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32099519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Undisputed%20Truth%20%28The%20Undisputed%20Truth%20album%29 | The Undisputed Truth (The Undisputed Truth album) | The Undisputed Truth is the self titled debut album of the Motown group of the same name.
Reception
Released in 1971, it was produced entirely by Norman Whitfield. The album includes the group's biggest hit single (and only US Top 40 hit), "Smiling Faces Sometimes", which peaked at #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Many of the songs on this album were also recorded by the group's Motown labelmates, The Temptations (also produced by Norman Whitfield). "Save My Love For A Rainy Day", for example, was originally recorded by The Temptations for their 1967 album The Temptations With A Lot O' Soul. The Undisputed Truth's version was released as their debut single, and it became a minor R&B hit, peaking at #43.
The album itself mixes the traditional Motown sound with psychedelic-influenced soul music. A prime example of this is "You Got The Love I Need", which actually uses a backing track recorded in 1965 - the same backing track used for The Temptations' song "I Got Heaven Right Here On Earth", which is an unreleased outtake from their A Lot O' Soul album. "You Got The Love I Need" was released as the B-side to The Undisputed Truth's hit single "Smiling Faces Sometimes". It is also the only original song on the album, as all its other tracks had already been recorded by other artists.
Track listing
"You Got The Love I Need" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield) 2:57
"Save My Love For A Rainy Day" (Norman Whitfield, Roger Penzabene) 3:50
"California Soul" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) 3:45
"Aquarius" (Galt McDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado) 2:39
"Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield) 10:20
"Smiling Faces Sometimes" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield) 3:05
"We've Got a Way Out Love" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) 2:55
"Since I've Lost You" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield) 3:10
"Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone" (Cornelius Grant, Norman Whitfield, Simon May) 2:42
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield) 2:51
"Like a Rolling Stone" (Bob Dylan) 6:30
Charts
Singles
External links
The Undisputed Truth at Discogs.com
References
1971 debut albums
The Undisputed Truth albums
Gordy Records albums
Albums produced by Norman Whitfield |
50621543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amber%20Rose%20Show | The Amber Rose Show | The Amber Rose Show is an American talk show starring Amber Rose that premiered on July 8, 2016 on VH1. Announced on May 3, 2016, the weekly series features Rose interviewing celebrity guests about various topics related to pop culture, motherhood, and relationships. The show was initially scheduled to premiere on June 17, 2016, but it was later announced it would premiere three weeks later.
"I'm really unapologetic, and I don't give a f--k. I say what I feel so I needed a home like VH1 to not censor myself," Rose describes the show.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American television talk shows
2016 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
VH1 original programming |
30061858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Jones%20%28Upper%20Canada%20politician%29 | Henry Jones (Upper Canada politician) | Henry Jones (1790 – January 21, 1860) was a merchant and political figure in Upper Canada. He represented Brockville in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1830 to 1834 as a Conservative.
He was born in the United States, the son of Joseph Jones. Jones married Lucy Catherine Macdonell. He lived in Brockville. He served in the Leeds militia and was a justice of the peace for the Johnstown District. He was also postmaster for Brockville.
Jones was a cousin of Jonas and Charles Jones, who both also served in the assembly.
References
1790 births
1860 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
History of Leeds and Grenville United Counties |
21452788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%20Pavlovich%20Demidov%2C%202nd%20Prince%20of%20San%20Donato | Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato | Count Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato (; 9 October 1839, Frankfurt am Main – 26 January 1885, Pratolino, Florence) was a Russian industrialist, jurist, philanthropist and nobleman of the Demidov family.
Life
His parents were Finnish philanthropist Aurora Karamzina and her husband Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov.
His first marriage was on 1 June 1867 to Princess Maria Elimovna Meshcherskaya (Saint Petersburg, 28 February 1844 - San Donato (or Vienna, per Ferrand), 8 August 1868). She died two days after giving birth to a son, Elim Pavlovich Demidov, 3rd Prince of San Donato, at Hietzing in the suburbs of Vienna on 6 August 1868. Her loss had a lasting effect on Pavel, who remained inconsolable for a long time, spending a long while in the room in the Villa San Donato where his wife's dresses were kept to try to recover her presence.
In Saint Petersburg on 2 June 1871 he remarried to Princess Elena Petrovna Trubetskaya (Saint Petersburg, 25 September 1853 - Odessa, 28 July 1917), with whom he had six children:
Prince and Count Nikita Pavlovich Demidov (17 March 1872 - 25 March 1874)
Princess and Countess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova (Kiev, 2 November 1873 - Bussolino Torinese, Torino, 16 June 1904), mother of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia
Anatoly Pavlovich Demidov, 4th Prince of San Donato (San Donato, 31 October (OS)/ 12 November 1874-Marseille 27 October 1943)
Princess and Countess Maria Pavlovna Demidova (Kiev, 3 February 1877 - Pratolino, 25 July 1955), married in Helsingfors (now better known by its Finnish name Helsinki), 30 April (OS) / 13 May 1897 Prince Semyon Semyonovich Abamelik-Lazarev (Saint Petersburg, 7 October 1857 - Narsan, Caucasus, 1 September 1916)
Prince and Count Pavel Pavlovich Demidov (San Donato, 4 February 1879 - Paris, 30 April 1909), unmarried and without issue
Princess and Countess Elena Pavlovna Demidova (Saint Petersburg, 10 June 1884 - Sesto Fiorentino, 4 April 1959), married firstly in Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1903 (divorced in 1907) Count Alexander Pavlovich Shuvalov (Vartemiagui, 7 September 1881 - London, 13 August 1935) and married secondly in Dresden in June 1907 Nikolai Alexeievich Pavlov (Tambov, 9 May 1866 - Vanves, 31 January 1934))
They decided San Donato was too full of memories of his first wife and so moved to Villa Pratolino (now known as Villa Demidoff). They ended up selling San Donato, and it was ceded on 5 November 1881 to Gaston Mestayer (a French business magnate), with the gardens sold separately to Nemesio Papucci and Rosselli Del Turco. A large part of the enormous Demidov collection of artworks housed in 14 rooms at San Donato were thus dispersed in several sales and memorable public auctions, even the works gathered in the "musée napoléonien" created on Elba by his uncle Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato and the souvenirs that had (mostly) been ceded to Anatole by his father-in-law Jérôme Bonaparte.
Owning hundreds of factories in Russia, millions of square kilometres of land and palaces in Russia, France and Italy, Pavel was considered as one of the richest men in Europe. He developed the family fortunes and inherited Anatole's title of Prince of San Donato after the latter's death without legitimate issue in 1870 (with the title recognised by king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy two years later). He served with the Red Cross rather than the Russian military forces during the Russo-Turkish War and in 1883 he published the pro-Jewish "The Jewish Question in Russia".
External links
Princedom of San Donato
Jewish Encyclopedia
http://jssgallery.org/Essay/Italy/Demidoff/Demidoff_2nd.htm
1839 births
1885 deaths
Russian jurists
Pavel
Philanthropists of the Russian Empire
Russian businesspeople
Princes of San Donato
Russian princes
Businesspeople from Frankfurt
Mayors of Kyiv
19th-century philanthropists
Russian people of Finnish descent |
1146487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazyhouse | Crazyhouse | Crazyhouse (also known as drop chess, mad chess, reinforcement chess, turnabout chess and schizo-chess) is a chess variant similar to bughouse chess, but with only two players. It effectively incorporates a rule from the game shogi, in which a player can introduce a captured piece back to the chessboard as their own.
Rules
All the rules and conventions of standard chess apply, with the addition of drops, as explained below.
A captured piece reverses color and goes to the capturing player's reserve, pocket or bank. At any time, instead of making a move with a piece on the board, a player can drop a piece from their reserve (a piece in there is considered “held” or “in hand”) onto an empty square on the board. For example, a check that would result in checkmate in standard chess can be answered in Crazyhouse, if the defender can play a legal drop that blocks the check.
Drops resulting in immediate checkmate are permitted. Unlike in shogi, this includes pawn drops.
Pawns may not be dropped on the 1st or 8th .
Pawns that have been promoted and later captured are dropped as pawns. (As in shogi.)
Unlike in shogi, having two or more pawns on a file, as well as checkmating with a dropped pawn, are both permissible.
Notation
An extension to the standard chess notation is used to record drops. Drops are notated by the piece type, followed by an @ symbol, then the destination square. For example, N@d5 means "knight is dropped on d5 from reserve".
FEN
There is no standard FEN specification for Crazyhouse. However at Lichess an extended version of FEN is in use. Here is Lichess's FEN implemention example.
r2qk3/pp2bqR1/2p5/8/3Pn3/3BPpB1/PPPp1PPP/RK1R4/PNNNbpp b - - 89 45
Lichess simply adds a 0th rank as a reserve. There are more than 8 pieces on the reserve, so the last section may have more than 8 characters.
A different notation is used by Xboard/Winboard. The reserve is given in square brackets following the board position.
r2qk3/pp2bqR1/2p5/8/3Pn3/3BPpB1/PPPp1PPP/RK1R4[PNNNbpp] b - - 89 45
Chess.com uses another notation. The reserve is put after full-move number.
To keep track of which pieces currently on the board are actually promoted pawns, Lichess and Xboard/Winboard use "~" after letter designation.
However, Chess.com uses coordinates of promoted pawn to resolve it.
r2q1r1k/2p1ppb1/p2p2pp/3P1p2/B6B/2N2NPp/1PP2P1K/3Q3q w - - 0 26 NNBRpr h1
Variations
Minor variations of the rules have resulted in some variants.
Loop Chess: promoted pawns keep their rank when captured.
Chessgi (also known as Mad Mate or Neo Chess): promoted pawns keep their rank when captured. Pawns may be dropped on the 1st rank.
See also
Hostage Chess—a player can drop back into play their own previously captured pieces
References
External links
Crazyhouse by Fergus Duniho, The Chess Variant Pages
Scidb a chess database supporting Crazyhouse
Rules for the variant on Lichess
Blog post with introduction, theory and more resources
Chess variants |
44057222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain%20Cry | Mountain Cry | Mountain Cry () is a 2015 Chinese drama film directed by Larry Yang. The film is based on the novel of the same title by Ge Shuiping.
Synopsis
Set in a remote village, the story begins with the sudden death of a husband and father whose family is new to the village's tight-knit traditional community. In the aftermath of that tragic event, the villagers come to know and understand the man's widow, a mysterious mute with a story to tell and the power to tell it wordlessly.
Cast
Lang Yueting as Hong Xia
Wang Ziyi as Han Chong
Cheng Taishen
Yu Ailei as La Hong
Guo Jin
Xu Caigen as Qi Liu
Zhao Chendong
Li Siying
Production
Production started in early October 2014 and principal photography will take place in Shanxi.
Release
The film was the closing film at the 20th Busan International Film Festival.
Reception
Critical response
Justin Chang of Variety called the film a "forceful small-town melodrama [that] offers a sweeping indictment of human vindictiveness."
References
External links
2015 drama films
Chinese drama films
Chinese films
Films based on Chinese novels
Films shot in Shanxi
Films set in the 1980s
Films directed by Larry Yang |
10510799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%20Barry | Buck Barry | Buck Joseph Barry, born Chester Burry (February 12, 1917 in Chicago, IL – December 4, 1997 in El Paso) was an American actor and radio and television personality.
Early career
In his early career, Barry appeared in small roles in several movies starring Gene Autry, and was a featured performer in a touring Wild West Show. He gained fame as a host for a live Saturday morning and daily afternoon children's television show. Both were broadcast on television station WOOD-TV, the NBC affiliate in Grand Rapids, MI.
Radio
Barry was also well known to early rising factory workers in the Grand Rapids area, with his morning radio show on WOOD am 1300, which was simulcast on WOOD FM at 105.7. Barry had an encyclopedic knowledge of cowboy and American Indian lore. He started his morning show with a spirited yodeling cowboy song which he accompanied with an acoustic guitar. Barry shared stories of American Indian lore and cowboy legends, interspersed with recorded music.
In his radio broadcasts, he spoke to listeners as if he were sitting at their kitchen tables. He often shared postcards from listeners on vacation, and saluted local listeners' birthdays and anniversaries. His programs were flexible rather than adhering to a strict format.
Buckaroo Rodeo
Weekday broadcasts
On television, he hosted the Buckaroo Rodeo. Locally, he was as popular as Buffalo Bob or Captain Kangaroo. Initially he hosted the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday shows while Don Melvoin as Fireman Freddie covered Tuesdays and Thursdays. In time, Melvoin stepped away from his role and Barry became the Monday through Friday host. Barry used the Thunder and Lightning Polka from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Jr., for his show's opening theme; he sang the Coopersville Yodel, live, at the close.
During the Buckaroo Rodeo days, an audience of boys and girls sat in bleachers on the stage to watch Popeye cartoons and 3 Stooges shorts. The show was one of the first children's TV programs to have a racially-integrated studio audience. Barry occasionally sang a cowboy song, did a rope or whip trick, or twirled his twin six guns. The sponsors provided candy, potato chips, and other snacks. Among gifts he received for being on the show were brass statuettes of Thunder, his horse.
Weekend programs
For a little while during the 1960s, Barry's show expanded to an hour on Saturday mornings on WOOD-TV 8, and featured a wider range of entertainment and games. The programs, with the pistol-packing cowboy and his white horse Thunder, ran for more than a decade from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s. The original Thunder died in a stable fire at some point during the show's run. Subsequent to the stable fire, the national network TV show named This is Your Life, hosted by Ralph Edwards, honored Barrys career. It was announced by Ralph Edwards at the show's conclusion, that enough money had been raised by the fans, allowing Barry to purchase his next horse, which Barry named Thunder II.
Barry hosted the high-rated afternoon Popeye Theater (the original name of the show was the Buckaroo Rodeo), which featured repeated airings of The Three Stooges, and were often followed by admonitions from Barry, warning his children viewers not to try a particular dangerous Stooges stunt, such as hitting someone in the head with a hammer.
Throughout the 1960s, Buck Barry's big Buick station wagon was well known among children in West Michigan. Gold in color, the Buick had fake wood sides with "BUCK BARRY" written in large cursive on both sides using real rope. The hood was adorned by a large pair of forward-pointing Texas longhorns.
Part of the Barry show was a section called "Can Buck Do It?" where Barry attempted various feats, such as tearing a telephone book in half. Barry was known for his on-air flubs, stuttering, and malapropisms, often hopelessly but humorously mangling commercials for such long-time sponsors as BeMo Potato Chips.
Retirement
During his television years in Michigan, Barry was known for visiting and performing for children in local hospitals. Barry retired in the early 1970s to El Paso, Texas, where he lived for 25 years, and continued to perform occasionally. He died in 1997, preceded by his wife, Violet.
References
1917 births
1997 deaths
American radio personalities
American male television actors
20th-century American male actors
Actors from St. Joseph, Missouri
Male actors from Missouri |
45436319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaspils%20FC | Salaspils FC |
References
Football clubs in Latvia |
48576924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baali%20Umar%20Ko%20Salaam | Baali Umar Ko Salaam | Baali Umar Ko Salaam is a 1994 Hindi film starring Kamal Sadanah and Tisca Chopra.
Plot
Rahul (Kamal Sadanah), the only son of Seth Banwarilal (Anupam Kher), does not think twice before spending money, and is also very arrogant and shrude. Seth Banwarilal is always tensed about Rahul and decides to get him married in order to get him on the right track. Rahul, not wanting to marry, runs away from his house along with Peter (Ali Asgar), to Chamba. Here, he comes in contact with Nikky (Tisca Chopra), who is the daughter of the industrialist Mr. Jalan (Saeed Jaffrey). After many conflicts, fights and misunderstandings, the two fall in love. Rahul wants to marry Nikky, but, Banwarilal does not want Rahul to marry a girl of his choice. On the other hand, Jalan also disapproves Rahul. Will the two be able to marry each other and live the life of their dreams? Will Banwarilal and Jalan accept the couple?
Music
"Meri Zindagi Teri Chahat Ke Naam, Baali Umar Ko Salam" - Kumar Sanu
"Meri Zindagi Teri Chahat Ke Naam, Bali Umar Ko Salam" (Female) - Alka Yagnik
"Darte Darte Tum Kaho Kuch Darte Darte Hum Kahe" - Asha Bhosle, Kumar Sanu
"Aakho Se Aakhe Milau To Ho Jaayga Deewana" - Kumar Sanu, Rajshree Biswas
"Tune Tune Mera Dil Le Liya, Maine Maine Pyar Kiya" - Mohammed Aziz
"Chupke Teri Aankho Me Sari Duniya Se Hum Chhup Jaaynge" - Asha Bhosle, Udit Narayan
"Ding Dong Ding Dong, Pehli Najar Me Dekha Tujhe" - Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik
References
External links
1994 films
Films scored by Bappi Lahiri
1990s Hindi-language films
Indian films |
27073572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamellitrochus%20pourtalesi | Lamellitrochus pourtalesi | Lamellitrochus pourtalesi is a deep-sea species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and off Puerto Rico at depths between 293 m and 2276 m.
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 10.3 mm.
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 293 m. Maximum recorded depth is 2276 m.
References
Clench, W. J. and C. G. Aguayo. 1939. Notes and descriptions of new deep-water Mollusca obtained by the Harvard-Havana Expedition off the coast of Cuba. II. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural "Felipe Poey" 13: 189–197, pls. 28-29
Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
External links
pourtalesi
Gastropods described in 1939 |
25132778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly%20Botha | Beverly Botha | Beverly Botha is a former Southern Transvaal and South Africa cricketer. She made three Test appearances for South Africa in 1972, scoring 139 runs.
References
External links
Living people
South African women cricketers
South Africa women Test cricketers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
1021358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Armas | Chris Armas | Christopher Armas (born August 27, 1972) is an American professional soccer coach and former player. He is currently an assistant coach at Manchester United.
Youth and college
Born in The Bronx, New York City, Armas is of Puerto Rican descent and grew up in Brentwood, New York. He graduated from St. Anthony's High School and then attended Adelphi University from 1990 to 1993, amassing 17 goals and 15 assists over his collegiate career. Armas was named an NCAA Division II First Team All-American his senior year.
Playing career
Professional
After graduating from college, Armas spent 1994 and 1995 playing for the USISL's Long Island Rough Riders, being selected as a USISL All-Star. In 1995, the Rough Riders defeated the Minnesota Thunder in the USISL's Pro League Championship.
In 1996, Armas was drafted by Los Angeles Galaxy in the first round of the Major League Soccer Supplemental Draft and played a significant role in their first and second seasons. Chicago Fire acquired Armas in a trade for their inaugural 1998 campaign. It was with the 1998 Fire team that Armas emerged as an exceptional player, helping them win their first MLS Championship that year. Between 1998 and 2001, Armas was named to the MLS Best XI four consecutive times, his streak only being broken by an ACL injury that kept him out of much of the 2002 campaign; Armas was named to his fifth Best XI after the 2003 MLS season, in addition to being named the MLS Comeback Player of the Year. He was named U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year in 2000. In ten years in MLS, he totaled 11 goals and 41 assists, plus added four goals and four assists in the playoffs.
On April 19, 2007, Armas announced that the 2007 MLS season with the Chicago Fire would be his last, as he decided to retire. His retirement was made official on November 13, 2007, after spending 12 years in MLS.
International
Armas played for Puerto Rico in the 1993 Caribbean Cup. The competition was not then recognized by FIFA and so his five matches were classed as friendlies.
He was therefore later allowed to switch his allegiance to the United States, for whom he made his debut November 6, 1998, against Australia. He went on to earn 66 caps. He did not break into the squad until soon after the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and his ACL injury came just before the 2002 FIFA World Cup, so he was never able to play for the United States in the World Cup. He was named as a standby player for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and did not feature in the final squad.
Coaching career
After his retirement, he coached youth soccer and was a high school physical education teacher at St. Anthony's High School.
Armas served as an assistant coach for the Chicago Fire in 2008 and was the head women's soccer coach at Adelphi University between 2011 and 2015.
On July 6, 2018, Armas was promoted to head coach of New York Red Bulls after former manager Jesse Marsch departed the club to join RB Salzburg as an assistant. Armas helped the Red Bulls finish first in the regular season, winning the Supporters' Shield as a result. The Red Bulls were eliminated in the conference finals by Atlanta United FC.
In 2019, the Red Bulls finished sixth in the Eastern Conference and were eliminated by the Philadelphia Union in the first round of the playoffs. The Red Bulls were then eliminated in the group stage of the MLS is Back Tournament after they were defeated by FC Cincinnati. The team was in the middle of a scoring slump when Armas parted ways with the club on September 4, 2020, the day after a 1–0 loss to D.C. United.
In 2021, Armas was hired as head coach of Toronto FC, replacing Greg Vanney, who departed the club at the end of his contract. On July 4, 2021, following a 7–1 loss to D.C. United, the largest loss in club history and a league record of 1 win, 8 losses, and 2 draws, the team announced he had been fired.
On December 7, 2021, Armas was hired by Manchester United as assistant coach to work under interim manager Ralf Rangnick.
Personal life
Armas and his wife, Justine, have two sons, Christopher and Aleksei.
Career statistics
Club
International
Scores and results list the United States' goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Armas goal.
Coaching
Honors
Player
Chicago Fire
MLS Cup: 1998
Supporters' Shield: 2003
U.S. Open Cup: 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006
United States
CONCACAF Gold Cup: 2002, 2005
U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year: 2000
Individual
MLS Best XI: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003
MLS All-Star: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004
MLS Comeback Player of the Year: 2003
Chicago Fire MVP: 2003
Coach
New York Red Bulls
Supporters' Shield: 2018
References
External links
Chris Armas at FBRef.com
1972 births
Living people
American people of Puerto Rican descent
American soccer players
American soccer coaches
United States men's international soccer players
Puerto Rican footballers
Puerto Rican football managers
Puerto Rico international footballers
Soccer players from New York (state)
Sportspeople from New York City
Sportspeople from the Bronx
Association football midfielders
Adelphi University alumni
Adelphi Panthers men's soccer players
Long Island Rough Riders players
LA Galaxy draft picks
LA Galaxy players
Chicago Fire FC players
USISL players
USISL Pro League players
Major League Soccer players
Dual internationalists (football)
2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players
2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
CONCACAF Gold Cup-winning players
Major League Soccer All-Stars
Chicago Fire FC non-playing staff
Adelphi Panthers women's soccer coaches
New York Red Bulls non-playing staff
New York Red Bulls coaches
Toronto FC coaches
Major League Soccer coaches
Manchester United F.C. non-playing staff
Association football coaches |
21303487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20Peace | Make Peace | Make Peace (or Makepeace) is a historic home located at Crisfield, Somerset County, Maryland, United States.
It is a -story Flemish bond brick house of the early 18th century.
Make Peace was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
References
External links
, including photo from 1996, at Maryland Historical Trust
Houses in Somerset County, Maryland
Crisfield, Maryland
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses completed in 1725
Historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland
1725 establishments in Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Maryland |
39693388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Ireland%20Home%20Service%20Medal | Northern Ireland Home Service Medal | The Northern Ireland Home Service Medal is a long service medal awarded to members of the Ulster Defence Regiment and its successor the Royal Irish Regiment. Established in 1992, the medal is awarded for 12 years of long and efficient service. Clasps are awarded for six subsequent years of qualifying service. The medal replaced the Ulster Defence Regiment Medal.
Criteria
The Northern Ireland Home Service Medal is awarded to recognize 12 years of part-time service with the Royal Irish Regiment. Clasps are awarded for six additional years of qualifying service. Recommendations for award of the medal are made in accordance with Royal Irish Regiment Regulations. Full-time members of the Royal Irish Regiment qualify for the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
Appearance
The medal is silver, 36 mm in diameter. The obverse bears a right facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Imperial State Crown. In relief around the edge is the inscription ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA FID.DEF. The reverse depicts a scroll with four lines of text FOR / HOME SERVICE / IN / NORTHERN IRELAND. Surmounting the scroll is a crown, with shamrocks on either side above, and laurels with a pair of harps below.
References
Military awards and decorations of the United Kingdom
Long and Meritorious Service Medals of Britain and the Commonwealth |
33963797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings%20Over%20the%20World | Wings Over the World | Wings Over the World is a 1979 television documentary film featuring the rock band Wings. It consists of concert performances from their acclaimed 1975–76 world tour, together with behind-the-scenes footage. Also included is a short excerpt of Wings rehearsing at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts before their 1972 UK university tour. Problems with the audio from the 1976 live performances delayed the film's release until 16 March 1979 in the United States (on CBS) and 8 April 1979 in the United Kingdom (on BBC2), by which time, band members Jimmy McCulloch and Joe English had left the group and been replaced.
In 2013, the film was released on DVD as part of the deluxe edition of the Wings over America live album.
Program content
Chapters as per the DVD
"Jet" (live)"Bip Bop" / "Hey Diddle" (Scotland, 6 June 1971)"Lucille" (first Wings rehearsals)
"Maybe I'm Amazed" (live)[Wings at Elstree, July 1975]"Live and Let Die" (live)
[Glasgow, Scotland][Perth, Australia]"Band on the Run""Letting Go" (live)
"You Gave Me the Answer"[Sydney]"Honey Don't" / "Yesterday" (soundcheck)"Yesterday" (live)
"The Long and Winding Road""Silly Love Songs" (soundcheck)"Magneto and Titanium Man" (live)
"Silly Love Songs" (live)"The Long and Winding Road"
"Go Now" (live)
"Beware My Love" (live)"The Long and Winding Road"Let 'Em In (live)
"Band on the Run" (live)[Seattle]
"Venus and Mars/Rock Show" (live)[Los Angeles]
"Hi, Hi, Hi" (live)
"Soily" (live)"Listen to What the Man Said" (credits)
Citations
Sources
External links
1979 television films
1979 films
Paul McCartney and Wings
Concert films |
42482743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deeper%2C%20Deeper%2C%20Deeper%20Still | Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still | "Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still" is the sixth episode of the American documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. It premiered on April 13, 2014 on Fox and aired on April 14, 2014 on National Geographic Channel. The episode explores the smallest particles in the universe, where host Neil deGrasse Tyson "hunts for elusive neutrinos and the distant, early universe." The episode features the underground neutrino laboratory, Super-Kamiokande, located underneath Mount Kamioka in Japan.
The episode received a 1.3/4 in the 18-49 rating/share, with 3.49 million American viewers watching on Fox.
Episode summary
This episode exhibits the nature of the cosmos on the microscopic and atomic scales, using the Ship of the Imagination to explore these realms. Tyson describes some of the micro-organisms that live within a dewdrop, demonstrating parameciums and tardigrades. He proceeds to discuss how plants use photosynthesis via their chloroplasts to convert sunlight into chemical reactions which convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and energy-rich sugars. Tyson then discusses the nature of molecules and atoms and how they relate to the evolution of species. He uses the example set forth by Charles Darwin postulating the existence of the long-tongued Morgan's sphinx moth based on the nature of the comet orchid with pollen far within the flower. He further demonstrates that scents from flowers are used to trigger olfactory centers in the brain, stimulating the mind to threats as to aid in the survival of the species.
Tyson narrates how Greek philosophers Thales and Democritus postulated that all matter was made up of combinations of atoms in a large number of configurations, and describes how carbon serves as the basic building block for life on Earth due to its unique chemical nature. Tyson examines the basic structure of atoms, their protons, neutrons, and electrons, and the nature of nuclear fusion, a process found to occur within most stars. He then discusses the existence of neutrinos created by these nuclear processes, and the attempts to detect such subatomic particles which normally pass through matter, requiring subterranean facilities like the Super-Kamiokande which were used to detect neutrinos from the supernova SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. These neutrinos were detected before any light from the explosion reached us; this was due to their ability to pass through the matter of the dying star itself. Tyson compares how neutrinos were postulated by Wolfgang Pauli to account for the conservation of energy from nuclear reactions in the same manner as Darwin's postulate on the long-tongued moth. Tyson concludes by noting that neutrinos from the Big Bang still exist in the universe but, due to the nature of light, there is a "wall of infinity" beyond which we cannot observe.
Reception
Ratings
The episode's premiere on Fox brought a 1.3/4 in the 18-49 rating/share, with an audience of 3.49 million American viewers. It placed fourth and last in its timeslot behind The Good Wife, Resurrection and Believe; and fourteenth out of seventeen for the night.
References
External links
"Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still" at National Geographic Channel
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey episodes
Television episodes directed by Bill Pope |
25474440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztaka | Aztaka | Aztaka is a 2D side-scrolling action role-playing video game for the Microsoft Windows and OS X developed by Canadian independent game developer Citérémis. The game is set in the Aztec period, with characters and story being re-interpretations of Aztec mythology and pre-Hispanic Mexican culture. It puts the player in the role of an Aztec warrior named "Huitzilo" who must gather seven phonographs to save his civilization from its angry gods.
Gameplay
The gameplay is reminiscent of an old-school action role-playing game. The player climbs, crawls and jumps his way around a level to explore it and find new items. Experience points are gained for every enemy killed, and they are spent to upgrade the character's attributes and special skills. There is also an inventory screen where discovered items can be equipped and where merchandise bought from merchants (like potions) can be used.
The game is controlled with the WASD keys (makes Huitzilo move and jump) and the mouse (to attack or grab items). Doing this allows the player to modify parts of the game world, as well as unlock a variety of doorways or pick-up previously unattainable items. As the player progresses in the game, he gains containers that allows him to store on-screen energy particles for later use. The mouse is also used to cast spells, both offensive and defensive, by selecting them from the bottom-screen magic inventory and then clicking at on-screen targets in succession to launch them.
Artwork throughout the game reflects historical Mesoamerica, with square-shaped pyramids, stone temples, mystic engravings, dense jungles, and barren mountaintops. The game's musical score features vocals, flute, cello, organ, and drums.
History
The game was released as DRM-free digital self-distribution on the developer's website and on Direct2Drive in May 2009. Later in 2009 the game also launched on Steam. In 2011, Citérémis offered a "Developer's Edition" for a limited period of time (7 to 31 January 2011). This edition included the source code of the game, as well as the art book and soundtrack.
Reception
The game was received by press and game news websites overall good to mixed. It was mentioned in an article about indie game development in Italian magazine The Games Machine.
References
External links
Official game website
2009 video games
Windows games
MacOS games
Side-scrolling role-playing video games
Commercial video games with freely available source code
Video games developed in Canada
Video games set in Mexico
Metroidvania games
Indie video games
Video games based on Native American mythology |
65840676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomubogor | Bomubogor | Prince Xiang of the First Rank, or simply Prince Xiang, was the title of a princely peerage used in China during the Manchu-led Qing dynasty (1644–1912). As the Prince Xiang peerage was not awarded "iron-cap" status, this meant that each successive bearer of the title would normally start off with a title downgraded by one rank vis-à-vis that held by his predecessor. However, the title would generally not be downgraded to any lower than a feng'en fuguo gong except under special circumstances.
The sole bearer of the title was Bombogoor (,20 January 1642 – 22 August 1656), the Hong Taiji's 11th son, who was made "Prince Xiang of the First Rank" in 1655. Bombogoor died without an heir and had not adopted any children, leaving the peerage extinct. Bombogor was honoured with the title "Prince Xiangzhao of the First Rank" (和硕襄昭亲王, "xiangzhao" meaning "helpful and luminous").
Family of Bomubogor
Primary Consort, of the Khorchin Borjigin clan
5 mistresses
Ancestry
References
History of China
Qing dynasty princely peerages
Hong Taiji's sons
Extinct Qing dynasty princely peerages |
44560541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20ethics | Communication ethics | For definition, see Communication
Communication Ethics is how a person uses language, media, journalism, and creates relationships that are guided by an individual's moral and values. These ethics consider being aware of the consequences of behavior and consequences; it's to “respect other points of view and tolerate disagreement”. Principles of ethics include being honest, being fair, as well as integrity of one's own words.
Ethical communication is crucial due to its emphasis on the responsibility of people to keep society civil. With the concern of fake news becoming more prevalent in today's society, the importance with ethical communication has been significant.
Overview
Being an ethical communicator is defined as being honest, accurate, as well as being truthful. This stems from a person's morals and values, and how people define what is "good and bad". Throughout history, how journalists and the media have debated the terms of ethics on what can be shared out to the public.
Communication ethics concerns not only the individual, but is of great concern to businesses, corporations, and professional entities. A business with unethical communication practices is not as effective as one with ethical communication practices. For example, a business with unethical communication practices may withhold evidence that it is harming the environment or breaking a law through a lack of transparence; while a business with ethical communication practices will immediately press a release to the affected parties. In this example, transparency makes the business more effective because it notifies its clients, prospective or established, providers/suppliers, or other affiliates of the potential environmental hazard or law violation. In other words, in this example, transparency will encourage trust and good faith, that the effective business will not conceal what is in the interest of its audience. For the sake of counterexample, there may be a time when censorship is the more effective business practice: take the case of trade secrets, when a design method or management tactic is not openly revealed in the name of competitive advantage; or when terms of agreement/use that a business may have with a service provider forbids transparency. In the latter counterexample, a business may use social media to advertise, but the social media service provider may limit the conduct of its users. Here, if the business considers social media to be a valuable service to achieve its advertising, it may have to censor its product or service to preserve its agreement with the social media provider.
History
Historically, communication ethics begun with the concerns correlated with print media and has advanced towards digital technologies. Critics began assessing the harms of unregulated press in North America and Europe during the 1890s, which forced the creation of principles in the United States during the 1920s. Four major books that emerged from this decade were: Who's Who of journalism luminaries: Nelson Crawford's Ethics of Journalism (1924), Leon Flint's The Conscience of the Newspaper (1925), William Gibbons's Newspaper Ethics (1926), and Albert Henning's Ethics and Practices in Journalism (1932). These authors left a legacy on the meaning behinds communication ethics and confronted in their books of issues with ethics. Perpetual issues have always been with the concerns of privacy and confidentiality, and have been progressively been debated with the freedom of speech.
Philosophers
Ethics can be traced back to the philosopher, Socrates (circa 470-399 B.C.E), who probed deep and broad concepts of goodness and justice. He believed that anyone, "given time to think and question, could gain insight into universally accepted rules of moral conduct".
His disciple, Plato (circa 428-348 B.C.E.), expanded on the concepts of goodness and justice, and argued that justice is achieved through wisdom. He also claimed that "good" was a value of what's moral to achieve a higher good.
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E), who studied under Plato, developed the definition of virtue ethics, which is that a virtuous person will do the right thing primarily because he or she is of good character.
These philosophers defined the meaning behind "good and justice" that is now integrated into the ethics of communication. In modern society, "good and justice" are discussed through media and news and what is considered right from wrong. Communication deals with these matters through everyday reports, interviews, and professional situations, as well as human morals in situations that deal with other people.
Ten Basics of Communication Ethics
These basic principles give professions and reporters a guideline on how to distribute information to the public without offending other people. It focus' on respecting information that people give and provides structure on how to ethically use the information.
Seek to “elicit the best” in communications and interactions with other group members.
Listen when others speak.
Speak non-judgmentally.
Speak from your own experience and perspective, expressing your own thoughts, needs, and feelings.
Seek to understand others.
Avoid speaking for others, for example by characterizing what others have said without checking your understanding, or by universalizing your opinions, beliefs, values, and conclusions, assuming everyone shares them.
Manage your own personal boundaries: share only what you are comfortable sharing.
Respect the personal boundaries of others.
Avoid interrupting and side conversations.
Make sure that everyone has time to speak, that all members have relatively equal “air time” if they want it.
Universal Codes of Communication Ethics
The National Communication Association founded in 1914 by 17 speech teachers who all left the National Council of Teachers of English. There are now thousands of scholars around the world in NCA dedicated to the study of teaching communication. They believe that unethical communication can threaten society and counter civility in everyday conversations. NCA endorses honest communication and focuses on educating others effective dialogue, discussion, as well as debate.
The obligation for truth is however not a legal matter, as there is no single code of ethics that applies to everyone. An example of a code is The 1996 SPJ Code, which is framed around the four principles: to seek truth, to minimize harm, to remain independent, and not hold themselves accountable. These principles reflect today's challenges in the growing internet presence.
A Code of Professional Ethics for the Communication Scholar/Teacher, adopted in November 1999, has the behavior guidelines of integrity fairness professional and social responsibility equality of opportunity confidentiality honesty and openness respect for self and others freedom and safety. These codes are set as disciplinary acts to guide people in professions that deal with communication practices.
Confidentiality is crucial in all professions such as teachers, researchers, publications, and professional relationships. Ethics begins with ourselves and governs how we interact with other people. One being The American Sociological Association's (ASA's) Code of Ethics are enforceable rules set forth by the American Sociological Association. There are six principles and ethical standards that have been set forth to manage scientific and professional responsibilities.
Other professional codes include
Code of Ethics of the Education Profession (1975).
National Education Association Representative Assembly.
Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct. American Psychological Association.
Statement on Professional Ethics (1995). The American Association of University Professors.
References
Communication
Ethics |
20781269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuvehaven%20metro%20station | Leuvehaven metro station | Leuvehaven is an underground subway station in the city of Rotterdam. It is part of Rotterdam Metro lines D and E. The station opened on 9 February 1968, the same date that the North-South Line (also formerly called Erasmus line), of which it is a part, was opened.
The station is located in the southern part of the center of Rotterdam, underneath the Schiedamsedijk, and near the northern end of the Erasmus Bridge.
Rotterdam Metro
RandstadRail stations in Rotterdam
Railway stations opened in 1968
1968 establishments in the Netherlands |
65517922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malati%20Rishidev | Malati Rishidev | Malati Rishidev is the shortest woman in Nepal.She was born on September 3, 1999. She is tall and her weight is about 13.6 kg (30 pounds). She was born in Biratchowk, Morang district.
See also
Khagendra Thapa Magar - the former shortest man of world from Nepal. He died in January 2020.
References
People with dwarfism
1999 births
Living people
People from Morang District |
3193618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron%20Ritchie | Byron Ritchie | Byron Ritchie (born April 24, 1977) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, and grew up in North Delta, British Columbia. Ritchie saw action in a total of 332 games in the NHL and also played in Sweden, Switzerland and Belarus.
Playing career
As a youth, Ritchie played in the 1990 and 1991 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from North Delta.
Ritchie was drafted in the 7th round (165th overall) by the Hartford Whalers in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft, from the Lethbridge Hurricanes. He was named to the Western Hockey League East Second All-Star Team in 1996 and 1997. On May 13, 1997, after a major junior game in the Memorial Cup refereed by a Francophone from Quebec he was caught by an RDS (the French version of TSN) camera yelling: "Fuck you, you fucking Frogs! Fuck them all!"" He apologized the next day at practice stating "Whether the camera was on me or not doesn't make it right." For the remainder of the tournament, he was booed mercilessly by the fans in Hull, Quebec, where the tournament was taking place.
His rights transferred to the Carolina Hurricanes when the Whalers franchise relocated in 1997. On December 21, 1998, Ritchie made his NHL debut with the Hurricanes against the Buffalo Sabres. On October 26, 2001, he set a Lowell Lock Monsters franchise record for points in a game with six (2 goals, 4 assists). He was named the American Hockey League Player of the Week on October 29, 2001. On January 16, 2002, he was traded to the Florida Panthers with Sandis Ozolinsh for Bret Hedican, Tomas Malec, Kevyn Adams and a conditional 2nd round selection in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. On July 4, 2004, he was signed as an unrestricted free agent by the Calgary Flames. On July 2, 2007, Ritchie signed with the Vancouver Canucks, where he played for one season.
After the Canucks chose not to re-sign him, he signed as a free agent to play in Europe for Geneve-Servette HC of the NLA and signed a one-year contract. After a very good season in Switzerland during which he earned 60 points and took the fifth place of the overall top-scorer rankings, Ritchie, again a free agent, decided to sign with the Dinamo Minsk of the Russian KHL. In the 2009–10 season, Bryon was hampered by injury and played in just 12 games posting 3 goals for Minsk.
On June 14, 2010, Ritchie remained in Europe and signed a one-year contract to return to Sweden with Modo of the SEL. After a single season in Sweden, Ritchie signed to return to the Swiss NLA with SC Bern for the 2011–12 season. He won the Swiss championship with Bern in 2013.
After four seasons with Bern, finished the 2014–15 season as team captain, Ritchie left the NLA and signed for a second spell with Modo Hockey of the SHL on May 10, 2015. He announced his retirement in March 2017.
Career statistics
Awards and honours
References
External links
Stats & Bio from The Hockey News
1977 births
Living people
Beast of New Haven players
Calgary Flames players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Belarus
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland
Canadian ice hockey centres
Carolina Hurricanes players
Cincinnati Cyclones (IHL) players
Florida Panthers players
Genève-Servette HC players
Hartford Whalers draft picks
HC Dinamo Minsk players
Ice hockey people from British Columbia
Lethbridge Hurricanes players
Lowell Lock Monsters players
Modo Hockey players
People from Delta, British Columbia
Rögle BK players
San Antonio Rampage players
SC Bern players
Sportspeople from Burnaby
Springfield Falcons players
Vancouver Canucks players |
4877232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramlink%20route%201 | Tramlink route 1 | Tramlink route 1 is one of four tram routes operated as part of the Tramlink network in south London. The route is owned and operated by Transport for London (TfL).
History
Like many modern tram systems, most of the length of Tramlink route 1 on the Tramlink is built on disused railway alignments. British Rail, and their successors Connex South Central and Connex South Eastern, had run two un-profitable shuttle services along branch lines, one being a remnant of the Mid-Kent Line between Elmers End and Addiscombe, calling at Woodside operated by Connex South Eastern and the other being a service between West Croydon and Wimbledon on the former Surrey Iron Railway alignment, operated by Connex South Central. Both services ceased in the summer 1997 timetable to allow Tramlink construction to take place, and in the event were re-opened after almost exactly three years, with a much more frequent tram service.
In 1839 the London and Croydon Railway was opened, running to what is now West Croydon, and branching off from the London and Greenwich Railway near Bermondsey. In 1841 the London and Brighton Railway, constructed a line branching off in Croydon, and becoming the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846. Branching off this in turn, at Redhill, was the Redhill to Tonbridge Line, from 1844.
Mid Kent Railway
The North Kent Railway, was built in 1849. This was originally planned as an extension of the L&G, but this would have meant tunnelling under the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and worries about vibrations from passing trains affecting observations led to it being diverted in a generous curve via Lewisham and Blackheath, to rejoin the intended route from Charlton and Woolwich onwards (although the original route via Maze Hill was subsequently built). To complement it, the Mid Kent Railway was conceived, branching off at Lewisham by a sharp curve and initially heading southwards, intended then to curve gradually east to the middle of Kent.
However, construction was overtaken by events, namely the more direct South Eastern Main Line via Grove Park, Orpington and Sevenoaks, which later became the South Eastern Railway. Thus construction of the MKR in its original form was abandoned at New Beckenham, and a sharp kink to the west was introduced to take trains to a revised terminus at Addiscombe, near Croydon. This opened in 1864, and branches at Elmers End (to Hayes) and Woodside (to connect with the Oxted Line at Sanderstead, opening in 1885) were added. The branch from Woodside to Sanderstead was relatively unsuccessful and was finally closed by British Rail on 13 May 1983. The branch to Hayes became the main route, with the service between Elmers End and Addiscombe reduced to a shuttle service (although with some through services at peak hours).
Conversion to tram operation
The route between Elmers End and Woodside has been converted to tram operation, although the section from Woodside to Addiscombe had been abandoned. The track had to be lowered at this point to fit the overhead wires safely under the bridge at Woodside; elsewhere, former Railtrack lines have been kept where possible, and the superior ride quality of the older track is noticeable.
Instead of running into the old Addiscombe station — which has been demolished, with housing being built on the former station site — trams follow the Sanderstead branch alignment as far as Addiscombe Road. While the old branch skirted around Croydon, the obvious major traffic objective in the area, Tramlink was able to make good use of this alignment by running trams up onto the Addiscombe Road in order to serve Croydon town centre. This provides the only section of Line 1 that is not on former railway lines. In addition, extra stops were added at Arena and Blackhorse Lane. Addiscombe tram stop replaces Bingham Road Halt, an original station that was across Bingham Road from where Addiscombe tram stop is now. The tram stop is at road level, Bingham Road Halt Station was on an embankment and crossed the roads over bridges. It is still on the route of the Woodside and South Croydon Railway (locally known as the Sanderstead branch).
West Croydon to Wimbledon
The other half of the route took over the former West Croydon to Wimbledon shuttle. Parts of the alignment between Waddon Marsh and Mitcham follow the Surrey Iron Railway which opened in 1803 between Wandsworth and Croydon. In more recent times this was a public service between West Croydon and Wimbledon, diverting off the original route at the ends, and latterly the service had run with a single train, giving an interval of approximately 45 minute between services. The line was closed by Railtrack on 31 May 1997, and, since there were no parallel bus services, temporary route TL1 was introduced, running half-hourly and serving all the former stations. Initially operated by Cowie South London and later transferred to Metrobus, the route was never a success, carrying an average load of about 3.
Since Tramlink has taken over, a 10-minute service is provided during the day on Mondays to Saturdays and has proved unexpectedly popular. It provides a better public transport link to the previously under-served Purley Way retail area. Previously there was just the rail service, calling just at Waddon Marsh, or bus route 289, running into Croydon via a circuitous route via Thornton Road. Coincidentally, it is also the 289 that parallels Line 1 between central Croydon and Elmers End, so it is surprising that it was unaffected by London Transport's drastic bus cutbacks.
In 2006 Route 1 was cut back to serve the loop rather than Wimbledon and Route 3 took over services to Wimbledon. The new Route 4, introduced in 2012, reinstated a direct link between Addiscombe and the Purley Way retail area, and four years later was extended to Wimbledon, effectively replicating the former Route 1.
Capacity
Route 1 runs from West Croydon Town Centre to Elmers End, although Route 3 services used to run to West Croydon and Route 1 to Wimbledon. The Line runs parallel to Route 2 for the entire way apart from between Arena and Elmer's End. For the entire route, bus 289 runs totally next to it. A long-term plan is to build a proper twin track terminus at Elmers End, which would allow a more robust timetable to be introduced. Nevertheless, there has been some fine tuning of the timetable to minimise disruption, including services to Wimbledon being switched over to Route 3.
Current route
Change in route colours
Since Transport for London took over operation and ownership, a new network map was put in place, changing routes 1 and 2 to lime and showing them as one route, but trams still show on route displays three routes, as trams from Elmers End change numbers in central Croydon to route 2 - Beckenham Junction and do the same when coming from Beckenham Junction.
Route is listed from west to east. The following stops are served by all trams:
External links
Croydon Tramlink - The Unofficial Site
Tramlink Official Website
References
Tramlink
Transport in the London Borough of Croydon
Transport in the London Borough of Bromley |
16304930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquim%20Costa | Joaquim Costa | Joaquim Costa (23 January 193615 February 2008) was a Portuguese rock and roll performer. He was a pioneer in bringing rock and roll to Portugal.
References
1936 births
2008 deaths
Portuguese pop musicians
20th-century Portuguese male singers |
32172032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabash%20Valley%20Art%20Spaces | Wabash Valley Art Spaces | Wabash Valley Art Spaces, incorporated as Art Spaces, Inc. — Wabash Valley Outdoor Sculpture Collection, is a non-profit arts organization based in Terre Haute, Indiana and serving the Wabash Valley region. It sponsors the creation and installation of site-specific outdoor sculpture. Art Spaces also has sponsored public events including the Max Ehrmann Poetry Competition, which corresponded with the installation of Max Ehrmann at the Crossroads in 2010.
Philosophy
The Art Spaces mission statement states the organization exists "to establish a collection of public outdoor sculpture" in the area it serves.
Collection
Works are located throughout the Wabash Valley area and include:
Flame of the Millennium by Leonardo Nierman (located at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)
TREE by Mark Wallis
Composite House for Terre Haute by Lauren Ewing
Spirit of Space by Bob Emser
Gatekeeper by Sally Rogers (located at the Vigo County Public Library)
Emanating Connections by Chakaia Booker (located on the campus of Indiana State University)
Runner by Doug Kornfeld (located on the campus of Indiana State University)
Max Ehrmann at the Crossroads by Bill Wolfe
See also
List of public art in Terre Haute, Indiana
References
Non-profit organizations based in Indiana
Arts organizations based in Indiana
American sculpture
Terre Haute, Indiana |
274397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaftesbury%20Abbey | Shaftesbury Abbey | Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was founded in about 888, and dissolved in 1539 during the English Reformation by the order of Thomas Cromwell, minister to King Henry VIII. At the time it was the second-wealthiest nunnery in England, behind only Syon Abbey.
History
Alfred the Great founded the convent in about 888 and installed his daughter Æthelgifu as the first abbess. Ælfgifu, the wife of Alfred's grandson, King Edmund I, was buried at Shaftesbury and soon venerated as a saint, and she came to be regarded by the house as its true founder.
The bones of St Edward the Martyr were translated from Wareham and received at the abbey with great ceremony. The translation of the relics was overseen by St Dunstan and Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia. This occurred in a great procession beginning on 13 February 981; the relics arrived at Shaftesbury seven days later. The relics were received by the nuns of the abbey and were buried with full royal honours on the north side of the altar. The account of the translation reports that on the way from Wareham to Shaftesbury, a miracle had taken place: when two crippled men were brought close to the bier and those carrying it lowered the body to their level, the cripples were immediately restored to full health. This procession and events were re-enacted 1000 years later in 1981. Reports from Shaftesbury of many other miracles said to have been obtained through Edward's intercession helped establish the abbey as a place of pilgrimage.
In 1001, it was recorded that the tomb in which St Edward lay was observed regularly to rise from the ground. King Æthelred instructed the bishops to raise his brother's tomb from the ground and place it into a more fitting place. The bishops moved the relics to a casket, placed in the holy place of the saints together with other holy relics. This elevation of the relics of Edward took place on 20 June 1001.
Shaftesbury Abbey was rededicated to the Mother of God and St Edward. Many miracles were claimed at the tomb of St Edward, including the healing of lepers and the blind. The abbey became the wealthiest Benedictine nunnery in England, a major pilgrimage site, and the town's central focus. A large grange, Place Farm was established at Tisbury to administer the abbey’s Wiltshire estates.
In 1240 Cardinal Otto Candidus, the legate to the Apostolic See of Pope Gregory IX, visited the abbey and confirmed a charter of 1191, the first entered in the Glastonbury chartulary. Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots was imprisoned here from October 1312 to March 1313. By 1340, the steward of the abbess swore in the town's mayor.
Dissolution
At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, a common saying quoted by Bishop Thomas Fuller conjectured "if the abbess of Shaftesbury and the abbot of Glastonbury Abbey had been able to wed, their son would have been richer than the King of England" because of the lands which it had been bequeathed. It was too rich a prize for Thomas Cromwell to pass up on behalf of King Henry VIII.
In 1539, the last abbess, Elizabeth Zouche, signed a deed of surrender, the abbey was demolished, and its lands sold, leading to a temporary decline in the town. Sir Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour purchased the abbey and much of the town in 1540, but when he was later exiled for treason his lands were forfeit, and the lands passed to the earl of Pembroke then to Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, and finally to the Grosvenors.
Burials
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury
Edward the Martyr
In literature
Thomas Hardy wrote of the Abbey ruins:
Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal Abbey, the chief glory of south Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions—all now ruthlessly swept away—throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel.
A novel based on the dissolution of the Abbey, The Butcher's Daughter, by Victoria Glendinning was published in 2018.
Matrix is a 2021 historical novel by Lauren Groff about Abbess Mary of Shaftesbury, supposed by some historians to be the author Marie de France.
List of Abbesses
The list that follows is clearly incomplete. Unless specified, the dates given are those of mentions in the historic record.
Elfgiva or Æthelgeofu or Algiva, first abbess about 888
Ælfthrith (948)
Herleva (966; died 982)
Alfrida (1001 or 1009)
Leueua (in the reign of Edward the Confessor)
Eulalia (appointed 1074)
Eustachia
Cecilia (perhaps appointed 1107)
Emma
Mary (1189)
J. (elected 1216)
Amicia Russell (elected 1223)
Agnes Lungespee (elected 1243)
Agnes de Ferrers (elected 1247)
Juliana de Bauceyn (died 1279)
Laurentia de Muscegros (elected 1279; died 1290)
Joan de Bridport (elected 1290; died 1291)
Mabel Gifford (elected 1291)
Alice de Lavyngton (elected 1302; died 1315)
Margaret Aucher (elected 1315, died 1329)
Dionisia le Blunde (elected 1329, died 1345)
Joan Duket (elected 1345, died 1350)
Margaret de Leukenore (elected 1350)
Joan Formage (elected 1362, died 1394)
Egelina de Counteville (appointed 1395)
Cecilia Fovent (1398, died 1423)
Margaret Stourton (elected 1423; died 1441) She was the sister of John Stourton (died 1438) of Preston Plucknett in Somerset, 7 times MP for Somerset, in 1419, 1420, December 1421, 1423, 1426, 1429 and 1435.
Edith Bonham (elected 1441; died 1460)
Margaret St. John (elected 1460)
Alice Gibbes (died 1496)
Margaret Twyneo (elected 1496; died 1505)
Elizabeth Shelford (elected 1505; died 1528)
Elizabeth Zouche or Zuche, elected 1529 and forced to surrender the abbey in 1539
Shaftesbury Abbey Museum
Shaftesbury Abbey Museum features stonework pieces excavated from the abbey's ruins, including Anglo-Saxon carvings and medieval floor tiles. Exhibits tell the story of the Benedictine convent and its inhabitants. The museum is open from April through October, and the site also features a medieval period garden and orchard.
The Abbey site today
The site of Shaftesbury Abbey is now used to host many events including open air viewings of various films, drama workshops and performances, as well as some historical lectures. It is also the home of the music showcase that takes place during the town's "Gold Hill Fair", which takes place in early July and provides a platform for the best of local music.
References
Further reading
External links
Shaftesbury Abbey Museum - official site
Benedictine monasteries in England
Benedictine nunneries in England
Anglo-Saxon monastic houses
Monasteries in Dorset
Grade I listed buildings in Dorset
9th-century establishments in England
1539 disestablishments in England
Christian monasteries established in the 9th century
Museums in Dorset
Religious museums in England
History museums in Dorset
Shaftesbury
Religious buildings and structures completed in 888 |
33416334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor%20of%20Upper%20Hutt | Mayor of Upper Hutt | The Mayor of Upper Hutt is the head of the municipal government of Upper Hutt, New Zealand, and presides over the Upper Hutt City Council. The mayor is directly elected using a First Past the Post electoral system. The Upper Hutt Town Board had seven chairmen, with the role regarded as the predecessor role of mayor. The Upper Hutt Borough Council was proclaimed in 1926, and with that the role of mayor was introduced. In 1966, Upper Hutt became a city council. The current mayor, Wayne Guppy, is the eleventh since the role was created in 1926, and he was first elected in 2001.
History
Local government in Upper Hutt commenced with the formation of a Roads Board, which was subsequently incorporated into the Hutt County Council when that body was established in 1876. The roads board evolved into a dependent county town board within the County Council's jurisdiction. After a change in local government legislation, the Upper Hutt Town Board was proclaimed in 1908. In 1965, Upper Hutt qualified as a city, and this status was officially conferred in the following year, with Upper Hutt becoming a city council. In 1973, the Hutt County Council, Rimutaka and part of Heretaunga Ridings was amalgamated with Upper Hutt, which thus became the second largest council by area (after Dunedin City Council). Further amalgamation happened in 1989, when Heretaunga/Pinehaven District Community Council was incorporatated into Upper Hutt.
The seventh and last chairman of the town board, Angus McCurdy, was elected as the first mayor of the Upper Hutt Borough Council, which was formed in 1926. Peter Robertson was chairman during the years of World War I, and mayor from 1927 to 1931, and again in 1938 until his death in 1939. He died from injuries received in a car crash, colliding with the car of the son of Councillor James Blewman. The resulting by-election was won by Blewman, who beat J Purvis by a majority of 193 votes.
Doris Nicholson was mayor from 1971 to 1977. She has been the only woman so far to hold the mayoralty. She was succeeded by Rex Kirton, who was mayor for 24 years until 2001 and by the time of his retirement from the role, he was New Zealand's longest-serving mayor at that time. He was succeeded by one-term councillor Wayne Guppy, who was elected with a 6,000 vote majority and who has held the mayoralty since then.
Unusual for a city in New Zealand, none of the chairmen or mayors of Upper Hutt has been a Member of Parliament.
Until 2004, First Past the Post (FPP) was the electoral system used for New Zealand local elections (with few historic exceptions) including in Upper Hutt. The option of using the Single transferable vote voting system was introduced in 2004, but Upper Hutt continues to use FPP.
Chairmen and mayors
Upper Hutt Town Board Chairmen
The Upper Hutt Town Board had seven chairmen between 1908 and 1926.
Upper Hutt Borough Council
The Upper Hutt Borough Council had eight mayors between 1926 and 1966.
Upper Hutt City Council
The Upper Hutt City Council has had an additional four mayors since its formation in 1966. The last mayor of the borough council was also the first mayor of the city council.
References
Upper Hutt
People from Upper Hutt
Upper Hutt |
6499661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misan | Misan | Misan may refer to:
Misan, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Misan Province, Iran
Misan football club, an Iraqi football team
Igor Mišan (born 1990), Bosnian Serb footballer
University of Misan, in Amarah, Maysan, Iraq
Ministry of Health (Spain) (Ministerio de Sanidad or MISAN) |
37078341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systers | Systers | Systers, founded by Anita Borg, is an international electronic mailing list for technical women in computing. The Syster community strives to increase the number of women in computer science and improve work environments for women. The mailing list has operated since 1987, making it the oldest of its kind for women in computer science. It is likely the largest email community of women in computing. The name 'Systers' originated from the combination of the words systems and sisters.
History
Systers was formed by Anita Borg in 1987 after a discussion with women at the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) in Austin. At the conference, Borg got the email addresses of 20 of the women attending and created Systers. The name came from combining systems with sisters. The administrator of Systers was Borg, who was called by users "her Systers' keeper". It was the first worldwide community for women working in the field of computer science. The group spread by word of mouth, growing to around 2,000 members in the mid 1990s. The group was accused of practicing "reverse discrimination" by others in 1993. Borg defended the group as a way for women who were often cut off from one another in the field to connect with one another. Many women did not have any other women in their own workplaces. It was refreshing to find a space where women were not "drowned out by the voices of men." The size of the group led Borg to create a system, called MECCA, which would allow members to opt in and out of various discussion topics. Later, the list would move to web-based technology. By 2004, women from 53 different countries were participating. Systers also influenced other similar mailing lists.
As of 2012, more than 3000 members were subscribing to the Systers' mailing list. Previously, the mailing list was maintained by Her Systers' Keeper, Robin Jeffries, from 2000 to 2012. The next Systers' Keeper was Rosario Robinson. During #GHC18 at Houston Texas, it was announced that Zaza Soriano will be the new Systers' Keeper.
Systers 25th Anniversary
In 2012, Systers celebrated its 25th anniversary with Global Meet Ups and a celebration at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
About
Systers was developed as an electronic mailing list for women working in computer science. It is one of the oldest communities for women in computer science. Women using the list must stay on topic (discussion women and computer science) and they are expected to treat each other with respect. Members are expected to be supportive of other members and topics discussed generally relate to women in computing. A notable exception was a 1992 discussion of a Barbie doll, whose recorded phrases included "Math class is tough!" Systers was credited as influential in persuading Mattel to remove the phrase. Other topics that have been covered included strategies for childcare on the job or at conferences, dealing with harassment both online and at work and technical questions. Women were able to ask questions about various topics and receive timely answers from their peers. Women also shared jokes about working in the computing or engineering fields. Other lists that have "spun off" from Systers are researcHers, system-entrepreneurs and a list for recent doctoral graduates.
The Systers list runs on GNU Mailman. Systers members and Google Summer of Code participants customized the code to meet Systers' needs.
Anita Borg Systers Pass-It-On Awards Program
The Pass-It-On Awards program provides monetary support for women entering fields in technology through donations by women established in technological fields. The award honor's Anita Borg's vision of a network of women that support each other. Awards from $500.00 to $1000.00 USD are funded by online donations from the Systers community.
Founding members
Systers was founded in 1987 by Anita Borg and several other women who attended a Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) conference.
Anita Borg
Stella Atkins
Miche Baker-Harvey
Carla Ellis
Joan Francioni
Susan Gerhart
Anita K. Jones
Rivka Ladin
Barbara Liskov
Sherri Menees Nichols
Susan Owicki
Liuba Shrira
Karen Sollins
See also
Women's WIRE
References
CitationsSources
External links
Systers list homepage
Systers, an Anita Borg Institute Community
Electronic mailing lists
Organizations for women in science and technology |
1018369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Williams%20%28DD-108%29 | USS Williams (DD-108) | USS Williams (DD-108) was a in the United States Navy entering service in 1919, and was the second ship to bear the name. Following a brief stint in active service, the ship was laid up for 17 years before being reactivated during World War II. Williams transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II as part of Lend-Lease and was renamed HMCS St. Clair (I65), surviving the war and being scrapped in 1946.
Construction and career
United States Navy
Named in honor of John Foster Williams, the destroyer was laid down on 25 March 1918 at San Francisco, California, by the Union Iron Works plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. Williams was launched on 4 July 1918, sponsored by Mrs. H. G. Leopold, the wife of Commander H. G. Leopold. The destroyer commissioned on 1 March 1919 at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, Commander Matthias E. Manly in command.
Following shakedown trials, Williams and the destroyer departed Newport, Rhode Island, on 5 June 1919, bound for the Azores. Arriving at Ponta Delgada on 11 June, Williams proceeded to Gibraltar, where she picked up information pertaining to minefields still in operation in the Adriatic Sea, for delivery to the Commander, Naval Forces, Eastern Mediterranean. The destroyer visited Split, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Gallipoli, in the Dardanelles; and Trieste, Italy, where she operated as part of the US naval forces monitoring the local situation there.
After returning to the United States arriving at New York City on 1 August 1919, Williams was assigned to the Pacific Fleet. Given the hull number DD-108 on 17 July 1920, the destroyer operated out of San Diego, California until decommissioned there on 7 June 1922 and placed in reserve.
The German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 began hostilities in Europe, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately declared the United States' neutrality. To augment the fleet units already engaged in the Neutrality Patrol hurriedly placed off the eastern seaboard and gulf coast of the United States, the navy recommissioned 77 destroyers and light minelayers.
Williams was among those recommissioned at San Diego on 6 November 1939, Lt. Comdr. Louis N. Miller in command. Following a refit at Mare Island, the destroyer operated in the San Diego area until sailing for Panama on 5 February. Transiting the Panama Canal on 16 February, she lay at Balboa, Panama, for a brief time. During her stay there, the destroyer "manned the rail" in honor of President Roosevelt, who was then engaged in an informal inspection of the Canal Zone's defenses. Underway soon thereafter, Williams arrived at the Naval Operating Base (NOB), Key West, Florida, on 27 February.
In the following months, Williams operated with the Atlantic Squadron of the fleet, conducting neutrality patrols as well as training cruises consisting of short-range battle practices and ship-handling drills in March, she conducted an astronomical survey in the Bahamas. On 9 April, Williams transported a survey party to Palmetto Island in the British West Indies before shifting to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. After moving back to Key West for a time, Williams departed Florida's waters on 2 June and arrived at New York on 4 June. She conducted two training cruises for embarked Naval Reserve contingents, which kept her busy into mid-1940. After a final refit at the Boston Navy Yard, she departed Charlestown, Massachusetts, on 18 September, bound for Canadian waters; and reached Halifax, Nova Scotia, two days later.
As one of the 50 destroyers transferred to the British under lend-lease in return for leases on important base sites in the Western Hemisphere— Williams was selected as one of the six units slated for the Royal Canadian Navy. Soon after her arrival at Halifax on 20 September 1940, she got underway for a brief familiarization cruise for the Canadian crewmen. Williams was decommissioned and turned over to the Canadian government on 24 September; her name was subsequently struck from the Navy list on 8 January 1941.
Royal Canadian Navy
Renamed HMCS St. Clair with the pennant number I65—following the Canadian practice of naming destroyers after Canadian rivers (but with deference to the U.S. origin), her name commemorates the St. Clair River which forms the boundary between Michigan and Ontario—the destroyer was fitted out for convoy escort duties and sailed for the British Isles on 30 November, in company with (ex-) and (ex-).
Operating with the Clyde Escort force, St. Clair escorted convoys in and out of the heavily travelled Western Approaches to the British Isles in the spring of 1941. Late in May, when the powerful German battleship and the heavy cruiser slipped through the Denmark Straits, the "flush decker" became involved in the intensive and widespread effort to destroy the German dreadnought. Eventually, a British force located and sank Bismarck on 27 May, but not before the tragic loss of the battlecruiser on 24 May. The search for the elusive German force brought some of the British units dangerously close to exhaustion of their fuel supplies. Two s, and , were located by German long-range bombers soon after Bismarck had slipped beneath the waves and were sunk. St. Clair, near the battle area, became involved in the action when she, too, came under attack. The old destroyer doggedly put up a good defense—shooting down one, and possibly, a second, enemy plane.
St. Clair subsequently joined the Newfoundland Escort Force after this group's establishment in June 1941 and operated on convoy escort missions between Newfoundland and Reykjavík, Iceland, through the end of 1941. St. Clair was assigned to the Western Local Escort Force following repairs at Saint John, New Brunswick, in early 1942, and operated out of Halifax over the next two years, escorting coastwise convoys until withdrawn from this service in 1943 due to her deteriorating condition.
Operating as a submarine depot ship at Halifax until deemed unfit for further duty "in any capacity" in August 1944, St. Clair was used as a fire-fighting and damage control hulk until 1946. Handed over to the War Assets Corporation for disposal, on 6 October 1946, St. Clair was subsequently broken up for scrap.
See also
List of United States Navy destroyers
Notes
References
External links
NavSource Photos
Ships of the Royal Canadian Navy
Wickes-class destroyers
Ships built in San Francisco
1918 ships
Town-class destroyers converted from Wickes-class destroyers |
27090961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetrariopsis | Cetrariopsis | Cetrariopsis is a genus of foliose lichens in the large family Parmeliaceae. The genus contains three species, including the type, Cetrariopsis wallichiana.
Taxonomy
Cetrariopsis was circumscribed by Japanese lichenologist Syo Kurokawa in 1980. The type species was originally called Sticta wallichiana by Thomas Taylor, who described it in 1847.
In 2017, Divakar and colleagues used a recently developed "temporal phylogenetic" approach to identify temporal bands for specific taxonomic ranks in the family Parmeliaceae, suggesting that groups of species that diverged within the time window of 29.45–32.55 million years ago represent genera. They proposed to synonymize Cetrariopsis with Nephromopsis, along with several other Parmelioid genera, so that all the genera within the Parmeliaceae are about the same age. Although some of their proposed taxonomic changes were accepted, the synonymization of the Parmelioid genera with Nephromopsis was not accepted in a recent analysis.
Species
Cetrariopsis lai A.Thell & Randlane (1995)
Cetrariopsis pallescens (Schaer.) A.Thell & Randlane (1995)
Cetrariopsis wallichiana (Taylor) Kurok. (1980)
References
Parmeliaceae
Lecanorales genera
Lichens
Taxa described in 1980 |
68596034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20referendum | Financial referendum | The financial referendum (also known as a budget referendum) is a form of the referendum and an instrument of direct democracy. It always relates to parts of the public budget of a government and allows citizens to vote directly on individual budget items.
Certain initial conditions are usually defined as a prerequisite for holding a financial referendum. In most cases, only budget items that exceed a certain absolute amount or a certain proportion of the total budget or investments that will burden the budget for a number of years can be subjected to a financial referendum.
The financial referendum may be either optional or mandatory. In its optional form a specified number of signatures from voters must be collected within a certain time period to trigger a vote on a budget item. A mandatory financial referendum automatically leads to a vote as soon as the conditions regarding the amount and duration of a budget item are met. Budget items that do not meet the specified conditions or that the local authority is legally obliged to do cannot be subject to a financial referendum.
Switzerland
The financial referendum in Switzerland exists in all cantons and many municipalities. It does not exist however at the federal level. While a few cantons have used the instrument since the 19th century, it has only spread throughout Switzerland since the 1970s. Most cantons and municipalities do not allow both the optional or the mandatory financial referendum. In a few cantons both types exist, whereby higher requirements apply to the obligatory type.
An example from the Canton of Zurich, which included the financial referendum in the complete revision of its constitution in 2005:
The introduction of the financial referendum at federal level has been discussed in Switzerland for several decades, but has so far been rejected by a majority of Swiss political parties. Critics argue that a federal financial referendum could hinder the Federal Council in its freedom of action, and delay or even block important investments.
Effects and reception
Financial referendums have a moderating and disciplining effect on public funds and reduce centralization of government spending. Disproportionately high or unpopular expenditure will most likely not be approved by the citizens in referendums, and referendums are associated with significantly lower public expenditure and taxes. Controlling for other factors of spending and demographics, data from Swiss cantons shows having mandatory financial referendums cause an average reduction of government spending by 19%.
Proponents of the financial referendum argue it has features of citizen participation. Comparable to other procedures of citizen participation, it expands the democratic influence and citizens beyond the framework of the legislation to other socio-political issues. Its proponents therefore see the financial referendum as an important step towards further deepening democracy. It strengthens citizens' preoccupation with community finances and promotes awareness of public investment. Due to the largely positive experience with the financial referendum in Switzerland, some civil society organizations in Germany and Austria are calling for it to be introduced there as well. In many cases this would require a change in their respective constitutions because these often explicitly prohibit votes on parts of the budget, or simply no regulations exist for holding a financial referendum.
Critics of the financial referendum mostly argue that it could block important investments and limit the administration's ability to act. In addition, in contrast to the administration and parliament, citizens are often not in a position to objectively assess the appropriateness of larger budget expenditures.
See also
Direct democracy
Participatory budgeting
References
Direct democracy
Politics of Switzerland
Referendums in Switzerland |
59615255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20in%20amusement%20parks | 2019 in amusement parks | This is a list of events and openings related to amusement parks that occurred in 2019. These various lists are not exhaustive.
Amusement parks
Opening
Indonesia Atlantis Land
Indonesia Bandung Champion City – March 24
U.S. Big SNOW American Dream in American Dream Meadowlands – December 5
China Guangzhou Sunac Cultural Tourism City
China Oriental Heritage Changsha
UAE Kidzania Abu Dhabi – June 26
Qatar Kidzania Doha – May 1
U.S. Kidzania Dallas – November 23
Africa Kidzania Johannesburg
Indonesia Kidzania Surabaya – November 2019
China Lionsgate Entertainment World – July 31
U.S. Nickelodeon Universe in American Dream Meadowlands – October 25
Indonesia Panama Park 825 – Opening June 1 – Reopening September 30
South Korea Gyeongnam Mason Robotland – September 6
Oman Snow Park Mall Of Muscat – July 26
Indonesia Transmart Malang – February 22
Indonesia Trans Snow World – Juanda > March 25 – Bintaro > December 21
Indonesia Trans Studio Bali – December 12
Indonesia Trans Studio Cibubur – July 12
Indonesia Trans Studio Mini Malang – February 22
Indonesia Trans Studio Mini Tasikmalaya
Turkey Wonderland Eurasia – March 20
Change of name
U.S. Darien Lake Theme Park Resort » Six Flags Darien Lake
U.S. Wet N' Wild Phoenix » Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Phoenix
U.S. Wet N' Wild Splashtown » Six Flags Hurricane Harbor SplashTown
Change of ownership
U.S. Schlitterbahn – The Henry family » Cedar Fair
Birthday
Legoland California – 20th Anniversary
Thorpe Park – 40th Anniversary
Energylandia – 5th Anniversary
Wonderland Ankara – 15th Anniversary
Mirabilandia Olinda – 25th Anniversary
Gulliver's Land – 20th Anniversary
Happy Valley Chengdu – 10th Anniversary
Cinecittà World – 5th Anniversary
PowerPark – 20th Anniversary
Happy Valley Shanghai – 10th Anniversary
Universal's Islands of Adventure – 20th Anniversary
Chimelong Ocean Kingdom – 5th Anniversary
Adventure City – 25th Anniversary
Busch Gardens Tampa – 60th Anniversary
Walibi Rhône-Alpes – 40th Anniversary
Trans Studio Makassar – 10th Anniversary
Closed
Bedrock City Arizona – January 28
Scandia Amusement Park (Ontario) – February 3
Sybrandy's Speelpark – August 25
Boomers! Medford – September 29
La Feria de Chapultepec
Additions
Roller coasters
New
Relocated
Refurbished
Other attractions
New
Refurbished
Closed attractions and roller coasters
References
Amusement parks by year
Amusement parks |
12600747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20members%20of%20the%20United%20States%20House%20of%20Representatives%20%28D%29 | List of former members of the United States House of Representatives (D) | This is a complete list of former members of the United States House of Representatives whose last names begin with the letter D.
Number of years/terms representative/delegate has served
The number of years the representative/delegate has served in Congress indicates the number of terms the representative/delegate has.
Note the representative/delegate can also serve non-consecutive terms if the representative/delegate loses election and wins re-election to the House.
2 years - 1 or 2 terms
4 years - 2 or 3 terms
6 years - 3 or 4 terms
8 years - 4 or 5 terms
10 years - 5 or 6 terms
12 years - 6 or 7 terms
14 years - 7 or 8 terms
16 years - 8 or 9 terms
18 years - 9 or 10 terms
20 years - 10 or 11 terms
22 years - 11 or 12 terms
24 years - 12 or 13 terms
26 years - 13 or 14 terms
28 years - 14 or 15 terms
30 years - 15 or 16 terms
32 years - 16 or 17 terms
34 years - 17 or 18 terms
36 years - 18 or 19 terms
38 years - 19 or 20 terms
40 years - 20 or 21 terms
42 years - 21 or 22 terms
44 years - 22 or 23 terms
46 years - 23 or 24 terms
48 years - 24 or 25 terms
50 years - 25 or 26 terms
52 years - 26 or 27 terms
54 years - 27 or 28 terms
56 years - 28 or 29 terms
58 years - 29 or 30 terms
External links
Congressional Biographical Directory
D |
18416881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965%E2%80%9366%20Ekstraklasa | 1965–66 Ekstraklasa | Statistics of Ekstraklasa for the 1965–66 season.
Overview
14 teams competed in the 1965-66 season with Górnik Zabrze winning the championship.
League standings
Results
References
Poland - List of final tables (RSSSF)
Ekstraklasa seasons
1965–66 in Polish football
Pol |
56574594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Mary%27s%20Church%2C%20Whitchurch | St Mary's Church, Whitchurch | St Mary's Church, Whitchurch is an Anglican place of worship in the suburb of Whitchurch, Cardiff. The Victorian building is listed.
Early Churches
A church in the locality is first recorded in the twelfth century, though the date of its founding and its dedication are now unknown. At this time, Whitchurch was a chapel of ease to Llandaff Cathedral, and would remain so until the 19th Century. The first church which is known to have carried the dedication to Mary was first erected in the 14th Century. In the 15th or 16th Century, a porch was added, followed later still by a nave, then a belfry of Bath stone. The graveyard dated from 1616, when a licence for baptisms, marriages and burials was obtained. Later alterations to the interior were carried out in 1810. The old church could seat 300. Despite the fact that it was growing too small for the growing population (which the new Melingriffith Tin Plate Works had bolstered to 696), the issue of the church's inadequate facilities would not be addressed for several decades. During the 19th Century, Whitchurch also acquired its first Nonconformist places of worship, with the Whitchurch Methodist Church being founded in .
Modern Church
As Whitchurch gradually evolved into a suburb over the 19th Century, the population of the district continued to expand. Whitchurch became a separate parish in 1845. The Revd. J.T. Clarke, who became the vicar of St Mary's in 1876, was dissatisfied by the inadequate (and increasingly rundown) church, and began to agitate for a replacement. The new church was finally provided in 1884, located around 300 metres to the south-south-west from its predecessor. It was designed by John Prichard, and was consecrated for worship in 1885. After its replacement came into use, the old church was largely abandoned and lapsed into decay. It was ruinous by the turn of the 20th Century and was demolished in 1904. Its graveyard remained until being converted into a public garden, St Mary's Gardens, in 1973, which is still extant on Old Church Road. The church became Listed in 1975.
Organisation
The church is now in the Rectorial Benefice of Whitchurch. It has three daughter churches: All Saints (Rhiwbina), All Saints (Llandaff North) and St Thomas's (Birchgrove). The current Director of Music at St. Mary's is Thomas Mottershead.
References
Grade II listed churches in Cardiff
Churches completed in 1884
Church in Wales church buildings
12th-century church buildings in Wales
John Prichard buildings
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Wales |
36703463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhumakanal | Dhumakanal | Dhumakanal is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in Indi taluk of Bijapur district, Karnataka. It is nearly 50 km from district headquarters, Bijapur. Its one of the small villages near to Chadchan town; Dhumakanal lies 20 km by road south-east of Chadchan.
Demographics
In the 2001 India census, Dhumakanal had a population of 866, with 459 males and 407 females.
In the 2011 census Dhumakanal reported a population of 1,212.
Agriculture
Total land of village has more than 80% fertile and cropping area. The village mainly grows sugar cane, grape, maize, sorghum, pearl millet and small area of lemon, onion, turmeric etc. Irrigation is mainly based upon bore-wells and wells.
Education
In village there is a Government Higher Primary School currently working with 1st to 8th standard having more than 150 students. The whole village have more than 70% of literacy.
Trusts
In village there are some associations doing cultural, sports programmes and other activities.
References
External links
http://Bijapur.nic.in/
Villages in Bijapur district, Karnataka |
25555295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Newnham | Maurice Newnham | Group Captain Maurice Ashdown Newnham OBE, DFC (31 August 1897 – October 1974) was a World War I flying ace credited with 18 aerial victories.
He originally joined the Royal Flying Corps as a 17-year-old courier. He was assigned to No. 4 Squadron in France. A year and a half later, he underwent pilot's training.
He was then forwarded to a Sopwith Camel unit, No. 65 Squadron. On 25 April 1918, he was shot down by Josef Mai. On 10 May 1918, he scored his first victory by destroying an Albatros D.V. He became an ace on 29 June. He flew 102 offensive patrols in six months, and steadily accumulated victories through 9 November 1918. His final total included victories over 14 enemy fighters and a reconnaissance two-seater. He was also a balloon buster, having shot down three enemy observation balloons.
Between the wars, Newnham was involved with the Triumph motorcycle and automobile company. As early as 1933, he stocked them in his automotive sales center. He was appointed to head it in 1936 as managing director and chief executive. He sold off the motorcycle division and turned the company from producing sports cars to building nondescript family sedans. This policy put the company in serious financial straits, as the sedan market was overcrowded. The Bombing of Coventry destroyed the motorcycle plant and damaged the automobile factory seriously enough to shut down production.
Newnham returned to service during World War II, rejoining the RAF on 11 November 1939 as a pilot officer (probationary), with the service number 75897. He was confirmed in his rank the following 11 November, having been promoted to war-substantive flying officer on 22 February 1940. After a spell of administrative duties, he was promoted to flight lieutenant in 1942 and established and ran the British Parachute Training School, a feat he recorded in his book, Prelude to Glory. He took that post as an acting squadron leader on 9 July 1941. He was promoted to the temporary rank of squadron leader on 1 July 1943 and retroactively promoted to the war-substantive rank on 29 June 1943 (gazetted 20 August 1943). Despite being in his 40s, he personally parachuted numerous times. He insisted on testing all improved equipment before it went into general use in the school.
Newnham was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) (Military Division), in the 1944 Birthday Honours list. He was promoted to war-substantive wing commander on 20 May 1945. After the war, Newnham returned to running his auto sales center. He formally relinquished his wartime commission on 10 February 1954, retaining the rank of group captain.
Honors and awards
Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
Lieut. Maurice Ashdown Newnham. (FRANCE)
This officer has taken part in several night-bombing raids and in 102 offensive patrols, many of which he has led with ability and success. On the night of 23–24 September Lt. Newnham carried out a very successful long distance raid on an enemy aerodrome. Owing to heavy rain and a strong west wind he had difficulty in reaching his objective. Undeterred by this, he succeeded, and effectively bombed the aerodrome, obtaining two direct hits on a large Zeppelin shed. He then attacked other objectives, descending to ground level to do so. He returned to our lines after a 2½ hours flight.
References
1897 births
1974 deaths
Officers of the Order of the British Empire |
7712147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Arenales%20Partido | General Arenales Partido | General Arenales Partido is a partido on the northern border of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.
The provincial subdivision has a population of about 15,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is General Arenales, which is located from Buenos Aires.
Economy
The economy of General Arenales Partido is dominated by agriculture. The main products are arable crops, beef, pork, honey and dairy products.
There are also small scale metal and textile industries as well as numerous small businesses.
Settlements
General Arenales
Arribeños
Ascensión
Delgado
Ham
La Angelita
La Pinta
La Trinidad
External links
General Arenales Web Site
Arenales Partido
Travel Net site
1889 establishments in Argentina
Partidos of Buenos Aires Province |
28302190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20Genetics%20%28journal%29 | Clinical Genetics (journal) | Clinical Genetics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering medical genetics. It was established in 1970 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. The editor-in-chief is Reiner A. Veitia (University of Paris).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2018 impact factor is 4.104.
References
External links
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals
Publications established in 1970
English-language journals
Monthly journals
Medical genetics journals |
63310519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annandale%20North%20%28ward%29 | Annandale North (ward) | Annandale North is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects four Councillors.
Councillors
Election Results
2017 Election
2017 Dumfries and Galloway Council election
2012 Election
2012 Dumfries and Galloway Council election
2007 Election
2007 Dumfries and Galloway Council election
References
Wards of Dumfries and Galloway |
67999949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Mannerheim-Sparre | Eva Mannerheim-Sparre | Countess Eva Mannerheim-Sparre (1870—1957) was a Finnish book artist, designer and writer.
Personal life
Eva Mannerheim was born to the comital branch of the noble Mannerheim family, as the fifth child (of seven) of Count Carl Robert Mannerheim and Hedvig Charlotta Hélène von Julin, at the family's Louhisaari manor.
Her eldest sister was Sophie Mannerheim, a pioneer of modern nursing and child welfare in Finland. One of their brothers was Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, who later became Marshal and the 6th President of Finland.
Eva Mannerheim's mother died young, and her father remarried and moved to Paris, and she was sent to Stockholm for her schooling and later artistic and technical education, including drafting, woodblock printing and leatherwork. She returned to Finland in 1891, and began teaching leatherwork at the Ateneum art school.
In 1893, Eva Mannerheim married the Swedish artist and designer, Count Louis Sparre, with whom she had two sons.
In 1908, the family moved to Sweden; this was on account of their children's education and the political situation in Finland, although some sources suggest that the motivation was Count Sparre's disappointment at not having received public honours in Finland.
Career
Design
In the early part of her career Mannerheim-Sparre worked in the areas of technical drawing and design, including in collaboration with her husband, as Konstindustriell ritbyrå Eva & Louis Sparre ('Eva & Louise Sparre Industrial Arts Drafting Bureau'). She was also active in textile and furniture design, embroidery and related areas.
Book art
Her design and craft interests led Mannerheim-Sparre to book arts, and she is considered a pioneer of the modern book arts in Finland, and one of the leading figures of her time in the Nordic region. Her interests covered a broad range of matters including book design, bookbinding and typography. She remained active in bookbinding and design into the 1930s, when she had to give it up for health reasons following an accident.
She is also known to have planned to establish the provision of technical education in bookbinding, but her plans did not materialise.
Writing
Mannerheim-Sparre wrote several books in her life, mostly memoirs and travel journals, and especially towards the end of her career she was predominantly seen as a writer.
Her best-known book, however, is a cookery book titled Kokbok för finsmakare och vanliga hungriga ( 'Cookbook for Gourmands and the Ordinary Hungry') (Bonnier, Stockholm 1935; Finnish translation: Otava, Helsinki 1936), which has since been re-edited and printed several times.
References
1870 births
1957 deaths
Book artists
19th-century Finnish women writers
20th-century Finnish women writers
Bookbinders
Mannerheim family
Countesses
19th-century Finnish nobility
Swedish-speaking Finns
Finnish emigrants to Sweden
People from Masku |
52461307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20FINA%20World%20Swimming%20Championships%20%2825%20m%29%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%2050%20metre%20freestyle | 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre freestyle | The Men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 8 and 9 December 2016.
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results
Heats
The heats were held at 10:40.
Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 19:07.
Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
The final was held at 19:32.
References
Men's 50 metre freestyle |
44910587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%20in%20Iceland | 2012 in Iceland | The following lists events that happened in 2012 in Iceland.
Incumbents
President – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Prime Minister – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Politics
30 June: 2012 Icelandic presidential election, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson won a recond fifth-term as President of Iceland
2010s in Iceland
Iceland
Iceland
Years of the 21st century in Iceland |
56302080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marthe | Marthe | Marthe may refer to:
Marthe (given name) a feminine given name
Marthe (novel), an 1876 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Marthe, an 1877 play by Georges Ohnet
Marthe (film), a 1997 film by Gérard Jugnot
People with the surname
William Marthé (1894–?), Swiss long-distance runner
See also
Sainte-Marthe (disambiguation)
Martha (disambiguation)
Marta (disambiguation)
Marte (disambiguation)
Marth (disambiguation) |
58201148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Finding%20of%20Moses%20%28Veronese%2C%20Lyon%29 | The Finding of Moses (Veronese, Lyon) | The Finding of Moses is a c.1581 oil on canvas painting by Paolo Veronese. It is the smallest (119 by 115 cm) of at least eight works on the subject by him and his studio showing the finding of Moses - art historians often consider it to be the preparatory sketch for the variant in Dresden.
The work was recorded in the Paris collection of Jean Néret de la Ravoye, receiver general for Poitiers. It was then acquired by Louis XIV in 1685 for 5500 livres (now equivalent to about 220,000,000 Euros), at the time the ninth most expensive work the king had ever acquired, appearing as such in Charles Le Brun's inventory of Louis' collection. It was hung at the Palace of Versailles by 1695 at the latest and was recorded as hanging in the Louvre in 1737, at which date it returned to Versailles. It remained there until being moved to the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris in 1784 then at the Muséum central des Arts from 1793 onwards. In 1803 the French state sent it to its present location
References
Paintings in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
1581 paintings
Paintings by Paolo Veronese
Veronese, Lyon |
35197769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20D%27Agostino%20%28financial%20services%29 | John D'Agostino (financial services) | John Joseph D'Agostino is an American business executive and entrepreneur. D'Agostino is a senior advisor to Coinbase and Chairman of US Asset Management Committee for the Department for International Trade. He previously served as Managing Director at the world's largest fund governance firm DMS Offshore, where he also serves on the board of hedge funds providing independent oversight. He was previously a managing director at Alkeon Capital Management, a multibillion-dollar registered investment adviser. Prior to this, D'Agostino was known primarily for his involvement in the early development of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange.
His story was the focus of the book Rigged, the True Story of an Ivy League Kid who Changed the World of Oil by New York Times best-selling author Ben Mezrich. Summit Entertainment acquired the screen rights to Rigged and the book has been optioned for film adaptation.
D'Agostino was featured in "The Startup of You" by Reid Hoffman in 2012. He is the founder of Dagger LLC, a strategic consulting and advisory services. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences and meetings on business topics such as negotiation, markets, and hedge funds.
Early life
D'Agostino grew up in a working-class family in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a scholarship to attend Regis High School and subsequently Williams College for his BA degree. He studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, and obtained his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Career
After graduating from Harvard Business School, D'Agostino joined the New York Mercantile Exchange where he helped transition the floor to electronic trading. He became the exchange's youngest Head of Strategy and led the effort to create the Dubai Mercantile Exchange in partnership with the Dubai Government. D'Agostino's efforts led to the development of the first Middle East commodity derivatives exchange, which laid the foundations for accelerating the development of capital markets in the region.
He subsequently served as Director of Corporate Development at Second Market and Director for hedge fund and private equity consulting at KPMG Advisory before joining Alkeon Capital Management.
D'Agostino has written case studies used by Harvard University and has been a guest lecturer for INSEAD University. He currently lectures at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia Business School. In 2012, he was a speaker at the Australian Davos Forum in Hayman Island, Australia. He has guest lectured for the United States Navy on the topic of "financial exchange expansion as an indicator of shifting political power" and advised the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing on its successful $1.3 billion acquisition of the London Metal Exchange. D'Agostino also serves as the Chair of the New York City UK Consulate's Asset Management Commmitte.
Depictions in media
Books
In 2007, his story became the focus of the book Rigged, the True Story of an Ivy League Kid who Changed the World of Oil by Ben Mezrich. The book was published in 2008 in United Kingdom with a slight variation in the title as Rigged, The True Story of a Wall Street Novice who Changed the World of Oil Forever.
According to the author's note, D'Agostino was initially reluctant for the book to be written and author Ben Mezrich convinced D'Agostino by using a pseudonym, changing the name of the primary character to David Russo. The book appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list for one week in 2007 and another in 2008. Summit Entertainment acquired the screen rights to Rigged.
D'Agostino was mentioned in a book by Wall Street journalist Leah McGrath Goodman, titled The Asylum: Inside the Rise and Ruin of the Global Oil Market published in 2011. The book, written as an exposé, traces the New York Mercantile Exchange's transformation from an obscure market specializing in commodity futures in the 1960s to its modern-day venue as the world's energy exchange.
In 2012, D'Agostino was featured in the book The Start-up of you by LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman. The book highlights lessons from Silicon Valley's most innovative entrepreneurs.
Media appearances
At the 2018 World Capital Markets Symposium, when asked to comment on the sustainability, diversity and equality in the finance industry, D'Agostino remarked which received considerable media interest.
In June 2018, John D'Agostino and Nouriel Roubini led a discussion on cryptocurrencies at the Battle of the Quants in New York. In contrast to Roubini, D'Agostino remains neutral on cryptocurrencies and the blockchain ecosystem and its viability in the short-term, and cautiously optimistic in the long-term. D'Agostino estimates that 80 percent of ICOs are likely to fail, a figure quoted by Bloomberg.
In May 2019, D'Agostino was invited by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to speak at their first FinTech forum on Digital Assets.
Personal life
D'Agostino is married, has two daughters and resides in New York City.
References
Living people
Harvard Business School alumni
American commodities traders
American derivatives traders
American financiers
American hedge fund managers
American investors
American money managers
American stock traders
Stock and commodity market managers
Regis High School (New York City) alumni
Williams College alumni
Alumni of the University of Oxford
People from Brooklyn
Year of birth missing (living people) |
61189836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn%20Afendoulis | Lynn Afendoulis | Lynn Afendoulis (born November 3, 1958) is an American politician from the state of Michigan. A Republican, she served as a member of Michigan House of Representatives from the 73rd district from 2019 to 2021.
Early life and education
Afendoulis was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the daughter of a restaurant owner and teacher. Afendoulis is of Greek ancestry: her grandparents are ethnic Greek immigrants from Greece and Turkey.
Afendoulis attended Miami University before earning a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Michigan State University.
Career
Media career
In 1981, Afendoulis started her career as a reporter for The Grand Rapids Press until 1987. In 1987, Afendoulis became a reporter for The Tampa Tribune until 1989. In 1989, Afendoulis became a Communications/Public Relations Manager for the Bay Plaza Companies in St. Petersburg, Florida. In 1995, Afendoulis was a consultant for The Greystone Group. Since 2003, Afendoulis was a Director of Corporate Communications and Community Relations for Universal Forest Products.
Political career
In August 2018, Afendoulis won the primary election for Michigan House of Representatives for District 73. Incumbent Chris Afendoulis, who is her cousin, had run for the Michigan Senate. On November 6, 2018, Afendoulis won the election against Bill Saxton and became a member of the Michigan House of Representatives for District 73. On December 18, 2018, Afendoulis was officially sworn in by House Clerk Gary Randall.
In June 2020 following the George Floyd protests in Grand Rapids, she proposed a bill to punish those who participate in riots with terrorism charges of up to a 20-year felony sentence in, with Afendoulis stating "We want prosecutors to be able to charge them as terrorists. As social terrorists".
Afendoulis ran for the United States House of Representatives in in the 2020 elections. She lost the August 4 primary election to Peter Meijer.
Personal life
Afendoulis has two children. Afendoulis resides in Grand Rapids Charter Township, Michigan.
See also
2018 Michigan House of Representatives election
References
External links
Lynn Afendoulis at gophouse.org
Lynn Afendoulis at ballotpedia.org
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Living people
1958 births
Members of the Michigan House of Representatives
Miami University alumni
Michigan Republicans
Michigan State University alumni
Women state legislators in Michigan
Politicians from Grand Rapids, Michigan |
313690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinGate | WinGate | WinGate is an integrated multi-protocol proxy server, email server and internet gateway from Qbik New Zealand Limited in Auckland. It was first released in October 1995, and began as a re-write of SocketSet, a product that had been previously released in prototype form by Adrien de Croy.
WinGate proved popular, and by the mid- to late 1990s, WinGate was used in homes and small businesses that needed to share a single Internet connection between multiple networked computers. The introduction of Internet Connection Sharing in Windows 98, combined with increasing availability of cheap NAT-enabled routers, forced WinGate to evolve to provide more than just internet connection sharing features. Today, focus for WinGate is primarily access control, email server, caching, reporting, bandwidth management and content filtering.
WinGate comes in three versions, Standard, Professional and Enterprise. The Enterprise edition also provides an easily configured virtual private network system, which is also available separately as WinGate VPN. Licensing is based on the number of concurrently connected users, and a range of license sizes are available. Multiple licenses can also be aggregated.
The current version of WinGate is version 9.4.1, released in February 2020.
Notoriety
Versions of WinGate prior to 2.1d (1997) shipped with an insecure default configuration that - if not secured by the network administrator - allowed untrusted third parties to proxy network traffic through the WinGate server. This made open WinGate servers common targets of crackers looking for anonymous redirectors through which to attack other systems. While WinGate was by no means the only exploited proxy server, its wide popularity amongst users with little experience administering networks made it almost synonymous with open SOCKS proxies in the late 1990s. Furthermore, since a restricted (two users) version of the product was freely available without registration, contacting all WinGate users to notify of security issues was impossible, and therefore even long after the security problems were resolved there were still many insecure installations in use.
Some versions of the Sobig worm installed an unlicensed copy of WinGate 5 in a deliberately insecure configuration to be used by spammers. These installations used non-standard ports for SOCKS and WinGate remote control and so in general did not interfere with other software running on the infected host computer. This resulted in some antivirus software incorrectly identifying WinGate as malware and removing it.
Version history
See also
Internet Security
References
External links
WinGate Proxy Server official site
WinGate Proxy Server in Italy
Proxy servers
Computer networking
Virtual private networks
Reverse proxy
1995 software
Companies based in Auckland
New Zealand companies established in 1995
Software companies of New Zealand |
31721874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20McIlveen | David McIlveen | David McIlveen (born 11 February 1981) was a Democratic Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland who was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for the North Antrim constituency in 2011.
He is the son of Rev. David McIlveen, a well-known minister in the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster. although he has been largely silent on many of the issues linked to his high-profile father.
McIlveen has a keen interest in conflict studies with particular interest in The Middle East. After welcoming the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, he made remarks to The Newsletter claiming Palestinian prisoners were much better treated than Israelis who were snatched at the border by Hamas and given no rights afforded to them in relation to inspections from The Red Cross. Timothy Houston of Queen's University Belfast's Palestine Solidarity Society published an open letter accusing McIlveen of bias and over-looking human rights abuses.
David McIlveen claims "close ties with Israel" following boyhood visits with his father, and has visited the region both personally and with political delegations on numerous occasions.
From August 2015-May 2017, he was a Political Member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board.
David McIlveen did not campaign publicly with his party for the 2016 Brexit referendum and described himself as a reformist rather than leave supporter.
Since leaving politics in 2017 McIlveen has returned to private sector and runs various companies mainly aligned to the property sector. He now resides outside of Northern Ireland.
References
1981 births
Living people
Democratic Unionist Party MLAs
Northern Ireland MLAs 2011–2016 |
4530293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelpost | Pixelpost | Pixelpost is an open source photoblog application powered by PHP and MySQL, developed for publishing photos on a chronological base. Main features include multilingual capability, comment function, Exif support, spam filtering, categories, tagging and much more.
There is a great range of templates and addons available to extend the basic features already included.
As with most Content Management Systems, Pixelpost must be uploaded to a webserver in order for it to function. More information can be found on the project's official website Pixelpost.org.
Pixelpost is no longer being developed from September 2009.
External links
Official Pixelpost Themes & Addons Repository
Blog software
Photo software |
52274457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20ship%20Novorossiysk | Russian ship Novorossiysk | Three ships of the Soviet Navy and Russian Navy have been named for the city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea:
Novorossiysk - a of the Italian Navy previously named Giulio Cesare, taken by the Soviet Union as reparations following the end of the Second World War.
- a
- a Varshavyanka-class submarine
Russian Navy ship names |
2214946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanesar | Thanesar | Thanesar city or old Kurukshetra city is a historic town and an important Hindu pilgrimage centre in the state of Haryana in northern India. It is located in Kurukshetra district, approximately 160 km northwest of Delhi. Thanesar city means old name of kurukshetra city .
Kurukshetra (Sthanishwar city ) was the capital and seat of power of the Pushyabhuti dynasty, whose rulers conquered most of Aryavarta following the fall of the Gupta Empire. The Pushyabhuti emperor Prabhakarvardhana was a ruler of Thanesar in the early seventh century CE. He was succeeded by his sons, Rajyavardhana and Harsha. Harsha, also known as Harshavardhana, consolidated a vast empire over much of North India by defeating independent kings that fragmented from the Later Guptas.
History
The name Thanesar is derived from its name in Sanskrit, Sthanishvara which means Place/Abode of God. (Sthana-Place/region, Ishvara-Lord).
The present town of old Kurukshetra city ( Thanesar city) is located on an ancient mound. The mound 1 km long and 750 m wide known as "Harsh ka Tila" (Mound of Harsha), west of Sheikh Chilli's Tomb complex in old Kurukshetra city. It has ruins of structures built during the reign of Harsha, 7th century CE. Amongst the archaeological finds from the mound include Painted Grey Ware shards in the pre-Kushana levels and Red Polished Ware from post Gupta period.
In the post-Gupta period, the ancient city of Sthanishvara was the capital of the Vardhana dynasty, which ruled over a major part of North India during the late-6th and early-7th centuries. Prabhakarvardhana, fourth king of Vardhana dynasty and successor Adityavardhana, had his capital at Thanesar. After his death in 606 CE, his eldest son, Rajyavardhana, ascended the throne. Not long after, Rajyavardhana was murdered by a rival, which led to Harsha ascending to the throne at age 16. In the following years, he conquered much of North India, extended till Kamarupa, and eventually made Kannauj (in present Uttar Pradesh state) his capital, and ruled till 647 CE. His biography Harshacharita ("Deeds of Harsha") written by Sanskrit poet Banabhatta, describes his association with Thanesar, besides mentioning the defence wall, a moat and the palace with a two-storied Dhavalagriha (white mansion).
The town was sacked by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1011, due to Mahmuds call of jihad as the casus belli. This led to a drastic decline in prosperity in the region during the Sultanates.
During Mughal era, the Battle of Sthanishwar also known as Battle of the Ascetics took place in summer of 1567, between Mughal Emperor Akbar and Rajputs near Thanesar on the banks of the Sarsawati Ghaggar River.
Thanesar is listed in the Ain-i-Akbari as a pargana under the sarkar of Sirhind, producing a revenue of 7,850,803 dams for the imperial treasury and supplying a force of 1500 infantry and 50 cavalry. It had a brick fort at the time.
For much of the 18th century, Thanesar was under the suzerainty of the Maratha Empire, who collected revenue from the local rulers. Thanesar came under the British rule after the British victory in the Second Anglo-Maratha War in 1805. Under the British, it was part of the Cis-Sutlej states province from 1809 to 1862.
After the partition of India Thanesars population greatly increased. On January 23 1973, a new district named Kurukshetra district was created, of which Thanesar was the main city. Now Thanesar is a Municipal Council. Thanesar is a Legislative Assembly of Haryana constituency within the Kurukshetra (Lok Sabha constituency). People now tend, erroneously, to refer to Thanesar town as "Kurukshetra".
Majority of architectural remains including Karavan serai, cells, and various arched and vaulted structures date from the Mughal period. Building remains of a large palatial structure from the pre-Islamic era were also found with two distinct phases of construction which exposed brick covered drains and rooms situated around a central courtyard.
Sack of Sthaneshwar by Mahmud of Gazni
Thanesar was sacked and many of its temples were destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni.
Firishta records that
Mahmood having reached Punjab, required, according to the subsisting treaty with the Hindu Shahi king Anandpal, that his army should not be molested on its march through his country. An embassy was accordingly sent to inform the Raja of his intentions, and desiring him to send safety guards into his towns and villages, which he would take care to be protected from the followers of his camp. Anandpal the Shahi king, agreeing to this proposal, prepared an entertainment for the reception of the King, at the same time issuing orders for all his subjects to supply the camp with every necessity of life.
The Raja's brother, with 2,000 horses was also sent to meet the army and to deliver the following message:
"My brother is the subject and tributary of the King of Gazni, but he begs permission to acquaint his Majesty, that Thanesar is the principal place of worship of the inhabitants of the country: that if it is required by the religion of Mahmood to subvert the religion of others, he has already acquitted himself of that duty, in the destruction of the temple of Nagrakote. But if he should be pleased to alter his resolution regarding Thanesar, Anandpal Tuar promises that the amount of the revenues of that country shall be annually paid to Mahmood, that a sum shall also be paid to reimburse him for the expense of his expedition, besides which, on his own part, he will present him with fifty elephants, and jewels to a considerable amount."
Mahmood replied, "The religion of the faithful inculcates the following tenet: 'That in proportion as the tenets of the Prophet are diffused, and his followers exert themselves in the subversion of idolatry, so shall be their reward in heaven;' that, therefore, it behooved him, with the assistance of God, to root out the "worship of idols" from the face of all India. "How then should he spare Thanesar?"
This answer was communicated to Raja Anandpal Tuar of Delhi, who, resolving to oppose Sultan Mahmood, sent messengers throughout Hindoostan to acquaint the other rajas that Mahmood, without provocation, was marching with a vast army to destroy Thanesar, now under his immediate protection. He observed, that if a barrier was not expeditiously raised against this roaring torrent, the country of Hindoostan would be soon overwhelmed, and that it behooved them to unite their forces at Thanesar, to avert the impending calamity.
Mahmood, having reached Thanesar before the Hindus, had time to take measures for its defence; the city was plundered, the idols broken, and the idol Jugsoma was sent to Ghazni to be trodden underfoot. According to Hajy Mahommed Kandahary, a ruby was found in one of the temples weighing 450 miskals. It was allowed by everyone who saw it to be a wonder that had never been heard of. About the attack on Thanesar, Utbi wrote "The blood of the infidels flowed so copiously that the stream was discoloured, notwithstanding its purity, and people were unable to drink it."
Mahmood, after the capture of Thanesar, was desirous of proceeding to Delhi. But his nobles told him that it would be impossible to keep possession of it, till he had rendered Multan a province of his own government and secured himself from all apprehension of Anundpal, the Hindushahi Raja of Lahore. The king resolved, therefore, for the present, to proceed no further, till he had accomplished these objects. Anundpal Shahi, however, conducted himself with so much policy and hospitality towards Mahmood, that he returned peaceably to Ghazni. On this occasion, the Mahmood's army brought to Ghazni 200,000 captives, and much wealth, so that the capital appeared like an Indian city, no soldier of the camp being without wealth, or without many slaves.
Mughal era
Sheikh Chilli's Tomb is located in Thanesar. This is tomb of Sufi Abd-ur-Rahim Abdul-Karim Abd-ur-Razak, popularly known by the name of Sheikh Chilli. He was Sufi master of Mughal Prince Dara Shikoh. The architectural plan shows considerable Persian influence. This tomb and attached Madarsa are associated with the Sufi Saint Abd-ur-Rahim.
Mughal Emperor Akbar, accompanied by his court historian Abul Fazl, visited Kurukshetra during the solar eclipse in 1567. Abul Fazl's Akbarnama refers to the eclipse in Kurukshetra and the pilgrims bathing in the Brahma Sarovar. The French traveler François Bernier of the Mughal Emperor Shahjehan's era also mentions the sacred baths at the Indus, Ganges and the sacred tanks of Thaneshwar (Kurukshetra) on the occasion of the solar eclipse.
Sikh Guru's visits
Sikh Gurdwara is equally significant for the Sikhs. It was visited by Guru Amar Das, Guru Hargobind, Guru Har Rai, Guru Har Krishan, Guru Tegh Bahadur and Guru Gobind Singh. Four Gurdwaras are there in their memory: Gurdwara Dasvin Patshahi, Gurdwara Tisari and Satvin Patshahi and Gurdwara Navin Patshahi.
When Guru Amar Das Ji went on the 'long journey to Hardwar to see his old friends and acquaintances; and, as he went, scattered the blessings of Nam. On his way he halted at Thaneshwar, where the people asked why he composed hymns in the unknown Punjabi dialect and why not in
Sanskrit-the only language in which great truths can be expressed. The Guru said, "Sanskrit, now that is no longer the people's tongue, is like well water-sufficient for the irrigation of a small tract of land; whereas Punjabi, being the living language of the people, even if it be nothing but a dialect, is as the rain, which falls in showers all over the country."
British era
For their participation in first war of independence, the Chaudharys and Lambardars of villages who participated in rebellion in Haryana were also deprived of their land and property, including 368 people of Hisar and Gurugram were hanged or transported for life, and fine was imposed on the people of Thanesar (Rs 2,35,000), Ambala (Rs. 25, 3541) and Rohtak (Rs. 63,000 mostly on Ranghars, Shaikhs and Muslim Kasai).
Post-independence
An archaeological museum run by Archaeological Survey of India, was set up in Sheikh Chilli's Tomb complex. It consists of archaeological finds, like seals and sealings, terracotta figurines, plaques, ornaments, and swords from sites in nearby regions of Kurukshetra and Bhagwanpura. These objects are notably from Kushana (1st-3rd century CE), Gupta period (4th-6th CE), and from post Gupta period on Vardhana dynasty period (6th-7th CE).
Geography
Thanesar is located at . It has an average elevation of 232 metres (761 feet).
Transport
Kurukshetra Junction railway station is a junction station at the junction of Delhi–Kalka line and Kurukshetra–Jind branch line. It is located in Kurukshetra city limits, It serves Kurukshetra and Thanesar city. Thanesar City railway station is a smaller station but located in the city limits at .
Demographics
As of 2011 census of India, Thanesar had a population of 154,962. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45% (83,65571,307). Thanesar has an average literacy rate of 85.73%, higher than the national average of 74.04: male literacy is 89.89%, and female literacy is 80.85%. In Thanesar, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Education
The modern city of Thanesar is an important educational center; it is home to Kurukshetra University, the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra (Formerly Regional Engineering College), University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), Kurukshetra University and world's first AYUSH University Shri Krishna AYUSH University. The University Institute of Engineering and Technology (U.I.E.T.) is situated in lush green campus of Kurukshetra University with about 1000 students on its roll. It has grown into a big institute with excellent placement record right from its inception. The Kurukshetra Institute of Technology & Management (KITM) is located 10 km from Kurukshetra University on Pehowa road, near Bhor Saidan village.
Administration
Thanesar now has a Municipal Council from 1994. In 1994 the municipal elections were conducted by the state government after a long time.
Tourism
Kalpana Chawla Memorial Planetarium and Kurukshetra Panorama and Science Centre are located here.
Historical
Dharohar Museum located within the Kurukshetra University campus, showcase the unique archaeological, cultural and architectural heritage of Haryana.
Thanesar Archaeological Site Museum, Vishvamitra Ka Tila are other tourist places.
Religious
Thanesar derives its name from the words "Sthaneshwar" which means "Place of God." The Sthaneshwar Mahadev Temple, whose presiding deity is Lord Shiva, is believed to be place where the Pandavas with Krishna prayed to Lord Shiva and received his blessings for victory in the battle of Mahabharata. It is the central and the most important place in the 48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra. 1.5 km from Thanesar on Kurukshetra-Pehowa road lies Narkatari, the water tank named Bhishma Kund is believed to be the spot when Bhishma lay of the bed of arrows during the Mahabharata war.
Kaleshwar Mahadev Temple and Dukha Bhanjan Mahadev Temples are the oldest temples of Thanesar. Other religious sites include the Brahma Sarovar, Jyotisar, the Sannihit Sarovar, Gurdwara 6th Patashahi and the Devi Bhadrakali temple, which is counted among the 51 Shakti Peethas. The bathing-fair held here on the occurrence of a solar eclipse is said to be attended by half a million pilgrims. Shri Krishna Museum
Genealogy registers of pilgrims Hindu genealogy registers are maintained at Thanesa.
See also
Ror community
Tatka Village
References
Bibliography
History of Haryana
Ancient Indian cities
Cities and towns in Kurukshetra district
Former capital cities in India
Hindu pilgrimage sites in India |
29472619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall%20in%20Love%20Again | Fall in Love Again | "Fall in Love Again" is Ms. Dynamite's second and final single from her second album, Judgement Days. It features a sample from When I Fall in Love by Ken Boothe.
Track listing
Credits and personnel
Lead vocals – Ms. Dynamite
Producers – Chink Santana
Lyrics – Chink Santana, Niomi McLean-Daley
Label: Polydor Records
Release history
References
External links
Official website
Ms. Dynamite songs
2006 singles
Songs written by Ms. Dynamite |
8693940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Street%20%28Boston%29 | Charles Street (Boston) | Charles Street is the name of a north-south street in the city center of Boston, Massachusetts. It begins in the north at Leverett Circle, where it connects with Nashua Street and Monsignor O'Brien Highway. Science Park station on the MBTA Green Line is located there. Charles Street runs south and gives its name to the Charles/MGH station on the MBTA Red Line, connecting via the Charles Circle rotary to Cambridge Street and the Longfellow Bridge which leads to Cambridge. This segment is a one-way street, with traffic heading northwards.
From Charles Circle, the street heads further south as a one-way southbound thoroughfare, and forms the primary commercial spine of the affluent neighborhood of Beacon Hill. As it crosses Beacon Street, the direction of one-way traffic reverts to northbound, and the street widens to form the boundary between Boston Common and the Boston Public Garden.
Beyond Boylston Street, which forms the southern boundary of the parks, the street continues as Charles Street South (formerly Carver Street), terminating at Tremont Street just south of the Theatre District.
The street is the start and finish point for the annual B.A.A. 10K race, first organised by the Boston Athletic Association in 2011.
Notable residents
John Albion Andrew lived on Charles St., 1855-1867
Annie Adams Fields, James T. Fields, Sarah Orne Jewett (site of 148 Charles St.)
Lucretia Peabody Hale (127 Charles St.)
Davide Rossi (143 Charles St.)
Edgar Allan Poe was born at 62 Carver Street, since renamed to Charles Street South
In film
Part of Martin Scorsese's 2006 film The Departed was filmed along Charles Street in Beacon Hill.
See also
Boston Common
Boston Public Garden
Charles Street Jail
Charles Street Meeting House
Sevens Ale House
Image gallery
References
External links
Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey. 20th-century photos of house (built circa 1874), "one of the last single-family bow-fronted rowhouses to be built in Boston. This structure is included in the South End Historic District."
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mit-libraries/3385484394/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffandfazia/3731460044/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/galahad/85003442/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shutterscript/3086139769/
Streets in Boston
Beacon Hill, Boston
West End, Boston |
24610645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptogyna | Streptogyna | Streptogyna is a widespread genus of tropical plants in the grass family. It is the only genus in the monotypic tribe Streptogyneae.
Species
Streptogyna americana C.E.Hubb. - Mexico (Chiapas, Veracruz), Central America, tropical South America (Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Suriname), Trinidad
Streptogyna crinita P.Beauv.
References
Oryzoideae
Grasses of North America
Grasses of South America
Flora of Central America
Grasses of Mexico
Flora of Chiapas
Flora of Veracruz
Flora of the Amazon
Neotropical realm flora
Poaceae genera
Taxa named by Palisot de Beauvois |
15615907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane%20Legrand | Christiane Legrand | Christiane Legrand (21 August 1930 – 1 November 2011) was a French soprano.
Biography
Legrand was born in Paris. Her father Raymond Legrand was a conductor and composer renowned for hits such as Irma la douce, and her mother was Marcelle Ter-Mikaëlian (sister of conductor Jacques Hélian), who married Legrand in 1929. Her maternal grandfather was of Armenian descent and considered a member of the bourgeoisie. Legrand studied piano and classical music from the time she was four. Jazz critic and composer André Hodeir discovered her in 1957, and she became the lead singer in the most notable French jazz vocal groups of the 1960s, including Les Double Six.
Legrand was the original lead soprano of The Swingle Singers and was the vocalist who dubbed the part of Madame Emery in Les parapluies de Cherbourg, the music for which was composed by her brother Michel Legrand. She also sang the part of Judith in his Les demoiselles de Rochefort. Her commercial recordings of music for the concert hall included a recording of Laborinthus II of Luciano Berio.
Legrand did the French dubbing for the title role of Disney's film Mary Poppins (1964) and lent her talents to numerous other film projects. Legrand was the featured soprano on the track "Fires (Which Burn Brightly)" on the 1973 Procol Harum album Grand Hotel.
Her niece Victoria Legrand is a member of the American indie pop group Beach House. Another niece, Eugénie Angot, is an equestrian.
Discography
Communications '72 (Verve, 1972) (with Stan Getz)
References
External links
Biography on comufra.com
Les Swinger Singers J S Bach Partita No 2
1930 births
2011 deaths
French people of Armenian descent
Ethnic Armenian women singers
Singers from Paris
20th-century French women singers
Les Double Six members
The Swingle Singers members |
50128136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS%20Mont-Royal%20Outremont | CS Mont-Royal Outremont | Club Soccer Mont-Royal Outremont is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in the Montreal boroughs of Mount Royal and Outremont. Since 2013, the club has competed in the Première Ligue de soccer du Québec. Their women's team has competed in the women's division of the PLSQ since 2019.
History
In 2013, the club joined the Première Ligue de soccer du Québec, a Division III league, fielding a team in the men's division. During their inaugural season, they won both the League title and the League Cup.
They once again finished as league champions in 2015 and 2016. By winning the league title, they participated in the Inter-Provincial Cup, which was created in 2014, against the champion of League1 Ontario to determine the Canadian Division III champion. In 2015, they were defeated by the Oakville Blue Devils, but in 2016, they won the title by defeating Vaughan Azzurri.
They added a team in the women's division of the PLSQ for the 2019 season with Lakers du Lac Saint-Louis, which was run by the Association Régionale de Soccer du Lac St-Louis of which they are a member, transferring their team to CSMRO.
In 2019, the club partnered with Major League Soccer club Montreal Impact, joining their Centre d'identification et perfectionnement (scouting and development centre).
In 2021, they won their fourth PLSQ title, matching the record of AS Blainville, qualifying them for the 2022 Canadian Championship.
Seasons
Men
Women
Notable former players
The following players have either played at the professional or international level, either before or after playing for the PLSQ team:
Honours
PLSQ Championship (3): 2013, 2015, 2016
Coupe PLSQ (1): 2013
Inter-Provincial Cup (1): 2016
References
Mont-Royal Outremont
Soccer clubs in Quebec |
17076911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associations%20Incorporation%20Act%201981 | Associations Incorporation Act 1981 | Associations Incorporation Act 1981 may refer to:
Associations Incorporation Act 1981 (Queensland)
Associations Incorporation Act 1981 (Victoria) |
56143233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaizumi | Imaizumi | Imaizumi (written: 今泉) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
, Japanese shogi player
, Japanese video game designer
, Japanese aikidoka
, Japanese zoologist
, Japanese pop idol
Fictional characters
, a character in the manga series Yowamushi Pedal
, a character in the Touhou game Double Dealing Character
See also
Imaizumi Station, a railway station in Nagai, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Japanese-language surnames |
54967438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20bankrupts | List of bankrupts | Personal bankruptcy (also known as personal insolvency) law allows, in certain jurisdictions, an individual to be declared bankrupt, which is a legal status of a person or other entity that cannot repay the debts it owes to creditors. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor. Personal bankruptcy is distinguished from corporate bankruptcy, which generally does not directly affect the business owners' personal assets.
Modern bankruptcy law often distinguishes reorganization, in which only some of the bankrupt's assets are taken, a repayment plan is devised and part of the debt is discharged, from liquidation. In the latter type of bankruptcy, all of the debtors assets are included in the bankruptcy estate, sometimes in addition to his disposable income for a period of time, after which all of the debts are discharged.
The details vary between jurisdictions. In the US, the liquidation bankruptcy is governed by Chapter 7 of the Title 11 of the United States Code and is generally available to individuals passing a means test. Reorganization bankruptcy is governed by Chapters 11 and 13. Chapter 11 is mostly used by high net-worth individuals. In the 12-month period ending June 30, 2017, Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings accounted for, respectively, 474,258 (61%) and 1,099 (0.14%) out of 772,594 nonbusiness bankruptcy filings in the USA.
Notable bankrupts
Bankruptcy filings by celebrities generate extensive publicity, which has been cited as a factor contributing to a shift towards a less negative public perception of personal bankruptcy observed since the 1960s. Lawyers have reported using celebrity examples to persuade their clients to file for bankruptcy.
Listed below are notable individuals who filed for personal bankruptcy or were subject to a similar form of insolvency management process. The list does not include business bankruptcies and bankruptcies that were not officially recognized.
Key
References
Bankruptcy
Lists of people by legal status |
36990374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20Arkansas%20Razorbacks%20football%20team | 2000 Arkansas Razorbacks football team | The 2000 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. It marked the Razorbacks' 108th overall season and their 8th as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team is led by head coach Houston Nutt, in his third year, and played its home games at both Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville and War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas. They finished the season with a record of six wins and six losses (6–6 overall, 3–5 in the SEC) and with a loss against UNLV in the Las Vegas Bowl.
Schedule
Source:
Roster
References
Arkansas
Arkansas Razorbacks football seasons
Arkansas Razorbacks football |
1091225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSL%20Limited | CSL Limited | CSL Limited is an Australian multinational specialty biotechnology company that researches, develops, manufactures, and markets products to treat and prevent serious human medical conditions. CSL's product areas include blood plasma derivatives, vaccines, antivenom, and cell culture reagents used in various medical and genetic research and manufacturing applications.
History
Origin and Penfold directorship
CSL was founded in 1916 as the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, an Australian government body focused on vaccine manufacture. Under the first director, William Penfold, CSL commenced operation in the vacant Walter and Eliza Hall Institute building at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1918, before moving to its purpose-built Parkville premises in the following year.
Morgan directorship
After ongoing disputes with the Commonwealth Department of Health and its director, (John) Howard Cumpston, Penfold resigned in 1927 and was replaced by Frederic Morgan. Soon after Morgan's appointment, CSL was drawn into a serious public health disaster when a batch of its diphtheria toxin-antitoxin was implicated in the deaths of twelve children in what became known as the 'Bundaberg tragedy' of 1928. Although CSL's manufacturing processes were absolved, its labelling procedures were seen to be in error, leading to an enduring focus on the highest standards across the facility's production.
Antivenene research and production
In 1928, CSL also became involved in antivenene (antivenom) manufacture in conjunction with the snake venom research undertaken by Charles Kellaway at the Hall Institute. This led to the successful clinical testing of antivenene against tiger snake Notechis scutatus bite in 1930, and its commercial release in 1931.
In 1934, the research on snake venoms was transferred from the Hall Institute to CSL under the direction of former snake showman and herpetologist Tom "Pambo" Eades. This represented the initiation of research at the laboratories – an outcome its directors had been seeking for over a decade. The relationship with the Hall Institute continued until World War II, particularly via joint projects on viral diseases including polio and influenza coordinated by Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Esmond "Bill" Keogh. Keogh played an important role in the establishment of penicillin production at CSL in 1944 – a critical wartime achievement.
Plasma fractionation and Wiener directorship
In 1952, operation commenced plasma fractionation. Thereafter the range of antivenoms increased, including those against other snake species such as death adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) and the taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus), plus spiders including the redback (Latrodectus hasselti) and – after much difficulty – the Sydney funnel-web (Atrax robustus). Much of this work, including the introduction in 1962 of a polyvalent antivenom against all of the major terrestrial Australian snakes, occurred under the direction of Saul Wiener, while from 1966 until the mid-1990s, venom research was coordinated by the eccentric but dedicated Struan Sutherland, who in 1979 released new guidelines for snakebite first aid, and a new test for snakebites that would identify which snake had envenomated the victim.
Other major achievements of CSL include:
early production of insulin for treatment of Australian diabetics (1923)
development of a tetanus vaccine (1938)
development of a combined vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (1953)
rapid adoption and production of a polio vaccine (1956)
development of a multi-purpose animal vaccine covering pulpy kidney (enterotoxemia), tetanus, black disease, malignant oedema and blackleg (1961)
production of Rhesus (D) immunoglobulin to prevent haemolytic disease in newborns due to Rh factor incompatibility (1966–67)
pioneering heat treatment to protect blood and plasma products from infection with HIV (1983)
collaboration on development of the world's first human papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil, building on the pioneering work by Professor Ian Frazer (1994-2005).
Privatisation
In 1994, the Commonwealth facility was privatised as CSL Ltd. and was publicly listed and traded on the Australian Securities Exchange. The company completed an initial public offering in June 1994 at A$2.30 per share. CSL stock is part of the S&P/ASX 20 Index.
Acquisition of ZLB Bioplasma AG and Aventis Behring
In 2000, CSL doubled its size through the purchase of a Swiss plasma company, the Bern-based ZLB Bioplasma AG. In 2004, during a period of plasma oversupply, the company expanded again with the purchase of the German medical company Aventis Behring. The company was the second Australian public company to have reached a share price of over $100 per share.
Acquisition and merging of Novartis
In October 2014, Novartis announced its intention to sell its influenza vaccine business, including its development pipeline, to CSL for $275 million. CSL merged it into its BioCSL operation.
In November 2015, BioCSL rebranded the combined business with Novartis Influenza Vaccines as Seqirus [Sek-eer-us] creating the world's second largest influenza vaccine company.
In August 2017, the business announced it would acquire Calimmune and its stem cell therapy platform.
Completed in 2018, Seqirus's Holly Spring, NC, plant was funded with $59 million from the U.S. government.
in June 2020 CSL announced it would exercise its right to acquire Vitaeris.
In December 2021 the business announced it would acquire Swiss drugmaker, Vifor Pharma AG, for $11.7 billion.
Acquisition history
CSL Limited (Founded 1916 as Commonwealth Serum Laboratories)
ZLB Bioplasma AG (Acq 2000)
Aventis Behring (Acq 2004)
Seqirus (Merged 2014)
BioCSL
Novartis Influenza Vaccines div.
Calimmune (Acq 2017)
Vitaeris (Acq 2020)
Vifor Pharma (Acq 2021)
Locations
The company's headquarters remain in Parkville, Victoria, an inner suburb of Melbourne, and has offices and laboratory space in Sydney.
CSL Behring is headquartered in King of Prussia, USA and it has manufacturing operations and R&D laboratories in the Swiss city of Bern, in Marburg in Germany, and Kankakee, USA.
Seqirus has its headquarters in Maidenhead and has production facilities in Holly Springs, USA, Liverpool, UK, and Parkville, Victoria
Vaccines
A/H1N1 2009 pandemic
CSL's vaccine for swine flu, the world's first, was approved in September 2009 for use by people over age 10. The federal government ordered 21million doses of vaccine for Australians. CSL also provided vaccines for customers in Singapore and the US.
On 28 September 2010, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration conducted an analysis of febrile convulsions following immunisation in children following monovalent pandemic H1N1 vaccine (Panvax/Panvax Junior, CSL)
https://www.tga.gov.au/alert/analysis-febrile-convulsions-following-immunisation-children-following-monovalent-pandemic-h1n1-vaccine-panvaxpanvax-junior-csl
A paper published in the Medical Journal of Australia provides a possible reason for CSL’s 2010 flu vaccine causing febrile convulsions in children. The authors hypothesise that suboptimal use of the detergent called deoxycholate – used in the manufacturing process by CSL (one of the few vaccine manufacturers that use it) – to split the flu virus from its membrane may be at fault.
https://www.mja.com.au/system/files/issues/195_06_190911/kel10941_fm.pdf
COVID-19 pandemic
On 7 September 2020, CSL signed agreements with the Australian government to supply the University of Queensland vaccine (V451) and to manufacture (with AstraZeneca) the Oxford University vaccine (AZD1222), which would yield nearly 85 million doses for Australians. The agreement was contingent on the future success of clinical trials of these vaccines. Most of the manufacture would occur in Melbourne, Australia.
On 11 December 2020, after a high percentage of the University of Queensland vaccine trial participants returned “false positive” results for HIV, it was decided that vaccine development will not proceed to Phase 2/3 trials.
On 23 March 2021, the Therapeutic Goods Administration provisionally approved the first batches, numbering 832,000 doses, of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by CSL in its plant in Broadmeadows, Victoria. The Australian Government has contracted CSL to produce 50 million doses of the vaccine.
Divisions
CSL Limited's products can be separated by company division. Some of the key products produced by each division, have included:
Seqirus (bioCSL)
Vaccines:
Afluria (influenza vaccine) -- Argentina, Peru, South Africa, Spain, US
Enzira—in various different markets
Fluvax—in various different markets
Nilgrip—in various different markets
Afluria Quadrivalent (influenza vaccine) -- Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US
Afluria Quad—in various different markets
Afluria Tetra—in various different markets
Agrippal (influenza vaccine) -- Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Thailand
Agriflu—in various different markets
Begripal—in various different markets
Chiroflu—in various different markets
Fluazur—in various different markets
Sandovac—in various different markets
Audenz (influenza A (H5N1) vaccine) -- US
Fluad (influenza vaccine) -- Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, UK, US
Chiromas—Spain
Fluad Pediatric (influenza vaccine) -- Canada
Flucelvax Quadrivalent (influenza vaccine) -- Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, US
Q-VAX (Coxiella burnetii vaccine) -- Australia
Rapivab (peramivir) -- Australia, US
Antivenoms: (Australia)
Black snake
Box jellyfish
Brown snake
Death adder
Funnel web spider
Polyvalent snake antivenom
Redback spider
Sea snake
Stonefish
Taipan
Tiger snake
Snake Venom Detection Kit
CSL Behring (Australia)
Albumex (serum albumin)
Biostate (Factor VIII)
Carimune, which is immunoglobulin for intravenous administration (IGIV)
CMV Immunoglobulin-VF (cytomegalovirus immunoglobulin)
Helixate, which is recombinant Antihemophilic Factor, a blood-clotting factor for the treatment of haemophilia
Hepatitis B immunoglobulin
human immunoglobulin – Intragam P, Normal, Rh(D) Immunoglobulin-VF, Sandoglobulin,
MonoFIX-VF (Factor IX)
Prothrombinex-HT (prothrombin complex)
Rhophylac (Rh(D) immunoglobulin G)
Tetanus Immunoglobulin-VF
Thrombotrol-VF (antithrombin III)
Vivaglobin, sub-cutaneous human immune globulin indicated for the treatment of primary immunodeficiency. This product gained FDA approval in January 2006.
Von Willebrand factor
Zoster Immunoglobulin-VF (varicella zoster immunoglobulin)
CSL Behring
Immunology:
Beriglobin P, human hepatitis A immunoglobulin, liquid 16% solution for intramuscular injection
Berirab P, human rabies immunoglobulin, liquid 16% solution for intramuscular injection
Carimune NF, Sandoglobulin, Sanglopor human normal immunoglobulin, freeze-dried formulations for intravenous administration
Cytogam, human cytomegalovirus immunoglobulin. Liquid immunoglobulin containing a standardized amount of antibody to cytomegalovirus.
Hepatitis B Immunoglobulin P Behring, human hepatitis B immunoglobulin, liquid 16% solution for intramuscular injection
Hizentra, Human normal immunoglobulin. Liquid 20% immunoglobulin solution, ready-to-use for subcutaneous administration
Privigen, human polyvalent immunoglobulin, liquid 10% solution for intravenous injection
Rhesogamma P, human anti-D immunoglobulin. Prefilled syringes of highly purified anti-Rhesus factor D IgG for intravenous administration and intramuscular injection.
Rhophylac human anti-D immunoglobulin. Prefilled syringes of highly purified anti-Rhesus factor D IgG for intravenous administration and intramuscular injection.
Sandoglobulin NF Liquid, Redimune, Redimune NF Liquid, human normal immunoglobulin, liquid 12% solution for intravenous administration
Tetagam P, human tetanus immunoglobulin, liquid 16% solution for intramuscular injection
Varicellon P, human varicella immunoglobulin, liquid 16% solution for intramuscular injection
Vivaglobin, human normal immunoglobulin, liquid 16% solution for subcutaneous administration
Coagulation/Bleeding Disorders:
Beriate, freeze-dried human coagulation factor VIII concentrate
Berinin P, freeze-dried human coagulation factor IX concentrate
Factor X P Behring, a freeze-dried human coagulation factor IX and factor X concentrate
Fibrogammin P, Cluvot and Corifact, freeze-dried human coagulation factor XIII concentrate
Helixate FS and Helixate NexGen, freeze-dried recombinant coagulation factor VIII
Humate-P and Haemate P, freeze-dried human coagulation factor VIII: C and von Willebrand factor concentrate
Monoclate P, a freeze-dried monoclonal antibody purified human coagulation factor VIII concentrate
Mononine, a freeze-dried human coagulation factor IX that has been purified using monoclonal antibodies
Stimate, a synthetic desmopressin acetate nasal spray
Octostim, a synthetic desmopressin acetate nasal spray
Pulmonary:
Zemaira, Respreeza freeze-dried Human Alpha1-proteinase inhibitor (A1-PI)
Critical Care:
AlbuRx, Alburex, Albumeon, Human Albumin Behring, Albuminar 25, human albumin solution (5%, 20% or 25% human albumin solutions)
Berinert P, freeze-dried human C1-esterase inhibitor (C1-INH) concentrate
Beriplex P/N, freeze-dried human prothrombin complex concentrate
Haemocomplettan P, RiaSTAP, freeze-dried human fibrinogen (factor I) concentrate
Kybernin P, freeze-dried human antithrombin III concentrate
Streptase, freeze-dried streptokinase
Wound Healing:
Beriplast P Combi-Set, fibrin sealant kit, freeze-dried fibrin sealant for topical application
Fibrogammin P, freeze-dried human coagulation factor XIII concentrate
TachoComb, fibrin sealant fleece-type, fleece-type collagen preparations coated with fibrin glue components
Product availability varies from country to country, depending on registration status.
Honours
In 2011, the company received the Minister's Award for Outstanding Equal Employment Opportunities Initiative for their Thinking Kids Children's Centre.
See also
Australian Red Cross Blood Service
References
Sources
AH Brogan, Committed to Saving Lives: a History of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1990).
Dando McCredie, The Fight Against Disease and CSL's Seventy Year Contribution (Richmond: Dando McCredie, c.1986).
FG Morgan, 'The Commonwealth Serum Laboratories and their work', Collected Proceedings of the Society of Chemical Industry of Victoria, XXXV (1935), 1015–31.
WJ Penfold, 'The Commonwealth Serum Laboratories', Medical Journal of Australia, 1 (14 April 1923), 396–400.
Struan K Sutherland, A Venomous Life: the Autobiography of Professor Struan Sutherland (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1998).
Australian companies established in 1916
Biotechnology companies established in 1916
Biotechnology companies of Australia
Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
Manufacturing companies based in Melbourne
Pharmaceutical companies established in 1916
Former Commonwealth Government-owned companies of Australia
Companies based in Melbourne |
28646968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryadaula%20advena | Dryadaula advena | Dryadaula advena is a moth of the family Tineidae. It was first described by Elwood Zimmerman in 1978. It has only been recorded from Hawaii, but might be an immigrant.
The length of the forewings is 4.5–5.5 mm.
External links
Dryadaulinae
Moths described in 1978
Insects of Hawaii |
26626556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20Philosophy%20%28journal%29 | Ancient Philosophy (journal) | Ancient Philosophy is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and science. Since 1980 it has published over 1,300 articles and reviews in this field. This journal has a Level 2 classification from the Publication Forum of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. and a SHERPA/RoMEO "green" self-archiving policy. It is edited by Ron Polansky in the Department of Philosophy at Duquesne University. It is published on behalf of Mathesis Publications by the Philosophy Documentation Center.
Notable contributors
Seth Benardete
Richard Bett
Jaako Hintikka
Drew Hyland
Gareth Matthews
Alasdair MacIntyre
Roger Scruton
Gisela Striker
Gregory Vlastos
Indexing
Ancient Philosophy is abstracted and indexed in Academic OneFile, L'Année philologique, ERIH PLUS, Humanities Index, Index Religiosus, International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, International Philosophical Bibliography, Periodicals Index Online, The Philosopher's Index, PhilPapers, Religion and Philosophy Index, and Scopus, and TOC Premier.
See also
List of philosophy journals
References
External links
Philosophy Documentation Center
Biannual journals
Classics journals
English-language journals
Publications established in 1980
Ancient philosophy journals
Philosophy Documentation Center academic journals |
10041881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica%20Le%20Gru%20Perotti | Angelica Le Gru Perotti | Angelica Le Gru Perotti (1719 – 1 September 1776) was an Italian painter and pastellist of the Rococo period, active at first in Northern Italy and Venice.
She was born into a family of painters, including her father, the portraitist Stefano Le Gru, and her three brothers, Giuseppe, Tommaso, and Lodovico. Le Gru trained with painter Rosalba Carriera in Venice. She married the painter Pietro Antonio Perotti. In 1768, the Perottis moved to London. Angelica Perotti worked mainly in pastel. She exhibited at least five works at the Royal Academy in 1772 and 1775. She is best known for pastel portraits she completed in London, similar to the voyages of Rosalba Carriera.
References
1719 births
1776 deaths
Rococo painters
18th-century Italian painters
Italian women painters
18th-century Italian women artists |
7824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Maclaurin | Colin Maclaurin | Colin Maclaurin (; ; February 1698 – 14 June 1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. He is also known for being a child prodigy and holding the record for being the youngest professor. The Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, is named after him.
Owing to changes in orthography since that time (his name was originally rendered as “M‘Laurine”), his surname is alternatively written MacLaurin.
Early life
Maclaurin was born in Kilmodan, Argyll. His father, John Maclaurin, minister of Glendaruel, died when Maclaurin was in infancy, and his mother died before he reached nine years of age. He was then educated under the care of his uncle, Daniel Maclaurin, minister of Kilfinan. A child prodigy, he entered university at age 11.
Academic career
At eleven, Maclaurin, a child prodigy at the time, entered the University of Glasgow. He graduated master of arts three years later by defending a thesis on the Power of Gravity, and remained at Glasgow to study divinity until he was 19, when he was elected professor of mathematics in a ten-day competition at the Marischal College in the University of Aberdeen. This record as the world's youngest professor endured until March 2008, when the record was officially given to Alia Sabur.
In the vacations of 1719 and 1721, Maclaurin went to London, where he became acquainted with Isaac Newton, Benjamin Hoadly, Samuel Clarke, Martin Folkes, and other philosophers. He was admitted a member of the Royal Society.
In 1722, having provided a locum for his class at Aberdeen, he travelled on the Continent as tutor to George Hume, the son of Alexander Hume, 2nd Earl of Marchmont. During their time in Lorraine, he wrote his essay on the percussion of bodies (Demonstration des loix du choc des corps), which gained the prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1724. Upon the death of his pupil at Montpellier, Maclaurin returned to Aberdeen.
In 1725, Maclaurin was appointed deputy to the mathematical professor at the University of Edinburgh, James Gregory (brother of David Gregory and nephew of the esteemed James Gregory), upon the recommendation of Isaac Newton. On 3 November of that year Maclaurin succeeded Gregory, and went on to raise the character of that university as a school of science. Newton was so impressed with Maclaurin that he had offered to pay his salary himself.
Contributions to mathematics
Maclaurin used Taylor series to characterize maxima, minima, and points of inflection for infinitely differentiable functions in his Treatise of Fluxions. Maclaurin attributed the series to Brook Taylor, though the series was known before to Newton and Gregory, and in special cases to Madhava of Sangamagrama in fourteenth century India.
Nevertheless, Maclaurin received credit for his use of the series, and the Taylor series expanded around 0 is sometimes known as the Maclaurin series.
Maclaurin also made significant contributions to the gravitation attraction of ellipsoids, a subject that furthermore attracted the attention of d'Alembert, A.-C. Clairaut, Euler, Laplace, Legendre, Poisson and Gauss. Maclaurin showed that an oblate spheroid was a possible equilibrium in Newton's theory of gravity. The subject continues to be of scientific interest, and Nobel Laureate Subramanyan Chandrasekhar dedicated a chapter of his book Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium to Maclaurin spheroids.
Independently from Euler and using the same methods, Maclaurin discovered the Euler–Maclaurin formula. He used it to sum powers of arithmetic progressions, derive Stirling's formula, and to derive the Newton-Cotes numerical integration formulas which includes Simpson's rule as a special case.
Maclaurin contributed to the study of elliptic integrals, reducing many intractable integrals to problems of finding arcs for hyperbolas. His work was continued by d'Alembert and Euler, who gave a more concise approach.
In his Treatise of Algebra (Ch. XII, Sect 86), published in 1748 two years after his death, Maclaurin proved a rule for solving square linear systems in the cases of 2 and 3 unknowns, and discussed the case of 4 unknowns. This publication preceded by two years Cramer's publication of a generalization of the rule to n unknowns, now commonly known as Cramer's rule.
Personal life
In 1733, Maclaurin married Anne Stewart, the daughter of Walter Stewart, the Solicitor General for Scotland, by whom he had seven children. His eldest son John Maclaurin studied Law, was a Senator of the College of Justice, and became Lord Dreghorn; he was also joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Maclaurin actively opposed the Jacobite rising of 1745 and superintended the operations necessary for the defence of Edinburgh against the Highland army. Maclaurin compiled a diary of his exertions against the Jacobites, both within and without the city. When the Highland army entered the city, however, he fled to York, where he was invited to stay by the Archbishop of York.
On his journey south, Maclaurin fell from his horse, and the fatigue, anxiety, and cold to which he was exposed on that occasion laid the foundations of dropsy. He returned to Edinburgh after the Jacobite army marched south, but died soon after his return.
He is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. The simple table stone is inscribed simply "C. M. Nat MDCXCVIII Ob MDCCXLVI" and stands close to the south-west corner of the church but is supplemented by a more wordy memorial on the outer wall of the church.
Mathematician and former MIT President Richard Cockburn Maclaurin was from the same family.
The Maclaurin Society (MacSoc), the Mathematics and Statistics Society at Glasgow University, is named in his honour.
Colin MacLaurin Road within Edinburgh University's King's Buildings complex is named in his honour.
Notable works
Some of his important works are:
Geometria Organica - 1720
De Linearum Geometricarum Proprietatibus - 1720
Treatise on Fluxions - 1742 (763 pages in two volumes. The first systematic exposition of Newton's methods.)
Treatise of Algebra - 1748 (two years after his death.)
Account of Newton's Discoveries - Incomplete upon his death and published in 1748
Colin Maclaurin was the name used for the new Mathematics and Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics Building at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
See also
Braikenridge–Maclaurin theorem
Trisectrix of Maclaurin
Cayley's sextic
Cramer's paradox
Hesse configuration
Sinusoidal spiral
References
Sources
Anderson, William, The Scottish Nation, Edinburgh, 1867, vol.VII, p. 37.
Sageng, Erik, 2005, "A treatise on fluxions" in Grattan-Guinness, I., ed., Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics. Elsevier: 143–58.
Further reading
Bruce A. Hedman, "Colin Maclaurin's quaint word problems," College Mathematics Journal 31 (2000), 286–288.
1698 births
1746 deaths
18th-century Scottish mathematicians
Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Academics of the University of Aberdeen
Deaths from edema
Fellows of the Royal Society
Scottish mathematicians
Members of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh
People from Glendaruel |
3917710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Gleason%20%28artist%29 | Patrick Gleason (artist) | Patrick Gleason is a comic book artist. He has worked for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and Image Comics.
Published work
X-Men Unlimited #22 (with Brian K Vaughan, Marvel Comics, 1999)
Martian Manhunter Vol. 2 #24 (inker, with Tom Mandrake, Doug Mahnke, DC Comics, 2000)
Noble Causes #1-4 (with Jay Faerber, Image Comics, 2002)
JSA #39 (with Geoff Johns, David S. Goyer, DC Comics, 2002)
JLA: Welcome to the Working Week One-Shot (with Patton Oswalt, DC Comics, 2003)
H-E-R-O #7-8 (with Will Pfeifer, DC Comics, 2003)
Aquaman Vol. 6 #15-22, 25-29, 32 (with Will Pfeifer and John Arcudi, DC Comics, 2004-05)
Green Lantern Corps: Recharge #1-5 (with Geoff Johns and Dave Gibbons, DC Comics, 2005-06)
Green Lantern Corps #1-3, 7-16, 18-20, 23-26, 29-47 (with Dave Gibbons, Keith Champagne, and Peter Tomasi, DC Comics, 2006-10)
Brightest Day #1-3, 6-9, 11-12, 15, 21, 24 (with Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi, DC Comics, 2010-11)
Batman and Robin #20-22 (with Peter Tomasi, DC Comics, 2011)
Batman and Robin Vol. 2 #0-8, 10-20, 22-30, 32-40 (with Peter Tomasi, DC Comics, 2011-15)
Robin: Son of Batman 1-6, 9 (writer/artist), #7 (writer only, DC Comics, 2015-16)
Superman: Rebirth #1 (writer, with Peter Tomasi and Doug Mahnke, DC Comics, 2016)
Superman Vol. 4 #1-25, 27-28, 33-39, 42-45, Annual #1, Special #1 (writer, with Peter Tomasi; also artist on #1-2, 4, 6, 10-11, 18-21, 24-25, 42-43, 45, DC Comics, 2016-18)
Super Sons #11-12 (writer, with Peter Tomasi, Ryan Benjamin, and Tyler Kirkham, DC Comics 2017)
Teen Titans vol. 6 #15 (writer, with Peter Tomasi and Ed Benes, DC Comics 2017)
Action Comics #1000-1002 (with Peter Tomasi and Brian Bendis, DC Comics, 2018)
Young Justice 1-4 (with Brian Bendis, DC Comics, 2019)
Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 5 #25, 32-34, 50-52, 55, 61-62 (with Nick Spencer, Marvel Comics, 2019-present)
Batman: Secret Files #2 (with Tim Seeley, DC Comics, 2019)
Marvel Comics #1000 (single page story, writer/artist, Marvel Comics, 2019)
References
External links
Patrick Gleason at ComicBookDB.com
Patrick Gleason at The Grand Comics Database
The Straight Poop
American comics artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
23546212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cibuco%20River | Cibuco River | The Cibuco River () is a river of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. Part of the river goes through Vega Alta and Corozal municipalities. It is 23.75 miles long. Cibuco River meets Indio River. The river flooded up to 15 feet during Hurricane Maria in some neighborhoods and as late as 2019, the river floods when rains are heavy.
See also
List of rivers of Puerto Rico
References
External links
USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – Caribbean Region (1974)
Rios de Puerto Rico
Rivers of Puerto Rico |
12535771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20Together%20%28George%20Benson%20album%29 | Standing Together (George Benson album) | Standing Together is an album by jazz guitarist George Benson that was released in 1998.
There is also a hidden track he once recorded before Star of A Story on this album.
Track listing
"C-Smooth" (DeChown Jenkins, Jaz Sawyer) - 5:54
"Standing Together" (Manuel Seals, Steven Dubin) - 4:07
"All I Know" (Peter Roberts, Scott Cross) - 4:36
"Cruise Control" (Alex Al, Paul Peterson, Ricky Peterson) - 5:08
"Poquito Spanish, Poquito Funk" (George Benson, Carl K. Gonzalez, Louie Vega) - 5:15
"Still Waters" (Larry Loftin) - 4:36
"Fly By Night" (Paul Brown, Steven Dubin, Tim Heintz) - 4:51
"Back To Love" (Audrez Martells, Gary Haas) - 4:39
"Keep Rollin'" (Gerald McCauley, Nils Jiptner) - 5:11
Bonus Track
10. "You Can Do It, Baby" (George Benson, Carl K. Gonzalez, Louie Vega) - 7:04
Japanese Bonus Track
11. "Turn It Up" - 2:11
Personnel
George Benson – guitar (1, 3, 4, 5, 7-11), lead vocals (2-11)
DeChown Jenkens – guitar (1, 4, 7)
Mike Sims – guitar (2)
Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar (3)
Marc Antoine – Spanish guitar (6)
Nils Lofgren – guitar (9)
Robert C. Benson – programming (1)
Melvin Davis – keyboards (1)
Ricky Peterson – keyboards (1, 3, 4, 6, 8), vibraphone (1), arrangements
Steve Dubin – programming (2, 7), arrangements (2, 7)
Tim Heintz – keyboards (2, 7), synth strings (4)
Albert "Sterling" Menendez – keyboards (5, 10)
Paul Brown – programming (6)
Gerald McCauley – keyboards (9)
Alex Al – bass guitar (1, 4, 9, 11)
Larry Kimpel – bass guitar (3)
Carlos Henríquez – upright bass (5)
Lil' John Roberts – drums (1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11)
Kevin Ricard – percussion (1, 9)
Lenny Castro – percussion (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8)
Luisito Quintero – percussion (5)
Larry Williams – saxophone (3)
Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (3)
Jerry Hey – trumpet (3), horn arrangements (3)
Sue Ann Carwell – backing vocals (3)
Jeff Pescetto – backing vocals (3)
Bennie Diggs – backing vocals (5)
La India – backing vocals (5)
Reggie Burrell – backing vocals (6)
Vonciele Faggett – backing vocals (6)
Bridgette Bryant-Fiddmont – backing vocals (8)
Kevin Edmonds – backing vocals (8)
Lynne Fiddmont – backing vocals (8)
Fred White – backing vocals (8)
Production:
Tommy LiPuma – executive producer
Paul Brown – producer (1-4, 6–9, 11), mixing
Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez – producer (5, 10), mixing
Little Louie Vega – producer (5, 10), mixing
Martin Christianson – engineer
Dave Darlington – engineer, mixing
David Rideau – engineer, mixing
Tim Tan – engineer
Stuart Brawley – assistant engineer
Oscar Monsalve – assistant engineer
Rick Pohronezny – assistant engineer
Oscar Ramirez – assistant engineer
Daniel Steinberg – assistant engineer
Wassim Zreik – assistant engineer
Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, CA).
Lexy Shroyer – production coordination
Daniela Federici – photography
Hollis King – art direction
Isabelle Wong – graphic design
References
1998 albums
George Benson albums
GRP Records albums |
13698598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Olson | Jim Olson | Jim Olson, FAIA (b. 1940) is the founding principal of the Seattle-based firm Olson Kundig Architects. He is best known for residential design, often for art collectors, though his designs have also included museums, commercial spaces and places of worship. In 2006, William Stout Publishers released Art + Architecture: The Ebsworth Collection and Residence. His honors include the 2007 Seattle AIA Medal of Honor, selection as the 1999 Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture at the University of Oklahoma, and his induction in 1990 as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is an honorary trustee to the Seattle Art Museum, and a founding trustee of Artist Trust, and Center on Contemporary Art, both in Seattle. Olson received a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Washington.
Notable works
Noah’s Ark, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2007)
The Ebsworth Residence, Seattle (2004)
Red House, Denver (1999)
St. Mark's Cathedral Renovation, Seattle (1998)
The Gallery House, Washington (1987)
Hillclimb Court, Seattle (1985)
Pike & Virginia Building, Seattle (1978)
Earth House, Washington (1969)
References
Jim Olson Houses. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2009.
Ngo, Dung. Art + Architecture: The Ebsworth Collection and Residence. William Stout Publishers, 2006.
Ojeda, Oscar Riera, ed. Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects: Architecture, Art, and Craft. The Monacelli Press, 2001.
External links
Olson Kundig Architects website
Architectural Digest, AD 100
1940 births
American architects
Living people
Articles containing video clips
University of Washington alumni |
62468487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzorigiin%20Tem%C3%BC%C3%BClen | Ganzorigiin Temüülen | Ganzorigiin Temüülen () is a Mongolian politician and businessman currently serving as a member of the State Great Khural. He was elected in the 2016 Mongolian legislative election. He represents the first constituency of Province of Arkhangai and is a member of the Mongolian People's Party.
Career
He attended Dickinson College in Canberra, Australia before attending university.
He attended and received his education from American University in Washington, D.C., where he received a 4-year degree in international management and relations in 2003. In 2005, he earned a master's degree in International relations and management.
From 2006 to 2009, he served as head of the department of the Contracting Division at the government agency Mineral Resource Authority of Mongolia. In 2008, he was formally appointed to Minister for Oil and Minerals while concurrently contracts chief.
In 2009, he left political office and job to become the deputy director for Erdenes MGL, a large state-owned enterprise that focused on mining around Ulaanbaatar. He left in 2014. In 2013, he left Erdenes MGL and joined the board of directors of the state owned enterprise Oyu Tolgoi LLC, a position he held until 2015. In 2014, he was appointed to the government cabinet as the deputy Minister of Mines, alongside his job at Ovu Tolgoi. He held both positions until 2015.
In 2015, he was appointed president of the Mongolian youth federation Zorig Foundation, serving for the full year. In the same year, he was elected to the board of directors for the Mongolian People's Party for the entire year. In 2016, he was elected as a member of the State Great Khural representing constituency #1 in Arkhangai Province, alongside Yondonperenlein Baatarbileg and Jamyangiin Mönkhbat. He received 9,817 votes with 57.75% of the vote.
See also
List of MPs elected in the 2016 Mongolian legislative election
References
Living people
Mongolian People's Party politicians
American University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Dickinson College alumni |
7732314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Beldner | Jeff Beldner | Jeff Beldner is an American soap opera writer.
Positions held
All My Children (hired by Agnes Nixon)
Script Editor: May 14, 2004 - January 14, 2008, March 19, 2008 – September 23, 2011
Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1998, September 17, 2001 - May 2004
Script Writer: 1991 - 1994
Writer's Assistant: 1990 - 1991
As the World Turns (hired by Lorraine Broderick)
Breakdown Writer (1998 - August 20, 2001)
The Young and the Restless (hired by Maria Arena Bell)
Breakdown Writer: July 13, 2012 – Present
Awards and nominations
Daytime Emmy NOMINATIONS (1992 & 1993, 1995, 2002–2004; Best Writing; All My Children)
Daytime Emmy WINS (2001 & 2002; Best Writing; As the World Turns)
Daytime Emmy NOMINATION (2000; Best Writing; As the World Turns)
Daytime Emmy WINS (1996–1998; Best Writing; All My Children)
Writers Guild of America Award WINS (For 1996, 1997 & 2003 Season; All My Children)
Writers Guild of America Award NOMINATION (For 1998 Season; As the World Turns)
Writers Guild of America Award NOMINATION (For 1995 Season; All My Children)
External links
American soap opera writers
American male television writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
2014297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersed%20tube | Immersed tube | An immersed tube (or immersed tunnel) is a kind of undersea tunnel composed of segments, constructed elsewhere and floated to the tunnel site to be sunk into place and then linked together. They are commonly used for road and rail crossings of rivers, estuaries and sea channels/harbours. Immersed tubes are often used in conjunction with other forms of tunnel at their end, such as a cut and cover or bored tunnel, which is usually necessary to continue the tunnel from near the water's edge to the entrance (portal) at the land surface.
Construction
The tunnel is made up of separate elements, each prefabricated in a manageable length, then having the ends sealed with bulkheads so they can be floated. At the same time, the corresponding parts of the path of the tunnel are prepared, with a trench on the bottom of the channel being dredged and graded to fine tolerances to support the elements. The next stage is to place the elements into place, each towed to the final location, in most cases requiring some assistance to remain buoyant. Once in position, additional weight is used to sink the element into the final location, this being a critical stage to ensure each piece is aligned correctly. After being put into place, the joint between the new element and the tunnel is emptied of water then made water tight, this process continuing sequentially along the tunnel.
The trench is then backfilled and any necessary protection, such as rock armour, added over the top. The ground beside each end tunnel element will often be reinforced, to permit a tunnel boring machine to drill the final links to the portals on land. After these stages the tunnel is complete, and the internal fitout can be carried out.
The segments of the tube may be constructed in one of two methods. In the United States, the preferred method has been to construct steel or cast iron tubes which are then lined with concrete. This allows use of conventional shipbuilding techniques, with the segments being launched after assembly in dry docks. In Europe, reinforced concrete box tube construction has been the standard; the sections are cast in a basin which is then flooded to allow their removal.
Advantages and disadvantages
The main advantage of an immersed tube is that they can be considerably more cost effective than alternative options – i.e., a bored tunnel beneath the water being crossed (if indeed this is possible at all due to other factors such as the geology and seismic activity) or a bridge. Other advantages relative to these alternatives include:
Their speed of construction
Minimal disruption to the river/channel, if crossing a shipping route
Resistance to seismic activity
Safety of construction (for example, work in a dry dock as opposed to boring beneath a river)
Flexibility of profile (although this is often partly dictated by what is possible for the connecting tunnel types)
Disadvantages include:
Immersed tunnels are often partly exposed (usually with some rock armour and natural siltation) on the river/sea bed, risking a sunken ship/anchor strike
Direct contact with water necessitates careful waterproofing design around the joints
The segmental approach requires careful design of the connections, where longitudinal effects and forces must be transferred across
Environmental impact of tube and underwater embankment on existing channel/sea bed.
Tubes can be round, oval and rectangular. Larger strait crossings have selected wider rectangular shapes as more cost effective for wider tunnels.
Examples
The first tunnel constructed with this method was the Shirley Gut Siphon, a six-foot sewer main laid in Boston, Massachusetts in 1893. The first example built to carry traffic was the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel constructed in 1910 under the Detroit River, and the first to carry road traffic is the Posey Tube, linking the cities of Alameda and Oakland, California in 1928. The oldest immersed tube in Europe is the Maastunnel in Rotterdam, which opened in 1942.
The Marmaray Tunnel, connecting the European and Asian sides of Istanbul, Turkey, is the world's deepest immersed tunnel at below sea level; it is the first rail link crossing the straits. Construction began in 2004 and revenue service began in 2013. The tunnel is long overall, of which were constructed using the immersed tube technique.
Currently the longest immersed tube tunnel is the tunnel portion of the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, completed in 2018. The HZMB tunnel is set at a depth of below sea level. Its length will be surpassed by with the completion of the Shenzhen–Zhongshan Bridge in 2024. The SZB project includes a immersed tube which also will be the world's widest immersed tube, carrying eight traffic lanes. Prior to the completion of the Marmaray and HZMB tunnels, the Transbay Tube in San Francisco Bay, completed in 1969, was the world's deepest and longest immersed tube, at below water level and long.
The length of both the HZMB and SZB will be surpassed by the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link connecting Denmark and Germany when it is completed, at an as-designed long. Construction started on 1 January 2021.
Notes
See also
Submerged floating tunnel
References
External links
, by Stockholm City Line
Tunnel construction |
40486878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic%20swimming%20at%20the%202020%20Summer%20Olympics | Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics | Artistic swimming (formerly synchronised swimming) competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan featured a total of 104 athletes competing in two medal events, namely the women's duet and the women's team. (The Olympics was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Qualification
For the team competitions, the best ranked NOC in each of the five continental championships, with the exception of the host country Japan, qualified. The remaining NOCs are able to qualify for the two highest-ranked spots at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships and the three highest-ranked spots at the Olympic Qualification Tournament. For the duet, the best ranked NOC in each of the five continental championships that did not have a qualified team is to be assured of a secured spot, while the other seven top-ranked NOCs are to be selected through the Olympic Qualification Tournament. All 10 NOCs that had already qualified in the team event automatically qualify a duet (which much consist of members of the team).
Participating nations
Competition schedule
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).
Medalists
Medal table
Medalists
See also
Artistic swimming at the 2018 Asian Games
Artistic swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games
Artistic swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
References
External links
Results book
2021 in synchronized swimming
Synchronized swimming competitions in Japan
International aquatics competitions hosted by Japan
2020
2020 Summer Olympics events |
44359818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric%20Yamb%C3%A9r%C3%A9 | Cédric Yambéré | Cédric Yambéré (born 6 November 1990) is a Central African footballer who plays as a centre-back for French club Orléans and the Central African Republic national team.
Club career
Bordeaux
Yambéré joined Girondins de Bordeaux in January 2013 from US Lormont. He made his Ligue 1 debut at 25 October 2014 against Paris Saint-Germain playing the full game in a 3–0 away defeat.
Anzhi Makhachkala (loan)
On 13 July 2016, he joined the Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala for the 2016–17 season on loan.
APOEL (loan)
On 24 January 2017, he moved on loan to the Cypriot First Division champions APOEL FC until the end of the 2016–17 season. He made his official debut on 11 February 2017, playing the full 90 minutes in APOEL's 1–0 away victory against Karmiotissa in the league. He scored his first official goal on 23 April 2017, netting a late equalizer in APOEL's 1–1 home draw against Anorthosis.
Dijon
On 30 June 2017, Yambéré left Bordeaux definitively, and signed a two-year deal with fellow Ligue 1 side Dijon for a transfer fee of around €500,000.
Ettifaq
On 29 June 2019, Yambéré signed a three-year deal with Saudi Professional League club Ettifaq.
Orléans
On 1 October 2021, he signed with Orléans in the French third-tier Championnat National.
International career
Yambéré received his first international call from Central African Republic on 13 August 2016. He made his debut on 27 March 2017, in Central African Republic's 1–2 friendly defeat against Gambia at Stade municipal de Kénitra.
Career statistics
International
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Honours
APOEL
Cypriot First Division: 2016–17
References
External links
APOEL official profile
1990 births
Living people
French sportspeople of Central African Republic descent
People with acquired Central African Republic citizenship
Sportspeople from Bordeaux
Association football defenders
Central African Republic footballers
Central African Republic international footballers
French footballers
Ligue 1 players
Russian Premier League players
Cypriot First Division players
Saudi Professional League players
Belgian First Division B players
Championnat National players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National 3 players
FC Girondins de Bordeaux players
APOEL FC players
FC Anzhi Makhachkala players
Dijon FCO players
Ettifaq FC players
RWDM47 players
US Orléans players
Central African Republic expatriate footballers
Central African Republic expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Expatriate footballers in Russia
Central African Republic expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Expatriate footballers in Cyprus
Central African Republic expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia
Central African Republic expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in Belgium |
46433992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasool%20Pur%2C%20Gujrat | Rasool Pur, Gujrat | Rasool Pur () is a village in the district of Gujrat, Pakistan. It has a population of 2000 - 3000 people.
References
Villages in Gujrat District |
13414244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Radio%20Pirates | The Radio Pirates | The Radio Pirates () is a Norwegian family film released in 2007, directed by first-time director Stig Svendsen and is based on a radio play by Gunnar Germundson. It stars Gard B. Eidsvold, Per Christian Ellefsen, Henrik Mestad and Ane Dahl Torp.
Plot
The Radio Pirates is the story of Karl Jonathan and his father. They leave the city for the father's dilapidated childhood home but soon realise that the entire village of "Skjelleruten" has been transformed into the ultimate safe society, where children are strictly protected from behaving like children. Karl Jonathan and his new friend, Sisseline, start an uprising against this model village with the aid of a closed-down pirate radio. But the model citizens refuse to give in without a fight.
External links
2007 films
Norwegian films
Norwegian-language films
2007 directorial debut films |
61493585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20France%202020 | Miss France 2020 | Miss France 2020 was the 90th edition of the Miss France pageant, held on 14 December 2019 at the Le Dôme de Marseille in Marseille. Vaimalama Chaves of Tahiti crowned her successor Clémence Botino of Guadeloupe by the end of the event. She represented France at Miss Universe 2021, placing in the top 10. The competition was hosted by Jean-Pierre Foucault, Sylvie Tellier, and Miss France 2019 Vaimalama Chaves, with performances by Robbie Williams and Chaves. Footballer Amandine Henry served as the jury president.
Background
On 11 April 2019, it was confirmed by the Miss France Organisation that the 2020 edition of the Miss France competition will be held on 14 December 2019 at Le Dôme in Marseille. While the overseas collectivities of Saint Martin-Saint Barthelemy and Saint Pierre and Miquelon typically alternate appearances at Miss France each year, Saint Pierre and Miquelon withdrew their participation due to a lack of local candidates; Saint Martin-Saint Barthélemy were thus invited in their place, allowing them to compete twice in a row. For this edition's trip abroad, the delegates traveled to Tahiti in French Polynesia, where they took part in a variety of events, until returning to Marseille to begin rehearsals.
Results
Special awards
Scoring
Preliminaries
A jury composed of partners (internal and external) of the Miss France Committee selected fifteen delegates during an interview that took place on 11 December to advance to the semifinals. This was the first time the amount of semifinalists increased from twelve to fifteen.
Top fifteen
In the top fifteen, a 50/50 split vote between the official jury and voting public selected five delegates to advance to the top five. Each delegate was awarded an overall score of 1 to 15 from the jury and public, and the five delegates with the highest combined scores advanced to the top five. The girls with the sixth and seventh highest combined scores were afterwards designated as the fifth and sixth runners-up, respectively, despite not advancing in the competition.
Top five
In the top five, public voting determined which delegate is declared Miss France.
Pageant
Format
On 19 September 2019, it was announced that the theme for the 2020 competition would be "The Misses' World Tour," with competition rounds inspired by international destinations. Finals night featured a performance by British singer Robbie Williams, making this his second time performing at Miss France after doing so at the 2010 competition. The thirty contestants were initially divided into three groups of ten, with each group taking part in an initial presentation round. The three presentation rounds were themed after travel to the United Kingdom and Cool Britannia, Russia, and Spain and bullfighters, respectively. Afterwards, the thirty contestants competed in the one-piece swimsuit round, inspired by travel to the United States and the Wild West, followed by an evening gown round themed after travel to Japan. After this, the top fifteen were announced. After the selection of the top fifteen, the semifinalists competed in a two-piece swimsuit round themed after their overseas trip to French Polynesia, featuring a guest appearance from Miss France 2019 Vaimalama Chaves. After the two-piece swimsuit round, the top five were announced. The top five then competed in a fashion presentation round, themed after travel to Africa.
Judges
Amandine Henry (jury president) – footballer
Laëtitia Milot – actress
Christophe Michalak – pastry chef, author, and television host
Slimane Nebchi – singer
Vitaa – singer
Mareva Galanter – singer, actress, and Miss France 1999 from Tahiti
Denis Brogniart – television host and journalist
Contestants
The 30 delegates have been selected.
Notes
References
External links
December 2019 events in France
Miss France
2019 beauty pageants
Beauty pageants in France
Entertainment events in France
Competitions in France |
32425498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania%20at%20the%202011%20World%20Aquatics%20Championships | Lithuania at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships | Lithuania competed at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, China between July 16 and 31, 2011.
Diving
Lithuania has qualified 2 athletes in diving.
Men
Swimming
Lithuania has qualified 5 athletes in swimming.
Men
Women
References
Nations at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
2011 in Lithuanian sport
Lithuania at the World Aquatics Championships |
49588828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borsonia%20brasiliana | Borsonia brasiliana | Borsonia brasiliana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.
Description
The size of the shell attains 13 mm. It has a characteristic sinistral coiling of the shell.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Northeast Brasil.
References
Don L. Tippett, .A new sinistral turrid from Brazil (Gastropoda: Turridae); The Nautilus v.97 (1983)
brasiliana |
44754682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalie%20Craig | Rosalie Craig | Rosalie Mae Craig (born 30 May 1981) is an English actress, noted for her performances in musical theatre. In 2013 she received her first major award, a London Evening Standard Award for Best Performance in a Musical. A profile in The Guardian in November 2014 commented that "actor Rosalie Craig is living proof that stars are not born but made – through a combination of talent, hard work, sheer grit and an ability to connect with audiences. She’s got all in abundance."
Life and career
Craig grew up in Nottingham, and studied for a BA in Actor Musicianship at Rose Bruford College, from which she graduated in 2001. After graduation she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and made her professional stage debut in an adaptation by Adrian Mitchell of Alice in Wonderland.
In 2007 she had her first leading role in a West End production, playing the character Arwen in the musical stage adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
Since then her notable roles in theatre have included the title character in Tori Amos's The Light Princess at the National Theatre in 2013, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award as well as winning an Evening Standard Award. She has also had leading parts in City of Angels (Donmar Warehouse), Finding Neverland (Leicester Curve) and Ragtime (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre).
She appeared in the musical London Road at the National Theatre and subsequently in Rufus Norris's film adaptation. Craig's other work with the National Theatre include: As You Like It and The Threepenny Opera. She appeared in the premiere of musical Wonder.land, at Palace Theatre, Manchester for the Manchester International Festival; also directed by Norris in association with the National Theatre.
Her television work includes appearances in Spooks, Miranda, Endeavour, Lovesick, Midsomer Murders, and Truth Seekers.
In September 2018, Rosalie began appearing alongside Patti LuPone in a revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Company. She played the lead role of 'Bobbie,' reimagined for the first time as a woman.
In 2021, Craig played the brief role of the Whaletaur Shaman in Netflix's Centaurworld, released on July 30, 2021 (7/30/2021)
She is married to the actor Hadley Fraser. On 1 November 2016, Rosalie gave birth to the couple's first child, named Elvie.
Theatre credits
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Living people
Alumni of Rose Bruford College
1981 births
Actresses from Nottinghamshire
English stage actresses
English musical theatre actresses |
29034679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndol%20Gray | Wyndol Gray | Wyndol Woodrow Gray (March 30, 1922 – March 20, 1994) was an American professional basketball player. He was the brother of Cortez Gray, who was also a professional basketball player.
Gray played at Akron South High School in Akron, Ohio and went on to play collegiately at Bowling Green State University in 1942. At the time, freshmen were allowed to play to compensate for a shortage of college-age players due to World War II. Gray played on future Hall of Fame coach Harold Anderson's first team at Bowling Green. He led the team in scoring at 22.3 points per game and the Falcons went 18–4.
Gray joined the Navy after the season, and returned to Bowling Green for the 1944–45 season as a part of the V-12 Navy College Training Program and, along with big man Don Otten, led the Falcons to the final of the 1945 National Invitation Tournament, where they were defeated by the George Mikan-led DePaul Blue Demons. After the season, Gray was named a consensus first team All-American – Bowling Green's first in basketball.
In 1945–46, Gray played at Harvard. There he led the Crimson to their first NCAA tournament appearance and at the conclusion of the season he was named a second team All-American by the Sporting News magazine, giving him the unusual distinction of being named an All-American at two different universities.
After his college career was over, Gray played for Honey Russell on the first Boston Celtics team in 1946–47. He played in 55 of the team's 60 games and finished third on the team in scoring at 6.4 points per game. The following season, the Celtics traded Gray to the St. Louis Bombers for guard Cecil Hankins. Eleven games into his Bombers career, Gray was again traded, this time to the Providence Steamrollers for forward Ariel Maughan. Gray's Steamrollers career lasted only one game.
Gray, who is one of only four Harvard players to play in the NBA, died on March 20, 1994.
BAA career statistics
Regular season
References
1922 births
1994 deaths
All-American college men's basketball players
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Akron, Ohio
Boston Celtics players
Bowling Green Falcons men's basketball players
Forwards (basketball)
Guards (basketball)
Harvard Crimson men's basketball players
Providence Steamrollers players
St. Louis Bombers (NBA) players
Toledo Jeeps players
United States Navy personnel of World War II
United States Navy officers |
54092463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%20Lamarca | Roberto Lamarca | Roberto Lamarca Gabriele (October 4, 1959 February 22, 2017) was an Italo-Venezuelan television actor. He is most recognised for his portrayal of Arístides Valerio, the recurring character on the Radio Caracas Televisión drama series Por estas calles.
Biography
He had 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Lamarca was father of three children: Joselyn, Angélica and Sophia. The actor was married to Venezuelan actress Caridad Canelón.
Health and death
On January 27, 2017 was hospitalized of emergency in a clinic capitalina, located in Altamira, due to the presentation of a respiratory complication. The actor underwent a biopsy in June 2016 to detect possible lung cancer in the middle of last year; But at that time the result was negative.
He died on the night of Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at the home of his "brother of life" Omar Meléndez, who was in a complicated health situation in the breath because he had a histoplasmosis for several months.
Filmography
References
External links
1959 births
2017 deaths
20th-century Venezuelan male actors
21st-century Venezuelan male actors
Male actors from Caracas
Venezuelan male telenovela actors
Venezuelan male television actors |
1652985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finswimming | Finswimming | Finswimming is an underwater sport consisting of four techniques involving swimming with the use of fins either on the water's surface using a snorkel with either monofins or bifins or underwater with monofin either by holding one's breath or using open circuit scuba diving equipment. Events exist over distances similar to swimming competitions for both swimming pool and open water venues. Competition at world and continental level is organised by the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS). The sport's first world championship was held in 1976. It also has been featured at the World Games as a trend sport since 1981 and was demonstrated at the 2015 European Games in June 2015.
Rules and description of the sport
Competitors
Competitors are described within the International Rules as 'swimmers' rather than as finswimmers or divers.
Classes of competition
Competition is divided in two classes: swimming pool and long distance (also called open water).
A swimming pool must be 50 m long by 21 m wide and 1.8 m deep, i.e. an Olympic-size swimming pool (also known as a long course pool) suitable for the holding of swimming races for either the Olympic Games and a FINA world championships. The International Rules do not permit the use of 25m length pools (known as short course) although these are used in regional and national competition.
Long distance sites include both the sea and natural water bodies such as freshwater rivers and lakes. Site selection criteria include 'low current and tides' and water quality 'appropriate for swimming' as certified by a local authority. The site, when in use for competition, will be marked by buoys, patrolled by safety boats and will have observation points (or additional boats) for judges to oversee any turns present in the course.
Techniques
Surface finswimming
Surface finswimming (also known by its acronym, SF) is swimming on the surface of the water using mask, snorkel, and monofins. SF races are held for distances of 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, 4 × 50 mix relays (2 men's, 2 women's), 4 × 100 relays and 4 × 200 relays (meters) in swimming pools and over various long distances in the open water environment. Swimmers must remain on the surface of the water at all times for the duration of the race except when starting or make a turns at the end of a swimming pool where an immersion over a distance of 15m is permitted.
Apnoea finswimming
Apnoea finswimming (also known by its acronym, AP, and as apnoea or apnea) is underwater swimming in a swimming pool using a mask, monofin and holding one's breath. AP races are held for the distance of 50m. A swimmer's face must be immersed for the duration of the race otherwise he/she risks disqualification. AP races are not conducted in open water for 'safety and security reasons'.
Immersion finswimming with breathing apparatus
Immersion finswimming with breathing apparatus (also known by its acronym, IM, and as immersion) is underwater swimming using mask, monofin and underwater breathing apparatus conducted in a swimming pool. While there are no requirements on how a breathing apparatus is carried, it cannot be exchanged or abandoned during a race. IM races are held for distances of 100 and 400 m. A swimmer's face must be immersed for the duration of the race or risk disqualification. IM races are not conducted in open water for 'safety and security reasons'. Historically, IM swims were conducted in open water up to distances of 1000m.
Bi-fins
Bi-fins (also known by its acronym, BF or as 'stereo-fins') is swimming on the surface of the water with mask, snorkel and a pair of fins using a crawl style. BF races are held for distances of 50, 100, 200, 400 and 4 × 100 mix relays (2 men's, 2 women's) in swimming pools and over various long distances in the open water environment such as 4 km and 6 km. It is reported that BF was introduced in 2006 to provide the opportunity for competition by swimmers who cannot afford to purchase a set of monofins. Swimmers must remain on the surface of the water at all times for the duration of the race except when starting or make a turns at the end of a swimming pool where an immersion of a distance of 15m is permitted.
Equipment
Finswimming which is often compared to sports swimming differs from that sport in the use of masks, fins, snorkels and underwater breathing apparatus. This reflects the sport's origins in the underwater diving techniques of snorkelling, breath-hold diving and open circuit scuba diving.
Apart from requiring the use of a mask for protection of the eyes and for the ability to see underwater, the international rules have no requirements regarding selection. Centre-mounted snorkels (also known as front snorkels) are the only type approved for use subject to meeting minimum and maximum requirements in tube length and internal diameter. Fins are also regulated by international rules. Monofins have a maximum size which can be checked by the use of a template while bi-fins must be one of the brands certified (i.e. homologated) by CMAS.
Underwater breathing apparatus is restricted to open circuit scuba using compressed atmospheric air as the breathing gas. The use of oxygen enriched mixtures is forbidden. Cylinders are limited by maximum cylinder pressure rating of 200 bar and a minimum cylinder capacity of 0.4 litres. While there are no requirements for regulators, swimmers appear to be free to modify these to remove any unnecessary parts.
Garments such as swimsuits, swim caps and wetsuits, and the use of logos printed on these garments and the equipment is also subject to the requirements of the international rules.
Age groupings and associated restrictions
The following age groupings and associated restrictions for both men and women are mandated by the International Rules.
Origins and history
The sport developed in Europe following the ready availability of the first rubber fins during the 1930s. Luigi Ferraro, Italian diving pioneer, is reported as organising the first fin-swimming competition in the sea during 1951 followed by a ocean swim in 1955. The first competition in the Soviet Union was held during 1958.
The first European Championship which was a multi sport event involving both finswimming and underwater orienteering was held under the title of the First European Championship of Subaquatics Technical at Angera, Italy in August 1967. The specific finswimming events were races over the distances of 40m and 1000m which are reported as using either surface swimming techniques or respectively apnoea and immersion techniques. In 1969, the first European Finswimming Championship to be separate of underwater orienteering was held in Locarno, Switzerland.
The first World Championships were held in Hanover, Germany during 1976 followed by the inclusion of the sport in the inaugural World Games in Santa Clara, California, USA during 1981. In 1988, the first World Long Distance Championship was held in Paris, France followed in 1989 by the first World Junior Championship in Dunaújváros, Hungary.
The arrival of the monofin in the early 1970s lead to the breaking of all world records by the end of the decade due to the improved performance possible when used in lieu of bi-fins.
In 2007, the first Bi Fin races using CMAS homologated fins were held.
Sporting appeal and training
Appeal
The main appeal of finswimming is reported by some as being the speed that a swimmer can reach. The world record for the men's 50 m freestyle (long course) in sports swimming (see World records in swimming), is 20.91 seconds (by César Cielo of Brazil). In finswimming it is 13.70 seconds (for 50 m apnoea by Pavel Kabanov of Russia) (see World records in finswimming). This is a 50% increase in speed over sports swimming.
One of the great appeals of finswimming is that finswimmers do not need to be good sports swimmers. Indeed, there is some evidence that top flight sports swimmers may make poorer finswimmers than well-trained finswimmers (see below).
Training
Unlike most sports swimming training programmes, finswimming training tends to be far more specific and more like systems used for track running in athletics. In addition, finswimming training tends to have more dry-side work, including a huge amount of core stability (as core strength), plyometrics and weight training.
It has been recorded that sports swimmers tend to approach finswimming with preconceptions on technique, which can limit their success.
Governing body
The governing body is the CMAS Finswimming Commission.
Its role includes the upgrading of the rules of competition when required, keeping of records for CMAS championships, the World Games and these of national federations where these match or exceed records achieved at international level, and the maintenance of the CMAS World Ranking which is a listing of the best performing senior and junior men and women from both the most recent Finswimming World Championships and the rounds of the World Cup. It also assists the CMAS Board of Directors and others organising competitions organised under the auspices of CMAS.
As of June 2015, national federations in the following countries and territories have affiliated with the Commission: Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Belarus, Canada, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyz Republic, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Libya, Mexico, Marianas, Montenegro, Netherlands, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Venezuela and Vietnam.
Competition at international level
CMAS competitions
As of 2007, CMAS directly oversees the following four competitions at international level: the World Championship, Continental Championships, the World Cup and the CMAS Junior Trophy.
World Championship
The World Championship is held every two years in odd-numbered years for senior swimmers starting with the year 2007 and in even-numbered years for junior swimmers starting with the year 2008. Pool competition held over five days while open water competition is held over a maximum of three days.
World Cup
This is an annual event which was first held in 2006 and consists of a minimum of three rounds including a final all known as meetings which are attended by swimmers from clubs affiliated to a CMAS national federation. Races are held in both swimming pool and open water sites for individuals and clubs in the age groupings of senior and junior for both male and female.
CMAS Junior Trophy
This is an annual swimming pool-based event for junior national teams for both male and female swimmers.
Continental championships
Continental championships which are conducted in an identical manner to the world championships require a minimum of five countries from a continental body such as Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania as defined by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Continental championships are held every two years in odd-numbered years for senior swimmers starting with the year 2008 and in even-numbered years for junior swimmers starting with the year 2007.
The European Championships have run since 1967 and have been held 21 times. Asian Finswimming Championships is reported to have been held 13 times with the first being held in 1989 and the most being held during 2012 in Da Nang, Vietnam.
Other CMAS-aligned events
There have been three Pan-American Championships, starting in 1993, with the last being held in 2001 in Cali, Colombia. There have also been five "Arab Zone" Championships, the last was held in 2003 (in Beirut, Lebanon).
World Games
Finswimming has featured at the World Games as a trend sport since the inaugural games held during 1981. Participation is reserved for the best swimmers from the CMAS World Ranking and the best relay teams as selected by the CMAS Finswimming Commission.
Other multi-sport events
Finswimming has appeared at multi-sport events such as the following: Asian Indoor Games, Bolivarian Games, Southeast Asian Games, World Corporate Games from 1998 to 1992, and the World Scholar-Athlete Games. The sport was also demonstrated at the 27th Summer Universiade in July 2013 and at the 2015 European Games in June 2015.
Olympic Games
As of 2020, no finswimming competition or demonstration has been held at an Olympic Games. CMAS which is recognised by the IOC as the international sports federation for underwater sports was so recognised in 1986 solely on the basis of finswimming. In 1999, finswimming was reported as being considered for inclusion in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. In 2002, the IOC considered underwater sports which includes finswimming as one of the sports to be added to the programme of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, but decided to decline admission to it and eight other sports on the basis of: Statistics reviewed on federation affiliation, nations competing in major events and broadcast and press coverage of major events for most requested sports did not indicate a higher level of global participation and interest than sports currently in the Programme, and therefore could not be considered to bring additional value.
See also
Competitions
Finswimming by country
Competitors and organisations
Records
References
External links
CMAS Finswimming Commission homepage
CMAS Finswimming Championships Archive
Finswimming on the History of CMAS website
CMAS World Cup home page
The World Games Finswimming page
Finswimming World Rankings 2013
Underwater sports |
65541151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20results%20for%20the%20district%20of%20Macquarie | Electoral results for the district of Macquarie | Macquarie, until 1910 The Macquarie, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was created in 1894, re-created in 1904, retaining nothing but the name, then abolished in 1920.
Election results
Elections in the 1910s
1917 by-election
1917
1913
1910
Elections in the 1900s
1907
1904
1901
Elections in the 1890s
1898
1895
1894
Notes
References
New South Wales state electoral results by district |
54973693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Hugh%20Williams%2C%208th%20Baronet | Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet | Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet (c. 1718–1794), was a British soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1794.
Williams was the son of Col. Griffith Williams of Arianws, near Llangelynin, Caernarvonshire and his wife Mary Williams and was born in 1718.
He entered the army in 1739 and was captain in the 34th Foot in 1744. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his cousin Sir Robert Williams, 7th Baronet in November 1745. In 1756 he was a major in the 6th Foot and was at Minorca when the garrison was attacked in that year. In 1759 he was in a volunteer battalion in the 85th Foot.|
Williams married Emma, the dowager Viscountess Bulkeley, widow of James Bulkeley, 6th Viscount Bulkeley on 28 June 1760. She was daughter of Thomas Rowlands of Caerau, Anglesey, but as her father disapproved of Williams, the marriage was kept secret. Correspondence indicates that Williams was becoming involved in politics in Beaumaris, partly in the interest of his stepson Thomas Bulkeley, but was handicapped by the secrecy of his marriage. In the course of these dealings he became Lt Colonel in the 53rd Foot in 1761 and became Constable of Beaumaris castle in July 1761. However his regiment was stationed in Gibraltar and he was ordered back there. He disliked the climate and wished to be transferred to a regiment at home. As this was refused he retired from the army on half-pay in December 1764 to take care of affairs at Beaumaris.
In 1768 he was elected Member of Parliament for Beaumaris but made little contribution. His stepson Thomas Bulkeley joined him in parliament in 1774 and was encouraging him to take a greater interest. However he found parliamentary business tiresome and stood down in 1780.
He was returned as MP for Beaumaris in a by-election in 1785 and retained the seat until his death on 19 August 1794.
Williams had two sons and two daughters and was succeeded by his son Robert.
References
Sources
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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1794 deaths
British MPs 1768–1774
British MPs 1774–1780
British MPs 1784–1790
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Welsh constituencies
Baronets in the Baronetage of England |
64048014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisa%20Tuluga | Aisa Tuluga | Aisa Tuluga (1899 – 1970) was an Inuit artist.
His work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Birmingham Museum of Art.
References
1899 births
1970 deaths
20th-century Canadian artists
Inuit artists
Canadian male artists
People from Nunavik
Inuit from Quebec
Artists from Quebec |
14511865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Fifteenth%20Area%20Army | Japanese Fifteenth Area Army | The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the closing stages of World War II.
History
The Japanese 15th Area Army was formed on February 1, 1945 under the General Defense Command as part of the last desperate defense effort by the Empire of Japan to deter possible landings of Allied forces in central Honshū during Operation Downfall (or in Japanese terminology). It was transferred to the newly formed Japanese Second General Army on April 8, 1945. The Japanese 15th Area Army was responsible for the Kansai and Chugoku regions of Honshū and the island of Shikoku. It was headquartered in Osaka. The 15th Area Army leadership also held equivalent posts in the Central District Army, and had the honor of receiving their appointments personally from Emperor Hirohito rather than the Imperial General Headquarters.
The 15th Area Army consisted mostly of poorly trained reservists, conscripted students and home guard militia. In addition, the Japanese had organized the Patriotic Citizens Fighting Corps — which included all healthy men aged 15–60 and women 17–40 — to perform combat support, and ultimately combat jobs. Weapons, training, and uniforms were generally lacking: some men were armed with nothing better than muzzle-loading muskets, longbows, or bamboo spears; nevertheless, they were expected to make do with what they had.
The 15th Area Army was demobilized at the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945 without having seen combat.
List of Commanders
Commanding officer
Chief of Staff
References
Books
External links
Notes
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1945 |
28024904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidu%2C%20Ida-Viru%20County | Aidu, Ida-Viru County | Aidu is a village in Lüganuse Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia. According to the 2011 census, there were no permanent residents living in the village.
References
Villages in Ida-Viru County
Lüganuse Parish |
20764707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Malouel | Jean Malouel | Jean Malouel, or Jan Maelwael in his native Dutch, ( 1365 – 1415) was a Dutch artist who was the court painter of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and his successor John the Fearless, working in the International Gothic style.
Documented life
He was presumably born in the old Ottonian city of Nijmegen, then in the Duchy of Guelders, which was incorporated in the modern Netherlands in 1543 after the definitive victory of the Dukes of Burgundy in a serie of conflicts knows as the Guelders Wars. He probably trained there in the workshop of his father, the artist Willem Maelwael (his uncle was also an artist), and is recorded as an artist in 1382. He was the uncle of the famous manuscript illuminators, the three Limbourg brothers, whom he introduced to Philip's service around 1400. Malouel also worked as an illuminator, but seems mostly to have produced larger works.
Malouel is recorded as working in Paris painting armorial decorations on cloth (probably for banners) for Isabelle of Bavaria, Queen of France, in 1396–97, but by August 1397 he was in Dijon, the capital of the Duchy of Burgundy, where he succeeded Jean de Beaumetz (d. 1396) to the position of court painter to Philip, with the rank of valet de chambre. He retained these positions until his death, with a salary higher than that of Beaumetz or the sculptor Claus Sluter, and lived in Dijon. In 1405, soon after the death of Philip, he returned to Nijmegen to marry Heilwig van Redinchaven, bringing her back to Dijon. Another visit of over two months was recorded in 1413. In 1415 he died in Dijon, leaving Heilwig and four children. She received a pension from the Duke, and returned to Nijmegen, where she became involved in lengthy litigation over Malouel's estate there.
Attributed works
Among a number of other commissions, many for decorative painting in the palaces, Malouel is recorded as receiving in 1398 the wood for five altarpiece panels for the Chartreuse of Champmol, Philip's new dynastic burial place near Dijon, as well as painting the Well of Moses there, sculpted by Claus Sluter, the base of which survives with some of its colouring. From 1401, Herman of Cologne, perhaps a specialist gilder, is recorded as Malouel's assistant, or perhaps foreman of a number of apprentices. Painting the "Well", and gilding all the upper parts, was a large job, on which they were occupied between 1401 and 1404. Malouel also painted Philip's tomb at Champmol, when the sculptors finally finished it after Sluter's death.
Malouel's oeuvre on panel remains controversial; the most generally accepted painting of his to survive is the Pietà tondo in the Louvre, the first true tondo of the Renaissance, though this is not accepted by Châtelet. This has Philip's coat of arms painted on the back, so should predate his death in 1404, and the "unusual iconography of the piece clearly links it to [Champmol]", which was dedicated to the Holy Trinity, who all appear. The style of the work mixes Northern and Sienese elements, in a fashion characteristic of the International Gothic court art of the period. Although painted in the traditional tempera, the work uses transparent glazes in a way that was to be greatly developed in the work of Jan van Eyck after Malouel's death. Another of Phillip's Netherlandish artists, Melchior Broederlam, was already producing works partly in oil paint for Champmol.
The large (162 x 211 cm) altarpiece, also in the Louvre, of the Martyrdom of St Denis with the Trinity (or The Last Communion and Martyrdom of Saint Denis), also from Champmol, may have been begun by Malouel but completed by Henri Bellechose (his only known work), after Malouel's death. The ducal accounts record the provision of pigments (but not gold) to Bellechose to complete ("parfaire" = "perfect") a "painting of the life of St Denis", known to have been a subject of Malouel's, and some see a difference in style among the figures, while others do not. Snyder and Châtelet support Malouel's participation, but this is disputed, the case against being set out in an article of 1961 by Nicole Reynaud (in French). For Châtelet the St Denis altarpiece and the large tondo in the Louvre are two of the five altarpieces commissioned in 1398. Bellechose, who is not documented before Malouel's death, succeeded him as valet and court painter; Châtelet suggests he may have been in his workshop for years, and suggests he was responsible for the large tondo over ten years earlier, thus reversing the traditional attributions for these two famous works.
Malouel is also believed to have been the originator of a portrait image of Philip of about 1400 which survives only in versions believed to be later. He is recorded as working on a portrait of John the Fearless for the King of Portugal in 1413, and there were also portraits of Philip and John in the choir at Champmol (as we know from when Philip the Good ordered one of him to be added). A later version in the Musée Condé in Chantilly has been suggested as a copy of the Malouel image type of John. A large Madonna and Child, unearthed in 1960 in Berlin and now on loan to the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, has also been attributed to Malouel, as has another in the Louvre. It is believed the Berlin picture was one wing of a diptych opposite a portrait of John the Fearless, which would be the first known example of this format, later very common in Netherlandish painting. It was perhaps also for Champmol.
A number of other works are, or have been, attributed to Malouel or his workshop, including a smaller Pietà tondo in the Louvre, the "Antwerp-Baltimore polytych", also sometimes associated with Melchior Broederlam, and a damaged Entombment of Christ in Troyes.
Notes
References
Châtelet, Albert, Early Dutch Painting, Painting in the northern Netherlands in the fifteenth century, 1980, Montreux, Lausanne,
Gelfand, Laura D.; Fifteenth-century Netherlandish devotional diptychs; Origins and function, 1994, PhD dissertation, Case Western Reserve University.
Guest, Tanis and Nijsten, Gerard; In the Shadow of Burgundy: The Court of Guelders in the Late Middle Ages, Cambridge University Press, 2004,
Janson, Horst Woldemar and Janson, Anthony F.; History of Art: The Western Tradition, Prentice Hall PTR, 2003, ,Janson online
Nash, Susie. "The Two Tombs of Philip the Bold". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. LXXXII, 2019
Snyder, James; Northern Renaissance Art, 1985, Harry N. Abrams,
Early Netherlandish painters
1415 deaths
1360s births
Court painters
People from Nijmegen
Catholic painters |
69804765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica%20Rial%20filmography | Monica Rial filmography | The following is a filmography of American actress Monica Rial. This list is exclusive to either main characters she has played, or minor characters with recurring roles.
Anime
1999–2005
2006–2010
2011–2015
2016–2020
2021–
Film
Animation
Video games
References
Actress filmographies
American filmographies |
30034116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%20Virginia%20Slims%20of%20Denver | 1984 Virginia Slims of Denver | The 1984 Virginia Slims of Denver was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Denver, Colorado in the United States that was part of the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from January 16 through January 22, 1984. Mary-Lou Daniels won the singles title.
Finals
Singles
Mary-Lou Daniels defeated Kim Sands 6–1, 6–1
It was Daniels' 1st title of the year and the 4th of her career.
Doubles
Marcella Mesker / Anne Hobbs defeated Sherry Acker / Candy Reynolds 6–2, 6–3
It was Mesker's 1st title of the year and the 3rd of her career. It was Hobbs' 1st title of the year and the 7th of her career.
External links
ITF tournament edition details
Virginia Slims of Denver
Virginia Slims of Denver
Virginia Slims of Denver
Virginia Slims of Denver
Virginia Slims of Denver |
25733447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Saints%20Anglican%20Church%20%28Raleigh%2C%20North%20Carolina%29 | All Saints Anglican Church (Raleigh, North Carolina) | All Saints Anglican Church is an Anglican church in Raleigh, North Carolina. The church is a member of the Anglican Church in North America through its parent jurisdiction, the Reformed Episcopal Church. All Saints built its own building in 2015 located at 908 Deboy St Raleigh NC.
References
Churches in Raleigh, North Carolina
Anglican Church in North America church buildings in the United States |
62536112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Sung-chon | Hong Sung-chon | Grand Master Hong Sung-chon (May 3, 1945) is an early proponent of Taekwondo in the Philippines. Many filipino champions, such as Monsour Del Rosario, Samuel Morrison, Jordan Dominguez and Elaine Alora have been produced under his tutelage. He is a director of the Kukiwon's List of Grand Masters. He is the Vice-President of the Philippine Taekwondo Association.
References
External links
Igorot champion Dominguez thanks GM Hong
Monsour del Rosario, Olympian Stephen Fernandez expected to grace DELTA's 40th year
Master Monsour under GM Hong's tutelage
Elections in Taekwondo Committee
Taekwondo in its early stage
Taekwondo in the Philippines
South Korean expatriates in the Philippines
Living people
South Korean male taekwondo practitioners
1945 births |
774725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Freiherr%20von%20Manteuffel | Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel | Edwin Karl Rochus Freiherr von Manteuffel (24 February 180917 June 1885) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall noted for his victories in the Franco-Prussian War, and the very first Imperial Lieutenant () of Alsace–Lorraine from 1879 until his death.
Biography
Son of the president of the superior court of Magdeburg, Manteuffel was born at Dresden and brought up with his cousin, Otto von Manteuffel (1805–1882), the Prussian statesman. He entered the guards cavalry at Berlin in 1827 and became an officer in 1828. After attending the War Academy for two years, and serving successively as aide-de-camp to General von Müffling and to Prince Albert of Prussia, he was promoted captain in 1843 and major in 1848, when he became aide-de-camp to Frederick William IV, whose confidence he had gained during the revolutionary movement in Berlin.
Promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1852, and colonel (and commanding officer of the 5th Uhlans) in 1853, Manteuffel was sent on important diplomatic missions to Vienna and St Petersburg. In 1857 he was promoted to major-general and chief of the Prussian Military Cabinet (the King's military advisers). He gave strong support to the Prince Regent's plans for the reorganization of the army. In 1861 he was violently attacked in a pamphlet by Karl Twesten (1820–1870), a Liberal leader, whom he had wounded in a duel, for which Manteuffel insisted on being briefly imprisoned. He was promoted to lieutenant-general for the coronation of William I on 18 October 1861 and saw active service in that rank in the Danish War of 1864, then at its conclusion was appointed civil and military governor of Schleswig. In the Austrian War of 1866 he first occupied Holstein and afterwards commanded a division under Vogel von Falkenstein in the Hanoverian campaign, then in July succeeded Vogel in command of the Army of the Main.
Manteuffel's successful campaign ended with the occupation of Würzburg, and he received the order Pour le Mérite. However, on account of his monarchist political views throughout the political crises of the 1860s, and of his almost bigoted Roman Catholicism, he was regarded by Liberal politicians as a reactionary, and, unlike the other army commanders, he was not granted a financial reward for his services. He then went on a diplomatic mission to St Petersburg, where he was persona grata, and gained Russia's acquiescence to Prussia's domination of north Germany. On his return he was made honorary colonel of the 5th Dragoon Regiment. He was appointed to the command of the IX (Schleswig-Holstein) Corps in 1866. But having previously exercised both civil and military control in the Elbe duchies he was unwilling to be a purely military commander under one of his former civil subordinates, and retired from the army for a year.
In 1868, however, Manteuffel returned to active service and on 18 September 1869 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Red Eagle. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 he commanded the I Corps under Steinmetz, distinguishing himself in the Battle of Borny-Colombey, and in the repulse of Bazaine at Noisseville. In October he succeeded Steinmetz in the command of the 1st Army, won the Battle of Amiens against Général de brigade Jean-Joseph Farre, and occupied Rouen. However he was less fortunate against Faidherbe at Pont Noyelles and Bapaume.
In January 1871 he commanded the newly formed Army of the South, which he led, in spite of hard frost, through the Côte-d'Or and over the plateau of Langres, cut off Bourbaki's Army of the East with 80,000 men, and, after the action of Pontarlier, compelled it to cross the Swiss frontier, where it was disarmed. His immediate reward was the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, and at the conclusion of peace he was made a member of the Order of the Black Eagle. When the Southern Army was disbanded Manteuffel commanded the Second Army and, from June 1871 until 1873, the army of occupation left in France, showing great tact in a difficult position.
At the close of the occupation, the Emperor promoted Manteuffel to the rank of Field Marshal and awarded him a large financial grant, and about the same time Alexander II of Russia gave him the Order of St. Andrew. After this he was employed on several diplomatic missions, was for a time Governor of Berlin, and in 1879—perhaps, as was commonly reported, because he was considered by Bismarck as a formidable rival—he was appointed Imperial Lieutenant of occupied Alsace–Lorraine. He is remembered in Alsace–Lorraine as a very human, cultivated man, and as a conciliator whose fairness was often abused by some dominant figures. Opening the first session of the Landesausschuss (the regional assembly of Alsace–Lorraine), he announced his firm intention to gain full autonomy for Alsace–Lorraine, so that it could become a fully-fledged state of the German Empire. He died at Carlsbad, Bohemia, in 1885, still in office but without having achieved his aim.
Honours
He received the following orders and decorations:
Notes
References
Attribution:
Pierre Zind, Elsass Lothringen/Alsace Lorraine une nation interdite, 1870–1940, Paris: Copernic, 1979.
1809 births
1885 deaths
Military personnel from Dresden
Barons of Germany
Field marshals of the German Empire
Field marshals of Prussia
German military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War
Prussian people of the Austro-Prussian War
Burials at Frankfurt Main Cemetery
Recipients of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross
Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class)
Grand Crosses of the Military Order of Max Joseph
Grand Crosses of the Military Merit Order (Bavaria)
Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary
Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
Recipients of the Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg-Schwerin), 1st class
Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree
Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 1st class
Knights of the Order of the Sword |
15864123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop%20Goes%20the%20World%20%28song%29 | Pop Goes the World (song) | "Pop Goes the World" is a song recorded by the Canadian new wave/synthpop group Men Without Hats. It was released in October 1987 as the lead single from the album of the same name. The song reached No. 1 in Austria, and No. 2 in Canada and Sweden. It was originally written as an electronic instrumental. The song has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Content
The song tells the story of "Johnny" and "Jenny," the two members of a musical group called "The Human Race" on their quest for fame in the industry. However, at one point the lyrics note that they come to the realization that they could make "more money on a movie screen." The members' instruments of choice vary throughout the song, though Johnny is primarily a guitarist and Jenny is a bassist.
Music video
The music video for the song features lead singer Ivan Doroschuk who tells the story of "Johnny," played by guitarist Stefan Doroschuk (impersonating Elvis Presley), and "Jenny," portrayed by an unknown actress playing a left-handed Höfner 500/1 bass. The two are seen dancing around a bubble-filled stage along with numerous other characters including a keyboard-playing baby and Bonhomme (the mascot of Quebec City's annual Winter Carnival). The word "Pop!", in writing reminiscent of a comic book, appears periodically on-screen in time with popping noises that punctuate the song. The video was released in 1988 in the CD Video format.
Charts
Personnel
Ivan Doroschuk - vocals, guitar, keyboards, drum programming
Stefan Doroschuk - backing vocals, bass
2012 version
The song was re-recorded during the Love in the Age of War sessions, with Ivan Doroschuk on vocals, James Love on guitar and bass, and Louise Dawson on keyboards and drum programming. The recording was released as a digital single in 2012.
In popular culture
The song was featured in the 1987 film Date with an Angel, which starred Phoebe Cates, Emmanuelle Béart and Michael E. Knight. The song was also featured very briefly in the 1991 film Scanners II: The New Order.
Football teams in several countries use versions of the song as chants:
In Argentina, it is used by several teams and is arguably the most popular tune sung by fans.
In Japan, it is used by the national team and Yokohama F. Marinos.
In Brazil, it is used by Sport Club Internacional.
In Hungary, fans of Diósgyőr use the song with the lyrics: "Amíg élek én, nem érdekel más, csak a Diósgyőr, csak a Diósgyőr, csak a Diósgyőr!" ("As long as I live, I don't care about anything but Diósgyőr, only Diósgyőr, only Diósgyőr!").
In Israel, fans of Hapoel Tel Aviv sing the song with the lyrics: "הפועל עולה" ("Hapoel goes up").
In the 2019 Chilean protests against the Chilean government, protesters created the song "Chile Despertó" ("Chile Woke Up"), using the main tune of "Pop goes around the world".
Since December 2015, the song has also been very popular in Argentina as an anthem of former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's followers; who sing "Oooh, Vamos a volver, a Volver a Volver, Vamos a Volver" ("Oooh, we will return, we'll return, we'll return, we will return").
Cover versions
In 1997, Canadian band The Nils covered the song on their album Green Fields In Daylight.
In 1999, punk rock band Apocalypse Hoboken covered the song on their album Inverse, Reverse, Perverse.
In 1999, Barcelona covered the song and it appeared as the fifth track on the single for the song "Robot Trouble."
In 2004, DJ Ötzi performed "You Never Walk Alone" which uses the chorus melody of "Pop Goes The World"
In 2004, LMP covered the song in their box-set A Century of Song.
In 2007, the song was covered by Hyperbubble on the compilation NineteenEightySeven
In 2007, the song was covered by Canal Pop on the compilation Southern Waves: Argentinian Tribute To Classic Electropop.
In 2011, The Burning Hell covered the song. The cover was released on the Zunior sampler Have Not Been the Same, Vol. 1: Too Cool to Live, Too Smart to Die. On the same band's 2016 album Public Library, bandleader Mathias Kom wrote the original song "Men Without Hats" as a tribute to the band's role in his childhood; the song's first verse describes the experience of going to a record store to buy the album Pop Goes the World, and quotes both the "Johnny played guitar and Jenny played bass" lyric and a piece of the instrumental line from this song.
In 2012, Savoir Adore covered the song. The cover was subsequently featured in commercials for Tide Pods.
Notes
References
Men Without Hats songs
1987 singles
Number-one singles in Austria
1987 songs
Mercury Records singles |
40082844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Revelation | The Revelation | The Revelation may refer to:
The Revelation (Rev Theory album)
The Revelation (Root album)
The Revelation (Daniel Amos album), 1986
The Revelation (Coldrain album)
The Revelation (Applegate novel), an Animorphs novel
The Revelation (Little novel), a novel by Bentley Little
The Revelation (The Legend of Korra), an episode of Book One: Air of The Legend of Korra
The Revelation of St. John the Divine or the Book of Revelation
See also
Revelation (disambiguation) |
11150655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaqua%20warbler | Namaqua warbler | The Namaqua warbler (Phragmacia substriata), also known as the Namaqua prinia or white-breasted prinia, is a small passerine bird, a cisticolid warbler and the sole member of the genus Phragmacia. It was formerly placed in the genus Prinia, but was found to be sufficiently distinct to warrant a genus of its own.
Description
The Namaqua warbler is 12–13 cm long, with short rounded wings, a long tail, strong legs and a short straight black bill. The head has a whitish eyebrow and the upperparts are otherwise a rich russet brown. The throat and lower face are whitish with no streaking, and the breast is white with faint streaking. The rear flanks are buff. The long, brown tail is typically cocked up at an angle. The feet and legs are pinkish-brown, and the eye is brown. The sexes are identical, but juveniles are duller than the adults. The calls include a high-pitched .
The Namaqua warbler can only be confused with the Karoo prinia, but that species has a shorter, less whispy tail, duller brown back and buff tips to the undertail feathers.
Distribution and habitat
This is a resident breeder in western South Africa and southern Namibia. It is a species endemic to the Karoo in thick bushes in dry river gullies and reedbeds near rivers and dams.
Behaviour
The warbler is usually seen in pairs or small groups, typically low in scrub, foraging for small insects, with tail cocked.
Conservation status
This common species has a large range, with an estimated extent of 380,000 km². The population size is believed to be large, and the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as least concern.
References
Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick , SASOL Birds of Southern Africa (Struik 2002)
Ryan, Peter (2006). Family Cisticolidae (Cisticolas and allies). pp. 378–492 in del Hoyo J., Elliott A. & Christie D.A. (2006) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11. Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers Lynx Edicions, Barcelona
Nguembock B.; Fjeldsa J.; Tillier A.; Pasquet E. (2007): A phylogeny for the Cisticolidae (Aves: Passeriformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data, and a re-interpretation of a unique nest-building specialization. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 42: 272–286.
External links
Namaqua warbler - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
Namaqua warbler
Birds of Southern Africa
Namaqua warbler |
37361067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaraqoli | Zaraqoli | Zaraqoli () may refer to:
Zaraqoli-ye Bala
Zaraqoli-ye Pain |
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