Earl Howard Wood (January 1, 1912 – March 18, 2009) was an American cardiopulmonary physiologist who helped invent the G-suit, brought heart catheterization into a clinical reality and introduced dynamic volumetric computed tomography for the study of the heart and lungs.

Career

G-Suit
Shortly after receiving an M.D. and PhD in physiology from the University of Minnesota medical school under the mentorship of Professor Maurice B. Visscher, MD, Wood became a key member of a team, working in a laboratory at the Mayo Clinic, tasked with helping military pilots and flight crew survive and function in high G-force environments. Based upon extensive physiologic testing via use of the human centrifuge installed at the Mayo Clinic, it was determined that blackout and then unconsciousness was caused by reduction of blood flow to the eyes first and then the brain. The solutions the team arrived at were the M-1 breath hold maneuver and the G-suit. The M-1 maneuver consisted of a strained exhalation effort against a closed glottis designed to increase left ventricular pressure. (Although the references given are dated 1946-7, the work was performed much before then.  In, see the acknowledgments section explaining the closed nature of the research with restrictions placed on publication during the war.   During the war effort the Mayo Clinic laboratory  was operating with government Confidential secrecy.)  The G suit was a garment, produced by the David Clark Company, which has air bladders situated at the calves, thighs, and abdomen of the wearer. The bladders inflate as the G-force acting on the aircraft increase, constricting the wearer's arteries, hence increasing blood pressure and blood flow to the brain.

The G-suit was a superior solution to another alternative (a water-filled suit) being tested at the time, which was considered impractically heavy and cumbersome. The water-filled, pulsatile pressure suits were developed to effect venous return.  However, Wood and colleagues' detailed physiologic measurements demonstrated that what was required was augmentation of arterial pressure.

Wood himself regularly tested the flight suits, taking many turns in a human centrifuge and plane dubbed the "G-wiz." He calculated that during more than a thousand rides, he had lost consciousness for an aggregate of at least fifteen minutes (without any observed lasting damage). Wood was awarded a Presidential Certificate of Merit by Harry Truman in 1947.

The G-suit was adopted in the 1940s. The current models are based on the pattern Wood and his colleagues designed. Following World War II, Wood was recruited to participate in what was known as "Operation Paperclip" The goal was to keep the top German scientists away from Russia and working for the United States.

In 1962, Wood was the tenth scientist to be named "Career Investigator," of the American Heart Association. These funds allowed Wood considerable flexibility in regards to the directions of his research.

Other work
After his work on the G-Suit, Wood worked on techniques for measuring cardiac blood flow. He was granted a patent for the ear oximeter, an optical instrument that measures blood oxygen levels without taking blood by examining the variation of light absorption as a function of oxygen saturation of hemoglobin. Integral to the work leading to the development of the G suit was the perfection of vascular catheterization methods needed to understand the distribution of blood pressure and flow.  Shortly after the end of World War II, open-heart surgery emerged with the Mayo contribution to the development of the heart-lung bypass machine initially developed by Gibbons and perfected by Wood and colleagues. Wood's work at the Mayo Clinic lead to the development of many technologies allowing for the assessment of the heart and lungs including dye dilution methods serving to characterize cardiac output, methods for the assessment of central blood volume, the calculation of pulmonary vascular resistance (known as the "Wood Unit" and calculated by subtracting pulmonary capillary wedge pressure from the mean pulmonary arterial pressure and dividing by the cardiac output), analog subtraction angiography, and eventually the Dynamic Spatial Reconstructor (DSR), a predecessor to modern high speed volumetric computed tomography (CT) allowing for the evaluation of the beating heart and breathing lungs.  The DSR comprised 14 X-ray tubes and a hemicylindrical fluorescent screen imaged by 14 associated television cameras.

In all, Wood is noted for his contributions (together with members of the Biodynamics Research Unit (BRU), under his direction, within the physiology and biophysics department at the Mayo Clinic) in the following areas:
 methods for protection against blackout and unconsciousness during high G-forces
 methods for heart catheterizations;
 methods for monitoring vascular pressures;
 the pulse oximeter for real time non-invasive monitoring or arterial oxygen saturation;
 methods for calculation of pulmonary vascular resistance (Wood Unit);
 methods for the digital conversion of analog physiologic signals allowing for computer-based monitoring of vascular signals (using the early computer developments of IBM which was just down the road from Wood's laboratory);
 methods for liquid fluorocarbon respiration explored for protection against high G forces expected during rocket launch and re-entry while leaving and returning to earth's atmosphere in space exploration;
 methods for the assessment of pleural pressure to determine regional gravitational effects on the lung;
 indicator dilution curve methodology for the assessment of cardiac output and other physiologic derivative;
 indocyanine green dye for use in the indicator dilution method;
 analog subtraction angiography for the assessment of cardiac structures via video fluoroscopy and
 the earliest predecessor (The Dynamic Spatial Reconstructor) of modern high speed, multi-source / multi-detector row computed tomography for the non-invasive imaging of the beating heart and breathing lungs.

Wood's publication list, with more than 700 entries, is a testament to the number of fellows who trained under him and who became prominent researchers in their own right.

Early life
Earl Wood was born to Inez Goff and William Clark Wood in Mankato, Minnesota on January 1, 1912 and started life on a subsistence farm.  William Wood, in addition to farming, was a real estate businessman. Earl Wood earned a B.A. in Mathematics and Chemistry from Macalester College in 1934, and his MD degree and a PhD degree in physiology from the University of Minnesota. Earl was one of 5 brothers (Earl, Chester, Delbert, Harland and Abe) and a sister, Louise.

Family
All of Earl Wood's siblings grew up to be highly accomplished. Louise A. Wood was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Truman for her services as overseas director of the American Red Cross during World War II. and became the executive director of the Girl Scouts of the USA from 1961 to 1972. Harland G. Wood was the first director of the department of biochemistry at the school of medicine and dean of sciences, Case Western Reserve University. As a biochemist, he was notable for proving in 1935 that animals, humans and bacteria utilized carbon dioxide and received the National Medal of Science. Chester was a teacher and a university administrator; Delbert was, in succession, a lawyer, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, and a railway executive; Abe was an internist and founder of a Colorado-based medical clinic. Not surprisingly, in 1950, Earl Wood's mother, Inez, was awarded the title of "Minnesota Mother of the Year."  Earl and his wife, Ada, had a daughter, Phoebe and three sons, Mark, Guy and E. Andrew.

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1912 births
2009 deaths
American physiologists
American medical researchers
Cardiovascular researchers
American biomedical engineers
Mayo Clinic people
Physicians of the Mayo Clinic
University of Minnesota Medical School alumni


The Bristol Berkeley was built to a British government specification for a single-engine day or night bomber. Three of these two-seat biplanes were built, but no contract for further production was awarded.

Development
In August 1923, British aircraft manufacturers were invited to submit designs to Air Ministry Specification 26/23, which called for a single Rolls-Royce Condor-engined two-seat day or night bomber. The Berkeley was Bristol's response, designed largely by W.T. Reid with finishing touches from Bristol's longtime chief designer, Frank Barnwell. It was a fabric-covered all-metal structured three-bay biplane, with equal span, unswept and unstaggered wings with Frise-type ailerons on the upper and lower planes. Structurally, the wings were of rolled steel and duralumin.

The fuselage was built from steel tubes and had a rectangular cross section. The pilot sat forward of the leading edge of the wing in an open cockpit and the gunner/observer in a cockpit well aft, fitted with a ring-mounted .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis Gun. He could also access a bomb aimer's position, when he lay prone on the aircraft floor. The horizontal tail was positioned at the top of the fuselage and braced below, carrying elevators whose balances protruded beyond the fixed surfaces. The rudder was tall and also horn-balanced, but more elegantly than the elevators with the edge running smoothly into the fin. The undercarriage was of wide track, mounted to the wings below the centre section interplane struts and braced to the fuselage.

The 650 hp (490 kW) Condor engine drove a two-blade propeller and had, after some Air Ministry input, a nose-mounted radiator under the propeller shaft. The Ministry advised that the wings of the first two Berkeleys of the three specified in the contract should have wooden wings for speed of completion, with the third to be all metal. Leitner-Watts Metal airscrews were required for the second and third machine. The first Berkeley flew on 5 March 1925.

The Type 90 Berkeley was the first Bristol aircraft to receive a type number at the start of its design rather than retrospectively.

Operational history
The first Berkeley was accepted for trials at RAF Martlesham Heath in May 1925 and remained there until November. Other aircraft competing for production contracts were the Handley Page Handcross, the Hawker Horsley and the Westland Yeovil. The Handcross and the Berkeley were the two larger machines and for that reason judged more suitable for the night bombing role; unfortunately for Handley-Page and Bristol, the Air Ministry had already decided, on the basis of experience with the Avro Aldershot that single-engine aircraft were not suitable for night-bombing. In the end, therefore the only successful contender was the Horsley, chosen for the day-bomber role.

The second Berkeley was accepted by the Air Ministry in December 1925 and the all-metal third one in the following June. All three went to the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) for experimental flight. The second aircraft undertook comparative trials of a four-blade wooden airscrew against its original two-blade steel one. One of the three Berkeleys was still flying with the RAE at the end of 1930.

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Lectionary 70, designated by siglum ℓ 70 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th-century.

Description

The codex contains Lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium) with some lacunae at the beginning and end. The lacking leaves were supplied by a later hand. It is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 313 parchment leaves (), 2 columns per page, 25-26 lines per column. The text of John 8:3-11 is included.

In Mark 6:33 it has textual reading ἐκεῖ καὶ προῆλθον αὐτούς along with Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, 0187 (omit εκει), 892, ℓ 49, ℓ 69, ℓ 299, ℓ 303, ℓ 333, ℓ 1579, (ℓ 950 αυτους), itaur, vg, (copsa, bo).

In Mark 10:7 it has unique reading μητερα (mother) instead of γυναικα (wife).

A few paper leaves at the beginnings and end were added later.

History

Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th-century.

The manuscript was brought from the East in 1669. It was partially examined by Scholz. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1885.

The manuscript is cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).

Currently the codex is located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 288) in Paris.

See also

 List of New Testament lectionaries
 Biblical manuscript
 Textual criticism

Notes and references

Bibliography

 Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au N. T., conservés dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 150.

Greek New Testament lectionaries
12th-century biblical manuscripts
Bibliothèque nationale de France collections


McAnearney is a surname, from Irish Mac an Airchinnigh, Mhic an Airchinnigh. Notable people with the surname include:

 Jim McAnearney (1935–2017), Scottish football player and manager
 Tom McAnearney (1933–2012), Scottish football player and manager

See also
 McInerney

Surnames of Irish origin


Bill "Flash" Bogash (November 22, 1916 –  March 20, 2009) was a roller derby skater and coach.

Born in Chicago, he began his career in 1935 during the Great Depression, and skated until 1958.

Bogash's career began after he and his mother attended the first  Transcontinental Roller Derby in Chicago on August 13, 1935, a six-week race that tracked skaters' total distance traveled in laps around a track on a US map. He and his mother, Josephine 'Ma' Bogash joined the second race in September of that year, in Kansas. After racing with many teams throughout the 1940s, Bogash led the New York Chiefs to their first Roller Derby World Championship in 1949. Towards the end of his career, Bogash skated for the Los Angeles Braves.

After retirement in 1958, Bogash went on to be a restaurateur in Los Angeles, California, with some of the most incredible steaks and twice-cooked potatoes on Earth! He died of respiratory failure on March 20, 2009.

He was inducted into the National Roller Derby Hall of Fame in 1953

References

1916 births
2009 deaths
Roller derby skaters
American roller skaters
Sportspeople from Chicago


Richard Crakanthorpe (1567–1624) was an English Anglican priest, remembered both as a logician and as a religious controversialist.

His logical works still had currency in the eighteenth century, and there is an allusion in the novel Tristram Shandy.  As a logician he was conservative, staying close to Aristotle and the Organon, and critical of the fashion for Ramism and its innovations. His Logicae was a substantial work, and was referred to by Samuel Johnson.

Crakanthorpe was, says Anthony à Wood,

a great canonist, and so familiar and exact in the fathers, councils, and schoolmen, that none in his time scarce went before him. None have written with greater diligence, I cannot say with a meeker mind, as some have reported that he was as foul-mouthed against the papists, particularly M. Ant. de Dominis, as Prynne was afterwards against them and the prelatists.

Life
He was born at or near Strickland in Westmorland, and was baptised in 1568 in the nearby village of Morland. At the age of sixteen was admitted as a student at Queen's College, Oxford. According to Anthony à Wood he was first a "poor serving child", then a tabardar, and at length in 1598 became a fellow of that college. Crakanthorpe seems to have been much influenced by John Rainolds, and became conspicuous among the Puritan party at Oxford  as a disputant and  preacher. Wood describes him as a "zealot among them", and as having formed a coterie in his college of men of similar opinions, disciples of Rainolds. He was selected to accompany Ralph Eure, 3rd Lord Eure as his chaplain, with Thomas Morton, on a 1602 diplomatic mission to the Emperor Rudolph II and the King of Denmark.

Crakanthorpe preached an "Inauguration Sermon" at Paul's Cross on the accession of James I in 1603; and became chaplain to Thomas Ravis, Bishop of London, and chaplain in ordinary to the king. He was also admitted, early in 1605, on the presentation of Sir John Leverson, to the rectory of Black Notley, near Braintree in Essex. Sir John had had three sons at Queen's College, and had become acquainted with Crakanthorpe.

In 1617, succeeding John Barkham, Crakanthorpe was presented to the rectory of Paglesham by the Bishop of London. He had before this taken his degree of D.D. and been incorporated at Cambridge. He died at Black Notley, and was buried in the chancel of the church there on 25 November 1624. King James, to whom he was well known, said, somewhat unfeelingly, that he died for want of a bishopric.

Works
His Inauguration Sermon was  published in 1608. In 1616 he published a treatise in defence of the Emperor Justinian the emperor, against Cardinal Baronius. Other works were: Introductio in Metaphysicam, Oxford, 1619; Defence of Constantine, with a Treatise of the Pope's Temporal Monarchy, London 1621; Logicae libri quinque de Predicabilibus, Praedicamentis, London. 1622; Tractatus de Providentiâ Dei, Cambridge, 1622.

The Defensio Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Crakanthorpe's best-known controversial work, was not published till after his death, when it was given to the world (1625) by his friend John Barkham, who also preached his funeral sermon. Marcantonio de Dominis, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Spalatro, came to England as a convert to the Church of England, having published his reasons in a book called Consilium Profectionis (Heidelberg and London 1616). After about six years' residence in England he returned to Rome, and published a retractation (Consilium Reditus). A perfect storm of vituperation broke out against him. Crakanthorpe answered in his Defensio Ecclesiae, taking the retractation  sentence by sentence, and pouring out a stream of invective. The first edition was full of errors; it was edited at Oxford in 1847. Several other works written by him of anti-Catholic controversy were published after his death.

A Sermon of Sanctification preached on the Act Sunday at Oxford (London, 1608)
A Sermon at the Solemnizing of the Happie Inauguration of our most Gracious and Religious Soveraigne King James (London, 1609)
Justinian the Emperor defended against Cardinal Baronius (London, 1616)
Introductio in metaphysicam (Oxford, 1619)
A Sermon of Predestination preached at Saint Maries in Oxford (London, 1620)
The Defence of Constantine with a Treatise of the Popes Temporall Monarchie (London, 1621)
Logicae libri quinque (London, 1622)
De providentia Dei tractatus (Cambridge, 1623)
Defensio Eccelesiae Anglicanae (London, 1625)

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1624 deaths
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17th-century Anglican theologians


Sir Martin Doughty (11 October 1949 – 4 March 2009) was the Chair of Natural England and a well-known figures in modern British conservation.

Biography

Martin Doughty began his working career as a lecturer in Environmental Management at Sheffield Hallam University.

Subsequently he worked primarily in the public or voluntary sectors with roles such as Leader of Derbyshire County Council from 1992 until 2001. He was also a Board Member for the Countryside Agency (1999 – 2005) and was the Chair of English Nature before taking up his final position as Chair of Natural England.

He received a knighthood in 2001 for services to local government in Derbyshire, followed by Honorary Doctorates from Sheffield Hallam University in 2002, Cranfield University in 2005 and Derby University in 2006.

He died of cancer on 4 March 2009, aged 59.

References

External links
Sir Martin Doughty (1949 – 2009)

British environmentalists
Knights Bachelor
1949 births
2009 deaths


The FX-702P is a Pocket Computer, manufactured by Casio from 1981 to 1984.

Display
The FX-702P features a single line dot matrix liquid crystal display with 20 characters.  A 10-digit mantissa is displayed (including minus sign) however internal calculations use a 12-digit mantissa.

Programming
The programming model employed is a special BASIC dialect.  Ten programming areas are supported, P0 through P9.  BASIC lines can be numbered from 1 through to 9999.  Subroutines are supported, but passing parameters to subroutines is not supported.  The subroutine call stack can be up to 10 deep.  Both GOTO lines and subroutines can be addressed indirectly via line number calculation.  FOR/NEXT structures can be nested up to eight times.

A single one and/or two dimensional array is supported however array memory space must be reserved (subtracted) from the 1,680 character program space via the DEFM command.  Array memory can be aliased to fixed variable names, for example A(11) references the same location as variable B1.

Both programs and data can be stored to magnetic tape.  Data can be stored under program control.  Programs can be password protected from both listing and execution.

Interface

The FX-702P uses the FA-2 interface which is also used by the Casio FX-602P series. The interface features a Kansas City standard Compact Cassette interface and printer port for the FP-10 thermal printer. The printer can also be connected directly to the calculator.

The FP-10 Spark printer was used with the FX-602P series of programmable calculator and the FX-702P Pocket Computer to print out programs, data register and display content. Although the feature was not documented, the FP-10 can also be used with the FX-502P series and was able to print out programs in Key-code notation.

References

External links
 The Casio FX-702P computer on the pocket computer museum
 Casio FX-702P on Caz Pocket Computers Collection
 FX-702P on RS-Key maintained by Viktor Toth.
 casio fx-702p on Voidware
 ledudu's page on fx-702p and sisters on the ledudu's Casio library

FX-702P
Pocket computers
Products introduced in 1981


Miss Thailand Universe 2006, the 7th Miss Thailand Universe pageant held at Centara Grand at Central Plaza Ladprao Bangkok, in Bangkok, Thailand on March 25, 2006. The 44 contestants arrived in Nakhon Sawan to do some activities a week earlier before coming back to Bangkok to compete in the final round.

In the final round, broadcast live on BBTV Channel 7, Charm Onwarin Osathanond, was crowned Miss Thailand Universe 2006 by Natalie Glebova, Miss Universe 2005 from Canada.

Charm Onwarin Osathanond represented Thailand in Miss Universe 2006 pageant in Los Angeles, United States. She is the first Thai representatives in 18 years that can be in semi-finalists round after Porntip Nakhirunkanok, Miss Universe 1988 did in 1988.

External links
 Miss Thailand Universe official website

2006
2006 in Bangkok
2006 beauty pageants
March 2006 events in Thailand
Beauty pageants in Thailand


St. Benedict's College (Sinhala: සාන්ත බෙනඩික්  විදුහල, Tamil: புனித ஆசீர்வாதப்பர்  கல்லூரி) is a Catholic school located in the Kotahena area of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

History

The school was founded in 1838 by the Diocese of Ceylon as Kottanchina Seminary. St. Benedict's College, the oldest Roman Catholic school in Sri Lanka, was inaugurated in 1865 by Silvestro Benedictine monks. The school consisted of a few classrooms and small staff at first.

In 1868, the De La Salle Brothers assumed administration of the college. They renamed it to St. Benedict's College.Since then, the school has been administered by many brothers who belong to the La Sallian Community.

The past Directors of the college include Bro. Austin Anthony, Bro. Glastian Oliver, Bro. Alban Patrick, Bro. Athanace Charles, Bro. Osmund Gregory, Bro. Alexander Cyrilus, Bro. Granville Perera and Bro. Anselm Calixtus.

Administration
 the college was led by Pubudu Rajapakshe, and taught approximately 2,400 students with a staff of over 200 teachers. Students range from Grade 1 to Grade 13 (see Education in Sri Lanka), studying in English, Sinhala and Tamil.

Campus

The premises are adjacent to St. Lucia's Cathedral. The Main Building, the Reverend Brothers Luke, Alexander, and James Memorial Buildings, the Reverend Brother Granville Perera Aquatic Centre, The Main Hall Building, and Longstanding Clock Tower (built during the English Colonial Era) complete the college. Academic facilities are provided throughout the college in combination with co-curricular and extra-curricular facilities.

The college prefects' board consists of fifty students who are selected for their all-around performance and contributions towards the college. The prefects make themselves available for many activities such as special events, occasions, general assemblies, and day-to-day discipline.

The college section consists of the main hall, buildings named after Reverend Brother James, Reverend Brother. Alexander and Reverend Brother Luke, a library, three computer laboratories, a lecture hall, physics, biology, and chemistry laboratories, three music and art rooms, and a language centre.

Primary

The primary is physically separated from the college section headed by Praveen Vaaz. The sixty member staff provides education to around 1,000 students in fields of the academy, sports arts, and music.

The primary section consists of two main buildings with up to forty classes, a library, language unit, computer laboratory, music hall, basketball court and arts room. The primary prefects board consists of twenty prefects who attend all school occasions and discipline the younger students. Additionally, the primary students are given opportunities to participate in scouting, choir and sports.

Sports

Since opening in 1865, St, Benedict's has actively participated in island sports; especially football, basketball, hockey and cricket and have been national champions for all four of these sports. The college had the All-Island Champion Cricket team in 1964/65 and was the first school to introduce rugby to the educational sector in the country. It became All-Island Athletic Champion in 2008, All-Island Football Champion in 2006, 2007, and 2008, All-Island Basketball Champion in 2006 & 2009 and All-Island Hockey Champion in 2007.

The college owns a Gymnasium and a Sports-Hostel. The grounds on Bloemendhal Road consist of cricket pitches and turf, rugby fields, football fields, hockey facilities, and provides facilities for other various athletics.

Within college premises, the college has two basketball courts; one of which is lit for night games. A swimming pool with viewing facilities was added in 2010.

St. Benedict's Primary is the first primary section of a school in the country to have its own basketball court. It offers table tennis in addition to the main sports of cricket, tennis, and swimming.

Old Boys

The Old Boys of St. Benedict's College, an organisation of former students, have played a role in the affairs and ventures of the college since 1904. The Loyal Old Bens have been instrumental in projects, functions and special events.

Notable alumini
Refer :Category:Alumni of St. Benedict's College, Colombo

References

External links
Old Ben's Alumni Association of United Kingdom
Old Ben's Alumni Association of New York
SBC Old Boys Association - British Columbia, Canada

1865 establishments in Ceylon
Boys' schools in Sri Lanka
Educational institutions established in 1865
Catholic secondary schools in Sri Lanka
Schools in Colombo
Colombo


Social analytics is a philosophical perspective developed since the early 1980s by the Danish idea historian and philosopher Lars-Henrik Schmidt. The theoretical object of the perspective is socius, a kind of "commonness" that is neither a universal account nor a communality shared by every member of a body. Thus, Social Analytics differs from traditional philosophy as well as sociology. It might be said that the perspective attempts to articulate the contentions between philosophy and sociology. The practise of Social Analytics is to report on tendencies of the times. It does not aim to make a diagnosis of the times that can be agreed upon by everyone or anybody but a report that no one wants to protest about.

References

Philosophical schools and traditions
Sociological terminology


Jiuguang () is a Chinese department store chain, a joint venture between Chongguang Department Store and Jiubai Group () of Shanghai.

Chongguang Department Store is operated by the Lifestyle International Group (), which continues Sogo's operations in Hong Kong after Sogo's bankruptcy,

Jiuguang opened its flagship store in Shanghai's Jing'an District in 2004, and branch stores in Suzhou Industrial Park in 2008 and in Dalian in 2009.

References

External links
 Jiuguang Department Store website
 Chongguang (Shanghai)
 Jiubai Group

Department stores of China
2004 establishments in China
Companies based in Shanghai
Retail companies of China
Shops in Shanghai
Suzhou Industrial Park
Dalian


In mammals, cardiac electrical activity originates from specialized myocytes of the sinoatrial node (SAN) which generate spontaneous and rhythmic action potentials (AP). The unique functional aspect of this type of myocyte is the absence of a stable resting potential during diastole.  Electrical discharge from this cardiomyocyte may be characterized by a slow smooth transition from the Maximum Diastolic Potential (MDP, -70 mV) to the threshold (-40 mV) for the initiation of a new AP event. The voltage region encompassed by this transition is commonly known as pacemaker phase, or slow diastolic depolarization or phase 4.

The duration of this slow diastolic depolarization (pacemaker phase) thus governs the cardiac chronotropism. It is also important to point out that the modulation of the cardiac rate by the autonomic nervous system also acts on this phase. Sympathetic stimuli induce the acceleration of rate by increasing the slope of the pacemaker phase, while parasympathetic activation exerts the opposite action.

The amount of net inward current required to move the cell membrane potential during the pacemaker phase is extremely small, in the order of few pAs, but this net flux arises from the time to time changing contribution of several currents that flow with different voltage and time dependence. Evidence in support of the active presence of K+, Ca2+ , Na+  channels and Na+/K+ exchanger during the pacemaker phase have been variously reported in the literature, but several indications point to the funny current (If) as one of the most important. There is now substantial evidence that also sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ -transients participate in the generation of the diastolic depolarization via a process involving the Na–Ca exchanger.

References

See also
 Funny current

Cardiac electrophysiology


The Takeover is a novel by the Scottish author Muriel Spark. It was first published in 1976.

It is set in Nemi, Italy between 1973 and 1975. The author had moved to Italy as a permanent resident in the late 1960s.

Plot summary
Three large villas overlooking Lake Nemi are owned by the wealthy, glamorous American Maggie Radcliffe who has recently remarried to Italian Marchese Berto. One villa is occupied by her son Michael and daughter-in-law Mary where manservant Lauro works. A second is leased by an Italian doctor Emilio Bernardino and his two children Letizia and Pietro taught by English tutor Nancy Cowan (who is also Bernardino's lover). The third is occupied by the eccentric Hubert Mallindaine with his secretary Pauline Thin. Hubert believes himself to be the descendant of the offspring of the Emperor Caligula's mythical liaison with Diana. Once a trusted friend of Maggie Radcliffe, Hubert is now an unwelcome house-sitter whom she wants evicted as quickly as possible.

Hubert is not so easily removed, however, and his intransigence and liquidation of Maggie's assets in the house (including Louis XIV Chairs, and a Gauguin painting) is mirrored in the loss of much of Maggie's wealth, from burglary to outright embezzlement of her entire estate. Events conspire however to cause both to review what they consider important.

Themes
As with several other Spark novels, one theme is the disintegration of 'timeless' values in modern society, in this instance the role of religion (represented by Hubert's bogus Diana cult and two indolent, chortling Catholic priests) and the role of money: mostly unseen, or buried. A larger-scale backdrop is provided by the 1973 oil crisis.

Hubert's secretary, Pauline Thin, shares her surname with the Edinburgh-based stationer James Thin, who supplied Spark's notebooks in which she wrote all her novels in longhand.

Reception
Kirkus Reviews states that the novel is "An elegant, wayward divertimento lighter than the soft Italian air of the Alban hills....Muriel Spark's most ambitious in some years. It can be read as a decorative, self-perpetuating comedy of urbane truths and consequences, or, as also intended, as a reprise and renewal of pagan mythology when our own Christian morality has been so decadently depreciated.

Margaret Drabble writing in The New York Times writes "We all like gloss: we like to read of those so wealthy that they can no longer afford to insure their possessions, and we love to suffer vicariously as they attempt to foil their predators...Muriel Spark raises the question: what lies beneath this dazzling game? Anything? Nothing? And, as ever, she leaves us on our own, for most of the book, to try to answer it... Muriel Spark drops her enigmatic allusions for long enough to tell us, plainly, that she is writing about money. In a couple of brilliant paragraphs, she describes the change that overtook the world in 1973, with the rise of Arab oil power and the fear of global recession." Drabble concludes: "Where is glittering sophistication in this new harsh world? What will Muriel Spark do next? Will she, like her heroine Maggie, put on shabbier clothes for a shabbier future, dissimulate, learn new tricks? Will she shake off the confines of a public image and a public style that have at times looked like a haute couture straight jacket? It is hard to praise a plain future and a Christian ethic in jewelled prose. It will be interesting to read the speculations of post-'73 Spark."

References

External links
New York Times review by Margaret Drabble

1976 British novels
Novels by Muriel Spark
Novels set in Italy
Catholic novels
Macmillan Publishers books


Bootsie may refer to:

 Bootsie Barnes, tenor saxophonist from Philadelphia, PA
 Bootsy Collins (born 1951), funk bassist, singer, and songwriter
 Bootsie and Snudge, a UK television series from the 1960s
Bootsie, the name of the character "Roadrunner" () in the English subtitles of the film Kontroll
 Bootsie Neal
 Bootsie Books, the creation of author Mike James who currently lives in Perth, Western Australia
 Bootsie, the original name of Polly's cat in "The Cat Who..." series.  Bootsie was an unhappy cat until his name was changed to the more satisfactory "Brutus".
 Bootsie Snootie, a character from the show "PB&J Otter", and Ootsie’s twin sister.
Caligula, third Emperor of Rome, who was given the name in his youth, which translates roughly to “Bootsie” or “Little Boots”.


Tunisia became the first Arab state to formally abolish polygamy in 1956, the same year it gained official independence.

Tunisia remains one of the few predominantly Muslim nations that has legally banned polygamy. Turkey banned the practice in 1926, while the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq banned polygamy in 2008.

See also
Polygyny in Islam

References

Polygamy in Africa
Tunisia
Law of Tunisia
Society of Tunisia


Cnoc Còinnich (Scottish Gaelic, "Mossy Hill") is a Corbett situated in Ardgoil in the Argyll & Bute council region and forms part of the Arrochar Alps.

Cnoc Còinnich missed out on Corbett status by one metre until July 2016 when it was resurveyed at the instigation of the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC). The new height is 763.5 m, changing its classification from one of the highest Grahams (second only in alphabetic order to Beinn Talaidh) to Corbett. The height was ratified by the Ordnance Survey and will be shown as 764 m on its maps.

The hill is easily ascended from either Lochgoilhead, or from Ardgartan on the A83 and is not far off the course of the Cowal Way long-distance footpath. It is often climbed together with The Brack, another Corbett which lies at the other side of the Coilessan bealach (col).

Cnoc Còinnich is topped by a small cairn at grid reference NN233007.

References

Mountains and hills of Argyll and Bute
Grahams
Marilyns of Scotland


Exodus: Tales from the Enchanted Kingdom is a 2005 Filipino fantasy film directed by Erik Matti and produced by Imus Productions and Reality Entertainment in cooperation with Ignite Media Inc. and Enchanted Kingdom Inc., as the title alludes to the popular Filipino theme park of the same name. It was released on December 25, 2005, and was an official entry to the 2005 Metro Manila Film Festival.

Plot
The film opens in the Enchanted Kingdom, where the story is narrated by a wizard in purple (the Enchanted Kingdom theme park's mascot).

Ordinary humans led by King Bantayan, a comatosed man, living only through a life support device and with dwarves maintaining it, are being annihilated by the all-powerful evil king Bagulbol and his creatures of the dark, created from human hatred and human experiments. To end their tribulation, mankind’s leaders paid a mercenary with exceptional fighting skills to defend them. That mercenary is Exodus, the drifter.

Nearing their extinction, King Bantayan and the leaders of men dispatched Exodus on a quest to capture five elementals to aid them in the final battle against King Bagulbol. Exodus was able to convince the last Earth (Tikbalang), Wind (Aswang), Fire (Santelmo), and Water (Water Nymph) elementals and they became allies in ridding the land of evil. Later it was revealed that Exodus is also last of the remaining Baylan (priestly race), exterminated many years ago by King Bagulbol. His minions are created by the human captives that was experimented and allowed hatred to consume them.

Exodus and his enchanted friends fought several enemies, including a whip wielding General, an Executioner, an Archer and a Harpy like creature and were victorious. Exodus faced both Bagulbol and his card reader sidekick and beat them, while the remaining human defenders are holding their ground, suffering severe casualties and destruction of their last hideout due to evil minion attacks. They conquered humankind's greatest enemy and peace was again established. And the Elementals return to their places. He then recreated his father's kingdom with the remaining humans.

Cast
 Ramon 'Bong' Revilla Jr. as Exodus, a Baylan and the main protagonist, drifter, mercenary and a paid soldier, revealed as the last equalizer and hope for freedom.
 Ramboy Revilla as a young Exodus
 Jolo Revilla as teenage Exodus
 Iya Villania as Lin-Ay, the Water Elemental, a Water Nymph chained and sealed due to her curse (her excessive beauty).
 Benjie Paras as Tayho, the Earth Elemental, a wild and active Tikbalang
 BJ Forbes as Silab, the Fire Elemental, a Santelmo that can divide into three (2 Spear-holding clones and the real body).
 Aubrey Miles as Bangkila, the Air Elemental, an Aswang that is disguised as a scarecrow, with sharp claws, reminiscent of the creature from Jeepers Creepers.
 Paolo Bediones as Maestro Eliseo, the comatosed leader of the Bantayan.
 Jay-R as King Bagulbol, a corrupted dark priest and the primary antagonist that killed Exodus' father.
 Long Mejia as Alas, King Bagulbol's messenger, soothsayer and card wielding sidekick.
 Bobbie Zialcita / Joonee Gamboa (voice) as Eldar, the wizard of the Enchanted Kingdom and the narrator

Awards

References

External links

 Filmfest contender

2005 films
Philippine fantasy films
2000s Tagalog-language films
2000s English-language films
Films directed by Erik Matti


Lamination paper is a paper used for laminates. Normally on particle or fiberboards giving a good-looking and resistant surface for use as furniture, decoration panels and flooring.

Paper laminations are also used in packaging. For example, juiceboxes are fabricated from liquid packaging board which is usually six layers of paper, polyethylene, and aluminum foil. Paper is used in the lamination to shape the product and give the juicebox an extra source of strength.

Properties
A laminate consists of a single or multiple layers, each having its own distinct function. The base is most often particle- or fiberboards, then some layers of absorbent kraft paper. The last layers are a decor paper covered with an overlay. The lamination papers are covered with an inert resin, often melamine, which is cured to form a hard composite with the structure of paper. The laminates may also have a lining on the back side of laminating kraft to compensate for the tension created by the top side lamination.

Cheaper particle boards may have only a lining of laminating kraft to give surface washability and resistance to wear.

The decor paper can also be processed under heat and low/high pressure to create a melamine laminated sheet, that has several applications.

Absorbent kraft paper
The absorbent kraft paper is a normal kraft paper with controlled absorbency, which means a high degree of porosity. It is made of clean low kappa hardwood kraft with good uniformity. The grammage is 80 - 120 g/m2 and normally 2-4 plies are used.

Decor paper
The decor paper is the most critical of the lamination papers as it gives the visual appearance of the laminate. The impregnation resin and cellulose have about the same refraction index which means that the cellulose fibers of the paper appear as a shade and only the dyestuffs and pigments are visible. Due to this the decor paper demands extreme cleanness and is produced only on small paper machines with grammage 50 - 150 g/m2.

Overlay
The overlay paper have grammage of 18 – 50 m2 and is made of pure cellulose, thus it must be made of well delignified pulp. It becomes transparent after impregnation letting the appearance of the decor paper come through.

Laminating kraft
The laminating kraft have a grammage of 70 - 150 g/m2 and is a smooth dense kraft paper.

See also
 plastic-coated paper
 Process of production
 Types of films (in German)

References

Paper
Building materials
Coated paper


Simone Kleinsma (born 8 May 1958) is a musical theatre actress in the Netherlands.

Personal life
On 5 June 1990, Simone married Guus Verstraete, a Dutch television director.

Career
Simone provided voice over work to numerous major animated films; including The Fairy Godmother in Shrek 2, Yzma in The Emperor's New Groove, Esmé Holgert in Babe and Babe: Pig in the City, Georgette in Oliver and Company and An American Tail.

Kleinsma performs on regularly base with pianists (most often Cor Bakker or Tony Eyk) or orchestra. As an actress, she became known for her part in the TV-hit series 'Kees & Co' (aired from 1997 to 2006 at RTL Broadcasting). She played Kees Heistee, mother of Anne (Amber Teterissa) and Rudie (Robin Tjon Pian Gi) and married to Ben Heistee (Rik Hoogendoorn).

In 1996–1997 she presented the cooking program 'Koken met Cas'.

Theater

Television
{| class="wikitable"
! Program
! year(s)
! Broadcaster
! remark(s)
|-
| Voorbij, Voorbij (Televisionfilm)
| 1979
|
| Part: Guide
|-
| Spreuken (songs)
| 1979
|
| Singer next to Joost Prinsen
|-
| De Taalstraat: Ik heb u lief mijn Nederlands
| 1979–1982
| Teleac
| Singer with Gerard Cox, Carry Tefsen and Piet Hendriks
|-
| Een vlucht regenwulpen (film)
| 1981
|
| Part: laboratory Janny
|-
| Zeg 'ns Aaa
| Episode 29, 1982
| VARA
| Guestpart: Klushulp
|-
| Zoals U enst, mevrouw
| 1984
| VARA
| Guestpart. Musical comedy with André Hazes, Carry Tefsen, Yvonne Valkenburg en Joost Prinsen
|-
| Als ik later groot ben..!
| 1984
| KRO
| Musical for children because of Childrenbook week 1984. Part: Teacher (next to Marnix Kappers)
|-
| Een avond met André
| 1985
| VARA
| Guest. Muzical show rondom André Hazes
|-
| Wedden, dat..?
| 1986–1987
| AVRO
| Dancer/singer next to Fred Butter, Hans van der Woude & Lucie de Lange. Televisieshow met Jos Brink & Sandra Reemer.
|-
| De Ep Oorklep Show
| 1987
| TROS
| Variety of different parts with André van Duin, Frans van Dusschoten and Lucie de Lange
|-
| Kinderen voor Kinderen 8
| 1987
| VARA
| Hostess/singer with Ron Brandsteder
|-
| Simone & Friends (televisieshow)
| 1988
|
| soloist
|-
| Simone's Kerstshow
| 1990
| RTL 4
| Variety of different parts with André van Duin en Henk Poort
|-
| Gouden televizier Ring Gala 1992
| 1992
| AVRO
| Guest appearance with Paul de Leeuw (as monsieur and madame Thérnadier)
|-
| Mijn dochter en ik
| 1994
| RTL 4
| Guestappearance: Cleaning Lady
|-
| Vrienden voor het leven
| 1994
| RTL 4
| Guest appearance: teacher at pregnancy therapy
|-
| Wat schuift 't?
| 1995
| RTL 4
| Guest appearance: Chantal (Episode Ingepakt en wegwezen)
|-
| 30 minuten
| 1995
| VPRO
| Guest appearance (Afl. 10: Rondom ons). Program written by and starring Arjan Ederveen
|-
| Parodie Parade
| 1996–1997
| RTL 4
| Soloist next to Anne-Mieke Ruyten and Robert Paul. Television show with Ron Brandsteder.
|-
| Koken met Cas
| 1996–1997
| SBS 6
| Hostess (Cookingprogramm with chefcook Cas Spijkers)
|-
| Baantjer
| 2002
| RTL 4
| Guest appearance Annemarie Spijkers/Sandra Kottman (Episode De Cock en het lijk in de kast)
|-
| rowspan="2" | Kees & Co
| 1997–2006
| rowspan="2" | RTL 4
| rowspan="2" | Main part: Kees Heistee (A remake from 2point4 Children).
|-
|2019–2020
|-
| Villa Felderhof
| 2001
| NCRV
| Main guest with André Hazes. Talkshow from and presentes by Rik Felderhof.
|-
| Junior Eurovisiesongfestival
| 2006
| AVRO
| Juror
|-
| In de hoofdrol
| 2008
| AVRO
| Central Guest. Hosted by Frits Sissing
|-
| Dik Voormekaar Show
| 2009
| TROS
| Guest appearance. Television show with André van Duin and Ferry de Groot
|}

Awards
 Pisuisse Award for most promising major student Kleinkunst Academie (1978)
 Academy Award/ Gouden Beelden for Best Comedy actress as Kees Heistee in Kees & Co (1999)
 Golden Harp (2000)
 John Kraaijkamp Musical Award for her part as Donna Stuiveling in the musical Mamma Mia! (2004)
 John Kraaijkamp Musical Award for playing Norma Desmond in the musical Sunset Boulevard (2009)
 John Kraaijkamp Musical Award: Speciale Theater Award for her theatershow Simone: Songs from the Heart'' (2010)
 Nomination John Kraaijkamp Musical Award for Best performance by an actress in a leading role as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago (2000)
 Nomination John Kraaijkamp Musical Award voor Best performance by an actress in a leading role in Fosse (2003)

Albums

Singles

External links
 The official Simone Kleinsma fansite

References

1958 births
Living people
Dutch women singers
Dutch musical theatre actresses
Actresses from Amsterdam


Arthur Delisle,  (March 15, 1859 – April 10, 1936) was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Portneuf in the House of Commons of Canada from 1891 to 1896 as a Liberal member.

He was born in Portneuf, Canada East, the son of Jean Delisle and Anathalie Frenette. Delisle was educated at Laval, the Séminaire de Québec and the Université Laval. He was admitted to the Quebec bar in 1883 and set up practice in Quebec City. In 1890, Delisle married Blanche Hudon. He was one of the editors for l'Union Libérale. In 1896, he moved to Montreal and set up practice there. Delisle was named King's Counsel in 1898. He ran unsuccessfully for the same seat in the House of Commons in 1908 as an Independent Liberal. In 1929, he was named registrar for the bankruptcy court in Montreal district. Delisle died in Montreal at the age of 77.

References

 Les avocats de la région de Québec (1936)  Roy, PG

1859 births
1936 deaths
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Canadian King's Counsel


Henno Martin (15 March 1910 – 7 January 1998) was a German professor of geology who, along with Hermann Korn, lived for two years in the Namib Desert to avoid internment during the Second World War.

Personal life

Martin was born in Freiburg, Germany on 15 March 1910. His studies at the universities of Bonn, Zürich, and Göttingen culminated in a Ph.D on "Post-Archean Tectonics in Southern Central Sweden". In 1935 he emigrated along with Korn to what was then South-West Africa (now Namibia) (a former German colony) and worked as a consulting geologist. Namibia was at that time administered by its neighbor, South Africa and in 1939 South Africa, following the United Kingdom, declared war on Germany. In 1940, fearing internment as enemy aliens by the South African government, Martin and Korn decided to flee into the Namib desert and to wait out the war in the remote and rugged Kuiseb Canyon. They returned to Windhoek in 1942 after Korn contracted beri-beri. They were not interned on their return and before the war ended were employed as surveyors by the government. In 1957 Martin wrote The Sheltering Desert, a memoir of his experiences while living in the Namib. The work was first published in German and has been translated into other languages. A 1992 film covers the story.

Career
Martin discovered the Messum crater in 1939, the Namibian remainder of a gigantic volcanic eruption that happened before Africa and South America broke apart. This eruption is thought to have been the single largest explosive volcanic eruption in the history of the Earth.

After the war he worked as a consulting geologist, specialising in exploration for underground water resources. He selected the locations of boreholes throughout South-West Africa and particularly in the capital Windhoek, where he "provided the city with its first large-scale, reliable source of water".

Martin worked for 20 years as Director of the Geological Survey of Namibia. In 1963 he joined the University of Cape Town as director of the Precambrian Research Unit, and in 1964 he became Head of Geology at University of Göttingen.

The Geological Society of Namibia, whose honorary patron Martin was, awards the Henno Martin Medal annually for the best scientific publication by a geologist living in Namibia.

Selected bibliography

Martin, Henno (1957). The Sheltering Desert.
Martin, Henno (1961). The Hypothesis of Continental Drift in the Light of Recent Advances of Geological Knowledge in Brazil and in South West Africa. Geological Society of South Africa
Martin, Henno (1965). The Precambrian Geology of South West Africa and Namaqualand. Cape Town: Precambrian Research Unit, University of Cape Town

References

1910 births
1998 deaths
Scientists from Freiburg im Breisgau
People from the Grand Duchy of Baden
20th-century German geologists
Tectonicists
Namibian people of World War II
Hans-Stille-Medaille winners
Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille winners
German expatriates in Namibia


myExperiment is a social web site for researchers sharing research objects such as scientific workflows.

The myExperiment website was launched in November 2007 and contains a significant collection of scientific workflows for a variety of workflow systems, most notably Taverna, but also other tools such as Bioclipse. myExperiment has a REST API and is based on an open source Ruby on Rails codebase. It supports Linked data and has a SPARQL Endpoint, with an interactive tutorial.

The myExperiment project is directed by David De Roure at University of Oxford and is one of the activities of the myGrid consortium led by Carole Goble of The University of Manchester, UK and of the e-Research South UK regional consortium led by the Oxford e-Research Centre. It was originally funded by Jisc under the Virtual Research Environment programme and by the Microsoft Technical Computing Initiative. myExperiment is being enhanced by the workflows for ever project (Wf4Ever) which aims to provide new features to support the preservation of Research Objects in conjunction with the dLibra digital library framework.

References

Biological databases
Jisc
MediaWiki websites
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Science and technology in Greater Manchester


John Joseph Graham (born 16 July 1946) is a Scottish former professional football player and manager who played as a central midfielder and inside left. He is best remembered for the decade he spent in the Football League with Brentford, for whom he made over 400 appearances. Graham was voted into the Brentford Hall of Fame in December 2013.

Playing career

Morton
Graham began his senior career in his native Scotland when he joined Scottish League First Division club Morton on 1 August 1964. He scored one goal in six league appearances for the club, before departing at the end of the 1965–66 season.

Dundee United
Graham moved to fellow top-flight club Dundee United for a £15,000 fee on 20 August 1966. He failed to progress at Tannadice and made just 27 appearances over the course of three seasons, scoring 10 goals. He gained further experience on loan at United Soccer Association club Dallas Tornado during the 1967 season, for whom he scored four goals in 11 appearances. Graham departed Dundee United at the end of the 1968–69 season.

Guildford City
Graham moved to England during the 1969 off-season to join Southern League First Division club Guildford City. He later revealed that the move was brought about because his girlfriend lived in the city. Graham scored 20 goals from the inside left position during the 1969–70 season and attracted the interest of Football League clubs. He felt he was "getting mucked about quite a bit" by Guildford, after league clubs Wolverhampton Wanderers, Oxford United, Cardiff City, Coventry City and Leeds United all pulled out of deals to sign him, due to Guildford's fee demands.

Brentford
Graham joined Fourth Division club Brentford for a £2,500 fee in July 1970, having gone behind the back of the Guildford City board to sign for the club. He flourished under Frank Blunstone's management and moved from inside left to central midfield. He was an automatic pick in the midfield and was the team's playmaker and a regular set piece taker, scoring twice directly from corner kicks. Despite contemplating returning to Guildford City during Mike Everitt's tenure as manager, Graham remained with the Bees and made 409 appearances and scored 40 goals in his decade at Griffin Park. He tasted promotion from the Fourth Division in the 1971–72 and 1977–78 seasons and his performances garnered him the club's Players' Player of the Year award in 1971–72 and 1976–77. He was also named captain by Bill Dodgin, after having turned the role down under previous manager John Docherty.

Graham departed Brentford in 1980, after failing to see eye to eye with incoming manager Fred Callaghan. Graham received a standing ovation at Griffin Park when he emerged from the tunnel as a player with Addlestone & Weybridge Town in November 1980, prior to an FA Cup match. Graham was recognised for his service to the Bees by being awarded a testimonial versus Watford in May 1982, from which he earned approximately £3,500. Graham was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame in December 2013.

Non-League football
Graham dropped back into non-League football to sign for Southern League Southern Division club Addlestone & Weybridge Town in 1980 and was named captain of the club. He later had spells with Farnborough Town, Hounslow Town, Woking, Burnham & Hillingdon and Staines Town.

Managerial and coaching career
Graham had a spell managing Isthmian League First Division club Staines Town during the 1986–87 season and was named as caretaker manager for a period in 1990. He held coaching positions at Staines Town, in Millwall's Centre Of Excellence and at Combined Counties League club Cranleigh. Graham later became vice-chairman of the FA Coaches Association.

Personal life
Graham is a Rangers supporter and was friends with Walter Smith, a former teammate at Dundee United. He worked in security for American Airlines at Heathrow Airport. Apart from a period living in a Brentford-owned house in Hounslow, Graham has lived in Guildford since 1969. After retiring from football, Graham initially worked as an engineer and as of 2005 was running a cleaning contractor business in the town. As of September 2022, at age 76, he was still running his business.

Career statistics

Honours
Brentford
 Football League Fourth Division third-place promotion: 1971–72
 Football League Fourth Division fourth-place promotion: 1977–78

Individual

 Brentford Players' Player of the Year: 1971–72, 1976–77
 Brentford Hall of Fame

References

1946 births
Living people
Footballers from Glasgow
Scottish men's footballers
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
Greenock Morton F.C. players
Dundee United F.C. players
Guildford City F.C. players
Brentford F.C. players
Addlestone & Weybridge Town F.C. players
Farnborough F.C. players
Hounslow F.C. players
Woking F.C. players
Burnham F.C. players
Staines Town F.C. players
Staines Town F.C. managers
Southern Football League players
Isthmian League players
Isthmian League managers
Millwall F.C. non-playing staff
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Dallas Tornado players
United Soccer Association players
Scottish expatriate men's footballers
Scottish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Men's association football midfielders
Scottish football managers


News shares

Highest-rated news and public affairs shows

Metropolitan
 Data based on the five metropolitan markets only.

Weekly ratings – 2009

Data based on the five metropolitan markets only according to OzTam weekly data released every Tuesday at their website.

News ratings, 2008


Jessy Priskila Rompies (born 14 April 1990) is an Indonesian tennis player. She made her debut as a professional in 2004, aged 14, at an ITF tournament in Jakarta, and is coached by Suzanna Wibowo.

Career
Rompies has played in several junior Grand Slam tournaments. Her best result was reaching the semifinals of the 2008 US Open girls' doubles, partnered by Beatrice Gumulya. Rompies and Gumulya lost the semifinal in a tiebreak.

In February 2009, Rompies represented Indonesia in the 2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I tournament. She played two doubles matches and one singles match. In her first match, Rompies and Ayu-Fani Damayanti defeated Ankita Bhambri and Rushmi Chakravarthi of India.

In 2011, Rompies represented Indonesia in the 2011 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II tournament and Group I playoff. She played four doubles matches with partner Yayuk Basuki, winning each match to see her country back in the Asia/Oceania Group I. She won one singles title and three doubles titles on the ITF circuit that year. She played in one WTA tournament in 2011, the Malaysian Open. She successfully represented her country at the 2011 SEA Games in Palembang, winning bronze in the women's doubles, mixed doubles, and silver for the women's team. Rompies again won medals in these three events at the 2015 SEA Games in Singapore.

Rompies also played in Fed Cup (2012 and 2016). Playing for Indonesia Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 21–20 (as of March 2023).

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner–ups)

Doubles: 50 (28 titles, 21 runner–ups)

ITF Junior finals

Singles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Doubles: 22 (15 titles, 7 runner-ups)

National representation

Multi-sport event
Rompies made her debut representing Indonesia in multi-sport event at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games, she won the women's doubles bronze medal.

Doubles: 6 (1 gold, 5 bronze)

Mixed doubles: 3 (2 silver, 1 bronze)

Notes

References

External links

Indonesian female tennis players
1990 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Jakarta
Tennis players at the 2010 Asian Games
Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
Tennis players at the 2022 Asian Games
Minahasa people
SEA Games silver medalists for Indonesia
SEA Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
SEA Games medalists in tennis
Competitors at the 2009 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2011 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2015 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2017 SEA Games
Asian Games competitors for Indonesia
Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games
SEA Games gold medalists for Indonesia
Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games
21st-century Indonesian women
Clemson Tigers women's tennis players
Competitors at the 2023 SEA Games


Léon Gérin (; May 17, 1863 – January 15, 1951) was a Canadian lawyer, civil servant, and sociologist.

Born in Quebec City, Canada East, the son of Antoine Gérin-Lajoie, Gérin studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet before receiving a law degree from Université Laval in 1884. In 1886, he went to Paris for a few months and became interested in sociology. Returning to Canada, he settled in Ottawa and worked for the federal government and the House of Commons of Canada.

He wrote works on a variety of subjects including the history of French colonization of the Americas and rural society in French Canada in the 19th century.

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he served as its president from 1933 to 1934 and was awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal in 1941. The Government of Quebec's Prix Léon-Gérin is named in his honour.

References

External links
 Léon Gérin at The Canadian Encyclopedia

Leon Gerin
1863 births
1951 deaths
19th-century Canadian civil servants
20th-century Canadian civil servants
Canadian sociologists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
People from Quebec City
Université Laval alumni


The Federal Ministry of Marshall Plan Affairs, founded in 1949, was a ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany charged with overseeing the rebuilding of the new republic using money and aid given by the United States as part of the European Recovery Program (also called Marshall Plan).

The Ministry was renamed Ministry for Economic Cooperation in 1953. In 1957 it was transformed into the Minister for Federal Patrimony, which existed until 1969.

List of Federal Ministers

The first and only Minister was Franz Blücher (FDP and later FVP), who also was Vice Chancellor

Political Party:

Marshall Plan
Ministries established in 1949


Fibrecity Holdings was formerly owned by i3 Group and was acquired in a Management buyout in January 2011 by CityFibre Holdings Ltd  following the collapse of FibreCity's principal lender Total Asset Finance.

i3 Group launched Fibrecity Holdings as a new high speed fibre optic infrastructure to be built in the UK and was also promised for overseas cities and metropolitan areas. It was said to provide connection speeds of 100 Mbit/s to homes, SMEs and educational facilities on the network. The network uses 'fibre to the home' (FTTH) technology.

The infrastructure build was started by i3 Group in Bournemouth in 2009 and this was to become the UK's first Fibrecity. The next UK Fibrecity was announced to be Dundee where work on installing the infrastructure was reported to have started in summer 2010.

i3 Group announced but ceased involvement with a Fibrecity project in Brisbane, Australia.

Investigation
In the third quarter of 2010, concerns at the financial institution KBC Capital lead to an internal investigation into the circumstances around lending they had made to Fibrecity Holdings' principal funder Total Asset Limited (trading as Total Asset Finance, or TAF). This investigation quickly lead to the bank "..[obtaining] an injunction to freeze assets worth £24m belonging to Total Asset Finance and its sole director, Steve Dartnell..".

Subsequent to the collapse of TAF, Fibrecity builds were immediately ceased in Bournemouth leaving "more than 100 roads in Boscombe, Winton and Moordown [..] partly dug up as a result", and Dundee only shortly after works had started in the Scottish city.

With TAF unable to satisfy KBC that it was able to meet its obligations, KBC petitioned for the company Total Asset Limited to be placed into administration in December 2010. In February 2011, the appointed administrators of Total Asset Limited, Deloitte, published a report on the firm's activities which revealed the existence of a Serious Fraud Office investigation into TAFs financial dealings, stating that the SFO had entered the company's head office on the 17th of November 2010 to secure financial records.

The SFO investigation in Total Asset Finance eventually resulted in a five-month trial which concluded in February 2017 and found that four men had been involved in fraud on a "massive scale" in inflating or inventing contracts upon which lending was secured  and saw Stephen Dartnell and George Alexander of Total Asset Finance, Carl Cumiskey of H2O, and Simon Mundy of KBC Lease (UK) Ltd each sentenced to substantial prison terms totalling some 44 years between them in February 2017 for their roles in the fraud amounting to almost £160m.
, and were subsequently also each made the subject of confiscation orders during 2018 totalling some £1.4m.

Restructure
In late April 2011, CityFibre Holdings announced that it had successfully restructured the business with the full consent of KBC Bank who also has a 5% option in CityFibre Holdings.

Since 5 April 2011, the Fibrecity website is unavailable as it is no longer operating as a customer facing company but forms part of CityFibre Holdings.  The i3 Group website now says i3 is a worldwide technology licensing company rather than an infrastructure delivery and operation company as originally announced. It was reported on 7 June 2011 that i3 Group has gone into administration.

In mid-April 2011, it emerged that service to customers in Bournemouth had been suspended since the end of February. CityFibre Holdings are currently carrying out extensive repairs and testing of the network. Greg Mesch announced that 24,000 homes will be passed and ready for service by the end of the year. According to CityFibre its networks will guarantee minimum speeds of 100Mbit/s up and downstream, increasing to 1Gbit/s.

External links
 Official Fibrecity website
 i3 Group website (owners of Fibrecity Holdings)
 Unofficial forum relating to Fibre to the Home

References

Telecommunications in the United Kingdom


River basin management plans are a management tool in integrated water resources management. They generally contain descriptions of the water resources in a drainage basin and water allocation plans.

Europe
River Basin Management Plans are a requirement of the Water Framework Directive and a means of achieving the protection, improvement and sustainable use of the water environment across Europe. This includes surface freshwaters (including lakes, streams and rivers), groundwater, ecosystems such as some wetlands that depend on groundwater, estuaries and coastal waters out to one nautical mile.

The Directive requires member states to aim to achieve at least good status in each water body within their river basin districts. Each member state must produce a plan for each of the river basin districts within its territory.

Plans must include: objectives for each water body; reasons for not achieving objectives where relevant; and the programme of actions required to meet the objectives.

River Basin Management Plans were published for several member states in December 2010.

River basin management in a changing climate - a Guidance document
In November 2009, Water Directors of EU Member States issued a guidance document on adaptation to climate change in water management. The document is the first result of numerous actions included in the European Commission White Paper Adapting to climate change; Towards a European framework for action. The document includes guidance on how to take climate change into account in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive, the Floods Directive and the Strategy on Water Scarcity and Droughts.

See also
Detention basin
Murray-Darling Basin Plan,

References

External links
River basin planning in England and Wales - The Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales
River basin planning in Scotland - Scottish Environment Protection Agency
 River basin management in a changing climate - a Guidance document (pdf 2.1MB)

Water resources management
River regulation


Bernard Paul Quinn (born 5 May 1951) is a New Zealand businessman, former rugby union player and politician, and a member of the National Party. He was elected into the 49th New Zealand Parliament in 2008 by way of the party list and served for one term until 2011. In 2013, he had the option of returning to Parliament following the resignation of MP Jackie Blue as he was the highest ranked person on the party list, but he declined the opportunity, instead making way for Paul Foster-Bell.

Early life and education
Quinn was born on 5 May 1951, and was educated at St Joseph's College in Masterton. He went on to study at Lincoln College, graduating with a Bachelor of Agricultural Commerce in 1973.

Of Māori descent, Quinn affiliates to Ngāti Awa and Ngāi Tūhoe.

Rugby union
Quinn played rugby union for the Wellington Rugby Football Union from 1976 to 1983 (captain 1981–1983) and for New Zealand Māori between 1977 and 1982, captaining the side from 1980 to 1980 1982. He was the head coach for the Texas Rugby Union in 1987.

Quinn is a former director of the New Zealand Rugby Union since April 2002, and also served as chairman of the New Zealand Maori Rugby Board.

Member of Parliament

Quinn stood for the New Zealand National Party in the Hutt South electorate at the 2008 general election and was also ranked 48 on the party's list. Quinn finished second in Hutt South to Trevor Mallard but was elected from the party list.

In 2010 Quinn's Electoral (Disqualification of Convicted Prisoners) Amendment Bill was drawn from the member's ballot. The Bill removed voting rights for prisoners, and was declared to be inconsistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act. The bill was passed into law in December 2010.

At the 2011 general election, Quinn again finished second in Hutt South and his party ranking of 55 was too low to be re-elected.

During his time in Parliament, Quinn served on the Maori Affairs Committee (9 December 2008 – 20 October 2011), Justice and Electoral Committee (9 December 2008 – 20 October 2011) and Electoral Legislation Committee (31 March 2010 – 20 October 2011).

Quinn had the opportunity to return to Parliament in mid–2013, following the resignation of MP Jackie Blue, given that he was the highest ranked person on National's party list, but he declined the opportunity to return as he had "moved on". Instead diplomat Paul Foster-Bell took the role.

Business career
Quinn has connections to the Ngāti Awa and Ngāi Tūhoe iwi and worked as a manager in the Department of Maori Affairs (now Te Puni Kōkiri) between 1979 and 1984.

Quinn is director and sole owner of "MOCOM LIMITED" (formerly called "M COMMERCE LIMITED"), was a director of the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences from 1992–1998 and is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors.  He is also a director of White Island Tours, which ran tours to Whakaari/White Island, up to and including its eruption in 2019.

References

External links
  Parliamentary biography
 National Party website
 NZRU Biography

1951 births
Living people
New Zealand National Party MPs
New Zealand rugby union players
Māori All Blacks players
Māori MPs
New Zealand list MPs
New Zealand sportsperson-politicians
Unsuccessful candidates in the 2011 New Zealand general election
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
21st-century New Zealand politicians
Ngāti Awa people
Ngāi Tūhoe people
Lincoln University (New Zealand) alumni
New Zealand rugby union coaches
People educated at Chanel College, Masterton


Anssi is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Anssi Jaakkola (born 1987), Finnish footballer
Anssi Joutsenlahti, pensioned vicar and a member of the parliament of Finland
Anssi Juutilainen (born 1956), Finnish ski-orienteering competitor and world champion
Anssi Karttunen (born 1960), Finnish cellist
Anssi Kela (born 1972), Finnish singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist who has published five albums
Anssi Kippo (born 1976), platinum-selling Finnish producer who founded Astia-studios in 1994
Anssi Koivuranta (born 1988), ski jumper, formerly Nordic combined skier from Finland
Anssi Löfman, Finnish ice hockey player who currently plays professionally in Finland
Anssi Melametsä (born 1961), retired professional ice hockey player
Anssi Rantanen, Finnish ice hockey defenceman who currently plays professionally in Finland
Anssi Salmela (born 1984), Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman
Anssi Viren (born 1977), Finnish football player

ANSSI may also refer to:
 Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information (National Cybersecurity Agency of France)

See also
ANSI (disambiguation)
Anisi
Anissa (disambiguation)
Ansa (disambiguation)
Anse (disambiguation)
Ansei
Anzi (disambiguation)

References

Masculine given names


Valentin Gerhard Braun-Dusemond (born Gerhard Braun; 1919–1998), was a German painter and art dealer. He lived and worked in several countries, including Kenya and Malta, and his work embraced both Abstract Expressionist and Impressionist styles.

Early life and influences
Braun-Dusemond was born to in Cologne, Germany, where his father, Dr Siegfried Braun, was a school teacher in a Jewish School. He escaped from Nazi Germany to Kenya in 1939. Leaving Africa in 1963, he settled in Malta and took on the name of Dusemond. This was the name of the small village on the Mosel from which his father's family came. Mond was the maiden name of his mother, who came from Werl in Westphalia.

It was Braun-Dusemond's encounters with the German Expressionist, Ludwig Meidner which first inspired him to become a painter. Meidner had come to Braun-Dusemond's hometown of Cologne, in 1935, to take up a position as drawing master at the Jewish school, Javneh. Meidner's enthusiastic response to the young man's sketches and drawings encouraged him to develop his talent.

Dr Braun's thesis was on the art theorist and critic, Konrad Fiedler (1841–1895) who, in his Kunstwissenschaft, created the theory of pure form, rejecting the concepts of Beauty and Art. Since Fiedler believed that Works of Art are not created by feeling, he disregarded the importance of emotion in their appreciation. Braun-Dusemond's instinctive disagreement with such theories made him particularly receptive to the influences of German Expressionism with its emphasis on the supreme importance of the artist's personal feelings.

Life and work

Escape from Nazi Germany
In 1939 Braun-Dusemond escaped the Gestapo and fled to Kenya, where thanks to his earlier training in Silesia at the Groß Breesen Jewish Farm School for Prospective Emigrants (Judische Auswandererlehrgut), he was permitted to emigrate. His emigration was facilitated by the Plough Settlements Association of London which, following the Evian conference in 1938, had opened up East Africa to settlement by sixty Jewish farmers. Within months of his arrival in Kenya, Braun-Dusemond was interned as an enemy alien in the British internment camps of Nakuru, Nairobi and Kabete. Here he was converted to Christianity by his fellow inmates – the Italian Consolata Missionaries - in September 1940 and adopted the name of Valentin since he was born on St. Valentine's day.

Internment Art
Although beset by the humiliations of being a captive of the very people from whom he had sought salvation, Braun-Dusemond, was not too debilitated by his experience in the camps. Released from the fear of Nazi persecution and worries about money, he was able to draw and paint freely. He channeled the emotions caused by his condition into the production of a series of drawings and sketches. His artistic response to captivity was expressed in three ways – the realistic and abstract caricature of the camp population (clowns and masks abound in this strange human circus), the portrayal of the dream world beyond the prison gates (Africa in a burst of colour) and the Christianisation of his circumstances – Christ as captor and captive.

Following his release, in 1942, he enlisted in the British army as soon as former enemy aliens were free to do so. He joined the ranks of the Pioneer Corps and later became a non-commissioned officer in Allied counter-intelligence in Italy and Austria. He was one of the few enemy aliens to keep his German passport throughout his military service. The Reich Citizenship Law of November 1941 which had stripped him of his nationality only made him more determined not to yield it - 'To give up my German passport would have been to give in to Hitler. Hitler said I was not a German, but I proved him wrong.'

Kenya (1946-1963)
After the war Braun-Dusemond returned to Nairobi to set himself up as a painter, resisting all attempts by the German government to enrol him in their newly re-established foreign service. Painting whenever he could, he surmounted the obstacles caused by his lack of qualifications and his nationality and managed to earn a living by working as a journalist (writing for Der Spiegel and Reuters), cowboy, translator and cinema manager. In 1950 he became a founder member of the Nairobi Puppet Theatre. He painted the scenery for theatre performances at the Donovan Maule Theatre. Although Braun-Dusemond produced many colourful realistic paintings of his surroundings, his artistic inclinations were always focused on the abstract.

Early in 1951 he took his paintings with him to London, where he showed them to Sir William Coldstream, the director of the Slade School of Fine Art. Coldstream was so impressed that he accepted him immediately, waiving both the entrance examination and the fees for two terms. Braun-Dusemond received a bursary from the Society of Friends (Quakers) and a grant from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. Returning to Africa in the Autumn of 1951, Braun-Dusemond was appointed to sit on the selection committee of the Kenya Arts Society of which he became vice president. Braun's paintings began to sell both in Kenya (George Vamos, the architect of the multi-racial United Kenya Club, was one of his customers) and in the John Whibley Gallery, London. He exhibited frequently at The Atelier in Nairobi and had exhibitions throughout East Africa. While establishing a name for himself Braun-Dusemond, recalling his own encounters with prejudice, was also eager to encourage young African artists. Interviewed by Drum Magazine, in 1959, Braun-Dusemond said, 'The quicker we get politics away from a racial squabble, the better for all of us.' In 1959 he opened the New Stanley Art Gallery in Nairobi which was frequented by film stars and white hunters.

The Mediterranean (1963-1976)
In 1963, fearing political upheaval following Kenya's Independence, Braun-Dusemond abandoned his successful business and travelled to South Africa, Israel and Cyprus in search of a new place to paint. Plans to set up a gallery in the Dome Hotel, Kyrenia, had to be abandoned because they coincided with the eruption of violence in Cyprus. Braun-Dusemond and his wife (Ruth Hornby-Waring) and two children had to be escorted out of Kyrenia in a German Embassy car. Braun-Dusemond finally settled in Malta in 1966. There he established The Mdina Gallery and called himself Dusemond.

With the change of name came the transformation of style as he moved out of his African Abstract phase into the creation of dreamy Mediterranean landscapes. Abandoning the vivid multi-colour oils and large canvases of his youth, Braun-Dusemond took up painting with watercolour and gouache. His African Tachiste fantasies were transmuted into unique landscapes bathed in ochre and green and tinged with a beguiling gold. The sharp light of the equator had yielded to the muted tones of the Mediterranean. Braun-Dusemond lived with his growing family (he had six children) in Palazzo Gourgion in the shadow of the Cathedral of the 'silent city' of Mdina. His customers – mainly German tourists - were intrigued by Braun-Dusemond's personality and history as much as by the originality of his work. He had good contacts with the German Embassy in Malta which encouraged his success. In 1976 he welcomed the former German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, to Mdina. He maintained his links with the European art scene through his cosmopolitan customers. The journalist and patron of the arts, Hans Wallenberg, the painter Katerina Wilczynski and the sculptor Trude Bunzl all purchased his work. As well as developing his own career Braun-Dusemond was eager to encourage a whole series of young Maltese artists, including John Borg Manduca and Mary de Piro.

Renewed exile, retirement and death
The Mediterranean idyll did not last forever. In 1976 the Prime Minister, Dom Mintoff, expelled Braun-Dusemond and his family from Malta. Braun-Dusemond was obliged to return to Germany. Unable to settle in Germany because of the agony of his memories (much of his family had perished in The Holocaust), Braun-Dusemond moved to Britain from which he continued to sell his paintings to clients abroad – mainly in Germany where he had his two last exhibitions in Berlin (1977) and in Hamm (1981). He spent his last years living yet again in the shadow of a cathedral - this time that of Wells in Somerset.

Galleries and Museums
1950s
John Whibley Gallery, London
I.C.A. (Young Painters), London
Sorsbie Gallery, Nairobi
The Atelier Gallery, Nairobi
The Uganda Museum, Kampala
Thamos Papadopolous Museum, Tanga
Imperial Museum of Fine Arts, Addis Ababa
The Block Collection, Nairobi
Permanent Collection Kenya Arts Society
1960s
New Stanley Gallery, Nairobi
Pelikan Gallery, Baden-Baden
Grehan Museum, Beirut
Harwood Gallery, Los Angeles
1960s-1980s
The Mdina Gallery, Malta
Mignon Gallery, Bath
Galerie Brigitte Wolffer, Berlin
The Gustav-Lubcke Museum, Hamm

References
Drum Magazine August 1959
The Bulletin (Malta) August 1972
Berliner Morgenpost 16 January 1977
Die Welt 21 January 1977
Westfalenpost 28 February 1981
"Reviving a gallery in Mdina" by Lisa Gwen Baldacchino, The Times of Malta 4 March 2010
"The British Internment of Refugees from Nazi Germany in Kenya during World War II" by Jutta Vinzent in Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories (Leiden: Brill, 2020): 159–182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004399532_010
"Mdina, Malta Photo Gallery" by Brian McMorrow at pbase.com

1919 births
1998 deaths
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
German male painters
Kenyan artists
Artists from Cologne
Emigrants from Nazi Germany
German emigrants to England
German emigrants to Kenya
German emigrants to Malta
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany
British Army personnel of World War II
Royal Pioneer Corps soldiers


Trite planiceps, commonly known as the black-headed jumping spider, is a common jumping spider (Salticidae) endemic to New Zealand and one of about 150 species of jumping spiders in New Zealand.

Taxonomy
Trite planiceps was first described in 1873 as Salticus minax from specimens collected from Riccarton Bush, Governor Bay and the North Island.Trite planiceps was later described again in 1899 as its current name by Eugene Simon. In 2011, T. planiceps was redescribed after DNA sequences were used to provide molecular evidence for the taxonomy of this species

The holotypes were stored at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle but are thought to have been lost.

Description
Males and females range in body length from 6 to 13.5 mm. The cephalothorax and first pair of legs are jet black. The elongated abdomen is golden brown, with a central yellow stripe, and sometimes has a greenish sheen. In males, the first pair of legs is elongated, there is a row of dark hairs above the frontal eyes, and the chelicerae (mouthparts) are more robust.

Behaviour

Hunting
While most jumping spider rely mostly on their very acute eyesight, T. planiceps has been shown to seize on prey in the dark, probably by means of vibratory signals. Unlike typical jumping spiders, they do not make nightly web shelters. As T. planiceps lives in low altitudes, this could be an adaptation to cool overcast winters, where they need to survive within the dim recesses of rolled-up leaves of New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax) and similar plants. These leaves are typically one to two meters long and 5 to 10 cm wide.

Courtship
They also change from vision-based courtship in the open to vibratory courtship when mating inside a rolled-up leaf. If an immature female is within about ten days of maturing, the male will live with her for this time and then mate inside the leaf. The two are in physical contact for a while after mating, and communicate using tactile signals. Upon entering a rolled-up leaf, both sexes will tap the leaf surface with the first pair of legs and vibrate their abdomen.

Nest building
Juveniles and subadults build flat, tubular silk cocoons with a door at each end inside rolled up leaves. Adult females build a silk platform 50% longer and two to three times wider than their own size before laying up to seven egg batches with 8 to 40 eggs each. Each batch is enclosed in its own silk casing. Males normally do not build nests.

A wide array of behavioural patterns has been observed, among others ritualized male duels.

Interactions with humans
Due to their docile nature, bites from Trite planiceps are very rare (members of the public frequently handle them without getting bitten). Bites from T. planiceps only occur when the spider is acting defensively as a last resort. One case study of a T. planiceps bite reported that an individual was bitten when he rolled over while in bed and was unaware of a single T. planiceps in his shirt. The bite caused a stinging like sensation in his lower shoulder blades and left two puncture marks 1mm apart. After four hours, the skin surrounding the puncture mark had formed a red halo. The swelling and tenderness settled shortly after and the redness faded after 72 hours.

References

External links

 Jumping spiders (family Salticidae), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
 Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings + photographs

Salticidae
Spiders of New Zealand
Spiders described in 1899


Haixinsha may refer to:

Haixinsha Island (Tianhe District), in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Haixinsha Island (Haizhu District), in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China


Ruddington Hall is a country house standing in the grounds of a garden in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England. Ruddington Hall has been included in the art work of Nikolaus Pevsner alongside the Elizabethan Wollaton Hall and Newstead Abbey, ancestral home of Lord Byron. Pevsner described it as having a classical ethic of "calm grandeur, and monumental simplicity".

History

Ruddington Hall was built in 1860, on the lower slopes of a wooded hill. It was designed as a country retreat for Thomas Cross, a wealthy industrialist and banker from Bolton. Together with his wife and some nine servants, he lived there for 19 years.

Ruddington was a centre for the production of the world-famous Nottingham lace, and in 1880 the hall was purchased by a successful American merchant, Philo Laos Mills. Mills was appointed High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1897. He died in 1905, aged seventy-three.

The tradition of ownership by self-made men was continued in 1907 by a Major John Ashworth. As well as developing a flourishing timber importing business, Ashworth, Kirk & Co. Ltd, he was renowned as one of the finest riflemen in the country. Under Ashworth's ownership, the hall's boiler and fireplaces burnt each quarter thirty tons of coal.

In 1931, Ruddington Hall was purchased by Dorothea Kate Forman-Hardy, a member of Nottingham's newspaper and printing dynasty. In 1938, she added a major new extension to the rear, and in September 1940 offered the hall to the Red Cross for use as a wartime convalescent hospital. It accommodated seventy-five patients.

The hall continued as a hospital after the war, and in 1980 was purchased and converted into office premises by a major international company.  It was owned by British Gypsum until 1991. In 1992, Ruddington Hall was acquired by Midland Software Ltd, an HR and payroll software and services company.

Since 1992, further restoration work has been carried out, including ceilings, stone floors, and leaded windows. Outside the hall, iron gates and rail have been replaced, drainage improved, many new trees and shrubs planted, and old topiary and paths restored.

External links

References

Country houses in Nottinghamshire
Ruddington


Kelvin Glen Davis (born 2 March 1967) is a New Zealand politician and a member of the House of Representatives who has served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party since 1 August 2017.

A former teacher, Davis served as a list MP from 2008 to 2011 and again in 2014. He won the electorate of Te Tai Tokerau in the 2014 election. Davis was elected as Labour Deputy Leader two months before the 2017 election, becoming the first deputy of Māori descent in the Labour Party. Currently, the third-ranked member of the Sixth Labour Government, Davis serves as the Minister of Corrections, Minister for Children, Minister for Māori Crown Relations, and Associate Minister of Education (Māori Education).

Early life
Born in Kawakawa on 2 March 1967, and raised in the Bay of Islands, Davis affiliates to the Ngāpuhi iwi. He received his secondary education at the Bay of Islands College in Kawakawa from 1980 to 1984. He obtained a Diploma of Teaching from Auckland College of Education (1985–1987) and taught at Koru School in Māngere (1988–1990) and Bay of Islands Intermediate School in Kawakawa (1991–1993), before becoming principal of Karetu School near Kawakawa (1994–1998). He then worked for the Education Advisory Service (1998–1999) and the education improvement and development project Te Putahitanga Matauranga (2000). He was principal of Kaitaia Intermediate School from 2001 to 2007.

Member of Parliament

First term, 2008–2011

In the 2008 general election Davis stood for the Labour Party in the Te Tai Tokerau seat after being recruited by Labour MP Shane Jones. Davis failed to unseat the incumbent Hone Harawira of the Māori Party, but was elected to the 49th New Zealand Parliament by way of the party list. The Fifth Labour Government was defeated in the election and, in his first term, Davis was assigned opposition portfolios as the Labour spokesperson for biosecurity and associate spokesperson for education, Māori affairs and tourism. He was a member of the Māori affairs committee.

Harawira left the Māori Party in early 2011, formed the Mana Party and resigned from parliament to seek a fresh mandate in a by-election for Te Tai Tokerau. Davis ran for Labour, but Harawira retook the seat. Davis stood for the seat in the November 2011 general election, but placed second to Harawira for a third time and also failed to re-enter parliament from the party list. Davis announced his retirement from politics and took up a job with the Ministry of Education in Kaitaia, working in Māori education.

Return to Parliament, 2014
Davis was re-selected as Labour's candidate in Te Tai Tokerau for the September 2014 general election. Shane Jones then resigned from Parliament months prior to the election, and Davis assumed his place in the House of Representatives on 23 May 2014, as he was by then the highest-ranking non-MP on Labour's 2011 party list. He became Labour's associate spokesperson for corrections.

Second term, 2014–2017
Harawira's party formed a coalition with the Kim Dotcom-founded Internet Party for the 2014 election. This resulted in Davis getting endorsements from Winston Peters of New Zealand First party and the Prime Minister, John Key of the National Party. Even the candidate for the Māori Party, Te Hira Paenga, reminded voters of the importance of strategic voting. Davis won the seat, ousting Harawira and ending the representation of the Mana Party in Parliament.

Davis became Labour's corrections spokesperson. In 2015, he criticised private prison provider Serco's management of inmates, alleging 'corruption' at the Mount Eden remand facility. Following an inquiry, Serco lost its contract to run the facility and Minister of Corrections Sam Lotu-Iiga was relieved of his post. Davis also criticized the Australian government for its incarceration of New Zealand expatriates facing deportation. Davis has also drawn attention to the disproportionately high number of Māori in the New Zealand prison system, with Māori comprising 50.9% of the prison population despite making up just 15% of New Zealand's population.

On 1 August 2017, Davis was appointed Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, serving under Jacinda Ardern. On 1 September 2017, Ardern corrected Davis after he publicly said that Labour would campaign on a capital gains tax policy during the 2020 general election rather than implementing it mid-term. On 19 September, Davis indicated that he was willing to sacrifice his position as Deputy Prime Minister in order for Labour to form a coalition government with either New Zealand First or the Green Party.

Third term, 2017–2020

In the 2017 general election, Davis was re-elected in Te Tai Tokerau, defeating Mana Movement leader Harawira by 4,807 votes. He was appointed Minister for Māori Crown Relations (), Minister of Corrections, Minister of Tourism, and Associate Minister of Education in the Sixth Labour Government. As Minister of Corrections, Davis has stressed the need to address the high rates of incarceration of Māori people. In August 2018, he called for a change to "a level of imprisonment that is simply devastating our Māori whānau and communities".

Fourth term, 2020–present
In the 2020 general election, Davis was re-elected in Te Tai Tokerau by a margin of 8,164 votes, defeating the Māori Party's candidate Mariameno Kapa-Kingi.  On the night of Labour's election victory, Davis attracted online criticism after he delivered a victory speech mocking National Party leader Judith Collins, with critics describing it as "despicable", "ungracious" and "disgusting".

On 2 November 2020, Davis was allocated third place in Prime Minister Ardern's Cabinet, retaining his portfolios as Minister for Māori Crown Relations and Minister of Corrections, while picking up those of Minister for Children and Association Minister of Education with responsibility for Māori Education. That same day, Davis indicated that he would not be seeking the role of Deputy Prime Minister, a position usually held by the deputy leader of the senior coalition party or the leader of a coalition partner. Winston Peters, the leader of New Zealand First, had served as Deputy Prime Minister during the first term of the Sixth Labour Government but had lost his seat in the 2020 election.

During the Waikeria Prison riots that occurred between 29 December 2020 and 3 January 2021, Davis declined to issue public statements on the grounds that doing so would encourage other prisoners to take similar action and that he wanted to leave the response to experts. The Corrections Minister's silence during the five-day standoff drew criticism from the National Party's Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown and Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi, with the former criticising Davis' alleged lack of leadership and the latter saying that the prisoners were protesting their right to basic needs such as clean water, insufficient clothing, and washing facilities. Following the prisoners' negotiated surrender on 3 January, Davis disputed the prisoners' claims that the unrest had been sparked by inhumane and unhygienic conditions at the prison. He also said that "[the men] damaged property worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they put their own lives and the health and safety of staff and other prisoners at risk."

In September 2022, Davis in his capacity as Minister of Oranga Tamariki (the Ministry of Children) made remarks during a Parliamentary debate telling the ACT Party's children spokesperson Karen Chhour to "enter the Māori world" and stop looking at the world through a "vanilla lens." Chhour had questioned Davis about the relationship between Oranga Tamariki and the Māori group Te Whānau o Waipareira Trust, which was being investigated for financing Māori Party candidate John Tamihere's campaign during the 2020 election. Davis' remarks had offended Chhour, who is Māori from the Ngāpuhi iwi, who stated that Davis' remarks had taken away her mana (prestige). Davis' remarks were condemned as racist by ACT leader David Seymour, and ACT urged Ardern to order Davis to apologise and to suspend him. Davis initially defended his remarks, but subsequently phoned Chhour and apologised to her.

Notes

References

External links

 Kelvin Davis on the Labour Party website

Living people
New Zealand Labour Party MPs
New Zealand list MPs
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
New Zealand MPs for Māori electorates
People educated at Bay of Islands College
21st-century New Zealand politicians
Unsuccessful candidates in the 2011 New Zealand general election
Candidates in the 2014 New Zealand general election
Candidates in the 2017 New Zealand general election
Candidates in the 2020 New Zealand general election
Candidates in the 2023 New Zealand general election
1967 births
People from Kawakawa, New Zealand
Members of the Cabinet of New Zealand
Ngāpuhi people