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9746001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISconf | ISconf | In computing, ISconf is a software tool to manage a network of servers.
ISconf operates on a pull model, meaning even servers that are not up when a change is made will receive the change once they come back up. As of version 4, ISconf requires no central server, though it does expect all servers to start identically, which is easiest to accomplish using some form of automated install which may require a central server.
Theory
ISconf comes from the "InfraStructure administration" movement which created and defined most of the OS-side backgrounds (in theory terms) of what is now making up the DevOps sphere. It is based on the idea that the best way to keep servers from diverging is to apply the same set of operations in the same order.
This is in contrast to the "convergence" theory of system automation, which attempts to "converge" servers to known states from arbitrary states using sets of rules such as "if a package outside of this set is installed, uninstall it", "if package X is not installed, install it", or "if daemon X is not running, start it". According to Steve Traugott, there is no way to guarantee that a given set of rules will actually be able to converge from any given state.
ISconf enforces order of operations by assuming only commands issued through it change the state of the system. As a result, if a package or file is installed on a system manually, it will stay there, which may eventually cause problems such as version conflicts. ISconf is targeted at environments where configurations must remain identical. In such environments, it is typical to give only a few systems administrators root access to hosts. This minimizes the risk of manual changes because it is easy to train a small group of people to only make changes through ISconf.
ISconf was inspired by, and originally implemented as, Makefiles. However, Makefiles specify dependencies and not a total ordering of operations. ISconf version 1 dealt with this by making each operation dependent on the previous one, but this was tedious and poorly suited to Make. More recent versions of ISconf use a simple append-only journal.
Major versions
The major version in common use apparently were ISconf2 and ISconf3, while ISconf4 stayed in a very long beta period.
It had in fact been finished and put to use in larger environments but due to the delay saw limited community adoption.
ISconf 1 (Makefiles)
ISconf 2 (early 200x?) written by Steve Traugott
ISconf 3 (2002) was a rewrite of version 2 by Luke Kanies.
ISconf 4 was mostly written by the original author, Steve Traugott.
Trivia
Luke Kanies later switched to CFengine2, until finally authored and released Puppet. As a result, one could consider ISconf an ancestor of Puppet, though both CFengine and Puppet implement the "convergence" model of configuration management, essentially the opposite of the "order of operations" model implemented by at least ISconf versions 1, 2, and 4.
See also
Comparison of open source configuration management software
External links
ISconf's web site
Bootstrapping an Infrastructure, Steve Traugott and Joel Huddleston's LISA '98 paper about the ideas that led to ISconf (pre-dates ISconf itself)
Lukes description of ISconf 3 theoretical background and goals
Theory section and mailing list archives for system management automation
Github Repository for ISconf4
Configuration management |
51539390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20Colorado%20State%20Rams%20football%20team | 1997 Colorado State Rams football team | The 1997 Colorado State Rams football team represented Colorado State University in the 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season The Rams were led by fifth-year head coach Sonny Lubick and played their home games at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, Colorado. Colorado State competed as a member of the Western Athletic Conference in the Pacific Division. They won that division with a 7–1 conference record, earning them a spot in the 1997 WAC Championship Game, where they defeated New Mexico to earn their third WAC title in four years. They were invited to the 1997 Holiday Bowl, where they defeated Missouri, and were ranked 17th in the final AP Poll of the season, the second ranked finish in school history and first since 1994.
Schedule
Roster
References
Colorado State
Colorado State Rams football seasons
Western Athletic Conference football champion seasons
Holiday Bowl champion seasons
Colorado State Rams football |
53523406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum%20car | Pendulum car | The pendulum car was an experimental tilting coach built by the Pacific Railway Equipment Company (PERC) in the early 1940s. It used an innovative coiled spring suspension system that allowed the cars to lean into curves, thus increasing passenger comfort during high speed travel. PERC built three cars which were tested on American railroads throughout the 1940s, but the advent of World War II, and their high cost relative to conventional equipment, prevented their wider adoption.
Design
The design of the pendulum car was strongly influenced by the 1930s aviation engineering. Its chief designer, William E. Van Dorn, was an aeronautical engineer from California Institute of Technology. Two other engineers on the project, Eliot F. Stoner and Herbert J. Wieden, had worked for Northrop Aircraft.
The primary innovation in the pendulum car was in the design of the truck. The body of the car rested on coiled springs, which were in turn attached to the truck. The springs connected to the car body at a point above the body's center of gravity, causing the body to effectively hang on the springs. As the car entered curves, it could "tilt" or swing, leaning to the inside of the curve. As the designers described in a paper presented at the annual conference of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1940:
The prototype, completed in 1937, differed in many respects from the production model. It was constructed from plywood instead of steel, used stressed skin construction, and lacked "most of the usual auxiliary equipment of passenger cars." This contributed to the comparatively low weight of . The two-unit articulated coach measured long.
The production model was a standard long and weighed . The increased weight came from the stressed skin steel construction (instead of plywood), and the standard auxiliary equipment. Interior seating capacity ranged from 56–68. The distinctive oval or oblong windows were designed to reduce stress concentrations.
History
The pendulum car was the brainchild of William E. Van Dorn. Financial backing came from Cortlandt T. Hill, grandson of railway magnate James J. Hill. They, along with F. C. Lindvall, an electrical engineering professor at Caltech, formed the Pacific Railway Equipment Company in 1935 to explore Van Dorn's concept. PERC acquired a factory near Los Angeles Municipal Airport (now Los Angeles International Airport) and constructed a two-car articulated prototype. The prototype was unveiled on December 22, 1937, and began tests on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe).
The prototype spent several years running over the Santa Fe's lines in Southern California. The suspension system worked: the car rode far better than conventional designs. Life reported that it was "virtually vibrationless" at , and "quite comfortable" at .
Three railroads ordered production versions of the pendulum car: the Santa Fe, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), and the Great Northern Railway (GN). The Santa Fe's, 1100, was delivered in November 1941. It seated 56, with the additional space going to men's and women's bathrooms at opposite ends of the car. The CB&Q and GN cars arrived in early 1942. The CB&Q car, numbered 6000 and named Silver Pendulum, seated 60. GN numbered its car 999; it could seat 68.
The introduction of the cars coincided with the entrance of the United States into World War II. As the cars arrived they entered service with their respective railroads. The Santa Fe employed No. 1100 on the El Capitan. The three cars came together for a special run on April 13, 1942, between Chicago and Galesburg, Illinois, on April 13, 1942. The cars operated together with a lightweight and a heavyweight coach, and attained a maximum speed of .
The railroads did not pursue the pendulum design after the war, for reasons which remain unclear. Most authors point to the expense of the design, with the interruption of the war as a complicating factor. The Pacific Railway Equipment Company, rebranded as Preco, found success building fans for refrigerator cars. The cars remained in service until their natural retirement. The Santa Fe assigned No. 1100 to the San Diegan. By 1958 CB&Q No. 6000, pulled by a motorcar, served on an unnamed connection of the Kansas City Zephyr. Neither the prototype nor any of the production cars were preserved.
Other examples of pendulum suspension
Swincar, all-terrain one-sitter leisure electric vehicle.
See also
Amtrak Cascades
UAC TurboTrain
Notes
References
External links
The Strange Case of the Pendulum Car on Streamliner Memories
Rail passenger cars of the United States
Tilting trains
Train-related introductions in 1937 |
74600461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%20%28bear%29 | Rocky (bear) | Rocky (b. 1953) was a parachuting Asian black bear. She was purchased from a Kumamoto zoo to serve as a mascot for the U.S. 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team during the Korean War. She completed five parachute jumps, earning her parachutist badge. After sustaining injuries during an artillery attack, she was awarded a Purple Heart. After she was discharged, Rocky was shipped to the United States where she was a guest on the television program Zoo Parade. She lived out the remainder of her life at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.
Early life and paratrooping
Rocky was born on 1 April 1953 in Hokkaido. She lived briefly at a zoo in Kumamoto, Japan. Members of the U.S. 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team's AAA Battery were stationed in Kumamoto during the Korean War. They decided they needed a mascot for the regiment and purchased the cub from the zoo for (approximately $111). She was originally named Rakkasan, or "Rocky-San", which was a nickname for the regiment and the Japanese word for parachute ().
Rocky served as the mascot for the battalion and was taken along on parachute jumps. She was "encouraged" to jump five times, including one assisted jump, meeting the qualifications for designation as a paratrooper and earning her parachutist badge. Rocky had a special parachute harness, but was a reluctant paratrooper. For her first jump, just two months after leaving the zoo, she was placed in the kit bag of Gene Castle. On her next jump, out of a C-119, she bit three soldiers before the jumpmaster eventually pushed her out. On her fourth jump, she chewed the toe off of the boot of a paratrooper who was forcing her out of the plane.
The 187th was stationed in Korea for four months in the summer of 1953. Rocky was outside of the mess hall when the AAA Battery came under artillery fire, Rocky was hit underneath the chin by shell fragments. She received a Purple Heart. She also received a Korean Service Medal. Despite her accolades, she bit several soldiers, shredded chairs, stole food, and uprooted trees. According to a 1954 article in Stars And Stripes, she was "destined to be a permanent Pvt. E-2" due to her "somewhat unsoldierly" conduct, including biting Castle, going AWOL, and missing a bed check.
Lincoln Park Zoo
As Rocky grew, she became difficult for the soldiers to handle. A collection of $500 was raised to pay for her to be sent to a zoo in the United States. Master sergeant Gene Castle, a paratrooper from Paintsville, Kentucky, raised Rocky from the time she was a cub. He elected to donate her to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago because many of the soldiers who served in the battalion were from the Midwest. Rocky was discharged and travelled on the Japanese transport ship Arimasan Maru to the Oakland Army Terminal, where she nipped at a dockworker. Castle met her there and then drove her in a trailer to Chicago. They both appeared on the television program Zoo Parade.
Rocky was transferred to the Lincoln Park Zoo in October 1954, while Marlin Perkins was serving as the zoo director. Then about 16 months old and weighing , she was the subject of a newspaper article which announced that "Rocky, the world's youngest lady paratrooper, was locked up Saturday in Lincoln Park Zoo—and there she'll stay."
In 1962, Rocky was paired with a male bear from the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo.
See also
Teddy bear parachuting
References
1953 animal births
Individual bears
Animals exhibited in zoos
Paratroopers
Army mascots
United States Army personnel of the Korean War |
66168526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda%20Jackson%20%28album%29 | Wanda Jackson (album) | Wanda Jackson is the debut studio album by country music and rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson. It was released in July 1958 by Capitol Records (catalog no. T-1041).
In the annual poll of country music disc jockeys by Billboard magazine, it was ranked as the No. 15 album of 1958.
AllMusic gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half stars. Reviewer William Ruhlman wrote that Jackson showed versatility on the album, performing songs in traditional county and pop styles, in addition to the rockabilly style that brought her fame.
Track listing
Side A
"Day Dreaming" (Bill Cantrell, Quinton Claunch, Bud Deckelman) [3:08]
"I Wanna Waltz" (Thelma Blackmon) [2:04]
"Heartbreak Ahead" (Dorothy Summers Brown) [2:48]
"Making Believe" (Jimmy Work) [2:19]
"Here We Are Again" (Don Everly, Phil Everly) [2:51]
"Long Tall Sally" (Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, Enotris Johnson, Richard Penniman) [1:59]
Side B
"Just Call Me Lonesome" (Rex Griffin) [3:09]
"Let Me Go Lover" (Jenny Lou Carson, Al Hill) [2:14]
"Money, Honey" (Jesse Stone) [2:14]
"I Can't Make My Dreams Understood" (Buck Bryant, Jim West) [2:23]
Happy, Happy Birthday" (Gilbert Lopez, Margo Sylvia) [2:38]
"Let's Have a Party" (Jessie Mae Robinson) [2:11]
Bonus tracks
"Half as Good a Girl" (Jack Rhodes)
"Silver Threads and Golden Needles" (Dick Reynolds, Jack Rhodes)
"Cryin' Through the Night" (Oscar Levant)
"Let Me Explain" (Chuck Willis)
"No Wedding Bells for Joe" (Jim Coleman, Marijohn Wilkin)
"Just a Queen For a Day" (Harlan Howard)
References
1958 debut albums
Wanda Jackson albums
Capitol Records albums |
21984843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erno%20Crisa | Erno Crisa | Erno Crisa (10 March 1914 – 4 April 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1944 and 1968. His last film was the spaghetti western Sugar Colt.
Partial filmography
Croisières sidérales (1942) - L'homme sur le manège (uncredited)
Coup de tête (1944) - (uncredited)
St. Val's Mystery (1945) - Dédé - le vagabond
The Last Judgment (1945)
Christine se marie (1946)
Les gueux au paradis (1946)
La figure de proue (1948) - Le Guen
Scandale (1948)
The White Line (1950) - Stefano
The Last Sentence (1951) - Roberto
Messalina (1951) - Timo / Timus
Sunday Heroes (1952) - Stefan
Papà ti ricordo (1952)
La colpa di una madre (1952) - Alberto
Canzoni di mezzo secolo (1952)
I falsari (1953) - Pietro
Jealousy (1953) - Baron Antonio
Cavalcade of Song (1953) - Il guappo
Violenza sul lago (1954) - Marco
Mata Hari's Daughter (1954) - Prince Anak
Cañas y barro (1954) - Jaime
The Gold of Naples (1954) - Don Nicola (segment "Teresa")
Questi fantasmi (1954)
Di qua, di là del Piave (1954)
La Tierra del Fuego se apaga (1955)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955) - Oliver Mellors
Don Juan (1956) - Don Juan
La fille de feu (1958) - Larry Gordon
Caterina Sforza, la leonessa di Romagna (1959) - Cesare Borgia
The Black Archer (1959) - Lodovico
Due selvaggi a corte (1959) - Marco Venier
I mafiosi (1959) - Turi
Carthage in Flames (1960) - Asdrubak
The Cossacks (1960) - Kasi
Purple Noon (1960) - Inspector Ricordi
Cleopatra's Daughter (1960) - Kefren - Tegi's Councellor
The Bacchantes (1961) - Atteon
Maciste contro lo sceicco (1962) - The Sheik
Julius Caesar Against the Pirates (1962) - Silla
Passport for a Corpse (1962) - Walter
Taras Bulba, the Cossack (1962)
Colossus of the Arena (1962) - Oniris
Le due leggi (1962)
Goliath and the Sins of Babylon (1963) - Morakeb
Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963) - Decio Vatinio
Le fils de Tarass Boulba (1964)
Vengeance of the Vikings (1965) - Eyolf
Seven Rebel Gladiators (1965) - Morakeb
Kommissar X – Drei gelbe Katzen (1966) - Baker
Sugar Colt (1966) - Yonker
Pecos Cleans Up (1967)
Angelique and the Sultan (1968) - Turkish Ambassador
References
External links
1914 births
1968 deaths
Italian male film actors
20th-century Italian male actors |
59486205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Hakanoa | Lake Hakanoa | Lake Hakanoa is located within the eastern side of the Huntly township, in the Waikato Region of New Zealand. Lake Hakanoa is a riverine lake with links to the Waikato River, which lies to the west. A smaller lake lies within wetland near the southeastern edge of Hakanoa.
There is a walking track around the perimeter of the lake.
The lake is in size, has a maximum depth of , with a catchment area of . The domain, lake, edges and wetland cover . The lake level is controlled by a weir on the Hakanoa Stream, which drains to north into the Waikato River. The lake was lowered over in 1923, though drainage work had also been done in 1911.
When Māori first came in the 14th century, tuna (eels) were plentiful in all the local lakes. After the invasion of the Waikato, Lake Hakanoa was usually referred to as a swamp and coal mine workings and spoil tips surrounded the lake, with a shaft close by, started after a new mine opened on the east bank after 1910. In 1932 unemployment relief schemes formed the tips into Huntly School grounds (in 1960 the municipal landfill south of the school was added), a rifle range and soccer club. In 1911 Lake Hakanoa was declared a game sanctuary and in 1926 it became a wildlife reserve. However, to improve fisheries, attempts were made to remove shags from the lake in 1927, which didn't become a protected refuge until 1958. Huntly Athletic Park Domain was created in 1930 as a recreation reserve and swimming pools added from 1943. Huntly Yacht Club has used the lake since 1954. The walkway around the lake was started in the 1960s and completed in 2001. Weeds affected boating in the 1950s and 1960s, so paraquat was used to kill it, but other water life was also affected. However, in 1987 bittern and spotless crake were noted around the lake. Huntly Lions built the bandstand in 2001. Management was transferred from the Department of Conservation to Waikato District Council in 2004. Features around the lake include Genesis Energy Gardens, Raahui Pookeka Gardens and the Green Cathedral.
Fish
Trout were put into the lake in 1907 and perch at about the same time. A 2016 fish survey found mosquito fish the most common, but koi carp formed the greatest mass of a sample catch, at , followed by shortfin eels, .
See also
List of lakes of New Zealand
References
External links
https://www.hamiltonwaikato.com/experiences/walking-hiking-trails/lake-hakanoa-huntly-domain/
https://www.lawa.org.nz/explore-data/waikato-region/lakes/lake-hakanoa/
Huntly Domain and the Lake Hakanoa Reserve Management Plan
Lakes of Waikato
Huntly, New Zealand |
48582183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Exciting%20Week | One Exciting Week | One Exciting Week is a 1946 American comedy film directed by William Beaudine and written by Jack Townley and John K. Butler. The film stars Al Pearce, Pinky Lee, Jerome Cowan, Shemp Howard, Arlene Harris and Mary Treen. It was released on June 8, 1946 by Republic Pictures.
Plot
Cast
Al Pearce as Dan Flannery
Pinky Lee as Itchy
Jerome Cowan as Al Carter
Shemp Howard as Marvin Lewis
Arlene Harris as Lottie Pickett
Mary Treen as Mabel Taylor
Lorraine Krueger as Helen Pickett
Maury Dexter as Jimmy Curtis
Will Wright as Otis Piper
Arthur Loft as Charlie Pickett
Chester Clute as Mayor Clarence Teeple
The Teen-Agers as Musical Ensemble
References
External links
1946 films
1940s English-language films
American comedy films
1946 comedy films
Republic Pictures films
Films directed by William Beaudine
American black-and-white films
1940s American films
English-language comedy films |
32086401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay%20Yoku%C5%9Flu | Okay Yokuşlu | Okay Yokuşlu (, born 9 March 1994) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for EFL Championship club West Bromwich Albion and the Turkey national team.
Club career
On 27 June 2011, at the age of 17, he signed for Kayserispor for a record transfer fee for Altay of TRY 2.3 million (€1 million). He made his Süper Lig debut in the starting line-up in which Kayserispor were beaten by Antalyaspor with 1–0 final score, on 16 September 2011.
On 1 February 2021, Yokuşlu joined English club West Bromwich Albion on loan from RC Celta de Vigo, for the remainder of the 2020–21 season. Six days later, he made his debut for Albion as a substitute for Romaine Sawyers in a 0–2 away league defeat by Tottenham Hotspur.
On 26 January 2022, Yokuşlu moved to fellow La Liga side Getafe CF on loan until June.
On 18 July 2022, Yokuşlu returned to now EFL Championship club West Bromwich Albion on a three-year contract following his departure from Celta Vigo. He scored his first goal for the club on 1 November 2022 in a 1-0 home win against Blackpool. On 5 May 2023, Yokuşlu won West Brom's 2022/23 players' player of the Year award in his first full season with the club.
International career
Okay was selected for Turkey's U-20 squad for the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He scored "a beautifully judged chip over the stranded [goalkeeper] from " to complete the hosts' 2–1 defeat of Australia and progression to the last 16 of the competition. On 6 November 2015, Yokuşlu was selected for the Turkey national football team to play friendlies against Qatar and Greece respectively. He made his debut as a late sub against Greece in a 0–0 tie.
Career statistics
Club
International
International goals
Scores and results list Turkey's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Yokuşlu goal.
References
External links
Profile at Eurosport
1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Konak
Footballers from İzmir
Turkish men's footballers
Turkey men's international footballers
Turkey men's under-21 international footballers
Turkey men's youth international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Süper Lig players
TFF First League players
La Liga players
Karşıyaka S.K. footballers
Altay S.K. footballers
Kayserispor footballers
Trabzonspor footballers
RC Celta de Vigo players
West Bromwich Albion F.C. players
Getafe CF footballers
Turkish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
UEFA Euro 2020 players |
8195952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Bailloquet | Pierre Bailloquet | Pierre Bailloquet (14 October 1612 – 7 June 1692) was a Jesuit missionary to the First Nation people of Canada.
Born in France, Bailloquet entered studies with the Jesuits at eighteen and after ordination taught for some time in France. He arrived in Quebec in 1647 and spent forty-five years as a missionary from Acadia to Illinois. It was a life of great hardships and dangers. He died in his eightieth year after sixty-one years in the religious life.
References
People from Saintes, Charente-Maritime
1612 births
1692 deaths
17th-century French Jesuits
Jesuit missionaries in New France
French Roman Catholic missionaries |
56855907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20in%20Paraguay | 2018 in Paraguay | Events in the year 2018 in Paraguay.
Incumbents
President: Horacio Cartes (until 15 August): Mario Abdo Benítez (from 15 August)
Vice President: Juan Afara
Events
22 April – the 2018 Paraguayan general election.
15 August – Mario Abdo Benítez took over as the new president of Paraguay.
Deaths
19 June – Efrén Echeverría, musician (b. 1932).
References
2010s in Paraguay
Years of the 21st century in Paraguay
Paraguay
Paraguay |
56155191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%27s%20Valentine | Fran's Valentine | Fran's Valentine (1982 – October, 2007) was a Thoroughbred racehorse filly, who, in 1985 as a three-year-old, won the Graded stakes races the Hollywood Oaks, Kentucky Oaks and Santa Susana Stakes. Trained by Joseph Manzi, she was the first filly to win both the Kentucky Oaks and Hollywood Oaks. Her lifetime earnings were $1,375,465, and she had 13 wins from 34 races.
Fran's Valentine was bred at Green Thumb Farm Stables, in Chino, California by Earl Scheib, an entrepreneur who made his fortune in discounted car paint. Both of Fran's Valentine's parents, her dam Iza Valentine, and her sire, Saros, were owned by Scheib. Scheib named Fran's Valentine after his wife Fran; the filly was his favourite horse.
Racing career
In November 1984, as a two-year-old, Fran's Valentine was first over the line in the inaugural Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Hollywood Park. Although she finished first by half a length, Fran's Valentine was relegated to tenth after stewards judged that she had bumped another horse at the top of the back stretch. The decision moved her jockey, Pat Valenzuela, to tears. Scheib, who was well known for starring in television commercials promoting his discount car-painting business, was asked why he was still smiling in the commercial that aired just after the race; his questioner had not realized that the commercial had been recorded in advance. Fernando Toro, the jockey of Pirate's Glow who was bumped during the race, said he could have been killed, and criticized Valenzuela's riding. The win was awarded to Outstandingly, the filly that was second across the line.
On March 2, 1985, Fran's Valentine won the Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita to win $77,150. Later that month, ridden by Pat Valenzuela, she won the Grade I Santa Susana Stakes by two and a half lengths, earning $122,100. Her next race, in May 1985, was the Kentucky Oaks. Fran's Valentine was the first filly that her trainer, Joe Manzi, had entered into the Oaks, and she won in a record time for the track, again ridden by Valenzuela. The track was hard, her preferred type of surface.
In July 1985, Fran's Valentine won the Hollywood Oaks by a head over Magnificent Lindy; this was her fifth stakes victory in six starts. Chris McCarron rode her to this victory in a record time for the track of 1:47.25. In preparation for the Breeders' Cup Distaff, Fran's Valentine defeated her male counterparts in the Yankee Valor Handicap at Santa Anita Park. Her winnings were $93,300, with an additional Breeders Cup award of $27,000.
In August 1986, she won the Grade II Chula Vista Handicap on a track that was hard, and in 1987 she won the Santa Maria Handicap (Grade II).
Retirement and stud
After racing, Fran's Valentine became a broodmare; six of her ten foals became winners, including With Anticipation, a Grade I winning horse who earned over $2.6 million in his career. After having her third foal, she was bought by George W. Strawbridge Jr.
Fran's Valentine was retired to Derry Meeting Farm, Cochranville, Pennsylvania, where she lived until she was euthanized at the age of 25 due to infirmities of old age.
References
Kentucky Oaks winners
1982 racehorse births
2007 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in California
Racehorses trained in the United States
Horse racing track record setters
Thoroughbred family 1-n |
53555471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoinette%20Nwandu | Antoinette Nwandu | Antoinette Nwandu is an American playwright based in New York.
Background
Antoinette Nwandu was born and raised in Los Angeles. She studied at Harvard University, the University of Edinburgh, and the Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of the Ars Nova Play Group, and was the 2015–2016 Naked Angels Issues Playlab Resident at The New School for Performing Arts. Nwandu was also a 2013–2014 Dramatists Guild Fellow and a Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference Fellow. She frequently performs with the spoken-word ensemble Sister Scribes.
Nwandu has worked with the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Page73, Ars Nova, The Flea, Naked Angels, Fire This Time, The Movement Theater Company, WordBRIDGE, and Dreamscape Theatre. She has received the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award for Flat Sam in 2009 and the Negro Ensemble Company's Douglas Turner Ward Prize. She has also been a Playwrights of New York Fellowship finalist, a Page73 Fellowship finalist, an NBT (National Black Theatre) I Am Soul Fellowship finalist, and a Princess Grace Award semi-finalist.
In 2015, Nwandu's play Pass Over was a finalist for the Ruby Prize. It was included on the 2016 Kilroys' List. Pass Over premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in May 2017. The play was recorded live at the Steppenwolf Theatre, adapted for film by co-director Danya Taymor and co-director and producer Spike Lee and premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 20, 2018. Its New York debut was at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater in June 2018.
Her play Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate was staged at Victory Gardens Theater in 2018 by director Lisa Portes.
Notable works
FLAT SAM (2013)
Vanna White Must Die (2012)
Black Boy & the War (2011)
4 Sustenance (2012)
Pass Over (2017)
BREACH: a manifesto on race in America through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate (2018)
References
Harvard University alumni
Living people
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
African-American dramatists and playwrights
American women dramatists and playwrights
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
21st-century American women writers
21st-century African-American writers
21st-century African-American women writers |
7970726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei%20at%20the%201988%20Summer%20Olympics | Brunei at the 1988 Summer Olympics | Brunei participated in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The nation sent one official, but no athletes. It would be eight years later, at the 1996 Games, before athletes from Brunei would compete at the Olympic Games for the first time.
References
Nations at the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988
Oly |
63724502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T24%20%28newspaper%29 | T24 (newspaper) | T24 is a Turkish online newspaper.
History
T24 was launched on 1 September 2009. Initial staff of T24 were consisting of former Tempo24 employees.
On 29 December 2012, T24 started their YouTube channel and uploaded their first video on 12 April 2013. In 2013, author and columnist Hasan Cemal joined T24. In September 2013, T24 announced "T24 Okur Fonu" their crowdfunding venture that planned to collect funds from its readers. In September 2013, led by Hasan Cemal, Doğan Akın, Yavuz Baydar, Yasemin Çongar, Andrew Finkel, Hazal Özvarış and Murat Sabuncu, T24 staff established Punto24, a self-proclaimed "independent press platform".
On 14 January 2015, T24 published an entire instalment of Charlie Hebdo, which included cartoons depicting Muhammad the Prophet, following 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting. In February 2015, T24 started their online literary criticism initiative Kitap Kültür Kritik 24 (K24). Between 30 October and 13 November 2015, Nazlı Ilıcak published her columns as a "guest columnist" at T24.
In March 2016, columnist and literary critic Murat Belge joined T24.
Following his departure from Doğan Media Group in September 2018, Mehmet Y. Yılmaz joined T24. On 19 October 2018, T24 announced the arrival of Yılmaz. On 23 October 2018, following the cancellation of her contract with CNN Türk co-administrator Şirin Payzın joined T24. On 25 November 2018, a new periodical feature was introduced, "Şirin Payzın'la Ne Oluyor?", hosted by Şirin Payzın, which was begun to be aired on YouTube channel of T24. On 17 December 2018, T24 publicised their weekly electronic outlook T24 Pazar, which is to be online-published every Sunday.
In 2020, Doğan Akın, one of the founders of website and chief editor was put on a trial due to an allegation of "Support to a Terrorist Organization without having affiliation", as reporting the news based on tweets posted by Fuat Avni, an anonymous Tweeter account, which caused number of detentions of alleged persons affiliated FETÖ (formerly referred as "Gülen Movement" until colloquially known 17-25 December Operations taken place). The case was settled as Akın was acquitted of accusation, on 2 July 2020.
On 17 May 2020, T24 announced the arrival of senior journalist and politician and writer Altan Öymen.
Controversies
In June 2013, T24 columnist Alper Görmüş, who formerly worked at Nokta, Taraf and Yeni Aktüel, accused the Gezi Park protestors of being "pro-coup d'état" in his T24 column.
Chief editor Doğan Akın, a former Doğan Media Group employee before joining T24, was accused by Zekeriya Say in 2019, a columnist at Yeni Akit newspaper, of maintaining conflict of interest due to his allegedly neutrality-periling relations with 3rd parties, alleged misuse of his connections in order to obtain funding for the newspaper.
Despite its claims of political neutrality, T24 was labelled as a left-liberal media outlet, by Nihat Genç.
References
External links
Official Website
T24 at YouTube
Turkish-language newspapers
2009 establishments in Turkey |
1606594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embleton%2C%20County%20Durham | Embleton, County Durham | Embleton is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sedgefield, in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, in England, as well as the site of a medieval village and manor. It is situated east of Sedgefield and west of Hartlepool. In 1961 the parish had a population of 80. The township was historically named "Elmdene", supposedly derived from the site's proximity to a woodland of elm trees which, at an earlier time, flourished in the bordering dene. A single farmstead now occupies the site which lies adjacent to the ruins of a small church (originally a manorial chapel of ease) dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
From the 13th to the mid 16th century the manor was the seat of the Elmeden family who assumed the local name. The village was one of nearly 1,500 medieval villages to be abandoned in the 14th century after the collapse of the demesne system of land management. It afterwards passed in the female line to the Bulmers and Smythes and in the 18th century to the Tempests of Wynyard, ancestors of the Marquesses of Londonderry.
Embleton Tower is a Grade I listed Peel tower in the village, which previously incorporated the vicarage.
Civil parish
Embleton was formerly a township in the parish of Sedgefield, from 1866 Embleton was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1983 the parish was abolished and merged with Sedgefield.
References
Further reading
Villages in County Durham
Former civil parishes in County Durham |
15657159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadise%20discography | Hadise discography | This is the discography of Turkish-Belgian pop singer-songwriter Hadise, who has released seven studio albums.
Hadise gained fame when she appeared on the Belgium version of Pop idol. She later released her debut album, Sweat, and its lead single "Sweat". It produced four more singles: "Stir Me Up", the more successful "Milk Chocolate Girl", "Ain't No Love Lost" and "Bad Boy". She then released her second studio album, "Hadise", which has so far become more commercially successful than her previous album and has thus produced four singles: "A Good Kiss", "My Body", "My Man and the Devil on His Shoulder" and "Deli Oğlan".
Studio albums
Extended plays
Singles
1. Only released in Turkey
B-sides
Guest appearances
Music videos
References
External links
Discographies of Belgian artists
Discographies of Turkish artists
Pop music discographies
Rhythm and blues discographies |
71968746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20%26%20Holloman | Lawrence & Holloman | Lawrence & Holloman is a Canadian black comedy film, directed by Matthew Kowalchuk and released in 2013. Adapted from the theatrical play of the same name by Morris Panych, the film stars Daniel Arnold as Holloman, an unhappy and pessimistic department store credit collector who is preparing to commit suicide when he meets brash salesman Lawrence (Ben Cotton), only for Lawrence to begin experiencing a string of bad luck that tests his eternal optimism.
The cast also includes Katharine Isabelle, Amy Matysio, Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout, Medina Hahn and Christine Willes.
The film premiered at the 2013 Vancouver International Film Festival, where Kowalchuk won the award for Best BC Emerging Filmmaker, before going into commercial release in 2014.
Critical response
Christine Ziemba of Paste negatively reviewed the film, writing that "Lawrence & Holloman strives for a mixture of the classic odd-coupling Planes, Trains and Automobiles (sadly without as much heart or dynamic performances exemplified by John Candy and Steve Martin) and Waiting for Godot. The existential component derives from the script’s source material—a two-hander stage play by Morris Panych—with Arnold and Kowalchuk developing and embellishing grisly scenes that occur offstage in the play for the film version. And, aside from a few daydream/fantasy sequences, Lawrence & Holloman still retains an air of theatricality, which tonally doesn’t translate well to the screen. The questions the film posits about fate and destiny and whether they can be changed by disposition are intriguing, but the one-note nature of the leading characters distracts from any subtler, and therefore more rewarding, character development. Mostly played at full tilt, Lawrence’s unbridled optimism comes off as more cloying than comical, and Holloman’s transformation from suicidal collection agent to sadist is unconvincing."
Janet Smith of The Georgia Straight was more positive, writing that "Like the play, the film is less about what happens—not a lot once the role reversal shifts into gear—and more about questions like: is our happiness directly related to our outlook on life? And more importantly, are stupid people happier? In the final act, the film goes truly dark, getting its closest to creating Panych’s stylized, existential world—one more akin to that of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead than to the rest of the movie’s deadpan Office Space vibe. For those who like their comedy served nihilistically black, this is where they’ll reap the biggest rewards. For those who prefer to keep on the sunny side? Maybe spend your summer day elsewhere."
Awards
The film won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Feature Film at the 15th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2014. The film was also nominated for Best Direction in a Feature (Kowalchuk), Best Writing in a Feature (Kowalchuk, Arnold) and Best Male Performance in a Feature (Cotton).
It received nine Leo Award nominations in 2014, including Best Film, Best Actor (2: Cotton, Arnold), Best Supporting Actress (Isabelle), Best Direction, Best Screenwriting, Best Picture Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Casting.
References
External links
2013 films
2013 comedy films
Canadian black comedy films
Canadian independent films
Films shot in Vancouver
Films set in Vancouver
Films based on Canadian plays
2013 directorial debut films
English-language Canadian films
2010s Canadian films |
2615929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingeniero%20Maschwitz | Ingeniero Maschwitz | Ingeniero Maschwitz, known simply as Maschwitz, is a town in the Escobar Partido of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It forms part of the urban conurbation of Greater Buenos Aires. This is the small town where International evangelist Luis Palau was born.
Attractions
Estancia Villanueva
Papa Francisco Park
Municipal museum
Plaza Emilio Mitre
Arenera bridge
Ingeniero Maschwitz railway station
External links
Escobar Partido
Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
Cities in Argentina |
44464925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20SCTV%20episodes | List of SCTV episodes | The following is a list of episodes for the television series Second City Television (SCTV).
Season 1
Aired on Global
"Season 1" is actually produced in two distinct 13-episode blocks, over a fifteen month period. The cast consists of John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis, and Dave Thomas. All are also listed as writers (except Martin and O'Hara on the first four episodes), with Ramis as head writer.
Season 2
Aired on Global
After a nine-month break, the show returns for Season 2. The cast consists of John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, and Dave Thomas. Harold Ramis also returns, but only appears in the first and third episodes of the season. He remains as head writer until close to the end of the season.
Season 3
Aired on CBC
After a year-and-a-half, SCTV returns for season three. Returning cast members are Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, and Dave Thomas; they are joined by new cast members Robin Duke, Rick Moranis, and Tony Rosato. (John Candy and Catherine O'Hara were not in the cast this year, but would return.) Although they appear in every episode, Levy and Andrea Martin film all their sketches and scenes on a "part-time" basis.
Season 4
Aired on CBC (Canada), NBC (U.S.)
Only two months after season 3 ends, season 4 starts. Tony Rosato and Robin Duke both leave the show to be cast members on Saturday Night Live, which was infamously doing poorly with critics and in the ratings at that time, so much so that NBC actually started airing SCTV (named SCTV Network 90) as a possible replacement for SNL. John Candy and Catherine O'Hara rejoin the cast, and Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin return to doing the show full-time.
The cast now consists of John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, and Dave Thomas. Many of the early season 4 episodes contain rerun sketches from seasons one to three. Former cast members Harold Ramis, Tony Rosato and Robin Duke can sometimes be seen in these sketches, but are uncredited.
For the final three episodes of the season, Martin Short (who first appeared on the "Cisco Kid" episode in season three) is added to the cast.
Cycle 1
Cycle 2
The Best of SCTV Specials
Cycle 3
Season 5
Aired on CBC (Canada), NBC (U.S.)
For season 5, the cast consists of John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, and Martin Short. Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, and Dave Thomas all leave as cast members, though O'Hara and Thomas return for guest appearances, as does former cast member Harold Ramis.
John Hemphill and Mary Charlotte Wilcox join the cast as featured players.
Cycle 4
Cycle 5
Season 6
Aired on Superchannel (Canada), Cinemax (U.S.)
For season 6, the cast consists of Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, and Martin Short. John Hemphill and Mary Charlotte Wilcox also return as featured players.
John Candy left the show after season 5, but returns for the season 6 opener. Former cast members Catherine O'Hara and Dave Thomas also make guest appearances.
References
SCTV
Second City Television |
61163346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilar%20Bayer | Pilar Bayer | Pilar Bayer Isant (born 1946) is a Spanish mathematician specializing in number theory. She is a professor emerita in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Barcelona.
Education and career
Bayer was born in Barcelona on February 13, 1946.
Before becoming a mathematician, she was certified as a piano teacher by the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona in 1967.
She graduated from the University of Barcelona in 1968, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1975. Her dissertation, Extensiones maximales de un cuerpo global en las que un divisor primo descompone completamente, was jointly supervised by Rafael Mallol Balmaña and Jürgen Neukirch. She was one of the first two women to earn a Ph.D. from the university; the other was her high school teacher.
She was an assistant at Universität Regensburg from 1977 to 1980.
After briefly working for the University of Santander and Autonomous University of Barcelona, she joined the faculty at the University of Barcelona in 1982. She retired in 2016.
Contributions
With Montserrat Alsina, Bayer is the author of the book Quaternion Orders, Quadratic Forms, and Shimura Curves (American Mathematical Society, 2004).
As well as quaternion algebras, Eichler orders, quadratic forms, and Shimura curves (the subject of the book), other topics in her research include automorphic forms, diophantine equations, elliptic curves, modular curves, and zeta functions.
Beyond number theory, with Jordi Guàrdia and Artur Travesa she is the author of Arrels germàniques de la matemàtica contemporània: amb una antologia de textos matemàtics de 1850 a 1950 (Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2012), on the history of mathematics in Germany from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. In total she is an author or editor of 19 books.
Recognition
Bayer won the Narcís Monturiol Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1998.
Her book Arrels germàniques de la matemàtica contemporània: amb una antologia de textos matemàtics de 1850 a 1950 won the Serra d'Or Critic's Prize in 2013.
She was Emmy Noether Visiting Professor at the University of Göttingen in 2004.
She is an academician of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, the , the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, and the Institute for Catalan Studies.
In honor of her 70th birthday, the University of Barcelona published a two-volume edition of her selected works in 2016.
References
Living people
20th-century Spanish mathematicians
Women mathematicians
University of Barcelona alumni
Academic staff of the University of Barcelona
Number theorists
Historians of mathematics
1946 births
21st-century Spanish mathematicians |
12825421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Butcher | Tim Butcher | Tim Butcher (born 15 November 1967) is an English author, broadcaster and journalist. He is the author of Blood River (2007), Chasing the Devil (2010) and The Trigger (2014), travel books blending contemporary adventure with history.
Career
Journalism
As a journalist between 1990 and 2009 Butcher worked for The Daily Telegraph newspaper, holding a series of positions including leader writer, war correspondent, Africa Bureau Chief, and Middle East Correspondent. He remains a regular contributor to the BBC radio programme From Our Own Correspondent and has written for numerous British, US and international publications.
Author
As an author he published in 2007 his first book Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart, an account of his 2004 journey through Democratic Republic of the Congo ("DR Congo") overland from Lake Tanganyika and down the Congo River, following the route of Henry Morton Stanley's 1874–77 trans-Africa expedition. The book, published by Chatto & Windus, reached Number 1 in the Sunday Times best-seller list and also appeared on the New York Times best-seller list.
Translated into six languages, Blood River was the only non-fiction title in the Richard & Judy Book Club 2008 and was shortlisted that year for a number of British writing awards including the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Dolman Best Travel Book Award, and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Book award. The book's Polish version, Rzeka Krwi (translated by Jakub Czernik and published in 2009 by Carta Blanca), was longlisted for the 2010 Ryszard Kapuściński Prize.
In 2009, Butcher wrote a chapter for Because I am a Girl (January 2010), a charitable compilation of stories focusing on the plight of young women and girls in the developing world. Published by Vintage, the book was the brainchild of Plan International, a leading children's rights aid group.
Butcher's second major work, Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa’s Fighting Spirit (2010), describes a 350-mile trek through Sierra Leone and Liberia following a trail blazed by Graham Greene and recounted in Greene's Journey Without Maps (1936). It was longlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing.
In 2010, he received an honorary Doctorate from the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom, for service as a journalist and author.
He also contributed a chapter to Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers (Ox Tales) (released in May 2011), another compilation, this time on behalf of Oxfam, the international confederation working against poverty and injustice.
In 2012, Blood River became a text used in AS Level English Language and Literature Combined, alongside Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
In 2013, he was awarded the Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, in recognition of achievements as an explorer and educator.
His most recent book, The Trigger – Hunting the Assassin who Brought the World to War was published in May 2014 by Chatto & Windus. It tells the story of Gavrilo Princip, the teenage assassin who triggered the First World War by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, on 28 June 1914.
References
Sources
External links
Tim Butcher's Official Site
1967 births
Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Living people
English male journalists
People educated at Rugby School
English journalists
English war correspondents
The Daily Telegraph people
English travel writers |
70983469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20K%C3%B6nig | Anne König | Anne König (born 4 December 1984) is a German politician for the Christian Democratic Union and since 2021 member of the Bundestag, the federal diet.
Life and politics
König was born 1984 in the West German city of Münster and was elected directly to the Bundestag in 2021.
References
Living people
1984 births
Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians
Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025
21st-century German politicians
21st-century German women politicians
Female members of the Bundestag |
40146219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Yu | Crystal Yu | Crystal Yu is a Hong Kong-born television, film and stage actress. She played Lily Chao on the British BBC medical drama Casualty from 2013 to 2017.
Life and career
Yu, born in Hong Kong, came to London at the age of 11 when she was offered a place at the Elmhurst School of Dance and Performing Arts (formerly known as Elmhurst Ballet School).
As well as acting in theatre, films and TV, she gives up her spare time to work closely with The Royal Academy of Dance and The Jack Petchey Foundation, bringing dance programmes to secondary schools, Special Educational Needs schools and Pupil Referral Units. Yu is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.
In 2016, Yu was nominated for the Female Actress of the Year honour at the BEAM Awards, an organisation that celebrates minority talent, for her role as Dr. Lily Chao. After four years in Casualty, Yu left the role and her final episode was broadcast on 4 November 2017.
In 2022 she appeared in episodes of Doctor Who and Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. The following year she appeared as Ms. Cheng in another Gaiman project, Good Omens.
Filmography
Television
Film
References
External links
Official Website
Living people
1980s births
21st-century Chinese actresses
21st-century English actresses
British actresses of Asian descent
English film actresses
English people of Hong Kong descent
English television actresses
Hong Kong film actresses
Hong Kong television actresses
Hong Kong emigrants to England
People educated at the Elmhurst School for Dance |
36124087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganneruvaram | Ganneruvaram | Ganneruvaram is a mandal in Karimnagar District, Telangana.
Villages in Karimnagar district |
44001690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20X | Windows X | Windows X may refer to:
X Window System, a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on UNIX-like computers
An implementation of the X server for Microsoft Windows; see
Windows 10, a Microsoft operating system
See also
Windows key
Windows XP
Windows 9x
List of Microsoft Windows versions
Windows (disambiguation) |
40611946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violeta%20Guzm%C3%A1n | Violeta Guzmán | Violeta Guzmán Magaña (born 14 May 1977 in Mexico City) is a Mexican athlete specialising in the hammer throw. She represented her country at the 2004 Summer Olympics failing to qualify for the final.
Her personal best in the event is 64.21 metres from 2004. It is a former national record.
Competition record
References
1977 births
Living people
Mexican female hammer throwers
Athletes from Mexico City
Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Mexico
Pan American Games competitors for Mexico
Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Mexico
Competitors at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
Competitors at the 2003 Summer Universiade
20th-century Mexican women
21st-century Mexican women |
58569347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olophyxus | Olophyxus | Olophyxus or Olophyxos () was a town on the peninsula of Acte or Akte (Ακτή) (now Mount Athos), the easternmost of the three peninsulas forming the ancient Chalcidice. Thucydides says that among the cities of the aforementioned peninsula, Sane was colony of Andros, while Thyssus, Cleonae, Acrothoum, Olophyxus and Dium had a heterogeneous population of bilingual barbarians formed by a few Chalcidians and, the rest, Pelasgians, Bisaltians, Crestonians and Edoni. Strabo points out that its primitive populated was composed of Pelasgians from Lemnos. Pseudo Scylax writes that it was a Greek city.
It was a member of the Delian League as it appears on the tribute lists to Athens between the years 454/3 BCE and 429/8 BCE. Olophyxus took the side of the Lacedaemonian Brasidas during his expedition in the Chalcidice in 424-423 BCE. Bronze coins minted by Olophyxus from the mid-4th century BCE are preserved.
The location of Olophyxus is tentatively identified with a site near the modern place called Akte.
References
Populated places in ancient Macedonia
Ancient Athos
Former populated places in Greece
Members of the Delian League |
50211761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20V.%20Bobjee | M. V. Bobjee | M. V. Bobjee (11 November 1917 – 10 October 1981) was an Indian cricketer. He played first-class cricket for several domestic teams in India between 1941 and 1958.
See also
List of Hyderabad cricketers
References
External links
1917 births
1981 deaths
Indian cricketers
Baroda cricketers
Hyderabad cricketers
Madhya Pradesh cricketers
Tamil Nadu cricketers
Cricketers from Chennai |
37895611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donny%20Utomo | Donny Utomo | Donny Budiarto Utomo (born March 13, 1979) is an Indonesian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He is a former multiple-time national record holder for the men's butterfly, and a six-time medalist at the Southeast Asian Games. He is also a two-time defending champion for the 200 m butterfly, before losing out to Malaysia's Daniel Bego at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.
Utomo made his first Indonesian team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 200 m butterfly. Swimming in heat one, he edged out Honduras' Roy Barahona to take a second spot and thirty-third overall by 0.28 of a second in 2:05.71.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Utomo qualified again for the 200 m butterfly. After winning a silver medal from SEA Games in Bangkok, Thailand, his entry time of 2:00.81 was officially accredited under a FINA B-standard. He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including his former rival James Walsh of the Philippines, and four-time Olympian Vladan Marković of the newly independent nation Serbia. He rounded out the field to last place by 0.32 of a second behind Markovic with a slowest time of 2:03.44. Utomo failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-fourth overall in the preliminaries.
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile
1979 births
Living people
Indonesian people of Chinese descent
Indonesian male swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Indonesia
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Male butterfly swimmers
SEA Games medalists in swimming
SEA Games gold medalists for Indonesia
SEA Games silver medalists for Indonesia
Competitors at the 2003 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2005 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2007 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2009 SEA Games |
41035751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Ops%20%28film%29 | Black Ops (film) | Black Ops, also known as The Ascent or Stairs, is a 2019 independent action horror film directed by Tom Paton.
Plot
A special ops military team find themselves stuck on an endless staircase and must fix their past sins against civilians or die on the stairs.
Cast
Shayne Ward as Will Stanton
Bentley Kalu as Ben Garrett
Samantha Schnitzler as Kia Clarke
Alana Wallace as Hayley Nolan
Toby Osmond as Jack Ford
Sophie Austin as Emma Walker
Spencer Collings as Carter Harris
Simon Meacock as Shaun Buxton
Phoebe Robinson-Galvin as Rachel Ryan
Julia Szamalek as The Prisoner
Matt Malecki as Mateus
Rachel Warren as The Mother
Piotr Baumann as Pavel
Release
The film premiered at the 2019 FrightFest on 26 August, and released on 12 June 2020 as direct to video on demand.
Reception
It is described by reviewers as being either military horror, or action and horror.
References
External links
2019 films
2019 action thriller films
2019 independent films
British action thriller films
British independent films
2010s English-language films
2010s British films |
43218046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad%20and%20Tobago%20at%20the%202014%20Commonwealth%20Games | Trinidad and Tobago at the 2014 Commonwealth Games | Trinidad and Tobago competed in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland from 23 July to 3 August 2014. With the exception of the athletics squad, which was to be announced at a later date, the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee revealed that they had selected a team of 84 athletes across 13 sports. On 29 June a track and field squad of 43 was named completing a team of 127 athletes.
Athletics
On 29 June, the Trinidad and Tobago Commonwealth Games Association and the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee announced their track and field team.
Men
Women
Boxing
Michael Alexander
Aaron Prince
Cycling
Track
Sprint
Time trial
Keirin
Field hockey
Men's tournament
Kwandwane Browne
Ishmael Campbell
Darren Cowie - Capt
Shaquille Daniel
Aidan De Gannes
Solomon Eccles
Dillet Gilkes
Nicholas Grant
Marcus James
Tariq Marcano
Stefan Mouttet
Michael II Otis O'Connor
Mickel Pierre
Jordan Reynos
Andrey Rocke
Akim Toussaint
Pool B
Women's tournament
Avion Ashton
Kayla Braithwaithe
Savanah De Fretias
Dana-Lee De Gannes
Petal Derry
Amanda George
Brianna Govia
Zene Henry
Brittney Hingh
Kwylan Jaggassar
Alanna Lewis - co-Capt
Fiona O'Brien
Amie Olton
Elise Olton
Tamia Roach
Patricia Wright-Alexis - co-Capt
Pool A
Gymnastics
Marissa Dick
Khazia Hislop
Judo
Netball
Janelle Barker
Joelisa Cooper
Rhonda John-Davis
Kemba Duncan
Candice Guerero
Onella Jack
Anika La Roche Brice
Alicia Liverpool
Tricia Liverpool
Kalifa McCollin
Daystar Swift
Samantha Wallace
Pool B
Rugby sevens
Trinidad and Tobago has qualified a rugby sevens team.
Kelson Figaro
David Gokool
Rowell Gordon
Aasan Lewis
Anthony Lopez
Jonathon O'Connor
James Phillip
Joseph Quashie - Capt
Jesse Richards
Agboola Silverthorn
Shaquille Tull
Keishon Walker
Pool B
Shooting
Rhodney Allen
Roger Daniel
Norris Gomez
Marlon Moses
Michael Perez
Squash
Charlotte Knaggs
Colin Ramasra
Kerrie Sample
Kale Wilson
Swimming
Men
Table tennis
Rheann Chung
Yuvraj Dookram
Aleena Edwards
Curtis Humphreys
Ashley Quashie
Dexter St Louis
Catherine Spicer
Aaron Wilson
Triathlon
References
Nations at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Trinidad and Tobago at the Commonwealth Games
2014 in Trinidad and Tobago sport |
27257939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monnette%20Sudler | Monnette Sudler | Monnette Sudler (June 5, 1952 – August 21, 2022) was an American jazz guitarist from Philadelphia.
Early life and career
Sudler was born Monnette Goldman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Lea Goldman, married Truman W. Sudler in 1957. She grew up in the Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood of Philadelphia.
Her first exposure to jazz was listening to her great-uncle play piano. When she was fifteen, she took lessons on guitar at the Wharton Center in Philadelphia. She could play drums and piano, and she also composed, arranged, sang, and wrote poetry. Early in her career she worked with vibraphonist Khan Jamal in the Sounds of Liberation. In the 1970s she studied at Berklee School of Music in Boston and in the 1980s at Temple University. Time for a Change (1977) was her first album as band leader.
During her career, she worked with Kenny Barron, Hamiet Bluiett, Arthur Blythe, Dameronia, Sonny Fortune, Dave Holland, Freddie Hubbard, Joseph Jarman, Hugh Masekela, Cecil McBee, David Murray, Sunny Murray, Trudy Pitts, Odean Pope, Don Pullen, Sam Rivers, Shirley Scott, Archie Shepp, Leon Thomas, Steve Turre, Cedar Walton, Grover Washington Jr., and Reggie Workman.
Sudler died from blood cancer on August 21, 2022, at the age of 70.
Discography
As leader
Time for a Change (Steeplechase, 1976)
Brighter Days for You (Steeplechase, 1977)
Live in Europe (Steeplechase, 1978)
Other Side of the Gemini (Hardly, 1990)
Just One Kiss (MSM, 1998)
Meeting of the Spirits (Philly Jazz, 2005)
Let the Rhythm Take You (MSM 2008)
Where Have All the Legends Gone? (Heavenly Sweetness, 2009)
With Khan Jamal
Drum Dance to the Motherland (Dogtown, 1973; Eremite, 2006)
References
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1952 births
2022 deaths
20th-century American guitarists
20th-century American women guitarists
21st-century American women
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Musicians from Philadelphia
Deaths from lung cancer in Pennsylvania |
56411524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938%20Milan%E2%80%93San%20Remo | 1938 Milan–San Remo | The 1938 Milan–San Remo was the 31st edition of the Milan–San Remo cycle race and was held on 19 March 1938. The race started in Milan and finished in San Remo. The race was won by Giuseppe Olmo of the team.
General classification
References
Milan–San Remo
Milan–San Remo
Milan–San Remo
Milan–San Remo |
2720185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond%20Bezik | Edmond Bezik | Edmond Bezik (; , born 12 August 1975 in Tehran, Iran) is a retired Armenian-Iranian footballer and coach. He played for Persepolis, Sepahan and Ararat Tehran and was a member of Iran national football team. He is currently head coach of Persepolis's under-23 team.
Club career
Bezik originally started his play in the FC Ararat Tehran, which has a policy of recruiting young Iranian footballers of Armenian ancestry. There he was noticed for his impressive finishing skills, and was soon transferred to Persepolis Tehran. There he was able to please fans and scored some memorable goals. Arguably his most memorable game may have been in 1996 during the Tehran derby between Persepolis FC and Esteghlal. Persepolis had not beaten Esteghlal for seven seasons, but Bezik was able to score the last minute winner in that match to claim a spot in many Persepolis fan's hearts.
Success was short-lived though and after a couple of very poor seasons, he along with many other Persepolis players were let go from the team. Bezik was immediately signed by Foolad Sepahan. His move to Isfahan was just what his career needed. In the 2002–03 season of the IPL, Bezik became the league's top goalscorer with 13 goals, and led the team to the league championship. He was deservedly called up to the national team and was starting to make his way into the squad when he became injured. He has come back from his injury but has not been able to score consistently. When new Sepahan manager, Luka Bonačić was hired, he deemed that Bezik was not needed for the squad.
Bezik signed a one-year contract with Azadegan League outfit, Shahrdari Bandar Abbas, with whom he will be playing until the end of the 2006–07 season.
Bezik's work ethic, and hard work is always a positive point for his clubs.
Top goalscorer
Having scored 22 goals for Ararat, 32 goals for Persepolis and 30 goals for Sepahan, he scored a total number of 84 goals during his time in Iran's top division football league, becoming the top division's all-time top goalscorer.
Honours
Club
Persepolis
Iranian Football League (3): 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000
Hazfi Cup (1): 1998–99
Sepahan
Iranian Football League (1): 2002–03
Hazfi Cup (1): 2003–04
Individual
Iran Pro League Top Goalscorer: 2002–03
References
"Close-Up on Edmond Bezik" Persianfootball.com, 2 January 2005, Retrieved 18 July 2006
"مصاحبه با ادموند بزيك" Tebyan.net, 29 May 2003, Retrieved 18 July 2006
External links
Edmond Bezik at TeamMelli.com
Edmond Bezik at Tehran Football Committee
1975 births
Living people
Footballers from Tehran
Iranian people of Armenian descent
Iranian men's footballers
Ethnic Armenian sportspeople
Iran men's international footballers
Men's association football forwards
Persepolis F.C. players
F.C. Shahrdari Bandar Abbas players
Sepahan S.C. footballers
F.C. Ararat Tehran players
Persian Gulf Pro League players
Azadegan League players
Persepolis F.C. non-playing staff |
11553348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B6ide%20Church | Pöide Church | Pöide St. Mary's Church () is located on Saaremaa island, in Pöide, Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, Estonia.
History
The current Pöide Church building is believed to be constructed on the remains of an earlier chapel dating from the 13th century. After the conquest of Saaremaa in 1227, the eastern part of the island belonged to the Livonian Order, who built a fortress at Pöide as their headquarters during the second half of the 13th century. This fortress was destroyed by the Saaremaa natives during the wave of uprisings against the occupying forces that took place in Estonia and Saaremaa during the St.George's Night Uprising of 1343. There was a chapel on the southern side of the fortress, and the walls of this chapel today form the central part of Pöide church.
Owing to its massive form, it is colloquially named the fortress-church.
The building was looted and burnt during World War II and also used as a storage facility. It suffered severe damage in a fire in 1940, when lightning struck the tower. The large crack in the tower from the lightning can still be seen today.
Cultural heritage
Pöide church has been renovated and reconstructed gradually since 1989. The chancel, stone altar, and vestry have been renovated. The main part of the building (including the nave, roof, and spire) still awaits renovation.
Several big tombstones inside the church are displayed behind glass, showing the importance of the church as a cultural centre for nearby communities during previous centuries. These include the tombstone of a headless knight, Heinrich von Schulmann, a nobleman from nearby Tumala estate, who was executed in 1613 (during the Danish reign) in Copenhagen for being politically connected with the Swedish authorities.
Congregation
Today, a small Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church congregation is active, with about 30 members. In the summer, church services are held twice a month in the church building. During the winter, the services are held in nearby pastorate. On 28 July 2006 the first Roman Catholic wedding was held in Pöide church since the Reformation era.
See also
Saaremaa
Estonia
References
Lutheran churches in Estonia
13th-century churches in Estonia
Gothic architecture in Estonia
Saaremaa Parish
Buildings and structures in Saaremaa
13th-century establishments in Estonia
Tourist attractions in Saare County
Kreis Ösel |
11071321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti%20Karumaa | Matti Karumaa | Matti Antero Karumaa (25 November 1924 in Hämeenlinna, Finland - 31 May 1993) was a Finnish ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga. He played for Hämeenlinnan Tarmo between 1942 and 1952. He formed powerful line called "Ka-Ku-Ti" with Keijo Kuusela and Esko Tie. Karumaa won two Finnish championships in Tarmo. Internationally he played for the Finnish national team at the 1952 Winter Olympics.
Matti Karumaa's older brother Pentti Karumaa, also played ice hockey in Tarmo. He played 68 matches in his career between 1944 and 1954.
Karumaa was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985.
External links
Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame bio
1924 births
1993 deaths
Ice hockey players at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players for Finland
Ice hockey people from Hämeenlinna |
29652596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Paustian%20House | Henry Paustian House | The Henry Paustian House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.
History
There are very few examples left of the early houses built in the city of Davenport in the Vernacular style from its formative years, however, the Henry Paustian House is one such example. Henry C.F. Paustian was a carpenter and he may have had the assistance of John Paustian, a stone mason, to build this house. There are no city directories available before 1856 so it is impossible to accurately date the house, but it was probably built in the early 1850s.
Architecture
The house is constructed of limestone. Typical elements of Davenport's early homes that are found in this structure are the single story, side-gable roof, and the entrance on the long side of the house. The only style elements of the house are found in its symmetry and the molded cornices above the windows and door.
References
Houses in Davenport, Iowa
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
National Register of Historic Places in Davenport, Iowa
Vernacular architecture in Iowa |
8820331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.%20N.%20Khare | V. N. Khare | Vishweshwar Nath Khare was the 33rd Chief Justice of India, serving from 19 December 2002 to 2 May 2004. He is currently serving as the Chancellor of the Central University of Jharkhand. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 21 March 1997 before he was elevated to the post of Chief Justice.
Early life
Khare was born in Allahabad on 2 May 1939. He lived in Allahabad for much of his life and attended St. Joseph's College, Allahabad. He further attended the Allahabad University. Khare was a First Class cricket player, playing for the state of Uttar Pradesh in Ranji Trophy matches in 1958.
Legal career
Khare started his career as an Advocate in the Allahabad High Court in 1961, where he practised on Civil, Writ and Revenue petitions. He was appointed Chief Standing Counsel for the Government of Uttar Pradesh. On 25 June 1983, he was appointed a Judge of the Allahabad High Court. In early 1996, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court, from where he was elevated to the Supreme Court of India a year later.
Emergency
As an Advocate in 1975, Khare and his uncle, S. C. Khare, represented Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, in her famous case against Raj Narain, alleging electoral malpractices. He was responsible for advocating the case that got the order of the High Court stayed until an appeal could be filed in the Supreme Court. The decision of the Supreme Court led to the imposition of Emergency in India for a period of 19 months, the only suspension of democracy the country has seen since Independence in 1947.
Gujarat violence
During his tenure as the Chief Justice of India, Khare was confronted with the failure of the justice system in the aftermath of the Gujarat violence following the Godhra train burning. His decision to reopen the Best Bakery Case provided some recourse for victims of the violence. Speaking to The Hindu newspaper when he retired he said, "I found there was complete collusion between the accused and the prosecution in Gujarat, throwing rule of law to the winds. The Supreme Court had to step in to break the collusion to ensure protection to the victims and the witnesses. I was anguished and pained by the turn of events during the trial of the riot cases but was determined to salvage the criminal justice delivery system."
In interviews to the media in 2004, Khare explained why he decided to transfer the Best Bakery case to Maharashtra for a retrial. In a 2012 interview, Khare gave details about the Best Bakery case and the Gulbarg Society massacre in explaining why he believed the 2002 Gujarat Violence was an instance of a "state sponsored genocide".
Post retirement
Since retiring as Chief Justice of India, Khare comments occasionally on national television and press on issues of jurisprudence. His comments on the Jessica Lal murder case echoed the sentiments expressed during the Gujarat riots. He is also appointed the Chancellor of Central University of Jharkhand.
Criticism
Khare's comments on there being an appearance of complicity between the state government and the rioters during the 2002 Gujarat violence have been criticized by current prime minister of India, Narendra Modi (The former Chief Minister of Gujarat and member of the Nationalist aligned BJP.) . According to Modi:
Awards and honors
Khare was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour in 2006.
References
External links
LegalEra Magazine Interview
Padma Vibhushan awarded to V N Khare - News item
Living people
Chancellors of the Central University of Jharkhand
Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in public affairs
Scholars from Allahabad
Chief justices of India
University of Allahabad alumni
1939 births
Judges of the Allahabad High Court
Chief Justices of the Calcutta High Court
20th-century Indian lawyers
21st-century Indian lawyers
21st-century Indian judges |
55750373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%20in%20the%20Eurovision%20Song%20Contest%202018 | Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 | Ukraine participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Under the Ladder" written by Mike Ryals, Kostyantyn Bocharov and Anton Karskyi. The song was performed by Mélovin, which is the artistic name of singer Kostyantyn Bocharov. The Ukrainian broadcaster Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA:PBC) organised a national final in collaboration with commercial broadcaster STB in order to select the Ukrainian entry for the 2018 contest in Lisbon, Portugal. The national selection consisted of two semi-finals, held on 10 and 17 February 2018, and a final, held on 24 February 2018; nine entries competed in each semi-final with the top three from each semi-final advancing to the final. In the final, "Under the Ladder" performed by Mélovin was selected as the winner following the combination of votes from a three-member jury panel and a public televote.
Ukraine was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 10 May 2018. Performing during the show in position 18, "Under the Ladder" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 12 May. It was later revealed that Ukraine placed sixth out of the 18 participating countries in the semi-final with 179 points. In the final, Ukraine performed in position 1 and placed seventeenth out of the 26 participating countries with 130 points. It is the worst position for Ukraine in a contest where it was not the host country.
Background
Prior to the 2018 contest, Ukraine had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest fourteen times since its first entry in 2003, winning it in 2004 with the song "Wild Dances" performed by Ruslana and in 2016 with the song "1944" performed by Jamala. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004, Ukraine had managed to qualify to final in every contest they participated in thus far. Ukraine had been the runner-up in the contest on two occasions: in 2007 with the song "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" performed by Verka Serduchka and in 2008 with the song "Shady Lady" performed by Ani Lorak. Ukraine's least successful result had been 24th place, which they achieved during the 2017, with the song "Time" performed by O.Torvald.
The Ukrainian national broadcaster, Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA:PBC), broadcasts the event within Ukraine and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. UA:PBC confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest on 23 August 2017. In the past, UA:PBC had alternated between both internal selections and national finals in order to select the Ukrainian entry. In 2016 and 2017, the broadcaster, in collaboration with commercial broadcaster STB, had set up national finals with several artists to choose both the song and performer to compete at Eurovision for Ukraine, with both the public and a panel of jury members involved in the selection. UA:PBC's collaboration with STB continued into 2018.
Before Eurovision
Vidbir 2018
Vidbir 2018 was the third edition of Vidbir which selected the Ukrainian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. The competition took place at the Palace of Culture "KPI" in Kyiv and consisted of two semi-finals held on 10 and 17 February 2018 and a final on 24 February 2018. All shows in the competition were hosted by Serhiy Prytula and broadcast on both UA:Pershyi and STB as well as online via UA:PBC and STB's Facebook and YouTube broadcasts.
Format
The selection of the competing entries for the national final and ultimately the Ukrainian Eurovision entry took place over three stages. In the first stage, artists and songwriters had the opportunity to apply for the competition through an online submission form. Eighteen acts were selected and announced on 16 January 2018. The second stage consisted of the televised semi-finals which took place on 10 and 17 February 2018 with nine acts competing in each show. Three acts were selected to advance from each semi-final based on the 50/50 combination of votes from a public televote and an expert jury. Both the public televote and the expert jury assigned scores ranging from 1 (lowest) to 9 (highest) and the three entries that had the highest number of points following the combination of these scores advanced to the final. The third stage was the final, which took place on 24 February 2018 and featured the six acts that qualified from the semi-finals vying to represent Ukraine in Lisbon. The winner was selected via the 50/50 combination of votes from a public televote and an expert jury. Both the public televote and the expert jury assigned scores ranging from 1 (lowest) to 6 (highest) and the entry that had the highest number of points following the combination of these scores was declared the winner. Viewers participating in the public televote during the three live shows had the opportunity to submit a single vote per phone number for each of the participating entries via SMS or the Teleportal mobile application. In the event of a tie during the semi-finals and final, the tie was decided in favour of the entry that received the highest score from the public televote.
The jury panel that voted during the three shows consisted of:
Andriy Danylko – comedian and singer, represented Ukraine in 2007 as the drag artist Verka Serduchka
Jamala – singer-songwriter, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 for Ukraine
Yevhen Filatov (The Maneken) – singer and producer, creator of group Onuka
Competing entries
Artists and composers had the opportunity to submit their entries via an online submission form which accepted entries between 10 October 2017 and 15 January 2018. Composer and producer Ruslan Kvinta was assigned as the new music producer of the show and was the lead in reviewing the received submissions and shortlisting entries to compete in the national final. On 16 January 2018, the eighteen selected competing acts were announced. The eighteen acts were allocated to one of two semi-finals during a draw that took place on 19 January, which was hosted by Ruslan Kvinta.
Shows
Semi-finals
The two semi-finals took place on 10 and 17 February 2018. In each semi-final nine acts competed and the top three entries determined following the combination of votes from a public televote and an expert jury advanced to the final of the competition, while the remaining six entries were eliminated. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, 2018 Czech Eurovision entrant Mikolas Josef performed the 2018 Czech entry "Lie to Me" as a guest in the first semi-final, while 2018 French Eurovision entrant Madame Monsieur performed the 2018 French entry "Mercy" as a guest in the second semi-final.
Final
The final took place on 24 February 2018. The six entries that qualified from the semi-finals competed. The winner, "Under the Ladder" performed by Mélovin, was selected through the combination of votes from a public televote and an expert jury. Ties were decided in favour of the entries that received higher scores from the public televote. 179,455 votes were registered by the televote during the show. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, jury member Jamala performed the song "Kryla" as a guest.
Promotion
Mélovin specifically promoted "Under the Ladder" as the Ukrainian Eurovision entry on 14 April 2018 by performing during the Eurovision in Concert event which was held at the AFAS Live venue in Amsterdam, Netherlands and hosted by Edsilia Rombley and Cornald Maas.
At Eurovision
According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 29 January 2018, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Ukraine was placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 10 May 2018, and was scheduled to perform in the second half of the show.
Once all the competing songs for the 2018 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Ukraine was set to perform last in position 18, following the entry from Slovenia.
In Ukraine, both the semi-finals and the final were broadcast on UA:Pershyi. All shows featured commentary by Timur Miroshnychenko who was joined by 2014 Ukrainian representative Mariya Yaremchuk in the first semi-final, 2010 Ukrainian representative Alyosha in the second semi-final, and Ukrainian Eurovision 2016 winner Jamala in the final. The Ukrainian spokesperson, who announced the top 12-point score awarded by the Ukrainian jury during the final, was Natalia Zhyzhchenko.
Semi-final
Mélovin took part in technical rehearsals on 2 and 5 May, followed by dress rehearsals on 9 and 10 May. This included the jury show on 9 May where the professional juries of each country watched and voted on the competing entries.
The Ukrainian performance featured Mélovin performing on stage in a black jacket and white shirt together with four backing vocalists. The performance began with a two-level red lit-up piano being opened up with Mélovin, who was buried inside, lifted up by the contraption within the piano. During the second verse, Mélovin walked down the stairs to the centre stage where he took his jacket off and went back up to the top of the podium to play the piano while the stairs were set on fire at the end of the performance. The stage directors and choreographers for the Ukrainian performance were Kostiantyn Tomilchenko and Oleksandr Bratkovskyi. The four backing vocalists that joined Mélovin on stage were Dasha Ptashnik, Denis Nadyozhin, Konstantin Sologub and Luiza Kazaryan.
At the end of the show, Ukraine was announced as having finished in the top 10 and subsequently qualifying for the grand final. It was later revealed that Ukraine placed sixth in the semi-final, receiving a total of 179 points: 114 points from the televoting and 65 points from the juries.
Final
Shortly after the second semi-final, a winners' press conference was held for the ten qualifying countries. As part of this press conference, the qualifying artists took part in a draw to determine which half of the grand final they would subsequently participate in. This draw was done in the order the countries were announced during the semi-final. Ukraine was drawn to compete in the first half. Following this draw, the shows' producers decided upon the running order of the final, as they had done for the semi-finals. Ukraine was subsequently placed to perform in position 1, before the entry from Spain.
Mélovin once again took part in dress rehearsals on 11 and 12 May before the final, including the jury final where the professional juries cast their final votes before the live show. Mélovin performed a repeat of his semi-final performance during the final on 12 May. Ukraine placed seventeenth in the final, scoring 130 points: 119 points from the televoting and 11 points from the juries.
Voting
Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1–8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with their names published before the contest to ensure transparency. This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.
Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Ukraine and awarded by Ukraine in the second semi-final and grand final of the contest, and the breakdown of the jury voting and televoting conducted during the two shows:
Points awarded to Ukraine
Points awarded by Ukraine
Detailed voting results
The following members comprised the Ukrainian jury:
(jury chairperson)producer, music video director
radio host, actor, singer
Artur Danielyansound producer, musician. DJ
Alla Moskovka (Alloise)artist
Khrystyna Soloviysinger, songwriter, musician
References
External links
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Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Eurovision |
627424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barker%27s%20Bush | Barker's Bush | Barker's Bush is a forest located in the Grand River watershed near the banks of the Nith River in the community of Paris, County of Brant, Ontario, Canada. The bush is directly north and west of Lion's Park, and less than one kilometre northwest of the confluence of the Nith and the Grand rivers.
Consisting of a mix of both coniferous and deciduous trees common to the Carolinian forests of southwestern Ontario, the bush itself is riddled with extensive bike and hiking trails which are used frequently, especially so through the warmer months (typically late Spring through early Fall).
The vast majority of Barkers Bush historically has been located on private property, however, trespassing has generally been accepted and the public has used the trails extensively for many years. Historically, the only public land entrance to the bush was through Lion's Park, however, this changed in 2002 when the local municipality built a steel footbridge from the east banks of the Nith to the west banks located in the bush itself.
In 2016 Losani Homes purchased the agricultural fields in which Barkers Bush surrounds to develop a new subdivision, as well as some of the forest itself. In response the County of Brant bought roughly 100 acres of Barkers Bush in 2019 to preserve the rest of the forest and trails within it.
The skeletal remains of the river dam found at the southeastern edge of the bush are a relic from an era when shipping traffic was common on the Nith.
References
Forests of Ontario
Geography of the County of Brant |
32922956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoffer%20Foltmar | Christoffer Foltmar | Christoffer Foltmar (17 October 1718 – 4 April 1759) was a Danish painter of miniatures and organist.
Early life
Foltmar was the son of musician Johan Voltmar, and he was the brother of composers Herman Friedrich Voltmar, Johan Foltmar, and painter Christian Ulrik Foltmar. He trained both in music and painting and was the pupil of Jacob Fosie in both areas, who was the painter and organist at the Church of Holmen. Foltmar later specialized in miniature painting in watercolor and enamel.
Music
In 1739 he became the organist at Vajsenhus, whose organ he and his brother Johan reportedly single-handedly newly built. Vajsenhus organists were poorly paid and Foltmar was promised to follow his mentor Fosie as organist at the Church of Holmen. However Foltmar died first and therefore did not get the coveted office.
Painting
His main work was miniature painting. His clients were the royal family, which had close links with the Voltmar/Foltmar family, and also other members of the court and many of the city rich people of the royal court. He was appointed the official miniature painter in 1749 and provided a large number of thumbnails in the enamel of the royal family's snuff boxes, jewelry and other small items. At the same time he was also the drawing teacher for King Frederick V of Denmark's children.
References
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Dansk biografisk Lexikon 1905 to 1979
18th-century Danish painters
18th-century male artists
Danish male painters
Danish classical organists
Male classical organists
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Foltmar family
1718 births
1759 deaths
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18th-century keyboardists |
30600358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Shipbuilding%20Company | United States Shipbuilding Company | The United States Shipbuilding Company was a short-lived trust made up of seven shipbuilding companies, a property owner and steel company. Its stocks and bonds were unattractive to investors, and several of its member shipyards were overvalued, conditions which brought down the company less than a year after it was formed in 1902. The company was replaced by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1904.
At the turn of the 20th century, John Willard Young, a son of Mormon pioneer Brigham Young, promoted the idea that many leading American shipbuilding companies should form one gigantic combination. The United States Shipbuilding Company was the manifestation of that idea.
Following this course, the enterprise's central designing office would apportion the shipbuilding work to the yard best suited to handle the project, therefore increasing competition with European shipyards. Although American shipbuilding was not considered a highly profitable venture, the political environment seemed right for improvement. President William McKinley and his new Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, had endorsed federal subsidies for American shipbuilding industries, to compensate for the subsidies provided by European governments, but Congress had not yet approved such a measure. A renowned naval architect and public servant, Lewis Nixon, was chosen to lead the venture, and helped attract several major shipyards to participate.
Unfortunately, however, "the one thing [the consolidated firms] lacked, individually and collectively, was a realistic prospect of earning sustained profits." Financially the corporation failed almost immediately. As one scholar would later write of this plan, "the theory was impossible; the condition was untenable; the trust, as it was manufactured, was impracticable; and the United States Shipbuilding Company was insolvent."
Groundwork
Young first obtained an option to purchase the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company (of Newport News, Virginia), then approached Nixon, who was then the lessor of the Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey. Nixon agreed to work with Young in forming the proposed combination, and granted him an option on his own plant. They then obtained options to purchase other shipbuilding companies. Working with a cotton industry bank known as the Trust Company of the Republic, they sought out underwriters, and planned to issue stock and sell bonds, in order to provide the funds to buy the plants and then operate them at a profit.
An initial prospectus was prepared for issue on May 7, 1901, but the actual issuance was withheld at the last moment because of what became known as the Northern Pacific "short squeeze" of 1901, a panic that occurred on that date. A news dispatch of that date described the proposed combination. It described a combination that would include Union Iron Works (of San Francisco), Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine, Hyde Windlass Co. (also of Bath), Crescent Shipyard, Samuel J. Moore & Sons Co. of Elizabethport, New Jersey, Canda Manufacturing Co. of Carteret, New Jersey, and Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. All but Canda Manufacturing were shipyards, and Canda (which manufactured car wheels) reportedly owned a prime location near Staten Island for construction of a new shipyard.
Three months later, it was again announced (again prematurely) that the new corporation would be launched in a few days. This time, British arms manufacturer Vickers Sons & Maxim, which had acquired the William Cramp & Sons shipyard in Philadelphia, and the Bethlehem Ship & Armor Plate works were included on the published list of interests included in the corporation. Ultimately, Vickers stayed out of the venture.
In September 1901, while the USSC was still just a concept, Roosevelt replaced the assassinated President McKinley. Roosevelt had crusaded against trusts, and his elevation created a hostile environment toward formation of combinations like USSC, marked by the Department of Justice's suit in February 1902 to prevent the formation of the Northern Securities Company railroad trust. Meanwhile, federal shipyard subsidy legislation stalled in Congress.
The 1902 rollout
By the time that a prospectus for USSC was formally issued in June 1902, Newport News and Vickers Sons & Maxim were no longer listed as participating interests, but Harlan & Hollingsworth Co. of Wilmington, Delaware, and Eastern Shipbuilding Company of New London, Connecticut were now included.
The June 1902 prospectus stated, among other things, that the USSC had been organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey and described as its directors Nixon, Henry T. Scott (president of Union Iron Works), Charles J. Canda (president of Canda Manufacturing Co.), John S. Hyde (president of Hyde Windlass Co.), E. W. Hyde (president of Bath Iron Works), and Irving M. Scott (Vice President and General Manager of Union Iron Works). In fact, incorporation had not yet occurred, and the board had not yet been constituted. Once the company was organized several months later, only four of those mentioned in the prospectus as directors ever served as directors. The prospectus also stated that the plants were earning $2.25 million for a year and had abundant facilities for additional work and increased earnings.
Even with positive representations in the prospectus, however, the public purchased less than $500,000 of the $9 million in bonds offered for sale, and foreign underwriters offered no cash, only promises (that were ultimately never honored). Eager to make the USSC more attractive to investors but facing a huge shortfall in funds, the promoters turned to Charles M. Schwab, then president of United States Steel, to discuss USSC acquiring Bethlehem Steel Company (which at the time was more sound than the shipyards already in the combination). With little cash to offer for Bethlehem (then held by a J.P. Morgan syndicate), the promoters instead proposed to pay for the acquisition with $7.2 million in cash and $2.5 million in USSC stock issued against the plants themselves. The cash came from Schwab, who furnished it on conditions that were highly favorable to him. By bringing Bethlehem into the combination, however, USSC could send a message to potential investors that Morgan was now behind the overall venture, and claim to be the world's only company capable of building a battleship complete with armament, armor and all equipment.
In August 1902 USSC purchased the Union, Bath, Hyde Windlass, Crescent, Moore, Eastern, Harlan & Hollingsworth shipyards, the Canda Manufacturing company, and the capital stock of Bethlehem Steel. The par value of these transactions totaled $69.5 million – yet (with the exception of Bethlehem Steel) the total value of the companies was appraised at less than $12.5 million. It soon became clear that the Bath, Crescent, Moore, Eastern, and Harlan & Hollingsworth shipyards were deeply indebted, and that the new trust lacked the ability to meet charges arising from the bond issuance. The goal of organizing a huge trust had been accomplished, but the result was doomed to fail, because from the start it was "already a water-logged wreck." The promoters were immediately forced to personally borrow $1.5 million from New York banks, to make up for cash that never arrived from foreign subscribers. USSC's problems brought down the Trust Company of the Republic, which had placed its own future on the line when arranging USSC's financing, by purchasing the largest share of bonds.
In September 1902, when Young was in France in a futile attempt to convince subscribers to invest, Ann Pulitzer, a former prostitute, was murdered in his New York apartment. His son William Hooper Young, who had been living there, eventually pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Prosecutors accepted the plea and dropped first-degree murder charges because of evidence that Hooper Young was mentally ill.
The collapse
Schwab took control of USSC within a year of its incorporation, but USSC's mortgageholders soon forced it into receivership. A federal court appointed former U.S. Senator James Smith Jr. as the receiver. The company was replaced by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, in 1904.
Aftermath
One of USSC's first actions was to close Nixon's Crescent Shipyard. By then, Nixon had re-entered the shipbuilding business by leasing a yard in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
In 1905 John S. Hyde, son of the founder of the Bath Iron Works, purchased the Iron Works and Hyde Windlass Co. from the surviving company, which had bought the companies out of the receivership. It flourished as a supplier of major ships to the U.S. Navy.
Bethlehem Shipbuilding and Steel repurchased and kept for itself the Union Iron Works in San Francisco and the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co. shipyard in Delaware (and began purchasing other shipyards). The name of the Delaware operation changed from Harlan & Hollingsworth to the Harlan Plant of Bethlehem Steel. That shipyard closed in 1926, although it was reopened for a time during the Second World War and part of the shipyard was used by the Dravo Corporation until 1964.
Litigation arising from USSC's collapse continued for many years, as various victims sought relief against alleged wrongdoers. Plaintiffs in such suits included former New York Governor Benjamin Barker Odell Jr., railroad president John Caldwell Calhoun (grandson of the former vice president of the same name), and John W. Young, originator of the idea. In 1915, Smith (whose own financial enterprises had collapsed) was suing Schwab for fees allegedly owed him from his USSC receivership. In 1918, New York's highest court ordered a retrial of claims by shareholders of the Trust Company of the Republic against railroad president George Gould, a member of its board of directors who failed to attend any of the meetings where key votes were cast. On remand, the court ruled against Gould, and entered a $723,583 judgment against him in September 1919.
References
Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies established in 1902
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1903
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American companies disestablished in 1903
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Defunct manufacturing companies based in New Jersey |
42213056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooster%20%28application%29 | Rooster (application) | Rooster is a mobile reading service for iOS7.
Features
For a $4.99 monthly fee, Rooster releases fiction installments to users' phones. Each set of selections comprises one classic and one contemporary novel or novella. Each installment is also optimized towards the average, fifteen-minute commute. The works can be as long as 500 pages, though the app is also intended as a possible "gateway drug" to works that might require more time than a month of commutes.
Users can customize how often and at what time their installment will arrive, as well as text size, font style, and background color. The amount of content is also adjustable, as users can skip to later installments if they choose.
Over the course of each month, up to two more books will appear in the app.
Development
Rooster was created by Jennifer 8. Lee, Yael Goldstein Love, and former StumbleUpon engineer Jacqueline Chang, co-founders of Plympton, Inc. Serial fiction has always been Plympton's core product, as well as that of now-partner DailyLit, but past series were distributed via Kindle or email. The idea to focus on the iPhone came after Goldstein Love continued hearing people complain they "don't have time to read anything longer than a blog post," even though books like Madame Bovary and Great Expectations were once serials in short installments. The name for the program came out of the associations between the bird and early-morning wakefulness.
Rooster's release was announced at SXSW Interactive. It was launched March 10, 2014, in the Apple App Store. Its inaugural literary selections were Herman Melville's Billy Budd and "I Was Here," an exclusive. Though it currently focuses on fiction, co-founders hope it will expand to other genres.
Reception
Inc. listed it as one of "5 Game-Changing Startups to Watch."
References
IOS software |
29650188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8strene%20Islands | Søstrene Islands | Søstrene Islands () is a group of small islands and rocks that rise above the northern part of the Publications Ice Shelf at the head of Prydz Bay. They were discovered and charted in February 1935 by Captain Klarius Mikkelsen in the Norwegian whaling ship Thorshavn, sent out by Lars Christensen. They gave the name Søstrene after the islands by that name lying in the entrance to the Oslofjord, Norway.
The Søstrene Islands include Debutante Island.
See also
List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands
References
Islands of Princess Elizabeth Land |
12801644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Restaurant%20and%20Foodservices%20Association | Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association | The Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association or CRFA was an industry and advocacy group organizing the Canadian restaurant, foodservice and catering industry. Since 2014 it has been known as Restaurants Canada.
In Canada, entrepreneurs in the sector and their employees produce over $85 billion in gross sales at 97,000 establishments. The association provides services to its members in the industry, including advice, advocacy on regulatory matters, and periodical publications.
References
External links
Official Website
Food industry trade groups
Trade associations based in Canada |
50312849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder%20Quest | Wonder Quest | Wonder Quest was an edutainment children’s web series from Disney’s Maker Studios. It was created by Joseph Garrett, a prominent YouTube commentator who posts videos primarily set in the sandbox game Minecraft as his internet persona "Stampy Cat". The series was scripted by Patrick Muhlberger, Ryan Burns, and Garrett, and produced by Muhlberger. The Minecraft educational content was initially developed by Adam Clarke, who stars alongside Garrett as his own persona, "Wizard Keen".
Featured on the Wonder Quest YouTube channel, Maker Studios described the series as a spinoff series of Joseph Garrett’s main YouTube channel, starring the character Stampy Cat. Citing the runaway success of Minecraft as inspiration for Wonder Quest at the MIPTV television industry conference in Cannes, Garrett states that “if you take their engagement and put it into a more productive space like education or the arts, they’re going to be involved in that, they’re going to be engaged”.
Wonder Quest premiered on April 25, 2015. By December 2016, the series had garnered over 101 million views. The first episode of season 2 was released on August 20, 2016.
Synopsis
Wonder Quest follows the anthropomorphic Stampy Cat and sorcerer Wizard Keen, who go on many adventures to stop various forces of evil from destroying a magic gem, called the Wonder Gem.
Series overview
Season 1 (2015)
Set in the town of Wonderberg, Stampy Cat and his newly acquainted friend, Wizard Keen, try to save the town from his evil wizard brother, Heinous. Together, they set off on an adventure to piece back together the 5 wonderments of the wonder gem to bring back wonder in Wonderberg, and they encounter trouble along the way.
Season 2 (2016)
Stampy Cat and Wizard Keen receive a mysterious invitation to the Society of Wonderers. As new members of the society, the Head Wonderer, Priscilla, charges the duo to spread wonder and guard Wonderberg from evil forces. They encounter Rama, a rejected member of the society who changed the past to stop the world's greatest wonderers from wondering. Using a time machine, the team sets off on another adventure to bring back wonder to the present.
Voice cast
Joseph Garrett as Stampy Cat
Adam Clarke as Wizard Keen
Shay Carl as Heinous
Patrick Muhlberger as Flunky
Ryan Burns as Lackey
Production and release
Wonder Quest was first announced by Joseph Garrett at the MIPTV television industry conference in April 2015. The series is a partnership between Joseph Garrett and Maker Studios. YouTube secured rights as the exclusive distributor of the series, as its parent company Google pushed for a wider coverage of children’s content on their video streaming site.
The series takes on a different format to Garrett’s normal slate of videos: “It’s different to my normal videos just playing and talking about Minecraft. It’s a completely scripted show, and the production values are much higher: there’s an original score and lots of sound effects and overlays.”. Additionally, the series is pitched as an educational show for children, however Garrett stressed that entertainment is the main priority: "There’s no point having an educational show if nobody’s going to watch it".
The original Minecraft maps were built by The Voxelbox, Blockworks and Johan “Dragnoz” Kruger. The original soundtrack was composed by Seth Earnest.
Wonder Quest premiered on April 25, 2015. Episodes were released on a weekly schedule with an animated I Wonder episode.
As part of YouTube Gaming's virtual reality initiative, season 2 of Wonder Quest includes content uploaded in 360° video. Installments of the virtual reality content immerses fans in interactive games, stories, and rides.
I Wonder
Every Wonder Quest episode is accompanied by an episode of a short animated side series called I Wonder, also produced by Maker Studios. The short series, each episode lasting around three minutes in length, features Stampy Cat and Wizard Keen investigating educational topics explored in each corresponding Wonder Quest episode. The supervising producer is Cella Duffy and the co-directors are Josh Bitzer and TJ Fuller. Original music for I Wonder is composed by Duke Westlake.
Side Quest
Side Quest is a companion series for Wonder Quest featured on Garrett’s main channel, stampylonghead. Unlike Wonder Quest and I Wonder, this series uses the Let’s Play format. In this series, Stampy explores the world of Wonderberg with Wizard Keen and other characters.
Awards
References
Maker Studios channels
YouTube channels |
2549138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming%20%28Stargate%20SG-1%29 | Homecoming (Stargate SG-1) | "Homecoming" is the 2nd episode of the seventh season of adventure military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. The second part of a two-part episode, it was first broadcast on June 13, 2003, on the Sci-fi Channel, directly after the part 1, "Fallen". Writing duo Paul Mullie and Joseph Mallozzi wrote the episode, with Martin Wood directing. The episode is the 134th overall.
In this episode, having learnt that Jonas Quinn's (Corin Nemec) homeworld of Langara is rich with a powerful mineral called naquadria, Anubis lays siege to the planet in order to harness the mineral in order to once again power his superweapon. Meanwhile, Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) attempts to locate Jonas, who has been imprisoned, whilst himself evading capture onboard Anubis' mothership. Jack O'Neill & Samantha Carter come to the aid of the Langaran people and Teal'c (Christopher Judge) pleads with Oshu (Kevan Ohtsji) to release him and help destroy Anubis.
The episode marks the departure of character Jonas Quinn (Corin Nemec), who became a member of the SG-1 team in season 6 following the departure of Michael Shanks. "Fallen" & "Homecoming" set a new record as both the most watched broadcast ever for the Sci-fi Channel and most watched episode of the show so far.
Plot
Continuing from the previous episode, the Goa'uld Anubis is holding Jonas Quinn (Corin Nemec) captive onboard his mothership and after probing his mind has discovered that his world is rich in a powerful mineral called naquadria. Hoping to obtain and exploit the naquadria, Anubis travels to Quinn's homeworld of Langara and descends in his mothership on the State of Kelowna. Commander Hale (Doug Abrahams) and Ambassador Dreylock (Gillian Barber) of Kelowna use the Stargate to contact Stargate Command and plea for General George Hammond (Don S. Davis) to send help. Hammond hesitantly agrees to send Colonel Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and Major Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) to assist the Langarans, as Anubis' forces begin rounding up all of the Kelownan scientists involved in their naqahdriah project.
On the ship of Goa'uld System Lord Yu, his First Prime Oshu (Kevan Ohtsji) visits an imprisoned Teal'c (Christopher Judge) in his cell. Teal'c urges Oshu to assume command of his senile master's fleet and destroy Anubis, to which Oshu finally agrees, and releases Teal'c. Believing their force alone will not be enough, the pair contact the rival System Lord Ba'al (Cliff Simon) and persuade him to support them in crushing their common enemy, Anubis. Meanwhile Anubis' forces onboard his mothership prepare to test the destructive power of the naqahdriah with the ships weapons, whilst Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) eludes capture. As Jackson manages to locate the imprisoned Jonas, he cornered by Anubis' Jaffa. The naqahdriah test begins, but soon overloads, resulting in explosions throughout the mothership which blindside the Jaffa allow Jackson to take action, defeating them and liberating Jonas.
Carter and O'Neill, with the help of a recently-returned Teal'c, deduce that Anubis is looking for a data crystal that the Kelownans are storing. The crystal may contain ancient Goa'uld knowledge about naqahdriah’s instability and secrets to its control. The three of them along with Ambassador Dreylock journey to the warehouse where the crystal is stored, but after acquiring the crystal are surrounded by Anubis' Jaffa. On Anubis' mothership, although they don't know where it will end-up taking them, Jonas and Daniel use a ring platform to escape capture. The rings take them into the warehouse where O'Neill, Carter, Teal'c and Ambassador Dreylock are being held by Anubis' forces, who Jackson and Jonas are able to overpower.
As SG-1 and company return to the bunker, they discover that Commander Hale has betrayed them by summoning Anubis' Jaffa who once again demand the data crystal. Hale hands it to Anubis' First Prime, Her'ak (Michael Adamthwaite), who proceeds to murder him and declares that all present will be executed in public. Ba'al's fleet swiftly arrives in orbit and begins raining down fire upon Anubis' ship which still hovering above the city. As the bunker quakes from the bombardment above, O'Neill and Teal'c spring into action and a firefight with Anubis' forces ensues. As Sam grapples Her'ak for the crystal, Jonas saves Daniel from being shot but in doing so is struck by the blast. Her'ak manages to escapes through the Stargate, but without the crystal and Anubis' ship is destroyed as it attempts to flee; however Anubis escapes in another ship. Back on Earth at Stargate Command, Ambassador Dreylock tells the recovering Jonas Quinn that he is needed amongst his people, and with the return of Daniel Jackson he decides to return home to Kelowna.
Production
Development and writing
With Michael Shanks having returned as Dr. Daniel Jackson, it was decided that the character of Jonas Quinn, portrayed by Corin Nemec would be reduced to a reoccurring cast member. The decision to reduce Nemec's role was attributed to a number of different reasons by the shows creative team. Believing that season 7 would be the shows last, writer and co-executive producer Joseph Mallozzi commented "it came down to the decision to let Michael Shanks finish what he had started and close out the show with the original team", further reasoning that whilst the personalities of Daniel and Jonas were different, they made "very similar contributions to the team". Executive producer Robert C. Cooper felt that a five person team would be "too crowded" and mean that not all of the characters would be properly serviced, with Mallozzi also pointing out that the show had already established that SG teams consist of four members and "it would seem odd" to deviate. Furthermore Cooper also highlighted that the cost made it prohibitive to keep increase the cast size. Corin Nemec expressed his disappointment in the decision, although understood the reasoning behind it. Nemec did however feel as though he had "committed to the series based upon promises that were made and sadly, for a variety of reasons, things promised did not materialise", with it originally having been suggested that he would appear in the planned SG-1 feature film and then "be spun-off into the next series, into Stargate: Atlantis". Ultimately, a deal was then reached where Nemec would return for three episodes of season seven.
Co-executive producers and writing duo Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie were assigned to write the episode, which would be the second-part of a two-part story, following on from Robert C. Cooper's season opener "Fallen". In writing the departure of the Jonas Quinn character, Mallozzi and Mullie "more than anything wanted to leave the door open for a possible revisit" and were entirely against either killing the character off or turning him into a villain. A fundamental intention of their writing was also bringing the Quinn character "full circle" and give him a complete arc. The duo therefore set their story on Quinn's home planet of Langara, where they drew on events of season five's episode "Meridian" and season six's "Shadow Play" by having Quinn's earlier warning to his people about the threat of the Goa'uld ring true, with Anubis invading Langara. Cooper explained that Jonas had "left his planet branded a traitor but believed he was doing the right thing by getting to know the galaxy", with the character having spent the last year as a member of SG-1 they had him "take that knowledge and experience back home" to help his people, ending up in what Mullie described as "a position of both respect and authority on his world".
Mallozzi felt that it "fit the story" to have Jonas and Daniel run the operation onboard Anubis' ship together, explaining "If anyone was to be on that ship, it would be the two of them with their knowledge of the Goa’uld language and mothership schematics", although did further admit that "the opportunity to team them was something to which we really looked forward to". In Mullie and Mallozzi's original screenplay, the final scene of the episode between Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and Daniel "was different in the first draft but subsequently changed — but not by Rob [Cooper]" Mallozzi revealed, also noting that he had O'Neill call Jackson "space monkey", a callback to season two's "The Serpent's Lair", but the idea was nixed.
Cast, filming and post-production
Cliff Simon reprises his role as the Goa'uld system lord Ba'al, making his only appearance in season 7. To minimise costs, it was originally written that Ba'al would not be shown onscreen, as Simon would have to be flown in from Los Angeles to film his scenes. As production liked the actor and character, Ba'al's scenes were expanded and Cliff was flown in. David Palffy returns as Anubis, with Kevan Ohtsji and Michael Adamthwaite also returning as Oshu, First Prime of Yu and Her'ak, First Prime of Anubis. Adrian Hough portrays a unnamed Goa'uld scientist, one of Anubis' lieutenants. Hough would later go on to portray the character Pranos in the Stargate Atlantis episode "The Brotherhood". Gillian Barber and Doug Abrahams return as the Kelownan characters of Ambassador Dreylock and Commander Hale, having first been introduced in the episode "Shadow Play". Additionally Glynis Davies and Jan Bos portray Kelownan ambassadors Noor and Sevarin. Multiple stunt performers were hired for the roles of the Jaffa soldiers, including Daniel Cudmore, Aaron Thompson and Fraser Aitcheson.
The episode was directed by Martin Wood, with cinematography by Jim Menard. Filming began in the last week of February, 2003. The bunker set from the television series Jeremiah, a show that Wood had frequently directed on and which was also filmed at The Bridge Studios was redressed to serve as the Kelownan's new Stargate facility. As Jeremiah was not in production at the time, the crew took over the set for around a week, assembling the portable Stargate prop and bringing in various set pieces from previous episodes set on the world of Langara. The scene involving Oshu (Kevan Ohtsji) visiting Teal'c (Christopher Judge) in his prison cell was originally more confrontational, however Wood felt it would be better that Teal'c be more understanding of Oshu's situation and therefore asked Judge to play the scene without any anger.
Image Engine produced the episodes visual effects. The effect of Anubis' mothership descending over the Langaran city of Kelowna was an homage to Independence Day (1996), whilst the Kelownan cityscape effects feature the North Shore Mountains of Vancouver in the background plate. During editing, Robert C. Cooper noticed that the Goa'uld scientist, portrayed by Adrian Hough, had been given a staff weapon. Cooper felt that this incorrectly implied that the Goa'uld character was in fact a Jaffa and decided that the scene would have to be entirely reshot.
Release
Broadcast and ratings
"Homecoming" premiered on June 13, 2003, on the Sci-fi Channel, directly after previous episode, "Fallen". The episodes were preceded by a behind the scenes look at the making of the seventh season of the show, "Stargate: The Lowdown". The two-part season opening set a new record as the most watched broadcast ever for the Sci-fi Channel, with a 1.9 Nielsen rating, equating to approximately 2.43 million viewers. This made it the most watched episode of Stargate SG-1 to-date and also the number 1 basic-cable television broadcast that day. In the UK, "Homecoming" was first shown on Sky One on October 6, 2003 and was the channel's 7th most watched show that week with 760,000 viewers. In Canada, the episode was first aired on September 16, 2004 on Space.
Reception
A number of publications commented on Jonas' exit from the series, including TV Zone which commented “after doing such a fine job in Season Six, it’s a shame that Corin Nemec’s character was not allowed to remain as a series regular”. Reviews featured on fansite Gateworld particularly enjoyed the dynamic between Jonas Quinn and Daniel Jackson that ran across this and the previous episode, believing that Jonas' personality had only begun to come "to the fore" in these episodes. Vincent-Rudzki also complemented the Jonas-Daniel pairing and hoped that it would be featured again in future episodes. Jayne Dearsley for SFX echoed this, writing "They really do have great chemistry in their scenes, with Jonas's sparky personality perfectly complementing Daniel's laid-back (if forgetful) vibe". Darren Rea for Sci-fi Online felt "slightly disappointed" by the handling of Jonas Quinn's exit in the episode's conclusion. Julia Houston at About.com asked fans to write to her with their thoughts on the return of Jackson and Quinn's exit, concluding "it's been a while since people have written so passionately about a series".
In her review for SFX, Jayne Dearsley awarded the episode 5 stars, writing "There's a hell of a lot going on in this episode, and most of it is throughly entertaining". Dearsley highlighted the scenes between Teal'c (Christopher Judge) and Oshu (Kevan Ohtsji) as being "acted magnificently", as well as directing her praise at the "astonishing" visual effects. Chloe Richards for Dreamwatch praised the "warm interplay" between the show's main characters and the "spectacular" special effects in both "Fallen" & "Homecoming", calling them a "suitably epic - if wholly unsurprising - start" to the season. IGN awarded the episode 3.5 out of 5, applauded the continued refining of the shows "rich mythology". Jan Vincent-Rudzki for TV Zone praised the episode and continued growth of the series as a whole, writing "this series is such a joy to watch - you never can tell what might happen next". New York Daily News highlighted the return of Michael Shanks.
Home media
"Homecoming" was first released as part of the "Volume 32" region 2 DVD on February 2, 2004, along with previous episode "Fallen", "Fragile Balance" and "Orpheus" which topped the UK TV On Video Chart the following week. It was then released as part of the complete Season 7 boxsets on October 19, 2004, in region 1 and February 28, 2005, in region 2. The episode, along with the rest of season 7 were first made available digitally in January 2008 through iTunes and Amazon Unbox. The episode, along with every other episode of the series, were made available to stream for the first time through Netflix in the USA on August 15, 2010. Michael Shanks, director Martin Wood and cinematographer Jim Menard provide the audio commentary for the episode. The episode, along with the rest of the series has been upscaled for releases on various streaming platforms as well as the 2020 Blu-ray release.
References
External links
at the official MGM Stargate site.
at scifi.com
Homecoming screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM.
Homecoming at the fansite Gateworld.net
Stargate SG-1 episodes
2003 American television episodes |
63593367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Rice | Ashley Rice | Ashley Rice (born Ashley Taylor-Rhys; 14 January 1986) is an English actor, known for his role as Sid Vere on the BBC soap opera Doctors. For his role as Sid, Rice has been nominated for various accolades including Newcomer at the 21st National Television Awards and the British Soap Award for Best Actor in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Prior to appearing in Doctors, Rice appeared in series including The Gemma Factor and portrayed the role of Seth Foreman in Tracy Beaker Returns.
Career
Rice made his professional acting debut in 2009, when he appeared in the drama film An Education. He then made brief appearances in British television series including Hope Springs, Emmerdale and Hustle. Then in 2009, he made his stage debut as Curio in a production of Twelfth Night, He has since made appearances in productions of War Horse at the Royal National Theatre, Yellow Moon and Amid The Clouds. From 2011 to 2012, Rice appeared in six episodes of the CBBC sitcom Tracy Beaker Returns as Seth Foreman.
In April 2015, Rice began portraying the role of Sid Vere in the BBC daytime soap opera Doctors. When asked for his opinion on his character, Rice stated: "He's so annoying, isn't he? I annoy myself playing him sometimes. And despite being quite bright he can completely miss the point sometimes. But he does have a good heart and only wants to do his best. I had a help from the directors in finding and using Sid's nervous energy, one in particular springs to mind." For his portrayal of Sid, Rice was longlisted for Best Actor at the British Soap Awards in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1986 births
21st-century English male actors
Black British male actors
English male film actors
English male stage actors
English male soap opera actors
Living people
Male actors from Birmingham, West Midlands |
48536123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahzaib%20Ahmed | Shahzaib Ahmed | Shahzaib Ahmed (born 8 September 1991) is a Pakistani first-class cricketer who plays for Peshawar cricket team. In September 2019, he was named in Balochistan's squad for the 2019–20 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy tournament.
References
External links
1991 births
Living people
Pakistani cricketers
Karachi cricketers
Karachi Blues cricketers
Karachi Whites cricketers
Peshawar cricketers
Port Qasim Authority cricketers
Cricketers from Karachi |
5468078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Highlanders | The Highlanders | The Highlanders may refer to:
Highlanders (rugby union), a professional rugby union team
Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), the 4th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
The Highlanders Shinty Club, a shinty club representing the British Army
The Highlanders (professional wrestling), professional wrestling tag team that formerly worked for WWE
The Highlanders (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who serial
NorthEast United Nickname of an ISL team.
See also
Highlander (disambiguation) |
58421659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique%20Herreros | Enrique Herreros | Enrique García-Herreros Codesido (29 December 1903 - 18 September 1977) was a Spanish humorist, drafter, poster artist, filmmaker and mountaineer.
Luis García Berlanga defined him as the one who invented the promotion and advertising. He found out Nati Mistral and he was the personal manager of Sara Montiel until 12 December 1963.
He died from an accident while climbing Cornión, Picos de Europa, on 18 September 1977.
He was married to the Olympic sportswoman Ernestina Maenza Fernández-Calvo, with whom he had a child.
Filmography
As actor
La vida es magnífica (1965)
Cabaret (1953) as Señor en baño
De Madrid al cielo (1952)
El gran Galeoto (1951) as Nicasio Heredia de la Escosura
La revoltosa (1950) as Mozo de cuerda
Aventuras de Juan Lucas (1949)
Don Quijote de la Mancha (1947) as Doctor Pedro Recio
Senda ignorada (1946) as Espectador
Cinco lobitos (1945)
Espronceda (1945) as Padrino 2
La vida en un hilo (1945) as Taxista
El fantasma y Dª Juanita (1945) as El faquir
El destino se disculpa (1945) as Empresario
El clavo (1944) as Señor bajito
Eloísa está debajo de un almendro (1943) as Acomodador del cine
Yo quiero que me lleven a Hollywood (1931)
As director
La muralla feliz (1948)
María Fernanda, la Jerezana (1947)
Al pie del Almanzor (1942)
As producer
Noches de Casablanca (1963)
References
External links
1903 births
1977 deaths
Draughtsmen
Spanish poster artists
Film directors from Madrid
Spanish mountain climbers
Spanish editorial cartoonists
Mountaineering deaths
Sport deaths in Spain |
4477389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry%20Minnear | Kerry Minnear | Kerry Churchill Minnear (born January 1948) is a multi-instrumentalist musician. He is known primarily for his work with the progressive rock band Gentle Giant from 1970 to 1980.
He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London with a major in musical composition. As a member of Gentle Giant, he contributed to all 11 albums over the 10 years life of the band. Though he is adept at several instruments, he primarily played keyboards and provided back up and lead vocals. In addition to keyboard, he also played a multitude of other instruments such as the cello, tenor recorder, and classical percussion (including vibraphone, marimba, xylophone, timpani and snare drum).
He also composed the original musical soundtrack for the 1996 video game Azrael's Tear starring Ray Shulman.
In the years following the dissolution of Gentle Giant, Minnear was a member of a Christian music band, The Reapers, in the 1980s. He was also a teacher and church organist. He also plays occasionally with the group,Three Friends which reproduces Gentle Giant songs in concerts.
References
1948 births
Living people
English rock keyboardists
Progressive rock keyboardists
British performers of Christian music
People from Shaftesbury
Gentle Giant members
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music |
28248721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311%20GNK%20Dinamo%20Zagreb%20season | 2010–11 GNK Dinamo Zagreb season | GNK Dinamo Zagreb (also known as Dinamo Zagreb, Dinamo and The Blues) are an association football club from Zagreb, Croatia. Home matches were played at the club's ground, Maksimir Stadium. Dinamo's season officially began 1 June 2010 and concluded on 30 May 2011, although competitive matches were played between 13 July and 25 May. During the season they competed in the Prva HNL, the highest division in Croatian football, and the Croatian Cup. They also played a total of twelve European games, first in the preliminary stages of the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League and later in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League.
After guiding the club to their 12th Croatian league title in 2009–10, Krunoslav Jurčić resigned as manager of Dinamo in May 2010. He was replaced as manager by ex-Dinamo player and coach Velimir Zajec. However, after spending less than three months at the helm and after getting knocked out in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round by Moldovan side Sheriff Tiraspol, Zajec was replaced in mid August by Bosnian manager Vahid Halilhodžić, whose previous post was managing the Ivory Coast national team.
Early in the season, first-team players including Ivan Turina, Ivica Vrdoljak and Croatia international striker Mario Mandžukić left the club while veteran defender Robert Kovač retired. New arrivals included striker Ante Rukavina, former Portugal international defender Tonel, Montenegro international forward Fatos Bećiraj and midfielder Arijan Ademi.
After a surprising league defeat to Rijeka on 31 July and the unsuccessful attempt to reach the UEFA Champions League group stage, the club's fortunes stabilised under Halilhodžić and Dinamo found themselves top of the league table by early October, a position they kept throughout the season. In spite of Dinamo's domestic dominance Halilhodžić gradually became target of increased criticism by sections of the media for what they saw as an inefficient style of football practised by the club, which culminated in a much publicized conflict with club president Zdravko Mamić in the half-time of the league game against minnows Inter Zaprešić in early May 2011. Halilhodžić's contract was then de facto terminated, so in the last four games of the season Dinamo was led by caretaker manager Marijo Tot. In other competitions Dinamo won the 2010–11 Croatian Cup, their 11th title, and appeared in the Europa League group stage for the fourth consecutive season, picking up seven points in eight matches and finishing third in their group behind Villarreal and PAOK.
Pre-season
Legend
Super Cup
As champions of the 2009–10 Prva HNL Dinamo qualified for the 2010 Croatian Super Cup, a one-off match played between league champions and Croatian Cup winners which serves as a curtain raiser for the following football season. This was the ninth Supercup played since the formation of the Croatian football league in 1992 and the first since 2006, as it is never held when a club wins "The Double" (Dinamo had won three consecutive Doubles in 2006–07, 2007–08 and 2008–09).
The match was decided in an Eternal Derby, as Dinamo played 2009–10 Croatian Cup winners and their greatest rivals Hajduk Split at Maksimir. It was their second competitive match led by the newly appointed manager Velimir Zajec and Dinamo won the game 1–0 through a second-half header by Igor Bišćan after Dodô delivered a corner kick. It was Dinamo's fourth Super Cup win and it later proved to be Zajec's only silverware won with Dinamo as he was sacked on 9 August.
Squad
Competitions
Overall
Prva HNL
Classification
Results summary
Results by round
Results by opponent
Source: 2010–11 Prva HNL article
2010–11 UEFA Europa League
Group D
Matches
Key
Tournament
1. HNL = 2010–11 Prva HNL
Supercup = Croatian Supercup
Cup = 2010–11 Croatian Cup
UCL = 2010–11 UEFA Champions League
UEL = 2010–11 UEFA Europa League
Ground
H = Home
A = Away
HR = Home replacement
AR = Away replacement
Round
R1 = Round 1 (round of 32)
R2 = Round 2 (round of 16)
QF = Quarter-finals
SF = Semi-finals
F = Final
QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
QR3 = Third Qualifying Round
Play-off = Play-off Round
Group = Group Stage
Competitive
Last updated 25 May 2011Sources: Prva-HNL.hr, Sportske novosti, Sportnet.hr
Players
Statistics
Competitive matches only. Updated to games played 25 May 2011.
Key
Source: Competitive matchesNotes:A: Mandžukić was transferred out to VfL Wolfsburg on 14 July 2010.B: Bećiraj joined Dinamo in August 2010 from FK Budućnost PodgoricaC: Sylvestr joined Dinamo in August 2010 from ŠK Slovan BratislavaD: Tonel joined Dinamo in August 2010 from Sporting CPE: Slepička went on a six-months loan to SpVgg Greuther Fürth in January 2011F: Etto left Dinamo to join PAOK in January 2011
Transfers
In
Unless a country is specified, all clubs play in the Croatian football league system.
Out
References
External links
Dinamo Zagreb official website
2010-11
Croatian football clubs 2010–11 season
2010-11
2010–11 UEFA Europa League participants seasons |
1508696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conand | Conand | Conand may refer to:
Conand (mythology), a leader of the Fomorians, in Irish mythology
Conand, Ain, a commune in France |
1703716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebral%20artery | Vertebral artery | The vertebral arteries are major arteries of the neck. Typically, the vertebral arteries originate from the subclavian arteries. Each vessel courses superiorly along each side of the neck, merging within the skull to form the single, midline basilar artery. As the supplying component of the vertebrobasilar vascular system, the vertebral arteries supply blood to the upper spinal cord, brainstem, cerebellum, and posterior part of brain.
Structure
The vertebral arteries usually arise from the posterosuperior aspect of the central subclavian arteries on each side of the body, then enter deep to the transverse process at the level of the 6th cervical vertebrae (C6), or occasionally (in 7.5% of cases) at the level of C7. They then proceed superiorly, in the transverse foramen of each cervical vertebra. Once they have passed through the transverse foramen of C1 (also known as the atlas), the vertebral arteries travel across the posterior arch of C1 and through the suboccipital triangle before entering the foramen magnum.
Nunziante Ippolito, a Neapolitan physician, identified the "angle of Nunziante Ippolito" to find the vertebral artery, between the anterior scalene muscle and the longus colli muscle.
Inside the skull, the two vertebral arteries join to form the basilar artery at the base of the pons. The basilar artery is the main blood supply to the brainstem and connects to the Circle of Willis to potentially supply the rest of the brain if there is compromise to one of the carotids. At each cervical level, the vertebral artery sends branches to the surrounding musculature via the anterior spinal arteries.
The vertebral artery may be divided into four parts:
The first (preforaminal) part runs upward and backward between the Longus colli and the Scalenus anterior. In front of it are the internal jugular and vertebral veins, and it is crossed by the inferior thyroid artery; the left vertebral is crossed by the thoracic duct also. Behind it are the transverse process of the seventh cervical vertebra, the sympathetic trunk and its inferior cervical ganglion
The second (foraminal) part runs upward through the transverse foramina of the C6 to C2 vertebrae, and is surrounded by branches from the inferior cervical sympathetic ganglion and by a plexus of veins which unite to form the vertebral vein at the lower part of the neck. It is situated in front of the trunks of the cervical nerves, and pursues an almost vertical course as far as the transverse process of the axis.
The third (extradural or atlantic) part issues from the C2 foramen transversarium on the medial side of the Rectus capitis lateralis. It is further subdivided into the vertical part V3v passing vertically upwards, crossing the C2 root and entering the foramen transversarium of C1, and the horizontal part V3h, curving medially and posteriorly behind the superior articular process of the atlas, the anterior ramus of the first cervical nerve being on its medial side; it then lies in the groove on the upper surface of the posterior arch of the atlas, and enters the vertebral canal by passing beneath the posterior atlantoöccipital membrane. This part of the artery is covered by the Semispinalis capitis and is contained in the suboccipital triangle—a triangular space bounded by the Rectus capitis posterior major, the Obliquus superior, and the Obliquus inferior. The first cervical or suboccipital nerve lies between the artery and the posterior arch of the atlas.
The fourth (intradural or intracranial) part pierces the dura mater and inclines medialward to the front of the medulla oblongata; it is placed between the hypoglossal nerve and the anterior root of the first cervical nerve and beneath the first digitation of the ligamentum denticulatum. At the lower border of the pons it unites with the vessel of the opposite side to form the basilar artery.
Triangle
Triangle of the vertebral artery is a region within the root of the neck and has following boundaries:
Medial border of anterior scalene muscle (lateral)
Lateral border of longus colli muscle (medial)
Carotid tubercle (apex)
First part of subclavian artery (base)
The vertebral artery runs from base to apex (prior to entering the transverse foramen of 6th cervical vertebra).
The carotid tubercle separates the vertebral artery which passes directly behind it from the common carotid artery which lies directly in front of it. The ideal site for palpating the carotid pulse is to gently press the common carotid artery against the carotid tubercle.
Variation
There is commonly variations in the course and size of the vertebral arteries. For example, differences in size between left and right vertebral arteries may range from a slight asymmetry to marked hypoplasia of one side, with studies estimating a prevalence of unilateral vertebral artery hypoplasia between 2% and 25%. In 3-15% of the population, a bony bridge called the arcuate foramen covers the groove for the vertebral artery on vertebra C1. Rarely, the vertebral arteries enter the subarachnoid space at C1-C2 (3%) or C2-C3 (only three cases have been reported) vertebral levels instead of the atlanto-occipital level.
The portion of vertebral arteries located within the skull (intracranial) have diameters of 3.17 mm. The intracranial length for the left vertebral artery (32.4 mm) is longer than the right (31.5 mm). The angle where vertebral arteries meet the basilar artery (vertebrobasilar junction), is 46 degrees.
Function
As the supplying component of the vertebrobasilar vascular system, the vertebral arteries supply blood to the upper spinal cord, brainstem, cerebellum, and posterior part of brain.
Clinical significance
As the supplying component of the vertebrobasilar vascular system, the vertebral arteries supply blood to the upper spinal cord, brainstem, cerebellum, and posterior part of brain. A stroke of the arteries may result in a posterior circulation stroke.
Chiropractic manipulation of the neck has the potential to cause a vertebral arterial dissection.
Additional images
References
External links
Vertebral Artery | neuroangio.org
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Arteries of the head and neck |
29320424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Fly | I-Fly | I-Fly is a Russian charter airline based in Moscow operating mainly out of Vnukovo International Airport. It flies all services on behalf of Russian tour operator TEZ Tour.
Destinations
I-Fly destinations:
Fleet
The I-Fly fleet consists of the following aircraft, as of July 2022:
The airline fleet previously included the following aircraft:
1 Boeing 757-200 (as of November 2015)
References
External links
Official website
Airlines of Russia
Airlines established in 2009
Airlines banned in the European Union
Charter airlines
Companies based in Moscow
2009 establishments in Russia |
3217622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Laborde | Jean Laborde | Jean Laborde (16 October 1805 in Auch - 27 December 1878 in Mantasoa, Madagascar) was an adventurer and early industrialist in Madagascar. He became the chief engineer of the Merina monarchy, supervising the creation of a modern manufacturing center under Queen Ranavalona I. Later he became the first French consul to Madagascar, when the government of Napoleon III used him to establish French influence on the island.
Born to a blacksmith, Laborde emigrated to India, before attempting to recover treasure from ships wrecked along the coast of Madagascar in 1831. After becoming shipwrecked himself, Laborde made his way to Antananarivo where he manufactured muskets and gunpowder for the queen in a factory located in Ilafy.
Laborde then organized 20,000 forced labourers to build an industrial complex in Mantasoa, closer to water, wood, and iron ore. There, 1,200 workmen produced cannon, swords, bricks, tiles, pottery, glass, porcelain, silk, soap, candles, sealing-wax, lime, cement, charcoal, ink, dyes, sugar, rum, sulphuric acid, and lightning conductors.
Laborde also constructed Rainiharo's tomb, and the Queen's Palace.
Laborde got involved in the 1857 coup instigated by Joseph-François Lambert and was banned by the queen. After the queen was succeeded by Radama II, he was able to return in 1861. Napoleon III named him as the first French consul to the Merina court.
The French government became involved in a dispute with the Malagasy over the inheritance of Laborde's property after his death in 1878, some of which was a gift from Queen Ranavalona I. These and other French claims formed the pretext for France's later armed intervention.
A species of chameleon endemic to Madagascar, Furcifer labordi, is named in his honor.
References
External links
Biography (in French)
1805 births
1878 deaths
19th-century French diplomats
History of Madagascar |
13411878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Noon%20of%20the%2010th%20Day | The Noon of the 10th Day | The Noon of the 10th Day is a 1988 documentary film by Mahmoud Shoolizadeh about people mourning in Ashoora in the city of Khansar in Isfahan province, Iran. In this ceremony, which takes place every year in the tenth day of Moharram by Shiite Muslims, the customs of the public mourning for the loss of their religious leader is shown. In this film, poetic and dramatic scenes from the Battle of Karbala is reconstructed.
This film participated in the Short Film Festival in Esfahan, Iran, in 1991.
Technical specifications and film crew
Betacam sp, 25 min. Documentary, Iran, 1988
Script writer and Director: Mahmoud Shoolizadeh,
Photographer: Mohammad Dodangeh
Edit: Ali Tahvil Dari
Producer: Javad Peyhani (I.R.I.B., Isfahan)
See also
List of Islamic films
1988 films
1980s Persian-language films
Documentary films about Islam
Iranian documentary films
1988 documentary films |
38627905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahanayake%20cabinet | Dahanayake cabinet | The Dahanayake Cabinet was the central government of Ceylon led by Prime Minister W. Dahanayake between 1959 and 1960. It was formed in September 1959 after the assassination of Dahanayake's predecessor S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike and it ended in March 1960 after the opposition's victory in the parliamentary election.
Cabinet members
Parliamentary secretaries
Notes
References
Cabinet of Sri Lanka
Ministries of Elizabeth II
1959 establishments in Ceylon
1960 disestablishments in Ceylon
Cabinets established in 1959
Cabinets disestablished in 1960 |
9025628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar%20Premier%20League | Zanzibar Premier League | Zanzibar Premier League is the top division of the Zanzibar Football Association. It was created in 1926.
Previous winners
1926 : Mnazi Mmoja
1927-58 : Unknown champions (**)
1959 : Malindi
1960-63 : Unknown champions (**)
1964 : Malindi
1965-80 : Unknown champions (**)
1981 : Ujamaa
1982 : Ujamaa
1983 : Small Simba
1984 : KMKM (*)
1985 : Small Simba
1986 : KMKM
1987 : Miembeni
1988 : Small Simba
1989 : Malindi (*)
1990 : Malindi
1991 : Small Simba
1992 : Malindi (*)
1993 : Shengeni
1994 : Shengeni
1995 : Small Simba
1996 : Mlandege
1997 : Mlandege
1998 : Mlandege
1999 : Mlandege
2000 : Kipanga
2001 : Mlandege
2002 : Mlandege
2003 : Jamhuri
2004 : KMKM
2005 : Polisi
2006 : Polisi
2007 : Miembeni
2008 : Miembeni
2009 : Mafunzo
2010 : Zanzibar Ocean View
2011 : Mafunzo (mini-league)
2012 : Super Falcon (mini-league)
2013 : KMKM
2014 : KMKM
2015 : Mafunzo
2016 : Zimamoto
2017 : JKU
2018 : JKU
2019 : KMKM
2020 : Mlandege
2021 : KMKM
2022 : KMKM
2023 : KMKM
(*) in these years, the champions of Zanzibar (Island league) won the Union League against the winners of the Mainland (Tanganyika) League and thereby the Tanzanian Premier League.
(**) between 1926 and 1980 the competition was not permanent, so most of the data about the champions winning the title were unknown.
Performance by club
Top goalscorers
Multiple hat-tricks
External links
RSSSF competition history
Football competitions in Zanzibar
Zanzibar
Sports leagues established in 1981
Football leagues in Tanzania |
10845068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muti%20%28disambiguation%29 | Muti (disambiguation) | A muti is a term for traditional medicine in Southern Africa.
Muti may also refer to:
People
al-Muti (914–974), Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad
Muti Randolph, Brazilian architect
Surname
Abd Allah ibn Muti (died 692), Qurayshi governor of Kufa
Ettore Muti (1902–1943), Italian Fascist politician
Netane Muti (born 1999), Tongan-American football player
Ornella Muti (born 1955), actress
Riccardo Muti (born 1941), conductor
Tiberio Muti (1574–1636), Roman Catholic cardinal
Valeriano Muti (died 1610), Roman Catholic bishop
Places
Palazzo Muti, Rome, Italy; an historic house
Villa Muti, Frascati, Italy; a historic villa
Muti, Estonia; a village
Other uses
Muti (film), U.S. action-thriller film
See also
Muti Muti people, alternative name for Muthi Muthi people
Muti Muti language, alternative name for Madhi Madhi language
Mutis (disambiguation)
Mutti (disambiguation) |
15723970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest%20E.%20Everhart | Forrest E. Everhart | Forrest Eugene Everhart Sr. (August 28, 1922 – August 30, 1986) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
Biography
Everhart joined the Army from Texas City, Texas in 1940, and by November 12, 1944, was serving as a technical sergeant in Company H, 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. On that day, near Kerling, France, he led his platoon in a defense against a counterattack by a numerically superior German force. When German soldiers threatened to overrun his platoon's machine gun positions, he twice engaged them alone and drove them away. For these actions, he was awarded the Medal of Honor ten months later, on September 10, 1945.
Everhart left the Army while still a technical sergeant. He died at age 64 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington County, Virginia.
Medal of Honor citation
Technical Sergeant Everhart's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
He commanded a platoon that bore the brunt of a desperate enemy counterattack near Korling, France, before dawn on 12 November 1944. When German tanks and self-propelled guns penetrated his left flank and overwhelming infantry forces threatened to overrun the 1 remaining machinegun in that section, he ran 400 yards through woods churned by artillery and mortar concentrations to strengthen the defense. With the 1 remaining gunner, he directed furious fire into the advancing hordes until they swarmed close to the position. He left the gun, boldly charged the attackers and, after a 15-minute exchange of hand grenades, forced them to withdraw leaving 30 dead behind. He re-crossed the fire-swept terrain to his then threatened right flank, exhorted his men and directed murderous fire from the single machinegun at that position. There, in the light of bursting mortar shells, he again closed with the enemy in a hand grenade duel and, after a fierce 30-minute battle, forced the Germans to withdraw leaving another 20 dead. The gallantry and intrepidity of T/Sgt. Everhart in rallying his men and refusing to fall back in the face of terrible odds were highly instrumental in repelling the fanatical enemy counterattack directed at the American bridgehead across the Moselle River.
See also
List of Medal of Honor recipients
List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War II
References
Texas State Cemetery
1922 births
1986 deaths
United States Army personnel of World War II
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
United States Army soldiers
World War II recipients of the Medal of Honor
People from Bainbridge, Ross County, Ohio |
36808387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden%20Church%2C%20Zalnoc | Wooden Church, Zalnoc | The Wooden Church () is a church in Zalnoc, Romania, built in the 18th century.
See also
Wooden Church, Derșida
References
External links
Zalnoc, Wooden church
Historic monuments in Sălaj County
18th-century Eastern Orthodox church buildings
Wooden churches in Sălaj County
18th-century churches in Romania |
54674862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotta%20Nevalainen | Lotta Nevalainen | Lotta Nevalainen (born 6 September 1994) is a Finnish swimmer. She competed in the women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.
References
External links
1994 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Swimmers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
Finnish female freestyle swimmers |
18820047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20and%20Functional%20Analysis | Geometric and Functional Analysis | Geometric and Functional Analysis (GAFA) is a mathematical journal published by Birkhäuser, an independent division of Springer-Verlag. The journal is published approximately bi-monthly.
The journal publishes papers on broad range of topics in geometry and analysis including geometric analysis, riemannian geometry, symplectic geometry, geometric group theory, non-commutative geometry, automorphic forms and analytic number theory, and others.
GAFA is both an acronym and a part of the official full name of the journal.
History
GAFA was founded in 1991 by Mikhail Gromov and Vitali Milman. The idea for the journal was inspired by the long-running Israeli seminar series "Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis" of which Vitali Milman had been one of the main organizers in the previous years. The journal retained the same acronym as the series to stress the connection between the two.
Journal information
The journal is reviewed cover-to-cover in Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH and is indexed cover-to-cover in the Web of Science. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.476.
The journal has four editors: Vitali Milman (editor-in-chief), Mikhail Gromov, Simon Donaldson and Peter Sarnak.
See also
Geometric analysis
References
External links
Geometric and Functional Analysis (GAFA), official journal website, Springer-Verlag
GAFA, papers to appear (at the website of the Tel-Aviv University)
Mathematics journals
Academic journals established in 1991
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
English-language journals |
60139730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greetings%20from...%20Jake | Greetings from... Jake | Greetings from... Jake is the sixth studio album by American country music singer Jake Owen. It was released on March 29, 2019, through Big Loud Records. The album is produced by Joey Moi. It is Owen's first album with the label after leaving RCA Records Nashville in 2017. The album was preceded by the singles "I Was Jack (You Were Diane)" and "Down to the Honkytonk", both released in 2018.
Background
Owen wanted the theme of the record to be appreciation of his home state of Florida, as well as a "pure representation of who I am, where I've been, what I love and where I am going", calling it a "fresh hello from a point in my career where I feel so comfortable and fulfilled".
Promotion
Owen announced the title on his social media accounts in late February 2019 before posting the full cover art on March 1, which resembles a postcard depicting "everything Florida has to offer", including palm trees, oranges, and a sailboat. The cover art and title is similar to Bruce Springsteen’s 1973 debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
Commercial performance
The album debuted at No. 8 on Billboards Top Country Albums chart, selling 4,000 copies in the first week. It has sold 7,700 copies in the United States as of July 2019.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
2019 albums
Jake Owen albums
Big Loud albums
Albums produced by Joey Moi |
947443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft%20T-34%20Mentor | Beechcraft T-34 Mentor | The Beechcraft T-34 Mentor is an American propeller-driven, single-engined, military trainer aircraft derived from the Beechcraft Model 35 Bonanza. The earlier versions of the T-34, dating from around the late 1940s to the 1950s, were piston-engined. These were eventually succeeded by the upgraded T-34C Turbo-Mentor, powered by a turboprop engine. The T-34 remains in service more than seven decades after it was first designed.
Design and development
The T-34 was the brainchild of Walter Beech, who developed it as the Beechcraft Model 45 private venture at a time when there was no defense budget for a new trainer model. Beech hoped to sell it as an economical alternative to the North American T-6/SNJ Texan, then in use by all services of the U.S. military.
Three initial design concepts were developed for the Model 45, including one with the Bonanza's signature V-tail, but the final design that emerged in 1948 incorporated conventional tail control surfaces for the benefit of the more conservative military (featuring a relatively large unswept vertical fin that would find its way onto the Travel Air twin-engine civil aircraft almost ten years later). The Bonanza's fuselage with four-passenger cabin was replaced with a narrower fuselage incorporating a two-seater tandem cockpit and bubble canopy, which provided greater visibility for the trainee pilot and flight instructor. Structurally, the Model 45 was much stronger than the Bonanza, being designed for +10g and −4.5g, while the Continental E-185 engine of 185 horsepower (hp) at takeoff (less than a third of the power of the T-6's engine) was the same as that fitted to contemporary Bonanzas.
Following the prototype were three Model A45T aircraft, the first two with the same engine as the prototype and the third with a Continental E-225, which would prove to be close to the production version. Production did not begin until 1953, when Beechcraft began delivering T-34As to the United States Air Force (USAF) and similar Model B45 aircraft for export. Production of the T-34B for the United States Navy (USN) began in 1955, this version featuring a number of changes reflecting the different requirements of the two services. The T-34B had only differential braking for steering control on the ground instead of nosewheel steering, additional wing dihedral and, to cater for the different heights of pilots, adjustable rudder pedals instead of the moveable seats of the T-34A. T-34A production was completed in 1956, with T-34Bs being built until October 1957 and licensed B45 versions built in Canada (125 manufactured by Canadian Car and Foundry), Japan (173 built by Fuji Heavy Industries), and Argentina (75 by FMA) until 1958. Beechcraft delivered the last Model B45s in 1959. Total production of the Continental-engined versions in the US and abroad was 1,904 aircraft.
Model 73 Jet Mentor
In 1955 Beechcraft developed a jet-engined derivative, again as a private venture, and again in the hope of winning a contract from the US military. The Model 73 Jet Mentor shared many components with the piston-engined aircraft; major visual differences were the redesigned cockpit which was relocated further forward in the fuselage and the air intakes for the jet engine in the wing roots, supplying air to a single Continental J69 jet engine in the rear fuselage. The first flight of the Model 73, registered N134B, was on 18 December 1955. The Model 73 was evaluated by the USAF, which ordered the Cessna T-37, and the USN, which decided upon the Temco TT Pinto. After initial testing at the Naval Air Test Center at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, the Navy tested the feasibility of using the TT Pinto as a jet-powered trainer for primary flight training in 1959, but discontinued use of the aircraft by December 1960 and discarded all examples, returning to the piston-powered T-34B Mentor and North American T-28 Trojan for its primary flight training requirements. The Beechcraft Model 73 was not put into production and the sole prototype is displayed at the Kansas Aviation Museum.
T-34C Turbo-Mentor
After a production hiatus of almost 15 years, the T-34C Turbo-Mentor powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-25 turboprop engine was developed in 1973. The original T-34's modified Bonanza/Debonair-style wing was replaced with a variant of the larger Beech Baron wing, and the original Bonanza/Debonair-style landing gear was replaced with the landing gear from the even-larger Beech Duke.
Development proceeded at the behest of the USN, which supplied two T-34Bs for conversion. After re-engining with the PT6, the two aircraft were redesignated as YT-34Cs, the first of these flying with turboprop power for the first time on 21 September 1973. Mentor production restarted in 1975 for deliveries of T-34Cs to the USN and of the T-34C-1 armed version for export customers in 1977, this version featuring four underwing hardpoints. The last Turbo-Mentor rolled off the production line in 1990.
Since the late 1970s, T-34Cs have been used by the Naval Air Training Command to train numerous Naval Aviators and Naval Flight Officers for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, and numerous NATO and Allied nations. With over 35 years of service, the T-34C has been completely replaced by the T-6 Texan II.
Operational history
U.S. Air Force and Civil Air Patrol
The first flight of the Model 45 was on 2 December 1948, by Beechcraft test pilot Vern Carstens. In 1950, the USAF ordered three Model A45T test aircraft, which were given the military designation YT-34. A long competition followed to determine a new trainer, and in 1953 the Air Force put the Model 45 into service as the T-34A Mentor, while the USN followed in May 1955 with the T-34B.
After extensive testing, the USAF ordered the Mentor into production as the T-34A in early 1953. The first production T-34A was delivered to Edwards Air Force Base, California, in October 1953 for evaluation, and deliveries to the Air Training Command (ATC) began in 1954. The T-34A commenced service as USAF's initial primary flight trainer at "contract" pilot training air bases across the southern United States, replacing extant North American AT-6 Texan trainers. Following training in the T-34A, USAF pilot trainees would advance to the North American T-28A Trojan for intermediate training.
The T-34A Mentor remained the standard USAF primary trainer until the introduction of the Cessna T-37 Tweet jet trainer in the late 1950s, replacing both the T-34A and T-28A. This also coincided with ATC's implementation of the Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) syllabus at various air force bases in the United States under ATC claimancy and phaseout and closure of the contract pilot training air bases. As they were replaced by T-37s, many T-34As were turned over to USAF aero clubs at air force bases in the United States and USAF air bases overseas. In all, the USAF acquired 450 T-34As.
As the U.S. Air Force replaced the last of their T-34As at the beginning of the 1960s, their role taken over by the propeller-driven T-41 Mescalero and the T-37 Tweet primary jet trainer in UPT, those T-34As not allocated to USAF aero clubs or marked for foreign military sales or transfers were turned over to the USAF Auxiliary, the Civil Air Patrol, for use as search aircraft. However, the T-34A's low wing limited its utility in an aerial search and rescue role, and maintenance issues, particularly expensive wing spar repairs that became apparent in the late 1990s, resulted in the last of the former USAF T-34As being withdrawn from CAP service by 2003.
U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps
The U.S. Navy kept the T-34B operational as a Naval Air Training Command initial primary trainer at the former Naval Air Station Saufley Field, Florida until the mid-1970s and as a Navy Recruiting Command aircraft until the early 1990s when the last examples were retired as an economy move. Others continue to remain under U.S. Navy control as part of flying clubs at naval air stations and marine corps air stations.
Beginning in 1975, the turbine-powered T-34C Turbomentor was introduced as the Navy's new primary flight trainer for Student Naval Aviators, and began replacing the North American T-28 Trojan with training air wings at NAS Whiting Field, Florida and NAS Corpus Christi, Texas. In the mid-1980s, it also commenced service as a basic trainer for Student Naval Flight Officers at NAS Pensacola, Florida.
The T-34C is no longer used as a primary training aircraft for U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard Student Naval Aviators and various NATO/Allied/Coalition student pilots training under U.S. Navy auspices. It has been replaced by the T-6 Texan II. Training Squadron TWENTY-EIGHT at NAS Corpus Christi's Training Air Wing FOUR recently retired the T-34C as a Naval Primary Training Aircraft according to Chief of Naval Aviation Training (CNATRA) PAO, joining Training Air Wing SIX at NAS Pensacola, Training Air Wing FIVE at NAS Whiting Field and Training Air Wing FOUR's Training Squadron TWENTY-SEVEN at NAS Corpus Christi had already transitioned to the T-6A and T-6B models.
Several other T-34Cs also remain in service with the Naval Air Test Center at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland and as aerial spotter aircraft with F/A-18 Fleet Replacement Squadrons (FRS) and Strike Fighter Weapons and Tactics Schools at NAS Oceana, Virginia; NAS Lemoore, California; and MCAS Miramar, California; and the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC) at NAS Fallon, Nevada.
U.S. Army
Some time before 1990, the United States Army received six ex-U.S. Navy T-34C, used as test platforms and chase planes at Edwards Air Force Base, California and Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
NASA
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (formerly the Dryden Flight Research Center) at Edwards, California has operated two T-34C aircraft. The first aircraft was previously flown at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, where it was used for propulsion experiments involving turboprop engines. In 1996 this aircraft was moved Dryden as a chase aircraft. That aircraft was returned to the U.S. Navy in 2002. The second T-34C was obtained in early 2005 from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) at NAS Patuxent River, where it was due to be retired. At Armstrong, the T-34C is primarily used for chasing remotely piloted unmanned air vehicles which fly slower than NASA's F/A-18 mission support aircraft can fly. As a NASA mission support chase plane, the back seat would be occupied by a photographer or flight test engineer during research missions. It is also used for required pilot proficiency flying.
Non-U.S. military service
As of 2007, Mentors were still used by several air forces and navies.
From 1978, the T-34C Turbo-Mentor was the Argentine Naval Aviation basic trainer used by the 1st Naval Aviation Force (Training), alongside 15 T-34C-1 light attack aircraft forming the Fourth Naval Air Attack Squadron. During the 1982 Falklands War, four T-34C-1s were deployed to Port Stanley on 25 April 1982, primarily to be employed in a reconnaissance role. The main encounter with British forces occurred on 1 May 1982 when three Turbo-Mentors attacked a Royal Navy Westland Sea King helicopter in the area of Berkeley Sound but were intercepted by Royal Navy Sea Harriers flown by Lt 'Soapy' Watson and Lt Cdr 'Sharky' Ward of 801 Naval Air Squadron flying from HMS Invincible, with one of the T-34Cs being damaged by cannon fire from Ward's aircraft. The four T-34C-1 Turbo-Mentors continued to operate, flying a few reconnaissance missions, but were redeployed to Borbon Station where they were ultimately destroyed by the SAS Raid on Pebble Island on 15 May 1982. Although all four hulks remained on the island for a considerable length of time, eventually, 0729/(1-A)411 was recovered on 10 June 1983 and stored for future display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
Civilian use
In 2004, due to a series of crashes involving in-flight structural failure during simulated combat flights, the entire US civilian fleet of T-34A/Bs was grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration. The grounding has since been eased to a slate of restrictions on the permitted flight envelope. Via a series of Airworthiness Directives (ADs) established by or Alternate Methods of Compliance (AMOCs) negotiated with the FAA, including installation of certain, approved structural modifications to the wing spar and other repairs, the T-34A and T-34B fleet in 2011 has been restored to full flight status by FAA at the Mentor's originally designed limitations, provided each individual example is compliant with those ADs and AMOCs.
The Mentor is the aircraft used by the Lima Lima Flight Team and Dragon Flight, both civilian demonstration teams. It was also used by aerobatic pilot Julie Clark, who flew her T-34 "Free Spirit" (registration N134JC) at air shows.
Variants
YT-34
Prototype, three built.
T-34A
US Air Force trainer. Replaced by the Cessna T-37 around 1960 (450 built).
T-34B
US Navy trainer. Used as a trainer until 1976, when VT-1 and VT-5 were decommissioned. It was replaced by the T-34C (423 built by Beechcraft). T-34Bs were flown by pilots assigned to the Navy Recruiting Command until the mid-1990s.
YT-34C
Two T-34Bs were fitted with turboprop engines, and were used as T-34C prototypes.
T-34C Turbo-Mentor
Two-seat primary trainer, fitted with a turboprop engine.
T-34C-1
Equipped with hardpoints for training or light attack, able to carry of weapons on four underwing pylons. The armament could include flares, incendiary bombs, rocket or gun pods and antitank missiles. Widely exported.
Turbo-Mentor 34C
Civilian version
Allison Turbine Mentor
Conversion of surplus T-34 Mentors to be powered by Allison Model 250 turboprop engines.
Model 73 Jet MentorPowered by a Continental J69-T-9 turbojet engine. The sole aircraft first flew on 18 December 1955.
Operators
Military operators
Argentine Air Force - Received 15 T-34B from Beechcraft, and 75 built under licence in Argentina by Fabrica Militar de Aviones (FMA).
Argentine Naval Aviation – 15 T-34C-1 in 1978.
Bolivian Air Force – Received 11 T-34A and Bs from Uruguay in 2000. RCAF Cpurses 5409 and 5411, RCAF Station, Penhold, Alberta
Royal Canadian Air Force - 25 T-34A built in Canada by Canadian Car and Foundry evaluated from 1954 to 1956 with RCAF Courses 5409 and 5411, RCAF Station Penhold, Alberta, until donated to other air forces.
Chilean Air Force
Chilean Navy
Colombian Air Force – Purchased 50 T-34s in 1954, with six more acquired in 1970 and 10 in 1977. The final T-34 was retired in December 2013.
Ecuadorian Air Force
Ecuadorian Navy
Indonesian Air Force
Japan Air Self-Defense Force
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
Royal Moroccan Air Force
Peruvian Naval Aviation
Philippine Air Force
Royal Saudi Air Force
Republic of China Air Force - Purchased 49 T-34Cs in 1985, 40 of them are still in service.
Turkish Air Force
United States Air Force
United States Army
United States Navy
United States Marine Corps
United States Coast Guard
Civil Air Patrol
Uruguayan Air Force
Uruguayan Navy
Civil operators
Turkish Aeronautical Association
Dragon Flight
Lima Lima Flight Team
NASA
North Carolina Forest Service
Specifications (T-34C)
See also
References
Citations
Bibliography
"Arabian Fledgling...the Royal Saudi Air Force". Air Enthusiast, June 1972, Vol. 2, No. 6. pp. 300–308.
Bridgman, Leonard. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1956–57. New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1956.
Drendel Lou. T-34 Mentor in Action. Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1990. .
"Fuerza Aérea Boliviana". International Air Power Review. Volume 1, Summer 2001. pp. 28–31. .
Harding, Stephen. U.S. Army Aircraft Since 1947. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1990. .
Morgan, David. Hostile Skies: My Falklands Air War. London: Phoenix Publishing, 2006. .
Taylor, John W.R. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1988–89. Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Defence Data, 1988. .
Wheeler, Barry C. "World's Air Forces 1980". Flight International, Vol. 118, No. 3726. 4 October 1980. pp. 1323–1378. .
External links
Hawker Beechcraft T-34 page
T-34 history page on Navy.mil
US Navy Fact File: T-34C Turbo-Mentor on Navy.mil
T-34 Association
Manual: (1958) T.O. 1T-34A-1 Flight Handbook T-34A USAF Series
T-34 Turkey-T-34's Protect and Preserve the Association -Hur Kus Aviation Club
T-34
1940s United States military trainer aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1948
Single-engined turboprop aircraft |
9068853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram%20Presser | Bram Presser | Bram Presser (born 1976) is a Melbourne personality, known for his involvement in the Melbourne music scene and Jewish community. He fronted the Jewish punk rock prankster band Yidcore and was the singing voice for Mick Molloy in the 2006 Australian comedy film BoyTown. Following the breakup of Yidcore in December 2009, Presser turned to writing. He is a monthly columnist for The Australian Jewish News and is the author of the literary blog Bait For Bookworms. His first short story, The Prisoner of Babel, was published in Volume 7 of The Sleepers Almanac and another story, Crumbs, won The Age Short Story Award for 2011. In an interview with The Age, Presser said the story was part of a novel he had been working on for several years.
In 2000, Presser was a Bachelor of Laws Prize recipient, being awarded the Butterworths Prize (Advanced Legal Research).
In 2007, Presser was painted by acclaimed Sydney artist and cardiologist Dennis Kuchar for the Archibald Prize.
In 2015 he appeared at the Melbourne Jewish Comedy Festival in the show "What’s So Funny? A Literary L’chaim"
On 28 August 2017 Presser released his first book, titled The Book of Dirt, a novel about love, family secrets and Jewish myths.
The Book of Dirt won three prizes in the 2018 NSW Premier's Literary Awards: the Christina Stead Prize for fiction, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, and the People's Choice Award. It also won the 2018 Voss Literary Prize. The Book of Dirt was published in the USA in 2018, where it won the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction.
References
External links
Yids Give Boytown a Voice
Crumbs, Winner of The Age Short Story Award 2011
The king of the juice but not what you'd call orthodox
Passport perils - Article Written by Bram Presser
Bram on Lonely Planet
1976 births
Living people
Jewish Australian musicians
Jewish Australian writers
Musicians from Melbourne
Writers from Melbourne
Jews in punk rock |
12265204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPLY%20%28AM%29 | WPLY (AM) | WPLY (610 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, and serving Southwest Virginia and the New River Valley. WPLY simulcasts a sports radio format with WPLI 1390 AM in Lynchburg. Both stations are owned and operated by Mel Wheeler, Inc. Most programming is supplied by Fox Sports Radio.
By day, WPLY transmits 5,000 watts, but at night (when radio waves travel farther) it reduces power to 1,000 watts to protect other stations on 610 AM. WPLY has a directional antenna, using a five-tower array. The transmitter is at the end of Newman Drive in Salem. Programming is also heard on 175-watt FM translator W266CY at 101.1 MHz in Roanoke.
History
WSLC Country
Just before noon on , the station signed on. The original call sign was WSLS. During the "Golden Age of Radio," the station carried programs from the NBC Blue Network, dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts. (The Blue Network later became ABC.) A partner FM station, 99.1 WSLS-FM, launched in 1947, largely simulcasting the AM station. WSLS-TV followed five years later on Channel 10.
As network programming moved from radio to television, 610 WSLS switched to a full service, Country music format. In 1969, Park Communications purchased WSLS-AM-FM-TV. Due to FCC ownership restrictions, Park kept the television station and sold the radio stations to Bass Brothers Telecasters. As the stations could no longer share a call sign after the purchase, the AM became WSLC at midnight on August 1, 1972, keeping its country sound. The FM switched to album-oriented rock and briefly became WSLC-FM before settling on current call sign WSLQ. Only the TV station still carries the original call letters. Mel Wheeler purchased the two stations in 1976.
Urban AC and Sports
At noon on May 25, 2000, WSLC began simulcasting with its new sister station 94.9 WSLC-FM, formerly easy listening turned classic rock station WPVR, after that station was purchased by Mel Wheeler Inc. This continued until March 13, 2002, when the country format moved full-time to WSLC-FM. 610 WSLC was flipped to new call letters as WVBE, simulcasting co-owned 100.1 WVBE-FM Lynchburg, and brought urban adult contemporary and R&B music full-time to Roanoke.
On January 20, 2016, the station dropped its Urban AC format for sports talk with the new call sign WPLY. The station became an affiliate of Fox Sports Radio.
References
External links
WPLY Online
WPLY Livestream
Sports radio stations in the United States
PLY (AM)
Radio stations established in 1940
1940 establishments in Virginia |
34872606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%20Frinolli | Roberto Frinolli | Roberto Frinolli (Rome, 13 November 1940) is a former athlete Italian specializing in the 400 metres hurdles.
Biography
Born in Garbatella, he attended athletics school, first trying the 110 metres hurdles before settling on the 400 hurdles. He went on to become the Italian national champion six times, 1963-1966 and 1968-9.
He qualified for three Olympics, 1964 through 1972, making it to the final in 1964 and 1968. At the 1968 Olympics, he ran his personal best of 49.14 in the semi-finals, placing him in the center of the track for the final. He ran an even pace with eventual winner David Hemery who was in the process of setting the world record. Frinolli paid for that hard early pace, struggling home in last place.
Frinolli was ranked number one in the world in 1965 and 1966. He won the 1966 European Championships and twice at the World University Games. He is the father of Giorgio Frinolli.
See also
FIDAL Hall of Fame
Italy national relay team
References
External links
1940 births
Living people
Italian male hurdlers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Italy
Athletes from Rome
European Athletics Championships medalists
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1963 Mediterranean Games
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Italy
Universiade bronze medalists for Italy
Medalists at the 1963 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 1965 Summer Universiade
20th-century Italian people |
26764366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar-i%20Noor | Dar-i Noor | Dar-i Noor may refer to:
Darai Nur District of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Darai Nur, a town in Darai Nur District, Afghanistan, capital of the district
Daria-i-Noor, a diamond |
21079479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppo%20Keskinarkaus | Seppo Keskinarkaus | Seppo Keskinarkaus (born 29 September 1949 in Rovaniemi) is a Finnish orienteering competitor. He received a silver medal in the relay event and finished 11th in the individual event at the 1979 World Orienteering Championships in Tampere.
See also
Finnish orienteers
List of orienteers
List of orienteering events
References
1949 births
Living people
Finnish orienteers
Male orienteers
Foot orienteers
World Orienteering Championships medalists |
12154236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%20Preissler | Fritz Preissler | Fritz Preissler (21 June 1908 Hanichen near Reichenberg, Bohemia (now Liberec) - 5 June 1948 in Straubing) was a German-Bohemian luger who competed in the 1920s and 1930s. He won four medals at European luge championships with three golds in the men's singles event (1928, 1929, 1939) and a silver in the men's doubles event (1929).
References
List of European luge champions
1908 births
1948 deaths
German Bohemian people
Czechoslovak male lugers
Sportspeople from Liberec
Sudeten German people
Czechoslovak emigrants to Germany |
4011242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary%20at%20the%202006%20Winter%20Olympics | Hungary at the 2006 Winter Olympics | Hungary competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Alpine skiing
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Distance
Sprint
Figure skating
Key: CD = Compulsory Dance, FD = Free Dance, FS = Free Skate, OD = Original Dance, SP = Short Program
Short track speed skating
Key: 'ADV' indicates a skater was advanced due to being interfered with.
References
Nations at the 2006 Winter Olympics
2006
Winter Olympics |
41066564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling%20at%20the%202006%20Asian%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20masters | Bowling at the 2006 Asian Games – Women's masters | The women's masters competition at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha was held on 9 and 10 December 2006 at Qatar Bowling Centre.
The Masters event comprises the top 16 bowlers (maximum two per country) from the all-events competition.
Schedule
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)
Results
Preliminary
Stepladder finals
References
Results at ABF Website
External links
Official Website
Women's masters |
12599523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens%20C75 | Siemens C75 | The Siemens C75 is a mobile phone sold by Siemens. The C75 is a triband cameraphone. It weighs 85 g and dimensions are 103 x 44 x 17 mm (length x width x depth). It includes GPRS class 10 connections with WAP 2.0 capability and IrDA. It supports polyphonic ringtones in MIDI and WAV formats. It has 10,2 MB of onboard memory available for the user. The phone also includes digital imaging and picture messaging. It has a built-in camera capable of taking pictures in VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels) and recording videos. It also supports SMS archiving.
Siemens C75 Ronaldo Edition and Siemens ME75
In June 2006 Siemens decided to make a newer version of C75. The only difference is that the phone has Ronaldo's autograph on its backside.
Siemens was released the C75 platform with a newer model had called “ME75” this phones just between new “M” Class (Military/IP54 approvals) and “E”/“C” (Entry level users/ Consumers) Class of Siemens Mobile
Popular Culture
Phones like this are often referred to as "Bricks" due to their small size and chunky dimensions that have historically made them much more durable than modern phones.
Trivia
Most owners of this phone also own a pirated copy of the song "I Hate Myself and Want to Die" by Nirvana, as the song was burnt onto the memory of these phones during its first waves of production to remind its users how terrible their life would be by using this phone.
External links
User Manuals / User Guides for C72 from Manualsmania
C75
Mobile phones introduced in 2005
Mobile phones with infrared transmitter |
478650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay%20River | Uruguay River | The Uruguay River ( ; ) is a major river in South America. It flows from north to south and forms parts of the boundaries of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, separating some of the Argentine provinces of La Mesopotamia from the other two countries. It passes between the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil; forms the eastern border of the provinces of Misiones, Corrientes, and Entre Ríos in Argentina; and makes up the western borders of the departments of Artigas, Salto, Paysandú, Río Negro, Soriano, and Colonia in Uruguay.
Course
The river measures about in length and starts in the Serra do Mar in Brazil, where the Canoas River and the Pelotas River are joined, at about above mean sea level. In this stage the river goes through uneven, broken terrain, forming rapids and falls. Its course through Rio Grande do Sul is not navigable.
An unusual feature of the Uruguay River is a submerged canyon. This canyon formed during the Ice Age, when the climate was drier and the river was narrower. Its depth is up to below the bottom of the river channel and it is 1/8 to 1/3 as wide as the river. The canyon is only visible in two places, one of which is the Moconá Falls (also called the Yucumã Falls). However, the falls are not visible for 150 days per year and become more like rapids when they are not visible. Unlike most waterfalls, the Moconá Falls are parallel to the river, not perpendicular. The falls are to high and between and wide. They are from the mouth of the river. The Turvo State Park, created in 1947, protects the Brazilian side of the falls.
Together with the Paraná River, the Uruguay forms the Río de la Plata estuary. It is navigable from around Salto Chico. Its main tributary is the Río Negro, which is born in the south of Brazil and goes through Uruguay for 500 km until its confluence with the Uruguay River, which is located 100 km north of the Uruguay's confluence with the Río de la Plata, in Punta Gorda, Colonia Department, Uruguay.
The river is crossed by five international bridges called (from north to south): Integration Bridge and Paso de los Libres-Uruguaiana International Bridge, between Argentina and Brazil; and the Salto Grande Bridge, General Artigas Bridge and Libertador General San Martín Bridge between Argentina and Uruguay.
The drainage basin of the Uruguay River has an area of . Its main economic use is the generation of hydroelectricity and it is dammed in its lower portion by the Salto Grande Dam and by the Itá Dam upstream in Brazil.
Origin of the name
The name of the river tends to comes from the Spanish settlers' interpretation of the Guaraní language word the inhabitants of the region used to designate it. There are several interpretations, including "the river of the uru (an indigenous bird)", and "[river of] the uruguá" (an indigenous gastropod, Pomella megastoma).
Cellulose plant conflict
Argentina and Uruguay experienced a conflict over the construction of pulp mills on the Uruguay River. Two European companies, ENCE and Botnia, proposed building cellulose processing plants at Fray Bentos, Uruguay, opposite Gualeguaychú, Argentina. According to a 1975 treaty, Argentina and Uruguay were supposed to jointly agree on matters relating to the Uruguay River. Argentina alleged that Uruguay broke the treaty. Additionally, Argentina believed the Finnish company Botnia was polluting the fish and the overall environment of the river while Uruguay believed that the plant was not depositing a large amount of toxins in the Uruguay River.
Starting in April 2005, residents of Gualeguaychú, as well as many others, protested, claiming that the plants would pollute the river shared by the two countries. Early in 2006, the conflict escalated into a diplomatic crisis, compelling one of the companies move the project south. Beginning in December 2005, the international bridges linking the Argentine province of Entre Ríos with Uruguay were intermittently blockaded by Argentine protesters, causing major disruptions in commercial traffic and tourism.
In 2006, Argentina brought the dispute before the International Court of Justice. The ICJ completed hearings between Argentina and Uruguay regarding the dispute on October 2, 2009. In 2010, the court ruled that although Uruguay failed to inform Argentina of the construction of the pulp mills, the mills did not pollute the river, so closing the remaining pulp mill would be unjustified. Later in 2010, Argentina and Uruguay created a joint commission to coordinate activities on the river.
Links across the Uruguay
The course of the Uruguay is crossed by the following bridges, beginning upstream:
See also
List of rivers of the Americas
Geography of Uruguay
Tributaries of the Río de la Plata
References
External links
Salto Grande Hydroelectric System
"Map of the Uruguay River from Yapeyu to the Farm of Sn. Gregorio" from 1784
Rivers of Santa Catarina (state)
Rivers of Rio Grande do Sul
Rivers of Uruguay
Rivers of Argentina
Argentina–Brazil border
Argentina–Uruguay border
International rivers of South America
Border rivers
Rivers of Misiones Province
Rivers of Entre Ríos Province
Rivers of Corrientes Province |
57758286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithful%20Steward%20%28ship%29 | Faithful Steward (ship) | Faithful Steward was an 18th-century merchant ship that was wrecked off the coast of Delaware in 1785.
History
Faithful Steward was an 18th-century merchant ship. In 1785 the ship departed Derry for Philadelphia carrying 270 passengers and crew, along with 400 barrels filled with copper coins. After 53 days at sea, the ship arrived at off the Delaware Seashore. However, on the night of 1 September 1785 the ship became stuck on a shoal off of Cape Henlopen, near the mouth of the Indian River. Though the shoal was only several hundred feet from the shoreline, the coast was not monitored by any sort of lifeguard or rescue service, forcing the passengers of the ship to build rafts from the remains of the ship. By the morning of 3 September, 181 of the ship's passengers and crew had died, leaving 68 survivors. The ship remained lodged on the shoal, where it eventually broke apart.
Following the loss of Faithful Stewart, the beach near where the ship was wrecked became known as Coin Beach due to the large number of copper coins that would wash ashore during storms.
References
1780s ships
Shipwrecks of the Delaware coast
1785 in Delaware |
15629076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamitos%20Beach%2C%20Long%20Beach%2C%20California | Alamitos Beach, Long Beach, California | Alamitos Beach is a coastal neighborhood in the southern portion of the city of Long Beach, California. Although it was in unincorporated Los Angeles County when annexed by the City of Long Beach, it had been planned as its own community with a townsite.
Location
Alamitos Beach is bounded by Junipero Avenue on the east, Shoreline Drive and Alamitos Boulevard on the west, 4th Street on the north, and Ocean Boulevard on the south. Surrounding neighborhoods include the East Village Arts District to the west, North Alamitos Beach (NABA) and Hellman to the north and Bluff Park to the east, with a wide sandy beach along the Pacific Ocean to the south.
Climate
Due to its coastal location next to the Pacific Ocean, temperatures in Alamitos Beach are moderate throughout the year. Heat and humidity rarely coincide, making heat waves more tolerable than they would be otherwise. Temperature highs typically range from the low s in the summertime, s during the spring and fall, and s in the winter.
As in most locations in Southern California, rainfall occurs largely during the winter months. Storms can bring heavy rainfall, but Alamitos Beach receives less precipitation than locations adjacent to the San Gabriel or San Bernardino mountains further inland, whose rainfall is enhanced by orographic lift.
Characteristics
The coastal neighborhood is mainly dense residential, with large condominium buildings along the beach and smaller condominiums, apartment buildings, and single family residences as one moves inland. A public beach is within short walking distance of all residences with some buildings having direct access. The beach includes the Long Beach bicycle path that starts at Shoreline Village and ends in the Belmont Shore neighborhood of Long Beach. Beginning in 2009 bike lanes were added to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd St. as part of the Long Beach's citywide effort to become more bicycle friendly. Perhaps not so coincidentally more bicycle shops have since opened around the area.
The neighborhood was laid out in the 1920s, and many of its buildings date back to that era. As a result, the experience of living here is to feel the human scale of its often-quaint two-story-building setting, and with many conveniences only a short walk away. The urban yet human-scale neighborhood makes this section of Long Beach unique among beach communities in Los Angeles and neighboring Orange Counties.
The historic Ebell Club is located in the district.
Nightlife
Alamitos Beach is known for its vibrant nightlife and for its significant LGBT community. The Broadway Corridor business district in Alamitos Beach is home to many well-established bars, restaurants, and other businesses that are mostly gay-owned and operated or cater especially to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community. Bars serving a largely LGBT clientele include The Paradise Piano Bar and Restaurant (closed April, 2018), The Brit Pub, The Mine Shaft, and Sweetwater Saloon. The coffee houses and restaurants, which typically remain open until at least midnight, are "gay-friendly" but also serve a large straight clientele. The 4th Street Corridor, along the constituting northern border of Alamitos Beach, is where bars like The V-Room and The Pike Bar & Fish Grill are located. The shops and restaurants along Shoreline Village and the Pike are also within walking distance.
Events
Ocean Blvd is the home of many city events, including the Toyota Grand Prix, Long Beach Marathon, the Long Beach Pride Parade, and the Amgen Tour of California Bike Race to name a few.
Architecture
In popular culture
Alamitos Beach is seen in many movies and television shows including: Blow, The O.C.,
Lethal Weapon
and Dexter.
Politics
Alamitos Beach is part of Long Beach's 2nd Council district, and is represented by Councilwoman Jeannine Pearce.
Gallery
See also
Broadway Corridor, Long Beach, California
Rancho Los Alamitos
Neighborhoods of Long Beach, California
Long Beach Jane Doe
References
External links
Map of Alamitos Beach
Alamitos Beach Neighborhood Association
Neighborhoods in Long Beach, California |
20023215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansabelt | Sansabelt | Sansabelt is a brand of men's trousers. The trousers have a wide webbed elastic band sewn into the waist, which is intended to make a belt or suspenders unnecessary, hence the name sans a belt. The slacks come in a classic fit with roomy legs in a dressy or dress casual fabric. Sansabelt slacks come in 3 styles—Western top pockets with flat front, Side pockets with flat front and Pleated with side pockets.
History
The Sansabelt slack was invented by Edward Singer of Silver Manufacturing Company, located in East Chicago, Indiana, which subsequently sold the company and their patent to Jaymar-Ruby, an Indiana-based clothing company, in 1959. Jaymar-Ruby's Sansabelt brand was acquired by Hartmarx in 1967 and the last Sansabelt pants were produced in the early 1990s. On 24 January 2009, Hartmarx Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Peter Schwadel, President of Monte Blue, Inc. purchased the license to Sansabelt in February 2013.
References in popular culture
On the American television Good Eats episode "Ear Apparent," when making creamed corn, host Alton Brown remarks "Back before the days when I started seriously eyeing the Sansabelt pants rack, I used to put lots of cream in here. Sometimes a quart for one batch." In episode "Mussel Bound" he says "But I gotta tell ya, I'm already Sansabelt challenged here, (...)" when explaining why he is not going to use butter or cream to thicken a sauce.
In the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a Jaymar/Sansabelt store can be seen in the background at the end of the parade scene.
In the first episode of Wings, Brian Hackett makes fun of rival airline owner Roy Biggins (David Schramm),"...Sansabelt slacks! Boy, you miss one issue of GQ..."
In the Janet Evanovich book Plum Lucky, the narrator states "They were middle-aged thugs, dressed in bowling shirts and Sansabelt slacks. Their hair was slicked back. Their shoes were scuffed and run down at the heel. Their guns weren't as big as ours."
In the Roseanne episode "The Fifties Show," Becky tells her father Dan (played by John Goodman), "Thanks, daddy, you're the best." Roseanne replies, "That's why he wears the Sansabelts in this family."
In the Seinfeld episode The Big Salad, we see a news broadcast about fictional former baseball player Steve Gendason who kills dry-cleaner Bobby Pinkus, allegedly over a pair of stained Sansabelt slacks.
In the fashion-parody film Zoolander, Derek (Ben Stiller) learns that male models throughout history have been brainwashed into committing many high-profile murders. He is told that the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy was due in part by JFK's involvement in the Cuban trade embargo, which "halted the shipment of Cuban-manufactured Sansabelt slacks, a very popular item at the time."
In episode six of season two of Harvey Birdman, Peanut comments on George Jetson's Sansabelt pants.
See also
Zubaz
References
Jaymar-Ruby Inc at MacREA's Blue Book (dot) com
US Patent 2,806,225 for Waistband Construction, granted to Edward Singer, September 17, 1957
External links
Clothing brands of the United States
Trousers and shorts |
41178252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuela%20Gandarillas | Manuela Gandarillas | Manuela Eras de Gandarillas (c. 1740s – 27 May 1812) is one of the Heroinas de la Coronilla. She was a blind woman, who fought for her nation's independence (cerro San Sebastian-Coronilla-close to Cochabamba, Bolivia) on 27 May 1812.
Manuela found out that the Spanish soldiers, commanded by José Manuel de Goyeneche, were coming to attack Cochabamba. She encouraged other women to join her and stop the Spanish soldiers. Since there were no men present, Manuela said to the women - "Nuestra casa es divina", which means "our house is sacred" in Spanish.
There is now a statue to represent these 300 Bolivian women in the Colina de San Sebastián, Bolivia and also every 27 May Bolivia celebrates the Day of the Bolivian Mother (in Spanish, 'dia de la madre boliviana').
Biography
Details about Gandarillas' early life and family are largely unclear. According to historian Edmundo Areze, Manuela's parents were Jose Aras and Gandarillas and Margarita Fernandez. It is assumed that her father fought for independent cause, and was shot. Some historians say she was the only girl in the family with 11 brothers. Her real date of birth is also in doubt, and is presumed to be in 1782 and not in 1752.
References
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19th-century Bolivian people
1812 deaths
Bolivian women
18th-century Bolivian people
Year of birth uncertain
19th-century Bolivian women
Bolivian blind people |
59850195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20mangrove-shrimp%20aquaculture | Integrated mangrove-shrimp aquaculture | Integrated mangrove-shrimp (IMS) aquaculture is a sustainable farming system used as one of the measures for mangrove rehabilitation and can be described as a method of organic aquaculture. Silvoaquaculture or silvofisheries are also terms used to define this farming practice where mangrove trees are planted alongside shrimp ponds allowing for profitable net income from shrimp farming, as it replicates a more natural habitat.
One of the main causes of mangrove forest depletion is the expansion of shrimp aquaculture. Coastal regions of Southeast Asia have suffered considerable loss as their shrimp production grew to dominate the market over the past 50 years. The performance and sustainability of shrimp ponds depend on the goods and services provided by mangrove ecosystems yet mangrove forests are being cleared to build these shrimp farms. For this reason, IMS farming is an alternative practice that can meet mangrove conservation needs, while sustaining the livelihoods of coastal communities.
History
It is believed that silvofishery has its origins in Myanmar in the 1950s. The government developed a system that required farmers to plant trees in exchange for using land, which in turn allowed for reforestation at low operational costs. Indonesia and Vietnam are known to have used silvofishery since 1978 and this farming system has also been introduced in other Southeast Asian regions as well as in countries of South Asia and South America.
The integrated mangrove-shrimp system
The design
In IMS systems, mangrove vegetation can be planted in three different ways:
On platforms or bunds creating rows of trees in between water canals or ditches where the shrimps are raised
On one large platform surrounded by a large area of water
In one area that is separated from the shrimp ponds by dykes
These three types of design are defined as integrated, associated and separated, respectively.
Ideal conditions
Based on multiple studies on IMS cultivation in Vietnam, the optimal mangrove coverage to maximize net profit from shrimp production was found to be between 30%-50%. The challenge in these cases are due to the regulations stipulating that mangrove coverage need to be above optimal percentages, between 60-80%, which has led to over logging and the reluctance to practice silvoaquaculture.
Other factors that can affect the production of shrimps in silvoaquaculture are the following:
Pond management: pond depth and pond mud pH can affect water quality
Recruitment of wild shrimps: IMS cultivation depends on the natural recruitment of wild shrimps, which varies with season
Leaf litter: decomposition of leaf litter can affect water quality and enhance the chances of disease
Water exchange: proper water exchange to reduce leaf litter decomposition and sedimentation requires good system design, with proper inlet and outlet
Predators: aquatic predators can enter the pond during water exchange and reduce the survival of post-larvae shrimps
The comparison with traditional farming practice
Traditionally, shrimp farming ranges from intensive to extensive systems. IMS aquaculture is similar to extensive farming in that it doesn't depend on chemical inputs, formulated feed and shrimp larvae but instead relies on natural feed and natural shrimp recruitment from the exchange of tidal water. Silvoaquaculture, is a manageable alternative for small-scale farmers who lack access to financial support. Unlike intensive farming, where shrimp yield correlates with high investment, this sustainable practice has a low operational cost. Furthermore, IMS cultivation allows for shrimp harvest on a continuous basis, whereas in intensive farming shrimps are harvested once per crop cycle.
Organic aquaculture
IMS cultivation can be converted to organic aquaculture by following regulations stipulated by Naturland, an international associations of farmers promoting organic agriculture. The area formerly occupied by mangroves can't exceed 50% of the total farm area and shrimp products can only be labeled as organic once the former mangrove area is at least 50% restored within a 5-year period. Organic shrimp farming has many advantages such as the rehabilitation of mangrove forests, the reduction of production costs and the higher market price for organic shrimps. However, the certification process for access to global markets is costly, thus can be a deterrent for farmers.
Benefits and challenges
IMS farming is not yet common practice; it has many advantages compared with traditional shrimp farming systems, but it is not without its roadblocks.
Below are some of the main benefits and challenges of silvoaquaculture:
Benefits
Biodiversity of flora and fauna: the increase in mangrove area helps maintain biodiversity as mangroves provide nursing grounds for a number of aquatic species and are home to numerous animal species.
Blue carbon sequestration: the restoration of mangrove forests by practicing IMS aquaculture can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions as these trees are highly efficient in capturing and storing carbon.
Low investment: IMS farming benefits from the natural functions of the mangrove ecosystem, thus is not reliant on external inputs (e.g. feeds, larvae stocks and chemical inputs), which represent higher financial costs.
Protection of coastlines: the presence of mangrove trees protects coastal regions from soil erosion and reduces their vulnerability to negative impacts of climate change and natural disasters.
Sustainable livelihood: IMS cultivation provides local communities with regular income from shrimp farming (continuous harvest) as well as from timber production and other fishery products, while rehabilitating mangrove forests.
Water quality: the presence of mangrove trees can improve the water quality of shrimp ponds, which can limit disease outbreak as they have bio-filtering functions and they buffer against water temperature shock (tree shading).
Challenges
Benefit sharing from timber production: farmers can be discouraged from shifting to IMS farming because the income from mangrove forest exploitation may not be as profitable for them due to unequal benefit sharing with forest companies or relevant stakeholders in the timber industry.
Ideal conditions: the design and maintenance of a mixed mangrove-shrimp environment (e.g. tree coverage, leaf litter, ditch area) to maximize shrimp yield can be challenging and discouraging if farmers don't have access to enough resources (labor and financial) or to adequate technical knowledge
Policy conflict and enforcement: contradictory policies stipulated by different levels of government or different governmental departments as well as the poor enforcement of these policies due to the lack of resources can lead to over logging or to the illegal conversion of mangrove areas to shrimp ponds.
Recommendations
Below are some of the main recommendations for the use of IMS cultivation as a sustainable farming practice in mangroves:
The provision of financial incentives for practicing IMS aquaculture and for the participation in the mangrove restoration plan.
The provision of financial and technical support from international institutions.
The participation of local communities in mangrove restoration and management planning.
The collaboration of key stakeholders (e.g. government, NGOs, coastal communities, international agencies) in the implementation of IMS aquaculture.
References
Aquaculture
Sustainable agriculture
Organic farming |
48405628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribo%20ou%20le%20soleil%20sauvage | Ribo ou le soleil sauvage | Ribo ou le soleil sauvage is a film shot in Cameroon in 1976. A Canadian-Cameroonian co-production, it was released in both countries in 1978.
Story
In the African jungle, in ancient times, Ribo-a-Irep, the daughter of Irep, is a teenager girl living in a village of gatherers. She was promised to Dik-a-Gan, the son of Gan, chief of the neighboring village of dancers, while still inside her mother's belly. While the betrothed await their upcoming marriage, Teter-a-Mum, chief of a third village, a village of warriors, wants to make Ribo his new wife, one who would finally give him a child. With the help of his guards he has Ribo kidnapped. War follows, leading to the destruction of the village of gatherers. Thanks to an alliance between the gatherers and the dancers, Ribo is saved and the marriage between Ribo and Dik-a-Gan is joyously celebrated.
Production
This film was shot in Cameroon, using amateur actors. Subsequently, however, Daniel Ndo became known for a long career as a humorist thanks to his role as Uncle Otsama. Suzanne Bandolo, who played Ribo, changed her name to Suzanne Bomback when she got married, and went into politics, eventually serving as Minister for the Promotion of Women and the Family.
Technical details
Director: Roger Racine CSC and Joseph-Henri Nama
Director of photography: Roger Racine CSC
Cameraman: Christian Racine
Sound engineer, audio mixing: Gilbert Ferron and Jean Tsang
Editor: Camil Adam, Alain Goudreau
Assistant Editor: Olivier Adam
Production: Cinéfilms Montréal
Distribution: Cinefilms & vidéo productions inc.
Countries of origin: Canada and Cameroon
Format: Techniscope 2.33
Genre: Drama
Duration: 95 minutes
Cast
Daniel Ndo: Teter-a-Mum
Suzanne Bandolo : Ribo-A-Irep
Dieudonné Ond Ond : Dik-a-Gan
Innocent Manda : Gan
Paul Etoundi Mama : Irep
Valentin Elandi : Zok
French voices
Med Hondo: Teter-a-Mum
Marie Christine Darah: Ribo-A-Irep
Tola Koukoui: Dik-a-Gan
Pierre Saintons: Gan
Daniel Kamwa: Irep
References
External links
Ribo ou le soleil sauvage trailer
Cameroonian drama films
Canadian drama films
Films set in Cameroon
Films set in pre-colonial sub-Saharan Africa
1978 films
French-language Canadian films
1978 drama films
Black Canadian films
1970s Canadian films |
8612852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beatles%20Book | The Beatles Book | The Beatles Book (also known as Beatles Monthly) was a fan magazine dedicated to the English rock band the Beatles, founded in 1963. It was first published in August 1963 and continued for 77 editions until it stopped publication after the December 1969 edition. It was revived in 1976, and ceased publication in 2003.
Publication history
In early 1963 a music writer and publisher, Sean O’Mahony, (who already published a magazine about the music scene called Beat Instrumental) heard Please Please Me and asked Brian Epstein if he could publish a magazine devoted to the Beatles. Epstein and the group agreed and the title launched in August 1963 with a print run of 80,000. By the end of the year circulation had grown to 330,000 copies per month. O’Mahony edited the magazine under the name of Johnny Dean.
The magazine's photographer, Leslie Bryce, had unrivalled access to the group throughout the 1960s, travelling the world and taking thousands of photographs. In addition, Beatles roadies Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans wrote many of the articles, and artist Bob Gibson created numerous cartoons and caricatures of the fab four on a regular basis. (He eventually did the cartoons for the Beatles' 1967 Magical Mystery Tour EP-set/US-album booklet.)
In May 1976 O’Mahony revived the publication and republished all 77 original issues surrounded by eight (later sixteen) pages of new Beatles news and articles. The reissue programme was completed in September 1982, coincidentally at a time when interest in the band was high due to the impending twentieth anniversary of "Love Me Do". Consequently, the decision was taken to continue the magazine with all new content. Publication continued until January 2003 (issue 321) when it once again ceased.
Sean O'Mahony retired from publishing in 2002 and died in 2020.
References
1963 establishments in the United Kingdom
1969 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
1976 establishments in the United Kingdom
2003 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
The Beatles
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Magazines established in 1963
Magazines disestablished in 1969
Magazines reestablished in 1976
Magazines disestablished in 2003
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38637134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%20Borkovec | Petr Borkovec | Petr Borkovec (April 17, 1970, Louňovice pod Blaníkem) is a Czech poet, translator and journalist.
He studied Czech language and literature at the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles University but did not finish his studies.
His poems have been translated into almost all European languages. His books have been published in Austria and in Italy. Borkovec translates mostly 20th-century Russian poetry.
Works
Poetry
Prostírání do tichého, Pražská imaginace, 1990
Poustevna, věštírna, loutkárna, Mladá fronta, 1991
Ochoz, Mladá fronta, 1994
Ze tří knih = Aus drei Büchern, Buchwerkstatt Thanhäuser, 1995 (German translation)
Mezi oknem, stolem a postelí, Český spisovatel, 1996
Polní práce, Mladá fronta, 1998
Feldarbeit: Gedichte, Edition Korrespondenzen, 2001 (German translation)
A. B. A. F., Opus, 2002
Needle-book, Paseka, 2003
Nadelbuch: Gedichte, Edition Korrespondenzen, 2004 (German translation)
Vnitrozemí, Fra, 2005
Amselfassade. Berlin-Notate, Friedenauer Presse, 2006 (German translation)
Berlínský sešit / Zápisky ze Saint-Nazaire, Fra, 2008
From the Interior: Poems 1995-2005, Seren, 2008 (English translation)
Jedna věta, Revolver Revue, 2011
Milostné básně, Fra, 2012
Liebesgedichte, Edition Korrespondenzen, 2014 (German translation)
Anthologies
Krajiny milosti. Antologie české duchovní lyriky XX. století, 1994
Sborník k pětasedmdesátinám Ivana Slavíka, 1995.
Translations
U řek babylónských, Torst, 1996 - anthology of Russian emigrant poetry
Sophocles: Král Oidipús, premiered at HaDivadlo in 1998, in print by Větrné mlýny in 1999 — translated with Matyáš Havrda
Jasná luna v prázdných horách, Paseka, 2001 — anthology of classical Korean poetry, with Vladimír Pucek
Aischylos: Oresteia, premiered a published by the National Theatre June 18, 2002 — translated with Matyáš Havrda
Vladimir Nabokov: Ut pictura poesis, Triáda, 2002) — translated with Jaroslav Kabíček
Vladislav Khodasevich: Těžká lyra, Opus, 2004 — poems translated by Petr Borkovec, esseys translated by Miluše Zadražilová
Yuri Odartschenko: Verše do alba, Fra, 2005
Yevgeny Rein: Bylo, byli, byla, byl…, Opus, 2005
His translations of poems by authors such as Zinaida Gippius, Georgy Ivanov, Joseph Brodsky were published in magazines.
Awards
1995 — Cena Jiřího Ortena (Jiří Orten Award) in 1994 for his book Ochoz
2001 — Hubert-Burda-Preis and Norbert-C.-Kaser-Preis for the German translation of his book Polní práce
2002 — Prémie Tomáše Hrácha for his translation of Oresteia (with Matyáš Havrda)
2004 — Cena Josefa Jungmanna (main creative award) for his translation of a part of Heavy Lyre by Vladislav Khodasevich
References
External links
Czech poets
Czech male poets
Czech translators
People from Benešov District
1970 births
Living people |
52981726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lady%20Aoi%20%28Bahram%20Beyzai%20production%29 | The Lady Aoi (Bahram Beyzai production) | The Lady Aoi (, Banou Aoi) was a 1998 production of Yukio Mishima's play of the same name in Persian translation, which was produced and directed by Bahram Beyzai in his as yet only production of a play by a playwright other than himself.
Production
After about 18 years of no theater work since Death of Yazdgerd (1979), in 1997 Beyzai, at the indication of the officials of the new government of Mohammad Khatami (1997–2005), returned to Tehran from his brief stay in Strasbourg at the invitation of the International Parliament of Writers. He was given the green light to stage a play if he wished so.
Earlier, Beyzai had translated Aoi no Ue, the Noh on which Mishima based his The Lady Aoi, into Persian. Now, finding out that Mojdeh Shamsaie, his wife, had acting in The Lady Aoi on her mind as her graduate work, he decided to produce this play for her. Huge popular interest made this performance a public event: instead of a single university performance, the play remained on stage for months, and audiences welcomed it greatly.
Cast
Rokujo . . . Mojdeh Shamsaie
Hikaru . . . Parsa Pirouzfar
Nurse . . . Mahshad Mokhberi
Subsequently, Mojdeh Shamsaie, already Beyzai's wife since 1992, became a fixed actress in all of his films and stage plays. She had first appeared in Beyzai's film Travelers in 1991.
Reception
Most of the Persian critics and playwrights, among them Hamid Amjad, Shahram Jafarinejad and Hossein Kiani, responded favorably to the play. Amjad compared Beyzai's worldview with Mishima's. Jafarinejad admired the actresses as well as the actor (Pirouzfar) whom he considered less successful, but still quite agreeable. Kiani praised Beyzai's mise-en-scène and minor modifications.
Notes
References
Persian Wikipedia contributors
Bahram Beyzai
1998 plays
Stage productions by Bahram Beyzai
Yukio Mishima |
70672866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damarion%20Williams | Damarion Williams | Damarion Williams (born July 15, 1998) is an American football cornerback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Highland and Houston.
Professional career
Williams was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fourth round (141st overall) of the 2022 NFL Draft.
References
External links
Baltimore Ravens bio
Highland Scotties bio
Houston Cougars bio
Living people
1998 births
American football cornerbacks
Players of American football from Atlanta
Players of American football from Miami
Highland Scotties football players
Houston Cougars football players
Baltimore Ravens players |
57632967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus%20Lehto | Justus Lehto | Justus Lehto (born 6 April 1997) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays for PS Kemi, as a midfielder.
Career
On 27 January 2023, Lehto signed a one-year deal with VPS, returning to Veikkausliiga after a five-year absence.
References
1997 births
Sportspeople from Pori
Footballers from Satakunta
Men's association football midfielders
Living people
Finnish men's footballers
FC Jazz players
Kemi City F.C. players
Kokkolan Palloveikot players
Vaasan Palloseura players
Veikkausliiga players
Ykkönen players
Kakkonen players |
19175778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags%20of%20Elizabeth%20II | Flags of Elizabeth II | Queen Elizabeth II had a variety of flags to represent her personally and as head of state of several independent nations around the world. They were usually used on any building, ship, car, or aircraft where she was present.
These heraldic flags were usually a nation's coat of arms in banner form.
As Princess Elizabeth
Princess Elizabeth's personal standard prior to her accession as Queen was her coat of arms in banner form. This consisted of four quarters consisting of three lions passant for England, a lion rampant for Scotland, and a Gaelic harp for Ireland. To differentiate the arms of Princess Elizabeth from that of the King it was differenced with a white label of three points, the centre point bearing a Tudor rose and the first and third a cross of St George. The flag was adopted in 1944 and was used for the first time on 30 November 1944, at the launch of by the Princess.
As sovereign
Immediately upon becoming Queen, Elizabeth inherited the two versions of the royal standard of the United Kingdom. Since the 1960s, flags were introduced to represent the Queen in various other Commonwealth realms, which followed the same basic pattern: the nation's coat of arms in banner form with the device found on her personal flag. The Queen's representatives in these nations had their own flags to represent them.
United Kingdom
Upon the death of her father, Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II and therefore adopted the Royal Standard. This flag was used to represent the Queen not only in the United Kingdom but also overseas when she made state visits. It is the royal arms in banner form undifferentiated.
Sierra Leone
The Queen's Sierra Leonean standard was created time when she visited Sierra Leone in 1961, in her capacity as Queen of Sierra Leone. The flag featured the coat of arms of Sierra Leone in banner form, which depicts a lion beneath a zigzag border, representing the Lion Mountains, after which the country was named. It also had three torches which symbolized peace and dignity. At the base were wavy bars depicting the sea. A blue disc of the crowned letter "E", surrounded by a garland of gold roses defaced the flag, which is taken from the Queen's Personal Flag. The Sierra Leonean standard also served as the inspiration for the design and layout of her personal standard for Canada.
This flag ceased to be used when Sierra Leone became a republic in 1971.
Canada
The Queen had a personal Canadian Flag in her role as Queen of Canada. The flag was adopted and proclaimed by her on 15 August 1962. The flag, in a 1:2 proportion, consists of the escutcheon of the Royal Coat of Arms of Canada in banner form defaced with the distinct device of Queen Elizabeth II: a blue roundel with the initial E surmounted by St Edward's Crown and within a wreath of roses, all gold-coloured.
The standard is protected under the Trade-marks Act; section 9(a) states: "No person shall adopt in connection with a business, as a trade-mark or otherwise, any mark consisting of, or so nearly resembling as to be likely to be mistaken for... the Royal Arms, Crest or Standard".
The Queen's Canadian Standard was also flown sometimes in her absence. To mark the Queen's sixty years on the Canadian throne on 6 February 2012, her personal Canadian standard was unfurled at Rideau Hall and on Parliament Hill, as well as at provincial royal residences and legislatures across the country.
Australia
The Queen had a personal Australian Flag in her role as Queen of Australia. The flag was approved for use in by the Queen on 20 September 1962, and first used during the 1963 royal visit. The flag consists of a banner of the coat of arms of Australia, defaced with a gold seven-pointed federation star with a blue disc containing the letter E below a crown, surrounded by a garland of golden roses. Each of the six sections of the flag represents the heraldic badge of the Australian states, and the whole is surrounded by an ermine border representing the federation of the states.
The flag is flown on Royal Australian Navy ships, or on Australian official buildings or in enclosures only on occasions when the monarch is present. The exception to this rule is parades in honour of their birthday, when the flag is flown even if the monarch is not present. When it is flown on or outside a building, no other flag is flown with it.
On 7 July 2000, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 by the British Parliament, the Queen attended a church service at Westminster Abbey in London. The Queen's personal flag for Australia flew at the Abbey, the first time it had flown in the United Kingdom.
New Zealand
The Queen had a personal flag in her role as Queen of New Zealand. It was approved for use in 1962. It was flown by the Queen when in New Zealand. The only time the flag was flown in New Zealand in the absence of the Queen, was at parades held on and in honour of her official birthday. The flag is the escutcheon of the arms of New Zealand in banner form, defaced with a blue roundel surrounded by a garland of roses encircling a crowned letter 'E', all in gold.
The flag is divided into four quadrants: The first quadrant includes depicts four stars as representative of the Southern Cross constellation, as depicted on the national flag. The second quadrant consists of a golden fleece on a red field. The third quadrant contains a golden wheat sheaf on a red field. The final quadrant includes two crossed gold hammers on a blue field. The central stripe consists of three ships. Superimposed in the centre is a dark blue roundel bearing a Roman E surmounted by a Royal Crown within a chaplet of roses, all gold-coloured, obscuring the centre ship.
The flag takes precedence over the New Zealand flag, and is protected under the Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981; Section 12(1) states: "Every person commits an offence against this Act who, without the authority of Her Majesty or (as the case may require) the Governor-General, displays or exhibits or otherwise uses any representation to which this subsection applies in such a manner as to be likely to cause any person to believe that he does so under the authority, sanction, approval, appointment, or patronage of Her Majesty or the Governor-General".
An example of the Queen's New Zealand Standard being used outside New Zealand, is at the unveiling of the New Zealand War Memorial in London, UK, by the Queen at Hyde Park in 2006. The Queen's Personal New Zealand Standard was flown, along with the Union Flag, and the flag of New Zealand on three separate freestanding flagpoles at the ceremony.
Trinidad and Tobago
The Queen's personal flag for Trinidad and Tobago was used for the first time when she visited Trinidad and Tobago in 1966. The flag featured the coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago in banner form, which depicts the colours of the national flag. The gold ships represent the three ships Christopher Columbus used on his voyage. The two birds above are hummingbirds. A blue disc of the crowned letter "E", surrounded by a garland of gold roses defaced the flag (obscuring the centre ship), which is taken from the Queen's Personal Flag.
This flag ceased to be used when Trinidad and Tobago became a republic in 1976.
Jamaica
The Queen had a personal flag in her role as Queen of Jamaica. It was first used when she visited Jamaica in 1966, as part of her Caribbean tour. The flag consists of a banner of the coat of arms of Jamaica defaced with the Queen's Royal Cypher. The flag is white and bears a red St George's Cross. A gold pineapple is superimposed on each arm of the Cross. A blue disc with the Queen's initial is placed in the centre of the Cross (obscuring the central pineapple). The disc is taken from the Queen's Personal Flag.
Malta
The Queen had a personal flag for use in Malta, in her role as Queen of Malta. The flag was adopted on 31 October 1967, and first used when the Queen visited Malta in 1967. The flag consisted of the Coat of arms of Malta in banner form, which depicts the colours white and red, and a representation of the George Cross, awarded to Malta by George VI in 1942. A blue disc of the crowned letter "E", surrounded by a garland of gold roses defaced the flag, which is taken from the Queen's Personal Flag.
This flag ceased to be used when Malta became a republic in 1974.
Mauritius
The Queen's personal flag for Mauritius was first used when she visited Mauritius in March 1972. The flag consisted of the coat of arms of Mauritius in banner form: quarterly azure and or, in the first quarter a lymphad of the last in the second, 3 palm trees eradicated vert, in the third, a key in pale the wards downwards gules, and in the issuant, from the base a pile, and in chief a mullet argent. A blue disc of the crowned letter "E", surrounded by a garland of gold roses defaced the flag, which is taken from the Queen's Personal Flag.
This flag ceased to be used when Mauritius became a republic in 1992.
Barbados
The Queen had a personal flag for use in Barbados, in her role as Queen of Barbados. It was first used when the Queen visited Barbados in 1975. The standard consisted of a yellow field with a bearded fig tree, a long-established symbol of the island of Barbados, and the national flower the Pride of Barbados flowers in each of the upper corners. A blue disc of the crowned letter "E", surrounded by a garland of gold roses, was displayed prominently on the flag within the centre of the tree.
This flag ceased to be used when Barbados became a republic in 2021.
Personal flag
The Queen's personal flag was displayed on any building, ship, car, or aircraft in which she would have stayed or travelled. It often represented the Queen in her role as Head of the Commonwealth or as monarch of a Commonwealth realm in which she did not possess a unique flag.
This flag, designed by the College of Arms in 1960, bears the crowned letter E in gold, surrounded by a garland of gold roses on a blue background, with a golden fringe. The crown is a symbol of the Queen's rank and dignity, whilst the chaplet roses symbolise all the countries of the Commonwealth.
The flag was created at the Queen's request in December 1960 to symbolise her as an individual, not associated with her role as sovereign of any particular Commonwealth realm. It was designed as an alternative to the Royal Standard, for use chiefly in Commonwealth republics where the British heraldic devices have no historic significance, and to Commonwealth meetings where the Royal Standard would be considered inappropriate.
It was first used in 1961 for the Queen's visit to India. It was flown for the first time in the BOAC Britannia in which the Queen landed at Delhi Airport.
Over time, the flag started to be used in place of the British royal standard when the Queen visited Commonwealth countries where she was not head of state and for Commonwealth occasions in the United Kingdom; it came to symbolise the Queen as Head of the Commonwealth. Eventually, the practice evolved wherein the flag was raised at Marlborough House (the headquarters of the Commonwealth Secretariat) in London when the Queen visited, rather than the Royal Standard of the United Kingdom.
Others
As Lord High Admiral
In 1964, the Queen assumed the office of the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom. In this capacity, the Queen flew a special Lord High Admiral's flag. It was flown when the Queen was at sea, and at naval establishments ashore on official occasions, when it flew alongside the Royal Standard.
Gallery
See also
Flags at Buckingham Palace
Standard of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
References
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23835123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Pedraza | José Pedraza | José Pedraza may refer to:
José Pedraza (boxer) (born 1989), Puerto Rican boxer
José Pedraza (racewalker) (1937–1998), Mexican race walker |
1794485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fania%20Marinoff | Fania Marinoff | Fania Marinoff (; ) (March 20, 1890 – November 17, 1971) was a Russian-American actress.
Life
Marinoff was born in Odessa, Russia, on March 20, 1890. She was born into a Jewish household, and she was the thirteenth child and seventh daughter born to Mayer and Leah Marinoff, who died shortly after she was born. At age 6, Marinoff, who was nicknamed Fanny as a child, was smuggled on board an overcrowded passenger ship headed to America. She arrived in Boston where she lived undernourished and uneducated. At the age of 8, Marinoff was sent to live with her older brother, Michael. While living with him and his wife, Marinoff was tortured on a regular basis. She was locked in dark rooms, which were infested with rats, for hours on end. A year later, Marinoff made her stage debut as a little boy in Cyrano de Bergerac at the El Itch Theater. This launched the beginning of what would be a 50-year career.
In 1914, Marinoff married American writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten. The two were introduced through mutual friends in the summer of 1912 in New York City. Shortly after meeting, they formed a strong bond. Within the first year together, Van Vechten told Marinoff that she was more than he could have dreamed of, saying she was “the only one that I have ever found who completely satisfies me.” From the beginning of their relationship, Marinoff was aware of Van Vechten's homosexual desires. Although Marinoff had attained great recognition before meeting Van Vechten, once married, she found herself living in Van Vechten's shadow. To many she was known as simply “Carlo’s wife”. The couple played a prominent role in the Harlem Renaissance.
Nella Larsen dedicated her book Passing to Marinoff and Van Vechten.
Career 1903–1945
Marinoff played supporting and lead roles in dozens of Broadway plays between 1903 and 1937, seven U.S. silent movies between 1914 and 1917, and three short films in 1915.
Marinoff was an actress and dancer for almost 50 years. Her career bloomed when she became the lead actress in the Greenwich Village Players. She was well known for her movie roles in One of Our Girls (1914), The Galloper (1915) and Life's Whirlpool (1917). On stage, she played lead in the original play Karen (1918) as well as Antony and Cleopatra (1937) and Pillars of Society (1931).
During her career, she took an eight-year break because of her heavy drinking, she told an interviewer. In the last few years of her career, she volunteered at the Stage Door Canteen entertaining troops from 1942 to 1945. After retiring from acting, she and her husband remained active in artistic circles.
Death
Marinoff died in 1971 in Englewood, New Jersey, from pneumonia.
Partial filmography
One of Our Girls (1914)
The Unsuspected Isles (1915)
Nedra (1915)
The Money Master (1915)
McTeague (1916)
New York (1916)
The Rise of Jennie Cushing (1917)
References
External links
Photo
portrait gallery (NY Public Library, Billy Rose collection)
1890 births
1971 deaths
Odesa Jews
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
20th-century American actresses
American stage actresses
American film actresses
Deaths from pneumonia in New Jersey |
2020995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romper%20Room | Romper Room | Romper Room is an American children's television series that was franchised and syndicated from 1953 to 1994. The program targeted preschoolers (children five years of age or younger), and was created and produced by Bert Claster and his presenter wife, Nancy, of Claster Television. The national version was presented by Nancy Terrell. Romper Room was also franchised internationally at various times in Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Finland, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Argentina, and Australia.
Founding
American television franchises and syndications
Romper Room was a rare case of a series being both franchised and syndicated, and it was also revealed that local affiliates—Los Angeles and New York being prime examples—would produce their own versions of the show instead of airing the national telecast. For some time, local shows all over the world used the same script but with local children; some affiliates, starting with KWEX-TV in San Antonio, translated the scripts into Spanish for local airings. Kids would be on waiting lists for years (sometimes before birth) to be on the show. For example, when Edna Anderson-Taylor left the KSL-TV version of Romper Room, the waiting list was over three years long. In 1959, John Crosby reported that the waiting list in Baltimore was so long, some of the preschoolers on the waiting list would not have a turn on the show until they were 40. The show was called "an actual kindergarten". Originally filmed in Baltimore from its inception in 1953, Romper Room eventually moved its broadcast facilities to Chicago and then moved back to Baltimore in 1981.
Episode format
Each program opens with a greeting from the hostess and the Pledge of Allegiance in American broadcasts. The hostess and her group of children then embark on 30 or 60 minutes of games, exercises, songs, story-telling and moral lessons, which were regularly accompanied by background music. The hostess (or sometimes the children in cadence) would ask, "Mr. Music, please!" or "We're ready, Mr. Music", to prompt the background music. The young cast, which ranged from four to five years old, was rotated every two months, with many of the hostesses having prior experience working with small children and many being former kindergarten teachers.
Etiquette was a focus of Romper Room. The hostesses were always addressed as "Miss." The show also had a mascot, Mr. Do-Bee. Mr. Do-Bee was an oversized bumblebee who came to teach the children proper deportment. He was noted for always starting his sentence with "Do Bee", as in the imperative "Do be"; for example, "Do Bee good boys and girls for your parents!" There was also a "Mr. Don't Bee" to show children exactly what they should not do. Do-Bee balloons were made available for purchase to the public. Each balloon featured a painted sketch of Do-Bee. When the balloons were inflated and then released, they would fly around slowly and emit a buzzing sound.
The hostess would also serve milk and cookies to the children. Before eating, they would recite the celebrated Romper Room grace: "God is great, God is good. Let us thank Him for our food. Amen."
At the end of each broadcast, the hostess would look through a "magic mirror"—actually an open frame with a handle, the size, and shape of a hand mirror—and recite the rhyme, "Romper, bomper, stomper boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic Mirror, tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play?" She would then name the children she saw in "television land", saying, for example, "I can see Kathleen and Owen and Julie and Jimmy and Kelly and Tommy and Bobby and Jennifer and Martin" and so forth. Children were encouraged to mail in their names, which would be read on the air (first names only).
The show used the then-popular Mattel Jack-in-the-box (sometimes called "Happy Jack") for its opening and closing titles, with its traditional nursery rhyme "Pop Goes the Weasel" as a theme song, but, from 1981 onwards, a new original theme song was used.
Romper Room and Friends
In 1981, the format of Romper Room was overhauled and re-titled Romper Room and Friends. One hundred syndicated versions were taped in Baltimore with Molly McCloskey (credited as Molly McCloskey-Barber after 1985) as host. At that point, they no longer used teachers. The biggest change to the program was the introduction of a series of new puppet characters, including a full costume character named Kimble and puppets named Granny Cat and Up-Up. Kimble and Up-Up were performed by Bruce Edward Hall and Granny Cat by McCloskey, a.k.a. "Miss Molly". The three characters were developed by The Great Jones Studios in NYC. The new characters starred in a series of vignettes, somewhat similar to the "Neighborhood of Make-Believe" segments on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and were meant to introduce or reinforce simple moral lessons. About 100 of these skits — each running three to five minutes — were produced for insertion into local Romper Room programs; the host would introduce each segment and comment after its conclusion.
In addition, a new opening and closing credits sequence, and lyrical theme – "Romper Room and Friends", containing mostly nonsensical lyrics, but also naming the characters Up-Up, Do Bee, Granny Cat, and Kimble in the lyrics as well – were introduced, replacing the "Pop Goes the Weasel" theme that had been used. New songs/music beds were also created and composed by David Spangler including a somber Magic Mirror theme. Additionally, two British made shows, Paddington (narrated by Michael Hordern) and Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings (narrated by Bernard Cribbins) were also featured.
The last host of the syndicated series was Sharon Jeffery, the only African-American to host the show. Miss Sharon hosted the show from 1987 until the series was last filmed in 1992, although new episodes were aired until 1994. Jeffery's shows were filmed at KTVU in Oakland, California.
Broadcast information
Nancy Cledenin Terrell (born 1940, Richmond, Virginia) (known to audiences as "Miss Nancy") was the national hostess in the 1960s and early 1970s, when Romper Room was seen on ABC-owned and operated stations throughout the United States in locales that did not have their own hostesses.
See also
Ding Dong School
References
External links
Romper Room info from tvparty.com
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37714450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20Gokhale | Vijay Gokhale | Vijay Gokhale is an Indian Marathi and Hindi film and television actor and director. In 1995 he acted in the television series Shrimaan Shrimati.
Filmography
Director
Dum Asel Tar (2012)
Bharat Aala Parat (2007)
Actor
Hi Mummy Hi Daddy
Dum Asel Tar
Parambi (2011)
Mamachya Rashila Bhacha
Tata Birla Ani Laila
Asami Kay Gunha Kela
Bhagam Bhag(Marathi)
Chala Khel Khelu Ya Doghe
Saline Kela Ghotala
Zhak Marali Bayko Keli
Bharat Aala Parat
Mumbaicha Dabewala
Baba Lagin
Mahercha Nirop
Hi Poragi Konachi
Polisachi Bayko
Gharandaaj
Sar Kas Shant Shant
Ek unaad divas
Television
Shrimaan Shrimati (1995-1999) as Gokhale
Hum Aapke Hai Woh (1996-1998)
Ghar Jamai (1997) as Pandit (Guest Role only in episode no. 39)
Family No.1(1998) as Bholaram (Guest Role only in episode no. 17)
Dil Vil Pyar Vyar (1998-1999)
C.I.D. (India TV series) (2002)
Hum Sab Ek Hain (1999-2000)
Saat Phero Ki Hera Pherie
References
External links
Living people
Male actors in Marathi cinema
Marathi film directors
Indian male television actors
Marathi actors
Year of birth missing (living people) |
53219079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20Buenos%20Aires%20ePrix | 2017 Buenos Aires ePrix | The 2017 Buenos Aires ePrix (formally the 2017 FIA Formula E Buenos Aires ePrix) was a Formula E electric motor race held on 18 February 2017 at the Puerto Madero Street Circuit in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Argentina in front of a crowd of 21,000 people. It was the third round of the 2016–17 Formula E Championship and the third running of the event. The 37-lap race was won by e.Dams-Renault driver Sébastien Buemi after starting from third position. Techeetah's Jean-Éric Vergne finished second and Audi Sport ABT driver Lucas di Grassi was third.
Di Grassi won the pole position by recording the fastest lap in qualifying and led the first lap. The race was neutralised on the same lap because of Adam Carroll's stalled car and when the race restarted one lap later Vergne challenged di Grassi for the lead and passed him on lap three. Di Grassi lost second place to Buemi soon after and the latter took the lead by overtaking Vergne on the sixth lap. Buemi kept the lead after the mandatory pit stops to switch into his second car but despite having trouble with braking in a straight line Buemi remained in first place for the rest of the race to win. There were four lead changes among four different drivers during the course of the race.
It was Buemi's third consecutive victory of the season, the ninth of his career, and he became the first driver in Formula E history to win three successive races. The result increased Buemi's Drivers' Championship advantage over di Grassi to 29 points. Buemi's teammate Nico Prost maintained third position, while Vergne's strong finish moved him to fourth place. e.Dams-Renault extended their Teams' Championship advantage over Audi Sport ABT to 51 points and were a further 23 ahead of Mahindra with nine races left in the season.
Background
The Buenos Aires ePrix was confirmed as part of Formula E's 2016–17 schedule in September 2016 by the FIA World Motor Sport Council. It was the third of twelve single-seater electric car races of the 2016–17 Championship, the third running of the event, and was held on 18 February 2017 at the 12-turn anti-clockwise Puerto Madero Street Circuit in Puerto Madero. It was announced in November 2016 the race would be the last at the Puterto Madero Street Circuit; the change came about due to redevelopment in the Puterto Madero area. There were 20 drivers entered by 10 different teams for the event.
Before the race e.Dams-Renault driver Sébastien Buemi led the Drivers' Championship with 50 points, 22 ahead of Lucas di Grassi in second and a further four in front of third-placed Nico Prost. Felix Rosenqvist was fourth on 19 points, and Sam Bird rounded out the top five with 18 points. e.Dams-Renault led the Teams' Championship with 74 points; Audi Sport ABT and Mahindra were tied for second position with 36 points each. Virgin were fourth with 19 points, one point ahead of fifth-placed Andretti.
Buemi had yet to win in Buenos Aires after losing the 2015 victory due to a crash late on and qualified at the back in the 2016 race where he recovered to finish second. He stated his hope to qualify well and win the race: "I’ve always been very competitive in Buenos Aires, however I’ve never translated it into the win, so I’m hoping to make that happen this year." Di Grassi revealed his team's objective was to win in Buenos Aires and accumulate as many points as possible. He believed the circuit would suit his car following development to it over the hiatus. After being unable to win in Marrakesh because of various issues, Rosenqvist revealed he gathered his team members for a meeting to discuss improvements and set himself the objective of winning for the first time in Formula E and prepared for the race in the Mahindra simulator. Bird, the 2016 winner, said Buemi was the one to watch out for and hoped to avoid the sub-par results from the season's last two races. Oliver Turvey of NextEV felt in 2016, he quickly gained confidence driving the track and was optimistic about continuing his team's development and expected to challenge for a podium or race victory.
Practice
Two practice sessions—both on Saturday morning—were held before the Saturday late afternoon race. The first session ran for 45 minutes and the second for 30 minutes. A 30-minute shakedown session was held on Friday afternoon before the practice sessions and had António Félix da Costa record the fastest time of 1 minute, 18.1 seconds, ahead of Rosenqvist in second and Nick Heidfeld Heidfeld third. Both practice sessions took place in dry weather. José María López of power to set the first session's fastest lap at 1 minute, 9.431 seconds, 0.628 seconds quicker than Techeetah's Jean-Éric Vergne in second. Mitch Evans of Jaguar, Buemi, Bird, Rosenqvist, Prost, di Grassi, Turvey and Nelson Piquet Jr. (NextEV) rounded out the session's top ten drivers. The session was twice stopped when Félix da Costa lost control of his car's rear and hit the turn six barrier. Félix da Costa's damaged car was transported to his garage for repairs and drove his second vehicle. He later stopped on track, ending the session early.
In the second practice session, Bird was quickest with a lap of 1 minute. 8.792 seconds, ahead of Rosenqvist, di Grassi third. Buemi, Robin Frijns, Piquet, Turvey, Vergne, Prost and Maro Engel (Venturi). Turvey hit the chicane's barrier with Adam Carroll and Bird spinning their cars in turn five. Loïc Duval's left-front tyre lost a wheel nut, causing it to detach and stopping the session. As a result of the stoppage to retrieve Duval's tire and the two in first practice, the second session was extended by five minutes. Shortly after practice restarted, Engel stopped at the turn one exit with car problems but a second stoppage was not required because he was off the track. Di Grassi pushed hard and hit the turn four wall, damaging his car's front-right corner and rear; yellow flags were waved to warn drivers about the crash.
Qualifying
Saturday afternoon's qualifying session ran for 60 minutes and was divided into four groups of five cars. Each group was determined by a lottery system and was permitted six minutes of on-track activity. All drivers were limited to two timed laps with one at maximum power. The fastest five overall competitors in the four groups participated in a "Super Pole" session with one driver on the track at any time going out in reverse order from fifth to first. Each of the five drivers was limited to one timed lap and the starting order was determined by the competitor's fastest times (Super Pole from first to fifth, and group qualifying from sixth to twentieth). The driver and team who recorded the fastest time were awarded three points towards their respective championships. The session was held in warm and dry weather.
In the first group, Evans was quickest, three-tenths of a second faster than Bird in second, and Frijns third. Evans' teammate Carroll and Engel (who stopped twice on track because of technical issues) were the group's two slowest drivers. Bird cited difficulty in gaining optimum tyre temperature for his performance. Vergne used clear air to go fastest in the second group with a late lap that was two-tenths of a second faster than Buemi. Di Grassi, Piquet and Jérôme d'Ambrosio rounded out the top five. The third session was delayed when Vergne and Piquet were investigated by the stewards for an irregularity. Félix da Costa stopped his car on the racing line at the turn one exit and the yellow flag was shown until he performed a restart, allowing him to keep driving. Rosenqvist was fastest in the third group, with Stéphane Sarrazin and Duval second and third. An oversteer through turn seven put López into a barrier, and damaged the car's rear-right corner. He stopped further down the track and the session was temporarily stopped. Race control granted Félix da Costa permission to complete his timed lap but damaged his front-right suspension in an collision with the chicane's inside barrier. Both López and Félix da Costa started the race from the grid's ninth row.
In the fourth group, Turvey was fastest by more than one second than teammate Piquet. Prost was third-fastest, and led until Turvey's lap. Both Daniel Abt and Ma Qinghua collided with the turn four exit barrier, curtailing their session. After group qualifying, Turvey, Piquet, di Grassi, Vergne and Buemi qualified for super pole by recording fast enough lap times. The start of the super pole session was delayed to cater for the removal of a bollard at the chicane. Piquet was the first driver to attempt his lap in super pole, losing half a second because he locked his front tyres and struggled with the rear balance of his car and was fifth. Turvey lacked grip through the seventh turn, causing him to lock his tyres and missed the following turn's apex and took fourth position. Despite going slower than Turvey in the track's first third, di Grassi drove cleanly through turn seven to record a provisional pole position lap time of 1 minute, 9.404 seconds. Buemi started his lap cleanly but lost half a second in the track's first third by locking his tyres which placed him off the racing line and took third. Vergne was the fastest driver in the first third of the lap but heavily locked his tyres, qualifying second. Hence, di Grassi secured his first pole position in Formula E. The rest of the grid lined up as Prost, Evans, Rosenqvist, d'Ambrosio, Bird, Sarrazin, Heidfeld, Frijns, Duval, Carroll, Abt, Félix da Costa, López, Ma and Engel.
Qualifying classification
Race
A special feature of Formula E is the "Fan Boost" feature, an additional of power to use in the driver's second car. The three drivers who were allowed to use the boost were determined by a fan vote. For the Buenos Aires race, Buemi, di Grassi and Abt were handed the extra power. The weather at the start were dry and sunny with the air temperature between with a track temperature at ; a 90 per cent chance of rain was forecast. When the race started at 16:00 Argentina Time (UTC+3) before 21,000 attendees, di Grassi maintained the lead entering the first turn. Vergne held off Buemi to keep second. Rosenqvist made a brisk start, overtaking Evans and Prost and challenged Piquet for fifth. The full course yellow was necessitated when Carroll was unable to move off the grid but was able to restart his car as the field came to lap him. Carroll was ordered by his team to catch up to everyone else while abiding by the full course yellow speed limit. At the end of the first lap, di Grassi led from Vergne, Buemi, Turvey, Piquet, Rosenqvist, Prost, d'Ambrosio, Bird and Evans.
The race restarted on lap two with di Grassi leading and Vergne second. Evans overtook d'Ambrosio to move into eighth place, while Vergne began challenging di Grassi for the lead. Vergne passed di Grassi at turn four on the third lap to claim the lead and di Grassi immediately battled Buemi for second position. Buemi overtook di Grassi for second place three corners later, while Vergne set what was at that point the fastest lap of the race—at 1 minute, 12.926 seconds—to pull away from Buemi. After sustaining damage to his vehicle's rear-right suspension, Bird fell to the rear of the field. Piquet went off the racing line and lost fifth position to Prost. Buemi got a fast exit through the final corner, drafted off Vergne before turning left onto the inside line and passed him by braking late to take the lead at the first corner on lap six. Buemi took a wide line to prevent Vergne from retaking the position entering turn two. Di Grassi struggled with his car's handling and Turvey overtook him for third place and Prost closed the gap to di Grassi. Buemi pulled away from the rest of the field. Bird made a pit stop with the damage to his car and switched into his second vehicle, intending to recording the fastest lap but he would not be able to finish the race.
Engel stopped on the track with powertrain issues; after he restarted, he was shown a black flag with an orange circle, requiring him to enter the pit lane to repair car damage. Prost overtook di Grassi around the inside at turn four to claim fourth position on lap 12, and Piquet reduced the time deficit to di Grassi. López forced Sarrazin wide through the fourth turn to take over 18th on the following lap. Buemi led Vergne by 4.5 seconds Vergne with Turvey, Prost and di Grassi close by for the third place battle. The mandatory pit stops change into a second car began on lap 19 when Turvey, Evans and Duval entered the pit lane. Evans was imposed a five-second time penalty after he was observed to have exceeded the speed limit under full course yellow conditions. Most drivers followed one lap later and after the pit stops Buemi was in third place. Di Grassi was released into Piquet's path, causing the latter to brake to avoid a collision. Engel lost engine power at his pit stop and retired from the race. Mahindra elected to keep their drivers Rosenqvist and Heideld on the track for one further lap to allow both drivers to push in the finals laps from having more electrical energy.
Rosenqvist's car failed to start because of a battery management system problem that left him stationary in his garage for one minute longer than usual, and rejoined the circuit in 17th place. Di Grassi closed up to Prost, used an error by the latter leaving the final turn, and overtook him by braking late on the inside into the first turn for third on lap 24. Frijns battled Abt for tenth because the latter was delaying several cars but later used FanBoost to pull away. Heidfeld overtook Sarrazin and Frijns for 11th but the stewards imposed a five-second time penalty on him for exceeding the minimum pit stop time by four-tenths of a second and fell to 15th. Di Grassi pushed hard in an effort to close up to Vergne but he reacted by stabilising his lead to two seconds. Buemi activated FanBoost to extend his advantage over Vergne, while Rosenqvist set the race's fastest lap (and overall race track record) at 1 minute, 9.467 seconds on lap 31, earning him one point. Lopez gained three positions to run in 11th by lap 35 and the stewards announced that di Grassi was under investigation for his pit stop release on that lap.
Both Dragon drivers were informed over their radios that they had to ensure that they finished the race while Duval was told d'Ambrosio had more electrical energy. Duval reduced the time deficit to teammate d'Ambrosio and attempted an overtake for sixth place, causing light contact between the duo and passed him. Abt overtook Turvey for eighth. On the final lap, Bird was forced wide into a wall by d'Ambrosio, causing him to retire. Despite braking difficulties on his second car that rendered him unable to brake in a straight line, Buemi took his third victory of the season, the ninth of his career, and became the first driver in the history of Formula E to win three consecutive races. Vergne finished 2.9 seconds behind in second, with di Grassi in third, Prost fourth, Piquet fifth and Duval sixth. Abt used the rest of his electrical energy to pass d'Ambrosio for seventh. Turvey's car overheated and took ninth and López finished tenth. Félix da Costa and Sarrazin finished 11th and 12th. Evans was in a points-scoring position but a slower pace dropped him to 13th. Frijns, Heidfeld, Ma, Carroll and Rosenqvist were the final finishers. There were four lead changes in the race; four drivers reached the front of the field. Buemi led twice for a total of 31 laps, more than any other competitor.
Post-race
The top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Buemi was delighted with the race victory, praising his team for their work and said he was hopeful his recent form would continue into the season's next rounds. His team was concerned over his battery overheating; Buemi stated that he drove cautiously in the first few laps to know where he was and that he had the situation under control. Second-place finisher Vergne was delighted because of his relatively new team having had no prior testing of his car, new personnel and equipment. He said he corrected the problems he had in the season's first two races and felt certain that he would focus on winning races: "I think the whole team did a fantastic job, working really, really hard, sometimes many hours overnight and in the end it paid off." Di Grassi, who finished in third, said that it was a good day for his team although he acknowledged he was not on the same pace levels as the e.Dams-Renaults. He revealed his first car had excess oversteer and stated the smallest of change would make a large difference in terms of the championship.
Di Grassi was imposed a formal reprimand and a €1,500 fine by the stewards for the pit stop release that caused Piquet to brake to avoid hitting him. Piquet felt it was unfair for different punishments to exist for the same penalty and complained of inconsistency from the stewards. He warned drivers would become quickly disenchanted and believed stewards would not be taken seriously in the future. Piquet advocated for more people to observe the track, install more cameras and a GPS system in all cars. D'Ambrosio felt aggrieved over the battle between his teammate Duval, saying it was "a little bit of a pity" and was unsure whether it was a misunderstanding. Duval insisted the battle was firm but fair, saying he gave d'Ambrosio room but would make it difficult for anyone to overtake him: "As you have seen in the past though we have had fights and most of the time I was really gentle, and this weekend I was in this position where I was competitive and I had less energy available so I fought." Dragon's team principal Jay Penske revealed his drivers were allowed to battle each other cleanly but if one eliminated the other from contention, that driver would be required to miss the following race.
Attention also focused on Jaguar's improved pace in Buenos Aires. Prior to the race, the team had been criticised by the media for their inability to perform well in Formula E with some publications criticising the decision to sign Evans and Carroll to the squad. Evans said his improved performance encouraged Jaguar's staff and made the team more confident: "If you look at the bigger picture, I’ve got to be satisfied with today. Qualifying was great, to be honest, I topped the group. If you ask me or the whole team if this would have happened after Marrakesh, we would have taken it with both hands." Carroll stated he hoped to have perform well in Buenos Aires and go quicker but it was an issue that could be improved on. Jaguar team principal James Barclay said the improvement was "a little bit of a positive surprise" but was unsure if Carroll's problem at the start was caused by driver error or an electrical issue. He admitted the team had to improve their understanding of the full course yellow procedure in future races.
The result extended Buemi's lead at the top of the Drivers' Championship to 29 points in front of second-placed di Grassi, who in turn, was a further ten ahead of Prost in third. Vergne's second-place finish moved him to fourth on 22 points and Rosenqvist was fifth on 20 points. e.Dams-Renault's strong result increased their advantage in the Teams' Championship over Audi Sport ABT to 51 points, with Mahindra remaining in third place on 37 points. NextEV moved into fourth on 25 points with Techeetah three points behind in fifth with nine rounds left in the season.
Race classification
Drivers who scored championship points are denoted in bold.
Notes:
— Three points for pole position.
— One point for fastest lap.
Standings after the race
Drivers' Championship standings
Teams' Championship standings
Notes: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
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15057929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmina%20Lichnowy | Gmina Lichnowy |
Gmina Lichnowy is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Malbork County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Lichnowy, which lies approximately north-west of Malbork and south-east of the regional capital Gdańsk.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2022 its total population is 4,427.
Villages
Gmina Lichnowy contains the villages and settlements of Boręty, Boręty Drugie, Boręty Pierwsze, Dąbrowa, Lichnówki, Lichnówki Pierwsze, Lichnowy, Lisewo Malborskie, Parszewo, Pordenowo, Starynia, Stożki, Szymankowo and Tropiszewo.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Lichnowy is bordered by the town of Tczew and by the gminas of Malbork, Miłoradz, Nowy Staw, Ostaszewo, Suchy Dąb and Tczew.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
Lichnowy
Malbork County |
44145231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20Swiss%20Indoors%20%E2%80%93%20Singles | 2014 Swiss Indoors – Singles | Juan Martín del Potro was the two-time defending champion, but withdrew because of a wrist injury.
Roger Federer won the title, defeating David Goffin in the final, 6–2, 6–2.
Seeds
Roger Federer (champion)
Rafael Nadal (quarterfinals)
Stan Wawrinka (first round)
Milos Raonic (quarterfinals)
Grigor Dimitrov (quarterfinals)
Ernests Gulbis (first round)
David Goffin (final)
Ivo Karlović (semifinals)
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
Qualifying
Seeds
Jan-Lennard Struff (first round)
Víctor Estrella Burgos (first round)
Robin Haase (qualifying competition)
Simone Bolelli (qualified)
Paul-Henri Mathieu (qualifying competition, retired)
Andreas Haider-Maurer (qualifying competition)
Tatsuma Ito (first round)
Marcos Baghdatis (first round)
Qualifiers
Qualifying draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
References
Main draw
Qualifying draw
2014 ATP World Tour
Singles |
52950589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Alexander%20Nevsky%27s%20Church%2C%20Novocherkassk | St. Alexander Nevsky's Church, Novocherkassk | Church of St. Alexander Nevsky () ― an Orthodox church of Rostov and Novocherkassk Diocese. It is situated in the city of Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, Russia.
History
In 1805, after the foundation of Assumption Cathedral in Novocherkassk, a place in the city was consecrated by the Bishop of Voronezh and Cherkasy Arseny for construction of the new Alexander Nevsky's Church. Over time, the place for the construction of the temple was changed and consecrated again by priest Vasily Rubashkin. Initially the church was built of wood on architect Lavopier project. On June 29, 1810 Aarchpriest Alexey Oridovsky sanctified this wooden church in the name of St. Alexander Nevsky.
In 1822, to the church was attached a chapel in the name of St. Great Martyr Paraskeva, consecrated on October 26 of the same year by archpriest Jacob Merhalev. In 1827 ataman D.E. Kuteynikov proposed to build in Novocherkassk a stone church instead of the wooden church of Alexander Nevsky. This proposal was approved by clergy, and the plan and cost estimate were drawn. they were also approved in 1829 by Emperor Nicholas I, who ordered to start the construction of stone Alexander Nevsky's Church.
The bell tower was constructed in 1834. In 1835 the church itself was rebuilt: the stone foundations were laid and an altar was also established. In 1866, the wooden roof of the church was replaced with that is of iron.
Yet the start of construction works of brand new stone church was delayed. In 1889, the new project of the church was drafted. It was approved by the cossack ataman Prince Nikolay Svyatopolk-Mirsky. The project also received the blessing of Archbishop Makarios.
Works on the construction of the new church had been carried out since 1891. In 1893, the church was constructed in the rough. In the summer of 1894 a cross was installed on the main dome.
Churchwarden Abramov ordered in Moscow a marble iconostasis at his own expense, for the price 22 thousand Rubles. In the summer of 1896 the iconostasis was installed. Right aisle of the church was consecrated in honor of St. Great Martyr Paraskeva with the blessing of Archbishop Athanasius. In 1899 the church was painted in oil and covered with wall paintings.
Alexander Nevsky's Church was built in neo-Byzantine style. It could accommodate up to 1,500 people.
After the Civil War Alexander Nevsky Church was closed. During the German occupation of the city in World War II the temple had been opened, but then closed again in 1960.
In the mid 1970s in the building of the church started "restoration works" to create a planetarium in it. In the 1990s the church was opened again. On 12 March 1995 a new bell was installed there.
Sources
«Донская Церковная Старина», вып. 2-й, 1909 г., стр. 31.
External links
An article about Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in Russian
Photos of the church
Churches in Rostov Oblast
1896 establishments in the Russian Empire
Buildings and structures in Novocherkassk
Churches completed in 1896
Cultural heritage monuments in Novocherkassk |
52197183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadea | Gadea | Gadea is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hilda Gadea (1921–1974), Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and writer
Kelly Gadéa (born 1991), French footballer
Manuel Gadea (born 1942), Uruguayan basketball player
Sergio Gadea (born 1984), Spanish motorcycle racer |
1335586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Joseph%20O%27Malley | Edwin Joseph O'Malley | Edwin Joseph O'Malley (August 22, 1881 – April 10, 1953) was the Commissioner of Public Markets for New York City.
Biography
Edwin was born on August 22, 1881, in Manhattan, New York City to Thomas Francis O'Malley (1854–1918) and Georgiana Reynolds (1855–1941). He married Alma Feltner (1883–1940) on January 16, 1902, and had one child, a son, Walter Francis O'Malley (1903–1979), who would become the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1950 to 1979, and who would oversee their controversial move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
In 1910 Edwin was living in the Bronx, New York, and working as a cotton goods salesman. Around 1911 he moved the family from the Bronx to Hollis, Queens. He registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, but did not serve in World War I. He became a Democratic party ward heeler for Tammany Hall, and was appointed as the Commissioner of Public Markets for New York City by mayor John F. Hylan. He testified on August 18, 1922, before the Kings County, New York Grand Jury, which was investigating the mishandling of the fees paid by vendors to the Public Markets office. No charges were filed.
He died of a heart attack in Amityville, New York, on April 10, 1953.
Further reading
Roger Kahn; The Era 1947-1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World.
Burton Alan Boxerman; Ebbets to Veeck to Busch: Eight Owners Who Shaped Baseball.
Henry D. Fetter; Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903-2003. .
Court cases
Schumaker v. O'Malley; May 1, 1920
Matter of Joerger v. O'Malley; December 1, 1923
References
1881 births
1955 deaths
Edwin Joseph
Politicians from the Bronx
People from Long Island
Commissioners of Public Markets
People from Hollis, Queens
New York (state) Democrats |