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Marina Rebeka (born 1980) is a Latvian opera, song and concert soprano.
Marina Rebeka is one of the leading sopranos of our time and considered one of the
world's best Violettas in Verdi's “La Traviata”. She has also gained a wide reputation as one
of the greatest Rossini and Mozart singers in the world.
Since her international breakthrough at the Salzburg Festival in 2009 under the baton of Riccardo Muti, Marina has been a regular guest at the world's most prestigious concert halls and opera houses, such as Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall (New York), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (London), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Bavarian State Opera (Munich), Bavarian State Opera, Musikverein (Vienna), and Zurich Opera House.
She collaborates with leading conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano, Fabio Luisi, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Daniele Gatti, Marco Armiliato, Michele Mariotti, Thomas Hengelbrock, Paolo Carignani, Kent Nagano, and Ottavio Dantone.
Outstanding is her varied repertoire, which ranges from Baroque (Handel) to Bel Canto
(Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti), and Verdi (La Traviata) to Tchaikovsky (Eugene Onegin) and
Britten (War Requiem).
As an active and widely noticed concert performer, she has given recitals at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the “Rudolfinum” Concert Hall in Prague, St. John's Hall in London, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg, Palau de la Música in Barcelona and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, accompanied by such ensembles as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and Filarmonici della Scala.
Her first solo CD, “Mozart Arias” with Speranza Scappucci and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, was released by EMI (Warner Classics) in November 2013. Her next album, “Amor fatale” – Rossini arias with Marco Armiliato and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester - was released in the summer of 2017 by BR-Klassik.
Born in Riga, Marina Rebeka began her musical studies in Latvia and continued in Italy, where she graduated from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome (2007). During her studies, she also attended the International Summer Academy in Salzburg and Rossini Academy in Pesaro.
In the 2017/18 season she was named the first-ever artist in residence by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester. In December 2016 she was granted Order of the Three Stars, the highest award of the Republic of Latvia, for her cultural achievements.
= = = Ondřej Ertl = = =
Ondřej Ertl (born 22 July 1987 in Klatovy) is a professional squash player who represented Czech Republic. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 164 in May 2013.
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Nasality may refer to:
= = = Affine gauge theory = = =
Affine gauge theory is classical gauge theory where gauge fields are affine connections on the tangent bundle over a smooth manifold formula_1. For instance, these are gauge theory of dislocations in continuous media when formula_2, the generalization of metric-affine gravitation theory when formula_1 is a world manifold and, in particular, gauge theory of the fifth force.
Being a vector bundle, the tangent bundle formula_4 of an formula_5-dimensional manifold formula_1 admits a natural structure of an affine bundle formula_7, called the "affine tangent bundle", possessing bundle atlases with affine transition functions. It is associated to a principal bundle formula_8 of affine frames in tangent space over formula_1, whose structure group is a general affine group formula_10.
The tangent bundle formula_4 is associated to a principal linear frame bundle formula_12, whose structure group is a general linear group formula_13. This is a subgroup of formula_10 so that the latter is a semidirect product of formula_13 and a group formula_16 of translations.
There is the canonical imbedding of formula_12 to formula_8 onto a reduced principal subbundle which corresponds to the canonical structure of a vector bundle formula_4 as the affine one.
Given linear bundle coordinates
on the tangent bundle formula_4, the affine tangent bundle can be provided with affine bundle coordinates
and, in particular, with the linear coordinates (1).
The affine tangent bundle formula_7 admits an affine connection formula_24 which is associated to a principal connection on an affine frame bundle formula_8. In affine gauge theory, it is treated as an "affine gauge field".
Given the linear bundle coordinates (1) on formula_26, an affine connection formula_24 is represented by a connection tangent-valued form
This affine connection defines a unique linear connection
on formula_4, which is associated to a principal connection on formula_12.
Conversely, every linear connection formula_32 (4) on formula_33 is extended to the affine one formula_34 on formula_7 which is given by the same expression (4) as formula_32 with respect to the bundle coordinates (1) on formula_26, but it takes a form
relative to the affine coordinates (2).
Then any affine connection formula_24 (3) on formula_40 is represented by a sum
of the extended linear connection formula_34 and a basic soldering form
on formula_4, where formula_45 due to the canonical isomorphism formula_46 of the vertical tangent bundle formula_47 of formula_7.
Relative to the linear coordinates (1), the sum (5) is brought into a sum formula_49
of a linear connection formula_32 and the soldering form formula_51 (6). In this case, the soldering form formula_51 (6) often is treated as a "translation gauge field", though it is not a connection.
Let us note that a true translation gauge field (i.e., an affine connection which yields a flat linear connection on formula_4) is well defined only on a parallelizable manifold formula_1.
In field theory, one meets a problem of physical interpretation of translation gauge fields because there are no fields subject to gauge translations formula_55. At the same time, one observes such a field in gauge theory of dislocations in continuous media because, in the presence of dislocations, displacement vectors formula_56, formula_57, of small deformations are determined only with accuracy to gauge translations formula_58.
In this case, let formula_2, and let an affine connection take a form
with respect to the affine bundle coordinates (2). This is a translation gauge field whose coefficients formula_61 describe plastic distortion, covariant derivatives formula_62 coincide with elastic distortion, and a strength formula_63 is a dislocation density.
Equations of gauge theory of dislocations are derived from a gauge invariant Lagrangian density
where formula_65 and formula_66 are the Lamé parameters of isotropic media. These equations however are not independent since a displacement field formula_67 can be removed by gauge translations and, thereby, it fails to be a dynamic variable.
In gauge gravitation theory on a world manifold formula_1, one can consider an affine, but not linear connection on the tangent bundle formula_4 of formula_1. Given bundle coordinates (1) on formula_4, it takes the form (3) where the linear connection formula_32 (4) and the basic soldering form formula_51 (6) are considered as independent variables.
As was mentioned above, the soldering form formula_51 (6) often is treated as a translation gauge field, though it is not a connection. On another side, one mistakenly identifies formula_51 with a tetrad field. However, these are different mathematical object because a soldering form is a section of the tensor bundle formula_76, whereas a tetrad field is a local section of a Lorentz reduced subbundle of a frame bundle formula_12.
In the spirit of the above-mentioned gauge theory of dislocations, it has been suggested that a soldering field formula_51 can describe "sui generi" deformations of a world manifold formula_1 which are given by a bundle morphism
where formula_81 is a tautological one-form.
Then one considers metric-affine gravitation theory formula_82 on a deformed world manifold as that with a deformed pseudo-Riemannian metric formula_83 when a Lagrangian of a soldering field formula_51 takes a form
where formula_86 is the Levi-Civita symbol, and
is the torsion of a linear connection formula_32 with respect to a soldering form formula_51.
In particular, let us consider this gauge model in the case of small gravitational and soldering fields whose matter source is a point mass. Then one comes to a modified Newtonian potential of the fifth force type.
= = = Tasneem Noorani = = =
Tasneem Noorani is a retired Pakistani civil servant who has served in BPS-22 grade as the Interior Secretary and Commerce Secretary of Pakistan.
Tasneem attended Pakistan Air Force School Sargodha for high school from 1956 to 1960. He holds a master's degree in geology from University of the Punjab, Lahore where he studied from 1962 to 1966. After joining the civil service, he got a degree in Finance from Iran Centre of Management Studies Tehran in 1979.
From January 2001 to May 2004, Tasneem Noorani served as the Interior Secretary of Pakistan in Pervez Musharraf's regime.
Noorani has also served as Commerce Secretary of Pakistan and Pakistan Secretary of Industries and Production.
After retirement from his civil service career, Noorani joined the Pakistani political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and served as the party's chief election commissioner, but left the party in 2016 after some differences with the party chief Imran Khan.
Tasneem Noorani now serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation. Before this, he had served as a Director of Karachi Electric Supply Company.
= = = Holcocera extensa = = =
Holcocera extensa is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It is found in South Africa.
The length of the forewings is 8.2–8.5 mm. The forewings are greyish brown intermixed with greyish brown scales tipped with pale grey and pale grey scales. The hindwings are pale greyish brown.
= = = Mirzapur railway station = = =
Mirzapur station code "MZP" is a railway station in Mirzapur district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It lies on the Howrah-Delhi main line and Howrah-Allahabad-Mumbai line. It serves Mirzapur and the surrounding areas.
The Howrah-Delhi line of East Indian Railway Company was ready up to Naini in 1864 and after the Old Naini Bridge was completed through trains started running in 1865-66.
This is very old bridge .
The Dagmagpur-Cheoki section was electrified in 1965-66.
Mirzapur railway station has two double-bedded non-AC retiring rooms.
= = = Holcocera irroratella = = =
Holcocera irroratella is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It is found in South Africa and Gambia.
The length of the forewings is 6.6 mm. The forewings are white intermixed with white scales tipped with brown and some brown scales. The hindwings are pale brown, gradually darkening towards the apex.
= = = No Jin-hyuk = = =
No Jin-hyuk (Hangul: 노진혁, Hanja: 盧珍赫; born July 15, 1989 in Gwangju, South Korea) is a South Korean shortstop for the NC Dinos in the Korea Baseball Organization. He bats left-handed and throws right-handed.
As a five-tool player No was a fixture in the starting lineup beginning his freshman year at Sungkyunkwan University. Although he primarily played as a shortstop, No was utilized at third base and first base as well. As an amateur player No was selected for the South Korea national baseball team and competed in the Baseball World Cup twice in 2009 and 2011.
No was selected 21st overall by the NC Dinos in the 2012 KBO Draft. Although No batted a disappointing .194 with 2 home runs and 25 RBI in the 2012 Futures League, he became the Dinos' starting shortstop showing great defensive skills.
The Dinos' starting shortstop for the 2013 season was 2007 KBO batting champion Lee Hyun-gon who was traded from the Kia Tigers as a free agent. However, he was replaced by No early on, who showed better offensive and defensive stats as a backup shortstop. On April 27, 2013, No hit his first KBO league home run, which was an inside the park, against starting pitcher Kim Sun-woo of the Doosan Bears.
= = = Gutty Sereno = = =
Paulo Jorge Fernandes Sereno (born 24 October 1983 in Santarém, Portugal), known as Gutty Sereno, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Vilafranquense as a midfielder.
= = = 1996–97 Slovenian Third League = = =
The 1996–97 Slovenian Third League was the fifth season of the Slovenian Third League, the third highest level in the Slovenian football system.