Georg "Schorsch" Nickaes (born 12 June 1971) is a German ski mountaineer and speaker of the German ski mountaineering team.

Nickaes was born in Bad Reichenhall. He enjoys also mountain running and ice climbing, and finished the army mountain guide training in 1994. He started in international ski mountaineering races after 1999. He was buried with two companions by a snow slab during a three-day ski mountaineering a few years ago, but they freed themselves. Nickaes is married with one child.

Selected results
 1999:
 German record time, "DIAMIR-Race"
 2001:
 German record time, Trofeo Mezzalama (together with Gerhard Reithmeier and Matthias Robl)
 2nd, Mountain Attack race
 2002:
 3rd, "International Open", Saalbach
 2004:
 3rd, German Championship single
 7th, Mountain Attack race
 2005:
 5th, German Championship single
 3rd, European Championship relay race (together with Franz Graßl, Stefan Klinger and Toni Steurer)
 2006:
 5th, World Championship relay race (together with Toni Steurer, Franz Graßl and Martin Echtler)

Patrouille des Glaciers

 2006: 7th ("seniors II" ranking), together with Wolfgang Palzer and Tim Stachel
 2008: 2nd ("seniors I" ranking), together with Gerhard Reithmeier and Benedikt Böhm

External links
 Georg Nickaes at skimountaineering.com

References

1971 births
Living people
German male ski mountaineers
German Army personnel
People from Bad Reichenhall
Skiers from Upper Bavaria


Tol is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions) in the Castropol municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.  The population is 340 (INE 2005).

References

Parishes in Castropol


Prayer for the Living is a 1934 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall.

Plot summary
A witty, engrossing, unique novel about the life of masters and boys in a Scottish prep school.  One way of describing this novel is to say that it is a story of life in a prep school in Scotland during World War I: and that, so far as the bare facts go, is an accurate description. But it is no way at all of conveying to the reader the devilish wit and cutting satire with which Mr. Marshall heightens and brightens the scene, or the pathos surrounding schoolboys who will overnight be turned into soldiers, or the moving idyl of love between the headmaster's daughter and a young student about to leave for the Front.

References

1934 British novels
Novels by Bruce Marshall
Catholic novels
Novels set in Scotland
Novels set during World War I
Novels set in elementary and primary schools


Little John is one of Robin Hood's Merry Men.

Little John may also refer to:

People
 Nicholas Owen (Jesuit) (c. 1562-1606), martyred Jesuit lay brother and saint who used the alias "Little John"
 Little John (musician) (born 1970), Jamaican dancehall artist
 John Nee, Irish actor with the stage name Little John Nee
 Rowby-John Rodriguez (born 1994), Austrian darts player who uses the nickname "Little John"

Arts and entertainment
 Little John (film), a 2001 Tamil fantasy film
 Little John, a 2002 TV movie starring Ving Rhames
 a title character in the 1976 American sitcom Big John, Little John
 "Little John" Warner, a character in the 1998-2000 American sitcom Jesse
 "Little John", a 2002 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV episode

Other uses
 Little John (archeological site), one of Canada's oldest human occupation archaeological sites
 MGR-3 Little John, an artillery rocket used by the United States Army in the 1960s
 Little John, a ship that was part of the 1590 Watts' West Indies and Virginia expedition and the 1591 Blockade of Western Cuba
 Little John, the bell in the Nottingham Council House

See also
 Lil Jon (born 1971), American rapper
 Lil' John, born John Rinaldi (born 1946), of the Big Chuck and Lil' John US television duo
 Littlejohn (disambiguation)
 Big John (disambiguation)


Rimma Vasilievna Markova (; 3 March 1925 – 15 January 2015) was a Russian film actress. She was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1994, whereas her younger brother Leonid Markov was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1985.

During her childhood from 1931 through 1934, Markova played minor roles in Saratov Dramatic Theatre, where her father was working. In 1945–1947, Rimma Markova studied at the school affiliated with the Vologda Dramatic Theatre with her brother Leonid. She appeared in small but memorable parts in numerous Soviet films.

Markova's public profile increased in the early 21st century. She began appearing regularly on Russian TV shows and campaigned enthusiastically for the Fair Russia political party during the 2011 legislative elections.

The party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election, Sergei Mironov, asked Markova to run his campaign. "Her popularity across the country is a part of mythology", he told the Moscow Times.

Selected ilmography
 The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (Жизнь и приключения Мишки Япончика, 2011) as Pani Basia
 Burnt by the Sun 2 (Утомлённые солнцем 2, 2011) as nurse
 The Best Movie (Самый лучший фильм, 2008) as mistress of prostitutes
 Day Watch (Дневной дозор, 2006) as witch Daria Schultz
 Night Watch (Ночной дозор, 2004) as witch Daria Schultz
 Okraina (Окраина, 1998) as Morozov's mother
 Gardemarines ahead! (Гардемарины, вперёд!, 1988) as Holy mother Leonidia
 The Pokrovsky Gate (Покровские ворота, 1982) as doctor
 Family Relations (Родня, 1981) as receptionist at the hotel
 Sweet Woman (Сладкая женщина, 1977) as Anna's mother
 Eternal Call (Вечный зов, 1973–83) as Vasilisa
Woman's World (Бабье царство, 1967) as Nadezhda Petrovna
Wings (Крылья, 1966) as Shura
The Alive and the Dead (Живые и мёртвые, 1964) as episode (uncredited)

References

External links

1925 births
2015 deaths
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
People's Artists of Russia
Russian film actresses
Soviet film actresses
A Just Russia politicians
21st-century Russian politicians
Actors from Samara, Russia


Pikopiko is a Māori word for the young curled shoots of ferns. The pikopiko was one of the foods that was eaten at Matariki feasts. Once harvested, pikopiko can be peeled and washed to remove the bitterness, then steamed, boiled, stir-fried, chopped and added to bread dough, blended with oil and nuts to make a spread or simply used as an attractive and delicious garnish.
 It may refer to a range of  fern species including:

Asplenium bulbiferum, hen and chicken fern.
Polystichum richardii, common shield fern.

References

Ferns of New Zealand
Leaf vegetables
Māori cuisine


Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) is a Development Finance Institution (DFI) and a subsidiary of KfW Group. It was founded in Cologne in September 1962 as a federally owned company by the former Federal President Walter Scheel. Since its foundation, DEG has been headquartered in Cologne. In 2008, DEG moved into a modern, energy efficient office building in the city centre. DEG has 20 representative offices across the world, inter alia in Bangkok, Beijing, Istanbul, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Lagos, Lima, Mexico City, Nairobi, New Delhi, São Paulo and Singapore.
In 2021, DEG employed a staff of approximately 650, both in Germany and abroad. DEG generated new business totaling EUR 1.5 billion in 2021 and the balance sheet total amounted to EUR 5.328 billion. Since its foundation, DEG has co-financed almost 1,300 companies in more than 120 countries.

With a  portfolio of around EUR 9.2 billion in nearly 80 countries DEG is one of the world's largest private-sector development financiers.

Mission and products
DEG finances long-term investments of private companies in developing and emerging-market countries. As one of the world's largest development finance institutions, it promotes private sector companies to contribute to sustainable economic growth and improved living conditions in these countries.
DEG focuses on projects and corporate finance in Africa, Asia, Latin America as well as in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Its financing products, which are offered at market-oriented conditions, comprise
 Business Support Services
 Equity capital
 Guarantees
 Long-term loans
 Mezzanine financing

Among DEG's customers are corporates, financial institutions, funds and project financiers.
Moreover, DEG offers advisory services, which are offered to both companies willing to invest and institutions promoting private-sector cooperation in its partner countries.
Furthermore, DEG - as one of the three official partners - implements the develoPPP.de programme of the Federal German Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ). develoPPP.de targets companies that invest in developing and emerging-market countries and are seeking ways to shape their corporate commitment in the long term. These develoPPP.de funds are mainly allotted to projects concerning environment, training and upskilling, workplace security and to outstanding pilot projects.

Since 2017, DEG offers financial support and solutions via German Desks together with local partner banks and local German Chambers of Commerce Abroad. A local bank employee who operates in both languages and cultures, handles particular needs of German firms or supports investment financing for local companies wishing to acquire German equipment, for example.

In all its financing activities, DEG applies the IFC Performance Standards, including the relevant "Environment, Health and Safety" guidelines as well as the ILO standards. The Performance Standards, developed by the International Financing Corporation (IFC), are the most widely used assessment standards in international development financing.

To ensure individuals, groups, communities or any other parties who believe to be adversely affected by a project financed or planned by DEG the right to be heard and the right to complain, DEG developed an Independent Complaint Mechanism (ICM) including an Independent Expert Panel. The Panel decides whether the complaint is admissible, responds to the complaint and is responsible for taking further possible steps.

Contribution to the SDGs
Being part of the German development cooperation, DEG promotes and contributes to the 2030 Agenda including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the UN. Among these goals is the reduction of poverty by promoting job creation and income generation in less developed and rural regions. Moreover, DEG's customers employed more than 1.5 million people, produced green energy for around 26 million people and generated local income of EUR 67 million.
In 2017, 72% of the companies supported by DEG contributed to the alleviation of poverty (SDG No. 1) as well as 88% of them fostered decent work and economic groth (SDG No. 8).

Cooperation
DEG closely coordinates its promotional activities with other European Development Finance Institutions, many of which have joined in the association of the European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI). Further cooperation partners of DEG are the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), as well as numerous local and regional development companies. The pooling of financing capacities and in-house knowledge leads to broader developmental efficacy and greater sustainability.

KfW Group
KfW is the parent company of DEG. The subsidiaries of KfW include:

 KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH – Provides project and corporate finance and offers trade and export finance in Germany and abroad.
 DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH – Promotes private sector initiatives in developing and emerging countries.
 FuB – Finanzierungs- und Beratungsgesellschaft mbH (FuB) – handling of special tasks associated with the German reunification.
 dena – The Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena), a 26% subsidiary of KfW Bankengruppe, promotes the rational and environmentally friendly production and use of energy including renewable energies.

See also

 Federal Republic of Germany
 Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), Netherlands DFI
 PROPARCO, French DFI

References

External links

KfW Group Homepage

Companies based in Cologne
Development finance institutions
Public finance of Germany


In economics, stimulus refers to attempts to use monetary policy or fiscal policy (or stabilization policy in general) to stimulate the economy. Stimulus can also refer to monetary policies such as lowering interest rates and quantitative easing.

A stimulus is sometimes colloquially referred to as "priming the pump" or "pump priming".

Concept
During a recession, production and employment are far below their sustainable potential due to lack of demand. It is hoped that increasing demand will stimulate growth and that any adverse side effects from stimulus will be mild.

Fiscal stimulus refers to increasing government consumption or transfers or lowering taxes, increasing the rate of growth of public debt. Supporters of Keynesian economics assume the stimulus will cause sufficient economic growth to fill that gap partially or completely via the multiplier effect.

Monetary stimulus refers to lowering interest rates, quantitative easing, or other ways of increasing the amount of money or credit.

Economist views
Milton Friedman argued that the Great Depression was caused by the fact that the Federal Reserve did not counteract the sudden reduction of money stock and velocity. Ben Bernanke argued, instead, that the problem was lack of credit, not lack of money, and hence, during the Great Recession, the Federal Reserve led by Bernanke provided additional credit, not additional liquidity (money), to stimulate the economy back on course. Jeff Hummel has analyzed the different implications of these two conflicting explanations. President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Jeffrey M. Lacker, with Renee Haltom, has criticized Bernanke's solution because "it encourages excessive risk-taking and contributes to financial instability." Thomas M. Humphrey and Richard Timberlake concentrated in their book "Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed: Sources of Monetary Disorder 1922–1938" on the real bills doctrine as a causative factor in the Great Depression.

It is often argued that fiscal stimulus typically increases inflation, and hence must be counteracted by a typical central bank. Hence only monetary stimulus could work. Counter-arguments say that if the output gap is high enough, the risk of inflation is low, or that in depressions inflation is too low but central banks are not able to achieve the required inflation rate without fiscal stimulus by the government.

Monetary stimulus is often considered more neutral: decreasing interest rates make additional investments profitable, but yet only the most additional investments, whereas fiscal stimulus where the government decides the investments may lead to populism via public choice theory, or corruption. However, the government can also take externalities into account, such as how new roads or railways benefit users who do not pay for them, and choose investments that are even more beneficial although not profitable.

Supporters of Keynesian economics are typically strongly in favor of stimulus. Austrian economic school and Rational expectations economists are typically against stimulus.

Notable examples

 The Economic Stimulus Appropriations Act of 1977 was a stimulus package enacted by the 95th United States Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on 13 May 1977.
 The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, signed on February 13, 2008 by President George W. Bush, was intended to boost the United States economy in 2008.
 The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009 developed in response to the Great Recession.
 The Thai Khem Khaeng was a Thai economic stimulus investment program imposed by the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva in 2009.
 The Kenya Economic Stimulus Program was a spending plan initiated by the Government of Kenya to boost economic growth and lead the economy of Kenya out of the 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis and the Great Recession
 The Chinese economic stimulus program of 2008-2009 was a RMB¥ 4 trillion stimulus introduced during the financial crisis of 2007–2008.
 The $2trillion CARES Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic was signed by President Donald Trump in March 2020.
 The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 was signed into law by Joe Biden on March 11, 2021.
 The July Jobs Stimulus was €7.4 billion stimulus package announced by the Government of Ireland on 23 July 2020 in response to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland.
 The Government of the Republic of China issued ROC consumer voucher during the Great Recession and Triple Stimulus Vouchers during the COVID-19 recession in Taiwan.

See also

 NAIRU
 National fiscal policy response to the Great Recession
 Policy mix

References

Fiscal policy
Keynesian economics


Joan Denise Moriarty (died 24 January 1992) was an Irish ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher of ballet and traditional Irish dancer and musician. She was a key figure in the development of both amateur and professional ballet in Ireland.

Early life
Little is known of Moriarty's early life. Her year of birth is estimated between 1910 and 1913 but no documentation has been found. The place of her birth is also unknown, and even the country is uncertain. She grew up as the daughter of Michael Augustus Moriarty (an alumnus of Stonyhurst College and contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) and his wife, Marion (née McCarthy); John Francis Moriarty, Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in Ireland, was her uncle. The Moriartys were originally from Mallow, County Cork, where her grandfather John Moriarty was a successful solicitor.

Moriarty was brought up in England, possibly in Leeds, or Liverpool, where she was living in the 1930s. She studied ballet until her early teens with Dame Marie Rambert. How long she was enrolled in the Rambert School is not known, as there are no records of students, but only of performers, but her training there was referenced by Dame Ninette de Valois.

She was an accomplished Irish step-dancer and traditional musician, and became the champion Irish stepdancer of Britain on 24 April 1931. She also won a swimming championship. She was a member of the Liverpool branch of the Gaelic League. Her early dance and music awards include:
1931 London: Champion Irish Stepdancer of England at the London Irish Step Dance Championship. Gold Medal
1932 Dublin: Highly commended for solo war pipes at the Tailteann Games
1933 Killarney: Winner of the Munster Open Championship in solo war pipes
1933: Participated in the solo war pipes competition at the Scots Gathering and Highland Games at Morecambe and Heysham in Lancashire

Return to Ireland
In the autumn of 1933, she returned with her family to their native Mallow in County Cork. In 1934, she set up her first school of dance there. From 1938 she also gave weekly classes in Cork in the Gregg Hall and Windsor School. During the 1930s she took part in the Cork Feis, annual art competitions with a focus on traditional dance and music, competing in Irish step-dancing, war pipes and operatic solo singing. She performed on the war pipes in various public concerts and gave at least two broadcasts. In 1938 she was invited by Seán Neeson, lecturer in Irish music at University College Cork, to perform at a summer school which the Music Department organised for primary school teachers.

Moriarty's mother died in February 1940; the following November she moved to Cork where she set up the Moriarty School of Dancing. The early years during the war were very difficult financially. In the early 1940s, she performed with her dancers in musicals and variety shows at the Cork Opera House.

In 1945 the composer Aloys Fleischmann invited her to perform in his Clare's Dragoons for baritone, war pipes, choir and orchestra, which had been commissioned by the national broadcasting company, Radio Éireann, for the Thomas Davis centenary. Moriarty agreed, on condition that his Cork Symphony Orchestra would play for her Ballet Company's annual performances, which marked the beginning of a lifelong collaboration.

The Schools of Dance
Branches of the Moriarty School of Dance were established in Bandon, Clonmel, Fermoy, Killarney, Mallow, Tralee, Waterford, Youghal. Moriarty bequeathed her Cork school to Breda Quinn, a long-standing member of the Cork Ballet Company, who ran it with another Moriarty student, Sinéad Murphy, who created a new dance school (Cork School of Dance) after Breda's death in 2009.

The Ballet Companies

The Cork Ballet Company (1947–1993)
Moriarty founded the Cork Ballet Group in 1947, the members recruited from her school. It gave its first performance in June of that year in the Cork Opera House, accompanied by the Cork Symphony Orchestra under its conductor Aloys Fleischmann. Stage scenery was designed by Marshall Hutson, Frank Sanquest and later by Patrick Murray; costume designs were provided by Clare Hutson, Maeve Coakley, Rachel Russell, who also made many of the costumes. Alec Day and Leslie Horne took charge of the lighting. From 1948 the group gave an annual week of ballet, also bringing its show to towns in Munster. In 1951 part of the classical ballet Coppélia was performed (the complete work in 1955), Giselle in 1957.

In 1954 the group was registered as a company under the name "Cork Ballet Company". Its patrons were Dame Marie Rambert, Dame Alicia Markova and later Dame Ninette de Valois. For the first ten years, Moriarty danced in many of the ballets. From 1956 the Company performed with international guest artists – among them, at a special ballet recital of 1965, Sir Anton Dolin.

From 1970-73 it had very successful appearances in Dublin, in 1971-73 performing with the Cork Symphony Orchestra for a week at the Gaiety Theatre to packed houses. In 1992 the Ballet Week was given in tribute to its founder, who had died in January of that year; the President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, attended the opening. The following year saw the last of the company's 46 seasons.

The Folk Dance Group of the Cork Ballet Company
Moriarty founded this group in 1957. It participated in the Cork An Tóstal Festival for many years, travelled in 1958 to the Youth Festival of Wewelsburg (near Paderborn, Germany) and in 1961 to the Dijon International Folk Dance Festival in France. As a prize-winner, it was invited back to Dijon in 1965. In 1966 the group travelled to Berlin and participated successfully in the Deidesheim and Dillenburg Folk Dance Festivals. In 1966 and 1967 the group, together with the Cork Ballet Company, was commissioned by RTÉ, the state broadcasting service, to give 13 television programmes of Irish dance called "An Damhsa" (the dance), choreographed by Moriarty, costumes by Clare Hutson.

Irish Theatre Ballet (1959–64)
Irish Theatre Ballet was founded by Moriarty in the summer of 1959, and gave its first performance in December 1959 in the presence of its patron, Marie Rambert. It was a small touring company of 10 to 12 dancers, which travelled all over Ireland, north and south, going to some 70 venues annually with extracts from classical ballets, contemporary works and folk ballets.

Its first ballet master was Stanley Judson of the Anna Pavlova Company; then came Yannis Metsis of Ballet Rambert, then Denis Carey of Guatemalan State Ballet and finally Geoffrey Davidson of Festival Ballet. Charles Lynch was the company's pianist. Marshall Hutson and his wife, Clare, produced stage designs and costumes for many of the shows. 24 new ballets were created for the company; new music was commissioned for five of these, among them two folk ballets for which Seán Ó Riada provided scenarios and music, the latter performed by his Ceoltóirí Chualann.

Irish Theatre Ballet received a small grant from the Arts Council of Ireland, and aid from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, but depended mainly on funding from business and private patrons. In an attempt to resolve the constant financial difficulties, the Arts Council in 1963 insisted on a merger with Patricia Ryan's Dublin National Ballet. But the amalgamation did not bring a solution to the financial problems besetting both companies, and after one joint season in Dublin in the late autumn of 1963 and in Cork the following January, the amalgamated company, Irish National Ballet, had to be disbanded in March 1964.

Ballet schools and companies in Ireland
Irish Theatre Ballet was the first professional dance company in Ireland for some time. The Abbey Theatre School of Ballet had been run by Ninette de Valois with the support of W.B. Yeats from 1927-1933, and was not just a school but a performing company, with de Valois herself often dancing in its productions. A later "Abbey School of Ballet" was founded by two of its dancers, and continued with performances into the 1950s (but was primarily a school). Two more projects were launched by students of de Valois.  First, in 1936, Sara Payne launched her Ballet School and Company, which performed eight ballets between then and 1942. Then in 1939 Cepta Cullen launched the Irish Ballet Club, which performed 14 ballets up to 1944. Finally, Patricia Ryan launched the National Ballet School in 1956, and added a formal Ballet Company in 1959, and these operated until the forced merger with Irish Theatre Ballet, and the subsequent closure of them all.

Irish Ballet Company/Irish National Ballet (1973–1989)
In 1973, the Irish government decided to fund a professional ballet company, entrusted to Moriarty: the Irish Ballet Company. It received a government grant at first and was subsequently financed by the Arts Council. Ninette de Valois was patron. She attended the first performance unannounced and donated half the Dutch Erasmus Prize, which she had just received, so that Moriarty could bring in distinguished teachers for special courses.

Like Irish Theatre Ballet, Moriarty's first professional company, it was a touring company, which travelled all over Ireland in two annual seasons. David Gordon of the Royal Ballet was the ballet master, Muriel Large was the administrator. Conditions were difficult for the dancers: salaries were small, as was the grant with which the company had to make do; the buildings that had to be used for training and rehearsal were far from ideal; performance facilities in the provincial centres were often dire. On the other hand, the dancers performed in a greater variety of roles than they would have done in a bigger company; they worked closely with many international choreographers and were encouraged to choreograph themselves.

In 1975, for instance, Sir Anton Dolin, Toni Beck and John Gilpin came to Cork to produce some of their works with the company. The Israeli choreographer, Domy Reiter-Soffer, who had been a member of Irish Theatre Ballet, became the company's artistic advisor and created many new works of great range in theme and type.

The company had a number of striking successes between 1978-81. Moriarty's ballet, based on Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, was commissioned for the Dublin Theatre Festival of 1978, with music played live by The Chieftains, was acclaimed. It went from Dublin to Cork to Belfast, to New York, to Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, and to Rennes in France. In 1981, the Dublin Theatre Festival commissioned Moriarty again; she created a 3-act ballet based on the old Irish epic The Táin; Fleischmann composed the music, and Patrick Murray designed the sets. On the strength of these achievements, the government agreed in 1983 to the company changing its name to Irish National Ballet.

Cutbacks
The 1980s was a period of severe recession in Ireland. The Arts Council's budget was reduced amid increasing demands for the shrinking funds. In 1982 the Council ceased funding the Gate Theatre, the Dublin Theatre Festival and the Irish Theatre Company, the country's touring theatre company, continuing to support only the iconic Abbey Theatre.

The Council allotted a mere 7.6% of its budget to dance, and a large portion of that went to Irish National Ballet, though the grant was not substantial enough to keep the company out of debt. Contemporary dance groups and other dance organisations sought change in the distribution of the funds. In 1985 the Council commissioned the distinguished dance expert Peter Brinson to report on dance in Ireland. The report proposed a sharp reduction of the already inadequate budget of the Irish National Ballet, while requiring it to incur greater expenses through increased touring and procuring the funds needed from corporate sources.  It was critical of Moriarty, who resigned in the autumn of 1985.

Moriarty was succeeded by the Finnish dancer and choreographer, Anneli Vourenjuuri-Robinson, who sought to implement a three-year plan accepted by the Arts Council. But in 1988 the Council decided to withdraw its grant before the end of the three-year period, and also terminated funding for Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre. The Office of the Taoiseach thereupon gave Irish National Ballet a special grant for a year. Domy Reiter-Soffer and Patrick Murray directed the company during that time. The Arts Council did not reconsider its decision and the company's last ballet was Reiter-Soffer's Oscar based on the life of Oscar Wilde, set to music by Sir Arnold Bax, performed in Dublin, Cork and Belfast. In 1989 Irish National Ballet had to be disbanded.

A Home for National Irish Ballet
From 1973, appropriate accommodation was needed for the professional ballet company, which was operating in unsuitable premises. The Firkin Crane, the former centre of Cork's international butter trade, was put up for sale in 1979. Moriarty applied successfully to the Arts Council to have it bought for the Irish Ballet Company. A Trust Fund was set up to secure the finance for the rebuilding with former Taoiseach Jack Lynch as president.

Cork City Council supported the undertaking; funding was also obtained from the Irish government, the European Union, Irish businesses and the American Ireland Fund. Planning started in 1982, and building in 1985. When Irish National Ballet closed in 1989, the Firkin Crane was designated to become the Dance Centre of the city. It opened in April 1992, three months after Moriarty's death.

Artistic Achievement

Towards a new ballet style
Moriarty had a double dance training: she trained in ballet and in traditional Irish dance. This, together with her musical competence, provided a sound basis on which to develop a new type of ballet. She based many of her ballets on Irish mythology, legend and folklore. In this regard she was following in the footsteps of the writers of the previous generation, who had brought elements of speech deriving from the Irish language into their literary works and had drawn on the Gaelic literary heritage for their material.

Aloys Fleischmann had a similar aim with regard to music. Both he and Moriarty sought to create a specifically Irish form of their respective arts with works on Irish themes, fusing elements of the Irish traditional heritage with the classical forms.

The music for the dance
Moriarty commissioned new music for many of her Irish ballets. Seán Ó Riada, A. J. Potter, and Dame Elizabeth Maconchy Le Fanu orchestrated works originally written for the piano: Puck Fair (1948), Papillons (1952), and Full Moon for the Bride (1974). Redmond Friel composed the music for The Children of Lír (1950).

Three ballets were set to Seán Ó Riada's music: West Cork Ballad (1961), Devil to Pay (1962), Lugh of the Golden Arm (1977); these were performed by the Ceoltóirí Chualann and Éamon de Buitléar's Ceoltóirí Laighean. The Chieftains arranged traditional music for The Playboy of the Western World.

Bernard Geary wrote the music for two ballets choreographed by Geoffrey Davidson for Irish Theatre Ballet: Bitter Aloes and Il Cassone. Aloys Fleischmann composed the music for six Moriarty ballets: The Golden Bell of Ko (1948), An Cóitín Dearg [The Red Petticoat] (1951), Macha Ruadh [Red Macha] (1955), the two folk ballets Bata na bPlanndála [The Planting Stick] (1957) and Suite: The Cake Dance (1957) and The Táin (1981). This three-act ballet was commissioned by the Dublin Theatre Festival and premiered at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, on 6 October 1981, the Irish Ballet Company performing with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra under Proinnsias Ó Duinn.

The last composer to write for Moriarty was John Buckley: for her ballet Diúltú [Renunciation], based on a poem by Patrick Pearse, which was commissioned by the Department of the Taoiseach in 1979 to mark the centenary of Pearse's birth. It was premiered in June 1983 in Dublin's Abbey Theatre with Irish National Ballet accompanied by the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Colman Pearce. The ballet was performed again the following year.

Moriarty spent almost 60 years working for ballet in Ireland. Her amateur Cork Ballet Company is still the longest-lasting ballet company the country has had; her two professional touring companies brought ballet to all parts of Ireland for in all 21 years. She received numerous awards for her work, among them an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland in 1979.

Death
During the last years of her life, she suffered ill health, but continued her work with the Cork Ballet Company, bringing the shows to towns in the county. She died on 24 January 1992 in Dublin.

Moriarty Remembered
Nov. 1992, Cork Opera House: Cork Ballet Company Giselle tribute performance, attended by President Robinson
1993, Firkin Crane, Cork: Sculpture of Moriarty unveiled
1997, Firkin Crane: Fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Cork Ballet Company; commemorative exhibition curated by Monica Gavin and Breda Quinn
2007, Cork City Library: Moriarty exhibition, curated by Monica Gavin, Breda Quinn, Cherry O'Keefe
2007, Bishopstown Library, Cork: Moriarty exhibition, curated by Monica Gavin, Breda Quinn, Cherry O'Keefe
25 April 2010, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee, County Kerry: Moriarty's ballet Bata na bPlanndála (The Planting Stick) choreographed by Pat Ahern, the founder of Siamsa Tíre (National Folk Theatre of Ireland) for his Fleischmann Centenary Concert, performed by Rinceoirí na Riochta with Jimmy Smith, Kerry Fleischmann Choir, Kerry Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Aidan O'Carroll.
26 April 2010, Firkin Crane: Cork City Ballet Fleischmann Centenary Gala with a revival of part of the Moriarty ballet The Golden Bell of Ko by Yuri Demakov. Opening of the exhibition "The Music for the Ballet" by Domy Reiter-Soffer
1 May 2010, Cork City Hall: Cork International Choral Festival closing concert, Moriarty's ballet Bata na bPlanndála (The Planting Stick) choreographed by Pat Ahern, performed by Rinceoirí na Riochta with Jimmy Smith, Kerry Fleischmann Choir, Kerry Chamber Orchestra conducted by Aidan O'Carroll
17–19 November 2011, Cork Opera House: Cork City Ballet, Giselle dedicated to Moriarty's memory
2012: Moriarty centenary celebrations under the auspices of Cork City Council, Cork City Ballet, The Firkin Crane, Cork City Libraries.

Notes

Literature
 Ruth Fleischmann (ed.): Joan Denise Moriarty: Founder of Irish National Ballet – Material for a History of Dance in Ireland (Cork: Mercier Press, 1998),
 Brian P. Kennedy: Dreams and Responsibilities: The State and the Arts in Independent Ireland (Dublin: Arts Council of Ireland, n.d. [1988]),
 Peter Brinson: The Dancer and the Dance (Dublin: Arts Council of Ireland, 1985),
 Séamas de Barra: Aloys Fleischmann (Dublin: Field Day Publications, 2006),
 Patrick Zuk: A.J. Potter (1918–1980): The Career and Creative Achievement of an Irish Composer in Social and Cultural Context (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Durham University, 2008)
 Victoria O'Brien: A History of Irish Ballet from 1927 to 1963 (Bern et al.: Peter Lang, 2011),
 Ruth Fleischmann (ed.): Joan Denise Moriarty: Ireland's First Lady of Dance (Cork: Cork City Libraries, 2012),

External links
Cork City Libraries:  Joan Denise Moriarty
Cork Ballet Company Programmes
Joan Denise Moriarty School of Dance
The Firkin Crane Centenary Gala
Joan Denise Moriarty Facebook
Joan Denise Moriarty: Ireland's First Lady of Dance, Ed. Ruth Fleischmann, Cork 2012
Claire Dix 2016 Moriarty documentary trailer

1910s births
1992 deaths
Date of birth unknown
Place of birth unknown
Year of birth unknown
Musicians from County Cork
Irish ballerinas
Irish choreographers
Irish women choreographers
Ballet choreographers
Disease-related deaths in the Republic of Ireland


Baisi is a City and Sub District in Purnia district of Bihar, India.

Demographics
The number of households in Baisi is 1,319. All the households are rural households.

The female to male ratio of Baisi is 95.72% compared to the Bihar's female to male ratio of 91.93%.

The literacy rate of the town is 35.98% compared to the literacy rate of state 47%.

The female literacy rate is 21.39% compared to male literacy rate of 50.05%.

Education
This small town is very popular in that area because this town has more than 20 small and secondary  schools which provide very good job in education sector .

There are hundreds of students coming from near by villages to take primary education.
And there is a Baisi degree college from where now students can complete his/her graduation degree.And there is also a Government secondary school for girls which is popularly known as "Project Girls School" which provides very good education.

Location
 passes through Baisi. The nearest airport is Bagdogra Airport.  and  are the nearest railway stations. SH 99 connects Baisi with the nearby towns of Rauta and Amour. This city is nearby to the hill station like Darjeeling and siliguri. It is famous for delicacies like samosa and eemarti.

References

External links
 About Baisi
 Satellite map of Baisi

Cities and towns in Purnia district


Man Dance is an album by Ronald Shannon Jackson and The Decoding Society, recorded in 1982 for the Antilles label.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "The ensemble-oriented 'free funk' music of drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society never can be accused of being overly mellow or lacking in excitement ... The frenetic and intense ensembles (essentially everyone solos at once) would not be classified as relaxing background music." NPR thought that "the spiky Afro-pop guitar, two grumbling electric basses and melodies played in several keys at once are all out of Ornette Coleman's band Prime Time. But the Decoding Society had a lazier lope and wasn't quite so eager to fill all the available space."

Track listing
All compositions by Ronald Shannon Jackson.
 "Man Dance" - 4:32
 "Iola" - 5:24
 "Spanking" - 3:07
 "Catman" - 6:42
 "The Art of Levitation" - 1:24
 "Belly Button" - 4:45
 "Giraffe" - 3:09
 "When Souls Speak" - 5:48
 "Alice in the Congo" - 6:09

Personnel
Ronald Shannon Jackson – drums
David Gordon (tracks 1, 2 & 8), Henry Scott (tracks 3-7 & 9) – trumpet, flugelhorn
Zane Massey – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
Lee Rozie – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone (tracks 1, 2 & 8)
Vernon Reid – electric guitar, steel guitar, Roland guitar synthesizer, banjo
Melvin Gibbs – electric bass
Reverend Bruce Johnson – fretless electric bass, electric bass

References

External links
 Ronald Shannon Jackson on "Mandance", accessed November 1, 2016

1982 albums
Ronald Shannon Jackson albums
Antilles Records albums


"System of Survival" is a song by the band Earth, Wind & Fire issued as a single in October 1987 on Columbia Records. The single reached number one on both the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart. "System of Survival" also reached No. 9 on the New Zealand Pop Singles chart, No. 14 on the Dutch Pop Singles chart and No. 25 on the Belgian Pop Singles chart.

Overview
"System of Survival" was produced by Maurice White and Preston Glass and composed by an unknown songwriter called Skylark.

The single's B-side was a non-album song called "Writing on the Wall". "System of Survival" was released on EWF's 1987 studio album Touch the World.

Critical reception
Jon Pareles of the New York Times described the song as having "a groove out of James Brown by way of Prince". Andrew Panos of Number One gave the song a four out of five star rating saying "The layoff has seen the EWF lads gain a bit of a social conscience as they sing here of the sufferings of the world and what a depressing place it is. You can however, ease your troubles if you have a nip out onto the dancefloor once in a while and jig along to splendid thumping disco tunes such as this".
John Milward of USA Today proclaimed that the song "boasts a clean dance groove". Richard Lowe of Smash Hits wrote "now they've back with a thumping great funk thing called System of Survival which is all about how terrible a place the world is and all that and how strutting one's 'stuff' is quite a good way of enjoying yourself despite it all. Just to make it more modern and 'trendy' they've got this bit with someone talking  on the radio on it, and its going to be a roaring success, which is only right and 'proper'."

Chris Heim of the Chicago Tribune found that "the ebullient celebration of everyone as a Shining Star has given way to the grimmer task of constructing a System of Survival". Robert Christgau of the Village Voice called the tune "the strongest protest this seminal pop transcendentalist has ever gotten down. Dave Hill of The Independent exclaimed "System of Survival is a blissfully erudite single." Harry Sumrall of the San Jose Mercury-News exclaimed "System of Survival is a scathing political/social commentary in the context of boiling rhythms and lithe vocal acrobatics." Connie Johnson of the Los Angeles Times declared that the tune is "packed with energy and passion". Simon Witter of NME called the song "horn parping, electro-bass romping, nasal howl-rolling bliss".
Roe Hoeburger of Rolling Stone also described the song as "a Stayin' Alive for the eighties".

Credits
Producer: Preston Glass & Maurice White
Composer: Skylark
Additional Background Vocals: Skylark
Background Vocals: Philip Bailey & Maurice White
Lead Vocals: Philip Bailey & Maurice White
Horns: Marc Russo, Wayne Wallace, Gary Grant & Jerry Hey
Horn Arrangement: Jerry Hey
Additional Drum Programming:  Preston Glass
Synthesizer: Preston Glass
Guitar: Preston Glass
Synthesizer Programming: Skylark
Drum Programming: Skylark

Chart positions

Accolades

References

1987 singles
1987 songs
Earth, Wind & Fire songs
New jack swing songs
Columbia Records singles


Mathias Fink, born in 1945 in Grenoble, is a French physicist, professor at ESPCI Paris and member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Life and career
Mathias Fink received a M.S. degree in mathematics from Paris University, and the Ph.D. degree in solid state physics. Then he moved to medical imaging and received the Doctorat es-Sciences degree from Paris University in the area of ultrasonic focusing for real-time medical imaging under the direction of Pierre Alais (1978).

In 1981 he was appointed Professor at the University of Strasbourg. After a stay as a visiting professor at the University of Irvine in the radiology department he returned to France to become professor at the Paris Diderot University (Paris 7). In 1990 and founded the "Waves and Acoustics Laboratory" at ESPCI whose director he was and which became the Institut Langevin in 2009. 2005 he was appointed professor at ESPCI, where he now is professor emeritus and holds the Georges Charpak chair.

Fink pioneered the development of time-reversal mirrors and Time Reversal Signal Processing. He developed many applications of this concept from ultrasound therapy, medical imaging, non-destructive testing, underwater acoustics, seismic imaging, tactile objects, to electromagnetic telecommunications.
He also pioneered innovative medical imaging methods: transient elastography, supersonic shear imaging and multi-wave imaging that are now implemented by several companies. Six companies with close to 400 employees have been created from his research: Echosens, Sensitive Object, Supersonic Imagine, Time Reversal Communications, Cardiawave, and GreenerWave.

Honors and awards
 1994 Grand prix de la créativité SNECMA
 1995 Foucault prize of the French Physical Society
 2002 elected to the French Academy of Engineering
 2003 elected to the French Academy of Science
 2006 Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America
 2007 Officer of the French Legion (since 2017 Commander)
 2008 Louis Néel prize of the French Physical Society
 2008/2009 Liliane Bettencourt Chair of Technological Innovation at the Collège de France
 2015 international colloquium in honor of his 70th birthday

Selected works

References

External links

1945 births
French physicists
Members of the French Academy of Sciences

Commanders of the Legion of Honour
Living people
Academic staff of ESPCI Paris


John "Johnny" Dennis Cronshey (14 July 1926, in Brentford, England – 15 January 2004, in Axminster, Devon, England) was an English speed skater. He competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics and the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Cronshey attended his first international all-round championship at the age of 20. In 1947, he came in 16th at the European Championship. One week later he came ninth in the World Championship.

Cronshey's best international placing was the silver medal at the 1951 World Championship in Davos where he was only beaten by the Norwegian Hjalmar Andersen. It would be another 72 years before the next British Senior International medal would be achieved in 2023, by Ellia Smeding at the 2023 European Sprint Championships.

References

1926 births
2004 deaths
British male speed skaters
Sportspeople from Brentford
World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists
Olympic speed skaters for Great Britain
Speed skaters at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 1956 Winter Olympics


Sphinx Resources Ltd. (formerly Donner Metals Ltd.) is a Canadian company focused on exploration of precious and base metals within mining rights in Quebec. It is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. The company was formerly named Donner Metals Ltd., headquarters are in Vancouver, and active in other provinces, but changed names in 2014 and moved its headquarters to Montreal, Quebec. As Donner, its principal project was a 35-65 joint venture with Glencore Xstrata (the operator and 65% interest holder) in Matagami, Quebec.

History
The company was founded in 1996 as a mining exploration company prospecting in South Voisey's Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. While this project eventually stalled, along the way a relationship with Falconbridge was developed.

In 2006, Donner signed a deal with Falconbridge, wherein Donner was required to spend $20 million by May 31, 2011, plus an additional $5 million if a brand new discovery was made. The deal effectively makes Donner "the funding vehicle for exploration within the Matagami base metal camp". Glencore Xstrata can earn back a 15% interest on each of the 6 JV areas. Glencore Xstrata has earned the additional 15% in the Bracemac-McLeod and South Flank JVs.

Matagami Project

Since signing the deal, the joint-venture partners have focused their efforts on the South Flank and Bracemac-McLeod properties.  The property is located 6 km southeast of Xstrata's Matagami Mill. On January 19, 2007, Donner announced the discovery of a zinc-copper massive sulphide deposit averaging 9.12% zinc and 1.21% copper over 16 metres, and 13.98% zinc and 3.69% copper over 8.8 metres. In February 2009, Genivar Engineering was contracted to compile and release a National Instrument 43-101 compliant resource estimate of 3,623,000 tonnes at 11.52% zinc, 1.60% copper, 31.55 g/t silver and 0.49 g/t gold. Since completing a scoping study  Xstrata has completed drilling on an accelerated feasibility study on the Bracemac-McLeod area  Xstrata began construction in July 2010, with full production scheduled for May 2013. Production began on May 15, 2013, at 3,000 tonnes per day, the mill capacity  Xstrata is the operator of the project.

Bracemac-McLeod Mine
On July 9, 2010, Xstrata Zinc announced they will immediately begin development of the Bracemac-McLeod deposit. In an official public statement Xstrata News Room July 9, 2010 made at 11:30am (EST) in Matagami, Xstrata Zinc announced this exciting next step for the Matagami Mining Camp and credited the success of the combined Xstrata-Donner exploration team that made the discovery of this deposit. Xstrata Zinc's expedient decision to develop Bracemac-McLeod was made in order to meet a timeline that is expected to enable production from Bracemac-McLeod to replace production from Xstrata's wholly owned Perseverance mine without a gap in feed to the Matagami mill.

CTV News reported that Xstrata Zinc Canada is going ahead with a new base metals mine in northwestern Quebec that will create about 250 jobs. The combined Xstrata-Donner exploration team discovered the ore deposit and the two companies will spend $158-million to develop the project. Jean Desrosiers, vice-president of mining operations for Xstrata Zinc Canada, said he is "delighted" with development of the Bracemac-McLeod mine, which will produce 80,000 tonnes of zinc and 10,000 tonnes of copper annually when it opens in 2013. "The project is a low capital cost, high return project that will provide a continued feed of ore to Xstrata's Matagami concentrator once the Perseverance Mine comes to the end of its life," he said in a release. "The new mine will use existing processing infrastructure and will provide ongoing employment opportunities for the existing work force at Perseverance. The new mine will also minimize its environmental footprint by using the closed Bell-Allard South mine pit to dig the new ramp."

Awards
In November 2007, Donner was presented the Prospector of the Year Award by the Quebec Mineral Exploration Association.

In December 2008, Donner won The Mining Journal (trade magazine)'s Outstanding Exploration Achievement Award.

In November 2010, Donner and Xstrata accepted the Development of the Year award from the Quebec Mineral Exploration Association.

References

External links
Donner Metals Ltd.
Xstrata
Matagami, Quebec

Companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange
Copper mining companies of Canada
Zinc mining companies
Companies based in Vancouver
Companies established in 1996
Xstrata


Charitum Montes is a large group of mountains in the Argyre quadrangle of Mars, located at 58.4° south latitude and 40.29° west longitude.  It is 850 km across and was named after a classical albedo feature name. Charitum Montes has gullies in some areas.

References

External links
Charitum Montes: a cratered winter wonderland - ESA

Argyre quadrangle
Mountains on Mars


Daniel Kagan (born January 1953) is an American politician who served in the Colorado Senate from the 26th district from 2017 to 2019, and in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 3rd district from 2009 to 2017, as a member of the Democratic Party.

Kagan was born to Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan and educated in the United States at George Washington University and Yale Law School. He gained citizenship in the United States in 1984, and worked in Washington, D.C. until he moved back to the United Kingdom with his family in 1995. He turned to the United States in 2005, and served as a delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

He was appointed to replace Representative Anne McGihon in the state house in 2009, and won reelection in the 2010, 2012, and 2014 elections and was elected to the state senate in the 2016 election. During his tenure in the state legislature he served as the chair of the Judiciary committee. Kagan resigned from the legislature in 2019 after being accused of using the women's bathroom multiple times.

Early life and education

Daniel Kagan was born to Margaret and Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, who were Lithuanian Jews that met during the Holocaust. He was educated at Rugby School and studied political science at the University of East Anglia between 1971 and 1973. He moved to the United States in 1975. He graduated from George Washington University, which he attended from 1979 to 1984, with a bachelor's degree in economics and political science, and Yale Law School, which he attended from 1984 to 1987. He gained United States citizenship in 1984. He was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in 1989. Kagan met Faye in 1984, married her in 1989, with whom he had three children, and lived in Washington, D.C. until they moved to the United Kingdom following the death of Kagan's father in 1995 before returning to the United States in 2005.

Colorado legislature

Elections

Representative Anne McGihon announced that she would leave the Colorado House of Representatives on March 27, 2009. Kagan and eight other Democrats, including T. R. Reid, ran to be appointed to her seat by the vacancy committee. He won the appointment from the vacancy committee with thirty-five out of one hundred four votes and was sworn in on March 30. He defeated Republican nominee Christine Mastin in the 2010 election.

He defeated Republican nominee Brian Watson and Libertarian nominee David P. Jurist in the 2012 election. Watson spend $262,153 during the campaign which was the highest amount spent by any state legislature candidate in Colorado in that election cycle. He defeated Republican nominee Candice Benge in the 2014 election. Kagan ran for a seat in the Colorado Senate from the 26th district with the Democratic nomination during the 2016 election and defeated Republican nominee Nancy A. Doty. Andrew Fish, who later served as the Democratic caucus' deputy chief of staff, worked as Kagan's campaign manager in the 2016 election.

Tenure

During Kagan's tenure in the state house he served as the chair of the Judiciary committee. He served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention for Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries.

He gave a speech demanding for debate on a resolution seeking to expel Senator Randy Baumgardner for the sexual allegations against him. After his speech Kagan was accused of using the women's bathroom multiple times by Senators Beth Martinez Humenik and Owen Hill. He claimed that he had only used the women's bathroom once due to him having a gastrointestinal virus and the bathrooms being unmarked at the time. However, an investigation that ended in September determined that Kagan had used the women's bathroom at least three times. He announced on December 5, 2018 that he would resign on January 11, 2019, stating that the Republicans had targeted him due to the Democrats attempting to remove Republican members for sexual misconduct.

On January 5, a vacancy committee selected Jeff Bridges to replace Kagan in the state senate against three other candidates, including Iman Jodeh. Another vacancy committee selected Meg Froelich to replace Bridges in the state house.

Later life

Kagan endorsed Andrew Romanoff for the Democratic nomination during the 2020 United States Senate election.

Political positions

Kagan opposed legislation that required members of law enforcement to have United States citizenship. He stated that legislation punishing sanctuary cities and counties was a violation of the Fourth and Tenth amendments. He proposed legislation to repeal Colorado's adultery law. He and Representative Lori Saine sponsored legislation to require the videotaping of police interrogations in sexual assault and murder cases in order to prevent false confessions. He was among thirty-seven legislators who endorsed a letter in 2018, calling for Planned Parenthood to allow for their workers to form an union. Kagan voted in favor of repealing capital punishment in 2009.

He received an A rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America. The American Civil Liberties Union gave him a rating of 89% in 2013, 40% in 2015, 80% in 2018, and ratings of 100% in 2014, 2016, and 2017.

Electoral history

References

External links
 Campaign website
 Colorado General Assembly website

Sons of life peers
1953 births
Living people
People educated at Rugby School
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
George Washington University alumni
Yale Law School alumni
American people of English-Jewish descent
American textile industry businesspeople
Colorado lawyers
English Jews
Jewish American state legislators in Colorado
Democratic Party members of the Colorado House of Representatives
Democratic Party Colorado state senators
21st-century American politicians
British emigrants to the United States
British textile industry businesspeople


Brighton High School (BHS) is a secondary school located on South 8th Avenue in the heart of Brighton, Colorado, United States. It is one of three main high schools in the Brighton 27J School District,

History
Brighton High School, which dates back to the early 20th century, was one of the first comprehensive high schools in Colorado. The school has been located in many different facilities over its existence, including its current facilities and what is now the Brighton Heritage Academy.

Campus
Brighton High School is located in the heart of Brighton, Colorado at 270 South 8th Avenue. The classrooms are divided into 7 sections: WS (Wall Street), TA (Tech Avenue), SB (South Bulldog Avenue), NB (Main Hall/North Bulldog Avenue), CA (College Avenue), UA (University Avenue), and MOD (Modulars/Math Operations Drive).

Facilities
The north hall (NB) of Brighton High School is the original section of the school, built in 1955. It is a two-story building which includes Bill Gamble's Gymnasium, a wrestling gymnasium, auditorium, the "Dawg Diner", locker bay, and various classrooms. The classrooms in this building serve as the location for most of the students' core classes. This section of the school has undergone many renovations, most notably in the late 1970s, early 1990s, and mid-2000s.

The Comprehensive Learning Center (CLC) is a facility built in 1973 as an additional building, separate from the main high school. It was constructed to alleviate overcrowding. This one-story building now includes the counseling office, gymnasium, locker rooms, band room, choir room, numerous computer labs, school store, auto shop, locker bay, and more classrooms. Classes in the CLC serve mainly as elective courses. This building also underwent renovations in the early 1990s, mid-2000s, and late 2022.

A 2006 addition/renovation (B) of the high school relieved the overcrowding, as the school was then at over double capacity. The construction of the central hall allowed for a roofed walkway and lobby to connect the north hall to the CLC. The renovation included the construction of a lobby, library, main office, drama wing, athletic offices, locker rooms, and weight room. Supplementing this addition was the creation of the district's second high school, Prairie View High School.

Modulars, or "mods," have also been placed on the campus of the school since the 2000s to allow for extra class room. The numbers of mods has increased over the years in over to allow for more classroom space, but after the 2006 addition/renovation, the number decreased. As the city of Brighton continued to expand, another temporary modular was installed. There are currently five mods on school grounds, each containing two classrooms. They serve as the location for all math classes, as there is no other room in the other buildings.

Courses

Advanced Placement
The school participates in weighed grades for students taking Honors and/or Advanced Placement courses for the class of 2010 and beyond. For each Honors class, a student receives an additional 0.5 credit on their GPA for each class taken. Likewise, in an AP class, a student receives an additional 1.0 credit on their GPA for each class.

Extracurricular activities

Athletics
Brighton High School is a member of the 5A East Metro League of the Colorado High School Activities Association. The school offers a variety of sports for all three school seasons:

Fall
Cross-country
Football
Boys' golf
Boys' soccer
Girls' softball
Boys' tennis
Girls' volleyball

Winter
Boys' basketball
Girls' basketball
Girls' swimming/diving
Wrestling

Spring
Boys' baseball
Girls' golf
Lacrosse
Girls' soccer
Girls' tennis
Track & field
Boys' swimming/diving

All seasons
Cheerleading
Dance

Drama

In 2008, students who were part of the International Thespian Society at Brighton High School were chosen to perform their act, The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet, at the Colorado Thespian Conference and at the International Thespian Festival.

In 2018 the department was nominated for Best Overall Production (among 7 other nominations) at the Bobby G awards for their rendition of Once on This Island.

References

External links

Public high schools in Colorado
Schools in Adams County, Colorado


Amelia Cary, Viscountess Falkland (née FitzClarence; 21 March 1807 – 2 July 1858), was a British noblewoman. She was born the fifth illegitimate daughter of William IV of the United Kingdom (then Duke of Clarence and St Andrews) by his long-time mistress Dorothea Jordan. Amelia had four sisters and five brothers, all surnamed FitzClarence. Soon after their father became monarch, the FitzClarence children were raised to the ranks of younger children of a marquess. A granddaughter of George III, Amelia was named after her aunt Princess Amelia.

Family and early life
Amelia FitzClarence was the fifth daughter of Prince William, Duke of Clarence, by his long-time mistress, the famous comic actress Dorothea Jordan. Dorothea was the most successful actress of her day and continued to act on the stage during their relationship. Amelia had nine siblings from the relationship, four sisters and five brothers all surnamed FitzClarence. While circumstances prevented the couple from ever marrying, for twenty years William and Dorothea enjoyed domestic stability and were devoted to their children. In 1797, they moved from Clarence Lodge to Bushy House, residing at the Teddington residence until 1807. Amelia was born there.

Amelia's niece Wilhelmina would later write that Bushy was "a happy and beloved home" until it "came to end" upon Prince William's marriage to Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen in 1818. He and Dorothea had parted ways in December 1811 under a deed of separation, the debt-ridden duke desiring to secure a rich wife. Dorothea was granted £4,400 and the task of caring for their daughters; William was permitted to visit them until they turned thirteen. She left Bushy in January 1812. The money was not enough to cover her debts, however. Dorothea continued to act on the stage after his leaving. In 1815, she moved from London to Boulogne, France, to evade her creditors. On 5 July 1816, she died there alone. She had suffered from ill health and possessed little money, having squandered the bulk of it on her eldest daughter, Frances (fathered by another man).

William's new wife, Princess Adelaide, was gentle and loving to the FitzClarence children. In 1818, Amelia and her siblings were granted a pension of £500. In 1819, Baron Franz Ludwig von Bibra, a German man with knowledge of the classics and English, was engaged to tutor the two youngest FitzClarence daughters. He left in 1822, upon the completion of their education. In June 1830, the Duke of Clarence succeeded his brother George IV as King William IV. The following year, he made his eldest son, George, Earl of Munster, and had his issue by Jordan raised to the ranks of younger children of a marquess. With their father now monarch, the FitzClarences frequently attended court but their presence angered the Duchess of Kent, who felt that the FitzClarences would be a corrupting influence on her daughter, Princess Victoria. King William loved his children and was aggrieved at their treatment at the hands of the Duchess, who would leave the room whenever they entered.

Marriage and issue
She married Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland on 27 December 1830 at the Pavilion in Brighton. They had one son, Lucius William Charles Frederick Cary, Master of Falkland (24 November 1831 – 6 August 1871), who married Sarah Christiana Keighly (d. 4 October 1902). The couple lived at Rudby Hall, North Yorkshire.  Amelia died in London on 2 July 1858.

Legacy
 namesake of Falkland Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
 author of Chow-Chow: Being Selections from a Journal Kept in India, Egypt, and Syria

In popular culture
In 1841 Henry Russell dedicated the song The Pilgrim's Address to the Deity to Lady Falkland.

Ancestry

References

Works cited

1807 births
1858 deaths
19th-century British people
19th-century British women
Illegitimate children of William IV of the United Kingdom
Amelia
Daughters of British marquesses
Daughters of kings
Scottish viscountesses


Anjali (born 16 June 1986) is an Indian actress and model who appears in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. Following a stint in modelling, she was cast in starring roles in two Telugu productions; her debut film was the Telugu thriller film Photo (2006), before bagging a role and gaining attention in the film Kattradhu Thamizh (2007) with Jiiva. In 2010 and 2011, she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil, for her performances in Angaadi Theru and Engaeyum Eppothum respectively and the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Angadi Theru, subsequently becoming recognised as one of the "finest young actors" in Tamil cinema, and noted for mostly playing "performance-oriented roles".

In 2013, she returned to Telugu cinema and appeared in a string of successful films like Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu, Balupu, Masala, Geethanjali and Dictator. She also received two Nandi Awards for Best Actress for her performances in the films Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (2013) and Geethanjali (2014).

Early life
Anjali was born on 16 June 1986 in Razole, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. She has two brothers and a sister. She completed her schooling in Razole and later moved to Chennai where she continued her studies, pursuing a degree in mathematics. After completing her education, she began acting in short films, which paved the way for her entry into the film industry. Anjali remarked that her parents had aspirations to become an actor and that they "realised their dreams" through her.

Career

2006–2008: Debut and breakthrough

In 2002, Anjali was signed on to appear in director Kalanjiyam's Sathamintri Muthamidu under the screen name of Sundhari, but the film later failed to materialise. The director also began two other films with Anjali, Valiba Desam and En Kanavu Thaanadi, though those also failed to materialise. During one of her modelling assignments, she was spotted by director Siva Nageswara Rao, who offered her a starring role in his Telugu thriller film Photo (2006). Anjali portrayed a ghost haunting her murderers in Photo, which co-starred two more newcomers, Anand and Bhanu. She played the female lead in another Telugu venture, the romance film Premalekha Raasa (2007), directed by lyricist Kulasekhar, opposite a debutant again; both films garnered negative response, and performed poorly at the box office, failing to propel her career in Telugu cinema.

She made her Tamil film début later that year in Kattradhu Thamizh, directed by Ram, which released to strong critical acclaim. Anjali won critical praise for her portrayal of Anandhi, the childhood friend and love interest of a young teacher-turned-psychopath (enacted by Jeeva). A Behindwoods critic wrote that she was "a delight to watch and spellbinds the viewer with her beautiful fresh look and her performance", while Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff.com described her as "a breath of fresh air" and "the perfect foil to Jeeva's plethora of emotions". Her performance earned her the Vijay Award for Best Debut Actress for that year, and she grew in popularity, leading her to several more offers, albeit the film proved commercially unsuccessful.
She appeared in two films in 2008; Honganasu, her first Kannada project and Aayudham Seivom in Tamil. The latter, which featured her as the female lead opposite Sundar C, was panned by critics and she was criticised for accepting that role, with reviewers noting that she had nothing to do in the film, "except roll her eyes".

2010–2012: Critical acclaim
She next played Kani, a fiery, independent sales girl in a textile showroom in Angadi Theru (2010) which was released two years after her last venture. The Vasanthabalan-directed tragedy drama focussed on the lives of young employees who work in retail department stores. The film was shot in real location at the Ranganathan Street in T Nagar, Chennai with hidden cameras, with Anjali disclosing that they wore the uniform of a particular textile company, passing off as real sales-people and selling goods. Angadi Theru opened to rave reviews, whilst also fetching Anjali critical acclaim for her performance, which went on to win several accolades, including the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil. She subsequently appeared in two family drama films; S Pictures' Rettaisuzhi, in which she shared screen with veteran directors Bharathiraja and K Balachandar, and Magizhchi, co-starring and directed by Gowthaman. The latter released to favourable reviews, and Anjali received positive feedback on her performance, being labelled as "impressive", and "almost perfect as the young, a bit mischievous, village girl"; however both films failed to succeed at the box office.

In 2011, she first appeared in Payyans alongside Jayasurya, which marked her début in Malayalam cinema, followed by a lead female role in the Cloud Nine Movies-production Thoonga Nagaram, in which she starred as an anchor in local television, and a cameo appearance in a song in Ko that also featured other lead actors from Tamil cinema. She was then seen in the small-budget drama film Karungali, directed by Kalanjiyam. Kalanjiyam had signed up Anjali, rechristening her as Sundari then, for a film titled Sathamindri Muthamidu, even prior to Kattradhu Thamizh, followed by three more films, all of which were cancelled. Following her rise to fame post Angadi Theru, Kalanjiyam revived one of the projects, namely Karungali, with Anjali agreeing to be part of it, owing to her prior commitments. The film featured her as a childless housewife living in a bad relationship with her husband, and was a critical and commercial failure.
While starring in Thoonga Nagaram, she was offered a minor supporting role in another project of the production studio, Mankatha. The Ajith Kumar-starrer, directed by Venkat Prabhu, was Anjali's first high-budget project and featured her as part of an ensemble cast. The film emerged a financial success and Anjali's highest-grossing film in her career, however her role in the film was small and not well received generally. Meanwhile, she was cast by director AR Murugadoss to perform a lead role in his maiden production Engaeyum Eppothum alongside Jai, Sharwanand and Ananya, directed by his assistant M Saravanan. Anjali essayed the role of a bold and dominating nurse, with critics again heaping praise on her performance. The Hindu wrote that she "has given her best [and] steals the show in the climax", while Rediffs Pavithra Srinivasan cited it was she "who clearly walks away with the honours", adding that "the extent of her feelings emerges only at the end, and carries you away" and calling it a "noteworthy performance". She had her only starring role in 2012 in Sundar C's Kalakalappu. A critic from Deccan Chronicle wrote that "Anjali scores well with her natural performance".

2013–2014: Continued success

In 2013, she starred in the Telugu multi-starrer Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu along with Venkatesh, Mahesh Babu and Samantha. The film went on to be a critical and commercial success, with many applauses for Anjali from the critics. Mahalakshmi Prabhakaran of DNA India commented that Anjali "as the innocent Seetha...gives an easy breezy but endearing performance". She later starred in AR Murugadoss' next production venture Vathikuchi opposite Dhileban. The film received mixed reviews as did her performance. IndiaGlitz commented "Anjali's character though is sugary; it's a reminiscent of so many of her characters in the past and leaves you with a sense of wanting variation". Her next release was Settai, the Tamil remake of Delhi Belly, in which she starred opposite Arya. The film received mixed reviews, along with her performance. After an item number in Suriya's Singam II, her first in her career, she starred in two Telugu films, Gopichand Malineni's Balupu opposite Ravi Teja and Masala, the Telugu remake of Bol Bachchan, opposite Venkatesh, for the second time in her career. In 2014, she appeared in a horror comedy women-centric film titled Geethanjali for which she received Nandi Award for Best Actress, SICA Award for Best Telugu Actress.

2015–present: Brief setback and comeback
In early 2015, Anjali returned to Sandalwood and starred opposite Puneeth Rajkumar in Rana Vikrama. Her début film in Kannada was Honganasu seven years ago. She broke the seven-year hiatus with that film. In Tamil, she appeared opposite Jayam Ravi alongside Trisha, Soori in Sakalakala Vallavan. In Telugu, she played a special cameo role of a lady don in Sankarabharanam, a Telugu film which has Nikhil Siddhartha in lead. In 2016, her first release was in Telugu opposite Balayya Balakrishna titled Dictator which was declared a super-hit. Her role was well received by the audience. In Tamil, she starred in Karthik Subbaraj's Iraivi where her performance as the happy go lucky girl turned long suffering wife of Vijay Sethupathi gave her critical acclaim and audience appreciation. Though the film had an average return at the box office, she garned a nomination for Best Performance in a Leading Role- Female (Tamil) at the 2nd IIFA Utsavam.

Later, she signed a psycho action thriller Telugu film Chitrangada (2017). In December 2017, her film with Jai & Janani Iyer titled Balloon directed by newcomer Sinish had a moderate-average performance at the box office. She signed a Tamil film Peranbu (2019) opposite Mammootty directed by Ram, where her performance was overshadowed by Mammooty and Baby Sandhana. She acted in the horror flick, Lisaa (2019) as a lead character, which got below average reviews and collections. Anjali acted as lesbian in the web series Paava Kadhaigal (2020) directed by Vignesh Shivan. The next year she played the role Zarina in the film Vakeel Saab (2021), directed by Venu Sriram. The film was successful at the box-office, grossing over 137.65 crore worldwide, despite the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The film became her comeback success. Following the success, she signed up for a role in the film F3, produced by Sri Venkateswara Creations. However, she was replaced by Sonal Chauhan.

Filmography

Films

Music videos

Television

Awards and honours

References

External links

21st-century Indian actresses
Actresses from Andhra Pradesh
Actresses in Kannada cinema
Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Actresses in Tamil cinema
Actresses in Telugu cinema
Filmfare Awards South winners
Indian film actresses
Living people
People from East Godavari district
Telugu actresses
1986 births


Tajpur may refer to several places in India:

 Tajpur, West Bengal, a city in Purba Medinipur, West Bengal
 Tajpur, Bhongir mandal, a village in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, Telangana
 Tajpur, Dildarnagar, a village in Karanda, Uttar Pradesh
 Tajpur, Kapurthala, a village in Punjab
 Tajpur, Bihar, a block in Samastipur district, Bihar
 Tajpur Port, a proposed sea port in Tajpur, West Bengal
 Tajpur Union, a union council in Sylhet District, Bangladesh
 Tajpur, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India

See also
 Raja Ka Tajpur, a city in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh


USS McNulty (DE-581) was a Rudderow-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy during World War II.

Namesake
John Thomas McNulty was born on 23 April 1897 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the Navy on 14 August 1917 for World War I service, until discharged 7 August 1919. He reenlisted 15 July 1920 for the period to 10 July 1924, and after his third enlistment, 29 July 1924, served continuously until his death. Commissioned Ensign on 3 November 1941, he was promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade) on 15 June 1942. He was killed in action on the  during the Battle of Savo Island on 9 August 1942.

History
McNulty was laid down 17 November 1943 by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, Massachusetts; launched 8 January 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Helen K. McNulty; and commissioned 31 March 1944.

After shakedown off Bermuda, McNulty trained along the east coast until leaving Chesapeake Bay on escort duty with UGS‑46 to Bizerte, Tunisia. Her guns helped drive off an attacking German bomber 12 July 1944, and her convoy safely reached Bizerte 2 days later. Following another convoy mission to New York City, she made a similar crossing from Norfolk, Virginia to Tunisia to New York, then sailed with Cort Div 67 for the Pacific 3 November.

Arriving in Hollandia, New Guinea, 17 December, McNulty joined the 7th Fleet. Her first convoy escort mission was to Leyte, 19 December to 2 January 1945. In less than 24 hours she sortied with Task Group 78.9, the 2nd Lingayen Supply Group, and with it underwent a series of kamikaze attacks off Luzon 12 January 1945. Two merchantmen were damaged, and more than 100 soldiers aboard one of these were killed. McNulty safely reached Lingayen Gulf 13 January, then escorted ships back to Leyte, arriving 19 January.

McNulty patrolled off Luzon 29 January as the San Narciso Attack Force carried out the landings which spearheaded the drive to take Manila. She continued patrol and escort duty in the Philippines and to the Admiralties, New Guinea, and Okinawa under the operational control of the Philippines sea frontier until the close of the war.

McNulty sailed from Subic Bay 1 September to support occupation operations, first escorting Relief from Okinawa to Korea, then cruised the China coast before sailing for home from Okinawa 14 October.

She arrived San Diego 5 November, decommissioned there 2 July 1946, and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet, where she remained at least into 1969. She was finally sunk as a target on 16 November 1972 off the coast of California, using a fuel-air explosive bomb.

McNulty received two battle stars for World War II service.

See also
List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy

References

External links
Photo gallery at navsource.org

Rudderow-class destroyer escorts
1944 ships


A liquefied natural gas (LNG) spill can happen during an accident or an intentional act. LNG is normally stored and transported in liquid form at a temperature of approximately . If this cooled liquid is released from a storage facility, pipeline, or LNG transport ship, then it begins to warm. As LNG warms above its storage temperature, the liquid begins to vaporize. The resulting gas produced by this warming is typically methane, which is the major component (with some ethane) of natural gas and one of the most potent and hazardous greenhouse gases.

If a spill occurs and the vapor does not ignite, it would build to higher concentrations. At higher concentrations, the vaporized methane will cause an asphyxiation hazard to anyone exposed. If a spill or leak followed by a vaporization event were to occur in or near water, then water in contact with the spilled LNG can accelerate the vaporization process and increase the concentration of vapor in the immediate area. According to the 2004 Sandia report, this is of special concern to ship and pilot-boat crews, emergency response personnel or others who are exposed in a marine environment.

An ignition source close to the origin of the spill is likely to cause ignition and result in rapid burn off of natural gas vapors, rather than an explosion. No cargo explosions have ever been reported.

Footnotes

Liquefied natural gas


Senna gaudichaudii, also known by many common names, including kolomana in Hawaii and as blunt-leaved senna in Australia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to some Pacific Islands including Hawaii, parts of Southeast Asia and Queensland in Australia. It is shrub or small tree with pinnate leaves, usually with three to five pairs of oblong to egg-shaped leaflets, and yellow flowers arranged in groups of four to ten, with ten fertile stamens in each flower.

Description
Senna gaudichaudii is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of , sometimes a tree-top vine. Its new growth is sometimes covered with soft, golden-yellow hairs. The leaves are pinnate,  long on a petiole  long, usually with three to five pairs of oblong to egg-shaped leaflets, the narrower end towards the base. The leaflets are mostly  long and  wide, usually spaced  apart. There are up to three stalked glands between the lowest pairs of leaflets. The flowers are yellow and arranged in upper leaf axils in groups of four to ten on a peduncle  long, each flower on a pedicel  long. The petals are  long and there are ten fertile stamens, the anthers about  long. Flowering occurs from February to October in Australia, and the fruit is a flat pod  long, about  wide and slightly curved.

Taxonomy and naming
This species was first formally described in 1832 by William Jackson Hooker and George A. Walker Arnott, who gave it the name Cassia gaudichaudii in The Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage. In 1982, Howard Samuel Irwin and Rupert Charles Barneby transferred the species to the genus Senna as S. gaudichaudii in Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. The specific epithet (gaudichaudii) honours Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré.

This species is also known by the common names kolomana, kalamona, keuhiuhi, uhiuhi and heuhiuhi in Hawaii, and as climbing senna and Gaudichaud's senna in Australia.

Distribution and habitat
Senna gaudichaudii occurs in Fiji, Hawaii, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, the Maluku Islands, New Caledonia, Pitcairn Island, Queensland, the Society Islands, Tubuai and Vanuatu. In Hawaii, this species inhabits dry, sheltered locations on rocky slopes, and disturbed sites. It is found on all Hawaiian islands apart from Niihau and Kahoʻolawe, and from almost sea level to . In Australia, the species grows in forest and drier places in rainforest in coastal and subcoastal eastern Queensland and Cape York Peninsula.

References

gaudichaudii
Plants described in 1982
Flora of Fiji
Flora of Hawaii
Flora of New Caledonia
Flora of the Pitcairn Islands
Flora of Queensland
Flora of the Tubuai Islands
Flora of Vanuatu
Fabales of Australia
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


Frank Wilkinson Crowe (July 2, 1919 – April 29, 1987) was an American physician, who practiced Dermatology in Boise, Idaho. He was a world-renowned authority for the Crowe sign or Crowe's sign in neurofibromatosis which is the presence of axillary (armpit) freckling in people with neurofibromatosis type I (von Recklinghausen's disease). These freckles occur in up to 30% of people with the disease and their presence is one of seven diagnostic criteria for neurofibromatosis. Freckles can also be present in the intertriginous area in neurofibromatosis, such as the inguinal fold, submamillary areas and nape of the neck.

In 1956 Crowe et al. recognised the autosomal dominant heredity of neurofibromatosis and the use of 6 or more café au lait spots to diagnose the condition. In 1964 Crowe published work on the use of axillary freckling in its diagnosis, which is now referred to as the Crowe sign.

References

External links

American dermatologists
1919 births
1987 deaths
Physicians from Idaho


The white-dotted skate (Bathyraja albomaculata) is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae. It is found in the south-western Atlantic off the coast of Uruguay, Argentina and the Falkland Islands and uncommonly off Chile (Guamblin Island) in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean, at depths ranging from 55 to 861 metres. Males reach maturity at the age of about 11 years and females about 10 years. At maturity the total length of males is about 62.8 cm and females 65.3 cm. The oldest reported specimen was 17 years old. The maximum length has been estimated to be almost one metre. It is oviparous. Egg capsules are oblong having horned corners, the horns at the back end appear first and are longer, and thinner than the front ones. Capsules are barrel-shaped, quite smooth, yellow-brown when freshly laid, but they get darker. Egg laying has been observed year-round, but most frequently in autumn and winter.  The animal eats mainly benthopelagic gammarids and polychaetes and also isopods.  Juvenile white-dotted skates eat mostly gammarid amphipods, while adults eat mostly polychaetes.

References

white-dotted skate
Fish of Argentina
Fish of Uruguay
Fish of Chile
Taxa named by John Roxborough Norman
Southeastern South American coastal fauna
white-dotted skate


The German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat, WR) is an advisory body to the German Federal Government and the federal state governments. It makes recommendations on the development of science, research, and the universities, as well as on the competitiveness of German science. These recommendations involve both quantitative and financial considerations, as well as their implementation. Funding is provided by the federal and state governments.

The Science and Humanities Council's Scientific Commission has 32 members appointed by the Federal President. Twenty-four scientists are jointly proposed by the German Research Foundation, the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, the German Rectors' Conference,  the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, the Fraunhofer Society, and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community. Another eight persons of high public standing are jointly proposed by the Federal Government and the federal state governments.

Presidents
Presidents (Vorsitzender) of the organization:

 1958–1961 – Helmut Coing
 1961–1965 – Ludwig Raiser
 1965–1969 – Hans Leussink
 1969–1972 – Reimar Lüst
 1972–1976 – Theodor Heidhues
 1976–1979 – Wilhelm A. Kewenig
 1979–1982 – Andreas Heldrich
 1982–1985 – Hans-Jürgen Engell
 1985–1987 – Heinz Heckhausen
 1987–1989 – Kurt Kochsiek
 1989-1993– Dieter Simon
 1993–1994 – Gerhard Neuweiler
 1994–1996 – Karl-Heinz Hoffmann
 1996–1998 – Dagmar Schipanski
 1998–2001 – Winfried Schulze
 2001–2006 – Karl Max Einhäupl
 2006–2011 – Peter Strohschneider
 2011–2014 – Wolfgang Marquardt
 2014–2017 – Manfred Prenzel
 2017–2020 – Martina Brockmeier
 2020–present – Dorothea Wagner

Notes

See also
Educational accreditation in Germany

External links
German Science and Humanities Council

Humanities organizations
Arts organisations based in Germany
Scientific organisations based in Germany
Arts organizations established in 1957
Science policy in Germany
Scientific organizations established in 1957
1957 establishments in West Germany


Johan Nordal Fischer Wille (28 October 1858 – 4 February 1924) was a Norwegian botanist. He was a professor at the Royal Frederick University from 1893 to his death, founded the laboratory at the University Botanical Garden and co-founded the Natural History Museum.

Personal life
Wille was born in Hobøl as the son of physician Hans Georg Wille (1803–1879) and his wife Ingeborg Fischer (1811–1875). He was a grandnephew of priest and writer Hans Jacob Wille.

He married three times. The first marriage with Anne Koller, a daughter of Carl Theodor Fredrik Koller, lasted from September 1891 to her death in March 1908. During this period he was a brother-in-law of Rasmus Meyer and Gustav Guldberg, who were married to two of Anne's sisters. The second marriage with Ragna Margrethe Knudsen lasted from September 1911 to her death in July 1917, and finally he married Swedish-born school teacher Ester Victoria Svensson in October 1918.

Career
Wille grew up in Hobøl, but eventually moved to Kristiania to take his education. He embarked on an education as a teacher of natural sciences, but became increasingly interested in algae, a field in which there was no adequate education available in Norway. He studied plant morphology, plant anatomy and plant physiology in different European countries, and conducted several field studies. He was a lecturer at the Swedish Museum of Natural History and the Stockholm University between 1883 and 1889. He moved to the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1889.

In 1893 he was given a newly established professor position at the Royal Frederick University, which also gave him responsibility over the University Botanical Garden at Tøyen. In addition, Wille moved to Tøyen. In 1895 he founded a laboratory there. The founding of the laboratory promoted research among students, which would become important to several later researchers, including Wille's lab assistant from 1894 Haaken Hasberg Gran and, in turn, Gran's assistant Trygve Braarud.

After the death of professor Axel Blytt in 1898, Wille was also given responsibility of the Botanical Museum. The collections of natural history items were located at the university campus in downtown Kristiania, but this locality had become too small. Together with Waldemar Christofer Brøgger, Wille was instrumental in moving the natural history collections to new localities at Tøyen. This was the foundation of the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo. Later, a larger expansion of the university as a whole became necessary. The locality in downtown Kristiania provided little room for spreading out, so a more peripheral location was debated. Wille lobbied for Tøyen, but the site at Blindern further west was chosen. According to the encyclopedia Norsk biografisk leksikon, Wille became "bitter" due to this decision.

Wille was also involved in politics, serving as the Conservative Party chairman of the local chapter in Grünerløkken from 1911 to 1913. He subscribed to the idea of philanthropy.

He was a Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and a Commander, Second Class of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star. He died in Kristiania in 1924, one year before the name of the city was changed to Oslo.

References

1858 births
1924 deaths
20th-century Norwegian botanists
Norwegian phycologists
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Commanders of the Order of the Polar Star
People from Hobøl
19th-century Norwegian botanists
Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala


The M31 motorway () is a motorway in Hungary, that runs between the M0 motorway at Nagytarcsa and the M3 motorway at Gödöllő.

Municipalities
The M31 motorway runs through the following municipalities:
 Pest County: Budapest, Nagytarcsa, Kistarcsa, Kerepes, Gödöllő, Mogyoród

Openings timeline
Nagytarcsa; M0 – Gödöllő; M3 (44 km): 2010.07.26.

Junctions, exits and rest area

 The route is full length motorway, this route is part of Budapest bypass. The maximum speed limit is 110km/h.

See also

 Roads in Hungary
 Transport in Hungary
 International E-road network

References

External links

National Toll Payment Services Plc. (in Hungarian, some information also in English)
National Infrastructure Developer Ltd. (in Hungarian)
Exit list of M31 in motorways-exits.com

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Harry Powell may refer to:

 Preacher Harry Powell, a fictional character in Davis Grubb's 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter
 Harry Powell (footballer) (1878–1930), Australian rules footballer
 Harry James Powell (1853–1922), British glassmaker
 Harry Powell (cricketer), Welsh cricketer
 Harry Powell (bowls), English lawn bowler

See also
Henry Powell (disambiguation)
Harold Powell (disambiguation)


The Biblioteca Estense (Estense Library), was the family library of the marquises and dukes of the House of Este. The exact date of the library's birth is still under speculation, however it is known for certain that the library was in use during the fourteenth century. Whilst it was greatly enriched during the Renaissance years in Ferrara, the library was concretely established in Modena in the beginning of the seventeenth century. It is known as one of the most important libraries in Italy. The library is located, along with the Galleria Estense directly below its collection of artworks, in the Palazzo dei Musei (Piazza Sant'Agostino 337) in Modena.

History
On the ascension of the Marquis Niccolò III d'Este to the Ferrarese duchy in 1393, he inherited an important humanistic library, rich in works of literary, historical and artistic content. Its collection grew considerably during the Renaissance period with manuscripts and printed editions considered today to be of fundamental value, thanks to the refined and attentive patronage of the Este dukes. In 1598, the Library followed the dynasty when the capital was transferred from Ferrara to Modena.

In the following centuries, the Estense Library continued to be enriched with local and international works, funded by the acquisitions of suppressed religious institutions as well as enriched by the elevated tastes of famous librarians Ludovico Antonio Muratori and Girolamo Tiraboschi. After the Unification of Italy, the Estense Library merged with the University Library, which brought with it an important collection of philosophical, juridical and scientific texts. Thus was born the Estense University Library, considered today as a modern institute of national interest.

Collection

Today the Library's collection contains more than 500,000 printed works, about 11,000 codexes, more than 100,000 manuscript leaves, and 1,662 incunabula. Among the manuscripts, the most famous is the 1,200-page Bible of Borso d'Este, extensively bordered with miniatures. The relic would be recovered and returned to Modena following the First World War. Bought at an auction, it was gifted to Italy on behalf of Senator Giovanni Treccani. The Bible is today excluded from public view for reasons of conservation, a 1963 replica now takes its place in the Biblioteca Estense.

The library holds many medieval manuscripts, among them biblical manuscripts: Codex Mutinensis, Minuscule 358, 359, 585, 586, 618, ℓ 111.

Also known worldwide is its collection of musical manuscripts and printed books, the Raccolta musicale estense.

Some manuscripts

 Biblia Borsi Estensis
 Codex Mutinensis
 Codex de sphaera
Mutinensis gr. 122
 Minuscule 585
 Minuscule 586
 Minuscule 358
 Minuscule 359
 Minuscule 618
 Lectionary 111

References

Related entries
 Gallerie Estensi
 Borso d'Este
 Galleria Estense
House of Este

Further reading
 Giulio Bertoni, La Biblioteca Estense, Torino 1903
 Archivi di biblioteche: per la storia delle biblioteche pubbliche statali, Roma: Ed. di storia e letteratura, 2002

External links
 Biblioteca Estense official website. Mid-resolution PDF's of some manuscripts and printed books can be downloaded for free from the Immagini (Images) section
 Direttori della Biblioteca Estense di Modena, with links to biographical sources
 Biblioteca Estense images
 Biblioteca Estense: sei secoli di storia at the mediateca2000

Libraries in Ferrara
Buildings and structures in Modena
House of Este
Education in Emilia-Romagna


Silvia Treimer (born 29 March 1970) is a German ski mountaineer.

Treimer was born in Berchtesgaden and lives in Rosenheim. She is married to the mountain guide Christian Treimer with one daughter named Anna, and works as judicial officer in Rosenheim.

Selected results
 2003:
 3rd, European Cup team
 5th, European Championship team race (together with Christine Echtler-Schleich)
 2004:
 3rd, European Cup team
 9th, World Championship team race (together with Christine Echtler-Schleich)
 10th, World Championship combination ranking
 2005:
 3rd, European Championship relay race (together with Judith Graßl and Barbara Gruber)
 3rd, Mountain Attack race
 9th, European Championship team race (together with Christine Echtler-Schleich)
 2006:
 4th, World Championship relay race (together with Judith Graßl, Barbara Gruber and Stefanie Koch)
 10th, World Championship team race (together with Christine Echtler-Schleich)
 2007:
 2nd, German Championship team
 3rd, Trofeo Mezzalama (together with Judith Graßl and Stefanie Koch)
 3rd, Mountain Attack race
 4th, European Championship relay race (together with Judith Graßl and Stefanie Koch)

Patrouille des Glaciers

 2006: 3rd, together with Judith Graßl and Stefanie Koch
 2008: 4th, together with Judith Graßl and Silvia Treimer

External links
 Silvia Treimer at skimountaineering.com

References

1970 births
Living people
German female ski mountaineers
Sportspeople from Berchtesgaden
Skiers from Upper Bavaria


John Allen (born 24 April 1955) is an English former footballer who played for Hinckley Athletic, Leicester City, Port Vale, and Hinckley Athletic.

Career
Allen played for Hinckley Athletic and Leicester City, before joining Fourth Division side Port Vale in May 1980. He earned a first team place for the start of the 1980–81 season, and scored his first goal in the Football League on 20 September, in a 4–2 win over Darlington at Vale Park. He later claimed goals in home victories over Stockport County, Tranmere Rovers, and Southend United, but lost his place in November 1980 and was given a free transfer in April 1981 after making 18 league and two League Cup appearances for John McGrath's "Valiants".

Career statistics
Source:

References

1955 births
Living people
Footballers from Coventry
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Hinckley United F.C. players
Leicester City F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
English Football League players


Samakhiali is a town in Kutch District of Gujarat, India.

Geography
It is located at  at an elevation of 69 m above MSL. The area of the village is .

Location
National Highway 41 starts from Samakhiyali and terminates at Narayan Sarovar. The nearest airport is Bhuj Airport. Kandla airport is to nearest from samakhiali. There is a railway station. Samkhiyali is an entrance of Kutch.

References

External links
 About Samakhiali
 Satellite map of Samakhiali

Cities and towns in Kutch district