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Abdelbaki Hermassi | Abdelbaki Hermassi (; born on December 26, 1937, Fériana, Tunisia) is a Tunisian politician. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia from November 10, 2004 when he was appointed during a cabinet reshuffle, until another cabinet reshuffle on August 17, 2005 when he lost that position. He was previously the minister of culture of Tunisia. On May 13, 2008 he was named President of the Higher Communication Council
References
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Yupian | The Yupian (; "Jade Chapters") is a c. 543 Chinese dictionary edited by Gu Yewang (顧野王; Ku Yeh-wang; 519-581) during the Liang dynasty. It arranges 12,158 character entries under 542 radicals, which differ somewhat from the original 540 in the Shuowen Jiezi. Each character entry gives a fanqie pronunciation gloss and a definition, with occasional annotation.
The Yupian is a significant work in the history of Written Chinese. It is the first major extant dictionary in the four centuries since the completion of Shuowen and records thousands of new characters that had been introduced into the language in the interim. It is also important for documenting nonstandard súzì (俗字, "popular written forms of characters"), many of which were adopted in the 20th century as official simplified Chinese characters. For instance, the Yupian records that wàn (traditional 萬, "ten thousand, myriad") had a popular form of (simplified 万), which is much easier to write with three strokes versus thirteen (Creamer 1992: 116).
Baxter describes the textual history:
The original Yùpiān was a large and unwieldy work of thirty juàn ["volumes; fascicles"], and during Táng and Sòng various abridgements and revisions of it were made, which often altered the original fănqiè spellings; of the original version only fragments remain (some two thousand entries out of a reported original total of 16,917), and the currently-available version of the Yùpiān is not a reliable guide to Early Middle Chinese phonology. (1992: 40-41)
In 760, during the Tang dynasty, Sun Jiang (孫強; Sun Chiang) compiled a Yupian edition, which he noted had a total of 51,129 words, less than a third of the original 158,641. In 1013, Song dynasty scholar Chen Pengnian (陳彭年; Ch'en P'eng-nien) published a revised Daguang yihui Yupian (大廣益會玉篇; "Expanded and enlarged Jade Chapters"). The Japanese monk Kūkai brought an original version Yupian back from China in 806, and modified it into his c. 830 Tenrei Banshō Meigi, which is the oldest extant Japanese dictionary.
References
Baxter, William H. 1992. A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Creamer, Thomas B. I. (1992), "Lexicography and the History of the Chinese language", in History, Languages, and Lexicographers, (Lexicographica, Series maior 41), ed. by Ladislav Zgusta, Niemeyer, 105-135.
External links
Digitized original editions of the Yupian, National Diet Library Digital Collections: [ Chapter 18]・[ Chapter 22]・[ Chapter 27]・[ Chapter 27]
Searchable digitized versions of the Yupian, Chinese Text Project
Category:6th-century books
Category:Chinese dictionaries
Category:Middle Chinese |
Fletcher Lane | Fletcher Lane was an American college basketball coach for the University of Illinois from 1907 to 1908. Lane coached the Fighting Illini to a record of 20–6 with a Western Conference record of 6–5. Even though he led his team to a positive record, the university, as well as the athletes, deemed Lane's coaching style as subpar. Lane's team benefited from a long Southern trip in which the team beat several YMCA and club teams from Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, and Georgia.
Personal life
Lane was born in Hernando, Mississippi on January 10, 1875. He attended the University of Nebraska and received a degree in physical education in 1905. Lane married Bertha Wiltamuth and had one child, Edward Neil Wiltamuth Lane (b. 1909), however, the couple's marriage ended in divorce. While at the University of Illinois he began taking law classes and became a founding member of the Sigma Pi fraternity chapter there. He would eventually earn his LL.B. degree from the University of Texas in 1910 and his Master of Arts in 1923. He was a World War I veteran and had a primary occupation of teacher for all of his adult life. Lane died on July 12, 1949 in Waco, Texas and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery.
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Shay Carl | Shay Carl Butler (born March 5, 1980), known professionally as Shay Carl, is an American vlogger, author and YouTube personality. Butler has three YouTube channels, two of which ("shaycarl" and "SHAYTARDS") have over three million subscribers. Butler and Corey Vidal developed a documentary called Vlogumentary on a $200,000+ budget that was funded with an Indiegogo campaign and raised by mostly from his viewers. Vlogumentary was released on April 20, 2016. Forbes called Butler one of the "most successful video entrepreneurs on YouTube" and in 2011 The New York Times featured Butler's production company Maker Studios.
Early life
Shay Carl Butler was born on March 5, 1980, in Logan, Utah to Carl and Laurie Butler. Butler is the oldest of four children. His siblings Casey, Carlie, and Logan are all active in the YouTube community. Casey Butler (caseylavere) is married to Kayli Butler (HeyKayli). Carlie Wood (CarlieStylez and WhatsUpWoods) each have over 500,000 subscribers on their YouTube channels, while Logan Butler (LoganMckay55) has just under 400,000. At the age of four, Butler's family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, and subsequently to Pocatello, Idaho. After graduating from high school, Butler served a full-time, two year mission in Barbados, Trinidad and Guyana for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He briefly attended Idaho State University, but dropped out to start working on his own. Prior to appearing on YouTube, Butler installed granite countertops for a living and worked as a school bus driver. He also worked as a radio DJ for Z103.
YouTube popularity
Butler became more popular on YouTube after Philip DeFranco watched one of his videos and gave him a shout-out. The shout-out resulted in a rise of Butler's subscribers and a friendship with DeFranco. By working with other YouTubers at The Station, Butler more than quadrupled his subscribers. Butler later joined the YouTube Partner Program and co-founded Maker Studios. In November 2009, he collaborated with Midi Mafia to create a flash mob at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. In 2009, Butler's "SHAYTARDS" channel won "Best YouTube Channel or Personality" at Mashable's 3rd annual Open Web Awards. In 2013, the same channel was one of the nominees in the "Best Non-Fiction or Reality Series" category of the 3rd Streamy Awards. Butler and his wife, Colette, run a podcast called "When the Kids Go to Sleep", where they interview YouTubers and celebrities such as Terry Crews and Bas Rutten. In February 2013, actor Matt Damon made a guest appearance in one of Butler's vlogs after he and Damon had collaborated on a video to promote a Water.org project. Butler sometimes creates sponsored videos, in which he promotes brands or companies in exchange for financial benefits, including with General Electric, Foot Locker, Kia and Skype.
In 2014 the Shay Carl YouTube channel was listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels, ranked at #31.
In late 2015, Shay, along with his 12-year-old son Gavin, wrote a lifestyle, self-help book, Fat Dad, Fat Kid.
On September 28, 2016, Butler announced that he will suspend the Shaytards YouTube channel for one year on March 5, 2017, which is the date of his 37th birthday.
On February 12, 2017, Butler announced he would be leaving YouTube for the time being. In his announcement on his Twitter page, Butler said that due to alcoholism, his "purpose is to rehab". International Business Times ran a story about Carl allegedly exchanging sexual messages through Twitter with an adult webcam model named Aria Nina. The Shaytards channel became active again in March 2018 with a video where Shay and his wife Colette talk about their relationship and the YouTube channel, and the family announced they would start uploading videos again, but would "take it one day at a time" and not commit to a daily vlog schedule. In the following videos, Shay has been openly talking about going to addiction meetings and working on his and Colette's relationship.
Personal life
Butler married Colette Crofts ("Colette Kati") in January 2003. The couple have five children: Gavin, Avia, Emmi, Brock and Daxton. His family is known as the "Shaytards" and as "YouTube's first family". Butler stated that much of his children's lives have been recorded and distributed in public. Butler's son, Brock, has been noted as the internet's "first Truman baby" as his life has been documented since birth. His daughter, Emmi, was featured on the front cover of James Blunt's album Some Kind of Trouble. Butler's other daughter, Avia, released the song "Forever Love" on June 12, 2014.
In 2014, Butler bought a property extending 1000-acres in Pocatello, Idaho. In 2016, he purchased the nearby Pebble Creek Ski Area in Inkom, Idaho.
Butler lost 112 lbs (50.8 kg) in the space of a year and subsequently ran three marathons, one of which he ran with motivational speaker Dave Ramsey, with whom he is good friends. Butler documented his weight loss journey on his "ShayLoss" channel.
YouTube channels
Butler has two YouTube channels. His "shaycarl" and "SHAYTARDS" channels have over one million and five million subscribers, respectively. For his "shaycarl" channel, Butler frequently works with celebrities such as retired basketball player Charles Barkley and retired mixed martial artist Bas Rutten.
Involvement with Maker Studios
Butler originally moved out to Los Angeles in 2009 to form the company Maker Studios, along with friends and fellow YouTubers Lisa and Ben Donovan, Dan Zappin, Philip DeFranco and Kassem Gharaibeh. Maker's programming is divided into four networks: "Men", "Women", "Family", and "Entertainment".
These four networks include "The Mom's View", which Butler's wife Colette appears on regularly as a part of the weekly "Mom's View Talk Show". Maker Studios was sold to The Walt Disney Company for $500 million on March 24, 2014. During its 25th season, America's Funniest Home Videos, whose YouTube channels are being managed by Maker Studios since January 2014, will promote its brand via two web series, one of which will be created by Butler.
Awards and nominations
Awards
2009 Mashable Open Web Awards Best YouTube Channel or Personality: SHAYTARDS
2014 4th Streamy Awards ICON award (entrepreneurship category)
Nominations
2013 3rd Streamy Awards Best Non-Fiction or Reality Series: SHAYTARDS
Filmography
2009 The Station (web series; 5 episodes) as Randy and Shay
2010 The Annoying Orange (web series; 2 episodes) as Cabbage (voice) and Shay Red
2011 No Ordinary Family (TV series; 1 episode) as Security Guard
2012–2013 MyMusic (web series; 3 episodes) as Hipster Metal
2015-2016 Wonder Quest (web series) (13 episodes) as Heinous (voice)
2016 Studio C (TV series; 1 episode) as Johnny "The Vlogfather"
Butler has also done voice acting work for Cartoonium's Shaybeard online cartoon series, which features Butler as a Viking. He also co-starred in a public service announcement of the Adopt the Arts Foundation.
See also
List of YouTubers
Maker Studios
References
External links
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Category:American Internet celebrities
Category:Latter Day Saints from Idaho
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Category:Video bloggers
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Category:Latter Day Saints from Arizona
Category:Latter Day Saints from California |
Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Men's shot put | The men's shot put event at the 1973 Summer Universiade was held at the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow on 16 August.
Results
References
Category:Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade |
Fountain de La Mariblanca | The Fountain de La Mariblanca was a fountain located in Puerta del Sol, in Madrid. Now demolished. Not to be confused with other fountains located in Madrid and Spain with the same name.
This fountain replaced an older Puerta del Sol fountain, the Fountain of the Harpies.
History and decor
In 1727 Pedro de Ribera was commissioned to replace the Fountain of the Harpies, located in the Puerta del Sol, which had been projected a century earlier by Italian sculptor Rutilio Gaci.
While the Madrilenian architect took some elements of the early fountain, completely redid the work of his predecessor, due to its deterioration. He opted for a slimmer and lower composition, on the line which, years later, would propose to the Fuente de la Fama, though much more restrained than this.
Regarding the decor, is quite true that eliminated much of the ornaments designed by Gaci like the harpies, which were replaced by dolphins, but it is also true that kept many others, such as the masks with dispenser or the sculpture topping the set.
This was none other than the Mariblanca, the famous white marble statue, possibly a representation of Venus, which was imported from Italy in 1619 and now is in the Casa de la Villa, after suffering all kinds of avatars and numerous moved.
The fountain designed by Ribera was demolished in 1838, decades before of proceed with the great reform of the Puerta del Sol, which led to its current path. The Mariblanca statue is the only remnant that has survived.
References
Category:Fountains in Madrid
Category:Demolished buildings and structures in Madrid
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1727
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Delta | Delta commonly refers to:
Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet
River delta, a landform at the mouth of a river
D (NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta"), the fourth letter of the modern English alphabet
Delta Air Lines, an American airline
Delta may also refer to:
Places
Canada
Delta, British Columbia
Delta (electoral district), federal electoral district
Delta (provincial electoral district)
Delta, Ontario
United States
Mississippi Delta, a region in Mississippi
Delta, Alabama
Delta, Colorado
Delta, Illinois
Delta, Iowa
Delta, Kentucky
Delta, Louisiana
Delta, Missouri
Delta, North Carolina
Delta, Ohio
Delta, Pennsylvania
Delta, Utah
Delta, Wisconsin, a town
Delta (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Delta County (disambiguation)
Elsewhere
Delta Island, Antarctica
Delta Stream, Antarctica
Delta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Delta, Thessaloniki, Greece
Delta State, Nigeria
Delta, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia
Colonia Delta, Uruguay
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
Delta Megazord, a zord in Power Rangers in Space
Deltas, the working class of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Film and television
Delta (2008 film), a Hungarian film
Delta (TV series), a 1992 TV series starring Delta Burke
Music
alt-J (∆), British indie band
Delta blues, one of the earliest styles of blues music
"Delta", a song by Crosby, Stills & Nash from Daylight Again David Crosby 1982
Albums
Delta (video album), a 2003 DVD by Delta Goodrem
Delta (Delta Goodrem album), 2007
Delta (Visions of Atlantis album), 2011
Delta (Mumford & Sons album), 2018
Delta, a 2013 album by Shapeshifter
Other media
Delta (magazine), a small poetry magazine
Delta (video game), a 1987 video game
Delta FM or Delta Radio, a former UK radio station
Businesses and organizations
Companies
Delta Air Lines, an American airline
Delta Connection, a regional brand name for Delta Air Lines
Delta Bank, a Ukrainian bank
Delta Cafés, a Portuguese coffee roasting and coffee packaging company
Delta Electric Company, defunct electrical parts company
Delta Electricity, an Australian power generation company
Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company
Delta Faucet Company, a plumbing fixtures company
Delta Holding, a Serbian import-export, banking, insurance and retail corporation
Delta Hotels, a Canadian hotel chain
Delta Machinery, a stationary power tools and equipment company
Delta Motor Corporation, a South African car manufacturer owned by General Motors
Delta Motors Corporation, a defunct Filipino auto manufacturer
DELTA (Dutch cable operator) , Dutch cable operator
Schools
Delta State (disambiguation), several universities
Delta College (disambiguation)
Delta Academy (disambiguation)
Delta Secondary School (disambiguation)
Delta High School (disambiguation)
Delta School District (disambiguation)
Delta Career Education Corporation, US
Delta International University of New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Delta Schools, international schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Military
Delta Force, a U.S. Army special operations force
Emergency Response Unit (Norway) (call sign Delta), a Norwegian special police forces team
Other organizations
STC Delta, a Georgian research and development center
American Delta Party, an American political party
San Francisco Deltas, a soccer team
Finance
Delta (finance), a first order derivative of an option pricing formula versus the underlying spot price
Visa Delta or Visa Debit, a brand of debit card
People
David Macbeth Moir (1798-1851), Scottish physicians and writer, under the signature Δ
Delta Burke (born 1956), American actress
Delta Goodrem (born 1984), Australian singer
Penelope Delta (1874–1941), Greek author
Delta (wrestler) (born 1985), Mexican professional wrestler
Science, technology, and mathematics
Chemistry
Δ (delta) vs. Λ (lambda) isomers to indicate right vs. left handed propeller twists in coordination complexes
δ (delta) convention, for designating allenes and other cumulated dienes in rings named according to a non-cumulated parent structure
Double bond isomers, for example in fatty acids, cloprostenol, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol
Computing
Delta (computer), a Russian ZX Spectrum clone
Delta encoding or delta compression, a technique in computer communications and version control
Delta timing, a technique used in iterative processes to keep track of time and prevent lag
Earth sciences
Epicentral distance (Δ)
Subtropical Storm Delta (1972), a subtropical storm of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season
Tropical Storm Delta (2005), a tropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
Mathematics
Δ, a difference of state between two before and after state schemas in the Z notation
, the first Feigenbaum constant
Delta connective, a unary connective in t-norm fuzzy logics
Delta method, a method for approximating the distribution of a function of a random variable
Difference operator (Δ)
Dirac delta function ( function)
Laplace operator (Δ)
Modular discriminant (Δ)
Symmetric difference (Δ)
Medicine and biology
Delta (ligand), an activator of the Notch signaling pathway
DELTA (taxonomy), a data format used in taxonomy for recording descriptions of living things
Delta (wasp), Old World genus of potter wasps
Delta wave, a brain wave
Vehicles
Delta (rocket family), a family of launch vehicles
Delta, a tricycle layout
Delta Formation, an aircraft formation flying manoeuvre in the shape of a V
Delta wing, an aircraft wing planform in the form of a triangle
Delta-class submarine (NATO reporting name), a Soviet/Russian SSBN submarine series
GM Delta platform, a compact car automobile platform from General Motors
Lancia Delta, an Italian rally car
Oldsmobile Delta 88, a full-size General Motors car made from 1965 to 1983
TrikeBuggy Delta, an American ultralight trike design
Other uses in science and technology
Delta, the refractory section in the roof of an electric arc furnace
Delta, a quadra group used in socionics
Delta baryon, a subatomic particle with spin 3/2
Delta circuit, in three-phase electric power
Delta robot, a specialized type of parallel robot
Ilford Delta, a photographic film
Sport
Delta (horse) (1946–1960), a champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse
Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils and Devilettes, an intercollegiate sports teams of the Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Mississippi
San Francisco Deltas, a soccer team
Delta (orienteering club), a former Finnish club
Other uses
Delta Dental, an American dental plan system
Delta Works, a flood-protection works in the Netherlands
Delta, a font designed by Aldo Novarese
Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, a professional certification
See also
Delta model, a strategic management model
The Delta (disambiguation)
Nabla symbol (), an inverted delta representing del, a vector differential operator
Kronecker delta (), a function
Dirac delta (), a function
, represents a triangle defined by points A, B and C
(ε, δ)-definition of limit
(%CH), a percentage change operation found on some calculators
, a classification in the arithmetical hierarchy
, a classification in the analytical hierarchy
, a classification in the polynomial hierarchy
δ13C, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes 13C:12C
δ15N, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes 15N:14N
δ18O, a measure of the ratio of stable isotopes oxygen-18:oxygen-16
DeltaWing, a prototype of racing car
High-leg delta, a three phase electrical circuit
Delta Delta Delta, a sorority
Delta function (disambiguation)
Task Force Delta (disambiguation)
Delta Force (disambiguation)
Delta 1 (disambiguation)
Delta 4 (disambiguation) |
C. H. Moore House | The C. H. Moore Homestead, in Clinton, Illinois, is one of two Registered Historic Places in DeWitt County. The other, the Magill House, was added to the Register in 2003. The Moore House was added in 1979.
History
Construction was started on the C. H. Moore Homestead by John and Minerva Moore Bishop. Mr. Bishop was a prosperous grain and lumber dealer in Clinton. Work on the C. H. Moore Homestead was completed in 1867 after the Civil War had ended and life took on a more normal pattern. Soon after this, the Bishops lost their only child. After Minerva Bishop's death in the early 1880s, Mr. Bishop sold the house to his brother-in-law, Clifton H. Moore.
Moore, an educated man, was the first attorney to commence practice in Clinton, having hung out his shingle in 1841. He served as co-counsel with Abraham Lincoln on several cases heard in the DeWitt County circuit court, of which future United States Supreme Court justice David Davis was the presiding judge.
The west wing of the home was added in 1887 to house Mr. Moore's vast collection of books. At the time of his death, he owned approximately 7,000 volumes, the largest collection of books in downstate Illinois. The two-story high library has a vaulted ceiling and stenciled walls. There are four-season windows on the upper level, and an iron railing around the suspended upper gallery. The furniture and paintings include many of the original Moore furnishings. Moore's book collection was left to the city of Clinton upon his death and is now housed at the Vespasian Warner Public Library.
Moore lived in the house until his death in 1901. The house sat in disrepair for several decades until 1967 when it was purchased and restored by the newly formed DeWitt County Museum Association. The Apple 'N Pork festival, held annually the last full weekend in September, was first held in 1968 to help raise funds to restore and maintain the mansion.
C.H. Moore Homestead Dewitt County Museum
The C. H. Moore Homestead is the centerpiece of the Apple 'n Pork Festival. This festival is held annually on the last weekend of September and has become one of central Illinois' largest festivals. The C.H. Moore Homestead DeWitt County Museum includes the restored Victorian mansion, original carriage barn, gardens, replica of an Indiana-style covered bridge, working blacksmith shop, three barns filled with antique farm equipment, tools, buggies, sleighs, autos, railroad items, and working telephone display.
Notes
External links
C. H. Moore Homestead Dewitt County Museum
Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Category:Houses in DeWitt County, Illinois
Category:Historic house museums in Illinois
Category:Open-air museums in Illinois
Category:Museums in DeWitt County, Illinois
Category:National Register of Historic Places in DeWitt County, Illinois |
Athletics at the 2005 Summer Universiade – Women's 200 metres | The women's 200 metres event at the 2005 Summer Universiade was held on 17–18 August in Izmir, Turkey.
Medalists
Results
Heats
Wind:Heat 1: -0.5 m/s, Heat 2: +2.6 m/s, Heat 3: +0.6 m/s, Heat 4: -1.7 m/s, Heat 5: -0.1 m/s, Heat 6: +0.8 m/s, Heat 7: +1.7 m/s
Quarterfinals
Wind:Heat 1: -0.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.5 m/s, Heat 3: +0.8 m/s, Heat 4: -0.1 m/s
Semifinals
Wind:Heat 1: +0.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.7 m/s
Final
Wind: -1.0 m/s
References
Finals results
Full results
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Thomas Blanchard (actor) | Thomas Blanchard (born 16 July 1980) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than thirty films since 1997.
Selected filmography
References
External links
Category:1980 births
Category:Living people
Category:French male film actors |
For Wives Only | For Wives Only is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Victor Heerman and starring Marie Prevost, Victor Varconi and Charles K. Gerrard.
Cast
Marie Prevost as Laura Rittenhaus
Victor Varconi as Dr. Rittenhaus
Charles K. Gerrard as Dr. Carl Tanzer
Arthur Hoyt as Dr. Fritz Schwerman
Claude Gillingwater as Professor von Waldstein
Josephine Crowell as Housekeeper
Dorothy Cumming as Countess von Nessa
William Courtright as Butler
References
Bibliography
Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
Category:1926 films
Category:1920s comedy films
Category:English-language films
Category:American films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American comedy films
Category:Films directed by Victor Heerman
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Producers Distributing Corporation films |
Long May You Run, J. Tillman | Long May You Run, J. Tillman is J. Tillman's third album. It was originally released in limited edition of 150 copies through Keep Recordings. In 2007 it was re-released together with I Will Return on Fargo Records as a double-CD.
Track listing
References
External links
J. Tillman official website
Category:2006 albums
Category:Keep Recordings albums
Category:Josh Tillman albums |
Open licence (French) | The Licence Ouverte / Open Licence is a French free licence published on October 18, 2012 by Etalab on October for open data from the State of France. The license was designed to be compatible with Creative Commons Licenses, Open Government License, and the Open Data Commons Attribution License. Information released under the Open License may be re-used with attribution, such as a URL or other identification of the producer. The Open License is used by the city of Bordeaux, France to release data sets.
References
External links
License Ouverte by Etalab
Category:Open data
Category:Licensing
Category:2012 introductions |
The Black Echo | The Black Echo is the 1992 debut novel by American crime author Michael Connelly. This is the first of Connelly's Bosch series. The book won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for "Best First Novel" in 1992.
Plot
The novel centers on Harry Bosch, a Vietnam veteran who served as a "tunnel rat" (nicknamed Hari Kari Bosch), with the 1st Infantry Division — a specialized soldier whose job it was to go into the maze of tunnels used as barracks, hospitals, and on some occasions, morgues, by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army. After the war Bosch became an L. A. police detective advancing to the Robbery-Homicide Division. However, after killing the main suspect in the "Dollmaker" serial killings, Bosch is demoted to "Hollywood Division" homicide, where he partners with Jerry Edgar. The death of Billy Meadows, a friend and fellow "tunnel rat" from the war, attracts Bosch's interest, especially when he determines that it may have been connected to a spectacular bank robbery using tunnels. Bosch suspects that the robbers were after more than money and he then partners with the FBI, in particular agent Eleanor Wish, in an attempt to foil their next attack.
Season 3 of the Amazon series, Bosch, is loosely adapted from this novel. After Harry captures a suspect, Detective Bosch tells him "I will make sure you spend the rest of your life in the black echo."
Awards
The Black Echo won the 1993 Edgar Award for "Best First Novel" and was also nominated for the Anthony Award in the same category and the Dilys Award for "Best Novel".
References
Category:Harry Bosch series
Category:1992 American novels
Category:Edgar Award-winning works
Category:Novels set in Los Angeles
Category:1992 debut novels |
2010 Shute Shield season | The first matches of the season were played on 10 April 2010 with the season ending in the Grand Final, played on 2 October 2010.
Teams
Twelve Teams competed in the 2010 Shute Shield season from Sydney.
The teams currently in the Shute Shield are:
Additional Venues Used
Bon Andrews Oval
St Marys League Stadium
Fixtures/Results
see 2010 Shute Shield Regular Season fixtures/results
Ladders
Seniors
First Grade (Shute Shield)
Second Grade (Colin Caird Shield)
Third Grade (JR Henderson Shield)
Fourth Grade (Henderson Cup)
Colts (Under 20s)
First Colts (W. McMahon Memorial Shield)
Second Colts (Shell Trophy)
Third Colts
Shute Shield season
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2015 Asian Beach Volleyball Championship | The 2015 Asian Beach Volleyball Championship was a beach volleyball event, that was held from October 1 to 4, 2015 in Hong Kong, China. The competition included only women's event.
Medal summary
Participating nations
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References
Results
External links
Asian Volleyball Confederation
Asian Championships
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball
Category:Asian Beach Volleyball Championship |
Anne Vaughan | Anne Vaughan may refer to:
Anne Locke (née Vaughan, 1530–after 1590), English poet
Anne Vaughan, Countess of Carbery (1663–1690)
Anne Vaughan, Duchess of Bolton (1689–1751), daughter of Anne Vaughan, Countess of Carbery |
Jessicka | Jessicka Addams (born Jessica Fodera October 23, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and artist. Best known by her stage name Jessicka, she was the front woman of Florida-based band Jack Off Jill and current front for the Los Angeles-based band Scarling.
Early life
Jessicka grew up in the town of Sunrise, Florida. She was raised as an only child by her mother Nancy after her mother divorced her husband, Joseph. After high school Jessicka had immersed herself in music, the Goth subculture, gay iconography, all things John Waters and feminist literature. At seventeen she decided that she wanted to start her own band.
Music career
Jack Off Jill (1992–2000)
Jessica Fodera met Tenni Arslanyan while attending high school in Sunrise, Florida. She added the "K" to the original spelling of her first name and dropped her surname, paying homage to Magick (Book 4), by Aleister Crowley. They had begun writing songs, but had not yet formed a complete band when Robin Moulder and Michelle Oliver joined them to create the band Jack In Jill. In 1992, Jack In Jill got their start when they were asked to open for fellow Floridian Marilyn Manson and his band, Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids at a Davie, Florida nightclub called The Plus 5 Lounge. Manson suggested a name change to Jack Off Jill (JOJ). In 1993, JOJ released their first recording titled, "Children 5 And Up", produced by Marilyn Manson. In early 1993, Jessicka performed with Manson's ephemeral side project, Mrs. Scabtree and shared vocal duties with then boyfriend Jeordie White.
In December 1994 while on tour, Jessicka spent a night in jail when she and Manson were arrested after a concert in Jacksonville, Florida, for breaking the town's adult entertainment codes. They both spent one night in prison. Charges were dropped.
Before her 21st birthday, Jessicka's record label, Rectum Records, had released several independent JOJ records and several 7" singles. Jack Off Jill signed with Los Angeles-based Risk Records in January 1997. The band released their first full-length album, Sexless Demons And Scars, in September 1997 then toured in the U.S. and Canada. In July 2000 JOJ released their second full-length CD, Clear Hearts Grey Flowers, just as their label was preparing to close down.
JOJ officially went on hiatus in late 2000, after playing a show at Los Angeles' The Troubadour in April 2000. They were joined onstage by guitarist Helen Storer of the UK band Fluffy and producer Chris Vrenna on drums.
Reunion
On April 7, 2015 Bust.com announced a Jack Off Jill reunion show at The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC on July 18 as well as a Pledgemusic campaign offering "Golden Tickets" and other Jack Off Jill rarities related to the show. The 2015 lineup consists of Jessicka, Tenni Ah-Cha-Cha, Michelle Inhell & Helen Storer.
Jack Off Jill is referred to by several publications as "Riot Goth Legends" & "Cult Heroes"
Singer Jessicka Addams stated that their show at Heaven in London on October 23, 2015 (her birthday) would be Jack Off Jill's final show.
Scarling. (2002–present)
After taking a break from the music industry and making Los Angeles her permanent residence, Jessicka was invited in 2001 by guitarist Christian Hejnal to be a guest vocalist on his solo album. The pair had only met a few months earlier through a mutual friend, Lisa Leveridge. They began recording and rehearsing together and eventually recruited the musicians who would form the first and very short-lived lineup of Scarling. In early 2002 Jessicka was introduced to Long Gone John, owner of Sympathy for the Record Industry, by mutual friend Mark Ryden. In March 2003 Scarling.'s debut single, "Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole", was released on John's label. The cover featured an illustration entitled "Wound 39" by artist Mark Ryden. In April 2004 Scarling. released their first album, Sweet Heart Dealer, which again utilized the team of Ryden and Vrenna.
In the autumn of 2004, Jessicka was featured on the cover of ROCKRGRL vocalist issue. Scarling. was invited to join the lineup of the Robert Smith-curated Curiosa Festival, performing on select West Coast dates alongside Jessicka's long-time favorite band The Cure. Three weeks before joining the tour, drummer Samantha Maloney filled in and was soon replaced by Beth Gordon.
Smith described the band's music as "dark, desperate, chaotic, gorgeous pop music, the sound of the end of the world", and Scarling.'s Sweet Heart Dealer was nominated for the 2004 Shortlist Music Prize.
After a series of 7" singles on Sympathy, Scarling. announced in early 2005 that their second album, So Long, Scarecrow, would appear later that year; it was preceded by the single "We are the Music Makers" and was released in August 2005. So Long, Scarecrow was co-produced by Rob Campanella and received several favorable reviews. Alternative Press' Jason Pettigrew gave the album a 5 out of 5 rating. Simon Price from The Independent said, "Fodera has always had a knack for acronyms and catchphrases,'Manorexic' is one which will be lapped up by the goth kids, but her intriguing lyrics, sung in a voice pitched midway between Kate Bush sweetness and Siouxsie Sioux stridency, cut deeper than mere punning." The song Bummer a track from SLS was featured on Showtime's The L Word season 3 episode "Latecomer." In December 2005, Scarling. embarked on its first UK tour. In 2006 Jessicka continued to tour in the US and Europe with Scarling., touring with such bands as UK shoegaze band Amusement Parks on Fire and opening for The Wedding Present and Depeche Mode. In 2006, Scarling. released their fourth single Staring to the Sun. The album cover featured a portrait of Jessicka done by Los Angeles photographer Piper Ferguson.
On May 13, 2014, Mark Ryden released an album entitled 'The Gay Nineties Old Tyme Music: Daisy Bell,' that features Scarling. along with other artists all giving a different rendition of the same song, 'Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two).'The album, printed on 180 g red vinyl, was limited to 999 copies, all hand-numbered and signed by Ryden. Half of the records were to be sold at the Michael Kohn Gallery. The proceeds from the record, will benefit Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit that supports musical education in disadvantaged elementary schools.
Between bands
After JOJ Jessicka worked with Kevin Haskins, producer Chris Vrenna on American McGee's Alice soundtrack, and drummer Samantha Maloney. She also made a cameo appearance in Ellie Parker.
In March 2009, Jessicka appeared as a special guest in an episode of the reality television series Germany's Next Topmodel, hosted by Heidi Klum. In April 2009, Jessicka modeled for photographer Austin Young for the Bettie Page "Heaven Bound" art show.
Jessicka and her husband Christian performed with their band Scarling. at the wedding of Bravo's Shear Genius finalist Janine Jarman and Matthew Wolcott at the Houdini Mansion in Hollywood on June 26, 2010.
Jessicka and her husband Christian were featured on an episode of Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis which aired August 20, 2013
Released March 10, 2014, Jessicka makes a small cameo in Placebo's - Begin The End video, directed by Los Angeles photographer Piper Ferguson
On July 22, 2014, Jessicka wrote the essay titled 'Coming Full Circle with Fat Phobia, Anne Wilson, & Self Hatred' that was published online in Bust (magazine). It discusses the singers' experiences with being overweight in the music industry and fat phobia.
Art
On April 25, 2008 at the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery in Los Angeles, California, Addams was in her first group artshow curated by actor Daniel Franzese called depARTed.
On November 13, 2010, she presented her artwork collectively entitled 'Smile Even if it Hurts' at the Dark Dark Science Gallery (Atwater Village, California) in a joint exhibit with friend and fellow artist Lindsey Way. Adams' show was titled "What's Behind The Bunny" and featured collaborations with artists Mark Ryden, Elizabeth McGrath, Morgan Slade, Louis-Marie de Castelbajac, Joshua Petker, Tarina Tarantino, Jared Gold, Austin Young, and Janine Jarman. On April 1, 2011, her website JessickaAddams.com launched featuring a gallery of her artwork.
On April 9, 2011 Addams participated in Tara McPherson's "Tiny Trifecta" in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York and LeBasse Projects inaugural exhibition "Momentum" in Chinatown, Los Angeles, California.
On August 5, 2011 Addams' show "Little Grey Secrets" opened at La Luz de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles.
Addams is listed in several art publications as one of artist Mark Ryden's muses.
On November 2, 2013, she was part of a four-woman show in Los Angeles called "Black Moon" with fellow female artists, Elizabeth McGrath, Camille Rose Garcia and Marion Peck.
January 2014, The LA Art Show had over 18,000 items on display from over 135 dealers, Addams was recognized by the Huffington Post Arts & Culture, "Jessicka Addams, who could be related to the real Addams Family and creates self-portraits that reference near death personal experiences with a witty, macabre slant."
Curator
Addams has curated two different art shows under the name Dark Dark Science. The first was on November 13, 2010, the show was collectively entitled 'Smile Even if it Hurts', a joint exhibit with friend and fellow artist Lindsey Way.
The second show was on August 4, 2012 and ran until August 28, 2012. The show was called 'MiXTAPE'. Artists were asked to pick a song and create art inspired by that song. 24 artists participated in the show including Mark Ryden, Frances Bean Cobain, Camille Rose Garcia, Fairuza Balk, Aaron Smith, and Tara McPherson. The eclectic mix of songs chosen were featured for digital download on iTunes.
Personal life
Addams identifies herself as bisexual. On February 14, 2006, (Valentine's Day) while on a break from touring, she and Scarling colleague Christian Hejnal were engaged. Their wedding took place on October 13, 2007 at the Oviatt Penthouse in Los Angeles and was attended by numerous celebrities. The couple changed their surname to Addams.
On October 20, 2017, Addams wrote a Facebook post accusing her ex-boyfriend Twiggy Ramirez, bassist of Marilyn Manson, of raping her while they were a couple in the 1990s; she also accused him of subjecting her to domestic violence and emotional abuse.
On October 24, 2017 Marilyn Manson posted on Facebook that the band parted ways with White following allegations of sexual misconduct made against him, and announced that there will be a replacement for the upcoming tour.
Exhibitions
2016 "Please Stop Loving Me" / "Shitty Teen" with Lindsey Way February 5–28, 2016 at La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
2014 "That Which Does Not Kill You" May 9 to June 8, 2014" The Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NYC.
2011 "Little Grey Secrets" La Luz de Jesus Los Angeles, CA
2010 "Smile Even If It Hurts" at Dark Dark Science Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected group shows
2018 LAST GASP group show MINNA GALLERY San Francisco
2018 LA Art Show "Littletopia" Los Angeles, CA
2017 "Friends with the Animals: And Other Tales in an Anthropomorphised World." Curated by Luke Chueh G R2 gallery, Santa Monica, California
2016 Damien Echols - "Collaborations". Copro Gallery Santa Monica California
2016 "Crime On Canvas" Las Vegas, Nevada
2016 "My Blood Runs Yellow: A Tribute to Giallos" curated by Alix Sloan and Drew Fitzpatrick Los Angeles, California
2016 "ARCANA" at Red Truck Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2015 "Dreamlands" Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, CA
2015 LA Art Show "Littletopia" Los Angeles, CA
2014 "Black Moon NYC" Sloan Fine Arts, NY, NY with Camille Rose Garcia, Elizabeth McGrath and Marion Peck
2014 "Boxes Of Death 5"
2014 "Small Indignities" September 13 – October 5 at Red Truck Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2014 "Flannel and Glitter" opened September 13 The Rawk Show, Romani Gallery, Austin, Texas
2014 "The Coaster Show" September 5–28, 2014 La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
2014 "Fourth Annual Tiny Trifecta" at Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NY
2014 LA Art Show "Littletopia" Los Angeles, CA
2013 "Black Moon" Sloan Fine Arts, LA, CA with Camille Rose Garcia, Elizabeth McGrath and Marion Peck.
2013 "beer-is-art " Coaster Show at La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
2013 "Third Annual Tiny Trifecta" at Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NY
2013 "Tentacles!" Ltd. Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington.
2013 " Mark Ryden's YHWH Group Custom Show" @ Toy Art Gallery Los Angeles, CA
2012 "AWAKENING" curated by Sloan Fine Arts, AFA gallery New York, NY
2012 "MiXTAPE" at Dark Dark Science Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 "Second Annual Tiny Trifecta" at Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NY
2012 "Hey Geek Girl" LTD art Gallery Seattle, Washington
2011 "Spread the Word" Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
2011 "Plus 1" Sloan Fine Arts, New York, NY
2011 "Momentum" at LeBasse Projects Chinatown Inaugural Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2011 "Tiny Trifecta" at Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NY
2011 "Everything But The Kitschen Sync 14" at La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
2009 "Crusaders and Haters" RoyalT, Culver City, California
2008 "2008 "DepARTed" World of Wonder Storefront Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Discography
With Jack Off Jill
Children 5 And Up (1993)
Boy Grinder Session (1994)
Cannibal Song Book (1995)
Cockroach Waltz (1996)
Sexless Demons And Scars (1997), Risk Records
Covetous Creature EP (1998), Risk Records
Clear Hearts Grey Flowers (2000), Risk Records/404 Music Group
Humid Teenage Mediocrity (2003), Sympathy for the Record Industry – U.S., Livewire/Cargo Records– Europe
With Scarling.
Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole EP (2003), Sympathy for the Record Industry
Sweet Heart Dealer (2004), Sympathy for the Record Industry
"Crispin Glover" (2004), Sympathy for the Record Industry
So Long, Scarecrow (2005), Sympathy for the Record Industry
"Scarling. / The Willowz", (2005), Sympathy for the Record Industry
"Staring to the Sun" (2006), Sympathy for the Record Industry
" Who Wants To Die For Art" (2013), The Committee to Keep Music Evil
"TBA" (2020), The Committee to Keep Music Evil
Guest contributions
"Last Day In June" (1999), for the band Honey To Ash.
"Miss Ann Thrope" (2000), track seven on My Ruin studio album, A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish, Snapper/Spitfire.
"Make You Believe" (2000), for the band Messy.
"Iieee" (2001), cover duet with Meegs Rascón, guitarist of Coal Chamber, for Songs Of A Goddess – A Tori Amos Tribute.
"Happy For You" (2008), for The Ingenues.
"Nothing At All" (2012) Chris Vrenna / Tweaker "call the time eternity" Metropolis Records
"Begin The End" Placebo (cameo) directed by Piper Ferguson
"Mark Ryden's Gay Nineties' Album (2014) with Scarling.
Soundtracks
Wicked "When I Am Queen" & "Rabbiteen" (1998)
Soundtrack, American McGee's Alice (2001)
Filmography
Ellie Parker (2005)
Bettie Page Reveals All (2012) (documentary)
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Daring (keelboat) | The Daring is a One-Design keelboat which is based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight and races throughout the season around the Solent. Its construction is GRP, with some older yachts possessing original wooden decks.
The first Darings were designed by Arthur Robb, based on his 5.5 Metre yacht Vision which was built for and won silver in the 1956 Olympics. 35 yachts of the class were built in the years up to 1992. In 2008 a new hull mould was commissioned to match the original lines but with a redesigned ergonomic deck and cockpit. One new yacht was built and several more obtained new hulls while keeping the original name, number, rigging and keel.
To date all Darings are based in Cowes apart from three (8, Day Dreamer; 18, Deva; 20, Afroessa) sold to owners in Beirut, Cumbria and Majorca respectively. Most Darings' names begin with "D".
The season runs for approximately 80 races from April through to October, with highlights including Cowes Classics Week and Cowes Week in June and August. The Daring Class Association manages the class rules carefully to ensure affordability, uniformity and close racing. The class is not often raced against other designs of yachts, as the class racing is usually competitive and well attended, however occasionally pursuit races are competed with other classes of yacht in the Solent.
The Class Association has a number of strong affiliations, including with the International One Design fleet. This provides for the winner of Cowes Week each year to compete at Bermuda International Invitational Race Week in IODs. Further the class has links with foreign yacht clubs which will annually compete a team racing challenge in home or foreign waters. Competitors in the past have included the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club in Perth, Western Australia and the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club on Long Island, USA.
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Hypolith | In Arctic and Antarctic ecology, a hypolith is a photosynthetic organism, and an extremophile, that lives
underneath rocks in climatically extreme deserts such as Cornwallis Island and Devon Island in the Canadian high Arctic. The community itself is the hypolithon.
Hypolithons are protected by their rock from harsh ultraviolet radiation and wind scouring. The rocks can also trap moisture and are generally translucent allowing light to penetrate. Writing in Nature, ecologist Charles S. Cockell of the British Antarctic Survey and Dale Stokes (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) describe how hypoliths reported to date (until 2004) had been found under quartz, which is one of the most common translucent minerals.
However, Cockell reported that on Cornwallis Island and Devon Island, 94-95% of a random sample of 850 opaque dolomitic rocks were colonized by hypoliths, and found that the communities were dominated by cyanobacteria. The rocks chosen were visually indistinguishable from those nearby, and were about 10 cm across; the hypolithon was visible as a greenish coloured band. Cockell proposed that rock sorting by periglacial action, including that during freeze–thaw cycles, improves light penetration around the edges of rocks (see granular material and Brazil nut effect).
Cockell and Stokes went on to estimate the productivity of the Arctic communities by monitoring the uptake of sodium bicarbonate labelled with Carbon-14 and found that (for Devon Island) productivity of the hypolithon was comparable to that of plants, lichens, and bryophytes combined (0.8 ± 0.3 g m−2 y−1 and 1 ± 0.4 g m−2 y−1 respectively) and concluded that the polar hypolithon may double previous estimates of the productivity of that region of the rocky polar desert.
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Casualty recording | Casualty recording is the systematic and continuous process of documenting individual direct deaths from armed conflict or violence. It aims to create a comprehensive account of all deaths within a determined scope, usually bound by time and location. At minimum, casualty recording typically involves documenting the date and location of a violent incident; the number of people killed; the means of violence or category of weapon used; and the party responsible. Casualty recording differs from casualty tracking, which is conducted exclusively by military actors to track the effects of their operations on the civilian population for the purpose of improving their procedures and mitigating their effects.
A defining feature of casualty recording is that it is victim-centric and seeks to establish the identity of every fatality including name, age, sex, and other relevant demographic details. Where relevant to the conflict context, this may also include ethnicity and religious or political affiliation. However, depending on the aims and resources of the organisation conducting the recording, a particular initiative may record only a specific subset of deaths. Subsets may include, for example, deaths caused by a specific belligerent or weapons type, or deaths of a particular segment of the population, such as children.
Casualty recording focuses on documenting direct deaths from armed violence. It does not normally include deaths caused by the indirect or reverberating effects of conflict. Some casualty recording initiatives document injuries as well as deaths. Casualty records may overlap with, or operate in conjunction with, records of persons who have gone missing during a conflict or period of violence.
Aims and uses
Practitioners have different aims and motivations for conducting casualty recording. Typically these are grounded in considerations relating to international humanitarian law or human rights law. Casualty records have also been used to support some humanitarian disarmament initiatives.
The purported aims of casualty records include:
Recognising the dignity and rights of victims and their families, including the right to life and the right to the truth. This work often overlaps with efforts to trace missing people in situations of armed conflict.
Supporting accountability and peace building processes including memorialisation, transitional justice and criminal prosecutions for war crimes or crimes against humanity. These activities can play an important role in reducing cycles of violence and promoting community reconciliation.
Supporting the protection of civilians by providing information to reduce unintended consequences of military activities and improve humanitarian response planning.
Informing media reporting and policy makers on conflict dynamics.
Informing, monitoring and improving protection measures aimed at specific populations affected by armed violence including children, women, persons with disabilities, journalists, health workers and older persons.
Enabling victims' families to receive reparation, compensation and access to services, as well as inheritance rights.
Identifying the unintended and unacceptable harm to civilians caused by the use of certain weapons. Casualty data on anti-personnel landmines and cluster munitions helped drive international efforts to ban these weapons, and information on the effects of explosive weapons in populated areas is informing efforts to curb their use.
History
The twenty-first century practice of monitoring and publishing detailed online information on the human casualties of armed conflicts is sometimes associated with the Iraq Body Count project that started monitoring Iraqi deaths in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Iraq Body Count estimates, the 2004 and 2006 Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties and the ORB survey of Iraq War casualties led to several years of academic debate over the accuracy of the various surveys of the total casualties of the Iraq War.
Methodology and standards
Approaches to casualty recording vary depending on the context, purpose and resources of the organisation responsible. In 2016, Standards for Casualty Recording were published by the UK-based NGO Every Casualty Worldwide, in an effort to harmonise approaches across the field and promote best practice.
The data gathered by a casualty recording project will generally be stored in an electronic or paper-based database, but there is no standard format for sharing or publishing the final results. Some casualty recorders, such as Iraq Body Count project and Yemen Data Project, make their records publicly available online and searchable. Casualty recorders have also published books of their records, such as the Kosovo Memory Book and Lost Lives (relating to deaths from the conflict in Northern Ireland). Lost Lives was subsequently reproduced as a documentary film in 2019. Casualty data may also be used to produce digital or physical memorials of those who died, as in the case of Remembering The Ones We Lost, which memorialises individuals who were killed or went missing during the conflict in South Sudan.
Practitioners
Casualty recording is frequently conducted by civil society organisations in the absence of official recording processes led by state entities. In some armed conflict situations, public services normally involved in recording deaths (including hospitals and other health services, as well as coroners and police forces) are no longer functioning effectively. There may also be political reasons why state authorities do not publish or share information on conflict related deaths. Some internationally mandated entities, including UN peacekeeping missions or commissions of inquiry, conduct casualty recording as part of their broader work.
Examples of organisations which conduct, or have conducted, casualty recording include:
Action on Armed Violence, UK
Airwars
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
B'Tselem for Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories
Centre for Border Studies - Jindal School of International Affairs, India
Colombian Campaign Against Landmines (Colombia Sin Minas)
Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN), Northern Ireland
Conflict Analysis Resource Centre, Colombia
Crisis Tracker
Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala
Humanitarian Law Centre, Kosovo
Humanitarian Law Centre, Serbia
Humanitarian Outcomes – Aid Worker Security Database
Iniskoy for Peace and Democracy Organisation, Somalia
INSEC in Nepal
International Commission on Missing Persons
Iraq Body Count project, ORB survey of Iraq War casualties, Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties
Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor
Lost Lives, Northern Ireland
Nigeria Watch
Omeria Organisation
Pakistan Body Count
Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Somali Human Rights Association (SOHRA)
Surveillance System for Attacks on Healthcare (SSA), World Health Organisation
Syria Justice and Accountability
Syrian Centre for Statistics and Research
Syrian Network for Human Rights
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
The Human Rights Center Georgia
United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
Violations Documentation Center in Syria
Yemen Data Project
Non-conflict casualty recording
Although casualty recording typically relates to deaths resulting from armed conflict, specialised casualty recording projects not directly related to armed violence also exist. These include projects focused on recording deaths from gender based violence and deaths or disappearances of migrants, homeless people and other vulnerable groups. Examples of such initiatives include:
Committee to Protect Journalists, recording deaths of journalists worldwide
Dying Homeless, recording deaths of homeless people in the UK, by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Gun Violence Archive, recording all gun violence incidents, including deaths, in the USA.
Missing Migrants, tracking deaths along international migratory routes, by the International Organisation of Migration
Los feminicidios en México, recording deaths from gender based violence in Mexico
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Simon Cherry | Simon R. Cherry is a biomedical engineer, currently a Distinguished Professor at University of California, Davis, and a published author.
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Ukrainians in Estonia | Ukrainians in Estonia (; ) are the third largest ethnic group in Estonia after Estonians and Russians and number 28,000. 4,000 out of them are citizens of Ukraine.
Most of the Ukrainians in Estonia live in Tallinn (2,92% of the whole population) and Harjumaa; some live in Tartu and Pärnu. The representatives of the Ukrainian ethnic minority have formed over 20 national-cultural organizations. Most of the Ukrainians in Estonia support the integration of non-Estonians into Estonian society, while retaining their own cultural and ethnic particularities. For the Estonian population of Estonia, on Saturdays the fourth channel of the Estonian Radio (the Russian language channel) broadcasts Ukrainian language radio broadcast «Червона калина» ('Chervona kalina' - "Red Viburnum").
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Rosalind Gibson | Rosalind Susan Gibson is a New Zealand nutrition academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Otago.
Academic career
After a 1965 MSc titled 'The inter-relationship of vitamins B₆ and E.' at the University of California, and a 1979 PhD from University of London titled 'Use of hair as a biopsy material for the assessment of trace metal status in Canadian low birthweight infants' , she moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.
In 2002, Gibson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Gibson was awarded the 2013 Kellogg International Prize in Nutrition.
Selected works
Gibson, Rosalind S. Principles of nutritional assessment. Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.
Gibson, Rosalind S. "Zinc nutrition in developing countries." Nutrition Research Reviews 7, no. 1 (1994): 151-173.
Gibson, Rosalind S. "Content and bioavailability of trace elements in vegetarian diets." The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 59, no. 5 (1994): 1223S-1232S.
Hotz, Christine, and Rosalind S. Gibson. "Traditional food-processing and preparation practices to enhance the bioavailability of micronutrients in plant-based diets." The Journal of Nutrition 137, no. 4 (2007): 1097-1100.
Gibson, Rosalind S. Nutritional assessment: a laboratory manual. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Compound muscle action potential | The compound muscle action potential (CMAP) or compound motor action potential is an electromyography investigation (electrical study of muscle function).
The CMAP idealizes the summation of a group of almost simultaneous action potentials from several muscle fibers in the same area. These are usually evoked by stimulation of the motor nerve. Patients that suffer from critical illness myopathy, which is a frequent cause of weakness seen in patients in hospital intensive care units, have prolonged compound muscle action potential.
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Leigh-on-Sea railway station | Leigh-on-Sea railway station is on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway line, serving the town of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. It is down the main line from London Fenchurch Street via and it is situated between to the west and to the east. Its three-letter station code is LES.
It was originally opened as Leigh by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway on 1 July 1855, being renamed Leigh-on-Sea on 1 October 1904, but was rebuilt by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway on a new site, to the west, opening on 1 January 1934. The station and all trains serving it are currently operated by c2c.
History
The original station was built in Leigh Old Town and opened in 1855, but a larger three-platform station some distance to the west was opened on 1 January 1934 to replace the first structure. The original building was then used by a local Sea Scout troop until the northern platform buildings were demolished to allow the widening of the adjacent road. The other platform and station building still exist and are currently used by Leigh Sailing Club.
When the London Underground's District line operated a seasonal non-stop excursion service between 1910 and 1939 through to the Southend area, Leigh-on-Sea was the first stop after .
There were formerly sidings on the 'up' London-bound side to the south-west of the station. There was a fatal accident at these sidings on 15 December 1935. The sidings had been partly decommissioned by 1969.
Services
The typical off-peak service frequency is:
6 tph (trains per hour) westbound towards London Fenchurch Street, of which:
2 tph call at all stations via
2 tph call at all stations via the branch
2 tph call at selected stations only
6 tph eastbound towards , of which:
2 tph terminate at
4 tph continue to Shoeburyness
During peak hours there are additional trains to and from Fenchurch Street, some of which terminate at Leigh-on-Sea.
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USS Finch (AM-9) | USS Finch (AM-9) was a acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing. Finch was named for the finch, and is strictly speaking the only U.S. vessel named for such.
Finch was launched 30 March 1918 by Standard Shipbuilding Co., New York; sponsored by Mrs. F. G. Peabody; and commissioned 10 September 1918, with Lieutenant J. C. Lindberg in command. The ship's fame was secured as the first and only ship-command of then Lieutenant (promoted to lieutenant commander on 25 September 1937, retroactive to 1 July) Hyman G. Rickover, future commander of Naval Reactors and the longest-serving active duty U.S. Naval officer. Rickover commanded Finch from 17 July to 5 October 1937, when the ship was primarily operating at Shanghai, China, to protect American interests during the Battle of Shanghai, the first of 22 major engagements fought between the Chinese and Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
North Atlantic operations
After training and operations with a submarine bell, Finch sailed from New York 9 August 1919 for Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Here she based for two months of duty removing the vast number of mines laid in the North Sea during World War I. Finch returned to Charleston on 29 November 1920, and on 3 January 1920 sailed for San Pedro, California, where from 1 March to 29 August she was in reduced commission.
Pacific Ocean operations
Modernized, she sailed from San Francisco on 20 August 1921 for duty with the Asiatic Fleet, and for the next 20 years, served in the Philippines in the winter and out of the China base at Chefoo in the summer. Her duties were varied, and included towing and salvage work, as well as participation in the Yangtze River Patrol. She joined in fleet exercises, and as war tension heightened, played a part in protecting American citizens and interests in the Far East.
In 1937, Finch was commanded briefly by LCDR (later VADM, permanent rank) Hyman G. Rickover, 'Father of the Nuclear Navy'. Finch was the only command at sea Rickover ever held.
World War II operations
In 1941, she began work in intensive development exercises with submarine and mine groups in the Philippines, and as war came closer, spent December on patrol in the Taiwan Straits. According to an account given by Yeoman 3C A. Glenn Pratt, a crewmember aboard the Finch, she was assigned, along with the , a sister vessel with a diving bell, to escort two US Navy river gunboats back to Manila Harbor from their station in China since the Japanese had sunk one such vessel, the Panay, in 1937. During the return leg of this mission, the vessels were temporarily surrounded by Japanese naval vessels headed toward the Philippines. The gunboats scouted the Japanese column, then pulled ahead to report the naval activity to Washington, while the Finch and Heron stayed behind, eventually being left by the Japanese as well. The two vessels returned to Manila Bay on 6 December 1941.
As the Japanese began aerial bombardment of bases in the Philippines, the Finch continued her task of sweeping for mines to keep the channel into the harbor open for incoming shipping. Yeoman Pratt reported that machine gunners on board the Finch downed one Japanese aircraft during an air raid, and though the Captain congratulated them, he asked them not to repeat the feat so that they would not become a special target and be able to continue mine sweeping operations. After running out of fuel in March, Finch was anchored in shallow water and her crew taken to shore defense positions.
Sunk by a Japanese bomb
On 9 April 1942, while moored at the eastern point of Corregidor, Finch was damaged by the near miss of a Japanese bomb, her seams opening and fragments of the bomb piercing her hull. The entire crew landed safely, and Finch was abandoned to sink the next day, 10 April 1942.
Many of the Finchs crew served during the siege of Corregidor, though her captain was evacuated to Australia via submarine. The survivors of Corregidor were the first prisoners to arrive at Cabanatuan prison camp. Many were later removed to camps in Japan or Taiwan. Yeoman Pratt, held in three camps in Taiwan, was evacuated aboard the destroyer escort USS Finch, and was startled at seeing the name, thinking it had been named for his old vessel, but that ship was named in honor of Lt.(j.g.) Joseph W. Finch, who died aboard the USS Laffey during the battle of Guadalcanal.
According to Japanese records the Finch was salvaged and designated IJN Patrol Boat 103 in April 1943. The PB 103 served as a convoy escort in the Philippines and Indochina. On 12 January 1945, off Cape Padaran in the South China Sea (11°10'N, 108°55'E), Finch was attacked and sunk by aircraft from the USS Lexington (CV-16), USS Hancock (CV-19) and USS Hornet (CV-12) which were part of Vice Admiral John S. McCain, Sr.'s Task Force 38 that had entered the South China Sea to raid Japanese shipping.
Awards
Victory Medal with "Minesweeper" clasp
Yangtze Service Medal
China Service Medal
American Defense Service Medal with "FLEET" clasp
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with one battle star
World War Two Victory Medal
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
Philippine Defense Medal with one star
Notes
References
External links
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1000 Dreams | "1000 Dreams" is a song performed by French recording duo Miss Kittin & The Hacker, taken from their second studio album, Two. It was released in April 2009, as the album's second single by Nobody's Bizzness. "1000 Dreams" became a minor hit in Belgium, where it reached top-twenty on the Flanders Ultratip chart. The song was used to open the 2009-2010 Fall/Winter Dior haute couture collection.
Composition
"1000 Dreams" is credited as a Europop song and is influenced by Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Robyn, and Tracey Thorn. The Kraftwerk influences are prominent in the riffs of the song.
Critical reception
Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine gave a critical view of the album Two, yet praised the song, commenting, "Miss Kittin floats on the clouds of '1000 Dreams,' firm in her belief that indulging in myriad rewardless sensations will ultimately prove its own reward."
Chris Todd from Clash placed "1000 Dreams" at number two on the Top 20 Songs of 2009.
Music video
The music video was directed by Régis Brochier of 7th floor Productions in January 2009.
Track listing
Promo - CD single
"1000 Dreams" (Radio Cut By Kittin) - 3:47
"1000 Dreams" (Original) - 5:24
Vinyl, 12-inch single
"1000 Dreams" (Maxime Dangles Remix) - 7:28
"1000 Dreams" (Original) - 5:23
"1000 Dreams" (Instrumental) - 5:27
Charts
Release history
References
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Category:2009 singles
Category:Miss Kittin songs
Category:Electroclash songs
Category:Songs written by Miss Kittin |
Belhaven | Belhaven may refer to:
United Kingdom
Lord Belhaven and Stenton
Belhaven, Scotland
Belhaven Hill School, commonly referred to as "Belhaven"
Belhaven Brewery
United States
Belhaven, North Carolina
Alexandria, Virginia, formerly named Belhaven.
Belhaven University, a private, Christian university located in Jackson, Mississippi
Belhaven Neighborhood, a historic neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi, named after the university |
Uch Tappeh, Malayer | Uch Tappeh (, also Romanized as Ūch Tappeh) is a village in Tork-e Sharqi Rural District, Jowkar District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,380, in 281 families.
References
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Kent Coalfield | The Kent Coalfield was a coalfield located in the eastern part of the English county of Kent. The Coalfields Trust defines the Kent Coalfield as the wards of Barnham Downs and Marshside in the Canterbury district, and the wards of Aylesham, Eastry, Eythorne & Shepherdswell, Middle Deal & Sholden, Mill Hill and North Deal in the Dover district.
Coal was discovered in the area in 1890 while borings for an early Channel Tunnel project were taking place and the resultant Shakespeare colliery lasted until 1915.
In 1911, investigation into whether there was coal or not was planned. Six ‘bore holes’ were put down in search of coal (the locations were Rushbourne, Hoads Wood in Sturry, Herne Bay, Reculver, Chitty (which is near Chislet) and Chislet Park – which is near the future site of Hersden).
In the early years many collieries were sunk but failed and the East Kent Light Railway was built to exploit the anticipated business.
Extensive plans had been drawn up by 1914 for major coal exploitation in east Kent, and the coalfield expanded rapidly in the late 1920s and early 1930s, with its maximum output reached in 1936. The outbreak of war and disappointing test results eventually resulted in only four collieries surviving: Betteshanger, Chislet, Snowdown and Tilmanstone. Had coal been more easily accessible, the open, rural landscape of east Kent could have changed beyond recognition.
Geology
Various geologists, including Robert Godwin-Austen, theorised that the geological conditions in East Kent were conducive to the existence of coal and therefore the potential for coal mining. Godwin-Austen put forward his views in 1857, and they were accepted by Sir Joseph Prestwich, who was a member of the Royal Coal Commission from 1866–71.
The rock sequences found within the concealed coalfields of Kent, Berkshire and Oxfordshire have been formally renamed in recent years using terms established for the South Wales Coalfield. Much of the strata now assigned to the Warwickshire Group was formerly assigned to the Upper Coal Measures.<ref>Waters, C.N. et al 2007. Lithostratigraphical framework for Carboniferous successions of Great Britain (Onshore). British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/07/01 60pp</ref> The following seams are recognised. They are listed in stratigraphical order with the uppermost/youngest at the top and the lowermost/oldest at the bottom:
Warwickshire Group
Kent No 1 (Beresford) seam
Kent No 2
Kent No 3
Kent No 4
Kent No 5
Kent No 6 (Millyard) seam
(South Wales) Upper Coal Measures
no coals
(South Wales) Middle Coal Measures
Kent No 7 (Chislet No 5) seam
Kent No 8
Kent No 9
Kent No 10
Kent No 11
(South Wales) Lower Coal Measures
Kent No 12
Kent No 13
Kent No 14
Test bores
Test bores were made at the following locations:-
Brabourne — bore to a depth of , no coal found.
Ropersole, Barham — bore to a depth of , twelve thin seams found.
Ellinge, Dover — bore to a depth of , coal measures found, boring continued another , but no seams found.
Waldershare — bore to a depth of or more, five coal seams found.
Fredville, Nonington — bore to a depth of or more in December 1896, three coal seams found.
Goodnestone — bore to a depth of nearly , no coal found. It was thought that the seams lay at a depth of .
Shakespeare Cliff — bore to a depth of in February 1890. Fourteen seams of coal found.
Plaxtol — a bore was sunk near Old Soar Manor in 1898, but was abandoned.
Collieries
Betteshanger
Standing to the northwest of Deal, this colliery was served by a branch off the Minster to Dover line. The colliery opened in 1924, the first coal was raised in 1927. In 1945, the workforce was 2,033, with 1,594 being employed sub-surface and 439 above. Betteshanger was infamously the only pit to strike during World War II (in 1941) which raised much public contempt despite justification. Betteshanger was the last pit to return to work after the 1984–85 Miners' Strike and it closed on 26 August 1989. A few of the buildings survive today.
Shafts sunk
No. 1.
No. 2.
Chislet
Work began at Chislet in 1914, and the colliery produced its first coal in 1918. The fact that its owners, the Anglo-Westphalian Kent Coalfield Ltd., had German connections caused questions to be asked in Parliament. The company changed its name to the North Kent Coalfield Ltd., and later to Chislet Colliery Ltd. The colliery was served by the Ashford to Minster railway, and a halt was built to serve the miners. In 1945, the workforce was 1,350, with 1,023 being employed sub-surface and 327 above. In 1963-4 a 550V.dc railway was built into the south eastern area of the mine. It had formerly used battery locomotives. The colliery closed on 25 July 1969, the abandonment of steam traction by British Rail having taken away the market for its coal. Houses for the miners were built at Hersden, which still has a social club named the Chislet Colliery Social Club.
Locomotives
Yorkshire Engine Company 0-6-0ST (works # 2498, built 1951) worked at Chislet Colliery from 1960 until its closure. It has been preserved and now bears the name Chislet.
Barclay 0-6-0DM (works # 382, built 1955) - following closure of the mine this locomotive moved to the Snowdown Colliery Railway.
Shafts sunk
North
South
Snowdown
Snowdown was the deepest mine in Kent at 3083 feet. Work commenced in 1908, and coal was first brought to the surface on 19 November 1912. The first shaft sunk hit water at and 22 men were drowned. Snowdown, reaching a depth of . The colliery was served by the Faversham to Dover railway, and a halt (Snowdown and Nonington Halt) was provided. In 1945 the workforce was 1,876, with 1,523 being employed sub-surface and 353 above. The colliery closed in 1987 and the shafts were capped in 1988. A few ruinous buildings remain today.
Shafts sunk
No 1.
No 2.
No 3.
Snowdown Colliery railway
The colliery had an extensive internal standard gauge rail network, connected to the mainline at Snowdown and Nonington Halt. The line was operated by steam locomotives, the last of which survived in working condition after the demise of steam traction on the national mainline in 1968. The colliery railway was by then using a mixed fleet of steam and diesel locomotives, with the final steam withdrawals taking place in the late 1970s. The final three steam locomotives were named after saints with nearby Canterbury connections. St Thomas (named for St Thomas of Canterbury), St Dunstan (named for Dunstan, also a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury), and St Martin (named for St Martin, patron of England's oldest parish church, St Martin's Church, Canterbury). The colliery railway network was dismantled following the closure of the colliery in 1987. St Thomas and St Dunstan both survive into preservation. St Martin, which had been badly damaged when its tanks were left full of water which froze on a winter night, was scrapped.
Locomotives
Avonside 0-6-0ST St Thomas (works # 1971, built 1927) - survives as an exhibit at Dover Transport Museum.
Avonside 0-6-0ST St Dustan (works # 2004, built 1927) - this locomotive has been preserved.
Avonside 0-6-0ST St Martin''
Fowler 0-4-0DM (works # 416002, built 1952) - this locomotive has been preserved.
Barclay 0-6-0DM (works # 382, built 1955) - this locomotive previously worked at Chislet Colliery Railway.
In the final days before closure the railway was worked by British Rail Class 08 shunter engines.
Tilmanstone
Work was commenced at Tilmanstone in 1911. An accident in 1913 killed three men and destroyed the pumping system, causing the mine to flood and work was abandoned for nine months. The site was connected to the East Kent Light Railway in 1915 and coal first brought to the surface in March 1916. An accident at the pit on 27 February 1931 resulted in Sydney William Padfield being awarded a bronze Edward Medal, the only one awarded in the Kent Coalfield. An aerial ropeway was built in 1930 to link the pit with Dover Harbour. This included tunnelling through the cliff at Dover to deliver the coal to a 5,000 ton bunker at the harbour. It wasn't used much after 1935, and was dismantled in 1954. In 1945, the workforce was 914, with 631 being employed sub-surface and 283 above. The colliery closed in 1988, having produced over 20,000,000 tons of coal. A system of tokens was used in the pithead baths and canteen and a lamp check was operated, in common with the majority of pits. All buildings have been demolished.
Shafts sunk
No 1.
No 2.
No 3.
Failed sinkings
Adisham
A colliery was planned at Adisham. It was not commenced.
Cobham
A mine at Cobham produced a small quantity of brown lignite, although some bituminous coal had been found. It had been mined open-cast, the coal being used by Lord Darnley to heat Cobham Hall. Two drifts were dug into the hillside in 1947; at one point the mine was producing 80 tons per week. The mine closed in 1953 and the site cleared.
Guilford
The first test shaft was sunk in 1906, hoping to find the coal seams discovered under Waldershare Park. The East Kent Light Railway connected to the pit in November 1912. No coal had been found by 1918, and the colliery closed in the 1920s owing to geological problems. Two buildings remain at the site.
Shafts sunk
No. 1.
No. 2.
No. 3.
Hammill (Woodnesborough)
This site was located to the south of Woodnesborough. Work here was abandoned in 1914 without coal being found. It was served by a half mile branch off the East Kent Light Railway. The site was subsequently used by the Hammill Brickworks. Some buildings survive.
Maydensole
This colliery was to have been located near East Langdon. Some boreholes were drilled but work was abandoned without any shafts being sunk.
Shakespeare
Shakespeare was located in West Hougham on the site of the original Channel Tunnel workings. Coal had been discovered at a depth of below Shakespeare Cliff on 15 February 1890. The first shaft was stated on 21 August 1891. A mining accident on 6 March 1897 killed eight men. The cause was a sudden inrush of water at a depth of . This problem was solved by lining the shaft with cast iron tubes as the shaft was sunk. By February 1905, just 12 tons of coal had been brought to the surface. Only 1,000 tons had been raised by 1912 and the colliery closed in December 1915 due to geological problems. Shakespeare Cliff Halt opened in 1913 to serve the miners. The site was obliterated by workings in connection with building the Channel Tunnel in the 1980s.
Shafts sunk
X
Y
Z
Stonehall
This colliery was near Lydden. It was abandoned in 1914 without coal being found. It lay derelict until 1919 when work recommenced, only to be abandoned and most of the buildings demolished in 1921. A couple of buildings remain.
Shafts sunk
North
East
West
Wingham
Work at Wingham was abandoned in 1914, without coal being found. Water had been hit, and there was no finance to buy pumps. The buildings were mothballed and sold in 1924, being used for a milling business. The colliery was to be served by the East Kent Light Railway.
Shafts sunk
East
West
Associated development
The village of Aylesham was built in the 1920s to provide accommodation to service the Kent coal mines. It was planned to provide for around 30,000 residents, but in reality only 1,000 houses had been built by the 1960s.
See also
Kent Miners' Association
References
External links
Betteshanger Colliery photos.
Betteshanger Colliery at work photos
Photographs
Account of a Bevin Boy in Kent during World War Two
Gallery of photos of Snowdown Colliery in 2007
Photo of Wingham Colliery
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Category:Mining in Kent
Category:Coal mining regions in England
Category:Geology of Kent |
Keith Smith (musician) | Keith Smith is the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the band Anarchy Club.
Before creating Anarchy Club, Smith was in several bands, including Cobalt 60, known as C60. Smith was also an employee of Harmonix, the company that developed Guitar Hero. According to Rock Band, Smith got a guitar lesson from Kurt Cobain in the hallway of a motel in Rhode Island. Reputed to have punched Billy Idol in the face after Billy insulted American Punk Rock.
In 2005, Anarchy Club's hit "Behind the Mask" appeared in Guitar Hero. They have since appeared in Guitar Hero II with their song "Collide", Rock Band with their song "Blood Doll" and Rock Band 2 with their song "Get Clean". Both "Collide" and "Blood Doll" are from their EP A Single Drop of Red released in 2007 while "Behind the Mask" is from their debut album The Way and Its Power and "Get Clean" is from their second full-length album The Art of War.
References
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Category:African-American musicians
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Ali Abdi Farah | Ali Abdi Farah (born 1947) is a politician in Djibouti.
Farah served as diplomatic attaché to the President of the Republic, as head of general administration and consular affairs at the Ministry of External Affairs, and as First Adviser to the Embassy of Djibouti in Tunisia. He was appointed as Minister of Energy, Mines and Natural Resources on June 8, 1995, and was elected to the National Assembly in the December 1997 parliamentary election as the ninth candidate on the joint candidate list of the RPP and the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD). He was subsequently moved to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in charge of Relations with Parliament on May 12, 1999.
In the January 2003 parliamentary election, Farah was the 11th candidate on the candidate list of the ruling coalition, the Union for a Presidential Majority (UMP), in the District of Djibouti. Farah is a member of the ruling party, the People's Rally for Progress (RPP), and as of 2003, he is a member of the RPP Executive Committee, responsible for external relations.
In the government named on May 22, 2005, Farah was moved to the post of Minister of Communication and Culture, in charge of Posts and Telecommunications, and Government Spokesman. In the February 2008 parliamentary election, Farah was the eighth candidate on the UMP's candidate list for the District of Djibouti.
References
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Category:Members of the National Assembly (Djibouti)
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Category:People's Rally for Progress politicians |
Scion (Crown Research Institute) | Scion, a company officially registered as New Zealand Forest Research Institute Limited, is a New Zealand Crown Research Institute (CRI). Scion specialises in research, science and technology development for the forestry, wood product, wood-derived materials, and other biomaterial sectors.
Scion is the lead CRI in
Sustainable forest management and tree improvement.
Forestry biosecurity, risk management and mitigation.
Wood processing, wood-related bioenergy, waste streams and other biomaterials.
Forestry and forestry-based ecosystem services to inform land-use decision making.
Scion collaborates with other research providers and end-users to develop:
Land-based biosecurity, soil and freshwater management.
Climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Indigenous forestry.
Industrial biotechnology and high-value manufacturing.
Scion makes its plant collection data available online as part of the Australasian Virtual Herbarium.
The name “scion” refers to a cutting or shoot used to form a graft.2
It is wholly owned by the New Zealand government and constituted as a limited liability company under the New Zealand Companies Act 1993.
Main research areas
Staff undertake work in the fields of
Entomology
Plant pathology
Plant genetics
Silviculture
Microbiology
Dendrology
Botany
Plant physiology
Biochemistry
Soil science
Systems ecology
Earth science
Environmental and resource economics
Timber, chemical and mechanical engineering
Bioinformatics
Geospatial analysis
Wood mycology
Biotechnology
Purpose
Scion's purpose is to drive innovation and growth from these sectors to build economic value and contribute to beneficial environmental and social outcomes for New Zealand.3 This is achieved through providing research, technology and knowledge in partnership with industry, government and Māori stakeholders, working in the following areas:
Commercial forestry
Scion is working to maximise the value and productivity of New Zealand's commercial forests, by:
increasing wood quality and volume growth through a combination of genetic tree improvement and forest management
reducing the cost of harvesting trees
expanding the range of tree species that contribute to commercial forestry
enabling forest owners to maximise value from carbon forestry.
Wood products and processing
The competitiveness of the solid wood processing industry is improved by Scion's work to:
develop wood segregation technologies that improve productivity and reduce costs
encourage and enabling increased use of wood in construction
develop new product opportunities through wood modification technologies.
Wood fibre, pulp, biopolymer and biochemical industries
Scion is expanding New Zealand's opportunities for using wood fibres, biopolymers and biochemical by developing:
new product opportunities for the pulp and paper sector through biorefinery technologies
new composite products for manufacturers
renewable chemicals from forest biomass
new packaging products for food exporters.
Risk and adaptation
New Zealand's ability to manage risks associated with biosecurity, fire and climate change has been improved by Scion's work with government agencies, forest growers and science collaborators nationally and internationally to:
reduce the impacts of established pests and diseases
assist fire management agencies with protecting New Zealand's rural landscape
underpin effective biosecurity systems for New Zealand.
Licence to operate
Through targeted research aimed at enhancing environmental performance, Scion protects the New Zealand forest industry's licence to operate domestically and internationally by:
assisting the forest and wood processing sectors to reduce their environmental footprint
developing tools that support land use management and optimise the multiple benefits of forestry in the landscape
providing technical information to support increased utilisation of wood.
Bioenergy
Scion:
develops technologies for producing heat, power and liquid fuels from woody biomass
supports the development of a supply chain for woody biomass targeted at energy production.
Databases and National Collections
Scion is home to databases and collections of national and international importance.
They are widely used to support diagnostic services, research, and the development of industry standards.
National Forest Culture Collection
This is an internationally registered living collection of almost 3000 fungal specimens (including some bacteria and lichens) stored in culture. Some pathogenic (disease causing) fungi from overseas are stored in a containment facility.
National Forest Mycological Herbarium
This internationally registered collection comprises almost 2000 dried fungal specimens and plant material containing fungi. The earliest collections date back to the late 1800s from Sweden.
National Forestry Herbarium and Database
The herbarium contains plants significant to plantation and indigenous forestry in New Zealand, including a wide range of native and amenity species.
National Forestry Library
Publications and media relating to forestry and wood processing research over the last 75 years are held in the National Forestry Library at Scion. The library contains one of the largest collections of forestry, forest products, biomaterials, and pulp and paper literature in the Southern Hemisphere.
Wood collection
An extensive xylarium – a collection of wood samples consisting thousands of species from all over the world - is cared for at Scion. This collection can be used to compare samples with unknown timbers.
Permanent Sample Plots database
Scion's Permanent Sample Plot (PSP) system is a comprehensive database of forest growth data that underpins New Zealand's commercial forest industry. The system contains information about the effect factors such as environment, genetics and silviculture regimes have on the growth of stands and trees.
The PSP system holds data from the 1920s, and has been in a digital format since the early 1960s. The digital platform is a flexible relational database that holds different types of forest data for both experimental research and commercial growth plots. These data are sourced from permanent sample plots that have been established, and regularly measured, in different forest types throughout New Zealand. In 2017, the system holds data from 32,000 PSPs of which 11,500 are current and 20,500 historic records. The PSP system is one of the most extensive data resources on tree growth, internationally.4
Scientists and forest companies use this information to understand how current forests are performing, and how future forests might grow under different conditions. These data support important forest management decisions.
Scion Nursery
The 10 hectare nursery in Rotorua has shade houses, controlled climate propagation facilities, commercial bare-root operations and a large purpose-built container-growing operation. The facility can on-grow 700,000 seedlings a year and is used for both research and commercial sales.
The work includes:
supporting advanced tree breeding programmes for radiata pine and other commercial forest species
developing and using innovative propagation technologies
mass-producing genetically improved tree stocks for forest growers
transferring expertise from tissue culture to the nursery and into the forest.
History
Scion is the trading name for New Zealand Forest Research Institute Limited. The head office and main campus is in Rotorua on a site that was once the headquarters for a forest nursery for a large government afforestation programme. The nursery was established in 1898 at the edge of Whakarewarewa Forest where more than 60 exotic species were planted on 5000 hectares to determine which species grew best in New Zealand conditions.
Research commenced on the campus in 1947 as a government-owned Forest Experiment Station. In 1949 it was renamed the Forest Research Institute (FRI) under the auspices of the New Zealand Forest Service.
In 1992 it was established as one of New Zealand's Crown Research Institutes (CRI) as part of the government of the day's science restructuring.
In 2005 the trading name Scion was adopted.
Locations
Scion employs approximately 300 full-time equivalent staff, with its principal campus the main part of the Te Papa Tipu Innovation Park in Rotorua. It also has an office in Christchurch with close to 30 staff, as well as smaller offices in Wellington and Dunedin.
References
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Category:Forest research institutes
Category:Forestry in New Zealand |
Alternaria dianthicola | Alternaria dianthicola is a fungal plant pathogen.
References
External links
dianthicola
Category:Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Category:Fungi described in 1945 |
Yorkville Town Hall | Yorkville Town Hall was the municipal building for the Town of Yorkville before annexation into Toronto. Built in 1859-1860 by architect William Hay and his apprentice Henry Langley, the three-storey building served as an omnibus stop. The hall was located north of Bloor on Yonge Street on the west side.
The hall served as town hall until 1883 when Yorkville was annexed into Toronto. The hall became known as St. Paul's Hall and had a public library, along with various clubs and community uses. The hall survived until 1941 when it was destroyed by fire and was demolished. The town hall site is now home to a condo (and across the street from the Toronto Reference Library).
The town hall's coat of arms survives today on the front face of the Toronto Fire Services Station 312 (old TFD Station 10). The fire hall is located at 34 Yorkville Avenue and has been historically protected by the City of Toronto, after being designated as a heritage property on the City of Toronto Heritage Property Inventory on June 20, 1973.
References
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See also
East York Civic Centre
Etobicoke Civic Centre
Scarborough Civic Centre
York Civic Centre
Metro Hall
Toronto City Hall
Old City Hall (Toronto)
North York Civic Centre
St. Lawrence Market
Category:Municipal buildings in Toronto
Category:City and town halls in Ontario
Category:Demolished buildings and structures in Toronto
Category:City of Toronto Heritage Properties
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Machaqa Marka (Cochabamba) | Machaqa Marka (Aymara machaqa new, marka village, "new village", also spelled Machacamarca) is a mountain in the Bolivian Andes near a village of that name. It is located in the Cochabamba Department, Carrasco Province, Pocona Municipality, north of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Inkallaqta. Machaqa Marka lies southeast of Jatun Salla and Mama Wasi.
Salla or Machaqa Marka is also the name of the river which originates near Jatun Salla and flows along the southern slope of Machaqa Marka. It runs to the southeast.
References
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Victor Ndigwe | Victor Ogonna Ndigwe (born February 7, 1996 in Adazi-Nnukwu, Anambra State) is a Nigerian model.
He is the first Male Nigerian Model to make an appearance at the fashion weeks in Paris, Milan and London. Victor was also the campaign star for Missoni in their Fall/Winter 2016 as his debut Campaign Photographed by Harley Weir. He has modelled for the top fashion houses, Versace ,Balmain, Hermes, Dsquared2, Fendi, Dolce & Gabbana, Zara and a lot of other reputable brands in the world. In 2014, Victor won Elite Model Look Nigeria 2014.
In 2016, Victor was also named by Vogue as one of the male models to look out for.
Early life
Victor attended Murtala Muhammed Airport Schools after which he attended Chrisland Schools, Idimu for his junior secondary school and attended Lagooz College for his senior school years.
His mother was the Choir Mistress in the Catholic Church and his Grandfather a poet and a Choir Master, with some of his works in the Igbo Catholic hymn book. His father listened to and had a large range of musical collections which he was exposed to and influenced him to start writing music at the age of 12.
He got admission into University Of Benin, Nigeria studying Applied Mathematics while making music part time. He eventually paused tertiary education to focus on Modelling after mysteriously winning the Elite Model Look competition in 2014.
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Chieko Takamura | was a Japanese artist.
Biography
She was born in the town of Adachi in what is now the city of Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture as Chieko Naganuma, the eldest of six daughters and two sons.
In 1903, she went to the Japan Women's University, the Nihon Joshi Daigaku in Tokyo, and graduated in 1907. She was an oil painter, and made colorful papercuts. She was an early member of the Japanese feminist movement Seitosha, joining in 1911. She made the cover illustration for the first issue of their magazine, "Seitō". It began as a literary outlet for woman writers and quickly turned into a forum for discussing feminist issues. These women were from the upper-middle class and soon were labeled "New Women" because of their views and their lifestyles. In February 1914, she married Kōtarō Takamura, a sculptor and poet, whom she met soon after he had returned from France.
Following the breakup of her family home in 1929, she was diagnosed in 1931 with symptoms of schizophrenia – she was hospitalized for that disease in 1935, and remained there until her death from tuberculosis in 1938.
Kōtarō's book of poems about her, , is still widely admired and read today. The translated title, "Chieko's Sky", is from one of the poems, , where Chieko longs for the sky of her childhood.
References
One biography
A book description from Amazon.com
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St. Edmund High School (Eunice, Louisiana) | St. Edmund High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Eunice, Louisiana, United States. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette.
Background
St. Edmund High School, also known as St. Eds, was established in 1911. It is the home of the St. Eds Blue Jays. It enrolls students in grades PK-12.
Notable alumni
Carlton Loewer, former MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego Padres)
Tanner Darbonne
Notes and references
External links
School website
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Category:Schools in Acadia Parish, Louisiana
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Category:Schools in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
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Syazwan Yusoff | Muhammad Syazwan bin Yusoff (born 17 April 1992) is a Malaysian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Kelantan United in the Malaysia M3 League.
Club career
Kelantan FA
Born in Morak, Tumpat, Syazwan started his career with Kelantan President's Cup team in 2010. He was the first choice of his team in every match besides Judtanna Eh Put another goalkeeper. He was registered for Kelantan senior squad as the third goalkeeper by Kelantan's coach, M. Karathu during 2011 season. In season 2012, he was selected as the second goalkeeper behind Khairul Fahmi Che Mat after Mohd Shahrizan Ismail having 6-month suspended from Malaysian football.
Melaka United
In December 2015, Syazwan joined Malaysia Premier League club Melaka United on loan from Kelantan FA until the end of the season. Syazwan made his debut for the club in the League Cup against Sime Darby F.C. playing at the Selayang Stadium. That match end up draw 2–2. Syazwan became regular member of Melaka United's first team during the 2016 season.
Career statistics
Honours
Kelantan President's Cup Team
Malaysia President Cup: 2010
Kelantan FA
Malaysia Super League: 2012, 2011
Malaysia Cup: 2012
Malaysia FA Cup: 2012, 2013 ;Runner-up 2011, 2015
Malaysia Charity Shield: 2011 ;Runner-up 2012, 2013
Melaka United
Malaysia Premier League: 2016
International career
In 2012, Syazwan has been called up by Ong Kim Swee for Malaysia U-23 training. The training lasted for 12 days and doing some friendly matches around Australia.
References
External links
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Category:People from Kelantan
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Category:Association football goalkeepers
Category:Melaka United players |
Produce Exchange Building | The Produce Exchange Building is a historic commercial building at 194–206 Chestnut and 115–125 Lyman Street in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1899 and remodeled in 1926, it is one of the largest of Springfield's early 20th-century commercial buildings, used for many years as a wholesale produce market. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Description and history
The Produce Exchange Building is located on the north side of downtown Springfield, across Lyman Street from the main railroad line and at the corner of Chestnut Street. It is an L-shaped four-story masonry structure, finished in brick with terra cotta trim. It has sixteen-bay facades facing both streets, and a two-bay corner facade housing the main building entrance on the ground floor. The Chestnut Street facade has five retail storefronts, each with recessed entrances and display windows, separated by pilasters and topped by a frieze band and cornice. The Lyman Street facade has mostly bricked over retail bays, separated by pilasters. The upper floor has a combination of sash windows and three-part picture windows, and has a decorated frieze below a simple cornice at the top.
The block was built in 1899 by Andrew Whitney, and began to serve as the city's wholesale produce exchange marketplace in 1908, a role it served for many years. In 1926 the building was extensively remodeled, including an updated facade, which has survived largely intact. The building is one of the largest commercial buildings of the period in the city.
See also
Cutler and Porter Block, 109 Lyman Street
National Register of Historic Places listings in Springfield, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampden County, Massachusetts
References
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Category:Buildings and structures in Springfield, Massachusetts
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All-time Asian Winter Games medal table | The total medal count for all Asian Winter Games from 1986 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan to 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan is tabulated below.
NOCs with medals
NOCs without medals
See also
All-time Asian Games medal table (Summer Games)
References
OCA
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Magomero | Magomero is an estate and a village in Malawi. It is situated south of Zomba.
History
Although Alexander Low Bruce never visited Nyasaland, he obtained title to some 170,000 acres of land there through his association with the African Lakes Company and the agency of John Buchanan, a planter who also brokered land sales by local chiefs. Of this land, 162,000 acres formed the estate that he named Magomero, after a village that David Livingstone had recorded in the same area during his Zambezi expedition.
References
Bibliography
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Xanthia gilvago | Xanthia gilvago, the dusky-lemon sallow, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is found in Europe.
Technical description and variation
Forewing deep yellow ochreous with a brownish flush; markings all blackish; inner and outer lines double; the former oblique, outwardly lunulate, its inner arm thick and blotchy; the latter inwardly lunulate, concise, the outer arm thick; submarginal line a row of dark spots preceded by a dark costal blotch attached to outer line, and followed by a diffuse dark shade; median shade blackish, thick and diffuse; orbicular stigma of the ground colour with a dark ring, separated by the median shade from the equally pale reniform which has its lower lobe black; fringe concolorous mottled with dark; hindwing yellowish, the inner marginal area grey; — when the brown tinge of forewing is intensified (sometimes darkening the whole wing),and the dark markings likewise, forming a partially continuous dark band from median shade to outer line,
we have the ab. suffusa Tutt (28 g) ; — on the other hand the yellow tinge may be nearby absent, the ground colour becoming olive grey , and the markings dark grey, the hindwing whitish ; this is ab. griseosignata Spul. (28 g) ; a rarer form — cinnamomeago Spul. (28 h), — has the ground colour uniform fulvous, with the markings finer, those of the terminal area, and often those of the basal area also, more or less obsolete, the hindwing deeper yellow; — lastly from the Goorais Valley, Kashmir, there is a paler ochreous form of which the extreme development, ab. derasa ab. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) [unknown taxon not gilvago] is wholly pale ochreous with only the lower half of reniform and the fringe dark brown, exactly corresponding to the unmarked form flavescens of fulvago L. Larva pinkish brown; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, dark-edged; a dorsal series of dark Y-shaped marks; spiracular line pale.
The wingspan is 32–38 mm.
Biology
The moth flies from August to October depending on the location.
The larvae feed on English elm.
References
External links
Dusky-lemon Sallow at UKmoths
Fauna Europaea
Lepiforum.de
Vlindernet.nl
Category:Cuculliinae
Category:Moths of Europe
Category:Taxa named by Michael Denis
Category:Taxa named by Ignaz Schiffermüller |
Tecia confirmans | Tecia confirmans is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Povolný in 1990. It is found in Bolivia.
References
Category:Tecia
Category:Moths described in 1990 |
Aygepat | Aygepat (; formerly, Masumlu, Verkhniy Dargalu, and Dargalu Verkhniy) is a town in the Ararat Province of Armenia.
See also
Ararat Province
References
World Gazeteer: Armenia – World-Gazetteer.com
Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census
Category:Populated places in Ararat Province |
Nick Hern Books | Nick Hern Books is a London-based independent specialist publisher of plays, theatre books and screenplays. The company was founded by the former Methuen drama editor Nicholas Hern in 1988.
History
Nick Hern Books came into being in June 1988, when Nick Hern left Methuen to set up his own imprint under the aegis of Walker Books. In 1990 the NHB imprint was taken on by Random House. It became a fully independent company on 1 January 1993 when Nick Hern acquired the list from Random House, and he subsequently won the Sunday Times "Small Publisher of the Year Award" in 1994.
First titles
The first title published by Nick Hern Books was Nicholas Wright’s Mrs. Klein, which opened at the National Theatre in August 1988 before transferring to the West End and Broadway.
There followed plays by Caryl Churchill, Arthur Miller, Mike Leigh and Stephen Sondheim, alongside theatre books by Simon Callow, Michael Coveney and Antony Sher.
Notable titles
Notable titles published by Nick Hern Books include the following plays:
Angels in America by Tony Kushner – Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1993; Evening Standard Best Play Award, 1992. Adapted into a successful TV series for HBO, 2003.
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts – Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2008; Tony Award for Best Play, 2008.
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman – Olivier Award for Play of the Year, 1992. Film adaptation, directed by Roman Polanski, 1994.
Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh – Stewart Parker Trust Award and the George Devine Award, 1997. Film adaptation directed by Kirsten Sheridan, 2001.
East is East by Ayub Khan-Din – John Whiting Award, 1996. Film adaptation directed by Damien O’Donnell, 1999.
Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth – Evening Standard Best Play Award, 2009; Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, 2009; Whatsonstage.com Award for Best New Play, 2010.
Mojo by Jez Butterworth – Olivier Award for Best Comedy, 1996.
My Night With Reg by Kevin Elyot – Olivier Award for Best Comedy, 1995; Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy, 1994.
A Number by Caryl Churchill – Evening Standard Best Play Award, 2002. TV adaptation by BBC Films, HBO Films and Rainmark Films, 2008.
Pentecost by David Edgar – Evening Standard Best Play Award, 1995.
Rafta, Rafta... by Ayub Khan-Din – Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, 2008.
Stanley by Pam Gems – Evening Standard Best Play Award, 1996.
Stones in His Pockets by Marie Jones – Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, 2001; Evening Standard Best Comedy Award, 2000.
Vincent in Brixton by Nicholas Wright – Olivier Award for Best New Play, 2003.
The Weir by Conor McPherson – Olivier Award for Play of the Year, 1999; Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, 1997; Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, 1997.
Nick Hern Books has also published theatre books (biographies, journals, practical books, how-to guides, etc.) by, amongst others, Peter Brook, Simon Callow, Declan Donnellan, Oliver Ford Davies, William Gaskill, Barbara Houseman, Antony Sher, Max Stafford-Clark, Harriet Walter and Timothy West.
Series
Drama Classics
Nick Hern Books launched its Drama Classics series in 1994 with the aim of creating a budget series of “the most well-known plays from the last 2000 years”, in editions that are suitable for study as well as performance. The first six titles, all published in 1994, were Three Sisters, Medea, The Rivals, The Jew of Malta, The Hypochondriac and A Doll’s House. The series now ranges from The Oresteia (458 BC) to Blood Wedding (1933).
Shakespeare folios
This series of editions of Shakespeare’s works, edited by Nick de Somogyi, was launched in 2001 with an edition of Hamlet. The series aims to offer the absolute authority of the First Folio in an accessible form. On the recto page, the full text of the 1623 First Folio version of each play is presented in modern type, without altering or editing the text itself. All of the original spelling, punctuation and layout of the Folio is preserved. On the verso (facing) page, there is a fully modernised version of the corresponding text, enabling direct comparison with the Folio. Each edition also includes an individual introduction and textual notes.
Shooting scripts
Nick Hern Books also publishes a selection of shooting scripts from popular films. In addition to featuring the complete shooting script as used by the director during filming, these also include forewords and introductions by leading film directors and screenwriters, the dialogue of scenes cut during the editing process, colour photo sections, and complete cast and crew credits.
Screenplays published by Nick Hern Books include:
Adaptation. by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman – BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, 2002
A Beautiful Mind by Akira Goldsmith – Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, 2001; Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, 2001
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman – Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, 2004; BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, 2004.
Gosford Park by Julian Fellowes – Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, 2001
The Ice Storm by James Schamus – Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay Award, 1997
The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont
Slumdog Millionaire by Simon Beaufoy – Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, 2008; BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, 2008
The Truman Show by Andrew Niccol – BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1999
Performing rights
Nick Hern Books handles performing rights for most of the plays it publishes, issuing licenses for amateur performance both within the United Kingdom and abroad, through its worldwide partners, including Dominie Drama in Australia, Play Bureau in New Zealand and DALRO in South Africa.
References
External links
Nick Hern Books
Dominie Drama
Play Bureau
DALRO
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Mazraeh-ye Hajji Hoseyn, Yazd | Mazraeh-ye Hajji Hoseyn (, also Romanized as Mazra‘eh-ye Ḩājjī Ḩoseyn) is a village in Khvormiz Rural District, in the Central District of Mehriz County, Yazd Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 21, in 8 families.
References
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Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits | Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits is an album by Quincy Jones consisting of songs that were hits for other musicians. It was released by Mercury in 1963. Featured soloists include Joe Newman, Zoot Sims, and Phil Woods.
Reception
Scott Yanow of Allmusic stated "By 1963, Quincy Jones' music was at a crossroads. Still jazz-oriented, Jones' work with a studio big band was clearly aimed at trying to sell records rather than play creative jazz. ... However, the performances all clock in around three minutes, and the jazz players take solos that often only count as cameos. Pleasant but not particularly substantial music".
Track listing
"Comin' Home Baby" (Bob Dorough, Ben Tucker) - 2:46
"Gravy Waltz" (Steve Allen, Ray Brown) - 2:42
"Desafinado" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça) - 2:55
"Exodus" (Ernest Gold) - 3:20
"Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vince Guaraldi) - 2:45
"A Taste of Honey" (Ric Marlow, Robert William Scott) - 2:35
"Back at the Chicken Shack" (Jimmy Smith) - 2:59
"Jive Samba" (Nat Adderley) - 2:42
"Take Five" (Paul Desmond) - 3:30
"Walk On the Wild Side" (Elmer Bernstein, Mack David) - 3:10
"Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) - 3:20
"Bossa Nova U.S.A." (Dave Brubeck) - 3:20
Personnel
Al Cohn, Frank Wess, James Moody, Roland Kirk, Walter Levinsky, Zoot Sims - saxophone
Budd Johnson, Jerome Richardson, Seldon Powell, Romeo Penque - reeds
Al Perisi, Clark Terry, Ernie Royal, James Nottingham, Joe Newman, Snooky Young - trumpet
Billy Byers, Jimmy Cleveland, Kai Winding, Melba Liston, Paul Faulise, Quentin "Butter" Jackson, Santo Russo, Thomas Mitchell - trombone
Earl Chapin, Fred Klein, James Buffington, Julius Watkins, Paul Ingraham, Ray Alonge, Bob Northern, Willie Ruff - french horn
Charles McCoy - harmonica
Bobby Scott, Lalo Schifrin, Patti Bown - piano, organ
Jim Hall, Kenny Burrell, Sam Herman, Wayne Wright - guitar
Ray Crawford - guitar
Art Davis, Ben Tucker, Chris White, George Duvivier, Major Holley, Milt Hinton - bass
Ed Shaughnessy, Ossie Johnson, Rudy Collins - drums
Bill Costa, Carlos Gomez, George Devins, Jack Del Rio, Charles McCoy, James Johnson, Jose Paula - percussion
See also
Quincy Jones discography
References
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Hurray for the Riff Raff | Hurray for the Riff Raff is an Americana band from New Orleans. It was formed by Alynda Segarra, a singer-songwriter from the Bronx, New York, after she had moved to New Orleans in 2007.
As Segarra's project, the group originally performed different styles of folk music while releasing several albums independently. Since signing with ATO Records, the band has released the critically acclaimed studio albums Small Town Heroes (2014) and The Navigator (2017), featuring a more distinctive and comprehensive Americana sound.
Background
Alynda Segarra
Alynda Mariposa Segarra (Formerly known as alynda lee) was raised by her Aunt and Uncle in the Bronx where she developed an early appreciation for doo-wop and Motown. She is an American rock musician of Puerto Rican heritage. Her mother is former New York City Deputy Mayor Ninfa Segarra.
Segarra became a regular attendee of hardcore punk shows at ABC No Rio when she was young. She left her home in the Bronx at age 17, spending time crossing North America, hopping freight trains.
In late 2018 Segarra joined organizers of Newport Folk Festival to travel to Puerto Rico and deliver instruments to various public schools. During that visit Segarra played her first concert on the island at La Respuesta in Santurce.
Dead Man Street Orchestra
During this time, around 2007, Segarra became a part of the Dead Man Street Orchestra, a hobo band that was documented in a photo essay by Time Magazine in 2007. Segarra traveled with the group for two years, releasing two independent albums and embarking on freight train tours across the country.
Musical career
After two self-released albums, 2008's It Don't Mean I Don't Love You and 2010's Young Blood Blues, Hurray for the Riff Raff released a self-titled CD composed of Segarra's favorite songs from those records on Loose Music in Europe on March 21, 2011. Tracks from the band's debut release received airplay on BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music.
In February 2011, the band were featured in an article in The Times, based around the HBO TV series, Treme, with their track "Daniella" being listed in their selection of New Orleans' essential songs.
In May 2012, Hurray for the Riff Raff released Look Out Mama on their own label, Born to Win Records and on Loose Music in Europe. No Depression said it "sounds like something The Band would’ve had playing on a Victorola while making Music From Big Pink in Woodstock.". The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at The Bomb Shelter Studios and produced by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes). The record features "End of the Line,"My Dearest Darkest Neighbor on July 1, 2013 through Mod Mobilian Records and This Is American Music. The album was previously available only as a Kickstarter reward and in limited local release and featured handmade covers. Tracks on the record include songs by Townes Van Zandt, Billie Holiday, Gillian Welch, Leadbelly, John Lennon, Lucinda Williams, Joni Mitchell, Hank Williams, and George Harrison—and features Segarra's interpretation of Gillian Welch's "Ruination Day."
Wall Street Journal describes Segarra's singing: "She has a subtle, expressive voice that she wraps around songs that draw on the sounds and styles of the American South, and her lyrics often takes unconventional tack on traditional subjects."
Spin previewed a video of their song "St. Roch Blues".
In February 2014, Hurray for the Riff Raff had their ATO Records debut, Small Town Heroes. The record featured “The Body Electric,” a song that NPR’s Ann Powers called “The Political Song of the Year” in 2014 and says the album, "sweeps across eras and genres with grace and grit."
Describing Segarra's music, NPR says "Segarra's morning-after alto might be the least showy great voice to hit the national scene this year."
In early July 2016, the band played the Danish festival of Roskilde, to an enthusiastic audience. In December 2016, they announced a new record, The Navigator on Pitchfork with the first single "Rican Beach." The album was released on March 10, 2017 on ATO Records.
In 2019 'Pa'lante' won 'Best Music Video' at the SXSW Film Festival Jury and Specials Awards.
Discography
References
Further reading
Hurray for the Riff Raff, Newport Folk Festival 2013 - Newport Folk Festival (Newport, RI)
Hurray for the Riff Raff, January 9, 2014 - WFUV (New York, NY)
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Kaleb Fleck | Kaleb Tod Fleck (born January 24, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent.
Fleck graduated from Claysburg-Kimmel High School, and then attended the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, where he played college baseball for the Pitt-Johnstown Mountain Cats. As a starting pitcher for the Mountain Cats, Fleck had a 14-7 win–loss record, a 4.18 earned run average (ERA), and 118 strikeouts to 44 walks in 127 innings pitched in his three college seasons. A few weeks before the 2010 MLB draft, he suffered a tear in the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow, which necessitated Tommy John surgery. After recovering from the surgery, he played in the Cape Cod Baseball League in the summer of 2011. The Arizona Diamondbacks signed him as an undrafted free agent in September 2011.
Fleck played for the South Bend Silver Hawks of the Class A Midwest League in 2012, the Visalia Rawhide of the Class A-Advanced California League in 2013, and the Mobile BayBears of the Class AA Southern League in 2014, recording ERAs below 3.00 at each level. At the end of the 2014 season, he was promoted to the Reno Aces of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League (PCL) to take part in the PCL playoffs. After the 2014 season, the Diamondbacks assigned Fleck to the Arizona Fall League.
In the minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft in December 2017, Fleck was selected off the Diamondbacks' Class AA roster by the Washington Nationals. He was the second of two selections the Nationals made in the minor league Rule 5 draft, following infielder Jacob Wilson. The Nationals released him on July 13, 2018.
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Buildwas | Buildwas is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, on the north bank of the River Severn at . It lies on the B4380 road to Atcham. The Royal Mail postcodes begin TF6 and TF8.
Buildwas Primary Academy is situated on the Buildwas bank road. The school has been running since 1855, and has three classes and a nursery.
Buildwas has a nine-hole golf course which runs between the River Severn and Ironbridge Power Station. It is open to members of Buildwas Abbey Club.
Village
The village of Buildwas has been recognised since 1086 as the first reference to it was made in the Domesday Book. Buildwas was valued at 45 shillings (£2.25) to the Bishop of Chester, i.e. the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, the local diocesan bishop, in 1086. The value of the manor was the same as in 1066, although it had slipped in the interim period. Its value lay in its location on the River Severn its woodland, which was useful for agricultural and farming purposes. During this time period, the village had a total population of nine households, three of villeins, five of slaves and one the reeve. Due to this the village only had a total tax assessment of one geld unit which was very small. Buildwas had resources of 200 pigs and a mill which people relied on. The manor was assigned to Buildwas Abbey, originally founded as a Savigniac monastery, in 1135 by Roger de Clinton (1129–1148), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. The Savigniac houses were later absorbed into the Cistercian order. After the abbey was suppressed in 1536, as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the site and much of the property was granted to Edward Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Powis
Occupations
The first census regarding occupational data for the village of Buildwas was taken in 1831 and gives a valuable insight into the village for this time period. The census showed that the biggest employability sector at this time was agricultural labourers, and there were 35 people employed in this field. The second biggest field was retail and handicrafts, which employed seven people in the village. There was one capitalist or professional person within the village and the remaining people were farmers and servants.
The 1881 census of the village gave valuable insight into how the population had slowly increased and how the jobs had diversified. Agriculture was still the biggest employment sector with 41 people but other job fields had grown over the course of fifty years. There were fifteen females and eight males employed in domestic services and offices. There were twelve males employed in the extraction of mineral substances and three people who worked in transport and commerce. There were forty people in the survey who were classified as having an unknown occupation and three male workers in food and lodging.
Population
Population change in Buildwas has experienced a great deal of fluctuation since the first census of 1801 was taken. This is because the village had a small population of 258 to begin with in the first place meaning that any change is a lot more visible. In 1811 the population had declined to 226 people but then experienced a gradual increase to 240 people in 1821 and stayed at this level through to 1831. Over the next ten years, the village had experienced a rapid population increase of 33 people in 1841 and in 1851 the population had increased again to 290 people. From 1851 to 1881 there had been a population decrease of eighteen people. During 1881 there was a national population change across the country with an overall decrease of 3% and this change of population was apparent in Buildwas as from 1881 to 1891 there was a population decrease of thirty-one people. The population increased by thirty-four people in 1901 and by 1911 the population had increased by thirty-two people.
Housing
According to the 2001 Census, Buildwas had a total of 134 dwellings. Of these, 42 were categorised as being flats or apartments, 46 detached houses or bungalows, and 46 semi-detached or terraced houses. The average price of property which has been sold in Buildwas was valued at £218,114 which was well above the national average of £161,558 in April 2012.
Visiting Buildwas
Buildwas Abbey
The preserved remains of a Cistercian abbey lie on the south bank of the River Severn. These include an unusually unaltered 12th-century church, a vaulted and tile-floored chapter house, and a re-opened crypt chapel. The stone abbey was buildings were completed mainly during the abbacy of Ranulf, which began around 1155. The income for the abbey came mainly from a large portfolio of properties, concentrated around monastic granges in the surrounding areas of Shropshire and Staffordshire. The site is now cared for by English Heritage.
Bridge
A brick and stone bridge crossed the Severn from medieval times to the 18th century; in floods of 1773 and 1795, it was irreparably damaged and finally swept away by severe flooding following an earthquake. After its destruction, Thomas Telford built a cast-iron arch bridge in 1796, which survived subsequent floods until its replacement by a steel Pratt truss in 1905, which itself was replaced in 1992.
See also
Listed buildings in Buildwas
Ironbridge Gorge
Buildwas Junction railway station
Telford Steam Railway
References
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South Texas Derby | The South Texas Derby is a regular season series between American soccer clubs Rio Grande Valley FC Toros of Edinburg, Texas and San Antonio FC of San Antonio, Texas. Both teams compete in the Western Conference of the USL Championship, the second tier of soccer in the United States. The teams are located in cities situated in South Texas and are separated by roughly .
Rivalry
The first match in the series was on May 7, 2016 at Toyota Field in San Antonio. RGV's Rob Lovejoy scored the first goal in the rivalry in the 69th minute. San Antonio came back from being down 0–2 but eventually lost to RGV as Lovejoy secured the win with a stoppage-time goal. Needing a win in their final regular-season match to secure a place in the 2016 USL Playoffs, San Antonio FC lost to RGV 0–3 in Edinburg. The loss kept San Antonio out of the playoffs in their inaugural season, while RGV went on to the playoffs, losing in the First Round. RGV FC took the 2016 season series with three wins, one draw, and no losses.
The 2017 USL season saw San Antonio FC earning its first win of the season, and in the Derby, against RGV on March 26, 2017. San Antonio would go on to win two out of the three meetings in the series. In a reversal from their inaugural seasons, San Antonio FC finished in second place in the Western Conference standings; making their first playoff appearance, while Rio Grande Valley FC finished in 11th place, failing to make the playoffs for the first time in their history.
The 2018 USL season was the first time that both teams failed to qualify for the playoffs. San Antonio missed out by just three points and one place in the standings, while RGV ended up in 13th place. In the Derby, 2018 was the first season that RGV failed to win a single match against San Antonio. From the last match in the 2017 season, SAFC went on a four match unbeaten streak against RGV, the team's longest in the rivalry. Beginning with the 2019 season, the rivalry began being scheduled as an equal home-away format.
Results
Home team is listed on the left, away team is listed on the right. Home team's score is listed first.
Top goalscorers
Does not include own goals. List is sorted by last name when total goals are equal
Competitive matches only. Players in bold are still active players with the team.
Players who played for both clubs
Players in bold are still active players with the team.
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Battle of Myonessus | The Battle of Myonessus was a naval battle fought in 190 BC during the war of Rome against Antiochus III the Great for domination over Greece, between a Seleucid fleet and a Roman and Rhodian fleet. The Romans were victorious.
The account of Appian:
Not long afterward Polyxenidas and the Romans had a naval engagement near Myonessus, in which the former had ninety decked ships, and Regillus, the Roman admiral, eighty-three, of which twenty-five were from Rhodes. The latter were ranged by their commander, Eudorus, on the left wing. Seeing Polyxenidas on the other wing extending his line much beyond that of the Romans, and fearing lest it should be surrounded, he sailed rapidly around there with his swift ships and experienced oarsmen, and brought his fire-ships against Polyxenidas first, scattering flames everywhere. The ships of the latter did not dare to meet their assailants on account of the fire, but, sailing round and round, tried to keep out of the way, shipped much water, and were exposed to ramming behind the bows. Presently a Rhodian ship struck a Sidonian, and the blow being severe the anchor of the latter was dislodged and stuck in the former, fastening them together. The two ships being immovable the contest between the crews became like a land fight. As many others hastened to the aid of each, the competition on both sides became spirited, and the Roman ships broke through the Antiochean line of battle, which was exposed in this way, and surrounded the enemy before they knew it. When they discovered it there was a flight and a pursuit. Twenty-nine of the Antiochean ships were lost, thirteen of which were captured with their crews. The Romans lost only two vessels. Polyxenidas captured the Rhodian ship and brought it to Ephesus.
References
Livy Ab Urbe Condita, XXXVII.30
Notes
The Syrian Wars, V,27. English translation from: Appian, The Foreign Wars, Horace White ed., New York, The Macmillan Company, 1899, through Perseus digital library
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Paul Bottomley (scientist) | Paul Bottomley pioneered the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) leading to modern commercial clinical 1.5 Tesla MRI scanners and techniques for localized magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). Currently, he is Russel H. Morgan Professor of Radiology and Director of the Division of MR Research at Johns Hopkins University, with ~200 peer-reviewed journal articles, almost 50 U.S patents and is a Founder and past member of the Board of Directors of MRI Interventions, Inc MRI Interventions, formerly known as SurgiVision Inc.
Work
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Bottomley earned a BSc in Physics from Monash University in 1974. In 1975, he started a PhD in Physics at the University of Nottingham in one of the three original groups that began MRI. In Raymond Andrew’s group, alongside that of Peter Mansfield, they built the first MRI system producing radiographic-quality images of the human wrist (Nature), and performed the initial work on RF-field and power deposition in human MRI. Upon completing his PhD, he went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1978 to adapt MRI for spatially localized MRS, using surface coils to demonstrate metabolite depletion and reversal in regional myocardial ischemia (Science).
In 1980, Paul joined the GE Research Center in Schenectady NY. Together with William A. Edelstein and others, this group formed the nucleus of GE's early MRI development program. They ordered the biggest magnet available – a 1.5 Tesla system – and built the first high-field whole-body MRI/MRS scanner, overcoming problems of coil design, RF penetration and signal-to-noise. The results translated into the highly successful 1.5 Tesla clinical MRI products of which there are well over 20,000 systems today, representing 60-70% of all systems. Paul did the first localized MRS in human heart and brain. After starting a collaboration on heart applications with Robert Weiss at Johns Hopkins, Paul returned to Johns Hopkins University in 1994, as Professor and Director of the MR Research Division. He works on the application of MRS to measure cardiac energy metabolism in the healthy and failing heart, and the development of interventional MRI technology. He has about 200 peer-reviewed papers with most-cited reviews of tissue relaxation in Medical Physics, and ~50 patents, including high-field MRI (>0.7 Tesla), spin-echo MRI, ‘crusher’ gradients, 'fat-saturation', '3D-slab' MRI, and 'point resolved spectroscopy' (PRESS), 2D spatially-selective pulses, MRI-safe implantable leads (licensed and sold as Avista™ by Boston Scientific Inc), and 'MRI endoscopy'. He is an ISMRM Fellow, 1989 Gold Medal recipient, a GE gold patent and Coolidge Fellowship awardee, and 2015 Gold Medal recipient of the American Roentgen-Ray Society.
Awards
Gold Medal of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (1989)
GE Coolidge Fellow and Medal, (1990)
GE Gold (1989), Silver (1985) and Bronze (1982) patent medallions
Editors recognition awards from Radiology (1986, 1988, 1989, 1990)
GE Dushman Award (1983)
Associate Editor, Magn Reson Med (1983-2004), Deputy Editor (2010-present)
Editorial Boards of Magn Reson Imag (1982–present), Rev Sci Instrum (1986-1988),and Radiology (1991-5)
Editorial Board of Advanced Medicine (Japan: 1995–); MAGMA (2003–2006)
Elected Trustee, Soc Magn Reson Med (1986-1989), and Soc Magn Reson Imag (1982-1986)
Fellow, Soc Magn Reson (1989)
Gold Medal of the American Roentgen Ray Society (2015)
Distinguished Investigator, Academy of Radiology Research (2012)
Member, National Academy of Inventors (2015)
Soc Magn Reson Med Sir Peter Mansfield Lecturer (2012)
NIH grant reviewer since 1979
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Yongda Cup | The Yongda Cup () is a Zhongguo Qiyuan Go competition.
Outline
The Yongda Cup is sponsored by the Zhongguo Qiyuan and China Yongda Automobiles Services Holdings Limited 16 players participate in a single knockout, and the final is a best-of-3. The komi is 6.5 points. The time limit is 2 hours. The winner's purse is 100,000 RMB.
Past winners
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Trevor Platt | Trevor Charles Platt, FRS, FRSC (August 12, 1942 - April 6, 2020) was a British and Canadian biological oceanographer who was distinguished for his fundamental contributions to quantifying primary production by phytoplankton at various scales of space and time in the ocean.
Early life and education
Platt was born in Salford, England in 1942 and received his BSc at the University of Nottingham, UK. He received his MA in 1965 from the University of Toronto, Canada for his thesis “Computer analysis of beam handling system for a linear accelerator”. Later in the same year, Platt started work at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. With the benefit of field and laboratory work conducted by his technical assistant Brian Irwin, who joined the institute in 1966, Platt embarked on studies that led to the fulfillment in 1970 of his PhD thesis (“Some effects of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on phytoplankton productivity”) at Dalhousie University.
Research
Platt's early research was framed by the overarching goals originally envisioned by the founders of the Atlantic Oceanographic Group of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, namely: “to describe pathways and to measure amounts and rates of energy transfer in marine biological communities; and to study the structure and degree of organization of biological systems in the sea”. One such early collaborative work concerning energy flow and species diversity in marine phytoplankton blooms was motivated by the ideas of Ramon Margalef, who evidently was nominated by Platt in a later year to receive one of three inaugural medals of the A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences.
In the ensuing years, Platt, with collaborators, undertook a research program that progressed from investigations of the spatial inhomogeneity of plankton distribution in response to the power spectrum of turbulence, through the physiological responses of the growth of cells in response to light and nutrients, to dimensional analysis and the size structure of pelagic food chains, further to theoretical considerations of the limits of biological production in the ocean, and eventually to the effects of climate change and variability on the biological cycle in the ocean.
By the late 1980s, Platt's research program at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography had reached a stage where the solid foundations built from a close relationship between theoretical developments and observations at sea provided the ready capabilities to embrace the possibilities offered by satellite remote sensing of the ocean. With his close collaborator Shubha Sathyendranath, Platt successfully implemented the analytical solutions and measurement-driven algorithms at regional and ocean basin scales to compute integrated primary production through the water column. In 1995, the long-sought calculation of annual global production by marine phytoplankton was made possible for the first time, after Alan Longhurst successfully partitioned the global ocean into a set of biogeochemical provinces within which the phytoplankton are likely subject to common physical forcing.
In later years after the estimation of marine primary production at large geographical scale was made operational, Platt increasingly turned his attention to the use of remotely-sensed ocean colour as indicators of ecosystem performance towards the management of fisheries and stewardship of the ocean.
Career
Platt joined the Fisheries Research Board of Canada at the then three year old Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on June 22, 1965 as a research scientist in the public service. In 1972, he took over from Kenneth H. Mann as head of the Biological Oceanography Section. He served as head until 2000, after which he remained in the section as senior research scientist. In 2005, he transferred to the Coastal Ocean Science Section, still at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, and remained there until his departure in 2008. Platt was appointed Professorial Fellow at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK) in 2008, and Jawaharlal Nehru Science Fellow at the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (India) in 2014.
Platt served the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) for two separate terms as a member-at-large (1974-1977, 1986-1989), then as President (1990-1992).
Platt played an especially important role in the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG), being one of the founding members of the group, and served as the first Chairman of the IOCCG for a period of 10 years (from 1996-2006).
Platt also had a long association with the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO), first as a visiting Professor in 2005, and then as its Executive Director from 2008 to 2015.
Awards and honours
1981 APICS-Fraser Gold Medal
1984 Rosenstiel Award
1988 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award, American Society for Limnology and Oceanography
1990 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1992 A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences
1998 Fellow of the Royal Society
2006 Timothy R. Parsons Medal
2007 DFO Prix d’Excellence
2014 Jawaharlal Nehru Science Fellowship
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Two Missionaries | Two Missionaries () is a 1974 Italian comedy starring the comedy team of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.
Synopsis
Two missionaries (Bud Spencer and Terence Hill) come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process.
Cast
Terence Hill as Father J.
Bud Spencer as Father Pedro de Leon
Robert Loggia as Governor Alfonso Felipe Gonzaga
Jean Pierre Aumont as Monsignor Delgado
Jacques Herlin as The Bishop
Mario Pilar as Menendez
Maria Cumani Quasimodo as Marquise Gonzaga
References
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Hartmut of Saint Gall | Hartmut von St. Gallen († 23 January after 905 in Saint Gall) was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall.
Hartmut (Old High German "of powerful courage and spirit"), was monk, pupil of Rabanus Maurus at the Princely Abbey of Fulda, and became Grimald's successor as Abbot of Saint Gall in 872. Otfrid of Weissenburg dedicated his Old High German "Liber evangeliorum", a kind of diatessaron in southern Rhenisch Franconian dialect, i. a. to his friend and fellow student Hartmut. As abbot, Hartmut, like his predecessor, generated an abundant construction activity. In 883, he abdicated and afterwards led a life of seclusion as recluse near the monastery in Saint Gall. He died on a 23 January after 905.
Sources
Gössi, Anton: St. Gallen - Äbte: Hartmut, 872-883. in: Helvetia Sacra. III: Die Orden mit Benediktinerregel. 2/1: Frühe Klöster, die Benediktiner und Benediktinerinnen in der Schweiz. Francke Verlag, Bern 1986, p. 1277–79.
Duft, Johannes: Hartmut. in: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB), Vol 8. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, p. 7.
Meyer von Knonau, Gerold: Hartmut. in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB), Vol 10. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 704–6.
Sauser, Ekkart: Hartmut. in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL), Vol 22. Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, p. 506.
External links
Folini, Christian. 2006: "Hartmut". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz.
Abt Hartmut (872-883) in the Stadtlexikon Wil. Quoted after Duft, Johannes: Die Abtei St. Gallen.
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Mount Coates (Victoria Land) | Mount Coates () is an Antarctic peak, high, just east of Borns Glacier in the Kukri Hills of Victoria Land. It was named by the Western Journey Party, led by Thomas Griffith Taylor, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13.
It was named after a lifelong friend of Thomas Griffith Taylor, Harold Coates from Oldham, Lancashire, who also sponsored the Siberian ponies on Scott's expedition.
References
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Otto Rohwedder | Otto Rohwedder (3 December 1909 – 15 June 1969) was a German footballer and manager who played as a forward and made five appearances for the Germany national team.
Career
Rohwedder made his international debut for Germany on 7 October 1934 in a friendly against Denmark. He scored Germany's third goal in the away match, which took place in Copenhagen and finished as a 5–2 win. He went on to earn five caps and score two goals for Germany, making his final appearance on 25 April 1937 in a friendly against Belgium, which finished as a 1–0 win in Hanover.
Personal life
Rohwedder died on 15 June 1969 at the age of 59.
Career statistics
International
International goals
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Brian Price (American football, born 1989) | Brian Larisso Price (born April 10, 1989) is a former American football defensive tackle who played in the National Football League. After playing college football at the University of California, Los Angeles, he was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 2010 NFL Draft.
Early years
Price attended Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles, California where he had 85 tackles, 17 tackles for loss, 15 sacks, four forced fumbles, and two recovered fumbles while battling double and triple teams in 2006. As a junior, made 111 tackles, including 22 sacks. Price was named "Coliseum League Defensive MVP" consecutive times in 2005 and 2006. He was selected to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl.
Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Price was ranked fifth among defensive tackle prospects in the nation. He picked UCLA over USC on March 11, 2006.
College career
As a true freshman in 2007, Price recorded 14 tackles (7.0 for losses) and one sack.
As a sophomore in 2008, Price led the Bruins with 14 tackles for loss. He was also second on the team with 4.5 quarterback sacks. He earned a First-team All-Pac-10 selection by the league's coaches, and a First-team Sophomore All-American selection by College Football News.
As a junior in 2009, Price started 13 games and made 48 tackles (23.5 for losses) and seven sacks. He also forced two fumbles and recovered one and deflected a pass. He was a First-team All-American by the AFCA and a consensus All-Pac 10 selection.
Awards and honors
Price was named to the All Pac-10 2009 first team and was named the Pac-10's Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year on December 7.
On November 30, at their annual awards banquet at the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel, running back Chane Moline, safety Rahim Moore and Price were selected winners of UCLA's Henry R. "Red" Sanders Award for most valuable players.
Price and teammate placekicker Kai Forbath were named to the AFCA Coaches' All-America team for the 2009 football season.
Professional career
After UCLA's win in the 2009 EagleBank Bowl, Price announced his decision to forgo his final year of eligibility and enter the 2010 NFL Draft. He was taken by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the 3rd (35th overall) pick in the 2nd round.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Price was placed on injured reserve with a pelvic injury on November 2, 2010. He only played in 5 games as a rookie, while battling hamstring injuries, which led to two radical surgeries to reattach both hamstrings to his pelvis, including a painful rehabilitation process in order to be ready for the following season. Price recorded his first professional sack on Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan during week 3 of the 2011 season.
During Week 13 of the 2011 NFL season, against the Carolina Panthers, Price shoved Panthers guard Mackenzy Bernadeau well after the end of a third-quarter play in which Cam Newton was sacked for a four-yard loss. Price was penalized for unnecessary roughness. The sack would have forced the Panthers into a 3rd-and-14 situation. However, the resulting 15-yard penalty gave the Panthers a first down, allowing them to complete a touchdown drive that put the game out of reach (the Panthers won 38–19). Buccaneers coach Raheem Morris was so incensed that he banished Price from the sideline for the rest of the game. The move drew comparisons to then San Francisco 49ers coach Mike Singletary banishing Vernon Davis from the sideline after a personal foul in 2008.
In May 2012, he missed organized team activities after being hospitalized during three days for exhaustion and grief in the wake of his sister's death in a hit-and-run accident (two of his brothers were murdered previously in Los Angeles). On June 19, he got into a fight with first round draft choice Mark Barron during an offseason training practice. He was later held out of much of the offseason program as a result of this issue.
Chicago Bears
On July 26, 2012, Price was traded to the Chicago Bears in exchange for a 7th round draft pick (#226-Michael Buchanan). He was released on September 3. On December 20, 2012, Price was brought in by the Minnesota Vikings for a workout.
Dallas Cowboys
Price signed a futures contract with the Dallas Cowboys on December 31, 2012. He was waived-injured on May 9, 2013.
Los Angeles Kiss
On May 1, 2014, Price was assigned to the Los Angeles Kiss of the Arena Football League (AFL). He appeared in one game for the Kiss during the 2014 season.
In May 2014, Price went to Jaguars Rookie Mini-Camp on a tryout basis. He was not offered a contract.
Personal life
Price grew up in South Los Angeles, where gang violence was a frequent occurrence. Two of his brothers, Eddie and Damon, were killed in gang-related shootings in Crenshaw. He also has six sisters. In May 2012, his sister Bridget, 30, died as a result of a car accident in Inglewood.
His wife, Candice Davis Price, is a track and field athlete and was the runner-up in the hurdles at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
In 2017, video footage emerged of Price acting in an agitated manner outside an automotive repair shop in Ann Arbor. Price was shown to dive through the store's glass door. This has since sparked debate on the mental injuries sustained by football players.
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Scott Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana | Scott Township is one of seventeen townships in Kosciusko County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,696 and it contained 493 housing units.
Scott Township was organized in 1848.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.83%) is land and (or 0.17%) is water.
References
External links
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United Township Association of Indiana
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Mussafah | Muṣaffah () or Mussafah is an industrial district to the southwest of Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. Also known as Muṣaffah Aṣ-Ṣanāʿiyah (), it is one of the most important economic areas of the United Arab Emirates and has been designated a special economic zone, with numerous factories and port.
History
Musaffah was a small industrial area in the 1970s. A 1980 MEED report described it as "a maze of roads and half-completed buildings" where industrial operations principally comprised workshops, service and maintenance facilities. The report stated that a pipe plant proposal in the area had strong local backing. Growth was facilitated by the building of the Musaffah Bridge, a six-lane bridge which was built between 1976 and 1978, connecting the island of Abu Dhabi to the main land, following investment by the Korean company Dongah. An engineering assessment of the bridge in 1994 revealed that the concrete in the bridge was not sustainable and was beyond repair. As a result the bridge underwent much restoration work in the 1990s, and generating new interest in developing Musaffah as an industrial centre. In 1996, the Abu Dhabi Seaports Authority announced a Dh2.4 billion development plan of the area, including the building of a new port in Musaffah. In 1998, many medium-rise buildings, mostly for offices, were proposed, and a local police station was built.
The government began offering incentives to businesses to operate in Musaffah, offering them zone services including exemption from customs on imported good, land, and industrial licenses. Musaffah is now the site for the "Abu Dhabi Industrial City", a special economic zone. As a result, the economic development of the area boomed in the 2000s, facilitated by its own port on the northern side. Hydrocarbons-intensive industries have been one of the major areas of growth. By January 2009, about 30% of the land in the Polymer Park vicinity had been let out. It was estimated that by 2012, the area would be about 60% utilised, exceeding $27 million in investment. A Bonar Emirates Technical Yarns factory, run by both ADBIC and Low & Bonar in conjunction, was established in April 2008 and manufactures industrial grass yarn.
Abu Dhabi Drilling Chemicals and Products Ltd (ADDCAP), a fully owned subsidiary of ADNOC, began operating in Musaffah in 2007. Ducab began operating in 2008 from a new plant in Musaffah where they have sought to increase their production capacity of low- and medium-voltage cables from 65,000 cubic tons to 110,000 cubic tons per year. Their other plant is in Jebel Ali.
In 2011, Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) officially handed over the landmark 53-kilometre long Musaffah Channel project to Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) for operational use. The development of the $411 million (AED1.5 billion) deepwater Musaffah Port and Musaffah Channel included a new general cargo terminal at the northwest corner of the Musaffah Industrial Area, as well as an extensive waterfront occupied by numerous private berths and terminals. Musaffah Shabiya is a fast-growing residential area with apartments and villas.
Geography
Musaffah is located in the central region of the Emirate, situated some south-east of the centre of Abu Dhabi City, and thus is a satellite town. On the eastern side is Mohammed Bin Zayed City and to the south is ICAD II and Al Maqatrah. The E30 road passes on its eastern side, between Musaffah and Mohammed Bin Zayed City.
A road and rail system exists between Musaffah and Taweelah.
88 towers exist on either side of the section of highway between the Musaffah Bridge and the highway interchange for the industrial estate. The bridge has two identical components which comprise, in addition to a carriageway, a foot-way in width. Musaffah's aesthetic qualities have been criticised by many. One author said that the "semi-industrial areas like Musaffah have morphed into grimy shanty-towns for thousands. The cramped, dirty quarters are hot, pungent and a long way from the smart, iridescent blocks of the city."
The port facility provides for cargo operations and warehousing for a wide range of clients. A new tunnel of length links the airport with Musaffah. The Musaffah Channel is a man-made canal, with gypsum crystals described as large and bladed. The banks at the eastern end of the Musaffah Channel reportedly have "Pleistocene reworked dune deposits, unconformably overlain by Holocene carbonates and sabkha evaporates." The channel's inner reaches are situated approximately inland from the location of the present-day lagoon. The port has a long main quay and two long side quays and covers an area of . The depth of draft is at the port and is linked with the new Musaffah Channel (a channel dredged below the datum) which is about in length.
Municipal administration
The municipal administration area of Musaffah has a population of about 151,000 and its jurisdiction includes Musaffah Industrial Area, northern coastal zone, labour camps, commercial centre of Khalifa, new industrial centre, residential and commercial areas of Mohammed Bin Zayed, also residential areas of Khalifa City.
See also
Al Wathba, Abu Dhabi
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Withybush General Hospital | Withybush General Hospital () is a district general hospital in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is managed by Hywel Dda University Health Board.
History
The hospital started life in 1942 as a wartime hospital for wounded soldiers. It was rebuilt between 1973 and 1978 and officially re-opened on 15 June 1979. A new Emergency and Urgent Care centre was opened in 2010.
There were concerns about the hospital's long term prospects, leading to protests in 2010.
In September 2014 a new renal dialysis unit run by Fresenius Medical Care Renal Services Ltd was opened at the hospital, with a contract to run for at least 7 years.
As part of the reorganisation of acute services in Wales a 24/7 inpatient paediatric service was to be provided at West Wales General Hospital from October 2014. Withybush was to have a new 12-hour paediatric ambulatory care unit.
In April 2018 plans were announced to downgrade Withybush to a community hospital, with plans for a new hospital to be built near the Pembrokeshire-Carmarthenshire border. A demonstration through Haverfordwest and other protests were held against the downgrading and loss of Accident and Emergency facilities.
Services
Services offered or in development include inpatient facilities for palliative care, oncology and haematology patients.
References
External links
Official website
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WDDC | WDDC (100.1 FM, "Thunder 100.1") is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Prior to country music, WDDC featured an adult contemporary format for many years as "FM 100, WDDC". Licensed to Portage, Wisconsin, United States, the station serves the Madison area. The station is currently owned by Magnum Broadcasting.
Magnum Broadcasting station purchase
On March 1, 2011, Magnum Broadcasting announced that they had taken responsibility for WDDC and WPDR, which were located in Portage, Wisconsin. Prior to this date, the stations were controlled by Zoe Communications Inc., based in Shell Lake, WI. The purchase price was reported as $750,000.
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Markook shrek | Markook bread, also known as khubz Ruqaq, shrak, khubz rqeeq,, mashrooh (Arabic: مرقوق ، شراك ،مشروح ، خبز رقيق, خبز رقاق ) is a kind of Middle Eastern unleavened flatbread common in the Levant and the Arabian peninsula. It is baked on a convex metal griddle (a saj) or in a tannour.
Markook shrek is somewhat similar to saj bread, but is thicker and smaller in diameter. The dough is unleavened and usually made with only flour, water, and salt, and after being rested and divided into round portions, flattened and spread across a round cushion until it is thin then flipped onto the saj. It is often folded and put in bags before being sold.
It is commonly compared to pita bread, also found in Middle Eastern cuisine, although it is much larger and thinner.
Etymology
Markook مرقوق comes from the Arabic word raqiq رقيق meaning delicate, and raqiq رقيق also comes from the Verb Raq رق.
History
Markook was also mentioned in the tenth-century cookbook of Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq under the name Ruqaq. He describes it as large and paper-thin, unleavened bread. German orientalist Gustaf Dalman described the markook in Palestine during the early 20th-century as being also the name applied to flatbread made in a tannour, although, in this case, it was sometimes made with leavening agents.
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Chapati
Gözleme
Lavash
Khubz
Naan
Pita
Piadina
Pane carasau
Rumali Roti
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Russian cruiser Marshal Ustinov | The Russian cruiser Marshal Ustinov (), is a (Project 1164) of the Russian Navy. The Russian name for the ship type is Gvardeysky Raketnyy Kreyser (GRKR), meaning "Guards Missile Cruiser". The ship is named after Dmitriy Ustinov, a former Soviet Minister of Defence. Marshal Ustinov was assigned to the 43rd Missile Ship Division of the Russian Northern Fleet, whose homeport is in Severomorsk. From 2012 to 2016, the cruiser underwent a major overhaul. The vessel returned to service in 2017 and has since been deployed to the Mediterranean Sea.
Description
Marshal Ustinov is a designed during the Soviet Union as a Raketnyy Kreyser or "anti-ship rocket cruiser (RKR)." As originally constructed the vessel had a standard displacement of and at full load. By 2009, this had decreased to standard and at full load. The cruiser measures long with a beam of and a draught of . The vessel is powered by a combined gas or gas (COGOG) system comprising four boost gas turbines and two cruise gas turbines driving two shafts for a combined . This gives the cruiser a maximum speed of and a range of at . As built the cruiser had a complement of 505. This was later reduced to 476 including 62 officers.
Marshal Ustinov when constructed was armed with sixteen P-500 Bazalt (SS-N-12 Sandbox) anti-ship missiles (SSM) in two eight-missile launchers located amidships to either side of the superstructure. They are also equipped with 64 S-300F Fort (SA-N-6 Grumble) long-range surface-to-air missiles (SAM) in eight eight-missile launchers located aft of the funnel and four OSA-M (SA-N-4 Gecko) SR SAMs in two twenty-round launchers located aft, to either side of the hangar. Marshal Ustinov is also armed with twin-mounted AK-130 /L70 dual purpose guns located forward and six AK-630 close-in weapons systems with two located forward atop the superstructure and four located amidships to either side of the superstructure. For anti-submarine warfare (ASW), the cruiser mounts two RBU-6000 anti-submarine mortars, each with six barrels and ten torpedo tubes two quintuple launchers behind shutters near the stern.
The ship was equipped with MR-800 Voshkod/Top Pair 3-D long range air search and MR-700 Fregat/Top Steer air/surface search radar. For ASW, the cruisers is equipped with MG-332 Tigan-2T/Bull Nose hull-mounted LF and Platina/Horse Tail MF VDS sonar. Marshal Ustinov mounts MR-184/Kite Screech fire control radar for the 130 mm guns, 3R41 Volna/Top Dome radar for SA-N-6 SAM control, MPZ-301 Baza/Pop Group radar for SA-N-4 SAM control and Argument/Front Door-C radar for SSM control and 3 Bass Tilt radars for the AK-630s. The cruiser also utilises the Punch Bowl satellite link for its weapon targeting systems. For electronic warfare, the ship is supplied with the Kol'cho suite with Gurzhor-A&B/Side Globe intercept and MR-404/Rum Tub jammers. The vessel mounts two PK2 chaff launchers. The single Top Dome radar only has a 180° arc and presents a blind spot forward for the SA-N-6 missiles.
The cruiser has a flight deck over the stern and a hangar. The cruiser can utilise either one Kamov Ka-25 or Kamov Ka-27 helicopter. The hangar is one-half deck below the flight deck and is reached via an inclined ramp. The helicopter is maneuvered using a chain-haul system. The helicopter can provide over-the-horizon targeting for Marshal Ustinovs weapon systems.
Construction and career
Hull number 070 was laid down at the 61 Kommuna #445 Yard, Nikolayev (Mykolaiv) on 5 October 1978 as the second Slava-class ship initially named Admiral Lobov. The cruiser was launched on 25 February 1982 and commissioned in the Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet as the renamed Marshal Ustinov on 15 September 1986. Beginning in March 1987, the cruiser began operations with the fleet. Marshal Ustinov has been known to carry two other hull numbers than her original (070); 088 and 055. From December 1987 to June 1988, she performed the tasks of military service in the Mediterranean Sea.
In 1989 Marshal Ustinov was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea again. Between 22−26 July 1989 the cruiser, along with the oiler and the destroyer , paid an official visit to the naval base of Norfolk, Virginia, United States. This marked only the second time Soviet warships had made a visit to the United States since World War II. On 4 January 1991 Marshal Ustinov started a patrol duty in the Mediterranean Sea. Between 16−20 July 1991 the cruiser paid a visit to the naval base of Mayport, Florida, United States. Marshal Ustinov was accompanied by the oiler and the destroyer . This marked the third time Soviet warships had visited the United States since the end of the Cold War. Between 30 June–5 July 1993 she paid a visit to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada alongside the destroyer .
In 1994, then commissioned in the Russian Northern Fleet, Marshal Ustinov was laid up at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St. Petersburg awaiting extensive repairs. The refit was completed in May 1995. In December 1996, the People's Republic of China purchased two s and the income from this sale made it possible to pay for the $US169 million repairs to Marshal Ustinov. Marshal Ustinov remained in St. Petersburg until 1998 when the cruiser returned to the Northern Fleet.
From 21 September to 22 October 2004 Marshal Ustinov took part in a long voyage of the carrier strike group of the Northern Fleet to the north-eastern part of the Atlantic. Beginning on 17 July 2008 the cruiser patrolled the waters of the Arctic Ocean around Spitsbergen, replacing the destroyer .
In March 2011 it was reported that Marshal Ustinov could be transferred to the Russian Pacific Fleet. In 2011, it was decided to give the cruiser a moderate overhaul. However, in 2012, the navy decided to completely rework the cruiser. In 2012 the cruiser was laid up for repairs and upgrades at the Zvyozdochka Shipyard. The refit comprised repairs to ship's hull structures, propeller-steering group mechanisms, main power plant, and general systems. The electronic weapons systems were upgraded with digital devices. It was during this refit that the P-500 Bazalt missiles were upgraded to the modernized P-1000 Vulkan missiles. The ship rejoined the navy in 2016, and returned to active service in April 2017.
On 12 May 2017, Marshal Ustinov, with cruise missiles on board, went on exercises in the Barents Sea. On 4 July 2017, together with the destroyer , Marshal Ustinov sailed from Severomorsk to the Baltic Sea and on 29 July she took part in the Main Naval Parade in St. Petersburg in honor of the Navy Day. On 5 December 2017, the cruiser completed combat training missions in training ranges in the Barents Sea to repulse conventional air attacks of Sukhoi Su-33 fighters.
On 3 July 2019, Marshal Ustivnov left Severomorsk to participate in the Main Naval Parade in St. Petersburg before joining the Russian Navy exercise "Ocean Shield-2019" in the Baltic and on 22 August, entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. There, she visited ports in Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus. Marshal Ustinov afterwards transited Gibraltar again and sailed into the Atlantic. On its way to South Africa, the cruiser paid a port visit to Equatorial Guinea. This was only a third time after the Cold War that a Russian cruiser entered the South Atlantic, the first two being in 2008/2009 and in 2015. Between 25 and 30 November Marshal Ustinov participated in joint naval drills with South Africa and China. After the drills she transited Gibraltar. On 6 January 2020 it was reported that the cruiser will be deployed off Syria due to the danger of an Iran-US war in order to provide protection for the Russian troops in Syria and to ensure stability in the region.
Citations
References
External links
FAS.org
GlobalSecurity.org
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OTO Award for TV Female Actor | OTO Award TV Female Actor
Currently held by Zuzana Mauréry
First awarded | Last awarded 2000 | Present
OTO Award for TV Female Actor has been bestowed to the most recognized female actors of the past year in Slovakia since 2000. In years 2010 and 2011, the award was split into two equivalent categories depending on a genre, TV drama or TV comedy. From 2012, the general category is held.
Winners and nominees
2000s
2010s
Superlatives
Notes
┼ Denotes also a winner in two or more of the main categories. † Denotes also a winner of the Absolute OTO category. ‡ Denotes also an inductee into the Hall of Fame OTO.
Associated categories
OTO Award TV Female Actor – Drama
First awarded | Last awarded 2010 | 2011
TV Female Actor – Drama
2 nominations
Emília Vášáryová
Diana Mórová
OTO Award TV Female Actor – Comedy
First awarded | Last awarded 2010 | 2011
TV Female Actor – Comedy
2 awards
Petra Polnišová
2 nominations
Petra Polnišová
Helena Krajčiová
References
External links
OTO Awards (Official website)
OTO Awards - Winners and nominees (From 2000 onwards)
OTO Awards - Winners and nominees (From 2000 to 2009)
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Team nursing | Team nursing is a system of integrated care that was developed in 1950s (under grant from W.K. Kellogg Foundation) directed by Eleanor Lambertson at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, NY. Because the functional method received criticism, a new system of nursing was devised to improve patient satisfaction. “Care through others” became the hallmark of team nursing. It was developed in an effort to decrease the problems associated with the functional model of nursing care. Many people felt that, despite a continued shortage of professional nursing staff, a patient care delivery model had to be developed that reduced the fragmented care that accompanies functional nursing.
Team nursing was developed because of social and technological changes in World War II drew many nurses away from hospitals, learning haps, services, procedures and equipment became more expensive and complicated, requiring specialisation at every turn. It is an attempt to meet increased demands of nursing services and better use of knowledge and skills of professional nurses.
Definitions
Team nursing is a system that distributes the care of a patient amongst a team that is all working together to provide for this person. This team consists of up to 4 to 6 members that has a team leader who gives jobs and instructions to the group.
Team nursing is based on philosophy in which groups of professional and non-professional personnel work together to identify, plan, implement and evaluate comprehensive client-centered care. The key concept is a group that works together toward a common goal, providing qualitative, comprehensive nursing care. Team nursing was designed to accommodate several categories of personnel in meeting the comprehensive nursing needs of a group of clients
Objective
The objective of team nursing is to give the best possible quality of patient care by utilising the abilities of every member of the staff to the fullest extent and by providing close supervision both of patient care and of the individual who give it.
Line of organization
A clear line of organization and structure is needed for team nursing to provide a mechanism for horizontal and vertical communication, and an organized pattern is employed.
Functions
The two important points of functioning are:
The head nurse must know at all times the condition of the patients and the plan for their care and must be assured that assignments and workmanship contribute to quality nursing
The team leader must have freedom to use their initiative and the opportunity to nurse, supervise, and teach unencumbered by the responsibility for administrative detail
Functions of a registered nurse
In team nursing the registered nurse (RN) functions as a team leader, and coordinates the small group (no more than four or five) of ancillary personnel to provide care to a small group of patients.
As coordinator of the team, the RN must know the many conditions and needs of all patients assigned to the team and plan for the individualised care for each patient.
The team leader is also responsible for encouraging a cooperative environment and maintaining clear communication among all team members.
The team leader’s duties include planning care, assigning duties, directing and assisting team members, giving direct patient care, teaching and coordinating patient activities.
The team leader assigns each member specific responsibilities dependent on the role.
The members of the team report directly to the team leader, who then reports to the charge nurse or unit manager.
Communication is enhanced through the use of written patient assignments, the development of nursing care plans, and the use of regularly scheduled team conferences to discuss the patient status and formulate revisions to the plan of care.
However, for team nursing to succeed, the team leader must have strong clinical skills, good communication skills, delegation ability, decision-making ability, and the ability to create a cooperative working environment.^
Channels of communication
Reports
Work or assignment conference
Patient care conference
Written nursing care plan
The greatest single distinguishing feature of team nursing is the team conference. In general, there are three parts to the conference;
Report by each team member on his or her patients.
Planning for new patients and changing plans as needed for others.
Planning the next day’s assessment.
It is essential that the conference be well planned, brief but comprehensive and interesting. The team leader is the chair person for the conference. They offer opportunity for all personnel to evaluate patient care and solve the problems through team discussion.
Advantages
High quality comprehensive care can be provided despite a relatively high proportion of ancillary staff.
Each member of the team is able to participate in decision making and problem solving.
Each team member is able to contribute his or her own special expertise or skills in caring for the patient.
Improved patient satisfaction.
Organisational decision making occurring at the lower level.
Cost-effective system because it works with expected ratio of unlicensed to licensed personnel.
Team nursing is an effective method of patient care delivery and has been used in most inpatient and outpatient health care settings.
Feeling of participation and belonging are facilitated with team members.
Work load can be balanced and shared.
Division of labour allows members the opportunity to develop leadership skills.
Every team member has the opportunity to learn from and teach colleagues
There is a variety in the daily assignment.
Interest in client’s wellbeing and care is shared by several people, reliability of decisions is increased.
Nursing care hours are usually cost effective.
The client is able to identify personnel who are responsible for his care.
Continuity of care is facilitated, especially if teams are constant.
Barriers between professional and non-professional workers can be minimised, the group efforts prevail.
Everyone has the opportunity to contribute to the care plan.
Disadvantages
Establishing a team concept takes time, effort and constancy of personnel. Merely assigning people to a group does not make them a ‘group’ or ‘team’.
Unstable staffing pattern make team nursing difficult.
All personnel must be client centred.
There is less individual responsibility and independence regarding nursing functions.
Continuity of care may suffer if the daily team assignments vary and the patient is confronted with many different caregivers.
The team leader may not have the leadership skills required to effectively direct the team and create a “team spirit”.
Insufficient time for care planning and communication may lead to unclear goals. Therefore, responsibilities and care may become fragmented.
Modifications
In an attempt to overcome some of its disadvantages, the team nursing design has been modified many times since its original inception, and variations of the model are evident in other methods of nursing care delivery such, as modular nursing.
Modular nursing
Modular nursing is a modification of team nursing and focuses on the patient’s geographic location for staff assignments.
The patient unit is divided into modules or districts, and the same team of caregivers is assigned consistently to the same geographic location.
Each location, or module, has an RN assigned as the team leader, and the other team members may include LVN/LPN or UAP.
Just as in the team nursing, the team leader in the modular nursing is accountable for all patient care and is responsible for providing leadership for team members and creating a cooperative work environment.
The concept of modular nursing calls for a smaller group of staff providing care for a smaller group of patients.
The goal is to increase the involvement of the RN in planning and coordinating care.
Communication is more efficient among a smaller group of team members.
The success of the modular nursing depends greatly on the leadership abilities of the team leader.
Advantages:
Continuity of care is improved when staff members are consistently assigned to the same module
The RN as team leader is able to be more involved in planning and coordinating care.
Geographic closeness and more efficient communication save staff time.
Disadvantages:
Costs may be increased to stock each module with the necessary patient care supplies (medication cart, linens and dressings).
Long corridors, common in many hospitals, are not conducive to modular nursing.
See also
Primary nursing
Registered nurse
Nurse manager
Nursing
References
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Mowtowr-e Mohammad Nayimi Chah Hasan | Mowtowr-e Mohammad Nayimi Chah Hasan (, also Romanized as Mowtowr-e Moḩammad Nayīmī Chāh Ḩasan) is a village in Jazmurian Rural District, Jazmurian District, Rudbar-e Jonubi County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 56, in 10 families.
References
Category:Populated places in Rudbar-e Jonubi County |
Chaco tigre | Chaco tigre is a species of mygalomorph spiders of Chile, named after its type locality: Quebrada El Tigre, Petorca, Region V (Valparaiso Region). This species differs from C. socos by its spermathecae having a shorter duct and a more globose fundus, and by constructing a thin door for its burrow; the general colouration is brownish, while C. socos is more grayish coloured.
Description
The male has a total length of ; and a cephalothorax length of and width of . The labium length is 82% of its width. The sternum width is 82% of its length. The labium possesses six small cuspules. Its posterior sternal sigilla is well marked. Its cephalothorax and legs are yellowish brown, while the legs carry darker spots; the abdomen is lighter, with some brown coloring.
The female has a total length of ; a cephalothorax length of and width of ; and a cephalic region length of and width of . The cephalic region's width is 77% of the cephalothorax's width. The labium length is 52% of its width. The sternum width is 75% of its length. The labium possesses six large cuspules. A serrula is apparently absent. The colour is the same as in the male.
Distribution and behaviour
This species has been collected in places of inclined, sandy or stony soil. It lives in burrows closed with a single door (unlike Chaco obscura and C. tucumana). The door is thin, on which "growth rings" are sometimes visible. The tube of the burrow is often prolonged with silk and earth in the upper portion. The smooth, well-compacted walls are covered with little silk. It is found in Región Metropolitana and Region V.
See also
Spider anatomy
List of Nemesiidae species
Regions of Chile
References
External links
ADW entry
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Category:Spiders of South America
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Nuclear DNA | Nuclear DNA (nDNA), or nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid, is the DNA contained within each cell nucleus of a eukaryotic organism. Nuclear DNA encodes for the majority of the genome in eukaryotes, with mitochondrial DNA and plastid DNA coding for the rest. Nuclear DNA adheres to Mendelian inheritance, with information coming from two parents, one male and one female, rather than matrilineally (through the mother) as in mitochondrial DNA.
Structure
Nuclear DNA is a nucleic acid, a polymeric biomolecule or biopolymer, found in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells. Its structure is a double helix, with two strands wound around each other. This double helix structure was first described by Francis Crick and James D. Watson (1953) using data collected by Rosalind Franklin. Each strand is a long polymer chain of repeating nucleotides. Each nucleotide is composed of a five-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and an organic base. Nucleotides are distinguished by their bases. There are the purines, large bases which include adenine and guanine, and pyrimidines, small bases which include thymine and cytosine. Chargaff's rules state that adenine will always pair with thymine and guanine will always pair with cytosine. The phosphate groups are held together by a phosphodiester bond and the bases are held together by hydrogen bonds.
Mitochondrial DNA
Nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA differ in many ways, starting with location and structure. Nuclear DNA is located within the nucleus of eukaryote cells and usually has two copies per cell while mitochondrial DNA is located in the mitochondria and contains 100-1,000 copies per cell. The structure of nuclear DNA chromosomes is linear with open ends and includes 46 chromosomes containing 3 billion nucleotides. Mitochondrial DNA chromosomes usually have closed, circular structures, and contain for example 16,569 nucleotides in human. Nuclear DNA is diploid, ordinarily inheriting the DNA from two parents, while mitochondrial DNA is haploid, coming only from the mother. The mutation rate for nuclear DNA is less than 0.3% while that of mitochondrial DNA is generally higher.
Forensics
Nuclear DNA is known as the molecule of life and contains the genetic instructions for the development of all living organisms. It is found in almost every cell in the human body, with exceptions such as red blood cells. Everyone has a unique genetic blueprint, even identical twins. Forensic departments such as the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are able to use techniques involving nuclear DNA to compare samples in a case. Techniques used include polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which allows one to utilize very small amounts of DNA by making copies of targeted regions on the molecule, also known as short tandem repeats (STRs).
Cell division
Like mitosis, meiosis is a form of eukaryotic cell division. Meiosis gives rise to four unique daughter cells, each of which has half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell. Because meiosis creates cells that are destined to become gametes (or reproductive cells), this reduction in chromosome number is critical — without it, the union of two gametes during fertilization would result in offspring with twice the normal number of chromosomes.
Meiosis creates new combinations of genetic material in each of the four daughter cells. These new combinations result from the exchange of DNA between paired chromosomes. Such exchange means that the gametes produced through meiosis often exhibit considerable genetic variation.
Meiosis involves two rounds of nuclear division, not just one. Prior to undergoing meiosis, a cell goes through an interphase period in which it grows, replicates its chromosomes, and checks all of its systems to ensure that it is ready to divide.
Like mitosis, meiosis also has distinct stages called prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. A key difference, however, is that during meiosis, each of these phases occurs twice — once during the first round of division, called meiosis I, and again during the second round of division, called meiosis II.
Replication
Prior to cell division, the DNA material in the original cell must be duplicated so that after cell division, each new cell contains the full amount of DNA material. The process of DNA duplication is usually called replication. The replication is termed semiconservative since each new cell contains one strand of original DNA and one newly synthesized strand of DNA. The original polynucleotide strand of DNA serves as a template to guide the synthesis of the new complementary polynucleotide of DNA. The DNA single strand template serves to guide the synthesis of a complementary strand of DNA.
DNA replication begins at a specific site in the DNA molecule called the origin of replication. The enzyme helicase unwinds and separates a portion of the DNA molecule after which single-strand binding proteins react with and stabilize the separated, single-stranded sections of the DNA molecule. The enzyme complex DNA polymerase engages the separated portion of the molecule and initiates the process of replication. DNA polymerase can only connect new DNA nucleotides to a pre-existing chain of nucleotides. Therefore, replication begins as an enzyme called primase assembles an RNA primer at the origin of replication. The RNA primer consists of a short sequence of RNA nucleotides, complementary to a small, initial section of the DNA strand being prepared for replication. DNA polymerase is then able to add DNA nucleotides to the RNA primer and thus begin the process of constructing a new complementary strand of DNA. Later the RNA primer is enzymatically removed and replaced with the appropriate sequence of DNA nucleotides. Because the two complementary strands of the DNA molecule are oriented in opposite directions and the DNA polymerase can only accommodate replication in one direction, two different mechanisms for copying the strands of DNA are employed. One strand is replicated continuously towards the unwinding, separating portion of the original DNA molecule; while the other strand is replicated discontinuously in the opposite direction with the formation of a series of short DNA segments called Okazaki fragments. Each Okazaki fragment requires a separate RNA primer. As the Okazaki fragments are synthesized, the RNA primers are replaced with DNA nucleotides and the fragments are bonded together in a continuous complementary strand.
DNA damage and repair
Damage of nuclear DNA is a persistent problem arising from a variety of disruptive endogenous and exogenous sources. Eukaryotes have evolved a diverse set of DNA repair processes that remove nuclear DNA damages. These repair processes include base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, homologous recombinational repair, non-homologous end joining and microhomology-mediated end joining. Such repair processes are essential for maintaining nuclear DNA stability. Failure of repair activity to keep up with the occurrence of damages has various negative consequences. Nuclear DNA damages, as well as the mutations and epigenetic alterations that such damages cause, are considered to be a major cause of cancer. Nuclear DNA damages are also implicated in aging and neurodegenerative diseases.
Mutation
Nuclear DNA is subject to mutation. A major cause of mutation is inaccurate DNA replication, often by specialized DNA polymerases that synthesize past DNA damages in the template strand (error-prone trans-lesion synthesis). Mutations also arise by inaccurate DNA repair. The microhomology-mediated end joining pathway for repair of double-strand breaks is particularly prone to mutation. Mutations arising in the nuclear DNA of the germline are most often neutral or adaptively disadvantageous. However, the small proportion of mutations that prove to be advantageous provide the genetic variation upon which natural selection operates to generate new adaptations.
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Chromatin
Nuclear gene
References
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Category:Cell nucleus |
Carolina Jaume | Carolina Milena Jaume Saporiti (born 18 October 1985) is an Ecuadorian television actress and presenter.
Biography
Carolina Jaume was born on 18 October 1985 in Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil, to parents Rafael Jaume of Puerto Rico and Diana Saporiti, a former television producer from Ecuador. Jaume started early in TV acting, but left during her adolescence until she was 19, when she entered the 2004 Queen of Guayaquil contest, being declared "Star of October." Jaume made her debut into TV acting in 2006 with the Ecuavisa-produced telenovela and the series De 9 a 6, where she worked with , her future husband. In 2007, Jaume would give birth to the couple's daughter, but the marriage ended one year later, in 2009.
In 2008, Jaume starred in the telenovela and the following year participated in the comedy La Panadería and telenovela , but left both before completion when she resigned from Ecuavisa. Eventually, she would find herself in Channel One working as a presenter, but would leave Channel One as well in 2015 and marry Ecuadorian businessman Allan Zenck and give birth to another child. From there, Jaume would help in the staging of Mujer que se respeta with Claudia Camposano and Marcela Ruete.
In 2016, Jaume returned to Ecuavisa to be a judge in the fifth season of . However, due to a difference of opinion with fellow judge Paola Farias, her contract was not renewed and she left the company a second time.
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Conus chaldaeus | Conus chaldaeus, common name the worm cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 19.7 mm and 59 mm. The color of the shell is white, sometimes rose-tinted, with three or four revolving bands composed of irregular longitudinal dark chocolate or nearly black markings. The black markings are more continuous, so as usually to cover the length of the shell except an irregular white central band. Sometimes those markings are impressed so that the intervening white spaces project granulously or tuberculately above the surface; occasionally also the entire surface becomes dark chocolate with the exception of the white band, and a white spot here and there. These markings also ornament the slightly coronated spire. The aperture is white with clouded bands corresponding with the exterior markings. The surface of the shell is more or less striate throughout, but the striae become more prominent towards the dark stained base.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the tropical Indo-Pacific and in the Eastern Pacific (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama); off New Zealand and Australia (New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
References
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Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1810. Tableau des espèces. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 15: 29–40
Dufo, M.H. 1840. Observations sur les Mollusques marins, terrestres et fluviatiles des iles Séchelles et des Amirantes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 2 14, Zoologie: 45–80 (extrait), 166–221(suite)
Iredale, T. 1929. Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(3): 261–297, pls 30–31
Demond, J. 1957. Micronesian reef associated gastropods. Pacific Science 11(3): 275–341, fig. 2, pl. 1.
Gillett, K. & McNeill, F. 1959. The Great Barrier Reef and Adjacent Isles: a comprehensive survey for visitor, naturalist and photographer. Sydney : Coral Press 209 pp.
Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef Shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp.
Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217
Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian Shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp.
Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the Central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp.
Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, pp. 1–391.
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific Marine Shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian Marine Shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp.
Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
Röckel, D., Korn, W. & Kohn, A.J. 1995. Manual of the Living Conidae. Volume 1: Indo-Pacific Region. Wiesbaden : Hemmen 517 pp.
Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1–23
External links
The Conus Biodiversity website
Cone Shells – Knights of the Sea
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Chang Gedo | Chang Gedo (born 1941), is an early Hapkido practitioner and master of the art, who brought his style of this Korean fighting system to the west in 1973.
Life
Chang Gedo lived until his early twenties in a mountain monastery in Chungnam Province, learning hoshinsul (self-defence techniques) from his father a Buddhist monk. Upon leaving the monastery, Chang Gedo became one of the few men formally recognised as a master of Hapkido (1964) within Ji Han Jae's newly formed association. He then opened his school in Korea and called it Wol Ge Kwan which means The Victor's Laurel. In 1973, Master Chang turned his Hapkido school in Korea over to Choi Yong Sul when the Korean Hapkido Association dispatched him to the United States of America. He has demonstrated and taught throughout the USA, finally settling in Lombard, Illinois where he opened his first U.S. School, Chang's Hapkido Academy. Chang’s Hapkido Academy has schools across America and expanded to England in 1993 under Tammy Parlour.
Accomplishments
He was the first to develop Hapkido techniques specifically for police personnel. His teaching abilities so impressed the Korean Government, that they created a special award for Best Martial Arts Instructor, and presented it to Master Chang. Chang Gedo is an 8th degree master of Hapkido and president of the World Hapkido Union; he is also an author of many books and a world-renowned speaker on Ki, spirituality and human behaviour.
Further reading
Kimm, He-Young. Hapkido (alternately The Hapkido Bible). Andrew Jackson Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1991
Fighters Magazine, September 1995, P.15-16, Article by Sam Plum, Gedo Chang Master of Ki Power.
TKD & Korean Martial Arts Magazine, June 1996, p26-27, Article by Jean Dobbrey, Hapkido’s Pressure Points.
Fighters Magazine, June 1998, P.34-36, Article by Sam Plum, Master Gedo Chang and the Korean Art of Hapkido.
TKD & Korean Martial Arts Magazine, April 1999, p76-79, Article by Tammy Parlour, An Exclusive Interview with Grandmaster Gedo Chang.
Sources
External links
Chang’s Hapkido Academy homepage
Ki Meditation
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Roy Jones Jr. vs. Mike McCallum | Roy Jones Jr. vs. Mike McCallum, billed as "Fire on Ice" was a professional boxing match contested on November 22, 1996 for the interim WBC light heavyweight championship. It was Jones' first fight in the light heavyweight division.
Background
As the current WBC light heavyweight champion Fabrice Tiozzo decided whether to remain a light heavyweight or move up to the cruiserweight division, the WBC organized a match for the interim WBC light heavyweight title between 39–year old number-one contender, Mike McCallum (whom Tiozzo had defeated for the title) and the reigning IBF super middleweight champion Roy Jones Jr., who was making his light heavyweight debut and was also regarded by The Ring as the number one pound-for-pound fighter in boxing. The future hall-of-famer McCallum was the underdog for one of the only times in his professional career and McCallum himself admitted that he "have to utilize everything I have if I'm going to win."
Prior to the fight, controversy arose when the WBC and the Florida State Athletic Commission feuded over whose officials would judge the fight. Neither side budged and, ultimately, two sets of judge's, one from each organization, would score the fight. The official judges were from the FSAC, however the WBC judges would score the fight from the first row of the media section and WBC president José Sulaimán made it known that the organization would go by their judges scorecards, regardless if the FSAC judges ruled in favor of a different fighter then the WBC judges.
The Fight
Jones was not as aggressive as he had been in some of his past fights, choosing to fight McCallum cautiously for the most part. McCallum, though, had difficulty with the younger and quicker Jones and despite throwing 651 punches, 116 more than Jones, he connected with only 209 for a 32% success rate. Jones, meanwhile, landed nearly half of his thrown punches, connecting with 254 of 535 punches for a 47% success rate. Jones also scored the lone knockdown in the fight. Just before the end of the tenth round, Jones connected with a right to McCallum's jaw that put him down on the seat of his pants, however McCallum was able to quickly get back to his feet. The bout went the full 12 rounds and as a result went to the judge's scorecards. The official FSAC judges had Jones winning all 12 rounds and scored the bout 120–107. The WBC judges were also unanimously in favor of Jones, albeit with three diffent scores of 119–108, 117–110 and 116–111.
Aftermath
Shortly after his victory, Jones "interim" tag was removed and he was upgraded to full championship status as Tiozzo officially vacated his light heavyweight title and moved to the cruiserweight division. Jones' first light heavyweight title reign would not last long. In his next fight on March 21, 1997, Jones was disqualified after hitting his opponent Montell Griffin as he was down on one knee, becoming Jones' first loss as a professional. Jones, however, would knock out Griffin in a rematch later in the year and held the WBC light heavyweight title (eventually unifying it with the WBA and IBF versions along the way) until 2003 when he moved up to the heavyweight division.
The bout would prove to be the final title fight of McCallum's career. After his loss to Jones, he would fight only one more time, losing by unanimous decision to James Toney in the third fight of their trilogy before announcing his retirement with a 49–5–1 record.
Undercard
WBO Super Bantamweight Championship bout: Marco Antonio Barrera vs. Junior Jones
Jones defeated Barrera by disqualification in round five to win WBO Super Bantamweight title
Heavyweight bout: Al Cole vs. Matthew Charleston
Cole defeated Charleston by knockout in round one
References
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Amat (surname) | Amat is a surname of Provençal/Catalan origin meaning "beloved". Notable bearers of the name include:
Surname
Anna Aguilar-Amat (born 1962), Spanish writer
Carlos Oquendo de Amat (1905–1936), Peruvian poet
Félix Torres Amat (1772–1849), Spanish Bishop
Jaume Amat (born 1970), Spanish field hockey player
Jean-Charles Roman d'Amat (1887–1976), French librarian and historian
Jean-Pierre Amat (born 1962), French sports shooter
Joaquim Amat-Piniella (1913–1974), Spanish writer and politician
Jordi Amat (born 1992), Spanish footballer
Josefa Carpena-Amat, known as Pepita Carpeña (1919–2005), Spanish trade unionist, writer and anarchist
Juan Amat (born 1946), Spanish field hockey player
Kiko Amat (born 1971), Spanish writer
Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso (1796–1878), Italian dean of the College of Cardinals
Manuel de Amat y Junient (1707–1782), Spanish military officer
Pancho Amat (born 1950), Cuban tres musician
Pascual Amat y Esteve (1856–1928), Spanish politician, military figure and lawyer
Pedro Amat (born 1940), Spanish field hockey player
Pietro Amat di San Filippo (1826–1895) Italian geographer, historian and bibliographer
Pol Amat (born 1978), Spanish field hockey player
Rafael de Amat i de Cortada (1746–1819), Baron of Malda, Spanish writer
Santiago Amat (1896-1982), Spanish competitive sailor
Thaddeus Amat y Brusi (1810–1878), first Bishop of Los Angeles, California
Yamid Amat (born 1941), Colombian journalist
Use as Given Name
Amat Escalante (born 1979), Mexican filmmaker
References
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Joe Goddard (musician) | Joe Goddard is a British musician, songwriter, and DJ. He is best known as a member the English synth-pop band Hot Chip, which he co-founded with Alexis Taylor. In 2007, he co-founded record label Greco-Roman, which has produced albums by artists such as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Disclosure. Goddard is also a member of electronica group The 2 Bears, and produced two solo albums, Harvest Festival (2009) and Electric Lines (2017).
Career
Goddard is one of the founding members of Hot Chip. Started with high-school friend Alexis Taylor, they released their first album Coming on Strong in 2004. After the album's release, Hot Chip gained three new members: Owen Clarke, Felix Martin, and Al Doyle. Their second album, The Warning, gained the band more mainstream attention.
Solo albums
Harvest Festival (Greco-Roman, 2009)
Electric Lines (Domino, 2017)
References
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Kampong Sungai Teraban | Kampong Sungai Teraban (also spelt as Kampung Sungai Teraban), or simply Sungai Teraban, is a small village in Belait District, Brunei. It is located across the mouth of the Belait River from Kuala Belait and may serve as a suburb of the latter. Kampong Sungai Teraban is also a kampong administrative division under the mukim or subdistrict Kuala Belait. The village had a population of 941 in 2007.
Location
Kampong Sungai Teraban is located on the west bank of the mouth of the Belait River at 114.18ºE longitude and 4.59ºN latitude. The village is bounded by the South China Sea to the north, the Belait River to the east, Rasau to the south with the villages of Kampong Sungai Tiga and the Malaysian border at Sungai Tujoh to the west.
History
Kuala Belait was a small fishing village at the turn of the 20th century. The natives were Belait Malays who were mainly fishermen. According to local customs, there was a falling out between two groups of the inhabitants and one of those groups moved to the west bank of the mouth of the Belait River to found the current day Kampong Sungai Teraban. Kampong Sungai Teraban was initially known as Kampong Seberang, meaning in Malay "the village on the opposite bank". In the 1930s and 1940s, Chinese Hokkien immigrants from the Wee (one of whom was Wee Thian Boo, also known as Ng Tow Woo 1906-1994), Shim, Yeo, and Tan families lived in the village. Their descendants still live in the village today. Suhaimie was also considered the greatest hero of the urban legend of this village. according to the old folks believed he can killed many ghost which includes kuntilanak and pontianak. His name was well known to many villagers and considered the true Traban Hero. However, he always left th ptui tui group with the unknown reasons
Kampong Sungai Teraban gain prominence in the latter half of the 20th century as a point en route to Miri in Sarawak, Malaysia. Oil from the Seria field was initially exported to Lutong in Miri via a pipeline running through the village. This was halted after the construction of the Seria Crude Oil Terminal. The pipeline has since been dismantled.
A ferry connected the village to Kuala Belait which was the only route for land vehicles to travel from Bandar Seri Begawan and other places east of the Belait River overland to Miri for much of the 20th century. The ferry is no longer in operation, due to its declined use since the opening of the Rasau bridge linking Kampong Sungai Duhon to Rasau. Since the 1990s, there have been many newcomers to the village.
Administration
Kampong Sungai Teraban is a kampong under Mukim Kuala Belait, a subdistrict of Belait. A kampong is the third and lowest administrative division in the country.
The village is headed by a Ketua Kampong (literally Village Chief) and the incumbent is Mohd Mersidi bin Mohd Shara.
Kampong Sungai Teraban may serve as a residential suburb of Kuala Belait due to its proximity to the town, which is immediately across the river from the village.
Oil and gas
Kampong Sungai Teraban is located north of the onshore Rasau field. The main area for the field is located south of Kampong Sungai Teraban and most of the wells are located there.
The Sungai Teraban valve station is located near the mouth of the Belait River. It supplies domestic gas and potable water to the village and to the Rasau facilities in the south.
Transportation
The main roads linking the ferry crossing towards the Malaysian border (11 kilometers) and towards Rasau bridge are surfaced. Not all the roads in the village are surfaced.
There is a scheduled bus service that runs through the village from the bus station in Kuala Belait to the immigration post at Sungai Tujoh (towards Miri).
A ferry used to connect Kampong Sungai Teraban to Kuala Belait town to the east. The ferry operated from 6am to 6pm and there was a charge of $3 one way for taking the ferry across the river. The ferry is no longer in service.
There are no airports in the village. Commercial travellers would have to travel to either Bandar Seri Begawan or Miri to catch a commercial flight.
Education
There is only primary education available in Kampong Sungai Teraban, which is provided at Sekolah Rendah Sungai Teraban (Sungai Teraban Primary School), a government primary school. The school also shares grounds with Sekolah Ugama Sungai Teraban (Sungai Teraban Religious School) which provides primary religious education and is conducted in the afternoon session.
Students pursuing for secondary and subsequent education go to relevant institutions in the nearby town of Kuala Belait and elsewhere.
Miscellaneous
Masjid Kampong Sungai Teraban or Kampong Sungai Teraban Mosque is the sole mosque in the village which serves the need for its Muslim residents for congregational prayers, in particular the weekly Friday prayers. It was completed in 1994 and can hold up to 1,400 worshippers at one time.
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Nick Simper | Nicholas John Simper (born 3 November 1945) is an English bass guitarist, who was a co-founding member of Deep Purple and Warhorse. In the 1960s, he began his professional career in bands such as Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, The Flower Pot Men, and Lord Sutch's Savages.
Biography
Simper was born in Frogmore House Maternity Home, Norwood Green, Southall, Middlesex. Prior to co-founding Deep Purple in 1968, Simper played for a number of bands, including The Renegades (1960–61), The Delta Five (1961–63), Some Other Guys (1963–64), Buddy Britten & The Regents renamed Simon Raven Cult (1964–66) and Johnny Kidd & the Pirates. Within a few months of his joining The Pirates, Simper and Kidd were involved in a car crash that took Kidd's life and left Simper injured. After recovering, Simper briefly reactivated The Pirates as a tribute band to Kidd (1966–67) before joining the Garden, the backing band for The Flower Pot Men (1967–68), where he played alongside Jon Lord. (It was Lord who initially suggested that Simper be asked to join Deep Purple when that band was first forming.) Simper also had a brief spell with Lord Sutch's Savages.
Simper played bass on three Deep Purple albums from 1968 to 1969. He was fired from Deep Purple in mid-1969 together with original singer Rod Evans. When new singer Ian Gillan from the band Episode Six was sought as a replacement for Evans, bandmate Roger Glover tagged along to play bass at some rehearsals and recorded the single "Hallelujah" for Deep Purple without Simper even knowing. Deep Purple's drummer Ian Paice soon suggested that the band hire Glover along with Gillan, and the rest of the band agreed given that Glover and Gillan had formed a strong songwriting partnership in Episode Six. Ritchie Blackmore had also stated in interviews that he felt Simper's bass playing was too old fashioned and more suited to old style rock 'n roll than the hard rock direction he wanted to take the band in.
After his departure, he briefly worked with Marsha Hunt before forming his own band Warhorse, that recorded two albums for Vertigo. Warhorse was managed by Ron Hire, originally part of HEC Enterprises, the original investors in Deep Purple. During this time, Simper also played on a Lord Sutch live album, along with Ritchie Blackmore, Keith Moon and several other luminaries.
For Warhorse, as with so many bands, the important breakthrough of a big selling album had not occurred. There was very strong interest from Warner Bros., with their senior A&R rep (Dave Dee) doing his utmost to sign the band to the label. At Warner Bros. expense, they went into the studio and recorded two tracks but in the end it came down to a straight choice between Warhorse and The Heavy Metal Kids.
By 1974, crippling finances signalled the end for the band. Warhorse's last gig in late 1974 was at Polhill College, Bedford. Unfortunately, their 2000-Watt Midas P.A. broke down and despite the best efforts of their roadie and managers it could not be made to perform properly. They tried, and performed a B.B. King song (Three O'clock in the Morning) to see if they could manage some kind of performance, but it was impossible and they made their apologies to the audience and left.
Simper and guitarist Pete Parks spent the next three years writing, recording and initially formed a new band, called Nick Simper's Dynamite (1975) that released one, now very rare single.
On 9 October 1976, Simper took part in the Johnny Kidd 10th Anniversary Memorial Show at the Edwardian Club at the Loughborough Hotel in Brixton.
With no financial backing, along with Parks, Simper managed to get Nick Simper's Fandango (1977–83) off the ground and released two albums. Around the same time, Frankie Reid formed the band Flying Fox (1977–84) with Carlo Little, Simper and Parks to play rock 'n' roll whenever they were free from commitments from their other bands.
After Little's departure the band renamed itself The Good Old Boys (1985–present). In the mid-1990s, drummer Mick Underwood invited Simper to become part of the reactivated Quatermass, which had released one album on Harvest in 1970. Under the guise of Quatermass II (1994–97) they recorded one album.
In 2007, Simper also joined the line-up of Adelle & Co with Parks, Adelle Kirk, Jim Byers and Richard Hudson.
Since launching his own website in 2000s, Simper has renewed his contact with a wider audience. The renaissance of his work has led to a one-off reunion of Warhorse in 2003 (and also 2005). During a gig in Austria in 2007, Simper performed the Deep Purple song "Emmaretta" with the support band Nasty Habits. On 6 September 2008, The Good Ol' Boys stepped in at the last minute to support Deep Purple tribute band 24 Carat Purple at the Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford. Simper played "Hush" as a guest with this band, using bassist Pete Hartley's bass guitar. In March 2009, Simper again performed with Nasty Habits in Austria. The band played a setlist composed of songs from the first three Deep Purple studio albums. Later that year, Nick Simper & Nasty Habits played another show in Plock, Poland.
In 2010, Simper and Nasty Habits played more shows presenting "The Deep Purple Mark One Songbook" in Austria, Switzerland, Hungary and Poland and an album is in the making. The Budapest show was recorded for future release.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame snub
In 2016, Deep Purple was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but Simper was excluded from induction. The decision by the Hall was perplexing, as all other members from the band's first seven years (1968 to 1974) were announced as individual inductees. This included original singer Rod Evans whose tenure in Deep Purple paralleled Simper's. Further, Evans was at one time sued by Deep Purple management for performing under the band name without permission in 1980. (Simper was approached by the same promotion company that hired Evans, but declined to participate.) Simper seemed to take the snub in stride, stating, "Yes, it is a little strange that I am [the] only one from Marks I, II and III being left out, but I shan't lose any sleep over this. It's not as if I need to be given this award to know what we did in Deep Purple made an impact. And I'm sure it wasn’t a decision that came from the band."
Discography
Guest appearances
1972 Hands of Jack the Ripper (Screaming Lord Sutch & Heavy Friends)
1983 Roscoe Rocks Again (Roscoe Gordon)
2003 Rag Moppin''' (Wee Willie Harris & the Alabama Slammers)
2007 Carlo Little Night of Honour (DVD)
2008 White Horses of Lyme Bay (CD EP)
2009 Never Stop Rockin''' (Carlo Little All Stars)
References
External links
Official site
MySpace
Nick Simper profile at deep-purple.net
Nick Simper interview on Rockpages.gr
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Pensham | Pensham is a small village located a mile or so from Pershore in Worcestershire, England.
Pensham is surrounded on three sides by a loop of the River Avon, despite the proximity of the river Pensham has no records of ever being flooded.
Pensham no longer has a pub or shop, but since 2000 there has been a village field after some of the residents raised enough funds to buy a couple of acres of land. This has since been planted to provide a wooded area and an orchard area, with an open area between for village functions and sports. Pensham is a quiet area to live and any noise that is heard is often a tractor or a dog barking. There are many tracks to walk and from time to time ramblers visit the village.
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Little Joe (rocket) | Little Joe was an unmanned United States solid-fueled booster rocket used for eight launches from 1959-1960 from Wallops Island, Virginia to test the launch escape system and heat shield for Project Mercury capsules, as well as the name given to the test program using the booster. The first rocket designed solely for manned spacecraft qualifications, Little Joe was also one of the pioneer operational launch vehicles using the rocket cluster principle.
The Little Joe name has been attributed to Maxime Faget at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. He based the name on four large fins which reminded him of a slang term for a roll of four in craps.
A successor, Little Joe II, was used for flight testing of the Apollo launch escape system from 1963-1966.
Background
When NASA needed a booster for the Mercury manned space program, the agency found that the Atlas rockets would cost approximately $2.5 million each and that even the Redstone would cost about $1 million per launch. The managers of the Mercury program recognized that the numerous early test flights would have to be accomplished by a far less expensive booster system. As it turned out, the Little Joe rocket NASA designed cost about $200,000 each.
In January 1958, Max Faget and Paul Purser had worked out in considerable detail on paper how to cluster four of the solid-fuel Sergeant rockets, in standard use at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, to boost a manned nose cone above the stratosphere. Faget's short-lived "High Ride" proposal had suffered from comparisons with "Project Adam" at that time, but in August 1958 William Bland and Ronald Kolenkiewicz had returned to their preliminary designs for a cheap cluster of solid rockets to boost full-scale and full-weight model capsules above the atmosphere. As drop tests of boilerplate capsules provided new aerodynamic data on the dynamic stability of the configuration in free-fall, the need for comparable data on the powered phase quickly became apparent. So in October 1958, a NASA team prepared new engineering layouts and estimates for the mechanical design of the booster structure and a suitable launcher.
As the blueprints for this cluster of four rockets began to emerge from their drawing boards, the designers' nickname for their project gradually was adopted. Since their first cross-section drawings showed four holes, they called the project "Little Joe," from the craps throw of a double deuce on the dice. Although four smaller circles were added later to represent the addition of Recruit rocket motors, the original name stuck. The appearance on engineering drawings of the four large stabilizing fins protruding from its airframe also helped to perpetuate the name Little Joe had acquired.
The primary purpose of this relatively small and simple booster system was to save money—by allowing numerous test flights to qualify various solutions to the myriad problems associated with the development of manned space flight, especially the problem of escaping from an explosion at or during launch. Capsule aerodynamics under actual reentry conditions was another primary concern. To gain this kind of experience as soon as possible, its designers had to keep the clustered booster simple in concept; it should use solid fuel and existing proven equipment whenever possible, and should be free of any electronic guidance and control systems.
The designers made the Little Joe booster assembly to approximate the same performance that the Army's Redstone booster would have with the capsule payload. But in addition to being flexible enough to perform a variety of missions, Little Joe could be made for about one-fifth the basic cost of the Redstone, would have much lower operating costs, and could be developed and delivered with much less time and effort. And, unlike the larger launch vehicles, Little Joe could be shot from the existing facilities at Wallops Island.
Launch vehicle development
Twelve companies responded during November 1958 to the invitations for bids to construct the airframe of Little Joe. The technical evaluation of these proposals was carried on in much the same manner as for the spacecraft, except that Langley Research Center itself carried the bulk of the administrative load. The Missile Division of North American Aviation won the contract on December 29, 1958; and began work immediately in Downey, California, on its order for seven booster airframes and one mobile launcher.
The primary mission objectives for Little Joe as seen in late 1958 (in addition to studying the capsule dynamics at progressively higher altitudes) were to test the capsule escape system at maximum dynamic pressure, to qualify the parachute system, and to verify search and retrieval methods. But since each group of specialists at work on the project sought to acquire firm empirical data as soon as possible, more exact priorities had to be established. The first flights were to secure measurements of inflight and impact forces on the capsule; later flights were to measure critical parameters at the progressively higher altitudes of 20,000, 250,000, and 500,000 feet (6, 75, and 150 km). The minimum aims of each Little Joe shot could be supplemented from time to time with studies of noise levels, heat and pressure loads, heat shield separation, and the behavior of animal riders, so long as the measurements could be accomplished with minimum telemetry. Since all the capsules boosted by the Little Joe rockets were expected to be recovered, onboard recording techniques would also contribute to the simplicity of the system.
The first of only two booster systems designed specifically and solely for manned capsule qualifications, Little Joe was also one of the pioneer operational launch vehicles using the rocket cluster principle. Since the four modified Sergeants (called either Castor or Pollux rockets, depending upon modification) and four supplemental Recruit rockets were arranged to fire in various sequences, the takeoff thrust varied greatly, but maximum design thrust was almost 230,000 pounds (1,020 kilonewtons). Theoretically enough to lift a spacecraft of about 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg) on a ballistic path over 100 miles (160 km) high, the push of these clustered main engines should simulate the takeoff profile in the environment that the manned Atlas would experience. Furthermore, the additional powerful explosive pull of the tractor-rocket escape system could be demonstrated under the most severe takeoff conditions imaginable. The engineers who mothered Little Joe to maturity knew it was not much to look at, but they hoped that their ungainly rocket would prove the legitimacy of most of the ballistic capsule design concepts, thereby earning its own honor. A successor, Little Joe II, would later be used for flight testing of the Apollo crew escape system.
Flights
As of 21 January 1960, the Little Joe series of five actual and attempted flights had expended four of the six test boosters North American had made for NASA and five prototype capsules made in the Langley shops. The primary test objectives for these solid-fuel-boosted models were an integral part of the development flight program conducted within NASA by the Space Task Group, with Langley and Wallops support. Now only two Little Joe boosters remained for the qualification flight tests. North American had manufactured seven Little Joe airframes, but one of these had been retained at the plant in Downey, California, for static loading tests. STG ordered the refurbishment of this seventh airframe so as to have three Little Joe boosters for the qualification flight program. The success of Little Joe 1B in January 1960 meant that the next flight, the sixth, to be known as Little Joe 5, would be the first to fly a real Mercury capsule from the McDonnell production line. In passing from development flight tests with boilerplate models to qualification flight tests with the "real McDonnell" capsule, the Space Task Group moved further away from research into the development and toward operations.
Mission numbering
The official Mercury mission numbering designation was a two-letter designation that corresponded to the launch vehicle type, followed by a dash then a digit indicating the particular set of flight objectives, and an optional letter used to distinguish further flights to accomplish those objectives. So the official designation for the first Little Joe flight was "LJ-1." Flights did not occur in numeric sequence as the project schedule was adapted as it progressed. The actual flight order was:
Specifications
Little Joe I
Thrust: 235,000 lbf (1,044 kN)
Length: 15.2 m
Diameter: 2.03 m
Fin Span: 6.5 m
Weight: 28,000 lb (12,700 kg)
Fuel: Solid
Burn Time: ~40 s
Recruit rocket (Thiokol XM19)
Thrust: 37,500 lbf (167 kN)
Length: 2.7 m
Diameter: 0.23 m
Weight: 350 lb (159 kg)
Fuel: Solid
Burn Time: 1.53 s
Castor rocket (Thiokol XM33)
Thrust: 58,200 lbf (259 kN)
Length: 6.04 m
Diameter: 0.79 m
Weight: 9,753 lb (4,424 kg)
Fuel: Solid
Burn Time: 37 s
See also
Big Joe
Little Joe II
Boilerplate (spaceflight)
References
External links
NASA - This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury
NASA Report: Performance characteristics of the Little Joe launch vehicle - September 1962
Little Joe DVD
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63rd Grey Cup | The 63rd Grey Cup was played on November 23, 1975, before 32,454 fans at McMahon Stadium in Calgary. In a tight, defensive battle, the Edmonton Eskimos defeated the Montreal Alouettes 9–8. Just before the contest began, a young woman was "streaking" during the coin toss.
Box Score
First Quarter
Montreal – FG – Don Sweet 35 yards
Montreal – FG – Don Sweet 47 yards
Second Quarter
Edmonton - FG – Dave Cutler 40 yards
Montreal - Single – Don Sweet 32-yard missed field goal
Third Quarter
Edmonton - FG – Dave Cutler 25 yards
Edmonton - FG – Dave Cutler 52 yards
Fourth Quarter
Montreal - Single – Don Sweet 19-yard missed field goal
Game summary
Perhaps the defining factor in this low-scoring contest was the chilly weather. The game-time temperature was -15 degrees Celsius, and a 25-kilometre-per-hour wind played havoc with passing and kicking.
Alouette coach Marv Levy's third-quarter decision to gamble on a 3rd-and-3 inside the Edmonton 10 proved to be a turning point, as a successful field goal would have provided sufficient margin for a Montreal victory. Instead, the Eskimos held and kept the Alouettes off the scoreboard. Nevertheless, the Als still had the win within their grasp. With just 3:49 left to play, Sonny Wade came off the Alouettes bench to replace starting quarterback Jimmy Jones. Trailing 9-7 and starting from the Montreal 23-yard-line, Wade threw a 26-yard bullet to Larry Smith. He then faked a reverse to Johnny Rodgers and threw a 46-yard pass to Joe Petty. This gave the Als a chance for the game-winning field goal in the final seconds of the game, but Jones mishandled the snap from centre. Don Sweet's 19-yard attempt went wide for a single point and from there, the Eskimos were able to run out the clock.
Trivia
Edmonton and Montreal have met in 11 Grey Cup clashes. The Alouettes prevailed at soggy Empire Stadium (Vancouver) in 1974, in the Ice Bowl of 1977 and in 2002. The Eskimos were victorious in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1975, 1978, 1979, 2003 and 2005.
The 1975 game was just the third Grey Cup in which no touchdowns were scored (the others being the 21st Grey Cup and the 25th Grey Cup), and it remains the only such game in the modern era. It's also the only Grey Cup where one player from each team was responsible for all the points scored. Also, for the first time since 1945, all the points were scored by Canadians.
This game was the first Grey Cup played in the city of Calgary and the province of Alberta; it was also the last Grey Cup game held in Western Canada for eight years. Between 1976 and 1982, the game was held in alternating years in either Toronto or Montreal.
This was, until the 2015 Grey Cup, the last Grey Cup championship for the Eskimos that did not involve Hugh Campbell in some capacity with the team; he would be hired as its head coach in 1977, and aside from a brief break from 1983 to 1985, won nine Grey Cups (including five in a row from 1978 to 1982) with the team as either a head coach or general manager until his retirement in 2006.
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Remix Dystemper | Remix Dystemper is a 1998 remix album of Skinny Puppy tracks, by various artists. An early pressing of the Remix DysTemper album shipped with all the proper artwork, but the disc contained Christian gospel music instead of the Skinny Puppy remixes. A promo version of the album contained only eight tracks, omitting tracks 3, 4, 10, 11, 12.
Both the "Rodent" remix by Hiwatt and the "Spasmolytic" remix by Deftones appeared on different soundtracks of the famous Saw franchise. "Rodent" appeared on the soundtrack for Saw II while "Spasmolytic" appeared on the soundtrack for Saw IV. The Hiwatt remix of "Rodent" appeared in the video game LittleBigPlanet 3.
Track listing
References
Remix Dys Temper
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Phyllopetalia excrescens | Phyllopetalia excrescens is a species of dragonfly in the family Austropetaliidae. It is endemic to Chile. Its natural habitats are intermittent rivers and freshwater springs. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sources
Von Ellenrieder, N. & Paulson, D. 2005. Phyllopetalia excrescens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 August 2007.
Category:Austropetaliidae
Category:Fauna of Chile
Category:Insects of South America
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Jianbing guozi | Jianbing guozi () is a "deep-fried dough sticks rolled in a thin pancake". Originated in the city of Tianjin, it is a popular Chinese street food and has been hailed as "one of China's most beloved street breakfasts", especially in Tianjin and Hebei. It consists of mung bean, eggs, and youtiao (fried dough sticks) or crispy "dragons", served with sweet bean sauce, diced green onion, and optionally chili sauce.
History
Jianbing guozi originated in northern China. Its history can be traced back 2,000 years to Shandong province during the Three Kingdoms period (220–280 AD). According to legends, Chancellor Zhuge Liang encountered the problem of feeding his soldiers after they lost their woks. He ordered the cooks to mix water with wheat flour to make batter, and then spread it on shields, or flat copper griddles over a flame. The dish raised the soldiers’ morale and helped them win the battle. After that, jianbingguozi was passed down through generations in Shandong province and gradually spread to different parts of China.
Cooking
Jianbing guozi is prepared by creating a shell for the pastry and then filling it with the stuffings and wrapping it.
Other varieties
Shandong-style jianbing guozi
Jianbing guozi from Shandong province tastes crispy and harder as its batter is formed from the flour mixture that mainly contains coarse grains such as corn, sorghum and millet. In the old days, people had Shandong-style jianbing guozi mainly by rolling it with scallions or serving it with meat soup. Nowadays, the varieties of fillings are richer and differ according to one’s preference, for example, sweet potatoes, lettuce and pork are also used as fillings.
Shanxi-style jianbing guozi
Shanxi jianbing guozi uses wheat flour and the practice is roughly the same as that of Tianjin jianbing guozi.
Tahe-style jianbing guozi
Tahe jianbing guozi, from Tahe, Heilongjiang Province, is processed meat, shredded potatoes, and a number of other ingredients wrapped in a thin egg-and-flour pancake. It is a bit spicy. The resulting product is quite fat in size.
See also
List of street foods
References
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John S. Darling | John S. Darling (August 17, 1911 – August 23, 2007), was a prominent Virginia based artist was born in McLean, Virginia. Darling originally wanted to be a writer, having had many stories floating through his head, but poor spelling led him to tell his stories through the visual arts.
Childhood
Darling's family had settled at Dahlgren where his father was hired as a surveyor at the naval base. His mother, a very proper and cultured woman, insisted that her three children be exposed to the world, including great literature and the arts, which were especially dear to her, as the family lineage was made up of many artists. At a very young age Darling's photographic visual memory revealed itself and coupled with his creative mind, he worked on a blackboard telling stories. At church he would doodle in a bible often causing the congregation to focus on him rather than the sermon. He was an energetic, impetuous and curious child. Childhood scraps convinced his parents that Jack needed the discipline of a boys' school, so off he was sent to Christ Church School, near Urbanna. It was an experience he savoured for the remainder of his life. He said: "At the school, I read, drew and painted, and got up before dawn to sneak out of the dorm and take a small boat we had hidden in the bushes growing out over the river. I would go crabbing and fishing, and would sell what I caught to earn my pocket money."
Formative Years
During the summers, with help from his parents and using money he earned working on the river as an extra on boat crews, or as a part-timer on the neighboring farms, Jack spent warm idyllic months studying art in Provincetown, Rhode Island. There, in the now legendary summer art schools near the ocean, he was a student of Charles W. Hawthorne, who was a student of Robert Henri, and with Henry Hensche. Nearby, another summer art enclave was taught by Hans Hofmann. There was an often told story of how he showed Hans Hofmann how to jump from the mast of sail boat earning them both a great time and a threat that they would be thrown over if they didn't stop.
At the Philadelphia college art school (Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts), Darling was taught by Thornton Oakley. Oakley, in turn, was taught by N. C. Wyeth (with whom Oakley was a lifelong friend). Their mutual instructor in the class was Howard Pyle.
Provincetown
In Provincetown Jack was surrounded by many prominent people, including the Kennedys, James Stewart (whose sister had fallen in love with Jack, proposing marriage, which he declined), Jackson Pollock, Hawthorne, Hoffman and others.
Jack's best friends in the Provincetown summers, and throughout his life, were William Franklin Draper and Alan Ingalls Palmer. The three remained dear friends until the end of their lives. Draper became a leading American portraitist. Palmer gained national recognition as an illustrator, landscape artist, and portraitist. Jack was godfather to Palmer's daughter Gale.
After summers in Provincetown, Jack, along with Tom, his brother who was also an artist were sent to Philadelphia so that he could attend the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art for, as he explains, "My parents were worried about me. They knew I loved to draw but could not imagine what on earth I could do to earn a living with it."
The Artist and Mentor
Jack returned to King George County, married Mary Berry, and lived at North Windsor, in a home near Owens. The house eventually became the home of the artists group North Windsor Artists of which he was co-founder. Darling started his Civil Service appointment in 1941 testing the great Naval guns instrumental in winning the Pacific battles of World War II. He also pursued painting, worked with computers in Terminal Ballistics, and ultimately worked as a technical artist for the Navy's surface War facility K Lab.
Jack painted throughout creating numerous paintings, and influencing many artists of the next generations. Early on he was known, and loved, for his watercolors documenting the life in the region, and telling stories, often related to his religious learning. He worked in oils, woodcuts, pen and ink and drawing as well. Eventually as he got older, he found oil pastels and in the last decade of his life created most of his works in that medium. He was known to always have a pocket full of 3 x 5 index cards and a pen, drawing as he told stories. In a retrospective the last year of his life, the gallery was lined with black paper to which hundreds of 3 x 5 cards were displayed.
North Windsor Artists
After Jack's wife died he was at a juncture. At this time, Jane T. Woodworth, a friend and fellow artist, had started a fledgling art school in an old garage in Dahlgren. Jack redirected his energies and his life through his association with Woodworth and the school. He soon became the "guru" of the group. Jane acted as "den mother," able organizer, and catalyst for the artists' workshops. Thus began the bond of talent and the tradition of the North Windsor Artists. Later, Jack built a sunny studio on the back of his North Windsor home. The select group of regional artists left the garage for the home studio where they met, painted and critiqued for many the decades that followed. The last member of the group was Virginia based artist, Sharon D. Ross, his great-niece, who also lived with him the last decade of his life.
Not long before he died Jack said, "It's been all about art ever since I was born. I have been drawing and thinking about art and watching light and shadows as long as I can remember. It was always art. Always art."
Darling was co-founder of North Windsor Artists, King George, Virginia; Art First Gallery in Fredericksburg, Virginia; North Windsor Gallery in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He is remembered as a part of American art history as well as Virginia's arts. He has been recognized by the governor of Virginia for his contributions to the arts. In August, 2014 the Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center will be hosting an exhibition honoring Darling and his contribution to the arts and the area. A secondary exhibit of the North Windsor Artists will focus on his lasting influences on the arts.
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Castletown, County Kerry | Castletown, (Irish:Baile an Chaisleáin) is a townland of County Kerry, Ireland.
It is one of the sixteen ancient townlands of the civil parish of Kilflynn. Its southern border is formed by the river Shannow and its western by the Castletown road from Kilflynn Village. The area covers 73.58 hectares (181.81 acres) of rural and village land.
History
Castletown contains six archaeological sites recognised as National Monuments: five are locations of ancient ring forts (Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid references: 29U 489007 624035, 29U 489078 623865, 29U 489250 623891, 29U 489562 623833 and 29U 489880 623939) and one is the Roman Catholic church of St.Mary, protected as part of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (UTM grid reference: 29U 489293 623418).
Thomas Stack, of the Stack family which had its seat at Crotta, owned Castletown and neighbouring townlands. Because of their support for the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Catholic Confederation the Stacks' land was forfeited following the Act for the Settlement of Ireland in 1652. After the Act of Settlement of 1662, Castletown was handed to Henry Ponsonby in 1666. Ponsonby was a soldier, the brother of a colonel in Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army and one of many rewarded with Irish land for service.
Representation
Castletown is in the Roman Catholic parish of Abbeydorney, whose priest is the Very Reverend Denis O’Mahony and who takes services at Abbeydorney and Kilflynn.
The townland is in the parliamentary constituency of Kerry (since 2016), returning five Teachtaí Dála (TDs) to Dáil Éireann.
See also
Kilflynn
Civil parishes in Ireland
References
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Annalists | Annalists (from Latin annus, year; hence annales, sc. libri, annual records), were a class of writers on Roman history, the period of whose literary activity lasted from the time of the Second Punic War to that of Sulla. They wrote the history of Rome from the earliest times (in most cases) down to their own days, the events of which were treated in much greater detail. Annalists were different from historians, in that an annalist was more likely to just record events for reference purposes, rather than offering their own opinions of events. There is, however, some overlap between the two categories and sometimes annalist is used to refer to both styles of writing from the Roman era.
Different generations
For the earlier period, the authorities of annalists were to record state and family records—above all, the annales maximi (or annales pontificum), the official chronicle of Rome, in which the notable occurrences of each year from the foundation of the city were set down by the Pontifex Maximus. Although these annals were no doubt destroyed at the time of the burning of Rome by the Gauls, they were restored as far as possible and continued until the pontificate of P. Mucius Scaevola, by whom they were finally published in eighty books.
Two generations of these annalists have been distinguished—an older and a younger. The older, which extends to 150 BCE, set forth, in bald, unattractive language, without any pretensions to style, but with a certain amount of trustworthiness, the most important events of each successive year. Cicero (De Oratore, ii. 12. 53), comparing these writers with the old Ionic logographers, says that they paid no attention to ornament, and considered the only merits of a writer to be intelligibility and conciseness. Their annals were a mere compilation of facts.
The younger generation, in view of the requirements and criticism of a reading public, cultivated the art of composition and rhetorical embellishment. As a general rule the annalists wrote in a spirit of uncritical patriotism, which led them to minimize or gloss over such disasters as the conquest of Rome by Porsena and the compulsory payment of ransom to the Gauls, and to flatter the people by exaggerated accounts of Roman prowess, dressed up in fanciful language. At first they wrote in Greek, partly because a national style was not yet formed, and partly because Greek was the fashionable language amongst the educated, although Latin versions were probably published as well.
The first of the annalists, the father of Roman history, as he has been called, was Q. Fabius Pictor; contemporary with him was Lucius Cincius Alimentus, who flourished during the Hannibalic war (not to be confused with L. Cincius, the author of various political and antiquarian treatises (de Fastis, de Comitiis, de Priscis Verbis), who lived in the Augustan age, to which period Mommsen, considering them a later fabrication, refers the Greek annals of L. Cincius Alimentus). Like Fabius Pictor, he wrote in Greek. He was taken prisoner by Hannibal (Livy xxi. 38), who is said to have given him details of the crossing of the Alps. His work embraced the history of Rome from its foundation down to his own days. With M. Porcius Cato historical composition in Latin began, and a livelier interest was awakened in the history of Rome.
Notable writers
Among the principal writers of this class who succeeded Cato, the following may be mentioned:
L. Cassius Hemina (about 146 BCE), in the fourth book of his Annals, wrote on the Second Punic War. His researches went back to very early times; Pliny (Nat. Hist. xiii. 13 [27]) calls him vetustissimus auctor annalium.
L. Calpurnius Piso, surnamed Frugi, wrote seven books of annals, relating the history of the city from its foundation down to his own times. Livy regards him as a less trustworthy authority than Fabius Pictor, and Niebuhr considers him the first to introduce systematic forgeries into Roman history.
Q. Claudius Quadrigarius (about 80 BCE) wrote a history, in at least twenty-three books, which began with the conquest of Rome by the Gauls and went down to the death of Sulla or perhaps later. He was freely used by Livy in part of his work (from the sixth book onwards). A long fragment is preserved in Aulus Gellius (ix. 13), giving an account of the single combat between Manlius Torquatus and the Gaul. His language was antiquated and his style dry, but his work was considered important.
Valerius Antias, a younger contemporary of Quadrigarius, wrote the history of Rome from the earliest times, in a voluminous work consisting of seventy-five books. He is notorious for his wilful exaggeration, both in narrative and numerical statements. For instance, he asserts the number of the Sabine virgins to have been exactly 527; again, in a certain year when no Greek or Latin writers mention any important campaign, Antias speaks of a big battle with enormous casualties. Nevertheless, Livy at first made use of him as one of his chief authorities, until he became convinced of his untrustworthiness.
G. Licinius Macer (died 66 BC), who has been called the last of the annalists, wrote a voluminous work, which, although he paid great attention to the study of his authorities, was too rhetorical, and exaggerated the achievements of his own family. Having been convicted of extortion, he committed suicide (Cicero, De Legibus, i. 2, Brutus, 67; Plutarch, Cicero, 9).
Other annalists
The writers mentioned dealt with Roman history as a whole; some of the annalists, however, confined themselves to shorter periods:
L. Coelius Antipater (about 120 BCE) limited himself to the Second Punic War. His work was overloaded with rhetorical embellishment, which he was the first to introduce into Roman history. He was regarded as the most careful writer on the war with Hannibal, and one who did not allow himself to be blinded by partiality in considering the evidence of other writers (Cicero, De Oratore, ii. 12). Livy made great use of him in his third decade.
Sempronius Asellio (about 100 BCE), military tribune of Scipio Africanus at the siege of Numantia, composed Rerum Gestarum Libri in at least fourteen books. As he himself took part in the events he describes, his work was a kind of memoirs. He was the first of his class who endeavoured to trace the causes of events, instead of contenting himself with a bare statement of facts.
L. Cornelius Sisenna (119–67), legate of Pompey in the war against the pirates, lost his life in an expedition against Crete. He wrote twenty-three books on the period between the Social War and the dictatorship of Sulla. His work was commended by Sallust (Jugurtha, 95), who, however, blames him for not speaking out sufficiently. Cicero remarks upon his fondness for archaisms (Brutus, 74. 259). Sisenna also translated the tales of Aristides of Miletus, and is supposed by some to have written a commentary on Plautus. The autobiography of Sulla may also be mentioned.
See also
Chronicle
List of historians
Notes
References
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K. VijayRaghavan | Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan FRS (born 3 February 1954) is distinguished professor and former director of The National Centre for Biological Sciences. On 26 Mar 2018, Government of India, appointed him as the principal scientific adviser to succeed the distinguished scientist Dr. R Chidamabaram. He also served as a secretary of Department of Biotechnology, India, from 28 January 2013, replacing Maharaj Kishan Bhan. He was conferred the Padma Shri by the Govt. of India on 26 January 2013. He is also a recipient of the Infosys Prize in the life sciences category in 2009.
In 2012 he was elected a fellow of The Royal Society. In April 2014 he was elected as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.
VijayRaghavan graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree in chemical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1975 and a master's in 1977. He completed his doctoral research in 1983 in the field of molecular biology and holds a Ph.D from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. During his post-doctoral work, from 1984 to 1985, he was a research fellow and then, from 1986 to 1988, a senior research fellow at the California Institute of Technology.
Career
In 1988, he joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research as a reader and in 1992, when the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), which is under the aegis of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research was founded joined NCBS. In August 1991, he moved to Bangalore and was instrumental in the establishment of NCBS in Bangalore. He is a distinguished professor in the field of developmental genetics and former director of the National Centre of Biological Sciences.
His fields of specialization are developmental biology, genetics and neurogenetics. His research primarily focuses on the important principles and mechanisms that control the nervous system and muscles during development and how these neuromuscular systems direct specific locomotor behaviours. This was achieved by using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. By patterning the segmental organization of the fly body plan, his research was able to shed more light on the functions of Hox genes in directing neuromuscular connectivity and motor behaviours.
VijayRaghavan is a member of the board of governors of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, and a senior editor of the journal eLife. Prof. VijayRaghavan was the secretary of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India, from January 2013 to February 2018.
Honors and achievements
In 1997, he was elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
In 1998, Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology award by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. In 1999, he became an honorary faculty member of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
Research. In the same year, he became a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. He became a member of the editorial board of Journal of Genetics in the year 2000 and a member of the Asia-Pacific International Molecular Biology Network in
the year 2001.
In 2003, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Kanpur.
In 2006, he was awarded the J.C.Bose Fellowship.
In 2010, he was elected fellow of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World.
In 2012, he received the H K Firodia Award "for his original contributions to the field of life sciences, particularly to developmental biology, genetics and neurogenetics."
In the same year he became Fellow of Royal Society.
In 2013, he was conferred the Padma Shri by the President of India.
In April 2014, he was elected a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.
In March 2018, he was appointed as Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
In December 2018, a new species of gecko was named after him, Hemidactylus vijayraghavani
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1 Corinthians 16 | 1 Corinthians 16 is the sixteenth (and also the last) chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and Sosthenes in Ephesus, composed between 52–55 CE, and sent to the church in Corinth. This chapter contains the closing statements of the letter, with Paul's travel plans, final instructions, and greetings. Verse 8 confirms that Paul was in Ephesus when the letter was composed, and verse 21 confirms that the majority of the letter was scribed by an amanuensis.
Text
The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 24 verses.
Textual witnesses
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
Codex Vaticanus (AD 325–350)
Codex Sinaiticus (330–360)
Codex Alexandrinus (400–440)
Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (~450; complete).
Codex Freerianus (~450; extant verses 1–2, 12–13)
Codex Claromontanus (~550)
Arranging the collection (16:1–4)
This part discusses the fifth matter the Corinthians wrote about (others previously being in 7:1, 25; 8:1; 12:1) regarding the money collected for the poor Christians in Jerusalem.
Paul's travel arrangements (16:5–9)
Paul expects to spend the winter in Corinth, to get them participating in his future ministry, and also desires to visit Rome, but he planned to remain in Ephesus until Pentecost, due to a good evangelistic opportunities in that city.
Timothy's proposed visit (16:10–11)
Paul asks that Timothy is to be well received when he comes to visit them, be protected from enmity and be given provision of his needs for travel.
The return of Apollos (16:12–14)
The sixth and final matter the Corinthians wrote is to ask for the return of Apollos, but it is clear from 1:12; 3:4; 4:6 that the motives could be suspect, that is, as an alternative of Paul's return. Nonetheless, Paul urges Apollos to go. On the other hand, Apollos responded that 'it was not at all the will that he now come' and 'he will come when he has the opportunity' (lit. "when the time is right"), suggesting that Apollos understood the bad timing to accept the invitation ('would not be in the interests of the congregation') at this time of tension between Paul and the church there. Interestingly, 'Apollos was content for Paul to reply on his behalf'.
The godly example of the household of Stephanas (16:15–18)
The members of the household of Stephanas were 'the earliest fruits of Paul's ministry in Corinth, and they have used their resources to help God's people' (cf 1:2). Paul has experienced in Ephesus how Stephanas ministered to the needs, together with Fortunatus and Achaicus, as their arrivals gave joy to Paul while he was separated from the church in Corinth.
Final greetings (16:19–24)
Paul forwards the greetings of the churches in the province of Asia, of which Ephesus is the capital, as his ministry has expanded beyond that one city. Other co-workers also sent their greetings, including Priscilla and Aquila, and Paul calls the Corinthians to greet each other 'as members of a holy brotherhood'. Almost to the end, Paul himself took the pen and wrote his personal blessings, as well as curse to those who preach another gospel (cf. Galatians 1:8–9), but ended the letter with the greeting of grace as he added his love in Christ Jesus to the congregation, despite their attitudes towards him, to follow the example of Christ's love, that never changes.
Verse 19
The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
"Asia" (Greek: ) in the narrower sense, only the western coastlands of Asia Minor, (see on Acts 2:9) or Lydian Asia, where Ephesus is the capital.
Verse 21
The salutation with my own hand—Paul’s.
This statement suggests that the majority of this epistle may have actually been scribed by someone else, and many interpreters suggest that Sosthenes was the amanuensis of the Epistle (see 1 Corinthians 1:1).
Verse 22
King James Version
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
New King James Version
If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. O Lord, come.
"Lord Jesus Christ": The Vulgate Latin, the Syriac and Ethiopian versions read "our Lord".
"Anathema": Hebrew: cherem; signifies "anything separated and devoted to holy uses" as also used in the Septuagint in , and in the New Testament . If isolated to any other purposes, may entail a curse on persons, so it is often translated "accursed", as in Romans 9:3; ; ). Here it is suggested that the persons who don't love Jesus as the Lord should be separated from their communion, as rendered in the Arabic version, "let him be separated", i.e., from the church.
"Maranatha": consisting of two words, "maran atha", "our Lord comes", as added by the apostle Paul. The Ethiopian version, joining it with the former word, renders the whole "let him be anathema in the coming of our Lord".
See also
Galatia
Jerusalem
Macedonia
Related Bible parts: Acts 18, 1 Corinthians 1, 1 Thessalonians 1, 2 Timothy 4, Revelation 22.
References
Sources
External links
King James Bible - Wikisource
English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate
Online Bible at GospelHall.org (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English)
Multiple bible versions at Bible Gateway (NKJV, NIV, NRSV etc.)
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Chiou Jiunn-rong | Chiou Jiunn-rong () is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Deputy Minister of National Development Council in 2017–2018.
Education
Chiou obtained his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree in economics from National Taiwan University in 1989, 1991 and 1995 respectively.
Education careers
At the Department of Industrial Economics of Tamkang University, Chiou was the associate professor, department chair and professor in August 1995 - July 2000, August 1998 - July 2000 and August 2000 - July 2003 respectively.
Political careers
Chiou started his political career when he joined the Taipei City Government in March 2015 as an adviser. He then subsequently became the committee member of Mainland Affairs Council in 2016.
National Development Council
Chiou was appointed as the Deputy Minister of National Development Council on 7 September 2017 by Premier-appointed William Lai and took office the day later. On 28 January 2018, Choiu was appointed as one of the ten members of New Southbound Policy task force. On 8 July 2018, Chiou tendered his resignation from the council after caught taking a photo of a woman's legs at Ximen MRT station a day earlier.
References
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Category:National Taiwan University alumni
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Noel Burgess | Noel Burgess is an Australian electronic dance music producer.
Burgess formed Vision Four 5 whilst studying Music Technology at the Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane, Queensland with fellow students Gavin Sade, Harry Ho and later Ben Suthers to perform live electronic dance music at night clubs. The popularity and uniqueness of the band attracted the attention of Tim Gruchy, a Brisbane-based video artist who was part of the Rat Parties team at the time. Vision Four 5 was quickly signed to Volition Records / Sony Music alongside stable mates Boxcar, Itch-E and Scratch-E, Severed Heads, Southend, Single Gun Theory. Vision Four 5 was active from 1990-1997.
During this time, Burgess also wrote, recorded and performed under the name of AapogeE with Ben Suthers and released through Candy Line Records (Melb, Aust) and Rabbit City Records (UK). Their most popular track was "The Force" (Come to the Darkside Mix). Burgess also collaborated with Boxcar's David Smith under the name of Gridlock and with Josh Abrahams as AapogeE vs The Pagan.
Following a stint in the UK, Burgess returned to work mainly as a producer, co-writing/producing Groove Terminator's debut Album Road Kill (EMI Records), co-writing/producing with Groove Terminator as Chili Hi Fly, co-producing/mixing the unreleased Infusion album "Everything Here is Good" for Sony Music, which later was reworked to become Phrases and Numbers on Thunk Records and solo releases/performances as "f.i.s.t" through Pacifica Records, of which he was a partner. Music from "f.i.s.t" was also released on vinyl by Sydney's Nine09 label, who described the song "AO (One Fist)" as "a powerful combination of minimal techno, and funk driven electronic energy".
Since 1999, Burgess has worked compiling/editing/mixing/mastering all the Ministry of Sound Australia compilations and "One Love"/Sony Music compilations. From 2000-2005 Noel was the Musical director for the Australian Dance Music Awards (DMA's) and Urban Music awards (UMA's). He later composed and produced the ABC children's series CJ the DJ for Kapow Pictures, a 52-episode musical cartoon about a 13-year-old girl DJ.
Burgess currently lives in the Blue Mountains (New South Wales) with his family.
External links
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fba5ccdb-7336-4b32-8098-8a95f92492ad/relationships
References
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Hallway (disambiguation) | '''Hallway is a term for hall.
Hallway may also refer to:
Music
Hallway Productionz music production duo
Grand Hallway American rock band from Seattle
Hallways (Homeboy Sandman album) 2014
Hallway of the Gods, album by The Legendary Pink Dots 1997
"Hallways", song by Australian band Something for Kate from Beautiful Sharks 1999 |
Ferritin | Ferritin is a universal intracellular protein that stores iron and releases it in a controlled fashion. The protein is produced by almost all living organisms, including archaea, bacteria, algae, higher plants, and animals. In humans, it acts as a buffer against iron deficiency and iron overload. Ferritin is found in most tissues as a cytosolic protein, but small amounts are secreted into the serum where it functions as an iron carrier. Plasma ferritin is also an indirect marker of the total amount of iron stored in the body; hence, serum ferritin is used as a diagnostic test for iron-deficiency anemia.
Ferritin is a globular protein complex consisting of 24 protein subunits forming a nanocage with multiple metal–protein interactions. It is the primary intracellular iron-storage protein in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, keeping iron in a soluble and non-toxic form. Ferritin that is not combined with iron is called apoferritin.
Gene
Ferritin genes are highly conserved between species. All vertebrate ferritin genes have three introns and four exons. In human ferritin, introns are present between amino acid residues 14 and 15, 34 and 35, and 82 and 83; in addition, there are one to two hundred untranslated bases at either end of the combined exons. The tyrosine residue at amino acid position 27 is thought to be associated with biomineralization.
Protein structure
Ferritin is a hollow globular protein of mass 474 kDa and comprising 24 subunits. It is present in every cell type. Typically it has internal and external diameters of about 8 and 12 nm, respectively. The nature of these subunits varies by class of organism:
In vertebrates, the subunits are of two types, light (L) and heavy (H), which have apparent molecular mass of 19 kDa and 21 kDa, respectively; their sequences are homologous (about 50% identical).
Amphibians have an additional ("M") type of ferritin.
Plants and bacteria have a single ferritin; it most closely resembles the vertebrate H-type.
In the case of gastropods of the genus Lymnaea, two types have been recovered, from somatic cells and the yolk, respectively (see below).
In the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata, an additional subunit resembling Lymnaea soma ferritin is associated with shell formation.
In the parasite Schistosoma, two types are present: one in males, the other in females.
All the aforementioned ferritins are similar, in terms of their primary sequence, with the vertebrate H-type. In E. coli, a 20% similarity to human H-ferritin is observed. Inside the ferritin shell, iron ions form crystallites together with phosphate and hydroxide ions. The resulting particle is similar to the mineral ferrihydrite. Each ferritin complex can store about 4500 iron (Fe3+) ions.
Some ferritin complexes in vertebrates are hetero-oligomers of two highly related gene products with slightly different physiological properties. The ratio of the two homologous proteins in the complex depends on the relative expression levels of the two genes.
A human mitochondrial ferritin, MtF, was found to express as a pro-protein. When a mitochondrion takes it up, it processes it into a mature protein similar to the ferritins found in the cytoplasm, which it assembles to form functional ferritin shells. Unlike other human ferritins, it appears to have no introns in its genetic code. An X-ray diffraction study has revealed that its diameter is 1.70 angstroms (0.17 nm), it contains 182 residues, and is 67% helical. The mitochondrial ferritin's Ramachandran plot shows its structure to be mainly alpha helical with a low prevalence of beta sheets.
Function
Iron storage
Ferritin serves to store iron in a non-toxic form, to deposit it in a safe form, and to transport it to areas where it is required. The function and structure of the expressed ferritin protein varies in different cell types. This is controlled primarily by the amount and stability of messenger RNA (mRNA), but also by changes in how the mRNA is stored and how efficiently it is transcribed. One major trigger for the production of many ferritins is the mere presence of iron; an exception is the yolk ferritin of Lymnaea sp., which lacks an iron-responsive unit.
Free iron is toxic to cells as it acts as a catalyst in the formation of free radicals from reactive oxygen species via the Fenton reaction. Hence vertebrates have an elaborate set of protective mechanisms to bind iron in various tissue compartments. Within cells, iron is stored in a protein complex as ferritin or the related complex hemosiderin. Apoferritin binds to free ferrous iron and stores it in the ferric state. As ferritin accumulates within cells of the reticuloendothelial system, protein aggregates are formed as hemosiderin. Iron in ferritin or hemosiderin can be extracted for release by the RE cells, although hemosiderin is less readily available. Under steady-state conditions, the level of ferritin in the blood serum correlates with total body stores of iron; thus, the serum ferritin FR5Rl is the most convenient laboratory test to estimate iron stores.
Because iron is an important mineral in mineralization, ferritin is employed in the shells of organisms such as molluscs to control the concentration and distribution of iron, thus sculpting shell morphology and colouration. It also plays a role in the haemolymph of the polyplacophora, where it serves to rapidly transport iron to the mineralizing radula.
Iron is released from ferritin for use by ferritin degradation, which is performed mainly by lysosomes.
Ferroxidase activity
Vertebrate ferritin consists of two or three subunits which are named based on their molecular weight: L "light", H "heavy", and M "middle" subunits. The M subunit has only been reported in bullfrogs. In bacteria and archaea, ferritin consists of one subunit type. H and M subunits of eukaryotic ferritin and all subunits of bacterial and archaeal ferritin are H-type and have ferroxidase activity, which is the conversion of iron from the ferrous (Fe2+) to ferric (Fe3+) forms. This limits the deleterious reaction which occurs between ferrous iron and hydrogen peroxide known as the Fenton reaction which produces the highly damaging hydroxyl radical. The ferroxidase activity occurs at a diiron binding site in the middle of each H-type subunits. After oxidation of Fe(II), the Fe(III) product stays metastably in the ferroxidase center and is displaced by Fe(II), a mechanism that appears to be common among ferritins of all three kingdoms of life. The light chain of ferritin has no ferroxidase activity but may be responsible for the electron transfer across the protein cage.
Immune response
Ferritin concentrations increase drastically in the presence of an infection or cancer. Endotoxins are an up-regulator of the gene coding for ferritin, thus causing the concentration of ferritin to rise. By contrast, organisms such as Pseudomonas, although possessing endotoxin, cause plasma ferritin levels to drop significantly within the first 48 hours of infection. Thus, the iron stores of the infected body are denied to the infective agent, impeding its metabolism.
Stress response
The concentration of ferritin has been shown to increase in response to stresses such as anoxia; this implies that it is an acute phase protein.
Mitochondria
Mitochondrial ferritin has many roles pertaining to molecular function. It participates in ferroxidase activity, binding, iron ion binding, oxidoreductase activity, ferric iron binding, metal ion binding as well as transition metal binding. Within the realm of biological processes it participates in oxidation-reduction, iron ion transport across membranes and cellular iron ion homeostasis.
Yolk
In some snails, the protein component of the egg yolk is primarily ferritin; this is a different ferritin, with a different genetic sequence, from the somatic ferritin. It is produced in the midgut glands and secreted into the haemolymph, whence it is transported to the eggs.
Industrial applications
Ferritin is also used in materials science as a precursor in making iron nanoparticles for carbon nanotube growth by chemical vapor deposition.
Tissue distribution
In vertebrates, ferritin is usually found within cells, although it is also present in smaller quantities in the plasma.
Diagnostic uses
Serum ferritin levels are measured in medical laboratories as part of the iron studies workup for iron-deficiency anemia. The ferritin levels measured usually have a direct correlation with the total amount of iron stored in the body. However, ferritin levels may be artificially high in cases of anemia of chronic disease where ferritin is elevated in its capacity as an inflammatory acute phase protein and not as a marker for iron overload.
Normal ranges
A normal ferritin blood level, referred to as the reference interval is determined by many testing laboratories. The ranges for ferritin can vary between laboratories but typical ranges would be between 30–300 ng/mL (=μg/L) for males, and 18–160 ng/mL (=μg/L) for females.
Deficiency
If the ferritin level is low, there is a risk for lack of iron, which could lead to anemia.
In the setting of anemia, low serum ferritin is the most sensitive lab test for iron-deficiency anemia. However it is less specific, since its levels are increased in the blood by infection or any type of chronic inflammation, and these conditions may convert what would otherwise be a low level of ferritin from lack of iron, into a value in the normal range. For this reason, low ferritin levels carry more information than those in the normal range.
Low ferritin may also indicate hypothyroidism, vitamin C deficiency or celiac disease.
Low serum ferritin levels are seen in some patients with restless legs syndrome, not necessarily related to anemia, but perhaps due to low iron stores short of anemia.
A falsely low blood ferritin (equivalent to a false positive test) is very uncommon, but can result from a hook effect of the measuring tools in extreme cases.
Vegetarianism is not a cause of low serum ferritin levels, despite the common myth. The Position of the American Dietetic Association pointed this out in 2009 stating, “Incidence of iron-deficiency anemia among vegetarians is similar to that of non-vegetarians. Although vegetarian adults have lower iron stores than non-vegetarians, their serum ferritin levels are usually within the normal range.”
Excess
If ferritin is high, there is iron in excess or else there is an acute inflammatory reaction in which ferritin is mobilized without iron excess. For example, ferritins may be high in infection without signaling body iron overload.
Ferritin is also used as a marker for iron overload disorders, such as hemochromatosis or hemosiderosis. Adult-onset Still's disease, some porphyrias, and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis/macrophage activation syndrome are diseases in which the ferritin level may be abnormally raised.
As ferritin is also an acute-phase reactant, it is often elevated in the course of disease. A normal C-reactive protein can be used to exclude elevated ferritin caused by acute phase reactions.
Ferritin has been shown to be elevated in some cases of Covid-19 and may correlate with worse clinical outcome.
According to a study of anorexia nervosa patients, ferritin can be elevated during periods of acute malnourishment, perhaps due to iron going into storage as intravascular volume and thus the number of red blood cells falls.
Another study suggests that due to the catabolic nature of anorexia nervosa, isoferritins may be released. Furthermore, ferritin has significant non-storage roles within the body, such as protection from oxidative damage. The rise of these isoferritins may contribute to an overall increase in ferritin concentration. The measurement of ferritin through immunoassay or immunoturbidimeteric methods may also be picking up these isoferritins thus not a true reflection of iron storage status.
Applications
Cavities formed by ferritin and mini-ferritins (Dps) proteins have been successfully used as the reaction chamber for the fabrication of metal nanoparticles (NPs). Protein shells served as a template to restrain particle growth and as a coating to prevent coagulation/aggregation between NPs. Using various sizes of protein shells, various sizes of NPs can be easily synthesized for chemical, physical and bio-medical applications.
See also
Bacterioferritin
DNA-binding protein from starved cells
Ferritin light chain
Transferrin
References
External links
Ferritin at Lab Tests Online
Ferritin: analyte monograph - The Association for Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine
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Martin Nicholas Lohmuller | Martin Nicholas Lohmuller, DD, JCD (August 21, 1919 – January 24, 2017) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia from 1970 to 1994. At the time of his death, he was the oldest American Catholic bishop.
Biography
Lohmuller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Martin Nicholas and Mary Frances (née Doser) Lohmuller. He attended St. Henry School in North Philadelphia and attended Northeast Catholic High School but did not graduate. Rather desiring to enter the seminary as soon as possible, he began studies at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, from where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942. Lohmuller was ordained to the priesthood on June 30, 1944, and then taught at St. James Catholic High School for Boys until 1948.
He earned a doctorate in canon law from the Catholic University of America School of Canon Law in 1947, and taught for a year at St. James High School in Chester. He was then transferred to the Diocese of Harrisburg, where Bishop George Leech needed a canon lawyer to reorganize his tribunal. He was elected vice president of the Canon Law Society of America in October 1954. He also served as the founding pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Marysville (1954–1964), Vicar for Religious in the Harrisburg Diocese (1958–1970), and pastor of St. Catherine Laboure Church in Harrisburg (1964–1968). He also led the effort to establish Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill, which opened in 1963.
On February 12, 1970, Lohmuller was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia and Titular Bishop of Ramsbiria by Pope Paul VI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following April 2 from John Cardinal Krol, with Bishops Gerald McDevitt and John Graham serving as co-consecrators. He selected as his episcopal motto: "Love, Fidelity, Peace."
In addition to his role as auxiliary, he was vicar general of the Archdiocese, and pastor of both Old St. Mary's Parish and Holy Trinity Parish from 1976-1989. After reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, Lohmuller resigned as Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia on October 11, 1994. He did, however, retain his titular see. He lived at St. Cyril of Jerusalem Parish in Jamison. Lohmuller died on January 24, 2017 at the age of 97.
See also
Archdiocese of Philadelphia
References
External links
Philadelphia Archdiocese
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Ogata no Saburo Koreyoshi | , (around 1100 to 1200 AD) was a Japanese nobleman, warrior who played a major role in the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate.
The Tales of Genji establish that Ogata commanded the largest armies on Kyūshū.
According to the Okuninushi no Mikoto line of Shinto legends, Saburo's great-great-grandfather was Daida, and thus Saburo was descended from a snake god.
It is said that Daida's mother was visited each night by her lover. One night, she pinned a needle attached to a reel of thread on his kimono. The next day, she followed the thread to a cave. She heard mighty roars from within and called out to her lover, but he replied that his appearance was too frightening for her to behold. She remained persistent. Then, a great snake appeared with the needle attached to its throat. As soon as she laid her eyes on the snake, she and her companions scattered in terror. The following night, she gave birth to a son, Daida, who was raised by her grandfather in Bungo Province (now Ōita Prefecture).
The snake was thus the symbol of the Ogata clan under Ogata no Saburo Koreyoshi.
The Ogata clan's leader was originally a retainer of Taira no Shigemori. When the wars between the Taira and Minamoto began, Ogata no Saburo Koreyoshi switched sides after the Minamoto killed his rival Kikuchi Jiro, and his armies played the key role in securing Minamoto no Yoritomo's control of Japan by expelling the Taira from Kyūshū. It was Saburo who secured Prince Antoku and lead the main battle against the Taira at Dan-no-ura. He also helped to build the once famous Oka Castle for the first established shōgun of Japan..
References
External links
Ecowalk: Bungo Ono city at the Ōita prefecture official website
Saburō project (The literary hero Ogata Saburo Koreyoshi in an NHK taiga drama) (Oku no Oku Bungo website)
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Marine Conservation Cambodia | Marine Conservation Cambodia (MCC) is a non-profit, marine conservation organisation based in Koh Ach Seh, Kep archipelago.
History
MCC was first established in 2008 in Koh Rong Samloem, by British conservationist Paul Ferber. MCC was one of the driving force behind the creation of Koh Rong Samloem's first ever conservation areas, with one area designated by the local community and legislated by national Fisheries Administration and one area designated by MCC and legislated by the local authorities. These areas were the start of Koh Rong Samloem's very first Zoning plans and the precursor to the current Marine Fisheries Management Area (MFMA), Cambodia's equivalent of Marine protected area.
In 2013, MCC was invited by the provincial government of Kep to begin work preparing for a second MFMA in Kep province. The organisation undertook marine surveys around Kep's 13 islands to monitor the coral reefs, seagrass beds and seahorse populations to assist the Provincial Authorities in the creation of the proposed MFMA. In March 2016, MCC submitted to local and national authorities a proposal of MFMA zoning plan for Kep Archipelago. In 2017, the proposal was approved and included in the Cambodian National Action Plan for Fisheries Conservation and the National Plan of Action for combating Illegal, Unreported, Unregulated fishing (IUU). In January 2018, the official 11,354-hectares map was accepted and signed by all provincial authorities, and on 12 April 2018, the New Marine Fisheries Management Area in Kep Province was finally approved and promulgated by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries under the National Fisheries, Department of Conservation and with the support from Kep's Provincial Administration.
In April 2019, the Kep Archipelago was declared a Hope Spot by Sylvia Earle Alliance/Mission Blue, "in recognition of the impact that MCC’s conservation work has had in preserving the area’s unique seagrass meadows and sensitive marine species"
Management of Kep Archipelago's MFMA
Kep's Marine Fisheries Management Area (MFMA) is the second in the country, and was created through a partnership between Cambodia's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Kep province government, local fishing communities, and MCC. Encompassing the nine islands of the archipelago, the MFMA includes different zones with special regulations in order to protect the local ecosystem from Illegal, Unregulated, Unreported (IUU) fishing, which destroyed the majority of the local bivalve populations and seagrass meadows.
Two no-take zones have been established, one around Koh Ach Seh and another around Koh Angkrong, where only scientific research activities are allowed, with other activities such as fishing, anchoring and tourism strictly forbidden. Others protection zones include a refuge area near Koh Po where fishing is prohibited during specific times of the year, and two recreational research areas available for recreational diving and snorkelling, and for collecting scientific information. In the rest of the MFMA, subsistence fishing is still allowed, but all trawling and other types of intensive fishing are banned.
As part of the MFMA provincial technical Working Group and management committee, MCC's roles include demarcation and overfishing prevention, research and monitoring, restoration, community outreach and general support to the department of fisheries conservation on the application of MFMA 5-year management plan. In particular, MCC has been tasked with deploying 150 anti-trawling devices along the MFMA's boundaries.
These anti-trawling devices are made by the organisation on land, and are then placed on the seabed, preventing any illegal and destructive fishing as they catch, snare and entangle trawling nets. Besides acting as an anti-trawling device, the concrete hexagons/squares also act as artificial reefs and attract bivalves, sponges, barnacles and algae, which then in turn will attract organisms such as oysters and mussels, all of which naturally filters the water and therefore counter the threat of toxic algal blooms.
In June 2018, MCC's anti-trawling structures were awarded one of the first three National Geographic Society's Marine Protection Prize.
Other research programs
Since its creation on Koh Rong Samloem, MCC has developed several research projects focusing on water quality and fish abundance, seahorses, marine mammals, coral reefs and seagrass beds. Besides its scientific projects, MCC has also tried throughout the years to raise awareness of marine ecology among local populations, engaging with fishing communities and establishing partnerships with local schools.
Seahorse conservation
Four different species of seahorses have been identified within Cambodian waters. MCC's Seahorse conservation project aims to map seahorse species abundance and distribution in the Kep archipelago. MCC has been the first permanent marine conservation organisation in Cambodia to study seahorses, in partnership with Project Seahorse and the Cambodian Fisheries Department. These efforts resulted in including the specie in CITES endangered species for Cambodia.
Cambodian Marine Mammal Conservation Project
The Cambodian Marine Mammal Conservation Project was implemented in September 2017 in collaboration with the national Fisheries Administration. The project's primary aim is to collect data on abundance, distribution and residency to delineate critical habitats for Kep's endangered Irrawaddy dolphin. Collected data will be used to design and implement dolphin conservation legislation for Kep province.
Seagrass mapping and restoration
The Kep coastal waters used to host one of the most extensive seagrass meadows but it has been massively damaged by bottom trawling, and is still continuously threatened. The Seagrass Protection project aims to gather baseline knowledge of Seagrass beds in Cambodia's coastal waters, focusing on the province of Kep.
Reef monitoring and restoration
Every year, MCC monitors the coral reefs of 3 strategic islands of Kep Archipelago in order to monitor corals, invertebrate and fish population. Species additions and removals are recorded to estimate ecosystem recovery.
Partnerships
MCC has established different partnerships with both national and international organisations. These include:
Royal University of Phnom Penh
Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia
Liger Leadership Academy
Viet Nam Marine Megafauna Network
International Conservation Fund of Canada
National Geographic Society
Heinrich Böll Foundation
Waitt Foundation
Idea Wild
Sea of Change Foundation
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force
Ocean Conservancy
Environmental Systems Research Institute
Project Seahorse
See also
Marine conservation
Marine conservation activism
Sustainability
Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
References
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