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53792710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tori%20Freestone | Tori Freestone | Victoria ("Tori") Freestone is a British saxophonist, flautist, violinist and composer. She has performed British jazz since 2009 as a band leader and sidewoman, known for her robust tenor sound and melodic invention. Her "Trio" albums, released in 2014 and 2016, were awarded at least 4 stars. The Guardian critic John Fordham described her first album "In The Chop House" as "an imposingly original sound".
In 2017 Freestone was shortlisted for a Fellowship in Jazz Composition supported by PRS for Music Foundation, UK Arts Foundation. That year Freestone was also nominated in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2017 in the Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year category.
Career
Freestone started performing in folk clubs at the age of seven. She joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra when she was 17 and then went on to study jazz flute at Leeds College of Music, then progressed to the saxophone when she was 26. Freestone likes to compose for unusual instrumentation that challenges traditional composition and improvisational techniques, most notably in her trio she explores the avenues of composing for a group that is led without a harmony instrument. Freestone features in many UK bands such as the Andre Canniere Sextet and Ivo Neame Quintet, but her main focus is on three projects: The Tori Freestone Trio, the Tori Freestone/ Alcyona Mick Duo and the sextet 'Solstice'. She has appeared at a number of UK Jazz Festivals including Manchester Jazz Festival in 2015 with a project with trumpeter Neil Yates and her duo with pianist Alcyona Mick. More recently she appeared at The Barbican, London as part of a larger ensemble all-star band with Hermeto Pascoal. She also performs on tour with the Julian Siegel Big Band.
Recordings
Freestone's debut album with her Trio was In the Chop House, released in 2014 on Whirlwind Recordings. This album featured Freestone on tenor saxophone, Dave Manington on double bass and Tim Giles on drums. The Guardian gave the album 4 stars and said: "In being supported by only bass and drums (Dave Manington and Tim Giles), Freestone goes for one of a saxophonist's toughest options, but she is more than up to it."All About Jazz placed this album in their top 10 albums of 2014 and gave it four and a half stars.
Her second album, with the same trio, El Barranco, again released on Whirlwind Recordings, garnered similarly excellent 4-star reviews. John Fordham wrote "...fascinating once again for the ways in which an exceptional improviser can spin new yarns from the most deliberately restricted of resources – just an unbugged sax, bass and drums. Freestone has an arresting Coltrane-inflected sound..." In 2018 her duo album with pianist Alcyona Mick entitled Criss Cross received many 4 star reviews including one in All About Jazz "This is elegant, engaging and original music, played with magnificent panache."
In 2019, her third Trio album El Mar de Nubes received 4 stars from John Fordham "...this impressive trio shows formidable range, balancing free-jazz delicacy and bite".
Discography
As leader
2019: El Mar de Nubes (Whirlwind Recordings) with Tori Freestone Trio
2016: El Barranco (Whirlwind Recordings) with Tori Freestone Trio
2014: In The Chop House (Whirlwind Recordings) with Tori Freestone Trio
As co-leader
2018: Criss Cross (Whirlwind Recordings) with Alcyona Mick
As sideman
2016: Alimentation (Two Rivers Records) with Solstice
2016: The Darkening Blue (Whirlwind Recordings) with Andre Canniere
2015: Strata (Edition Records) with Ivo Neame Quintet
2013: Ichthyology (Groove Laboratory Productions) with Jamil Sheriff Big Band
2013: Entertaining Tyrants (Jellymould Jazz) with Compassionate Dictatorship
2013: Clocca (Loop Collective) with Fringe Magnetic
2012: Yatra (Edition Records) with Ivo Neame Octet
2011: Things Will Be (Impossible Ark Records) with Riaan Visloo Examples of Twelves
2011: Twistic (Loop Collective) with Fringe Magnestic
2010: Cash Cows (FMR) with Compassionate Dictatorship
2009: Empty Spaces (Loop Collective) with Fridge Magnetic
2008: Club Rouge (Deep Touch Records) with Levan J
2007: Coup d'Etat (FMR) with Compassionate Dictatorship
2005: Sunday Morning (Deep Touch Records) with Levan J
2004: Cool Day (Deep Touch Records) with Levan J
References
External links
Official website
British jazz saxophonists
British jazz flautists
Living people
21st-century saxophonists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century flautists
Whirlwind Recordings artists |
30520652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Bentley | Phil Bentley | Phillip Keague Bentley (born 14 January 1959) is a British businessman. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Mitie, and formerly the CEO of Cable & Wireless Communications. and the managing director of British Gas, the British retail arm of the energy company Centrica.
Early and personal life
Bentley was brought up in Bradford, and attended Woodhouse Grove School in Apperley Bridge. He holds a master's degree from Pembroke College, Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Bentley is married and has two children.
Career
Bentley joined BP's graduate recruitment scheme in 1982, training as a management accountant. He worked in China from 1983 to 1985, and then Egypt and the US, before returning to the UK as head of capital markets. He joined Grand Metropolitan in 1995, which became Diageo in 1997; from 1 July 1999 until 2000 he was finance director of UDV Guinness.
Centrica
Bentley was group finance director of Centrica from 2000 to February 2007. and was also managing director, Europe from July 2004 to September 2006.
On 19 September 2006 it was announced that Bentley would become the managing director of British Gas, part of the Centrica group, taking over from Mark Clare from March 2007. Bentley's stewardship was often controversial, as the company raised residential energy prices several times during his reign; protests at company premises were not unusual. Bentley frequently appeared in the media defending the company's decisions. The controversy was fuelled by the rise in profits during Bentley's stewardship – profits from the residential energy division of British Gas increased by 24% in one year alone. Bentley repeatedly claimed that price rises were beyond the company's control, and that they were not increased to raise profits. Bentley said that the reason for the price increase was that average domestic gas consumption had increased by 12 per cent compared to the warmer previous year. Throughout his time at the company Bentley's salary (£681,000 in 2013) was the subject of frequent criticism.
As managing director for seven-years, Bentley did have commercial success at Centrica, increasing turnover by nearly £4 billion. He was credited with improving the company’s customer services and rolling out new technologies such as smart meters.
On 27 February 2013, Centrica announced that Bentley would step down from his role at British Gas, from the Centrica board on 30 June 2013, and leave the company's employment on 31 December 2013. Bentley was replaced by the managing director of Direct Energy (also part of the Centrica group) Chris Weston.
Cable and Wireless
On 17 October 2013 it was announced that Bentley would succeed Tony Rice as CEO of Cable & Wireless Communications from 1 January 2014, coinciding with the relocation of the company headquarters from London to Miami, Florida. On 6 January 2014, C&WC announced that Bentley had purchased 4.3 million shares in the company, at a value of around 3 times his basic salary of £800,000. He demitted office after the acquisition of CWC by Liberty Global on 16 May 2016.
Mitie
In October 2016, it was announced that he would succeed Ruby McGregor-Smith as CEO of Mitie, which he duly did on 13 December 2016. Under Bentley’s leadership, Mitie has become the biggest FM operator in the UK, partly because of their acquisition of Interserve in late 2020. Since the start of the COVID pandemic, Bentley has overseen Mitie’s work delivering a wide range of services, including running Covid-19 testing sites, cleaning offices and major transport services, and providing security for new quarantine hotels. He has also attempted to use the pandemic to redefine the traditional image of cleaning by introducing UVC robots and units. current basic salary of £900,000 – As the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of MITIE Plc, the total compensation of Phil Bentley at MITIE Plc is £2,648,470. There are no executives at MITIE Plc getting paid more.
Other positions
Between 2002 and 2010 he was a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of Kingfisher plc. On 1 October 2012 Bentley was apportioned non-executive director of global engineering group IMI, and also joined the audit committee and nominations committee.
References
1959 births
Living people
British chief executives in the energy industry
Businesspeople from Bradford
Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford
INSEAD alumni
Centrica people |
36154822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20%28hydrology%29 | Routing (hydrology) | In hydrology, routing is a technique used to predict the changes in shape of a hydrograph as water moves through a river channel or a reservoir. In flood forecasting, hydrologists may want to know how a short burst of intense rain in an area upstream of a city will change as it reaches the city. Routing can be used to determine whether the pulse of rain reaches the city as a deluge or a trickle.
Routing also can be used to predict the hydrograph shape (and thus lowland flooding potential) subsequent to multiple rainfall events in different sub-catchments of the watershed. Timing and duration of the rainfall events, as well as factors such as antecedent moisture conditions, overall watershed shape, along with subcatchment-area shapes, land slopes (topography/physiography), geology/hydrogeology (i.e. forests and aquifers can serve as giant sponges that absorb rainfall and slowly release it over subsequent weeks and months), and stream-reach lengths all play a role here. The result can be an additive effect (i.e. a large flood if each subcatchment's respective hydrograph peak arrives at the watershed mouth at the same point in time, thereby effectively causing a "stacking" of the hydrograph peaks), or a more distributed-in-time effect (i.e. a lengthy but relatively modest flood, effectively attenuated in time, as the individual subcatchment peaks arrive at the mouth of the main watershed channel in orderly succession).
Other uses of routing include reservoir and channel design, floodplain studies and watershed simulations.
If the water flow at a particular point, A, in a stream is measured over time with a flow gauge, this information can be used to create a hydrograph. A short period of intense rain, normally called a flood event, can cause a bulge in the graph, as the increased water travels down the river, reaches the flow gauge at A, and passes along it. If another flow gauge at B, downstream of A is set up, one would expect the graph's bulge (or floodwave) to have the same shape. However, the shape of the river and flow resistance within a river (from the river bed, for example) can affect the shape of the floodwave. Oftentimes, the floodwave will be attenuated (have a reduced peak flow).
Routing techniques can be broadly classified as hydraulic (or distributed) routing, hydrologic (or lumped) routing or semi-distributed routing. In general, based on the available field data and goals of the project, one of routing procedures is selected.
Hydraulic (or distributed) routing
Hydraulic routing is based on the solution of partial differential equations of unsteady open-channel flow. The equations used are the Saint-Venant equations or the associated dynamic wave equations.
The hydraulic models (e.g. dynamic and diffusion wave models) require the gathering of a lot of data related to river geometry and morphology and consume a lot of computer resources in order to solve the equations numerically.
Hydrologic (or lumped) routing
Hydrologic routing uses the continuity equation for hydrology. In its simplest form, inflow to the river reach is equal to the outflow of the river reach plus the change of storage:
, where
I is average inflow to the reach during
O is average outflow from the reach during ; and
S is the water currently in the reach (known as storage)
The hydrologic models (e.g. linear and nonlinear Muskingum models) need to estimate hydrologic parameters using recorded data in both upstream and downstream sections of rivers and/or by applying robust optimization techniques to solve the one-dimensional conservation of mass and storage-continuity equation.
Semi-distributed routing
Semi-distributed models such as Muskingum–Cunge family procedures are also available. Simple physical concepts and common river characteristics such as channel geometry, reach length, roughness coefficient, and slope are used to estimate the model parameters without complex and expensive numerical solutions.
Flood routing
Flood routing is a procedure to determine the time and magnitude of flow (i.e., the flow hydrograph) at a point on a watercourse from known or assumed hydrographs at one or more points upstream. The procedure is specifically known as Flood routing, if the flow is a flood.
After Routing, the peak gets attenuated & a time lag is introduced. In order to determine the change in shape of a hydrograph of a flood as it travels through a natural river or artificial channel, different flood simulation techniques can be used. Traditionally, the hydraulic (e.g. dynamic and diffusion wave models) and hydrologic (e.g. linear and nonlinear Muskingum models) routing procedures that are well known as distributed and lumped ways to hydraulic and hydrologic practitioners, respectively, can be utilized. The hydrologic models need to estimate hydrologic parameters using recorded data in both upstream and downstream sections of rivers and/or by applying robust optimization techniques to solve the one-dimensional conservation of mass and storage-continuity equation. On the other hand, hydraulic models require the gathering of a lot of data related to river geometry and morphology and consume a lot of computer resources in order to solve the equations numerically. However, semi-distributed models such as Muskingum–Cunge family procedures are also available. Simple physical concepts and common river characteristic consisting of channel geometry, reach length, roughness coefficient, and slope are used to estimate the model parameters without complex and expensive numerical solutions. In general, based on the available field data and goals of a project, one of these approaches is utilized for the simulation of flooding in rivers and channels.
Runoff Routing
Runoff routing is a procedure to calculate a surface runoff hydrograph from rainfall. Losses are removed from rainfall to determine the rainfall excess which is then converted to a hydrograph and routed through conceptual storages that represent the storage discharge behaviour of overland and channel flow.
See also
Hydrograph
One-dimensional Saint-Venant equations
References
Hydrology
Soil mechanics
Soil physics
Water |
65054954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Gross%20%28politician%29 | Al Gross (politician) | Alan Stuart Gross (born April 13, 1962) is an American politician, orthopedic surgeon and a commercial fisherman who, running as an independent candidate, was the Democratic nominee for the 2020 United States Senate election in Alaska. He lost the race to incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan.
Early life and education
Gross was born in Juneau in 1962. He is the son of former Alaska Attorney General Avrum and Shari Gross, the first Executive Director of the United Fishermen of Alaska, who also founded the League of Women Voters-Alaska. As a child, he was part of the small Jewish community in Alaska, and had the first bar mitzvah in Southeast Alaska. While attending Douglas High School in Juneau, Gross developed an interest in fishing, both sport and commercial. When he was 14, he bought his first commercial fishing boat with a bank loan. He commercially gillnet fished for salmon in the summer to pay his way through college and medical school.
Gross attended Douglas High School in Juneau before enrolling at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1985 with a degree in neuroscience. He studied medicine at the University of Washington’s WWAMI Regional Medical Education Program, graduating in 1989.
Medical career
After graduating from medical school, Gross served as the president of the Bartlett Regional Hospital medical staff. In 2006, he founded and served as the president of the Juneau Bone and Joint Center. Gross retired from full-time orthopedic surgery in 2013, but continues to work part time for the Petersburg Medical Center, and volunteers at a training hospital in Cambodia every year.
Gross practiced as an orthopedic surgeon in Juneau, beginning in 1994. In 2013, Gross left his practice, along with his wife Monica Gross, to study health care economics, earning a master's of public health at University of California, Los Angeles. He has said that he grew uncomfortable with the high costs of healthcare, and pursued his MPH degree to study solutions.
Political career
After earning his MPH, Gross returned to Alaska and began his advocacy for healthcare reform. In 2017, he co-sponsored two ballot initiatives in Alaska. The Quality Health Insurance for Alaskans Act sought to add certain provisions from the Affordable Care Act into state law, including protection against discrimination based on preexisting conditions, mandatory coverage for prenatal and maternal care, and provisions that children could remain covered by their parents' insurance until age 26. The Healthcare for Alaskans Act would codify the Medicaid expansion, already in effect due to an executive order by Governor Bill Walker. Both initiatives were withdrawn from the ballot in December 2017. Supporters cited uncertainty in healthcare policy at the federal level as the reason for the withdrawal.
2020 U.S. Senate campaign
On July 2, 2019, Gross announced he would run as an independent in the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Alaska. He won the August Democratic primary against Democrat Edgar Blatchford and Independent Chris Cumings, gaining the nomination of the Alaska Democratic Party, which had endorsed him before the filing deadline.
Gross ran as an independent against Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan. He had the support of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and The Lincoln Project.
Gross said, "I stepped up to do this because the Alaska economy has been failing, we’ve been losing Alaskans to the Lower 48 for the past few years, and despite that labor loss, we had the highest unemployment in the country."
The Daily Beast argued that Alaska "flirts with purple-state status" in part due to Gross's candidacy. There was speculation that the political fallout of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nomination could dampen support for incumbent Sullivan and benefit Gross's campaign.
More than a week after the election, Sullivan's reelection in what was expected to be a close race was affirmed.
In October 2021, Gross ran for Hospital Board in Petersburg, Alaska and finished fourth.
2022 U.S. House campaign
On March 28, 2022, Gross announced he would run as an independent candidate for Alaska's at-large congressional seat that was vacated upon the death of Congressman Don Young. Although he won third place and the opportunity to compete in the general election, he withdrew on June 20, 2022.
Political positions
Despite receiving the Alaska Democratic Party's endorsement, Gross is an independent politician and says he is closer to Republicans on "issues like guns and immigration".
Gross supports an overhaul of Medicare, including the addition of a public option. He also supports raising the minimum wage, defending collective bargaining rights for workers and unions, efforts to make college more affordable and accessible, and earlier tracking into trade schools. Citing his background in science, Gross supports policies that address climate change, including the growth of renewable energy and opposition to the Pebble Mine project. He also supports ending Citizens United and fixing political corruption.
Gross fully supports instant-runoff voting. He is neutral on Universal Basic Income (UBI), which resembles the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF), saying, "The UBI check here in Alaska has been a great program, but any program like that, you have to be careful you don't disincentivize going back to the workforce."
Environmental and energy policy
Gross opposes the proposed Pebble Mine, which threatens to harm the ecosystem of Bristol Bay. His campaign could have benefited from reports of Sullivan's inconsistency on this issue, and secretly recorded tapes in which corporate executives indicate that Sullivan could switch his position on the mine after the election.
Gross accepts the scientific consensus on climate change and its impacts on Alaska. He supports diversification of Alaska's economy and its energy supply, including renewable energy. Like Sullivan, he supports oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Gross opposes the Green New Deal.
Foreign policy
Gross has said that Russian and Chinese interest in the Arctic must be counterbalanced by a strong U.S. military. He has said that he would be a "staunch defender" of Israel.
Gun policy
Gross has said that he is a "strong proponent of the Second Amendment" and "will vote against banning any guns." He has stated support for background checks on military assault weapons.
Health care
As a physician, Gross has supported initiatives to lower health care costs. His campaign endorsed a public health care option for individuals and small businesses.
In 2017, he wrote in support of single-payer, but he did not include single-payer as part of his senatorial campaign and his radio, social media and television ads initially opposed the idea. In 2020, he said he supports federal legalization of cannabis to help small businesses and others.
Social policy
Gross was endorsed by Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign.
Electoral history
2020
References
External links
Campaign website
1962 births
20th-century American physicians
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American physicians
21st-century American politicians
Alaska Independents
Amherst College alumni
Candidates in the 2020 United States Senate elections
Jewish American people in Alaska politics
Jewish physicians
Living people
Politicians from Juneau, Alaska
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of Washington alumni
Candidates in the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections |
24689689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Doeringer | Eric Doeringer | Eric Doeringer (born July 1, 1974) is an artist currently living and working in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Brown University in 1996 with a B.A. and received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999.
"Bootleg" paintings
{{Quote box |quoted=true |bgcolor=#FFFFF0 |salign=center | align = left| width = 33% | quote =[Doeringer] has come under some opposition for his stance on [copying pictures] and has received more than one cease-and-desist order from galleries and artists, but has also received praise for his activities with purchases from a few of the artists he appropriated. Viewers seem to be split, calling him either a pirate or a virtuoso.| source = Reading Eagle, April 13, 2008}}
Eric Doeringer's "Bootlegs" are small copies of work by eminent contemporary artists including Richard Prince and Lisa Yuskavage. Doeringer reproduces the artworks using "collage, digital photography, paint and varnish". Doeringer can make between six and fifteen paintings each day and told The New York Times in a 2005 interview that his process is "like an assembly line". On Saturdays beginning in 2001, he set up a vending table in Chelsea, Manhattan on West 24th Street. Small canvases reproducing contemporary paintings lined the table. Paintings by the original artists (sold within a short walking distance from Doeringer's stand) cost tens of thousands of dollars, while Doeringer's copies sold for less than $100. His total profit in a day of selling paintings has sometimes reached $1500. Time Out stated that Doeringer is "famous for bootlegging art on the streets of New York".
According to Doeringer, the majority of the artists he copies do not mind, while others have sent him cease-and-desist letters. Richard Prince was a "fan" of his work, while Takashi Murakami put a stop to his copies. Doeringer states that his work is fair use because he "culled the pictures from the public domain of the Internet". In 2005, Chelsea art dealer Mike Weiss called the police to remove Doeringer's Bootleg stand from 24th Street. Weiss told The New York Times that "he did so for reasons that might be condemned in the art world but that made perfect sense for any businessman like himself who has to pay a huge rent" and claimed Doeringer was "an opportunist and that he just wants his 15 minutes".
In 2007, Doeringer sold his wares in the Geisai Art Fair in Miami. For the fair, he crafted 42-cent stamps decorated with pictures of celebrities. The stamps, which cost $1, were legally usable as postage and were decorated with photographs of eminent people in the art world. Over his booth, Doeringer placed orange and neon signs that proclaimed "Best Art Deals in Miami" and "Nothing Over $250!" The New York Sun deemed his decorations "a pitch-perfect metamockery of the art fair's commercialism".
Conceptual art recreations
In 2008, Doeringer began making larger, more faithful recreations of works of Conceptual art by artists like Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, Edward Ruscha, and On Kawara. New York magazine called a 2009 exhibition of Doeringer's Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings "perfectly executed" and "a genuine aesthetic experience, not just a knowing scold."
In 2011, Doeringer exhibited his work at Another Year in L.A.; he titled his exhibition "Eastern Standard Time". In one piece, Doeringer copied Charles Ray's 1973 avant-garde photograph panorama All My Clothes. Titled All My Clothes (After Charles Ray), Doeringer's photographs each contain himself standing in front of a white background attired in various clothes. In an interview with the LA Weekly, he said he adapted Ray's general ideas for the artwork, adding that the key distinction between their works is the "East Coast-West Coast divide". Whereas Ray's figure is garbed in a single winter outfit, Doeringer's wears much toastier clothing. Other pieces Doeringer copied and showcased at the Los Angeles exhibition were John Baldessari's Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line, On Kawara's I Went, Richard Prince's Cowboy photographs, and several of Edward Ruscha's books.
In 2012, The New York Times art critic Ken Johnson reviewed Doeringer's solo exhibition at the Mulherin + Pollard gallery titled "The Rematerialization of the Art Object". In the front room, Doeringer displayed "well-made simulations" of Damien Hirst's spot paintings and Richard Prince's Marlboro cowboy advertisements. In the back room, Doeringer presented imitations of three artists: Edward Ruscha (counterfeit books), Charles Ray (16 photographs of himself wearing various clothes in imitation of Ray's All My Clothes), and Andy Warhol (a film mimicking Warhol's Empire by recording the Empire State Building). Johnson wrote that Doeringer's "distinction is his focus not on canonical works of Modernism but on famous Conceptualist pieces that are themselves art about art". In 2013, the Toronto Stars Murray Whyte reviewed Doeringer's Survey'', "a series of his exacting knock-offs of the late 20th century's greatest art hits". In addition to containing imitations of works by Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, and Andy Warhol, the exhibition also contained imitations of Sol LeWitt's wall drawings and Lawrence Weiner's spray paintings. Art critic Murray Whyte wrote that Doeringer is "less heretic than prophet, putting the towering genius of a previous generation to its own test".
References
External links
Official website
1974 births
Living people
Artists from New York (state)
American conceptual artists
Brown University alumni
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
54047072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urszula%20Kozio%C5%82 | Urszula Kozioł | Urszula Kozioł (born 20 June 1931) is a Polish poet. In 2011, she was a recipient of the Silesius Poetry Award.
Biography
Kozioł was born in Rakówka, a village in Poland. She attended high school in Zamość and graduated from the University of Wroclaw in 1953.
Her debut poetry collection was Gumowe klocki ("Blocks of rubber", 1957), but her second, W rytmie korzeni ("In the Rhythm of the Roots", 1963), is considered her breakthrough. Of her 1963 poem "Recipe for the Meat Course", translator Karen Kovacik writes that it "functions simultaneously as an ars poetica and an ironic riposte to those who believed a woman's place was in the kitchen" and "depict[s] housework or domestic life through motifs of violence and estrangement."
Her novel Postoje pamięci ("Stations of Memory", 1965) focuses on Mirka, the daughter of a teacher, growing up in a small village during World War II. In his survey of Polish literature, Czesław Miłosz wrote that it was "One of the most authentic testimonies on the village".
She began editing the magazine Odra in 1968. She has also written stage and radio dramas for adults and children.
Bibliography
Poetry
Gumowe klocki (Związek Literatów Polskich, Oddział we Wrocławiu, 1957)
W rytmie korzeni (Ossolineum, 1963)
Smuga i promień (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1965)
Lista obecności (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1967)
Poezje wybrane (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1969)
W rytmie słońca (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1974)
Wybór wierszy (Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik", 1976)
Poezje wybrane (II) (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1985; )
Wybór wierszy (Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik", 1986; )
Żalnik (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1989; , )
Dziesięć lat przed końcem wieku (nakładem autorki; maszynopis powielany, brak daty i miejsca wydania; ok. 1990)
Postoje słowa (Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 1994)
Wielka pauza (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1996; )
W płynnym stanie (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1998; )
Wiersze niektóre (Bis, 1997, 1998; )
Stany nieoczywistości (Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1999; )
Supliki (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2005; )
Przelotem (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2007; )
Horrendum (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2010; )
Fuga (1955-2010) (Biuro Literackie, 2011; )
Klangor (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2014; )
Ucieczki (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2016; )
Prose
Postoje pamięci (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1964, 1973, 1977; Atut-Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe 2004, ).
Ptaki dla myśli (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza 1971; wyd. 2 poprawione i rozszerzone: Wydawnictwo Literackie 1984, )
Noli me tangere (Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy 1984; )
Essays
Z poczekalni oraz Osobnego sny i przypowieści (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1978)
Osobnego sny i przypowieści (Okis, 1997; Biblioteka Wrocławskiego Oddziału Stowarzyszenia Pisarzy Polskich; )
Drama
Gonitwy (Prapremiera: Zespół Teatralny przy Wyższej Szkole Inżynieryjskiej, Rzeszów 1972)
Kobieta niezależna („Scena” 12/1976)
Biało i duszno (układ dramatyczny) („Scena” 10/1977)
Król malowany (na motywach baśni J. Ch. Andersena pt. Nowe szaty króla 1978; druk: Zjednoczone Przedsiębiorstwa Rozrywkowe, Ośrodek Teatru Otwartego „Kalambur”, 1986)
Narada familijna („Teatr Polskiego Radia” 2/1978)
Przerwany wykład („Scena” 12/1978)
Weekend ("Opole" nr 1/1981 i nr 2/1981)
Spartolino, czyli jak Rzempoła ze szwagrem Pitołą stracha przydybali (Prapremiera: Wrocławski Ośrodek Teatru Otwartego „Kalambur” 1982)
Trzy Światy (Czytelnik, 1982; )
Podwórkowcy (Prapremiera: Teatr Dramatyczny im. J. Szaniawskiego, Wałbrzych 1983; spektakl TV 1984)
Psujony ("Scena" 1/1985)
Magiczne imię (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1985; )
References
Living people
Writers from Wrocław
Polish women poets
University of Wrocław alumni
Polish women dramatists and playwrights
Polish women editors
Polish essayists
Polish women essayists
Polish women novelists
1931 births
20th-century Polish dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Polish novelists
20th-century Polish non-fiction writers
21st-century Polish dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Polish novelists
21st-century Polish poets
21st-century Polish women writers
20th-century Polish women writers |
403043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cum%20shot | Cum shot | A cum shot is the depiction of human ejaculation, especially onto another person. The term is usually applied to depictions occurring in pornographic films, photographs, and magazines. Unlike ejaculation in non-pornographic sex, cum shots typically involve ejeculation outside the receiver's body, allowing the viewer to see the ejaculation in progress. Facial cum shots (or "facials") are regularly portrayed in pornographic films and videos, often as a way to close a scene. Cum shots may also depict ejaculation onto another performer's body, such as on the genitals, buttocks, chest or tongue.
The term is typically used by the cinematographer within the narrative framework of a pornographic film, and, since the 1970s, it has become a leitmotif of the hardcore genre. Two exceptions are softcore pornography, in which penetration is not explicitly shown, and "couples erotica", which may involve penetration but is typically filmed in a more discreet manner intended to be romantic or educational rather than graphic. Softcore pornography that does not contain ejaculation sequences is produced both to respond to a demand by some consumers for less-explicit pornographic material and to comply with government regulations or cable company rules that may disallow depictions of ejaculation. Cum shots typically do not appear in "girl-girl" scenes (female ejaculation scenes exist, but are relatively rare); orgasm is instead implied by utterances, cinematic conventions, or body movement.
Cum shots have become the object of fetish genres like bukkake, in which the cum shot replaces the sex act completely.
Terminology
A cum shot may also be called a cumshot, come shot, cum blast, pop shot or money shot.
Originally, in general film-making usage the term money shot was a reference to the scene that cost the most money to produce; in addition, the inclusion of this expensive special effect sequence is being counted on to become a selling point for the film. For example, in an action thriller, an expensive special effects sequence of an explosion might be called the "money shot" of the film. The use of money shot to denote the ejaculation scene in pornographic films is attributed to producers paying the male actors extra for it. The meaning of the term money shot has sometimes been borrowed back from pornography by the film and TV industry with a meaning closer to that used in pornographic films. For example, in TV talk shows, the term, borrowed from pornography, denotes a highly emotional scene, expressed in visible bodily terms.
Origin and features
Although earlier pornographic films occasionally contained footage of ejaculation, it was not until the advent of hard-core pornography in the 1970s that the stereotypical cum shot scene became a standard feature—displaying ejaculation with maximum visibility. The 1972 film Behind the Green Door featured a seven-minute-long sequence described by Linda Williams, professor of film studies, as "optically printed, psychedelically colored doublings of the ejaculating penis". Steven Ziplow's The Film Maker's Guide to Pornography (1977) states:
Cum shot scenes may involve the female actor calling for the shot to be directed at some specific part of her body. Cultural analysis researcher Murat Aydemir considers this one of the three quintessential aspects of the cum shot scene, alongside the emphasis on visible ejaculation and the timing of the cum shot, which usually concludes a hard-core scene.
As a possible alternative explanation for the rise of the cum shot in hardcore pornography, Joseph Slade, professor at Ohio University and author of Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide notes that pornography actresses in the 1960s and 1970s did not trust birth control methods, and that more than one actress of the period told him that ejaculation inside her body was deemed inconsiderate if not rude.
Health risks
Transmission of disease
Any sexual activity that involves contact with the bodily fluids of another person contains the risk of transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. Semen is in itself generally harmless on the skin or if swallowed. However, semen can be the vehicle for many sexually transmitted infections, such as HIV and hepatitis. The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration categorizes semen as "other potentially infectious material" or OPIM.
Aside from other sexual activity that may have occurred prior to performing a facial, the risks incurred by the giving and receiving partner are drastically different. For the ejaculating partner, there is almost no risk of contracting an STD. For the receiving partner, the risk is higher. Since potentially infected semen could come into contact with broken skin or sensitive mucous membranes (eyes, lips, mouth), there is a risk of contracting an infectious disease.
Allergic reactions
In rare cases, people have been known to experience allergic reactions to seminal fluids, known as human seminal plasma hypersensitivity. Symptoms can be either localized or systemic, and may include itching, redness, swelling, or blisters within 30 minutes of contact. They may also include hives and even difficulty breathing.
Options for prevention of semen allergy include avoiding exposure to seminal fluid by use of condoms and attempting desensitization. Treatment options include diphenhydramine and/or an injection of epinephrine.
Criticisms and responses
One critic of "cum shot" scenes in heterosexual pornography was the US porn star–turned–writer, director and producer Candida Royalle. She produced pornography films aimed at women and their partners that avoid the "misogynous predictability" and depiction of sex in "...as grotesque and graphic [a way] as possible." Royalle also criticizes the male-centredness of the typical pornography film, in which scenes end when the male actor ejaculates.
Women's activist Beatrice Faust argued, "since ejaculating into blank space is not much fun, ejaculating over a person who responds with enjoyment sustains a lighthearted mood as well as a degree of realism. This occurs in both homosexual and pornography so that ejaculation cannot be interpreted as an expression of contempt for women only."
She goes on to say "Logically, if sex is natural and wholesome and semen is as healthy as sweat, there is no reason to interpret ejaculation as a hostile gesture."
Sexologist Peter Sándor Gardos argues that his research suggests that "... the men who get most turned on by watching cum shots are the ones who have positive attitudes toward women" (at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex in 1992). Later, at the World Pornography Conference in 1998, he reported a similar conclusion, namely that "no pornographic image is interpretable outside of its historical and social context. Harm or degradation does not reside in the image itself."
Cindy Patton, activist and scholar on human sexuality, argues that, in western culture, male sexual fulfillment is synonymous with orgasm and that the male orgasm is an essential punctuation of the sexual narrative. No orgasm, no sexual pleasure. No cum shot, no narrative closure. The cum shot is the period at the end of the sentence.
In her essay "Visualizing Safe Sex: When Pedagogy and Pornography Collide", Patton reached the conclusion that critics have devoted too little space to discovering the meaning that viewers attach to specific acts such as cum shots.
See also
Notes
Pornography terminology
Ejaculation
Sexual acts |
5357924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath%20of%20Allegiance%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | Oath of Allegiance (New Zealand) | The New Zealand Oath of Allegiance is defined by the Oaths and Declarations Act 1957. All Oaths can be taken in either Māori or English form. It is possible to take an affirmation, which has the same legal effect as an Oath.
Oath
The Oath, in its present form, is:
In Māori, this is:
A modified version, with the added phrase "and I will obey the laws of New Zealand and fulfil my duties as a New Zealand citizen" is used as New Zealand's Oath of Citizenship.
Affirmation
An affirmation begins with "I, [name], solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm", and continues with the words of the oath prescribed by law, omitting any reference to God.
Other New Zealand Oaths
The chief justice administers the following oaths of office at the swearing-in of various government officials. For simplification, the oaths set out below take the form they would have if used today in English.
Governor-General's Oath
Executive Council Oath
House of Representatives Oath
The Constitution Act 1986 requires that, before being permitted to sit or vote in the House of Representatives, members of Parliament must take the Oath of Allegiance.
Parliamentary Under-Secretaries Oath
Judicial Oath
Armed forces Oath
Police Oath
Alteration and augmentation of oaths
In May 2004, the Minister of Justice, Phil Goff, announced a review of New Zealand's oaths and affirmations stating that "This review also offers a chance for people to express a view on whether our oaths accurately reflect the values and beliefs that are important to New Zealanders in the 21st century". The Ministry of Justice reported in a discussion paper on oaths and affirmations that many were either out of date (such as the teachers' oath or the Queen's Counsel oath) or used arcane language. The review suggested that New Zealand could follow the experience of Australia by removing references to the Queen from the oaths. The Monarchist League called the change "republicanism by stealth" and commented that "[a] declaration of allegiance to New Zealand, or to the Prime Minister, would be a poor substitute [for the Queen]".
In response, the Republican Movement argued that removing references to the Queen was not "republicanism by stealth" but simply reflected the contemporary values of New Zealanders.
The Republican Movement also submitted that "[t]he Australians have already updated their oath of citizenship so that there is no mention of the Queen, while maintaining the exact same constitutional monarchy as New Zealand".
To this day the oath remains, with relevant personnel (e.g. military) swearing allegiance to the King, either in a traditional oath or a non-religious affirmation.
Oaths Modernisation Bill
One year after the review was announced, Phil Goff released the new forms the oaths were to take. The references to the Queen were retained, and the Oaths Modernisation Bill was introduced in Parliament.
The Bill would have made the following changes:
It amends the parliamentary oath to include loyalty to New Zealand and respect for the democratic values of New Zealand and respect for the rights and freedoms of its people;
It amends the citizenship oath to include loyalty to New Zealand, and respect for the democratic values of New Zealand and respect for the rights and freedoms of its people;
It provides a Māori version of each oath. The Act provides that using a Māori equivalent of any of the oaths set out in that Act shall have full legal effect;
It amends the Act to prescribe a Māori language version of the words with which an affirmation must begin.
The Monarchist League was pleased with this outcome, stating, "While it may be questioned what 'loyalty to New Zealand', and 'respect for its democratic values' actually mean, it is heartening that no attempt was made to remove the oath of allegiance to the Queen." The Republican Movement stated that "[t]he best thing about the new oaths is that they can easily be changed when we become a republic".
After passing the first reading and going to the Government Administration Committee, the Bill had its second reading discharged on 1 June 2010, meaning it will not proceed.
Hone Harawira amendment
In 2007, then Māori Party MP Hone Harawira put up an amendment (in the form of a supplementary order paper) to the Oaths Modernisation Bill inserting references to the oaths and affirmations to "uphold the Treaty of Waitangi".
Harawira eventually split from the Māori Party and resigned from parliament to re-contest his seat as leader of the Mana Party. He won the subsequent by-election. On 14 July 2011, Harawira was removed from the chamber by the Speaker of the House, Lockwood Smith, for not pledging the oath of allegiance as required by law.
See also
Republicanism in New Zealand
Oath of Allegiance
Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom)
Oath of Allegiance (Australia)
Oath of Allegiance (Canada)
References
External links
Oaths and Declarations Act 1957
Oaths Modernisation Bill
New Zealand
Government of New Zealand
Monarchy in New Zealand |
123777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph%2C%20Nebraska | Randolph, Nebraska | Randolph is a city in Cedar County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 881 at the 2020 census. It refers to itself as "The Honey Capital of the Nation" due to the per-capita number of bee keeping families.
History
Randolph got its start in the year 1886, following construction of the railroad through the territory. It was named for Lord Randolph Churchill, a British statesman. Randolph was incorporated on May 7, 1889.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.
U.S. Route 20 serves the community, and U.S. Route 81 passes just west of the city.
Demographics
2010 census
At the 2010 census there were 944 people in 402 households, including 258 families, in the city. The population density was . There were 453 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.4% White, 0.3% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 1.7% from other races, and 0.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.2%.
Of the 402 households 24.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.2% were married couples living together, 6.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.2% had a male householder with no wife present, and 35.8% were non-families. 33.1% of households were one person and 18.4% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.84.
The median age was 47.5 years. 22.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 18.4% were from 25 to 44; 25.1% were from 45 to 64; and 28.2% were 65 or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.2% male and 52.8% female.
2000 census
At the 2000 census there were 955 people in 409 households, including 265 families, in the city. The population density was . There were 447 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.95% White, 0.10% African American, 0.31% Native American, 0.31% Asian, 0.21% from other races, and 0.10% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.21%.
Of the 409 households 27.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.5% were married couples living together, 5.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.0% were non-families. 33.0% of households were one person and 21.8% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.83.
The age distribution was 22.7% under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 22.8% from 25 to 44, 18.3% from 45 to 64, and 31.1% 65 or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.0 males.
The median household income was $30,486, and the median family income was $40,000. Males had a median income of $28,125 versus $13,500 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,343. About 4.9% of families and 7.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.8% of those under age 18 and 9.7% of those age 65 or over.
Education
Randolph Public Schools are part of the Randolph Public School District. The district includes an elementary school and high school. Students attend Randolph High School.
References
External links
Randolph Nebraska Website
Randolph Public Schools
City-Data.com
Cities in Cedar County, Nebraska
Cities in Nebraska |
44094614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20Orb%C3%A1n%20Government | Third Orbán Government | The third government of Viktor Orbán was the Government of Hungary between 6 June 2014 and 18 May 2018. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán formed his third cabinet after his party-alliance, Fidesz and its coalition partner, Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) altogether won a qualified majority in the 2014 parliamentary election.
Policy
Immigration
During the 2015 European migrant crisis the government initiated the erection of the Hungary-Serbia barrier to block entry of illegal immigrants. Just like the other Visegrád Group leaders, the government was against any compulsory EU long-term quota on redistribution of migrants.
On 24 February 2016 the prime minister announced that the government would hold a Referendum on whether to accept the European Union's proposed mandatory quotas for relocating migrants. He also said it is "no secret that the Hungarian government refuses migrant quotas" and that they will be campaigning for "no" votes. Orbán argued that the quota system would "redraw Hungary's and Europe's ethnic, cultural and religious identity, which no EU organ has the right to do". On 5 May, after examining the legal challenges, the Supreme Court (Kúria) allowed the holding of the referendum.
In the autumn of that year the no vote won with 3,362,224 votes or 98.36% of the total number of votes.
Free Sunday
Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary) has supported the restriction on Sunday shopping ("free Sunday", as they called) for a long time, citing Christian values. Parliament voted on the issue on December 14, 2014 and the law came into effect on March 15, 2015 (a Sunday on which shops would have been closed anyway, the day being a public holiday in Hungary). Public opinion was predominantly against the decision. Three polls done in the spring of 2015 registered an opposition of 64% (Szonda Ipsos), 62% (Medián) 59% (Tárki). By the end of May, according to a poll by Medián, 72% of those polled disliked the new law, even the majority of Fidesz-KDNP voters were against it. Opposition parties and private persons tried to start a public referendum several times. By November 2015 there were 16 such attempts, but none of them were approved, for various bureaucratic reasons, until in early 2016 one of these attempts, initiated by the Hungarian Socialist Party, was finally successful. The government, rather than being forced to hold the referendum (which could have been interpreted as a huge success for the opposition party, even though the law was opposed by the majority of Fidesz voters too) lifted the ban in April 2016.
NGO Law
On 13 June 2017, The Hungarian Parliament Passed a Law Targeting Foreign-Funded NGOs. The law requires civil groups receiving foreign donations above a certain threshold to register as organizations funded from abroad. The law was passed 130 to 44, with 25 abstaining.
Party breakdown
Beginning of term
Party breakdown of cabinet ministers in the beginning of term:
End of term
Party breakdown of cabinet ministers in the end of term:
Members of the Cabinet
Composition
Following the 2014 parliamentary election, Fidesz–KDNP gained 133 seats in the National Assembly. The government majority of the parliament elected Viktor Orbán as a fully-fledged prime minister on 10 May, but his third cabinet formed only 6 June.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transformed into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, while the Ministry of Rural Development and the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice were renamed to Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Justice, respectively. On 17 October 2015, the Ministry of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office was established. Two ministers without portfolio were appointed in May 2017 and October 2017.
References
General
2014 establishments in Hungary
2018 disestablishments in Hungary
Cabinets established in 2014
Cabinets disestablished in 2018
Hungarian governments
Government 3 |
3643169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20General%20%281998%20film%29 | The General (1998 film) | The General is an Irish crime film written and directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who undertook several daring heists in the early 1980s and attracted the attention of the Garda Síochána, IRA and Ulster Volunteer Force. The film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998. Brendan Gleeson plays Cahill, Adrian Dunbar plays his friend Noel Curley, and Jon Voight plays Inspector Ned Kenny.
Plot
The story of Dubliner Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies but came into conflict with members of his gang and attracted attention from the police and the IRA, and whose dealings with the UVF ultimately led to his downfall.
Cast
Brendan Gleeson as Martin Cahill
Adrian Dunbar as Noel Curley
Sean McGinley as Gary
Maria Doyle Kennedy as Frances
Angeline Ball as Tina
Jon Voight as Inspector Ned Kenny
Eanna MacLiam as Jimmy
Tom Murphy as Willie Byrne
Paul Hickey as Anthony
Tommy O'Neill as Paddy
John O'Toole as Shea
Ciarán Fitzgerald as Tommy
Ned Dennehy as Gay
Vinny Murphy as Harry (as Vinnie Murphy)
Roxanna Williams as Orla
Production
The film is based on the book of the same name by Irish journalist Paul Williams, who is "Special Correspondent" for the Irish Independent. The director, John Boorman was one of Cahill's burglary victims. This event is dramatised in a scene in which Cahill breaks into a home, stealing a gold record and pilfering a watch from the wrist of a sleeping woman. The gold record, which Cahill later breaks in disgust after discovering it is not made of gold, was awarded for the score of Deliverance, Boorman's best-known film.
Filming was at various locations around Dublin, including South Lotts and Ranelagh. Although shot in colour, the theatrical release of the film was presented in black-and-white for artistic reasons, while an alternate version of the desaturated original colour print was subsequently made available for television broadcast and home video. Asked why he chose to depict Cahill's life in black-and-white, Boorman said
I love black-and-white, and since I was making the film independently — I borrowed the money from the bank — there was no one to tell me I couldn't. If I had made [The General] for a studio, they wouldn't let me do that. The other reason, the main reason, was because it was about recent events and people who were still alive. I wanted to give it a little distance. Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious. I wanted it to have this mythic level because I felt this character was an archetype. All throughout history, you find this rebel, this violent, funny, brilliant kind of character. I wanted to make that kind of connection, and black-and-white film helps. Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.
Reception
The General holds an approval rating of 82% based on 49 reviews on website Rotten Tomatoes.
The film grossed £1.6 million in the UK and Ireland, the second highest-grossing Irish film of the year, behind The Butcher Boy. In the United States and Canada it grossed $1.2 million for a worldwide estimated total of $3.8 million.
The film garnered multiple awards for Gleeson's performance and Boorman's directing, with some critics speculating the former would earn an Academy Award nomination. Boorman won the award for Best Director at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Though Gleeson was not nominated for an Oscar, his performance was awarded by the Boston Society of Film Critics, the London Film Critics' Circle, and the Irish Film and Television Academy.
Awards and nominations
See also
List of films featuring diabetes
References
External links
1998 films
1998 crime drama films
1990s heist films
Irish crime drama films
Irish heist films
British crime drama films
British heist films
English-language Irish films
Biographical films about criminals
Biographical films about gangsters
Films about The Troubles (Northern Ireland)
Films about the Irish Republican Army
Films about organised crime in Ireland
Films based on biographies
Films set in Dublin (city)
Films shot in Dublin (city)
Films directed by John Boorman
Sony Pictures Classics films
1998 independent films
1990s English-language films
1990s British films |
2495147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous | Dangerous | Dangerous may refer to:
Film and television
Dangerous (1935 film), an American film starring Bette Davis
Dangerous: The Short Films, a 1993 collection of music videos by Michael Jackson
Dangerous (2021 film), a Canadian-American action thriller
Dangerous (TV series), a 2007 Australian drama
Dangerous (web series), a 2020 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller
Music
Dangerous!, an Australian punk band
Dangerous World Tour, Michael Jackson's 1992–93 world concert tour
Dangerous Records, a British record label associated with Sawmills Studios
Albums
Dangerous (Andy Taylor album), 1990
Dangerous (The Bar Kays album) or the title song, 1984
Dangerous (Michael Jackson album) or the title song (see below), 1991
Dangerous (Natalie Cole album) or the title song, 1985
Dangerous (SpeXial album) or the title song, 2015
Dangerous (Yandel album), 2015
Dangerous: The Double Album, by Morgan Wallen, or the title song, 2021
Dangerous, by DecembeRadio, or the title song, 2005
Dangerous, by KJ-52, or the title song, 2012
Songs
"Dangerous" (Big Data song), 2013
"Dangerous" (Busta Rhymes song), 1997
"Dangerous" (Cascada song), 2009
"Dangerous" (David Guetta song), 2014
"Dangerous" (The Doobie Brothers song), 1991
"Dangerous" (James Blunt song), 2011
"Dangerous" (Kardinal Offishall song), 2008
"Dangerous" (Loverboy song), 1985
"Dangerous" (M. Pokora song), 2008
"Dangerous" (Meek Mill song), 2018
"Dangerous" (Michael Jackson song), 1991
"Dangerous" (Penny Ford song), 1985
"Dangerous" (Roxette song), 1989
"Dangerous" (Rumer song), 2014
"Dangerous" (S-X song), 2020
"Dangerous" (Seether song), 2020
"Dangerous" (Within Temptation song), 2013
"Dangerous" (Ying Yang Twins song), 2006
"Dangerous", by Before You Exit, 2014
"Dangerous", by Comethazine from Bawskee 3.5, 2019
"Dangerous", by Def Leppard from Def Leppard, 2015
"Dangerous", by Depeche Mode, B-side of "Personal Jesus", 1989
"Dangerous", by Ella Mai from Ella Mai, 2018
"Dangerous", by Groove Coverage from Riot on the Dancefloor, 2012
"Dangerous", by Group 1 Crew from Fearless, 2012
"Dangerous", by Jennifer Hudson from JHUD, 2014
"Dangerous", by Jessie J from R.O.S.E., 2018
"Dangerous", by Ladyhawke from Wild Things, 2016
"Dangerous", by My American Heart Hiding Inside the Horrible Weather, 2007
"Dangerous", by NEFFEX, 2018
"Dangerous", by Nick Jonas from Spaceman, 2021
"Dangerous", by Schoolboy Q from Crash Talk, 2019
"Dangerous", by Shinee from The Misconceptions of Us, 2013
"Dangerous", by Shaman's Harvest from Smokin' Hearts & Broken Guns, 2014
"Dangerous", by the Who, B-side of "It's Hard", 1982
"Dangerous", by the xx from I See You, 2017
"Dangerous" by Madison Beer, 2022
Other uses
Chris Dangerous (born 1978), Swedish musician
Dangerous (Bill Hicks album), a comedy album, 1990
Dangerous (book), a 2017 autobiography by Milo Yiannopoulos
Dangerous (horse) (foaled 1830), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
Dangerous Reef, in Spencer Gulf, South Australia
See also
, pages beginning with Dangerous in quotes
Danger (disambiguation)
Dangerously (disambiguation) |
24070725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret%20Red%20Light | Cabaret Red Light | Cabaret Red Light was a theater group based in Philadelphia that performed vaudeville, burlesque, spoken word and puppet theater, set to original music by The Blazing Cherries. In their first season, between November 2008 and July 2009, Cabaret Red Light staged the series "The Seven Deadly Sins". Their second and third series ("The Experiment", about a cabaret that builds a time machine, and "The Seven Deadly Seas", a pirate and gypsy-jazz show aboard the barquentine Gazela) began in 2010, and they recently performed the premiere of their ballet-and-burlesque version of The Nutcracker based on E. T. A. Hoffmann's original Gothic short story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King."
Cabaret Red Light's shows have been described as a blend of Agitprop and burlesque, an unlikely combination that earned them the title “The Best Marxist Girlie Show in Hell.” In their third show in the Seven Sins series, WRATH!, the group handed out pamphlets announcing the emergence worldwide of “pornographic socialism.” In the finale of their fifth show, GLUTTONY!, they immersed a showgirl (Annie A-Bomb) in liquid chocolate and invited members of the audience to lick it off. When Holly Otterbein of Philadelphia City Paper asked co-director Peter Gaffney about the politics of the show, he responded, "The common ways in which we entertain ourselves — TV, movies, the Internet — involve sitting in a room by yourself. Compare that to the licking scene. It's the opposite. It's real people in a room experimenting with themselves and testing out their own limits." In other interviews, however, Gaffney has denied that Cabaret Red Light has any overtly political agenda. "We think that theater has no business being in politics," he stated in an interview with Emily Orrson of The Daily Pennsylvanian, "and neither does the government."
Cast members
Regular members of the Cabaret Red Light cast include co-directors Anna Frangiosa and Peter Gaffney, Annie A-Bomb, Chris Aschman, Jim Boyle, Mike Corso, Kimberlie Cruse, Jay Davidson, Christine Fisler, Melissa Forgione (a.k.a. Melissa Bang-Bang), Rolf Lakaemper, Andrew Morris, Shoshanna Hill, Angela Schleinkofer (a.k.a. Satangela) and Evan Smoker. Previous members, technical engineers and guest performers include Josh Anderson, Ryan Berg, Jess Conda, Andy Cowles, Alexandra Cutler-Fetkewicz, Nick Gilette, Biz Goldhammer, Toni Guinyard, Mike Harkness, Heather Henderson, Brian Hopely, Nicki Jaine, Julie-Françoise Kruidenier, Lindsay Ouellette, Gina Pickton, Kaveh Saidi, Timaree Schmit, Michael Schupp, Benjamin Shwartz (as The Ringer), Jeff Smith (a.k.a. Calvin the Jester), James Stapleford, Monsieur Thujone, Owen Timoney, Nick Troy, Koofreh Umoren, Marina Vishnyakova, Randi Warhol, and Kim Zelnicker (a.k.a. Svedka von Schotz).
History
Peter Gaffney and Anna Frangiosa created Cabaret Red Light in 2008 in order to challenge the common perception that burlesque is not serious theater, and that politically engaged theater, on the other hand, is serious to a fault. Their influences include Anita Berber, NSK (the Neue Slowenische Kunst political art collective), Georges Brassens, Kurt Weill, Bulat Okudzawa, Bertolt Brecht, Aristophanes and Wilhelm Reich, as well as more contemporary artists and performance groups such as Julie Atlas Muz, Les Yeux Noirs, Frank Zappa, Bread and Puppet Theater, Tom Waits, the Yes Men and The Yard Dogs Road Show.
In November 2008 they performed their first show, "Vanity" as part of " The Seven Deadly Sins" series at L'Etage Cabaret in Philadelphia.
Beginning in November, 2009, Plays and Players Theatre began presenting Cabaret Red Light's shows derived from their cabaret material. These shows were called "The Takeover", "The Occupation", and "Lust".
These elaborately staged productions have included such things as an army of showgirls armed with feathers and weapon props, and a 20-foot octopus puppet.
In the summers of 2010 and 2011 the company produced four shows in the series, "The Seven Deadly Seas". The shows were about pirates as corporate/capitalist figures and featured swordplay and burlesque. They premiered on the Gazela, a historic three masted tall ship. Shows were performed in Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore.
Their original production of Nutcracker premiered in December 2010 at Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia. The show featured an original adaptation of the original E. T. A. Hoffmann story by Peter Gaffney and Anna Frangiosa. Music by Rolf Lakamper. Choreography by Christine Fisler.
The adaptation was for adults and featured ballet, shadow puppetry, burlesque, and a seven piece orchestra.
The production was re-mounted in December 2011 and sold out all performances.
In October 2011 Cabaret Red Light produced an original musical play inspired by Mae West titled, "Looking Pretty and Saying Cute Things". Written by Anna Frangiosa and Peter Gaffney. Music direction by Chris Ashman.
Inspired by Mae West's early brushes with the law over obscenity, her imprisonment for eight days after an "obscenity conviction", and her censuring by the Hays Code.
Cabaret Red Light produced no shows in 2012. The company's website had not been updated since 2011.
See also
Anna Frangiosa
The Cabaret Administration
Jubilee!
Peepshow
Sirens of TI
Absinthe
Moulin Rouge
Le Lido
Folies Bergère
Casino de Paris
Paradis Latin
Tropicana Club
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External links
Marty Moss Coane of WHYY's Radio Times interviews the co-founders and directors of Cabaret Red Light on their new production of NUTCRACKER
New York Times article on Cabaret Red Light's The Seven Deadly Seas aboard the Tall Ship Gazela
"Cabaret Red Light stages burlesque NUTCRACKER at the Painted Bride in Philadelphia" by Molly Eichel of Philadelphia Daily News
Article on Cabaret Red Light's series The Experiment in Philadelphia City Paper
Article on Cabaret Red Light's series The Seven Deadly Sins in Philadelphia City Paper
Article on Anna Frangiosa in Philadelphia City Paper
CBS News on Annie A-Bomb's Burlesque class with Cabaret Red Light footage
Culture of Philadelphia
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37033540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20lyric | Greek lyric | Greek lyric is the body of lyric poetry written in dialects of Ancient Greek.
It is primarily associated with the early 7th to the early 5th centuries BC, sometimes called the "Lyric Age of Greece", but continued to be written into the Hellenistic and Imperial periods.
Background
Lyric is one of three broad categories of poetry in classical antiquity, along with drama and epic, according to the scheme of the "natural forms of poetry" developed by Goethe in the early nineteenth century. (Drama is considered a form of poetry here because both tragedy and comedy were written in verse in ancient Greece.) Culturally, Greek lyric is the product of the political, social and intellectual milieu of the Greek polis ("city-state").
Much of Greek lyric is occasional poetry, composed for public or private performance by a soloist or chorus to mark particular occasions. The symposium ("drinking party") was one setting in which lyric poems were performed. "Lyric" was sometimes sung to the accompaniment of either a string instrument (particularly the lyre or kithara) or a wind instrument (most often the reed pipe called aulos). Whether the accompaniment was a string or wind instrument, the term for such accompanied lyric was melic poetry (from the Greek word for "song" melos). Lyric could also be sung without any instrumental accompaniment. This latter form is called meter and it is recited rather than sung, strictly speaking.
Modern surveys of "Greek lyric" often include relatively short poems composed for similar purposes or circumstances that were not strictly "song lyrics" in the modern sense, such as elegies and iambics. The Greeks themselves did not include elegies nor iambus within melic poetry, since they had different metres and different musical instruments. The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome offers the following clarification: "'melic' is a musical definition, 'elegy' is a metrical definition, whereas 'iambus' refers to a genre and its characteristics subject matter. (...) The fact that these categories are artificial and potentially misleading should prompt us to approach Greek lyric poetry with an open mind, without preconceptions about what 'type' of poetry we are reading."
Greek lyric poems celebrate athletic victories (epinikia), commemorate the dead, exhort soldiers to valor, and offer religious devotion in the forms of hymns, paeans, and dithyrambs. Partheneia, "maiden-songs," were sung by choruses of maidens at festivals. Love poems praise the beloved, express unfulfilled desire, proffer seductions, or blame the former lover for a breakup. In this last mood, love poetry might blur into invective, a poetic attack aimed at insulting or shaming a personal enemy, an art at which Archilochus, the earliest known Greek lyric poet, excelled. The themes of Greek lyric include "politics, war, sports, drinking, money, youth, old age, death, the heroic past, the gods," and hetero- and homosexual love.
In the 3rd century BC, the encyclopedic movement at Alexandria produced a canon of the nine melic poets: Alcaeus, Alcman, Anacreon, Bacchylides, Ibycus, Pindar, Sappho, Simonides, and Stesichorus. Only a small sampling of lyric poetry from Archaic Greece, the period when it first flourished, survives. For example, the poems of Sappho are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the Library of Alexandria, with the first book alone containing more than 1,300 lines of verse. Today, only one of Sappho's poems exists intact, with fragments from other sources that would scarcely fill a chapbook.
Meters
Greek poetry meters are based on patterns of long and short syllables (in contrast to English verse, which is determined by stress), and lyric poetry is characterized by a great variety of metrical forms. Apart from the shift between long and short syllables, stress must be considered when reading Greek poetry. The interplay between the metric "shifts", the stressed syllables and caesuras is an integral part of the poetry. It allows the poet to stress certain words and shape the meaning of the poem.
There are two main divisions within the meters of ancient Greek poetry: lyric and non-lyric meters. "Lyric meters (literally, meters sung to a lyre) are usually less regular than non-lyric meters. The lines are made up of feet of different kinds, and can be of varying lengths. Some lyric meters were used for monody (solo songs), such as some of the poems of Sappho and Alcaeus; others were used for choral dances, such as the choruses of tragedies and the victory odes of Pindar."
The lyric meters' families are the Ionic, the Aeolic (based on the choriamb, which can generate varied kinds of verse, such as the glyconian or the Sapphic stanza), and the Dactylo-epitrite. The Doric choral songs were composed in complex triadic forms of strophe, antistrophe, and epode, with the first two parts of the triad having the same metrical pattern, and the epode a different form.
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60814977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Miruho | Jean Miruho | Jean Miruho was a Congolese politician who served as President of Kivu Province.
Biography
Jean Miruho was born in Kabare, Belgian Congo. He was a Catholic and worked as a cashier at the Banque du Congo Belge. He was a member of the Centre du Regroupement Africain (CEREA), a political party based in Kivu Province, and organised a chapter of the organisation in Goma and the surrounding area. The party later divided and he became leader of a moderate splinter faction based in North Kivu. In January 1960 he assisted an association of Baptist Congolese in their unsuccessful attempt to gain official recognition from the Belgian colonial authorities. In the May 1960 elections Miruho won a seat in the Kivu Provincial Assembly, representing the Kabare constituency. His CEREA faction secured an additional number of seats in the assembly, and he subsequently organised a coalition with independents and smaller parties. The assembly then elected him President of Kivu Province. His government was formed on 30 June. Upon assuming office, Miruho encouraged the local population to welcome and co-operate with the Europeans residing in the region "on the condition that they do not get involved in politics".
On 5 July 1960 men of the Force Publique in Léopoldville and Thysville mutinied against their Belgian officers. Unrest spread throughout the Lower Congo, and European civilians began to flee the country en masse. In an attempt to resolve the situation, the Congolese government under Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba announced that the Force Publique officer corps was to be Africanised. Miruho co-ordinated well with the Belgian officers in Kivu, ensuring that they handed over power to the Congolese soldiers without incident. The large departure of Europeans deprived Kivu's administration of essential personnel, and Miruho attempted to fill vacant leadership positions according to the seniority and competence of those considered for promotions. On 13 July Lumumba announced that Miruho's appointments would be nullified, generating hostility between the provincial government and the central government.
The political situation continued to deteriorate over the following months. Katanga Province seceded from the Congo and Lumumba was removed from power. By November Lumumba's supporters had begun consolidating their position in Orientale Province and sparring with the central government in Léopoldville. Miruho's government distanced itself from both factions while also refusing to lead its province into secession.
Lumumba's supporters in Orientale shortly thereafter assumed local control and openly challenged the authority of the central government. On 24 December, troops from Orientale occupied Bukavu, the capital of Kivu, and arrested the local army commander. The next day Miruho tried to intervene and secure his release, but he too was arrested by the soldiers and sent to Stanleyville along with the Bukavu army commander. Anicet Kashamura was installed as his replacement. Despite rumours of abuse and torture, Miruho was not mistreated while in their custody. In January 1961 Lumumba was killed, and ethnic tensions dramatically rose throughout Kivu in February, paralysing Adrien Omari's government and facilitating Miruho's return to power when Cyrille Adoula became Prime Minister in August. Nevertheless, his new government was threatened by rebellious troops and had to remain under the constant protection of peacekeeping units of the United Nations Operation in the Congo. At his request, the troublesome officers and units were transferred out of the province in December. Miruho remained in power until May 1962, when the central government suspended the powers of the provincial authorities and assumed direct control over Kivu. In September Miruho published a letter to Adoula, demanding that he respect the authority of the provincial government. In response, Adoula's government placed Miruho and his family under house arrest and subsequently accused him of planning to ally Kivu with Katanga's secession. Miruho was opposed to Kivu's division into smaller provinces.
On 5 July 1968, President Joseph-Désiré Mobutu announced Miruho's appointment to the Political Bureau of the Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution, the state political party.
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People of the Congo Crisis
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3137292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Castillo%20%28catcher%29 | Alberto Castillo (catcher) | Alberto Terrero Castillo (born February 10, 1970) is a Dominican former professional baseball catcher. Castillo was born in San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic. Between and , Castillo played for the New York Mets (1995–), St. Louis Cardinals (), Toronto Blue Jays (–), San Francisco Giants (), Kansas City Royals (–), Oakland Athletics (2005), and Baltimore Orioles (). He batted and threw right-handed.
In a twelve-season career, Castillo posted a .220 batting average with 12 home runs and 101 RBI in 418 games played.
Career
During his time with the Mets, Castillo helped end one of the longest scoreless opening day games in MLB history. On March 31, 1998, he hit a full-count, two-out, pinch-hit single to right with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 14th inning to help the Mets beat their division rival Philadelphia Phillies 1–0 at Shea Stadium.
Signed by the Washington Nationals on December 13, 2005, Castillo played the 2006 season with the Triple-A New Orleans Zephyrs. He finished his 2006 season with the Zephyrs with a .268 batting average and 30 RBI. Castillo was a catcher for the first Dominican team in the inaugural 2006 World Baseball Classic.
The Boston Red Sox organization signed him to a minor league contract on December 20, 2006, and invited him to participate in the Red Sox' 2007 spring training.
On March 27, 2007, the Red Sox traded him to the Baltimore Orioles for minor league outfielder Cory Keylor.
He was used in the 2007 season by the Orioles to fill in for injured catcher Ramón Hernández twice and was designated for assignment twice after Hernandez's return. Castillo became a minor league free agent after the season. Castillo was the captain for the Dominican Team in the 2007 Caribbean Series.
On February 14, 2008, Castillo signed a minor league contract with the Houston Astros and was invited to spring training. After spending spring training with the Astros, Castillo was demoted on March 24 to the minors and later released. Confusingly, the Orioles signed a pitcher named Alberto Castillo at the beginning of the 2008 season.
On July 3, 2008, Castillo signed with the Camden Riversharks of the Atlantic League. In 2009, he played for the Newark Bears before being traded to the rival Long Island Ducks on July 6.
He is currently the catching instructor of the Dominican Summer League Mets.
See also
Rule 5 draft results
References
External links
Baseball Library
1970 births
Living people
Águilas Cibaeñas players
Baltimore Orioles players
Binghamton Mets players
Columbia Mets players
Columbus Clippers players
Dominican Republic baseball coaches
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Canada
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Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in the United States
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Vaqueros Laguna players
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6929896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornate%20wobbegong | Ornate wobbegong | The ornate wobbegong (Orectolobus ornatus) is a species of carpet shark that lives in Australia and possibly other countries in the Western Pacific Ocean. It is coloured golden brown, yellow-green and blueish-grey, and it grows to maximum . Described by Charles Walter De Vis in 1883, it is similar in appearance to other Australian wobbegongs and has previously been classified as the same species as the Gulf wobbegong. It is a nocturnal species, hunting at night, and it can bite humans when disturbed. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed it as a least-concern species.
Taxonomy
The ornate wobbegong was described by Charles Walter De Vis in 1883. It was previously assumed to be the juvenile form of the Gulf wobbegong (Orectolobus halei), due to similarities between the two species. However, there are multiple differences: for example, the ornate wobbegong is smaller, has a smaller head relative to its body, and is less freckled.
"Banded wobbegong" is an alternative common name for the ornate wobbegong; however, it is also used for the Gulf wobbegong.
Description
The ornate wobbegong's upperside is golden brown in colour with blueish-grey areas, and it is yellow-green on its underside. It has two dorsal fins, a large flat head, and small eyes. Its mouth and lower head are covered with flaps of skin. Juveniles are in total length and sexual maturity is reached at . For adults, the maximum reported size is .
The ornate wobbegong is similar in appearance to the gulf wobbegong and the spotted wobbegong (Orectolobus maculatus). However, it is smaller than the former and it does not have the distinctive O-shaped spots of the latter. The ornate wobbegong also has markings with black edges, further differentiating it from the spotted wobbegong. Its distinct colour pattern provides good camouflage: it is barely discernible when amidst plants on the sea floor. As specimens grow older, however, this pattern becomes less prominent.
Ecology
The ornate wobbegong is a nocturnal species, with most activity and feeding taking place in the nighttime. In the daytime, it has occasionally been known to hunt for food, but generally it is in a "somewhat sleepy state", resting out in the open or under caves and ledges, often on sand or weed bottoms. Habitats include algae-covered sea floors, coral reefs, or bays. The species usually lives in clearer waters than the spotted wobbegong. Its prey consists of crustaceans, fish, and octopuses. A study of the diet of specimens in Port Jackson showed that fish, primarily luderick, moray eels, and snappers, composed 86.5% of the species' diet, and cephalopods composed 13.5% of it.
Reproduction is ovoviviparous and over 12 pups are born at a time. Gestation takes almost a year, with young hatching in September or October. A one-day-old specimen was observed by Neville Coleman to have a full set of teeth and be able to defend itself.
The ornate wobbegong is usually not hostile towards humans, but it can bite when disturbed. It uses its sharp anterior teeth to inflict "shallow but painful wounds". Because it camouflages so well, divers often fail to see it even when they are close, and some are bitten. It has bitten people who go into tide pools, including fishers and waders. It sometimes swims towards nearby divers, possibly with hostile intent. The International Shark Attack File has recorded 32 attacks by wobbegongs species in general because it is difficult to do an accurate identification of wobbegongs.
Distribution
The ornate wobbegong lives in tropical and warm temperate waters no deeper than . It is native to eastern Australia, in the western Pacific Ocean. Reports have been confirmed at Port Stephens and Sydney. Although it has also been reported to live in Indonesia, Japan, and Papua New Guinea, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) states that these reports probably misidentified other fish for this species, which would make the ornate wobbegong endemic to Australia. However, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History, it does live in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. This report has to be verified.
The ornate wobbegong's population is not known, nor whether it is increasing or decreasing. Its main threat in eastern Australia is commercial fishing. A survey from May 2000 to April 2001 concluded that 5,174 total wobbegongs (including other species) were fished and kept in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia. Its flesh is edible, which makes it a target for human consumption, and its skin has previously been utilised for decoration. It is not threatened currently, as it is only caught in parts of its range and not often. As of 20 February 2015, it is listed as a least-concern species on the IUCN Red List, after two assessments as near threatened in 2003 and 2009.
References
External links
Banded Wobbegong @ Fishes of Australia
ornate wobbegong
Marine fish of Eastern Australia
ornate wobbegong
Taxa named by Charles Walter De Vis |
57331790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylisticus | Cylisticus | Cylisticus is a genus of woodlice in the family Cylisticidae. There are at least 70 described species in Cylisticus.
Species
These 70 species belong to the genus Cylisticus:
Cylisticus albomaculatus Borutzkii, 1957
Cylisticus anatolicus Verhoeff, 1949
Cylisticus annulicornis Verhoeff, 1908
Cylisticus anophthalmus Silvestri, 1897
Cylisticus aprutianus Taiti & Manicastri, 1980
Cylisticus armenicus Borutzkii, 1961
Cylisticus arnoldi Borutzkii, 1961
Cylisticus arnoldii Borutzky, 1961
Cylisticus bergomatius Verhoeff, 1928
Cylisticus biellensis Verhoeff, 1930
Cylisticus birsteini Borutzkii, 1961
Cylisticus brachyurus Radu, 1951
Cylisticus caprariae Ferrara & Taiti, 1978
Cylisticus carinatus Budde-Lund, 1885?
Cylisticus caucasius Verhoeff, 1917
Cylisticus cavernicola Racovitza, 1907
Cylisticus cavernicolus Racovitza, 1907
Cylisticus ciscaucasius Borutzkii, 1961
Cylisticus convexus (De Geer, 1778) (curly woodlouse)
Cylisticus cretaceus Borutzkii, 1957
Cylisticus dentifrons Budde-Lund, 1885
Cylisticus desertorum Borutzkii, 1957
Cylisticus discolor Verhoeff, 1949
Cylisticus dobati Strouhal, 1971
Cylisticus esterelanus Verhoeff, 1917
Cylisticus estest Verhoeff, 1931
Cylisticus giljarovi Borutzkii, 1977
Cylisticus gracilipennis Budde-Lund, 1879
Cylisticus igiliensis Taiti & Ferrara, 1980
Cylisticus iners Budde-Lund, 1880
Cylisticus inferus Verhoeff, 1917
Cylisticus kosswigi Strouhal, 1953
Cylisticus lencoranensis Borutzkii, 1977
Cylisticus ligurinus Verhoeff, 1936
Cylisticus littoralis Ferrara & Taiti, 1978
Cylisticus lobatus Ferrara & Taiti, 1985
Cylisticus lobulatus Strouhal, 1953
Cylisticus major Radu, 1951
Cylisticus masalicus Kashani, 2016
Cylisticus mechthildae Strouhal, 1971
Cylisticus mitis Budde-Lund, 1885
Cylisticus montanus Vandel, 1980
Cylisticus montivagus Verhoeff, 1949
Cylisticus mrovdaghensis Borutzkii, 1961
Cylisticus nasatus Verhoeff, 1931
Cylisticus nasutus Verhoeff, 1931
Cylisticus nivicomes Verhoeff, 1949
Cylisticus opacus Arcangeli, 1939
Cylisticus orientalis Borutzkii, 1939
Cylisticus ormeanus Verhoeff, 1930
Cylisticus pallidus Verhoeff, 1928
Cylisticus pierantonii Arcangeli, 1923
Cylisticus pontremolensis Verhoeff, 1936
Cylisticus pugionifer Verhoeff, 1943
Cylisticus racovitzai Vandel, 1957
Cylisticus rotabilis Budde-Lund, 1885
Cylisticus rotundifrons Schmalfuss, 1986
Cylisticus sarmaticus Borutzkii, 1977
Cylisticus silsilesii (Vandel, 1980)
Cylisticus silvestris Borutzkii, 1957
Cylisticus strouhali Borutzkii, 1977
Cylisticus suberorum Verhoeff, 1931
Cylisticus transsilvanicus Verhoeff, 1908
Cylisticus transsilvaticus Verhoeff, 1908
Cylisticus transsylvanicus Verhoeff, 1908
Cylisticus uncinatus Taiti & Ferrara, 1996
Cylisticus urartuensis Borutzkii, 1961
Cylisticus urgonis Taiti & Ferrara, 1980
Cylisticus vandeli Taiti & Ferrara, 1980
Cylisticus zangezuricus Borutzkii, 1961
References
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1711609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website%20wireframe | Website wireframe | A website wireframe, also known as a page schematic or screen blueprint, is a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website.
The term wireframe is taken from other fields that use a skeletal framework to represent 3 dimensional shape and volume.
Wireframes are created for the purpose of arranging elements to best accomplish a particular purpose.
The purpose is usually driven by a business objective and a creative idea. The wireframe depicts the page layout or arrangement of the website's content, including interface elements and navigational systems, and how they work together. The wireframe usually lacks typographic style, color, or graphics, since the main focus lies in functionality, behavior, and priority of content. In other words, it focuses on what a screen does, not what it looks like. Wireframes can be pencil drawings or sketches on a whiteboard, or they can be produced by means of a broad array of free or commercial software applications. Wireframes are generally created by business analysts, user experience designers, developers, visual designers, and by those with expertise in interaction design, information architecture and user research.
Wireframes focus on:
The range of functions available
The relative priorities of the information and functions
The rules for displaying certain kinds of information
The effect of different scenarios on the display
The website wireframe connects the underlying conceptual structure, or information architecture, to the surface, or visual design of the website. Wireframes help establish functionality and the relationships between different screen templates of a website. An iterative process, creating wireframes is an effective way to make rapid prototypes of pages, while measuring the practicality of a design concept. Wireframing typically begins between “high-level structural work—like flowcharts or site maps—and screen designs.” Within the process of building a website, wireframing is where thinking becomes tangible.
Wireframes are also utilized for the prototyping of mobile sites, computer applications, or other screen-based products that involve human-computer interaction.
Uses of wireframes
Wireframes may be utilized by different disciplines. Developers use wireframes to get a more tangible grasp of the site's functionality, while designers use them to push the user interface (UI) process. User experience designers and information architects use wireframes to show navigation paths between pages. Business Analysts use wireframes to visually support the business rules and interaction requirements for a screen. Business stakeholders review wireframes to ensure that requirements and objectives are met through the design. Professionals who create wireframes include business analysts, information architects, interaction designers, user experience designers, graphic designers, programmers, and product managers.
Working with wireframes may be a collaborative effort since it bridges the information architecture to the visual design. Due to overlaps in these professional roles, conflicts may occur, making wireframing a controversial part of the design process. Since wireframes signify a “bare bones” aesthetic, it is difficult for designers to assess how closely the wireframe needs to depict actual screen layouts. To avoid conflicts it is recommended that business analysts who understand the user requirements, create a basic wire frame and then work with designers to further improve the wireframes. Another difficulty with wireframes is that they don't effectively display interactive details because they are static representations. Modern UI design incorporates various devices such as expanding panels, hover effects, and carousels that pose a challenge for 2-D diagrams.
The main benefit of wireframes is that they can be used to iterate on any interface in an agile manner. This happens through a process oftentimes referred to as usability tests, where users are provided with an opportunity to interact with the interface and either think aloud about their thought process or answer more structured questions throughout. After each trial with a user, a user experience researcher can identify common interactions with the interface, synthesize the data, and redesign accordingly.
Due to the generally lower-fidelity nature of wireframe, it is very easy and cost-efficient to make changes. The point of a wireframe is to capture the design of the fundamental structure, high-level interaction pattern within an interface, otherwise known as the critical points, so it really allows a designer to work quickly, perfect for an agile environment where group members work collaboratively to "sprint" to the next iteration.
Wireframes may have different levels of detail and can be broken up into two categories in terms of fidelity, or how closely they resemble the end product.
Low-fidelity
Resembling a rough sketch or a quick mock-up, low-fidelity wireframes can be quickly produced. These wireframes help a project team communicate ideas and collaborate more effectively since they are more abstract, using rectangles and labeling to represent content. Dummy content, Latin filler text (lorem ipsum), sample or symbolic content are used to represent data when real content is not available. For example, instead of using actual images, a placeholder rectangle can be used.
Low-fidelity wireframes can be used to facilitate team communication on a project and is used in the early stages of a project.
High-fidelity
High-fidelity wireframes are often used for documenting because they incorporate a level of detail that more closely matches the design of the actual webpage, thus taking longer to create.
For simple or low-fidelity drawings, paper prototyping is a common technique. Since these sketches are just representations, annotations—adjacent notes to explain behavior—are useful. For more complex projects, rendering wireframes using computer software is popular. Some tools allow the incorporation of interactivity including Flash animation, and front-end web technologies such as, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
High fidelity wireframes include more real content, specific typography choices, and information on image dimensions. Unlike low fidelity wireframes, high fidelity wireframes can include actual images. Color choices are not included, but different values in color can be represented in grayscale.
Elements of wireframes
The skeleton plan of a website can be broken down into three components: information design, navigation design, and interface design. Page layout is where these components come together, while wireframing is what depicts the relationship between these components.
Information design
Information design is the presentation—placement and prioritization of information in a way that facilitates understanding. Information design is an area of user experience design, meant to display information effectively for clear communication. For websites, information elements should be arranged in a way that reflects the goals and tasks of the user.
Navigation design
The navigation system provides a set of screen elements that allow the user to move page to page through the website. The navigation design should communicate the relationship between the links it contains so that users understand the options they have for navigating the site. Often, websites contain multiple navigation systems, such as a global navigation, local navigation, supplementary navigation, contextual navigation, and courtesy navigation.
Interface design
User interface design includes selecting and arranging interface elements to enable users to interact with the functionality of the system. The goal is to facilitate usability and efficiency as much as possible. Common elements found in interface design are action buttons, text fields, check boxes, radio buttons and drop-down menus.
See also
Blueprint
Comprehensive layout
Graphic design
Information architecture
Interaction design
User experience design
User interface design
Web design
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11252704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bulleteers | The Bulleteers | The Bulleteers (1942) is the fifth of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster. This animated short was created by Fleischer Studios. The story runs about nine minutes and covers Superman's adventures as he defends the city against a villainous gang called "The Bulleteers", who are equipped with a bullet-shaped rocket car. It was originally released on March 27, 1942.
Plot
The story begins as the clock strikes midnight. A strange, bullet-shaped rocket car blows right through the police department, leaving an explosion in its wake. The paper the next day reports the destruction of the building and the bafflement of the police. Perry White calls Lois Lane and Clark Kent into his office. Just as he is explaining the report, the sound of a loudspeaker comes in through the window. The leader of the "Bulleteers", as Lois later calls them, is shown announcing from his hideout atop a mountain outside of town, the demands of his gang. Over the speaker, Clark, Lois, Perry, and the rest of the town hear it: "Turn over the city treasury or other municipal buildings will be next as their last warning!"
Later that day, Lois asks the mayor what he is doing about the problem. The mayor announces that he will not be swayed by criminals. At the same time, policemen all over town set up sandbag fortifications for their machine guns and searchlights in preparation for the Bulleteers. At midnight, the gang strikes again, first destroying the town's power plant, bullets from defending policemen bouncing harmlessly off the bullet car's sleek surface. Lights in the Daily Planet flicker on and off, and Lois takes off in a car to get closer to the scene, leaving Clark behind. Clark takes the opportunity to enter a nearby phone booth and don his Superman costume.
The Bulleteers take aim now at the city's treasury building, but Superman steps in front of them and knocks the rocket car off course. As they struggle to regain control, he leaps in the air and grabs its front trying again to force it off-course, but the Bulleteers, through wild maneuvering, manage to shake him off the car to the ground below. Superman lunges to keep them from the treasury, only to arrive too late. Piles of rubble from the explosion bury him.
Lois Lane arrives at the scene in time to see the gang throwing bags of money into their car. She sneaks into its cockpit and tries to smash the controls with a wrench, but the gang returns, taking off with her. Superman, meanwhile, emerges from the rubble and chases after the car, grasping it by one of its retractable wings, and then by its tail fins to throw it off course. As it spirals downward, he claws his way to the cockpit, rips it open, and pulls Lois and the three gangsters out. The car crashes to the ground far below.
The newspaper on the next day reports Superman's heroic feat and the gangsters' arrest for their rampage. Reading it, Clark remarks, "Nice going, Lois. Another great scoop for you". Lois replies, "It was easy, thanks to Superman".
Cast
Bud Collyer as Clark Kent/Superman, Bulleteer, Police Officer, Printer
Joan Alexander as Lois Lane
Julian Noa as Perry White, Mayor
Jackson Beck as the Narrator
Appearances
In Superman: Doomsday, the restored bullet car appears as one of Superman's trophies in his Fortress of Solitude.
The line "We won't be intimidated by criminal threats" has been used in various promos for the action cartoon block Toonami.
References
External links
The Bulleteers at the Internet Archive
The Bulleteers at the Internet Movie Database
1942 short films
1942 animated films
1940s American animated films
1940s animated short films
1940s animated superhero films
Superman animated shorts
Fleischer Studios short films
Short films directed by Dave Fleischer
Flying cars in fiction
Paramount Pictures short films
Rotoscoped films
1940s English-language films
American animated short films |
22688304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaacov%20Bar-Siman-Tov | Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov | Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov (1946–2013) was an Israeli international relations and conflict resolution scholar.
Biography
Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov received a bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern studies and Political Science, as well as a master's degree and a Doctorate in International Relations, all from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Academic career
He was the Giancarlo Elia Valori Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he held the "Chair for the Study of Peace and Regional Cooperation". He was also the Director of the "Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution" at the Hebrew University, and the Head of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. A recipient of the Israeli Association for International Studies' Lifetime Achievement Award, Professor Bar-Siman-Tov was a noted expert in the fields of management and resolution of international conflicts; negotiation; decision-making; and the Arab–Israeli conflict.
He was also a member of the Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Advisory Board at Yale University Press; member of the "Global Faculty of Education for Peace" at the "International Education for Peace Institute"; and an Associate Partner at the "Jerusalem Peace Academy". He is listed in Who's Who in Academia, and in Who's Who in International Organizations.
In 2000, Bar-Siman-Tov founded the Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution at the Hebrew University, the first center for the study of conflict resolution in Israel. He has been serving as the Swiss Center's Director ever since.
Since 2003, he has also been the Head of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, an independent, non-partisan, think-tank which provides data, policy papers, and professional analyses for a variety of governmental bodies, public institutions, civil organizations, decision-makers, researchers, and the general public.
He also held several additional senior academic positions at the Hebrew University, including "Chair of the International Relations Department" (1993–1996); "Chair of the Social Sciences Faculty Teaching Committee" (1996–1997); and "Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations" (1997–2003).
Published works
Bar-Siman-Tov has written extensively in the fields of international relations, negotiation, decision-making, and the Arab Israeli conflict. Since the 1990s, his research primarily has focused on conflict resolution, and on management and resolution of international conflicts.
He is the author of seven books:
The Israeli-Egyptian War of Attrition 1969-1970: A Case Study of Limited Local War (Columbia University Press, 1980). It won the "Landau Prize" for the best book on Middle East studies for the year 1982.
Linkage Politics in the Middle East: Syria Between Domestic and External Conflict, 1961-1970 (Westview Press, 1983)
Israel the Superpowers and the War in the Middle East (Praeger, 1987)
Israel and the Peace Process, 1977-1982: In Search of Legitimacy for Peace (SUNY Press, 1994)
The Transition from War to Peace: The Complexity of Decisionmaking - The Israeli Case (The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, 1996)
The Disengagement from the Gaza Strip and Northern Samaria: Evacuation, Compensation and Legitimization (The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2007; with Keren Tamir)
Justice and Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Routledge, 2015)
He is also the editor of several books, including:
The Yom Kippur War: A New Perspective (The Leonard Davis Institute, 1999; with Chaim Ophaz)
Stable Peace Among Nations (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000; with Arie M. Kacowicz, Ole Elgstrom, and Magnus Jerneck)
From Conflict Resolution to Reconciliation (Oxford University Press, 2004)
As the Generals See It: The Collapse of the Oslo Process and the Violent Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, 2004)
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Peace Process to a Violent Confrontation: 2000-2005 (Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2006) It won the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for the best book in military studies for the year of 2006.
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Conflict Resolution to Conflict Management (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007)
Forty Years in Jerusalem1967-2007 (The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2009; with Ora Ahimeir)
''The Disengagement Plan - An Idea Shattered(The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2009)
Barriers to Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2010)
References
1946 births
2013 deaths
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
459346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Laxer | James Laxer | James Robert Laxer (22 December 1941 – 23 February 2018), also known as Jim Laxer, was a Canadian political economist, historian, public intellectual, and political activist who served as a professor at York University. Best known as co-founder of the Waffle, on whose behalf he ran for the leadership of the New Democratic Party in 1971, he was the author of more than two dozen books, mostly on Canadian political economy and history.
Early life and family
Laxer was born in Montreal, Quebec, on 22 December 1941 and was the son of Edna May (née Quentin) and Robert Laxer, a psychologist, professor, author, and political activist. His father was Jewish and his mother was from a Protestant family. Both were members of the Communist Party of Canada and its public face, the Labor-Progressive Party, with Robert Laxer being a national organizer for the party. The Laxers left the party, along with many other members, following Khrushchev's Secret Speech revealing Joseph Stalin's crimes, and the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary. James Laxer wrote about his experiences growing up during this period in his memoir Red Diaper Baby: A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism. His father came to serve as a significant influence on his political worldview.
His paternal grandfather was a rabbi and his maternal grandfather was a minister and Christian missionary to China, where Laxer's mother was born. His brother, Gordon Laxer, became a political economist, author, and founder of the Parkland Institute.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and Master of Arts (following approval of his thesis French-Canadian Newspapers and Imperial Defence, 1899–1914 in 1967) and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Queen's University. He was an active student journalist both at The Varsity at the University of Toronto and later at the Queen's Journal and was elected president of Canadian University Press in 1965.
Laxer married three times. He married Diane Taylor in 1965, from whom he was divorced in 1969. He married Krista Mäeots in 1969 with whom he had two children: Michael and Katherine (known as "Kate"). They were separated at the time of her death in 1978. Laxer married Sandra Price in 1979 with whom he had two more children: Emily and Jonathan.
Political career
In 1969, Laxer, along with his father Robert Laxer, Mel Watkins, and others, founded the Waffle, a left-wing group influenced by the New Left, the anti–Vietnam War movement, and Canadian economic nationalism, that tried to influence the direction of the New Democratic Party (NDP). Laxer was a principal author of their Manifesto for an Independent Socialist Canada in 1969 alongside Ed Broadbent and Gerald Caplan. The manifesto was debated at the 1969 federal NDP convention and was rejected by the delegates in favour of a more moderate declaration.
In 1971, Laxer ran for the leadership of the federal NDP and shocked the convention by winning one-third of the vote on the fourth and final ballot against party stalwart David Lewis. The Waffle was ultimately forced out of the NDP and briefly became a political party under the name Movement for an Independent Socialist Canada. Laxer and other Wafflers unsuccessfully ran for Parliament in 1974. This electoral failure led to the Waffle's demise, and Laxer concentrated on his work at York University, where he was a professor of political science for 47 years, and in broadcasting.
In 1981, he was hired as director of research for the federal NDP, but left in controversy in 1983 when he published a report critiquing the party's economic policy as being "out of date".
Academic, writer, and broadcaster
Laxer hosted The Real Story, a nightly half-hour current affairs program on TVOntario in the early 1980s. He also variously wrote a column and op-ed pieces for the Toronto Star from the 1980s until shortly before his death, as well as op-ed pieces for The Globe and Mail. He also played "Talleyrand", a mock political insider, on CBC Radio's Morningside in the 1980s.
Laxer co-wrote and presented the five-part National Film Board documentary series Reckoning: The Political Economy of Canada in 1986, which examined Canada's economic and political relationships with the United States and Canada's place in the changing global economy. Laxer and his co-writer won a Gemini Award in 1988 for Best Writing in an Information/Documentary Program or Series for episode one of Reckoning titled "In Bed with an Elephant". The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation refused to air the series due to its critical view of free trade with the United States, which was being negotiated at the time, and it aired instead on TVOntario and other educational channels in Canada as well as a number of PBS stations in the United States.
A democratic socialist, Laxer believed that Canadian economic nationalism was a progressive force against the United States and American imperialism. He wrote extensively about the influence of American multinational corporations in the Canadian economy, particularly in the oil and gas industry, and his agitation helped lead to the creation of Petro-Canada. The creation of the Foreign Investment Review Agency, and the Canadian Development Corporation in the 1970s is also attributed in part to the work of Laxer, Watkins, and the Waffle. In the 1980s he strongly opposed the adoption of the Canada–US Free Trade Agreement, though he still believed that free trade agreements were capable of being used to the advantage of the political left through the entrenchment of social charters.
Laxer died suddenly and unexpectedly in Paris of heart-related problems on 23 February 2018 while in Europe researching a book on Canada's role in the Second World War.
Selected works
See also
Canadian Dimension
References
Citations
Works cited
External links
James Laxer blog
James Laxer at rabble.ca
James Laxer's profile at York University
1941 births
2018 deaths
20th-century Canadian historians
21st-century Canadian historians
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation people
Canadian columnists
Canadian economists
Canadian nationalists
Canadian political scientists
Canadian radio personalities
Canadian socialists
Canadian television hosts
Canadian Screen Award winners
Historians of Canada
Independent candidates in the 1974 Canadian federal election
Jewish Canadian politicians
Jewish socialists
Journalists from Montreal
New Democratic Party people
Canadian democratic socialists
Politicians from Montreal
Politicians from Toronto
Post-Keynesian economists
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Toronto Star people
University of Toronto alumni
Writers about globalization
Writers from Montreal
Writers from Toronto
Academic staff of York University
Jewish Canadian journalists
Jewish Canadian filmmakers |
66060918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPaul%27s%20Drag%20Race%20%28season%2014%29 | RuPaul's Drag Race (season 14) | The fourteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race premiered on January 7, 2022. The reality competition series, broadcast on VH1 in the United States, showcases 14 new queens competing for the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar". Casting calls for season 14 were opened in November 2020, and the cast was officially revealed by season 13 winner Symone on VH1 on December 2, 2021. The season premiere received 738,000 viewers, making it the most-watched premiere since Season 10.
The season was won by Willow Pill, who became the first transgender contestant to win the main franchise of RuPaul's Drag Race, and the fourth transgender contestant to win overall, with Lady Camden as the runner-up. Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté was named Miss Congeniality, who became the first transgender contestant to win the title.
The season welcomed Maddy Morphosis, the show's first heterosexual, cisgender male contestant. The season notably also featured five transgender contestants: Kerri Colby and Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté (both of whom entered the competition openly trans), Jasmine Kennedie (who came out as a trans woman during filming of the show), Bosco (who came out as a trans woman as the season aired), and Willow Pill (who came out as trans femme as the season aired).
The season featured a "Chocolate Bar Twist" which was introduced in the third episode, which featured each of the contestants being given a chocolate bar, one of which contained a golden bar. After losing a lip sync, each contestant must unwrap their chocolate bar, and the contestant whose bar contains the golden bar is saved from elimination. The twist lasted until episode 12, when Bosco was revealed to have the golden chocolate bar.
This season had a final five going to the grand finale, a first in the show’s history. Additionally, the winning queen received a cash prize of $150,000, the highest in the show's history up to that point. The runner up won a $50,000 cash prize, also a series first. It is also the first series in which a single queen had to lip sync for their life five times; Jorgeous survived four lip syncs and was sent home on the fifth.
Contestants
Ages, names, and cities stated are at time of filming.
Notes:
Contestant progress
Lip syncs
Legend:
Notes:
Guest judges
Lizzo, singer and songwriter
Alicia Keys, singer and songwriter
Christine Chiu, businesswoman, philanthropist and television personality
Loni Love, comedian and television host
Ava Max, singer
Taraji P. Henson, actress and singer
Ts Madison, television and internet personality, LGBTQ+ activist
Alec Mapa, actor
Nicole Byer, comedian and actress
Dove Cameron, actress and singer
Andra Day, singer and actress
Dulcé Sloan, comedian
Special guests
Guests who appeared in episodes, but did not judge on the main stage.
Episodes 1 and 2
Albert Sanchez, photographer
Episode 4
Jennifer Lopez, singer, actress, dancer
Episode 5
Jaymes Mansfield, contestant on season nine
Kahmora Hall, contestant on season thirteen
Tempest DuJour, contestant on season seven
Sarah McLachlan, singer and songwriter
Episode 8
David Benjamin Steinberg, songwriter and music producer
Episode 10
Raven, runner-up of season two and of All Stars season one
Episode 12
Leland, producer
Leslie Jordan, actor
Miguel Zarate, choreographer
Episode 13
Norvina, president of Anastasia Beverly Hills
Episode 15
LaLa Ri, contestant on season thirteen
Derrick Barry, contestant on season eight and All Stars season five
Kahanna Montrese, contestant on season eleven
Alexis Mateo, contestant on season three and All Stars season one and five
Episode 16
Jaida Essence Hall, winner of season twelve
Kameron Michaels, contestant on season ten
Trinity K. Bonet, contestant on season six and All Stars season six
Naomi Smalls, contestant on season eight and All Stars season four
Derrick Barry, contestant on season eight and All Stars season five
Kahanna Montrese, contestant on season eleven
Hot Chocolate, entertainer and drag queen
Symone, winner of season thirteen
LaLa Ri, contestant on and Miss Congeniality of season thirteen
Episodes
Ratings
References
2022 American television seasons
2022 in LGBT history
RuPaul's Drag Race seasons |
5630697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism%20in%20Albania | Protestantism in Albania | Evangelical Protestantism is one of five officially recognized faiths in Albania. It is a Christian faith that views Jesus Christ as its founder and head, and the Bible (especially the New Testament) as its written authority.
The US International Religious Freedom Report of 2022 noted that 38% of the population (just over a million people) have a Christian background. There are 95 Christian groups in the country, 174 of which are evangelical. The number of Evangelical Protestants in Albania has risen from approximately 8000 in 1998, to approximately 14,000 in the early 2020s. However, in the 2011 census, 70% of respondents refused to declare belief in any of the listed faiths.
Unlike other official religions in Albania, Evangelical Protestants are not organized under a hierarchy with an official head, but operate autonomously in separate churches or organizations bearing different denominational or non-denominational names. Most, but not all Evangelical/Protestant groups are members of the Albania's Evangelical Brotherhood (VUSH), a cooperative organization which views itself as existing as "an instrument of blessing … with the purpose of promoting unity amongst the churches, representing every local church with dignity, and promoting evangelism."
Protestant denominations include Baptist, Lutheran and Anglican.
History
On August 26, 1816, Robert Pinkerton wrote the British and Foreign and Bible Society to encourage them to translate the New Testament into Albanian. Cyrus Hamlin reported in 1857 that Albanians were applying to his Protestant seminary. The first documented Albanian Protestant was Kostandin Kristoforidhi, who left his native Orthodox faith and converted to Protestantism on his own while comparing Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant theological texts. He joined the Protestant Church of Smyrna in 1856 or 1857, and was sent to Istanbul for theological training.
In Monastir, Gjerasim Qiriazi also converted to Protestantism ca. 1876-1877, and united with the multi-ethnic Protestant church there. The first two known Albanian Protestant-Evangelical churches were both established by Gjerasim Qiriazi, first in Monastir in 1884 and later in Korça in 1890 (both cities then part of the Ottoman Empire).
In April 1890, Gjerasim Qiriazi was ordained as the first Albanian evangelist and preacher by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in the board's annual meeting help in Monastir. The second church among Albanians was opened in Korça. Qiriazi was also the head of one of the first national societies within Albania, named “The Evangelical Brotherhood”. As a result, Gjerasim Qiriazi is considered as the father of the Albanian Protestant Church.
During the Communist regime of the late 20th century, Albania was declared as the world’s first atheist country. Over 2,000 religious institutions were closed. Several religious leaders and preachers were arrested, imprisoned and executed. It was against the law to buy a Bible at that time. When the regime ended in 1991, there were less than 20 Evangelical Christians in the country.
In July, 1991 an international consortium of eleven mission agencies calling themselves the Albanian Encouragement Project (AEP) secured government permission to hold an evangelical gathering in Tirana. The AEP grew to 45 agencies and continued their work there for several years.
Freedom of religion
In 2023, the constitution provides for freedom of religion and conscience. It states that there is no official religion, but officially recognises Sunni Albanian Muslims, Bektashi Muslims, Roman Catholics, Albanian Autocephalous Orthodox and VUSH.
In 2022, Albania scored 4 out of 4 for religious freedom.
See also
Religion in Albania
Christianity in Albania
Roman Catholicism in Albania
Orthodoxy in Albania
Irreligion in Albania
Freedom of religion in Albania
References
Further reading
Hosaflook, David. Lëvizja protestante te shqiptarët, 1816-1908. Skopje: ITSHKSH, 2019.
Young, David. Lëvizja protestante midis shqiptarëve, 1908-1991. Prishtina: TENDA, 2011.
External links
(dedicated to the study and research of Protestantism in Albania). |
23029427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Fine | Steven Fine | Steven Fine is a historian of Judaism in the Greco-Roman World and a professor at Yeshiva University.
Education
Fine received a BA in Religious Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979, an MA in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Southern California in 1984, and a PhD in Jewish History from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1993.
Career
Fine worked as an intern in the Departments of Jewish Art and Jewish Folklore at the Israel Museum (1977-8, 1980–81), in the Department of Indian Art of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1982-3, under the tutelage of Pratapaditya Pal), and then as curator of the USC Archaeological Research Collection (1983-87 under the tutelage of Bruce Zuckerman).
After completing his doctorate in Jerusalem, Fine served as assistant and associate professor at Baltimore Hebrew College (1994-2000), and then as Jewish Foundation Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati from 2000 to 2005.
Steven Fine joined the faculty of Yeshiva University in 2005 as Professor of Jewish History, and served as chair of the Department of Jewish History at Yeshiva College. In 2015 he was awarded the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Chair in Jewish History at Yeshiva University. He is the Founding Director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and the Arch of Titus Project.
Arch of Titus
Fine is the head of the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project. The team discovered original yellow ochre paint that was originally on the menorah at the arch.
Some of his work, including his class on the Arch of Titus, has been dedicated to debunking the myth that the ancient menorah from the Temple in Jerusalem is in the Vatican.
Books
This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue During the Greco-Roman Period, Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.
Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New "Jewish Archaeology, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Second revised edition, 2010, Joshua Schnitzer Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies (2009)
Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World, editor and author of the major essay. New York: Oxford University Press and Yeshiva University Museum, 1996, best book in its category, Society of Architectural Historians.
Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue: Cultural Interaction During the Greco-Roman Period, Proceedings of a conference organized by Baltimore Hebrew University, May, 1997, edited by S. Fine, London: Routledge Press, 1999. Finalist, 1999 National Jewish Book Award, Charles H. Revson Foundation Award in Jewish-Christian Relations.
A Crown for a King: Studies in Memory of Prof. Stephen S. Kayser, edited by S. Fine, W. Kramer, S. Sabar, Berkeley: Magnes Museum Press and Jerusalem: Gefen, 2000.
Liturgy in the Life of the Synagogue: Studies in the History of Jewish Public Prayer, edited by Steven Fine and Ruth Langer. Duke Judaic Studies Series. Series editor, E. M. Meyers. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2005.
The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah: In Honor of Professor Louis H. Feldman.' Boston: Brill, 2011.
Puzzling Out the Past: Studies in Near Eastern Epigraphy and Archaeology in Honor of Bruce Zuckerman. Eds. S. Fine, M. Lundberg, D. Pardee, Boston: Brill Academic Press, 2012.
Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity. Boston: Brill Academic Press, 2012.
The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.
Notes
External links
Steven Fine's website contains his full curriculum vitae,'' articles, links and videos https://yeshiva.academia.edu/StevenFine/About/
Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies: http://www.yu.edu/cis/
Yeshiva University faculty
Historians of Jews and Judaism
Jewish historians
1958 births
Living people
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
University of Southern California alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni |
1105538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have%20Quick | Have Quick | [[File:Arc-164-rt.jpg|thumb|200px|UHF-Aircraft station AN/ARC-164 HAVE QUICK II]]
HAVE QUICK (also HAVEQUICK, short HQ) is an ECM-resistant frequency-hopping system used to protect military aeronautical mobile (OR) radio traffic.
Since the end of World War II, U.S. and Allied military aircraft have used AM radios in the NATO harmonised 225–400 MHz UHF band (part of NATO B band) for short range air-to-air and ground-to-air communications. During development and the procurement of UHF radios, military planners did not require features to secure communications for aircraft and helicopters from jamming until the post-Vietnam War era. Progress in electronics in the 1970s reached a point where anyone with an inexpensive radio frequency scanner or receiver set could intercept military communications. Once the target frequencies were identified, radio frequency jamming could easily be employed to degrade or completely disable communications.
The HAVE QUICK program was a response to this problem. Engineers recognized that newer aircraft radios already included all-channel frequency synthesizers along with keyboards and displays for data entry. The only other system requirements to achieve the desired anti-jam functionality were an accurate clock (for timed synchronization) and a microprocessor to add frequency hopping to existing radios.
Aircraft and ground radios that employ HAVE QUICK must be initialized with accurate time of day (TOD; usually from a GPS receiver), a word of the day (WOD), and a net identifier (providing mode selection and multiple networks to use the same word of the day). A word of the day is a transmission security variable that consists of six segments of six digits each. The word of the day is loaded into the radio or its control unit to key the HAVE QUICK system to the proper hopping pattern, rate, and dwell time. The word of the day, time of day and net identifier are input to a cryptographic pseudorandom number generator that controls the frequency changes.
HAVE QUICK is not an encryption system, though many HAVE QUICK radios can be used with encryption; e.g. the KY-58 VINSON system. HAVE QUICK is not compatible with SINCGARS, the VHF - FM radios used by ground forces, which operate in a different radio band and use a different frequency hopping method; however some newer radios support both.
Particularities
A national Air Force operates generally in a closed common user group. However, deviation to this regulation existed on German territory until 1990. E.g. the HQ-user of the German Air Force in the North of Germany, operational subordinated to 2nd Allied Tactical Air Force used HQ net-group 1, whereas the southern units, subordinated to 4th Allied Tactical Air Force, used HQ net-group 2.
The co-ordination of HQ radio frequency channels in the NATO-harmonised UHF-band, the design of the so-called HQ hop-sets, is provided in NATO-Europe in responsibility of the NATO Allied Radio Frequency Agency (ARFA) in Brussels.
For training and exercises, HQ operates in peacetime mode with limited frequency access. Four net-numbers may be used overlapping in net-group 1 and 2. However, in tactical operation mode this limitation might be lifted.
Some HQ-features are compatible to encryption hardware; e.g. to the KY-58 VINSON-family.
Utilization in the US and NATO
HAVE QUICK was well adopted, and as of 2007 is used on nearly all U.S. military and NATO aircraft. Improvements include HAVE QUICK II Phase 2, and a "Second generation Anti-Jam Tactical UHF Radio for NATO" called SATURN''. The latter features more complex frequency hopping.
See also
AN/PRC-152
AN/ARC-164
AN/PRC-117F
AN/ARC-182
AN/ARC-210
B band (NATO)
Combat-net radio
Spread spectrum
References
External links
AN/ARC-164 HAVE QUICK II
Software Enables Radio Family Ties
Airscene HAVE QUICK II
Military radio systems
Military radio systems of the United States
Military electronics of the United States |
13797722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo%20Destour | Neo Destour | The New Constitutional Liberal Party (, ; French: Nouveau Parti libéral constitutionnel), most commonly known as Neo Destour, was a Tunisian political party founded in 1934 in Dar Ayed, the house of independence activist Ahmed Ayed, by a group of Tunisian nationalist politicians during the French protectorate. It originated from a split with the Destour party.
Led by Habib Bourguiba, Neo Destour became the ruling party upon Tunisian independence in 1956. In 1964, it was renamed the Socialist Destourian Party.
History
The party was formed as a result of a split from the pre-existing Destour party in 1934, during the Ksar Hellal Congress of March 2. Several leaders were particularly prominent during the party's early years before World War II: Habib Bourguiba, Mahmoud El Materi, Tahar Sfar, Bahri Guiga, and Salah ben Youssef.
Prior to the split, a younger group of Destour members had alarmed the party elders by appealing directly to the populace through their more radical newspaper L'Action Tunisienne. The younger group, many from the provinces, seemed more in tune with a wider spectrum of the country-wide Tunisian people, while the party elders represented a more established constituency in the capital city of Tunis; yet both groups were proponents of change, either autonomy or independence. The rupture came at the Destour party congress of 1934.
World War II
At the outbreak of war in 1939, Neo-Destour leaders, though still untried, were deported to France. However, they were released by the Nazis in 1942 following the German occupation of Vichy France. Hitler then handed them over to the Mussolini's fascist government in Rome. There the leaders were treated with deference, the fascists hoping to gain support for the Axis. Bourguiba steadily refused to cooperate. But Hussein Triki worked with the Nazis under Neo-Destour. After allies' advance, victory in El Alamein, he escaped to Europe, there he worked for The Mahgreb, a North African Arabic organization working for the Nazis' war machine against the allies and has collaborated with Hitler's ally Mufti of Palestine.
The Neo-Destour Party was one of the Arab factions that the Nazi Germans hoped to win over to the Axis side . As majority of its leaders imprisoned by the French, Eitel Friedrich Moellhausen, Rahn's deputy, argued that the Arabs could be incited to action “against Jews and Anglo-Saxons” through the release of the prisoners in Marseille, without the Germans having to provide specific assurances concerning independence.
Post WWII
Eventually the Neo Destour led the Tunisian independence movement after the tumultuous period during World War II. Then Bourguiba was imprisoned and after the war in Egypt, while Ben Salih was the local, hands-on party leader. A significant break within the party ranks occurred in the final year of the independence struggle. In April, 1955, Salah ben Yusuf openly challenged Habib Bourguiba over his gradualist tactics during his autonomy negotiations with the French. Also Ben Yusuf, who cultivated support at al-Zaytuna Mosque and took a pan-Arab political line, disputed Bourguiba's more liberal, secular, pro-Western approach. The party's labor leader Ahmad Ben Salah kept the Tunisian General Labor Union in Bourguiba's camp. The Neo Destour party expelled Ben Yusuf that October; in November 1955 he mounted a large street demonstration but to no avail. Ben Yusuf then left for Nasser's Egypt where he was welcomed.
Independence of Tunisia from France was negotiated largely by the Neo Destour's Bourguiba. The effective date was March 20, 1956. The next year the Republic of Tunisia was constituted, which replaced the Beylical form of government. The Neo Destour became the ruling party under Prime Minister and later President Habib Bourguiba. In 1963, the Neo Destour was proclaimed the only legally permitted party in Tunisia, though for all intents and purposes the country had been a one-party state since independence.
Later the Neo Destour party was renamed the Socialist Destourian Party (PSD in its French acronym) in 1964, to signal the government's commitment to a socialist phase of political-economic development. This phase failed to fulfill expectations, however, and was discontinued in 1969 with the dismissal of Ahmad ben Salah as economics minister by President Bourguiba.
In 1988, under President Ben Ali, the party was again renamed, to become the Rassemblement Constitutionel Démocratique (RCD). The RCD continued as the Tunisian ruling party under President Ben Ali, who became increasingly corrupt and dictatorial. Early in 2011 he was forced out of office and his regime and the ruling party abolished, as a result of the liberal Tunisian Revolution. Similar subsequent events of popular regime change, which had spread to other Arab countries, became known as the Arab Spring.
Electoral history
Presidential elections
Chamber of Deputies elections
Notable people
Hédi Saidi
See also
Destour
Socialist Destourian Party (PSD)
Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD)
Reference notes
1934 establishments in Tunisia
1964 disestablishments in Tunisia
Political parties established in 1934
Political parties disestablished in 1964
Destourian parties
Defunct political parties in Tunisia
Parties of one-party systems |
21792368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace%20of%20Clubs%20%28musical%29 | Ace of Clubs (musical) | Ace of Clubs is a musical written, composed and directed by Noël Coward. The show is set in a 1949 London nightclub called "Ace of Clubs". Nightclub singer Pinkie Leroy falls in love with a sailor. Pinkie and her lover get mixed up with gangsters, a lost package and a missing diamond necklace. In the end, the police arrest the perpetrators, and Pinkie gets her man.
The musical premiered at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on 16 May 1950, followed by more tryouts at the Liverpool Empire Theatre and the Birmingham Alhambra Theatre. It transferred to the Cambridge Theatre, London, on 7 July 1950, where it ran for 211 performances until 6 January 1951. The cast included Pat Kirkwood, Sylvia Cecil, Graham Payn, Jean Carson and Myles Eason. Mantovani was the musical director. Stage and costume designs were by Gladys Calthrop.
Despite its modest run, Ace of Clubs contained several songs that survived independently, in Coward's later cabaret acts and elsewhere, including "Sail Away" and "I Like America". A CD of the original London cast recording was released in 2004.
Background
After the Second World War Coward strove for a time to regain his pre-war popularity. His 1945 revue Sigh No More ran for only 213 performances in the West End, and the failure of his musical Pacific 1860 in 1946–47 was in contrast to the success of the show that followed it at Drury Lane, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, which ran for more than ten times as long. Ace of Clubs was one of several other less successful Coward works of the period.
Cast
Elaine – Bubbly Rogers
Rita Marbury – Sylvia Cecil
Benny Lucas – Raymond Young
Sammy Blake – Robb Stewart
Felix Fulton – Myles Eason
Ace of Clubs Girls:
Dawn O'Hara – Sylvia Verney
Doreen Harvey – Margaret Miles
Sunny Claire – June Whitfield
Ruby Fowler – Erica Yorke
Greta Hughes – Pamela Devis
Betty Clements – Lorna Drewes
Mimi Joshua – Vivien Merchant
June April – Lisbeth Kearns
Baby Belgrave – Jean Carson
Hercules Brothers – Victor Harman, Ronald Francis, Stanley Howlett
Joseph Snyder – Elwyn Brook-Jones
Gus – Patrick Westwood
Pinkie Leroy – Pat Kirkwood
Harry Hornby – Graham Payn
Clarice – Eileen Tatler
Eva – Renee Hill
Yvonne Hall – Jean Inglis
Mavis Dean – Gail Kendall
Detective-Inspector Warrilove – Jack Lambert
Policeman – Michael Darbyshire
Mr Price – Philip Rose
Mrs Price – Stella White
Juvenile delinquents – Peter Tuddenham, Colin Kemball, Norman Warwick
First plain-clothes Man – Manfred Priestley
Second plain-clothes Man – Christopher Calthrop
Drummer – Don Fitz Stanford
Waiters – George Selfe, Richard Gill, Jacques Gautier
Night club habitués and visitors
Source: Theatrical Companion to Coward.
Synopsis
Benny runs the Soho nightclub "The Ace of Clubs" for the owner, Rita. Felix, the compère, introduces the club's girls, who perform their opening number. Benny plans the pickup of a parcel with a gangster, Smiling Snyder. The parcel is in the cloakroom wrapped in a raincoat. When Snyder forcibly steals a kiss from Pinkie Leroy, the club's star, in the middle of her act, a sailor named Harry punches Snyder, who draws his gun and fires. Pinkie takes the raincoat to cover her skimpy costume and escapes with Harry.
Harry and Pinkie discover the parcel in the raincoat, but it falls out and Harry finds it after Pinkie goes back to the club. Benny is already looking for the missing parcel, and Rita, who is in love with him, realises that Benny is involved with the gangsters. At rehearsal the next afternoon, Harry comes by to see Pinkie. Detective-lnspector Warrilove arrives to investigate a jewel robbery and shooting. He suspects Snyder. Benny discourages Pinkie from becoming involved with Harry. That evening Snyder and his associate, Guy, kidnap Harry during the show, but he escapes. Pinkie, afraid for Harry's safety, promises Benny that she will get the parcel. Harry is hidden, and after Benny leaves, he and Pinkie meet.
The next day, Harry return with the parcel, suggesting that they give it to the police. Pinkie disagrees, and they argue. That evening, one of the girls mistakes the parcel for her birthday present and opens it, finding the purloined necklace. Snyder and Gus pick up the parcel in exchange for cash. Rita hears that the stolen necklace has been traced to the club. She asks the gangsters to leave. In the club, Warrilove notices the necklace, which the birthday girl is wearing, and he follows her. Snyder and Gus open the parcel to find the birthday present, a pair of falsies. They return to the club, and Warrilove catches them. All ends happily for Benny and Rita as well as Pinkie and Harry.
Musical numbers
Act 1
"Top of the Morning" – Baby and Ace of Clubs Girls
"My Kind of Man" – Pinkie
"This Could be True" – Pinkie and Harry
"Nothing Can Last For Ever" – Rita
"Something About a Sailor" – Harry
"I'd Never, Never Know" – Pinkie
"Three Juvenile Delinquents" – Juvenile Delinquents
"Sail Away" – Harry
"Josephine" – Pinkie
Reprise: "My Kind of Man" – Pinkie
"Would You Like to Stick a Pin in my Balloon?" – Ace of Clubs Girls
Act 2
"In a Boat on a Lake with My Darling" – Sextet
"I Like America" – Harry and Ace of Clubs Girls
"Why Does Love Get in the Way?" – Pinkie
"Three Juvenile Delinquents" Juvenile Delinquents
"Evening in Summer" – Rita
Reprise: "Sail Away" – Harry
*Time for Baby's Bottle" – Baby, Yvonne, Mavis
"Chase Me, Charlie" – Pinkie
Reprise: "Nothing Can Last For Ever" – Rita
Reprise: "My Kind of Man" – Pinkie
Source: Theatrical Companion to Coward.
Critical reaction
The Times thought that Coward had striven too hard for popular success with his score: "In spite of the mixed reception it is possible that Ace of Clubs, for all its crudity and its slightly old-fashioned air, will give a great many people what they consider lively entertainment. But Mr Coward’s usual public will feel that he has temporarily deserted them." The Manchester Guardian was more favourable, calling the show "essentially a good-tempered frolic ... unlikely to knock spots off Oklahoma but it is in essence not only more genial, but more intelligent." It praised Coward's protégé Graham Payn, who "dances with consummate grace ... singularly fresh and boyish", adding, whether innocently or not, "Benevolent Uncle Noel has found a first-class nephew".
Notes, references and sources
Notes
References
Sources
1950 musicals
British musicals
Musicals by Noël Coward
Musicals set in London
Musicals set in the 1940s |
38461060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile%20Doo%27s%20Chemist%20Shop | Emile Doo's Chemist Shop | Emile Doo's Chemist Shop is an exhibition at the Black Country Living Museum in England. It was originally situated at 358 Halesowen Road, Netherton, before being rebuilt on the museum site.
History
Before the National Health Service was formed, local chemist shops like Doo's played an important part in the health of the local community. They offered services such as free medical advice, basic First Aid and weekly weighing of babies.
Doo's was originally built in 1886 as a tailor's shop. James Emile Doo traded from 1882 in a building across the road from 358, the business being taken over by his newly qualified son Harold Emile Doo, in about 1918. In 1929 Harold moved trading to their new premises at 358. The move was so carefully planned that dispensing was carried out until 10:00 p.m. on Saturday night in the old premises, and then started trading in the new premises the next morning at 9:00 a.m. Harold traded as a chemist until ill health forced his retirement in May 1968.
Exhibition
The shop lay untouched from 1968 to 1973, when the fittings and stock were donated to The Black Country Living Museum. The shop now located in The Black Country Living Museum is built using bricks reclaimed from two houses which were demolished in Pearson Street, Old Hill. The original shop front was also rescued and forms part of the exhibit today. The shop exhibition is much tidier than the shop would have been in real life. It would have been cluttered with hampers full of deliveries often leaving little room for customers.
With guidance from Emile Doo's daughter Betty, the shop has been laid out as it was shortly after the move across the road in 1929.
Items on display
Wafer machine
This was used for making thin soluble wafers for customers who needed medication dissolved in water. The prescribed ingredients were mixed to a paste with a binding agent and milk sugar. The mixture was then smeared over the top plate, which was flipped up so the wafers would slide into the bottom tray and could be dispensed via the extended section at the corner.
Paper folder
Before pills and tablets became widespread, prescribed medicine was mainly dispensed in the form of powders.
The practice continued in this century for things such as headache powders and infant teething powders. The ingredients were mixed together in a mortar and then individually wrapped in separate doses. The paper squares in which the powders were folded all had to be folded to the same dimensions so that they would fit neatly together into a box for the customer. The width of the paper could be adjusted using the ratchet mechanism on the side. The dose of powder was placed in the middle of a rectangular piece of white demi paper. The two edges were folded over to the width of the box, and then the paper strip was pressed over the folder to form two sharp creases. The two ends were brought together and one end pushed into the other forming a secure package. The folded doses were then put in a box or tied together to form a neat bundle.
Suppository mould
The ingredients for the suppositories were melted into a base of cocoa butter or glycerine, and the mixture was brought to the boil and poured into the moulds. When the preparation was set (after about 30 minutes in cool weather) the two halves were unscrewed to release the suppositories.
Emile Doo
Known locally as Jack, he was a well-known figure in Netherton, both through his work at The Chemist, and also for his involvement in amateur theatricals. He was a member of The 'Blue and Whites', a Pierrot troupe and did make up for other groups.
In the main, his life was dominated by the shop which was a focal point for local residents who needed minor treatment but could not afford doctors' fees. He had a considerable reputation for his own remedies. People came from far and wide to visit the shop. If you lived too far away to visit the shop, you could have your medicine delivered by post. He kept a book with all his remedies listed in, which his daughter still keeps today.
He qualified as a pharmacist in 1908. When he took the exam there were 133 candidates. 95 failed, with only 38 candidates achieving a pass. His certificate, and his father's, are on display.
Mr Doo suffered badly from arthritis, so could not move around easily. This may help explain why there was so much untouched stock in the cellar of the shop.
Locals who remember him, described him as a white haired gentleman who whistled constantly through his teeth as he worked in the shop.
His dog Pip was a character too. The dog would come along to visit him during opening hours, having travelled alone by tram from Kinver to reach the shop.
References
Black Country Living Museum
Relocated buildings and structures in the United Kingdom |
36773533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Willemse | Herman Willemse | Herman "Flying Dutchman" Willemse (22 May 1934 – 7 July 2021) was a Dutch long-distance and marathon swimmer. In 2008, he was inducted to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
Willemse started his career as a freestyle swimmer, winning 13 national titles and setting 19 national records in the 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m events between 1952 and 1958. In 1959, he switched to marathon swimming and became the second Dutchman to cross the English Channel, with a time of 12h49. Later in the 1960s he dominated the world marathon swimming. For three years after 1964, when the point system was introduced, he was ranked world number two, after Abo Heif. His clean sweep of the Around-the-Island Marathon Swim in 1960–1964 brought the organizers to a problem that spectators lost interest in the race. The race was discontinued in 1965.
A school teacher by profession, Willemse was known for his academic approach to swimming. He would often travel around the place before the competition and measure the water temperature, to optimize his racing strategy, or even withdraw from a potentially disastrous race if the temperature was too low. He retired from competitive swimming around 1970 and published a book titled Marathonzwemmen (Marathon Swimming).
International competitions
St. John Lake Swim (1961, Canada, 30 km) – 1st place, 10h 7min
St. John Lake Swim (1962, Canada, 30 km) – 1st place, 9h 3min
St. John Lake Swim (1963, Canada, 30 km) – 1st place, 8h 32min
Around-the-Island Marathon Swim (1960, Atlantic City, USA, 36 km) – 1st place, 10h 30min
Around-the-Island Marathon Swim (1961, Atlantic City, USA, 36 km) – 1st place, 11h 14min
Around-the-Island Marathon Swim (1962, Atlantic City, USA, 36 km) – 1st place, 11h 35min
Around-the-Island Marathon Swim (1963, Atlantic City, USA, 36 km) – 1st place, 10h 31min
Around-the-Island Marathon Swim (1964, Atlantic City, USA, 36 km) – 1st place, 10h 08min
National Exhibition race (1961, Canada, 24 km) – 1st place, 6h 54min
National Exhibition race (1962, Canada, 24 km) – 1st place, 6h 38min
la Descente ou remontée du Saguenay (1966, 37 km) – 1st place, 6h 15min
Tois Riviere (1961–1963 and 1965, Canada, 16 km) – 1st place (4 times)
Santa Fe-Coronda (1963, Argentina, 58 km) – 1st place
Santa Fe-Coronda (1964, Argentina, 58 km) – 3rd place
Santa Fe-Coronda (1966, Argentina, 58 km) – 3rd place
Hernandaras-Parana (Argentina, 88 km) – 1st place
See also
List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
References
Bibliography
1934 births
2021 deaths
Dutch male freestyle swimmers
Dutch male long-distance swimmers
English Channel swimmers
Sportspeople from Utrecht (city)
20th-century Dutch people |
23973355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Heenan | Maurice Heenan | Maurice Heenan (8 October 1912 – 26 September 2000) was a New Zealand-born barrister and solicitor, who served as Attorney General of Hong Kong and as a senior lawyer for the United Nations.
Early life
Born to David Donnoghue Heenan (died 1942), and Ann Heenan (née Frame; died 1976), Heenan attended Ashburton High School and then the Canterbury College, University of New Zealand, earning an LLB. Heenan was a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand from 1937 through 1939. From 1940 to 1946 he was a major in the 2nd NZEF and saw active service in the Western Desert, Libya, Cyrenaica and Italy and was mentioned in dispatches. In 1944, he was selected to attend Staff College, Camberley in the UK where he was awarded the Staff College Award.
It was in London that he met his future wife, Claire Gabriela Stephanie (née Ciho), daughter of Emil Ciho (died 1975) and Irene (née Rotbauer; died 1950) of Trenčín, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Claire Ciho, who was attending a summer course for foreign students at Oxford, was one of the first students permitted by the Czechoslovakian government to attend a foreign college after the war. . The couple wed in 1951; they had two daughters.
Overseas legal career
In 1946, Heenan was appointed to British Overseas Civil Service and was Crown Counsel for the Palestine Mandate in Jerusalem until 1948. He was transferred to Hong Kong in 1948 and in 1952 was appointed Senior Crown Counsel. He acted as Solicitor General of Hong Kong and Attorney General of Hong Kong at various times. In 1961 he was appointed, first Solicitor General of Hong Kong and then, two months later, Attorney General of Hong Kong. He served as Attorney General until 1966. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1962 while serving as Attorney General.
In 1966, he became the Deputy Director of the General Legal Division (United Nations Office of Legal Affairs), Offices of the Secretary General, United Nations. On his departure from Hong Kong Michael Gass, the Acting Governor, thanked Heenan for his service at the last meeting of the Legislative Council he attended.
Heenan served as Deputy Director of the General Legal Division until 1973, when he was named General Counsel for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian Refugees in Beirut, Lebanon.
Awards
In 1966 he was inducted into the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) at Buckingham Palace in London.
Clubs and recreations
In Hong Kong, he was a member of the Hong Kong Club, the Hong Kong Cricket Club and Hong Kong Lawn Tennis Association. He was also a voting member of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. He was a member of the Country Club of New Canaan in America.
His recreations included rugby, tennis, squash, skiing and golf.
Last years and death
In 1977, he retired to his home in New Canaan, Connecticut. He died in 2000, aged 87, and was survived by his wife, two daughters and several grandchildren.
References
Sources
Debrett's Distinguished People of Today; edited by David Williamson & Patricia Ellis. Debrett's Peerage Ltd.: 1988, p. 497
Who's Who U.K.–An Annual Biographical Dictionary published annually since 1849. A & C Black: London, England, 2000, p. 928
Encyclopedia of New Zealand 1966; site visited 2 August 2009.
Who is Who in the United Nations and Related Agencies. Arno Press/A New York Times Company: New York, U.S., 1975, p. 247; site visited 2 August 2009
Debrett's Handbook (eds Suzanne Duke, Dawn Henderson, Antonia Gaisford-St. Lawrence), Debrett's Peerage Ltd.: London, England, 1984, p. 904
1912 births
2000 deaths
New Zealand Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
20th-century New Zealand lawyers
British officials of the United Nations
New Zealand Army personnel
New Zealand emigrants to the United States
New Zealand people of World War II
University of Canterbury alumni
Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley
Hong Kong civil servants
Attorneys General of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Queen's Counsel
People from Wyndham, New Zealand
People educated at Ashburton College
New Zealand officials of the United Nations
Solicitors General of Hong Kong |
272021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-IVB | S-IVB | The S-IVB (pronounced "S-four-B") was the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB launch vehicles. Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, it had one J-2 rocket engine. For lunar missions it was fired twice: first for Earth orbit insertion after second stage cutoff, and then for translunar injection (TLI).
History
The S-IVB evolved from the upper stage of the Saturn I rocket (the S-IV) and was the first stage of the Saturn V to be designed. The S-IV used a cluster of six RL-10 engines but used the same fuels as the S-IVB – liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. It was also originally meant to be the fourth stage of a planned rocket called the C-4, hence the name S-IV.
Eleven companies submitted proposals for being the lead contractor on the stage by the deadline of 29 February 1960. NASA administrator T. Keith Glennan decided on 19 April that Douglas Aircraft Company would be awarded the contract. Convair had come in a close second but Glennan did not want to monopolize the liquid hydrogen-fueled rocket market as Convair was already building the Centaur stage of the Atlas-Centaur rocket.
In the end, the Marshall Space Flight Center decided to use the C-5 rocket (later called the Saturn V), which had three stages and would be topped with an uprated S-IV called the S-IVB featuring a single J-2 engine, as opposed to the cluster of 6 RL-10 engines on the S-IV. Douglas was awarded the contract for the S-IVB because of the similarities between it and the S-IV. At the same time, it was decided to create the C-IB rocket (Saturn IB) that would also use the S-IVB as its second stage and could be used for testing the Apollo spacecraft in low Earth orbit.
12 200-series and 16 500-series S-IVB stages were built, alongside 3 test stages. NASA was working on acquiring 4 additional 200-series stages (as part of 4 new Saturn IB rockets, SA-213 to 216), but funding never materialized and the order was canceled in August 1968 before S-IVB hardware was assembled. Similarly, an order for two additional 500-series stages (for Saturn V rockets 516 and 517) was canceled around the same time.
Configuration
Douglas built two distinct versions of the S-IVB, the 200 series and the 500 series. The 200 series was used by the Saturn IB and differed from the 500 in that it did not have a flared interstage and it had less helium pressurization on board since it did not have to be restarted. In the 500 series, the interstage needed to flare out to match the larger diameter of the S-IC and S-II stages of the Saturn V. The 200 series also had three solid rockets for separating the S-IVB stage from the S-IB stage during launch. On the 500 series this was reduced to two, and two small Auxiliary Propulsion System (APS) thruster modules were added as ullage motors for restarting the J-2 engine and to provide attitude control during coast phases of flight.
The S-IVB carried of liquid oxygen (LOX), massing . It carried of liquid hydrogen (LH2), massing . Empty mass was
Auxiliary Propulsion System
Attitude control was provided by J-2 engine gimbaling during powered flight and by the two APS modules during coast. APS modules were used for three-axis control during coast phases, roll control during J-2 firings, and ullage for the second ignition of the J-2 engine. Each APS module contained two thrusters providing thrust for roll and pitch, another thruster for yaw, and one thruster for ullage. Each module contained its own propellant tanks of dinitrogen tetroxide and monomethyl hydrazine as well as compressed helium to pressurize its propellants.
Uses
A surplus S-IVB tank, serial number 212, was converted into the hull for
Skylab, the first American space station. Skylab was launched on a Saturn V on May 14, 1973, and it eventually reentered the atmosphere on July 11, 1979. A second S-IVB, serial number 515, was also converted into a backup Skylab, but this one never flew.
During the missions of Apollo 13, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17, the S-IVB stages were crashed into the Moon to perform seismic measurements used for characterizing the lunar interior.
Stages built
(* See List of artificial objects on the Moon for location.)
Derivatives
The second stage of the Ares I rocket and the proposed Earth Departure Stage (EDS) would have had some of the characteristics of the S-IVB stage, as both would have had an uprated J-2 engine, called the J-2X, with the latter performing the same functions as that of the Series 500 version of the stage (placing the payload into orbit, and later firing the spacecraft into trans-lunar space).
The MS-IVB was a proposed modification of the S-IVB that would have been used on a Mars flyby, but it was never produced.
See also
S-IC
S-II
S-IV
Saturn IB
Saturn V
Apollo (spacecraft)
List of artificial objects on the Moon
References
Marshall Space Flight Center, Apollo Systems Description Volume II - Saturn Launch Vehicles, 1 February 1964. (Archived copy, pdf)
External links
NASA New Reference: Saturn third stage
Apollo program
Rocket stages
Impactor spacecraft |
28449824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Chi%20Psi%20members | List of Chi Psi members | Following is a list of Chi Psi members that includes notable initiates of Chi Psi.
Academics and museums
Stephen Ambrose, historian, author, and professor of history at the University of New Orleans
William Miller Collier, President of George Washington University, United States Ambassador to Spain, United States Ambassador to Chile
Kirk Johnson, paleontologist, author, curator, museum administrator, and Sant Director of Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
Art and architecture
Temple Hoyne Buell, architect
Charles Luckman, architect of Madison Square Garden, among other projects
Business
James Ford Bell, founder of General Mills
Mark Bingham, public relations executive and one of the members of Flight 93 credited with trying to thwart September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by overpowering the hijackers.
Clarence Birdseye, inventor of frozen food products
Daniel Burke, former President and Chairman of the RT French Company (i.e., "French's Mustard"
Steve Culbertson, President and CEO, Youth Service America
Robert Hugh Daniel, founder of Daniel International Corporation
David Gardner, founder of The Motley Fool
Richard Jenrette, founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. – Former President of S.C. Johnson & Son
Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr. – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of S.C. Johnson & Son from 1967 – 1988.
Herbert Fisk Johnson III – Current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of S.C. Johnson & Son
Edmund C. Lynch, Jr., son to co-founder of financial services firm Merrill Lynch
Paul Mellon, banker, philanthropist, and thoroughbred racehorse owner
Charles Edward Merrill, co-founder of financial services firm Merrill Lynch
Hubertus van der Vaart, Rhodes Scholar, and co-founder/Chairman of SEAF (Small Enterprise Assistance Funds)
Kemmons Wilson, founder of the Holiday Inn chain of hotels
Clergy
Joshua Young, D.D. (1823–1904), Unitarian minister of national renown, abolitionist
Entertainment
Eddie Albert, actor known for his role on Green Acres
Buddy Ebsen, actor known for The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones
John Gavin, actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild, and United States Ambassador to Mexico
Allan Jones, movie producer
Paul Lieberstein, actor best known for his role on the American version of The Office
Jerry Mathers, actor best known for his role on Leave It To Beaver
Steve Miller, musician known for the Steve Miller Band
Boz Scaggs, musician
Fred Weller, movie, television, and stage actor
Government
Nicholas F. Brady, United States Secretary of the Treasury
Richard Helms, 8th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Stansfield Turner, 12th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and United States Navy Admiral
Law
Albert S. Bard, lawyer and civic activist, 4th president of Chi Psi
Melville Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States
William Henry Gates, Sr., attorney, philanthropist, and father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates
Elbridge Thomas Gerry, lawyer, reformer, and second president of Chi Psi
Randolph D. Moss, former United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel; established the legal justification for the targeted killing of terrorist leaders in foreign lands.
Thomas Tongue, Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
Military
Captain Morris Brown, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient
James Chatham Duane, United States Army Brigadier General, one of Chi Psi's national founders; US Army Corps of Engineers Chief of Engineers from October 1886, to June 1888
Ross T. Dwyer, United States Marine Corps Major General
Daniel W. Hand, U.S. Army brigadier general
Robert E. Kelley, United States Air Force General and former Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy
Henry Martyn Porter, Colonel in the Vermont Infantry and Provost Marshal for the city of New Orleans
Philip Spencer, a Chi Psi's national founder and the center of the alleged incident of mutiny aboard the USS Somers; hanged at sea without a court-martial.
Stansfield Turner, United States Navy Admiral and director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Politics
Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Horatio C. Burchard, United States Congressman from Illinois, 13th Director of the United States Mint, and father of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Arne Carlson, 37th Governor of Minnesota
Sean Casten, United States Congressman from Illinois
William Miller Collier, United States Ambassador to Spain, United States Ambassador to Chile, and the president of George Washington University.
Roy A. Cooper, North Carolina Attorney General and later Governor of North Carolina
Jim Cooper, United States Congressman from Tennessee
Orville Freeman, 29th Governor of Minnesota
John Gavin, United States Ambassador to Mexico, actor, and president of the Screen Actors Guild
H. John Heinz III, United States Senator from Pennsylvania
John Newton Hungerford, United States Congressman from New York
Richard Lamm, Governor of Colorado
John S. Pillsbury, 8th Governor of Minnesota
William Proxmire, United States Senator from Wisconsin
Thomas Brackett Reed, 36th and 38th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
William Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania and 38th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Edward S. Walker, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the UAE; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
Sports
Bill Belichick, National Football League Head Coach, New England Patriots
Buzz Calkins, IRL driver
Russ Francis, National Football League tight end, New England Patriots and San Francisco 49ers, 3-time Pro-Bowler
Buckshot Jones, NASCAR driver
Eric Mangini, National Football League Head Coach, Cleveland Browns
Waite Hoyt, New York Yankees pitcher, Major League Baseball Hall of Famer
Hugh McElhenny, NFL running back, Hall of Famer
Rob Oppenheim, PGA TOUR Professional Golfer
Augie Pabst III, race car driver
Vic Seixas, professional tennis player, Davis Cup winner
Jeff Torborg, Major League Baseball catcher and manager
Van Earl Wright, sportscaster
Riley Davis, college basketball writer
Paul Arthur Sorg, famous horseman of the early 1900s, multi-millionaire, banker, paper mfg.
Edwin W. Lee, college football player and coach, attorney, state court judge
Literature and journalism
Stephen Ambrose, historian, author, and professor of history at the University of New Orleans
Taylor Branch, magazine editor and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King
Lee Hawkins, author, journalist, musician
Kenneth Roberts, historical novelist
Clinton Scollard, poet and writer of fiction in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Richard Wilbur, poet, two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
References
Lists of members of North American Interfraternity Conference members by society
Chi Psi |
63793560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotosh%C5%8Dh%C5%8D%20Yoshinari | Kotoshōhō Yoshinari | is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Kashiwa, Chiba. He made his debut in November 2017 and reached the top makuuchi division in May 2020. He wrestles for Sadogatake stable. His highest rank has been maegashira 3. He was runner-up in the January 2023 tournament, also winning the Fighting Spirit prize.
Career
He began sumo in the first grade of elementary school, and won the national junior high school championship in his third year of junior high. He went to Saitama Sakae High School, famous for its sumo program, and was classmates with Naya and Tsukahara. After graduating from high school he joined Sadogatake stable, recruited by ex-sekiwake Kotonowaka, to whom he had a connection as Kotonowaka's eldest son was a fellow member of Kashiwa City's boys sumo club. He made his professional debut in November 2017, using the shikona of , based on his own name. In his first tournament on the banzuke in January 2018 he took part in a playoff with Tsukahara for the jonokuchi division championship after both finished with a 6–1 record. He reached the makushita division in September 2018 and although he was unable to secure a winning record he returned to makushita in January 2019 and five straight winning records saw him reach elite sekitori status after the September 2019 tournament. To mark the occasion he changed his shikona to Kotoshōhō Yoshinari.
Kotoshōhō won the jūryō division yūshō or championship with a 12–3 record in March 2020, only his third tournament in the division, and this earned him promotion to the top division for the Natsu tournament scheduled for May 2020. He has been praised by commentators for his calm demeanour and his maturity in the dohyō despite being only 20 years of age at the time of his promotion. Three further winning records brought him to the joi-jin rank of maegashira 3 for the January 2021 tournament, where he managed only two wins facing top-ranked opposition. He missed several days of the March 2021 tournament due to injury, only managing to record one win, and he was demoted back to jūryō for the May 2021 tournament. He won his second jūryō division championship in January 2022 with an 11–4 record, and returned to the top division for the March 2022 tournament.
He secured a winning record of 9–6 there, but then had losing records in the next four tournaments. From the rank of maegashira 13 in January 2023, he entered the final day level with ōzeki Takakeishō on 11–3, and fought him for the championship in the final match of the tournament, the first maegashira to be in such a position since 15-day tournaments were established in 1949. Although he was defeated and missed out on the Outstanding Performance award, he did receive the Fighting Spirit award for his 11–4 performance, the best of his career. Kotoshōhō withdrew on Day 10 of the May 2023 tournament due to a patellar subluxation in his left knee, after having suffered eight consecutive defeats. He also had sprained his right ankle during the spring jungyō. He nevertheless expressed his desire to return to the competition and was later scheduled to return on Day fourteen.
Fighting style
According to his Japan Sumo Association profile, Kotoshoho prefers a migi-yotsu (left hand outside, right hand inside grip on his opponent’s mawashi and his most common winning kimarite are yori-kiri (force out) and oshi dashi (push out).
Personal life
Kotoshōhō has a younger brother who also wrestles as a professional in the same stable under the ring name Kototebakari, a shikona inspired by both brothers' real surname.
In June 2023, Kotoshōhō held a press conference at Ryōgoku Kokugikan to announce his engagement to a woman of the same age, living in Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture, to whom he proposed after the May 2023 tournament. Although he and his wife don't plan to live together until August of the same year, it was announced in July that the couple were expecting their first child, a boy.
Career record
See also
List of active sumo wrestlers
List of sumo tournament top division runners-up
List of sumo second division tournament champions
Glossary of sumo terms
References
External links
1999 births
Living people
Japanese sumo wrestlers
Sumo people from Chiba Prefecture
Sadogatake stable sumo wrestlers |
1313678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20Supreme%20Court | Michigan Supreme Court | The Michigan Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is Michigan's court of last resort and consists of seven justices. The Court is located in the Michigan Hall of Justice at 925 Ottawa Street in Lansing, the state capital.
Operations
Each year, the Court receives approximately 2,000 new case filings. In most cases, the litigants seek review of Michigan Court of Appeals decisions, but the Supreme Court also hears cases of attorney misconduct (through a bifurcated disciplinary system comprising an investigation and prosecution agency – the Attorney Grievance Commission – and a separate adjudicative agency – the Attorney Discipline Board), judicial misconduct (through the Judicial Tenure Commission), as well as a small number of matters over which the Court has original jurisdiction.
The Court issues a decision by order or opinion in all cases filed with it. Opinions and orders of the Court are reported in an official publication, Michigan Reports, as well as in Thomson West's privately published North Western Reporter.
Administration of the courts
The Court's other duties include overseeing the operations of all state trial courts. It is assisted in this endeavor by the State Court Administrative Office, one of its agencies. The Court's responsibilities also include a public comment process for changes to court rules, rules of evidence and other administrative matters. The court has broad superintending control power over all the state courts in Michigan.
Article 6, Section 30 of the Michigan Constitution creates the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission. This is an agency within the judiciary, having jurisdiction over allegations of judicial misconduct, misbehavior, and infirmity. The Supreme Court is given original, superintending control power, and appellate jurisdiction over the issue of penalty (up to and including removal of judges from office).
History
The Michigan Supreme Court can be dated back to the Supreme Court of Michigan Territory, established in 1805 with three justices. These justices served for indefinite terms. In 1823, the terms of justices were limited to four years.
The Michigan Supreme Court was the only court created by the first Michigan constitution in 1835. It had three members and each also oversaw one of the three judicial circuits, located in Detroit, Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo. The court needed a quorum of two to operate and members were appointed to seven-year terms by the governor with the consent of the senate. In 1838, Justice William A. Fletcher proposed a new plan for the court that the legislature approved. This increased the number of circuits to four and thus expanded the bench to four justices, but left the quorum at two.
In 1848, the court was expanded to five justices and the 1850 Michigan constitution provided that they be elected for six-year terms. In 1858, the Circuit Courts were split from the Supreme Court, so justices now only served on the Michigan Supreme Court and reduced its size to only four justices, one of whom was the Chief Justice.
In 1887, the court was expanded to five justices each serving for ten years. The court was again expanded in 1903 to eight justices serving terms of eight years. In 1964, the new state constitution provided that the next justice to leave the court would not be replaced to reduce the court to seven members, which was achieved when Justice Theodore Souris declined to run for re-election in 1968, leaving the court with seven members since January 1, 1969.
Composition
The Supreme Court consists of seven justices who are elected to eight-year terms. Candidates are nominated by political parties and are elected on a nonpartisan ballot. Supreme Court candidates must be qualified electors, licensed to practice law in Michigan for at least five years, and under 70 years of age at the time of election. Vacancies are filled by appointment of the Governor until the next general election. Every two years, the justices elect a member of the Court to serve as Chief Justice.
The Michigan Constitution allows vacancies on the state Supreme Court to be initially filled by the Governor, with that appointee serving until the next general election, at which time the elected winner is seated to fill the remaining portion of the vacated term.
Current justices
Following the 2012 election, the court had a 4–3 conservative Republican majority, with Robert P. Young Jr. serving as Chief Justice. After the resignation of Justice Diane Hathaway and appointment of David Viviano in 2013, there was a 5–2 Republican majority. After the 2018 election, the court reverted to a 4–3 conservative Republican majority with the election of Megan Cavanagh.
In 2020, Bridget Mary McCormack was re-elected as Chief Justice and Elizabeth M. Welch was elected as Justice, giving the Democrats a 4–3 majority on the court starting January 1, 2021. This also made the court majority female for the fourth time in state history.
The current justices of the Michigan Supreme Court are:
See also
Judiciary of Michigan
References
Further reading
External links
Michigan Supreme Court
Michigan Supreme Court Commentary
Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society
Michigan state courts
Buildings and structures in Lansing, Michigan
1837 establishments in Michigan
Legal history of Michigan
Michigan
Courts and tribunals established in 1837 |
46319527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward%20No.%2024%2C%20Kolkata%20Municipal%20Corporation | Ward No. 24, Kolkata Municipal Corporation | Ward No. 24, Kolkata Municipal Corporation is an administrative division of Kolkata Municipal Corporation in Borough No. 4, covering parts of Jorabagan and Pathuriaghata neighbourhoods in North Kolkata, in the Indian state of West Bengal.
History
Attempts were made to establish a municipal corporation at Kolkata from the middle of the 19th century. The electoral system was introduced for the first time in 1847, and 4 of the 7 board members were elected by the rate payers. In 1852 the board was replaced by a new one and in 1863 a new body was formed. As per old records, in 1872 there were 25 wards in Kolkata (spellings as in use at that time) – 1. Shyampukur, 2. Kumartuli, 3. Bartala, 4. Sukea Street, 5. Jorabagan, 6. Jorasanko, 7. Barabazar, 8. Kolutola, 9. Muchipara, 10. Boubazar, 11. Padmapukur, 12. Waterloo Street, 13. Fenwick Bazar, 14. Taltala, 15. Kalinga, 16. Park Street, 17. Victoria Terrace, 18. Hastings, 19. Entali, 20. Beniapukur, 21. Baliganj-Tollyganj, 22. Bhabanipur, 23. Alipur, 24.Ekbalpur and 25. Watganj. A new municipal corporation was created in 1876, wherein 48 commissioners were elected and 24 were appointed by the government. With the implementation of the Municipal Consolidation Act of 1888 the area under the jurisdiction of the municipal corporation was enlarged. Certain areas were already there but more parts of them were added (current spellings) - Entally, Manicktala, Beliaghata, Ultadanga, Chitpur, Cossipore, Beniapukur, Ballygunge, Watganj and Ekbalpur, and Garden Reach and Tollygunj. The Calcutta Municipal Act of 1923 brought about important changes. It liberalised the constitution along democratic lines.
The state government superseded the Corporation in 1948 and the Calcutta Municipal Act of 1951 came into force. Adult franchise was introduced in municipal elections in 1962. With the addition of certain areas in the southern parts of the city, the number of wards increased from 75 to 144.
Geography
Ward No. 24 is bordered on the north by Nimtala Ghat Street; on the east by Rabindra Sarani; on the south by Kalikrishna Tagore Road; and on the west by Baisnab Sett Street, Prasanta Kumar Tagore, Jadulal Mallick Road.
The ward is served by Jorabagan police station of Kolkata Police.
Amherst Street Women police station covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the North and North Suburban division of Kolkata Police, i.e. Amherst Street, Jorabagan, Shyampukur, Cossipore, Chitpur, Sinthi, Burtolla and Tala.
Demographics
As per 2011 Census of India Ward No. 24, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, had a total population of 19,824, of which 12,264 (62%) were males and 7,560 (38%) were females. Population below 6 years was 1,073. The total number of literates in Ward No. 24 was 13,719 (73.16% of the population over 6 years).
Kolkata is the second most literate district in West Bengal. The literacy rate of Kolkata district has increased from 53.0% in 1951 to 86.3% in the 2011 census.
See also – List of West Bengal districts ranked by literacy rate
Census data about mother tongue and religion is not available at the ward level. For district level information see Kolkata district.
According to the District Census Handbook Kolkata 2011, 141 wards of Kolkata Municipal Corporation formed Kolkata district. (3 wards were added later).
Election highlights
The ward forms a city municipal corporation council electoral constituency and is a part of Shyampukur (Vidhan Sabha constituency).
References
Municipal wards of Kolkata |
19378165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Wallace | Margaret Wallace | Margaret Wallace (born May 30, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, gaming and media professional. In 2009, she co-founded Playmatics with Nicholas Fortugno in New York, New York. The company focuses on bringing new kinds of immersive experiences to casual gamers. In 2006, she was named one of the hundred most influential women in the game industry.
Education
While in high school, Wallace participated in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholarship, which allows students to study a year abroad in Germany. Under the scholarship, she attended a one-month language and cultural preparation course at The Experiment in International Living (now World Learning) in Brattleboro, Vermont and spent her final year of high school at the Gymnasium Mellendorf in Mellendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany.
As an undergraduate, she attended Boston University, where she studied Communication and Philosophy and received a Bachelor of Science with Distinction in 1989. Wallace subsequently studied Communication and Cultural Theory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earning an MA in 1996.
Career
After Boston, Wallace moved to San Francisco, California, where she became professionally involved in the Internet and gaming, particularly casual games.
PF.Magic
In 1996, Wallace joined PF Magic, a video game developer founded in 1991 and located in San Francisco, CA. Though it developed other types of video games, PF.Magic was arguably best known for its virtual pet games, such as Dogz, Catz, and Oddballz; Wallace participated in the development of:
Catz II: Your Virtual Petz (1997)
Dogz 2: Your Virtual Petz (1997)
Oddballz: Your Wacky Computer Petz (1996)
The Petz Web Fun Pack
Mindscape
After Mindscape, Inc.’s acquisition of PF.Magic in early 1998, Wallace continued employment with the company’s online content group. The Learning Company (TLC) acquired Mindscape, Inc. in March 1998 for $150 million. Mattel soon purchased TLC in 1999 for $3.8 billion, renaming it "Mattel Interactive".
The copyright on the Petz, Oddballz and Babyz titles was eventually acquired by Ubisoft. Currently, Petz is Ubisoft's number six top-selling brand, having sold over thirteen million units to date.
Shockwave.com
In 1999, Wallace joined Shockwave.com—then operating under its early name, Shockrave.com. There she produced some of the company's most popular titles, including Shockwave Tetris, Blix, Shockwave Jigsaw Puzzles, and content for Photo Greetings and Jigsaw Puzzle Maker.
For the 2000 Shockwave Tetris game, Wallace worked closely with Blue Planet Software on staying true to the Tetris brand. She also incorporated a techno soundtrack to this version of Tetris, having a techno version of the Tetris theme song composed. She also worked with Astralwerks Records who provided a track from Q-Burns Abstract Message called "Feng Shui" for the game. Beatnik, Inc. was the primary music provider for this version of Tetris. The game had a unique sonified accompaniment that is customized to a player's individual gameplay and skill level.
Skunk Studios
In 2001, Wallace went on to Co-Found and become chief executive officer of Skunk Studios. Formed by all former employees of Shockwave.com, Skunk Studios was one of the first to call itself a casual game company. Skunk Studios is best known for titles including:
Varmintz
QBeez
QBeez 2
Gutterball
Gutterball 2
Tennis Titans
Tennis Titans 2
Mah Jong Adventures
Spelvin
Word Up
Sveerz
Tamale Loco: Rumble in the Desert II
Rebel Monkey
In 2007, Wallace cofounded and become chief executive officer of Rebel Monkey Inc., a New York City-based entertainment company focused on providing new kinds of real-time immersive play for casual gamers. The company was cofounded with Nicholas Fortugno, lead designer behind the original Diner Dash game brand. In October 2007, the company secured an initial round of investment from Redpoint Ventures. In early 2009, Rebel Monkey announced the launch of casual Massively multiplayer online game CampFu and the Monkey Wrench gaming platform on which it is built.
CampFu
CampFu is an online virtual world with a summer camp theme. Emphasizing collaborative team play and aimed at the teenaged demographic, CampFu officially launched on March 17, 2009, after a beta stage that began in February of the same year. CampFu is free to play, but users can access premium content by purchasing in-world currency called FuCash and/or a VIP membership subscription. Users can also earn Tickets, which can be exchanged for clothing items, by playing CampFu games. Games currently playable include:
Veg-Out
WordMob
Fungeez
Critter Smackdown
Rebel Monkey Inc. closed permanently after it failed to secure subsequent funding during the economic downturn in Summer 2009.
Playmatics
In September 2009, Wallace and Nick Fortugno started a new company focused on game design and development called Playmatics, LLC. In 2010, Playmatics created the Fortugno-designed interactive comic "The Interrogation" for the television series Breaking Bad. The game went on to be recognized for a CableFAX Best of the Web award. Other titles by Playmatics include Disney's The Kingdom Keepers "Race to Save the Magic."
Shadow Government, Inc.
In 2011, Wallace and Fortugno co-founded Shadow Government, Inc along with Philippe Trawnika. Shadow Government, Inc. is dedicated to bringing new forms of social gaming based on gamifying real countries, systems, and worldwide events.
Public speaking
Wallace is a frequent speaker on the state of the industry, business and casual and online games at conferences such as the Game Developers Conference/San Francisco, GC Developers Conference (Leipzig), Casual Connect, The Austin Game Conference, and the LA and NY Games Conference. She delivered a keynote on gamification at nextMedia Toronto. She was also a keynote speaker at the ICEC 2006.
In print
Co-Editor, IGDA Casual Games White Paper 2006
Data Collection, The Social and Cultural Aspects of VCR Use
Interviewee, Creating Casual Games for Profit and Fun
Memberships and affiliations
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Steering Committee member for the International Game Developers Association Casual Game Special Interest Group (2005–2008)
Adjunct Faculty of Parsons the New School of Design
Screen Burn Advisory Committee
External links
Playmatics
Shadow Government, Inc.
Rebel Monkey, Inc.
CampFu
Rebel Monkey raises $1M Investment
More details on Rebel Monkey project as it hires CTO
Gamasutra's coverage of Wallace's talk at the Austin Game Developers' Conference 2008—"If You Build It, Will They Come?"
Margaret Wallace interviewed in Gamasutra
Interview with Margaret Wallace in Business Week
Radio Interview with Margaret Wallace for National Association for Women in Technology
Radio Interview with Margaret Wallace on Shift Radio
Interview in Edge Online
Interview with Margaret Wallace in Edge Online
References
Video game businesspeople
1967 births
Living people |
2304544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrigin%2C%20Western%20Australia | Corrigin, Western Australia | Corrigin is a town in the central Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, east-southeast of the state capital, Perth, Western Australia, along State Route 40. It is mostly a farming community focused on crops and sheep, and holds the world record of "the most dogs in a ute".
History
The name "Corrigin", of Noongar Aboriginal origin, was first recorded in 1877 relating to a well in the area. The meaning of the name is unknown.
Before 1908 Corrigin's only connection with the rest of the state was the railway track that ran to Merredin and it was difficult to get anyone to take up land near the rabbit proof fence. Most of the land was once held by George Walton on a pastoral lease, which he ran from his homestead at Wogerlin rock. The first settlers to the area were Mr A. W. Goyder (the son of the South Australian Surveyor General), who took up the area on which the town now stands. He was followed by Jack Crossland then by Messrs Gayfer and Jose Bros.
In 1909, the Government planned to build a railway from Brookton on the Great Southern Railway to the town of Kunjin, 17 km west of Corrigin. Some time after, a line from Wickepin was also proposed, and the Government decided to locate the crossing point at Corrigin.
A storm swept through the area in 1913 lashing the area with hailstones over in diameter. The town was also deluged with over of rain in a few hours. Standing crops were flattened, fences in low-lying areas were washed away and most of the town was submerged under at least of water.
In 1913, a railway siding was built, and named "Dondakin" by railway authorities due to conflict with the name elsewhere. However, after much local protest, the siding was renamed Corrigin and gazetted on 15 May 1914. The railway line from Wickepin, Western Australia opened a month later, and the main office of the local Road Board moved to the town. In 1915, a school was built.
In 1932 the Wheat Pool of Western Australia announced that the town would have two grain elevators, each fitted with an engine, installed at the railway siding. The bulk handling facility had been installed by November the following year and the first trial load of wheat was satisfactorily loaded.
By 1937 the town boasted a hall that cost £8,000 to build, a large state hotel, commercial buildings, bowling green, tennis course, golf course and one of the best showgrounds in the state. The town still had no adequate water scheme, there was no lack of well water but the water drawn was very hard.
The wheatbelt was struck by drought for much of 1939 and nearly all of 1940, described at the time as "the worst in the states history" until heavy rains arrived in December of that year. Corrigin received of drought-breaking rain over a couple of days.
The town was lashed by a violent storm on New Year's Day in 2013. Destructive winds and of rain tore through over the course of an hour leaving behind fallen powerlines, uprooted trees, sheds torn apart and roofs ripped from homes.
Present day
Corrigin has a population of 903 and is a key agricultural centre for a district focused mainly on wheat and sheep farming. It is the location of a CBH management zone office, and in 1973 was the location of a "type B" wheat bin.
It contains a district high school (originally opened 1915 as a primary school), National Australia Bank branch, shopping facilities, accommodation (hotel, motel, caravan park), council offices and a telecentre. Each year, it hosts an agricultural show.
The town is a stop on the Transwa bus service to Esperance via Kulin/Hyden.
A large rocky outcrop just to the east of town is Corrigin Rock.
About 5 km west of town is the Corrigin dog cemetery, containing over 80 buried dogs.
In popular culture
Corrigan, the fictional town in which the 2009 Craig Silvey novel Jasper Jones and the subsequent film are set, derives its name from Corrigin.
Climate
References
External links
Shire of Corrigin
Dog in a Ute – includes photos and history of the event.
Corrigin dog cemetery
Towns in Western Australia
Wheatbelt (Western Australia)
Grain receival points of Western Australia |
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