The Tianjin Accord or Li–Fournier Convention, concluded on 11 May 1884, was intended to settle an undeclared war between France and China over the sovereignty of Tonkin (northern Vietnam).  The convention, negotiated by Li Hongzhang for China and capitaine de vaisseau François-Ernest Fournier for France, provided for a Chinese troop withdrawal from Tonkin in return for a comprehensive treaty that would settle details of trade and commerce between France and China and provide for the demarcation of its disputed border with Vietnam.

Background
Chinese opposition to French efforts to clamp a protectorate on Tonkin led to the outbreak of an undeclared war between France and China towards the end of 1883.  Chinese troops fought alongside Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army during the Sơn Tây Campaign (December 1883).  Although Admiral Courbet's capture of Son Tay paved the way for the eventual French conquest of Tonkin, the French now had to deal with open opposition from China as well as the Black Flag Army.  Having exhausted diplomatic efforts to persuade the Chinese to withdraw their armies from Tonkin, the French government sanctioned an attack by General Charles Millot on the fortress of Bac Ninh, occupied since the autumn of 1882 by China's Guangxi Army.  In March 1884, in the Bắc Ninh Campaign, Millot routed the Guangxi Army and captured Bắc Ninh.

The Chinese defeat at Bac Ninh, coming close on the heels of the fall of Sơn Tây, strengthened the hand of the moderate element in the Chinese government and temporarily discredited the extremist 'Purist' party led by Zhang Zhidong, which was agitating for a full-scale war against France. Further French successes in the spring of 1884, including the Capture of Hưng Hóa and Thái Nguyên, convinced the Empress Dowager Cixi that China should come to terms, and an accord was reached between France and China in May.  The negotiations took place in Tianjin. Li Hongzhang, the leader of the Chinese moderates, represented China; and Captain François-Ernest Fournier, commander of the French cruiser Volta, represented France.  The Tianjin Accord, concluded on 11 May 1884, provided for a Chinese troop withdrawal from Tonkin in return for a comprehensive treaty that would settle details of trade and commerce between France and China and provide for the demarcation of its disputed border with Vietnam.

Text of the accord (original French)
The original French text of the accord, in five articles, is given below.

Art. 1.  La France s’engage à respecter et à protéger contre toute agression d’une nation quelconque, et en toutes circonstances, les frontières méridionales de la Chine, limitrophes du Tonkin.

Art 2.  Le Céleste Empire, rassuré par les garanties formelles de bon voisinage qui lui sont données par la France, quant à l’intégrité et à la sécurité des frontières méridionales de la Chine, s’engage : 1° à retirer immédiatement, sur ses frontières les garnisons chinoises du Tonkin ; 2° à respecter dans le présent et dans l’avenir, les traités directement intervenus ou à intervenir entre la France et la Cour de Hué.

Art. 3.  En reconnaissance de l'attitude conciliante du Gouvernement du Céleste Empire, et pour rendre hommage à la sagesse patriotique de Son Excellence Li-Hong-Chang, négociateur de cette convention, la France renonce à demander une indemnité à la Chine. En retour, la Chine s'engage à admettre, sur toute l’étendue de ses frontières méridionales limitrophes du Tonkin, le libre trafic des marchandises entre l’Annam et la France d’une part, et la Chine de l'autre, réglé par un traité de commerce et de tarifs à intervenir, dans l’esprit le plus conciliant, de la part des négociateurs chinois, et dans des conditions aussi avantageuses que possible pour le commerce français.

Art. 4.  Le Gouvernement français s'engage à n'employer aucune expression de nature à porter atteinte au prestige du Céleste Empire, dans la rédaction du traité définitif qu’il va contracter avec l’Annam et qui abrogera les traités antérieurs relatifs au Tonkin.

Art. 5.  Dès que la présente Convention aura été signée, les deux Gouvernements nommeront leurs Plénipotentiaires, qui se réuniront, dans un délai de trois mois, pour élaborer un traité définitif sur les bases fixées par les articles précédents.

Conformément aux usages diplomatiques, le texte français fera foi.

Fait à Tien-Tsin, le 11 mai 1884, le dix-septième jour de la quatrième lune de la dixième année du Kouang-Sin, en quatre expéditions (deux en langue française et deux en langue chinoise), sur lesquelles les Plénipotentiaires respectifs ont signé et apposé le sceau de leurs armes.

Chacun des Plénipotentiaires a gardé un exemplaire de chaque texte.

Signé : Ll-HONG-TCHANG.  Signé : FOURNIER.

Text of the accord (English translation)
Eastman's English translation, modified slightly where it departs too far from the original French, is given below.

Article I:  France undertakes to respect and protect against aggression by any nation whatsoever, under any circumstances, the southern frontiers of China bordering on Tonkin.

Article II:  The Celestial Empire, reassured by the formal guarantees of good-neighbourliness accorded to her by France as to the integrity and safety of the southern frontiers of China, undertakes: (1) to withdraw immediately to her borders the Chinese garrisons in Tonkin; and (2) to respect, now and in the future, the treaties directly concluded, or to be concluded, between France and the Court of Hue.

Article III:  In recognition of the conciliatory attitude of the Government of the Celestial Empire, and as a tribute to the patriotic wisdom of His Excellency Li Hongzhang, the negotiator of this convention, France renounces her demand for an indemnity from China. In return, China undertakes to permit, over the whole extent of her southern frontiers bordering on Tonkin, free traffic in goods between Annam and France on the one part and China on the other, to be regulated by a commercial and customs treaty, which shall be drawn up in the most conciliatory spirit on the part of the Chinese negotiators and under the most advantageous conditions possible for French commerce.

Article IV:  The French government engages not to employ any expression which might demean the prestige of the Celestial Empire in the drafting of the definitive treaty which it will shortly contract with Annam, which will abrogate existing treaties respecting Tonkin.

Article V:  As soon as the present convention has been signed, the two governments shall name their plenipotentiaries, who shall meet in three months' time to work out the details of a definitive treaty on the bases established by the preceding articles.

In accordance with diplomatic usage, the French text shall be binding.

Done at Tianjin on 11 May 1884, the seventeenth day of the fourth month of the tenth year of Guangxu, in four impressions (two in French and two in Chinese), which the respective plenipotentiaries have signed and impressed with their official seals.

Each of the plenipotentiaries has retained one copy of each text.

Signed:  Li Hongzhang.  Signed:  Fournier.

Aftermath
On 6 June 1884, pursuant to Article IV of the Tianjin Accord, the French concluded a fresh Treaty of Huế with the Vietnamese, which provided for a French protectorate over both Annam and Tonkin and allowed the French to station troops in both territories and to install residents in the main towns.  The signature of the treaty, which replaced the punitive Harmand Treaty of August 1883, was accompanied by an important symbolic gesture.  The seal presented by the emperor of China several decades earlier to the Vietnamese king Gia Long was melted down in the presence of the French and Vietnamese plenipotentiaries, betokening the renunciation by Vietnam of its traditional links with China.

In theory, the conclusion of the Tianjin Accord should have resolved the confrontation over Tonkin between France and China.  Fournier was not a professional diplomat, however, and the agreement contained several loose ends.  Crucially, it failed to explicitly state a deadline for the Chinese troop withdrawal from Tonkin.  The French asserted that the troop withdrawal was to take place immediately, while the Chinese argued that the withdrawal was contingent upon the conclusion of the comprehensive treaty.  In fact, the Chinese stance was an ex post facto rationalisation, designed to justify their unwillingness or inability to put the terms of the accord into effect.  The accord was extremely unpopular in China, and provoked an immediate backlash.  The war party called for Li Hongzhang's impeachment, and his political opponents intrigued to have orders sent to the Chinese troops in Tonkin to hold their positions.

The intransigence of the Chinese hardliners resulted in a bloody clash between French and Chinese troops near Bac Le on 23 June 1884, which plunged both countries into a fresh crisis.  China's refusal to pay an indemnity for the Bắc Lệ ambush led directly to the outbreak of the Sino-French War on 23 August 1884.

Footnotes

References
 Billot, A., L'affaire du Tonkin: histoire diplomatique du l’établissement de notre protectorat sur l’Annam et de notre conflit avec la Chine, 1882–1885, par un diplomate (Paris, 1888)

 Thomazi, A., La conquête de l'Indochine (Paris, 1934)

Sino-French War
Conflicts in 1884
Wars involving Vietnam
1884 in France
1884 in China
1884 in Vietnam
Tonkin campaign
May 1884 events


The 1967 Ice Hockey World Championships was the 34th edition of the Ice Hockey World Championships. The tournament was held in Vienna, Austria from March 18 to March 29, 1967. The Soviet Union won the tournament for the fifth straight year, Sweden won the silver medal, and Canada claimed the bronze medal.

Host selection
Bids to host the event were received from the Austrian Ice Hockey Association and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) in March 1965. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) voted to host the event in Austria. Canada had bid hoping to combine the event with the Canadian Centennial. CAHA second vice-president Lloyd Pollock reacted by saying, "possibly we should consider now whether or not its worth" going to future championships, in a comment that foreshadowed Canada's eventual withdrawal from the world championships in 1970.

Summary
For the fifth straight year, the Soviet Union won the tournament.  They won all their games claiming their seventh World championship, and eleventh European.  The competition for the other medals was very close, with Sweden, Canada, and Czechoslovakia all being in contention until the end.  Sweden defeated Canada on the final day to clinch a medal and claimed Silver when the Czechs lost to the Soviets in the final game.  Canada claimed Bronze, losing out to Sweden on the head-to-head tie-breaker.  The East Germans handily defeated the West this year, which was believed to have settled who would be relegated.  However, starting in 1969, the top tier shrank to only six nations meaning that both German entries ended up being relegated.  The tournament also featured an historic first, when Finland defeated Czechoslovakia.

In Group 'B' the championship was settled on the final day.  With one game to play, both Romania and Poland had ten points, both had a goal differential of +14, and they had tied each other, so whoever won their final game by a wider margin would claim tournament victory.  The Romanians defeated Yugoslavia five to three, and then had to watch as the Poles defeated Austria seven to two.  The Polish team were quite fortunate that Romania had blown a lead on the second last day against Austria, but were very unfortunate that the change in the top tier format allowed for no promotion from Group 'B'  Oddly, the leading scorer (Zoltán Horváth) came from the last placed team, Hungary.  Japan won all four of their games by wide margins to claim Group 'C' but had to wait (like Poland) until 1969 for another chance to move up.

World Championship Group A (Austria)

Final Round

Both East and West Germany were relegated as the top tier shrank to six nations for 1969.

World Championship Group B (Austria)

Final Round

Both Switzerland and Hungary were relegated to the 'C' pool for 1969, additionally they missed qualifying for the 1968 Olympics.  No one was promoted.

World Championship Group C (Austria)

Final Round

With the top level shrinking, no one was promoted but Japan earned a trip to the Grenoble Olympics.  Belgium, Great Britain, and North Korea were expected to play in this tournament, but did not participate.

Ranking and statistics

Tournament Awards
Best players selected by the directorate:
Best Goaltender:       Carl Wetzel
Best Defenceman:       Vitaly Davydov
Best Forward:          Anatoli Firsov
Media All-Star Team:
Goaltender:  Carl Wetzel
Defence:  Carl Brewer,  Alexander Ragulin
Forwards:  Veniamin Alexandrov,  Alexander Almetov,  Anatoli Firsov

Final standings
The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:

European championships final standings
The final standings of the European championships according to IIHF:

Citations

References

Summary (in french)

IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships
World Championships
International ice hockey competitions hosted by Austria
March 1967 sports events in Europe
Sports competitions in Vienna
1960s in Vienna


Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys karimii) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is endemic to central and northeast Brazil, where it is found in the cerrado and caatinga at elevations from 300 to 1100 m. This opossum is crepuscular and mostly terrestrial; its omnivorous diet includes leaves, insects and small vertebrates.  Its head-and-body length is about 95 millimeters, and its tail length is about 72 millimeters. It is very similar to T. pallidor. Its tail may be nonprehensile. The species is named after Iranian epidemiologist Y. Karimi. It is threatened by habitat destruction and fragmentation due to agriculture and ranching.

References

Opossums
Mammals of Brazil
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Mammals described in 1968


Nancy Kozikowski (born March 31, 1943) is a contemporary American artist specializing in tapestry and painting known for creating large woven art displayed in public places.

Early life
As a child, Kozikowski always showed a penchant for art. An incident when she was 15 set the course of her life in a new direction.  While at an Albuquerque bus stop Kozikowski met a Navajo woman who was spinning yarn and weaving in a nearby Indian trading post. Nancy convinced the woman to teach her to spin and was soon creating skeins of yarn.  At the same time, she noticed a Navajo loom in the nearby Fred Harvey Museum at the Alvarado Hotel at the Albuquerque Train Station. Sketching the device in complete detail, she then built one herself. Her painting talents were now joined by a new passion: she had discovered weaving.

Training
Nancy studied painting under the strict Austrian University of New Mexico professor John Tatschl who moved her to tears on more than one occasion, yet grounded her in the basics.  Her talents continued to be recognized and encouraged, leading her, at 17, to announce her intentions to stage her first exhibition. Her teacher was appalled at such a plan. Nancy did it anyway; her first public, one man show took place in the Albuquerque High School Library.

Marriage
Nancy Married a young writer, Holocaust refugee and son of the late Polish movie star Witold Conti. According to Janusz: "We worked for nearly a year weaving a complete exhibit before approaching a gallery. Then, rolling up the pieces into a grand bundle, we picked what we thought was the best gallery in Portland, walked in cold and asked for a one-man exhibition. The following year we got our show."

Nancy and her husband Janusz were invited by the Polish government to exhibit new works in Warsaw 1979.  Janusz felt honored to return to the very place he had fled as a child. While in Poland, Nancy debuted her woven interpretation of the “Black Madonna,” amid concerns that the image might be censored from the show because of its religious content. Pope John Paul II was given the piece because of his personal devotion to the icon.  The tapestry is now in the Vatican Collection.

Nancy and Janusz's artistic collaboration ended along with their marriage in early 1987. Janusz then focused on painting while Nancy followed her passion for tapestry. Late that year, Nancy met noted art dealer John Cacciatore and a new relationship followed. They became a couple and married ten years later.

Recognition
In 1982, New Mexico Governor Bruce King announced that Nancy and Janusz had influenced the direction of weaving in northern New Mexico as well as nationally. They received the annual governors award for excellence and achievements in the arts.

The following year a reporter for The Today Show introduced them to a mass audience in a profile story about their work and lifestyle. Soon after that, the couple was featured in the National Geographic Society Book series.

Public collections
Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, New York
UCLA Anderson School of Management Collins Building Los Angeles California
American Society of Radiologic Technologists Albuquerque, New Mexico
Grand Hyatt at Oriental Plaza Beijing China
Albuquerque International Sunport (International Airport) Albuquerque New Mexico
Sandia Casino Albuquerque New Mexico
Block Distributing Company, San Antonio Texas

Decorative pieces

Carpets
Currently residing in the small arts village of Songzhaung . Nancy often frequents the small established studios. She is inspired by the craftsmen whose skills have been passed down from generation to generation and in a variety of ancient processes and techniques.  Nancy continues designing hand tufted carpets, hand knotted, Persian style carpets, large flat tapestries for walls and floors in public places.

Silk embroideries
Nancy’s embroidery designs are created in Suzhou, China.  Chinese embroidery artists developed the Su style of embroidery over 2000 years ago. The technique has been highly prized by the Imperial Court for its extraordinary detail and extensive range of subtle silk thread colors.  During the Song Dynasty (960-1270 AD) the Suzhou embroiderers began to collaborate with artists and calligraphers, and it became fashionable to translate their work into silk embroideries.  Nancy is currently working with the master Su embroiderers to interpret her designs in silk.

Liberty project
In 1986 Dave Nordstrand wrote: "Albuquerque artist Nancy Kozikowski wants to outfit the Statue of Liberty in a new garb. The well known weaver’s thoughts measure about 60 feet by 100 feet. That’s the size of the Indian chief blanket she’d like to drape around of the statue. It’s an idea sure to make Christo writhe with envy. 'It would be representative of all the tribes,' Kozikowski said. 'I think it’s time Native Americans were included in her (the statues) ideals.'"

Because of an Albuquerque artist's dream, lady liberty has a Navajo blanket birthday gift. A new “chief’s” blanket is draped in the statue of liberty museum, which reopens today. Millions of people will gaze upon the red, white and blue blanket this year alone. More than 2000 anniversary guests were offered to the museum, but only a painting of the statue and the Navajo blanket were accepted.

Trivia
In April 1956, an Albuquerque Tribune writer wrote: "They were sweet kisses, on the cheek, nothing over the top," she said. "Elvis was giving out autographs and the kisses were totally appropriate for the situation. Nancy Kozikowski can't remember where she was or what she was doing when Elvis Presley died. The Presley she knew was a young man, a rising star. The Presley she remembers, will always remember, kissed her outside the Albuquerque Armory late in the evening of April 12, 1956. "Singer's Kiss Leaves Girl, 13, Real Shook," read the front-page headline of April 13, 1956, in The Albuquerque Tribune. The girl in the headline was not Kozikowski but her childhood pal Carla Singer. Singer told The Tribune how Presley kissed her and her friend Nancy as he was leaving the Armory after a performance.

References

External links
 Link to Artist Exhibitions
 http://www.dsg-art.com/artists/nancy-kozikowski/
 Matteucci Galleries - Embroidery by Nancy Kozikowski
 Nancy Kozikowski - The thread of New Mexico
 Scotty Moore - New Frontier Hotel Las Vegas Nancy Kozikowski with Elvis Presley
 (chinafiberart.com) FROM LAUSANNE TO BEIJING 5th INTERNATIONAL FIBER ART BIENNALE & INTERNATIONAL FIBER ART SYMPOSIUM
 6th "From Luasanne to Beijing" International Fiber Art Exhibition
 Elvis' Kiss leaves Nuns all shook up

1943 births
Living people
Artists from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Embroidery designers
21st-century American women artists
20th-century American women artists


is a 　mountain, located on the border of Nose, Osaka and Nantan, Kyoto, Japan.

Outline
Mount Miyama is the tallest mountain of Hokusetsu Mountains. This mountain is one of Osaka 50 mountains, and a part of Hokusetsu Natural Park.

Route

There are three major routes to the top of this mountain. One is from Okururi Valley and it takes one hour and 50 minutes to the top of the mountain. Second one is from Hirono, and it takes two hours 50 minutes. The last one is from Fukuzumi, in Sasayama, Hyōgo and it takes two and half hours.

Access
 Okururikei Bus Stop of Chukyo Bus
 Hirono Bus Stop of Chukyo Bus
 Fukuzumi Bus Stop of Shinki Bus

Gallery

References
 Hokusetsu, Kyoto Nishiyama, Shobunsha, 2007
 Official Home Page of the Geographical Survey Institute in Japan

Mount Miyama
Mount Miyama


The 1966 Ice Hockey World Championships was the 33rd edition of the Ice Hockey World Championships. The tournament was held in Hala Tivoli, Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia from 3 to 14 March 1966. For the fourth straight year, the Soviet Union won the tournament.  For the Soviets, it was their sixth World and tenth European title. Czechoslovakia beat both Canada and Sweden two to one, to take the Silver, while the Swedes' historic loss to East Germany helped put them fourth behind Canada for the Bronze.

The lower two tiers (Groups B and C) were formalized, so there would be no more qualifying tournaments with promotion and relegation taking places between these two tournaments as well.  West Germany won all their games to return to the top level of competition while Great Britain went winless and was replaced by Group C winner Italy.

Qualifying round Group B/C (Bucharest Romania)

Romania qualified in Group B

Italy and France qualified in Group C

World Championship Group A (Ljubljana)
The Canadian national team players wanted to withdraw from the World Championships in protest of the officiating in a loss to the Czechoslovakian national team in which Canada was the more-penalized team and had two goals disallowed. The team's manager Father David Bauer stayed up all night with the team and talked them into continuing to avoid a national embarrassment and sanctions against the team.

Final round

Poland was relegated to Group B for 1967.

World Championship Group B (Zagreb)

Final round

West Germany was promoted to the top level while Great Britain was relegated to Group C for 1967 (but did not participate again until 1971).

World Championship Group C (Jesenice)
A Yugoslav 'B' team participated unofficially in the tournament, playing games against each of the three other participating nations. This was South Africa's last appearance in the World Championships until 1992.

Final round

Italy was promoted to Group B, France decided not to participate, Yugoslavia B team participated instead of France

Ranking and statistics

Tournament Awards
Best players selected by the directorate:
Best Goaltender:       Seth Martin
Best Defenceman:       Alexander Ragulin
Best Forward:          Konstantin Loktev
Media All-Star Team:
Goaltender:  Seth Martin
Defence:  Gary Begg,  Alexander Ragulin
Forwards:  Veniamin Alexandrov,  Fran Huck,  Konstantin Loktev

Final standings
The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:

European championships final standings
Please note:  At the time of the championship Sweden was awarded the bronze, however, East Germany should have won because of their better record amongst only European clubs. In 1999 this mistake was corrected and living players were presented with the medals they were supposed to have won.

The final standings of the European championships according to IIHF:

Citations

References

Summary (in french)

IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships
World Championships
1966
1966
Sports competitions in Ljubljana
March 1966 sports events in Europe
1960s in Ljubljana
1960s in Zagreb
Sports competitions in Zagreb
Sport in Jesenice, Jesenice


Mir Masoom Ali (born February 1, 1937) is a Bangladeshi American statistician, Distinguished Professor, educator, researcher and author.  He migrated to the United States in 1969 and became a naturalized citizen in 1981. Ali founded the graduate and undergraduate programs in statistics at Ball State University.  He co-founded the Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop (MBSW-History), held at Ball State University annually since 1978, and co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association.  He served as editor and associate editor of several international statistical journals.  He is the founding president of the North America Bangladesh Statistical Association (NABSA) and a member of advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.  In 2002 Ali received the Sagamore of the Wabash Award, the highest award given in the US state of Indiana, by the Governor of Indiana Frank O'Bannon, for his contributions to Ball State University, to higher education in the state, and specifically to the statistics profession.

Early life and career
Ali was born in Patuakhali, British India (presently Bangladesh) on February 1, 1937. His parents were Mir Muazzam Ali, a Patuakhali lawyer, and Azifa Ali, an advocate for women's education.  He spent his childhood in Patuakhali until graduating from Patuakhali Jubilee High English School in 1951.  In 1953, Ali received his I. Sc. degree from Dhaka College.  In 1956, he obtained his B.Sc. (Honors) degree and in 1957 his M.Sc. degree, both in statistics from University of Dhaka.  After graduation, Ali was employed by the erstwhile government of Pakistan from 1958 until 1966.  He held a wide array of statistical positions in various ministries of the government.  In 1966, Ali, on leave of absence from his government position, completed his second master's degree in 1967 and a Ph.D. degree in 1969, both in mathematical statistics from the University of Toronto in Canada, under the supervision of Donald A. S. Fraser.

Career in academe
In 1969, Ali began his academic career at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, US as an assistant professor of statistics, then became an associate professor in 1974 and a full professor in 1978.  In 2000, he was named the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Statistics.  Upon Ali's retirement in 2007, he was appointed as the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Statistics Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences.

During Ali's tenure at Ball State University, he published roughly 200 articles and presented over 120 papers at various professional meetings and universities worldwide.  His earlier publications were on h-statistics, l-statistics, k-statistics and related finite sampling methods.  Later his research focused on order statistics and statistical inference based on optimal spacing and goodness-of-fit procedures.  He has also published in diverse areas such as ranking and selection, multivariate distributions, characterization, and mixtures of distributions.  Most recently he has published in the areas of Bayesian inference and reliability theory.  He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the Institute of Statisticians, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and an Expatriate Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. Ali has been a visiting professor at several universities and statistical institutes in the US, Canada, Bangladesh, India, Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia.

Honors bestowed
 Fellow of the American Statistical Association
 Fellow of the Institute of Statisticians
 Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
 Expatriate Fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
 Elected Member, International Statistical Institute
 Member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Awards received
 Sagamore of the Wabash Award – awarded by Former Governor of Indiana Frank O'Bannon, 2002.
 Gold Medal of the Islamic Society of Statistical Sciences, 2005.
 First recipient of the Qazi Motahar Hossain Gold Medal, 1990.
 Outstanding Faculty Award, Ball State University, 1993.
 Outstanding Researcher Award, Ball State University, 1985.
 "Our Pride" Award, Bangladeshi-American Federation Incorporated (BAFI), 2005.

Special volumes published
 Special Volume of the Journal of Statistics in Honor of Professor Mir Masoom Ali, 2014.
 Statistics in the Twenty-first Century: A Special Volume of the Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research in Honor of Professor Mir Masoom Ali on the occasion of his 75th Birthday Anniversary, 2012.
 Festschrift in Honor of Professor Mir Masoom Ali on the occasion of his retirement, 2007 by Ball State University.
 Special Volume of the International Journal of Statistical Sciences in Honor of Professor Mir Masoom Ali on the occasion of  his 70th Birthday Anniversary, 2007.
 Special Volume of the Pakistan Journal of Statistics in Honor of Professor Mir Masoom Ali, 2004.
 Special Volume of the Journal of Statistical Studies in Honor of Professor Mir Masoom Ali on the occasion of his 65th Birthday Anniversary, 2002.

Notes and references

External links

Dr. Mir Masoom Ali Homepage
George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Statistics

American statisticians
Pakistani emigrants to the United States
Bengali educators
Pakistani expatriates in Canada
1937 births
Ball State University faculty
Living people
Fellows of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
Dhaka College alumni
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
University of Toronto alumni


Fang Xingdong () is a Chinese former internet entrepreneur in the early 2000s and currently a Leading Professor of Liberal Arts at Zhejiang University, Professor and Doctoral supervisor at the School of Media and International Culture of Zhejiang University, deputy director of the Integrated Media Research Center, Chief Expert of the Institute of Social Governance at Zhejiang University, Deputy Chairman of the Zhejiang University Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy, and Vice President and executive director of the Museum and History Communication Committee of the Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Mass Communication.

He has completed more than 50 Internet-related national and provincial projects and undertaking several major projects. He is the initiator of the "Oral History of the Internet" (OHI) project, the founder and director of the CyberLabs, and the founder of BlogChina. He has participated in, witnessed, and tracked the research on China's Internet development.

He launched the blogchina.com (now bokee.com) in 2002 and received some funding from venture capital firms in 2005. But it quickly became a complete failure in just half an year. He is a proponent of cyber sovereignty and sometimes writes for Global Times, a Chinese 'belligerent state tabloid'.

A controversial figure in China, he has been implicated in several alleged scandals, such as plagiarism in his doctoral thesis when he was in Tsinghua University, massive piracy in one of his failed online encyclopedia business in 2005 and so on. His chinalabs.com, although appears to be a web research consultancy, was accused of launching a cyber defamation campaign against Alibaba in 2017 after signing a contract with JD.com (a competitor of Alibaba), whose CEO faced rape allegation in 2018.

He has published 30 Internet-related books, including "IT History" and " Oral History of the Internet Series", among which "Stand-up to Challenge Microsoft Hegemony" published in 1999 was the only book selected as one of the "100 Most Influential Books of the 20th Century for Chinese People". “Research on the Propagation Mechanism and Governance of WeChat" is the most cited paper in the field of Chinese communication in the last 10 years. He is one of the earliest pioneers and promoters of the concepts and theories of Internet anti-monopoly, network governance, blog, Web 2.0, super platform, and digital governance in China.

He received his undergraduate (1991) and master's degrees (1994) from Xi'an Jiaotong University, his doctorate from Tsinghua University (2006), his postdoctoral degree from Zhejiang University, and his postdoctoral degree from the State Information Center, Visiting Scholar at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (2019)

References

Sources

1969 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Zhejiang
Chinese activists
Chinese computer businesspeople
People from Yiwu


Ner is a village standing on the Panjhara River in Dhule district of Maharashtra state in India.

Location

Ner lies about 22.53 km. (14 miles) west of Dhule. National Highway 6 (NH 6) passes through Ner.

History
Ner had been a part of Khandesh region since the time of the Faruqi Kings. The Mughal emperor Akbar had made Ner the headquarters of a mahal in the Sarkar of Nandurbar with an annual revenue of 7,22,760 daams. Traces of its former consequence are seen in the Muhammedan tombs that still line the main road leading into the village. It, along with the neighbouring villages, suffered much during the 1872 floods of Panjhara.

Economy

Most of the economy is agriculture related. Vegetables grown in the village are sold in the markets of Surat, Nasik and Mumbai. Crops such as Millet, Chilli, Groundnuts, Sugarcane, Gram, Cotton, Wheat, Jowar, etc. are also grown.
In ner the great manopanchit parshvnath Jain temple, a 100 years old Jain temple and statue of manopanchit parshvnath is only the statue in India out of 108 parshvnath gods.

Administration

Ner has as Village Gram Panchayat for day-to-day administration. The District Zilla Panchayat headquarters is at Dhule and the Block Panchayat is also at Dhule.

Ner has one branch of Central Bank of India & Dhule District Central Co-operative bank.

See also

 Dhule City
 Dhule District
 List of districts of Maharashtra
 Khandesh

References

http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/DHULIA/places_Ner.html
http://www.whereincity.com/india/pincode/maharashtra/dhule.htm

Villages in Dhule taluka
Villages in Dhule district


The Bylot Sound is a sound in the North Star Bay, Avannaata municipality, northwest Greenland.

Geography
This channel separates Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Island from the Greenland mainland. Its minimum width is , between Wolstenholme Island and Cape Atholl, the mainland point at its southeastern end. There is a tombolo named Uummannaq on the mainland shore at the eastern end of the sound by the former settlement of Pituffik.

History
This strait was named after 17th-century English navigator Robert Bylot, who led two expeditions to find the Northwest Passage.

In the winter of 1849–1850 under Commander James Saunders of  got frozen-in in the sound during an Arctic expedition to search and resupply Captain Sir James Clark Ross' venture, who in turn had sailed in 1848 trying to locate the whereabouts of Sir John Franklin's expedition. While his ship was trapped by ice Commander Saunders named numerous landmarks in that area.

In 1968 a B-52 bomber carrying four thermonuclear bombs crashed in the ice of the Bylot Sound spreading contaminated material over the whole sector.

The abandoned Inuit settlements of Narsaarsuk and Pituffik were located on the shores of the sound. Pituffik Space Base is currently the only inhabited place in the area.

References

External links
 Explanatory notes to the Geological map of Greenland

Sounds of North America
Straits of Greenland
Bodies of water of Baffin Bay


Clovelly Trails is a neighbourhood located in the northeast end of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Clovelly Trails is a multi subdivision residential development; the area includes single-family homes, high-end homes and adult living complexes. Clovelly Trails is home to Clovelly Golf Course, the high-end homes in this area, that sell for around 3/4 of a million dollars, are located on the boundaries of the golf course. Most of the streets in the area are affiliated with war veterans.

The neighbourhood also consists of the Stavanger Drive commercial district, which was the first big-box store development in St. John's. Since being developed in the late 1990s, the area has undergone tremendous growth with such businesses as Boston Pizza, Costco(which is now closed and is now located at 75 Danny Dr, St. John's, NL A1H 1A3), Dominion Supermarket, BestBuy, Wal-Mart, Old Navy and McDonald's.

See also
Neighbourhoods in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Neighbourhoods in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador


The Argentine fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys sponsorius) was formerly considered a species opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is found in the eastern foothills of the Andes in northern Argentina and southern Bolivia. Its dorsal fur is gray brown to dark brown. Its ventral fur is gray-based except for the white to yellowish chest hairs. It has been distinguished from T. cinderella by its postorbital ridges. T. cinderella has well-developed postorbital ridges in both juveniles and adults that extend laterally behind the eye sockets. Only adults of T. sponsorius have fully developed postorbital ridges, and these do not extend laterally behind the eye sockets. However, mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis does not support the population being distinct from T. cinderella.

References

Opossums
Marsupials of Argentina
Mammals of Bolivia
Marsupials of South America
Mammals described in 1921
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN


Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, O.F.M. (1660–1724) was an Irish Franciscan friar, poet and scribe, who died c. 1724.

Biography
Possibly from Muinterevlin (now Ardboe), Ó Doibhlin was a prominent member of the Franciscan community at the Irish College(College of the Immaculate Conception) in Prague where he lectured in philosophy in 1697, where he remained as late as 1712. By 1714 he had returned to Ireland where he had become the Guardian of the Dungannon/Donaghmore Franciscan house; in 1717 he was transferred to Drogheda but was back as Guardian at Dungannon in 1720.

In 1724 he was appointed by the Franciscans as confessor to the Poor Clares in Dublin and seems to have died shortly afterward.

He is the author of a poem, Gach croiceann libh dar feannadh (Every skin you have fleeced), criticising Gearóid Mac Con Míde for the latter's apparent slurs on the O'Neills of Tyrone. Composed sometime between 1716 and 1718, it was known among members of Tadhg Ó Neachtain's literary circle, as a letter survives from Seon Mac Solaidh to Richard Tipper where Mac Solaidh asks for a copy of the poem.

Gach croiceann libh dar feannadh remains the only piece in Irish which can be ascribed to Ó Doibhlin.

See also
Liam Inglis
Tadhg Ó Neachtain

References
Diarmaid Ó Doibhlin (2000) Tyrone's Gaelic Literary Legacy in Tyrone: History and Society, pp. 424–25.

External links
Gleanings from Irish manuscripts, National Library of Scotland

17th-century births
1724 deaths
Writers from County Tyrone
Irish Friars Minor
17th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests
18th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests
17th-century Irish writers
18th-century Irish-language poets
Christian clergy from County Tyrone
People from Ardboe
Irish scribes


Maigret's Failure (French: Un échec de Maigret) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his famous creation Jules Maigret.

Overview
Fumal, an infamous bully and the owner of meat-packing industry, orders Maigret to protect him after he comes to believe his life is in danger. However, Maigret, who was one of Fumal's targets for offense as a child, does very little to protect the man. Later, Fumal is viciously slaughtered, Maigret finds himself being blamed for the murder, and so must go about the agonizing task of bringing the murdered butcher's killer to justice.

Publishing history
Originally published in French in 1956 by Presses de la Cité as Un Echec de Maigret, the first English translation (translated by Daphne Woodward) was published by Hamish Hamilton in 1962. It was included in two anthologies, A Maigret Quartet (1972) and A Maigret Trio (1983).

Adaptations
A BBC TV version of the book first aired on November 6, 1961, under the title Death of a Butcher with Rupert Davies playing Maigret. Jean Richard played Maigret in the 1987 French TV version and Bruno Cremer in the 2003 adaptation.

References

1956 Belgian novels
Maigret novels
Presses de la Cité books


Kerry Jang () is a Canadian politician. He previously served as councillor on Vancouver, British Columbia's City Council between 2008 and 2018. From 2013, he also represented the city of Vancouver on the Greater Vancouver Regional District Board as a director.

Prior to his election as councillor, Jang was a professor of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, a position he returned to after leaving politics.

Background
Born and raised in Vancouver, Jang was the eldest of three siblings.  His father, Leslie, was a Vancouver School Board (VSB) plumber for 20 years, and his mother, May, had an administrative career with the Provincial Court of British Columbia, taught Chinese cooking at the VSB's night school program, and sold cookware.  Jang's paternal grandfather had three wives, of which Jang's paternal grandmother was third, and twenty-one children.  Jang's grandfather made a fortune as a merchant after immigrating from China, but lost it all in the Great Depression.  Jang's maternal grandfather was a pig farmer in China and became a tailor after immigrating to Canada.

Education
He attended Renfrew Elementary School prior to Windermere Secondary School, where he was not a very good student.  He worked on improving his academic record at Vancouver Community College and then transferred to Simon Fraser University to complete his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Psychology.

He completed his education with a Ph.D. in Personality Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, where he initially studied under the highly controversial J. Philippe Rushton, known for work on race, intelligence and penis length.  Jang has described the experience of witnessing Rushton's censure, and the impact it had on his understanding of politics:

Politics
In September 2006, Jang announced that he planned to seek the federal NDP nomination for the Vancouver Kingsway riding, after being called by Jack Layton, the leader of the NDP. The incumbent was David Emerson, who had crossed the aisle to the Conservative Party after the earlier election in 2006.  Jang subsequently backed out of the race.

He was first elected councillor in the 2008 Vancouver municipal election under the Vision Vancouver banner, and re-elected in the 2011 and 2014 municipal elections. He was one of three elected city officials who served on Homeless Emergency Action Team, which conceived the controversial Homeless Emergency Action Team (HEAT) shelters.

In June 2014, Jang faced a court petition to remove him and fellow councillor Geoff Meggs from office for allegedly violating rules on conflict of interest in connection with the rezoning of a public housing project.

In October 2016, Jang came under fire from Chinese Canadians after participating in the raising of a People's Republic of China national flag on the grounds of the Vancouver City Hall, sporting a red scarf. The event, organized by the Canadian Alliance of Chinese Associations to mark China's National Day, is one of many flag ceremonies held at city hall. The Alliance of the Guard of Canadian Values, a group of mainland Chinese immigrants which has protested local celebrations of Communist leader Mao Zedong, started an online petition calling for Jang's resignation. "I was shocked," said Meena Wong, former mayoral candidate for COPE, "to have my city councillor in my city hall raising the flag wearing the symbol of loyalty to communism, I was dumbfounded." Jang tried to deflect criticism by suggesting that the Chinese Canadian protesters were "rooted in ignorance and racism. [...] To them it doesn't matter if it's a Communist government in China, they're just anti-Chinese."

Jang announced in January 2018 he would not run in the municipal election to be held in November that year.

Family
Jang and his wife Vicki live in the Renfrew-Collingwood area of Vancouver.  They have two children, Nicholyas and Rachelle.

References

External links
 Kerry Jang at Vancouver City Council

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian people of Chinese descent
21st-century Canadian psychologists
Simon Fraser University alumni
University of Western Ontario alumni
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Vision Vancouver councillors


The Composition for Tithes Act 1823, also known as the Tithe Composition Act 1823, was an act of the British Parliament requiring all occupiers of Irish agricultural holdings of over one acre to pay monetary tithes to support the Anglican Church in Ireland, instead of a percentage of agricultural yield. The act also allowed for those who paid a large tithe to be able to negotiate the composition of the tithes for their parish; that is to decide on what monetary basis the tithes would be based, so that the tithes would be reasonable in comparison to income for the tithe-payers and sufficient for the subsistence of the parishes. It was thought by some members of Parliament to be a conciliatory measure that would reduce the oppressive nature of the then current tithe system.

Controversy
Controversy rose up quickly, even in Parliament itself. Some Members of Parliament felt that the Irish clergy were already grossly overpaid compared to clergy in England. Catholics and Dissenters did not feel that the Composition Act reduced the oppression of the tithe system in light of the fact that the six million Catholics in Ireland were still forced to pay the tithes for churches that they did not attend or use. They saw that as persecution by the English Anglicans towards people who were not members of the established Church.

It also seemed to critics that the Act did nothing to reform the problems in the Irish clergy: that they were often absent from their parishes and that they held enormous wealth. A change in the composition of tithes would have had no effect on the level of clergymen's wealth. While the Irish clergy and their supporters refuted those claims, popular opinion seemed to overshadow their arguments. Specifically, non-resident clergy were resident elsewhere and thus could not be considered absentee. In support of the clergy's point of view, however, their income had also diminished due to a reduction in tithe-rates. In that way, the Act would have helped the clergy, as currency was much more versatile in helping the church than raw goods.

Reform and war

Attempts at reform came as early as 1828 when Thomas Greene, a Member of Parliament, introduced a bill that would have replaced the tithes with corn rents, a proposal that failed. Lord Althorp attempted the same measure in 1833, which also failed. His bill the following year also did not pass, despite severe emendation. Many reforms were lost among other bills in Parliament and never came to fruition.

During the "Tithe War" from 1831 to 1838, Irish peasants rebelled and refused to pay the tithes, sometimes violently persecuting those who did pay the tithes. The government found it hard to enforce the law, due to the popularity of the rebels' cause. The Irish believed the tithes were simply another form of English abuse, and the rebellion took on an apparent aura of nationalism, or at least the feeling of a religious war against the persecution of the faithful.

Outcome
Finally, the Tithe Commutation Act 1838 applied the tithe-tax to landlords instead of peasants. This created a new system where peasants paid an increase in rent instead of a direct tithe, but it simultaneously enabled peasants to no longer feel that the Anglican Church in Ireland took advantage of them. The Bill did not solve all of the problems in Ireland, but allowed for some respite in the continuing conflict in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

References

United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1823
1823 in Ireland
Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning Ireland
Tithe War


Sergeyeva, Sergeeva or Sergejeva (Russian: Сергеева) is a common Russian female surname, which may refer to

Ella Sergeyeva, Russian rower
Galina Sergeyeva (1914–2000), Russian actress
Irina Sergeyeva (born 1968), Russian sprint athlete and Olympic gold medallist in hurdling
Maria Sergeyeva, Russian political activist
Maria Sergeyeva, Kazakhstani chess grandmaster
Maria Sergejeva (born 1992), Estonian figure skater
Maria Sergeeva (born 2001), Russian rhythmic gymnast
Natalya Sergeyeva (born 1976), Kazakhstani sprint canoe racer
Svetlana Sergeeva (born 1986), Russian athlete
Tatyana Sergeyeva (born 1951), Russian composer

See also
Sergeyev, male variant of Sergeeyva


Geoff Meggs is a Canadian politician, who served on Vancouver, British Columbia's City Council from 2008 to 2017. He was first elected in the 2008 municipal election, and resigned his seat on city council in 2017 to accept a job as chief of staff to John Horgan, the Premier of British Columbia.

Background
Meggs was born in Ontario and grew up in Willowdale, Toronto and Ottawa.  His father, who was trained as an Anglican priest, was a broadcaster with the CBC, and his mother was a nurse who retired to become a homemaker.  Meggs graduated from the University of Toronto.  After graduating he joined the Canada World Youth exchange program and spent time in Malaysia.  He eventually relocated to Vancouver in 1976.  Meggs' career includes time as a journalist, a communications director in the offices of former Premier Glen Clark and former Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, an executive director of the BC Federation of Labour, and president of Tideline Communications.

He is the author or co-author of four published books, including Salmon: The Decline of the West Coast Fishery (Douglas & McIntyre, 1991), which won the 1992 Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing, and Cork Lines and Canning Lines; the Glory Years of Fishing on the West Coast, with Duncan Stacey (Douglas & McIntyre, 1992).

Politics
In 2002 when the Coalition of Progressive Electors were elected with a majority to Vancouver City Council, their party's caucus became divided, and Meggs ran mayor Larry Campbell's fundraising group, the "Friends of Larry Campbell".

Later, Meggs ran as part of the Vision Vancouver slate in the 2008 election.  He received 49,538 votes, in ninth place out of a field of 32 candidates for Vancouver councillor, the fewest votes among the seven elected Vision Vancouver councilors.<ref name="gselect">"Racism is alive and well in Vancouver municipal politics", Georgia Straight, November 16, 2008.</ref>  In 2011, Meggs was re-elected as a Vision Vancouver city councillor with 56,183 votes, sixth out of a field of 40 candidates.

In June 2014, Meggs faced a court petition to remove him and fellow councillor Kerry Jang from office for allegedly violating rules on conflict of interest in connection with the rezoning of a public housing project.

Family
Meggs and his wife, Jan O’Brien, live with his daughter Claire in False Creek.  Their oldest daughter, Caitlin, lives and works in Victoria.

 Works
 2018: Strange New Country: The Fraser River Salmon Strikes of 1900–1901, 236 pages. Harbour Publishing.
 2012: The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975 (co-authored with Rod Mickleburgh), Harbour Publishing.
 1995: Salmon: The decline of the British Columbia fishery, 274 pages. Douglas & McIntyre.
 1992: Cork Lines and Canning Lines'' (co-authored with Duncan Stacey). Douglas & McIntyre.

References

External links
 Geoff Meggs at Vancouver City Council

Living people
Vision Vancouver councillors
Journalists from Ontario
Journalists from British Columbia
1951 births


Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys tatei) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae, named after American zoologist George Henry Hamilton Tate. It is found at elevations of 300 to 3,000 m along the coast of central Peru. The species has the northernmost range of any member of its genus. It has white ventral fur and short condylobasal and zygomatic lengths. T. pallidior is very similar.

References

Opossums
Mammals of Peru
Mammals described in 1957


Fairs in Birbhum refers to the many fairs that take place in Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Backdrop
Birbhum is a large but primarily rural district dotted with small towns. Many of the small towns had markets that were held on specific days in the week, where agricultural produce and products of cottage industry found a wide range of customers, many of whom travelled long distances to attend the markets. The fairs (mela in Bengali) spread right across the district are thought of as an extension of the concept of markets, a place of not only trade and business but also a meeting place of people and an arena for cultural exchange.

The largest and most notable fair is the Poush Mela held at Santiniketan for three days from 7 Poush. The baul mela is held at Jaydev Kenduli on the occasion of Poush Sankranti or Makar Sankranti. It starts on the last day of the Bengali calendar month Poush and continues up to 2 Magh. On the occasion of Choitro Sankranti, a fair is organised on the last day of the Bengali calendar month of Choitro and continues for three days at Kankalitala.
Lakhs of pilgrims assemble at Patharchapuri for the fair held on 10–12 Choitro commemorating the death anniversary of Data Saheb.

Apart from these major fairs, numerous other fairs are held across the district. A few of them are mentioned here.

Traditional fairs
Medini mela is organised around the time of Muharram and Shab e Baraat  near the mazar of Shah Abdullah Kermani at Khustigiri. The emphasis in these fairs is on catering to the needs of rural women. Urs fair is organised on 15 Falgun at Langulia village in Suri police station and on 23 Falgun at Rajnagar.

A fair is organised on Buddha Purnima day on the occasion of Dharmaraj Puja in Kaddang village. Dharmaraj puja fairs are held at several other places – in Banashanka village on Buddha Purnima day, in Kandapur village on Shravani Purnima day, and in Kurmitha village on the occasion of Asarhi Purnima. Lebrashwar celebrates Shiva Gajan with a three-day fair. Villages such as Parui, Katna, Rongaipur etc. celebrate Brahmadaitya Puja with fairs spread across several days in the early part of Magh. Khosnagar has a fair for Saraswati Puja.

Tarapith sports a festive look round the year, but a special fair is held on the occasion of Shukla chaturdashi in the month of Ashvin. Birchandrapur, about  from Tarapith and a centre of Vaishnava pilgrimage, organises fairs for Rath Yatra and Goshtaastami. The birth anniversary of Nityananda is celebrated with Aradhanar mela in the month of Magh. The area is also known as Ekachakra, the place where the Pandavas spent some time in anonymity.

Shivaratri mela is organised at Dabuk, which boasts of the tallest Shiva temple in Birbhum. Shibgram in Mayureswar police station organises a fair for Makar Sankranti. A Brahmadaitya Mela is organised on 1 Magh on the banks of Ramsagar at Dheka. A week-long fair is organised at Kaleswar on the occasion of Shivaratri in Falgun. The fair organised on the banks of the Mayurakshi River at Suganpur on the occasion of Buddha Purnima in Boisakh continues for three months. The Urs fair of Malang Zakaria Pir is held on 22–23 Poush at Tildanga. Lohajang Saheb Pirer Mela is held at Bara village near Lohapur on 2–20 Magh.

A fair is organised on the first three days of Poush in honour of Sasan Kali at Bumkotala, at the western end of Rampurhat. The fair comes alive with the singing and dancing of Santals. Choitro Sankranti fair is held in precincts of Dhamri Kali, on the banks of Brahmani River, in Nalhati police station. Traditionally large numbers of goats were offered to the goddess. Sri Gopaler Mela is held at Kaluha village on the occasion of Dol. Banbater Mela is held for seven days starting from a day after Saraswati Puja at Kurugram. A month-long fair at Rudranagar near Chatra, organised on the occasion of Basanti Puja, has on display the work of local craftsmen. A fair is organised on the occasion of Kali Puja for 10–15 days at Jajigram.

Chandidas Mela is organised on the banks of Denta Pukur in Nanoor. The week–long Radhamadhab Mela is organised from 14 Choitro at Charkalgram near Nonoor. A three–day fair is organised on the occasion of Saraswati Puja at Hetampur.

Modern fairs
Magh Mela at Sriniketan is basically a fair displaying rural crafts. Sri Sri Ramakrishna Ashram organises Abhedananda Mela at Dubrajpur  in December. Netaji Subhas Mela is held for 10 days from 1 Magh around Raksha Kali temple in the outskirts of Sainthia. The once famous Barabaganer Mela in Suri closed down long ago. Similarly, Vivekananda Mela and Sarada Mela also closed down.

References

Birbhum district
Culture of West Bengal
Fairs in India


Andrea Reimer is a Canadian politician, who served on Vancouver, British Columbia's City Council from 2008 to 2018. She was first elected in 2002 to the Vancouver School Board as a Green Party candidate. She was defeated as a Green Party candidate in her re-election campaign in 2005 and then joined the Vision Vancouver party to support Gregor Robertson's mayoral campaign. She subsequently ran for and won a council seat in the 2008 municipal election. After serving four terms on council, she chose not to run for re-election in the 2018 municipal election. She is currently an adjunct professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, and served on the UBC Board of Governors as a provincial appointee from December 2019 to October 2020.

Background

Reimer was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and put into foster care. When she was 8 months old, she was adopted by a couple from Vancouver who subsequently relocated to Calgary prior to her starting school. Reimer's adoptive parents divorced when she was a pre-teen.

Reimer started smoking and drinking at the age of 10, and started to experiment with illicit drugs at the age of 11, and LSD at the age of 12. She was homeless between the ages of 14 and 19, which included travel to places throughout Canada, the United States, Asia, Central America, Europe and North Africa. During this period she dumpster-dived, got arrested several times, got involved in hard drugs, and developed addictions. When she was 18, Reimer worked in El Salvador at a low income housing project, which she later cited as the catalyst for her environmental awareness.

Although an atheist, at 19 Reimer enrolled at Concordia University to major in religious studies. She dropped out during her first year after six weeks of classes, and moved to Vancouver. In Vancouver, Reimer joined a government sponsored job training program and started working with Gordon Neighbourhood House Youth Works. She was then sent for a practicum to the Western Canada Wilderness Committee.

Reimer eventually worked her way up to become the executive director of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, where she was paid approximately $2000 a month. While executive director of the Wilderness Committee, Reimer supported the creation of a carbon tax by the BC Provincial Government. It was subsequently passed. In 2007, she was chosen by Al Gore to deliver the Inconvenient Truth presentation to local audiences, which she delivered to over 10,000 people.

Reimer has volunteered with many community organizations including serving as:
 Past President of the CCEC Credit Union
 Past President Canadian Women Voters Congress
 former Vice-Chair of Your Local Farmer's Market Society
 former Co-Chair of the City of Vancouver's Food Policy Council
 Director of Toxic Free Canada

She serves as a Director of Environmental Education Action Project, and sits on the Vancouver Foundation's Health and Social Development Advisory Committee.

Political career

Green Party
Reimer joined the Green Party in 1996, and volunteered on the 1996 provincial election, the 1999 civic election, the 2000 federal by-election and the 2001 provincial election. She has held internal elected office as Communication Chair, Green Party of BC (1999–2002) and Chair, Green Party of Vancouver (2002–2008). Reimer was the first Green Party candidate ever elected to a school board seat in Canada, when she was elected in 2002. She ran for re-election as a Green Party candidate in 2005 yet was defeated.

Vision Vancouver
Reimer joined the Vision Vancouver party to support Gregor Robertson's mayoral campaign, which she co-chaired. She subsequently ran for and won a council seat in the 2008 municipal election.

School Board
As a School Trustee, Reimer supported efforts to remove vending machines and corporate logos from schools. She pushed for getting school garden programs into schools.

In January 2003, she supported the Green Party's position against bringing the Olympic Games to Vancouver in 2010 due to concerns about the money it would require. In 2008 she characterized her position as still ambivalent about the money spent on the Olympics but prepared to put her full energy into ensuring the Games were as good as possible.

City Council
As City Councillor, Reimer was a member of Gregor Robertson's Greenest City Team. The team was tasked with catalyzing immediate action on green issues, a ten-year action plan to become the world's greenest city and creating an environment supportive of green economic development in the city of Vancouver. Reimer introduced a motion, which passed, to open Vancouver city data to the public and endorse the principles of open source. Reimer introduced a motion, which passed unanimously, to allow Vancouver residents to keep hens in their backyards. The motion was opposed by the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Vancouver Humane Society, and the BC Poultry Association. The proposal was brought forward as a result of a recommendation from the City of Vancouver's Food Policy Council.

Reimer's other appointments on Vancouver City Council included:
 Chair, Standing Committee on Planning and Environment
 Vancouver Economic Development Commission
 Joint Childcare Council
 Family Court-Youth Justice Committee

Reimer also sat on the Metro Vancouver Regional District board and was appointed to the Regional Planning Committee, Agricultural Committee, Electoral Area A Committee and GVRD/UBC Joint Committee.

Twitter controversy
In October 2009, Reimer posted on Twitter regarding the British Columbia Minister of Housing and Social Development Rich Coleman's weight in response to provincial legislation proposed by Coleman to bring homeless people to shelters during extreme weather, even against their will. Reimer posted that instead of police bringing homeless people to shelters during extreme weather that she was thinking of introducing legislation to have the police bring Coleman to Jenny Craig, an international weight loss company, on his next visit to Vancouver. Coleman responded by calling the comment amateurish and from a Councilor that "doesn't know any better." Reimer later apologized for the posting.

Family
Reimer and her husband have a child. They live near Trout Lake in East Vancouver.

References

External links
 Andrea Reimer at Vancouver City Council

British Columbia school board members
Canadian environmentalists
Canadian women environmentalists
Women municipal councillors in Canada
Green Party of British Columbia politicians
Living people
Politicians from Saskatoon
Vision Vancouver councillors
Women in British Columbia politics
Year of birth missing (living people)


Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii, is a U.S. city. As of late 2020, Honolulu had 92 high-rise buildings over  in height, with four more under construction.

The first high-rise that exceeded 350 ft was the Ala Moana Hotel built in 1970. The next high-rise was the Yacht Harbor Towers followed by the Hawaii Monarch Hotel and the Discovery Bay Center. This was the beginning of the construction boom in the city. At the same time business and finance also boomed. During the 1990s new residentials were built, including One Waterfront Mauka Tower, Imperial Plaza, Nauru Tower, and the Hawaiki Tower.

Tallest buildings
This is a list of Honolulu skyscrapers that stand at least  tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts.

Tallest buildings approved or under construction

Gallery

See also
List of tallest buildings in Oceania

References

Honolulu

Tallest


The buff-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys venustus) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is found in the transitional and humid forests of northern Argentina and southern Bolivia. Its dorsal fur is cinnamon brown. Most of its ventral fur is gray-based, but its chest, throat, and the thoracic midline (the midline of the thorax, which ranges from the throat to the top of the abdomen) are not gray-based. The postorbital ridges are absent in the young and weakly developed in adults.

Initially classed as a Marmosa elegans subspecies, it was subsequently raised to species status in 1933. There are four synonyms: Marmosa elegans venusta (Thomas, 1902, Cochabamba), Marmosa elegans cinderella (Thomas, 1902, Tucumán Province), Marmosa elegans sponsoria (Thomas, 1921, Jujuy Province) and Marmosa janetta (Thomas, 1926, Tarija Department) with cinderella and sponsoria actually being one taxon and a subspecies of venustus; janetta is the largest of all and has cream-white ventral fur with plumbeous bases.

Its conservation status is not exactly known; it occurs in an area currently being developed, and while its range overlaps several protected areas, it is uncertain if it occurs in any of them.

References

Further reading
 The collected works of Oldfield Thomas

Opossums
Marsupials of Argentina
Mammals of Bolivia
Mammals described in 1902
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas


Literary Arabic (Arabic:  ) may refer to:

 Classical Arabic
 Modern Standard Arabic


Chocolate cake is a dessert cake made using chocolate.

Chocolate cake may also refer to:

 a chocolate bar
 Chocolate Cake (cocktail) an alcoholic drink
 Chocolate Cake (song) a song by Crowded House
 My Friend The Chocolate Cake a musical group


Ussif Rashid Sumaila is a professor of ocean and fisheries economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (formerly known as the UBC Fisheries Centre). He is also appointed with the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He specializes in bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing and the economics of high and deep seas fisheries. Sumaila has experience working in fisheries and natural resource projects in Norway, Canada and the North Atlantic region, Namibia and the Southern African region, Ghana and the West African region and Hong Kong and the South China Sea. He received his Bachelor of Science degree with honours from Ahmadu Bello University University in Nigeria and received his PhD from Bergen University in Norway.

In February 2023 Sumaila was the co-recipient of the 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, with Daniel Pauly,  which has been described as the ‘Nobel Prize for the Environment.’

Sumaila's work on international fisheries subsidies has been influential in the Doha Round of WTO negotiations concerning subsidies and countervailing measures. Expert advice from Sumaila has been sought by the White House, United Nations, Asian Development Bank, and Parliament in Canada and the United Kingdom. Sumaila has also been featured in the popular documentary End of the Line.

Current projects
Scientific Director for Ocean Canada

Lead author, Conditions Working Group of the Millennium Assessment Research Group WorldFish Centre, Penang, Malaysia.

Lead editor, Fisheries chapter of the United Nations Green Economy Report.

Journal contributions

He has published articles in several journals including, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Bioeconomics, Land Economics, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Environmental and Resource Economics and Ecological Economics. Sumaila's work has generated a great deal of interest, and has been cited by, among others, the Economist, the Boston Globe, the International Herald Tribune and the Vancouver Sun.

Selected Publications
Brooks, C.M., Larry B. Crowder1, Lisa M. Curran, Robert B. Dunbar, David G. Ainley, Klaus J. Dodds, Kristina M. Gjerde, U. Rashid Sumaila (2016). Science-based management in decline in the Southern Ocean. Science (2016).
Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., W. W. L Cheung, K. Bodtker, L. S. L. Teh, N. Steiner, M. Bailey, C. Hoover, U. R. Sumaila (2016). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
Teh, L.S.L., A. Witter, W.W.L. Cheung, U.R. Sumaila, X. Yin (2016). What is at stake? Status and threats to South China Sea marine fisheries Ambio doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0819-0.
Sumaila, U. R. (2016). Socio-economic benefits of Large Marine Ecosystem valuation: The case of Benguela Large Marine Ecosystem. Environmental Development, 17, 244–248.
Sumaila, U.R.', C. Bellmann, A. Tipping (2016). Fishing for the future: An overview of challenges and opportunities. Marine Policy, 69, 173–180.
Cinner, J. E., Huchery, C., MacNeil, M. A., Graham, N. A., McClanahan, T. R., Maina, J., ... Sumaila, U. R. & Allison, E. H. (2016). Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs. Nature, 535(7612), 416–419.
Sumaila, U.R., V. Lam, F. Le Manach, W. Swartz and D. Pauly (2016).  Global fisheries subsidies: an updated estimate.  Marine Policy, 69, 189–193.
Miller, D. D., Sumaila, U. R., Copeland, D., Zeller, D., Soyer, B., Nikaki, T., ... & Pauly, D. (2016). Cutting a lifeline to maritime crime: marine insurance and IUU fishing. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. doi:10.1002/fee.1293.
Bailey M., Favaro B., Otto S., Charles A., Devillers R., Metaxas A., Tyedmers P., Ban N., Mason T., Hoover C., Duck T.J., Fanning L., Milley C., Cisneros-Montemayor A.M., Pauly D., Cheung W.W., Cullis-Suzuki S., Teh L., and Sumaila U.R. (2016). The imperative of realigning ocean policy with ocean science. Marine Policy, 63: 53–60.
Gattuso, J.-P., Magnan, A., Billé, R., Cheung, W. W. L., Howes, E. L., Joos, F., Allemand, D.,Bopp, L., Cooley, S., Eakin, C.M., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Kelly, R.P.  Sumaila, U.R. et al. (2015). Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different CO2 emissions scenarios. Science 349 (6243).
Cheung, W.W.L. and Sumaila, U.R. (2015). Economic incentives and overfishing: a bioeconomic vulnerability index. Mar Ecol Prog Ser, 530: 223–232.
Gordon R. Munro and Sumaila, U. R. (2015). On the Contributions of Colin Clark to Fisheries Economics. Environmental and Resource Economics.
Teh, L.S.L and Sumaila, U.R. (2015). Global analysis of temporal trends in shared fisheries. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 530: 243–254.
Sumaila, U.R., Hotte, N., Galli, A., Lam, V.W.Y., Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M. and Wackernagel, M. (2015). Eco2: A simple index of economic-ecological deficits. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 530: 271–279.
Sumaila, U.R,  Vicky W.Y. Lam, Dana D. Miller, Louise Teh, Reg A. Watson, Dirk Zeller, William W.L. Cheung, Isabelle M. Côté, Alex D. Rogers, Callum Roberts, Enric Sala, Daniel Pauly (2015). Winners and losers in a world where the high seas is closed to fishing. Scientific Reports.
Ekeland, I., Karp, L. and Sumaila, U.R. (2015). Equilibrium resource management with altruistic overlapping generations. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 70, 1–16.

Díaz, S., Demissew, S., Carabias, J., Joly, C., Lonsdale, M., Ash, N., Sumaila, U.R. ... & Driver, A. (2015). The IPBES Conceptual Framework—connecting nature and people. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 14, 1–16.
Tittensor, D.P., Walpole, M., Hill, S.L.L., Sumaila U.R., Teh, L.S.L et al. (2014). A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets. Science 346(6206), 241–244.
Sumaila, U. R., and Bawumia, M. (2014). Fisheries, ecosystem justice and piracy: A case study of Somalia. Fisheries Research, 157, 154–163.
Sumaila, U.R., Dyck, A., and Baske, A. (2014). Subsidies to tuna fisheries in the Western Pacific Ocean. Marine Policy 43: 288–294.
Teh, L.S.L., Teh, L.C.L., and Sumaila, U.R. (2014). Time preference of small-scale fishers in open access and traditionally managed reef fisheries. Marine Policy 44: 222–231.
Teh, L.S.L., Teh, L.C.L., and Sumaila, U.R. (2013). A global estimate of the number of coral reef fishers. PLOS ONE 8(6), e65397.
Sumaila, U.R. (2013). How to make progress in disciplining overfishing subsidies. ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 70 (2), 251–258.
Teh, L.S.L., Teh, L.C.L., Sumaila, U.R., and Cheung, W.W.L. (2013). Time Discounting and the Overexploitation of Coral Reefs. Environmental and Resource Economics 1-24.
Swartz, W., Sumaila, U.R., and Watson, R. (2012). Global Ex-Vessel Fish Price Database revisited: a new approach for estimating ‘missing’ prices. Environmental and Resource Economics, DOI: 10.1007/s10640-012-9611-1.
Halpern, B.S., Longo, C., Hardy, D., McLeod, K.L., Samhouri, J.F., Katona, S.K., Kleisner, K., Lester, S.E., O’Leary, J., Ranelletti, M., Rosenberg, A.A., Scarborough, C., Selig, E.R., Best, B.D., Brumbaugh, D.R., Chapin, F.S., Crowder, L.B., Daly, K.L., Doney, S.C., Elfes, C., Fogarty, M.J., Gaines, S.D., Jacobsen, K.I., Karrer, L.B., Leslie, H.M., Neeley, E., Pauly, D., Polasky, S., Ris, B., St. Martin, K., Stone, G.S., Sumaila, U.R., and Zeller, D. (2012). An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean. Nature, 488: 615–620.
Sumaila, U.R., Cheung, W.W.L., Dyck, A., Gueye, K., Huang, L., Lam, V.W.Y., Pauly, D., Srinivasan, T., Swartz, W., Pauly, D., and Zeller, D. (2012). Benefits of rebuilding global marine fisheries outweigh costs. PLoS ONE 7(7), e40542, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040542.
Sumaila, U.R. (2012). Seas, Oceans and Fisheries: A Challenge for Good Governance. The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 101(2), 157–166.
Sumaila, U.R. (2012). Overfishing: Call to split fisheries at home and abroad. Nature 481, DOI:10.1038/481265c.
Sumaila, U.R. and Huang, L. (2012). Managing Bluefin Tuna in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Policy, 36, 502–511.
Sumaila, U.R., Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Dyck, A., Huang, L., Cheung, W., Jacquet, J., Kleisner, K., Lam, V., McCrea-Strub, A., Swartz, W., Watson, R., Zeller, D. & Pauly, D. (2012). Impact of the Deepwater Horizon well blowout on the Economics of U.S. Gulf fisheries. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 69, 499–510, DOI: 10.1139/f2011-171.
Collette, B.B., Sumaila, U.R., and others (2011). High Value and Long Life—Double Jeopardy for Tunas and Billfishes. Science, 333, 291–292.

Books and book contributions

Edited
Sumaila, U.R. (2013). Game Theory and Fisheries: Essays on the Tragedy of Free for All Fishing. Routledge, London, UK, p. 178.
Noone, K.J., Sumaila, U.R., and Diaz, R.J. (eds.) (2013). Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate: Sustainability and Economic Perspectives. Elsevier, London, UK, p. 359.

Bjørndal, T., Gordon, D.V., Arnason, R., and Sumaila, U.R. (eds.) (2006). Advances in Fisheries Economics: Papers in Honour of Professor Gordon Munro, Blackwell, Oxford, p. 308.
Sumaila, U.R., Boyer, D., Skog, M., and Steinshamm, S.I. (eds.) (2004). Namibia's fisheries: Ecological, economic and social aspects. Eburon, Netherlands, p. 363.
Kowero, G., Campbell, B.M., and Sumaila, U.R. (eds.) (2003). Policies and governance structures in woodlands of Southern Africa. CIFOR Press, Indonesia, p. 211.

Special Journal Issues
Sumaila, U. R.  and K. I. Stergiou (2015). Economics of marine conservation. Mar Ecol Prog Ser Vol. 530:177-279.
Sumaila, U.R. (2015). On the Contributions of Colin Clark to Fisheries Economics Environmental and Resource Economics, May 2015, Volume 61, Issue 1. (editor of Special Issue).
Sumaila, U.R., Arnason, R., and Lange, G.-M. (eds.) (2010). Global Fisheries Economics, Journal of Bioeconomics, 12, 179–268.
Chuenpagdee, R. and Sumaila, U.R. (eds) (2010). Fisheries Governance. Fish and Fisheries, 11, 233–314.
Sumaila, U.R., Adinar, A., and Albiac, J. (eds.) (2009). Game theoretic applications to environmental and natural resource problems. Environment and Development Economics, 14, 1–137.

Sumaila, U.R., Charles, T., and Sylvia, G. (eds.) (2007). Topical Problems in Fisheries Economics: An Introduction. Marine Resource Economics.
Sumaila, U.R., Munro, G., and Sutinen, J. (eds.) (2007). Recent Developments in Fisheries Economics. Special Issue of Land Economics, 83, 1–107.
Sumaila, U.R. and Charles, A. (eds.) (2002a). Economics of protected marine areas. Special Issue of Natural Resource Modeling, 15 (3 ), 261–386.
Sumaila, U.R. and Charles, A. (eds.) (2002b). Economics of protected marine areas. Special Issue of Natural Resource Modeling, 15 (4), 387–505. Climate, oceans and the law of special and general adaptation
Alder, J. and Sumaila, U. R. (eds.) (2002). Social and economic aspects of protected marine areas implementation. Special Issue of Coastal Management, 30(2), 121–191.

See also
 The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
 High Seas Fisheries Management

References

Living people
Fisheries scientists
Canadian Muslims
Canadian economists
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
University of Bergen alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Canadian zoologists


The Southern Asia-Pacific Division (SSD) of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which coordinates the Church's activities in the nations of Bangladesh, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, East Timor, and Vietnam. Its headquarters is in Silang, Cavite, Philippines. The Division has 1,695,552 members as of June 30, 2021

Sub Fields
The Southern Asia-Pacific Division is divided into four Union Conferences, five Union Missions, one Union Section, one Attached Conference and two Attached Missions. These are divided into local Conferences, Missions, Sections, Region & Attached Fields.

Bangladesh Union Mission
East Bangladesh Mission
North Bangladesh Mission
South Bangladesh Mission
West Bangladesh Mission
Central Philippine Union Conference'
Central Visayan Conference
East Visayan Conference
Negros Occidental Conference
Negros Oriental-Siquijor Mission
Romblon Mission
Samar Mission
West Visayan Conference
East Indonesia Union Conference
Bolaang Mongondow and Gorontalo Mission
Central Sulawesi Mission
Luwu Tana Toraja Mission
Maluku Mission
Manado and North Maluku Conference
Minahasa Conference
North Minahasa Bitung Mission
Northern Island Mission
Papua Mission
South Sulawesi Conference
West Papua Mission
Malaysia Union Mission
Peninsular Malaysia Mission
Sabah Mission
Sarawak Mission
Myanmar Union Mission
Ayeyarwady Mission
Central Myanmar Mission
South East Mission
Upper Myanmar Mission
Yangon Mission
North Philippine Union Conference
Cavite Mission
Central Luzon Conference
Mountain Provinces Mission
Northeast Luzon Mission
Northern Luzon Mission
Palawan Mission
South-Central Luzon Conference
Southern Luzon Mission
Pakistan Union Section
Northern Section
Southern Section
South Philippine Union Conference
Central Mindanao Mission
Davao Mission
North Central Mindanao Conference
Northeastern Mindanao Mission
Northern Davao Mission
Southern Mindanao Mission
Western Mindanao Conference
Zamboanga Peninsula Mission
Southeast Asia Union Mission
Cambodia Mission
Thailand Mission
Vietnam Mission
Lao Mission
West Indonesia Union Mission
Central Java Mission
Central Sumatra Mission
East Java Conference
East Kalimantan Mission
Jakarta Conference
North Sumatra Mission
Nusa Tenggara Mission
South Sumatra Mission
West Java Conference
West Kalimantan Region
Singapore Conference
Sri Lanka Mission
Timor-Leste Mission

History

See also
List of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals
List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools
List of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Jombok Hoas a non-profit adventure retreat operated by Adventist Development and Relief Agency in Sry Tnong, Cambodia.
Wat Preah Yesu a children's orphanage, school & church in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

References

External links

 Administrative realignment
 Seventh-day Adventist Church in Philippines Retrieved August 1, 2018

History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Organizations based in Cavite
Silang, Cavite
Seventh-day Adventist Church in Asia


Bethel High School was established in 1922 as part of the Bethel Mission in Shanghai, by Shi Meiyu (Mary Stone, or Shek Mei Yuk in Cantonese) and the American missionary Jennie V. Hughes. It later moved to Hong Kong in 1950.

References

Protestant secondary schools in Hong Kong
Educational institutions established in 1922
1922 establishments in Hong Kong


Dominic Ó Mongáin, or Dominic Mungan, was an Irish harper and poet, born around 1715 in County Tyrone. The poem and air An raibh tú ag an gCarraig?, translated by Walsh as Have you been at Carrick?, has been attributed to him.

He was the father of Charles Warburton, an Anglican bishop who served as both Bishop of Limerick and Bishop of Cloyne.

Life
Relatively little is known of his life. The harper Arthur O'Neill mentioned him in his memoirs, stating that Ó Mongáin (Mungan) lived in Strabane, and had previously taught him several tunes, none of which he could now remember:

In my travels I became acquainted with a Dominic Mungan, I may say I had known him since I was twelve years old. He was born blind in the County of Tyrone, and a real good harper. He was a Roman Catholic. [...] He was a great economist, but would spend money as genteelly as any man occasionally. He had three sons, Mark, John, and Terence, whom he educated in the first style.

A blind harper named Dominic Mungan, almost certainly the same man, was noted by Edward Bunting to have been born around 1715 in Tyrone, and was said to have been an "admirable performer", particularly skilled in quiet passages, and conversant with the music of Handel and Corelli in addition to the traditional harp repertoire. Bunting, who obtained his information on Mungan from the reminiscences of Henry Joy, uncle of Henry Joy McCracken, also noted that Mungan raised three sons, one of whom was the future bishop Charles Mongan Warburton. O'Neill had mentioned that Mungan's son Terence "was now Bishop of Limerick".

Ó Mongáin appeared in 1762 in Belfast - the first reference to the harp being played there - where a press notice stated that "Dominick the Harper" thanked those who had "been so kind as to favour him with their company" and
gave notice of a further performance at "Tim's Coffee House" on the following Monday.

Ó Doibhlin noted a further record of a "Domini Mungan of Tyrone":

[...] listed by Echlin O'Kean [...] as one of four second rate players on the harp alive in 1797/1798. His surname possibly indicates that he was a native of Termonmongan in the Castlederg area of Tyrone. Poetry writing and harp playing seem on occasions to have gone hand in hand in Gaelic Ireland, but O'Mongáin did not appear at the Harp Festival of 1792 in Belfast, and I have found no further references to him.

Ó Mongáin in fact appears to have died in the 1770s, long prior to the Harp Festival. Bunting had not personally heard him play, basing his description of his style on Joy's recollection, but said that "his 'whispering notes' were until lately in the memory of a few surviving auditors".

Poetry and music
The poem An raibh tú ag an gCarraig?, translated by Walsh as Have you been at Carrick?, is ascribed to Ó Mongáin in John O'Daly's Poets and Poetry of Munster (1849), where it was printed along with Walsh's translation. Ó Mongáin was said to have written An raibh tú ag an gCarraig? in honour of Eliza Blacker (later Lady Dunkin) of Carrick in the parish of Seagoe, County Armagh.

The air printed in Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland as Sin Sios agus suas liom, "Down beside me" and stated to be "the original of Shepherds, I have lost my Love", was said by Bunting to have been taken from a transcribed performance by Ó Mongáin.

See also
 Belfast Harp Festival

References

 Diarmaid Ó Doibhlin (2000) Tyrone's Gaelic Literary Legacy in Tyrone: History and Society, pp. 424–25.

18th-century Irish male writers
18th-century Irish male musicians
18th-century Irish-language poets
Irish male harpists
Irish-language singers
Irish male poets
Musicians from County Tyrone
People from Strabane
Writers from County Tyrone
18th-century Irish harpists


f*INK Weekly Entertainment Guide  was a free weekly guide owned by Martin Kean and Caroline McCaw. It was published each Wednesday from February to December, from 1996-2009 in Dunedin, New Zealand. The aim of the guide was to provide free information about events to the local community using cheap one-colour printing but with a distinctive design style. Part of f*INK's mission was support of and collaboration with artist networks, bands and musicians, including those that grew out of the Dunedin sound.

History
In June 1996, Dunedin, New Zealand, Caroline McCaw and Martin Kean together with Allan Thommason (aka OziBsy) published the first issue of f*INK, in response to a lack of entertainment listings for band events and dance parties in the usual media outlets such as the Otago Daily Times. f*INK was the first of many A6-sized free paper gig guides in New Zealand, and has outlasted many similar guides.

f*INK's reputation as a consistent source of entertainment information meant that it was popular for more than twelve years. f*INK has also published articles during its history that document the growth of alternative communities in Dunedin and Otago. f*INK has published free comics in every issue of f*INK, notably work by Indira Neville, and 'City of Tales' by Stefan Neville and Clayton Noone.

In 1999, f*INK published Dunedin maps and Arts & Fashion maps that won support from the Dunedin City Council Visitor Centre. Kevin Thompson, the Visitor Centre manager in 1999 described the A3-sized fold-up maps as "a very good working tool for us."

An exhibition of ten years of f*INK issues was hosted by Dunedin Public Libraries in June 2007.

f*INK was recommended by two travel books/guides: Lonely Planet and Rough Guides. In the 2002 edition Lonely Planet New Zealand writes, "Entertainment: The Otago Daily Times newspaper lists what's on around the city, but the best publication is the free f*INK, available around town or online at www.fink.net.nz." The Rough Guide to New Zealand of 2002 states, "For the latest on the Dunedin Sound, check out f*INK the free entertainment pamphlet available all around town, including the visitor centre (or see www.fink.net.nz), which keeps track of Dunedin's bands, singers and songwriters."

The publication was sold in 2008 to Carmen Norgate, resurrecting the entertainment guide as 'INK, which was published weekly until 2012.

See also
Dunedin - Media

References

External links
fink.net.nz (defunct)
Art Not In Use - listing at civicmediacenter.org

City guides
Defunct magazines published in New Zealand
Free magazines
Independent magazines
Magazines established in 1996
Magazines disestablished in 2009
Mass media in Dunedin
Magazines published in New Zealand
Weekly magazines published in New Zealand


Ripon High School may refer to:
 Ripon High School (California), Ripon, San Joaquin County, California
 Ripon High School (Wisconsin), Ripon, Wisconsin


The Twelve Jewels of Islam in the Nation of Gods and Earths is a variant of the Supreme Alphabet and Supreme Mathematics that the group's members use to understand the meaning of the universe. All three systems comprise the Universal Language. These jewels are also shared by The Nation of Islam.

The twelve principles
 Knowledge
 Wisdom
 Understanding
 Freedom
 Justice
 Equality
 Food
 Clothing
 Shelter
 Love
 Peace
 Happiness

References

Five-Percent Nation


Seattle Sounders FC is an American soccer club founded in 2008, after the city of Seattle was awarded a Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise. Sounders FC began playing competitive soccer in the 2009 season. It plays its home games at Lumen Field, competing in the Western Conference of the MLS. The current Sounders FC is the third soccer team from Seattle to bear the Sounders nickname. The tradition was started by Seattle's North American Soccer League team in 1974, and continued by the city's United Soccer Leagues side, formed in 1994. The current Sounders FC is an entity distinct to both of these clubs, and played its first MLS game on March 19, 2009.

As of the start of the 2021 season, a total of 125 players have participated in at least one league match for Sounders FC. Raúl Ruidíaz is the club's all-time top goal scorer, and Nicolás Lodeiro is club's all-time leader in assists.

Players
A Major League Soccer club's active roster consists of up to 30 players. All 30 players are eligible for selection to each 18-player game-day squad during the regular season and playoffs. Players who were contracted to the club but never played a regular season MLS game are not listed below.

All statistics are for MLS regular season games only, including the group stage of the 2020 MLS is Back Tournament, and are correct .

Key

DF = Defender

MF = Midfielder

FW = Forward/striker

Outfield players

Goalkeepers

In their history the Seattle Sounders FC have used three primary goalkeepers. US national team member and Seattle area native Kasey Keller was the goalkeeper for the team's first three seasons. In November 2011, just shy of his 42nd birthday, Keller retired. Austrian Michael Gspurning was brought in as Keller's replacement in 2012. After two seasons Gspurning and the Sounders FC front office were unable to come to an agreement on a contract and Gspurning was released. Toronto FC traded Stefan Frei to the Sounders in December 2013. Frei would be the first choice goalkeeper for the Sounders from the 2014 season to present.

By nationality

MLS regulations permit teams to name eight players from outside of the United States in their rosters. However, this limit can be exceeded by trading international slots with another MLS team, or if one or more of the overseas players is a refugee or has permanent residency rights in the USA. , 67 players from outside the United States have played in MLS for Seattle Sounders FC.

Additional players
In addition to competing in Major League Soccer every year, Sounders FC participate in other competitions such as the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup and the CONCACAF Champions League. Below is a list of players who have not appeared in a league match, but have played for the team in other competitions.

See also
 List of Seattle Sounders (USL) players – list of players who played for Seattle Sounders FC's USL predecessor
 List of Tacoma Defiance players – list of players who play for Seattle Sounders FC's reserve team

Notes

References

Seattle Sounders FC

players
Association football player non-biographical articles


is a  mountain, located on the border of Higashiyoshino and Kawakami, Nara, Japan.

Outline
Mount Azami is one of the Daikō Mountains. Its two peaks are known as Oyama (男山) and Meyama (女山), respectively meaning male peak and female peak. It is one of the Kinki 100 mountains.

Route

The most popular route is from Ōmata Bus Stop of Nara Kōtsu. It takes two and half hours via Mount Ōkagami.

Access
Ōmata Bus Stop of Nara Kōtsu

Gallery

References
Ōdaigahara, Takami, Kurosoyama, Shobunsha, 2008
Official Home Page of the Geographical Survey Institute in Japan

Mountains of Nara Prefecture


Fogo Natural Park (), on the island of Fogo, is one of ten "natural parks" in the country of Cape Verde. The protected area is , which is 17.8% of the total area of the island. 50% of the park lies within the municipality Santa Catarina do Fogo, 28% in municipality of Mosteiros and 22% in São Filipe. The natural park is situated in the interior of the island, and covers the volcano Pico do Fogo, its crater and crater rim (Bordeira) and the forest of Monte Velha. The volcano is active; the most recent eruption was in 2014-15.

Flora and fauna

The volcano area of Fogo is an Important Bird Area. Key bird species are Fea's petrel, Boyd's shearwater and Cape Verde swift. The ocean around the island of Fogo is another Important Bird Area covering .

The endemic plants Echium vulcanorum (endangered) and Erysimum caboverdeanum (critically endangered) are only found on the outer crater rim of the volcano of Fogo.

References

National parks of Cape Verde
Geography of Fogo, Cape Verde