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63839235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Farebrother | Michael Farebrother | Michael Humphrey Farebrother (28 February 1920 – 27 September 1987) was an English first-class cricketer and educator.
Farebrother was born at Chelsea in February 1920. He was educated at Eton College, before going up to Trinity College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against a combined Minor Counties cricket team at Oxford in 1939. Playing as a left-arm fast-medium bowler, he took the wickets of Frank Dennis and David Watson in the Minor Counties first innings, while in their second innings he dismissed Alan Parnaby and Watson, finishing with match figures of 4 for 128. With the declaration of war on Germany in September 1939, Farebrother's first-class career came to a premature end, though he did complete his studies.
After graduating from Oxford, Farebrother served in the Second World War with the Grenadier Guards, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in December 1940. He served in the Italian campaign and was erroneously reported as killed in action in Italy in the 1945 edition of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. He continued to serve with the Grenadier Guards after the war, gaining the rank of lieutenant in January 1949. By the 1950s, Farebrother was working as a schoolmaster and in 1956 he was appointed to the post of headmaster at St Peter's School, Seaford. During the 1956–57 Christmas holidays, he was the personal tutor to Charles, Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle. Farebrother was the headmaster at Seaford until his retirement in 1982, which resulted in the closure of the school in the same year. He died at Seaford in September 1987.
References
External links
1920 births
1987 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
British Army personnel of World War II
Cricketers from Chelsea, London
English cricketers
Schoolteachers from Sussex
Grenadier Guards officers
Oxford University cricketers
People educated at Eton College
Heads of schools in England |
53180148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20in%20professional%20wrestling | 2008 in professional wrestling | 2008 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.
List of notable promotions
These promotions held notable shows in 2008.
Calendar of notable shows
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Accomplishments and tournaments
AAA
AAA Hall of Fame
Ring of Honor
Sendai Girls
TNA
WWE
WWE Hall of Fame
Slammy Awards
Title changes
AAA
NJPW
ROH
TNA
WWE
– Raw
– SmackDown
- ECW
Raw and SmackDown each had a world championship, a secondary championship, a women's championship, and a male tag team championship. ECW only had a world championship.
Awards and honors
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame
Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
Debuts
January 3 – Ryuichi Sekine
March 7 - Matt Taven
March 11 – Shinya Ishikawa
April 12 - Hamuko Hoshi
April 19 – Shota
April 26 - Adam Cole
May 24 - Adam Page
June 27 - Yuji Okabayashi
July 13 - Nozomi Dai (NEO)
July 20 - Hikaru Shida
September 20 – Nikki Cross
November 11 – Yumehito Imanari
November 15 - Bo Dallas
November 22 – Rusev
December 4 – Ryuichi Kawakami
Retirements
Roadkill (1996 – February 4, 2008) (brief return only in 2012)
Billy Kidman (September 11, 1994 – February 23, 2008)
Woody Farmer (1960s-April 12, 2008)
Torrie Wilson (February 21, 1999 – May 8, 2008) (brief return only in 2009 and 2018)
Jonathan Coachman (December 23, 1999 – June 2008)
Danny Basham (1998–July 5, 2008)
Ashley Massaro (June 27, 2005 – July 9, 2008)
Carlos Colón (February 16, 1966 – July 19, 2008)
Johnny Jeter (September 2001 – August 2008) (brief return only in 2014)
Cherry (January 1999 – August 15, 2008)
Sonny Siaki (March 1998 – September 17, 2008)
Joey Mercury (October 12, 1996 – October 2008) (returned to wrestling from 2010 onwards)
Peter Thornley (1964-October 29, 2008)
KC James (December 15, 2001 – December 12, 2008)
Misae Genki (August 28, 1994 – December 31, 2008)
Deaths
January 17 - Ernie Holmes, 59
February 15 – Johnny Weaver, 72
March 6 – Don Curtis, 80
March 16 – Gary Hart, 66
March 20 – Bestia Salvaje, 46
March 23 – Chase Tatum, 34
March 23 - Luis Magana, 97
March 28 – Ron Slinker, 62
April 5 - Buffalo Jim Barrier, 55
May 11 – Judy Grable, 72
May 12 – Penny Banner, 73
May 25 - Rudy Kay, 65
June 17 - Jimmy Jackson (wrestler), 51
July 12 - Evgeny Artyukhin Sr., 59
July 30 – Alfonso Dantés, 65
August 20 - Sonny Fargo, 80
August 30 – Killer Kowalski, 81
September 21 - Al Hobman, 83
October 8 - Hogan Wharton, 72
October 16 – Jack Reynolds, 71
October 19 – Lia Maivia, 81
October 26 – S. D. Jones, 63
December 4 – Steve Bradley, 32
December 14 – Mike Bell, 37
See also
List of NJPW pay-per-view events
List of ROH pay-per-view events
List of TNA pay-per-view events
List of WWE pay-per-view events
References
professional wrestling |
18550042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective%20abstraction | Selective abstraction | In clinical psychology, selective abstraction is a type of cognitive bias or cognitive distortion in which a detail is taken out of context and believed whilst everything else in the context is ignored. It commonly appears in Aaron T. Beck's work in cognitive therapy. Another definition is: "focusing
on only the negative aspects of an event, such as, 'I ruined the whole recital because of that one mistake.
Effects
A team of researchers analyzed the association between cognitive errors in youths with anxiety disorders by using the Children's Negative Cognitive Error Questionnaire (CNCEQ) and "several other self-reporting measures" (Children's Depression Inventory, Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index, Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children-Trait Version). By assessing the CNCEQ, the researchers found that selective abstraction was related to both child depression and "measures of anxiety (i.e., trait anxiety, manifest anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity)".
One study noted that "some consistent findings have emerged with respect to the presence of specific cognitive errors in anxiety versus depression. 'Selective abstraction' is more commonly associated with depression than with anxiety".
References
Clinical psychology |
5264723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20Sierra | Javier Sierra | Javier Sierra Albert (born 11 August 1971 in Teruel, Aragon, Spain) is a journalist, writer and researcher who studied journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Biography
In 1989, being 12 years old, he hosted the radio programme Radio Heraldo. Six years later he founded the journal Año Cero.
He is editor consultant of the monthly magazine Más Allá de la Ciencia (Beyond Science) distributed in Spain and Latin America and he participates in several radio and television programs. During the last years, he has concentrated on writing about purported ancient mysteries.
For years, Sierra has been working with people like Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval attempting to demonstrate the existence of a Golden Age of humanity. His hypothesis holds that this Golden Age was extinguished about 10,500 years ago, and it was the origin of all the known civilisations.
Career
In 1995 he published Roswell: Secreto de Estado, about the Roswell incident, where he analysed the case.
He became the first Spaniard to be in the Top Ten of best sellers in United States. His 2006 novel The Secret Supper was in the top ten of The New York Times Best Seller list and has been published in 42 countries. The Lady in Blue was published in 2007.
On 20 December 2017 it was released the documentary fiction Otros mundos by #0, which is about the great mysteries in the world. On 22 December 2019 it was released the second season.
Books
El fuego invisible (2017)
La pirámide inmortal (2014)
El maestro del Prado (Planeta, 2013)
El ángel perdido (Planeta, 2011)
La cena secreta (Plaza & Janés 2004)
El secreto egipcio de Napoleón (La Esfera de los Libros, 2002)
Las puertas templarias (Martínez Roca, 2000)
La dama azul (Martínez Roca, 1998)
Essays
La ruta prohibida y otros enigmas de la historia (Planeta, 2007)
En busca de la Edad de Oro (Plaza & Janés, 2000)
La España extraña (EDAF, 1997), in collaboration with Jesús Callejo
Roswell: secreto de Estado (EDAF, 1995)
Collaborations
He participated in the collective work Relatos Ferroviarios Sobre Raíles (Imagine Ediciones, 2003)
He directed and prologued the historical intrigue novels collection La Cámara Secreta (col. Nº 80) for Círculo de Lectores (2003–2004).
Prizes
2004: Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja, finalist, La Cena Secreta.
2017: Cruz de San Jorge from the Teruel deputation.
2017: Premio Planeta de Novela, winner, El fuego invisible
2018: Hijo Predilecto de Teruel.
Radio
Collaborator in La Rosa de los Vientos, Onda Cero Radio (2004–2006).
Collaborator in Herrera en la onda (before Herrera y punto), Onda Cero Radio (2002–2003).
Collaborator in Milenio 3, Cadena SER Radio (2002).
Consultant in El Callejero, Onda Cero Radio (1998).
Consultant in Viva la Radio, Radio Voz (1996–1998).
Consultant in La Ventana Indiscreta, Cadena SER Radio (1989).
Consultant in Espacio en Blanco, Radio Nacional de España (1987–1988).
Director and presenter of La Otra Ciencia and Mare Nostrum, Radio Nueva (1986–1988).
Television
Director and TV presenter of El Otro Lado de la Realidad, Telemadrid (2004–2005).
Collaborator in Cada Día, Antena 3 TV (2005).
Collaborator in Crónicas marcianas, Telecinco (1999–2004).
Editor of Otra Dimensión, Telecinco (1993).
Press
Editor consultant of the magazine Más Allá de la Ciencia (M.C. Ediciones, 2005).
Editor Director of Revista de Arqueología (MC Ediciones, 2002), the most important publication of its genre in Spain.
Director of the magazine Más Allá de la Ciencia (M.C. Ediciones, 1998). He carried out the change of format, readjusts of contents and image, since January 1999.
Coordinator of the special numbers of magazine Más Allá de la Ciencia, Grandes enigmas de Europa y América, Pirámides del mundo, Grandes misterios de la Tierra, Misterios de Egipto, among others.
Assistant director of the magazine Más Allá de la Ciencia (J.C. Ediciones, 1995–1998).
International coordinator of magazine Año Cero (América Ibérica, 1994).
Editor of magazine Más Allá de la Ciencia (Heptada, 1993).
Co-founder of the magazine Año Cero (Hobby Press 1990).
Editorial
Consultant of the collection Huellas Perdidas de Grijalbo Mondadori (2000–2001).
Editor consultant of the collection Ediciones Martínez Roca (2001).
References
External links
(in English)
The page of his novel La Cena Secreta
1971 births
Living people
People from Teruel
Spanish journalists
Spanish novelists
Spanish male novelists
Spanish television presenters
Spanish historical novelists
Spanish mystery writers
Complutense University of Madrid alumni |
61895135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20UFC%20fighters | List of Canadian UFC fighters | The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion, founded in 1993 by Art Davie and Rorion Gracie. The organization was purchased from its parent company SEG in 2001 by Zuffa LLC, a promotional company owned by Las Vegas casino magnates, Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta and managed by Dana White (current president of operations). Since its inception, and through its current Zuffa management, the UFC has remained one of the more dominant MMA promotions in the world, playing host to a wide field of MMA fighters.
This list provides an up-to-date roster of all fighters that represent Canada competing or have previously competed under the UFC promotional banner. Fighters are organized by weight class and within their weight class by their number of appearances inside the UFC. Fighter record and notable wins, achievements. Tournament participation and overall Canadian UFC/MMA records
World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) was purchased by Zuffa in 2006 and officially merged under the UFC brand on January 1, 2011. All former WEC fighters have had their WEC record listed in place of their UFC record, starting with WEC 25 (the first WEC event under Zuffa). These records have been, and will be, continued as former WEC fighters move on in the UFC.
Strikeforce was purchased by Zuffa in 2011 and officially merged under the UFC brand on January 12, 2013. All former Strikeforce fighters have had their Strikeforce record listed in place of their UFC record, starting with Strikeforce Challengers: Wilcox vs. Damm (the first Strikeforce event under Zuffa). These records have been, and will be, continued as former Strikeforce fighters move on in the UFC.
Each fight record has four categories: wins, losses, draws, and no-contests (NC). All fight records in this article are displayed in that order, with fights resulting in a no-contest listed in parentheses.
Heavyweights (265 lb, 120 kg)
Bold indicated fighter is still active on the UFC roster.
Light Heavyweights (205 lb, 93 kg)
Bold indicated fighter is still active on the UFC roster.
Middleweights (185 lb, 84 kg)
Welterweights (170 lb, 77 kg)
Bold indicated fighter is still active on the UFC roster.
Lightweights (155 lb, 70 kg)
Bold indicated fighter is still active on the UFC roster.
Featherweights (145 lb, 65 kg)
Bold indicated fighter is still active on the UFC roster.
Bantamweights (135 lb, 61 kg)
Bold indicated fighter is still active on the UFC roster.
Flyweights (125 lb, 56 kg)
Bold indicated fighter is still active on the UFC roster.
Woman's Featherweight (145 lb, 65 kg)
Woman's Bantamweight (135 lb, 61 kg)
Bold indicated fighter is still active on the UFC roster.
Woman's Flyweight (125 lb, 56 kg)
Bold indicated fighter is still active on the UFC roster.
Woman's Strawweight (115 lb, 52 kg)
UFC Hall of Fame
Modern-era wing
Fight wing
Tournament participation
Canadian mixed martial artists have participated in the UFC's original tournament format as well as The Ultimate Fighter tournaments. Canada has produced 3 tournament Champion's and has made it to the Finals 9 times, Semi-finals 7 times and Quarter-finals 11 times. 4 fighters from Canada participated in the UFC's original tournaments(usually Openweight contests consisting of 3 fights in one night) and 25 Canadians have fought on The Ultimate Fighter(20 of the 25 received contracts to fight in the UFC). Canada has participated in 26 tournaments in total, placing or winning in 22 of them.
Canadian UFC Tournament combatants
Canadian TUF Tournament combatants
Canadian TUF Coaches
List Records
Most Knockout wins by Canadian MMA fighters
*All fighters included in this list
Most Submission wins by Canadian MMA fighters
*All fighters included in this list
Most Decision wins by Canadian MMA fighters
*All fighters included in this list
Most Finishes by Canadian MMA fighters
*All fighters included in this list
Longest Win-streak by Canadian MMA fighters
*All fighters included in this list
Most Fights by Canadian MMA fighters
*All fighters included in this list
Fastest Knockouts by a Canadian MMA fighter
*All fighters included in this list
Fastest Submissions by a Canadian MMA fighter
*All fighters included in this list
Most UFC Bonuses won by Canadian MMA fighters
*All fighters included in this list
Most Title fights in the UFC by Canadian MMA fighters
*All fighters included in this list
Most Fights in the UFC by Canadian MMA fighter
*All fighters included in this list
See also
List of current UFC fighters
List of UFC champions
List of UFC records
List of Pride FC alumni
List of current Bellator fighters
List of current WSOF-Global fighters
List of current Invicta FC fighters
List of current Rizin FF fighters
List of current PFL fighters
List of current ONE fighters
List of Pancrase champions
TKO Major League MMA
Prospect Fighting Championships
Notes
References
Canadian
Lists of mixed martial artists
UFC |
34951088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Gilbert%20Woolcock | James Gilbert Woolcock | James Gilbert Woolcock (7 November 187414 March 1957) was an Australian company director, metallurgist, mining consultant, mining engineer and public servant.
Early life
James Woolcock was born on 7 November 1874 in Alma, South Australia, the third of ten children. His father was Cornwall schoolmaster Richard Woolcock and his mother was South Australian-born Caroline (née Bottrill). Woolcock attended the Adelaide-based Unley High School and the South Australian School of Mines and Industries. In 1894, he was employed by the Department of Mines and was soon appointed battery manager of the state's gold treatment plant in Mount Torrens in the Adelaide Hills. He resigned from his job in November 1898 and moved back to Adelaide.
Career
Woolcock began mining for gold in Victoria and found a job as an essayer on the Princess Royal mine in Norseman, Western Australia, while managing two other small mines in Tarcoola and Deloraine. He was also the director of mining company South Australian Barytes Limited from 1946 to 1957, and oversaw the development of its mine and treatment plant in Blinman and Quorn respectively.
Personal life and death
Woolcock married Jane Johnston on 13 September 1899 at the Christian Chapel in Norwood. They had four sons. Johnston died in 1838, after which Woolcock moved to Reynella, where he died on 14 March 1857. He was buried at the Mitcham cemetery in Adelaide.
See also
Edward Henry Rennie
Francis James Gillen
Henry Yorke Lyell Brown
References
Australian businesspeople
Australian metallurgists
Australian public servants
Australian people of English descent
1874 births
1957 deaths |
5079354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krivaja | Krivaja | Krivaja may refer to the following locations:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Villages
Krivaja (Cazin), a village in the municipality of Cazin, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
, a village in the municipality of Zavidovići, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
, a village in the municipality of Prijedor, Republika Srpska
Rivers
Krivaja (Bosna), a river in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, tributary of Bosna
Krivaja (Velika Usora), a river in Republika Srpska, tributary of Velika Usora
Croatia
Villages
Krivaja, Berek, a village in the municipality of Berek
Serbia
Villages
Krivaja (Bačka Topola), a village in the municipality of Bačka Topola, Vojvodina
Krivaja (Šabac), a village in the municipality of Šabac
Krivaja (Blace), a village in the municipality of Blace
Krivaja (Sjenica), a village in the municipality of Sjenica
Rivers
Krivaja (Great Bačka Canal), a river in Vojvodina, tributary of Great Bačka Canal
Krivaja (Đetinja), a river in Central Serbia, tributary of Đetinja
Other
Krivaja (lake), a lake near Bačka Topola, Vojvodina
, fortress not far from Šabac, Central Serbia
See also
, a village in the municipality of Vojnić, Croatia
Operation Krivaja '95 |
30418436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwa%20culture | Siwa culture | The Siwa culture () was a Bronze Age culture in southeast Gansu Province, China. It was discovered by Swedish geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson in 1924 at Mount Siwa () in Lintao County, hence its name. It flourished circa 14th to 11th century BC, it is tentatively attributed to the cultures of the Northern Di, Qiang, and Xunyu peoples.
The archaeological culture is divided into two phases: the early phase associated with the sites at Lintao, Zhuoni, Lintan, and Heshui; and, the final phase during the late Shang and proto-Zhou periods associated with the Jiuzhan, Xujianian, and Lanquiao sites. Siwa culture is known for producing a type of pottery that had saddle-shaped mouths.
Context
The neighboring Xindian culture was roughly contemporary with the Siwa culture and was influenced by it. Some scholars hold that Siwa culture descended from the Qijia culture. There are also those who believe that the culture was a remnant of Xunyu, which is associated with the Xianyun people. However, questions are raised against this theory since Siwa sites are small with low subsistence levels. According to archaeologists, these could not have sustained an advanced society like the Xianyun.
Geography
Siwa culture is divided into two types – Siwa and Anguo. The former is distributed along the Tao River (Taohe) and the latter along the Wei River. The Siwa type is somewhat earlier than the Western Zhou dynasty, while the Anguo type is more or less contemporaneous with it.
One of Siwa culture's main characteristics is pottery with saddle-shaped openings (), It is also distinguished by its bronze objects.
Since 2006, the Siwa site () is on the list of the People's Republic of China's archeological monuments.
References
Further reading
Nicola Di Cosmo (1999), The Northern Frontier in Pre-Imperial China//The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC, Edited by M.Loewe and E.L.Shaughnessy.
Archaeological cultures of China
Bronze Age in China
History of Gansu
1924 in China
Zhou dynasty
14th-century BC establishments |
58494393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20storms%20named%20Charlotte | List of storms named Charlotte | The name Charlotte has been used for seven tropical cyclones worldwide: four in the West Pacific Ocean, two in the Australian region of the South Pacific and one in the South-West Indian Ocean.
In the West Pacific:
Typhoon Charlotte (1946) (T4602) – remained in the open ocean.
Tropical Storm Charlotte (1952) (T5201) – formed in the South China Sea and made landfall near Hong Kong.
Tropical Storm Charlotte (1956) (T5610) – made landfall in the Philippines and then in Vietnam.
Typhoon Charlotte (1959) (T5918, 42W) – damaging Category 5 super typhoon that remained out to sea.
In the Australian region:
Tropical Cyclone Charlotte (2009) – formed in the Gulf of Carpentaria and made landfall near the mouth of the Gilbert River.
Cyclone Charlotte (2022) – a Category 4 severe tropical cyclone that affected Indonesia and East Timor.
In the South-West Indian Ocean:
Tropical Storm Charlotte (1973) – a weak tropical storm passed southwest of Réunion, rainfall damaged crops and flooded roads, causing one person to drown.
Pacific typhoon set index articles
Australian region cyclone set index articles |
57513437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%20Mallon | Bobby Mallon | Robert Howard Mallon (April 7, 1919—September 10, 2008) was an American child actor, known for appearing in Hal Roach Studios films, notably Our Gang, as Bobby.
Early life
He was born in Greybull, Wyoming. His father was a fireman killed in a wreck at Cole Creek Wyoming in Sept 1923 as the on train #30.
Career
Mallon was known for playing Bobby in 13 of the Our Gang/Little Rascals series of movies produced by Hal Roach. He also appeared in The Boy Friends in the episode Blood and Thunder as a rehearsal kid.
He left show business after being "retired" from the Gang in 1932.
Death
He died on September 10, 2008, in Los Angeles, California, and was one of the last surviving members of the famed Little Rascals series at the time of his death.
He is buried at the Mount Sinai Simi Valley Cemetery in Simi Valley, California.
Filmography
Love My Dog (1926)
Tired Business Men (1927)
Chicken Feed (1927)
Boxing Gloves (1929)
Bouncing Babies (1929)
Moan & Groan, Inc. (1929)
Shivering Shakespeare (1929)
Teacher's Pet (1930)
School's Out (1930)
Blood and Thunder (1931)
Spanky (1932)
Free Wheeling (1932)
Birthday Blues (1932)
References
20th-century American male actors
1919 births
2008 deaths
Our Gang |
39363111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%27%27%27-acetyl-6%27%27%27-hydroxyneomycin%20C%20deacetylase | 2'''-acetyl-6'''-hydroxyneomycin C deacetylase | 2'''-acetyl-6'''-hydroxyneomycin C deacetylase (, neoL (gene)) is an enzyme with systematic name 2'''-acetyl-6'''-hydroxyneomycin C hydrolase (acetate-forming). This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
2'''-acetyl-6'''-deamino-6'''-hydroxyneomycin C + H2O 6'''-deamino-6'''-hydroxyneomycin C + acetate
This enzyme is involved in biosynthesis of aminoglycoside antibiotics of the [neomycin] family.
References
External links
EC 3.5.1 |
16421910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Swain%20%28walker%29 | George Swain (walker) | George Wood Swain (1919–2000) was a local legend from Boron, California. His nickname was "Walking George."
He had penchant for walking that made him a legend among locals, in the Los Angeles Times, and even on national television. George earned his name as "Walking George" because he never owned a car, or home, and walked to and from work — from his home, which was always rumored to be just a hole in the desert. He supposedly kept himself warm at night with a covering of newspapers. His wardrobe was always the same, wrinkled shirt and pants, well-worn boots. He died on April 25, 2000.
Biography
George Swain's life began on October 22, 1919, in Los Angeles, California and spent his early years in Santa Monica and Glendale. His father was a retired Marine Corps captain, and his mother, who was a lover of music, taught George organ and piano. They later moved to Northern California. The family lived first in Santa Cruz and later in San Jose. As a child he attended schools in the San Jose area. George joined the Army in 1940, serving in World War II in the 87th Infantry. After the war, he took a three-month course in chemical analysis at Stanford University and then was hired by U.S. Borax.
Boron
George used to say that he arrived in Boron, California, to work at U.S. Borax, by train at 4 a.m. on the fourth day of the fourth month in 1944 (4/4/44). He worked his entire life at the Borax plant, never marrying. He planned on retiring on August 8, 1988 (8/8/88), but instead retired in 1986. Before retiring he could always quote the exact number of days he had been on the job and the number of days planned until retirement. George retired from U.S. Borax as #3 Mule (meaning third in seniority) a position he held for the three years prior to his retirement.
During his years in Boron George never seemed to have a home. It was rumored that he lived in the desert, sleeping outside or in a ramshackle hut of boxes, but according to the Los Angeles Daily News he lived in free workers' cabins until 1961. He continued to quietly stay in the abandoned Borax cabins, or in colder weather at the Boron Motel until 1993, which was seven years after his retirement. After 1993 he stayed at the motel or house-sat for friends. He regularly ate at the Borax mine cafeteria or the local cafes, often eating two entire meals at a sitting. He showered at the mine. George was usually clean-shaven, but often had long hairs around his neck.
Personality and interests
George was outspoken in his beliefs, eloquently stating his positions. He had diverse and occasionally seemingly contradictory interests once calling Franklin D. Roosevelt the "savior of the nation", yet also called Oliver North a personal hero.
George had three passions: John Muir, conservation, and classical music, especially operas and Richard Wagner. One year he personally financed the Seattle Opera Company which was almost forced to close for the season. He had on one occasion toured the operas of Europe. George was also very generous to whomever he was with and often helped the helpless and hopeless. He hated wastefulness in all its forms. He was often seen picking up trash and recyclable materials, and was a supporter of many environmental causes.
At first he was considered an eccentric, but after he started playing music for local churches he became more accepted in the community. He was considered a genius in such diverse areas as math, chemistry, and music. In his home town he was recognized as their home town hero after appearing on the TV show Real People. He became a part of congregation of the First Baptist Church of Boron after meeting Rev. Norvall Pickett one evening outside his parsonage while Norvall and his son were looking at the stars through a telescope. After learning of his talent Pickett invited him to stop by the church and practice whenever it was open. George continued to be a pianist and organist for the church until his death. He also played at the St. Joseph's Catholic Church. He called himself a "church-going atheist."
He seemed to have photographic memory. He attended local events and often would play the piano for entertainment whenever he could "borrow" one. He played for Boron High School presentations of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore and Trial by Jury, and was a favorite with the cast. He could attend a concert or opera in Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Seattle, always traveling by bus or train, then return to Boron and repeat the concert on the piano by memory. He used his musical talent to teach children in the community.
In 1989, George met Pat and Ben Mosley who asked him to volunteer at the LeConte Memorial Lodge for the Sierra Club in Yosemite National Park, where Pat was curator for eight years. Pat reintroduced George to Carl Sharsmith, with whom 50 years previously George had taken his first saunter. Together they played opera selections at the Tuolumne Meadows Lodge and the Tioga Pass Resort. George was a member of the John Muir Memorial Association where for 25 years he never missed an annual dinner. George was given a lifetime membership to the John Muir Memorial Association only a week before his death.
He was always a one-man entry in the local "Twenty Mule Team Days", greeting fellow residents while walking the parade route. He loved train travel, often reminiscing of taking passage on famous train routes worldwide. George knew the night sky like the back of his hand, able to name every constellation, the names of the stars in each, and their movements.
Walking
His penchant for walking is what made him a legend. On his 59th birthday in 1978 an article about George came out in the Los Angeles Times. By May 1979 he was featured on the TV show Real People and returned in the following November for a reunion.
He walked almost everywhere, unless he was heading to "the city", which then entailed a 30-mile walk to Mojave to catch the bus. He would walk into town for church services where he added his musical talents, or to local town meetings. He would walk to the (now former) Boron Federal Prison, located at the old 750th Radar Squadron site 5 miles out of town (12 miles by road) to visit with the Prison Administrator for an afternoon chat. He would walk to Death Valley for the weekend (at least 100 miles each way). A pair of George's size 14EEE hiking boots now reside in Boron's Twenty Mule Team Museum.
George Swain died at the age of 80. He was found dead on a porch of a house he was house-sitting by a neighbor on April 25, 2000. His death was caused by an irregular heartbeat according to Kern County coroner officials.
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3221257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%20Observatory | Brooks Observatory | Brooks Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of Toledo. The observatory is used primarily for public viewing and undergraduate instruction. It hosts an array of small telescopes, the centrepiece of which is a Celestron 14 Edge HD. It is located on the campus of the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio (USA), occupying the 6th floor of McMaster Hall, home to the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Adjacent to Brooks Observatory is Ritter Observatory, which houses Ritter Planetarium and a one-metre telescope. In contrast to the telescopes at Brooks Observatory, the Ritter telescope is used for graduate and faculty research.
See also
Brooks Astronomical Observatory
List of observatories
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67286035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingshan%20station%20%28Fuzhou%20Metro%29 | Pingshan station (Fuzhou Metro) | Pingshan Station (; Fuzhounese: ) is a metro station of Line 1 of the Fuzhou Metro. It is located on the intersection of Guping Road, Qiantang Lane and Yeshan Road in Gulou District, Fuzhou, Fujian, China. It started operation on Jan 6, 2017.
Station layout
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25523710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmada%20Kidney%20Foundation | Narmada Kidney Foundation | The Narmada Kidney Foundation was established in Mumbai, India in 1993, by Dr. Bharat V. Shah. Its aim is to support patients with renal problems, and to aid their families.
Its foundation was named after its founder's mother, Narmadaben Shah. "Life shared, life lived" is the Foundation's guiding principle.
Role
Today, the Foundation is India's only Non-governmental organization that not only provides information about kidney diseases but also how they can be prevented from occurring.
The activities in which the organization is involved are prevention camps, regular educational programs, printing and publishing of education materials, subsidized rate medicines and cadaver transplantation promotion.
The Foundation's annual Transplant Games were first held in 2008; Organ Donor’s Day has been celebrated every year since 1997, on 30 November.
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5065366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Carinae | A Carinae | The Bayer designations A Carinae and a Carinae are distinct. Due to technical limitations, both designations link here. For the star
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49942706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamadjaja | Kamadjaja | Karkono Partokusumo (23 November 1915 – 5 July 2003), better known by the pen name Kamadjaja (Perfected Spelling: Kamajaya), was an Indonesian journalist and author, who rose to prominence during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies.
Early life and career
Karkono was born in Sragen, Central Java, Dutch East Indies, on 23 November 1915. He conducted his education to the junior high school level in nearby Surakarta, then continued his studies at a Taman Siswa school for teachers in Yogyakarta. Though he finished the program, Karkono never became a teacher. Rather, early on he developed an interest in writing, submitting many of his pieces to newspapers, magazines, and youth movement periodicals. Kamadjaja was politically active as well. In 1931 he became the head of the Surakarta branch of ; he remained active in the youth movement through the 1930s.
Karkono had entered journalism by 1934, when he is recorded as an editor for Soeloeh Pemoeda Indonesia. Around this time he also contributed to Garuda Merapi, a Yogyakarta-based periodical published by Indonesia Moeda, as well as Oetoesan Indonesia (under Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto) and the Surakarta-based Sedyo Tomo (under Raden Roedjito). Whilst with this last publication, he wrote a pointed article about Noto Soeroto, a prominent figure in the Mangkunegaran Palace. This led Mangkunegara VII to pen a decree barring Karkono from living or working in the Mangkunegaran region, though this decree was never issued. In 1937, Karkono was made the head of Perantaraan, the magazine of the Taman Siswa Alumni Organisation; he also joined the organisation as an administrator. It was around this time that he took up the pen name Kamadjaja, taken from the God of Love in the Javanese kakawin Smaradahana.
Kamadjaja stayed with Perantaraan for two years. In 1939, he became an editor of the cultural magazine Poestaka Timoer, working with Andjar Asmara. He stayed with the magazine until 1941, when he migrated to the colonial capital Batavia (now Jakarta) and established the film magazine Pertjatoeran Doenia dan Film together with B.M. Diah and . When Berita Oemoem, a conservative publication headed by Soekardjo Wirjopranoto and Winarno Hendronoto, was moved from Bandung to Batavia, Kamadjaja was brought on as an editor.
Japanese occupation and National Revolution
In March 1942, the Empire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies. Initially Kamadjaja remained in journalism, taking a position with the Japanese-established daily Asia Raya, as did many of Berita Oemoem staff. Kamadjaja led the newspaper's publication division and worked to publish the first Asia Raya almanac. During this time he published a short story, "Memoedja Majat Kekasih" ('Worshipping a Lover's Corpse'), in the paper.
Kamadjaja migrated to the theatre in 1943, joining Andjar Asmara and Andjar's wife Ratna in establishing the Tjahaja Timoer theatrical troupe. The troupe, whose actors were mostly youths, toured throughout Java. Before the occupation ended in 1945, Kamadjaja has written several stage plays, including Diponegoro (1943), Solo Diwaktu Malam ('Solo at Night', 1943), Kupu-Kupu ('Butterflies', 1944), and Miss Neng (1944, a sequel to Solo Diwaktu Malam). He also adapted the Chinese legend Butterfly Lovers as Sam Pik Eng Tay (1944). On 23 August 1945, a week after Sukarno proclaimed the independence of Indonesia, Tjahaja Timoer was disbanded.
Together with Rinto Ali, , and Usmar Ismail, Kamadjaja established the newspaper Rakjat in Jakarta (renamed during the Japanese occupation) and wrote a column, "Bang Golok" ('Brother Machete'). However, tensions were rising between the Indonesian republicans and the returning Dutch colonial forces, and in December 1945 Kamadjaja's home was raided by Dutch forces. He soon took a train to Republican-held Surakarta, where he helped establish the Serikat Rakjat Indonesia (Indonesian People's Union), became a member of the Regional People's Representative Council for Surakarta, and joined the Dewan Pertahanan Daerah (Regional Defense Council). In 1948, as the Indonesian National Revolution continued, Kamadjaja was made a major in the Indonesian Army and the head of Brigade XXIV's education department.
Later in 1948, Kamadjaja was made a titular Finance Ministry Aid in Singapore, serving under Ambassador Mukarto Notowidagdo. Despite his title, Kamadjaja's main task was smuggling opium into Singapore, with the proceeds supporting Indonesian military and diplomatic efforts. Together with Tony Wen and Subeno, he arranged a route in which speedboats loaded with opium left near Tulungagung, East Java, and went to Singapore. Later trips were made by aircraft from Tulungagung and by boat from Pacitan, East Java. In November 1948, Kamadjaja returned to Indonesia via Bangkok and Bukittinggi, for fear that he was being hunted by the Dutch and British police.
After Indonesian Independence
After the revolution, Kamadjaja focused predominantly on politics and business. He was a member of the Indonesian National Party, active in both Surakarta and Yogyakarta. He participated in conferences throughout Asia, Africa and Europe, as well as in the United States.
Kamadjaja retained, however, an interest in culture, working to preserve Javanese literature through such initiatives as the Panunggalan Foundation. In 1950, a novel adaptation of Solo Diwaktu Malam was published by Gapura. The story was also adapted to film by Nawi Ismail in 1952. This Borobudur Films production starred Chatir Harro, Komalasari, RAS Sumarni, and Astaman.
Kamadjaja wrote a book in 1972 based on the case of "Sum Kuning", a teenage girl from Bantul, Special Region of Yogyakarta, who was put on trial after accusing several well-connected youths of raping her. This book later became the basis for the film Perawan Desa, which was controversial in the Yogyakarta region but garnered numerous awards at the Indonesian Film Festival, including Best Film.
By the 1990s Kamadjaja was running a publishing house, using his own funds as capital. Its publications included an Indonesian-language edition of the Serat Centhini as well as the Dewi Sri almanac. He was also involved with such organisations as the Yogyakarta Art Council and the Organisation of Javanese Writers.
Kamadjaja died in Panti Rapih Hospital, Yogyakarta, on 5 July 2003 at the age of 87. He was survived by his wife and two children. After a funeral attended by hundreds of mourners, he was buried at the Wijaya Brata Cemetery, which is dedicated to prominent members of the Taman Siswa organisation.
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59897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamo%20Wolde | Mamo Wolde | Degaga "Mamo" Wolde (; 12 June 1932 – 26 May 2002) was an Ethiopian long distance runner who competed in track, cross-country, and road running events. He was the winner of the marathon at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Early life
Degaga was born on 12 June 1932 in Ada'a to an Oromo family. His younger brother, Demissie Wolde (b. 8 March 1937), also became an international distance running star.
In 1951, Degaga moved to Addis Ababa.
Athletics career
At his first Olympic appearance in 1956, Degaga competed in the 800 m, 1,500 m and the 4x400 relay.
He did not compete in the 1960 Summer Olympics, when Abebe Bikila became the first Ethiopian to win a gold medal. Degaga claimed his absence was due to the government's desire to send him on a peacekeeping mission to the Congo during the Congo Crisis. According to him, in the government's ensuing conflict with the Ethiopian Olympic Committee, who wanted him to compete, he didn't get sent to either event. However, athlete Said Moussa Osman, who represented Ethiopia in the 800 m at the 1960 Olympics, stated that Degaga lost at the trials and didn't make it on the team.
Beginning in the 1960s, Degaga's focus changed from middle distance races to long distances. He made Ethiopia's first mark at international cross-country races when he took the International Juan Muguerza in Elgoibar, Spain, winning in 1963 and 1964, and at the Cross de San Donostin in San Sebastian, Spain, in the same years. He placed fourth in the 10,000 m at the 1964 Summer Olympics, which was won by Billy Mills of the United States in one of the biggest upsets in the history of Olympic competition. Demissie also became a marathon runner.
Both brothers competed in Tokyo, in the 1964 Olympic marathon. On 3 August 1964, in the Ethiopian Olympic trials, a race held at 8,000 feet, Degaga qualified by running 2:16:19.2, just 4/10ths of a second behind Abebe Bikela, with Demissie finishing 2:19:30, for 3rd place. Although Degaga dropped out early, Demessie, after being among the leaders for much of the 1964 Olympic race, finished tenth in 2:21:25.2. On 21 April 1965, as part of the opening ceremonies for the second season of the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair, Abebe and Degaga participated in an exclusive ceremonial half marathon. They ran from the Arsenal in Central Park at 64th Street & Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to the Singer Bowl at the fair. They carried with them a parchment scroll with greetings from Haile Selassie. In 1967, he repeated his wins in San Sebastian and Elgiobar, and won again at the latter event in 1968.
In the 1968 Summer Olympics, Degaga became the second Ethiopian to win gold in the marathon. Earlier in the same Olympics, he had won the silver medal in the 10,000 m. At the age of 40, Degaga won his third Olympic medal placing third in 2:15:08 at the 1972 Olympic marathon, while Demissie placed 18th in 2:20:44.0. Degaga also won the marathon race in the 1973 All-Africa Games. He blamed his Olympic third place showing in 1972 on ill-fitting shoes forced on him by Ethiopian officials. He became only the second person in Olympic history (Bikila was the first) to medal in successive Olympic marathons. Both medalists who finished ahead of Degaga, Frank Shorter from the U.S.A., and Belgium's Karel Lismont would repeat Degaga's feat in 1976 as they finished second and third behind East Germany's Waldemar Cierpinski. Cierpinski repeated his win in 1980. Erick Wainaina was the most recent and only other marathoner to accomplish the feat, finished third in Atlanta in 1996 and second in Sydney in 2000. Degaga also won the marathon race in the 1973 All-Africa Games.
Military career
In 1951, Degaga joined the Imperial Guard. He later served as a peacekeeper in Korea from 1953 to 1955.
Arrest
In 1993, Degaga was arrested on the accusation that he participated in a Red Terror execution during the regime of the dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. He argued that although he was present at the killing, he was not a direct participant. The IOC campaigned the Ethiopian government for his release. In early 2002 he was convicted and sentenced to six years of imprisonment. Therefore, he was released because he had spent nine years in detention already waiting for his trial.
Death
On 26 May 2002, Degaga died of liver cancer at age 69, just a few months after his release. He had been married twice and had three children; a son, Samuel, with his first wife, and two children, Addis Alem and Tabor, with his second wife. Degaga is interred in Saint Joseph's Church Cemetery in Addis Ababa.
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551762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Duer%20Miller | Alice Duer Miller | Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel The White Cliffs influenced political thought during the U.S.'s entry into World War II. She also wrote novels and screenplays.
Early life
Alice Duer Miller was born in Staten Island, New York, on July 28, 1874, into a wealthy and prominent family. She grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey with her parents and two sisters. She was the daughter of James Gore King Duer and Elizabeth Wilson Meads. The family lost their fortune during the Baring Bank failure.
Her mother Elizabeth Wilson Meads was the daughter of Orlando Meads of Albany, New York. Her great-grandfather was William Alexander Duer, president of Columbia College. Her great-great-grandfather was William Duer, an American lawyer, developer, and speculator from New York City. He had served in the Continental Congress and the convention that framed the New York Constitution. In 1778, he signed the United States Articles of Confederation. Her great-great-great-grandfather was William Alexander, who claimed the disputed title of Earl of Stirling and was an American major-general during the American Revolutionary War.
Miller was also a descendant of Senator Rufus King, who was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signatories of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787.
Alice attended Barnard College in 1895, studying Mathematics and Astronomy and graduating Phi Beta Kappa. She helped to pay for her studies by selling novels and short essays to Harper's and Scribner's magazines. Alice excelled as a student with her award-winning thesis "Dedekind's Theory of the Irrational Number". She and her sister Caroline jointly published a book of poems. Miller remained connected to Barnard throughout her life; she was elected as a trustee of Barnard College in 1922.
Career
Alice wrote her entire life, but before she was a full-time writer, she taught at a girls school English composition and tutored Barnard College students in mathematics. Miller became known as a campaigner for women's suffrage and was an active member of the Algonquin Round Table and Heterodoxy (group). She published a series of satirical poems in the New York Tribune titled and later republished in the collection, Are Women People? These words became a catchphrase of the suffrage movement. It reads:
"FATHER, what is a Legislature?
A representative body elected by the people of the state.
Are women people?
No, my son, criminals, lunatics and women are not people.
Do legislators legislate for nothing?
Oh, no; they are paid a salary.
By whom?
By the people.
Are women people?
Of course, my son, just as much as men are." She followed this collection with Women Are People! (1917).
As a novelist, she scored her first success with Come Out of the Kitchen in 1916. The story was made into a play and later the 1948 film Spring in Park Lane. She followed it with a series of other short novels, many of which were staged and (increasingly) made into films.
Her novel in verse Forsaking All Others (1933) about a tragic love affair, and many consider her greatest work. Miller was invited to write for Hollywood in 1921 by Samuel Goldwyn. Many of her stories became motion pictures, such as Are Parents People? (1925), Roberta (1935), and Irene (1940). She also became involved in a number of motion picture screenplays, including Wife vs. Secretary (1936). Her name appears in the very first issue of The New Yorker as an advisory editor. Throughout her life, she wrote successfully for a wide range of genres and produced forty-four books.
The White Cliffs
In 1940, she wrote the verse novel The White Cliffs, about an American girl who coming to London as a tourist, meets and marries a young upper-class Englishman in the period just before World War I. The war begins and he goes to the front. He is killed just before the end of the War, leaving her with a young son. Her son is the heir to the family estate. Despite the pull of her own country and the impoverished condition of the estate, she decides to stay and live the traditional life of a member of the English upper class. The story concludes as World War II commences, and she worries that her son, like his father, will be killed fighting for the country he loves. The poem ends with the lines:
...I am American bred
I have seen much to hate here – much to forgive,
But in a world in which England is finished and dead,
I do not wish to live.
The poem was spectacularly successful on both sides of the Atlantic, selling nearly one million copies – an unheard of number for a book of verse. It was broadcast and recorded by British-American actress Lynn Fontanne (with a symphonic accompaniment), and the story was made into the 1944 film The White Cliffs of Dover.
Personal life
Once she graduated, she married Henry Wise Miller on October 5, 1899, at Grace Church Chapel in New York City. Henry asked Alice to marry him three days after their first meeting. He was a Harvard graduate, born in 1877, the son of Lt. Commander Jacob Miller.
They moved to Costa Rica, where Henry Miller was gambling on land speculation and rubber cultivation. Henry and Alice had their first son Denning Duer Miller in this time period when they were moving back and forth between New York City and Costa Rica. Their investment failed and the family moved back to New York City and struggled for years financially. Alice served as the primary breadwinner for the first decade of the marriage until Henry became a successful Wall Street stockbroker.
After a long illness, Alice Duer Miller died in 1942 and was interred at Evergreen Cemetery in Morristown, New Jersey.
Selected works
Poems (1896)
Modern Obstacle (1903)
Less Than Kin (1909)
The Blue Arch (1910)
Things (1914)
The Burglar and the Blizzard: A Christmas Story (1914)
Are Parents People? (1914)
Are Women People? a book of rhymes for suffrage times (1915)
Come Out of the Kitchen (1916)
Women Are People! (1917)
The Sturdy Oak (1917), Alice Duer Miller et al.
A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors
Ladies Must Live (1917)
The Happiest Time of Their Lives (1918)
Wings in the Night (1918)
The Charm School (1919)
The Beauty and the Bolshevist (1920)
Manslaughter (1921)
Priceless Pearl (1924)
The Reluctant Duchess (1925)
The Springboard (1928)
Welcome Home (1928)
Forsaking All Others (1931)
Gowns by Roberta (1933)
Come Out of the Pantry (1934)
The Rising Star (1935)
And One Was Beautiful (1937)
The White Cliffs (1940)
FilmographyLess Than Kin, directed by Donald Crisp (1918, based on the novel Less Than Kin)Come Out of the Kitchen, directed by John S. Robertson (1919, based on the novel Come Out of the Kitchen)Her First Elopement, directed by Sam Wood (1920, based on the novel Her First Elopement)Something Different, directed by Roy William Neill (1920, based on the novel Calderon's Prisoner)The Charm School, directed by James Cruze (1921, based on the novel The Charm School)Ladies Must Live, directed by George Loane Tucker (1921, based on the novel Ladies Must Live)Manslaughter, directed by Cecil B. DeMille (1922, based on the novel Manslaughter)Are Parents People?, directed by Malcolm St. Clair (1925, based on the story Are Parents People?)Someone to Love, directed by F. Richard Jones (1928, based on the novel The Charm School)Honey, directed by Wesley Ruggles (English-language version, 1930, based on the novel Come Out of the Kitchen)Salga de la cocina, directed by Jorge Infante (Spanish-language version, 1931, based on the novel Come Out of the Kitchen), directed by Louis Mercanton (French-language version, 1931, based on the novel Come Out of the Kitchen)Every Woman Has Something, directed by Leo Mittler (German-language version, 1931, based on the novel Come Out of the Kitchen), directed by (Swedish-language version, 1931, based on the novel Come Out of the Kitchen)Manslaughter, directed by George Abbott (English-language version, 1930, based on the novel Manslaughter)The Incorrigible, directed by Leo Mittler (Spanish-language version, 1931, based on the novel Manslaughter)The Indictment, directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki (French-language version, 1931, based on the novel Manslaughter)Reckless Youth, directed by Leo Mittler (German-language version, 1931, based on the novel Manslaughter), directed by (Swedish-language version, 1931, based on the novel Manslaughter)The Princess and the Plumber, directed by Alexander Korda (1930, based on the story The Princess and the Plumber)Big Executive, directed by Erle C. Kenton (1933, based on the story Big Executive)Roberta, directed by William A. Seiter (1935, based on the novel Gowns By Roberta)Come Out of the Pantry, directed by Jack Raymond (UK, 1935, based on the novel Come Out of the Kitchen)Collegiate, directed by Ralph Murphy (1936, based on the novel The Charm School)The White Cliffs of Dover, directed by Clarence Brown (1944, based on the verse novel The White Cliffs)Spring in Park Lane, directed by Herbert Wilcox (UK, 1948, based on the novel Come Out of the Kitchen)Sabela de Cambados, directed by Ramón Torrado (Spain, 1949, based on the novel Come Out of the Kitchen)Lovely to Look At, directed by Mervyn LeRoy (1952, loosely based on the novel Gowns By Roberta)
Screenwriter, directed by Paul Bern (1922)The Exquisite Sinner, directed by Josef von Sternberg (1926)The Last Waltz, directed by Arthur Robison (Germany, 1927)Rose Marie, directed by W. S. Van Dyke (1936)Wife vs. Secretary, directed by Clarence Brown (1936)And One Was Beautiful, directed by Robert B. Sinclair (1940)Irene, directed by Herbert Wilcox (1940)
Modern works and inspiration
Composer Edna Yeh set selections from Are Women People?'' to music. The work was commissioned and performed by Voci Women's Vocal Ensemble.
References
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Site dedicated to Alice Duer Miller's poems
1874 births
1942 deaths
Barnard College alumni
Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Morristown, New Jersey)
American women poets
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Livingston family
Schuyler family
Algonquin Round Table
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1114986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas%20and%20Action | Ideas and Action | Ideas and Action is an anarcho-syndicalist journal that was founded in 1981 as a result of numerous conferences organized by the New York Metropolitan area Libertarian Workers' Group and the Syndicalist Alliance of Milwaukee. In 1984, the newly formed Workers Solidarity Alliance took over publication of the journal.
Publication of Ideas and Action was suspended after issue #17 (1997). In 2010, an online version of the publication was launched and continues to publish new material.
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16594462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th%20Mechanised%20Division%20%28Poland%29 | 12th Mechanised Division (Poland) | The 12th Bolesław Krzywousty Szczecin Mechanised Division () is a division of the Polish Armed Forces, headquartered in Szczecin.
It traces its heritage back to the 1919 formation of the 6th Polish Rifle Division of the Blue Army in France. The division returned to Poland and was redesignated as the 12th Infantry Division () later that year, fighting in the Polish–Soviet War. During the September 1939 Invasion of Poland, the division was part of the southern group of the Prusy Army and was surrounded and destroyed by German forces during the Battle of Radom. It was briefly reformed in 1944 as part of the Home Army, and later that year the Polish People's Army briefly formed a 12th Infantry Division as part of the abortive 3rd Polish Army, but it was quickly broken up. The Polish People's Army reformed the division in Poznań during the final weeks of World War II, and it was sent to Szczecin to secure the area and expel the German population in the immediate postwar period. The division has remained headquartered at Szczecin since then, and was converted into a mechanised division in 1958.
Interwar period
Between the wars, the division was stationed in Tarnopol. It consisted of several regiments, scattered in towns of Podolia:
51st Giuseppe Garibaldi Kresy Rifles Infantry Regiment, stationed in Brzeżany and Czortków,
52nd Kresy Rifles Infantry Regiment, stationed in Złoczów,
54th Kresy Rifles Infantry Regiment, stationed in Tarnopol,
12th Kresy Light Artillery Regiment, stationed in Złoczów,
12th Heavy Artillery Regiment, stationed in Tarnopol.
Polish September Campaign
In June 1939 the Division, under General Gustaw Paszkiewicz, was ordered to remain in reserve and became part of the southern wing of the Prusy Army. In early September 1939, it was transported from Tarnopol to the area of Kielce.
On September 7, 12th I.D. left its positions by Skarżysko-Kamienna and headed towards Iłża. There, it engaged in combat with 3rd Light Division of the Wehrmacht. In the following days, the unit fought a bloody battle with German XV Light Corps of General Hermann Hoth. On September 9, Polish soldiers got to German positions but were stopped by tanks. As a result, the Poles panicked, the Division was cut off from the line of the Vistula and as such ceased to exist. Its remnants crossed the river and were recreated as brigades, taking part in the Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski, where they capitulated on September 27.
Home Army
In the first half of 1944, when Operation Tempest was prepared, the 12th I.D. was recreated in the area of Tarnopol and Lwów.
Polish People's Army
The 12th Infantry Division was formed by the Polish People's Army in the Zamość region beginning on 6 October 1944. It was intended to become part of the 3rd Polish Army, and included the 19th, 21st, and 25th Infantry Regiments, the 41st Light Artillery Regiment, and the 8th Self-Propelled Artillery Battalion equipped with the SU-76, among other support units. The attempt to create the 3rd Polish Army was abandoned on 15 November, and the personnel of the 12th, still beginning their organization, were dispersed to units of the 2nd Polish Army, while the weapons and equipment were returned to the storage of the 1st Belorussian Front.
The second 12th Infantry Division of the Polish People's Army began forming on 15 March 1945 under the command of Red Army officer Colonel Viktor Lemantovich. Its headquarters, 41st Rifle Regiment, 34th Light Artillery Regiment, and 15th Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion, with other support units, formed in Poznań, while the 43rd Rifle Regiment formed in Biedrusko and the 39th Rifle Regiment and remaining support units formed in Gniezno. It completed its formation by May. After the end of the war, the elements of the division left their places of formation on 9 June and became part of the 2nd Polish Army in Western Pomerania. There, they participated in agricultural work and mine clearance, securing the region and organizing military settlement.
Its main task was to protect the border in the region of Szczecin. A combined infantry regiment from the division took part in Operation Vistula in 1947, against the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
In December 1958 the 12th Infantry Division was reorganized as a mechanised division (:pl:12 Dywizja Zmechanizowana). Headquarters was located as Szczecin.
Current Structure
On 19 April 1994, the division received the honorific Szczecin in honor of its headquarters location, and Medieval Duke of Poland Bolesław III Wrymouth was made its patron. By a 16 March 2009 decision of the Polish Minister of National Defence, the 12th Mechanised Division inherited the traditions of the 6th Polish Rifle Division, 12th Infantry Division, 12th Infantry Division of the Home Army, in addition to those of the 12th Infantry Division of the Polish People's Army. Its feast day was changed to 28 June, the anniversary of the establishment of the 6th Polish Rifle Division.
, the 12th Mechanised Division consists of:
12th Command Battalion in Szczecin
2nd Legion Mechanised Brigade in Złocieniec
7th Coastal Defense Brigade in Słupsk
12th Mechanised Brigade in Szczecin
5th Artillery Regiment in Sulechów
8th Air-defense Regiment in Koszalin
8th Logistic Regiment in Kołobrzeg
The division is part of the NATO-aligned Multinational Corps North East.
Commanders
Major General Maciej Jabłoński (29 June 2018–present)
See also
Polish army order of battle in 1939
List of Polish divisions in World War II
References
Citations
Bibliography
12th
Military units and formations established in 1958
1958 establishments in Poland |
53395542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula%20Hill | Tarantula Hill | Tarantula Hill, also known as Dawn’s Peak, is a peak in Thousand Oaks, California. It is located on a open space and is operated by the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency (COSCA). Climbing Tarantula Hill is a steep trail; the trailhead is located at 287 West Gainsborough Road, across the road from the main entrance to Conejo Valley Botanic Garden. Atop the mountain there is a 360-degree panoramic view of the Conejo Valley, the Simi Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains. There is also a fenced-in water reservoir located on top. It was once a popular hang-gliding site. It was once a volcanic mound but went dormant 16 million years ago.
The hill is located near the center of the Conejo Valley.
Sources
Mountains of Ventura County, California
Geography of Thousand Oaks, California
Parks in Ventura County, California
Mountains of Southern California |
46863475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302%20USM%20Alger%20season | 2001–02 USM Alger season | In the 2001–02 season, USM Alger is competing in the Super Division for the 22nd time, as well as the Algerian Cup. It is their 7th consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football. They will be competing in Ligue 1, the African Cup Winners' Cup and the Algerian Cup.
Squad list
Players and squad numbers last updated on 1 July 2002.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Transfers
In
Out
Pre-season and friendlies
Competitions
Overview
Super Division
League table
Results summary
Results by round
Matches
Algerian Cup
African Cup Winners' Cup
First round
Second round
Squad information
Appearances and goals
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! colspan="3" style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Super Division
! colspan="3" style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Algerian Cup
! colspan="3" style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Cup Winners' Cup
! colspan="3"|Total
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|colspan=19|Goalkeepers
|-
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|GK
|style="text-align:left"|Hichem Mezaïr
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|20||20||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|25||25||0
|-
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|GK
|style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Seghir Ferradji
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|10||10||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|2||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|12||11||0
|-bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom"
|colspan=19|Defenders
|-
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|DF
|style="text-align:left"|Tarek Ghoul
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|17||14||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|17||14||0
|-
|
|DF
|style="text-align:left"|Mounir Zeghdoud
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|22||22||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|28||28||0
|-
|
|DF
|style="text-align:left"|Fayçal Hamdani
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|19||18||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|22||21||2
|-
|
|DF
|style="text-align:left"|Mahieddine Meftah
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|24||24||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3
|2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|29||29||4
|-
|
|DF
|style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Hamdoud
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|16||10||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|20||12||0
|-
|
|DF
|style="text-align:left"|Rabah Deghmani
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|22||20||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|4||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|27||24||1
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|DF
|style="text-align:left"|Amer Belakhdar
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|4||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|4||0||0
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|colspan=19|Midfielders
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|MF
|style="text-align:left"|Farid Djahnine
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|25||25||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|29||29||1
|-
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|MF
|style="text-align:left"|Billel Dziri
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|18||18||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
|2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|4||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|24||23||3
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|MF
|style="text-align:left"|Karim Ghazi
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|26||26||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3
|1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|30||30||3
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|
|MF
|style="text-align:left"|Hocine Achiou
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|25||20||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
|2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|4||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|31||25||3
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|
|MF
|style="text-align:left"|Yacine Hamadou
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|4||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|5||2||1
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|
|MF
|style="text-align:left"|Kamel Maouche
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|26||18||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|4||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|32||22||2
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|
|MF
|style="text-align:left"|Ouahab Fatahine
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|11||9||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|2||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|16||13||0
|-
|
|MF
|style="text-align:left"|Zoubir Guenifi
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|18||12||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|22||16||0
|-
|
|MF
|style="text-align:left"|Abdelhakim Meziani
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|1||0||1
|-
|
|MF
|style="text-align:left"|Hocine Metref
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|2||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|2||1||0
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|colspan=19|Forwards
|-
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|FW
|style="text-align:left"|Tarek Hadj Adlane
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|17||8||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3
|2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|2||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|21||9||4
|-
|
|FW
|style="text-align:left"|Rabie Benchergui
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|25||19||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|10
|1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|28||22||12
|-
|
|FW
|style="text-align:left"|Issaad Bourahli
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|21||19||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|9
|2||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|26||23||11
|-
|
|FW
|style="text-align:left"|Faycal Rahim
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|19||11||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|2||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|3||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|24||13||1
|-
|
|FW
|style="text-align:left"|Moncef Ouichaoui
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|9||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|9||3||1
|-
|
|FW
|style="text-align:left"|Rafik Deghiche
|style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
|3||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
|3||0||1
|- class="sortbottom"
!colspan=4 style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Total
!colspan=2|30||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|37
!colspan=2|2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|4
!colspan=2|4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|13
!colspan=2|36||54
Goalscorers
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.
Clean sheets
Includes all competitive matches.
References
External links
2001–02 USM Alger season at soccerbot
USM Alger seasons
USM Alger |
12480589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewald%20Lienen | Ewald Lienen | Ewald Lienen (born 28 November 1953) is a German football manager and former player. He is the current technical director of FC St. Pauli.
Playing career
Lienen began his professional career at Arminia Bielefeld of the 2. Bundesliga North in 1974. After three seasons, he moved up to the top flight with Borussia Mönchengladbach. The club had just won three successive titles, but Lienen did not manage to achieve this as the team finished runners-up in his first season then failed to mount a title challenge in the subsequent years.
However, Europe was to prove a more successful venture as the club's runners-up finish of 1977–78 qualified them for the UEFA Cup. This, they duly lifted beating Red Star Belgrade 2–1 on aggregate in the final in May 1979. Lienen played in the final, and in each of the previous rounds, scoring two goals along the way (against Manchester City and future club MSV Duisburg).
As holders, they were entered into the following season's tournament, where Lienen again would make it through to the UEFA Cup final. This time, he was not to capture the prize as the team frustratingly lost on away goals to countrymen Eintracht Frankfurt. Lienen again played in all rounds of the trophy and again chipped in with two goals (against Viking and Saint Étienne).
After a further season here, he returned to Arminia Bielefeld, newly promoted to the Bundesliga. The club managed to survive and stabilise as a top-flight team during Lienen's spell here in the early 1980s. On 14 August 1981, Lienen suffered a severe injury, as Norbert Siegmann of Werder Bremen slit his thigh open with his studs resulting in an open deep wound of 25 cm (10 in), exposing his muscles and femur.
The wound required 23 stitches; nevertheless, after just 17 days, Lienen started practicing again.
After two seasons with Bielefeld, Lienen decided to move back to Borussia Mönchengladbach. Here, he and the team achieved a string of top-four finishes but fell short of collecting a league title medal. He did, however, play in the 1984 DFB-Pokal final where he narrowly missed out as the team lost on penalties to Bayern Munich.
In Summer 1987, Lienen left Borussia Mönchengladbach to set up a union for professional footballers in Duisburg, along with Benno Möhlmann and Frank Pagelsdorf. He also concentrated on studying for a football coaching license, which he achieved with an A grade in 1989.
Meanwhile, he also continued his footballing career at MSV Duisburg of the Oberliga, winning promotion on the second attempt to the 2. Bundesliga in 1989. He won promotion again to the top flight two years later and played out a final year in the Bundesliga. When the club suffered relegation in May 1992, Lienen retired.
Management career
Early career (1989–1997)
Lienen remained at MSV Duisburg after ending his playing days, coaching the club's amateurs from 1 July 1989 to 22 March 1993. He quickly got the opportunity to move up into the first team management on 22 March 1993, after the club regained its Bundesliga status. His first season coaching at this level saw him attain a comfortable ninth-place finish in the 1993–94 season. The next year started less favourably though, and saw MSV Duisburg rock bottom by November (with just two points from 22). Lienen was fired on 1 November 1994 after a 0–5 home defeat to Hamburger SV on 30 October 1994. He finished his reign with a record of 25 wins, 14 draws, and 26 losses in 65 matches.
He then accepted the invitation of his former Borussia Mönchengladbach coach Jupp Heynckes to join him at Spanish club CD Tenerife as his assistant. The team achieved an excellent fifth place spot in 1994–95 in La Liga. The following season was not as spectacular but still a solid tenth-place position.
Hansa Rostock, 1. FC Köln, Spain, and back to Germany (1997–2005)
When Heynckes left Tenerife to move to Real Madrid C.F., Lienen's time in Spain was up and he returned to his homeland as head coach of Hansa Rostock. He started on 1 July 1997.
Lienen led the club to a sixth-place finish in the 1997–98 season. The next season proved a far trickier affair as the club sat in the relegation zone throughout the majority of the campaign. Lienen paid the price on 8 March 1999 for a 1–4 away defeat by MSV Duisburg on 5 March 1999. The club had only won one of their last 14 matches. He finished his reign with 18 wins, 18 draws, and 24 losses in 60 matches.
Another opportunity soon fell his way as 1. FC Köln, newly relegated to the 2. Bundesliga, called on his services. His first match was a 7–1 win against SG Wattenscheid 09 in the DFB-Pokal. Lienen immediately returned the club to the Bundesliga, as champions in his first season. The 2000–01 season saw them finish a comfortable tenth, but the next season proved tougher and they slipped back down to the second tier, ending Lienen's time here. He was sacked on 28 January 2002. He finished his tenure with a record of 38 wins, 24 draws, and 32 losses in 94 matches.
He returned to Spain in the following season, when CD Tenerife returned to him after suffering relegation. His first match was a 1–1 draw against Compostela on 31 August 2002. His spell back in the Canary Islands was less successful as before as the team failed to mount a promotion challenge. After a string of poor results, Lienen was fired in January 2003, just six months after his appointment. His final match was a 2–0 loss against Real Murcia on 18 January 2003.
Lienen was not on the sideline for long, as his former club Borussia Mönchengladbach looked to him after the sudden resignation of Hans Meyer and hired Lienen on 1 March 2003. The club had slumped into the relegation zone, but Lienen stabilised them in their remaining 11 games and moved them up to 12th. He was retained for the next season, but after a weak start (one win in six), he was replaced by Holger Fach on 21 September 2003. He finished with a record of seven wins, five draws, and six losses in 18 matches.
After a six-month absence from the Bundesliga, Lienen was recruited by Hannover 96 on 8 March 2004 after their dismissal of Ralf Rangnick. The club were flirting with the drop, but Lienen again proved adept at taking over in such circumstances, as he maintained the club's top-flight status with a 14th-place finish. The 2004–05 season was Hannover's best Bundesliga finish up to that time, as they recorded a 10th-place position. The next season began poorly though, and hopes of building on the previous campaign's strong outcome evaporated. The club acted quickly and fired Lienen on 9 November 2005, after 12 games. His tenure finished with 22 wins, 17 draws, and 24 losses.
Greece and Germany (2006–2011)
Lienen again looked abroad for his next position, and headed for a new challenge in the Greek Super League with Panionios for the 2006–07 season. His first match as manager was a 0–0 draw against Irakis Thessaloniki. His first season in Athens was a success, as the club finished fifth, enough to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They knocked out Sochaux-Montbéliard 2–1 on aggregate. to qualify for the group stage. The following season was equally successful for the club, again finishing in fifth position, only to lose their UEFA Cup berth on the following playoff.
He was released from the Greek club by mutual consent on 11 November 2008. This followed the club's decision to sack his assistant, Abder Ramdane because of an incident with striker Lambros Choutos. Panionios cited various disagreements from the start of the season, as well as the tension developing between players and staff, as the reasons for this decision. His final match was a 2–0 loss against PAOK.
On 13 May 2009, he was named as the new manager of 1860 Munich. Lienen and 1860 Munich agreed to mutually terminate his contract on 17 June 2010 so he could make the move to Olympiakos. He finished his tenure with 15 wins, eight draws, and 16 losses.
Lienen became the new head coach of Olympiacos on 17 June 2010. He defeated Besa Kavajë 11–1 on aggregate in the second qualifying round of the Europa League. On 6 August 2010, the German coach was fired by Olympiacos because of the club's elimination from the Europa League after Olympiacos lost against Maccabi Tel Aviv.
On 8 November 2010 he was named the successor of Christian Ziege at Arminia Bielefeld, Lienen decided not to be manager of the club if they are relegated. however Bielefeld were relegated to the 3. Liga after only four wins in the 2010–11 season, three of which were under Lienen (one of which was won as VfL Osnabrück scored two own goals, resulting in Bielefeld winning 2–1). On 18 April 2011, Arminia announced that Markus von Ahlen would replace Lienen starting in the 2011–12 season. He finish his tenure with three wins, seven draws, and 13 losses.
Third stint in Greece and to Romania (2012–2013)
Lienen became AEK Athens's manager. His first match was a 1–0 loss to PAOK. He was sacked on 10 April 2013 while the club was a point above the relegation zone with two matches remaining.
On 6 November 2013, Lienen was appointed as the new manager of Romanian Liga I club Oțelul Galați on a two-year contract. His first match was a 1–0 loss to Politehnica Timișoara. On 16 May 2014, he managed to save Oțelul Galați from relegation, a team that won the title three years earlier, and he imposed a good and spectacular football at the team. Also he is very appreciated by the Romanian fans. He ended his contract after only one season.
FC St. Pauli (2014–2017)
He was hired as the head coach of FC St. Pauli on 16 December 2014. His first match was a 2–1 loss to FC Ingolstadt 04 on 17 December 2014. His first win was a 3–1 against VfR Aalen on 20 December 2014 in his home debut. Then they went on a four match winless streak. During this time, St. Pauli lost to Greuther Fürth 1–0. Lienen was critical of the referee after the match and was eventually fined 3,000 Euro. The club's next victory was a 2–0 win against Eintracht Braunschweig on 7 March 2015. St. Pauli defeated Fortuna Düsseldorf 4–0 on 6 April 2015. He has a record of four wins, three draws, and five losses since becoming head coach. He re-signed and moved to the technical director position for the 2017–18 season.
Managerial record
References
1953 births
Living people
People from Gütersloh (district)
Footballers from Detmold (region)
German men's footballers
German football managers
Germany men's B international footballers
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Arminia Bielefeld players
Borussia Mönchengladbach players
MSV Duisburg players
German expatriate football managers
Hannover 96 managers
FC Hansa Rostock managers
1. FC Köln managers
Borussia Mönchengladbach managers
MSV Duisburg managers
Expatriate football managers in Cyprus
Bundesliga managers
Super League Greece managers
Expatriate football managers in Greece
CD Tenerife managers
Expatriate football managers in Spain
Panionios F.C. managers
2. Bundesliga managers
ASC Oțelul Galați managers
Expatriate football managers in Romania
FC St. Pauli managers
German expatriate sportspeople in Spain
German expatriate sportspeople in Romania
UEFA Cup winning players
Men's association football midfielders
West German men's footballers
West German football managers
German expatriate sportspeople in Greece
German expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus |
62025488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durras%20North | Durras North | Durras North is a locality in the City of Shoalhaven in New South Wales, Australia. It lies between the Princes Highway and the Tasman Sea. It is 26 km northeast of Batemans Bay. At the , it had a population of 27.
See also
South Durras, New South Wales
References
City of Shoalhaven
Localities in New South Wales |
4162261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniston%20City%20Schools | Anniston City Schools | Anniston City Schools is the public school district of Anniston, Alabama. Anniston City Schools serves 1,898 students and employs 100 teachers and 98 staff as of the 2020–2021 school year. The district includes three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school.
Schools
Anniston City Schools consists of five schools:
Cobb Preparatory Academy (PK-K)
Golden Springs Elementary School (1-5)
Randolph Park Elementary School (1-5)
Anniston Middle School (6-8)
Anniston High School (9-12)
The district's Tenth Street Elementary School was closed in 2021.
Failing schools
Statewide testing ranks the schools in Alabama. Those in the bottom six percent are listed as "failing." As of early 2018, Anniston High School was included in this category.
Continuing Improvement Program
Anniston City Schools have adopted a Continuing Improvement Program to monitor Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under the No Child Left Behind initiative. For school year 2010–2011, the High School made adequate yearly progress in math but not in reading. In grades 6 through 8 it was the other way round. In grades 3 through 5 the goals were not met in either reading or math.
Five-year strategic plan
The system has a five-year strategic plan designed to address perceived shortcomings such as poor facilities, lack of discipline, lack of community support, inadequate funding, and an emphasis on athletics at the expense of academic progress. The top priorities were seen as improving test scores, boosting community and business involvement, and improving relationships between parents and teachers.
Sports
Anniston High School's basketball coach since 1997 has been Schuessler L. Ware, named Alabama State 4-A Coach of the Year for 2011.
Discipline
In December 2004 the School Board decided to retain the use of corporal punishment. Under the policy, principals and teachers may paddle students for minor or intermediate violations of the disciplinary code.
At Anniston High School, only the Principal or Vice Principal may spank students. Parents who do not wish corporal punishment to be used must sign a form asking that some other penalty be applied.
In academic year 2008-09 there were 528 disciplinary paddlings in the Anniston schools system, none of which occurred at the High School.
External links
Anniston City Schools website
References
School districts in Alabama
Education in Calhoun County, Alabama
Anniston, Alabama
1909 establishments in Alabama
School districts established in 1909 |
58279263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%20United%20States%20House%20of%20Representatives%20elections%20in%20Indiana | 1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana | Of the 11 Indiana incumbents, 10 were re-elected.
See also
List of United States representatives from Indiana
United States House of Representatives elections, 1972
1972
Indiana
1972 Indiana elections |
12578567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C6H14 | C6H14 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C6H14}}
The molecular formula C6H14 (molar mass: 86.17 g/mol) may refer to:
Dimethylbutanes
2,2-Dimethylbutane
2,3-Dimethylbutane
Hexane
Methylpentanes
2-Methylpentane
3-Methylpentane
Molecular formulas |
72436131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Did%20You%20Know%20That%20There%27s%20a%20Tunnel%20Under%20Ocean%20Blvd | Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd | Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (stylized as Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd) is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, released on March 24, 2023, by Interscope and Polydor Records. The album features production by Del Rey, Mike Hermosa, Jack Antonoff, Drew Erickson, Zach Dawes, and Benji and includes collaborations with Jon Batiste, Bleachers, Father John Misty, Tommy Genesis, SYML and Riopy.
Upon release, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd received positive reviews from music critics, many of whom felt the lyrical style depicts a mature Del Rey. Two singles and one promotional single preceded the release of the album: the title track was released as the lead single on December 7, 2022, while "A&W" was released as the album's second on February 14, 2023. The release of "The Grants" followed one month later on March 14, 2023. On May 10, 2023, “Candy Necklace” was released as the third single, alongside an official music video directed by Rich Lee.
Background and recording
Work on the album started shortly after the release of her eighth studio album, Blue Banisters, in October 2021. Del Rey departed from her signature colorful language and world-building, found in her other work, in favor of a conversational style, relying on a process she named "automatic singing". She would sing whatever came to her mind into the voice notes application on her phone, later "sending those really raw-sounding" recordings to composer Drew Erickson, who would add reverb to her vocals, as well as an orchestral instrumental. The first song written for the album, "Fingertips", was recorded this way, with no prior writing.
Del Rey eventually began working with other collaborators. She began working with Mike Hermosa, a prominent collaborator on the album, when he would visit Del Rey and play her piano. Del Rey would hear him play and ask to record to the melody. Towards the end of production, Del Rey brought in previous collaborator, Jack Antonoff, which she revealed was when she felt she was making an album.
Composition
Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd includes influences of 70s piano pop, hip hop, dance, gospel, folk, trap, soul, and psychedelic music. The album is in contrast with Del Rey's traditional approach of "world-building", found in her other work, such as in Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019). Del Rey called the creation of the album "totally effortless", saying that she wanted the music to have "a spiritual element". Produced by Del Rey with frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, Mike Hermosa, Drew Erickson, Zach Dawes, and Benji, the album features guest appearances from Jon Batiste, SYML, Riopy, Father John Misty, Bleachers (led by Antonoff), and Tommy Genesis.
Songs
The album opens with the song "The Grants". Titled after her family name, the song serves as an ode to her family. The song is followed by the album's title track. "Margaret", the thirteenth track, was inspired by Antonoff's fiancé, Margaret Qualley, and features Antonoff's band, Bleachers. "Kintsugi" and "Fingertips" were described by Del Rey as "super long and wordy", containing her "innermost thoughts". The title of "Paris, Texas" is a reference to the 1984 movie of the same name and samples SYML's "I Wanted to Leave". "Grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he's deep-sea fishing" samples RIOPY's piano track "Flo". The album closes with "Taco Truck x VB," which features an early demo of her 2018 single "Venice Bitch" from Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019). Del Rey described the version of "Venice Bitch" featured on the song as "the grimy, heavy, original and unheard version" of the song.
Artwork
The album artwork was shot by Del Rey's frequent collaborator, Neil Krug, and chosen from 65 different images, including one where the singer appeared nude. Speaking on the decision not to use the nude image, Del Rey said she "wanted to reveal something about myself that I actually thought was beautiful", but later wondered if the decision to appear nude was an artistic expression or would be seen as fulfilling a need to be seen. She ultimately decided against using the photo to "let the songs do the talking for now". The nude image was finally used for a limited vinyl edition.
Release and promotion
Originally slated for a March 10, 2023 release, the album was pushed to March 24 on January 13, 2023, for undisclosed reasons. The album's track listing was revealed on January 13, 2023. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd was issued worldwide on March 24, 2023, in several formats, including vinyl record and cassette tape.
To promote the album, Del Rey made several promotional appearances. The album was announced and made available to preorder on December 7, 2022. Del Rey covered the March 2023 issue of Interview where she was interviewed by Billie Eilish. She was interviewed by Kristin Robinson for a Billboard feature over Del Rey winning the inaugural Visionary Award at the 2023 Billboard Women in Music Awards. Del Rey is currently embarking on a tour in support of the album, during which she headlined several music festivals, including the MITA, Glastonbury, and Outside Lands festivals.
Singles
Three singles have been released from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. The album's title track was released with the album's preorder with no prior announcement as the lead single from the album on December 7, 2022. The song peaked at number 23 on the US Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart and received positive reviews from critics. "A&W" was released as the album's second single on February 14, 2023. The song peaked at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, and reached number 5 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. "A&W" generated critical acclaim for its experimental production and lyrics. "The Grants" was released on March 14, 2023, as the third single from the album. "The Grants", was debuted on BBC Radio 1's Future Sounds with Clara Amfo program, and was subsequently released on streaming platforms. The song peaked at number 35 on the New Zealand Hot Singles chart.
Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80 based on 25 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
In a review for Clash, Robin Murray dubbed the album "an ambitious, at times unsettling record", anchored both in classicism and experimentation", but "never truly succumbs to either." Lucy Harbon of Gigwise called the album Del Rey's magnum opus, and lauded her vocal performance and references to her own past work. Writing for The Guardian, Shaad D'Souza called the album "her quietest, most wilfully inscrutable record" since Honeymoon (2015). Annabel Nugent of The Independent described the album as "sweeping, layered" and "ruminative", pointing out that some of the songs "can be repetitive, but [...] alluring." In a review for NME, Rhian Daly's pointed out that Del Rey "steps into new lyrical territory" in the album, as well as "new sonic worlds", cementing Del Rey as one of modern music's "most intriguing" songwriters. Pitchforks Olivia Horn named the album "Best New Music". The site also called it a "sweeping, sterling, often confounding work of self-mythology and psychoamericana."
In mixed reviews, Paul Attard of Slant called the album "one of Del Rey's most obtuse artistic statements to date." Attard criticized the album's duration, calling it "bloated", but praised moments such as "A&W" and "Paris, Texas". The Line of Best Fit writer, Liam Inscoe-Jones opined that the songs are "easily among her most complicated, emotionally", but criticized its interludes, as well as the songs at the end of the tracklist. Lisa Wright of DIY noted that the album is some of Del Rey's best work, but "doesn't always completely land". Regarding the album as style over substance, Neil McCormick of The Telegraph found the album boring and lacking ambition, criticizing the dull production, repetitive themes, "baggy" lyrics, "dreadful" pace, and "shapeless" songs.
Commercial performance
Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd debuted at number one in the UK with 41,925 sales (9,717 CDs, 20,809 vinyl albums, 2,582 cassettes, and 998 digital downloads, as well as 7,819 units from sales-equivalent streams). It became Del Rey's sixth number one album in the UK as well as the fastest-selling album of 2023 in the UK. On April 28 it was certified silver in the UK for selling 60.000 units.
In the United States, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd opened at number three on the Billboard 200 chart with 115,000 album-equivalent units, of which 87,000 were traditional sales, while earning an additional 28,000 units from 36.14 million on-demand streams. It is Del Rey's biggest opening week sales since 2015's Honeymoon, and became her ninth project to debut inside the top 10 of the Billboard 200. On its second week, it dropped to number 10, selling 38,000 units.
Track listing Notes'
indicates an additional producer.
Samples and interpolations
"Sweet" contains an interpolation of "Wait for Life", written by Emile Haynie, Lana Del Rey, and Thomas Bartlett and performed by Del Rey.
"A&W" contains a sample of "Norman Fucking Rockwell", written by Del Rey and Jack Antonoff and performed by Del Rey and an interpolation of "Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop", written by Bob Smith and performed by Little Anthony and the Imperials.
"Paris, Texas" contains a sample "I Wanted to Leave", written by Brian Fennell and performed by SYML.
"Grandfather Please Stand on the Shoulders of My Father While He's Deep-Sea Fishing" contains a sample of "Flo", written and performed by Riopy.
"Fishtail" contains a sample of "Wanderlust", written and performed by Aljosha Frederick Konstanty.
"Peppers" contains a sample of "Angelina", written by Genesis Mohanraj and performed by Tommy Genesis.
"Taco Truck x VB" contains an earlier version of "Venice Bitch", written by Del Rey and Antonoff and performed by Del Rey.
Personnel
Musicians
Lana Del Rey – vocals (all tracks), background vocals (tracks 1–4, 12, 13, 15, 16), glockenspiel (4), whistle (8)
Mike Hermosa – acoustic guitar (1, 2, 12, 15), piano (12)
Melodye Perry – background vocals (1, 2)
Pattie Howard – background vocals (1, 2)
Shikena Jones – background vocals (1, 2)
Zach Dawes – bass guitar (1, 12)
Benji Lysaght – electric guitar (1, 12, 15), acoustic guitar (2, 12), sound effects (2), 12-string acoustic guitar (12)
Drew Erickson – piano, string arrangement, synth bass (1–3, 9, 12); Hammond B3, strings (1, 9, 12); synthesizer (1, 12), conductor (2, 3), organ (3); Mellotron, synth pads, Wurlitzer electric piano (9); drums (12)
Jack Antonoff – drums (2, 4, 7, 8, 13–16), programming (2, 4, 5, 7, 13–16), synth bass (2, 4, 10, 11, 14, 16), electric guitar (2, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13–16), piano (4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16), Mellotron (4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16), acoustic guitar (4, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15), synth pads (4, 11), 12-string acoustic guitar (4, 13, 14), bells (4, 15), Moog bass (4), bass guitar (7, 13), synthesizer (8, 13–16), vocals (13, 16); background vocals, banjo (13); keyboards (16)
Christine Kim – cello (2, 3)
Jake Braun – cello (2, 3)
Logan Hone – clarinet, saxophone (2)
Jim Keltner – drums (2)
Andrew Bulbrook – violin (2, 3)
Charlie Bisharat – violin (2, 3)
Paul J. Cartwright – violin (2, 3)
Wynton Grant – violin (2, 3)
Sam Dew – background vocals (4)
Judah Smith – vocals (5)
Connor Gallaher – acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, pedal steel (6)
Ian Doerr – celesta, Mellotron, Rhodes, string arrangement (6)
Felix Havstad Ziska – cello, string arrangement, violin (6)
Brian Long – double bass (6)
Jackson MacIntosh – electric guitar (6)
Nick Waterhouse – electric guitar (6)
Will Worden – electric guitar (6)
Jon Batiste – piano (6, 7), vocals (7)
Brian Fennell – piano (10)
Riopy – piano (11)
Evan Smith – saxophone (11, 13)
Josh Tillman – vocals (12)
Sean Hutchinson – drums (13)
Mikey Freedom Hart – electric guitar, synthesizer (13)
Mike Riddleberger – piano (13)
Zem Audu – saxophones (13)
Chuck Grant – speaker (14)
Gus Seyffert – bass guitar, keyboards (15)
Carla Azar – drums (15)
Phoenix Grant – synthesizer (15)
Tommy Genesis – vocals (15)
Margaret Qualley – speaker (16)
Technical
Ruairi O'Flaherty – mastering
Dick Beetham – mastering (11)
Dean Reid – mixing (1, 3, 6, 9, 12), engineering (1–3, 9, 12)
Laura Sisk – mixing, engineering (2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13–16)
Jack Antonoff – mixing (2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13–16), engineering (4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13–16)
Michael Harris – mixing (3), engineering (2, 3, 9, 12, 15)
Ian Doerr – engineering (6, 7)
Kaleb Rollins – engineering (6, 7)
Brian Fennell – engineering (10)
Oli Jacobs – engineering (11)
Evan Smith – engineering (13)
Mike Riddleberger – engineering (13)
Mikey Freedom Hart – engineering (13)
Sean Hutchinson – engineering (13)
Zem Audu – engineering (13)
Jon Sher – engineering assistance (1–5, 7–16)
Mark Aguilar – engineering assistance (1, 2, 10–16)
Bill Mims – engineering assistance (1, 2, 12)
Ben Fletcher – engineering assistance (2, 3)
Megan Searl – engineering assistance (2, 4, 5, 7–11, 13–16)
Brian Rajaratnam – engineering assistance (2, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)
Matt Tuggle – engineering assistance (2, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)
Ivan Handwerk – engineering assistance (2, 3)
Daniel Cayotte – engineering assistance (4)
Rémy Dumelz – engineering assistance (4)
Bobby Mota – engineering assistance (6)
Gregg White – engineering assistance (6)
Charts
Certifications
Release history
References
2023 albums
Album chart usages for Hungary
Albums produced by Jack Antonoff
Interscope Records albums
Lana Del Rey albums
Polydor Records albums
Pop albums by American artists |
2756718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverness%2C%20Nairn%20and%20Lochaber%20%28UK%20Parliament%20constituency%29 | Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency) | Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
History
Throughout the 1983 to 1997 period, this marginal constituency was represented by a Liberal, and then Liberal Democrat, MP: Sir David Russell Johnston (later Baron Russell-Johnston), who had been, previously, MP for the Inverness constituency.
Boundaries
The constituency was created to cover four of the eight districts of Highland local government region: the Inverness district, the Nairn district, the Lochaber district and the Badenoch and Strathspey district. The region and districts had been created in 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, when the county and burgh system of local government was abolished. The other districts of the region were covered by the Ross, Cromarty and Skye constituency and the Caithness and Sutherland constituency.
In 1996, under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994, the districts were abolished and the region became a unitary council area.
In 1997, constituency boundaries were redrawn to divide the Highland area between three new constituencies: Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Ross, Skye and Inverness West and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross. New constituency boundaries divided the areas of some of the former districts.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1990s
In the 1992 election, the four major parties were separated by only 3.41%, the closest four-way result in an election to the UK Parliament since 1918.
References
Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1983
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1997
Highland constituencies, UK Parliament (historic) |
61362587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members%20Exchange | Members Exchange | The Members Exchange (MEMX) is an independently owned, technology-driven stock exchange founded by members to serve the interest of its founders and their collective client base. The founding members, which include nine major financial organizations, claim they seek to transform markets around the goals of transparency, innovation, and competition in order to align exchange services with the interests of market participants. It is a member-formed equities trading platform, and competes with the major equity exchanges: NYSE, Nasdaq, and CBOE.
History
MEMX was founded in early 2019 by a group of nine banks, financial services firms, market makers, and retail broker-dealers: BofA Securities, Charles Schwab Corporation, Citadel LLC, E-Trade, Fidelity Investments, Morgan Stanley, TD Ameritrade, UBS, and Virtu Financial. MEMX has also received investments from nine other financial services firms since its conception, including BlackRock, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Jane Street Capital. MEMX was founded to deliver a lower cost, more transparent exchange platform that has the end-user in mind.
SEC Approval
MEMX received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission in May 2020 to operate as a national securities exchange. The exchange launched on September 21, 2020, listing seven symbols and rolling out additional names through October 2020.
Operating Principles
The mission of the exchange is "to increase competition, improve operational transparency, reduce fixed costs and simplify the execution of equity trading in the U.S." Initially after launch, MEMX is not charging for market data or connectivity.
Key People
Jonathan Kellner, Chief Executive Officer
Dominick Paniscotti, Chief Technology Officer
Thomas Fay, Chief Operating Officer
Colin Clark, Head of Business Development
Lindsay Stone Gilliam, Chief People Officer
Anders Franzon, General Counsel
Louise Curbishley, Chief Financial Officer
Nick Ciarleglio, Head of Member Experience
Sophie Sohn, Head of Marketing and Communications
References
External links
Financial services companies established in 2019
Stock exchanges in the United States
American companies established in 2019
Companies based in Jersey City, New Jersey
Financial services companies based in New Jersey |
43255068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anara%20Naeem | Anara Naeem | Anara Naeem is an Islamic scholar of Maldives. She was a Member of Parliament for Makunudhoo constituency from 2014 to 2019 as a member of the Adhaalath Party.
Naeem has a bachelor's degree in Sharia and Law from University of Qatar. She was the only member of the Adhaalath Party who won a seat in Parliament in 2014. She announced her departure from the party in December 2021.
References
Living people
21st-century Maldivian women politicians
21st-century Maldivian politicians
Adhaalath Party politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Qatar University alumni |
38164420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Torpe | Johannes Torpe | Johannes Torpe is a Danish designer, musician, producer, and former creative director of Bang & Olufsen (2011-2015). He has been the CEO and Creative Director of the design company Johannes Torpe Studios based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
In 2000, Torpe co-founded the music production company, Artificial Funk. Under the name Enur, Torpe released a remix of the song "Calabria" featuring Danish reggae singer Natasja Saad in 2007. "Calabria 2007" entered the music charts in many countries and reached number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart.
As a designer, Torpe works within the fields of interior design, product design, furniture design, industrial design, and architecture. He has worked with a number of international companies such as Nike, Inc., LG Electronics, Roberto Cavalli, Dolce & Gabbana, Hay, and Skype. In 2017, Torpe ventured into architecture releasing his first project, a hotel and spa facility in Iceland.
Notable projects
NASA Nightclub, Copenhagen, Denmark (1997)
Supergeil, Copenhagen, Denmark (2001)
Mormor Sofa by HAY (2007)
SUBU, Beijing, China (2008)
South Beauty Group, Taipei, Taiwan (2012)
Space Enabler for Haworth, USA (2011)
Bang & Olufsen Global Retail Store Concept (2013)
Palæo Primal Gastronomy, Copenhagen, Denmark (2015)
Nike Office Brand Installations, Beijing, China (2015)
Red Mountain Resort, Iceland (2017)
United Cycling (Argon 18) Lab & Store (2018)
Levi Restaurant, Copenhagen, Denmark (2022)
Awards
2018: Mipim / Architectural Review Future Project Awards - the Red Mountain Resort received a commendation in the Retail & Leisure category
2012: Restaurant & Bar Design Awards - South Beauty Taipei was nominated in the category Best International Restaurant
2007: Danish Design Award, for the sofa 'Mormor', designed together with Rune Reilly Kølsch and produced by Hay
References
External links
Official
Johannes Torpe at Design Indaba
Danish designers
Danish musicians
Danish male artists
Designers from Copenhagen
People from Skanderborg Municipality |
21199081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumaradeva | Kumaradeva | Kumaradeva was an Indian sculptor from the 8th century. His works include The Buddhist Goddess Shyama Tara (Green Tara) Attended by Sita Tara (White Tara) and Bhrikuti He is also the author of the treatise Silparatna, which provides an account of fresco-secco painting techniques in detail. According to this text, a picture should be painted with appropriate colours along with proper forms and sentiments (rasas), and moods and actions (bhavas).
References
Indian male sculptors
8th-century Indian sculptors |
15665418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Gilbert%20%28broadcaster%29 | John Gilbert (broadcaster) | John Gilbert (14 September 1930 – 14 September 1998) was a Canadian radio broadcaster.
Gilbert grew up in the Cabbagetown section of Toronto before running away from home to join a carnival when he was 13. He began his broadcasting career in Cornwall, Ontario at age 17 and hosted his first talk show in Saint John, New Brunswick around 1966.
Gilbert was a broadcaster with CJCH Halifax, which was acquired by CHUM Limited in 1970. In February 1971, Toronto's 1050 CHUM announced that he would succeed Larry Solway as host of the talk show Speak Your Mind. In 1973, he became the most successful radio talk show host in Canada with 120 000 measured listeners, more than Vancouver media legend Jack Webster. Gilbert's term with CHUM ended in 1977.
In 1980, Gilbert hosted Night Talk, a weekday late night program planned as a national talk show. However, the CRTC ordered that the network of stations broadcasting the program be cut back from 13 to the six stations then owned by Maclean-Hunter: CKEY Toronto (host station), CFCN Calgary, CFCO Chatham, CHNS Halifax, CKGL-FM Kitchener, and CKOY Ottawa. A year after it launched, it was also broadcast by CJJD Hamilton, CJBQ Belleville, CJNH Bancroft, CHSC St. Catharines, and CHEX Peterborough. The show ran until 1982, when Gilbert re-joined Night Talk co-creator Taylor Parnaby, who had become station manager of CKO.
Career
years unknown: CKSF, Cornwall, Ontario
1962: CHEX, Peterborough, Ontario
years unknown: CFBC, Saint John, New Brunswick
???-1971: CJCH, Halifax
1971-1977: CHUM, Toronto
1978-1980: CKFH, Toronto
1980-1982: CKEY Toronto
1982-1986: CKO, Toronto (national radio network)
1990s: CKTB, St. Catharines, Ontario
References
External links
University of British Columbia: Public Affairs Office fonds - #3305 - references 1987 interviews with John Gilbert on CKO
CBSC Decision CBSC Decision 92/93-0179: CKTB-AM re the John Gilbert Show 26 October 1993
Vancouver Broadcasters list
1930 births
1998 deaths
Canadian radio personalities |
3349636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Hovey%20Allen | Fred Hovey Allen | Fred Hovey Allen (1845–1926) was an American Congregational clergyman and author, best known as the inventor of the first photogravure plates for art reproduction made in the United States.
Biography
Fred Hovey Allen was born in Lyme, New Hampshire on October 1, 1845. He graduated from the Hartford Theological Seminary, and studied at Boston University and in Europe at the Universities of Berlin, Vienna, and Paris.
He died in Manhattan on December 26, 1926.
His writings include:
Masterpieces of Modern German Art (1884)
Recent German Art (1885)
Grand Modern Paintings (1888)
References
American Christian theologians
19th-century American inventors
1845 births
1926 deaths
Hartford Seminary alumni
Boston University alumni
People from Lyme, New Hampshire
Inventors from New Hampshire |
64451538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Arnold | Martin Arnold | Martin Arnold may refer to:
Martin Arnold (composer) (born 1959), Canadian composer
Martin Arnold (filmmaker) (born 1959), Austrian experimental filmmaker
Martin Arnold (journalist) (1929–2013), American journalist |
3622563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Anderson | Stephen Anderson | Stephen, Steven or Steve Anderson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Steve Anderson (bass guitarist), British musician
Steve Anderson (director), director of The Big Empty and Fuck
Steve Anderson (musician) (born 1969), musician and songwriter
Steve F. Anderson, associate professor and founding director of the Ph.D. program in Media Arts and Practice at the USC School of Cinematic Arts
Stephen Anderson (artist) (born 1969/70), American artist
Stephen Milburn Anderson (1948–2015), American film director/producer/writer
Stephen P. Anderson (born 1967), American musician, songwriter and expressionist painter
Stone Cold Steve Austin (Steven Anderson, born 1964), American actor, producer, and retired professional wrestler
Sports
Steven Anderson (born 1985), Scottish footballer
Steve Anderson (hurdler) (1906–1988), American Olympic athlete
Stephen Anderson (Australian footballer) (born 1968), Collingwood AFL footballer
Steve Anderson (basketball), NBA basketball referee
Steve Anderson (footballer, born 1946), Scottish footballer
Steve Anderson (karate) (1955–2020), American karate competitor
Steve Anderson (rugby union coach) (born 1963), assistant coach of Glasgow Rugby
Stephen Anderson (American football) (born 1993), American football player
Stephen Anderson (bowls) (born 1958), Australian lawn bowler
Others
Steve Anderson (open media activist), Canadian open media advocate, writer, video producer, and social media consultant
Stephen H. Anderson (born 1932), U.S. federal judge
Stephen R. Anderson (born 1943), American linguist
Stephen Wayne Anderson (1953–2002), American murderer executed in 2002
Steven Anderson (pastor) (born 1981), American Baptist pastor
Steve Anderson (police officer), chief of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department |
34615028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Briggs%20%28cricketer%29 | Jack Briggs (cricketer) | For people named Jack Briggs, see Jack Briggs (disambiguation).
Jack Briggs (8 April 1916 – 1 June 1984) was an English cricketer. Briggs was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Haslingden, Lancashire.
Briggs made his first-class debut for Lancashire against Leicestershire in the 1939 County Championship. He made three further first-class appearances for the county in that season, the last of which came against Derbyshire, with the onset of World War II prematurely ending his first-class career. In his four first-class appearances for Lancashire, he took 10 wickets at an average of 39.10, with best figures of 4/48. With the bat, he batted just twice, ending each innings not out on 0. Following the war, he made eight Minor Counties Championship appearances for Cheshire in 1948.
He played for Haslingden Cricket Club in the Lancashire League from 1933 to 1957. He died at Rawtenstall, Lancashire, on 1 June 1984.
Dudley Carew observed of his bowling style:
"Don't be afraid to give her air" is sound advice to a slow bowler, and indeed a bowler who is so afraid of being hit that he increases his pace and bowls defensively short of a length is not likely to be of much service to his side, but this Briggs went to the other extreme. He must have been the slowest bowler who ever appeared in first-class cricket, and he tossed the ball so high that the batsman had time to change his mind two or three times before he decided on his stroke.
References
External links
Jack Briggs at ESPNcricinfo
Jack Briggs at CricketArchive
1916 births
1984 deaths
People from Haslingden
English cricketers
Lancashire cricketers
Cheshire cricketers
Cricketers from Lancashire |
41023519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%20Glacier | Morris Glacier | Morris Glacier may refer to:
Morris Glacier (Ross Dependency)
Morris Glacier (South Georgia) |
42719260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermacoce%20keyensis | Spermacoce keyensis | Spermacoce keyensis, the Florida false buttonweed, is a species of plants in the family Rubiaceae, first discovered in the Florida Keys. It is found in southern Florida, Bahamas, and the extreme southern tip of Texas (Cameron County).
References
External links
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Wild Florida Photo, nature photography by Paul Rebmann
All Things Plant, Florida False Buttonweed (Spermacoce keyensis)
Gardening Europe, Spermacoce floridana Spermacoce keyensis Small
ZipcodeZoo
keyensis
Flora of Florida
Flora of the Bahamas
Flora of Texas
Florida Keys
Plants described in 1913
Taxa named by John Kunkel Small
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
62629941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley%20Saweard | Lesley Saweard | Lesley J. Saweard (born 1934) is a British former actress. She played Christine Barford in the long-running radio soap opera, The Archers, from 1953 until 2019.
Saweard was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire in 1934, to parents William and Hilda (née Kiddle). In 1953, she began playing the role of Christine Barford (the sister of established character Phil Archer) in BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers; she remained in the programme until 2019, apart from a break during the 1960s, between 1962 and returning in 1968.
Saweard lives in Louth. In 1956, she married Geoffrey Lewis, who she met on The Archers two years before. They had two children before his death in 1997.
References
British radio actresses
The Archers
1934 births
Living people |
5162715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20%28TransMilenio%29 | Hospital (TransMilenio) | The simple-station Hospital is part of the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogotá, Colombia, opened in the year 2000.
Location
The station is located in the city center, specifically at Avenida Caracas with Calles 3 and 4.
History
At the beginning of 2001, the second phase of the Caracas trunk was opened from Tercer Milenio to Calle 40 Sur. A few months later, service was extended south to Portal de Usme.
The station received the name Hospital for its proximity to the five medical centers (San Juan de Dios, Santa Clara, La Misericordia, Materno Infantil, and La Samaritana) that are better known as Ciudad Salud, or Health City.
Station Services
Old trunk services
Current Trunk Services
Feeder routes
This station does not have connections to feeder routes.
Inter-city service
This station does not have inter-city service.
External links
TransMilenio
See also
Bogotá
TransMilenio
List of TransMilenio Stations
TransMilenio
2001 establishments in Colombia |
21168619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patr%C3%B3nite | Patrónite | Patronite is the vanadium sulfide mineral with formula VS4. The material is usually described as V4+(S22−)2. Structurally, it is a "linear-chain" compound with alternating bonding and nonbonding contacts between the vanadium centers. The vanadium is octa-coordinated, which is an uncommon geometry for this metal.
The mineral was first described in 1906 for an occurrence in the Minas Ragra vanadium mine near Junín, Cerro de Pasco, Peru. It was named for Peruvian metallurgist Antenor Rizo-Patron (1866–1948) the discoverer of the deposit. At the type locality in Peru it occurs in fissures within a red shale likely derived from an asphaltum deposit. Associated minerals include, native sulfur, bravoite, pyrite, minasragrite, stanleyite, dwornikite, quartz and vanadium bearing lignite. It has also been reported from the Yushkinite gorge on the Middle Silova-Yakha River on the Paikhoi Range of the polar Urals of Russia and from the Tsumeb mine in Namibia.
References
Vanadium minerals
Sulfide minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Disulfides |
3827310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bible%20%28band%29 | The Bible (band) | The Bible are an English rock band. The band released two critically acclaimed albums in the mid-1980s and are best known for the independent chart hits "Graceland" and "Mahalia". Since The Bible's first split in 1990, lead singer Boo Hewerdine has maintained a solo career while the band itself has been intermittently active.
History
Early years and "Walking the Ghost Back Home" (1985–1986)
The Bible was formed in 1985 in Cambridge, when former Great Divide frontman Boo Hewerdine teamed up with keyboard player/drummer Tony Shepherd (who'd played with jazz bands and drummed for Cambridge bands The Wobbly Jellies and Somewhere in the Foreign Office, the latter of which had featured future satirist Chris Morris on bass). Using Hewerdine's savings and several budget-rate studios, the duo recorded The Bible's debut album Walking the Ghost Back Home with the assistance of bass player Clive Lawson, jazz saxophonist Kevin Flanagan and drummer Dave Larcombe (the latter of failed "Oxbridge Duran Duran" band Roaring Boys).
Walking the Ghost Back Home was released in 1986 on the independent record label Backs Records. The album was well received by music pundits, giving The Bible a top-ten hit on the UK Independent Chart and staying in the chart for ten weeks. This was followed by the first release of "Graceland" as a single, which gave them a minor hit in the UK. After follow-up single "Mahalia" (which reached number 15 on the UK Independent Chart) The Bible was consolidated as a five piece group. Dave Larcombe was recruited as a full-time drummer (allowing Shepherd to concentrate on keyboards), Larcombe's former Roaring Boys bandmate Neill MacColl (brother of Kirsty MacColl) was recruited as lead guitarist after performing on various Bible B-sides, and Clive Lawson was replaced by a full-time bass guitarist, Leroy Lendor.
Chrysalis period: "Eureka", "The Bible" and first split (1987–1990)
On the strength of Walking the Ghost Back Home, The Bible signed to Chrysalis Records. "Graceland" was re-mixed for single re-release in February 1987 (though it eventually charted only slightly higher than the original release). Leroy Lendor had left the band at this point, and to cover for him the band brought in former Christian Death bass player Constance Redgrave to play on the remaining tracks on the "Graceland" EP and on 1987 live dates.
By the time The Bible began recording tracks for a second album (initially self-producing with Pete Smith and Owen Morris), the band were without a bass player again. Neill MacColl's brother Calum – a respected multi-instrumentalist from the folk music scene – guested on bass guitar for the sessions. Unsatisfied with their initial work, The Bible ditched the existing new album recordings (some of which would later surface as B-sides) and opted to start again.
At the suggestion of their management, the band recruited American country-rocker Steve Earle as their new producer, and recorded a more successful set of sessions with yet another guest bass player (this time Greg Harewood of Incognito/Mirage/Soul II Soul). These formed the basis for most of the second Bible album, Eureka, released in January 1988.
In spite of good reviews, the commercial performance of Eureka was disappointing – the album peaked at number 71 on the UK Albums Chart and its three singles failed to chart. Although the band had begun to record a third album (to be titled Anticlockwise), Chrysalis rejected the initial recordings in favour of repackaging earlier material. Leroy Lendor returned to the band in time for a re-recording of "Graceland" which provided The Bible with their highest charting single to date (reaching number 51 in the UK in April 1989)
Chrysalis then opted to compile the new version of "Graceland" with most of the Eureka tracks as a stopgap album called The Bible, filling out the remaining space on the record with a number of B-sides. As further promotion, the Eureka single "Honey Be Good" was re-released and gave The Bible a second hit later that year, reaching number 54. The additional commercial pressures of being on a larger label did not sit well with Hewerdine, who later recalled "I think I felt under a lot of pressure. There were a lot of people telling me what I should do and I felt very bullied."
In early 1990, The Bible broke up in farcical circumstances. Having flown to Germany to perform "Honey Be Good" on what turned out to be a TV talent show, they lost to a man who performed under the name of Mr Gadget, wore a spinning bowtie with lights on it, and won by 140,000 votes as compared to The Bible's twelve. As Hewerdine later remembered it, "we all took it so personally that we split up."
Post-split work and mid-'90s reformation (1990–1994)
Having already recorded a duo album with Darden Smith in between previous Bible commitments, Hewerdine now began a solo career. Shepherd moved into music teaching and session playing (among other work, playing keyboards on a number of early Oasis tours), while MacColl and Lendor teamed up with Calum MacColl and drummer/keyboard player Robert Bond III in a new band called Liberty Horses (who released a single album, Joyland, in 1993). In spite of the break-up, relationships between the band members remained fairly amicable: when interviewed in 2013, they would claim to have never really split up, but just to have periodically stopped when the band's money ran out and made it impossible to continue.
In 1994, The Bible reformed (with the lineup of Hewerdine, Shepherd, Larcombe, Lendor and Neill MacColl) for recordings and a tour. The band released the Dreamlife EP in 1994. Tracks for a new album were recorded, including several songs co-written with former Danny Wilson frontman Gary Clark, a songwriting collaborator of Hewerdine's.
Unfortunately, the band's new record deal failed and The Bible split up again before they could complete and release the album. MacColl went on to team up with Gary Clark in the band King L, who released one album (Great Day For Gravity) in 1995, featuring several more Clark/Hewerdine co-writes including "Greedy" and "Last Cigarette". Versions of both of the latter songs (plus the original title track from the Dreamlife EP and a version of the unreleased Bible song "Junk") surfaced on Hewerdine's 1996 solo album Baptist Hospital, which featured several appearances by MacColl (who also guested on the live dates).
In 1999 the proposed third Bible album was finally assembled and released posthumously, under the name of Dodo.
Second reformation (2011–present)
The various members of The Bible maintained contact over the following decade-and-a-half. During this time Hewerdine continued his solo career and worked with Eddi Reader, while MacColl played with David Gray and Kathryn Williams.
In late 2011, The Bible reunited for two concerts (at the ABC 1/2 in Glasgow on 29 September and The Grand in Clapham, London on 30 September) to promote the new Red Grape Records reissue of Walking the Ghost Back Home. In addition to the promotional dates, they also announced that they were working on new material.
In 2013, Eureka was reissued for its 25th anniversary by Cherry Red Records as a double disc, including B-sides and different mixes. The Bible played two dates in promotion at the Islington Assembly Hall (1 March) and The Met in Bury (15 March), with an unavailable Dave Larcombe now replaced on drums by Martyn Barker (Shriekback, King Swamp) and with former Dream Academy member Kate St John playing saxophones and accordion. A live album recorded at the Bury gig was scheduled for later in the year but has not yet been released. The concerts saw the debut of two new Bible songs, 'Money Spider' and 'Static'. The band are currently recording a fourth album in intermittent sessions "as and when schedules allow".
The band recently performed a 30th Anniversary concert – originally scheduled for September 2016, but cancelled, the concert took place on 27 January 2017 at Under the Bridge in Fulham.
Discography
Albums
Walking the Ghost Back Home (1986), Backs – UK Indie No. 10
Eureka (1988), Chrysalis – UK No. 71
Dodo (1999), Haven Records
Singles
"Graceland" (1986), Backs – UK No. 87
"Mahalia" (1986), Backs – UK Indie No. 15
"Graceland" (1987), Chrysalis – UK No. 86
"Crystal Palace" (1988), Chrysalis – UK No. 82
"Honey Be Good" (1988), Chrysalis
"Skywriting" (1988), Chrysalis
"Graceland" (new version) (1989), Chrysalis – UK No. 51
"Honey Be Good" (1989), Chrysalis – UK No. 54
Dreamlife EP (1994)
Compilation albums
The Bible (1989), Chrysalis – UK No. 67
Random Acts of Kindness (1995), Haven
References
External links
Official website
Boo Hewerdine's official website
Chrysalis Records artists
English rock music groups
English new wave musical groups
English post-punk music groups
Musical groups from Cambridge
Musical groups established in 1985
1985 establishments in England |
63659959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20Income%20Party | Basic Income Party | The Basic Income Party (, BIP) is a single-issue political party in South Korea advocating for a universal basic income (UBI).
History
The Basic Income Party came into existence when the ninth leadership board of the Labor Party led by Yong Hye-in resigned on 15 July. Before the official founding of the party on 19 January 2020, the Basic Income Party began establishing local chapters of the party across the cities and provinces of South Korea with the catch phrase ₩"600,000 a month for all." The party announced via their Facebook page on 7 November that they reached 5,000 members. The party officially registered with the National Election Commission on 19 January 2020. The party puts a strong emphasis on that their members are mostly young adults.
The party joined the Platform Party (party-list of the Democratic Party) on 21 March 2020 for the 2020 South Korean legislative election. Two candidates ran for proportional representation. Yong Hye-in was elected under the party-list proportional representation. After the election, Yong rejoined the party.
Ideology
The party advocates for the implementation of a ₩600,000 (roughly equivalent to 500 United States dollars) per month basic income for all citizens of South Korea.
Although the party has no official ideology, it and its leader Shin Ji-hye have been described as socially liberal, advocating feminism and LGBT rights and seeking to improve the social safety net and remedy social disadvantages.
Election results
President
Legislature
See also
Cultural liberalism
References
External links
2020 establishments in South Korea
Universal basic income in South Korea
Political parties established in 2020
Political parties in South Korea
Feminist parties
Single-issue political parties
Liberal parties in South Korea
Progressive parties in South Korea
Social liberal parties
Political parties supporting universal basic income |
9959628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Wilder | Michael Wilder | Michael Wilder (born August 17, 1962) is an American chess grandmaster and a J.D graduate of the University of Michigan. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title in 1988. He won the 1988 U.S. Chess Championship. He also tied for third in the 1987 U.S. Championship and tied for first at the 1987 London Open. Mr. Wilder retired from chess in the late 1980s and is now a practicing attorney. As of March 2007, his FIDE Elo rating was 2540. His current USCF rating, which has not changed since December 1994, is 2601.
Michael Wilder lives in the U.S. with his wife and two daughters. He is a practicing tax attorney at McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, D.C.
External links
1962 births
Living people
20th-century American Jews
American chess players
Jewish chess players
Chess grandmasters
University of Michigan Law School alumni
21st-century American Jews |
23787914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Gruen | Nicholas Gruen | Nicholas Gruen (born 1957) is a prominent Australian economist and commentator on economic reform, innovation and the CEO of Lateral Economics. He is a visiting professor at King's College London's Policy Institute. He was formerly chair of the Australian Centre for Social Innovation, the Australian Government's Innovation Australia and Kaggle. Former Australian Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner called him "Australia's foremost public intellectual" while Martin Wolf described him as "the most brilliant economist you've never heard of".
Education
Gruen graduated from the University of Melbourne Law School and has a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours in history from the Australian National University. He has a PhD from the Australian National University.
Career
Gruen worked as adviser to Senator and Federal Industry Minister John Button from the early 1980s and was regarded as the architect of the Button car plan, which freed up automotive trade, eliminated quotas, reduced tariffs and assisted exports during the transition.
From 1990 to 1993 he was economic adviser to Treasurer John Dawkins. He was appointed to the Productivity Commission on which he served until the late 1990s when he joined the Business Council of Australia directing its New Directions project. In 2000 he founded economic consultancy Lateral Economics and a discount finance broker Peach Home Loans. In this period he has advised Federal and State Governments both as a consultant and when appointed as member or chair of various official committees. He was a member of the Council of the National Library of Australia. In 2011 he was appointed to the board of Innovation Australia and was subsequently appointed as its chair. He also chaired the Open Knowledge Foundation (Australia)
Gruen has become prominent in public economic discussion. He had a regular economic column for the Courier Mail and later wrote regularly for the Australian Financial Review. He contributes regularly to the popular group blog Club Troppo and has a weekly substack.
He built the Herald/Age Lateral Economics (HALE) Index of Wellbeing, which augments official national income measures to take account of the implications of changes in inequality, human capital, natural capital, and major health issues such as life expectancy, mental illness and obesity.
He has mounted the public case for various reforms including
refashioning government fiscal institutions in the image of monetary policy to inject greater independence and flexibility into government capital expenditure and fiscal policy as a macro-economic instrument.
allowing people to access their superannuation savings (pension plan) to help raise a house deposit.
improving information flows in a range of markets such as labour markets (on relative safety and job quality) and markets for professional services (on service quality and likely outcomes).
building digital public private partnerships to enable services such as 23andMe to be provided as free public goods rather than private goods by subscription and for the resulting data to be maximally open (subject to opting in and privacy constraints).
giving citizens and business presumptive access to government provided services on competitive neutrality grounds. This would apply to the wealth management governments provide for their public servants and citizens would be able to bank with the central bank to level the playing field between them and commercial banks and to capture substantial seigniorage revenue for government. This policy was taken to the 2019 election by the Greens.
building evidence-based policy and programs with an Evaluator General providing independent evaluation of government programs. This policy was taken to the 2019 election by the Australian Labor Party.
More recently he's written of the way government initiatives focus on things they aspire to do, without focusing on what matters — which is learning how to do them. These observations apply in areas like 'resilience', 'social inclusion' and 'wellbeing' each being a deus ex machina, or fad diet taken up by government hoping it will save it from itself. Each comes and goes, like the themes of an annual ball, building little before the next fad diet is taken up.
Gruen was a member of the Federal Government's Review of the Australian Innovation System in 2008 and chaired the Government 2.0 Taskforce for the Australian Government. The Government subsequently accepted all of the major recommendations of the Taskforce.
Gruen was also the first investor in Kaggle (a Melbourne-based data analytics company founded in 2010) serving as its first chairman. He was an early investor in HealthKit and its first chairman and has invested in a range of other Australian and international start-ups.
Position
In 2014 Gruen suggested a radical bank reform that would solve a range of problems. According to Gruen, ordinary people should be able to use central banks' services as commercial banks can. For big commercial banks get high margins or fees but don't add much value to those services. Due to the internet, the Bank of England, for instance, could easily extend its services to everyone in the UK. For one thing it should offer deposit and savings account to all.
Family
Gruen is the son of prominent Australian economist Fred Gruen and the brother of former Federal Treasury official and current Australian Statistician David Gruen.
References
External links
Lateral Economics
Peach Home Loans
Ross Gittins article on Gruen
A statement by several prominent Australian economists organised by Gruen
Living people
1957 births
Australian economists
Academic staff of Monash University
National Library of Australia Council members |
52600064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Giovanni%20Evangelista%20a%20Spinaceto | San Giovanni Evangelista a Spinaceto | The church of San Giovanni Evangelista a Spinaceto is a church in Rome, in Appio-Claudio District via Raffaele Aversa. Pope John Paul II created it as a cardinal title of San Giovanni Evangelista a Spinaceto and Miguel Obando Bravo as its first titular cardinal.
List of Cardinal Protectors
Miguel Obando Bravo (25 May 1985 – 3 June 2018)
Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (5 October 2019 - present)
References
San Giovanni Evangelista a Spinaceto
Titular churches
John |
3436141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20ultraviolet | Extreme ultraviolet | Extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV or XUV) or high-energy ultraviolet radiation is electromagnetic radiation in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum spanning wavelengths shorter that the hydrogen Lyman-alpha line from 121 nm down to the X-ray band of 10 nm, and therefore (by the Planck–Einstein equation) having photons with energies from 10.26 eV up to 124.24 eV. EUV is naturally generated by the solar corona and artificially by plasma, high harmonic generation sources and synchrotron light sources. Since UVC extends to 100 nm, there is some overlap in the terms.
The main uses of extreme ultraviolet radiation are photoelectron spectroscopy, solar imaging, and lithography. In air, EUV is the most highly absorbed component of the electromagnetic spectrum, requiring high vacuum for transmission.
EUV generation
Neutral atoms or condensed matter cannot emit EUV radiation. Ionization must take place first. EUV light can only be emitted by electrons which are bound to multicharged positive ions; for example, to remove an electron from a +3 charged carbon ion (three electrons already removed) requires about 65 eV. Such electrons are more tightly bound than typical valence electrons. The existence of multicharged positive ions is only possible in a hot dense plasma. Alternatively, the free electrons and ions may be generated temporarily and instantaneously by the intense electric field of a very-high-harmonic laser beam. The electrons accelerate as they return to the parent ion, releasing higher energy photons at diminished intensities, which may be in the EUV range. If the released photons constitute ionizing radiation, they will also ionize the atoms of the harmonic-generating medium, depleting the sources of higher-harmonic generation. The freed electrons escape since the electric field of the EUV light is not intense enough to drive the electrons to higher harmonics, while the parent ions are no longer as easily ionized as the originally neutral atoms. Hence, the processes of EUV generation and absorption (ionization) strongly compete against each other.
However, in 2011, Shambhu Ghimire et al. first observed high-harmonic generation in bulk crystals of zinc oxide. It draws interest to invest the possibility and mechanism of HHG in solid state. EUV radiation can be emitted in silicon dioxide or sapphire.
Direct tunable generation of EUV
EUV light can also be emitted by free electrons orbiting a synchrotron.
Continuously tunable narrowband EUV light can be generated by four wave mixing in gas cells of krypton and hydrogen to wavelengths as low as 110 nm. In windowless gas chambers fixed four wave mixing has been seen as low as 75 nm.
EUV absorption in matter
When an EUV photon is absorbed, photoelectrons and secondary electrons are generated by ionization, much like what happens when X-rays or electron beams are absorbed by matter.
The response of matter to EUV radiation can be captured in the following equations:
Point of absorption:
EUV photon energy = 92 eV, = Electron binding energy + photoelectron initial kinetic energy
Within 3 mean free paths of photoelectron (1–2 nm):
Reduction of photoelectron kinetic energy = ionization potential + secondary electron kinetic energy;
Within 3 mean free paths of secondary electron (~30 nm):
Reduction of secondary electron kinetic energy = ionization potential + tertiary electron kinetic energy
mNth generation electron slows down aside from ionization by heating (phonon generation)
Final generation electron kinetic energy ~ 0 eV => dissociative electron attachment + heat, where the ionization potential is typically 7–9 eV for organic materials and 4–5 eV for metals.
The photoelectron subsequently causes the emission of secondary electrons through the process of impact ionization. Sometimes, an Auger transition is also possible, resulting in the emission of two electrons with the absorption of a single photon.
Strictly speaking, photoelectrons, Auger electrons and secondary electrons are all accompanied by positively charged holes (ions which can be neutralized by pulling electrons from nearby molecules) in order to preserve charge neutrality. An electron-hole pair is often referred to as an exciton. For highly energetic electrons, the electron-hole separation can be quite large and the binding energy is correspondingly low, but at lower energy, the electron and hole can be closer to each other. The exciton itself diffuses quite a large distance (>10 nm).
As the name implies, an exciton is an excited state; only when it disappears as the electron and hole recombine, can stable chemical reaction products form.
Since the photon absorption depth exceeds the electron escape depth, as the released electrons eventually slow down, they dissipate their energy ultimately as heat. EUV wavelengths are absorbed much more strongly than longer wavelengths, since their corresponding photon energies exceed the bandgaps of all materials. Consequently, their heating efficiency is significantly higher, and has been marked by lower thermal ablation thresholds in dielectric materials.
Solar minima/maxima
Certain wavelengths of EUV vary by as much as a factor of 50 between solar minima and maxima, which may contribute to stratospheric warming and ozone production. These may in turn affect atmospheric circulation and climate patterns over short and long term solar cycles.
EUV damage
Like other forms of ionizing radiation, EUV and electrons released directly or indirectly by the EUV radiation are a likely source of device damage. Damage may result from oxide desorption or trapped charge following ionization. Damage may also occur through indefinite positive charging by the Malter effect. If free electrons cannot return to neutralize the net positive charge, positive ion desorption is the only way to restore neutrality. However, desorption essentially means the surface is degraded during exposure, and furthermore, the desorbed atoms contaminate any exposed optics. EUV damage has already been documented in the CCD radiation aging of the Extreme UV Imaging Telescope (EIT).
Radiation damage is a well-known issue that has been studied in the process of plasma processing damage. A recent study at the University of Wisconsin Synchrotron indicated that wavelengths below 200 nm are capable of measurable surface charging. EUV radiation showed positive charging centimeters beyond the borders of exposure while VUV (vacuum ultraviolet) radiation showed positive charging within the borders of exposure.
Studies using EUV femtosecond pulses at the Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) indicated thermal melting-induced damage thresholds below 100 mJ/cm2.
An earlier study showed that electrons produced by the 'soft' ionizing radiation could still penetrate ~100 nm below the surface, resulting in heating.
See also
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment
Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
High harmonic generation
CHIPSat
Extreme ultraviolet lithography
List of plasma physics articles
References
External links
Mediawiki Extension:EUV |
46962268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian%20Nissen | Dian Nissen | Dian Nissen (born January 1961) is a multiple world-title trampoline athlete and competitor, multiple U.S. Women’s Trampoline champion, AAU All-American, health and fitness expert, and entrepreneur. She is the daughter of George Nissen, the inventor of the modern-day trampoline.
Trampoline
Nissen began her involvement with sports and fitness at an early age, becoming an AAU All-American (Amateur Athletic Union) by the time she was 16. She was the 1976 U.S. Women's Trampoline champion in all three trampoline events: Individual Trampoline, Synchronized Trampoline, and Double Mini-Trampoline. At the age of 15, she placed 4th at the 1976 Trampoline World Championships in Tulsa Oklahoma. To date, no other U.S. woman has placed higher than Dian Nissen at the Trampoline World Championships for the Individual Trampoline event.
Nissen's playful sobriquet, Trampoline Diva, embodies her lifelong association with the trampoline beginning with her early childhood and continuing through to her years as a world-class trampolinist, national champion, trampoline safety expert, trampoline coach, trampoline entertainer, fitness trampoline Master Trainer, and safety expert on the trampoline park industry.
Along with her father and the support of his company, the Nissen Corporation, which at the time was the world's largest manufacturer of gymnastics equipment in the world, she promoted her father's invention of the trampoline and the sport of trampolining by performing hundreds of shows in the United States and around the world, and competing in trampoline competitions nationally and internationally.
Nissen continues to bear the torch that her father, George Nissen, carried for his entire life—promoting the joy of jumping on trampolines.
George Nissen promoted the sport of trampolining believing that one day it could become an Olympic sport. For decades, George endured naysayers that claimed "it would be the year 2000" before trampolining would make it to the Olympics. Ironically, the cynics were correct; trampolining debuted as an Olympic sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney Australia. At 86 years old, George attended the 2000 Olympics accompanied by his daughter Dian Nissen. Eight years later, George was able to travel to Beijing, China for the 2008 Summer Olympics, with his daughter and grandson.
Dian Nissen has been referred to as the International Ambassador for Trampolines because of her continuing involvement with, and promotion of trampolines for fitness, health, sport and recreation around the world. She provides public awareness and education on trampoline safety and the history of the trampoline.
Education and fitness career
A graduate of the University of Iowa, Nissen has been a member of the teaching faculty at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the San Diego Community College District. She holds a Master of Science degree in Health Education and Exercise Science, and is a certified Health Coach and Group Fitness Instructor through the American Council on Exercise (Gold certification). She is also a continuing education provider for fitness professionals through the American Council on Exercise. With her father, she served as consultants to the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chair, under Governor Pete Wilson. Together, they presented programs to schools and other organizations to promote physical activity and help improve the health of Californians.
Recognizing that seniors in general were under-served by the fitness industry, she founded Ageless Fitness in 1994. Nissen then expanded her mission to help people of all ages and abilities improve their fitness and health through exercise and education. She also presented workshops, master classes, instructor training, and mentored teachers.
Her company is also involved in exercise video production and distribution. The first exercise video series in which she produced and starred in was geared towards older adults and those needing a lighter and gentler form of movement. The video, Fresh Start (1994), included her father, George Nissen, and her mother, Annie Nissen as part of the cast. Nissen is a Telly Award and National Mature Media Award winner for two of her older adult exercise videos.
She is a Pilates professional and faculty member of Balanced Body Education that provides Pilates instructor training worldwide. She is also certified and trained in Pilates through Polestar Education, Physical Mind Institute, and Stott Pilates. Some of her specialty training and qualifications in Pilates include Studio series, Mat, Auxiliary Equipment, Props, Rehabilitation, Post‐Rehabilitation, Allegro Reformer, Osteoporosis, Pre‐ and Post‐Natal and Menopause, and Balanced Body Barre.
Nissen was one of the first fitness professionals to independently produce, distribute and star in a Pilates exercise video. Her first Pilates video, Mind Body Matwork, was cutting-edge at the time and consisted of elegant and effective movements evolved from the work of Joseph Pilates. The video was one of the first to incorporate the use of an elastic band to simulate moves that are also performed on the centerpiece of Pilates equipment—the Reformer. The video quickly became a bestseller on Amazon.com. Nissen is recognized as one of the foremost Pilates instructors in the U.S. Her exercise instruction is based on sound biomechanics and current knowledge of exercise physiology, producing safe and effective exercise routines.
Dian Nissen continues to be involved with trampolining. She is on the Board of Directors of the World Acrobatic Society (worldacro.com) whose purpose is to foster the growth, development and safety of various acrobatic disciplines along with preserving their histories. She is also a founding member of the Trampoline & Adventures Advisory Group whose purpose is to actively work within the trampoline park industry to promote and create awareness of trampoline safety and risk management through the creation of an industry-wide training and certification program. Nissen is a member of ASTM International and the Task Group involved with setting safety standards to protect consumers and developing construction standards for manufacturers. She is a member of USA Gymnastics and is a certified USA Gymnastics University Instructor. She is a USAG Coach specializing in Trampoline, Synchronized Trampoline and Double Mini-Trampoline. She owns Nissen Trampoline Academy in San Diego, California where she coaches recreational and competitive Team Trampoline.
Nissen speaks to businesses and organizations about the benefits of adopting long-term, healthy lifestyle habits. She is a women's health advocate and expert on women's wellness, fitness and achieving maximum health. She also offers health programs to business owners to reduce their healthcare costs and optimize performance.
Awards and recognition
United States Women’s Trampoline Champion (1976‐1980).
World Age Group Champion in the Individual trampoline, Double-mini trampoline, synchronized trampoline, and Trampoline Spaceball.
AAU All‐American.
Telly award winner (1998).
National Mature Media Award winner (1998).
Featured on CBS Sports Spectacular and ABC’s Wide World of Sports.
References
External links
American female trampolinists
American exercise instructors
1961 births
Pilates
University of Iowa alumni
Sportspeople from Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Living people
Sportspeople from San Diego
21st-century American women |
27920888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwater | Sandwater | The Sandwater near Simonswolde (in the municipality of Ihlow) in the north German district of Aurich is a shallow fen lake on the edge of the geest and is one of the few remaining, preserved, natural "inland seas" in East Frisia. The lake was formed probably during the warm climatic period of the Atlantic (period) about 5000 years ago, then disappeared temporarily after land uplifting and climate changes, only to reappear about 2000 years ago.
Since 1973 the Sandwater and several surrounding wetland areas with a total area of have been designated as a nature reserve. The extensive reed beds have an important function in providing nesting and feeding grounds for reed breeders and waterfowl. The expanding beds of common reed, however, are causing the lake to gradually silt up and reduce the area of open water - currently still about . Here large carpets of floating plants - the White and Yellow Water Lilies - dominate the scene, and also accelerate the accumulation of mud and silt. Since the lake was dyked at the beginning of the 1960s and the surrounding area drained, the original hydrology and eutrophication of the lake has changed considerably. Previously the Sandwater had a particularly rich variety of underwater flora which produced relatively nutrient-rich, clean water (c.f. its name!), for example it contained many rare species of pondweed as well as von Floating Water-plantain (Luronium natans) and Lesser Water-plantain (Baldellia ranunculoides). Today plants such as Frogbit, Water Violet, Flowering Rush and Arrowhead may be seen.
Sources
van Dieken, Jan (1970). Beiträge zur Flora Nordwestdeutschlands unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Ostfrieslands. Verlag C. L. Mettcker & Söhne, Jever. (possibly out of print)
External links
www.nordwestreisemagazin.de/sandwater Further information about Sandwater
Lakes of Lower Saxony
Aurich (district)
Nature reserves in Lower Saxony |
72123000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPINA-GR | SPINA-GR | SPINA-GR is a calculated biomarker for insulin sensitivity. It represents insulin receptor gain.
How to determine GR
The index is derived from a mathematical model of insulin-glucose homeostasis. For diagnostic purposes, it is calculated from fasting insulin and glucose concentrations with:
.
[I](∞): Fasting Insulin plasma concentration (μU/mL)
[G](∞): Fasting blood glucose concentration (mg/dL)
G1: Parameter for pharmacokinetics (154.93 s/L)
DR: EC50 of insulin at its receptor (1,6 nmol/L)
GE: Effector gain (50 s/moL)
P(∞): Constitutive endogenous glucose production (150 µmol/s)
Clinical significance
Validity
Compared to healthy volunteers, SPINA-GR is significantly reduced in persons with prediabetes and diabetes mellitus, and it correlates with the M value in glucose clamp studies, triceps skinfold, subscapular skinfold and (better than HOMA-IR and QUICKI) with the two-hour value in oral glucose tolerance testing (OGTT), glucose rise in OGTT, waist-to-hip ratio, body fat content (measured via DXA) and the HbA1c fraction.
Pathophysiological implications
In lean subjects it is significantly higher than in a population with obese persons.
See also
SPINA-GBeta
SPINA-GD
SPINA-GT
Homeostatic model assessment
QUICKI
Notes
References
External links
Functions for R and S for calculating SPINA-GBeta and SPINA-GR. (Permanent DOI)
Diabetes
Endocrinology
Human homeostasis
Endocrine procedures
Static endocrine function tests |
12866938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey%20of%20the%20Dormition | Abbey of the Dormition | Abbey of the Dormition (, Knesia HaDormitsiyon) is a Catholic abbey belonging to the Benedictine Order in Jerusalem, on Mount Zion just outside the walls of the Old City near the Zion Gate. The Abbey is said to mark the spot where Mary, mother of Jesus, died.
Between 1998 and 2006 the community was known as the Abbey of Hagia Maria Sion, in reference to the basilica of Hagia Sion that stood on this spot during the Byzantine period, but it resumed the original name during the 2006 celebrations of the monastery's centenary. "Hagia Maria Sion" is now the name of the foundation supporting the abbey's buildings, community and academic work.
In recent years the church has become a target for vandalism and desecration by extremist nationalist Israelis.
History of creation
The Byzantine basilica Hagia Sion was built under John II, Bishop of Jerusalem in the early 5th century. Relics attributed to Saint Stephen were transferred to the church on 26 December 415. The church is shown in the 6th-century Madaba Map. It was destroyed in the 614 sack of Jerusalem by Sasanian king Khosrau II.
Its foundations were recovered in 1899, when the architect and construction manager of the Diocese of Cologne, (1868–1928), investigated the site. Bargil Pixner proposed the theory of a pre-Crusader Church of Zion, the continuation of an early Judeo-Christian congregation and their house of worship, which he located on the Madaba Map next to the Hagia Sion basilica.
A monastic order known as the Abbey of Our Lady of Mount Zion was established at the site in the 12th century, with a church built on the ruins of the earlier demolished Byzantine church. The 12th century church was again destroyed in the 13th century, and the monks moved to Sicily. The order was eventually absorbed into the Jesuits in 1617 (the Congregation of Notre-Dame de Sion is an unrelated monastic order founded in 1843).
Modern building
During his visit to Jerusalem in 1898 for the dedication of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Kaiser Wilhelm II bought this piece of land on Mount Zion for 120,000 German Goldmark from Sultan Abdul Hamid II and presented it to the "German Association of the Holy Land" (":de:Deutscher Verein vom Heiligen Lande").
Conrad Schick reported about the event, describing the acquired plot of land and showing confidence that the remains of the ancient Zion Church would be discovered under the accumulated dirt.
According to local tradition, it was on this spot, near the site of the Last Supper, that the Blessed Virgin Mary died, or at least ended her worldly existence. Both in Orthodoxy and Catholicism, as in the language of scripture, death is often called a "sleeping" – or "falling asleep" – and this gave the original monastery its name. The church itself is called Basilica of the Assumption (or Dormition). In the Catholic dogma of the Assumption of Mary, Christ's mother was taken, body and soul, to heaven.
Renard delivered the designs and plans for the Abbey, the direction of construction was entrusted to the architect , a member of the Temple Society and a resident of Jerusalem. The foundation stone was laid on 7 October 1900. Construction was completed in only ten years; the basilica was dedicated on 10 April 1910 by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. The Abbey was built in an ecclesiastical, neo-Romanesque style that had become the state style of the new Imperial Germany.
The present church is a circular building with several niches containing altars, and a choir. Two spiral staircases lead to the crypt, the site ascribed to the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, and also to the organ-loft and the gallery, from where two of the church's four towers are accessible.
Out of regard for the nearby Jewish and Muslim sacred place of David's Tomb, which occupies part of the ground floor of the Cenacle, where it has traditionally been said that the Last Supper took place, the belltower is set far enough away that its shadow does not touch the tomb, and is therefore not directly accessible from the church.
Benedictine community
The first monks had already been sent to Jerusalem in 1906 from Beuron Archabbey in Germany. They were interned for the first time in 1918–1921, after the end of World War I. In 1926 the monastery was raised to the status of an abbey within the Beuron Congregation. Between 1939 and 1945, the German monks were interned for the second time, and then for the third time as the result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The abbey was located in the Israeli-controlled territory on Mount Zion, across from the Jordanian-controlled territory within the walled city.
In 1951, the abbey was separated from the Beuron Congregation and placed under the direct supervision of the Abbot-Primate of the Benedictines in Rome.
The community elected its own abbot for the first time in 1979.
Theology seminar
Since 1973 the abbey has been hosting an ecumenical year of study for students of theology from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The curriculum encompasses biblical, Eastern Orthodox Church, Judaic, and Islamic studies.
Vandalism
The Dormition Abbey, along with other Christian sites, has been the target of occasional vandalism as a form of "price tag" terrorism by extremist Israeli nationalist religious youths.
In October 2012 and in May and June 2013 the abbey was vandalized with anti-Christian graffiti and insults in Hebrew. The offensive words compared Christians to monkeys and called for revenge against Jesus. Two cars were also covered with graffiti and all tyres were slashed. One of the gates of the nearby Greek Orthodox cemetery was also marked with graffiti. This was allegedly a "price tag" attack carried out by nationalist religious extremists for the dismantling of an illegal outpost Havat Ma'on.
On 26 May 2014 a box of wooden crosses was set ablaze inside the Dormition Abbey. It is believed that this was some sort of failed arson attempt. At the same time of the arson attempt, Pope Francis was conducting a service in the building next door in the Cenacle two floors above the room of King David's Tomb.
A vandal entered the premises by jumping over a fence in December 2014 and went on to damage a crucifix, a bench, and a number of statues in the cemetery, one of which marked the grave of a monk with Israeli nationality.
In January 2016, vandals wrote slogans on the walls of the Abbey such as "Death to the heathen Christians, the enemies of Israel" and "May his name be obliterated" (whose first letters in Hebrew spell the name of Jesus). Gregory Collins, who was then the abbot, addressed a crowd of demonstrators for peace in Galilee, saying that: “The attack on the church is an attack on all those who believe in a civilization of love and coexistence.”
References
Gallery
External links
Website of Dormition Abbey
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1910
Benedictine monasteries in Israel
Roman Catholic monasteries in Jerusalem
Roman Catholic churches in Jerusalem
Basilica churches in Asia
20th-century Christian monasteries
Mount Zion
Vandalized works of art
Dormition of the Mother of God
Wilhelm II, German Emperor |
70791453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20L%C3%A9tourneau | Anne Létourneau | Anne Létourneau (born August 31, 1958) is a Canadian film and television actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance as Rita Toulouse in the film The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe), for which she was a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982.
She is the daughter of actors Jacques Létourneau and Monique Lepage.
References
External links
1958 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian film actresses
French Quebecers
Actresses from Quebec |
71517096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20Mid-Continent%20Conference%20baseball%20tournament | 1995 Mid-Continent Conference baseball tournament | The 1995 Mid-Continent Conference Tournament took place from May 20 through 23. The top two regular season finishers of each of the league's two divisions met in the double-elimination tournament held at Monier Field on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. won the tournament for the first time.
Format and seeding
The top two teams from each division advanced to the tournament.
Tournament
Game-by-game results
All-Tournament Team
Tournament Most Valuable Player
Jason Fawcett of Troy State was named Tournament MVP.
References
Tournament
Summit League baseball tournament
Mid-Continent Conference baseball tournament
Mid-Continent Conference baseball tournament |
36882923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%C2%AA%20Divis%C3%A3o%20de%20Andebol%20Feminino | 1ª Divisão de Andebol Feminino | The 1ª Divisão de Andebol Feminino, Andebol 1 Feminino or Campeonato Nacional Seniores Femininos, 1ª Divisão, is the premier women's handball league in Portugal. It was established in 1978, and it is currently contested by twelve teams. Madeira SAD is the championship's most decorated team.
List of champions
Women's Portuguese First Division
1977–78 | Oeiras | 1
1978–79 | Oeiras | 2
1979–80 | Maria Amália | 1
1980–81 | Torres Novas | 1
1981–82 | Almada | 1
1982–83 | Oeiras | 3
1983–84 | Benfica | 1
1984–85 | Ginásio Clube do Sul | 1
1985–86 | Benfica | 2
1986–87 | Benfica | 3
1987–88 | Ginásio Clube do Sul | 2
1988–89 | Benfica | 4
1989–90 | Benfica | 5
1990–91 | Colégio de Gaia | 1
1991–92 | Benfica | 6
1992–93 | Benfica | 7
1993–94 | CS Madeira | 1
1994–95 | CS Madeira | 2
1995–96 | CS Madeira | 3
1996–97 | CS Madeira | 4
1997–98 | AC Funchal | 1
1998–99 | Madeira SAD | 1
1999–20 | Madeira SAD | 2
2000–01 | Madeira SAD | 3
2001–02 | Madeira SAD | 4
2002–03 | Madeira SAD | 5
2003–04 | Madeira SAD | 6
2004–05 | Madeira SAD | 7
2005–06 | Madeira SAD | 8
2006–07 | Madeira SAD | 9
2007–08 | Madeira SAD | 10
2008–09 | Madeira SAD | 11
Andebol 1 Feminino
Performances
See also
Men's
Andebol 1
Second Division
Third Division
Taça de Portugal
Supertaça
Youth Honors
Women's
Taça de Portugal
Supertaça
Youth Honors (Women)
Notes
References
Portigal
Women
Sports leagues established in 1978
1978 establishments in Portugal
Women's handball in Portugal
Women's sports leagues in Portugal
Professional sports leagues in Portugal |
51461903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehsan%20Khan%20%28cricketer%29 | Ehsan Khan (cricketer) | Ehsan Khan (born 27 December 1984) is a Hong Kong cricketer. He made his first-class cricket debut against Ireland in the 2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup on 30 August 2016. He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut against Ireland on 5 September 2016. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Scotland on 8 September 2016, taking a wicket with his very first delivery.
On 8 March 2018, during the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier match against Afghanistan at Bulawayo Athletic Club, Bulawayo, Khan took 4 wickets for 33 runs. Hong Kong went on to win the match by 30 runs, under the Duckworth–Lewis method, and Khan was named the player of the match. It was Hong Kong's first win against a Full Member side in an ODI match. Following the conclusion of the Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament, the International Cricket Council (ICC) named Khan as the rising star of Hong Kong's squad.
In August 2018, he was named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2018 Asia Cup Qualifier tournament. Hong Kong won the qualifier tournament, and he was then named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2018 Asia Cup.
In December 2018, he was named in Hong Kong's team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. In April 2019, he was named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament in Namibia. He was named as one of the six players to watch during the tournament.
In September 2019, he was named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. In November 2019, he was named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup in Bangladesh. Later the same month, he was named in Hong Kong's squad for the Cricket World Cup Challenge League B tournament in Oman. In May 2022, he was named in Hong Kong's side for the 2022 Uganda Cricket World Cup Challenge League B tournament.
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
Hong Kong cricketers
Hong Kong One Day International cricketers
Hong Kong Twenty20 International cricketers
Place of birth missing (living people) |
43461569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasterace-Stilo%20railway%20station | Monasterace-Stilo railway station | Monasterace-Stilo (Italian: Stazione di Monasterace-Stilo) is a railway station in Monasterace, Italy. The station is located on the Jonica railway . The train services are operated by Trenitalia.
Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):
Intercity services Taranto - Sibari - Crotone - Catanzaro Lido - Roccella Jonica - Reggio Calabria
Regional services (Treno regionale) Catanzaro Lido - Roccella Jonica - Reggio di Calabria
References
Railway stations in Calabria
Monasterace
Buildings and structures in the Province of Reggio Calabria |
968734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrability%20conditions%20for%20differential%20systems | Integrability conditions for differential systems | In mathematics, certain systems of partial differential equations are usefully formulated, from the point of view of their underlying geometric and algebraic structure, in terms of a system of differential forms. The idea is to take advantage of the way a differential form restricts to a submanifold, and the fact that this restriction is compatible with the exterior derivative. This is one possible approach to certain over-determined systems, for example, including Lax pairs of integrable systems. A Pfaffian system is specified by 1-forms alone, but the theory includes other types of example of differential system. To elaborate, a Pfaffian system is a set of 1-forms on a smooth manifold (which one sets equal to 0 to find solutions to the system).
Given a collection of differential 1-forms on an -dimensional manifold , an integral manifold is an immersed (not necessarily embedded) submanifold whose tangent space at every point is annihilated by (the pullback of) each .
A maximal integral manifold is an immersed (not necessarily embedded) submanifold
such that the kernel of the restriction map on forms
is spanned by the at every point of . If in addition the are linearly independent, then is ()-dimensional.
A Pfaffian system is said to be completely integrable if admits a foliation by maximal integral manifolds. (Note that the foliation need not be regular; i.e. the leaves of the foliation might not be embedded submanifolds.)
An integrability condition is a condition on the to guarantee that there will be integral submanifolds of sufficiently high dimension.
Necessary and sufficient conditions
The necessary and sufficient conditions for complete integrability of a Pfaffian system are given by the Frobenius theorem. One version states that if the ideal algebraically generated by the collection of αi inside the ring Ω(M) is differentially closed, in other words
then the system admits a foliation by maximal integral manifolds. (The converse is obvious from the definitions.)
Example of a non-integrable system
Not every Pfaffian system is completely integrable in the Frobenius sense. For example, consider the following one-form :
If dθ were in the ideal generated by θ we would have, by the skewness of the wedge product
But a direct calculation gives
which is a nonzero multiple of the standard volume form on R3. Therefore, there are no two-dimensional leaves, and the system is not completely integrable.
On the other hand, for the curve defined by
then θ defined as above is 0, and hence the curve is easily verified to be a solution (i.e. an integral curve) for the above Pfaffian system for any nonzero constant c.
Examples of applications
In Riemannian geometry, we may consider the problem of finding an orthogonal coframe θi, i.e., a collection of 1-forms forming a basis of the cotangent space at every point with which are closed (dθi = 0, i = 1, 2, ..., n). By the Poincaré lemma, the θi locally will have the form dxi for some functions xi on the manifold, and thus provide an isometry of an open subset of M with an open subset of Rn. Such a manifold is called locally flat.
This problem reduces to a question on the coframe bundle of M. Suppose we had such a closed coframe
If we had another coframe , then the two coframes would be related by an orthogonal transformation
If the connection 1-form is ω, then we have
On the other hand,
But is the Maurer–Cartan form for the orthogonal group. Therefore, it obeys the structural equation
and this is just the curvature of M:
After an application of the Frobenius theorem, one concludes that a manifold M is locally flat if and only if its curvature vanishes.
Generalizations
Many generalizations exist to integrability conditions on differential systems which are not necessarily generated by one-forms. The most famous of these are the Cartan–Kähler theorem, which only works for real analytic differential systems, and the Cartan–Kuranishi prolongation theorem. See Further reading for details. The Newlander-Nirenberg theorem gives integrability conditions for an almost-complex structure.
Further reading
Bryant, Chern, Gardner, Goldschmidt, Griffiths, Exterior Differential Systems, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, Springer-Verlag,
Olver, P., Equivalence, Invariants, and Symmetry, Cambridge,
Ivey, T., Landsberg, J.M., Cartan for Beginners: Differential Geometry via Moving Frames and Exterior Differential Systems, American Mathematical Society,
Dunajski, M., Solitons, Instantons and Twistors, Oxford University Press,
Partial differential equations
Differential topology
Differential systems |
48494017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakdhanavi%20Power%20Station | Lakdhanavi Power Station | The Lakdhanavi Power Station (also sometimes referred to as the Lakdhanavi Sapugaskanda Power Station) is a thermal power station built in Sapugaskanda, Sri Lanka. Operated by , it is one of three power stations in the Sapugaskanda region, the other two being the government-owned Sapugaskanda Power Station, and the Asia Power Sapugaskanda Power Station.
See also
Asia Power Sapugaskanda Power Station
Sapugaskanda Power Station
List of power stations in Sri Lanka
References
External links
Oil-fired power stations in Sri Lanka
Buildings and structures in Gampaha District |
4815587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20the%20Remix | This Is the Remix | This Is the Remix may refer to:
This Is the Remix (Destiny's Child album)
This Is the Remix (Jessica Simpson album) |
28860545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathmal%20Pahalwan | Nathmal Pahalwan | Nathmal Pahalwan also known as Nathu Pahalwan, Nathmal Pareek and Nathmal Kathotia (1911–2006) was a professional wrestler and a community activist from Calcutta, India. He was the founder of Ganga Seva Samiti Ghat and the wrestling arena in Calcutta, India. He was popularly known as Guruji (Master Teacher) and Pahalwanji (Wrestler in Hindi) by his close friends and disciples.
Guruji's dedication and persistent efforts inspired his close friends and disciples to support the holy mission of building a safe ghat for people to worship in the river Ganges and offer prayers at the nearby temples. In English- and/or Hindi-speaking areas 'ghats' refers to the areas, in the holy river-side cities like Haridwar, Varanasi, Calcutta - where there is a stairway to access the Ganges River. People take a holy dip and shower in the river.
History
During the early to mid-1900s, in India, wrestling took place in clay or dirt pit. The soil is mixed with milk and ghee (pasteurized butter) and is then softened before each practice. Many other things like camphor are added to make sure that the wrestlers do not get any infections. Traditional Indian wrestling is not just a sport - it is an ancient subculture where wrestlers live and train together and follow strict rules on everything from what they can eat to what they can do in their spare time. Drinking and smoking are off limits. The focus is on living a pure life, building strength and honing their wrestling skills.
Championships and accomplishments
Guruji was from the small village Bambu near the village Sandwa in Churu district of Rajasthan, India. Due to his good physique and height of 6 feet and 3 inches, he was encouraged to study Pehlwani, an Indian style of wrestling, in the milked sand wrestling pits of India called akhara. He was a favorite in most wrestling tournaments in India due to his big frame and amazing upper body strength. He wrestled on invitation of kings of various Indian princely states. He successfully competed against some of the greatest names in wrestling history and professional wrestlers from the United States.
During the primer of his professional career, Guruji won many wrestling contests in greater India, traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal and Rangoon, Burma to wrestle against his contemporary renowned European wrestlers. He was one of the top wrestlers in Shri Ganga Singhji's (then king of Bikaner) kingdom in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India and was conferred with numerous awards. During his stay in Bikaner, he founded and trained at "Maruthi Vyayamshala", a local gymnasium. He led the Indian wrestling team to Burma and was victorious in the championship. The city of Bikaner celebrated after he returned from Burma. He was billed as one of the greatest Pehlwani wrestlers in the history of Greco-Roman wrestling. He had some legendary battles with Stanislaus Zbyszko and Gama Pahalwan. After his battles he was awarded the prestigious title of Hind Kesari.
Guruji was also conferred upon the title of The Lion of Rajputana in Agra (1936 A.D) by Lady Lin-lithgow (wife of then Viceroy of India - Lord Lin-lithgow) on winning a double wrestling contest (two wrestling bouts in a day). Guruji was also instrumental in training young wrestlers and having cordial relations with a number of "akhadas" (wrestling arenas) including, Bikaner, Calcutta, and several cities of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. Guruji was instrumental in training Dara Singh, when he trained with him for a brief time in Kolkota. He had cordial relations with Guru Hanuman and Dara Singh.
He held his wrestling and spiritual gurus (teachers) in great esteem and was always grateful to them for their advice. His wrestling prowess has been discussed in many Indian national dailies like "The Telegraph" and "The Statemaan", published from Calcutta, "Rajasthan Patrika", published from Jaipur.
Diet and Workouts
Guruji was not only a renowned wrestler of his time, winning a number of prestigious titles but was a great philanthropist too. He firmly believed Shareer madhyam khalu dharma sadhanam, meaning - It is through a healthy body alone that one will be able to serve God and Society. His daily morning routine included: Waking up by 4 am, going to the shore of the Ganges, exercise by doing thousand repetitions (reps) of squats (baithak) and push-ups (dand). After that he would do wrestling with other wrestlers & train the new wrestlers and swim for over an hour.
His daily training consisted of grappling with over ten of his fellow wrestlers in the akhada. He did a minimum of one thousand baithaks (Indian word for squats) and one thousand dands (Indian word for pushups) every day. His purely vegetarian diet included:
4–5 litres of milk per day mixed with a pound of crushed almond paste
Half litre of ghee (pasteurized butter)
Two pounds of butter
A healthy serving of seasonal fruits or fruit juices
and other healthy ingredients to promote his digestive system and muscular health
He had built such great stamina with his 3-4-hour daily workout, that many times he could swim across the Hooghly river, a distance of 0.75 km (0.5-mile) with relative ease. His daily regimen included an hour of swimming, wrestling with multiple wrestlers and teaching them the art of wrestling.
Community service
After he retired from wrestling, he was instrumental in the establishment and development of a number of temples and community centers across India. He was also one of the founders and the President of Pareek Samaj in Kolkata for many years.
Some of the community centers founded by him include: Bara Bazar Yuvak Sangh, Calcutta - founded in 1939, Maruti Vyayam Mandir, Bikaner - founded in 1946 and Ganga Seva Samiti Ghat, Calcutta - founded in 1945.
Ved Mata Gayatri and Shiv Temple, Liluah, Pareek Bhavan, Calcutta, Sita Ram Mandir/Bhavan, Sandwa, Rajasthan and Shiva Temple in Bammu, Rajasthan were some of the temples he set up.
He was a very active social worker and encouraged, personally donated large sums of money to the welfare of the poor, down-trodden and convinced the wealthy to donate to the charities and help the communities.
Guruji's family
Guruji died when was 95 years old, peacefully in 2006 in Calcutta after a brief illness. He was a symbol of strength and saintliness and is revered among the people from all walks of life. He visited all over India, the US and UK and enjoyed a great family life. He is survived by two sons and a daughter.
Though Wrestling in traditional clay pits is on the decline over the last few decades, but there are still many akharas left, thanks to dedicated people like Guruji, who worked to keep this ancient part of Indian culture alive. The akharas and mud based wrestling were one of themes of a recent Aamir Khan based Hindi movie - "Dangal" & Salman Khan Hindi movie "Sultan". People were mesmerized to re-live the ancient art of wrestling. Thanks to his efforts, this ancient art is still alive and practiced with great vigor in many parts of India.
On Friday, 17 September 2010, a statue of Guruji was unveiled at Ganga Seva Samithi, Calcutta to commemorate his life and his achievements. It was attended by his family, friends, a number of political leaders and social workers, who looked upon Guruji as their role model. The statue is visited by thousands of tourists, who come to visit Calcutta. People offer their prayers at nearby temple and offer flower garlands to Guruji. His stories and legacy are discussed even to this day.
See also
Pehlwani
Catch wrestling
Bholu Pahalwan
Dara Singh
Professional wrestling
Premchand Dogra
References
An article published in Rajasthan Patrika, Bikaner, India - 7 Feb 2020
1911 births
2006 deaths
Indian wrestlers
People associated with physical culture
People from Churu district
Sport wrestlers from Kolkata |
36814821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trujillo%20metropolitan%20area%20%28Peru%29 | Trujillo metropolitan area (Peru) | The Trujillo Metropolitan Area is the name used to refer to the metropolitan area whose core is the city of Trujillo, capital La Libertad Region, this metropolitan area located on the north coast of Peru, extends over an area of approximately 110,000 hectares and comprises nine of the eleven districts that make up the province of Trujillo. According to population statistics of INEI, It is the third most populous metropolitan area of Peru.
History
Trujillo, years ago separated from the other localities by the wall Trujillo, is now fully expanded to the four cardinal points of the ancient wall fragments are only historically preserved. However, Trujillo has been influential to nearby cities for decades, having great interaction with them. The urban integration of some of these towns to the metropolis has led its growth. An aerial photograph from the satellite shows a single urban area where it is difficult to distinguish the boundaries of Trujillo and its conurbation metropolitan districts, virtually separated only administratively.
Planning
The Planning of Peruvian metropolitan areas are made, by the government of municipalities of each city, with authority granted by Organic Law of Municipalities, and they have the support of an expert office for urban planning with specific functions. Wherefore officially valid data about districts conformation for metropolitan areas in Peru are those issued by official documents issued and validated by the respective municipal governments of each city under the law that local governments are autonomous political, economic and administrative matters within its jurisdiction and its powers according to the law of municipalities, an attribution of these is to approve the urban development plan.
Extent and structure
The metropolitan area of Trujillo occupies a territory whose length is approximately 110,000 hectares, and comprises the lower Moche Valley or Valle de Santa Catalina and Intervalles to Chicama valley to the north and the Viru Valley southward with its central theme the irrigation project Chavimochic.
Population
According to PLANDET, agency of the Municipality of the city, Metropolitan Trujillo consists of the so-called Trujillo Urban Continuum formed by the districts of Trujillo, El Porvenir, Florencia de Mora, La Esperenza and Victor Larco Herrera, and the sector El Milagro of Huanchaco District, as well as all urban and rural settlements in the valley of Santa Catalina, the Moche river basin, which correspond to the districts of Huanchaco, Laredo, Moche and Salaverry, organized as a unit of planning.
In the table is shown some data of the districts of Trujillo Metropolitan:
Graphics of evolution of the population by INEI
Sources: Population 2007
Population by districts
In the following table of population distribution can be seen the demographic evolution of Trujillo metropolitan by districts.
See also
List of metropolitan areas of Peru
Trujillo
La Libertad Region
Peru
External links
Location of Trujillo city (Wikimapia)
"Huaca de la luna and Huaca del sol"
"Huacas del Sol y de la Luna Archaeological Complex", Official Website
Information on El Brujo Archaeological Complex
Chan Chan World Heritage Site, UNESCO
Chan Chan conservation project
Website about Trujillo, Reviews, Events, Business Directory
Multimedia
Gallery pictures by Panoramio, Includes Geographical information by various authors
References
Geography of Trujillo, Peru
Metropolitan areas of Peru |
3244975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivervale%2C%20Singapore | Rivervale, Singapore | Rivervale is a neighbourhood of Sengkang New Town located between Sungei Serangoon and Compassvale. The block numbers of the public apartment blocks in Rivervale begin with the number '1' (1xx). Rivervale was the first neighbourhood of Sengkang New Town to be built, and many of the existing housing estates in Rivervale were completed by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) as early as 1997.
Educational institutions
Primary schools
North Spring Primary School
Rivervale Primary School
Secondary schools
CHIJ Saint Joseph's Convent
North Vista Secondary School
Places of worship
Chinese temples
Chong Ghee Temple (崇义庙)
Kampong Tengah Thian Hou Keng (半港天后宫)
Chong Hua Tong Tou Teck Hwee Temple
Church
St Anne's Church
Indian temple
Arulmigu Velmurugan Gnanamuneeswarar Temple
Shopping amenities
Rivervale Plaza
Rivervale Plaza (Chinese: 鲤河大厦) was the first shopping mall in Sengkang New Town. It opened in mid 1999.
Rivervale Mall
Rivervale Mall (Chinese: 河滨坊) is the first private mixed development in Sengkang New Town and opened on 21 April 2001, with about 85,000 square feet (7,900 m²) of retail space. The development has a modern architectural design. Retail units include NTUC FairPrice, McDonald's, Food Junction, KFC and EC House.
Other facilities
Rivervale Community Club
The Rivervale Community Centre was official opened on 20 June 2004. Its original site was at the foot of Block 193 Rivervale Drive, it had served the residents for many years at the location before being relocated to its current site with its own building behind Rivervale Plaza.
The new building, which had its groundbreaking ceremony on 16 September 2018, is constructed with Mass Engineered Timber (MET); a first for such buildings in Singapore. The community club was completed and opened on 15 September 2021. It will have much more and bigger communal facilities as compared to its previous location, a childcare centre and a rooftop garden.
Public transport
The Rivervale neighbourhood is linked to Sengkang Bus Interchange and Sengkang MRT/LRT station at the town centre via bus services originating from the Sengkang Bus Interchange and other parts of the island. The east loop of the Sengkang LRT line also serves the area at the Rumbia, Bakau and Kangkar stations.
Bus services that call at a pair of bus stops located along the TPE-Punggol Road Interchange also serves residents living in the vicinity, at the Sengkang-Punggol boundary.
Gallery
Transport infrastructure
Educational institutions
Housing estates
References
External links
Sengkang
Places in Singapore |
50656871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia%20resinosa | Acacia resinosa | Acacia resinosa is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves and is endemic to arid and semi-arid parts of south western Australia.
Description
The bushy, aromatic and resinous shrub typically grows to a height of . The glabrous branchlets often have resin encrusting the ribs or entire surface. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The ascending to erect evergreen phyllodes are usually quite slender and straight to shallowly curved with a length of and a diameter of and terminate with a sharp tip. It blooms from June to September and produces yellow flowers.
Distribution
It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where has a scattered distribution and it is commonly situated on flats and plains growing in sandy or loam and sandy clay soils that can contain a lot of gravel as a part of low open woodland or tall open shrubland and open heathland communities. It is found from around Gutha and Wongan Hills in the west to around near Southern Cross and Koolyanobbing in the north east.
See also
List of Acacia species
References
resinosa
Acacias of Western Australia
Taxa named by Bruce Maslin
Plants described in 1999 |
4161380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Register%20of%20Historic%20Places%20listings%20in%20Bay%20County%2C%20Michigan | National Register of Historic Places listings in Bay County, Michigan | The following is a list of Registered Historic Places in Bay County, Michigan.
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Former listings
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See also
List of Michigan State Historic Sites in Bay County, Michigan
National Register of Historic Places listings in Michigan
Listings in neighboring counties: Arenac, Midland, Saginaw, Tuscola
References
Bay County
Bay County, Michigan
Buildings and structures in Bay County, Michigan |
73285254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Mission%20Church%2C%20Kolkata | Old Mission Church, Kolkata | Old Mission Church is the oldest Protestant Church, and the second oldest church in Kolkata. The Church is situated at R. N Mukherjee Road in Kolkata, in the Indian state of West Bengal.
History
Lord Clive invited John Zachariah Kiernander, a Swedish Lutheran missionary from south India to settle in Kolkata to promote Christian knowledge. Kiernander established the Old Mission Church in 1770. Initially the church was known as Lal Girja (Red Church).
See also
David Brown (East India Company chaplain)
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
References
1770 establishments in India
Churches in Kolkata
Churches completed in 1770
Neoclassical church buildings in India
External links |
61637441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costis%20Maglaras | Costis Maglaras | Costis Maglaras (born December 18, 1969) is a Greek engineer and academic administrator. He is currently serving as the Dean and David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business at Columbia Business School.
Early life and education
Maglaras was born in Athens, Greece went to Athens College, and then moved to Imperial College London where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1990. He then moved to Stanford University for his Master of Science and Ph.D. also in Electrical Engineering. Upon graduation he moved to Columbia Business School, where he has been since 1998.
Career
Research
Early work focused on the control of stochastic networks – motivated by manufacturing operations and communication networks. His doctoral dissertation work was awarded first place in the INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition in 1999.
Later on he worked on aspects of congestion pricing in information services, such as bandwidth provision and service differentiation, for which he won the INFORMS Section Prize in 2008, and on algorithmic pricing, such as the one encountered in retailing, airlines and hotels.
Academic
Maglaras joined Columbia Business School in 1998, received tenure in 2006, was promoted to full professor in 2008 and was named the David Lyn Silfen Professor of Business in 2009. He was Chair of the Decision Risk and Operations division from 2015-2018, member of the executive committee of Columbia University’s Data Science Institute, Director of the Business Schools PhD program from 2011 to 2017. He was elected to the 2019 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Maglaras is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and received an award from the organization in 2020.
In June 2019, Columbia University President, Lee Bollinger, announced that Maglaras had been selected as the 16th Dean of Columbia Business School. Maglaras took office on July 1, 2019, succeeding economist Glenn Hubbard.
Industry
In 2007, Maglaras helped found Mismi Inc., a financial technology firm based in New York City focusing on quantitative trading in the equities market. From 2007 to 2014, he served as Mismi's head of research.
References
Columbia Business School faculty
Business school deans
Living people
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
1969 births |
925313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudai%2C%20Iwate | Fudai, Iwate | is a village located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. , the village had an estimated population of 2,607, and a population density of 37.4 persons per km2 in 1,126 households. The total area of the village is .
Geography
Fudai is a coastal mountainous community situated on the Sanriku Coast ria along the Pacific Ocean in northern Iwate. The southern part of the village, an area called , included a part of the Rikuchu Kaigan National Park, which is now part of the Sanriku Fukkō National Park. It features an observation point to view scenic seaside cliffs.
Neighboring municipalities
Iwate Prefecture
Noda
Iwaizumi
Tanohata
Climate
Fudai has a cold humid climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) characterized by mild summers and cold winters. The average annual temperature in Fudai is 10.1 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1201 mm with September as the wettest month and February as the driest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 22.6 °C, and lowest in January, at around -1.1 °C.
Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Fudai has declined over the past 60 years.
Fudai has been recognized by Japan's Office for the Promotion of Regional Revitalization (Kishida Cabinet Secretariat), which promotes the development of new technologies to combat depopulation, for meeting a "high standard" of digital transformation/telework infrastructure. Related projects have been awarded over ¥4.8M in government grants.
History
The area of present-day Fudai was part of ancient Mutsu Province, dominated by the Nambu clan during the Edo period, who ruled Hachinohe Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. With the Meiji period establishment of the modern municipalities system, the village of Fudai was created within Kitahei District on April 1, 1889. Kitahei, Nakahei and Higashihei Districts were all merged into Minamihei District on March 29, 1896.
In 1953, the national and prefectural governments targeted Fudai for consolidation with its southern neighbor, Tanohata following the Law for the Consolidation of Cities, Towns and Villages ("the great Shōwa mergers"). Merger talks continued intermittently between 1955 and 1960. The Tanohata delegation was not in favor of the merger, but because of the pressure from the prefecture to implement the government directive, they felt they were not at liberty to directly reject the proposal. At a party in May 1960 to celebrate the end of the long merger negotiations, the mayor of Tanohata drunkenly insulted the delegates from Fudai in a final effort to scuttle the negotiations. The party was abandoned, and no further serious attempts were made to continue with the merger.
2011 tsunami
The village was spared from the devastation brought to other coastal communities following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami thanks to a floodgate that protected the town. The floodgate was built between 1972 and 1984 at a cost of ¥3.56 billion (approximately US$30 million in 2011) under the administration of Kotoku Wamura, the village mayor from 1947 to 1987. Initially derided as a waste of public funds, the floodgate protected the village and the inner cove from the worst of the tsunami waves. After the 2011 tsunami, the villagers gave thanks at Wamura's grave. The village's only casualty was one missing person who went to inspect his boat in the fishing port, located outside of the wall's protection, immediately after the earthquake.
Government
Fudai has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral village council of 14 members. Fudai, together with the city of Miyako, town of Iwaizumi and the villages of Tanohata and Yamada, collectively contributes three seats to the Iwate Prefectural legislature. In terms of national politics, the village is part of Iwate 2nd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.
Economy
The local economy is based on commercial fishing and agriculture.
Education
Fudai has one public elementary school and one public junior high school operated by the village government. The village does not have a high school.
Transportation
Railway
Sanriku Railway – Rias Line
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Highway
Local attractions
Rikuchū-Kurosaki Light – one of the "50 Noteworthy Lighthouses of Japan"
References
External links
Official Website
Villages in Iwate Prefecture
Populated coastal places in Japan |
15341571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belga | Belga | Belga may refer to:
Belga (news agency), in Belgium
Belga (cigarette), a Belgian brand
SS Belga, a Swedish merchant ship
Beau Belga (born 1986), Filipino basketball player
Belga, a mid-20th century Belgian gold currency worth five Belgian francs |
41134996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melqu%C3%ADades%20Fundora | Melquíades Fundora | Melquíades Fundora Dina (20 March 1926 – 14 February 2009) was a Cuban charanga bandleader and flautist.
Fundora formed his charanga band La Sublime in 1957. He was born in Nueva Paz, near Havana on 20 March 1926. Fundora died on 14 February 2009, at the age of 82.
References
1926 births
2009 deaths
Cuban bandleaders
Cuban charanga musicians
Cuban flautists |
4841937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20%28Erasure%20song%29 | Freedom (Erasure song) | "Freedom" is a song by the British synthpop duo Erasure. It was the first single released from Erasure's ninth studio album, Loveboat. The song was written by Vince Clarke and Andy Bell. "Freedom", as well as the entire Loveboat album, was produced by Flood, and this is the first Flood-produced Erasure single since "The Circus" in 1987.
Mute Records released "Freedom" in the United Kingdom. It was not released in the United States due to problems with Erasure's then-record company Maverick (the Loveboat album did not have a US release until 2003). The song peaked at number 27 on the UK Singles Chart. In Germany, it appeared in the chart for one week at number eighty in Germany. In Sweden, it charted for one week, peaking at number 51.
The song started life as a track called "Real Love". Although, the lyrics are in a quite early stage, there are a lot of resemblances to the final version.
Track listings
12" single 1 (12MUTE244)
"Freedom" (Quake Vocal Remake)
"Freedom" (Untidy Dub)
12" single 2 (L12MUTE244)
"Freedom" (MARK's Guitar Vocal)
"Freedom" (MARK's Jail Term Dub)
CD single 1 (CDMUTE244)
"Freedom"
"Better"
"Freedom" (Acoustic Version)
CD single 2 (LCDMUTE244)
"Freedom" (Motiv8 Radio Mix)
"Freedom" (JC's Freedom of Flight Remix)
"Freedom" (MARK's Guitar Vocal)
AUSTRALIAN CD maxi-single (MUSH019862)
"Freedom" (Motiv8 Radio Mix)
"Freedom" (Original Radio Edit)
"Freedom" (MARK's Guitar Vocal)
"Freedom" (Motiv8 Vocal Liberation Mix)
"Freedom" (Untidy Dub)
Charts
References
2000 singles
Erasure songs
Songs written by Vince Clarke
Songs written by Andy Bell (singer)
Song recordings produced by Flood (producer)
Mute Records singles
2000 songs |
45205653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calocoris%20texanus | Calocoris texanus | Calocoris texanus is a species of true bug in the family Miridae. It lives in the Nearctic and is part of the Calocoris genus.
References
Mirini
Hemiptera of North America |
64600446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphenomorphus%20bacboensis | Sphenomorphus bacboensis | Sphenomorphus bacboensis is a species of skink found in Vietnam.
References
bacboensis
Reptiles described in 2003
Taxa named by Valery Konstantinovich Eremchenko
Reptiles of Vietnam |
38224218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyttelton%2C%20Gauteng | Lyttelton, Gauteng | Lyttelton is a suburb of Centurion in Gauteng Province, South Africa.
References
Suburbs of Centurion, Gauteng |
41067587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi%20Lubbers | Rudi Lubbers | Rudolfus Josefus Maria "Rudie" Lubbers (born 17 August 1945) is a retired Dutch boxer who competed at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. In 1964 he finished ninth as light-heavyweight and in 1968 fifth as heavyweight.
Nationally, Lubbers won six light-heavyweight and two heavyweight amateur titles. In 1970, he turned professional, and in 1971 won a national heavyweight title, holding it until his retirement in 1981. Internationally, he unsuccessfully competed at several European championships. In 1973 he fought Muhammad Ali in Jakarta and went the full 12 rounds with Ali. In 1986, he was arrested in Portugal for drug trafficking and jailed for four years. After that he worked on funfairs (known as carnivals in standard U.S. English language) with his wife Ria, and eventually became homeless after she was declared bankrupt in 1999.
1964 Olympic record
Below are the results of Rudi Lubbers, a Dutch light heavyweight boxer who competed at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics:
Round of 32: bye
Round of 16: lost to Cosimo Pinto (Italy) by decision, 0-5
References
1945 births
Living people
Boxers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for the Netherlands
People from Heerhugowaard
Heavyweight boxers
Prisoners and detainees of Portugal
Dutch people imprisoned abroad
Dutch drug traffickers
Dutch male boxers
20th-century Dutch criminals
Sportspeople from North Holland |
70427285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20intercity%20bus%20stops%20in%20Wisconsin | List of intercity bus stops in Wisconsin | The following is a list of presently operating intercity bus stops in Wisconsin with regular service. The list excludes charter buses, local transit buses, paratransit systems, and trolleybus systems. The following companies provide intercity bus service in Wisconsin as of September 2022:
Amtrak Thruway
Badger Bus
Flixbus
Greyhound Lines
Indian Trails
Jefferson Lines
Lamers Bus Lines
Megabus
Tornado Bus Company
Van Galder Bus Company
Wisconsin Coach Lines
Stops
This is the list of 71 active intercity bus stops serving 54 cities in Wisconsin. This list does not include stops that are served only by commuter buses and not intercity buses. This list also does not include Tornado Bus Company stops, due to the difficulty of acquiring information on routes and stop locations.
Notes
The following intercity bus stops in Illinois and Minnesota connect with local transit systems which operate in Wisconsin.
Former
See also
List of Amtrak stations
List of intercity bus stops in Illinois
List of intercity bus stops in Iowa
References
External links
WisDOT 2022 Intercity Bus Map
WisDOT 2022 Get Around Guide
Bus transportation in Wisconsin
Bus stations in Wisconsin
Transportation in Wisconsin |
23461569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20Fortis%20Championships%20Luxembourg%20%E2%80%93%20Singles | 2007 Fortis Championships Luxembourg – Singles | Alona Bondarenko was the defending champion, but she was defeated in the first round by Marion Bartoli.
Second seeded Serbian Ana Ivanovic was the champion, coming back from a 3-6, 0-3 deficit to beat Slovak Daniela Hantuchová. It was her third title of the year and her fifth career title overall.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
References
External links
Main Draw and Qualifying draw
Luxembourg Open
Fortis Championships Luxembourg
2007 in Luxembourgian tennis |
53605281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishnu%20Sethi | Bishnu Sethi | Bishnu Sethi () (born as Bishnu Charan Sethi; 5 June 1961 – 19 September 2022) was an Indian politician who was the deputy leader of the opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly. He was the MLA from Dhamnagar Assembly Constituency.
A leader of Bharatiya Janata Party, Sethi held the position of Vice President in Bharatiya Janata Party Odisha Unit. He was the MLA from Chandabali Assembly Constituency from 2000 to 2004 and then for Dhamnagar from 2019 till his death in 2022. He was also a poet and writer in Odia literature.
In July 2022 he was hospitalised for Covid-19 and subsequently died from the virus.
Early life and education
Sethi was born on 5 June 1961 in a remote village of Tihidi in the district of Bhadrak (Odisha). From the very beginning of his childhood, he lost his mother and was brought up by his father Gayadhar Sethi. He completed his schooling from Tihidi High School. He has been connected with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad from his early political life.
After graduating from Utkal University in History and Library Science, he moved to Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He qualified for Odisha Administrative Service conducted by Odisha Public Service Commission two times. He was the founder secretary of M.A. English Medium School, Tihidi, Bhadrak.
Early political career
Being influenced by the ideology of Shyama Prasad Mukharjee and Deendayal Upadhyaya, Sethi's first political exposure was: a member of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha. During the rise of Bharatiya Janata Party in India by the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L. K. Adwani, Sethi stood in Bhadrak parliamentary constituency at the age of 30 from BJP. Then he was appointed secretary of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha of Odisha state. With his leadership, Bharatiya Janata Party was propelled to a greater political prominence in Bhadrak. He took the charge of district president of his party three times.
Political career
In the year of 1995, he was a member of Bharatiya Janata Party's National council. Then he worked as Odisha state vice president of BJP scheduled Caste Morcha.
In 2000 Sethi was elected to Odisha Legislative Assembly from Chandabali Legislative constituency as a member. During his first time membership, he could participate in the discussion in Karnataka State Assembly Estimate Committee on behalf of Odisha. In 2004 Sethi again appeared as an MLA candidate from BJP and BJD united alliance; but he lost the battle by a mere margin of votes in same.
In the year of 2006 he was selected as the chairman of Odisha State Cashew Development Corporation. Being the chairperson of the Corporation he threw his attempts to boost cashew plantation program in Odisha abruptly and laid the paper before Goa Convention regarding this.
In 2009 and 2014 Sethi again fought as the BJP candidate from Dhamanagar assembly constituency but he could not win the elections. Regardless of the defeats, by virtue of his oratorical and organizational skills, he became the face of the Bharatiya Janata Party in eastern part of Odisha. In 2016 he has been appointed state vice president of Odisha BJP.
He was elected as a member of estimate committee of Odisha Legislative Assembly.
He was Deputy Leader of BJP Legislature Party in Odisha Assembly.
Political ideology
Sethi believed in "Ekatma Manav Vaad", the doctrine of integral humanism, which is also the official doctrine of his party. He had a strong belief in the ideology of BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and was confident about BJP fulfilling all its commitments towards nation made during general election. He believed under PM Modi's leadership India would soon emerge as superpower of the world. Sethi also put faith in the working style and strong political will power of Dharmendra Pradhan for the development of Eastern India as well as Odisha.
Literature works
Sethi was the sub-editor of Odia weekly Bisesh Khabar. He was the editor of Ghasaphula, a historical and cultural quarterly magazine. His prose collection 'Sironama Sirodharya' reflects many socio-cultural issues and their solutions. He wrote two poem collections named Nirmaya Aakash Tale and Niswa Matira Swara. Moreover, he had keen interest in short stories and Odia history, culture, heritage and language also. He was the regular columnist of various Odia newspapers and journals. He has been elected as the Senate Member to Utkal University of Culture, Bhubaneswar.
For last years he was the pioneer to organize the Literary assembly of college and school level students. He was the editorial member of 'Utkal Sammilani'.
He was the regular member of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage which makes commitment on Indian architectural heritage and cultural-historical symphony.
During his first time membership of Odisha Legislative Assembly, he drew the attention of Odisha to declare Bande Utkal Janani as State Anthem, the creation of Late Kantakabi Lakshmikanta Mahapatra, which is not achieved officially.
References
1961 births
2022 deaths
People from Bhadrak district
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Odisha
Odisha MLAs 2019–2024
21st-century Indian politicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India |
39364906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcain%20%28band%29 | Vulcain (band) | Vulcain is a French hard rock and heavy metal band formed in 1981.
Comeback
At the end of 2009, the band gave hopes of reviving through an announcement on its Myspace page. The trio also announced a grand tour in 2010. It also opened for Motörhead for a number of shows in 2010. On 22 April 2013, Vulcain released a new album, V8, their first in 15 years since Stoppe La Machine.
Discography
1984: Rock 'n' Roll Secours
1985: La dame de fer (EP)
1985: Desperados
1986: Big Brothers
1987: Live Force
1989: Transition
1992: Big Bang
1994: Vulcain
1998: Stoppe La Machine
2013: V8
2014: rock n roll secours 2014
2018: vinyle
Live and compilations
1996: Atomic Live (live)
1997: Compilaction (compilation)
2011: En revenant (live recorded in November 2010 plus bonus DVD of Hellfest 2010 concert)
References
External links
Vulcain page on the French metal museum site
1981 establishments in France
French hard rock musical groups
French heavy metal musical groups
Musical groups from Paris
Musical groups established in 1981 |
31321265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Valentine | Joseph Valentine | Joseph A. Valentine (July 24, 1900 in New York City, as Giuseppe Valentino – May 18, 1949 in (Cheviot Hills, California) was an Italian-American cinematographer, five-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and co-winner once in 1949.
Biography
Trained in photography, Valentine moved to working in films in the 1920s and from 1924 became a chief cinematographer. Honing his craft by working on several B-films, his final years were spent on the cinematography for three Alfred Hitchcock films.
Valentine was nominated for the Academy Award in 1937 for Wings Over Honolulu, in 1938 for Mad About Music, in 1939 for First Love, in 1940 for Spring Parade. In 1949, on his fifth nomination, he won for Joan of Arc.
Partial filmography
The Folly of Vanity (1924)
The Star Dust Trail (1924)
Curlytop (1924)
The Scarlet Honeymoon (1925)
7th Heaven (1927)
News Parade (1928)
Prep and Pep (1928)
Speakeasy (1929)
Protection (1929)
The Girl from Havana (1929)
Crazy That Way (1930)
Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
Soup to Nuts (1930)
Are You There? (1931)
Night of Terror (1933)
Man Hunt (1933)
What Price Innocence? (1933)
Jimmy and Sally (1933)
Myrt and Marge (1933)
A Woman's Man (1934)
Three on a Honeymoon (1934)
Wild Gold (1934)
Call It Luck (1934)
Student Tour (1934)
Alias Mary Dow (1935)
Swellhead (1935)
Doubting Thomas (1935)
The Gay Deception (1935)
Next Time We Love (1936)
The Moon's Our Home (1936)
Two in a Crowd (1936)
The Man I Marry (1936)
Three Smart Girls (1936)
Wings over Honolulu (1937)
One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937)
Mad About Music (1938)
The Rage of Paris (1938)
That Certain Age (1938)
Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
First Love (1939)
My Little Chickadee (1940)
It's a Date (1940)
Spring Parade (1940)
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Unfinished Business (1941)
Appointment for Love (1941)
Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
The Wolf Man (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Between Us Girls (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Guest Wife (1945)
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
So Goes My Love (1946)
Heartbeat (1946)
Lover Come Back (1946)
Magnificent Doll (1946)
Possessed (1947)
Sleep, My Love (1948)
Rope (1948)
Joan of Arc (1948)
Bride for Sale (1949)
References
External links
1900 births
1949 deaths
American people of Italian descent
American cinematographers
Best Cinematographer Academy Award winners
Artists from New York City |
49088738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Jones%20%28American%20football%29 | Red Jones (American football) | Charles A. "Red" Jones was a college football player. A prominent end for coach Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers, he was selected All-Southern in 1916.
References
American football ends
Auburn Tigers football players
All-Southern college football players |
1123950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%20Hempstone | Smith Hempstone | Smith Hempstone (February 1, 1929–November 19, 2006) was a journalist, author, and the United States ambassador to Kenya in 1989–93. He was a vocal proponent of democracy, advocating free elections for Kenya.
Biography
Hempstone attended George Washington University and graduated from the University of the South. He was a U.S. Marine in the Korean War (1950–52), leaving as a captain.
He did radio rewrite for the Associated Press in Charlotte, North Carolina, (1952). He was a reporter at the Louisville Times, Louisville, Kentucky (1953), rewrite man at National Geographic, Washington, D.C. (1954), then a reporter at the Washington Star (1955–56). He was a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs in Africa (1956–60). He served as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News in Africa (1961–64) and in Latin America (1965). He was a foreign correspondent for the Washington Star in Latin America (1966), and Europe, (1967–69). He was associate editor and editorial page director of the Star (1970–75). He left the Star in 1975 after a disagreement with Joe L. Allbritton, its new owner. He wrote a syndicated twice-weekly column, "Our Times," beginning 1975.
Hempstone worked as the Africa correspondent for The Chicago Daily News, wrote several books, and wrote a syndicated column carried by 90 newspapers. In 1982 he was named executive editor of the newly founded Washington Times and, following the resignation of editor and publisher James R. Whelan in 1984, briefly served as editor of the paper before being replaced by Arnaud de Borchgrave.
He was appointed ambassador to Kenya by George H. W. Bush in 1989, a time when the United States was beginning to push African countries toward democracy and human rights. Hempstone worked toward these goals by fighting for multiparty elections in Kenya in 1991, nine years after Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi had banned all parties except his own. The Moi administration derided him, saying he failed to understand that strong, unified government was necessary to keep Kenya's tribal groups from splitting the country. He aided dissidents and befriended opponents of the administration, causing the African press to describe his style as "bulldozer diplomacy." The Kenyan government isolated him and, according to Hempstone's book Rogue Ambassador: An African Memoir, twice attempted to kill him. Multiparty elections were ultimately held in 1992, and were won by Moi with 36 percent of the vote.
In 2001 former Kenyan government minister Nicholas Biwott successfully sued Hempstone (High Court Civil Suit Case No. 1273) for suggesting in his autobiography that Biwott had been involved in the murder of Kenya's minister of foreign Affairs, Dr. Robert Ouko, in February 1990. Hempstone did not defend the action.
Hempstone died in 2006 in Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, from complications of diabetes.
Writings
Letters from Africa to the Institute of Current World Affairs, New York (1956)
Africa: Angry Young Giant, Praeger, 1961 (published in England as The New Africa, Faber, 1961).
The New Africa (1961)
Katanga Report, Faber, 1962
Rebels, Mercenaries and Dividends: The Katanga Story, Praeger, 1962.
A Tract of Time (novel), Houghton, 1966.
In the Midst of Lions (novel) (1968) -->
India in Focus: Six Articles (1964)
In the Midst of Lions (novel), Harper, 1968.
United States Foreign Policy and the China Problem by Morton A. Kaplan, Douglas MacArthur, Smith Hempstone (1982)
Chosin Marine: An Autobiography by Bill Davis, James H. Webb, Smith Hempstone (1986)
Rogue Ambassador: An African Memoir (1997)
(Editor) STA, an Illustrated History of St. Albans School, Glastonbury Press, 1981.
Contributor to Saturday Evening Post, Atlantic Monthly, Reader's Digest, U.S. News & World Report, and other magazines.
Memberships
American Society of News Editors
Explorers Club
References
Sources
External links
Washington Post obituary
Kenyan tribute to Hempstone
1929 births
2006 deaths
20th-century American novelists
American columnists
American newspaper editors
Journalists from Washington, D.C.
American male novelists
Ambassadors of the United States to Kenya
Chicago Daily News people
The Washington Times people
United States Marine Corps officers
United States Marine Corps personnel of the Korean War
George H. W. Bush administration personnel
Culver Academies alumni
Sewanee: The University of the South alumni
George Washington University alumni
Harvard University alumni
Deaths from diabetes
American male non-fiction writers
20th-century American male writers |
67673436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20European%20Athletics%20Team%20Championships | 2021 European Athletics Team Championships | The 2021 European Athletics Team Championships was held in four cities, on 29–30 May (Super League) and on 19–20 June 2021. For the very first time, the ETC was not held on the same weekend for all leagues. At the European Athletics Team Championships medals are not awarded in individual events.
Grouping and host cities
It had been decided in 2018 that, starting in 2021, a new system would be introduced for grouping teams in the ETC. This would aim to have 8 teams in the Super League (plus the host country if it had not already qualified), 12 teams in the First and Second Leagues, and all the remaining teams in the Third League.
The city of Minsk, Belarus, initially designated as the Super League venue, was replaced by Chorzów in November 2020 due to the political situation in Belarus.
Super League
The 2021 Super League will consist of only 8 teams, instead of the previously 12 in all previous editions.
As Ukraine withdrew on 24 May because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EAA ruled that they will be relegated in 2023.
The event will be attended by 7,600 spectators. The entry is free.
Participating countries
(promoted)
(withdrew)
2 scheduled relegations in 2023: Portugal and Ukraine.
Final entries
406 athletes (206 men, 200 women) from 7 (8 scheduled) countries. 54 athletes from Ukraine (all team) did not enter the Championships. Many potential winners entered, like Marcell Jacobs, Gianmarco Tamberi, Marcin Lewandowski, Piotr Lisek or Jessie Knight, also late withdrew.
Men's events
Women's events
Final standings
Before the last event on Sunday, the Men's 4x400 m relay, three teams could still win the Championship: Poland with 176.5 points, Great Britain with 174 points and Italy with 172 points.
The Italian team took an easy lead of the race after the first two legs, with Alessandro Sibilio passing the baton to Edoardo Scotti at third leg, with Great Britain just beside him. But the third leg British runner was then unable to give his baton to his teammate Rabah Yousif, and the Polish team finished strongly in the last leg to go from 5th to 3rd. As a result, Poland obtained enough points to win over Italy, which set the EL time, winning the last race, as during 2019 European Team Championships with the same EL result.
Score table
Broken records
Men's 5000m CR Yemaneberhan Crippa (ITA) 13:17.23 on 29 May 2021
Men's Javelin Throw WL CR Johannes Vetter (GER) 96.29 m on 29 May 2021
Men's Hammer Throw WL CR Paweł Fajdek (POL) 82.98 m on 30 May 2021
Men's Triple Jump EL Max Heß (GER) 17.13 m on 30 May 2021
Men's 4 x 400m Relay EL Italy Team with Davide Re, Alessandro Sibilio, Edoardo Scotti and Vladimir Aceti 3:02.64 on 30 May 2021
Women's Javelin Throw CR Christin Hussong (GER) 69.19 m on 30 May 2021
Women's 4 x 400m Relay EL Poland Team with Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik, Kornelia Lesiewicz, Justyna Święty-Ersetic and Natalia Kaczmarek 3:26.37 on 30 May 2021.
Medal table
At the European Athletics Team Championships medals are only awarded to teams, but with gold, silver and bronze conventionally refers to the top three finishes.
First League
Participating countries
The two first teams of the First League 2021 shall be promoted to the Super League 2023. The lowest three teams of the First League 2021 (including Ireland as a penalty for its withdrawal) shall be relegated to the Second League 2023.
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(withdrew)
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Men's events
Women's events
Final standings
NOTES:
Ireland, who withdrew citing Covid reasons, was relegated to the Second League 2023.
As the city of Minsk, Belarus, had initially been chosen to host the 2021 Super League by European Athletics, their team should have been automatically promoted to that division following this competition.
Katsiaryna Karneyenka of Belarus, finishing 7th in the women's 5000 metres, and Kyriakos Zotos of Greece, finishing 5th in the men's shot put, have both been disqualified after the competition for previous doping violations. The scores have been changed accordingly.
Score table
Broken records
Men's Long Jump, CR, Miltiadis Tentoglou, 8,38 m, 19 June 2021
Men's 4 x 400m Relay, Final A, EL and NR, CZE (Jan Tesař, Vít Müller, Michal Desenský, Patrik Šorm) 3:02.42, 20 Jun 2021
Women's 400m, Final A, EL and CR, Femke Bol, 50.37, 19 Jun 2021
Women's 100m Hurdles, Final A, CR, Elvira Herman, 12.62, 20 Jun 2021
Women's Triple Jump, EL and NR, Senni Salminen, 14.63 m, 19 Jun 2021
Second League
Participating countries
The three first classified teams of the Second League 2021 shall be promoted to the First League 2023. The lowest three teams of the Second League 2021, Russia, Austria and Israel, did not participate and were automatically relegated to Third League 2023.
Austria and Israel withdrew due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while Russia were disqualified as the team was still banned from competing internationally at the time entries closed.
DNS
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DNS
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NOTES:
As Russia were serving their continuing suspension by the IAAF for gross and systematic doping violations, they were disqualified, and is thus relegated to Second League.
Men's events
Women's events
Final standings
Score table
Third League
3 promotion spots for 2023.
Participating countries
AASSE (, , )
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Men's events
Women's events
Final standings
Source: .
Score table
References
Statistics Handbook
Final results
Results book Bydgoszcz 2019.
First League Results Book
Third League Results Book
External links
Official EAA Site
Official Site
Official site First League
Official site Third League
European Athletics Team Championships
Team
European
International athletics competitions hosted by Bulgaria
International athletics competitions hosted by Cyprus
International athletics competitions hosted by Poland
International athletics competitions hosted by Romania
European Team Championships
European Team Championships |
27891701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20P.%20Jackson | Robert P. Jackson | Robert Porter Jackson (born 1956 in Paris, Tennessee) is a retired American foreign service officer and diplomat. He was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor.
Education
He received his B.A. from Bowdoin College, his M.A. from The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and his M.S. from National Defense University.
Career
After earning his B.A., Jackson taught English and American Civilization at the University of Clermont II in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He worked briefly for the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Internal Revenue Service before becoming an English teacher at Institut Montana in Zugerberg, Switzerland.
Jackson began his Foreign Service career in 1982, serving as a Consular and Economic Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Montreal, Canada. In 1985, he transferred to the U.S. Embassy in Bujumbura, Burundi, where he developed a lifelong passion for Africa.
He was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. From 2016 to 2018 he was United States Ambassador to Ghana. From 2013 to 2015 he was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. He was also the United States Ambassador to Cameroon. Prior to that he was Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'Affaires, a.i., at the U.S. Embassies in Morocco and Senegal. Mr. Jackson has also served as Director of the Office for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy; Coordinator of the Entry-Level Officer Training Program; and Country Officer for Botswana, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. His other overseas postings include Côte d'Ivoire, Portugal and Zimbabwe.
Notes
External links
U.S. Embassy Yaoundé: Ambassador’s biography
U.S. Department of State: Biography of Robert P. Jackson
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Ambassadors of the United States to Cameroon
Ambassadors of the United States to Ghana
Bowdoin College alumni
Elliott School of International Affairs alumni
Living people
National Defense University alumni
People from Tennessee
United States Foreign Service personnel
1956 births |
9243494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sormovsky%20City%20District | Sormovsky City District | Sormovsky City District (), or Sormovo (), is one of the eight districts of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It occupies the northwestern corner of the city, adjacent to the Volga River. Population:
The village originally known as Soromovo () had existed since 1542. In 1849, the Sormovo Works—soon one of Russia's most important machine-building plants, later known as Krasnoye Sormovo—was founded; its owner had the village renamed to more euphonic Sormovo. Although legally a village, it soon grew into a large workers' settlement; in 1922, Sormovo became a city; in 1929, it was amalgamated into the city of Nizhny Novgorod, becoming one of its districts.
It is one of the city's industrial districts. Besides Krasnoye Sormovo, its well-known enterprises include the Volga Shipyard(which was spun off from Krasnoye Sormovo in 1970, and is geographically adjacent to its parent plant) and the Sormovo Confectionery Factory ().
The May Day demonstration, mentioned in The Mother by Maxim Gorky, took place in Sormovo, 1902.
Recreation and sports
The district does not have good, conveniently accessible beaches on the Volga shoreline, due to much of it being used by shipyards and floodlands. Instead, the locals prefer to use sand beaches on several artificial lakes, which formed several decades ago in the pits left from defunct sand quarries.
Association football
DYuTs Sormovo (2002)
Sormovo airfield
Sokol Aircraft Plant and its airfield are located just south of the border of Sormovsky City District, within the neighboring Moskovsky City District of Nizhny Novgorod. Between 1956 and 1970, the territory of today's Moskovsky District was part of the Sormovsky District, meaning that during that time the Sormovo Airfield was actually within the Sormovsky District.
Transport
City Rail. Included in the structure of the Gorky railway. It is an auxiliary line for the metro. It has a transfer station from the Moskovsky railway station to the Moskovskaya metro station. In the same place it connects with the second line of the electric train in the direction of the Prospekt Gagarina station.
Suburban trains. There is a permanent connection with the cities of Balakhna and Zavolzhye. There are two railway lines that merge into one in front of the Pochinki station. Electric trains depart from Moskovsky railway station and Varya station. On the territory of the Sormovsky district there are Kooperativnaya stations (on the Nizhny Novgorod-Moskovsky - Kostarikha - Zavolzhye branch); Varya, Sormovo (on the branch of Varya - Zavolzhye), Pochinki, Koposovo, Narodnaya, Vysokovo, Dubravnaya.
Bus transport. On the territory of the Sormovsky district there is the Nizhny Novgorod passenger transport enterprise No. 1 (KIM street, 335). Buses (LiAZ and MAZ) and private fixed-route taxis (PAZ) are the main modes of transport in the area. City bus transport connects the Sormovsky district with all districts of Nizhny Novgorod, as well as with the working settlement of Bolshoye Kozino, Balakhninsky district, Nizhny Novgorod region (bus route No. 318). In addition, suburban and intercity bus routes pass through the Sormovsky district from the Kanavinskaya bus station in the direction of Balakhna, Zavolzhye, Gorodets, Chkalovsk, Sokolsky, Kovernin, Palekh, Puchezh, Yuryevets, Kineshma, Ivanovo, Kostroma.
Tram. 2 tram routes No. 6 and No. 7 connect the Sormovsky and Moskovsky districts with the Moskovsky railway station. From the tram stop Station Varya trams of these routes move along the ring towards each other.
References
City districts of Nizhny Novgorod |
36041199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson%20v%20Forestry%20Commission%20of%20Tasmania | Richardson v Forestry Commission of Tasmania | Richardson v Forestry Commission of Tasmania is an Australian legal decision in which the High Court of Australia upheld a Commonwealth law providing interim protection of an area of Tasmanian wilderness while an inquiry assessed what parts of the wilderness should be listed for World Heritage protection.
It implemented the constitutional external affairs power for environmental protection, the last time this part of the Australian Constitution was used was in 1983 Tasmanian Dams Case.
References
External links
External affairs power in the Australian Constitution cases
Forestry in Australia
High Court of Australia cases
Tasmanian forests
1988 in case law
1988 in Australian law
1988 in the environment |
41690345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isanthrene%20ustrina | Isanthrene ustrina | Isanthrene ustrina is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1824. It is found on Cuba and in Brazil.
References
Euchromiina
Moths described in 1824 |
44640952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mystery%20of%20Pine%20Creek%20Camp | The Mystery of Pine Creek Camp | The Mystery of Pine Creek Camp is a 1913 American silent film produced by Gene Gauntier Feature Players and distributed by Warner's Features. It was directed by Sidney Olcott with himself, Gene Gauntier, Jack J. Clark and Arthur Donaldson in the leading roles.
Cast
Gene Gauntier
Jack J. Clark
Sidney Olcott
Arthur Donaldson
Production notes
The film was shot in Jacksonville, Fla.
External links
The Mystery of Pine Creek Camp website dedicated to Sidney Olcott
1913 films
American silent short films
Films shot in Jacksonville, Florida
Films directed by Sidney Olcott
American black-and-white films
1910s mystery films
1910s American films
Silent American mystery films |
62088341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton-Translocating%20NAD%28P%29%2B%20Transhydrogenase | Proton-Translocating NAD(P)+ Transhydrogenase | Proton-Translocating NAD(P)+ Transhydrogenase (E.C. 7.1.1.1) is an enzyme in that catalyzes the translocation of hydrons that are connected to the redox reaction
NADH + NADP+ + H+outside => NAD+ + NADPH + H+inside
EC Number 7.1.1.1
EC 7 – Translocases are a grouping of enzymes with a common function of assisting to move a molecule, typically across a membrane.
EC 7.1 – enzymes that catalyze translocation of hydrons (the positive cations of all hydrogen isotopes e.g. protons, deuterons, tritons)
EC 7.1.1 – enzymes that catalyze translocation of hydrons that have a tie to oxidoreductase reactions
EC 7.1.1.1 – proton-translocating NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase.
Reaction pathway
The reaction that this enzyme catalyzes is
NADH + NADP+ + H+outside => NAD+ + NADPH + H+inside
This redox reaction is a transfer of hydride equivalents from NADH to NADP+ coupled to a translocation of protons across a membrane. NADP+ is reduced to NADPH by NADH, which is oxidized into NAD+. This reduction is tied to the inward translocation of protons across a membrane. This process is not necessarily coupled, but is found coupled in nature.
Known organisms and locations
The transhydrogenase is found in the inner mitochondrial membranes of all vertebrates excluding fish. While it is not found in the yeast Saccharomyces cervisiae, it is found in algae such as Acetabularia acetabulum, as well as in the cytosolic membrane of many bacteria, including Escherichia coli. In E. coli the enzyme helps to provide between 35-45% of cytosolic NADPH under standard growth conditions. E. coli will be our model organism when looking at structure and function.
Description of known crystal structures/active sites
The structure of proton-translocating NADP(+) transhydrogenase has been shown to vary between organisms. The structures of the enzyme share an architecture with 3 known domains, dI, dII, dIII, but differ on exact structure and makeup of these domains. Humans have a single polypeptide chain that forms all three domains. Bacteria are split into two main groups. Some are similar to E. coli, which have two subunits, α and β. Other bacteria have a similar β subunit, while their α subunit is split into two so that the dI domain is its own polypeptide. These three domains form a heterotrimer, with both dI and dIII in the cytosolic space and connected to dII. The heterotrimer forms a dimer, with dI as the dimerization unit
dII
The domain II (dII) is around 400 residues and spans across the membrane forming a channel for protons. It has 13 α-helices comprising its transmembrane domain. Since both ends of the dII domain are on the cytosolic side of the membrane, an even number of helices would make more sense, structurally. The current prediction as to why an odd number of helices exists in dII is that the α and β subunits have another helix that connects their C and N termini. dII also has few conserved residues and shorter loops on the periplasmic side of the transmembrane domain, while the cytosolic side has highly conserved and longer loops.
dI
Domain dI is about 400 residues long and protrudes into the cytosolic space with a binding site for NAD(H). When crystallized in its dimerized form (a homodimer), dI has several subdomains, including the binding site for NAD(H). Two subdomains in particular, dI1 and dI2 both contain a Rossmann fold, which is made of a 6-stranded parallel β-sheet surrounded by α-helices, and are connected by two longer α-helices. The C termini of the two dI monomers forms the substrate-binding cleft for NAD(H).
dIII
Domain dIII is about 200 residues long and also protrudes into the cytosolic space, where it has a binding site for NADP(H). Similar to dI, dIII comprises a Rossmann fold. When in the complete heterotrimer, dIII is thought to extend into the cleft of dI in order to bring their substrate-binding sites, and their substrates, closer together to allow an easier transfer of hydride ion from NADH to NADP+. A high affinity for NADP(H) is evidenced by loop E, which acts as a lid to allow tighter bonding of the ligand via hydrogen bonding. There is also a fingerprint motif (Gly-X-Gly-X-X-Ala/Val) that increases specificity of the enzyme to bind to the proper substrate which is highly conserved. The link between dIII and dII is less rigid, and consists of a scattering of smaller polar residues as well as a helix D/loop D region that perpendicularly extends from the Rossmann fold.
Structure tied to function
This enzyme’s structure is tied to its function heavily. The transmembrane domain in dII formed by alpha helices lends itself well to its function as a proton channel across a membrane. The lid and fingerprint motifs used by dIII to increase affinity to NADP(H) are also examples of its structure being tied to function. In addition, the ridge of dIII fitting into the cleft of dI shows that even the structure of the dI/dIII dimer is helpful in moving their two substrates closer together to allow hydride transfer.
Since this enzyme exists in multiple organisms, it is possible to look at multiple orthologs of this enzyme. Their structures are not identical, but most are highly similar, and all share the same architecture and domains. This all shows that the structure of this enzyme is closely connected to its role in reduction of NADP+.
Enzyme functions in the cell
NADPH is used as a reducing agent in many anabolic reactions. Proton translocating NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase is one of the main ways that cells can regenerate NADPH after it is used. In E. coli, this pathway contribute equal amounts of NADPH as the pentose phosphate pathway, and both were the main producers of NADPH under standard growth conditions.
NADP(H) and NAD(H) are equal and opposite contributors to metabolism, and this enzyme is necessary to keep a balance between the two. It can also function to generate a proton gradient across a membrane, as it is a reversible reaction, and is used as such in certain organisms.
“It can contribute to NADPH formation for bio-synthesis and glutathione reduction, in the regulation of flux through the tricarboxylic acid cycle, and, operating in reverse in some invertebrates, it can transfer reducing power from NADPH to NAD+ to fuel an anaerobic respiratory chain.” – J. Baz Jackson, Sarah J. Peake, and Scott A. White on the role of proton translocating NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase in the cell.
References
Enzymes |
24489930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C7H5NO4 | C7H5NO4 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C7H5NO4}}
The molecular formula C7H5NO4 (molar mass: 167.12 g/mol) may refer to:
Dinicotinic acid, a dicarboxylic acid
Dipicolinic acid, a dicarboxylic acid
Nitrobenzoic acids, a group of benzoic acid derivatives
2-Nitrobenzoic acid
3-Nitrobenzoic acid
4-Nitrobenzoic acid
Lutidinic acid, a dicarboxylic acid
Quinolinic acid, a dicarboxylic acid |
973306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung | Kung | Kung or Küng may refer to:
ǃKung people
ǃKung language
Kung (Haida village), an historical village of the Haida people of the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, Canada; also Kung Indian Reserve No. 11 at the same location
Kung, alternate name of Kong, Iran, city on the Persian Gulf
Kung (宮), first note in the Chinese pentatonic scale or do
"Kung", a song by the rock band Phish
Kung (comics), a supervillain from DC Comics
Kung, Sila Lat, Sila Lat District, Sisaket Province, Thailand
KUNG, a vehicle module
Küng Blockflöten GmbH, Swiss recorder maker
Surnames
Küng (also Kueng), people with the surname
Kong (surname) or 孔; Kung is a transliteration of this common Chinese and Korean surname |
3315843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%20Godiva%20Memorial%20Bnad | Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad | The (LGMB) is a student-run scramble band within the University of Toronto Engineering Society. The band is notable for its open membership policy and sometimes audacious and surprise appearances at events, venues and university lectures.
Originally named the Lady Godiva Memorial Band, the group has been renamed since its founding to the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad, with the title "Bnad" purposely misspelled.
While the band has traditional marching band instrumentation, members can also be seen with objects such as stop signs, fire bells, jugs, and frying pans.
Similar bands exist in engineering faculties at the University of Manitoba () and the University of British Columbia (Godiva Band).
Some notable past members of the LGMB include Don Monro (1961–1966) and Bob Bossin (1966–1969).
History
Founding
The Lady Godiva Memorial Band was founded in 1949, by A.J. Paul La Prairie while he was a student at the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. Originally called The Lady Godiva Band, it was soon renamed to the Lady Godiva Memorial Band, and then Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad years later.
In 1949, the group had around fifteen members and was initially led by their founder A.J. Paul La Prairie. During their second rehearsal, however, it was discovered that La Prairie could not read music, so the band was turned over to Tom Kenney, a chemical engineering student.
The first uniform consisted of a few red military jackets and pith helmets. The uniform along with their first bass drum, two tenor drums, cymbals and a drum major's baton were courtesy of La Prairie's resourcefulness and his military connections. Members who did not wear military jackets were often seen in the traditional leather jacket of the engineering faculty. Later, members began to wear their decorated hardhats to events.
The first public appearance of the band was in October 1949 at the annual University of Toronto homecoming parade on the back of a flatbed truck.
1960s and 1970s
The band notably attended a prank set at the opening of the Bloor-Danforth subway on February 26, 1966. During this time around 500 University of Toronto students fled into the station by jumping over the turnstiles, including LGMB members. 400 members boarded the subway train, while some of the remaining students pulled the emergency power switch which interfered with regular service for more than five hours.
In the 1970s, at the beginning of University of Toronto Frosh Week each year, the LGMB met on the provincial lawn in front of the Ontario provincial legislature. There with engineering, law, medical and arts first year students they received a speech from the presiding Ontario Premier. During the ceremony the band played several "standard" selections as well as Godiva's Hymn.
During February 1972, the band played uninvited at an important hockey game where the University of Toronto Varsity Blues played the USSR student national hockey team.
In the fall of 1976 the LGMB played at the CN tower alongside Pierre Trudeau and his wife Margaret, becoming the first band to play at the CN Tower.
In 1977, band members began to wear a new uniform. Along with leather jackets and decorated hardhats, members also wore hockey shirts adorned with the LGMB logo on the front. To reflect the colours of the Skule, the shirts were originally mostly yellow with blue and white accents. This design was updated to mostly blue with yellow and white accents in 1993.
Later years
In 2000, the LGMB sat in the audience for a showing of Jonovision. They were mentioned briefly by the host Jonathan Torrens. The LGMB also made it onto Breakfast Television on September 3, 2002.
In 2002, the band continued its tradition of attending "openings" by riding on the opening subway of the Sheppard subway line.
The band participated in the 2007 Toronto Santa Claus Parade for the first time officially. This came after years of crashing the parade uninvited, which often resulting in band members being escorted away by the Toronto Police Service. The LGMB has been invited back to the Santa Claus Parade every year since.
Performance style
The band is formed as a scramble band and does not formally march to set cadences. The group gathers as a loose formation. While on parade or at an event, the choice of pieces is typically spontaneous. The director, known as the , will informally start playing the song on their own instrument, with the rest of the group joining in afterwards.
Certain events such as the Toronto Santa Claus Parade, require the band to refrain from parody songs with lyrics that are considered unsuitable for younger children.
Although the structure is loose on song selection, traditional and frequent locations or events have set songs. For example, the "Walking Song" is played when the band walks, "Wipe Out" is played when the band returns to the instrument storage room through the archway on the west side of Hart House, and "Godiva's Hymn" is played in the presence of the Skule's mascot, Ye Olde Mighty Skule Cannon.
Repertoire
The band plays an assortment of musical cheers, parody songs, drinking songs and Christmas songs. Parody songs such as "Game Take Me Out" and "Four Skin" have been written to the tunes of Take Me Out to the Ball Game and My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, respectively.
Traditional marching songs such as Washington and Lee Swing and the University of Toronto's fight song, The Blue and White are also included in the band's main repertoire.
One staple of the band's repertoire is Godiva's Hymn and it is often played with lyrics sung by accompanying band members.
Instrumentation
During an event, band members play an instrument of their choice including traditional marching band instruments such as brass and woodwind instruments. As well, the group also includes non-traditional marching band instruments such as electric guitar (with portable amplifier), electric keyboard, melodica, and kazoo.
Members are also allowed to perform on any other non-musical instruments such as a stop sign, wet floor sign, kettle, frying pan, and picket sign. These primarily hit with sticks, much like a percussion instrument.
Although not constrained, the band leader typically plays the trumpet or trombone for its simplicity, range, and volume. The drum major, known in the band as the plays the snare drum without exception, but may improvise by tapping on any other instrument, object, or person as a drum during certain pieces.
Albums and discography
The band has released eight albums: Lady Godiva Memorial Band at the Mighty Cannonball (1962), The Lady Godiva Memorial Band Strikes Back!! (1964), Lady Godiva Memorial Band Blows (1967), Band With the Runs (1977), Never Mind the Football Game, Here's the Lady Godiva Memorial Band (1989), Let Go Me Bongos! (1999), Let's Get More Beer! (2017), and Never Mind Skule 150, Here's the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad (2023).
Awards
1st Place - 1964 Kiwanis Music Festival, Brass and Reed Bands
1st Place - 1967 Kiwanis Music Festival
2nd Place - 1976 Kiwanis Music Festival, Brass and Reed Bands (Class 425)
1st Place - 1980 Kiwanis Music Festival, Brass and Reed Bands — membership to be less than 30 (Class 501)
References
External links
The Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad
University of Toronto Engineering Society (skule.ca)
Canadian marching bands
University of Toronto
College marching bands in Canada
Scramble bands
Musical groups established in the 1950s
1950s establishments in Ontario |
34317695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulshan%20Devaiah | Gulshan Devaiah | {{Infobox person
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Gulshan Devaiah is an Indian actor who primarily appears in Hindi films. He is known for his roles in Shaitan, Hate Story and Hunterrr. His performance in Shaitan was critically praised and earned him a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut.
Early life and education
Devaiah was born on 28 May 1978 in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India into a Kodava family. He is a NIFT graduate. He is the son of Sri Devaiah and Pushpalata who were employed by Bharat Electronics Ltd. He completed his primary education at Cluny Convent and St Joseph's Indian High School. After graduation from NIFT, he got jobs in the fashion industry where he worked for 10 years. He also taught Bangalore students, fashion, at Wigan & Leigh College. Devaiah started his Bollywood journey with minor roles in Bangalore's English theatre. After he performed in several dramas, he moved to Mumbai for bigger opportunities.
Personal life
He was married to actress Kallirroi Tziafeta, from Greece, from 2012 to 2020.
Career
Devaiah started his career from the Anurag Kashyap's feature film That Girl in Yellow Boots, alongside Kalki Koechlin and Naseeruddin Shah in 2010. The film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, followed by the Venice Film Festival. He played the role of Chitiappa in the film. Next in 2011, he appeared in Rohan Sippy's crime thriller Dum Maaro Dum, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu and Prateik Babbar, where he played the role of Ricky. In the same year, Devaiah appeared in Bejoy Nambiar's Hindi thriller film Shaitan, starring Rajeev Khandelwal and Kalki Koechlin, where he portrayed the role of Karan Chaudhary "KC". Released in June 2011, the film was a critical and commercial success, where Devaiah's performance was acclaimed. He was nominated for the several awards including, Filmfare Awards, Screen Awards, Stardust Awards and Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards in the category of Best Male Debut and Best Actor in a Supporting Role, along with other ensemble characters.
In 2012, Devaiah appeared in Vivek Agnihotri's erotic thriller Hate Story, produced by Vikram Bhatt, co-starring Paoli Dam. This was his first lead role, where he portrayed the antagonistic role of Siddharth Dhanrajgir, a cocky son of a rich business tycoon. The film went on to become a sleeper hit, and garnered the positive reviews from the critics. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated 3/5 to the film and labelled Devaiah's performance as "excellent". The same year, he played in Vasan Bala's crime thriller film Peddlers alongside Nimrat Kaur, where he portrayed the role of Ranjit D'souza, a 20-years old boy, who gets trapped in the drug trade. The film was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, which was muted by the critics. In 2013, Devaiah appeared in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's romantic-tragedy drama film Ram-Leela, starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, where he played the role of Bhavani, which was a 'blockbuster' in the year. After a year gap, In 2015, Devaiah appeared in Harshavardan Kulkarni's adult comedy film Hunterrr, co-starring Radhika Apte, where he portrayed the role of Mandar Ponkshe, a sex-addicted man and describing his lustful journey in life. The film did well at the box-office. In 2016, he was also seen playing the role of an NRI in Vivek Agnihotri's film Junooniyat. Devaiah signed 3 films in 2017, Cabaret, A Death in the Gunj and CandyFlip. He played double role of twin brothers Karate Mani and Jimmy in action comedy film Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota for which he won Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor and was also nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played the role of Buraq Ansari in action film Commando 3. In 2020 he appeared in Amazon Prime's drama series Afsos and Netflix original film Ghost Stories''.
Filmography
Films
Television
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Male actors from Bangalore
Film directors from Bangalore
Living people
1978 births
Male actors in Hindi cinema
Male actors in Kannada cinema
Indian male film actors
Filmfare Awards South winners
National Institute of Fashion Technology alumni
21st-century Indian male actors
Kodava people
Screen Awards winners
Zee Cine Awards winners |
38823520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20hub%20gears | Comparison of hub gears | This page is a list of internal hub gears for bicycles.
References
Cycling-related lists
Technological comparisons
Bicycle parts |
50787421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella%20%28comics%29 | Isabella (comics) | Isabella (, i.e. "Isabella Duchess of the Devils") is an Italian comic book series created by Giorgio Cavedon as the writer and Sandro Angiolini as artist.
History
The series started in 1966 and it was inspired in plot and title by the renowned novel Angélique, the Marquise of the Angels and its on-screen adaptation, which had had a significant success at the Italian box office. Set in 17th century France, it features the adventures of Isabella de Frissac, an uninhibited noblewoman who works as a secret agent for cardinal Richelieu and, in the course if her missions, faces any sort of vexation and torture.
The series is considered a progenitor of Italian adult comics, especially because of its sado-masochistic elements, which were an absolute innovation in the fumetti panorama. The storylines also included grotesque situations, such as a scene in episode 8 which depicted the protagonist being raped by a bear.
Starting from July 1969 Gaspare De Fiore and Umberto Sammarini replaced Angiolini as artists. Publications ceased in October 1976, after 263 issues.
A comic book collection series, Isabella Gigante was published between 1969 and 1971.
Legacy
A film adaptation, Isabella, Duchess of the Devils, directed by Bruno Corbucci and starring Brigitte Skay in the title role, was released in 1969.
The comic book also inspired a series of novels, Le memorie di Isabella.
References
Italian comics titles
Isabella
Isabella
1966 comics debuts
Isabella
Isabella
Adventure comics
BDSM literature
Comics about women
Female characters in comics
Comics set in the 17th century
Comics set in France
Italian comics adapted into films |
6584884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Rufino%20Echenique | José Rufino Echenique | José Rufino Pompeyo Echenique Benavente (November 16, 1808 – June 16, 1887) served as the 12th President of Peru from 1851 to 1855.
He participated in the Peruvian War of Independence. In 1851, Echenique won the presidential elections to succeed Ramón Castilla. Under his government, the first civil laws of Peru were promulgated, and slavery was abolished. The finalizing phase of the construction of the Tacna-Arica railroad was also completed.
Echenique was overthrown by a liberal revolution led by Ramón Castilla in 1855 after a ball hosted by his wife, Victoria Tristán. He served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1864, and President of the Senate from 1868 to 1871.
His son, Juan Martín Echenique, was also active in Peruvian politics.
Echenique hosted the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin and Gauguin's mother in his presidential home in central Lima from 1849 to 1854, during Gauguin's childhood.
See also
List of presidents of Peru
References
1808 births
1887 deaths
People from Puno Region
Peruvian people of Basque descent
Presidents of Peru
Presidents of the Senate of Peru
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Peru
Defense ministers of Peru |
23820426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20Agricultural%20Trade%20System%20of%20the%20United%20States | Foreign Agricultural Trade System of the United States | FATUS (Foreign Agricultural Trade System of the United States) is a system of more than 200 trade codes created and maintained by USDA’s Economic Research Service to summarize U.S. agricultural trade in a form accessible to the public. FATUS codes aggregate more than 4,000 import and 2,000 export, 10-digit agricultural trade codes from the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. (HTS), under which all U.S. trade data are originally collected by the Census Bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce. FATUS groupings are similar to, but tend to be more detailed than, those provided to the public through the BICO data system maintained by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.
See also
BICO
U.S. Trade Internet System.
United States Department of Agriculture |
38581712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Conway%20County%20School%20District | South Conway County School District | South Conway County School District is a public school district in southern Conway County, Arkansas with its headquarters in Morrilton, the county seat.
The district encompasses of land in Conway County, and serves the municipalities of Morrilton, Menifee, Oppelo, and Plumerville. It also serves the unincorporated areas of Solgohachia, and Springfield.
History
In 1980 the East Side, Morrilton, and Plumerville School districts consolidated to form the new South Conway County district.
In 1974 the Conway County School District dissolved, with the Morrilton school district receiving a portion of it.
Schools
Secondary education
Morrilton High School, serving grades 9 through 12.
Morrilton Junior High School, serving grades 7 through 9.
River Valley Technical Center, serving grades 10 through 12.
River Valley Technical Center
River Valley Technical Center is a secondary area technical center designed to allow young people to receive skill training while they are still in high school. The Center serves students in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades from Morrilton, Nemo Vista, Perryville, and Wonderview High Schools
Students receive credit to be applied to their graduation requirements by their home school, and may also earn college credit at University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton or Arkansas State University-Beebe. There is no cost to the student. Tuition is paid by the student's home school.
The Center offers the following programs:
Automotive Collision Repair
Automotive Service Technology
Construction Technology
Cosmetology
Drafting & Design
Medical Professions Education
Petroleum Technology
Early childhood and elementary education
Morrilton Intermediate School, serving grades 4 through 6.
Morrilton Elementary School, serving grades 2 and 3.
Morrilton Primary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 2.
References
Further reading
(Download) - Includes maps of predecessor districts
External links
Education in Conway County, Arkansas
School districts in Arkansas
1980 establishments in Arkansas
School districts established in 1980 |
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