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49637564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma%20War%20Memorial%20and%20Heroes%20Avenue | Roma War Memorial and Heroes Avenue | War Memorial and Heroes Avenue is a heritage-listed memorial at Bungil Street, Roma, Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1920. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
History
The Roma War Memorial was completed in two stages; the avenues of trees followed by the cenotaph.
The Heroes Avenue of 93 bottle trees (Brachychiton rupestris) was planted by 1920, with the first 27 trees planted on 20 September 1918, and was the initial memorial to those killed in the First World War. Each tree originally bore a brass plaque stating the name of one of the 93 local men who fell during the First World War. Only one of these plaques survives, now on a cairn which was dedicated by the Roma RSL sub-branch on Remembrance Day, 1983. The cairn is located outside the Post Office near the corner of McDowell and Wyndham Streets. It also provides information regarding the rows of bottle trees and lists the 93 names originally displayed on the trees. Some of the original trees have been replaced and some have been removed to allow for increases in traffic.
The impetus for the Heroes Avenue began with the Mayor of Roma, Alderman Miscamble who had been impressed by avenues of memorial trees in southern states. The bottle tree was selected as it was a species commonly associated with Roma and it is thought that the first was planted in 1918 to commemorate the death of local soldier Lt Cpl Norman Saunders who was killed in France in 1916. This is the tree located outside the Post Office and known locally as the Tree of Knowledge. Trees were planted to commemorate subsequent deaths and although the plaques have disappeared each tree still retains its association with a particular soldier.
The Cenotaph is located in Queen's Park and was commissioned by the Local Repatriation Committee. It was unveiled on Anzac Day, 25 April 1938 by Colonel Sir Donald Cameron and honours the 93 local men who fell in the First World War (the same names that were originally recorded on the trees) and the 39 who fell in the Second World War. The erection of the cenotaph was delayed as the Committee's first priority was to provide for the welfare of returned soldiers. A memorial honour board had already been erected by the committee in the Town Hall.
Planted behind the monument are nine pine trees which were grown from seeds allegedly collected at Lone Pine, Gallipoli.
The traditional ANZAC Day march moves from the Roma railway station to the cenotaph in Queen's Park.
Australia, and Queensland in particular, had few civic monuments before the First World War. The memorials erected in its wake became our first national monuments, recording the devastating impact of the war on a young nation. Australia lost 60,000 from a population of about 4 million, representing one in five of those who served. No previous or subsequent war has made such an impact on the nation.
Even before the end of the war, memorials became a spontaneous and highly visible expression of national grief. To those who erected them, they were as sacred as grave sites, substitute graves for the Australians whose bodies lay in battlefield cemeteries in Europe and the Middle East. British policy decreed that the Empire war dead were to be buried where they fell. The word "cenotaph", commonly applied to war memorials at the time, literally means "empty tomb". Australian war memorials are distinctive in that they commemorate not only the dead. Australians were proud that their first great national army, unlike other belligerent armies, was composed entirely of volunteers, men worthy of honour whether or not they paid the supreme sacrifice. Many memorials honour all who served from a locality, not just the dead, providing valuable evidence of community involvement in the war. Such evidence is not readily obtainable from military records, or from state or national listings, where names are categorised alphabetically or by military unit.
Australian war memorials are also valuable evidence of imperial and national loyalties, at the time, not seen as conflicting; the skills of local stonemasons, metalworkers and architects; and of popular taste. In Queensland, the digger (soldier) statue was the popular choice of memorial, whereas the obelisk predominated in the southern states, possibly a reflection of Queensland's larger working-class population and a lesser involvement of architects.
Many of the First World War monuments have been updated to record local involvement in later conflicts, and some have fallen victim to unsympathetic re-location and repair.
Description
The First World War Memorial encompasses a large area and comprises the avenues of trees, the cairn and the cenotaph.
The avenue of trees begins at the Roma railway stations, turns right into Wyndham Street and left into Bungil Street ending just after the intersection with Hawthorne Street. There are over 90 trees, all of which are bottle trees (Brachychiton rupestris).
The cairn is located outside the Post Office and is a white painted concrete pillar with a large chamfer on the top corner. The chamfered face displays a bronze plaque with the names of the 93 local men who fell in the First World War. These names were originally located on plaques attached to each tree.
The memorial located in Queen's Park comprises a cenotaph sitting on a slightly larger base, both of rock faced pale grey granite. The cenotaph has three leaded marble plaques which are recessed into the granite. The front face (facing Bungil Street) bears Laurence Binyon's ode "For the Fallen" with a bronze AIF badge above. The rear plaque bears the 93 names of the fallen with a bronze laurel wreath above. A later plaque has been added to the eastern side to commemorate the 39 local men who fell in the Second World War.
The cenotaph is located in the centre of a paved area facing the end of the avenue of bottle trees. It is surrounded by a formal setting of kerbed paths and grassed areas. Encircling it is a semi-circle of nine pine trees which are allegedly grown from seeds collected from the Lone Pine at Gallipoli.
Fallen soldiers
The fallen soldiers commemorated by the War Memorial and associated avenue of bottle trees include:
Neil McMaster Crawford, Private 31st Battalion, died 26 September 1917 at the Battle of Menin Road
James Henry Frederick, Private 25th Battalion, died 4 July 1918 , memorial at Crucifix Corner Cemetery Villers-Bretonneux, The Somme, France.
David Alexander Murphy, Lance Corporal 15th Battalion, cabinet maker, friend of Neil Crawford, died at Polygon Wood 26 September 1917, memorial on Menin Gate, Ypres.
Heritage listing
War Memorial and Heroes Avenue was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
War Memorials are important in demonstrating the pattern of Queensland's history as they are representative of a recurrent theme that involved most communities throughout the state. They provide evidence of an era of widespread Australian patriotism and nationalism, particularly during and following the First World War.
The Roma avenue of trees was planted by 1920, and the "cenotaph" was erected in 1938.
The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage.
Avenues of trees as memorials, and particularly those where each tree is attributed to a particular fallen serviceman are uncommon in Queensland. Most memorials erected during or after the First World War were of the monumental type.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.
The monuments manifest a unique documentary record and are demonstrative of popular taste in the inter-war period.
It demonstrates the principal characteristics of a commemorative structure erected as an enduring record of a major historical event. This is achieved through the use of appropriate materials and design elements
The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.
The war memorial planting is arguably one of the most impressive in Queensland and is of aesthetic significance as a dominant landmark in the town.
The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.
It has a strong and continuing association with the community as evidence of the impact of a major historic event and as the focal point for the remembrance of that event.
References
Attribution
External links
Queensland Heritage Register
Roma, Queensland
World War I memorials in Queensland
Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register
World War II memorials in Queensland |
36772007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhulla | Duhulla | The Duhulla is a type of bass drum that is commonly found in Arabic percussion. Usually, it is played along with the Tabla, Goblet drum, Darabuka, Riq (tambourine), and Daf (frame drum.) Duhulla, sometimes referred to as Doholla, or Bass Darabuka, is mostly found across the Middle East. Used mostly in festival settings, it is part of many trans-regional traditional music and dance across the Arab world. It is very similar to the Darabuka (or as known by Egyptians, the Tabla), but it is a larger version and has a deeper sound.
Construction
Traditional Duhullas are made from wood, containing a hard trunk with a canvas top. Current production includes a ceramic version. Heights can range from anywhere between 8 and 19 inches tall.
Sound
A Duhulla is known for its wide dynamic range. It can create both deep bass or high-pitched tones. While it can be used as a solo instrument, it is most commonly utilized as a complement to a Tabla driven ensemble.
Cultural Uses
The Duhulla is used across the Arab world in regionally unique traditional music. Often it is used in an ensemble with other native Arabic musical instruments.
References
Arabic musical instruments |
5576637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahncke%20Park%2C%20San%20Antonio | Mahncke Park, San Antonio | Mahncke Park is an urban neighborhood and park located on the eastern fringe of Midtown San Antonio, Texas, USA.
The park connects the San Antonio Botanical Gardens to Brackenridge Park. The surrounding neighborhood was built around Mahncke Park.
The park is long, narrow strip of mostly undeveloped green space laid out on an east–west axis between Parland and Funston Streets. The east end is bounded by N. New Braunfels and the Botanical Gardens and the west end is bounded by Broadway and Brackenridge Park.
The Midtown San Antonio neighborhood is within walking distance of: Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Botanical Gardens, DoSeum Children's Museum, Japanese Tea Garden, San Antonio Zoo, Brackenridge Park, the Witte Museum, Lions Field Park and the Brackenridge Golf Course. By car, the neighborhood is 5-10 minutes from Pearl Brewery, Downtown, Alamo Heights, and major freeways.
Most of the homes in the neighborhood range in size from to and were constructed during the 1920s through the 1950s. Pre-World War II housing architecture consists primarily of bungalows built in styles of Mission, Four Square, California and Cottage Tudor. Post-World War II housing architecture consists mainly of Ranch-style dwellings. The neighborhood today has an eclectic mix of residents from all backgrounds and persuasions.
Located just north of Downtown San Antonio, the neighborhood's boundaries are:
See also
Neighborhoods and districts of San Antonio
External links
Mahncke Park Neighborhood Association website
History of Mahncke Park (the park)
Community webpage
A Guide to the Mahncke Park Neighborhood Association Records, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries (UTSA Libraries) Special Collections.
Neighborhoods in San Antonio |
14909349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashoba%20Brook%20Pencil%20Factory%20Site | Nashoba Brook Pencil Factory Site | The Nashoba Brook Pencil Factory Site contains the ruins of a 19th-century dam-powered pencil factory. This factory was one of several in Acton and Concord, Massachusetts at the time that brought important developments to pencil manufacturing. All that remain today of the factory are the ruins of its dam and a few mechanical components. The site is in the Nashoba Brook Conservation Area in Acton, Massachusetts, along Nashoba Brook and the old Davis Road Dam. Visitors can access the site by following a marked path from the Davis Road parking area for the Nashoba Brook Conservation Area
19th century Concord-based pencil industry
The American pencil industry started in Concord in the 19th century. In 1812, William Munroe, a Concord-based cabinet maker, became the first American to successfully manufacture and sell wood-encased pencils. Munroe's main competitor later became the Thoreau family pencil business in Concord, run by John Thoreau, father of Henry David Thoreau. John Thoreau's brother-in-law, Charles Dunbar, discovered a deposit of graphite in Bristol, New Hampshire, in 1821. In 1823, Dunbar asked John Thoreau to join him in manufacturing pencils from this graphite. Later, Dunbar left the firm, and it acquired the name John Thoreau & Company. Henry David Thoreau worked at his family's factory for most of his adult life.
Ebenezer Wood
The founder of the factory at this site was Ebenezer Wood (1792–1880). Wood brought several innovations to pencil manufacturing, such as the use of the circular saw and octagonal and hexagonal forms for wood pencil casings. The hexagonal form has since become common for pencils.
Ebenezer Wood was, like Munroe, a cabinet maker. It was perhaps this commonality that brought them together when Munroe hired Wood to help operate his two-man saw for cutting the pencil casings. Eventually, Wood brought additional machinery and automation into Munroe's factory.
Wood then started his own mill for grounding plumbago for the graphite used in pencils. Initially, Munroe was one of his customers. However, by the 1830s, he sold plumbago exclusively to the Thoreau company, a business relation that lasted many years. Henry David Thoreau supposedly purchased his sketch pencils from Wood's factory.
Nashoba Brook mills
This factory was one of several mills that once drew power from Nashoba Brook. The factory was situated on the western edge of the stream closer to the Framingham & Lowell Railroad tracks. The site is currently inaccessible from the Pencil Factory Kiosk and the Nashoba Brook Conservation Area trails. The kiosk does contain a picture of the site circa 1900. The site can be viewed from the newly opened section of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail. An historical marker and photograph alongside the trail explain the significance of the site, and the contribution of Ebeneezer Wood.
Upstream, on the northern side of the Nashoba Brook Conservation Area, at , lies the Robbins Mill Pond Dam, which the town renovated in 1990. Paths that run on either side of Nashoba Brook connect the upstream sites to the Pencil Mill.
Another pencil factory was located downstream at Brook Street ().
Trail Through Time
The Pencil Factory is due to be part of Acton's Trail Through Time, which is being developed to document the settlement and use of North Acton's Nashoba Brook. Besides the Factory site, other points on the trail will include the Potato Cave and the Wheeler Farm site at the end of Wheeler Lane.
Timeline
See also
Henry David Thoreau
Pencil
History of Acton, Massachusetts
References
External links
Nashoba Brook Pencil Factory Kiosk (Link defunct as of 25 January 2019)
Nashoba Brook Pencil Factory Kiosk Acton Historical Society
Archaeological sites in Massachusetts
Pencil brands
Buildings and structures in Middlesex County, Massachusetts |
15783260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersuay | Mersuay | Mersuay is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
See also
Communes of the Haute-Saône department
References
Communes of Haute-Saône |
38363399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Barton%20%28sport%20shooter%29 | George Barton (sport shooter) | George Raymond Barton (born 6 September 1977 in Tamworth, New South Wales) is an Australian sport shooter. He won a bronze medal in men's skeet pair shooting, along with his brother Clive Barton, at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, with a total score of 183 points.
Barton made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-ninth in men's skeet shooting, with a total score of 118 points, tying his position with Egypt's Mostafa Hamdy.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Barton competed for the second time, as a 30-year-old, in men's skeet shooting, along with his teammate Paul Rahman. He finished only in seventeenth place by one point behind Czech Republic's Jan Sychra, for a total score of 116 targets.
References
External links
Profile – Australian Olympic Team
NBC Olympics Profile
Australian male sport shooters
Skeet shooters
Living people
Olympic shooters of Australia
Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
People from Tamworth, New South Wales
1977 births
Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting |
35964690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Asian%20Athletics%20Championships%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%201500%20metres | 2009 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres | The men's 1500 metres event at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Guangdong Olympic Stadium on November 10–11.
Medalists
Results
Heats
Final
References
Results
2009 Asian Athletics Championships
1500 metres at the Asian Athletics Championships |
17496739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bree%20Schaaf | Bree Schaaf | Bree Schaaf (born May 28, 1980) is an American skeleton racer who competed from 2002 to 2007, then switched over to bobsled as a pilot from 2007 to 2014. Her best Skeleton World Cup finish was sixth at Calgary in November 2006.
Early years
In high school, she competed in track, volleyball, and basketball before playing volleyball exclusively. She earned a scholarship for volleyball and played collegiately at Portland State University in Oregon. Schaaf graduated with high honors and a BA in anthropology.
Sledding
Schaaf's best finish in skeleton at the FIBT World Championships was 11th in the women's event at St. Moritz in 2007.
She switched to bobsled for 2007–8, starting on lower racing circuits before qualifying to race World Cup in 2009 after winning the 2009 US National Championship in bobsled. Bree also finished 4th at the Bobsled World Cup in Park City, Utah in November 2009. She also took 6th at the 2009 World Cup Whistler track debut, and 5th at the February 2009 World Cup race in Park City, with 9 top-ten world cup finishes in total.
It was announced on January 16, 2010, that she made the US bobsled team for the 2010 Winter Olympics. She finished fifth in the two-woman event.
Broadcasting
In 2009 Schaaf started work as a sliding commentator for Universal Sports Network. She joined NBC's team at Sliding Center Sanki for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
References
Notes
Bibliography
16 January 2010 US Bobsled and Skeleton Federation announcement of the US Olympic women's bobsled team. - accessed 18 January 2010.
1980 births
Living people
American female bobsledders
American female skeleton racers
Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic bobsledders of the United States
Portland State University alumni
People from Bremerton, Washington
21st-century American women |
21653670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20public%20transport%20routes%20numbered%2012 | List of public transport routes numbered 12 | In public transport, Route 12 may refer to:
Route 12 (MTA Maryland), a bus route in Baltimore, Maryland and its suburbs
Citybus Route 12, a bus route in Hong Kong
London Buses route 12
Melbourne tram route 12
Nockebybanan, a tramway in Stockholm
12 |
8810660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Kruber | Alexander Kruber | Alexander Alexandrovich Kruber (; – December 15, 1941) was a Soviet geographer, professor, the founder of the Russian and Soviet karstology.
Alexander Kruber was born in Istra (formerly Voskresensk), Russia. He graduated from the Moscow University in 1897. He became chairman of the Geography Department of the Moscow University in 1919 and director of the Scientific Research Institute of Geography during 1923-1927. Since 1927 he could no longer work due to grave health problems.
He studied karst structures of the East European Plain, Crimea, and Caucasus.
A mountain ridge on the Iturup Island (Kruber Ridge), a karst cavity in the Karabi-Yayla Plateau (Караби-яйла), Crimea, and a karst cave in Caucasus (Krubera-Voronya Cave) are named after him.
Books
Гидрография карста, М., 1913
Карстовая область горного Крыма, М., 1915
Общее землеведение, 5 изд., ч. 1—3, М., 1938
External links
Russian geologists
Russian geographers
Soviet geologists
1871 births
1941 deaths |
17246143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadieka | Kadieka | Kadieka is a village in the Assoli Prefecture in the Kara Region of north-eastern Togo.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kara Region
Assoli Prefecture |
19454541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959%20Individual%20Speedway%20World%20Championship | 1959 Individual Speedway World Championship | The 1959 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 14th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.
The event was sponsored by the Sunday Pictorial. New Zealand continued their recent domination as Ronnie Moore won his second title with a 15 point maximum and New Zealand won their fourth title in six years. Ove Fundin finished second and defending champion Barry Briggs, returning from retirement won the bronze medal ride off.
First Round
Scandinavian Qualifying - 16 to Scandinavian Final
Continental Qualifying - 16 to Continental Final
Scandinavian Qualifying
Continental Qualifying
Second Round
Ove Fundin - seeded to European Final
British & Commonwealth Qualifying - 32 to British & Commonwealth semi-finals
Nordic Final - 9 to European Final
Continental Final - 6 to European Final
British & Commonwealth Qualifying
Top 32 riders based on points accumulated during round would progress
Nordic Final
May 31, 1959
Turku
First 9 to European Final
Continental Final
June 21, 1959
Munich
First 6 to European Final
Third Round
Barry Briggs - seeded to World Final
British & Commonwealth semi-finals - 9 to World Final
European Final - 6 to World Final
British & Commonwealth Semi finals
Top 9 riders based on points accumulated over two rides would progress
+ indicates qualifier for World Final (Aub Lawson was the ninth rider to qualify)
European Final
July 17, 1959
Göteborg
First 6 to World final plus 1 reserve
World Final
19 September 1959
London, Wembley Stadium
References
1959
Individual World Championship
Individual Speedway World Championship
Individual Speedway World Championship
Speedway competitions in the United Kingdom |
70074052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperus%20cephalanthus | Cyperus cephalanthus | Cyperus cephalanthus, commonly known as the buttonbush flatsedge, is a species of sedge that is native to southern parts of North America and South America.
See also
List of Cyperus species
References
cephalanthus
Plants described in 1836
Flora of Brazil
Flora of Argentina
Flora of Paraguay
Flora of Uruguay
Flora of Texas
Flora of Louisiana
Taxa named by John Torrey
Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker |
23470960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseben%20Handicap | Roseben Handicap | The Roseben Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually from 1940 through 1995. Hosted by Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, it was open to horses age three and older. A Grade III event at the time of its cancellation, it was contested on dirt over a distance of six furlongs.
Inaugurated in 1940, it was named in honor of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Roseben. The race was run at Aqueduct Racetrack from 1962 through 1982. During its tenure, it was contested at two distances:
6 F : 1940-1953, 1981-1995
7 F : 1954-1980
The 1977 race had to be canceled as a result of a strike action by unionized racetrack employees.
Records
Speed record:
at 6 furlongs:
1:08.20 Up Beat (1949)
1:08.20 For Really (1991)
at 7 furlongs:
1:21.00 Lord Rebeau (1976)
Winners
1995 - Evil Bear
1994 - Boundary
1993 - Codys Key
1992 - Drummond Lane
1991 - For Really
1990 - Mr. Nickerson
1989 - Pok Ta Pok
1988 - High Brite
1987 - Groovy
1986 - I Am the Game
1985 - Hagley's Reward
1984 - Top Avenger
1983 - Swelegant
1982 - Gratification
1981 - Ring of Light
1980 - Dave's Friend
1979 - Nice Catch
1978 - Big John Taylor
1977 - No race
1976 - Lord Rebeau
1975 - Step Nicely
1974 - Torsion
1971 - Native Royalty
1970 - Reviewer
1969 - Terrible Tiger
1968 - Dr. Fager
1967 - Indulto
1966 - Bold Lad
1965 - National
1964 - Bonjour
1963 - George Barton
1962 - Rose Net
1958 - Red God
1957 - War Piper
1956 - First Aid
1955 - Red Hannigan
1954 - White Skies
1953 - Squared Away
1952 - Dark Peter
1951 - Delegate
1950 - Olympia
1949 - Up Beat
1948 - Rippey
1947 - Inroc
1946 - Polynesian
1945 - Salto
1944 - Cassis
1943 - Some Chance
1942 - Some Chance
1941 - Harvard Square
1940 - The Chief
References
1946 Roseben Handicap results at the New York Times
Dr. Fager's win in the 1968 Roseben Handicap
May 28, 1995 New York Daily News report on the 1995 Roseben Handicap
External links
The Roseben Handicap at Pedigree Query
Discontinued horse races in New York (state)
Graded stakes races in the United States
Recurring sporting events established in 1940
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1995
1940 establishments in New York (state)
1995 disestablishments in New York (state) |
39916257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyson%20Patterson | Tyson Patterson | Tyson Patterson (born September 17, 1978) is an American former professional basketball player. He is 5'9", weighs 165 pounds and played the point guard position. Patterson played college basketball at Appalachian State University (ASU) between 1996–97 and 1999–2000. Through the 2011–12 season he still holds school records for assists in a game (14), season (218), and career (638), steals in a season (87), and field goal percentage in a game (100%, 12-for-12 shooting).
Playing career
College
After graduating from East Forsyth High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Patterson enrolled at ASU to play for the Mountaineers. In his first season, ASU finished with a 14–14 overall record and a third-place finish in the Southern Conference's (SoCon) North Division. During his final three seasons, however, Patterson was the leader in what ASU calls "perhaps the finest four-year span in [their] hardwood history." Between 1998 and 2000, the Mountaineers rattled off three consecutive North Division titles, made it to the SoCon Tournament championship game every season (winning it in 2000, thereby earning their school's second-ever NCAA Tournament bid), and compiled a three-year win-loss record of 65–25 (39–8 SoCon). Patterson led ASU in both assists and steals in each of his final three years, was a three-time All-SoCon Tournament Team selection, a two-time First Team All-SoCon (regular season) selection, and as a senior was named the SoCon Tournament MVP as well as the conference player of the year. In 2009, Patterson was inducted into the Appalachian State Hall of Fame.
Professional
As an undersized guard coming from a mid-major basketball program, no National Basketball Association (NBA) teams selected him in the 2000 NBA Draft. Patterson carved out a professional career and professional career that took him to leagues all over the world as well as in the United States. Other than the United States, he has played for clubs in Belgium, Finland, France, Iceland, Mexico, Switzerland and Venezuela. In 2006-2007 he played with KR in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild and led the league in assists per game (8.0). He helped KR win the Icelandic national championship that spring and was named the Playoffs MVP. Some of his other highlights include leading Finland's Korisliiga in assists per game (5.2) in 2007–08, winning France's LNB Pro B championship in 2004–05, and also being named LNB Pro B's "Foreign Players' MVP" that same season.
References
External links
NBA Development League stats
Icelandic Úrvalsdeild stats
1978 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Belgium
American expatriate basketball people in Finland
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Iceland
American expatriate basketball people in Mexico
American expatriate basketball people in Switzerland
American expatriate basketball people in Venezuela
American men's basketball players
Appalachian State Mountaineers men's basketball players
Asheville Altitude players
Basketball players from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Grindavík men's basketball players
Guaros de Lara (basketball) players
KR men's basketball players
Liège Basket players
Point guards
Reims Champagne Basket players
Torpan Pojat players
Úrvalsdeild karla basketball players
United States Basketball League players |
52255306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%20Tianjun | Wu Tianjun | Wu Tianjun (; born February 1957) is a former Chinese politician, and the CPC Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Henan. He was dismissed from his position in November 2016 for investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Career
Wu Tianjun was born in Puyang County, Henan in February 1957, and he was entered to Anyang Agriculture University in 1977 and graduated in 1978. He joined the CPC in 1982. Then he became Deputy County Magistrate of Qi County () in 1984. From 1987 to 1989, he served as Deputy Secretary of Neihuang County, and upgraded to Secretary in 1991. In 1994, he became the Deputy Mayor of Anyang, and transferred to Xinxiang in 2000. Wu served as Deputy Secretary, Mayor, Secretary until 2011.
In May 2011, Wu was appointed as the CPC Deputy Secretary and Mayor of Zhengzhou. He was appointed as Communist Party Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Henan in the first time in December 2011. In February 2012, he was appointed as the CPC Secretary of Zhengzhou. Wu was appointed as Communist Party Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Henan again in May 2016. He has not served as Member of CPC Provincial Standing Committee of Henan since October 2016.
Investigation
On November 11, 2016, Wu Tianjun was placed under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's internal disciplinary body, for "serious violations of regulations". Wu was expelled from the Communist Party on January 23, 2017. On August 4, 2017, Wu was sentenced to 11 years in prison for taking bribes worth 11.05 million yuan in Xiangyang.
References
1957 births
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Henan
People's Republic of China politicians from Henan
Political office-holders in Henan
China University of Geosciences alumni
Living people
Politicians from Puyang
Chinese politicians convicted of corruption
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party |
886394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Above%20the%20fold | Above the fold | Above the fold is the upper half of the front page of a newspaper or tabloid where an important news story or photograph is often located. Papers are often displayed to customers folded so that only the top half of the front page is visible. Thus, an item that is "above the fold" may be one that the editors feel will entice people to buy the paper. Alternatively, it reflects a decision, on the part of the editors, that the article is one of the day's most important. By extension, the space above the fold is also preferred by advertisers, since it is the most prominent and visible even when the newspaper is on stands.
The term can be used more generally to refer to anything that is prominently displayed or of highest priority. Above the fold is sometimes used in web development to refer the portions of a webpage that are visible without further scrolling or clicking. In contrast, portions available via clickthrough are sometimes described as "after the jump".
In web design
Above the fold is also used in website design (along with "above the scroll") to refer to the portion of the webpage that is visible without scrolling. As screen sizes vary drastically there is no set definition for the number of pixels that define the fold. This is because different screen resolutions will show different portions of the website without scrolling. Further complicating matters, many websites adjust their layout based on the size of the browser window, such that the fold is not a static feature of the page.
A 2006 study by Jakob Nielsen found that 77% of visitors to a website do not scroll, and therefore only see the portion of the website that is above the fold. In a more recent article by Amy Schade and NNgroup it is stated that there is an 84% average difference in how users treat the content above and below the fold, there is a big dropoff in attention below the fold. Most web design advice available today encourages designers to place important information at the top of the website, but also to prioritize usability and design.
Nevertheless, many web advertising companies require ads be placed above the fold. Marketing research done by Google shows that the viewability of adverts is affected by its position in relation to the fold as there is a significant drop-off below the fold. Each company tends to use their own definition of the fold. The BlogHer advertising network, for example, defines the fold as the top 768 pixels of the page. The FoodieBlogRoll advertising network defines the fold as the top 1000 pixels.
Other variants
Newspaper stories that appear below the fold are said to be located "under the fold."
Internet search query results appear much in the same way. Many web site optimization efforts may be exerted in an attempt to gain the highest "search indexing" or "ranking" placement (as close to first place as possible) for directed term(s) or phrase(s). Using natural or "organic" web site optimization practices has been the standard operating procedure for attaining higher indexing with the end result being the web site appearing in the view area or "above the fold" of the search results pages and especially the first page.
The term is infrequently used in reference to resume and CV (curriculum vitae) layout, where the most crucial and relevant (to the job sought) information must be in the top third, alternately called the "hot zone", to catch the attention of the reader. Since most applicants file credentials electronically, and applications are no longer folded in thirds to fit in an envelope, the advice remains, even though the means of distribution has changed.
Below the fold
The part of the page that is not above the fold.
The part of a webpage that can't be seen without scrolling down.
When Apple was ordered to display acknowledgements that Samsung did not infringe their designs, complaints surfaced because JavaScript code on its UK webpage kept the acknowledgement hidden "below the fold".
References
Graphic design
Journalism terminology
Internet terminology
Web design |
60053438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20About%20T.I.M.E. | It's About T.I.M.E. | It's About T.I.M.E. is the third studio album by Onyx member Sticky Fingaz, released on February 14, 2019 through Major Independents. The album is available only on Sticky's own website.
The album was released as a "digital album movie" and is accompanied by musical film, which tells about the life of Sticky Fingaz, starting from his birth to the entry into Onyx. There are three young actors that play the evolution of a rapper. Sticky Fingaz not only wrote the script for this film, but also presented himself as a director, cinematographer and producer of the film, and also he played a role in it. All the music for the movie was created by Nottz Raw.
In March, after Fingaz responded to quotes from Kodak Black, his "digital album movie" became available on his website along with the diss track on Kodak, "Bust Down". In July, the album became available on the iDitty platform as an interactive souvenir card. Bonus tracks from the album were released on digital platforms on April 7, 2020, and the album itself was released on May 1. In 2020, the album will be released on vinyl.
Plot and concept
The film tells the story of the life of an American rapper Sticky Fingaz, from the experience he gained in childhood, to his growing up and becoming a hip-hop icon. All this is accompanied by songs performed by the rapper himself. According to the director of the film, this movie can shake the art to the ground for many years.
The movie was shot in 2016 in Los Angeles, and partly in Dakar. The rapper himself says that the title of this release has a double meaning. First, he didn't release a solo album for so long, so now it's about time. Secondly, "T.I.M.E." is also an acronym for "The Illest Man Ever". This is the life story of Sticky Fingaz.
Background
In November 2017, American rapper Sticky Fingaz, a member of the rap-group Onyx, published a cover and a link to pre-order his new album-movie titled It's About T.I.M.E.. At first, a teaser for the new movie was published, and then the trailer itself.
The release of the album-movie was continually delayed, but the interest in it was supported by the release of videos for songs which were added as bonus tracks to the new release: «Made Me» (feat. Cassidy), «Change My Life», «Ebenezer Scrooge» (feat. N.O.R.E.), «Put Your Fingaz Up», «S.T.F.U.» (feat. Onyx and M.O.P.).
Sticky Fingaz released a teaser on February 12, 2019, which was accompanied by the release date of the movie.
USB flash drive
In April 2018, Sticky Fingaz demonstrated the media on which his album-movie will be released. This is USB flash drive, made in the form of a silicone finger authentic thumb of Sticky Fingaz. In this form album-movie was released in limited edition for collectors. This flash drive contains several bonus tracks, independent of the film, which were produced by Desmond "DSP" Powell and various other producers. Rap-groups Onyx and M.O.P., as well as rappers N.O.R.E., Cassidy, Kurupt and Vado took part in the recording of the songs. Each bonus track is also accompanied by a visual as well. The main song among them is a song called "Put Your Fingaz Up", because the video for this song is filmed with the most amazing visual technology of today: VR 360, which allows you to rotate the video image while watching it.
Tracklist (soundtrack)
"Pay Attention"
"110373"
"Never Was Born"
"Just A Kid"
"So Beautiful"
"I'm A Teenager"
"City Boy"
"Run Away"
"Until It Gets Dark"
"Hunger Taught Me To Cook"
Tracklist (bonus-tracks)
"Put Your Fingaz Up" [Producer: Desmond "DSP" Powell & Sticky Fingaz]
"Change My Life" [Producer: MaD LiON]
"I'm A Hater" [Producer: Desmond "DSP" Powell & Sticky Fingaz]
"S.T.F.U." (feat. ONYX and M.O.P.) [Producer: Tru .P]
"Ebenezer Scrooge" (a.k.a. "New York Niguhz In Hollywood") (feat. N.O.R.E.) [Producer: Chyskillz]
"Made Me This Way" (feat. Cassidy) [Producer: Desmond "DSP" Powell & Sticky Fingaz]
"Blue" (feat. Kurupt) [Producer: Desmond "DSP" Powell & Sticky Fingaz]
"Bucket List" (feat. Desmond "DSP" Powell) [Producer: Desmond "DSP" Powell & Sticky Fingaz]
Cast
References
External links
"It's About T.I.M.E." at RapGenius
2019 albums
Sticky Fingaz albums
2019 films
American films
2010s musical films
Hood films
American musical drama films
English-language films
2010s hip hop films |
31219778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventide | Eventide | Eventide is an archaic word for evening.
Eventide may also refer to:
Eventide (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion set from the trading card game Magic: The Gathering that is part of the Shadowmoor block
Eventide, Inc, manufacturer of audio and broadcast, communications, and avionics equipment and software
"Eventide", the tune most often associated with the Christian hymn "Abide with Me" by Henry Francis Lyte
The American Christian hymn "Abide with Me, 'Tis Eventide" by Martin Lowrie Hofford
Eventide (novel), a 2004 book by Kent Haruf
An album by the Australian band, Reliqa |
12333782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnisquam%20Regional%20High%20School | Winnisquam Regional High School | Winnisquam Regional High School is a public high school located in Tilton, New Hampshire, in the United States. They are commonly known as the Bears, which is their school mascot. Students of the school are primarily from the towns of Sanbornton, Tilton, and Northfield, though some other towns are represented. The school is commonly referred to by its abbreviation, "WRHS". Recently the school's New Hampshire State Test scores have been steadily rising, and the school district has made strides to boost the WRHS curriculum, most notably by increasing the AP course selection.
In 2001, funds in the amount of $17 million were approved by the tri-town area in an effort to completely renovate the school as well as construct a new gymnasium and additional classroom space. During the renovation, the much beloved Star Wars mural that had covered the main wall of the old cafeteria had to be dismantled.
Winnisquam Regional High School operates a school of agricultural science in a separate building on its main campus. This "Ag Center" allows Winnisquam students, as well as students from nearby towns, to take vocational classes in agriculture, animal science, horticulture, and forestry for high school credit. The center maintains a greenhouse which grows a wide variety of flowers and plants.
Athletics
All of the Winnisquam athletics teams are known as the Bears. The school fields teams during all three seasons, including:
Fall
Cross country (M/F)
Soccer (M/F)
Field hockey (F only)
Volleyball (F only)
Football
Unified soccer (M/F)
Winter
Basketball (M/F)
Wrestling (traditionally M only)
Spirit and cheerleading (traditionally F only)
Indoor track (M/F)
Unified basketball (M/F)
Ice hockey (M/F)
Spring
Baseball (M)
Softball (F)
Track and field (M/F)
Unified volleyball (M/F)
The girls' volleyball team has been a very strong program for the last nine years, with four Division III state championships (2010, 2012, 2017, 2018) and two Division III runners-up (2013, 2015). The volleyball team has played in the finals in six out of the last nine years and has a record of 149 wins and 23 losses from 2010 to 2018.
Field hockey has been one of the school's most successful programs in recent years, winning the NHIAA Class M-S state title seven times between 1990 and 2004, appearing in the championship eleven times in all during that span. The cheerleading team has also been very successful over the years and won the state championship in 1996 and 2008. Track and field has also been one of the school's strong performers, including one title and six runner-up finishes for the boys since 1996, as well as two titles and three runner-up finishes for the girls in the same span.
The boys' soccer team had one of the more memorable performances of any NHIAA team in fall 2007, starting the season 3-7 before winning eight of their next nine to reach the Class M state championship, where they would finish runner-up. Winnisquam tied for the lowest rank of any NHIAA finalist during the fall 2007 season (11th, also achieved by Portsmouth field hockey) and earned the school's soccer program its first championship appearance in 44 years.
Winnisquam has also had a very historic wrestling program. Established in 1972 it is one of the original wrestling programs in New Hampshire history. Its best year on record was in 2015 when the team placed 3rd at the state tournament led by seniors Richie Mills, Billy Chavanelle, and Christian Duquette.
Winnisquam football appeared in the state championship game for the first time in the 2009 season. The Bears went undefeated in the 2018 season and beat Franklin in the championship, becoming Division IV state champions and winning their first title.
Winnisquam cross country was a dominant force in the 1950s and 1960s, racking up seven championships and five runners-up.
Winnisquam baseball won its first state championship in 2010. Jordan Cote, a star pitcher for the Bears, was drafted in the third round, 118th overall, by the New York Yankees in 2011.
Activities
The school is also competitive in many regional, statewide, and national events. It fields a math team, an award winning FFA chapter, and a Granite State Challenge team, notable for its record five championship appearances and three state titles. Their Robotics Team is starting to shape up as well.
Middle school
Winnisquam Regional Middle School is located less than 100 yards from Winnisquam Regional High School. Its sports teams are known as the Wolves. A student vote changed the mascot from the Warriors to the Wolves in the late 1990s.
Music department
Winnisquam Regional High School also has a tremendous amount of participation in its music department. More than 1/3 of the entire school is involved in it, including the top-tier singers in the Chamber Choir. Their music department goes to Six Flags annually after competing against other schools in an end of the year music festival, in which they have won multiple awards in multiple categories for the past five years.
Notable alumni
Robert Fisher, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
References
External links
Official website
Schools in Belknap County, New Hampshire
Public high schools in New Hampshire
Tilton, New Hampshire |
7637545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-exact%20solutions%20in%20general%20relativity | Non-exact solutions in general relativity | Non-exact solutions in general relativity are solutions of Albert Einstein's field equations of general relativity which hold only approximately. These solutions are typically found by treating the gravitational field, , as a background space-time, , (which is usually an exact solution) plus some small perturbation, . Then one is able to solve the Einstein field equations as a series in , dropping higher order terms for simplicity.
A common example of this method results in the linearised Einstein field equations. In this case we expand the full space-time metric about the flat Minkowski metric, :
,
and dropping all terms which are of second or higher order in .
See also
Exact solutions in general relativity
Linearized gravity
Post-Newtonian expansion
Parameterized post-Newtonian formalism
Numerical relativity
References
General relativity |
22882373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkin%27%20for%20Jamaica%20%28N.Y.%29 | Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.) | "Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.)" is a 1980 single by jazz trumpeter Tom Browne. The single—a memoir of the Jamaica neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens where Browne was born and raised—is from his second solo album, Love Approach. Browne got the idea for the song while he was at his parents' home. The vocals for the single were performed by Toni Smith (Thomassina Carrollyne Smith), who also helped compose the song. The song hit number one on the US Billboard R&B chart for a month. "Funkin' for Jamaica" peaked at number nine on the dance chart and made the Top 10 on the UK Singles Chart, but it never charted on the Billboard Hot 100. It later became one of the most interpolated melodies in R&B with the chorus' chord sequence used by artists such as Johnny Kemp.
Personnel
Tom Browne – trumpet
Dave Grusin – piano
Bernard Wright – electric piano, synthesizer
Bobby Broom – guitar
Marcus Miller – bass
Buddy Williams – drums
Errol "Crusher" Bennett – percussion
Alvin Flythe – rap, handclaps
Mike Flythe – rap, handclaps
Kevin Osborne – rap, handclaps
Tonni Smith – vocals, handclaps
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Covers and samples
The 1981 UK funk/disco novelty "The Wikka Rap" by The Evasions featured heavy sampling of "Funkin' for Jamaica'", from which in turn a vocal sample was included on Coolio's song "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)".
In 1989, American rapper Tone Loc sampled "Funkin' for Jamaica" for his song "I Got It Goin' On" on his debut album Lōc-ed After Dark.
In 1995, Nationwide Rip Ridaz sampled "Funkin' for Jamaica" for their song "Compton Nut".
In 1996, The song was sampled by Quad City DJ's for their song, "Quad City Funk" on the album Get On Up and Dance.
DJ Tōwa Tei released his remix cover version as a single in both 1999 and 2001, which featured Les Nubians on vocals, performing part of the song in French.
In 1999, the song was sampled on the Robbie Rivera single "First the Groove".
In 2000, the song was featured on the Bob Baldwin album BobBaldwin.com with Tom Browne performing.
In 2001, the song's intro was sampled on the Mariah Carey single "Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)" for the soundtrack to Carey's film Glitter. The song has also been sampled by The Evasions, N.W.A, EPMD, Snoop Dogg, Keith Murray, Smooth, Erykah Badu, Shaquille O' Neal, and The Black Eyed Peas.
In 2006, contemporary jazz guitarist Patrick Yandall covered the song on his album Samoa Soul.
In 2007, the song was interpolated by The Clark Sisters for their song "Livin'" on their live album, Live – One Last Time, written by Donald Lawrence and Loren McGee.
References
External links
(short version)
(long version)
1980 singles
1980 songs
Arista Records singles
Disco songs |
60851352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%91u%20Guaz%C3%BA%20%28Asunci%C3%B3n%29 | Ñu Guazú (Asunción) | Ñu Guazú is a neighbourhood (barrio) of Asunción, the capital and largest city of Paraguay.
References
Neighbourhoods of Asunción |
1779538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guelph%20%28electoral%20district%29 | Guelph (electoral district) | Guelph (formerly Guelph—Wellington) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. This riding has had a Liberal MP since 1993.
From 2008 until his decision not to run in 2015, the riding's parliamentary seat was held by Liberal MP Frank Valeriote. Valeriote had announced his intention to retire on November 15, 2014.
The Liberal candidate in the 2015 federal election in the riding was Lloyd Longfield, who previously served as president of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce. Longfield was first elected on October 19, 2015 and reelected on October 21, 2019.
History
Guelph riding was created in 1976 from parts of Halton—Wentworth, Wellington and Wellington—Grey ridings. It consisted initially of the Townships of Eramosa, Guelph, Pilkington and Puslinch and the City of Guelph in the County of Wellington.
The electoral district was abolished in 1987 when it was merged into Guelph—Wellington riding, adding Erin to the existing boundaries. In 1996, Erin and Pilkington was removed from the riding.
In 2003, a new riding of Guelph was created again, consisting solely of the City of Guelph.
This riding gained a fraction of territory from Wellington—Halton Hills during the 2012 electoral redistribution.
A so-called "robocall" or voter suppression scandal occurred in this riding during the 2011 federal election, when hundreds of Guelph voters who were opposition supporters received automated calls, or 'robocalls', claiming to be from Elections Canada on election day, May 2, 2011. These calls directed them to the wrong polling stations. While reports of such calls were also alleged in five other ridings, later described as election fraud by a Federal Court judge, there was insufficient evidence to support charges in those ridings. The "robocall" incidents were referred to as the "Pierre Poutine" scandal because a cellphone in the affair was registered to a fictitious Pierre Poutine of Separatist Street in Joliette, Quebec.
On June 2, 2014, Michael Sona, the former director of communications for the Conservative candidate in Guelph was charged with "wilfully preventing or endeavouring to prevent an elector from voting". Sona was found guilty on November 14, 2014 and was sentenced to nine months in jail plus twelve months of probation. During the trial, Justice Hearn agreed with the Crown prosecutor's allegation that Sona had likely not acted alone.
Sona was released from the Maplehurst Correctional Complex on December 1, 2014, on bail after serving twelve days, pending his appeal of the sentence. He did not appeal the conviction.
Based on another incident during the 2011 federal election campaign, Liberal MP Frank Valeriote’s riding association was fined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for violations of the Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules. As reported by the National Post, this fine was based on a robocall message that anonymously attacked the Conservative opponent's position on abortion. The call failed to identify its originator and did not give a callback number. Under a settlement agreement with Valeriote, the CRTC assessed a fine.
Political geography
In 2008, the election in Guelph was a four-way one between the NDP, Greens, the Tories and the Liberals, who came out on top. The NDP only won a small handful of polls in the centre part of the city, which was also where the Greens did well. In fact, the Greens dominated the central part of the city. The Tories did well on the fringes of the city, mostly along the northern borders and in the far south of the city. The Liberals won the southern and northern and western parts of the city.
In 2011, despite a Conservative majority that saw the Liberals have their worst result ever, they were able to retain the seat by a larger margin as the substantial Green voteshare fell by almost 15 points.
In 2015, Liberal voteshare once again rose, to almost 50%. In 2019, the Greens made a major comeback to finish in second ahead o the Conservatives with 26%. However, the Liberals retained the seat with a comfortable 15 point margin.
Demographics
According to the Canada 2001 Census
Ethnic groups: 87.7% White, 2.7% Chinese, 2.6% South Asian, 1.3% Southeast Asian, 1.3% Black, 1.1% Filipino
Languages: 80.1% English, 1.5% French, 17.4% Others
Religions: 37.7% Protestant, 31.5% Catholic, 3.1% Other Christian, 1.6% Buddhist, 1.6% Muslim, 1.2% Christian Orthodox, 20.8% No religion
Average income: $32,405
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following member of the Canadian House of Commons:
Election results
2021 general election
2019 general election
2015 Federal election
2011 general election
2008 general election
The call for a federal election to be held on October 14, 2008 occurred when Guelph was already in the throes of a by-election scheduled for September 8, which was intended to replace retiring Liberal MP Brenda Chamberlain. As a result of this, the by-election was cancelled, and the four major candidates running opted to represent their parties again in the federal election. They included: Frank Valeriote, a local lawyer with thorough community experience who had garnered the Liberal nomination in an upset over Marva Wisdom; Gloria Kovach, a popular city councillor and former President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities who was controversially handed the Conservative nomination after incumbent nominee Brent Barr was oustered; Tom King, a renowned author and Native rights activist who received several high-profile endorsements after his NDP nomination; and Mike Nagy, a long-time Green Party spokesperson.
Initially in Guelph, optimism ran high that either the NDP, Green Party, or Conservative Party could procure the seat, as many felt that the nominees might benefit from the relative unpopularity of Stéphane Dion's Liberals and the gaffes made by prior Liberal MP Brenda Chamberlain, who had failed to show up to a number of Parliamentary votes and retired before the end of her term in office. Ultimately, however, Frank Valeriote was able to narrowly garner the seat over star candidate Gloria Kovach, who lost by around three percent and decreased the margin of defeat for her party. Noteworthy, too, was the increase in the electoral returns of the Green Party, who managed to fare better than the federal NDP in Guelph for the first time, finishing with twenty-one percent of the vote – almost three times what they had received in the 2006 election. In terms of distance from winning position, Guelph was the Green Party's best result in the country in 2008.
2006 general election
2004 general election
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.
1988–2003
The riding was part of the riding known as Guelph—Wellington from 1988 to 2003. It was created in 1987 to include parts of Wellington—Dufferin—Simcoe electoral districts.
Guelph—Wellington initially consisted of the City of Guelph, the Village of Erin, and the townships of Eramosa, Erin, Guelph, Pilkington and Puslinch in the County of Wellington.
In 1996, the riding was re-defined to consist of the City of Guelph and the townships of Eramosa, Guelph and Puslinch before being abolished in 2003, and split into the current electoral district and Wellington—Halton Hills electoral district.
Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.
1979–1984
See also
List of Canadian federal electoral districts
Past Canadian electoral districts
References
Notes
External links
1976-87 Riding history from the Library of Parliament
2003-2008 Riding history from the Library of Parliament
2011 Results from Elections Canada
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
Ontario federal electoral districts
Politics of Guelph |
19003661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawady%2C%20Gmina%20Rzeczyca | Zawady, Gmina Rzeczyca | Zawady is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rzeczyca, within Tomaszów Mazowiecki County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately west of Rzeczyca, north-east of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, and east of the regional capital Łódź.
References
Zawady |
27670970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded%20%282008%20film%29 | Loaded (2008 film) | Loaded is a 2008 American crime thriller film starring Jesse Metcalfe, Corey Large, Monica Keena, Nathalie Kelley and Chace Crawford, directed by Alan Pao.
Synopsis
Tristan Price is a wealthy and privileged teenager who seemingly has everything he could ever want, money, loving parents and a beautiful girlfriend. However, his perfect life is turned upside down by the arrival of Sebastian, a handsome, charismatic, ruthless drug dealer. As Tristan is sucked into a seedy underworld of drugs, sex and violence he begins to realise his new best friend is, in fact, his worst enemy.
Cast
Jesse Metcalfe as Tristan Price
Corey Large as Sebastian
Monica Keena as Brooke
Nathalie Kelley as April
Chace Crawford as Hayden Price
Johnny Messner as Javon
Jimmy Jean-Louis as Antonio
Vinnie Jones as Mr. Black
Mitchell Baker as Damon
Mary Christina Brown as Lin
External links
2008 films
American films
2008 crime thriller films
2008 action thriller films
American crime thriller films
American action thriller films
2000s English-language films
Films about drugs
American gangster films |
13034346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivals%2C%20Kentucky | Rivals, Kentucky | Rivals is a small unincorporated rural community on the banks of Brashear's Creek (near the confluence of Buck Creek and Brashears) in Spencer County, Kentucky, United States. At one time it had a general store started by Matthias Carland's family who settled the land beginning in 1796. Also a post office and a grist mill, started by Peter Van Dyke and his sons, which began operating in 1789. These businesses have been gone for many years, though the building that served as the store and post office still stands as a storage building for a home. It is located approximately 5 miles north-northeast of Taylorsville.
Rivals received its name in an unusual fashion. The story goes that when the application to open a post office there was filled out, a second name choice was required in case the first choice had already been taken. The store owner, needing this second choice, looked upon his shelves and saw a box of ammunition with the brand name Rivals. The first choice was already in use elsewhere, so Rivals became the official post office name, and consequentially the community name. The Van Dykes were early settlers of the area, owning at least one grist mill and also farming the area. The road into Rivals from Highway 55 is still known as Van Dyke Mill Road. Early newspaper reports refer to the area as "Van Dyke Mills". A letter to the editor of one of these early papers refers to more than one mill, a wool carding factory, and several other business interests.
The area is still largely farmland, producing tobacco, corn, wheat, soybeans, sod, cattle, and goats. Over the past 25 years, however, a number of farms have been subdivided into residential areas and "mini-farms"—properties with zoning to allow a small number of animals and/or growing of crops, but not large enough to actually be considered a for-profit farm. In spite of the changes and growth of recent decades, Rivals and other nearby communities such as Normandy are still home to a number of families who have lived there for multiple generations, such as the Allgeier, Harp, Jeffiers, Jeffries, Prewitt, Travis, Yates and Wills families.
References
Unincorporated communities in Spencer County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky
Louisville metropolitan area |
93220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yancey%20County%2C%20North%20Carolina | Yancey County, North Carolina | Yancey County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,818. Its county seat is Burnsville.
This land was inhabited by the Cherokee prior to European settlement, as was much of the Southern Appalachian region.
History
Independent and sturdy Scottish, English, and Scotch-Irish and Irish settlers of the Carolina frontier had crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains and settled the Toe River Valley by the mid-18th century. In the year 1796, one of the early land speculators, John Gray Blount, paid for 326,640 acres (1322 km2) of land, a portion of which later became Yancey County, North Carolina.
In December 1833, the General Assembly established a new western county, named Yancey, from sections of Burke and Buncombe counties. Yancey County was named in honor of Bartlett Yancey, of Caswell County. As a U.S. Congressman (1813–1817) and as speaker of the N.C. Senate (1817–1827), he was instrumental in many accomplishments that benefited the state, including the creation of an education fund that was the beginning of the N.C. Public School System. He was an advocate of correcting the inequality in representation in the General Assembly by the creation of new western counties;
but he died on August 30, 1828, over five years before the General Assembly created a new county named in his honor. In Yancey's boundaries looms Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in the Eastern U.S., at 6,684 feet (2037 m) above sea level.
On March 6, 1834, "Yellow Jacket" John Bailey conveyed 100 acres (0.4 km2) of land for the county seat. John was given the nickname for his famous temper as told in the books The Bailey Family of Yancey County, North Carolina and Heritage of the Tow River Valley by Lloyd Richard Bailey Sr. The town was named Burnsville in honor of Captain Otway Burns, who voted for the creation of the new western county when he was serving in the General Assembly. He was also a naval hero in the War of 1812. A statue of Captain Burns stands on a 40-ton, Mount Airy granite pedestal in the center of the town's public square, which was given the official name of "Bailey Square" by the Yancey County Board of Commissioners on September 1, 1930. The statue of Captain Burns was given to the county on July 5, 1909, by Walter Francis Burns, a grandson of the naval captain. The inscription reads:
Otway Burns - Born in Onslow County, North Carolina, 1777 - Died at Portsmouth, North Carolina, 1850. Sailor - Soldier - Statesman. North Carolina's Foremost Son in the War of 1812-1815 - For Him, This Town Is Named - He Guarded Well Our Seas, Let Our Mountains Honor Him.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.2%) is water. Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet (2,037 m), within Mount Mitchell State Park in Yancey County, is the highest point in the United States east of the Mississippi River. The Black Mountains, of which Mt. Mitchell is a part, contains five of the 10 highest peaks east of the Mississippi, all over 6,400 ft (1,951 m). In descending order of height, they are: Mount Mitchell, Mount Craig, Balsam Cone, Mount Gibbs and Potato Hill.
Adjacent counties
Mitchell County - northeast
McDowell County - southeast
Buncombe County - southwest
Madison County - west
Unicoi County, Tennessee - northwest
National protected areas
Blue Ridge Parkway (part)
Pisgah National Forest (part)
Major highways
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 18,470 people, 7,510 households, and 5,081 families residing in the county.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 17,774 people, 7,472 households, and 5,372 families residing in the county. The population density was 57 people per square mile (22/km2). There were 9,729 housing units at an average density of 31 per square mile (12/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 97.99% White, 0.57% Black or African American, 0.34% Native American, 0.13% Asian, 0.41% from other races, and 0.56% from two or more races. 2.69% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 7,472 households, out of which 27.30% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.20% were married couples living together, 7.80% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.10% were non-families. 25.40% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 2.81.
In the county, the population was spread out, with 21.20% under the age of 18, 7.00% from 18 to 24, 26.40% from 25 to 44, 27.10% from 45 to 64, and 18.20% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 95.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.30 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $29,674, and the median income for a family was $35,879. Males had a median income of $26,800 versus $20,885 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,335. About 10.90% of families and 15.80% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.10% of those under age 18 and 16.30% of those age 65 or over.
2015
As of 2015 the largest self-reported ancestry groups in Yancey County, North Carolina are:
Law and government
Yancey County is a member of the North Carolina Councils of Governments, Region D: High Country Council of Governments.
Communities
Town
Burnsville (county seat)
Townships
Brush Creek
Burnsville
Cane River
Crabtree
Egypt
Green Mountain
Jacks Creek
Pensacola
Price's Creek
Ramseytown
South Toe
Unincorporated communities
Bald Creek
Bent Creek
Busick
Cane River
Celo
Day Book
Green Mountain
Hamrick
Micaville
Murchison
Newdale
Pensacola
Ramseytown
Sioux
Swiss
Windom
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Yancey County, North Carolina
Yancey County News
John Wesley McElroy House
Nu-Wray Inn
Parkway Playhouse
Arthur Morgan School
References
External links
Yancey County government official website
1833 establishments in North Carolina
Populated places established in 1833
Counties of Appalachia |
15560672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition%20%28parliamentary%20procedure%29 | Recognition (parliamentary procedure) | In parliamentary procedure, recognition, or assignment of the floor, is the exclusive right to be heard at that time by a member of a deliberative assembly. With a few exceptions, a member must be recognized by the chairperson before engaging in debate or making a motion.
Rules
The general rule is that the first member to rise and address the chair after another member has yielded the floor (by sitting down) is entitled to the floor.
Exceptions to this general rule include the following:
The maker of a motion is entitled to speak first in debate on it.
If a motion is made to implement a recommendation in a committee report, the member who presented the report to the assembly is entitled to preference in recognition.
If a motion is taken from the table, the member who moved to take it from the table is entitled to preference in recognition.
If a motion is reconsidered, the member who made the motion to reconsider is entitled to preference in recognition.
If a member has already spoken on the pending motion, he may not speak again on it on the same day as long as any other member who has not spoken on the motion claims the floor.
If the chair knows that persons seeking the floor have opposite opinions on the pending motion, the chair is to let the floor alternate between the opposing sides. This is sometimes accomplished by designating different microphones for those favoring and opposing a measure or having members hold up cards indicating their position.
If the floor has been assigned but the member has not yet begun to speak, another member may interrupt to give previous notice of another motion.
If the chair made a mistake in assigning the floor, a point of order may be raised.
Once a member has the floor, that member should not be interrupted unless a rule is being broken or the urgency of the situation justifies the interruption (such as a member raising a point of order).
See also
Floor (legislative)
References
Parliamentary procedure |
54633400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth%20Harte | Gareth Harte | Gareth Jason Harte (born 15 March 1993) is a South African-born English cricketer. He made his Twenty20 cricket debut for Durham in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 23 July 2017. He made his first-class debut for Durham in the 2018 County Championship on 20 April 2018. He made his List A debut for Durham in the 2018 Royal London One-Day Cup on 25 May 2018.
References
External links
1993 births
Living people
English cricketers
South African cricketers
Durham cricketers
Cricketers from Johannesburg
South African emigrants to the United Kingdom |
61492208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem%20Bastiaensz%20Schepers | Willem Bastiaensz Schepers | Willem Bastiaensz Schepers (8 October 1619 – 21 January 1704) was a Dutch admiral. Having made his career as a shipping magnate in Rotterdam, Schepers was rewarded in 1673 for his political support to the new Orangist regime, by being made lieutenant admiral. In 1688, he organised the transport fleet for the Glorious Revolution.
Biography
Schepers was the son of a sailmaker in Haarlem. On 28 May 1641, he is recorded in Rotterdam as a merchant marrying Bartha de Jong, the daughter of an owner of herring busses in Delfshaven. For the year 1659, Schepers was for the first time in Rotterdam appointed as treasurer of the "Great Fishery", or whalery, an office he would hold in several subsequent years. Schepers accumulated much wealth as a ship owner and gained political influence. During this period, in the Dutch Republic political power was contested between the ruling States faction and the Organgists who wanted to make William III of Orange stadtholder.
In the disaster year of 1672, Louis XIV invaded the Republic. The crisis situation was exploited by William III to force the States of Holland to appoint him stadtholder. Schepers with several other Orangists, on 25 Augustus 1672, took over the city council of Rotterdam. He would remain councillor until 1698. As such he had become a member of the Dutch ruling class, the regents. Between 1678 and 1696, he was repeatedly appointed burgomaster and held many other functions, as was usual among the regents.
The new Orangist regime attempted to purify all offices from opponents. In the Dutch navy, this was a slow process, as its officers were very popular naval heroes, whose expertise was sorely needed in the fight against France. After the Battle of Texel in 1673, Schepers was appointed lieutenant-admiral of the Admiralty of the Noorderkwartier on 6 October, succeeding the deceased Jan Meppel, despite never having served in the navy before.
At the time, this was seen as a predominantly political appointment, rewarding Schepers for taking the initiative to order the Rotterdam delegate in the States of Holland to propose the revocation of the Perpetual Edict, forbidding the appointment of any member of the House of Orange in the office of stadtholder. However, Schepers was not merely an Orangist figurehead. He actually sailed on the fleet the next year, until December 1674.
In 1676, he first commanded, with Vice-Admiral Jan Jansse van Nes, a flotilla blocking the French corsair base Dunkirk and then supported the Danes against Sweden with a squadron. In 1677 he fought the Swedish forces in the Baltic and was knighted by Christian V of Denmark in the Order of the Dannebrog. When Cornelis Tromp became lieutenant-admiral-general of the confederate Dutch fleet, Schepers, on 25 February 1678, succeeded him as lieutenant-admiral of the important Admiralty of Amsterdam.
In 1683, Schepers commanded a squadron observing French and Danish naval actions on the North Sea. Returning to the Texel on 11 November, the squadron was hit by a storm that sank eight vessels. The States General of the Netherlands appointed Schepers to head a commission, together with Cornelis Valckenier and Simon Velius, to formulate proposals for the improvement of the readiness of the Dutch fleet. Their recommendations would lay the foundation for the expansion of the Dutch fleet during the 1690s, reaching its largest size during the age of sail.
In 1688, William III called upon Schepers to organise the transport and landing vessels of the invasion fleet in the Glorious Revolution. Schepers personally contributed twelve vessels and hired 93 more. At first it was considered to let Schepers command a squadron, but eventually it was decided that he should accompany William III on Den Briel, a frigate of 30 cannon under flag Captain Joan van der Esch, together with Vice-Admiral Fredrik Willem van Bronckhorst Stirum. On 28 March 1692, Schepers succeeded Lieutenant-Admiral Aert Jansse van Nes at the Admiralty of the Maze. In 1696, he hired fifteen ships to blockade Dunkirk, to prevent a return of James II of England.
Schepers died on 21 January 1704, and was buried with great pomp four days later, in the chapel of the Lords of Kralingen in the Sint-Laurenskerk at Rotterdam. The chapel, acquired by the admiral in 1695, would be destroyed during the bombardment of Rotterdam in May 1940.
References
1619 births
1704 deaths
Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic
Dutch naval personnel of the Anglo-Dutch Wars
Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog
People from Haarlem |
8133574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Archdiocese%20of%20Mexico | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico | The Archdiocese of Mexico () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church that is situated in Mexico City, Mexico. It was erected as a diocese on 2 September 1530 and elevated to an archdiocese on 12 February 1546. The archdiocese is one of the largest in the world, with over four million Catholics, surpassed only by Guadalajara, São Paulo and Milan.
Prior to 2019, the archdiocese was the largest in the world, with nearly 8 million Catholics. In September 2019, Pope Francis approved the division of the archdiocese, erecting three new suffragan dioceses from its territory: Azcapotzalco, Iztapalapa, and Xochimilco. These are the only three suffragans within the ecclesiastical province of which the archdiocese is the metropolitan see. Today, the archdiocese’s territory comprises most of Mexico City, with the exception of the three new dioceses, each of which is coextensive with its eponymous borough.
The cathedra of the archdiocese is found within the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City.
Bishops
Ordinaries
Ordinaries who became Cardinals:
Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez, in 1969
Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, in 1979
Norberto Rivera Carrera, in 1998
Carlos Aguiar Retes, in 2016 while Archbishop of Tlalnepantla
Coadjutor archbishop
Miguel Darío Cardinal Miranda y Gómez (1955–1956); future Cardinal
Current auxiliary bishops
Rogelio Esquivel Medina (appointed 27 June 2001)
Salvador González Morales (appointed 16 February 2019)
Carlos Enrique Samaniego López (appointed 16 February 2019)
Luis Manuel Pérez Raygoza (appointed 25 January 2020)
Héctor Mario Pérez Villarreal (appointed 25 January 2020)
Former auxiliary bishops
Juan Manuel de Irrizarri y Peralta (27 April 1840 – 27 March 1849)
Maximino Ruiz y Flores (8 March 1920 – 11 May 1949)
Francisco Orozco Lomelín (19 March 1952 – 17 October 1990)
José Villalón Mercado (1 April 1952 – 12 September 1977)
Alfredo Torres Romero (30 December 1967 – 4 January 1975), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Aguascalientes
Luis Mena Arroyo (13 July 1961 – 1 September 1964), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Chihuahua; returned here as Auxiliary Bishop (27 July 1979 – 9 September 1995), with personal title of Archbishop
Jorge Martínez Martínez (5 June 1971 – 1 August 1994)
Javier Lozano Barragán (5 June 1979 – 28 October 1984), appointed Bishop of Zacatecas; future Cardinal
Francisco María Aguilera González (5 June 1979 – 12 January 1996)
Carlos Talavera Ramírez (15 January 1980 – 14 March 1984), appointed Bishop of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz
Genaro Alamilla Arteaga (26 January 1980 – 10 October 1989)
Ricardo Watty Urquidi, M.Sp.S. (27 May 1980 – 6 November 1989), appointed Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
Abelardo Alvarado Alcántara (26 April 1985 – 22 July 2008)
José de Jesús Martínez Zepeda (11 March 1997 – 3 January 2004), appointed Bishop of Irapuato, Guanajuato
Marcelino Hernández Rodríguez (5 January 1998 – 23 February 2008), appointed Bishop of Orizaba, Veracruz
José Luis Fletes Santana (29 January 2000 – 31 May 2003)
Guillermo Rodrigo Teodoro Ortiz Mondragón (29 January 2000 – 19 October 2005), appointed Bishop of Cuautitlán, México
Felipe Tejeda García, M.Sp.S. (29 January 2000 – 30 July 2010)
Jonás Guerrero Corona (27 June 2001 – 18 March 2011), appointed Bishop of Culiacán, Sinaloa
Francisco Clavel Gil (27 June 2001 – 28 May 2013)
Antonio Ortega Franco, C.O. (11 February 2004 – 16 February 2019)
José Víctor Manuel Valentín Sánchez Espinosa (2 March 2004 – 5 February 2009), appointed Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles, Puebla
Carlos Briseño Arch, O.A.R. (20 May 2006 - 12 November 2018), appointed Bishop of Veracruz
Florencio Armando Colín Cruz (27 November 2008 - 16 February 2019), appointed Bishop of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca
Crispin Ojeda Márquez (4 June 2011 - 27 July 2018), appointed Bishop of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
Jorge Estrada Solórzano (28 May 2013 – 11 May 2019), appointed Bishop of Gómez Palacio, Durango
Francisco Daniel Rivera Sánchez, M.Sp.S. (appointed 25 January 2020 – died 18 January 2021)
Other priests of the archdiocese who became bishops
Bernardo Gárate y López de Arizmendi (15 December 1819 – 19 March 1863), appointed Bishop of Querétaro
Manuel Fulcheri y Pietrasanta (17 December 1898 – 6 May 1912), appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca
Gerardo Anaya y Diez de Bonilla (2 April 1904 – 8 March 1920), appointed Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas)
Arturo Vélez Martínez (29 June 1934 – 8 February 1951), appointed Bishop of Toluca
Territorial losses
Education
Colleges, universities, and seminaries
Secondary schools
Former colleges, universities, and seminaries
References
External links and references
Arquidiócesis Primada de México official site (in Spanish)
Religion in Mexico City
Mexico
Religious organizations established in the 1530s
1530 establishments in New Spain
1530s establishments in Mexico
Religious organizations established in the 1540s
1546 establishments in New Spain
Mexico
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Roman Catholic ecclesiastical provinces in Mexico |
52480514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%20Greenlandic%20Men%27s%20Football%20Championship | 1982 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship | The 1982 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship was the 12th edition of the Greenlandic Men's Football Championship. The final round was held in Nuuk. It was won by Nagdlunguaq-48 for the fourth time in its history.
Final round
Pool 1
Pool 2
Playoffs
Semi finals
Third place match
Final
See also
Football in Greenland
Football Association of Greenland
Greenland national football team
Greenlandic Men's Football Championship
References
Greenlandic Men's Football Championship seasons
Green
Green
Foot |
68584245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Pincus | Matt Pincus | Matthew Storrs Pincus is an American music publisher and investor who founded Songs Music Publishing. He was a former bassist of the band Judge.
Early life and education
Pincus is the son of Lionel Pincus, co-founder and chairman of private equity firm Warburg Pincus. His mother, Suzanne Storrs, was Miss Utah in 1955 and a television actress, who was married to Lionel Pincus until her death in 1995. He is a graduate of Columbia University, where he received his B.A. in 1995 and M.B.A. in 2002. He has a brother, Henry Pincus, who is an actor and also attended Columbia.
Career
At age 17, he joined the New York hardcore band Judge, where he played bass.
In college, Pincus interned at various record labels, including EMI and Jive Records. He was also a campus representative for Atlantic Records and worked as an assistant editor at the New York magazine after college.
Having graduated from Columbia Business School, Pincus worked at EMI as a strategy associate. In 2004, he invested $5 million of his own money into Songs Music Publishing with Ron Perry, a fellow EMI alum. The two initially targeted Christian rock and hard rock musicians before looking into more commercial acts including Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and Conor Oberst. Under Pincus' leadership, the label represented a clientele of 300 artists, including chart-topping musicians such as Lorde, Diplo, and The Weeknd.
In 2015, he testified before the United States Senate to demand a revamp of the country's system for calculating songwriter royalties and warned against the encroachment of Big Tech on the music publishing industry.
In 2017, Pincus and Perry were named to the Billboard magazine's Power 100 list, which ranks the most influential businesspeople in the music industry. He sold the company in December 2017 for $160 million to Kobalt Music Group.
In 2018, Pincus joined LionTree as executive-in-residence and took up an advisory role at Snap Inc.
He has been a member of the board of directors of the National Music Publishers' Association, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Songwriters Hall of Fame, the financial services startup HIFI, and the music creation platform Splice, of which he is also an investor.
Personal life
Pincus is married to Sarah Min, former managing editor of Domino, a shopping publication of Condé Nast.
After his father died, he and his brother sued Princess Firyal, accusing her of taking advantage of their father's deteriorating mental and physical state by spending extravagant sums to decorate a $50 million,14-room duplex in the Pierre Hotel.
References
Living people
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Columbia Business School alumni
American rock bass guitarists
Musicians from New York City
American music publishers (people)
American investors
New York (magazine) people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
15572433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanac-les-Mines | Chanac-les-Mines | Chanac-les-Mines (; ) is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.
Population
See also
Communes of the Corrèze department
References
Communes of Corrèze |
41143181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Shackelford | Kevin Shackelford | Kevin Russell Shackelford (born April 7, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds.
College
Shackelford attended Marshall University, where he played college baseball for the Marshall Thundering Herd. He played as a catcher for his first two seasons at Marshall, batting .095/.156/.119 in 2008, and hitting .226/.280/.321 in 2009. He then became a pitcher. In 2010 he was 1-1 with a 7.50 ERA in 19 games.
Career
Milwaukee Brewers
The Milwaukee Brewers selected Shackelford in the 21st round of the 2010 MLB Draft. He signed and made his professional debut with the AZL Brewers of the Arizona League in 2010, and went 1-2 with a 5.40 ERA. The next season for the Helena Brewers in the Advanced Rookie Pioneer League, he was 3-5 with a 4.15 ERA.
Playing for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers of the Class A Midwest League in 2012, the Timber Rattlers won the Midwest League championship, with Shackelford logging a 4.06 ERA in 27 appearances. In 2013, Shackelford split the season between the High-A Brevard County Manatees of the Florida State League and the Double-A Huntsville Stars of the Southern League, posting a 2-4 record and 3.08 ERA in 44 games between the two teams. After the 2013 season, the Brewers assigned Shackelford to the Arizona Fall League, where he was a member of the championship-winning Surprise Saguaros. On November 20, 2013, the Brewers added Shackelford to their 40-man roster. Shackelford was assigned to Huntsville to begin the 2014 season. He was designated for assignment on July 17, 2014, to make room on the 40-man roster for Irving Falu, without having appeared in a major league game for Milwaukee. He was outrighted to Huntsville on July 19.
Cincinnati Reds
After the 2014 season, the Brewers traded Shackelford alongside Barrett Astin to the Cincinnati Reds to complete an August 31 trade for Jonathan Broxton. In 2015, Shackelford spent the year with the Double-A Pensacola Blue Wahoos, logging a 2-4 record and 3.72 ERA in 35 appearances. In 2016, he split the season between Pensacola and the Triple-A Louisville Bats, accumulating a 2-2 record and 2.03 ERA in 35 games between the two teams. On November 7, 2016, he elected free agency. On November 21, Shackelford signed a new minor league contract with the Reds organization. He was assigned to Louisville to begin the 2017 season
The Reds promoted Shackelford to the major leagues for the first time on June 27, 2017. He made his major league debut on June 29 allowing 4 earned runs in 2.2 innings against his former team, the Milwaukee Brewers. In 26 games in his rookie year for the Reds, Shackelford was 0-0 with a 4.70 ERA. Shackelford appeared in 5 games for Cincinnati in 2018, but struggled to a 7.88 ERA in 8.0 innings of work. The Reds released Shackelford on June 5, 2018.
Yokohama DeNA BayStars
On November 21, 2020, after spending two and a half years out of baseball, Shackelford a one-year contract with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball as a developmental squad player (:ja:育成選手制度 (日本プロ野球)). On April 23, 2021, Shackelford signed a contract with the BayStars as a registered player under management. (:Ja:支配下選手登録) On April 24, he made his NPB debut.
References
External links
Career statistics - NPB.jp
Living people
1989 births
Baseball players from Charlotte, North Carolina
Major League Baseball pitchers
Cincinnati Reds players
Marshall Thundering Herd baseball players
Arizona League Brewers players
Helena Brewers players
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers players
Brevard County Manatees players
Huntsville Stars players
Surprise Saguaros players
Pensacola Blue Wahoos players
Louisville Bats players
Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
Yokohama DeNA BayStars players |
30512298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallegama | Pallegama | Pallegama is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province. The Kotmale Oya drains into the Mahaweli River at this location.
See also
List of towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka
External links
Populated places in Central Province, Sri Lanka |
11988067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentino%20Floro | Florentino Floro | Florentino V. Floro Jr. (born November 5, 1953, in Manila) is a Filipino former judge who achieved notoriety after being suspended from the Philippine judiciary in 2006 due to mental illness. Floro made several statements that he was psychic and claimed to frequently communicate with invisible duendes, a type of dwarf common in Filipino and Latin American mythology.
Biography
Florentino V. Floro, Jr. was born in Manila, Philippines on November 5, 1953, eldest of five brothers, to Florentino Carreon Floro and Milagros Geronimo Velasquez. Floro's primary education was by the Religious of the Virgin Mary, graduating from secondary school in 1969 in Valenzuela City. Initially training to be a priest, he entered the seminary in 1965, leaving the priesthood to enter law. From 1970 to 1974 Floro attended Adamson University and Ateneo de Manila University's Loyola Schools, earning a BA in philosophy and theology. Floro earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Ateneo Law School and placed 12th in the 1983 Philippine Bar Examinations with a grade of 87.55 percent.
Judicial career
In 1995 Floro applied to the Judicial and Bar Council, but was rejected for the bench after failing the mandatory psychological examination by the Supreme Court of the Philippines. The Clinic Services of the Supreme Court found "evidence of ego disintegration" and "developing psychotic process", and Floro voluntarily withdrew his application. Floro re-applied in 1998, again with a negative evaluation. Due to his impressive academic performance he was allowed to submit a second, more favorable psychiatric opinion from private practitioners. On his 45th birthday Floro was appointed a regional trial court judge in the Metro Manila region of the capital (the youngest ever appointed) and began work in November 1998. Floro stated his mission was to rid the Philippine legal system of corruption. In March of the following year, Floro requested an audit be performed, which resulted in a July 13 report to a court administrator who recommended the report be considered a complaint against Floro and that he be given another psychiatric examination. On July 20, 1999 Floro was placed on preventive suspension during the investigation against him, for a variety of reasons including:
Violating a variety of rules governing judicial conduct, including circulating a business card containing self-congratulatory statements, and announcing his qualifications in court
declarations in criminal cases on the side of the accused
having a private law practice while a judge
having hearings without the presence of a prosecuting attorney
ordering mental and physical examinations of an accused over the objections of a prosecutor on unjustified grounds
The investigation resulted in 13 charges. In March 2001 the Supreme Court reviewed a report incorporating psychiatric and psychological findings of multiple doctors which judged the evidence to be substantiated, and recommended Floro be declared unfit to be a judge, effective immediately.A.M. No. RTJ-99-1460 August 11, 2006 Over the next several years (in part taking so long because of Floro's delaying tactics) the Supreme Court undertook an investigation, ultimately handing down a unanimous decision that Floro be dismissed from the bench. The court did not rule that Floro was insane, but did suffer from psychosis that impaired his judgement.
Claims
While serving as a judge, Floro made a number of claims, including:
Being the fifth-best psychic in the country
Being the "angel of death" and able to cause pain and sickness to those who appeared before him in court
Having the ability to appear in multiple locations at the same time
Being aided in the court by three duendes (dwarfs found in Philippine folklore) named Luis, Armand and Angel
Having healing powers, which he claimed he used to help people in his chambers during breaks
On Fridays, Floro would change from his traditional blue robes to black, which he claimed helped him recharge his psychic powers. Floro's claims went on to garner worldwide attention.
Judgment
After 68 months of suspension, on April 7, 2006 the Supreme Court fined Floro 40,000 pesos and removed him from his position with three years back pay, allowances, and benefits. The court did not find Floro guilty of gross misconduct or corruption but did find that his mental health indicated "gross deficiency in competence and independence". Floro was also not barred from application or admittance to government services which do not require the dispensation of justice.
Appeals
In May 2006 Floro filed a motion to set aside judgment against him, which was denied. Floro subsequently filed three further motions that the evidence presented against him in the form of the psychiatric evaluations were inadmissible, and argued that he should not be dismissed for his beliefs. The court stressed that its decision had nothing to do with Floro's beliefs in dwendes or the validity of that belief, but permitting him to continue as a judge would be harmful to public trust in the judiciary as a guardian of the law.
Despite a directive to file no further appeals, Floro filed several more pleadings. On November 3, 2006, Floro filed his second appeal and a motion to clean the judiciary, accompanying the motion with a statement that he would use his three dwarfs to inflict sickness on the current judges, praying for his curse to work on every Friday. Floro claimed he was dismissed due to his belief in the paranormal.
On July 12, 2007, the Supreme Court justices ordered Floro to stop requesting a review of his case stating it had no reason to reverse itself on his dismissal and issued a warning that he can be held liable for contempt of court if he continued.
On February 3, 2010, Floro filed his own nomination for the post of Supreme Court chief justice, which then-incumbent Reynato Puno vacated upon his retirement on May 17. However, the high tribunal excluded him from the list of nominees on February 8, citing his earlier disbarment order. He nominated himself once more during the 2012 selection of a replacement chief justice for Renato Corona, but was left out along with three other people from the final list of nominees on July 7, 2012.
Lawsuits
Since his suspension from the judiciary, Floro has filed multiple lawsuits.
In June 2004, Floro filed an intervention petition, in the certiorari lawsuit filed by the opposition Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP) Davao City Rep. Ruy Elias Lopez, to stop a joint session of Congress from canvassing the votes for president and vice president. Floro asked the Court to declare a failure of elections and order the COMELEC to conduct special presidential elections. Floro also asked the Supreme Court to declare Noli de Castro as acting President, as Solomonic solution to the political crisis.
In January 2007, the Supreme Court of the Philippines dismissed with finality the August 30, 2006 Disbarment administrative lawsuit filed by Floro against Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr., Justice Bernardo P. Pardo, Alfredo Benipayo and 6 others.
In late April 2007, Floro filed a disbarment complaint grounded on charges of gross misconduct, ignorance of the law, manifest undue interest, questionable temporary restraining orders and violations of the ethical standards and code of conduct by the Philippine Court of Appeals Associate Justices, "CA ‘Dirty Dozen". Floro named one justice specifically as part of a "dirty dozen", twelve judges currently under investigation for corruption by the court's Ombudsman.
For non-payment of docket fees, the High Court, on June 5, 2007, dismissed Floro's intervention petition dated May 30, 2007, and his supplement dated June 1, 2007, in the Gregory S. Ong citizenship case, filed by former Senate President Jovito Salonga.
On, August 1, 2008, Floro filed a taxpayer lawsuit against some Court of Appeals Justices and lawyers in the GSIS-Meralco bribery case.
References
External links
1953 births
Living people
People from Manila
Filipino judges
Filipino lawyers
Filipino psychics
Filipino bloggers
Ateneo de Manila University alumni
Adamson University alumni |
66552010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantzety%20Herard | Frantzety Herard | Frantzety Herard (born 10 March 2002) is a Haitian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Cibao.
Career statistics
Club
Notes
References
2002 births
Living people
Haitian footballers
Haiti youth international footballers
Haitian expatriate footballers
Association football forwards
Vissel Kobe players
Cibao FC players
Haitian expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Expatriate footballers in Japan
Haitian expatriate sportspeople in the Dominican Republic
Expatriate footballers in the Dominican Republic |
37911322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Menorah | National Menorah | The National Menorah is a large Hanukkah menorah located in the northeast quadrant of The Ellipse near the White House in Washington, D.C. It was first lit in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, and has been erected and lit every year since. The Menorah has grown in size as well, and is now high.
History
In 1974 Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson called for the public awareness of the festival of Hanukkah and encouraged the lighting of public menorahs. Although initially criticized by liberal Jewish organizations, Schneerson defended the campaign. In 1979, Abraham Shemtov of Chabad, sought to erect a menorah on the White House lawn. Cecil D. Andrus, the secretary of interior initially denied Shemtov a permit to put a menorah on government property, saying it would violate the First Amendment. Stuart E. Eizenstat eventually settled the matter and a permit was granted.
That year, President Jimmy Carter ended 100 days of self-imposed seclusion over the Iran hostage crisis by walking to Lafayette Park, and lighting the Menorah erected there by Chabad. Carter delivered brief remarks. Every president since has recognized Hanukkah with a special menorah-lighting.
President Ronald Reagan is credited with naming it the National Menorah in a statement read during the menorah-lighting in Lafayette Park in 1982.
As of 2013, the Menorah was high, and rested on an elevated platform high. The height of the hanukiah and platform are regulated by rabbinical law, which requires the menorah to be both visible (minimum height off the ground) and of a maximum height (a person must look upward but not uncomfortably so).
Event
The Menorah is erected each year by Abraham Shemtov and Levi Shemtov and sponsored by American Friends of Chabad-Lubavitch, as part of the campaign initiated by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson to raise awareness and hold public Hanukkah celebrations.
The National Menorah annual event is broadcast by C-Span each year. It includes a music presentation of festive Hanukkah songs by the United States Army Band. A U.S. ambassador or member of the cabinet has participated in the Menorah lighting each year. In 2004, all 50 U.S. governors issued proclamations in honor of the National Menorah.
Scholars have cited this initiative as a prime factor in Hanukkah becoming a widely celebrated festival.
Dignitary kindlers
Every year since then, a member of the President's administration has participated and made formal remarks during the lighting ceremony. Those who participated in the National Menorah event include:
1979: Jimmy Carter, President of the United States.
1994: Joe Lieberman
1996: Stuart Eizenstat and Joe Lieberman
1997: Stuart Eizenstat
1998: Jack Lew
2000: Stuart Eizenstat
2006: Susan Schwab
2007: Michael Mukasey
2008: Joshua B. Bolten, White House Chief of Staff
2009: Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff
2012: Jeffrey Zients, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget
2013: Michael Froman, U.S. Trade Representative
2014: Joe Biden, U.S. Vice President
2021: Douglas Emhoff, U.S. Second Gentleman
References
Hanukkah |
17515599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20Old%20Fashioned%20%28ballet%29 | I'm Old Fashioned (ballet) | I'm Old Fashioned (The Astaire Variations) is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned,” to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier. The premiere took place on Thursday, June 16, 1983, at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. It was titled Variations on "I'm Old Fashioned" at its first performance, but the name was truncated to its current form the following week.
Original cast
Judith Fugate
Kyra Nichols
Heather Watts
Joseph Duell
Sean Lavery
Bart Cook
Reviews
NY Times by Alastair Macaulay, October 9, 2010
References
Repertory Week, NYCB, Spring season, 2008 repertory, week 5
Playbill, NYCB, Friday, May 30, 2008
Articles
Sunday NY Times, Jack Anderson, May 29, 1983
NY Times, Roslyn Sulcas, May 28, 2007
Ballets by Jerome Robbins
New York City Ballet repertory
1983 ballet premieres
Ballets by Morton Gould |
30434368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth%20Meyer%20%28composer%29 | Elisabeth Meyer (composer) | Katharina Elisabeth Meyer née Tuxen (b. 19 July 1859, d. 4 July 1927) was a Danish composer. She was born in Svendborg, Denmark, sister of singer Marie English. She studied music with her mother and possibly composers Hans Jørgen Malling and Ludwig Birkedal Barford. She married and had four children, and died in Copenhagen.
Works
Meyer wrote about sixty songs and a cantata (lost). Selected works include:
The Lark
Berceuse for violin and pianoforte
Naar Duggen falder for pianoforte
References
1859 births
1927 deaths
20th-century classical composers
Women classical composers
Danish classical composers
People from Svendborg
Danish women composers
20th-century women composers |
58845818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movin%27%20Upside%20the%20Blues | Movin' Upside the Blues | Movin' Upside the Blues is an album by organist Jimmy McGriff recorded in 1981 (with one track from late 1980) and released on the Jazz America Marketing (JAM) label.
Reception
Allmusic's Scott Yanow said: "As usual, most of the music is blues-based, although the inclusion of "Moonlight Serenade" in this soul-jazz setting is a pleasant surprise".
Track listing
"Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish) – 6:30
"All Day Long" (Kenny Burrell) – 11:02
"Could Be" (Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy Ponder) – 5:34
"Free and Foxy" (McGriff, Ponder) – 6:12
"Movin' Upside the Blues" (McGriff) – 5:24
Recorded on December 19, 1980 (track 2), June 23, 1981 (tracks 4 & 5) and June 24, 1981 (tracks 1 & 3)
Personnel
Jimmy McGriff – organ
Bill Hardman (tracks 4 & 5), Danny Moore (track 2) – trumpet
Bill Easley (track 2), Arnold Sterling (tracks 1 & 3-5) – alto saxophone
Harold Vick – tenor saxophone (track 2)
Jimmy Ponder – guitar
Vance James (tracks 1 & 3-5), Victor Jones (track 2) − drums
Richard Byrd – congas (track 2)
References
Jimmy McGriff albums
1982 albums
Albums produced by Bob Porter (record producer)
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio |
60241310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20Progressives | Young Progressives | Young Progressives (, MP) is a social liberal youth organization in Slovakia connected to the political party Progressive Slovakia.
History
Young Progressives was founded in 2018. Since March 2019, organization is associate member of the European Liberal Youth.
References
External links
Youth wings of political parties in Slovakia
Youth wings of liberal parties |
11249379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1%20ILL-ustrated | VH1 ILL-ustrated | VH1 ILL-ustrated is an adult animated sketch comedy television series that aired on VH1 and was conceived by animation producer Bob Cesca that parodied pop culture and politics. This is the only project that Cesca's Camp Chaos Productions produced, besides Napster Bad. Recurring characters include satirical caricatures of Axl Rose (who works at a McDonald's restaurant, and screams people's orders), Michael Jackson (who leaves Earth in search of a place that will accept him and his monkey, Bubbles), among others.
The animated series were later aired on MTV2 (2006) and SBS (2007).
Episodes
Season 1 (2003)
Episode 1 October 17, 2003
Episode 2 October 17, 2003
Episode 3 October 17, 2003
Season 2 (2004)
Episode 4 May 17, 2004
Episode 5 May 18, 2004
Episode 6 May 19, 2004
Episode 7 May 20, 2004
Episode 8 May 21, 2004
Episode 9 May 28, 2004
Episode 10 April 6, 2004
Episode 11 November 6, 2004
Episode 12 June 18, 2004
Episode 13 June 25, 2004
Segments
The majority of sketches are a satirical view of world issues. An example includes SpongeBong HempPants, a parody of SpongeBob SquarePants, in which "SpongeBong" is a green-colored marijuana addict, while "Hashbrick" is a brick of hash. Another recurring parody is of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Yogi Bear featuring Al Gore as the ranger, and George W. Bush and Dick Cheney as the meddling bears who cause problems for Jellystone National Park; such mischief includes drilling for oil in the middle of a lake, when explicitly told not to by Ranger Gore.
Other segments are general satires of popular culture, such as Popeye in Anime, a parody of Popeye the Sailor Man as if it was drawn in an anime style, and a segment in which the rock band Guns N' Roses is working in a McDonald's and take orders to the tune of their song "Welcome to the Jungle".
They also frequently poked-fun at their home station's (VH1) new series of shows having nothing to do with music, such as a segment called VH1's I Love 5 Seconds Ago, in which famous actors, actresses and singers would tell the best thing about five seconds ago. An example of this would be "I was wearing a total hipster shirt five seconds ago, and I still wear it now. Cool never goes out of style."
References
External links
2000s American adult animated television series
2000s American political comedy television series
2000s American satirical television series
2000s American sketch comedy television series
2003 American television series debuts
2004 American television series endings
American adult animated comedy television series
English-language television shows
Political satirical television series
VH1 original programming |
68006333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same%20Boat | Same Boat | "Same Boat" is a song recorded by American country music group Zac Brown Band. It was released on June 11, 2021, and released to country radio on June 14, 2021. The song was co-written by Jonathan Singleton, Ben Simonetti and Zac Brown, and produced by Brown and Simonetti. It is the lead single from their seventh studio album The Comeback. This is the band's first number one single on Country Airplay since "Beautiful Drug" in 2016.
Background
Lead vocalist Brown said in a statement: "'Same Boat' is about how we all go through the same things, all together. It is a chance to be able to remind people to be positive, be good to each other and show empathy. You don't know what it's like to walk around in someone else's shoes. We're all human beings. Let's spread some love around and show kindness to each other."
Music video
The music video was released on August 6, 2021, and was directed by Spidey Smith. It was filmed in Moore Haven, Florida, and showcases individuals from all walks of life.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
2021 singles
2021 songs
Zac Brown Band songs
Songs written by Zac Brown
Songs written by Jonathan Singleton
BBR Music Group singles |
6849327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yopurga%20County | Yopurga County | Yopurga County (Uyghur: ) is a county in northern Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. More than 96% of the residents of the county are Uyghurs and live around oases at the western edge of the desolate Taklamakan Desert. The county is bordered to the north by Jiashi County, to the east by Maralbexi County, to the west by Shule County, to the southwest by Yengisar County and to the south by Yarkant County.
Name
Yopurga County is named for the Yopurga River ().
History
In the Qing Dynasty, the area was part of Shule as Yopurga Zhuang ().
In 1940, Yopurga Shezhiju () was created from portions of Shule County, Yengisar County, and Jiashi County. In 1943, Yopurga was made a county.
On October 20, 2014, Terim (Tieremu) Township became Terim Town.
On July 24, 2015, Yekshenbebazar (Yekexian Baibazha) was changed from a township to a town.
Geography
Dawakol (Dawakun) National Desert Park () is located in Yopurga County.
Administrative divisions
, Yopurga County included four towns, five townships and two other areas:
Towns ( / )
Yopurga Town (Yopurgha, Yuepuhu; / ), Eshme (Aiximan, Aiximai; / / ), Terim (Tieremu; / , formerly / ), Yekshenbebazar (Yekexian Baibazha; / , formerly / )
Townships ( / )
Yopurga Township (Yopurgha, Yuepuhu; / ), Aqqik Township (Aqike, Achchiq, A-ch'i-k'o; / ), Siyek Township (Seyeke; / ), Bayawat Township (Bayi'awati; / ), Axunluqum Township (Ahong Lukumu, Ahonglukumu; / )
Other areas
Yopurga Dairy Farm (), Regiment 42 ()
Economy
Agricultural products include wheat, cotton, corn, muskmelon, and oilseed products. Beekeeping is relatively developed. Herding is important, primarily sheep herding. Industries include cotton and hemp processing, food and oil processing, and concrete.
Farmers in the county raise donkeys for meat, milk and donkey-hide gelatin.
In July 1953, Yopurga County was reported to have 87,000 mou of winter and spring wheat.
Demographics
In 1997, Uyghurs made up 94.6% of the county's population.
, the population of Yopurga County was 96.1% Uyghur and 3.9% Han Chinese. As of 2015, 167,860 of the 177,955 residents of the county were Uyghur, 9,801 were Han Chinese and 294 were from other ethnic groups.
As of 1999, 94.68% of the population of Yopurga (Yuepuhu) County was Uyghur and 5.28% of the population was Han Chinese.
Historical maps
Historical English-language maps including modern-day Yopurga County area:
Notes
References
External links
Donkey Competitions Kick off in Northwest China's Xinjiang
County-level divisions of Xinjiang
Kashgar Prefecture |
514199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20University%20of%20Campinas | State University of Campinas | The State University of Campinas (), commonly called Unicamp, is a public research university in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Unicamp is consistently ranked among the top universities in Brazil and Latin America.
Established in 1962, Unicamp was designed from scratch as an integrated research center unlike other top Brazilian universities, usually created by the consolidation of previously existing schools and institutes. Its research focus reflects on almost half of its students being graduate students, the largest proportion across all large universities in Brazil, and also in the large number of graduate programs it offers: 153 compared to 70 undergraduate programs. It also offers several non-degree granting open-enrollment courses to around 8,000 students through its extension school.
Its main campus occupies located in the district of Barão Geraldo, a suburban area from the downtown center of Campinas, built shortly after the creation of the university. It also has satellite campuses in Limeira, Piracicaba and Paulínia, and manages two technical high schools located in Campinas and Limeira. Funding is provided almost entirely by the state government and, like other Brazilian public universities, no tuition fees or administrative fees are charged for undergraduate and graduate programs.
Unicamp is responsible for around 15% of Brazilian research, a disproportionately high number when compared to much larger and older institutions in the country such as the University of São Paulo. It also produces more patents than any other research organization in Brazil, being second only to the state-owned oil company, Petrobras. Multiple international university rankings place it amongst the best universities in the world, with QS placing it in the Top 200 globally and ranking it the 11th best university under 50 years, and in 2015 it was rated as the best university in the country by Brazil's Ministry of Education.
History
1960s: Foundation
In the early 1960s the Government of the State of São Paulo planned to open a new research center in the interior of the state to promote development and industrialization in the region, and commissioned Zeferino Vaz, founder of the University of São Paulo's School of Medicine in Ribeirão Preto, to organize it. In parallel, a medical school was being planned in Campinas, a demand from the local population that dated from the early 1940s. The School of Medicine of Campinas was created by law in 1959, but actual implementation never took place.
The new university was created by law on December 28, 1962, but effective functioning begun in 1966. Before that, only the School of Medicine functioned. In April 1963 the first vestibular, the general admissions exam, was conducted, with 1,592 candidates competing for 50 spots in the medicine program. The first lecture in the newly created University of Campinas took place on May 20 of the same year. By 1965, the organizing commission for the new university started looking for a location for a new campus.
A large area comprising was donated by the Almeida Prado family, located in a valley in the district of Barão Geraldo in the city of Campinas, near the intersections of multiple highways. Until then, Barão Geraldo was a small village surrounded by farmland, in particular sugar cane plantations. The new development brought dramatic change to the district, resulting in entire new neighborhoods being zoned, planned and built, usually by the same Almeida Prado family.
Work on the new campus began on October 5, 1966, and the first building completed was the Institute of Biology, followed by administrative buildings. In the same year, Zeferino Vaz was nominated the rector. In parallel to the new campus, new units were opened in other cities, absorbing local schools. The Dental School of Piracicaba was absorbed in 1967, and in 1969 the Engineering School of Limeira.
1970–1990: Growth and crisis
Over the following two decades, the new university expanded rapidly. The campus quickly grew to 19 institutes and schools, and after Zeferino Vaz died in 1981 was named after him. With the campus construction completed, the School of Medical Sciences (formerly the School of Medicine of Campinas) was moved into the new campus, and its teaching hospital, Hospital de Clínicas, became the largest public hospital in the region.
Expansion on the campus continued rapidly, with new buildings, institutes and expansions being added nearly every year. However, by the late 1970s, the university faced a crisis. During its rapid expansion, it relied on draft bylaws, mostly borrowed from the University of São Paulo, and lacked formal internal regulations with the aging Zeferino Vaz, while no longer the rector, acting as a moderating force between parties with conflicting interests, in particular the leftist academic community and the State's government, appointed by the conservative military regime ruling the country.
After Zeferino's death in 1981, a conflict took place between the university's General Coordinator, appointed and backed by the government, and the Directive Council, composed of directors of different institutes. The rector introduced new rules reducing the power of the General Coordinator. As retaliation, the State's government removed 6 members of the Directive Council, replacing them with people from the state's Education Council, loyal to the governor, Paulo Maluf.Tensions between the academic community and the government-appointed counselors increased, with the future Minister of Education, Paulo Renato Costa Souza, then president of the Faculty Association, classifying the episode as a "white intervention". Following the dismissal of several institute heads and members of the administration, the administrative workers went on strike, with the support of students and faculty. With activities in the university frozen by the strike, the governor declared a formal intervention in the university in October 1981.
Despite the police-backed intervention, the university continued on strike. The appointed institute heads failed to break the stalemate between internal and external forces, and by early 1982, discussions began on a new list of candidates to the rectorship. Eventually, José Aristodemo Pinotti, a former dean of the School of Medical Sciences generally considered a moderate, was selected by the academic community and accepted by the governor. In the following week, on April 19, 1982, the intervention was lifted, and academic activities resumed normally.
After the crisis, Unicamp saw a period of renewal and restructuring. In 1983 the bylaws were rewritten, ensuring the autonomy of the academic community, and the new management structure for the campus was implemented. In 1986 the newly created University Council replaces the previous Directive Council as the supreme body of the university. The last years of the 1980s saw a reformulation of the admissions exam, expansion of the laboratories and the completion of the first units of the student housing.
1990 onwards
With a new administrative structure capable of supporting continuous growth and with its autonomy secured, Unicamp went through a period of consolidation in the 1990s. There was an increase in night programs, created to provide an alternative for low-income students who had to work during the day, and to increase utilization of classrooms and the existing infrastructure, reaching one third of total available places.
The period also saw an expansion of the technology industry in the region, centered around Unicamp, with Motorola, IBM, Solectron, Lucent Technologies and many others set up research labs and production centers in the region driven by the large number of highly qualified students graduating every year, culminating in the opening of the Institute of Computing in 1996.
In the 2000s Unicamp consolidated itself as one of the leading research and education centers in Latin America but also brought new challenges: just as with other public universities in Brazil, the high payroll costs (over 90% of the total budget) constrain investment and expansion. This is further aggravated by the economic depression that Brazil has been facing since 2014, the largest in the country's history.
Campus
Main campus
The flagship campus of the University of Campinas is located in the district of Barão Geraldo, from the center of Campinas. It currently occupies an area of situated in a valley surrounded by gentle rolling hills and is bounded on the west by the urban area of Barão Geraldo, on the south and east by farmland and to the north by a lake and a new industrial park built in the 2000s.
Design
The campus has a unique design, with the main library, student service buildings and restaurant in a central circular plaza, and most of the academic buildings located in blocks emanating from the center in a radial fashion. The different areas of study are grouped in larger sections, but neighboring other areas with which they share similarities: the philosophy buildings mark the frontier between human sciences, mathematics and economics, while the School of Food Engineering is bordered by the chemical engineering and biology buildings. The architect responsible for the overall design of the campus was João Carlos Bross.
Streets are named after significant contributors to each field, including Elis Regina and Carlos Gomes Streets, a Brazilian singer and a composer, respectively, Alan Turing Avenue and others.
History
The area occupied by the campus was part of the much larger Rio das Pedras farm, owned by the prominent Almeida Prado family. In order to establish a new campus, Zeferino Vaz was looking for a large, flat area in the outskirts of the city, where he would have the freedom to design the campus and its surroundings from scratch. Interested in developing the area of the farm around Barão Geraldo, the family donated an initial area of to the university. The remainder of the farmland was eventually zoned and developed into multiple neighborhoods, but the main historical farmhouse and its surroundings remain, now a protected heritage site and a natural reserve.
With the land secured, the campus was designed in a way to ensure the maximum collaboration between the different sciences, with buildings laid along radial streets emanating from a central circular plaza, which also hosted administrative buildings. The layout of the campus would eventually be used on the design of the university's logo, created by Max Schiefer, which is essentially a simplified map of the core circle of the campus. This design is similar to the University of California, Irvine campus, build around the same time.
Construction started in 1966, with General Castello Branco, the first president of Brazil's military regime, laying the cornerstone of the Institute of Biology, which was inaugurated in 1968, and classes started in the new campus on the following year. In 1971 the area of the campus was expanded by , more than doubling its size, to accommodate the move of the School of Medical Sciences, until then located across several buildings in Campinas, to the new campus. This expansion saw the construction of a massive public hospital, the Hospital das Clínicas (HC), which began serving the public in 1979.
While initial construction was considered complete by 1978, the campus has grown through continuous addition of new buildings and institutes. In 2014, after years of negotiation, the university decided to buy the Argentina Farm, located on the east side of the campus, increasing the total area by 60% to . This purchase will allow for expansion of the medical sciences and athletics areas, as well as new laboratories.
Medical center
Unicamp's main campus houses the School of Medical Sciences' teaching hospital, the Hospital das Clinicas. Construction started in 1975 and the hospital opened its first clinics and patient facilities in 1979, but was only fully operational in 1985, when the School of Medical Sciences was transferred from Campinas' maternity to the new campus.
The hospital has almost 1,000 beds, and serves half a million people every year through Brazil's unified public health system, SUS, performing on average 40 surgeries and 13 births every day. In the 2000s, the hospital was changed from a primary and secondary care to a specialized tertiary care center, receiving complex cases from other hospitals and clinics in the region, but around 60% of patients in the hospital are still cases that could be handled by local health centers.
The hospital directly employs 3,100 people, and also serves as a practice center for the university's faculty and a training and residency center for the students of medicine, nursery and speech therapy.
Synchrotron lab
While not part of Unicamp, the National Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) is a research institution focused on physics, structural biology and nanotechnology that maintains close ties with the university and is operated as part of the National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM). The laboratory was designed in 1983 and began operating in 1997, located next to the main campus. The LNLS has Latin America's only particle accelerator, a synchrotron, used as a synchrotron light source designed and built in Brazil for various physical, chemical, geological, and biological studies.
Limeira
Unicamp's presence in Limeira, a city about from Campinas, dates from the late 1960s, when the young university absorbed the Engineering School of Limeira, which became the School of Civil Engineering. The UNICAMP began offering technology courses in 1974 with the creation of a Sanitary Technology course. The course was designed to be taught during the day with the finish at least two years, in old installations of Faculty of Civil Engineering (FEC) in the city of Limeira. Later, in 1976 was created the course of Construction Technology, with specification in Building or Construction Methods of Soil. While this school was eventually transferred to the Campinas campus in 1989, new programs were launched by the university in Limeira, creating CESET, the School of Technology of Limeira, which still exists and is located near the center of the city, focused on technical higher education.
In 2008 Unicamp decided to establish a new campus in Limeira, and in 2008 the School of Applied Sciences was created, offering programs such as public administration, business management, nutrition and industrial engineering. The total undergraduate class size for the new campus is 480 students per year.
Piracicaba
In 1967 Unicamp absorbed the School of Odontology of Piracicaba, founded in 1955 and located northwest of the main campus in Campinas. With over 1,000 students, the school was initially located in a historic building near the center of the city, and in the 1970s a new campus was built, occupying an area of in what was then the outskirts of the city, and a short distance from USP's ESALQ.
Paulínia
In the neighboring city of Paulínia, the university operates a multidisciplinary research center focused on biosciences, acquired in 1986 from Monsanto and integrated into the university as CPQBA. As part of the acquisition, Unicamp gained access and continued research into subjects previously explored at the center, specially agricultural sciences. Research is usually funded by external parties, such as companies and other universities.
COTUCA and COTIL
In addition to the higher education programs, Unicamp is also responsible for running and funding two technical high schools, the Technical High School of Campinas (COTUCA) and the Technical High School of Limeira (COTIL). Cotuca was located for 50 years in a historical building near the center of the city built in 1918 which also housed Unicamp for a brief period before the current campus was built. In 2014 it was transferred to the main campus as the old building went through renovations. Both schools are amongst the best public high schools in the country, and are highly competitive, with admissions done through a selection exam open to middle-school students.
Organization and administration
Similarly to other Brazilian institutions, Unicamp is composed of several semi-autonomous teaching units, designated as schools and institutes. Each unit is headed by a director from the faculty, equivalent to a dean, elected by the faculty and student representatives.
The university's administration is structured in a way similar to other public universities in Brazil. The supreme decision body is the University Council (CONSU), composed of all deans, plus several representatives from the academic community, students, administrative staff and the external community. The council meets roughly 4 to 5 times per year, ruling on high level administrative decisions such as approving the budget and has the final word in internal administrative processes. Routine administration is left to the rector, similar to a university chancellor in English-speaking countries, and the rectorate.
Rectors
The rector is chosen by the governor of the State of São Paulo from a list of 3 candidates elected by the university's community, including students and administrative staff. Traditionally, the governor always selects the candidate with the largest number of votes, but it retains the power to choose a different one should it decide to do so. The rector serves for a term of 4 years before a new election is held, and can not be reelected in the following term. Zeferino Vaz was the first rector and held the position for 12 years until his mandatory retirement.
Zeferino Vaz (1966–1978)
Plínio Alves de Moraes (1978–1982)
José Aristodemo Pinotti (1982–1986)
Paulo Renato Costa Souza (1986–1990)
Carlos Vogt (1990–1994)
José Martins Filho (1994–1998)
Hermano Tavares (1998–2002)
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (2002–2005)
José Tadeu Jorge (2005–2009)
Fernando Ferreira Costa (2009–2013)
José Tadeu Jorge (2013–2017)
Marcelo Knobel (2017–2021)
Tom Zé (2021-present)
Schools and Institutes
Unicamp is composed of a total of 24 units, 10 of which are institutes and 14 are schools. The university is also home to 22 interdisciplinary centers which conduct research and outreach on topics ranging from dance (such as LUME) to computing and education (such as NIED).
School of Medical Sciences
School of Applied Sciences
School of Odontology of Piracicaba
School of Education
School of Physical Education
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
School of Food Engineering
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Nursing
School of Mechanical Engineering
School of Agricultural Engineering
School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urbanism
School of Technology of Limeira
Institute of Chemistry
Institute of Physics Gleb Wataghin
Institute of Biology
Institute of Computing
Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing
Institute of Economics
Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences
Institute of Language Studies
Institute of Arts
Institute of Geosciences
Unicamp is also responsible for two technical high schools, the Technical High School of Campinas (COTUCA) and the Technical High School of Limeira (COTIL).
Funding & financial information
Like other public universities in Brazil, Unicamp is almost entirely funded by the government, in this particular case of the State of São Paulo. Funding is provided mainly from sales taxes, but a small percentage of total budget is obtained from donations, paid extension programs and corporate sponsors.
The total budget proposed for 2016 is of R$2.3 billion, a decrease by almost 7% in real terms when compare to 2015. Fixed costs (payroll, interest and debt service) will account for 92.2% of the government funding. And additional 4% is spent on student assistance and 2% on utilities.
A problem faced by Unicamp, and other public universities in Brazil, is the high dependency on economic conditions, that directly impact tax earnings, while most of the expenses, payroll specially, are indexed to inflation. While not as critical as in similar universities (at the University of São Paulo payroll accounted for over 106% of the total funding available in 2014), Unicamp currently faces a funding crisis, with total funding expected to decrease in real terms while payroll, which takes around 85% of total university funding, is expected to increase in line with inflation. This situation is aggravated by the long-running trend of raising staff salaries above inflation as a response to the annual strikes led by the workers' union, STU.
Academics
At Unicamp, academic studies are usually divided into four main areas: exact sciences (which includes formal and physical sciences), human sciences (roughly equivalent to social science, including Arts), biological sciences (roughly equivalent to life sciences) and technologies (including engineering and technical studies). This division reflects on how the university are structured how the campuses was designed.
Undergraduate programs
Unicamp offers 70 different degree-granting undergraduate programs, covering nearly all different areas of science. Completing an undergraduate program grants either a bachelor's degree or a licentiate degree, although some programs offer both degrees. In line with the Brazilian educational system, no graduate education is required to practice any profession, including law and medicine, so undergraduate programs vary in length to provide all the necessary training. Most programs at Unicamp last a total of 4 years, with engineering programs typically lasting 5 years and medicine lasting 6 years.
The academic year is aligned with the calendar year, with classes usually starting in late February, and ending in early December, the beginning of summer in Brazil. The year is divided into two semester terms, and all courses are a semester long. While there is a suggested curriculum for each program, students are free to choose any classes to attend during a specific semester, and class attribution is done in the basis of grade average, with higher-graded students having priority when choosing classes.
Students are admitted to a single program and are expected to take all the classes required to complete that program in the number of semesters prescribed, although they can take 50% longer before facing administrative measures. While each program is usually managed by a single school or institute (exceptions apply, such as Computer Engineering, co-managed by the Institute of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), classes are usually ministered across different institutes or schools.
Program class sizes usually range between 30 and 60 students per year for each program, but some programs can have over 100 students per year, and are named by the year of admission: the class of 2015 is composed of all students entering in the year of 2015, regardless of the program length or expected graduation. There is no campus-wide graduation ceremony, with each school or institute conducting its own.
Graduate programs
Unicamp offers 153 postgraduate programs, with about half of those being masters, serving almost 16 thousand students, one third of which come from outside the State of São Paulo, and around 5% are international students. Just as with undergraduate studies, students pay no tuition fees. While the programs are coordinated by the rectorship, the individual institutions have a lot of freedom on defining the focus, length and admission process of each program.
Extension programs and community outreach
Unicamp offers over one thousand extension programs to the community, with different levels of minimum requirements (high school degree, undergraduate degree, etc.) and across all areas of study, focusing mainly on specialization courses and community outreach. The programs are mainly coordinated by the Pro-Rectorate for Extension and Outreach (Pró-Reitoria de Extensão e Assuntos Comunitários, PREAC). PREAC aims to promote actions of extension and culture through integration with society, disseminating and acquiring knowledge through the academic community.
Specialization programs are either offered by Unicamp's extension school, Extecamp, or directly by the schools and institutes. In the past 25 years, over 100,000 students have been reached and in 2014, Unicamp joined Coursera and currently eight online courses are being offered, two of them are between the most popular Coursera courses in Brazil. Outreach actions take a variety of forms, including events, publications, technological, educational, cultural and social products and services. The Department for Cultural Development hosts several events, usually open for the surrounding community. Events are also held at the Casa do Lago Cultural Space and at the Cultural Center for Social Inclusion and Integration.
Every year, Unicamp also hosts an open doors event (Unicamp de Portas Abertas, UPA), in which the main campus is visited by over 50 thousand high school students from across the country. The event provides presentations and discussions on the role of the university in the society, as well as career presentations and tours, with the students visiting several areas of the university and gaining a better understanding of the different areas of study.
Faculty
Unicamp employs close to 1,800 professors, nearly all with at least a doctoral degree. The faculty career is structured in three major tiers:
Doctor Professor (Professor Doutor, equivalent to assistant professor): candidates must have a doctoral or equivalent degree
Associate Professor (Professor Associado): candidates must have a Livre Docente title, similar to the German Habilitation
Tenured Professor (Professor Titular) – MS-6 (top rank, only MS-6 professors are allowed to hold positions such as Dean of a Faculty/School or Rector of the University)
Hiring is done through a civil service examination, including a written test, a teaching examination, academic history analysis and other additional criteria. The same process is required for professors changing tiers: an associate professor pursuing a tenure position must go through the same examination process compete with other external candidates for the position. The two initial tiers also include sub levels, and professors are promoted between them for merit. Monthly starting salary for a full-time assistant professorship is around R$ 10 thousand, and for a tenured position around R$15 thousand. Uniquely among public universities in Brazil, Unicamp has a career focused on full-time research. Currently there are approximately 100 full-time researchers at the university.
Library system
The university's library system (Sistema de Bibliotecas da Unicamp; SBU) comprises a large central library named in honor of César Lattes, and 27 other satellite libraries, located in the individual institutions, housing over 1 million volumes, in addition to hundreds of thousands of ebooks and academic journals. The system was officially created in 1983, aggregating the several independent libraries that operated across the university. The large central library was inaugurated six years later, in 1989.
The library system is automated and its collections may be accessed and searched on the Internet. Its Digital Library section supports a database with more than 25,000 dissertations presented in the university, as well access to the largest electronic libraries of academic journals in the world. It also includes several historical libraries and media archives focused on specific authors and topics, such as the Edgard Leuenroth Archive and collections honoring César Lattes, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Monteiro Lobato and others.
Admissions
Undergraduate programs
Similarly to other Brazilian public universities, admissions to undergraduate programs are through a comprehensive general examination, called vestibular. While other Brazilian public universities, specially federally managed ones, which use the National High School Exam (ENEM, in Portuguese Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio) as an entrance exam, Unicamp has its own national entrance exam applied yearly by its Vestibular Commission (COMVEST, in Portuguese Comissão Permanente para os Vestibulares) in two rounds. Generally, the first round happens in November and is a test composed of 90 multiple-choice general knowledge questions. Students applying to programs that require specific skills (such as music, architecture, dance, and others) must take a specific knowledge test even before the first phase.
Selection in the admissions process is program-specific. Applicants that score a minimum standardized grade in the first round are selected to participate in the second round, which takes place over three days in January, where they must answer 48 short-answer written questions, plus write two long-form essays, on themes selected by the evaluation board.
The Unicamp national exam is very competitive and is considered one of the most difficult in Brazil. In 2015 there were 77,145 applications for only 3,320 possible places, with 23 candidates competing for each position in an undergraduate program, an average acceptance rate of 4.3%. The exam covers all topics taught in the Brazilian high school system, including Portuguese, mathematics, Brazilian and world history, geography, biology, physics, chemistry, sociology, philosophy, arts and English. Despite that, questions in the exams are generally interdisciplinary.
The most competitive undergraduate programs are Medicine with a 0.5% acceptance rate, Architecture and Urbanism with 0.6%, and Communication with 2%. Such high competitivity leads many students to take preparatory courses during or after the last regular high school year called cursinhos in Portuguese, generally privately offered or managed by some association or organization. Many private cursinhos have special classes focused on highly competitive programs like medicine, making them very expensive. It is common to find students admitted in Medicine, Engineering and other programs after several years of preparatory courses.
While the selection process is need-blind and race-blind, most of the best high schools and preparatory schools in Brazil are private and very expensive, and represent a majority of admissions in Brazilian public universities, leading to increased inequality in the country. To remedy this, Unicamp introduced in 2004 the Social Inclusion and Affirmative Action Program (PAAIS, in Portuguese Programa de Ação Afirmativa e Inclusão Social) that allows high schoolers coming from public schools to receive a bonus score in their overall vestibular score. While not focused on racial and ethnical factors, over the years, the PAAIS initiative has increased the number of admission of minorities from public high school, especially black and native-Brazilians, historically the most economical and social fragile groups in Brazil. With this program, around 30% of admissions come from public schools, and the participation of minorities increased from 10% to around 30%.
Graduate programs
Unlike undergrad admissions, there is no single admission process for graduate students. Each institution inside Unicamp has its own set of procedures, which usually include an admissions exam which can be specific for Unicamp or a standard exam applied across the country (such as ANPEC (in Portuguese) for economics, and PosComp (in Portuguese) for computer science. Besides the exam, the process usually includes an academic history analysis, interviews and in many cases requires a submission of a research project to be undertaken during the graduate studies.
Student life
Housing
Similarly to other Brazilian universities, Unicamp offers no large-scale in-campus housing, and most students live either near the campus or in Campinas. A student tradition in Brazil, inherited from the Portuguese universities, is the república, a fraternity-style private housing where multiple students rent large houses or apartments and live together. Dues to the suburban campus and the large number of students coming from other cities, repúblicas play a key role in the student life, serving as centers for social life, parties and also study and work areas. While some repúlicas have existed for decades, sometimes moving from one house to another, most are formed by students in the same or similar classes, and last for a few years.
Besides repúblicas, studio apartments are very common around the university. While more expensive than the shared houses, they afford more privacy and have more flexible contracts, are well as being furnished.
University housing
Unicamp provides a limited amount of free housing to low income students in the Student Residence compound. Built in 1992, it is located near the center of Barão Geraldo, about four kilometers from Unicamp, and is served by a university shuttle that takes student to the campus and back free of charge. The compound has 226 houses of , with a capacity of four students per house, and 27 studios of , for couples with children, a total of 904 vacancies in houses and 54 adults in the studios. Assignment criterion is means-based, with lower income students receiving priority.
The Student Residence supports several cultural projects developed by voluntary and worker students and open to the participation of internal and external community. It encourages interdisciplinary training and integration between the resident students and the external community. The diversity of races and cultures, brought by colleagues from other states and countries is an advantage for the residents who live in the house, facilitating full citizenship, through the exercise of their rights and duties within the community.
University restaurants
There are multiple restaurants operated and subsidized by the university serving only the academic community. Commonly called bandejão ("large tray" in Portuguese) due to the metal trays used to serve the students, the restaurants provide up to three meals per day, each one costing R$2, a price that has not been updated in over a decade, despite the strong inflation. The main bandejão is located near the center of the circular campus, receiving students from all different areas of the university and acting as the informal social heart of the university where events, parties and political campaigns are announced to the students.
The restaurants at the University are staffed with nutritionists and food engineers, often students at the university, offering balanced menu that meets the nutritional needs of the university population, serving over 10 thousand meals per day at the main campus. The menu usually consists of rice and beans, a traditional staple food in Brazil, a type of meat (chicken, beef, sausage, pork, etc.), textured soy protein for vegetarians, salad, juice, and dessert.
There are three such restaurants in the main campus, with two additional restaurants located in the Limeira and Piracicaba campuses. In all of them access is restricted to those who have a university-issued smart card ID, which is also used to pay for the food. In addition to the subsidized restaurants, there are several smaller, privately ran restaurants across the campus and many more located in Barão Geraldo, often just a short walk away from the campus.
Athletics
There are no university-sponsored athletic programs at Unicamp, and sporting competitions, either internal or played with other schools, are entirely organized by the students. The Liga das Atléticas da Unicamp, a university-wide league of the different athletic associations, is responsible for organizing internal sporting events, such as the Unicamp Olympics.
In addition to internal competitions, there are multiple external competitions between several universities focused on different areas of study: in the Intermed medical students from different universities compete against each other, and in the Engenharíadas, engineering students gather to play sports. The games are usually held in the city of one of the participating universities over a long weekend, with students being housed in public schools, farms and hotels.
The university has a sports center with courts for basketball, volleyball, a full size regulation football field, an athletics field with running tracks, a competition swimming pool, a covered gymnasium for indoor spectator sports, attached to a convention center.
In popular culture
Varginha incident
Unicamp is generally regarded by the Brazilian population as Brazil's Area 51, with the government running a secret underground area purportedly called Pavilion 18, located under the Institute of Chemistry. In 1996 there were reports of an extraterrestrial sighting in the city of Varginha, commonly called the Varginha Incident, followed by additional reports of military intervention in the region and that the extraterrestrial would have been taken to the secret Pavilion 18 area at Unicamp.
See also
São Paulo State University (UNESP)
Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA)
Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)
University of São Paulo (USP)
Universities and Higher Education in Brazil
Brazil University Rankings
References
External links
Unicamp's home page
Universities in Brazil
Educational institutions established in 1966
1966 establishments in Brazil |
4136752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltora%20Quest%20%28book%20series%29 | Deltora Quest (book series) | Deltora Quest is the collective title for three distinct series of children's fantasy books, written by Australian author Emily Rodda. It follows the adventures of three companions as they journey across the fictitious land of Deltora, endeavouring to recover the seven gems stolen from the magical Belt of Deltora and defeat allies of the evil Shadow Lord. The series was first published in Australia in 2000, and has since been published in more than 30 countries. The series has sold over 18 million copies worldwide, including over 2 million in Australia. It is published by Scholastic in Australia and the United States. In most countries, the series is illustrated by Marc McBride.
The series consists of fifteen books: the first eight comprise the Deltora Quest series, the next three comprise the Deltora Shadowlands series (also known as Deltora Quest 2, Deltora II or Deltora 2) and the final four comprise the Dragons of Deltora series (also known as Deltora Quest 3, Deltora III or Deltora 3). There are also six other official bonus books to the series: The Deltora Book of Monsters, Tales of Deltora, The Authorised Ultimate Deltora Quiz Book, How to Draw Deltora Monsters, How to Draw Deltora Dragons and Other Creatures, and Secrets of Deltora. An anime adaptation of the series aired on Japanese television from 6 January 2007 to 29 March 2008. An anime adaptation also aired in Australia for a short time. A Nintendo DS game for Deltora Quest has also been made in Japan. In an interview as part of the 2011 Australian Council of the Arts Get Reading! Program Emily Rodda announced that she had sold the movie rights of the Deltora Quest series to a "prominent Hollywood production company."
In May 2015, a new series of books by Emily Rodda set in the world of Deltora was announced by Scholastic. The title of the series is Star of Deltora, and the first instalment, Shadows of the Master, was released in August 2015.
Plot
Deltora Quest
The first series of Deltora Quest follows the journeys of Lief, the son of a humble blacksmith [in disguise], who, on his sixteenth birthday, sets out to fulfil his father's quest to restore the Belt of Deltora. Joining Lief is an ex-palace guard named Barda. Along the way they meet with Jasmine: a wild girl from the Forests of Silence, who has long, brown hair and green eyes. She can speak to trees and has two pets: a raven named Kree and a small, grey, furry creature called Filli. Their quest is to find the seven gems of the fabled Belt of Deltora: the topaz, the ruby, the opal, the lapis lazuli, the emerald, the amethyst, and the diamond. The gems each have a special power and are hidden in dangerous locations around Deltora. The three friends must face numerous perils to reach them. Once the Belt is complete and the proper descendant of the first King of Deltora, Adin, wears the belt, the evil tyranny of the Shadow Lord will be forced back to the Shadowlands. The books in this series are The Forests of Silence, The Lake of Tears, City of the Rats, The Shifting Sands, Dread Mountain, The Maze of the Beast, The Valley of the Lost, and Return to Del.
Deltora Quest 2
In Deltora Quest 2, Lief, Barda, and Jasmine go on a quest below the land of Deltora, and travel through strange societies underground. They were formed by the three tribes of the former inhabitants of the Shadowlands, which was long ago a beautiful land called Pirra, which the Shadow Lord repressed by preventing the magic of the Pirran Pipe from protecting the land. The three adventurers convince each tribe to lend them their pieces of the Pipe, before Lief, Barda and Jasmine travel into the Shadowlands itself to use the Pipe to hold off the Shadow Lord and his evil power long enough for the thousands of Deltoran slaves to escape. The books are Cavern of The Fear, The Isle of Illusion, and The Shadowlands.
Deltora Quest 3
In Deltora Quest 3 the three companions once again must save Deltora, this time from the Four Sisters, evil creations of the Shadow Lord. These four Sisters sing their songs of death across Deltora, poisoning the land and gradually causing Deltora's crops to wither, resulting in famine across the land. With only a part of a torn map left by Doran the Dragonlover, they set out to find these Sisters and destroy them. Each Sister must be destroyed with the aid of a dragon. When each Sister and the Sister's guardian are destroyed, another fragment of the map is found. Eventually they discover that the Sisters are hidden in the four most eastern, northern, western and southern corners of Deltora. The Sister of the East is hidden in Dragon's Nest. The Sister of the North is hidden at Shadowgate and the Sister of the West is on the Isle of the Dead. The Sister of the South is hidden in the city of Del, which happens to be the hometown of Lief. However, after Lief, Barda and Jasmine defeat the last Sister, Lief realises that in the exact middle of Deltora, a huge bubble made of poisonous grey liquid is rising from the land. Together with Barda and Jasmine and all the dragons, he must defeat it. The books are named after the Sister's locations: Dragon's Nest, Shadowgate, Isle of the Dead, and The Sister of the South.
Supplementary works
In addition to the books which tell the story, the Deltora series includes a number of companion books (also authored by Emily Rodda):
Tales of Deltora: This book tells of how the land of Deltora came to be, including the origin of the seven gems and the Shadow Lord. It includes tales that make up some of the legends, evolution of secrets, and 20 new illustrations by Marc McBride. The book is "written" by Josef, who in the Deltora Quest 2 and Deltora Quest 3 series is the palace librarian of the city Del. The book was published by Scholastic Press in 2006. A new version was published in 2013 which included three extra stories of the isle of Dorne, bridging the gap between the Three Doors trilogy and the Deltora Quest series by expanding on the history of Dorne as well as the Shadow Lord.
Secrets of Deltora: This book was "written" by Doran the Dragonlover as a travel guide for Deltora.
The Deltora Book of Monsters: This book goes through all the monsters and other deadly things that exist in the world of Deltora, from the original Deltora Quest to Dragons of Deltora. The book includes the beasts throughout history and significant landmarks, such as Reeah from the City of the Rats. The book is also "written" by Josef, the palace librarian in King Lief and King Alton's time.
The Land of Dragons: Although it does not have the word "Deltora" in the title, this book is related to the Deltora Quest series. It contains tales of the isle of Dorne, bridging the gap between the Three Doors trilogy and Deltora Quest. The book was offered for free as part of the Australian Council of the Arts Get Reading! Program. The tales of Dorne were later included in a 2013 paperback re-release of Tales of Deltora.
Other books include How to Draw Deltora Monsters and The Ultimate Deltora Quiz Book. The former book, which details the drawing of Deltoran monsters, was primarily authored by illustrator Marc McBride.
At the Melbourne Writer's Festival, Rodda announced that the lands in Rowan of Rin are set in the same world as Deltora, to its east. In the back of the paperback version of the Star of Deltora books (starting with Shadows of the Master) there is also an author's note that states that Rowan of Rin, The Three Doors and Deltora Quest are set in the same world.
Main characters
Lief
Barda describes Lief as "a young hot-head" who spends his time roaming the streets and both tempting and dodging trouble. On his 16th birthday he leaves Del on a magical and dangerous quest to find the magical gems missing from the Belt of Deltora and the heir destined to wear it. Lief is tempted in many ways and by the end of the first series he has grown not only in bravery and strength, but also in wisdom and patience. Lief is very courageous and extremely trustworthy. A few times he considers giving up the quest, but the thought of his friends or allies suffering always helps him to continue. The second series sees the characters questioning their trust of one another as they plot to save the slaves in the Shadowlands. In the third series, Lief and friends once more quest around Deltora, awakening the ancient dragons which help him destroy the Sisters of the North, South, East, and West. In the eighth book, it is told that Lief's hair is dark. It is implied in Isle of the Dead that he is at least eighteen. During the second series, Lief and Jasmine's romantic feelings for each other become more pronounced, and at the end of the third series they get married and have three children, a daughter named Anna (after Jasmine's mother) and twin sons called Jarred (after Jasmine's father) and Endon (after Lief's father).
Barda
At the beginning of the series Barda appears to be a poor beggar living on the streets of Del. He escaped the palace the day the Shadow Lord attacked and his mother, Mrs Minns, died, becoming a beggar because he knew he would be the next target the enemy would try to kill. He is revealed to be an ex-palace guard who assumes the role of protector to Lief, much to both his and Lief's dismay. He is a skilled swordsman and often makes grim jokes about being stuck with two young hot-heads (Lief and Jasmine). During the series, Barda competes in a contest in which he describes his special skill as strength. He helps Lief and Jasmine along the quest and is always stronghearted, never gives up hope and is rather a gentle giant. At the end of the third series Barda finds love and happiness with Lindal of Broome, whom he marries and together they have six children.
Jasmine
Jasmine is 16, approximately the same age as Lief. She is described as having black/brown hair which frames her brown, elfish face and emerald green eyes. When she was first introduced she wore the tattered remains of the uniforms of Grey Guards. She is often described as impatient and lonely, but with a good heart. In the beginning of the series, Jasmine is a wild orphan girl who lives a solitary life in the dangerous Forests of Silence with her pets: Kree, a raven, and Filli, a small, grey, furry creature. She meets Lief and Barda when the pair get trapped in the forests by the Wenn. Jasmine understands the language of trees and many other animals. She is independent, like Lief, though she displays far less tact. She is also unafraid of standing up for what she believes in; if she feels something is unjust or incorrect she explains her view without any fear of the consequences. She believes in equal rights and fairness. However, she cannot understand people who will not fight for themselves. As a result of her forest upbringing Jasmine knows how to defend herself, is more agile than most people and can balance on things very easily. She is also used to getting her own way, which sometimes causes conflict with her companions. In the beginning of the series she had no understanding of money. In The Forests of Silence, when Jasmine touches the topaz (which has power to contact to the spirit world), she sees her mother there, who tells Jasmine to join the quest with Lief and Barda to save Deltora. She shows romantic interest in Lief, even though they do not always see eye to eye. She has a very short temper, resulting in many people describing her as "wild".
Concepts
A recurring political idea expressed in the series is that a leader who does not understand ordinary people is doomed to failure. Another political concept focuses on the disastrous results of leaders who ignore history. The first and second series explore the idea of "united we stand, divided we fall". Stories also occasionally explore the concept of gambling, and its relationship with trickery. A heavy emphasis on the importance of the natural world is also present, particularly in the third series. The final books explore the nature of despair.
Awards
Accolades awarded to Deltora Quest:
YABBA - Older Readers Award (2001)
WAYRBA - Younger Readers Award (2002)
KOALA - Younger Readers Award (2002)
Aurealis Awards: Peter McNamara Convenors' Award – Deltora Quest series (2002)
YABBA - Younger Readers Award (2003)
COOL Awards - Fiction for Younger Readers awards (2003)
COOL Awards Fiction for Younger Readers Award for the Deltora Quest 3 series (2004)
KOALA - Younger Readers Award (2004)
Adaptations
Anime
Rodda has said there has been some interest in adapting the Deltora series into a film but she refused to let any adaptation change the story. There is also a Nintendo DS real-time RPG confirmed with all three characters. A 65-episode Deltora Quest anime series of the first eight books began its broadcast season in Japan on 6 January 2007. Rodda said she chose this option because she and her children "love Japanese anime, and want any adaptation of Deltora to be cool". The series was produced at Oriental Light and Magic and directed by Mitsuru Hongo. At least one noticeable alteration has been made in the studio's adaptation: Lief's hair colour has been changed from black to blond. Rodda has not ruled out a live action version of the story (either film or television) being made at some point in the future, but she intends to wait until she gets an offer that "is genuinely admiring of the books as they are". There is also a manga adaptation by Makoto Niwano, serialised in Bom Bom Comics and published by Kodansha.
Proposed film version
In 2011 Rodda announced in an interview on Girl.com.au as part of the Australian Council of the Arts Get Reading! Program that she had sold the film rights to a "prominent Hollywood production company" and that she hopes it will be what her fans hope. The status of the project is currently unknown; however it is stated on her website that "There are no plans for a feature film at the moment."
References
External links
Official USA Deltora website
Official Australian Deltora website (Wayback Machine)
Official Emily Rodda website
Book series introduced in 2000
Scholastic franchises
Australian fantasy novel series
Books by Jennifer Rowe
Deltora
Fantasy books by series
Series of children's books
Works published under a pseudonym
Scholastic Corporation books |
61353008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadi%20Younis | Saadi Younis | Saadi Younis (1 July 1953 – 8 October 2019) was an Iraqi footballer who played for Iraq in the 1974 Asian Games. He played for Iraq between 1973 and 1975.
References
Iraqi footballers
Iraq international footballers
Footballers at the 1974 Asian Games
1953 births
2019 deaths
Asian Games competitors for Iraq
Association footballers not categorized by position |
38659658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%20Collins%20%28American%20football%29 | Jamie Collins (American football) | Jamie Lee Collins Sr. (born October 20, 1989) is an American football linebacker for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Southern Mississippi and was selected by the New England Patriots in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft. As a member of the Patriots for six non-consecutive seasons, Collins earned Pro Bowl honors and won a Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XLIX. Outside of his New England tenure, he played three seasons with the Cleveland Browns and two with the Detroit Lions.
Early years
Collins was born in McCall Creek, Mississippi. He attended Franklin County High School in Meadville, Mississippi, where he played high school football for the Franklin County Bulldogs. He first played as a quarterback, receiver and safety before concluding his career as a quarterback and outside linebacker. He led the team to the Class 3A State Championship during his first year at quarterback, accounting for over 2,000 yards of offense and 26 touchdowns for the 2006 season. As a senior in 2007, he had over 1,200 yards rushing and 1,000 yards passing while leading his team to the state championship game. He was selected to play in the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star game, where he recorded a solo tackle.
Also a standout track and field athlete, Collins was a state track qualifier. At the 2009 3A South State Meet, he earned first-place finishes in the shot put (51-6) and discus throw (156-0 or 47.80m), while also placing second in both the high jump (6-4 or 1.93m) and triple jump (43-10.5) events. He captured the 2009 MHSAA (Mississippi High School Athletics Association) 3A shot put title with a throw of 15.90 meters (52-1), and also took third in the triple jump after recording a career-best leap of 13.58m (44-5.25).
A three-star athlete by Rivals.com, Collins was ranked No. 68 at that position in the country and No. 21 overall in the state of Mississippi. He was a three-star prospect by Scout.com. He was named 1st team All-State by The Clarion-Ledger. He was Max Lemming's of MaxPreps.com's No. 12 combo passer in the country.
College career
Collins enrolled in the University of Southern Mississippi, and played for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team from 2009 to 2012. He played defensive back, defensive end and linebacker. During his college career, he compiled 314 tackles, 21 quarterback sacks, three interceptions and three touchdowns. He was a first-team All-Conference USA selection following his senior season in 2012.
Professional career
Collins entered the 2013 NFL Draft and attended the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana. He completed all of the combine and positional drills and immensely helped his draft stock with his overall performance. Collins set an NFL Combine record by finishing with a broad jump of 11'7". The record was previously 11'5" which was set by running back Justin Fargas in the 2003 NFL combine. Collins held the record until it was broken by cornerback Byron Jones in 2015 (12'3") and was also surpassed by Obi Melifonwu in 2017 (11'9"). He also finished with the second best vertical jump at the combine, fourth best short shuttle among edge rushers, and eighth best 40-yard dash time among pass rushers at the combine.
On March 8, 2013, Collins participated at Southern Mississippi's pro day, but opted to stand on his combine performance and only performed positional drills. At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, he was projected to be a second round pick by NFL draft experts and scouts. Collins was ranked as the third best outside linebacker by NFL analyst Mike Mayock, the fifth best outside linebacker by NFL analyst Josh Norris, and was ranked the sixth best outside linebacker prospect in the draft by DraftScout.com.
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots selected Collins in the second round (52nd overall) of the 2013 NFL Draft. Collins was the seventh linebacker drafted in 2013.
2013
On May 17, 2013, the New England Patriots signed Collins to a four-year, $3.75 million contract that includes $1.86 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $1.11 million.
Collins entered training camp as a backup outside linebacker. Head coach Bill Belichick named Collins a backup outside linebacker to start the regular season, behind starters Dont'a Hightower and Jerod Mayo.
He made his professional regular season debut in the New England Patriots' season-opening 23–21 victory at the Buffalo Bills. On September 22, 2013, Collins made two combined tackles during a 23–3 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 3. Collins made his first career tackle on running back Doug Martin to stop a one-yard run in the fourth quarter. On October 20, 2013, Collins earned his first career start after Jerod Mayo sustained a tear to his pectoral muscle the previous week. Collins recorded five combined tackles in his first start as the Patriots lost 30–27 to at the New York Jets in Week 7. In Week 12, he collected a season-high ten combined tackles (six solo) during a 34–31 win against the Denver Broncos. Collins finished his rookie season in 2013 with 43 combined tackles (24 solo) and four pass deflections in 16 games and eight starts.
The New England Patriots finished first in the AFC East with a 12-4 record and earned a first round bye. On January 11, 2014, Collins started in his first career playoff game and recorded six combined tackles, a pass deflection, made his first career sack, and recorded his first career interception as the Patriots defeated the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC Divisional Round. The following week, he made seven combined tackles and deflected a pass in a 26-16 loss to the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship Game.
2014
Collins entered training camp slated as the starting weakside linebacker after Jerod Mayo was moved to middle linebacker, following his return from injury, to replace Brandon Spikes. Head coach Bill Belichick named Collins and Dont'a Hightower the starting outside linebackers to begin the regular season.
Collins started in the New England Patriots' season-opener at the Miami Dolphins and recorded a season-high eight solo tackles and deflected a pass in their 33–20 loss. He was inactive for the Patriots' Week 2 victory at the Minnesota Vikings after sustaining a thigh injury. On October 12, 2014, Collins made four combined tackles, broke up a pass, and made his first career regular season interception during a 37–22 victory at the Buffalo Bills. Collins intercepted a pass by quarterback Kyle Orton, that was initially intended for wide receiver Marquise Goodwin, in the second quarter. The following week, he collected a season-high 13 combined tackles (seven solo) in the Patriots' 27–25 win against the New York Jets in Week 7. On November 30, 2014, Collins tied his season-high of 13 combined tackles (seven solo), recorded his first career regular season sack, and forced a fumble during a 26–21 loss at the Green Bay Packers. Collins recorded a strip/sack for a six-yard loss on quarterback Aaron Rodgers during the fourth quarter. The following game, Collins made nine combined tackles and had two sacks on quarterback Philip Rivers as the Patriots earned a 23–14 victory at the San Diego Chargers in Week 14. He finished the 2014 season with a career-high 116 combined tackles (74 solo), four sacks, four forced fumbles, and two interceptions in 15 games and 15 starts. Collins earned an overall grade of 87.9 from Pro Football Focus in 2014 and received the 11th highest grade of all the linebackers who qualified in 2014.
The New England Patriots finished atop the AFC East with a 12–4 record and earned a first round bye and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. On January 10, 2015, Collins made 11 combined tackles (eight solo) and deflected two passes during a 35–31 victory against the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Divisional Round. The following week, he made four combined tackles, a pass deflection, and an interception as the Patriots defeated the Indianapolis Colts 45–7 in the AFC Championship Game. On February 1, 2015, Collins recorded eight combined tackles as the Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks 28–24 in Super Bowl XLIX.
2015
Collins, Dont'a Hightower, and Jerod Mayo were retained as the starting linebackers to start the 2015 regular season. In Week 2, Collins recorded 11 combined tackles (eight solo) and made a career-high 2.5 sacks on quarterback Tyrod Taylor during a 40–32 victory at the Buffalo Bills.
On October 18, 2015, Collins made five combined tackles, a pass deflection, and blocked an extra point during the Patriots' 34–27 win at the Indianapolis Colts. Collins blocked an extra point by Adam Vinatieri in the fourth quarter after leaping over the offensive line. The following week, he collected a season-high 12 combined tackles (six solo) and a sack in the Patriots' 30–23 win against the New York Jets. On November 6, 2015, it was reported that Collins was diagnosed with an undisclosed illness and was sidelined for the next four games (Weeks 9–12). On December 4, 2015, Collins confirmed he was fully recovered from his illness. On December 22, 2015, Collins was selected to the 2016 Pro Bowl as his first Pro Bowl selection. On December 27, 2015, Collins recorded eight combined tackles and returned a fumble for his first career touchdown during a 26–20 loss at the New York Jets. Collins recovered a fumble after Jabaal Sheard stripped it from Jets' quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and returned it for a 14-yard touchdown in the third quarter. Collins was limited to 12 games in 2015 and made 89 combined tackles (51 solo), six pass deflections, a career-high 5.5 sacks, five forced fumbles, a fumble recovery, one interception, and a touchdown. He was selected to the 2015 AP All-Pro second team at outside linebacker, finishing fourth at that position with eight votes; he also received two votes at inside linebacker. He earned an overall grade of 91.3 from Pro Football Focus, which was the fourth highest grade among all qualifying linebackers in 2015.
The New England Patriots finished first in their division with a 12–4 record and clinched a playoff berth. They defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 27–20 in the AFC Divisional Round. On January 24, 2016, Collins recorded eight combined tackles and had two sacks on quarterback Peyton Manning as the Patriots lost 20–18 at the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship Game.
2016
Defensive coordinator Matt Patricia named Collins and Jonathan Freeny the starting outside linebackers, alongside starting middle linebacker Dont'a Hightower. On September 22, 2016, Collins recorded 14 combined tackles (eight solo), a pass deflection, and an interception during a 27–0 win against the Houston Texans in Week 3. Collins was inactive during a Week 6 victory against the Cincinnati Bengals due to a hip injury.
Cleveland Browns
On October 31, 2016, Collins was traded to the Cleveland Browns for a conditional 2017 third round draft pick. The pick was later traded to the New Orleans Saints and used on Trey Hendrickson. Head coach Hue Jackson named Collins a starting outside linebacker opposite Cam Johnson and alongside inside linebackers Demario Davis and Christian Kirksey.
On November 6, 2016, Collins made his debut with the Cleveland Browns and recorded eight combined tackles during their 35–10 loss to the Dallas Cowboys in Week 9. On December 11, 2016, Collins collected a season-high 15 combined tackles (13 solo) and a sack in the Browns' 25–10 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. He finished the 2016 season with a total of 112 combined tackles (79 solo), three passes defensed, three sacks, two interceptions, and two forced fumbles in 15 games and 14 starts. Pro Football Focus gave Collins an overall grade of 88.6, which ranked seventh among all qualifying linebackers in 2016.
2017
On January 8, 2017, the Cleveland Browns fired defensive coordinator Ray Horton after they finished with a 1-15 record in 2016. On January 23, 2017, the Cleveland Browns signed Collins to a four-year, $50 million contract with $26.40 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $5 million.
The Cleveland Browns hired Gregg Williams as their new defensive coordinator and installed a base 4-3 defense. Head coach Hue Jackson named Collins the starting strongside linebacker to begin the regular season, along with Christian Kirksey and starting middle linebacker Joe Schobert. On September 17, 2017, Collins collected a season-high seven solo tackles before exiting in the fourth quarter of the Browns' 24-10 loss at the Baltimore Ravens due to a concussion. Collins was inactive and remained in concussion protocol for the next three games (Weeks 3-5). In Week 6, he collected a season-high eight combined tackles and deflected a pass during a 33–17 loss at the Houston Texans. On November 12, 2017, Collins made a tackle, broke up a pass, and intercepted a pass by quarterback Matthew Stafford in the Browns' 38–24 loss at the Detroit Lions. Collins left the game in the first quarter after he sustained an injury to his right knee that occurred when he was tackled by Graham Glasgow while returning his interception. On November 14, 2017, the Cleveland Browns officially placed Collins on injured reserve due to his torn MCL. Collins finished the 2017 season with 31 combined tackles (21 solo), three pass deflections, a sack, a forced fumble, and an interception in six games and six starts. Pro Football Focus gave Collins an overall grade of 35.9, which ranked 82nd among all qualifying linebackers in 2017.
2018
In 2018, Collins recorded 104 tackles, 4.0 sacks, a forced fumble, and an interception in sixteen games and sixteen starts. He would collect a season-high 12 tackles, including a sack, in a 12–9 win over the Baltimore Ravens. He recorded an interception in a 26–23 loss over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He forced a fumble in an 18–33 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Pro Football Focus gave him a 62.3 overall grade in 2018.
Collins was released by the Browns on March 6, 2019.
New England Patriots (second stint)
On May 15, 2019, Collins re-signed with the Patriots on a one-year deal.
In week 2 against the Miami Dolphins, Collins made 5 tackles, half a sack, and 2 interceptions in the 43-0 win. On Collins' first interception, he picked off a pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick that was bobbled in the hands of running back Kalen Ballage and returned it for a 69 yard touchdown. Collins made his second interception off Josh Rosen as time expired in the game.
In week 3 against the New York Jets, Collins sacked Luke Falk twice as the Patriots won 30-14.
In week 4 against the Buffalo Bills, Collins sacked Josh Allen once and intercepted Matt Barkley late in the fourth quarter to seal a 16-10 win for the Patriots.
In week 6 against the New York Giants, Collins forced a fumble on running back Jon Hilliman that was recovered by teammate Kyle Van Noy who returned the ball for a touchdown in the 35-14 win.
In week 8 against his former team, the Cleveland Browns, Collins recorded a team high 13 tackles and sacked Baker Mayfield 1.5 times in the 27-13 win.
Detroit Lions
On March 25, 2020, Collins signed a three-year, $30 million contract with the Detroit Lions. Collins reunited with former New England Patriots’ defensive coordinator and Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia and teammates Duron Harmon and Danny Shelton.
On September 13, 2020, Collins was ejected after making contact with a referee after a play during the second quarter of a 27–23 loss to the Chicago Bears.
In the following week's game against the Green Bay Packers, Collins recorded his first sack as a Lion on Aaron Rodgers during the 42–21 loss.
In Week 3 against the Arizona Cardinals, Collins recorded his first interception as a Lion during the 26–23 win.
On September 28, 2021 Collins was released by the Lions after attempts to trade him had failed.
New England Patriots (third stint)
The Patriots re-signed Collins on October 6, 2021. Collins made his third debut for the Patriots in the week 5 match against the Houston Texans. He recorded a sack of Texans quarterback Davis Mills during a 25-22 road victory for the Patriots. He was placed on injured reserve on November 13. He was activated on December 6.
NFL career statistics
Regular season
References
External links
Detroit Lions bio
Southern Miss Golden Eagles bio
1989 births
Living people
American football defensive ends
American football linebackers
American football safeties
Cleveland Browns players
Detroit Lions players
Southern Miss Golden Eagles football players
Players of American football from Mississippi
New England Patriots players
Unconferenced Pro Bowl players
People from Franklin County, Mississippi
African-American players of American football
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people |
23999937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulbophyllum%20rufinum | Bulbophyllum rufinum | Bulbophyllum rufinum is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum.
References
The Bulbophyllum-Checklist
The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia
rufinum |
63639136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%20Cal%20Poly%20Mustangs%20football%20team | 2020 Cal Poly Mustangs football team | The 2020 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented California Polytechnic State University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Mustangs were led by 1st-year head coach Beau Baldwin and played their home games at Alex G. Spanos Stadium as members of the Big Sky Conference.
On March 29, 2021, Cal Poly announced that it would opt out of the remainder of the 2021 spring season, citing safety issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and numerous injuries to players.
Previous season
The Mustangs finished the 2019 season 3–8, 2–6 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for ninth place.
Preseason
Polls
On July 23, 2020, during the virtual Big Sky Kickoff, the Mustangs were predicted to finish tenth in the Big Sky by both the coaches and media.
Schedule
Cal Poly released their full schedule on September 20, 2019. The Mustangs had games scheduled against California and San Diego, which were later canceled before the start of the 2020 season.
Games against Northern Arizona (April 3), UC Davis (April 10), and Weber State (April 17) were canceled when the Mustangs opted out of the remainder of the season on March 29, 2021.
References
Cal Poly
Cal Poly Mustangs football seasons
College football winless seasons
Cal Poly Mustangs football |
17161764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA%20activities%20in%20Pakistan | CIA activities in Pakistan | This is a list of activities ostensibly carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) within Pakistan. It has been alleged by such authors as Ahmed Rashid that the CIA and ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence; Pakistan's premier intelligence agency) have been waging a clandestine war. The Afghan Taliban—with whom the United States is officially in conflict—is headquartered in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and according to some reports is largely funded by the ISI. The Pakistani government denies this.
Pakistan 2005
On May 15, 2005, it was reported that Predator drones had been used to kill Al-Qaeda figure Haitham al-Yemeni in a targeted killing inside Pakistan.
Pakistan 2006
On January 13, 2006, the CIA launched an airstrike on Damadola, a Pakistani village near the Afghan border, where they believed Ayman al-Zawahiri was located. The airstrike killed a number of civilians but al-Zawahiri apparently was not among them. The Pakistani government issued a strong protest against the US attack, considered a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty. However, several legal experts argue that this cannot be considered an assassination attempt as al-Zawahiri is named as terrorist and an enemy combatant by the United States, and therefore this targeted killing is not covered under Executive Order 12333, which banned assassinations. However this still remains a violation of sovereignty of Pakistan according to international law.
Pakistan 2007
A new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) focused on three years, The Terrorist Threat to the US Homeland, says "Al Qaeda has reorganized to pre-9/11 strength and is preparing for a major US strike has sparked debate among government officials and observers about the Bush administration's foreign policy and counterterrorism efforts." It "indicates that the Islamic terrorist organization's rise has been bolstered by the Iraq war and the failure to counter extremism in Pakistan's tribal areas.
Pakistan 2008
Operation Cannonball, a CIA operation, was disclosed in 2008. Began in 2006, it was intended as part of an effort to capture Osama bin Laden and eliminate Al-Qaeda forces in Pakistan. The operation was reportedly hampered by conflicts between CIA offices, leading to large delays in the deployment of the program.
In July 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistan officials with evidence of ties between Inter-Services Intelligence and Jalaluddin Haqqani. ISI denies this report.
2010 CIA station chief removal in Pakistan
On December 16, 2010, The CIA evacuated its station chief, later named as Jonathan Bank, from Pakistan after his cover was blown in legal action brought by relatives of a person killed in a 31 December 2009 drone attack, for which the station chief was accused of being responsible. The CIA, in a rare move, recalled the station chief, citing "security concerns" and concerns about his safety. Neither the CIA nor the US government officially recognise station chiefs, but they are acknowledged to exist by intelligence organizations. In April 2015, the Islamabad High Court ordered police to open a criminal case against Bank for murder, conspiracy, terrorism and waging war against Pakistan.
Pakistan 2011
In January 2011 CIA contractor Raymond Allen Davis fatally shot dead two young men on the streets of Lahore, Punjab after on claims that he was defending himself. His status as a CIA contractor was discovered after he was arrested by Punjab police and charged with 2 counts of murder and the possession of illegal firearms. In the same situation another USA team of four people riding an SUV crushed a motor cyclist and killed him before running away back to the USA consulate. It is alleged that all four people left Pakistan in the evening on special flight. These four people are still at large.
General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, emerged as fiercely hostile to Washington in his final year engaging in “shouting matches” with then CIA director Leon Panetta, cutting cooperation down to a minimum, ordering the harassment of U.S. diplomats in Pakistan and locking up CIA blackwater and agent Shakil Afridi in Pakistan.
Pakistan 2012
Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor who spied for the CIA to locate Osama bin Laden, was jailed for 33 years by a Pakistani court on charges of treason.
Pakistan 2019
Lt. General Javed Iqbal (Retd) and Brigadier Wasim Akram (Retd) were imprisoned for 14 years and sentenced to death respectively, on charges of spying for CIA on Pakistan's nuclear program.
See also
Death of Osama bin Laden
Milton Bearden - CIA station chief in Pakistan, 1986-1989
Inter-Services Intelligence activities in the United States
References
Political history of Pakistan
Pakistan–United States relations
Post-independence history of Pakistan
CIA activities by country |
3464547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekota%2C%20Edmonton | Ekota, Edmonton | Ekota is a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is located in Knottwood, in Mill Woods. In the Cree language, Ekota means 'special place.'
The neighbourhood is bordered on the north by 23 Avenue, on the east by 66 Street, and on the south and west by Mill Woods Road South.
Demographics
In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Ekota had a population of living in dwellings, a -3.6% change from its 2009 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of people/km2 in 2012.
At the 2001 census there were 2,830 people residing in the neighbourhood. The population is ethnically diverse with almost three out of every four residents providing multiple ethnic groups in the census. Only one in four identified with a single ethnic group. The number identifying themselves as aboriginals was significantly less than 1%. Where residents indicated a single ethnic group, the following were the most common groups indicated (percentages as proportion of total population).
Schools
There are two schools in the neighbourhood. Pupils in the Edmonton Public School System attend Ekota Elementary School, while pupils in the Edmonton Catholic School System attend St. Clement Catholic School.
Shopping and services
Residents have good access to shopping with the Mill Woods Town Centre shopping centre located to the north east in the neighbourhood of Mill Woods Town Centre.
Just to the north of Mill Woods Town Centre, in the neighbourhood of Tawa, is the Grey Nuns Community Hospital and the Edmonton Police Service's South Division Headquarters.
Together, Mill Woods Town Centre and Tawa form the commercial and service core of the entire Mill Woods area.
Immediately to the north of the neighbourhood is Mill Woods Park located within is the Mill Woods Recreation Centre.
Surrounding neighbourhoods
References
External links
2001 Community Services Neighbourhood Profile
Ekota Neighbourhood Profile
Neighbourhoods in Edmonton |
43802859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters%20M50%203000%20metres%20world%20record%20progression | Masters M50 3000 metres world record progression | This is the progression of world record improvements of the 3000 metres M40 division of Masters athletics. Records must be set in properly conducted, official competitions under the standing IAAF rules unless modified by World Masters Athletics.
The M50 division consists of male athletes who have reached the age of 50 but have not yet reached the age of 55, so exactly from their 50th birthday to the day before their 55th birthday.
Key
References
Masters Athletics 3000 m list
Masters athletics world record progressions |
35554318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasht-e%20Rud | Nasht-e Rud | Nasht-e Rud (, also Romanized as Nasht-e Rūd and Nashest Rūd) is a village in Adaran Rural District, Asara District, Karaj County, Alborz Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 91, in 25 families.
References
Populated places in Karaj County |
17858031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Fankhouser | Erik Fankhouser | Erik Fankhouser (born May 30, 1980) is a professional American bodybuilder in the sport’s heavyweight class.
Fankhouser began weight training while he was a student at West Liberty State College in West Liberty, West Virginia. He originally focused on playing fullback for the school’s football team and participating in the shot put, discus, hammer and javelin events for the track team, and then turned his focus to bodybuilding. He won his first competitive bodybuilding tournament, the 2004 NPC Upper Ohio Valley, placing first in the junior division. He won the Mr. West Virginia title in the 2005 Mid Atlantic Grand Prix/West Virginia States.
In his first national competition, the 2006 North American Championship, he placed fourth in the heavyweight division. In 2007, he placed 16th in the USA Bodybuilding & Figure Championships, but in his next competition he placed first in his class in the North American Championships. He was also named overall winner for the competition and earned his IFBB pro card at that event. With his victory, Fankhouser made state sports history as the first West Virginia native to become a professional bodybuilder. Erik placed 10th in his first IFBB pro contest, the Europa Super Show, in August 2008, winning both Pose Down Magazine's "Best Wheels" and the 4Ever Fit Fans' Choice awards during the contest.
Fankhouser, who stands and averages in contest shape, goes by the nickname “The House.” He is sponsored in his training by the bodybuilding supplement companies Animalpak.com and Universal Nutrition.
He has also done guest posing at several bodybuilding tournaments, and writes weight training articles for Muscular Development Magazine.
Outside of competitive bodybuilding, he works as a Coal Miner at Bailey mine for Consol Energy.
Contest History
References
External links
Official web site
Ironman Magazine profile
Video interview with Muscular Development Magazine
American bodybuilders
1980 births
Living people
Exercise physiologists
West Liberty University alumni |
15399569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella | Isabella | Isabella may refer to:
People and fictional characters
Isabella (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
Isabella (surname), including a list of people
Places
United States
Isabella, Alabama, an unincorporated community
Isabella, California, a former settlement
Lake Isabella, California, a man-made reservoir
Isabella, Georgia, an unincorporated community
Isabella County, Michigan
Isabella, an unincorporated community in Isabella Township, Michigan
Isabella, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
Isabella, Missouri, an unincorporated community
Isabella River (Minnesota)
Isabella, Oklahoma, a census-designated place and unincorporated community
Isabella, Pennsylvania (disambiguation)
Isabella Furnace, a cold-blast charcoal iron furnace, Pennsylvania
Elsewhere
Isabella River (New South Wales), Australia
Isabella Island, Tasmania, Australia
Isabela Island (Galápagos)
Isabella, Manitoba, Canada, a settlement
Isabella Lake (Alberta), Canada
Isabella, Estonia, a village
Isabella Plantation, an ornamental area in Richmond Park in London, United Kingdom
Isabella (crater), on Venus
210 Isabella, an asteroid
Arts and entertainment
Isabella (Millais painting), an 1849 painting by John Everett Millais, also known as Lorenzo and Isabella
Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, an 1818 narrative poem by John Keats adapted from a story in Boccaccio's Decameron
Isabella (novel), by Finnish author Kaari Utrio
"Isabella" (The Sopranos), the twelfth episode of the TV show
Isabella, Duchess of the Devils, a 1969 film from Italy/West-Germany
Isabella (1988 film), a 1988 film from India
Isabella (2006 film), a 2006 film from Hong Kong
Isabella (album), a 2002 album by German Schlager group Die Flippers
Species
Agathodes isabella, a moth species
, a bug species
Antispila isabella, a moth species
, a spider species
Cancilla isabella, a sea snail species
Chesias isabella, a moth species
Damias isabella, a moth species
Eois isabella, a moth species
Eschata isabella, a moth species
Funisciurus isabella or Lady Burton's rope squirrel, a rodent species
Inquisitor isabella, a sea snail species
Luria isabella, a sea snail species
Platygraphis isabella, the only species in the moth genus Platygraphis
Pyrrharctia isabella, a moth species
Stiltia isabella or Australian pratincole, a bird species
Strioterebrum isabella, a sea snail species
Transportation
Isabella (ship), various ships
Borgward Isabella, an automobile manufactured by Carl F. W. Borgward GmbH from 1954 to 1962
Isabella station, a former station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Evanston Line
Other uses
Isabella (grape), an American hybrid grape variety
Isabella High School, Isabella, Alabama, United States
Isabella piercing, a female genital piercing
Isabella quarter, an American commemorative coin struck in 1893
Isabelline (colour) or Isabella, a greyish-yellow or light buff colour
Operation Isabella, a German World War II plan that was never implemented
See also
Isabel (disambiguation)
Isabela (disambiguation)
Isabelle (disambiguation)
Isabella River (disambiguation) |
58757467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama%20Kin%20Spender | Mama Kin Spender | Mama Kin Spender is an Australian music duo made up of Mama Kin and Dingo Spender (Offcutts). They released their debut album Golden Magnetic in 2018 and it was nominated for the 2018 ARIA Award for Best Blues and Roots Album.
Members
Mama Kin - vocals, drums
Tommy Spender - vocals, guitar
Discography
Studio albums
EPs
Awards and nominations
ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music.
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| 2018
| Golden Magnetic
| Best Blues & Roots Album
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West Australian Music Industry Awards
The West Australian Music Industry Awards (WAMIs) are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on annually by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc (WAM).
(wins only)
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| 2013
| Mama Kin
| Best Folk Act
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| 2018
| Mama Kin Spender
| Best Blues / Roots Act
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References
External links
Mama Kin Spender
Australian musical duos
Male–female musical duos |
42472899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake%20kidnapping | Fake kidnapping | A fake kidnapping is a kidnapping that has been staged by the victim.
Notable incidents
Brazilian soccer player Somália - on January 7, 2011, Somália claimed he had been kidnapped at gunpoint before being robbed. CCTV footage later proved that he was simply late for training, and fabricated the story in order to circumvent the club's 40% wage drop in case of tardiness. Somália was charged with filing a false police report and. on January 19, 2011, agreed to a deal offered by prosecutors to donate R$22,000 (approximately U.S.$13,000) to the victims of the then-recent floods in Rio de Janeiro, in order to avoid a possible prison sentence and criminal record.
Dar Heatherington (born 1963) - a politician who claimed to have been abducted in Montana in 2003.
Joanna Grenside - an aerobics teacher from Harpenden, England; staged her disappearance a few days before Christmas 1992. She suffered from the eating disorder bulimia and sought to avoid the overindulgence of food that went on at Christmas parties.
Fairlie Arrow - a singer; claimed abduction in Queensland in 1991. Joanna Grenside was working in Queensland at the time, leading to the possibility that it inspired her own event later.
Karol Sanchez - a 16-year-old girl; had two young adult men that were friends of hers stage her abduction on December 16, 2019 around midnight in the Bronx, when she and her mother were walking down a street. There, the two men "kidnapped" Sanchez in front of her horrified mother, who was under the impression that her daughter's "abduction" was real. Karol's mother attempted to fight the two men in attempt to rescue her, but was shoved aside by the men before driving off with Karol in their posse. Karol was found safe and unharmed the next day where she confessed that she was never in actual danger due to her abduction being staged. Sanchez's motivations stemmed from her mother's intentions to move their family to Honduras, as the teenager had no wish to leave her old life behind.
References
Kidnapping |
36421787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil%20Salameh | Nabil Salameh | Nabil Salameh, also known as Nabil or Nabil Bey (born 1962 in Tripoli, Lebanon), is a Palestinian singer, songwriter, musician, artist and journalist, founder of the world music bands Radiodervish and Al Darawish.
Between 1998 and 2007 he worked as a foreign correspondent for the international network Al Jazeera, providing the western point of view relevant to international events, such as the September 11 attacks.
Early life
Nabil Salameh was born in Tripoli in Lebanon, eighth of nine children, three males and six females, from Palestinian refugees. In 1948, just fourteen years before his birth, following the establishment of the state of Israel his parents fled from Jaffa, where they had lived until then in their own estate, later dispossessed by Israelis. In Lebanon Nabil's father was a UN officer and UNRWA supervisor of institutes for Palestinian refugees' education.
When in Lebanon, Nabil attended the Greek Orthodox college in the Christian district of Tripoli. To carry on his studies he firstly moved to Romania, where he enrolled in the University of Bucharest at the time of Nicolae Ceauşescu, eventually moving to Bari in Italy in 1983 to study Electrical Engineering at the local University.
Career
Al Darawish
In 1988 Salameh founded the band Al Darawish. The group invented a style of their own by playing several instruments coming from various areas of the Mediterranean region. The result was a rich melt seasoned by different sounds and cultures and the band received great approval from the public. Theirs was one of the first world music projects in Italy and fuelled more multi-ethnic experiences in the country. For Salameh, this was the start of a long thriving musical career.
In 1990, Al Darawish took part in the Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs d'Europe et de la Méditerranée in Marseille. In 1991 they were selected and performed for the musical festival Arezzo Wave among other artists coming from all over the world, then played at Carrefour de la Mediterranée in Thessaloniki in Greece.
In 1993, Al Darawish recorded their first album Al Darawish, which was presented live from the auditorium of the national network RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana on Radio3. In the same year Al Darawish were guests at the Babylon festival in Iraq.
In 1994, Nabil performed in Bari for the very first time with the Israeli singer Achinoam Nini aka Noa, with whom he has sung many times during his career.
In 1995, Al Darawish were guests at Musicultura for the sixth edition of Premio Città Recanati and to the acclaimed Concerto del Primo Maggio, a massive musical event held every year on Labour Day in Rome, with the participation of great Italian and international artists. In July 1995 the movie Trafitti da un raggio di sole was released, with Al Darawish signing the soundtrack and Nabil playing a part himself as an actor.
In 1996, Al Darawish recorded their second album Radio Dervish.
Radiodervish
In 1997 Al Darawish disbanded. In the same year this was followed by the formation of the new band Radiodervish, by Nabil Salameh and Michele Lobaccaro, co-performer and co-founder of Al Darawish.
Also in 1997 Nabil was asked to sing the anthem of the thirteenth edition of the Mediterranean Games, a multi-disciplinary sports event joined by athletes from the Mediterranean region: that year the games were held in Italy and Nabil was chosen as a Palestinian artist to perform for such event, for the very first time ever.
In 1998 Radiodervish recorded their first album Lingua contro lingua, published under the label I dischi del mulo and distributed by the multinational recording company Polygram: this work was awarded best record debut of the year by the Italian musical contest Piero Ciampi.
Jovanotti and Achinoam Nini
In November 1999, Nabil took part in one of the most important events organized by UNESCO during the 20th century, Music for Peace, held in Paris, together with other international artists such as Gregory Peck, Sidney Poitier, Lionel Richie, Peter Ustinov, Zucchero.
At the end of the year, Nabil duetted with Jovanotti (born Lorenzo Cherubini) for the video recording of the latter's track Stella Cometa, and it was in that occasion that Jovanotti asked Nabil Salameh to render that song lyrics in Arabic and sing it. That is how Cherubini's single CD Dolce Fare Niente Remix turned out with three tracks, the first homonymous sung in Italian by Jovanotti, the second, Stella Cometa / Stella d'Oriente, as a duo by Cherubini/Salameh and the third Stella d'Oriente totally sung in Arabic by Nabil Salameh.
July 2000 brought to Nabil Salameh and the Israeli singer Achinoam Nini the recognition of honorary citizenship by the Mayor of Melpignano, who awarded the two artists for their continuous effort and commitment to build relationships between different cultures and for their effective activism for peace. In December of the same year, Nabil and Noa performed together on stage in a special concert for peace held in the Cathedral of Monreale and directed by Nicola Piovani with the Sicilian Symphonic Orchestra, for the United Nations convention against transnational organized crime, in presence of delegates from 189 nations.
The activity for peace of the two artists has been also appreciated by the association Accademia del Mediterraneo, which awarded them with Premio Mediterraneo arte 2001 for the usage of the universal language of music as a means to peace.
World touring
In March 2001 Nabil Salameh and Michele Lobaccaro presented a new musical project by Radiodervish, In Acustico, at La Vallisa in Bari, a church dating back to the tenth century now transformed in an auditorium. The project was meant to sustain the activities of the association Salaam ragazzi dell'olivo to support the children in the Palestinian refugee camp of Al Fawwar, in Hebron, West Bank. The event brought the house down, with six evening performances all sold out and gave origin to the stuff contained in the CD-ROM In Acustico.
In June 2001, Salameh and Radiodervish are invited to perform in Beirut for the Fête de la Musique, held internationally on 21 June any year and in Lebanon for the very first time that year. The experience was set in a rare atmosphere: Beirut was thirsty of feeling and showing alive, after so many wars and scars left by years and years of quite never ending conflicts, and Nabil was back in the country where he was born, even though not being a Lebanese himself, being stateless as a child of Palestinian refugees, with his family still leaving there. A moving documentary was made, Li Beirut, filmed by the director Marco Preti who accompanied Radiodervish in Lebanon, and a touching article, written by the journalist Massimo Zamboni, published on the magazine Diario.
In 2002, Radiodervish was still touring with their project In Acustico. In January, Nabil and Radiodervish took part in the yearly concert held for Epiphany festivity, broadcast by RAI Rai 1 TV network: the theme of the show was peace in the Middle East and Nabil duetted again with Noa in the moving setting of Santa Chiara's monastery in Naples. For this occasion Radiodervish performed a national preview of the new single Centro del Mundo, which gave name to the following album by the band, released the next summer. Later that year in May, Radiodervish performed in the traditional Labour Day concert held in Brussels, which was dedicated to peace development in the Middle East. Later that same month, Nabil was again involved in another event by the same subject, Time for peace, held at the Colosseum in Rome and broadcast live worldwide. Here Nabil sang Centro del Mundo with Noa, with whom he also joined the peace walk Perugia-Assisi.
Radiodervish's album Centro del Mundo was released in June 2002, under the newborn label Cosmasola, and distributed by Il Manifesto CD. This new work was inspired by the changeableness and uprooting which influence the soul of human beings, and the music and tracks contained in the album tell the stories and feelings of people living between two cultures.
Radiodervish were on tour all over Italy from August till the end of the year. In line with their personal social commitment, during this period they engaged in the Giubileo degli Oppressi, a series of events and meetings organized both by clerics and lay people aimed to find practical solutions against wars and to integrate people generally living in the fringe of society bearing no guilt, such as the needy, refugees, humans struck by conflicts, unemployed, homeless people.
In September 2002 Nabil and Radiodervish performed at the second Summit of Mayors of the World for Peace, held in Athens, and in October they were guests at Premio Tenco, a musical contest organized every year in Italy.
Following an invitation by the University of Bari and the publisher Meridiana Editrice, in December 2002 Nabil Salameh and Michele Lobaccaro met and interviewed professor Arie Nadler, an Israeli sociologist, director of the Peres Centre for Peace in Tel Aviv, discussing the subject Building a peace memorial, that is to say how to develop a peaceful coexistence by sharing individual experience and memories.
Paris and Italy
On 26 and 27 March 2003 Nabil played with Radiodervish at the impressive scenery of the Olympia in Paris, entering the élite of the international stars who have performed on the coveted stage.
In August 2003 Nabil sang in the closing evening of the festival La Notte della Taranta, interpreting a traditional musical piece from Salento, arranged by the co-performer Stewart Copeland for that special occasion.
In 2004 Radiodervish worked on a musical project inspired by the book Manteq aṭ-Ṭayr, The Conference of the Birds, by Farid al-Din Attar, a Persian poet, theoretician of Sufism. The project fed two artistic productions: the new album In search of Simurgh (Cosmasola / Il Manifesto), produced by Saro Cosentino and distributed also in the Asian market (Japan, China, Taiwan and Corea), and a play with the same name of the CD, woven with the work Ali di Polvere, written by the director and actress Teresa Ludovico, also performing on the stage with Radiodervish for this play, in which acting, poetry, music and lights melt together in a unique show.
In 2006 Nabil and Radiodervish were on tour with another play, Amara Terra Mia, together with the actor Giuseppe Battiston. The show was a tribute to the Italian singer and songwriter Domenico Modugno: two of his best known songs, Amara Terra Mia and Tu si na cosa grande, were given a place of honour in this work, arranged here to be sung partly in Italian and Arabic. The play also produced an audio CD and a DVD, the former containing the audio recording of the live show, in which the songs of Radiodervish laid next to some texts recited by Battiston, in a tale of human beings on an eternal journey, moving among lands and cultures, between West and East, and the latter including the video clip of the song Amara Terra Mia, directed by the artist, singer and composer Franco Battiato and a recording from the show during the live given at Teatro Kismet OperA in Bari.
In 2007 Radiodervish released the album L'immagine di te (Radiofandango / Cosmasola) produced by Franco Battiato.
On 14 September Nabil Salameh became an Italian subject by an ordinance of the Republic of Italy, acquiring a citizenship after having been stateless for years and years, just like most Palestinians are.
2008–2010
In 2008 Nabil Salameh gave his voice to dub the character of the magpie Muezzin in the cartoon movie La luna nel deserto directed by Cosimo Damiano Damato. The soundtrack of this movie was also by Radiodervish.
He is also the narrator in Terra Salata, a documentary produced by the association Mediterraid, which organizes a tour around the Mediterranean Sea every year with the aim of promoting relationship among people coming from the different countries of the area.
Also in 2008 Nabil contributed to the CD Il fiore splendente by Etta Scollo, a work on the Arab poets who lived in Sicily between the ninth and the twelfth centuries: the album, recorded in Berlin, was also presented at the concert hall of the Berliner Philharmoniker during a tour around Germany, in which Nabil took part.
Between May and June 2008, Nabil Salameh held a seminar within the journalism and short story writing course given at the library centre Santa Teresa dei Maschi, run by the province of Bari.
Between 2008 and 2009 Nabil and the Radiodervish were involved in more projects together with other artists. For the festival Divinamente Roma, with the participation of the actor Valter Malosti they set up the show Con le radici al cielo, a well-done and successful experiment in which mysticism was driven by poetry and essential music. In another show, accompanied by the live music of Radiodervish, the writer Carlo Lucarelli read some passages from his book L'ottava vibrazione, speaking about the experience of the Italian soldiers fighting against the Abyssinian army of Menelik in Ethiopia at the end of the nineteenth century.
In this period Nabil and Radiodervish organized and led a new cultural project, Le Porte dell'Occidente, held at the Norman-Swabian castle of Sannicandro di Bari, which became the permanent residence of numerous cultural events, from music performances to video screenings, from exhibitions to artistic workshops dedicated to schools, in which Radiodervish and other artists coming from different parts of the Mediterranean area involved themselves to promote cultural and artistic development as well as widen knowledge and consciousness of a common Mediterranean culture. During this very intense and creative period Radiodervish started cherishing the project of a new album.
Following the experience of integration spent during Le Porte dell'Occidente, in May 2009 Nabil and Radiodervish went on a tour together with the Arab Orchestra of Nazareth, starting playing with them in Tel Aviv on the stage of the Tzavta theatre and then in Italy in June. During their next stay in Jerusalem, a very touching artistic and personal experience, they drew the inspiration for Beyond the Sea, the album released in October 2009 which was partially written there and completed in Apulia. This work, produced by Saro Cosentino, was enriched by sounds coming from Palestine and Israel, thanks to the contribution of artists such as the Arab Israeli Soloist of the Nazareth orchestra and Zohar Fresco.
In 2010 Radiodervish released the album Bandervish, including some of their songs and other famous pieces from the Middle Eastern musical tradition, such as Fogh el Nakhal and Lamma Badah, all of them arranged by the talented musician Livio Minafra and played by Radiodervish and the Band of Sannicandro di Bari.
2011–2012
In 2011 Nabil Salameh gave life to a project called Esperanto – Note di speranza: his aim was to collect funds to sustain the music schools in the West Bank. The first edition was held at Politeama Greco in Lecce with a concert played by Radiodervish, Paola Turci, Niccolò Fabio, Simone Cristicchi and Yo Yo Mundi.
In May 2011 Radiodervish were invited to play at the opening evening of the Literature Festival of Cairo with a concert given at Cairo Opera House.
Later in 2011 Nabil Salameh was on tour in Italy with Franco Battiato for the project Diwan, which recalled the Arab poetry mastering school raised in Sicily around 1000 a.c. and made it alive again by playing texts collected from the old Arab tradition, from Andalusia to North Africa to Middle East.
In the beginning of 2012 Nabil developed the education programme Lezioni di musica – Il mondo arabo del '900 attraverso la sua musica, a training path consisting in learning about the Arab world of the past century by looking through the eyes of its music. By introducing his course Nabil Salameh expressed awareness that art, to which music pertains, can speak volumes about a culture and its evolution, sometimes even more than a history book written by somebody with a story and a look of his own, whereas music is the voice of multiple human beings and comes from inside one's soul. The course was held for the first time at Liceo Docet in Casarano in Italy and there will be more sessions in the future in other parts of the country.
On 29 June 2012 the monthly magazine XL by La Repubblica, published the compilation Dal pesce alla Luna, a selection of songs by Radiodervish released during the past years of their career plus a new track, In fondo ai tuoi occhi, which will be included in the forthcoming album. The same compilation is also released on 30 October of the same year by Sony Music Entertainment and produced by Cosmasola: this second edition contains the version of Centro del Mundo sang with Noa.
2013 and the new album by Radiodervish
On 5 February 2013 Radiodervish release the album Human: this new work is a collection of stories and thoughts driven from a time of profound crisis such as that occurred in the world during the last years. Economical recession as well as loss of perception of the intimate human nature in an era that leaves no time left to self-inspection are seen as an opportunity to confront with the damage caused by hard times and to move forward with a brand new positive change.
Discography – Al Darawish
1993 – Al Darawish
1996 – Radio Dervish
Discography – Radiodervish
1998 – Lingua contro lingua
2001 – In acustico
2002 – Centro del Mundo
2004 – In search of Simurgh
2006 – Amara terra mia
2007 – L'immagine di te
2009 – Beyond the sea
2010 – Bandervish
2012 – Dal pesce alla Luna
2013 – Human
Discography – collaborations
1999 – Stella cometa (Dolce far niente) – Jovanotti
2006 – Arte senza volto – Pippo Ark D'Ambrosio
2008 – Il fiore splendente – Etta Scollo
Movies and soundtracks
1995 – Trafitti da un raggio di sole
2008 – La luna nel deserto
References
Wikipedia related links
Al Darawish
Radiodervish (in Italian)
Michele Lobaccaro (in Italian)
Achinoam Nini
Jovanotti
Franco Battiato
Farid al-Din Attar
The Arab Orchestra of Nazareth
External links
Radiodervish official site
Nabil Salameh on Myspace
Palestinian male singers
Palestinian journalists
Living people
1962 births
Translators of Nizar Qabbani |
63860865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawalan%20Marika | Mawalan Marika | Mawalan Marika (1908-1967), often referred to as Mawalan 1 Marika to distinguish from Mawalan 2 Marika, was an Aboriginal Australian artist and the leader of the Rirratjingu clan of the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. He is known for his bark paintings, carvings and political activism.
Biography
Mawalan Marika was born in 1908 in Yirrkala. His name derives from the mawalan, or digging stick used by the Djang'kawu of the creation story of the Rirratjingu clan. His clan falls under the Dhuwa moiety, one of the two moieties found in Arnhem Land.
In addition to being an important asset to many anthropologists, including Charles P. Mountford and Ronald Berndt, he was one of the most prominent political activists of his time. Mawalan and his four brothers led the other clans in presenting the Yirrkala bark petitions to the Australian Government in 1963, in the lead-up to the 1971 Gove land rights case (aka Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, named after his brother Milirrpum).
Marika was one of the first artists to break from tradition and teach his daughters (i.e women) how to paint the sacred madayin clan designs. Marika advocated for the teaching of Yolŋu culture to the general Australian population, and negotiated the foundation of a Methodist mission at Yirrkala in 1935. One way he tried to encourage this transmission of knowledge was the establishment of commercial production of bark paintings through the mission.
Career
Marika painted over 40 works, many of which can be found in art collections of museums or private collectors. In the 1950s, he helped to create a commercial bark painting environment at the Yirrkala mission and collaborated in the creation of the Yirrkala Church Panels. One of Marika's figurative traits is that he often paints the Djang'kawu sisters, who are said to be the creator beings of the Dhuwa moiety. The Marika family see themselves as direct descendants of the Djang'kawu. Mawalan created an entire series of paintings detailing the journey on the Djang'kawu sisters into country. A collection of Marika's bark paintings entitled Djan'kawu story (1959) is held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
As well as being known for his bark paintings, Marika had a high level of skill in carving and sculpture. His sculptures are cleanly painted with clan designs and finished with feathers, human hair, or other such natural attachments.
His style is characteristic of the Dhuwa moiety, featuring many dots, diagonal lines, and geometric/diamond shapes. One of the innovations for which Marika is credited is the use of episodic or panel style bark paintings and breaking away from the use of rarrk by using dotting techniques and more figural elements. A notable trait of many of his paintings is the striking use of yellow ochre, which features heavily in all his works, sculptural and painted. Many of his works deal with subjects relating to the sacred stories and ceremonies of the clan.
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Significant exhibitions
Old Masters Exhibition - National Gallery of Australia
The Art of Arnhem Land - Perth, 1957
Dreamings - New York, 1988
Aratjara - Europe, 199394
Yalangbara: Art of the Djang'kawu - National Museum of Australia, 201011
References
Further reading
Short bios of: Mawalan Marika 1 (c. 1908–1967), Mathaman Marika (c. 1920–1970), Milirrpum Marika (c. 1923–1983), Roy Dadaynga Marika MBE (c. 1925–1993), Wandjuk Djuwakan Marika OBE (1929–1987), Banduk Marika (born 1954), Dhuwarrwarr Marika (born c.1946), Wanyubi Marika (born 1967), Yalmay Gurrwun (Marika) Yunupingu (born 1956), Mawalan Marika 2 (born 1957), Jimmy Barrmula Yunupingu (born 1963) (son of Dhuwarrwarr Marika).
External links
Australian Aboriginal artists
1908 births
1967 deaths
20th-century Australian artists
Artists from the Northern Territory |
21719255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Albrighton | Marc Albrighton | Marc Kevin Albrighton (born 18 November 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or wing-back for Premier League club Leicester City.
Albrighton joined Aston Villa at the age of eight, and made his professional debut for them in 2009. he totalled nine goals in 101 professional appearances for Villa, also spending a loan spell at Wigan Athletic in 2013. After being released in 2014, he signed for Leicester City where he won the Premier League in 2015–16, playing in every league match of the season, and the FA Cup in 2020–21.
Albrighton represented the England U21 and U20 sides.
Club career
Aston Villa
Early career
Born in Tamworth, Staffordshire, Albrighton started his career at hometown club Mile Oak Monarchs, before he was offered a trial at Villa's local rivals West Bromwich Albion. He was rejected by Albion, then subsequently signed for Villa at the age of eight.
After impressing in the under-18 squad and playing in the reserves, Albrighton's first taste of senior action came on 10 July 2008, playing 17 minutes as a substitute in the 6–0 pre-season friendly victory over Wil. He made his competitive debut in the UEFA Cup match away at CSKA Moscow on 26 February 2009, a 2–0 loss (3–1 aggregate).
During the 2009–10 pre-season, Albrighton was included in the squad which played in the pre-season friendly tournament, the 2009 Peace Cup, in which he scored his first goal for the club in a 3–1 win over Atlante. He played in the Peace Cup final in which Villa beat Italians Juventus 4–3 in a penalty shootout.
First team
Albrighton made his Premier League debut on 15 August 2009, the opening day of the 2009–10 season against Wigan Athletic at Villa Park, coming on as a 68th-minute substitute for Habib Beye in a 0–2 loss. On 24 September, he extended his contract with Villa by three years. In December, manager Martin O'Neill admitted that Albrighton along with fellow youngsters Nathan Delfouneso and Ciaran Clark were the subject of many loan offers, but went on to state his belief that the trio were good enough to learn their trade in the fringes of the Aston Villa side.
After a good pre-season, Albrighton made his first Premier League start in the first match of the 2010–11 season against West Ham United on 14 August 2010, assisting two goals in Villa's 3–0 win. He scored his first goal for Villa against Tottenham Hotspur on 2 October. He was sent off against Burnley in the League Cup on 27 October, therefore missing a chance to play in the following match against local rivals Birmingham City. On 5 November, Albrighton signed a new contract keeping him at the club until 2014. On 23 November, Albrighton was ruled out of action for three to four weeks after having his appendix removed, but made his return ahead of schedule in a 3–0 defeat to Liverpool at Anfield on 6 December, playing 65 minutes before being replaced by Robert Pires.
Albrighton then set up both goals for the home side in the 2–1 defeat of local rivals West Bromwich Albion in December 2010.
On 21 December 2011, he scored the Premier League's 20,000th goal at home against Arsenal, winning a £20,000 cheque from league sponsors Barclays, donated to his chosen charity, Acorns Children's Hospice. He then scored the opening goal in a 3–1 win against Bristol Rovers at the Memorial Ground in the FA Cup.
A throat operation restricted Albrighton to a single outing, in the League Cup, up to October 2013. He joined Wigan Athletic on a 28-day loan on 30 October 2013. He made four appearances for Wigan before returning to his parent club on 27 November 2013. Albrighton was released by Villa on 20 May 2014.
Leicester City
2014–15 season
On 23 May 2014, Albrighton joined Leicester City on a four-year contract, following their return to the Premier League for the first time in a decade. He made his debut for the Foxes on 23 August, replacing Riyad Mahrez for the final 22 minutes of a 2–0 loss at Chelsea. The following 29 April, in the reverse fixture at the King Power Stadium, he scored his first Leicester goal, putting Leicester ahead just before half time in an eventual 3–1 loss. Albrighton totalled 18 league appearances in his first season at his new club, adding a second goal in the last match of the season, a 5–1 win against Queens Park Rangers on 24 May. Albrighton struggled to break into the first team squad at the start of the season, but nearer the end of the year was used as a wing-back by manager Nigel Pearson in a new formation that brought Leicester success. He played an instrumental role in helping complete Leicester's 'great escape' as the team won 7 out of their last 9 matches to finish 14th.
2015–16 season
Albrighton played more regularly under new manager Claudio Ranieri, featuring in every league match in the campaign. Albrighton scored his first goal of the season in the opening 4–2 victory over Sunderland, which set the tone for a remarkable season. He partnered N'Golo Kanté, Riyad Mahrez and Danny Drinkwater in a regular 4-man midfield as the club won their first ever top-flight title. Albrighton played on the left of midfield for the majority of the campaign, and was noted for his "diligent work defensively and when going forward, as well as his high-class crossing from open play and set pieces." with manager Ranieri claiming "Albrighton embodies the spirit of Leicester" for his "unmistakable sense of sacrifice." Whilst playing every match, Albrighton scored two goals, with his second coming in Leicester's crucial 4–0 win over Swansea on 24 April. He was rewarded with a new four-year contract in August 2016.
2016–17 season
On 14 September 2016, Albrighton scored the club's first ever Champions League goal in a 3–0 win over Club Brugge at the Jan Breydel Stadium. He was the first Leicester player to score in a European competition since Muzzy Izzet against Red Star Belgrade in September 2000. Albrighton described the goal as "probably one of the greatest achievements of my career so far".
On 25 February 2017, reports emerged alleging that Albrighton was among several teammates who met with chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha following their 2–1 Champions League defeat at Sevilla on 22 February, which led to manager Claudio Ranieri being sacked. Albrighton dismissed the claims as "totally incorrect".
In Leicester City's Champions League Last 16 tie against Sevilla on 14 March 2017, Albrighton scored the second goal for the hosts which capped off a remarkable win, sealing a 3–2 aggregate win and progression to the quarter-finals.
2017–present
Leicester City finished in 9th place in consecutive seasons in 2017–18 and 2018–19 with Albrighton scoring two league goals in each season respectively. After Brendan Rodgers was appointed new Leicester City manager in February 2019, Albrighton continued to be a crucial and reliable member of the first-team squad, with his versatility allowing him to play both on the flanks and in defence. The Foxes ended the 2019–20 season in fifth place to qualify for the group stage of the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League.
On 9 January 2021, Albrighton scored his first goal for Leicester for 53 matches in all competitions, netting his side's second in their 4–0 win over Stoke City in the third round of the FA Cup. His first Premier League goal of the 2020–21 season came on 8 May 2021 in a 2–4 home defeat against Newcastle United. He would help the Foxes win their first-ever FA Cup later that month, coming on for an injured Jonny Evans in the 34th minute in the final.
On 30 July 2021, Albrighton signed a new contract to stay at Leicester until 2024. Albrighton made an appearance off the bench in Leicester's 1–0 triumph over reigning Premier League champions Manchester City in the FA Community Shield on 7 August 2021.
International career
On 2 April 2009, Albrighton made his debut for the England under 20s. He made his debut for U21 team in September 2010 during their Euro 2011 qualifying play-offs and scored just fifteen minutes after coming on as a substitute.
Personal life
Albrighton confirmed to the Birmingham Mail that his dreams came true in playing for Aston Villa, the team he has supported since a young age. He named former Villa players David Ginola, Benito Carbone and Robert Pires as some of his footballing role models, along with England legend David Beckham to whom he has been compared due to crossing ability and technique.
Albrighton became a father for the first time on 19 February 2012 when his partner Chloe Fulford gave birth to a daughter in Sutton Coldfield. Fulford's mother, Sue Davey, was killed in the Tunisian terror attacks in June 2015.
Career statistics
Honours
Leicester City
Premier League: 2015–16
FA Cup: 2020–21
FA Community Shield: 2021
References
External links
Leicester City Profile
1989 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tamworth, Staffordshire
Footballers from Staffordshire
English footballers
England youth international footballers
England under-21 international footballers
Association football wingers
Aston Villa F.C. players
Wigan Athletic F.C. players
Leicester City F.C. players
Premier League players
English Football League players
FA Cup Final players |
52463706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gantocks | The Gantocks | The Gantocks is a small group of rocks lying off Dunoon in the upper Firth of Clyde, West of Scotland.
A navigation beacon was constructed on the rocks circa 1886. The beacon is in height.
The MV Akka was lost, after running onto the Gantocks on 9 April 1956. The PS Waverley ran aground on the rocks on 15 July 1977 with 715 passengers on board.
The Gantocks beacon was repainted and maintenance was carried out during 2018.
Gallery
References
External links
Skerries of Scotland
Firth of Clyde
Cowal
Geography of Dunoon |
13393262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal%2C%20Invisible%2C%20God%20Only%20Wise | Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise | "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise" is a Christian hymn with words by the Free Church of Scotland minister, Walter Chalmers Smith, usually sung to the tune, "St. Denio", originally a Welsh ballad tune, which became a hymn (under the name "Palestrina") in ("Hymns of the Sanctuary", 1839) edited by John Roberts (Welsh bardic name: ) (1822–1877). Of this hymn, musicologist Erik Routley has written:
"[Immortal, Invisible] should give the reader a moment's pause. Most readers will think they know this hymn, the work of another Free Kirk minister. But it never now appears as its author wrote it, and a closer look at it in its fuller form shows that it was by no means designed to be one of those general hymns of praise that the parson slams into the praise-list when he is in too much of a hurry to think of anything else but a hymn about the reading of Scripture. Just occasionally editorial tinkering changes the whole personality of a hymn; it has certainly done so here."
Lyrics
Lyrics given in most English hymnals:
Original version of last two stanzas from Hymns of Christ and the Christian Life, 1867.
References
External links
The text and tune at Oremus Hymnal
Scottish Christian hymns
Protestant hymns |
45520949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia%20Park%20%28Victoria%29 | Banksia Park (Victoria) | Banksia Park is a park on the banks of the Yarra River in Heidelberg, a north-eastern suburb of Melbourne. It has wood barbecues, picnic shelter, playground, and a toilet block.
References
Parks in Melbourne |
5699968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Creed | The Creed | The Creed is the eighth album released by Christian vocal group Avalon, their fifth studio project. It is the first Avalon album to include Greg Long (group member Janna Long's husband), who replaced Michael Passons after his unexpected departure in mid-2003. The Creed debuted and peaked at #104 on the Billboard 200 chart for the week of March 13, 2004, and to date has spent a total of eight weeks there. It also made an appearance on Billboard's Christian Albums chart, its highest ranking #4, also for the week of March 13, 2004. On the Christian Albums chart, it spent a total of nineteen weeks. The project was unable to produce a No. 1 radio single, a rare occurrence in the group's successful career. However, lead single "All" did manage to peak at #2 on Radio & Records' Christian AC chart and spent a total of eight weeks in the chart's top five. It also made chart positions in all three major Christian formats—AC, CHR, and Inspirational. The Creed contains the track "Overjoyed", lifted from Janna Long's self-titled solo album.
Track listing
"All" – 3:46; Sung by Janna and Melissa (writers: Ian Eskelin, Brian White, Tedd Tjornhom)
"The Creed" – 4:56; All split lead (Greg and Jody are most predominant) (writers: Matt Huesmann, Chris Davis, Cindy Morgan, Michael Passons)
"Abundantly" – 3:56; Sung by Janna (writers: Joe Beck, Janna Long, Sam Mizell, Brian White)
"I Wanna Be with You" – 4:05; Sung by Greg (writers: Will Owsley, Dillon O'Brian, Keith Thomas)
"You Were There" – 6:53; Sung by Jody (writer: Ben Glover)
"Far Away from Here" – 4:38; Sung by Melissa and Jody (writers: Jason Barton, Howie Dorough, Dan Muckala)
"Overjoyed" – 4:03; Sung by Janna (writers: Kevan Cyka, Stephanie Lewis)
"I Bring It to You" – 3:49; Sung by Melissa (writers: Phil Barnhart, Kevin Page, Bob Raglan)
"The Good Way" – 3:23; Sung by Janna and Melissa (writers: Damon Riley, Melissa Greene, Janna Long, Cindy Morgan)
"Renew Me" – 4:43; Sung by Janna, Melissa and Jody; (writers: Bernie Herms, Stephanie Lewis)
Personnel
Avalon
Janna Long – vocals
Jody McBrayer – vocals
Melissa Greene – vocals
Greg Long– vocals
Musicians
Damon Riley – programming (1, 7, 9)
Tedd T. – programming (1, 9), additional programming (7), electric guitar (7, 9)
Rusty Varenkamp – programming (1), additional programming (7)
Dan Muckala – programming (2, 3, 5), additional keyboards (4), string arrangements (6)
Blair Masters – programming (3)
Robert Marvin – programming (4)
Dan Needham – programming (8)
Bernie Herms – programming (10), original arrangements (10), string arrangements (10)
Paul Moak – electric guitar (1, 7, 9)
Allen Salmon – acoustic guitar (1), electric guitar (1)
Chuck Zwicky – electric guitar (1)
Gordon Kennedy – acoustic guitar (2), electric guitar (2, 3, 5)
Will Owsley – guitar (4)
Alex Nifong – acoustic guitar (5)
Michael Ripoll – gut string guitar (5), acoustic guitar (7)
Jerry McPherson – electric guitar (6, 10)
Dave Ripoll – gut string guitar (10)
Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass (2-5, 8)
Mark Hill – bass (6, 10)
Steve Brewster – drums (2, 3, 5, 8)
John Hammond – drums (6, 10)
Ben Phillips – drums (9)
Eric Darken – percussion (3)
Michael Mellett – vocal arrangements (1-10)
Carl Marsh – string arrangements and conductor (2, 5)
Gavyn Wright – concertmaster (2, 5)
Charlie Peacock – string arrangements (6), acoustic piano (10)
David Davidson – string arrangements (10)
The London Session Orchestra – strings (2, 5)
The Love Sponge Strings – strings (6, 10):
David Angell
Monisa Angell
David Davidson
Anthony LaMarchina
Mary Kathryn Vanosdale
Kristin Wilkinson
Production
Producers – Brown Bannister (Tracks 1-10); Tedd T. (Tracks 1, 7 & 9); Charlie Peacock (Tracks 6 & 10).
Executive Producer – Brad O'Donnell
Recording Engineers – Steve Bishir (Tracks 1-5 & 8); Damon Riley and Tedd T. (Tracks 1, 7 & 9); Richie Biggs (Tracks 6 & 10).
Assistant Engineers – Hank Nirider (Tracks 2-5 & 8); Kevin Pickle (Tracks 6 & 10).
Strings on Tracks 2, 5, 6 & 10 recorded by Steve Bishir, assisted by Rupert Coulson.
Drum recording on Track 9 – Allen Salmon
Mixing – Chris Lord-Alge (Tracks 1, 2 & 3); Steve Bishir (Tracks 4 & 8); F. Reid Shippen (Track 5); David Thoener (Tracks 6 & 10); Tedd T. and Chuck Zwicky (Tracks 7 & 9).
Mix Assistants – Keith Armstrong (Tracks 1, 2 & 3); Jesse Benfield (Tracks 6 & 10).
Digital Editing – Kevin B. Hipp and Hank Nirider (Tracks 1-6, 8 & 10); Tedd T. and Rusty Varenkamp (Tracks 1, 7 & 9); Damon Riley and Allen Salmon (Tracks 7 & 9).
Mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
Art Direction and Design – Julian Peploe
Photography – Andrew Southam
Radio Singles
All
I Wanna Be With You
You Were There
References
2004 albums
Avalon (band) albums |
11094367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Marcy%20%28disambiguation%29 | Mount Marcy (disambiguation) | Mount Marcy is the highest summit of the Adirondack Mountains and the State of New York.
Mount Marcy may also refer to:
Damsire of the horse Avatar
See also
Mount Mary (disambiguation)
Mount Mercy (disambiguation) |
23202738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville%20Chynoweth | Neville Chynoweth | Neville James Chynoweth (3 October 1922 – 11 August 2011) was the seventh Bishop of Gippsland from 1980 to 1987.
Chynoweth was educated at Manly High School, Moore Theological College (ThL (Hons) in 1949 and a BD in 1969) and the University of Sydney, where he received an MA (1957). He was ordained in 1950, serving a curacy at St Michael's Sydney, Rector of Kangaroo Valley (1951–52) and then a chaplain of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. From 1954 to 1963 he was Rector of St John's Dee Why and then, from 1963 to 1966, St Anne's Strathfield. In 1966 his ministry took him to Canberra, where he was Rector of All Saints Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory (1966–71) and then St Paul's, Manuka (1971–74). He was appointed archdeacon in 1973.
In 1974 he was consecrated assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, serving until 1980 when he was translated as bishop to the Diocese of Gippsland (1980–87). He retired in 1987 (aged 65) and served as an honorary assistant bishop in Canberra and Goulburn from 1991 to 2004. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours.
References
1922 births
People educated at Manly Selective Campus
University of Sydney alumni
Anglican archdeacons in Australia
Anglican bishops of Gippsland
Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn
Members of the Order of Australia
20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia
2011 deaths |
51916227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austad%20%28municipality%29 | Austad (municipality) | Austad is a former municipality of the former Vest-Agder county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1909 until its dissolution in 1963. The municipality encompassed the area surrounding the Rosfjorden in the southern, coastal part of the present-day municipality of Lyngdal. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Austad where Austad Church is located.
Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Austad farm (). The first element of the name is derived from the male name "" and the last element is "stad" () which means "homestead" or "farm".
History
Austad municipality was created on 1 January 1909 when the old municipality of Lyngdal was divided into three separate municipalities: Lyngdal, Austad, and Kvås. Upon its creation, Austad had a population of 1,263. On 7 January 1916, there was a small border adjustment which transferred a small area (population: 4) from Austad to the neighboring municipality of Spind. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1963, Austad and Kvås were re-incorporated into Lyngdal along with the Gitlevågområdet area of Spangereid. Prior to the merger, Austad had a population of 608.
Government
All municipalities in Norway, including Austad, are responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. The municipality was governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elected a mayor.
Municipal council
The municipal council of Austad was made up of representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:
See also
List of former municipalities of Norway
References
Lyngdal
Former municipalities of Norway
1909 establishments in Norway
1963 disestablishments in Norway |
31366592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furug%C5%8D%20Station | Furugō Station | is a railway station in Ōita City, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Kyudai Main Line.
History
The private opened a track from to on 30 October 1915. This station was opened on the same day as one of several intermediate stations along the track. On 1 December 1922, the Daito Railway was nationalized and absorbed into Japanese Government Railways, (JGR) which closed the station. The station was reopened on 13 March 1988 by JR Kyushu, which had assumed control of the line and assets after the Japanese National Railways (the successor to JGR) was privatized on 1 April 1987.
Lines
The station is served by the Kyūdai Main Line and is located 138.9 km from the starting point of the line at .
Layout
The station, which is unstaffed, consists of a side platform serving a single track. There is no station building. The shelter on the platform has a ticket window which is now unstaffed. An automatic ticket vending machine, a SUGOCA charge machine and a SUGOCA card reader are provided.
Adjacent stations
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 450 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 255th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Furugō (JR Kyushu)
Railway stations in Ōita Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1915 |
18149459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Light%20%28John%20Legend%20song%29 | Green Light (John Legend song) | "Green Light" is a song recorded by American R&B recording artist John Legend. It was written by Legend, Andre Benjamin, Fin Greenall, James Ho and Rick Nowels for his third studio album Evolver (2008). Produced by Malay and KP, the song was released as the first single on August 26, 2008 through Columbia Records. The song features vocals from American rapper André 3000. "Green Light" shows a shift in musical style for Legend, opting for a funk and electro sound composed of electronic synths and fast, synthesized beats. The song also features the use of several horn instruments, including the saxophone, trombone and trumpet.
"Green Light" was well received by contemporary music critics who praised it for the departure in musical style and called it a "certified club banger". The single performed well on the charts, reaching number twenty-four on the Billboard Hot 100, tying for "Ordinary People" as Legend's highest peaking single on the chart at the time. It also stood as his best selling single, earning a platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) until "All of Me" sold 4 million downloads by September 2014. It reached its highest peak in Belgium, reaching number two on the singles chart. The music video for "Green Light" was directed by Alan Ferguson. It features Legend and Benjamin pursuing women at a house party while including visual effects created by Baked FX.
Background
"Green Light" was written by John Stephens, Andre Benjamin, Fin Greenall, James Ho and Rick Nowels and produced by Malay and KP. In an interview with British music publication Blues & Soul, Legend discussed the creation process to make the song. "Initially I was working in the studio with a guy called Rick Knowles, who’s not known for making a buncha dance songs but is a good writer! And one of the songs we worked on turned out to be ‘Green Light’. He started playing this guitar groove, put a beat to it... And, because it was uptempo and felt good, the melody and lyric came to me pretty quickly." Legend then showed the product to Kawan "KP" Prather, his A&R representative at the time, who then collaborated with Malay to re-produce the song.
After listening to the final product, they decided to enlist American rapper André 3000 Benjamin, saying "‘Cause it just sounded like something he’d do!" They sent it to Benjamin, who "loved it" and expressed interest in being featured on it, almost immediately writing and recording his rap. Legend commented that once he heard Benjamin on "Green Light", he stated "to me it straightaway felt like the album’s first single! It seemed like the kind of thing that would grab people’s attention, it sounded like a great record, and it felt like it would be a big hit... And to me it STILL feels like that!”" "Green Light" was released as the first single from Evolver (2008). The song was serviced to rhythmic and urban radios on August 19, 2008, through GOOD Music and Columbia Records. Through Columbia, the song was released for digital distribution on August 26, 2008.
Composition
"Green Light" represents a departure from Legend's previous musical works. Nathan S. of DJ Booth noted that the song still uses the "same smooth vocals and spare melodies" present in his previous ballads. Musically, the song is an uptempo and light electro-funk club banger. The song utilizes horns, saxophone, trombone, trumpets, double time drum loops, synthesizers, computerized handclaps, and busy hip-hop beats. Andy Kellman of Allmusic noted that the synthesizers featured on the song are similar to those utilized in Paul McCartney's 1979 holiday single "Wonderful Christmastime" and Kanye West's 2007 single "Flashing Lights" (Graduation, 2007). Alex Macpherson of The Guardian said that the song's "skittery beats and swooning synths" are reminiscent of Kelis's 2004 single "Millionaire" (Tasty, 2003). Legend raises his vocals to the falsetto register on the song's hook. According to the digital music sheet published at Musicnotes.com by BMG Rights Management, the song is written in a key of G major. It has a moderately fast tempo of 150 beats per minute. Legend's vocals range from a low register of D3 to a high register of A4.
Response
Critical reception
Andy Kellman of AllMusic selected it as one of the album's top tracks, noting that it benefits from Andre 3000's "upstaging, off-the-cuff, don't-give-a-damn appearance" but criticized it for sounding like "increasingly bad fit with each play, full of simpleminded gestures." Ryan Ogle of ARTISTdirect called "Green Light" and "If You're Out There" "well-received and welcome" departures from his previous style of music. Mark Edward Nero of About.com wrote a positive review of the song, writing "If John Legend is selling out by looking for a pop hit, then selling out has rarely sounded so fun." In the review of Evolver for the same publication, Nero praised it as being "arguably his first bona fide club banger". DJ Z of DJ Booth called the pairing of John Legend and Andre 3000 "an absolute musical match", stating that it is "so harmonious, in fact, that it should have plenty of fans clamoring for an entire collaborative project." Christine Van Dusen of Paste Magazine said that the song was almost as good as "Used to Love U" (Get Lifted, 2004). Claire Allfree of Metro called "Green Light" an "effervescent dance-floor filler". Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine wrote that " Andre's near-apathetic wordplay on the former is hardly the way to fulfill the legacy of "Bombs Over Baghdad," nor is Kanye's "kiddies"/"titties" rhyming scheme on the latter going to get him into graduate school, but as guest spots on a John Legend album, they are the sonic equivalent of unclenching buttocks." Eric R. Danton of Sound Check welcomed the "dazzling, ebullient wordplay" presented by Andre 3000 on the track.
Chart performance
On September 20, 2008, almost a month after the single's release, "Green Light" debuted at number ninety-six on the Billboard Hot 100. On December 6, 2008, the song peaked at number twenty-four, tying with Legend's 2005 single "Ordinary People" (Get Lifted, 2004) as his highest peaking single on the chart at the time; "All of Me" ultimately peaked at number one in 2014. One week later, the song peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs. The song was certified platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on February 25, 2010. The song has sold 1,247,000 copies in the U.S. as of June 2014.
In Canada, the single debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at number 94 on August 16, 2008. Three weeks later, the song peaked at number eighty. "Green Light" is Legend's only single to chart in Canada. In the United Kingdom, "Green Light" entered the singles chart at number ninety-five on September 27, 2008. On November 1, 2008, the song peaked at number thirty-five. "Green Light" debuted on the Belgium Singles Chart at number thirty on August 18, 2008. The song rose to its peak at number two on September 27, 2008, but fell off chart the following week. In Italy, the song peaked on the singles chart at number nineteen on October 30, 2008.
Music video
A music video has been filmed and was released on August 22, 2008 on FNMTV. André 3000 appears in the video along with Legend. Singer Estelle also makes an appearance in the video. Visual effects and editorial for the video were created by Baked FX, previously Baked Goods. The video starts with John Legend singing on the piano to his best-selling single, "Ordinary People". After that, the video proceeds to a wild party. At the end of the video, a snippet from Legend's song "Good Morning", also on Evolver, is played during the morning after, while Legend and André 3000 leave the house and other party guests remain asleep.
Credits and personnel
Recording, mastering and mixing
Recorded at Wine-O-Cellar in College Park, Georgia, Platinum Sound in New York City, New York, and PatchWerk Recording Studios in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mastered at The Mastering Place in New York City, New York
Mixed at Larrabee North Studios in North Hollywood, California.
Personnel
Songwriting - Andre Benjamin, Fin Greenall, James Ho, John Stephens, Rick Nowels
Production - KP, Malay
Recording - Malay, Mike Wilson, Alonzo Vargas
Recording assistant - Denny Ogle
Mixing - Manny Marroquin
Mixing assistant - Christian Plata
Instruments - Malay
Horns - Hornz Unlimited
Saxophone - Kebbi Williams
Trombone - Richard Owens
Trumpets - Jason Freeman, Jerry Freeman
Vocals - John Legend, Andre 3000
Credits taken from Evolver liner notes.
Formats and track listings
UK CD
"Green Light" (International radio edit)
"Green Light" (Johnny Douglas radio edit)
UK Remixes Promo
Greenlight (Original) 4:49
Greenlight (Johnny Douglas Remix Club) 7:15
Greenlight (Johnny Douglas Remix) 5:00
Greenlight (Johnny Douglas Remix Radio Edit 3 Without Rap) 3:13
Greenlight (Johnny Douglas Instrumental) 4:58
Greenlight (Tom Neville Remix) 7:52
Greenlight (Tom Neville Dub) 6:38
Greenlight (Kings Of Tomorrow Remix) 7:26
Greenlight (Afroganic Remix) 4:13
Greenlight (Afroganic Instrumental) 4:04
UK Remixes Promo (2)
Greenlight (Johnny Douglas Remix Club) 7:15
Greenlight (Tom Neville Remix) 7:52
Greenlight (Sandy Rivera's KOT Remix) 7:26
Greenlight (Afroganic Instrumental) 4:04
Greenlight (Tom Neville Dub) 6:38
Greenlight (Johnny Douglas Radio Edit 1) 4:02
U.S. Dance Remixes Promo
Green Light (Slang Remix Radio Edit) 4:25
Green Light (Slang Remix) 6:05
Green Light (Karmatronic Radio Edit) 3:33
Green Light (Karmatronic Club Mix) 6:23
Green Light (MKL Radio Edit) 4:35
Green Light (MKL Remix) 6:47
Green Light (Diplo Mad Decent Remix) 3:51
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
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References
External links
2008 singles
2008 songs
John Legend songs
André 3000 songs
GOOD Music singles
Songs about sexuality
Songs written by André 3000
Songs written by Rick Nowels
Songs written by John Legend
Songs written by Malay (record producer)
Music videos directed by Alan Ferguson (director) |
34449703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Toxward | Christian Toxward | Christian Julius Toxward (1831–1891) was a New Zealand architect. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1831. He is buried at Bolton Street Memorial Park, and his grave is part of the memorial trail.
See also
St Mary's Cathedral, Wellington
Old St. Paul's, Wellington
References
1831 births
1891 deaths
Danish emigrants to New Zealand
Architects from Copenhagen
Burials at Bolton Street Cemetery
19th-century New Zealand architects
19th-century Danish architects |
27176963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Team%20%28series%206%29 | Time Team (series 6) | This is a list of Time Team episodes from series 6.
Episode
Series 6
Episode # refers to the air date order. The Time Team Specials are aired in between regular episodes, but are omitted from this list. Regular contributors on Time Team include: Tony Robinson (presenter); archaeologists Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Carenza Lewis, Beric Morley; Guy de la Bédoyère (historian); Victor Ambrus (illustrator); Stewart Ainsworth (landscape investigator); John Gater, Chris Gaffney (Geophysics); Henry Chapman (surveyor); Mark Corney (Roman expert).
References
External links
Time Team at Channel4.com
The Unofficial Time Team site Fan site
Time Team (Series 06)
1999 British television seasons |
64801786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hotstar%20original%20films | List of Hotstar original films | Hotstar (also known as Disney+ Hotstar) is an Indian digital and mobile entertainment platform launched in February 2015 by Star India. This platform is owned by The Walt Disney Company. It provides streaming media and video-on-demand online.
Indian original films
Disney+ Hotstar Multiplex
Also dubbed as Hotstar Premiere Nights where the service operated only as Hotstar. The below titles are exclusively streaming on the platform forgoing their theatrical releases.
Hotstar Specials
Hotstar Specials is a brand of Hotstar on which the platform releases their original films done exclusively for the service.
Documentary
Others
Southeast Asian original films
Disney+ Hotstar also carries Southeast Asian original films that commissioned exclusively in their respective regions. The following Indonesian and Malaysian films were premiered direct-to-streaming under the Hotstar Originals banner due to COVID-19-related cinema closures. New local films premiered every Friday in Indonesia, with the exclusion of Sabar Ini Ujian (Sabar, It's a Test) as Indonesian launch title, along with TV series premiered at the same day, in absence of latest Indonesian films release, such as Si Juki Anak Kosan. Disney+ Hotstar was originally teased with 7 new Indonesian films, but was later expanded to more than 13 local films. Malaysian release will also get their local films premiered as well. Some Indonesian and Malaysian films will be available to stream elsewhere (such as Netflix, Catchplay+, Viu, WeTV/iflix and even KlikFilm) after their first-run releases.
Indonesian original films
Malaysian original films
Disney+ Originals
These are commissioned by Disney+ and are exclusively available on Hotstar in India and selected Southeast Asian countries as Disney+ is fully integrated with the service.
Exclusive distributions
Exclusive international distribution
The following titles are the general films that distributed by Disney subsidiaries (known as Walt Disney Studios), including film releases from Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Studios, 20th Century Animation and Searchlight Pictures for streaming exclusively on the platform. Films labelled with a † symbol signifies a film that exclusively released on the platform forgoing theatrical and/or Disney+ Premier Access releases.
Exclusive third-party distribution
Upcoming exclusive distributions
Exclusive international distribution
Notes
References
Original films distributed by Hotstar |
18210489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%20Fly | So Fly | "So Fly" is the debut single of 112 band member Slim from his debut album Love's Crazy. It features rapper Yung Joc and produced by Oddz N Endz. The song has reached #49 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
Track listing
Digital download
"So Fly" - 3:36 (feat. Yung Joc)
Remixes
On October 27, 2008, the main official remix was released and features new verses & vocals by Slim and new verses by R&B singer Faith Evans & Atlanta rapper Big Boi.
The single/video version that features Shawty Lo is the 2nd main official remix.
Another remix called the "East Coast Remix" featuring Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes and Freeway was also released in 2008.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
2008 debut singles
Yung Joc songs
Shawty Lo songs
2008 songs |
302284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfson%20College%2C%20Cambridge | Wolfson College, Cambridge | Wolfson College () is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The majority of students at the college are postgraduates. The college also admits "mature" undergraduates (aged 21 and above), with around 15% of students studying undergraduate degree courses at the university. The college was founded in 1965 as "University College", but was refounded as Wolfson College in 1973 in recognition of the benefaction of the Wolfson Foundation. Wolfson is located to the south-west of Cambridge city centre, near the University Library.
As one of the more modern colleges in Cambridge, Wolfson does not follow all of the traditions of some of the university's older colleges. For example, since the college's founding there has been no "High Table" reserved for Fellows at Formal Hall dinners; students and Fellows mix and dine together, and the tradition of wearing academic gowns to such occasions is encouraged but is not compulsory. Both Fellows and students at the college have access to all the facilities. With students from over 70 countries, Wolfson claims to be one of Cambridge's most cosmopolitan colleges. It was the first college of the university to admit men and women as both students and Fellows.
The current President of Wolfson College is scientist Jane Clarke.
History
After the Second World War, the number of graduates of other universities who went to Cambridge to do research increased significantly. The university therefore decided to found University College in 1965 to help accommodate these students. The college was based at Bredon House, a property built in the early twentieth century by John Stanley Gardiner, who was a Professor of Zoology at the university from 1909 to 1937. He donated the house, with its long narrow garden running from Barton Road to Selwyn Gardens, to the university upon his death in 1946. The college then purchased further property on its eastern boundary.
University College was opened on 30 June 1965 as a college for postgraduate students, with the classicist John Sinclair Morrison as its first President. At the time, all the undergraduate colleges of the university were single-sex institutions and University College was the first in the university to admit men and women as both students and Fellows. The college, from its outset, set out to be a cosmopolitan and egalitarian institution with distinct differences from the older, more traditional Cambridge colleges, with no Senior Combination Room, no "High Table" reserved for Fellows at formal dinners in the college and no portraits hung in the Dining Hall.
The college's founding deed required the college to either find an endowment within 10 years or face dissolution. In 1972, the Wolfson Foundation agreed to provide a capital endowment and help to fund the construction of central buildings around Bredon House and the college's East and West Courts. In recognition of this, the college was renamed Wolfson College on 1 January 1973.
The new buildings (designed by the architect Michael Mennim) were opened by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1977. Though most of the college's buildings are modern, the design of the campus is similar to that of the university's older colleges, with buildings grouped around two main courts. The floor of the entrance hall to the main building is made of thin slices of granite taken from the old London Bridge (the main section of which was taken to Arizona to be rebuilt in the late 1960s).
Further building and acquisition of neighbouring properties has continued. In the 1980s, the college purchased the house and garden owned by Sir Vivian Fuchs on the western side on the college. Plommer House on the northern side of the college was also left to the college in his will by Hugh Plommer, a founding Fellow of the college. The acquisition of property has allowed for the building of a number of new facilities, mainly funded by donations from philanthropic foundations and individuals. Other major benefactions have come from the Fairleigh Dickinson Foundation and the Toda Foundation. In the 1990s, with the help of the Gatsby Foundation, the college purchased the "western field" on which was built the Chancellor's Centre and further residential blocks.
Buildings and Grounds
The Lee Library
Opened in 1994, the Lee Seng Tee Library (Lee Library) was donated to the college by the Singaporean businessman and philanthropist Lee Seng Tee (whose daughter studied at the college). Lee also donated the funds used to build the Lee Seng Tee Hall. The library was designed by architects Brewer, Smith and Brewer. The ground floor foyer is home to a scale model of the armillary sphere on the roof of the Peking Observatory. On the first floor there is a bust of Lee Kong Chian, father of the benefactor. The library comprises over 60 quiet places to work and is open 24 hours a day all year, apart from the 25–26 December and 1 January. The college is located a short walk from the University Library.
In February 2018, students at the college were evacuated from the Lee library, and a number of accommodation blocks, after an unexploded WWII grenade was found in the President's Garden. There were no injuries and it was soon discovered that the device was a practice grenade with no live ammunition.
College Gardens
In the first half of the twentieth century, much of the land on which the college is now situated comprised gardens which belonged to houses in Selwyn Gardens. As the college grew particular natural landmarks, such as the mulberry tree outside the Porters' lodge, were retained as features. The garden comprises a wide variety of trees, scented shrubs, dwarf conifers, as well as a distinctive range of shrubs with colourful stems.
The college's head gardener occasionally provides a guided tour of the gardens to local interested groups. During the summer, Wolfson opens its gardens to the public as part of the NGS Open Gardens network.
Student life
The college is known for its entertainment events and performances, which attract visitors from many other colleges of the university. These activities include formal dinners, concerts, dancing nights and music displays.
The Club Room, at the heart of the college, includes the college bar and a dance floor space, and is a café during the day. It is the main communal space for students, and is the venue for many entertainment events.
The Wolfson College Boat Club is a popular society, and Wolfson is one of the strongest graduate rowing colleges in Cambridge.
People associated with Wolfson
Notable alumni
Fellows
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz – Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University
Duncan Maskell – Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University
Lawson Soulsby
Timothy Winter
Hilary Wayment
Nicholas de Lange - Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Roger Needham - computer scientist and Founding Fellow of the College
Karen Spärck Jones - computer scientist and Fellow from 1966 to 2002.
Rex Walford – geographer and educator
Presidents
The head of Wolfson College is called the President.
1966 to 1980: John Sinclair Morrison
1980 to 1992: Sir David Williams
1993: Sir John Tusa; January to October
1993 to 2010: Gordon Johnson
2010 to 2017: Sir Richard Evans
2017 to present: Jane Clarke; from 1 October to present
See also
Wolfson College, Oxford
List of Honorary Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge
Wolfson family
Notes
References
External links
Official website
Wolfson College Students' Association
Colleges of the University of Cambridge
Educational institutions established in 1965
1965 establishments in England |
35297661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narraport%2C%20Victoria | Narraport, Victoria | Narraport is a town in the Mallee and Mount Jeffcot wards of the local government area of the Shire of Buloke, Victoria, Australia. There is a rural CFA station in Narraport. The post office there opened on 1 February 1879 and was closed on 29 February 1968.
References |
68681261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valvoja | Valvoja | Valvoja (meaning the Watcher in English) was a Finnish language literary and cultural magazine that existed between 1880 and 1924.
History and profile
Valvoja was launched in 1880 by a group of individuals who would become prominent academics and politicians. Helmi Krohn was the major editor of the magazine. One of the significant contributors was Juhani Aho, who was one of the early professional Finnish language authors. Another one was a member of Young Finns, Yrjo Koskelainen. Valvoja folded in 1924.
References
1880 establishments in the Russian Empire
1924 disestablishments in Finland
Cultural magazines
Defunct magazines published in Finland
Finnish-language magazines
Magazines established in 1880
Magazines disestablished in 1924 |
15255027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo%20Bergamonti | Angelo Bergamonti | Angelo Bergamonti (18 March 1939 - 4 April 1971) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
Bergamonti was born in Gussola. His best year was in 1970 when he finished third in the 500cc world championship, behind his MV Agusta teammate Giacomo Agostini and Ginger Molloy. Bergamonti was killed in 1971 during a race held on the city streets of Riccione.
References
1939 births
1971 deaths
Sportspeople from the Province of Cremona
Italian motorcycle racers
125cc World Championship riders
250cc World Championship riders
350cc World Championship riders
500cc World Championship riders
Motorcycle racers killed while racing
Sport deaths in Italy |
58690059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen%20Whelan | Aileen Whelan | Aileen Mary Whelan (born 11 August 1991) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward for FA WSL club Brighton & Hove Albion. Whelan started her playing career in 1996 at Rugby Town Girls FC, after it was set up by Steve Heighton and Michelle Guppy and her father Declan became a coach.
Club career
Whelan started her senior career turning out for Rushden & Diamonds F.C., Barnet Ladies F.C. and Milton Keynes Dons. She then signed for Nottingham Forest, ahead of their 2011–12 Women's Premier League season and scored on her debut for the club. She stayed with Forest for the 2012–13 season.
Whelan transferred to Notts County during the summer of 2013 ahead of their maiden season in the FA WSL.
She left the club following its folding and joined Everton in May 2017. Everton went on to win the FA WSL 2 Spring Series.
Whelan signed for FA WSL 2 side Brighton & Hove Albion in September 2017. During her first season at the club she was named February 2018 WSL 2 Player of the Month. The club joined FA WSL 1, the top tier of women's football in England, ahead of the 2018–19 season.
International career
Whelan represented England at their under-23 level. She also competed for Team GB at the World Student Games in 2013, winning the gold medal.
Personal life
Whelan holds a master's degree in child psychology and works part-time as a play therapist outside of football. She has a young child with her partner, former Brighton defender Fern Whelan.
References
External links
Profile at the Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. website
1991 births
Living people
Brighton & Hove Albion W.F.C. players
FA Women's Super League players
Women's association football midfielders
English women's footballers
Barnet F.C. Ladies players
Nottingham Forest L.F.C. players
Everton F.C. (women) players
Notts County L.F.C. players
Sportspeople from Stafford
FA Women's National League players
Universiade gold medalists for Great Britain
Universiade medalists in football
LGBT association football players
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
Child psychologists
21st-century LGBT people |
64617593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Smith%20%28long%20jumper%29 | Henry Smith (long jumper) | Henry Smith (born 9 April 1996) is an Australian long jumper. In 2019, he competed in the men's long jump at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar. He did not qualify to compete in the final.
References
External links
Living people
1996 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Australian male long jumpers
World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia |
14523307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostja%20Ullmann | Kostja Ullmann | Kostja Ullmann (born May 30, 1984) is a German actor, best known for his leading role in the award-winning coming of age drama Sommersturm (Summer Storm) which gained a lot of praise throughout Europe.
Life and career
Ullmann was born in Hamburg to a German father and an Indian mother. He entered the stage at the age of eleven and performed at Hamburg's Ernst Deutsch Theater and Winterhuder Fährhaus. In 1998, he made his TV debut in a minor part in the crime series Alphateam.
In the following years, Ullmann starred in several minor roles in TV series such as Stahlnetz, Großstadtrevier, and Leipzig Homicide as well as in TV movies such as the drama Albtraum einer Ehe (2001) alongside August Zirner. From 1999 to 2000, he was a cast member of the comedy series Zwei Männer am Herd with Wolfgang Fierek and Florian Fitz.
In 2004, Kostja Ullmann made his movie debut in a leading role in Marco Kreuzpaintner's award-winning film Sommersturm (Summer Storm). His performance in the romantic TV drama Heimliche Liebe about the relationship of a schoolboy and an older woman won Ullmann the Günther-Strack-Fernsehpreis as Best Actor in 2006.
In his second movie, Verfolgt (2006), Ullmann stars in a similar role. Directed by Angelina Maccarone, he plays a young delinquent who engages in an "amour fou" with his probation officer who is more than 30 years older than he is. The film won a Golden Leopard at the 2006 Locarno International Film Festival. He acted as Hermann Lake in German-Japan collaborated movie Baruto no Gakuen (Ode an die Freude) in 2006.
Ullmann played the lead role, Luca Behrendt, in the 2008 movie Die Zeit, die man Leben nennt.
Ullmann will voice Wirt in the German dub of Over the Garden Wall.
Filmography
External links
German male television actors
1984 births
Living people
Male actors from Hamburg
German male film actors
German male child actors
Indian people of German descent
German people of Indian descent
20th-century German male actors
21st-century German male actors |
19167413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Foreign%20Affairs%20%28Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina%29 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbo-Croatian: Ministarstvo vanjskih poslova Bosne i Hercegovine / Министарство иностраних послова Босне и Херцеговине) is the governmental department which oversees the foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
List of ministers
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1990–1996)
Political parties:
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997–present)
Political parties:
See also
Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina
External links
Foreign Affairs
Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
16170018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Lafrance | Leo Lafrance | Leonard Joseph LaFrance (November 3, 1902 – April 7, 1993) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 31 games in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks. He was born in L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Quebec, but grew up in Coniston, Ontario. His nickname was "The Flying Frenchman"
Playing career
LaFrance played the position of Left Wing for the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens from 1927 to 1928, and the Chicago Black Hawks from 1927 to 1928. His total NHL career consisted of 33 games played, 2 assists, and 2 goals scored. Prior to joining the NHL, LaFrance was noted as a decent goal scorer with several minor league teams including the Sudbury Cub Wolves of the NOJHA, Iroquois Falls Papermakers of the NOHA, and the Duluth Hornets of the USAHA and CHL. His best year in hockey was from 1930 to 1931 when as a member of the AHA's Tulsa Oilers he scored a total of 27 points.
After hockey
He retired from playing hockey following the 1935 to 1936 season with the Seattle Seahawks of the NWHL. His honors include being a member of the CHL Second All-Star Team in 1935. LaFrance later took a job as an electrician and estimator for the Universal Electric Company, in Duluth, Minnesota. He retired in 1969. He spent the rest of his life living quietly in Duluth, and spending time with friends and family, and died peacefully in 1993 at the age of 90.
Career Statistics
References
External links
Legends of Hockey - Leo LaFrance
1902 births
1993 deaths
Calgary Tigers players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Canadian ice hockey forwards
Chicago Blackhawks players
Duluth Hornets players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Ice hockey people from Quebec
Kansas City Pla-Mors players
Minneapolis Millers (CHL) players
Montreal Canadiens players
People from Outaouais
Sportspeople from Greater Sudbury
Tulsa Oilers (AHA) players
Wichita Blue Jays players |
5950561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Vincenzo%20Valle%20Roveto | San Vincenzo Valle Roveto | San Vincenzo Valle Roveto is a comune and town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
Geography
The town is located at an altitude of 388 meters above sea level, along the Roveto valley, in Marsica.
History
The medieval village, dating back to around the year one thousand, developed near the church dedicated to St. Vincent martyr, patron saint of the town. The church already depended in the 11th-12th centuries on the Casamari abbey, in the neighboring Latin Valley. The history of the town has always been linked to that of the nearby and more important medieval castle of Morrea, most likely already present in ancient documents dating back to the year 702 with the toponym of Horrea.
References
Cities and towns in Abruzzo
Marsica |
54382690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20cricket%20in%202001 | International cricket in 2001 | The 2001 international cricket season was from May to August 2001.
Season overview
May
Pakistan in England
June
India in Zimbabwe
2001 NatWest Series
2001 Zimbabwe Coca-Cola Cup
July
Australia in England
2001 Sri Lanka Coca-Cola Cup
West Indies in Zimbabwe
August
India in Sri Lanka
West Indies in Kenya
2001 Asian Test Championship
References
External links
2001 season on ESPN Cricinfo
2001 in cricket
International cricket competitions in 2001 |
41732021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried%20sweet%20potato | Fried sweet potato | Fried sweet potato features in a variety of dishes and cuisines including the popular sweet potato fries, a variation of French fries using sweet potato instead of potato. Fried sweet potatoes are known as patates in Guinean cuisine, where they are more popular than potatoes and more commonly used to make fries.
Recipes for fried sweet potatoes in the United States go back to the nineteenth century. Some suggest parboiling the sweet potatoes before frying, while others call for frying them with sugar.
Goguma twigim is a fried sweet potato dish in Korean cuisine. Kananga phodi-tawa is a dish of lightly battered and fried sweet potato in Indian cuisine.
Nutrition
In comparison to french fries made using potatoes, both contain similar levels of macro-nutrients, calories, carbohydrates, fiber, and fat (before cooking). Sweet potato fries are higher in fiber, calcium, and vitamin A, while potato fries contain more iron, potassium, and vitamin C. When deep fried both will contain very similar levels of fat, but if the sweet potato "fries" have actually been baked they will have much less fat.
See also
Cactus fries
Sweet potato pie
Sweet potato soup
Vegetable tempura
References
Deep fried foods
Sweet potatoes
Cuisine of the Southern United States |
62786966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20Ghunaymi%20Hilal | Muhammad Ghunaymi Hilal | Muhammad Ghunaymi Hilal (1917-1968) was an Egyptian scholar and literary critic. He is credited as the founder of Arabic comparative literature.
Hilal is best known for his influential book Adab Al-Muqāran.
References
1917 births
1968 deaths
Egyptian literary critics
Paris-Sorbonne University alumni
Egyptian expatriates in France |
5887475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau%20de%20Gaillon | Château de Gaillon | The Château de Gaillon is a French Renaissance castle located in Gaillon, Normandy region of France.
History
The somewhat battered and denuded Château de Gaillon, begun in 1502 on ancient foundations was the summer archiepiscopal residence of Georges d'Amboise, Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen; he made of the old château-fort a palatial Early Renaissance structure of unparalleled luxury and magnificence, the most ambitious and significant French building project of its time. Isabella d'Este Gonzaga was kept abreast of its development from the Mantuan ambassador in France.
When in 1498 his patron, the duc d'Orléans, acceded to the throne as Louis XII, d'Amboise, who had spent much time in northern Italy on diplomatic missions and had been viceroy in Milan in 1500, where he had met Leonardo da Vinci and other artists and humanists, was suddenly raised to the high position of cardinal and prime minister. He had access to the architect-engineer Fra Giocondo, who had been invited to France by the king, and to the Italian garden designer Pacello da Mercogliano. By 1508 Gaillon's splendid new ranges and gardens, one of the first Renaissance structures in France, were fit to receive Louis XII and his queen, Anne de Bretagne.
The Gothic range that formed an irregular outer court is entered through a massive gatehouse, remodeled in 1509, with octagonal corner towers and steep-pitched slate roofs. The decorative elements of its shallow-relief carvings in panels and pilasters are drawn from the Classical repertory. Behind the first, irregular court Cardinal d'Amboise constructed a range, the Galerie des Cerfs with the central triumphal gateway, the Porte de Genes (the "Genoa Gate"), which set apart a trapezoidal cour d'honneur surrounded by two-storey ranges, two facing one another with arcaded lower storeys. High pitched slate roofs were rhythmically pierced with dormers. A helical staircase tower stood in one corner.
The north range was the new Grand'Maison, begun in 1502, which contained the suite of apartments of Cardinal d'Amboise. Between the chapel and the Tour de la Sirène at the northeast corner of the château, runs the vaulted gallery open to the view over the valley of the Seine. It is the first French loggia with an outward-looking aspect.
At the center of the court once stood the finest fountain in France, which received its own plate in Jacques Androuet du Cerceau's Les Plus Excellents Bastiments de France. The fountain was commissioned on 14 September 1506 from the Genoese sculptors Agostino Solari, Antonio della Porta and Pace Gazini, as a gift from the Republic of Venice to Cardinal d'Amboise, for having evicted the Sforza from Milan.
It was twenty-two feet high, surmounted by a sculpture of John the Baptist, whose presence was a reminder of such fountains' origins in baptismal fonts, above stacked vase forms with lactating Graces and urinating boys by Bertrand de Meynal and Jérôme Pacherot. Masks spat water from two superposed basins above an octagonal tank with heraldic and emblematic bas-reliefs. At the time it was built the fountain at Gaillon perhaps had no equal in Italy, unless it was inspired by a feature in the gardens of Poggio Reale, laid out for Alfonso II of Naples. The lower octagonal Carrara marble basin was removed from Gaillon when the fountain was disassembled by the Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld in 1754 and set up in the gardens at Liancourt (Oise). In 1911 it was removed to the Château de la Rochefoucauld, where it may be seen today on the upper terrace.
From the main court, a second-turreted gatehouse in one corner opened onto a bridge across the moat that provided access to a large courtyard, on the far side of which a range of new buildings with a central towered gateway opened into the splendid enclosed parterre designed by Pacello da Mercogliano. Its wide central gravelled walk led through a central pavilion open in four directions to a two-story pavilion set into the far wall. The high ground to the left was planted with trees. On the right a long gallery enclosing the parterre separated it from the patterned beds of vegetables and fruit trees on a lower level, beneath a massively buttressed retaining wall. A number of conservative features stand out in this project at the dawn of the French formal garden, notably the enclosure of the main parterre and the lack of cohesive linking the various features. "At Gaillon the possibilities of the terraced site are ignored as had also been the case at Blois, and the use of ramps or stairs to achieve an architectural unity did not seem as yet a possibility" (Adams 1969 p 18).
At Gaillon Charles Cardinal de Bourbon succeeded Cardinal d'Amboise. For him an avenue was cut through the woods of the uppermost garden level; it led to a terrace cut into the wooded slope with the Maison Blanche, a two-story white marble pavilion with an arcaded lower story that was set on an artificial island at the end of a short canal; at the other end was a "hermitage" of rockwork rising from the center of a square water tank. Both the pavilion and the rockwork Parnasse de Gaillon contained grottos, the one natural, the other architectural. In 1566, when the Cardinal entertained Catherine de' Medici during the siege of Rouen at the height of the Wars of Religion, the Maison Blanche was the setting for a pastoral masque. The features were engraved by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, whom William Howard Adams has suggested may have designed the ensemble (Adams 1969 p. 25-26, figs 17-18).
Gaillon received a long succession of royal guests: Henri III and Henri IV, Louis XIV, and chancellor Séguier.
Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, the son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert and Archbishop of Rouen, further embellished the château and its grounds with the work of Jules Hardouin-Mansart and André Le Nôtre.
Gaillon was burned out in a violent fire in 1764, but reconstructed: here the Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld received Benjamin Franklin and Louis XVI as a Carthusian monastery until the Revolution. Vandalized and emptied in 1790, it was sold as a national property and partly dismantled, then served as a penitentiary 1812-1827 before being sold again to a local farmer in 1834, with the laconic remark "Ce domaine est des plus beaux de France."
One section of Fra Giocondo's facade of Gaillon was removed under the direction of Alexandre Lenoir in the early nineteenth century for his Museum of French Monuments in Paris. Lenoir's collection of architectural remnants stood on land across the Seine from the Louvre, the very ground that the French government provided for the establishment of the École des Beaux-Arts around 1830. At the direction of architect Félix Duban the portal was integrated into the courtyard design and served as a model for students of architecture. Recently the elements of the Galerie des Cerfs and the Porte de Gênes have been restored to their original positions at Gaillon once again.
The Château is distinctly battered in its present appearance. An idea of the refinement of its furnishing can be derived from the marble bas-relief of St, George and the Dragon, executed in 1508 for the high chapel by Michel Colombe, now at the Louvre Museum, Paris.
Notes
References
William Howard Adams, 1969. The French Garden 1500-1800. (New York: Braziller). Androuet du Cerceau's plans and views are figs. 8-10.
External links
Château de Gaillon - official site
Views of Château de Gaillon on old postcards
Ville Gaillon: le Château de Gaillon
The marble basin from the Château de Gaillon garden fountain - (at the Château de la Rochefoucauld)
Houses completed in 1508
Châteaux in Eure
Château
Museums in Eure
Historic house museums in Normandy |
907428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Stanley%20Freeman | James Stanley Freeman | James Stanley Freeman (May 12, 1874 in Jasper, Alabama – April 26, 1960 in Jasper, AL), known as "Big Jim", was an Alabama millionaire in the early 20th century and one of the first Americans to amount a fortune through Wall Street investments.
He was famous for making and losing over a million dollars twice before 1900. Freeman retired as one of the wealthiest men in the Southern United States. He and his wife, Willie Lee Shepherd, had one son, James Shepherd Freeman, a World War II admiral. His grandson was James Shepherd Freeman Jr.
1874 births
1960 deaths
People from Jasper, Alabama
Businesspeople from Alabama |
1639156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutb | Qutb | Qutb, Qutub, Kutb, Kutub or Kotb (), means 'axis', 'pivot' or 'pole'. Qutb can refer to celestial movements and be used as an astronomical term or a spiritual symbol. In Sufism, a Qutb is the perfect human being, al-Insān al-Kāmil ('The Universal Man'), who leads the saintly hierarchy. The Qutb is the Sufi spiritual leader that has a divine connection with God and passes knowledge on which makes him central to, or the axis of, Sufism, but he is unknown to the world. There are five Qutbs per era, and they are infallible and trusted spiritual leaders. They are only revealed to a select group of mystics because there is a "human need for direct knowledge of God".
According to the Institute of Ismaili Studies, "In mystical literature, such as the writings of al–Tirmidhi, Abd al–Razzaq and Ibn Arabi (d. 1240), [Qutb] refers to the most perfect human being who is thought to be the universal leader of all saints, to mediate between the divine and the human and whose presence is deemed necessary for the existence of the world."
Scriptural evidence
In the teachings of Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi, there is evidence to suggest that the Qutb is the head of the saintly hierarchy which provides scriptural evidence to support the belief in the qutb. The hadīth attributed to Ibn Mas‘ūd has been used as proof that a qutb exists.
Temporal Qutb and cosmic Qutb
Temporal Qutb
There are two different conceptions of the Qutb in Sufism: temporal Qutb and cosmic Qutb. The temporal and cosmic qutb are connected, which guarantees that God is present in the world at all times. The temporal qutb is known as "the helper" or al-ghawth and is located in a person on Earth. The cosmic qutb is manifested in the temporal qutb as a virtue which can be traced back to al-Hallaj. The temporal qutb is the spiritual leader for the earth-bound saints. It is said that all beings - secret, animate, and inanimate - must give the qutb their pledge which gives him great authority. The only beings exempt from this are al-afrād, which belong to the angels; the djinn, who are under the jurisdiction of Khadir; and those who belong to the tenth stratum of ridjālal-ghayb.
Due to the nature of the Qutb, the location where he resides, whether temporal or cosmic, is questionable. It is thought by most that the Qutb is corporeally or spiritually present in Mecca at the Ka'ba, which is referred to as his maqām.
However notes need to be taken that, the believe of God is present in the world at all times are contradicting to the Ash'ariyyah, the foremost orthodox school of thoughts within Sunni. This is due to God being present in the world would refers to God having limitations and liken Him to His creations, ie anthropomorphism which is a major sin. Perhaps the previous editor might has taken the reference from an unknown reference in its authenticity which is crucial in Islamic perspective of narrating
The language of Sufi is a notable style of writing in Persian which is full of novel spiritual ideas and metaphors, this indicates of the needs to not take their wordings literally if it seems to be against the Islamic teachings.
Cosmic Qutb
The cosmic Qutb is the Axis of the Universe in a higher dimension from which originates the power (ultimately from Allah) of the temporal Qutb.
The cosmic hierarchy of the Qutb
The cosmic hierarchy is the way that the spiritual power is ensured to exist through the cosmos. Two descriptions of the hierarchy come from notable Sufis. The first is Ali Hujwiri's divine court. There are three hundred akhyār (“excellent ones”), forty abdāl (“substitutes”), seven abrār (“piously devoted ones”), four awtād (“pillars”) three nuqabā (“leaders”) and one qutb.
The second version is Ibn Arabī’s which has a different, more exclusive structure. There are eight nujabā (“nobles”), twelve nuqabā, seven abdāl, four awtād, two a’immah (“guides”), and the qutb.
People named Qutb
For those named Qutb ad-Din, with many variant transliterations, see Qutb ad-Din
Buildings
Qutb complex, a group of monuments and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India
Qutb Minar, a tall brick minaret in Delhi, India
References
Arabic masculine given names
Sufism |
3746119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20Mills%2C%20West%20Virginia | Point Mills, West Virginia | Point Mills is an unincorporated community in Ohio County, West Virginia, United States. Point Mills lies along the National Road (U.S. Route 40) and is incorporated into the Village of Valley Grove. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area.
References
Unincorporated communities in Ohio County, West Virginia
National Road
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia |
52913843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodynamics%20Inc. | Aerodynamics Inc. | Aerodynamics Inc., also known as ADI, was an American charter airline that began offering scheduled services subsidized by the Essential Air Service program in 2016 under a codeshare agreement with Great Lakes Airlines. It was purchased in 2018 by California Pacific Airlines.
Corporate history
The airline was based in Kennesaw, Georgia and the airline's website claims it was founded in 1959.
The airline filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy re-organization in August 2013. The company had also owned a large contract maintenance operation at Oakland County International Airport which was shut down in 2012.
Business Aircraft Group, Inc.'s CEO M.L. (Mike) Hoyle provided the DIP financing along with establishing a new company who performed the "stalking horse" duties to bring ADI out of bankruptcy. Hoyle held the position of Chairman for 12 months following ADI's emergence from bankruptcy before divesting his interest in ADI.
In 2015 the airline was purchased from its former owner Scott Beale by John and Janet Beardsley. The Beardsleys also owned SeaPort Airlines which filed for bankruptcy in February 2016. Seaport was later shut down and liquidated that September.
At the end of 2017 Aerodynamics was purchased by California Pacific Airlines, a startup regional carrier based in Carlsbad, California in North San Diego County. The purchase included Aerodynamics' fleet of four planes and its contract serving Pierre and Watertown.
Scheduled air service
The airline first applied and was selected to operate subsidized Essential Air Service flights to Kearney, Nebraska; Scottsbluff, Nebraska; and Pierre, South Dakota in 2015. Later the United States Department of Transportation blocked its authority to operate those flights because of concerns over owner-operator Scott Beale's fitness to operate the airline and his history of defrauding suppliers. This ultimately triggered the purchase of the company by the Beardsleys and the DOT later restored the airline's operating authority.
The airline operated its first scheduled flight between Youngstown–Warren Regional Airport in Youngstown, Ohio and O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on July 1, 2016. The flights were operated under a codeshare with Great Lakes Airlines as Great Lakes Jet Express, with ADI expecting that this arrangement would allow them to take advantage of Great Lakes' interline agreement with United Airlines for connections in Chicago. However, United refused to honor that agreement as Great Lakes did not at that time offer any flights of their own to Chicago. The service ceased abruptly on August 17 of the same year, less than two months after it started.
The airline began Essential Air Service flights from Denver International Airport to Pierre Regional Airport with onward continuing service to Watertown Regional Airport (in Watertown, South Dakota) on August 15, 2016. These flights were also operated under the Great Lakes Jet Express branding, but in this case the interline agreement was honored by United, as the flights were handled and dispatched like regular Great Lakes flights; Denver is Great Lakes' largest hub.
In 2017 the airline bid for EAS flying under the name "SkyValue Airlines."
On March 26, 2018, Great Lakes Airlines announced that operations would be suspended effective at midnight. However, certain segments of the company continue to operate, including Great Lakes Jet Express flights to Pierre and Watertown in South Dakota. Ground employees handling ADI's flights became employees of ADI, although Great Lakes continued handling ADI's ticketing for a time.
On May 29, 2018, ADI was purchased by California Pacific Airlines. For a few months it did business as California Pacific on the Pierre/Watertown route, as well as California Pacific's intended markets out of McClellan–Palomar Airport. However, in December 2018 CPA suspended its West Coast operations, and in January 2019 its EAS operations were abruptly shut down as well, leaving Pierre (the capital of South Dakota) and Watertown without any scheduled commercial air service.
Fleet
Aerodynamics, Inc. operated a fleet of Embraer ERJ-145 regional jet aircraft with 50 seats.
Destinations
ADI operated scheduled flights to the following destinations :
See also
List of defunct airlines of the United States
References
External links
Defunct airlines of the United States
1959 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
2018 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Essential Air Service
Companies based in Cobb County, Georgia
American companies established in 1959
American companies disestablished in 2018
Airlines based in Georgia (U.S. state) |
28425061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lannion%20FC | Lannion FC | Lannion Football Club (; commonly referred to as simply Lannion) is a French football club based in Lannion in the Brittany region. The club was founded in 2000 and currently plays in the Championnat National 3, the fifth division of French football, after achieving their most recent promotion from the Division d'Honneur in the 2011–12 season.
Current squad
References
External links
Official site
Association football clubs established in 2000
Football clubs in France
2000 establishments in France |
9434158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano%20Concerto%20No.%2015%20%28Mozart%29 | Piano Concerto No. 15 (Mozart) | The Piano Concerto No. 15 in B major, KV. 450 is a concertante work for piano and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The concerto is scored for solo piano, flute (third movement only), two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, and strings.
History
Mozart composed the concerto for performance at a series of concerts at the Vienna venues of the Trattnerhof and the Burgtheater in the first quarter of 1784, where he was himself the soloist in March 1784.
In a letter to his father, Mozart compared this concerto with the 16th concerto in D:
"I consider them both to be concertos which make one sweat; but the B flat one beats the one in D for difficulty."
Many pianists consider this to be one of the most difficult of Mozart's piano concertos. The concerto is primarily difficult from its many quick scale patterns which must be played perfectly and also from its many fast chord patterns moving up and down. Beginning with this concerto, Mozart began to use the term "grand" to describe his concerto such as K.450 which feature a prominent and required wind section for the ensemble.
Music
The concerto is in three movements:
The first movement is in typical sonata-allegro form. The middle movement consists of a theme and two variations. The finale is (as usual for Mozart) a sonata-rondo, although using a less-common ABACABA form. It is testimony to Mozart's greatness that although this movement is extremely difficult from a technical point of view, it never sounds like a 'showpiece' meant to display the performer's skills. Some of the demands made on the pianist include fast ascending-descending arpeggios, hand-crossing and voice highlighting in runs of semiquavers, wide jumps and towards the end a double-handed tremolo where the soloist 'battles against' the orchestra. This movement is among the most challenging works which Mozart has ever written for the keyboard.
Simon Keefe has noted contemporary comments from Mozart's era on how the woodwind writing in this concerto showed a "newly intricate and sophisticated" character compared to Mozart's prior keyboard concerti. Elaine Sisman has postulated that Mozart modeled the slow movement on a theme-and-variations movement from the Symphony No. 75 of Joseph Haydn.
References
Sources
Hutchings, Arthur, A Companion to Mozart's Piano Concertos, Oxford University Press (original publication, 1948).
Steinberg, Michael, The Concerto: A Listener's Guide, Oxford (1998, )
Keefe, Simon, Dramatic Dialogue in Mozart's Viennese Piano Concertos: A Study of Competition and Cooperation in Three First Movements, The Musical Quarterly, vol 83, number 2, pp. 169–204, Summer 1999
External links
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Compositions in B-flat major
1784 compositions |
66090059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubia%3A%20Real%20One | Nubia: Real One | Nubia: Real One is a 2021 young adult graphic novel written by L.L. McKinney and illustrated by Robyn Smith. It centers Nubia, Wonder Woman's twin sister. The book is a coming-of-age story that follows Nubia's attempts to keep her friends safe while keeping her superhuman abilities a secret. Nubia: Real One was released on February 23, 2021.
Plot
The story follows 17-year-old Nubia Johnson, who "attempts to conceal her superhuman strength and speed". Nubia is put to the test when she attempts to keep her friend safe.
Background
McKinney pitched the idea for a graphic novel to DC Comics, as she was a fan of the character Nubia from childhood. Nubia is Wonder Woman's twin sister and DC's first Black woman superhero. She has made scant appearances in Wonder Woman comics since her 1973 introduction and "did not get the widespread recognition as Wonder Woman but many diehard comic fans of color love her".
The book was written and produced by three Black women: writer L.L. McKinney, illustrator Robyn Smith (who is Afro-Caribbean), and colorist Brie Henderson. McKinney stated that the significance of centering a story about a Black woman. She described her depiction of Nubia as "strong, powerful, vulnerable, provided for, and most importantly, loved".
Publication history
The book was released by DC Comics on February 23, 2021.
Critical reception
In a starred review, Publishers Weekly stated: "Nubia’s humorous awkwardness will resonate as readers marvel at her strength and sense of duty in a world that fails to protect her". Nubia: Real One also received positive reviews from Common Sense Media, NPR, and School Library Journal.
Awards and nominations
2021 – Nominee, Best Children or Young Adult Book, Harvey Award
References
External links
Official website
21st-century graphic novels
2020s graphic novels
Comics about women
DC Comics
African-American literature
Literature by African-American women |
5725602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dergaon | Dergaon | Dergaon (IPA: ˈdɜːˌgɑ̃ʊ) is a town and a municipality in the Golaghat district of Assam, India.It is 282 km from the state capital Guwahati.
Hemchandra Barua, the compiler of Hemkosh (the earliest Assamese-English dictionary) was from Dergaon.
Geography
Dergaon is located at . It has an average elevation of 82 metres (269 feet).
Demographics
India census, Dergaon had a population of 13,364. Males constitute 56% of the population and females 44%. Dergaon has an average literacy rate of 85%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 88% and, female literacy is 81%. In Dergaon, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Politics
Dergaon is part of Kaliabor (Lok Sabha constituency).
Dergaon (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is a constituency in the 126 member Assam Legislative Assembly. It is reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates. The present MLA is Bhabendra Nath Bharali of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) preceded by Smti. Arati Hazarika Kachari of Indian National Congress.
Transport
Dergaon is very well connected by roadways to all the places of Assam. The National Highway 37 passes through Dergaon. Barua Bamun Gaon (BBGN) railway station is the closest railway station of Dergaon. The nearest airport is Rowriah Airport which is at Jorhat town.
Education
Dergaon Kamal Dowerah College (DKD College) (website),
Police Training College (website) and
Dergaon Higher Secondary School are some of the oldest educational institutions in Dergaon. Started in 1908, Dergaon Higher Secondary School has recently observed its 100's anniversary.
Besides these, the Girls' H.S. School, Indrani Devi High School and Shishu Bharati High School has also given much importance on the all-round development of the students of this town. Don Bosco High School, established in 1995, a prominent English medium school of the town, had the first result of HSLC in 2007. Shankardev Shishu Niketan, Dergaon, pioneer in Assamese medium for private sector schools, is also significant for its good education, brilliant results and co-curricular activities. There are a number of private junior colleges and schools in Dergaon, among these Radiant College, Udayan Academy, Alpine English School, Maria Nivas School are some of the well known private institutions in the town.
Notable people
Chandradhar Barua, Assamese eminent writer, poet, dramatist
Nilmani Phookan Jr, Assamese poet and academic
References
Cities and towns in Golaghat district
Golaghat district |
44976111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopsicon%20confluens | Hippopsicon confluens | Hippopsicon confluens is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1942.
References
Agapanthiini
Beetles described in 1942 |
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