Versions.

There are currently six varieties of TMT available: TMTzero, a non-isotopically substituted core structure; TMTduplex, an isobaric pair of mass tags with a single isotopic substitution; TMTsixplex, an isobaric set of six mass tags with five isotopic substitutions; TMT 10-plex - a set of 10 isotopic mass tags which use the TMTsixplex reporter region, but use different elemental isotope to create a mass difference of 0.0063 Da, TMTpro a 16 plex version with a different reporter and mass normalizer than the original TMT, and TMTpro Zero.  The tags contain four regions, namely a mass reporter region (M), a cleavable linker region (F), a mass normalization region (N) and a protein reactive group (R). The chemical structures of all the tags are identical but each contains isotopes substituted at various positions, such that the mass reporter and mass normalization regions have different molecular masses in each tag. The combined M-F-N-R regions of the tags have the same total molecular weights and structure so that during chromatographic or electrophoretic separation and in single MS mode, molecules labelled with different tags are indistinguishable. Upon fragmentation in MS/MS mode, sequence information is obtained from fragmentation of the peptide back bone and quantification data are simultaneously obtained from fragmentation of the tags, giving rise to mass reporter ions.

Identification and quantification of TMT-labeled peptides.

The structures of TMT tags are publicly available through the unimod database at unimod.org and hence, mass spectrometry software such as Mascot are able to account for the tag masses. Additionally, as of version 2.2, Mascot has the capability to quantify using TMT and other isobaric mass tags without the use of additional software. Intuitively, the trust associated with a protein measurement depends on the similarity of ratios from different peptides and the signal level of these measurements. A mathematically rigorous approach called BACIQ, that integrates peptide intensities and peptide-measurement agreement into confidence intervals for protein ratios has emerged. The TKO standard can be used to assess interference

A tandem mass tag (TMT) is a chemical label used for mass spectrometry (MS)-based quantification and identification of biological macromolecules such as proteins, peptides and nucleic acids. TMT belongs to a family of reagents referred to as isobaric mass tags. They provide an alternative to gel- or antibody-based quantification but may also be used in combination with these and other methods. In addition to aiding in protein quantification, TMT tags can also increase the detection sensitivity of certain highly hydrophilic analytes, such as phosphopeptides, in RPLC-MS analyses.

Tandem Mass Tag (‚Tandem-Atommassenmarkierung‘, "TMT") ist eine biochemische Methode zur massenspektrometrischen Bestimmung von Biomolekülen wie Proteine, DNA oder RNA. Das TMT verwendet unter anderem die Isobarenmarkierung und die Tandem-Massenspektrometrie. Die zu untersuchenden Moleküle werden dabei mit unterschiedlichen Markierungen versehen, die zwar isobar sind (die gleiche Ausgangsmasse besitzen), jedoch im Tandem-Massenspektrometer unterschiedlich schwere und somit unterscheidbare Fragmente (genauer "Reporterionen") ergeben.


Plot.

Famous German stage actress Emmy Ritter (Alla Nazimova) is held in a Nazi concentration camp. She is scheduled to be executed soon, but the sympathetic camp doctor, Ditten (Philip Dorn), has been a fan since childhood and offers to deliver a letter from her to her children...afterwards.  Emmy's son Mark Preysing (Robert Taylor), an American citizen, travels to Germany in search of his mother, but nobody, not even frightened old family friends, want anything to do with him. A German official tells Mark that she has been arrested and advises him to return to the United States.  The postmark of a returned letter guides Mark to the region where she is being held. There, he meets by chance Countess Ruby von Treck (Norma Shearer), an American-born widow, but she also does not want to become involved, at least at first. Then, she asks her lover, General Kurt von Kolb (Conrad Veidt), about Emmy and learns that she has been judged a traitor in a secret trial and sentenced to death.  At a concert, Mark encounters Doctor Ditten, who takes the opportunity to deliver Emmy's letter. Then, Ditten drugs Emmy into a coma, making it appear as if she has died. He tells Mark what he has done. Mark sends longtime family servant Fritz Keller (Felix Bressart) to collect the coffin, but the American's nervousness raises the suspicion of the political police and he is brought to the camp for questioning. He is allowed to take his mother's body away.  When the road is blocked by snow, Mark is forced to find heat and shelter for his mother at the house of the countess. The next day, he meets von Kolb, who is jealous of the younger man. Later, when Mark and a disguised Emmy leave for the airport, von Kolb guesses what is happening (from Mark's earlier lack of reaction to the news of his mother's "death") and confronts the countess. She begs him not to interfere, but he is implacable. Knowing about his health problems, she taunts him with her love of Mark, which provokes him into having a heart attack, giving her new friends time to escape.

Box office.

According to MGM records, the film earned $2,364,000 at the box office, resulting in a profit of $345,000.

Escape is a 1940 drama film about an American in pre-World War II Nazi Germany who discovers his mother is in a concentration camp and tries desperately to free her. It starred Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt and Alla Nazimova. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Grace Zaring Stone.

Escape ist ein US-amerikanischer Spielfilm aus dem Jahr 1940 mit Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor und Conrad Veidt unter der Regie von Mervyn LeRoy. Als eine der ersten Großproduktionen zeichnet der Film ein kritisches Bild über die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Zustände in Deutschland. Der Film basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Bestseller von Grace Zaring Stone, die ihr Werk unter dem Pseudonym Ethel Vance veröffentlicht.


Playing career.

After graduating from Ann Arbor Huron High School, Squires played for Western Michigan University from 2008–12.  In his first year with the Broncos, Squires played in 41 games and was named a CCHA All-Rookie Team Honorable Mention for his efforts. In February, while playing on a line with senior Patrick Galivan, Squires was the CCHA's top scoring rookie, earning him Rookie of the Month honors. He had also been named Rookie of the Month for January as well.  In his junior year, he played in all 42 games of the season and finished fourth on the team in points with 28. He helped guide the Broncos to the 2011 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament where he assisted on the overtime goal that helped send the Broncos to the Semifinals for the first time in 17 years. He also assisted in the 5–2 win over the University of Michigan in the CCHA Semifinals to help the Broncos reach the CCHA Championship Finals for the first time since 1986. The Broncos later lost to Miami in the CCHA Championship game, with Squires picking up one assist.  Following his collegiate career, Squires signed an ECHL contract with the Stockton Thunder. After playing two games, Squires joined the Starbulls Rosenheim for the 2012–13 season. After one season with Rosenheim, Squires joined the Bietigheim Steelers for the 2013–14 season. Moving on from the German league, Squires joined IK Oskarshamn of the HockeyAllsvenskan in 2014. Squires later joined the Swedish Hockey League's Örebro HK for the 2015–16 season.  Despite agreeing to a contract extension with Örebro, Squires agreed to join the Kunlun Red Star of the Kontinental Hockey League in April 2017. On October 11, 2019, Squires signed a contract with HC TPS.

Gregory Squires (born July 6, 1988) is an American professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for the Ticino Rockets of the Swiss League (SL) while under contract with HC Lugano of the National League (NL).

Gregory „Greg“ Squires (* 6. Juli 1988 in White Plains, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Eishockeyspieler, der zuletzt bei Kunlun Red Star in der Kontinentalen Hockey-Liga unter Vertrag stand.


Words.

The following are taken from Sharp's "English Folk-Carols" (1911), the publication that first established the current words and melody:

Origin.

The words of the carol occur in three broadsides published in Birmingham in the early nineteenth century.  An early mention of the carol's title occurs in William Hone's 1823 work "Ancient Mysteries Described", which includes "The holly and the ivy, now are both well grown" among an alphabetical list of "Christmas Carols, now annually printed" that were in the author's possession.  The complete words of the carol are found in a book review dating from 1849, in which the reviewer suggested using the text of "The Holly and the Ivy" in place of one of the readings found in the book under discussion. The anonymous reviewer introduced the lyrics of carol thus:  The words of the carol were included in Sylvester's 1861 collection "A Garland of Christmas Carols" where it is claimed to originate from "an old broadside, printed a century and a half since" [i.e. around 1711]: Husk's 1864 "Songs of the Nativity" also includes the carol, stating: "Early English Lyrics" by Chambers and Sidgwick, published in 1907, repeats Husk's statement.

Music.

The usual melody for the carol was first published in Cecil Sharp's 1911 collection "English Folk-Carols". Sharp states that he heard the tune sung by "Mrs. Mary Clayton, at Chipping Campden". Sharp's manuscript transcription of Clayton's singing of the third verse, dated "Jan 13th 1909", is archived in the Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection at Clare College, Cambridge and viewable online. The melody is notable in being confined to the notes of the hexachord. The words have also been sung to other folk melodies, with three further tunes having been collected in Gloucestershire alone.  The early nineteenth-century sources do not provide music for the carol. Several late nineteenth-century collections set the words to "old French carol" in D minor.

Cultural background.

Holly, especially the variety found in Europe, is commonly referenced at Christmastime, and is often referred to by the name "Christ's thorn". Since medieval times the plant has carried a Christian symbolism, as expressed in this popular Christmas carol "The Holly and the Ivy", in which the holly represents Jesus and the ivy represents His mother, the Virgin Mary. Angie Mostellar discusses the Christian use of holly at Christmas, stating that:  Holly and ivy figure in the lyrics of the "Sans Day Carol". The music was first published by Cecil Sharp. Sir Henry Walford Davies wrote a popular choral arrangement that is often performed at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols and by choirs around the world Henry VIII wrote a love song "Green Groweth the Holly" which alludes to holly and ivy resisting winter blasts and not changing their green hue "So I am and ever hath been Unto my lady true".  Hone's 1823 "Ancient Mysteries Described", which lists the carol's title as mentioned above, also describes (p 94) a British Museum manuscript: "The same volume contains a song on the Holly and the Ivy which I mention because there is an old Carol on the same subject still printed. The MS begins with",  "The Holly and the Ivy" is also related to an older carol described by Sharp as: "The Contest of the Ivy and the Holly", a contest between the traditional emblems of woman and man respectively.

"The Holly and the Ivy" is a traditional British folk Christmas carol. The song is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 514.

The Holly and the Ivy ("Die Stechpalme und der Efeu") ist ein populäres traditionelles englisches Weihnachtslied. Die Stechpalme mit ihren mit Stachelzähnen besetzten Blättern und roten Beeren stellt mit ihren stacheligen Blättern die Dornenkrone Christi dar, die roten Beeren erinnern an seine Blutstropfen. Die immergrüne Pflanze veranschaulicht nach christlicher Vorstellung „das unvergängliche Leben, das Jesus vermittelte, als er die Dornenkrone trug“.


History.

On April 14, 2010, a fireball from outer space streaked across several Midwestern states and landed outside of Mifflin. The highly publicized Mifflin fireball, as it is now known, has produced several pounds of meteorites, and was featured on The Science Channel's "Meteorite Men." The meteorite has been studied and classified as a L5 chondrite by scientists at the University of Wisconsin.

Geography.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 50.7 square miles (131.3 km2), all of it land.

Demographics.

As of the census of 2000, there were 617 people, 201 households, and 163 families residing in the town. The population density was 12.2 people per square mile (4.7/km2). There were 209 housing units at an average density of 4.1 per square mile (1.6/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 99.51% White, 0.16% African American, and 0.32% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.49% of the population.  There were 201 households out of which 47.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 74.1% were married couples living together, 2.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 18.9% were non-families. 15.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.07 and the average family size was 3.47.  In the town, the population was spread out with 35.0% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 109.9 males.  The median income for a household in the town was $42,083, and the median income for a family was $46,250. Males had a median income of $23,409 versus $21,806 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,129. About 5.1% of families and 11.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.7% of those under age 18 and 9.8% of those age 65 or over.

Mifflin is a town in Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 617 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Mifflin is located in the town. The extinct community of Dallas was located in the town.

Die Town of Mifflin ist eine von 14 Towns im Iowa County im US-amerikanischen Bundesstaat Wisconsin. Im Jahr 2010 hatte die Town of Mifflin 585 Einwohner.


Official editions.

"Manjaro Xfce", which features Manjaro's own dark theme as well as the Xfce desktop.  "Manjaro KDE", which features Manjaro's own dark Plasma Theme as well as the latest KDE Plasma, Apps and Frameworks.  "Manjaro GNOME" became the third official version with the Gellivara release and offers the GNOME desktop along with a version of the Manjaro theme.  While not official releases, "Manjaro Community Editions" are maintained by members of the Manjaro Community. They offer additional user interfaces over the official releases, including Awesome, Bspwm, Budgie, Cinnamon, i3, LXDE, LXQT, MATE, and Openbox.  The Deepin edition was dropped as of 18.0 Illyria.

Features.

Manjaro comes with both a CLI and a graphical installer. The rolling release model means that the user does not need to upgrade/reinstall the whole system to keep it all up-to-date inline with the latest release. Package management is handled by Pacman via command line (terminal), and front-end GUI package manager tools like the pre-installed Pamac. It can be configured as either a stable system (default) or bleeding edge in line with Arch.  The repositories are managed with their own tool called BoxIt, which is designed like Git.  Manjaro includes its own GUI settings manager where options like language, drivers, and kernel version can be simply configured.  Certain commonly used Arch utilities such as the Arch Build System (ABS) are available but have alternate implementations in Manjaro.  "Manjaro Architect" is a CLI net installer which allows the user to choose their own kernel version, drivers and desktop environment during the install process. Both the official and the community edition's desktop environments are available for selection. For GUI based installations, Manjaro uses the GUI installer Calamares.

Release history.

The 0.8.x series releases were the last versions of Manjaro to use a version number. The desktop environments offered, as well as the number of programs bundled into each separate release have varied in different releases.

Relation to Arch Linux.

The main difference compared to Arch Linux is the repositories.  Manjaro uses three sets of repositories: , non-security related package updates derived from the Arch Linux stable branch to the Manjaro stable branch typically have a lag of a few weeks.

History.

Manjaro was first released on July 10, 2011. By mid 2013, Manjaro was in the beta stage, though key elements of the final system had all been implemented such as: a GUI installer (then an Antergos installer fork); a package manager (Pacman) with its choice of frontends; Pamac (GTK) for Xfce desktop and Octopi (Qt) for its Openbox edition; MHWD (Manjaro Hardware Detection, for detection of free & proprietary video drivers); and Manjaro Settings Manager (for system-wide settings, user management, and graphics driver installation and management).  GNOME Shell support was dropped with the release of version 0.8.3. in 2012. However, efforts within Arch Linux made it possible to restart the Cinnamon/GNOME edition as a community edition. An official release offering the GNOME desktop environment was reinstated in March 2017.  During the development of Manjaro 0.9.0 at the end of August 2015, the Manjaro team decided to switch to year and month designations for the Manjaro version scheme instead of numbers. This applies to both the 0.8.x series as well as the new 0.9.x series, renaming 0.8.13, released in June 2015, as 15.06 and so on. Manjaro 15.09, codenamed Bellatrix and formerly known as 0.9.0, was released on 27 September 2015 with the new Calamares installer and updated packages.  In September 2017, Manjaro announced that support for i686 architecture would be dropped because "popularity of this architecture is decreasing". However, in November 2017 a semi-official community project "manjaro32", based on archlinux32, continued i686 support.

Derivatives.

"Netrunner Rolling", in addition to Blue Systems Netrunner, which is Debian-based. The first version of Netrunner Rolling was 2014.04, which based on Manjaro 0.8.9 KDE. It was released in 2014. The last released version was Netrunner Rolling 2019.04.  The "Sonar GNU/Linux" project was aimed at providing a barrier-free Linux to people who required assistive technology for computer use, with supporting GNOME and MATE desktop. The first version was released in February 2015, the latest release was in 2016. As of 2017, the Sonar project was discontinued.

Hardware.

Although Manjaro can be installed on most systems, you can purchase devices with Manjaro pre-installed on them. You can purchase a system with Manjaro on it from StarLabs Systems, Tuxedo Computers, manjarocomputer.eu, and Pine64.

Reception.

Manjaro Linux is noted as an easy desktop to set up and use, suitable for both beginners and experienced users. It is recommended as an easy and friendly way to install, build and maintain a cutting-edge Arch-derived distribution. Some users will find appeal in the large range of contributed software available from the AUR, which has a reputation for being kept up to date from upstream resources.  Very early versions of Manjaro had a reputation for crashing and for installation difficulties, but this was reported to have improved with later versions, and by 2014 was, according to Jesse Smith of DistroWatch, "proving to be probably the most polished child of Arch Linux I have used to date. The distribution is not only easy to set up, but it has a friendly feel, complete with a nice graphical package manager, quality system installer and helpful welcome screen. Manjaro comes with lots of useful software and multimedia support."  Smith did a review of Manjaro 17.0.2 Xfce in July 2017 and observed that it did "a lot of things well". He went on to extol some of the notable features as part of his conclusion:

Manjaro is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on the Arch Linux operating system. Manjaro has a focus on user friendliness and accessibility, and the system itself is designed to work fully "straight out of the box" with its variety of pre-installed software. It features a rolling release update model and uses Pacman as its package manager.

Manjaro [] ist eine auf Arch Linux basierende Linux-Distribution, die in Deutschland, Frankreich und Österreich entwickelt wird. Es ist in erster Linie ein freies Betriebssystem für Personal Computer, welches auf Benutzerfreundlichkeit ausgerichtet ist. Wie seine Basis, Arch Linux, nutzt es ein Rolling-Release-Modell.


Life and career.

William Archibald Spooner was born on 22 July 1844 at 17 Chapel Street, Grosvenor Place, London. He was the eldest son of William Spooner and Jane Lydia Spooner. He was educated at Oswestry School (where he was a contemporary of Frederick Gustavus Burnaby) and New College, Oxford, where he was the first non-Wykehamist to become an undergraduate.  He was ordained deacon in the Church of England in 1872 and priest in 1875. In 1878, he became chaplain to Archbishop Archibald Tait.  William Spooner married Frances Wycliffe Goodwin on 12 September 1878. He had five children: William Wycliffe, Frances Catharine, Rosemary, Ellen Maxwell, and Agnes Mary.  Spooner remained at New College for more than sixty years, serving as fellow (1867), lecturer (1868), tutor (1869), dean (1876–1889) and warden (1903–1924). He lectured on ancient history, divinity and philosophy (especially on Aristotle's ethics).  Spooner was well liked and respected, described as "an albino, small, with a pink face, poor eyesight, and a head too large for his body". It was said that "his reputation was that of a genial, kindly, hospitable man." In the opinion of Roy Harrod, Spooner exceeded all the heads of Oxford and Cambridge colleges he had known "having regard to his scholarship, devotion to duty, and wisdom."  Spooner died on 29 August 1930 and was buried in the cemetery at Grasmere in Cumbria.

Spoonerisms.

Spooner has become famous for his (real or alleged) "spoonerisms", plays on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched. Few, if any, of his own spoonerisms were deliberate, and many of those attributed to him are apocryphal. Spooner is said to have disliked the reputation gained for getting his words muddled.  "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" (3rd edition, 1979) lists only one substantiated spoonerism: "The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer." In a 1930 interview, Spooner himself admitted to uttering "Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take" (Conquering Kings...) Spooner called this hymn out from the pulpit in 1879.  Many other quotations, "probable and improbable, were invented" and attributed to Spooner, including:  Spooner is supposed to have committed other absent-minded gaffes. He was said to have invited a don to tea, "to welcome Stanley Casson, our new archaeology Fellow". "But, sir," the man replied, "I "am" Stanley Casson". "Never mind," Spooner said, "Come all the same."  On his death, "The Times" recorded that "He was not afraid of conversation."

William Archibald Spooner (22 July 1844 – 29 August 1930) was a long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously. Many spoonerisms have been invented and attributed to Spooner.

William Archibald Spooner (* 22. Juli 1844 in London; † 29. August 1930 in Oxford) war ein englischer Geistlicher und Philosoph. Auf ihn geht der Spoonerismus zurück, ein Ausdruck für Wortverdrehungen mit meist komischen Resultaten.


Premise.

Patrick Murray, a 29-year-old video game designer, lives in San Francisco with his friends—aspiring restaurateur Dom and artist's assistant Agustín. Patrick has a tendency to be naïve and has been generally unlucky in love, but things in Patrick's life change upon meeting handsome yet humble Mission barber Richie and the arrival of his new boss, the attractive but partnered Kevin. Dom pursues his goal of opening his own restaurant with the support of his roommate, Doris, and the unexpected help of the successful and older San Francisco entrepreneur Lynn. Agustín struggles domesticating with his long-term boyfriend Frank and his stalling art career, as well as his penchant for recreational substance abuse.  The three men navigate life, relationships, family, and careers in modern-day San Francisco.

Production.

HBO ordered an eight-episode first season of "Looking" on May 14, 2013. The pilot was written by Michael Lannan, based on Lannan's 2011 short film entitled "Lorimer", and directed by Andrew Haigh. Filming began in the San Francisco Bay Area on September 16, 2013, and ended on November 7, 2013. The first season premiered on January 19, 2014.  Creator Michael Lannan announced in an interview in February 2014 that the writers were already thinking of new material for a second season, should it come. His comment was quickly backed up by Nick Hall, director of comedy for HBO, who stated that the "initial one airing audience" isn't their main goal and that they [HBO] "look at it for the week, we look at it On Demand, we look at HBO Go," and that each of the episodes were doing "nicely".  On February 26, 2014, HBO announced that "Looking" was renewed for a second season. The second season premiered on January 11, 2015.  HBO cancelled the series after the second season citing the sharp decline in ratings. After the cancellation was announced, an online petition was started targeted at HBO to continue the series. HBO eventually planned to air a special episode in the form of a movie to wrap up the storyline of the show. Alvarez revealed in an interview with Vulture that filming was planned to start in September 2015 and that the length of the finale would be 2 hours. The movie premiered on June 2, 2016 at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco and was eventually aired on July 23, 2016.

Reception.

Critical response.

Throughout its run "Looking" received critical acclaim who hailed it as a fresh take on gay themed drama and acclaimed the performances of its actors in particular of Groff and Tovey. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 89% of critics gave the first season a positive review based on 37 reviews, with an average score of 7.6/10. The site's consensus states: "Funny without being obnoxious, "Looking" provides authentic situations that feel universal with its subtle details and top-notch performances." On the review aggregator website Metacritic, the first season holds an average of 73% based on 27 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews. The second season received an aggregate score of 77% on Metacritic and 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.  Since "Looking" was announced it has been referred to by both the community and early critics as the "gay version" of "Girls" and "Sex and the City". After watching the pilot, Emily VanDerWerff of "The A.V. Club" said that "differences between the two series go beyond the surface" and one of the show's lead actors, Jonathan Groff, went on to say that "to be in the same breath as those shows is exciting [...] but the tone and writing and the style of the show is very different. And people will notice that when they see it."  Keith Uhlich, writing for the BBC, opined that "Looking" "is one of the most revolutionary depictions of gay life ever on TV – and that’s because it makes it totally ordinary." Sonia Saraiya of "Variety" described the finale film as "moving and beautiful", and Jon Frosch of "The Hollywood Reporter" called it "essential viewing".  In 2019, "The Guardian" ranked "Looking" amongst the "100 Greatest TV shows of the 21st century".

Ratings.

"Looking" was reported to have debuted to a "slow start" by "Variety" with a premiere audience of 338,000, although it went on to gain an audience of 606,000 when the encore's ratings were included. However, ratings improved as the season progressed. Ratings reached a series high in the sixth episode, attracting 519,000 viewers, up by 50% compared to the premiere episode. As of February 23, 2014, "Looking" has averaged 2 million weekly viewers.

Broadcast.

"Looking" premiered on HBO Canada at the same time as the United States, with Australia's Showcase premiering the series on January 20, 2014. In New Zealand, SoHo premiered the series on January 23, 2014. Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom and Ireland premiered it on January 27, 2014, opening to 0.067 million viewers, with the highest rated episode attracting 0.129 million for episode three. The second season premiered on February 5, 2015. The series premiered on May 6, 2014 on M-Net in South Africa.

Looking is an American comedy-drama television series which ran on HBO from January 19, 2014, to July 23, 2016. Created by Michael Lannan and produced by David Marshall Grant, Sarah Condon, and Andrew Haigh, it stars Jonathan Groff, Frankie J. Alvarez, Murray Bartlett, Lauren Weedman, Russell Tovey, and Raúl Castillo. The show follows the experiences of three openly gay close friends living and loving in modern-day San Francisco.

Looking ist eine US-amerikanische Comedy- und Drama-Fernsehserie des Fernsehsenders HBO. Die Serie handelt von einer Gruppe homosexueller Männer in der Metropole San Francisco, die die dortigen Möglichkeiten des Lebens wahrnehmen. Die Erstausstrahlung in den Vereinigten Staaten erfolgte am 19. Januar 2014 nach dem Auftakt der Serie "True Detective" und der dritten Staffel der Serie "Girls".


Description.

The relief is carved in the living rock at a height of some 1.5 metres above the ground. It has a total height of 1.3 metres. In a niche finished with a conch-shaped top, the image of a woman is found, who can be identified as the goddess Athena thanks to the inscription, among other things. On both sides the niche is formed from blocky pilasters, topped by wide capitals. The goddess is dressed in a peplos, the "apoptygma", or upper layer, of which is bound by a girdle at the waist. On the lower part, the robe is tightly fitted to her body, such that her calves are clearly visible underneath. The material covers up her ankles and feet, at the sides of it wrinkle lines go from it to the ground.  The right arm of the figure is raised and holds a lance. Her left, pointing down to the ground, holds a shield on edge. The lance rests on a column, which connects directly to the left pilaster. A snake winds around the lance and column, with its lower end reaching along the ground to Athena's feet. The head and mane of a bridled horse can be seen above the shield and left arm of the goddess and its hindquarters disappear behind her right arm. On the right pilaster there is a star, a crescent moon and a thunderbolt to be seen. Between the moon and the thunderbolt, traces of a servered head can be made out. Similar traces are found to the left of the left pilaster, which is itself undecorated. To the right of the righthand limit of the image, a symbol has been engraved, consisting of a stand with two crescent moons on top and a ball with star. Serra Durugönül, who investigated the Cilician rock reliefs in the 1980s, thought this was a candelabrum, that is a cult object, to be interpreted as a simplified depiction of a Jewish menorah.  Between the lance on the left and the female figure an inscription of 13 lines is engraved in a narrow field. In it the goddess is referred to as ΑΘΗΝΑ ΚΡΙΣΟΑ (Athena Krisoa);. The epithet ΚΡΙΣΟΑ, derived from a place name, indicates a local variant of the divinity, but the place connected with the epithet cannot yet be located. It would certainly have been found in the north of Rough Cilica, however. The same epithet shows up in another inscription in the area and in both inscriptions Athena is also referred to as ΟΡΕΙΑ (Oreia, meaning "mountaindweller")

Interpretation and Dating.

The depiction of the goddess corresponds to the Athena Parthenos type, modelled on Phidias' free-standing statue in the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis. Numerous imitations of this statue were made even in ancient times - another one has also been found in Cilicia. Similarities with Phidias' original include, above all, the clothing, the shield and the column standing on the left. In the original statue, this was a support of the right hand, in which Athena held Nike. Even though this no longer has a function, since this statue is carved in relief and doesn't hold Nike, the artist was unwilling to omit this characteristic attribute.  Particularly on account of the type of clam-shell vault of the relief, Durugönül identified two possible dates for the creation of the relief. The first would be the time of the Emperors Claudius and Nero in the 1st century, the second would be the period after Hadrian in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. She inclines to the second, dating the relief to the 2nd century, on the basis of comparison with other rock reliefs of Asia Minor, among which is that of a moongod at Sumatar Harabesi in Osrhoene, which an inscription dates after 165.

The Athena relief of Sömek is a Greco-Roman rock relief, located some two kilometres north of the village of Sömek in Silifke district of Mersin province in Turkey, near the valley of the Limonlu river, the ancient Lamos. In antiquity, the river formed the border between "Rugged Cilicia" (Kilikia Tracheia) in the west and "Flat Cilicia" (Kilikia Pedias) in the east.

Das Athenarelief von Sömek liegt etwa zwei Kilometer nördlich des Dorfes Sömek im Landkreis Silifke in der türkischen Provinz Mersin, nahe dem Tal des Flusses Limonlu, des antiken Lamos. Der Fluss bildete in der Antike die Grenze zwischen dem Rauen Kilikien "(Kilikia Tracheia)" im Westen und dem Ebenen Kilikien "(Kilikia Pedias)" im Osten.


Early life.

Kucharsky was born in Warsaw. As a boy, he was a page to King Stanisław II Augustus, the last elected ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He trained first as an artist in Warsaw, in the studio of the famous painter Marcello Bacciarelli. With a bursary from King Stanisław Augustus, he then travelled to Paris to work under Joseph-Marie Vien and Carle van Loo at the Académie Royale, from 1760 to 1769.

Work.

The king of Poland wanted Kucharsky to train as a historical painter, but instead he became a portrait artist, thus losing the king's patronage. From 1776 to 1778, Kucharsky was in the service of the Princes de Condé.  Kucharsky liked to paint half-length portraits in pastels or in oils, but he also worked in gouache and sometimes painted miniatures. His clients were mostly from the French and Polish aristocracy. The latter had increased in numbers in France as a result of the alliance between King Louis XV and Marie Leszczyńska.  After the departure from the French court of Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun in 1789, Kucharsky became painter to Queen Marie-Antoinette. As well as painting her portrait and the royal children, he also painted Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe, the comte d'Artois, later King Charles X, the countess of Artois, and Catherine the Great of Russia.  Kucharsky's best-known work today includes his portraits of the doomed French royal family, especially the future King Louis XVII. The final portrait, painted in 1793 of Marie Antoinette, was sold at auction by Piasa on 21 May 2003 and is attributed to Kucharsky.  When signing his work, the artist used the spelling "Kucharsky".

Later years.

Throughout the years of the French Revolution, Kucharsky's allegiance remained with the "ancien régime". In retirement he lived near Paris at Sainte-Périne, living on a pension granted by Louis XVIII of France. He died in Paris.

Alexander Kucharsky (18 March 1741 – 5 November 1819) also Alexandre Kucharsky, was a Polish portrait painter who spent his adult life in France. He himself used the spelling Kucharsky, but Kucharski is also often used. In the past, in France, the name has been given as Couaski.

Alexander Kucharski, auch Aleksander Kucharski (* 18. März 1741 in Warschau; † 5. November 1819 in Paris) war ein polnischer Maler, der vorwiegend in Frankreich arbeitete.


Origin and affinity.

The exact origin of early Iapydes is uncertain; archaeological documentation suggests mixed affinities to early "Pannonii" and Illyrians. The first written mention of an Illyrian tribe is from Greek writers from the 6th century BC. They are provisionally described by Strabo as a mixed race of Celts and Illyrians, who used Celtic weapons, tattooed themselves, and lived chiefly on spelt and millet; however, Strabo's suggestion of a mixed Celtic-Illyrian Iapydes culture is not confirmed by archaeology. Originally, Iapydes existed at least from the 9th century BC, and Celtic influence reached the region in the 4th century BC when Iapydes enter a decline. Archeological evidence of typical Celtic culture is documented only in the marginal contact zone of the Iapydes and the Celtic "Taurisci" along the Kupa river valley (now the Slovenian-Croatian border). Elsewhere, and especially in the main Iapydic area of the Lika highlands in Croatia, definite Celtic artifacts are scarce and explicable merely by commercial exchanges.

Roman conquest.

Romans said of the Iapydes that they were a warlike race addicted to plundering expeditions, but other archaeological documentation confirms their main economical activity was the mining and metallurgy. That attracted the pragmatic Romans to conquer their country, whose river valleys were also a natural way for strategic communications between the Adriatic and Pannonia. Therefore, induced conflicts started from 171 BC, when consul Gaius Cassius Longinus first attacked Iapydes. In 129 BC, Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus attacked the Iapydes and was nearly defeated, but Decimus Iunius Brutus arrived and rescued him, and he celebrated a triumph. Lucius Aurelius Cotta and Gaius Caecilius Metellus undertook another expedition against the Iapydes in 119, which concluded with a triumph in 117. In 78–76 BC they were also attacked by Gaius Cosconius as part of a war against the Dalmatians. They had a "foedus" from 56 BC with Rome and paid a "tributum", but then from 52–47 BC rebelled. In 34 BC they were finally conquered by Augustus Caesar. Then they conserved a partial autonomy with a domestic "praepositus Iapodum".

Culture and society.

Due to the rich and extensive forests of their mountainous country, their houses were mostly wooden huts, and they rarely used stone constructions except in some major fortifications. Their settlements were mostly on hilltops, including between 400–3,000 dwellers, and the main Iapodic settlements in Roman times were "Metulum", "Terpon", "Arupium" and "Avendo".  They cultivated chiefly cereals and grapes, and kept varied cattle. Their early metallurgy developed a half millennium before Celtic influence that induced here minor modifications. Their society was simple including warriors, villagers, herdsmen, miners, and metalworkers. In that early phase neither leaders nor elite were indicated, and these independent Iapydes had no detectable collective political organisation. Under the Romans, a Romanized elite emerged, led by the "praepositus Iapodum" installed by Romans.  Their classical culture was a varied mixture of Pannonian, Illyrian, Greek and Roman influences, mostly without proper peculiarities. Their figural art included the frequent metal decorations in the form of triangles and spirals, and large amber pearls and amber figurines. The Iapydic language before the Romans is mostly unknown: the only indications available are their toponyms and necropolis inscriptions from Roman times. These scarce onomastic indications suggest the Iapydic tongue may be correlated with other Illyrian and Pannonian tribes. During their independence, the Iapydes appear to have been completely illiterate and left no inscriptions before the Roman conquest.

Religion.

The original religion of Iapydes is scarcely known, and it appears to be similar with other eastward Illyrians. They knew the divine pair of water-deities "Vidassus" (as Roman Sylvanus) and "Thana" (as Roman Diana), whose rocky reliefs persist today at some springs in their area. They worshiped the holy horse as their tribal totem, and also the holy snakes as the symbol of their ancestors. Their early tombs were usually in caves, and then in Roman times often in woody sarcophagi and also incinerated in ceramic urns.  Japodian burial urns were art a unique form influenced to a degree by the Situla art of northern Illyria and Italy and by Greek art.

The Iapydes (or Iapodes, Japodes; ) were an ancient people who dwelt north of and inland from the Liburnians, off the Adriatic coast and eastwards of the Istrian peninsula. They occupied the interior of the country between the "Colapis" (Kupa) and "Oeneus" (Una) rivers, and the Velebit mountain range ("Mons Baebius") which separated them from the coastal Liburnians. Their territory covered the central inlands of modern Croatia and Una River Valley in today's Bosnia and Herzegovina. Archaeological documentation confirms their presence in these countries at least from 9th century BC, and they persisted in their area longer than a millennium. The ancient written documentation on inland Iapydes is scarcer than on the adjacent coastal peoples (Liburni, Delmatae, etc.) that had more frequent maritime contacts with ancient Greeks and Romans.

Die Japoden, auch Iapoden, Iapyden (lateinisch "Iapodes, Iapydes"; ) waren ein keltischer Stamm, dessen Siedlungsgebiet vom "Ocra"-Gebirge (Gebiet um Nanos und Birnbaumer Wald) im Karst an der oberen Save und nordöstlich von Istrien bis ins Tal der Una reichte. Der östlichste Teil Noricums wurde im 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr. in die neue Provinz Pannonien eingegliedert. Einer ihrer Hauptorte war Arupium, das heutige Prozor in der Gemeinde Otočac. Weitere bedeutende Orte der Japoden waren Metulum (heute Viničica in der Gemeinde Josipdol), Raetinium (heute Bihać), Avendo (heute Crkvina in der Gemeinde Otočac) und Monetium (heute Brinje).


Historical background.

The former Qin commander Zhao Tuo () conquered Âu Lạc, renamed the country Nanyue () and established the Triệu dynasty. Emperor Wu of Han dispatched soldiers against Nanyue and the kingdom was annexed in 111 BC during the ensuing Han–Nanyue War. Nine commanderies were established to administer the region, three of which are located in modern-day northern Vietnam. Revolts against the Han began in AD 40 led by the Trưng sisters.

Sources.

The primary historical source for the sisters is the 5th century "Book of the Later Han" compiled by historian Fan Ye, which covers the history of the Han Dynasty from 6 to AD 189. The secondary source, but the primary popular source, is the "Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư" (Complete Annals of Dai Viet) compiled by Ngô Sĩ Liên under the order of the Emperor Lê Thánh Tông and finished in 1479.

"Book of the Later Han", 5th century.

The Chinese traditional historical accounts on the Trưng sisters are remarkably brief. They are found in two different chapters of the "Book of the Later Han", the history for the Eastern Han Dynasty, against which the Trưng sisters had carried out their uprising.  Chapter eighty-six of the "Book of the Later Han", entitled "Biographies of the Southern and the Southwestern Barbarians," has this short description: In the 16th year of "Jianwu" <nowiki>[</nowiki><nowiki>40], </nowiki>Jiaozhi<nowiki> (Giao Chỉ) [modern northern Vietnam and extreme western </nowiki>Guangdong and western Guangxi<nowiki>] women Zhēng Cè (Trưng Trắc) and Zhēng Èr (Trưng Nhị) rebelled and attacked the </nowiki>commandery capital. Zhēng Cè was the daughter of the sheriff of Mê Linh (<unk>泠; Miling) County, and she married a man named Shi Suo (Thi Sách; 詩索) from...(Chu Diên) She was a ferocious warrior. Su Ding (蘇定), the grand administrator of Jiaozhi Commandery, curbed her with laws. Cè became angry and rebelled. The barbarian towns of Jiuzhen (Cửu Chân), Rinan (Nhật Nam), and Hepu (Hợp Phố) Commanderies all joined her, and she captured sixty five cities and claimed to be queen. The governors of Jiaozhi Province and the commanderies could only defend themselves. Emperor Guangwu therefore ordered the Changsha, Hepu, and Jiaozhi Commanderies to prepare wagons and boats, to repair the roads and bridges, to open the mountain passes, and to save food supplies. In the 18th year 42, he sent Ma Yuan the General Fubo and Duan Zhi (段志) the General Lochuan to lead ten odd thousands of men from Changsha, Guiyang, Linling, and Cangwu Commanderies against them. In the summer of the next year 43, Ma recaptured Jiaozhi and killed Zhēng Cè, Zhēng Èr, and others in battle, and the rest scattered. He also attacked Du Yang (都陽), a rebel of the Jiuzhen Commandery, and Du surrendered and was moved, along with some 300 of his followers to Lingling Commandery. The border regions were thus pacified. Chapter twenty-four, the biographies of Ma and some of his notable male descendants, had a parallel description that also added that Ma was able to impress the locals by creating irrigation networks to help the people and also by simplifying and clarifying the Han laws, and was able to get the people to follow Han's laws.  The traditional Chinese account, therefore, does not indicate abuse of the Vietnamese population by the Chinese officials. It implicitly disavows the traditional Vietnamese accounts of massive cruelty and of the Chinese official killing Trưng Trắc's husband. There is no indication in the Chinese account that the Trưng sisters committed suicide, or that other followers followed their example. Indeed, Ma, known in Chinese history for his strict military discipline, is not believed by the Chinese to have carried out cruel or unusual tactics. That account is in contrast to the Vietnamese.

Excerpts from "Complete Annals of Đại Việt", 1479.

The third book of "Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư" ("Complete Annals of Dai Viet"), published in editions between 1272 and 1697, has the following to say about the Trưng Sisters:  Lê Văn Hưu (one of the historians editing the Annals) wrote:

Traditional Vietnamese account.

The Trưng sisters were born in a rural Vietnamese village, into a military family. Their father was a prefect of Mê Linh, therefore the sisters grew up in a house well-versed in the martial arts. They also witnessed the cruel treatment of the Viets by their Chinese overlords. The Trưng sisters spent much time studying the art of warfare, as well as learning fighting skills. When a neighbouring prefect came to visit Mê Linh, he brought with him his son, Thi Sách. Thi Sách met and fell in love with Trưng Trắc during the visit, and they were soon married.

Revolt.

With Chinese rule growing extremely exacting, and the policy of forcible cultural assimilation into the Chinese mould during the Southward expansion of the Han dynasty, Thi Sách made a stand against the Chinese. The Chinese responded by executing Thi Sách as a warning to all those who contemplated rebellion. His death spurred his wife to take up his cause and the flames of insurrection spread.  In AD 40, Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị, after successfully repelling a small Chinese unit from their village, assembled a large army consisting mostly of women. Within months, they had taken many (about 65) citadels from the Chinese, and had liberated Nanyue. They became queens regnant of Nanyue and managed to resist subsequent Han attacks on the country for over three years.  During the Trung sisters' rebellion (Khởi nghĩa Hai Bà Trưng - Đánh đuổi Tô Định) against the Han dynasty's First Chinese domination of Vietnam, the Han Chinese administrator of Jiaozhi (Vietnam), Sū Dìng (蘇定 Tô Định) only managed to escape to China and avoid being discovered by the Vietnamese rebels by shaving his long hair to blend in with Vietnamese along the way since shaving hair was a common custom of Vietnamese men of that era but not of Chinese men as Nguyễn Khắc Thuần recorded.

Defeat.

Their reign was short-lived, however, as the Chinese gathered a huge expeditionary army under the veteran general Ma Yuan to suppress the rebellion. The Trưng sisters were defeated in battle in 43 AD. Different accounts regarding the fate of the sisters are recorded in Vietnamese and Chinese sources. The "Đại Việt sử lược" reports that the sisters were killed by Ma Yuan. According to the "Trần Thế Pháp" and "Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư", the sisters died during the fighting after they were deserted by their fellow rebels. The "Book of the Later Han" states that they were decapitated by Ma Yuan, who sent their heads back to the Han capital. There are also legendary accounts claiming that the sisters fell sick, vanished in the sky, or took their own lives by jumping into a river and drowning. According to one legendary account, when finally overwhelmed by Han China's armies, the sisters threw themselves into the Hat Giang River in order to avoid capture. They then turned into statues. These eventually washed ashore and were placed in Hanoi's Hai Ba Trung Temple for worship.  According to legend, Phùng Thị Chính, a pregnant captain of a group of soldiers who were to protect the center of Nanyue, gave birth on the front line. With her baby in one arm she ended the child's life and continued to fight in the war. She later committed suicide along with the Trưng sisters.  According to another oral tradition, the army led by the Trưng sisters was defeated when the Chinese troops decided to fight naked, causing the mostly female army to disperse in embarrassment.

Cultural significance.

Nationalism.

The Trưng Sisters are highly revered in Vietnam, as they led the first resistance movement against the occupying Chinese after 247 years of domination. Many temples are dedicated to them, and a yearly holiday in February to commemorate their deaths is observed by many Vietnamese. A central district in Hanoi called the Hai Bà Trưng District is named after them, as are numerous large streets in major cities and many schools.  The stories of the Trưng Sisters and of another famous woman warrior, Lady Triệu, are cited by some historians as hints that Vietnamese society before sinicization was a matriarchal one, where there are no obstacles for women in assuming leadership roles.  Even though the Trưng Sisters' revolt against the Chinese was almost 2000 years ago, its legacy in Vietnam remains. The two sisters are considered to be a national symbol in Vietnam. They represent Vietnam's independence. They are often depicted as two women riding two giant war elephants. Many times, they are seen leading their followers into battle against the Chinese. The Trưng sisters were more than two sisters that gave their life up for their country, they are powerful symbols of Vietnamese resistance and freedom.  Their strong defiance and devote for Vietnamese freedom nonetheless, has been greatly appreciated by not just Vietnamese but even foreign leaders. The U.S. President Donald Trump has recalled their heroism to be one of the greatest achievement of Vietnamese people during the APEC Vietnam 2017.

Temples.

Temples to the Trưng Sisters or "Hai Bà Trưng Temples" are found from as early as the end of the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam. The best known Hai Bà Trưng Temple is in Hanoi near Hoàn Kiếm Lake. Other Hai Bà Trưng temples are found in Mê Linh District (Vĩnh Phúc Province), Phúc Thọ District (Hà Tây Province) and Hoàng Hoa Thám Street, Bình Thạnh District, Ho Chi Minh City.

Women's status.

One reason for the defeat is desertion by rebels because they did not believe they could win under a woman's leadership. The fact that women were in charge was blamed as a reason for the defeat by historical Vietnamese texts in which the historians ridiculed and mocked men because they did nothing while "mere girls", whom they viewed with revulsion, took up the banner of revolt. The historical poem containing the phrase "mere girls", which related the revolt of the Trung Sisters while the men did nothing, was not intended to praise women nor view war as women's work, as it has been wrongly interpreted.

Minangkabau history.

The Minangkabau people were thought to be traced ancestries from the military commanders who refused to cower to China following the Trưng sisters' defeat, emigrated southward to the Malacca and became the modern Minangkabau people in both modern Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines and Indonesia; and still maintains strict cultural heritage dated from ancient Vietnam while mixed with Islam.

The Trưng sisters (Vietnamese: "Hai Bà Trưng", literally "Two Ladies [named] Trưng", AD 12 – c. AD 43) were Vietnamese military leaders who ruled for three years after rebelling in AD 40 against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam. They are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam. Their names were Trưng Trắc () and Trưng Nhị ().

Die Trưng-Schwestern, Trưng Trắc (Hán tự:徵側) und Trưng Nhị (徵貳) führten im 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr. im heutigen Vietnam eine Revolte gegen die chinesische Herrschaft an. Heute gelten sie in Vietnam als Nationalheldinnen.


Performance.

The Aspid is powered by the 2.0 L Honda F20C I4 engine used in the Honda S2000, which has been tuned and dry sumped by IFR to output in naturally aspirated base trim and in supercharged, Supersport trim. The naturally aspirated version is capable of 0-62 mph (100 km/h) in 3.9 seconds with the supercharged version taking 2.8 seconds, with both sharing the Honda S2000's 9,000 rpm redline. In corners the Aspid can pull 1.6g of lateral acceleration, it has a claimed top speed of 250 km/h (155 mph), and it can decelerate from to 0 in 3.1 seconds. Mechanically the Aspid also uses the 6 speed manual from the Honda S2000 with the only other powertrain upgrade coming in the form of a custom exhaust system.

Technical innovation.

One of the aspects which IFR has focused heavily on whilst marketing the Aspid is the fact that it holds four unique patents for technologies used throughout the car. The first patent is for a twin brake disc (TBD) system, consisting of two lightweight stainless steel discs with large turbine shaped slots designed to maximize brake cooling and efficiency as well as to be a claimed 70% lighter than a conventional brake disc setup. The second patent is for the aluminum extrusion chassis, developed for maximum rigidity and to fit the Aspid's double wishbone suspension system. The chassis then has a lightweight aluminum honeycomb overlaid on top for added strength. With these advancements IFR has been able to reduce the weight of the Aspid's chassis to only. The third patent is for Dual Lip Reinforcement (DLR) wishbones which used almond shaped spars with strengthening beams going through the centers to improve rigidity and aerodynamics. Lastly, the 4th patent is for a modular wiring loom which cuts the amount of harness needed to 1/3 of what it originally was as well as reduce its weight by 70%. The Aspid also uses a removable F1 style carbon fiber steering wheel complete with data logging and telemetry abilities as well as a slew of other features to control various aspects of the car such as rev limit, ride height, brake balance, valve timing and others, which is a feature seldom used in street cars. Additionally the Aspid is fully compliant with FIA safety regulations, as well as European homologation standards, from stock and as such can be taken to the track and raced with little additional modification needed.

Media.

The Aspid received a lot of press attention when it debuted in 2008 from motoring publications, such as "Evo", "Autocar", "Car Magazine", "Motor Trend" and others, who praised the Aspid highly for its technological innovation as well as its level of comfort and amenities relative to other open-wheel cars on the market. Many reviewers did lament the pricing, however, often highlighting the affordability of other open-wheeled cars and comparing the Aspid to a more advanced and luxurious, albeit higher priced, version of the Caterham 7.

The IFR Aspid is a Spanish open-wheel sports car introduced in 2008. It was available in two models, Sport and Supersport, which had base prices of £75,000 and £107,000 respectively. The Aspid was originally developed as a showcase of the technology developed by IFR, an automotive consultancy group. The Aspid gets its name from the Spanish word for the small and very quick snake that killed Cleopatra.

Der Aspid SS ist ein Supersportwagen der von Aspid hergestellt wird. Sein Basis-Preis beträgt Euro. Es gibt zwei Modelle, den "Sport" und den "Supersport".


Career.

Drouin first learned to high jump in kindergarten in Corunna, Ontario when his teacher introduced the sport to the class. After the lesson, Drouin went home and put a broom over two speakers and started leaping over it. He first achieved international success when he won the 2009 Pan American Junior Championships in high jump for Canada, clearing 2.27 m. He would continue on in his career competing in the NCAA with the Indiana Hoosiers track team where he would be the first Hoosier athlete to win an NCAA championship in high jump. Prior to the 2012 season Drouin had never competed at any senior level World Championships. Drouin won the Big Ten Athlete of the Year in 2013, after becoming the first athlete in NCAA history to win 5 NCAA championships in the high jump.  He competed in the high jump event at the 2012 Summer Olympics after winning the Canadian national championships with a 2.31 to edge out compatriot Michael Mason who also competed in London. Drouin was almost unable to get to the point where he could compete at the Olympics, having torn three ligaments in his foot in 2011 after jumping in a meet in Mississippi State and only returned to competition in April 2012. In two Diamond League meets in London and Monaco before the Olympics, Drouin won and finished third with a 2.26 and 2.30 for each respective meet. Drouin won the Bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England with a jump of 2.29 metres. This was Canada's first medal in high jump since the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal when Greg Joy medalled for Canada.

2013 World Championships.

The 2013 World Championships in Athletics that took place in Moscow was the next major global competition for Drouin. At these games he again found himself in the bronze competition with a personal best and a national record 2.38 m, but was unable to achieve 2.41 m. In contrast to London he stood in third place with Mutaz Barshim in second and the 2013 world leader Bohdan Bondarenko winning the gold. Drouin had a lot to say of the moment but felt he could achieve more: "I wanted to prove this year that I deserved to be on the podium in London 2012, feels good to have accomplished that goal. I was joking after that I never thought I would only place third jumping 2.38 metres, I'm certainly not disappointed, it was an incredible competition. I felt like 2.41 metres was attainable but it's always emotional when you set a personal best, getting another one in the same competition was a daunting task. That height is definitely a realistic goal for me now."  One month after the Worlds, Drouin won his first major international title at the 7th edition of the Francophone Games held in Nice, France on Saturday September 14, 2013. Three men cleared 2.30m in the high jump, but victory went to Drouin as he went over on his first attempt, while France's Mickaël Hanany and Romania's 2009 Francophone Games champion Mihai Donisan needed three attempts each at that height.  As a result of his record-breaking season, Drouin won three major awards from Athletics Canada. He was awarded the Jack W. Davies Trophy as outstanding athlete of the year, plus the F.N.A. Rowell Trophy as athlete of the year in field events, and the Cal D. Bricker Memorial Trophy for outstanding performance of the year.

2014.

Building on his new breakthroughs, the following outdoor season saw Drouin reach new heights when he bettered his Canadian record jumping 2.40 at the 2014 Drake Relays event in Des Moines, United States. In that Friday evening competition on April 25, he cleared the first 8 heights – each on his first attempt – winning at 2.38m; Americans Erik Kynard and Dusty Jonas both cleared 2.35m and were second and third respectively. Drouin then cleared 2.40 on his third attempt for a new Canadian record (and did not attempt to jump higher). Drouin was proud of reaching what he deemed a prestigious height, saying, "That is a huge barrier distance, I think, for any elite high jumper. It's kind of like the first time making two metres, or seven foot being an elusive seven-foot club. Two-forty has only been cleared by a handful of people ever, so as a high jumper I think I've sort of coined that as my lifetime goal." As a result of the jump, Drouin became just the tenth man in the world to jump 2.40 or higher outdoors, while five others have done it indoors.  Drouin went to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in July, there he won the gold medal with a jump of 2.31 m, while he failed to clear a jump of 2.37 on his next attempts at trying to set the Commonwealth Games record. Teammate Michael Mason finished behind Drouin in the bronze medal position.

2015 Pan Am and world champion.

The 2015 came with two big events for Drouin, the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto followed by the 2015 World Championships in Athletics a few weeks later. In his hometown Pan Am Games in Toronto, Drouin won gold with teammate Mason again grabbing silver in a duplicate result from the Commonwealth Games. After the win Drouin said "My last two meets were season bests also, so I was carrying in some confidence. I knew that being in Toronto and being in front of the crowd like this would be great, so I'm glad I didn't let that go to waste. Canada winning gold and silver, it can't get much better than that. Non-verbally, because I didn't want to jinx it, I was hoping Mike and I would be the top two spots."  At the 2015 World Championships in Athletics Drouin found himself in the finals in a four-way jumpoff after they all cleared 2.33 m but could not make 2.36 m. Drouin managed to make the 2.34 m on his first try while his opponents all faltered, thus securing his world title. After winning he said, "It's funny because a few months ago I was just so frustrated with the season. I went about a month and a half without clearing 2.30m, playing with a new approach and trying to peak at the end of the season. I got to the point where I just wanted the season to be done and forget about world championships. Luckily, I was patient and things finally worked out and things clicked and when they clicked they really clicked. I felt like I was in a really good place coming into here."

2016 Olympic gold.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Drouin jumped a season best height of 2.38 metres to win the gold medal, defeating Barshim and Bondarenko. Drouin cleared every height on his first attempt, until he missed at 2.40 while going for the Olympic record. It was the second medal won by a Canadian male athlete, the first gold medal for a Canadian male, and Canada's third gold medal overall during the Rio de Janeiro Olympiad. Drouin was the first Canadian to win a gold medal in a field sport since Duncan McNaughton, who also won the high jump at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Of the historic gold, Drouin said, "We've had a pretty good tradition in high jump, so myself and my teammates are just trying to keep re-writing it. It doesn't matter that I was world champion coming in today. In my eyes, everyone was on even playing ground right from the start. The pressure that maybe other people felt for me I certainly wasn't internalizing."  Drouin is noted for a slightly different technique than most of his contemporary opponents. His approach involves him going slower and bounding toward the bar rather than running at it with pace as his opponents do. This allows him to keep his plant leg stiff, if the leg bends he'll lose the energy he needs in his leg for the jump. Drouin commented on the technique to the New York Times saying, "You see, jumpers try to run as fast as they can, and then they put their foot down and their leg isn't able to handle it. So they just end up blowing through the bar."

Post-Rio.

Following the 2016 Rio Olympics, Drouin began training for decathlons with the goal of making the 2018 Commonwealth Games team in the multi-event. Drouin said of the professional event change that "it's to get back to what I was doing in college, which was really when I was most confident competing, I kind of felt my strongest, felt like I was in my best physical shape, and I just have a whole lot of fun doing that. It's something I really haven't done in a while, but I'm very excited to get back into that. I was always a pretty strong hurdler in college. I really love throwing javelin. I was always competitive in multis in college and I loved it." On April 7, 2017, at the Sam Adam Multi Event meet in Montecito, California, he set the world decathlon best in the high jump at. His jump and decathlon performance improved upon a record that had stood since 1977. He did add that he still intends to compete in the high jump at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London to defend his world title. Plagued by injury problems prior to the 2017 World Championships, Drouin still hoped to compete in the pinnacle championship of the year. Unfortunately the injury to his achilles tendon forced him, like fellow Canadian and medal favourite Andre De Grasse, to miss the championships.

Personal life.

Drouin was born in Sarnia, Ontario to Sheila (née Teschke) and Gaetan Drouin. He grew up in Corunna, Ontario, a small community in the St. Clair Township. He has two sisters, Jillian and Alysha. Jillian is also an international competitor for Canada in the heptathlon, competing at the World Youth Championships, Commonwealth Games, and Pan American Games.

Honours.

In 2012 Drouin was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Derek Drouin (born March 6, 1990) is a Canadian track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. He is the reigning Olympic Champion, having won gold in 2016, and was the 2015 World Champion. He also won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2015 Pan American Games, and won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2013 World Championships.

Derek Drouin (* 6. März 1990 in Sarnia, Ontario) ist ein kanadischer Hochspringer und Olympiasieger. 2010 wurde er nationaler Meister und als Student der Indiana University NCAA-Meister im Freien und in der Halle. Im Jahr darauf verteidigte er seinen NCAA-Hallentitel.


Geography.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 21.5 square miles (55.7 km2), all of it land.

Demographics.

At the 2010 census Indio Hills had a population of 972. The population density was 45.2 people per square mile (17.4/km2). The racial makeup of Indio Hills was 542 (55.8%) White, 6 (0.6%) African American, 15 (1.5%) Native American, 5 (0.5%) Asian, 1 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 391 (40.2%) from other races, and 12 (1.2%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 657 people (67.6%).  The whole population lived in households, no one lived in non-institutionalized group quarters and no one was institutionalized.  There were 304 households, 117 (38.5%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 160 (52.6%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 18 (5.9%) had a female householder with no husband present, 37 (12.2%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 14 (4.6%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 4 (1.3%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 74 households (24.3%) were one person and 20 (6.6%) had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 3.20. There were 215 families (70.7% of households); the average family size was 3.91.  The age distribution was 257 people (26.4%) under the age of 18, 90 people (9.3%) aged 18 to 24, 257 people (26.4%) aged 25 to 44, 283 people (29.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 85 people (8.7%) who were 65 or older. The median age was 34.4 years. For every 100 females, there were 114.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 123.4 males. There were 358 housing units at an average density of 16.6 per square mile, of the occupied units 246 (80.9%) were owner-occupied and 58 (19.1%) were rented.The homeowner vacancy rate was 3.5%; the rental vacancy rate was 14.7%. 809 people (83.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 163 people (16.8%) lived in rental housing units.

Indio Hills is a census-designated place in Riverside County, California. Indio Hills sits at an elevation of. The 2010 United States census reported Indio Hills's population was 972.

Indio Hills ist ein Census-designated place im Riverside County im US-Bundesstaat Kalifornien. Der Ort hat 972 Einwohner (Stand: 2010) und liegt im Coachella Valley in der Nähe des Joshua-Tree-Nationalparks.


Origin and early life.

Khalid was born in Damascus. He was a member of the Tihamite Qasr clan, a subtribe of the Bajila, of which his great-grandfather Asad ibn Kurz al-Qasri is said by some traditions to have been the chief in the times of Muhammad, and is accounted as one of the Prophet's Companions. Other traditions, however, hostile to Khalid, report that Asad was a runaway Jewish slave. Khalid's grandfather Yazid was an early and prominent supporter of the Umayyads in the First Fitna, while Khalid's father Abdallah sided with Ibn al-Zubayr in the Second Fitna, but was eventually pardoned by the Caliph Abd al-Malik (). Khalid's mother was a Christian.  Khalid possibly served as governor of Rayy in 702, but his first secure appointment is as governor of Mecca. The dates of this appointment are unclear, as al-Tabari mentions his appointment twice in 707/8 and 709/10, under al-Walid I (), but other traditions report that he held the post already under Abd al-Malik in 705. Similarly, although his tenure is held to have ended with the accession of Sulayman in 715, the historian al-Azraqi reports traditions that he continued to govern Mecca into Sulayman's reign. His governorship of Mecca is remembered chiefly for acts such as the decoration of the Kaaba with gold or measures to regulate the local cult, such as the segregation of genders during the "tawaf". Khalid also constructed a fountain, at the behest of the Caliph, to serve the pilgrims, and boasted of its superiority to the bitter water of the sacred Zamzam Well. During this time he also reportedly proclaimed that he would be willing, as a measure of his loyalty to the dynasty, if the Caliph so ordered, to tear down the Kaaba and transport it to Jerusalem.

Governorship of Iraq.

After his dismissal from Mecca, he is next mentioned as one of the two envoys sent by Caliph Yazid II () to the former governor of Iraq, Yazid ibn al-Muhallab, hoping to prevent his rebellion. In 724, on the accession of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (), Khalid was himself appointed as governor of Iraq, replacing Umar ibn Hubayra. His authority extended over the entire eastern Caliphate, except for Khurasan, which was sometimes separated from Iraq's authority. When Khurasan was under his jurisdiction, he appointed his brother, Asad, to its governorship (725–727 and 734–738).  As his native Bajila tribe was relatively weak and unaligned in the pervasive conflict between the Qays and Yaman tribal groups of the period, Khalid's appointment to Iraq may have been a move designed to calm the situation there, which had been exacerbated by the brutal suppression of the Muhallabid rebellion by the Qaysi Syro-Jaziran army and the subsequent solidly Qaysi regime of Ibn Hubayra. In the event, however, this backfired: the Qaysis resented Khalid for his replacement of their champion, Ibn Hubayra, while the Yamanis themselves did not support him wholeheartedly, even though he staffed his administration with Yamanis; it was only his replacement in 738 with another Qaysi governor, Yusuf ibn Umar al-Thaqafi, that confirmed Khalid as a "Yamani" governor in the later tradition.  Details of his long tenure are relatively unknown. With the exception of the suppression of a Kharijite revolt of Bahlul ibn Bishr al-Shaybani in the north and a Shi'ite extremist movement of al-Mughira ibn Sa'id in Kufa and of Wazir al-Sikhtiyani in al-Hirah in 737, his governorship seems to have been generally peaceful. He is also held responsible for the execution of Ja'd ibn Dirham, a "rather shadowy figure associated with a variety of religious doctrines" (Hawting). During this tenure, Khalid undertook extensive irrigation and land reclamation projects, from which he amassed a huge fortune. His governorship was also marked by the minting of high-quality coinage, by increasing, at the orders of Hisham, the weight of the silver "dirham" from six to seven "daniqs". After his dismissal, this change was reverted. Khalid is also accused by some later traditions of having been ambivalent or even hostile towards Islam. He is presented as a sceptic or atheist ("zindiq") and favourably disposed towards the non-Muslim groups, especially the Christians: he is derisively called "Ibn Nasraniyya" on account of his maternal ties to Christians, and is said to have commented on Christianity's superiority to Islam, derided the "huffaz", and to have built a church for his mother near the mosque at Kufa.

Dismissal and death.

The reasons for Khalid's dismissal in 738 are obscure. Sources suggest that Hisham became jealous of Khalid's wealth, but the real motive seems to have been Qaysi pressure to relieve him. Khalid certainly was taken by surprise by the arrival of his replacement, Yusuf ibn Umar. Yusuf immediately imprisoned Khalid and his sons, and tortured his predecessor to extract his wealth, a practice common during hand-overs of governorships at the time. After eighteen months, Khalid was released and went to Hisham's capital Rusafa and then to his native Damascus. However, after Hisham died in early 743, his successor al-Walid II () sold Khalid back to Yusuf ibn Umar for 50 million "dirhams". Yusuf again tortured him until Khalid died, an act which further exacerbated the Qays–Yaman feud and led to the downfall of al-Walid II.  Of Khalid's sons, Yazid became a partisan of Yazid III during the Third Fitna and was executed by Marwan II (), while Muhammad joined the Abbasid armies and served as governor of Mecca and Medina.

Khālid ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Qasrī (; died 743) was an Arab who served the Umayyad Caliphate as governor of Mecca in the 8th century and of Iraq from 724 until 738. The latter post, entailing as it did control over the entire eastern Caliphate, made him one of the most important officials during the crucial reign of Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik. He is most notable for his support of the Yaman tribes in the conflict with the Qays who dominated the administration of Iraq and the East under his predecessor and successor. Following his dismissal, he was twice imprisoned and tortured by his successor, dying as a result in 743.

Chālid ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Qasrī ( geb. 686, † 743/44 in Kufa) diente den Umayyaden als Statthalter zunächst von Mekka und später, während des Kalifats von Hischām ibn ʿAbdalmalik, des Irak.


History.

Cyta has provided mobile telephony service since 1988.  It has provided Internet access since 1995 under the Cytanet brand and it now offers broadband services DSL Access. Branded as miVision then, Cyta entered in 2004 the digital and interactive television market. The service has been renamed Cytavision.  In the article CEL and Startup Europe promote opportunities, which appeared in the hard copy of Cyprus Mail of 15 August 2014, CYTA is written as CyTA. The article refers to an event hosted in the CyTA hall in Nicosia.  It currently operates under the name Cytamobile-Vodafone, following a Network Partnership Agreement with Vodafone in 2004.

Operations.

Nowadays, Cyta provides a broad range of services and facilities for voice and data applications in both fixed and mobile telephony. Particular emphasis is placed on the provision of value added services, such as content/multimedia via the Internet which, according to industry projections, will be the dominant business activity of the next decade.  Building on its role as a telecommunications hub in the South-Eastern Mediterranean, Cyta expanded its operations in the Greek market, offering broadband Internet and fixed telephony services in specific areas of Greece, with plans for further expansion in the future. It also operates in the British market, under the brand Cyta UK, offering "tailored network solutions" to customers based on the IP-MPLS platform. Central and Eastern Europe are markets that have also been targeted.  In recent years and following Cyprus’ accession to the European Union in 2004, Cyta faced a number of challenges with regards to the legal implications and regulations of operating within the European Bloc, the fierce competition this brings as well as the ever-changing developments in telecommunications.

Services.

The company covers the whole country with digital PSTN, ISDN, DSL and FTTH services. Cyta is offering fixed telephony, Internet service (Cytanet), mobile telephony (Cytamobile-Vodafone) and Pay TV (Cytavision).

CYTA Ltd. (; short for "Cyprus Telecommunication Authority"; ) is the telecommunications provider of Cyprus. The Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta), a semi-governmental organisation incorporated by law, is the leading provider of Integrated Electronic Communications in Cyprus. Originally established as Cyprus Inland Telecommunications Authority (CITA) in 1955, it was renamed Cyta in 1961 after taking control of external communications from Cable and Wireless Ltd.

CYTA (Kurzform für "CYprus Telecommunications Authority," gesprochen "SEE-ta" in Zyprisch) (Griechisch: Αρχή ΤΗλεπικοινωνιών Κύπρου ATHK akronym ausgesprochen "ateek") ist der staatliche Telefonanbieter Zyperns. Das Unternehmen ist durch die strategisch wichtige Lage der Insel zwischen Europa, Nordafrika und dem Nahen Osten einer der bedeutendsten Anbieter von Kommunikationsinfrastruktur (Seekabel und Satellitenkommunikation) in der Region.


History.

Landover was named for the town of Llandovery, Wales.  The former CDPs of Landover, Dodge Park, Kentland, and Palmer Park, defined as such by the U.S. Census Bureau in the 1990 U.S. Census, were consolidated into the Greater Landover CDP as of the 2000 U.S. Census. This amalgamated area was renamed the Landover CDP as of the 2010 U.S. Census.

Geography.

Landover is located at. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, it has an area of, of which, or 0.13%, is water. Landover residents have the postal zipcode of 20785. Since Landover is an unincorporated community in Prince George's County, residents of Landover have Hyattsville postal addresses though they live in Landover and not Hyattsville. Landover does not have its own postal zipcode.  Landover consists of several small subdivisions which are notably Ardwick Park, Kentland, Kenmoor, Dodge Park, Brightseat, Palmer Park, Columbia Park, Village Green, White House Heights, and Summerfield. Landover has been home to the Fedex Field Stadium, which the Washington Redskins NFL Football team have played at since it opened in 1997. It is also home to the Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex, WMATA's Landover Metrobus Division, WMATA's Carmen E. Turner Maintenance Facility, Giant Food Corporate Office, Giant Food Corporate Plant, National Harmony Memorial Park Cemetery, and Ardwick Industrial Park. WMATA Metrorail's Orange Line from New Carrollton to Vienna, MARC train Line to the BWI Light Rail Station to Washington D.C.'s Union Station, Cargo Trains, and Amtrak's Train Line from Washington D.C.'s Union Station to New York's Penn Station via Wilmington and Philadelphia, all go through Landover. Landover Hills is a separate, incorporated community just across the Orange Line train tracks and John Hanson Highway (U.S. Highway 50) to the north. Landover is the birthplace of the late Len Bias. From 1960 to 1972, Landover was the home of jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, author, and jazz educator Steve Rochinski.  For the 2000 census, Landover was delineated by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Greater Landover census-designated place.

Economy.

Giant Food has its headquarters in a location in unincorporated Prince George's County in the Ardwick Industrial Park area, near Landover. The Giant Food Headquarters is located next to the New Carrollton Metro Station. It is served by the F13 metrobus shuttle that goes from the Cheverly Metro station to Washington Business Park.

Arts and culture.

Beall's Pleasure and Ridgley Methodist Episcopal Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A Harlem Renaissance Festival occurs at Kentland-Columbia Park Community Center in Landover every year in May. In 2014, the National Archives for Black Women's History was controversially relocated from Washington, D.C., to 3300 Hubbard Road in Landover.

Sports.

FedExField is a football stadium for the Washington Redskins of the NFL in the neighboring CDP of Summerfield and has a Landover postal address. See also Raljon, Maryland.  The Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex is also in Summerfield CDP, located on approximately adjacent to FedExField.

Government.

Prince George's County Police Department headquarters, which is also District 3 Station, is in the Palmer Park area in Landover CDP.  The U.S. Postal Service operates the Landover Post Office in the CDP.

Education.

Public education.

Landover is a part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system.  Elementary schools serving sections of the Landover CDP include: Columbia Park, Dodge Park, Cooper Lane, Gladys Noon Spellman, Highland Park, and William Paca. Middle schools serving sections of the Landover CDP include: G. James Gholson, Kenmoor, and Charles Carroll. Senior high schools serving sections of the Landover CDP include: Fairmont Heights, Charles Herbert Flowers, DuVal, and Bladensburg. The schools serving the 1990 CDP are: Cooper Lane and Gladys Noon Spellman elementaries, Charles Carroll Middle, and Bladensburg High.  When desegregation busing began in 1972, PG County school officials bused many black children in Landover to schools with large numbers of white students in other areas of the county. Since then many schools in the Landover area had closed. David Nakamura of the "Washington Post" stated that many Landover residents believed that desegregation busing contributed to the socioeconomic decline of Landover. In 1998 the busing program was abolished due to a settlement in federal court.  Matthew Henson Elementary School was previously in the CDP. It was scheduled to close in 2009. In 2012 EXCEL Academy agreed to open a charter school in the former Henson space, and it moved from its previous campus in Riverdale.  Other area schools:

Colleges and universities.

Landover had career-based colleges, such as Fortis College, that offer programs including bio-technician, medical assisting, and medical coding and billing.

Infrastructure.

Transportation.

Landover is one of the few regions in the Washington, D.C. area that is served directly by two separate Washington Metro rail lines. Landover is served by both the Orange and Blue lines (many DC area suburbs are not served directly by Metrorail at all). The Landover Washington Metro station serves the northern portion of Landover on the Orange Line. The Landover Metro Station is also the primary metro station that serves the Landover area. The Morgan Boulevard Metro station, constructed in 2004, serves the southern portion of Landover on the Blue Line and is the main rail terminus providing access to FedExField, which is home to the Washington Redskins in addition to many other sporting and entertainment events. Landover also has a special Metrobus Division also houses many metrobuses that serve routes in Prince George's County, Maryland.  In addition to the Landover and Morgan Boulevard Metro Stations that primarily serve the Landover area, Landover residents have access to other metro stations nearby, such as the New Carrollton Metro Station, Cheverly Metro Station, Largo Town Center Metro Station, and Addison Road-Seat Pleasant Metro Station.  I-495/95, the Capital Beltway, crosses U.S. Route 50 in Landover. The Beltway also has junctions with Maryland Route 202 (Landover Road) and Brightseat Road, which leads directly to FedExField.

Shopping.

Landover was the home of Landover Mall, owned and operated by Lerner Enterprises. Built in 1972, it was the first enclosed mall in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to house four high-end retail anchor stores: Garfinkel's, Hecht's (owned by the May company), Woodward and Lothrop (popularly known as Woodies), and Sears. The mall also housed a multiplex movie theater located in the basement of the northeast corridor of the building. Located at the Capital Beltway and Landover Road, the mall neighbored the towns of Palmer Park, Ardmore, Glenarden, and Largo. Palmer Park was the hometown of Olympic boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard. Garfinkel's closed in 1990, Woodies closed in 1995 and was replaced with a J.C. Penney store that lasted from 1996 to 2001, and Hecht's closed in 2002 with the opening of the Bowie Town Center located in Bowie. The entire mall officially closed in 2003 and was demolished in 2006, with the exception of Sears. Sears closed in 2014 and was later demolished.  With the arrival in 1997 of FedExField, the home stadium for the Washington Redskins, the mall's parking lot is used for overflow parking. In 2007, according to the "Washington Post", Prince George's County officials were in the midst of developing plans to transform the area where Landover Mall once stood. County officials propose to build luxury townhouses, trendy stores, and office buildings. The goal of the project is to transform the area into a residential and cultural hub that replicates the Bowie Town Center, and The Boulevard at the Capital Centre; the latter is in Lake Arbor CDP and has a Largo postal address. Woodmore Towne Centre, featuring Costco and Wegmans, opened in 2010 in nearby Glenarden.

Parks and recreation.

The Prince George's County Department of Parks and Recreation operates the Kentland Community Center and the Palmer Park Community Center.

Landover is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Landover is located very close to Washington, although it does not directly border Washington D.C. unlike its neighboring communities, Chapel Oaks and Fairmount Heights, which directly border Washington D.C. and go all the way up to/touch the Maryland/ D.C. line. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 23,078.

Landover ist ein Census-designated place im Prince George’s County im US-Bundesstaat Maryland mit gut 20.000 Einwohnern. Internationale Berühmtheit hat der Ort durch zahlreiche Sportveranstaltungen erlangt wie etwa Boxweltmeisterschaftskämpfe mit Muhammad Ali oder Sugar Ray Leonard, der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft der Frauen 1999, der United States Women’s Open Championship (Golf) oder als Heimspielstätte des American-Football-Teams Washington Redskins im FedExField.


History.

White Water, still a populated place on the west bank of the Whitewater River, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Palm Springs. It began as rest and watering place for travelers on the Bradshaw Trail between San Bernardino and La Paz Arizona Territory in 1862. With the start of the Colorado River Gold Rush the trail was created to ship goods and allow people to cross the desert to the new boom towns on the Colorado River and the interior of Arizona Territory. White Water got its name from the White Water Station a stagecoach station that was located there on the Bradshaw Trail. The settlement at White Water remained as a stop on the road into the Coachella Valley and to other desert regions to the east as it does today.

Geography.

Whitewater is located at (33.924203 N, 116.644453 W) and is named for the nearby Whitewater River. The wind farm is located near the I-10 exit at (33.914456 N, 116.743897 W). The area has nearly constant wind due to the venturi effect created by the San Bernardino Mountains to the north and the San Jacinto Mountains to the south, resulting in perfect conditions for the wind farm.  According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 9.9 square miles (25.6 km2), all of it land.

Climate.

According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Whitewater has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csa" on climate maps.

Demographics.

The 2010 United States Census reported that Whitewater had a population of 859. The population density was 87.0 people per square mile (33.6/km2). The racial makeup of Whitewater was 636 (74%) White, 37 (4%) African American, 31 (4%) Native American, 21 (2%) Asian, 0 (0%) Pacific Islander, 97 (11%) from other races, and 37 (4%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 267 persons (31%).  The Census reported that 859 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.  There were 312 households, out of which 111 (36%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 116 (37%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 49 (16%) had a female householder with no husband present, 32 (10%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 35 (11%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 11 (4%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 82 households (26%) were made up of individuals and 26 (8%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75. There were 197 families (63% of all households); the average family size was 3.33.  The population was spread out with 219 people (26%) under the age of 18, 74 people (9%) aged 18 to 24, 239 people (28%) aged 25 to 44, 242 people (28%) aged 45 to 64, and 85 people (10%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37.3 years. For every 100 females, there were 108.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 107.8 males.  There were 405 housing units at an average density of 41.0 per square mile (15.8/km2), of which 235 (75%) were owner-occupied, and 77 (25%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 10%; the rental vacancy rate was 21%. 606 people (71% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 253 people (30%) lived in rental housing units.

Whitewater (formerly, White Water) is a census-designated place in Riverside County, California. It is directly off Interstate 10 halfway between North Palm Springs and Cabazon on the way from Palm Springs to Los Angeles. It is known as the site of the San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm. The ZIP Code is 92282, and the community is inside area code 760. The population was 859 at the 2010 census. The elevation is.

Whitewater ist ein Census-designated place im Riverside County im US-Bundesstaat Kalifornien. Der Ort hat 859 Einwohner (Stand: 2010). Er liegt direkt an der Interstate 10, die Los Angeles mit Palm Springs verbindet. Bekannt ist Whitewater vor allem für die San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm.


Early life.

Wadsworth was born in Geneseo, New York on August 12, 1877. He was the son of New York State Comptroller James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846–1926) and Louisa (née Travers) Wadsworth (1848–1931).  His paternal grandparents were Union General James S. Wadsworth and Mary Craig (née Wharton) Wadsworth (1814–1874). His grandfather built a 13,000 square-foot house in Geneseo in 1835.  Wadsworth attended St. Mark's School, then graduated from Yale in New Haven, Connecticut in 1898, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.

Career.

After Yale, he served as a private in the Volunteer Army in the Puerto Rican Campaign during the Spanish–American War. Upon leaving the Army, he entered the livestock and farming business, first in New York and then Texas.  He became active early in Republican politics. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Livingston Co.) in 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1910; and was Speaker from 1906 to 1910.  In 1911, while Wadsworth was on a European tour, he met his aunt, Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair (1837–1921), the widow of Irish businessman John George Adair. She maintained residences at Glenveagh Castle in Ireland and at the JA Ranch in the Texas Panhandle that her husband had financed. Mrs. Adair invited Wadsworth to become general manager of the JA, located southeast of Amarillo. The ranch was begun by her second husband, John "Jack" Adair (hence the initials "JA"), and his partner, the legendary Texas cattleman Charles Goodnight. Wadsworth accepted his aunt's offer and ran the ranch until 1915, when he took his U.S. Senate seat. He once joked that he "had no change of clothes for twelve days and fully expected the Board of Health to be after me." Wadsworth was succeeded as JA manager by Timothy Dwight Hobart.  In 1912, he ran for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Republican ticket with Job. E. Hedges, but was defeated. In 1914, at the first popular election for the U.S. Senate (until 1911, the U.S. senators had been elected by the New York State Legislature), Wadsworth defeated Democrat James W. Gerard (the incumbent United States Ambassador to Germany) and Progressive Bainbridge Colby. Wadsworth was the Senate Minority Whip in 1915 because the Democrats held the majority of Senate seats. He was re-elected in 1920, but defeated by Democrat Robert F. Wagner in 1926. In 1921, Wadsworth was considered for the post of Secretary of War by President Warren G. Harding but was ultimately passed over in favor of John W. Weeks.  Wadsworth was a proponent of individual rights and feared what he considered the threat of federal intervention into the private lives of Americans. He believed that the only purpose of the United States Constitution is to limit the powers of government and to protect the rights of citizens. For this reason, he voted against the Eighteenth Amendment when it was before the Senate. Before Prohibition went into effect, Wadsworth predicted that there would be widespread violations and contempt for the law.  By the mid-1920s, Wadsworth was one of a handful of congressmen who spoke out forcefully and frequently against prohibition. He was especially concerned that citizens could be prosecuted by both state and federal officials for a single violation of prohibition law. This seemed to him to constitute double jeopardy, inconsistent with the spirit if not the letter of the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment in criminal cases prevents two trials for the same offense in the same level of court, not two trials for the same charge in separate state and national jurisdictions.  In 1926, he joined the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and made 131 speeches across the country for the organization between then and repeal. His political acumen and contacts proved valuable in overturning prohibition.  He served in the U.S. House from 1933 to 1951, and, like Alton Lennon, Garrett Withers, Claude Pepper, Hugh Mitchell, and Matthew M. Neely, is one of the few modern Senators to serve later in the House of Representatives. In the House of Representatives he opposed the isolationism of many of his conservative Republican colleagues, opposed anti-lynching legislation on state's rights grounds, rejected minimum wage laws and most of FDR's domestic policy. Although Wadsworth never ran for president, his name was mentioned as a possible candidate in 1936 and 1944.  A confidential 1943 analysis of the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Isaiah Berlin for the British Foreign Office described Wadsworth as  He was a hereditary companion of Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and was also a member of the United Spanish War Veterans.

Personal life.

Wadsworth was married to Alice Evelyn Hay (1880–1960). She was the daughter of former United States Secretary of State John Hay under President Theodore Roosevelt. Through her sister Helen Hay Whitney, she was the aunt of John Hay Whitney, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Alice, who opposed women's suffrage, served as president of the National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage, which Wadsworth also opposed. Together, they were the parents of:  Wadsworth died on June 21, 1952 in Washington, D.C. He was buried in Temple Hill Cemetery in Geneseo.

Descendants.

Through his daughter Evelyn, he was the grandfather of James Wadsworth Symington (b. 1927), who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri as a Democrat.  Through his son James, he was the grandfather of Alice Wadsworth (1928–1998) who was married to Trowbridge Strong (1925–2001) in 1948 at the home of Wadsworth's grandfather, General James Wadsworth.

James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (August 12, 1877June 21, 1952) was a Republican politician from New York. He was the son of New York State Comptroller James Wolcott Wadsworth, and the grandson of Union General James S. Wadsworth.

James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (* 12. August 1877 in Geneseo, Livingston County, New York; † 21. Juni 1952 in Washington, D.C.) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Zwischen 1915 und 1927 vertrat er den Bundesstaat New York im US-Senat und zwischen 1933 und 1951 im US-Repräsentantenhaus. Der General James S. Wadsworth war sein Großvater und der Kongressabgeordnete James Wolcott Wadsworth sein Vater.