The following is a list of notable Sindhi people who have origins in the Sindh province.

Businesspeople

Educationalists

Entertainment industry

Indian

Pakistani
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 Anwer Solangi
 Ayaz Samoo
 Atiqa Odho
 Fahad Mustafa
 Fatima Effendi
 Fazila Kaiser
 Ghazala Rafique
 Gulab Chandio
 Hayat Ali Shah Bukhari
 Hiba Bukhari
 Iqbal Theba
 Iqra Aziz
 Kumail Nanjiani
 Mansha Pasha
 Mustafa Qureshi
 Mushtaque Changezi
 Noor Bano
 Paras Masroor
 Roshan Atta
 Sabreen Hisbani
 Sakina Samo
 Salahuddin Tunio
 Sanam Baloch
 Shafi Muhammad Shah
 Shah Asad
 Sheheryar Munawar
 Syed Saleh Muhammad Shah
 Sohai Ali Abro
 Sonya Hussyn
 Uroosa Qureshi
 Yasir Nawaz

Historical personalities

Journalists

 Murtaza Solangi

Law and judiciary

Military

Pakistan

India

Poets

Politicians and civil servants

Religious leaders and scholars

Science, medicine and technology

Singers

Social activists

Sportspeople

Writers
Hari Kant Jethwani

Others

See also
 List of Sindhi-language films
 Sindhi languages
 List of Sindhi-language newspapers
 List of Sindhi-language television channels
 Sindhi-language media
 List of Sindhi festivals
 Sindhi Americans#Notable people

History of Sindh
Sindhi


Mikhail Vasilyevich Mishchenko (; born 27 June 1989) is a Russian professional footballer.

Career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League on 15 March 2009 in a game against PFC Spartak Nalchik. In 2010, he was loaned out to FK Ventspils in Latvia, but played only 6 matches there, returning to FC Rubin Kazan after the end of the season.

On 18 February 2020, FC Taraz announced the signing of Mishchenko. He left the club again in January 2021.

References

External links

1989 births
People from Udmurtia
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Russian expatriate men's footballers
Russia men's youth international footballers
Russia men's under-21 international footballers
Men's association football defenders
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia
Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus
Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan
Russian Premier League players
Kazakhstan Premier League players
FC Rubin Kazan players
FC Akhmat Grozny players
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players
FK Ventspils players
FC Torpedo Moscow players
FC Angusht Nazran players
FC Sokol Saratov players
FC Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk players
FC Tosno players
FC Luch Vladivostok players
FC Sibir Novosibirsk players
FC Tambov players
FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino players
FC Taraz players
FC Kaisar players
Sportspeople from Udmurtia
FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk players


Carlos M. Jarque Uribe (born October 18, 1954 in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist, currently Executive Director of América Móvil and Board Member of the Leading Global Group in Citizen Services FCC (Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas). He has had a distinguished career in the private sector, in public service (national and multilateral) and in the academic world.

Education
Jarque has a degree in Actuarial Sciences from Anahuac University in México City. He has a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics and a Masters in Econometrics M.Sc. from the London School of Economics; Postgraduate Certificate in Economic Policy and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Oslo; Doctorate in Economics (Ph. D) from the Australian National University; and a Postdoctoral in Economics from Harvard University.

Publications and research
Jarque has published over 130 articles  and has provided prefaces for 44 books.  He is well known for his work in model specification tests (including the Jarque - Bera test statistic), and for his methods on optimum stratification. His research on Consumption and Saving Patterns using Limited Dependent Variable Models, have been pioneering ... his Quarterly Econometric Model with Rational Expectations (with P. Aspe) allowed to efficiently forecast economic cycles ... and his work on Cluster Analysis has ample use in the elaboration of Atlases of Wellbeing and Development.

His econometric tests for Normality, Homoscedasticity, Serial Independence and Specification of Models are in textbooks, are taught in multiple university careers and they are incorporated in many computer programs. This allows for better studies of causality in economics and in the social sciences. Many generations of researchers around the world have been trained on the use of these econometric procedures.

He has also written about economic and social policies and strategies,  and about the Diplomacy of the Summits of Heads of State. He has taught at the Faculty of Economics of the Australian National University, and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University teaching in its Doctorate program in Economics.

Career

Mexican civil service
Jarque began his career in business administration as manager of economic studies of the Mexican Telephone Corporation in 1982, in charge of planning and economic and financial scenarios. He was then Chief Statistician of Mexico responsible for the direction of the economic and social statistical information systems of the country.

For almost eleven years, Jarque was president of the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI) of Mexico, the autonomous government entity charged with integration of the information system of Mexico. During his tenure, he directed the design and implementation of a vast program that modernized the National Geographic and Statistical Information System, making it one of the most advanced in the world, to support, among other tasks, the fight against poverty, economic and social development, urban and regional planning, and the infrastructure programs of the country. He coordinated eight national censuses (economic, agricultural, population and housing) hiring more than one million people for the task. Carlos M. Jarque also directed short term statistics (GDP, trade balance, inequality, productivity, unemployment, investment, etc.) and information on the environment, also, a pioneering project worldwide, the ecological GDP of Mexico. He also directed an unprecedented Land Titling Program, elaborating a detailed cadaster at parcel level, in order to assign in ownership (title in property) half of the territory of Mexico (102 million hectares) to poor people. He was the Y2K coordinator for the computer conversion of Mexico and responsible for the First Informatics Development Program in Mexico.

He was president of the Inter-Ministerial Committee of Information for Monitoring Public Finances, established with vice ministers of the Treasury, Programming and the Budget, Comptroller´s Office and the Central Bank, to lower the public sector deficit which was extremely high in relation to GDP.
He was secretary of the National Development Plan of Mexico for the period 1995–2000, made through a broad public consultation and which constituted the Government Program of President Ernesto Zedillo.

He also held the position of Minister of Social Development (SEDESOL), where he remained until the end of the Government in December 2000. In this position he directed a wide range of social programs (including those for poverty alleviation) and the initiatives for housing, microcredit, urban and regional development and territorial planning, managing budget lines of support to States and Municipalities. In this position he also coordinated the response to the catastrophic effects of natural disasters. He attended plenary sessions of the Congress of the Union (Chamber of Deputies and Chamber of Senators) for hearings on the social policy of the Government of the Republic.

Business and banking
He was director of the Sustainable Development Department (2001–2005), of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the main multilateral source of financing for development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In this position, he was responsible for the definition of sectoral policies and development strategies of the IDB.

He was secretary of the IDB (2005–2007), in charge of the institutional governance of the Bank and of the relationship with the Board of Governors (Ministers of Finance, Economy and Development of the 48 member countries of the IDB). As secretary he oversaw the approval of all operations of the IDB, including 11 billion dollars a year in loans, the 70% increase in the Bank's capital, and its realignment and restructuring program. He supported, through the Secretariat, the debt relief program HIPC of the most indebted poor countries (4,400 million dollars) directly benefiting more than 30 million people in what was possibly one of the main acts of international solidarity towards the highly indebted and poorest countries of LAC (Bolivia, Haiti, Honduras, Guyana and Nicaragua). At the IDB Group, he was also Secretary of the Inter-American Investment Corporation and Secretary of the Multilateral Investment Fund, an innovation laboratory for development.

From 2008 to March 2013, he was IDB Representative in Europe and Principal Adviser to the President, promoting, among other tasks, the investment and mobilization of resources between Europe and LAC, mainly in the areas of water, energy, infrastructure, urban development, transport and sustainable cities. During his tenure and with an efficient team, the development cooperation resources mobilized from Europe to the Latin American and Caribbean region through the IDB were multiplied by a factor of 20. During his 12 years at the Bank he was Sherpa of the IDB for the Summits of Heads of State, and attended the Summits of the Americas, CELAC, European Union-LAC, Ibero-American, Alliance of the Pacific and APEC Summits. He established the Permanent Secretariat of the European Union-LAC Business Summits and the IDB Office for Europe in Madrid, inaugurated by the President of Spain.

From April 2013 to August 2015, he was executive director at America Movil, in charge of corporate, government and international relations, supporting the interaction with the governments, international agencies and the relationship with the CEOs of the countries.

From August 2015 to September 2017 he was first executive and CEO of the FCC Group with global headquarters in Madrid, Spain. FCC is the parent company of one of the first and most important global Citizen Services groups that contributes to the welfare and sustainable progress of society. FCC is present in the environmental services sector, integrated water management and in infrastructure, with more than 115 years of history. It has activities in 35 countries, where it employs more than 60,000 people and provides daily services to 130 million people.

Organisation affiliations
Jarque has been the only non-European to hold the position of director of the International Statistical Institute (ISI, World Statistical Academy) with headquarters in The Netherlands.

Jarque has been president of the United Nations Statistical Commission, a global authority for the definition, approval and implementation of Methodologies to measure the economic phenomena (GDP, trade balance, capital account) and the social spheres (poverty, migration, education, employment, mortality). He participated in the definition, measurement and follow up of the Millennium Development Goals of the UN, human development objectives adopted by 189 countries.
He has held the position of secretary and director of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability; International Association for Statistical Education; International Association for Statistical Computing; International Association for Rural and Urban Statistics; International Association of Survey Statisticians; and the International Association for Official Statistics.
Since September 13, 2017, Jarque is a member of the board of FCC, Realia and Cementos Portland and member of the board of the Telekom Austria Group.

He is a member of the Broadband Commission, created at the initiative of the secretary general of the UN, made up of the presidents of the main telecommunications companies, telecommunications ministers, regulators, academics and representatives of civil society. The Secretariat is exercised by the secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union and the director general of UNESCO.
He has also been a member of the “Consejo Superior” of the Network of Anahuac Universities, and of the board of directors of the National Institute of Public Administration of Mexico. He has been a member of the Intersecretarial Expenditure – Financing Commission, National Commission of Foreign Investments, Commission for Cooperation of Productive Sectors, Council of the National Indigenous Institute and of the National Fund of Social Enterprises. Since 2012 he has participated in the World Economic Forum and is a member of the Advisory Council BIAC of the OECD.

Awards
He has received the Honoris Causa Doctorate from Anahuac University; the Adolphe Quetelet Medal from the World Academy of Statisticians; the Henri Willem Methorst Medal; the Benito Juárez Medal (given by the president of Mexico); the Mahalanobis Prize (world distinction in the field of Statistics); Prize "Ricardo Flores Magón" for support to Freedom of the Press and of Expression; Prize 2017 Master of GOLD of the Royal Forum of Top Business Executives (forum that includes high executives of Ibero America, President of Honor King D. Juan Carlos I of Spain).

See also
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas
Inter-American Development Bank
Jarque–Bera test, a statistical test named after Carlos Jarque and Anil K. Bera

References

External links
Fomento de Contratas y Construcciones
Official website

Living people
Mexican economists
Harvard University alumni
Mexican Secretaries of Social Development
Mexican chief executives
Alumni of the London School of Economics
1954 births
People from Mexico City


Cole Harbour  is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in  Guysborough County.

Origins of Cole Harbour, Guysborough County

The first known name for Cole Harbour was Wonpaak, meaning "place of still water" in Mi'kmaq. While it is uncertain when or for whom it was named, Cole Harbour was first settled in 1817 by George Tanner and William West. George Tanner of Lunenburg married widow Mary (Rhynold) Myers of Peas Brook on December 5, 1814 and moved to Cole Harbour in 1817 where they were later joined by her sisters Ann (Mrs. James Harrington) and Elizabeth (Mrs. Louis Uloth). These three pioneer women of Cole Harbour died within a month of each other in 1870, all over eighty years of age. While little record of William West has been found, he deserves to share the honour of being a founding father along with George Tanner.

Like Tor Bay, Whitehead, Country Harbour, etc., the name Cole Harbour seems to be older than the settlement. Dr. A.C. Jost suggests it may have been named for Captain Cole of the sloop William which was captured in the vicinity by a Spanish privateer in 1719. Another theory is that it was named for an early fisherman who based his operation here.

While Cole Harbour, Guysborough County is often confused with Cole Harbour near Halifax, this may not have always been the case. Plan #55a in the Crown Land Office in Halifax shows Guysborough County's Cole Harbour as Coal Harbour, suggesting the name could have originally been Coal instead of Cole. It may be possible provincial authorities were trying to change its name so as not to confuse the two Cole Harbours. Map #55a also shows George Tanner's original land grant with the notation "Geo Tanner & others". These others may have been Jasper Grover who received a land grant here in 1856, William Myers in 1859 and James Munroe in 1860.

Cole Harbour appears on the Des Barres Atlantic Neptune Map (done in the late 1760s) as Durham Inlet.  Des Barres was in the habit of naming places for those in high office, probably hoping to gain favour. So the use of this name does not necessarily mean it was not named Cole or Coal Harbour at this date.

Research by Jamie Grant, Mark Haynes and Eric Emery
Source material: 	A.C. Jost, Guysborough Sketches and Essays
			Harriet Hart, History of Guysborough County
			C. Bruce Fergusson, Place Names of Nova Scotia
			Crown Land Office map #55a

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


KVUJ may refer to:

 KVUJ (FM), a radio station (91.1 FM) licensed to serve Lake Jackson, Texas, United States
 the ICAO code for Stanly County Airport


Vinny Lingham (born Vinodan Lingham) is a South African-born American Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder & CEO of an identity protection and management startup based in California called Civic.  He was also previously the founder and CEO of Gyft & Yola, Inc. He is also the co-founder of SiliconCape, an NGO based in South Africa that aims to turn Cape Town into a technology hub.

Entrepreneurship
In 2003, Lingham founded incuBeta, an investment holding company that engages in the ownership, management, and support of online marketing companies in various stages of development, with offices in the US, UK and Cape Town.  Also in 2003, Lingham founded Clicks2Customers, a subsidiary of incuBeta that provides search engine marketing software and services. Lingham served as the CEO of both companies.

In 2007, Lingham founded Yola, a proprietary web development platform for individuals, small businesses and organizations.  To date, Yola has received over $25 million in funding from Johann Rupert's Reinet Fund.

Vinny Lingham is the co-founder of the Silicon Cape Initiative, a South African-based organization which aims to turn the Western Cape into a high-tech startup hub. He is also the co-founder of the investment fund Newtown Partners, through which Lingham has led early stage investments into successful and notable startups including Sweep South and Augmentors.

Lingham was selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2006 and a Young Global Leader in 2009 with the World Economic Forum. Endeavor is a global non-profit that selects and supports high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

In 2012, Lingham started Gyft, a mobile gift card company, with the backing of Google Ventures. In two years, Gyft became the leading service in the mobile gift card space and was acquired by First Data Corporation in 2014 for more than US$54m.

In 2015, Lingham founded Civic, a startup that encrypts identity information on the blockchain. Civic raised in excess of US$33m in funding during its Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in June 2017.

From 2014 to 2016, Lingham was one of the investors, or "dragons", on South Africa's Dragons' Den reality TV series. Starting in 2016, he is one of the "sharks" on the follow-up to Dragons' Den, Shark Tank South Africa. In 2017, Lingham was also an "Angel" on National Geographic's not-for-profit program Undercover Angel. Lingham is also the co-author of "I'm In: Essential Advice for Entrepreneurs".

In the summer of 2020, Lingham co-founded Waitroom, a host-led livestreaming and video meeting platform that will allow one-on-one engagement between hosts and their audiences.

Awards
Lingham's industry accolades include:
 Top 500 CEO's in the World, 2015
 World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders, 2009
 Endeavor High Impact Entrepreneur, 2006
 Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa Award, 2006

References

External links
 Vinny Lingham’s personal weblog
 Civic’s Web site
 TechCrunch Article
 Endeavor Profile: Vinny Lingham

South African businesspeople
1979 births
Living people
Gordon Institute of Business Science alumni
University of Cape Town alumni
Technology company founders
South African chief executives
Chief executives in the technology industry
South African company founders
Directors of Yahoo!
People associated with Bitcoin


Seal Harbour is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Guysborough County. Located on the east side of Isaac's Harbour, it was named for the abundance of seals once found there. Founded as a fishing settlement, it became a gold mining community with the initial discovery in the area in 1867, with further discoveries in 1892. Gold mining near Seal Harbour peaked in 1904–1907. The mines briefly reopened from 1939 to 1942 and then closed, leaving fishing and lumbering as the main industries. Some gold exploration is still carried out in the area by the Orex Exploration company.

The harbour faces the nearby Country Island, the location of several shipwrecks, most notably the pirate ship Saladin, a British barque with a cargo of silver which ran aground and sank on Country Island after it was seized in a bloody mutiny in 1844.

References
Bethany Keddy, Where seagulls soared: memories of the way we were in Seal Harbour, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, coordinated by Kay (Langley) Keddy; directed by Rev. Gary Manthorne. Victoria, B.C.: Pleasant Memories Cookbook Company (1998).
Nova Scotia Archives: Place Names of Nova Scotia, "Seal Harbour, Guysborough"

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


Zaur Umarovich Sadayev (; born 6 November 1989) is a Russian former professional footballer of Chechen origin.

Club career
He made his debut with FC Terek Grozny in the Russian Premier League in 2008.

On 30 January 2013, he was transferred to the Israeli Beitar Jerusalem along with Dzhabrail Kadiyev, both Muslims. On 3 March, Sadayev scored his first goal for Beitar during a league game against Maccabi Netanya, prompting hundreds of the team's fans to leave the stadium. Also it was his first and last goal for Beitar Jerusalem. So he made 7 appearances and scored 1 goal.

On 31 January 2019, he joined Turkish club Ankaragücü on loan until the end of the 2018–19 season. On 16 July 2019, he returned to Ankaragücü, signing a one-year contract. He left the club in March 2020.

In August 2021, Sadayev joined Russian club FC Aluston-YBK.

Career statistics

Honours

Club
Lech Poznań
 Ekstraklasa: 2014–15

References

External links

 Profile on the FC Terek Grozny site

1989 births
People from Shalinsky District, Chechnya
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Russian expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Russia men's youth international footballers
Russia men's B international footballers
FC Akhmat Grozny players
Russian people of Chechen descent
Beitar Jerusalem F.C. players
Lechia Gdańsk players
Lechia Gdańsk II players
Lech Poznań players
MKE Ankaragücü footballers
Russian Premier League players
Israeli Premier League players
Ekstraklasa players
III liga players
Süper Lig players
Expatriate men's footballers in Israel
Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Israel
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Russian Muslims
Sportspeople from Chechnya


Jane Vandenburgh (born 1948) is an American novelist and memoirist.

Biography
A fifth-generation Californian, she was born in Berkeley and grew up in Redondo Beach and in the San Fernando Valley. She holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from California State University Long Beach (1971) and a master's degree (1978) in English literature with a specialization in creative writing from San Francisco State University. The title story of her master's thesis, The Salisbury Court Reporter, won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for fiction in 1981. Her publisher is Counterpoint Press.

Vandenburgh is the author of two novels, Failure to Zig-Zag (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1989), The Physics of Sunset (Pantheon 1999), and two books of memoir, A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century (Counterpoint 2009) and The Wrong Dog Dream: A True Romance(Counterpoint, 2013), which is an intense parallel narrative of dog ownership and a new marriage while living in Washington, DC.

Vandenburgh's book on the craft of fiction, The Architecture of the Novel: A Writer's Handbook (Counterpoint 2010) is a philosophical exploration of the structural elements of long-form fiction, with an introduction by writer Anne Lamott. Once a recipient of the Mildred Sherrod Bissinger Memorial Endowed Fellowship,  Vandenburgh now teaches a yearlong course in the book length narrative through the Djerassi Artists Residency program in Woodside, California, as well as an annual workshop at Fishtrap: Writing and the West in Oregon.
Vandenburgh has taught in graduate programs of literature and creative writing at University of California, Davis, Georgetown and the George Washington universities in Washington, DC, and served as Distinguished Writer in Residence at St. Mary's College, in Moraga, California. Since the late 1970s Vandenburgh has worked as a developmental editor for such publishers as San Francisco-based Chronicle Books, Counterpoint Press and for the Book Club of California.

A regular columnist for The Huffington Post, Vandenburgh published there an open letter to Robert B. Silvers, long-time editor of the New York Review of Books, describing the long tradition of strong support that she and other literary women have shown that publication, but questioning the preponderance of males in its reviewer roster and its review subjects.

Vandenburgh is the mother of two children from a previous marriage, Eva Zimmerman and Noah Zimmerman. She is married to Jack Shoemaker, Editorial Director and Vice-President at Counterpoint Press in a Berkeley, California, longtime publisher of Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry, among many other writers. They live in Point Richmond, California. In 1999, Vandenburgh was the Washington, D.C. coordinator of the Million Mom March, a public demonstration to raise public awareness about the need for stricter gun control in the U.S.

References

External links
 Jane Vandenburgh author website
 Counterpoint Press
 Jane Vandenburgh Huffington Post blog
 A Woman’s Life So Far: Kissing and Telling Without Blush or Reservation
 Graphic Review by Alison Bechdel of Vandenburgh's memoir,  A Pocket History of Sex in the 20th Century
 Interview with Jane Vandenburgh
 Guest blog post, "When We Fell in Love" at Three Guys, One Book blog
 "When Grace at the Bliss Cafe Calls," New Yorker, Jan. 11, 2016..

1948 births
Living people
20th-century American novelists
American women novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women
Memoirists from California


Marie Joseph is a small fishing community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipality of the District of Saint Mary's in Guysborough County. Marie Joseph Provincial Park is located in the community.

References
Marie Joseph on Destination Nova Scotia

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


Thomas Barkley Raikes (16 December 1902 – 2 March 1984) was an Indian-born English cricketer who played 38 first-class games for Oxford University in the 1920s. He also played minor counties cricket for Norfolk County Cricket Club.

He was educated at Winchester College, and in 1921 had a particularly fine year: he captained the side, topped the bowling averages and was second in the batting averages. In July against Charterhouse, he scored 94 and then took 8/14, no runs at all being conceded by him until he had taken all eight wickets.
After going up to Trinity College, Oxford, and taking 5/5 in the (non-first-class) Freshmen's match, Raikes was brought into the full university side.

Wisden considered that "[a]t this point it seemed that he might well take his place among the leading bowlers of the day", but although he had a good 1923 season, he never lived up to this early promise as he put on weight, having found "the pleasure of life at Oxford too alluring".
He did, however, turn in an excellent performance against the Army in 1924, taking 13 wickets in the match.
Neither his match figures of 13/80 nor his second-innings return of 9/38 have been beaten since (as of 2009) by an Oxford bowler.

In June 1922, during Oxford's match against Surrey at The Oval, Raikes was involved in a bizarre run-out incident: he and his batting partner R. C. Robertson-Glasgow became hopelessly confused over a second, then third, run, and ended up at the same end on both occasions. Meanwhile, the Surrey fielders repeatedly fumbled the ball before eventually wicket-keeper Herbert Strudwick managed to remove the bails. Even then, it was unclear which of the batsmen was out: Robertson-Glasgow said that Raikes walked off of his own accord, while another tale says that the matter was settled by the toss of a coin.

Two of Raikes' relatives played first-class cricket: his father Ernest Raikes played in India for Europeans and Bombay, while his uncle George Raikes played for Oxford and Hampshire and made four appearances for the England football team.

References

External links

English cricketers
Oxford University cricketers
1902 births
1984 deaths
Norfolk cricketers
People educated at Winchester College
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
Cricketers from Mumbai
British people in colonial India


The Lordi's Square (, known as the Sampo Square until 2006) is a square in central Rovaniemi, Finland. Next to the square are located a shopping centre called Sampokeskus and a small boulevard. The square is especially popular in summer as a venue for various events.

Formerly known as the Sampo Square, the square was renamed the Lordi's Square in June 2006 in honour of Lordi's victory in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. On 9 June 2006, the square held a folk party, where Lordi also appeared. All members of Lordi have been appointed honorary citizens of Rovaniemi.

References

External links

 Web camera
 Introduction from 2006 (when the square was still named the Sampo Square)

Rovaniemi
Buildings and structures in Lapland (Finland)
Squares in Finland


The White Lion Inn was a public house located in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, an example of Elizabethan architecture that first appears in historical records in 1591. The building was mentioned by both Harriet Beecher Stowe and Rupert Graves.

History
The earliest references to the White Lion Inn date to 1591. The original building, which was at nos, 16, 17, 18 Henley Street was demolished and rebuilt in 1753 making it one of the largest inns on the Holyhead Road by its landlord at the time, John Payton.

In its heyday the White Lion Inn was considered to be on a par with some of the better eating establishments in London and was reported to offer “a bill of fare equal to that of the Piazza Coffee House”. In 1785 members of the household of Louis XVI of France stayed here and in 1806 the Prince Regent (later George IV of the United Kingdom) stayed in specially prepared apartments. During the English Civil War the building was taken over by parliamentary soldiers.

The Garrick Jubilee of Shakespearean performances in 1769 came about because of an idea by John Payton, the landlord of the White Lion. Payton was a genuine Shakespeare enthusiast and a friend of the Shakespearian editor George Alexander Steevens. In 1768, when Steevens was staying at the White Lion, Payton invited some of his friends from the town corporation to meet him. The new Town Hall had just been finished and it was regretted "that an open niche had been constructed on the north side of it without any prospect of obtaining a statue or even a bust to grace it". A statue of Shakespeare was suggested as the most fitting adornment and Steevens offered to persuade David Garrick to present one. The corporation elaborated on his suggestions by offering to confer on Garrick the freedom of the borough in a box made from the wood of Shakespeare's mulberry tree. This led Garrick not only to present a statue of Shakespeare, but to come down and organize a Shakespearian festival at Stratford.

The remaining portions of the building were added to the English Heritage list of protected buildings in 1994.

Witchcraft and Wizardology Museum
The Witchcraft and Wizardology Museum at 21 Henley Street is a privately amassed collection of ephemera and articles that reflect on the history of witchcraft and wizardology from pre-Christian times to the present day. Concentrating on providing a fair and balanced viewpoint that remains family orientated whilst retaining the darker and more sinister aspects of human sacrifice and the Knights Templar link to the craft.

Amassed over 40 years, this collection of articles, rituals and ephemera challenges the accepted stereotypes of witches whilst avoiding the standard "everything behind a glass case" approach. Encouraging a hands on approach to the more traditional aspects of witchcraft it provides a focal point for discussion and those seeking knowledge in a non threatening environment.

Regularly described as one of the most haunted buildings in the country by the owner and visited by paranormal investigators, parapsychology groups and ghost hunters, it continues to offer a glimpse into the world of the supernatural and the unknown.

References

External links
 "The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon: Introduction and architectural description", British-history.ac.uk

Museums in Warwickshire
Buildings and structures in Stratford-upon-Avon
Witchcraft in England
History museums in Warwickshire
Witchcraft museums
Pubs in Warwickshire
Former pubs in England


Baron Chen (; born May 9, 1978) is a Taiwanese actor and model.

Early life
Chen is the eldest son of Chen Chi-li, Not long after he was born, his parents separated so he stayed with his grandparents. He studied tourism at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei.

Career
Chen made his first major appearance in the movie Kung Fu Dunk, but became better known with his role as Dylan in Taiwanese drama, Fated to Love You. He also appeared in two of Jay Chou's music videos for the songs "Blue and White Porcelain" from the album On the Run and "Ocean of Flowers" from Capricorn.

He later gained more fame through his roles in the television series My Daughter and The Magic Blade, which won him Most Popular Actor at the LeTV Awards.

Filmography

Television drama

Films

Variety

Music videos

References

External links
River Chen's Blog

Official Agency Profile
River Chen Facebook

Taiwanese male film actors
Living people
1978 births
Taiwanese male television actors
Male actors from Taipei
Participants in Chinese reality television series


KVES may refer to:

 KVES-LD, a low-power television station (channel 36) licensed to serve Palm Springs, California, United States
 Darke County Airport (ICAO code KVES)


Vittalur is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu.

Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Vittalur had a total population of 1688 with 853 males and 835 females. The sex ratio was 979. The literacy rate was 69.75.

References

Villages in Thanjavur district


The speech banana is a region in which all the phonemes of the world's languages fall on an audiogram.  An audiogram is a graphical representation of a person's hearing acuity at a range of frequencies and loudness levels, and it is generally charted with frequency level (in Hertz on the x-axis and decibel level (dB) on the y-axis.  When the sounds of speech or phonemes of all known human languages are plotted on an audiogram, they cluster in a banana-shaped region known as the speech banana.

People with normal hearing acuity can also hear sounds outside of the speech banana.   These sounds include ambient natural sounds such as a rustling of leaves in the wind or birds chirping.  Artificial sounds outside of the speech banana can include music and mechanical noises (e.g., automobiles, lawn mowers).

Audiologists are primarily concerned with hearing loss that occurs within the speech banana because it can slow the development of a child’s language and speech abilities, and this in turn can profoundly interfere with learning. Hearing loss within the speech banana can also hinder communication capabilities in adults, as in elderly people with age-related hearing loss (presbycusis).

Importance of speech banana for SLT

- The speech banana is important because it includes most of the sounds of human language which is vital
for our communications with each other . People with normal hearing can hear lots of sound's outside
of the speech banana such as low frequency fog horns or high frequency mosquitos .
- One use of the speech banana is for young children : even if the child has limited expressive spoken
language , the audiogram will show what sounds within the speech banana the child can hear when using
hearing aid or cochlear implant. this helps to get a pretty good idea of how much spoken language the child
can understand.

References

External links
http://web1.newpaltz.k12.ny.us/local/high_school/Teachers/swunderlich/speech_banana.htm

Audiology


Hokagon Island is an island located within Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada.

Other islands in the vicinity include Anchor Island, Douglas Island, Duke of York Archipelago, Haodlon Island, Hatoayok Island, Ivonayak Island, Kabviukvik Island, Kingak Island, Mangak Island, Nanortut Island, Nanukton Island, and Takhoalok Island. The community of Kugkluktuk (formerly Coppermine) is located on the mainland,  to the south.

References

Islands of Coronation Gulf
Uninhabited islands of Kitikmeot Region


Visalur is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu.

Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Agarathur had a total population of 2017 with 1036 males and 981 females. The sex ratio was 947. The literacy rate was 67.69.

References

Villages in Thanjavur district


Villiyavarambal is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu.

Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Agarathur had a total population of 1094 with 547 males and 547 females. The sex ratio was 1000. The literacy rate was 81.02.

References

Villages in Thanjavur district


The St. Cloud Rox were a professional minor league baseball team that existed from 1946 to 1971 in St Cloud, Minnesota, playing in the Northern League for the duration of the franchise.

The St. Cloud Rox were an affiliate of the Minnesota Twins (1965–1971), Chicago Cubs (1960–1964), San Francisco Giants (1958–1959) and New York Giants (1946–1957).

Baseball Hall of Fame members Dave Bancroft (1947), Lou Brock (1961), Orlando Cepeda (1956) and Gaylord Perry (1958) are St. Cloud Rox alumni.

History

Located in St. Cloud, Minnesota, the team played its entire existence in the Northern League. The Rox were affiliates of the New York Giants from 1946 to 1957, the San Francisco Giants from 1958 to 1959, the Chicago Cubs from 1960 to 1964 and the Minnesota Twins from 1965 to 1971.

The original Rox ceased playing after the 1971 season when the old Northern League folded. Hall of Fame players to play for the Rox include Lou Brock, Orlando Cepeda and Gaylord Perry. Hall of Famer Dave Bancroft managed the team in 1947.

The franchise nickname returned in new form in 2012 replacing the St. Cloud Riverbats in the Northwoods League, a wooden bat collegiate summer baseball league. In 1997, collegiate summer baseball returned organized baseball to St. Cloud when the Dubuque Mud Puppies of the Northwoods League relocated and became the "St. Cloud River Bats".

Ballpark
The Rox played at Rox Park, also known as Municipal Stadium, located at Division Street and 25th Avenue. It opened in 1948 and was demolished in 1971. The park capacity fluctuated from 5,000 in 1947 to 3,600 in 1949. The played their final season at the newly constructed Municipal Stadium (now Dick Putz Field).

Year-by-year record

Notable alumni

Baseball Hall of Fame alumni
 Dave Bancroft (1947, MGR) Inducted, 1971
 Lou Brock (1961) Inducted, 1985
 Orlando Cepeda (1956) Inducted, 1999
 Gaylord Perry (1958) Inducted, 1991

Notable alumni
 Matty Alou (1958) 2x MLB All-Star; 1966 NL Batting Title
 Bobby Bolin (1958)
 Steve Brye (1967)
 Charlie Fox (1948–1950, 1952–1956)
 Dave Goltz (1968)
 Carroll Hardy (1968)
 George Mitterwald (1965–1966)
 Andre Rodgers (1955)
 Jimmy Stewart (1962)
 Tony Taylor (1955) 2x MLB All-Star
 Danny Thompson (1968) Died Age 29.
 Ozzie Virgil Sr. (1953)
 Leon Wagner (1955) 3x MLB All-Star; 1962 All-Star Game Most Valuable Player

See also
St. Cloud Rox players

References

External links
 St. Cloud Rox in MNopedia, the Minnesota Encyclopedia

Baseball teams established in 1946
Northern League (1902-71) baseball teams
1946 establishments in Minnesota
1971 disestablishments in Minnesota
Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 1971
Sports in St. Cloud, Minnesota
New York Giants minor league affiliates
Chicago Cubs minor league affiliates
San Francisco Giants minor league affiliates
Minnesota Twins minor league affiliates
Defunct baseball teams in Minnesota
Baseball teams disestablished in 1971
St. Cloud, Minnesota


Vilandakandam is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu.

Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Vilandakandam had a total population of 1589 with 751 males and 838 females. The sex ratio was 1116. The literacy rate was 64.63.

References

Villages in Thanjavur district


John Newcombe and Tony Roche were the defending champions but only Newcombe competed that year with Vitas Gerulaitis.

Gerulaitis and Newcombe lost in the first round to Rod Frawley and Francisco González.

Frawley and González won the final by default after Vijay Amritraj and Pat Du Pré withdrew.

Seeds

  Ion Țiriac /  Guillermo Vilas (semifinals)
  Ross Case /  Geoff Masters (quarterfinals)
  Mark Edmondson /  John Marks (first round)
 N/A

Draw

External links
1979 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships Doubles Draw

Doubles


Agnes Pareyio (born June 24, 1956) is a Maasai Kenyan women's rights activist, politician and founder and director of the Tasaru Ntomonok Rescue Center for Girls, an organization that campaigns against female genital cutting.

Biography

Pareyio was born in 1956, the daughter of the village chief. After she underwent female genital mutilation at 14, against her will, she vowed to prevent FGM from happening to other girls.

Soon after her marriage at 18, Pareyio joined the Kenyan women's organization Maendeleo Ya Wanawake, where she became a leader. Her efforts eventually turned to fighting female genital mutilation.

An opponent of FGM, Pareyio teaches girls about the procedure, using wooden models of the female reproductive tract to show different types of FGM. She challenges cultural practices and engaging with communities that propagate the procedure, suggesting and demonstrating alternative female rites of passage.

Pareyio runs a safe house for young girls escaping from female genital mutilation. She works with each girl's family to help them understand the consequences of FGM and convince them to spare their daughter from the procedure. She also educates women who perform FGM about its harms.

Pareyio was the first Maasai women to be elected Deputy Mayor of her locality. Pareyio has also analyzed the patriarchal social effects of FGM, including the ways that the procedure is used to take girls out of education and other means of economic and social independence.

Pareyio was named United Nations in Kenya Person of the Year in 2005, for her work towards gender equality and women's empowerment.

References

External links
Rising to End FGM - Agnes Pareyio

1956 births
Living people
Kenyan health activists
Kenyan women's rights activists
Maasai people
Activists against female genital mutilation
Violence against women in Kenya
People from Narok County


Brookula is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.

Species
Species within the genus Brookula include:

 Brookula angeli (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
 Brookula annectens Powell, 1937
 Brookula argentina (Zelaya, Absalao & Pimenta, 2006)
 Brookula benthicola Dell, 1956
  † Brookula bifurcata Maxwell, 1992
 Brookula bohni Schwabe & Engl, 2008
 Brookula brevis (d'Orbigny, 1841)
 Brookula calypso (Melvill & Standen, 1912)
 Brookula charleenae Schwabe & Engl, 2008
 Brookula conica (Watson, 1886)
 Brookula contigua Powell, 1940
 Brookula coronis Barnard, 1963
 Brookula corula (Hutton, 1885)
 Brookula crebresculpta (Tate, 1899)
 Brookula decussata (Pelseneer, 1903)
 Brookula densilaminata (Verco, 1907)
 Brookula enderbyensis Powell, 1931
  † Brookula endodonta Finlay, 1924
 Brookula exquisita A. H. Clarke, 1961
 Brookula finesia Laseron, 1954
 Brookula finlayi Powell, 1933
 † Brookula fossilis Finlay, 1924
 † Brookula funiculata Finlay, 1924
 Brookula galapagana (Dall, 1913)
 Brookula gemmula (Turton, 1932)
 Brookula iki Kay, 1979
 † Brookula iredalei Finlay, 1924
 † Brookula kaawaensis Laws, 1940
 Brookula kerguelensis Thiele, 1925
 Brookula lamonti Clarke, 1961
 Brookula megaumbilicata Absalão & Pimenta, 2005
 Brookula nepeanensis (Gatliff, 1906)
 Brookula olearia Absalão & Pimenta, 2005
 Brookula paranaensis (Zelaya, Absalão & Pimenta, 2006)
 Brookula pfefferi Powell, 1951
 Brookula polypleura (Hedley, 1904)
 Brookula powelli Clarke, 1961
 Brookula prognata Finlay, 1927
 Brookula proseila Absalão & Pimenta, 2005
 † Brookula pukeuriensis Finlay, 1924
 Brookula spinulata Absalão, R.S., Miyaji & A.D. Pimenta, 2001 - Brazil
 Brookula stibarochila Iredale, 1912
 Brookula strebeli A. W. B. Powell, 1951
 Brookula tanseimaruae Tsuchida & Hori, 1996
 † Brookula tenuilirata Finlay, 1924

Species brought into synonymy
 Brookula (Aequispirella) Finlay, 1924: synonym of Aequispirella Finlay, 1924
 Brookula (Aequispirella) corula (Hutton, 1885): synonym of Brookula corula (Hutton, 1885)
 Brookula antarctica Dell, 1990: synonym of Brookula strebeli A. W. B. Powell, 1951
 Brookula augeria Laseron, 1954: synonym of Brookula angeli (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
 Brookula consobrina May, 1923: synonym of Brookula crebresculpta (Tate, 1899)
 Brookula corulum (Hutton, 1885): synonym of Brookula corula (Hutton, 1885)
 Brookula crassicostata (Strebel, 1908): synonym of Liotella crassicostata (Strebel, 1908)
 Brookula delli' Numanami, 1996: synonym of Brookula pfefferi Powell, 1951
 Brookula jacksonensis Laseron, 1954: synonym of Brookula nepeanensis (Gatliff, 1906)
 Brookula meridionale (Melvill & Standen, 1912): synonym of Munditia meridionalis (Melvill & Standen, 1912)
 Brookula obscura Laseron, 1954: synonym of Brookula angeli (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
 Brookula orospatia Laseron, 1954: synonym of Brookula angeli (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
 Brookula rossiana Dell, 1990: synonym of Brookula pfefferi Powell, 1951
 Brookula sinusbreidensis Numanami & Okutani, 1991: synonym of Brookula pfefferi Powell, 1951
 Brookula tumida Laseron, 1954: synonym of Brookula angeli (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
 Brookula turbinata Laseron, 1954: synonym of Brookula angeli (Tenison-Woods, 1877)

The following species are also mentioned in the book "New Zealand Mollusca" by A.W.B. Powell (1979) :
 Brookula aethiopica Brookula annulata Brookula anxia Brookula capensis Brookula coatsianum Brookula compacta Brookula denseplicata Brookula discoidea Brookula disjuncta Brookula gaudens Brookula johnstoni Brookula kilcundae Brookula petalifera Brookula pliculosa Brookula pulcherrima Brookula valdiviaeReferences

 Schwabe E. & Engl W. (2008). Description of two new deep-water species of the genus Brookula Iredale, 1912 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Trochoidea), with a revision of the genus for the Subantarctic and Arctic Sector of the Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa, 1866: 187-204

External links
 Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979

 ZipCodeZoo

Gastropod genera


Mladen I Šubić of Bribir (; died 1304) was a Croatian nobleman who was a member of Šubić family, at the end of 13th and beginning of the 14th century.

He was a brother of a ban of Croatia Paul I Šubić of Bribir, who appointed Mladen as a commissar of the Dalmatian city of Split, along with Klis Fortress.

After Paul I Šubić declared himself as "Dominus of Bosnia" in 1299, he gave to Mladen I the title of Bosnian Ban. Stephen Kotroman had resisted the growth of Šubić's power in Bosnia, but had lost by 1300 most control over Bosnia to Mladen I Šubić. After 1302 all of Bosnia was under House of Šubić. Mladen I controlled most of it, and small part of Bosnia land (the Lower Edges) was ruled by Prince Hrvatin Stjepanić, who was a vassal of the House of Šubić, which was confirmed by Charles I of Hungary. Bosnian Ban Mladen I Šubić had started a campaign in Bosnia to exterminate the adherents of the Bosnian Church – the Bogumils. In religious conflict Mladen was killed in a battle during 1304. He was inherited by his nephew Mladen II Šubić, who needed help, so Pavao I Šubić himself had to lead an Army to crush the resistance in Bosnia. In 1305 Pavao I took the title of Lord of all of Bosnia (totius Bosniae dominus).

See also
 Šubić
 List of rulers of Croatia
 List of rulers of Bosnia
 Klis Fortress

References

Šubić
Year of birth missing
1304 deaths
Bans of Bosnia
13th-century Croatian people
14th-century Croatian people
Bosnia and Herzegovina Roman Catholics
Subic
Subic
Subic
Subic


Valapuram is a small village which exists as a part of Kuruvambalam village. It is in Pulamanthole grama panchayath of Malappuram District, Kerala. It is situated on the banks of the Kunthipuzha River (also called Thoothappuzha). The river separates Malappuram and Palakkad districts. 41 people were martyred from Valapuram and Kuruvambalam regions in the Wagon Massacre, also known as the Wagon tragedy which was part of the Malabar rebellion of 1921.The nearest towns are Perinthalmanna(18 km), Valanchery (16 km), Pattambi (17 km), Pulamanthol (6 km), and Kulathur (5 km).

GMUP School Valapuram
GMUPS (Government Mappila upper primary school).
This is the old government school in Pulamanthol panchayath. This school was started in 1911. The Jubilee was celebrated in 2011. As of 2022, available classes are: LKG, 1 to 7.

Culture
Valapuram village is a predominantly Muslim populated area.  Hindus are represented in comparatively smaller numbers.  So the culture of the locality is based upon Muslim traditions.  Duff Muttu, Kolkali and Aravanamuttu are common folk arts of this locality.  There are libraries attached to mosques giving a source of Islamic studies.  Most of the books are written in Arabi-Malayalam which is a version of the Malayalam language written in Arabic script.  People gather in mosques for the evening prayer and continue to sit there after the prayers discussing social and cultural issues.  Business and family issues are also sorted out during these evening meetings.  The Hindus of this area keep their rich traditions by celebrating various festivals in their temples.  Hindu rituals are done here with a regular devotion as in other parts of Kerala.

Transportation
Valapuram village connects to other parts of India through Perinthalmanna town.  National highway No.66 passes through Tirur and the northern stretch connects to Goa and Mumbai.  The southern stretch connects to Cochin and Trivandrum.   Highway No.966 goes to Palakkad and Coimbatore.   The nearest airport is at Kozhikode.  The nearest major railway station is at Tirur.

References

Villages in Malappuram district
Perinthalmanna area


Petcetera was a pet specialty supply retailer founded in Richmond, British Columbia in 1997 by Dan Urbani. The chain had expanded to 49 stores and 1,600 employees across Canada, before filing for bankruptcy in 2009. A number of restructures followed until the final store was closed in 2014.

History
Petcetera was founded in 1997 by Dan Urbani.  The stores offered more than 10,000 pet products, as well as pet care services including pet hospitals (Vetcetera), pet grooming, obedience school and doggy daycare.

On March 20, 2009, Petcetera announced that, due to the recession, it was filing for creditor protection, and would start offering discounts on products in order to generate cash flow. The company had become shackled with $30 million in debt, including a bank loans from HSBC totaling $16 million.

On June 16, 2009, Petcetera officially filed for bankruptcy; however, Urbani announced on September 1, 2009 that he had bought 20 of Petcetera's most profitable locations out of liquidation, reopening them under the new corporate name of New Petcetera Retail Ltd.

In May 2014, the company announced that it would close all of its Canadian stores. Of the remaining 18 stores, 9 closed and 9 were sold to other pet stores. "As we developed our restructuring plan it became evident the only viable options available to us were to either close or sell the stores." said President and CEO Dan Urbani. "While we have been forced to close 9 stores we are pleased that 9 stores have been sold and will continue operating as pet stores".

In popular culture
 A Petcetera store was filmed in a scene of the 2001 film See Spot Run. The entire pet store was getting destroyed in that scene.

References

External links
 Petcetera on the Wayback Machine

Retail companies established in 1997
Retail companies disestablished in 2014
Retail companies of Canada
Companies based in Richmond, British Columbia
Pet stores
1997 establishments in British Columbia
2014 disestablishments in British Columbia


Lingo24 is a UK-registered translation company that was formed in 2001.

History & Overview

Lingo24 is a business translation and localisation services company, founded as an online start-up by Oxford University languages graduate Christian Arno, from his parents' Aberdeen home in September 2001. The company launched its New Zealand operation in 2003, Romania in 2005, Panama in early 2008 and Edinburgh later the same year. In 2011 Lingo24 opened an Asian hub in Cebu City, the Philippines and expanded its European operations with the opening of an office in Nuremberg, Germany, in May 2012.

In 2013 Andrew Campbell was appointed as Global Managing Director, and worldwide staff exceeded 200. Lingo24 was named the 62nd largest translation agency worldwide by Common Sense Advisory, and turnover for the year was £7.5 million.

In 2014 Lingo24 signed a multimillion-pound investment deal with a consortium led by former Wood Mackenzie Chairman Paul Gregory. American entrepreneur and investor Ted Alling joined the company's Advisory Board. Lingo24 launched an API, allowing customers to connect directly to its translation platform.

In 2015 Lingo24 was named the 54th largest translation agency in the world and the company launched plug-ins for its API for major e-commerce platforms Magento and Demandware.

Lingo24 has over 230 full-time employees around the globe and works with a network of over 4,000 native-speaking professional translators.

Awards

The company was named as the best e-business start-up in Scotland in 2002 and Arno won the Shell LiveWire 'Young Entrepreneur of the year' competition in 2003. He was also a finalist in the Scotsman Entrepreneur of the year Award at the National Business Awards for Scotland, 2009.

In December 2009, Lingo24 won two awards at the inaugural HeraldScotland.com Digital Business Awards, one in the 'Export' category and one in 'Business to Business'.

In March 2010, it was announced that Lingo24 won two awards, a Customer King Award from Cisco, and one at the International Trade Awards for the Scotland Region, which was sponsored by HSBC.

Lingo24 was nominated as one of the regional finalists in HSBC's Business Thinking initiative, culminating in company founder Christian Arno going on a thought-exchange trip to Istanbul in September, 2010. Lingo24 eventually won the HSBC Business Thinking final following an awards ceremony in Edinburgh on Tuesday 26 October.

Lingo24 was placed on the Times International Track 100 in 2011, making it the fastest-growing translation company in the UK. It reported international sales growth of 57 per cent in the previous two years.

In October 2012, Lingo24 won an Excellence Award at the TAUS User Conference (Seattle) for its new Coach translation technology platform.

In May 2014 Lingo24 was named Scottish Exporter of the Year and International Trade Best Professional Service Advisor at the inaugural Scottish Export Awards.

See also

 Duolingo
 vidby

References

External links
 The Edinburgh Evening News, Ten Questions: Christian Arno, 6 April 2009
 Lingo24 Company Website

Companies established in 2001
Companies based in Aberdeen
Service companies of the United Kingdom
Translation companies


The 1980 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia and was part of the 1980 Volvo Grand Prix. It was the 8th edition of the tournament and was held from 13 October through 19 October 1980. First-seeded John McEnroe won the singles title and earned $46,250 first-prize money.

Finals

Singles

 John McEnroe defeated  Vitas Gerulaitis 6–3, 6–4, 7–5
 It was McEnroe's 6th singles title of the year and the 21st of his career.

Doubles

 Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe defeated  Tim Gullikson /  Johan Kriek 4–6, 6–1, 6–2
 It was Fleming's 6th title of the year and the 30th of his career. It was McEnroe's 12th title of the year and the 49th of his career.

References

External links
 ITF tournament edition details


KVBT may refer to:

 KVBT-LD, a low-power television station (channel 26, virtual 13) licensed to Santa Clara, etc., Utah, United States
 Bentonville Municipal Airport in Bentonville, Arkansas (ICAO code KVBT)


Land reform is an important political and economic topic in Namibia. It consists of two different strategies: resettlement, and transfer of commercially viable agricultural land. Resettlement is aimed at improving the lives of displaced or dispossessed previously disadvantaged Namibians. Farms obtained by government for resettlement purposes are usually split into several sections, and dozens of families are being resettled on what had previously been one farm. Transfer of commercial agricultural land is not directly conducted by government. Would-be farmers with a previously disadvantaged background obtain farms privately or through affirmative action loans. In both cases, the "Willing buyer, willing seller" principle applies.

Namibia contains about 4,000 commercial farms. Almost 1000 of them have been obtained by previously disadvantaged Namibians since independence, some by means of private transactions, and some through government-facilitated loans. Until 2020, a further 15 Mio hectares of commercial agricultural land are to be transferred to blacks, a third of this area for resettlement purposes, two thirds for agriculture.

Background
Land ownership in pre-colonial central and southern South West Africa was intermittent; Herero people and Nama people claimed the land they were currently using. Heinrich Vedder writes:
As the Nama said: Where the foot of our hunter sets there is Namaland, so said the Herero: wherever my cattle grassed there is Hereroland.
The notion of permanent ownership of land in the territory of South West Africa was only introduced in the wake of colonialisation. Consequently, the dispossession of land by European settlers from Africans began in the nineteenth century with the coming of German colonists and traders as the area was incorporated as German South West Africa.

During South African occupation of the territory, Namibia was divided along ethnic lines. 10 bantustans were established, the remaining territory, including much of the agriculturally viable land, was reserved for Whites. In the bantustans farm land was communal whereas the farms outside were in private hands. When Namibia gained independence in March 1990, the country inherited this division of land in which 3,500 farmers, who were almost entirely Whites, owned approximately 50% of the country's agricultural land. These farmers constituted about 0.2% of the total national population. Land reform was one of the biggest goals for many who participated in Namibia's liberation struggle.

Reform Strategies
Prior to the first democratic election in 1989, liberation movement leader SWAPO committed itself to "transfer[ing] some of the land from the few with too much of it to the landless majority".

Namibia's land reform process is based on three strategies, outlined by the Agricultural (Commercial) Land Reform Act of 1995:
 Resettlement: The Namibian government buys farms from commercial farmers allocates them to previously disadvantaged people.
 Loans: AgriBank, a state-owned bank, grants loans with interests below market level to the previously disadvantaged population.
 Communal land: Communal land, which all belongs to the state, is parcelled into small units and distributed by traditional leaders.

Resettlement
Farms obtained by government for resettlement purposes are usually split into several sections, and dozens of families are being resettled on what had previously been one farm. From 1990 to 2007, an independent report said that the government had resettled approximately 800 Black farmers on land bought for redistribution. It was approximately 12% of commercial farmland in the country, or less than 1% per year.

Namibian citizens may obtain a portion of a farm for resettlement if they do not yet own farm land, and if they belong to the previously disadvantaged population. In the allocation process, females score higher than males, people 25 years of age or older score higher than those below 25, and people with farming experience score higher than those without.

Willing buyer, willing seller
The government generally has avoided expropriating farms. Farms to be reallocated to  previously disadvantaged people are mainly bought from farm owners that wish to sell their farms. This is called the Willing buyer, willing seller principle. Any farm that is to be sold on the free market must first be offered to government. However, in 2005, government began expropriating commercial farms. Although only five farms had been expropriated in 2008, and a further 30 farm owners had received letters asking them to sell to government, this move has instilled fears in the white farming community and discouraged further investment.

Taxation

In 2004 a land value tax on commercial farmland was introduced as part of the post-independence land reform agenda.  The tax rate was designed to discourage ownership of multiple farms with the tax rate increasing as the number of properties owned increased.  By statute every owner of commercial agricultural land must pay a rate based on the unimproved site value (USV) of the land.  The revenue generated from the land tax is earmarked for the Land Acquisition and Development Fund, that is, primarily for land reform purposes.

The government aims to influence the market by imposing higher tax rates on large or excessive landholdings or on farmland that is not being used.  The land tax rates are progressive, the rationale being that individuals will give up some of their land plots because they cannot afford to pay the tax, as well as to raise much-needed revenue to buy more commercial agricultural land for the resettlement program.

The government invested considerable effort in consultation with key stakeholders including white farmers, and succeeded in securing their general agreement. Because of this process, the introduction of the land tax in Namibia has been described as a success with implications for other countries wishing to undertake land reform.

See also
 Namibia Agricultural Union, which represents Namibia's commercial farmers
 Affirmative Repositioning, a movement to obtain urban land for youth

References

Notes

Further reading
 Agricultural (Commercial) Land Reform Act of 1995
 Communal Land Reform Act (Act No. 5 Of 2002)

External links
 Ancestral land issue revisited New Era, 19 July 2010

Economy of Namibia
Agriculture in Namibia
Namibia
Reform in Namibia


A Voice in the Wind (1993) is a novel by Francine Rivers, and the first book in the Mark of the Lion Series.

Synopsis
It is the story of a young Christian-Jewish slave named Hadassah living under the Roman Empire.  When Hadassah is captured by Roman soldiers, her entire family is killed.  She serves as a slave to a teenaged Roman woman named Julia, whose parents marry her off to a much older man. Although Julia initially dislikes Hadassah because of her plain appearance, she comes to trust her.  Hadassah is faithful and kind but afraid of many things.  As the story progresses, she gains the courage to tell others about her faith and the God that she serves. Meanwhile, she struggles with her love for Julia's older brother, Marcus, thinking it's a trick from Satan to lead her away from God. All he wants is for her to love him the same as he loves her, but she struggles with a choice, remain close to God or fall for a man who will lead her on a dark road away from him. As she struggles to remain close to God, her hard life and  difficult challenges are just beginning to the extent she is thrown to the lions.

The story goes into many different side characters, such as the young gladiator Atretes, who—as well as the main characters—are all searching for peace and purpose but unable to find it in the world of pleasures Rome has to offer. Throughout the entire novel, Hadassah's Christian faith (kept a secret for fear of death) is continually challenged and evolved, helping her overcome the harsher aspects as life as a slave in the Roman Empire.

References

1993 American novels
Mark of the Lion Series


Robert Cheseret (born October 8, 1983) is a Kenyan-born American long-distance runner. He is the younger brother of Bernard Lagat and older brother to Violah and Everlyne Lagat. Cheseret won the 2011 NACAC Cross Country Championships.

Cheseret enrolled at the University of Arizona, majoring in business. He was the 2004, 2005, and 2006 Pac-10 Champion and runner of the year. Cheseret became the first Pac-10 athlete to earn Track Athlete of the Year honors three times. He successfully defended his Pac-10 titles in 5000 meters (13:47.50) and 10,000 meters (30:32.92). He also added a Pac-10 title in 1500 meters (3:41.88) to give him a total of eight Pac-10 titles during his career – the most ever by a Pac-10 track and field athlete.

In his junior year he defended his Pac-10 title when he finished in 23:57 (8000 meter run) to become the second Arizona runner, and ninth runner in Pac-10 history, to win back-to-back conference titles. Cheseret went on to capture the NCAA West Regional individual crown (with 30:03 for the 10,000 meter) and was the Pac-10's top finisher at the NCAA Championships with a tenth-place finish (29:51  for the 10,000 meter).

He joined the U.S. Army in 2009, training in the army's World Class Athlete Program to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics. This put in place the steps towards gaining U.S. citizenship.

References

External links

Arizona Athletics profile

Living people
1983 births
Arizona Wildcats men's track and field athletes
Kenyan male long-distance runners
People from Nandi County
Sportspeople from Rift Valley Province
Arizona Wildcats men's cross country runners
U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program


Annalagraharam is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk (municipality) of the Thanjavur district in the state of Tamil Nadu in southeastern India.

Demographics

According to the 2001 census, Annalagraharam had a total population of 6266, of which 3172 are male and 3094 female. The sex ratio was .975/1, females to males. The literacy rate was 77.76.

References

Villages in Thanjavur district


Ammangudi is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu. It is the birthplace of Krishnan Raman Brahmarayar who served as the Commander-in-chief of the Chola army.

Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Ammangudi had a total population of 1356 with 685 males and 671 females. The sex ratio was 980. The literacy rate was 78.64.

References

Villages in Thanjavur district


An Echo in the Darkness (1994) is the second novel in the Mark of the Lion Series by Francine Rivers. It was awarded a RITA Award for best inspirational romance by the Romance Writers of America in 1995.

Synopsis
The book begins where A Voice in the Wind left off, in the arena where Hadassah is thrown to the lions because her owner was jealous of her purity. A young physician, Alexander, must choose one of the mauled bodies in the arena, so that he can examine it and further his knowledge as a physician. He chooses Hadassah's, only to discover that she is alive and that the lion has struck no vital organs. On a sudden impulse, Alexander saves Hadassah and nurses her back to health. Although she remains crippled, she regains the ability to walk and talk.

Meanwhile, Marcus Lucianus Valerian, believing that Hadassah is dead, tries to deal with his grief by traveling to Israel (Hadassah's homeland) and learning about Hadassah's God.

Throughout the book Hadassah's mistress, Julia Valerian contracts a fatal illness due to her sexual immoral and promiscuous behavior in her younger years, and slowly dies of a wasting disease. Hadassah, who had become Alexander's assistant, learns of her old mistress' bereavement and decides to move in with Julia and care for her until she dies. Hadassah covers her scars (and identity) with veils and heavy clothing.

As she leaves Alexander, he admits his feelings for her, but she knows that he is not who she was meant to be with, and admits that she really only loves him as a brother and dear friend. As Hadassah tries to bring spiritual salvation to Julia, she finds herself feeling sorry for her and ultimately forgives Julia completely for attempting to kill her. However, she is still scared that Julia may find out her true identity.

As Julia's life nears its end, her brother Marcus returns from Israel to manage her affairs. Though Marcus accepted Christ during the time he spent in Israel, he is still extremely bitter towards his sister and unwilling to forgive her for sending Hadassah to the lions. When it is clear that Julia is about to die, Hadassah reveals her true identity to her. She tells Julia that she has forgiven her long ago and that Christ has forgiven her as well. Julia  becomes a Christian and is reconciled to Hadassah. Hadassah had not realized that Marcus was listening in the whole time. He takes Julia to the garden to be baptized before she dies peacefully.  He then chases after Hadassah, who had fled back to Alexander's, fearing Marcus would think her scars were ugly and reject her.  Marcus finds Hadassah, grants her her freedom and the two are married. They have many children together and continue to do Christ's work as Christians are continually persecuted throughout the Empire.

References

1994 American novels
Novels set in ancient Israel
Mark of the Lion Series


The Pozzo di San Patrizio (English: "St. Patrick's Well") is a historic well in Orvieto, Umbria, central Italy. It was built by the architect-engineer Antonio da Sangallo the Younger of Florence, between 1527 and 1537, at the behest of Pope Clement VII who had taken refuge at Orvieto during the sack of Rome in 1527 by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and feared that the city's water supply would be insufficient in the event of a siege. The well was completed in 1537 during the papacy of Pope Paul III.

The name was inspired by medieval legends that St. Patrick's Purgatory in Ireland gave access down to Purgatory, indicating something very deep.

The architect-engineer Antonio da Sangallo the Younger surrounded the central well shaft with two helical ramps in a double helix, accessed by two doors, which allowed mules to carry empty and full water vessels separately in downward and upward directions without obstruction. The cylindrical well is  deep with a base diameter of . There are 248 steps and 70 windows provide illumination.

A Latin inscription on the well states QUOD NATURA MUNIMENTO INVIDERAT INDUSTRIA ADIECIT 'what nature stinted for provision, industry has supplied'.

Gallery

Notes

References
 Review of Pozzo di San Patrizio (St. Patrick's Well) at Frommers (tourism site)

Buildings and structures completed in 1537
Buildings and structures in Umbria
Double spiral staircases
Water wells
1537 establishments in the Papal States


Ariyapadaiveedu is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu.

Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Aiyapadaiveedu had a total population of 922, with 481 males, and 441 females. The sex ratio was 917. The literacy rate was 78.9.

References

Villages in Thanjavur district


The Standard, released on September 30, 2008, on Heads Up International, is a jazz music album by the American contemporary Gospel music group Take 6.

Track listing
"Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey Sr, Ben Bernie) 3:26
"Straighten Up and Fly Right" (featuring George Benson) (Nat King Cole, Irving Mills) 3:22
"Seven Steps to Heaven" (featuring Jon Hendricks, Al Jarreau, and Till Brönner) (Miles Davis, Victor Stanley Feldman) 5:27
"Windmills of Your Mind" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) 4:26
"Someone to Watch Over Me" (featuring Shelea Frazier and Roy Hargrove) (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 4:23
"Grace (Pre-prise)" (Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock) 0:36
"Back to You" (Claude V. McKnight III, Victoria Venier) 4:09
"A Tisket a Tasket" (featuring Ella Fitzgerald) (Ella Fitzgerald, Van Alexander) 2:36
"Bein' Green" (Joe Raposo) 2:03
"Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" (featuring Aaron Neville) (Louis Alter, Edgar DeLange) 2:47
"What's Going On" (featuring Brian McKnight) (Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye) 4:12
"Shall We Gather at the River" (Robert Lowry) 3:41
"Grace" (Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock) 4:38

Awards
The album was nominated for a Dove Award for Contemporary Gospel Album of the Year at the 40th GMA Dove Awards. Their rendition of the song "Shall We Gather at the River?" was also nominated for Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song of the Year.

References

Heads Up International albums
Take 6 albums
2008 albums


Asur is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu.

Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Asur had a total population of 2212 with 1095 males and 1117 females. The sex ratio was 1020. The literacy rate was 67.47.

References

Villages in Thanjavur district


Te Ador is the second solo studio album by Romanian singer Elena Gheorghe. It was released in July 2008 in Romania and features the singles "Te Ador" (I Love You) & "Până La Stele" (Up To The Stars). A repackaged "Special Edition" was released in May 2009 featuring the single "The Balkan Girls", Elena's entry in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.

Track list
Standard Edition:

 "Te Ador" 03:43 (composition Laurenţiu Duţă/Ovidiu Bistriceanu/Daris Mangal; music-line Laurenţiu Duţă, Ovidiu Bistriceanu)
 "O Nouă Viaţă" 03:27 (composition Laurenţiu Duţă/Ovidiu Bistriceanu/Daris Mangal; music-line Laurenţiu Duţă, Ovidiu Bistriceanu)
 "Jumătate" 03:55 (composition & music-line Adi Cristescu)
 "Până La Stele" 03:36 (composition Laurenţiu Duţă/Ovidiu Bistriceanu/Daris Mangal; music-line Laurenţiu Duţă, Ovidiu Bistriceanu/Dorin Topală)
 "Tot Ce Vreau" 03:46 (composition Adi Cristescu; music-line Adi Cristescu/Remus Petruţ)
 "Spune-Mi" 03:24 (composition & music-line Adi Cristescu/ Florian Ghiurluc)
"Lângă Mine" 03:08 (composition Gabriel Huiban/Adi Colceru; music-line Alex Pelin)
 "Promisiuni" 03:10 (composition Laurenţiu Duţă/Ovidiu Bistriceanu/Daris Mangal; music-line Laurenţiu Duţă, Ovidiu Bistriceanu)
 "Zile Şi Nopti" 03:17 (composition Laurenţiu Duţă/Ovidiu Bistriceanu/Daris Mangal; music-line Laurenţiu Duţu, Ovidiu Bistriceanu/Dorin ţopală)
 "My Superstar" 04:00 (composition Adi Cristescu/Constinel Ghiorghiulescu; music-line Adi Cristescu/Ciro de Luca)
 "I Love You" 03:50 (composition & music-line Ionuţ Radu)

Special Edition (Editie Speciala):

 "The Balkan Girls" 02:49 (Duţă/Bistriceanu/Mangal - Duţă & Pelin)
 "The Balkan Girls (David Dee Jay Club Remix)" 04:02 (Duţă/Bistriceanu/Mangal - Duţă & Pelin)
 "The Balkan Girls (DJ Daronee Remix) 03:28 (Duţă/Bistriceanu/Mangal - Duţă & Pelin)
 "Te Ador" 03:43 (Duţă/Bistriceanu/Mangal - Duţă)
 "O Nouă Viaţă" 03:27 (Duţă/Bistriceanu/Mangal - Duţă)
 "Jumătate" 03:55 (Cristescu)
 "Până La Stele" 03:36 (Duţă/Bistriceanu/Mangal - Duţă/Topală)
 "Tot Ce Vreau" 03:46 (Cristescu - Cristescu/Petruţ)
 "Spune-Mi" 03:24 (Cristescu/Ghiurluc)
 "Lângă Mine" 03:08 (Huiban/Colceru - Pelin)
 "Promisiuni" 03:10 (Duţă/Bistriceanu/Mangal - Duţă)
 "Zile Şi Nopti" 03:17 (Duţă/Bistriceanu/Mangal - Duţă/Topală)
 "My Superstar" 04:00 (Cristescu/Ghiorghiulescu - Cristescu/ Ciro de Luca)
 "I Love You" 03:50 (Radu)
 "Te Ador" (Video)

2008 albums
Elena Gheorghe albums


The Second Wilson Ministry was the 12th Ministry of the Government of Western Australia and was led by Liberal Premier Frank Wilson. It succeeded the Scaddan Ministry on 27 July 1916 after a vote of no confidence passed in the Legislative Assembly, due mainly to the Labor Party losing its one-seat majority through a by-election and a member resigning from the party to become an independent. In early 1917, the Liberal Party was consumed by the Nationalist Party, to whom most of its members pledged their allegiance. Its leader, Sir Henry Lefroy, formed the Lefroy Ministry on 28 June 1917.

The following ministers served for the duration of the Ministry:

References

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Wilson 2
Ministries of George V


Athiyur is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu India. It is located 44 km north of the district headquarters in Thanjavur. Agriculture is the basis of the economy. Almost every job and/or occupation is in some way or another agriculturally related.

Geography

Athiyur is located 44 km north of the district headquarters in Thanjavur, 11 km from Kumbakonam, and 284 km from the state capital, Chennai. Anoor, Kurugoor, Anna Nagar are the sub-villages. Uthamathani (1 km away), Devanancheri (2 km away), Kallur (3 km away), Neerathanallur (3 km away), and Thirunallur (3 km away) are the neighboring villages. Athiyur is surrounded by Thiruppanandal Taluk and Tiruvidaimarudur Taluk towards the east, and Kumbakonam Taluk and Valangaiman Taluk towards the south. Athiyur is connected to Kumbakonam, and Solapuram by road. The Manniyaru River provides water to be used in the irrigation of the agricultural crops produced in the area.

Population
As per the 2001 census, Athiyur had a total population of 2274 with 1150 males and 1124 females. The literacy rate was 56.73%. Recently in the 2011 census, Athiyur had a total population of 2630 and the literacy rate was 72.99%. In comparison to the 2001 census, the literacy rate and population have increased. Athiyur is a village panchayat consisting of three villages named Athiyur, Aanoor and Kurugoor. It comes under Kumbakonam legislative assembly constituency and Mayiladuthurai parliamentary constituency.

Agriculture
The village people's revenue is dependent on the agriculture. The River Manniyaru provides the water for the agriculture and motor (pump set) is also available. The major crops cultivated in Athiyur are paddy, pulses, gingelly, groundnut and sugarcane. The minor crops like maize, soybeans, and redgram are also grown. Paddy is the principal crop grown in three seasons, namely ,  and . Pulses like blackgram, greengram and cash crops like cotton and gingelly are grown in rice fallows. The most plentiful crops that people harvest are paddy (rice), gram, grain, sugar cane, wheat, sesame, vegetables, cotton, casuarina trees (), fruits, chilly, banana trees, gingelly, groundnut, and pulses.

Climate
The period from November to February in Athiyur is pleasant with a climate full of warm days and cool nights. The onset of summer is from March, with the mercury reaching its peak by the end of May and June. The average temperatures range from 81 °F (27 °C) in January to 97 °F (36 °C) in May and June. Summer rains are sparse and the first monsoon ie., the South-West monsoon, sets in June and continues until September. North-East monsoon sets in October and continues until January. The rainfall during South-West monsoon period is much lower than that of North-East monsoon. North-East monsoon is beneficial to the village at large because of the heavy rainfall. The average rainfall is 37 inches (940 mm), most of which is contributed by the North-East moon.

Education

The Panjayat Union Primary School provides the education in Athiyur and sub villages. Athiyur Panjayat Union has three schools but the head is Athiyur Panjayat Union Primary School and the other schools are controlled by Athiyur School. The higher secondary schools are in Devanancheri, Kadichampadi, and Kumbakonam.

Temples

The Vinayagar, Sivan, Amman, Munishwaran, and Ayyanar temples are famous. Each year festivals are held in the temples.

Hindu Festivals:
 Special Pongal Festivals (3 days)
 Tamil New Year
 Aadi 18 (Perukku)
 Thai Pusam

Transportation

The Kumbakonam railway station is the nearest railway to Athiyur. However, the Thanjavar railway station is the only major railway station in the area. The Thanjavar railway station is located 44 km away from Athiyur. The main bus terminal is in Kumbakonam, and provides for inner and outer area transportation. There are airports located in Thanjavur and Trichy.

Nearby cities and towns

References

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20130617095215/http://www.census.tn.nic.in/census2011data/PPT_taluk_data_final.pdf

Villages in Thanjavur district


Baburajapuram is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu.

Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Baburajapuram had a total population of 3101 with 1533 males and 1568 females. The sex ratio was 1023. The literacy rate was 75.24.

References

Villages in Thanjavur district


The John Addison Porter Prize is a literary award given annually by Yale University to the best work of scholarship in any field "where it is possible, through original effort, to gather and relate facts or principles, or both, and to present the results in such a literary form as to make the product of general human interest."  This award is among the highest the university confers.  The prize was established in 1872 in honor of Professor John Addison Porter, B.A. 1842., and perpetuated with a subsequent gift in 1901.

The award should not be confused with the prize named for his son, the John Addison Porter Prize in American History, which is restricted to undergraduate history majors at Yale.

Winners
Winners of the John Addison Porter Prize over the years have included:

References

External links
John Addison Porter Prize, official website.
John Addison Porter Prize, prize description.

Awards and prizes of Yale University
Awards established in 1872
Awards for scholarly publications


Ricardo Martinez may refer to:

 Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos (1918-2009), Mexican painter
 Ricardo Martínez (footballer, born 1947), Salvadoran football midfielder
 Ricardo S. Martinez (born 1951), U.S. federal judge
 Ricardo Martínez Menanteau (born 1960), Chilean army general
 Ricardo Martínez Matey (born 1964), Spanish cyclist
 Ricardo Martínez (footballer, born 1980), Mexican football midfielder
 Ricardo Martínez (footballer, born 1984), Paraguayan football centre-back


Cross-cultural competence refers to the knowledge, skills, and affect/motivation that enable individuals to adapt effectively in cross-cultural environments. Cross-cultural competence is defined here as an individual capability that contributes to intercultural effectiveness regardless of the particular intersection of cultures. The concept may overlap to that of so-called cultural agility. Although some aspects of cognition, behavior, or affect may be particularly relevant in a specific country or region, evidence suggests that a core set of competencies enables adaptation to any culture (Hammer, 1987).

Cross-cultural competence is not an end in itself, but is a set of variables that contribute to intercultural effectiveness. Whereas previous models have tended to emphasize subjective outcomes, by focusing primarily on adjustment, outcomes of interest here include both subjective and objective outcomes. Objective outcomes, such as job performance, have been addressed
in previous research, but to a lesser degree than the subjective outcomes. Research indicates that the outcomes are linked, with personal and interpersonal adjustment linked to work adjustment, which has in turn been linked with job performance (Shay & Baack, 2006). However, these relationships are small, and some research has demonstrated that subjective outcomes can diverge from objective outcomes (Kealey, 1989), with expatriates sometimes showing relatively poor adjustment but high
effectiveness in their organizational role.

See also
 Intercultural competence
 Transcultural Psychiatry
 Acculturation

References

 Text of this article has been taken from a US Army document, with a claim the source is public domain.

Cultural concepts
Cultural competence


Internet censorship in Ireland is a controversial issue with the introduction of a graduated response policy in 2008 followed by an effort to block certain file sharing sites starting in February 2009. Beyond these issues there are no government restrictions on access to the Internet or credible reports that the government monitored e-mail or Internet chat rooms. Individuals and groups could engage in the expression of views via the Internet, including by e-mail. Irish law provides for freedom of speech including for members of the press, and the government generally respects these rights in practice. An independent press, an effective judiciary, and a functioning democratic political system act jointly to ensure freedom of speech and of the press.

History
In 1999, Connect.ie, a Dublin-based Internet Service Provider, was subjected to a denial of service attack by hackers believed to be acting at the behest and with support from a faction of the Indonesian military. At the time Connect.ie was hosting the .tp toplevel domain on behalf of people in East Timor during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, the toplevel domain was temporarily disabled during the attack.

In 2006 the Irish domain registry IEDR was criticised for maintaining a domain name blacklist including common words like porn.

Graduated response

A graduated response policy is currently being encouraged by the Irish Recorded Music Association who are urging ISPs in Ireland to send warning letters and blocking content which it believes is damaging the music industry. According to a report published by solicitors McCann Fitzgerald this is the first implementation in Europe of the three strikes system that record companies are lobbying to bring on throughout:

 Once notified of the IP addresses, Eircom will first inform the broadband subscriber that their IP address has been used in connection with illegal activities. At this stage, subscribers who claim they are the victim of "wi-fi hijacking" (where someone else uses their wi-fi network to access the Internet) will have the opportunity to clarify their situation and upgrade the security of their connection if required.
 If a subscriber is then found to still be infringing, they will be warned that failure to cease infringing activities will result in their being disconnected by Eircom.
 Continued failure to comply and cease infringing activity will result in the subscriber being disconnected.

Blocking access to file sharing sites

IRMA who represent EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Bros. and Universal are seeking that Eircom along with all other major Irish ISPs block access to file sharing sites such as The Pirate Bay and Mininova.

In contrast to similar drives in countries including Australia this is being driven entirely by commercial rather than political interests such as child safety.

According to the Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland:
"Internet Service Providers in Ireland have recently received letters threatening legal action from solicitors representing four major music recording companies. This legal action is spurious and there is no evidence of wrong-doing by Internet Service Providers. These actions could impact on user privacy, damage the development of new internet services, and hurt Ireland's standing as an eCommerce hub."

Letters explaining the plans were delivered to Irish ISPs including Blacknight and Eircom on 13 February 2009, calling for them to participate in the block or face possible legal action.

Eircom have announced they will implement the block on The Pirate Bay from 1 September 2009. Other ISPs, including UPC Ireland and BT Ireland are resisting pressure from IRMA.

Grassroots campaigns including "Blackout Ireland" and "Boycott Eircom" have been established to protest the censorship.

Talks on blocking Internet access
In April 2010 the Irish government was revealed to have held discussions to introduce Internet filtering. Documents obtained under Freedom of information legislation by Digital Rights Ireland mention a meeting between the Department of Justice and Law Reform and Vodafone, an email from Hutchison 3G listing filtering technologies it uses, and a meeting between the Office of Internet Safety and the Garda Síochána on the proposed introduction of Internet blocking.
In July 2013 the ISP Association of Ireland issued a press statement stating ISP's "should not be made censors" in response to renewed calls for blocking and filtering by Irish ISPs.

See also
 Censorship in Ireland
 Digital Rights Ireland
 Freedom of speech in Ireland
 Ireland Offline
 Irish Internet Hotline, illegal Internet content reporting service
 Irish Recorded Music Association
 Streisand Effect

References

External links
 Blackout Ireland
 Boycott Eircom
 Hotline.ie, service for reporting illegal Internet content
 ISP Association of Ireland (ISPAI)

Ireland
Ireland
Internet in the Republic of Ireland
Censorship in the Republic of Ireland


Roy Reid Leslie (August 23, 1894 – April 9, 1972) was a Major League Baseball first baseman. He played during three major league seasons for three teams, including a stint as the regular first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies in .

Leslie's minor league baseball career spanned seventeen seasons. He began his career with the Bonham Blues of the Texas–Oklahoma League in , and his last season came in  with the Tyler Trojans of the Lone Star League. He is listed as the Blues' manager in  at age 17, even before his playing career began.

Notes

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Chicago Cubs players
St. Louis Cardinals players
Philadelphia Phillies players
Bonham Blues players
Ennis Tigers players
Ardmore Indians players
Paris Survivors players
Fort Worth Panthers players
Waco Navigators players
Houston Buffaloes players
New Orleans Pelicans (baseball) players
Salt Lake City Bees players
Hollywood Stars players
San Antonio Bears players
Mexia Gushers players
Tyler Trojans players
Minor league baseball managers
Baseball players from Texas
1894 births
1972 deaths

 Roy Leslie at SABR (Baseball BioProject)


Thomas John Kane is an American film and television producer, production manager and assistant director.

Kane began his career in New York City working as a production manager on films such as Prizzi's Honor, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Kramer vs. Kramer, An Unmarried Woman, The Turning Point, Night Hawks, Swimming to Cambodia and The Flamingo Kid.

After 16 years in New York City, Kane moved to Los Angeles and produced two television series for ABC: Fortune Dane and Sledge Hammer!. From 1988 to 1990, he served as Vice President of Production for the Weintraub Entertainment Group, overseeing television production. Kane was the producer of the Hallmark Hall of Fame production Brush with Fate, which aired on CBS. He freelances as a producer and/or production manager and is a long-time member of the Directors Guild of America.

Since 1984, Kane has taught film and television production.

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American television producers
Place of birth missing (living people)


An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans".  Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media.  Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.  The 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that includes All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), the Sporting News (TSN), and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) drawn from the 2008–09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.  All selectors choose at least a first and second 5-man team. The NABC, AP and TSN choose third teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections.

The Consensus 2009 College Basketball All-American team is determined by aggregating the results of the four major All-American teams as determined by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).  Since United Press International was replaced by TSN in 1997, the four major selectors have been the aforementioned ones.  AP has been a selector since 1948, NABC since 1957 and USBWA since 1960.  To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation.  The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.  According to this system, DeJuan Blair, Stephen Curry, Blake Griffin, Tyler Hansbrough and James Harden were first team selections and Sherron Collins, Luke Harangody, Ty Lawson, Jodie Meeks, Jeff Teague and Hasheem Thabeet were second team selections.

Although the aforementioned lists are used to determine consensus honors, there are numerous other All-American lists.  The ten finalists for the John Wooden Award are described as Wooden All-Americans.  The ten finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans.  Other All-American lists include those determined by Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports.  The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.

2009 Consensus All-America team
PG – Point guard
SG – Shooting guard
PF – Power forward
SF – Small forward
C – Center

The following players were consensus All-Americans.

Individual All-America teams
The table below details the selections for four major 2009 college basketball All-American teams.  The number corresponding to the team designation (i.e., whether a player was a first team, second team, etc. selection) appears in the table.  The following columns are included in the table:

Player – The name of the All-American
School – Collegiate affiliation
AP – Associated Press All-American Team
USBWA – United States Basketball Writers Association All-American Team
NABC – National Association of Basketball Coaches All-American Team
TSN – Sporting News All-American Team
CP – Points in the consensus scoring system

By player

By team

AP Honorable Mention:

 Jeff Adrien, Connecticut
 Josh Akognon, Cal State Fullerton
 Cole Aldrich, Kansas
 Alex Barnett, Dartmouth
 Marqus Blakely, Vermont
 Craig Brackins, Iowa State
 Michael Bramos, Miami (OH)
 Jon Brockman, Washington
 Brandon Brooks, Alabama State
 John Bryant, Santa Clara
 Chase Budinger, Arizona
 DeMarre Carroll, Missouri
 Jeremy Chappell, Robert Morris
 Dionte Christmas, Temple
 Earl Clark, Louisville
 Darren Collison, UCLA
 Dante Cunningham, Villanova
 Devan Downey, South Carolina
 Tyreke Evans, Memphis
 Levance Fields, Pittsburgh
 Jonny Flynn, Syracuse
 Kenny Hasbrouck, Siena
 Jordan Hill, Arizona
 Matt Howard, Butler
 Lester Hudson, Tennessee-Martin
 Matt Kingsley, Stephen F. Austin
 Kalin Lucas, Michigan State
 Eric Maynor, VCU
 Kellen McCoy, Weber State
 Tywain McKee, Coppin State
 Orlando Mendez-Valdez, Western Kentucky
 Derrick Mercer, American
 Luke Nevill, Utah
 Ahmad Nivins, Saint Joseph's
 Artsiom Parakhouski, Radford
 A. J. Price, Connecticut
 Alex Renfroe, Belmont
 Tyrese Rice, Boston College
 Kyle Singler, Duke
 Jermaine Taylor, Central Florida
 Jeff Teague, Wake Forest
 Marcus Thornton, LSU
 Evan Turner, Ohio State
 Jarvis Varnado, Mississippi State
 Gary Wilkinson, Utah State
 Booker Woodfox, Creighton
 Ben Woodside, North Dakota State

Academic All-Americans
On February 25, 2009, CoSIDA and ESPN The Magazine announced the 2009 Academic All-American team with Brett Winkelman headlining the University Division as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year.

2008–09 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Men's Basketball Team (University Division) as selected by CoSIDA:

Wooden All-Americans
The ten finalists (and ties) for the  John R. Wooden Award are called Wooden All-Americans.  The 11 honorees are as follows:

Senior All-Americans
The ten finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award are called Senior All-Americans.  The 10 honorees are as follows:

References

All-Americans
NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans


KUOS may refer to:

 KUOS-LP, a low-power radio station (92.1 FM) licensed to serve Sedona, Arizona, United States
 Franklin County Airport (Tennessee) (ICAO code KUOS)