In Tenrikyo, the Joyous Life (yōki yusan or yōki gurashi) is the ideal taught by spiritual leaders and pursued through charity and abstention from greed, selfishness, hatred, anger and arrogance. Theologically, the Joyous Life functions as the purpose of human existence preordained by God during the creation of human beings and as the means for the salvation of humankind.

Etymology
The term "Joyous Life" refers to several related terms that appear in Tenrikyo scriptures and historical documents in the original Japanese. In the Ofudesaki, the term is written as yōki yusan (よふきゆさん), while in the Osashizu, it is written as yōki asobi (陽気遊び) and yōki gurashi (陽気ぐらし). Early outlines of the Tenrikyo teachings use the terms yōkinaru yusan asobi (よふきなるゆさんあすび) and yōki yusan (陽気遊参).

The characters that make up yōki yusan/gurashi are as follows:

 Yō (陽) is "positive", the same character as Yang in the Chinese Yin and Yang.
 Ki (気) is "spirit" or "energy", the same character as Qi in Chinese.
 Yusan (遊山) is "an outing to the mountain or fields" (lit. excursion), implying an outgoing life.
 Gurashi (暮) is "livelihood", implying life in a more day-to-day sense.

History
See Tenrikyo.

Theology

Creation

At the focal point of Tenrikyo's ontological understanding is the positing of original causality, or causality of origin (moto no innen もとのいんねん), which is that God the Parent created human beings to see them live the Joyous Life (the salvific state) and to share in that joy. Tenrikyo teaches that the Joyous Life will eventually encompass all humanity, and that gradual progress towards the Joyous Life is even now being made with the guidance of divine providence. Thus the concept of original causality has a teleological element, being the gradual unfolding of that which was ordained at the beginning of time.

Salvation
The Joyous Life is understood as the salvific state which individuals can work toward through prayer (i.e. Service, Sazuke) and practice in everyday life (i.e. tannō, hinokishin).

Tannō
Tannō (たんのう), or "joyous acceptance," is the spiritual practice of the Joyous Life. It is the state of mind which accepts all occurrences in one's daily life positively and as the intention of God, including hardships.

Hinokishin
Hinokishin (ひのきしん), or "daily contribution," is the physical practice of the Joyous Life. It is an expression of joy and gratitude that materializes in the world through service for one's community or surroundings.

Eschatology
Tenrikyo doctrine and tradition assert the spiritual maturity of humankind will gradually improve over many rebirths and countless millennia, and by so doing will grow in more joy and bliss and will get closer to the world of the Joyous Life. It is said that when the hearts of humankind have been adequately purified, God will inaugurate the world of the Joyous Life by bestowing a sweet dew on the basin to be placed on top of the Kanrodai, which when consumed, will allow people to live the full lifespan of 115 years without illness or misfortune, and die painlessly to be reborn. Therefore Tenrikyo eschatology maintains a progressive and a millenarian outlook on the future of humankind.

References

Citations

Bibliography

Further reading

Tenrikyo


In economics, a rare disaster is a collapse that is infrequent and large in magnitude, having a negative effect on an economy. Rare disasters are important because they provide an explanation of the equity premium puzzle, the behavior of interest rates, and other economic phenomena.

The parameters for a rare disaster are a substantial drop in GDP and at least a 10% decrease in consumption. Examples include financial disasters: the Great Depression and the 1997 Asian financial crisis; wars: World War I, World War II, and regional conflicts; epidemics: influenza outbreaks and the Asian Flu; weather events; and earthquakes and tsunamis; however, any event that has a substantial impact on GDP and consumption could be considered a rare disaster.

The idea was first proposed by Rietz in 1988, as a way to explain the equity premium puzzle. Since then, other economists have added to and strengthened the idea with evidence, but many economists are still skeptical of the theory.

Model
The model set forth by Barro is based upon the Lucas's fruit tree model of asset pricing with exogenous, stochastic production. The economy is closed, the number of trees is fixed, output equals consumption (  ) and there is no investment or depreciation. As (  ) is the output of all the trees in the economy and (  ) is the price of the periods fruit (the equity claim). The equation below shows the gross return on the fruit tree in one period.

In order to model rare disasters, Barro introduces the equation below, which is a stochastic process for aggregate output growth. In the model, there are three types of economic shocks:

a.) Normal iid shocks
b.) Type () disasters which involve sharp contractions in output, but no default on debt.
c.) Type () disasters which involve sharp contractions in output and at least a partial default on debt.

The type ω () models low probability disasters and () is a random iid variable. They are assumed to be independent so they are interchangeable in the equation. Then from the above equation, the magnitude of the contraction from () is determined by the following equation.

In this equation, p is the probability per unit of time that a disaster will occur in each period. If the disaster occurs, b is the factor by which consumption will shrink. The model requires a p that is small and a b that large to correctly model rare disasters. In Barro's analysis, d is also used to deal with the problem of the partial default on bonds.

Applications
Since Rietz and Barro, the rare disaster framework can be used to explain many events in finance and economics.

The Equity Premium
Much of the equity premium puzzle can be explained by the rare disaster scenarios proposed by Barro and Rietz. The basic reasoning is that if people are aware that rare disasters (i.e. the Great Depression or World War I and World War II) may occur, but the disaster never occurs during their lives, then the equity premium will appear high.

Barro and subsequent economists have provided historical evidence to support this claim. Using this evidence, Barro shows that rare disasters occur frequently and in large magnitude, in economies around the world from a period from the mid-19th century to the present day.

Further, the evidence shows that in the long run the risk premium is around 5.0% in most countries. However, when looking at specific periods of time this premium may be higher or lower. For example, if a data set of the period of the Great Depression is observed, then the equity premium will be about 0.4%, because the Great Depression was a rare disaster.

Risk-Free Interest Rate Behavior

The risk-free interest rate (the interest received on fixed income, like bonds issued by extremely safe entities, typically governments) may also be explained by rare disasters. Using data in the United States, the rare disaster model shows that the risk-free rate falls by a large margin (from 0.127 to 0.035) when a rare disaster with the probability of 0.017 is introduced into the data set.

Furthermore, Barro defends the criticisms about the behavior of the risk free rate raised by Mehra with respect to the Great Depression and events such as dropping the Atom Bomb in World War II. He reasons that two effects go into people's expectation of rare disasters-the probability of a rare disaster and the probability of default. In an event that has the possibility of nuclear war (like the Cuban Missile Crisis or World War II), the probability of a disaster would rise and therefore, decrease interest rates. However, the probability of government default on bonds also increases, because of the possible destruction of countries, which raises the rate on bonds. These two forces counteract which leads to ambiguity. As shown left with the risk free rate rising before and falling after the Great Depression, then falling initially during World War II and then rising afterward.

History
Edward C. Prescott and Rajnish Mehra first proposed the Equity Premium Puzzle in 1985. In 1988, Rietz suggested that large and infrequent economic shocks could explain the equity premium (the premium of equity securities over fixed income assets). However, it was not deemed feasible at the time, because it seemed that such events were too rare and could not occur in reality. The theory was forgotten until 2005, when Robert Barro provided evidence of nations from around the world from the 19th and 20th century, showing that these events were possible and have happened. Since his papers, others have submitted different ideas regarding rare disasters' impact on other economic phenomenon. However, many economists remain skeptical of how much rare disasters really explain the equity premium and Mehra still expresses doubt as to the validity of the theory.

Controversy
Rajnish Mehra was skeptical of Reitz's claim that rare disasters explain the equity premium and real interest rate behavior, because the rare disaster that Rietz had specified had never occurred in the U.S. Rietz suggested 25 to 97% drops, but this has never happened in the United States. Even if this were true, there are several other flaws regarding his model, parameters, and supporting evidence. The model Rietz presented did not compensate for a partial default on bond holders due to rapid inflation. Further, the risk aversion parameter was used inconsistently in his analysis. For example, a value of 10 was used to show a 25% drop in consumption, but a value of 1 is used to explain stock returns and consumption. Finally, more historical evidence was said to have been needed to give the theory proper support. For example, the perceived probability of a rare disaster should have been low before the atomic bomb was dropped and must have been higher before the Cuban Missile Crisis than after. Therefore, real interest rates should have correlated with these events, but they did not. Mehra concluded that Rietz's scenario was far too extreme to resolve the puzzle.

See also
Rare events

References

Bibliography

Economic collapses


Tikhonravov is a large, eroded crater in the Arabia quadrangle of Mars. It is  in diameter and was named after Mikhail Tikhonravov, a Russian rocket scientist. Tikhonravov is believed to have once held a giant lake that drained into the  Naktong-Scamander-Mamers lake-chain system. An inflow and outflow channel has been identified. Many craters once contained lakes.

Pedestal craters

Some craters in Tikhonravov are classified as pedestal craters. A pedestal crater is a crater with its ejecta sitting above the surrounding terrain. They form when an impact crater ejects material which forms an erosion resistant layer, thus causing the immediate area to erode more slowly than the rest of the region. The result is that both the crater and its ejecta blanket stand above the surroundings.

See also
 List of craters on Mars

References

Arabia quadrangle
Impact craters on Mars


Huyou (忽悠, Pinyin: hūyōu) is a Chinese word often used by speakers of the Chinese language to refer to bragging.

It comes from Northeast China Dialect, which originally means that making someone falling into a dizzy status and lose his judgement about something. This word becomes popular in China since Zhao Benshan, Fan Wei and Gao Xiumin's comedy played in 2001 CCTV New Year's Gala.

This comedy becomes such a success that "HuYou" has become a popular word in whole China mainland.

References

Chinese words and phrases


Gunner Berg (22 November 1764 – 19 August 1827) was a Norwegian priest, writer and politician.

He was born in Stjørdalen. He finished his secondary education in Throndhjem in 1782, and graduated with the cand.theol. degree in 1786. He was hired as a vicar in Lenviken in 1792. In 1881 he was promoted to dean of Senjen prosti, after one year he became vicar in Ibestad. He was known for his historical and topographical writings, which have been used as sources by later historians.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1818, representing the constituency of Finmarkens Amt (Troms county did not exist until 1866). However, he never got the chance to actually meet in Parliament, due to illness. His replacement was Hans Christoffer Klæboe. Berg died in August 1827.

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1764 births
1827 deaths
Norwegian priest-politicians
Norwegian writers
Members of the Storting
Troms politicians
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Emmanuel Gómez (born December 20, 1990, in Dippa Kunda) is a Gambian footballer. He formerly played Toronto FC in Major League Soccer.

Career

Professional
Gómez began his professional career with Samger of the Gambian Championnat National D1, where he is considered to be one of the top young centre backs in his nation.

His appearances with the Gambian Under-20 national team sparked interest among many Major League Soccer clubs. In early 2009, Gómez signed with Toronto FC along with fellow countrymen Amadou Sanyang. He made his debut for Toronto on 6 June 2009, in a game against Los Angeles Galaxy.

Gomez in his second season with Toronto failed to make any appearances with the club due to knee injury that he picked up during the pre-season training. Gomez was released by Toronto FC on March 1, 2011.

Afterwards, he returned to Samger FC. He has since made a full recovery from his injury and has played over 80 senior matches since then.

In 2014, he played for Lansdowne Bhoys FC. In 2015, he played for Clarkstown SC Eagles.

Gomez is married. He also has two daughters. His wife and two children reside in his native Gambia

International
Gómez has represented his nation at various youth levels and has two caps at senior level.

Career stats

References

External links

 observer.gm

1990 births
Living people
Gambian men's footballers
The Gambia men's international footballers
The Gambia men's youth international footballers
Gambian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
Toronto FC players
Major League Soccer players
Men's association football defenders
Lansdowne Yonkers FC players


Rebels and Traitors by British historical novelist Lindsey Davis (best known for her Marcus Didius Falco series) was published by Random House in September 2009 ().  In contrast to the ancient Roman setting of the Falco books and Course of Honour, this book is set in the English Civil War period of the 17th century.  At 742 pages it is substantially longer than her previous novels.

The prologue takes place on 30 January 1649 at the execution of King Charles I at the Palace of Whitehall, London. The main body of the book then begins in 1634, and the endpaper blurb describes the book as being set in Birmingham, where the author was born, Oxford, where she studied, and London, where she now lives.

Davis has said that her interest in this period goes back to when a print of the Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals hung in her primary school classroom, and was further developed when she read Rosemary Sutcliff's novels Simon and The Rider of the White Horse.

Dedication
The dedication is "For Richard / dearest and closest of friends / your favourite book / in memory", and the author's website tells that "I am still getting used to life without my dear Richard. For those of you who haven't seen this before, he died in October [2008]".  The author says in her publisher's newsletter: "The greatest recommendation I can give is that Richard, its first reader, thought it wonderful. He devoured chunks, demanding ‘Bring
more story!’ even when he was in hospital. One of the last things I was ever able to tell him was that Rebels and Traitors was to be published by Random House, so I would be working with dear friends for his favourite book."

Plot summary
The story follows the experiences of two main protagonists: Gideon Jukes, a printer from London who joins the New Model Army, and Juliana Calill, who, as a result of her marriage to the Royalist Orlando Lovell, experiences many vicissitudes.  Their stories are linked through the activities of other characters, including the ne'er-do-well Kinchin Tew, the innocent and upright Edmund Treves, and real-life political figures such as Edward Sexby and Thomas Rainborough.

References

External links
Publisher's website with link to 71 pages from the book
, review
, review from Oxford local viewpoint
, review; note that true to its reputation The Grauniad misspells the author's name throughout
, review

British historical novels
Novels set during the English Civil War
Novels set in Birmingham, West Midlands
Novels set in Oxford
Novels set in London
Novels by Lindsey Davis
2009 British novels
Century (imprint) books


In mathematics, the Segre class is a characteristic class used in the study of cones, a generalization of vector bundles. For vector bundles the total Segre class is inverse to the total Chern class, and thus provides equivalent information; the advantage of the Segre class is that it generalizes to more general cones, while the Chern class does not.
The Segre class was introduced in the non-singular case by Segre (1953)..
In the modern treatment of intersection theory in algebraic geometry, as developed e.g. in the definitive book of Fulton (1998), Segre classes play a fundamental role.

Definition

Suppose  is a cone over ,  is the projection from the projective completion  of  to , and  is the anti-tautological line bundle on . Viewing the Chern class  as a group endomorphism of the Chow group of , the total Segre class of  is given by:

The th Segre class  is simply the th graded piece of . If  is of pure dimension  over  then this is given by:

The reason for using  rather than  is that this makes the total Segre class stable under addition of the trivial bundle .

If Z is a closed subscheme of an algebraic scheme X, then  denote the Segre class of the normal cone to .

Relation to Chern classes for vector bundles

For a holomorphic vector bundle  over a complex manifold  a total Segre class  is the inverse to the total Chern class , see e.g. Fulton (1998).

Explicitly, for a total Chern class

one gets the total Segre class

where

Let  be Chern roots, i.e. formal eigenvalues of  where  is a curvature of a connection on .

While the Chern class c(E) is written as

where  is an elementary symmetric polynomial of degree  in variables

the Segre for the dual bundle  which has Chern roots  is written as

Expanding the above expression in powers of  one can see that  is represented by
a complete homogeneous symmetric polynomial of

Properties
Here are some basic properties.
For any cone C (e.g., a vector bundle), .
For a cone C and a vector bundle E,

If E is a vector bundle, then
 for .
 is the identity operator.
 for another vector bundle F.
If L is a line bundle, then , minus the first Chern class of L.
If E is a vector bundle of rank , then, for a line bundle L,

A key property of a Segre class is birational invariance: this is contained in the following. Let  be a proper morphism between algebraic schemes such that  is irreducible and each irreducible component of  maps onto . Then, for each closed subscheme ,  and  the restriction of ,

Similarly, if  is a flat morphism of constant relative dimension between pure-dimensional algebraic schemes, then, for each closed subscheme ,  and  the restriction of ,

A basic example of birational invariance is provided by a blow-up. Let  be a blow-up along some closed subscheme Z. Since the exceptional divisor  is an effective Cartier divisor and the normal cone (or normal bundle) to it is ,

where we used the notation . Thus,

where  is given by .

Examples

Example 1
Let Z be a smooth curve that is a complete intersection of effective Cartier divisors  on a variety X. Assume the dimension of X is n + 1. Then the Segre class of the normal cone  to  is:

Indeed, for example, if Z is regularly embedded into X, then, since  is the normal bundle and  (see Normal cone#Properties), we have:

Example 2
The following is Example 3.2.22. of Fulton (1998). It recovers some classical results from Schubert's book on enumerative geometry.

Viewing the dual projective space  as the Grassmann bundle  parametrizing the 2-planes in , consider the tautological exact sequence

where  are the tautological sub and quotient bundles. With , the projective bundle  is the variety of conics in . With , we have  and so, using Chern class#Computation formulae,

and thus

where  The coefficients in  have the enumerative geometric meanings; for example, 92 is the number of conics meeting 8 general lines.

See also: Residual intersection#Example: conics tangent to given five conics.

Example 3
Let X be a surface and  effective Cartier divisors on it. Let  be the scheme-theoretic intersection of  and  (viewing those divisors as closed subschemes). For simplicity, suppose  meet only at a single point P with the same multiplicity m and that P is a smooth point of X. Then

To see this, consider the blow-up  of X along P and let , the strict transform of Z. By the formula at #Properties,

Since  where , the formula above results.

Multiplicity along a subvariety
Let  be the local ring of a variety X at a closed subvariety V codimension n (for example, V can be a closed point). Then  is a polynomial of degree n in t for large t; i.e., it can be written as  the lower-degree terms and the integer  is called the multiplicity of A.

The Segre class  of  encodes this multiplicity: the coefficient of  in  is .

References

Bibliography

Intersection theory
Characteristic classes


Darius Adams Ogden (August 14, 1813 Northville, Cayuga County, New York – May 4, 1889 Penn Yan, Yates County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life
He was the son of Ezekiel Ogden (1772–1824) and Abigail Brandt (1775–1860). On December 18, 1834, he married Judith Ann Lawrence (1815–1895).

He was a Canal Appraiser from 1853 to 1854. Afterwards he was appointed by President Franklin Pierce U.S. Consul at Honolulu, then in the Kingdom of Hawaii, and stayed there until 1857. He was a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Yates Co.) in 1862.

He helped New York Governor Samuel J. Tilden to break up the corrupt Canal Ring, and shortly afterwards was the last Canal Commissioner, elected in 1876, on the Democratic ticket. The office of Canal Commissioner was abolished by an amendment to the New York State Constitution, ratified at the same state election, pending the appointment of a Superintendent of Public Works. The Canal Commissioners remained in office until February 8, 1878, when the first Superintendent of Public Works, Benjamin S. W. Clark, qualified to take over the duties from the remaining two Canal Commissioners Ogden and Christopher A. Walrath.

He was appointed by Governor Grover Cleveland to the Prison Labor Commission in 1884. In 1885, he declined an appointment as Chief of Division in the Third Auditor's Office of the U.S. Treasury.

His son Charles E. Ogden was a member of the State Assembly from Monroe County in 1904.

Sources
The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch (Philadelphia, 1907)
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 43; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pages 406, 496 and 517)
SKETCHES OF THE CANDIDATES in NYT on September 1, 1876
LEGISLATION AT ALBANY - Mr. Howe's Prison Commission Bill Passed in NYT on April 4, 1884
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON in NYT on June 10, 1885
 Appointments by Dem. governors, in NYT on December 12, 1887
OPENING OF LEGISLATURE in NYT on January 3, 1904
 Political Graveyard
 History of the consuls at Honolulu

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1813 births
1889 deaths
People from Penn Yan, New York
Erie Canal Commissioners
Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly
People from Cayuga County, New York
American consuls
19th-century American diplomats
19th-century American politicians


Orietta Calliari (born 22 March 1969) from Romeno is an Italian ski mountaineer. She lives in Busca.

Selected results
 2003:
 2nd, Sellaronda Skimarathon (together with Silvana Iori)<ref name="sellaronda">[http://www.newspower.it/comunicati/sellaronda/AlbodoroSellaronda.rtf Sellarond ski marathon - roll of honor"]</ref>
 2004:
 1st, Sellaronda Skimarathon (together with Roberta Secco)
 2005:
 1st, Sellaronda Skimarathon (together with Roberta Secco)
2006
 1st, Italian Cup
 1st, Sellaronda Skimarathon (together with Roberta Secco)
 7th, 2006 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering team race (together with Astrid Renzler)
 2008:
 1st, Sellaronda Skimarathon (together with Annemarie Gross)
 2009:
 2nd, Trofeo Mezzalama (together with Corinne Clos and Silvia Rocca)

 External links
 Orietta Calliari at skimountaineering.org''

References

1969 births
Living people
Italian female ski mountaineers
Sportspeople from Trentino
Skiers from Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol


Calliari is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Amedeo Calliari, (born 1988), Italian footballer
Marco Calliari, Canadian singer-songwriter
Orietta Calliari, (born 1969), Italian ski mountaineer

Italian-language surnames


Pierre Phelipon (born 5 February 1935) is a French former professional football player and manager. In his playing days, he was a defender. He is known for being the first manager in the history of Paris Saint-Germain.

Honours
Paris Saint-Germain
 Division 2: 1970–71

References

External links

Phelipon at Planète PSG

1935 births
Living people
French men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Racing Club de France Football players
Stade Français (association football) players
Grenoble Foot 38 players
FC Rouen players
Angoulême Charente FC players
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. players
Stade Saint-Germain players
FC Girondins de Bordeaux players
French football managers
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. managers
Angoulême Charente FC managers
FC Girondins de Bordeaux managers
Tours FC managers
Stade de Reims managers
Men's association football player-managers


Frank Leslie (1821–1880) was an English-born American engraver, illustrator, and publisher.

Frank Leslie may also refer to:
Frank Matthews Leslie (1935–2000), professor and mathematical physicist
Buckskin Frank Leslie (1842–1930), U.S. Army scout, gambler, miner, and gunfighter
Frank Leslie (Medal of Honor) (1841–1882), Medal of Honor recipient
Miriam Leslie (1836–1914), wife of Frank Leslie who legally changed her name to Frank after his death

See also
Francis Leslie (disambiguation)


Merate Astronomical Observatory is an old observatory in Merate (Lecco), Italy. It has housed a 1-meter Zeiss telescope since 1926.

This Zeiss di Merate is a reflecting telescope on an equatorial mount and is one of the largest telescopes funded by the Regno d'Italia ("Kingdom of Italy") before Italy became republic in 1946.

The same type of Zeiss telescope was also installed at the Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory and the Royal Observatory of Belgium.

Gallery

See also
Asiago Astrophysical Observatory
Galileo National Telescope, 3.5m (138 inch) diameter aperture Italian National telescope.
List of astronomical observatories
List of largest optical reflecting telescopes
List of largest optical telescopes in the 20th century
Telescope mount

References

Astronomical observatories in Italy


John Letts may refer to:
John Letts (publisher) (1929–2006), English publisher, who founded the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
John Letts (stationary publisher) (mid-1700s), English stationary producer, who founded Letts of London in 1796
John Spencer Letts (1934–2014), U.S. federal judge
John Letts (jockey) (born 1943), former Australian jockey
John Letts (tennis) (born 1964), former professional tennis player from the United States
John Letts (RAF officer) (1897–1918), World War I flying ace in No. 48 Squadron RAF


Saravana Stores, founded in 1969, is a chain of retail stores in India. It is the largest family owned business retail chain in India. It is the first store to introduce ஆடி தள்ளுபடி concept.

Locations
Saravana Stores operates seven stores in Chennai, at T. Nagar, Purasawalkam, Porur, Padi, Sholinganallur, Chromepet and Usman Road. The company has mega stores in Madurai, Tirunelveli and Coimbatore. The company is growing rapidly and has plans to open stores in Mumbai, New Delhi, and Bengaluru The company also operates the Saravana Selvarathinam Stores, in Tirunelveli and Madurai.

Revenue
In 2023, the company reported an annual turnover of about ₹ 2495 crore (300 million US dollars).

Foray into 100% milk based ice cream
In 2004, Saravana Stores Group launched a new ice cream brand named Jamaai, a 100% milk based ice-cream brand. The factory is located at Padappai, a suburb of Chennai en route Sriperumbudur and sold across Tamil Nadu. It has a capacity of 10,000-litres per day ice cream production and expected to expand to 30,000 litres per day.

Fire incident
On 2 September 2008, a fire inside the building led to death of two of its employees and damages worth Crores of rupees. Unauthorized construction and ignoring safety measures are believed to be the reason.

Super Saravana Stores: On March 1,2023 around 4.30 p.m. the flames were noticed in the Food Court on 9floor the staff and the customers from all the floors were evacuated. No one was injured in the accident. Property worth 37 crore has been damaged in the major fire that broke out.

on

Melur Main Road

in M

Madurai city

References

External links

Saravana Selvarathnam
Saravana Stores Elite
Super Saravana Stores
The Legend New Saravana Stores
Retail:What's in store? India Today article
 Ice Cream Factory
Facebook Page of SARAVANA STORES

Superstores
Retail companies of India
Retailing in Chennai
Jewellery retailers of India
Retail companies established in 1969
Companies based in Chennai
1969 establishments in Tamil Nadu


Kefeng Liu (; born 12 December 1965), is a Chinese-American mathematician who is known for his contributions to geometric analysis, particularly the geometry, topology and analysis of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and Calabi–Yau manifolds. He is a professor of mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles, as well as the executive director of the Center of Mathematical Sciences at Zhejiang University. He is best known for his collaboration with Bong Lian and Shing-Tung Yau in which they establish some enumerative geometry conjectures motivated by mirror symmetry.

Biography
Liu was born in Kaifeng, Henan province, China. In 1985, Liu received his B.A. in mathematics from the Department of Mathematics of Peking University in Beijing. In 1988, Liu obtained his M.A. from the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing. Liu then went to study in the United States, obtaining a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1993 under Shing-Tung Yau.

From 1993 to 1996, Liu was C. L. E. Moore Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1996 to 2000, Liu was an assistant professor at Stanford University. Liu joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty in 2000, where he was promoted to full professor in 2002. In September 2003, Liu was appointed as the head of Zhejiang University's mathematics department. Liu is currently the executive director of the Center of Mathematical Sciences at Zhejiang University.

Awards and honors
 Frederick E. Terman Fellow (1997-2001)
 Sloan Fellowship (1998-2001)
 Guggenheim Fellow (2002)
 Silver Morningside Medal (1998)
 Morningside Gold Medal in Mathematics (2004)
 invited speaker, 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians

Editorial Work
 Communications in Analysis and Geometry, Editor-in-Chief
 Pure and Applied Mathematical Quarterly, Co-Editor-in-Chief.
 Asian Journal of Mathematics, Editor.
 Pacific Journal of Mathematics, Editor.
 Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Co-Editor-in-Chief.
 Advanced Lectures in Mathematics, Executive Editor.
 Science China Mathematics, Editor.
 Mathematics and Humanities, Co-Editor-in-Chief.

References

External links
 Homepage of Kefeng Liu at UCLA
 Homepage of Kefeng Liu at ZJU
 "A brief summary of my researches" by Kefeng Liu
 The Mathematics Genealogy Project – Kefeng Liu
 Knowledge, Technique, and Imagination – Kefeng Liu Hangzhou, April 2004

1965 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American science writers
Educators from Henan
Harvard University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
Mathematicians from Henan
Peking University alumni
People's Republic of China emigrants to the United States
Sloan Research Fellows
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Writers from Kaifeng
Academic staff of Zhejiang University


Sam Childers (born 1963), also known as the Machine Gun Preacher, is an American motorcyclist, author, and humanitarian. A former member of the highwaymen Motorcycle Club, Childers became well known after Dateline NBC's (Keith Morrison and Tim Sandler) story about him and his interactions with Joseph Kony (leader of the Lord's Resistance Army) in 2005 and now dedicates his life and resources to rescue children in the war zone of South Sudan. Childers and his wife Lynn founded and operate Angels of East Africa, the Children's Village Orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan, where they currently have around 185 children in their care. Childers also has orphanages and homes in Uganda and Ethiopia with another 160 children in his organisation's care.

In 2013, Childers received the Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice.

Early life
Childers was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, the son of Paul Childers, an ironworker and former Marine. Childers had two older brothers, Paul Jr. and George. He also had a sister, Donna, who died of a heart problem before she was a year old. While he was growing up, his parents moved the family from place to place, following construction projects.

In the spring of 1974, shortly before Childers turned 12, his family moved to Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Going into seventh grade he discovered cigarettes, marijuana, alcohol and heroin, which led to many years of drug addiction, drug dealing, and alcoholism. Childers also developed a love for motorcycles and the lifestyle that led him to become a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club.

Childers married a woman named Lynn before converting to Christianity, and had a daughter (Paige) and a son.

Career
Childers converted to Christianity in mid-1992, with the help of his 1st wife, during a revival meeting at an Assembly of God church. That same evening Childers' pastor allegedly prophesied that he would go to Africa. At the end of 1997, Childers made his first trip to Sudan. In that first trip and the many that followed, he was exposed to the acts of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which he described as atrocious.

Not long after his first trip to Sudan, Childers and his then wife Lynn founded the Angels of East Africa, the Children's Village in Southern Sudan. The Children’s Village currently houses and educates over 180 (figures update 2021) orphans, with over a thousand children rescued since its conception. The staff at the Children's Village are primarily Sudanese orphans and widows themselves.

Childers details the events of his life and his experiences in Africa in his book Another Man's War. The book bears the endorsement from South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit: "The Reverend Sam Childers has been a very close friend to the government of South Sudan for many years and is a trusted friend."

In November 2009, Childers appeared on Debra Peppers' television show Outreach Connection in Quincy, Illinois. He revealed that he also rescues children abducted in northern Uganda.

In popular culture
In 2011, Relativity Media released a biopic about Childers entitled Machine Gun Preacher, which was based on Childers' book Another Man's War. The film was written by Jason Keller and directed by Marc Forster. The cast featured Gerard Butler in the title role, Michelle Monaghan as Childers' wife Lynn, and Michael Shannon as his best friend Donnie.

In 2014, a documentary with the same title was produced by Angels of East Africa, and filmed/edited by Australians Kevin Evans and Zac Simpson. It was released globally by Heritage Films in Australia and in North America by Vision Films (US).

Childers did a speaking tour of UK churches, organisations, businesses, rehab centers, and prisons in 2018. He was interviewed on video in Tamworth, UK.

Criticisms
Childers has faced criticism over his actions and representation of himself. Foreign Policy cast doubt on Childers' stories of rescue, stating that "[i]t would take a miracle for all of Childers’s claims to be completely true." It also asserted that the operations of other aid workers are imperiled by Childers' actions. Additionally, the SPLA distanced itself from Childers, stating via a spokesman that "The SPLA does not know Sam Childers."

In 2014, Childers' home and ministry properties were the subjects of a raid by the FBI and the IRS. In 2019, Childers was cleared of all charges by the FBI and the IRS.

Other criticism includes allegations that orphanages started by Childers have been poorly run, and that Childers has not made a visit in years. A Vanity Fair profile compared Childers' demeanor toward some villagers as "bullying."

References

External links
 Official Movie Site for "Machine Gun Preacher"
 Angels of East Africa
 Interview with Sam Childers about Machine Gun Preacher (via archive.org)

1963 births
Living people
American humanitarians
American non-fiction writers
American Pentecostals
Outlaws Motorcycle Club
Lord's Resistance Army
People from Grand Forks, North Dakota


Jodi Shelton born April 3, 1965, is the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA).

In 2018, with the inaugural Rising Women of Influence Award, Shelton launched the GSA Women's Leadership Initiative (WLI). The vision of the Initiative is to significantly increase the number of women in leadership roles in the industry, the capital dedicated to women-led start-ups, and the number of STEM-focused female candidates joining the industry. The Women's Leadership Initiative is led by the Women's Leadership Council, harnessing the leadership of those women who have risen to the top ranks of the semiconductor industry to provide inspiration and sponsorship for the next generation of female leaders. The Council is co-chaired by Vicki Mealer-Burke, Chief Diversity Officer & VP, Human Resources, Qualcomm Incorporated and Debora Shoquist, Executive VP, Operations, NVIDIA.

Shelton is also founder, president and CEO of the Shelton Group, which was also founded in 1994, originally as an investor relations (IR) firm. In 1997, she broadened Shelton Group’s practice to include public relations (PR). The PR division closed in 2013 and restarted in 2019.

Early career
She began her career at Cyrix Corporation. Cyrix was sold to California-based National Semiconductor, which in turn sold it to a Korean concern.

Global Semiconductor Alliance

Jodi Shelton is the co-founder and CEO of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), which was founded in 1994 as the Fabless Semiconductor Association. Shelton is also the founder and CEO of Shelton Group.

In her role with GSA,  is often a keynote speaker at high-level financial and industry conferences, providing insight on key topics pertaining to the global semiconductor and electronics industries. She was invited to ring the closing bell on NASDAQ in 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011.

Shelton created the Alliance which consists of 250 corporate members from across the globe.

GSA’s leadership groups, include:
 GSA Board of Directors
 Asia Pacific Leadership Council
 Europe / Middle East / Africa (EMEA) Leadership Council
 Women's Leadership Council
 CxO Councils

Philanthropic history
Shelton is also supportive of several philanthropic organizations, and has served on the board of various organizations.

Shelton has also been involved with the BuildOn organization and has made trips to Haiti with the organization. Learn more about BuildOn and young women benefiting from the organization.

Shelton was one of the founding members of the Yellowstone Club’s Ad-Hoc Committee. The Committee was composed of business leaders who had a personal, vested interest in the Club’s success.

Jitrois

Shelton joined forces with French leather company Jitrois to open a New York boutique in mid-February 2015 at 959 Madison Avenue. The boutique ceased operations in 4Q 2019. The leather clothing line is available online and in 18 countries .

PopStyleTV
Fashion Network.
Women's Wear Daily

Personal life

Shelton's eyes were the subject of artist Norbert Brunner's piece "Eye Object / Magic Mirror" displayed in Guerlain, Paris.

Shelton earned her bachelor's degree in political science from San Diego State University, and a master's degree in political science from the University of Houston.

Various Mentions in the Press and By-line Articles
NPR, "Shortage Of Computer Chips Forces Automakers To Curtail Production" - Camila Domonoske

ECN, "The Tinker's Toolbox - A talk with Jodi Shelton of the Global Semiconductor Alliance"- Alix Paultre

TMCnet,  "Global Semiconductor Association Co-Founder Talks with TMCnet about the Industry" - Carrie Schmelkin

Chip Design, "Why 'Global?'"- Jodi Shelton

EE Times, “Viewpoint: Semi Companies will Survive, Thrive” – Jodi Shelton

Enterprising Women, “Expanding Business Horizons Within the Chinese Market” – Jodi Shelton

wsRadio.com, “Being a Woman Executive in High Tech” – Jodi Shelton

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, “Look, Ma - No Fabs!” – Jodi Shelton and Robert Pepper

The Why Not Now? Podcast with Amy Jo Martin, "Episode 277: Jodi Shelton - Driving Innovation Through Alliance" on iTunes, Spotify - Amy Jo Martin & Jodi Shelton

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
San Diego State University alumni
University of Houston alumni


Khalil "Saint Cassius" Walton is an American musician, recording artist and independent music publisher based in  New York City.

He gained notoriety as a musician for his contribution to the Grammy Award winning single "Just the Way You Are" for Bruno Mars debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans.

In 2013, Cassius launched the Independent Publishing & Recordings company Vinyl Crown. The company signed producer Darius "Phonix" Barnes to the publishing imprint & holds such copyrights as Trey Songz "Fumble", Fabolous' "We Good" ft. Rich Homie Quan as well as J. Cole's top single off his 2014 Forest Hills Release "No Role Modelz". On July 28, 2017, Cassius released his first single under the Vinyl Crown imprint entitled Take A Knee.

On March 2, 2018, Saint Cassius released an EP called, ANALOG, it is a contemporary ode to the classic hip-hop era and showcases his ever-evolving musicianship. He shows off his appreciation for women on smooth Ro James collaboration “Hey Beautiful Girl” and the jazz-infused “Analog Dreams” touches subjects including the value of trap music, net neutrality and features actor/artist Omari Hardwick. The project is led by the production of legendary hitmaker DJ Toomp and also features tracks from JF Clay as well.

In November of 2018, Cassius launched a creative agency called Nyáma as a Vinyl Crown venture with a business partner and graphic designer Patso Dimitiov allowing Vinyl Crown to have an all in-house creative agency.

References

5. Saint Cassius Nyama Launch

6. Nyama Creative Agency Instagram Page

7. Take A Knee

Musicians from Atlanta
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Musicians from New York (state)


Milan Blaško (21 July 1961 – 26 December 2016) was a Slovak ski mountaineer from Poprad. Together with Miroslav Leitner, Milan Madaj and Peter Svätojánsky, he finished fourth in the relay event of the 2006 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering.

External links
 MilanBlaško at skimountaineering.org

References

1961 births
Living people
Slovak male ski mountaineers
People from Kežmarok
Sportspeople from the Prešov Region


The Royal Order of Sahametrei () is a chivalric order conferred by the government of the Kingdom of Cambodia. The Royal Order of Sahametrei was instituted in three classes on 9 September 1948 and was expanded to five classes on 23 August 1956. The order was not used during the Khmer Rouge period and was reinstated on 5 October 1995 by Royal Decree No. 1095/01. It is conferred primarily on foreigners who have rendered distinguished services to the King and to the people of Cambodia, particularly in the field of external relations and diplomatic services or, as a token of friendship.

The Royal Order of Sahametrei is part of the Cambodia's honours system which currently includes the Royal Order of Monisaraphon, the Royal Order of Cambodia and the Royal Order of Sowathara. The Grand Cross and Grand Officer is presented as a sash worn over the right shoulder. The Commander class of the Royal Order of Sahametrei is a neck order and is suspended from a cravat that is worn around the neck. The badge of the Officer and Knight are worn on the left breast.

History
The Royal Order of Sahametrei was established by King Norodom Sihanouk on September 9, 1948. It was instituted in three classes but expanded on August 23, 1956 to five classes:
  Maha Sirivudha (មហាសេរីវឌ្ឍន៍) or Grand Cross
  Mahasena (មហាសេនា) or Grand Officer
  Tepidin (ធិបឌិន្ទ) or Commander
  Sena (សេនា) or Officer
  Askararidha (អស្សឫទ្ធិ) or Knight

The order became dormant in 1975 under the government of Democratic Kampuchea. It was reinstituted by Royal Decree No.1095/01 on 5 October 1995 by King Norodom Sihanouk.

Recipients

See also
Cambodian honours system
Royal Order of Monisaraphon

Notes

Orders, decorations, and medals of Cambodia

1948 establishments in Cambodia
Awards established in 1948


The Eurovox is a Digital Cable set-top box, notoriously known for its ability to decode cable television services without a subscription, which has been imported into the UK from Korea since 2004.

History

The Eurovox product heralded the 'new generation' of proprietary non-Linux based receivers and was designed to fill the market previously occupied by the DBox2 . The DBOX was a Linux-based German cable receiver — which became available through markets like eBay as second-hand receivers in the late 1990s / early 2000s.

Dream Multimedia produced the incredibly popular Linux-based Dreambox 500 receiver - which became the 'unofficial' new DBOX for Linux enthusiasts to enjoy. To ensure maximum market coverage these were available with a variety of tuners allowing the same Dreambox 500 shell to be used in Satellite, Cable and Terrestrial areas.

The ability to manipulate the code on the Dreambox/DBox2 was hugely popular within the UK cable community as it allowed hackers to produce firmware which could decrypt UK cable channels without subscription.

The Eurovox product became the fastest selling 'brand' name non-Linux based receiver in the UK as the huge uptake of free or low priced 'Internet Forums' allowed users across the country to share information about the product.

The Eurovox 2 was initially imported by one individual in the West Midlands. However, the questionable legality coupled with the huge potential market were sufficient to make larger organizations interested in re-branding the earlier product.

In 2005 a rival group headed by Rayyonics Ltd rebranded the product as the Eurovox MAX. Using a dedicated sales force and allowing only selected resellers to acquire the product wholesale, the 'MAX' became the best known 'non-Linux cable receiver' in the UK within a year.

It is believed that over 600,000 units are currently being used in the UK and Ireland.

Legal Pressure

While never explicitly stated, it was widely known that the main purpose of the Eurovox to decrypt free channels from the main UK cable providers of that time (namely Telewest, ntl and Cable & Wireless Communications). The use of the Eurovox (and similar cable receivers - The Starview/Kryptview/Dreambox/ITGate etc.) and many other units of this type is strictly prohibited by Virgin Media's Terms of Service.

Following the merger of ntl and Telewest into NTL:Telewest and subsequently Virgin Media, there has been considerable pressure on importers, re-sellers and individuals trading online to stop the distribution of these units.

See also
 Cable television piracy
 Pirate decryption

References

Cable television technology
Set-top box


According to older historiography, Iljko was a duke () in Croatia from 876 until 878, and a member of the Domagojević dynasty, probably the son of Domagoj.

However, it has later generally been accepted that his name was a consequence of a wrong translation of the Chronicle of Dandolo, a Latin text written by Andrea Dandolo in the 14th century. The name of the unknown prince was probably the result of Dandolo's fantasy. During the specified timespan a son of Domagoj ruled Croatia, but his name was not preserved.

See also
Domagojević dynasty
List of rulers of Croatia

References

Dukes of Croatia
9th-century Croatian people
9th-century dukes in Europe
878 deaths
Year of birth unknown


Henry is a large crater in the Arabia quadrangle of Mars.  It is  in diameter and was named after the brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry, both of whom were French telescope makers and astronomers.

Arago crater is to the east of Henry, Barth crater is to the southeast, and Pasteur crater is to the north.

Layers
Henry crater has a large mound in its center that shows layers in certain parts.  The layers can be a few meters thick or tens of meters thick.  Recent research on these layers by scientists at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that ancient climate change on Mars caused by regular variation in the planet's tilt, or obliquity may have caused the patterns in the layers. On Earth, similar changes (astronomical forcing) of climate results in ice-age cycles.

In a recent study of layers in craters in western Arabia Terra much was learned about the layers.  Each layer may average under 4 meters in one crater, but 20 meters in another.  Although the craters in this study are just outside the boundary for the Arabia quadrangle the findings would probably apply to the Arabia quadrangle as well.  The pattern of layers within layers measured in Becquerel crater, suggests that each layer was formed over a period of about 100,000 years. Moreover, every 10 layers were bundled together into larger units.  The 10-layer pattern is repeated at least 10 times. So every 10-layer pattern took one-million-year years to form.

It is believed that the regular pattern of layers in Arabia Terra is connected to the regular way in which the rotational axis of Mars changes.  The tilt of the Earth's axis changes by only a little more than 2 degrees.  In contrast Mars's tilt varies by tens of degrees. When the tilt (or obliquity) is low, the poles are the coldest places on the planet, while the sun is located near the equator all the time. This could cause gases in the atmosphere, like water and carbon dioxide, to migrate poleward, where they'd be locked up as ice. When the obliquity is higher, the poles receive more sunlight, causing those materials to migrate away.  When carbon dioxide moves from the poles, the atmospheric pressure increases, maybe causing a difference in the ability of winds to transport and deposit sand.  Also, with more water in the atmosphere sand grains may stick and cement together to form layers.  This study was done using stereo topographic maps obtained by processing data from the high-resolution camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Another group of researchers proposed groundwater with dissolved minerals came to the surface in craters, and helped to form layers by adding minerals (especially sulfate) and cementing sediments.  This hypothesis is supported by a groundwater model and by sulfates discovered in a wide area. At first, by examining surface materials with Opportunity Rover, scientists discovered that groundwater had repeatedly risen and deposited sulfates.  Later studies with instruments on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showed that the same kinds of materials exist in a large area that included Arabia.  In this model, the layers in the mound of Henry would be caused partly by sediments moving into the crater and partly by minerals rising up with groundwater and being deposited.

See also
 List of craters on Mars

References

Arabia quadrangle
Impact craters on Mars


José María "Mami" Quevedo García (born 1 June 1969) is a Spanish retired footballer who played mostly as a central midfielder.

Club career
Born in Cádiz, Quevedo's professional career began with local Cádiz CF, making his La Liga debut in 1989–90 (11 matches during the season). Alongside another club youth graduate, Kiko, he would be instrumental in the Andalusians successive successful struggles with relegation three years in a row.

After Cádiz's relegation in 1993, Quevedo moved with Kiko to Atlético Madrid, but failed to settle unlike the centre-forward, signing for Real Valladolid after just one season. In his second year he scored a career-best 13 goals, helping the team to barely avoid top-flight relegation, and added ten the following campaign.

Quevedo then joined Cádiz neighbours Sevilla FC – one promotion and one relegation – and Rayo Vallecano, helping the Madrid side to remain three consecutive years in the top tier. He retired in June 2004 at the age of 35 with his first club, in division two.

Personal life
Quevedo shared birthplace and date with Arteaga, also a Cádiz youth graduate. On 26 December 1999, he married television presenter Cristina Tàrrega.

References

External links

Stats and bio at Cadistas1910

1969 births
Living people
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from Cádiz
Men's association football midfielders
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Cádiz CF players
Atlético Madrid footballers
Real Valladolid players
Sevilla FC players
Rayo Vallecano players
Beijing Guoan F.C. non-playing staff
Shanghai Shenhua F.C. non-playing staff
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in China


The Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center is part of Mercyhurst University.

Quick Facts

The Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center is located at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania.
It holds 792 along with the box seats which hold 24, totaling 816 seats.
The Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center was the first theater in the U.S. to use geothermal energy to heat and cool its facility.
The chandeliers that hang over the opera boxes are exactly the same chandeliers that hang in the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC. They were made in Austria from pure Crystal.

History

The Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center opened in February 1996. The first concert featured pianist André Watts. During a blizzard, Watts took the stage to perform in front of nearly 800 people on a piano that was shipped to them from Pittsburgh. In the middle of his performance, Watts stood up and the audience stared in confusion as the piano continued to play. Turns out the piano keys were frozen and an untuned piano from backstage was wheeled out for him to play. After that performance Watts swore that he would never again agree to play a grand opening because of his self-proclaimed "curse." Apparently Watts opened two other facilities that year and a fire alarm and sprinklers interrupted his performances.

When the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center opened in 1996, the center had two full-time and two part-time staff members. In its infancy, the center brought in nearly 4,000 people a year and offered between six and seven programs, which consisted of the finest in Classical music featuring artists such as Kathleen Battle and the Juilliard String Quartet. Fourteen years later, the center has a staff of six full-time employees and offers over a hundred events each year featuring jazz, dance, classical, contemporary and world music. Serving as the only active movie house in the city of Erie, the center is also home to the Guelcher Film Series, The Metropolitan Opera: HD Live series and the Live from NY's 92nd Street Y broadcast lecture series. Mercyhurst's D'Angelo Arts Complex in Zurn Hall exceeds .

The arts complex also includes the black-box Taylor Little Theatre, the Walker Recital Hall, and the recently expanded Cummings Art Gallery. Adjacent to the Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center are the department of dance with two dance studios called danceSpace, and the D'Angelo department of music.

Facilities

 Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center
 seats 792, along with 24 box seats
 Walker Recital Hall
 seats 250
 Walker Recital Hall opened on October 27, 2002 with a two-hour recital featuring pianist, Lorin Hollander for guests which included Dr. Barrett and Catherine Walker and their family.
 Taylor Little Theatre
 seats 251
 Named in honor of Sister M. Eustace Taylor, in 1994, for her lifelong devotion to Mercyhurst College and for her love of the humanities as a true renaissance woman
 Cummings Art Gallery
 150 person standing capacity
 Named after Sister Angelica Cummings, founder of the Mercyhurst Art department and opened in January 1984

Staff

The Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center has seven full-time employees

PAC
Director: Michael Fuhrman
Assistant Director: Bruce Parkhurst
Box Office Manager: Annette Gardner
Assistant Marketing Manager: Michelle Ellia
Production Manager: Greg Clepper
Production Technician: Randy Stankey

Cummings Art Gallery
Gallery Director: Robert Hagle

2008-2009 season

Guelcher Film Series
Live from NY's 92nd Street Y broadcast series
MetropolitanOpera: HD Live series
The Jazz Mandolin Project
 Bad Boys Of Dance
Igudesman & Joo
 Robin Mckelle
 Leahy: A Celtic Christmas
 CityMusic Cleveland
 Quartet New Generation
 Ballet Hispanico
 The Dirty Dozen Brass Band & Trombone Shorty

Notable performances

The center has hosted several Grammy Award-winning artists such as Maria Schneider, Paquito D’Rivera and Eric Bibb. World-renowned dance troupes such as the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Pilobolus have graced the stage of the D’Angelo Center, along with world music artists such as Pink Martini and Jesse Cook. The most successful show and quite possibly the most well known in the center's history is the Japanese drummers, known as Yamato. Yamato has visited Erie four times over the last seven years and has performed five sold-out performances to over 5,000 people.

Other notable performances include those that comprise the center's educational outreach program. Through the program, the D’Angelo Center has had the opportunity to expose the young people in the area to the arts. Since the start of the program the center has been able to provide over 6,300 students with the opportunity to see performances such as the African Drummers, Ba Cissoko, Latin dance troupe Ballet Hispanico and Yamato.

References
 http://www.mercyhurst.edu
The PAC is back -- and celebrating 15 years of arts and entertainment
Mercyhurst reorganizing arts center, looking for new director
PAC Celebrates 15th Anniversary

External links

 Mercyhurst University - official site

Performing arts centers in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Erie, Pennsylvania
Theatres in Pennsylvania
Art museums and galleries in Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 1996
1996 establishments in Pennsylvania
Mercyhurst University
Tourist attractions in Erie, Pennsylvania


In molecular biology, TBST (or TTBS) is a mixture of tris-buffered saline (TBS) (a buffer solution) and Polysorbate 20 (a polysorbate-type nonionic surfactant). Polysorbate 20 is also known as Tween 20, a commercial brand name. It is a common detergent used in many buffers for washing nitrocellulose membrane in western blotting and microtiter plate wells in ELISA assays. Tris is a buffer that maintains a pH of 7–9.2.

Contents of TBS-Tween
The following is a sample recipe for TBST:
20 mM Tris
150 mM NaCl
0.1% Tween 20
Adjust pH with HCl to pH 7.4–7.6

The simplest way to prepare a TBS-Tween solution is to use TBS-T tablets. They are formulated to give a ready to use TBST solution upon dissolution in 500 ml of deionized water.

References

https://www.gbiosciences.com/Buffers-Reagents-Chemicals/Electrophoresis-Related-Buffers-Chemicals/TBST-10X

Buffer solutions
Molecular biology
Molecular biology techniques


Pete Swenson (born December 25, 1967) from Breckenridge, Colorado, is an American ski mountaineer and Competition Director of the United States Ski Mountaineering Association (USSMA).

Swanson attended the Colorado College until 1990.

Selected results
 2006:
 9th, World Championship, relay, together with Cary Smith, Chris Kroger and Steve Romeo
 2009:
 1st, US Ski Mountaineering National Championship, Jackson Hole
 2010:
 2nd (seniors II), Patrouille des Glaciers, together with Benedikt Böhm and Javier Martín de Villa

References

1967 births
Living people
American male ski mountaineers
Sportspeople from Colorado
People from Breckenridge, Colorado


William Watson Springsteen (October 27, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was a professional football player for the National Football League (NFL)'s Frankford Yellow Jackets from 1925 until 1926. He won the 1926 NFL championship with the Yellow Jackets. He then played for the Chicago Cardinals during the 1927 and 1928 seasons. He attended Northwestern High School, located in Detroit, Michigan.

On December 8, 1923, during his junior year of college, Springsteen was elected captain of the Lehigh University football team.

Notes

1899 births
American football centers
Frankford Yellow Jackets players
Chicago Cardinals players
Lehigh Mountain Hawks football players
1985 deaths
Players of American football from New York (state)


Amadou Sanyang (born 1 August 1991) is a Gambian footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder.

Career

Professional
Sanyang began his professional career with Real de Banjul of the Gambian Championnat National D1. Sanyang's time with Real de Banjul was a successful one, and in 2007 he was honoured as the best midfielder in the Gambian League.

His play with the Gambian Under-20 National Team sparked interest among Major League Soccer clubs and in early 2009 he was signed by Toronto FC along with a fellow countrymen Emmanuel Gomez. Due to his age he was initially ineligible to join the senior squad until his 18th birthday, which took place on 1 August 2009; during this time he trained with both the senior team and the TFC Academy. He played with the Toronto FC Academy in the Canadian Soccer League during this time.

Sanyang made his debut for Toronto FC on 1 August 2009 as a sub vs. New England Revolution.

In September 2009, two Ligue 1 clubs sent scouts to Toronto to watch him in action. Dutch club PSV Eindhoven also requested video footage.

Sanyang made 14 appearances in his second year with Toronto and first full season, he was plagued with a concussion that prevented him making any appearances in the second half of the season.

On 30 July 2011, Sanyang signed with Seattle Sounders FC.

After his release by Seattle, Sanyang signed with USL Pro club Charleston Battery on 6 April 2012.

International
Sanyang has represented his nation at various youth levels. He was a member of the Gambian U-17 National Team, and is currently part of the U-20 squad. In 2007, he helped lead the Gambian U-17 squad in conquering the Four Nation Tournament held in Côte d'Ivoire. He was named the second best player in the tournament.

Honours

Toronto FC
Canadian Championship (1): 2010

Career statistics

Last update: 30 June 2012

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Gambian men's footballers
The Gambia men's youth international footballers
Gambian expatriate men's footballers
Real de Banjul FC players
Toronto FC players
Seattle Sounders FC players
Charleston Battery players
Tacoma Defiance players
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Canadian Soccer League (1998–present) players
Major League Soccer players
USL Championship players
Gambian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Gambian expatriate sportspeople in Canada
People from Bakau
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
USL League Two coaches


Hearne v. Stowell was an 1841 court case held in the Nisi Prius Court, Liverpool Assizes pertaining to a case of libel in Manchester, England. The case is a prominent case of an inter-clergy lawsuit and is cited both as an example of anti-Catholic sentiment in the United Kingdom in the mid 19th century  and as a sample of libel precedent. Hugh Stowell, an Anglican preacher, alleged that Daniel Hearne, a Catholic priest, had forced a man to crawl down a street for penance. Hearne sued for libel and while the court case was resolved in his favour, it was later reversed by the Queen's Bench.

References

English defamation case law
1841 in case law
1841 in England
1841 in British law
Court of King's Bench (England) cases
English law articles needing infoboxes


David Moses Jassy , also known as Dawda, is a Gambian/Estonian musician, songwriter and music producer. With Andrés Avellán, he was part of a Swedish R&B hip hop duo, Navigators. After split up of the group, Jassy went on to writing music and producing a number of international acts such as Ashley Tisdale, Britney Spears, Sean Kingston, Afro B, Snoh Aalegra, Arash, Eve, No Angels, Mohombi, Djodje, David Carreira,Darin, Navigators, Charice,   Heidi Montag, Bayanni, singah, AV, Jizzle, Loreen, Petter, 1.cuz, Ant Wan and many more. He is the founder of Jassy World Entertainment, a music production and publishing company.

Early years: Navigators

David Jassy formed, with Andrés Avellán, the R&B hip hop duo, Navigators. They released first single, cover of Joyce Sims' song "Come into My Life" in 1998. In the same year they released another single called "I Remember".

In 1999 they released their third and most successful single "Superstar" that stayed 11 weeks in Swedish Singles Chart reaching number 20. In the single "Superstar", Jassy and Avellan sampled bassline from Chic's classic "I Want Your Love". In the same year their only album Daily Life Illustrators was released, reaching number 27 in the Swedish Albums Chart.

Musical production
Jassy co-wrote "Be Good to Me" and "Not Like That" from Ashley Tisdale's Headstrong and "It's Alright, It's OK" and "Crank It Up" from Tisdale's Guilty Pleasure. He also co-wrote "Goodbye to Yesterday" and "Back Off" by No Angels, "Love Struck" by VFactory", "Runaway" and "Karma" for Darin, "Body Language" for Heidi Montag and "Pyramid" for Charice.

Personal life
He was born in 1974 in Solna, Sweden to a Gambian father and an Estonian mother. He has one son born in 1997 in Sweden.

Incident and arrest

Jassy was arrested by Los Angeles police on November 23, 2008 after a confrontation with jazz musician John Osnes. Osnes was crossing the street at Selma Avenue and Schrader Boulevard. Witnesses told police that Osnes had banged on the front of Jassy's vehicle with his hands in response to Jassy's car moving into the crosswalk. Jassy got out, punched Osnes, and kicked him in the head. The coroner testified that it was either this kick or the resulting fall that broke Osnes's skull and caused his death. Jassy fled and while leaving the scene, his vehicle this time ran over Osnes. Bystanders and an off-duty Anaheim police officer tried unsuccessfully to detain Jassy. Two other off-duty police officers from Melbourne Australia were also at the scene. They tried unsuccessfully to revive Osnes.  Osnes was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital, and Jassy was arrested the next day, and charged with one count of murder, along with an additional count of assault with a deadly weapon. He remained in custody on $1 million bail, facing a possible life-with-parole prison term.

Trial and sentencing

The trial began on January 13, 2010. Jassy's attorney contended he was defending himself, his girlfriend, and his vehicle from "an angry drunk." The prosecution countered that Jassy was the aggressor. On February 1, 2010, he was convicted of second-degree murder but not guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and leaving the scene of an accident. On March 4, 2010 Jassy was sentenced to 15 years to life imprisonment. He was scheduled to be eligible for parole in 2024.  On March 27, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom commuted Jassy's sentence to time served and he was released from prison on parole.

Recordings under incarceration
The program known as Youthful Offender Program (or Y.O.P.) came about due to a change in U.S. legislation, allowing youthful offenders entering prison under the age of 22 that were supposed to go to level 4 high security prison for serving their sentences, were afforded an opportunity to be transferred to San Quentin prison which is a level 2 minimum security prison. Y.O.P. run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) also stipulated the creation of various programs to help in rehabilitation of offenders, with very positive results.

This prompted David Jassy already in San Quentin to volunteer in a musical program launched in 2015. Jassy's project "Y.O.P. Mixtape Program" tried to help young inmates through his own songwriting and record producing experience to allow the youth enrolled to record their own music in a studio inaugurated in the prison. Jassy explains that he grew up listening to rap and it affected his mood according to what rapper he was listening to. He encouraged the talented youth imprisoned on various offences to channel their feelings through music and lyrics they composed, thus serving as a rehabilitation and hopefully serve as a tool to help prevent other youth to fall into the same path through listening to a more genuine output of music from those actually incarcerated rather than the gangsta rappers they are accustomed to hear who just glorify prison life. Jassy also imposed a rule that in the recordings he would help in launching, no profanity would be allowed in the lyrics. From an initial mixtape project, the program developed into a more involved music mentorship program. Jassy says the mixtape released has caught the attention of music industry celebrities like Common and DJ Khaled, who are now supporters of the program.

Band Contagious
Jassy is part of the hip-hop band, Contagious, one of four official inmate music groups at San Quentin that perform at various yard shows, graduations and events inside the prison during the year. Jassy is the primary songwriter and front man of the band, that also includes convicted prisoners Paul Comauex (vocals), Lee Jaspar (on guitars), Kevin Sawyer (on keyboards) and James Benson (on drums). Contagious is under the supervision of prison staff and technician Raphaele Casale.

TEDxSanQuentin
In 2017, Jassy was invited to a special TEDx entitled TEDxSanQuentin. He performed during the event his own composition "Freedom" inspired by his own experience. Jassy wrote it when he was stuck in his cell during a lockdown at Solano Prison years earlier. Jassy’s son was in the audience. The filmed event was uploaded on April 20, 2017.

Productions
Jassy also worked on his own materials and released remixes including "Freedom" from The Game which he entitled "Freedom (Dreams Remix)". He also created beats for the acclaimed prison podcast Ear Hustle producing music from an influx of younger men who came into San Quentin.

Discography

Albums
Navigators
1999: Daily Life Illustrators (reached #27 on Swedish Albums Chart)
Track list:

Singles
Navigators
1998: "Come into My Life" (reached #31 on Swedish Singles Chart)
1998: "I Remember" (reached #46 on Swedish Singles Chart)
1999: "Superstar" (reached #20 on Swedish Singles Chart)

Solo
2009: "Exit"
2017: "Freedom" (released 13 May 2018)

Collaborations (albums / singles)
2004: "Blah Blah Blah" (single by Vanessa Struhler featuring David Jassy)
2007: "Be Good to Me" by Ashley Tisdale featuring David Jassy (taken from her album Headstrong)
 "Not Like That" (written by David Jassy produced by Twin)
2007: "Body Language" by Heidi Montag (written by David Jassy)
2008: Flashback (album by Darin Zanyar with six songs on the album written by David Jassy):
"Karma" (single written by and featuring David Jassy)
"Runaway" (single written by David Jassy)
"Strobelight", "Flashback", "Roadtrip" (other songs on album written by David Jassy)
2008: "Outta Control" by VFactory (written and featuring David Jassy)
2009: "Love Struck" by VFactory (written by David Jassy, Darin and produced by Swedish production team Twin)
2009: Guilty Pleasure, an album by Ashley Tisdale – album co-produced by David Jassy
"It's Alright, It's OK" (single from same album – song co-written by David Jassy)
"Crank It Up (second single includes vocals by David Jassy)
"Watcha Waitin For" (written by David Jassy produced by Twin)
 "Acting Out" (written by David Jassy and produced by Twin)
2009: "What If", an anti-bullying song by Friends featuring Darin (written by David Jassy and produced by Twin)
2009: "Got Skillz", "Pooltable","Okay" and "Match Made in Heaven" (Ilya featuring David Jassy)
2010: "Pyramid" by Charice featuring Iyaz (written by David Jassy produced by Twin)

References

External links

1974 births
Living people
21st-century Swedish male singers
People convicted of murder by California
Swedish male songwriters
Swedish people convicted of murder
Swedish people imprisoned abroad
Swedish people of Estonian descent
Swedish people of Gambian descent
English-language singers from Sweden


Miniland English High School, a privately owned institution with a history of more than twenty years, is located in Thali, Kageshwari-Manohara, Ward No 5 in the suburb of Kathmandu city. It offers education across levels of Kindergarten to School Leaving Certificate level.

Buildings
The school has junior wing and senior wing. Junior students used to be taught in old building in Thali while senior students are taught in new building in SanoThali. After 2015 Nepal Earthquake the junior wing is also moved to the new building in Sano Thali. It consists of Pre-Primary Wing Named, "Mini Steps" near to the main building..

Curriculum
The Primary School consists of classes 1 to 5. In addition to oral work, activities, games, practicals, excursions etc., students are taught subjects like English, Nepali, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Computer Studies, Moral Science, General Knowledge and Health Education. Co-curricular activities such as singing, dance and instrumental music are taught.

The Lower Secondary School consists of classes 6 to 8. Besides English, Nepali, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Computer Studies, Moral Science, General Knowledge, the students are introduced to advanced level Mathematics and E. P. H. (Environment Health & Population) Co-curricular activities also includes Club activities.

The Secondary School consists of classes 9 and 10. The HMG (S. L. C.) curricular is followed in these classes. The students, however, take part in co-curricular activities and club activities. They are also introduced to a course in Advanced Level English.

Involvement
Miniland is actively involved in social work and human activities. Regular Scout training and field movement is done. There is the Rain Gauge station in Miniland which is installed in collaboration with CORAM Nepal an NGO working on Climate monitoring.

Schools in Nepal
1990 establishments in Nepal


Balmer Lawn is the name of a large New Forest Lawn located in an amphitheatre of woodland in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. It is just north of the village of Brockenhurst.The lawn comprises about 500 acre of open low land grazing frequented by Forest stock. The name of the area comes from a distortion of the historical name Palmers Water - reference “Comyn’s New Forest” of 1817. Palmers Water was in fact a small settlement which has long since disappeared but was located to east of the ford on the Brockenhurst to Beaulieu road.  The water being the Lymington River which separates Brockenhurst and the small settlement of Balmerlawn on the south side of the grazing lawn. The lawn of course remained and over time Palmers became Balmer, perhaps aided by the local dialect.

The river crossing (now Brockenhurst Bridge) on the south west corner of the lawn area is thought to have been recorded as a ford in Roman Times and also mentioned in the Domesday Book. Along with St Nicolas Church a mile further south on the hill overlooking the area.

Landmarks

The most significant man made landmark is the Balmer Lawn Hotel built originally as a private house/hunting lodge around in the early 19th century (it is not recorded in Comyn’s maps of 1817) and transformed into the current building around in the later part of that century. It was known as ‘The Holt’ around that time. A major fire in the early 1970s changed the aspect of the hotel causing the original roof to be replaced with one in the mansard style. The hotel has recently been subject of modern “re-branding” assuming the name of the lawn itself. Tradition however lives on as in front of the hotel is the informal village cricket pitch, home of Brockenhurst Cricket Club, which has been in use since around 1797.

The hotel has hosted many famous guests throughout history including King George V, Russian Royalty, J.J. Sainsbury, Winston Churchill and U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower. More recently, the Top Gear team filmed at the hotel, and countless Autumn Watch episodes are filmed around the hotel with the TV personalities staying at the hotel.

During the First World War the hotel was commandeered as a field hospital. Some people still remember injured soldiers being wheeled on luggage trolleys from Brockenhurst railway station to the hotel.

In the Second World War the hotel was transformed into an Army Staff College. Some of the "Orders for the Day" were issued from the hotel for the D-Day invasion.  During the extensive refurbishment of the hotel, spent ammunition was found under the floorboards.

The early years of the hotel's history were spent in private ownership. After the Second World War it was part of Myddleton Hotels and was a sister hotel to the Royal Bath Hotel in Bournemouth. In 1973 the hotel was acquired by the Ladbroke Group and latterly became an Associate Hilton Hotel. In October 1997 the hotel once again returned to private ownership. The Wilson family are now the owners of the hotel and are continuously refurbishing the property.

External links

"Balmer Lawn Hotel website"

New Forest
Hotels in Hampshire


David 'Dai' Henry Lewis (4 December 1866 - 8 September 1943) was a Welsh rugby union forward who played club rugby for Canton RFC and Cardiff and international rugby for Wales. After his career as a football player he was active as a racing cyclist in the United States.

Rugby career
Lewis was first capped for Wales whilst playing for Cardiff. He was selected for Charlie Newman's Wales team to face England in the opening match of the 1886 Home Nations Championship. Lewis was one of four new caps brought into the Welsh pack, alongside fellow Cardiff team-mate George Young, Llanelli's Evan Roberts and Swansea's William Bowen. Wales lost the match narrowly, but the selectors kept faith with Lewis for the next game against Scotland. The Scotland game, played at the Cardiff Arms Park, is noted for being the first international game to see a team use the four threequarter system. With Newman unavailable, the captaincy was passed to Frank Hancock, the Cardiff centre known for introducing the new back formation at club level. With six Cardiff players in the team, including Lewis, it was seen as a good time to experiment the system at international level. The experiment was seen as a failure and was abandoned with disastrous effect halfway through the match. Wales lost the match and Lewis was not selected for his country again.

International games played
Wales
  1886
  1886

Bibliography

References

1866 births
1943 deaths
Wales international rugby union players
Welsh rugby union players
Rugby union forwards
Rugby union players from Cardiff
Cardiff RFC players
Canton RFC players


Allacrotelsa is a genus of primitive insects belonging to the family Lepismatidae.

References

Fauna Europaea

Lepismatidae
Zygentoma
Insects of Europe
Taxa named by Filippo Silvestri


Graham Steell (27 July 1851 – 10 January 1942) was a Scottish physician and cardiologist remembered for describing the Graham Steell murmur.

Biography
Graham Steell was born in 1851, the youngest son of  Sir John Steell. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy; his aim was to be a soldier, but he was persuaded to study medicine by a brother. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1872, studied in Berlin and became house physician to George Balfour at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He worked in fever hospitals in Edinburgh, Leeds and London, and was awarded a gold medal for his MD thesis on scarlatina in 1877. In 1878 he moved to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, becoming assistant physician in 1883 and later professor of clinical medicine. He remained there until his retirement.

Many of his early papers concerned fever, but after 1886 his papers concentrated on cardiology. He wrote Diseases of the Heart which was published in 1906. He described the association of oedema and peripheral neuropathy in beer drinkers and patients with beriberi, both now known to be due to thiamine deficiency. He described his eponymous murmur in a paper read to the Manchester Medical Society which was published in 1888. He stressed the importance of disease of the myocardium rather than of the valves, and was an advocate of exercise.

Steell married Agnes Dunlop McKie, who was Lady Superintendent of nurses at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, in 1886. They had one son who was a physician and medical officer to the Ministry of Health.

References

External links

People educated at Edinburgh Academy
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
British cardiologists
1851 births
1942 deaths
19th-century Scottish medical doctors
20th-century Scottish medical doctors


"Bible Black" is a song by heavy metal band Heaven & Hell from their 2009 album, The Devil You Know. It was released on March 20, 2009, on WAXQ.

Premise
According to singer Ronnie James Dio, the song is about a man who is addicted to the Bible Black, a darkly twisted version of the Holy Bible, which ultimately corrupts and destroys him.

Music video
A music video for the song was made and premiered on VH1 Classic as the first video of Metal Mania. It came on right after the season 2 finale of That Metal Show, which Ronnie James Dio and Geezer Butler of Heaven & Hell were guests on. The video is in animation and features the band via shadows. The premise of the video is an angel in Heaven picks up a black book (a'la the song "Bible Black"). When he opens it, it sends him down to Hell.

Track list
 "Bible Black" (6:29)
 "Neon Knights" (live from Radio City Music Hall) (4:00)

References

2009 singles
Heaven & Hell (band) songs
Songs written by Tony Iommi
Songs written by Geezer Butler
Songs written by Ronnie James Dio
2009 songs
Rhino Entertainment singles
Doom metal songs


Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto, also named as Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. It plays in the LEB Oro, the second in importance in Spain after ACB League.

The club should not be confused with Cáceres Club Baloncesto, the former elite team in the city, which was dissolved in 2005.

History
Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto was founded in 2007 as a merger of two teams from Cáceres city:
San Antonio
Ciudad de Cáceres

Cáceres played the first season in its history (2007–08) in LEB Plata after buying the berth to CEB Llíria. In this first year, playing as Cáceres 2016, the team achieved the promotion semifinals but, after beating CajaRioja in the quarterfinalist series, lost against CB Illescas in the semifinal played at Cáceres.

After this season, the team joined the second tier, the LEB Oro, after achieving the vacant of Palma Aqua Màgica. Cáceres continues playing in LEB Oro until nowadays, where reached two times in a row the promotion playoffs but failed in the quarterfinals: in 2010 versus Ford Burgos and in 2011 versus Blu:sens Monbús, both times by 3–1.

In 2012 the club won for the first time a LEB Oro quarterfinal serie, 3–2 to Ford Burgos, but failed in the semifinal against Club Melilla Baloncesto after five games. Same happened in 2013, when the club advanced to semifinals after defeating CB Breogán by 2–3 in the quarterfinals and failing 3–1 against River Andorra.

In 2013 the club opted by joining the LEB Plata again due to economic issues. On April 25, 2015, two years after its resign to play in LEB Oro, Cáceres came back to the league after winning the 2014–15 LEB Plata, by defeating CEBA Guadalajara 67–63 in the last game of the regular season.

The 2019–20 season is its fifth straight season in LEB Oro and tenth overall.

Sponsorship naming
Cáceres 2016: 2007–11
Cáceres Creativa: 2011
Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad: 2011–

Head coaches

 Fede Pozuelo: 2007
 Piti Hurtado: 2007–2009
 Gustavo Aranzana: 2009–2012
 Carlos Frade: 2012–2013
 Ñete Bohígas: 2013–2019
 Roberto Blanco: 2019–present

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Season by season

Notable players

 Devin Schmidt

 Lucio Angulo
 José Ángel Antelo
 José María Panadero
 Carlos Cherry
 Juan Sanguino
 Jeff Xavier
 Randy Holcomb
 Jelani McCoy
 Drew Naymick
 Wayne Simien
 Harper Williams
 Luis Parejo
 Mansour Kasse
 Sergio Pérez
 Georgios Dedas
 Ragnar Nathanaelsson
 Warren Ward
 Angelo Chol
 Javier Carter
 Ricardo Úriz

Trophies and awards

Trophies
LEB Plata: (1)
2015
Copa Extremadura: (2)
2008, 2011

See also
Cáceres Club Baloncesto

References

External links
Official website

2007 establishments in Spain
Basketball teams established in 2007
Basketball teams in Extremadura
LEB Oro teams
Former LEB Plata teams
Sport in Cáceres, Spain


Tannourine (, also Tannoureen, Tannorine) is a Lebanese town located in the Batroun District, part of the Governorate of North Lebanon, 80 km from the capital Beirut. Tannourine is formed by a cluster of mountain settlements located in the highs of the Batroun District, the largest of which is Tannourine El-Fawqa, followed by Chatine,Tannourine El-Tahta, and Wata Houb. Tannourine has a population of approximately 25,000.

Tannourine extends between the municipal borders of Douma and Yammoune, and between Aqoura to the south and Bsharri and Hadath El Jebbeh to the north. The town is close to the Kadisha Valley and Cedars of God UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Afqa grotto, the Baatara sinkhole, and the Nahr Ibrahim valley.

Tannourine lies in a collection of valleys and ravines accessible either from Douma, Kfour Al Arbe, a backroad from Bsharri or from a newly constructed highway direct from Batroun, or from Laqlouq.

Among the personalities born in or connected to Tannourine through family roots, one can remember the Colombian politician José Antonio Turbay Jorge, second cousin to the former president of Colombia Julio César Turbay, and the former Lebanese minister Boutros Harb.

Etymology
Tannourine is the plural of the Syriac word tannour, which indicates an old stone oven. Tannourine's name may in fact stem from the local topography, which resembles the convex form of an oven called tannour, with the dual suffix ine as a reference to the two distinct areas of Tannourine Al-Tahta (literally Lower Tannourine) and Tannourine Al-Fawqa (literally Upper Tannourine).

Climate

Tannourine Cedar Reserve
The village also shares its name with a cedar forest of some 1,000,000 trees. Covering an area of 195.5 hectares at an altitude ranging between 1,300 and 1,800 meters. The Tannourine Cedars Forest Nature Reserve is considered the largest and densest cedar forests in Lebanon, with ninety percent of the trees in the forest being cedar trees. Other companion trees like Cupressus, Pinus, Abies, Populus and others constitute a very rich ecosystem in planter species. The fauna ranges from the various types of birds (eagles, owls, robins, etc...) to wild animals (hyenas, boars, squirrels, snakes and bats).

The reserve includes cliffs and caves, and its mountainous landscape is astonishing with cedars growing on extremely vertical slopes. These cedars can be seen along the road that goes north to Hadath al-Jebbeh, which, although in poor condition, winds its way through wild and isolated scenery up to the Kadisha Valley gorge, leading to Bsharri.

During the Lebanese war (1975-1990) land mines were spread in some parts of the forest, making it mostly inaccessible by the local communities and their herds. This ended-up protecting the forest: it was left relatively un-touched until a law dated 20/2/1999 established it as a protected area. The Lebanese Army cleared the forest of land mines. The reserve is now open to the public and hosts "Tannourine Cedars Night" an annual summer music festival.

Villages and local attractions
The Village of Balaa (bordering Laqlouq) is known for its deep natural sink hole. A 300-meter walk brings you to a dizzying open cavern some 250 meters deep. Three natural bridges - of which the middle one is the most spectacular - complete the scene. In the spring, snow melt water forms the scenic 90m high Baatara gorge waterfall.

The Nahr-Al-Joze (the Joze being a species of trout that grows in the valley river) meanders through the valley and borders a number of restaurants, and creates a forest ecosystem higher up towards the source. Likewise, the river has formed a number of natural pools of clear water that can be explored higher up towards the source.

Tannourine is well known for its ancient Maronite monasteries; specifically the convents of Saint Shallitah and Saint Antonios Houb, the latter being located in the village of Wata Houb.

Churches and Monasteries

In the late fifth century AD, Tannourine became a refuge for the Maronites. Some of the churches and monasteries include:

•	Saint Chalitta Church - an archeological site from the Crusader period.

•	Saint Sarkis Church - a Byzantine archaeological site. It had three markets and the vestibule was paved with a mosaic. It was constructed near the new church.

•	The Church of the Assumption of Mary

•	Saint Antonio monastery in Houb was built in 1749.

•	Saint Peter church

Archaeological sites

Tannourine hosts a remarkably large number of monuments dating back to the Phoenician, Romanian and Greek eras.

In the valley of Tannourine-Al-Tahta lies a nearly-intact Roman aqueduct and a decrepit reservoir and Roman Cistern at its side. It is a testament that the fertility of that valley was being exploited since at least the 1st century AD

Higher up in the mountains, in the now abandoned village of Ain al-Raha, are found a number of 6th century and Crusader-era churches that many scholars believe to be one of the earliest known proofs of the presence of Christianity in the upper Levant. Indeed, according to the legend, Ain al-Raha (literally: source of relief) was during the 11th to 13th century a safe haven for defeated Crusaders.

Also, above the previously mentioned old Lebanese house is an abandoned monastery sheltered in the hollow cave on the face of the mountain. It is believed that the 16th century remains were constructed in a way that it melded into the mountain to create a "camouflage" of sorts; and indeed unless you intend to search for it, you'd be hard-pressed to locate it immediately. Such caution was employed in order to thwart Ottoman army which wished to seize the Levant, which they eventually succeeded in doing.

In Wata Houb there are inscriptions on a rock dating back to the eighth century BC, the statues of a huge man between two smaller ones.

In St. Anthony's monastery in Houb, the remains of a Phoenician temple are preserved. In 1936 the remains of a structure with an elaborate stone sculpture were found and a large font was used to save the blood of the victims. This is all in the middle of a paved opening with stone seats around. It was also found among the rubble, icons inscribed with the name of Alexander the Great and drawings of the god, Jupiter, carrying a lightning symbol in his right hand and a scepter in his left. The other read, "Iskandar, the King and the God and the compassionate father" in addition to the drawings of an eagle and the heads of a man and a woman with the words " the 2 Gods are brothers." There are also writings glorifying the Roman Emperor Hadrian and other writings cautioning from cutting certain types of trees; in addition to pools, restrooms, and forts built to protect convoys from nomadic invasions. In Tannourine, there is today a Roman wall which marks the boundary between Tannourine and Aqoura.

The Romans also built an observatory called Aytamout observatory, which was overlooking the neighboring areas to address those who come to cut the trees. The Greek monuments included icons of the goddess Isis, the goddess and protector of navigation. She has two horns and she is carrying in her hand an Ankh with Greek letters of "Byblos".

History

Tannourine was inhabited since the Phoenician and Roman times. However, there is no conclusive evidence that it was a continuous presence or a discontinued one. Nor is there any evidence to prove whether this presence left an impact biologically and genetically on other people who came later to Tannourine. Based on the manuscript from the 17th century of Father Peter Matar in 1650 and the manuscript from the late 16th century of Father Al Maadi in 1599, several families lived in Tannourine in the thirteenth century, before the Mamluks attack on Mount Lebanon. The most prominent of these families are Matar (مطر ), Ghoch (غوش), Chamoun (شمعون), Harik (حريق), Sadka (صدقه) and Laya (لايا).

Between 1268 and 1306 the Mamluks attacked Mount Lebanon in a "discipline" campaign in the region. Many of these families dispersed, some of which were killed, and others emigrated and some hid in the many caves in the area of Tannourine.

The families that did not become extinct at that stage are Ghoch, Matar and Reaidy (Reaidy family is a branch from Al Matar family), as many of their descendants are still in Tannourine region.

As for the rest of the families that are currently stationed in Tannourine, most of them are the descendant of Gerges Abi Korkmaz the third, the actual Grandfather of more than 60% of the current people of tannourine.

Al Korkmaz main families are: Harb, Youness, Tarabay, Dagher, Yaacoub. It is worth mentioning that these families have branched into several families and names which are too many to state.↵

For the true origins of the Korkmaz the first, there are many stories. Some historians consider him from Slavic ethnic origins, Albanians. Turkish, or Baghdadian origins and that he was called khattar, and khattar means in the Arabic language, the "Spear holder". Also, Korkmaz means in the Turkish language "Fearless"↵.

At the beginning of the 20th century, many citizens of Tannourine travelled to Brazil fleeing the war, many were sent to the city of Araçuai - MG, where they received the last name Tanure, Tanuri, Tanury, Tannure, Tannouri and Tannoury.

Tannourine includes many families who came from several Lebanese villages and towns, such as:

-Bkassini from Bkassine

-Mrad from Kfar Selouan

-Al Chaer

-Koumeir, Bou Abdo and Hashem from Aqoura

-Karam and El Hasrouni from Hasroun

-Rashed and Makhlouf from Tartej

-Faddoul from Bsharri

-Akiki from Keserwan

-Abi Khalil from Ain Ksour

Government and demographics
The newly constructed Tannourine Municipality building is located in Tannourine-Al-Fawqa, overlooking the town previously mentioned. A President of the Municipal Council is elected every 6 years along with a "list" of 18 cabinet members who are all subjected to a vote by the residents. It has relative administrative and financial independence but remains under the control, supervision and financing of the central government.

Notable people

 Julio Cesar Turbay, former president of Colombia in 1978
 Boutros Harb, politician
 Assia Dagher, actress and film producer
 Claude Comair, co-founder of Nintendo Software Technology.
 Abeer Nehme, singer and musicologist.
 Maya Reaidy, Miss Lebanon 2018.
 Shakira, singer. Her paternal grandmother is from Tannourine, which Shakira visited in 2018. She was honored with a square in the Cedar Reserve named Shakira Isabelle Mebarak, after her, in which a statue of the singer is intended to be added soon.

References
تنورين
[manuscript of Father Peter Matar 1650 a.c. and the manuscript of Father Al Maadi 1599 a.c]

External links
Tannourine El Tahta - Tannourine El Faouqa - Ouata Houb, localiban

Populated places in the North Governorate
Batroun District
Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon