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52368119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory%20Coast%E2%80%93Mexico%20relations | Ivory Coast–Mexico relations | Ivory Coast–Mexico relations refers to the diplomatic relations between Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) and Mexico. Both nations are members of the United Nations.
History
Diplomatic relations between the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) and Mexico were established on 13 November 1975. In 1981, Ivory Coast opened an embassy in Mexico City, however, the embassy was closed in 1990 for financial reasons. In 1981, Ivorian Foreign Minister Simeon Aké paid a visit to Mexico to attend the North-South Summit in Cancún. In March 2002, Ivorian Foreign Minister Aboudramane Sangaré paid a visit to Mexico to attend the International Conference on Financing for Development Summit in Monterrey. In 2004, Ivory Coast re-opened its embassy in Mexico.
Relations between both nations became limited during the First Ivorian Civil War (2002-2004) and Second Ivorian Civil War (2010-2011). In 2009, Mexico was a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and was responsible for enforcing and maintaining the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1572 on an arms embargo to the Ivory Coast. In May 2008, two Mexican senators paid a visit to the Ivory Coast and met with Ivorian Parliamentarians and with Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo.
In December 2013, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, while traveling to South Africa to attend the funeral for Nelson Mandela, made a stopover in Ivory Coast. President Peña Nieto was received at the airport by the
Ivorian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Adama Toungara. On his return home to Mexico from South Africa, President Peña Nieto made a second stopover in Ivory Coast and was met by the Secretary General of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Claude Dassys Beke.
In February 2016, the National Autonomous University of Mexico bestowed the "UNESCO-UNAM Jaime Torres Bodet International Award" to Ivorian poet and novelist Bernard Binlin Dadié for his modern literature of the African continent. In May 2019, Ivorian Foreign Minister Marcel Amon-Tanoh paid a visit to Mexico and met with Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard. During the visit, both nations stressed the importance of strengthening bilateral political dialogue.
High-level visits
High-level visits from Ivory Coast to Mexico
Foreign Minister Simeon Aké (1981)
Foreign Minister Aboudramane Sangaré (2002)
Foreign Secretary General Claude Dassys Beke (2013)
Minister for Planning and Development Albert Abdallah Mabri Toikeusse (2014)
Minister of the Environment Rémy Kouadio (2014)
Foreign Minister Charles Koffi Diby (2015)
Foreign Minister Marcel Amon-Tanoh (2019)
High-level visits from Mexico to Ivory Coast
Senator Salomón Jara Cruz (2008)
Senator José Julián Sacramento (2008)
President Enrique Peña Nieto (2013)
Foreign Minister José Antonio Meade (2013)
Foreign Undersecretary Lourdes Aranda Bezaury (2013)
Director General of ProMéxico Francisco González Díaz (2016)
Bilateral agreements
Both nations have signed a few bilateral agreements such as a Memorandum of Understanding for the Establishment of a Mechanism of Consultation in Matters of Mutual Interest (1999); Agreement on Educational and Cultural Cooperation (1999); Memorandum of Understanding between ProMéxico and the Center for the Promotion of Côte d'Ivoire investment (2016) and a Memorandum of Understanding in Academic Collaboration between both nations Ministries of Foreign Affairs.
Trade
In 2018, trade between Ivory Coast and Mexico totaled US$98 million. Ivory Coast's main exports to Mexico include: cacao, nuts and almonds. Mexico's main export to Ivory Coast is petroleum. Mexican multinational company Sukarne operates in Ivory Coast.
Diplomatic missions
Ivory Coast has an embassy in Mexico City.
Mexico is accredited to Ivory Coast from its embassy in Rabat, Morocco and maintains an honorary consulate in Abidjan.
References
Bilateral relations of Ivory Coast
Bilateral relations of Mexico |
61490170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20B.M.%20Banton%20House | Dr. B.M. Banton House | The Dr. B.M. Banton House is a historic two-story house in Yankton, South Dakota. It was built in 1920-1921 and designed in the California bungalow style by Dr. B.M. Banton, a dentist. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 8, 1987.
References
National Register of Historic Places in Yankton County, South Dakota
Houses completed in 1920
1920 establishments in South Dakota
Bungalow architecture in Montana |
68780185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%E2%80%9395%20PAOK%20FC%20season | 1994–95 PAOK FC season | The 1994–95 season was PAOK Football Club's 68th in existence and the club's 36th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. The team entered the Greek Football Cup in first round. By finishing 3rd in the league, PAOK would normally qualify for the next season's UEFA Cup, but Apollon Athens who finished 4th replaced them, because the club was carrying a 1-year ban from European competitions after being charged by UEFA for the eventful match against Paris Saint-Germain on 1 October 1992. PAOK conceded only 3 goals in 17 matches at home during the 1994–95 Alpha Ethniki.
Players
Squad
Transfers
Players transferred in
Players transferred out
Kit
Pre-season
Competitions
Overview
Alpha Ethniki
Standings
Results summary
Results by round
• Matches are in chronological order
Matches
Greek Cup
First round (Group stage)
Second round
Statistics
Squad statistics
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Source: Match reports in competitive matches, rsssf.com
Goalscorers
Source: Match reports in competitive matches, rsssf.com
External links
www.rsssf.com
PAOK FC official website
References
PAOK FC seasons
PAOK |
1757754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukavac | Lukavac | Lukavac () is a town and municipality located in Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the 2013 census, the town has a population of 12,061 inhabitants, with 44,520 inhabitants in the municipality.
Geography
Lukavac covers an area of 352,66 km2. It shares borders with municipalities: of Tuzla, Živinice, Banovići, Zavidovići, Maglaj, Petrovo, Gračanica and Srebrenik.
Apart from the town, the municipality comprises the following villages:
Babice Donje
• Babice Gornje
• Berkovica
• Bikodže
• Bistarac Donji
• Bistarac Gornji
• Bokavići
• Borice
• Brijesnica Donja
• Brijesnica Gornja
• Caparde
• Cerik
• Crveno Brdo
• Devetak
• Dobošnica
• Gnojnica
• Huskići
• Jaruške Donje
• Jaruške Gornje
• Kalajevo
• Komari
• Krtova
• Kruševica
• Lukavac
• Lukavac Gornji
• Mičijevići
• Milino Selo
• Modrac
• Orahovica
• Poljice
• Prline
• Prokosovići
• Puračić
• Smoluća Donja
• Smoluća Gornja
• Semići
• Sižje
• Stupari
• Šikulje
• Tabaci
• Tumare
• Turija
• Vasiljevci
• Vijenac
Demographics
1971
In 1971, the population of Lukavac was 51,781, made up of:
34,010 Bosniaks (65.68%)
13,526 Serbs (26.12%)
3,111 Croats (6.00%)
613 Yugoslavs (1.18%)
521 others (1.02%)
1991
In the 1991 census, Lukavac municipality had 56,830 residents:
Bosniaks (66.8%)
Serbs (21.5%)
Croats (3.8%)
others (8%)
2013
In the 2013 census the municipality of Lukavac had 44,520 residents:
Bosniaks (86.6%)
Serbs (3.4%)
Croats (3.4%)
others (6.6%)
Economy
Lukavac has strong chemical industry, like the whole Tuzla region. The main factories are Soda Lukavac, member of Turkish Şişecam group and cement factory Fabrika Cementa Lukavac (FCL).
Sport
The town's football club is FK Radnički Lukavac. There is also Aikido Club "GARD" Lukavac .
Lukavac town's Karate Club (previously known as KK Reweus) has achieved top recognitions in worldwide Karate competitions, and has produced some of the best Karate Champions in the Region. Members of the club regularly represent Bosnia and Herzegovina's representation in world championships.
Notable residents
Amir Osmanović, footballer
Twin towns – sister cities
Lukavac is twinned with:
Ulcinj, Montenegro
Velenje, Slovenia
References
External links
Official site
Cities and towns in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Populated places in Lukavac
Municipalities of the Tuzla Canton |
24543588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statements%20%28album%29 | Statements (album) | Statements is an album by jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson, released in 1962 on Impulse! Records.
The CD reissue adds tracks 9-13 featuring a composition originally on an Impulse sampler as well as quintet recordings from 1964 also released on Jazz 'n' Samba
Track listing
"Statements" (Milt Jackson) – 5:28
"Slowly" (Kermit Goell, David Raksin) – 3:02
"Thrill from the Blues" (Jackson) – 5:42
"Put Off" (Jackson) – 5:34
"Sonnymoon for Two" (Sonny Rollins) – 5:57
"Bad and the Beautiful" (Raksin) – 3:07
"Paris Blues" (Duke Ellington) – 2:54
"Beautiful Romance" (Jackson) – 2:26
"Blues for Juanita" (Jackson) – 5:38
"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:38
"Big George" (Jackson) – 4:43
"Gingerbread Boy" (Jimmy Heath) – 3:41
"Anything I Do" (Chester Conn, George Douglas) – 2:59
Personnel
Milt Jackson – vibraphone
Jimmy Heath – tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan – piano
Hank Jones – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Connie Kay – drums
Production
Pete Turner - photography
References
Milt Jackson albums
1962 albums
Impulse! Records albums
Albums produced by Bob Thiele
Albums produced by Michael Cuscuna
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio |
14897188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20World%20Junior%20Ice%20Hockey%20Championships | 1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships | The 1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1999 WJC) was held in Winnipeg, and five other communities in Manitoba, Canada from December 26, 1998 to January 5, 1999. In the gold medal match at Winnipeg Arena, Russia defeated Canada 3–2 on Artem Chubarov's overtime goal. The bronze medal was claimed by Slovakia, giving the six-year-old country its first medal at an IIHF event.
The playoff round reverts to six teams qualifying, with group leaders getting a bye to the semifinals.
Pool A
Group A
Group B
Relegation round
was relegated for the 2000 World Juniors
Final round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
5th place game
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Final ranking
Scoring leaders
Goaltending leaders
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF
Tournament awards
Pool B
Played at Székesfehérvár and Dunaújváros, Hungary from December 27 to January 3. Two groups of four played round robins, and then the top three played each of the top three teams from the other group. All scores carried forward except the results against the lone eliminated team from each group.
Group A
Group B
Medal round
was promoted to Pool A for 2000.
Relegation round
lost two games to none and was relegated to Pool C for 2000.
Pool C
Played at Kaunas and Elektrenai, Lithuania from December 30 to January 3
Preliminary Round
Group A
Group B
Placement Games
7th place: 3 - 1
5th place: 4 - 3ot
3rd place: 6 - 2
1st Place: 1 - 0
was promoted to Pool B, and was relegated to Pool D for 2000.
Pool D
Played at Novi Sad, Yugoslavia from December 29 to January 4.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Promotion Group
was promoted to Pool C for 2000.
4th to 6th
7th to 9th
References
http://www.passionhockey.com/hockeyarchives/U-20_1999.htm
International ice hockey competitions hosted by Canada
World
World Junior Championships
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
World Junior 1999
World Junior Hockey Championships 1999
World Junior Hockey Championships 1999
World Junior Ice Hockey
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
Sports competitions in Winnipeg
1990s in Winnipeg
Dunaújváros
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
International ice hockey competitions hosted by Hungary
Sport in Elektrėnai
Sports competitions in Kaunas
20th century in Kaunas
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
International ice hockey competitions hosted by Lithuania |
28886801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20XLV%2C%20Hereditary%20Prince%20Reuss%20Younger%20Line | Heinrich XLV, Hereditary Prince Reuss Younger Line | Heinrich XLV, Hereditary Prince Reuss Younger Line (; 13 May 1895presumably 1945) was the head of the House of Reuss from 1928 to 1945, as well the last male member of the Reuss-Schleiz branch of the Younger Line.
Early life
Heinrich XLV was born at Ebersdorf, in the Principality of Reuss-Gera (present-day Thuringia), only surviving son of Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (1858–1928), (son of Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, and Duchess Agnes of Württemberg) and his wife, Princess Elise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1864–1929), (daughter of Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Princess Leopoldine of Baden).
He attended high school in Dresden and served as a lieutenant in the First World War. After the war he studied in Leipzig, Marburg, Munich and Kiel, literature, music and philosophy.
He was a great theatre lover and supporter and was a director, writer and consultant. In 1923, Heinrich XLV became head of the dramaturgy department at Reussian Theatre in Gera.
Prince Reuss
At the death of his father on 21 November 1928 he became head of the House of Reuss after the Younger and Elder Lines merged, when the Elder Line became extinct in the male line in 1927.
In 1935 he adopted one of his relatives, Prince Heinrich I (1910–1982) a member of the Köstritz branch of the Princely family of Reuss. The adoption took place for inheritance reasons, not for succession rights for the headship of the House of Reuss. In 1939 Heinrich I married Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg, the niece of Heinrich XLV.
During the 1930s Heinrich XLV became a Nazi sympathizer and member of the Nazi Party. In August 1945 he was arrested in Ebersdorf by the Soviet military and disappeared. Although he was most likely interned and killed in NKVD special camp Nr. 2 in Buchenwald, his name is not in any of the special camps' lists of the dead. On 5 January 1962 he was declared dead by a court in Büdingen. His entire fortune was seized and confiscated in 1948 by the Soviet Military Administration, including the Ebersdorf Castle, Thallwitz Castle, Osterstein Castle in Gera.
Heinrich XLV remained unmarried and childless and the succession of the House of Reuss passed to Prince Heinrich IV of the Reuss of Köstritz branch.
Ancestry
Notes and sources
The Royal House of Stuart, London, 1969, 1971, 1976, Addington, A. C., Reference: II 224
1895 births
1945 deaths
People from Saalburg-Ebersdorf
People from the Principality of Reuss-Gera
Princes of Reuss
Royalty in the Nazi Party
Heirs apparent who never acceded
People who died in NKVD special camp Nr. 2
German people executed by the Soviet Union |
23255938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelogyne%20miniata | Coelogyne miniata | Coelogyne miniata is a species of orchid.
miniata |
28636213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter%20monastery | Exeter monastery | Various monasteries and other religious houses have existed at various times during the Middle Ages in the city of Exeter, Devon, England.
The monastic buildings included:
Anglo-Saxon foundations
Exeter Cathedral Priory, possibly founded before circa 690
The Saxon Monastery, founded by King Æthelred of Wessex in 868
The Benedictine Monastery, founded in 932 by King Æthelstan and dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint Peter
The Nunnery of Saint Augustine, a nunnery of Augustinian Canonesses founded circa 968
Norman and later foundations
The Benedictine Priory of St Nicholas, a Benedictine monastery founded in 1087
St James Priory, a Cluniac priory founded in 1146
Polsloe Priory, a Benedictine priory for women (a nunnery) founded circa 1159
Exeter Blackfriars, a Dominican friary founded before 1232
Exeter Grey Friary, a Franciscan friary founded before 1240
Exeter Priory, a Carthusian priory licensed in 1331–2 but never established
History
The origins of monasticism in Exeter are uncertain. Christianity arrived in Britain when Exeter was still a Roman city, and Celtic Christianity was introduced to the area during the 5th century by Welsh, Irish and Breton missionaries. Exeter was part of the Romano-British kingdom of Dumnonia during the Post-Roman period, and the Saxons did not reach the city until King Centwine of Wessex defeated the British in 682. The Saxons gave the name Monkton to Exeter as a consequence of the large number of monks that it contained. According to Willibald, an Anglo-Saxon priest who wrote a "Life" of Saint Boniface, the saint was educated at a monastery in 690 in a place variously called Adestancester, Escancastre, or Examchester, names that have been identified with Exeter. Exeter was sacked by the Danes in 1003, but the Benedictine monastery was restored by Cnut in 1019.
Bishop Leofric was appointed as Bishop of Cornwall and Bishop of Crediton in 1046. In 1050 he merged the two bishoprics to create the united see of Devon and Cornwall and moved the episcopal see to Exeter. The new combined see incorporated Exeter's three monastic buildings of the time, all of which were located in Saint Peter's Close. The nunnery of Saint Augustine, the Saxon monastery and the Benedictine monastery were united to form the Cathedral Church. The monastery was suppressed and converted into a secular cathedral.
During the subsequent two centuries a number of priories and friaries were founded. These were all dissolved with the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII and little remains. There is one building surviving from Polsloe Priory: the main part of the west range, built of the local red sandstone and believed to date from around 1320. Nothing is extant from St James Priory except a cob wall surrounding the building currently on the site, which may be the precinct wall of the priory. Parts of the Benedictine Priory of St Nicholas survive. The guest wing and a kitchen at its northern end were converted into an Elizabethan town house after dissolution, and this is now maintained as St Nicholas' Priory museum by Exeter City Council. The refectory was used as a Georgian town house and is now owned by the Exeter Historic Buildings Trust.
See also
List of monastic houses in Devon
References
Further reading
Nicholas Orme The Churches of Medieval Exeter. Exeter: Impress Books, 2014
Monasteries in Devon
Buildings and structures in Exeter
History of Exeter
Christian monasteries established in the 9th century |
65509874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCE%20Special%20Monitoring%20Mission%20to%20Ukraine | OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine | The Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine is an international civilian observer mission created under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mandated to contribute to reducing tensions and to help foster peace in Ukraine. Deployed on March 2014, following the Russian annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of open conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Background
In late 2013 protests began in Kyiv as a response to the decision of the then-President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, to abandon the planned Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement. After months of protests, the government fell and unrest spread to other regions in Ukraine, in particular the Russian-speaking eastern and southern regions.
On March 1, 2014, In response to the developing crisis, the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Didier Burkhalter, proposed establishing an diplomatic contact group and an international observer mission during an address to the United Nations Human Rights Council in order to support Ukraine in facilitating a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
Mandate and structure
The mission is mandated to:
Gather information and report on the situation in the area of operation;
Establish and report facts in response to specific incidents and reports of incidents, including those concerning alleged violations of fundamental OSCE principles and commitments;
Monitor and support respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the rights of persons belonging to national minorities;
Establish contact with local, region and national authorities, ethnic and religious groups, and representatives of the local population;
Facilitate dialogue on the ground in order to reduce tensions and promote normalisation of the situation;
Report on restrictions of the mission's freedom of movement or other impediments to fulfilment of its mandate;
Coordinate with and support the work of other OSCE bodies, including the High Commissioner on National Minorities, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, as well as cooperate with the United Nations, the Council of Europe and other international bodies.
The mandate of the mission covers the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders. The SMM currently consists of around 700 Observers from 53 OSCE member states and additional local and international staff.
The headquarters is located in Kyiv and the mission is headed by the Turkish diplomat Yaşar Halit Çevik who followed Ertuğrul Apakan in this post.
The SMM uses modern equipment to monitor the adherence of the parties to the ceasefire including drones and stationary cameras.
The mission shares its observations publicly in different formats. This includes daily reports, spot reports on specific incidents and thematic reports about general trends in their area of operation e.g. on the effect of the conflict on the access to education. The mission also has its own YouTube channel where it shares videos of its observations. The most popular of those videos shows a Russian convoy clandestinely entering Ukraine and has amassed over 300.000 views.
Timeline of events
The crisis deteriorated further with the intervention of the Russian Federation and its annexation of Crimea in March 2014. The unrest in the industrial, Russian-speaking Donbas region of eastern Ukraine would later escalate into the war in Donbas between Ukrainian government forces and separatist pro-Russian forces, including regular Russian troops.
In an attempt to calm the situation, the OSCE decided to send the first one hundred observers of the Special Monitoring Mission on 21 March 2014. The conflict, however, continued to escalate regardless until on 5 September 2014 when the first Minsk Protocol was signed between parties to the conflict, including Ukraine and the Russian Federation. This established a ceasefire and included provisions that the Special Monitoring Mission would monitor the ceasefire.
This ceasefire was never fully implemented e.g. the separatists in eastern Ukraine refused to give up control of the border to Russia. Accordingly, the ceasefire only held for a limited time and in early 2015 the war escalated again until the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Protocol was signed on 12. February 2015 by the Normandy Format and reaffirmed the monitoring role of the Special Monitoring Mission.
Following this, the mandated maximum strength of the mission was extended to 1000 on March 12. 2015
Since then the conflict has stabilized but ceasefire violations still regularly occur and are reported by the SMM.
In 2017 one monitor was killed and two more wounded when their vehicle struck a landmine. Subsequently, SMM patrolling was limited to asphalt and concrete roads. SMM monitoring effectiveness suffers from the presence of mines, unexploded ordinances and the low rate at which they are cleared, and from shelling by artillery and threatening behavior of armed personnel. This hinders SMM's ability to monitor the implementation of Minsk Protocol effectively because it restricts their access to areas and presents big risks to the security of SMM's civilian monitors.
Monitoring restrictions
OSCE monitoring frequently faces access restrictions and signal jamming of the monitoring UAVs. In 2021 OSCE reported that 62.5% long-range UAV flights "encountered GPS signal interference" with jamming so strong, it occasionally prevented UAV from even taking off. OSCE has on numerous occasions reported presence of Russian electronic warfare equipment in the separatist-controlled areas including specifically anti-UAV Repellent-1 systems. On 30 April 2021 OSCE further reported two members of armed formations approaching the monitor team as it prepared to launch an UAV and threatening it will be shot down if launched.
See also
Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine
Minsk Protocol
OSCE
References
External links
Official website of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
Russo-Ukrainian War
Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
War in Donbas
2010s in Ukraine
2020s in Ukraine |
1912423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Jaki | Stanley Jaki | Stanley L. Jaki (Jáki Szaniszló László) (17 August 1924 in Győr, Hungary – 7 April 2009 in Madrid, Spain) was a Hungarian-born priest of the Benedictine order. From 1975 to his death, he was Distinguished University Professor at Seton Hall University, in South Orange, New Jersey. He held doctorates in theology and in physics and was a leading contributor to the philosophy of science and the history of science, particularly to their relationship to Christianity. In 2018, Jaki was named one of five Catholic scientists "that shaped our understanding of the world" by Aleteia; the other four are: Copernicus, Gregor Mendel, Giuseppe Mercalli and Georges Lemaitre.
Studies
After completing undergraduate training in philosophy, theology and mathematics, Jaki did graduate work in theology and physics and gained doctorates in theology from the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm in Rome (1950) and in physics from Fordham University (1958), where he studied under the Nobel laureate Victor Hess, the co-discoverer of cosmic rays. He also did post-doctoral research in Philosophy of Science at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Research
Jaki authored more than two dozen books on the relation between modern science and Christianity. He was Fremantle Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford (1977), Hoyt Fellow at Yale University (1980) and Farmington Institute Lecturer at Oxford University (1988–1989). He was the Gifford Lecturer at Edinburgh University in 1974–1975 and 1975–1976. In 1987, he was awarded the Templeton Prize for furthering understanding of science and religion.
He was among the first to claim that Gödel's incompleteness theorem is relevant for theories of everything (TOE) in theoretical physics. Gödel's theorem states that any theory that includes certain basic facts of number theory and is computably enumerable will be either incomplete or inconsistent. Since any 'theory of everything' must be consistent, it also must be incomplete.
Death
Jaki died in Madrid following a heart attack. He was in Spain visiting friends, on his way back to the United States after delivering lectures in Rome, for the Master in Faith and Science of the Pontificio Ateneo Regina Apostolorum.
Bibliography
1966. The Relevance of Physics. University of Chicago Press.
1969. Brain, Mind and Computers. Herder & Herder.
1969. The Paradox of Olbers' Paradox. Herder & Herder.
1973. The Milky Way: an Elusive Road for Science. New York: Science History Publications.
1974. Science and Creation: From Eternal Cycles to an Oscillating Universe. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.
1978. Planets and Planetarians. A History of Theories of the Origin of Planetary Systems. John Wiley & Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.
1978. The Road of Science and the Ways to God. Univ. of Chicago Press, and Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.
1978. The Origin of Science and the Science of its Origins. Scottish Academic Press.
1980. Cosmos and Creator. Scottish Academic Press.
1983. Angels, Apes and Men. La Salle IL: Sherwood, Sugden & Co.
1984. Uneasy Genius. The Life and Work of Pierre Duhem. The Hague/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
1986. Chesterton, a Seer of Science. University of Illinois Press.
1986. Lord Gifford and His Lectures. A Centenary Retrospective. Edinburgh: Scottish Academis Press, and Macon, GA.: Mercer University Press.
1986. Chance or Reality and Other Essays. Lanham, MD: University Press of America & Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
1987. The Keys of the Kingdom: A Tool's Witness to Truth. Chicago, IL: Franciscan Herald Press.
1988. The Absolute Beneath the Relative and Other Essays. Lanham, MD: University Press of America & Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
2000 (1988). The Savior of Science. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Grand Rapids.
1989. Miracles and Physics. Front Royal. VA.: Christendom Press.
1989. God and the Cosmologists. Regnery Gateway Inc.; Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.
The Purpose of it All
1990. The Only Chaos and Other Essays. Lanham MD: University Press of America & Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
1991. Scientist and Catholic, An Essay on Pierre Duhem. Front Royal VA: Christendom Press.
1994. Patterns or Principals and Other Essays. ISBN 978-1882926091.
1998 (1992) Genesis 1 Through the Ages. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.
1996. Bible And Science. Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press.
1999. God and the Sun at Fatima. Royal Oak, MI: Real View Books.
2000. The Limits of a Limitless Science and Other Essays. Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
2000. Christ and science. Real View Books.
2001. Praying the Psalms, A Commentary, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company: Grand Rapids,
2002. A Mind's Matter: An Intellectual Autobiography. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company: Grand Rapids.
2004. And On This Rock: Witness Of One Land & Two Covenants. Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press.
2008. Hail Mary, full of grace: A Commentary. New Hope, KY: Real View Books.
See also
List of Christian thinkers in science
List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
References
External links
A selection re Jaki from Haffner, Paul, 1996 (Spring), "The Pope's Physicist," Sursum Corda 66–73.
Web page maintained by Father Jaki's publisher.
Archive of Stanley Jaki articles at Intercollegiate Studies Institute"
"Brain, Mind and Computers". Stanely L. Jaki. JASA 24 (March 1972): 12–17. (Peer-review commentary from Richard H. Bube).
"No Other Options". Stanely L. Jaki. JASA 24 (September 1972): 127. (Response to R.H.Bube's commentary.)
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14067915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle%20registration%20plates%20of%20Indiana | Vehicle registration plates of Indiana | The U.S. state of Indiana first required its residents to register their motor vehicles in 1905. Registrants provided their own license plates for display until July 1, 1913, when the state began to issue plates.
Plates are currently issued by the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). Only rear plates have been required since 1956.
Passenger baseplates
1913 to 1980
In 1956, the United States, Canada, and Mexico came to an agreement with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, the Automobile Manufacturers Association and the National Safety Council that standardized the size for license plates for vehicles (except those for motorcycles) at in height by in width, with standardized mounting holes. The 1955 (dated 1956) issue was the first Indiana license plate that complied with these standards.
1981 to present
Optional types
Non-passenger plates
Organizational and collegiate plates
Indiana issues a large number of organizational and collegiate license plates. A portion of the fees for these plates is given to the respective organization or college.
Organizational plates
Collegiate plates
Military plates
Indiana also issues several military-related license plates. Most are available for veterans only.
Temporary plates
New plate prefixing
Starting in 2010 special plates such as the handicapped, POW, National Guard, Disabled American Veteran that use the background of the standard plates will no longer use just numbers. Instead they will now use a predetermined prefix of three numbers and one or two suffix letters depending on if they have one or two prefix numbers. In all the max total characters will amount to six and, except the Disabled American Veteran and Purple Heart plate will use the background of the standard plate. Starting in 2015, the colors of these plates, with the exception of the Hoosier Veteran and Purple Heart plates, will invert, producing plates with dark blue serials on a white background.
Recreational Vehicles - R123A or R123AB
Handicapped - D123A or D123AB C123A or C123AB H123A or H123AB
Disabled American Veteran - DH123A or DF123A
Pearl Harbor Survivor - PH1234
Ex-Prisoner of War - PW123A
National Guard - NG123A
Purple Heart - PH123A or PH123 (Handicapped)
Gold Star Family - GF123
Starting in 2012 veterans of each of the five branches of the armed forces will be able, for an extra $15, to obtain a plate with the seal of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard beginning in 2012. The $15 fee will benefit the state's Military Family Relief Fund.
Air Force Veteran - VA1234 or VA123A
Army Veteran - AV1234 or AV123A
Coast Guard Veteran - CV1234 or CV123A
Marine Corps Veteran - VM1234 or VM123A
Navy Veteran - NY1234, NY123A, or FL1234
Merchant Marine Veteran - MM1234
Trucks and trailers
Indiana maintains separate plates for trucks, trailers, tractors/trailers, and farm vehicles. Except for farm and motorcycle vehicles, the plates follow an eight character AB123CDE format. All following plates use a plain white background
Standard Truck - TK123KAA, TK123LAA, TK123MAA, TK123NAA, TK123OAA, TK123PAA
Tractor Rig - SP123ABC
Farm Vehicles - F123AB
Small Trailer - TR123LAA
Semi Trailer - ST123ABC
Motorcycle Standard - M123AB
County coding
From 1963 through 2008, the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles issued standard passenger plates bearing a one- or two-digit prefix identifying the county in which the vehicle was registered. These prefixes were assigned to each county in alphabetical order, beginning with 1 for Adams County and ending with 92 for Whitley County; prefixes 93 through 99 were reserved as overflow for the state's two most populous counties, Marion (93, 95, 97, 98 and 99) and Lake (94 and 96).
In each county, serials consisted of the prefix followed by one letter and up to four digits, progressing sequentially. In 1992, Allen County reached 29999 and subsequently introduced a new format with the prefix followed by two letters and three digits (beginning with 2101); this format was later used in St. Joseph (71), Hamilton (29), Elkhart (20) and Vanderburgh (82) Counties.
Following the introduction of multi-year plates in 1981, plates with serials containing numbers above 100 were revalidated with decals, while those with serials containing numbers 1 through 100 continued to be issued annually.
In 2008, new serial formats were introduced with the white-on-blue torch base, consisting of three digits followed by one, two or three random letters. However, the county number system was retained through the use of decals at the top of each plate displaying both the county number and name, with the overflow numbers for Marion and Lake Counties discontinued.
The no-cost alternative "In God We Trust" plate introduced in 2007 featured the county number on a sticker at the bottom right corner of the plate. The revised "In God We Trust" plate, introduced in 2012, has the number screened onto the bottom right corner; this technique was subsequently adopted on standard passenger plates, beginning with the Bicentennial base in 2013. Since 2013, the following numbers appear at the bottom corner of every plate issued in the state from passenger plates, to truck plates, municipal, even motorcycle plates.
List of county numbers
01 - Adams
02 - Allen
03 - Bartholomew
04 - Benton
05 - Blackford
06 - Boone
07 - Brown
08 - Carroll
09 - Cass
10 - Clark
11 - Clay
12 - Clinton
13 - Crawford
14 - Daviess
15 - Dearborn
16 - Decatur
17 - DeKalb
18 - Delaware
19 - Dubois
20 - Elkhart
21 - Fayette
22 - Floyd
23 - Fountain
24 - Franklin
25 - Fulton
26 - Gibson
27 - Grant
28 - Greene
29 - Hamilton
30 - Hancock
31 - Harrison
32 - Hendricks
33 - Henry
34 - Howard
35 - Huntington
36 - Jackson
37 - Jasper
38 - Jay
39 - Jefferson
40 - Jennings
41 - Johnson
42 - Knox
43 - Kosciusko
44 - LaGrange
45 - Lake
46 - LaPorte
47 - Lawrence
48 - Madison
49 - Marion
50 - Marshall
51 - Martin
52 - Miami
53 - Monroe
54 - Montgomery
55 - Morgan
56 - Newton
57 - Noble
58 - Ohio
59 - Orange
60 - Owen
61 - Parke
62 - Perry
63 - Pike
64 - Porter
65 - Posey
66 - Pulaski
67 - Putnam
68 - Randolph
69 - Ripley
70 - Rush
71 - Saint Joseph
72 - Scott
73 - Shelby
74 - Spencer
75 - Starke
76 - Steuben
77 - Sullivan
78 - Switzerland
79 - Tippecanoe
80 - Tipton
81 - Union
82 - Vanderburgh
83 - Vermillion
84 - Vigo
85 - Wabash
86 - Warren
87 - Warrick
88 - Washington
89 - Wayne
90 - Wells
91 - White
92 - Whitley
Overflow numbers (until 2008)
93, 95, 97, 98, 99 - Marion
94, 96 - Lake
Renewal date tags
In the past, Indiana colored its due date tags by month. Another change to the plate system is that there are only four colors of tags which are the same regardless of the month, whether it be January, June, or December, another change because Indiana used to only issue month tags from January to October. These are all found on the top left corner of an Indiana plate based on the first three letters of the last name of the owner. Note: Business owned vehicles have black tags that expire 1-31 regardless of name.
01-07
02-07
03-07
04-07
05-07
06-07
07-07
08-07
09-07
10-07
11-07
12-07
01-14
02-14
03-14
04-14
05-14
06-14
07-14
08-14
09-14
10-14
11-14
12-14
01-21
02-21
03-21
04-21
05-21
06-21
07-21
08-21
09-21
10-21
11-21
12-21
01-28
02-28
03-28
04-28
05-28
06-28
07-28
08-28
09-28
10-28
11-28
12-28
References
External links
Indiana license plates, 1969–present
Jacob's License Plate Website, the online home of the Jacob A. Newkirk Historic License Plate Collection (will close October 26, 2009 due to the shutdown of all Yahoo! GeoCities free web sites)
Jacob's License Plate Blog, the new online home of the Jacob A. Newkirk Historic License Plate Collection
Indiana
Transportation in Indiana
Indiana transportation-related lists |
22553875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Patrol | Love Patrol | Love Patrol is a ni-Vanuatu television series. It is the first ever locally produced television series in Vanuatu. Produced by Wan Smolbag Theatre with financial assistance from AusAID, NZAID and the Asian Development Bank, it is a soap opera with a serious message, intended primarily to educate viewers on the topic of AIDS. It also tackles "youth unemployment, police brutality and the hypocrisy of keeping youth uninformed about sex". UNAIDS reported that it explores "the growing issues of high rates of STIs among young people, high teenage pregnancy, lack of discourse on sex and risk taking behaviours in [...] Pacific communities". It has been described as an "edutainment" series.
A review in the Fiji Times explained that the series
"centres on the life of a detective who works in a police station in an urban centre somewhere in the Pacific. The detective, named Mark, desperately wants his wife to have a child but gets caught up with Rita, a singer in a bar. The series also involves a gang of boys who steal from a minister's house and the search for the boys exposes the other side of paradise. The mini-series aims to look at the causes for the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in the region."
The series is written by Jo Dorras, and directed by Peter Walker, with Danny Phillips as cinematographer. It stars Noel Aru, James Langdale, Lucy Seresere, Annette Charlie, Bob Homu, Yvette Vatu, Elsie Apia, Morinda Tari, Danny Marcel, Titus Taripu, Florence Vira, Albert Tommy, Betio Albert, Charleon Falau and Gloria Lango. Each episode lasts about 21 minutes.
Broadcasting
The first season premiered on television in Vanuatu and in Fiji starting in April 2007, and contained ten episodes, focused on Elizabeth, one of the main characters. It has subsequently been broadcast in the Cook Islands, Kiribati, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu, with plans to distribute the series on DVD throughout the region. In New Zealand, the first season was broadcast on Māori Television from May 2008. In Papua New Guinea, it was broadcast on CHM Supersound channel. In Fiji, it was broadcast by Fiji TV, which then conducted a survey and found that "up to 15% of the whole population watched the whole series". Subsequently, season 1 was translated into French by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, and released on DVD under the title L'Amour sous haute surveillance.
A second season went into production in 2008. It took "about one year of hard work to get the funding, writing the stories and doing the shooting at the various locations in Vanuatu", including eighteen weeks of shooting.
The first four episodes of season 2 were screened at the Asia Pacific HIV AIDS Conference in Bali in August 2009. They were then screened at Wan Smolbag's Smolbag Haos in Vanuatu on 6 September. All ten episodes were broadcast on local television, one a week, from October. Initial episodes were also broadcast in cinemas in Fiji in October 2009, and in the Solomon Islands in December. It is due to be broadcast throughout the region on ABC International, Māori TV and several Pacific Island channels.
The third season also consisted of ten episodes. Production began in August 2009, and was completed in December. The filming of season 4 began in July 2010, funded by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, AusAID and NZAID.
The fourth season was completed in December 2010 and WSB received funding from AusAid to allow a fifth season to be filmed.
Season 5 began to air in October 2012, with a focus on "socially transmitted infections such as HIV, crime, gender inequality, family breakdowns violence, politics and also on the effects on the entry of guns into the country". At that time, season 6 "ha[d] been written and filming [was] in process".
Resource guidebooks
In August 2008, 9,000 copies of a resource guidebook for the series' first season were printed and distributed in schools in several Pacific countries. It was also released online on Wan Smolbag's website. It suggests class activities such as group discussions focused on a particular episode (e.g. "Why do you think the three boys steal? Is breaking into houses a growing problem in your country? If so, why do you think it is happening more often?”); role playing; story-writing; reading scene scripts from the episodes, and discussing them. For example, students may be asked to read, understand and explain the script of a scene in which a nurse explains to a character the ways in which HIV AIDS is transmitted. ("You’ve heard of HIV and AIDS, haven’t you? It spreads through blood and sex… If there’s infected blood on a needle and you use it on someone else, they can get the sickness. […] [I]f you do a tattoo or get your ears pierced, make sure you use a new needle […]!”)
The final pages explain what HIV is, how it spreads, how to use a condom, and where to go for HIV testing.
Similar guidebooks were released for community discussions among adults and French language versions of both the series one teacher resource and community resource now exist. Further workbooks for series two and three take the form of photo cartoons for the storyline consolidated by similar group exercises on discussion themes taken from the series, e.g. drugs, relationships, homosexuality and prostitution. The series three book will be in print in early 2011.
Reviews and reactions
Love Patrol has proven popular. According to the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, "a random street poll showed that over 90% of people [in Port Vila, the capital] were watching every episode (even the repeats)".
Reviewing the series, the magazine Islands Business noted:
"Unlike one-off productions, the series allows viewers to identify more closely with characters and themes across time and opens the way for the material on HIV and other development issues to become part of the conversational fabric of a community. Tapping into these advantages, 'Love Patrol' portrays strong characters with whom the audience can identify."
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific described Love Patrol as a "new and innovative approach to HIV prevention", noting that it was "immensely popular" both in Vanuatu and in Fiji.
AusAID reported that it had been a "smash hit throughout the Pacific", and that "[t]he program has been particularly successful in breaking down barriers around HIV". It reported one of the series' leading actresses, Annette Vira, as stating: "People are far more at ease talking about HIV and AIDS now that it’s discussed openly on television and they’re also getting the messages about prevention, harm reduction and testing for infection".
Jane Clifton, for The Dominion Post, wrote the following review while the second season was being aired on Māori TV in New Zealand: "Considering this is Vanuatu's first television production, it's outstanding, and it's such a different experience to be watching something that you know is aimed squarely at social engineering, as well as ratings". She added: "The genius of using a serial rather than one-off programme is that users get engrossed in the characters, and see them almost as real and real-time figures, so the social messages wound into the stories are easily assimilated. This must go triple for a country not accustomed to seeing itself portrayed in television drama. Cunning - and very worthy."
References
External links
The official resource guide for Season 1
”Love Patrol”: ”Behind the scenes of Vanuatu's hit TV series that uses drama to promote good health". Australia Network, 16 August 2009 (video)
Vanuatuan television series
2007 television series debuts
Sex education television series
2000s television soap operas
2010s television soap operas
Television shows set in Port Vila
HIV/AIDS in television |
21212574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon%20Creek%20Girls | Coon Creek Girls | The Coon Creek Girls were a popular all-female "string band" in the Appalachian style of folk music (a precursor of country music) which began in the mid-1930s. Created (and named) by John Lair for his Renfro Valley Barn Dance show, the band originally consisted of sisters Lily May and Rosie Ledford (from Powell County, Kentucky) along with Esther "Violet" Koehler (from Indiana), Evelyn "Daisey" Lange (from Ohio) and Norma Madge Mullins (from Renfro Valley, Kentucky).
On June 8, 1939, when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited the White House of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, there were numerous musical acts, including Lawrence Tibbett, Marian Anderson, and Kate Smith. Also included were a troupe of Bascom Lunsford's square dancers and the Coon Creek Girls.
In 1979, John Lair revived the name with the New Coon Creek Girls, a combo which remained popular for several decades, despite numerous changes in line-up. Among the former members are Pamela Gadd and Pam Perry, who later became members of the country band Wild Rose.
In 2013, the original touring group of the New Coon Creek Girls from 1985-87 (Vicki Simmons, Pam Perry Combs, Wanda Barnett, and Pam Gadd) made the decision to reunite in order to fund speech therapy music camp for Simmons who underwent surgery for an aneurysm in 2008. As of 2014, Simmons has made an amazing recovery, and the band was still performing various reunion concerts.
References
External links
From the Internet Archive (www.archive.org):
Flowers Blooming In The Wildwood
Uncle Dudy (Keep Fiddlin' On) w/ Sowing On The Mountain
Musical groups established in 1937
Old-time bands
American bluegrass music groups
American country music groups
All-female bands
Vocalion Records artists |
7124150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXII-LD | WXII-LD | {{Infobox television station
| callsign = WXII-LD
| above =
| logo = WLLZ-LP Mi TV 12 logo.png
| branding = Mi TV 12 (general)NewsNet Northern Michigan (WMNN-LD-produced newscasts)
| city = Cedar, Michigan
| analog =
| digital = 30 (UHF)
| virtual = 12
| affiliations =
| translators = WMNN-LD 14.12 (UHF) Lake City/Cadillac/Traverse City, Michigan
| founded = October 7, 1996
| airdate =
| location = Cedar/Traverse City/Cadillac, Michigan
| country = United States
| callsign_meaning = "XII" is the Roman numeral for 12
| former_callsigns = W51CS (1996–2001)W12CX (2001–2003)WLLZ-LP (2003–2017)WXII-LP (2017–2021)
| owner = Freelancer Television Broadcasting, Inc.(sale to Bridge News LLC pending)| sister_stations = WMNN-LD
| former_affiliations = Primary:Urban America Television (2004–2006)America One(2006–2008)Dark (July−September 2021)Secondary:America One (2004–2006, 2008–2015)The Sportsman Channel (until 2009)Retro TV (2009–2015)
| former_channel_numbers = Analog:51 (UHF, 1996–2001)12 (VHF, 2001–2021)
| erp = 1.5 kW
| haat =
| facility_id = 16651
| coordinates =
| licensing_authority = FCC
| website = mitv12.com
}}
WXII-LD, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 30), is a low-power primary MyNetworkTV and secondary Cozi TV-affiliated television station licensed to Cedar, Michigan, United States. Owned by Freelancer Television Broadcasting, it is sister to Lake City–licensed NewsNet owned-and-operated station WMNN-LD (channel 26). Both stations share studios on West 13th Street in Cadillac, while WXII-LD's transmitter is located west of downtown Traverse City near Harris and Cedar Run roads.
Despite having a digital signal of its own, WXII-LD is only 1.5 kW whereas WMNN-LD is 15 kW, so WXII-LD is simulcast over WMNN-LD's twelfth digital subchannel (UHF channel 17.12 or virtual channel 26.12) to expand its over-the-air reach.
History
On December 12, 1996, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a construction permit for a low-power television station on UHF channel 51 in Pinconning, Michigan with the call sign W51CS. In 2001, the permit was moved to VHF channel 12 in Traverse City under call letters W12CX. In 2003, the call letters were changed to WLLZ-LP. From 1980 to 1996, the WLLZ calls were used by an album oriented rock FM radio station broadcasting on 98.7 in the Detroit area, nicknamed "Detroit's Wheelz" (later Smooth Jazz WVMV "V98.7" and now top-40 "AMP Radio" WDZH). After the FM station dropped the call letters, they were used for several years on an AM station in the market, and were picked up by Channel 12 after the AM station dropped them in 2003. WLLZ's owner at the time, P & P Cable Holdings, is known for picking up calls discarded by other Michigan radio and television stations for use on their own stations.
WLLZ-LP signed on in January 2004 as an affiliate of Urban America Television. It added America One programming to its schedule in Summer 2004. WLLZ became a full affiliate of the network in May 2006 when Urban America Television ceased operations.
In June 2008, the station was added to Charter digital channel 202 throughout the northern Lower Peninsula. It moved to the basic tier on channel 72 in December 2008 and has now moved to channel 11 in 18 counties on Charter cable. Also in December 2008, WLLZ became a primary affiliate of MyNetworkTV; the station was then branded as "My TV 12". Until then, there was no local affiliate in the northern Michigan market.
On May 15, 2009, WLLZ discontinued an affiliation with The Sportsman Channel (which was phasing out its over-the-air affiliations) and added RTV, with America One programming significantly reduced (though not eliminated). Previously from 2007 until 2008, NBC affiliate WPBN-TV (channel 7) carried RTV on a second digital subchannel. This was dropped in favor of a simulcast of ABC affiliate WGTU (channel 29). Due to its low-powered status, WLLZ was exempt from switching to digital-only broadcasting on June 12, 2009.
The station discontinued their affiliation with America One in 2015, when it merged with Youtoo TV into Youtoo America, allowing a contractual out of that agreement. With the start of the 2015–16 season, WLLZ has wound down carrying nearly all of their syndicated programming, with Cozi TV being carried most of the day and MyNetworkTV in prime time.
On November 1, 2017, the FCC approved the sale of WLLZ-LP to Freelancer Television Broadcasting, Inc. On December 4, 2017, the sale to Freelancer Television Broadcasting was completed, making it a sister station to WMNN-LD; the station then modified its branding to "Mi TV 12". It changed its call sign to WXII-LP on December 21, 2017.
On April 23, 2019, the FCC granted WXII-LP a construction permit to operate a digital companion channel on UHF channel 30. In the meantime, digital over-the-air access to this station had been being provided through a simulcast over a digital subchannel of co-owned station WMNN-LD; that simulcast continued post-transition to improve this station's over-the-air reach and also to feed local cable systems. On September 14, 2021, WXII-LP commenced digital operations and the FCC changed this station's call sign to WXII-LD to reflect this station's new digital operations. Concurrent with the launch of this station's digital operations, an uninterrupted national feed of the NewsNet service, absent of any locally-produced content, was added as a second subchannel.
On January 13, 2022, Freelancer Television Broadcasting's portfolio, including NewsNet, WMNN-LD, and WXII-LD, were sold to investor Manoj Bhargava, with Eric Wotila retaining 10% ownership in the new company Bridge News, LLC. As of the date of sale, the stations are being operated by Bridge News via a time brokerage agreement with Freelancer Television Broadcasting, while waiting for FCC approval on the transfer of the station's licenses.
News programming
Until May 2009, WLLZ aired INN National News'', a newscast produced by Independent News Network in Davenport, Iowa from America One. It also carried a video simulcast of an hour of radio station WMKT's morning show hosted by Greg Marshall. The simulcast was discontinued in early 2011.
In late 2017, following the station's callsign switch to WXII-LP, sister station WMNN-LD began producing 90-second news updates for channel 12 that aired during prime time over the first commercial break aired each hour. News programming expanded in March 2018, when WMNN-LD began producing hour-long 7:00 and 11:00 p.m. newscasts for the station each weeknight. The early newscast competes against a half-hour newscast produced by CBS affiliate WWTV (channel 9) that airs on Fox affiliate WFQX-TV (channel 32), while the 11:00 p.m. competes against longer-established late night newscasts on WWTV (and its Sault Ste. Marie satellite WWUP, channel 10), and WPBN-TV (and its Cheboygan satellite WTOM-TV, channel 4) as well as a pre-recorded broadcast on the latter's sister ABC affiliate, WGTU (and Sault Ste. Marie satellite WGTQ, channel 8).
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
MyNetworkTV affiliates
Cozi TV affiliates
XII-LD
Television channels and stations established in 2004
2004 establishments in Michigan
Low-power television stations in the United States |
13698706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Island%20Pond | Great Island Pond | Great Island Pond, known officially as Island Pond, is a pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts, one of three ponds known as Island Pond within the town (One is located near South Pond village, and the other is located in the Cedarville section of town). The pond is located in the eastern portion of The Pinehills development south of Little Island Pond. The Pinehills has a private sewer treatment facility near this pond, which was also formerly used as a holding facility by The Pine Hills LLC Golf Club until the spring of 2003. The Golf Club currently is permitted to withdraw water from four interceptor wells located between the sewer treatment facility and the pond.
External links
Environmental Protection Agency
South Shore Coastal Watersheds - Lake Assessments
Ponds of Plymouth, Massachusetts
Ponds of Massachusetts |
6890667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Day%20the%20World%20Gets%20%27Round | The Day the World Gets 'Round | "The Day the World Gets 'Round" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1973 album Living in the Material World. Harrison was inspired to write the song following the successful Concert for Bangladesh shows, which were held in New York on 1 August 1971 as a benefit for refugees from the country formerly known as East Pakistan. The lyrics reflect his disappointment that such a humanitarian aid project was necessary, given the abundance of resources available across the planet, and his belief that if all individuals were more spiritually aware, there would be no suffering in the world. Adding to Harrison's frustration while writing the song, the aid project became embroiled in financial problems, as commercial concerns delayed the release of the Concert for Bangladesh album, and government tax departments failed to embrace the goodwill inherent in the venture.
Harrison recorded "The Day the World Gets 'Round" in England between October 1972 and March 1973. The recording features an orchestral arrangement by John Barham and a similarly well-regarded vocal performance from Harrison. The other contributing musicians were Nicky Hopkins, Klaus Voormann, Ringo Starr and Jim Keltner. Reviewers have described the composition variously as a protest song, a devotional prayer, and a counterpart to John Lennon's peace anthem "Imagine".
As with all the new songs released on Living in the Material World, Harrison donated his publishing royalties from the track to the Material World Charitable Foundation, an organisation he set up to avoid the tax problems that had befallen his Bangladesh relief effort. The song typifies Harrison's ideal for a world unencumbered by national, religious or cultural delineation. In 2009, Voormann and Yusuf Islam covered "The Day the World Gets 'Round" and released it as a single to benefit children in war-torn Gaza.
Background
In his 1980 autobiography, I, Me, Mine, George Harrison describes the period following the two Concert for Bangladesh shows as "very emotional". The concerts took place at Madison Square Garden, New York, on 1 August 1971, as the first part of his fundraising program for the 8–10 million refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War. The generosity of all the participants, together with the response from the general public, encouraged Harrison to feel "very positive about certain things". At the same time, the fact that it had fallen to musicians such as himself and concert instigator Ravi Shankar to address the issue left Harrison "slightly enraged", given the wealth of resources available to governments around the globe. Author Gary Tillery writes that, through his humanitarian gesture, Harrison had "changed the perception" of rock musicians, "making it clear they could be good world citizens too", while music critic Mikal Gilmore has noted of Harrison's "cautious yet optimistic and tender" worldview: "[it] stood in stark contrast to the ugly dissolution of the Beatles and the defeated idealism that then characterised so much of rock & roll culture." The day after the Madison Square Garden concerts, Harrison began writing the song "The Day the World Gets 'Round", having stayed in New York to work with producer Phil Spector on the proposed live album of the event.
The Concert for Bangladesh album release
Harrison found frustration in this next phase of the Bangladesh project, as the various record companies associated with the concerts' performers attempted to profit from the forthcoming release. Chief among these was the Beatles' US distributor, Capitol Records, who delayed issuing the album in the hope of negotiating a royalty rate to cover what they perceived as high distribution costs for the boxed three-record set. Harrison was resolute that Capitol should absorb the costs, just as the Beatles' Apple record label had already paid for the album's lavish packaging and full-colour booklet. All those involved with the concerts and post-production on the live album had given their services for free, in keeping with Harrison's hope that, in Tillery's words: "Every penny of income – from the gate receipts to the profits from an album and a film – would go toward alleviating the suffering."
By early October 1971, bootleg recordings of the concerts were available in New York, potentially denying funds to the refugees. On 23 November, Harrison's exasperation with the situation saw him raging against Capitol president Bhaskar Menon during a late-night television interview with Dick Cavett, and threatening to take the album to a rival label. Menon then backed down, ceding much of the distribution rights to Columbia/CBS, whose artist Bob Dylan had made a successful comeback at the Concert for Bangladesh. Further delaying the release until well into December, wholesalers objected to Apple's financial terms, which ensured that wholesalers and retailers could make little profit on each copy shipped. Ignoring the spirit behind the release, author Peter Lavezzoli writes, some US retailers "engaged in shameless price gouging".
Legal and taxation issues
Of greater detriment to the project in the long term, Harrison's business manager, Allen Klein, had neglected to register the concerts as UNICEF fundraising benefits before they had taken place. As a result, the American and British tax departments were demanding a share of the proceeds from the live album and Saul Swimmer's concert film, ignoring Harrison's appeals that an exception be made in the case of this humanitarian disaster. Until India's defeat of Pakistan on 16 December, America continued to supply arms and financial aid to the Pakistani army, led by General Yahya Khan, despite reports of genocide being committed against the Bangladeshis. In reply to a New Yorker's offer to start a petition to make the US Treasury scrap its tax on the Concert for Bangladesh album, Harrison wrote: "Until the [politicians] become human, we must do our service to others without their help."
Although Rolling Stone and other countercultural publications lauded the Bangladesh concerts as proof that "the Utopian spirit of the Sixties was still flickering", in the words of author Nicholas Schaffner, Harrison addressed, in "The Day the World Gets 'Round", the corporate greed and governmental apathy he had encountered. While staging the concerts Harrison had made a point of distancing himself from the politics behind the war in what was formerly known as East Pakistan, and he similarly advocated peace activist Swami Vishnudevananda's proposal for Planet Earth passports – whereby "[one truth] underlies all nations, all cultures, all colours, all races, all religions". Referring to the song and the moral responsibility of wealthy Western nations, he says in I, Me, Mine: "If everyone would wake-up and do even a little, there could be no misery in the world."
Composition
Author Robert Rodriguez describes "The Day the World Gets 'Round" as both "an expression of gratitude to all the good hearts that had contributed to the success [of the Bangladesh benefits]", and a "stinging indictment" of governments who had the power to help but instead "turned their backs when it suited their ends to do so". Harrison musical biographer Simon Leng notes also Harrison's dismay at how the 1960s countercultural revolution had failed to influence the motivations of the music business – to the extent that the altruism behind the Concert for Bangladesh "was almost torpedoed by boardroom balance sheets".
A slow-paced ballad, the song's opening verse reflects Harrison's optimism and idealism, on the one hand:
His frustration is evident from verse two, where, in what Leng terms a "knee-jerk reaction" to the politics behind the Bangladesh crisis, Harrison sings of a world "Losing so much ground / Killing each other, hand in hand".
In the song's middle eight, Leng suggests, Harrison identifies the absence of humility as the root of humankind's problems, and concludes:
These lines have led to conflicting interpretations among Harrison biographers regarding a supposedly superior attitude on the singer's part. Ian Inglis writes of "an increasingly familiar elitism in his apparent perception of himself", adding: "When [Harrison] sings of 'the pure of heart' and tells the Lord that 'there are just a few who bow before you,' the implied conclusion is that he counts himself among their number." While acknowledging the ambiguity of this message, Leng writes: "This could be taken as Harrison's statement of his own spiritual superiority, or it might be his metaphor for a rejection of conceit. If ego-driven politicians and self-serving military leaders were able to bow before anything, even a 'concept' like God, the world would be a better place. 'The Day the World Gets 'Round' laments human nature and calls for a little humility."
Dale Allison, a Christian theologian, views these lyrics as a song-wide message where Harrison "mourns how few are working for a better world and paying homage to God". Allison refutes the idea of any elitism or superiority in Harrison's compositions, suggesting: "George nowhere claims to have arrived [at his spiritual goal]; he is rather always a pilgrim, always on the road. In the words of 'The Day the World Gets 'Round,' he is one of those who has 'made a start,' nothing more."
The same three biographers comment on the comparisons between Harrison and Dylan that were encouraged by this and other Harrison songs from 1971–73, during a period when, author Peter Doggett writes, the ex-Beatle was "arguably music's most influential figure". Leng views Harrison's call for humility in "The Day the World Gets 'Round" as "identical to the thrust" of Dylan's "Masters of War", a protest song written about the 1962–63 Cold War arms race. Inglis suggests that whereas Dylan adopts the more analytical approach of an observer in his politically themed songs, Harrison "appears as a campaigner who is there to convert"; his words duly carry "a suggestion of self-satisfaction", Inglis opines, while also remarking on the "overall pessimism" of "The Day the World Gets 'Round". Allison contrasts the song with "Slow Train Coming", a lyrically uncompromising Dylan composition reflecting the American singer's late-1970s conversion to born-again Christianity, and cites "The Day the World Gets 'Round" as an example of how Harrison's worldview instead "entails a happy ending".
Recording
Speaking in February 1977, Harrison told BBC Radio's Anne Nightingale that the Bangladesh relief project took "two years solid" of his life. Doggett describes 1972 as a year of "recuperation and retreat" for the ex-Beatle, interspersed with meetings "to determine which department of which government was now stalling the funds so desperately needed in the newly independent nation". Harrison received UNICEF's "Child Is the Father of Man" award in New York on 5 June 1972 and then oversaw the delayed British release of the Concert for Bangladesh film on 27 July, after which he was able to dedicate himself to working on the long-awaited follow-up to his 1970 triple album, All Things Must Pass.
Sessions for Living in the Material World took place at Apple Studio in central London and at Harrison's Friar Park studio, FPSHOT, beginning in October 1972. Despite his original intention to co-produce with Phil Spector as before, Harrison was sole producer throughout the sessions, with Phil McDonald again serving as recording engineer. While Harrison succeeded in paring down the album's production after the Wall of Sound excesses of All Things Must Pass, commentators note that he incorporated aspects of Spector's signature style on this and other songs on Material World, through the use of orchestral strings and brass, a choir and multiple drummers.
On the basic track for "The Day the World Gets 'Round", Harrison used the same rhythm section that had supported him at the Concert for Bangladesh – bassist Klaus Voormann and drummers Ringo Starr and Jim Keltner – along with keyboard players Nicky Hopkins and Gary Wright. The latter's contribution, on harmonium, is prominent on the take available unofficially on Living in the Alternate World, a bootleg compilation containing pre-overdubbed versions of the officially released songs, but was subsequently superseded by John Barham's orchestral arrangements.
As an example of a more subtle production aesthetic compared with Spector's, Harrison "gave the tunes breathing space, allowing the instruments to sparkle", Rodriguez writes. His chiming acoustic-guitar harmonics sound out alone during the occasions when the words "The day the world gets 'round" are sung. Inglis describes Barham's string arrangement on the recording as "almost identical" to that on John Lennon's Beatles composition "Across the Universe", and other reviewers have similarly likened "The Day the World Gets 'Round" to that song, and to the All Thing Must Pass tracks "Isn't It a Pity" and "Beware of Darkness". Along with Harrison's vocal parts, the overdubs for Barham's contributions took place in London during the first two months of 1973. Mixing on the album was completed by the start of March, shortly before the Concert for Bangladesh won the Grammy Award for best album of 1972.
Material World Charitable Foundation
On 26 April 1973, Harrison set up the Material World Charitable Foundation, to which he donated the publishing royalties from "The Day the World Gets 'Round" and eight other songs on Living in the Material World. Part of the foundation's mission was to "encourage the exploration of alternative life views and philosophies" and "[support] established charitable organizations with consideration to those with special needs" – so allowing Harrison to donate money without encountering the problems that had hampered the Bangladesh aid project. In his 2009 book You Never Give Me Your Money, Doggett writes that the foundation "continues to fund worthy causes to this day".
The first event sponsored by the Material World Charitable Foundation was Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India, in September–October 1974, following which Harrison and Shankar toured North America together. During their stopover in Washington, DC, Harrison used his audience with US president Gerald Ford to ask for presidential intercession into the ongoing IRS audit that was still holding the Bangladesh fund's US proceeds in escrow.
Release
Apple Records released Living in the Material World in late May 1973, with "The Day the World Gets 'Round" appearing as the penultimate track. Reflecting the album content, Tom Wilkes's design for the LP's face labels contrasted a devout spiritual existence with life in the material world, by featuring a painting of the Hindu god Krishna and his warrior prince Arjuna on side one, and a picture of a Mercedes stretch limousine on the reverse. The latter image was a detail taken from Ken Marcus's inner gatefold photograph, which depicted Harrison and his fellow musicians at a Last Supper-style banquet. The album was a commercial success, topping America's Billboard 200 chart for five weeks, thus ensuring the Material World Charitable Foundation a considerable injection of funds.
The release reflected Harrison's continued belief in the power of music to instigate change in the world, an ideal that distinguished Material World as the last of "rock's grand statements", Leng suggests, and "the final fading of the 1960s dream into middle-age contentment and fiscal luxury". Author and former Mojo editor Mat Snow writes of the timing of the album's US release: "he caught a public mood that craved an echo of 1960s idealism as America was gripped by the cynicism revealed in the Watergate hearings."
Reception
In a highly favourable review in Rolling Stone magazine, Stephen Holden described Living in the Material World as "inspirationally, opulently, romantic" and referred to "The Day the World Gets 'Round" as a "devotional prayer" that, combined with the album-closing "That Is All", left the listener "suspended in ethereality". Decades later, Bruce Eder of AllMusic was likewise impressed, writing that Harrison's singing "soars magnificently in his heartfelt performance".
While Holden admired Harrison's lyrics for imparting "an extraordinary sincerity that transcends questions of craftsmanship", other reviewers bristled at the apparent preachiness in songs such as "The Day the World Gets 'Round". Peter Doggett has commented on the impression left among music critics: "the prevailing tone of the record was moral disapproval, never an attractive quality in a popular singer."
In his 1996 biography on the ex-Beatle, Alan Clayson praised Harrison's vocal performance on a song that, although "naive", "smouldered from the angered question of why a mere pop star rather than a governing body was obliged to pinpoint iniquities", Clayson adding that "never had his pipes been so adept" as on Material World. To Greg Kot, writing in Rolling Stones posthumous tribute to Harrison, "The Day the World Gets 'Round" and the ballad "Who Can See It" "aspire to a hymnlike calm but never rise to the transcendent heights of [All Things Must Pass]". Writing for Blogcritics, Seattle-based music critic Chaz Lipp views the production on Material World as "meticulous" and superior to its predecessor, such that "[t]he delicate melodies of songs like 'The Day the World Gets 'Round' and 'Be Hear Now' are never lost in bombast." In his review of the 2006-remastered album, for Mojo magazine, Mat Snow wrote of "this long overdue reissue" being "worth it alone for four wonderful songs", one of which was "The Day the World Gets 'Round". More recently, Snow has praised the song for its "deep and delicious emotion" and comments that through the idealism Harrison expressed on Living in the Material World, he was "without qualification, perhaps more loved and respected as a human being".
In Simon Leng's opinion, the track is "a classic 1960s protest song" – Harrison's reaction to the failure of that decade's social revolution to create any meaningful change. While comparing the song to Dylan's "epoch-making 'Masters of War'", Leng notes that the "political essence" of "The Day the World Gets 'Round" is often overlooked due to the lyrics' "framework of spiritual redemption". Dale Allison similarly labels it "a passionate protest song of deep disillusionment", reflecting "the broken utopian dreams of the 1960s". Allison groups "The Day the World Gets 'Round" with "Bangla Desh" and "Far East Man" as obvious examples of Harrison's "humanitarian impulse, his concern for the world and its people".
Elliot Huntley views the song as a "strong candidate" for the album's best track, thanks to its "stunning structure and melody twists". Barham's orchestration complements the message "perfectly", according to Huntley, who praises also the middle eight, where Harrison "lets rip with his vocals". Less impressed with the composition, Ian Inglis acknowledges the importance of Barham's contribution – the ascending string arrangement being "the most startling facet" of the song musically. Robert Rodriguez describes the track as an "earnest counterpart" to Lennon's song "Imagine".
Yusuf & Klaus's version
An avowed fan of the Material World album, and a vocal supporter of Harrison's humanitarian legacy, Klaus Voormann had established himself as an in-demand session musician during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s before recording his first solo album in 2008. Titled A Sideman's Journey, it included cover versions of Harrison's "The Day the World Gets 'Round" and "All Things Must Pass", both recorded in London with singer Yusuf Islam and credited to Yusuf & Klaus. Islam said that he came across the song while looking through albums by Harrison, whom he described as being "more responsible than any other artist for initiating Pop music's movement to aid people and countries stricken by wars and calamities". Besides Voormann and Islam, the musicians on the recording include Luke Potashnick and Cassiano De Sa (guitars), Nikolaj Torp (keyboards) and Kristoffer Soone (drums).
In January 2009, Voormann issued "The Day the World Gets 'Round" as an advance single from the album. Proceeds from the single were donated to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and Save the Children, to alleviate the suffering in war-torn Gaza. To serve as artwork for the release, Voormann incorporated part of his Grammy Award-winning design for the Beatles' Revolver album (1966), combining the image of Harrison from that album cover with a similar-styled drawing of Islam and a 1966-era photo of himself.
In a press release to announce the single, Yusuf Islam wrote of "The Day the World Gets 'Round": "This song represents for me the great spirit of George Harrison. I hope this song will help remind people of the immense legacy of love, peace and happiness we can share when we get round to looking at mankind's futile wars and prejudices, and start to change our foolish ways."
Personnel
The following musicians played on Harrison's recording of the song:
George Harrison – vocals, 12-string acoustic guitars, backing vocals
Nicky Hopkins – piano
Klaus Voormann – bass
Ringo Starr – drums
Jim Keltner – drums
John Barham – string and brass arrangements, choral arrangement
Notes
References
Sources
Dale C. Allison Jr., The Love There That's Sleeping: The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison, Continuum (New York, NY, 2006; ).
Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up 1970–2001, Omnibus Press (London, 2001; ).
Harry Castleman & Walter J. Podrazik, All Together Now: The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961–1975, Ballantine Books (New York, NY, 1976; ).
Alan Clayson, George Harrison, Sanctuary (London, 2003; ).
Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup, It Books (New York, NY, 2011; ).
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Joshua M. Greene, Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison, John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ, 2006; ).
George Harrison, I Me Mine, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA, 2002; ).
Olivia Harrison, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Abrams (New York, NY, 2011; ).
Elliot J. Huntley, Mystical One: George Harrison – After the Break-up of the Beatles, Guernica Editions (Toronto, ON, 2006; ).
Chris Ingham, The Rough Guide to the Beatles, Rough Guides/Penguin (London, 2006; 2nd edn; ).
Ian Inglis, The Words and Music of George Harrison, Praeger (Santa Barbara, CA, 2010; ).
Peter Lavezzoli, The Dawn of Indian Music in the West, Continuum (New York, NY, 2006; ).
Simon Leng, While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison, Hal Leonard (Milwaukee, WI, 2006; ).
Chip Madinger & Mark Easter, Eight Arms to Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium, 44.1 Productions (Chesterfield, MO, 2000; ).
Robert Rodriguez, Fab Four FAQ 2.0: The Beatles' Solo Years, 1970–1980, Backbeat Books (Milwaukee, WI, 2010; ).
Nicholas Schaffner, The Beatles Forever, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY, 1978; ).
Mat Snow, The Beatles Solo: The Illustrated Chronicles of John, Paul, George, and Ringo After The Beatles (Volume 3: George), Race Point Publishing (New York, NY, 2013; ).
Howard Sounes, Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, Doubleday (London, 2001; ).
Bruce Spizer, The Beatles Solo on Apple Records, 498 Productions (New Orleans, LA, 2005; ).
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Bob Woffinden, The Beatles Apart, Proteus (London, 1981; ).
1973 songs
George Harrison songs
Songs written by George Harrison
Song recordings produced by George Harrison
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28648868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Sphinx%20of%20Nebthu | Black Sphinx of Nebthu | "Black Sphinx of Nebthu" is a fantasy short story by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, featuring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in the July 1973 issue of the magazine Fantastic, and was first appeared in book form by Ace Books in the paperback collection Conan of Aquilonia in May 1977, which was reprinted several times through 1994. The first British edition was published by Sphere Books in October 1978.
Plot summary
Following the events of "The Witch of the Mists", King Conan of Aquilonia leads a military expedition across Zingara, Argos, and Shem before entering Stygia to confront his arch-enemy, Thoth-Amon. Accompanying him are his son, Prince Conn, Conan's generals Trocero and Pallantides, and Diviatix, a white druid from the Pictish Wilderness, who promises divine support for Conan.
The goal of his expedition is the ancient city of Nebthu, site of a massive sphinx depicting the hyena god of chaos and rumored haunt of Thoth-Amon's Order of the Black Ring. After discovering an entryway inside the sphinx, Conan descends into the depths, reaching a vast chamber where he confronts the massed assembly of wizards.
Thoth-Amon and his fellow sorcerers initially prove themselves to be too powerful for Conan. But Conan had taken the precaution of bringing along a magical jewel known as the Heart of Ahriman (which helped Conan regain his throne in The Hour of the Dragon)
With the jewel in his hand, Conan's Pictish ally is more than a match for the Stygians.
Many of the wizards are killed or driven mad by the Heart's powers, but Thoth-Amon manages to unleash the monstrous hyena of chaos against Conan's accomplice. Unfortunately for him, the hell-hound is incapable of fine discrimination. The first army it encounters, and therefore destroys, is that of Stygia. His sanctum in ruins and now persona non grata in his own country, Thoth-Amon is forced to flee, seeking refuge with his last remaining ally - the King of Zembabwei.
Rather than rest content and return to Aquilonia, Conan is determined to settle accounts once and for all and take his army in pursuit to the heart of what would now be called Africa.
Notes
1973 short stories
Conan the Barbarian stories by L. Sprague de Camp
Short stories by Lin Carter
Pulp stories
Fantasy short stories
Works originally published in Fantastic (magazine)
Sphinxes |
48477505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Witte%20%28disambiguation%29 | De Witte (disambiguation) | De Witte is a Dutch and Flemish surname.
'De Witte]] may also refer to:
, a celebrated 1920 novel by Ernest Claes
De Witte (film), a 1934 Belgian film based upon the novel
Whitey (film) (AKA De Witte van Sichem''), a 1980 Belgian film based on the novel
De Witte (restaurant), a former Dutch restaurant with a Michelin star
See also |
69341336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929%20European%20Wrestling%20Championships | 1929 European Wrestling Championships | The 1929 European Wrestling Championships were held in the men's Freestyle style in Paris 14 - 16 February 1929; the Greco-Romane style and in Dortmund 3 - 5 April 1929.
Medal table
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
References
External links
FILA Database
1929 in European sport
Sports competitions in France
Sports competitions in Germany |
5981090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Darling%20Buds | The Darling Buds | The Darling Buds are an alternative rock band from Newport, South Wales. The band formed in 1986 and were named after the H. E. Bates novel The Darling Buds of May – a title taken in turn, from the third line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May".
Career
Influenced by the catchy simple sound of the early Beatles as well as that of Blondie, the band created melodic, hook-driven, short-duration singles. They were considered part of the short lived "Blonde" movement (indie rock band fronted by blonde female singer with all other members being dark-haired males) along with the likes of The Primitives and Transvision Vamp, but also referenced the C86 scene of a few years earlier.
The Darling Buds formed in Caerleon near Newport, South Wales, in 1986 by 19-year-old Andrea Lewis, billed simply as "Andrea". Rounding out the original line-up was guitarist Geraint Farr, billed as "Harley", and a bassist known simply as Simon. The drumming was originally performed by a drum machine. The group's debut single, "If I Said", was self-released in February 1987 and was well received. The group re-released the single on an established label, Native Records, receiving radio play on John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show. The line-up was then re-organized, with Andrea and Harley being joined by new bassist Chris McDonagh and drummer Richard Gray (billed as "Bloss").
Signing with Sony in 1988, several singles preceded the band's critically acclaimed 1989 debut LP, Pop Said.... The album, described as "relentlessly chirpy", ultimately reached the Top 30 in the UK Albums Chart, and the band appeared on Top of the Pops as well as the cover of Melody Maker twice (24 September 1988 and 18 February 1989). In 1990, drummer Bloss left the band and was replaced by Jimmy Hughes from Black. Their second album, Crawdaddy, was not as well received, even if, according to critic Doug Brod, it "reveal[ed] a more mature Buds, a group that has learned the value of a little variety."
Pressing forward with their new style, the group followed with their third and final album in 1992, entitled Erotica, a few weeks before Madonna's album of the same name. The album contained the US single, "Long Day in the Universe", which was featured on the soundtrack for the Mike Myers film, So I Married an Axe Murderer. Shortly after the album was completed, drummer Hughes left and was briefly replaced by Jon Lee (who drummed on two non-LP b-sides), then by drummer Dennis McCarthy. Around the same time, the group added second guitarist Matt Gray (ex-Soldier Dolls) to the line up. Although they toured the United States in support of the album for a year, the members of the Darling Buds grew increasingly frustrated by their lack of commercial success and disbanded. Speaking to the Q Magazine in 2012, Lewis explained the reasons behind their decision: "Sony's London office wanted to pass the financial buck after we'd moved to LA and the bureaucracy meant we couldn't tour or record. We got stuck in limbo for ages and eventually called it a day."
Post break-up
Since disbanding, Andrea Lewis Jarvis (as she is now known) moved on to acting, touring with a Cardiff theatre company. She later moved into presenting, hosting The Slate for BBC Wales and, in 1998 and 1999, she co-hosted a Welsh Saturday morning radio show, The Weekenders, with Gareth Jones. Andrea, alongside husband Jamie Jarvis, now runs her own theatre school called "CAST" (The Children's Academy of Stage Training), based in Cardiff, Caerleon and Monmouth. Chris McDonagh now works at Le Mons studio in Newport. Richard 'Bloss' Gray became an assistant manager in a hotel near Cardiff; as of 2012 he ran the Red Lion Inn in Cowbridge. Geraint 'Harley' Farr, Andrea Lewis' boyfriend during the band's early years, retrained as a dietician/nutritionist and moved to Bristol. "I don't know why, but he's turned his back on that part of his life," commented Lewis on Farr's refusal to join her for a one-off reunion.
In July 2010, the Darling Buds with only Andrea Lewis Jarvis from the original line-up, reformed for a one-off tribute concert in their native Newport in memory of John Sicolo, the owner of the music venue TJ's who died earlier in the year.
In October 2013 the band announced a further show, at the Borderline in London in April 2014, with Chris McDonagh and Matt Gray joining Lewis, to be proceeded by a warm up show at the Le Pub venue in Newport the day before. The band announced the London show would be the last, however, the significant interest in this show, led to the band agreeing to play the Indie Daze festival at the Kentish Town Forum in September 2014, and two headline shows at London's Lexington in April 2015.
With the line-up officially expanded to a quintet of Andrea Lewis Jarvis (vocals), Chris McDonagh (bass), Matt Gray (guitar), Paul 'Chaz' Watkins (guitar, keyboards), and Erik Stams (drums), The Darling Buds released the Evergreen EP on Oddbox Records on 28 April 2017. It was their first new material in 25 years.
Chris McDonagh decided to leave the band in the summer of 2018. Dave Corten replaced him on bass, and the group issued a digital-only single, "New Year", on 15 December 2018.
The band have continued to play live around the country and are currently working toward recording new material.
Members
Andrea Lewis Jarvis – vocals
Matt Gray – guitar (1992–1993, 2010, 2013–present)
Paul "Chaz" Watkins – guitar (1992–1993, 2010, 2013 to present)
Erik Stams – drums (2010 to present)
Dave Corten – bass guitar (2018–present)
Former members
Simon – bass guitar (1986)
Geraint "Harley" Farr – guitar (1986–1993)
Richard "Bloss" Gray – drums (1986–1990)
Jimmy Hughes – drums (1990–1993)
Jon Lee – drums (1992– two of the B-sides on "Sure Thing"; later of the band Feeder)
Dennis McCarthy – drums (1993)
Chris McDonagh – bass guitar (1986–2018)
Discography
Albums
Pop Said... (1989) No. 23 (UK) [reissued 2006 with extra tracks]
Crawdaddy (1990)
Erotica (1992)
Compilations
Shame on You (The Native Years) (1990)
Singles
Flexi Disc
"Spin" (1987 – So Naive fanzine – shared release with Bubblegum Splash!)
References
External links
Biography from BBC Wales
Biography and Discography
People from Caerleon
Welsh alternative rock groups
British indie pop groups
British indie rock groups
Musical groups from Newport, Wales |
24499682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20China%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20doubles | 2009 China Open – Men's doubles | Stephen Huss and Ross Hutchins were the defending champions, but they chose to participate at the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships instead.
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan won in the final 6–4, 6–2 against Mark Knowles and Andy Roddick.
Seeds
Draw
External links
Main Draw
China Open - Men's Doubles
Men's Doubles
2009 China Open (tennis) |
12411939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhangixalus%20arboreus | Zhangixalus arboreus | Zhangixalus arboreus, also known as the forest green tree frog and Kinugasa flying frog, is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae endemic to Japan.
The natural habitats of Z. arboreus are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, freshwater marshes, and irrigated land. These small tree frogs spend their adult lives in trees and forests, and in breeding season gather around water sources to mate. They lay their eggs within a batch of sponge-like foam which is suspended from a tree branch, usually hanging over a pond, marsh, or slow-flowing stream. The tadpoles emerge from the eggs, wiggle their way out of the foam, and drop down into the water below. These batches of foam can often be seen hanging over ponds in the Japanese countryside in late spring. Sometimes the frogs mistakenly lay their eggs over inappropriate bodies of water, such as swimming pools, wells, or even buckets containing rainwater.
References
External links
Amphibians of Japan
Arboreus
Endemic fauna of Japan
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Amphibians described in 1924 |
52707320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ny%C3%B4 | Nyô | Chao Raja Putra Sadet Chaofa Jaya Nyô, born in Vientiane in the early nineteenth century and died in 1828, was crown prince of the Kingdom of Vientiane and Uparaja (Vice-king) of the Kingdom of Champasak. In Vietnamese records, he was called Hạt Xà Bút (曷蛇筆).
Nyô was the third son of king Anouvong, who ruled from 1805 to 1828, and was given the title of Chao raja putra by his father in 1804. In 1821, the king of Siam, Rama II, appointed him Vice-king of Champasak.
He aided his father in the rebellion against Siamese suzereinity in 1826, but was captured and taken to Bangkok. There he died after falling from the roof of a temple in Bangkok, as he tried to escape from confinement.
Bibliography
Kings of Champasak
19th-century Laotian people |
9626733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radoslav%20Suslekov | Radoslav Suslekov | Radoslav Suslekov (, born 13 July 1974) is a boxer from Bulgaria.
He was born in Burgas. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he was stopped in the first round of the Light welterweight (63.5 kg) division by Iran's Babak Moghimi. Suslekov had won bronze medals in the same division earlier, at the 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships and the 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships.
References
1974 births
Living people
Welterweight boxers
Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers of Bulgaria
Sportspeople from Burgas
Bulgarian male boxers
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists |
44182461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20L.%20Reid | R. L. Reid | R. L. Reid may refer to:
Robert Lewis Reid (1862–1929), American painter and muralist
Robie Lewis Reid (1866–1945), Canadian historian and jurist |
50600198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Purdue%20%28cricketer%29 | John Purdue (cricketer) | John Purdue (13 June 1910 – 25 January 1985) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Otago in 1938/39.
See also
List of Otago representative cricketers
References
External links
1910 births
1985 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Otago cricketers
Cricketers from Invercargill |
23532657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Rom%C3%A1n%20River | San Román River | The San Román River is a river of Guatemala.
See also
List of rivers of Guatemala
References
Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
Rivers of Guatemala |
33569918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rivers%20of%20Schleswig-Holstein | List of rivers of Schleswig-Holstein | A list of rivers of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany:
A
Aalbek, flowing through the Hemmelsdorfer See and into the Baltic Sea
Aalbek, tributary of the Stör
Alster
Alte Schwentine
Arlau
B
Barnitz
Basshornlaufgraben
Bekau
Beste
Bille
Bilsbek
Bilsener Bek
Bißnitz
Boize
Bölkau
Bondenau
Bramau
Bredenbek, tributary of the Alster
Bredenbek, tributary of the Bünzau
Broklandsau
Brokstedter Au
Buckener Au
Bünzau
C
Clever Au
Corbek
Curauer Au
D
Delvenau
Dosenbek
Düpenau
E
Ebach
Eider
Elbe
F
Fackenburger Landgraben
Flörkendorfer Mühlenau
Fuhlenau
Füsinger Au
G
Gieselau
Glinder Au
Godel
Gösebek
Gronau
H
Haaler Au
Hagener Au
Hanerau
Heidgraben, tributary of the Pinnau near Moorrege
Heidgraben, tributary of the Pinnau in Uetersen
Heilsau
Hohenfelder Mühlenau
Höllenau
Holstenau
Hornbeker Mühlenbach
Hudau
Husumer Mühlenau
J
Jarbek
Jevenau
K
Klosterdeichwetter
Kossau
Krambek
Krempau
Krückau
Krumbek
L
Lankau
Levensau
Lindenerau
Lottbek
Luhnau
M
Medebek
Meiereibach
Miele
Mitbek
Mühlenau, tributary of the Bekau
Mühlenau, tributary of the Pinnau
Mühlenbarbeker Au
Mühlenbek
N
Niederelbe
Norderbeste
O
Ohlau
Ohrtbrookgraben
Ostenau
Osterau, tributary of the Bramau
Osterau, tributary of the Broklandsau
P
Pinnau
R
Rantzau
Rellau
Rheider Au
Rhin
S
Salzau
Schirnau
Schmalfelder Au
Schwale
Schwartau
Schwarze Au
Schwentine
Sorge
Spöck
Stecknitz
Stegau
Stepenitz
Stör
T
Tarpenbek
Tensfelder Au
Tielenau
Trave
Treene
U
Unterelbe
W
Wakenitz
Wandse
Wedeler Au
Wehrau
Wierbek
Wilsterau
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58697132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholem%20Shtern | Sholem Shtern | Sholem Shtern ( – August 1990; ) was a Canadian Yiddish poet, novelist, and critic, best known for his novels in verse depicting the life of Jewish immigrants in Canada.
Shtern was born in 1906 or 1907 in Tishevitz, Poland, and immigrated to Canada in 1927. He was a member of a prominent Yiddish literary family in Montreal, and became associated with the radical movement. His collections of poetry include Nuntkejt (Toronto, 1929) and In der Fri (Montreal, 1945), and his novels include such works as In Canada (Montreal, 1960–63), a two-volume novel in Yiddish verse.
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1907 births
1990 deaths
Jewish poets
Jewish novelists
Jewish Canadian writers
Writers from Montreal
People from Tomaszów Lubelski County
Yiddish-language poets
Yiddish culture in Canada
Polish emigrants to Canada |
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