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Anita Anderberg Madsen (born 31 May 1995) is a Danish former competitive figure skater. She is a two-time Danish national champion, won three senior international medals, and placed 16th at the 2013 European Championships. |
In November 2014, Madsen retired from competitive figure skating. |
"JGP: Junior Grand Prix" |
= = = Tarapaya River = = = |
Tarapaya River, originally also called Qayara, is a Bolivian river in the Potosí Department, Tomás Frías Province. Its direction is mainly north. Tarapaya is a right tributary of the upper Pillku Mayu. |
= = = Maya Goded = = = |
Maya Goded Colichio is a Mexican photographer and documentary film maker. Since 2002 she has been allied with Magnum Photos and has developed a special focus on images of people from hidden or shunned communities. |
Goded was born in 1967 in Mexico City. She did her first project in 1994, called "Tierra Negra" ("Black Earth"). She worked for three years on this project which consists of a collection images of Afro-Mexicans. |
Subsequently she went on to explore female sexuality, gender violence, prostitution and the way women in Mexican society are seen in the traditional role of motherhood. Furthermore, she investigates people in harsh living conditions or living in hidden or shunned communities. Her photographs are accompanied by a name and description of the life of the person portrayed. |
Goded has published several books and has been the co-author of others as well. She won several international awards. In 2009 she was involved in the making of a video and a short film, called "Una Reina a su Gusto". After this she concentrated on the making of documentary films. |
Goded won several international award. Here follows a selection: |
= = = 2013 PTT Pattaya Open – Doubles = = = |
Sania Mirza and Anastasia Rodionova were the defending champions but decided not to participate.<br> |
Kimiko Date-Krumm and Casey Dellacqua won the final against Akgul Amanmuradova and Alexandra Panova with the score 6–3, 6–2. |
= = = Thunder Rider = = = |
Thunder Rider is the comeback album by German heavy metal band Majesty. It was released on January 4, 2013, through Noiseart Records in both standard and deluxe editions. The deluxe edition included an additional DVD which contained a documentary titled "Metal Union". The DVD features interviews with bands and journalists and tries to unveil the secret of heavy metal music. The song, "Metal Union", which concludes the album is a musical conversion of this topic. It features guest appearances by Sven D´Anna (Wizard), Hannes Braun (Kissin´ Dynamite), Mat Sinner (Primal Fear / Sinner), Patrick Fuchs (Ross The Boss), Andreas Babushkin (Paragon) and Marta Gabriel (Crystal Viper). |
= = = Shizuka Narahara = = = |
From 1952 to 1955 she won five medals in doubles and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. |
The five World Championship medals included two gold medals in the doubles with Tomie Nishimura at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships and the team event also at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships. |
= = = Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers = = = |
Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers (26 January 1876 – 3 May 1958) was a French writer, art critic, pacifist and anarchist. |
Lacaze-Duthiers, an art critic for the Symbolist review journal "La Plume", was influenced by Oscar Wilde, Nietzsche and Max Stirner. His (1906) "L'Ideal Humain de l'Art" helped found the 'Artistocracy' movement - a movement advocating life in the service of art. His ideal was an anti-elitist aestheticism: "All men should be artists". Together with André Colomer and Manuel Devaldes, he founded "L'Action d'Art", an anarchist literary journal, in 1913. |
He was a contributor to the "Anarchist Encyclopedia". After World War II he contributed to the journal "L'Unique". |
= = = Levent Tuncat = = = |
Levent Tuncat (born July 29, 1988 in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German taekwondo practitioner of Turkish descent. He won three gold medals for the 54 and 58 kg classes at the European Taekwondo Championships (2005 in Riga, Latvia, 2006 in Bonn, Germany, and 2008 in Rome, Italy). |
Tuncat qualified for the men's 58 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after placing second from the World Qualification Tournament in Manchester, England. He lost in the preliminary round of sixteen match to Afghanistan's Rohullah Nikpai, with a sudden death score of 3–4. |
= = = Fil-Asian Airways = = = |
Fil-Asian Airways, formerly Mid-Sea Express, was a Cebu-based airline with AOC issued by CAAP. It was formed in 2011 and ceased operating in 2014. Mid-Sea Express started as air charter operator and non-scheduled air taxi headquartered at Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Lapu-Lapu City in Central Visayas, in the Philippines. As Fil-Asian Airways, its slogan was "The Asian experience". The airline was operated from major airports such as Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu, Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao City and Zamboanga International Airport. |
Mid-SEA Express (MSE) takes its name from the Middle of South East Asia, the region in which it operates and founded by Capt. Ronan D. Villanueva. MSE began operating as Island Helicopter Services, which was established in 2008. In 2011, after seeing the need to service the neighboring islands around Cebu, Mid-Sea Express began operating unscheduled air transportation, and acquired an aircraft with a Short Take-off and Landing Capability, an 8-seater BN-2A Islander. Starting a daily flight schedule from Cebu to Tagbilaran City, Bohol. A month later, Cebu–Bantayan Island was also opened. Then, it was successively followed by flights to Camiguin and Siquijor islands utilizing a 21-seater British Aerospace Jetstream 32EP aircraft. MSE also opened routes from Cebu to Tandag, Bislig, Guiuan, and vice versa, to serve foreign and local travelers, focusing solely on routes which were previously not serviced via air travel. |
In 2011, the Mid-Sea Express began operations for non-scheduled air transportation, initially covering Cebu-Tagbilaran as its launching route. It launched an 8-seater Britten-Norman Islander which proved convenient and affordable to passengers in terms of time and cost. Tagbilaran City is a short distance to Lapu-Lapu City. In the month following its launch, it began flights to Bantayan Island in northwestern Cebu. MSE also opened routes from Cebu to Tandag, Bislig, and Guiuan vice versa to serve foreign and local travelers. MSE solely serve routes which were not accessible via air travel. |
Mid-SEA Express (MSE) represents its name as Middle of South East Asia founded by Capt. Ronan D. Villanueva, that started its operation as Island Helicopter Services, that was established in the year 2008. After seeing the need to service the neighboring islands around Cebu, he acquired an aircraft with a Short Take-off and Landing Capability, a BN-2A Islander. Starting a daily flight schedule from Cebu to Tagbilaran City, Bohol, then a month after, Cebu– Bantayan Island was also opened. Then, it was successively followed by flights to Camiguin and Siquijor islands. |
The re-opening of this new routes has further developed its eco-tourism potential and further improved the access not only for the foreign tourist but also for the local Filipino communities. All these air services further boost tourist arrival and provide a faster convenient air access. Mid-Sea Express’ vision of "Bridging the Island" has been achieved through their consistent adding of unserved routes to both Filipino citizens and foreign travelers alike. |
The goal of Mid-Sea Express was to further promote the tourism potential of smaller islands while still serving the routes and destinations that are in high demand. With the large and ever-increasing tourist demand in Bohol, the Cebu-Bohol flights are helping increase the island's chances of making a name among the world's travelers, just as Boracay recently did in a recent worldwide publication. |
MSE expanded its operation and added new routes to connect Cebu-Tagbilaran City, Bohol-Davao and Cebu-Bohol, Bohol-Cagayan de Oro, utilizing a 21-seater British Aerospace (BAE) Jetstream 32EP aircraft. With the increasing demand of passengers traveling to destinations solely served by MSE and with high demand of cargoes needed to be transported from far flung areas to main islands. By April 2012, the airline temporarily ceased its international operations as it prepared for the relaunch of flights under the new brand using a bigger aircraft to accommodate more passengers and cargoes at the same time. |
In 2013, Mid-Sea Express re-branded itself to become Fil-Asian Airways under new management. The new airline is set to relaunch flights on old routes of Mid-Sea Express using bigger aircraft. On March 27, 2013, its first commercial flight as Fil-Asian Airways commenced between Zamboanga and Cebu. |
In 2014, Fil-Asian Airways folded due to numerous operations issues including unpaid salaries of employees, non-payment of bills and recurring technical glitches on its lone aircraft due to wear and tear. |
= = = 2013 UCI Oceania Tour = = = |
The 2013 UCI Oceania Tour was the ninth season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 23 January 2013 with the New Zealand Cycle Classic and ended on 17 March 2013 with the Oceania Cycling Championships. |
The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Oceania Tour cycling jersey. Paul Odlin from New Zealand was the defending 2011–12 UCI Oceania Tour champion. Damien Howson from Australia was crowned as the 2013 UCI Oceania Tour champion. |
Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded. |
The UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows: |
= = = Erosa = = = |
Erosa is a small genus of stonefishes found in the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. |
There are currently two recognized species in this genus: |
= = = Skye (name) = = = |
Skye is both a surname and a given name. Notable individuals with the name include: |
= = = Sierra (name) = = = |
Sierra is both a surname and a given name. It is the Spanish word for saw or mountain range, and as such it connotes strength and groundedness. It originates from the Galicia and Asturias regions of northern Spain. |
Notable people with the name include: |
= = = Haven (given name) = = = |
Haven is a given name. Notable people with the name include: |
= = = The Abandoned Field: Free Fire Zone = = = |
The Abandoned Field: Free Fire Zone () is a 1979 Vietnamese drama film directed by . It won the Golden Prize and the Prix FIPRESCI at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. |
The film gives an "unnerving and compelling .. subjective-camera-eye-view" of life under helicopter fire in a free-fire zone in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. The film cuts to an (American) "helicopter-eye view", contrasting painfully with the human tenderness seen earlier. |
The film completely takes place within the perimeter of an empty field, but it exploits both the space under the water (from under the water surface of the field) and the edges of the sky (where there are American warplanes conducting raids). |
The setting is the area of Dong Thap Muoi during the days of the Vietnam war. Ba Do, his wife and small child live in a small shack in the middle of the water. They are entrusted by the revolution with the mission of maintaining the lines of communication for the armed forces. The author focused much of the plot's development upon the daily life of the husband and wife, like planting rice, caring for their child, catching snakes, and catching fish, but interwoven with this are American military helicopters raiding the watery field to uncover the guerilla soldiers operating there. When Ba Do is shot by an American helicopter, his wife shoots the helicopter down in order to avenge him. |
At the end of the film there is a scene where a photograph of the shot pilot's wife and child falls from his chest. There were many suggestions to edit this scene from the film, however, it was still kept in order for people to see and understand American soldiers more clearly, they also are normal people, with a wife and child like Ba Do, but because of the war they had to be pulled from their families and put into Vietnam to fight. |
= = = Maloyaz, Republic of Bashkortostan = = = |
Maloyaz () is a rural locality (a "selo") and the administrative center of Salavatsky District in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the Yuryuzan River. Population: |
= = = Radhia Nasraoui = = = |
Radhia Nasraoui (; born 1953) is a Tunisian lawyer specializing in human rights, who militates particularly against the use of torture. |
In the 1970s, Radhia Nasraoui started campaigning for human rights, when the regime of President Bourguiba banned demonstrations by students and workers. In 1976, she managed to convince her employing firm to defend students who are accused. Two years later, in the aftermath of the Black Thursday, a general strike accompanied by bloody riots and resulting in many deaths, Nasraoui opened her own firm. |
She was one of the founders of the Association against Torture in Tunisia announced that 26 June 2003. Appointed president, she denounced what she sees as the "systematic torture" practiced in her country since the accession to power of President Ben Ali 7 November 1987. |
Due to her professional activities in favor of human rights in Tunisia, Radhia Nasraoui continued to be exposed to repression and police brutality. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women reported: |
From 15 October to 10 December 2003, she went on hunger strike "to protest against government agents' burglarizing of her office and terrorizing her family and to demand that justice should be done after a physical assault suffered in July" she put an end to the strike on the day of the commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
Radhia Nasraoui continues to be exposed to state repression until the revolution of 2011 marked the fall of President Ben Ali. During this period, she was considered as a lawyer and activist against Torture and one of Tunisia's most renowned opinion leaders of the Arab Spring. |
Even after the revolution, she continues to denounce cases of torture and mistreatment of prisoners. She is also a member of the sponsorship committee of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine which work began 4 March 2009. |
Radhia Nasraoui is married to Hamma Hammami, the secretary general of the Workers' Party since 1981, and they have three daughters, Nadia, Sarah and Oussaïma. |