从台北到北京 / From Taipei To Beijing, had vividly shown her ambitious vision to take over the Chinese music industry by storm. For her debut album, adopted an English name, Sing. It reflects her passion for singing, sounds like her romanized name, Sin Huey (Xin Hui), and indicates the fact that she is from Singapore.

Before this release, she had also lent her vocals to numerous Mediacorp soundtracks, drama theme songs and compilations. The drama theme and sub-theme songs that she sang for Mediacorp were later released as her personal compilation. It was a great success as the compilation clinched the top position of sales in renowned music stores like CD-Rama and Sembawang Music, indicating that the sales results were good.

Born and raised in Malaysia, Shi has not forget about her roots after starting her music career from Singapore. She has returned multiple times to her alma mater, Foon Yew High School and has also performed in a charity concert on its very soil.

Her ability in singing was further recognised as she won the Best Newcomer award in Singapore Hits Award, a prestigious award ceremony for Chinese musicians all over the world.

Events and milestones
18 August 2005 – First female runner-up after garnering the highest points 44/50 from professional judges from local big scale competition Project Superstar, which was judged accordingly with 70% of total score from public votes & 30% from professional judges
18 October 2005 – Signed a three-year contract with Play Music Singapore
30 November 2006 – Debut album 从台北到北京 released
10 December 2006 – Star Awards nominee for Best Newcomer, Top 10 Female Artiste and Best Theme Song (The Rainbow Connection)
16 December 2006 – First ever album autograph session at Bugis Junction
30 December 2006 – Voted by The Straits Times as top five Asian pop and top five personalities
27 January 2007 – Island-wide airing of the music video 你给的 on channel U
2 March 2007 – Released celebratory version of debut album 从台北到北京
24 March 2007 – Island-wide airing of the music video 昨天 on channel U
14 September 2007 – Compilation of drama theme songs, The BestDrama, released
2007 – Nominated in Top 11 for Most Outstanding Malaysia Artiste by Malaysia Radio 988
27 October 2007 – Nominated for Best Newcomer, Most Popular Newcomer, Most Popular Female Artiste in 2007 Singapore Hits Award
27 October 2007 – Awarded the Best Newcomer in Singapore Hits Award 2007
26 December 2008 – Second album 女皇 Queen released
February 2009 – 女皇 Queen limited edition album released

Personal life
Shi married Swedish husband Anders Stenquist in 2016. They both have a child.

Filmography

Television

Discography

Rank of songs on music charts

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Debut album introduction at Warner Music Singapore
Repackaged album version introduction at Warner Music Singapore
Photo gallery-

1981 births
Living people
Malaysian composers
Malaysian women composers
Malaysian lyricists
Malaysian people of Chinese descent
Malaysian Mandopop singers
People from Johor
National University of Singapore alumni
21st-century Singaporean women singers


Berhale (also transliterated Berahle and Berahile) is a town in north-eastern Ethiopia. Located in Kilbet Rasu, Afar Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of  with an altitude of 639 meters above sea level. It is the largest town in Berhale woreda.

Philip Briggs describes this town as an "unexpectedly large and attractive town, set in a valley below stark twin peaks", which although "neither truly of the highlands nor truly of the desert" Berhale, "with its combination of typically Tigrayan stone houses and more austere Afar huts...is an agreeable point of transition between the two natural realms." This town was reported as having phone service by 2004; electrical service was introduced in September 2006, when the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation installed a 120 kilowatt generator, street lights, and 200 electric meters. At the time, electrical service was provided from 6 pm to midnight.

History
Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of a primary school in Berhale during the year 1968.

Five British citizens and their Ethiopian guides were kidnapped 4 March 2007 after visiting Berhale.

Tigray War
In January 2022, Tigray People's Liberation Front shelled Berhale as part of an offensive into Afar during the Tigray War. Many people fled towards the regional capital of Semera as refugees.

On February 23 of that same year, militants entered an Eritrean refugee camp, killing at least five people. Thousands were displaced and several women were abducted. Several refugees were separated from their families during the attack and experienced emotional distress. While no organization claimed responsibility, the Tigray People's Liberation Front was widely suspected of being responsible.

The United Nations later acknowledged the attack in a statement. The Addis Standard estimated a month later that 43,000 people had been displaced from the settlement during the war.

Demographics
According to the 2007 census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency, Berhale has a total population of 6,098, of whom 3,563 are men and 2,535 women. A total of 863 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 7.1 persons to a household, and 807 housing units.

Notes

Populated places in the Afar Region

2022 massacres of the Tigray War
Massacres committed by the Tigray Defense Forces


The 1979 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1979. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recognizes four selectors as "official" for the 1979 season. They are: (1) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) based on the input of more than 2,000 voting members; (2) the Associated Press (AP) selected based on the votes of sports writers at AP newspapers; (3) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) selected by the nation's football writers; and (4) the United Press International (UPI) selected based on the votes of sports writers at UPI newspapers.  Other selectors included Football News (FN), the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), The Sporting News (TSN), and the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WC).

Offense

Receivers

 Ken Margerum, Stanford  (AFCA, AP-1, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC)
 Art Monk, Syracuse (FWAA)
 Johnny "Lam" Jones, Texas (TSN)
 Rick Beasley, Appalachian State (AP-2)
 Jackie Flowers, Florida State (UPI-2)
 Wayne Baumgardner, Wake Forest (NEA-2)
 Steve Coury, Oregon State (AP-3)

Tight ends
 Junior Miller, Nebraska  (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC)
 Mark Brammer, Michigan State (UPI-2)
 Dave Young, Purdue (AP-2)
 Mark Geisler, Ohio (NEA-2)
 Benjie Pryor, Pittsburgh (AP-3)

Tackles

 Greg Kolenda, Arkansas (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, WC)
 Jim Bunch, Alabama (AP-1, AFCA [G], FWAA, UPI-2)
 Tim Foley, Notre Dame (AP-2, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN)
 Melvin Jones, Houston (AFCA, AP-3, WC)
 Stan Brock, Colorado (NEA-2, TSN)
 Steve McKenzie, Purdue (AP-2)
 Irv Pankey, Penn State (NEA-2)
 Ray Snell, Wisconsin (UPI-2)
 Herman Parker, Long Beach State (AP-3)

Guards

 Brad Budde, USC (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC)
 Ken Fritz, Ohio State (AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, WC)
 Ray Snell, Wisconsin (TSN)
 Mike Brock, Alabama (AP-2)
 Pete Inge, San Diego State (AP-2, UPI-2)
 George Stewart, Arkansas (UPI-2)
 Mark Jones, Missouri (NEA-2)
 Mark Goodspeed, Nebraska (NEA-2)
 Wayne Inman, East Carolina (AP-3)
 Craig Wolfley, Syracuse (AP-3)

Centers

 Jim Ritcher, North Carolina State (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC)
 Dwight Stephenson, Alabama (AP-2, UPI-2)
 Ray Donaldson, Georgia (AP-3, NEA-2)

Quarterbacks

 Marc Wilson, Brigham Young (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-2, WC)
 Art Schlichter, Ohio State (AP-3, UPI-2, NEA-1, TSN)
 Paul McDonald, USC (AP-2)

Running backs

 Charles White, USC (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC)
 Billy Sims, Oklahoma (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC
 Vagas Ferguson, Notre Dame (AFCA, AP-2, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-2, WC)
 George Rogers, South Carolina (AP-1, UPI-2, NEA-1)
 James Brooks, Auburn (AP-2)
 James Hadnot, Texas Tech (AP-2, UPI-2)
 Dennis Mosley, Iowa (AP-3, UPI-2)
 Jarvis Redwine, Nebraska (NEA-2)
 Joe Cribbs, Auburn (AP-3, NEA-2)
 Freeman McNeil, UCLA (AP-3)

Defense

Defensive ends

 Hugh Green, Pittsburgh (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC)
 Curtis Greer, Michigan (AFCA, FWAA, UPI-2 [DT], NEA-1)
 Jacob Green, Texas A&M (AP-1, UPI-2, WC)
 Rick Antle, Oklahoma State (AP-2)
 E. J. Junior, Alabama (AP-2)
 John Adams, LSU (UPI-2)
 Rush Brown, Ball State (NEA-2 [DL])
 Gerry Gluscic, Indiana State (AP-3)
 Bob Kohrs, Arizona State (AP-3)

Defensive tackles

 Steve McMichael, Texas (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-2, WC)
 Bruce Clark, Penn State (AFCA, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1 [NG], TSN, WC)
 Jim Stuckey, Clemson (AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1 [DE], NEA-1, TSN [DE])
 Hosea Taylor, Houston (NEA-1)
 Rulon Jones, Utah State (AP-2, NEA-2, TSN)
 Doug Martin, Washington (AP-2, UPI-2, NEA-2)
 Cleveland Crosby, Arizona (AP-3)
 Dino Mangiero, Rutgers (AP-3)

Middle guards
 Ron Simmons, Florida State (AFCA, AP-1, UPI-1, NEA-2, WC)
 Ken Loushin, Purdue (AP-2)
 Kerry Weinmaster, Nebraska (UPI-2)
 George Mays, Army (AP-3)

Linebackers

 George Cumby, Oklahoma (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC)
 Mike Singletary, Baylor (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-2, NEA-2, WC)
 Ron Simpkins, Michigan (AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-2, WC)
 Dennis Johnson, USC (UPI-1, TSN)
 Otis Wilson, Louisville (NEA-1, TSN)
 David Hodge, Houston (AFCA, AP-2)
 Dan Bass, Michigan State (AP-2)
 Lance Mehl, Penn State (AP-2, UPI-2)
 Otis Wilson, Louisville (AP-3, UPI-2)
 Tom Boyd, Alabama (AP-3)
 Bob Crable, Notre Dame (AP-3)

Defensive backs

 Kenny Easley, UCLA (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC)
 Johnnie Johnson, Texas (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC)
 Roland James, Tennessee (AFCA, AP-2, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC)
 Don McNeal, Alabama (AP-3, NEA-1, TSN)
 Mark Haynes, Colorado (AP-1, UPI-2)
 Derrick Hatchett, Texas (AP-2)
 Lovie Smith, Tulsa (AP-2)
 Darrol Ray, Oklahoma (UPI-2)
 Mike Guess, Ohio State (UPI-2)
 Willie Teal, LSU (NEA-2)
 Mark Lee, Washington (NEA-2)
 Roynell Young, Alcorn State (NEA-2)
 Vince Skillings, Ohio State (NEA-2)
 Monk Bonasorte, Florida State (AP-3)
 Dennis Smith, USC (AP-3)

Special teams

Kickers

 Dale Castro, Maryland (FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC)
 Ish Ordonez, Arkansas (UPI-2, NEA-2)

Punters

 Jim Miller, Ole Miss (FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, WC)
 Mike Smith, Wyoming (UPI-2)
 Ken Naber, Stanford (NEA-2)

Key

Official selectors

Other selectors

See also
 1979 All-Big Eight Conference football team
 1979 All-Big Ten Conference football team
 1979 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team
 1979 All-SEC football team

References

All-America Team
College Football All-America Teams


Congupna is a town in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia. The town is in the City of Greater Shepparton local government area,  north of the state capital, Melbourne and  north of the regional centre of Shepparton. At the 2021 census, Congupna had a population of 620.

History
Congupna, known also by the name Koongoopna, was first established about 8 km north of its present location.

Congupna Post Office opened there on 1 December 1881, was renamed Congupna Township around 1909 and closed in 1953. Congupna Road Post Office opened on 17 October 1881 shortly after the railway station of the same name. These were both renamed Congupna in 1968.

Today
Congupna Football Club  play  Australian Rules Football in the Murray Football League.  Former Congupna Player Damian Drum went on to play several games 50+ with Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL).  After retiring as a player he went on to coach the Fremantle in the AFL.  He is now the representative for the seat of Nicholls in the Australian House of Representatives since the 2016 federal election as a member of The Nationals. Collingwood footballer Steele Sidebottom also hails from Congupna.

References

See also

 Congupna Football Club
 Congupna railway station, Victoria

Towns in Victoria (state)
City of Greater Shepparton


Disaster DIY is a show on HGTV Canada about "Do-It-Yourselfer"s who have failed at their own home renovations and are in desperate need of some on-the-job training. The host is Bryan Baeumler and it is directed by Craig Goodwill. The projects are located in the Greater Toronto Area. The show is produced by Si Entertainment.

Cottage Edition
"Disaster DIY – Cottage Edition" is a special version of the show, in which the projects are located just outside the Greater Toronto Area, in cottage areas.

Episodes

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4
Most episodes feature shopping at Lowe's (the show's main sponsor).

Season 5

References

External links
Official page on HGTV site

HGTV (Canada) original programming
2000s Canadian reality television series
2010s Canadian reality television series
2007 Canadian television series debuts
2011 Canadian television series endings
Bryan Baeumler television franchise
English-language television shows


Paul Hill (1934 – September 27, 1999) was founder and music director of the Master Chorale of Washington, formerly the Paul Hill Chorale.

Paul Hill was also involved in television, and his 1978 production of Menotti's "The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore" won an Emmy Award.

References

1934 births
1999 deaths
20th-century American musicians


In differential geometry and mathematical physics (especially string theory), the Polyakov formula expresses the conformal variation of the zeta functional determinant of a Riemannian manifold. Proposed by Alexander Markovich Polyakov this formula arose in the study of the quantum theory of strings. The corresponding density is local, and therefore is a Riemannian curvature invariant. In particular, whereas the functional determinant itself is prohibitively difficult to work with in general, its conformal variation can be written down explicitly.

References

Conformal geometry
Spectral theory
String theory


Red Chillies is a 2009 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller film directed by Shaji Kailas and written by A. K. Sajan, starring Mohanlal in the lead role. It was produced by M. Renjith under Rajaputhra Visual Media and distributed by Vaishaka Release. The film also stars Thilakan, Biju Menon, Siddique and Vijayaraghavan. Red Chillies was released in India on 14 February 2009 on Valentine's Day. The film was a moderate success at the box office.

Plot
As part of the disinvestment policy of the Union Cabinet, Hindustan Artillery Limited (H.A.L), a public sector undertaking which manufacturers pistols and rifles for the Indian Armed Forces starts to float their shares. O.M.R Group, an oil business conglomerate based in Singapore owned by O.M.R purchases 40% of the shares. Citing threat to national security, a mass and indefinite strike is organised by the labourers of H.A.L against the deal. The strike is led by veteran Communist leader Com.Mani Varghese who is greatly admired and has a huge following. Though labelled as a nemesis of innovative developmental projects, Com.Mani is aware about the interests, intentions and unscrupulous nature of corporate houses.

Another business group in Kochi led by Franco Alangadan in partnership with an unknown powerful individual plans strategies to thwart the deal by any means. On New Year's Eve, Com. Mani instructs Com.Surendran to post a confidential letter and goes to the make shift strike shed in order to sleep with the aggrieved labourers. Things take a violent turn when radio jockeys of O.M.R F.M are suspected of murdering Ricky and a brutal hit and run on the labourers striking in front of the H.A.L company at midnight. Com.Mani and several other labourers are killed in the accident, where the investigation is handled by Vishal and SP Stalin Mani, son of Com.Mani, who is at the verge of an emotional outburst. Stalin contends that O.M.R arranged for the killings and nabs the evading RJ's from Tamil Nadu.

Being a lawyer himself, O.M.R appears for the radio jockeys and proves their innocence at the court. The almost acquittal of the F.M Jockeys (Seeking a remand instead, to safeguard their lives from the still unknown adversary). Unbeknownst to the society, O.M.R is the son of a yesteryear renowned ISRO scientist, who committed suicide out of public humiliation when a false and grave charge of espionage was charged on him. Ramanathan is still haunted by those agonizing memories (including the suicide of both his sisters). After further developments and the interrogation of Franco, O.M.R realises that Stalin is actually the main conspirator. In spite of being DP officer, Stalin amassed wealth through illegal land deals and is revealed to be Franco's secret business partner.

Com.Mani was aware of his son's corrupt nature and had gathered incriminating evidences against him. Mani had confronted his son and informed him about the initiation of a vigilance investigation and his decision to notify his misdeeds to his close friend and CM. The letter handed over to Comrade Surendran contained a request by Com.Mani to the Chief Minister to dismiss Stalin from service and to take stern action against him. After the revelations, Stalin is disavowed by his mother and arrested by the cops.

Cast

 Mohanlal as Oyyarath Magaranth Ramanathan / O.M.R
 Thilakan as Comrade Mani Varghese
 Biju Menon as SP Stalin Mani Varghese
 Siddique as Commissioner Vishal IPS
 Vijayaraghavan as Colonel / Headmaster
 Vijayakumar as Inspector Louie Pothan
 Ganesh Kumar as Inspector Upendra Varma
 Jagatheesh as Surendran, Mani Varghese's assistant
 Sukumari as Mani Varghese's wife and Stalin's mother
 Biju Pappan as Satheeshan, Omar's assistant
 Maniyanpilla Raju as SI Palaniswamy
 Ranjini Jose as Anna Bella
 Dhanya Mary Varghese as Lamna Shankar
 Mrudula Murali as Varadha Bhattadirippadu
 Saba Khan as Jennifer
 Julia George as Maglin
 Leena Maria Paul as Roya Kareena
 Neena as Sahasra
 Krishna Priya as Vega Nambiathiri
 Ruksha as Fabi Akthar
 Samjitha as Roopa Dev
 Reshmi Boban as Stalin's wife
 Hareesh Peradi as Franco Alangadan
 Biyon as Ricky
 Jagannatha Varma as Sasthri, OMR's mentor
 T. P. Madhavan as Iyengar
 Nedumudi Venu as OMR's Father (Photo Presence)
 Sreevidhya as OMR's Mother (Photo Presence)

Production
The film introduced several newcomers in the cast. Singer Renjini Jose debuted as an actress, beside singing two songs in the film with one featuring herself.

Soundtrack
The film features two songs composed by M. Jayachandran, with lyrics by Gireesh Puthenchery. The background score was composed by C. Rajamani.

Release
Red Chillies was released in Kerala on 14 February 2009 on Valentine's Day. It opened in 80 screens across Kerala. The Indian Express critic described the film as "stylish and slick". The film was a moderate success at the box office with highest opening at that time.

References

External links

2000s Malayalam-language films
2009 films
Indian crime thriller films
Fictional portrayals of the Kerala Police
Films about lawyers
Films shot in Coimbatore
Films shot in Kochi
Films shot in Singapore
Films about organised crime in India
Patricide in fiction
Films directed by Shaji Kailas


is the eleventh single by Japanese artist Gackt. It was released on April 24, 2002 under Nippon Crown. It peaked at fourth place on the Oricon weekly chart and charted for five weeks. In 2002, it was the 98th best-selling single, with sales of 132,260 copies, making it Gackt's sixth best selling single.

Track listing

References

2002 singles
Gackt songs
2002 songs
Songs written by Gackt


The second version of the San Diego Sockers were a team in the new Major Indoor Soccer League. The team began play in the World Indoor Soccer League in 2001, and joined the MISL when it merged with the WISL for the 2002–2003 season. Just before the beginning of the 2004–2005 season, the Sockers were sold to Raj Kalra, owner of the Vancouver Ravens of the National Lacrosse League. However, barely two months after the purchase, it was revealed that Kalra had not paid the Sockers' players, staff, or rent since taking over, and the league voted to discontinue the franchise on December 30, 2004.

Also, Dallas Sidekicks were the only team in indoor soccer history to defeat the San Diego Sockers in a championships series at the San Diego Sports Arena which happened in 2001.  A new team using the Sockers' name and logo joined the PASL-PRO in the 2009–10 season.

Honors

Championships
 none

Division Titles
 2001 WISL regular Season title

Year-by-year

Head coaches
 Brian Quinn 2001–2004

Arenas
 San Diego Sports Arena 2001–2004

Defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States
Major Indoor Soccer League (2001–2008) teams
World Indoor Soccer League teams
2001 establishments in California
2004 disestablishments in California
Soccer clubs in California
Association football clubs established in 2001
Association football clubs disestablished in 2004


Berodia is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions)  in Cabrales, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size with a population of 194 (INE 2011).

The Díaz Inguanzo Palace or Palacio de la Torre is located in a valley, near the Iglesia de Sta. María Magdalena (Church of Mary Magdalene) and a few hundred meters from the town. The palace was designated as a historic monument in 1994.

Villages
 Berodia
 Inguanzo

References

Parishes in Cabrales


Joseph E. Canciamilla (born April 19, 1955) is a Democratic politician who represented California's 11th State Assembly district from December 4, 2000, to November 30, 2006.  Canciamilla retired as the Contra Costa County Clerk-Recorder on October 31, 2019.

Early life and political career
Canciamilla was born on April 19, 1955, in Pittsburg, California. He graduated Pittsburg High School, St. Mary's College and John F. Kennedy University College of Law.

First elected to the Pittsburg Board of Education at the age of 17, Joe was the youngest elected official in the nation. After serving almost 4 terms on the school board, Canciamilla moved on to the Pittsburg City Council where he served over two terms, including two years as Mayor. He was elected to the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors in 1996 and to the State Assembly in 2000 serving the 11th Assembly District.

In July 2021, Canciamilla pleaded guilty to nine counts of perjury and grand theft. He was sentenced to one year's home detention, which he is serving in his beachfront condo on Kauai, Hawaii.

Political Accomplishments

In his first term in the Assembly, Canciamilla enacted legislation to protect investors from fraudulent and deceptive "Enron-like" partnerships, provide better security options for Animal Control Officers, and expand more energy options for California businesses.

During his second term, Canciamilla wanted to encourage more constructive dialogue and cooperation between Democratic and Republican legislators, therefore, he and Assemblymember Keith Richman, a Republican from Northridge organized the 27 member Bi-Partisan Group which regularly met to discuss policy issues.

Personal life
Canciamilla has experience in the private sector as co-owner of Pittsburg Funeral Chapel, Inc., a family-owned business for over 50 years, and as an attorney who maintained a practice for over 10 years. He is married to a doctor named Laura Stephenson.

References

County supervisors in California
Living people
Democratic Party members of the California State Assembly
Saint Mary's College of California alumni
John F. Kennedy University College of Law alumni
School board members in California
21st-century American politicians
1955 births
People from Pittsburg, California


Charles French Blake-Forster (1851–1874) was an Irish writer.

Born at Forster Street House, Galway City, the eldest son of Captain Francis Blake-Forster of the Connaught Rangers, educated at home and later in England. Began to play a prominent part in Galway's public affairs upon his return in his late teens. He became a town councillor, a member of the local Board of Guardians, and in 1874 High Sheriff of Galway Town. He presided in this capacity at three Parliamently elections in 1874. He died aged 23 on 9 September 1874, and was laid to rest in the family vault at Bushypark, on the Galway-Oughterard road.

He had a deep and abiding interest in the history of the county. He contributed a number of articles on this subject to the Galway Vindicator and Galway Express between 1869 and 1871. His only full-length published work, The Irish Chieftains, or, a struggle for the Crown, was published in 1872 by McGlashran & Gill. It was an account of the Williamite War in Ireland from the perspective of Galwegians, many of them historical - Sir Roger O'Shaughnessy - including some of his ancestors.

Some ten other works attributed to him in The Irish Chieftains have never been published nor traced, appearing to have disappeared sometime after his death.

He was a grand-nephew of the last Warden of Galway, Edmund Ffrench.

Bibliography
 The Annals of Corcomroe Abbey in Galway Vindicator, 29 December 1869, 1 January 1870.
 Lemenagh Castle, or, a legend of the wild horse in Galway Vindicator, 12, 16, 19 February 1870.
 The O'Brien Family in Galway Vindicator, 31 December 1870.
 Kilfenora, or Ye City of Ye Crosses in Galway Vindicator, 31 December 1870.
 What are the Arms of Galway? - a historical essay in Galway Express 13, 20, 27 May 1871.
 The Irish Chieftains, or, a struggle for the Crown With numerous notes and copious appendix. An historical novel respecting events in 1689 and following years. McGlashran & Gill, 1872.

External links

 http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/kilfenora_annals/index.htm

1851 births
1874 deaths
Writers from Galway (city)
19th-century Irish writers
High Sheriffs of Galway Town


Keira  is a feminine given name. It is an Anglicized version of "Ciara" and means "Little Dark One".

People named Keira include:
Keira Bevan (born 1997), Welsh rugby union player
Keira D'Amato (born 1984), American long-distance runner
Keira Hewatch (born 1985), Nigerian actress
Keira Knightley (born 1985), English actress
Keira Lucchesi (born 1989), Scottish actress
Keira Maameri (born 1980), French film director
Keira McLaughlin (born 2000), Canadian curler
Keira Ramshaw (born 1994), English footballer
Keira Robinson (born 1994), American basketball player
Keira Stephens (born 2003), Australian swimmer
Keira Walsh (born 1997), English footballer
Saint Cera of Ireland, also spelled Keira, 7th-century abbess

Fictional characters include:
Keira, a main character from a 2012 CGI animated film Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar
Keira, a supporting character in the Jak and Daxter series
Keira Metz, a supporting character and love interest in The Witcher universe.

See also
Electoral district of Keira
Kira (given name)
List of Irish-language given names

References

Given names derived from colors
Irish feminine given names
Feminine given names


Bulnes is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions)  in Cabrales, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size with a population of 34 (INE 2011).

Villages
 Bulnes
 Camarmeña

Transport

No roads reach Bulnes, however it is served by the Bulnes Funicular from Poncebos.

References

External links

Parishes in Cabrales


The North Florida Ospreys are the athletic teams of the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. The Ospreys compete in the ASUN Conference in NCAA Division I. UNF became a full-fledged member of Division I in 2009; previously, the Ospreys were members of the Sunshine State Conference and Peach Belt Conference in NCAA Division II. UNF fields teams in seven men's sports and ten women's sports.

History
The University of North Florida's intercollegiate athletics program began in 1983, originally as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The Ospreys joined NCAA Division II in 1993, the same year the UNF Arena opened. Initially, UNF competed in the Sunshine State Conference, and then in 1997 moved to the Peach Belt Conference. In 2005, the Ospreys began the transition to Division I, joining the Atlantic Sun Conference. The transition's final year was the 2008–09 season, with UNF becoming tournament eligible beginning in the 2009–10 season.

UNF is a non-football school. However, the prospect of an Osprey football team is a popular topic among students and the community. In 2013, UNF President John Delaney revealed the school would begin preliminary discussions about adding the sport.

UNF won the Sunshine State Conference's all-sports title four times and won four NAIA national titles—men's golf in 1991 and 1993, and women's tennis in 1986 and 1994. UNF's first Division I conference title came in 2008 when the men's golf team captured the Atlantic Sun crown.

In February 2009, UNF hired Lee Moon to be the new athletic director. He is UNF's sixth athletic director and previously worked at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Wyoming, and Marshall University. Since taking over UNF athletics, he has made many staff changes to move the program forward.

On July 16, 2014, UNF released updated logos and a custom font to represent the Ospreys across all sports.

Future
On September 2, 2008, the university announced plans for UNF Varsity Village. The project cost an estimated $30 million which provides two new facilities and upgrades to existing facilities. The two new facilities are a student wellness and sports education center, and a baseball stadium with a seating capacity of 3,000. The existing stadium, Harmon Stadium was renovated to include 1,200 seats and used for softball. Other improvements included upgrades to the Arena and Hodges Stadium.

Conference affiliations
NCAA
 Sunshine State Conference (1992–1997)
 Peach Belt Conference (1997–2005)
 ASUN Conference (2005–present)

Varsity teams

A member of the ASUN Conference (ASUN), the University of North Florida sponsors teams in eight men's and eleven women's NCAA sanctioned sports.

Baseball

North Florida's baseball program was founded in 1988.  They play their home games at Dusty Rhodes Field at Harmon Stadium.  The team was established under the leadership of Dusty Rhodes, who served as head coach from 1988 to 2010. Since its inception, the Ospreys baseball team has won thirteen conference titles: six in the NAIA, six in NCAA Division II, and one in NCAA Division I and has made a total of sixteen playoff appearances: six in the NAIA and ten in NCAA Division II.  They went to the NAIA World Series in 1989 and 1991 and the NCAA Division II World Series in 2000, 2001, and 2005, advancing to the final in 2005.

The team's current head coach is Smoke Laval, who took over from Rhodes after the 2010 season. The Ospreys won their first Atlantic Sun regular season championship in 2015.

Notably, the team's former logo is similar to the New York Yankees logo. It was designed in 1986 at the urging of Dusty Rhodes and continued, and brought extra attention to the baseball program. It was discontinued after Rhodes' retirement in 2010 and replaced with a new logo for the 2011 season.

Men's basketball

The North Florida Ospreys men's basketball team began play in the 1992–93 season as members of the NAIA. Matthew Driscoll is the current and fourth overall head coach of the men's basketball team. He was hired in 2009, just before UNF's completion of their transition into Division I play.

In the 2010–11 season, they advanced to the Atlantic Sun tournament championship game, where they were defeated by Belmont. The 2014–15 team won the program's first Atlantic Sun Conference regular season championship and Atlantic Sun Tournament title, earning them their first ever bid to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

The program's all-time record through the 2014–15 season is 268–403.

Women's basketball
The Ospreys women's basketball team is currently led by head coach Darrick Gibbs, who is in his first season in 2015–16. Mary Tappmeyer was the head coach from the program's inception in 1992 until 2015 when her contract was not renewed.  North Florida made the NCAA Division II Tournament twice, in 2003 and 2004, and were the 2009–10 Atlantic Sun Conference runner-up.  However, they began to struggle in the following years, posting two last-place finishes in the Atlantic Sun and a combined conference record of 4–28 over the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons.

Cross country
The men's cross country team has earned 4 conference titles in Division II, 3 of which came while UNF was in the Sunshine State Conference (1994–1996), and the fourth came in 2000 during their time in the Peach Belt Conference.

The women's cross country team has earned 5 conferences title in Division II, 3 in the Sunshine State Conference (1994–1996), and two in the Peach Belt Conference (2001, 2003). They won their first A-Sun conference title in 2010.

Men's golf
The men's golf team earned UNF's first Division I conference title in 2008. They added conference titles in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2019. They use UNF's on-campus Hayt Golf Learning Center, which has a three-hole course and driving range.

Team honors:
NAIA National titles (2): 1991, 1993
NCAA Division II Regional appearances (5): 1999–2002, 2008
NCAA Division II Championship appearances (1): 2000
NCAA Division I Championship appearances (4): 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019

Men's soccer

North Florida soccer's home matches are held at Hodges Stadium. As of 2009, men's soccer's all-time record is 149–138 and the women's record is 151–88–15.

Men's soccer won their first Atlantic Sun Conference tournament title in 2015 by defeating USC Upstate 7–0 at Hodges Stadium. They earned their first bid to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship (College Cup) with a record of 10–6–1.

Softball
Osprey softball competes at home at the UNF Softball Complex, next to Harmon Stadium. They have a 619–24 all-time record as of 2009.

Team honors:
NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances (7): 1999–2005

Tennis
Tennis at UNF began in 1983, and the women's team has earned two national championships (1984–85 and 1993–94). Both men's and women's tennis has won seven conference championships each.

Volleyball
Women's volleyball at UNF began in 1991, and have an overall record of 401–178 (as of 2008). They play their home games at UNF Arena. They won eight Peach Belt Conference championships between 1997 and 2004. In the first year ever for UNF Women's Volleyball, the team progressed through the NAIA playoffs and qualified for the NAIA National Championship.

Other sports
UNF track and field hosted the 2009 Atlantic Sun Conference Championships at Hodges Stadium, the first Division I Conference Championship hosted at UNF.

The UNF women's golf team began play in 2012. A women's sand volleyball team was added in 2012; The current head coach is Samantha Dabbs.

Women's swimming and diving competes in the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association.

Traditions and rivalries
"The Swoop" is a key UNF tradition, similar in principle to UF's Gator Chomp or FSU's Tomahawk Chop as the recognized gesture to show school spirit.  It simulates the movement of an Osprey flying through the "swooping" of a fan's arms. "Swoop" is also an acronym that stands for Students With Outstanding Osprey Pride.

Osprey basketball and baseball games can be heard on 1010 XL in Jacksonville. Most varsity sports can be watched on ESPN3.

River City Rumble

North Florida's most notable rivalry is with crosstown opponents the Jacksonville University Dolphins. The two universities contest the "River City Rumble", in which the school with the most wins over the other across all sports receives a trophy, the SunTrust Old Wooden Barrel. The teams are awarded one point for each victory throughout the season. In individual sports, the team that finishes higher at the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship earns one point. If the contest results in a tie, whichever team won the previous season retains the trophy.

National championships

Team

References

External links

1983 establishments in Florida
Sports clubs and teams established in 1983


Carreña is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions) in Cabrales, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size with a population of 412 (INE 2011).

Villages
 Asiego
 Carreña
 Pandellana

References

Parishes in Cabrales


San Diego Sockers may refer to:

San Diego Sockers (1978–1996), a soccer team in the North American Soccer League
San Diego Sockers (2001–2004), a soccer team in the World Indoor Soccer League and second Major Indoor Soccer League
San Diego Sockers (2009), an American professional indoor soccer franchise
San Diego Sockers 2 (2017), an American professional indoor soccer team


Bryan Baeumler (born 18 April 1974) is a Canadian television host on several HGTV/HGTV Canada shows. A former handyman and businessman, he translated those careers into a series of TV shows about home renovations in Canada and expanding to hotel renovations in the Bahamas. He has won a Gemini Award for his hosting and has published a book on home renovations.

Early life and education
Learning the trade from his father, an aircraft engineer, Baeumler spent his childhood summers constructing his family's cottage. At 14, Baeumler opened his own handyman business doing odd jobs for neighbors. He received his B.A. in Political Science and Business from the University of Western Ontario in 1996.

Business activity

Baeumler worked from 1995 to 2003 running an air-cargo business.

After working as a builder, he founded a construction company, which became Baeumler Quality Construction and Renovations Inc., of which he is president and CEO.

In 2011, Baeumler launched Baeumler Approved, a website that aids homeowners connect with home-service companies in Canada. Baeumler became the spokesperson of HeyBryan, a peer-to-peer mobile marketplace app that connects homeowners with home-service providers, in 2018.

In 2017 Bryan and his wife Sarah bought a defunct abandoned beachfront resort on South Andros, Bahamas, and renovated it into a new sustainable luxury resort, Caerula Mar Club, that opened in December 2019, that they own and operate. With the location in the Bahamas, the Baeumlers undertook actions for disaster relief in 2019 in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. Though the storm did not hit their resort, their employees were affected through friends and relations on the devastated islands further to the north.

Shows
Baeumler has been a host on several shows, including Disaster DIY, Disaster DIY: Cottage Edition, Leave It to Bryan, House of Bryan, Bryan Inc., and Island of Bryan.  He is also a judge on the HGTV show Canada's Handyman Challenge along with Mike Holmes and Scott McGillivray. With his wife, Sarah Baeumler, they co-lead in the Bryan Inc. show on HGTV Canada.

Disaster DIY

Disaster DIY is a show on HGTV Canada about "Do-It-Yourselfer"s who have failed at their own home renovations and are in desperate need of some on-the-job training. The show is hosted by Baeumler and directed by Craig Goodwill. The projects on the show take place within the Greater Toronto Area. The show ran from 2007 to 2011.

House of Bryan

House of Bryan is a series starring Baeumler's entire nuclear family, him, his wife, and their children; plus his apprentice, Adam. The series covers the construction of various homes that the Baeumlers live in, his dream home, country cottage, and forever home. It became the highest rated series ever on HGTV Canada in 2016. The show ran from 2010 to 2015.

Leave It to Bryan

Leave it to Bryan is a Canadian home renovation reality series hosted by Baeumler, which premiered in January 2012 on HGTV. The premise of the show is that the renovations most desired by a homeowner are not necessarily always the ones most urgently needed in the home. The show ran from 2012 to 2017, and was put on hiatus.

Bryan Inc. / Renovation Inc.

Bryan Inc. premiered on HGTV Canada in fall 2016, replacing House of Bryan on the schedule. The show focuses on Baeumler pairing with his wife to buy properties, renovate or replace (new build) the houses, and then sell them at a profit. In the first season, they buy two properties, one selected by each of them, and then Baeumler's construction company crews rebuild the homes, which they then sell. The show ran from 2016 to 2018, and went on hiatus with the start of Island of Bryan. After the success of Renovation Island (Island of Bryan) on HGTV USA, Bryan Inc. was licensed as Renovation, Inc. for U.S. HGTV in 2020.

Island of Bryan / Renovation Island

Island of Bryan is a TV show that premiered on HGTV Canada on 7 April 2019. The show follows the Baeumler family as they renovate a neglected 50-year-old hotel in the Bahamas. Due to the remote location of the resort, supplies only came in weekly and did not always come every week. The family was also living in the resort while they were renovating it. The show first aired in 2019. HGTV U.S. repackaged the show in June 2020 as Renovation Island for American audiences.

Renovation Resort / Renovation Resort Showdown
Renovation Resort is a TV show that premiered on HGTV Canada in spring 2023 (and in summer 2023 in the USA, as "Renovation Resort Showdown"). The show follows Scott McGillivray, who has purchased a lakeside resort. He enlists the help of Bryan Baeumler to help renovate the resort, similar to what the Baeumlers did on Island of Bryan / Renovation Island. The show will be a 7-episode competition series, featuring 4 teams of contractor-designer duos advised by McGillivray and Baeumler, who will renovate cabin-by-cabin competing head-to-head. The winning cabin will get the winning team the grand prize.

Bryan's All In
Bryan's All In is a TV show that premiered on HGTV Canada in fall 2023. The show's premise is that Bryan will help entrepreneurs renovate their businesses to get them off their feet, with a week of reno. The show is sponsored by the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and has in-show sponsor material. The show fills a 60-minute timeslot fororiginal networks HGTV Canada and Stack.TV. The initial season would have 10 episodes.

Guest appearances
Bryan has made several guest appearances. Bryan was a judge on Canada's Handyman Challenge. He was also a judge on Deck Wars. Bryan was a guest builder on Home to Win.

Awards
Baeumler won the Gemini Award for "Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information, or Performing Arts Program or Series" in 2008 for his presenting work on Disaster DIY.

Personal life
Baeumler and his wife Sarah (26 March 1978) have four children: Quintyn Werner, Charlotte Anne, Lincoln Wolfgang, and Josephine Judith.

During the time that the Baeumlers were living at Caerula Mar Resort renovating it (as seen on Island of Bryan), the children were at first home schooled. Then Quintyn was sent to a regional boarding school high school for a normal high school life, while the other three children were enrolled in a nearby Bahamian school. The extensive renovations at the resort put stress on Bryan's marriage with Sarah.

Published works
 Baeumler, Bryan. (2015) Measure Twice: Tips and Tricks from the Pros to Help You Avoid the Most Common DIY Disasters. paperback, 328 pages; HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; .

See also
 Paul LaFrance

Notes

References

External links

Official website
Hey Brian
Baeumler Construction

Living people
Appleby College alumni
Canadian television hosts
People from Oakville, Ontario
University of Western Ontario alumni
1974 births


was a Japanese director, screenwriter and editor of films and television advertisements. He began his filmmaking career as a pioneer of Japanese experimental films before transitioning to directing more mainstream media, and his resulting filmography as a director spanned almost 60 years. He is best known as the director of the 1977 horror film House, which has garnered a cult following. He was notable for his distinct surreal filmmaking style, as well as the anti-war themes commonly embedded in his films.

Early life

Obayashi was born on 9 January 1938 in the city of Onomichi, Japan. After his father, a doctor, was called to the battlefront during World War II, he was raised in his early infancy by his maternal grandparents. Through his childhood and adolescence, Obayashi followed many artistic pursuits, including drawing, writing, playing the piano, and possessed a growing interest in animation and film. He made his first 8 mm film in 1944 at the age of 6, the hand-drawn animated short Popeye's Treasure Island.

Career

1955–1977: Early career and House
In 1955 Obayashi, at the urging of his father, began procedures to enter medical school and become a physician. However, he abandoned the prospect of a career in medicine in favor of following his artistic interests at Seijo University. In 1956 he was accepted to the university's liberal arts department, where he began to work with 8 and 16 mm film. Toward the end of his stay at the university Obayashi began working on a series of short experimental films. Together—with Takahiko Iimura, Yoichi Takabayashi, and Donald Richie—Nobuhiko Obayashi established the Japanese experimental-film group Film Independent, or "Japan Film Andepandan," who were awarded at the 1964 Knokke-Le-Zoute Experimental Film Festival. Along with works by other filmmakers such as Shuji Terayama and Donald Richie, Obayashi's films would develop the tone of Japanese experimental cinema through the 1960s. In these early experimental films Obayashi employed a number of avant-garde techniques that he would carry into his later mainstream work. Though these films tended to be of a personal nature, they received public viewership due to distribution by the Art Theatre Guild.

Following his departure from university, Obayashi continued to work on his experimental films. Dentsu, a TV commercial project in Japan looking for new talent, asked members of Film Independents if they would like to direct commercials; Obayashi was the only one from the group to accept the offer, and thus began earning a living as a director in the new field of television advertisements. Obayashi's TV commercials had a visual appeal similar to that of his experimental works. In the 1970s he began a series of Japanese ads featuring well-known western stars such as Kirk Douglas, Charles Bronson and Catherine Deneuve. During the course of his career, Obayashi directed around 3,000 television commercials. He made his feature film directorial debut with the horror film House, released in 1977. The film employed a mixture of trick photography and avant-garde techniques to achieve its distinctive, surreal visuals, and has gone on to be considered a cult classic. It earned Obayashi the Blue Ribbon Award for Best New Director.

1980s–2010s: Further mainstream success
Through the 1980s and onwards Obayashi continued to make feature films and broadened his mainstream appeal. He directed a number of coming-of-age films such as I Are You, You Am Me (1982), The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983), and Lonely Heart (1985)—which together form his "Onomichi trilogy", named after the town where he was born—as well as Chizuko's Younger Sister (1991).

His 1988 film The Discarnates was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1998 film Sada, based on the true story of Sada Abe, was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize for "its unique combination of innovative style and human observation."

In 2016, Obayashi was diagnosed with stage-four terminal cancer and was only given a few months to live. Despite this, he started production on Hanagatami, a passion project of his which had been over 40 years in the making. The film was released in 2017 and was met with acclaim, winning prizes such as the Best Film Award at the 72nd Mainichi Film Awards. It is the third installment in a thematic trilogy of modern anti-war films by Obayashi, along with Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012) and Seven Weeks (2014).

He shot and edited his final film, titled Labyrinth of Cinema, while receiving cancer treatment. Labyrinth of Cinema premiered at the 2019 Tokyo International Film Festival.

Death
Obayashi died on 10 April 2020 at the age of 82, from lung cancer in Tokyo. His family held a funeral for him at a temple in Tokyo on 13 April.

Honors
 Medal with Purple Ribbon (2004)
 Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2009)
 Person of Cultural Merit (2019)

Partial filmography

References

Bibliography

External links

Japanese film directors
1938 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer in Japan
Fantasy film directors
Horror film directors
People from Hiroshima Prefecture
People from Onomichi, Hiroshima
Persons of Cultural Merit
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class
Science fiction film directors


Las Arenas is one of nine Parish in Cabrales, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size with a population of 882 (INE 2011).

Villages
 Arangas
 Las Arenas

References

Parishes in Cabrales


The Moolort Line was a cross-country railway line which connected Maryborough and Castlemaine in Victoria, Australia. The line, now defunct, starts in Castlemaine, passes through Campbells Creek, Yapeen, Guildford, Strangways, Newstead, Moolort, and Carisbrook, before joining the Mildura line at Maryborough.

History
The Castlemaine and Maryborough railway, known as the Moolort line, was started in September 1872, raising local concerns over the effect trains would have on horses.

Its course and construction of its first section from Castlemaine to Newstead was described in the Melbourne Argus;The line will be constructed upon economic principles. The width of gauge will be 5ft. 3in., so that although the cost of construction will be greatly reduced even in comparison with the North Eastern line, the railway will not be built upon what is known as the narrow gauge or cheap principle. All the bridges and culverts will be of wood instead of iron or stone. The redgum required for the sleepers and piles will be procured from the Murray district, and the posts and rails for fencing from the Bullarook forest near Daylesford. The contract price of the first section is £19,500 [A$2,492,000.00 value in 2021]. The contractor will have to lay, but not supply, the rails and the stations will form a separate contract. The ruling gradient on the first section is 1 in 50, and the heaviest 1 in 43. Active operations will be commenced to-day, and before the expiration of the week it is expected that about 300 men will be employed. The average rate of wages given will be about 6s. 6d. per day for navvies. It is anticipated that unless something unforeseen occurs, the first section will be completed within 13 months. Mr. Gibbons is the engineer employed by Mr. Doran, and Mr. Wilkinson will have charge of the line for the Government, under the direction of Mr. Green, the resident engineer.

Eight hundred schoolchildren were the first to travel from Maryborough to Castlemaine at the line's inauguration on 26 June 1874. Already conveying freight, the line was opened to general passenger traffic on 7 July 1874. There was agitation for a connection from Daylesford via Yandoit but it was refused.

A derailment of an entire passenger train near Carisbrook, during general floods in the district in 1877, was recounted in the Colac Herald in 1896.

Demise

The last passenger rail service operated between Castlemaine and Maryborough on 31 July 1977, just over a century after the line was opened, and the track between Moolort and Maldon Junction was out of use after 2004.

The Victorian Goldfields Railway (VGR) operates on the first 1.5 km of the line, between Castlemaine and Maldon Junction, from where its line branches to Maldon. Ballast trains ran on the section of track from Moolort to Maryborough for a number of years, but the whole line from Maldon Junction to Maryborough is now closed. In 2020, with permission from VicTrack, the VGR removed about 9kms of the track west of Maldon Junction for re-use on its railway.

Mooted revival

One of the policies of the Victorian Coalition government elected in November 2010 was to undertake a study into reintroducing passenger services between Ballarat and Bendigo, which would include running between Maryborough and Castlemaine. A media release in 2011 stated that a review was under way, but nothing further was heard about the plan.

There has been significant discussion on the re-opening of this rail line for passenger services

Rail Trail
Plans to revive the railway line were not realised. Instead a Castlemaine-Maryborough Rail Trail was proposed, with Victorian State funding of $120,000 for planning of the project announced in June 2022, and a commencement date for construction projected for 2024.

References

External links
 Railpage - Rail Revival Study: Geelong - Ballarat - Bendigo
 Railpage - Moolort Railway Station

Freight railway lines in Victoria (state)
Rail transport in Victoria (state)
Rail trails in Australia


Mícheál Breathnach (1881 – 27 October 1908) was an Irish writer.

Breathnach was born at Cois Fharraige, County Galway, and worked for some time as a Secretary of the London Branch of the Gaelic League. He later worked as headmaster of the Connaught College in Toormakeady, County Mayo. He spent time in Switzerland for the sake of improving his health, his accounts of the country been published in An Claidheamh Soluis, and later published as Seilig i measg na nAlp. He translated Charles Kickham's novel, Knocknagow into Irish.

His name is commemorated in the name of Inverin based G.A.A. club, Míchael Breathnach CLG.

Bibliography
 Stair na hÉireann, Dublin, Conradh na Gaeilge, 1910–11
 Sliocht de sgribhinuibh Mhicil Bhreathnaigh, maille le na Bheathaibh, Tomás Mac Dómhnaill do sgriobh, 1913
 Seilig i measg na nAlp Dublin, 1917
 Cnoch na nGabha Dublin, 1924

See also
 Breathnach

1881 births
1908 deaths
Heads of schools in Ireland
Irish language activists
Irish-language writers
Irish non-fiction writers
Irish male non-fiction writers
Irish translators
Writers from County Galway
20th-century translators
19th-century Irish translators


Szczeciński Park Naukowo-Technologiczny is a science park in the centre of Szczecin, in north-west West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. In the area is the University of Szczecin, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Pomeranian Medical University, Maritime University of Szczecin, West Pomeranian Business School, Szczecin Shipyard, Zakłady Chemiczne Police SA (Police), ship (Szczecin-Świnoujście Harbour and Police Harbour), road and rail transport and Szczecin-Goleniów "Solidarność" Airport (Goleniów).

External links
Official website
Polska Agencja Informacji i Inwestycji Zagranicznych S.A.

References

Szczecin
Buildings and structures in West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Science parks in Poland
Polish Limited Liability Companies


Prado is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions)  in Cabrales, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain, near the Picos de Europa mountains.

The altitude is  above sea level. It is  in size with a population of 199 (INE 2011). The postal code is 33555.

Villages
 Canales
 La Molina
 Ortiguero
 La Salce

References

Parishes in Cabrales


Olearia ramulosa, commonly known as twiggy daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic, linear or narrowly egg-shaped leaves, and pale blue, mauve or white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

Description
Olearia ramulosa is a shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are alternately arranged along the stems, narrowly elliptic, linear or narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards tha base,  long and  wide with the edges rolled under. The upper surface of the leaf is covered with minute pimples and the lower surface is covered with grey, woolly hairs. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of branches and are sessile or on a peduncle up to  long. The heads are  in diameter with a conical involucre  long at the base. Each head has 2 to 13 pale blue, mauve or white ray florets surrounding 3 to 13 yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs from October to May and the fruit is a silky-hairy achene, the pappus with 22 to 41 bristles.

Taxonomy
Jacques Labillardière described the twiggy daisy bush as Aster ramulosus in 1806, in volume 2 of his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen, from material collected in Tasmania.

In 1867, George Bentham changed the name to Olearia ramulosus in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (ramulosus) means "bearing branches".

Other botanists gave the species other names, but the name accepted by the Australian Plant Census is Olearia ramulosa. Those other botanists included German botanist Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck who changed Labillardière's Aster ramulosus to Diplostephium ramulosum in 1832, and Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle who changed Labillardière's name to Eurybia ramulosa in 1836.

Alternative common names are oily bush and water cypress.

Distribution and habitat
Olearia ramulosa grows in forest, woodland and scrub, and is widespread and common from south-eastern Queensland, through New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and eastern Victoria to south-eastern South Australia and Tasmania.

Ecology
The plant is eaten by caterpillars of the moth species Amelora milvaria. Bees, beetles, and less commonly flies and wasps have been recorded visiting flowers in a Tasmanian field study.

Use in horticulture
Olearia ramulosa can be propagated by seeds or cuttings of new growth that has hardened. It can be grown in dry or temperate climates and is frost-hardy in sunny or part-shaded spots. Pruning can invigorate it and it can be grown as a low hedge.

References

Asterales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Tasmania
Flora of Queensland
Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
Flora of Victoria (state)
ramulosa
Plants described in 1806
Taxa named by Jacques Labillardière


Ted Lempert (born June 14, 1961, San Mateo, California) is a Democratic politician who served two stints in the California State Assembly from 1988 until 1992 and from 1996 until he was term limited in 2000. Lempert represented the Peninsula subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. Lempert is currently the President of Children Now and previously served as CEO and founder of EdVoice. Both organizations advocate for changes to the California educational system. Lempert is also a trustee on the San Mateo County Board of Education representing Trustee Area .

Legislative Accomplishments
Mr. Lempert authored landmark legislation during his eight years in the Assembly, including the Lempert-Keene Oil Spill Prevention & Response Act (1990), the Golden State Scholarshare Trust (California’s College Savings Plan) (1997), the Internet Tax Freedom Act (1998) and the Local School Construction Bond Act (2000). He had more than 70 other bills signed by Governors George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Gray Davis.

1988 Election
Lempert defeated one term incumbent Assemblyman Bill Duplissea.

1992 Election
The Peninsula lost a legislative seat following the 1990 reapportionment and incumbent congressman Tom Campbell was running for a vacant US Senate Seat. Therefore, Lempert ran in the Democratic primary to succeed Campbell, a Republican. Lempert ended up losing the primary to San Mateo County supervisor Anna Eshoo.

San Mateo County Board of Supervisors
After Eshoo was elected to Congress, Lempert replaced her on the Board of Supervisors serving from 1993 until he resigned in 1996 having been elected to the Assembly. Lempert served as the chair of the Board in 1995.

1996 Election
Lempert returned to the Assembly in 1996, representing the 21st district after longtime incumbent Byron Sher who represented much of the territory that had been previously Lempert's was term limited.

2004 Election
Lempert ran for the 11th state senate district in 2004 following the term limitation of Byron Sher. Lempert lost the primary to Joe Simitian, the man who had succeeded Lempert in the Assembly.

Personal
A lifelong resident of the San Francisco Peninsula, Mr. Lempert attended local public schools. He graduated from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and earned his law degree from Stanford University.

He, his wife Nicole, and their three young daughters live in San Carlos, California. He currently teaches Political Science 171: California Politics at the University of California at Berkeley. Lempert serves as a member of the board of trustees of the Junior State of America.

References
Biography of Ted Lempert
Join California Page for Ted Lempert

1961 births
Living people
People from San Carlos, California
People from San Mateo, California
Princeton University alumni
Stanford University alumni
California lawyers
School board members in California
Democratic Party members of the California State Assembly
San Mateo County Supervisors


Puertas is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions)  in Cabrales, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size with a population of 137 (INE 2011).

Villages
 El Escobal
 Pandiello
 Puertas

References

Parishes in Cabrales


Northman (; fl. 994) was a late 10th-century English earl, with a territorial base in Northumbria north of the River Tees. A figure with this name appears in two different strands of source material. These are, namely, a textual tradition from Durham witnessed by Historia de Sancto Cuthberto and by the Durham Liber Vitae; and the other an appearance in a witness list of a charter of King  Æthelred II dated to 994. The latter is Northman's only appearance south of the Humber, and occurred the year after Northumbria was attacked by Vikings.

Almost nothing is known about Northman besides his title and status as a landowner and ecclesiastical donor in northern Northumbia, our ignorance extending to the identities of his parents and any children or spouses he may have had. Northman is never given a patronymic, and although he is associated with landholdings in what would later become County Durham there is no explicit statement about the geography of any "earldom" he held. There is a possibility therefore that the two appearances of Northman represent different characters, though they are generally thought to be the same.

Durham Northman

The first witness to Northman's existence (and importance) is provided by textual tradition preserved in Durham, reproduced by two related sources. The former of these is the grant — one of three grants written into a blank leaf at the end of the original volume of the Durham Liber Vitae — ascribed to Earl Northman (the other two to Earl Ulfketil and Earl Thored). Northman's grant is in folio 33v, and is thought to date to the late 10th or early 11th century. It records that Northman gave Escomb (on the River Wear between Witton-le-Wear and Bishop Auckland) to the community of St Cuthbert.

This grant appears to have been used as a source for the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto ("History of St Cuthbert") § 31, which probably made use of several such charters when it was written. The text purports to record a "lease" by Bishop Aldhun, bishop of St Cuthbert (c. 990 – c. 1018), to three different earls:These are the lands which Bishop Aldhun [990–1018] and the whole congregation of St Cuthbert presented to these three, Earl Ethred, Earl Northman and Earl Uhtred: Gainford, Whorlton, Sledwich, Barforth, Startforth, Lartington, Marwood Green, Stainton, Streatlam, Cleatlam, Langton, Morton Tinmouth, Piercebridge, Bishop Auckland and West Auckland, Copeland, Weardseatle, Binchester, Cuthbertestun, Thickley, Escombe, Witton-le-Wear, Hunwick, Newton Cap, Helme Park. Whoever seizes from St Cuthbert any part of these, may he perish on the Day of Judgment. Weardseatle and Cuthbertestun are unidentified, though the historian Ted South thought Weardseatle might be St Andrew Auckland. This list is in fact two blocks of estates, one centred on Gainford around the River Tees and the other around Bishop Auckland on the River Wear.

Wilton Northman
A Norþman dux, "Earl Northman" or "Ealdorman Northman", witnessed a charter dating to 994 by King Æthelred II ("the Unready"). The charter is a grant of 10 hides at Fovant, Wiltshire, to the church of St Mary, Wilton. He is one of seven duces (earls or ealdormen) witnessing the charter, and appears sixth in order, ahead of one Wælðeof dux, Waltheof of Bamburgh.

If these identifications are correct, and given that Ælfhelm ealdorman of southern Northumbria appears in the same charter, it is unclear what arrangement allowed both Waltheof and Northman to hold the status of dux in northern Northumbria at the same time. Northumbria in this period was only supposed to have had two figures of such status, though this depends tradition about the legacy of kings Eadred and Edgar the Peaceable not attested until the 12th century. In that tradition there were separate 'earls' for Northumbria north and south of the Tees.

Alex Woolf noted that the previous year, 993, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle related that Scandinavians (apparently led by Óláfr Tryggvason) had invaded Northumbria and sacked Bamburgh, whereupon the southern English raised an army:(s.a. 993) In this year Bamburgh was sacked and much booty was captured there, and after that the army came to the mouth of the Humber and did great damage there, both in Lindsey and in Northumbria. Then a very large English army was collected, and when they should have joined battle, the leaders Fræna, Godwine and Frythegyst, first started the flight. Woolf thought that both Northman and Waltheof were in the south for this reason. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reported that, in 994, the year of this charter and the year following the attack on Northumbria, Óláfr Tryggvason and Sveinn Forkbeard attacked London and southern England.

It is not known when or how Northman died, nor who succeeded him directly. Nor can a relationship with any other Northumbrian earl be established, though if there is any accuracy or chronological order to the lease notice in the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto, he lived until at least the beginning of Aldhun's episcopate, and was followed by Uhtred of Bamburgh.

Notes

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Anglo-Saxon warriors
Rulers of Bamburgh
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown


Martin Pierce is a wood carver  and furniture and hardware designer   born in Worcester, England.  It was here he began his career as a wood carver, working for  businesses and churches in the surrounding area.  He has been a resident of Los Angeles since 1980 and, during this period has developed several unique styles of furniture, which include his signature Hedgerow dining chair and Hedgerow bed. Other unique furniture styles include the Ascot and Seicho lines.  Many of these pieces are japanned, or gilded, with vines and aspen trees and are part of a limited edition that is both numbered and signed.

In 2004, Martin Pierce began work on an extensive range of cabinet and door hardware  which includes the Willow, Ergo, Netsuke and Hedgerow styles. These collections are all cast using the lost wax casting method and are cast primarily in silicon bronze although the Ergo and Morphic styles are cast in 316 stainless steel.

Techniques

In the Ascot buffet, armoire and tallboy, Martin Pierce uses gold and silver leaf to create scenes that appear three-dimensional. The technique he uses is one that combines aspects of japanning with gilding.  In England in the 17th and 18th century, japanning became very popular and it was used extensively to decorate furniture with raised scenes of birds, flowers and pagodas. At that time, a type of glue called sizing and whitening were applied in successive layers onto a wood surface, which was then blackened or colored before being varnished and polished.  Designs were then traced onto the prepared background where they were either decorated by color or with gold.  The artisans would add further interest to these scenes by raising the decorated areas.  This was accomplished by applying a thick compound of sawdust, whitening and gum Arabic.

Martin Pierce has borrowed much from the technique of japanning and the style of Chinoiserie but he brought them into a modern context, substituting easier mediums for the traditional varnish, size and gum Arabic.  Since Martin Pierce creates his designs over a beautiful background of walnut or English brown oak wood, he does not blacken or hide the wood.  Martin likes the raised textural nature of japanning, but he substitutes casein, which is a white paste made from milk by-products for its 17th-century cousin.  Casein is easily applied either as a thick coat with a hand trowel or, for delicate thin leaf stems, with a fine brush. Casein has the advantage of drying quickly and affords a soft enough surface that can be sanded smooth with 220-grit sandpaper.  Martin applies successive coats of casein until the design is sufficiently raised and then seals it with a water-based lacquer.

In traditional gilding, the gilder applies his gold over a surface of firm clay that provides a solid surface that he can burnish and thereby make the gold very bright and brassy.  Martin Pierce omits this step, as he feels the gold and silver are sufficiently iridescent and because he prefers a more muted appearance.  He also substitutes a modern product called wonder size for the traditional gold size, as he also prefers its cold application making it easier to control. Once the size is dry, he carefully applies the wafer thin gold which he presses down into place and carefully rubs with fine wax paper.

Now the real art work begins as he applies different colored glazes over the gold scene. The glaze is made from a mixture of oil paint diluted with paint thinner, and the glazes vary in consistency depending on how much of the gold Martin wants to expose.  Martin also uses water spotting to create a natural age to his leaves and stems, which dulls down their pristine appearance.  Each of these pieces is signed, numbered, and dated and forms part of a limited edition available through Martin Pierce, or through a design professional.

Notes and references

English furniture designers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Fuse of Love is the fifth studio album by Japanese recording artist Mai Kuraki. It was released on August 24, 2005, over two years after If I Believe.

Background
This album is the first to be produced by Kuraki herself.

Nearly five years after its release, the song "Chance for You" was chosen to be the theme song for the movie Soft Boy and a re-arranged "Cinema Version" was digitally released on June 16, 2010.

Commercial performance
Fuse of Love debuted at #3 with 108,269 copies sold making it Kuraki's first album to not open/peak at number-one on the Oricon albums chart. The album stayed in the top 10 for two weeks and charted for a total of 13 weeks. Fuse of Love was the 81st best selling album of 2005.

Track listing

Charts

Certifications

References

External links

2005 albums
Mai Kuraki albums
Being Inc. albums
Giza Studio albums
Japanese-language albums
Albums produced by Daiko Nagato


Tielve () is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions)  in Cabrales, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The altitude is  above sea level. It is  in size with a population of 72 (INE 2011). The postal code is 33554. The parish has one village.

References

Parishes in Cabrales