Notes from Planet Earth – The Ultimate Collection is a 2001 compilation album by Chris de Burgh. Mercury Records released it on March 19, 2001. The official Chris de Burgh website shows two different tracklists, one for the UK version and one for the Canadian version, and also notes "Brand new compilation album, featuring the brand new song "Two Sides to Every Story" with Shelley Nelson (Tin Tin Out)."

Track listings

UK version

"Don't Pay the Ferryman"
"Missing You 2001"
"Fatal Hesitation"
"Ship to Shore"
"The Lady in Red"
"When I Think of You"
"Sailing Away"
"Two Sides to Every Story" (featuring Shelley Nelson)
"Tender Hands"
"A Spaceman Came Travelling"
"I Want It (And I Want It Now)" (DJ Q-Ball Remix)
"Patricia the Stripper 2000"
"Borderline"
"Say Goodbye to It All"
"Where Peaceful Waters Flow"
"This Waiting Heart"
"High on Emotion"

Canadian version

"Don't Pay the Ferryman"
"Missing You 2001"
"Ship to Shore"
"The Lady in Red"
"When I Think of You"
"Sailing Away"
"Two Sides to Every Story "
"Tender Hands"
"A Spaceman Came Travelling"
"I Want It (And I Want It Now)" (DJ Q-ball Remix)
"Borderline"
"Say Goodbye to It All"
"Where Peaceful Waters Flow"
"Spanish Train"
"High on Emotion"
"Quand Je Pense a Toi"
"Le Coeur D'Une Femme"

External links
Official site for album
Official site track listing for the album

Chris de Burgh albums
2001 compilation albums
Mercury Records compilation albums


Co-Ed Prison Sluts is a musical revue that originally opened at the Annoyance Theatre in April 1989, closed in June 2000, and reopened in 2008, making it the longest-running musical in Chicago, Illinois, a title that still holds to this day.

The show was directed by Mick Napier with original music by Faith Soloway. The show is known for having been an important part of the Chicago fringe theater.

Plot
Co-Ed Prison Sluts follows the prison's newest inmate, Alice, as she learns the ropes from the other inane inmates including Hamster Man, The Dame, Skeeter, Slick, Henry, and Dr. Bellows and his dog Fluffy. And she learns the number one rule — to fear the dreaded Clown.

Thanks to songs such as "Hey We're in Prison" and "The Dog is Eating my Hamster Now", Co-ed Prison Sluts is known for its risqué themes, and has helped forged The Annoyance's tradition of raunchy, edgy comedy.

Return
In 2008, the flagship show for The Annoyance returned to its new stage, on 4830 N. Broadway, as the final event in the celebration of its 20th Anniversary. Due to sell out crowds, and positive reviews, the show has now been officially given an open run, continuing its tradition of the longest-running musical in Chicago.

Cast
The current cast includes:

Directed by Mick Napier
Original music by Faith Soloway
Musical Director: Lisa McQueen

Notes

1989 musicals
Theatre in Chicago


InterHealth Worldwide was an international charity (registered charity number 1103935) that provided Medical, Psychological, Occupational and Travel Health services to those working in the International Development, Humanitarian, Mission and Gap Year sectors. The charity was founded 20 April 1989 in Mildmay Mission Hospital, East London.  The charity closed in 2017 due to financial challenges.

InterHealth was based at 63-67 Newington Causeway, London, and had an East Africa regional hub in Nairobi.

InterHealth was regulated by the Care Quality Commission in the UK.

History

InterHealth started as the Missionaries and Volunteers Health Service (MVHS), launched in 1989. Mildmay Hospital Doctors, Veronica Moss and Marjory Foyle, together with nurse-secretary Jane Ryman  initiated  MVHS in 1986. Dr Ted Lankester joined the team in 1988, taking over as Director of InterHealth while Veronica took over the leadership of the Mildmay Hospital.

Marjory Foyle was an expert in the psychological health of missionaries and expatriates, and Veronica had spent a number of years in India as a Doctor. Ted had just spent eight years in the Himalayas working with vulnerable communities and caring for a variety of international expatriates.

InterHealth closed in both London and Nairobi in August 2017.

References

External links
 InterHealth website
 https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04986035
 https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08685507

Health charities in the United Kingdom
Charities based in London


"The Night" is the debut single by the Italian singer Valerie Dore, released in 1984, under the label Merak Music.

Track listing and formats

 Italian 7-inch single

A. "The Night" – 4:00
B. "The Night" (Instrumental) – 3:30

 Italian 12-inch single

A. "The Night" – 5:46
B. "The Night" (Instrumental) – 5:39

 German 7-inch single

A. "The Night" (Vocal) – 3:28
B. "The Night" (Instrumental) – 3:27

 German 12-inch maxi-single

A. "The Night" (Vocal) – 6:20
B. "The Night" (Instrumental) – 5:30

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

1984 debut singles
1984 songs
Valerie Dore songs


Growing Up () is a 1983 film by Taiwanese filmmaker Chen Kunhou. The screenplay was the first collaboration between Hou Hsiao-hsien and Chu T’ien-wen. The film made the young star, Doze Niu, "a pop icon and tagged him with a rebellious image."

Growing Up was the film that "first attracted broad critical and popular attention to the movement" known as New Taiwan Cinema. It "established some of the movement's key stylistic approaches and narrative concerns, with its subdued manner in relating the story of an adolescent boy grappling with everyday pangs amid Taiwan's fraught provincial context." The film was selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

See also
 List of submissions to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
 List of Taiwanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

Growing Up at the Chinese Movie Database

1983 films
1983 drama films
1980s Mandarin-language films
Central Motion Picture Corporation films
Films with screenplays by Chu T’ien-wen
Taiwanese drama films


From the Czech Mills () is a 1925 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Svatopluk Innemann.

Cast
Ferry Seidl as Šebestián Šafránek
Filip Balek-Brodský as Florián Karásek / Vodník
Božena Svobodová as Mrs. Karásková
Bohumil Kovář as Priest
Zdena Kavková as Anička
Jiří Plachý as Karel Karásek
Vladimír Řepa as Tonda Kolenatý
Antonín Frič as Old miller
Luigi Hofman as Landowner
Nora Ferry as Julinka, landowner's daughter
Milka Balek-Brodská as Aunt Filomena
Hugo Haas as Baron Zachariáš Zlámaný

References

External links

1925 films
1925 comedy films
Czechoslovak black-and-white films
Czech silent films
Czechoslovak comedy films


Aleksandr Nikolayevich Alkhazov (; born 27 May 1984) is a Russian former professional football player of Assyrian ethnic origin.

Career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2003 for FC Rostov.

Alkhazov left FC Okzhetpes by mutual consent on 21 June 2016.

References

1984 births
Footballers from Krasnodar Krai
People from Kurganinsky District
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Russia men's under-21 international footballers
FC Rostov players
FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny players
FC Zvezda Irkutsk players
Russian Premier League players
PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players
FC Luch Vladivostok players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
FC Volgar Astrakhan players
Russian expatriate men's footballers
Russian people of Assyrian descent
Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan
FC Okzhetpes players
FC Mordovia Saransk players
FC Fakel Voronezh players
Men's association football forwards
FC Olimp-Dolgoprudny players
FC Spartak Nizhny Novgorod players
FC Khimki players


Vladimir Kozubin is a Soviet sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1970s. He won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships  in Mexico City.

References

Living people
Soviet male canoeists
Year of birth missing (living people)
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak


The Mbam languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in Cameroon.
Sanaga (A60): Tuki (Bacenga), Leti/Mengisa, Mbwasa
West Mbam (A40): Bati (A60), Nomaande (Mandi)–Tunen (Aling'a, Banen)–Tuotomb–Yambeta, Nyokon
Yambasa (A60): Nubaca, Mbule, Nugunu, Elip–Mmaala–Yangben

References

Southern Bantoid languages


Mikhail Afanasyev () is a Soviet sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1970s. He won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships  in Mexico City.

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Soviet male canoeists
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak


Asian Wrestling Championships is the Wrestling Asian Championship organized by the Asian Associated Wrestling Committee (AAWC).

The men's tournament began in 1979 and The women's tournament was first staged in 1996, and it has been held every year.

Competitions

Team titles

All-time medal table
All-time medal count, as of the 2023 Asian Wrestling Championships.

References

External links
 UWW Database

Wrestling
Wrestling competitions
Recurring sporting events established in 1979


Mayne's sign is a clinical sign that indicates that there is a drop of at least  in the diastolic blood pressure on raising the arm. It occurs in patients with aortic regurgitation though shouldn't be considered a reliable finding.

References

Symptoms and signs: Cardiac


East Preston Cricket Club is a well-established cricket club based in East Preston, West Sussex, England. They were founded in 1860.

History
East Preston Cricket Club (EPCC) was founded in 1860.  In 1989 it was elected to the Sussex Invitation Cricket League and has experienced mixed success.  The club's best performance to date was finishing 6th in the top division.  In 1996 they were relegated to Division 2 but succeeded in gaining promotion back to Division 1 the following season.  The club now plays in the newly extended West Sussex Invitation Cricket League.

One of the most notable points in the club's history was their reluctance to permit people who lived or worked outside the village to become a member.  This policy had little effect on their success however as they finished runners-up in the Sussex Championship League in 1981, won the Worthing & District KO in 1974, and finished runners-up in the same competition in 1975 and 1982.  The second team also enjoyed good success winning the Clymping KO in 1969, 1972 and 1973 and the Clymping Plate in 1981, 1989 and 1996.

Over the years the club has enjoyed connections with some famous cricketers.  Garfield Sobers and Tony Greig have made appearances in charity games and Sussex cricketer Ken Suttle played for the club for several seasons in the 1990s.

The club plays its home games on its small ground situated at the heart of the village.  The size of the ground has caused issues with several neighbours over the years.

External links
Official website of East Preston Cricket Club (EPCC)
West Sussex Invitation Cricket League
Ken Suttle's profile on Cricinfo
Domestic giants who didn't make the next step

References

Arun District
Cricket in West Sussex


Chen Kun-hou (陳坤厚) is a veteran cinematographer, who started his career in the 1960s.  He won his first best cinematography award at Golden Horse Awards in 1978 for He Never Gives Up (汪洋中的一條船), directed by Lee Hsing (李行). In the early 1980s he began to direct his own films in collaboration with Hou Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢). After series of urban comedies, he made quite a few representative films of the Taiwan New Cinema, such as Growing Up (小畢的故事; 1983), which won him the best director award at the Golden Horse Awards, His Matramony (結婚; 1985), which won him the second best cinematography award at Golden Horse Awards, and My Favorite Season (最想念的季節; 1985), and Osmanthus Alley (桂花巷; 1987). He is awarded for his life achievement in Taiwan cinema at the 60th Golden Horse Awards in 2023.

Career
Chen Kun-hou was born in Taichung in 1939. He was enrolled in Central Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC; 中央電影公司) in 1962 to learn cinematographer. His uncle Lai Cheng-ying (賴成英) was an established cinematographer there at CMPC already. He started as an apprentice and was promoted to cinematographer in 1971. His first film as a cinematographer is Story of Mother (母親三十歲; 1973), in which his cinematography adds a tragic-realistic tone this highly accalimed film by Sung Cun-shou’s (宋存壽). He worked with Lee Hsing for many of his films in the late 1970s, including He Never Gives Up, Good Morning Taipei (早安台北; 1979), The Story of A Small Town (小城故事; 1979), and My Native Land (原鄉人; 1980). He won his first best cinematography award at Golden Horse Awards for his cinematography in He Never Gives Up in 1978.

Starting from 1979, Chen Kun-hou and Hou Hsiao-hsien teamed up to produce six films in the style of romantic urban comedy by taking turns to be the director, four of which directed by Chen are Spring in Autumn (天涼好個秋; 1980), Lover on the Wave (我踏浪而來; 1980),  Longing (蹦蹦一串心; 1981), and Six Is Company (俏如彩蝶飛飛飛; 1982) and the other two directed by Hou are Cute Girl (就是溜溜的她; 1980) and Cheerful Wind (風兒踢踏踩; 1982). These films copied the successful formula of Qiong Yao’s literary romantic films to cast popular stars, such as Chin Han (秦漢), Kenny Bee (鍾鎮濤), Joan Lin (林鳳嬌), Feng Fei-fei (鳳飛飛), and Shen Yan (沈雁), to present light-hearted urban romance accompanied by namesake theme songs and other interlude songs. Two of the six films were arranged to premiere in theaters during the Chinese new year holidays, Cute Girl and Cheerful Wind, both project the new year blessing of “May you be happy and prosperous” (恭喜發財) at the end of the film on the screen.

In 1982, Chen Kun-hou, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Hsu Shu-zhen (許淑真), and Chang Hua-kun (張華坤) formed Evergreen Film Company (萬年青影業公司). The company’s first film Growing Up, a collaboration with CMPC and directed by Chen, was a big success at the box office (NT$6,309,066 in Taipei City), and it won the best feature film, best director, and best script at the Golden Horse Awards in 1983. The company also produced The Boys from Fengkuei (風櫃來的人; 1983), directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien with Chen as the cinematographer. The film was Hou’s important first film with artistic consciousness of film form but it was also the last film he and Chen collaborated on.

After Chen Kun-hou parted ways with Hou Hsiao-hsien, he was productive as a key director of the Taiwan New Cinema and made six films, mostly adaptations of literary works, from 1984 to 1988, including Out of The Blue (小爸爸的天空; 1984), His Matrimony, My Favorite Season, Drifters (流浪少年路; 1986), Osmanthus Alley, My Mother's Teahouse (春秋茶室; 1988). He won another best cinematography award at the Golden Horse Awards in 1985 for His Matrimony.

Starting from 1989, Chen Kun-hou began to be involved in TV productions, especially documentaries, such as Feiyue Qingchun (飛越青春; 1992) and The Story of Confucius (孔子的故事; 1993). He later went to China and help Chow Ling-Gong (周令剛) establish Fee Tang Stellar Movie-Making Base (飛騰影視城; now Mega Jincheng Movie-Making Base) at Beijing.  He directed three more feature films from 2008 to 2012, two of them are made in China: Twin Daggers (雙鏢; 2008) and The Triangle Land (三角地/幸福三角地; 2012) and one Taiwan production: Colorful Mind (新魯冰花：孩子的天空; 2009), a remake of The Dull-Ice Flower (魯冰花; 1989), a popular film based on the namesake novel by Chung Chao-cheng (鍾肇政).

Filmography

Awards and honors

References

External links

1939 births
Living people
Taiwanese film directors
Taiwanese cinematographers


The Cross by the Brook (Czech: Kříž u potoka)  is a 1921 Czechoslovak silent drama film directed by Jan S. Kolár based on Based on the novel by Karolina Světlá.

Cast
Přemysl Pražský as Mikeš Potocký
Rudolf Myzet as Franík Potocký
Karel Noll  as  Kobosil
Kamila Maroldová  as Józa
Emil Focht  as   Dolanský
Růžena Maturová  as  Dolanská
Natasa Cyganková as  Evička
Theodor Pištěk  as Ambrož Potocký
Hugo Svoboda  as   Štepán Potocký
František Beranský  as   Hovorka
Alois Sedláček as   Oldest Town Councillor
Vojtech Záhořík  as   Taverner
Arnoštka Záhoříková as   Maid
Bronislava Livia  as   Marička Holá
Josef Šváb-Malostranský  as   Rich farmer

References

External links

1921 films
1921 drama films
Czechoslovak black-and-white films
Czech silent films
Czechoslovak drama films
Silent drama films


Spartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player.

Playing career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow.

In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this wasn't confirmed.

Coaching career
On 28 December 2018, he was appointed the head coach of FC Spartak Vladikavkaz. In July 2019, he moved from Spartak to the new club FC Alania Vladikavkaz.

On 2 September 2022, Gogniyev was hired by Russian Premier League club FC Khimki. He left Khimki on 3 April 2023, following a 0–6 home loss to FC Krasnodar.

Personal life
His son Ruslan Gogniyev made his debut as professional footballer in 2019.

Honours
 Russian Premier League (1): 2003
 Russian Cup (1): 2002
 Russian First Division best striker: 2010
 Russian National Football League top scorer: 2012–13 (17 goals)

References

External links

 Profile by Russian Professional rusteam.permian.ru

1981 births
Footballers from Vladikavkaz
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Russia men's under-21 international footballers
Russia men's B international footballers
FC Dynamo Moscow players
PFC CSKA Moscow players
FC Rotor Volgograd players
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players
FC Leon Saturn Ramenskoye players
FC Rostov players
FC Kuban Krasnodar players
FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny players
FC Krasnodar players
Russian Premier League players
FC Ural Yekaterinburg players
Russian football managers
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz managers
FC Khimki managers
Russian Premier League managers
FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz players


Parliamentary elections were held in Syria on 7 July 1947, with a second round in some constituencies on 18 July. They were the first elections since official independence in 1946.

Electoral system
A new electoral law was approved by Parliament in May 1947. This introduced a two-round system, with members elected from single-member constituencies by universal male suffrage. Any candidate that received more than 10% of the vote was allowed to contest the second round if no candidate had received an absolute majority. Ten seats were reserved for Bedouins, one of which was for the Jabal Druze. The electoral law also required voting to be extended by a day if first round turnout in a constituency was less than 60%.

Campaign
Prior to the elections, the National Bloc split into two factions. The National Party of President Shukri al-Quwatli was formed in early 1947, with a group of Aleppo-based opponents of al-Quwatli forming another faction. Al-Quwatli's opponents and members of the newly formed Ba'ath Party contested the elections together under the Liberal Party (Hizb al-Ahrar) name.

Neither the National Party or its opponents produced a lengthy manifesto. The National Party was largely interested in protecting wealthy residents of Damascus, while the Aleppo-based opposition published a short manifesto proposing reforms in rural areas to raise the standard of living.

Results

Aftermath
Following the elections, Fares al-Khoury was elected Speaker and incumbent Prime Minister Jamil Mardam Bey was appointed to form a government by al-Quwatli. In 1948 the non-Baath Party opposition members formed the People's Party.

References

Syria
Parliament
Parliamentary elections in Syria
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results


The NGC 5679 group, also known as Arp 274, is a triplet of galaxies, MCG+1-37-36, MCG+1-37-35 and MCG+1-37-34, spanning about  light-years and at some 400 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Arp 274 refers to the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled by Halton Arp in 1966. Galaxies 269 through 274 in his catalogue are galaxies that appear to have connected arms.

NGC 5679 was imaged by Hubble in 2009, in a combination of blue, visible, infrared and Hα filters. The photograph shows that all three galaxies, especially the galaxies on the left and right, are starburst galaxies, meaning that there is currently a large amount of star formation in the galaxies. Interstellar dust can be seen between the areas of star formation. Two bright stars can be seen just above the galaxy on the right side; these are foreground stars that are actually part of our own galaxy.

Redshift measurements of the three galaxies give these radial velocity values, from left to right: 7483, 8654, and 7618 km/s. The relatively high redshift for the center galaxy means that it is much farther away - about 65 million light years (20 megaparsecs) behind the other two galaxies. Thus, the center galaxy is likely a background object. The NGC 5679 group was previously thought to be interacting gravitationally, however the newer Hubble image seems to confirm suspicions that the center galaxy is not interacting, as the galaxy arms are not distorted like typical interacting galaxies.

One supernova has been observed in NGC 5679: SN 1982D (type unknown, mag. 18).

References

External links

274
Galaxy clusters
5679
Virgo (constellation)


Média-Participations () is a French media concern, controlled by a Belgian holding concern, specialized in Franco-Belgian comics. It has some forty publishers in its portfolio, including Dupuis, Dargaud, Le Lombard, Fleurus, La Martinière, and Abrams.

History
Média-Participations was created in 1986 by Rémy Montagne, a politician who had been a member of the French Parliament for three decades before starting in the publishing business. After his death in 1991, he was succeeded by his son Vincent.
The company was first called Ampère and focused on the acquisition of a number of struggling Christian publishing houses like Fleurus. In 1986, the group changed its name to Média-Participations and focused more on Franco-Belgian comics, which started when they acquired Le Lombard in 1986 and Dargaud in 1988.

In 2004, Média-Participations acquired Dupuis after a bid on Editis failed. In 2008, Média-Participations renewed its bid on Editis, now for more than €1 billion.

The publisher is now the third largest publisher of France, and the major Franco-Belgian comics publisher. Of the 32 million books published a year, 20 million are comics. Magazine sales also reach 30 million copies a year. The group publishes around 600 publications a year, some 13% of the total number of Franco-Belgian comics, but these represent almost a third of the sales of comics in France.

In 2009 it acquired a French computer software company, Anuman Interactive.

In 2018, the company acquired La Martinière Groupe.

Current structure

Comics
Comics and manga are published by six different publishers: the general audience publishers of Franco-Belgian comics Dupuis, Dargaud and Le Lombard, the publisher of manga Kana, and the specialized publishers  (for Lucky Luke) and Blake et Mortimer.

Animation
Belvision
Dreamwall
Dargaud Media
Ellipsanime
Dupuis Audiovisuel
Mediatoon Distribution
Storimages

Magazines
Spirou, published by Dupuis
Famille chrétienne, published by Edifa
different magazines by Rustica, including Système D

Books
Editions Chronique for thematic publications
Le Ballon for children's books
Fleurus for a wide variety of books, including many children's books
La Martinière Groupe

VideoGames
 Syberia Series (as. Syberia, Syberia II and Syberia III is in development.) by: Microïds an Anuman software brand.
 Still Life series (as. Post Mortem, Still Life and Still Life 2) by: Microïds
 Dracula Series

Notes

External links
Homepage

Christian publishing companies
Magazine publishing companies of France
Publishing companies established in 1986
French companies established in 1986


Sir Laurence Charles "Brodie" Brodie-Hall   (10 June 1910 – 1 October 2006) was an influential figure in the mining industry of Western Australia (WA).

Early life

Brodie-Hall was born in London and emigrated to Australia in 1924, leaving his parents. He worked as a farm hand in New South Wales and moved to WA in 1927. He co-bought a garage business but went broke during the Great Depression.

Early mining career
He was an underground gold miner in WA's Murchison. In 1934 he joined Western Mining Corporation's Triton mine near Cue as a machine miner. Next he went to Kalgoorlie, took a shift job at the Kalgurli Ore Treatment Company's plant and began a part-time course at the WA School of Mines. On the goldfields he played the violin, sang and was involved in amateur theatricals. In 1939 he worked at the Emperor Mine in Fiji. When World War II started he returned to WA and worked as plant superintendent on Claude de Bernales' Baileys Mine at Coolgardie. When Japan entered the war in 1941 Brodie-Hall enlisted as a sapper in the Royal Australian Engineers. By the end of the war he was a captain. He returned to Kalgoorlie after demobilisation and completed mining and metallurgy degrees at the WA School of Mines under the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Scheme. In 1948 WMC's managing director, (Sir) Lindesay Clark, offered him a job as junior mine geologist at Norseman. He was soon transferred to Melbourne as technical assistant to Sir Lindesay.

Management and later career
In 1951, Brodie-Hall was appointed General Superintendent of Great Western Consolidated. For the next seven years he worked at Bullfinch where he established a reputation for technical innovation and good management. A combination of high inflation and below-expected grades resulted in a financial disaster for the company. In 1958 he was promoted to WMC's General Superintendent in WA, and in 1962 he became an executive director. He was involved in the Geraldton Iron Ore Joint Venture, which led to Australia's first shipment of iron ore under long-term contract to Japan in March 1966. It was due to his encouragement and support that WMC discovered nickel sulphides at Kambalda in January 1966. The rapid establishment of Kambalda Nickel Operations in 1967, the Kwinana Nickel Refinery in 1970 and the Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter in 1972 were among his major achievements.

After moving to Perth in 1967 he increasingly involved himself in industry and community affairs. He was President of the WA Chamber of Mines from 1970 to 1974, a member of the Australian Mining Industry Council and President of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in 1973 as well as being made an honorary fellow in 1988 of the AusIMM. Government and advisory body service included the WA Environmental Protection Council, the CSIRO Council and Chairman of the State Committee of CSIRO. He received the Western Australian Citizen of the Year Award in 1974, was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1976, created a Knight Bachelor in 1982, and was made a Freeman of the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in 1989. He was a director of Ansett Australia. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day Honours in 1993 in recognition of his contribution to the Australian mining industry.

Later years
After retiring as an executive director of WMC in 1975, Brodie-Hall kept his position on boards of WMC and Alcoa Australia for seven years. He was chairman of Kalgoorlie Lake View Pty Ltd, Kalgoorlie Mining Associates, Central Norseman Gold Corporation NL, and Three Springs Talc until 1982 and Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie Ltd until 1985. He was chairman of Westerntech Innovations Corp and Energy Research Group, and a director of Coolgardie Gold NL and a number of non-listed enterprises.

For many years he maintained a keen interest in the WA School of Mines and was chairman of the School's board of management for a long period. He served on the Council of the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT, which became Curtin University) and received an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from WAIT in 1978. He was appointed a Fellow of Curtin University for his service to tertiary education in Western Australia. His name is commemorated in the L C Brodie-Hall Administration Centre at Agricola College, Kalgoorlie, the Brodie-Hall Research and Consultancy Centre at Curtin University and Brodie-Hall Drive at Technology Park. In 1994 he published his memoirs". He died in October 2006.

Family
Brodie-Hall married Dorothy Jolly. Dorothy supported Brodie-Hall and their young family while he was studying geology at the Kalgoorlie School of mines. They had five children. After her death he married Jean Verschuer.

References

1910 births
2006 deaths
English emigrants to Australia
Australian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Officers of the Order of Australia
Australian Knights Bachelor
20th-century Australian businesspeople


Volkmar Thiede (born 21 May 1948) is a former East German sprint canoeist who competed in the early to mid-1970s. He won a bronze medal at the 1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mexico City in K-2 1000 m event.

Thiede also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, but was eliminated in the semifinals.

References

Sports-reference.com profile

1948 births
Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
German male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists for East Germany
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak


This list covers the railway stations in the Berlin area. These include both passenger stations and marshalling yards, but not goods stations. Because the Berlin S-Bahn network has expanded to include stations in the state of Brandenburg, the table shows only those stations lying within the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg's present-day Berlin ABC fare zones (i.e. those up to about 15 kilometres from the Berlin city boundary), and those formerly served by Berlin's suburban services. The latter ran out beyond the capital's boundaries to the next largest towns along the main and branch lines.

The farthest towns on the lines covered here are listed below:

Rüdnitz (Stettin Railway) – Werneuchen (Wriezen Railway) – Strausberg (Prussian Eastern Railway) – Fürstenwalde (Lower Silesian-Märkisch Railway) – Kablow (Königs Wusterhausen–Grunow) – Königs Wusterhausen (Görlitz Railway) – Mittenwalde (Neukölln–Mittenwalde railway)  –  Wünsdorf (Dresden Railway) – Thyrow (Anhalt Railway) – Beelitz-Stadt (Brandenburg Ring Railway)  – Beelitz-Heilstätten (Wetzlar Railway) – Werder (Berlin-Potsdam railway (Stammbahn) – Wustermark (Lehrte Railway) – Nauen (Hamburg Railway) – Vehlefanz (Kremmen Railway) – Sachsenhausen (Nordb) (Prussian Northern Railway) – Wensickendorf and Wandlitzsee (Heidekraut Railway).

Overview

In Berlin there are long-distance stations for rail travellers. The following stop at these stations:

 Deutsche Bahn AG trains:
 InterCityExpress (ICE)
 InterCity (IC)
 EuroCity (EC) and
 Trains of other railway companies:
 InterConneX (X) – (Veolia Verkehr)
 Harz-Elbe-Express (HEX) – (Veolia Verkehr)
 Berlin Night Express (Georg Verkehrsorganisation) (GVG)

There are also regional stations. The following call at these stations:

 Deutsche Bahn AG trains:
 RegionalExpresse (RE) and
 RegionalBahnen (RB)
 Trains of other railway companies:
 Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NE),
 Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn (OE),
 Märkische Regiobahn (MR) und
 Prignitzer Eisenbahn (PE).

The following stop at S-Bahn stations:

 S-Bahn Berlin GmbH trains
 Stadtschnellbahn trains (S-Bahn)

There are also two marshalling yards in the Berlin area.

Passenger stations

The following table gives an overview of the current, former and planned railway stations and halts in the Berlin together with the associated district abbreviation (as used on car number plates) and the types of train that stop there. For readability only one example of the train category is given in the table.

 ICE for long-distance express trains, i.e. also TGV, Thalys etc.
 IC for special long-distance trains, i.e. Also private ones like InterConnex etc.
 RE for local express trains
 RB for regional trains, including those of private operators such as ODEG, UBB etc.
 S for S-Bahn trains
 x means that the train type (or a similar one) calls at the station
 x¹ means that the train type (or a similar one) used to call at the station
 For reasons of space only the car number plate abbreviation for the  town or rural district is given. These are:
 Berlin (B)
 Landkreis Barnim (BAR)
 Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald (LDS)
 Landkreis Havelland (HVL)
 Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland (MOL)
 Landkreis Oberhavel (OHV)
 Landkreis Oder-Spree (LOS)
 Potsdam (P)
 Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark (PM)
 Landkreis Teltow-Fläming (TF)

Marshalling yards

Operational facilities

 Seddin (located outside the Berlin city area on the Wetzlar Railway south of Potsdam)
 Berlin Nordost (on the Outer Ring)
 Wustermark Rbf (formerly Berlin's largest marshalling yard, located outside the Berlin city area, closed in 2001, bought in 2008 by the Havelländische Eisenbahn (HVLE) and since 1 July 2008 used as a link line from the Rail & Logistik Center at Wustermark)

Closed facilities

 Berlin Wuhlheide Rbf (1994 closed, demolished)
 Berlin-Tempelhof Rbf (1952 closed, demolished)
 Berlin-Pankow (1997 closed, partly demolished)
 Berlin-Lichtenberg (converted to a storage yard for passenger coaches)
 Berlin-Rummelsburg (converted to a storage yard for passenger coaches)
 Berlin-Niederschöneweide (1996 closed)

In addition, during the Second World War there were three supplementary marshalling yards (Hilfsrangierbahnhöfe) outside the political city boundaries:

 Rüdnitz
 Fredersdorf
 Großbeeren

See also
 List of Berlin S-Bahn stations
 List of Berlin U-Bahn stations
 List of railway stations in Brandenburg
 List of scheduled railway routes in Germany
 List of closed railway lines in Brandenburg and Berlin

External links

 Berlin S-Bahn stations

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Hole in the Wall is the Polish version of the British comedy show, which has the same name, which in turn is based on the Japanese game show Brain Wall (popularly also known as Human Tetris). It started airing the show in 2009 on TV4. It is hosted by three people from the cabaret group Formacja Chatelet - Adam Grzanka, Adam Małczyk and Michał Pałubski.  The biggest prizes on the show are 3,000 zloty (about $910 or €680) and 6,000 zloty (about $1820 or €1360). Hole in the Wall is shown on every Saturday at 10 PM (UTC+1)

Rules
Rules, appearance and sounds are roughly the same as in the UK version, but with a small change. There are other types of walls (which are borrowed from the US version).  The show has a red team and a blue team, who wear silver metallic suits with helmets and knee pads of their team colors.

Types of walls
 Solo ściana (Solo wall) - one contestant versus one wall, nominated by the captain.  The captain can also nominate himself. If successful - 10 points.
 Dwuściana (Double Wall) - two contestants versus one wall. The two players cannot involve the one player who previously did the solo wall.  If successful - 10 points.
 3ściana (Triple Wall) - three contestants versus one wall. If successful - 10 points.
 Ściana kapitańska (The captain wall) - Captains of both teams versus one wall. They must get through it with identical items . If successful - 10 points for each side.
 Ściana lustrzana (Mirror wall)- one contestant standing backwards versus one wall. One contestant helps him by using only sign language. If successful - 10 points.
 Dwuściana lustrzana (Double Mirror Wall) - two contestants standing backwards versus one wall. One contestant helps them by using only sign language. If successful - 10 points.
 Niespościanka (Surprise-wall) - one contestant with one thing versus one wall. If done - 10 points.
 Ścianozagadka (Mystery-wall) - two contestants versus one wall. On the wall there is a mystery to solve (usually a complicated algebra problem). There are two answers on the wall. To not fall into the water, the contestants have to punch the correct answer. If they choose the correct answer - 20 points.
  Dwuściana kapitańska (Double Captain Wall) - two contestants versus one wall. One of the contestants is a captain of a team. If successful - 10 points.
 Ostatnia ściana ratunku (The last wall of rescue) - one, two or three contestants versus one wall. If successful - 10 points multiplied by number of contestants. If the contestants won't make it, the points are subtracted.
 Ściana rozpaczy (The wall of distress) - entire team versus one wall. The team facing this wall is decided by the captain of team with the most points. If any one of the contestants doesn't clear the wall, the opposing team wins. If successful - 3,000 zloty.  If the other team wins by default, they also win 3,000 złotych.
 Ślepa ściana (Blind wall) - one contestant wears glasses designed to work as a blindfold, in which you can't see anything versus one wall. Two contestants help him, and the audience isn't allowed to speak. If done - 6,000 zloty.  If not done, no money, but no money is awarded to the other team.

A team's maximum possible win is 9,000 zloty.

Number of viewers

References

Polish game shows


Mortality salience is the awareness by individuals that their death is inevitable.

The term derives from terror management theory, which proposes the so-called mortality salience hypothesis: mortality salience causes existential anxiety that may be buffered by an individual's cultural worldview and/or a sense of self-esteem.

Terror management theory

Mortality salience engages the conflict that humans have to face both their instinct to avoid death completely, and their intellectual knowledge that avoiding death is ultimately futile.  According to terror management theory, when human beings begin to contemplate their mortality and their vulnerability to death, feelings of terror emerge because of the simple fact that humans want to avoid their inevitable death. Mortality salience comes into effect, because humans contribute all of their actions to either avoiding death or distracting themselves from the contemplation of it. Thus, terror management theory asserts that almost all human activity is driven by the fear of death.

Most research done on terror management theory revolves around the mortality salience paradigm. It has been found that religious individuals as well as religious fundamentalists are less vulnerable to mortality salience manipulations, and so religious believers engage in cultural worldview defense to a lesser extent than nonreligious individuals.

Self-esteem

Mortality salience is highly manipulated by one's self-esteem. Individuals with low self-esteem are more apt to experience the effects of mortality salience, whereas individuals with high self-esteem are better able to cope with the idea that their death is uncontrollable. As an article states, "according to terror management theory, increased self-esteem should enhance the functioning of the cultural anxiety buffer and thereby provide protection against death concerns".

Potential to cause worldview defense

Mortality salience has the potential to cause worldview defense, a psychological mechanism that strengthens people's connection with their in-group as a defense mechanism. Studies also show that mortality salience can lead people to feel more inclined to punish what they believe to be minor moral transgressions. One such study divided a group of judges into two groups—one that was asked to reflect upon their own mortality, and one group that was not. The judges were then asked to set a bond for an alleged prostitute. The group that had reflected on mortality set an average bond of $455, while the control group's average bond was $50. What prompted the increase is unclear, only the correlation was demonstrated. Possible interpretations include cultural beliefs about maintaining moral codes leading to a successful afterlife as promised in religions incentivizing the punishment of moral transgressions, or that the increased punishments could simply represent a desire to be more impactful on the world before death, some other cause, or multiple.

Another study found that mortality salience could cause an increase in support for martyrdom and military intervention. It found that students who had reflected on their mortality showed preference towards people who supported martyrdom, and indicated they might consider martyrdom themselves. They also found that, especially among students who were politically conservative, mortality salience increased support for military intervention, but not among students who were politically liberal.

Gender, emotion and sex

A study tested "the hypothesis that mortality salience intensifies gender differences in reactions to sexual and emotional infidelity". In the study, participants were asked to work through packets that had mortality salience manipulation questions in each. In the results, they found that "sex is more relevant to the self-esteem of men than women and being in a committed relationship is relatively more important to women than for men". Therefore, when linking mortality salience to gender, emotion, and sex, men are more likely to suffer from sexual infidelity, and women are more likely to suffer from emotional infidelity. The results of this study showed that there is a logistic regression revealing a significant three-way interaction between gender, sex value, and mortality salience for the item pitting "passionate sex" against "emotional attachment".

See also
 Awareness of Dying
 Being-toward-death
 Birthday effect
 Cognitive dissonance
 Death anxiety
 Existential psychology
 Melancholia
 Memento mori, the medieval Latin Christian theory and practice of reflection on mortality
 Social psychology
 Suicidal ideation

References

Motivational theories
Attitude change
Conceptions of self
Death


This list of belemnite genera is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the extinct subclass Belemnoidea, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, as well as genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomina dubia), or were not formally published (nomina nuda), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered belemites. Naming conventions and terminology follow the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as indicated.

The list currently contains 100 generic names.

List of belemnites

See also

 Belemnoidea
 List of ammonites
 List of nautiloids

References

Uncited genera names can be verified at:
Sepkoski, J.J. Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1–560. Sepkoski's Online Genus Database, Cephalopoda entry

Prehistoric cephalopod genera
Lists of prehistoric molluscs
Lists of animal genera (alphabetic)
Cenozoic cephalopods
Mesozoic cephalopods


Gerhard Rummel is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1970s. He won two medals at the 1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Belgrade with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-4 1000 m events.

References

German male canoeists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak


William Ervin "Cap" Murrah (September 5, 1900 – June 1, 1956) was a professional football player who spent two years of the National Football League (NFL) with the Canton Bulldogs and the St. Louis All-Stars. Murrah was a part of the Bulldogs' 1922 NFL championship team. In 1923, he played for the All-Stars. He played college football at Texas A&M University. Cap later was inducted into the Texas A&M Hall of Fame. While at A&M, Murrah helped the Aggies win the 1922 Dixie Classic, when he recovered the football at the Centre College Praying Colonels' thirty-three yard line, setting up a touchdown on the possession.

Notes

References

External links

1900 births
Players of American football from Texas
Canton Bulldogs players
St. Louis All-Stars players
Texas A&M Aggies football players
1956 deaths


, the "House of Tomorrow," is the original building complex of Jiyu Gakuen, designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Jiyu means 'freedom', and gakuen is 'school'.

Arata Endo, working as an assistant for Wright's project constructing the Imperial Hotel, introduced Wright to his acquaintances, husband and wife Yoshikazu and Motoko Hani, who founded Jiyu Gakuen. Impressed by the couple's self-reliant, Christian-oriented educational philosophy, Wright accepted to undertake the design of their new school.

Built of economical 2 × 4 wood and plaster, Jiyu Gakuen featured a central section with double-height volume and soaring windows facing south onto an open courtyard, with symmetrical wings on the east and west. It was built to child scale, with an architectural richness belying its budget. Myonichikan is also given a Japanese touch by Wright's extensive use of gray-green Oya stone (from Tochigi Prefecture) for pavements, columns and the lanterns standing in the corridors.

The Myonichikan consists of four buildings; the main, the east, and the west buildings and the auditorium. The main building stands with the two classroom buildings to the west and the east forming a U-shape. The buildings have such characteristics as extending horizontal lines to blend with the landscape, the Prairie School design, which can be seen in Wright's first golden age. The auditorium, designed by Arata Endo and capable of seating around 300 people, stands across the street to the south of the site.

After the main campus was relocated to Minamisawa (Higashikurume, Tokyo) in 1934, the original buildings were used by school alumni for various activities. A long dispute to save the aging structure took place within the Japanese government in the 1990s. The government rewrote its regulations so that the building could be used for educational and cultural activities after being designated a National Important Cultural Asset in May 1997. After standing for almost 80 years, the building was in need of major repairs. Therefore, restoration work was conducted from January 1999 through September 2001. Since November 2001, it has been open to the public when not in use for weddings and other events.

Along with Yodokō Guest House in Ashiya, the school is also the only other example of Wright's work in Japan to completely retain its original appearance.

See also
 List of Frank Lloyd Wright works

References

 Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006,  (S.213)

External links
Official Site
Window on Wright's Legacy in Japan
Wright's modern masterpiece comes back to life

Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
Girls' schools in Japan


Major James Starr (April 5, 1870 – March 13, 1948), of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was one of the earliest philatelists who collected, studied, and wrote on, stamps of China.

Collecting interests
Starr was particularly interested in studying the large Dragons of 1878-1883 as well as China's air post issues. His collections on exhibit were famous and award-winning. Co-authored with Samuel J. Mills, Starr wrote The Chinese Air-Post, 1920–1935, which was based on his own collection of Chinese postal history. It was published around 1937.

Philatelic activity
Starr was a founding member of the China Stamp Society, the oldest affiliate of the American Philatelic Society and the largest English speaking Chinese philatelic organization worldwide. He was serving as its president at the time of his death.

Honors and awards
He won numerous awards for his exhibits at national and international philatelic exhibitions. He signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1947 and was named to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 1949.

Legacy
Starr's intact China collection was sold at Sotheby's auction in 1991.

See also
Philately
Philatelic literature

References and sources
References

Sources

1870 births
1948 deaths
Philatelic literature
American philatelists
Writers from Philadelphia
American Philatelic Society


Dmitri Vladimirovich Kudinov (; born 25 August 1985) is a Russian former professional footballer.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2005 for FC Torpedo Moscow.

References

1985 births
Living people
Russian men's footballers
FC Torpedo Moscow players
FC Anzhi Makhachkala players
FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny players
FC Salyut Belgorod players
Russian Premier League players
FC SKA-Khabarovsk players
FC Petrotrest players
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg players
FC Leon Saturn Ramenskoye players
Russian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Armenia
FC Mika players
Men's association football defenders
FC Moscow players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
FC Luch Vladivostok players
FC Avangard Kursk players
FC Tver players


Mandeer is a town and union council of Gujrat District, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is part of Kharian Tehsil and is located at 32°46'0N 73°50'0E with an altitude of 256 metres (843 feet).

The majority of the population belongs to Jatt tribe.  Until the late 1970s agriculture and army were the only fields where the people were working. Agriculture is a forgotten profession nowadays. Small land holdings and no proper source of irrigation have forced people to look for alternatives. From then on till mid-1990s Middle East was the favourite destination for the workers.  But now people from Mandeer are working and living in Europe, mainly Denmark, Norway, France and UK.
This make Mandeer one of the richest village of Pakistan.
 Many are well settled and living with their families in Europe and U.S.A.

Geography

References

Union councils of Gujrat District
Populated places in Gujrat District


Sinan Özkan (born 22 March 1986) is a Turkish footballer who plays for Serik Belediyespor.

Career
Born in Saint-Étienne, Özkan began his career playing youth football for the French team AS Saint-Étienne. He moved to Turkey and played for Türk Telekom Gençlik Spor Kulübü, Samsunspor, Manisaspor, Fethiyespor, Giresunspor, Tokatspor and Elazığspor. He has made seven Turkish Süper Lig appearances for Manisaspor and one appearance for Elazığspor.

References

External links

Guardian's Stats Centre

1986 births
Living people
Turkish men's footballers
French people of Turkish descent
Turkey men's under-21 international footballers
Samsunspor footballers
Manisaspor footballers
Giresunspor footballers
Konyaspor footballers
Adana Demirspor footballers
Alanyaspor footballers
Göztepe S.K. footballers
Gaziantep F.K. footballers
Fethiyespor footballers
Tokatspor footballers
Elazığspor footballers
Altay S.K. footballers
Sakaryaspor footballers
Süper Lig players
TFF First League players
TFF Second League players
Men's association football wingers
Footballers from Saint-Étienne


Private GSM solutions appeared after the deregulation of the DECT guard band in some countries, allowing users and businesses to reduce their costs without impacting their performance, and offer a number of value-added services. These benefits arose from the ability to create private mobile GSM networks, enabling mobile phone users to access the same services and features as users of a PBX extension.

Current Market
Analysts estimate that 40% to 60% of corporate mobile minutes are used in building, highlighting an under appreciated pain point. Mobile phones tend to be used more often due to convenience - they are close at hand at all times, provide easy access to stored contact numbers, and are more personal; as such, a mobile handset makes employees easier to contact. With mobile minutes costing up to 150% more than fixed line minutes, there is a clear reason for enterprises to encourage change in mobile usage towards fixed desk phones. However, this is in direct opposition to the increasing use of mobile phones as the communications device of choice.

Increasing call spend is further exacerbated by a marked increase in mobility, as organisations increasingly move towards nomadic employees and flexible working. Mobile penetration within organisations is also increasing, exposing enterprises to inflated mobile spending. Private GSM delivers many of the benefits demanded by enterprises: delivering call cost savings, assisting time-critical decisions by improving reach, and ensuring that compliance legislations can be met. These benefits only come alive when enterprises are able to highlight real-life advantages through actual private GSM deployments.

Features
Compared to other technologies, the advantages and main features of the Private GSM technique are:
 All GSM devices produced since the year 2000 are usable. Specifically for industrial environments there are more types of mobile devices available which are water/dust/shock proof and have functions such as emergency button call or push to talk (walkie-talkie mode).
 The transmitted power and the high receiver sensitivity of the GSM equipment result in a better coverage range and—depending on the type of DECT systems—one GSM basis station can replace either three DECT or five WLAN base stations.
 The GSM band is a protected frequency, which allows any GSM communication to be possible. Therefore, there are no issues with interference from other devices such as game computers, RF repeaters, video transmitters, microwave ovens, etc.
 The system completely supports data technologies, such as GPRS / EDGE, whereby mobile data applications of up to 235 kbit/s per user are possible.
SMS's (short message/messaging service) between each registered mobile phone is completely supported, as is SMS broadcasting from the central administrator to all users or group of users.
 Mobile phones have the ability to operate as PBX extensions while users are online. This brings many more advantages, such as:
 The ability to transfer calls among handsets.
 The ability to make internal calls between handsets.
 A shared agenda and phonebook.
 Support for caller ID.
 Corporate phone management and control is improved due to the capability to monitor calls and messaging costs at all times.
 Businesses are able to connect their private GSM systems to a number of internationally standardised PBXs, such as Swyx, Alcatel, Siemens or Avaya, among others. Besides this, they are able to perform connectivity through SIP trunk, x-ISDN-2 or x-ISDN-3.
 Pure IP connection enabled from the enterprise to the carrier via a SIP trunk; the ability to handle voice and data; and the ability to handle video, broadband mobile, etc.
 Supports business continuity - the private mobile network continues to operate when the macro network (public mobile network) is unavailable.
Dual SIM phone devices can be used in order to create symbiosis between companies’ existing operators and a Private GSM solution. By using this, businesses continue with the same tariff plan when using mobiles outside of the office and are able to seamlessly enjoy all the benefits of Private GSM in the office.
 Standard handsets are also supported, enabling easier migration from standard communications system.

References

External links
 DECT reaches a New Generation

GSM standard


The 2009–10 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their head coach was Roy Williams. The team played its home games in the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They were the defending National Champions. This season represented the 100th season of basketball in the school's history.

The Tar Heels finished the season 20–17, 5–11 in ACC play and lost in the first round of the 2010 ACC men's basketball tournament. They received an invitation to the 2010 National Invitation Tournament where they advanced to the championship game before falling to Dayton.

Preseason

The Tar Heels lost four starters from their 2008–09 Championship team and top backcourt reserve Bobby Frasor. Tyler Hansbrough, the Atlantic Coast Conference all-time leading scorer, was selected in the lottery of the 2009 NBA draft, going #13 to the Indiana Pacers. ACC Player of the Year Ty Lawson and 2009 NCAA tournament Most Outstanding Player Wayne Ellington also were drafted in the first round, by the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves respectively.  Senior swingman Danny Green would also get drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round.

Top returnees are senior center Deon Thompson, who spent the Summer helping lead Team USA to a bronze at the World University Games and sophomore Ed Davis, who had got projected as a first-round draft pick. Reserve sophomores Larry Drew II and Tyler Zeller also return, and junior swingman Will Graves was reinstated over the Summer after a mid-season suspension by coach Roy Williams. Also returning is defensive stopper Marcus Ginyard, who took a medical redshirt for the 2008–09 campaign after starting as a junior for the 2007–08 Tar Heel team, who advanced to the Final Four. Joining the returnees is a recruiting class containing four McDonald's All-Americans and ranked as one of the top 5 in the Nation.

Despite the heavy losses for the defending champions, the Tar Heels were ranked in the top ten of both preseason polls when they got released on October 29, Even garnering a single vote for #1 in both the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll.  UNC was ranked #6 in the AP and #4 in the Coaches poll.  The Tar Heels were also picked as the ACC pre-season favorite (with rival Duke) by the conference media, while Davis was chosen a member of the preseason All-ACC Team.

Other preseason honors for Tar Heel players included the inclusion of Davis and Thompson on the 50-man Wooden Award preseason candidate list, while Davis was also one of the 50 players named to the Naismith watch list.  Marcus Ginyard was named a preseason candidate for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, one of only two ACC players named to the 30-man list (with Duke's Jon Scheyer).

100th anniversary celebration

UNC kicked off their 100th season with an alumni game on September 4, featuring such NBA players as Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison and Marvin Williams.  At halftime of the event, the 2009 National Championship banner got unveiled, and UNC legend Michael Jordan got honored for his election to the Basketball Hall of Fame.  The event also proved to be an excellent recruiting tool for UNC, as 2011 forward prospect James McAdoo committed to North Carolina at the event and Harrison Barnes, the 2010 #1 recruit in the ESPNU and Scout.com rankings, would later commit to UNC after attending the event.  Members of the 2009 championship team received their championship rings at halftime of the UNC-Citadel football game on September 5.

In their season opener against Florida International, the Tar Heels donned throwback uniforms in the style of the 1957 undefeated national championship team – with distinctive red trim.  The Tar Heels wore the 1957 throwback uniforms again when they played Rutgers on December 28.

Recruiting

Coach Roy Williams signed a five-person class for 2009, including two-time Tennessee Division II-AA Mr. Basketball Leslie McDonald from Memphis, identical twins David and Travis Wear from California, and athletic combo guard Dexter Strickland from New Jersey.  But the crown jewel of the class was 6'10 forward John Henson of Tampa, Florida, rated the #1 PF by Scout.com.  Henson, Strickland and the Wear twins were all named to the McDonald's game in Miami.  Henson and Strickland were also named first-team Parade All-Americans, while McDonald and the Wears were called to the fourth team by the magazine.

Season

Non-conference season

UNC kicked off their non-conference schedule on November 9 against Florida International and new coach Isiah Thomas as a part of the Coaches Vs. Cancer Classic, defeating the Golden Panthers 88–72 at the Dean Smith Center.  There had been some controversy surrounding the game as FIU had threatened to pull out of the tournament when the brackets were released, and they found that they were not scheduled to play Ohio State as they had initially planned.

After home wins over North Carolina Central and Valparaiso, the Tar Heels began a tough out of conference slate which would include five teams ranked in the preseason Coaches' poll.  First was a trip to Madison Square Garden for the finals of the Coaches Vs. Cancer Classic.  After defeating #15 Ohio State 77–73 in their semifinal game, the Tar Heels lost the championship game 87–71 to #24 Syracuse.  UNC had a two-point lead at the half, but the Orange used a 25–3 run coming out of the locker room to defeat the young Tar Heels convincingly behind 25 points from forwarding Wesley Johnson.

In a 93–72 home win over Gardner-Webb on November 23, 2009, senior Deon Thompson became the 63rd player in UNC history to score 1000 points. The milestone capped a 22-point, 10-rebound performance from Thompson.  The game also featured a record-setting night as Gardner-Webb guard Grayson Flittner tied a Dean Smith Center record with nine three-pointers.  In their next game it was Roy Williams' turn to achieve a milestone as he won his 600th game in the Tar Heels' 80–73 win over Nevada.

Next up was #9 Michigan State in Chapel Hill as a part of the ACC – Big Ten Challenge. In this rematch of the 2009 NCAA title game, again beat the Spartans 89–82 behind Ed Davis' 22 points and Larry Drew II's 18 points and six assists. The next game got no more comfortable, as UNC traveled to Rupp Arena to face the #5 Kentucky Wildcats. The Tar Heels fell behind early as UK freshman John Wall sparked a 28–2 first-half run that punctuated a 15-point halftime deficit. The Tar Heels battled back to make the game close in the second half, but ultimately lost 68–66.

Following the Kentucky game, UNC defeated Presbyterian 103–64 at the Smith Center before traveling to Cowboys Stadium in Dallas to take on the #2 ranked Texas Longhorns in the first basketball game played at that venue. The Longhorns defeated the Tar Heels 103–90 behind Damion James' 25 points and 15 rebounds. Ed Davis had 21 points and nine rebounds in the loss. The Tar Heels rebounded with home wins over Marshall (98–61) and Rutgers (81–67). The Carolina front line of Davis, Thompson, Graves, and Zeller combined for 64 points and 30 rebounds in the win over Marshall, while freshman Dexter Strickland notched 18 in the win over Rutgers in the absence of Marcus Ginyard, who sat out the game with an ankle sprain.

Ginyard also missed the last two non-conference games. In a home contest against Albany, UNC also lost junior forward Will Graves to an ankle injury. The Tar Heels won the game 87–70 but would lose both Graves and reserve Justin Watts for their last non-conference game at the College of Charleston.  The Tar Heels played a real road game at Carolina First Arena down two starters.  Charleston's Cougars played the Heels shot for shot, sending the game into overtime with an Andrew Goudelock three-pointer. In overtime, the Cougars outscored the Tar Heels to take the game 82–79 in a big upset. Ed Davis had 19 points, 16 rebounds and five blocks in the losing effort.

Conference season

The Tar Heels entered conference play by hosting the Virginia Tech Hokies. The Tar Heels returned injured starters, Will Graves and Marcus Ginyard, while the Hokies welcomed back their star Malcolm Delaney. Delaney lived up to his preseason All-ACC billing, scoring 20 points in the first half as Virginia Tech led 38–34 at the intermission. But Larry Drew II, Will Graves and Ed Davis led a strong second half effort to lead the Tar Heels to a 78–64 win.

The next three games were not as positive for the Tar Heels. The Heels were beaten convincingly by Clemson 83–64 in a game that saw UNC commit 26 turnovers. The Tar Heels showed signs of life in their next match against Georgia Tech. After trailing the Yellow Jackets by as much as 20, UNC came storming back to take the lead with under a minute to play, behind Will Graves' 24 points. However, Georgia Tech scored the last three aspects of the game to get the win. The Tar Heels looked to get back to their winning ways against Wake Forest at home but were outscored in both halves, losing 82–69.  It marked the first time Roy Williams had lost three games in a row as Tar Heels head coach. The loss knocked the Tar Heels out of the national rankings for the first time since 2006.

Unfortunately, the Tar Heels were never really able to achieve any real consistency for the remainder of the season, going only 4–8 for the rest of the way. While they did manage to sweep rival North Carolina State, they were swept by Duke, including an 82–50 flogging to close the season. They ultimately finished 5–11 in conference play—only the fourth losing ACC record UNC has ever suffered, and easily the worst conference record in Williams' 22 years as a head coach. They also finished tied for ninth in the conference standings, only their third-ever finish below fourth in ACC play.

The Tar Heels briefly showed signs of life in the first half of the ACC tournament against Georgia Tech gaining an early lead, but a second-half swoon resulted in a 62–58 loss.

Postseason
The Tar Heels got left out of the 2010 NCAA Tournament, becoming the first defending national champion since Florida's 2007–08 unit to not make the next year's tournament while eligible to compete.  They were, however, selected for the 2010 National Invitation Tournament&mdash. Their first appearance in that tourney since 2003. Despite a 16–16 record, the Tar Heels were a #4 seed, allowing them to host a first-round game against William & Mary. The game was played in the Tar Heels' former home, Carmichael Arena, due to renovations at the Smith Center. After defeating William & Mary, the Tar Heels won road games at Mississippi State and UAB and advanced to the tournament's semi-finals in Madison Square Garden where they defeated Rhode Island in overtime. In the NIT championship game, they lost to Dayton 79–68 to close the season at 20–17. The 17 losses are the second-most in school history.

On April 1, Deon Thompson appeared in the NIT Championship game, giving him 152 career game appearances. This set the NCAA all-time career games played mark, formerly held by Wayne Turner of Kentucky and Walter Hodge of Florida.

Roster

Schedule

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Rankings

Team players drafted into the NBA

See also
2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings

References

North Carolina
North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball seasons
North Carolina
Tar
Tar


Workers, Let's Go or Heave-Ho! () is a 1934 Czechoslovak comedy directed by Martin Frič. Popular actors and playwrights from Osvobozené divadlo Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich co-wrote the screenplay and acted in the movie.

Cast
Jiří Voskovec as Filip Kornet, Shuffer
Jan Werich as Jakub Simonides
Helena Bušová as Marta
Josef Skřivan as Worst, president at cannery
Theodor Pištěk as Brown, director concern of Simonides
Zvonimir Rogoz as Director factory of Simonides
Alois Dvorský as House-keeper
Václav Trégl as Shuffer
Frantisek Černý as Shuffer
Miroslav Svoboda as Shuffer
Jan W. Speerger as Shuffer
Jan Richter as Shuffer
František Filipovský as Shuffer
Bohuš Záhorský as Shuffer

References

External links

1934 films
1934 comedy films
Czechoslovak black-and-white films
Films directed by Martin Frič
Czechoslovak comedy films
1930s Czech films


The Eklund TE-1 was a Finnish-built single-seat flying boat of the late 1940s.

Design and development
The TE-1 was designed in late 1948 by Torolf Eklund, who was a Finnish aircraft designer for Valtion Lentokonetehdas between 1935 and 1962. The TE-1 was financed and built by Eklund as a private venture.

Operational history
The TE-1 first flew in February 1949 powered by a 28 h.p. Poinsard engine. This powerplant suffered a crankcase failure, and as spare parts were no longer available, it was replaced by a Continental A40-5 engine. At the time of its first flight, the TE-1 was claimed to be the world's smallest flying boat. The aircraft last flew in 1969. It is now preserved in the Suomen Ilmailumuseo (Finnish Aviation Museum) at Helsinki Vantaa airport.

Variants
The following proposed derivatives were developed, but only the prototype TE-1 was completed and flown.

TE-1A with retractable four-wheel undercarriage
TE-1B flying boat configuration
TE-1B-S flying boat with skis
TE-1B-G flying boat with breaching gear

Specifications (TE-1)

See also

References

TE-1
1940s Finnish sport aircraft
Flying boats
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1949


Jean-Baptiste Morin may refer to:
 Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician) (1583–1656), French astrologer, mathematician and astronomer
 Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer) (1677–1745), French composer
 Jean-Baptiste Morin (politician) (1840–1911), Canadian politician

See also
Jean Morin (disambiguation)


Paulus Svendsen (17 April 1904 – 	21  April 1989) was a Norwegian professor and literary  historian. He is mainly remembered for his biographies of notable thinkers of Western philosophy.

Biography
He was born in Egersund, Norway. He was the son of Oscar Svendsen (1876–1967), and his wife, Dagmar Marie Steffensen (born 1882). His father was a Methodist priest. He started studying at the University of Oslo in 1923, and graduated with a cand.philol. degree seven years later. In 1940, he defended a thesis titled Gullalderdrøm og utviklingstro, which earned him a dr.philos. degree in the subsequent year.

He taught as an associate professor at the University of Berlin 1931–33, lecturer at Trondheim Cathedral School from 1933  and  head teacher at Trondheim Handelsgymnasium from 1937.
He was hired as a senior lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Oslo in 1946. He was appointed professor of European literature three years later. From 1960 to 1974 he held a professorship in Intellectual history.

Paulus Svendsen was interested in the evolution of  philosophical thought of the western world, in particular the philosophical view of the world known as weltanschaaungen.
He  wrote biographies on Dutch philosopher Erasmus,  Danish  philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard, Norwegian short story writer and novelist Maurits Hansen and Norwegian poet  Conrad Nicolai Schwach. He was also  one of the editors of the biographical dictionary Norsk biografisk leksikon.

He died during 1989  and was buried at Vestre gravlund	in Oslo.

Selected works
Gullalderdrøm og utviklingstro (1940)
Maurits Christopher Hansen (1942)
Renessanse-humanistene og  humanitas (1959)
Zur Frage der Humanitas Erasmiana (1967)
Kristianismen : kulturfornyer eller kulturforstyrrer? (1978)
Enhet og mangfold i europeisk kultur (1980)
Forelesninger og studier (1982)

References

1904 births
1989 deaths
Norwegian literary historians
University of Oslo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Norwegian biographers
Male biographers
Norwegian encyclopedists
People from Egersund
20th-century Norwegian writers
20th-century biographers
20th-century Norwegian male writers
Burials at Vestre gravlund


Abdul Aziz (born 11 January 1986) is a Pakistani former footballer who played as a midfielder.

International career
Aziz earned his first senior international cap during the 2005 Pakistan-India friendly series.

He was the vice-captain of the U-23 national team during the 2004, 2006 and 2010 South Asian Games, where he helped Pakistan achieve the gold medal in the first two editions. On 2004, he scored in the final against India, where his goal in the 29th minute gave Pakistan a 1–0 victory.

Career statistics

International

Honours
Pakistan U23
South Asian Games Gold: 2004, 2006

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
Pakistani men's footballers
Pakistan men's international footballers
Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
Men's association football midfielders
Asian Games competitors for Pakistan
South Asian Games gold medalists for Pakistan
South Asian Games medalists in football


Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan were the defending champions and won in the final 6–4, 6–3 against Wojciech Fibak and Jan Kodeš.

Seeds

  Bob Hewitt /  Frew McMillan (champions)
  Wojciech Fibak /  Jan Kodeš (final)
  Brian Gottfried /  Sandy Mayer (semifinals)
  František Pala /  Balázs Taróczy (semifinals)

Draw

External links
 1977 Fischer-Grand Prix Doubles draw

Doubles


Sich-1 is the first Ukrainian Earth observation satellite and was launched on 31 August 1995 at 06:49:59 UTC by Ukrainian Tsyklon-3 rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia.

See also

 1995 in spaceflight

References

External links
 Sich-1 on nkau.gov.ua
 Okean-O1 Series // eoPortal Directory
 Herbert J. Kramer ”Observation of the Earth and Its Environment: Survey of Missions and Sensors", 4th edition 2002, pp. 1514 // Springer Verlag
 Okean-O1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 // Gunter's space page
 Ukrainian Sich-1 Spacecraft Model

1995 in Ukraine
Earth observation satellites
First artificial satellites of a country
Satellites of Ukraine
Spacecraft launched in 1995
Yuzhmash satellites and probes
State Space Agency of Ukraine


Combinatorial physics or physical combinatorics is the area of interaction between physics and combinatorics.

Overview
"Combinatorial Physics is an emerging area which unites combinatorial and discrete mathematical techniques applied to theoretical physics, especially Quantum Theory."
"Physical combinatorics might be defined naively as combinatorics guided by ideas or insights from physics"

Combinatorics has always played an important role in quantum field theory and statistical physics. However, combinatorial physics only emerged as a specific field after a seminal work by Alain Connes and Dirk Kreimer, showing that the renormalization of Feynman diagrams can be described by a Hopf algebra.

Combinatorial physics can be characterized by the use of algebraic concepts to interpret and solve physical problems involving combinatorics. It gives rise to a particularly harmonious collaboration between mathematicians and physicists.

Among the significant physical results of combinatorial physics, we may mention the reinterpretation of renormalization as a Riemann–Hilbert problem, the fact that the Slavnov–Taylor identities of gauge theories generate a Hopf ideal, the quantization of fields and strings, and a completely algebraic description of the combinatorics of quantum field theory. An important example of applying combinatorics to physics is the enumeration of alternating sign matrix in the solution of ice-type models. The corresponding ice-type model is the six vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions.

See also
Mathematical physics
Statistical physics
Ising model
Percolation theory
Tutte polynomial
Partition function
Hopf algebra
Combinatorics and dynamical systems
Quantum mechanics

References

Further reading
Some Open Problems in Combinatorial Physics, G. Duchamp, H. Cheballah
One-parameter groups and combinatorial physics, G. Duchamp, K.A. Penson, A.I. Solomon, A.Horzela, P.Blasiak
Combinatorial Physics, Normal Order and Model Feynman Graphs, A.I. Solomon, P. Blasiak, G. Duchamp, A. Horzela, K.A. Penson
Hopf Algebras in General and in Combinatorial Physics: a practical introduction, G. Duchamp, P. Blasiak, A. Horzela, K.A. Penson, A.I. Solomon
Discrete and Combinatorial Physics
Bit-String Physics: a Novel "Theory of Everything", H. Pierre Noyes
Combinatorial Physics, Ted Bastin, Clive W. Kilmister, World Scientific, 1995,
Physical Combinatorics and Quasiparticles, Giovanni Feverati, Paul A. Pearce, Nicholas S. Witte

Paths, Crystals and Fermionic Formulae, G.Hatayama, A.Kuniba, M.Okado, T.Takagi, Z.Tsuboi
On powers of Stirling matrices, István Mező
"On cluster expansions in graph theory and physics", N BIGGS — The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, 1978 - Oxford Univ Press
Enumeration Of Rational Curves Via Torus Actions, Maxim Kontsevich, 1995
Non-commutative Calculus and Discrete Physics, Louis H. Kauffman, February 1, 2008
Sequential cavity method for computing free energy and surface pressure, David Gamarnik, Dmitriy Katz, July 9, 2008

Combinatorics and statistical physics
"Graph Theory and Statistical Physics", J.W. Essam, Discrete Mathematics, 1, 83-112 (1971).
Combinatorics In Statistical Physics
Hard Constraints and the Bethe Lattice: Adventures at the Interface of Combinatorics and Statistical Physics, Graham Brightwell, Peter Winkler
Graphs, Morphisms, and Statistical Physics: DIMACS Workshop Graphs, Morphisms and Statistical Physics, March 19-21, 2001, DIMACS Center, Jaroslav Nešetřil, Peter Winkler, AMS Bookstore, 2001,

Conference proceedings
Proc. of Combinatorics and Physics, Los Alamos, August 1998
Physics and Combinatorics 1999: Proceedings of the Nagoya 1999 International Workshop, Anatol N. Kirillov, Akihiro Tsuchiya, Hiroshi Umemura, World Scientific, 2001,
Physics and combinatorics 2000: proceedings of the Nagoya 2000 International Workshop, Anatol N. Kirillov, Nadejda Liskova, World Scientific, 2001,
Asymptotic combinatorics with applications to mathematical physics: a European mathematical summer school held at the Euler Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 9-20, 2001, Anatoliĭ, Moiseevich Vershik, Springer, 2002,
Counting Complexity: An International Workshop On Statistical Mechanics And Combinatorics, 10–15 July 2005, Dunk Island, Queensland, Australia
Proceedings of the Conference on Combinatorics and Physics, MPIM Bonn, March 19–23, 2007

Quantum mechanics


Hans Severin Jelstrup (2 August 1893 in Christiania – 1964) was a Norwegian astronomer.

His specialties were geophysics and geodesy. He spent his entire academic career, 1922 to 1963, in the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority (then known as Norges Geografiske Oppmåling). He also edited the official Norwegian almanac from 1943 to his death.

He was taking part in forming the Norwegian Astronomical Society, and on february 25th, 1938, he was elected as the first chairman.

References

1893 births
1964 deaths
Norwegian astronomers
Norwegian almanac editors


Andrei Aleksandrovich Perov (; born 29 July 1981) is a Russian former professional footballer. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2006 for FC Torpedo Moscow.

References

Russian men's footballers
FC Khimki players
FC Torpedo Moscow players
FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny players
1981 births
Living people
Russian Premier League players
FC Volgar Astrakhan players
Men's association football midfielders
FC Ural Yekaterinburg players
FC Orenburg players
FC Avangard Kursk players
FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk players


The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic diocese of Orange is an important chapter in the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States.

Allegations of sexual misconduct

Allegations against bishop Driscoll
During his tenure as an auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Orange, Michael Patrick Driscoll accepted and transferred priests despite reports of sexual misconduct.

In 1983, he received a letter detailing allegations of abuse against another priest, who was sent to counseling but the therapist who treated him never reported the case to Child Protective Services as required by law; when authorities asked for the letter, Driscoll claimed the victim's mother had asked for it to be destroyed, which the mother denied.

He later admitted that his priorities were "horribly misplaced" in handling these allegations, and stated, "...I would never hurt anyone intentionally, especially children."

Diocese of Boise Bishop Michael Driscoll apologized for his role in Orange County, California's Roman Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal. Driscoll, who was in charge of priest personnel affairs for the Diocese of Orange County from its 1976 inception until leaving for Idaho in 1999, made the stunning admission in a letter printed in the Idaho Catholic Register, stating he was "deeply sorry that the way we handled cases [in Orange County] allowed children to be victimized by permitting some priests to remain in ministry, for not disclosing their behavior to those who might be at risk, and for not monitoring their actions more closely."
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge was expected to release priest personnel files that were supposed to become public as part of a $100-million settlement reached in 2005 between the Orange diocese and sex-abuse victims, the largest in the history of the Catholic Church. Church sources say Driscoll's name is all over the documents, which molestation survivors claim will show the various cover-ups Orange County diocesan officials executed while Driscoll served as chancellor and auxiliary bishop.

Allegations against Bishop Tod Brown
In 1997, Bishop Tod Brown was accused of having sexually abused a twelve-year-old boy in 1965, while Brown was a pastor in Bakersfield. However, following a preliminary investigation, Church officials dismissed the claims, saying, "[Brown's life] does not reveal any inappropriate behavior..." He denied the allegation, declaring in 2007, "I've never abused any person sexually or any other way."

Allegations against Michael A. Harris
In 2003, nine men sued the diocese alleging that Msgr. Michael A. Harris, their former principal, sexually assaulted them while they attended Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana or Santa Margarita High School in Rancho Santa Margarita. Harris quit the priesthood in 2001 after the Los Angeles and Orange dioceses paid $5.2 million to one of his alleged victims.

Settlement
On January 3, 2005 Bishop Tod Brown of the Diocese of Orange apologized to 87 alleged victims of sexual abuse and announced a settlement of $100 million following two years of mediation. The suits alleged sexual misconduct on the part of 30 priests, 2 nuns, 1 religious brother, and 10 lay personnel into the 1980s; 11 claims were against Eleuterio Ramos and 9 against Siegfried Widera, both deceased (Widera by suicide). About 25 cases involved abuse dating before the creation of the Diocese of Orange, one to 1936.

It was the first settlement in California arising from the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and remained the largest settlement (though not the largest judgment) arising out of the scandal until the Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced a $660 million settlement on July 15, 2007. About half of the sum was covered by liability insurance.

Impact of settlement on the diocese
The diocese had sharply cut costs to prepare for the settlement in the preceding months. These steps enabled the Diocese of Orange to agree to the settlement without closing parishes, or other severe measures taken by other U.S. dioceses in dealing with the scandal.

2019 legal action
From May to December 2019, the Diocese of Orange provided numerous documents to California State Attorney General Xavier Becerra in preparation for a series of pending lawsuits which are expected to be filed after a new California law which will temporarily remove the statute of limitations goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The Diocese of Orange is one of six Catholic dioceses throughout the state of California which is expected to be subpoenaed in the upcoming lawsuits.

See also

Abuse
Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People
Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Essential Norms
National Review Board
Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors
Religious abuse
Sexual abuse
Sexual misconduct
Spiritual abuse

References

External links
Audits, Child And Youth Protection; US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Charter For The Protection Of Children And Young People; US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Child And Youth Protection; US Conference of Catholic Bishops
National Review Board,  Child And Youth Protection; US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Safe Environment, Child And Youth Protection; US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Victim Assistance, Child And Youth Protection; US Conference of Catholic Bishops

Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals in the United States
Incidents of violence against boys
Violence against children
Violence against men in North America


The Southern Bantu languages are a large group of Bantu languages, largely validated in Janson (1991/92). They are nearly synonymous with Guthrie's Bantu zone S, apart from the exclusion of Shona and the inclusion of Makhuwa. They include all of the major Bantu languages of South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Mozambique, with outliers such as Lozi in Zambia and Namibia, and Ngoni in Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi.

Languages
Language groups are followed by their code in the Guthrie classification.
Makua (P30)
Makhuwa
Koti
Sakati (Nathembo)
Lomwe
Chuwabu
Moniga
Chopi (S60)
Chopi
Guitonga
Nguni languages (S40)
Zunda
Xhosa
Zulu
Ndebele
Northern Ndebele (Zimbabwe Ndebele)
Southern Ndebele
Tekela
Swati
Phuthi
Sumayela Ndebele (Northern Transvaal Ndebele)
Lala
Bhaca
Hlubi
Nhlangwini
Sotho–Tswana (S30 + K20):
Tswana ("West Sotho")
Birwa
Tswapong
Kgalagadi
Sotho
Northern Sotho (Sepedi)
Southern Sotho (Sesotho)
East Sotho (Pulana, Khutswe and Pai)
Lozi
Tswa–Ronga (S50):
Tsonga
Ronga
Tswa
Venda (S20)

Some classifications prior to Janson retained Shona as a coordinate branch, along with Nyasa, or excluded Makua.

References


"Of Course I'm Alright" is a song written by Billy Kirsch, and recorded by American country music group Alabama.  It was released in October 1997 as the third single from the album Dancin' on the Boulevard.  The song reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart while it reached number 23 in Canada.

Chart performance

References

1997 singles
1997 songs
Alabama (American band) songs
Song recordings produced by Don Cook
RCA Records singles
Songs written by Billy Kirsch


A conchera or concha is Mexican stringed-instrument, plucked by concheros dancers. The instruments were important to help preserve elements of native culture from Eurocentric-Catholic suppression. The instruments are used by concheros dancers for singing at velaciones (nighttime rituals) and for dancing at obligaciones (dance obligations).

Types
The bodies of the lutes were traditionally made from a concha (armadillo shell).  Today the bowls may be made of wood and the mandolin have a flat back.

mandolinos de concheros or mandolina conchera: with 4 double courses (8 strings), tuned as mandolin (g-d-a-e).
vihuelas de concheros or vihuela conchera: with 5 double courses (10 strings). Tuned as vihuela, but in the 3rd, 4th and 5th courses, each string in a course tuned to  an octave of the other string.
guitarras de concheros or guitarra conchera: with 6 double courses (12 strings). Tuned as guitar, but in the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th courses, each string in a course tuned to an octave of the other string.

History

After the arrival of the Spanish conquerors to Mexico in 1519, the indigenous musicians and instrument makers of central Mexico, took up European instruments. Tradition has it that the instruments were adopted by Native Americans in what is now modern Mexico in the 16th century. At least one person, not involved in the tradition, has speculated that the birth of the instrument might be closer to the mid-18th century.

The Spanish church leaders had prohibited the use of drums to Native Americans, in an effort to eliminate their dancing, which was tied to the drum rhythms. However the Spanish did not object to the Native-Americans learning to play European instruments. The   Native-Americans took their drum rhythms and incorporated then into music on the lutes to "preserve the original beats of Danza rhythms." They used the Spanish instruments to "preserve their own songs, rhythms and sacred knowledge."

They copied the violin, the chirimia (a primitive version of the Oboe that came from the Muslims of North Africa), the lute, and the mandolin (or its predecessors the vandola or gittern). The native instrument makers were so adept at creating beautiful sounding instruments, that soon the Spanish crown forbid the locals from making instruments, because this was taking business from the Spanish instrument makers of Europe and colonial Mexico. The natives were unable to make the wooden parts for the belly, for lack of the small, thin, wooden strips that are glued together to make a lute's bowl.  They substituted a natural bowl, made of an armadillo shell. The instrument took its name from the shell, and the dancers from the instrument.

Other names for the Conchas
Some of the dancers who use the conchas call them "Mecahuehuetl" (from Nahuatl Meca(tl) = chord + Huehue(tl)= old one "drum", which was also the name for the vihuela and is used for the guitar today. This name reflects the fact that the early Conchero dancers were able to encrypt the precolumbian rhythms and steps of their agrarian rituals into the musical chords of the guitars and mandolins. A traditional conchero can tell which step should be carried out by how the melody is being strummed on the conchas. Another name used for the armadillo-shelled instruments is "Chihuanda." The etymology of this term is uncertain, with Purépecha seen as the most commonly agreed to root.

References

External links
Video Youtube — Various styles of conchas, being played by dancing musicians.
Video Youtube - Mandolinas de concha
Video Youtube - Indigenous Dancer from Tierra Blanca Ejido, Xilitla, San Luis Potosi playing his armadillo mandolin and doing the Dance of the Cross.
Photo of a mandolina de concha
Photo of a conchero

Guitar family instruments
Mexican musical instruments


Gunnar Aksnes (8 August 1926 in Kvam, Hardanger—31 January 2010 in Bergen, Hordaland) was a Norwegian chemist and poet, the brother of the astronomer Kaare Aksnes, married to Milly Aksnes (b. 1928)

Career
Aksnes started his studies in 1945 at the University of Oslo where he completed Mag.Scient exam in 1951. He was then employed by the Norwegian Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt (FFI), and where he worked with problem related to chemical warfare agent until 1960. Then turning his Heimatt to the West Coast, to assistant professor of organic chemistry at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bergen (UiB). In 1962 Aksnes defended his Dr.Philos. degree, and was appointed Professor of Organic Chemistry at the UiB in 1966, a position he filled with relish until he resigned in August 1993. Some years after this he was still active at the Department of Chemistrywith holding a senior scholarship from 'Norges Allmennvitenskapelige Forskningsråd' (NAVF).

His academic interests ranged wide. Through his work on nerve gases at FFI he was attracted to the phosphorus chemistry. This was his major research field in which he published articles through the years, including many important scientific works that made his name well known in the scientific community world wide. In the late 1970s he started to work with chemical problems connected to environmental issues. As one of the first chemists in Norway, he recognized the importance of inter-disciplinary cooperation when scientists work on solving multi-disciplinary problems. He took a strong interest in NAVF major Research program on marine pollution and built up a team of specialists in oil chemistry at the University of Bergen, together with younger employees. Later he focused on pollution of lakes, and here his knowledge of chemistry came to its right, when he extracted new knowledge from the previously published data.

Aksnes was a popular lecturer, and all his students at the basic course in organic chemistry remember his loudly, involved explanations about organic molecule that moves and reacts. As a student mentor, he was always interested in the work of the students, and he asked critical questions that helped developing critical thinking and expanded the mind of the student. He also raised critical questions in popular scientific articles in professional magazines, the last concerning the mercury of the German U-boat in the fjord off Fedje. Through articles and interviews in the press, and through several popular books on environmental issues for nonscientists, he showed his engagement throughout his lifetime. He served in several administrative tasks, not only on at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (Dean 1969-72) and head of the Chemical institute (1991–93) at UiB, but also as a member of Council of Natural Sciences at NAVF (1970–76, as leader 1970-71).

Aksnes also wrote poems, and in 2001 he published the book Med penn og pensel i Hardanger (With pen and brush in Hardanger) with the publisher 'Hardangerforlaget' in Øystese. The book was richly illustrated by his wife Milly Aksnes. The poems in the book were written in the period from 1970 to 2001, and the illustrations are inspired by the scenery of Hardanger.

References

External links
Minneord over professor Gunnar Aksnes  Memorial at 'På Høyden', University of Bergen (in Norwegian)
Vår vannskjebne  paper in the Norwegian popular science magazine Naturen, 1991 (in Norwegian)
Med penn og pensel i Hardanger Av Milly og Gunnar Aksnes at Kvam soge- og kulturminnelag, Hardangerforlaget 2001 (in Norwegian)

1926 births
2010 deaths
People from Kvam
21st-century Norwegian poets
Norwegian male poets
Norwegian chemists
Organic chemists
University of Oslo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bergen
20th-century Norwegian poets
20th-century Norwegian male writers
21st-century Norwegian male writers


Emmanuel Bondeville was a French composer and music administrator, born 29 October 1898 in Rouen, and died 26 November 1987 in Paris. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Biography
As a young man he was organist at the church of Saint-Nicaise in Rouen and Notre-Dame in Caen. Bondeville lost both his parents when he was 16, and took on various jobs – organist, bank clerk, translator - to get by. He made his beginnings in music around 1923 writing works for piano, symphonic poems, opéras-comiques and opéras. During this time he also travelled around Europe and worked as an assistant in a music shop. He eventually had lessons in harmony and counterpoint from Jean Déré.
In 1935 he became musical director of the radio stations Radio Tour Eiffel, Radio Paris, Radiodiffusion française then artistic director of Radio Monte-Carlo.

From 1949 to 1951 Bondeville was director of the Opéra-Comique, followed by a similar position at the Opéra de Paris from 1952 to 1969.

He was married three time among which to the mezzo-soprano Viorica Cortez, to whom he dedicated his opera Antoine et Cléopâtre, and later to Dominique Plessis (with whom he broadcast programmes entitled ‘Une saison d'opéra’ on France-Inter)

Works
 Les Illustrations, symphonic triptych comprising :
 Le Bal des pendus (first performed 6 December 1930 by the Lamoureux Orchestra)
 Ophélie (1931)
 Marine (1933)
 L'École des maris (opéra-comique after Molière), premiered at the Opéra-Comique on 19 June 1935 conducted by Albert Wolff
 Madame Bovary, drame lyrique after Flaubert, premiered at the Opéra-Comique on 1 June 1951 in a production by Louis Musy, conducted by Albert Wolff, with Jacqueline Brumaire in the title role.
 Illustrations pour Faust, (1942)
 Gaultier-Garguille, symphonic poem, (1951)
 Symphonie lyrique, (1956)
 Symphonie chorégraphique (1961)
 Antoine et Cléopatre, opera (1972) premiered at the Opéra de Rouen in 1974

Titles, honours
 Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur
 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
 Grand Officier de l'Ordre national du Mérite
 Croix de guerre 1914-1918

References

External links
Biographie
"M. Emmanuel BONDEVILLE (1898-1987)" – Discours sur sa vie de son successeur à l'académie Serge Nigg.

1898 births
1987 deaths
20th-century classical composers
20th-century French composers
20th-century French male musicians
French male classical composers
French opera composers
French radio presenters
Male opera composers
Commanders of the Legion of Honour
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Grand Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite
Musicians from Rouen