Wittsteinia vacciniacea , the Baw Baw berry, is a  shrub species in the family Alseuosmiaceae. It is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It grows to about 40 cm high and has leaves which are between 1 and 5 cm long. The fragrant flowers are between 4.5 and 7 mm long and are followed by greenish-white rounded fruits.

The species was first formally described by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae in 1861.

It occurs on the edge of rainforest and in sheltered woodland in the Eastern Highlands of Victoria.

References

Alseuosmiaceae
Flora of Victoria (state)
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller

Wittsteinia vacciniacea


KXTN (1350 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station broadcasting a Tejano radio format. Licensed to San Antonio, Texas, United States, the station serves the San Antonio metropolitan area. The station is owned by Latino Media Network, under the license of Latino Media Network, LLC. It is operated by Uforia Audio Network for a year. Its transmitter are located separately in Northwest San Antonio.

History
KCOR first signed on in 1946 as a 1,000-watt daytimer, owned by Raoul A. Cortez. The original call sign contained the first three letters of his last name. The station has been mostly Hispanic-owned and programmed through its seven-plus decades on the air, airing Tejano and Regional Mexican music.

In 2003, the station was acquired by Univision Radio, a subsidiary of the top Spanish-language television network in the United States, Univision. Univision later switched the format to Spanish-language talk, mostly from its own radio network.

On December 20, 2016, Univision announced that KCOR would be one of the charter affiliates of the company's new Spanish-language sports network, Univision Deportes Radio. The launch occurred in March 2017. From 2014 to 2015, the station had been simulcasting the Tejano music format of co-owned KXTN-FM and used the KXTN call sign. With the switch to sports, the call sign returned to KCOR.

In April 2019, KCOR dropped its longtime call sign, as well as the Univision Deportes Network, beginning a simulcast with Tejano sister station KXTN-FM, becoming KXTN'in the process. On April 12, 2019, at 5:00 p.m., the two stations ended their simulcast, leaving the Tejano format solely on AM 1350 and on an HD Radio subchannel of 107.5, now known as KVBH-HD2. The FM station switched its call sign to KVBH, airing a Rhythmic AC format.

On June 3, 2022, Univision announced it would sell a package of 18 radio stations across 10 of its markets, primarily AM outlets in large cities (including KXTN) and entire clusters in smaller markets such as McAllen, Texas, and Fresno, California, for $60 million to a new company known as Latino Media Network (LMN); Univision proposed to handle operations for a year under agreement before turning over operational control to LMN in the fourth quarter of 2023. The sale was consummated on December 30, 2022.

Latino Media Network took control of operations of KXTN at the end of September 2023.

References

External links
KXTN 107.5 & 1350 Facebook
KXTN page at univision.com

Hispanic and Latino American culture in San Antonio
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By-elections to the 35th Canadian Parliament were held to fill vacancies in the House of Commons of Canada between the 1993 federal election and the 1997 federal election. The Liberal Party of Canada led a majority government for the entirety of the 35th Canadian Parliament, with little change from by-elections.

Fourteen seats became vacant during the life of the Parliament. Ten of these vacancies were filled through by-elections, and four seats remained vacant when the 1997 federal election was called.

References
 Parliament of Canada–Elected in By-Elections

1996 elections
1990s elections in Canada
1996 in Canada


Celtic Pride is a 1996 American sports comedy film written by Judd Apatow and Colin Quinn, and directed by Tom DeCerchio. It stars Daniel Stern and Dan Aykroyd as Mike O'Hara and Jimmy Flaherty, two passionate Boston Celtics fans, and Damon Wayans as Lewis Scott, the Utah Jazz's All-Star shooting guard.

Plot
Best friends for life, physical education teacher Mike O'Hara and plumber Jimmy Flaherty are united by their love of Boston and its sports teams, especially the Boston Celtics, who are playing their last season in the old Boston Garden. When the Celtics drop Game 6 of the NBA Finals to the Utah Jazz, setting up a deciding Game 7 in Boston, Mike and Jimmy find themselves depressed and hopeless. On top of all this, Mike has moved back in with Jimmy after his wife Carol, fed up with his unhealthy obsession with the Celtics, left him and took their son Tommy with her. Jimmy and Mike stumble upon the Jazz's selfish, arrogant shooting guard Lewis Scott at a Boston nightclub. Hoping at first to get him so drunk that he will be hungover for Game 7, Mike and Jimmy pose as Utah fans. However, the pair get more than they bargained for when the next morning they end up kidnapping Scott after he wakes up at Jimmy's apartment. The two decide to hold Scott until after the game, reasoning that if they are going to prison, they might as well help the Celtics win in the meantime.

Scott derides them for being washed-up losers, and insinuates Mike is only after him because he is jealous of Scott's fame and ability. Mike, on the other hand, berates Scott for his behavior on and off the court, including starring in a campy Oscar Mayer hot dog commercial and skipping practices. Scott attempts to turn Jimmy against Mike, and, when this fails, escapes, only to be foiled by an antagonistic cabbie and a local cop, Kevin, both fellow Celtics fans.

Ultimately, Mike challenges Scott to a game of one-on-one and the pair is incapacitated well before the final game is set to begin. Before he runs off, Scott presents the pair with a dilemma: they must root for him and the Jazz to win, or he will turn them both in to the police. Mike reconciles with his wife and son, knowing he might be going to prison, and Jimmy says goodbye to his grandmother. At the game, the two convince the other Celtics fans they are only pretending to root for the Jazz to jinx them, and the first half ends with the Celtics leading. Mike, who knows the Jazz are losing because Scott refuses to pass the ball, gives him a pep talk from the stands, and Utah closes the gap to one point with a little over 7 seconds remaining. With one play left and the Jazz with the ball, Mike and Jimmy choose life over the Celtics, rooting for Utah and rushing the court after they win. Approached by Kevin, who earlier ignored his cries for help, Lewis denies Mike and Jimmy committed the kidnapping, saving them from prison.

A few months later, Mike has promised his wife he would never interfere with an NBA Finals game again. When football season begins, however, he and Jimmy sneak into Deion Sanders' hotel room at 3:00 a.m., presumably to kidnap him.

Cast
 Damon Wayans as Lewis Scott
 Daniel Stern as Mike O'Hara
 Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Flaherty
 Gail O'Grady as Carol O'Hara
 Christopher McDonald as Coach Kimball
 Paul Guilfoyle as Kevin O'Grady
 Adam Hendershott as Tommy O'Hara
 Scott Lawrence as Ted Hennison
 Deion Sanders as himself
 Vladimir Cuk as Lurch
 Bill Walton as himself
 Darrell Hammond as Chris McCarthy
 Larry Bird as himself
 Marv Albert as himself
 Bob Cousy as himself

Reception
The film was not a major success despite its star power, grossing less than $10 million domestically. The film received negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 8% based on reviews from 24 critics. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of B− on a scale of A to F.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote, "Celtic Pride is clearly intended as a spoof on the contemporary mania for athletics. But not only is the picture woefully short on laughs, it's also coarse, overbearing and, in places, downright insulting". TV Guide said "Celtic Pride supplies predictably lowbrow yocks for jocks, and its rather disturbing racial implications go entirely unacknowledged," and awarded it 1 and half stars out of five.

In a positive review, Joe Leydon of Variety said "Not quite a three-pointer, but definitely more than an airball, Celtic Pride is an uneven but largely likable basketball-themed comedy that should lay up decent B.O. numbers and perform even better in the homevid arena."

See also
 List of basketball films

References

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1990s buddy comedy films
1990s sports comedy films
1996 directorial debut films
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Caravan Pictures films
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1990s English-language films
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Films with screenplays by Judd Apatow
Films scored by Basil Poledouris
Films produced by Roger Birnbaum
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The Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award honours the work of governments, organisations and individuals in promoting the wise use and conservation of wetlands.

The Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award was established in 1996 at the 6th meeting of the contracting parties to the Ramsar Convention. The award has been given six times so far on the occasion of meetings of the Conference of the Contracting Parties (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015). All awardees have also received the Evian Special Prize of US$10,000, donated by Danone.

Awards

2015
 The Ramsar Convention Award for Wetland Wise Use: Ms Giselle Hazzan, manager, Ein Afek Nature Reserve, Israel
The Ramsar Convention Award for Wetland Innovation: Oceanium, Dakar, Senegal
The Ramsar Convention Award for Young Wetlands Champions: Fundación Humedales Bogotá
The Ramsar Convention Award for Merit: shared by Professor William Mitsch (director, Everglades Wetland Research Park, US), Professor Gea Jae Joo (Pusan University, Republic of Korea) and Tour du Valat, France

2012
 Management category: Ms Augusta Henriques, secretary general, Tiniguena (Guinea-Bissau)
 Science category: Professor Tatsuichi Tsujii (Japan)
 Education category: The Wisconsin Wetlands Association (US)
 Recognition of Excellence: Thymio Papayannis, Greece
 40th Anniversary Honorary Ramsar Award: Dr Luc Hoffmann, Switzerland

2008
 Science category: David Pritchard (multiregional), for supporting the development and implementation of the Ramsar Convention for two decades as a representative of BirdLife International
 Management category: Denis Landenbergue (multiregional), for outstanding achievements regarding the designation of Ramsar sites and other protected areas, with improved management, especially in Asia, Central and South America, and Africa
 Education category: Dr Sansanee Choowaew (Thailand), for her exceptional contributions to wetland management, education, training and capacity building, in Thailand and elsewhere in Asia
 Recognition of Excellence: Dr Jan Květ (Czech Republic), for his lifetime work and support for wetland science and conservation

2005
 Management category: Dr Sh. A. Nezami Baloochi (Iran), for his pivotal role in the establishment of a conservation and wise use scheme for the Anzali Lagoon site
 Science category: Professor Shuming Cai (China), for his research on the Yangtze River, including the effects of the Three Gorges Dam project on the environment
 Education category: shared by:
 Ms Reiko Nakamura (Japan), for promoting wetland conservation as an environmental journalist, and creating the Ramsar Centre Japan in 1990
 The Wetlands Centre (Australia), for its pioneering role in the restoration and management of the Hunter Estuary wetlands site, and for forging links with other centres in Australia

2002
 Banrock Station Wines (Australia), for its innovative approach and imaginative rehabilitation and management practices at the Banrock Station Wetlands site
 Chilika Development Authority (India), for its outstanding achievement in restoring the Chilika Lake site
 NGO Trinational Initiative for the Morava-Dyje Floodplain (Austria, Czech Republic and Slovak Republic), in recognition of work carried out in three countries to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of the cultural and natural heritage of the floodplains of the Morava and Dyje rivers
 Recognition of Excellence: Dr Monique Coulet (France), for her scientific research and commitment to making practical use of knowledge acquired in the field
 Recognition of Excellence: Dr Max Finlayson (Australia), for contributions to both the progress of wetland science and the work of the Ramsar Convention, with particular regard to leadership of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel

1999
 Individual category: shared by:
 Professor Vitaly G. Krivenko (Russia), for lifetime achievement in working, in difficult circumstances, for wetland and waterbird conservation
 Victor Pulido (Peru), recognising a life of dedication to wetland conservation and wise use against a background of social and economic challenge
 NGO category: shared by
 Lake Naivasha Riparian Association (Kenya), a pioneering example of a local community taking the initiative and achieving long-term conservation results with regard to the Lake Naivasha site
 Society for the Protection of Prespa (Greece), for its pioneering approach at local, national and international levels towards the sustainable management of the Lake Prespa site
 Government/Non-governmental Coalition Category: Pacific Estuary Conservation Program (Canada), for excellence in conserving and insuring long-term sustainable use of estuarine habitat along the British Columbian coast

See also
 List of environmental awards

References

Notes

Sources

Environmental awards
Awards established in 1996
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The Warwolves are fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Characteristics
The Warwolves were originally a group of extra-dimensional agents of Mojo as part of his Wildways, originating from Mojoworld in the Mojoverse.  Mojo originally engineered the Warwolves as a pack of six sentient canine/humanoid servants, artificially created through genetic engineering by Mojo's scientists.

The Warwolves are ruthless hunters, with a strong sense of humor and a fondness for televised entertainment. Warwolves can stand erect on their hind legs or walk or run on all fours; their front paws can be used as hands or feet. Warwolves are immune to direct attack by psionic energy. Warwolves can track their prey by scent as Earth canines do. Warwolves also possess remarkable leaping ability.

Warwolves have slick, smooth skins and have sharp claws on each paw. The Warwolves have the power to drain the life essence of a victim by inserting their tongues into an orifice, causing the victim's skeleton and internal organs to discorporate, leaving behind an intact skin. Warwolves can wear the actual skin and clothing of the victim to masquerade as that person, altering their shape to resemble the prey perfectly. Warwolves can also mimic the voices of their victims or of other persons. A group of Warwolves can together psionically create an inter-dimensional portal and merge into a single being while retaining their individual heads and psyches.

Fictional character biography
The Warwolves (Bowzer, Ducks, Jacko, Popsie, Scarper, and one unnamed Warwolf) first appeared on Earth when Phoenix escaped from captivity by Mojo, and Mojo sent the Warwolves to London to recapture her.  The Warwolves, Nightcrawler, and Gatecrasher's Technet fought over Rachel and during the fight, the original Ferro was killed. When Captain Britain, Meggan, Nightcrawler, and Shadowcat helped Rachel defeat the Warwolves, they formed together as a team and called themselves Excalibur for the first time. The Warwolves clashed with Excalibur many times, operating out of a den near the Hob's End underground transportation tunnel. Rachel killed Bowzer in one encounter and in another, an unnamed Warwolf was killed.

Later, the remaining Warwolves on Earth abducted Shadowcat. In an attempt to defeat the Warwolves once and for all, Shadowcat actually used her phasing power to become merged with and control Ducks; she eventually escaped from Ducks with the aid of her team. The Warwolves were defeated and captured by Excalibur, and were interred in a transparent cage in the London Zoo, where they became a popular attraction despite their dangerous nature.

The Warwolves would briefly escape when the two allegedly "dead" Warwolves returned and teamed with the four captives, and kill people who resembled the X-Men in order to impersonate the X-Men and ambush Excalibur. They captured Rachel Summers, but were forced through an inter-dimensional portal by Excalibur, who rescued Summers.

Later, when Roma perceived Franklin Richards to be a threat, not only to his home reality (Earth-616) but to all of reality, she dispatched the Warwolves, Gatecrasher and her Technet to kidnap him. Roma teleported the Fantastic Four and Alyssa Moy (who was babysitting Franklin at the time) to Otherworld when they opposed her plan, to face the full fury of the entire Corps. The Warwolves reappeared when they escaped the zoo in order to get revenge on the new Excalibur team, but were beaten back and have gone into hiding.

Years later, the Warwolves appeared in the employ of the interdimensional slave trader Tullamore Voge. When Nightcrawler and Bloody Bess invaded Voge's child slave market to rescue the X-Men students Ziggy Karst and Scorpion Boy, Voge sent the Warwolves after them. In that encounter, the Warwolves were accompanied by semi-corporeal versions of their kind, so-called Ghostwolves. They almost succeeded in killing Bess, but were all single-handedly bested by Nightcrawler.

References

Characters created by Chris Claremont
Marvel Comics supervillains

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Ralph Miliband (born Adolphe Miliband; 7 January 1924 – 21 May 1994) was a British sociologist. He has been described as "one of the best known academic Marxists of his generation", in this manner being compared with E. P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm and Perry Anderson.

Miliband was born in Belgium to working-class Polish Jewish immigrants. He fled to Britain in 1940 with his father, to avoid persecution when Nazi Germany invaded Belgium. Learning to speak English and enrolling at the London School of Economics, he became involved in left-wing politics and made a personal commitment to the cause of socialism at the grave of Karl Marx. After serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, he settled in London in 1946 and naturalised as a British subject in 1948.

By the 1960s, he was a prominent member of the New Left movement in Britain, which was critical of established socialist governments in the Soviet Union and Central Europe (the Eastern Bloc). He published several books on Marxist theory and the criticism of capitalism, such as Parliamentary Socialism (1961), The State in Capitalist Society (1969), and Marxism and Politics (1977).

Both of his sons, David and Ed Miliband, went on to become senior members of the Labour Party following their father's death. David was the British Foreign Secretary from 2007 to 2010, whilst Ed became Energy and Climate Change Secretary and was later elected party leader, serving between 2010 and 2015.

Life and career

Early life: 1924–1940
Miliband's parents had grown up in the impoverished Jewish quarter of Warsaw, Poland. Samuel Miliband had been a member of the socialist Jewish Labour Bund in Warsaw.

In 1922, they were among the Polish Jews who migrated westward, to Brussels in Belgium, after the First World War. It was here that Miliband's parents first met, and they married in 1923. His father, Samuel (1895–1966), was a skilled craftsman who made leather goods, and his mother, Renia (or Renée, née Steinlauf 1901–1975), travelled around selling women's hats. She was embarrassed by having to work in this profession, hiding it from her neighbours, but required the extra income due to the economic troubles of the Great Depression during the 1930s. Renia spoke Polish fluently, but her husband had only had a very basic education and, as such, probably only spoke Yiddish, but he taught himself French by reading newspapers. Their son, Adolphe, was born in Brussels on 7 January 1924.

He grew up in the working-class community of Saint-Gilles, and in 1939, aged 15, he became a member of Hashomer Hatzair ("Young Guard"), a socialist-Zionist youth group. In May 1940, following the outbreak of the Second World War, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Belgium, and the Miliband family, being Jewish, decided to flee the country from the antisemitic Nazi authorities. They missed the train to Paris and, although Adolphe – who was then sixteen – wanted to walk to the border, the family recognised that his younger sister Anna Hélène, who was only twelve, was too young for such a trek. It was decided that Renia and Anna Hélène would stay in Brussels, while Sam and Ralph would go ahead and make the journey to Paris. However, along the way Sam decided to change the plan and went with his son to Ostend, where they caught the last boat to Britain. They arrived there on 19 May 1940.

Early years in Britain: 1940–1959
In London, Miliband abandoned the name Adolphe due to its connection with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and instead began calling himself Ralph. He and his father gained work in the Chiswick area removing furniture from houses bombed in the Blitz and, after six weeks, were able to send news to Renia and Anne-Marie that they were in London. Discovering that the Jews of Belgium were being rounded up by the Nazis to be sent to extermination camps in the Holocaust, Renia and Anne-Marie managed to escape to a rural farm, where they were hidden by a French family until after the end of the war, when they were reunited with Sam and Ralph. However, several of Miliband's relatives and his best friend, Maurice Tan, were killed in the Holocaust.

To his dismay, the teenage Miliband came across antisemitism in London. In a diary entry made shortly after he arrived in Britain, he wrote:

The Englishman is a rabid nationalist. They are perhaps the most nationalist people in the world ... When you hear the English talk of this war you sometimes almost want them to lose it to show them how things are. They have the greatest contempt for the continent in general and for the French in particular. They didn't like the French before the defeat ... Since the defeat, they have the greatest contempt for the French Army ... England first. This slogan is taken for granted by the English people as a whole. To lose their empire would be the worst possible humiliation.

Learning to speak English, Ralph gained a place at Acton Technical College (now Brunel University) in west London with the help of the League of Nations' Commission for Refugees in January 1941. After completing his course there, he gained the help of the Belgian government in exile to study at the London School of Economics (LSE). He had become interested in Marxism and revolutionary socialism, and visited the grave of Marxism's founder Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery in north London, to swear an oath to "the workers' cause". Meanwhile, with the constant aerial bombing of London by the Luftwaffe, the LSE was evacuated to the premises of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Harold Laski, the historian and socialist theorist, was a dominant figure in the LSE at this time. Miliband studied under Laski, and was considerably influenced by him politically.

Miliband volunteered to be sent to Belgium to assist the resistance movement, and passed his medical in January 1942, but as a Polish national he was not allowed to join until the Polish authorities gave consent. He asked Laski for help in joining the services, and shortly afterwards A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, wrote advising him to "go and see a vice-admiral at the Admiralty, who would fix it up". Miliband joined the Royal Navy in June 1943. He served for three years in the Belgian Section of the Royal Navy, achieving the rank of chief petty officer. He served on several warships as a German speaking radio intelligence officer in the Mediterranean, tasked with intercepting German radio communications. His initial exhilaration soon wore off as months passed without seeing action, then in June 1944 he took part in supporting the Normandy landings which he wrote was "the biggest operation in history" and he "would not miss it for anything". He saw further action at the Toulon landings.

After the war, Miliband resumed his studies at the LSE in 1946, and graduated with a first-class degree in 1947. He began a doctorate on Popular Thought in the French Revolution, 1789–1794 in 1947, but did not complete his thesis until 1956. After obtaining a Leverhulme research scholarship to continue his studies at the LSE, Miliband taught at the Roosevelt College (now Roosevelt University) in Chicago. He became a naturalised British subject on 28 September 1948. In 1949 he was offered an assistant lectureship in political science at the LSE.

New Left: 1960–1994
Miliband joined the Labour Party in 1951, and was a reluctant Bevanite in the early 1950s. He joined the British New Left, alongside the likes of E. P. Thompson and John Saville, at the New Reasoner in 1958, which became the New Left Review in 1960.

Miliband published his first book, Parliamentary Socialism, in 1961, which examined the role that the Labour Party played in British politics and society from a Marxist position, finding it wanting for a lack of radicalism. Paul Blackledge would later claim that it was "arguably Miliband's finest work". He ended his membership of the Labour Party in the mid-1960s, and subsequently remained independent of formal political affiliation. He began arguing that socialists in Britain had to start working towards building a viable alternative that would be genuinely revolutionary socialist in its positions.

He also set up the Socialist Register with Saville in 1964 and was influenced by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills, of whom he had been a friend. He published The State in Capitalist Society in 1969, a study in Marxist political sociology, rejecting the idea that pluralism spread political power, and maintaining that power in Western democracies was concentrated in the hands of a dominant class.

Miliband was passionately opposed to American involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1967 he wrote in the Socialist Register that "the US has over ... a period of years been engaged ... in the wholesale slaughter of men, women and children, the maiming of many more" and that the United States' "catalogue of horrors" against the Vietnamese people was being done "in the name of an enormous lie". In the same article, he attacked Harold Wilson for his defence of the United States' action in Vietnam, describing it as being the "most shameful chapter in the history of the Labour Party". He went on to say that the US government "made no secret of the political and diplomatic importance it attached to the unwavering support of a British Labour Government".

He left the LSE in 1972, having found himself torn by the controversies which had beleaguered the institution over the preceding few years, particularly the LSE's responses to student protests in the late 1960s. He took up the post of Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds. The time at Leeds was an unhappy period for Miliband. He suffered a heart attack soon after the move, and did not enjoy the administrative responsibilities as a head of department. He resigned in 1978, and subsequently chose to assume several posts in Canada and the USA. He took a Professorship at Brandeis University in 1977, and also lectured at other universities in North America, including York University in Toronto and the City University of New York, although he remained based in London. He published Marxism and Politics in 1977, and Capitalist Democracy in Britain in 1982. By now Miliband was active in the Socialist Society with friends such as Tariq Ali and Hilary Wainwright.

In 1985, his essay "The New Revisionism in Britain" appeared in the 25th anniversary issue of the New Left Review in which he responds to writers associated with the Marxism Today magazine such as Eric Hobsbawm and Stuart Hall. Despite their differences, Hobsbawm had been a long-standing friend of Miliband.

He suffered from cardiac problems in later life, and had a bypass operation in 1991. He died 21 May 1994. aged 70, survived by his wife and sons. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery, close to Karl Marx. His last book, Socialism for a Sceptical Age, was published in 1994, after his death.

Personal life
Ralph married Polish-born Marion Kozak in September 1961. She was the daughter of a steel manufacturer, David Kozak, with a Polish Jewish heritage, and also one of his former students at the LSE. They made a home in Primrose Hill, and later in Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, and had two sons, David in 1965 and Edward in 1969.

David and Ed Miliband
His two sons both became Labour Party politicians, and in 2007 they became the first siblings to serve together as cabinet ministers since 1938. His elder son, David, was Labour MP for South Shields from 2001 to 2013. From 2005 to 2010 he served in the cabinet, latterly (from 2007) as Foreign Secretary. His younger son, Ed, was elected a Labour MP for the Doncaster North seat in 2005. From 2007 to 2008 he served as Minister for the Third Sector in the Cabinet Office and drafted Labour's manifesto for the 2010 general election. In October 2008 Ed was promoted to the position of Secretary of the newly formed Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). On 25 September 2010, he became the 20th leader of the Labour Party after a leadership contest in which David had also run. David would step down from politics in 2013, but Ed would later serve as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy under Keir Starmer's leadership, following a stint as a backbencher in the aftermath of the 2015 General Election and during the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.

The journalist Andy McSmith of The Independent, in comparing the lives of Ralph, David and Ed, said that the elder figure had a "nobility and a drama" that was lacking in his sons' "steady, pragmatic political careers". On 27 September 2013, the Daily Mail published an article disputing Ralph Miliband's patriotism with the headline "The man who hated Britain". Three days later after negotiations the paper published a response by Ed Miliband describing his father's life, and saying the Daily Mail article was character assassination. At the same time as publishing this response, the newspaper reiterated its assertion and published an editorial refusing to apologise. The Labour leader's office responded:[Ed Miliband] wanted the Daily Mail to treat his late father's reputation fairly. Rather than acknowledge it has smeared his father, the newspaper has repeated its original claim. This simply diminishes the Daily Mail further. It will be for people to judge whether this newspaper's treatment of a war veteran, Jewish refugee from the Nazis and distinguished academic reflects the values and decency we should all expect in our political debate.Ed Miliband's response gained support from across the political spectrum, and was endorsed by the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron. When it was found that a Mail on Sunday reporter had intruded on the private funeral of Ed Miliband's uncle, the newspaper group's proprietor Lord Rothermere and the Sunday paper's editor apologised for this.

The Lipman-Miliband Trust
In 1974 Miliband's friend, Michael Lipman, established the Lipman Trust as a progressive funding body for socialist education. Miliband would serve as the Trust's first chair, until his death. Miliband invited both John Saville, his wife Marion, and other notable scholars, academics, and experts in socialist education, such as Hilary Wainwright and Doreen Massey to the Trust. Following Miliband's death, the Trust became the Lipman-Miliband Trust, in recognition of Miliband's many years of work.

The Trust remains an important funding body for socialist education and provides regular grants for a variety of educational projects.

Bibliography
Parliamentary Socialism: A Study of the Politics of Labour (1961). .
The State in Capitalist Society (1969),
Marxism and Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977),
Capitalist Democracy in Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982),
Class Power and State Power (London: Verso, 1983) ISBN 0-86091-073-3 (cloth), 0-86091-773-8 (pbk)
Divided Societies: Class Struggle in Contemporary Capitalism (1989)
Socialism for a Sceptical Age (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994) ISBN 0-7456-1426-4 (bound), 0-7456-1427-2 (pbk.)

See also
 Instrumental Marxism
 Miliband–Poulantzas debate

References

Works cited

Further reading
Aronowitz, Stanley, and Peter Bratsis. Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)
Barrow, C., Burnham, P., Wetherly, P. eds. Class, Power and State in Capitalist Society: Essays on Ralph Miliband (London: Palgrave)

Newman, Michael. Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left (Merlin Press, 2002)

External links

Ralph Miliband Archive at marxists.org
Bibliography of Miliband at marxists.org
Lipman-Miliband Trust
 Archival material at
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Androcracy is a form of government in which the government rulers are male.  The males, especially fathers, have the central roles of political leadership, moral authority, and control of property. It is also sometimes called a phallocracy or andrarchy or an androcentric or phallocratic society.

Example
Traditionally, influential political positions have been disproportionately occupied by males. With the rise of feminism since the late 19th century, opinions concerning women in politics have changed in a manner that has facilitated an increase in female political participation. Nevertheless, there continues to be a considerable disparity between the percentage of males and females in politics. Currently, women represent 19.4 percent of all parliamentarians in the regions of Europe, the Americas, Sub-Sahara Africa, Asia, the Pacific, the Arab States, and Nordic countries. The level of female participation in parliament varies between regions, ranging from percentages as high as 42 in Nordic countries to as low as 11.4 in Arabic states.

Riane Eisler, in her book The Chalice and the Blade, contrasts androcratic male-dominated society with gylany, i.e., partnership society based on gender equality.

Gylany is balanced and equalitarian, and should not be confused with gynocracy or matriarchy, which define the ancient systems where women ruled without hierarchy and lineage was matricentral.

Gender bias
Androcracy as a gender bias may influence the decision-making process in many countries. Kleinberg and Boris point to a dominant paradigm which promotes wage-earning fathers with financially dependent mothers, the exclusion of same-sex couples, and the marginalization of single-parent families.

Gynocracy

The opposite of androcracy is gynocracy, or rule by women. It is related to but not synonymous with matriarchy. Evidence indicating historical gynocracies survives mostly in mythology and in some archaeological records, although it is disputed by some authors, like Cynthia Eller in her book The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory.

See also
 Male chauvinism
 Matriarchy
 Patriarchy

References

Patriarchy

de:Androkratie

Androcracy


The Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Trois-Rivières (CMQT) is a music conservatory located in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada.
Most of the school's students come from the Saint-Maurice region of Quebec; many of them from the conservatoire preparatory programs at the school of St-Gabriel du Cap-de-la-Madeleine and the comprehensive school Ste-Ursule de Trois-Rivières. The CMQT was originally located on Laviolette St, but in 1970 the school moved to better facilities in the building of the Centre culturel and the former École Ste-Marie. The conservatoire moved to its present location on Radisson Street in October 1978.

History
Founded by pianist Czeslaw Kaczynski in 1964, the CMQT became an entirely state-subsidized institution by the Quebec government in 1967. The conservatoire is part of a network of 9 conservatories in Quebec, the Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec (CMADQ), and was the third school in the CMADQ network to be established. Kaczynski served as the school's first director until 1970. The current director is Louis Dallaire.

The CMQT was originally a pre-college preparatory school which was established by Kaczynski in 1964, opening for its first day of classes on 1 April 1964. Exactly three years later to the day, the school became a full-fledged conservatory with a college program and became a member school of the CMADQ. Kaczynski continued to lead the school through 1970, leading a staff whose members included Gaston Arel (music theory), Otto Armin (violin), Hervé Baillargeon (flute), Raymond Daveluy (harmony/counterpoint), Réal Gagnier (oboe), Stephen Kondaks (viola), Rafael Masella (clarinet), Élisabeth Miquel (piano and piano accompaniment), Bernard Piché (organ and theoretical subjects), Antoine Reboulot (piano) and Charles Reiner (piano and piano accompaniment).

Originally the CMQT only offered instruction in instrumental music, with Jean Deslauriers serving as the school's first orchestra director. Raymond Daveluy succeeded Kaczynski as the school's director in 1970, remaining there as director until 1974 when he was succeeded by Armando Santiago. However, Daveluy remained a member of the faculty for several years after he stepped down as director. A vocal music program with classes in singing was established in 1974 by Jacqueline Martel, eventually growing to include studies in opera and choral music. Some of the teaching staff appointed to the school during the 1970s included clarinetist Jean Laurendeau, horn player Joseph Masella, oboist Bernard Jean; organist Noëlla Genest; pianists Michel Dussault, Christiane Sénart, Nadia Strycek, and Denise Trudel-Bellemare; saxophonist Jacques Larocque; and trombonist Joseph Zuskin. Michelle Quintal taught theoretical subjects at the school and Gilles Bellemare was the school's main instructor in harmony and counterpoint.

More recent directors of the CMQT include Georges Savaria (1979–1980), Roger Bédard (1980–1982), Jean Charron (1982–1986), Michel Kozlovsky (1986–1991), and Pierre Normandin (1991–2009). The school is currently led by director Louis Dallaire who was appointed in 2009.

Notable alumni

Suzanne Beaubien, pianist
Pierre Beaudry, trombonist
Marie Bédard, violinist
Pierre-Michel Bédard, organist and composer
Gilles Bellemare, conductor and composer
Marie-Andrée Benny, flautist
Jean-Michel Blais, pianist
Danièle Bourget, flautist
Valérie Milot, Harpist

Murielle Bruneau, double bass player
Gilles Carpentier, clarinetist
Claudine Côté, opera singer
Marie Gélinas, cellist
Sylvie Lambert, cellist
Louise Pellerin, oboist
Denise Trudel, pianist
Louise Trudel, cellist
Claude Grenier, Harmony, Contrepoint and Fugue

References

Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec
Classical music in Canada
Music schools in Canada
Educational institutions established in 1964
Schools in Trois-Rivières
Universities and colleges in Quebec
1964 establishments in Quebec


Sir John Gordon Thomas Carter (born 28 December 1937) is a British businessman who was Chief Executive of Commercial Union from 1994 to 1998, and who is the current chairman of travelers insurance europe.

Life
Carter was educated at the City of Oxford High School and Jesus College, Oxford, obtaining a degree in mathematics. After National Service, he joined Commercial Union in 1961, and became a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1966. He rose to the positions of Life Manager (1978 to 1980), Deputy General Manager (1981 to 1982), General Manager (1983 to 1986) and Director (1987 to 1994) before becoming Chief Executive in 1994.  He stepped down from this post in 1998, the year in which he was knighted and made an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College.  He was also a director of Credito Italiano (1994 to 1999) and Canary Wharf Group (1999 to 2004).  He has also been chairman of the management committee of the Motor Insurers' Bureau (1985 to 1990), Association of British Insurers (1995 to 1997), and the Policyholders Protection Board (2000 to 2001). He became a director of the National House Building Council in 1998 and has been chairman since 2002.  He was a Governor of London Guildhall University from 1998 to 2002, serving as chairman from 1999 to 2002; when the university merged in 2002 with the University of North London to become London Metropolitan University, he was chairman of the merged university until 2006.

References

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Thelma Delia Suklenik Snopik (1944 – 15 January 2019), better known by her stage name Thelma Tixou, was a Mexican vedette and actress of Argentine origin. She was one of the most popular Mexican vedettes during the 1970s and 1980s.

Biography
Early years
Of Lithuanian origin on her mother's side, Tixou studied for six years in the Teatro Labardén, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a very good jazz dancer. At age 13 she started her career as vedette. Eventually, Tixou is presented in a contest at the Teatro Nacional Cervantes of Buenos Aires, and was chosen among 10 dancers to fill the role of vedette.

 Career
She was star of such Argentine Revues as Radiolandia, Antena and Ellas. She also had the opportunity to share the stage with the great vedette Tita Merello. She was a First Vedette of the Teatro Maipo, the Teatro Nacional and the Teatro Astral, where she alternated with other vedettes, including Zulma Faiad and Nélida Roca. Tixou made her television debut in 1965 in the popular TV show La matraca. In 1967, she appeared on film as star of the comedy La Muchacha del cuerpo de oro, a nickname by which she became known through her glory years.

Tixou arrived in Mexico contracted by artistic agent Angel Shuger for only 45 days because she also received an offer to work at the famous cabaret Le Lido in Paris. She debuted with great success in the famous Teatro Blanquita of Mexico City. Thelma was the main star of famous Mexican cabarets such as El Capri or El Clóset for several years. Tixou decided to settle in Mexico. During her most successful years, Tixou managed to earn $15,000 dollars a month.

Along with her work in nightclubs and cabarets, Tixou also participated in a large number of plays and theater performances with actors and comedians such as Chabelo, Gustavo Rojo, Alberto "El Caballo" Rojas, Lalo "el Mimo", Jaime Fernández and others. On television she was also part of the cast of the famous program Siempre en Domingo with Raúl Velasco.

In 1984, Tixou starred in the movie La superdotada with the singer King Clave. In 1989, Tixou achieved international fame thanks to her participation in the film Santa Sangre, by the filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. In 2001, the actress debuted in the Mexican telenovelas in the melodrama Salomé. Since then, Tixou has appeared in several Mexican TV series.

Personal life
Thelma Tixou married her manager and agent, an ex-boxer with whom she suffered various physical and verbal abuses. Her husband abandoned her, leaving her in economic ruin. Tixou subsequently endured but emerged from severe depression. She died on 15 January 2019 at the age of 75 in Mexico City from a brain tumor.

Filmography
Films
 La muchacha del cuerpo de oro (1967)
 La superdotada (1984)
 Santa Sangre (1989)
 Cándido Pérez, especialista en señoras (1991)

Television
 La matraca (1965)
 Variedades de medianoche (1977)
 Siempre en Domingo (1977)
 Hasta que la muerte los separe (1994)
 Salomé  (2001)
 Las Vías del Amor (2002)
 Pablo y Andrea (2005)
 Central de Abasto (2009)
 Porque el amor manda'' (2012)

References

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1944 births
2019 deaths
Argentine emigrants to Mexico
Mexican film actresses
Mexican vedettes
People from Buenos Aires
Deaths from brain tumor
Deaths from cancer in Mexico
Argentine people of Lithuanian descent
Mexican people of Italian descent
Mexican people of Lithuanian descent
Date of birth missing

Thelma Tixou


GNU is the name of a computer operating system. The name is short for GNU's Not Unix. Richard Stallman leads the GNU Project. The popular Linux operating systems made using the Linux kernel have many GNU tools too. So, many projects and developers call the Linux-based operating systems GNU/Linux.

The GNU project was started by Richard Stallman in 1983. He wanted to create a computer system that was all free and open-source software. Users could change, share and publish new work based on GNU. He and a group of developers started by creating copies of each piece of UNIX software. The rest of GNU was the kernel, called the GNU Hurd, which is not yet finished. The more popular Linux kernel is often used instead.

Other websites

 GNU User Groups

Operating systems
GNU project

GNU


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NewsWatch on Channel 15 (popularly known as NewsWatch 15) is an American regional cable television channel serving New Orleans, Louisiana. The channel is owned as a joint venture between Tegna and local cable provider Cox Communications. NewsWatch 15's operations are based out of the studio facility shared by Tegna-owned CBS affiliate WWL-TV (channel 4) and MyNetworkTV affiliate WUPL (channel 54), located on Rampart Street in the city's historic French Quarter district. The regional cable news channel's branding is derived from its channel slot in the New Orleans area on Cox Communications channel 15.

Background
NewsWatch on Channel 15 launched on October 20, 1989; it was formed via a partnership that was formed in 1988 between WWL-TV and Cox Cable (now Cox Communications), the latter of which serves as the major cable provider for areas of Greater New Orleans located south of Lake Pontchartrain, to create a cable-only news channel. Among the first regional news channels of its kind in the United States, NewsWatch was created in response to the growing number of area residents whose busy schedules did not permit them to watch a newscast at traditional broadcast times. NewsWatch 15 is available to nearly 290,000 households with cable television service in Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany, St. Bernard Parish and St. Charles Parishes.

Programming
NewsWatch 15 primarily airs a mix of simulcasts of WWL-TV's weekday morning, noon, weeknight and weekend evening newscasts (which have been branded as Eyewitness News since 1968), as well as rolling rebroadcasts of those programs during timeslots normally slotted for syndicated or CBS network programming on over-the-air channel 4 (for example, the station's 5:00 p.m. newscast is only rebroadcast at 5:30 p.m. due to the live simulcast of the succeeding 6:00 p.m. newscast; in stark contrast, the Saturday edition of WWL-TV's 10:00 p.m. Eyewitness News Nightwatch'' broadcast is replayed on NewsWatch 15 until as late as 11:05 p.m. Sunday evening as WWL does not carry a newscast until Sunday evenings, and during the NFL season, may only air the late newscast). The channel also carries coverage of breaking news events that do not necessarily warrant extended coverage on channel 4.

References

External links
 Website for Cox Communications' New Orleans operations
 WWL-TV official website

24-hour television news channels in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1989
Tegna Inc.
Cox Communications
1989 establishments in Louisiana

NewsWatch 15


The Montreal-style bagel or Montreal bagel (sometimes beigel; ;  ) is a distinctive variety of handmade and wood-fired baked bagel. In contrast to the New York-style bagel, the Montreal bagel is smaller, thinner, sweeter and denser, with a larger hole, and is always baked in a wood-fired oven. It contains malt, egg, and no salt, and is boiled in honey-sweetened water before being baked.

In some Montreal establishments, bagels are still produced by hand and baked in full view of the patrons. There are two predominant varieties: black-seed (poppy seed), or white-seed (sesame seed).

History
Montreal bagels, like the similarly shaped New York bagel, were brought to North America by Jewish immigrants from Poland and other Eastern European countries; the differences in texture and taste reflect the style of the particular area in Poland in which the immigrant bakers learned their trade. Minor controversy surrounds the question of who first brought the bagel to Montreal. They were (reportedly) first baked in Montreal by Chaim (Hyman) Seligman, as verified by Montreal historian Joe King, a historian of Montreal Jewry. Seligman first worked in the neighbourhood community of Lachine and later moved his bakery to the lane next door to Schwartz's Delicatessen on Boulevard St. Laurent in central Montreal. Seligman would string his bagels into dozens and patrol Jewish Main purveying his wares, originally with a pushcart, then a horse and wagon and still later from a converted taxi. Seligman went into partnership with Myer Lewkowicz and with Jack Shlafman but fell out with both of them. Seligman and Lewkowicz founded the St. Viateur Bagel Shop in 1957 and Shlafman established Fairmount Bagel in 1919, which both still exist in the present day.

Dissemination
A substantial proportion of Montreal's English-speaking Jewish community gradually left for other locales. Catering to this population, Montreal-style bagel shops have opened in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Calgary, Whitehorse, and other Canadian, and even US cities, such as  Burlington, Houston, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, and Seattle. For a time this style of bagel was almost completely unknown in the northeastern U.S., mainly due to the proximity of the rival New York City bagel. (with one exception having been in Burlington, Vermont, where Myer's Bagels boasts a Montreal-style wood-fired oven and Lloyd Squires, a former St-Viateur Bagel Shop baker). At one point in New York City there were two Montreal-style bagel locations in the borough of Brooklyn within four blocks of each other, but one is now closed and the other no longer offers Montreal-style bagels.

Montreal-style bagels are currently the only style of bagel known to have ventured into space. Gregory Chamitoff, who grew up in Montreal, took three bags of sesame bagels with him on his assignments to STS-124 as passenger and ISS Expedition 17 as crewmember.

Production

Montreal-style bagels are, for the most part, manufactured by the same method used to produce a generic bagel.
The Montreal-style method of making bagels builds on the basic traditional method in the following ways:
 The basic bagel dough recipe includes egg and honey.
 Honey is also added to the water used for poaching the bagels before baking.
 The authentic Montreal-style bagels are baked in a wood-fired oven.

Notable bagel shops
Several Montreal bagel factories produce authentic Montreal-style bagels. St-Viateur Bagel, at 263 av. St-Viateur West, and Fairmount Bagel, at 74 Avenue Fairmount Ouest are two notable bagel shops in Montreal. Both claim to be the oldest bagel shop in the city.

See also

 Cuisine of Quebec
 Bublik
 Donald Bell
 Kettleman's Bagel Co.
 Mile End, Montreal
 Montreal-style smoked meat
 Urban culture

References

External links

 "No shocker that Montreal bagels won...." Montreal Gazette.
 "Montreal Bagels – are they the Best in the World?" Bootsnall Travel.

Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Montreal
Bagels
Jewish breads
Jewish baked goods
Yeast breads
Montreal cuisine
Cuisine of Quebec
Jewish Canadian cuisine
Jews and Judaism in Montreal

Montreal-style bagel


Fibrinoid necrosis is a specific pattern of irreversible, uncontrolled cell death that occurs when antigen-antibody complexes are deposited in the walls of blood vessels along with fibrin. It is common in the immune-mediated vasculitides which are a result of type III hypersensitivity. When stained with hematoxylin and eosin, they appear brightly eosinophilic and smudged.

Diseases
Fibrinoid necrosis is not limited to the immune-mediated vasculitides; many pathologic processes can lead to areas of fibrinoid necrosis. In systemic lupus erythematosus, the dermis is often affected by fluid accumulation and inflammation around the small vessels in the skin, which may show prominent fibrinoid necrosis. Also it's seen in rheumatoid nodules with similar pathology. Also seen in Serum Sickness(Type III hypersensitivity reaction)

References

Histopathology
Necrosis
Cellular processes

Fibrinoid necrosis


Gerald Stephen "Gerry" McGowan (born September 3, 1946 Birmingham, Michigan) is an American lawyer, wireless industry entrepreneur, and diplomat. He was appointed United States Ambassador to Portugal on November 10, 1997, and was sworn in by Vice President Al Gore. He presented his credentials in Lisbon, Portugal on March 19, 1998 and left his post on July 3, 2001.

Life and career
McGowan was born and raised in Birmingham, Michigan to Harry and Mary McGowan, where he attended Brother Rice High School.
While working towards his B.S. from Georgetown University and a J.D. degree from Georgetown Law, Gerry served as a clerk to Michigan Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kavanagh, and as an assistant to the late U.S. Senator Philip Hart.
He also served in the Vietnam War as a United States Army 1st Lieutenant in 1970-1971. A classmate at Georgetown was then class President and eventual United States President, Bill Clinton.

McGowan is a career telecommunications industry lawyer and is a founding partner of the Washington D.C. law firm Lukas, McGowan, Nace & Gutierrez.

McGowan played an important role in negotiations between the US administration and the Portuguese leadership, during the East Timor struggle for independence from Indonesia in late 1999 and early 2000.

A telecommunications industry veteran, McGowan sat on the board of directors of Portugal Telecom from 2003-2015.

On June 1, 2015, McGowan was appointed by President Obama to the Board of Visitors of the United States Military Academy - West Point. McGowan also served as a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics in April, 2016.

Family
He is the father of seven children, Jason, Zachary, Lukas, Connor, Molly, Sean and Dylan by his first wife, the former Sharon Shapiro, who died of breast cancer on April 8, 1995. He married Susan Brophy on January 10, 1998. They currently reside in Arlington, Virginia.

References

1946 births
Living people
American lawyers
Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni
Georgetown University Law Center alumni
People from Arlington County, Virginia
People from Birmingham, Michigan
People from Washington, D.C.
Ambassadors of the United States to Portugal
United States Army officers
Military personnel from Michigan

Gerald S. McGowan


Lewis "Lew" Moxon is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is most famous for hiring Joe Chill to murder young Bruce Wayne's parents in early versions of Batman's origin story, thus making him indirectly responsible for Batman's existence.

Publication history
Lew Moxon first appeared in Detective Comics #235 and was created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff.

Fictional character biography

Golden / Silver Age version
Roughly 10 years before their murder, Dr. Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha attend a costume party, to which Thomas wears a bat-like costume. Thomas is subsequently taken from the party at gunpoint to meet notorious racketeer and bank robber Lew Moxon, who forces the doctor to remove a bullet from his shoulder. After completing the operation, Thomas overpowers Moxon and his men and escapes. Moxon is then arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison for armed robbery. As he is taken away, he swears revenge on Thomas Wayne.

Ten years later, Moxon's first order of business after getting released is to inform Thomas that he will get someone else to exact revenge against him. It is suggested that Moxon ordered Joe Chill to kill the Waynes and make it look like a mugging, but to spare their son Bruce in order to leave a witness who will describe his parents' murder as a robbery gone wrong.

Years later, Batman learns of Moxon's involvement in the murder of his parents, by which time the aging gangster is operating a blimp business. Batman confronts Moxon and accuses him of ordering the Waynes' murders, but Moxon, who is suffering from amnesia, has no memory of the crime and is able to pass a lie detector test. He is then released on bail with his only official crime being a minor charge for assault.

Batman determines that Moxon's blimp business must be a front for illegal activities and continues to trail the gangster. Eventually, after uncovering that Moxon is indeed using his blimps for criminal purposes, Batman confronts him while wearing his father's costume (his own having been damaged during an earlier fight). On seeing Dr. Wayne's costume, Moxon suddenly remembers what he had done. Thinking Batman is actually Thomas Wayne's ghost seeking revenge, Moxon panics and runs out into the street, where he is struck and killed by a truck.

Post Zero Hour version
Lew Moxon was reintroduced into the post-Zero Hour Batman continuity as an aging mob boss with failed political aspirations, who returned to Gotham City after several years in self-imposed exile. Years earlier, Moxon had traveled in the same circle of wealthy socialites as Bruce's parents, even though the Waynes privately disdained him as nothing more than a common thief.

Bruce is invited to a party celebrating Moxon's return to Gotham City, where he is reintroduced to the old man's daughter, Mallory, Bruce's childhood sweetheart. At the party, Bruce discovers that Moxon is the target of professional assassin Deadshot. For protection, Moxon has employed the ruthless Philo Zeiss - who murdered Bruce's friend, Jeremy Samuels, in an earlier story - as his bodyguard. When Bruce confronts Zeiss as Batman, Zeiss reveals that Moxon had ordered him to kill Samuels as retaliation for something that Thomas Wayne had done to him years earlier.

Moxon survives Deadshot's assassination attempts (though now uses a wheelchair), but fires Zeiss for his failure. Batman discovers Mallory is an active member of her family's criminal empire.

Ultimately, Batman discovers that Thomas, Martha, and (a very young) Bruce Wayne had attended a costume party (to which Dr. Wayne wore a Zorro costume) which was also attended by Moxon. At the party, Angelo Berretti, an "employee" of Moxon's business, told Thomas that a man's life was in danger. Thomas made Berretti promise his safe return before departing. He was then informed that the man in question was Moxon's nephew, who needed a bullet removed from his shoulder following a failed armed robbery. Thomas performed the operation, but refused to take any money for his services, and attacked Moxon. Following this, a furious Moxon had ordered a hit on Thomas, only to be thwarted by Berretti, who wanted to honor his word.

Batman questions Berretti as to whether his former boss had been involved in the murder of the Waynes, which occurred a few months after the costume party. Berretti tells him Moxon was not involved. After Batman accepts Berretti's version of events and departs, Berretti holds his hand to his face and utters an ambiguous "Oh, thank God". Moxon's involvement in the killing of the Wayne is, therefore, left to the reader's imagination.

During the Bruce Wayne: Murderer? storyline, Nightwing stakes out Moxon's house, where he overhears him and Mallory arguing about the news revolving around Bruce Wayne.

Moxon (alongside his bodyguard Hellhound) is later killed by his former protector Zeiss at a meeting of Gotham's crime bosses (arranged by Spoiler). This event occurs at the commencement of the Batman: War Games story line.

DC Universe
In Batman: Three Jokers, Lew Moxon was mentioned to have owned a restaurant called Lew's Restaurant. It was mentioned in the news that the last members of the dwindling Moxon Crime Family were killed at their restaurant where an eyewitness states that the Joker was responsible. It was also mentioned that the Moxon Crime Family were accused of orchestrating the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne, only to be exonerated when Joe Chill confessed that he committed the murders alone.

Place in continuity
During the Golden Age of Comic Books, Lew Moxon was established as the man who hired Joe Chill to kill Bruce Wayne's parents.

During the Silver and Bronze Age of Comic Books, the Lew Moxon story remained canonical for tales set on Earth-Two. For several years no mention is made of Moxon's role regarding the origin of Batman on Earth One. The Len Wein's mini-series, The Untold Legend of the Batman (published in 1980) re-introduced the Lew Moxon story, exactly as it was told in 1956. The canonical presence of the character is reinforced in the feature story in Detective Comics #500, "To Kill a Legend", when Batman and Robin are sent to a parallel Earth to avert the murder of that version of the Waynes. To accomplish that goal, the Dynamic Duo find and question that world's version of Moxon about the whereabouts of Chill. Moxon had not yet hired Chill to perform the murder and with the attention of this bizarre figure, accelerated his plan with a different killer to first murder Chill and then the Waynes. Batman discovered the dying Chill and deduced that the Waynes were in danger that very night; thus, Batman managed to arrive in Crime Alley in time and stop the murder.

During the post-Crisis era, no mention is made of Lew Moxon, making his canonical status during this time uncertain. In Batman: Year Two, Batman confronts Joe Chill, much as he did in the Golden and Silver Age continuities. However, just as in previous continuities, Chill makes no reference to Moxon before his demise.

During the post-Zero Hour era, while Moxon does appear in several issues, Chill does not.

After the events of Infinite Crisis, Chill is again known to be responsible for the murder of the Waynes, and he was arrested for the crime on that same night. In Grant Morrison's Batman #673, Batman learns Chill acted on his own and that his parents' deaths were not ordered by someone else.

Other versions
In the prequel comic to Justice League: Gods and Monsters, Batman (who, in this continuity, is really Dr. Kirk Langstrom, aka Man-Bat) tracks down Moxon during a meeting with several other crime bosses, along with his right-hand man, Joe Chill. When Batman corners them, Moxon offers him money to come work for him, but Batman refuses and then kills Moxon by sucking his blood.

Langstrom later attends Moxon's funeral, where he meets Moxon's wife Angela and his son Jeremy. He befriends Jeremy and reveals his secret identity to him. Jeremy then agrees to help Langstrom find a cure for his condition. When Angela is murdered, Jeremy reveals that his father's rival crime lords believe that he had evidence against them and killed Angela to make sure she did not go to the police. Batman later tracks down Angela's murderer, who turns out to be Joe Chill, who became a vampire after Batman killed him. Batman fights Chill and kills him again, this time with an axe.

Batman reveals to Jeremy that Chill was trying to kill him, as well, and that he knows that Jeremy was being groomed by his father to succeed him. Jeremy then reveals that he knows that Batman killed his father, and then offers to work with him. Batman kills Jeremy by sucking his blood, leaving his body seated in front of his fireplace.

In other media
Lew Moxon appears in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Chill of the Night!", voiced by Richard Moll. He gives a deathbed confession to Batman, who is disguised as a priest, in which he admits to ordering Thomas Wayne's murder as revenge for the doctor testifying against him in court, but he insists that he did not want Martha to die and expresses remorse for making Bruce Wayne an orphan. With his dying breath, Moxon identifies the hitman he hired as Joe Chill.

See also
 List of Batman family enemies

References

Batman characters
Fictional business executives
DC Comics male supervillains
Fictional murderers
Fictional gangsters
Comics characters introduced in 1956
Characters created by Bill Finger
Characters created by Sheldon Moldoff
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Kya Haal, Mr. Paanchal is an Indian television comedy sitcom that airs on Star Bharat. The story is about a mother who demands a perfect daughter-in-law with five qualities from God for her son; however, as a result of a strange twist she ends up with five daughters-in-laws with one quality each. The Paanchal family lives in Meerut.

2017 Indian television series debuts

Kya Hal Mister Panchal (TV Series)


CryptoLocker is a file encrypting ransomware. It first appeared in September 2013. It was transferred using email attachments and botnets. The ransomware encrypts most files on the computer (including connected devices), using an RSA encryption.After infection Cryptolocker scan the victim's folder structure for files matching a set of file extensions, encrypt them and display a message window that demands a ransom in order to decrypt the files. Cryptolocker use RSA public-key cryptography.  Once it has encrypted the files, it will display a window asking for 2 Bitcoin for the decryption program. It will give the user 72 hours to pay the ransom.

If the user does not pay the fee in time, the ransomware will uninstall itself and ask the user to download it again. It will then ask the user for 10 Bitcoin, instead of 2. A program to decrypt (fix) files was later made available.

References

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The history of currency in the British colony of Saint Vincent closely follows that of the British Eastern Caribbean territories in general. As such, it should not be considered in isolation. In order to get a broad overview of currency in the region, see the article British West Indies dollar.

Even though Queen Anne's proclamation of 1704 brought the gold standard to the West Indies, silver pieces of eight (Spanish dollars and later Mexican dollars) continued to form a major portion of the circulating currency right into the latter half of the nineteenth century. Britain adopted the gold standard in 1821 and an imperial order-in-council of 1838 resulted in British sterling coinage being introduced to St. Vincent in the year 1839. However, despite the circulation of British coins in St. Vincent, the silver pieces of eight continued to circulate alongside them and the private sector continued to use dollar accounts for reckoning. The international silver crisis of 1873 signalled the end of the silver dollar era in the West Indies and silver dollars were demonetized in St. Vincent in 1879 for fear that the silver standard might return. Even though the British sterling coins were made of silver, they were fractional coins of the British gold sovereign and hence they maintained their gold value. This left a state of affairs, in which the British coinage circulated, being reckoned in dollar accounts at an automatic conversion rate of 1 dollar = 4 shillings 2 pence.

From 1949, with the introduction of the British West Indies dollar, the currency of St. Vincent became officially tied up with that of the British Eastern Caribbean territories in general. The British sterling coinage was eventually replaced by a new decimal coinage in 1955, with the new cent being equal to one half of the old penny.

Early history
In 1797, coins were produced for 1 black dog, 1 stampee and ¼ and ½ dollar. The black dog and stampee were made by counterstamping an "SV" monogram on French colonial coins, whilst the ¼ and ½ dollar were made by cutting 8 reales coins (Spanish dollars) into four or two and stamping them with the "SV" monogram.

Between 1811 and 1814 currency consisted of various counterstamped Spanish and Spanish colonial coins, some of which were cut or holed. The Spanish dollar was subdivided into bits, each worth 9 pence, 6 black dogs or 4 stampees. Before 1811, 1 dollar = 11 bits and the dollar equalled 8 Spanish reales. After 1811, 1 dollar = 12 bits and 1½ dollars equalled 8 reales. 4½, 6, 9 and 12 bits coins were produced. The 4½ and 9 bits were made from 2 and 4 reales coins. The 4½ bits was counterstamped with "S", "IV½" and "B", whilst the 9 bits was counterstamped with "S" and "IX". To produce the 6 and 12 bits, 8 reales coins were holed. The central plug was stamped with "S" and "VI" to produce the 6 bits, whilst the ring (or holey dollar) was stamped with "S" and "XII" to make the 12 bits.

The revolutions in Spanish America cut off the supply of the Spanish Dollars at a time when Britain had recently introduced a successful gold standard. As such, it became expedient to introduce British sterling coinage to all the colonies. Sterling coinage was introduced following an imperial order-in-council of 1825 which set ratings for sterling in relation to the Spanish dollar and some other major coinages which were in circulation at the time.

Paper Money
In 1882, the first private banknotes were issued, denominated in dollars. It was pegged to sterling with 1 dollar = 4 shillings 2 pence. In 1935, the British West Indies dollar was introduced, equal in value to all other dollars circulating in the British West Indies. Private banks continued to issue notes until 1941. The British West Indies dollar was replaced in 1965 by the East Caribbean dollar.

Banknotes
The Colonial Bank issued 5 dollars notes in 1882. Barclays Bank (which had taken over the Colonial Bank) issued 5 dollars notes between 1926 and 1941.

References

External links

Modern obsolete currencies
Economy of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
History of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Currencies of the Caribbean

Saint Vincent dollar


Muchachitas (English title: Girls) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa in 1991. The telenovela was also shown on Univisión in the early 1990s.

Starring Alejandro Camacho, Cecilia Tijerina, Tiaré Scanda, Emma Laura, Kate del Castillo and Laura León.

Plot
Four girls (Mónica, Elena, Leticia and Isabel) enroll in an art academy to pursue their dreams of careers in acting and singing. The four are from different backgrounds:

Monica is wealthy but humble and sweet. She dates Rodrigo, who works under her father at their supermarket and drives a taxi on the side. When Rodrigo is framed by Monica's cousin Federico and sent to jail for industrial espionage, she stands by him, but she cannot forget her previous boyfriend Roger, who was also the object of attempted murder by Federico.
Elena is poor and tough. She was Rodrigo's first girlfriend, but Rodrigo dumped her for Monica, causing a rift between the two girls. Later, however, it is revealed that Elena's father is also Monica's biological father; their respective mothers, also active in theater, had been friends and rivals.
Isabel is middle-class and selfless. She lives with her widowed father. She gets involved with Pedro, who turns out to be married, but though Pedro's terminally ill wife forgives her and entrusts her with the care of their daughter, Betty, she distrusts Pedro.
Leticia is a middle-class social climber, who is not hesitant to speak her mind and to pretend to get on with rich men. She eventually "marries" Federico, not realizing that the wedding has no legal effect (the license was not properly filed). She is later sent to work for her grandmother, who was also once a social climber but has mellowed and grown wiser.

Cast

 Cecilia Tijerina as Mónica Sánchez-Zúñiga Montealegre
 Tiaré Scanda as Elena Olivares Pérez
 Kate del Castillo as Leticia Bustamante Ballesteros
 Emma Laura as Isabel Flores Falcón
 Jorge Lavat as Guillermo Sánchez-Zúñiga
 Alejandro Camacho as Federico Cantú Sánchez-Zúñiga
 Laura León as Esther Pérez de Olivares
 Pilar Pellicer as Martha Sánchez-Zúñiga Vda. de Cantú
 Roberto Palazuelos as Roger Guzmán
 María Rojo as Esperanza Ballesteros de Bustamante
 July Furlong as Verónica Montealegre de Sánchez-Zúñiga #1
 Tina Romero as Verónica Montealegre de Sánchez-Zúñiga #2
 Diego Schoening as Rodrigo Suárez
 Carlos Cardán as José "Pepe" Olivares
 Sergio Kleiner as Alberto Barbosa
 Gabriela Araujo as Profesora Carmen Márquez
 Edith Kleiman as Angélica Benítez
 Antonio Medellín as Alfredo Flores
 Manolita Saval as Enriqueta
 Armando de Pascual as Francisco "Pancho" Bustamante
 Charlie Massó as Mauricio Rubio
 Mercedes Pascual as Bertha Vda. de Ballesteros
 Mario Sauret as Don Julio Linares
 Ari Telch as Joaquín Barbosa
 Arturo Alegro as Don Héctor Suárez
 Kenia Gazcón as Margarita Villaseñor
 Lorena Herrera as Claudia Villaseñor
 Carlos Rotzinger as Luis Villaseñor
 Tere Salinas as Paola
 José Flores as Rolando Fasoles
 Raúl Alberto as Raúl Rivas
 Sergio Sendel as Pedro Ortigoza Domínguez
 Ana María Aguirre as Constanza de Villaseñor
 Anahí as Betty Ortigoza
 Itatí Cantoral as Lucía Aguilera
 Carlos Miguel as Óscar Luna
 Guillermo Orea Jr. as Tolomeo
 Héctor Soberón as Víctor
 Lorena Tassinari as Lucrecia Pons
 Ricardo Barona as Abel
 Karen Sentíes as Renata Chompester
 Yolanda Ventura as Gloria
 Vanessa Villela as Andrea
 Marigel as Noemí
 Miguel Garza as Sergio
 Luis Cárdenas as Bernardo Trueba
 Karina Castañeda as Silvia Bustamante Ballesteros
 Gloria Izaguirre as Laura
 María Prado as Rosa Rivas
 Dolores Salomón "La Bodoquito" as Concha "Conchita"
 Rocío Sobrado as Andrea de Ortigoza
 Patricia Valdés
 Fernando Pinkus
 Evelyn Murillo
 Susana Carens
 Edmundo Barahona
 Amparo Garrido

Awards

References

External links

1991 telenovelas
1991 Mexican television series debuts
1992 Mexican television series endings
Spanish-language telenovelas
Television shows set in Mexico City
Television shows set in New York City
Televisa telenovelas

Muchachitas


Major League Baseball (Abbreviation MLB) ek American baseball league hai jisme 30 team hai. Isme 40 khiladi (1200) shamil hai ek team main.

Commissioner: Robert Dean Manfred Jr. (Junior)

Shamil Ki gayi teams: New York Mets, Los Angeles Dogers, Houston Astros, Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Lakers, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Guardians, San Francisco Giants, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago White Sox, Baltrimore Orles, Tampa Bay Rays, New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres, Washington Nationals, Kansas City Royals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, Oakland Athletics, Cincinnati Royals, Pittsburg Pirates, Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins.

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The Cercopithecinae are an important subfamily of Old World monkeys. There are 12 genera and about 71 species. the baboons, the macaques and the vervet monkeys.

Most of then live in sub-Saharan Africa, but the macaques range from the far eastern parts of Asia through northern Africa, and Gibraltar.

Characteristics
The various species are adapted to the different terrains they inhabit. Tree-dwelling (arboreal) species are slim, delicate and have a long tail. Ground-dwelling species are heavier, and their tail may be small or nonexistent. All species have well-developed thumbs.

Like many Old World monkeys, they have pads on their bottoms. These are called ischial callosities. They let the monkeys sleep sitting upright on thin branches, beyond reach of predators, without falling off. In some species, these pads change their colour during the mating period.

These monkeys are active in the daytime, and live together in social groups. They live in all types of terrain and climate, from cool mountains to rain forests, savannah, bald rocky areas or even snowy mountains, as does the Japanese macaque.

Most species are omnivorous, with diets ranging from fruits, leaves, seeds, buds, and mushrooms to insects and spiders to smaller vertebrates. All species have cheek pouches in which they can store food.

Gestation lasts approximately six to seven months. Young are weaned after three to 12 months and are fully mature within three to five years. The life expectancy of some species can be as long as 50 years.

Related pages
Macaca
Papio
Mandrillus

References

Old World monkeys

Cercopithecinae


Barry Foster (born 21 September 1951) is an English retired footballer who spent his entire Football League career at Mansfield Town, where he played as a left-back.

Foster graduated through Mansfield's youth team, and signed a professional contract in July 1970, after first completing his apprenticeship as a mining electrician. He made his first-team debut for the Stags shortly before his 19th birthday, on 4 September 1971 against Plymouth Argyle. Incidentally, his unrelated namesake Colin Foster made his debut in the same game.

At first, Foster had to bide his time in a reserve role, but when first-choice left-back Clive Walker went down with an injury, Foster took advantage of the opportunity, and secured a regular place in the side. He was a member of the Mansfield side that finished top of Division Four in 1975, and also won Division Three two years later. However, Foster broke his leg against Portsmouth on the day promotion was confirmed, causing him to miss most of the club's Division Two campaign the following season.

In total, Foster played 343 matches for Mansfield in all competitions, without ever scoring a single goal for the club. He was released at the end of the 1981-82 season, and finished his career with a season at non-league Boston United. After retiring from the game, he joined his family's market-trading business.

References

1951 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Mansfield Town F.C. players
Boston United F.C. players
Footballers from Worksop
Men's association football defenders

Barry Foster (footballer)


Ronald "Ronnie" E. Holmberg (born January 27, 1938) is a former American tennis player who competed during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked World No. 7 in 1959 and was ranked in the U.S. Top 10 for nine years. He is currently one of the USTA's select "Master Professionals" and devotes most of his time coaching, participating and directing charity events and clinics and other tennis related projects.

Summary

College
Holmberg won his first tournament at age 12 and won three out of the four possible U.S. National Boys' titles in 1953. He won the Junior Wimbledon title in 1956.
He graduated from Tulane University where he was a three time All-American and won the SEC singles twice and doubles championship three times and the NCAA doubles championship twice.

Tennis career
Holmberg won the Junior Wimbledon title in 1956 defeating Rod Laver in the final.

In 1957, he won the Eastern Clay Court Championships defeating Tony Vincent. Holmberg played in several Blue Gray events when it was an individual competition. He won the singles championship in 1959 and captured back-to-back Blue Gray doubles titles in 1957 and 1958.

Holmberg reached the 1959 U.S. National Championships (the US Open) Men's Singles semifinals, defeating Dick Savitt in five sets, Butch Buchholz in five sets, and Laver in four sets in the quarterfinals, then lost to Alex Olmedo. He reached the quarterfinals at the 1961 French Open where he lost to Laver.

In December 1962, Holmberg won the Bluebonnet Invitation indoor in Houston, defeating Cliff Richey in the quarterfinals and Frank Froehling in the final. In March 1964, Holmberg won the Altamira International Invitation in Caracas, Venezuela, respecitively defeating Nikola Pilić, Rafael Osuna, Manuel Santana, and then Roy Emerson in the final. In August 1965, Holmberg won the Canadian International Championships, defeating Billy Lenoir in the semifinals and Lester Sack in the final.

Holmberg won the New York International tournament in August 1968, defeating Tom Gorman and Joaquín Loyo-Mayo. The same month, he won the Southampton Invitation tournament on grass in Long Island, New York, defeating Jaime Fillol, Ray Moore, and Gene Scott.

Rankings
Holmberg was ranked No. 4 in the world in 1959 and ranked in the top 10 of U.S. Men's singles for nine years.

He was selected to be a playing member of the U.S. Davis Cup Team four times.

He won numerous international doubles titles with many prominent players such as Barry MacKay (in Davis Cup), Pancho Gonzalez, John Newcombe, Tony Roche, Bob Mark and Arthur Ashe. Holmberg and Ashe were ranked No. 3 in the U.S.

Post playing career
After retiring from professional competition in 1971, he became head coach of tennis and squash at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point.
Holmberg continued to be involved in teaching tennis, and he is widely recognized as one of the game's outstanding coaches. He was a member of Tennis Magazine's Instruction Advisory Board, which consisted of the top playing and teaching pros in the game for its duration of 19 years.

Recognition
He was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Hall-of-Fame, the USTA Eastern Tennis Hall-of-Fame, Louisiana Tennis Hall-of-Fame and the USTA Southern Tennis Hall-of-Fame his eighth Hall of Fame
He was a recipient of the USTA "Lifetime Achievement Award" in 1997 for his all-around accomplishment in both playing and teaching and the USTA George Seewagen Award in 1999 for excellence in playing and service to the game.

Career highlights

 Junior Wimbledon Singles champion in 1956
 Intercollegiate highlights while at Tulane University:
 All-American (first team) (1957, 1958, 1959)
 NCAA Doubles champion with Crawford Henry (1957, 1959)
 SEC Singles champion (1958, 1959),
 SEC Doubles champion with Crawford Henry (1957, 1959), with Lester Sack (1958)
 U.S. National Championships (the US Open) Men's Singles semifinalist(#4) (1959)
 U.S. National Championships (the US Open) Men's Singles quarterfinalist (1961)
 French Championships (the French Open) Men's Singles quarterfinalist (1961)
 U.S. National Indoor Doubles Championships, Champion 1961 with Chris Crawford, finalist 1962 with Whitney Reed
 Played in several Blue Gray events when it was an individual competition. In 1959, won the singles championship. In 1957 and 1958, captured back-to-back Blue Gray doubles titles.
 Selected as a playing member to the U.S. Davis Cup Team four times
 Rogers Cup: 1965 Canadian Championships Singles champion
 Rogers Cup: 1965 Canadian Championships Doubles champion with Lester Sack
 Rogers Cup: 1969 Canadian Open Doubles champion with John Newcombe
 Los Angeles Open: 1969 Doubles champion with Pancho Gonzalez
 Ranked in the U.S. "Top Ten" nine times ( 1957 : No 6, 1959 : No 4, 1960 : No 7, 1961 : No 7, 1964 : No 6, 1965 : No 9, 1966 : No 6, 1967 : No 6, 1968 : No 6 )

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1

Awards and honors

 Inducted into the USTA Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame in 1990
 Inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 1993
 Recipient of the USTA "Lifetime Achievement Award" in 1997 for his all-around accomplishment in both playing and teaching
 Received the USTA George Seewagen Award in 1999 for excellence in playing and service to the game
 Inducted into the Louisiana Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006
 Chairman of the Louisiana Tennis Patrons Foundation
 Member of the USTA select "Master Professionals"
 Inducted into the 2007 Blue Gray National Tennis Classic Hall of Fame
 Inducted into the USTA Southern Tennis Hall of Fame in 2011
 Inducted into the Brooklyn Hall of Fame in 2012
 Inducted into the Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame in 1980
 Inducted into Who's Who at Tulane University in 1960
 Inducted into the Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School Hall of Fame in 1991
 Inducted into Catholic High School Athletic Association (CHSAA) Sports Hall of Fame

Books and magazines

 As a member of the "Instruction Advisory Board" of Tennis Magazine for nineteen years he was featured in the "Classic Instruction Series from Tennis Magazine" which included the following three books: "Tennis Strokes & Strategies", "Tennis: How to Play, How to Win", and "Teach Yourself Tennis!"

Articles

 Life Magazine "A Tennis Future in Kids"
 New York Magazine "How to Play Tennis with Rod Laver and Other Hot-Shots"
 Sports Illustrated "Scorecard"
 Sports Illustrated "An Absence Of Homebreds"
 Sports Illustrated "...these Faces In The Crowd..."
 Sports Illustrated "Great Scott! Gene Won Another One"
 Sports Illustrated "Tennis without Trabert"
 nola.com "Ron Holmberg selected to Southern Tennis Association Hall of Fame"
 City Park Tennis Club of New Orleans "2011 Interview with Ron Holmberg"

References

External links

American male tennis players
People from Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Sportspeople from New Orleans
People from Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
Sportspeople from Orange County, New York
Tennis commentators
Tennis people from New York (state)
Wimbledon junior champions
1938 births
Living people
Tulane University alumni
Tulane Green Wave men's tennis players
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles
Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School alumni

Ronald Holmberg


Bromocresol green (BCG) is a dye of the triphenylmethane family (triarylmethane dyes). It belongs to a class of dyes called sulfonephthaleins. It is used as a pH indicator in applications such as growth mediums for microorganisms and titrations. In clinical practise, it is commonly used as a diagnostic technique. The most common use of bromocresol green is to measure serum albumin concentration within mammalian blood samples in possible cases of kidney failure and liver disease. In chemistry, bromocresol green is used in Thin-layer chromatography staining solutions to visualize acidic compounds.

Properties
In aqueous solution, bromocresol green will ionize to give the monoanionic form (yellow), that further deprotonates at higher pH to give the dianionic form (blue), which is stabilized by resonance:

The acid dissociation constant (pKa) of this reaction is 4.8. Tap water is sufficiently basic to give a solution of bromocresol green its characteristic blue-green color.

The acid and basic forms of this dye have an isosbestic point in their UV-Visible spectrum, around 515 nm, indicate that the two forms interconvert directly without forming any other substance.

An ethanol solution (0.04 wt%) of bromocresol green has been proposed for TLC staining and is suitable for visualisation of the compounds with functional groups whose pKa is below 5.0 (carboxylic acids, sulfonic acids, etc.). These appear as yellow spots on a light or dark blue background; no heating is necessary. Bromophenol blue solution can be used for the same purpose.

The compound is synthesized by bromination of cresol purple (m-cresolsulfonphthalein).

Uses
It is used as a pH indicator and as a tracking dye for DNA agarose gel electrophoresis. It can be used in its free acid form (light brown solid), or as a sodium salt (dark green solid). It is also an inhibitor of the prostaglandin E2 transport protein. Additional applications include use in sol-gel matrices, the detection of ammonia, and the measurement of albumin in human plasma and serum.

Safety
Bromocresol green may cause irritation. Skin and eye contact should be avoided.

References

PH indicators
Triarylmethane dyes
Phenol dyes
Bromoarenes
Benzoxathioles

Bromocresol green


Toussaint von Charpentier (22 November 1779 – 4 March 1847) was a German geologist and entomologist.

He was the author of Libellulinae europaeae descriptae e depictae (1840).

Biography
Toussaint von Charpentier was born in Freiberg, Saxony ( 22 November 1779 and died in Brieg 4 March 1847.
Charpentier was the son of the Saxony geologist and  "Berghauptmann" (head of the mining inspectorate), Johann Friedrich William von Charpentier and the brother of Johann von Charpentier. He studied geology and mining engineering at the Bergakademie Freiberg and continued his studies at the University of Leipzig.

In the year 1802 Charpentier went to Prussia, where he accepted a place with the Silesia Oberbergamt (upper mining authority) in Breslau. Charpentier took over the management of Schweidnitz local mining authority in Schweidnitz until returning, in 1811, to the upper mining authority in Breslau.

In 1828 his transfer to Dortmund as "Vizeberghauptmann"  took place. 1830 he was appointed to a post in "Oberbergamtes"  Dortmund. In the year 1836 he transferred to the Silesian mining authority in the same capacity. After 1819 he was transferred to Brieg and remained there up to his death in the same office.

Charpentier published numerous writings on mountain structure and geology, in addition, to writing on his hobby, entomology. He published between 1829 and 1830 a new edition of the publications Die europäischen Schmetterlinge and Die ausländischen Schmetterlinge with Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper.

Works
Kurze Beschreibung sämtlicher beim Amalgamierwerk Halsbrücke bei Freiberg vorkommenden Arbeiten, 1802
Übersetzung von Rinmans Allgemeindem Bergwerkslexikon, 1808
Darstellung der Höhe verschiedener Berge, Flüsse und Orte Schlesiens, 1812

Über Gletscher, 1819
Bemerkungen auf einer Reise von Breslau über Salzburg, Tirol und der südlichen Schweiz nach Rom, Neapel und Paestum Bd. 1-2, 1820
Horae Entomologicae, 1825
Libellulinae Europaeae, 1840
Orthopterae, Heft 1-10, 1841–1843

References

1779 births
1847 deaths
19th-century German geologists
German lepidopterists
Scientists from Freiberg
19th-century German zoologists

Toussaint von Charpentier


Hanwha Vision (), founded as Samsung Techwin, is a video surveillance company. It is a subsidiary of Hanwha Group. The company employs 1,822 people and is headquartered in South Korea. Its total sales in 2020 were 529.8 billion South Korean won.

Before the acquisition by Hanwha, Techwin also developed and sold automation, aeronautics, and weapons technology products. These businesses have since been spun off into dedicated Hanwha subsidiaries – Hanwha Precision Machinery, Hanwha Aerospace, and Hanwha Land Systems.

History
The company was founded as Samsung Precision in 1977, later renamed Samsung Techwin. Under Samsung, the company established a precision instrument laboratory in 1978, and started making cameras in 1979. In technical cooperation with General Electric, it started manufacturing jet engines for Korean aircraft in 1980. Manufacture of  self-propelled artillery began in 1984.

It changed its name to Samsung Aerospace Industries in 1987 and started to make helicopters. It acquired Rollei, a German camera manufacturer, and Union Optics of Japan, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment. In 1996 it developed the SB427 helicopter with Bell and began selling digital cameras branded as "Samsung Kenox" in 1997. The same year, it made the first KF-16 fighter jet in Korea.

It handed over the firm's aircraft business to Korea Aerospace Industries in 1999 and changed its name to Samsung Techwin in 2000.

It exported the K-9 155mm self-propelled artillery to Turkey. In 2005, the company marked first place in Korean digital cameras market share and started a technical co-operation with Pentax.

Samsung Techwin directly entered the European and North American closed-circuit television/surveillance market in 2008 under its own name, featuring a line of true day/night cameras and digital video recorders (DVRs). In 2009, the company introduced a new series of digital IP-based cameras and network video recorders.

Samsung Techwin and its bigger sister company Samsung Electronics announced in October 2009 that in 2010 Samsung Electronics CCTV camera division would be unified with Samsung Techwin's CCTV camera division. In recent years both companies appeared on the CCTV market with lineups that shared some technological underpinnings but in many ways differed (including incompatible PTZ control protocols), and in many markets they were direct competitors with overlapping distribution channels. Although some earlier speculation existed in specialty literature that the new company would appear under the name Samsung Security, official announcement stated that the CCTV division from Samsung Electronics will be transferred to Samsung Techwin.

In February 2014, Samsung Techwin presented its new portfolio of IP cameras for vertical markets at the International Security, Safety and Fire Exhibition (SICUR).

In December 2014, Samsung Electronics announced the sale of its holding stake in its security division, Samsung Techwin, to South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group.

On June 29, 2015, Hanwha completed the takeover and renamed it as Hanwha Techwin.

In 2017, Hanwha Techwin has spun off its SMT pick-and-place machine business as Hanwha Precision Machinery.

In 2018, Hanwha Techwin took part in the Korea International Boat Show 2018, which is one of Asia's top boat shows. Hanwha Techwin was the only global security corporation to participate at the marine leisure industry exhibition held in Goyang, South Korea at KINTEX. Hanwha Techwin exhibited the importance of safety at sea and demonstrated maritime security solutions.

In November 2020, a new app for system integrators was announced. The app can be run on mobile devices and can be downloaded from Google Play and Apple App Store. It makes verifying that all devices are installed more conveniently and creates a Bill of Materials to verify that an order has been fulfilled.

On July 2, 2021, Hanwha Techwin announces five new models of the P Series AI Cameras. The Hanwha P Series AI Camera are a model of security cameras with video analytic technology. This technology is capable of detecting objects, such as people, vehicles, license plates, and faces, as well as classifying objects into categories such as age groups, gender, and colour.

On March 1, 2023, Hanwha Techwin changed its name to Hanwha Vision.

Products
 Surveillance: CCTV (Surveillance) systems, modules, Presenter, FRID, DVR, optical instruments, etc.

Former products

Defense Industries – transferred to Hanwha Defense
 K9 Thunder self-propelled artillery, K10 Ammunition Resupply Vehicles, sub-systems for K2 Black Panther, robot SGR-A1.

Transferred to Hanwha Aerospace
 Power Systems: Gas Turbines, Engines for helicopters, Refrigerant Compressors, Overhaul, etc.
 Transportations: Samsung Techwin operates a few helicopter routes inside South Korea.

Consumer electronics – transferred to Samsung Electronics
 Digital still cameras: Samsung Digimax line (e.g. Samsung Digimax A7)

See also
 Hanwha
 Samsung

References

External links
Hanwha Techwin Official Site

Techwin
Optics manufacturing companies
Video surveillance companies
Electronics companies of South Korea
Aircraft engine manufacturers of South Korea
Gas turbine manufacturers
Aerospace companies of South Korea
Defence companies of South Korea
South Korean brands
Companies based in Changwon
Companies listed on the Korea Exchange
Hanwha subsidiaries
Engine manufacturers of South Korea

Hanwha Vision