Joseph Mould Adcock (10 March 1864 – 24 January 1914) was an English-born cricketer who played one match of first-class cricket for Nelson in New Zealand in 1891. He also represented South Canterbury against touring cricket teams in 1903 and 1906.

Adcock was an Anglican clergyman. He was ordained as a deacon in 1890 and as a priest in 1892. He served as domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Nelson, and was the curate at Brightwater, then Motueka. He returned to England to study at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, graduating MA in 1903. He returned to New Zealand, serving at Timaru and Temuka. In 1910 he again returned to England, where he was rector of Willesborough from 1911 until his death in 1914. He died after contracting typhoid fever in Switzerland.

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André Eglevsky (21 December 19174 December 1977) was a Russian-born ballet dancer and teacher who studied in France and, from 1932, danced with Colonel W. de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo for several years, as well as other companies in Europe and New York City. He became a United States citizen in the late 1930s and danced with the American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet. After retiring from performance in 1958, he set up his own ballet school and the Eglevsky Ballet Company in New York.

Early life and education
Eglevsky was born in Moscow. After the Revolution, he and his mother emigrated to France when he was eight, his mother having decided that his talent as a dancer demanded that he be properly trained. Many classically trained dancers and teachers had emigrated to France and London in this period. Eglevsky studied ballet in Nice with Maria Nevelskaya (also known as Maria Nevelska formerly of the Bolshoi Ballet), Lubov Egorova, Mathilde Kschessinska, Alexandre Volinine, Olga Preobrajenska, and Leon Woizikowski in Paris, and Nicholas Legat in London.

Career
At the age of fourteen, Eglevsky joined Colonel W. de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and after six months was dancing leading roles in such ballets as Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, and Les Présages. In 1935 he joined Igor Youskevitch as the company's Premier Danseur, and a year later joined René Blum's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

Eglevsky travelled to the United States in 1937, and was premier danseur in George Balanchine's American Ballet (later New York City Ballet) until 1938.  He also danced at the Radio City Music Hall and in the Broadway musical Great Lady.

In the late 1930s, Eglevsky married the ballerina Leda Anchutina. Their daughter Marina Eglevsky is also a ballerina, while their son André Eglevsky, Jr. became an orthopedic surgeon who currently resides in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

After becoming a United States citizen, in 1939 Eglevsky rejoined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, touring with them until 1942. For the following four years he danced with the Ballet Theatre (now the American Ballet Theatre) in New York City. He also danced as a guest star with Léonide Massine's Ballet Russe Highlights in 1944 and 1945.

In 1946, Eglevsky rejoined Col. de Basil, now director of the Original Ballet Russe, and a year later became premier danseur of the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas. From 1951 to 1958 he was a principal with the New York City Ballet. In 1952, he appeared in Charlie Chaplin's film Limelight.

He trained as his protégé the dancer Alan Bergman. After having a short career on stage, Bergman developed the Dans-EZ dancewear range.

Upon his retirement in 1958, Eglevsky and his wife started a ballet school in Massapequa, New York. They also founded the Eglevsky Ballet Company. Both continue under the artistic direction of Maurice Brandon Curry. Eglevsky died in 1977 in Elmira, New York, of a heart attack at the age of fifty-nine.

Filmography

References

External links

"André Eglevsky" by Dick Andros
Eglevsky Ballet website

American male ballet dancers
Russian male ballet dancers
Soviet emigrants to France
French emigrants to the United States
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Mohamed Daoud Chehem is a senior civil servant, noted opposition leader and former presidential candidate for the Azuria Development Party (PDD) in Djibouti. Chehem is a member of the Afar ethnic group, and was part of the Afar rebel Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD) opposition movement. In 1991, in a wave of mass arrests in the midst of a civil war between FRUD and Hassan Gouled Aptidon's oppressive regime, Chehem was imprisoned and tortured. Amnesty International, in a statement, said that prisoners like Chehem "may in fact be prisoners of conscience, imprisoned because of their opposition to the government rather than because there is any evidence that they participated in anti-government violence." In 1997 it was widely reported that Chehem along with five other FRUD members, was abducted from Ethiopia and given over to agents of Hassan Gouled Aptidon's regime. Chehem was again subjected to torture and the political prisoners' plight became the subject of campaigns by Amnesty International and other human rights groups. In addition, United Nations Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, Nigel S. Rodley sent an urgent request for their release to Aptidon's government.

During the April 2005 elections in Djibouti, only the country's third multiparty presidential election, Chehem became a prominent opposition candidate. But he eventually dropped out of the campaign in March, citing lack of funds and harassment by the government. Ismail Omar Guelleh, the current president has served since 1999 and his regime has been decried for its authoritarian nature and human rights violations. Chehem was the last of the opposition candidates to drop out, leaving Guellah to run unopposed and win 100% of the vote. Chehem and other opposition leaders have since accused Guellah of attempting to return Djibouti to one-party rule.

References
Amnesty International report on 1991 arrest
Record of UN appeal for Chehem's release
Bulletin on Amnesty International campaign
BBC article on Chehem's withdrawal from the race

External links
Publius Pundit opinion blog on the presidential race

Djiboutian torture victims
Djiboutian prisoners and detainees
Living people
Prisoners and detainees of Djibouti
Year of birth missing (living people)
Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy politicians

Mohamed Daoud Chehem


100 Grand (originally called the $100,000 Candy Bar and then, from the 1970s through the mid-1980s, as the $100,000 Bar) is a candy bar produced by the Ferrara Candy Company, a subsidiary of Ferrero. The candy bar was created in 1964 by Nestlé. It weighs  and includes chocolate, caramel and crisped rice. The bar contains 201 calories; it is low in cholesterol and sodium, but high in saturated fat and sugar. Its first slogan was "Tastes so good it's almost illegal!" Its current slogan is "That's Rich!"

Use in humor

In the mid 1990s, Gregg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia, DJs on Boston radio station WAAF-FM, promoted a giveaway of "100 Grand" over several weeks before finally revealing to the eventual winner that the prize was a 100 Grand bar rather than $100,000.

In the Seinfeld episode "The Dealership," George is complaining to a manager that a mechanic stole his Twix as evidenced by the cookie crumbs on his face. The manager asks if it could have been the $100,000 Bar to which George replies "no" because it's only rice and caramel. After this exchange, another dealership employee interjects to inform George that the name of the $100,000 Bar was changed to 100 Grand.

In May 2005, a Kentucky woman sued another radio station, WLTO-FM in Lexington, Kentucky, for a similar prank in which radio DJ DJ Slick gave away one of the bars, leading (so the woman claims) listeners to believe the DJ was giving away $100,000.

Comedians have used the bar's name in a similar fashion. In the episode "Business School" of The Office, Michael Scott tries to use the bar as a motivational tool. He says: "And if you sell enough of them, you will make a 'one hundred grand'!", and displays a 100 Grand bar. When he throws the bar into the bewildered audience, they separate, and let the bar hit one of the students in the head. On The Colbert Report, an image of a 100 Grand bar was part of the introduction to a recurring segment called Colbert Platinum, presented as tongue-in-cheek news and advice for the extremely rich. On the March 24, 2011 episode, Colbert interviewed the Senior Fellow for Global Health on the Council on Foreign Relations, Laurie Garrett, about escalating food prices and joked, "candy bars have gone up, I saw one that cost 100 Grand!"

Sale to Ferrero
100 Grand was produced by Nestlé until 2018. In January of that year, Nestlé sold their American confectionery business to Ferrero SpA, allowing them to use the Nestlé name for one year. Ferrero merged Nestlé candies with Ferrara Candy Company.

See also
 Chokito, a similar chocolate bar also introduced by Nestlé in 1964
 List of chocolate bar brands

References

Brand name confectionery
Chocolate bars
Products introduced in 1964

100 Grand Bar


WAMX (106.3 FM, "106.3 The Brew") is a classic rock radio station licensed to Milton, West Virginia, serving the Huntington metro area.  Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The WAMX studios are located in Huntington, while the station transmitter resides near Ona, West Virginia.  In addition to a standard analog transmission, WAMX is available online via iHeartRadio.

History
The station began broadcasting on October 1, 1980, under the callsign WNST-FM.

In May 1985, the station changed to (WAEZ) an easy listening format.

Circa 1990, the format switched to oldies encompassing the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Principal on air personalities included Dave Z (Carlisle) in the morning, Jack O'Shea in the afternoon, and Brian "Doc of Rock" Atkins in the evening.

In the autumn of 1991, WAEZ switched to the Oldies Radio/"Good Time Rock 'n Roll" satellite feed furnished by the Satellite Music Network.  However, O'Shea was allowed to maintain his weekday afternoon slot from 2 to 6 PM and Atkins stayed on as the News Director in the mornings giving the newscast at the top of the hour during the Zippo in the Morning feed.

In late 1993, the call letters were changed to WZZW. Shortly thereafter in early 1994, the format was switched to a rock format provided by satellite.

In early 1996, the station became The Fox with Morning Host Scott Hesson live and Westwood One Classic Rock outside morning drive.

In 1997, the call letters were changed to WAMX (resurrecting the call letters once used by 93.7 WDGG from 1970 to 1988), the tag became "X-106.3", and the format was changed to progressive rock.

WAMX is now 1063 The Brew, playing classic rock with Scott Hesson back in the afternoon slot

References

External links
106.3 The Brew Online

AMX
Radio stations established in 1980
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
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The Shine muscat, also known as Vitis vinifera, is part of a variety of grapes. It is grown in parts of South Korea and Japan. It carries a strong aroma and can be identified through its distinct mango-like taste. However, this fruit is expensive due to its sweet and enjoyable taste. Shine muscat can also be used to make Wine. Vitis vinifera is similar but not the same.

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The South East Lancashire Provincial Card and Blowing Room Operatives' Association was a trade union representing cotton industry workers in Ashton-under-Lyne and surrounding areas of Lancashire in England.

In 1865, the United Central Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives of Great Britain was formed, representing cardroom workers through southern Lancashire.  While originally based in Hyde, its headquarters were moved to Ashton, which became its most important branch.  However, in 1879, the United Central Association voted to prohibit Irish people from joining the union.  The Ashton branch, led by John White, objected to this, and split away.  In 1883, White took the branch into the Oldham Cardroom Amalgamation, and with the support of this organisation, he was able to increase membership from fifty to 1,200 by 1886.

White argued that the Oldham Amalgamation was too limited in scope, and that a new, national Cardroom Workers' Amalgamation (CWA) was needed.  He won the argument, and the CWA was founded in 1886, but White and other Ashton members failed to win election to any posts on its executive.  In protest, the Ashton union withdrew from both amalgamations.  Following negotiations, in 1887 it agreed to merge with a much smaller union in Stalybridge to form the "South East Lancashire Provincial Card and Blowing Room Operatives' Association", the new union covering various towns around Ashton.  It joined the CWA, and officially registered as a trade union in 1890.

Membership of the union initially grew rapidly, peaking at 3,472 in 1893, then, following a slight decline, hitting 5,500 in 1910, and a new peak of 7,000 in 1920.  During this period, it was led by William Henry Carr, who was also prominent in the CWA.

The cotton industry declined through the remainder of the 20th-century, and union membership fell with it.  In 1967, the union merged with the Hyde and District Card, Blowing and Ring Frame Operatives' Association and the Stockport Card, Blowing and Ring Room Operatives' Association to form the South East Lancashire and Cheshire Textile Operatives' Association.

General Secretaries
1887: John White
1888: William Henry Carr
1940: T. Yates
c.1960: Roy Bennett

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Manaranjan fort is one of the two hill forts that constitute the Rajmachi fortification, the other being Shrivardhan Fort. It is located in Rajmachi village which 8.5 km from Lonavala in the Sahyadris mountain range. Manaranjan fort is 2700 feet high which makes it lower than the neighbouring Shreevardhan fort. It has three gates and large ramparts. From here Karnala fort can be seen. There are some water tanks at the summit.

References

Forts in Pune district

Manaranjan Fort


An oblique wing (also called a slewed wing) is a variable geometry wing concept. On an aircraft so equipped, the wing is designed to rotate on center pivot, so that one tip is swept forward while the opposite tip is swept aft. By changing its sweep angle in this way, drag can be reduced at high speed (with the wing swept) without sacrificing low speed performance (with the wing perpendicular). This is a variation on the classic swing-wing design, intended to simplify construction and retain the center of gravity as the sweep angle is changed.

History
The oldest examples of this technology are the unrealized German aircraft projects Blohm & Voss P.202 and Messerschmitt Me P.1009-01 from the year 1944, based on a Messerschmitt patent. After the war, constructor Dr. Richard Vogt was brought to the US during Operation Paperclip.
The oblique wing concept was resurrected by Robert T. Jones, an aeronautical engineer at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Analytical and wind tunnel studies initiated by Jones at Ames indicated that a transport-size oblique-wing aircraft, flying at speeds up to Mach 1.4 (1.4 times the speed of sound), would have substantially better aerodynamic performance than aircraft with more conventional wings.

In the 1970s, an unmanned propeller-driven aircraft was constructed and tested at Moffett Field. Known as the NASA Oblique Wing, the project pointed out a craft's unpleasant characteristics at large sweep angles.

So far, only one manned aircraft, the NASA AD-1, has been built to explore this concept. It flew a series of flight tests starting in 1979. This aircraft demonstrated a number of serious roll-coupling modes and further experimentation ended.

Theory
The general idea is to design an aircraft that performs with high efficiency as the Mach number increases from takeoff to cruise conditions (M ~ 0.8, for a commercial aircraft). Since two different types of drag dominate in each of these two flight regimes, uniting high performance designs for each regime into a single airframe is problematic.

At low Mach numbers induced drag dominates drag concerns. Airplanes during takeoff and gliders are most concerned with induced drag. One way to reduce induced drag is to increase the effective wingspan of the lifting surface. This is why gliders have such long, narrow wings. An ideal wing has infinite span and induced drag is reduced to a two–dimensional property. At lower speeds, during takeoffs and landings, an oblique wing would be positioned perpendicular to the fuselage like a conventional wing to provide maximum lift and control qualities. As the aircraft gained speed, the wing would be pivoted to increase the oblique angle, thereby reducing the drag due to wetted area, and decreasing fuel consumption.

Alternatively, at Mach numbers increasing towards the speed of sound and beyond, wave drag dominates design concerns. As the aircraft displaces the air, a sonic wave is generated. Sweeping the wings away from the nose of the aircraft can keep the wings aft of the sonic wave, greatly reducing drag. Unfortunately, for a given wing design, increasing sweep decreases the aspect ratio. At high speeds, both subsonic and supersonic, an oblique wing would be pivoted at up to 60 degrees to the aircraft's fuselage for better high-speed performance. The studies showed these angles would decrease aerodynamic drag, permitting increased speed and longer range with the same fuel expenditure.

Fundamentally, it appears that no design can be completely optimized for both flight regimes. However, the oblique wing shows promise of getting close. By actively increasing sweep as Mach number increases, high efficiency is possible for a wide range of speeds.

It is theorized that an oblique flying wing could drastically improve commercial air transportation, reducing fuel costs and noise in the vicinity of airports. Military operations include the possibility of a long–endurance fighter/attack vehicle.

NASA OFW airliner research
There have been investigations into an OFW platform being developed into a transcontinental airliner. NASA Ames performed a preliminary design study of a theoretical 500-seat supersonic airliner using the concept in 1991. Following this study, NASA built a small remote-controlled demonstrator aircraft with a 20-foot (6.1m) wingspan. It flew only once, for four minutes in May 1994, but in doing so, it demonstrated stable flight with oblique wing sweep from 35 degrees to 50 degrees. Despite this success, the NASA High Speed Research program, and further oblique wing studies, were canceled.

DARPA Oblique Flying-Wing (OFW) Project
The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Northrop Grumman a $10.3 million (USD) contract for risk reduction and preliminary planning for an X-plane OFW demonstrator, known as the Switchblade. That program was eventually cancelled, citing difficulties with control systems.

The program aimed at producing a technology demonstrator aircraft to explore the various challenges which the radical design entails. The proposed aircraft would be a pure flying wing (an aircraft with no other auxiliary surfaces such as tails, canards or a fuselage) where the wing is swept with one side of the aircraft forward, and one backwards in an asymmetric fashion. This aircraft configuration is believed to give it a combination of high speed, long range and long endurance. The program entailed two phases. Phase I was to explore the theory and result in a conceptual design, while Phase II covered the design, manufacture and flight test of an aircraft. The program hoped to produce a dataset that can then be used when considering future military aircraft designs.

Wind tunnel tests for the aircraft design have been completed. The design was noted to be "workable and robust."

See also
 Asymmetrical aircraft
 Circular wing

References

Further reading
 Thinking Obliquely, Larrimer, Bruce I., NASA (2013)

External links
 Oblique Flying Wings: An Introduction and White Paper - Desktop Aeronautics, Inc., 2005

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Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever (Rodale Books, ) is a book authored by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman published in 2004. The basic premise of the book is that if middle aged people can live long enough, until approximately 120 years, they will be able to live forever—as humanity overcomes all diseases and old age itself. This might also be considered a break-even scenario where developments made during a year increase life expectancy by more than one year. Biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey called this the "Longevity escape velocity" in a 2005 TED talk.

The book focuses primarily on health topics such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. It promotes lifestyle changes such as a low glycemic index diet, calorie restriction, exercise, drinking green tea and alkalinized water, and other changes to daily living. They also promote aggressive supplementation to make up for nutrient deficiencies they believe are common in Western society.  In contrast to his previous book The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life, in which he recommended a diet with 10% of calories from fat, in this book, Kurzweil recommends consuming less than one third of calories from carbohydrates (and less than one sixth of calories in his low-carbohydrate diet) and consuming 25% of calories from fat.

The book states that the purpose of these changes is to obtain and maintain idyllic health so that an individual can extend his or her life as long as possible. The authors believe that within the next 20 to 50 years technology will advance to the point where much of the aging process will be conquered, and degenerative diseases eliminated. The book is peppered with side notes on these futuristic topics, showing how current research is leading us toward life extension, and explaining how future technologies such as nanotechnology and bioengineering might change the way humans live their lives. Ray Kurzweil discusses these topics at further length in his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near.

A follow-up on Fantastic Voyage, Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever, was released on April 28, 2009.

Organization
Chapter 1: You can live long enough to live forever
Chapter 2: The bridges to come
Chapter 3: Our personal journeys
Chapter 4: Food and water
Chapter 5: Carbohydrates and the glycemic load
Chapter 6: Fat and protein
Chapter 7: You are what you digest
Chapter 8: Change your weight for life in one day
Chapter 9: The problem with sugar (and insulin)
Chapter 10: Ray's personal program
Chapter 11: The promise of genomics
Chapter 12: Inflammation—the latest "smoking gun"
Chapter 13: Methylation—critically important to your health
Chapter 14: Cleaning up the mess: Toxins and detoxification
Chapter 15: The real cause of heart disease and how to prevent it
Chapter 16: The prevention and early detection of cancer
Chapter 17: Terry's personal program
Chapter 18: Your brain: The power of thinking...and of ideas
Chapter 19: Hormones and aging, hormones of youth
Chapter 20: Other hormones of youth: Sex hormones
Chapter 21: Aggressive supplementation
Chapter 22: Keep moving: The power of exercise
Chapter 23: Stress and balance
Epilogue

Criticisms
One claim in the book has been called pseudoscientific. Dr. Stephen Lower, retired Professor of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University, disputes some of the book's statements about alkaline water, claiming that "Ionized water" is nothing more than sales fiction; the term is meaningless to chemists." Kurzweil and Grossman counter this specific criticism directly in their Reader Q&A.

See also
 Ending Aging
 Nutrition
 Simulated reality
 Technological singularity
 Millions Now Living Will Never Die

References

External links
 Official website

2004 non-fiction books
Biogerontology
Biomedical engineering
Books about life extension
Books by Ray Kurzweil
Medical books
Rodale, Inc. books
Technology books


Pedogenesis or soil evolution (formation) is how soil is created.

Climate regulates soil formation. Soils develop more in areas with more rainfall and more warmth. The rate of chemical weathering increases by 2-3 times when the temperature increases by 10 degrees Celsius (50°F). Climate also affects which organisms are present, affecting the soil chemically and physically (movement of roots, burrowing by animals).

The organisms living in and on the soil form distinct soil types. Coniferous forests have acidic leaf litter. Mixed or deciduous forests leave a larger layer of humus. Prairies have very high humus accumulation, creating a dark, thick soil.

The rock from which soil is formed is called 'parent material' (bedrock). The main types are: eolian (wind), glacial material, alluvium, lake material other parent materials.

Pedogenesis is the major topic of the science of pedology. Its other aspects include the soil morphology, classification (taxonomy) of soils,  and their distribution in nature.

Related pages
Topography

References
 Buol, Stanley W; F.D. Hole & R.W. McCracken. 1997. Soil genesis and classification. 4th ed, Iowa State Univ. Press, Ames.
 Hole Francis D. & J.B. Campbell. 1985. Soil landscape analysis. Totowa Rowman & Allanheld.

Geology

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Mobile Forces is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rage Software using the Unreal Engine and published by Majesco Entertainment. The core team of Rage Games who developed Mobile Forces went on to become Realtime Worlds.

Gameplay
Mobile Forces is a first person shooter game where battles against the opposing team or against other players happen to win matches. Game features two singleplayer modes - Missions and Skirmish. In the former, players are required to excel at a set number of game styles in order to unlock further maps on which to play. Within each next map, bot difficulty level rises up and goes through seven bot skill levels. Skirmish game mode allows to play custom matches.

Mobile Forces has eight different game modes:
Deathmatch - the goal of this game style is to eliminate players in the map.
Team Deathmatch - similar to Deathmatch, only played in teams - Red and Blue.
Captains - in this game mode each team gets a captain and it is needed to kill opposing team's leader in order to score a point.
Capture the flag - in this game type both teams have to steal each other's flags in order to win.
Holdout - this game mode has a resemblance to the King of the Hill style. Specifically, one team is tasked with defending a beacon on a map, which the aggressor team must take within a period of time to win.
Detonation - in this game style members of both sides scramble to acquire a keycard located centrally in the map, which must then be taken to a console in the opposing team's base to activate an explosive device to score.
Safe Cracker - this game type involves the infiltration of the enemy team's base where it is needed to open the safe and retrieve the loot. After the match attackers and defenders switch between each other.
Trailer - the use of vehicles is integral to success in this team game style, requiring players to drive explosive-laden units into the base of their opponents in order to get points.

Unlike the games Counter-Strike and Unreal Tournament, Mobile Forces features its own weapon system. On the spawn, the loadout screen is given with a selection of armament and armoury. The more lethal weapons are taken from loadout (e. g. rocket launcher or the heavy machinegun), the less it is left for the life preserving sundries of body armor and adrenaline shots. Full equip tends to have an effect to player's speed of movement (slow movement).

The game also introduces a combination of vehicle and FPS gameplay what was the rarity at the time the game was released.

Development
By the time the studio was set up, Rage team had to make a game, they were uncertain what it will be. The crew made many titles, so they were sure that they will come out with something. The desire was to make a FPS game, so Rage team signed a license for Unreal Engine and started working on Mobile Forces.

The reason Rage team chose to work on Unreal Engine was that many good games were created by that time using the software: "We chose to use Unreal Technology because it's a well proven system that many good games have been built on. There are several "proven" systems but none as consistent as Unreal. And we wanted some of that." said Daniel Leyden in the Gamefaction.com interview.

The main inspiration was the game Codename Eagle. As it featured a bunch of great implementations in that time, the game wasn't focused on anything else (e.g. single player and multiplayer gameplay, AI) and Rage wanted not to repeat the same mistake (keep the elements in the game balanced).

It took 18 months to create the game (started at the end of the year 2000).

References

External links
Official Majesco Entertainment Website

2002 video games
First-person shooters
Unreal Engine games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games
Windows-only games
Rage Games games
Majesco Entertainment games
Multiplayer and single-player video games

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Neal Mohan (born 1973) is an Indian American business executive who is the current chief executive officer of YouTube.

Mohan was born in Lafayette, Indiana. He spent most of his childhood growing up in the United States before moving to India during adolescence. By the 1990s, he moved back to the US and attended Stanford University. Following his graduation in 1996, he worked at Accenture, before joining a startup called NetGravity. He swiftly became a prominent figure within the company.

After returning to Stanford in 2003 to pursue his MBA, Net Gravity's parent company, DoubleClick, which had acquired the company in 1997, began to undergo serious issues stemming from another 1999 acquisition of Abacus Direct; this ultimately led to the merger being effectively annulled. Mohan was enlisted by David Rosenblatt, who had become DoubleClick's new CEO in the wake of the split, to work at the company in 2005. Together, they reoriented the company, devising a plan said to still have an influence on Google's operations.

DoubleClick was acquired by Google in 2007, an acquisition largely oriented by Google executive Susan Wojcicki. She and Mohan extensively worked together for the next fifteen years. In 2015, Mohan became CPO of YouTube, which Wojcicki headed as CEO. Throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s, he spearheaded much of the company's ventures, such as YouTube TV, YouTube Music, YouTube Premium, YouTube Shorts, and YouTube NFTs. Upon Wojcicki's resignation in February 2023, he succeeded her as CEO of YouTube.

Early life
Neal Mohan was born in 1973 in Lafayette, Indiana into a Hindu family of Indian Tamil origin. He grew up in the U.S state of Michigan, as well as in Florida, before briefly spending a few more years in India during high school at St. Francis' College. At some point between then and the 1990s, Mohan moved back to the United States. He attended Stanford University, graduating in 1996 with a degree in electrical engineering.

Career

Accenture and NetGravity
After graduation, Mohan worked at Accenture, then owned by Arthur Andersen. In 1997, he joined a startup called NetGravity, becoming a key figure in the company's operations and greatly expanding its prominence.

DoubleClick
In 1997, NetGravity was acquired by DoubleClick. Mohan moved from California to the company's headquarters in New York. In the next several years, he gradually became more involved in central business affairs within the company, with DoubleClick relying on him for cutting costs in the wake of the burst of the dot-com bubble. He became the vice president of business operations.

In 2003, he returned to Stanford to pursue his MBA. While he was at Stanford, DoubleClick began to face serious issues stemming from its acquisition of Abacus Direct in 1999. The merger was de facto annulled by Hellman & Friedman, who acquired DoubleClick and split off Abacus Direct from it. Hellman & Friedman requested that longtime executive David Rosenblatt become CEO of DoubleClick in the wake of the company's partition. Rosenblatt accepted this offer and also enlisted Mohan after he acquired his MBA in 2005, under Mohan's conditions that he would stay in California.

Together, Rosenblatt and Mohan devised a plan to orient DoubleClick towards being a company vested upon advertising exchange, core ad technology situations, and an extensive ad network. This plan was outlined in a 400-slide PowerPoint presentation, said by those who created or have seen it to still have influence on current business plans by Google. The plan was presented to the board of DoubleClick and Hellman & Friedman in December 2005, who approved it.

Google

On April 13, 2007, Google agreed to acquire DoubleClick for US$3.1 billion. Google executive Susan Wojcicki largely orchestrated this action. For the next 15 years, she worked extensively with Mohan, who formally joined Google in 2007, playing a key role in the integration process with DoubleClick. While at Google, Mohan managed the company's 2010 US$85 million acquisition of Invite Media. Before moving to YouTube, he was senior vice president of display and video ads at Google.

In 2011, Rosenblatt, who was now a board member of Twitter, attempted to hire Mohan as chief product officer. Though Mohan nearly accepted, Google paid him US$100 million to remain at the company. A former Facebook senior executive also stated that he attempted to hire Mohan while he was at Google.

YouTube

Mohan joined YouTube (a Google subsidiary) in 2015 as Chief Product Officer. During his time at the company, he managed a number of its marquees throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s, including YouTube Music, YouTube TV, YouTube Premium, YouTube Shorts, and YouTube NFTs. Following September 2020, Mohan appeared before Congress and participated in a White House summit, during which he introduced a new content moderation policy for YouTube aimed at addressing violent extremist content on the platform. This policy expanded upon previous ones targeting groups such as ISIS, by prohibiting content that glorified violence or sought to recruit or fundraise for extremist organizations, regardless of whether the content was directly associated with a designated terrorist group. Concurrently, YouTube initiated a media literacy campaign to assist viewers, particularly younger ones, in recognizing manipulation techniques employed in the dissemination of misinformation.

On February 16, 2023, Mohan was selected to succeed Susan Wojcicki as YouTube's CEO.

Other ventures
Mohan has also worked with Microsoft and currently sits on the boards of Stitch Fix and 23andMe.

Personal life
Mohan is married to Hema Sareen Mohan, who has worked in the non-profit and public welfare sectors for two decades. He married his wife while in New York during his time working for DoubleClick.

References

External links
 Neal Mohan on Twitter

American chief executives
American people of Indian Tamil descent
Living people
Businesspeople from Indiana
1973 births
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
People from Lafayette, Indiana
20th-century American businesspeople
21st-century American businesspeople
Google people
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Neal Mohan


Bailey Island Library Hall (locally just Library Hall) is a historic community building at 2167 Harpswell Island Road, on Bailey Island in Harpswell, Maine.  Built in 1911–12, it has been a center of community life on the island since its construction, and is a notable architectural work of the New York City architectural firm Mann & MacNeille.  Originally built to house a lending library and social hall, it now only serves the latter function.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 31, 2008.

Description and history
Library Hall is located roughly in the center of Bailey Island, on the east side of Harpswell Island Road (Maine State Route 24).  It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, clapboard siding, and a fieldstone foundation.  A shed-roofed porch extends across the west side, supported by square posts with small capitals.  The main facade has three pairs of French doors, evenly spaced, providing access to the hall, and there are three round-topped dormers in the main roof, which is capped by a small cupola with belfry.  The east side of the building has a shed-roof ell extending across much of its width.  Palladian windows are set on the building's north and south sides.  The interior of the main block is a large hall, with the kitchen located in the rear ell.  One end of the hall has a stage set under a proscenium arch.

The hall was designed by the New York City firm of Mann & MacNeille, whose principals, Horace Mann and Perry MacNeille, were both summer residents of Bailey Island.  The design was made in 1909 and the hall was built in 1911-12.  It was made as a conscious imitation of the main house at Mount Vernon in Virginia, reflecting the then-popular Georgian Revival in architecture.  The building served as a model for later community hall buildings the architects designed for several industrial working-class communities.

The hall was built in part to provide a library to the local islanders, who were separated from the nearest library on Orr's Island by a ferry crossing that was not bridged until the construction in 1928 of the Bailey Island Bridge.  The Mingo Club, a local social and literary society established in 1906 to manage a local lending library, was responsible for raising funds and maintaining the property.  The hall was used for a wide variety of social functions, including lectures, dances, and concerts.  Psychoanalyst Carl Jung gave his first seminar in America, on dreams, at Library Hall.  By 1961 the Mingo Club's lending library had been discontinued; the hall continues to serve as a local event venue under the auspices of the Bailey Island Library Hall Association.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, Maine

References

Public libraries in Maine
Bailey Island (Maine)
Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
Libraries in Cumberland County, Maine
National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, Maine
Library buildings completed in 1912

Bailey Island Library Hall


In Greek mythology, Procris  (, gen.: Πρόκριδος) was an Athenian princess, the third daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens and his wife, Praxithea. Homer mentions her in the Odyssey as one of the many dead spirits Odysseus saw in the Underworld. Sophocles wrote a tragedy called Procris that has been lost, as has a version contained in the Greek Cycle, but at least six different accounts of her story still exist.

Family
Procris's sisters were Creusa, Oreithyia, Chthonia, Protogeneia, Pandora and Merope while her brothers were Cecrops, Pandorus, Metion, and possibly Orneus, Thespius, Eupalamus and Sicyon. She married Cephalus, the son of King Deioneus of Phocis.

Mythology

Pherecydes
The earliest version of Procris' story comes from Pherecydes of Athens. Cephalus remains away from home for eight years because he wanted to test Procris. When he returns, he seduces her while disguised. Although reconciled, Procris suspects that her husband has a lover because he is often away hunting. A servant tells her that Cephalus called to Nephele (a cloud) to come to him. Procris follows him the next time he goes hunting and leaps out of the thicket when she hears him call out to Nephele again. He is startled and thinking that she is a wild animal, shoots her with an arrow and kills her.

Ovid

Early version
Ovid tells the end of the story a bit differently in the third of his books on The Art of Love. No goddesses are mentioned in this earlier published work, a cautionary tale against credulity. After hunting, Cephalus calls for a breeze (Zephyr or Aura) to cool him as he lies in the shade.

Overhearing a comment to Procris, a busybody reports what he heard to Procris, who grew pale with terror that her husband loved another, and hastened in fury to the valley, then crept silently to the forest where Cephalus hunted. When she saw him flop on the grass to cool himself and call, to Zephyr to come relieve him, Procris realized that what she had taken to be the name of a lover was merely a name for the air and nothing more. Joyfully she rose to fling herself into his arms, but hearing a rustling of foliage, Cephalus shot an arrow at what he thought would be a wild beast in the brush. Dying, the woman laments that the breeze by whose name she was deceived would now carry away her spirit, and her husband weeps, holding her in his arms.

Late version
In Ovid's later account, the goddess of the dawn, Eos (Aurora to the Romans) seizes Cephalus while he is hunting, but Cephalus begins to pine for Procris. A disgruntled Eos returns Cephalus to his wife, but offers to show Cephalus how easily Procris would be seduced by another stranger. He therefore goes home in disguise. He pushes Procris to "hesitate" by promising her money before claiming that she is unfaithful. Procris flees to take up the pursuits of Diana, and is later persuaded to return to her husband, bringing him a magical spear and a hunting dog as gifts. Ovid emphasizes that Cephalus (who is the narrator of the events) dares not say how he acquired the dog and the javelin from Procris, hinting that Cephalus himself was seduced and tricked in the same manner as he did Procris, like in the versions Antoninus Liberalis and Hyginus related. The transformation scene centers on the dog, which always catches its quarry, and the uncatchable fox; Jupiter turns them into stone.

The tale resumes with a similar ending to that of Pherecydes, as Procris is informed of her husband's calling out to "Aura", the Latin word for breeze, which sounds similar to Eos' Roman equivalent Aurora. Cephalus kills her by accident when she stirs in the bushes nearby, upset at his beseeching of "beloved Aura" to "come into his lap and give relief to his heat". Procris dies in his arms after begging him not to let Aura take her place as his wife. He explains to her that it was 'only the breeze' and she seems to die at ease.

Apollodorus, Hyginus, and Antoninus
The Bibliotheca gives an entirely different characterization of Procris. It states that Procris was bribed with a golden crown to sleep with Pteleon, but was discovered in his bed by her husband. She is described as fleeing to King Minos, who had been cursed by his wife Pasiphaë to ejaculate scorpions, serpents and centipedes that killed his mistresses from the inside. Procris was said to have helped cure the king of his genital sickness with a circean herb. She was given a dog no quarry could escape and an infallible javelin. The Bibliotheca states that she gave the dog and javelin to Cephalus and they were reconciled.

Hyginus (who states that the dog and javelin are gifts from the goddess Artemis) and Antoninus Liberalis, however, write that she disguised herself as a boy and seduced her husband, so that he too was guilty, and they were reconciled. According to the latter, Minos' unexplained disease not only killed his mistresses, but also prevented him and Pasiphaë from having any children (Pasiphaë herself was not otherwise harmed, being an immortal daughter of Helios). Procris then inserted a goat's bladder in a woman, told Minos to ejaculate there, and after that she sent him to his wife; the couple was thus able to conceive, and Minos gave his spear and his dog as gratitude gifts to her.

Unlike the other versions, Hyginus omits Cephalus' abduction by Eos; instead he rejects her when she propositions him, and she replies that she does not want him to break his marital vows unless Procris has. She then disguises him as a stranger who successfully seduces Procris. When they lie together in bed, Eos removes the enchantment from him, and Procris, realizing she has been deceived by Eos, flees in shame. After their reunion, Procris follows Cephalus in secret out of fear of Eos.

The dog and the fox
The name of the dog is Laelaps. The story of the hunting of the Teumessian fox, which could never be caught, and that Zeus turned to stone along with Procris' dog when the dog hunted it, and the death of Procris were told in one of the lost early Greek epics of the Cycle, most probably the Epigoni.

Medieval tradition
Procris' story is included in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in 136162. It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature.

Notes

References

 Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.

 Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
 Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
 Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

 Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Lives with an English Translation by Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
 Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
 Publius Ovidius Naso, The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) translated by A.S. Kline. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
 Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
 Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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Alfred Kirke Ffrench wis a recipient o the Victoria Cross, the heichmaist an maist presteegious awaird for gallantry afore the fae that can be awairdit tae Breetish an Commonweel forces.

Ffrench wis twenty-twa year auld, an a Lieutenand in the 53d Regiment o Fit (later The Keeng's Shropshire Licht Infantry) o the Breetish Airmy in throu the Indian Mutiny, whan he performed the deed that he wis awairded the V.R. for.  On 16t November 1857 at Lucknow, Indie, Lieutenand Ffrench wis in chairge o the Grenadier Company, an guide yerselt wi kenspeckle bravery at the taein o the Secundra Bagh. He wis ane o the foremaist tae gang intil the biggin. Efter thon he ris tae the rank o Caiptain.

His Victoria Cross is shawn at The Keeng's Shropshire Licht Infantry Museum in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Ingland.

Fremmit airtins
Location of grave and VC medal  (Brompton Cemetery)

Inglis fowk
Victoria Cross

Alfred Kirke Ffrench


Vladimir Krakov (born 17 June 1970 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a pen-name of Serbian writer and rock musician Vladimir Marković.

Music
Krakov formed Presing along with Zoran Radovic at the age of 20, and very soon became appreciated for his specific manner of guitar playing and harmony treatment, being influenced to some extent by works and way of thinking of such authors as Glenn Branca, Brian Eno and Robert Fripp.
Krakov released three albums with Presing, one with Tornado Ptice and one with Xanax. He also contributed as an author with Menson Benson Sextet, Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša and as an author of applied music for movies and television.

Literature
In his first book "In a Train to Disneyland" (U vozu za Diznilend, SKC, Belgrade 1994), along with short stories, Krakov also published his essay on theory of poetry "Return of Poetry to Singing", in which he claimed that poetry which exists only in written form reminds of a "once powerful tribe which now scrapes in reservation". He advocated the singing as a natural incarnation of poetry, which should reemerge as more appreciated model, while "pencil" poetry should remain what musical notation is to music.

Having for a long time favored music over literature, he only sporadically wrote and published short stories in periodicals. His first novel "King of Mosquitoes" was written and published in English by an independent publisher 6th Colone (6de Kolonne) from Eindhoven, and later re-written as a significantly different novel in Serbian with the same title and motifs. "King of Mosquitoes is a skilfully narrated story about the Serbian generation X, colored by a blend of brilliant streetwise humor and sudden trips to phantasmagoria," (Richard Byrne New York Press 10 December 2002).

Only in 2011 Krakov decided to continue his writing career, having finished his second novel "House That Lessens" (Kuća koja se smanjuje, Stubovi kulture, Belgrade 2012). After one of the major publishing houses in Post-Yugoslav region Stubovi Kulture (Pillars of Culture) announced that Krakov contracted with them, the author proclaimed having started working on his next novel titled "Voice-over", to be also released in 2012.

Discography and bibliography

 Presing "Priča o totemu, duhu koji hoda, psu i razočaranoj ženi" (1992)
 Presing "600 nebo" (2002)
 Presing "Zanos bez snova" (2006)
 Presing "Neurokrem" (2014)
 Presing "Povratak u krntiju" (2021)
 Tornado ptice "Prozračno poslepodne" (1995)
 Kanda Kodža i Nebojša "Igračka plačka" (1996)
 Menson Benson Sextet "Sharpening the Milestone" (2000)
 Xanax "Ispod površine" (2012)
 "U vozu za Diznilend" (1994)
 "King of Mosquitoes" (2002)
 "Kralj komaraca" (2006)
 "Kuća koja se smanjuje" (2012)

References

External links
 http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=4676
 http://www.b92.net/kultura/vesti.php?nav_category=272&yyyy=2006&mm=11&dd=01&nav_id=220812
 http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=6462

Serbian rock musicians
1970 births
Living people
Musicians from Belgrade

Vladimir Krakov


Misery Inc. wis a Finnish metal baund, which wis formed in Myrskylä, Finland, October 2001. First there wis Janne (guitar), Jukka (bass), Jonttu (drums) an Jukkis (vocals). Their oreeginal plan wis tae make muisic athoot ony lead guitars but then it turned oot tae be a bit boring. Teemu joined the baund an so Misery Inc. wur complete.

Debut album "Yesterday's Grave" wis released through ZYX Music 2003. It received amazin feedback frae metal media aw ower an made the baund's name kent in metal scene. Summer 2005 MI signed a deal wi Firebox Records an on Februar 2006 MI proudly present the seicont album "Random End" which really proves that Misery Inc. haes foond their style an are stranger than iver, showin hou their misery is formed intae kick-ass riffs, catchy melodies, an strang vocals - aw in vera melancholic an moody fashion. In 2007 Misery Inc. inked a deal wi Finnish record label Johanna Kustannus (Megamania), and third album Breedgreedbreed wis released on October 10, 2007.

On September 15 Misery Inc. informs that Misery Inc. haes come tae an end due tae mony member chynges.

Members

Niko Mankinen - vocals (2005–2008)
Mikko Herranen - vocals (2008)
Janne Tolonen - guitar (2001–2008)
Teemu Ylämäki - guitar (2001–2008)
Aki Heikinheimo - bass (2005–2008)
Joonas Kauppinen - drums (2001–2008)

Umwhile members

Jukkis Huuhtanen - vocals (2001–2005)
Jukka Keisala - bass (2001–2005)
Jules Näveri - vocals (2004–2007)
Tommi Niemi - vocals (2007)

Discography
Yesterday's Grave (ZYX Music, 2003)
Random End (Firebox Records, 2006)
Modern Day Human Waste CDS (Johanna Kustannus (Megamania), 2007)
Breedgreedbreed (Johanna Kustannus (Megamania), 2007)
Yesterday's Grave Re-Issue (Firebox Records, 2008)

Muisic videos

 "Fallen Rage" (2006, directit bi Jani Saajanaho)

External links
 Official website
 Record Label's website
 Official MySpace site

Finnish hivy metal muisical groups
Muisical groups established in 2001
Muisical groups disestablished in 2008
Muisical sextets

Misery Inc.


A mobile device is an electronic device which its user can easily carry with them. Typical examples are a mobile phone, PDA and handheld game consoles.  Mobile devices do not need an external power supply to work.  Usually, they have a battery to hold electricity to work without electric wires.  A user can change, send and move data by connecting to a modem or cable, or more often wirelessly.

Uses for these devices include reading and writing e-mails, surfing in the internet and listening to music. Smartphones, tablets and similar complicated mobile devices can run computer programs including computer games, and have many of the functions of a desktop PC.

Examples of mobile devices

 Palmtop
 PDA - Personal digital assistant
 Cell phone
 Pocket PC
 Smartphone
 Tablet computer
 Smartwatch
 Bluetooth headset

Categories
Mobile devices can be classified by size and capabilities:
 With small, text-screen. May be used to write short messages. 20th century mobile phones were like this.
 With medium screen and runs mobile operating system. Examples: Smartphone, E-reader.
 With big screen and runs desktop operating system. Examples: laptops, some tablets.

Related pages
 Mobile operating system
 Symbian OS
 Windows Mobile
 Android Mobile
 iOS Mobile

Telecommunications
Computer hardware

Mobile device


The branches of the armed forces of Bhutan are the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA), Royal Bodyguards, and Royal Bhutan Police. Bhutan does not have an air force, nor (being a landlocked country) a navy. India is responsible for military training, arms supplies and the air defense of Bhutan. Bhutan's army is trained by the Indian Armed Forces.

Air support
The RBA relies on the Eastern Air Command of the Indian Air Force for air assistance. In recent years India has helped Bhutan start to develop its military in all areas through military donations and training. Total 8,000 Army personnel. Historically, on 1 of January 1971 the Government of Bhutan decided to increase military personnel to 4,850 by recruiting additional 600-700 recruits and stricter regulations on liberation from service. Indian Air Force helicopters evacuated RBA casualties to India for treatment during Operation All Clear in 2003.

References

CIA World Factbook (2010)

Military of Bhutan


A cryptographic anchor (also "crypto-anchor") is a unique identifier (or "fingerprint") that can be put into products and cannot be removed or changed.  Crypto-anchors can be tiny computers or optical codes.  This means they can even be put into a dye.  The cryptographic anchor is connected to a blockchain.  Its uses include prevention or detection of fraud as well as product tracing.

IBM has worked on developing cryptographic anchors.  Proposed uses include labeling a pill (the code for the dye would become visible when touched with water) and marking fluids.  The reason for using these anchors is to ensure the authenticity of products.  The suggested cost of these tiny  (smaller than a salt grain) items was projected at less than ten U.S. cents.

Giulio Prisco  wrote that "The cryptographic anchors project is considered a starting point for developing technologies complementary to the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain solutions for medical devices and pharmaceutical products, able to provide scalable end-to-end security across a supply chain — from the manufacturers right down to consumers and patients.

"A typical application envisioned by IBM is fighting product fraud. IBM's crypto-anchors can authenticate a product's origin and contents, ensuring it matches the record stored in the blockchain."

Prisco wrote that in 2018 IBM was predicting widespread use within five years.

References

Further reading

V. S. K. Balagurusamy et al., "Crypto anchors," in IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 63, no. 2/3, pp. 4:1-4:12, March-May 2019, doi: 10.1147/JRD.2019.2900651

Crypto Anchors

Technology

Cryptographic anchor


Bangla Academy Literary Award is given by Bangla Academy for contribution in the field of Bengali language and literature.

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year from 2010 to 2019 is given.

2010
 Rubi Rahman (poetry)
 Nasir Ahmed (poetry)
 Bulbul Chowdhury (folk literature)
 Khan Sarwar Murshid (essay and research)
 Ajoy Roy (science and technology)
 Shahjahan Kibria (juvenile literature)

2011
 Ashim Shaha (poetry)
 Kamal Chowdhury (poetry)
 Anisul Hoque (folk literature)
 Abdullah Abu Sayeed (essay)
 Biswajit Ghosh (research)
 Khaliquzzaman Ilias (translation)
 Belal Muhammad (literature on liberation war affairs)
 Baren Chakrabarti (travel story)
 Ali Ajgar (science, technology and environment)
 Akhter Hossain (juvenile literature)

2012
 Sanaul Haque Khan (poetry)
 Abid Anwar (poetry)
 Harishanker Jaldas (folk literature)
 Sanat Kumar Saha (essay)
 Khondokar Sirajul Haque (research)
 Fakrul Alam (translation)
 Mahbub Alam (Liberation War-related writings)
 Tapan Chakrabarty (science, technology and environment)
 Mahbub Talukder (juvenile literature)

2013
 Helal Hafiz (poetry)
 Purabi Basu (folk literature)
 Mofidul Haq (essay)
 Jamil Chowdhury (research)
 Provangshu Tripura (research)
 Kaiser Haq (translation)
 Harun Habib (Liberation War-related writings)
 Mahfuzur Rahman (autobiography and travel story)
 Shahidul Islam (science, technology and environment)
 Kaiser Chowdhury (juvenile literature)
 Aslam Sunny (juvenile literature)

2014
 Shihab Sarkar (poetry)
 Zakir Talukder (fiction)
 Shantanu Kaiser (essay)
 Bhuyian Iqbal (research)
 Abu Mohammad Delwar Hossain (literature on liberation war)
 Moynus Sultan (travel story)
 Khaleque bin Zainuddin (juvenile literature)

2015
 Altaf Hossain (poetry)
 Shaheen Akhtar (fiction)
 Abul Momen (essay)
 Atiur Rahman (essay)
 Moniruzzaman (research)
 Abdus Selim (translation)
 Tajul Mohammad (literature on liberation war)
 Faruq Ahmed Choudhury (biography and travel story)
 Masum Reza (drama)
 Sharif Khan (science, technology and environment)
 Sujan Barua (juvenile literature)

2016
 Abu Hasan Shahriar (poetry)
 Shahaduzzaman (fiction)
 Morshed Shafiul Hasan (essay and research)
 Niaz Zaman (translation)
 MA Hasan (literature on the liberation war)
 Noorjahan Bose (autobiography/memoir)
 Rashed Rouf (juvenile literature)

Lists of award winners

List of Bangla Academy Literary Award winners (2010s)


Bernard Cohen (born 1963) is an Australian writer, the author of five novels, a book of short stories and a children's picture book.

Career

Cohen's first novel, Tourism, was published in 1992. The Blindman's Hat won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1996. Cohen's fifth novel, The Antibiography of Robert F Menzies, won the inaugural Russell Prize for Humour Writing. Cohen's short stories have been widely anthologised, including in the Penguin Century of Australian Stories, Best Australian Stories 2002 and 2009 and Picador New Writing. His first collection of short stories, When I Saw the Animal (UQP), was published in 2018. From 1990 to 1991 he was co-editor of the literary journal Editions Review.

In 2006 Cohen founded The Writing Workshop, which runs creative writing programs for children in New South Wales, and online.

Awards

 2015 Russell Prize for Humour Writing for The Antibiography of Robert F Menzies
 1996 The Australian / Vogel Literary Award for The Blindman's Hat
 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian novelist (3 times: 1996 [for Tourism], 1997 [for The Blindman's Hat], 1998 [for Snowdome]
 2001 Arts Council England Writer's Award
 1997 Alumnus of the Year University of Technology, Sydney
 1986 Winner, Canberra Times Short Story of the Year (under 25 year-old category).

Bibliography
Novels
 Tourism (Picador, Sydney, 1992)
 The Blindman's Hat (Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1997)
 Snowdome (Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1998)
 Hardly Beach Weather (HarperCollins, Sydney, 2002)
 The Antibiography of Robert F Menzies (Fourth Estate, Sydney, 2013), winner of the Russell Prize.

Children's book
 Paul Needs Specs, illustrated by Geoff Kelly (Penguin, Melbourne, 2003; Kane/Miller, La Jolla, California 2004; Booxen, Seoul, 2011)

Other publications
 Speedfactory co-authored with John Kinsella, McKenzie Wark and Terri-ann White (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2002)
 Foreign Logics CD-ROM, collaboration with David Bickerstaff (DA2 digital arts development agency, Bristol 2001; Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA London) New Media work of the month, September 2001)
 Analects zine co-authored with Brent Clough (self-published, Sydney, 1988)
When I Saw The Animal (short story collection, 2018)

References

1963 births
20th-century Australian novelists
20th-century Australian male writers
21st-century Australian novelists
Australian male novelists
Australian children's writers
Living people
21st-century Australian male writers

Bernard Cohen (Australian author)


Alexandra "Kissie" Nilsson (born Alexandra Barbara Nilsson, 18 April 1991) is a Swedish blogger and television personality.   She has two siblings, who are younger than her.

She started her blog in January 2007. In 2011, she had the most visited blog in Sweden with about 170,000 visitors.  She also has a Youtube channel called Alexandra "Kissie" Nilsson. It has very many subscribers.

In late summer of 2010, Kissie tried to start a career in music by recording a song, called "Success". It was released a month later. However, the song didn't get very much attention, and most of her readers didn't buy the song. That caused the website that sold "Success" to shut down two weeks after it's publicity.

In autumn 2010, Kissie and her friend were traveling to a Swedish city called Västerås, where they were going to host DJ at a nightclub. She said on her blog that she would meet her readers at the train station, but when she got there, she was attacked by some readers who threw some eggs and flour at her.

References

1991 births
Living people
Swedish bloggers
Swedish television personalities

Alexandra Nilsson


Ellie Parker is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Scott Coffey. It stars Naomi Watts in the title role, a young woman struggling as an actress in Los Angeles. Ellie Parker began as a short film that was screened at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Using a handheld digital camera, writer-director Scott Coffey expanded it into a feature-length film at various times over the next four years. It was finally released in 2005.

Plot
Ellie Parker is the story of an Australian actress struggling to make it in Hollywood. Ellie is young enough to still go to auditions back and forth across Los Angeles, changing wardrobes and slapping on makeup en route, but just old enough that the future feels "more like a threat than a promise". She lives with her vacuous musician boyfriend (Mark Pellegrino), who leaves her just about as dissatisfied as any other part of her life, and has a loose definition of the word "fidelity". Helping make sense of their surreal and humiliating Hollywood existence is her best friend Sam (Rebecca Rigg), another out-of-work actress trying her hand at design, who attends acting classes with Ellie to stay sharp. When Ellie gets into a fender bender with a guy who claims he is a cinematographer (Scott Coffey), her perspective on her work and the dating world starts to change. Chevy Chase also makes an appearance playing Ellie's agent.

Cast
 Naomi Watts as Ellie Parker
 Rebecca Rigg as Sam
 Scott Coffey as Chris
 Mark Pellegrino as Justin
 Chevy Chase as Dennis Swartzbaum
 Jennifer Syme as Casting Chick
 Jessicka as Acting Class Student
 Keanu Reeves as Dogstar bassist (himself)

Production
Watts, Coffey, and Pellegrino all worked together on David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, where Watts had her breakout performance, and Ellie Parker grew out of the friendship forged between Watts and director and screenwriter Coffey. It was shot on digital video over the course of five years, having begun its life as a series of shorts featuring Watts' character.

The film centers on a quote from the prologue to William Shakespeare's Henry V:
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

References

External links

 Ellie Parker trailer

2005 films
2005 comedy-drama films
2005 independent films
2000s satirical films
American comedy-drama films
American independent films
American satirical films
Features based on short films
Films about actors
Films about Hollywood, Los Angeles
Films directed by Scott Coffey
Films set in Los Angeles
Films shot in Los Angeles
2005 directorial debut films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films

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Prey (known as Alien Prey in some markets) is a 1977 British science fiction horror film produced by Terry Marcel and directed by Norman J. Warren. The plot concerns a carnivorous alien (Barry Stokes) landing on Earth and befriending a lesbian couple (Glory Annen and Sally Faulkner) as part of his mission to evaluate humans as a source of food. It was filmed in under two weeks on a budget of less than £60,000 (approximately £ in ) using locations near Shepperton Studios in Surrey. It had a limited distribution on release.

Critical response to the film has been mixed: verdicts range from "odd", "bizarre" or "eccentric" to "ambitious" and "experimental", while the film's "claustrophobic" atmosphere has drawn both praise and criticism. Prey has also attracted commentary for its presentation of conflicting male and female sexuality, with some critics observing similarities to the plot of D.H. Lawrence's 1922 novella The Fox. It has been compared to a vampire or zombie film and has also been cited as an example of the exploitation (or sexploitation) genre. Plans for a sequel, Human Prey, were abandoned.

Plot
At night, a carnivorous, shape-shifting alien named Kator lands in the woods of rural England. The vanguard of an invasion force, his mission is to evaluate the suitability of humans as a source of food for his species. Stumbling across Anderson and Sandy, a couple having a tryst in their parked car, he kills both and assumes the appearance of Anderson. The next morning, he encounters Jessica-Ann and Josephine, a lesbian couple who live in a nearby manor house. Although Jessica owns the property, having inherited it from her Canadian parents, the dominant of the pair is Jo, who is unusually possessive of Jessica and deeply suspicious of men. Simon, Jessica's boyfriend, has mysteriously disappeared. The women are vegetarians and live in seclusion with only a few chickens and a pet parrot, Wally, for company.

Calling himself Anders, and feigning an injured leg, Kator is taken in by Jessica and Jo. His arrival immediately causes friction between the two. Bored of her monotonous existence, Jessica welcomes the stranger's arrival. Jo, however, openly resents his presence and suggests that the socially-awkward Anders is an escapee from a psychiatric hospital (which she is herself). Later, having returned to the spot where he killed Anderson and Sandy, Kator kills and partly devours two policemen who are examining the couple's abandoned car. Back at the house, Jessica finds a knife and bloodstained clothes in a spare bedroom; recognising the latter as Simon's, she realises that he was murdered by Jo.

The next morning, Jo is furious to discover that all the chickens have been slaughtered. Blaming a local fox, she lays traps for the animal and goes after it with a rifle, assisted by Jessica and Kator. When the hunt fails, Kator tracks and kills the fox on his own and presents it to Jessica and Jo as a trophy. The trio celebrate with a champagne party for which Jo dresses Kator in drag. A subsequent game of hide-and-seek brings out more of the hunter in Kator. Later, Jo is disturbed to find the fox carcass stripped bare and realises that the animal was not caught in a trap as she and Jessica thought. Jessica angrily rejects her warnings about Anders, interpreting Jo's fear as jealousy and revealing that she knows the truth about Simon.

The next morning, Jo arms herself with her knife and stalks Kator as he hunts swans on a nearby river. Her attempt to eliminate him is thwarted when she's called for by Jessica, who notices her gone when she wakes up. Kator starts to drown when he walks into the river, alerting Jessica with his screams. Jessica and Jo rescue Kator and take him back to the house. While the two women clean themselves up, Kator kills and consumes Wally, Jessica's bird who he had been eyeing before. Jessica tells Jo that she is no longer willing to be controlled and is leaving with Anders. Outraged, Jo knocks Jessica unconscious and runs into the woods to dig a grave for her. On waking, Jessica seduces Kator. As they start to have sex, Kator's predatory instincts are stirred, causing him to revert to his natural form and tear open Jessica's throat, killing her. Having returned to the house, Jo attempts to flee but falls into the open grave just as Kator catches up with her, and she screams as the scene fades to black.

Some time later, Kator leaves the house and calls his mother ship on an alien transceiver. Hungrily watching two girls walk along the river, he advises his superiors to dispatch more of his kind to Earth.

Cast

Barry Stokes as Kator and Anderson
Glory Annen as Jessica-Ann
Sally Faulkner as Josephine

Sandy Chinney as Sandy
Eddie Stacey as 1st Policeman
Jerry Crampton as 2nd Policeman

Kelly Marcel as Girl (uncredited)
Derek Kavanagh as Radio DJ (voice only; uncredited)

Themes
According to Jim Reed of the Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah, Georgia, Prey "finds unexpected vantage points for subtle commentary on the themes of sexism, love, adultery, betrayal and racism – all within the context of a gay-alien-zombie-vampire gore-fest". Critic Steve Chibnall describes the film as a "dark Darwinian fable" that, while "eccentric and sometimes unintentionally humorous ... offers a serious discourse on the predatory nature of masculinity." Leon Hunt, author of British Low Culture: from Safari Suits to Sexploitation, further analyses the conflict of gender roles and sexualities in Prey. He argues that through the character of Jo, Prey establishes itself as one of a number of 1970s British horror films in which country houses are depicted as places of "dangerous female sexuality – bisexual or lesbian, unstable or jealous, murderous and castrating". In this respect, he considers the film misogynistic. Jo's sexuality is rivalled by Kator's "carnivorous masculinity" – which, as shown during Jessica's death scene, "grows out of the 'natural' sexual play between hunter and prey". Hunt observes that Kator, though a predator, is not invulnerable in this hostile world of femininity: his near-drowning could be seen as a "threatening immersion in the feminine". Noting that Jessica and Jo, as vegetarians, are effectively herbivores who both fall victim to Kator, Hunt describes Prey as a "competing carnivore movie" whose ultimate aim is "gender restoration" at any cost.

For Jeremy Heilman of the Online Film Critics Society, Kator serves as a "blunt metaphor for the threat that male figures pose to lesbian relationships". The film has been compared by both Hunt and critic Ian Cooper to D.H. Lawrence's 1922 novella The Fox, a story of metaphorical predation in which the implied lesbian relationship between two women, Banford and March, is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of a soldier called Henry. According to Hunt, plot elements shared by the two works include the "enclosed world" of the women's chicken farm and the way in which their lifestyle of "homoerotic seclusion" comes under threat – not only from the fox that slaughters their poultry but also from the handsome male stranger whose presence finally leads one of the women into "heterosexual temptation". Cooper suggests that the film also pastiches José Ramón Larraz's film Vampyres (1974).

Adam Locks argues that Prey evokes a "mythic English past" through its characterisation, setting, cinematography and music; these aspects serve to de-emphasise the importance of modern technology and collectively represent a "disavowal of the modern". He believes that the film conveys a strong sense of isolation, noting that the lesbian characters of Jessica and Jo live as social outcasts and that their remote rural home represents "a breakaway from the modern industrial world". According to Locks, the slow-motion drowning scene, which is accompanied by a "dark and brooding" combination of synthesiser and piano, symbolises a "deep anxiety over technological and economic expansion since the 1960s" and constitutes a "hysterical reaction to the intrusiveness of modern cultural change". More broadly, Locks identifies Prey as an example of an English surrealist tradition started by Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and sustained by works such as the TV series The Avengers – which, like Prey, is set in a "mythic" England that bears little relation to the real world.

Production

Development
Prey took a total of ten days to make. The story was conceived by producers Terry Marcel and David Wimbury and developed by Quinn Donoghue. At the start of May 1977, Marcel pitched it to Warren, who was fascinated by the idea and quickly agreed to direct. Warren described the film as his "most hectic" production but also "a lot of fun". Max Cuff, a journalist in his twenties, was hired to write a script based on Marcel and Wimbury's outline. Prey was made on a budget of approximately £50,000 in deferred payments and £3,000 cash.

Warren agreed to shoot the film in ten days starting on 23 May, giving him just three weeks for pre-production. He remembers that during this time "everyone was working flat out – there wasn't any sitting around waiting." The cast were supplied by a single talent agency, which also invested in the film: CCA Management, founded by Howard Pays. Prey was the film debut of Glory Annen, who had graduated from drama school the year before. She and Barry Stokes later appeared in Outer Touch (1979), also directed by Warren. Not all of the cast were professional actors: Sandy Chinney was the girlfriend of the second assistant director, while the two girls who appear in the final scene were played by Marcel's daughters. Due to budget constraints, some of the cast, including Annen, supplied their own wardrobe.

Filming
Marcel provided Warren with a filming slot on the wooded backlot of Shepperton Studios, located on the River Ash. Several scenes feature a bridge that had previously appeared in Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965). In addition, production designer Hayden Pearce secured the use of the manor house in Littleton Park (the studios' original site) to serve as the location of Jessica and Jo's country home. Warren said of the filming arrangements: "This really was quite a unique situation because ... here we were in a studio looking at a real house and real rooms as if shooting on location." The crew were permitted to redecorate the rooms as necessary and, to this end, make use of any of the items in the studios' prop store. Warren states that this resulted in a "crazy" mixture of decors that "certainly helped create the right atmosphere" for the film.

Filming commenced after only half a day's rehearsal and without a finished script; the actors received the rest of their lines in daily dispatches. According to Warren, "dear old Max Cuff was trying to keep up with us. He was writing like mad." Certain scenes were partly or wholly improvised: one example is a sex scene between the characters of Jessica and Jo, which was added mainly to boost the film's overseas distribution prospects. Many of the crew had recently come off the production of The Pink Panther Strikes Again, on which Marcel had served as assistant director. They completed an average of 35 camera set-ups per day, employing hand-held shots whenever they fell behind schedule and filming scenes in no more than three takes to lower costs. Stokes needed injections to ease the discomfort caused by the contact lenses that he was required to wear as part of his alien make-up. The bird Wally was a cockatoo that often refused to perform when needed and squawked loudly off-camera, frequently causing problems with the sound recording. He eventually escaped from his cage and was never seen again.

The outdoor shooting was helped by the weather, which was sunny and warm throughout. This inspired Warren to direct the film in a "leisurely" manner while maintaining an "underlying sense of tension and uncertainty" to create a more shocking finale. Warren considered the premise of the film to be "intimate" and situation-driven, arguing that the light script and small cast allowed the characters to develop naturally as the shooting progressed. Stuntmen Jerry Crampton and Eddie Stacey filmed their scenes in about two hours.

The scene in which Jessica and Jo save Kator from drowning in the river was among the first to be shot and presented difficulties for the crew. The Ash had been used as a waste dump for many years, causing the water to stagnate; according to Warren it looked "more like crude oil". In addition, Annen was unable to swim. To keep Stokes, Annen and Faulkner in the water for as little time as possible, Warren reduced the amount of footage that needed to be shot by having the scene filmed in slow-motion on a high-speed camera. Once out of the water, the actors were given precautionary tetanus injections. Marcel was highly impressed with the footage and insisted that Alan Jones, the film's editor, leave the scene uncut despite Warren's concerns that it was too long. The production ended with the filming of Anderson and Sandy's deaths; this scene was shot night-for-night as the last day's filming had run into the early hours of the next morning.

Music
As the low budget also precluded the use of an orchestra, composer Ivor Slaney devised a synthesised score featuring occasional contributions from traditional instruments (such as a piano) that he recorded himself. Slaney also composed for Warren's next film, Terror (1978). The soundtracks for Prey and Terror were released jointly on CD in 2009.

Post-production
To reduce costs, no alien spacecraft is seen at the start of the film; instead, Kator's arrival is conveyed solely by flashing lights and sound effects.

Release

Censorship
Prey was distributed by Supreme in the UK, where the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) cleared it for cinema release in November 1977. Unspecified cuts were required for the film to be awarded an X certificate. In London, Prey was screened alongside the 1973 Western Charley One-Eye as half of a double feature. The film was re-rated 18 prior to its first home video release in 1986.

Critical response
In a contemporary review, Tom Milne of The Monthly Film Bulletin suggested that the film's "pleasantly outrageous" theme "would have been more appealing treated with the sense of humour loudly called for by its most promising notions". However, he also observed the "attractive settings and photography" and the "very creditable performances" of the lead actors. Over the years, reactions to the film have remained mixed. Kim Newman, writing for Video Watchdog in 2005, describes Prey as the "most minimal of Warren's exploitation films, and among the strangest British movies of all time", arguing that it plays like "a reverse spoof; the material could have been absurd and comical, with a succession of very dark jokes, but the treatment (especially the performances) is serious to the point of solemnity."

In a 2009 review on moviemartyr.com, Jeremy Heilman praises the film, describing it as a "solid B-movie effort", "slyly humorous" and "disturbing". He argues that – partly by necessity, due to its low budget – Prey is more "character-driven" than most other science-fiction horror films, and praises the sustained tension and "distinctive" dynamics of the plot. His one major criticism is the cinematography and editing, which he considers "less than expertly done"; the drowning scene, for example, is prolonged "to the point of unintentional hilarity". Newman and James Marriott, authors of Horror! The Definitive Companion to the Most Terrifying Movies Ever Made, view this sequence as one of several "incomprehensible stylistic flourishes", while Kevin Lyons of the British Film Institute calls it "excruciating". Lyons is nevertheless complimentary of Prey as whole, judging it a "nicely claustrophobic melodrama" and one of several "overlooked" British science-fiction horror films of the 1970s.

Cooper describes Prey as a "defiantly odd low-fi sci-fi film". Writing for the Savannah Morning News, Reed gives a mostly positive assessment: he describes the film as "flawed" yet "ambitious and somewhat mesmerizing", as well as "experimental". Peter Hutchings considers the film "bizarre" but adds that the "sustained seriousness" of Warren's direction and the "doom-filled atmosphere" save Prey from becoming a "piece of camp nonsense". Fred Beldin of AllMovie is critical, summing up Prey as a "dismal, unsettling film" with "occasional arthouse pretensions" that is "difficult to watch even for exploitation fans". He describes the film as having unrelenting tension and "claustrophia", remarking: "deaths seem like appropriate punctuation at the end of a miserable sentence, giving the film a grim tone of hopelessness that few will derive pleasure from". He criticises Sally Faulkner's performance as being "particularly grating". By contrast, Newman and Marriott praise the "surprisingly good turns" from Stokes, Annen and Faulkner.

Abandoned sequel
Shortly after the film's release, Warren, Marcel and scriptwriter Quentin Christopher commenced work on a sequel with the provisional title Human Prey. According to Warren, this would have opened with Kator meeting more potential victims in a pub; later, the aliens would have arrived en masse to "farm humans like cattle". Marcel has compared the proposed plot to that of Starship Troopers. The idea was ultimately abandoned due to the limited distribution of the original.

See also

List of British films of 1977
List of horror films of 1977
List of LGBT-related films of 1977
Media portrayal of lesbianism
Media portrayals of bisexuality
List of films featuring extraterrestrials
List of films featuring domestic violence
List of monster movies

References

Further reading
 – includes a discussion of country houses in horror films, with reference to Prey.

External links

1970s monster movies
1977 films
1977 independent films
1977 LGBT-related films
1970s science fiction horror films
Alien visitations in films
Bisexuality-related films
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Cross-dressing in British films
Female bisexuality in film
Films about hunters
Films about murder
Films about shapeshifting
Films directed by Norman J. Warren
Films set in country houses
Films set in England
Films shot at Shepperton Studios
Lesbian-related films
LGBT-related science fiction horror films
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Jørgen Emil Aabye, born Olsen, (9 June 1868 – 22 June 1959) was a Danish painter. His works were varied widely, ranging from religious art to portraits and landscapes. Above all, he is remembered for his portraits.

Early life
Born near Nørre Aaby on Funen, he was the son of a well-to-do farmer. He began studying painting under Vilhelm Kyhn in Copenhagen before attending the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he graduated in 1892. He then spent a couple of years at Zahrtmann's School in Copenhagen before completing his studies at J.F. Willumsen's school in Paris. As a student, he travelled widely to Germany, Italy and France. He changed his name from Olsen to Aabye in 1904.

Career
Aabye came under many different influences during his studies. During his travels, he first associated with the Pre-Raphaelites before coming under the influence of Kristian Zahrtmann in Copenhagen and then J.F. Willumsen in Paris. His religious works such as the altarpiece of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane in Nørre Aaby Church and his paintings of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary were inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites or by Carl Bloch. Later he turned to landscapes which have a strong affinity to the work of Cézanne. His finest works are his portraits which display the joy of Naturalism's colour he had learnt from Zahrtmann and Willumsen.

Aabye frequently exhibited at Charlottenborg (starting in 1892). From 1900, for a period of 40 years he spent every summer in Skagen becoming one of the younger generation of Skagen Painters. He spent his last 30 years at the Kunstnerhjemmet (Artists' Home) in Copenhagen. His works include landscapes, interiors, floral paintings, portraits and genre subjects.

References

Literature
Hans Buch (2008), Maleren Jørgen Aabye, Middelfart Museum, 226 pages.

1868 births
1959 deaths
19th-century Danish painters
Danish male painters
20th-century Danish painters
Skagen Painters
People from Middelfart Municipality
19th-century Danish male artists
20th-century Danish male artists

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Maschen is a village in the municipality of Seevetal in Harburg district in the German state of Lower Saxony. It lies south of Hamburg on the northern edge of the Lüneburg Heath and within the commuter zone of the city of Hamburg. Maschen Marshalling Yard is the largest of its kind in Europe and the second biggest in the world. It was opened in 1977.

With its 9,266 inhabitants (as at: 31 December 2005) Maschen is the second largest village in Seevetal. Maschen was first mentioned in the records in 1294 as Merschene (Low German = end of the marsh). In 1671 the first school was built; it has moved location several times since. Today Maschen Primary School is in the centre of Maschen next to the village hall. The restored school clock from the old school has been installed in the tower of the hall.

The Maschen disc brooch is an Early Medieval fibula, which was found on the late Saxon grave field near Maschen.

Villages in Lower Saxony

Maschen


Qijianglong is a genus of herbivorous mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.

Discovery
A vertebra of Qijianglong was first discovered in the early 1990s by farmer Cai Changming of Heba village, Sichuan, in his backyard. Work at a nearby construction site at Qijiang District uncovered a rich fossil quarry in 2006. Its excavation caused an examination of the earlier find which led to the discovery of a skeleton. In 2015, the type species Qijianglong guokr was named and described by Xing Lida (China University of Geosciences), Tetsuto Miyashita (University of Alberta), Zhang Jianping, Li Daqing, Ye Yong (Zigong Dinosaur Museum), Toru Sekiya (Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum), Wang Fengping and Philip John Currie. The generic name combines the district Qijiang with Mandarin long, "dragon". The specific name guokr, "nutshell", is that of a Chinese scientific social network.

The holotype QJGPM 1001 was found in a layer of the Suining Formation, which was seen as dating from the Late Jurassic but is now considered mid-Cretaceous (late Aptian) based on radiometric dating. It consists of a partial skeleton with a skull. It includes the rear of the skull, a partial right lower jaw, a complete series of seventeen neck vertebrae, the first six back vertebrae, ribs, the probable tenth tail vertebra, a series of twenty-eight rear tail vertebrae, chevrons, the left pubic bone and two upper pedal phalanges. It likely represents a juvenile individual, large but immature.

The holotype of Qijianglong was about fifteen meters long and had a long neck. The describing authors established several distinguishing traits among which four autapomorphies. On the lower braincase the processus basipterygoideus has the form of a plate, is oriented along the body axis, and has an additional boss parallel to the tubera basilaria. The neck vertebrae have rear joint processes, postzygapophyses that next to their normal facets show on the outside an additional finger-shaped extension, stiffening the neck in the horizontal plane but allowing vertical movement. The rear neck vertebrae have pneumatopores, pneumatic openings, in the depression between the diapophysis, the upper rib joint process, and the neural spine. The pubic bone has a concave front edge, curving so strongly that its lower end is more directed to the front than to below.

Systematics
Qijianglong was placed in the family Mamenchisauridae, in a relatively basal position but above Omeisaurus tianfuensis in the evolutionary tree.

References

External links
 Qijianglong guokr: New Long-Necked Dinosaur Discovered in China Jan 29, 2015 by Sci-News.com

Mamenchisaurids
Fossil taxa described in 2015
Monotypic dinosaur genera
Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia
Paleontology in Sichuan

Qijianglong


Rai Radio 3 (radio tre) is an Italian radio channel operated by the  state-owned public-broadcasting organization RAI and specializing in culture and classical music. It is currently directed by Andrea Montanari.

Founded on 1 October 1950 as the Terzo programma, it was loosely based on its British namesake, the BBC Third Programme, which had been established in 1946. It adopted its current name in 1976.

Program schedule
Radio 3 is a thematic channel focused on the cultural sphere, within the scope of classical music and avant-garde music (including live concerts), drama, literature, readings of classic works, history, economics, philosophy, religion, mythology, art and cinema. Information is presented with a critical and analytical slant. In the past, no commercials were broadcast on this channel.  All the transmissions are produced by Radio Rai.

Until September 2017, at night, at the end of the program schedule, the network connects with Rai Radio 3 Classica, a cable radio, Dab+, DTT and internet channel broadcasting classical music. This ended however in September 2017 when Rai Radio 3 started its own night programmes. Since August 2022 Rai Radio 3 connects again with Rai Radio 3 Classica during the night from 2 AM (1:30 on Saturday and Sunday) to 6. The radio news headline is hosted in three main editions (at 8.45, 13.45 and 18.45) and other shorter editions in the course of the day.

In addition, the channel broadcasts the events of Euroradio, a network of European public radio stations committed to classical music, jazz and cultural events.

It broadcast one of the long-lived strips of classical music, "Concerto ogni sera" (A concert every evening), then "Concerto della sera" (The evening's concert), which aired from 4 January 1953 to December 1977, around 19.15.  Beforehand, from 1951 to 1953 aired "Concerto d'apertura" (Opening concert) at 20.30, which was replaced by "Spazio Tre".

Logos

See also
Radio3 Scienza

Notes

External links
 Rai Radio 3 at Rai Play Radio

Free-to-air
Radio stations in Italy
Classical music radio stations
Radio stations established in 1950
RAI radio stations
Cable radio
1950 establishments in Italy

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Dylan Jacob is the founder of Indiana-based BrüMate, a.k.a The Dehydration Company, that creates and sells insulated beverage containers for the adult beverage industry. He is an American entrepreneur and product designer having been featured on 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 list.

Early life and education
Jacob was born in Indiana on August 28, 1994. He graduated from Whiteland Community High School in 2013 and dropped out of Purdue University in his second semester.

Career
Denver-based Jacob started his first company, GV Supply Co, which was an electronics parts distributor in high-school. In May 2014, he sold that company to one of his franchise customers. He then started his second company, Vicci Design, which was a glass tile company that provided unique glass tile for residential and commercial remodels. He provided glass tiles to contractors and homeowners via WayFair, Overstock.com, Houzz and his dealer network. In July 2017, he sold that company, which is still functioning for the new owners.

BrüMate is Jacob's third company that launched its products in November 2016. He designs and manufactures insulated drinkware for the adult beverage industry and records 1.1M per month in sales as of July 2018. Jacob has designed Hopsulator, Winesulator and Uncork'd XL products for the company. He was instrumental in securing deals with Cabela's and Olympia Sports.

Awards
Jacob was featured on the 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 Young Entrepreneurs list and 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 for Retail and E-commerce. He won the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 – Midwest under the Consumer Products & Retail category.

References

1994 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Indiana
American company founders
Purdue University alumni

Dylan Jacob